Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1941 — Page 14

Go Tight end ihe People Wits Find Thor Own Woy

: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1941

JER STRIKES, AGAIN 0 more sinkings—a freighter flying the American flag,

and an American-owned, and operated ship, under

Panamanian registry. : Maybe Hitler really is as dumb as the Kaiger’s crew, despite his old habit of warning Germany: against a repeti- | tion of the Kaiser’s military. blunders.

The Kaiser didn’t think England would fight, so he |

invaded Belgium, and Hitler didn’t think England wouldn't fight, so he invaded Poland. They didn’t think America would fight, so they launched unrestrained submarine warfare, “ Is it possible that Hitler thinks that sinking of ‘ships, . guch as the Lehigh, flying the American flag, will not inflame war sentiment? - The issue is so obvious as far as American public sentiment is concerned that the question arises whether Hitler is not deliberately gambling to influence Japan to start a - Pacific war, This is assuniing it was a Nazi sub acting under orders. Certainly a Pacific war, engaging the United States, would be the best possible break for Hitler today, Hitler may want us to try to fight Germany and Japan on two oceans at the same time, making us cut off our material aid to Britain and Russia in order to save ourselves. Whether he does or ‘does not want to get us into an ‘Atlantic-European war, Hitler will be dumber than the Kaiser if he mistakes the genuine anti-war sentiment in this country today for any unwillingness to fight if attacked.

OUR HOUSING PROBLEM

HE low-rental housing problem in Indianapolis grows:

more and more acute. There has been too much futile debate, too much mishandling and too little understanding of the real problem. - The situation is this: There are a considerable number of very low rental housing units in this city which the Health Board considers unfit for human habitation. But there seems to be no place for the tenants to move into. All of us were shocked and astonished recently by the arrest of the families trapped in just such a predicament. They were arrested only for the crime of being poor. Haggling over who is to blame will solve nothing. What Indianapolis needs desperately is a full-fledged - Housing Authority. No, not a Federal agency, but a Jocal Housing Authority that will immediately start: sizing up and analyz5 ing Indiapapelis’ housing situation so that we know accurately what we face and what we must. do, 7 Mayor Sullivan owes it to all the citizens—real estate agencies, individual landlords, private: home owners and _ renters—to appoint such an authority,

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CONGRESS MUST DO THE SAVING THE finance committee of the Senate asked Harold R. Smith, director of the United States budget, to submit three schedules showing what non-defense expenditures might be reduced or eliminated to save: : 1. A billion dollars. 2.'A billion and a half dollars: 8. Two billion dollars. My. Smith has now done that. The finance committee did not ask the Budget Director to submit all the reasons he could think up for not trying ‘to make these savings. Mr. Smith has dove that on his own initigtive, and with gusto. . He throws cold water all over the idea that any imiportant economies could be made by i increasing ‘the Siciency of the government, "And he asserts that agencies crested to fight a past depression must be preserved and improved for immediate use in a new post-defense depression. The country is now . contending with a boom. Ordinary citizens are being admonished to curtail non-essential spending, so that the boom “may be controlled. It might: he supposed that the Govern: "ment could at least be frugal enough to ‘Feduce its depres- : gion-fighting agencies to skeleton form. But rio, Mr: Smith doesn’t hold with that notion. If such . agencies were drastically reduced the bureaucrats who run them would become “demoralized” and “inefficient.” It would be better, Mr. Smith thinks, to’ abolish such agencies altogether. (Maybe he has something there). : ‘Congress should give full weight to the vital point to which Mr, Smith gave none—that a Government which this fiscal year aloné will go 10 or 12 billions further into the red simply cannot afford extracurricular luxuries, no matter how noble their purpose. © For each ‘day piles new millions. atop ‘the mountain of Jpubite debt, And one item in the budget—interest on govgroment borrowings—can never be reduced. until that debt

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prisons. ANS sort of offenses send mento prison, ‘how they are téd there, and with what objective, are a pretty good sure of a civilization. ~~ Hitler has seen fit to sneer at the fact that men in’ me rican prisons are making goods for the American Army |” \d Navy. But we're proud of it, and proud of the'fact that ‘have increased ‘their production ‘of rubber mats, brooms, beds, steel shelving, and a dozen other

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Indiana Politics

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nothing to do with: i. Tt was a Moscow. strike. against the American nation, not a “labor” strike, as the

workers proved. as soon es.President Roosevelt sent |’

the soldiers down to chase the Muscovite goons. President Roosevelt didn’t break the strike. He just

gave “labor” a chance to" work and when that was |

done “labor” ‘went back to the job. I say it ls a mistake to cull the frst Monday. in September “Labor” Day. The name of. this holiday should be “Union” Day or “Unioneers’” Day-—some-thing to correct the suggestion that “labor” gets together to. celebrate something. As a matter of fact, “labor” has many friends among the employers. who. are more mindful and guardful, if such a word as that there be, of “labor’s®

rights than many .of the men whom we carelessly | = ‘oS

persist in calling. “labor leaders.” Would you call Wrong John Lewis the “1 or the czar of those. union .coal miners .in poi

vania who went out on strike against him because |

he slapped an extra tax on their earnings? Some. employers try to help the workers in their struggles to escape the clutches of the unioneers, but the law is against it.

‘They Have to March’

AND IF YOU TAKE a look at the ranks of “la-*| bor” in the big parade on that holiday in September, whether in New York or Los Angeles or Seattle, you" will notice many dark and brooding faces because these people all are marching under orders. They have to march just as Mussolini’s blackshirts have

to turn out and whoop for the Duce under orders.’ }L

It is true that “labor” marches in the “Labor” Day parade, but o because the workers know the boss unioneers will fine them for failure to turn out and: may even pick up their union cards and bar them from further employment. Thus they have to make a demonstration of strength for their own conquerors when they would much prefer to be holidaying with their families or, possibly, getting plastered at the tavern. Or if the furriers or painters or garment workers donate a whole day’s pay to the cause of the Allies® including Russia, do you think that is a voluntary act of “labor?” If so, you are just nuts. : I could give you many more illustrations, but thig will give you a rough idea. The proposition is that you give aid and comfort to the oppressors of “labor” when you speak of unions indiscriminately as. “labor” and the boss unioneers as “labor leaders.”

By Vern Sonsl!

» A + ™ oe . Ir ‘YOURE THINKING about running for office next year, it: might’ interest you to know that the C. I. O,, with its 200,000 members in Indiana, will judge you on your record, not the party label. That's the new policy, and when you recall that in recent - years Labor's Non-Partisan League, the OC. I. O. political organization, has ‘gone pretty much down the line for the Deniocrats, it's quite a change. There are several reasons. For one thing, a great many leaders in the organiza-

‘tion: feel that. part of the trouble:the CO, I. O. now is

having with some Hoosier Republican Congressmen is directly traceable to the fact that the organisation opposed them so strongly during the campaign. Of course, there are a few, these leaders feel, who would oppose labor regardless of how it voted, but they believed they can pick up some support if they get over their point. : : Some of them already have been in Washington explaining this program to the Congressmen and they now are watching the. roll calls to see how successful their campaign has been.

Applies to Local Races, Too

THIS POLICY WILL NOT be confined to the Con gressional campaign. It will also be used in the state and local races. As a matter of fact, the C. I. O. is Hohe i too happy about the treatment it has received from the Democratic State administration. First of all, he is the Richmond affair, in which the organisation charges that Governor Schricker violated a promise by using. the State Police. ~~ A later development, according to the union men, | is the refusal of the ‘State Highway Commission to -‘hargain with-a C. I. O. affiliate. They say Chairman James Adams declined even to let the C. I. O, arrange a conference between commissioners and employees to discuss grievances, Then there's. the matter of representation in: State | jobs. The leaders say they haven't asked for anything in particular but don’t believe they've been. given. e recognition, in either appointments or consulta-

ion, to which they are They plan fo. these matters over soon with the Governor.

Frisbie- Sums It Up

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[say they are for usibut are not.”

Yise-—Dr. Alesis J. Soddasa,

Jtor ‘about all the world’s ills. My|thought I'lind made my position very Jas. old; as humanity and since the

hate dominate the minds of Europe|ls the greatest foe to. Christianity

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i imes readers are invited : a ‘express their views in * these columns, religious con« _ teoversies “excluded: Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

V. 8. CAN'T REFORM EUROPE'S GANGSTERS’ _ By Harry Clay, ‘Brightweod. | Va Uncle Sam has always been: the world’s most cheerful giver. In fact, the world’s greatest easy-mark. Our country has been a haven and refuge}: for the oppressed people of the world, Our purse has always been open to those in’ distress yet Mr. Adair says we led the way in extracting the|r mean there are no det-ius in ev pound of flesh. Irom. Germany alter po yyyiey slianats it; srt of » “Lone the World War, but it seems to me}: that all we came out of it with was| Ranger” so to speak. a bunch of debts which we are still] Next, I want to beg the pardon of paying on. > A. B. F, I did not mean to mislead

Simply because we refused to join : the European dominated League of | = ake it:appear.to him that I do

Nations, Mr. Adair blames the U, 8,|70F like: Mr, Hitler. I'tried and

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encyclopedia tells me that war is{ clear, and he became elated over his own misconception of what I said. beginning of human ‘society no petri= od of even a hundred years ad sere. are gue 13s. Tis. ato passed without some major war be-| Mr. Hitler very much and I am telltween nations. The very countries|ing you this, and not by indirection | run which are fighting today have been | either; one thing is I like Hitler's

fighting for centuries. ainst’ Communism beca ‘Centuries of greed, revenge and war age ise 18

and: if Mr. Adair, and his stripe| arid Americanism on ‘the face of the thinks that the U. S. can reformlearth: so I wish him all the good that bunch of gangsters simply bY iyck possible in his war in Russia,

forming some kind of ‘league and y telling them to be good boys because for the sake of Russia‘and ‘to the

war doesn’t pay, then I think that he|end that the continent of Euw'ope Sud: the 16 of his ae punch Gf 4066 Bot? come under the yoke of

Sees rcenters. should be sent :to{Communism. If Hitlér does not do

dergarten where they can away Communism in Etirope, vy to their hearts content to with Bb: vy

fairy tales.

We are indebted to no nation for| ple to do Sak oor a home for|.

of hard work and sacrifice while Europe fought and destroyed. If they wish to live that way then that is their business but for Adair and his like to blame the U. 8. for the tur-|". moils and troubles of Europe is not| only an insult to real Americans but is ignorance and stupidity in itself.) sn ® Vo FroHT TO FREE GERMANS GRAND PAGE IN HISTORY’ By Harrison White, 1135 Broadway. I wonder if A. B. P, expanding

his viewpoint in; your Forum of Saturday, Oct. 18, 1941, can

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th your right to say it.— Voltaire,

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Fro t—— is one of the grandest pages Written

on the pages of history of the world; ;

how Germany has outstripped the

[other nations of the earth in mak-

ing super men and super machinery for this comeback from their pauof the grandest, victorious success of human endurance and ingenuity anywhere on the calendar of time. Holl gg i A BLAST AT WOMEN ~MEDDLESOME' oNES >

By Catherine Shirk Bealty, IndianSpolis. :

You know it amuses me to read the Hoosier Forum. First, people

kick about daylight saving time.| his

That doesn’t suit them. Well, a lot of these gossiping women that are 100 old or homely to have a good time in a good clean way, or can’t everything to suit themselves, get jealous of somedne else who has a good time. They ought to. like daylight saving time as they have an extra hour to wiggle their treacherous, poisonous tongues. ‘They kick about 1 few holes in the street, and-I think- it. would do some

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| men who oppose him, or are silent, he would

hands down. Governor Lehman, Charlie Polettl, | No opponent OT wyer Aare above seproach—excellent men. ; oD te 8 T thik, Bis greatest tribute. They are the candidates or exponents of the Demgcratic machine, which, in the city means Tammany. te WA 3 Shans oo deat Bm. wich ai pobtiand

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ni s,s bien strong and the recipients o his strength are the people who are not silent. Without his Mr. Roosevelt would not -have o¢atried the state eas Wilkie. 330: adosentuilly ‘shape te ooughty |

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criticism “part-time eBags, - - £ J Md tion of Tyo the reitont was fish publican a ‘Secretary of War and .8 Secretary of the Navy, he could have doné far better to take the nominal Republican La Guardia for thes Job than Knox or Stimson. Fiorello gets things 0! »

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mayor of New York City, doesn’t know him. To him, more than to any other man I have known, “a public office i5'a publi trust 0 is more than that, , ‘em

I know all his peppery sho! better oma / most people. They don’t deserve a. paragraph. He is sound at heart and they have rio ultimate effect oh

eflicieney. 1 don’t know why I get so steamed up on this.

ject. I owe nothing to him nor he to me and I

no personal interest in. New York politics, but it seem 'to me that there is a real test of our Amiioan democratic system here and that, if he is defeated,

which I don't expect, it would be one of the scurviest bs

demonstrations of both partisan political and m nicipal ingratitude: in our annals. ge As far as one humble citizen is concerned it would make me fee]: “Oh, hell, therg ai, 3 no ‘Wastin and what's the use?”.. : : 1

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