South Bend Mirror, June 02, 1944

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Now That Schools Arc Out What Is to Become of Graduates
Modern Scholastic Bents
FRIDAY, JUNE 2nd, 1944
ELIEVE IT
Or ELSE
Mt>AT O'   THE COCONUT
BY
SILAS W1THERSPOON
Decision of
the New Deal
" packed " U.
S. Circuit
Court of Appeals (Chicago) in the
OPA       vs.
"ALL THINGS WORK
TOGETHER" EITHER
FOR GOOD, BAD OR
JUST INDIFFERENT
Montgomery-Ward case, was timely rendered, favorable to OPA, the same day that the
senate judiciary committee (two to one) went
-fo bat in condemnation of President Roosevelt, Attorney Gen. Biddle, and Commerce
Sec'y Jesse Jones, because of their military in-
solance in dealing with Montgomery-Ward's
refusal to take WLB orders, as a "non-essential" war industry.
The decision thus serves to take some of
the curse off the administration, as applied by
the senate committee; here is a unanymcus
opinion of the judges- that the administration
was right in its dealing with Montgomery-
Ward in something else. Anyhow it muddies
the waters.
Guess maybe the judicial decision is O. K.,
notwithstanding concurrence by Judge Sherman Mintcn (Indianian), never much of a
lawyer and nothing of a judge, who earned
his appointment by refusal of the people of
Indiana to keep him in the United States
senate. The trio has been eight months arriving at their conclusion; reaching it at a
very convenient time for muddling purposes.
However, failure of Montgomery-Ward to
heed price ceilings fixed by OPA is a very different matter than using the army to comp.l
collective bargaining, the "closed shop," and
"maintenance of membership," for CIO by
order of WLB, — as a war necessity in a
'"non-essential" industry. It would be just
toe bad should the war administration never
be able to do anything right-—especially by
its own appointive judgment.
WASHINGTON PLAYS
FEDERAL JUDICIARY
FOR JOKER IN ITS
WARD POLITICALS
President
Roosevelt, Attorney Gen.
Biddle, and
Secretary
Jones, find
much comfort
^^^^^^^^__^^_^^^^_. in -he fact
that only two members of the senate judiciary committee of three, united against them
in condemnation of their handling of the
Montgomery-Ward military embroglio.
Well, if they want to pettifog, two is twice
as many as one, isn't it?   It was as much a
100% majority finding as the judicial deci*-.
(On Pag'-! Two)
Not How to Think, But What to Think If at All
A
MILLION graduates will be turned out by the schools and colleges of America early this*
month; from the public schools, most of them, this week.   Of these latter, boys and girls,
they have their choice between the war, college, cr the world.   The colleges are likely to
suffer as last year, if not more, in the matter of enrollment,
a preacher, or have some ailment, you haven't much chance of
deferment from the war.
We don't' know as that is so bad either, not that we want
to see everybody go to war, but the college degree is getting
to be more of a fetish than a certificate of learning. When
business, for instance, began requiring university degrees as
precedent to a job, it commercialized education away from the
channels of culture.
(On Page Three)
Unless you want to be a doctor, or
rs
M'
AYBE before much longer
we will be entering the
^^^^_, Eternal City which Emanuel and Badoglio "unconditionallv"
surrendered to us last September 3rd.
(On Page Five)
G. 0. P. CLAIMS "VICTORY IN BAG" BUT WHEREOF?
ANNOUNCEMENT having been made by the Republican high command that the nation is
in rebellion against a Democratic administration, the white house, and the "dog house,"
and that the people will signify this displeasure by electing a Republican pl^aident ard a
Republican house of representatives in November. They are just as sure of it as they were in 10936
and again in 1940—and for the same reasons and then some. They have taken on the war, and
the peace that
is to follow,
and the policies, of postwar
readjustment,
to justify the
rebellion and
their faith.
So far as
the New Deal
and the Old
Shuffle are
concerned —
they would
rather not talk
about the Old
Shuffle. Forget
all about 1921
to 'S3, including the Peace
of Berlin and
the Breaking
of Banks and
Business; they
prefer to comment and lament on 1933
to 1944, processes of recovery and its answer to the se-
quences to
their pro-German treason.
But     "let's
On Page Three)
SV ^uV of honkersBy
JOHN OHARA
(Complete)
THE man lay on the counterpane on the
three-quarter-size iron bed. He lay with
his hands clasped behind his head, and his
feet were crossed. Every once in a while he
would move, to rub his beard, to draw his leg
up.   The room was not cold enough to make it
\yorth while to put a blanket over his leg3, but
it was not warm enough to lie perfectly still and
be altogether comfortable. The man was wearing a pair of gray trousers, brown shoes, and a
white shirt with brown stripes.   The shirt was
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