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Truth About Rubber •
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT believe* that, since nobody
knows the true situation about rubber, the proper
foundation for a permanent rubber conservation program
would be a factual survey of the situation.
He therefore urges a thorough combing of the coun
try for scrap rubber, with decision on restrictive measures
being held in abeyance pending determination of the exact
need for such measures. This scrap rubber drive started
in Detroit yesterday.
The President has taken a sound view of the matter.
He reports that he has access to all information and
estimates about available rubber supply, that these statis
tics are voluminous and he has made an intensive study
of the whole problem.
« « *
BUT the net result, he says, is that he finds no two
persons in agreement on the essential facta of the
matter, and therefore no accurate or adequate basis for
a remedial program.
He thinks that a nation-wide scrap-salvage campaign,
conducted for two weeks, would end speculation about the
amount of rubber available and would establish the neces
sity for and assure public acceptance of any transportation
curtailment thereby indicated.
The proposed national gasoline rationing program
comes well within the range of what the President thinks
should await proper determination of facts about rubber.
With the exception of certain areas where transport
congestion or curtailment is involved, principally along
the eastern seaboard, there is no shortage of gasoline. In
fact, it is frankly said that nation-wide gasoline rationing
is not suggested for the conservation of fuel, but for the
conservation of rubber through discouragement of travel.
• • •
THE American people can be depended upon for full
and loyal co-operation with the government in all
necessary things, for the primary purpose of winning the
war. But naturally, the people want an accurate showing
of necessity, and the President is right in insisting they
should have it.
The first obligation upon the people for co-operation
will be discharged by enthusiastic and complete support
of the scrap-rubber salvage program, with every attic,
cellar and backyard in America turning up the last frag
ment of rubber available.
A further obligation upon the people is to comply, in
the meantime, with the President’s suggestion that the
use of automobiles be confined to necessary travel and
that driving speed be held within the limits of minimum
tire wear.-
For there can be no misunderstanding of the fact
that our rubber problem will remain serious for a long
time, no matter what the scrap-rubber salvage program
turns up.
• • •
THE foreign sources of new rubber upon which we have
depended almost entirely in the past have been cut
off by the war.
Synthetic production of domestic rubber, however
efficiently developed and expanded, will not even begin to
take up the slack for at least another year, and will not
give us sufficiency in rubber for several years.
So the American people may be reasonably sure that
restricted use of rubber by civilians is with us for a long
time—the exact time to be measured in all probability by
the length of the war.
But the specific restrictions, including indirect curtail
ment through such devices as gasoline rationing, should
certainly be based on the precise proportions of the prob
lem, as the President insists.
Don’t Blame Walkers
DETROIT’S pedestrian protection ordinance became
effective yesterday.
It is a common sense ordinance designed to protect
the skins of people afoot by reminding them to walk
carefully in traffic.
It is a simple ordinance because it contains only
three major rules couched in simple language. The three
rules admonish you:
• To stop and look both ways before stepping from
the curb or other places of safety, into the street;
• To wait on the curb when an approaching automo
bile is so near that it cannot stop before reaching you;
• To wait on cross walks for the green light before
starting across the street.
• • •
IF YOU are caught violating these three rules you will
be ticketed just as motorists are ticketed for traffic
violations.
That’s fine so long as traffic authorities and police
don’t sit back now, serene in the belief that our traffic
safety problem has been solved.
We still insist as we always have that the burden of
traffic safety rests primarily on the motorist. In collisions
between automobiles and pedestrians the automobiles
never come off second best.
We still insist that orderly direction of traffic on
busy thoroughfares is an essential factor in traffic safety.
And traffic direction in Detroit is not orderly.
There is too much illegal double parking, too much
parking on through streets where parking is prohibited,
too much monopoly of one-way streets by trucks and
DSR buses, too much parking right up to intersections
which is a serious safety hazard.
The new pedestrian ordinance should be strictly en
forced of course. But so should the older ordinances,
violations of which (such as those in the above para
graph) are hardly noticed at all.
A Sensible Selection
DEMOCRATS here are fortunate in obtaining the
services of a man like William M, Donnelly for
chairman of the Wayne County Democratic Committee.
Donnelly, a sound and practicing party man all his
life, should provide refreshing contrast to the hordes of
opportunists and backsliding Republicans who leaped
aboard the bandwagon in 1952 and who since have used
the party label for their personal exploitation and enrich
ment and to the discredit of party politics in Michigan.
On the contrary Donnelly is a true Old-Guarder. He
will bring intelligent administration and unswerving in
tegrity to a post that has been held recently in dubious
esteem.
Socialism
Hits Rights
Of Unions
Government Ownership
Bars Strikes
By PALL MALLON
¥ ABOR has had a good chance
during this war to learn
how- government ownership and
operation works out.
Certain experiments in so
cialism have been thrust upon
the government, some ex
perience has been acquired in
the kind of "nationalization"
which the British labor leftists
strangely are coming to advo
cate as a post-war system, and
that some unthinking liberals in
this country lean toward also.
The government took over and
operated the Brewster Aviation
Company, turning it back about
three weeks ago to private man
agement. Before government
operation and afterward, the
union in that plant had a closed
shop and a check-off.
But while the government was
in control it had nothing, not
e\rn the right to strike. When
the government took over the
plant, labor became the servant
of the public and lost all its
rights.
Earlier in the Kearney ship
building plant, striking workers
wanted a union of maintenance
shop (practically the aa me as
closed) and foolish union leaders
urged the government to take
over the plant when they could
not get their desires by negotia
tion with the management.
• • •
government accepted their
A invitation, to their regret.
The navy ran the plant, but
without the union of main
tenance or any other shop, and
when the plant was turned back
the union was still without its
objective. It would have been
against the law for the govern
ment to have done otherwise.
The workers finally got their
union shop through the War
Labor Board, after private man
agemen was resumed.
This is not a situation peculiar
to war. but is the unbroken
history of all government peace
time operation or ownership.
Take the cases of the TV A
and the federal barge line.
These government-owned busi
ness enterprises are typical
peace time experiments in the
socialist theory. Both have
unions of employes, but main
tain an open shop, and the
unions do not have the right to
strike.
TV A has about 37,000 em
ployes and a majority are mem
bers of some trade union, the
largest being the electrical
workers. But these trade work
ers for the government do not
enjoy the same privileges as
private workers.
In government shipyards and
arsenals it is the same. There is
not much reason for a union.
• • *
OBVIOUSLY then, labor should
be assuming the leadership
against socialism of the Nazi.
Communist, proposed British or
American varieties.
Such a good friend of labor
as Mr. Roosevelt outlined the
realities of the situation in a
letter to federal employes Aug.
16, 1937—a letter which could
have been entitled:
"The Case Against Socialism."
He wrote:
"The very nature and pur
poses of government make It
I m po s sible for administrative
.officials . , . to bind the em
ployer In mutual discussions
with government employe or
ganizations. . . .
“Upon employes In the fed
eral service rests the obligation
to serve the whole people, whose
Interests and welfare require
orderliness and continuity In the
ronduet of government activi
ties. This obligation Is para
mount.”
Any union man who works
for socialism then is working to
nullify his union and destroy his
existing rights. If you have,
.been thinking that it would be a.
.good post-war policy for the.
.government to own and operate,
for instance. U. S. Steel or
General Motors or North Amer
ican Aviation, you are really
proposing to wipe out all the
gains labor has made under pri
vate management.
• • •
COULD any more convincing
proof be offered that labor
has been misled, again in this
instance; that its real future
depends upon maintenance of a
private profits system, and that
its real interests require it to
work for profits for manage
ment as well as itself, because
labor cannot milk a dry cow?
United States Steel. General
Motors, and all other hig or lit
tle manufacturing bu s i nesses
have no wealth aside from their
ability to produce and a little
rash in the bank. If they can
not obtain employes to do the
work or raw materials to make
their products, or if for sny
other reason such as national
depression their productivity is
destroyed, their value evapo
rates. Their naked plants are
worth only what some prospec
tive purchaser may think he can
produce from them.
Thus, as our great production
victory in this war has shown
us, the interests of labor are the
same as the management—
unity, productivity, profits.
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Gall Bladder Is Subject
To Variety of Ailments
By DR. LOGAN CLENDENING
VUE POINTED out yesterday
** that the gall bladder is a
sort of reservoir for the accumu
lation of bile but that it is not
at all necessary to life because
it can be removed without any
physiological changes and. in
fact, many animals do not pos
sess a gall bladder at all.
Structures of this kind which
do not play an active, necessary
part in life’s processes are very
subject to disease and derange
ment and the gall bladder is no
exception to this rule.
It is probably as commonly
diseased as any other structure
in the body in the persons of
people over 40 years old.
Most of its various derange
ments arc due to infection and
this is not surprising since all
of the blood from the intestine,
which is loaded with bacteria
and toxins, goes through the
liver and is excreted in the bile
and comes to rest for a while
in the gall bladder..
After this has happened for 30
or 40 years, there are very few
people who escape some degree
of gall bladder infection.
• • •
AS WE also pointed out yes
terday, pregnancy causes
stasis in the gall bladder and
prevents its normal emptying so
it is not surprising to find that
women who have gone through
two or three childhirths are
more subject to gall bladder dis
ease than men.
The changes which a gall blad
der may undergo are bewilder
ing in their variety.
They progress from stage to
stage or they may stop at any
stage and become quiescent, but
they produce the whole gamut
of human symptoms and illness.
The early stage is a mild ca
tarrhal inflammation. At this
time bacteria and mucous will
be found in the bile which will
be thicker than normal in the
gall bladder.
This may go on either to pus
formation or to the formation
of gallstones.
After gallstones occur, they
may be silent or they may begin
to move down the duct, causing
colic, jaundice and indigestion.
• • *
rIE innervation of the gall
bladder is mostly from the
automatic nervous system which
has a connection with the
stomach.
This nerve supply is of great
importance in explaining the
symtomatology in gall bladder
disease for the symptoms are
BAERING DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Good Gag at That
By ARTHUR "BUGS” BAER
Not to he outdone in Oriental courtesy the Japs are now
doing a bit of honorable remembering.
We touched them up on the sides a bit in the Coral sea and
at Midway. And don’t forget to remember that it was one of
our fliers who changed "Too little and too late" to "Doolittle
and on the dot."
Of course, that last gag is what Thackeray called cab wit.
That’s the wise cracks you think of on your way home.
But a gag is like chewing gum. You have to get rid of it
some time.
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Vital Tools to Win the War
often referred to the stomach
or to the heart or lower chest.
In fact, in a study of several
thousand patients, it was found
that gall bladder disease causes
dyspepsia of some type in 20 per
cent of all cases.
This is a higher percentage
of dyspepsia than would be found
in an equal number of people
who had ulcer of the stomach,
cancer of the digestive tract or
appendicitis.
Most patients with gallstones,
therefore, do not have a frank
gallstone colic or attack, but are
bothered for years with dys
pepsia and gas which they treat
with bicarbonate of soda and
other remedies without even
knowing that the real cause of
their distress is in the gall
bladder.
• • •
CHILLS, fever, jaundice, lark
of appetite, loss of weight
and anemia are all possible signs
of gall bladder disease.
Melancholia simply means
black bile and the old physicians
thought that when a man was
melancholy his black bile was in
the ascendancy.
So the diagnostician must con
sider carefully before pronounc
ing judgment on what kind of
gall bladder disease is present.
Fortunately with the Graham
dye test we have a more reli
able. positive sign for gall blad
der disease than we ever had be
fore.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
W.E.—What is a systolic heart
murmur? Would exercise be had
for it and would it be possible
for a heart doctor not to dis
cover it during an examination?
Answer—A systolic heart mur
mur is a murmur that comes
with the contraction of the
heart. It occurs in all sorts of
conditions and is. in fact, the
commonest form of heart mur
mur.
It usually does no harm to
take exercise with a systolic
heart murmur. It would be pos
sible for a heart doctor on an
examination to miss anything.
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Jun« 16, 1941
Survivors of the American
liner Robin Moor sinking are re- l
ported safe in Cape Town,
Africa.
* * *
British launch a heavy offen
sive in Libya against Axis forces.
• • •
United States orders all Nazi
consulates closed.
Nobel Winner
Invents X-Ray
! Microscope
By G. B. LAL
A POWERFUL “X-ray micro
scope" has been invented by
the famous British scientist.
Prof. William L. Bragg. Nobel
prize winner physicist of Cam
bridge University,
j The new appartus is of great
importance in the development
of synthetic rubber, fabrics,
aluminum, magnesium, steel and
other alloys and plastics of the
utmost use in war and peace.
The “X-ray microscope” is
| quite different from the electron
microscope. X-rays, which are
invisible and highly penetrating
radiations, are employed by the
British scientist for mapping out
the atomic architecture of solid
substances of all kinds.
IT TS already known that
X-rays, in passing through
solid materials, produce on pho
tographic plates alternate dark
and white patterns, called “dif
fraction patterns.” which reveal
how- the atoms of the materials
are grouped.
Until now. however, there was
no satisfactory method known
for rapidly charting out the
architcture of the atoms of a
material from these X-rays dif
fraction pictures. Doctor Bragg
has devised an apparatus which
shows at once how the atoms
are arranged in all three di
mensions, up and down, from
side to side and zig-zag.
Professor Bragg’s first step is
to punch extremely small holes
in a brass plate. The number
and distribution of these holes
is according to the X-rays pho
tographic patterns of a material.
Then a beam of light, of a
particular color, is projected
through the holes. This forms a
luminous pattern just like the
model of the atoms, if these
could be directly observed by
the eye.
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WAR BONDS
it it
When the "black-out” airena
scream there is a lot of preparation
made for safety of the civilians. An
important cog in this protective set
up are the sound locators. They are
the ears of the anti-aircraft bat
teries.
Even a small town or community
might buy one of these for the
nation's safety, for they cost about
S.VOOO each or the equivalent of 287
tl. S War Bonds at $lB 75. Buy
War Bonds every pay day and top
your county quota.
Senator Riled
By Deferments
In U.S. Capital
Tydings Tells of 1,000
Who Avoided Army
By DAMON RUNYON
OENATOR TYDINGS of Mary-
land, chairman of a special
committee, seeks a checkup on
draft deferments given 1,000
young male employes of the gov
ernment. He discloses some sur
prising cases of kids holding nice
jobs in various governmental de
partments and being deferred on
the ground that they are indis
pensable.
It is only fair to state that the
senator admits that on the whole
the deferment privilege has been
judiciously used by most agencies
of the government, his complaint
being that the abuses his special
committee has uncovered are
particularly flagrant.
One genius of 21 was ap
pointed a year ago to a job pay
ing $1,620 a year and was subse
quently twice deferred and raised
in salary on the ground that he
was a cog of such value that his
department could scarcely exist
without him.
He is one of 12 personnel of
ficers who were granted defer
ment out of a total of 42 clerical
employes in the one depart
mental unit.
Another chap of 22 who was
appointed in 1940 when he was
21 is deemed of such extraordi
nary value in recruiting stenog
raphers, economists and junior
administrative personnel that he
has been twice deferred, the
senator citing this case as a
“classical example.’* He indi
cates that the favored young
man is from Kansas.
• • •
NOW all this bears out the
argument with which I have
been boring my readers for
some time that there are a great
many government jobs occupied
by young fellows that should be
turned over to men willing to
serve their country but barred
from combat service by age or
perhaps those slight physical de
fects that loom very large when
army engineers come upon
them.
These defects may not pre
vent a man from beint* n*
enormous value in civil life and
may not impair his executive
ability or his spirit of patriot
ism, but when the examiners
find them they are serious
enough to cost the government
administrative services that pri
vate employers are glad to re
ward with fancy salaries.
Meantime, as Senator Tyd
ings discloses, young fellows of
draft age are being deferred to
keep them in jobs that surely
the older men with their greater
experience and judgment could
easily handle. And the mothers
and fathers of other boys in the
combat lines are given good rea
son to complain bitterly about
the inequalities of the situation.
* * •
IT IS true that all men up to
65 have been registered for
possible service and presumably
are now being classified Per
haps they will eventually be
called. But the fact remains
that many offers of service by
men in the higher age brackets
who are eminently qualified to
d'seharge the duties of execu
tive positions have been re
jected or wholly disregarded
while the kids hang on.
I do not say that the indis
pensability of the youngsters is
Questionable in every case un
der present circumstances. It
is quite possible that some could
not be replaced without a de
partment sustaining savere loss,
but it seems to me the loss
could be offset to some extent
by the value of the young men
to the combat divisions.
The deferment abuses can
scarcely be blamed on the young
men themselves. Much as I
would like to have my readers
think me a brave fellow. I must
confess lam not sure that.if I
were in a safe job and my rela
tives or friends had drag enough !
to keep me there, I would be
breaking down doors to escape.
The things of which Senator
Tydings complains go back to
those able to invoke the de
ferments and sometimes that is
back beyond even local boards.
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Anti-Spy Law
Gives Unions
Unfair Edge
Preserves Dark Secrecy,
Pegler Contends
I
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
THE law forbidding employers
and others to spy on labor
unions, which have private tax
ing powers and their own private
laws and courts, is a dangerous
law and should be repealed.
There is no reason why these
political groups, with their great
powers and tneir over-all record
should be given the protection
of a federal law which attempts
to preserve dark secrecy.
No other element in our whole
nation enjoys such protection.
I have not heard whether
Senator Robert M. LaFollette
intends to proceed against me
for investigating union affairs,
often with the assistance of men
within the unions, but if he
should call me before his left
wing Dies committee of the Sen
ate, I would cheerfully say that
I have had thousands of com
munications from union members
revealing otherwise hidden facts
within the ruling group of unions.
I WOULD tell him that much
information obtained in this
manner has been found useful
by prosecutors, both federal and
state, in punishing crooks who
could not have been exposed ex
cept by victims on the Inside.
I would tell him that some of
his colleagues in both Houses of
the national Legislature have
asked permission to examine the
data in my files and have used
this material for guidance in
conducting investigations.
It seems unlikely that Senator
LaFollette would try to punish
these public prosecutors and
these congressional colleagues of
his for receiving this informs-(
tion obtained by means which
might be challenged as a viola
tion of the sanctity of union af
fairs.
• • •
AND have I been guilty of spy
ing in passing on informa
tion to these public officials and
even to employers so that the
employers might protect their
legitimate interests and the
workers in their employ?
Because, if so. let LaFollette
call the wagon, for I have done
just that and intend to continue
to do so.
I exchange information with
employers and lawyers engaged
in fight in g off predatory
unioneers.
I receive much information
from workers who, in turn,
sometimes call on me for data
on union manhunters who are
trying to unionize them against
their will.
A group of workers In a south
ern city called on me some time
ago and I gave them informs
tion on one union leader which
I hope had some effect in their
decision to keep out of the
clutches of this consistent fol
lower of the Moscow line.
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Letters to
the Editor
TO THE EDITOR:
ABOUT a month ago you had
an editorial on Page 1 in
in your paper,
Your Flag.” i
At that time I had two flags
In the house, one of which I put
out the next day. There was not
another flag displayed at that
time in our block.
Each morning we would put
out our flag. After about two
weeks our neighbor on the right
put out a flag, and m a couple
of days our neighbor on the left
tan elderly man) had me get
him a flag. That made three in a
row.
On the north side of Clair
mount, not many days after, a
flag was noticed on the opposite
side and we watched with inter
est the patriotic display of flags
Today there are eight large
and one small American flags in
one block and all flying for the
duration.
We hope to create the spirit
that will “Keep ’Em Flying ”
G. SMITH.
832 (Talrmount avenue.
TO THE EDITOR:
I READ a newspaper article re
garding the Democratic nomi
nation of Charles Gehringer, *
baseball star, for secretary of
state.
In my wildest imagination 1
can hardly see where any pernor
who may have talen*
in the sports wfcrld can measure
up to the special qualification rs
so important a post as secretary
of state of Michigan.
Mr. Gehringer is no doubt t
good baseball coach or seconr
baseman, but to take such a mar
with perhaps no political experi
ence seems utterly ridiculous ,
to me.
Next some one in the Demo
cratic ranks will suggest
Rand for some state post. %
JOSEPH J. SMITH,
226 Went Hamilton,
Flint. Mich.
23 YEARS AGO TODAY
Junm 16, 1917
Russia rejects a separate peace
move made by the Austrians.
• • •
British make additional gfjns
against the Germans south of
Ypres, in Flanders, Belgium.