Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1941 — Page 8

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more than three years ago, Benjamin Stolberg traced the Communist penetration of the American labor movement and pointed to the “party line” as the greatest menace to the C. I. O.

/Before the Dies Committee in September, 1939, Earl Browder said there were 50,000 Communists in American labor unions—two-thirds of them in the C. I. O.—and that Communist union leaders “numbered by hundreds” would conceal their party membership if they thought it necessary. For years industry has been harassed hy subversive | t forces operating deviously within the labor movement, riot for the welfare of workers but to carry forward a Moscow dictator revolutionary program. y ‘» The Wagner Act, operating with deliberate one-sided-. ness against unfair laber practices by employers, placed no _bbligation on unions and union leaders to be fair or honest or loyal.

8 » 8 . #® » 8 HE National Labor Relations Board, created to admin- = ister this act, was manned by bigots who amended the Jaw by interpretation to suit their own notions and were especially zealous in protecting the “rights” of union bosses and members accused of being Communists. = Nl . There were warnings that labor was being given all power and no ‘responsibility. These warnings went unheeded. A committee of Congress, after long study, pro‘posed amendments to correct some of the proved defects in ‘the Wagner Act and its administration. The House passed’ these amendments by a 2-to-1 vote a year ago ‘this month, but Administration pressure buried them in a Senate ‘pigeonhole. .. Communists and racketeers were permitted a atid helped to entrench themselves within the ranks of labor, and-those «who urged the elimination of these termites were denounced ‘as enemies of the workers, as were the Scripps-Howard (Newspapers. when they published the Stolberg expose. “Now it is seen that the Communists have plotted to bstruct and sabotage the national-defense program. And now the Administration will. move on many fronts in an attempt to protect that program and to rescue the labor movement from a bad predicament.

Patriotic labor leaders are to be supported in efforts %o clean house. The Army and Navy, ‘using information . gathered by the Justice Department, are to direct the firing of known Communists from defense industries. And— crowning irony—defengse employers are to be assured that the ‘Labor ‘Board will not prosecute them for ‘dismissing troublemakers at the request of the Government. 2.8 » 2 2 8 IS is the same. Government which has cracked down ~~; on employers for not dealing with these same troublemakers, or for trying to get rid of them, when it was merely : peacetime industry that was being sabotaged and obstructed. - Defense industries must be protected. And it is enuraging that, at least in such industries, the administra“tion will not longer shield Communist wreckers. But more han that is needed. The Government's attitude should not be left for the Administration, or the Army, or the Navy, or the Labor Board to alter at will. - Ours is supsed to be a Government, ‘not by men, not by bureaucrats, t by laws. The trouble is fundamental, and a fundamental remedy’ ¢ required. ‘That is a job for Congress. A difficult job. calls, first, for a thorough re-examination of Government labor policies. We believe the principle “of collective bargaining can be protected and promoted successfully only if labor is held responsible, equally with capital, for Sealing airly and honestly. . We don’t need the Gallup Poll to tell us that unionism losing support. by public opinion. That is-obvious. The pountry needs’ honest, loyal; responsible unionism that will supported by public opinion. Congress, by legislation telligently designed to foster that type of unionism, cana great service to the protection of the defense program w, and to rank-and-file workers and their employers both w and for the f future. ;

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R EMEMBER Oren Root Jr., the young New Yorker who organized and headed the Associated Willkie Clubs in

st year’s campaign? | With his enthusiastic and unortho-|

methods he got into the hair of many elder Republicans, ho complained ‘that he didn’t ‘understand the ways of actical politicians. i Well, Mr. Root. now: notifies eontribuion to his move-

t that he didn’t spend all the. money they sent/him. He

fers them a choice. They can leave their shares in the

plus to finance’ a small New York office for former

illkie Clubs which, under different names, are ‘cdrrying i

various good-government activities, Or they can write and get 7 per cent oftheir contributions. refunded i in cash.

first ‘That proves it. Mr, Root still doesn’t understand the 8

vs of practical politicians.

IMAL TROUBLES LA1SS MABEL HAMMARI

run, called mechanics at Lyons, Kas. They found that.

8-inch bullsnake had crawled up the car's exhaust pipe poe :

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védged itself into the carburetor. : Army Chaplain Ritchie Davis at Camp Bowie, Tex, was

awakened when his pet. kitten, retreating from al

‘followed by another threatening to expose

Fair Enough

|By Westbrook Pegler

The Death of - Steve Clow; the i: Old Blackmailer, Recalls the Start |

Of New York's Night Club Beat'

| N=, YORK, June 14—A very small and obscure |

note in the reports the death in Bellevue

paper | Hospital of Steve Clow, who in his heyday, about 20

years ago, seemed to have established beyond -chalJonge and for all time the ‘of dirtiest. American.

He: was a blackmailer - along

Broadway operating a nasty little

sheet : which dealt almost exclu- | ~~

sively. with scandal -and rumor ‘and filth, but he finally made a

s falge move and was sent to prison a‘ Federal charge after Miss

Pegay Hopkins Joyce had given testimony

him—a public |-

: against , Service for which that charming and ‘inveterate bride has never received due Tecognition and gratitude. : : i Newspaper reporters who were on the job at the time understood that another eminent American lady, the sister of a

powerful international financier, likewise had been

Subjected. to annoyance by: Clow, but had preferred ‘not to prosecute lest in refuting the slanders she .would only give them wider circulation. . After - his graduation from prison Clow was no longer the ogre who had haunted persons of prominence in town, although it may be presumed that in a petty way he continued to live by blackmail. - About a year ago a citizen got a letter from him whining for money, and after a few weeks this was .some dreadful secret. That was one of Clow’s variations.

Even when he had nothing to expose he would

threaten, on the strength of the tradition of the night clubs and tke underworld, that nine of 10 ‘human beings have had “trouble” of some kind. » 8 8 OME old-timers probably will vote for Col. William d’Alton Mann of the old Town Topics, but he was just a cur, whereas Clow was all of that and a purveyor of filth as well. ‘Up to his time he was the most versatile and diligént rotter of them all, and it must-have depressed him horribly in his later

years to’see in print material which made kis foulest

and proudest efforts seem demure if not a little priggish. ° He was in operation along Broadway during the last war, but his limitations may be judged by the fact that it never occurred to him to take up patriotism as a racket. the current automobiles were just about the last word, too, and it only goes to show that the world does move not only forward but downward. In Clow’s time his sort of thing was strictly barred from regular journalism, and a man in his line had to run his own publication. His little paper was a sort of journalistic segregated district,

Steve was indirectly responsible for the enormous exploitation of the social and carnal affairs of criminals -and the drunken rich and the. well-dressed moocher ‘as news. It was Steve Clow who caught the late Phil Paine, then managing editor of the New York Daily Times; in a mood. of black despair after the death of Mrs. Paine and persuaded him to visit a night club for the first time back when prohibition was young. Phil was a naive rube from Union City, N. J., who did not smoke or drink and had never met an actress. = ”» 8

LOW had met Paine some time before. and he

‘now took him in tow to cheer Lim. Phil met

through Clow some of the more vicious criminals of

the day who were then running speakeasies in the side streets off Broadway, and Phil began to: turn up stories wherever he went, some of- which may have lacked news merit according to ordinary standards, but none of which lacked circulation value. And Phil firs hit upon the idea of assigning a reporter, with an expense account, to the night club

. beat—the real beghming of that phase of our jour-

nalism. He even became a celebrity himself—the ambition of all true rubes—and delighted to be recognized by underworld characters as he walked into some den for his coffee and preserved figs in cream at night. It gave him pleasure also to sit with some

‘famous pretty in the ringside at the old Garden,

where he would edit the first edition in public and slip/the corrections and orders to Paul Gallico in the working press for transmission to the shop over the fight wire. : Clow just lived 100 long. By the time he died developments in the craft had made him seem almost decent, and this must have been a bitter end for a man who for so long a time had stood alone.

Business By John T. Flynn Crop Payments Helping Big Farmer

At the Expense of Little Fellow

EW YORK, June 14.—In'the early days of the ‘AAA a good deal of popular wrath was aroused when the people learned that some farm corporation had received as high as a million dollars as payment for not planting crops. : Of. course that sort of thing has been stopped. But the AAA still pays out as much as $10,000

to individual farmers for not ' planting crops. And this'fact calls

* ‘up the old subject of whettier the Government ought to .subsidize

farmers who are in those alti-

* tudinous brackets,

In other words, should’ not the’

program be limited more to the

moderate-sized farm, letting the big farmer who can get as much’

as $10,000 for merely reducing his acreage fend for himself?

Artificial interference in things like farming some-:

‘times have very unexpected results, and these large payments produce one of the most unexpected. For instance, many wheat Government subsidy to cover the costs of planting theif crops. That being so, it makes no difference fo the farmer how big a crop he plants, his initial costs being practically underwritten by the: Government. When the crop is ready, whatever he sells it for is velvet. If the crop is good and the price good, he has a nice pocketful of money. and the price low, he is ndt out so much. ‘One result of this is pointed out by Senator Langer of North Dakota. If the farmer has a good crop he will have, along with the Government paymen real wad of money. And since the gambling planting are footed by-the Government, he is apt buy adjoining land for farming on a 5 Thus more land comes into active planting, 2

ANUT the very little tabmer whe owns part of his |

farm and. rents: the other neve ugh to buy the part he rents. >

ND, ‘whose auto refiised to] Joba

But_in those days we all thought

farmers get enough.

|Side Glances - win By Galbraith

If the crop is poor |

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SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1041

ct Ned ure Take Its Course!

“The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say w.—Voltaire,

‘CAN WE NEVER GET RID OF MONKEY THOUGHTS? By 8. H., Indianapolis

‘Will we neyer be civilized, can we never get rid of our monkey thoughts? Fight and fight on

Jealousy: instead of ' peace, genorsity, lightheartedness.

As we call into the woods, : the echo comes back to us.

aa 8 8 FAVORING ALL-OUT HELP TO BRITAIN By. R. EV, Indianapolis

‘The decision that our governmn must make in the next few days is to accept Naziism or to continue in our present way of life; there being no alternative. Isolation and : appeasement by any country in the present war means certain 'Naziism, or at best Communism. That is why I think that we should co-operate with Britain whole heartedly and without regard as to consequences in defeating the German war machine, which I vision as a huge boa constrictor with its coils slowly tightening, if not around the U. 8, then certainly South America.

Many people picture an American war with’ Germany as so many millions’ of American rifiemen - fighting in British. trenches. That is the wrong impression. If we can give Britain superiority in the air by putting American planes in English hands, they undoubtedly will win the war more quickly and thereby save us many billions of dollars in defense appropriations, which we would be required to spend if the war dragged on or if Britain: negotiated a treaty 'with Germany. Even if we find it necessary to use ur Navy and Air Force against any, that would be much better than Raving our cities bombarded and civilians and soldiers killed by the thousands, which no doubt would happen a little later on’ anyway. Even. if a victorious Germatiy, Russia ‘and .Japan (I don’t mention Italy because that is-Germany now) decide mot to invade the U. S. militarily, ney. could and no

love,

.| doubt . would pu

t pressure - on that: would, over. 8 ii of time, |

No one is a human being who has] . the thoughts of fight, hate, envy, :

Te radon are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make “your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.) :

ruin us economically. So it~ “all boils down to whether’ we keep China ‘and Britain fighting ‘our common enemies and risking .active participation at any moment with the odds: in our favor or certain war later in our own back yard with* the odds against us. - Charles A.’ Lindbergh says we are not prepared for war now. He also said that the German Air Force would overwhelm® Britain. His statements will look even more silly in a year from now. Our military and political leaders have shown by recent speech and actions that we are: prepared, and I, for one am inclined to string along with ‘the professionals, who are familiar with all the pieces of this puzzle. I think: that this is no time to be nursing political grudges. Many people criticize Mr, Roosevelt's every? action simply because they picked a loser last November. I think it about time that the people of this country start pulling together. Wendell Willkie ‘has shown by his actions that he is % good loser and considers his coun-

«try. above mere politics in this

present crisis which I think is a mighty fine ‘example of the real

‘American spirit, well worth copy-

ing by all of ‘us. , on. TELLS WHAT SHE'D I\O IF SHE WERE PRESIDEN'' By Agnes S8.; Indianapolis - Early in the Eighteenth Century Holberg wrote the comedy “Jeppe in the Baron’s Bed.” The baron finds

Jeppe, a worthless squanderer, ortiers his servants to. carry him put him in his own bed and in all ways act .so .as to convince him

that he .s the real baron. Jeppe,

quick onthe uptake, soon has the feathers flying. Oh, boy, what a good Jeppe 1 would be if IT found mysels in the

[White House!

J There would be a somewhat uniform wage, hour and | vacation scale for all men and women, which include legislators and Congressmen and. their chiefs. Every strike leader, striker, employer and capitalist. who fails to treat each other as. well as the mere public, - stritcly: honorably, would within 10 days be sent to Army camps and war service. There they would. as a special favor, be given once a week ‘a 30-minute study in: the. Golden ‘Rule. for relaxation. I,°or. my: representatives would be on hand, wishing them S90: whispering motherly ad-

hr their place I “would put the men and women who would have worked as well as the young people who have come out of the schools these last 12 years with little or no chance to earn a living. Grafters should be treated as public ‘enemies losing ‘all rights to citizenship. - Every newspaper ‘would be required to publish local names of law offenders.

Hei # # 8 : OFFERS SUGGESTION TO ROUSE COUNTRY By W. P. D., Indianapolis . It seems that. something should be done to jack up those needing

it and to show ‘the serious situation confronting our country.

on in their: dumb, self-satisfied, trustful way. with the result that

Hitler has taken them over, pillag- |

ing, enslaving and murdering them. With your ‘newspaper group. your influence. is: great and probably many other papers would follow your lead. I. it would shock those dead-end officials into.activ-

as long as necessary to get results,

things that should be done. Eight or 10 words in ‘most. cases ‘would be enough, for example: “Congress Should Outlaw Trai

in, {tor Groups Such as ‘Communists,

Bunds,” or . “Pass Law Making Sabotage Punishable by Death Penalty.” A half dozen or more such headlines could. be run every day.

® 8 = ANSWERS QUERY ON

: HITLER'S ‘CHURCH STATUS

By E. W. Mahoney, United Catholic organizations Press Relations Committee, Indianapolis

In your issue of May 31 31 Jw published a letter ‘signed Mis. E. Cl Indianapolis, asking two questions.

‘| The first of which, why Hitler has ‘| not been excommunicated from the

church, we should like to answer. Roman Catholic Church doctrine teaches that any Catholic who does not attend church and receive the ents at least once a year at aster time is automatically excom'municated. Mr. Hitler therefore is’ SAI cated and has been for many y Mrs. E Ge s ’s second question, re-

- A dozen European countries went | _

ity if you would use ‘your - front g Page every day for the same topic §

to headline desperately needed]

[Gen Johnson

Says—

West Not Enthused by Arms Corts. Direct Benefits Are Few, Prices Soar and Farmers ‘Are Worried |

NID, Oka, June 24. —Out in this ‘short-grass . country of Oklahoma there isn’t much sign of any war boom, and you can hear the same of a large part of this Western country from here to, buat not including, California. The complaint is that all the

billions are being spent elsewhere and that, far from benefitting, this part of the country is being" pinched by it in several ways. Here in Enid, a metropolisi of the wheat’ country: of Western - Oklahoma, there - has recently - been a very slight decline in population — people _noving _ to. production centers. It is: one. of: the great wheat-s spots ‘of’ . the nation, but there is a AP prehension’ that these Teservairs: i and clog, ‘because of a car which is al’ fond being felt. . Shoriage oi There is no absolute astional car: shottage:: But wheat men say that cars shipped. either or East are not returning. The oe tee ar elt: for war shipments. If that happened to a paralyugs. extent wheat growers would merely store in bins on” the farms and a thriving business ould be crimped. Such home granaries are already being built.

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GOMETHING else would be crimped. Small grains.

do not store well on farms. They have to be el vated to prevent heating and a Ordinarily this prospect would have set the farmers jumping up and down. This time it doesn't. ‘This wheat has a Government loan value in storage .of 97 cents, (a - bushel) without recourse to the borrower. If it spoils in storage Uncle Sam is the goat. Even in Tulsa, with a great oil industry “where: hundreds of millions are expected to be spent, first in ‘erection of airplane ‘plants and then in plane: pro-

| duction, there is not much enthusiasm over prospects. Perhaps that is because this “gentle rain of =

checks” has not really begun. Maybe it will. change the outlook when it gets “going good. But, also maybe not. Mr. Ickes’ threats of gasless Sundays and. -heatless homes don't raise many hopes. : With most all production painfully pinched in by proration, be-: cause there is so much petroleum, these simple pegs.

.| ple ‘can’t understand: why it should be pinched in

more on the ground of scarcity. Even in my old home town, Wichita, Kas, which already has both an airplane’ and an oil industry, I am told (I have not been there) that the feeling for the future is “not pretty good.” The distortions due to suddenly spending a large share of the annual: income, several times the national revenue, and a: big bite of the national wealth in a few industrial areas not only treats the larger ‘and unfavorable part of the country like a step-child with smallpox at the family dinner table, but it also has to pay ‘or assume

the cost—and that, é means billions out and precious .

little in. i é ® » # S complaint has been pretty inarticulate. Until the present trip I had not realized the depth .of feeling and injustice and the sound logic on which it is based. Prices for what these people buy are going up painfully and threatening to soar. Prices and mar kets for what they sell are not going up and the prospect is sour. They are being pinched at every turn. This is no good background for fighting a war in which few of them believe. The necessity for equalising territorially both the tinsel benefits and the terrible burdens that are ahead of ‘us are very’ Ma if we are to have a country ‘united in a feeling of justice.

It is.time for Mr. Roosevelt to speak a word for

the West and back it up by action. Part of this can't ’ be cured, but some of it can. ‘Decentralize produc-* tion. Decentralize the God-awful and unnecessary concentration of Government offices’ in Washington. Watch carefully the greatest curse of World War 1— SOnggstion of transportation. Give the West a break. *

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of The Indianapolis Times.

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A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson : ECAUSE this is graduation month, the country is

flooded with advice to young ‘people on how to.

get jobs. As far as the girls are concerned, most of it sounds like Fashion Hints.

The views expressed by columnists tn ed :

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Emphasis is put on stocking seams, hair-dos, skirt .

lengths, hat styles and the. likes. All these points are important, if there are any girls left who aren’t ‘already aware of their personal. appearance. The ones I see seem to spend most of their time study-. ing themselves. in mirrors and. - .even 'the cross-country damsels * look ‘like something Just out ‘of. Vogue. Cc Its simply amazing how clothes - conscious modern .girls are, and how well the majority - look on practically no income at : all. So far,.so good. But isn't. it. time now to’ heat down harder on other phases.of this ..

| question? For. example—willingness, efficiency and.

tion. . Jobs are like husbands. The getting is easy compared to keeping. Sometimes the eye-filling female is unsatisfactory on the long haul. That takes more substantial qualities than finger-nail polish or the right powder base. The well-dressed business girl, even as the beautiful wife, finally has to concentrate on something, besides complexion and clothes. She must show signs of enjoying her work. The job calls for loyalty, even for love, just as much as the successful marriage does—that is, if you want to feel you are sitting snug in the business world. Therefore, girls who get the 11:30 and 4:20 fdgets,, girls who think more about the pay envelope than' the quality of their work, girls who fail to make the ‘employer's business and success their business and’ success, are not apt to succeed. - Neither will machine-like efficiency put you over, any better than perfect grooming. Cold, calculating precision never gets a worker as far as dependibility, sir with willingness and a good disposition: If you want to succeed, you must put your heart as well as your head into the Job.

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