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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1041

was an 2 alavicing ploture that dreasury. Secretary Mor- :

§ *. genthau presented in his Boston speech—the picture of the ‘havoc that inflation can bring in Americk.

The danger signals are up. We have now, as we ‘had |

.in 1916, a moderate rise in the cost of living, a great rise “in wholesale prices and a much greater rise in the prices of :such basic commodities as wheat, hogs, cotton and lumber. Unless we use controls that were not used in 1916, we’shall sbe off on another skyrocket ride—to another disastrous ‘crash. "In the long run, as Mr. Morgenthau sald, inflation can profit nobody except the speculator, the profiteer and the ‘hoarder. It would be ruinous to the wage-earner and the farmer, the producer and the consumer, the national morale and the national defense. And so we rejoice to find the ‘Treasury Secretary boldly warning that— : ; “It is sheer folly from the farmer's point of view to. ‘push. prices up by creating scarcities in times like these . . . sheer folly for labor leaders to seek new increases in wages ‘every few months, increases which in turn produce higher ‘manufacturing costs, higher prices and a higher cost of living.” ; “This Administration,” Mr. Morgenthau pledged, “will ‘do everything humanly possible to prevent inflation.” : We hope so.” The firm support and clear understanding of 180,000,000 Americans, which Mr. Morgenthau bespoke, “can be enlisted—if it demonstrated that the Administration As determined to live up to that pledge—if it is made clear that this time the Treasury Secretary is the spokesman for an inflexible policy rather than the lonely herald of a for- * Jorn hope. . That will require sterner measures than this Administration has ever taken to repress short-sighted greed, not only among bankers and businessmen but also in agriculture and labor. It will require reversal of many policies now tending toward inflation. It will require immediately strong Administration leadership in two current battles: 1. To keep in the new tax bill, now nearing enactment by Congress, the base-broadening provisions of the income tax as passed by the Senate. vinced that taxation is really to be used as a weapon against “inflation when they see the burden distributed among all who are able to help bear it, each citizen being taxed in proportion to his ability to pay. v - 2. To cut the non-defense expendituies of Government : to the bone. For the people will be convinced of the necessity for individual frugality and sacrifice when—and not until —they see their Government itself practicing frugality and sacrifice.

THE LANDING AT SPITSBERGEN

HILE the joint landing at Spitsbergen of ‘Canadian Norwegian, and British troops.is not-a matter of great immediate military importance, it is important in another way. Lo For the first two years of World War 1, Germany had the offensive. ‘The British, for lack of full understanding of what was going on, and handicapped by. scruples, let Norway, Holland and other opportunities goby. ~.. Now they are first in Iraq, in Syria, in Iran, and first in Spitsbergen. It is a welcome change. It shows alertness. Spitsbergen is nothing in itself. But as an island base at the top of the world above Norway and northern Russia it ~ opens the way to-either if opportunity offers. In a war, as in a boxing match, much goes to him who _ gets in the first punch. It is a delight to see, after so many ~ defensive counters, a few cases where the forces of freedom : ave at last gotten in that first punch.

A RED-FIGHTER BEATEN

: E James B. CAREY has been president of the. United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, a C.1 oO. union, since it was founded seven years ago. He also is . national secretary of the C. LO. Mr. Carey, who certainly knows the facts, believes that Communists who have gained power in his union are using it against the best interests of the United States. At the union’s convention in Camden, N. J., he tried manfully to

do something gbont that situation. He fought for a resolu- |

tion which would have authorized an unequivocal stand

against Comminiisriy and: against Communists holding posi-

tions of influence in the ‘organization. Result: The convention defeated the resolution and then, by a vote of 635 i. 5%, ousted Mr. Carey as union president. ~~ Undoubtedly, A pial) sinarity of the union’s 316,000 members are Communists or fellow-travelers. Probably, minority of the 635 _convention delegates who voted against Mr. Carey ‘are Communists. Here seems to be another example of the way in. which an active, determined i dority of Communists: ‘bore from within a labor anization, seize power out. if all proportion to their nums, and finally persuade their ‘non-Communist dupes that would be a mistake to dislodge them. ; : \ sing. to those who have hoped t red-infested unions would purge themselves of the innce of people who, though just-now they are professing

t patriotism and intense devotion to democracy in the | pe of insuring aid to Alle beloved Soviet Russia, are still

es of America | labor

and: roclaied in one was. not room. “Hitler strikes fst and 0 alte, and wih uch + », es mem, §

For the people will be con- |

a few of his best men.

you come with ‘em?”

Fair Enough By. Weskwh Pegler -

7 YORK, Sept. 11. ~Most of

us have been so busily and |

: ie involved in other interests,

' sothe of them quite personal and petty, Ne truth about

this war seems to have gone into | §

eclipse. a : rey gan 1b - - ,out the slightest moral or military 2 Sinden : ted it on un-

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“He had a treaty of friendship with Poland | |

and Poland remained officially at peace. with Germany until” Poland simply was. no ‘more, Hitler struck Poland without declaring war,

g Ho had made a great outcry against Jewish- |

-& ness and against bolshevism, but none of the nations which he has struck was Jewish and his strongest ally .at the start and the one which gave him the signal to go ‘ahead was Bolshevik Russia.

Jews were only incidental in the populations of most of the assaulted countries and certainly Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium were not communistic and Britain was not even accused of Jewishness

The : simple. truth is that’ ‘the

; tb: “and Ameri- |

or bolshevism. Britain was described with a new! :

term. Britain was a pluto-democracy and Presently the United States was a pluto-democracy, too, We seem to forget the details of Hitler's war which should be kept in mind, lest we fall into the terrible error of trusting him. The Norwegians had enter-

tained many Germans hospitably as friends for years’

and had saved some of them from the diseases of malnutrition when they were hungry children after the first World War. These Germans had more or less grown up in Norwegian homes and were regarded almost as sons of the Norwegian families which had succored them. ; But Hitler sent them back as soldiers disguised in civilian clothes and sent other troops across.concealed in the holds of cargo ships and suddenly struck this trusting friend the most despicable blow of all. It is hard to believe now that this could have happened, but we know it did.

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VEN - though German spies have been caught in - activities which may eventually cost the lives of thousands of our people we regard their treacheries as casual misdemeanor and their trials as policecourt routine. Hitler would torture and execute spies caught in similar activities against him, but Americans aren’t even interested, much less aroused. Hitler armed for this war as no nation on earth except, perhaps, his ally, Russia, ever was armed before. War was his ambition from the beginning and Czechoslovakia was thrown to the wolves only because the British Were caught unarmed and unready. Yet Hitler called the British warmongers and many of us, after persistent repetition, began to believe they were. We have even denounced as warmongers men in our own country who took alarm and belatedly began to arm the nation. His words drug some who, nevertheless, hold themselves to be wise and practi al patriots. There is no mystery about the identity of the enemy. There is no doubt of his intention to reduce this country to the position of a second-rate partner, like France, in a bolshevik world, ‘there being no difference between bolshevism and Hitlerism except in the color of the shirt and the device on the banners. Lest we forget, Hitler .the reason why the Uniteq States has had te a every other work, suspend all progress and the reason why all those thousands of young American men have had to quit their homes, their jobs and school to learn to Begs

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OPM Dynamo

By Peter Edson

ASHINGTON, Sept. 11—In the early days of the defense

* effort, when Big Bill Knudsen and - John Biggers were starting to set up.the old: National Advisory Committee, they gnt on the telephone: and negan asking a few of the big companies. to loan the Government.some of their best techfor the new defense organization) One of these calls was. put in Walter S. Gifford, president o the AT & TT. Cat So appencd that Mr. Gifford was out of the office and the call went to W. H. Harrison, A. T. & T. vice president and chief engineer. What Knudsen wanted was a construction man—somebody who knew building conditions all over the country, someone to advise and help the Army and Navy in their big construction program. A few days later the unsuspecting Harrison came to Washington with the names and qualifications of Knudsen .ooked over the list, and then with characteristic directness asked, “Do Puzzled, Harrison asked what ke meant. “I don’t want any of these men unless you come down here first and take this construction Job,” Knudsen explained. The two men had never seen each other before. Harrison knew who Knudsen was, but Knudsen had never heard of Harrison. Yet Harrison’s personality and record won Knudsen completely and their one short meeting was enough fo convince Knudsen that the man he wanted for his defense construction job was this very W. H. Harrison, and no one else.

DAY, with John Biggers posted in London as minister and trouble shooter for W. Averill Harriman, lease-lend expediter, W. H. Harrison has become head of the production division of OPM, in charge not only of construction and shipbuilding, but also boss of production, under Knudsen, for machine tools, aircraft, ordnance—a 30 or 40 billion

' dollar program which may go double that before the

show is over, That record of Harrison's advancement in OPM is Knudsen'’s best vindication of his ability as a judge of men as well as machines, for Harrison has delivered, and with a minimum of fuss and feathers,

What Knudsen picked in this case was another self-

made man who came up from the bottom.

In the 30 years Harrison was with the: telephone company he worked at nearly every job they had— |

in Western Electric, with Bell laboratories, in the field, as an official of New York Telephone Co., as vice ‘president of Bell of Pennsylvania. Today, at 49,

he has New Yorker and success stamped ‘all over him, and Le radiates confidence like ah A. T. & T. | dividend check. He is not ute § 6 feet tall, but he's | * big—not-fat, just in the pink. He has a magnificent | } head of prematurely white hair that should be the |

-|diers, just keep away from our city.

other name is just as sweet.

The Hoosier Boron

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

‘| lion dollars and that will make ‘ ev!

i t | making “token. payments” for her. “expropriation” of

| without any off i] . State Department || application of international law.

‘GAYLOR WANTS FDR TO CANCEL HIS SPEECH By Lester Gaylor, 4584 Sangster Ave. The nation pauses to mourn with the President the loss of his mother. Now, out of respect for her, and in respect to the mothers of Amer-

tion into a devastating war. As we resected his mother, let him respect ours whose sons will be called upon to die to perpetuate hate and destruction in the world.

Ji a. TAKES EXCEPTION TO VIEW OF SOUTHPORTER By Mr. Alice Johnson, 1254 Madison Ave.

G. C. D. of Southport who is afraid to sign his (or her) name to a:let= ter. When I finished telling G. C. D. what I thought, he (or she) could make their office in an ant hill and still have plenty of room. ‘G. C. D,, if you don’t like our sol-

You are the most unpatriotic per son I have ever heard of. Those boys have to have some place to go and they, don’t have the money to entertain themselves properly. If they get any fun out of whistling at girls, then I say let them whistle... 2 8 8

PAT WANTS MADDOX TO DUST OFF LINDBERGH

By Pat Hogan, Columbus Mr. Maddox says he has advocated outlawing all isms, but unwittingly he has embraced Lindberghism, a branch of Hitlerism in a velvet coat. Garlic by any

You say, Mr. Maddox, you are for defense. Do you know that offense is often the best defense? If you cannot understand this read “Mein Kampf,” “What Mein Kampf Means to America,” “You: Can't Do Business With Hitler,” or John Whitaker's articles. "If these do not knock Lindberghism out of you, you are beyond hope. An Arabian proverb says, “He who knows not and knows not he knows not; he is a fool—shun him; he who knows and knows not he knows; he 1s asleep—wake him.” Lindbergh is moving heaven and: earth to impress the Maddoxes with defeatism to create disunity, ahd he bases his puerile theories on what he saw in Germany—four years ago. : Naturally I am inclined to believe that Hull, Stimson, Knox, Phil Simms, Douglas Miller, John Whit aker and a dozen more able news writers are better informed than

ica, let him cancel his radio address by which he hopes to steer this na-|

I would certainly like to meet this|

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“be signed.)

an arm-chair aviator with political aspirations.” Frankly, Mr. Maddox, I think you should wake up and shun your washed-up hero. In your attempt to tell us what a -patriot you are, you are wasting your artillery on a sparrow; save it for Hitler, or his best agents "here, namely, Lindbergh and Wheeler.

” ” » MR. HAYES THINKS WE'RE PLUMPING FOR WAR By M. J. Hayes, 101 N, Drexel Ave, Recent articles of the caliber of Messrs, Clapper’s, Simms’s, Whitaker’s, etc., so obviously bent on stirring readers to a war pitch, and s0 obvious war propaganda—not just facts and news—that the more I read, the more disgusted I am becoming,

such a radical but marked change? Why can’t our papers try to push war from the’American people instead of trying to herd them into

_|it, like a bunch of caftle into the slaughter Ben?

8 8 MACHINISTS’ LOCAL LISTS PAY RAISE NEEDS By ‘A, 8. Uphaus,: president; J. J. M, ee R.

Y. 3. teh, * coramities. s an, general chair. , Local Lodge e Bil, International Astion of. Machinists, Indianapolis.

Presenting facts on the railroad workers’ side of the wage issue. The public has so often been told that the railroad wages are high that many people believe the rail workers - are “aristocrats of labor” whose pay is above that received by workers in other industries. Just the opposite is true, as has been proved every time impartial authorities have investigated the faets.... Interstate Commerce Commission reports show that the pay of railroad employees averages 73.2 cents an hour. That includes even the top officials. Excluding them, rail pay averages 67.4 cents an hour. How does this compare with other industries? In fhe 13 large industries reported by the National Industrial Conference Board, a business research. organization maintained by employers, the “average

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hourly earnings” range from 822

Side Glances=By Galbraith

envy of Paul McNutt, and from Harrisons big, broad, | §

smiling, ruddy face there shine two of the bluest eyes :

U1 ever saw. "rhe ail o hi woud dia 8 tank.

| So They Say—

a country where almost everybody seems willing ua: ‘national. chairman

eager—to get into public office, attention should be given

Samuel Sloan Duryee of Garrison, N. Y. : ratic leaders urged Mr. Duryee to run for county | te and Children’s

improved rg nua \ Dama

By MAUD Cour

Cold

cents in foundries and ' machine shops up to $1.05 in the tire and rubber industries. Those averages include only the “wage : earner”

for railroad employees includes many who are paid salaries. The U. 8. Bureau of Labor Statistics lists 25 industries in which hourly | earnings from 79.7 cents for telephone and telegraph employees to $1.066 in printing and: publishing. Many of those industries employ a large proportion of women, or, like the automobile industry, have many unskilled “production line” workers, yet they pay much higher average wages than the railroads, whose employees are almost entirely men, an unusually large proporiien of them highly skilled. ‘From the above figures, it is apparent that railroad pay averages from 12.3 cents to 39.2 cents less per hour than the pay in 38 other industries listed by two research organizations, one Government and one private. . Many other examples could be given, but these are enough to show that, instead of being highly paid, railroad employees get much lower

‘|wages than the workers of the Why is The Times undergoing

other industries which are all comparable. That fact alone calls for substantial increases in railroad wage rates, and there are other facts to consider. One is the increasing cost of living. Retail prices have already gone up ab.

and the defense emergency began, aid are rapidly going higher, Most

granted wage boosts to help their employees meet this rise in living costs. Some industries have raised their wages two or three times, but the railroads have not yet increased their wage rates by a single cent. Railroad workers and their families need food, clothes, shelter and other necessities, as much - as the workers of other industries do. In no industry have the workers increased their efficiency more than the railroad workers have in recent years. The average railroad employee is producing 43 per cent more transportation now than he did five years ago. This should be recognized and rewarded by reasonable wage increases, such as the rail workers are requesting. :

these requests, because their profits are rising so rapidly that’ this year they will reach a total of more shag a billion dollars. . ; n 8 ” MOTHER SUGGESTS MOVIES | OF FAR-OFF SOLDIERS

By Mrs. A. M. Yaisko, 1438 Laurel St,

may I suggest some little favor for all us parents of boys who are so far away they can't get to come

home. Couldn't it be made. possible ; boys at a time just say i“

SO “many a “Hello Mom and Dad” on the

: A vie screen? It could be made .| public where they were stationed {and Fini would Seraisly aw a [ierow

ENEMY "MOTHERS WADDELL

Two years, of ‘war ¢ thundered ! Y— a ‘ many. fnore race on before! «its seven million ‘men has mar] One oF. Tow many nil. lion more! Invaders: stubbornly push. on ‘ahead. 2 The; ia dor left behind ‘to mourn

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men Ad vitor won. wna nape

. Though fields lay heavy with thei

whereas even the 67.4 cents average |

average of 20 per cent siice the war |.

large . industries have recently.

The railroads can afford to grant life.

As the mother of a son in Iceland,|

1 know a leap of joy. Peace may be| near.

GTON, Sept. 11.— LA Cron. the complete details of he 3 skechlly disclosed

coming Mexico ' should be of “oF omsideable interest : The > Wo o

_ any more, as ie inc ed by the Oon‘stitution. We don’t because they ~. have to be ratified by the Senate wheie the people do have a voice. So we make “agreements” afd “lease-lend” and, no’ matter what that costs our family, we can’t do or even say very much about it, because our asys they are not treaties. As announced, wo are. going. to. make 8. the Mexican Government of between 50

“loan” to 100 milhunky. not very,

dorey. Just what the “loan” is to be for clear but there is a good deal of talk a rico American farm and petroleum properties in Mexico. To refresh your memory, Mexico just “took over” a lot of Americans’ farms and oil properties in Mexico - of compensation. The policy of our as, and has remained, a’ lenpete

; 8 8 8 HERE is hardly an observer, including our State

Department, who does not- recognize that the Mexican Government is certainly incapable of making

| compensation of “fair, assured and effective value” of

the seized properties. Various estimates run as high as half a billion. “Token payments” of a ‘fraction of 50 to 100 millions, taken out of the pockets of American taxpayers and offered to these American proprietors to “ape pease” Mexico by a sleight-of-hand political maneuver

| is a ghastly hypocrisy.

It wasn’t American property alone that was con-

| fiscated. Most of these properties were British and Dutch. All three Governments refused to

recognize this hijacking and the British severed diplomatic relations, “Unity” in opposition to Hitler is as much a British as an American objective. Are we going to “appease” Mexico for Britain also by chargivs the cost of this confiscation of British property to American tax payers. It would be just as absurd and inconsistent as the present rumored proposal. 2 8 8 E are, and I think properly, insisting on tradi tional American rights on the high seas. Are we going to abandon our insistence on American rights in international trade on any such greasy honeyfuggling as this? . ~ If once our forthright insistence on the maine tenance of international law and against foreign gangsterism and thuggery is weakened by any such surrender as is here suggested our position in trade the world over and, especially throughout this hemi. sphere, is endangered. If Mexico can freely confiscate our oil properties, 50. necessary in war, why can’t Venezuela—and why won't she? Where is any American property safe? Something smells here,” If I were as realistic and accurate as my. namesake, the great lexicographer -Samnel Johnson, I would say: “Something stinks here,” but I won't, because this column must maine tain its high reputation for delicate and highly pere fumed rhetoric—“lavender and old lace,” as it were, even at the expense of accurate rhetoric. But where, in the concoction of this dish, is Tommy the Cork as a private practitioner? It would bear looking into. Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are thelr own. They are mot necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

SHE Minute Man and the : Pionéer Woman are hel Uncle Sam sell defense bonds. . The - folks back east had an‘other lucid moment. They decided that some of the people who had “never seen New: England. and might have forgotten old y lessons would not be familiar With the Minute Man, -but they would know their Pioneer Woman. That's § why the posters will feature both, ~ or so I hear, and it's a swell idea. These figures are symbols—inspiring symbols, bee cause they stand for contributions to American free dom by common men and women. ' Generals with medals, soldiers with bayonets, mean a lot; but for you and me there will always be something esperials ly moving about the story of simple working people who’ dropped their daily chores when the need arose and went out to defend what was theirs. : The Minute Man whose statue commeniorates the birth of American freedom was just a plain cit: He left his plow, or his work bench er his sch 1 books because he wanted liberty. And later, after he had won it, the Pioneer Woman helped to establish it firmly upon this continent. She: was nobody particular either—just a housewife. Yet she "has become the symbol of everything we love and live for,

2 pr 8 HY? I think it is because she did every day's

job as it came along, expecting no special recog nition for that. 2 was a part of. her philosophy of

v So today those 7 noble two—the Minute Man, the Pioneer Woman—mutely remind us that she hour hs; come when the average citizen must help to. defend freedom once more. If we are smart we will leave out of the defenis bond campaign the usual blah. The poor. and plain people are tired of platitudes, hut deep down inside they know that a very large part of” the nations

‘defense depends upon whether they are willing, to ine

vest money in its future. ‘Just common sense is all we need to make us aware of our duty, for the future of our country is our

future. An investment in it, no matter how small,

is one way of keeping faith with the Minute Man, the Pioneer Woman and our children. br

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