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End the War VICTORIOUSLY. Make the Peace PERMANENTLY. Bring Our Boys Home PROMPTLY
“Iss You Iss or Iss You Aint--’
MEIN 1
FUEHRER
i. * I
Postwar Air Transport
rpHE international civil aviation
i- conference in Chicago, which
opened with one strike called against
it because Russia refused to partici
pate, has now experienced what ap
pears to be the calling of the second
strike.
The Latin American delegations
have announced open and determined
opposition to what they interpret as
“big power" domination of postwar
civil air transport, offering an inter
national aviation program of their
own in which all participating na
tions would have equal voting power.
There seems to be general agree
ment among all nations, big and
small, that some sort of an inter
national organization or authority
should regulate postwar civil avia
tion—that is, the transportation by
aircraft of one nation of goods and
passengers over the territories of
other nations.
.But the difficulty inherent in the
attempt to make such an agency
EQUITABLE in its effect upon all
nations is very great.
* * *
ALL nations plead desire for equal
opportunities and advantages in
postwar civil aviation, because much
of the world’s commerce is destined
to move by air transport in the fu
ture and the nations making the
best use of air transport are going to
be the most prosperous nations.
Even the so-called “big" powers
assert desire for equity.
Great Britain, for instance, has
recently issued a “white paper" on
international air transport, propos
ing an international air authority
consisting of the representatives of
the ratifying nations, “with voting
powers to be determined on an equi
table basis."
But what process or method is to
determine an “equitable" basis, and
particularly BY WHOM is it to be
determined?
The United States is not only
POTENTIALLY the greatest civil
air power in the world; but is in fact
that NOW.
The United States has the great
est air transport establishment in
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the world today—greater, in fact,
than the air transport establishments
of ALL OTHER NATIONS PUT
TOGETHER.
It has air bases all over the world,
built on the territories of other na
tions in numerous cases, but built by
American manpower and with Amer
ican money and materials in virtu
ally all cases.
It has the greatest capacity for
aircraft production in the world, and
probably will always have it.
* . * m
rp HUS we have OPPORTUNITIES
U in postwar civil aviation that are
beyond the grasp of other nations,
and in addition we already have
INVESTMENTS in that field that
no other nation is capable of making.
i How is equity FOR US to be de
termined in this situation?
Especially, WHO is going to de
termine it?
It is hard to know what the pre
cise answers to these questions will
be.
It is not very hard to foresee what
the answers will be if we are out
maneuvered in the negotiation stages
of international air transport agree
ment, or particularly what they will
be if we are OUTVOTED in any sort
of a world air authority—such as
Great Britain and others now pro
pose.
Russia has been pretty wise about
not exposing herself to commitments
on this vital matter, and Russia
should not be the ONLY wise and
farseeing nation in this respect.
It has been our frequent and al
most consistent AMERICAN experi
ence in the past that we get OUT
SMARTED in the processes of
international agreement on matters
affecting our prosperity and even our
security.
We should have a special care
that we are not outsmarted and out
voted in a world air authority which
would have power to channel post
war civil aviation advantages among
ail competitors—and which might
conceivably and cynically do so to
our very great disadvantage.
Wells, Arnold Bennett and
Edith Wharton?
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the litters in each of the fol
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s|k* 11 the name of a flower:
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marred behind the royal
his Piaster* funeral
pra>ia <sion. fan you identify*
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Whv are not dav and r ght
exactly 12 hours long the
year around?
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Knowledge Test
By |)R. SABINA CONNOLLY
1 What would you do yvith an
aphorism? <a> say it, tb)
wear it. (r) eat it.
2 ’Hie first successful telephone
was brought out by Alexan
der Graham Hell in: (a)
R 76 (b> 1 886 (c) IK6
3 The caryatids in architecture
are: (at yeomen, (b) men,
i c • children.
1 Which of these was at the
Field of the Cloth of Gold:
( it Henry VIII. (b> Louis
TV fc> Cromwell.
:> What does the abbreviation
mm mean? (a) keep mum.
(hi millimeter, (c) moment
nmsirale.
G Which of these trees is the
laipest fa> birch, (b) nan*
ftalyyivid, (r) redwood
(Answers on opposite page)
Principles of Religion
Can End Delinquency
By JUDGE EDMUND P. MAHONEY
Municipal Court, Portland, Me.
'll7’E ARE concerned with waves of crime on the
* * part of our youth and w ill be so concerned
at the present rate it is increasing, for years after
'the war. Much is being done to penalize juvenile
delinquency and to control it, BUT WHAT IS
BEING DONE TO CURE IT?
We have institutions to which to commit
offenders, to penalize them. They are also designed
in some measure to correct offenders. But I
submit that our presenVinstitutions are more
penal than corrective.
We have inaugurated schemes and methods
to control the prospective juvenile offender.
Supervision and control of public places
usually frequented by the juvenile are, of course,
important and preventive measures in controlling
the delinquency of the juvenile.
We give attention to the dance hall, to the
bowling alley and the pool room, to the theater
and other places of amusement.
A constant vigil should be maintained to cur
tail the sale and distribution of obscene and
filthy books, pictures and magazines.
Curfew laws will not solve all the delinquency
and predelinquency problems, bift they can give
police an added implement in dealing with
juveniles, and stimulate stricter parental control.
But any law should be so framed to PENALIZE
THE DELINQUENT PARENT, as well as the
delinquent child.
* * *
yES, we have laws and institutions to penalize
and correct: we have methods to control; but
what are we doing to find a dire.
To find a cure, we must first find the cause.
We seek to find the cause when a 13-year-old,
unmarried girl, pregnant with child, stands before
the court and states that she does not consider she
has done wrong, no more than thousands of other
young girls are doing.
We seek to find the cause when a 14-year-old
boy, apprehended roaming the streets of a city,
in the early hours of the morning, stands before
the court with tears in his eyes and asks to be
sent to the state school, BECAUSE HE KNOWS
THAT HE COULD BE HAPPIER THERE
THAN IN HIS OWN HOME.
Yes, we seek to find the cause, but we need
not look far, for behind every delinquent child, IS
A DELINQUENT PARENT; BEHIND EVERY
BROKEN YOI”TH, IS A BROKEN HOME;
BEHIND EVERY BROKEN HOME IS A
NEGLECT OF GOD IN THAT HOME.
The mother w ho, except in case of strict neces
sity, leaves that home and child for outside
employment, and leaves that child on his own,
contributes more to the delinquency of that child
than the child itself.
The father who believes he has fulfilled his
obligation by turning in his pay check, and neglects
to give that child supervision and training in his
morals and education, is a father, but a delinquent
one.
* * *
TN THIS present epidemic of youthful crime,
delinquency, and truancy, with sex delinquency
among girls as young as 12 and 13 years of age,
with illegitimacy at a high rate, with immature
mothers, many of whom know’ only the first name
of the child’s father, with venereal disease among
the young mounting to a national scandal, we
should be talking more of a parental failure,
rather than a youthful failure, for the cases are
many where the parents are the children’s worst
example of intoxication and sexual immorality.
What is the cure? We must first give God his
rightful place in the American home, and recreate
in the delinquent parent a sense of responsibility
to that child that will guide him by proper super
vision, training, and religious education, through
the trying period of his youth.
If w T e cannot bring the home to the church,
then let us bring the church to the home. Let the
churches send out their priests, ministers, and
rabbis into the streets and lanes of the cities, into
the highways and the hedges and bring them in.
Until the cardinal principles of God are im
planted in the hearts of the youth of our nation;
until there is instilled in the hearts of the parents
of these youth a God-like sense of responsibility
in that home, we shall continue to experience wave
upon wave of crime, mounting and growing
steadily day by day, until it reaches a magnitude
beyong the scope of the law-enforcement agencies
and the American people to control.
Fair
Enough
—By Westbrook
Pegler
WE WERE talking about im
migration and foreignism
and when I finally got hold of
the dice I said I would take for
my point the contention that
those who are so nasty to the
native American in their solici
tude for the privileges of the
foriegn-bom were inconsistent
and hypocritical and just play
ing power-politics.
Now I will make my point.
Shove back, men, and let us
have no crock-dice.
These people are all New
Dealers, of course. I don’t mean
to concede that New Dealers
are the only ones who believe
we should continue to have
more or less immigration after
this war because lots of Repub
licans disagree with my own
idea that we should suspend im
migration until we have cooled
ofT here at home and had a
chance to observe whethrr Eu
rope goes Communist. Possibly,
some Republicans would he
thinking, wistfully, about cheap
European labor, too.
* • +
ON THE other hand, some in
fluential southern Demo
crats are sore and humiliated in
their own party by the rise of
Sidney Hillman and the Com
munists who certainly do not
sj>eak the jiolitical language of
tlie old Democratic Solid South
which gave us the second Ku
Klux Klan and 100 per cent
Americanism only 20 years ago.
The people lam arguing with
are those New Dealers who have
lost patience with the American
system and have turned to Eu
rope for methods of regimenta-
Hion as solutions for our Ameri
can problems.
Just a minute, Mrs. Roose
velt and Duhinsky and you, too,
Mr. Big, those are still my dice.
• • •
people all support a sys
* tem whereby a native Amer
ican carpenter in one toyvn in
say, New Jersey, must go first
to the union ball when he moves
in a town in. say, Indiana, in
stead of going to an employer,
to get a job.
He must go to the union hall
and put in his card for a trans
fer and slap down a transfer
fee which certainly is an immi
gration head-tax intended to
keep out “foreigners’* in that
tiny jurisdiction.
He may he a Plymouth Rock
American but, outside his home
town and state, although still
within his own countiy, he is a
■’foreigner.’’
Then, if things are slack, this
native American “immigrant”
must go to the bottom of the
list and the locals or
as you might call them, who
naturally want all the available
work for themselves, keep him
in suspense until they are ready
to give him a card or a permit.
• • •
TIUEANTIME, if he goes skulk
ing around in the dark of
the moon to mend a latch here
or shave a swollen door there,
all on the sneak in his own
glorious free land, and the union
catches him at it, he is a dirty
scab forever. It makes no dif
ference that his family are hun
gry or his wife is having a
baby.
He is an “immigrant” and
those who would tear the heart
out of you for discriminating
against a foreigner from
Europe, will call you a dirty,
labor-bait ing rat and fink if you
say his national government
should, at least sympathize,
with this native American.
If the local in the new’ loca
tion decides never to “natu
ralize” this American, that is
all right with the New Dealers
and they have been fighting all
these years against all propos
als to bring union rules and con
stitutions into conformity and
moral consistency with the
Constitution of the United
States.
In some cases, it takes the
votes of 100 sub-human Ameri
can workers to equal the vote
of one regular member who
may be an unnaturali/od Euro
pean and a Communist at that.
• • *
r PHAT goes, specifically, for
-*■ Mrs, Roosevelt because she
once delivered one of her spiels
beforp a crowd of strikers be
longing to just such a union, all
of them sub-human members,
'too. just before the union bosses
turned them loose for a violent
insurrection against the lawful
government of the city of New
York in a mass assault on a
small detail of jiolicemen.
Your New Dealer believes in
severely restricted pas sports
within th* country for native
Americans because he upholds
the right of a union to stop im
migration into a given district.
If a man of skill can’t get
union clearance into the new
town that means he can't earn
a living.
And your New Dealer be
lieves in prohibitive protective
tariffs, too. by which American
workers in Ohio are prevented
from manufacturing goods for
sale in New York. The New
Deal Supreme Court upheld that
only a few days ago.
These are reasons why I
sneer at their blubbering dis
plays of humane feeling for the
foreign-lKirn. I say they just
want to organize them, politi
cally, and use them as they did
in New York recently.
If they arp so full of humane
sympathy, what about a nickel's
worth for the native American,
some lime" What have they
got aeainst Americans, anyway ?
Owrtfbt, 1944, by King Feature*
Congress Should Help
Postal Employes
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES
UVTEITHER snow nor rain nor heat nor
of night stays these couriers from the swifV
completion of their appointed rounds/* wrote the
father of history, Herodotus, 2400 years ago in
reference to the letter-carriers (“post-riders”)
of Persia.
Herodotus thus paid his tribute to the oldest
and most necessary of our public services, the
post office.
And what is true of the regularity and fidelity
to duty of the postal workers of Persia 2400 years
ago is truer even today of our far-flung postal
service and its indefatigable workers.
Which takes us from Herodotus to the Weiss
bill (H. R. 4501) and the bill sponsored by Senator
Mead at the other end of the Capitol to provide
for permanent relief in hours and wages for these
our most overworked and trustworthy civil
servants.
The Hearst papers for years have been mak
ing efforts through their editorial columns to
obtain for our postal employes their due.
These efforts have brought at various times
from officials of the National Federation of Post
Office Clerks many letters of thanks to William
Randolph Hearst.
* * •
THE most recent one is from Howard W. Head,
president of Local 390 of the NFPOC.
“It is only through the support of men like
you that we can obtain anything in the way of a
salary increase or justifiable rate of overtime/*
says Mr. Head. i
That is a fine tribute not only to Mr. Hearsr
hut also to the power of an independent, critical
and constructive American press.
Mr. Head takes up, in effect, th£ following
grievances of the postal employes in a formal
statement:
—Some “substitutes” have known no promotion
after 30 years of service.
—The average clerk generally remains in the
same position year after year.
—“There is no further increase in salary ex
cept through overtime/
—The working year is 253 days, but the 40-
hour-week law “fails to provide our overtime
pay on this basis.”
—“The post office clerk is at this time working
long hours and irregular ones, for the post
office is never closed.”
—Never was a high efficiency level of the postal
employes more necessary than today when
they handle billions of pieces of mail destined for
our servicemen overseas in addition to the routine
domestic work.
* * *
MIL HEAD concludes his statement with this
paragraph:
“We of the postal service are fighting on the
home front for benefits that will also benefit our
brothers in the service so that when they return
to this beloved America they may take up where
they left off, finding their positions in the post
office improved by anything that we may have
accomplished for them and for ourselves.” j
That is a patriotic and unselfish attitude.
Patriotism and unselfish adherence to duty
have, indeed, always been the distinguishing
characteristics of these men in the post office.
f They come nearer to our daily lives than any
other class of men in the country.
Congress should immediately pass the Weiss-
Mead post office relief measures.
Our postal employes must not be underpaid
or overworked.
They should have human hours and should he
paid a higher wage than any other class of civil
servant, for their work is of profound and lasting
importance to us all.
Letters To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:
I WOULD like to lot you know
what «p marines think of
tho strikes and the j>onple that
cause them.
I wonder if the people who
cause these strikes and those
who take part in them realize
just what they are doing to our
country and to the boys who are
fighting and dying for them.
Some of us will never see
home again, and our people who
listen to racketeers or spies
are going to cause some boy in
service not to get home.
Maybe they do not realize it,
but it might be your son or
husband or sweetheart.
I have a very beautiful wife
and two lovely little girls that
I want to come home to. and if
you people could see what is
going on over here you’d realize
there is a war on and you’d
help us boys to get home to our
loved ones.
Rut. for every strike that hap
pens a few more of us boys
won’t come home.
You give us the tools and we’ll
do the job. Won’t you think
this over and give us a hand.
PVT. H. GILLS,
Po<tma*t«r,
Oceanside, Cal.
TO THE EDITOR:
¥ HAVE just received the clip
-1 ping of an article published
Oct. 5 in your paper under the
title. “10-Ton Garb Ready for
Tito.”
I appreciate your publicity of
the part Detroit is playing in
furnishing clothing for relief of
the extremely needy Yugoslavs.
However, I would like to point
out two errors reported in the
article, namely: 1 was not sent
to the United States by Marshal
Tito to appeal for aid. In fact,
as a merchant seaman, I felt
the obligation to make the ap
peal after I saw those peopld
forgotten by practically every
body.
The Yugoslav Merchant Ma
rine did not donate a ship to
transport the supplies. How
ever, the Yugoslav Seaman’s
Club of the U. S. A. organized
a group of volunteer* to servo
as a crew. These crew members
will serve without pay for this
entire trip and eventually mort
trips.
Oscar Magarlnnti*.
New York C’lty.-a