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THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1941

DON’T CALL ME “BROTHER” : HORT-WAVE listeners heard the Moscow radio broadcasting “Columbia the Gem of the Ocean.” And the ‘Muscovites in America algo have changed their tune. That’s because Hitler has turned against Russia ‘the terrible war machine which, two years ago, Stalin helped Hitler turn against the rest of Europe. ; ' Before these two cruel and lying dictators fell out, Communists in this country were trying in every possible , way to disrupt America’s defense program: Under orders y from Moscow, they were helping Hitler and scheming to undermine our Government and our institutions. Now—still under orders from Moscow—they want American help against Hitler for the country to which they give their real. allegiance. So these termites who have bored their way into places of power in our labor unions, into teaching positions in our schools, into Government service and other strategic posts, will now be crawling out of the wood and asking us to regard them as patriots and brothers. And America will be in real peril unless it says to them: . “Don’t call me ‘brother!’ ” # o » » ® # England and America should profit as best they can from this new turn of events in Europe. “When thieves fall out, honest men get their dues.” For whatever damage Stalin may do to Hitler, let us be grateful. For whatever .advantage Britain may gain while Communist thug battles Nazi thug, let us give thanks.

But never forget that the thug who, through no choice |.

of his own, now happens to be fighting on our side is still a thug. And never trust the stooges of Stalin in this country. Our internal institutions are in greater danger from them than before. The Communists will now hope to do a better job of boring from within. For Russian reasons, they will support the American defense program and represent themselves as our allies in a common cause, hoping that we will forget our resentaent and relax our vigilance. Remember that their temporary co-operation is inspired by.a sudden change in the fortunes of the foreign power they serve—not by love of America. They can shift again, just as rapidly, at some future turn of the Moscow wheel. = > a : The necessity for driving Communists out of union leadership, schools and Government is just as great today %

as it was a week ago.

DON’T PASS THE WHALE MEAT! HIS editorial should be a grand grumble about the rising cost of living, the threatened shortage of gadgets im portant and otherwise, the prospect of chilly houses and offices with oil-burners, and the coming gasless Sundays. But, just as we started to give forth on that which pinches us, we came across several stories about conditions in Tokyo. The Japanese have the miseries, too—so much so that our state, in comparison, seems like Heaven. Here, for instance, is a report from Japan in Collier’s Magazine: : : ! “Butter is a commodity never encountered in a public eating place, olive oil is never seen and coffee is made of soybeans ‘or barley. The egg shortage is admittedly the worst ever, matches and sugar are rationed, whale meat is sold instead of pork. Fresh milk is a rare luxury. Condensed and powdered milk may. be sold only for the use of infants under 1 year of age . .. there isn’t enough native rice to go around.” ~~. - Or take the Bank of Japan report on wholesale prices. Using 1933 as a base, the Japanese index is 179, compared with 124 for the United States. The cost of good-quality food since 1937 has more than doubled. Factory wages, according to the welfare ministry, in the case of some women run as low as half a yen—about 12 cents—a day. Some married couples earn as little as 40 yen—$9.60—a month. " The Japanese pride themselves on being the most patriotic people in the world. But even they are beginning

to wonder about the glories of war in terms of more star- %

vation and suffering.

SLOPPY PURCHASING end

UCH appellations as “rotten,” “disgraceful” and “vicious”

Marion County for the purchase of supplies. Unfortunately, little of the complaining has been for public consumption; that is, until yesterday, when a judge of Superior Court, Russell Ryan, unburdened himself on the Subject in a manner that ought to produce results. Judge Ryan called the existing system a “crime against ‘the taxpayer.” : His criticism has especial point when it is remembered that nearly a million dollars in supplies is bought annually by the County under the present system. How rhuch could be saved by a system of central purchasing is a matter of conjecture, but there is general agreement that “thar’s gold * in them hills.” fo - ; Obviously the ultimate solution lies in the Legislature. Meanwhile, however, the county commissioners should start throwing out bids that show evidence of trick specifications and are otherwise rigged for the benefit of a few bidders.

have long been applied to the bidding system used in

. COMMIE-CAL THE Daily Worker boasts # sold 80,000 additional copies of the first issue that came off the press after the Ger- | man-Russian war started. . Modestly, the paper tells how the people, hungry for “authentic news of the new happenings in Europe,” “reached enthusiastically for the Daily’s analysis.” : : The Commies are notoriously lacking in a sense of humor. So, of course, it never occurs to them that laugh-

loving Americans bought the paper for the same reason |

_ they buy tickets to the circus to see an acrobatic clown re-

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Danger Seen in Minneapolis Where

Group Which Faced Tobin Ouster.

exists in Minneapolis where Deqny Lewis, chairman of the C. I. O. Construction "Workers and a brother of John Lewis of the C. I. O. Mine Workers, ‘has welcomed into his organization the Trotsky revolutionary group formerly known as Local Teamsters.

violence, and it is known that duririg Leon Trotsky’s life in Mexico emissaries went. there to confer with him. Dan Tobin, the international président of the A. F. of L. Teamsters, can help to expose the revolutionary charac-

ble with this cell for years. He was about to expel Local 544 from ~ his international on patriotic grounds when, suddenly last week, No. 544 withdrew. The prompt issuance of a C. I. O. charter to 544 in the face of the known and notorious anti-Ameri-can connections of its leadership will have toc be regarded. as proof of the futility of hoping that the C. 1. O. will voluntarily dissqeiate itself from groups which are enemies of the American nation and its people. On the contrary, the C. I. O. welcomes them. The peculiar power of a teamsters’ union to strangle a community may. need some explanation. Even in Pittsburgh, where the teamsters are still in Tobin’s A. F. of L. and pursuing the even tenor of their lawless way, American citizens drive certain trucks at risk of their lives and property. Men have been waylaid on the highways and beaten. Guerrillas, operating in a manner not unlike that of the horsemen who raided unprotected rural areas ‘in the War Between the -States, have prowled the streets and roads around Pittsburgh, and the disposition of local officials in most communities organized by unions has been to withhold police protection and neglect prosecution. ° ” ” ” HE whole community, indeed the whole nation, owns and pays for the roads, but the sters undertake to say who shall not use them exéept in peril of death or injury by attack or sabotage. The teamsters of Dan Tobin’s union conquered Seattle by terrorism, and Dave Beck, the personal ambassador of Mr. (Tobin, told me that he personally established a mob of his followers around the plant of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to win a strike for the Newspaper

" Guild as a personal favor to a friend. Neither he nor

his. teamsters had any interest in the Guild or its strike, and, indeed, he later fought the Guild. He just did this because he had the power to do it and ‘without any regard for the merits of the dispute. But Tobin's teamsters are committed #0 a policy and program of Americanism and against Communism, -whether of .the Trotsky or the Stalin variety. Beck hates all Communists. The union bars them and indorses national defense. The teamsters are hightine, or think they are fighting, for their union only. TEN : © That was why, after a long dispute, Mr. Tobin's big union had reached the point of expelling the Trotsky arganization known as Local 544 in Minneapolis. Trotsky’s kind of revolutionary Communism prescribes the sudden assault and terror in unarmed, unprepared communities. In’ commenting on the withdrawal of 544 Mr. Tobi referred to the fact, long known to the people of Minneapolis, that this group had organized squads of revolutionary street fighters whose mission on the day of the revolt may be conjured with reasonable prophecy by referring to the method by which Trot‘sky took power when he struck in St. Petersburg. g 8 nN . » T= police would be useless, the National Guard is away on Federal service, the home guards, if any, had one tragic experience some years ago, and the nerve centers of the local civilization could be seized in a few minutes—a fact which has occurred to the government of New York in its dealings with the Communists of the transport workers of the C.I. O. and with the German Bundists. _ As long as 544 was seizing the political, economic and industrial control’ of ‘Minneapolis by approved ethods Mr. Tobin's international had no objections. t was only when, at last, the patriotic issued required action against the Trotsky local that the Tobin union finally and reluctantly reached a decision to revoke 544’s charter. For that much credit may be given Mr, Tobin and the international. “ Théy are ‘pro-American, although they ‘think themselves qualified and entitled to govern the United States by Adolf Hitler's method of. control. But 544 was a cell of the Leon Trotsky conspiracy of bloody revolution against the very form of the American republic, and that was why the teamsters decided to kick them out and why the C. I. O. cordially took them in. . Do you think I am an alarmist? If So, ask some friend in Minneapolis. :

Business By John T. Flynn |

Congress Must Levy Still Higher Taxes if Huge Spending Continues.

EW YORK, June 26.—At last Congress begins— but only begins—to’ take a realistic approach to the tax problem. When Congress doubles taxes it may. be imposing an unpleasant burden on the citizens. But after all, ‘when it is planning to spend 42 billion dollars, and 5 the head of the Government's purchasing division says it must be at least 84 billions, and still others say it must be 100 billion dollars, no man can say he is being very realistic when he talks about” increasing the taxes only enough to cover 7 per cent of the new load. But Congress still draws away from imposing an income tax on that vast population that has incomes of less than $2800. The truth of the matter is that every dollar which the Government spends flows out into the hands of the people. It goes from.the Government to the manufacturer, and from him to labor and material men, and from them to retail stores, and from them to the workers and \landlords and suppliers of retail stores. I ys -Government spends 15 billion dollars tie comingi fiscal year it will mean that 15 billion dolla¥s will flow’ into the pockets of these people—of all

There :is only one reason why the Government should hesitate to impose these taxes. It is because it is an unpopular thing for politicians to do. This is not the time for politicians to be thinking about their popularity.

2 2 o » HEY are shooting off their heads daily about #he sacrificeg’ everybody must make. But they are ‘not willing $6 make the small sacrifice that is involved in impos taxes. "So _#ar as this writer is concerned, he finds his taxes doubled by this bill. He has been urging that for over a year. They should be made even higher. And every citizen should be made to pay his share of the bill involved in this war effort. This is particue larly true of those citizens who are the especial beneficiaries of this effort. We read in the papers every month of the hundreds of thousands who are being put back to work by the defense industries. Yet hardly one of these people will be calléd on to pay a penny in income taxes as a result of this new flow of income to them out of the defense effort. = Congressmen hurry to boost the prices of farmers, to pile on the bills and borrow the money,. to. palter with the growing problem of prices, all because they are afraid of their precious popularity, : Sie

So They Say—

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C. I. O. Has Accepted the Trotsky

EW YORK, June 26.—A" very dangerous situation |

544 of the A. F. of L.| This union has a history of |

ter of the union, for he had trou- |

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THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1041 | '

— 2 The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will Ae defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire,

OPPOSES RATIONING WHILE JAPAN GETS OUR OIL By Mrs. B. V., Indianapolis

Washington as ‘to the possibility of having to “ration” gasoline and oil to the people of the U. S., at least, Eastern motorists. Now this seems entirely unfair and uncalled for, when a short few days ago, a picture appeared in this paper showing barrels upon barrels of gasoline bound for, of all places, Japan,

classes and brackets. To talk about taking back a | mere $3,500,000,000 of that in extra taxes is ridiculous, .

.WE ARE FREE from the heavy-handed protec |{.

a constant potential enemy of ours. Now, why should" the people of the U. S. be expected to be denied and deprived of a means of getting some pleasure out of life on little trips on week ends, ect. or short evening rides, etc. only to ship barrels of it to one of the “Axis” powers, Japan? If there can be laws to enforce such a measure, there surely can be laws made to prevent the shipment of this vital fluid to Japan! Automobiles are the nation’s backbone industry, and this would affect it as well as many other businesses. Let's do something to stop this rationing! Io» a =» ANSWERS CRITICISM ON AIR CORPS STANDARDS By A Flying Cadet, Bloomington, Ind.

In re Indignant’s scathing attack on our Army Air Corps, I wish to correct a mistaken impression that he seemingly harbors. He writes intelligently enough, but, I fear, he is not well informed on a subject apparently so vital to his brother’s ambitions. I am an Army Air Cadet and leave for Air Camp July 19. Also. I am a university graduate. Does not Indignant realize that the Air Corps must needs have the highest type youth obtainable, that type who have proved themselves susceptible to higher educationa pursuits? ! For Indignant’s edification, the Army Air Corps is accepting high school graduates; the joker being that they cannot attain as high a rank as the college graduate. He may attain the rank of sergeant as a full-fledged pilot. Let his brother fare forth anew on his mission!

» #® " CLAIMS LEADERS OPPOSE MAJORITY ON WAR By Harold J. Quigley, Roachdale, Ind.

When Communists’ workers deliberately incite a strike in an airplane factory in order to undermine

It seems there is a debate in|

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democratic effectiveness — that’s news. The people have a right to know where the traitors are. But in this more important phase—the war of ideas — when our chosen

leaders undermings.democratic processes by acts contrary to the will and best interests of the people— that is not news. At least we never see our actual traitors in glaring headlines in this more subtle campaign against democratic effectiveness. A syndicate column in your paper of June 23d illustrates what I mean. This writer after making a tour of the United States and discovering that a large portion of our population is definitely opposed to war (even larger than the Gallup Poll indicates) goes to Washington where he finds sentiment entirely different. ) Among cliques of Government officials, warmongers, etc., he hears a voice more audible than that of the public. Once he professed that was unnecessary and unwise. But now the illusion in Washington persuades him that the nation (instead of only Washington) is now in the war. The implication is that

1the rest of the United States should

wake up to this fact and likewise regardless of necessity and wisdom should make sute_of its survival by winning the “war.” ! I would like to ask: What value is there in talking about democracy (rule of the people) when nobody respects the will or interests of the people? Because a small group is creating a false, unwise, impractical ‘illusion, does that mean that the rest of the nation—especially the larger part of it—should accept the same illusion? And waat point is there in talking about survival without talking about justice, honor, respect for right, and wide conviction? How can any nation long survive that does not earn the right to survive? Let those who are talking glibly about self-interest take warning. One strike will not make much dif-

ference in the shape of things to

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Side Glances = By Galbraith

“Looks mighty efficient, mister—but will it snu hinny

le. its head on

1 here and there. | the Socialists so that a millionaire

come. But wrong ideas under the guise of patriotism, leadership, expert opinion, self-interest will make a tremendous difference. It is my profund conviction that we have as much to fear from our so-called friends as we have from our so-calléd enemies. » » ” PROTESTS EXCLUSION OF NEGROES FROM PARK

By Richard ‘Wilder, 338 W. 8th St. Anderson.

Although I am not a resident of Indianapolis, I believe I am justified in criticising the conduct of the authorities of the Riverside Park for their. recent ruling which excludes Negroes from that park. It is a reflecting commentary upon this situation when one sees many Negroes from the city forced ‘to revert to large-scale makeshift entertainment on the banks of White River not far from Riverside Park. They do this for lack of any other facilities for amusement or opportunity for play caused by the bias of the park authorities. Now it is, a known fact that we of the white race are not socially superior to any ether race here in America. Negroes are just as loyal, patriotic and responsible Americans as any group in the United States. Perhaps they appreciate their rights much more than many of us, for the Negroes know what it is not to be able to exercise their

rights of freedonr. If it merely is a matter of money,

and just as valuable. The public should then by all standards of democracy protest vigorously against the exclusion of

general and the particular, » » 2 CONTENDS GOD IS ON SIDE OF RUSSIANS By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood, Ind. Your glory over sic’'m Hitler, sic'm Stalin will end when final results of such a conflict matures. You. will want to back out but you simply can't. When God Almighty brings judgment without mercy there will be wailing and lamenting not only for the Wall Street but all their asinine following. Now is the time for all that thirst for the blood of Socialists, Bolsheviks and Reds, to go join Hitler and divide up the spoils of victory with Wall Street besides reap huge

profits off the bones of the dead Go to it. Kill all

and pauper state of society may continue indefinitely undisturbed.

MOON OVER LONDON

By NELL MACE WOLFGANG Moon over London, shine softly Like a misty veil at night— Or behind a cloud stay hidden To show your power at night.

Moon over London, guard nightly Lives that in danger sleep on— Let objects appear as substance Scarcely visible at dawn.

Moon over London, be faithful Masses depend 50 on you— While hearts are. brave with a

courage = - ‘Struggling for all that is true. Moon over London, keep watching Hide your rays when - danger’s

._ near— - And shine conitentedly ‘later

1 When peace has vanished all tear!

| 1 -And ye shail. be hated ofall men

for my mame’s“sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.—Matthew 10:22, : : TTEMPT - the and, to doubt, nothing 80

I am sure that park concessionaires | £8 will find the money of the Negro to |} be just as hard, just as true-ringing | #

Negroes from: any public place in |§ Riverside Park in|}

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| Gen. Johnson

In View of Past Failures Me Asks

Experts to Wait and See Instead of Forecasting Nazi-Soviet Outcome

ASHINGTON, June 26.~It is interesting to learn, through the widest kind of publicity, and within 48 hours after’ Hitler's volcanic action, that our Washington military experts predict that Hitler will probably “win” the “Russian campaign” in a month ; and must win it in three months or lose the war, All this is accompanied with advice to the Russian High Command on how to defeat him, ; » There are also hints in “this story that all along the “experts” knew what Hitler was going to do —even as Mr, ‘Churchill hinted that he knew what Hitler intended, 'These dispatches do not say who-these “Washington mili= tary experts” are, but presumably the reference is to our General Staff, 4 : To a casual observer this would seem a good time for military experts to soft-pedal their experting in public and try to produce a little better quality of their art in practice. It is a lot of baloney that they knew all along about this explosive move, It was always a possibility and perhaps an eventual certainty, but until about three days before it occurred, no indication had appeared in our news that it

would happen now.

Perhaps a few individuals in our General Staff and High Command suspected it, but the statement that

| its immediate launching was a concensus of our

military expert opinion just simply is not true, ” EJ on HE anti-Axis governments, including Britain and our own, are in an unhappy spot. If they didn't know it and weren't prepared for it what is the matter with their military and diplomatic services of information? If they did know it and didn't tell their people about it, what kind of “rannykaboo” goes on here in these democracies? Of the two embarrassments it seems to me that it would be wiser and more honest to choose the former —that they didn't know. In the first place, it is the true explanation. In the second, if we are to be at our best in this war it will have to be on a basis of complete confidence—confidence. of people in their governments, but also, and even more important, of governments in their people. Hiding the imminence of such an earthquake, if its coming was known, would be almost unforgiveable. And now about this business of Hitler winning the Russian campaign in a month—or losing it if he ‘doesn’t win in three. If the exeprts didn’t know enough to predict the coming of what appears to be the biggest land campaign in history, théy don't know enough to predict that. : They didn’t know enough to predict a single of the many tremendous results of the astonishing land campaigns in Western Europe and the Balkans. They didn’t know enough to insist on American rearmament for modern, mechanized, motorized and aerial warfare, On that record wouldn't it be better to withhold some of these ultimate conclusions until a few more facts about this bewildering business are at hand? ” » ” N the first place, what does “winning the Russian campaign by Hitler” mean? That is not at all clear, because his own objectives are not clear. The experts are clearly right in saying that his objectives are not the worthless gutted shells of Russian cities or even fortresses. They are control of the raw resource centers of Russia, of which the richest by far is the Ukraine. Both because that requires the de struction of Russian military power and because the destruction of that power is a necessity for Nazi se curity and defense, the first objective is destruction of the Russian armies. Can that be done in one month .or three? Not if the Russians can run fast enough and far enough. Can they? Not if the German can quickly enough destroy the few and woefully inadequate rail and motor roads and transportation centers. The nuilitary miracle of the fall of France was as much due to crowding destruction -and demoralization of French communicating routes behind the defense lines as to any other single cause. . Will there be a repetition of this in Russia? It is a possibility, but the magnificent distances and open terrain here are very different from the crowded and congested area of western Europe. It is a good time to wait awhile and see.

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

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

~ Oe of my favorite indoor sports is picking quare rels with Dorothy Thompson, but when an ade vertising blurb for her column smugly assures us that she can “think like a man” somebody ought to rush to her defense. It is hard to tell whether to fall into a fit of anger or of laughter. The way I feel now, the remark is un< complimentary’ both to Miss Thompson and to the male ani mal. . It is the insolence of the latter which should be exposed. The notion that “thinking like a man” makes the Super-Woman is due for elimination. The hint is clear, and we get it. One imagines the men saying to each other, “Lookit, here’s a cute number! Easy on the eyes, enticing, with all the feminine tricks, and yet, by George! her brain works. She can use her mind and, being like ours, it's a remarkable mind.” | Hasn't this gone on long enough? Especially when you consider where some male thinking has landed us. : Of course, we all know what the advertising man means. He means that Miss Thompson has the ability to reason—which in masculine circles is ree garded as God's gift to men only, They pride themselves on it. They believe—poor befuddied dears—that they always arrive at their opinions through thought processes, and that all their conclusions are based on fine logical analysis. When a man is stubborn he considers himself “staunch' as an oak.” On the other hand, if he is unblessed with convictions he will claim to be open minded. : The hide-bound conservative regards his. views as sincere persuasions when they may spring from sece

into a parlor pink while believing himself to be a tolerant intellectual. 5 : It is perfectly true that some men are ‘equipped ‘with mental superiority, but not many. The rank and file are just as dumb as any bunch of females you can meet with in a day's auto ‘journey. They are no more actuated by reason than a bunch of sentimental school girls. : I think Dorothy Thompson doesn't think like a man; I think she thinks like Dorothy Thompson. And although her thinking doesn't often suit me, some ‘men pay themselves fulsome compliments when they point her out as an imitation of the mentally come petent male.

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