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PAGE 2B ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1942. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Fovr.iti by JOSEPH PVUT21K Dttemhtr 12, l7t Publi.M by Tht Pulitzer Publuhin Co. Twelfth Bculevsri mi ON Street tory, this report of Schacht's new Job is automatically bracketed with the Fuehrer's revealing statement of Nov.

8 that he will never run out on the country as the Kaiser did. The canny juggler of Reichsmarks undoubtedly will make his report complete with an appendix containing timetables of outgoing trains and a list of hide-outs for rent in remote neutral countries. THK POST-DISPATCH PLATFORM I know that my rctlrtmeat will make bo difference ia Its cardinal principles, that It will alwara fight tor progress and reform, ever tel-rate Injustice or corruption, alwara tight demarKas of all parties, Wloar to mmy party, alwara oppo.a vrlTllcared claaaaa and public plunderer, never lack armpatlir with the poor, alwara remain de-voted to the public welfare) never be aatl.fled with merelr priatln ewai alwara be draatleallr Independent i sever afraid to attack wrong, whether hr predatory via. taeraey or predatory poverty. JOSEPH PIXITZER.

AprlT 19, 1907. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE A Defense of Rationing. To the Editor of tha Post-Dlspatcn: rHAT sort of Americans did we elect and send to Congress? BLUE PENCILS ACROSS THE SEA. The question of censoring expressions of opinion from 'correspondents' dispatches came up about two months ago, when English news writers in this country complained that our officials were cutting out their references to American sentiment on British policies In India. Since American censors modified their stand on this subject, little was heard of such restrictions for some time.

Now, however, there are new complaints along the same line. George Weller, In a radio message from Australia, reports that American correspondents In that part of the world were seriously disturbed by a dispatch from the New York representative of the London Sunday "Dispatch charging that reports on American opinion were being suppressed. American writers abroad have lost a strong argument for persuading officials to let them send full reports, Mr. Weller says. Our correspondents can no longer say that foreign correspondents In the United States have complete liberty in such matters, and so other countries should reciprocate.

In the London Dispatch article, its American correspondent charged that British readers are not getting the whole truth on American affairs "because of the United States censors' gag." The correspondent, Don Iddon, said: There have been many important developments here that have appeared in the American press and have been read by millions of people which we have not been allowed to send to England. There have been criticisms of the war effort made publicly here In the press and over the radio which you have not heard about because American censorship has stopped us from reporting them. The British seem to have adopted the same policy. Correspondent Raymond Daniell reported to the New York Times the other day: It is becoming more difficult all the time for a conscientious journalist to interpret the thinking of this country newspaper readers of his own country, largely because the powers on both sides of the Atlantic have decided that the best way to prevent Nazi propaganda from succeeding in its aim of dividing the Allies is to reduce open and honest criticism to the level of a whispering campaign. American readers of newspapers today are not getting as complete a picture of w-hat is happening here among the exiled governments and within them, or, for that matter, of British reactions to American political developments, as they did, say, a couple of years ago.

If anything is going4 to create friction between the two English-speaking allies, it will not be full reporting of opinion both peoples are accustomed to that at home, and can take it but the feeling by each that comment from the other side of the Atlantic is being suppressed. Of course, correspondents need not report; the utterances of irresponsible crackpots, but the- public statements of officials and distinguished citizens on an ally's policies ought to be made known to the other country. Since the tabooed statements have already been circulated at home by press and radio, Axis propagandists know all about them; anyway. Nobody is being kept in the dark but the British or the Americans, as the case may be. Censoring facts that may be of military value to the enemy is one thing; censoring opinion is quite another.

The censors of both countries ought to modify their strange policy before more confusion and distrust are created. -e-e-e-r MISSOURI IS IN THE MINORITY. If Congress passes a law recommended by a committee of Federal Judges (appointed by Chief Justice Stone and headed by Judge Knox of New York), women will be called for jury service in Federal cases in Missouri, although still barred from serving on State case juries. Taking the position that "women as a group are capable of acting as jurors and should, irrespective of state law, be called for Bervice in the Federal courts," the five-Judge committee asks Congress to give "women everywhere in the United States rights and responsibilities for Federal jury service equal with those of men." This is just another way of saying that these Federal Judges think the bar against woman jurors in Missouri and a steadily decreasing minority of states is an outmoded hangover from the days when women suffered many other legal disabilities, long since discarded. Missouri owes it to its reputation as a modern State to remove this discrimination against women at the 1943 session of its Legislature.

After a big how-de-do over gas rationing and blustering about passing a law to prevent its going into effect, they now say, since Mr. Roosevelt flatly stated it would go through, that they are going to get rid of Leon Henderson. If they can't get rid of him any other way, they will refuse appropriations to the OPA. Someone said: "The war can be lost in Washington." Well, it's a cinch it isn't being won there. When this war is finally won, Congress had better not ever mention to any of our men "over there" that they were in Washington at this time.

Gas rationing will hurt some of us. Maybe it won't accomplish its purpose-conserving rubber. Personally, I don't believe it will. But maybe after a trial, OPA will rem edy some of the mistakes. Give more gas per coupon, etc.

Anyway, Congress should give the plan a trial. When sugar rationing came in, people howled. Now they find that in most cases they get more than they need. My wife and I didn't use stamps 6 or 7, and we did not get our canning allowance m- of 10 pounds. We didn't need it, so we didn't buy it.

Now people are screaming about coffee. I heard a woman raising Cain in a store because she couldn't get bananas. Can't people realize there's a war on, that our fellowmen are out over the horizon, dying in battle, starving in filthy Jap prisons, for us, and we gripe about such non-essentials as coffee and bananas? I like coffee and I drank a lot of it too much, maybe. But if Uncle Sam needs that coffee boat to haul supplies to our boys, then I'll drink water. I'd rather a soldier in the Solomons, a marine at Buna or a sailor at sea had an extra few rounds of ammunition than for me to have an extra cup of coffee.

Kirkwood. A. L. R. If tpt ym.

ffiiS, CRUMBLING PATHWAY. Dt 7C A Plan to Return Control Gas Rationing Comes to the West Over Machine to Societf iv bjr Peter PrnrtwL "The Future of Industrial Man," (John Pay New Turk). What Shakespeare Thought of Donnell. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: SHAKESPEARE had a name for Gov. Donnell.

See "A Winter's Tale," Act. IV, Scene 3: "A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles." READER. The Mint cf Public Opinion ETER DRUCKER'S new book is to Is to Restrictions won't be nearly, so bad as many people have been led to fear, says newspaper in already rationed section; move is absolutely necessary to save rubber; Jeffers is expected to handle this area's special problems sensibly, and full co-operation is urged. From the New Tor World-Telegram. considerabe extent a restatement of th basic problem of the Western world as described it some vears aero in "The End of HARRY BRIDGES AND THE SHIPL0ADING CHARGES.

Harry Bridges, fiery leader of the West coast longshoremen, and Joseph Curran, tough boss of the National Maritime (sailors') Union, recently emphatically renewed their charges that "chaotic" shiploading methods on the East coast are seriously handicapping the war effort. For several months, there have been what the New York Times refers to as "persistent rumors along the entire Atlantic seaboard of inefficiency and deliberately bad stowage of lease-lend cargoes." Apparently incensed by the charges and rumors, Joseph P. Ryan, president of the East Coast's AFL International Longshoremen's Association, has issued a statement asking the War Shipping Administration and the Maritime Commission to investigate at once. He charges that Bridges and Curran are engaging in "political cannonading" to drive him out and allow them to reorganize the longshoremen under the CIO, and also to obtain removal of Admiral Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, who recently made some remarks in favor of "shooting' certain "organizers." 4 While the middle of a war is no time for unfriendly rivalry between unions, it seems apparent that a thorough investigation of the charges and countercharges in this whole matter would be beneficial for all concerned. Harry Bridges has a fine record on the Pacific Coast for efficiently supervising the swift handling of war cargoes desperately needed in Australia.

All the evidence indicates that he is just as anxious to see Hitler defeated as he is to see Hirohito It is hard to believe that Bridges would make the charges he has made just to embarrass a rival union head and Admiral Land. It should not be difficult to get testimony from stevedores and sailors as to whether certain ships had been loaded improperly. At a time like this, when we must maintain our major lifeline to Britain, our long, tenuous lifeline to Australia, our new lifeline to North Africa, the "bomb alley" lifeline to Russia, and a score of others, no ship should fail to reach its goal because of bad cargo stowage. Ships should be so loaded that cargoes will not shift in rough weather or under plane and U-boat attack. Not an inch of cargo space should be wasted.

Somebody should step in and find out once and for all whether everything is or Is not being done to make the best use of all ships and their cargo holds. TITLE, TITLE, WHO'S GOT THE TITLE? Gov. Donnell, the Webster Groves Coolidge, otherwise known as the Old Legal Hairsplitter, is sticking to his guns meaning the three old guns on the State Capitol grounds which the American Legion wanted to throw on the nation's scrap pile to help the war effort. Originally there were eight old guns. The Governor solemnly refused to part with thm until he found out wherein legal title lay.

He sent the Attorney General on a chase through the old records, and in due time came an exhaustive opinion establishing title to five guns. But the records did not disclose the title to the remaining three. Recently the special legislative session sought to end this farce comedy by resolving that "the State of Missouri, in the exercise of Its sovereignty, does declare the title, to said cannon to be vested in the State." Now the Governor has vetoed the resolution because (1) the resolution was not one of the legislative, subjects specifically designated in the call for the special session; and (2) the State does not have power, through such a resolution, to declare title in the cannon to be vested in the State. All of which makes us wonder how many Don- nells can dance on the point of a needle. FOOTBALL NOTES.

Last Saturday, the college boys demonstrated that part of the fascination of football is its uncertainty. A hopeless Holy Cross "team came from nowhere to trounce the undefeated Boston College Eagles 55 to 12; a Navy team without a chance beat Army 14 to 0, and Georgia, counted out a week ago, came back to triumph oyer undefeated Georgia Tech 34 to 0. But all that was undergraduate stuff. In the Ph.D. division, the Chicago Bears once again defended logic and consistency.

They beat the Cleveland Rams 47 to 0 for their twenty-third consecutive victory, the seventeenth in the National Pro League and the tenth in this season's league play. During their Sunday afternoon pay-at-the-gate workout, they gained 490 yards (while the Rams ended up with a net loss of 12) for a 10-game total of 3636. Charley O'Rourke, their substitute quarterback, alone made 307 through the air, and Fullback Famigliettl made 101 on foot To the Eastern division champions, the Washington Redskins, who must play the Bears for the league title, these figures probably sound less like football statistics than cross-country measurements. Maybe they are willing to accept second place without watching the Bears get out their adding machines again. Oh, yes, before the Bears go against the Redskins, the local literateur and melodist, James Conzelman, is going to try to prove with his Cardinals that there really is no difference between college and pro football, that both have their upsets.

The obsequies will be in Chicago. next Sunday afternoon. WINSTON CHURCHILL AS PROPHET. If he wants to do so, Prime Minister Churchill can add to his many other distinctions that of being a prophet. Note what he told the people of Italy in his address of Dec.

23, 1940, almost two years ago: Where is it that the Duce has led his trusting people after 18 years of dictatorial power? What hard choice is open to him now? It is to stand up to the battery of the whole British Empire on sea, in the air and in Africa, and the vigorous counterattack of the Greek nation; or, on the other hand, to call in Attila over the Brenner Pass with his hordes of ravenous soldiery and his gangs of Gestapo policemen to occupy, hold down and protect the Italian people, for whom he and his Nazi followers cherish the most bitter and outspoken contempt that is on record between races. Whatever explanation Mussolini now gives his people, he can't say he wasn't warned. That series of explosions all over town that we will soon be hearing about should convince a lot of people that gasoline hoarding has Its drawbacks. Economic Man," a book which was some thing of a sensation among the reviewenf8 In it, he held that we have been tryirto to run a Hamiltonian economy by Jetf sonian political and social standards, witl rather disastrous results. We must nolr achieve a satisfactory integration, a "funo11 tioning society," Mr.

Drucker continues, or be doomed to chaos. By way of beginning, he argues very pe suasively that our eighteenth century so-i cial ideals and political structures have losar Democracy at Home. To the Editor of the Post -Dispatch WHILE the international aspects of this great struggle for the democratic way of life glow out most boldly In the words of men, in the press, in the cinema and on the radio, I fear ft' the domestic aspects have been given far too little notice. Many of our Southern citizens are still denied the inalienable right to vote by the post-Civil War poll-tax laws. Result: Political machines instead of men make decisions! I can point out another evil which still threatens our democracy from within.

Mob lynchings! Lynchings which often lead to the death of an innocent person. Lynchings which shove the right of trial by jury into the oblivion of darkness. Are we not today fighting with all our might against such darkness as this? I believe we are. WALTER J. WERDES JR.

their validity in the industrial twentie century. England, he points out, has to long regarded Jane Austen's landed gentl man as its ideal. Frenchmen too long hoped to become landed proprietors. Germans! looked too lone to a rural and a nrofession- al middle class. And we, too, watched country become an industrialized natimiii while believing, in our hearts, that industry was beyond the pale.

AS to nation-wide gasoline rationing, which starts Tuesday, Dec. 1, we believe: 1. That It is absolutely necessary not to save gasoline, except in the Eastern states where rationing has been in effect for many mcJhths, but to conserve rubber tires. 2. That it won't be nearly as bad as many people have been led to fear.

In the East it has caused many inconveniences, perhaps even some hardships, but it has not been ruinous. Life goes on surprisingly well. To be sure, the Midwest the West and the South have special conditions long distances, far-flung farming operations, lack of other means of transportation. These ought to be given special consideration. Mr.

Jeffers says they will be. We think he can be trusted to see that they are. Jeffers Is a Practical Man. Bill Jeffers is no bureaucrat, no impractical theorist He's a Westerner himself, a railroad man with oil and farming interests of his own, and just now, with a vital wartime job to do for the country. That job is to get new synthetic-rubber plants into operation, and meanwhile to see that everything that needs to roll on rubber war machines, farm and industrial trucks, passenger busses and private cars keeps rolling.

If all goes well, he says, there will be a "comfortable" supply of synthetic by the middle of 1944. But all may not go well. And, at the present rate of drivingthe tires on millions of passenger cars will be worn out before 1944. Hence the need to cut the present rate to an average of 5000 miles per car per year some cars more than that and others less. But why ration gasoline In areas where it is plentiful? Why not ration driving? Or let people take the consequences if they're foolish enough to wear out their tires before replacements are available? Or why doesn't the Government ask people to turn in all tires if it needs them? Well, it's no secret that President Roosevelt hoped to avoid national gas rationing.

The Baruch committee tried, but could find no other way to save enough rubber. And if there were any other practicable way, it would cut down the use of gas just the same. Every Tire Is Important. The Government does not need to ask any car owner to turn in all tires now, and Mr. Jeffers believes it never will.

But every tire is part of a precious national stock pile, and people who wear out tires by unnecessary driving hurt their country, not merely themselves. All this, Mr. Jeffers says, may not have been adequately explained. If it had been, surely there would not have been organized efforts to stir farm protests and persuade war workers threaten to quit their jobs rather than submit to gas rationing. We believe it's the part of good citizenship to accept rationing with good grace, observe it in good faith and complain only if it actually prevents essential driving.

For we think Mr. Jeffers tells the truth when he says that the whole purpose is to make sure that there's enough rubber for war needs, that farmers can continue to produce, that war workers can continue to ride to their jobs, that highway transportation is maintained and that every car owner can drive when it is really necessary. Asks About the Capable Handicapped. To the Editor of the Poet-Dispatch: I HAVE a blind friend who won third place for our State in a national speaking contest in Washington, D. C.

He has taken a civil service examination and was told he passed it with a good grade. Yet he is unable to obtain what he considers a respectable job. In Detroit the blind work in airplane factories. Why do they not here? Why should a young man of quite evident capability be compelled to eke out a mere existence pedding notions? Is there not something that can be done for the capable handicapped? JOHN RALLS. was ignored or expected to fit into a jnerh cantile society, its growth undermined the? old certainties.

Property lost much of itsp authority. The machine, without social reJ sponsibility, became the master rather than! the servant. Chronic unemployment became the curse of nations and a threat to stabil-l ity and order. In considering possible solutions of thiil problem, Mr. Drucker dismisses the one attempted that of the Nazis as ths tyranny it is.

One of the latest American' suggestions, "the managerial revolution," he believes to be a thing of the past rather! than of the future. Modern corporations, for all practical puc poses, were taken over from the stockhold-l ers long ago. Indeed, the owners gladlj surrendered their responsibilities, being in-w terested only in dividends. Managerial fail ures have been obvious, and Government control is a spreading reality. Mr.

Drucker pleads for a more fund- mental approach. He believes that an in- tegrated society on a basis cf freedom canl A NAME FOR THE WAR? The business of giving this war a name has again been brought up in the letter columns of the Saturday Review of Literature. A subscriber in Tennessee reviews the suggestions made so far the War of Resurrections, the War of Restoration, the War of Liberty, the War of Survival, the People's War, Everyman's War, the Air War, the Total, Global, Planetary, Cosmic or Universal War, the Democratic War, the War of Interdependence, etc. For various and sundry good reasons, he dismisses all of these and makes his own suggestion: the World Order War. It does not take much temerity to dismiss that one, too.

On the intellectual level, it might be defended, even if the word "order" has been brought into disrepute by the Nazis. But the name just does not have the mouth-filling, heart-stirring quality which should attach to this vast and heroic enterprise in blood. We had better follow precedent and leave the naming of this conflict to the historians. Who, while it was being fought, spoke of the Seven Years' War, ot the War of the Spanish Succession? Tremendously important as they were, who, even now, has a name for Napoleon's wars? For the people who endured these conflicts, it was enough to speak of "the war." Everything was embraced in those two words. And so it is today.

We need not concern ourselves with naming this war. Better that we devote all our energies to winning it be achieved only if all men have work and responsibility in industry. If participation in the most important sphere of modern life is denied to the mass of men, they will be reduced to apathy, indifference, insecure ty and despair. Riches From the Arctic A From the Baltimore Evening Sun. TV10 TTnitorl Cl.t..

i ified to develop such a society which would become a model for the other industrial tions. Such an order must be based on generally accepted moral principle. It must Hitler Learns to His Sorrow. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: TODAY, disintegration itself is tearing at Germany's vitals. The blows administered Rommel's army have diminished his once formidable force to microscopic remnants.

The sorry turn of events has disgruntled the Nazi clique to distraction. The brilliant successes of the American-British forces in North Africa, China's continued stand of resistance and Gen. MacArthur's winning streak in the South Pacific are confusing the Nazi leaders immeasurably. The German populace has been informed to a degree of the catastrophic reverses, and is not entirely Ignorant of the Nazi setbacks to date. The Germans were told Russia would be theirs 16 months ago.

What happens? The Reds fight on doggedly and superbly, smashing attack after attack hurled by the Nazis, who seek so desperately to halt the Russian advance. Untold perils await the estimated 300,000 Germans caught in the Stalingrad pocket. The prospect of living another winter In Russia's icy jaws of death finds no favor with the battle-scarred German soldier. Constant bickerings and disunity amongst the men and officers does not alleviate the German problem of morale, which is indeed at low tide. Hitler is learning to his great sorrow that no nation can subjugate others and not only give function and status in indu-) try to all citizens, but its government niustfc be controlled, limited and based on the re-1 THE potential wealth of the Arctic has long been known.

In the Russian Arctic, this wealth is being systematically extracted. In the Canadian Arctic, too, the process of tapping this immeasurable store is being pushed at a greater rate than is generally realized. A Science Service dispatch from Toronto announces: "Tar sands in Northern Alberta are being worked for oil, gasoline, asphalt and coke. Aviation gasoline and Diesel oil will soon be flowing toward the Alaska Highway from the world's most Northern refinery at Fort Norman, on the Mackenzie River." The future significance of these develon- area of natural riches has been limited largely to the airplane and to seasonal traffic on the rivers. Fort Norman, for example, although it has been in existence since 1921, did not become an active oil-refining town until 1930, when the oil wells were uncapped after the' discovery of radium on the shores of Great Bear Lake had brought in aerial prospectors in considerable numbers.

Natural resources of such magnitude as to stagger the imagination 100 billion barrels of oil in the Athabasca River sands alone were known to exist, but the means of getting them out were lacking. The Alaska Highway will provide the grand trunk route of future development. sponsible decisions of the citizenry. In other words, the drift toward mort and more socially irresponsible industry and less and less individual participation in government must be reversed. The debate will begin in earnest when this formula is reduced to terms of specific reforms.

ERNEST KIRSCHTEN. ments is obvious, although the tendency is to overiooK mem in the present ureent A NEW JOB FOR DR. SCHACHT. Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, after a long period as Germany's forgotten man, returns to the news columns in a report that he has been assigned by Adolf Hitler to prepare a report on the shape of things to come.

The retired financial wizard gets office space and 20 secretaries for his task of drawing up the financial, economic and political consequences of several possible developments: a German victory in the war, a compromise peace, separate treaties with anti-Nazi powers and defection of satellite countries. Since Hitler hitherto has shouted on every occasion that he will consider nothing but all-out vic military needs. The Alaska Highway has A Camera in Cambridge. FOR the( newest book in the American Landmarks Series, Samuel Chamberlain has chosen "Historic Cambridge in Four Seasona" (VTaatlnoo -n' va.vi ft Deen rusnea to completion as a war measure, to protect Alaska against the Japanese and to insure the safety of Northwestern Canada and the United States against invasion. But it will still be there after the war, opening up an enormous natural region to industrial exploitation.

Hitherto, communication with! this vast DREAM STUFF. From the Omaha Morning World-Herald. From Wisconsin comes word of a retailer who, in a dream, wrote the greatest advertisement of all time: "Two pounds of sugar and a pound of coffee free with each purchase of a new tire." is a subject ideally suited for his eye and camera and his knack for saying the riglf expect to remain unmolested. ining in Drier underlines. Here is a treafr ure trove of pictures of Harvard, the Charld River and old Brattle street.

MASTROIANNL TERI5A.