Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1941 — Page 10

meeting of the ne gay parade after tbe through |

‘conventioning gentlemen at their annual: party, an RE _But there is more than fun attached - to an Imperial Council sescion. This meeting will consider. the acceptance _of more than a million dollars in gifts to the Shrines 15

hospitals for crippled children and the accompanying draft- | ing of plans for the operation of these ¢ hospliala during. the |

This is a noble: work in many ways. andias the Shriders

play in the streets this week we may laugh with ‘them. But we should remember, first, the work they are doing for crippled children in all parts of. the United States and Canada. Welcome, Nobles.

SYRIA IS NOT SO FAR

PEITAIN. is invading Nazi-penetrated French Syria after

long waiting. - Because Syria is the key to the Middle East, the battle

now beginning’ may hold the fate of the Mediterransan and

a a that Britain in this strategic aren will one fo seven years in

fight to the death. Suez is at stake. . . Important as it is to the British, it would be. of even greater relative value to Hitler. Though “its loss. would. - cripple England terribly, she could fight on. Hitler, how--ever, would gain the oil, grain, cotton, minerals and inner supply lines-which would make him virtually invulnerable to the blockade—Britain’s chief weapon.

terranean is. inspired by deep sympathy for the British. But there is also a definite American angle. - " _ The Red Sea route, by which British forces get American supplies, is called a combat zone by the Axis but a non- _. combat zone by President Roosevelt. There is danger that the Suez backdoor may be the scene of one of those “inci- : dents” which so easily lead ‘to war. And if Hitler obtains. the Mediterranean and North Africa, what will keep him out of West Africa and Dakar, which the President says would directly menace us? Certainly the Aighsng | in Syria i is not as Tar away a8 it! seems.

WILL LABOR CLEAN HOUSE?

ESPITE today’ s menacing situation in Inglewood, Cal., = there has come out of defense strike crises on the Pacific Coast action which if followed through may bring much good to labor, over the long haul. We refer to labor with the small L; to the great rank and file of workers who, along with the general public and defense, have been caught in the jam of big labor politics.

“+ Strong C. L-O. leaders like Philip Murray, John Brophy |

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and Richard Frankensteen have finally begun to crack down on those unfaithful stewards who have caused such disruption of defense work as to generate what, to put it mildly, amounts to a public revulsion. Murray, Brophy and Frank ‘ensteen now give evidence of really doing something toward ‘cleaning their own house: of realizing that if it isn’t cleaned from Within it will be cleaned from without. el FT « » 8 : The people of this nation are slow to anger; but when they get mad, they stay mad. And when, at last, they push a pendulum back, they are likely to shove it too far. x

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“Signs in Congress, and in hamlets, towns and cities :

across the whole country have been multiplying, that labor has arrived at about the same point in public resentment as ‘had the New York Stock Exchange in the early thirties.

The Exchange stayed haughty, and you know ’ Wha :

happened. “" That's the way this country reacts. threads through the whole history of regulation.

Railroads ‘and rebates ;, banks and investment trusts:

insurance companies, laundered by Charles Evans Hughes;

‘utilities and the death sentence; iron and coal police; mer- |

_ chant marine and slave living conditions for sailors; coms | pany spies in industry—those are but a few on the long list of corrections when the American people got sore. ~~, Then labor grew big, too, and arrogant, and in many spots corrupt. With the passage of the Wagner Act it was given powers that invited it to go the way of all flesh, : 8: 2.8 a & = Now, every ‘banker isn’t a glass-eyed demon, nor is every. broker'a crook. Neither is every railroad or utility man or ship-owner wicked, per se. But there are enough in every party to bring about, when power seems unretrained, those anti-social practices which, in turn, bring e rain that falls upon the just and the unjust alike. Labor and labor leaders are no better and no worse than the average of humanity. They wear no special halo. So it happens that racketeering, jurisdictional strikes, Communistic boring from within, and those*other “evils have entered into the labor picture. Just as did rebates and bribery into the railway picture, short-selling and Péruvian | bonds into the investment and banking business, ahd so on:

down the primrose path to the bonfire of public resentment. : Saystem. which ce puis : : Bie nave Ud will GA revr. Mapa 8 8 3

: oo & 2 9 $8 8. x Arty one of those institutions, from the days: of Jay Gould to Willie Bioff, if it had done a reasonable amount soul-searching, could have cleaned its own: house and erted the retribution. 2 That's: where Tabor finds itself today-facing not only | same intensified public resentment that mowed down e Stock Exchange; but also, in this case, the United States

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The Mursiye and the Brophys and the Frankensteens slate.

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Trades and Labor Assembly, and business agent of the Akron local of the Operating Engineers.’ Harry D. Jones was indicted on three charges of malicious destruction of property in instigating the

Labor Assembly, of which Be was a vice president, promp! rotested against'“the smearing of the enPuy For 5.” and promised to “work with all inA parties toward the solution of the puzzle ‘presented. Time marched on, and on March 27 Harry D. Jones was convicted -by ‘a jury on three counts of

failed to put him on the stand and elected not to

Jones’ counsel preferred to put his faith in an appeal ‘based on an allegation that's woman on the jury was

‘acquainted with an assistant on the prosecutor's staff

who was not involved in the Jones prosecution. Floyd

Jastied that Jones not only planned the dynamiting

» NOTHER indictment nai against Jones for ‘hiring the same brothers - Floyd to blow up a

steam shovel operating in a non-union job at Canton, ‘but that, of course, may wash out while Jones is

martyring himself in

prison. Robert Azar, an assistant to Alvah Rpssell, the

‘Summit. County prosecutor, has: been asked whether ‘the Summit County Trades and Labor Assembly ever

did make good its to “work with all interested parties toward the solution of the puzzle presented.” His reply is that no part of the A. F. of L.

‘organization ever did a thing to help the public oM-

cials solve the crime. So the case goes over to the autumn term on Jones’

‘appeal, with him at liberty on a $4500 bond and the

surviving brother Floyd sentenced to two concurrent terms of from one to seven years, the beneficiary of a “break,” as the saying goes, for testifying against

the vice president of the Ohio Federation of Labor.

And to round out matters the. editor of brother

correspondent a letter admitting that in: his view a union paper is a “house organ” and under no:obligation to tell its union readers the truth about the conduct of the union officials or union affairs. This would ‘appear to corroboraté the contention of these dispatches that most official union papers deceive and mislead the members for the benefit of thé boss

unioneers who run the papers and pay the wages of

the journalists employed thereon. . “We sometimes misplace our accent,” the editor writes, “m the good things better, and we sometimes might ny Seal euppe.. the harmful

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By John T. Flynn Arnold Faces Some Unpleasantries “For Indicting Food. Processors.

EW YORK, June. 9~Thurman Arnold may now prepare- totsee descend upon his devoted

the cause of - national defense.

violating the : anti-trust laws. . During the last war the first really determined’ effort ‘to ‘junk the anti-trust laws got under way. . Just before the war & movement for what was called “open=price” competition, invented by an attorney named Eddy in Chicago,

- sion ‘of anti-trust enforcement. The w war fairly well completed the

- It was held that industry must be permitted to get together to avold wastes, to stabilize prices and labor ehele and to avoid useless competition. When the war was over this blossomed forth; under oe Bgolgn, Jules of Harding and Coblidge, as “selfIt flourished freely until Herbert Hoover became President, when, fhrough “his Attorney General Mitchell, he put a severe brake upon the movement. It remained suspended until Bresident Roosevelt came

tl enforcement ‘machinery was, 3 Now, with the séiiliia of aniothey or is, ‘the

3 | food deal of encouragement. Oddly avorite slogan of business today. is “free.

And this is, in many. respects, a justly favored:

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by Government as by business: itse Fo

EB California Mr. Arnold ‘has. found many groups of Lo

food canners and dryers who have been united in

These associations have fixed Be h prices

allocated territory to- theft” thembers and distribution—at least this

better system than the frée-enterprise system. \ it you say that, you have already cast your k ‘tite side of the Hitler-Mussolini system, And tainly it is not the American system.

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Bringing. the Reader Up to Date 1 On Dilemma of Ohio’ Labor Leader i

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“president ‘of the Akron, Ohio of Summit County, |

rison. However, his counsel | ze present several defense witnesses who ‘were on hand. |

furnished the explosive and agreed to pay him | _and his late brother or thls perons work,

American interest in the battle for the Eastern Medi- =

Briedenbach’s politico-labor organ has written your |

‘head the wrath of various industries on the ground that be is bedevilin He has indicted a whole. group of food processors for

gave a great impetus to the «fo-

tnovement for industrial. control has been: getting a

For the Eystem of free enterprise under ou] < ship is withering away as a result of the innumerable |} controls. to which it has been subjected, not %o wmeh. Sande

associations to regulate the trade with almost despotic: authority. paid: s to farmers and prices which its members. ¢harge the public for their products. They have cut || ‘the prices paid farmers for crops. They have ine<: |} Sate tuo Diao tharged tn the Muli, They have |} 17% They have | a regulated minutely all of the he Sperdtiony of Jrodustion. Ag

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WHICH WOULD you rather -be right atin ; ! Frenchman in

dynamiting, and the Summit County Trades and |

- malicious destruction of dynamiting, and has since | -° ‘been sentenced to three cohsecutive terms of from

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* Gano Dunn's 2d Report to JF. D. R. - On Steel Indicates Present Capacity, . Entirely Ample- for Defense Needs,

Vaso -June 9~“The inadequacy of the: ast Snusicy in he yigesnce oF.36p iaStHend :

estimates. of. a defense fabricating AT maritime, naval, military and British. Men in charge of each of these activities, guessing two. years ahead, are certainly not likely to underestimate th a It is human nature to go the limit - our World War experience proved that in ki of situation it does-go the limit. ‘There was then great hue and cry about steel shariags a8 with paper requirements. : i = # 2 a FTER the Atmistics, What had bedi suspected by many became clear, the grab-bag over-estie mates of requirements were either proved by actual preduction operations to have been excessive, or steel actually diverted to “safty-blankets” and “back-log™ inventories were disclosed 55 Tathing short of selfish h

Not only are estimated civilian requirements 5

per cent of the total, but the estimates of percentages | of increase xperienced civilian

ine requirements are

3 | greater than estimated percentages of increases in de : .} fense estimates—whether for Britain, our own. aims | Navy or maritime needs. Strange to siy nearly’ 20

per cent of the:total 1941 estimated réquirements are for. the building construction industry, and of this

">| -only -6,700,000 tons are for military construction: Ace

“The Hoosier Foram

) 1 wholly disagree. with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. :

INDORSES PLAN FOR SEPARATE, AIR FORCE

By H. G. T., Indiaiapolis Your sdjtonal on unified aircraft operation is too true.: Also true is your comment that nothing is being dene about it. Given the opportunity the American public would break the barriers erected by: well-meaning, but tradition-bound army- and navy “big-wigs.” Will you - kindly advise me to whom ry may write asking that we create- an air force authority? Some one of our great newspapers might start breaking a few precedents and suggesting a penny postcard to the 1 ht Place at the right time.

But since papers have tradition, precedent sentiment and inertia, that is too much to ask! : 8 8 8 IRKED BY ATTITUDE \ OF. RELIEF INVESTIGATOR By Malt Truat, 224 Spring St. It is indeed an outrage the way some of the investigators go about snooping into poor people's private

Is there no way that such domineering and 2 ovurbearine conduct on the part of such gentry can be curbed? The abuse some poor people have to put up with is almost unbeliev‘able. I don’t care to mention names, but the same créature who abused me so soundly should be “hauled up en, carpet” and oie to | TY ow they are talking human being like themselves. This investigator should be made to realize that she herself is living off the taxpayers® money, but not wh he rate of $2.10 per week.

> ‘» 2 “#. sAvS ‘YOUTH DOESN'T WANT TO FIGHT: ABROAD By G. W., Indisnapoiis - “The die has just been at by our President, impelled by other inter ests, who has declared that a state of ‘unlimited emergency exists. The etnergency doesn’t consist in our ‘shores. being dangered but rather those of England. : The observation that I have made within myself is. that our President is so totally blind to the lack of the war-spirit in our: people. We don’t want to fight any country, not

not - d, not even

Germany; Japan nless she grabs the Philip-

“a (Times readers & are invited fo express their views in . these columns, religious cone “troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must .-be signed)

pines -or one of our other possessions, : But nevertheless, we are being forced - into this war, which Mr. President and others believe we can win, by.sheer force of numbers. We have the numbers: hut not the spirit. In the World War we all wanted. to go; this time we definitely do not want: to go. Therein lies the difference between then and now, between victory and defeat. I've talked to approximately S500 young men of my age: draftees actual and potential, callege boys; internes, machinists, clerks, - busboys, service station ‘attendants, chauffers, and all the rest. I've made it my business to see if I am radical in’ my views, so I've maneuvered to discuss this: “business” with them when ever possible, ° I'm convinced ‘that I'm not difes an a © practically We don’t ‘want to go abroad. We don’t want to fight England's war. And if we are forced are to fight, we'll lose because we aren't convinced that we should fight. We can fight, and: will until ‘death if

| any nation should la Bh fook oft sus oll, Joo Lsuyipose Ms: Roosevelt fs

to recognize this A

which is wimogt ident identical with that

of the entire Italian Army. Let's get busy and arm to the teeth all

[ieht, but let's stay out unless some-

one makes a pass at us,

o « ur CONTENDS FRANCE FORCED - TO. COLLABORATE ne By J :0.: 0. InGisnapolls To Rape Lo We ‘If: France doesn’t heed Roosevelt’'s- advice~what of “it? They

foolish advice, or. would the . word “jgnorance” cover the subject better? ‘And what excuse was there to be so ignorant about the German tanks and: 2. None. . The

French simply went to war in a New Deal. fashion—they drew their gun without knowing whether it was loaded or not. It wasn't. That wasn't their main mistake, though. That was only the consequence of the ‘mistakes they made years ago. They should have .re‘mained at peace until'a’ ie majority of the peoples fav war as long as they were sup) to have a democratic form of mdb oy But they did what we did—they lost interest in good government. They, too, let a handful of sentimental dreamers lead them to war. There was no room for defeatists, No,} there was no need of being afraid of war—all ‘they had to do was to] sit in the Maginot Line and starve their neighbors out. But the worm turned. : : If the French had used the money they spent on the Maginot Line for purposes of peace, there might not have been any war or cause for war.| But that's: water over the dam. All the French can do now is cooperate. with the Germans and make the best of a situation. It will be to. their interest to have a trade agreement or some kind of alliance: with: Germany in the future—anything to stop that eternal feud. What good is life in those} countries if each generation has. to| sacrifice: its sons in bloddy war? As friends of France, should we use the lend-lease bill to help. take away their’ colonies, their islands and their ships? It's natural. to Wipe one’s. dirty feet on those that 0 ERE =

: 8 & 8: TAKING A SLAM : AT GOSBIP PEDDLERS - Just| ny willis M. Rextora, 2107 N. Delaware St.

& prominent éitizen of Indianapolis wants the F.. B. 1 to prevent gossip and. fumors about: favoritism by

{draft board members “because the

{steep and rumors would ruin tepu|tations, a This part about gossip and ru-

terest becuse I know that some] persons haven't much moderation

ond-hand,

Side Glances - By Galbraith

into power, when, for a long time, the: Whole anti-- | Reo

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|.-10,400,000 tons.

I notice in The Times today that |}

mors ruining reputations immédi- om os ately caught my attention -and in-|,

when it comes. to gosstp ‘and rumar.| Gossip and rumor imply that the Information communicated is ‘ sec-| sens le. we apn bon Sven. Snel of the lobe chis Ste | and’ on destruction thas “doesn't make . |'any way you look'at it. = °

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"tual Sonsumption for i for all construction in 1940 was only, Hardly anybody outside ‘a Governe ment bureau who is familiar: ‘with the construction ine dustry. can conceive - of a 100 per cent: increase, Usually the estimate is 20 per cent or less. . It is impossible to study the Dunn report and: come

| pare it with our World War experience and ‘avoid

the idea that there is something remarkably screwy in the hullabalp about & steel shortage, and drive to divert_four million tons of ingots (which is more than the vast 1041 shipbuilding requirement) to increasing Sapacity for production two years hence. 3 ® * 8 ExT for a fairly fruitful attempt to discourage private inventory buying—to some extent specu= lative—almost nothing has been done to make our apparently ample supply of steel do its work by methods that would be used, for example, in any great and well conducted industry. It is true that the automotive industry has been told to cut down its production 20 per cent, that is the “easy” way—a sloppy way, an arbitrary ‘way and, it may be, an almost suicidal way. Little or nothing’ has been done to conserve uses, .prevent wastes, demand absolute and accurate showe ings of necessity, pool inventories and stocks: (by lo Salijles or by industries), substitute other materials ‘or; in applying flat perchntages: in restricting production, to apply them evenly or equitably over all steed consuming industries and mot Just ‘on ‘one, as in the case of automoblies. : ) Nobody is: urging “business as usual™ Nobody, shrinks from sacrifice, but there is no sense in sich futile sacrifice as those of the flagellants or the ch celebrants of an old Sioux sun-dance. Our industry can protect our country, but it is folly to destroy. our industry when. the job could" be better done without destroying it. Editor’s Note: She Via¥s SXVSHied 12 oSiumDIE a this newspaper are their own: They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times - i

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HAVE before me a nice little bit of masculine reas soning on a timely: subject—woman's political skill, The gentleman says: “Look up the lectures and speeches oh politics .and

see: Who. makes the most of them; the men do. - I

think this shows that womeén are not capable of running the Gove ernment. There are many intelli« © gent women but not to compare . with men in the world of politics. © “If the women are’ intelligent ‘enough to run the Government, why don’t they get into politics “ “They can elect women fo GoOv- » Snow they vi bi they want - on because they ve & majority of the votes. But 1 think wom are not capable, because ae are only a few who even try to ‘run’ for office.” My Dear Sir, it

rest argument

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¢ with r DodIST-With a mad 8 Bola

Yet a many now ary, “Don't blame f on °

good th Ie Ca help it." - They know, and we now; theirs must “be the :

“} office matters—with as mu 8: -} as men display in. Government, we slapped into the insane. asyly

oe ee th having ‘Intelligent

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I'm not concerned

$ indi of . both sexes °