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1 SIX AKRON BEACON JOURNAL THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943 Light Gets In His Eyes VOICE OF THE PEOPLE AKRON BEACON JOURNAL rounded 183 An Akron Vr pa per Owned and Operated br Akron Men Published Dally and Sunday by The Beacon Journal Publishing Co. C. L. KNIGHT, Publisher 1907-1 KM EDITOB'l NOTCi Letters wklck da cat kesr realise fall aaaae ea address will nat eentldered far ubllcatlen. fair Basse mi be) bllshed.

If this la reeaettti. Kindly keep your letters as brief as passible. Wa reserve the rigkl la afeerlea letters, If toe lent far aublleellee). WINCHELL'S BRAVERY Editor Beacon Journal: JOHN S. J.

H. BARRY K. L. MI LB UR.V and Editor General Manager Business Manager Time will not dim the epic hero iam of Bataan and Corregidor. perfect right to safeguard their piecework standards, so as to assure themselves of not being reduced to a mere living skeleton after the war- is over.

The worker ha a good idea of the writer's underlying opinion on this subject That is, with strikes Out of the mud and duat of Tu Subscription ratn: Dallr Bearoa Journal Ic per pr; Sunder earon Journal 10c per Bt mill, per jear In advance, la state of Ohio, dill; M. Sunder 18 00: bevnnol atata of Ohio, all? MM. aunda; MM. Mall orderl not accepted, froa localities eerrea bp deliver? Menu. nisia rose legendary heroes.

On the bleak, cold Island of Attu our boys were courage itself. being prohibited what chance would History will probably record a the outstanding example of selfless ADVEITIHrNO atrBESENTATIV'i! lair. Breess a Finlat, Kr nrb. rhlladelpblb, Chleafa, Cleveland, toa Anjelea, Atlanta PHON1 D1AI, BL-1111-AIA DEPARTMENTS 1 A. M.

TO P. M. sacrifice, of grim fortitude under terrible odds, and of sticking to torn vv that ught- VVf YOU STARTED Mltpfe this Jmm one post while shaking like an the worker have in coping with the onslaught of management in reducing rates? -f Too, did the writer defend the rubberworker in hi wage rata request of a year ago? He speaks epileptic, the incident of Walter Wlnchell manning a plane gun out over the Caribbean. Just of a labor shortage, but doesn't think! There wasn't an enemy within a thousand miles and he realize that many employers hire Pasting The Buck President Roosevelt's ill-tempered attempt to place the blame for Washington confusion and administration wrangling upon the newspapers is an effort to escape responsibility for a mess of his own making. In his preoccupation with global strategy and military operations, the president has neglected and ignored his duties at home.

The home front demands as good generalship as the war front and Roosevelt has failed to provide it. Irked by the Wallace-Jones feud, the president turned his anger upon the press. The reporters stir up the trouble, he declared. They are forced to color their news, on orders from editors. The examples he cited had nothing to do with the bickering of officials.

The president's accusations are absurd, and he knows it. A reporter gives the facts; he does not invent them. A large proportion of the news emanating from Washington is handled by the press associations the Associated Press, United Press and International News Service and their stories go to hundreds of papers. Does the president believe for one minute that the editors of the various papers issue orders to the press associations, or that there is such a unanimity of opinion among newspapers that could be so "colored" as to fit all editorial policies? On one thing are newspapers agreed that there exists in the nation's capital a state of confusion approximating chaos, produced by administrative mismanagement and lack of management; by divided authority and absence of leadership; and that this situation on the home front presents a definite and menacing threat to the success of our war effort. This is not popular fallacy.

It is fact. And for proof, the president need not examine the files of the newspapers, but can check up on his own administrators. Vice President Wallace's blast at Jesse Jones was released, unsolicited, to the newspapers in a 28-page statement. The president did not know about it. James F.

Byrnes, war mobilization chief, to whom the president delegated the authority to settle such inter-government argu draft dodgers not to the best ln sat there looking real fierce. MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tha Associated Press to exclusive) entitled to the use for republication ol all newt tllspatchea credited to It or not otherwise credited In this nee-e-paper. and sUto to the local newe published herein. Enteral At Poet OHIca. Akron, Ohio, as Second Claw Matter.

THURSDAY. JULY 1, 1943. SOLE MIO terest of war production, The writer speaks of Vtaklnr LESSON IN SAFETY off the chain." In the eyes of Editor Beacon Journal A an example of what NOT to the rubberworker, it is a very misleading phrase when considering the dictatorial influence the Beacon Journal hold over the do in a victory garden, the right As We See It upper picture on the front page of Greater Akron district population. the woman section, Sunday, June S. C.

GRISOLA. 27, has no superiors and few equal. WHY WAIT SO LONOf The picture could be rightly cap Editor Beacon Journal: tioned "Thirty-Two Points of Un Would you say that Mr. Wallace safe Practice." The 32 point con sist of the upturned prongs of two can be catalogued definitely as second guesser than whom there Is none more despicable rakes, one spading fork and one cultivating fork, just about as dan gerous in a garden as a nest of If he had authority to do some rattlesnakes. I can understand the photog- thing about the thing he com plain of, why did he not do something? If he had no authority.

raphcr arranging the background to show as many garden tools as why did he not long since take his case to the man who put him in BEW? possible. But won't you tell your photographer that the safe way to Did Mr. Wallace try to do place tool when not using them is point down. job on BEW? The Final Word AFTER thorough consideration, the war labor board has decided to stand with its 3-cent-an-hour pay increase decision for the factory employes of the three largest rubber companies in Akron, The board could not possibly have authorized a larger raise within the bounds of its responsi-bility to keep wages stabilized. It might, justifiably, have refused to grant any blanket raise in Akron, where average hourly and weekly wages are among the highest in the nation.

The pinch comes in the fact that the war labor board, imperfect as it is, has done a better job of holding its front against inflation than have other agencies in the national government. It cannot forever keep wages on an even keel if effective measures are not taken to keep prices from skyrocketing. It is a credit to the good sense of the great majority of Akron rubber workers that production is continuing despite the board's refusal to approve a greater increase. It is a credit to the leaders of the United Rubber Workers union. that despite their per A garden tool left on the ground SAM MARINO.

THEIR BIGGEST WORRY with prongs up can be extremely dangerous. Stepped upon, they will either puncture the foot or cause the handle to jump up abruptly Editor Beacon Journal: The following information la with clublike effect. based on data obtained from offi Through meetings, literature, cial sources: ments, had no advance knowledge of the vice president's action. The fact that Byrnes has stepped into the controversy now follows the old pattern of taking action after the damage has been done. The greatest problem facing tha posters, the Summit county safety council is trying to educate the people of the Akron area in average man called in the military draft is the financial support of his wife and children during bis ab sence.

safe practices. Your photographers can aid this essential cause, but not by picturing dangerous practices unless labeling them as such. To a degree unequaled in any previous war, Uncle Sam ha provided for the dependent families World Today EVAN WILLIAMS, JR. Managing Director, Summit County Safety Council. of all men in uniform below tha rank of staff sergeant in the army, and second class petty officer in the navy.

FAILURE ON HOME FRONT? Editor Beacon Journal: Class A dependents, under gov Has the United States already ernment regulations, include wives, children and divorced wives. The basic pay of the new soldier lost the war? Is it possible that despite the successes of our armed forces, we, the civilians, have failed in the war on the home front? Events are beginning to indicate or sailor is $50 a month. Of this, Vii goes to his wife and or chil The statement issued by Chester C. Davis in resigning as war food administrator is a smashing indictment of the Roosevelt policy of ignoring the problems of the domestic economy. Davis wrote: "I find that I have assumed a public responsibility while the authority, not only over broad food policy, but day-to-day actions, is being exercised elsewhere." As long as the president permits Harry Hopkins, Felix Frankfurter and others of his "unofficial cabinet" to make the derisions and overrule the authority of those designated publicly to direct the nation's domestic affairs this same state of eon-fusion will exist.

The president recognized the damage to national morale inter-departmental strife produces in his memoranda of last Aug. 21 ordering subordinates to bring their differences to him, and again in giving WMB Chief Byrnes the authority to settle such disputes. The orders were Issued and promptly forgotten. that this is so. dren.

The government adds $28 a month for the wife, plus $12 for the first child and $10 for every I have reference not only to The Merry-Go-Round Bv DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, July manner in which old line G.O.P. leaders are already maneuvering backstage to pick Chicago for the republican national convention next June indicates the deadly grimness with which they are out to do two things: block Wendell Willkie and dominate the republican platform in regard to postwar isolation. To this end, reactionary G.O.P.ers are pointing out that Chicago is the most important convention city in the country; is in the center of the U.S.A.; that moit apolitical gatherings have been held there than in cny other city. Backstage, however, what they are whispering is something else again. In private their chief argument for Chicago is the fact that the anti-Willkie, pro-isolationist Chicago Tribune dominates the city.

To hold the convention under the protecting wing of the Tribune, they figure, would be a powerful influence in putting across their candidate and platform. If the convention gets deadlocked, there is nothing like the constant day-to-day, pounding of a big newspapes- atampede sonal distaste for the decision they are urging members to remain at work and have stepped in to halt the few sporadic stoppages that have occurred. The rubber workers' request for higher wages was given the most careful attention and thought by the WLB, which was appointed by President Roosevelt to be the final arbiter of wartime labor disputes. The derision has been rendered and reaffirmed. Some people believe it is a fair and reasonable decision.

Some believe it Is too generous. Some believe it does not give the workers enough. The only sane course for all who are affected by the decision, employers and employes alike, is to accept it and abide by it. Here in Akron we have more important strikes, black market operations, and the glaring mistakes of the By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON, July 1. Evidence is accumulating that the United Nations will find it harder to prevent new wars from breaking out in postwar Europe than to win the present conflict.

Before me is a telegram, signed by the Serbian National Defense Council of America, bitterly denouncing the Yugoslav government-in-exile and calling on King Peter II to dismiss his Croat ministers and proclaim himself king of the Serbs alone, as was his grandfather, Peter I. On Monday, the anniversary of Kossovo, greatest of Serbian holidays, King Peter broadcast from London announcing "a real, popular commonwealth of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes" as soon as Yugoslavia is liberated. The exact form it would take, he said, "will be decided by the real representatives of the people in the liberated fatherland." But thia does not please all Yugoslavs. The message from the Serb organization mentioned; above declares that the whole Idea of Yugoslavia; "a Versailles experiment," was a mistake from the beginning. Unity cannot be derived from "similarity of blood Itself," It says, but only from "identity of traditions and ideals," which the Croats and the Serbs do not share.

administration, but also to the recent race riots. Apparently our sons and daughters are suffering untold hardships in vain when other child, so that a wife and one child receive $62 a month, a wife with two children $72 and a wife with three children $82. The allowance for a divorced wife varies with the amount of alimony and the number of the man's other dependents. She may receive as much as $42 a month, of which $22 would be taken from the man's one group of Americans takes up arms against another group of Americans. Or shall I say when one more powerful group decides pay with- an additional $20 from to 'persecute another less for tjSJbfcWwsefy-en prolonged argument Veterans Foreign Wars, On the other hand, liberal republican leaders SUtltCl till UUUI.

III U.1L BLIJJ our task of producing materials that are indis pensable to the winning of the war. we here at home are unknowingly throwing away; namely the right an individual for "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Another weak spot of our civil-Ian battle front is the indifferent attitude of many of our civilian soldiers. This is an all-out war for victory, but can each person satisfy himself that he is "delivering the goods" to his greatest efficiency? Everyone in this country has a responsibility as great as our leaders'. I sincerely believe that everyone should get down on his knees and thank God that he is an American. Let us all live in accordance with our American ideals and keep our land pure for the other generations, our soldiers and ourselves.

JACK LOONEY. The president has practically encouraged such controversies. He promised Chester Davis full power as food administrator when Davis took the job. He promised to deal directly with Davis. Then he created the war mobilization board and put Vinson over Davis and Byrnes above both of them.

Roosevelt permits nine administrators to dabble in the food situation. America's newspapers did not create the discord and disorder of the capital. They have reported the condition as factual news of primary concern to the nation. If the news reports have seemed to conflict, it can be traced to the conflicting statements of rival administrators rather than to the errors of reporters. The newspapers have warned, editorially, that this situation constitutes a serious threat to the war effort.

They have urged the president to bring some order and authority into being. The newspapers are fulfilling their responsibility to the people. The administration is not. Pay As You Go The government begins today the pay roll deduction system of collecting income taxes. While it may be difficult to revise the budget to take care of the missing dollars for a few weeks, it will be much easier than trying to collect the cash to satisfy Uncle Sam's collector each March 15.

And it means that some of the cost of war is being paid as the battles are fought and that there will be less to pay after the war is won. THE CROATS, the council charges, "for centuries were the subjects of Austria or Hungary" and have "autocratic, Germanic traditions. They have always fought, as today, on the side of No Column Was Received Today From Raymond Clapper those overlords against the democratic nations." Thus "the effort suddenly to merge such opposing elements in the state of Yugoslavia produced insoluble friction, stultifying corruption, and a perfect field for rapacious foreign instrigue." The council states that it was Croatia which forced Yugoslavia to sign the Axis pact of March, 1941; that the Serbs alone carried out the subsequent coup d'etat repudiating the pact; and that while Croatia joined the Axis, Serbians, led by Gen. Draja Mihailovich, has been fighting valiantly on the side of the Allies ever since. "The name Yugoslavia, as denoting a state, is now a complete myth," the telegram continues.

"Yugoslavia must not and never will be reestablished, since it could be of advantage only to the Croats and to Germany to revive it, thus replanting a seed-bed of trouble in the Balkans." want the convention held in a more neutral city such as Cleveland or Detroit. They accept the geographical advantages of Chicago but maintain that Detroit or Cleveland is Just as centrally located and not dominated by the Tribune. INTERVENTION I ST REPUBLICANS Meanwhile the non-isolationist peace bloc inside the Republican party is growing. They believe that the United States cannot possibly pull in its horns from world affairs after the war and that it would be political suicide for the Republican party to take the lead in so. doing.

Typical of this new, more liberal wing is Montana's G.O.P. National Committeeman Dan Whetstone, a member of the G.O.P. advisory committee which will meet soon to formulate future foreign policy. Whetstone's peace proposals, briefly summarized are: "A world police force, under law, disarming of the Axis nations, punishment of the tyrannical Nazi and Fascist leaders of Germany and Italy and the arrogant war lords of Japan. "We must help the nations that have lost their sovereignty and have been reduced to slavery but should permit them to establish the form of government that to them seems best, encouraging the aspiration of democracy but not insisting that any particular system of political or social life be adhered to; broadly we desire to realize human freedom, making sure that at all times it Is not of such pattern as to breed dictatorship and set up a menacing military machine to threaten the future peace of the world." DOGS STILL RUN LOOSE Editor Beacon Journal: I was under the impression that there was a dog quarantine in Summit county, but it certainly isn't being enforced, especially around the Portage lakes.

work 8 to 10 hours every day in a defense plant and after working hours have tried to start a victory garden. However, so far all I've accomplished is to replace plants which the dogs break down. I know of at least three dogs which seem to think they have the run of my garden and I haven't seen even one attempt on their owners' part to keep them on their own property. In addition, my boy was bitten by a dog two weeks ago, and it took me exactly three days and six calls to the health department and dog warden to get the dog quarantine. Then the quarantine consisted of the dog running loose on a public street with its owner walking along several feet behind, with the leash doubled up In his hand.

Evidently the red cards we see tacked on the telephone poles are only another sample of waste and loud talk, with nothing being done to enforce them. Just what do we have to do td get our laws enforced? If I'd catch one bluegill over the limit I'd have a dozen deputies on my trail, but when it comes to the safety of our children, to say nothing of the destruction of valuable garden crops, you couldn't find an officer of the law within 10 miles. A WOULD BE VICTORY GARDENER. LIMITS ON PRODUCTION Editor Beacon Journal: The Beacon Journal editorial writer questions the rubherwork-ers' war production effort by accusing some workers of setting limitations on production. Now, Isn't it odd that management itself is not complaining about it? The truth of it may be that management is not efficient enough to supply the piecework job-holders Have First Call The house has approved a 57,000,000 appropriation to finance work relief in Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands, despite charges that there had been mismanagement in the works progress administration there.

If such is the case. WPA should be cleaned up on the islands. To deprive Puerto Rico of the direct economic relief stemming from VrPA would not have solved anything. It would have aggravated an already critical situation. We lease-lend billions to the peoples of the world, engage in huge financial arrangements out of the treasury with Latin America, are on record as willing to be the good neighbor to those who will come half-way.

Our Puerto Rican wards came pretty close to starving last year because the war stopped shipping and killed insular trade. Certainly our island possession should have first call on our humanity and national largesse. Churchill's Warning Prime Minister Winston Churchill provided no comfort for the enemy nor sedatives for the Axis' invasion-frayed nerves in his London speech in which he marshaled the might of the British empire and its Allies and promised unremitting application of force upon the enemy until they "yield themselves to our justice and To each of the Axis aggressors Churchill addressed warnings of what is in store for them. For Germany there is an air offensive of greater wrath and destruction that will reach beyond with enouph piecework for a com plete shift, which is, in itself, limiting production. If the writer were to ask each CONTINUING, the council alleges that "because of their unexampled treachery and the murder of more than half a million defenseless Serb residents of Croatia, the Croats now see themselves faced with ruin unless they can hide these crimes and deceive Allied public opinion." It asserts that the Croats dominate the government-in-exile and that Croat propaganda in this and other Allied countries altogether ignores the Serbs.

Therefore "We, the American Serbs, the only large body of people of Serb blood outside of Serbia, regretfully see ourselves forced to announce that we no longer recognize the Yugoslav government-in-exile as representing the Serbs of Serbia, and that we, the Serbian National Defense Council of America, founded in 1914, take upon ourselves the duty and onerous responsibility of representing here the fighting Serbs, our relatives." and every rubberworker for his opinion as to whether or not management is limiting production through its inefficiency, he would get a rather unpleasant surprise, indeed! Even though the country is at war, the rubberworkers have a OCD SURVEY The office of civilian defense has made a house-to-house survey of U. S. cities, gathering information on individual families and their readiness to meet an emergency. Block leaders in some of the poorer sections have done an abbreviated, unique job of reporting. Samples: "Man hit by automobile speaks broken English." 'Thia woman is ill.

The gas has been turned off." "Sophie is married to a sailor and her whereabouts are unknown." "Woman and house neat but bare." "Couple breaking up home; friends helping." "Milk needed for the baby and father unable to supply it." "Woman is willing to struggle if given an opportunity." "Applicant and wife are illegally separated." "These people are extremely cultured. Something should be done about their condition." "Until a year ago, this applicant delivered ice and was a man of affairs." GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty ORDINARILY all this would be no business of Americans. It has all the earmarks of a family quarrel. But it is much more than that. It serves flaming notice on every one of the United Nations that, short of a quasi-miracle, Yugoslavia and the Balkan will explode with disastrous consequences to all concerned unless something done soon about the whole postwar setup.

The council's message expressed hope that "a new and much larger grouping of states will arise in the Balkans, each politically independent," and that within this new Balkan federation "hatred and thoughts of revenge will die away in constructive collaboration." Perhaps that might do the trick in the Balkans. But Yugoslavia is not the only danger spot. Similar political high explosives are scattered all over Europe in France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Italy and elsewhere. Only by Allied statesmanship of the highest caliber, working according to a master plan carefully thought out in advance, can disaster be prevented. CHURCHILL THE FROPHET Students of air power have dug up an old statement of Winston Churchill's, written in 1917.

which reveals an amazing foresight' in the possibilities and limitations of aerial bombing. As' everybody knows, the Nazi blitz against England, intended to terrorize the people, failed in its objective. On the other hand, the more scientific bombing of the continent by the R.A.F. and A.A.F. strategic bombing is now expected to bring Hitler to his knees.

Churchill seemed to foresee both of these developments when he said in a paper on air power, written in 1917, that nothing we know about warfare can lead us to believe that bombing for terror alone can cause such a morale collapse as to force a major nation to sue for peace. the principal industrial centers into the villages and hamlets is no industrial or military target in Germany that will not receive as we deem necessary the utmost application of exterminating force." Russia, too, will soon contribute to the total blitz. Following Anthony Eden's urging that Italy accept unconditional terms of surrender, Churchill told the Italian people that so far they have suffered only "preliminary and discursive bombardments." His invasion forecast that "there will be heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere" before autumn was not intended to soothe the anxiety of Adolf or Benito. Japan was promised that "every man, every ship and every airplane in the king's service that can be moved to the Pacific will be sent and there maintained in action for as many years as are needed to make the Japanese submit or bite the dust." But throughout his entire speech, despite his optimism over the defeat of the U-boat in the Atlantic and successes in the European theater, Churchill's speech carried this word of warning to the United Nations: "We must not assume that this great improvement (victory over submarines) will be maintained or that bad patches do not lie ahead" "All these facts and tendencies, by no means unfavorable in their general character, must stimulate our joint exertion in the most intense degree and on an even vaster scale." "Great military operations are dominated by the risks and turns of the future. I know of no certainty in war and that is particularly true of amphibious war.

Therefore any mood of overconfidence should be severely Black Market Whisky The advent of liquor into the black market is not surprising. Nor is it of as great concern to the average individual as the black market diversion of meat or other foods from legitimate sales channels or the black market in gasoline which defeats the rubber conservation purpose of gasoline rationing. The principal danger of blark market liquor is that it may spawn another era of gangsterism comparable to the lawlessness of prohibition days. The conspiracy to violate OPA price ceilings on liquor is widespread and can become corrupt and violent. The traffic in black market whisky is approximately equal in volume to the legitimate market.

The transactions are entirely legal as far as payment of state and federal taxes are concerned but the purchaser pays a broker's fee, for obtaining the liquor, equal to the OPA price. Smaller drinks across the bar, higher prices per drink and "cut" whisky are inevitable results. Bootlegging and illegally manufactured whisky may be the alternative to biack market buying. The black market affects only bars and night clubs and will not change the state's ration cf one quart a month to individual purchasers. The retailer, however, is hard pressed to stretch his restricted purchases over an increased demand, resulting from rationing.

Enforcement agencies should not overlook the dangers the black market trade in liquor presents and should enlist the cooperation of retailera in starving 'it out of existence. The less liquor sold in the black market, the more will be available for legitimate distortion. Remember The Time In 1918? From Beacon Journal file Of 25 Tears Ago "Mayor Myers served notice on members of the council today that he expects them to march in the Fourth of July parade." INTERCEPTED LETTERS "Company H6th Infantry, commanded by Capt. W. C.

Yontz, has arrived safely in France. A post card has Just arrived from Corp. Harold Jett of the outfit, with the new of his arrival oversea." MAYOR GEORGE J. HARTER Municipal Bldg. Dear George: THE way you talk, anyone would think the Beacon Journal was a candidate for mayor.

AKRON, Jr. From Washington "For the first time since the inauguration of ruthless submarine warfare, British and American shipyard are turning out more tonnage than is sunk, it waa said today at the shipping board." 0 CM-- "Floyd Gibbons, accredited correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, wa included in today's cas "Tell me. Grandma! When yna crossed the country In a covered nr. irrsurama: wnrn ynm rrfMseaj tne wagon, was forstfg (or food Just IN ualty im, wounaeo in acuotv rar rnaa snr as flirnnnrT-.