Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-01-02

SOME ODDS AND ENDS
Misgivings over the presence oil
our troops in North China are
groundless, it appears. We now
have the State Departments sol
emn assurance that the boys have
gone along to the civil war only
as guests.-"Senator Soaper'' in
the Cincinnati Times-Star.
Most people think they
would rather be m~iserably rich
than happily poor.
Congress wants to outlaw
strikes, incorporate unions, end
the unfon-shop, impose compul-
sorry arbitration, and limit visits to
the toilet. But they'll still let a
fellow join the Chamber of Com
merce.-John Paine for. Federated
Press.
Well say this for Hitler as
compared with BilbO: Hitler
never claimed he was a demo-
crat.
The Russians have discovered
gold in Siberia, where the tenn
perature goes down to 81 degrees
below r. This is believed to
be the only place where gold is
frozen harder than it is in the
United States. - The St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
. If excuses were trOopships,
the GIs would have been home
two months ago.
When you get so that it takes
great big troubles to trouble you,
and little bits of things to make
you happy, then you are on the
right track.-White.
In one Continental country, Is
100000 people homeless. In an
other, 100000 shivering in dug
outs, 10000 of them a month dy-
ing of tuberculosis and only one
doctor for every $500. In a third,
no fuel, no hope Of any in the Win
ter at hand. In a fourth, whole
cities with scarcely a pane of Win
dow glass. If the blessings Of peace
seem slow in getting round to some
American neighborhoods, consider
Europe. - The New York Times
Magazine.
Evanston, Ill, in recent months
has been teroriZed by thugs, rap
lists, holdup men and all forms of
gambling. Yet Evanston is official
ly-if not actually - dry. How
come? No city of proportionate size
in the U. S. has such a record. Per-
haps Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, presi-
dent of the WCTU, whose home is
in Evanston, might explain this
phenOmenon-or is she too busy
with the affairs of other cities?-
Tavern News.
A civilian employee at the Naval
Air Technical Training Center cir
culated an appeal for donations to
a Widow of the Unknown Sol
dier's Fund" In a matter of a few
minutes he collected S11, which he
then returned to the donors, having
proven his theory that people will
donate money to any cause.
From all that a civilian can
gather, the next world war will
have at least one admirable feat
ure. 1t won't drag along for years.
1t will likely be over the day it
starts.-The New York Times Ma
gazine.
Heavily penalizing strikes which
defy no-strike clauses in contracts
would have only n inevitable re-
suit, as Representatives Smith Of
Virginia and Cox of Georgia, who
IRE sponsoring such legislation,
ought to know. 1t would insure that
henceforth no labor union would
agree to a no-strike clause. It might
even lead to insistence by unions
that existing contracts be opened
up for detection of no-strike
clauses. If, therefore, no-strike pro-
visions in contracts have done any
good in any instance, a bill to make
them unacceptable to labor unions
is no forward step.-The st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Despite the Presidents wishes,
Congress has voted to return the
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