Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1941 — Page 16

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THURSDAY, SEFTRMEER, 18, 1841

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STRIKE BY BLACKOUT |

T A warned community of half a million peeple inte sudden darkness and confusion. . Public transportation was paralyzed. The public water supply was threatened. Plants manufacturing materials for defense of the nation were stopped dead, Countless lives, including those of mothers and babies in maternity hospitals, were endangered. And for what reason? Because the A. F, of L. union, representing 850 employes of the power company, claims the right to represent also the 200 members of an independent union, and was displeased when the National Defense Mediation Board refused to handle that dispute. Because the men in control of the A, F. of L, union, not satisfied to press their claim before- the national labor relations board and the courts, chose to take direct action. Direct action at the expense of half a million innocent bystanders, in impudent disregard of publie ‘welfare and public safety. Direct action of a type that is ‘becoming all too commen in the labor movement and which, if persisted in, will bring the crushing force of public indignation dewn upon that pavement .

REPRINTS

(Ten years ago today Japan in Manchuria uction of the Ford's 2 AR which was hurls wt 22 festen acts

ession and wars arg ehnd the globe. As anmiversary comment

f 5 Wt herewith excerpts from our editorial of 10 ve years ago:)

UN LESS the Washington Government acts soon to restore the integrity of its treaties in the Manchurian crisis, the peace machinery built up after the travail of the World War will be worthless junk. If that happens the international situation will indeed be grave. Settlement of Japan's war of aggression against Ching is in itself a serious enough problem. But it is insignificant compared with the larger issue of rescuing the world's © peace machinery . . . © Japan has violated the Nine-Power Pacific Treaty and the Kellogg Pact—not te mention her League of Nations ¥ obligation. The only way to keep those treaties alive is for one or more of the signatories, whe guarantee these treaties, to take action under those treaties . .. Otherwise a precedent has been set by which any nation in the world can violate those treaties without fear of international intervention to preserve peace, Any aggressor nation hereaffer can say, and justly, that the

powers accepted Japan's action as net vielating these |

treaties. This is not an imaginary danger... If the United States Government cannot make these peace treaties eperate—by diplomatic means, or by economic boycott if neeessary—how dees it expect the Ameriean people or the world to retain any faith in peace treaties and | disarmament? :

(And the tollow rom our editorial on the first suniversacy, nine years ago, it ping tom Britain senttled the Stimson Dectrin

Jaran after a year now officially confirms the sk of her militarists. main worthless unless and until the United States and the other signatory powers reaffirm it by outlawing Japan as a vielater. The United States has dene its part to date. But it cannot go on alene. On the eve of Japan's recognition of the new puppet state, President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimsen repeated their earlier declaration of policy that the United States will refiise to recognize any territory or agreements achieved by force. : But this American declaration has not been sufficient - to stop Japan. No one expected it to be. The moral and diplomati¢ farce necessary to preserve treaties must be a world force. Japan . defies the American Government and American public opinion. But Japan would not he so quick to defy all-of the large world powers, _That.is the joker in-the international pack today, The Support of the European pewers~or at least their tacit approval—<seems to have gone to Japan, the treaty violator, rather than to the treaty they gre sworn te uphold. Great ‘Britain and France have refrained from joining the Amer- | oan declaration. euliswing the fruits of Japanese conquest,

LETS BE GAY, SAY THE PEOPLE

THE Ameriean people are spending mere money to have fun than ever before. Beginning i in midsummer, an ayalanche of eash has bees pouring from American peckets into the tills of those who have amusement for sale. Summer theaters, dedicated to defieits, dseiosed surprising black figures. The first football games played to 90,000 people in Chicage, 52,000 in New York, and corresponding crowds elsewhere. Chicago’s civic opera smashed all summer records with 811,000 people, Race tracks have

been trying to keep people from being trampled to death in

~ front of the betting windows. Even more thoughtful forms of diversion, like the sale “of books, is up something like 20 per cent over last year. The fresh air and sunburn resorts have had their share from ~ railroads carrying more passengers than ever before, ~*~ Does this indicate light-mindedness in the face of grow. _ ing realization of crisis in the nation's affairs? We think hot. = _ For many people, diveysion is all that keeps them goin in a world whose terrors increase daily. If a man spend | _ hours a week driving rivets into the wings of airplanes, shall he not relax the rest of the time, and spend his money to

do so? Certainly, and he'll drive all the more rivets for that.

ered by carrier, 12 cents. . \

midnight a handful of reckless men plunged an un- | ¢

That (Nine Power) Treaty will re- ||

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

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QUOTING FROM HIS statement to the Judiciary |

Committee, Judge Knox’ book reads: = . “Passing now to 8 feature of the proposed bill

that seems not fo have been Particularly stressed in |

the ‘hearings had before your committee and which, in my opinion, is almost as objectionable as that having to do with the Supreme Court. I call attention to provisions of the aet dealing with the assignment of judges from one circuit or district to another. “If the new circuit and district judges who come to power under the plans of the President are to be selected because of their young blood and forwardlooking ideas, the bill now under consideration exhibits a consistency of pw that is of sinister aspect to every man who, upon principle, is opposed to the ‘use of a stacked deck of card: Judge Knox then puts-a finger on the two Yo sisalthy words, “hereafter appointed,” and as §sks, Wh t geod reason ean. be advanced for the exclusion from BY service of men who, for years, have dem ghility and im artiality and who are qu experience to dacharge any judicial come before them? I were asked to answer ny question I should reply that, withaut further informa-

tion from the proponents of the bill, there is a possi-

bility that somewhere there is 3 wnat who fears that judges heretofore appointed will not be amenable to D Suggestion as to how particular. cases should be

Also Attacked by Committee

addressed in similar vein this now conveniently forgotten attempt to pack the lower courts. The committee also put a finger on these two word? ‘“hereafter appointed” and said that such a plan “creates a flying squadron of itinerant judges appointed for districts and circuits where they are not needed, to be transferred to other parts of the country - for judicial service.” “To r ater ee,” the committee reported, grente Ere the Government is involved in civil litigation with its citizens. Are we then through the system devised in this bill to make possible the selection of parteular judges to try parular cases?”

And in the summary of the adverse report the Judiciary Committee flatly charged that the bill was

presented to Con “in g@ most intricate form and for reasons that ured real purpose.” Here both a judge Democt bio in hig politics and etic with the New ‘and the Senate Judiciary Committee e 8 , subilely and impugn the good Y oan of its p the committee flatly char es that the re Er the bill was obscured. is W hole a Bewsver | in President dicating magazine

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U.S. Aighion By Mai. Al Williams

THE RUNWAY" * scheme is already begin: hing to catch up with us. “Runways” are Re aan pn : Ore-nie ah -time aceom-

modations for medern milifary

airdromes were deeméd obsolete some years ago. They were all t for the military air arm in Vs the flight of half a degen planes was startling news. 3 But ever since the crash of France was echoed in this country, at which moment ‘Washington seemed ‘to “sense - for the first time that airpower really means something, we have been executing yesterday’s plans for tomorrow. Airplanes must be landed facing into the wind prevailing. That means only one iy is available, which, in turn, means that only ene can be landed at a time. And, since the fe Hi» of our young military pilots are comparatively “green,” enly ope Ship at a time can take off from suet “runway” es.

What of the Future?

* IT IS POSSIBLE, of course, for experienced. pilots to take off two planes at a time, but even for them the squeeze is tight and dangerous.

and landings when only one at a time is using a single runway. If the runway airdrome situation is becoming a

problem now, what of the future, when: our fleets. of promised Side Glances—By Galbraith

be tied up while contractors widen the existing run-

fighting aircraft come somewhere near the totals? The answer is that numbérless airdremes will

wavs.

Has no ingenious American a nevel, practical sug- | gestion for treating soil to make it. pack and become | |

serviceable so that an entire airdrome will -accommodate entire squadrons for take-offs and landings in formation? Or has any American outside the — vers Ssked? ahmakon take-otts and

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squeege us,

Editor’s Note: The views eppre expressed. by selumaists in a mewspaper are their own. They are not nesessarily these of The Indianapolis Times.

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It is impossible in the got son expressing approval of ood, loyal citizen.—Jug ersey, refusing ei editor who had indorsed

Every anti-demoaratie ouime now in existence; ro possible

by the pe ia re e al w. democracies hg granted to Shes) Boas, the Ji Hopi oe ty. bisens.—George e pave

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climb and croak at the same tiine. Nevertheless I've been hearing more eroaking la Gene Flack, Prblic relations counsel,

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CALLS NAL LIES WORST OF ALL CRIMES By D. A. Sommer, 918 Cornigress Ave. The gredtest evil in the world is not murder, as bad as that is. It is not war, even with all its horrors. It is a plain LIE, Murderers could get nowhere if it were not for lies, especially by lawyers who will do almost anything to free their criminal clients. Evil started in this word with a lie—“Thou shalt NOT surely die,” and the last thing condemned in the Book of Truth is “Whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” I have spent 44 years disseminating the truth and righteousness in this Beek, and have found that 1 od oftentimes do semething

thief or a drunkard, h with 3 or Phare every ile

bull on. Hitler and his bunch sit down and write “peace” treaties or trade agreements or what-nats, o [makes 3s Intelesiing Seehe Jor a e 8 angsters li sit there aman a an Aioles are many A Es rl ‘say, Let us wait till Hitler has the rest of the world under Be feet in the dust, then we, teo, will sit down, and sign a to ak at 0 make myse e= lieve that Lindpe sre hen anar t w rgh and Wheeler numbskulls or Nazis

» » » A LABORING MAN GIVES ; HIS ARGUMENTS By A. R., Kokomo, Ind. All this conversation about laber’s rights and management’s vices seem to me to be wide of the mark. There is entirely too much loose conversation about unions and Jheir sins, For every rotten union in America there is a good one.

those who fall for the laber-haters’ arguments would see this and think

abfut this: 1. The working man has the right to ‘organize; not to milk the eom-

pany he works for, but simply to

I wish the labor-haters, or rather, |&¢

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(Ti imes ot faders 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 protert himself against pettyminded foremen and such, and to secure for himself the right to a vacation, indemnities, ete. ~~ . 2. On the other side, the organized worker has a responsibility to his company; to be loyal and decent and give the best he’s got and to prevent hot-heads from stirring up

handle those kind of affairs with the personnel manager. : There's nothing wrong with the regulated elosed shop. My own union isn't yet and I hope it isn't until the Government gets around to licensing unions and keeping tab on their affairs. When that happens, every company will find it to their benefit to have a closed shop. |c The clased shop is a blessing to the union man who wants to protect his security, It means that the workers’ dues aren't wasted on getting benefits for some fellow who won't pay his share. It means that everyhody has to join the union and pay the freight for the increases and benefits everybody gets. It will get around to that, but in the meantime there are too many trouble-makers perverting the closed shop idea. This idea of a closed shop to blackjack the company is the idea of a few racketeers. When organized labor gets wise and tosses out John Lewis and Bill Green on their ears along with the rest of the bums like Bioff and his kind, we'll

men who will get decent laws protecting the union man from above, from beth the management and the Rdumb union boss, we'll go all the way and show what real unionization can mean in better work and better pay for everybody,

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trouble; to let the house committees

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SEES ISOLATION WORST OF VU. 8. BLUNDERS By Robert Bruns, Indianapolis It seems that middle western isolationism causes more disastrous damages to a unified and consistent American foreign pelicy than any other element in our public censcience. Carlton Hayes, professor of history at Columbia University, and widely known as a competent student of foreign policy, says: “More than any other ndtion, even mare} than Nazi Germany, we have been responsible for losing the peace and bringing on the present war.” Many naive Americans may ke shocked at

this statement, but it is true. Prof. Hayes means, presumably, that by America’s realignment with jsolationist principles and "her refusal to

which set in among the nations of the world and made it possible for a redctionary political regime to secure totalitarian control in the defeated country. A small group of “wilful men” galned control in .the American ess and drew us backwards, Sone to an apathetic public, to of isolation. Since the days of Theodore Reosevell, isolation had heen ohselete as national policy, but nevertheless Americans forsook pelities and began te indulge in an unprecedented orgy of pleasure seeking and rugged individualism. Now today, we find the sueeessors of these same isolationists indirectly giving more sid to international lawlessness, meaning Hitler, than all of the fifth columnists in the country. If all American citizens would accept thejr responsibilities

for awhile, such men 8s Wheeler, Nye, Lindhergh, Douglas, Maddox, Gaylor, Clay and their childish pelitical philosophies would be relegated to oblivion. I am in no way saying that intelligent debate should be scorned, but there is g time for everything, and the time for such stupid chatter has long since been oad 61 Those who have read Clapper, Francis sane 1 4 in roto in erica,” Dpugl Do Business

With Hitler,” A other DE articles on the Fresen resent war, will agree with me on this contention, : | True citizenship, patriotism, un unity and an intelligent public Spigion have never heen more need We can enly a not allow Republican and Democratic isolationists Senators and Congressmen to take the bit in Relr

teeth and wreck sll that has accomplished by the war. .

TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW

(From ‘Macbeth,’ Act 5, Scene 5, : Macheth’s speech.)

Tomuw. au omontow, and to-

DAILY THOUGHT

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join the League of Na-| & tions after the war paved the way| & for the political and moral reaction|

the outmoded and impossible policy|

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#4 ured of World a Ie step in any indus that God gave | uld hs Instead of that, we ranced perfect orgy of priorities, threats: general disorganization ef our - pall cries of “shortage” and famine in s Ta. sufficient example with out any extended argument on on the nature of this blunder. j oy

Te Important Questions

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first is oR iB m are there to feed?” That should . etermined ji ly by-a survey of “Fequirementy) 1 i the ot a Sally im ts “How much flour ere lef e barrel to feed them?” That needs just as determined A effort as the study of Tanah "It needs a survey of in< ventories, sources of supply and, above all, a harde boiled realistic questioning of any of our many customers for this scant supply ‘as to the actual need’ for what they ask and what they have tucked away

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Semething of that pong is ‘alsa going forward, but it is directed - Jolueinally against private industries. ie bungle and to the experience of World: Wor 1, experience ‘has proved a Loneipal hoggers, hoarders and" Bev) tarp e- ost hoys are erpm depart ments hy and Bo ak or contractors. Shee : "He Ain't Blindl' )

AS HAS BEEN repeatedly pointed. out in - this column, the Government method to date seems to have been an implicit acceptance of anything these grabbers say as to their needs and imperial- decrees granting them hy priorities with almost no regard for what may be a destructive effect on: the megns of 1i of our civilian popilat. ion. No, there fk enough flour in the barrel to go all the way round. Some system of rationing and control is necessary. That doesn’t necessarily mean ration cards and people standing in ‘queues, but it doés mean a studious’ appraisal of bp Ri ly and demand—requirements and available materials—and, in defense of our own system, stern Haies beth “to that system and to foreign interests demands that arg’ beyond our reasonable power to produce and deliver, It is dificult to write with patience about this subject because the principles are so simple, the ex< perience so well authenticated and so frequently insisted upon, that these delays and woefully belated and hbif-hearted grasping of these princip es indi= gale on incompetence or a prejudice almog i beyond Months in time and billions in mone ‘wasted in this error. But the worst y Dave been to come. If there is not some prompt and realistic application of them the harm soon to Aid ‘by labor. and small enterprise in this coun uid surpass anything the depression ever produg Sometimes one is reminded of David ° ram's sal; of a sightless horse to a careless trader. “When the horse began butting into hrick Yall David’s explanaton wags “He ain’t blind. He Jush dom give 8

A" Woran's Viewpoint By Mrs. s. Waljer Fergusen

THE FIRST LINE of def is the family table. st doe = and newspapers harp upon the theme. The whole nation is food conscious, which, as ul ealle for mare lectures to WO Nutrition experts and Ba = ernment men sound forth contin ually, saying that democracy can be. best Jo tengal in the kitchen, Where housewives must concoet : : meals tp build erican br . W ho: brain oy fn 8 brawn, surmise, however, that this i po while billions and billions are ed for tak For, Proleste, the so-called first line wobbles along as best There is no lack of learned men to tell how to prepare Tourishing food for Be athe growing family, but few are smart enough. te etroct he im ways of getting the food without sufficient Many a woman hgld down ¢{ = ne Bin hi same si ding as a vir n e ws how fo act, but h with. w a= Bahing os ‘Standard articles’ of diet are milk, meat, green vegetables, butter and aE Re eags, STS on every table. Of the lot, bread, meat. and milk are absolutely essential to bedily health, yes

those are isely’ cles. price most ‘rapidly, the ay which arp Maing B

Let's Conquer Hunger

NOW, YM ALL FOR dirt to Hitler, but it seems te me we could cut on a few guns and tanks = omer ta oan first-defense ig, S re's no, strain 0 rselves ta hold the- others, - ine " ' The irony of our: ‘situation 15 that we. ties: no setual

Ss ity of f Th is Hane. We rvs Sacha li or ari 180 [ 800

wheat. ‘Our ‘su u Joe. pesple with ye Hs over ogi lo. B ons, Why, then, shoul Ali a ‘Wore ried about whether. hey. be able te eat tomorrow? Simply because we've never used our Brains 58 solve the problems of tion and | It’s-so much easier to figure out how to m ce Fuse And let's think this evef. : The reason we are making guns ef sonar. as never yet mas of eanquer« ing hunger in a land of plenty. fuga:

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