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TAFTS IDEA
* IN AMENDMENT
STRUCK OUT
WASHINGTON — Although
you will never get them to say
anything about it for publication,
. Army officers will give you a
a grin and a wink at any men
tion of the speed and dispatch
with which Congress lifted the
s ban on reading matter, films and
broadcasts going to the soldiers.
Almost without debate in the
Senate and with none at all in
the House, Congress unanimous
ly took out of the Soldier Vote
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Bill, S£ety. Robert A. Taft’s amend
ment; restricting soldiers* reading
which would have
I ho bearii^/bih . • eon) ing elee
, tions. q
It was apparent that there was
no possibility of controversial do
| bate on the amendment, but Sen.
Taft couldn’t refrain from ex
pressing the opinion held by
many: That the Army by its
stict enforcement of the original i
ban put Congress on the spot as;
it rarely has been tn recent years, i
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’‘The War Depatment,” said i
Sen. Taft, ‘’has not only inter- 1
preted the act in a nonsensical!
manner, but has given the pub- i
lie and the soldiers an entirely
erroneous idea u£ witat the act
| actually does.”
Even syj«e of the Democratic
members of Congress who ordi
narily would reel no pain at all
seeing one of the Senate’s most
important Republican leaders dis
comfited by" legislation he had !
sponsored, admitted privately and ,
with a grin that the senator i
probably was mote than half !
right.
The War Department started j
out by issuing what Sen. Taft!
called “a book of incomprehensi
ble regulations which no com
manding officer could interpret.”
With that as a basis and the
threat of $1,000 fine or a year in
jail which the act provided for:
violations the Army went to
work.
First went the books which had
the slightest taint of political
argument, including even Charles
A. Beard’s “The Republic.” Then |
went the magazines and in Eng
land even the British newspa- \
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Just whether any movies were
actually put on the banned list
isn’t clear even now, but it does
| appear that the report that the
film “W Ison” was blacklisted un
der the act was erroneous. Sen.
Taft;' fcfdd the War Department
ulformed him that the more than
two-hour length of the film made
it impractical Tor use on Army
posts where it i.s impossible to
schedule entertainments of that
length
However, when the Army
banned "Yankee from Olympus,”
because it contained on one page
the report of an interview’ be
tween President Roosevelt and
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
just after the former took office
in 1933, and followed that with
blacklisting "An Official Guide
to the Amer;can Air Forces.”
because it had a picture of “the
Commander in Chief” as a front
piece. Congress was completely
routed.
If there is any doubt that the
; Army led the rout, it has only to
be pointed out that the Navy
1 didn’t ban anything and nobody
went to jail or paid even part of
a $1,090 fine.
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MALE NURSE NURSES
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR MET
! FIFTH ARMY ANZIO EEACY
HEAD, Italy —<AP)—A six-foci.
' bass-voiced, hairy chested atr
' goant claimed the cause of equal
rights for men in the Army
| Nursing Corps.
: “Don’t get me wrong—I m not
: mad at the girls,” grinned. Alfred
j Eugene Riley, 24, of Hernando
Miss., but being a registered
nurse myself I’d like to see ms'"
nurses get a break.”
j After having worked for 9.
| year as industrial hospital nun.
ing superintendent. Riley entered
the service.
J
| “When I joined the Army I got
i 50 bucks a month as a private/’
• said Riley. “When my three sis*
1 ters were inducted as nursei
j they skirted out as second lieu
| tenant* at $130 a me nth. All o' w •
had the same qualifications.”
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The profit margin before tar.as
; m World War I was 11.S per cert
In 1943, it was 7.7 per cent rf
gross receipts.
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