Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 27 October 1944 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1944.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT £ Demdcratic weekly newspaper representing the Cemocrats 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. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR “ MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, October 27, 1944. So Sorry, No Tioliday!’ Hirohito Feels Very Bad Last August, President Roosevelt went to Pearl Harbor to confer with Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz. Purpose of that trip, the President said, was “to discuss logistic problems . . . and new offensives in the m a k i n g.” Asked whether the offensives would come soon, Mr. Roosevelt replied that “soon is always a relative matter.” One member of his staff, however, predicted that the Pearl Harbor parley would rate “second in importance to no other Conference of the war.” Here at home, the Republican leaders who now want to run the war and the nation were bursting with indignation and ridicule. Rep. Knutson (R., Minn.) said the Presi dent’s trip was “nothing but politics.” Rep. Dirksen (R., 111.) charged the President with using the Navy for campaign purposes. Gov. Dewey, asked for his opinion, sneered: “I don’t comment on Mr. Roosevelt’s holidays.” A newspaperman asked him: “Do you use that expression ‘holidays’ advisedly?” “Why, certainly,” Dewey replied tartly. 0 0 0 Today Hirohito and his war lords wish to Fujiyama that the President, Gen. MacArthur and Adm. Nimitz had been taking a “holiday.” They now know the obvious truth: that our invasion of the Phlippines was planned at that historic meeting. Gen. MacArthur is back in the Philippines, calling the Philippine people to arms to drive out the Japs, leading one of the greatest water-born invasion forces of history. More men were landed on Philippine DDay than were landed on D-Day in Nortnandy. With them is a vast array of armament, a mighty air force, and a fleet whose size alone staggers the imagination. We see now the pattern which began to form when the President joined MacArthur and Nimitz to complete the organization of this Philippine campaign. We understand why Formosa was bombed, to neutralize Jap air bases there. We see why the Japs claimed a naval victory they never won. They know this is no “holiday.” MacArthur warned them he was coming back. He is back. And he is back to stay until the Philippines are liberated, and it is time to go straight on to Tokyo. ooo So does history repeat. Every major conference of this war has been followed by a major Allied operation. At the first Churchill-Roosevelt conference after Pearl Harbor, in January, 1942, the “declaration of the United Nations was drawn up.” At their second, in June, 1942, the North African invasion was planned. At Casablanca, in January of 1943, the final conquest of Tunisia was mapped out, the “unconditional surrender” program drafted. Their parley of May, 1943, planned the invasion of Sicily, which was soon followed by the fall of Mussolini. The first Quebec parley, three months later, was quickly succeeded by invasion of Italy proper and the surrender of the Italian Government. The great parley of Teheran laid the plans for invasion of France, with Russia scheduled to drive from the east in completing a nutcracker squeeze on Hitler. Those conferences were not ^holidays.” They were meetings of the architects of United Nations victory. Gov. Dewey now must realize how silly was his remark a few weeks ago that “since Gen. MacArthur is no longer a political threat to Mr. Roosevelt it would seem appropriate that his magnificent talents be given scope and recognition.” Knowing Dewey, however, our guess is that he will try to bluff it out. Either he will now claim that his wisecrack “forced” the President to let MacArthur invade the Philippines, or that this Philippine invasion proves the President is using both MacArthur and the Army for political purposes, ooo ‘'Holiday? If anybody wants to know what that Pearl Harbor parley was about — let him ask Hirohito. V The Indispensable Mr. L. By subtle remarks dropped here and there, John L. Lewis has indicated that he feels scant enthusiasm for President Roosevelt’s re-election. He has even hinted guardedly that he considers the present administration’s attitude toward the United Mine Workers downright unfriendly. But Mr. Lewis hasn’t attacked Mr. Roosevelt from the “indispensable man” angle. No sir, not he. Mr. Lewis may be said to have created the indispensable man—in his own image. He has been indispensable to the UMW for 24 years, man and boy. And during that time he has developed a magnificent technique for slapping down anyone who suggests that he isn’t.—Vincennes Sun-Com-mercial.

Mr. Roosevelt vs. the Isolationist Party In one of the greatest speeches of his career, Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to the Foreign Policy Association Saturday night from a heart and mind which have been dedicated throughout his public life to peace and the means of winning it. He spoke not only from devotion to international co-operation, but from the most consistent record of our times in serving it; and with richness of knowledge, imagination and foresight. No wonder his foes hate him. They are baffled by his wisdom, his courage and his infectious humanity — all of which shone through in that speech Saturday night. They suspect—both the isolationist hatemongers and the shifty opportunists—that their hysterical invective, sly canards and pale imitations are thin ammunition against him. The American people do not suspect it. They know it, and will demonstrate that fact on Nov. 7. ooo The President’s speech was notable not only for its exposition of the course of cooperation we have traveled since 1933, in peace and in the most successful coalition war of history; not only in its pointing to the spirit of the peace structure we must have; and to the fatal peril that would ensue were the party of isolation to win in November. The President also came to grips, in words that could not be misunderstood, with the central question which now looms before us as regards our intent to use force, if necessary, as part of the United Nations, to prevent or put down aggression. If the world organization, he said, is to have any reality at all, our representative on it must be endowed in advance, by the people themselves, by constitutional means through their representatives in Congress, with authority to act; ours would not be an effective policeman “if when he saw a felon break into a house he had to go to the town hall”— in other words, Congress—“and call a town meeting to issue a warrant before the felon could be arrested.” There never was any doubt, on the part of those who have followed the discussions on world organization, as to where the President stood on this issue. He has stood, as have Wendell Willkie and all competent leaders of the fight to build effective collective security, for the proposition which he set forth Saturday night. But it is excellent to have the t’s crossed and i’s dotted—and in the campaign. Incidentally Mr. Roosevelt has now answered all of the three key questions propounded to the presidential candidates by Senator Joseph Ball as regards immediate, specific world organization plans. Of the three, this final one was by far the most incisive. Gov. Dewey, for all his efforts to appease the internationalists while running as the candidate of the isolationists, remains utterly silent on it. ooo Mr. Roosevelt also spoke words that were very much needed right now in his discussion of the German question. He stands for no milk-and-water program of appeasement of our enemies. He knows that the war against Germany, as against Japan, must be fought through, in many long, hard battles, to complete victory. Thereafter, disarmament must be real. There must be stern punishment for those “directly responsible for this agony of mankind.” But the German people shall not be enslaved, nor do we bring charges against the Germans as such; “for we cannot believe that God had eternally condemned any race.” Neither the humanity nor the religion of Franklin Roosevelt would have permitted him to take another stand. We repeat that it is beyond us to believe that the American people, knowing the devotion and the capacity of their President, will turn from his leadership to the ex-isola-tionist, now a shifty opportunist, running against him for the presidency. But election of Mr. Roosevelt is not enough. His speech emphasized why, with a force of logic that should stir all forward-looking citizens to work unremittingly from this point on for the election of a Democratic Congress. Let America remember that were the GOP, including-the present Republican members, to capture control of Congress, it would mean that Hiram Johnson would be chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee; and Gerald Nye of the Senate appropriations committee; that Joe Martin would be speaker of the House; and Ham Fish chairman of its powerful rules committee. Those men represent blind isolationism in themselves. And they are the representatives of an isolationist Republican party— whose delegations in Congress voted for obstructionism time and again against the national policies of preparedness and international co-operation served by the President. Two weeks more remain to assure America that both the White House and Congress are equal to the heaviest responsibilities of our history. _V Mrs. Clara Ward One of the candidates for state office in Indiana deserves more than passing notice. She is Mrs. Clara Ward, Democratic candidate for reporter of the supreme and appellate courts. Besides being qualified in every way she has seven sons in the armed service, all on battle fronts overseas. She never mentions that, preferring to stand on her record in business and as clerk in the trustees office of Center township in Marion county but her friends know she is also a brave and splendid citizen. If elected she will make good in the high position she now seeks as she has in every thing else during her life. -^Decatur Democrat.

The Truth About “High Taxes” Ninety-seven cents out of every dollar paid in taxes by the American people goes into the cost of winning the war. This money is spent directly on the victory itself, and does not include the cost of many of the civilian government agencies in Washington which contribute to the war effort. To defeat Germany and Japan in the war we did not start, but which we’ve got to win, is costing us staggering amounts. It cost us more than billion dollars to march our army from Naples to Rome, an even 6 billion to take the Marshall Islands. These costs would be multiplied many times over in com(puting the cost of the Normandy invasion and the march across France into Germany. ,A B-29 which we are using to bomb Japan, costs $600,000. It costs $500 to keep just one American soldier for a year, and we have million of them in our Army. We are not through with this war yet. The end may be in sight in Europe, but the shooting isn’t over in the Pacific. And the kind of fighting we are doing in the Pacific is the most expensive fighting there is, involving battleships and all kinds of other fighting ships—the most powerful and most costly the world has ever seen. At the same time, the income of the American people has reached* an all-time high — astronomical figures. As a whole, we Americans now have more money in our pocketbooks and in our bank accounts than we have ever had before. Our estimated 1944 national income has reached the record figure of 159 billion dollars—four times what it was in 1932. Four-fifths of this national income is now in the hands of people earning $5,000 a year or less. The weekly take-home pay average has jumped from $26 a week in 1939, to $43 a week in 1943. The great mass of American civilians today are better able to pay taxes than ever before. The sensible thing to do, of course, is to pay as much of the bill for the war as we can now, while we have the money. Also, if we are paying for the war now, as we go, we do not have so much cash with which to compete for scarce civilian goods, which would lead to exorbitant prices and eventually to inflation. We are now paying for about half the war as we go along. That is why we have high taxes. The cost of the war, however, would have been much higher—an average of $481 more for each person in the United States— had we not been protected by price control when it came to buying the guns, tanks, airplanes, ships and other equipment we had to acquire. At World War I prices the war materials we have already bought would have cost us 65 billion dollars more than what we paid. Another S 1 ^ billion has been saved by renegotiation of war contracts. Constant alertness to see that no unnecessary supplies are bought as victory draws near has meant the saving of 18 billion dollars in cancelled authorizations. The Roosevelt Administration has already stood firmly back of a tax system based on ability to pay. Through this system those who have the most income pay the most tax. Tax reforms of this administration have equalized the burden so that the big fellow carries his share of the load. Those who object most strenuously to our tax system today are often those who have the biggest pieces of pie left after the tax slices have been taken off. Human nature being what it is, it is inevitable that we should grumble a little about paying taxes. Taxes are like the good old fashioned remedy of sulphur and molasses which used to be synonymous with Spring— an excellent thing for the other fellow to take. But most Americans know that taxes are the least burdensome price of victory, and they pay them cheerfully and call it cheap at that. y Ex-GOP Senator Watson The venerable Indiana ex-Republican Senator, James Eli Watson, is in Indiana renewing his fight for isolationism. Self-confessed collaborator with the late Senator Lodge in the fight, at the end of World War I, to defeat the League of Nations by the “reservations” plan, Watson now asks Hoosier voters to re-elect Indiana’s discredited Republican congressmen who bitterly opposed President Rooseyelt’s heroic efforts to prepare the United States for the Axis attack. The same genial Jim—^branded long ago by a member of the Washington newspaper fraternity as that “loveable old humbug”— he is doing his bit now as he did in 1919 to prevent the United States from joining in a sane movement for world peace and security. In his own published memoirs—page 190 —he told how, under the guidance of Senator Lodge, he played a stellar role in the defeat of the League by a bitterly partisan congress. Today he is attempting to defeat oost-war world security through efforts to help re-elect to the House of Representatives eight Republicans who fought preparedness and national defense prior to Pearl Harbor —and one Republican congressman who is now pledged to “go along with his party.” One who reads Senator Watson’s memoirs finds it difficult to understand why the Republican party would welcome this self-con-fessed, rank isolationist back into Indiana as a party campaigner at this crucial time in the history of our nation. All the world is looking for leadership for international collaboration in the interests of permanent world peace, and at such a time the G.O.P. revives Indiana’s arch enemy of international cooperation. But, of course,* they have brought him back to campaign for congressional nominees who proved by their votes against both preparedness and defense that they are just as isolationist in their views as Watson ever dared be.

Dewey Has Faith in the U. S. -But Not in Its People Gov. Dewey in his campaign speeches has repeatedly avowed a bright, shining faith in the future of America. But he seems to have no faith at all in the American people. What other explanation can there be in his obvious efforts to hold down the vote in November? Dewey and the GOP high command do not trust their fellow Americans to exercise their right of the franchise. Their whole campaign is based on the idea that a small vote will give Dewey a better chance to be

elected.

In New York State, Gov. Dewey, if he wanted to, could call the Legislature into a one-day special session to extend the voting hours on November 7 to 9 p.m., two hours later than the law provides. There have been repeated demands for such a move—but not from Republicans. It has been pointed out that thousands, under present hours, could be disfranchised. War workers may find it difficult or impossible to get to polling places. There would be congestion and voters would have to wait for hours, because of the unusually heavy

registration.

On top of that, polling places have been shifted and their number reduced. There would be nothing new in calling a special session to extend hours of voting. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman did it in 1936, when the New York registration was smaller than the near record high of today. He did it again in 1940. To all appeals, however, Candidate Dewey shows a deafness which has become an occupational disease. This is no isolated case. It is part of a GOP program to hold down the vote. The line was set by the Republicans in Congress when they killed the Federal soldier ballot bill, designed to give the soldier the vote with no strings attached. Dewey was opposed to the Federal ballot. He wouldn’t even see a delegation of his fellow Americans who called on him in Albany with a petition that he favor such a ballot. Worse, Gov. Dewey prodded through the Legislature a restrictive soldier vote bill which replaced a more liberal absentee ballot law already on the statute books. And we have yet to hear Candidate Dewey come out and urge all eligible Americans to perform their democratic duty of casting

their vote.

Dewey really believes his success hinges on a small vote, a turnout only of the regular organization voters. He is probably right, for it has been the great volume of the independent vote, non-machine, which has repeatedly swept Roosevelt into office. If Candidate Dewey really had faith in the American people, he would trust the majority to judge his merits for the office he seeks:

But he knows too many people will detect In the Dtlawiire guI)etIA . Courl his deviousness, his lawyer tricks and spe- j complaint: Divorce

cious words.

That’s why he figures the fewer the voters, the better his chances.

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Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

State of Indiana,

Delaware County, SS:

Leona Burton

vs.

Clifford E. Burton In the Delaware Circuit Court September Term, 1944. Complaint: For Divorce No. 19400 Notice is hereby given the said defendant Clifford E. Burton, that the Plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce, together with an affidavit that the said defendant Clifford E. Burton is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Saturday the 16th day of December, 1944, the .... day the present term of said Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in Beptember, A. D., 1944, at the Court House in the City of, Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 18th day of October, A. D.,

1944.

JESSE E. GREENE, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney Oct. 20- 27 & Nov. 3

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Legal Notice NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

State cf Indiana,

Delaware County, SS:

Ruby E. Frazier

vs.

Howard Y. Frazier

“You Would Be So Nice To Come Home To” When we read the editorial of a nartisan newspaper and learn of all the terrible things the New Deal has accomplished and the horrible mistakes of the present administration, we are led to believe that there is only one class of people to be considered—that there is only one .group and one party that is right and wise—that is the “outs” that want in. In our imagination we see the old elephant standing in front of the White House with a wishful eye looking and saying “You would be so nice to come home to.” The candidate of the “outs”, who is making a campaign tour, has made a number of reverse statements since the convention, until now he no longer has an issue. One of the worst mistakes made by the party is when they traded Mr. Willkie off for Mr. Hoover. This candidate for president wanted to be represented in the recent war conference and desires to be associated with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. His party is represented in the present administration in many branches. If they are all so terribly wrong why does he want to be so closely associated with them? Does this unbroken colt think he can pull .the greatest load in the world’s history out of the deepest rut? It will take more than a district attorney. It will require a steady team of old work horses to pull this world load out and they are doing it like they pulled us out eleven years ago. The name of this team is Roosevelt and Hull. We hear so much about Lewis, Green, Hillman and Tobin and the Labor vote and who is carrying the ball. We do not believe tha?' any of these men can deliver their members in a unit to any candidate. It will be only where workmen appreciate what has been done for labor. A man’s party so many times is closer to his heart than bread and butter is to his stomach. We favor just labor regulations but fear in some instances they have abused their chance. Lewis, the king of all dictators is carrying the ball toward Dewey’s goal line. Why should he yell about Hillman “inconsistency thou art a jewel.” Republicans will vote the Democrat ticket and vice versa. There is a class in both high and low brackets that dislike being regulated even in war times when it is necessary. We all have a surplus of criticism but are short of fair constructive suggestions. Service, Truth, Reason and Good Personality should win this election if Peace, Prosperity and our Democracy is maintained.

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Notice is hereby given the said defendant Howard Y. Frazier that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Howard Y.. Frazier is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Monday the 11th day of December 1944, the 79th day the present term of said Court, to be holden on' the second Monday in September, A. D., 1944, at the Court House in the City of, Muncie, in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined

in his absence.

WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie, this 3rd day cf October A. D., 1944. JESSE E. GREENE, Clerk

Ogle & Ogle

Plaintiff’s Attorneys.

Oct. 6-13-20

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES “Everlasting Punishment” is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, October 29. The Golden Text is: “Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord” (Lamentations 3:39, 40). Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: “Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he said, A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that fafleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living” (Luke 15:1, 2, 11-13). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Passions and appetites must end in pain. They are ‘of few days, and full of trouble.’ Their supposed joys are cheats. Their narrow limits belittle their gratifications, and hedge about their achievements with thorns. Mortal mind accepts the erroneous, material conception of life and joy, but the true idea is gained from the immortal side” (p. 536).

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