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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941

IT'S PART OF DEFENSE | T IS true, as Leon Henderson, the Federal price administrator, said in a speech at Trenton, N. J., that the all-out defense program demands an “actual curtailmen ” of consumer goods output. > Plainly, there aren’t enough men, materials and machines to produce everything needed for defense and lend-lease and at the same time to produce everything that manufacturers would like to make, that merchants would like to see and that customers would like to buy. "But there is this further truth, and it was encouraging

“We in Washington also have a responsibility to see that reductions in output of civilian goods are not carried too far, to see that civilian morale and civilian industry are not harmed unnecessarily. . . . You can’t keep a civilian economy going without giving it some co-operation.” 2 8 8 ” ” 8 HIS means, he added, that minimum supplies of scarce "materials must be reserved for civilian uses; that hoarding of such materials by industries and ‘Government agencies must end; even, perhaps, that part of the “huge stock piles” which have been hoarded should be redistributed to plants nealing materials urgently either for defense or for essential civilian production. We believe that keeping the civilian economy going to the fullest possible extent is a vital part of the defense pro‘gram, and should be so regarded. And this will require not merely “some” but much and constant co-operation. Curtailment of consumer goods output, though to some degree inevitable, should be recognized for what it is—an evil which makes itself felt in unemployment, in higher prices and in loss of tax revenue to the Government. Whatever can be done to prevent it, by allocating scarce materials . where they will create the most employment and produce ‘the most goods and by encouraging the development and use of substitutes for these materials, will be very much worth while.

THREE MONTHS

: THE BIGGEST and bloodiest battle in history enters the . fourth month. American and British hopes that the Russians can hold aye again at low ebb. The situation is _grave, and will be even worse if Hitler can drag in Bulgaria, “for that would open wider the Black Sea route and increase ‘Nazi pressure on wavering Turkey. i : But it is neither intelligent nor helpful for American ‘hopes regarding Russia to fluctuate so furiously. There has been no basic change since the first weeks of unexpectedly heroic defense. The situation continues one of ‘hard-hitting, brilliant retreat—always desperately costly. The Russians have punished the Nazis and saved Britain from invasion attack for required months of preparedness. They also apparently prevented Japan from start‘ing a Pacific war before the United States was ready. Whatever the outcome, Americans and Britons should not “forget that.

® = = 2 8 = NAEANWHILE the factors of the Russian conflict remain essentially the same: i Russia has little chance of retaining European terri_tory, her major war industries, or a mechanized army capgable of sapping Nazi strength, without vast aid. She almost endless manpower, but few machine replacements. Large-scale American material aid is impossible be-

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“in high, and the delivery route is hazardous, long, and slow © «not to mention other demands for our war supplies. ; ; Successful British air raids over Germany have only confirmed military judgment that their immediate effect in relieving pressure on Russia is infinitesimal. : So today—as on June 22—the only quick and effect{ve aid is a British offensive. And after three months of ‘lost opportunity the tragedy remains the same—the Churchill Government is not ready to act. : s 8 = 8 x 8 IS EASY to blame the British Government for shortsighted selfishness if we accepf the statement of Maj. ‘Gen. Johh Hay Beith (Ian Hay) on his arrival in New York last Saturday that: “England is now 100 times better prepared than it was a year ago.” But it seems highly: improbable to us that Britain will delay her offensive one day or one hour after she has the least chance to punish a Nazi army in Africa, Asia Minor, or Europe. Whatever Churchill's faults, on the record ‘they do not include cowardice or lack of initiative. Churchill knows that the Russians are deeply discouraged by Britain's failure to act; and that they probably can save themselves by steadily retiring beyond the Urals, leaving Britain to fight virtually alone. We hope that will not happen. But we fear it will, unless the British army can manage somehow, somewhere,

to get going soon.

OSLO DANCES : JROM the occupied countries of Europe little word comes directly. To know what goes on there, one must study carefully what the Germans themselves reveal, then read between the lines. Here comes Fritt Folk, the newspaper organ of the nauseous Quisling in Oslo: “Those people in an Oslo suburb who, on the evening of a British air raid, organized a dance in onor of the enemy can be assured that their names are own and that they will be reminded of it at a favorable pportunity.” ot - ; As gallant a gesture, answered by as nasty and skulka threat as we've read lately. Does anybody seriously believe that the decent people

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Fair Enough ‘By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Sept. 22. — The Federation News, the official publication of the Chicago Federation | of Labor, in its issue of Sept. 13 | regales the working men of that | community with an aceount of | some - exercises -at which Judge | Oscar F. Nelson of the Superior Court of Cook County was the | principal speaker. The occasion | was the presentation of prizes to 6 a number of law students who had - written superior theses on the subject of labor's rights under the Constitution. You may imagine Judge Nelson’s embarrassment had any of the winners addressed another phase of labor’s problem—the time Judge Nelson's law firm enJjoyed for a period of at least 12 years the position of counsel for a local union of Chicago flat janitors whose members each paid $8 a year for a special assessment for legal services. : According to his own admission to me, Judge Nelson’s law firm “at times” got $30,000 3 year out of these poor boiier-tenders, ash-removers and garbageTneliges and “one year” got $42,000 for representing em. :

$691,600 Not Just Pin Money

- THERE WAS SOME dispute as to whether his firm held this concession for 12 years or 14 years and the membership figures varied between his claim. of 4300 and the claim of some rebellious janitors that there were 9000 head paying compulsory assessments for law services. The union, itself, claimed 7000 members and even if we compromise on 6600 members, being the difference between 4300 and 9000, and compromise on 13 years, and multiply by eight, we arrive at the big, gross, lumpy sum of $691,600 paid to Judge Nelson's aw

The master of ceremonies was the Hon. Dan Cleary Jr. attorney-at-law, who boasted that, although now a lawyer, he still holds his card in Local 134 of the electricians, the union that is bossed by Umbrella Mike Boyle, who was denounced by the

| United States Circuit Court of Appeals long, long ago

as “a blackmailer, a highwayman, a betrayer of labor and a leech on commerce,” but has not. been removed. Counsellor Cleary introduced Judge Nelson as “one of the fairest and finest of labor's fighters”—a term of praise based in part no doubt on the fact that His Honor not only served the flat janitors but also served as counsel for George Scalise’s building service union and, on one occasion, extended to Brother Scalise and his associates of the old Capone mob his “greetings, congratulations and good wishes.”

What Brundage Charged

COUNSELLOR CLEARY might also have had in mind the fact that His Honor the Judge conferred earnestly on “political matters” with Al Capone, Dan Serritella and others, a short time before Capone was to be sentenced to prison for tax evasion and crimes various. ; The late Ed Brundage, a Republican politician ofthe time, insisted that Nelson, Capone, Serritella and the others called on him to promise that if he would persuade the judge to go easy on Capone, the organized unions of Chicago would withdraw opposition to the promotion of this judge to the U. S. Circuit Court. ! The judge, James H. Wilkerson, threw the book at Capone a few days later and then, in the face of union opposition, requested that his name be withdrawn from consideration for the Circuit Court.

‘Just Happened to Be Present’

JUDGE NELSON admitted to me that such a call occurred, but said that he and his fellow unioneers just happened to find Capone present in Brundage’s office when they arrived, but, nevertheless, sat there and discussed “political matters” in his presence. Judge Nelson was a vice president of the Chicago Federation of Labor for 25 years. Perhaps it was not unnatural that when the Capone mob took over the building service, with Scalise as president, he was- called on to serve as counsel. Incidentally, he twice denied that he ever served this mob as counsel, but dropped that denial when these dispatches confronted him with his greeting to Scalise, et al. in which he referred to “the many years that I have served as the attorney for the Building Service Employees’ International Union.” His Honor is a fine example of union leadership in the A. F. of L. in the Chicago area. Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

This And That

By Peter Edson

ONE BIG HEADACHE at Internal Revenue Department is how to collect the new $5 automobile use tax. Latest idea is to do it through the Federal postoffices, so get ready to stand in line with a fin in your hand for Uncle Sam. + . . Housing in Washington has now become so acute that several of the more sporting people have started living in motorboats an- | chored long the Potomac. . . . OPM - is sarting a new ‘campaign department” to improve the morale of defense plant workers. . . . Army needs 10,000 more nurses to fill regular quotas 4nd take care of replacements due to resignations after a year’s service. . . . One leading refrigerator manufacturer, faced with a shutdown for lack of materials, has taken a contract to make three million dollars worth of binoculars. . . . A course in child delivery has been added to British Red Cross training, to take care of babies born in air raid shelters. . . . Conservation of brass through elimination of metal tips and clips for lead pencils is now being advocated. . . . Air passenger travel is up 36 per cent and air express up 54 per cent over a year ago although the number of planes in service on commercial airlines has increased only from 322 to 365. . . . First 500 U. S. parachute troops to be used in maneuvers will be given a workout in the forthcoming Louisiana maneuvers. Where and when the “invasion” will be staged is a military secret.

136 Expected to Die

THE 136 DEATHS of soldiers which the War Department anticipates during the September maneuvers will be lower than the death rate for any community of 450,000 civilians, that being the number of troops engaged. . . . Printing on burlap bags is being discouraged so the bags can be used over again, thus conserving jute. . . . Estimates of the number of junked automobiles in auto graveyards run as high as seven million, and increased salvaging of these worn out cars is expected to yield an additional million tons of scrap iron and steel annually:. . . . One car provides enough scrap metal for a cannon. Twenty cars provide enough for a tank. . . . U. S. Housing Authority reports finding one family of six that had lived for two months in a two-door sedan on a defense project near East Alton, Ill. , . . Wage and Hour division of the U. S. Department of Labor has revised its record-keeping regulations, affecting 350,000 employers in interstate commerce. . . . Export-Import bank has made a profit of 12 million dollars for the Government since 1934. . . . U. S. Army now runs the country’s largest motor transport fleet, nearly 300,000 vehicles. . . . The Department of State has a new telephone number, Republic 5600. . . Japan’s war demands are so great that her automotive industry last year is reported to have made only 40 new passenger cars

So They Say— :

If marriage license clerks would require young couples to furnish birth certificates showing their correct ages, there wouldn't be any more “puppy love” child brides to plague the courts in the future.—Judge Henry O. Goett of Marion County Superior Court.

- Now is the time for a high tax rate when business conditions enable people to pay it.—Albert H. Gisler of the Indianapolis Park Board.

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

CLAY REPEATS ‘LESSONS’: OF WORLD WAR I By Harry Clay, Brightwood Mr. Adair says that I am bound

the first World War on Wilson and his Congress. He says I distorted history and

in some peculiar twist he seems to insinuate that the Republicans were to blame, but the fact still remains that Wilson and his party promised to keep us out of war then broke that promise and declared war only a few weeks after the inauguration.

the people would have wanted to get in the war that they certainly would not have elected Wilson as he promised to keep us out. Mr. Adair and his little bunch of five percenters are so anxious.to get us in war that they are willing to

sacrifice by doing without milk or

sugar in their coffee while all their neighbors’ sons will have to give up will be their lives. We were told in the first World War that we were going in to make the world safe for democracy and to end all wars. But today we have less democracy and 80 per cent of the world is at war. Because of a broken promise to keep us out of war we lost over 100,000 fine American boys in battle. We lost thousands who were brought back home and died. We lost millions which we paid Britain for transporting our boys over there to save her very life. We loaned Britain and the Allies billions of dollars which they refused to pay back an that was lost. . These, Mr. Adair, are just a few of our losses which we suffered in that war and now can you please tell me Just one thing we gained by entering.

2 2 - PAT HOGAN TAKES A LOOK AT HOOVER'S SPEECH By Pat Hogan, Columbus . Now that Wheeler has been egged in his native Montana, and Lindbergh hooted ‘and cat-called in Iowa, out has trotted the champion, Herbert Hoover, to bless the nation from “the voice of experience.”

America will no doubt remember its “experience” with Hoover without having it voiced again; but bless you this “voice” now suggests an “economic freedom” in face of the fact that one man’s bull-headed opinions have called thousands of men from the mines to hamper our

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defense effort; and other thousands of men are idle in an attempt to undo the efforts of this bigoted, bull-headed, evil genius. : Mr. Hoover says America cannot impose its freedoms and ideals upon the world. Yes, Herb, that's right. We started this war and ought to stop. We should have known that we had no right to gobble Austria; and what did we want with Poland; why should we go to the trouble of taking civilization to Africa, culture to Denmark, Norway and Greece; and certainly if France was foolish enough to be lulled to sleep with an era of union racketeering like Lewis is trying to put over here— why did we try to convert the world to our way of life? Surely we should wake up and let the master mind, Ananias Hitler, rule us with his master race; then he would undoubtedly appoint Herr Lindbergh as Governor - General, Burton K. Wheeler, vice general, John T. Flynn, minister of econoraics, Gerald Nye, minister of propaganda. And you talk, Herb, of “The wells of freedom dried up behind us”’— just try to visualize the situation with the above mentioned gentlemen (?) ruling this nation, considering their “experience” and qualifications. And you say too, Herb, that we are in less danger now than any time in months, but any kid hero of any back alley brawl will tell you that in a three-cornered scrap the time to attack is when the enemy has his hands full—-yoti are less likely to get hurt, and more likely to win. ; 8 8 = HOPES ALLISON WILL BE PUT BACK ON CORNER By Alice M. Harmon, 2242 N. Hlinois St. I had missed Patrolman Forrest Allison from Meridian and Washington Sts., but didn’t know why he was gone until I read “Inside Indianapolis” in The Times of Sept. 18th. : I would like to say that he was

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a tonic for me. I have crossed the street lots of times when unnecessary just to watch him at his work and listen to him trying to help people to save their own lives and everybody's minutes. If everyone crossed on the green light and as rapidly as possible it would save time for all concerned. I think he is a fine example of a. very good officer. His manner and bearing are like those of the Chicago police, and in my language that is tops. I never saw Patrolman Allison any place except at Meridian and Washington Sts. and don’t know any of his friends or people so there is nothing perscnal about this, but I, for one, hope he will be put back to his old corner.

# = =a CHARGES MANUFACTURERS ARE SABOTAGING DEFENSE

By William Taylor, Morgant . hal ne | yio. organtown, Pres.

It is not surprising to the laboring people to see the subject of unions kicked ll over the presses of the country like a football. Neither is it surprising to them that their warnings and pleas have been

unheeded. It is neither my intention to be a “I told you so,” but I believe if fair-minded people will consider the facts, they will agree that the United Auto Workers, C. I. O., have maintained a policy that was sound. Proving beyond doubt that «0 per cent of equipment in auto plants is used only for a 3-month rush period, Philip Murray and Walter Reuther proposed that auto plants operate on a 12-month average basis, and divert the idle machiinery to the task of airplane stampings on a mass production scale. Owners, and corporation directors refused to go along with the plan. It was further pointed out that as production of autos was curtailed, this mahcinery and man power could automatically switch over to defense production. Prices of defense weapons would be cheaper to our government by reason .of mass production. In an attempt to sway public opinion, by placing the blame of defense bottlenecks on the shoulders of union labor through strikes, the press has failed to give adequate space to what is actually happening in auto plants. Office of Production Management has ordered curtailment of auto production and figures show that 200,000 auto workers will be unempldyed by Dec. 1. It was cold comfort to have C. I. O. representatives told by Leon Henderson, that had C. I. O’s plan been followed, the auto industry and these 200,000 workers would not be in this quandary, when the machinery and manpower is vitally needed. Bottlenecks created by lack of steel, aluminum and other raw materials have caused the loss of more man-pow-er than all strikes combined, in defense industries. Despite the praise accorded to industry, auto makers have continued business as usual, with national defense merely their side line, and today it can be plainly seen that these ‘same manufacturers have been the real sabotagers of national defense , . .

AH! SUN-FLOWER

As, sun-flower; weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime, : Where the traveler’s journey is done.

Where the youth pined away with desire

And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow, ; Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sun-flower wishes to go. ~Willigm Blake (1757-1827)

DAILY THOUGHT

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God: upon the children of disobedi-

| ence.—Ephesians 5:6.

' THE TRUE way to be deceived is to think oneself more. know-

ing than others. LaRochefou--

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—It is not as spectacular as some of

the other hearings and discussions in Wi n—stuch as the tax bill with its “economy” clause or the appropriation of more billions for Lease-Lend and na- - tional defense—but nothing is of more importance to you and me— just a couple of ordinary guys— than the hearings before the House Banking and. Currency il Committee on the price control

As Mr. B. M. Baruch testified, the bill is bad because it exempts farm products up to 110 per cent of “parity,” because it exempts wage control altogether, and’ above all because it does not attempt to control all prices and does not tie up price control with the other necessary war controls—priorities, commanYering. conservation, substitution and increased prouction. : : One without all, operating together, is sure to fail. All the rest, even if operating together, without some of the others—especially price control and priorities— can't possibly do the job.

Price Control Only Escape

THE BILL PRESENTS all these faults. I have read every one of the tens of thousands of pages of the testimony especially that of Mr. Leon Henderson, the principal witness for the bill. His presentation of the necessity for price control was carefully documented with the figures indicat-

| ing the certain approach of inflation, the experience

of this and all other countries, in this war and the last, and the necessity of price control as the only escape. The showing was overwhelming and so far as I can see unanswerable. Still, Mr. Henderson supported the bill with all its fatal faults. That part of his testimony wasn’t so convincing, win : On the question of 110 per cent of parity as the lowest allowable ceiling over farm prices, there were indications that Le had not written that part of the bill and he did not support it. He simply referred the question to the chairman of the committee, Mr. Steagall, who apparently had inserted it.

Nice, but It's a Bottleneck

ALL OF HIS DOCUMENTARY evidence and most of his oral testimony showed that you cannot prevent inflation or have price ‘control without wage control. . - When cross-examined about the consistency of this part of his testimony with the bill itself, Le said that he had been assigned by the President to the subject of prices, that Mr. Sidney Hillman had been given the subject of labor and that it was not up to him to invade his associate’s bailiwick. | That is very commendable organization loyalty but it completely evades a vital question and leav the bill vulnerable to a deadly attack. ; . It may be and probably is true that the administration of prices and of wage stabilization should be in different hands but both should be part of the same body and guided by a single brain. If they don’t move in step and to a single purpose there is no hope in this effort.

Henderson Is Best-Equipped

AS TO WHERE FAILURE to act quickly to cone trol prices now will hit the man in the street, Mr. ‘Baruch testified: “Many members of Congress worried over the size of government expenditures, have been urging economies in non-defense expenditures. I say to them that no action could effect greater savings in the cost of government than to prevent inflation. Billions—20 per cent or more of all appropriations can be sdved. There is no better form of economy than price control.” ha He pointed but that price inflation would hit the pocketbooks of rich and poor alike with insupportable shocks—perhaps up to 50 per cent of income—especially unbearable to the poor, to white collar people and social security beneficiaries. : 1 know of np answer to these arguments. This bill simply must passed in acceptable form in the interest of us all. Another attempt to delay or hurt it is a collateral attack on Mr. Henderson as being unfit to administer it. This column can only repeat what it has said before. After a long ‘and intimate experience with Mr. Henderson and at least some knowledge of government and what goes on in Washington Le is, I think, in every way fit and far better equipped for this job than any man I know in America.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE NATIONAL DEFENSE program is fast taking on the aspect of a blitzkreig’ against Mom. There's a vast lot of talk about sacrifice, but each new -curtailment of production order from Washington: steps on the toes of the American housewife. - As a household aid, the automobile is woman's best friend. Who uses the family jalopy most? The Mrs., of course. She drives Dad to the office, transports the children here, there and yonder, and saves times, en-. ergy and money for herself with its aid. Heit When gasless days come and we run out of auto mobiles, it’s the Little Woman who will trudge wearily to the grocery and notion stores to save pennies.

"You can be sure that OPM or some other Govern-

ment agency will arrange some means of getting men to their jobs without too much inconvenience for hem, We've got to think about their morale, you [0)' : 3

Who? Who? Who?

REFRIGERATORS, WE ARE told, will n lose their finest features and we won't be g nearly so many. Another home helper gone. | Next on the curtailment list is none other than our old family friend—the washing machine. That’s going to be plenty tough on the laundress, and the woman who does her own, for the old-f. oned board is hardly to be classed as a household convenience. : | We may be asked to go back to it in interests of Freedom, but you can almost bet that Dad won't lose any gadgets out of his pleasant air-cooled office. Whose supply of hosiery is cut off? Who must give a few more inches off her already short short skirts? Who may soon be asked to crop her curls because there won't be any chemicals for permanents?

Help Everybody but Mom

AND WHOSE IS the headache fhat will result from the steady hike in grocery prices? Dad pays the bills, yes“but it's Mom who has to. exercise enough ingenuity and self sacrifice and financial genius to make the old budget stretch again, and who haggles for bargains and wears herself out running after sales. Foe One person exhorts her to feed the family well in

the interest of national defense, while another puts

rohibitive prices on food. p As I see it, Mom ought to be getting a little

of that aid we're dishing out to everybody else, Fat

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