Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 9 April 1943 — Page 4

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT A OemcJcratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. . Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.

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MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, April 9, 1943.

If Dead Could Vote, Why Not Living? Forty thousand Federal employes who have been moved to Philadelphia are residents, right enough, when the day comes for paying the City Wage Tax. But when these same new taxpayers apply for registration as voters, the Republican city political machine—controlling the Registration Commission—throws up its pudgy hands in mock horror, crying “Carpetbaggers !” The cat was let out of the bag when Republican City Committee Chairman “Dave” Harris felt that he was spokesman for the Registration Commission. Although he has no more right to speak for the Registration Commission than Herr Goebbels, Harris jumped into the fray and attempted to answer the disenfranchisement charge made by Congressman McGranery with the “Carpetbagger” cry. Democratic City Chairman Jim Clark, fortunately takes a broad, liberal view. He offers to supply counsel, free, for any qualified citizen of any party who wants to register. Section 13, Article 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution was written to prevent involuntary change of legal residence for poeple of certain named occupations whose duties bring them to, or carry them out of, the state. The named occupations include public employes and students. This article in the Pennsylvania Constitution does not, however, deprive any citizen of his voluntary right to make his legal residence where he wishes—provided he has lived in Pennsylvania one year, and in his voting district 60 days. Haverford College students, who declare Haverford Township in Delaware county to be their legal residence, have been allowed to vote under this same constitutional clause for years. A student, a government employe, anyone in the armed forces, according to this clause neither gains nor loses a legal residence because of occupation. They can, however, declare of their own volition that their legal residence is to be changed. Such has always been their inalienable right as citizens of a democracy. The Registration Commission should read Article 8 of Section 13 as neighboring counties do—and welcome Federal employes as heartily as the City Tax Office does. It should be unecessary fo rthe courts to squelch this scheme to deprive living Philadelphia residents of their right to vote — when the Republican Registration Commtssion, for years, extended that right to floaters, tombstones and phantoms.—Philadelphia Record.

j ' T I ‘Off With Their Heads’ h ; ■' i The local isolationist propogand^- sheet which has heard of the war but which can never .thing Tcrfhhnything;; e^ed^b- poljjtics iis now trying to. purge the Republican party of all persons who do not'agree with it; If it succeeds in its -purge the G. 0. P. will be whittled down to the size of a small

toy.

t“Off with their heads” say the local voice of isolation of Wendell Willkie and all who agree with him. The same decapitation goes for Gov. Harold Stassen and his followers. Ditto for the great following of Republican bibles like the New York Herald Tribune. The guillotine is yawning for Senators McNary and Austin, for Williams Allen White and Nicholas Murray Butler—to say nothing of millions of' rank-and-file voters. Pretty soon thfcre will be nothing left of the G. O. P. except the isolationist organ, the city haU machine, Doc Gillie, Sen. Ray Willis, Ham Fish, Clare Hoffman and Gerald L. K. Smith. Maybe they could be happy that way.—rJournal-Gazette. V ' ^ - Pay For Patronage Mayor Robert Tyndall of Indianapolis apparently is borrowing the Illinois plan of having the taxpayer pay for the party's patronage program. An employe of the city’s sewer department is spending full time, in the public payroll, disking out jobs. And his salary is $216 per month. We wonder if it’s just coincidence that he came from the sewer department. The mayor has his own patronage committee, making recommendations to the patronage dispenser— and it doesn’t include the county chairman. The mayor’s excuse for setting up the personnel program was that the county committee was not supplying enough names. The only reason the county chairman isn ? t • making any more recommendations is that the mayor, early in his term, told the chairman that the city hall would run without the help of the chairman and all of the applications in the chairman’s hands had to be returned to the applicants.

POST DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1943.

The LaFollette Meeting The greatest problem before America today is how to prevent World War III—after winning World War II. We cannot have security and prosperity at home as long as civilization is menaced by gigantic armed conflicts. With a view of making its contribution to the study and free discussion of the proposals for a real and stable peace the Allen County Committee for Victory and Enduring Peace was organized here several weeks ago with Fred B. Shoaff as president, E. J. Gallmeyer as vice-president and Rabbi Frederic A. Doppelt as secretary-treasurer. The committee is non-partisan and nonsectarian and its membership is representative of the varied phases of life in this community. It will hold its first public mass meeting Friday night, April 16, at the Civic theater on East Berry street.with Rep. Charles M. LaFollette of Evansville, congressman from the Eighth Indiana district as the principal speaker. .Congressman LaFollette’s subject will be “American Participation in the Post-War World.” He is an eloquent and forceful speaker and a large audience is anticipated for the event. Mr. LaFollette was one of the 12 new Republican congressman who drafted the letter pledging support to the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution to place the United States senate on record as favoring American collaboration with the United Nations in dealing with problems of peace. He was one of the 26 singers of this letter, all of whom are new Republican congressmen. During his campaign for election in 1942 he spoke for American cooperation with the rest of the world in the cause of international peace. The Eighth district congressman enlisted in the army two days after World War I, was declared and served for 22 months, four months of his service being overseas. He is a member of the American Legion, the Forty and Eight and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Educated in the Evansville public schools and at Wabash college and Vanderbilt university, he has been engaged successfully in the practice of law since 1925. His views on the question of international peace will be given in his address here on April 16. The general public has been invited to attend the meeting.—Jouranl Ga-

zette.

V For Safer Flying It is already apparent that flight will be immensely extended by the developments in range, speed and load which have been accelerated by the demands of war. Not only have planes and engines, landing gears and “highlift’’ devices, fpr the utilization of small and difficult fields, been advanced; instrumentation and the development of radio aids have taken new strides to meet military demands. One of the major advances has been in the field of blind flying and blind landing. The report of Ernest R. Breech, president of the Bendix Aviation Corporation, made before the Illinois Manufacturers Association, that the hazards of blind flying, day or night,, have been conquered is of high importance to the whole further development of both commercial and private

flying.

Ever since Major Gen. James H. Doolittle made the first successful blind flight and landing in a hooded cockpit for the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics nearly two decades. £go, an immense amount o£ Lesqarch ^nd.experiment has gone forwaHj' towa^df ’fWb l^irrii$hmeh't? !/ of this last imjyedi'rAbtit tbi UhirttCbHiiited': ? and unhampered use ;of fhefairi]|dDe^a& of tHe method by which the hazards of cfoud and fog at last have been overcome Cannot yet be disclosed -because of their military importanee r but Mr. Breech’s statement gives assurance that the last barrier to the free use of the universal ocean of the air is gone. It may well be that flight is destined to become the safest of all means of transporta-

tion.—New York Times..

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Republicans See Light When the Ruml plan finally was put in its proper light, enough Republicang in.CpngressV hearkening to the little folks back , home, joined with the Democratic forces and the proposal was shelved. Democrats still favor a pay-as-you-go tax plan, but not one sponsored by the “big fellow.” The trouble with the Ruml plan was that, it helped most the fellow who needed the least help, and vice-versa. As Rep. Wesley E. Disney (D. Okla.) i put it, “the little fellows back ' home would resent being forgiven a tax liability of $8.60, or thereabouts, while Beardsley Ruml himself was being relieved of a liability of approximately $800,000.” And when Wendell Willkie, nominated by the power interests and what Hie politicians refer to as the “Wall Street Crowd,” jumped in at the last minute and tried to line up support for the bill, it was a dead giveaway what the purpose of the plan was. The little taxpayer doesn’t want to gyp the government out of what he ow r es—he merely wants an easy way to pay it. That obviously, w T as not the motive behind the Ruml plan. The plan, according to Chairman Doughton, (D. N. D.) of the ways and means committee, would result in a loss to the government of almost $10,000,000,000, and would have caused a shift in the tax burden to the lower income groups. Better to leave the tax structure as it is than to be forgiving all the tax on the huge profits of big business in 1942.

Coming: An “Acid Test” Under-Secretary of State Welles did not overstate the case when he told the Chamber of Commerce of this state that within the nex few weeks a decision must be made by Congress which “will be regarded by peoples throughout the world as an acid test of our future intentions.” The question will come on the renewal of the Trade Agreements Act, under which Mr. Hull and his associates have negotiated reciprocal tariff treaties with some thirty nations. The. Act will expire in June unless it is renewed by Congress. And the question of its renewal is now the next major business on the calendar of the House of Representatives. This will be an “acid test” of our intentions because it will tell our present partners among the United Nations what they may expect of us, in the field of economic cooperation, when the fighting ends and the period of postwar reconstruction starts. It will give them a pretty clear idea whether once more, as happened; twenty years ago, the United States will withdraw its immense power into the shell of economic isolation, or whether this time, through a renewal and expansion of the policies embodied in the Trade Agreements Act, we shall throw our influence behind a genuine revival of international trade. It will tell our present partners ever more than this: it will tell them whether they can look forward to a period of economic progress when the fighting ends, or whether they must expect a renewal of economic war—for we may be sur£ that the United States, with its great markets and productive power will set the pattern in this respect. It will even indicate how much faith can be put in a new organization to maintain world peace; for, as Mr. Welles aptly remarks, any such organization even with the best intentions, “will fall apart if the economic underpinning is un-

sound.”

When the Trade Agreements Act was originally adopted it was by a partisan vote, with the Congressional Republicans in almost automatic opposition. But times have changed; isolation, whether economic or political, has lost much of its appeal, and all of its little logic; and the Congressional Repubicans themselves have been reminded of the fact that historically their own party was the first to sponsor tariff reciprocity. These things considered, it becomes possible to hope for strong bipartisan support for renewal of the present Act. Certainly no move that Congress could make at this time would be of greater promise for the years that lie ahead.—New York Times. V 1 Attack Is Amusing Most amusing of the attacks lunched by the Roosevelt critics lately was the attack on OWI on the cartoon Life of President Roosevelt printed in 12 languages for overseas propoganda. OWI was accused of trying to line up support for a fourth term for the President. How many votes for president do you think Mr. Roosevelt would get out of this publicity—38,000 books in Turkish, 51,000 in Portugese, 46,000 in Chinese, 40,000 in French, 20,000 in Hebrew, all sent to goreign countries, and 100,000 printed in English but sent to destinations the list of which started Accra, Bombay, Capetown? To date, none of those folks have been voting in our elections. Isn’t it pretty sound for our propogandists to use President Roosevelt, author of the “four freedoms,” for the symbol of what we’re fighting for, just as we use Hitler as the symbol of what we’re fighting against. If we were not taking part in the propoganda war, as well as in the actual combat, those who are now criticising OWI would be the first to charge the President with failure to combat Herr Goebbels’ efforts among the Turks, the Arabs, the others from whom we are seeking

support.

V Public Danger No. 1 The Nazi U-boat is public danger No. 1. It is prolonging the war in Europe by delaying Allied invasion of the continent. It is striking too hard at our supply lines which are needed to equip and supply an in-

vasion.

The shipbuilding record of t h e United States is remarkable, but it is not an adequate answer to the submarines. Too many of our ships are going to the bottom of the sea. The subs must be sought out and destroyed either at sea or at their bases. The U-boats will never be eliminated during this war; but their number can be greatly reduced if the right methods are found and applied. • It is up to the governments of the United States and Great Britain to find and apply these methods.—Journal-Gazette. V A Great Hoosier If there was ever a man who gave his life completely to aviation, that man was Col. H. Weir Cook of Indianapolis, who has died in action in the South Pacific. Flying was in Weir Cook’s blood and he lived flying. He distinguished himself in the first war, came out of it and pioneered in the days when flying the mail called for tremendous courage. And when the war came, it was typical of Weir Cook'that he went right back into the service. And it was equally typical that he chafed on routine duties until the army did move him into combat service. It is hard to believe that o n e so vitally alive and interesting and stimulating should now be dead. His friends and family know, however, that he died the way every airman wants to—in the air.

In Defense of the Anthem It has been proposed that some other song be substituted for the Star-Spangled Banner as our national anthem. It is objected that the Star-Spangled Banner is difficult to sing. So it is. The country of which it is the national anthem was difficult to find. It was difficult for Columbus to persuade doubting kings that the world was round, and that its other* side could be found by sailing west. It was difficult for him to plunge in-, to unknown seas. It was difficult for him to sail on when a faint-hearted and superstitious crew demanded that he turn back. The nation of which it is the anthem was difficult to establish. It was difficult for the Pilgrim Fathers to land on a stern and rock-bound coast. It was difficult for Daniel Boone to make a path in the wilderness. It was difficult for George Washington and his bare-foot soldiers to hold on at Valley Forge. It was difficult for the pioneers to trek across the Great Plains, bearing their children and burying their dead by the wayside. It was difficult for Lincoln to save the Union. It was difficult for men and women to build a new South out of the ashes of the Reconstruction. It was difficult to send 3,000,000 men across the seas in 1917 and 1918. It was difficult to establish women’s rights, and children’s rights, and labor’s rights, and farmers’ and businessmen’s rights in this land. It is difficult to. maintain political democracy against selfishness, divisions and bossism. The way of dictatorship is the easy way, the American way is the hard way, and ever will be. It was difficult to bring this nation out of the great depression. It is difficult to fight this global war. It will be difficult to make a just and lasting peace. America is difficult, but glorious with a beauty that is the'reward of difficulty. So her national anthem should be, and is. The Star-Spangled Banner is “too high.” Of course it is high, like the aims of the country. High, like the- courage it expresses. High, like the cost of being an American. High, but not too high. Let us leran this heart-lifting soitg,^ difficult though it is. It is little enough to do for our. beloved nation, bought for our enjoyment by heroes, great and humble, at the price of so much difficulty, past, present, and to come. “And the Star-Spangled Banner, in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!” y Second War Loan Drive The second War Loan drive, as Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., has* said, is the largest war financing campaign in the world’s history. It begins on April 12 and will,continue for about three weeks. The national goal is thirteen billion dollars. This is a sum which staggers the imagination and yet the government securities must be sold. The sum is large because we are engaged in the greatest war in history. We dare not lose, because if we do everything that America, democracy and religion stand for will be gone. America knows now that its supreme task is to save itself from totalitarian aggression. To that task our people dedicate everything that they have. Without victory life would become meaningless. We should suffer as the defeated nations of Europe suffer. Yes, thirteen billion dollars is a staggering sum, but the American people will subscribe it without staggering. They are that kind. That is the value they place on liberty. Government bonds are a good investment because they have back of them the total wealth and strength of the most energetic and resourceful nation on earth. The government securities will be sold to the masses of the American people. Everyone will do his share. The sale of them will not only help finance the war, but will help to prevent inflation. Most people have an enlarged earning power at this time and there is a scarcity of goods to be purchased. If this surplus money is invested in war bonds, it acts to head off inflation—a thing almost as dangerous as war itself. The purchase of war bonds is a.form of saving with interest. After the war these savings will insure prosperity for the American people. We make the prediction now before the drive starts that Adolf Hitler will get no satisfaction out of the way in which the American people will rally to invest in these bonds. y v Not the People’s Choice Walter Winchell reports that “the Bricker boom for president has fallen flat.” Whether Winchell is too hopeful on this point we are unable to say; but Bricker certainly is not finding widespread acceptance. Walter Lippmann has this to say of the Ohio governor: “A Bricker administration in America, brought into power by the politicians who are now for him, would be taken at once throughout the world to mean that the United Spates had learned nothing, and that at the next crisis of affairs we would be just as unprepared physically, politically and morally as we were.in the long disastrous years from 1921 to 1941.” Who really wants Bricker for president of the United States except a few standpat isolationist politicians?—Journal Gazette.

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Great Lakes Boats Start Annual Task

Army Inductions Not to Halt Strike

Escanaba, Michigan, April 9. — Shipping activity in northern Lake Michigan ports is heralding the opening of navigation between iron ore and limestone ports and the steel mills of the Chicago area. The ice crusher Sainte Marie of the state highway department fleet is breaking a channel into Escanaba. It is expected the channel will be completed so that the first ore boats can load at Escanaba docks Saturday. In the meantime navigation already has opened between Port Inland, near Manistique in the upper peninsula, and Indiana Harbor in the Chicago area. The Inland Steel Company carrier Leopold smashed her way into Port Inland yesterday with the help of two tugs, Another limestone cai--rier, the Joseph Block, is waiting to load as soon as the Leopold clears (he harbor. o Schenck Is Urging Implement Supply Indianapolis, April 9—President Hassil Schenck of the Indiana Farm Bureau urges that production of farm machinery be resumed and that equipment stored in warehouses and on sales floors be released. Schenck ■ makes an additional plea for more manpower to produce vital crops this year. He observes: “It requires more than courage to plow and plant and reap. Manpower and machinery,” he continues, “are required to produce any commodity, including food.”

Salt Lake City, April 9.—Union officials declare that threatened injunction into the army will not deter workers at >ne Utah Copper Company’s ’M-agna and Arthur plants from cairying out strike plans. Two thousand employes of the company have voted to walk out in an attempt to hasten W-L-B consideration of their demands for a 25-cent daily Wage boost. President W. R. Damron of the Independent Association of Mill Workers says the employes would rather be in the army than under what he terms “labor dictatorship”. However, he adds that the union fully supports the efforts of the army and the war manpower commission to avert a strike. A walkout would deprive the nation of one-third of its vital copper supply. The Utah Copper Company is the nation’s largest producer of copper. FLOWERLEGGING BECOMES NEW ENGLISH OCCUPATION

London, April 9.—The Teal pirates of Penzance are smuggling a product Gilbert and Sullivan never thought of in writing their operettas and that is flowers. Because of the need of railway facilities for war products Britain has banned rail transportation of flowers. But floral racketeers who get as much as four dollars a dozen for daffodils refuse to go out of business. They ship flowers from islands off southwest England to Penzance, Cornwall. From Penzance, the racketeers, called “Flowerleggers,” smuggle the flowers in suitcases to London.

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