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EDITORIAL-COMMENT 0^^ IoJoMoOoJ ^fjCTORY^FUND^ANJJ C^QMMUNITY JIHEST AN EDITORIAL: OUR GI’S AT HARVARD It may not be a world-shaking event, but the fact that the Harvard Trade Union Fellowship has now agreed to accept women unionists selected by their . unions to study under the free scholarship arrange ment is, beyond doubt, both a novel and interesting bit of news. That staid, ivy-covered Harvard was persuaded to depart from its no mixed-classes tradition is dis tinctly an achievement for women in general and, in view of the fact that this exception was made for Trade Union Fellowship courses, for the labor move ment in particular. The ILGWU, which initiated this move, has reason to feel especially gratified, we believe. Two other points may be emphasized in connec tion with ILGU student enrollment in the Harvard courses this year. First, three out of our group of fourt students are GI’s. The two women have just been honorably discharged from the WAC, and both of them have seen many years of active service in ourr union. The second point is that one of the ■ girls, a veteran activist in the ILGWU, is a Negro. This attests a breadth of vision for which the admin istration of the Trade Union Fellowship at Harvard may justly be congratulated. When this labor study project was first launched at Harvard lour years ago, it created considerable stir both in trade u:*'m and in educational circles as ai earnest effort 1<> equip young and ambitious trade unionists with an intellectual and scholastic trainin'* that would substantially supplement thei : practical know-how in the complexities of labor employer relations. The war and the outflow of the younger men into the armed forces has gravely interfered with the ILGWU, whose membership is preponderantly female, the exclusion of women from the Harvard campus lias made the choice of , student candidates even more difficult. With the conclusion of the war and the admission of women students to the Fellowship course, it may be expected that the labor studies at Harvard will proceed at a faster and more productive tempo. The score of other universities and colleges which have taken the cue from Harvard in this relatively new j field of adult education may also expect larger en rollments in the coming years. I What this experimental work may mean to the j labor movement, however, cannot possibly be meas ured at the moment, by a common yardstick. Some of the labor unions looking forward to immediate “dividends” from this investment in training for leadership may find the results not altogether grat ifying. But educational programs, by and large, are not short-range propositions. A good deal will depend on the human material the unions will send to the labor courses at these colleges and upon their • eventual loyalty to the movement from which they have sprung. In any event, the labor unions can stand only to gain from these generous endeavors on the pa'rt of leaders in higher education to bring “town” and “gown” closer and to make the study of the applied social sciences available to union men and women on a level of complete impartiality and scientific in tegrity. Dead Wood By GEORGE S.BENSON President of Harding College Searcy. Arkansas E3 - — IN MY early 20’s I had frequent dealings with a small but old and reputable manufacturing corpo ration. One day I lunched with a gray-haired employee, the su perintendent, who was quite un happy. They had lost their big gest contract. The lost customer was a young and thrifty retail firm whose needs had finally grown too large for the old manufacturer to supply Price had been a consideration, of course. My companion ad mitted that several competitors opuld quote a lower price and tfake a profit when his plant could not. It was on account of the modem, high-speed .equip ment which the competitors used Naturally 1 asked why the old house couldn’t install better ma chinery The superintendent sim ply wagged his head and said, "dead wood.” Unused “OUR big bo>> is the Hands chairman,” he explain ed. “His brother is president of the company Each of them has a son who is a vice president. The secretary and the treasurer are both sons-in-law. 1 don’t see any of them twice a year but they all draw salaries as big as mine We can’t buy new equipment. Sometimes we are hard put to pay for current ma terials promptly.” I This was 25 yearu ago when a 'lot of ranting (not altogether un justified} was heard about the “idle rich.’’ But the tables have turned. America's threat now is “idle poor.” They are more nu- ; merous. Idle hands can ride any business to the ground because they retard production. Indiffer ent workers are no less guilty than pampered payrollers. Foes of I WAS much impress Freedom ed by an article in the Houston Press a few weeks ago, written by a returned j service man. He had started to work in an office soon after he was discharged and, six weeks i later, penned his contempt for civilian workers, men and women. They systematically fritter away 50% of their working time, he charged They can do it because of the scarcity of workers. There is an imported, alien doctrine that capitalists will make too much profit for the good of the public unless workers retard production some way. The theory is venomous America’s unique place among world powers, the singularly high standard of living among workers and farmers, our national income and our national safety, depend on efficient pro duction. The wide world soon will he a market of millions of people in j poverty. If America fails to sup ply it, cheap-labor countries will take the business. Dead wood can cheat Uncle Sam out of world trade and leave us to stew again in our own over-supply, with low wages and poor living conditions which we don’t want and which aren’t necessary Wallace's Job Program Packs Political INI Reorganization of Commerce Department First Step Forward in Formulation Of Full Employment Policy. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. The recent operating and or ganization program for the depart ment of commerce created very lit tle excitement in Washington or else where when it was released. I think it made page 15 of the New York Times. The Times gave much more prominence recently to another doc ument from the pen of Henry Agard Wallace—his new book, “Sixty Mil lion Jobs,” of which I shall speak later. Congress may slumber on the re organization report for yet a little, but when Washington wakes to the real significance of this 10-page, mimeographed document it will find between the lines much upon which to ponder. (Maybe that is why it was double-spaced.) To me, this is a three-in-one in strument—just as its author, Henry Wallace, revealed himself as a three-in-one personality when I called on him just before the pub lication of his program, his first ap proach to the governmental lime light since the change in adminis tration. The report on what Mr. Wallace in his capacity as secretary of com merce hopes will mean the revitaliz ing and expanding of his depart ment, envisions the metamorphosis of that somewhat turgid and impo tent institution into a vigorous and human organization which will reach out and touch millions of individuals just as the government’s most virile department, agriculture, does. Sec retary Wallace said frankly at his press conference and also in more detail privately to me, that he thought that the department of com merce should do for the business man, big and little, what the de partment of agriculture does for the farmer, big and little. And it will, if he has his way. Active Department Secretary's Goal Wipe out of your mind, if you will, that one-time problem child of the New Deal, the agricultural adjust ment administration. Now weigh the testimony of observers, includ ing anti-Wallaceites, and I think you will learn that as secretary of agri culture, the author of “Sixty Mil ■ lion Jobs’’ did a good job in re vitalizing his department. How much it will cost to do as much for commerce, we couldn’t get aim to estimate, but he finally told us that it would be less than one sixth of the cost of one day’s war at V-E Day. By a series of calcula tions we arrived at the figure of 40 million dollars. Since the commerce department spent about 121 million dollars last year, Mr. Wallace’s changes would make a total cost for ais revitalized department of 161 million dollars. Those who cry economy will shudder at that figure but they will aear this answer: If business, big and little, wants help similar to that which agriculture demands and gets it will cost something. The depart ment of agriculture cost approxi mately 769 million dollars to run last year, and the farmers wouldn’t want it to do less. There will also be another explan ation of the figures which will at tempt to show that part of the ex pansion of the reorganized depart ment is really contraction, and that brings us to the second integer of the three-in-one composition of Mr. 'Wallace’s plan. The plan is more i than a blueprint for changes in a single governmental institution. It is definitely a part of President Tru man’s reorganization plan which it is fair to assume would bring back under the commerce rooftree the horde of agencies and commissions which have to do with industry and business. And now we come to part three of [ the tri-partible function of the Wal ' lace program. It is by his own i implication, a part of his recipe for full employment included in his book, "Sixty Million Jobs,” and men tion of that brings me to an ex amination of Mr. Wallace himself. I said that like the program of re organization for bis department, Mr. Wallace seemed tripartitent to me. When I called upon him, he came down the great, cavernous room which Herbert Hoover planned for his successor and we sat in chairs about a little table that made a hos pitable oasis in the midst ol the desert vastness of high walls and lofty ceiling. A Presidential Ghost Emerges I had really come to see Henry Wallace, the author of “Sixty Mil lion Jobs," which had just been re ported a best seller in two New York stores. We discoursed at some length on that opus and gradually I found myself also talking to Henry Wallace, secretary of commerce, for, as I suggested earlier, many a strand from “Sixty Million Jobs” may be discovered in the warp and woof of the department reorganiza tion plan. As the conversation moved from book to report and back to book again, never getting far from the theme of full employment, I thought I could make out an ectoplasmic form arising from what had been up until then my two-part, author secretary host. The third being, al though not yet completely mate rialized, little by little became I translucently visible to the naked eye. This party of the third part I thought I recognized as Henry Wal lace, presidential candidate (1948 or at least 1952). Perhaps I would not have believed my eyes if it had not been for a statement which a stout supporter of Mr. Wallace had made to me: “ ‘Sixty Million Jobs’ comes pretty near to being just about the best political platform the Democratic party can run on in the next elec- . tion.” In one place, Author Wallace says: “There are a few, of course, who think that any government servant who uses the phrase ‘full employ ment’ is engaged in some deep dark plot. But they are the exceptions that prove the people’s sanity and soundness as a whole.” Senator McClellan might be con sidered one of the exceptions from his remarks in the debate on the full employment bill. He said that the measure “says a great deal and actually means nothing except to create an erroneous impression in the minds of the people.” He later described it as “soft soap.” ‘Sixty Million Jobs’ Draws Commendations Whatever the lawmakers think, the reviewers certainly are full of praise for Wallace’s book. The New York Times calls it "a thoughtful and thought - provoking discussion of American political economy,” and the Saturday Review of Literature, agreeing with the Times, adds that, “more than any recent work on economics or politics, it can serve as a moral testament and intel lectual guide in the eventful, diffi cult days ahead.” The work appeared first in a busi ness-letter-sheet size with paper cover; it followed in orthodox book form. Later the author hopes, he told me, that it will be printed in a cheap, pocket-size edition. When Mr. Wallace said that I thought I caught his ectoplasmic ■ triplet nodding emphatic approval ! while ghostly lips formed the words, ! “for every voter’s pocket.” Much water will pass beneath the Potomac bridges between now and 1948 or 1952. We have with us at present a conservative congress and the political veterans say that no matter which way the wind may blow abroad, it is blowing to the right on Capitol hill and, they add hopefully, perhaps not too leftward at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. Secretary - author - candidate Wal lace’s full employment program re quires much more legislation than the full employment bill. That is only the first step. The expansion and re-orientation of his and other departments will be required. Then there will be special taxation- there will be at least the blue-printing of public works; there will have to be . a settled policy providing for foreign loans—the Bretton Woods program and other stimulants of world trade and tourist traffic. If a too conservative congress did not grant the minimum legislative implementation, the “Sixty Million Jobs’’ plan could not be carried out. That, however, Mr. Wallace’s sup porters insist, will simply make 60 million people who want jobs, plus their families, vote for the man who believes they can be produced. BARBS . . . by Baukhage Two hundred thousand of Berlin’s three million population are mem bers of trade unions. But what have they got to trade? • • • If anybody asks you: '‘Don't you know there’s a war on?” the an swer is “yes" and whether you like it or not it will be for six months after a formal declaration of peace which isn't even in sight yet. LETTERMEN: A survey by the American Col lege Publicity association shows that only 4 per cent of college letter men were turned down as physical ly unfit for military service, thus debunking the impression of a high rate of rejections among athletes. According to the survey, only 358 students out of a total of 9 635 letter men in 119 colleges and uni versities in 1941 were found unfit for service. The White House had its first real paint job since the war began and looks like a new place. The scaffolds were up before J-sunender day. I wonder if the painters had a tip? • • • We have 2C million less horses and mules to feed than we once had in this country. But the land used to raise food for them is now feeding human beings. I ___ ■ Push Fight on Polio In the mounting drive against polio, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis allotted the unprecedented total of $4,157,814.15 for research, edu cation and the treatment in the year ending last May 31. As yet no preventive or cure for polio has been found, al though it is generally recognized as an infectious, communicable disease caused by a virus. *7-4eJ4ame k^bum H&p&ite/i in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead ^ j WN LI Corresponded WNU Washington Bureau. 1616 Eye St.. N. W. I A World Department Of Agriculture — p'VERY farmer and rancher, every person connected with the food i and agricultural industry in these United States from producer to processor, and citizens generally, should watch with deep interest the meeting of the food and agriculture organization of the United Nations in Quebec, starting October 16. This is the first of the permanent new United Nations agencies to be launched after the end of hostilities, which marks the importance at tached to its deliberations by our government and the governments of all the 44 United Nations. As this is written, the list of American dele gates to the conference has not been announced. It is liHely, however, that the delegates from the United States will be headed by Howard Talley of the department of agricul ture, who has acted as the United States representative on the Interim commission of the organization. The food and agricultural or ganization ratified by the 44 na tions at San Francisco is part and parcel, and a most impor- j tant function of the United Nations organization. It is not I a relief agency. Its aim is to im prove world agriculture and to 1 increase food production; to provide a higher standard of diet and raise the levels of nutri tion and the standards of living throughout the world ... all of which is intended to contribute to an expanding world economy. The organization will likely set up machinery which will function for world agriculture and production much like our own department of agriculture functions in the United States ... in an advisory capacity, passing along scientific development . . . the dissemination of agricul tural knowledge . . . technical in formation and the results of sci entific agricultural research ... to aid in setting up agencies in all the 44 countries for combating soil ero sion, to improve soil and crops, to develop better livestock . . to take into consideration reforestation . . . rural electrification . . . farm to market roads . . . exploration of new sources of food ... to provide better tools for primitive farmers to increase production . . . attention to surplus crops and a better dis tribution of these crops and many other subjects necessarily attendant to the huge and complicated task of providing more and better food for a world and its population ravished by years of total war. Not Enough Land There are now about 2.200,000,000 human beings populating this old world on which we live, and the ex perts predict that at present rate of^ increase there will be a billion more by the end of the century. These experts further point out that there are at present only about 4, 000,000,000 acres of arable land in use, which is less than 2% acres per capita. Even in our own coun try there is only a fraction more than seven acres per capita in farm lands, including woodlands and pas ture lands. If we would take into account only the crop lands har vested, approximately 321,250,000 acres, our per capita acreage would just about equal the world aver age. So without an expanding acreage of arable lands, without basic re sources in India, in China, in Rus sia and many other countries, such as we have in this country, the ex perts say that the world will con tinue to produce insufficient food to feed its billions of humans. What the representatives of these 44 nations . . . what our own delegation does at Quebec to commit this country to a pro gram of world agricultural re habilitation will determine in large measure whether we as a people were honest when we sub scribed to the Atlantic charter and the charter of the United | Nations at San Francisco. For with this charter in exist ence and binding upon us . . . with our nation emerging from the war as the most fortunate, the most pow erful . . . with a new conception and in a new position as the lead er of the world . . . the time has passed when we can watch the peo ple of India, China or any other nation starving, and salve our con science with a check to some relief society. Two-thirds of the people of the world are farmers. These hundreds of millions are striving to raise food on worn out land. And from the selfish few comes the comment: “Why should we help the rest of the world raise food when there continues to be surplus in our own crops?” And the answei of course, is that with proper dis tribution; that with the rest of the world eating and living on a par with our own diet; there would be no surplus, with a continuing ex panding world economy calling al ways for increasing production. Church Warning Meanwhile the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America called upon the government “to state now its intention to place the new discovery under a world-wide authority as soon as all states will submit to effective controls,” and to “press for such controls.” The statement also warned that unless international control can be achieved in the short period while the United States alone possesses atomic bombs, it may be difficult or impossible to achieve. The Omaha Guide + A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ^L. I Published Every Saturday at 2 )20 Grant Street OMAHA, NEBRASKA—PHONE HA. 0800 Entered as Second Class Matter March 15. 1927 at the Post Office at Omaha, Nebraska, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. C- C~ Gallow ty,.... Publisher and Acting Editor All News Copy of Churches and all organiz ations must be in our office not later than 1:00 p- m. Monday for current issue. All Advertising Copy on Paid Articles, not later than Wednesday noon, proceeding date of issue, to insure public ation. 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S. program to de stroy Nippon’s war ■ making potential and promote wide ' spread opportunity in a nation formerly dominated by four great business Ihouses. As MacArthur bent to the task, the Hirohito prospects rose that Not a Pauper the personal fortune of Emperor Hiro hito would be divulged, revealing him as one of the world’s wealthiest persons. Though the Mikado's as sets are known to only a select few, the imperial family maintains a four-story concrete building com plete with stall on the palace grounds to keep its accounts. Indicative of the vastness of Hiro hito’s holdings, the emperor pos sesses stock in every Japanese enterprise, since a bloc of shares are allotted to the emperor by a corporation upon organizing. Of the 300,000 shares of the Bank of Ja pan, Hirohito reputedly owns 140,000. Besides the Mikado, the great business houses of Mitsubishi, Sumi tomo, Yasuda and Mitsui possess the greatest holdings in Japanese enter prise, with their share estimated at over half the total. Under the U. S. program, steps will be favored for the dissolution of these politically influential insti tutions with their grip over banking, industry and commerce. Policies will be pushed for a wider distribu tion of income and ownership of productive and sales facilities, and encouragement given for the devel opment of democratic labor and agricultural organizations. In stripping Japan of its war making potential, the U. S. will pro hibit the operation of industries adaptable to war production. As in the case of Germany, manufacture of aircraft is to be prohibited and shipping is to be limited to immedi ate trade needs. U. S. authorities also will supervise Japanese indus trial research. As MacArthur’s staff undertook an accounting of Japanese assets as the first step in the implementation of economic reform, the general or dered Premier Higashi-Kuni’s gov ernment to institute immediate wage and price controls and ration com modities to head off extreme priva tion among the country’s 80,000, 000 people. With Japanese experts figuring it would take Nippon from two to five years to get back on its feet, they proposed that the U. S. sell the coun try 250 million pounds of cotton with in the next year in addition to 60 mil lion pounds of wool; 3 million tons of rice; 2 million tons of salt; 500 thou sand tons of sugar; 3 million barrels of oil, and 3 million tons of steel. FOOD: To Curb Output Declaring commodity production goals should reflect consumer de mand rather than maximum abili ty for output. Secretary of Agricul ture Clinton Anderson indicated that the government’s 1946 farm pro gram may call for smaller harvests in view of decreased military and civilian needs. In making his views known in a conference with farm bureau repre sentatives in Washington, D. C., An derson also raised the possibility of imposing marketing quotas to re strict the heavy output of certain crops. At the same time, Secretary An derson joined President Truman in assuring the farm bureau men that the government would back its com mitment to support commodity prices at not less than 90 per cent of parity for two years after the official end of the war. VETS: Job Rights Clarifying the rehiring provision of the selective service act, draft officials declared that a returning veteran has an absolute right to his former position, or one of like status, even if it means the dis charge of a worker with higher seniority. At the same time, the officials stated that no veteran would be re In further lowering the point score for overseas duty, the army revealed that enlisted men wrhose credits or age, as of September 2, 1945, equal or exceed 36, or who are "7 j ears old or 34 years old with more than one year of serv ice, will be exempt. Also exempt are male officers with 48 points; army doctors and dentists with 45 points or 40 years of age; vet erinary and medical administra tive officers with 30 points or 35 years of age; dietitians and phys ical therapy aides with 18 points or 30 years of age, and nurses with 12 points or 30 years of age. quired to take union membership in regaining his old position, since the law makes no provision for such conditions as a basis for his re-em ployment. In handing down its ruling on vet job rights, draft officials directly clashed with the unions, which have stood for the rehiring of soldiers on a seniority basis, but opposed their re-employment in preference to oth ers with longer working records at affected plants. LABOR: Fuel Threat Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach’s new streamlined labor department received its first real test as federal conciliators moved to bring about settlement of the CIO oil workers’ demands for a 30 per cent wage in crease before a growing strike threat imperiled the nation’s fuel supply. Early negotiations were snagged by the union’s demand that discus sions be held on an industry-wide basis and the companies’ equal in sistence that agreements be effect ed by individual refineries. In ask ing a 30 per cent wage increase, the oil workers reflected the general CIO aim of maintaining wartime “take-home” pay by bringing 40 hour-per-week wages up to the total of the former 52-hour week. In other labor trouble, 60,000 northwest AFL lumber workers struck to press demands for a $1.10 hourly minimum compared with the present scale ranging upward from 70 cents, while 15,000 AFL elevator operators and building service em ployees paralyzed service in over 2,000 New York skyscrapers by walking out in protest of a War La bor board grant of $28.05 for a 44 hour week instead of the $30.15 asked for 40 hours. GERMANY! Occupation Progresses Following close on General Mac Arthur’s announcement that no more than 200,000 troops would be needed within the next year to occupy Japan, it was revealed that U. S. authorities hoped to trim the post war force in Germany to less than 400,000 by next spring and reduce it to skeletonal dimensions within a few years. Disclosure of occupation plans for the shattered Reich coincided with reports that the co-operative attitude of the defeated Germans will permit the early election of local govern mental officials with balloting on a county and state level following. Meanwhile, the army revealed that i it was training hand-picked German prisoners of war to aid in the ad ministration and policing of occupied territory. Selected after careful screening, the PWs are taught Amer ican and German history, the Eng lish language and military govern ment, and also are being accli mated to democratic surroundings. BIG FIVE: No Results Failing of settlement of one im portant problem, the Big Five coun cil of foreign ministers meeting in London to map postwar Europe moved for adjournment, with possi bilities that the creation of peace treaties with former axis satellites may be directly negotiated between the U. S., Britain and Russia. The magnitude of the task of rec onciling the conflicting interests of the Allied powers in the European theater was reflected in the difficulty of disposing of pre-war Italian col onies and strategic islands of the Mediterranean: reshaping the Ital ian-Yugoslav border; drawing up peace treaties for the Russian dom inated Balkans, and internationali zation of the vital waterways. While the foreign ministers of the Big Five were scheduled to reas semble in November to receive the recommendations of their deputies on settlement of the thorny issues, Russian opposition to French and Chinese participation in the deliber ations raised the possibility that di rect negotiations between Washing ton, D. C., London and Moscow may be established as an alternative. U. S. Gets New Auto The most colorful mass produc tions of World War II. Henry Kaiser announced arrangements for his entrance into the low-priced automobile field in league with the Graham - Paige interests at the sprawling Willow Run plant original ly set up for manufacture of B-24s. To effect the greatest efficiency and economy, Graham - Paige will also produce its medium-priced car and line of tractors, farm imple ments and rototiller along with the new vehicle at Willow Run. Joseph Joseph VV. Frazer (left) and Henry Kaiser. W Frazer, president of Graham Paigo. wil! act in the same offi cial capacity in the new company to be called the Kaiser-Frazer cor poration, and Graham - Paige will share in a 250,000 purchase of stock valued at $5,000,000 in the new firm. Indicative of the cost of establish ing a modern mass-production auto mobile factory, Kaiser-Frazer will invest $15,000,000 to be received from total private and public stock sales as follows: $2,000,000 for ma chinery and equipment; $1,750,000 for tools, dies, jigs and fixtures; $1, 500,000 prepaid expenses; $1,750,000 deferred charges, and $8,028,800 for general corporate purposes. ATOMIC BOMB: Future Use While congress worked up steam over the future of the atomic bomb, Pres. Harry S. Truman disclosed that the lawmakers would be given full responsibility for the control of the devastating explosive. Mr. Truman’s decision to submit the issue to congress came as Rep resentative Arends (Rep., 111.) told the house that he had learned that an even more destructive missile than the one which razed Hiroshima had been developed. Calling upon the government to establish a sci entific board to devise a defensive weapon against the atomic bomb, Arends said one such explosive could kill millions of city-dwellers. Meanwhile, Senator Downey (Dem., Calif.) asked that the U. S. turn over the atomic bomb to the United Nations organization so that general possession would lessen the chances of its military development while at the same time encouraging further scientific research for an adaptation to peaceful usage.
