It is ‘business as usual’ during Ward altercations
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Strike at library mine spreads; 3,000 are out at six district pits
Second working at Portage hit by sympathy walkout; 16,000 tons of coal lost daily
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House to knife amendments curbing TVA
Conferees likely to kill ‘grab’
By Daniel M. Kidney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Simms: Peace setup hinges on U.S., Benes asserts
Czech leader warns against isolationism
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Yanks strive to cut off Japs in New Guinea
Two new landings made near Hollandia
By William B. Dickinson, United Press staff writer
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Ferguson: Regimentation
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Speaking to the League of Women Voters in New York, Mrs. Roosevelt emphasized the need for political alertness. The First Lady said:
The best plan in the world isn’t going to be worth a hill of beans unless voters choose capable persons to put it into effect.
I think we might follow her line of reasoning further, by reminding ourselves that the best plan isn’t worth a hill of beans either unless the people whom it affects are willing to accept and abide by it.
Maybe it’s the fault of the war, but trends point to regimentation plans which the American people are going to resent the instant the war is over. Their restiveness is everywhere apparent. Only the fact that there is a war to win keeps them submissive under present restraints.
The women of the United States will play a big part in directing its political and economic future. If their contribution is to be valuable, they must accept a basic truth which they have so far generally disregarded: We can’t make people behave by passing laws. Beautiful social ideals are unattainable until a majority of the nation’s citizens really desire them.
Because they refused to take human beings as they found them, women have failed in many past endeavors. Yet, we go merrily on proposing legislation which is supposed to enforce tolerance, justice, and the Golden Rule. The measures are unsuccessful, since we have not yet produced enough men and women who are willing to practice those virtues. Democracy is slowly being throttled to death by a surfeit of laws and regulations.
Army announces furlough plan
Key men overseas to get 21 days home
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Former envoy dies
New York –
Dave H. Morris, former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium and Minister to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, died yesterday. Mr. Morris, 72, served as ambassador and minister between 1933 and 1937.
In Washington –
Republican charges meat ration lifting is ‘purely political’
Congressman Andresen sees restrictions made even tighter if Roosevelt wins again
Washington (UP) –
Accusing the administration of playing “politics” with rationing, Rep. August H. Andresen (R-MN) predicted today that almost all rationing will be lifted before the November elections and then be made tighter than ever if the “New Deal elects its fourth-term candidate.”
He charged in a speech prepared for delivery on the House floor that the new OPA order ending rationing of all meat except certain beef cuts were “purely political” and motivated by either of two factors:
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To “remove the odor” of the seizure of Montgomery Ward properties by military force, or
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“Political expediency properly timed to end food rationing a few months before the presidential elections” Nov. 7.
More drastic later
Mr. Andresen said other items he expected to be removed from rationing before the elections were beef steak, sugar, butter, canned fruits, gasoline, fuel oil and auto tires, but added:
I am convinced that should the New Deal elect its fourth term candidate Nov. 7, the Office of Price Administration will shortly thereafter reinstate and make more drastic all rationing policies to further regiment and socialize the economy of our country.
He said that for more than a year, beef and pork producers pleaded with OPA to lift rationing to prevent a glutted market, but the proposals, not being “geared to proper New Deal timing,” fell on “deaf ears.”
Who ordered it?
Mr. Andresen said he was especially interested in knowing who ordered Price Chief Chester Bowles “to virtually discontinue” meat rationing, in view of the fact that a national magazine just five days before circulated an article in which Mr. Bowles, discussing meat rationing, said there would be “some relief in 1945 (with luck) and possibly end when the war is over.”
Meanwhile, Food Administrator Marvin Jones hinted that steaks and beef roasts – the only meats still requiring red points – may be made point-free by fall, but warned that the present abundant supplies of food may be only temporary.
He said there is now an abundance of cattle and that as soon as the movement into processing plants is sufficient, everyone should be able to have a good supply of beef. But again, he warned that the feed shortage, and possibly bad weather, hang over the future food outlook, and pointed out that farmers are faced with labor and machinery shortages.