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= MONDAY, MAY 10, 1041 700 LITTLE, BUT NOT TOO LATE

~ “strategic minerals has been admitted to Congress by the

i Office of Production Management.

Stocks are substantial but “far short, of our objective,”.

y Dr. C. K. Leith, the OPM consulting expert, reports. “The { program was started much foo late for successful comple- | tion under present conditions.”

’- Here was a problem recognized for many years even by

| the lay public—the dangerous prepatedness shortage of

| ‘ manganese, antimony, mercury, tungsten, nickel, chromium ~ and tin. But commercial interests, international cartels, in-

effective military authorities, and indifferent Congresses

blocked the very simple and easy acquisition of ‘reserves.

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THE RADIO MESS

~ The Administration even delayed several months after the war started. % ’ ” The test is what can be done now—not only on the long‘range program of developing national and hemisphere sup“plies, but the immediate’task of getting reserves from the Far East. ai 3? . - We disagree with those officials who accept defeat, with the excuse that there are no ships to bring the reserves and no ‘way of reducing present consumption. The ships must be found, and domestic waste and non-essential industrial consumption must be reduced, to provide the minimum twoyear reserve in case of war. : |

That is what a priorities system is for.

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SOCAN ~~... Sane] nr GOME highly. artistic posters are being distributed by the Office of Production Management for display in shops working on defense orders. “We, the People, Arm for Defense!” is their message. We wish it were 100 per cent true, > But the same agency. that sends out these posters is continually handicapped by labor-management disputes which make that message seem dangerously less than true. We suggest a punchier slogan, sent in to William S. Knudsen by some plain-speaking citizen out west: “Don’t Let Them Catch Us With Our Plants Down!”

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THAT both the Federal Communications Commission and 7" the radio industry have reached a “psychopathic state”

was the comment of Mark Ethridge before the National

Association of Broadcasters in their St. Louis convention last week. _ Clrarges of monopoly on one side and political favoritjsm on the other featured a dispute which, but for Hess and other war news, would have got much more public atfention.. - o.oo vi +h * The radio industry was socked recently by a 5 to 2 FCC order which the FCC majority called a magna charta and the minority said was conducive to anarchy. ? : Mr. Ethridge had been appointed by President Roose- _ yelt to make a study and report. But before his report was in, the order was handed down. So Mr. Ethridge, long an ardent New Dealer, head of the Louisville Courier-Journal,

and former president of the NAB, resigned, and in his St.

Louis address paid his‘ respects to the FCC majority in no

uncertain language—which was especially pointed at James

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L. Fly, FCC chairman. ark “I have felt that an industry which depends so much for its development upon creative imagination should not have to devote so much of its mental faculty to worrying

_ about where the next blow from the Commission was com-

ing from... oh : “If there be monopolies, the Govefnment made them,

: frequently by granting licenses to favorites . . .

3 ‘were in effect operating illegally.”

/ . “This is a case in which 800 licensees have been suddenly told, in a burst of piety by the Government, that they

ay # = ® 3 ~¢ Further, as relating to political pull: “TI know of three instances in which the Commission laid down principles, or

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‘ had the determination of principles under consideration,

and violated them by almost immediate action in favor of people who were not unfriendly to the Administration.” And: “Regulation, to be successful, should be intelli-

gent and deliberate. The new (FCC) order both from its

text and from the tone is founded on a basis of bad temper, impatience and vindictiveness. It is intended to be punitive, not constructive.” Bs x : Mr. Fly, who was present, is reported to have stalked fy the room, teeth gnashing and fists clenched. He who is no mean shakes himself when it comes to invective, made later reply in kind, characterizing the NAB as a “dead

mackerel in the moonlight.”

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The angles to this dispute are so many and so technical t to tell them would take a book. But to one constructive proposal we think the public will subscribe. It is by Senator White of Maine for a full Congressional airing of this whole subject. Since Congress is the policy-making body which created the FCC we can’t see why even Mr. Fly should object to that!

President Roosevelt said in 1989, speaking of radio reg- |

alation, “I am thoroughly dissatisfied.” has got worse instead of better.

Since then the

? “OPULENT GOVERNMENT” |

VICK, boy, an Economy Medal, third class, for Rep. verett Dirksen (R. IIL)! Leading a successful Connal battle to make the National Park Service stop ying a dime for admission to thé house in Washington e Abraham Lincoln died, Mr. Dirksen cried: : “What a travesty for an opulent Government that y money with siich lavishness to charge 10 cents each

{By Westbrook Pegler ~ Brutal. Lynching In Florida ‘Not. Surprising Since Civilized Living Is Unknown in Many Areas of State

ered by carrier, 12 cents:

Fair Encugh

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paper accounts, the lynching of a4 Negro in a

Hitler. Suspected but not yet formally accused of criminal assault on a white child, the victim

for dead, but crawled to a refuge and there was recaptured by a

was surrendered without a

The section of the country in which this horror occurred ‘is in the social and intellectual slum Rhieh; scourge te the hearsay Se storians .of Florida, was ulated by low whites ] ithe states, notably Georgia and Alabama, to scape service in the Civil War, and the white population is distinguished from the Negroes only in the matter of complexion and other racial characteristics.

It should be easy to catch and convict all the

would result in either local revolution or such a farce as ‘would further discredit the law and civilization. Many areas of Florida are civilized only in a few outward appearances, for the state still consists largely of frontier and backwoods, and we deceive ourselves by imagining. that frontiersmen and backwoodsmen are brave, chivalrous characters. The robbers and killers of the Old West, glamorized in song and story out of all resemblance to their diseased and dirty criminal character, were, in fact, no better than the common city gunman or the backwoods lyncher of today.

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LORIDA is an adolescent, irresponsible and, thus far, incorrigible state whose most respected political and civic leaders in the urban areas have frankly insisted that it is necessary, in the interests of progress and prosperity, to connive at crime and

example, that a gambling house cannot operate openly

many of these leaders hold, nevertheless, that if gambling were put down the tourists would go elsewhere and business would suffer. : ‘ . In the crude back country the conditions of life are primitive, and habitations may be seen from the highway in which there are neither panes nor screens to the windows, and creatures having the physical appearances of human beings live in such squalor as to revolt the very buzzards. It is not to scold the people or the state that such observations are made, but rather to indicate how it can be that white men, claiming to be members of a superior breed, can so degrade themselves and embarrass the race in which they hold technical membership in an effort. to impress their superiority on their Negro neighbors. Ignorance and brutality die hard and .slowly in certain strains of Florida Caucasians and ‘resist such refinements as electric signs, the radio, plumbing and paving, even on the luxury coast of the Atlantic. . > 2 8 =

NLY two years ago, in one of the oldest and most sedate cities of the. coast, a community where wealth abounds and books have been reported, a Negro taximan ran down a white child in a traffic accident and was taken from the hands of the law by relatives of the deceased and shot under the law

| of flight in the presence of a little party of shocked

and frightened tourists. This was duly listed as a lynching in the annual score, whereas it was plainly a common, premeditated murder which could have been punished by the death penalty if the morality and the public opinion had existed. - 4 " There is never any reason or excuse for the lynching of a Negro in Florida, and it must be added that the worse the crime the less the white man need concern himself about a miscarriage of justice. In the most recent case the prisoner would have got his promptly and in full measure had the law been allowed to take its course, but the killers doubtless were afraid that on his trial the accused might prove his innocence or, import from the North some lawyer who would demonstrate that the victim tempted him and, anyway, that he wasn’t in the state of Florida at the time but studying in class at the College of the City of New York. Civilization can’t be hurried in the Florida swamps and backwoods, on either the whites or the Negroes. Each degrades the other, but the white man has mements when he can really show the Negro a very recognizable stump of the tail by which his not so remote ancestors swung from tangled vines amid the stunted trees.

Business By John T. Flynn

Government Talks of PricexConirols But Yields Easily to Pressure of Blocs

EW YORK, May 19.—If anyone doubts that this is a producers’ world he has but to consider the farm plan to raise prices on the five basic farm commodities. \ § For months the Government has been talking big : about controlling prices. New:-

control. But thus far most of the controls or Government acts have been to put prices up instead of io put them down or to keep them own.

boost in the price of cotton, corn, wheat, rice and tobacco. And Congress approves a bill .to give them

the extent of 85 per cent of parity. Now the demand for keeping prices down has been millin around in the interest of consum but chiefly in the interest of our society itself, to

a big, ungainly and slow-moving affair, whereas the

and vital units. .

Nowhere in the society is there any strongly organized body which represents it as a whole, except tite Government. But the Government is a thing greatly subject to pressures of all sorts, and the pressures are largely from organized minorities. The Government is political. It is political values. Therefore a small group of scrap-

iron dealers or a small group of local merchants can

creased prices! ; y » 8

resentative of the clamoring TP This is why so little is actually prices. There is a widespread conviction that should be kept down.’ people do not have a fore, while the Jed each day of or goods of these little daily episodes is a succession creases in wages and costs. ve

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srve democracy at home. We can we practice dem dally . .

only if ocracy industrial plants, in Hillman,

“ schools, in our in which we live missioner, : ‘ 4 * . * vA

AMERICAN cotton has reached that stage 2 depend for its

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EW YORK, May 10.—According to. the news- | little town in northwestern Florida a few nights ago | §

was an episode which, for bestiality, could be matched’ { only in cultural exercises of the super-race of ‘Adolf"

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was roped to a tree, shot and left

law officer. He tlyen apparently. |: struggle to a mob which finished | -

who fled from the other Southern |.

murderers, but any serious attempt to do so probably

build on vice and official corruption. Knowing, for |

without - the corrupt consent of the local officials,

papers print editorial demands for

The farmers are hot after a

a boost iin the form of loans to

otect it against the impact of the war economy. But our society is

producers of various groups are organized as strong |

itive to

exercise immense influence over the Government because it acts as a unit, well-heeled and very energetic. How much more powerful, then, is a very large group of farmers—yet still a minority—clamoring for in-

HE public as a whole, in this case, remains almost unrepresented. The very agency of the Govern- | | ment—the Agricultural Department—comes to be the |

beirig done about

The people believe-it. But the: bby for that purpose. ThereGovernment talks about prices we some new demands for higher prices and higher prices for labor. Ana ghe end

WE CANNOT defend democracy unless we exi Ja} Te do tis m our

the compiunities Defense Com-

in its

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DEFENDS F. D. R’s RIGHT TO CALL “NAMES” By William Taylor, Morgantown, Ind, Certainly President Roosevelt

called Lindbergh a copperhead, so whet? If any person can point out

has not been called, then I would start to scan such a new type of dictionary. Many writers in the open forum charge that the President is a dictator. Possibly I have failed to recognize the truth, if he is such.

allowed to call our Presideht any name they can “gurgle,” and when he uses the one word copperhead, they cry like a squalling youngster. Let us strive to keep America a democracy where we can call the President what we please. But let us not forget the President has the same right to call us a name also.

2 8 2 OPPOSES 85% PARITY LOAN TO FARMERS By M. L. L.

In view of the passage by Congress of the 85 per cent of parity fagm loan bill, I feel it a personal obligation to voice strénuous opposition to this most heinous of crimes against the majority of the American people. It is impossible to see ‘any justification for a law which will act directly at odds with

Jour tremendous defense program.

It has been variously estimated that raising the loan basis to 85 per cent will raise the cost of living from 10 to 20 per.cent or more by granting loans to farmers for their produce far in excess of current price levels. Is there any reason in this measure when impending high taxes and already increasing cost of living has made and is making patriotic sacrifices mandatory on the part of our peoplé? ~ 8trenuous. criticism was voiced against labor when a series of strikes threatened to impede our defense effort. Labor was trying to get its share of the increase in national income. Congress has gone so far ‘as to consider anti-strike legislation, and labor has been branded as unpatriotic. While I hold no brief for strikes in defense industries, I fail to see the difference between labor holding up capital for increased income and the powerful farm bloc hijacking the American people for the vary same purpose. Mr. Leon Henderson has asked

to me any name that the President|

However, these same people are yet’

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for the co-operation of proc:ssors in many fabricating fields in an effort to keep the manufacturing margin of profit at a minimum. I feel sure that if this bill becomes a lz w, much of Mr. Henderson’s fine vork will be undone. The manufact rer who has been asked to give up some of his profits is going to feel that the Administration is making a sucker out of him by appealing tc his patriotism and at the sane time handing a large chunk of the na-

Jtional income over to the farmer,

and, incidentally, raising the cost of raw materiais to him. . Similarly, the increasing visible rise in the cost of consunier goods is certainly going to militate against the acquiescence of labor in those gains it has achieved to date.

sz = = WARNS OF REPEATING : MISTAKES OF WORLD WAR By Lettie Sawyer, Greencastle. Ind.

Since it is too late to remedy the mistakes that were riade in a peace without justice in the First World War, or our own bs refusing to join the League of Na :ions, and the ones France made when she refused the German G)vernment leniency in their war pa ments so they could feed their sta, ving people, and by refusing to 1ft a hand to prevent Hitler taking over the tottering German Government when he had fast cars placed at important places to get him and his stooges out of the country if things didn’t go as the’ planned, we must see to it that such mistakes are not made agai. Politics played a bic part in the League refusal, as th:y are also doing today. Facing fac s is something most of us hate fo do und politicians must begin to realize that the country and its welfare comes first. Of course, all men haven't the capacity :or bigness Mr. Willkie has shown, '‘hat’s rare. ‘But we are not invulnerable to attack unless our bombe:s dominate the air and our ships th: seas. And

yet we are open to the termite at-

Side Glances = By Galbraith

lica which are sbeing defended by

.|used by the agents of reaction and

| [cial power.

|'That to Heaven tower, :/1 Shine ‘your best in dandelion

life; and in the

tack of the Hitler ‘and Communist spies who by their sabotage can do us great harm as ‘we've seen by what has happened in France and the Balkans. The strikes we’ve had give a small idea of the way they work. : ‘People say keep America for Americans. Help America arm first. But if we let Germany take over England, what about Canada? It seems to me all-out aid to England and, seeing that it gets there would be better than having our cities in ruins, our costly dams destroyed and our children living in bomb shelters as theyll have to if we don’t work fast to stop the madman on his own continent. A few reverses would throw the whole Nazi setup out, for they've had things their way too long. #2 8 = LINKS HESS FLIGHT TO MONROE DOCTRINE By A. 8S. Germans have been colonizing in South America for some time. They know, as does every well-informed

person, that the only unexploited and not overcrowded territory left in the world is in South America. British and French colonies in Africa are mostly arid and lacking in natural resources. Belgian and Portuguese colonies have rich jungle resources, but the climate is not suited for colonization. overcrowded. For any nation seeking living] room or colonial empire, the lands of South America beckon. The only barrier to be met is the Monroe Doctrine of the U. S. . i Hitler long ago realized that it would be to his interests to secure British co-operation in overcoming this barrier. The British, Japanese and German navies would cause the U. S. to think twice before opposing a German move into South America. o I just wonder if Hitler might not have sent Hess to offer England peace without any other terms than co-operation in making the U. S. see the light.” 5 8 » 2 URGES 100 PER CENT TAX ON WAR PROFITS

By A. B, L. Among ‘all the persons who have testified before the House committee holding hearings on the Pproposed new tax rates, none has advocated what appears to be the fairest sort of tax, namely, a 100 per cent tax on the increase. in profits due to the defense program. The tax is now only 50 per cent. There is absolutely no reason why

profits from the common danger to America and to the ideals of ‘Amer-

other countries which are resisting totalitarian ‘aggression and dictatorship.. : > > Great Britain has a 100 per cent tax on war profits, which has greatly ' strengthened the morale of the ‘British -people and their willingness to endure the necessary sacrifices. Such a tax here would help our morale as well, and would provide a complete answer to the charge that the war effort is being

big business as a smoke screen to strengthen their political and finan-

“By MARY P. DENNY. May, May; May, Mag— *° Shine in leaf ‘flo

leaf and ‘flower

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and the light of clover bright. - Glow through all the morning light. Glow in lily white and rose That to summer soft unclose, Brighten all the hill aad plain

~ |In a glowing May-time strain, | | _| Beautiful .all. white and gold,

All the paths of spring unfold.

DAILY. THOUGHT

In the way of righteousness is thway thereof is no death. ~Proverhs 12:28.

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MONDAY, MAY 19, 1948, Books By Stephen Ellis. iy / Jack Harding Invades Field of His

| Wife, Bertita, and Writes a Most Interesting Travel Book on Brazil

J<E HARDING as long: been widely known in Indianapolis (a) as an able advertising executive and active clubman, and (b) as the husband of Bertita Harding, the author of so many historical novels. Now Jack Harding has stepped into his wife's field and has produced “I Like Brazil”, an informal and enters taining travel narrative. The: “Hardings went to Brazil : where Bertita, worked on research material for her newest .book.. Jack let no weeds grow. He took photographs, ‘asked questions, looked curiously at everything— and wrote. f The result is an. admirably fllustrated book, one which gives ran unusually - informative : view= oi "' point. We recommend it not Mr, Harding only to those of you who know and like Jack, but to everybody who has any sort” of interest in South America. od : # 8 = 3) JUST OUT is one of the most important books of the year, “Men And Politics” by Louis Fischer, whose comments on foreign affairs many of you have fole lowed in The Nation. Mr. Fischer actually takes Eu= rope apart for you, the Europe of the last 20 years, and when you are finished you will have a better realization of how and why this war started and what it all means. 5 Besides being a magnificent contemporary study of our times, “Men And Politics” is likewise a book of “profiles”—studies of national leadérs, of fakirs and charlatans, of foreign correspondents, of nearly everybody Louis Fischer has met and known: To Winston Churchill, the late Amabassador Dodd, and to the Indiana-born Claude Bowers, Mr. Fischer - is warm, generous and kindly, but to scores of others (Laval, Bullitt, Lothian to name a few) he is biting, sarcastic and bitter. You can’t miss on this one. - » o 2 WE'VE BEEN MEANING to call your attention to «mirst The Fields,” an impressive first novel by Charles Wood, a young Southern business man who grew up

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| in the tobacco. country and has turned his talents

toward depicting what happens to ‘the man who loves the land but.who cannot whip the big business in the guise of the tobacco companies. . ; Fiction it may be, but you have here some of the elements that have kept the South béhind the North and the story of Hugh Winton and his. unsuccessful efforts to buck the tobacco companies is the story of many a Southern tobacco farmer who has gone to his death with failure stamped all over a : 8 8 =» PE ODDS AND ENDS: Many of you will be interested in the “Collected Edition of Heywood Broun,” coms piled by his son-and published by Harcourt-Brace in a 561-page volume ($3.50). . . . There is considerable comment upcoming, too, about “Flotsam” by Erich Maria Remarque (Little, Brown; $2.50). Remarque, of course, is one of the world’s most powerful writers and in this book of refugees from Germany, he has ample room to demonstrate his talents. . . . And soon to be issued, we. understand, is an “Indiana Guide,” like - ‘those of some other states. High time, too, we might .

1 LIKE BRAZIL, by Jack Harding; Bobbs-Merrill Co., 335 pages, illustrated with photographs by the author, $2.50. ji : MEN AND. POLITICS, by Louis Fischer; Duell, Sloan & Pierce, 657 pages with index; $3.50. ; FIRST THE FIELDS, by Charles Wood; Uhiversity of North Carolina Press; 308 pages; $2.50. : ;

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson .]

\HIRTY-FIVE members of the policy board of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies have issued a new statement. Every former statement has been a step towards war and this ‘makes the leap. This one urges the American people (0 send ‘a plea to the President and Congress to ‘declare a full state of emergency followed by all the war measures, short of an honorable declaration, that this would entail. The reasons they give fot such action have a noble sound. theory, every - American probably would like to subscribe to them. Unfortunately, however, these 33 men and women, and the many others who are so enthusiastic about plunging into the battles, fail to take into consideration & : most important fact. It is an unpleasant one, but/ to overlook it _ might lead to more unpleasant and even tragic consequences. ‘At this moment the United States is not prepared for total war. ‘Secretary Stimson, in urging use of the Navy to insure that supplies reach Britain, tells the public plainly that our Army and Airpower preps arations are still. incomplete. WC : This leaves the average American completely be<

-fuddled, since modern warfare makes it imperative

that a naticn must be ready to fight on all fronts if it expects victory. : “ie The emotionalism emanating from the so-called: practical male mind in this emergency is beyond ail belief. We are asked to go forth to war for purely, moral reasons—although we are well aware that, behind them, the same old economic reasons exist —but if; seems incredible that our leaders are ‘willing to put us in before our weapons are forged. : ‘Also, the men and women of this counfry are split into two big groups over the issue. To ‘dise regard the fact is worse than ostrich-like; it could be plain suicide. =i

Some of the big “shots ‘who khow what’ goes oh

“everywhere else on earth ought to inform themselves

about the temper of thé people at home. before they make any war moves. rie : ch ‘Those opposing the actions of the Committée to Defend America by Aiding the Allies have been called .. “cold and calculating.” Tn times such as these, the words may be interpreted as a compliment. For, when war is the issue, we'd better be cold and calcue lating than illogical and impulsive. ie

| Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those

“of The Indianapolis Times.

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