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Why The qucrds

To the Editor:
I certainly agree with AL.
that totalitarian practices have
no place in a free America coun-
try.
From which dictatorship have
the bright little personnel boys
borrowed such slave holding
practices as the X-raying phOtOg-
raDhing, fingerprinting and medi-
cal examinations of job appli-
cantS?
How come this surrounding of
workers with armed guards pis.
toll packing plant guards?
In England even the policemen
do NOT carry guns.
o. RICK
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
TheSounding Board

We would like to suggest that
in the future movie columns,
more emphasis be made on films
which can be recommended
rather than those which are of
poor quality.
We are planning to be at the
STARS NEW YEARS EVE
celebration. See all of you then.
LENORA and BOB CITRON
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QUIZ
BOX,
PRIVATE, ROBT. B. MCCALL,
ORD. Fort LawtOn, Wash.
No, I don't think the age should
be lowered. We 18 year olds are

not m a t u r e j..
w e , r e too
young for the
army's duties.
We are forced
into jobs t h a t
should be hand
led by oil d G r
men on C e the
army gets us.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
People do not think

To the Editor:
AS one who lived in Germany
as P. w. in World War l,
think that with time and proper
leadership, the Germans could
become better people among
nations. 1t is just a matter of
education.
Take for instance the, German
police dog. With proper training
he renders invaluable service as
the seeing-eye dog.
On the other hand this same
tame dog if sent to a military
camp and trained differently
grows up to be a cut throat.
AS rule any people under bad
propaganda will go around
growing at their neighbors,
breaking windows, and burning
crosses. This has always been a
very profitable business for
those who spread confusing reli-
giOus propaganda and natiOnalis-
tic hatred.
Usually the majority of people
do not think for themselves
and eventually pay with their
necks.
j.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Folk art

To the Editor:
After you have seen the "Stone
Flower" you will agree that folk
lore fantasies are a higher grade
of literature than average detec-
tive story or mystery.
Al READER
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Test your knowledge
Questions AnsMan,


1. What are the commercial
uses of beeswaX?
2. Who established Thanksgiv-
ing day as a legal holiday?
8. What is hardware heart in
the meat industry?
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.2sseA1o>s Of Ike u4eek:
24e4ken Of Ike ~eek:
Should the voting age be lowered to Is?

SAM MUSTACCHIA, 5000 w.
Chicago Ave-, clerk.
Judging from my own expert
ence, I would say that people I'M
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

I'm considered
old enough for
t hes e duties,
t h en- I'm old
enough to vote.
1 want to help
choose thos e
who will repre-
sent me. The
policies they
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Place.:

MISS ROSARIO SANSONE,
1926 w. Monroe, office worker.
Yes, / do think the voting age
should be changed. If boys of IS
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You can sound off

J in these columns. Send u.s.
=your comments on lOorldE
=affairs, conditions and IN
=cidents in your shop Gad|
community. Letters must 3
be signed and should be no.
=longer than 300 lCords. Up
ON request, names will be-
: withheld.
nr,u,=
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

W e r e oil d
enough to as
sumo the re
sponsibilities of
fighting f o r
their country,
then t h e y
should certain
ly be counted
as full fledged
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
servieemGn's Center. Washington Street

MISS TERESA KATH, 1926 w.
Monroe, office worker.
Of course the voting age should
be lowered. Why shouldn't all
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

We are forced into adulthood be-
fore our time. Leave the voting
to the older fellows.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

tics n d I'm not acquainted with
the problems. I am under 81 and
I feel that I am not capable OF
judging.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

citizens in civilian life. All that's
missing in the 10 year-olds is the
legal right.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

Kids who have had their lives
messed up our leaders have
thought more about politics than
the oldsters.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

A. Is the butterfat content of
milk the same throughout a
milking?
5. What is the oldest b own
book?
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

der Il do not
have the ma
t u rity t h a t
should charac-
terize the intel
ligent voter. l
h We foun d
other t hi n G s
more interest
ing t h a n poll
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School strikes
To. The Editor:

10 OliO EulbOrs
So, Mr.. Hearst finally found
the answer to the recent student
strikes! Believe it or not, it's
Communism! Mr.. Hearst loves to
scare children, but let's see what
is happening in Chicago's schools.
The students are striking for
student courts, for democratic
student councils, for student
teacher cooperation, for more and
better recreational facilities.
These demands were listed by
the students themselves. In adj
dition, Chicago's students are
worried about having their
schools discredited.
.
It's very peculiar, but when
students strike for such demands,
the police arrest them and Hearst
cries Communism. When the vi
cious anti-Negro strikes took
place at Ehelewood and Gary last
year, Mr.. Hearst was very silent
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

follow will effect me, even more
because I'm in the army.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Comment


PRIVATE LOUIS STERNLICHT,
ORD. Fort LawtOn, Wash.
Certainly we should change the
voting age. I'm in the army. If
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

and the police found no cause
for arrests.
It's about time that the scan
dalous school situation is cleared
up.
American Youth for Democracy
supports all democratic demands
of the students for better and
more democratic schools. We ia
vor a Board of Education that
is free from corruption and cap
able of establishing the schools
according to high educational
standards.
DELORIES GERHARD,
Teen-Age Director AYD
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

the young vets
v o t g :? It's
strange t h e
way t h e legal
age for b Elm g
"responsib l e.
changes. It S
always flexible
enough to keep
the army filled.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
PALESTINE:
Problem for U.N.

Strong Arab and Jewish opposi-
ton to the British plan for dividing
Palestine to provide a homeland for
Jewish refugees promised to result
in submission of the problem to the
United Nations to check the out
break of bloody civil war in the
Holy Land.
Britain had appeared too near the
end of her rope in trying to work
out agreement between the Arabs
and Jews. While Jewish terrorists
had goaded the British into devel-
oping compromise plan, they were
reluctant to enforce It against the
unwilling Arabs, the mightiest force
in the strategic and oil-rich Near
East.
Not only could the Arabs create
trouble in Palestine itself but they
also could kick up in oil-rich Saudi
Arabia and Iraq and exert pres
sure in Egypt along the vital i'm
perial lifeline from the Far East.
Submission of the case to the U.N.
would relieve Britain of the onus of
imposing peace on a hostile coun-
try.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
Washington Digest
Union Rank and File Ask
For Extended Labor Peace
BY BAUKHAGE
NeVs AnaLyst and Commentator.

they don't have one and good news
when they do, which is every year
since 1868 when Abraham Lincoln
signed the bill authorizing estab-
lishment of the department Of agri-
culture and outlining its functions.
At this writing the book is still
in galleys but will be out soon. Cir
cumstances which interrupted the an
nual publication of this work have
combined to make it perhaps the
most interesting in the history of
the department. Its title is Science
in Farming" and it will reveal some
of the tremendous advances which
have affected the products of agri-
culture during and because of the
war. The editor is Alfred Stefferud
and the authors of the some $50
odd articles which it contains are
mostly scientists in the department.
Some are staff members of state
colleges, state agricultural expert
ment stations and other government
laboratories. As editor Stefferud
says, this yearbook will furnish "a
wealth of information on how to live
better and work better, information
about food, clothing, housing, gar
dens, pests, forests, new processes
and many other things"
There isn't room here to list all
of the contents but the articles
which deal with plant and animal
genetics recount tremendous strides
made in breeding, feeding and care,
and combating insects and dis
eases. The hen getting her respira-
tion measured in the picture is an
example of the studies Of conditions
favorable to health and well being
of poultry, cattle and horses which
have been made.
Then there are the new products
which have been created out of old
ones: Utilization of corn-cobs and
stalks and straw; the manufacture
of vegetable meals that used to be
dumped; chapters on penicillin and
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
POLAND:
Offer amnesty

DESTROYS of repatriating thousands
Of Polish exiles spread throughout
Europe, the Mediterranean region
and Canada, the Russian sponsored
Polish government offered political
amnesty to refugees who have op-
posed the present regime or commit
ted crimes against it.
Equally desirous of uniting Poland
itself and checking continuing bloody
civil warfare, the government an
nounced the application of the am
nesty order to 100000 political pris-
oners within the country and men,
bers of the rightist underground hid
ing out in forest lands.
On the very day that the Warsaw
regime appealed to exiled Poles to
return to their homeland, the British
parliament approved a resettlement
bill for $4,000 Polish troops in
Britain.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
CONGRESS-:
SIOuU on Labor

With industrial spokesmen divid-
ed among themselves upon correc-
tive labor legislation, house and
senate labor committees found their
tasks complicated with little chance
for early action.
With action already delayed by
Republican reorganization of the
new congress and streamlining of
procedure provided for in the La Fol-
lette bill last year, it appears that
the lawmakers will not be able to
agree upon any substantial correc-
tive legislation before expiration of
John L. Lewis truce with the gov
ernment March 81.
Indicative of the differences be-
tween industrial interests, Forney
Johnston, special counsel for Nation
al Coal association, blasted indus
try-wide bargaining with unions,
while Almon E. Roth, president of
National Federation of American
Shipping, approved of it. While in
dustry-wide bargaining, which cov-
ers many plants. is considered less
troublesome and costly, individual
employers sacrifice some of their
independence in consummating such
agreements.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
CANADA:
Defense agreement

Partners in war, U. S. and Can
ada will remain partners in peace
to strengthen the defense of the
northern portion of the western hem
isphere.
Agreement to extend wartime mil
itary cooperation into the postwar
world was announced simultaneous
ly by Washington and Ottawa. Be-
cause the agreement was of a
friendly, informal character and in
volved no treaty or obligations, con-
gressional approval will not be nee
essary, the state department said.
With development of high-speed
bombers, supersonic rockets, guided
missiles and radio-controlled pilot
less aircraft, Canada's arctic circle
comprising the shortest distance be-
tween Asia and Europe and the
western hemisphere is considered as
this country's chief natural defense
frontier. Cooperation with Canada
thus would afford the U. S. stra-
tegic advantage in coping with an
arctic aerial attack.
The new agreement calls for ia
miGarization of U. S. and Canadian
officers with one another's military
establishment; gradual standardized
ton of weapons, and mutual and
reciprocal use of military and naval
facilities.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
GERMANY:
Allies Conflict

1mplementation of differing Allied
economic policies in Germany
promises to produce a conflicting
hodge podge that will complicate
any future unification of the reich
as an independent state or ward of
U. S., Britain and Russia.
The confused situation was point
ed up by the U. S. promulgation of
antitrust law in the American oc-
cupation zone. Designed to pro-
mote independent enterprise, the
law will require reorganization of
some 80 large German corporations
with assets of 300 million dollars.
Firms employing over 10000 people
will be the first targets.
While the British issued a similar
law in their occupation zone, they
provided safeguards for specialization
of certain industries.
Over in their eastern occupation
zone, the Russians already have in
corporated more than 200 concerns
into state monopolies along commu-
mist lines.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28

Bio-physicist H. G. Barott of de-
partment of agriculture places
hen in respiration calorimeter to
measure intake of oxygen and
output of carbon dioxide and heat.
rutin showing the new bond between
agriculture and pharmacy. I never
guessed that rutin can be made from
some IS different plants and the
richest in yield is the one that pro-
duces those tasty buckwheat cakes
that l used to drown in maple syrup
in my youth.
Then there is the story of "velva,"
the toothSome product made of
over-ripe fruit. You may or may not
know that one of the most difficult
f1avors to preserve is that of the
apple. 1t was never captured even
in candy, successfully. Now, how
ever, it has been anchored and there
is an apple flavor as satisfactory
as vanilla. incidentally one of the
most fascinating articles is the re-
suit of survey which reveals what
Americans eat and why.
After even a rather hurried glance
at the contents of this volume I
realize how lucky are the people
who have friend in congress from
whom they can obtain a copy of
Science and Farming" Under the
law 100000 copies of the yearbook
are printed as congressional docu-
ments and nearly all of these are
delivered to congressman. It is left
to their discretion to distribute
them. They also can be purchased
from the superintendent of docu-
ments of the U. S. government print
ing office. The price has not been
announced at this writing but I
imagine it will not exceed So this
year.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
Divorce Rate Climbs

The nnmbe, of divorces in tbe U. S.
nearly doubled during sVar years and,
if tbe current rate of increase eontin-
aes, annual divorce totals sUiI match
marriage totals .Vitbin THE next decade,
statistics from THE bureau of tbe GEN.
sas and tbe public bealtb service in
dictate. There yere 100000 divorces
in tho country in 1915, according to
census bureau estimates, tV5ile during
tbe same period there tUere 1,618,331
marriages. In 1910, before The t0ar
put anpreeeaented stress on tbe
bonds of natrimony, there .Vere an
estimated 264,OOO divorces and 1885,
879 marriages. Thus vbile divorces
during the final year of World War
II Were more than go per cent higher
than in 1910, tbe nationwide marriage
rate Was ab less than net IA per
cent.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
Profits Near Normal

Profits in 1946 were normal in re-
lation to the national income and in
line with long-term ratios for active
years, say Jules Backman and Mar
tin R. Gainsbrugh in a survey of
profits released by National Indus
trial Conference board.
During previous years Of high lev
el employment and production, the
two economists declare, profits have
averaged between 7h per cent and
8h per cent Of the national income.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28

creases commensurate to the rise
in living costs, many business men
considered closing shop since mount
ing costs threatened to ruin them.
Indicative of the infationary spi-
raj, one American dollar bought 49,
900 Chinese dollars.
With the creeping paralysis in the
Chinese economy intensified by the
civil strife raging between the Ma
tionalists and Communists, the u S.
decision to abandon its peace-mak-
ing and pull out of the country was
said to have contributed to the
financial breakdown.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28
UAW:
Empty Purse

In battling for maintenance of
high take-home pay during the re-
conversion period, strikes cost the
powerful CIO = United Automobile
Workers more than $2,O00,00O,
George F. Adde's, secretary treasur-
er of the union, disclosed.
AS of last November, Adde'S re-
vealed, the UAW net worth stood
at $134,869 compared with $2,699, 1000
at the time of VI Day. Toward
the close of 1916, he said, the union
had cashed in all of its government
bonds save for $4,000 and was COM
PEELED to borrow $3.50, 1000 from other
CIO unions.
From December, 1945, to Novem-
ber, 1916, the UAW had expended
81 1926, 1856 on strikes, Adde's said. Be-
cause the walkouts at Allis-Chalmers
in West Allis, Wis, and the J. I.
Case company in Racine, Wis, have
been costing $l5O,OOO monthly for
the last few months, the UAW strike
fund now is in the red.
To build up UAW finances, the
union top command has slapped a
special 81 per month capita assess
ment on the 800,000 members. Dues
were increased from 81 to $1.50
monthly last April.
SLUMS:
Substantial financial aid from the
federal government will be neces-
sary if there is to be any consider
able amount of slum clearance and
sound urban redevelopment in this
country, Louis Justement of the ur-
ban planning committee of Ameri-
can Institute of Architects, asserted
This conclusion is shared by the
recently formed interprofessional
urban planning committee which
agreed that it is desirable that ur-
ban communities should be self
reliant"
Browning chief., 1947-02-28

dShCo.
"How can the thousands Of union
members like myself make people
understand that what the leaders of
our unions do are not the views of
the small fry rank and file men,
bers?" He goes on to claim that
these international officers are
elected at a convention attended by
certain few. And we who stay at
home and pay their salaries by our
monthly dues have nothing to say
about who our national officers are
to be or what policies are to be fol-
lowed. The first inkling we have of
what is going on is when we read it
in the paper"
He points out that people like him
self have no huge financial reserves,
no way to make themselves heard.
"All we want" he insists, is to be
cleft alone. We want to work. We
want to work hard because we are
all financially broke. It is our fer
vent wish that everybody let us
alone and let us work in peace"
When I read that letter on the
air, another 59-year-old automobile
worker (member of a CLIO union)
wrote in Immediately to agree with
the sentiments. He says: "An I ask
for is So weeks work in a year (in-
cluding one week vacation with
pay), no strikes, no lay-offs and no
increase Underlined by the writer)
in wages. Industry and farm prices
would take away all and more of
any increase might get. I too,
wish we could get secret poll of
C1O members on such matters as
above, but that is quite improb-
able - the union leaders would dis
courage any such vote"
Another listener reminded me of
the so-called Barnes bill" in Mas
sachusetts to compel unions to file
certain statements with the Com
monwealth - bill fought by union
leaders - which was carried by so
large a majority that observers
figured that more than so per cent
of the members of unions in the
Bay state had voted in its favor.
A woman correspondent added her
voice in support of the first worker.
She wrote: Men looking for work
are trying to avoid jobs where they
have to join unions"
Of course, there were many who
disagreed. One of the most vehe-
ment was 78-year-old Virginian who
began work on the railroad in 1886.
He described early days when union
ization was just getting under way.
He said: 'When I joined the
Brakemen, it was crime. In fact,
you had to keep it a secret or off
went your head" He characterizes
the union man who criticizes his
leadership as "a parasite glad to get
raise and better working con-
ditions, but who will let the other
fellow pay for his fare"
An Ohio union member concurs,
saying: "When anyone tells you that
they do not have a say in what their
officers do, they show no respect
whatsoever for the truth. They
should attend their meetings and
help shape their policies, and don't
blame their officers for what is done
because it is their own fault"
Obviously, situations differ in diff
ferent unions.
When the bill is written by
congress, I believe it will be SO
phrased that it will make it possi-
BILE for the majority of union men,
if not the majority of the leaders, to
vote without qualms for the men
who wrote it. That seems common
political sense.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28

stocks, the government acted un-
der military defense regulations, de-
creeing:
Railroad passenger service would
be curtailed to clear rights of way
for coal trains and divert locomo-
tives to such haulage; servicemen
would be employed at digging sur
face coal; additional trucks would
be provided to transport fuel from
docks and railroad depots; all but
essential street lighting would be
banned, and violators of electricity
conservation orders would be pun
ished.
Airplanes were used to drop food
and other essentials to snow-bound
villages cut off from railroad and
highway communication by the
heavy drifts.
Sick Industry
Behind Britain's acute coal crisis
which left millions jobless and shiv-
ering as industrial and domestic
! power services were sharply cur
tailed lay the story of an antiquat-
ed coal mining industry enfeebled
by low wages, undesirable working
conditions and outmoded machinery.
Naturalization of the mines
by the Labor government, with
the promise Of an improvement
in the industry, has been too re-
cent to afford substantial relief
from the aggravated conditions
Of two and half decades.
In 1913, Britain produced 287 ,OOO,-
600 tons. of coal with 1,1O7 900 min
ers, but by 1920 output dropped to
23O,O00,000 tons. Despite a larger
working force, the decline was at
tributed to the advancing age of the
miners and lack of adequate equip
ment.
Year by year production con-
tinued to slip until it sagged to
an all-time low Of 1872 900 900 tons
in 1945. But whereas U. S.
output continued to climb to over
600,000,00 tons and wages ad-
vanced to high levels, both Brit
ish industry and mine help re-
sisted introduction of new ma
chinery which would have in
creased volume and allowed
more pay.
Because of the unattractive pros
poets in the mines, the industry has
had difficulty recruiting younger
men. AS result, it has been forced
to stumble along in the face of ris-
ing demands, with production just
about meeting immediate needs and
allowing no stockpiling.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28

If radio could do as much to i'm
prove the production and quality of
its corn as agriculture does it would
be a happier world.
The American public spent three
times as much on tobacco as it did
on religion although the latter sum
reached a new high last year. Which
shows that some people still expect
to smoke here as well as hereafter.
Browning chief., 1947-02-28

The only ordinary civilians who
can give orders to Generals and ad-
mirals are the newsreel photog-
raphers.
Unlike Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and Austria still have
some freedom. How soon will Rus
sia be able to arrange free and un-
fettered elections in those three
countries?