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PAGE EIGHT A MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1942. THE MIAMI DAILY NEWS Reducing His Waste Line vmm EXPRESS YOUR VIEWS The Newt welcomes letters from its readers. It asks only fhat they be dig-nified and fair, and that they be con. fined to 200 words, if possible. Each letier must bear the name and address of the writer.

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1 Mo. Wk. and Sunday 12 00 $6 00 3.0. 11.10 25c flr 00 4.50 225 .80 11c Sunday" 4 00 2.00 1.00 .40 10c liam Green. The personal ambitions of lesser leaders likewise obstruct the path to peace.

When John L. Lewis called the other day for peace, he who had been most insistent on the war, the rival leaders smelted a rat. If Lewis wanted peace, it was as Hitler has wanted peace a peace which he dictates and from which he chiefly benefits. The processes of democracy, In labor as in politics, bear strange resemblance to the processes of tht autocracy which democracy rejected. Monarchy had, as every reader of history knows, its endless "dynastic wars." Kings made war, not for any good of their people, but for the promotion of their own power.

It was of such business Shakespeare wrote: War is a game which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. This goes for the bosses of politics and the grand dukes of labor, too. "A plague on both your houses," says "labor" to its battling leaders, leading labor into costly wars for leader benefit. Long before Adolf Hitler and his Nazis invoked the art of taking men and moulding them into beasts the world was full of tales like this. There was Medusa, a beautiful woman who offended the goddess Athena and so her hair was changed to snakes and her face was made so hideous that all who beheld her were turned to stone.

As Circe changed her victims to squealing swine, so Methusa hers to insensate stone. Circe had indeed a wider choice. Around her fawned lions which had been kings. She turned men into antelopes or wolves at will. Changing men into brutes, the present Nazi enterprise, is oldest of the arts.

Bedfellows Miami Pally News Is a member of Audit Bureau Circulation. How lofty is the station which man, if he chooseth to fulfil his high destiny, can attain! To what depths of degradation he can sink, depths which the meanest of creatures have never reached! Baha Ullah. a -m imA IU. Uis tlx Bad News The kinship of this man and that to this or that animal is voiced in the names which men of old times bore. The child of nature in the Jungle saw these affinities most clear.

The red man was the clever, scheming fox. the remorseless bear, the swift bison, the treacherous snake. The old nearness of man and beast is recalled by many a surname to -this day. The animals give us many an adjective and epithet: foxy, snaky, wolfish, bearish, hoggish; rat, skunk, hawk, dog, sheep. Before Hitler transferred our American communists from the Axis to the democratic line the infiltration of labor unions by pro-Axis communists had grown into a scandal.

Labor had been vmisled by such leadership in some instances into disgraceful anti-defense strikes. Since Pearl Harbor a great deal has been learned of a similar infiltration by fascist agents into America's isolationist union, America First. An active organizer and promoter for America First is now under indictment as a paid spy. Recently Werner Von Clemm was indicted in New York for conspiring with the Nazis to bring in illegal shipments of gems to be used to finance Nazi operations in the United States. Clemm was active in America First activities in New York.

And now we find the anti-war Cough-linite magazine, to which the war is even yet only a conspiracy of "International bankers," urging its followers to infiltrate with all speed the patriotic organizations now forming to sustain and strengthen the war. That's the danger so many good spirited people run into when they lend themselves to political movements the danger of bad bed-fellows. ME.RBE.N U. S. Alien Policy Outmoded A Scriptural interchange of man and beast: There met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass that way.

And there was a good way off an herd of many swine feeding. So tlie devils besought him, saying, if thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of. swine. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and; behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea', and perished in the waters. It is the old doctrine: The evil spirit of the beast enters the man; the evil spirit of the man enters the beast.

The Pensions NEW YORK. Feb. 9. In dealing with so-called "enemy" aliens, we are following a concept and procedure, which, presuming that every man is loyal to the country of his citizenship, classified the potentially loyal or disloyal according to that standard only. In the East the war Is almost wholly a war to which such concepts generally apply.

The Japanese are not waging a war for "Shintoism." The Japanese government has never tried to organize Japanese-Americans into groups to Influence immediately the domestic and foreign policies of the United States government; nor does it count on being able to engineer through them continual assaults on the American mind. In the field of political warfare within the United States, the Japanese are quite helpless. By Dorothy Thompson country as effectively as by arms, if one can create division and confusion inside it Now, I am sure that no one in authority in this administration would contradict this brief outline of the Fascist political warfare. But why, then, try to combat it in a completely irrelevant way, according to concepts and procedures that are not apropos? In doing so, we are acting just as France acted, and are playing the Fascist game. Hitler wants nothing more than that the suspicions of the United States government should be turned against our alien friends and his victims instead of against our ideological enemies of whatever nationality.

While we are pursuing Hitler's victims, his agents continue their termite work. While we are registering German and Italian democrats, the real pullers of Fascist strings are planning for the next congressional elections. tinued to be counter-revolutions as well. Fascism and Nazism were welded together into an international political movement, which was organized inside all countries, both through German and Italian nationals and through men and women of German and Italian race. The Nazis introduced first the concept that all men and women of German race (not nationality merely) were claimed by the Third Reich.

But to them were added sympathizers, those attracted by the ideology, so that it was impossible to give a plan to all the counterrevolutionary movements inside the Western countries, give them a common program, guide their activities and build them into subversive forces. Thus, the Nazi propaganda and tactics have been dished out by Father Coughlin, by the Silver Shirts, the Knights of the White Camellia, the Ku Klux Klan, and over a hundred other native Fascist groups, as well as by the German-American Bund, and by more respectable bodies. The news from Singapore gets more depressing hourly. This was all but forecast in so many words by Mr. Churchill's last address.

We must face the fact that Singapore, with all its implications, is very likely to be lost We can shout, "Hang on!" and hope that by some miracle the defense may be successful. If it is not, perhaps that is what is needed to wake us up to the fact that we have a war on our hands and haven't yet even begun to go all out. John W. Watson Any man who has served his community in business, in civic work and in public office for 40 years is bound to pass from the scene sometime. And his pass- ir.g is even more bound to leave a void in the community that will be noticed for a long time.

Even though he had reached the years of comfortable enjoyment of the fruits of a strenuous life, "Senator" Watson remained an unforgettable member of Miami's pioneer tribe. Miami is going to r.eed a new generation of Senator Watsons in these trying times. Alice In Wonderland If your alarm clock went off at what seemed like midnight, and you stumbled out of bed and groped for the light switch in the stygian darkness, and shivered pitiably as you dragged on your clothes, and couldn't get either waked up or warmed up by your customary cup of hot morning coffee, and the car wouldn't start, and the cocks wouldn't stop crowing then you were amonjj those who remembered to observe war savings time by setting their clocks ahead one hour last night. But if your sleep droned on to its own luxurious ending, if you sprang out of the covers a refreshed and revivified man, if the rising sun slanted through your wln- dows and warmed your cold shower and lighted up your breakfast table with its mellow shaft, and you started off to the office with a warm body and a springy heart, but got to the office only to find the day's routine already an hour along and your particular part of that routine an hour behind and your superiors in no cordial mood toward you why, then you were among those who forgot to set their clocks ahead one hour last night. Ah.

yes, unpleasantness on one hand, embarrassment on the other. It's truly an Alice-in-Wonderland deal, this war-saving time. But we'll get used to it no later than tomorrow morning, as long as it is one of victory's demands. The ancient literatures have many a tale of the werewolf, the man or woman become a wolf. This ancient fact or superstition has been so common as to earn a name.

The belief in man turned wolf is "lycanthropy." Within a year a wolf child in India has been soberly reported on. A human child, a girl, was captured in a den of wolves. A mother wolf, yearning for a lost suckling, had stolen the child and borne it to her den. Leave Miami Beach Alone To the Editor of the Miami Dally News: I must agree with Mr. L.

W. Fahne-stock, who favors the so-called Reeder plan, that Miami Beach taxes have been rising gradually every year, but so has the value of Miami Beach property increased and there is a market for Beach property. But there is no market for Miami property and if Miami property is assessed to pay off its bonded debt, as It will have to be some day, Miami property will then be nebulous, and the tremendous bonded debt would stMl remain. Such a condition is commonly called bankruptcy. If Mr.

Fahnestock desires a nebulous value on his property, let him, transfer his Miami Beach property for Miami property and then he will be ail set under the Reeder plan, and free of Miami' Beach taxes. Of course I have only been paying taxes in Dade county for the last 30 years and don't know much about Miami politics, but I am a bit of an efcphant if you get what I mean. So I say streamline Miami aiid let Miami Beach alone, we like our misery such as it is. CAPT. A.

H. CAESAR. Miami. In Defense Of Motorcyclists To the Kdltor of the Miami Dally I just finished reading your Whirligig for Friday evening about motorcycle cowboys" irritating Miami motorists. Supposing they were Speeding up and down thoroughfares and getting away with it.

Past experience has proved that in the eyes of an officer of the law a motorcycle rider is no better than anyone else caught in the act of violating the law. Whirligig stated: "Most of the "cowboys' are delivery boys." This is a silly statement, as most of the delivery boys own their own machines, paying for gas, oil and other expenses out of their salaries. The editor is probably one who would howl the loudest while impatiently waiting for a package or parcel that one of these so-called "cowboys" was delivering. The accident that came so near happening last Wednesday is not to be compared with the accidents that do happen among the far more abundant "cowboys," as well as careless motorists. The National Safety Council statistics prove that "a motorcycle is the safest vehicle on the road if properly handled." While I'll admit there are some wild riders (who are looked down upon by the rest of their fellow riders), most of the machines are properly handled.

It certainly is a shame that so many motorists regard motorcyclists as a bunch of mad bulls. The modern motorcycle fraternity is continually striving to heal the wounds inflicted upon its morale by these show-offs and prove to this community that they are an asset as well as sportsmen. AL AUNAPU. Miami. Questions The Sugar Deal To the Editor of the Miami Daily News: With all due respect for the sentiments expressed by you in your editorial "Sugar Taxes," and the letter on -the same page by W.

L. Cunningham, this writer believes there is another side to the story. In your editorial you state: "The people will accept the rationing and they will not complain if only the object of it seems reasonable and the application is fair." I believe every true American will subscribe to that statement. Now, however, lot us look into the matter and see just how fair this rationing of sugar is. The war department says the sugar taken, from us must be used in the making of alcohol, for explosives for our armed forces.

When asked why the alcohol should not be made from wheat and other grains, have to date stated it would cause too much confusion; that there are not the railroad facilities for the movement of the grain to the distilleries, and a multitude of other excuses. The distilleries and the railroad people deny both of the above statements of the war department. Our government has over one billion bushels of wheat it does not know what to do with, and God only knows how many hundred millions of bushels of corn; enough of both grains, however, to make more than double the quantity of alcohol needed by our army and navy. The distilleries on the Pacific coast alone say they are equipped now to turn out gallons of alcohol from grain now stored on that coast, leaving only a like amount to be turned out by the whisky distillers, and the distillers of commercial alcohol. Why then deny the American people the sugar to which they have been accustomed, and allow these millions of bushels of grain to go on rotting, when they could be used with greater benefit for the same purpose of making the alcohol? Well, here is the black man in the wood pile.

The makers of commercial alcohol are to be the first beneficiaries of the change-over to the making of grain alcohol, and the head man of this union of commercial alcohol distillers is none other than the head man of the chemical research division of the army purchasing board. Another of those $l-a-year men, I suppose. Meanwhile the American people have to do without sugar. In other words, this Is just one more of those cries of "Wolf, wolf," when there Is no wolf. Or Is It just another subterfuge for the making of a few mor war millionaires? W.

M. KARTZMARK. Miami. There the wolf had suckled the child, weaned it, taught it to eat and like the food of wolves. It learned to walk on all fours like the wolves around.

It could run at the speed of wolves. It kept up, long after its return to human society, the wolf way of waking with wild, weird howlings in the night. The human child, nurtured and taught by wolves, had become a wolf. So the story goes. The proclamation of four members of the senate isn't as noble as it looks on congress' recent pension grab.

They favor repeal of the unhappy act, but will wait to see if public opinion pushes the move. If the people want the grab repealed, let them cry aloud and the senators, sails set to the protesting breeze, will lead on. If a people hurrying to win a war will drop its tools and chase the congressmen crying, "Stop thief," then the congressmen will drop the swag. There Is freedom of discussion in the senate, even if not in the house. If any senator really wants this disreputable act repealed, he can keep the welkin ringing till the thing is done.

Never was a chance 'for a filibuster more to the nation's mind. The proof of the disreputableness of the deed of congress is found in the house. If the measure Was an honest one, why was it smuggled through the house without debate, without a record vote? This is a terrifying aspect of it, If congress can and does vote money-to itself by stealth, as in this case, then what confidence in congress can the country have? Sad to say, the deed and the stealth with which it was done had the common consent of the representatives, else why have only two congressmen out of 431 come forth, now that the facts are known, to denounce the trick and advocate its repeal? By the manner of the enactment of this measure, even if not by the content of the act itself, congress would have dealt itself a stunning blow. The congress supposed to be serving its country has been caught red-handed in a crisis time trickily serving itself. It is a disconsolate showing for representative government, for democracy.

The best way out for congress is to blush, back up, confess its fault and go and sin no more. If congressmen must have more money, let them put the matter in fair and open way before their boss, the country, as the rest of the people, wanting a "raise," must do. But the war in the West is different It began with counterrevolutions in Europe, as civil war, inside Italy and Germany. In these civil wars, the Fascist or Nazi parties attacked democratic institutions and personalities, and eliminated them from Italian or German life. Since expansion, or "Leb-ensraum," is an integral necessity of Fascism, war was always implicit in its counter-revolution.

The elimination of democratic institutions and the exiling of democratic personalities had, therefore, a double purpose: To effect the internal counter-revolution and to remove the friends of other democ-cratic nations. In Germany and Italy, another factor was introduced. All "non-Aryans" were deprived of their rights of citizenship and work, and hundreds of thousands of them driven into exile. New methods of warfare require new weapons of defense. The political methods we are using are as outdated as horse cavalry against panzer divisions.

While we are making life precarious for those whom Hitler and Mussolini have already persecuted, the Axis powers are using Americans and Hungarians and other of their "allies" as foreign agents in this country, and a Hungarian newspaper in Bridgeport is advising its readers to listen to the Hungarian short-wave broadcasts which are made by Hitler's propaganda ministry. We are following red herring scents. It is not humanitarianism that prompts these lines. It is a desire to win the war. It is a desire that we should display considerably more intelligence in the field of political warfare than other countries have shown.

New times, new methods. New dangers, new devices for meeting the dangers. Instead we are using, by and large, the political concepts and procedures of 1917. They don't meet the problem. They confuse the The Fascintern completely disregards the element of nationality.

Its concept aligns men not according to national allegiances, but according to ideological allegiances. It is true that in all countries sabotage, espionage, and much of the propaganda work has been directed from consular offices. But the Fascist movements in each country are quite independent of consular agencies. They have been given their line, and are still pursuing it Their business is to create in congress majorities unfavorable to the president, thus paralyzing his program and the country as well, counsel slow-down tactics in war industries, play down the war in the West, continue efforts for appeasement with the Nazis, denounce anti-Fascists as Communists, and break down American morale by confusing the aims of the war. In short, during the International war, they continue to conduct the international civil war; they operate untiringly in the realm of political warfare, on their now famous pattern that one can destroy a There are forms of insanity in which human beings take to the wild wolflike habits and tastes.

They take to carrion, favorite food of wolves. (Do we have to look far among ourselves for men whose minds revel in filth as a wolf in carrion?) These perverted creatures live like wolves. The tales of werewolves doubtless arise from such cases as these. Many of these voluntary and enforced exiles eventually came to the United States. They are those people who lost the first great battles of this war and went to democratic countries.

Eventually the successful Internal counterrevolution turned outward into aggressive international wars. But these international war's con Labor Unity Scalping Urged For OCD What need for werewolf fables when we have the werewolf facts? "Trailing clouds of glory" comes the child from "God who is our home." He comes as clay in his teacher's hands. "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it." The poet Pope: 'Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. We can bend him a little lower than the angels or a little lower than the wolf. "Education forms the common mind." Out of the selfsame clay men mould the wolf or pig, the philosopher or the saint Swiftly, skillfully as a die stamping out tin soldiers the Nazi schools shape Nazi youth into howling wolf packs launched to overwhelm the non-wolf world.

By Raymond Clapper about that? How is the morale of thousands of people, who are giving up evenings to prepare for possible emergencies, going to be maintained with such a situation at the top? sonal parking lot for the pets and proteges of Mrs. Roosevelt, some of them at salaries larger than a brigadier general or a rear admiral gets. Last November Mrs. Roosevelt's dancer. Mayris Chaney, was appointed at $4,600 a year, which is more than a major in the army gets.

Her job is to encourage rhythmic dancing for children. When I asked how she got there, I was told through Roosevelt. Melvyn Douglas, the motion-picture star, will run a kind of service exchange for actors, writers and musicians who want to do something for defense. He got there through Mrs. Roosevelt.

The three new sub-executive3 who will direct the volunteer participation work are selections of Mrs. Roosevelt. The place is filled with them. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.

I hope Westbrook Pegler will come down here and do one of his justly celebrated scalping jobs on the Office of Civilian. Defense. I mean on Mrs. Roosevelt too, because half the trouble around there could be got rid of if the president would haul her out of the place. Most of the remaining trouble would be eased if the erratio and irascible activities of Mayor La-Guardia were removed from the scene.

Do that and give James M. Lan-dis, the present executive of the OCD, real authority to run the show and I believe you would get something worth while. The Office of Civilian Defense has done a vast amount of work that is indispensable and has done It well. But its effectiveness has been undermined by the misused talents of Mayor LaGuardia and Mrs. The Soldier's Tradition New York Times) Capturing or destroying an attacking force of Japanese shock troops, General.

Mac Arthur reports the prisoners are being "treated with the respect and consideration which their gallantry so well merits." This is in the grand old military style. It is not inconsistent with a considerable disrespect for the Japanese responsible for this war. It is a soldier's way of discriminating between the blackhearted sneaks and liars who ordered the war and the men in the ranks who have to fight it. In this discrimination lies some hope for the future after our victory has been won. There is the abstraction called labor, with its general interest in wages, hours and working conditions.

These are the interests of "labor." Also there is that very specific thing, John L. Lewis with his special interest in himself. There is the question Then there is the question of who shall wield the power of labor and reap the emoluments from the exercise of that power. The personalities of William Green, Sidney Hillman, John L. Lewis and no end of other men who have private ambitions as well as ambitions for labor enter here and cloud the scene.

It is the same, we are constantly re-" minded, with politics. There are Democrats and Republicans with the general attitude and interest of rank and file votes. Then there are the rival and com-ipeting personalities of the parties, de- voted to their party but also much devoted, in many instances, to themselves. A most striking example of personalities confusing politics was given in 1912 when the ambitions of Theodore Roosevelt conflicted with those of President Taft Those two persons, with their per-Isonal followers, tore the great Republican party in two and conferred upon it the great defeat of 1912. But for the interests of the labor leaders involved, the internecine strife which has for years divided the labor movement would have been ended long ago.

"The Gallup poll showed recently as such polls have shown from the first that labor" wants harmony and unity. The rank and file in both CIO and AFL, dislike the civil war which is discrediting labor with the nation as well as with its own membership. But there is no room at the top of the labor host for both John Lewis and Wil In Borneo "education" turns out head hunters, in Japan men glad to act and die like rats, in Germany men keyed to the character of the wolf! Sin is natural as upward flying sparks and men can be drawn downward with more ease than they are lifted up. The Circes, changing men to swine and wolves are with us evermore. The Office of Civilian Defense is charged with the most serious responsibilities.

On the fire-protection side it has worked faithfully at them. Fortunately most of that work was handled by army and navy officers and experienced firemen and technicians. Here it is only fair to say that Mayor LaGuardia, through his interest in protecting New York city, did some most valuable pioneering. On the other side of the civilian defense work, where the children's rhythmic dancing comes in, a whole clutter of stuff has grown up largely through Mrs. Roosevelt.

Landia, who ought to be running the show, is finding constantly that new orders are being issued without clearing through his office. The place is full of people who look not to him but to Mrs. Roosevelt as the boss. Duties and authority are poorly defined. The executive order means almost nothing as it stands.

OCD needs the same kind of shaking up that war production had the other day. A new executive order is needed which will give Landis authority such as Donald Nelson has and make it clear who is boss. The agency can never be run well until that is cleared up. Until Mr. Roosevelt does that the place will disgrace the serious mission to which it is dedicated.

It is incredible that President Roosevelt will allow this situation to continue much longer. It has become a public scandal. The worst thing about all this is that more than any other government agency, the Office of Civilian Defense is concerned with maintaining civilian morale. That is one of its important duties set out in the executive order. How can you have any kind of morale with a subordinate employe, who happens to be the wife of the President of the United States, flitting in and out between lecture engagements to toss a few more pots into nice jobs? What does the schoolteacher who has to stand watch at the school building all night for civilian defense think By bitter toil men lift themselves from jungle and from cave: then some werewolf calls.

In one swift backward slip the slow climb is erased. By very nations, now, the downward call is given: "Back to the wolf!" Can any escape the enchantment of the modern Circe There is the pull downward; but also there is the upward surge, else how had men by millions reached their present stature firmly set above the swine and wolf? There is the wolf call. To save us there is the other urge: Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die. WALTER LOCKE. Sour Note (Fayettevilie, N.

Observer) We hear that the police have not yet rounded up the public nuteance that cruises up and down Hay st. between the hours of 3 a. m. and dawn practicing bugle calls on a so-called musical horn. Our advice to the police is to round him up as soon as possible before some public-spirited citizen Is put to the inconvenience of being immobilized in the courthouse long enough for a coroner's jury to get together on a snappy verdict of justifiable homicide.

If some of the responsible persons around OCD and some of the other responsible officials around town could say what they thought I think they would agree with the foregoing. But they cannot do it. There is hesitation in congress about saying much because nobody wants to criticize the wife of the president. But this Is public business, and very Important public business. The work of the Office of Civilian Defense concerns the safety and welfare of the people of this nation.

Yet It has become a kind of per i 4.