The Home Front
BOHN, WILLIAM E.
The Home Front By WILLIAM E. BOHN Blueberry P/e Plus a Good Job SOMEBODY ought to write a good book about soldiers coming bark from the wan. The other day I glanced over again that volume of...
...That doesn't add up...
...He has not followed the development of funny strips through the years as I have...
...Cortes formed a government-ln exile, excluding the Negtln-del Vayo-Communist bloc...
...Writing from the rampa or battlefields of ? he devolution or the Civil War, the boys un.ally told tales of danger and heroism...
...The other day I glanced over again that volume of toller letters...
...It must he prevented at all hazards...
...I had a buddy killed alongside of me at Tarawa, and all he could think of before was whether he could get a good job when he returned to support hie new wife and a kid he'd never seen...
...Some of the men, Finnegan reports, have heard about the full Employment Bill, and they are all for it...
...But the other night I did make a 4 to 1 bet...
...INTERNAI rows sre kicking up within the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, set up by the Stalinists...
...The beauties of this comic-strip woild present a special problem...
...Since time out of mind they have been attending high school end, for - tunatelv foi their admirers, never learning enough to be graduated...
...he liad allowed his friends to do a little judicious advertising, V-J Day would have seen him established as a wizard...
...Shay's Rebellion followed the Revolution...
...MEETING in Mexico City, the Spam.I...
...Here the paper says they're going to release 7,600,000 and there's going to be 8,000,000 unemployed...
...LlSTON OAK, shy .chap that he is, hardly utters a peep about it...
...Elizabeth Moos who has been active in planting the Council's Russian propaganda and study outlines in schools and colleges nation-wide...
...The Broom, incidentally, has shown up in New York's Yorktown, former headquarters of the Nazi Bund...
...And their domestic and social status must be as permanent and calculable as their forms and features...
...My conscience bothers me s little...
...Comrades in charge of Council operations feel Lamont has outlived his usefulness and is becoming "independent" and insists on running the Council according to his ideas and not those of the Psrty fraction...
...Its thesis: anyone against Stalin must be a "TrotskyItc-Fssrint dog...
...Although the course had been booked for the fall and offered in-service credits for teachers, Wade abruptly told the Board that there were plenty of qualified teachers in the school system who could teach such courses/ One of the lecturers scheduled to outline the Stalinist program to teachers was Bernard J. Stern, Commy stalwart who wrote The Church and the Workers under the name of Bennet Stevens...
...Some of the sheets handed out in this race-hate propaganda are the Statesman, edited by Ku Kluxer Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, W. Lee O'Daniel News in Texas, and the Broom, published in San Diego, California...
...The depression of 1871, with all of its violence, came after the Civil Wer...
...After a couple of years of hell out here we don't want to go back to the hell of unemployment or even of makeshift jobs with low pay...
...y ROiIRT TOWNSfND, JR...
...Imagine the shock which would run through the nation If the machinists in Out Our Way were to go on strike...
...Den-nen, who writes regularly for The New Leader, spent nine months in the Balkans in 1944, cooperating with the labor anil anti-Nazi underground...
...In Detroit, America's racial volcano, the "Nationalists" are preparing a new explosion...
...At the very brink of the altar Boots will he rescued...
...Hovering forever un -attainable, ehe holds, presumably, a wide circle of admirers who find Substitut« satisfaction in her immaculate Charms...
...Commenting on labor's victory in Britain, the Broom finds her people "once largely blondish" becoming "darker and darker...
...Oar Soldiers Speak...
...Major Hoopte » nose may take on a little more volume, Cap...
...But both hope to organize independent storm troops composed of returning servicemen...
...Bulgarian Minister Alexander- Obbov complained over the Sofia radio that "We face the rather unusual situation of conducting elections almost without opposition...
...Senator Bilbo, Georgian bigot, plans to reintroduce into Congress his bill calling for the voluntary resettlement of Negroes in West Africa...
...For the time being, the Catholics in the Christian Front are cooperating with the organizers of tbo "White Protestant Crusade...
...What the hell alternative is there, if we're going to have 8,000,000 men out of work...
...His final triumph was to win a substantial bet by foretelling the downfall of Japan within a week of the actual date...
...Communist Party, urging a more militant program in the "cultural commission" set up by the Stalinists...
...Will Bell Ring for Boots...
...One thing is sure: if those veterans don't get jobs, there will be trouble...
...But he *>«de money out of the war—and he could have made more...
...No doubt cabinet members and generals sporting whole galaxies of stars would have been sufficiently interested to subvention him —not precisely as a ghoet-writer, but as a reader of the clouded crystal of the future...
...Since Negrin pledged In advance to abide by the Cortes' decision, the Negrln-del Vayo faction is now helpless...
...For as the war has gone on he has called one turn after another many months in advance...
...If there's going to be widespread unemployment, what chance are we going to have...
...But there was a problem...
...Their line is thst the Russians are behind the Negroes, snd thst by attacking the Negroes the Poles can help the cause of Polish freedom...
...He quotes remarks of the men about thoughts of home...
...She is the widow of Harold Ware, former CP Central Committee member, and former wife of Kenneth Dursnt, former director of TASS...
...The pro-Fascist crackpots are going all out against the Fair Employment Practice Committee...
...Well, we shall see what we shall see...
...These men yearn, as soldiers have always done, for the comfort, understanding and love of the old home...
...Youths may come courting, lights may be turned low, the wisecracks and jokes may be turned lower still...
...Marriage would end the magic...
...The tale of men who have fought and then returned home ie a continuing tragedy in the history of the world...
...Maybe history doesn't always repeat, it-Self...
...And this brings me bark to Boots and my bet...
...The Dayton Independent screams that "Jews are...
...My talents are of a much more modest sort...
...Meanwhile they pay Tip service to the new Cabinet, while secretly they intrigue against it...
...Kahn is the author, ulong with sidekick Michael Sayers, of The (treat Conspiracy which promises to expose "the inside story of Russia's Fifth Column" and give "the secret history of Leon Trotsky.'' It will also reveal "the names and records of anti-Soviet agents who seek to foment hostility between the USA' and the USSR...
...Al.bert ?. KAHN, who hss heatedly denied that he ia linked with the CP, spoke at the recent Neiy York State convention of the...
...For years and years she has led her butterfly existence while males slim and fat, handsome and ugly, have one by one failed to pin her down with a marriage license...
...The technique is the one used in the Moscow trials: the amalgam of democratic, socialist, and independent critics of Stalin with the Nazis...
...Labor Press Associates sent out the ether day a letter from Les Finnegan, their correspondent on the island of Guam...
...I am taking the youth's money under false pretenses...
...Oratory, war asais, glory, heroism—and then, the letdown...
...Stubbs' grandmother may become a bit mora dumpy and J. It...
...Extremely interesting information has been exchanged," said CIO President Philip Murray in accepting the Invitation, "and a firm basis has been laid for strengthening and cementing the relations between organized labor of the United States and the Soviet Union...
...The a FL is no partner in this friendship...
...Corporal Hewitt Jones, of Rockland, Maine, is quoted in summary of the opinion rrystalized in one bull session: "It's going to be hell on the men who are kept in service, because it is only logical that these guys who are discharged now are going to have the firat crack at the jobs...
...Corliss Lamont, who haa dutifully •fronted" for a score of CP apologist gioups including the Friends of the Soviet Union, is said to have offered his resignation to the Council which has deferred action until its executive council meets this month...
...Now under discussion Is s proposal for the formation of an American-Soviet Trade Union Committee which, would meet periodically for the discussion of problems of common interest...
...But there is a new note of realism...
...Being young, he has not had time to sense the deep laws in accordance with which they hold their public for one generation after another...
...The whole lot of them went through the depression without losing their jobs...
...control of England...
...And some of the men said they were ready to sign union eards right then...
...In fart, almost as free as Russian elections...
...He could have act up shop In Washington or some such center of superstition and coined his reputation into ruddy gold...
...Its pro-Nazi, anti-Negro, anti-Jew poison is being handed out free...
...They may atrip to the most tenuous and diaphanous of bathing suits, but no female saint immured by walls and sacraments ever remained more immaculate...
...But those who have seen these clever fellows handle the crises of Superman and Alley Oop will not waver in the faith which they repose in the artist...
...Freckles and his friends present sn aggravated case of retarded development...
...t * * Or...
...The only question in the minds of connoisseurs of this folk-art Is about the device by which the artist will escape from his predicament...
...We've got the richest country in the world, and if we can't provide jobs for workers who want them we ought to throw in the sponge...
...But the luciously drawn young ladies must remain untouched and untouchable...
...i bet four dollars against one — giving these odds to a favorite nephew who looks fine in a private's uniform—that Boots will not be married within the month...
...The major tactic of the Detroit white-supremacy boys is to turn the 360,000 Polish worker* against the 250,000 Negro workers In that city...
...The Stalinists swear that elections in Bulgaria and Rumania, postponed under us-British pressure, would be the moat free and democratic In liberated Europe...
...Shi ? fit ter Oren Bishop, of Pittsburgh, put it this way: "We've got to have a full employment program and not a lot of WPA projects...
...The Council's executive director of their stooge ("Committee on Education" is Mrs...
...But there is talk of reorganizing a new bloc of fellow-travelers around Negrin...
...Completely carefree they went their way and entertained us with their didos...
...I ran say for these soldiers whose opinions he summarises that they are thinking and saying things that show a greater awareness than their predecessors could boast in 1783 or 1865...
...Like the enchanted figures on ? eat ? Grecian Urn they are "forever young, forever fair"—or, at least, they preserve from age to age whatever forma and qualities they started with...
...Attempts by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship to obtain lecture "services" within the schools were also rebuffed...
...MURRAY EXTOLLS U. S. SOVIET LABpR AMITY Washington (LPA).—a CIO delegation will soon go to the Soviet Union, returning the current visit of ten Russian trade unionists touring the United Slates as guests of the CIO...
...I have to work for what 1 spend on strictly non-riotous living...
...JOHN E. WADE, Superintendent of Schools, handed the American Russian Institute a kick in the teeth recently when he ordered the Board of Superintendents to drop a lecture course for teachers sponsored by the CP's American-Russian Institute...
...In 1936 she registered as a Communist in Westchester County snd was active in the American Peace Mobilization...
...they wanted to know...
...His book tells of the betrayal of Balkan democrats by Moscow, London and Washington, and Russia's plan for a federation of pro-Communist states in the Balkans...
...Edwin S. Smith, former Labor Hoard member and Party sympathizer, is alio outranking Lamont in behind-the-scenes Council planning...
...1 am taking advantage of his ingenuous With just one exception, the inhabitants of Gasoline Alley, the prime quality of the comic -strip population is then eternity...
...Williams' proletarians may grow a shade more shapeless—but the law is thst everybody remain fixed lika the fly in the amber...
...By that time the soldier was pretty well sobered up...
...It has always been the sam...
...Need for s stronger political figure is also felt by the comrades and Jessica Smith, editor of the CP's Soviel Russia Today has moved in to take an active role in the Council work...
...The miserable tragedy of Anacostia flats was a part of the reward reaped by veterans of our Firat World War...
...They are the only part of the population which actually has security...
...In the letters from Prance in World Wer I there la mach less of bragadorio...
...Com i Nil on October 1 is Leon Dennen's new book, Trouble Zone, packed with dynamite on the Balkan situation...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 37
