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EW YORK, June . 16-We are all fmore. or less "excited about. the Communist ‘strikes in the de-

Bf ne industries, but this very excitement is clouding "| the original issue, and the National Government, as usual, is gan but effectively deceiving the country

by dodging among the clouds. ‘The fact i§ that no employer in any business should be compelled to hire or retain a Come

~ MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1941

BLUSTER OR WORSE?

N Under Secretary of State Welles sh Serie | “never have been impressed: with what they regard asf itr or threats,” he was stating a fact ‘of ur history. |

"Usually the United States has been cool enough and | x intelligent enough to take the foreign bluster-in its stride; Sand. to choose its issue; its battleground, and its own time for. a break in relations or for a fight. There is no reason: io suppose that the Washington Government, which has “handled the lamentable ‘Robif. Moor case so far without “hysteria, will ‘weaken its. position by going off half-cocked. » 8 . » » » But this does not mean that our. Govefnment or people will let pass, without eventual adequate accounting, the reported failure of the U-Boat commander to provide safety: for his American victims. If the complete official investiga‘tion confirms the preliminary report, Mr. Welles’ words of condemnation are not too strong—*“counter to every law of humanity and international morality.” It is not clear why Berlin changed its initial cautious tone to one of bluster. After taking the proper course of “withholding comment pending information from its com_mander, which it says is still completely lacking, its “authorized spokesman declared belligerently that Germany “ “won't be buffaloed by American and English discussions ~~concerning the Robin Moor,” and “whenever any ship with _ contraband sails for England we will shoot at it.” : s x = ® # = : The fact that this American ship was not sailing for _ England, and carried no military supplies, makes the pur"pose of such a statement all the more mysterious. Muss:golini’s provocative remarks last Tuesday about “American © aggression,” and Matsuoka’s indorsement of Il- Duce’s ‘speech, were not altogether surprising. But Hitler, at ~ least, has hitherto tried to avoid direct conflict with the United States. : Perhaps the Nazi spokesman and submarine com-. mander both exceeded instructions. If they did not, then it will soon appear that Hitler is trying to drag us into the .- European war. That would not make sense, but nothing "seems impossible any more.

FREDERICK E. MATSON

munist in his employ: If a Come munist is an enemy of the United States in a, munitions plant he is an enemy no less in a plant which manufactures automobiles . “sale to private. individuals. “Th ' “fact is that the right to picket

terrorize citizens and deter them - from patronizing ‘a 1 business 2 or to prevent their going to their Jobs in struck plants. : “This Government has encouraged ‘the Communists for years, and a recent decision by Felix Frankfurter holds that even in hirihg workers an employer may not discriminate ‘against the union member. Even though he be a Communist, he must be hired if he can prove that he is a union. man. For its own purpose the Government takes a: more convenient view. Communists may be excluded and Communists may be denied relief jobs.

« = S the Government admits that it has found

but insists that American citizens who are employers must do business with them, nevertheless, and, more= over, must refrain from espionage over them, ale though in its own case espionage is deemed necessary. The Government has its FBI for that purpose, but the private employer must not call on the Pinkertons at his own expense. But how is the private employer to ascertain whether an applicant or employee is a Communist, being forbidden to inquire into a man’s political affillations or sympathies and to reject or discharge .him on such grounds? Apparently he is just out of . luck. Apparently he must hire or retain a Communist even if the Communist shows the employer his party membefship card, whereas the Government can compel the individual to sign an oath that he is "not a Communist and may get rid of him by informal methods or trickery if he proves to be a party man or party-liner, anyway. The Government keeps its hiring and firing privis

| lege, but denies that same privilege to the private

employer and, moreover, actually puts pressure on him to.compel him to employ men who could not qualify politically to work on Government tasks, Henry Ford manufacturing cars for private sale to individual citizens must not discriminate against the Muscovite, but Henry Ford Working on a Government order must do so. .

HE picket line is supposed to be no more than a group of individuals exercising their right of free speech. Theoretically, they. are there to advise customers of a store or nonstrikers going to and from work that they have a grievance against the employer and to request that the patron or worker refuse to trade or work there. That is all there is to the picket line, legally. ~ But actually the picket line frequently is a mob skilled in starting trouble and provoking others to start trouble. It has no more right .to mob other people than any individual has to walk up to a stranger and hit him over the head with a stake. The fact that a strike, justified or otherwise, is in progress at the scene of the disorder does not mitigate the offense, And if unions have a special privilege to

: THE death’ of Frederick E. Matson has come as a tred mendous shock to those who. knew him and it is signifi- : _cant that even persons who only had met him also feel a | sense of loss. : Fred Matson was more than one of this state’s most “distinguished attorneys. He was a man of character. to "whom sincerity and integrity were more than words. Far more important than his imposing legal stature and his work in civic and cultural affairs was his standing as a man—indeed, as one of Indiana’s most thoroughly ad“mired and espertel gentlemen,

COLONEL KNOX AND AIR POWER

GECRETARY OF THE NAVY KNOX has got into a bad : habit of summarily condemning—on the basis of a faulty premise—the idea of an independent air force. He assumes, in his frequent criticisms of the growing movement toward a department of aviation, that such a step ‘would ‘automatically strip the Navy clean of all its airplanes and airmen. Now the fact is that nearly all of the many advocates of an independent air force have indi3 cated they favor retention by the Navy of its own ship- + borne air arm. 1: That is, of ¢ e, the situation in England. ‘The £ British Navy has its own fleet air arm, operating from 4 carriers, hattleships and cruisers, torpedo-plane that crippled the Bismarck—but only after i R. A. F. shore-based aviators, working in efficient co-opera-

| tion with the Navy, had sought. out, the Nazi battleship and |

called up by wireless the combined sea and air forces that : made the kill. . 2 = 8 s 8 8 : Secretary Knox says it is a lack of unity of.command | that has caused British defeats in the Mediterranean. What about the original Libyan campaign, and the naval battle off % Cape Matapan? In those British victories there was every i evidence of the fullest collaboration between the R. A. F. and the older services, As for Crete, criticism of that ‘disaster comes strangely from a naval spokesman, for there the British Navy took a terrific beating ‘at the hands of (Germany's s ‘independent air force, operating without as- § sistance from naval or land units, There is a regrettable tendency among the older services in this country to interpret each new battle in Europe ‘an ‘argument for the maintenance of the status quo in i} ‘our own defense organization. It seems to us that Congress, | ought to insist on an investigation which would bring out facts rather than mere opinion. ‘And if the evidence conif firms the widespread belief that American air power can evelop its full potentiality only when given an independent gtatus, then n Gungress ought to order that Hone,

NE WILLING WORKER

_ {From “News of Norway”)

seems that a man was arrested in Norway by the ‘Gestapo because he kept walking along muttering to him- . The police asked him sternly if he had been express- | g anti-German thoughts under his breath. 2 “Oh, no! Far from it!” replied the Norwegian, “You I'm out of work and I was only telling myself that I'd | 1 rath r Work for 10 ‘thousands Germans Shan for one

It was ‘a ship-based |. |

| of the young to

assault citizens and the police, as. they have been

' doing with increasing frequency and impudence these

last few years, then that is a sound precedent for mobs of Brown Shirts; Black Shirts er Silver Shirts. to do the same thing. But our Government has taken no. _measures to condemn this mob. violence. The American way cannot be preserved unless the Government shows the people that private employers. also have a right to discriminate against Communists i that no group has a special privilege to mob ‘the citizen. This phase of the trouble antedates the defense, strikes and has not been touched by the recent drastic action

Business. By John T. Flynn -

Gasless Days Might Spell Ruin to Nation's Great Highway System.

EW. YORK, June 16.—It is one thing to Propose 3 “gasless Sundays” and curtailment of the useof oil. It is another thing fo carry out that policy without producing some serious consequences. Of course the automobilist and His jaunting - car may loom in the.eye of the Federal finance department as a mere éxample of a dispensable luxury. After all, why shouldn't a motorist give up his: Sunday ‘ joyride | when so many grave sacrifices are being asked of all sor's of ‘people? But when you ieep the motorist off the highway you do something more than deprive him of his ride. These great highways of ours represent an enormous investment . —something over 18 billion dollars. The roads - themselves, ' thecefore, ate a tremendously valuable piece of property. -And, like all property, they have to be kept in condi-. tion or ‘they cease to-be valuable. . Furthermore these roads have not all been paid for in cash, Nearly two billion dollars of the cost was written on ‘the cuff—or rather the cuffs-of he ‘various states. Therefore these states, in addition to maintaining the roads, have also to meet the debt | charges on these two billion dollars of bonds. :.+='The money to maintain the roads and to pay the interest and amortization charges on-the bonds is supplied by the motorists. Gasoline taxes constitute one of the chief sources of this money. And these taxes do not accrue to the states. unless the ‘motorist uses his car. In some states almost half of the revenues collected by highway departments go for interest charges on bonds. In some states nearly nine dollars out of every

nance. : ‘. = = N_ many states it may turn out to be impossible for highway departments to meet their interest and maintenance charges if their revenues from the use of highways is

gas-using day, to cut it out very : aan DATO

They will default on thelr nea Ly ill see this ent endowment of

| begin to lose their value as properties and their | | Senstuent diminution of, he 1

So They Sy

THE NAZIS WILL not hay “won the

and until they have persuade the kind of & wor

pose to create.— ‘of Congress,

Molifd , the questioners said that was a different ered to help find him. a job. What was

on Barring Commies: vi Same: Right. to. Private Employers. :

not a right to organize mobs to |

it impossible to do business with Communists, |.

ten of revenue collected £0 for interest and mainte- |

very ‘much. And, as Sunday |

INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | For to > Catch a Whale!

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e Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your righate to say it.—Voltaire.

STATING AN OPINION ON . THE REPUBLICAN PARTY By Daniel: Francis Clancy, Logansport, nd. “That,” said my friend Edward, “was back in the days when the Republican Party meant something.” “Well,” I opined, “it may have been in the days when the Republican Party SAID something . . . . but I don’t think it ever MEANT anything.” ® 8 = COLLECTIVE SECURITY TERMED ONLY SOLUTION By Robert Bruns, Indianapolis. ; “Those ' who consider Charles Lindbergh as their patron saint /|have for some time been condemn-

{ing the British “aristocracy” and

preaching. hatted and mistrust of the British government. Mr, Jasper Douglas recently en-

lighteried The Forum readers by his

.| dissertation of hate for England and

‘his admiration for the “true Ameri-

canism” of Mr. -Lindbergh. Mr. {Douglas has the right to. hate Englahd if he pleases, but it is evident that his knowledge of history is very incomplete, His allusion to the House of Lords and its power is ridiculous. In 1911, the British House of Lords became as impotent: as the American Electoral College, and at ost has only a slight control over monetary appropriations and may slow down but not stop other legislation. Mr. Douglas also attacks the idea of a federal union of the world’s democracies. If he will remember back to the time when America’s idolationists refused our entrance into the League of Nations, and the present world chaos which that decision nas greatly helped to precipitate, he must surely see that na'ional isolation is no longer possible even if it were practical and desirable, If America and England had cooperated in squelching the first aggressive efforts of Japan in Manchuria and Italy in Ethiopia, a HitJer ould not have been made possible. all nations is the inevitable - and logical solution to international anarchy which rules today .as in 1917. A return to isolationism could only lead again to international rivalries, reaction, and narrowminded thought. “4

. Collective security between.

(T imes readers 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.)

This writer is most certainly not an Anglophile, but he would like to point out the fact that practically every isolationist who hates England, including Messrs. Douglas, Lindbergh, Wheeler, and Nye, in their lengthy and false vituperations against England, hardly ever utter one word of condemnation against Hitler or Germany. There must be something wrong with such a group which claims to place “America First.” Perhaps our eel relationships have suddenly become stronger with Germany than with England. It also seems difficult to imagine a strong, free America in a world in which there were no England. Americans do not want war, nate urally, but there have been other nations who didn’t want war and took the alternative. America does not want peace with dishonor, economic and political strangulation, anll German dominance. We must have unity, and hatred for our inevitable partner will not bring that unity. . » » E

BLAMES WAR PROFITS FOR DEFENSE STRIKES By J. E. Kruse, 611 N. Pennsylvania St.

13th, carried an article (not very

prominently posted, however) wherein Senator Harry Truman of Missouri suggested an immediate investigation of the immense profits being made in defense industries and suggests that this is a “likely” cause of the strikes now in progress. In the, same edition Raymond Clapper points out that the defense wage scale; especially in California, is still very low and says that “naturally” labor expects to receive “some” of the profit! To this writer it seems that this condition is -the very crux of the whole strike situation. As a long

time member of organized labor I

strongly resent the all-time ; sim-

Side Glances ns by Galbraith

The Times edition, Friday, June

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plication that the striker is the one always to blame—our present generation of workers can too well: remember the last war—the ‘“costplus” system—wherein in the city of Detroit alone there were moze than 700 millionaires. Now that we're again on the insane “merry-go-round” of war, who can tell what immense fortunes are being made. and anyone who dares question, or demand a portion, immediately becomes a “red” or a “saboteur.” One needs’ only to recall the very recent stand of the Ford Motor Co. to ask who is the obstructionist? Labor stands a very good chance to lose its recent gains—loudmouthed “patriotism” will see to it, unless we're very careful. Maybe the New Deal like the Lord, “giveth. and then taketh away.” .

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HOLDS IT A DUTY TO CRITICIZE PRESIDENT By V. A. Cu Indianapolis The flaw in the reasoning of the

lies in their misconception of. his office. The. President of. the United States is the servant, not the mas-/ ter, of the American people. The whole structure of popular government stands or falls on that.principle. ‘When and if we abandon democracy here it will be idle to fight for it elsewhere—assuming it

_|exists elsewhere!

When the President shows a tendency to consider America’s interests exclusively he will have full popular support—except from the foreign-minded = tom-tom beaters who never were Americans, anyhow.

ceive to sound a warning. x u's : CHOICE OF “LEADERSHIP

IN NATIONAL EMERGENCY By G. M. All real Americans’ agree we must unite behind our President in this emergency. We must expose that small but loud group, the Messrs. Lindbergh, Wheeler, etc., who are working hard to divide us. Also no ‘time should be lost in sending back where they came-from the Nazi spies in this country and resisting Hitler's American helpers who aré calling for a new leadership! Do we want a Hitler-Lind-

remain & free people? 2 ” ®

OFFERS WAY TO PROTECT UNION MEMBERSHIP By E. W. B, indianapolis Every union should be -r equired by law to submit to federal Ba ity a certified accountant’s report of annual receipts and disburse. ments. This is the only way to protect the membership and the public Splolistion by the unions’

: A ROVER : By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING

3 | |The bumblebee, with droning sound,

Quite oly moves from shrub to

; He early makes his morning round

And sips. the nectar rare and free:

‘With ith stripes of this bond, ft de vagabond,

i For ot ahel drink. he-is quite fond,

So often he imbibes too much.

ete fatts tn stupor ‘on the ground, 2 : buzzing

For while,” then

don’t-question-our-President school

But when he seems bent on straying| i from the course of our welfare it}. becomes the duty ef those who per-|"

bergh leadership or do we want to

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"MONDAY, J JUNE 16, 1941 Gen. Johnson

Lp F Soutimest ‘o> Urbopay. Farmers i 5 Faar Effect of Too Much Raigy ‘and Texans the- Results of Oil Control

~ ALVESTON, “Tex, June 16 Rarely: Bas the etent UF ‘Southwest seemed loveller than now. Oi natives tell me that it has ot been more beautiful-<te look at. ‘This is trie, or recently was, clear to the Pacifie

[the fields and the. Woods. ' “washed clean. - Théy are lush green and itersly carpeted “with : wild-flowers, :

ception and, in. the bord ree gions, ‘a curious. thing . ering shape ‘pened. The hot winds that ripped ‘the surface ‘off that. unfortiinate “area and whirled it inta. the sky * to'drop it further: eastward: took ee thats dust; ‘It swepb along seeds, pollen and even roots: Now towers; grasses; cactt and shrubbery, never. kiown before ‘in parts of’ Oklahoma and ‘Texas, are. four« ishing, The explanation of this whole phengrienion is, “the rains came.” ey came in a yolume andiconstancy that, the people pray, have just mfr eir goal. In much of the wheat country, they hangs of the greatest crop of rece - But this is the beginning of harvest and 1 “Was “aered in by a new deluge. » 8 ® ES, they agree rather ruefully, this country was never more beautiful—to look at, “But we gotta eat.” As was shown in a recent column, this ‘area is bearing most of the burdens of the gigantic defense program and, except in a few cities, like Houston, getting few of its benefits. As a result of rains and high water in Oklahoma, the fate of the wheat crop is still in doubt. Some of it is irretrievably ruined in the fields. Other fields are so beaten down that maybe they can’t be reaped. In Texas, and especialiy around’ Galveston, I am told that it is already too late for wheat, cotton, peanuts and what have you, With a little luck, erops at this stage, have a way of beating out, the propbets of any disaster through too much moisture. These local forebodings in agrie culture may prove too gloomy. But in both Oklahoma and Texas the barometers of hope go up and down with another prospect, which is petroleum. In both states, and especially in Texas, they =have * jitters about Mr, Ickes as newly appointed czar of the oil industry. They fear that, by arbitrary proration of the super-abundant ‘production, he will cut off and destroy the markets and even the business of some fields and some operators—mostly small ones— in favor of oil fields more convenient to points of use —even Venezuelan fields—for the purpose of cone serving transportation in aid of Britain.

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VER smce the days of the first petroleum code, which the writer negotiated, the problem of Texas with her enormous fields, has been peculiar among the oil states. The puzzle is too complex and technical to explain in a ‘column, but briefly it is this: At present, in fairly unsatisfactory co-operation with other states, Texas, under a very flexible state prorae tion law, has been pinching in her production on a scheme ‘that in practice prejudices no, particular Texas field for the benefit of another and has satis fied Federal supervision. Now with the advent of oil duce (or D. Duck) Ickes, the fear is that, under the present state law, the state authorities have power to favor certain fields and, under sufficient Federal pressure, will do 50. So there was a great-fight in the State Legislature to put the fields on’ a statutory basis of equality, Its SPPOReTLS complain that this will only insure alle out Federal control, that even the state will have no voice, that Mr. Ickes will treat the whole industry. as a conquered province ‘under a “gauleiter” chosen by Standard Oil, and that some Texas fields will get a trimming. So, for a these and other #@#ons, the Southwest is: apprehensive and unhappy. It is a situation too obscure and an hour too early for a mere columnist to comment further than to say that shadows on the stairs and things suspected under the bed rarely - materialize. This Southwest country got where it ig

L by overcoming difficulties and it can do that again.

Editor's Nofe: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not Hecosmily those of The Indianapolis Times. : : 3 ;

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ;

REcar comment in this column on the Marian Talley court case has brought a pile of retorts, None is saner or goes as surely to the heart of the matter as that of a Pittsburgh reader, who says: - “I would like to point out that Marian Talley’s girl child, when she becomes a woman, will feel, like her mother and many other women, the one sidedness of a democracy which allegedly grants - women equal rights with men to vote, work,.etc.,| while all but crushing them if - they dare give birth to a -hild without first submitting to the krand of some man. “The most worthless man has power to legitimize a child, but the best and smartest women . have not, under our law. ‘ “You mentioned morals, a word I have come to hate, for it has always been used as a club to intimidate women lest they demand their FULL RIGHTS. Why should we be content to vote and work and still live under the shadow of disgrace? “Marian Talley, in my opinion, paid convention and morality too great a compliment when she mare ried at the last minute to give her baby a name. It will be a happy day when this patriarchal system is no more and when a woman can have a ‘baby with pride instead of shame. “I have faced the possibility of parting. with 's child and, although I refused to consider it, I shall never forget the cruel revelation of what it means to be a woman in a world which recognizes the father alone as the name-giver. 3 “I think of the women, rich and talented like Miss Talley, who are able to battle in the courts for their rights. One can sympathize and pity them, but what about the poor scared, buffaloed girls hiding out in institutions who hear themselves called immoral merely because they forgot or defied patriarchal cone

i Jentions? What does society, what-does democracy

bffer them except a little personal charity? They

[have no rights under the law.

“American Negroes have always been hahdicapped :

‘| by their lack of solidarity; so it is with the poor fee ‘| male sex. Marian Talley and too many others have been attacked more savagely by their fellow women Fall

than by men. a Tore when Marian’s daughter grows up she will understand that her mother’s crime was being & female who exercised more than a little independen: in a man’s world. I am sorry for her, too—not he Soalial, but for being born into a world igh

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