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Th OHEG02Y STATECMA1L Solera. Orjon. TlmrBdaT Moxniag. March 15 1915
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"iVo Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Awe"
From First Statesman, March 23, 1851
,TOE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY ;
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and iublisher
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. Member of the Associated Press
The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to th use for publication of all
news dispatches credited Jo It or not otherwise credited in this' newspaper.
Less for' Civilians . .
From Los Angeles comes word that' manufac-"
turers' of women's clothing agree that new gov
ernment orders will soon make women's slacks
a thing of the past; The order requires manu
facturers to concentrate on making work gar
ments, like overall.
'Just think of Hollywood without slacks, will
i? Manv of its habitues would rather .go
They
ypul
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without clothes than not wear slacks!
crne near enough to that as it is.
.The-impending slackness of slacks, however,
. is! just a sample of the tightening of controls
which the government is imposing in many lines
of civilian manufacture. The purpose in this
instance is to provide greater supplies of work
clothes overalls, workshirts, work gloves, etc.
which are! sadlyj needed. But all along the line
the pinch-is occurring.,
- Lumber is getting to be a precious gem, so
difficult is it for civilians to obtain. Appliances
,which in the fttst flurry of reconversion were
scheduled for this year are still unobtainable.
Even repairs will be harder to get, so Washing
ton reports to the country.
There is a sudden scurry to see what has hap
pened to food supplies too, with quite a dispute
going on H among ! government agencies: lend
N lease, the military, UNRRA,1, foreign economic
welfare and war food administration. Each
calls for greater: quantities of what appear to be
shrinking supplies. ! :
' That is the picture at this moment: conditions
. will be worse before they get better. But it
would appear that the end of the war in tier
many ought to bring some curtailment of gov
ernment purchasing, except perhaps as to food
stuffs. It surely will not take as large quanti
ties of supplies, for the single war with Japan
as it does to conduct the two-front war.
Seeing the probability of a termination of the
war in Europe this year the American people
can get through with a minimum supply of es-S
sentials. These the government should release
for civilian use in order to keep the home war
plant in city and country functioning. Civilian
sacrifices so far have been chiefly inconven
iences. We can stand more tightening up if
needed, especially with the hope of an early vic
tory in Europe. - l
Soil Conservation;' "5
Representatives Heisler and Kimberling haya
introduced a bill, HB 3$7, which would require
(as the bill has been j amended) operators Jpf
mining dredges to level off soil, rock and gravel
, piled on tillable surface land in their dredging
operations. The bill passed the house but I is
lodged in the senatefommittee on mining which
is said to be unfriendly to such legislation. Op
erators of gold, dredges have asserted it would
"put them out of business.' ji - : f
The fact is that after the dredges get through
with a piece of land it is put out of business for
all forseeable time as far asiillage or grazing is
concerned. No one who has visited the John
Day or Sumpter valleys in eastern Oregon and
seen the gravel heaps left by the churning
dredges but grieves -oyer the utter' destruction
of soil once rich in fertility, ilt will tale untold
centuries for nature to heal those scars and
make the lands ' economically valuable again J
The question then is, are the lands more val
uable for agriculture tiian for their gold? On
the basis of current market values the? latter te
seems to be preferred. But neither men nor
-cattle can eat gold. 'The gravel heaps! caui never
produce the grain arid he gtiss which the login
of the bottom landl price produced. jThe thtie
may come when that sjectiojl will really suffer
for lack of tillable or grazing lands such as those
along the John Day river. They are needed to
grow feeds for the livestock that use the moun
tain ranges in summer'; Realizing this, many
landowners reject the tempting offers made for .
their bottom lands which are underlaid with
gold-bearing gravelsl iij ; . " ".,- ;jfk
HB 387 does little more than nibble at the
problem of soil destruction by the gold dredges.
A real attempt to solve the problem' would be
to require operators first to .remove the topsoil
and then to level the tailings and recover the
surface with the topsoil.; Expensive? Yes. But
it might conserve the lands for indefinite use for
growing grass and crops. J !
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Diligent Yank Find
1C3 Football for
Making Ig iTrade "
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The New Watch on the Rhine
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Meivs Behind the News
; "J By PAUL, MAJLLON i ! -
(DistribuUon by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole
' or in part strictly prohibited.) i '
Impact of Taxes
Frank Phillips, "chairman of the board of the
Phillips Petroleum company, has had his board
cut his salary from $50,000 a year to U He
told his employes that he didn't see why the
company should pay out $50,000 a year and
; benefit me by only $309.36. As a striking way
of showing the impact of income taxation this
method can hardly be beaten. Phillips of course
-will not go hungry, as he has plenty of other
income.
But, we wonder is his company much better
off? The $50,000 is deductible as an item of
expense. The $49,999 save is subject to taxa
tion, which may run as high as 80 per cent. So
j the company isn't greatly benefitted by Mr.
Phillips' magnanimous offer.
Today being March 15, with income taxes
due, the incident is timely for comment) The
fact is that the government needs the money it
levies, j If it doesn't get it one way it will have
to another. Why not, then march up and pay
- your tax and be happy you can contribute to
the government's support? After all, you got
the income didn't you? And would you trade
your job or your business which gave you the
income for a marine's job on Iwo Jima? ,'
Admiral Nimitz neatly turned aside specula
tion regarding the I command for invasion of
Japan when he said, in an j interview in San
Francisco: "If and when there is an invasion of
the Japanese islands it will , be an army job."
The job of the navy will be to trarisport the
army and protect its lines of communication.
He also said "There' is no difference of opinion
or conflict over top commanders." Since he had
just come from Washington- the admiral could
speak with authority The general staff makes
the decisions as to i campaigns and.; probably
(general Marshall picks the commanders. He
certainly - has made: few mistakes. , There has
been no such fumbling ps there; was in the civil
' war for generals yould as Lincoln plead
with Hooker, "go forward land give- us vic--tories."
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First private hydro-electric development of
apy consequence that has been proposed in this
'state for years is that covered in the filing fit
California-Oregon Power co for a power plant
on the North Umpqtia river in Douglas county,
with capacity of 40,000 kw. Growth in demand
for electric energy and planning for the future
account for the program. The company operates
in territory not yet! reached by. government
transmission lines. 'Use of electric power will
continue to expand, land the company is wise
. in anticipating its future demand. 1 -k
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interpret
Signs point to a breakup in Germany. Slave
laborers are leaving their jobs and roaming the
country. Political prisoners are escaping; band
itry is reported increasing. As the nazi ship
springs leaks rats will start to desert it. Many
will now pose as anti-fascists who acted only
on compulsion. Curiosity is aroused over what
the fool Hitler will do for his grand climax.
Henry Wallace, new secretary of commerce,,
learned td speak Spanish jand Russian and to
throw the Australian boomerang. - Now he tells
a senate committee he is going to learn how to
fly in order to find out what the, private air
plane business will amount to. That man cer
tainly is versatile in his ambitions. i '
Editorial Comment f- ;
BOUNDARY GUARANTEES -I
The world moves at a rapid pace.
At Mexico Chy. delegates to the Pan-American ,
conference, with the United States concurring, vote
to guarantee the present boundaries and political
independence of all member nations, which includes
all the new world republics except Argentina. -'
This, if ratified, as we think it will be, will con ';
mit each power to go to war if necessary to protect
any other from attack. It will virtually make war
between American powers impossible. There has
been little of this anyway, the last outbreak being
between Bolivia and Paraguay, both of which ap
pear willing now to lt bygones be bygones. Ag- .
greasion from abroad occasionally threatens, as it
did when the Monroe doctrine was proclaimed. '
There are occasional rumors' that the Argentine
Is arming for attack on its neighbors. The coterie
that rules Argentina now is known to be iealous
of Brazil, a larger and more populous country which
The WM News i
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON i : i
Invasion jittars ' sweeping Japan home Islands
may be a bit premature. ! There is much to do on
the other side of the world before full power can
be concerted against the Japanese end of the dis
integrating Nazi-Nipponese axis; but that does riot
necessarily ' preclude early Allied steps to secure
footholds in continental Asia. s ,
That is exactly ! what Tokyo fears. It explains
Japanese discarding of the "protection" mask used
in 1941 to cover seizure of French IndoChina. On
Tokyo orders, Japanese troops are moving to disarm
. or destroy all French and native forces." It is for
defense against expected Anglo-American incur
sions from across the South China sea into French
Indo-China that could cut off ; the whole southern
end of the collapsing Japanese "Greater East Asia
co-prosperity sphere" by land as well as sea. -
It remains to be seen ! whether that is the pur
pose that underlies creation of the powerful British
Pacific fleet, American occupation of Palawan is--lands
in the west central Philippines, just over 600
mues from the eastern bulge of Indo-China and
seizure of the Zamboanga peninsula of Mindanao
dominating the Sulu seal gateway to the South
China sea from the Pacific. Disclosure from Bom
bay that a French military mission has been in con
sultation with Allied authorities for months and is
now attached to Lord Louis Mountbatten's south
east Asia command Will do nothing to ease Nip
ponese apprehensions ' '
American nayal task forces have recently op
erated close off the Indochina coast. American air
power has been steadily! blasting at Japanese ship-'
ping in Indo-China and at the narrow guage rail
road that hugs the coast line all the way from Hanoi
to Saigon, connecting central arid eastern China and
Burma and the Malay peninsula. i - . i
Announcement that a French military missions-is .
(Continued from page 1)
women : contemplating ; matri
mony in! this wise: t ;
"Our only" hopes for the new
brides arid fiancees is that they
do not make their marriages an
.. escape Into mediocrity. So often
a housewife becomes os embroil
ed in little things. Their worlds
can become bounded by four
walls. Their conversation can
degenerate to Johnny's ailments,
their newest recipe, an effective
diet, or the latest bit of scandal.
It is easy to make tempests in
teapots. It is easy to become
narrow minded by living a qui
et life."f i
The alert Emerald reporter,
Vicky Utz, gets a round-robin
of interviews with Oregon wom
en on how they contemplate a
future as married women. One
girl I asks if a married woman
doesn't ; have a pretty . big Job
- in "raing Johnny and man
aging her home." She isn't con
vinced that absorbing culture in
afternoon teas is very broaden
ing, f Another girl favors the
old I Greek rule of the golden
mean: "When a girl marries she
should strive to strike a happy
medium between home life and
outside interests." Still another
girl confesses she would like to
' be "embroiled" in the problems
. of married life, and believes that
college women will hold on to
some of their, idealism. Still an
other girl expresses the view
that motherhood is woman's most 1
Important function: "women us
ually make their best 'or worst
contribution to. society in the
children I they produce."
This of course is just the cur
rent outbreak of an old argu
ment. Each generation of wom
en has to' pass through . it, par
ticularly since women got credit
for having brains worth educat
ing and gained emancipation for
determining their careers. The
y significant thing Is that r these
young women are thinking ser
iously about their future, about
their responsibilities not only to
their homes but to themselves.
Already married women with
a college education have demon
strated that they can be excel
lent homemakers and still not
become "narrow minded." In
fact education helps prevent
them from going into mental
decay within the walls of their
-homes. In the world of the fu
ture I i anticipate that college
women will be even more suc
cessful In combining home dut-
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WASHINGTON, Mar. . 1
The Brynes super-committee on
food exports was appointed . to
draw (a shin-plaster over the
mess which various government
agencies have made of the for
eign food supply programs.
The! deft Mr. Byrnes is taking
hold of the loose-running, open
hearted, benevolent-handed! food
dispensing bureaus in an effort
to effect some equity ', between
civilian needs
here and fur
ther shipments
to Europe.
Behind the
move lay trust
worthy reports
of high accum
ulations of food
supplies In
Britain and
some other
places abroad
(no one seems to know where)
' while desperate -shortage exists
in Greece and our occupied part
of Italy (where published Inews
reports say food is scarcer I than
in the; Nazi-held part)! : J
This puzzling condition has
been kecentuated by simultan
eous prospects that our own do
mestic food supplies are going to
become tighter and tighter for
the housewife until fall at 'least.
Furthermore we are entering
planting season with the j most'
difficult production outlook since
the war started,' with help short
er and implements scarcer than
in the previous war years j
The move was absolutely nec
essaryand overdue. . ? i
A foremost business man, just
back from Europe, is my author
ity for reporting an overaccum
ulation of food in Britain.; For
one example, he learned in Lon
don from business sources of
' four Argentine ships, loaded
with beef, refused entry and re
quired to cruise around in the
: waters offshore because store
houses were filled and docking
facilities limited by other supply
ships Unloading. I
In Italy and Greece he was in
formed that the Russians party
(the local people there no long
er use the word communist, but
call Stalin's devotees "the' Rus
sian partisans") had offered im-
tportations of food fori political
ies, wifehood, motherhood,) with
outside interests and dutiesi ,
4 It is refreshing that; the col
lege girls are as keen as any
young women to flash their dia
monds, and encouraging too that
they look on matrimony jas a
serious .undertaking and not just
an amorous adventure. f ' '
"THE YOUNG IDEA". By Mossier
dlLi aid is becoming attached to the Allied southeast Asia command car-
pes a suggestion that at some moment a combined
squeeze might develop from east and west to split
.off Japanese garrisons in Malaya and the Dutch
Indies for annihilation, with establishment of air
andjea bases in French; Indo-China "as a necessary
preuminary. One air; arid seacontrol of the Golf
of Thailand were secured, simultaneous blows from -the
Bay of Bengal and the South China sea to gain
positions on the long, narrow upper .end of the
Malay peninsula would seem possible. That would
isolate Singapore. - ? 4 -;.: ii:,.. ."."1 -'..?-.
. It seems obvious that 'General MacArthur's diver
sion of forces from the Luzon campain to take Pal
awan and the Zamboanga peninsula is designed to
establish fleet access to the South China sea through
the Sula sea gateway.; Those two air bases also will
put an end to Japanese use of the oil from wells
la North Borneo. - iri - ; $ .
That nearby fuel source could be of especial
value to the ships of the British Pacific fleet, mostly
built for short range operations in European waters.
wealthier. This lineup of all the American powers.
including the UJS A. should serve to dispel any de
lusions of grandeur that may be taking root along
th Platte.- v
A decade or two ago such a proposal would have
been greeted with howls of horror by American
isolationists, but we've heard nothing of them about
this revolutionary step. Bather it is coming to be
agreed that peace is indivisible, that to have it any
where it must be. defended everywhere. This does
not call for defending unjust boundaries or other
situations, but those in the western hemisphere are
reasonably satisfactory, so peace is more likely to
be preserved by readiness to fight aggressors than
by inviting their attacks through a policy of timid
ity .; ; ; .,-.1:r"j:s--
We believe the Pan-American conferees ' are on
the right track and that Argentina will eventually
see the light, if only because of the manifest futil-
.JJty of continuing as a minority of one. Baker Deo
ocrat-IIerald. -
rEe' mom J W weariaj my best shirt again?"
considerations. Where the Rus
sians could get food for export'
he did not learn. He found the
Italians ; nevertheless ) generally
favoring the American occupa
tion, despite the shortages of fuel '
and clothing as well as food.
Beyond this report, the Nazis
have flooded Holland with salt
water. Southern Italian fields
have not been cleared; of mines
and -shrapnel and cannot be ful
ly planted. Clearly Europe can
not grow enough this year. The
problem of feeding Germany Is
coming up. , ji
Now while no European seems
to be getting food (Greece being
in the same boat at Italy and
France nearby), the afmy, lend
lease, the Lehman outfit and the
commodity ""credit corporation
have been buying, and sending
billions of dollars ; of foodstuffs
abroad according to ; their an
nounced figures., f
The question, "Where is it?"
is not the only one raised by
these facts (the dependability of
their source raises them above'
the category of unauthoritative
reports), but the condition also
seems to inquiry if Britain and
Russia have stored or intend to
use our lend-lease food for the
purpose of building influence and
prestige ; on the conquered con
tinent. If so, our lend-lease
commitments could well be whit
tled down. j
The Byrnes announcement
made it quite clear we cannot be
too easy hereafter with our sup
plies. Shortages of meat, but
ter, lard and canned fruits and.
vegetables will continue to tight
en for an indefinite period. Why?
Well, a year or two back, the
government still feared over
abundance, and grossly miscal
culated all along the! food line.
Even last" year the production
of hogs was arbitrarily cut," also
poultry. Spring production of
hogs was reduced 29 per cent "
lit Robert C. Wilson .
(Substituting for Kenneth L."
5 Dixon) i
ON THE: WESTERN FRONT
-(T-This is a story of ambu-.
dances and footballs.
It involves the American field
service nd'took place in, Alsace,
Paris arid Loridon. ; C B. Afcex-
ander of BaltimorevMd, needed
; 10 ambulances for his volunteer
drivers j attached to the First
French armyr .. - '
- Alexander and Mark Ethridge,
Jr, of iouisviHe, Ky, went to
' see Gen Jean de Lattre de Tas
signy about, getting those ambu
lances. jThej general had a short
age tooof; footballs. ," -
He needed 100 pigskins for his
officer candidate schooL
"And so ii is a deal," said the
generaLf ; "Til give you one new
ambulance for every 10 foot
balls you give me."
It sounded like- an easy deal
and Mehin Braunstein, son of a
Pittsburgh, !Pa, sporting goods
dealer, Was assigned the task of
getting the footballs.
Armed with letters from the
general requesting the footballs,
Braunstein flew to Paris. First
he went; to supreme Allied head
quarters. Then to French, spe
rial services headquarters. Then
to American supply officers and
finally to the French commissar
iat of sports. . !
"Sorrf , no footballs are kick
ing around here," was the story,
he got it each place.
Braunstein recalled that ' be-
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IiOiqON,;Ont-0P)-Snooky, an
orange Angora cat, at the ripe
old feline age of 30 has some
thing to' meow over.
The owner, Mrs. William Mal
lough, claims Snooky is the old-
est cat fin North America per
haps ut the world. The jonly
known contender to Snookys ti
tle lives under the same roof
an orange Persian named Scoot- !
er, who is 28 years old.
Snook5 y was given to Mrs. Mai
lough in 1915 by the 91st Cana
dian Elgin regiment when that
regiment, commanded by her
late father, CoL William Ogilvie,
went overseas in World War L'
The regiment gave her , Scooter '
when it returned in 1918."
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Likewise, too much labor was :
taken from the farms, too little
machinery allocations were made.
We would not be even Vhere
we are J had not we beep pro
vided with unprecedentedly good
weather? the past two years. Can
we get I three "'years ''of weather s
like that in a row? ! i?-
The only indication so far Is
good. . -Winter . snow has . piled
. high throughout the agricultural
belt and promises good subsur
face moisture. Also winter
wheat is bountiful.
But the condition is enough to
alarm the whole inner circle.
Certainly it should discourage
continuance of the free-distribu- :
tdon onj a "what-do-you-want"
rather than! "we-will-see-what- '
we-hav" basis for Europe. ,
An end of the. Continental war
might allow release of some men '
; for harvesting and perhaps might :
ease lend-lease demands, but we
will have to take on a third of
Germany, at least, and certainly
the- end will not solve the sit
uation for this year.
- The jobof feeding the world
seems to have proved too great
even fof us at least in the free
and easy way we tried to do it
fore the war sj sporting goods
firm in London had exported
- footballs to his father's firm.
- So he hitch-hiked across the
: channel in an RAF plane, only
to find the company tied up with
army orders. 1 But finally ; the
American special services in Lon-
- don said they could take care
The other da Braunstein re- ,
turned to TassignyV headquar- I
ten with 103 footballs. 24 pairs i
of football shoes and 12 f ootbalT j
: pumpi- r;-Sii::i;';'' . :
The . 10 ambulances will be
turning up any f day now.
The JLitDrary
Guidopost
By W. G. Rogers
AMERICAN CHKOKICX: TH
AUTOBtOQKAPRr OF BAT
'STANNAKD BAKESL," (Scrlk
ner; SSM). :,.. j
Autobiographies are' apt to be
cradle-to-grave jstories, starting
in diapers and ending in dotage,
or as it has been called, ariec
dotage. , - v ( ;;. " i
Baker's is a welcome exception.
His book opens 'ith his first Job
and stops with bis most recent
one. It has form and purpose.
It's compact despite its 300 pages,
it's sincere and unaffected, it has
a wealth of interesting Informa
tion, it's well written, it'i timely.'
It's not a great book but it's an
important one. -
The author, who lives in Am
herst, Mass., began his career,
reporting for . the 1 Chicago Re
cord . . . for which .he covered
among other events 'the march of
Coxey's rmy . 1894. A few
years later he was one of the
group, tacludingLincoln Stefferis
and Ida M. Tarbell, whom Theo
dore Roosevelt blasted as muck
rakers. ':. t '
. He imagined fondly, like half
our newsmen, that he was col
lecting the material for his "great
American novelf" but he never
got around to writing it Instead,
under the name: of David Gray
son, he produced Adventures in
"Contentment" apd other books
of homely wisdom. :
He leads you I to suspect that
he believes in J Grayson more
than in Baker, yet it seems to
me undeniable that he will last
longest as the ultimate authority
onWoodroW Wilson. fi
Baker spent 1 21 years writing
about the world: war I president
and editing his papers ; this coun
try is deeply in debt to Baker for
that job well, done. He says of ,
Wilson: "I did not love him but,
I believed and trusted in him be
yond nyther riian.! -f ; g .-
ii He paints - one : uriforgettable
scene. Wilson had fallen ill. The
"stooped, gray U faced, white
haired old man,f shuffling along !
( with a cane, onej side of his body
drooping, entered a White House
parlor for the first showing of
the film which recorded his visits
td Europe, when he was in full
health, with the Allied world at
his feet. :' - jv - (.
But Baker has a sharp tongue.
He writes of th Senate League
foes' return to the failing presi
dent of the actual copy of the
rejected treatyrf! here express
my deliberate opinion that this
was one of the crudest, most
despicable acts fever; committed
in American Epljtics.'
The Safety Valve
LETTERS FROM STATESMAN READERS
OPPOSES WORK OR J
JAIL BILL j ;
To the Editor: " !
Can "you believe the reasons
which are generally given iri sup
port of the May-Bailey bin for
drafting labor? ' ,
They say we need to conscript
labor to meet acute manpower
needs at the present stage of the
war. But upon analysisit turns
out that there is no over-all
shortage, after all. j The figures
quoted to show current needs .
represent local spot needs only,
whihe are constantly shifting. In
fact, every week we read of la
bor being discharged at various
points because of j cut-backs in
production of certain items, or
complete shut-down a, even
though elsewhere production of
specified items is being increas
ed, so requiring morelabor. At
most, only a few hundred thou-.
sand workers are involved at any
one time. . To fill j these fluctu
ating needsl a free and flexible
movement of labor is the answer,
rather than rigid, regimentation.
As indicated by the Kilgore-Wag-nes
counter proposal, the type of
public control that would really
be adapted to promote labor-use
adjustments while still preserv
ing personal freedom) would fi
the setting of employment ceil
ings in given areas r- plants,
thus regulating the industrial
concerns involved instead of put
ting all the individual workers
ia chains. , "'if
i As far as an over-all shortage
of labor is concerned, : I under
stand that both Senator Thomas
and Mr. McNutt have recently
admitted that as of January I,
the manpower situation as a
, whole was better than ever be
fore. .' ; : I - .
Since ' the labor shortage the
ory does not stand analysis, pro
ponents of the labod draft are
now saying that it is necessary
in order to boost soldier morale.
"Equalify of sacrifice" is the-sic
gan. But if the soldiers are fight-
. ing for freedom and democracy,
it is-impossible to see how their
. morale could be unproved by the
imposition of more: dictatorship
at home, by the development of
the same system -they are sup
posed to be destroying abroad;
. for the 1 key feature of the nazi
system (s compulsory assignment
- of labor, with individual choice
completely f subjugated to the
command of the state. It is a
contradiction in terms to say that
the democratic way is torenforce
equality of involuntary J servi
tude. Most 1 certainly, greater
equality? Isi needed to improve
democracy,; but Just the opposite
-of servile equality under bond
age, the need is to create equal
ity of opportunity for free de
velopment of individual capaci
ties.
Philip Isely, " .
Route three, Box 887.
Movie P
rice
Ceiling Eyed
WASHINGTON, March 14 -(ff)
OPA Chief. Chester Bowles asked
congress yesterday to help slap a
price ceiling on admissions to mo
tion pictures, ; stage shows, ath
letic events and. "all other amuse
ment activities ! f
;; The have been free of Drice con
trol so, far, Bowfes told a news
conference, because most of those
things were not fcovored by, the
statutory definitiuii of a commod
ity. . , I . -
And the prices pave been going
up year after year; he asserted.
For example, the cost of seeing
a movie has increased on the av
erage, by about 3834 per cent from
June, 1941, to last December.!
British Capture Over
Million Axis! Soldiers
LONDON, March 14-WVLord
Croft, parliamentary j undersecre
tary of state ' f ot war, told the
house of lords yesterday that axis
prisoners captured by troops of
the British commonwealth and
empire on all fronts : during the,
war now exceed t000,000. '
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