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Public Puts Chill
On Labor Draft
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By JACK STINNETT
WASHINGTON — In spite of
Secretary of War Stimson’s ad
vocacy of a National Service Act
and the Presidents recommenda
tion of it in his message to Con
gress, observers on Capitol Hlil
believe that it has only a ghost
of a chance of ever becoming law
The reason: The public isn’t
enthusiastic about the idea.
A canvass of the Congressional (
mail shows only a trickle of in
terest in the President’s sugges
tion and even in that, opinion is
divided.
Those who feel that there
should be such a law, so the Con
gressmen tell me, are mostly ser
vice men and their families who,
fele that we are letting the boys
down on the home front. They
see in a National Service Act a
possibility of ending strikes.
In addition to general disinter
est from the voters, organized la-j
bor, which operates one of the i
most powerful influences on Con
gress, is solidly opposed to any
such act. Their fear is that it i
will nullify union strength com
pletely and reduce the individual
worker to a state where he will
have no right to say where he
works, at what wages or under
what conditions.
* * *
Men who are fighting on bat-:
tlcfronts in the fever infested jun- j
gles, in the mud and muck of
Italy or monotonously guarding
frozen outposts in the Arctic,,
can’t feel that this would be any
Injustice to home front workers. J
That, in substance, Is the way
Secretary Stimson has summed it
up.
There are some observers here
who believe, however, that nei
•*
their President Roosevelt nor
Secretary Stimson had any idea
that a National Service Act would,
be enacted unless conditions get
much worse here at home. The
President hedged on his recom
mendation by saying he wouldn’t
favor it unless other legislation
were enacted protecting the work
er against abuses which might
grow out of it. Since Secretary
, S'.tmson was speaking for the{
men in service, there was no
reason for his hedging. Ques- j
tinned on the President’s suggest-;
ed collateral laws, he said, in ef
fect. fhat they were outside his
province.
* * *
That is the s*atus of the pro
posed National Service Act to
date. There are bills pending in
Congress but none that haven’t
actually or in effect been pigeon
holed.
The only thing that would
bring them out would be another
outburst of strikes or threatened
strikes. Neither the President,!
other war leaders, or even Con-(
gress itself, is in any humor to*
put up with further work stop- j
pages, but observers are positive
that conditions would have to get!
much worse before a drastic Na- j
tional Service Act could find
enough votes to put it over.
What is more likley is that
anti-strike laws will be tightened
and labor leaders will see that
dissatisfaction is ironed out be
fore it reaches the work-stoppage
stage.
However, there is a feeling here
that the President’s real purpose
in suggesting it has been accom
plished. One observer referred to
the recommendation as a “mon
umental dud,” but every one
knows that duds explode if you
kick them around too much.
A SAFE PLACE TO
BE SHOT DOWN
BARAKOMA AIR BASE. Vella
Lavella—<AP>—A group of Amer
ican fighter pilots was seated in
their tent listening to a radio
tuned to the Tokyo propaganda
s'ation. These broadcasts inter
sperse. between their ■ exorbitant
claims of victory, good selections
of American swing and jazE.
Presently the music stopped
and the propagandist announced
the Americans had lost 26 fighter
planes over Rabaul the previous
day. By actual count U. S. losses
had been three planes.
Said Navy Ensign Sydney
Trueman of Birmingham, Ala., a
Hellcat pilot: “If I ever get shot
down in flames I hope it happens
over the Jap radio.”
TWO KINDS OF FUEL
IN GASOLINE TANK
EASLEY, S. C. — <AP)— Pick
ens county Sheriff W. H. Maud
lin made a thorough search of a
suspected rum-runner’s automo
bile, but it failed to reveal any
illegal spirits.
“Let’s look in his gas tank,’* he
suggested finally.
One peek was sufficient. The
tank had been divided cunningly
into two compartments. One con
tained five gallons of gasoline,
the other, 10 gallons of whiskey.
MARINES HAVE A DANCE
BOUGAINVILLE, Solomon Is
lands —tAP)— Bougainville has
its own sloppy little dance—the
“Piva walk.” It’s the term the
marines use for the high-stepping
gait necessary to slosh through
the mud to the four village, all
named Piva, in the Empress Au
gustus bay area.
Pin perfume-soaked dabs of
cotton to the hems of garments
to lend subtle fragrance to body
ind clothes.
Congress Full of
Sound and Fury
By JACK STINNETT
! WASHINGTON — If veteran
Capitol Hill observers here are to
j 'C believed, the second session of
i the 78ih Congress jus* convened
. 'S going to be more full of sound
• and fury, signifying less, than any
session since the Democrats came
o power nearly li years ago.
! The reasons they give are two:
■ T/.vk of leadership. It
j became apparent last session ’hat
'the Adminis'ration had complete
| tv and irrevocably lost control of
Congress. The best that it can
hope for now on any controver
sial measure <and some that
shouldn’t be' is a compromise.
On the other hand there is no j
leadership in Congress itself. The
Democrats are divided into three j
camps, the pros, the antis and the j
indifferent. The Republicans are
divided roughly into liberals and
conservatives, both jockeying for
power in the coming elec'ions.
It’s a situation that makes hap
py hunting for both big and little
pressure groups; utter confusion
for the layman 'rying to figure
out what the sam hill Congress
is driving at; and in the end pro
duces a min mum of vigorous,
constructive legislation.
j * * *
I Which brings us to the second;
reason: General election year.:
This always makes for a lot of
i *hat sound and fury, etc., but'
i
is likely to produce more so as
time goes on this year. (D be-1
cause the Democrats are worried;
(2) because the Republicans have
a Willkieite. anti-Willkieife bat
tle on their hands.
Excep' for the solidly planted
Southern Democrats in Congress,
the Democratic members are wor
ried. They would be foolish not
to be in view of the G. O. P.
r-1"' —
j
■ trend in the last few years which
j has given the lat'er virtual con
trol of the House, cut the Demo
cratic con.rol of tne Senate dan
gerously and swept many Repub
lican governors- into seats for
merly warmed by good Demo
cratic brothers.
! A few, though not many, are
worried with v.onder if Presi
! dent Roosevlel is going to run
! again and, if not. what colors will
j be in the standard that the un
i known nominee bears.
For the most part, even those
, who lay no claim to being in the
know consider the Administra
! tion’s faliure to groom an alter
nate as positive proof that the
President intends to bid for the
fourth term.
* * *
On the other hand, the Repub
licans, marking time 'until the
inner turmoil in their own party
takes some definite line, occupy
their days with blocking tactics
—knock ng down any and all leg
islation that is suspect of Ad
minis'raticn sponsorship or clip
ping it with leg-breaking riders.
Unlike similar tactics on the
gridiron, such methods in Con
gress merely result in freezing
the legislative football in mid
f:eld.
That, say the Capitol observers,
| is the picture. It hasn’t much to
| do with winning the war, but po
, litical disunity never has.
MULE TAMING
IS AN ART
i COLUMBIA. S. C. — (API—
;G. C. Rush of a state prison farm
insists the ability of rural
Southern Negro tc handle stub
born and fractious mules is un
surpassed.
Ap unbroken mule on the farm,
which officials believed cokZf not
be 'amed, was turned over *b five ^
Negro prisoners for a lost-resort
try.
The Negroes gathered around
the quivering, panic stricken ani- ’
mal and talked steadily to him lor
a quarter of an hour, finally
quieting him.
The next day. Rush said, only
four men were needed to deal
wi h the recalcitrant; the next
day, only three; and by the filth
day. one man was plowing with
the mule.
WILY FIJI SCOUT
TREES JAPANESE
SUVA. Fiji — <AP)— A Fiji
scout who knows his trees saved
an American reconnaissance force W
on a recent foray in the Solomons
Inching up a river, the Ameri
cans ran into deadly mortar fire.
Field glasses swept the valley but
fhe enemy battery could not be
detected.
Then the F jian scout pointed
to a cluster of trees on a hill
side.
“It’s the first time I’ve ever
$een that kind of tree growing
anywhere but beside the water,"
he said.
Fire was concentrated on the
trees and out popped a Japanese
mortar crew. The Americans
picked the Japs off as they scram
bled up the hillside.
ONE MORE MIRACLE
FOR MIRACULOUS JEEP
TOLEDO, Ohio — <AP)— The
army’s jeep—already * highly re
garded for i's versatility—now
can pull itself up by its own
bootstraps.
Its manufacturers here have
develpoed a rotary pulling mech
anism which enables the scout ear
to extricate i’self or other army
vehicles from deep mud.
A vertical winch, the appartus P
is mounted on the front end of
the jeep. It has a minimum haul
ing power of 2.000 pounds.
Advertise it tn The Nugget.
:*
ms NOW OR NEVER, AMERICA!
you must do more than ever before!
HE'S COME back from the'
bloody battle of Tarawa.
He’s faced death every moment
of the wray. Will ha say, "I’ve
done my part. I’m through.’’? Of
course not! For he is an Ameri
can fighting man. He’ll go back
again and again—until the job is
finished.
Your job isn’t finished yet,
either. Four times America has
asked you to do something extra.
in War Loan Drives—and four
times you have responded mag
nificently. But now the quota is
bigger—because the fighting job ,
is bigger! You mus^do more i
than ever before in the' 5th war |
LOAN DRIVE. Double your usual
extra War Bond purchases.
Triple them, If you can! Send
your dollars out to finish the jobl
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