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SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1941
ANOTHER STRAW
YEAR or so ago the Government was such a stickler
for statutory niceties that airplanes being exported to Canada were not allowed to fly across the border; they were flown to the border, and pushed across by hand. It seemed kind of silly. But at least it was a token of a desire to hew to the letter of neutrality. We are not so scrupulous now. The President has amended his combat-zone proclamation of last June 11 (the day after Italy entered the war), to reopen the Red Sea to American vessels. The Suez Canal is in Egypt. Egypt is a non-belligerent. So it is perfectly legal to deliver munitions to her.
But everybody knows that these munitions will not be | They will be |
destined for the little army of King Farouk. for England—and for Greece and Jugoslavia, if those countries are still in the fight.
Of course the Neutrality Act makes it unlawful for |
any American vessel to carry “any articles or materials
to any state” which the President has proclaimed to be | The President, however, indicated at | his press conference that the question whether American | vessels could legally transport goods to a neutral port for |
engaged in a war,
transshipment to a belligerent was a complex matter, and that the Government was not at present borrowing
headaches.
All right, but Mr. Roosevelt had better have his aspirin | handy for the time when a German raider knocks off one
of these gun-running American freighters, Or is he going to use the Navy to escort them?
THE FORD STRIKE: WHO “WON”?
OST of the 125,000 idle Ford workers will return to their Others will have to wait, in some cases |
jobs Monday. for weeks, until sabotaged equipment is repaired:
The principal terms of the strike settlement are that | the men shall return to work, and that grievances and ques- | | physicians is at work trying to place foreign doctors
tions of wages and working conditions shall be negotiated
after an election has determined the workers’ choice of | | American doctors.
collective-bargaining agents.
Is there anything in that agreement which the man- |
agement could not just as well have accepted before
striking? The union believes it made a big gain in forcing the
gaining.
for the election and future negotiations. But it as what both sides, and the public, lost in man-power of
production for defense. 4 a n
The most interesting and ominous reading of today is
in the comments of French newspapers on America’s industrial troubles. a morbid fascination.
and sabotage in her munitions plants. When the test strength came, the German juggernaut cut through French defenses like a hot knife through lard.
mentators profess to see in America’s industrial turmoil |
the same signs of disruption—and ‘some predict the same fatal consequence. We can’t hold with such prophecies. that American employers and unions will continue their
dilatory bickering.
A healthy indication is the announcement by the United |
Auto Workers (C. I. 0.) in regard to negotiations for a new . contract with General Motors.
The company has replied that it is impracticable to segregate its defense workers. Maybe that is true. But
the significant thing is the union's acknowledgement that | defense workers are in a special category and ought not be |
pulled off their jobs:
HALTING THE EXODUS
Business Manager |
any |
| ‘ternships,
News of our strikes has for the French | For, in a period when Germany was | rearming feverishly, France had strikes and shutdowns | of |
Now French com- |
We can’t believe |
If a strike is taken, the |§ union leaders said, workers employed on the company’s | § $700,000.000 worth of defense contracts will be excluded. |
Refugees
By Thomas L. Stokes
Their Resettlement in U. S. Affords First Chance to Absorb Immigrants On a Planned and Orderly Basis.
(Third of a Series)
ASHINGTON, April 12—A most interesting experiment in the resettlement of uprooted peoples is going on in connection with refugees who have fled to this country from Nazi persecutions in Europe. The National Refugee Service in New York, headed by William Rosenwald, sees the present refugee movement &s an opportunity, for the first time in American history, to absorb immigrants in a planned and purposeful manner, He foresees a longrange program to be carried on for some years. : The objective is to prevent, as far as possible, the concentration of refugees in New York and other cities in the East and to locate them in smaller communities throughout the country where they can make the best adjustment to the American way of life. This, it is realized, is encompassed with certain difficulties at the outset, chiefly the natural desire of a stranger in a new land to cling to the colonies of refugee friends in the bigger centers of the East. Some 70,000 to 75,000, about half of the present refugee population of the country, have remained in New York, according to the National Refugee Service. But the resettlement plan is slowly making headway. = un ” OLUNTEER committees have been created in 900 communities all over the country, and the National Refugee Service has helped to resettle 10,000 persons who are beginning a new life. An important part of the work is the institution of re-training programs of all sorts, including vocational training. About 1500 now are being trained in various mechanical arts. Unlike™ the immigration in normal times, this refugee immigration is preponderantly middle-class business and professional in character, and includes also many persons internationally known in the arts and sciences who will enrich American cultural life, Most success has been achieved with businessmen, some of whom have set up small businesses of a varied and in several cases novel character, utilizing unusual talents, Some of these are non-competitive with American businesses, The National Refugee employment opportunities business enterprises. It has published a sample survey of 303 such enterprises initiated by refugees, 264 of which were established after 1937, showing that 2000 of the 2700 workers employed in them are Americans. n n 8’
Service emphasizes for Americans
"J LACING foreign physicians has been the most
difficult problem, because all but four states have some sort of restrictions on their practice; some, laws requiring American citizenship; some, laws requiring graduation -from American colleges: some, restrictions by state boards; while resentment against their practice has been encountered in some circles, despite the need for doctors. A national committee for resettlement of foreign
and seeking elimination of them from practice,
restrictions which bar
Foreign candidates for places are interviewed bv qualified American physicians. Those adjudged unfit for practice are advised to retrain for other occupations. Through lectures, courses and voluntary exthose recommended for resettlement are acquainted with American methods in medicine and
; «3 . . | are studying for license exami ions. management to recognize the principle of collective bar- | xaminations
The management doubtless believes it achieved | something big by stipulating more precisely the procedures | seems | to us that neither side gained anything half so precious |
Foreign physicians already have been settled in rural sections of Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Ohio. Gratifying reports have" been received of their welcome in these communities, . NEXT: The State Department's Problems,
(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)
Business By John T. Flynn
Enforced Loan Section in British Tax Plan Worth Our Study.
NEY YORK, April 12.—Some news has come out i of Britain that may well make men in America look up. It probably was read less than anv other major war story of the day. It may well turn out to be one of the very great stories of the war. This news has todo with the new taxes in Britain. Taxes are a drab subject. this new tax proposal of
But Sir
Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the |
Exchequer, is no drab subject. It is revolutionary, not so much because it is a war measure but because of its bearing on what is in sight after the war. The reports published here are not sufficiently detailed to enable one to form a clear idea of the full weight of the tax on individual persons. But the imvortant thing is the principle behind this tax. And Americans will do well to learn all about it for, as
sure as life, such a plan will sooner or later be pro-
posed here Such a plan will be proposed, not merely for war effort, but as part of what is sometimes called the ‘new order” in America. This plarr may be described briefly as follows: During the coming year Britain expects to spend on the war, exclusive of her expenditures here under the Lease-Lend Bill, $16,827,000,000. This is a vast
the | in these |
It includes many distinguished |
{fense made a {statement over a year ago as fol“The United States must do __
compieteiy neutral. {sympathies were aroused, prodded of hours of daylight that any one {by Administration speeches, we tock | part of the country may have at a
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OGLE REPEATS STAND
{OF DEFENSE COMMITTEE
By Kenneth Ogle, Committee for National Defense, Indianapoiis
In answer to G. K. Smith, the Indiana Committee for National Desimple, unequivocal
lows: all in its power to bring about a complete defeat of Germany and her allies.” Since tha: time this state.
meetings. And in almost every case the inherent implications required no explaining. More important, the sustaining argument to my Knowledge has never been seriously challenged. This argument also has appeared frequently in: the press so will not be repeated here, but if it has es-
caped Mr. Smith's notice let him ar- | [range a meeting and our Commit-
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tee will gladly furnish a speaker. The rest of Mr. Smith's lettar (I hope ne will pardon me) is rather silly. Many members of the A. E F., of which T am one, would give a good deal to be back in the Ary again. Perhaps the General Staff
may vet relent and inject a little|
sense into the age limits, n o ”
"TERMS USE OF CONVOYS
NEXT LOGICAL STEP By R. G. L., East Chicago, Ind.
Comes now the next step in the road to war—convoying ships. We are
|determined to stay out of war, vet {with the Administration so much in (favor of convoying supplies, one has the helpless feeling that we'll be (taking this step to war whether or {not we want to. It's the logical thing
to do in the route we have taken, and
{those of us who oppose it will he ishamed into silence by finding our-
selves accused of being “unwitting tools of Hitler.” How did we get to such a spot? We started out by wanting to be But whea oor
Chairman of Indiana
[seems questionable, for the reason {that so many lobbyists were on the { flooor of the House that it might [have been the lobbyists voting on | {that or any other issue. Front row | your letters short; so all can [at the pie counter was all that mat- " : ; tered to the elected members, other | have a chance. Letters must things were just small fry.
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be signed.) 2 # ” ; | TERMS STRIKES A WAY
ed. Then the demand cam= for OF PRESERVING DEMOCRACY {more aid—all the aid we could give, | Chev.
By William M. Taylor, President
{ment has been repeated many, many [and we were told we must 69 £0, 2nd | “ocal 226, Box 109, Morgantown, Ind. {times in the press- and at public that it wouldn't involve us in var. |
| Under the Lend-Lease Act we can| I would like to inform Mr. C.D. promote war in any spot on earth |M. that the strikes in the defense {if one man considers it vital to our | industry are not to sabotage liberty
| defense, yet we were assured the act | but are the answer to preserving | In support of my state-|
was to promote peace. Wien? democracy. | Now there is no longer any .oubt!ment I wish to present a few facts about being involved if we take the|that can be proven beyond any [next step. My question is: Is the doubt. In the recent strike at the [course we have taken, supposedly | Vultee Aircraft Co in Downey, Cal,
war, a piece of Administration blon. | dering or have we just been supersmartly spoofed?
These men negotiated for 63 days before the strike was voted. The 2.» a corporation told these men they dared them to strike because {| TAKING A SLAM AT DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME | By W. H. Edwards, R. R. 2,
Indianapolis it seems is wrought up over the so-called day-| stantial profit in 1939. light saving issue. There should be] The workers in Allis-Chalmers| | no reason for such an issue to be- negotiated for 45 days before the | (cloud the thinking of any person. strike. Major demand was seniority {No law can be passed by any legis-| agreement with 10c per hour increase | lative body that will save one jn pay. minute of daylight. ’ | There's a clique of golf players and other sports followers who usually come down to their offices at 9 a. m. and who want to come down for several months in the summer (at 8 a. m., Trying to fool themselves and the public into the be-| {lief that it is 9 instead of 8 o'clock | and make working people who go to | work at 7 a. m. usually, go to work at 6 doesn't foo! anyone: it is a! [ minority pressure movement such as that which put Hitler info power. | It is the Supreme Ruler of the! | Universe whe designates the num-
for defense. The union {62'2c per hour to prove they were|
Ind. : not saboteurs. This same company,
Spencer,
March 6 offered a compromise that | was accepted by the union but the company said no. Mr. Knudsen called company officials to Wash-| ington on March 8 but there was no settlement. Mr. Knudsen then] double-crossed the workers. strike is settled on only a promise of Government mediators that the] workers will get a square dea! That square deal remains to be seen, Ford workers have been iniimi-| dated in every way known for years. | They asked for an election under NLRB. Ford had no representative at that hearing. He stated in Time! magazine that if and when the workers won an election in his
| destruction. | the holocaust as an opportunity to replan and rebuild
which there was no retreat.
for peace but now plunging us into |the major demand of the union was| a minimum wage of 75c¢ per hour.!
that | they were manufacturing airplanes]
accepted |
all| in 1940, showed 290 times a sub-,
Dr. Steelman and Father| g | Hass negotiated that case and on] j
That |
| movement
(sides. When the Administration de- given season and none but that mand came to help those with whom | Power can have any say about how we sympathized, we were told it much or how little of daylight shall
plant, they would negotiate until hell froze over and they wouldn't
SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1941
Something Else in Greenland’s Icy Mountains! Con. Johnson
Says— America Needs More of the Spirit
That Enabled San Franciscans to Rebuild After Quake Razed City,
AN FRANCISCO, April 12—My first visit to this city of San Francisco was just a few days more than 35 years ago and it was a heap of smoking ruins. No description of Coventry, London, nr War-
saw that has come from overseas hints more than a pale shadow of the devastation here, I was very lately out of West Point and in that old Armv there was little lower than a newly joined shave-tail. Yet by a series of (for me) lucky accidents, I was placed in charge of the sfipply of food and shelter for what wera then called by Congress “refugees from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific Coast’—and thers were 17,000 of them—homeless, helpless people who, without warning, had just seen everything that they had and relied upon destroyed by an act of God and had no place else to turn than to their Government. Uncle Sam contributed $3,000,000.
From private
| | sources all over the world came $7,000,000, it was a | drop in the bucket compared to what Federal Govern= | ment does today in much less serious cases of dise { tress.
But it was enough. It was enough because, except for a sprinkling of professional bums which trickled in on the rods from
all over the country and presented themselves as | “refugees” to enjoy a California spring free, thess
17,000 people had no idea but to get back on their own feet as promptly as possible. " n ” British sufferers show courage in facing both present disaster and uncertain future and in proceeding to reconstruct, Leaders in San Francisco almost hailed
HE valiant no greater
the city on a blueprint of greater beauty and convene ience. The ashes were not cold before construction began. In an incredibly short time the scars of that misfortune were gone. There were no more “refugees” at the end of a year. You can’t revisit the city with such memories now without wondering what is the matter with us, what has become of that kind of American spirit in the face of disaster, and why so many people seem to take it for granted that, if trouble overtakes them that they can't too readily escape, there is an easy way out by relying on Uncle Sam to do for them the things which, under the philosophy which built this country, they are supposed to do for themselves. un n un HIRTY-FIVE years is not a long span . life of a nation but there is no doubt of tre= mendous change. The San Francisco people of 1908 were much closer to our pioneer ancestry that, all unaided, tamed a howling wilderness—the breed of the Forty-niner who met a grizzly on a ledge from He drew his knife and prayed, “Oh, Lord, T won't ask you to help me, All I ask is, Lord, please don't help the b'ar and so. dear Lord, just stand aside and you're going to see the gosh-dingdest b'ar fight that ever happened in California.” In discussing this with a San Franciscan I was handed a paraphrase of Louis Adamic: “Within two generations, over half the population will be none Anglo-Saxon. The background of these people is not the American revolution but the industrial revolution.
in the
| Ellis Island is becoming as important as Plymouth
Rock. The best way to prepare for this situation. to break down the lines of cleavage and to keep the melting pot bubbling is to disseminate more information about all of the groups and their contributions to American life.” All that I think is true but in the process let's not. forget to disseminate information about the contributions of the parent stem on which these shoots are to be grafted. Their greatest gift has been fortitude and self-reliance, We could do with more of that. Editor's Note: The views expressed hv columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HE President, in his Jackson Day broadcast. spoke not only to the dictators, but to citizens of the United States who oppose aggressive adventures abroad. He also had a great deal to say about free elece tions. In fact, the ether rang with oratory from scores of Democratic leaders declaiming about elections. But not one of them mentioned a free election on the war issue, Nobody said a word ahout the people’s holy right to go to the polls and say whether or not they favor convoying armaments to Europe. And nobody will. The common man is allowed to vote on everything else. Every amendment to the Constitution waits upon his official O. K. Every for repeal must be submitied to him in the voting booth. But when has he ever been pere mitted to vote on the greatest of all projects—foreign war? In any real democracy should not this be regarded as the fundamental right of free men? And, mn strictest justice, only citizens under 50 should participate in such an election. For none over 50 will fight the war, and not many above that age will pay its costs. The younger men and women will build the New
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| sum .for a people whose numbers are only a little wouldn't get us into war.. We couid be had. . . . give the workers anything. Ford| america whose foundations have already been laid
MANY cities are worried because so many taxpayers are | leaving the city to settle in suburban areas, cutting | down the city’s tax income, and speeding up the tendency | of the less desirable city areas to degenerate into real slums. | There is only one real answer, and that is to make the | city areas more livable and desirable, so that people won't |
move out. Illinois and Chicago are working on the problem;
so are New York, Michigan and Minnesota.
such as will draw private enterprise to rebuilding the de-
teriorated areas into places that will again be worth living |
in.
People in a free country are going to live where they | Cities can keep them only by maintaining | such conditions within the city as will make the city the |
can live best.
best place to live.
MAKE THE LAW WORK
HEN the House returns from its Easter vacafion cer- |
tain formalities will be completed and Congress will | | domestic statesmen have flirted with.
send the new Federal Coal-Mine Inspection Bill to.the White House for President Roosevelt's signature. Having urged the passage of this measure, we want it to be effective in operation. The new law will be administered by the Bureau of Mines, under Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Knowing Mr. Ickes’ special interest in it, we believe he will insist on appointment of capable, intelligent
and fearless inspectors. State coal-mine inspection systems have been criticized
because, in too many cases, state inspectors have been more | . . . . . | interested in pleasing mine owners than in safeguarding That is why we were convinced of the need for a |
miners. Federal law to bring the weak and unsatisfactory systems
of all states up to high standards, =
cour RR CCC sian
SAN en,
The plans are | . . i tax. all along lines of condemnation of the worst slum areas, and |
then granting tax concessions and financing inducements |
more than one-third our own. She hopes to raise $7,145,060,000 of this by taxes. The rest must be raised by borrowing. un un ” y= what the taxes will be is not made clear from the tables which have been printed here. But the important point is that the Government plans to take money from its citizens in two ways. A tax, heavily increased over last year's, will be imposed. Bul this tax will be divided into two, parts. One part will be taken by the Government outright as a true The other part will be taken as an enforced loan to the Government. To take an actual example, the tax on an income of $4000 will be roughly $1524. Of this amount, 31352 will drop into the Treasury as a tax. The remaining $172 will be considered by the Government as a loan. The taxpayer will have a credit of that much due him from the Government when the war is over. How the Government will meet that then remains to be settled. I believe it can he met when the war is over only by further taxation or by a capital levy. The object aimed at by the Government is to finance the war effort without making bank loans, if. possible. Its object is to meet its war hills by taxation and by loans, but by loans out of the income of the people, in order to avoid inflation. This enforced taxation is, of course, to be in addition to the voluntary taxation which it hopes will continue. This is the Keynes plan which some of our own The importance of it here lies in the fact that it is a form of enforced investment in public securities—public paper. And in this country there is a school high in favor which contends that this is the only kind of investment whiclhr can be used to keep alive the capitalist economic system of the future. I cannot vouch for the figures given above, but they serve at least to illustrate the principle involved.
So They. Say—
HONOR requires us to undertake nothing against our former allies—Marshal Petain,
French state. * »* *
I CAN'T RECALL one American journalist who
has been successfully muzzled.—William L. Chenery, magazine editok, i :
sympathize and still be legaliy neu-| [tral So the Neutrality Law was amend- | of approval on the misnamed day-
Side Glances=By Galbraith
agreed with Mr. Dewey to meet the! union representatives and then said, no. Mr. Dewey got disgusted and | walked out like the workers did. General Motors is telling the negotiating committees in their plants to go ahead and strike. Why? | They are running full page ads in|
Oh ves, we know that the recent legislative side-show put its stamp
chief of the |
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the papers telling what they are] doing for National Defense. They don't tell about the profits. Last year net profits $195,000,000 or $957 per employee. They want public opinion on their side because the] public doesn’t know the facts. To those who are yelling money grabbers at the C. I. O. I point out this fact. Initiation $3. Dues $1 per month. Out-of-work receipts when unemployed. No salary to any local officer. If there is any saboteur in our ranks let the law] take its course, for he is not desir-| able to us. We are American. We) will fight for democracy but while we are fighting we want democracy to fight for.
SPRINGTIME Ry MARY WARD After the frosts, the dew After the gloom Of night, the dawn anew, Winter, then bloom.
Each season is endeared, Holding its own. No single hour too weird, Too sad, or lone.
But springtime’s every phase Brings promises strong, And rapture fills its phrase Of celestial song.
DAILY THOUGHT
Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath ever-
"That's his wite on the
ha «th “a o.
phone--she calls him up every half hour to findwout what's new!”
lasting life.—~John 6:47.
BE THOU faithful unto death.— Revelation. oy
inh A
by our own imperialistic pronouncements. The world policed, we presume, by our Army must be regulated and kept in order by them. Therefore it seems to me they should have a word in a truly momentous decision. If war is declared no one can speak as I am writing without being justly accused of obstructing national aims. But before such 1estrictions are put upon opponents of aggressive war abroad, can't we crack down on men like 83-year-old Senator Carter Glass, who whoops for battle and is all for the boys rushing over to knock the hell out of Hitler?
Questions and Answers
(The Indianapolis Times Service Burean will answer any question of fact or information, not involving extensive re search. Write your questions clearly, sign name and address, inclose a three-cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot be given. Address The Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth St., Washington, D. C,). Q—How long should homing pigeons be confined when moved to a new, permanent location? A—About one week, which allows time for them to become accustomed to their new surroundings. When first released after confinement in the new quarters, they should be hungry enough to insure their return for food and quartering. Q—In what battles did the British Admiral David Beatty participate? A—The Battle on the Nile at Hafir in 1888, the Boxer uprising in China in 1900, against the German Navy at the Bight of Heligoland on Aug. 28, 1914, in the North Sea off Dogger Bank on Jan. 24, 1915, and in the Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, Q—What is the personnel strength of the U, 8, Army Air Corps? A—At the end of January: Officers, 6180; flying cadets, 7000; enlisted men, 83,000. Q—What kind of stamp is meant by the term rotary press printing? A—Stamps printed on a rotary type press form curved plates instead of from flat plates on a flat-bed press. Rotary press stamps are longer or wider than those printed from flat plates. Q—Who built the Suez Canal, and how much did it cost? A—Count Ferdinand de Lesseps of France was the $148,500,000,