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THE POTTERS HERALD
OFFICIAL JOTRXAL OF
THE NATIONAL BROTHKUHOOl) OK OTKRATIVE POTTERS
an 1
EAST LIVERPOOL TRADES & LABOR COUNCIL
Published every Thursday at Eaat Livcriool, Ohio, by the N. B. of O.
iP., owning and oiwrntingr the Best Trades Newspaper and Jot
Printing Plant in the State.
Stftered at Postoffice, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 20, 1902, as second
class malter. Accepted for mailing at Special Rates of Postage
provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 13, 1917, authorized
August 20, 1913.
Pflrkj Cullf.
New Jersey.
General Office, N. B. of O. P. Building, W. 6th St., BELL PHONE 575
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President—James M. Duffy, P. O. Box 6, East Liverpool. Ohio.
First Vice President—E. L. Wheatley, Room 215, Broad Street National
a n k u i i n e n o n N e w e s e y
Second Vice President—Frank Hull, 6111 Pacific Blvd., Huntington
Third Vice President—James Slaven, Cannons Mills, East Liverpool,
FourVh'Vice President—Charles Zimmer, 1045 Ohio Avenue, Trenton,
New Jersey.
Fifth Vice President—George Newbon, 847 Melrose Avenue, Trenton
Sixth Vice President—George Turner, 400 Monroe Street, East Liver
pool, Ohio. .....
Seventh Vice President—Charles Jordan, 176 East Virginia Avenue
Scbting, Ohio.
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Eighth Vice President—Joshua Chadwick, Grant Street, Newell, West
Secretary-Treasurer—John D. McGillivray, P. O. Box 6, East Liver
pool, Ohio.
EASTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers A. 1. PALE, 1'KKI) SUT'J LltLIN, JAMES "1 U
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY. WM. E. YOUNG. EDWARD SL.YFIERI
WESTERN GENERAL WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers M. J. LYNCH, ARTHUR WELL:
Operatives. JOHN McGILLIVRAY, LOUIS P1ESLOCK. !•'. HAYNE:
EASTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers BKN D. HARPKSTY, E. K. KOO
Operatives, E. L. WHEATLEY. JOHN T. HA LI A UK, Jr., WM. OWEN
WESTERN CHINA WARE STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers BEN I). HARPESTY, E. K. KOO
Operatives. BERT CLARK. H. R. HAISLOP, JOHN McGILLIVRAY
DECORATING STANDING COMMITTEE
Manufacturers, ROBERT DIET/, SR., BERT IIAKKLR, MARGARET
P\KKKR.
N. B. of O. P., JAMES SLAVEN, HUGO MILLER, ROLAND HORTON
SCRAP
15KCAUSE WK arc not producing enough steel
we are not building- ships and munitions as
fast as we can. To increase our steel producing
facilities we have had to fijcht the reluctant dra
gons anion# steel makers who have been too much
concerned about endanjvenn^- their post-war posi
tion by txeessive steel production iacilities.
because some of the big steel companies have
had their dollar-a-year men in the War Production
Board putting the brakes on expansion of steel
producing iacilities, we have not made progress
rapidly enough.
Labor has constantly insisted that we should
and could produce more steel, and has applied all
possible pressure upon the government. When
Congress took a hand in the situation, it called in
John P. Frey, president of the AFL Metal Trades
Department' to tell what' he knew. That was last
June. Now the prodding by the special Con
gressional committee appointed to investigate the
steel shortage situation, which is headed b.\
Representative Frank W. Koykin ol Alabama, has
resulted in approval 01 the building of a sponge
iron plant by the Republic Steel Co.
ttjwnge-i i'«n Well, it's nothing n^w. .Jn fact
it is old stuff. But it is a substitute for scrap iron
of which we cannot get enough to meet our needs
And sponge iron can be made right at the mines
in small plants, and at mines in many parts of the
country not now contributing to our needs. It's
another step along the lines of labor's recommen
dation of bringing more plants to the workers
instead of messing up our housing situation fur
ther by bringing more and more men away from
their homes to the plants.
And that's only the beginning. The Boykin
committee should do some more probing into th
steel situation. It can bring more tilings to light
that will help us win the war.
MKMO TO WASHINGTON
From the New ork Tillies)
N HIS REPORT to Congress on the operations
of the Property Requisitioning Act, President
Roosevelt points out that the mere existence of
the Government's authority to requisition and its
use in a limited number of instances have "expe
dited the voluntary sale of large quantities of
critical material." He cites the fact that the Gov
eminent obtained 10,000,000 pounds o! aluminum
from dealers who had "refused to sell it at fail
prices."
,We know where u n is a very large hoard
virtually a monopoly, of an important metal need
ed in war work. This hoard amounts all told to
nearly :i,000,000 ounces. The owner acquired it
at average prices of less than 50 cents an ounce
but will not sell it for less than $1.21) an otinc(
although the market price until recently has been
only cents an ounce. Meanwhile this metal is
needed in the manufacture of ships, airplanes
tanks, trucks, guns, shells, bombs, torpedoes am
other war equipment. It is needed as a substitute
for copper, tin and other metals now scarce. It is
ur ed to make airplane bearings, photographic film
.surgical materials and phamaceutical products.
The metal is silver. The hoarder is the I'nitee
S1 ates Governme
1 t.
sAM u 1)iN( A
N I» w KR CONtrol
UTRLNGTH OF movement for compulsory plac
ing of workers in war industries indicates that
1 me form of "labor draft" is on the way. Th
hue-and-cry for a "draft" is growing and Con
gress, it seems safe to say, will pass legislation foi
control of employment by the Administration, 1111
le.ss it is too drastic.
Organized labor lu opposed a labor draft anc
has' held that the present voluntary system has not
been given a fair trial in which view it has been
supported b\ a number of high Government otl'i
cials. But the American Federation of Labor, at
its recent Toronto convention, indicated it realize*
that control of employment was coming when it
demanded 110 further action on job reezing, si'.cl
.s the freezing of jobs of metal miners and lumbei
workers in the Northwest, until "general safe
guards have been developed and agreed to."
The convention declaration seems to point the
path for sound and constructive action by labor on
manpower control and mobilization. "General safe
guards," clear and specific, with full labor repre
sentation in policy-making and administration o
employment control legislation, would remove
many objections to wartime labor control and ric
it of the taint of totalitarianism.
A
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LIFTING TRADE BARRIERS
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S requests to Con
gress that he be given power to lift, fort the
period of the war, all customs barriers which im
pede the war production effort is plain common
sense. This is a joint war effort in which men,
materials, resources and information must be
oooled. Under the lend-lease program we are sup
plying our Allies with whatever they need and we
can furnish we are receiving from them what
ever they can furnish to meet our needs. In our
own production program we have need of all
materials we can obtain, whether of foreign or
domestic origin.
Under these conditions the existence of re
strictions such as those which prohibit the trans
portation by sea of Navy supplies except in
United States vessels or prevent the use of non
American materials in the construction of ships
under the Merchant Marine Act or hinder the
movement in and out of our country of persons
and information essential to the war effort can
only slenv down the war program. To levy tariffs
upon materials of foreign origin which are going
into war production means that the Government,
in effect, is taxing itself at the cost of complicat
ing and hindering production.
In the case erf Canada, tariffs and other regu
lations which stood in the way of a coordinated
war production program for the two countries
were removed last year. The new proposal would
extend a similar arrangement to other countries.
The method proposed, which is not to repeal all
these restricting laws but to give the President
authority to suspend them, is one that could only
be justified by the emergency of war. The Presi
dent properly sugests that the authority be
limited to the war period. It is possible, however,
that the experience with reduced barriers to trade
during the war may provide lessons that will help
to bring about a more sensible attitude when we
face the problems of reviving international com
merce in the post-war years.
RADIO CHIEFS MAKE SENSIBLE
SUGGESTION
WHY NOT reach a settlement by sitting down
and'talking matters over with the union
leaders?" That's the common sense suggestion
made by leaders of the radio industry in connec
tion with the controversy between the Musicians'
Union, en one hand, and the National Association
of Broadcasters and other interests, on the other.
The radio executives point out that, after all,
it is principally just a controversy between a union
and companies which make money out of the
manufacture of records.
Why drag in the entire radio industry why
persuade the tempemiental Mr. Arnold to use the
poweTs of the Federal government to harass the
union in court?
Of course, the court rather peremptorily dis
missed Mr. Arnold and his complaint, but that
extraordinary "crusader" is said to be meditating
an appeal.
If the advice of the radio executive's is taken,
an agreement should be reache-el in short ordei
The jobs of hundreds and perhaps thousands of
musicians will be protected and Mr. Arnold will
have sufficient leisure to look after the job Uncle
Sam pays him to handle.
LAND LACKS STAMINA
\VE WOULD have more respect for Admiral
Land if he stuck by his guns. He admits that
111 his speech to the investment bankers he said
he thought "organizers should be shot at sunrise,"
but he insists he did nejt use the words "union
or "labor." The editors who defend his ill-timed
outburst arc not deceived. They're sure he meant
"trade union organizers," and, of course, they are
dead right.
Howe'ver, the admiral hasn't the 'intestinal
stamina" to face the consequences of his indis
cretion. Admirals arc supposed to be made of
sterner stuff. They are not expected to stick theii
tails be'tweien their legs and run away at the first
sign of vigorous opposition.
Land is doing a lot of explaining these days.
Senators and Congressmen are asking him whv
he countenanced this or that "smelly" deal
transactions which enabled certain interests
re«ap large profits at the expense of the* public
trews usury. All his alibis are as weak as the stor.y
he tells of what he meant when he suggested that
"organizers should be shot at sunrise."
HELPING THE AXIS
/JNE WAY to help the Axis is to sell your war
bonds to buy things you can go without. It is
reliably reported that more than a few folks are
running to the banks with their bemds each month.
There are cases, of course, where bonds must be
sacrificed for emergencies. But the lad who cashes
his bonds in to buy fine1 clothes or to finance out
lays for luxury, is lumping the Axis.
Don't forgot this: if you cling to your bonds,
go without some' of the comforts to which you are
accustomed or forego those you have not enjejyed,
vou may stay out of the soup lines after this war
is over. Save that 10 per cent! There will come a
day whdn it will be* mighty handy.
Finally our country is in a desperate war
you are in it, too. When you lend your nuuioy to
your country, there is an implied promise on your
part to hold your bonds until they become due in
10 years. If you cash the'm in, except in dire nec
essity, you are double-crossing Uncle Sam.
CODDLING THE "FREE" PRESS
THE INTERNAL Reve»nue Bureau decides that
corporations, evem when they devote all theii
•nergie's to government work and have nothing
-ell to the public, may conduct "advertising cam
paigns" and deduct the cost from their profits.
That sounds innocent enough, but as mattei
of fact, it means that Uncle Sam is subsidizing
newspapers and magazines and bolstering theii
profits at a time when the ordinary citizen is
wondering how in the world he can accumulate
enough cash to pay his income tax.
If General Motors, for example, spends $1,
000,000 for advertising and deducts that sum
from its profits, the amount it pays the Treasury
will be reduced by at least $f00,(j)0. To that ex
tent, the fortunate publishers will be pocketing
funds which should be used to build airplanes am
other weapons of war.
THE POTTERS HERALD
FACING
THE FACTS
With PHILIP PEARL
Women are not feting to be innoejent
bystanders in this war. They're going
to work. Ami wo don't mean rolling
bandages for the ISotl Cross, or knit
ting sweaters, or giving bridge teas
for war relief. We mean hard, sub
stantial work in machine shops, in
munitions factories and In aircraft
plants.
As more and more men are called
from the labor force for military serv
ice. their places are being filled by
women women trained to handle
tools and do precision work. For the
duration, the outmoded adage about
woman's place being in Hie home will
lit forgotten. Her place will be on the
issemhly line.
In England, in Russia and in Can
ada women are already serving as
production soldiers in greater num
bers than men. And they're eloing a
swell job. They're working long hours
nid they're producing top-notch goods.
It lias long been the fashion—for
men—to look down upon women as
iclpless creatures who have to be
sheltered and protected. Some women
have contributed to this delusion by
posing as clinging vines. But the gen
eral notion that women are too deli
ate to work hard and hold up their
end has not only been disproved in
foreign lands but right here in our
own country.
The Victory Spirit
Many thousands of American women
11 ready are employed in aircraft
plants and munitions factories. We've
asked union leaders about them. And
the almost unanimous response is that
they're doing a better job than the
men they've replaced.
W'lie.n it. comes to precision work
and jobs requiring manual dexterity,
the gals have got it all over the men.
They are much handier and much
more efficient at. that kind of work.
They are also proving themselves ex
perl at riveting and Avoiding—believe
it or not. In aircraft plants women
now constitute more than 10 per cent
of the employees doing manual labor
tnd the men are having a tough liui"
keeping up with .tlicir production pace.
Of course, in England more than 50
per cent of aircraft employees are
women—and it. may come to that here
too. During our recent stay i,n Canada,
we learned that some 70 per cent of
workers employed in manufacturing
machine guns arl» women md manage
ment is delighted with their produc
tion achievements.
It isn't skill :md dexterity alone
that's responsible for the fine record
women art- making in war industries.
Wo can't believ* that because they've
had less training'and experience. It's
their spirit tli.it counts. Practically
very one of them has a son, a brother,
a husband or a sweetheart in the
lighting forces and they know that
I hey can help heir loved ones win by
turning out the materials of war
which are essential to victory.
(Mir Hats Are Oil'
Because of 1 hat spirit, we feel con
tident that the women of America will
take kindly to the registration for
work which is coming soon. Naturally,
a great many women with children
cannot be spared from the home. Hut
hundreds of thousands of them who
have the urge and the opportunity to
help their country will be overjoyed at
the opportunity to take jobs in war
industries.
We mustn't forget that because so
many men who helped sftpport their
families are now in the Army and
Navy these families are having a
much tougher time getting along now.
The high cost of living lias hurt them
mo*!. Women in IliPse families who
are not. tied down by small children or
other home r. iionsibilities are going
to be glad 01 the chance of earning
extra dollars and helping the victory
effort at the same time.
And make 110 mistake about it—or
anized labor will s«e .to it tliaL the
principle of equal pay for equal work
will be upheld throughout war indus
tries. That means no chiseling em
ployer will be able to get away with
paying women less than the mei
whose jobs they are taking over.
And it is a tribute to the intelligent e
and good sense of the women now
working in war industries that they
appreciate the efforts of the trade
union movement in (heir behalf. They
make the best union members, as
many AFL unions can attest. They
realize that without union protection
they would be exploited, so they join
up promptly and back up the organ
ization loyally.
So let's take our hats off to Amer
ica's women—not because of silly, con
ventional decorum but in tribute to
their courageous spirit and real abil
ity and, Jod Moss them, they're just
as attracti\ overalls as in evening
go w 11s.
ENDING OK II11.1 LAIiOIi
LAWS I OK DURATION SEEN
\hville, V 1 (11,XS).—The annual
«'oiigress of Correction, sponsored by
the American Prison Association, was
told that labor shortages caused by th«
war would mean the setting aside of
child labor laws for (he duration.
Harold F. Strong, president of th(
congress' juvenile agencies group and
head of Children's Village, delinquent
boys' sell....I D6bbs I'errv, N. Y..
said
"The acute labor shortage result it
will mean .the setting aside of child
labor laws, probably by order of the
President of ii. I'niled Stales, for the
duration."
RIDING
AT ANCHOR
MR. MODESTUS
It's the Silver Club, now—
Used to be Millionaires' Club—
Must he a lot of them in there yet—
Somebody ought to print: a "Who's
Who" for the l\ S. Senate—
Giving their financial ratings, and
corporation connections—
Funny, that scarab Festbrooke,
seeker-out of terrific odorifications—
Has missed titis chance for a stink
eroo—
But it don't seem to be his kind of
man(e)uvre—
We wondered—
Why th'- U. S. Senate was so easy—
On international paytriots, who
measured their emotions—
In terms of aluminum, magnesium,
tungsten, not to mention rubber—
But now the curtain is lifted, a little
more—
It can be seen .that the nest shelters
birds of a feather—
There is now and then one, with
markings of some other tribe—
Like Senator Truman, or Bob La
Fol lette—
Hut even Senator Norris sings low,
with other farm bards—
When it conies to raising the silver
chorus—
So, now it is Silver—
Who would have thought that a
product—
Less in value than the noodle output
of the nation—
Would have such mighty persuasive
power—
Swinging the 1'. S. Treasury, like
a monkey by the tail—
Telling administration leaders what
must be done—
Demanding, and getting, 71.11 cents
per Troy ounce for .silver—
From the public treasury, pockets
of ."John Citizens—
When tlie world market price is
only 45 cents an ounce.
Silver is good for lots of tilings be
sides dimes—
In places it is better and cheaper to
use, than tin—
Germany is confiscating it, grabbing
it, everywhere—
Silver wire is better than copper,
for electrical uses—
We're getting short of copper but
we can't use (he silver we have—
For airplane bearings, high speed,
nothing will take its place—
Photographic films, surgical ma
terial, drugs, must have silver—
Corrosion-resisting ]dating for other
metals is also vital—
Politics cannot be used as ersatz
for any of these things—
I Jut politics, PLCS TREASON, is
keeping silver buried at West Point
Where Uncle Sam has 100,000 tons
of it buried—
All according to law.
Silver is mainly a by-product,
From 25 mining companies, who
produce 80 per cent of it. here—
Don't you wish you knew who owns
the stock of those companies—
We can't give you their name to
day—
Uut We can give you the names of
the TWELVE I S. SENATORS
Who are high-jacking millions of
American dollars—
While crippling actual war produc
tion processes—
Hem* they are, count 'em:
Senators John Thomas and P.
Worth Clark, of Idaho
Burton K. Wheeler, and .lames E.
.Murray, Montana—
Fiber! D. Thomas, Utah and Ernest
W. McFarland, Arizona
Edwin C. .Johnson and Eugene D.
.Miilikin, Colorado—
IJerkeley L. 1 Junker, and Pat Mc
'a rran. Nevada—
Nice little squad: and can .they or
ganize
Those are the guys, to'gether with
those alleged farmers—
Who refused to permit stabilization
of prices—
Of everything else—but SILVER!
W I S O I
4. .y. ,1, •»,»#•»•»"»
Cliidrcn iuiM nut lie allowed (o
pay tIn* cost of this war in neg
lect or serious lu&s ol' educational
opportunity.—Franklin D. Roose
velt.
PENNSYLVANIA JOBS AT PEAK
Philadelphia (1LNS). Employment
in Pennsylvania factories increased
fractionally from August to September
to a new peak of about 1,1S8.000 work
ers and wage payments rose 1 per cent
to a record high of S42,S()0,000 a week,
the Federal Reserve Rank of Phila
delphia reports. Working time declined
somewhat in the month. Compared
with a year ago, employment increased
I per cent, payrolls 2,'{ per cent, and
total employee hours worked 10 per
cent.
HOT MEALS FOII WAR WOKKEKS
New York City.—A broadcast from
Sydney to North America says: "Muni
tions workers throughout Australia
will soon be able to get hot .two-course
meals at the canteens in Australian
cities. The first canteen of a chain
which will eventually comprise 13
units will open in a Victory factory,
accommodating 850 workers."
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS
4
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Procedure employed in the United
Nations to solve problems of indus
trial relations has become more demo
cratic since the outbreak of the war,
according to findings of a study pub
lished in the November issue of the
International Labor Review, mothly
publication of the International Labor
Oflice, Montreal.
This is cheering news for American
labor, which has insisted on applica
tion of democratic processes in war
production and the whole war econ
omy and program. Labor's stand has
been a powerful bulwark to believers
in democratic methods, who have had
constantly to fight a group that has
sought to set aside fundamental rights
under the guise of war necessity.
Especially cheering is the conclu
sion of the study that, "far from hav
ing led to the abolition of democratic
procedure, the war has strengthened
it considerably" in the field of indus
trial relations. Moreover, the study
says, the war has "precipitated a
number of important reforms which
would have taken years to mature in
the slow evolution of peacetime."
Author of the study is I. Bessling,
member of the Labor Conditions, Em
ployment and Migration Section of the
ILO.
In summarizing the conclusions of
his 36-page analysis of the problems
involved in adapting .collective bar
gaining to war requirements, Bessling
finds that in the democratic countries
"the integration of democratic meth
ods of regulating conditions of eni
polyment with the war economy tends
to be the result not of compulsion but
of collaboration between the Govern
ments and the parties concerned."
This, he says, is .the outstanding fea
ture of the wartime evolution of in
dustrial relations in the democracies.
The reason why it iias been easy
to reach agreement on the funda
mental problems of the organization of
industrial relations in wartime, the
writer says, lies in the fact that "all
the persons concerned have been pro
foundly convinced that their common
end—the speediest and most effective
mobilization of all the resources of the
nation for victory—must outweigh sec
tional interests."
"The regulation of collective indus
trial relations in wartime," the study
says, "brings out the deep-seated unity
of the war economy, the close inter
dependence between the social prob
lem of remuneration and the economic
problem of production. Hence the
centre of gravity of trade union ac
tion must be shifted more or less from
tile social field of industrial relations
to the field of production.
"Ry admitting that their conditions
of employment must be subordinated
to the requirements of the war econ
omy, the occupational organizations
acquire the right to take an active
part in framing and carrying out the
program of production. In actual fact
all the democratic countries engaged
in the war have made a point of asso
ciating, more than ever before, the
organized forces of labor and produc
tion with the whole social and eco
nomical policy of the State."
ANDREW FI'KI'SETII (1,1 It
DEDICATED TO SEAMEN
New York City.—The Andrew Fu
ruseth Club for the exclusive use of
I he American seamen was dedicated at
.'i0 East 37th Street in a ceremony
which included many prominent per
sons who joined with sailors dressed
in sweat shirts and dungarees to pay
tribute not only to the men who go to
sea today but. sylso to those who have
fallen in line of duly, and above all to
the father of organized maritime la
bor, Andrew Furuseth.
The club, sponsored by the United
Seamen's Service, is fully equipped
with everything to make life comfort
able—restaurant, reception room, and
lounge, library and writing room, and
other services, including medical care
of the seamen. The speakers included
Mayor La Guardia, who paid a .tribute
to Furuseth for having "won almost
singlelianded reforms for the seame-i
long overdue," and Harry Collins, rep
resenting the Seafarers' International
I'nion, who* said lie was "glad to see
that, at last the merchant seamen are
coming into their own."
RADIO PROGRAM SALM ES
LAIIOK EDITORS OF I S.
In
Washington, D. C. (1LNS).
tribute to the labor editors of America,
the following "salute" was recently
given by the Labor News Review pro
gram of Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem's WJSV, Albert N. Dennis, con
ductor
"Each week, the Labor News Review
otters a public salute .to some non
military group, in recognition of out
standing service in helping to win the
war.
"The honor this week goes to a group
of loyal and able newspaper and mnga
zine editors, men and women who are
doing more toward ultimate victory
than the public appears to realize
men and women who are freely giving
of their time and of their considerable
talent to help in practical ways th«
survival of democracy, at home and
abroad.
"In recognition of Service to Amer
ica, the Labor News Review resect
fully Salutes—the editors of America's
labor publications!"
Labor's in the fight—10 per cent of
pay every payday for bends.
Thursday, November 12, 1042.
THE
CHERRY TREE
Where With Our Little Hatchet
We Tell the Truth About Many
Things, Sometimes Profoundly,
Sometimes Flippantly a n
Sometimes Recklessly.
The anti-Rritish propaganda float
ing around in .the United States is a
matter about which to be concerned.
Good propaganda, meaning effective,
always goes around with a half
shadow of truth behind it. It strives
to look real.
The professional Irish propagandists
were doing a fair job along that line
early in the war.
Rut this time it looks like .the pure
German brand.
How does it -happen that propa
ganda can be spread in America to
day?
The clear answer is that there must
be German agents to start it.
If there are German agents among
us, then it behooves us to be doubly
careful about all that we say and to
sift carefully all that we hear.
Rumor clinics, being set up in the
larger cities, are doing a good job.
Not long ago a man said, "I have it
straight that some more German
agents have landed in the Atlantic
(and he named the place)."
"Take that straight to the rumor
clinic," said another in the gathering.
Somehow the bearer of the tale
hushed up fast. Naturally, the report
was NOT .true.
Everyone can be his own rumor
clinic. And here's how:
First, ask yourself if the report
seems reasonable. If it seems reason
able, then look for proof. Ask the one
who bears the tale. Then go to local
authorities—an editor, the police, the
mayor.
If locally you can't get a straight
answer, write to Otlice of War In
formation, at Washington.
And don't repeat a story that you
can't definitely prove.
As the posters say, "button up your
lip."
But there are types of propaganda
more dillicult to deal with than the
rumor.
In sections of .the South there ap
pears to be a wave of feeling against
Jewish people.
Well, it is difficult to compel people
to l'eel differently than they do.
Rut everyone can set an example.
The counter propaganda of precept is
pretty good stuff.
We need, in fact, to be a UNITED
people to win .this war.
We need a united physical effort and
a united intellectual conviction.
And we need to put a lot of down
right determination back of that in
tellectual conviction.
The hideous thing for which the
Axis forces stand and which they
want to impore on all peoples, has got
to be wiped out by force and you have
to get up a full head of steam to do
an effective job of wiping out any
hing.
For one thing, we have to get out
of our heads the "when do I get inLne"
attitude.
For another thing, and to get back
to th subject, we have to be bright
enough and determined enough to be
proof against enemy propaganda.
We've got to work up a red hot
propaganda among ourselves and it's
got to be a "win .the war" propaganda
that is vogorous and that leaps from
mouth to mouth.
Some plain old fashioned revival
meet in' spirit would just about fill the
bill.
More bands playing, more flags fly
ing, more parades, more sizzling edi
torials more of everything that
drives us on to unity and victory—
that's what we need.
Dish it up—everybody!
"Praise the Lord and pass the
a mntunit ion !"—(-M W.
I W A N E
I
A cur^o plane composed of two
parts one carrying the engine
and wings, the other the cargo—
is a notable innovation now in the
plans. This tractor-truck arrang**
nicnt would allow the engine half
to tly another caxgo without wait
ing for loading or unloading.—
Forbes Magazine.
PUBLIC WORKS PLANNING AID
Chicago (1LNS). Wiscousin cities
now are able to obtain advice in plan
ning future public improvements from
the state planning board, which re
cently assigned a staff member to assist
local officials, the American Municipal
Association reports. The state board
set up the local planning aid after the
Federal public works programming
office, established to aid localities in
long-range planning, ceased operating
in July.
UNION LEADERS SUSPENDED
Toronto (1LNS).—William E. Ma
loney, -president of the International
Union of Operating Engineers, an
nounced here that he had ordered sus
pension of four officers of Local 106,
Albany, N. Y., who pleaded guilty in
Federal Court at Syracuse to charges
they had accepted payments for issu
ing "iiermit cards" to non-union work
ers on government jobs.