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Here's Your New Car—Stalled by Strike
BODIES BY FISHER stand idle
until the GM strike is settled.
•* Kl (Ygkd^^^TRUCKS fcr t
| commeroa^ iisers, must wait, too, y
Tour 1946 automobile may be
rtranded on the assembly lines.
A nationwide strike has para
lyzed General Motors, the world’s
largest producer of passenger
jars, trucks and buses, forcing
eonsumels to wait indefinitely for
essential transportation. i
The strike was called by the
United Automobile Workers .
(CIO) to enforce demands for a '
tO per cent wage increase. The
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Union flatly rejected a 10 per
cent increase offered by General
Motors as a living cost adjustment.
The strike involves 175,000
hourly-rated employes. They are
losing nearly $2,000,000 in wages
daily, and these losses affect in
directly every phase of the na
. tion’s economy. Coincidentally,
p striking Union members have
pr barred 50,000 office workers from
f their jobs in GM plants.
REPLACEMENT Depot No. 3
By S-Sgt- L. P. Lewis
High above the clouds in one
of those beautiful, shing, C—47’s,
forty soldiers with their duffel
bags, started dreaming of home.
Most of them dreaming with a
prayer in their hearts, because
for man, it was their first plane
ride.
immediately after landin'”, v .
were loaded into trucks, reaching
this depot shortly afterwards. Ai
riv.ng in the midst of rushing,
home sick soldiers; ail oi ti.e—
wanting .o go home on the nexi
boat which could cany only o,.t
tmi.ii of tnem. 1 felt no difierent.
I wan.ed to go home o.i the ins.
boat just as they d.d.
They recheckeu our ciof. in"
a. u tqikpment, lushing through,
like t,.e days of induction, only
this time, ior a much differe..t
purpose- Everyone seemed to be
in ^ hurry and little time was lest
in replacing kst or salvagable at -
t-CitS oi C.utim.g.
Men in the hills were never so
particular about the wearing of
their uniforms. Mis-matched u .i- j
forms aiound the area we were in
was a common sight- But here
one must be reeducated to the
vt.m mg of u.e unuorm. No long
er fatigue caps with khakies, 1.0
Jo„gj. c.othmg tliat is not cleaned
an., p.tsjcd, and like children go
ing to school, we were lea n. rr
again that shoes must be shined,
the face must be snared, the nu.r
must Lecut, and the uniform must
be immaculate. It seems to make
one trunk of his days in the re
ception Renter where the Ffc’s
used to give us hell daily.
Thousa .ds of tents, housing
many thousands of returning sol
diers, are placed in difeient sec
tions and areas As far as tire eye
can see, are tents, mess halls, and
grouis of soldiers; the soldiers
walking to and fro pitching horse
shoes, and playing catch, never
going to far away from their re
spective areas, unless they have
been completely processed.
All races live together uerc. Eat
together, sleep together, work to
gther, play togeti *.r, and a.so t. y
gripe together A ter.t may house
three co.ored a d three white, or
one colored and five wh.te, or any
number, and there is no prefer I
ence, no segregation, no difference
In treatment whatsoever.
■Not many yards from the tent
in which I lived is a group of
about twenty soldiers (keep this
secret because they are gambling)
American Japanese, America 1
Chinese, American Negroes, and
Americans of all races, are trying
out their luck against one another.
They are huddled together, like
a group of civilians, listening to
a con-man on a street corner.
Just in front of our tent, two ;
men are pitching horse shoes. One :
is white and one is brown. The
crown man just called the white
man a lucky so-and-so. because
be just threw a ringer. Now they
are both laughing and the game
g°e.' on, each one ready to cuss
the other as soon as he makes a
good or lucky toss. Getting alone
riot Decause they have too, but
because they want to. They are .
cot friends by being tolerant but
by understanding.
A Red Cross Club and two mo- 1
vies are in each eara Of course, 1
it is beyond their power to serve j
everyone, but regardless of the j
many difficulties that affront
them, they are forever working |
and planning to keep the soldiers .
laughing or in some sort of act- !
ivity.
Time passes so very slow and
men grow more restless as days i
pass into weeks. In waiting, there i
is little comfort, because thoughts j
are ro longer on war. Most of the
men think they are already civi
lians. When detail ,/ork coaxes
especially when they put a first
sergeant on KP, well, we know
the war must be over, and at
long last things seem somewhat
fairer, and enlisted men keep a
contented head.
Mr. Ship, we await you Most of
us realize we are going to become
sea sick again, a lot of us know
that loved ones will not be wait
ing, so many of us know that we
will find no jobs waiting, many
of us know that freedom will be
in name only for our families and
ourselves but Mr. Ship, please do
come and take us home, and our
knowing that for many of us the
joy will be small, but better a lit
tle joy, than here, where we are
the living dead.
THE ESSENCE OF IT
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^HAITI'S GREAT
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- BORN 176 D ON ST. KiTT5
ISLAND, CHRISTO^HE R05E
FROM A BAREFOOT SLAVE
BOY TO RULER OF HAITI/
IT WAS HE WHO LED HIS
PEOPLE IN AN UPRISING WHICH
i DEFEATED THE FRENCH IN THE
\ NORTH OF THE COLONY/THE FORT
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3 WAS BUILT AT HIS COMMAND-.
f IT IS STANDING TO THIS DAY/
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America Faces Task of
Finishing Job in Germany
New Policy Needed for Constructive Restor
ation of Reich; British and Russians
Ahead of U. S. in Creating Order.
By BAUKHAGE " ^
News Analyst and Commentator.
WXU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W.,
Washington, D. C.
En route to Washington.—This is
being written somewhere over the
Atlantic ocean in the bright sunlight
several thousand feet above a ceil
ing of snowy cloud. Hours ago we
dropped down on Santa Maria in
the Azores into one of the island's
typical gray, windy, winter drizzles..
After a good breakfast and a little
rest we took off for Bermuda.
This is not going to be a trav
elogue. It is a chronicle of some
of the impressions I have garnered
as I watched America enter its sec
>nd phase as a world power, actu
ally at work in attempting to build
a new Europe. Everywhere, from
almost the first day I reached the
■ Paris airport and chatted with some
Americans bound for an internation
al labor conference, to the moment
a little while ago when a hospit
able air corps general "moaned
low” to me, as he called it, to the
accompaniment of the wind outside
—everywhere I have heard’earnest,
anxious voices raised in the same
luery: Is America willing to finisn
;he job?
i neara tms concern iranxiy ex
pressed from the lips of American
pfficials like Minister Murphy and
Vlilitary Governor General Clay in
3erlin. I heard another version of
t from Ambassador Caffrey in the
American Embassy in Paris. I
teard it repeated by professors and
loctors, among the civilians and
echnicians and specialists, among
he military—the men who are do
ng “better than a good job” as By
■on Price said in the special report
o the President in November.
I do not pretend to have been able
o make as exhaustive a study of
:onditions in American occupied
Jermany as Price did but what I
vould like to do is to report some of
ny own impressions formed in dis
mssing the main points he stressed.
Although less than a month inter
vened since Price wrote up his find
ngs and I followed his trail, I get
he impression that the "civiliza
ion" of the American government
n Germany has well begun and will
nove steadily forward toward its
( ;oal of completion in June as Price
uggests it should. Personally, it
eems to me that it might be better
0 set as a limit for ihe period of
complete transmogrification from
iniformed regime to plain clothes,
1 measure of accomplishment. Cir
mmstances might alter specifica
ions.
Vote Change
n Sentiment
Typical of the rapidity of the
harige both in conditions in Ger
nany and in sentiment at home is
he question of whether America
vould be willing to send enough food
o Germany to prevent starvation
id the epidemics which would
urely be expected if German phys
cal resistance was not built up. An
ncreased amount of calories is now
/ ssured and I might say that you
vould be surprised at the surprise
xpressed by a certain high official
n Perlin when Washington “came
I cross ” Sentiment in that respect
, lid change in the States but I am
I fraid it wasn't due to any keen
enlization that it was part of fin- j
| shing an important job It was
I ust a sentimental and charitable
. ;esture, typical of Americans who
J lon’t like to see anybody starve
I ' was not a practical response to
| i cold-blooded necessity.
Nevertheless, we can write that
loint off as on the credit side.
Ve’ve been spared a fight against
isease. But what about the twin
actors stressed by Price and every
one else who knows anything about i
Europe today: the economic unifi
cation and the French deadlock !
ehich prevents it-? , How much j
rnowledge or interest is America dis- f
'laying on that subject? From what !
feneral Clay said to me I feel he |
lelieves a solution of his major
iroblems is impossible unless Ger
nany is united in a single economic
init. There are no present pros
lects. ,
The French are stubborn and
heir motivating emotion in refusing
o permit German industry of the
>aar and Ruhr valleys to try to pav
he nation's own way is fear—fear
is it was from 1870 until 1914. when
t was justified. And from 1939 that
ear has grown Unless the rest of
the world can allay it, it will be
hard to expect anything short of
hysteria behind all French policy in
international relations. And certain
ly American can never change the
French attitude until France is as
sured that we do intend to “finish
the job.”
Another problem mentioned in the
Price report, one which is being
widely discussed at the moment in
Germany, is denazification. We re
ceived a fright on the subject that
was probably unfounded, although
it may have been true that some of
the fairly dangerous Hitlerites were
being given jobs which they should
not have had. Then we went to the
other extreme, instead of swallow
ing camels we now strain at Nazis.
An amusing incident occurred. A
member of the military government
set out in a methodical manner to
get a list erf the best experienced
men for a certain set of jobs. With
the co-operation of a properly
"screened" German he turned them
up all right but when he submitted
the names of the men and their
qualifications all were put in jail—
under the letter of the law the posi
tions they had held under the Nazi
regime made them subject to “au
tomatic arrest.” This law is really
only a directive which sets a cer
tain minor title (about equivalent to
chief of a section in our federal gov
ernment) as the dividing line. Any
one above that rank is considered
per se a Nazi and suspect.
Russians and British have no such
drastic standards and I was told of
what happened to a German who
lived right on the border of the
American and Russian zones. He
came to the American Military gov
ernment and applied for an admin
istrative job and presented his cre
dentials. After reading them the
American to whom he applied said:
“I certainly won’t hire you. If I
did you would be immediately ar
rested. As it is, since you have
applied formally you will be arrest
ed in 24 hours anyhow. My advice
to you is: move across the street
into the Russian zone and apply for
a job there.” He did and was
promptly hired by the Russians.
Confusion Marks
U. S. Operations
There are two conflicting theories
now in operation in the American
zone. One is the theory attributed
to General Clay, namely, that the
Germans must help themselves. The
other theory is that we must help
them help themselves or we'll have
to do all the helping. In other
words, as one somewhat cynical
gentleman expressed it: “If we
don't get the Germans where they
can make enough goods to exchange
for food we’ll end up by paying the
other countries the reparations.”
The Russians know well how to
exploit German resources. If they
see a factory which can produce
goods they want and it is not prac
tical to move it to Russia, they see
to it that German management is
permitted to operate as efficiently
as possible and that German work
men get food or pay enough to make
them efficient. The British are like
wise far more lenient than we. They
have no more intention than the Rus
sians of building up a potential en
emy but they do intend to bijild up
potential customers.
The Americans, while they are no
harder and no softer toward the
Germans as far as personal rela
tions go, have hamstrung rehabilita
tion by putting restrictions upon
German industry and frequently
employ a negative attitude which
allows the (natives to misdirect their
energy.
I talked with an American busi
ness man who represents a large
American firm which manufactures
chocolate and baby food. He dis
covered some of his factories were
intact and easily put back into ac
tion. But he found that the peas
ants who formerly sold him their
milk refused to do so because they
were able to convert it to butter and
butter, on the black market, is gold
in Germany. Germany could use
the chocolate and baby food, espe
cially the latter, but the policy of
letting the Germans alone keeps
those wheels idle, results in a loss
to American business and cuts off a
vital food which has to be supplied
by the Americans.
BARBS . . . by Baukhage
Agriculture and aviation, if they
oin hands, according to Chairman
Vilson of the Aircraft Industries as
ociation, can revolutionize food and
troduce marketing.
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The Council of American Busi
less says for every day lost because
>f occupational disease 885 are lost
rum non-industrial sickness. Stay
.n the job if you want to keep well
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The first 40 million free road maps
to be distributed will be 1942 re
prints so don’t be surprised if you
run into a couple of new towns en
route.
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The best shoes in the world, says
Shoe News, were worn by the armed
forces in World Wax II. But nobody
seems to want to be in those shoes
now.
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Walter Shead
WNU Correspondent
WNU Washington Bureau, j
1616 Eye St.. N. W.
Exchange of Students
To Promote Good Will
THE state department has a plan,
now embodied in a bill before
the congress, which may do more
than all of our diplomats to bring
about good will and understanding
between the peoples of our nation
and other nations of the world.
The idea is simple and merely
provides for the bringing together
face-to-face of as many as possible
of the folks from the home towns of
other nations with those of the home
towns of our own country. The
plan provides for the reciprocal ex
change of students, teachers, scien
tific specialists and leaders in lit
erature, the arts, agriculture, labor
and business, for mutual study and
understanding of our national life,
our manner of living and doing
business, at first hand. There would I
be no propaganda, no half truths
gained from colored movies or
news, just a method by which these
folks can see the United States
and its people as we really are.
They would see our faults and our
virtues, a full, rounded picture
which the state department believes
will pay rich dividends in a better
understanding of America and the
other peoples of the world.
They Learn How We Do It
This program is under the divi
sion of cultural relations of the j
state department which is now a
co-ordinating agency for 26 depart
ments and bureaus. It has a pro
gram arranged for this flow of ex
perts and special information to and
from other nations on such subjects
as American methods of soil con
servation, rural electrification, pub
lic health safeguards, child care and
adult education. In addition, pro
vision is made for the training of
these people in the functioning of
our own state and federal govern
ments . . . how we operate . . . how
our schools and colleges and univer
sities are run. The whole program
is to be worked out co-operatively,
with other governments to share the
responsibility and costs.
Credit for this idea is given to
William Benton, assistant secretary
of state in charge of public affairs
who, by the way, was a partner of
OPA's Chester Bowles in the ad
%’ertising business.
Benton declares there is no sub
stitute for face-to-face contact to
bring about proper understanding,
and declares that the future nation
al security of the nation is directly
concerned in seeking the friendship
of peoples and their understanding
of our own people and our free
society. He maintains that govern
ments have iveathervane charac
teristics and that it is the peoples
of the world, not governments, n
whom we must put our trust for oui
future security.
Expect 20,000 by 1947
The program has already beer
tested on a small scale and some
400 persons from the Latin Amer
ican republics have taken advan
tage of this reciprocal program x<
come here and study America anr
American methods and in turn w<
have sent a similar number to thos
countries. The department expect
some 10,000 foreign students to tak.
advantage of the program this year
and expects at least 20.000 in 1947.
The state department fears that
in most foreign countries a wrong
and harmful impression of the Unit
ed States has been brought about
by gangster movies, by pictures and
stories of lush, luxurious living here,
and the sketchy information given
in foreign newspapers.
Included in the bill, which would
give the statp department the nec
essary legislative authority for its
world-wide program, in addition lo
the exchange of persons, are provi
sions to:
Maintain and service American li
braries in 60 countries; send out a
daily radio report to carry full texts
of important official announcements
to our diplomatic missions; a docu
mentary service to supply diplomat
ic offices with background material,
biographical sketches and informa
tion about life in America; photo ex
hibits, displays and film strips for
non-commercial use in foreign coun
tries; continuation of the publication
of the bi-monthly magazine “Amer
ica" started by OWl during the war:
production in foreign languages of
news reels about the United States:
and operation of a short-wave broad
casting station to cover the world.
We May Be Feared, Hated
The United States has emerged
from the war as the world’s most
powerful nation, and strong nations
too readily become hated and
feared. Hence, this program of the
state department will attempt to
eliminate this fear and to correct
some distorted impressions of us.
The entire program was adopted
under orders of President Truman
to “build in the hearts and minds
of foreign peoples everywhere a full
and fair picture of American life and
of the policies of the government”
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Cleaves Temple Hold Reception
Welcoming New Minister
REV. E. V. WADE EXPRESSES APPRECIATION
WELCOME PROGRAM
and Reception Honoring Rev. E.
V. Wade and Family to Cleaves
Temple CME church, 25,Decatur
Omaha, Nebraska, Jan. 15, 8:15
This will express my apprecia
tion for all the courtesies given
my family and me. Such kindness
vi'l never be erased from the
depths of my heart, nor from the j
io ot iuv mind.
Again the Kingdom of heaven
is like unto a merchant man seek- |
ing goodly pearls What is this'
Pearl of great price ? It is LIFE! i
To Jesus life was the main thing,
ite wa * to "ever talking about it
One still finds man concerned
about everything except living,
but Jesus was right. His life is
the most precious thing in the
universe. Our constant purpose
should be to make a success of
livin '. Christ is the perfect illu
stration of the art of fine living.
He so lived that men felt that God
was there in time and flesh.
Always there was limitations,
time, and poverty; ignorance,
prejudice, suspicion, but He truly
lived. Amidst all of this He lived
a life so pure, so brave, so joyous,
so understanding, so helpful, and
so loving that we can never for
get the haunt|fcg glory and com
pleteness of it; and in our hearts
there is a deep longing that WE
might live like that.
Rev. E. V. Wade
Pastor
"SCOUTS OF THE WORLD
BUILDING TOGETHER"
Boy Scout
Week
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Nearly 2,000,000 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Senior Scouts
will mark the 36th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America during
Boy Scout Week, Feb. 8th to 14th. The theme of the celebration is
“Scouts of the World—Building Together.” Members of the Move
ment are helping brother Scouts throughout the world to reorganize.
Their “World Friendship Fund” of voluntary contributions and
their “Shirts-OfT-Our-Backs” project of donating Scout Uniform
parts and equipment, will assist Scouting overseas and help develop
understanding among the boys of the world. Above is the official
poster marking the event.
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