Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1941 — Page 10

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER '3, 1941

“HE legislative monstrosity now submitted to Congress by the House ‘Banking Committee is not a bill to pre-

sided inflation. It represents a victory for the farm bloc and the labor

lobby, and a defeat for the public, including farmers and

It provides for no stabilization of wages. It would enurage farm prices to soar, not merely to “110 per cent of ity,” but inmost cases to 20 per cent above that—to the highest levels in history.’ It would force the cost of jving up. Its administration would entail all the evils of bureaucratic interference with established American methof doing business, but no lasting benefits to anyone. If Congress, like the majority of the Banking CommitLee, i is id to enact real control of prices and costs, then “smo bill at all would be infinitely better than this one. The results of letting inflation take an unchecked course would bad. But the results of speeding up inflation by unsound gislation would be disastrous.

"WHAT DO THEY FEAR? SAE don’t regard the Gallup Poll as an infallible index to public opinion. The accuracy of so many of its find- ! has been demonstrated, however, that all of them de‘serve respectful attention. And its reports of last week deserve special attention just now. Among them were: = That 87 per cent of the voters polled believe labor * fnions should be required by law to make yearly public sweports of the money they collect and spend. That 74 per cent believe many labor-union leaders are Sracketeers; 61 per cent that many union leaders are Communists, * That 77 per cent are opposed to the closed shop, and per cent to the compulsory “check-off” of union dues ‘by employers. . # That 78 per cent think the Government should forbid ‘Strikes.in defense industries. : ~ That 83 per cent—as against only 24 per cent five ago—are not in favor of labor having unions. . Our observation, and probably yours, confirms .these findings in general. American opinion is running against labor—rather, is running against labor abuses—as unmistakably as it ran against Prohibition for years before the liticians screwed up courage to defy the Anti-Saloon gue. As unmistakably as it ran against capital's abuses fore the New Deal swept into power on a promise to end ‘those abuses. 0 ® = =» ® =.= think American opinion right now would support "savage legislation that would set the cause of labor 50- years, And the country can’t afford that sort of

We know American opinion would support’ wise and ate legislation that would preserve labor’s rights by ing labor responsibility. Why, then, is there no such ation ? Because the politicians tremble in fear of the ‘bosses’ lobby, just as they used to tremble in fear the: Anti-Saloon League and of the bosses of capital. Why does the pendulum swing so often and so violent“in this country, from dangerous abuses to dangerous action? Because the politicians who govern are afraid to ‘make a politically entrenched minority stop imposing on unorganized majority—until the will of the majority nally expresses itself in a furious demand for relief from #an intolerable situation. Organized labor will get just what the Anti-Saloon gue got, unless its real friends prevail on Congress to ct while public opinion still permits it to act calmly and ely.

|, WELL-DESERVED HONOR INDIANAPOLIS can take special pride in the election of ‘William A, Hacker as president of the Indiana Confernce on Social Work. Mr, Hacker is assistant superinten- . of public schools in charge of social service and A mber of the State Welfare Board. - Too few persons know the extent of the social service k in the Indianapolis schools. We know, of course, about James E. Roberts School for handicapped children. And. ne of us know of the superb job done in providing clothes other necessities for underprivileged children. But the pol’s social service program goes further than that. ing tests, sight examinations, considerations for all

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print because an old journalistic sfiperstition held hak

the, unioneer was a leader and spokesman of humble tofler of the rank and file,

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unions which were known to be common rackets no

better than Al Capone’s, were handled with tongs in|

the papers lest some dirty thief with a charter in his pocket put through a resolution declaring the paper to be unfair to “labor.” But the editors and publishers weren't altogether venal in this. It wasn't tear of reprisal alone that des terred them. They were traditions. They had been telling the public so long that unioneers were labor

leaders that they believed it themselves in a dull, dumb way and never thought to. Shaliegs. their own,

beliefs. 'Fine, Mane Sports’

and that the workers and the whole public were vie- | tims, just as the poor lopears end the public had been] * the victims of the chiseling piece-men, bootleggers and

other vicious parasites of the ring.

It may be remembered that, back when fighting |

and wrestling were released from the doghouse after

the other war, pugilism and wrestling were glorified

and glamorized as fine, manly sports which promoted chivalry in youth and that some of our noblest £0]diers of a victorious army naively lent their distinguished names and presence to a revival of the two rogue sports. In that situation, William Muldoon, an arrogant old

ignoramus, who was boss of the New York Fight Com= |. ‘ mission, was comparable to some of the stupid Honest

Johns of the union racket of today in that he more or less knowingly licensed known crooks to victimize not only the customers but the unfortunate fighters and wrestlers themselves with a thousand tricks of larceny, conspiracy and fraud, but stoutly resented criticism and expose on the ground that all this tended to bring into disrepute the grand old game he loved so well,

The Fighters Suffered Most

THE FIGHTERS AND wrestlers suffered most, just as under crooked and communistic unionism the workers take the worst punishment, but there were plenty of traditionists who wouldn’t believe such things could be and regarded every revelation as a vicious blow at the sport itself, Tex Rickard, who was on social terms with some of the editors and publishers, sometimes tried to put in the boss-fix to suppress realistic writing about his fights and creation of the managers involved therein, and there was a strong public opinion working for the chisel-men in the name of sport. 80 I came to know the habits and other character istics of the baboon around the ring and learned to detect by the very smell, and this will explain why the union hoodlums at their periodical reunions, called conventions, where they live de luxe on double and triple expense accounts stolen from the workers, resent the attention of an apostle from the sport side, Mostly, like the prize-fight racketeers, they are unbelievably dumb and their larcenies would be easily provable if anybody cared enough to prosecute them. And because they are so ignorant and dumb they mistake this apathy for respect and fear and think it is their shrewdness that gets them by.

New Hatch Act

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Senator Hafch is moving forward with his bis bl, designed to eliminate the lobbying by former Government officials, a practice now quite virulent here. He has béen man of a

posed measure which would forbid former Federal officials and employees from appearing before any department or agency until two years after they leave the Government service. As his first step, the New Mexico Senator has Vi the heads of every Government department and agency asking. for the names of every exGovernment o ‘Who is now practicing before it. This should give a clue to the extent of this business. The “influence” practice, as it is called here, was dramatized recently with revelations that Thomas G. Corcoran, formes top NOW Peal aide and White House emissary, was pulling s in numerous departmen on behalf of clients ranging from a junk dealer in New Jersey with i yd War Liberty motor parts to drug corporation which had contracts with German firms that were dissolved

decree. SENATOR HATCH'S REQUEST of the de

May Lead to Investigation

of backward children—all of these are the result of | °fcinis.

‘kind of leadership given by men like DeWitt Morgan | William A. Hacker. We congratulate Indiana's social workers on their ¢ for president. -

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PHEN-AMERICANISM SHOULD GO

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ig CITY is having a red-hot campaign for |

‘Hard words and harder epithets are being ex. TURE ll ore oF te Se ay oF pony ex 8 played. But there is one disturbing sign in hes and in’ newspaper articles. Appeals are being to Irish-Americans, German-Americans, Italian-Amer- , Jewish-Americans. is time the hyphens were killed once and for all. The Should be considered as Americans and Americans y should be appealed to as such. a a truly honest man cannot be partly honest, rwise 5 8 79a] Silizen of Usiwsoumtyy connat be an —.

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The Hoosier Forum

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disagree with what you say, but will th your right to say it —Voltdire.

WHAT PRICE CIVILIZATION, ASKS THIS GENTLEMAN : By J. W. C. i I heave heard it said frequently— and mockingly—that all white men are immigrants or descendents ‘of immigrants. The only real 100 per cent Americans, I've been told, were the red Indians, found in the Western Hmeisphere when the Europeans first started barging in over here. Now I read that long before the Indians reached much of a state of culture, the Western Hemisphere had been inhabited for maybe 25,000 years. Scientists claim this is true

-|and they picture a dizzy vista of 250

centuries for us. : But I think our so-called civilization is giving us what primitive man, armed with his club, spear and stone hatchet, knew all about. That's the wholesale killing of man, We call it war, # # »

‘WHY CATER TO STRATEGISTS WHO ARE ALWAYS WRONG?” By M. A. W.

One of the militaiy “experts,” arguing against a seperate air force, contends that “the whole German organization, military, naval, and air, is different from ours; it is essentially military.” (What a fighting force of any description is supposed to be, other than essentially military, is more than I know.)

Another says, “Germany has no

‘| navy—in the sense in which we have

a Navy.” Well, we have the same type of Navy as the British; and a no-navy outfit, such as that of the Germans, has ‘waged successful war to date, It is estimated that about 60 per cent of the British Navy has been pretty well damaged and has sought repairs in our American navy yards. Haven't airmen’ been saying for years that our type of stand-and-slug battleships, modeled after the British, is all wrong in a hit-and-run war? As soon as the warship lads build a ship to withstand a 1000-pound bomb, along comes some enterprising guy with a 2000-pound egg, and the business starts all over again. Seavones hasn't won g ongle en-

the world’s greatest sea force at the

literary reputation, but he had character enough to be unwilling to pad his opus. We have quantity production in the literary world—both in number of books and their size. What wonder that we are now taught to skip —to read without reading. . Weren't the old days better—the days of a few books, worth reading all the way through, and over and over? It’s a good thing Dickens isn’t offaring his Christmas Carol for pubMeation today. He'd be told it isn’t “book length.” * = ” ‘EVEN A KID CAN ADJUST

TRAFFIC LIGHTS BETTER’

By A Stockyardser

I wonder if our traffic experts around here ever check things like

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gagement against afrpower in this war, Afrpower has won all of them. Isn‘t ‘it about time for citizens who pay for such seapower machinery to find out just what is wrong with the British Navy? In battleships and cruisers it was

outbreak of the war. It and its repair and supply bases at home and in the colonies have been hammered and damaged. It is almost axiomatic that any force which cannot protect its bases cannot continue to exist, What type of seapower machinery has been busting the British Navy of battleships and cruisers? Submarines, torpedo-carrying speedboats and airplanes. Since that’s the record, why must we continue to cater to strategists who have been dead wrong on this war ever since it started, and were wrong a long time before that when they insisted on building an American duplicate of the Navy that has falled for the British?

2 8 2 ‘BOOK LENGTH’ DEMANDS WOULD ELIMINATE DICKENS By EE M. A professional man I know discovered a young workingman who had a story to tell and told it well. He persuaded the young man to

write the story and send the manuscript to a leading book publisher.

six-cornered street at Kentucky, Capital and Maryland. It’s always been terrible trying to get past that corner, what with the traffic policemen spending their time discussing the weather with passing friends in autos. But that was Heaven compared to the new sfop-and-go lights. They're set up so that about six cars move north and south and then switch off to east and west. I just came past there. Trafic was snarled up on Washington 8t. because of this jam, but only about half a dozen cars could get by Maryland St. at a time. Even a kid could adjust traffic lights better than that. . ss 8 = THINGS THAT CAUSE INJURY NOT HALLOWEEN FUN

By Nellie Rogers

stop-and-go lights, Take this tricky|

publish if, but it wasn’t long enough;

The publisher replied, yes, it was very interesting; they would like to

couldn’t the young man expand it to “book length?” The yi man somewhat reluctantly added words to the story he thought ‘he had completed. The ‘manuscript was sent to the publisher only to be returned again—still

In answer to the one who did not

105180 her name on the card she sent

me and to Mr. Clarence Monroe,

Ee answered me in reply:

I am sorry that you took me st

sericusly in what I said about Halloween. . . I believe in them having their fun at that time and I did it on Halloween when I was a kid.

But I mean to do things that

cause serious injury or serious property damage. We had a neighbor who is a oripple and will always remain’ so because a wire was

not long enough. The young man balked. He had no

Side Glances—By Galbraith

stretched across the road at night, causing him to fall and seriously in- | jure himself.

I do not call this Halloween fun. Neither did the man.

ELEGY 0 D mayh away in beauty’s bloom! On Wie Sdn press no

/ But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the 1 year, y Ang the wild cypress wave in tender loom:

And oft yon blue gushing stream hel Bolom lean her drooping

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ponderous |

J[ [Ana te coop thongs with many

rent ra gait her ‘step dis-|

President and Mr. } ie are conferring in an at tern ordinate our price with that of Canada. as 2 Yeb we have no. stat

and the oN flexible ¢ we ought to have and woul if it were not for seve! and politically eri § ITO Washington. threatening us «— runaway price infiation At have a tendency to p re rics ceiling holds them down, the tendency | restrict her buying power here A suggestion has bee

Juss lend” her stuff (that is, give it ee her) and ‘then shi couldn’t very well kick because she wouldn't be. Ong Uncle Sam and his nieces and nephews w urt, but they are used to that.

The ‘Silly Fool Dollar Mark’

ALL THIS RAISES the question on the price ment in lease-lend shipments to other countries, ably to Britain, Without any runaway inflation a it. costs us much more to build ships and guns:

There are no recent figures availa but made. when the Maritim gures available, wag ready to subsidize the difference bet: ne: and foreign shipbuilding costs indicated us more than double ship-building costs abro the differerice must be even greater now. : This-isn’t true of everything, but 1t 1s of and some types of airplanes. vs Of course, we have gotten rid of the “si

. dollar mark” and you are apt to be called ; all-th

How It Worked in'l8

IT WOULD BE NICE to Enon what happ lease-lend food—now including to We have exactly Joage-lend in 1918. ut we established credits for Britain to stuff, shipped it on open account at the charged our Government and our civilian pop! on and it was never paid for. There isn't much dif between that and lease-lend.’ : But the British took cotton, foodstuffs and t at least, and resold them Jo § their own civilian | DX lations, ‘thus reimbursing their Government and times making a profit. he Wieh liiey Saud to sell SUBY be they were not: so particular about making the ries 3 the same ag ‘those at which they were bought, a.

"An Old Boat Rocker’ |

WE HAD TO GET pretty rough about it t on several occasions. Finally, in every case Sha 1 saw , the price situation was pretty fairly worked out, but of course. their reimbursements for food, cotton po tobatpe: A nA Ne transacti shrouded if ese ons are now. so od : mystery and’ generalized statements that it 1s Ia ro he hentia Joing oo bul. If the past 1s aly e present, Uncle : : Ohtistias stocking. iat i Seviing much n : course, I realize what an old boat rocker even fo be talking about these 4 Das 1¢ price. disparities and transfer of goods, but the figures 8) hou which future disputes may arise will run into un nted sallions: has laid ground f fe cate ope someone or 14 United States—not now—but when the day ps t

great settlement arrives, But I'll bet A Woman's Viewpoit fr.

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‘By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

in circulation. Maybe a Job of pth good old

conntey; men and women will return from comm tte meetings ready to do their part to encourage the sale of new U. 8. Treasury bonds, which may .cu the fall from war-spending ‘prosperity to peacedeflation. The message speeds across the contin “Buy Bonds.” Little people, as well as the oiin buy them, not only to help defense but to sa their own future. And. that, I think, marks the } gospel—actually a very old one; from Ww parted with such a fanfare of | trumpets when economists began Fh argue that the way to bes presperots was to spend more money than

A Confusing Subject

ECONOMICS IS A CONFUSING subject j average citizen, and so he may find it a bit adjust his thinking quickly. Not two years ago told that hoarding was bad for business snd fore bad for him. Now he’s to be equal fervor, to save. I believe he'll like such better. For millions of common Americans, within. veins flow the blood of ‘frugal ancestors, will we a good tough word back into our language. doesn’t it sound like twisted steel wire as it fal the tongue? It's a sturdy word, with a soft inflection. It means dbing without something you very much. It may mean bitter har with the thought comes the feeling . y more inflexible backbones and of personal independence. CE pe ernment gaght to practice what 1 people? If t starts in business a may we hold the hope that perhaps in ti invade every ramification of the wonder} reaucracy whose Headquaties are in Wash

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