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SOUTH BEND PUBLIC LIBRARY, 304 S.MAIN ST., CITY* omb Drafts Russia Into War On Japan innoRBIFF! BOOM! BANG! FOR NIPS FRIDAY, AUGUST 10th, 1945 HIROHITO FACES "BITTER END" PREFERRED TO PEACE UREKA (I have found it). Biff! Boom! And immediately come Russia, ally of the Al­ Bang! And a jagged-circular two-thirds lies in the war on Germany, and, casts its lot on ELIEVE IT E of what was the city of Hiroshima, Japan, the tail of the bomb—almost as though she were is now a hole in the ground, 150 feet across, 35 waiting to "cap the climax." And the "bitter QR ELSE feet deep, blown eight miles high, addenda to end" (emphasis being placed on the "bitter"), leveling everything two miles farther, and which Hirohito's militarists vowed they would MBA T O' THE COCONUT wrecking an area eight miles around—with only "fight right up to" rather than accept the Pots­ ten pounds of it. They call it the Atomic Bomb. dam terms of "unconditional surrender" — that -.-• BY -:- might have saved the Japanese color,— SILAS WITHERSPOON I Ten-Pound ATOMIC BOMB 2,000 Times As looms somewhere around the corner. Recently a Disastrous As This "Grand Slam" and Moreso Russia had a million men in Siberia CAREFUL FOLKS! FEPC man ran a Than 20,000 Tons TNT ready for the fray before she said "aye." want ad. They have been watching Manchuria MAf GET YOU IF YOU in the lo­ and keeping a weather eye on Korea. cal "one Another two million, saith Molotov, is DON'T WATCH OUT. IT and only" burning1 the rails of the Trans-Siberian for a mid­ railroad,;headed east from their experi­ IS EXCLUSIVE MAHER dle - aged ence in fighting the Nazis, to give the woman or Japs a taste of their vinegar. American OF__ COLOR AND CREED thereabo u t air bases around Vladivostok were all to come into his home, do the house work, ready for occupancy. and be company and take care of a sickly Ten pounds of atomic bomb is 2,000 wife; could have room, meals, Sundays and times as powerful as anything ever nights off; good pay. Answers were many dropped before—Britain's "Grand Slam" and varied. The venture was a success,—but which blew an off-England island off the it opened the eyes of the advertiser; wide map on a tryout,—and more destructive open. There were old women, young wom­ than 20,000 tons of TNT. Germany had en, middle-aged women, refined, coarse, fat, it almost but not quite. Could Hitler lean, white, black. He got his jolt from the have held out for perfection it might negress. When he told her the job was taken, have been us instead of Japan to get the which was a fact, she took a brace, squinted blast. It was a race. We won against her eyes, and threateningly demanded to (On Page Three) know: "Are you lying to me, and turning me down, just because of my color?" FEPC flashed across the employer's mind Girls Expose Civil Air Patrol in Airport War like lightning. He had thought he was for Board, is a major in CAP (the Civil Air Patrol). such a law, not realizing the scope, nor the ISTORY is in the making at the South and Ramsey a lieutenant, and that the aforesaid impudence or implications, of which it might Bend Airport as well as in Tokyo, Pots­ CAP carries on much of its work at the airport of­ be capable, — and his attitude instantly H dam and Washington, London, Moscow, fices at the county's expense. changed. "No," said he, "I'm not lying to and such ex-military centers as Berlin, Rome, Paris, Ramsey, they say, is domineering, dictatorial and you. The job is taken, but if it wasn't I cer­ Tunisia, Manila and Pearl Harbor. History in.these betimes disgusting, is unable to get along with the tainly would discriminate against you for times consists of just one row after another,—and airline, and army air force that very reason, your color,—and especially everybody scrambling for managers, and keeps up a now, in the light of your temper. I do not perpetual peace. The girls ar History Being Written constant tat-tat to frighten wish a colored housekeeper, nor companion the airport—Mrs. Vassie D. all the help into silly sub­ for my sick wife, who has to be helped about $eyrer, chief clerk for eight mission, kowtowing to his sometimes and somewhat, and I am anarchist years, and Mrs. Marianne whims. He is busy building to any anti-discrimination law that deprives Zurbuch, clearance officer,— up a machine at the airport me of that discretion. Get out of here." are not going to be dismiss­ of CAP satellites, apparent­ ed for "incompetence and It ended the interview. Told of the inci­ ly striving to run the place inefficiency," a blot on their dent I began to wonder and started to inves­ for their benefit, rather than future livelihood, without tigate. Had the man discriminated would he the county's, according to letting the public know have been subjecting himself durance vile? their story. Much of their something about the where­ And is the FEPC movement inciting the ne­ time, almost most of it, has gro to such impudence as would render a ases and wherefores. been utilized in the service white slavery successor to the black man's un- Not Benito Mussolini, of CAP. Ramsey claimed to der-privileges ? If it is, congress had better not Ybshihito Hirohito, noT them that he had authority (On Page Two) Adolf Hitler, started this for them to do the work aggression, but Howard E. from Major Wattles, mem­ Ramsey, manager of the ber of the aviation board. port, and according to the Mrs. Beyrer and Mrs. MISSING: Page Thirteen girls tbeir elimination re­ Zurbuch had an unofficial By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN ROHLFS sults" not from "incompe- (Copyright) hearing before Walter G. *^p&£ and inefficiency" but Eckler, president of the GONE BEFORE §Pr!&3__%brt of "purge" to IOLET STRANGE is at a ball and is called sud­ Board of County Commis­ denly to the Van Broecklyn mansion, off Harlem "make room for his pals in V.where a wedding party was being given for Flor­ sioners, Monday. The board ence Digby. Something happened that must be cleared the civil air patrol." As they up before next day or the marriage couldn't go on. refused to sit in a body, or A Mr. Spielhagen had invented a formula that would put it, Charles P. Wattles, transform an industry. Mr. Van Broecklyn also had an officially, disclaiming au- idea without which he declared Spielhagen's formula member of the Aviation (On Page Eight)- '.. (On Page Three) Page Two THE MIRROR What is a bona fide occupational qualification is nOt clear. A reli­ ELIEVE IT gious bookseller would prob-: ably be permitted to hire only] OR ELSE! persons in sympathy with the? creed whose l__5ef_atu_e he was (From Page One) distributing. It is less clear,- listen a bit to the south on the subject, despite the apparent altru­ however, that an Italian restau­ ism involved, for there are a lot of people up here in the north— rant will be entitled to hire only to hades with the politician's bid for the colored vote,—who Italian cooks or that a watch-: would go to hades themselves before they would submit to what maker will be allowed to hire; this negress sought to imply. Has an employer of a domestic, only Swiss watchmakers, or 2i nurse, or companion for his wife, coming into his .home, no right machine shop only Swedish ma-: to exercise, viz; discretion? * chinists, on the ground that In the light of the incident, here are a few things that my in­ those particular arts are—best? vestigation brought' out. practiced in those countries. j|c • ?f if. Jfe Bona fide occupational qualifi­ FEPC under the federal anti-dis­ cations may vary with the job Hoosiers Tone Down crimination law, and which is pend­ rather than with the employer;! ing in congress for revamping from e.g., a Negro newspaper may be On Federal Formula a war measure into an all-time in­ justified in maiatainifeg a Negro sistence, might be construed into editorial staff and possibly a Ne-; But Two-Edge Sword heading this "home conservator" gro business office, but might direct for the hoosegow, that is, had not be allowed to require that Ii he done any discriminating, and fur­ its compositors and pressmen be Still Hangs Mid-Air ther it might almost be construed Negroes,—-and so ©__-. that rfe did discriminate when he failed to wait for this negress sfs sfc sj: j{c to arrive and put in her application. .She was no slouch; quite I an educated woman. FEPC furnished a model for the Indiana Of anti-discrimination law passed by the last assembly, effective when course Race and Greed the acts are published, if ever. Indiana toned it down a lot, but_ labor here is what Washington has to offer, and no doubt what the unions colored woman had in mind: have the ' "It shall be an unlawful employment practice: edge "1. For an employer, -because of the race, creed, color or national under Similarly Downed origin of any individual, to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to' FEPC discharge from employment such individual or to discriminate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges as Usual, FEPC Bans of employment.

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