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On Jan. 13 the War Manpower Commission announced
that it had subtracted 600,000 persons from the estimated total
labor force (including the military) that the country would
need by July 1.
"That's fine" the man in the bus said to his neighbor.
"Ill bet congress remembers those figures when a national
service bill comes up, if it ever does.
Eight days later, Manpower Commissioner McNutt stated
' that 900,000 new workers would be needed between then and
July 1, to replace men taken from industry by military in
duction.
"That's a whale of a lot of workers," said the man in the
bus. "I don't suppose they'll ever be able to get tnem wnn
out a national service law."
Rut the contradiction in the two figure is only apparent
They are both part of the Jan. 13 story. The armed forces
and WMC originally planned for a total labor force of 6,
300,000 by next July. That was an increase of 1,500,000 over
the figure of 64,80U,uuu m July, iw. ine ngure wu
later reduced to 65,700,000 which is an increase of 900,000
over the July, 1943, rather than the current, ngure.
The facts, then, are the same, but the difference in empha
sis is interesting. WMC had long opposed national serv
ice, and gave out its rather encouraging statement of Jan. 13
iiist two Havs after the President had asked congress for a
national service law. Since then, however, McNutt has said
that a national service law is. a necessity. To point ut his
statement he has simply omitted the "saving" part of the
Jan. 13 statement, anq stressed the need.
Reasons behind this "saving" are also of interest. The much
talked-of industrial cutback had practically nothing to do
with it. Rather, this tremendous economy is the result of
lessons learned in war production. The princioal lessons
have been in better utilization of manpower and better flow
of materials. The result is the freeing of 600,000 men and
women for important service elsewhere.
BULL SESSION
When the War Production Board was confronted with a
lady-or-the-tiger choice between copper and bulls, it didn't
hestitate. Copper, the board knew, was essential to the ma
chinery of war. And copper was scarce. But bulls were,
and always had been, absolutely essential to the perpetuation
of the bovine species. And. the bovine species, in the form
of beef and dairy products, wasn't very plentiful either.
So WPB has allocated 240,000 pounds of copper a year for
ithe manufacture of nose rings for these essential but fre
; quently temperamental creatures. All of which is fine
except that, it develops, nobody in WPB knows the bull pop
ulation of the United States. Nobody in the Department of
Agriculture does either. There hasn't been a bull census
since 1920.
Why 240,000 pounds per annum, then? Nobody knows that,
either. WPB doesn't even know how many rings that will
make.
We don't have a nose ring handy or we would tell you.
But figuring a generous 10 ounces to the ring, the allocation
will take care of 384,000 bullocks in each year's rising gen
eration. And that's really a lot of bull.
COlSTOOaOMTIVE VERSES, DONALD M. ERB
Part L
SHOES AND TAXES
It seems a shame to drag such an amiable comedian as Ed
Wynn into a serious discussion of taxes. But if Ed will just
lend us his theatrical shoes for a moment, we will attempt
to demonstrate that these famous brogans resemble the United
States Income tax laws about as closely as does anything in
this troubled world.
Ed, as you probably know, has wom the same shoes for
Stage appearances throughout his career. For reasons of sen
timent and superstitution, he has clung to the footwear that
carried him onstage for his first professional success. Natur
ally, however, they don't look much like the shoes that Ed
first put on some 30-odd years ago.
Time and travel have wrought many changes. They have
been soled and heeled in annual overhauls. Toes and heels
and tongues have gone and come and gone again. Bib patches
have replaced little ones. The shoes have swollen and
buldged at the seams as their stratified burden of leather in
, creased.
The income tax dates roughly from the same period as do
Mr. Wynn's shoes and his rise to fame. Perhaps the Income
tax has not achieved Ed's popularity, but the legislative
branch of our government has clung to it with a fondness
which may also combine sentiment and superstition.
Time and circumstance have changed the tax picture, too.
And to keep up with both, successive Congresses have patched
and pegged and sewed. They have piled on new clauses and
new taxes, they have plugged old loopholes and opened new
ones. But they apparently have never thought of tossing
away the whole elaborate contraption and building a new.
understandable tax law, any more than Ed has thought of
buying replacements for his footlight gunboats.
Reports of the Senate-House conference on the 1944 tax
bill Indicate that the present Congress is no different from tts
predecessors. The conferees argued about this and that, but
it was always a point that added, rather than subtracted,
complication. The one motion to substitute a simpler tax bill
was quickly rejected on a point of order.
So don't get your hopes up bv thinking that the present tax
schedule vou're sweating over Is the ultimate In fiscal boobv
traps. You can be as sure that the 1944 edition will add to
your headaches as you can that Ed Wynn will add a couple
more patches to his shoes.
The only difference is. Ed's shoes are funny.
It's your own fault if you wake up in the morning with a
big head right off the bat 8
The dough you take out of the sock and put into war
bonds will help hurry the knockout sock the enemy is going
to get
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Changes galore are expected in the post-war auto. But
there'll still be the same back-seat driver.
If you put too much strong stuff in them, the eoblets
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ww gei you u you aon i waicn out
Folkd who are willing to admit they're wrong when they
r, ar sui rigni.
Whan grief seems all the meaning that is left
In the wide world, ar. i darkness everywhere,
And we but think of how x heart is cleft
And ieed to sickness on our own despair,
It is his voice that calls on us to know
The truth oi him triumphant through our woe.
Look to the hills he loved: they are not bowed
With sorrow; and the streams that knew him well
Still flash their waters, clean, and strong, and proud
Through the green valleys, for what they have to tell
Of him is not a sad thing but the prals
Of one who was a man in all his days.
There is a nook where alders drop a shade 1
On Mason Bend it is a place he loved
And thinking of him there, sorely afraid
Of what my heart will say, I stand reproved
For those great waters sing with one clear voice
"We gave him joy you must not wrong rejolcel"
So is it everywhere we follow now
The ways he went: a brightness lingers there
Like the clear light that is upon the brow
Of one who dreams and all his dreams are fair,
Or like the splendor left in heaven afar
Along the pathway of a fallen star. '
We. see that brightness and our grief is still;
We will not dim it even with our tears,
But, like the streams he loved and every hill,
Be proud and speed him onward through the years,
In the full beauty of his stainless fame
And all the goodness that was in his name.
Part II.
But there are other meanings he would make
Us know and not forsake,
Pointing ahead to a bright, distant goal;
Calling us from our sleep
Of grief to rise and keep
Sternly the battle-stations of the soul.
For he was ever a soldier in the fight
For freedom, truth and light,
The war from whose hard stress is no relief.
Fronting the battle-blast
He shook not but stood fast,
Ah, steadfastly, a soldier and our Chief!
A story from the past comes back to me,
And there it is I see
The symbol of his vision and his powers;
The symbol of the goal
He set for his own soul;
The splendid thing that knit his life to ours.
The story of Prometheus who gave
The fire that burns to save
Man from the gloom of Ignorance and sin,
Knowledge he gavs, and love,
And, mightiest to move
The heart toward heaven, beauty the prize, to win.
And love the treacherous and all-evil one
Chained him where never the sun
Warms the deep irost on bitter Caucasus;
And there he hangs today
- Tortured as none can say, , .
The Good who fights the all-evil Qne for us.
The Chief whom we pay tribute to this hour
Led us with quiet power '
To where that awful Hero warms the stone.
"Reach up and set him free,"
That was his word: "Let be
Good on the earth, its king, and good alonel".
By ERNEST G. MOLL
A Poem In Three Pens
- Clad to his strength he stand beside us now,
k.. rr.i urith MUmA hrow.
And chants with us the Eternal Hymn of Light;
The faith that will not break
Though earth's foundations shake,
That rocks the throne of darkness with its might
Part HL
"Still hangs Prometheus on the bitter stone
Shrouded in cloud so that we cannot see
Even his feet;
Flesh of our flesh they are, bone of our bone,
For we, for we
Are all of us his brothers waiting here
As we have watched and waited year by year
And shall until oh faith how wildly sweetl
Our hands shall break his chains and set him free.
"We know he hangs there by the blood that drips
Out of the cloud and by the cruel sound
Ever of wings;
We know the agony upon his lips -And
look around .
One to another at what our fingers hold,
Salves for his wounds and waters clean and cold.
And turn away, knowing them useless things,
And stare at the red drops upon the ground. .
"He died in Greece thousands of years ago;
In Rome amid the torches and the din.
By sword and flame
He tasted every death that man can know.
And when the thin . .
Cry of sick children in a later day
Came to him from deep Jungles far away
He woke and rose and answered to his name
And bared his arm' and let the fever in.
"He died wherever evil called for blood.
Wherever beauty perished in the blaze
Of maddened lust;
Wherever truth, shleldless and lovely, stood
At quiet gaze
Upon the spears that thronged against her breast,
He struck some down and gathered in the rest
And made her live through all our yesterdays.
But who shall tell us where today he dies,
Each hour, each minute, smitten to his knees
Yet fighting onl
On all the world's wide lands, In all her skies,
In all her seas
He stands with freemen In the time of fears,
His thousand names one name in all their ears,
And, as they fall and one by one are gone,
He dies and lives the one great soul of these..
"Still, still he hangs upon the bitter stone.
Oh; lift your heads up, brothers, and be proud
And unafraid!
Though Jove has wooed him with a golden throne,
And though aloud
The evil sirens have sung songs to him'
Of ioys in heaven, for each tortured limb
Salves and sweet rest, he hangs there undismayed
And keeps hlB trust there steadfast in the cloud.
"It Is not Hercules will set yow free, ...
Prometheus can you hear us in the gloom?
Not Hercules
Nor any strong one, but your brothers, we
Who in the womb
Took the same dream that chains you to your stone
And that great faith oh, terribly alone,
Hear us as now we speak it on our knees
That all your million graves ate not your tombl"
IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAO
ON SOLDIER VOTE
EDITOR, Register-Guard En
closed it a copy of a letter written
under this date to Senator Hol
man. I think you may find it of
interest as expressing a citizen s
views even though you may not
coincide entirely or even at all
with the doctrines expressed.
I cannot see the Roosevelt
soldier vote proposal as anything
else than an insincere effort upon
the part of an office-hungry poli
tician to corner a susceptible part
of the country's vote upon the eve
of an election which will deter
mine whether or not we are to
have a continuance further in of
fice of an administration which
has squandered large sums of the
American taxpayers money in
building a political machine gear
ed to keep a chosen few in a po
sition where they can enrich
themselves at the expense of the
many.
We have been in this present
war more than two years. We
have all known that In 1944 we
would be voting again for a presi
dent, why has no considered
thought been given previously to
the soldier vote when we all knew
! that millions of voters would be
on foreign service?
GEOROE E. DORMAN,
, RFD 3, Springfield, Ore.
Hon Rufus Holman,
Washington, D. C.
My Dear Senator Being inter
ested as an American citizen in
the fate of the present adminis
tration's proposal to inaugurate a
new and untried system ot choos
ing a president for our country
such as is embraced in the pro
posed federal soldier vote, I ad
dress you In hope that you will
find It possible to apply
every ounce of your Influence for
the decisive defeat of the bill that
was , rejected so recently by the
house, for the, following reasons:
1. Our constitution prescribe
specifically the method by which
the president shall be chosen. This
method cannot be changed legally
except by amendment, regardless
of whether this country Is at war
or not, and the supposed exig
encies of the present conflict do
not, per se, confer upon, either the
administration or congress any
authority to modify the constitu
tional provisions regardless of
The Cooper brothers brought back to mind. In the sec
ond game of the world series, the old "Spirit of St Louis."
Ask any youngster to name four tastes and he's liable to I
ajr, sweet, sour. Utter and spinach. I
HELP FEED AMERICA FRUIT
Our Government aska every family
in America with available space, to
stow some Fruit and help la tke War
effort. Home Owners are anted to
grew am fruit. Fighting; saea. ear
nuns, ana uie people en IM Berne
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sad strength.
Let me show yea he yoe can plant new enjoy delldoae
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their effect upon the individual
citizen.
2. An amendment of the consti
tution Is not an advisable act at
this time when people are in no
mental condition to consider such
a course impartially, particularly
in view of the fact that we are
now within a comparatively few
months of the election Itself and
any hurried action is quite likely
to lack the serious consideration
which so serious a step as tamp
ering with established law is
likely to receive.
S. The passage of any legislation
providing a vote by an other than
the methods prescribed at the
present time means actually a fur
ther federalization and regimen
tation of the American citizenry,
and past experience has taught us
that, once this is extended the
custom will become permanent. It
would be a direct and decisive
step toward a national dictator
ship. We have too much of that
already. . ' -
4: The passage of any of the
proposed legislation will result in
the creation of another vast bu
reaucracy which will be controlled
completely by the federal govern
ment This, sir, Is still a union of
states under the existing consti
tution. The president is chosen to
preside over that union by the
representatives ot the states's cit
izenry not by the majority of the
individual voters except as they
express themselves through the
choice of electors.
For your information I will say
that copies of this letter are being
released to our own Senator Mc
Nary, Representative Mott, and to
the press of Las county, Oregon.
Yours truly,
GEORGE E. DORMAN,
RED 3, Springfield, Ore.
VOTING IDEA '
EUGENE (To the Editor) I
have been interested in the dis
cussion to the pacers concerning
the ways and meant ot getting an
absentee . ballot to the soldiers
overseas. I have a copy of the
Digest ot the Election Laws of
Oregon, and it says that the bal
lot for the general election can not
be made up sooner than thirty
five days before the election. The
law further reauire that n k
sen tee ballots be returned to the
county clerk's office at least five
days before the election. This
would leave, at the outside, only
about thirty days in which to have
the ballots printed and sent across
and have returned. If ve follow
the law, it would mean that tt
would be practically impossible
for any overseas member of the
armed forces to cast a ballot for
the general election. i
Since the primary nominating
election la held in May, and the
national conventions of the va
rious political parties will be held
not later than August 1, it would
be possible to prepare and have
printed early to August a com
plete ballot tor the fall election,
with the possible exception of
vaeandM ranH kv wtm.H.
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and death, or independent candi-
aaiee, ana possiDly candidates for
city offices. It seems to me that
the member of the armmA fnM.
across the waters would be in
terested in local county and -state
politics, as well as national, and
it such a thins were rjaasible. ura
could prepare and . send them a
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toe so thifW
voted anri ."""Te.;
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Yours trul, 'J
nTEUNcigsl
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homo maintenance.
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