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TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1943 PAGE TEN On the Record By J. R. Williams skull valley In Old Tucson AND GEORGE HAND'S DIARY 79, 36, 25 AND 10 YEARS AGO fy, SPINDLE. BUSHIMGS "THAT'S MODERN! THAT'S GOIN' TO SHOT--NJO OIL EFFICIENCY RUINJ MANY A LOCK MUT THREADS SHE DOESN'T HOME-NO WOMAN -4 STRIPPED, AMD A EVEN KNOW COULD EVER GET I UH -rrS TH' MACHINE'S I HER HUSBAND TO iSrr-r I 17 BROKE AKJD I FIX ANYTHING IN AJWw' 1 TK HOUSE. UNDER I iFi? REPAIR A YEAR OH, TH 1 I OANO VI POOR SOLDIERS George O.Hand (1830-1887), pioneer Arizona soldier, bntcher, a loonkeeper, politician and in the last years, janitor at the Pima Connty courthouse, wrote in his diary 79 years ago, reprinted by cnnrtesy of the Arizona Pioneers Historical Socletyi July 1, 1864: No entry.

THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO The citv ticket- office of the STATE CONSOLIDATED PUBLISHING COMPANY Established 1877 PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING OF THE YEAR V. R. MATHEWS AND CLARE R. ELLINWOOD TUCSON, ARIZONA Subscription Rates: City carrier dellTerjr, 25c per week; outside, carrier delivery, 25c per week. By Mall raj able in advance: One month, One year $12.00.

Delivered Anywhere, Phone 2400 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION CHARTER MEMBER OP THE PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the nse for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also to the local news published therein. All rights of republication of special dispatches also reserved. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1943 By DOROTHY THOMPSON' An Unstatesmanlike Congress Congress has not, I think, acted In a statesmanlike manner in passing its anti-strike bill over the Prjj. dent's veto, and disregarding the President's criy. cisms.

The country would have welcomed an anti-strike 'oill incorporating into law, for the duration of the war, the existing administrative strictures on trad, union action. But this bill Is more than an anti-strik bill. It restricts the political activities of labor which Is certainly beside the point and in tVt sense it is anti-labor and anti-Roosevelt, not any. strike. The President's criticisms of Section 8 are reason-able.

And Inasmuch as the whole bill is conceived as a war measure, the opinion of the secretaries of war and navy should certainly have been considered. The armed forces are the last people in the world to feel soft toward strikes In war-production plants. But they agree with the President that the provision for a 30-days' notice of a pendirjr strike, with a secret ballot, is an odd provision in a bill which is designed to prohibit strikes altogether. The theory behind this provision is, obvious Southern Pacific has been the scene of considerable activity dur- ine the oast ten davs owing to the exodus of Tuc- The New Withholding Tax T. M.

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sonans to the coast and eastern cities. Yuma tomatoes are in evidence at the stores, while lots of the Southern California product are arriving. The season for Sonora tomatoes is at an end. Phoenix watermelons are coming In in good quantities and are selling at three cents per pound. Tucson melons are due next week.

Mrs. W. A. Julian was in Washington Sunday. She will visit the Jamestowrwexposition, after which she will return to Washington and New York to meet friends and relatives in those cities.

Julius Flynn's force of masons are laying the, stone foundation for the 35 room lodging house to be erected at the northwest corner of Scott and Fourteenth streets for M. M. Montijo, Sr. H. Mc-Millen is the general contractor.

Justice O. T. Richey, S. L. Kingan and L.

S. Arnold and Dr. Clarence Gunter, accompanied by Frank Cole and his father, will leave within a day or two for the White Mountains, they expect to spend a month. TWEXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Mrs. Anne E.

Rogers, 838 North Euclid avenue, has received notice from the War Department that her son, Edgar A. Rogers, has been given his commission and is now a lfeutenant in the aviation corps. Lieutenant Rogers has received all of his flying training in France under a FYench instructor. Young Rogers has made" the best record yet made in the French school by an American flier by making his first solo flight after only 49 double control flights, whereas the average number of double controls before a student is allowed to solo is one hundred ten. Yesterday there were ten defendants tried and convicted in the police court on charges of drunkenness and fighting.

In the justice court three defendants were arraigned on charges of transporting liquor. When the bond of one of them, the best-dressed bootlegger to appear in the local courts, was fixed at $700 he went out and raised the money easily by putting up $1,600 worth of diamonds. COPB. 194-i BY NEA SERVICE, INC Washington Waltz By Helen Lombard Nine daily newspapers and CO weeklies are being published in this country in the Polish language. From the OWI go handouts to these papers and periodicals, written according to educated Poles, in execrable Polish.

Tadeus lludes, the director of the Polish section of the OWI, was born in Poland but according to facts brought out on the floor of the house, he left Poland as a young man and spent that discontent in the ranks of labor Is fomented by the leadership, and does not arise from the rar.lc and file. But actually, in the most important case, and the one which precipitated the whole question the coal strike this is obviously not true. The rank and file want better conditions of work and pav, and Lewis has truly represented them trulv though not wisely. Relieves Leaders The leadership has given anti-strike pledges, and is interested in preserving its leadership and discipline. This bill relieves them of both the opportunity and the necessity.

It makes possible strike that have majority support, taken by secret ballot, and destroys the authority of the leadership. But the Congress, in disregarding the President! advice, and maintaining an unamended and in-adequately deliberated bill, was obviously asserting its own prestige over the President. But the Congress, though it has the legislative responsibility, does not have the executive responsibility to see that the country is administered and the war won. If, as a result of this law, there is an Increasing conflict, between the administration, which must carry it out, and the working people of America, Congress will legally have no responsibility. Partisan members may be pleased by this state of affairs, but it will not contribute to winning the war.

The blindness of the Congress to the larger issuei of the war is also revealed in this bill. In the social alignments, in all nations, engaged in this war active belligerents or as victims, the reactionary forces are our enemies, and the liberal and pro-labor forces are our friends. Fascism, in the realm of ideas, ideas which are an inextricable part of the war itself, can only be defeated by progressive and liberal ideas, and by a program which promises freedom and status to working men and women. If the workers of the world once get the idea that this is merely a power struggle, in the course of which their rights may be abrogated no matter who wins, there will not be an atmosphere in our factories favorable to the most consummate effort Lacked Thought The Congress does not do much careful thinking. It might have considered that the dissolution of the Comintern gives liberal progressive democracy a chance to overcome the class struggle and, by integrating the workers fully and equally into society, to reconcile the chaotic differences between classes.

If, on the other hand, the rifts are deepened, while the rank and file of the workers are cut loose from their leadership and driven into general opposition to the administration, the the economic system, and society as a whole our industrial age will be threatened as it has never been before. Our industrial effort does not depend merelv on anti-strike legislation, but upon the morale of the workers. Mere indifference can do more damage than a strike. Furthermore, the bill is coupled Avith a rejection of the food subsidy program. This can only mean that there will be a rise in the cost of living, felt most keenly by the industrial workers.

This, to say the least, is an unfortunate coincidence. Can we set up an American gestapo to arrest every grumbler? What constitutes "agitation?" Ill-considered measures always have unforeseen results. I greatly fear and fervently pray that I may be proved wrong that the result of this bill will be to deflect the discontent of workers against Watching with keen interest the troubled course of the OWI is the veteran propaganda chief of the Wilson administration, George Creel. No one appreciates more than Creel the difficulties which await any chief of war information. The information dispensers of the last war and of this war are alike in one respect: both George Creel and Elmer Davis are idealists but Creel was trained in the school of practical politics and he never lost sight of the fact that his job was to serve the American public.

But Elmer Davis, on the other hand, appears to be so lost in his missionary dreams that he has become blinded to the fact that his organization is being used for everything except to paint an aorurate picture of the war. So strongly does Davis feel about the type of information to which the American public is entitled, that he ehideel one of his friends for reading a Washington newspaper which docs not share the ideology of certain government groups. Under' these circumstances, it is not surprising that individuals have infiltrated into the OWI, who are spreading their own ideologies under the guise of disseminating American propaganda abroad. This situation has created a minor scandal among the representatives of the governments-in-exile but it probably would have continued indefinitely if the Polish-Americans had not brought it into dramatic focus in Congress. the subsequent jo years of his life in Paris, where he was closely identified with the communist groups.

The OWI handouts for the Polish-language publications stress the deeds of daring of Soviet soldiers and aviators but do not mention the accomplishments of Polish soldiers and aviators in England and the middle east. The fact, that the Polish publications don't use these handouts evidently has not discouraged the OWI. To tides' internationalism is also attributed the fact that broadcasts beamed for Poland no longer end with the rendition of the Polish national anthem. It has been customary to end shortwave broadcast programs with the national anthem of the United Nations' country at which the broadcast is beamed. Substituting for the Polish anthem which begins with the defiant line "Poland i not yet lost," is a Polish song which is the theme song" of communist Poles who have settled in Moscow.

(Released bv The Bell Svndicate, Inc.) We folks on the home front, and that means government bureaucrats, state and municipal employes, aircraft workers and others everywhere throughout the nation, are going to begin to get a taste of what war means. We are going to begin to feel its pinch. Most of us are going to let out a spontaneous squeal sometime between now and our first pay day in the month. From all pay checks, effective July 1, certain deductions must be made by every employer who must turn the deductions over to the government. For a single person, from all income earned at a rate in excess of $624 a year a twenty per cent deduction will be made.

For a married person all income in excess of a rate of $1248 a year will have a twenty per cent deduction. For married persons with children an exemption of $312 is added for each dependent and then the twenty per cent deduction is made from the excess. Every worker is supposed by now to have filed with his employer a statement of his family status. Here is a typical example. Weekly Withholding Wage Tax Amt.

Single Person 50.00 8.60 Married Person 50.00 6.20 Married Person, Two Dependents 50.00 3.80 This tax, which is a twenty per cent tax above the mentioned exemptions, will take a real chunk out of anyone's paycheck. It means that all of us will have less money to spend. For the great mass of people it means curtailment on many different things. Yet there are two positive benefits that should offer considerable satisfaction or consolation. The first benefit from this tax is that your tax bill becomes current.

You will pay it every month. You will not have a heavy debt to the government hanging over your head. This means that a person who has to work for his living will not leave such a debt for his family to pay off after death or misfortune. The second benefit is the effect this tax will have on prices. It will not lower prices, nor will it stop the general rise in prices.

It will however definitely slow down the rise in prices by absorbing some of the excess purchasing power created by our war economy. The fact that people will have less money to spend will cut down the demand for goods and thus slow down the rise in prices. Consequently, this saving, that will be made by restricting the rise in prices, will do much to offset the tax deduction. Just to the contrary, if this tax had not been imposed and the money It takes were left available for buying consumers goods, prices would rise much more rapidly. In such a case the speculators rather than the government would get the money.

There are other quirks to this form of income taxation. Those with large salaries must file supplementary returns September 15 and pay the difference between what has been deducted and the amount they are scheduled to pay. Persons with large salaries, for instance, pay up to ninety per cent instead of twenty per cent. We will all begin now to know what it means to pay for a big Avar. Probably before another year is gone the rates will have to be increased.

TEX YEARS AGO The engagement of lovely Miss Audrey Knapp to Gail R. Stockton, of San Bernardino was announced yesterday in Pasadena at a luncheon party given in honor of the Tucson girl. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleon T.

Knapp of Tucson and her marriage will be an event of the late fall. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Haj-nes left yesterday for Greer, Arizona, where they will remain over the Fourth of July.

In celebration of the thirtieth wedding anniversary of Dean and Mrs. Samuel M. Fegtley, their daughter and Mr. and Mrs. I.

Frank Nicholas entertained with a garden dinner party The National Whirligig News Behind lhe Ncw at their suburban home on the Valley road on Friday evening. Dean Fegtley is dean of the law college at the University of Arizona. Prof, and, Mrs. L. E.

Darrow, the former being also of the University faculty, who were guests at the anniversary party, were invited to celebrate jointly with the Fegtleys their own thirtieth wedding anniversary, which occurred Thursday. development, inserted a specific provision in the law providing that it should never become involved in politics. Ky RAY Tl'CKER IXYOLYED: The head of another original and illustrious New Dealer may roll as a "result of the effort by certain administration aides to win the agrarian vote for 1914. It belongs to Harry Slattery, rural electrification administrator and a distinguished figure here since the days when Theodore Roosevelt referred to him affectionately as "the smiling rebel from South Carolina." He -was a colleague of the late Justice Brandeis, the late Tom Walsh and ex-Senator George W. Norris in many investigations and legislative enterprises.

The Washington official had the temerity to step Raymond Clapper LONDON, July 1. (By Wireless) Whenever I have been saying goodby to American army friends here, they have managed to work in a final emphasis hard on a group of promoters forming what they on the point that the fastest way to end the Avar is to keep the air above the Atlantic thick with bom their emDlovers. to a discontent against the state. bers assigned to this air campaign against German'. The bombing news looks good, but the hard fact is that this Is a critical stage in the campaign.

The Germans are putting up a terrific resistance. It Is just barely possible that this is a kind of Stalingrad of the air. Whether we can break through this year possibly depends on how fast we pour aircraft into the American Eighth Air Force here. DISMISSED: The Tate-Ellis group did not launch its attack on Administrator Slattery until he released a letter warning REA clients against investing money in the stock of two insurance companies which the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association has incorporated in Maryland with the Georgian as president. Slattery contended that such a transaction was illegal in that many of the original funds for the cooperatives came from the U.

S. Treasury. From that moment the planners set out to get rid of the administrator. In a "confidential memorandum" of June 7th, sent to its members and distributed on capitol hill, they charged that "Harry Slattery is voluntarily or involuntarily wrecking REA. The time has come for action." Although they allege that he has loaded his staff with "pensioners" (most of whom were forced on him by Washington officials), the principal indictment is directed against his criticism of their policy underwriting.

The REA head's foes exert powerful influence in high circles because of their wide agricultural tieups. Apparently they have the ear of Secretary Wickard, National Chairman Frank C. Walker and ex-Representative Jim Barnes of Illinois, a White House secretary charged with keeping the rural belt in line. Ex-Senator Norris is so perturbed regarding the attempt to oust the South Carolinian that it is understood he has appealed directly to President Roosevelt. Under, the law Slattery cannot be dismissed because he has served only four years of a 10-year statutory term, but he would probably feel compelled to step out if his resignation were That the Allied air blows are shaking Germany Is call the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

It purports to advance the interests of farmers banded together to obtain funds for the government for the construction of higher power lines and the purchase of equipment. The president is Steve C. Tate, Georgia, a man of varied connections. The Washington manager is ex-Representative Clyde T. Ellis of Arkansas, with a reputed salary of eight thousand dollars a year.

Robert B. Craig, former deputy director of REA, helped to organize the outfit but he has recently joined a copper company. Members are charged a fee of 10 cents a jear, which produces an annual revenue of approximately $100,000. Slattery's friends insist that there is no need for what they term "just another lobby," inasmuch as the federal authorities provide a large portion of the money for expansion of the REA project and supervise it generally. They compare the Cooperative Association's program with the methods by which certain partisans.utilized the AAA and the Farm Extension service for their personal advancement.

They also recall that Norris, the father of REA beyond question. The Germans are betting we can't keep it up. The Eighth Air Force lost 37 bombers in two recent missions. You can still make it look on the safe side in percentages, yet this means that 37 bombers must comehere in one week to put us back where we were. And that is not sufficient.

We must expand our force rapidly in order to increase the weight of our blows as contemplated. Maj. Gen. It Always Happens And that, "in time of war, can be much moie dangerous. It i obvious that Congress wanted a showdown with the President.

But such showdowns, under our svstem, onlv result in immobilization of government. In a European parliamentary system, such funoa-mental showdowns result in the creation of a nevr government, with new authorities, and a new accord with the legislative body. But serious rifts between executive and Congress, in our system, cannot be breached or resolved. They create a vacuum responsibility that in a time of great emergency can be disastrous for the nation. Answers to Questions By FREDERIC 3.

HASK1XS A reader can get the answer to any question of fact by writing The Arizona Daily Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Wash-ington, D. C. Please enclose three (3) cents for return postage. Q.

What are the Ingredients of eau de cologne? A. A so far as is known, the original recipe na never been published. This perfume was inyentea by Jean Marie Farina, an Italian who lived In cologne, Germany, about the year 1700. It gamed i high reputation and Farina associated himself. tutn his nephew, to whose grandson the secret was ultimately imparted.

Q. Under what circumstances was rennsylvani Avenue in Washington, D. named? I. 7.. A.

Provision was made in L'Enfant's plan for great commercial street on the diagonal of the i tr -angle, the avenue joining the Capitol with the "n'v House, to be named Pennsylvania Avenue for State in which the Federal Government had up 10 then spent the greater part of its life. Q. What is the motto of Toland? F. 31. K.

A. The Polish Embassy says that Poland ow not have a motto equivalent to that of the Lnlie States. The one used on military standards reac. Honor i meaning Honor and Countrj- Winning the War By Albert Leman An elder statesman, in Washington, with wide experience as a cabinet officer, is quoted as follows on the current labor, situation: "I learned this in Washington: If you grant farmers, workers, or any other bloc 99 per cent of, their demands and do not yield that last one per cent, they will hound and hate you until you give in on that final request. But if you stop at the just point, you will hold their respect and at the same time accomplish something for the good of the entire country." This applies to many places other than Washington In fact, it applies to the human race.

Only when pressure groups of any kind are stopped "at the just point" will they have any respect for authority. Because of their very nature pressure groups will trample a weakling. share of credit is due the gatherers of raw materials, the machine operators and the transportation crews who toil long hours and live in congested victory plant areas. If this loyal class suffers from the iniquities of purblind officials, they now know how honest businessmen felt in the early branding days of the New Deal when all were penalized for offenses committed by a few robber barons in Wall Street and heartless employers. Fair-minded people are afraid that if the present internal discord continues, the home front will be disrupted and the soldiers at death grips with the enemy betrayed.

But should government, business and labor cool off, let bygones be bygones and cooperate afresh, we shall win this war and be able to find jobs for the millions after peace is again established. THREATS: Taught a salutary lesson by the walloping received from exasperated Congress, many of the wisest labor leaders are secretly trying to arrange a 'national conference of delegates from the Railway Brotherhoods, A. F. of C.I.O. and other groups which will decide upon measures to stem the tidal wave of enmity engulfing organized workers.

Their top men realize into what a dangerous corner John L. Lewis has pushed them. On May 3rd this column, quoting one of the most notable union officials, said, "We fear that this action will visit upon our entire movement the sins of this one 'disturber." That prediction was eventuated with terrific force. But while Green and Murray piously deprecate the dictatorial attitude of the coal mine Caesar, they themselves on the eve of the Smith-Connally bill showdown permitted a spokesman to bluster, "We shall endeavor to vote out of office any member of Congress who supports it." Even that late date those vindictive veterans of class warfare days did not comprehend that the American public was in no mood to knuckle under political 'blackmail by any bloc however puffed up by its own sense of authority. Calm advisers therefore counsel a powwow of chieftains who, instead of calling names and snarling new threats, will frame a national service act covering every phase of including allocation of manpower and elimination of feather-bedding.

Such a constructive proposal, they hope, will reinstate labor in the good graces of the, Ira Eaker says the strength of the Eighth Air Force will be doubled by October. Also Need Fighters We must also have fighters, for although an excellent case is made out for the Flying Fortress doing its own job, more of these big weapons with their large crews can be saved by providing a fighter escort. As has been already disclosed, Germany has switched her emphasis to the production of fighters. Increasing numbers of them are stationed in the path of Allied bombers. The progress of the bombing offensive depends on cutting down the German fighter force.

And the only way to do that Is to saturate the air with bombers. We must expand the number of bombers until we can send out several missions at the same time, splitting up the German fighter defense. For instance, in the recent Kiel-Bremen raid the German fighters were all drawn to the Kiel group, which suffered severely, but our other mission got through with almost, no opposition. That is a small illustration of what must be done on a big scale. Almost as Important as the bombing of ground targets is the function of the Flying Fortress in drawing up German fighters so they can be destroyed.

Enemy fighters won't come tip to meet Allied fighters, but only to drive off bombers. Probably Increasing German fighter production is probably increasing. It is doubtful if losses yet approach production. So the next couple of months will be a critical period, determining whether fighter opposition is to become too strong for successful and persistent daylight bombing, or whether We can saturate the air quickly enough and whittle down the enemy. For Germany's fighter strength must be broken before the Nazi oyster is really opened.

That does not ignore the importance of the Mediterranean or of the Pacific. The breaking of Germany will release the Allies' strength for the Pacific. I believe it highly probable that once Germany is defeated, Russian bases will become available against Japan. Only after Germany is defeated can the three great allies concentrate on one front in the east instead of dividing as now among three fronts, on two of which they are tring to crush Germany. One hears these matters discussed by the hour.

The question is not which is the more important, Germany or Japan, but what is the most practical way to knock out both, simultaneously or one at a time. Oddities An Odd Approach Barbs Dog doesn't eat dog any more. Wieners take ration stamps and the price is up. It Isn't what a married man says that counts. It's his wife reply.

Q. What Town in Kansas had a petticoat gotern-ment many years ago? W. C. X. A.

In 1S97, Jamestown attracted natlon-wiae terest bv electing women to its municipal Disgusted aX the failure of the male enforce the laws against saloons and houses, the women of the town nominated a reio ticket which w-on by a substantial majority. It takes a sock to keep some peope from putting their foot in it. Once more golf fiends are moving heaven and earth to improve their score mostly earth. Q. How long" has Alec Templeton been The National Education Association apparently believes that the way to put out a fire in the stove is to burn down the house.

At its 23rd annual meeting the association executive secretary said "government is becoming to an increasing extent, the agency of pressure groups. The dominant groups are labor, agriculture and industry. Professional workers exert only a minor influence and unorganized people are merely spectators." The executive secretary's estimate of the situation is reasonably accurate. But in order to cure the condition he proposes an odd remedy. He calls upon the teachers to organize another pressure group, "organizational machinery which, will handle all professional problems of teachers in a professional way." When.

we realize that the first impact of a teacher's lobby is on the minds of youth we wonder whether the disease is much worse-than the cure. birth- A. X. W. A.

The famous pianist has been blind since Right now the restless age is between one and one hundred with mosquitoes and flies biting again. A patriotic bachelor is a man who doesn't take stock in matrimonial bonds but does in war bonds. ill O. Why will some cream whip while some The theory of too many apartment Jiouses is that children should be seen and not had. BETRAYED: Proponents of conciliatory feelers recognize that the crisis in their affairs calls for a high degree of statesmanship.

If the group does a crybaby act and sullenly refuses to bow to majority rule, it will inviti? new punitive attacks. Congress, its patience exhausted and egged oa by labor baiters and economic Bourbons, may then sweep away rights and privileges won by workingmen after years of industrial strife. Men in overalls are distressed because Jhey think their part in the war effort is not appreciated. But that grievance is unjustified. Everyone who reads of our marvelous production record knows a large not?" W.

W. T. OIt. A. The kind of cream, its age, its tent, and its temperature influence the nljr quality of cream.

Cream to whip well snouia at very cold, from 24 to 4S hours old, and contain least 30 per cent butter fat. Q. Who said "An honest man's the noblest of H. M.S. i A.

This quotation is from Alexander Popes say on Man." Farmers who have raised fine crops should be given sufficient harvesting help to save them from having to raise a howl. With summer flowers in bloom, remember that it's bad judgment to smell of one while a bee is doing likewise, It's often hard to get away from the easy-to-approach man..