SOUTH BEND PUBLIC L1BRA1Y, 1 304 S.MAIN ST., CITY. SIXTY MILLION JOBS NOT SO MANY WHEN "WHITE COLLAR" BOYS GET MOSCLED IN SERVICE OUTWEIGHS SOLIDS FRIDAY, MARCH 16th, 1945 *££??*« FACTORY HANOS ONLY 25% of NEEOFOL at NATION'S RESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S 60,000,000 post­ the president wasn't talking so big after all. It ELIEVE IT war job challenge, thrown at the country meant only about 8,000,000 more jobs than pre­ P mid-campaign, and which the opposition war, all manner of jobs considered, and these at OR ELSE undertook to laugh down, has now been taken up gainful employment instead of WPA. by American industry to the tune of 56,000,000 Notwithstanding the greatly increased labor ME A T O' THE COCONUT —and out of the wash conies the knowledge that (On Page Four) -.-• BY -:- SILAS WITHERSPOON I Conquered Countries Finger Noses at Rescuers "Herm New- OT Russia, not Poland, or Holland, or Ar­ please, and already has the "big three" wonder­ some and Al. "GO FEATHER YOUR gentina, but France appears more and ing just how big was their possible mistakes Doyle are N more the big stumbling block on the road when after Africa, they took on Gen. Charles de plannin' to NEST" MADE G.O.P, to post-war peace. She'is getting cockey as you Gaulle, self-setup leader of the Free French un­ quit their jobs ANTHEM BY AUTHOR in the court derground, and sort of passed house, come I CAUSE AND EFFECT! up Gen. Henry Honore Gi- OF NEW COURT LAW April 2nd, an' raud. De Gaulle is proving himself exactly the adven­ the idear ain't original with them either," as Abe Martin, would put it,—and speakin' of I Cohered Cooties y,' J'j; turer, and "man of fortune," "th' ejjucashunal value of newspapers," that many feared. A growing might add, "jus' look 'ow they egsaggerated mystery surrounds de Gaulle's th' death and burial of John, Barleycorn." attitude and actions of France, However, people do die, and are buried, and now that American and Brit­ more or less certain, where there is a divorce, ish troops have freed that na­ or should be, John enters in—and the county tion from control by Germany. gets the children. Wherefore the new probate- This mystery was only juvenile court that has been foisted upon us deepened when Gen. de Gaulle, —and how much that we see by the papers, provisional head of France, can be depended upon? "In Ex-Editur Cale snubbed the president of the Fluhart's day," said Ken Hubbard (whom United States by refusing a7* Abe Martin aped), "they meant their words, invitation to meet with him. i but newspaperin' like evvurything else, seems It previously had taken on real bein' modernized." importance when the general Watch the new boy, the "emergency" boy, announced that France would ease in, with his retinue and take over. Well, turn Dakar into a great the Republicans gave us Superior Court No. French military base—a move 2 to make a job for a Republican, by ap­ that was regarded as a slap at pointment from the governor, and it has this country, with her deep in­ never had but one Republican judge since. * * * * terest in that spot. The story is There was mystery, too, WHO CAST DECIDING anonymous ; suroundiiig the exclusive deal one of those that General de Gaulle made "DIE" IN BRINGING things that with Premier Josef Stalin, act­ you can't quite ing for Russia. After that pin down. I deal, the French demanded " • PROBATE-JUVENILE don't believe "permanent presence of COURT TO REALITY it but it is cur­ French forces from one end of rent, that Gov. Ralph F. Gates had Senate the Rhine to the other," which Bill No. 200 on the "pocket veto" file until would .give France a dominant he got the "go sign" from a certain South voice in control of the Rhine- Bend man-—not National Committeeman E. land, Ruhr and Saar. They in­ M. Morris either. Maybe Morris just "passed sisted that France share the buck." "You have had a great deal tc (On Page Three) say in your paper in apparent opposition to the probate-juvenile court bill for St. Joseph (On Page Two) For People Whose Bowels "Bellyache" Their Brains HISPERING Jennies" of the G. O. Being crippled doesn't necessarily affect longev­ Street Scene P., who have been busy in every ity. Loss of some function of the body seems be­ (Copyright^ "W:presidentia l campaign, since and in- times to strengthen others. Now, however, the presi­ :luding 1932, consigning President Roosevelt to the dent is saving his energy for tasks ahead, and mak­ graveyard, have their answer in a recent account in By JAMES F. FARRELL ing wider use of the wheel chair; let the gossips AY, do I belong to the human race?" the the United States News (Washington),—remind­ old man asked himself aloud as he stood ing them of how badly they have been fooled, or whinney. He is going in for more relaxation and a 'S at the corner of Ninth Street and Michi- gossiped for scare purposes, many of the beliers hav­ different attitude toward the handicaps that resulted gan. It was an Indian summer afternoon. Across ing gone to their tombs while he survives. The can­ from infantile paralysis; his drawback. He has to fee street in Grant Park, there was a playograph recording the World Series base ball game be­ didate that they had, for instance, in 1940, would see officials, generals, admirals. Policing Germany, tween the St. Louis Cardinals and the New* York never have seen his term through, had he been moving troops from the European to the Pacific area (On Page Seven) elected. (On Page Five) II 4 Page Two THE MIRROiR Here is what Sen­ lew Lop How to "Unscramble ators Mead (D. ELIEVE IT N. Y.), Ferguson (R. Mich.) and OR ELSE! Egg" Has Senatorial Mitchell (D. Wash.) learned in (From Page One) Committee Stumped Detroit from their county," the governor addressed the scribe or four days of hearings on the man-power situa­ words to that effect. "Now how do you really tion, seeking from management and labor sug­ stand on it? Do you want it or don't you? I'm gestion on how best to utilize the. man-power on told that you want it but don't want to offend hand. They found that: certain people. If you want it you can have it." 1. There apparently is a limit to the average war And the answer was, "I want it." worker's interest in money. If true it is an exhibition of duplicity, insin­ William Scott, superintendent of Chevrolet's forge cerity, and false pretense, that should forever con­ shop, testified that his workers stopped production sign the influence of that paper to "suspicion." after they earned $18 a day in ineentive pay. It can be settled by the voice of the paper itself. Carl Wilber of Timken-Detroit Axle Co. said his The man who is said to have said "I want it," men produced only their quota despite piecework is the man in supreme authority over there; no rates. *'!ff*'ii''. 2. ' War plant workers frequently loaf during the mere reporter. I'm not saying where or who but last hour of a shift. Spokesmen for the United Auto­ it isn't here—or situs of any South Bend paper mobile Workers (CIO) admitted it was a general that spiels weekly, or "weakly." If St. Joseph practice. The union contends it is entirely a man­ county owes that court to such double-cross, or agement problem. don't, it should know it. If the story is true the 3. Management unanimously believes that fac­ tories can produce from 10 to 35 per cent more war bill was all but dead when the voice in question goods on present manpower if the men will work performed not only a resurrection but ascension. harder. The bill is a law now. The paper owes it to it­ 4. The UAW-CIO believe auto manufacturers self, as well as the public, to affirm or deny its have joined in a concerted effort to "break" the responsibility. At present I am in doubL Please union during the post-war era. remove my doubt. 5. The auto manufacturers believe that the UAW- * * * * CIO is trying to take over management functions. With that information at hand the sena|§g^ 7 having investigated first hand, should know'ft^^ Better Sense Would ^TP ^ &y what to go about, and go about it,—but how? d n Monkey-business from the beginning, govern­ Have Given Superior bL\^ $U * mental, unionistic and industrial, all, are respon­ perhaps, than Adolf Hitler and Yoshihito Hirohito. Talk about sible, and as the elder J. Pierpont Morgan told Ail "i i is, right now, seeka-t militarism; they're employing the tactics of all four. It is mili­ Teddy Roosevelt when the latter set about to bi^fe Court Juvenile and j»st° **«*<* tarism politicalized. They're using it, with the club of patriot­ the North American Railway combine: "Yoif _ least excuse the 1m- ism in its support, to effect a post-war situation favorable to can't unscramble an egg." b their newdeological control. No, WLB and WPB didn't solve the loafing Probate Jurisdiction :^%J^ & That 900,000 boys, and on up, purportedly needed for the problem by their "incentive" allowance,—anoth­ fies. We have no more use for such a court than armed forces, savors of a plan for compulsory military training er way to get around the "Little Steel" formula a cat has of two tails, but assuming that probate lor pretty much everybody, whether congress orders such train­ without throwing down the bars to the mine workers, and others really more deserving of wage and juvenile matters should be handled by a ing or not; that is, pretty much everybody presently within the court, and not be referees of another court, why allowance?.