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Can it Rise
Above Its Source?
With the American people becoming more
and more befuddled with the confusion of
the Pearl Harbor investigation, it might
help to investigate how the investigation
was instigated.
Late in 1943 The Broom (hate sheet pub
lished by alleged seditionist De Aryan in
California) started demanding the imme
diate trial of Kimmel and Short so that the
“real culprits” could be uncovered. Early
in 1944, De Aryan was joined by the crack
pot Malist, published in Meriden, Connec
ticut. Editor Sattler was, and is, an ardent
disciple of Father Coughlin. The Malist,
too, wanted to get the truth known about
Pearl Harbor.
Soon the hate voices were cry ing in uni
son. The Gaelic American, mouthpiece of
Father Coughlins eastern adherents, joined
the chorus. So did America Preferred, the
vitrolic sheet dished out by the anti-Semite,
Carl Mote. The Coughlinite San Francisco
Leader joined in. Women’s Voice, represent
ing the bitterness of “We, the Mothers”
cackled for a Pearl Harbor investigation.
Gerald L. K. Smith, the America Firster, in
sisted in his disreputable Cross and the Flag
that “the real culprits” of Pearl Harbor be
uncovered. America Speaks (edited by in
dicted William Kullgren) seconded the
motion.
But the real leader of the chorus was the
Rt. Rev. Arthur W. Terminiello of Annis
ton, Alabama, who in his Crusader and in
his radio broadcasts demanded that the in
stigators of the war (meaning Roosevelt) be
“put on trial for murder.” (Father Termin
iello was recently kicked out of the Catholic
Church by his superiors, but he’s keeping
his activities alive as a layman hate pamph
leteer).
What happened after all this smoke-up?
Terminiello journeyed to Washington with
a stock of petitions bearing 15,000 names.
He delivered the petitions to Senator Wil
liam Langer, the public defender of the
thirty odd people who had been on trial for
conspiring with the Nazi Government to
undermine the morale of the armed forces.
The Senator graciously inserted the Ter
miniello petition into the Congressional
Record on July 12, 1945.
Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts,
(prewar America First supporter, intimate
of Father Curran, Coughlin’s eastern front)
then sought the spotlight. He, too, demand
ed an investigation of Pearl Harbor. Dur
ing his speech in the Senate he referred to
the Terminiello petition inserted in the
Record by his colleague, Langer. Subse
quent to the Walsh demand, the Congress,
as a result of the intense pressure, finally
authorized the setting up of the Committee
which is now investigating or befuddling
the Pearl Harbor catastrophe.
There is the germ of the story which the
people are entitled to know.
Many honest citizens desire a factual in
vestigation of Pearl Harbor. But they are
getting something which was originally in
stigated as a political smear and which may
never be able to rise above that level.
First UNO Meeting
The General Assembly of the United
Nations Organization is now meeting in
London.
By far the most important thing the As
sembly has to do is to set up the commis
sion to carry' out the Atomic Declaration
of President Truman and Prime Ministers
Attlee of Great Britain and King of Canada.
The Atomic Declaration, it will be remem
bered, made two statements of policy. One,
we were willing to share our knowledge of
atomic weapons with Russia and the other
United Nations. Two, we would not, how
ever, give our secrets until the United Na
tions Organization had set up “effective en
forceable safeguards” against the use of
atomic weapons—or any other weapons of
mass destruction —for warlike purposes. A
UNO commission is to recommend what
those safeguards should be.
So far so good. Up to this point the Atomic
Declaration was a great state paper. For in
effect, although not in specific terms, it
called for world control of the modern
weapons of mass destruction under law—
that is for a world government of defined
purposes and of clearly limited powers. But
then the Declaration got cautious.' All of
this was to be done “by separate stages”,
as confidence among the nations grew. This
part of the Declaration sounds like a fifty
year plan, or longer.
Unfortunately, as Senator McMahon has
said, atomic bombs do not go off gradually,
and therefore you cannot handle them
gradually. We must offer our plan for “ef
fective enforceable safeguards” all at once—
and now. The UNO General Assembly of
1946 will be judged by what it does with
this question. We call on the President of
trie United States to see to it that we do
our part to make UNO face up now to this
question of the control of atomic energy
and to propose a daring solution. Any other
course makes more likely the atomic war
which so many people already say is in
evitable.
THE WYANDOTTE NEWS-HERALD
KciPs-2tcral&
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1946
The Military And
The Atomic Bomb
If there is anything about the atomic bomb
that can be said to be amusing, surely it is
the reaction to it of our military leaders.
Most of them, acting on a perfectly natural
impulse, are less inclined to view it as a
threat to the human race than as a threat
to the future of warriors. Just as doctors
will be able to make a living as long as
disease remains unconquered, so soldiers
will be able to enjoy the practice of their
profession as long as war remains uncon**
quered. But the atom bomb Will so reduce
the human race as to make war, after the
first few hundred bombs have been dropped,
impossible except on a caveman level. On
this level we will not need generals and
admirals. This is an outlook which quite
properly dismays said generals and admir
als. Some of our military leaders therefore
are being driven by desperation—and one
can easily sympathize with them—into fan
tasies of defense. If they can only convince
themselves and us that there is an adequate
or even semi-adequate defense against this
intrusive and vulgarly un-military bomb,
they can then convince themselves and us
that war has a decent future. One of the
most interesting of these defense fantasies
is that recently proposed by a leading Amer
ican airman. He thinks that the dispersal
of our cities and the construction of under
ground retreats are the answer to the bomb.
Assuming that we could disperse our cities
in time, this might seem to be a promising
idea. But the irony of our perturbed air
man’s well-intentioned suggestion lies in
this circumstance: that he and his fellow
aviators have just finished disposing of our
enemy Germany in such a way as to put
her years ahead of us as. far as concerns
city dispersal. Our bombs have dispersed
her cities in the neatest possible manner
and have already taught the Germans more
about underground living that we can learn
in time.
In other words, if we are ever to catch
up with Germany in this regard, our air
leaders should at once bomb our 50 lead
ing cities into rubble. This is cheaper,
quicker, more efficient than the slow process
of non-violent dispersal. And there is the
added advantage that if the bombing is done
without warning, a great many American
civilians will be killed. These Americans,
of course, will be protected permanently
from the threat of the atomic bomb
Nothing To Do
With The Case
Recently in a suburban town outside New
York City a radio commentator was invited
to make a speech to a Woman’s Club, and
she did so, expressing fairly strong views
on various domestic and foreign political
issues. Whereupon a week or so later an
English instructor in the local high school,
making a speech to another club, struck
back. This was of course perfectly legiti
mate. It is of the essence of democracy that
issues are debated,’ that one man’s state
ment is subject always to another mans
rebuttal. But this high school instructor
chose to drag in the fact that the radio
commentator had been born in Italy and
only recently naturalized. Among other
things he said, “I whose ancestors came over
in the 1600’s have a better right to have
opinions on these subjects.”,
Nonsense. Obviously the merit of a man’s
argument has nothing whatever to do with
the year of his embarkation from Europe.
We are all the descendents of immigrant
ancestors. The high school teacher showed
himself not a thinker but a snob. If he had
a case, he lost it by introducing the purely
personal and immaterial fact of the radio
commentator’s change of nationality.
This is the sort of self-complacency based
upon the sheer accident of ancestry which
makes up a large part of the stuffing in
many a stuffed shirt. One may be honestly
proud of forebears but forebears in them
selves convey no distinction upon their
descendants. People are not mysteriously
better or worse because of their arrival time
in the United States. Nor are ideas answered
or arguments won on this unthinking basis.
The Sons Ys.
The Daughters
In Cincinnati the Sons of the American
Revolution are giving medals to 123 chil
dren who have been selected to receive
them on the sole basis of exemplary char
acter. The medals are not given for race,
or creed, or for antiquity of American des
cent, or for religion. It makes no differ
ence whether the mother or the father of
the child is a Mayflower descendant or is
of that vaster congregation, the Sons
and daughters of Ellis Island (an organiza
tion yet to be formed in good pride and
thanksgiving). No, the child is judged qua
child. Is he exemplary? If so, give him a
medal so that he may make America’s future
greater and better and more generous—
in brief, more exemplary 4- even than its
past.
There has been a good deal said recently
about “the American way.” Surely this is it.
FOR LA ft 6 ftP £A C E
‘
‘MANAGEMENT AND LABOR
SHOULD DC EQUAL DEfDRE
* THE LAW* -j«A W.A.M.
Michigan Mirror
by gene alleman
“So they say it can’t happen
here? Well, it is happening here,
and it is happening right now!”
The Country Editor pushed aside
a sheaf of galley proofs. The week’s
newspaper had not gone to press
yet. It was after the holiday rush.
“And what are you alarming over
this week?” we joshed in good hu
mor.
“Just this,” he replied with a
glint of determination in his eyes,
as he pointed to a copy of a daily
newspaper on his desk. “Pure and
unadulterated socialism, it is. The
Piesident’s fact-finding plan for
settling wage disputes between
management and labor proposes the
most dangerous and revolutionary
idea to come out of Washington in
a decade.
• • •
“Now let’s look at this plan, and
see what it would do to American
business. When management and
labor in an industry are unable to
agree upon the workers’ wage, the
government would intervene and
appoint a fact-finding panel. This
panel would have the legal right
tc inspect books of industry and to
find out whether the company's
profits were sufficient to warrant
an increase in the workers’ wage.
“The UAW-CIO. you will Recall.
Is now* holding out for 30 per cent
wage boost on the contention that
the profits of automobile corpora
tions are sufficient to cover the
extra labor cost without any increase
in price to the consumer. The is
sue is ability-to-pay.
“The new directive of the U. S.
Department of Labor says that if
the panel finds that a company has
ability to pay higher wages, the
raise may be made effective at
once. The company may apply, six
months later, for a price increase if
it can prove that the wage rise has
wiped out a certain margin of
profit.
• ♦ •
“What is the inevitable result of
all this? Just one thing: Govern
ment control of profit. The gov
ernment would fix the profit mar
gin. The stockholder would get a
fixed rate of dividend. The worker
would get a share of the profits
through increased pay.
'“Thus, you arrive at the first
stage of state socialism: socializa
tion of industry through control of
profits. The next thing is inevi
table, too. When profits are set by
bureaucratic decree, then incentive
for economy or efficiency is killed
and the investor loses the incentive
to risk his capital in the hope of
getting higher earnings. That spells
the doom of the free enterprise sys
tem. It dries up capital at its very
source.
“Under the same principle of
ability-to-pay the next step is also
inevitable. Production would drop^
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By James Prestos
Freshmen in Congress are sup
posed to keep their eyes peeled and
their mouths shut. According to
tradition they leave the talking to
the old boys who have learned what
it is all about.
More often than in the past, an
occasional new man speaks out
whether he has finished his novi
tiate or not. Consider Nevada’s 6en.
Edward P. Carville who, although
new to Congress, is inclined to
have something to say about econ
omy.
Ed Carville clings to the old
fashioned belief that Government
should operate on a pay-as-you-go
basis—in other words, keep out of
debt. He feels that the nation
should balance its budget. These be
liefs, he says, stem from his early
training.
Economy Record
He Is proud of the fact that dur
Unemployment would follow. And
then, the triumph of planned econ
omy: Nationalization of industry
itself whereby the government be
comes the employer, perhaps
through subsidized corporations.
Along with this our system of dis
tribution manufacturer, jobber,
wholesaler and retailer —would be
knocked into a cocked hat.
• • •
“A national economic council at
Washington would fix prices, wages,
profits and production. It would set
the hours of work. Labor unions
would have nothing to bargain for.
The government would decide
everything. It would underwrite full
employment for all.
“Under the threat of national
enslavement by our enemies in
war. our government recently in
creased its control of our economic
life. It became the largest land
owner and the greatest owner of
manufacturing plants in the coun
try.
“It is a bit strange that war
abolished unemployment, that war
accomplished what the Roosevelt
administration had consistently
failed to do—provide jobs for every
one. We abolished one serious evil,
unemploymen, by turning to an
other and worse one, war.
• • •
“Now, faced with the prospect of
a planned society in which the
worker's wage and the stockholder’s
profit would be fixed by govern
mental decree, I am willing to con
cede that we should continue to
have planned intervention in bus
iness enterprise. Put I would like to
have regulation by an impartial
referee and not outright control by
an economic dictator.”
The Country Editor paused for a
moment.
“And don’t forget one thing
more,” he added. “Bmall business
does not have the profit reserves
which the big corporations possess.
Small business cannot pay labor
the wage scales possible through
mass production economies. If gov
ernment fixes wages for big busi
ness on ability-to-pay, small busi
ness will be gradually strangled and
finally eliminated The margin of
profit is small enough as it is—es
pecially for a country newspaper,
as you well know.
“As I see it, the new doctrine of
abiity-to-pay, as a yardstick of how
much labor can get, is an open door
to state socialism and the end of
our competitive system of free en
terprise.”
The Country Editor spoke with
finality, and then smiled.
“I’m thankful for one thing,
though,” he added. “Congress is in
session at Washington. You see, the
Piesident’s plan is still a plan. It
hasn’t become a law yet.”
ing his two terms as Governor of
Nevada his record stood for econ
omy. He set up ecohomic confer
ence groups in every municipality
to enable the people to “work out
their destinies on an individual and
local level.” He handed down deci
sions as district judge in cattle wa
tei rights and grazing cases, which
are used as a precedent in similar
issues there today.
Smooth, soft - spoken, w e 11-
groomed, Carville landed in the
Senate by appointment in 1945. A
native of Mound Valley, he prac
ticed law In Elko, where he at
tended high school. He studied law
at the University of Kotre Dame.
After serving as U. S. Attorney fdr
Nevada it wfts only a matter of
time before he was elected Gover*
nor.
A Democrat, he Is married to
the former Irma Callahan of South
Bend, Ind., has three sons.
Book
Lovers
“Civilians First, Veterans Sec
ond” is the keynote to one of the
most thoughtful books to date on
the returned soldiers Charles
Bastes “The New Veteran.” It is
Mr. Bolte’s conviction that the man
back from active combat has a def
inite Job cut out for himself—that
is. taking up his role as a civilian
to help make a world where there
will be no more wars.
The author has earned his right
to speak as a veteran, the hard
way, and to have us stay-at-home
Americans listen to him with at
tention. He did not wait until the
U. S. declared war on the Axis, but
joined the British Royal Rifle Corps
a* soon as he received his college
diploma. He served a year in Eng
land, another year in the Middle
East under Montgomery, and fought
against Rommel in the desert. At
El Alamein he was wounded and
lost a leg. He has since become
Secretary of the American Veter
an’s Committee. Bill Mauldin,
author of “Up Front,” says: “I am
convinced that his book is a darned
good thing, and so is his outfit, but
I took my time before saying it.
You see, Mr. Bolte was a second
lieutenant.”
• • •
Sgt. Peter Bowman, author of the
Book-of-the-Month Club choice,
“Beach Red,” is one of the editors
of Air Force Magazine. His job
made it important for him to have
a telephone at home,- and he asked
for one on the grounds of military
necessity. Sorry, he w f as told, new
telephones reserved for veterans
only.
• • •
There’s nothing like a “No Tres
passing” sign to make a stretch of
water look inviting to a fisherman,
says Ed Zem in “To Hell With
Fishing.” Re tells of the man who
lived beside a famous Scottish sal
mon river, had poached the pre
served water all his life, and was
the terror of every bailiff for miles
around. On the old man’s seventieth
birthday, the owners sent word
that henceforth he had their per
mission to fish their water and
would no longer be bothered by
♦wardens. This action so demoral
ized him that he refused to go
near the water for months. When
he seemed to be wasting away, his
wife persuaded the owners to with
draw their offer of immunity, and
he took up poaching where he left
off. When last heard of he was well
in his eighties and still good for a
brace of salmon every evening.
Naval Chaplain Charles R. Cool
ey has this paraphrase of a part
of Psalm 139: “If I ascend up into
heaven in a B-29, thou. God, art
there; if I make my bed in the hell
of a foxhole or beachhead, behold,
thou art there. If I take the wings
of the morning in a F-6-F, or if
I dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea in a submarine: even there
shall thy hand lead me, and thy
right hand shall hold me.”
“Japan’s surrender does not bring
peace; it merely shifts the struggle
to an ideological basis,” says the
Rev. E. Pearce Hayes, Methodist
missionary in Futsing, Fukien pro
vince, China. “From now on for the
next five years the white man is on
trial. Will he put into practice his
Atlantic Charter? If he does and
brotherhood reigns, we shall have
peace; if he restores imperialism,
economic as well as territorial, there
can be no peace.
TWO MINDS with a single thought
«H 1 f KSUI'
Those calls to home mean everything
to war veterans just back from overseas.
Sometimes they find Long Distance
circuits crowded. That’s because we still
lack lines. Over two million miles of
new circuits are being built by the Bell
Quotes Os
The Week
“We want wider seats tn pubMc
buses.”—Widows’ Protective League,
Los Angeles.
“We just got fed up with the
cold.”—Two Chicago girls bicycling
to Florida.
“We have some more panzer div
isions to roll out and can turn them
loose."—Walter Reuther, auto strike
leader.
“We cannot afford to sell the
American system of free enterprise
short with short-sighted policies
and actions based on short-run
considerations” Secy of Com
merce Wallace.
“I miss those good home-cooked
meals." —Ex-prisoner trying to get
back into Hattiesburg, Miss., hoose
gow.
Shopping Summation
INDIANAPOLIS (UP.)—An elderly
woman sized up the buying situa
tion for Indianapolis shoppers with
in 50 feet of her recently. “I was
a child during the Civil War days,
when it was a case of lamb or ram.”
she told a clerk loudly; “the Span
ish-Amcrican War didn’t last long
enough to affect the food situation
much; after the first World War,
food was so high you couldn’t buy
it; and now after this war, there is
plenty of money, but nothing to
buy.” To top it off, she added, “8,000
hogs at the stockyards and no
Spareribs.”
om will be ike one
iyou Jon t
IUTCH OUT
Every few hours a Michigan motorist is grounded.
His driver's license is taken away, his motor ear
license is taken away. All because he hurt someone
while without proper insurance. Under the new
law vou cannot wait for a court hearing. ou put
up ... or walk.
If you are a good driver and do not yet have
this essential protection, you may join the
Auto Club and apply for it w ith this Exchange
at a rate far below* prewar.
Detroit Automobile
Inter-lnsuranee Exchange
Attorneys-in-fact: Ralph Thom a*
Chas. B. Van I)usrn Roy M. Hood
John J. Ramsey , General Manager
at Automobile dub of Alichigaa
Open 2913 BIDDLE AVE.
Evenings Wyandotte. Mich.
A. D. Olmstead, Mgr.
Call a) tha Division Office 1472 3 4
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IN WYANDOTTE
Excerpts from the personal col
umn:
Fred H. Genthe has increased the
efficiency of his battery charging
department at his Dodge Bros,
garage.
George Skladowski, Wyandotte
meat dealer and grocer, filed a
voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
Assets are placed at $7,950 against
liabilities of $13,900.92.
The second of the series of ser
mons on Christian Science wPJ be
given in the Methodist church next
Sunday evening.
Clifford Drouillard has accepted
a position as salesman for Fred H.
Genthe, to “talk” Dodge Bros. cais.
“Dorothy Gish’s latest Paramount
picture, ‘Little Miss Rebellion,’ is
for laughing purposes only.” stated
a Majestic theater advertisement.
Continuing, the ad stated “Miss
Gish’s antics as a grand duchess,
who plays hookey in order to join
a baseball game with some Amer
ican doughboys, are said to be pro
ductive of highly humorous re
sults.”
Uses ‘Chute (hr Drapes
PORT WAYNE, Ind. (UR) Ray
Crawford, recently discharged from
the Army, spent the first week of
his return to civilian life making
draperies for his living room out
of a German parachute he took
from a captured Nazi paratrooper.
He retained the original camou
flage greens and blues in the cur
tains.
System. But this is a big job and it will
take time.
You can help us put service men’s
calls through more promptly by co-oper
ating when the operator says, “Please
limit your call to 5 minutes.”
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