The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
A Page of Features Americana Books Chatter The Home Front By William E. Bohn Pittsburgh Celebrate, WILLI Akt ?. ???? IMAGINE four handred friends of ??» w.__T j beautiful banquet haH ? ??^^?...
...In the streets and on balconies, crowds gathered and traded rumors with-casual abandon...
...As always on such moves to the front...
...This is one of the most compact and well-set trade unions in the land...
...other old and new friends were enthusiastically on hand to do their part...
...This technique produces in almost all cases a somewhat twisted historical account...
...Privileged, proud and regal, free from the vulgar fret, stand there, Junior Leagal...
...Money was given...
...As for Sultan Abd-el-Aziz, he returned sadly to his palace, in Mark Twain phrase, to count his spoons The Act of Algeciras left Germany out in the cold almost completely...
...Germany could have gotten Morocco, in ¦ ,··?< ¦¦: ?>: ..u-thuates and treaties...
...A man in a steel town—if he kept himself aloof—would be a funny fellow, a queer guy, an oddity...
...For some reason Lochner and Huss seemed to have gotten favored treatment from the Nazis...
...And she had money to throw away...
...The individual worker is now caught in the swing of great forces...
...They feign objectivity...
...This is no boom town...
...The women are doing good work...
...This may make "light reading" bat certainly not significant discussion...
...Wartime America TQM WIHSLOW ARMS AND THE PEOPLE...
...None...
...The outbreak of hostilities in 1914 had obviously meant the seizure of all German pioperty in Allied countries and colonies, so the lands, businesses and effects of the German- in Morocco went under the hammer...
...The trade union members simply failed to function as citizens...
...No line can be drawn between these taw...
...Transformation la Steel POUR or five years ago I used to go to that now not-so-smoky *> town at the headwaters of the Ohio to be seized by some organizer and whisked up one valley or the other to talk to steel workers...
...Those were great days...
...They waited...
...The characters most sympathetically drawn are a famous Vienna psychiatrist and his wife...
...There was only the white cloud in the blue sky...
...The treaty which followed the Agadir incident established the French Protectoaate of Morocco and legitienetised the economic and political infiltration which had so maddened the Germans...
...at prices which competed more than favorably with i.f.« r...
...But there was none...
...The planes nearby watched for "the white burst of parachutes...
...Kimpf...
...They take things more easily in their stride...
...F.F.V...
...Of course, you might point out that the old man never got anywhere, but neither did he end his days in a strange land chopping wood...
...Some chapters are well done...
...262 pp...
...But the others were there...
...His list includes William L. Shirer, Ralph Barnes, Joseph Barnes, Otto Tolischus, Beach Conger, Russell Hill, Wallace R. Deuel, Joseph Harsch and Howard K. Smith...
...Germany's consuls had cornered the prestige market.* In the eyes of the natives, Germany represented Might...
...The mein aspects of a subject are described in two or three paragraphs, and pages follow with personal stories...
...Hitler, like the Kaiser, lacked patience—the kind of patience which kept the Sultan's uncle out in the sun for two hoars...
...It is at the heart of both raw materials production and manufacture...
...A firm British stand, backing the French government, forced the Kaiser to desist, but when the' negotiations were through, he discovered with chagrin that his representatives had «von teat the barrel...
...and anything which troubles his sens.Uve soul must have importance...
...We hope the barber, sage or ladder...
...The hours are longer...
...Stand exquisite and brash in year frock like a fresh zinnia . . . bartered, poor white ash of a burnt-out Virginia...
...r* hr-wanted it right away...
...plan Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities a^ to have similar celebrations in due course The dynamic Sidney Stark was the mainspring of the Pitts-burgh gathermg...
...It has been »-ed by Westbrook Pogler...
...But the influence of the Berlin bureau of A.P...
...Alfred-A...
...her interests in North Africa had been small since the previous year when she had traded any designs on Morocco to France in return for a free hand in the Sudan...
...Helen tries to find time for their luve between spells as a First Aid nurse...
...No organizers rushing in and out...
...They were thinking together about the war, the peace, the problems of America and of the world...
...In his palace, the Sultan sat, wondering whether this last shuffle would bring more marked cards into the game or a new deal for his tottering, bankrupt government-Representing His Shereefian Majesty at the waterfront was the Sultan's uncle, protected from the sun's heat by a large umbrella...
...In addition, there is the fact that unionization is now the style...
...where he turned out this volume...
...What he has attempted in this book is to provide propaganda guides for cable editors, news broadcasters and* the general public, also, so that they will not fall for enemy double-talk...
...Since union ism is now the style, they join the union...
...the 150,000 refugees who have arrived in the United States during the last eight years, more than half have concentrated in New York City...
...was to ?? ?? ·!,·· . KiL'i 1 h:s...
...If we do not elect a New Deal president at that time—if we get a Republican Harding— the results will be far more tragic than they were twenty years ago...
...THE taste and smell of the war can be felt in this rapidly surging novel, his first, by an Australian war correspondent who has seen action on eight or nine fronts, been wounded three times and invalided to the U.S...
...Sorting Sei for 1944 The New Deal forces of Pennsylvania suffered their second great defeat in the recent election...
...There was slight excuse for it...
...When the Kaiser had pulled all the knives out of his back, he decided on mare emphatic means to express hie disapproval of the least-favored nation policy which had been handed Germany in Morocco...
...having retreated from country to country, are selling their jewels for a last fling in New York...
...To be good enough or them it must be vastly improved...
...Greeks, Australians, English, are tumbled about...
...Above all, there was interest in the paper, in its purpose, its character, its quality...
...4...
...The author, who was former hews editor of CBS, mastered the subject himself by the trial and error method...
...It was score one for him when Wilhelm preceded by his handlebar muetachios, stepped off the launch which had carried him across the shallow harbor and set foot on Moroccan soil...
...The important point will be to get a genuine New Dealer, nominated on the Democratic side...
...is the eastern gateway to the Mississippi valley...
...n.«k< «>:" the pot in whirl) '¦-' '¦ · ?8...
...op the short wave, through agents in neutral capitals and by quoting stories originating in satellite nations...
...France's "special position" was recognised and control of the State Bank remained in Paris Even that recurrent bone of contention, the policing of Moroccan ports, wae left in the hand...
...THERE have been a great many books on propaganda, bat this is one of the few in which there is any original thinking...
...Certainly in "Signed With Their Honour" that current is speedy and resistless, building the yarn into a wide concern for the victims of this fierce and most bitter conflict, struggling for their liberties and lives...
...If any man tells you he loves America yet hates labor, he is a liar...
...Gordon's book is studded with examples of their successes over a four-year period...
...It had the productive capacity, the trained personnel...
...There is no America without labor...
...Jiis wife and children would feel left out of things...
...The ' Republican administration of Governor James has done its best to debouch the labor and social legislation of the state...
...On the whole, however, he manages to convey a good deal of the spirit of American people in days of war: the ballyhoo of the ads, the "college4ry" attitude, the ladies in uniform, the activity of big and little business, the boon towns, agriculture, housing, migration, and anally the possible effects of all this on a post-war America...
...2.75...
...2.50...
...Barber Poll Bai-bers at Convention Pledge End to Look Talk tor the Duration...
...They were not yet ready to accept the theory of German invincibility...
...Clint Golden happened to be away—much to my regret...
...Stand, busy beauty, keen oa interior decoration, fox-hunting, being seen by all the peeping nation...
...The setting of pay and hours is a part of national and state policy...
...And Germany wanted Morocco...
...It is a constant necessity...
...i .. ile-n-iuv t* tween Hitlers brand of histrionics and the Kaisi · ?··.·-!· ·< ?«: fear of France and the reluctance of Bnta:n, thev w«*re not stampeded by the Kaiser's bluster...
...If the War Labor Board sets the wages, some are asking, why does John Doe need to pay union dues ? The boys in the Steel Workers' office say that membership of their locals is growing...
...Men who were in Casablanca at the time still re-live with surprise the days when the total extent of Germany's holdings in Morocco was revealed...
...a The great job has been done...
...To one who has been away as long as I it was like walking into a new world...
...What said I,"-and lamsuiemy voice trembled just a little-"What to becoming of^ charmtl What will happen to female lure, something which is...
...While the Kaiser lost one diplomatic advantage after another...
...Little Brown & Co...
...The explanation is very simple...
...But the war, rushing ahead of them, calls Quayle back to Africa...
...behalf of Moroccan "libi.:!y...
...Louis Lochner of the Associated Press and I were assigned to his car, giving us sometimes an added advantage over those in the cars behind us...
...How much influence Huss was able to exert through the Hearst press was probably not significant...
...Louis Lochner and Pierre Huss of anything...
...He wanted ev...
...these were riddled by German enterprise...
...our most important national resources ?» The answer W ing...
...Nor secrets of the High Command Divulged around the shoe shin* stand...
...Advertisement) Stand by the heirloom highboy (with the original-handles) looking the lovely hostess in the flattery of candles...
...must have been considerable...
...Standing there, one's eyes naturally turn westward...
...Matthew Gordon...
...I could get the spirit of the organization, the lay of the land...
...Pittsburgh, the old Fort Duquesne...
...Had he tripped and fallen on his face, his grano entrance could have been no more symbolic...
...Gordon does not accuse Messrs...
...V Women, Work and Charm TfltTHEN my train plods up to Altoona and sweeps majestically " down around the Horseshoe Curve I have some such feeling as our pioneers must have had when they toiled through the gaps of the Alleghanies in their covered wagons...
...Americans are too wary of canned speeches and similar devices...
...But when they arrive as refugees, there is a marked coldness among the same colleagues, who fear that refugee doctors will encroach...
...THE rest of the story is history: his touching „ ?; ig, lutcie " with an eye to the diplomatic gallery, "fron...
...New subscriptions were obtained...
...Harper and Brother», 1942...
...German capital had been finding outlets beyond the coe-frned areas of Central Europe From as economic point of view, the Germans did not have to conquer Morocco: they practically owned it anyway...
...All this Germany knew, and her appetite was whetted by the added knowledge of the Anglo-French desire to maintain peace in Europe, the unsettled state of mind which reigned in the Quai d'Orsay...
...There was discriminating praise...
...The year was 1905, the date March 31st...
...Any order, no matter how small, wae tal" / · tbc ti...
...to Agadir and backed it with a threat to blow the living daylights out of world peace if he were not permitted to aid in the salvation of Africa in general and Morocco in particular...
...By I Mel Rott...
...The trade union organizers had the facts...
...Spain, bolstered only by pretensions of grandeur, trembled quietly...
...But the Nazis have, skillfully developed the use of news as a propaganda medium...
...There must be general policies covering him and his fellows across the continent...
...Gossip About Refugees By MABEL TRAVIS WOOD ISLE OF ESCAPE...
...He falls, among other things, in love with a Greek girl, Helen Stangon, whose family are also fighting...
...For had Hitler been willing to folioi' Mat Wt-slS exhortation, had he been_/k man who couW take his time, had he spaced out his treaty violations over longei periods of time, he might not be fighting at all today—and the New Order would be much less of a joke than it is after three years of war...
...And the arroga¦··.· ;Kai-m-'s consular officials, their habit of acting like ·· 1 Suiiai--- 'in-added to the respect and admiration...
...IT/HEN the final reports are in, the manner in " which America reacted to the war in Europe and to its extension to the Pacific will make wonderful reading...
...No town is doing more for the war than this one...
...And later on I learned that there are great mills where percentages of women workers go boon*"* up from ten to twenty to thirty per cent...
...L · So when I arrived on Saturday morning among the hills and blast furnaces I streaked straight for the Commonwealth Building, borne of the United Steel Workers...
...It is packed with the excitement he must have known...
...But there in that bright banquet hall, our people were massed, united, formed into a group...
...300 pp., $2.50...
...Phil Murray, Clint Golden and the others were right on the firing line, working mght and day...
...Here in the Office we receive hundreds^ letters They give us praise, criticism, opinion...
...over the natives, there it is...
...Miss Ross, an excellent reporter who for many years was on the staff of the New York Herald -Tribune, presents pages of facts and background on the refugee problem through her reporter-hero, Bill Deering, as mouthpiece...
...Phil Murray is in Washington now...
...At least this is what I was told m Pittsburgh...
...not let us forget ?-f an .. '.· repeated it w (.-!:· "ia...
...It's ? Wide War By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY SIGNED WITH THEIR HONOUR...
...Or, to be prophetic, with a bullet in his back...
...And then discoveries were made...
...Nor probes of Congressmen and jurists Near Mate Hari manicurists...
...But life moves on much as it did ten years ago—or twenty or thirty...
...That is as it should be...
...I had the feeling—to an extent to which I have never had it before— that this paper represents the views and interests of a great body of men and women extending across this continent...
...But at the end of the session...
...Work costumes are being designed not are rest-rooms and dressing-rooms that serve a*beauty^nu When the girls take off thir overalls and ^e.^m^oe uptor home and street, you'd be surprised...
...Folks are less disturbed there...
...The mines, the real estate, the import-export trader—al...
...Munich and 1 :!;· < ? :..·-' Award...
...Instead, we got hi« ? : ¦ ·¦ .«·· ·??*~ carafes...
...Despite his pledge will reconsider...
...barrel while the French and the Spanish locked away their secret commitments, smiled happily, and wondered why the Germans didn't stick to philosophy and the manufacture of large boots...
...As I faced those people my faith in this paper and its purposes JSC...
...About one poinf the men in the Steel Workers' office set me right without hesitation...
...Inside and Out uill appear again in a neu> issue.] Lincoln on Labor ALL that serves labor serves the nation...
...By James Aktridge...
...HE story of Germany's iise-and fall, however, has always bean * associated in my mind with a pair of elegant brass carafe* which sat in splendor on my Mother's sideboard...
...Patience or a sense of duty or mere inertia kept Mm and hfs umbrella in attendance for two hours while the diplomatic staffs sweated and swore and finally drifted back to their consulates...
...i Europe's...
...but somehow in the rush of this story a sense of it all comes effectively through, so that it proves not merely a lively narrative, but a genuine opener to the rouse and the meaning behind...
...If you are looking for historical parallels he...
...Quayle, a British aviator, is rushed from Libya to Greece, to help the struggling people there...
...They entertained handsomely in Vienna for the doctor's New York colleagues j when they visited New York in pre-war days, they were shown every honor and courtesy...
...2.5...
...This is a global war...
...And more than this...
...His job was to understand the Axis propaganda technique thoroughly enough so that he could protect CBS listeners from the Naii message disguised as "aewa...
...None...
...There was a warm feeling of comradeship in worthwhile work...
...When Hitler attacked Yugoslavia and Greece," the INS man wrote, "Boemer (Karl Boemer, Propaganda Ministry representative) arranged for the usual trip of some foreign correspondents with the German army and he himself went along...
...Goebbels and his associates know a great deal more about their job than did their counterparts in World War I. They do not go in for the obvious propaganda tricks...
...Gordon quotes an article by Huss in which he told of a trip to the front...
...26...
...but in each part it is fought with an intensity of direct concern, as though each pebble were the final goal...
...Wilhelm was tossed a piece of Equatorial Africa which no one had wanted m the first place...
...For while the Kaiser had played out his enumerable musical comedies, acting in the traditional opera bouffe manner, toe businessmen of Germar.y—the men with the real imperial vision—had been busy...
...The War of Nerves By ROBERT G. SMACK NEWS IS A WEAPON...
...Now the Social Democrats, the liberals* and the politically alert trade unionists have their eyes fixed on 1944...
...Springfield, 111., October 1, 1854...
...Indeed, an over-sudden and Of talk conceivably could teed To bring on nasty nerve disorders...
...The circle nSSr?*?«?2: tSiS^SSSt-i" Wor!rn'8 these People were the speaker's A'eSS^b^CAT ested...
...Britain watched from the sidelines...
...but the hours seem unending...
...Sarah and Emil Limbach and man...
...tlu Ikm VAUimg of the Imperial -1...
...Too much attention is directed to the international nightclub set, who...
...392 pp...
...the atmosphere tense...
...Gordon's thesis is that Dr...
...smoking a cigarette...
...reinforced...
...But there are too many examples of their uncritical acceptance of the Propaganda Ministry's hand-outs to be regarded as pure coincidence...
...As a result, the book does not quite succeed in being either a statistical and sociological survey or an engrossing story...
...And their lieutenants all worked with real devotion...
...This story alone would have made a fine and moving book...
...Also, in her endeavor to present as much of the picture as possible, the author has covered too broad a canvas and introduced too many characters...
...The physician who has healed so many minds discovers that all his knowledge is no remedy against his own growing despair...
...By Alden Steven...
...The similarity ;>a::» it is uviU remarkable...
...With this fact before them the people of thie commonwealth—with a larger proportion of trade unionists than any other in the union—elected another Republican who promises to be at least as bad as...
...The time was last SundaVevening P • Th« assemblage was the first result of a bright *ea which has been evolving in the enterprising minds of our BoardTf Director^ They propose to banquet The New Leader into...
...Under the hot and very blue Mediterranean sky, en a small dock never meant to witness such epic events, the entire diplomatic population of Tangier gathered, waiting for the funnels of the Kaiser's yacht to rise over the horizon...
...He must be represented...
...As an individual he is helpless...
...A detailed examination of Lochner's dispatches over the last ten years might prove revealing...
...In This Time By RALPH ? TOLEDANO I WAS not yet born when the Kaiser visited Tangier—lighting * lbs* old city with the flare* of international politic*—bet 1 have spoken to some who were titers, it was a greet day of climax and anti-climax, end had the world but known it, a few seeds of the Great War to come were scattered then...
...Kaiser Bill sent a gunboat, the Panther...
...So if there are no rumors started While hair is wet and being parted...
...The union is now not a thing which can be joined one day and left the next...
...were suspiciously easy—six month* to a year is >» 1 . ¦ ,.*1 If you want an economic motive for the inftaence...
...There, in a Huricane sent out against a flight of bombers, he crashes headlong into a Messerschmitt...
...h<j went home 11...
...Their problems deserve the most penetrating analysis...
...It took me no time at all to see that women have movedI inion the rough work of-the world...
...others, such, as that on labor, are on a highschool level...
...scarcely do most of them know what's occuring in any sector other than that of their immediate activity...
...For the present, interim reports such as Alden Stevens' Arms and the People, which tells as much of the drama as has been enacted in swift journalistic style, are valuable...
...Jb™*™n chines, on the average, less frequently than men...
...The names of Huss and Lochner are among the missing...
...the last, you can start right here...
...But I had a question about something else...
...Unfortunately, the account is very uneven...
...For into the stew that was Morocco, another great power was attempting to stick its spoon...
...Sl?^ ?nter ?? America...
...It is the beginning of the Middle West...
...The whole feeling is different from what we are used to on the Coast...
...iJitjx ndent sovereign to another independent sovreign...
...It is the accepted pattern of life...
...The men at the head of it are doing a great job of administration...
...The book is a pioneering job...
...So is that of the locals of Auto Workers, Glass Workers, Aluminum Workers...
...Harpers...
...Being very practical folks, these supporters of The New Leader in Pennsylvania are making up their minds what they can do, how they can throw their weight where it will count most...
...Social Democrats were ther...
...If any man tells yoa he trusts America yet fears labor, he is a fool...
...rejections, imperfect products turned back, is good...
...He would be suspected of not being quite all there...
...This seems to have been particularly true of the Berlin bureaus of the Associated Press and International News Service...
...Newspaper headline How can a barber who for years Has synchronized his tongue and shears Abruptly stop the eae from wagging And with the ether keep from lagging...
...They had once belonged to the German Minister in Tangier, and it had taken a World War To move them from his house to mine...
...The office ie now the quiet and efficient center of a great and permanent institution...
...William Von Essen was the grlous char-man, and Jane Tate made an appeal for financial support that was so earnest as to be irresistible...
...eager...
...It would be like not belonging to the right church...
...Dilys Bennett Loinq...
...His second major attempt had the kind of subtlety which a Nazi would relish...
...Together we were considering how The New Leader can fit into the picture of colossal and fast-moving events...
...In the Pennsylvania 8^»«" now do the janitor work...
...Threats of war could topple cabinets, then as now...
...Theorists in New York have been saying that our present set-up of federal labor administration reduces the function of the union to the vanishing point...
...of the Spanish and the French...
...The population has but slightly increased...
...But the solution to the tragic problem of the refugee physician cannot be a "deus ex machine," to which the author resorts in this case...
...And ^ SSStfElnfwSb pay checks there's a sparkle and a bounce that woulddo any man s heart good...
...As well aa nicks and ragged borders...
...It honored "the economic internationalization" of Morocco ia word, but in deed...
...port to this paper...
...More people are working...
...Read the documents of the Algeciras Conference and you will understand what Diplomacy as she is Spoke can be like...
...tn- ut-uuud for an imnv «· iiisuonal conference U '¦¦ ·. in...
...But the place is not upset...
...She could have gotten other A' .· - and time really rivaled the British and the Fren< ···¦ ; ? Bin (>>·¦ Kaiser was greedy and in hurry...
...The characters are all too hurried on their own concerns to become real: but figures in a war are perhaps little more than automata borne along by the swift current...
...But there w.i...
...There is not enough about the courageous rank and file of professional people and workers who are struggling to adjust themselves to a new life...
...And they had come together specifically to 5w...
...The author's brisk, informal style .centers on human interest material and personalities...
...When the Kaiser's yacht hove into sight, only the Sultan's faithful uncle remained...
...There were warehouses full of German goods, sutd 1...
...Though significant in themselves, these slow up the novel's action...
...There never was a better job of organizing—honest and thorough and enthusiastic...
...And the French sharpened the knives of diplomacy with perceptible anxiety...
...RICHARD ARMOUR...
...Aside from -his message, which is that we ought to tell our own story more skillfully and profit by the enemy's experience, this book rather obliquely brings to light how our own news services were serving as Nazi propaganda agencies, perhaps inadxerteritly...
...their stories have enough drama for many novels...
...Wilhelm and his ministers made their threats and had their tantrums...
...their practice...
...In the paragraph immediately following, Gordon lists the correspondents who were able "to keep their perspective...
...James...
...All that harms labor is treason to America...
...In return for these favors...
...Stevens covers the whole story briefly but always interestingly, and with an eye to the effect of the "defense effort" on the everyday lives of ordinary people...
...My experience in Pittsburgh has made me a dented convert to...
...of SSr glory...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 49
