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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1941

BACK TO THE MILL : Now that it’s all over; now that the Yankees have demon- ©" strated once more the all-too-obvious fact of their supremacy ; now that we have wept over the hard luck that dogged Brooklyn’s beloved Bums— ; Now we can settle down to a season of concentrated thought about the problems that beset the nation and the world. : ' And gosh, how we dread it!

PRICE-CONTROL LOGIC

HATEVER faults may be found with it, there is remorseless logic behind the emergency inflation control bill just introduced in Congress by Rep. Albert Gore, Tennessee Democrat. Mr. Gore, as a member of the House Banking Committee, has sat through the long hearings on the Administration’s price-control bill, and has- seen clearly its fundamental weaknesses. The Administration bill . would give an appointed bureaucrat power to attempt to control prices of certain commodities, selected by himself—but not to control wages, not really to control farm prices, not to control profits. In short, it represents the fallacious theory, formed under pressure of political expediency, that prices can be restrained while the most important costs that go into prices are left free. : Mr. Gore’s bill, offered as a substitute, would fix price ceilings by act of Congress, giving the appointed administrator power only to make adjustments or order exemptions from them in accordance with findings of fact. It would place a ceiling on all wages, salaries and commissions paid by employers of more than eight persons; on farm commodities at parity; on the wholesale prices of all other ¢ odities. And it would limit profits on defense contracts to 8 per cent of the cost of performing the contracts, anything over 8 per cent reverting to the Government. LT eam # 3 8 ] THIS profit limit, even if it were fixed at 6 per cent rather than 8, would. be infinitely fairer and more practical than industry above 6 per cent on invested capital. Instead of playing havoc with all business, it would curb the thing that should be curbed; namely, the making of huge profits on war and defense business. The Gore bill is drastic. Labor won't like it. Agriculture won't like it. Profiteers won't like it. But, as Mr. Gore says: SH git = “Either bill is a pretty terrible thing to impose upon a free people. . I cannot feel justified in supporting either except as a means of avoiding the terrible catastrophe of runaway inflation. : It is my. firm conviction that the Henderson (Administration) bill will not prevent inflation, - because it does not propose to control the components of inflation. Unless we are going to combat the danger effectively, I want no part of price control. I prefer no bill to a weak bill.”

A. F. OF L. ON HOUSING : MEETING today in Seattle, the 61st annual convention "of the American Federation of Labor has before it an executive council report which, among many other subjects discussed, demands of the Government— !

“A housing program . .. which would make speedy provision of durable, sanitary and livable housing for defense ‘workers the prime objective, second to none.” One of the many defense housing projects the Government is now trying to provide is in Michigan—300 houses. The low bidder is a Detroit lumber company, headed by P. J. Currier. His bid, $979,000, is said to be $431,000 under that of his nearest competitor. He proposes to employ C. L O. labor and use a prefabricated method of construction. But the contract is withheld from the Currier company. Why? ; Because the A. F. of L. building trades department . objects. Because in return for a promise not to strike on defense projects—a promise which has frequently been broken—the A. F. of L. unions demand the exclusive right to employment on defense construction projects. And because Sidney Hillman and the Office of Production Management back them in this demand, .The A. F. of L. unions are at war with the C. I. O. - Furthermore, they are opposed to prefabrication. So, although the Currier bid would save the taxpayers $1326 per house, the OPM opposes it. It wants to pay the price . of peace with the. A. F. of L. unions, that price being a tight ~ job-monopoly for these unions and a Government policy of barring all C. I. O, members and all non-union members from ~ Government construction projects. We think the anti-trust laws should forbid such a monopoly, ho :

i Sdn VB : © FE in NEVER REIGNS, BUT IT BORES DAY. we nominate for Forgotten Man: His Highness Aimone, Duke of Spoleto and King of Croatia. Last May, after the Germans had: conquered the Jugolays, they allowed Italy to set up a paper puppet state in eir territory. It was to be one of those sub-colonial dependencies of the ‘New Order in Europe, and the Italians were to be allowed the privilege of holding it down. The douse of Savoy furnished the Duke of Spoleto as head 10lder-downer, called “King.” ; i That was in mid-May. But things aren’t going so well in the “Kingdom of Croatia.” There are a lot of Serbs there ho don’t want any part of “King Aimone,” and they're sing it with bombs. = : ; Four months, and you and I and everybody had foren that this man had been proclaimed a king at all.

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of ; . NEW YORK, Oct. 7.—Undoubtedly the ‘unioneers assembled in the national convention of the A. F. of L. in Seattle will sound again their old defense Which holds that the proportion of ves among union bosses is no greater, indeed, less, than in any other calling. That argument can be ripped to tatters. They are, on the contrary, the most lawless body of men in the United States outside the pris‘ons Whe Hany of oe Shoda be, and I say this with a appreciation of the gravity of the charge and the meaning of this condition to the country. ; The fact that comparatively few union bosses are convicted in the course of an average year's business in the criminal courts is meaningless. These men have power over local prosecutors and mayors and some governors, and crimes for which ordinary citizens would be put away are tolerated as legitimate conduct by public officials in many localities: who think the unioneers can deliver thé vote of the workers. In Pittsburgh and Buffalo, for example, unioneers go out for public office themselves and when they are elected abuse their pasitions to protect their partners in crime. A decent local administration in Pittsburgh would not have permitted the teamsters to waylay trucks owned and driven by noniunion men and beat individuals, destroy the vehicles and rule off ‘the

ment owned by firms and individuals included in a union blacklist.

Take a Look at Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH PRESENTS AN alarming example of the sort of government that all the people suffer from when the unioneers combine the power of their union positions with public office. And while: some of the highbinders are sitting in the Seattle convention it is timely to remember that Seattle has for a long time beer ruled by a dictator named Dave Beck, who was not elected by the rank and file workers but was personally appointed by Dan Tobin, the president of the teamsters. In the last two or three years in many parts of the country local prosecutors have taken a little courage and have been sending a few union crooks of the more smelly and spectac types.to prison. There has been no summary of the cases but good prosecutions have been made in New York by Tom Dewey, who knew he would be called a labor-baiter

In Akron a vice president of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, a person with a record of two crimes against children, had muscled into the building trades and hired two men to dynamite several jobs on which he and his gang were not receiving their rake-off in fees and dues. Not only had he been permitted to rise to this power over decent workers and over the whole community but when he was prosecuted the

justice, and he was convicted in spite of the non-co-operation of the union bosses.

Take the Circella Situation

SO, EVEN THOUGH convictions are gaining it will be seen that convictions represent only a tiny proportion of the crimes and criminals. They protect each other like gangsters, they intimidate the courts and” prosecutors and mayors and they plant judges who will obstruct justice in‘ their favor, as ‘the price of election, re-election and promotion. The present situation in New York in which the stick-up man, Nick Circella, alias Dean, who runs a dive in Chicago and holds high office in the: movie employees’ union, is hiding out from the Federal Court is typical of the attitude of this corrupt body of union bosses toward law and order. Dean is hiding out so that he cannot be made to testify . against George E. Browne, the gangster who sits with William Green in the executive council of the A. F. of L, and Browne's criminal associate, Willie Biofi, the old M. P. or master of prostitutes. . The A. F. of L. had made no use of its power to find Circella although this audacious gang is always ready to make demands on the Government in the name of labor with a capital L. FE ;

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Russia & Religion By A T. Steele

MOSCOW, Oct. 7—The recent acts and statements of the Soviet Government emphasizing religious tolerance are of undoubted significance.

But the gain to the church is chiefly a moral one. Nothing has happened so far to indicate any sweeping change in the position of the church in this country. Officially, the attitude of the Government is precisely as it was before G the Lozovsky statement was made, restating the Soviet position on freedom of worship. There have been other straws in the wind. The anti-religious publication, Godless, was suspended a few weeks ago “in order to save paper.” Moreover, when the work of forming, an anti-Fascist army among refugee Poles in Russia began recently, with Russian co-operation, thera was no effort to discourage the Poles from the practice of their various faiths. Interesting, too, is ap article published in yesterday’s issue of the newspaper Trud bitterly taking Hitler to task for religious persecution throughout the occupied countries. 2 8 =

IT WILL BE RECALLED that the seven-day week was restored to Russian cities last year, again making Sunday a regular day of rest. Since the-outbreak of the war there has been some growth in church attendance and there have been a few inst¥nces of the reopening of churches in villages. Sunday I visited one of the few churches in Moscow and found it jammed with worshipers for morning mass. The ceremony was conducted with all the oldtime ritual, Most of the congregation seemed to be of peasant type with a preponderance of elderly folk, though also a liberal sprinkling of the young. There were no men in uniform there. Prayers were said for successes of the Red army against Fascist barbarity. : jl “The church’s power is only a shadow of what it was before the revolution. While Russia still has manr§ millions of devout believers, the last two decades have seen the rise of an entire new generation deeply indoctrinated with the Marxian concept of religion as the “opiate of the people.” « So it is not surprising that the state feels able to display a measure of benevolence toward the church.

(o/ ht, 1041, by The Indianapolis Times and the 1 opyrig Chicago Daily News).

So They Say— Q Inhey Jay The conquest of lawlessness and violence among the nations: is a challenge t6 modern legal and political organizing genius-—Justice Robert H. Jackson to the American Bar Association. Be * ro. * The proverbial banker is not an optimist.—Charles F. Palmer, co-ordinator of defense housing. Cle * * The only limit to labor’s participation in the defense program from top to bottom, has been the

fense posts.—Sidney Hillman, associate director, OPM. ¢ ’ * * * In the last analysis, not injustice, not Hitler, but reason and truth are the conquerors of the world.— : Fosdick, president, Rockefeller

Year in and year out, education and the press are partners in a continuing service to society.—John Ww. ‘Studebaker, commissioner of education.

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—V oltaire.

MOTHER OF FOUR SONS PRAISES PVT. MILLER By Myra Carey Morgan, 6668 Bellefontaine

Thank you, Miller, for your grand tribute to the life of the U, 8. Army. I hope that all young men drafted in Uncle Sam’s Army feel as you do. Your tribute is an expression of a true American, I am an American mother of four sons, three old enough for service, but as yet have not been inducted in the Army, ... I hope I will see more tributes such as yours in the paper in the near future. ‘ o » 8 ‘MASS THINKING OF U. 8. KEEPS US. ON COURSE’

By Voice In The Crowd, Indianapolis. “Reforms Here to Stay” by Claude Braddick on October 3d was a very fine contribution to the Forum. It is true as Mr. Braddick states that especially prior to the 1940 elections the cries were loud against our Socialistic trend. I point out to

that it was so. That we stay anywhere near the center of the road is not due to the reformers, it is entirely due to a balance of our mass thinking. So long as we are allowed free expression of our thoughts our balance will be somewhere between the ultra conservative and the ultra wild eyed leftie. If they are: both about the same distance off center we sail a true course, Note the number of trial balloons that are set adrift, (Morgenthau’s 6 per cent for instance) and how quickly they are withdrawn when they are shot at by the people and the great American press. Let us not be fooled. if ‘these balloons were not shot .out of the air, we would depart vastly from the sounder course desired by those who wish to save all of our traditions that can be saved. We built a high standard of living, by faith in our traditions and they are worth saving, _ Our reforms some of which are excellent depend now for their success on our ability to pay the taxes for their maintenance. To date we have utterly failed to balance the budget they impose. : Probably 60 million dollars of speculative values went to smash when Wall Street cracked in 1929. The savings and the life's work of many of our people (including mine) were lost to them. You don’t find much speculation in Wall Street now. We have reformed. But we moved our speculation to Washing-

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my friend Braddick that it is well

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ton and now we as & nation are the biggest speculators of them all. Don't put your faith in the seeker of power, but put it without reservation in the mass thinking of the Ameérican| people, that only can keep us on our course. ” ” ” ASKS ISOLATIONISTS TO ANSWER THIS ONE By D. A. Sommer, 918 Congress Ave. The isolationists have failed to answer this question: How can America have peace with a treatybreaking Hitler when a dozen nations tried it and failed?

” os ” ARGUES HIS CASE, BUT NOT IN COURT By BS Little Man Who Won't Be There,

On Wednesday eve., Oct. 1st, I was on my way to call on some friends that live on N. Keystone Ave. I was driving east on Michigan St. keeping close to the curb (so that I would not block traffic) looking for the street. When I found the street I had to stop to let the traffic clear so that I could turn left into Keystone Ave., which I did. When nearly across Michigan St. I was ordered to pull to the curb by a big He Man policeman who proceeded to write me a ticket. When he was through I asked him what I did that was wrong. He said I was parked in-a restricted zone (no parking from 4 p. m. to 7 p. m:) and also that I was then parked in another réstricted zone (no parking on this side of street at any time) at his command. I think this officer should have his eyes examined because the time was 5:48 p. m. and not 6:48 p. m. as he put on the ticket. I was driving a 1941 Plymouth, not a 1940 Plymouth and all this happened at the corner of Keystone and E. Michigan St. which is in the 500 block on Keystone and not at 5 N, Keystone, I guess that he could not write his name either, as all he put on the ticket was some marks that look like his number. He handed me the ticket and told

me to be in court within 48 hours,

Side Glances=By Galbraith

or my arrest would follow, and the time is up. I think it is a shame that drivers trying to obey all the trafic rules have to be insulted by these socalled guardians of public safety who cause more confusion than they do good. o » t J MR. CLAY COMES RIGHT BACK AT ROBIN ADAIR By Harry Clay, Brightwood .

Mr. Adair says my chief worry is “what did we get out of the World War” and what will we get out of the present war when we get in it. You are right for once, Mr. Adair, as my worry is for the millions of American boys who will lose their lives, limbs and health, for that is one thing we will get out of war. My other great worry is for the terrible debt we will have piled on our backs as that is another thing we will get out of it. This debt will

of European nations and we will

it off. Mr. Adair tries to twist my question around to make it look like I mean what will we gain in a material and financial way by entering this war. Well we got nothing out of the first war and will get nothing out of the present war, in fact we do not want anything. Mr. Adair says that everything our boys fought for in the World War came to pass and then makes the cowardly accusation that the United States is to blame for them not being carried out and also for the present war because we refused to join with that bunch of European cutthroats in the League of Nations where all the cards would have been stacked against us. England belonged to the League yet she allowed) Germany to arm | because she thought that they were going to wipe Russia off the map. Italy was a member yet she took Ethiopia. Japan was a member and she invaded China. But, Mr. Adair, your alibi in which you blame the U. 8. for the present war because we stayed out of the League of Nations doesn’t quite correspond with the statement of Mr. Churchill and your beloved England. He said that if Wilson would have kept our nose out of the World War and would have stayed home and minded our own business, then the unjust peace terms which were imposed on Germany never would have occurred and there would have been no present war. >

” ” » : WONDERS IF NAZIS PERMIT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM By Edward R. Taylor, 341 N. East St, In my estimation, there are those who bring up all kinds of objections to our help crush Hitler, but this last, the holy one is the mos lous. I would ask those who ridicule Russia, do people in Germany have religious freedom, can they worship the way they want to? - Purthermore, is it our business whether they worship at all or not if they can be the means or big help of crushing Hitler? I say, God and the American public be with them. 1

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—There: is little doubt that the President’s much discussed remark on free- | dom of religion in Russia was a | mistake by Mr. Roosevelt. Even allowing for misquotation and mis= interpretation, on the face of the’ Jgsorded transcript it was a mise.

It was obviously intended, on! the eve of Congressional debate | ‘on “lease-lend” aid to Russia, to’ {i deodorize the Communist anti: religion stench in the nostrils of an American

who, from the beginning, have shown themselve

willing to sacrifice anything for freedom of ev ! man to worship in accordance with the ey ) his own conscience. It was a mistake because too many people know. that it is a prize principle of communism that relbe gion is an oplate—dope—that persuades people to bear with governmental tyrannies and to Solace theni~' serves with a trust in God, who, in the philosophy : of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, simply does not exis

Realism—Not Idealism 4

A WHOLE NEW GENERATION has been reared: in “Holy Russia” in a rigid education‘in this phi«: losophy. Her religiou§ shrines have been deformed, She is anti-religious in her religion i dead Regardless of any so-called Russian constitutional declarations—regardless of any “declaration” by} Stalin for religious liberty, he couldn’t reverse thei principles. of his own life-time, he couldn't undo in} a proclamation his work on the minds of Russian: youth—at least he couldn't do it effectively enough: to carry conviction to any reasonable mind. Any; such composition with Stalin couldn't even be as reliable as any peace-treaty or non-aggression pact: with Hitler, leaving him armed with strength enough to break it. whenever he desired. id Yes, I believe that the President erred. But, ¥- don't go in from that belief to a conclusion that we shouldn't do what we could to help Russia keep! Hitler engaged on an eastern front, thrusting away” from our direction and losing strength as rapidly as: possible. I think we should do that as long as we.’ are sure that this aid goes for that purpose alone) and that we are not risking a loss of our precious: supplies: to Hitler later to use against ourselves. That may not be idealism, but the most realistic: thing on earth is war and you can't pursue it with; out being realistic to the uttermost. ak

"Let's Do It With Eyes Open’ Fey

TO BE BRUTALLY FRANK, it is like our using ; Indian allies in our Colonial days. We used them. and so did our enemies. We used them knowing that they were treacherous allies, would destroy use: in the end if they could, and were savage pagans. who tortured, murdered and killed prisoners with: glee and gusto. We used them because they harrassed~ and contained our enemies and niade our task easier. This situation is almost parallel. Stalin's ‘form of dictatorial government is as hostile to our own as’; | is Hitler's. He also seeks world domination through) a Communist revolution. He has done as much orl" more treacherous sabotage of mind and material iff | this country as Hitler and will doubtless continue :

or resume it at the first opportunity.

But at this exact moment the two gangs y at each others’ throats and Hitler — : a ning. It is to our interest to help Russia to resist— not for any better reason than sheer materialism, Let's do it, but do it with our eyes open and not | on any hokus-pocus about Mr, Stalin's religious or | Semoniatic fepeneration 55 “When the divil was sick the divil a monk would: be. Wie the divil was well, the divili a Pong 1 as he.” a “The truth of the matter is that there is littladanger of our sending Stalin enough supplies to. become a peril to us. He is too far away and thelines of supply gre too thin and ill-equipped. ’

A Woman’ S Viewpoint : By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THIS IS A TIME when ordinary men and women should. try to narrow their horizons. ions The wider scene upon which we gaze so fixedly is blurred and bloodstained. Nothing we see in - the distance makes sense. It all’ adds up "to ‘universal deliriunt: tremens. Man is either drunk ¢ y mad or the victim of witchcraft: But is he? A more short-sighted® view and we begin to think dif: ’ ferentlyy From that perspective our faith is renewed. Perhaps these movements through . which we live are too important historically, and too ¢tlose, for our understanding. 1

The only way we can keep our beliefs is to ob : serve and understand individual men and women who. live nearby, and arén’t they, generally speaking, pretty hs nice people? ; a It seems so to me.. The other day I strolled do = a side street-at that sweet hour between sunset an dark when the day's events are distilled into a perfect * moment of living and one forgets the worries of to="* morrow. i

Always a Tomorrow pit

SUDDENLY I FOUND myself in front of a little , house in that city byway. On the vine-covered porch’sat a man reading his evening paper and smoking an after-supper pipe. Opposite him in a swing, which she moved gently with her foot, was a woman holdin a book. At one side of her snuggled a tow-headed boy* and on the other, with chin pressed into her mother’s= shoulder, leaned a small girl. The cadence of familia’ sentences came to my ears, with all the lilt of welled remembered music. oa Once again a woman was reading aloud to her chile dren the immortal adventure of Peter Rabbit in My) McGregor’s garden. I walked past slowly, in order fix the sight of that family group tn my memory and ® my heart. It is only a vignette of American life, but : perhaps more significant of the American spirit than’) those larger arresting pictures we are so often invited, study. Lat When the hurricane roars the trees of the foresty may fall and all the earth roundabout be swept bare y of vegetation, but beneath that earth the tiny shoo Y and tendrils of the next crop of plant life stirs a tomorrow will fill the bare places with greenness and" beauty. oO So, even though the world revolutions, little lives< go on, giving us the assurance that there will always: be a tomorrow for the American dream, ng

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