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Each person in the Unite States is directly involved in at least three different ways." The first of these ways is protection of econ- omic stability. Disastrous inflation can in great part be prevented by draining off excess income into the purchase of War Bonds. Second, one Individual in failing to assume his share of each \ Loan could, if the failure is multiplied by tiiplions of other instances, endanger the prose- but'ion of the war and thereby the military se- curity of the nation and of himself. It is also to the self-interest of every person to buy War Bonds becatuse they represent one of the safest and most desirable investment1s that can be bodght. The third, way is that by investing in Bonds, a, citizen can help to guarantee the future security of his family, his children and his country. There is no person who can afford NOT to buy War Bonds. And there are few who can afford not to buy EXTRA Bonds-and keep on buying -Jennie Fitch OBSTRUCTION: Congress Has Delayed Fight A gainst Inflation CONGRESS has done it again! Wednesday the Senate Banking Committee voted to outlaw the Administration's food subsidy program and confirmed its approval of two billion, instead of 10%, billion tax measure. It would seem that the honorable Congress- men don't know that there's a war on. The probability of uncontrolled inflation result- ing from the decreased supply of consumers' goods and the increased amount of money in the hands of the people apparently does not concern them when they are making lelsl - tionl As early as April 1942 the Administration recbgnized the tendency for an upward spiral bf the cost-of-living and recommended a .seven- point program to "hold the line." Two salient features of this plan were higher progressive taxation and Ihe stabilization of consumer prices. Again in the five-point program presented by the President on Jan. 11, he reiterated the nee- essity of a high tax law and of a ceiling on retail prices and a reasonale "floor" under farm prices. But what has Congress done either to make these programs law or to initiate legislation to accomplish the same purpose? high txes It has recommended a. tax only one-fifth of that asked for by the Administration. Sub- sidies? The Banking Committee outlaws them. The only substitute legislation proposed has GIVE DIM4ES:. GVitm f P>/i& Nedr Aid To Continatie Figi E VERY JANUARY throughout the nation, bill- boards and store windows display recruiting banners which read: "Help Me Win My Victory," ... "Join the March of Dimes,"."...Fight In- fantile Paralysis." These phrases are more than slogans. They are in effect a national proclamation that Amn- erica is determined to continue its fight against infantile paralysis. Just a few months ago our nation experi- enced Its worst epidemic of infantile paralysis in 12 years. In 1943, 12,000 Americans were stricken, most of them children of five to 15 years of age. The epidemic of 1943 caused serious inroads in'to the backlog of funds upon which infantile paralysis patients depend for services they need and must have. Unfortunately infantile paraly- sis will strike again this year. We mu is, he pre- pared now to meet the assault. The local "March of Dimes" drive will begin this Tuesday. It is up to each and every one of us to contribute as much as we can so that the National Foundation will be able to carry out its pledge . . . that no infantile paralysis patient shall go without hospital and medical care. Let's all join the "March of Dimes." -Louise Conins THE MEEK. Germans Are Falling Back on Religion Now "BACK TO CHURCH" movement has been decreed for the Germans by their Gestapo head, Heinrich Himmler. It seems that "Herr Wotan" has let them down, and since the Germans are an efficient people a new god must be elected in his place. In his speech on the meaning of death, IHimmler stated that the coming of Christ was "the birth of a pew era establishing contact between our earthly life and eternity." The Hamburg "Fremdenblatt" explained that "religion has again become modern," and suggests that the Germans may fall back on the ciiirelh to find solace and bolster their morale. Perhaps the Nazis now realize that the meek rather than the strong will inherit the earth, and that the meek must have a religion to fall back on. -Agatha Miller 17? 6L E HEAR it all the time, the unpatriotic at- titude of labor in allowing strikes, and how it may hinder the war effort. We don't intend to di~pute such tatements here, but we would like to present a few facts which *re less often publicized. Seldom is mention made of the fact that inanagement has frequently gone on strike in this wartime too. Only its strikes ar not announced 3 days in advance and taken to an arbitration board like WLB. Instead, lobbies work on Congress and through the press to fight renegtiation of contracts, to defeat the anti-inflation measure of $25,000- a year salary limit, to hold up contraets until a "fair per- centage o profit" has been included, and to maintain discriminatory employment practices 1i the face of an acute labor shortage. The Temporary National Economic Committee said in Nov., 1940: "Speaking bluntly, the Gov- ernment and the public are 'over a barrel' when it comes to dealing with business in time of war or other crisis. Government depends upon cap- italist business for the means of defending its existence. Bsiness apparently is not unwilling to threaten the very foundations of government in fixing the terms on which it will work, It is in such a situation thatt he question arises What price patriotism ?" Next, Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney- General in January, 1942, placed the blame for production lags squarely on the "powerful private groups dominating basic industries, who have feared to expand their production because expansion would endanger their future Sontrol of industry z ..They have concealed shortages by optimistic predictions of supplies and talked of production facilities which do not exist." The third is the report of a meeting of 50 National Association of Manufac turers leaders in September, 1942, where Lamnnot duPont (large stockholder in both duPont industries and Gen- eril Motors) said "The time is ripe for straight talk . . . T say this war doesn't eluinate the profit incentive. War or peace, profits must remain . . . This is a sellers' market. They want what we've got. Good. Make tlhem pay the right price for it," AS FOR THE NO-STRIKE resolution so fre- quently thrown up to labor unions - this statement as passed by the War Labor Board on October 17, 1942, declared not only that "no grievance justified an interruption of war pro- duction," but also that "Tlhere is an equally solemn war obligation upon management not II'd Rather __ Right_ -BySAMUEL GRAFTON NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-The Republican Party is finding out that life is real, life is earnest. With what glee did a majority of the party's Senators help kill the Green-Lucas soldier vot- ing bill, a bare six weeks ago! They never seem to have had a moment of doubt about it. Of course it was proper to kill the bill; wasn't the big issue states' rights? "The big issue," as Mark Sullivan explained, "is states' rights." Colonel McCormick, of Chicago, thought that the big issue was states' rights. Captain Patterson, of the New York Daily News, also added his opin- ion that the big issue was states' rights. THAT PRIVATE LANGUAGE The big issue, you see, was states' rights. There was something almost touching in the Republi- cans' absolute faith that their own special and private language, which they have used so long among themselves in attacking the federal ad- ministration, was also the common language of the country. But now the Republicans are worried. For the soldiers don't seem to know what on earth the party leaders are talking about. They want to vote. And over the last week-end, alarmed stories began to sprout in the press, to the effect that maybe the party was hurting itself by taking the "unpopular" side in the soldiers' vote debate. IT'S NOT BASIC ENGLISH Something of the same sort has happened on the food subsidy issue. Here, too, the Republi- can top leadership acted in the implicit belief that its own special vocabulary was also the plain speech of the people. It denounced food subsidies as "regimentation." In the same kind of political pidgin-English, it attacked subsidies as the work of "college professors"; and in this private language "professor" is a terrible word, a dreadful word. A good Republican blanches when he sees it scrawled on a fence. So the Republicans voted against subsidies in a body. But now, again, there is a long pause. The rest of the population doesn't seem to react to these key words. I believe the Re- publicans in congress are really stunned by the amount of support that has been mobilized on behalf of subsidies. They have been talking their spcial language to each other so long, they have come to believe that everybody speaks a new kind of basic English, made up of $00 words like "bureaucrat," "regimenta- tion" and "states' rights." The Republicans have been misled, by their own special vocabulary of abuse, into awkward poitionls on two key issues, soldiers' votes and subsidies. Their eye is too much on Roosevelt; their speech too richly larded with ref'rncmes to him. He isn't that important, EVEN IF TERE WERE NO ROOSEVELT What T mean is that even if President Roose- velt should dry up and blow away tomorrow, the plain people would still want the soldiers to vote, and they would still want low food prices. If there -had never been a Roosevelt, the people would still want these things. The Republicans have forgotten that; that is why they are a little stunned to discover today that life is real, life is earnest; that life has intruded into their private game of get that man. They saw only Roosevelt, wanting a federal- ly-protected ballot for servicemen; but they didn't see the service man himself, waiting for his vote. They saw only Roosevelt, wanting suhsidies; they didn't see the housewife, and her need for low prices. This is a real world, full of millions of people! Roosevelt really isn't the only man in it' (Copyright, 1944, New York Post Syndicate) to take advantage of the no-strike agreement." This factor is seldom taken into consideration when workers strike. A quite clear instance of non-cooperation with labor and government is the continued refusal of management to help set up labor-manage- ment eommi ttees, whose single purpose is in- creasing production for the war. In January, 1943, three-fourths of the war workers still had no chance to thus aid the war effort, al- though where such committees have been set up great advances in production totals have been the almost immediate result, according to a statement of Donald Nelson of the War Pro- duction Board in October, 1942. Management struck again in the matter of hiring workers of certain races and religions. In the year 1941, 51 per cent of the 282,245 openings in war industries were closed to Negroes. At that time 1,000,000 Negroes were available for such -employment, and 118,000 of them were specifically trained for war work. Although this situation has been somewhat remedied through the President's Fair Em- ployment Practices Committee, management's record is still not wholly cleared. So that, in speaking of management's part in 'the war effort, lines must be drawn between those elements of big business which have gone on strike and slowed down the war effort, and those patriotic companies which haw'e gone "all out." Neither all management nor all labor can be condemned for the actions of some ele- ments, when the groups as a whole are- doing a good job. i WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Seldom has the Democratic National Com- mittee, meeting this week in Wash- ington, summoned its heterogeneous members under such politically grue- some circumstances. If you talk to Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, or Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, or labor leaders, farm leaders and other who once helped elect Roose- velt, the Democratic party appears to have gone to pieces. It no longer exists as a party. Pieces of it can he seen scattered about the land- seale, but they are not coordinat- ing with each other. Farm elements which once regard- ed FDR as their savior have forgot- ten the past. Now, not content with merely voting Republican, they want to work actively against him. Labor, which has received greater benefits from Roosevelt than in 150 years of American history, now is beginning to turn sour. Meanwhile, some farm and bus- iness- critics actually believe that the quarrel between Roosevelt and John L. Lewis is a front, that the two men really are in cahoots. Some even claim, in all serious- ness, that the Administration plans to prolong the war iorder to keep itself in power. There is no basic criticinsm of the conduct of the war. In fact, general agreement is that it is going well. But, there is a fervid, vitriolic under- current of determination to defeat Roosevelt-or any Democrat if the war, at least in Europe, is over by November. Fully realizing that the tide is running out, the Democratic Na- tional Committee meets to elect, as successor to placid Frank Walker, a new chairman who must have the courage to start a new and pierhaps hopeless battle, pls the tability to lick up all the broken pieces and weld them together. Not for eleven years has the Demo- cratic National Committee picked its own officers. Always they were handed down from up above. During the harmony days between FDR and Jim Parley, there never was 'any quarrel about this. But after the third terim renomination at Chicago when Farley stepped out it was a different story And at the last comittee meeting in Chicago. when Ed Flynn resigned in favor of Frank Walker, leading DAILY OFFICIAL ltii LLETIN (Continued from Page 3) by representatives of Libby, Owens, Ford Glass Co. today at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the school of Architecture and Design. "Glass in Construction in 194x," will be dis- cussed by Mr. H. Creston Doner, and "Glass-The Key to Post-War De- signing," by Mr i FW nler he public is iiiv tedu A cm mig e ic otices Biological Chemistry Seillinar will meet today at 4:00 p.m. in Ri. 319 West Medical Building. "The Amino Acids in Nutrition" will be discussed. All interested are invited. Seniors: College of L.S&A. and Schools of Education, Music and 'PublicHealth: Tentative lists of seniors for March graduation have been posted on the bulletin board in Rm. 4, University hall. If your name is misspelled or the degree expected incorrect, please notify the Counter Clerk. . L. Williams Converts Democrats arrived at the meeting with blood in their eye. So much so that Pennsylvania's Senator Joe Guffey warned rebellious Indiana committeeman Frank McHale: "We've collected the proxies and we've got the votes, so don't start any trouble. You'll get liecke." Ii0mOCratie Lobbyists. . Back in the early days of the New Deal, a terrible hue and cry was raised over the fact that certain members of the Democratic National Committee also carried on a remun- erative lobbying practice on the side. The issue received so much publicity that the President denounced it pub- licly and called upon all committee- men engaged in lobbying to resign. As a result, Bob Jackson of New Hampshire, Arthur Mullen of Ne- braska and Bruce Kremer of Mon- tana all resigned from the commit- tee. Today, however, the White I o, e and apparently the public have lost their sense of smell. For months, the same situation has existed, but the White House has said absolutely nothing. Oscar Ewing, who represents the Alumi- num Corporation of America, one of the biggest companies doing business with the Government, holds no less a position than vice- chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee. Its secretary is George Allen, executive of the Home Insurance Company, one of the fire insurance group whos4 gi- ant lobby against the Sherm n Anti-Trust Act has been vigorous- ly criticized on Capitol Hill. Treasurer of the committee is Ed Pauley, who had the decency to sub- mit his resignation when his business put him in the position of lobbying for a high-octane gasoline pl nt. However, unlike the days when FDR publicly demanded the resignation of Arthur Mullen of Nebraska from the committee, Pauley's resignation has not been accepted. (Copyright, 1944, Unite d Features Synd.) WERRY-GOQ By DREW PEARSON GRIN AND BEAR IT igy Lichty pm . - 7 - .-t, *%' 4- '4. 1 k 7- '*" - en ea "They're getting awfully independent--don't even give you that old story about the car having been owned by an old lady who never drove it much!" Chamber Music Festival: The Uni- 'ersity Musica Society will present the Roth. String, Quartet consisting f Feri Rol-h, and Michael Kuttner, violin;,JuliusShaier, viola, and Oli- ver Edel, violoncello, in three con- erts today and Saturday, Jan. 21 nd 22, in the main lecture hall of he Rackhan Building. The p-Po- rams to be heard are as follows: Tonight, ):30: Quartet in E-flat naioi Haydn ; Qartet, in F, Ravel; QuarrefiD inor, Schubert, Saturday, 2:30: Seven Chorale Preludes, Bach; Quartet in F major, Beethoven; 'Three Piece for Quar- et Casehla - Saturday,8:30: Quartet in F ma- or, Schnanrn; Quartet No. 2, Har- >ld Morris; Chorale and Fugue, Brahims; it alian Serenade, Wo1ff. A limited number of tickets are ,till available for the entire series or y Crockett Johnson. ! -rnr~r t "a rv --n --~-i ia for individual concerts, and are on sale at the offices of the University Musical Society in Burton Memorial Tower. Events Today Hillel Foundation: Religious ser- vices will be held at the Foundation tonight at 8:00. Elliot Organick and Harvey Weisberg will conduct ser- vices. Rabbi Jehuda M. Cohen will deliver a sermonette entitled, "Can Hate Be Outlawed?" The Lutberan Student Association will meet in Zion Parish Hall this evening at 7:30 for a skating party. If weather permits, the group will go out to West Park for outdoor skating; if it is too warm, they will skate in the Coliseum. Servicemen as well as students are invited. Coming Events U. of M. Chapter, A.A.U.P.: Open dinner meeting at the Michigan Un- ion Cafeteria Monday evening, Jan. The American Association of Uni- versity Professors will meet on Mon- diy, Jan. 24, at 6:45 p.m. in the Union Taproom. Members will carry nheirtrays into the club room. Pro- lessor Roy W. Sellars will speak on "Re-Thinking Democracy." All mem- bers of the faculty are invited. International Center: Professor Carl B. Guthe, Director of the Uni- versity Museums, will speak at the International Center Sunday at 7:30 p.m. on "Indians of the United States." Honorary chairman for the evening will be Dr. Gabriel Atristain of Mexico, President of the Latin- American Society. Refreshments at 9:00 p.m. The Michigan Outing Clubis going, on a :Hostel Trip for girls on Satur- day, Jan, 22 to Saline Valley Fams. Meet in front of the Women's.Ath- letic Building with bikes and ice skates at 2:30 p.m. For furtlr in- formation, call Barbara Fairman, 24514. The Congregational - Disciples Guild will entertain the Roger Wit- BARNABY 77K - f ra iP tl Y fn i_ I__.x __ jt}(