Show i Views of the Press The governments government's income tax case against Uncle Joe Schenck as reported by our correspondent correspond correspond- ent confirmed the hinterlands hinterland's most sophisticated suspicions about the California Babylon Jeweled and actresses flitted through scarlet pages of testimony Week ends were spent on gilded yachts luxurious ous as Cleopatra's barge Hollywood's Hollywoods Hollywoods Hollywood's Hollywoods Hollywood's Holly Holly- woods wood's one gathered resentfully were stratospheres removed from the lot of the ordinary mortal So it was both surprising and re refreshing f r res e s hi n g to see ee a common ordinary weakness pop up Still there it was was' as down to earth as the h homespun song of the coonskin bard Schenck even as pS you and andI I just couldn't resist drawing to an Inside straight at once descended from Olympus Olympus Olympus pus and landed in plain old St St. Louis Post Dispatch We know as most individuals have discovered for themselves that there are times when it may not be wise to insist upon the utmost Jot and tittle of ones one's legal rights any more than it is always wise for a motorist to insist upon his legal right-of- right way at a traffic-jammed traffic street intersection In a day when a million young Americans are giving up jobs and homes to enter the service at 21 a month when countless others are making making making mak mak- ing sacrifices of many kinds when the president and most of the government personnel are working at top speed without without without with with- out thought of hours or anything anything any any- thing save defense defense defense-at at such a time labor should lean far backward before calling a strike anywhere Philadelphia Philadelphia R Rec Rec- Rec c- c ord The action of the United States in seizing axis ships tied up In American ports is perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- in accord with international International International law and fully justified under circumstances The only pity is that the action was not taken many months ago Sabotage Sabotage Sabotage Sabo Sabo- tage of craft tied up In harbor is a federal offense punishable by prison sentence and heavy fin fine It is p perfectly logical it should be so for a sabotaged vessel not only Impedes the normal operations of the port but constitutes a menace to safe navigation That the United States informed of sabotage plans of the Italian and German ship crews should seize these vessels was as proper and correct correct correct cor cor- a course as that a policeman policeman policeman police police- man should arrest a criminal dangerous to society Atlanta Atlanta Constitution |