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FRIDAY, APRIL 20,1945
WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN
Last November, 48 million Ameri
cans went to the polls and cast their
votes for men to represent them. Then
they went home again. The votes
were duly counted. The men who were
elected to speak for the American peo
ple duly arrived in Washington,
C., to take over the job. How far
away, then, did their home states
seem to them? How far away did
DesMoines and Los Angeles and Gal
veston seem?
Not so far at all. Whenever you
sit down in the cafeteria of the House
Office Building you hear little groups
of Congressmen's secretaries swap
ping notes over their pie and coffee
The conversations start something
like this: "How many letters did you
get about that bill last week?"
That's why we urge you again to
write your Congressman about the
anti-poll tax bill H. R. 7 specifically
to write him asking him to sign Dis
charge Petition No. 1 to bring H.
7 to a vote promptly and then to sup
port the bill.
No bobby-soxer ever waited for an
autographed picture of a crooner as
ardently as Congressmen wait for
mail. When they get mail, they know
the people who elect them care about
something. When they don't get mail
on* an issue, they know those all
powerful "folks back home" don't care
much. Then they can vote on an is
sue without giving it so much atten
tion or they can even stay away from
Congress to catch up on some other
job, because they are busy people with
packed schedules.
It's easy to criticize a Congress
man when you don't agree with some
thing he did. Sut it's fairer to think
whether you yourself did your share
The responsibilities of the 48 million
Americans who voted last November
7, didn't end there. They only began
You can't just vote once avery 2 years
and then wash your hands of the fu
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Final collapse of German resist
ance will bring an unprecedented mi
gration of from 12 to 15 million men,
women and child held as prisoners
of war or labor conscripts and a stu
pendous repatriation and recondition
ing problem, says Herbert H. Lehman,
UNRRA director general, who in the
May issue of the American Magazine
gives for the first time details of a
plan designed to make their home
coming both orderly and joyful.
The head of the United Nations Re
lief and Rehabilitation Administration
estimates that 5,000,000 displaced per
sons will start walking home as soon
as the Nazi ai-my surrenders and
warns in a signed article that "if we
do not do all within our power to or
ganize and direct this vast migration,
tragedy, pillage, disease and suffer
ing may be its milestones."
Lehman expects that about half
of the 12 to 15 million will present in
dividual problems because of disease
lack of identification, loss of family
and home. Of these, 500,000 may
prove to be stateless because he says,
"many Jews driven from one country
to another by persecution will not want
to return home" and "there are poli
tical refugees in the neutral coun
tries, even in the western hemisphere
who dare not go home lest they be
persecuted."
To avert an unorganized mass move
ment of sickly, starving and poorly
clothed people, many either carrying
or leading children, the UNRRA in
collaboration with governments of
occupied countries and the Supreme
Headquarters of the Allied Expedi
tionary Force has arranged for as
sembly centers to serve as clearing
house for migrants.
"For the stateless wayfarers, some
more permanent quarters will be es
tablished," says Lehman who indi
ture of America, and let your Con
gressman do all the rest. Because
any people who in these years of ty
ranny are blest enough to have a dem
ocratic government, have a responsi
bility to live up to it. They will get
the government they deserve.
If 10 million American citizens, now
disfranchised by the poll tax, are to
have a free vote, it's up to all Amer
icans to take their pens in hand to
day—and write to their representa
tives on behalf of an untaxed vote.
KEEP EVERLASTINGLY ON THE
JOB!
Well, the war news is certainly good
now—and let's all hope it gets even
better. But we must realize that vie
tory has NOT been fully won, even
in Europe, and it's still a longer road
that leads to Tokyo. Now, of all times
is the time for everybody on the home
front to brace up and buckle down
to get in there and swing until the
bells of victory ring.—:Albert N. Den
SOMETHING WRONG HERE
Accidental deaths to children have
increased more than any other age
group during the war period, the Na
tional Safety Council says.
The death toll for children (0-14
years) from home and public, except
motor vehicle, in 1944 was 10,900, or
approximately 900 fatalities every
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tion.
Each government cooperating in the
ssembly setup, the UNRRA director
states, "pledges itself to take care
of nationals of the other governments
as they are found displaced within its
borders when it is liberated. UNRRA
will have a liason mission attached to
each government UNRRA has
already been requested by SHAEF to
provide about 4,000 trained persons
to operate 400 assembly center^ for
displaced persons and refugees in
Germany."
These assembly centers are set up
wherever facilities are found in lib
erated areas as already has been
done by the American army in France
under supervision of G-5, the Civil
affairs division of SHAEF.
"In the assembly centers the dis
placed will be registered, given phy
sical examination, freed of vermin,
and provided with post cards on which
to send a limited message to their rel
atives at home," Lehman writes. "Then
they will be screened by Army Intelli
gence ... to weed out spies, saboteurs,
and others in the service of a possible
Nazi underground. A second screen
ing will be given at the border of the
country into which they are going.
'It is probable that the assembly
camps will be cleared by priority
Prisoners of war will be cleared first,
Our own American prisoners of war
will be taken care of by the Ameri
can army, British prisoners by the
British army.
"Skilled labor and professional men
probably will be cleared next if their
nations are in need of their services
It is possible again that women and
children or mothers with babies will
be removed first. These things must
be determined by the needs and ex
igencies of the moment."
month! This is a 17 percent increase
since Pearl Harbor. In home acci
dents alone, there were 1,150 more
deaths in 1944 than in 1941 among
children under 5 years of age. This
represents a 24 percent rise.
WHAT NEXT?
Battqlle Memorial Institute, re
search laboratory at Columbus, Ohio
has invented a simple gas-pipe de
vice which keeps locomotives from
smoking. During tests on engines in
operation firemen objected to the roar
ing noise the device made, so Battelle
scientists promptly developed a silenc
er.
WISDOM
Liberty of conscience (when peo
ple have consciences) is rightly con
sidered the most indispensable of lib
erties.—Charles Haddon Chambers.
Silver Star Medal
For Machinist Hero
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Twice
a hero in the fighting in Italy, Pri
vate First Class Mitchell J. J. Pxyz
bys, Chicopee, Miss, a member of the
International Association of Machin
ists, formerly employed at J. Stevens
Arms Co., a division of Savage Arms
has received the Army's Silver Star
medal.
Although No. 3 in a mortar squad,
and wire communications was not his
responsibility, on April 23, 1944, Pxyz
bys voluntarily ran 400 yards through
heavy enemy shelling, with some
shells landing within 20 yards of him
to repair a wire line. Then while
shelling still continued, and with shells
exploding as close as 50 feet, he ex
tinguished a fire in a mortar am
munition dump, thus preventing pos
sible injury to members of his section
as well as disclosure of the position to
enemy observation.
Overseas 18 months, Pfc. Pxyzbys
served in Africa and Italy, and is now
in France. He is married and the
father of a 2-year-old son, Mitchell
Jr.
Cities Plan War Memorials
Chicago (ILNS).—Amarillo, Tex
has purchased 6 square blocks of land
for $45,000 as a site for a war memor
ial Greenville, S. C., is planning
sports center memorial to include
swimming pool, tennis court, baseball
diamonds, and other facilities ... In
Oglesby, 111., a poll on a suitable war
memorial gave first place to a new
hospital, second place to a city hall
and auditorium, and third place to an
outdoor swimming pool Nebraska
City, Nebr., the home of J. Sterling
Morton, founder of Arbor Day, will
plant individual trees for servicemen
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NEWS AND VIEWS
By Alexander Lipsetij:
(An ILNS Feature)
Postwar housing is a problem no
less heatedly discussed in Britain
than in the United States.
During a recent housing debate
in the House of Commons, Mr. H. U.
Willink, British Minister of Public
Health, stated that by the end of the
second year after Germany's collapse
220,000 houses would be completed
and 80,000 more near completion. He
asserted that the British building in
dustry could not be expected to pro
duce more, especially in view of,, man
power problems.
A total of 300,000 houses in 2 years
seems to Americans a rather poor
showing. This view is apparently
shared by some members of the Brit
ish Parliament who did not hesitate to
plunk the Minister's arguments and
figures apart. A conservative mem
ber, I. C. Cobb, pointed out that it
was time to start construction work
in view of the idleness of large num
bers of workers in aircraft plants
The men were complaining of having
nothing to do and might well be shift
ed to construtive work and jobs in
these lines, he said.
This column follows with great in
terest and an equal amount of skepti
cism the arguments of our press and
radio commentators that it will take
decades to rebuild Europe. It has
always felt that given a few years
of peace and concentration on work
and bread—to borrow from the Bolshe
vist slogan of 1917—Europe will
quickly be able to arise from the
ashes and reconstitute itself as an
important member in the family of
nations.
An unexpected confirmation of this
view comes now from German indus
trialists who predict that recovery
of Germany is relatively simple if the
Allied powers permit it. According
to a Dr. Duisberg, official of the
Chamber of Industry and Commerce
in American-occupied Frankfort on
the Main, 30 percent of German indus
try has been destroyed by the war
The destruction is undoubtedly vast,
he said, "but buildings can be replaced
and German ideas and enterprise have
not been destroyed."
Whether things will work out that
way remains to be seen. In any event
it will be necessary to keep strict con
trol on "German ideas and German en
terprise."
Passing Glances in ttie Passing
Parade: A bull-necked Nazi storm
trooper, taken prisoner at the West
ern front, boasts of having taken part
in the execution of 3,000 Jews. Amer
ican authorities are reported making
an exhaustive investigation. It
would do no harm to show to the world
that we can act just as speedily as the
Russians in dealing with murderers
General Motors reports a new em
ployment high of 465,617 for 1944
Payrolls amounted to $1,380,000,000
The average annual wage in 1944 wa
$2,960, as against $2,985 in 1943 and
$2,257 in *941, last year of peace
time production. Where are the fab
ulous profits of our war workers
The Russian press is blasting
away at colonial rule by the great
powers. The magazine War and the
Working class says that "the colonial
enslavement of millions is a dangerous
obstacle in the path of social pro
gress." That sounds like the pot call
ing the ke.ttle black British Labor
party spokesmen have announced that
they are opposed to a post-war coali
tion regime, thus rejecting the Churc
hill invitation of a non-party govern
ment after the European war. The
British Communists, on the other
hand, endorse the idea of a continued
coalition President Roosevelt has
proclaimed April as Cancer Control
Month. CIO President Murray an
nounces April as United Nations
Month. Any further suggestions?
Dutch orders for machinery and ma
terials for the rebuilding of the 3,
000,000-ton merchant fleet of prewar
days have been placed in Britain, Bel
gium, Switzerland and Sweden. Is
the United States good only for Lend
Lease transactions
Newspaper Says War
Objectors No Better
O a n S a v e s
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—Tak
ing notice of the fate of some 8,000
conscientious objectors now at forced
labor in Civilian Public Service camps
and hospitals, where they receive no
pay, no compensation for accidents,
and no allowance for dependents, the
Columbia, South Carolina, State com
mented editorially:
"Many a farmer rfnd other oper
ator of a business would more than
gladly take over a group of workers
under these conditions. In fact, we
believe that the Negro slaves of the
South fared about as well in compen
sation as is indicated here. They got
lodging, clothing, all they could eat,
and in many cases, some spending
money, besides small parcels of land
to work for their own benefit."
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G. A. Johnston Named
ILO Assistant Chief
Montreal (ILNS). Edward J.
Pljelan,
acting director of the Inter
national Labor Office, has announced
the appointment of George Alexander
Johnston, assistant secretary, British
Minister of Labor and National Serv
ice, as an assistant director of the
IL°.
Johnston was an official of the ILO
in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1920 un
til 1940 when he joined the staff of the
Ministry of Labor. He becomes the
third Assistant Director of the ILO,
the others being Lindsay Rogers of
the United States and Jef Rens of
Belgium.
Born on Nov. 11, 1888, Johnston
graduated M. A. from Glasgow Uni
versity where he later took the degree
of doctor of philosophy. He also
studied at Berlin University, and Sub
sequently held teaching appointments
at St. Andrews University, Edinburgh
University and Glasgow University.
He attended the 26th session of
the International Labor Conference
last May in Philadelphia as a member
of the British Government delegation,
and has represented the British Gov
ernment as substitute representative
at several sessions of the ILO's Gov
erning body.
He is the author of several books,
including "International Social Prog
ress" and "Citizenship in the Indus
trial World."
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Warns On U. S. Health
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American people is going to remain
far below the minimum required to
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ing citizenry" unless the nation be
gins improving its medical efficiency
along organizational and distribution
al lines, Senator Claude Pepper, Flor
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