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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1041

BARUCH ON PRICE CONTROL IN his testimony yesterday Bernard M. Baruch put an = unerring finger on the fundamental defect of the Administration’s price-control bill—a defect that results from political fear. : “I don’t believe in piecemeal price-fixing,” he told the House Banking Committee. “I think you have first to put " a ceiling over the whole price structure, inciiding wages, rent and farm prices up to the parity level—and no higher —and then to adjust separate price schedules upward separately, if necessary, where justice or governmental policy 80 require.” Si | : Of course. But the pending bill contemplates no con- ... trol of wages whatever, while its provision affecting farm _ prices—no “fixing” below 110 per cent of parity—would - amount to a guarantee for agriculture of a favored position above the general price structure. Wages and farm prices are two of the most important elements in that structure. If these elements are permitted and even encouraged to rise, - any effort to hold the other elements down can work, if it

works at all, only in the direction of unlimited confusion |

- and gross injustice. ; That is obvious to Mr. Baruch. We believe it is obvious - to Leon Henderson. It must be obvious even to most mem- : bers of Congress. Yet the demands of the farm lobbies and _ the labor lobbies ring loud in political ears, and fear of the farm vote and the labor vote weakens political knees.

We hope that Mr. Baruch’s sensible counsel will pre- - vail; that consideration for the general welfare will inspire : courage .in Congress. For otherwise what is presented as “a bill to control prices will defeat its own professed purpose. The measure that is supposed to prevent inflation will pro- : duce a lop-sided price inflation—a disaster in which farmers ‘and wage-earners will suffer ultimately along with everyone else. : :

GREEN ON DEMOCRACY

NA/ILLIAM GREEN went to St. Louis to address the national convention of the Hod Carriers’ and Common ~ Laborers’ Union—the first convention that the little group of self-perpetuating dictators which controls this union

To Mr. Green came a rank-and-file delegation asking his help in a fight to make the union “clean and democratic.” The president of the American Federation of Labor had often deplored racketeering and gangsterism in the labor ‘movement. . Would he now cease to deal in pious generalities and

more, to workers who know that their union is cursed with ‘racketeering and gangsterism and who are willing to stand up and battle for regular conventions, honest elections and proper accounting of union funds? Not William Green. “I know nothing of your internal affairs, he said. “There are bound to be disputes and arguments in such organizations, but it is not my place to settle them.” : And then this leader of labor launched into his discus- - sion of “the one great question before the world.” It is, he said, the question of dictatorships against democracy.

ICKES, THE UBIQUITOUS

T the moment Harold L. Ickes is getting particular attention as oil and gas czar. But it would be a mistake -to assume that the curfew and other activities involved in his back-to-the-buggy movement along the Atlantic Seaboard are occupying all the time of this most energized of men. Call Harold anything you want to—and many do—but . don’t call him a shirker. There’s not a lazy bone in his head. Seven full pages are required in the Congressional Directory to describe him and his department. As Secretary of the Interior he presides over: :

The General Land Office. The Office of Indian Affairs. The Indian Arts and Crafts Board. The Geological Survey. The Bureau of Reclamation. The National Park Service. The United States Travel Bureau. The Bureau of Mines. The Grazing Service. Bituminous Coal Division. The Fish and Wildlife Service. : The Division of Territories and Island Possessions. The Alaska Railroad. - The Alaska Road Commission. . The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Commission. The Oil Adminsitration. The Bonneville Power Administration. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial Co The National Power Policy Committee. . The Federal Board of Surveys and Maps.

If you desire to inform yourself completely about the cruising radius of this remarkable person, go into all the vast ramifications of each of these divisions by spending the rest of your life in the library. As to his extra-curricular activities, you have observed: them in the public prints as the last eight and a half years have rolled by. “ Exhausting job, you say? Not at all. For, with the « same fresh up-and-at-it that he employs in all those other matters, Mr. Ickes now takes on the semi-colon. He sharply clips the chin of that hitherto respected member of the punctuation family. - . ikon In a memo for the Standard Manual for stenographers and letter writers of the Interior Department—of whom there are, as the scholars say, a phethora—he declaims: “The semi-colon . . . like everything else . . . can be verdone. It should not be used to string along a lot of arate sentences.” And more about the same semi-colon, bout the use of “and,” “of,” etc. ; ‘ With his attack on long sentences we’heartily agree. m, we say, with the semi-colon!

But, we now inquire what

about Mr. Ickes treating us |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

. Green has resounded again on behalf of hoodlum rule in a union of the American Federation of Labor, this time at the convention of the Hod-Carriers. Sh - This meeting, the first since 1911, is now current in St. Louis under the presidency of Joseph Victor Moreschi, who never had been elected to that office or any other national office of the union

locals. In the entire present list of national officials, only one, Achilles Persion, the secretary treasurer, ever was elected. His term would have expired 25 .years ago but for the fact that the constitution pro-

which this year’s is the first in 30 years. I might remind you that Green not long ago indorsed as a man of good character a white slaver who was the boss-racketeer of one of this country’s worst unions and an open associate of notorious criminals; that Green also indorsed gangster George Browns, the president of the Stage and Movie Em-

executive council of the A. P. of L.. and that in a famous St. Louis case he upheld a band of criminals who were persecuting the rank and file and repudiated the victims of their vicious exploitation.

Where Mr. Green Stands

ADDRESSING THE ST. LOUIS convention of the Hod-Carriers, Mr. Green declared that all five million members of the A. F. of L. unions, with one exception, were law-abiding men. He did not blame the exception, who might have

Nick, the convicted St. Louis crook, or his friend, Umbrella Mike Boyle, the convicted Chicago crook, or his friend Dempsey, the convicted Cincinnati cop who is national secretary treasurer of the iron workers, or his friend Willie Bioff, another white slaver and Capone-mob criminal, currently under indictment in New York with gangster Browne on charges of extorting money from employers through the weapon of his union charter. Green attempted to link the unfortunate rank-and-file victims of criminal union bosses with the crooks who prey upon them and to make it appear that an attack on the criminals is an attack on the workers and an attempt to lower their economic standards. It will be seen, however, I believe, that Green, himself, has persistently lent the prestige of his position to the defense and encouragement of the gangster, both by positive statement and action and by open indorsement of gangster Browne.

He Goes Bumbling On

THE ST. LOUIS convention of the Hod-Carriers received an “account of the stewardship” of the selfelected national officers, in which the entire financial statement of this period, involving many millions of dollars, constituted only 22% pages of widely spaced figures divided into two general columns “receipts” and “disbursements” and two paragraphs of “recapitulation.” Details were not given, the explanation being that sufficient detail had been supplied from time to time in interim reports of which a typical example gives no more effective detail than the grand summation of the 30 years “stewardship.” And Green's salute to the union was delivered at the very moment when a fighting minority was being beaten off before his very eyes in an attempt to hold the election of officers according to the method specified by the constitution. The constitution says the election shall be “by secret paper ballot,” but those in command of this army of 300,000 American toilers flouted that provision to hold, instead, an election by roll-call while Green was bumbling that “dictatorship will never come. to America because democratic working men will not stand for-it.”

U. S. Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

RECENTLY I SAW the strangest looking thing that has ever appeared on an airdrome. It has two wings, a tail, and two things with wheels sticking down between the wings. It has a motor located in what I presumed was front, and a prop fastened on the proper end of the motor. On either side of the fuselige (I believe the hole in the forward middle of the thing that holds the tail is the fuselage) there is a huge bump, which looks as if gigantic bees—they must have been about the size of P-40s—had stung the thing and raised these bumps. : It was wheeled out on the airport apron. The news photographers were snapping it, and the newspapers gave it a great amount of space. It was built by a Chinese. I couldn’t help but recall a recent. incident. The “right” people’ of New York society had bought a six-year-old amphibian craft, donated it to the Aid to Britain movement, and arranged for a ‘bevy of feminine socialities to have pictures taken. It was supposed to be used as a hospital plane. The upper surfaces of its wings was camouflaged as per military design, while two tiny red crosses were painted on the sides of the hull so tiny that even an eagle aloft could never have detected them, After the ceremonies—pictures and all—the old amphibian was wheeled down to one of the hangars and stored. It’s probably there yet.

The Draft Dodgers

THERE IS QUITE A BIT of griping about the racket of some youngsters who, not wanting to be drafted, join the flying schools approved by the Civil Pilot Training Program. As soon as their registration in the flying school is approved by a draft board, it becomes increasingly harder to get them to report each day for flight instruction. The operators of those CPTP schools, under contract with the Government, insist that it’s cheaper to let the drifters drift than go through all The paper work necessary to oust a stub-winged draft ger.

How We Do Things.

TWO TYPES OF controllable propellers are in use in the services. One is electrically operated so that the blades can be set at different pitch angles in flight. The other is actuated by oil pressure tapped from the engine oil-pressure system. i : A business man would naturally expect that all this would have been threshed out and one type of prop standardized and adopted for all Service warplanes. : This is exactly what would have been done, immediately, if the creation and organization of American airpower were all directed and managed by one central agency. >

props must be fitted with special electrical gear, which will not accomodate the oil pressure props. You can ‘see What an opportunity this creates for needless delay. Furthermore, failure to standardize on one type of prop for Army and Navy planes is the real reason for the shortage of props which today is holding doz-

ens of planes on the ground.

So They Say—

to some people, but the simple reality of the practice of religion in one’s daily life has often escaped of us—Very Rev. James P. De Wolfe, dean, of St. John the Divine. . :

The danger today is that we will not have a creed big enough for man’s full stature or that we shall hold on to creeds that life has long since passed.—Rev. Frank Curtis Williams, Brooklyn Methodist minister.

We can outproduce Hitler if we want to, but it is

‘an occasional period?

going to take a lot of sweat, because he a head start on us.—William 8. Knudsen, director, OFM. :

NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Willlam

" by any vote of the members or the

vides for elections only at the national convention of |

ployees’ Union, with whom he sits in the cabinet or |

been his friend George Scalise or his friend John

The engines to be flown by electrically actuated |

The externals of religion have meant a great deal

many Cathedral

o - The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

OUR FINANCIAL DILEMMA IS COMPLETELY SOLVED By Thomas D. McGee, 3749 Central Ave.

Why worry about the. national debt? Suppose it is now $50,000,000,000 with a prospective $6,000,000,000 more this year, and the modest sum of $9,000,000,000 more next year, yet why worry? This staggering incubus needn’t frighten anyone learned in the eluscian mysteries of high finance and money jugglery. Because to these sophisticates there is a way out, and it is simplicity itself. All Congress has to do is to pass another law, authorizing the President to further devalue the gold dollar. The gold dollar now contains 13.71 grains of pure gold. Let the President say that 6.85 grains shall be the content of the dollar. And presto; Look what happens. The $22,000,000,000 of gold now owned by the government has by this miraculous expedient (like the miracle of the loaves and fishes) become = $44,000,000,000. Let the President issue gold certificates for that amount to the twelve reserve banks, and with .the bank credit thus obtained check out and pay off $44,000,000,000 of the national debt, leaving the insignificant .sum of $6,000,000,000 still owing. . Result: we still have the entire amount of gold still intact in the bowels of the earth at Fort Knox, and the national debt is practically wiped out. So why worry. Runaway inflation needn’t be feared. By fixing prices, regulating wages, hours of work and profits, and by the use of other totalitarian sedatives, the wild horses of inflation can be curbed and held in check. ”

Ng. FREE SEAS WOULD MEAN ‘END TO ALL WAR’ By Claude Braddick, Kokomo

What causes a nation to start an aggressive war? Boiled down to its essence, the answer is: The hope of gain. . The deep and abiding conviction, then, that modern war is a game in which everybody loses might well be expected to chill the spirit of war

jin man as nothing else has ever

been able to do. And, indeed, there

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is visual evidence that this is so. It was this conviction, engendered by World War I, that caused Britain and France to avert their eyes

while Germany with cynical arro-.

gance tore up the Treaty of Versailles; caused Britain and France to humiliate themselves at Munich and abandon Czechoslovakia to the wolves; caused France to despair and disintegrate in the face of war and to collapse at the first impact; caused the United States, with almost fanatical zeal, to shrink deeper and deeper into her shell of isolationism. But, it will be argued, the Allied nations have nothing to gain from war for the very good reason that they already have everything. Hw shall we teach the so-called “have not” nations that war is a-sucker’s game? I do not know. But of one thing I am sure. The favored nations can aid mightily in banishing war from the earth by making the seas free in fact as well as in theory, by eliminating prohibitive tariff walls and other artificial restraints based upon purely selfish motives, so that all nations shall have equal access to raw materials and world markets, and no nation shall feel impelled, through sheer desperation, to risk the hazards of war. :

” ” ” THE MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ANSWERS MR. BATES By Wayne Simpson, National Chief of Staff, Marine Corps League, Indianapolis In answer to Mr. Howard H. Bates whose letter you publish this date reference demonstrations for departing so]diers, sailors and marines who leave Indianapolis for active duty, please allow me to recall the 8th day of November last when: the 16th Btn., Marine Corps Reserve left Indianapolis. At that time our Governor deliv-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

—Galatians 6:7.

ered an address. The City of Indianapolis was represented. Mr. Longsworth of the Chamber of Commerce and Louis Ludlow all were present to bid them God speed and happy landing. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Military Order of the Purple Heart and the Marine Corps League were all represented at that farewell observance. The band from Manual High led the parade while the 16th Btn. marched through crowded streets to the Union Station. Today that battalion has been scattered to the four winds. Some in Iceland, Johnson Island, Guam and Martinique, while others remain in the States. The Marine Corps League is more informed than anyone else where our boys are and is keeping in touch with them. The league has yet to hear one squawk from any reservist who left with the 16th 'Btn., but tp the contrary all are pleased that they are able to do their bit in times like these. As for the Army and Navy, that is another subject, but as for the Marines they want no demonstrations, they want action.

2 8 =» CHARGES LABOR LEADERS

ARE HITLERS THEMSELVES By James R. Meitzler, Attica Either Mr. Taylor mislaid his spectacles when he read my letter or else a map or words of one syllable must be used to aid his understanding. There was nothing in that letter that an intelligent person could, by any imagination, construe as intimating labor union leaders were Hitler's agents. In fact, the opposite was indicated. Hitler is destroying and aims to overthrow all government or authority which is not subservient: to him. And that is precisely what the leaders of the labor unions are doing. Strikes are called ndt merely to get better wages and working conditions for wage labor but to force all wage labor to pay tribute and take orders from the men who dominate the unions. They even call strikes, not because the workers are free, but because the union they belong to is not their own personally controlled union. No consideration of national defense or public safety is allowed to stand in the way of these dictators. Our Army, Navy and Air Force is being sacrificed to their lust for power. Hitler's agents! Why they want to be Hitlers themselves. They want a totalitarian government of their own.

NOVEMBER, 1806

|Another year! — another deadly

blow! * Another mighty Empire overthrown! And We are left, or shall ‘be left, alone; : The last that dare to struggle with the Foe. : "Tis welll From this day forward we shall know That in ourselves our safety must

be sought, ‘| That by our own right hands it must be wrought: ; That we m stand unpropped; or|

be laid low. O dastard whom such foretaste doth net cheer! 4

| We shall exult, if they who rule the - land

Be men who hold its many blessings

ear, von ; ‘ | Wise, upright, valiant: not a servile «band :

Who are to- judge of danger which they fear, hv And honor which théy do not understand. ih: —William Wordsworth (1770-1850) :

DAILY THOUGHT ‘Be not deceived; not Hoe Seceived; God. is not soweth, that shall he also reap.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—One pain in the neck in a good deal of the current foreign discussion is that we should get into this war "because, after all, it’s Sue fault and our . nsibility. If we had An and England and remained in the League" of * Nations, Hitler would never ha

gotten a start and all this welter ,

of blood and fire would have heer : avoided. We helped win the Worl War I and then quit the boys cold. So goes the argument. But, what are the facts? Of course, it is true that we did help win the: war and didn’t enter the League. But England and France did enter the League. When the war was over they had such a vast predominance of power that Germany couldn't have made a move at rearmament. or a gesture at aggression without their assent. or at least compliance. That condition remained for at least 15 years—until 1933, when Hitler started, and perhaps much longer. sabe Fel REL It is now clear also that that dominant condition of theirs could not possibly have been created without our all-out effort with men and ships-and money:and guns in 1918 and after. We not only. left the peace of Europe in their hands, but we helped make those hands strong enough to maintain it forever, + ..

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They Let Hitler Ride de EE

THEY JUST DIDN'T do it. When Hitler began to: erupt, France wanted. to stop him, but Britain: was looking the other way. When Mussolini began to go off the reservation: in Ethigpia, Britain wanted to stop him, but France was busy tying a shoe-lace. What could we have done in either case—even if we had been in the League? These League members, amply enabled by our action to act in their own de~ fense, wouldn’t do anything. They. just let -Hitler ride. We were in another minor league—the NinePower Pact to watch over the integrity of China, So was Britain; When Japan began grabbing parts of China, Job’s warhorse, Harry Stimson, smelled “thé battle afar off” and wanted to do something about it. This time it was Britain who was too busy to play with the nine. j This is no time to rake up past mistakes, but some are'being raked up and charged to our account without justice. This about our negligence is one of them. If we ever get into a position of guaranteeing the peace of the world we shall have covered too much territory as our present experience ought to be enough to prove. Whatever is done we are going to’ pay for it. There any other country.

What Will They Say Later?

. ; : THE SAD ASPECT of this particular panning of Uncle Sam is that much of it is being done by mem-. bers of his own family. It is true that the British have long been saying something like this. ‘But they have been careful in saying that we are not doing enough to help them now. They are be to say so and, if the years following the last war are any criterion, what they are beginning to say now is a mild tabloid edition. of what they will say later. Our more headlong interventionists who now blame us for the war because we did not join the. League have no such inhibitions as the British in accusing us of not doing enough to help Britain now. It is a common saying of some of them that we will never do enough until we are all the way in the war ourselves. hy They are entitled to that opinion, but my guess is that, if this country is engaged in war, our pa are going to insist on complete concentration on

_equipping our own Army and Navy and perfecting By

our own defense and that less rather than more materials will flow out of the arsenal of America to squip rdemoeracy;” including the bloody dictatorship .of Russia. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson - ~~ |

A FORMER NEWSPAPERMAN now serving with one ‘of ‘the Government's public relations

bureaus writes to say that ‘the . |

morale of many soldiers is being lowered by the tone of letters received - from = mothers and girl friends. : Tr Sa

“Whining, crying, conplaining -.

letters from home to men in the field do more to make grumbling than rain, heat, sweat or might’ vo alerts,” according to his opinion, And so, once again, we observe the gentlemen deftly putting blame for a bad national condition upén women. That has been their habit since Adam’s day; and they have lost none of their finesse with the passing of time, : : Wouldn't it be sensible of us to face the fact that morale is a mental attitude and therefore cannot be built in a day? Neither is it to be created by talk. Character is not instilled into a nation by repeating beautiful words to its people. Fons It seems to me whining letters from mothers or sweethearts would have very little effect upon the individual soldier if he had not previously made up: his mind there was something to whine about. Parents: who have steadily taught anti-war sentiment to their sons. would undoubtedly be responsible: for. its-ap=. pearance in training camps, but, after all, let's ba}

fair.

A National Characteristic nr oT

WASN'T ANTI-WAR sentiment, even as recently as last year during a notable Presidential campaign, quite the thing? For two decades—during the period when all these boys now in camp were growing up, the : whole tenor of national thinking was pacifie. They would be dolts not to have absorbed some of it, We have organized a vast Army in the brief space of 11 months. Considering the drawbacks, what has been accomplished is a near miracle. But you can't take millions of free men and regiment them into the straight jacket of military discipline over night and expect them to like it. gatate] Bl It’s impossible to disrupt an entire national econ omy. in half a year and have our kind of ple keep mum. How can We be Americans ard rons at the same time? = pit I think we are all talking too much about the other fellow's morale and. doing too little ‘to improve our own. Grumbling is a national characteristic, and I'd be very fearful for democracy. if we suddenly stopped it. oi CAE Hg ' Besides, who ever met a boy who thought his mother or his girl friend knew enough to tell him what to think or do? At the training Samp age they Bre sold on the idea that women are sweet but wite Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this ' newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times. ;

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