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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1941

‘BE CAREFUL THIS WEEK-END

THE Labor Day holiday this year, like Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, will be the occasion for three full days of pleasure and r xation for many Indianapolis residents. Also for tragedy, if the experience of other ex‘tended holidays is repeated. Indianapolis has been enjoying pleasant, coolish weather. If this continues, tens of thousands will take to the highways this week-end. To avert needless tragedies, it will pay ‘these motorists to start early, take it easy and play it safe.

LATERAL TO THE TAX BOARD ERE is the tax picture that will be laid before the tax . adjustment board when it meets Sept. 8 to review

. the proposed new tax rates: | 1942

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$3.21 $3.32 In other words, the schools have cut back to their old rate, the County has held its increase tq,a modest two cents, and poor relief has been cut a full 11 cents. : The City stands alone in asking for a substantial rate .increase—20 cents higher than the present rate. It is generally capceded that the City got itself in too tight a financial straight-jacket when it tried to operate this year on a tax rate of $1.26. That rate was definietly too low. It seemed equally obvious that, in trying to rectify past mistakes, it swung to the opposite extreme and got its rate too high. But in eight days of budget discussions, it showed little inclination to pare out a reasonable amount of fat. It skinned off three cents and said, in effect: there's going to be any more cutting, let the tax adjustment “board fake the responsibility.” And there the matter rests.

We know the City has

problems. We know tha#its costs will be somewhat greater

than last year. We know also that it will be the beneficiary of more revenue than before. So, while it may be politically expedient to toss the problem in.the lap of the tax board, it is not a spectacle to inspire confidence.

MAY IT WORK WELL! E wish great success for President Roosevelt's latest defense reorganization. By and large, the program will continue in the hands of the same men who have been identified with this gigantic effort from its beginning. The wholesale reshuffling of | agencies, duties, titles and personalities—and the bringing of them together under the loose supervision of the newly created seven-man Supply Priorities and Allocations Board -——may help to eliminate some of the cross currents of administration. We hope so. For it has seemed to us that _ the failure of our arms-producing program to reach a satisfying scale has been due, in a large degree, to the obvious confusion at the top. The members of the new SPAB— Stimson, Knox, Kundsen, Hillman, Henderson, Wallace, Hopkins—are all capable men, of course with varying capabilities in their varying lines of endeavor. 8 s 8 . J 00D men, also, are Edward Stettinius, who yield the priorities job to become lend-lease administrator, under Hopkins, ‘and John D. Biggers, who stops bding Mr. Knudsen’s right-hand man in production and becomes Min-

ister to England—much to the satisfaction of some left-.

wingers who have worked long and hard to blot Mr. Biggers off the Washington scene, and %lso much to the gratification of Mr. Biggers, himself, who doubtless is happy to be, momentarily at least, out of the line of fire. One man who seems to move a notch higher in each reorganization is Donald Nelson, lately in charge of purchases, who now becomes the executive director of the SPAB and the chief priorities officer. He seems to be a man who understands what makes our industrial system tick, one who keeps his feet on the ground and grinds no axes. Such men usually go far. > ‘To change a country as large as ours from a peace to a war economy is a major and painful operation. Probably no means that could have been employed would have been wholly satisfactory. Certainly there is none that could ‘have escaped vigorous criticism. - But it has seemed to us that Mr. Roosevelt, while vehemently exhorting the people to an all-out effort for defense and aid to Britain, has proceeded rather leisurely in organizing his adminis-

trative direction toward his objective. \ o ” 2 ” ” o IRST there was the Defense Advisory Commission, with "no powers and ill-defined responsibilities. Then there were the Office of Production Management and the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, with limited authority and divided responsibilities. Now we are to have the SPAB—in a way superimposed over, but in another way as a co-ordinator for, the OPM and OPACS—with some more powers, but with the responsibility spread rather thinly over this seven-man board. We may be wrong, but we have a pet theory that, when action is called for, it is better to give one man—rather than several men—the authority to do thé job and to hold him responsible for getting it done. We think President Roosevelt, try though he may to avoid it, is moving inescapably toward the same formula. We have no nomination for the job of providing more tanks, guns and planes—but we hope that the man Mr. Roosetelt ‘eventually chooses will not be too little, and that the President will not be too late. j ‘

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Fair Ercudh

By Westbrook Pegler

He's Wondering if Senator Ellender" s |i | :

District Attorney Will be Tough on Noe if Latter Decides Not to Run.

EW YORK, Aug. 30.—As these dispatches inti- |

mated last week, something certainly is doing in New Orleans involving the Federal Department -of Justice and the political interests of the two United States Senators from Louisiana, both of whom were members of the old Huey Long mob. The Senators are Allen El-

lender, who was Huey’s obedient |’

and shameless dummy in the speaker’s chair of the lower house of the Legislature in the sessions which ratified the dictatorship, and John Overton. James A. Noe, who was a pow=erful member of the mob in Huey’s day, was to have gone to trial in Federal Court on Aug. 11 on a charge of defrauding the Government, of $28,058.69 in income taxes and $4358 in ‘excess profits taxes

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on the earnings for 1935 of the Win Or Lose Corp. a | Lauda

minor-league, Teapot Dome which Huey organized as a means of #ealing oil from the state reserve, Before that date, however, Noe, who appears to retain some political strength or nuisance value in the role of an unreconstructed Longster, intimated that he intended to run for Ellender’s seat in 1942. On May 11 the term of Rene Viosea, the incumbent | District Attorney in New Orleans, expired and he has

‘not yet been reappointed or succeeded and is not

serving, although he has not formally resigned. 3 ”

LLENDER, under the ancient customs of the Senate, has the right to select the next D. A. who would be the man to prosecute Noe in the ordinary course of events and there arises from that fact the interesting possibility: that Ellender ‘could make a dea] with Noe to stand aside from the Senatorial contest in return for politically enlightened treatment from the new prosecutor, whoever that might be. Of course, the Department of Justice could take cognizance of the rivalry and name a disinterested man as special prosecutor. But, before we believe that the special prosecutor, if any, would be honestly disinterested, we have to know whether the national Administration- and the Department of Justice are honestly disinterested. Mr. Noe, a regular member of the old Long mob, served a short term as Governor from January to

| May, 1936, and split with the main body of the gang

in the fight for office, power and profit thereafter. Dick Leche, who succeeded Noe as Governor, and Seymour Weiss, who had been Huey’s political treasurer, took charge, and went in for thieving on a stupendous scale, along with Jim Smith, who was president of -Huey’s state university. Noe went his own political way muttering that these others were defying providence, living in gilded mansions in plain view of the ragged acorn-eaters who had been Huey’s idolators. He became their enemy.

2 = 8 IY fact, your correspondent once received a letter from ‘Mr. Noe offering a batch of incriminating affidavits against Leche, Weiss, Smith and others and your correspondent flippantly asked Mr. Noe to tell him first how he was doing in the Win or Lose Corp. Thereupon Mr. Noe's feelings got hurt and he turned his material over to Pearson and Allen of ‘the Washington Merry-Go-Round with the eventual result that several of the scoundrels mentioned in his material went to prison.

Noe was president of the Win or Lose Corp. and Weiss was vice president and these two signed the tax returns on which the present prosecution of Noe is based. It is charged that they kept a fake set of books to conceal the profits which were loot from the state domain and faked payments to themselves of $92,396 each in salaries and commissions in order to run up the business expenses of the corporation and reduce its taxes. Weiss pleaded guilty and got a sentence which is running concurrently with his other sentence for using the mails to defraud in the sale to the state of property which it had already bought from him'‘and paid for. But Noe got his continuance on his representation that a witness who is currently engaged in having a baby will testify that he didn’t even read the tax returns but signed them hurriedly at the close of a busy day as Governor. I think I will continue this tomorrow. It really is very bizarre. :

The Free French

By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER

ASHINGTON, Aug. 30. —President Franklin, D. Roosevelt, it vas learned today, decided about

‘a week ago not to extend any sort of public recogni-

tion to Gen. Charles de Gaulle, to the Free French movement which, the general captains, or to the separate regions, such as French Equatorial Africa that are the only remnants of the once proud French empire remaining on the side of freedom. The President had been pressed by emissaries of the general and by many Americans to give public support to the de Gaulle movement. Many officials felt that the movement had come to give recognition, if not to Gen. de Gaulle, then to French territories resisting aggression. When, however, the question was brought to the President, he decided against giving such support, lending credence to the stand of United States Ambassador William D. Leahy at Vichy and Embassy Counselor Robert Murphy 4t Rabat, Morocco, that to do so would be to alienate the Vichy Government and French authorities in Africa. Opinion is divided as to the utility to this country of Vichy’s good Will. But the President decided that it was still worth more than encouraging the mass of the French people by, offering public support to the Free French movement.

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EOPLE here surmise that it was upon learning of’ -the President's refusal to aid him publicly—the’

Free French movement is receiving help from this country through the British—that Gen. de Gaulle at Brazzaville gave to George Weller the interview in which he stated candidly that he had offered the use of Free French bases in French West Africa to the United States.Denial of any such offer by Secretary of State Cordell Hull is thought to be a “technical denial.” Apparently it is good diplomacy to say that since the American government ‘does. not recognize the Free Frenche or Gen. de Gaulle, it could not have received any sort of offer from either of them. : In point of fact, this writer knows that de Gaulle emissaries have discussed the question of bases with various members of the American Administration, though whether or not a formal “offer” was made or attempted to be made, has nof been revealed. Many here are predicting that within three months from this writing the American President will be thdnking his lucky stars that central Africa is in charge of the Free French and the American State Department will be tumbling all over itself to accord recognition to the de facto government of French Equatorial Africa.

Editor's Note: The views expre 7 1 hy columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of ye Ingianapsie Times.

So They Say—

» IF CHILDREN are to be good, using the term good in its broadest sense, it is necessary for the parents to grow with the children.—~Judge Jacob Punken, New York Domestic Relations. Court.

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THE BEST definition of democracy I know is: Democracy is liberty ' plus Ernoeries—~May Lerner, teacher and author. . fe _o IP WE fail, all fail; if we fall, all fall ~Winston_ Churchill, British Prime Minister. * -. $ FOOD 1S STRENGTH, and our objective food for ‘all defenders of freedom.—Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, :

SATURDAY, ATG. 30,

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, defend to the death your right to say it.

but will Voltaire.

EAST SIDER COMPLAINS ABOUT PLANT ODORS

By Mrs. Irma M. Gebhardt, 1028 N. Oxford St. I am just one of the East Side folks who is sick of the obnoxious smell that comes from the rubber plant out on E. 20th St. I hear all my neighbors complaining but no one seems to do anything about it. We come home from working to spend a pleasant evening out in the yard and then it’s spoiled by this terrible stink. Why we have to put up with this terrible smell?

“ww RAT EXTERMINATION VITAL, CITY COUNCIL ADVISED By D. M., Indianapolis

“Shear $100,000 Off City Budget,” says The Times ‘headline. While many ‘of these reductions no doubt are desirable, it is worse than “shameful when the City Council includes in such a total the item of $4500 for rat extermination. Surely if a loss of some $3,000,000 annually in Indiana’ because of rats wouldn't. touch the hearts of the City Fathers, a visit fo City Hospital would. There have been numerous cases of tiny children—too small to. even defend themselves—being scarred and wounded horribly by rats almost as large ds cats. One tiny tot’s face was so terribly eaten that plastic surgery was needed to save her features. When such horrors as that go on in what we like to call “The City of Homes,” $4500 is an insignificant amount for rat eradication. Visitors are welcome at City Hos-

pital, gentlemen! . ' ” ” ”

AYLOCAL VOICE ON OUR STREET PAVING PROBLEM By A Steady Taxpayer, Indianapolis *

I have just noticed in the Forum a letter from a Chicago visitor criticising our city streets and suggesting that we do something about paving them. I can assure this particular Chicagoan and the thousands of other visitors who pass through here in a year that we who live here are thoroughly ashamed of our city officials’ casual handling of this problem for the past 10 years. They keep pointing to big re-pav-ing jobs like S. East St. and Central Avenue, but when you put it all together and consider the size of this town, it’s like one peanut to an elephant. I've gone touring, too, and I haven't failed to notice how many

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views

American cities have beautiful and re-paved bad streets (Chicago is a perfect example) with Federal aid. The Federal Government may have spent a great deal of -money like water all over the country, something of which I disapprove incidentally, but one of the brighter sides to it is the great good it has done a large number of communi= ties. But ours, No! We'll probably start paving streets

after the Federal Government has|-

quit helping.

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omen fle MORE ABOUT OUR ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR 1

By Harry Clay, Brightwood In reply to my recent article in the Forum claiming that a vast majority of the. people were against entering the first world war, Mr. Adair says that a majority were actually for entering and bases his assertion on the foolish idea that because the election was close it also was proof that the sentiment of the people for or against war was equally close. He doesn't take into consideration the fact that while a vast majority who voted for Wilson were against war, a vast majority who voted for Hughes were also against war and. were not fooled by Wilson's promise to keep us out. Mr. Adair then trots out that old moth eaten alibi that when Wilson took his seat he found that the Germans were committing all kinds of indecencies and had no other course but to declare war. Yet these indecencies were happening right while he was promising to keep us out of war, My encyclopedja says that the sinking of the Lusitania with 114 Americans was the large issue in causing the U. S. to enter the war. But that sinking occurred in May, 1915, or almost two years before Wilson asked for war. . . . Mr. Adair says I am: wrong in claiming that 90 per cent of the people are against war. Me says that 100 per cent are against war, also measles, accidents and floods. Yes,

Mr. Adair, the people are also

Side Glances=—By Galbraith

war byletin |

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{in fact most wars are indecent.

against candidates making promises,

then breaking them. . I agree with Mr. Adair that the German war tactics were indecent, It avas indecent for Britain to slaughter our forefathers when all they wanted was liberty and democracy. It was indecent when Britain went into South Africa and killed the Boers and took their rich lands from them. It was indecent when Britain charged the U. S. $81.75 per soldier in the ‘world war to transport them across to save the British empire (She actually tried to get $150 per man.) Now Mr. Adair, you claimed that Congress would never declare ‘war against the wishes of the people put the fact remains that Wilson and his party were elected on a promise to keep us out of war, then broke that promise and declared war about a month after the inauguration. If the people would have wanted war they would not have elected Wilson, for he promised to keep us out. ” ” ” FEELS U. S., BRITAIN SHOULD MAKE PEACE WITH NAZIS By Harrison White, 1135 Broadway.

Every day war propaganda creates a new paradox, so the people of America back fagther away from this war. Douglas Miller, author and former commercial attache in Berlin, writing in The Times of Aug. 28, 1941 under the heading,

shows that economic planning and a system of free enterprise can not permanently endure, side by side in the. same nation” and clainis because of it “The United States would be at the mercy of bandits if the Nazis win.” If this be true why does fe present administration at Washington persist in perfecting the same economic planning in this country and at the same time ask us to go to war to prevent such a catastrophe for the continent of Europe and ourselves? I believe the ‘ United States and England should make friends with Germany, for they could all go in on common grounds against communism. I do not believe the administration is coping with the cunning diplomacy of the Jap. It is my opinion that behind all the diplomatic advances of Japan lies the

fact that Hitler has already told

{Japan “Let everything through for {Russia the United States sends for

we need it;” because after the United States is quieted with the outcome of the “Freedom of the Seas” sideshow as created by Japan, lies the fact, Japan can tear up or cut that Russian Siberian railroad

send to Russia, will never get there; so I say send all to Britain, that the English speaking wofld may finally make a real peace with the rest of he world. T claim the moment we filer to make peace with the continent of Europe, not for the continent of Europe, the offer would be accepted and the war would end.

WINGS CAN FLY

By MARY WARD The sparrow sits alone on the housetop And current winds are high, But in the morning, light falls the dewdrop And small brown wings can fly.

Perhaps a lonely heart bows down in sadness, And drifting clouds send rain, But there are pinions free of joy and gladness For faith is nat in vain.

DAILY THOUGHT

Thou shalt also consider /in thine heart, that, as a an chesteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.— Deuteronomy "8:5.

THOUGH the e mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; though with patience He stands waiting, . with eX3s mess

"How's that for peace and contentment? Probably never read a

in her ie

grinds He all—Friedrich voi Logal.

“You Can't Dogs Business With Hitler,” states “The |} experience of the last few years|%

within 24 hours and whatever wef

‘separate things &re meant,

Gen. Johnson Says—

Small Business Faces Destruction a ;

+The Result of Present | vernme ’ Acts and Monopoly ls'Coming EB

ASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Trust Buster Th o Arnold must. be having a continuous headac! these days and I wonder about Senator O'Mahoney joint , anti-monopoly committee, Both of these abl gentlemen are sincere believers in decentralization © business into smaller units and opponents of the creation of great industrial empires. They have worked hard at their jobs and Mr, Arnold had built up the largest and most efficient organization for doing this that the country has yet seen.

But all they have accomplished is a drop in the bucket to> what have done to reverse the trend they seek and to accelerate the ' growth of monopoly to an e » never imagined—and the. is only just beginning, Little business in is on its way out. i In July it was reliably reported that of Army she Navy defense business six great Ce ] ceived 31 per cent of all and 56 compa That is a matter of billions and is, of itself, a dislocation, but it doesn’t tell a fraction of 0

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SMALLER enterprises were left frog to tak ¢

But such is not to be permitted. for reasons. One is that the priorities system is going to cut off their supplies of materials, power and transportation. credit-controt policies are deliberately designed to, deprive their customers of purchasing power, It is a complex which is difficult to.explore. Some of it is unavoidable. Some of it is a result of head= long, unplanned action. Some of it is new tinkering

it is a mess which could bring catastrophe; ° . It is unfair cavalierly to criticize individuals. Yet it is a fact that the men who guided the placing.-of this vast defense business with a few great corporae tions were products of those corporations, many of whom did not sever all their financial relations with the mother hen. In a sense, they were dealing with themselves. On the other hand, they had a responsi« bility for quick production and went where speed. was most likely. One trouble was that the vast aggregation: of smaller companies was not properly organized, and ‘these companies are still not properly organized, either. . to get a hearing in that headlong rush, or so. to pool their resuorces and facilities as to insure performange if they had been offered a chance. {

» » destruction by cutting consumer purchasing power is to prevent inflation by high taxes and by ‘advising people to get out of present debt and to%irm no new debt. This I can’t understand at all. Inflation is simply high, or at its worst, runaway prices/ For. the firsty) time in my contact with the problem we’ hear that highér taxes make lower prices. Most taxes find their way into costs and prices. The principal ity on that is Franklin D. Roosevelt. ; Unless absolute direct controls on prices are. a; d —and they are not going to bes-considerably higher prices are as certain as sunrise. The process of Talsing them is going on all around us. Also it is almost axiomatic, bad as it may sound, that a period of be." ginning inflation is a time not to get out of debt, but to get into it. ! There is no space to discuss these divergent policies and theories here, further than to say that every sii gle one of them tends toward the greatest increase monopoly and destruction of small business in history. If the little fellows do not organize to their own pattle for existence they can be very that no. one else is going to do it for them.

A Womar’ S Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson iy “ a a wonderful time yowll have!” was the chorus speeding the departure of three women on’ a vacation trip. While I parroted the words, 1 knew that only one of those women would have a wonderful time—the two others couldn't, They: & not conditioned to experience amusement: or pleasure. Poor things, no matter how far they travel they'll never get a vacation

—so they might as well siay home, They will never find a , hotel. or

tourist camp, a restaurant or fill« ing station, that suits them. They'll

they are.- Their beds won't. right; the traffic will be badly managed; the waiters and will be impudent or shiftless, ) | . won't enjoy the scenery becaus they can’t see it. Such individuals are born blind deaf, although they have good eyes and ears. ad simply aren't able to appreciate beauty in any of its forms, and people only exist to annoy them. Why do they go on vacations? You tell me, I've never been able to figure it out. The third member of the party, however, is 8 a ditferent sort of being, Life for her is one long pleasure jaunt. She knows how fo drain each day of its full measure of joy—therefore vacations are interludes of sheer delight. ing happindss. Beauty walks by her side wherever she goes. It doesn’t take the Grand Canyon to excite her; a fern-lined grotto. or a grassy knoll can. turn the trick. And she. gets a kick out of people. Nobody is uninteresting or tiresome. She is never bored, because she carries with her the one quality which makes life ° worth-while—enthusiasm. Her spirit walks to music, She recognizes in humanity what I like to believe God sees there—infinite possibilities of power and goodness, No matter what happens to her, she will always: “have a wonderful time.” 5

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Q—Is it correct to say “fourtien and two sixteen” or “fourteen and two is sixteen”? A—Either is correct. When are is used, fe When is is used, teen and two are thought of as a sum. Q—How cdn moss be eradicated from a stone A—Wet the surface well with water to whi been added 2 per cent by volume of carbok Wait an hour or so and then scrub off the mo a stiff brush and clear water. If some of th should still adhere, repeat the operation. Q—When did Robert H. Jackson, recently ed Associate Justice of the United States Court, first enter the service of the Federal ment? A—Feb. 1, 1934, when he was appointed gi ounsel of the Bureau of Internal.Revenue,: s later, Feb. 26, 1936; he was appointed rney General in charge of the Tax Div artment of Justice, and he became Atta era] Jan. 18, 1940. Qetlow ‘much oxygen is usually carried marine? A—At present it is customary for U. to carry enough to last a crew of 40 hours. ‘Q—Where is the Island of ‘Martinique & does it belong? A—It is one of the Windwaygd Islands in

Indies and has been a possession of France

Q—Where can I get information about able in defense industries? . . A—Go to the nearest office of your State , ment Service. If there is no local office, write State Employment Service at your State Q—On what date was the first group. ind

the Army. under the Conscription Act? .

other efforts of the Government

1 defense business they could keep their heads-above water. savers}

Another is that governmental tax and’

8 3 HE present theorstical approach to theif; turther

from their own sour dispositions °

She gets up in the morning anticipat="

with unproved theories of inflation control and all of

aythpr. Rion

be too hot or too cold wherever A