Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1941 — Page 19
4n Indiana, $3 a outside of Indiana, 68 per: Alllance, NEA centsamonth.
and Audit BuCirculations. :
Give Light “ond the Poopte Will Find ry own Way
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1941 :
THE BEST, GOVERNOR i OVERNOR SCHRICKER is faced with the smporiant 7 problem of appointing a successor to the late Charles J. Karabell, judge of Marion County Municipal Court, Room 4. | Under the law, the Governor must appoint. a Repiblican to fill out Judge Karabell’s unexpired term.
It will not be an easy task. - Already more than a |
dozen candidates are in the running. Some of these are able, some are of unknown qualifications, and some are “clearly unequalified. Some with the least judicial tempera‘ment have the strongest support. : © This is one time when Marion County needs an outstanding citizen for that post. An iniquitous pro tem situa-
tion has grown up in these courts over the years, among |
- other things, and a cleanup is long overdue. Governor Schricker has the opportunity for a distinct community service in this direction if he will name a person of high: personal integrity and of unquestioned ability to thisposition. We urge Governor Schricker to find the right man, ‘even if it means taking weeks of Sindy and leaving the cours vacant for a time.
FINLAND GAMBLES ANY Americans who sympathize with Finland in her tragic dilemma will be disappointed by her decision to continue fighting. It is her right to make that choice, - but that does not make it wise. Her reply to the State Department’s friendly appeal . denies that her independence or her freedom of action is imperiled by her co-operation with Nazi troops. She says Germany, by fighting Russia, “saved Finland from standing alone” and from a, pel which ‘would doom Finland and ‘others. We can understar d how the record has made Finland distrust her Russian aggressors. We can even understand ‘how she might pick Hitler to win—however wrong such a guess seems to us. But we cannot understand how, on the record of Hitler's invariable betrayal and destruction of other free nations, she can look to him as a savior. Nor can we understand what she expects to gain by persistent denial that she has received any Russian peace proposal, when the State Department has made public its official notice to Finland that Moscow is “prepared to negotiate a new treaty of peace with Finland which would involve the making of Serzitorial concessions by the Soviet Union to Finland.” Whatever the risks frvalved | in Finland’s withdrawal _ from the war now with territorial gains, as the Allies propose, she. is bound to lose if she goes along with Hitler. If Hitler wins, she will be his vassal; and if Hitler loses, she will go down with him. Her insistence that she is fighting defensively for herself, and not offensively for Hitler, will
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This Local 3 is a terrible thing. It blockades certain building materials out of New York, even though these materials be union-made, and in that
‘respect is anti-union itself, and it goes into huddles |
with manufacturers and contractors to run up prices which have to be paid by the other people of: the city in the form of higher rents and retail prices and so. forth, so that Van Arsdale can hold his power over his crowd and the members can enjoy a scale of wages established through artificial and; I say, extortionate restraints. And, by the way, notwithsjanding the adption of another one -of those fake resolutions against teering in the recent convention of the A. F. of IL. in Seattle, the electricians went right down to St.
Louis and re-elected as one of their vice presidents
one of the most notorious crooks in the whole racket, no less than Umbrella Mike Boyle of Chicago, who was denounced years ago by the U. S. Circuit Court as a ‘blackmailer, a highwaymen, a leech on commerce and a betrayer of labor. That is how much those resolutions mean.
He Just Looks At the Ceiling
VAN ARSDALE wont even say a word against this dirty crook, although Mike is his superior officer in the electricians, and he, as a loyal unioneer, certainly \has a moral obligation to throw out vermin who louse up the house of labdr. Van Arsdale just looks at the ceiling, turns up his palms and says he isn’t interfering with any other local, but he knows as well as I do that Boyle is a: crook and joins the other unioneers in beefing because the records of these grafters are exposed to public’ view. ‘And my revered employer and some of these unioneers also keep on saying I. ‘ought every now and again to point out that not all unions or unioneers are crooked, but that some of them are very well behaved. To that I just remind them that the cop on the corner doesn’t rush up to the square guy without provocation, pat him on the back for not hoisting a payroll or shooting the old lady and congratulate him on his excellent citizenship. Nobody yaps at the cop for neglecting to issue little mashnotes of praise to the thousands of people who just go glong minding their own business. Why should anyone have to praise unions for going straight when they do? Did anyone ever give you a piece in the paper praising you lopsided ‘just because you do your job, pay.your bills, raise your kids right and keep out of crime? . The trouble is that the unions have’ had too much ‘of this recognition and praise ‘for years and. years, most of it undeserved and’in violation of the provable facks of felonious and otherwise anti-social conduct. When they straighten out and behave they will hear a loud silence which is: all’ the recognition that any of us get or deserve for “decent, citizenship.
"Editor's Note: The views expressed ‘by columnists in this
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The Hoos ier F orum
1 wholly disagree with what you ay, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Vollaire.
‘A SNAIL MOVES FASTER , THAN SMALL-TOWN HICKS’ By Thomas E. McCreary, Indianapolis To A. 'W. R. of Shelbyville. If people from smaller towns would
learn the traffic rules, there would be less. confusion in traffic.
the right of the car in front of you if he is also making a left turn, and make the turn as quickly as possible. When the sign says go, do not sit there taking in the sights. Move immediately. A snail moves faster than smalltown hicks. Learn to drive before you start slamming the police -officers of our city. We don’t like it.
: ®2 8 8 IT’S FELLOWS LIKE ME THAT ARE STUCK’ By Gene Engle, 1114 Newman st. I'm so sore after reading the cur-
rent papers that I don’t know how to start this letter. Whenever you
|pick up any paper all you see is
“more billions for defense—higher
newspaper are their own, They: are not: necessarily those Yiaxes tos the defense: burden-
higher cost of living—.”
The law says to pull around to}
{the price of the inaterials in th
(Times readers are invite to exoress their views i these columns, religious cor - troversies ' excluded. Mak your letters’ short; so all ca have & chance, Letters mus be signed.)
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have to have that are getting “business.” This morning Roosevelt cc out with the idea that “to rest inflation they (tates) should be rected mainly at that portion the national inconze devoted to : chase of civilian goods.” (That’s and I, fellows) I've got a better idea to pre inflation: - Stop buying lomes—not w
Double up on transportatio : five and six fellows from ¢ neighborhood ‘ride to work toget Double up on housing — cut’ the cost of living for ‘each two 1 ilies.
rotten eggs that were thrown at
ers.
| GIVES ARGUMENTS FOR | BOOST IN RAIL WAGES
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By George Schey ; The railroads say they cannot afford to raise the wages of their em'ployees. How can that be true when they are hauling more fréight than they did at the peak of 1929, and are doing it with one-third fewer employees: and about one-fourth fewer cars than they had in 1929? | Here is proof: Railway Age, d magazine which speaks for railroad] management and not for rail labor, sald “in: a recent ediforjal: “The railroads rendered’ “thore fréfght| service in the first two-thirds of] 1941 than in the first two-thirds of any other year in their history. The number of tons carried one mile in the first two-thirds of 1941 exceeded | 297,000,000,000, as compared with 294,000,000,000 in the first. two-thirds
: gv ployers asking how many :off the answers ranged from 1 to this procéss of national economic
| or raw’ will
what higher, but so will ingot ‘producti tons. From these figures it is: deduced that tons for domestic non-defense’ production ing exports to countries other than Canada, 64,000,000 tons. ia.
country. Even in 1040 domestic production incl defense was only- 55 000,000 tons.
Not Too Early to Raise Cain. ;
considering the tremendous in duction capacity, following the oe discovery African de; copper de -Sepression. josie)
‘methods just what | most ‘needed,
business, OF
Unless these te oA” sa get have to go out of business az
cent of answers were only a little LE : “oi The Situation i in Steel tL
THE, PRINCIPAL RAW |
an, TRINCIDAL BAW matesigly sen | per cent, Sami 8 Je coh Tr 1 pr copper; 12 per cent, zinc; 10 per cent,’ chemicals,’ and’ 12 per cent,
wire; 8 per On the availability of steel the president : fin
American Iron & Steel steel production will be 82,000,000 tons a this calendar year defense Britain and Canada, will be 18,
BE Next year the defense ‘réquirements ‘may be some 6,000,000
‘or, excluds Betiain an
This is more steel than has ever been uséd in ¢ ot
NO SUCH FIGURES are 2valaile Jor copper. bi,
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it: the casty scossaible, snd Very. ri its. in South America, and
to these great storehouses, are-not. yet in‘war. at anywhere near. the rate of we had in “sh that there was no
tb Seno 1917 and A918- when, Mgr Jus such we are having now-—it was proved rel shortage at all. . a deal. of evidence points to slap-dash
OPM: and failure by research to find out lies 8_Were ‘available, Just where ite
“business. - It 1s none too
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A Woman s Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
“The editorial pointed out: that the 4 “number of tons carried one mile,”| usually called the “ton-miles,” is the | “ton measure” of railroad freight trafic, “because it represents not| only the amount of freight, but also
try ion m= n= ré8.”
Boys, if enough people would this: advice, we’d get some ac “up there” on Roosevelt's “r tinuing effectiveness of price « trol being depencient upon the striction of the demand for gor
not change that. of The Indisnapolis Times. Why is everything more expensive? Are fewer livestock being raised’ for market .than there were when FDR had millions of. pork
slaughtered—Iless grain than when
“So far as 8 Woman i colk cerned, the’ Army. "made 5 oH i: one man—hers.” | :
HIS WORKS SAY IT hth New Books
ME. PEGLER, we see by his column, refuses to protest that he is not anti-union or to point cut, every now and again, that many unions and unioneers behave well and go straight. “I certainly am anti-union wiids a union places its own interests above and against those of the whole community «+. OF when a union ig-a racket or an agency of the Kremlin ++ « everybody ought to be anti-union in such cases, because if you are pro-union then you are anti-American and antilabor, too. . . . Why should anyone have to praise unions for going straight when they do? They ought to go straight. Unless. it is admitted that honest conduct by tinions and Unionpers, is SO rare as to deserve special mention.” - What Mr. Pegler will not say [for himself, his works gay for him, more loudly than any words. But for him the two racketeers and traitors to labor who were sentenced - yesterday in New York would never have been brought to ‘trial. George Browne would still be president of the Stage Employees’ Union and a vice president of the American Federation of Labor. Willie Bioff would still be free to prey on workers and employers. And many another crooked or ‘power-intoxicated union boss would feel secure. ~The record proves and will continue to prove that West“brook Pegler, a great reporter who refuses to pull his punches, has done more in recent years to encourage decent ‘unionism and protect the best interests of those who toil than has been done by the President and Congress and the Whole official hierarchies of A. F. of L. and C. L 0. all put together.
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es post property officer at Ft. Dix in New Jersey, where a large number of Uncle Sam ’s selectees are being
Not + only did he recently ask for 25 ,000 cakes face , but also 135,000 tablets of laundry soap, 10 tons oft washing powder, and 13,200 pounds of soap grit for
It’s pretty evident that when the Army gets through ith ‘them, all those lads are going to make excellent hus“They will be able to launder a handkerchief and
By Stephen Ellis
WITH CHRISTMAS :coming up. a great many persons are King about books as gifts, a tice we'd be the last in the orld to. pooh-pooh. One of the most. unusual book sets has ac- - ‘tually’ been designed as Christmas gifts. It .is the American Ar- . tists’ series, 10 books in all, The set includes Rockwell ‘ Kent’s “A Northern Christmas,”
Manuel Komroff’s “The Christmas:
Letter” ‘and intriguing other contributions by! Hendrik : Van Loon and Grace Castagnetta, Grant Reynard, Edward A. Wilson, Roger Duvoisin, Russell Limbach, Tonka Karasz and Peter Blaine. These are delightful and cheerfully modern little volumes. Look them over. -
Clarence Darrow For the Pitonse :
I'VE BEEN MEANING to mention a really great biography, one of the year’s very best, “Clarence Darrow for the Defense.” The soft-hearted cynic whose name became-.a synonym for successful defense devoted a battle-scarred lifetime to saving men from the death penalty and though there always may be differences.of opinion about his services to justice, there can be none about his principle: “I do not know anyone who does not. need mercy.” Irving stone does a masterly job in. portraying a great man.
He depicts Darrow with sympathy and yet bluntly a a5 a man with all the weaknesses of the lesser men | |)
whom his intellect would not quite permit him to love, yet whom. his heart compelled ‘him to pity. °
For the Youngsters—
FOR THE YOUNGER SET (timely in view "of our |
ocal observances) is a grand volume called *
PU a rstH sat 7 ment for them and. Poa adie direc toward :
} GROUP only adh: 10 books boxed; all illustrated; Artists, New York. CLARENCE DARROW FOR THE
DEFENSE, by : Irving Stone; Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York. | | | $3. 570 pages with index. oy - PENNY PUP
PETS, PENNY THEATER AND PENNY PLAYS, by M. Jagendorf.
Bobhs-Merrill, | ‘polis, 190 pages, illustrated with line drawings. 2.
the “big shot (?)* had thousands of acres burned— less materials for clothing than when our “benefactor” had thousands of acres of cotton plowed under? Are there fewer cars being operated, less gasoline used, less rubber worn off tires, fewer accessories being used on cars? Do you mean to say that there are still as many people out of work now as when our “beloved irreplaceable man (?)” started relieving men who never worked a day—and never would work if they had the chance to—by sticking it to guys like you and I. Or is there just a universal movement to “get it while we can”—how many times have you heard that expression? : Now, fellows like’me are stuck—
{I live too far from my work to use
the “public (2)” utilities, .I have children who must be fed food that’s good for them, I have to live
same reason. But vs We thingy I
in a place that’s habitable for the|
LA. g EGG-THROWING COWARDL! AND UN-AMERICAN
By Fair Play, Indisnapolis Lord Halifax, British ambass: to the United States, has joined as a charter member an ganization of which ‘Wendell Vv kie is a founde’. Both met same treatment, Both were : jected to the sane form of re attack. They were struck by eggs ancient lineage. They were the tims of an old: form ‘of hoodlun that has sprung up again in his country in the past few months. It} is this: when you can’t answe a man’s arguments, or do not like :he man himself, or hate his part: ory his country, throw something at him. Ii is whit a baboon «oes (When a ‘man imters his ns ive jungle, AE The ect is r\Amerien. 1
of iesm
jussivilised: I is cowardly,
is he
Side Glrces—ty Galbraith _
{ber of miles the freight is trans-
the distance it is carried.” The ton| | miles are simply the total tons of] freight multiplied by the total num-
The “ton miles” yardstick” ‘also measures railroad revenues, which| {are collected on a basis of weight multiplied by distance. ; Railway Age also pointed out that| the railroads are hauling their present record-breaking freight traffic]. with only 1,551,204 cars, or 28 per cent less than ‘the 2,075,708 cars| they had in 1629. . : . According to the Interstate Com-} merce Commission, the: railroads had an average of only about 1,100,- ven 000 employees in the first two-thirds of 1941, or 33 per cent less than the| 1,660,000 they had in 1929. .} tional Thus, the railroads are carrying! more freight than they did at their| planning previous peak of prosperity and are| doing it with far less expense for both equipment and ' employees. | Therefore, the railroads are fabu: St tainly can afford to share that prosperity with their employees by|
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