Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1941 — Page 20
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PRESIDENT. ROOSEVELT proposes a ‘merger of the-Ci- | at
vilian Conservation Corps “the National Youth Administration. The idea seems Yo. be that some economies might be effected thereby without impairment of what the NYA advisory committee calls the “essentidl services” of the two agencies.
When Congress considers this legislation we hope: it | 8 . will refer the measure first to the joint committee on non- | se defense spending. For that committee, if it is hard-headed |
about the job it has undertaken of slicing a billion or two dollars off the Federal budget, might very well find that instead of merging the two agencies it would be better to liquidate them, turning over the “essential services,” if any, .to private organizations and other units of Government. The Educational Policies Commission, a highly respon~ gible national committee of educators, recently recom mended that both the CCC and NYA be abolished—pointing out that the depression conditions which may have justified their creation had ceased to exist. The two agencies now operate on .a budget of about $425,000,000, which is a sizable chunk of money, especially when we consider that it is money borrowed against the credit of the taxpayers of future generations.
GAMBLING WITH LABOR’S FREEDOM HE most intemperate words we have seen against John L. Lewis are in the American Federation of Labor's official weekly news service: “Headstrong, insane, arbitrary, ungovernable, false leader, labor dictator.” The Lewis coal strike, says the A. F. of L., “is not only a betrayal of America, it is not only a betrayal of the workers involved, but it is a dastardly and indefensible betraydl of the best interests of all labor in America. Lewis is gambling not only with the rights of his own miners but with the freedom of the whole labor movement.” Correct. Lewis is doing just that. But what right has ~ tHe A. F. of L. to say so? ‘ Lewis is not the only false leader, the only labor dictator or the only betrayer of labor's best interests. He is pnly, at the moment, the most conspicuous one among . many: The A, F. of L. also has plenty of them. "Both branches of organized labor are cursed with false and irresponsible leaders. Both, by abusing labor's rights, have endangered them. The A. F. of L. can’t escape its share of the blame by abusing Lewis. And the Government can’t undo the damage done by its unwise policies and un-’ ~ fair laws merely by plucking Lewis’ eyebrows lightly and" getting the coal mines Yeopened, f 8. 8 8 2 2 THERE must bé wise policies There must be fair laws. And now that Mr. Roosevelt at last shows interest in remedies by policy and law, there are mény Précedents and proposals ready for prompt action. Controversies over the closed-shop ‘ydestion. should not stop defense work. The Wilson War Industries Board . golved that one, 24 years ago, by declaring firmly that a pational emergency must not be used by labor to obtain the closed shop or by industry to destroy it. There should. he no stiike or lockout until negotiation and mediatioh have had full opportunity to prevent it. (An irresponsible union should have no more standing under the Wagner Act than an irresponsible employer. . Jurisdictional wars between unions should not be ought at’ the expense of the public. Labor, the sanie as capital, ‘should be prosecuted un‘the antitrust laws when it conspires to restrain trade or purposes having nothing to do with its legitimate aims, Unions should make public réports of their financial affairs. : : Labor's freedom should be preserved. But unless labor: is required to be responsible, labor’ §
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[)OCTORS acting for a selective service board hdd Joe : Louis before them. They measured his height. They "put him on the scales. They éxamined hig teeth and eyes. aay, tested his Bearing. “They took his blood pressure. : ats. They told him to say “Ah.” odntabulated, they solemnly reported
uld be.all fo DhySical Ameridan Ary, That's a waste of time. © All the Army. had to do wad 6 all i in either Max Baer
Buddy Baer or Billy Conn; ; or; ‘Tony Galento or Lou Nova
of several others, own Bomber mide them all say “Ah.”
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By Thomas L Lt Siokes
Break. Is Highly Significant HE is regarded as
highly. A BREAR 16, SOUT “Poll indie tes ‘that th : ca 8: th is the natien’s "Tost Anterventionist-minded
swing the line. ‘No. seal ‘threat to the Administration's Tepeal program has Jet. appeared, but. isolationist leaders . are claiming fo votes against
recorded against any phase of Administration poli since the war
. A veteran amator acutely sensitive to public reaction and its influence in Congress sought to analyze. just what is happening in the Senate on this, issue, with particular reference to the defections now beéoming apparent.
‘Deceit’ Is Main Charge
THIS WAS BASED partly on letters and telegrams
‘which, he said, have begun to pour in again in the
last few days, provoked both by the Neutrality repeal bill and the President’s Navy Day speech announcing that “shooting has already started.” To the public at large, he explained, the Neutrality Act meant insurance of peace, and suddenily there is a realization that its repeal indieates that the Ted States is going to war. THiS comes from no 'd study of the act, but merely from its name, the pri ation which ‘produced it and the guarantees by the: Administration when it was enacted. Also, the senator said, some of his tele veal a sudden realization, arising from thé President's speéch, that. Mr. elt is no longer speaking of keeping the country out of war, but quite to the conTary Evéry Senate speech against repeal dwells on the charge that there has been “deceit” and “subterfuge” in the President’s course.
Senator La Follette's Position
THIS WAS THE CENTRAL theme of Senator La Follétte (Prog. Wis); whose father directed the successful Senate filibuster against the armed merchant ship bill just before América entered the first World Wat Mr. Ta ‘Follette read Shearnt after excerpt from Mr. Roosevelt's speeches, beginnitig before he bécame Presidént and continuing through the last campaign, pledging himself to kéep the United States out of the: political involvements of Europe and never to send thé American Navy or Army into European WATS. Heé also read speechés by Senate Administration leadérs since thé war began insisting that various stéps were for peace and fot war. : One reason why he is so disturbed, Senator La Foliétte said, is that he tears the effect of the disillusionmeént, in this country when the pecplé find out that “men in high office have resorted to subterfuge to achieve their énds.”
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Indiana Politics By Vern Boxell
WHILE POLITICIANS AND candidates go blithely along with their plans for an eléction héré next year, two of the laws under which -it will be conducted (if it i8) are tied up in legal tangles. Oné of them is already before a ope and. thé othér has been ones and probably vill be again shortly. - The fifst ca:é 15 the voter registration law for Marion and six other counties, It has eT en County Injunction for séveral months: The other is the skip-election law test here, which thus far has been bungled and kicked around. “friendly suit” was -filed in Circuit Court but it turned out to be not so friendly after all, and after a bit of legal squabbling it was sidetracked. Now Reépublican and Democratic attorneys are starting all and hope to have it
. state of aftaint Ha§ stirféd up some pretty nasty Judo. thé Républican side, 6, anti- Bradford meén say he is altompiing os stall off a final on as long as the organization can kéep candidates out of Ay and run a hand-picked man at thé last minute
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AND RUMORS oF jockeying for cratic aon en no dy : luding ine! thé City Hall ¢rowd wants t0 delay thé election ntil 1943, when all othér cities in the ine will éléct, just to keep Judge Dewey Myers éut of the field. Judge Myers y would run for oF Yemslqstion t6 Criminal Court if there were no el joni, they figure. And i ta ll 8 Jes ers not g é Some State HOUSE sources nave nm eed thar g | 4 he" devia Supreme Gout deco, th ow fl the inevitable Supreme Court decision, the law
e mayoralty of the Démothe one that
{ may be tested in some other city.
As for the registration law, word hi Lake County 1s that 1t Will niet be decided dea up there betore edrly next year. ~law takes contrel of voter régistration away from the county ¢1éfks in the seven largest counties: (most of them are Democrats) and sets up bi-partisan boards. The county chairmen are
men they choose.
e i | at Se me say that it is Wega) because chéirm elected public officials §
fare i gre 10 o not é e name Pu le official injunction has prevented the law f1¢ effective. A plea to make the r Pe in J
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repeal of sagtions. 1 "3 and 3, which would be the biggest Senate vote yet |’
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A WOMAN'S RETORT TO CATHERINE'S WHACK By Mrs, Laura Beatty, 334 N. State St. The whack of Catherine Shirk Beatty was réally amusing, eéspecially the part about staying at home and raising the children. I did and still am raising them. The wonian who is both father and mother should not only consider it her privilege but her dtty to vote. Very few women’ will work at the polls for one party afd accept ptiy=— and vote for another; liké some nien.
SARL. ‘WHY NOT LET KIDS HAVE THEIR FUN? By (Oldrence Monroe, 581 W. Washington
I would like to comment on what Mrs. Nellie Rogers has to say abotit the curfew law on Halloweén. I and nfiny others wonder what they did on that Hallowéen night when she was young. I guess they just had a mask party and bobbed for apples and played the game of post office and spin the bottle, but affer the party is still a secret. Why not let the kids have their fuh? We were
s » = LEWIS’ ACTION ‘NOTHING SHORT OF TREASON By Léon B. Worthail, Tndtaanh oi
There is no just cause nor valid reason why we should wait for
conitinerit. Joh L. Lewis has already
down ifi Washington must feel efivious of John, : To challénge national executive authority in a crisis such as now this nation is facing is nothing short of tréason. . . . Any person Who defiés the Government in times such as these is unfit to live ini and enjoy the privileges offered by these United States. Fair criticism, yes, but défiance; no. If the war for democracy is lost, organised . abor, has the most to 10se and all the inflated skulls of thé stubborn trickstérs will not savé labar from this fate. The Lewis and othér disturbing fattors of dabor will mot stan. tHe $de 0
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Hitler to become ‘dictator of this}
assumed that role. Senator Wheeler, | A |Congressman Fish and sévéral others
(Times reader are invited “40 express ‘their views in these columns, religious controversiés excluded. Make your létters. short, so all can have & chance. ‘Letters must ha signed.)
énslaved workers within our borders; the -file of labor better beware, who are now advocating extreme medsurés have pertefited the most from the present
riendly national’ Administration, and|
to advocate “milking” the Government, and that goés for labor and management, will have their “goat” milkéd dry when the reckoning somes. Is the German and Italian industrial picture of no lesson to the near-sighted leaders of industry and labor?
Opportunity for material gains at this time at the expense of the nation is unhealthy. I.am. opposed ‘Which will limit free
bulk of honest labor leaders have nothing to fear, but the patriaprofiteer and the traitor better watch his step. Americans may take things in their own hands and force rémedial legislation. Liberty loving Americans want to preserve that pricéless heritage called freedom and will fight for it. We must have national unity in spite of hard-headed industrial managers, egotistical labor leaders
+|and political mountebanks.
2 =» 2 FINDS WHEELER ADMITTING FAILURE OF HIS PHILOSOPHY By John E. Booth It ‘would be amusing, if it were not on such ‘a grim subject, to obs serve the discomfituré of Senator Wheeler who now says: “I. éan't conceive of Japan being crazy enough to want to go to war with us.” 3
At last we have an isolationist admitting the failuré of his philosophy! After prating for such a long time that we're too far away to be attacked, that no one has any designs on us or things we usé, an isélationist “can’t conceive” of any nation actually préparing to do that. And what will Mr. Wheeler
the pillory [say when thé Gérman nation, hav-
HE i who'll sell down the river for a Sour fiote, a Nt of personal antipathy or a miéss ol pottage out lof thé Naal pot. : It may be refreshing to all of us
to read John Adams’ letter to his son, written ih April 1776. The boy,
John Quincy Adams, thén 10 years of age, read this létter:
“I hope that you will always remembér how: many: losses, ‘danger and inconvéniénces have been borne by your parents and the inhabitants in général, for the sake of preserving freedom for you and yours; and I.hopé, if any in the future time your country's liberties shall be in danger, you will suffer gvery human evil. rather than give them up.” What & faith, what a souruge, And John Qliincy Adams did up to his parental admonition, Stuffed shirt industrialist and tors | misleader of labor will please note. Honest industrialists and the great
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ing “conceivably” conquered Russia and Britain through lack of adequate planning or sction on our part (a Wheeler - sponsored strategy) furns on us with the same idea ‘in mind. Mr. Wheeler concedes that Japan has - “héthéads” that might “go cragy.” Strange that he doesn’t say the same thing of Hitler's Germany. The present crisis with Japan.js the result of shortsighted foreign policy forced upon us by the isolationist bloc, a policy which coupled bold words with timid action. Tokyo is moving to the tune called by Berlin; To blame Tokyo alone for this is stupid. Blamé yoiif own, our native isolationists. Why? Bécause thé isolationists have §o6 thoroughly - sueceeded in making the "Axis think we are a nation of militant pacifists that they have gone ahead unimpeded, especially in the East and Far East, This is the result of . appeasément of Japan. Can't the isolationists see that their policy is inviting the same crisis with a far more: formidable enemy—Hitler? ; ea ka i THE DEATH:BED We 'watch'd her breathing thro’ "thé night, Her breathing soft and low,
AS in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. :
As sileritly we. seem a to speak, So slowly moved about, : had lent-her half our powers “eli¢ her living out. ;
Our very hopes belied our. fears, Our fears our Hopes belied—
We, oan har dpe hen: shal.
And se sideping When she died.
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the Civil War should have. been omitted.
What. About Priorities Sytem:
IT 18 ALL RIGHT éven in Mrs. R Roose to fix prices of food and rent. That pe more millions of slaves—all the farmers, land hotel keepers. It is more than a little ridie! There are. othér provisions in he Consti guarantee individual rights. There is one that Congress shall pass ho law im g the tion of contracts and another that private shall not be taken for public use without ju ‘pensation, i We are in a wholesale process of dumping { on the garbage hedp with hardly a squawk fr injured. . What do you suppose the ptiority does to the obligation of contracts? A has an agreement with B to complete 1 a building by a certain date and, in. common prijden has contracted with C, D and E for materials t delivered - before: that date fo perform - his ob tion. Then a priorities order comes along. complete the building and if he could, C, D can’t deliver the materials promised to do Has that administrative order—it is ‘not. 8 law—impaired the obligations of a cont has impaired the obligations of many, But for frantic attempts to find some way to modate the ¢, do you hear anybody about the Constitution?
Is This ‘Hysterical Twilight' TWENTY THOUSAND TO 40,000 SMALL ¢ prizers are going to lose their business, | through years of effort. They are going to 10 because ‘the Government 1 take their supply and -evén their inventories for p! Arg they going to get just compensation? 0 as anybody has yet heard. oh Yet even here I have heard of no one “at.
walling wall. of the Constitution. This is. a
emergency and it is only the generous b of the First Lady who finds. a Constitutio for applying & much. milder rule to wages. Involuntary servitude is some kind of fe bor—making & man do what he doesn't. with or without wages. It couldn’t be for country in this crisis gnd I doubt if ever. all rise up and strike it down. But it appears that we are. entering ¢ 8 terical twilight when anybody oan Sa get away with it--like saying tha substitute Mein Kampf for the Binte, the T Presumably She wel “pian 0 ¢ t ds to to First Reader. subst
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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
buck privates at least. war it beginnin some sense. The movement for feminine take a tremendous’ if p and When has Ca
the General's or a 5 Jong time, you may 0 know that beauty Jered our; are not ne fuirements. We have it from that while there aré cértain ard sex appeal will have no pull—at ton tion papers,
You'll Have a Unifarm, Too!
' YOU MUST BE J health, a plainly, and school edu fght will ts he dowtt and kept you should be fitted to work under inte ditions. Also watch out for your feet, be using thém a lot. An l—you'll have a uniform. dress deésighers dre at work creating p Wil Jive 3 barracks ang ge Psa, Just do. Oh, yes. : The General also ys the going to be very, very acti The Old Girls must go on with voli me DA BU I a ee es ar
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