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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
Help Yourself By Helping The Starving

Were you eve desperately hungry and could not get food? Were
you ever surrounded by the gaunt faces of underfed and starving men,
women, and children? Well, that is the condition of millions in Europe
right now, after the war has been won. That is the condition that is losing
the peace. But we who are we'll fed can help win this peace without
having to fight or even risk our lives. Out of our abundance w re can
spare something for these needy human beings. They n people like
Ourselves-WHh our hunger for life.
The Cooperative for American Remttances to Europe (CARE) is
a non-proft cooperative relief program which sends packages to indi-
Viduals and groups in the famine stricken countries.
You "a send food packages to people of your family or to friends,
or to those whom you do not know. From the merciful in America these
packages are now going to France, Holland, Finland, Poland, Norway,
CzechosloVakia; and Italy.
Get an application blank from your local cooperative, fill it in,
and send SIS to the address o the blank. CARE packages have a net
content of thirty pounds of food. This includes canned meats, cereals,
vegetables, fruit jams, sugar, candy, coffee, beverage powder. evapora-
ted milk, butter, and cheese. The packages also contain chewing gum,
matches, paper towels, and soap, The total weight is 40 pounds.
Large scale shipments are now or their way to France, Italy, and
Holland. EX-Mayor LaCTuardia has urged his radio audience to buy
CARE food packages. The Cooperative League of the U. S. A. is pro-
noting this relief thru its Freedom Fund. 1t offers a opportunity to
those who want to enjoy the warm inward glow that is knded by help
ing others in distresS-Dr James P. Warbasse in The Cooperative
Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
OPA IS NOT THE WHOLE STORY

We are in favor of price control as it has been administered only
on the proposition that it probably is better than n o controls at all and
that the immediate effect of a return to unrestricted profit-making will
be IN infationary rise in prices.
However, from time to time we have found ourselves becoming
impatient with the advocates of OPA as a result of their extravagant
claims in defense of that badly-run bureau.
The fact is that OPA is not a panacea for the evils that have deve-
Hoped within the capitalist economy. Neither is any other one thing.
What the people of America need is a entirely new purpose for
human activity, a different system. Unless and until the profit motive is
replaced by the service motive, all that any government regulation can
or would intend to effect would be a sterilization of a bad social ar
rangement.
OPA like all other devices set up by the Franklin Roosevelt pater-
naism, is intended merely to make the profit system work, to keep it
from shaking itself apart a it threatened to do when the late president
took office back in 1888 1t was to restrain and regulate, not to abolish,
m evil that OPA was inaugurated.
The best that OPA proposes to do is decide that workers shall get
20 much and pay % much while employers shall charge SO much and
make SO much profit. From an economic viewpoint such an arrangement,
properly administered and pOlced, might work out. But from a moral
point of view it would be no more honest than to agree that a pick
pocket could take your purse but must keep his hands off your watch
and chain.
The profits handed to stockholders who do nothing to produce goods
are immoral gains any way one looks at them. They should be outawed,
not Observation-Disclosures Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19

Z. Foster and his group took over.
They said BroWder had been col
laborating with capitalism" Brow
der appealed to Moscow and pre-
sumably Moscow is listening to his
side of the story,
We have no disposition to i'm
pose advice on Marshal Stain.
Nevertheless, we take the liberty
of suggesting that if he wishes to
make a big hit with Americans Of
all classes he will issue a ukase-
if that is the proper term-direct-
ing that BroWder must remain in
Russia for the rest of his life.
Better still, he might condemn
BrOWder to hard work in some
out-of-the-Way place. That would
Mt do BrOwder any harm, but it
would put out of circulation a very
punk American.-Labor, Washing
ton, D. G.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
KANSAS AND THE
DEMON RUM

The beer truck that knocked
Over a statue of Garry Nation in
Wichita, Kan, is a symbol to those
hopeful of repeating the State pro-
hibition law after &c years. With
out further information on the sub
ject, however, it is safe to guess
that the truck carried 80 beer,
which is within the Kansas law,
along with coffee and tea. And
there is more than reasonable
doubt that Kansas will change that
law.
Certainly, Wichita, Kansas City
and Topeka, where te legislators
insist on something better than red
eye, all leak alcohol at the seams.
Wichita is surrounded by spots
such as the Rock Castle, where
seekers of individual liberty have
to pass a gantlet of barbed wire
and whispering guards.
But out in the h~interlands, it's
different. Away from major towns,
a Kansas ma'am a smell a berry
breath at 200 feet. The only way
to escape the devil and prohibition,
too, is to use alcohol only for medi-
cine purposes, which accounts for
more coughing spells than Kansas
dust. And it is out there on the
horizon, mex to a little frame
church, where the Sunflower State
let's its morals, and not in a big
city rectory.
So maybe hypocrisy is the law in
Kansas, but it will take a prairie
tornado to blow the w. c. T. U.
away. And the point is that the
thirsty can get at if they want to.
They can drive into one of the
cities and imbibe in peace and COM
fort, at about 81 a quart. The busy
bootlegger leads the Jayhawker to
alcohol, but doesn't have to make
him drink. And he seems to like il
that way.
that way. - From the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

A GENTLEMAN IN ENGLAND
who is totally deaf has invented an
alarm clock which, it seems to us,
is exactly what this gummy-eyed
world needs-much more suited to
our perilous times than a new
American product which gently
coaXes the sleeper into his new day
with a soft Ginning note. This En-
gliSman's clock is connected to a
motor in the bedsprings, and when
it's time to wake up, the mocha
nism turns on the light and shakes
the hell out of you.
THE CAMPAIGN LITERATURE
of one Walter A. Kelley, Congress
sional candidate in Ohio's Demo-
cratic primaries, pledges him to an
unequiVocal domestic and interna-
tional platform: ITO Keep Beer
FloWing-Stop Appeasing Russia"
A FOOD-COLLECTION PRO
GRAM in Orlando, Florida, to aid
an adopted city" in Greece re-
ceiVed its biggest boost when, with
out any advance publicity, the 800
Negro students of Jones High
School last month turned in more
than 5000 ans of food-an aver
age of almost 7 cans apiece and all
collected in less than q week. A
member in the city-Wide campaign
committee, interviewed by the Or
lando "Sentinel", called it "the
finest civic gesture l have ever
seen, and that takes in gestures and
projects by any and all groups"
adding that if everyone in the city
contributed on the same scale, the
drive would be far over the top.
WHICH PROVIDES a nice back
drop for the recent action of the
Miami, Florida, City Commission
in rejection a planning-board re
commentator for a Negro housing
project in the city's st. Adams sec
tion-this despite the fact that the
recommendation generously offer
ed "suitable protection for ada
cent white residential areas. The
refusal was quite consistent be-
cause an identical recommendation
was turned down two years ago,
and that one even included a wall
and "seventy-five-foot buffer strip"
between white and Negro areas.
WELL FOR HEAVENS SAKE
DEPT: In yesterdays Daily Elk
press Mr.. Gallagher, Communist
MP. for West Fife, was wrongly
reported as saying that the British
Empire got nearer to our dream of
a perfect world than anything else
which existed" - Correction note
in the London Daily Express.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
DID JERICHO'S WALL
FALL DOWN?

The other day an interesting
character died in Stratford-on-
Avon, Shakespeare's old home.
Charles Marston made a fortune
out of bicycles and motorcycles.
He married two American ladies
who had promising bankrolls.
About 20 years ago he disposed
OF his business and turned to ar
theology. He wished to prove the
truth of many statements made in
the Old Testament.
For example, did Jericho's walls
fall down when Joshua's men blew
their trumpets?
Marston's researchs reported that
there was a lot of evidence to sus-
tain the claim. At least, they were
sure Jericho's walls suddenly col
lapsed. They dug up a lot Of other
information, too. Through the years
this material was woven into books.
Some were widely read.
Of course, these activities drew
a lot of attention to Marston. He
made liberal contributions to the
Conservative party, and the Con-
~servative party asked the king to
knight him, and the king complied.
Last week, at 70, Sir Charles Mar
ston died in his bed within a stones
throw of the spot where "Will'
Shakespeare wrote some of his i'm
mortal dramas.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
The Des Moines Register AssoiIs:
An American Version of 'ThoUqht Police

The attitude and methods of the
Rankin Committee on Un-Ameri-
can Activities were challenged
sharply in the House; but the COM
mittee got its $4,000 appropriation
for continued activity just the
same, without any strings attached.
To vote in favor of this was very
decisive. Many congressman voted
yes on the simple ground that we
need some agency to keep watch on
subVersive activities and to eX-
pose them; though this was not at
all the issue.
Of course, without any congress
ional committee we would still
have agencies with responsibility
for combating subversive forces -
the Federal Department of Justice
with its F.B.I., all the federal and
state and local police forces and
courts, and various other agencies
too numerous to list. And we have
a prevailing public attitude, a
climate of opinion, that is suspi-
ciouS of and hostile toward radical
ism.
But, if it be assumed that all
these r not enough, and that
Congress itself should supplement
them with a committee of its own
members to keep Investigating and
reporting, the real issue involved
in the debate over appropriations
for the Rankin committee remains.
Reckless Technique of Committee
The issue was not and is not
whether Congress should have such
a committee. The issue was purely
whether a committee of Congress
set up and financed for the pur-
pose (to defend democracy
should conduct its work in the
spirit of democracy.
The deplorable fact is that this
committee, under both the notori.
Gus Dies and his successor, Ran,
kin, has not only repeatedly but
consistently made the prejudice.
of a few the sole test of Amer.
icanism," and has applied the reck.
less technique of "smearing' tc
everybody who associated himsel-
with any vigorous advocacy ex
cept that of the status quo.
One of the recent illustration.
was the committees "~investiga
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
HOW COULD YOU BE FOR PRIVATE
ENTERPRISE AND FREE UNIONS?
By RAYMOND HOFsEs, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

THOSE LAST SEVEN words are
important to an understanding OF
the difference between the philO-
sophies and detectives Of unionism
and socialism. For, ~basically, the
leaders Of unions are satisfied to
have the capitalist economy by
what it is, while Socialists don't
want the capitalist economy to be
at all.
Mr. Murray, for example, will
tell you that he is in favor of a
free enterprise" private-profit
economy. He want his members to
object only to their status within
that economy. He thinks that IN
ionist should use their union to
press for better conditions 80. for
themselves . under capitalism.
Socialists want something quite
different-if they ARE Socialists.
They want the private-profit eco
nomy abolished. That would give
unionists something quite different
to fight about. 1t might even make
Mr.. Murray's job unnecessary. But
Socialists want capitalism to make
way for a planned economy just
the anne
No wonder Mr.. Murray doesn't
want Socialist infiltration in his
union. What would the union do
and what would Mr.. Murray do
If abundance were produced for
use instead of for sale and profit,
if there were no labor exploiters
to bring to time, if workers could
MT strike for higher wages because
workers as a class get the whole
Of what workers produce?
No wonder Mr.. Green and Mr..
Lewis, in spite of all the rivalries
for leadership and control of work
ers, are agreed on one point that
they don't want Socialists to infil-
trate unions!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19

NOW THERE IS the Union move
ment and there is also the Socialist
movement - and never the twain
shall meet SO long as the capitalist
private-profit economy endures.
For when unions go Socialist"
that will be the end of capitalism.
Philip Murray, president of the
CLIO, knows that; that's why he is
SO determined that Socialists shall
not infiltrate the organization he
heads.
Socialism would not end the
need for an organization of unions
to protect and advance the interest
of individual workers; to be able
to function in a democratic man
e economic organization would
be an indispensable necessity. But
the class interest of workers within
their organization would be SO real
and the functions of such organiza-
ton so different that MIR Murray's
power and influence probably
would die along with the economy
under which they developed.
1T SEEMS THAT President Muir
ray knows the core. 1t also seems
to be in order that Socialists should
take account of stock and give a
look AT tbH score
l don't blame Mr.. Murray for
deciding that no outside group shall
maneuver within his organization.
On the contrary, I do. blame and
disagree with Socialists who want
their party to function like that.
l think that Socialists should use
the Socialist Party to do the things
that a Socialist must want to do.
They should use the unions to do
what unions are organized to do.
And there is a difference.
One joins a union to benefit him.
self and, to lesser degree, his group
just as one joins a beneficial as
ISOLATION. One pays union dues in
the same spirit as premiums are
paid on insurance policies: for pro-
lection. There's nothing wrong
about that. It's smart. It's what
people must do, the capitalist eco
nomy being what it is.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
LOSE SHIRTS!

Many veterans seem destined to
lose their shirts in the home ap-
pliance business" ominously warns
the Wall Street Journal"
Veterans from coast to coast, it
says, have been opening stores with
limited capital. Unable to obtain
supplies, they now find themselves
with bare shelves and vanishing
bank accounts.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
A FRIENDLY TIP
FOR STAIN

Earl BroWder, former secretary
general of the Communist party of
the United States" is occupying a
comfortable apartment in Mos
cow. BroWder is an American citi-
zen, but he has gone to Russia to
get his orders as to how he should
conduct himself in his native coun-
try.
Some time ago he was ousted as
"secretary-general," and William
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
Bank Assets Up SIS Billions

The Comptroller of the Currency reports that the assets of the ma
TONS banks, at the end of 1945, showed IN increase of $25O 600, 600 900
over December 81, 1914. Clearly, our banker friends ri not on the road
to the poor house - despite the fact that labor unions have, here and
there, secured wage increases for their members.
Included in the banks assets ire government bonds totallng $101,-
100000 600. That might cause some people to feel that the bankers were
more patriotic than the rest of us. However, that is not the case.
The bankers and their friends have been making large profits on
Uncle Sans securities. The average citizen had to deprive himself of
something in order to buy a bond, and he did it gladly. The banker
and those fortunate individuals who had bank credit" were able to
manipulate things 81 that financing the war" was a very profitable
enterprise.
Some day we will write a long editorial telling how it was DONE
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
Speaking Of Profiteerinq

When the big dailies decide to increase their wages, they don't take
the trouble to consult those who are expected to pay the bill. For exam
pie, Just the other day two Of the Chicago daiies increased their price
from 4 cents t o 5 cents. That was a 25 per cent boost, but the Times"
did a little better. 1t went up from 3 cents to 5 cents The "Quiz Kids"
would figure that out at about 70 per cent.
Hearst "Herald-American" got the biggest boost at all. Its Sunday
edition went from 5 cents to 10 cents That was 100 per cent
Probably every one of them, while checking up its financial gains,
INDUCED in an editorial O "The Rapacity of Labor"-From Labor,
Washington, q. G.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
MORE ILLINOIS COAL

Recent predictions that Chicago will replace Pittsburgh IS the steel
city of America is good news for Illinois coal producers. Steel is of
the largest user of coal in the nation, and with the center of that in
dustry in Chicago, the use of Illinois coal for steel production should rise.
It may take a few more years for this to come to pass-but Illinois
can WatIThe Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19

ton" of a full page advertisement
published in the New York Times
over the signatures Of a group of
Americans who used this perfectly
proper method to debate an issue.
Not only individual signers of this
petition for redress of grievances"
but the eminently respectable news
paper itself, and also the eminent
ly respectable advertising agency
which as a mere matter of ordi-
nary business handled the adver-
tlSement, were subjected to the i'm
putation Of "un-Americanism."
That is in essence a form of
Thought police" in action right
here in America.
Balance and Fairness Needed
Congress as a whole certainly
has a responsibility for helping to
preserve Americanism, which GER
talnly must mean to preserve our
authentic democratic ideal. That
responsibility is not discharged by
voting money to a committee domi-
mated by men whose ideas are the
ideas of a mere faction.
The responsibility of Congress is
to make sure that any committee
of its which operates in this
delicate and dangerous field shall
exhibit balance and fairness as we'll
as zeal.
Congress has failed to do this.
All that a therefore be hoped
Tor through another year is that
the protest in Congress itself
against committees past methods,
a protest participated in by a sig
nificant number though far short
Of a majority, will have a restrain
ing effect in the direction of what
the committee is supposed to de-
tenu-to wit: Americanism.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19
a MESSAGE TO YOUTH
BY COvingtOn Ami Hall

The Futures yours, O Youth!
Arise and Take
The world which you for ages
toiled to make;
By every law of Nature, God and
Man,
'Tis yours to Have and Hold, to
Rule and Plan.
Let it go forth Defiant once again,
Far-ringing over mountain, sea and
plain:
No Rights unless to Equal Duties
bound,
No Duties where no Equal Rights
are found!
1t is in vain a man is born for
tunate, if he be unfortunate in his
neutrality-suspicious..
CONSISTENT
Does your husband lie awake
at night?"
Yes, and he lies in his sleep, as
we'll"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19

Until 1941, coal diggers we're
lucky to put in as much as 125 days
of work a year.
Do we need medical support? In
1912, more than 2OO,O 600 babies
born without medical help.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19

Believe it or not, the average in
come per worker in 1912 in these
United States was only 1867 for
men and $40 for women.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-19

Steel workers in the wear 1892
averaged $187 for the entire years
pay!
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-17
Sharon

Sharon Jan. 49, - The Janu-
ary meeting of Sharon W. C. T. U.
was held at the home of Mrs. Flor
ence Parrish, Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Marjorie Springer was co-host-
ess. Mrs. Anna Archibald presided.
Meeting opened with son LET the
Beauty of Jesus be seen in me"
Mrs. Springer had charge of de
votional period, reading Habakkuk
2:1-12 for the Scripture lesson.
The following readings were Civ
en-, "a New Year Petition, Cora
Marquis, "Whose Problem ;" Flor
ence Parrish, Late Facts" Leota
Winder, "A Stumbling Block" Mar
jorie Springer, alcohol, a Real
Criminal" Anna Archibald, "What
Would Jesus Do?" Vera Harmon.
Refreshments were served by the
hostesses.
Ladies of the Mystery Club of
the Methodist Sunday school enjoyed
an all day quilting at the home of
Mrs. Cora Marquis, Thursday. At
noon a pot luck dinner was enjoyed
by the following: Mrs. Mamie Parks,
Mrs. Pauline Haga, Mrs. Ruth Mar
guis, Mrs. nellie Lawrence, Mrs. Lu-
ellie Marquis, son David, Mrs. Mary
Haga, daughter Joyce, Mrs. Edna
Wiley, daughter Linda, Mrs. Vera
Harmon, Mr.. and Mrs. George Mar
quis and daughter Deanna. Addition
al guests in the afternoon we're Mrs
AyiLe Eicher and Mis-. Narelle Par
rish
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Parrish
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Parrish.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Morrison of
Canton spent the week end with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs A. d. Morri-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ford Parks and chill
dren of near Caldwell visited recent
ly with Mr. and Mrs. l.. X. Marquis
and Mrs. Mamie Parks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Iams and
daughter Betty of Canton spent the
week end with their parents. Mr..
and Mrs. F. w. Archibald and Mrs.
Alta Spear.
Mr.. and Mrs. |. j. Kuntz of near
Forest Grove spent last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kuntz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dayle Morrison,
children Billy and Carolyn spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. d. Morrison.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-17

receive his discharge soon.
Michael Cisar of Canton, spent
the week end with his family.
Andy StaskO of Canton, spent the
week end with his wife, Sarah, and
daughter, Bonnie.
Harriet Bober of Cambridge,
spent brief visit with her mother
Sunday.
Elizabeth Kusnerak of Cambridge
spent the week end with her par
ents.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Barrels" Bar
lock and brother, Pete, of Cleveland.
visited with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Barlock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Bakos and
Elizabeth Kolenich of Cleveland, Wis
tied friends and relatives here last
Thursday.
Visitors at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Minyo a week ago Sun
day were Carl Little and Bernard
Rarick of Columbus.
Joseph Rarick, who is spending an
indefinite visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
MjnyO attended the funeral of his
aunt in Logan, Ohio, last week.
John Minyo of the Coast Guards
sent home word that he was being
transferred from Okinawa to Guam.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-17
Personals
(DelaYed)

(DelaYed)
Mr.. and Mrs. Wills TarletOn and
daughter, Nancy, have returned to
their home in Salem, after spending
a few days with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. L. H. Tarleton of Caldwell.
DIR. and Mrs. Joseph LaValle and
infant daughter, Gareth Ann, of
Troy, visited at the home of DR.. and
Mrs. L. B. Walters Sunday.
GAINESVILLE. visited at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Wilson of
near Caldwell, Gerald Cain of Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, spent New Year
Day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. C. Cain.
Guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. !. NJ. Harper of near Dexter
City, recently were Herman Will
liams, R. V. Harper, M. L. BelviIle
A. w. Holster, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Wilson.
Holiday guests at the home of
Norris Bigley and family of near
Sharon were Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Brush and Noble Farson of War
saw, Mr.. and Mrs. Bertram Bigley
of Reinersville, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
erick Boyd and children, Rex. Max
and Mia Lee Of Cumberland, Mr..
and Mrs. Wiley Bigley and children,