Show V U 10 w washington 1 I 0 DL DEMOCRACY At STILE CAMM NINO it if tho the president and tho the countr country 7 want to got a full realization ot of how holl democracy Is streamlining tor for action they should think back to th tha suni summer trier ot of 1041 just one year ago when for what seemed liko like unending weeks tho the congress stowed over extension of 0 tho the selective service act senate and house isolationists were haranguing the galleries on the iniquities of keeping the boys boya moro more than one year in camp telling the public how the navy was already convoying ships revealing in advance that roosevelt had sent troops to iceland finally by the thin margin ot of one vote to and thanks to the sage generalship of 0 speaker sam rayburn the selective service net act w was as extended had it not been for that narrow victory wo we should have had no army to rush to australia and tho the whole war effort would have received a tragic setback set back but last week a war geared house bouso of representatives passed the 1819 1810 18 19 10 year draft extension act in three days and it should bo be passed by tho oie senate and signed by the president inside tho the week politically and personally nobody wanted the 1819 1010 18 10 19 10 year draft extension it was the worst time to pass it just before elections but congress Is doing a much better job than most people realize for streamlined democracy ATROCITY PICTURES A strong debate is raging among propaganda chiefs over the question of atrocity stories and pictures the government has received a lot of 0 such material from allied sources especially tho the chinese and poles including such horrible scenes sc enes as japanese attacking chinese women and pouring oil on live bodies before setting the torch to them opponents of publication argue that the atrocity stories of the last war var were largely invented and wh when on so exposed left the public disillusioned thus the people might now react unfavorably and charge the government with pulling the same tricks other officials argue hoac however ver that the material la Is authentic t that hat it Is not posters and ru rumors mors but actual photographs and the public should know what sort of enemies wo we aro are fighting it Is apparently a martof part ot the german psychological warfare to treat british and americans with reasonable humaneness in order to keep us lulled in a state of moderate warfare they save their worst tricks for the conquered nations and the russians the poles and chinese aro are urging use of the material as a necessary means of fully arousing the american public to the menace menice elmer davis olace of war information Is set to go once the debate Is settled DAIRY MANPOWER forthright sen berkeley bunker of nevada had a long talk with the president the other day on the war manpower problem in which he emphasized pha sized the need of swift action to meet the labor shortage on dairy farms im from a farm area myself and I 1 know what these dairy people are up against said bunker unless we move fast we will have a serious shortage next year already amany many farmers are beginning to aslaug slaughter ahter their dairy herds because they my cant get help to tend them the president admitted the problem was serious and assured bunker that tho the war manpower commission was aware of it he added however that he doubted doubled any steps tho the government might take to relieve the farm labor shortage would be a complete answer the government cant solve this alone said Ioos roosevelt evelt we are going to have to depend on the farmers themselves for individual initiative ill give you an example of what I 1 mean the president then told how a neighbor of his in new york yolk state owning a large dairy farm had partly solved his labor shortage by employing students from a nearby near by high school to milk the tha cows boys did the milking in the morning and a group of girls from the same school took over in the afternoons he said that sounds like a good idea mr president rit observed senator bunker but it exactly a new one when I 1 was a boy on a nevada farm I 1 used to milk 10 cows every morning before school and 10 at night and I 1 had to ride eight miles to school on a bus GO ROUND congressman ed izac of california who 1 Is crusading against army and navy cellophane commissions is the 0 only sitting member of congress to receive the congressional medal of honor in the last w war ar taken prisoner after his ship was sunk by a U boat bat izac tour four times tried to escape 0 once nce jumping from a 40 miles on an hour train he still bears the scars of german prison camp beatings buy war A r bonda |