Show r News From New y York Behind and Washington the Telegram News Correspondents Today Proposed federalization of the unemployment c com o m p pen e n system and Increase in the rates have provoked bitter complaint from large and small tuners They already have brought pressure on members of congress to block both Any Increase In cost to the little fellows will wUl drive many out of business according to their spokesmen S Some Soine me are surviving surviving sur sun now on a narrow narrow margin of earnings and even a a. doubling of their contribution would force them to the wall Larger firms resent t the h e scheme to amalgamate the federal federal fed ted eral and state systems for other reasons Numerous states have collected large amounts from employee and have installed a system under which their payments payments pay pay- payments ments are reduced gradually They fear that Washington might deprive them of present and future benefits The business community dislikes dislikes dislikes dis dis- dis- dis likes the suggested also because members realize that their contributions will be spent immediately for current expenses expenses ex ex- ex- ex pen s and they do not favor many of the projects which the government finances with their funds Small business in the United States fears liquidation as a result of political and economic pressure resulting from the war and additional defense demands This concern for the future may explain why noninterventionist sentiment is ie strongest in small communities Every day the inability o of ot tj thi thel lesser plants to obtain essential materials becomes more acut acute Retail firms are losing their clerks managers manager and driven drivers to corporations engaged in na defense production 71 The direct result has been closing dosing down of stores and enlarging of central distribution centers center O 0 P M-ers M deplore the situation but admit frankly that they have been unable to find any answer to the problem Reports reaching New yo York from Stockholm have i it that huge areas on era the German side sid of the front in Russia have been set aside by the nazi general staff as military in n i 11 I i ta r y provin proving prosing grounds The natives are bem being moved out and German settlers settlers- introduced from overpopulated areas of the reich The army array program does not Interfere with th transport or communications The new residents arc are to carry on ai intensive program of ot agri culture S In Ira one region of what w wai Soviet Poland the Germans art au training a parachute army amy Swedes say Bay that In all kinds kind kinds kinds' of weather thousands of men pile pUe out of planes daily from varying altitudes I This together with reports report of ot scale large-scale landing maneuvers on the Baltic coast lead to belief belief belief be be- lief that the nazis nazia are preparing ing for an invasion of the British Brit ish isles in the not distant fu a. a ture Copyright 1941 McClure Syndicate |