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Show It's Time fo Send Your Presents to Servicemen; 'Christmas Mail Month' Is Sept. 15 to Oct; Changing limes Call for Creation of U. S. Bureaus Various Interests Favor Special Agencies For Own Problems Patronage Plums Sought by Political Parties. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator. Bingham, was the technical revolution, another name for the industrial revolution which has made HNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. d The question of much-moote- mass production and all the wonders of the machine age possible. Billion-dolla- r corporations required some government control; various industries, notably those producing and using the automobile and the airplane called for highway and skyway encouragement, regulation and guidance. The huge department of commerce with its many activities conducted to aid business became a separate entity in 1903 and has grown steadily since. And right here we might assert that the common man, and, if you will, the less common man, worker, farmer, artisan, executive or entrepreneur, although he joins merrily in the chorus denouncing the bureaucrats in general, doesnt want the particular bureaucrat who is ready to help his particular interIf he does not est, disturbed. actually demand the services of such a bureaucrat, he may create a situation which his competitor, or those who may become his victim, Insist must be controlled by the gov- states rights as against the overcentralization of government in which is lumped neatly Washington Into the one word "bureaucracy is due for a thorough airing in the coming political campaign. The recent debate in the senate over reconversion, especially in the contest over whether the federal government should administer the unemployment payments during the change-ove- r from war production to civilian production, is a good example. There will be much sound and fury, much thundering in the index on this subject. Little will be found to have been accomplished when the dust settles. For in this question we behold an interesting paradox. New Dealers as well as Republicans, leftdewingers as well as plore the growing centralization of power in the federal government as a threat to democracy. And yet, all of them, when they sit down to look at the facts, admit privately that there is little or no chance of checking this trend. The very groups which oppose the tendency toward the creation of more federal machinery and denounce the bureaucrats the loudest, are insistent that enough of the bureaucrats who handle their special interests be spared whenever the axe threatens to fall It is upon this little inconsistency that President Roosevelt always hangs his rebuttal whenever Senator Byrd and other critics of his lavish government spending call for a reduction of the government payright-winger- s, ernment Of course, Mr. Binghams answer to all this is that a growing expansion of governmental powers is all right so long as it is Without debating that question lets see exactly how badly the bureaucrat is really hated. But you will find that there are bureaucrats and bureaucrats. You will find no complaint about the civil servant who carries out the decrees of the peoples duly elected representatives, provided those decrees have been sponsored, not to say lobbied, through congress at said complainants request.. Let us consider the following statement concerning one bureau, presumably administered, if I read my Webster aright, by bureaucrats: Federal aid In building and maintaining highways, as carried out under Republican administrations and since continued, is a sound and comparatively harmonious program. roll. Of course, the war badly disturbed the traditional democratic institution of checks and balances and lifted private enterprise right out by the hair and sat down in its place with the brutal indifference which is associated with Mars The federal government today finds itself doing business on a scale larger than all peacetime enterprise put together. Some of these activities are bound to stick when normal times finally return, but the trend toward bureaucracy started even before that. According to Alfred Bingham who has written a book called "The Practice of Idealism, which you ought to read whether you can agree with it or not, the trend toward bureaucracy is due largely to two of five revolutions which he says are going on now. Bingham says that "revolution results from the pent-upressure of delayed social change." He believes it can that, like water-poweeither sweep in a destructive flood over peaceful cities and farms, or It can be controlled and turned to ..." GOP Has Some Kind Words for Bureaus Federal responsibility (regarding agriculture) should be directed to such economic stabilization through disposition of surpluses, assurance of fair market prices. . . . Who says this? The 26 Republican governors assembled in St. Louis early this month to back Mr. presidential Deweys campaign. They represented, we opine, both the "common man and likewise, the "uncommon man. And if you want further support for Mr. Bingham's thesis that the leaders in the world of technology, the men who own the machines and supervise their operation, like some of the bureaucrats, note the statement from authentic sources that after the war industry is going to encourage the perpetuation of some of the functions of the OPA and the WPB because it is thought they can help stabilize Industry. . On the other side of the medal, again, just to preserve a nice balance, what about the Gl Bill of Rights? That law puts . into the hands of the federal government the administration of the greatest welfare program ever framed. I take it that high, low and middle are willing to pay for the bureaucrats to run this program out ol the federal treasury. It was passed unanimously by congress. So it goes. We can boil down the debate in congress over unemployment insurance and the effort to put the administration of the payments Into the hands of the states, into a much more immediate and practical question than the broad principle ol states rights, centralization of government or the growth of bureaucracy. It is a simple matter here of whether the administration (any administration) handing out the benefits directly, sets up the office holders who do the handing out, or whether the state government 1state political machines) assume these gracious functions. In other p r, beneficial use. Revolt of Common Man Encourages Bureaucracy The first of the revolutions be names, and one of those which has encouraged bureaucracy and increased the demands on the federal government's manpower, is the revolt of the common man." Of course, that revolt has been going on lustily with the start it got at the barricades in Pans and the events which occurred between Lexington and Yorktown, but the depression of 1929 moved it ahead quite a peg in this country, to say. nothing of what happened after World War I all over the world, including the birth of communism, fascism, and all their freak Bingham says it was the call of the common man for social and economic security which was one of the two chief causes of the growing centralization of government. He cites as two examples, the labor group which demanded that their interests be looked after, and the farmers. (The labor department, which had been a part of the department of commerce since 1903, was created a separate unit in 1913.) Bingham says that the vast organization under the department of agriculture was the result of the insistence by farmers that agriculture be recognized and assisted. The second revolution, the demands of which brought about additional federal activity, according to B R I E FS words, who gets the political support in return? I'm sorry but that's the way it is . . . by Daukhage More bituminous coal is being produced for World War II than was mined during World War I, with fewer miners one-thir- In spite of difficulties Imposed by battle conditions, ttie Red Cross has inci eased by 10 per cent the mesIn sages deliveied from service-mestaging and combat zones to llieir families l 4 Privilege Granted On Overseas Gifts During This Period The volume of Christmas mail going overseas to men and women in the armed forces this year will reach a new high, the office of war information predicts. Approximately 33,000 uniformed men and women in the army and navy postal services are preparing for their biggest job that of moving an estimated 70,000,000 packages of Christmas presents (three times as many as last year) to the military men and women overseas. Army postal officers are preparing their organization to move about twice as many Christmas parcels as were handled in 1943, when 20,000,-00- 0 holiday packages were sent abroad. The navy mail service expects nearly four times the volume of gifts handled in 1943 through fleet post offices In New York and San Francisco. A total of 7,480,000 packages went through the fleet post offices last year, 3,480,000 of them to advanced bases or ships at sea and 4,OOO,OQ0 to ships putting in at American ports. The service postal organizations can handle this enormous volume more easily with a little assistance from friends and relatives of soldiers and sailors. In 1943, the army post office transmitted more than 20 million holiday packages and an additional 75 million to 100 million pieces of miscellaneous malt The navy moved approximately 3,480,000 last parcels overseas Christmas and approximately four million packages to personnel on shore stations in the United States, and more than 80 million letters and Christmas cards during the Christmas mail period last year. The army and navy Intend to make every effort to deliver every Christmas gift overseas on time and intact. But a sailor will not be cheered if the gift he receives from his mother for example: an expensive wristwatch proves to have been ruined because it was completely buried in a box of cookies that have crumbled in transit, the aavy said. Distances, heat, cold, sand, dampness, fleet or combat operations, and the fortunes of war are hazards that complicate the delivery of all mail overseas, even without the Christmas rush. The only factor in Christmas gift delivery over which the sender has control is the type and condition of the parcel when it leaves his hands, the army and navy emphasized. Mail Regulations. 1. Christmas mail month will comprise the period from September 15 to October 15, 1944, for all those In the armed services overseas. This period is the only time during which packages may be sent to soldiers overseas without a specific written request from the soldier or without an APO cancellation. Only one package may be sent by 30-d- J5 Nightlife Murders By the Whenever the presents arrive is Christmas to soldiers across the sea. Sometimes the army and navy postal services deliver the goods sooner than expected, as happened last year in Italy, when packages from home arrived late In November. The boys opened (hem up at once, since they didnt know what theyd be doing or where theyd be on Christmas Day. Its safest to mail early, however, because unforeseen delays can come along any time. inches in length and 36 inches length and girth combined. The army recommends that the package container be a box of metal, wood, or solid doublefaced, corrugated fiberboard, reinforced with strong gummed paper tape or tied with strong twine or both. Standardized boxes for mailing Christmas gifts to military personnel overseas will probably be on the market by September 1, the War Production board reported. Approximately 16,000,000 special applications for the purchase by retailers and box jobbers of these boxes have been filed with WPB. WPB said that the standard boxes are to be manufacutured of tested corrugated paper-boar12 by 6 by 4 inches, in regulation slotted carton style with taped manufacturers joints. The post office department has recommended that gummed flaps be supplied with the boxes for sealing the . parcels, WPB reported. Blanks for address and return address will appear on the panels of the box, also the statement this box to be used only for sending merchandise to a member of the armed forces outside the United States. 4. Address the package completely and legibly. Print the address so that it will not run, streak, smudge or fade. Place an additional copy of the address and return address inside the package, so that if it comes apart, or the wrapper is torn, soiled, or lost, the additional copy may be used. Do not use gummed labels for addressing. The army and navy point out that they know what not to send overseas for Christmas, on the basis of past experience. But what to send is another thing altogether. In general, soldiers and sailors and others like gifts that are unobtainable .where they are and remind them with special significance of home. including matches and lighter fluids, .are taboo and will not be accepted for mailing overseas. A navy postal officer stationed overseas wrote: During the Christmas rush we kept a considerable force of men busy rewrapping parcels and salvaging everything fit for forwarding. A very great service could be rendered to us out here if the widest possible publicity could be given to these matters. The people should be warned not to send liquids of any kind. They should use every possible precaution in packing powder of any kind. Fruit is not only dangerous to their own mail, but it causes serious damage to the other fellows mail. Warn them about candy melting, fruit, cakes and cookies crumble and decay. Above all the fact should be stressed that mail sacks can be baked in the hot sun and drenched in transit, all in the same day." The navy has found that unsuitable gifts include: leather goods (these mold in the tropics) ; chocolates (these melt); cigarettes (obtainable more cheaply in ships stores) ; cameras (forbidden) ; electrical equipment (there may be no electricity available); food, unless tinned; liquor; clothing, unless requested. Fragile articles and soft candies and pastries are poor gifts for obvious reasons, the army reported. Gifts Poorly Wrapped. The army cautioned that boxes of miscellaneous should be gifts packed carefully. Razor blades, for example, require extra wrapping. Numerous cases have been recorded of improperly wrapped razor blades working through packages. In 1943, approximately 15 per cent of the Christmas mail handled by the navy was delayed in transit because of incorrect or incomplete addressing, the navy reported. One navy postal officer wrote from the Pacific theater: What Not to Send. It needs no considerable stretch The services advise generally of your imagination to understand against sending articles that may be how mail looks after it has been obtained by sailors in ships service stores, or by soldiers in post ex- - shipped for thousands of miles by water, then worked and shipped again, reworked and reshipped until It arrives at a Fleet Post office for directory service. By this time, any of the parcel post that was at all inclined to be perishable is thoroughly decomposed, causing damage to mails adjacent. Only today we dumped up a sack containing the contents of a parcel which had come entirely apart. There were rotten apples, decayed oranges, melted candy and stale cake crumbs throughout the entire sack. This happens all too fre175-pou- d, But soap, for example, which is available in most post exchanges, is a valued gift, particularly for soldiers on the move, for in advancing they sometimes outdistance for hours or days even mochanges. bile post exchanges. Perishable foods, intoxicants, weapons, poisons and inflammables, quently. "A great deal of it was originally poorly wrapped. Many parcels have sticker addresses. The sacks may have become wet in transit, causing the labels to come off. Frequently these stickers have been hurriedly slapped on, leaving tiny air pockets beneath them. Friction in transit causes these to wear off in spots. All too often addresses are in pencil, or, if in ink, the ink has become wet and illegible. Again this year soldiers overseas will be able to select gifts for the folks back home from the mail order catalogue operated by the army exchange service, special services division. Listed gifts include: mens toiletries, haberdashery, leather goods, luggage, games, including playing cards, books, magazine subscriptions, dolls, toys, doll dishes, stuffed animals, smokers supplies,' candy, perfumes, cosmetics and lingerie. First Railroad Post Office Carried Mail to Soldiers ago the first Mr Ao takes con-vinc- year. Die n tronc' three ubo to uu;M the ind feel! Mar? h 'yin! King f,ni Propped up on a cot in a hi for several weeks recently, t ill birea ing an operation for the rem0 if a the aP a cartilage from my right k. ft ho zfte spent a lot of time consider:! p Bam future of baseball. t on Prom Lets .start with that noc nuisance, night baseball Its CH dering the sport with the help t cradle-robbin- g magnates, whi s killing the source and substat entlybur rd, the game by neglect of the without whom it cannot exist he mesa about ter Night baseball is strictly a ienen ro ness proposition an offshoot oi e little t conditions. iters stoi One or two games a week to house t the defense workers a break u Un Henl But now both major leagues his rei planning four and five a week, $ stiffly will spell the end of the spoil of the The magnates wont give ig the color ce ca gravy of Sau regular week-en- d an8 Sunday daylight games. si with will mean a layoff Monday and been er night contests. , jcit per To the players, this will be a ertyan tic and unhealthy way of life, itched, trouble will develop. Right with dt t the night games are compelling players who never had to use gl bed 1 to wear em. Babe Dahlgren ling as and m example. Irregular meals and sleep is od evi other disadvantage. An athlete iae extei get along without regular sleep at and hi that will be Impossible under i it wh m the gl. and night schedule of games. reflect Danger of Catching Colds th, devo j per-nitte- ' In Night Games and wore t HOOVERS CHILDREN Imagine what will happen k ca ry Cli in who Bachelor J. Edgar Hoover, veterans, pitchers particuh had las jailed more desperate criminals pitcher perspires profusely dur ledge a In the has man in usually han any daytime, game. history, weakness which not many the sun shining, there is less da organize gracio chil-Ireof catching cold. jeople know about. He likes I know what I am talking abo You're On many an afternoon you at vill find a group of boys going caught one of the worst colds d cfon, you: ns in a career FBI game, night getting headquarters, hrough You we was I a when is as he coach If on detection. crime yoints acting lot too busy, Hoover himself will Brooklyn. What it is doing to tl sdtoam g lake time to say hello. pitchers can well be iwed yoi Hoover has spent much time agined. As for the fans. Its a mista) sassage itudying children, feels that a lealthy younger generation is the think the men of the family are k Best insurance against crime, once lng to attend four night games r Jght, wou even wrote a magazine article, If larly each week. Mothers, wives icj I did that I Had a Son." soon will friends stop girl Much publicity already has Here is some of the advice he eye If I had a son. Id probably gave: given to the fact that night base knew will take never the feared fromyo game away je frightened. Ive said : :riminals, but if I were a husband sters. Kids are the backbone down, nd father I might be afraid. So the game. Smart baseball offic wea have done everything possible ir t nuch would depend on me. rus tt of If I had a son, Id do one thing. past to promote the interest ed int Td tell him the truth. Id never let future audiences by admitting t let Ma aim catch me in a lie. And in return free to week-dadaylight game' "ing Id insist that he tell the truth. . . . Boys, as prospective big lea; i. I When children go astray it isnt the Hers, are not getting a squat t," s fault of the children but of their shake from organized basebal. om. A spoiled boy grows parerits. The major clubs show no inter e ha into a spoiled man. Id try to est in a boy until hes 16 uu rates i e a pal to my boy. Id encourcan get working papers. Thet snardo age him to join the Boy Scouts and if bes got the stuff, they sent raize Soys clubs, but before he joined him ont to a Class D leagir ting Id make it a point of getting where they squeeze what tbr fath acquainted with the leader of the can out of him as a hired band pedt son to have Id troop. my go bell church. Whats more, Id go with Softball and Baseball as i him. . . . But above everything Just Don't Mix s of else, Id try to understand my son. There seems to be a growing J ge For if I didnt Id be a failure as thy toward baseball. The villa av on a dad. town and former hot neighborh is rat teams and rivalries are fading T iets. cannot be attributed to the war, apt t CORDIALITY cause the boys who made up th iadi Those who have watched the dip- teams were usually under draft a Let lomatic wheels go round from the I hate softball, though I apprc i you close-u- p inside, report that Stalin that gets kids out in she and Churchill are now getting any game sun, but softball has ruined many ' thoi along famously. You canr y. n This is important because it was potential big leaguer. at baseba garr not the case at Teheran, where play softball and excel Progress is also pushing baseb. Roosevelt and Stalin did the getting aside. Bit, by bit, we see the grow derf along and Churchill didnt. That was of cities and out san. 'ted towns wipe when the present Second Front m semi-pr- o lots ed ballparks. E'e France was the topic of consider- In and small villages you will discov oght able argument and when Churchill, som cornfields that once were baseb bidding farewell to Stalin, said: You diamonds. No efforts are made Well, goodbye. Marshal. Ill see Wa save the diamonds. you in Berlin. ed Where are the kids going to tu Yes; replied Stalin; '"I In a tank to for aid? ch n and you in a Pullman car. The kids themselves tossed the w Churchills friends point out that Jed to me at one of my recent S wer at Teheran he was in the early mi morning radio broadcasts stages of a very severe illness and urday the A. G Spalding program. Dev lh not himself. definitely ag: plan whereby the big leagues wot Since then, Churchill seems to 1 to baseball schools throughi sponsor have got over any complexes rethe using retired star pi ches garding Stalin, and Stalin takes a ers country, do! as instructors. like position toward Churchill, Boys start playing the game - i a c. There has been complete teamwork unij eight years and, until they becobetween the two for some time. Yoi 16, get little or bad schooling in Both British and American diplos yt mats also pay tribute to the co- sport So they acquire unbreakal ly t habits in batting, throwing, slid operation of the Russians in recent and po fielding unless they are natur months on most subjects, even Cob1 i i i born Otts, like the players including Poland. The general view F JUg in diplomatic circles is that Stalin Collins, Speakers, etc. With would Ion has been reasonable regarding Po- fessional coaching, the kids aa fit for league play anytime they f land. k the needed. er I played during the last wjr MERRY-GROUND No that and can fact for vonrh the , While big Georgia textile operaT few of the players who saw tor Scott Russell advises Senator igh tive tf reached service ever Georges committee on reconver0 form again. Some of the are Kodak sion, Eastman executive and 'e like Capt. Hank Greenberg Marion B. Folsom advises Congress Ol BUI Dickey, who are along k man Colmers house committee on to tl( return never years, may postwar planning game. Chaps like Joe IJiMag L Bargains to be picked up from gio. Bob Feller, Ted William surplus property disposer Will Clay and Terry Moore, depending " t tl ton. $5,000,000 of , ma I the type and length of their chine tools, to be sold at Cm junk thrPf as as take may 10 000 long prices; airplanes to be sold at at years or more to hit their fnrmff not more than 65 cents on the dul ol I hit stride again, if they ever lar. its again. ) se-:r- et n. but two-innin- hou ( y, ... ... ... ... i STALIN-CIIURCHIL- L J : and civic leaders went along to witness the initial operation. One banker refused to be of the plan's practicability remarking that all the mail would blow out of the car. Although Armstrong is generally credted with the first permanent railway post office, others preceded him by a few years with similar plans All, however, were devised to meet local emergencies and no plan a Basel O bankers operated moie than Home-Ru- a b met Says Babe Ruth cut-thro- hand-truck- resemble a postage mark or stamp. 3. The package must weigh not more than five pounds, wrapped, and must be ns longer than 15 While Walter Winchell U This Month, Ihs Column Itg Conducted by Guest Column tur-noi- L X Packages get rough handling all along the way, and unless they are securely wrapped and tied, they may be damaged in transit. Here Is a scene In the New York postoffice, showing how busy sorters toss The big pile in the rear consists of parcels into the packages that are coming undone the string working off, or the wrapping loose. By the time your gifts have made the long trip in a mall sack, have been subjected to a lot of bouncing around on the railroad they and boat. The last stage may be made in a Jeep or airplane. or on behalf of the same person or concern to or for the same soldier In one week during this month. 2. Mark the package "Christmas Parcel, using a label that does not Washington, D. C. JAPANESE BLOW-UP-? Dont be surprised if there is a low-ubrewing in Japan not unike that which nearly bumped off dr. Hitler recently. This columnist las reason to believe that things are lee thing inside Japan right now and hat the die is cast against the fascist military clique at the top. It was groups of young Fascist iffleers who shot Tokyos leading noderates back in the days when t was not yet definitely decided hat Japan should conquer Asia, ilow the moderates are able to say I told you so, and are beginning 0 get the upper hand. The Emperor probably will not be 1 victim' of the revolutionary for two reasons: (1) He is a noderate himself, never did go as 'ar as the young Fascists, vas kept more or less a palace jrisoner by them; (2) he is better piarded than any other man in the vorld. High walls, moats, trained, rusted bodyguards surround him. d 4ot even his personal tailor is to touch him. Unrest inside Japan has not had time to be communicated to Jap troops at the front, nor is it likely to affect outside war areas much. The Jap soldier away from home can he counted on to fight to the very end, because be cannot come home unless he is victorious. The code of Bushido does not permit it. The big thing to watch, when and if things inside Japan reach the boiling point, is the Jap fleet. Its officers will be faced with the alternative, under the code, of all committing suicide or sailing into the enemy, no matter what the odds against them, and fighting it out. p Flghty years world adopted the Idea eventually. perma nent railroad post office was estabArmstrong instituted the service with approval of the postmaster A Go To School drive has beer lished to speed up mail for soldiers. On August 28, 1864, George B. Armgeneral as a means of facilitating opened by the United States office ol strong. then assistant postmaster of distribution of mail, particularly to agency and the childien's bureau ol Chicago,on sent his first railway post men in the army. From the first, its way over the Chicago Armstrong envisioned a national the department of labor to cumbu' office the nation-widdecline in higi and North Western reliwnv from system and lived to see his plan Chicago to Clinton, Iowa Within a become a success, despite school em ollment public few years the new system of exdoubts and udicule when he first the mails spread to include announced his plan. Students in 550 Japanese school pediting On the (list trip 80 are busy bleeding rabbits to pa, the pttnclpal trunk lines of the nayears ago tion. Practically every nation tn the vide clothing for soldiers prominent Chicago newspapermen. e 15 I RFC-owne- d serv-lec- I |