Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1941 — Page 10
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WEDNESDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 18, 1941
THE SAFETY BOARD PLAYS SAFE
DAY the Indianapolis Safety Board met in ex- to ‘ecutive session to consider a recommendation from the | .;
County Grand Jury that. Assistant Fire Chief Roscoe Mec-
. Kinney be demoted for using firemen’s services at his home. |
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“The Board exonerated him. : We suppose that it is pure colneidesios that Roscoe MeKinney is the father of Frank McKinney, one of the most -powerful political ine} inthe Democratic party.
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(CORDELL HULL'S ability to’ igndre the ‘Warmongesing of the Japanese premier and foreign minister in ‘Tokyo, and to continue calmly the Washington peace nego- _ tiations, is a measure of the sincerity and: skill of “our Secretary of State. As usual he is firm, without carrying a ;chip on his shoulder. He judges the words of a man or a nation less Important than acts. Being wise with experience, and old “in the ways of negotiation, he discounts much of the shouting and arm-waving with which the other fellow hopes fo distract and confuse him. + When it comes to + ‘war of nerves,” such as js now being waged by Tokyo, Mr. Hull is tough—he can’t be
Jf Tokyo were more familiar with the long career in which Mr, Hull has survived scores of flashier political ‘opponents, including New Deal crown princes, it would have too much respect for his superb statesmanship to \waste this critical time of fina] negotiation with juyenile ages
_ bluffed and he can’t be oe om
” ” 8s 8 SSUMING that the Japanese Cabinet was forced to pound its chest to ‘show the home folks just how brave it is, the time has come for it to start negotiating in earnest. For three months Tokyo has stalled. Washington is beginning to doubt: that Japan is willing to give up her ‘aggression for any honorable compromise. Her able nego- _ tiators will have to offer something very tangible in the way of action to demonstrate good faith, We believe Japan can get a fair settlement or truce from Secretary Hull, if that is what she wants, ‘We believe she .can get economic security in access to raw materials and trade, which ‘she desires and needs; ‘We believe she can get a mutually helpful partnership with the United States in the Pacific. But she _camsget none of these things a as an’ SeEressor: in China, as a thfeat to the South Seas and Siberia, as an active partner of: Hitler. Japan must choose. And—=while she is about it-she can be thankful that Secretary Hull is more interested in achieving a Jost peace than in ‘saving his face. ty
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WHO'S “DRASTIC” NOW?
EP. HOWARD SMITH of Virginia has been denounced
as an enemy by the bosses of organized labor. He has fought to change New Deal labor laws.
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. friend by the bosses of orgaitized labor. As chairman of the strategic Honse committee on labor she has blocked efforts to change New Deal laws. - Mrs. Norton announces secret hearings by her com‘mittee on a bill which she says she has drafted are a substitute for the “ridiculous™ and “drastic” measures proposed by Mr. Smith and others.’ ~The secrecy is bad. The bill ‘appears to be worse. It would create a new defense mediation board—an independent agency with power to issue injunctions against either party to a labor dispute which did not abide by its findings. Injunctions by this board would -be in: effect for periods up to 30 days, after which findings could be taken to the courts for enforcement. That would be compulsory arbitration, a real blow to ‘the Nights of labor, = : . ; ig iy win > vn ® : ow about, Mr, Smith’s bill, to ‘which Mrs. Nofton says her committee will give no: attention? - It ‘would not 2 prohibit strikes. It would not compel arbitration. It would invoke against a defiant union no force SHuaph the force of informed public opinion. : ©. The Government has given unions many special privi- ; leges. It has provided rules of fair labor practice for emloyers, but exempted unions from such. rules. The Smith :bill would provide rules for unions, too. And it would thdraw the special privileges from unions which break e rules— : By striking without. giving 30 days’ notice to the Secre: ary of Labor and permitting mediation an opportunity to Bttle a dispute; by calling a strike not. authorized by % majority of the workers in a Government-supervised elecon; by striking to enforce a closed shop (though where closed shop already exists it would remain) ; by engagng in mass picketing, violence or intimidation; by consting jurisdictional strikes or secondary boycotts. | “What is 8 Moras or “ridiculous” about that?
YOUR TAX MONEY GOES
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00 a3 te 00 iv 40 Smid S560, you wi
ile rations for one soldier 204 days and pay for his
ast and noonday meal on the 205th day. But it will be quite enough to pay for a mahogany settee, uphol- |
ered arms, 8 round legs, 78 inches long; delivered to a ernment fic, Washington, D. Os price $86.14.
national defense, : That is. easily the most pompous
and balled-up sentence: that has’ |
been published in this country
Republie’ gies the turn of the century, but I
ing to sont by
‘which is much more than subject to arbitrary taxes and
1 orders of subleaders $ beholden
snd 70s. or 4 Toadsop ffelght truck with 2a
elephant hook.
This Is a H... of a Prospect!
IF WE SAY THAT WRONG JOHN LEWIS must not do this or that because a military emergency exists we are saying in very plain effect that it would be all right for him to do the same thing in absence of such an:emergency, and that is the big
Even in times of peace Wrong John ‘has no right to bar American citizens from lawful employme 1t for failure to join his union, if we don’t insist on that point in the emergency we plainly threaten the American citizen with such. compulsion and, as Presi«
dent Roosevelt has finally and reluctantly acknowle: edged, with a phasé of the Hitlerism dictatorship,
when peace arrives again. That is a hell of a prospect, to offer American
citizens as a lure to sacrifice so that Hitler may be
destroyed. Destroy Hitler, we say to our people, and when we have all made the necessary sdcrifices for that purpose and vanquished the dictator we will place ourselves under the dictatorial rule of *Wrong John Lewis or some other political unioneer. . Our people would not even argue with Lewis or any other unioneer on this and several other points of fundamental right if they were educated in the
facts of unionism. And their ignorance of these facts
is partly the fault of our press and partly the fault
of our politicians in the national field. A good deal
of blame-lies with the present national government, too, because debate has been kept down and every attempt to bring bills into Congress for discussion and
White House.
a vote has been beaten by silent orders from the |
Bigger Than, the State
THE RESULT 1 I8 that our people are Just beginning to realize that unionism is not what they have always carelessly thought it was. It is a huge business and a huge political movement. In West Virginia right now, Lewis is bigger “than the state government, and is organizing the state employees into C. I. O. unions, which means that when the inevitable demand is made for the closed shop. a private organization, ostensibly a labor union, will be demanding a percentage of the wages of all state employees and will require that all employees join ‘the union but will not have to give any account of its political activities or expenditures. It will be a Nazified party running an American state in the guise of an organization of free workers,
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with goons or brown shirts, known as pickets, to
enforce its will. Buf, in the presence of the emergency which certainly does exist, a quotation from Bill Shirer’s Berlin Diary is shockingly pertinent; * On Aug. 5, only last. year, Shirer was in Prance with 3 the Briss of the Nazi conqueror and he wrote: “French coal mines gre working again. They were not destroyed by the French this time as in 1914, A photograph in one of the papers shows French miners unloading coal at a, pit. Watching over them is a steel-helmeted German soldier with a bayonet. Their Moscow-dominated Communist Party and thelr unions told them tot to work and not to fight when France was free. bayonets.”
Editor's Note: The views expre ail by col newspaper are their own. They are not of The Iudisnapolis Times. |
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Capital Chatter’
Rep. Mary Norfon of New Jersey has been. hailed as a |
By Peter. Edson
your Thanksgiving turkey dressing hasn’t enough sage to suit you, it’s
because the war shut off the sup-.
ply from Yugoslavia. . . . The 1200 stations in the Flood Service save the country an ave erage of 14 million dollars a year at a cost of $3200, of which, flood losses average 50 million ‘dollars a year. . . . The fh, Government and the British-Pur-chasing Commission now have offices in 2000 Washington apartment suites which would otherwise be housing defense workers who have to find other places to live. . . . Defense agencies. are debating how much material to allot for juke boxes. The C. I. O. is raising funds for maintaining a children’s village in England. . .. The Army has ordered 18,750 miles of cloth for new uniforms. . . Weather bureaus have been ordered .to give extra forecasts in
the interests of. safeguarding national defense. . .}
U. S. gold stocks are now more than 22 billion dollars. «+A, F. of L. statisticians have figured that time lost on strikes in their unions during the last six. months: amounts to 30 seconds a day.
‘No More Worries Now
A GREAT INTERNATIONAL social barrier has.
been hurdled by the appointment of Litvinov as Soviet:
Ambassador to the U..S. His wife is an Englishwoman and wii therefore be acceptable at the British EmWashington Treasury experts are pre-
a on the q. t. that i inflation may hit the Amer-’
ican people with a wallop far harder than the new tax program. . . . German and Ifalian military and naval attaches in Washington like to lunch at the Army and Navy Town Club, where U. 8. officers might be overheard talking shop, and vice versa. . . .. Most
celebrated slip’of the tongue in the neutrality debates:
was Iowa Senator Gillett’s reference ®, ‘Mackenzie Bing as “Premier of China. BoD
So They Say—
Learning in schools anid ‘colleges shouldbe Be,
aged on a 12-month basis since it has béen a long
e since students have been needed for spring plowing and the summer harvest.—President William | f
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B, Tolley of Allegheny College. + * * Me that the was'a Joc judge ude ines
outside The Nation and the New |
have phrased it. ‘and both ways against Better = sense. Neverthe.
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Warning
000—in spite
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly. disagree with what you say, but will ~ defend to the death your right to say #t—Voitaire.
‘YOU CAN'T HAVE FREEDOM
|AND BE LIKE OSTRICH’
By T. W. D., Lafayette Ey I share Ira E. Oramer’s views wholeheartedly. You can’t have a free world and walk around like an
jostrich with your head in thé sand.) I'll join up with Ira any time they] .
say the word. 2 eC. ‘LET INDIANA'S OITIZENS WAKE UP AT HOME’ :
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By Walker Hull; Freetown
I see so much in the ‘fiewspapers about democracy and = American liberty and about saving the world:
Mr, Taxpayer, get an American dice tionary and see what democracy means. ‘Then study -our government’s activities without prejudice and see if we have either liberty
(democracy. If we have democracy
we have both. Now I hear that game wardens are going around and those they find violating ganie laws they confiscate guns, coats and all hunting equipment and they fine the violator besides. Now is this freedom and democracy? No, “it’s neither one. It’s neither constitutional nor democracy. The Consti-
J tution Says property can only be
[confiscated for treason. Now Mr.
~- {Citizen get -your dictionary
and sée what the meaning of
up in Detroit. Now let Indiana’s citizens wake up here at home:
{Maybe liberty and democracy will
follow. . =»
‘DON'T HARP ON DRIVERS— BLAME PEDESTRIAN, TOO’: By Rex Constable, 3316 E, 26th St. I have read of automobile drivers being so reckless, and not giving the pedestrian his or her right of way. 7 If W. H. Richards liked the way traffic was handled in Chicago and he cares so much about the pedestrian, why did he not find how it was accomplished. . . .". Please ons misunderstand ‘me. 1
for democracy. Now Mr. Citizen and |
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am not siding with the driver at all but it makes me sick to hear someone harping on the driver of a car when 95 per cent of” pedestrian déaths happened when‘a pedestrian walked against the red: light or jaye walked. As for a cirunken driver, a measly fine or lcense revoked doesn’t help but very little, Let them stay in jail for a nice little term. As far more , Why do people cry for ore’ Patice ‘and at the same time ery because the taxes are so high. | These officers have to be paid, remember, : ! ; ; 's =» =» ‘PATIENTS DON'T GET ENOUGH 10 EAT ; By EJ. O'Brian, 426 Massachusetts ave. I see by your paper that the grand jury and press have béen censoring the Fire Department for using pubite help and materials. has been; going on for years:in all our institutions - where public afgials
{word treason is. Lord Halifax ‘vke] get big meals at the publics
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—1f |
pense - and the patients don’t enough to eat. see
2 =» 1 WONDER WHAT WERE
‘ICOMING 10, ANYWAY? I8y. m. Maker, Spencer :
About “six weeks 280 my little girl was talten away from me and sent to girly’ school. All because of a girl here In Spencer. They took her word for all of it, Said she'd have to go to Rockville for T. B. But she still is running the streets and going 05. school, I thought chil~
school with other children. Also a by 20 years old_was the
cause of a very small girl going to
Side Glancas=ty Galbraith
dren that had T. B. shouldn’t be in}
the school. He is running around.}| They never did anything to him. So now he can get some more little girls into trouble. . . . . They let the older ones get by and send poor little children for the crimes of the older ones. -I wonder what were Somsing to anyway? 82 8
| MANY. FOREMEN LOW-GRADE
SLAVE DRIVERS’ By C. O. T. East Chicago o « o « Are labor strikes a cause or a result? From my observation in| the Calumet region they are a result| of ‘some ‘atrocious working conditions and exceedingly low . grade management. Many foremen are little more than low slave drivers, A good boss is a seldom seen exception. A good foremen, as name implies, is .& leader, not a pusher. WE ‘GOVERNOR IS: MAN WHO
|DESERVES THE CREDIT
By T. W. D., Infisnapelis \ I've never felt so happy over anything as over the Governo’s ap-
nicipal judge. This is sure a kick in the ‘pants for all the two-penny politicians. we: have in this County. I've known John Niblack for 15} years and I can say I don’t know a more honest man. .... But the Rdg 1s the man who deserves the credit. He's the first real Governor this State has had in
many a moon. . . «
8 & = ‘LEWIS NOTHING MORE THAN FULL-FLEDGED TYRANT’ By a Little Fellow, Indianapolis ~- Well, the die is cast. John Lewis has chosen to defy the Government of the United States. The $50,000 he pulled out of the Mine Workers’ treasury to help, Franklin Roosevelt run for President has come back to haunt. F.D.R.
face? If he does, he will lose the respect of the millions of Americans who have looked upon him as the
|eteatest President. of our history.
“This is the:time when we need to crush all would-be dictators. And John Lewis is nothing more than a
. ‘Hull-fledged tyrant. He rules by co{ercion and fear. Mr, Roosevelt owes| : it to the countty to stamp him out ] ;jand all he'stands for. , . » EA
“1 wonder if . 2 newspaper can
clear “up a matter that has been
} result in copper, as well as s
thei:
pointment of John Niblack as Mu-|-
30000. planes & year a plane, it would fake ‘shout TOY.
Here We Keep on Going!
“The two-ocean Navy requires only
“80,000 : Soper Over four FeRra-15000 Yo 20000 fons per year
“To shisaihe. an average ship with enppes wouls
"require about 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of copper. .
“By March of next year a very large the copper that will be used for new
of
| order all the copper, brass,
That gets in the hands of the
though they may nof use
It was the same way appeararices of shortage and create his sb. the ‘ena ‘of the War 25d ‘over-capacity 4nd over-production now, : : It is-one of the most important jobs of 8. PAB to run: down and prevent this evil before it does irréparable harm. As an illustration, the average’coppe: requirement I have heard even on this basis, 2,500,000 tons. a 5
Shortage Is Not Indicated
HERE 1S A COMPARISON of available tonnage of ‘primary copper produced in 1018 and
any. pper shortage in Bes verbatim for Ea it is worth." : Sgn x Net tons on annual basis: % !
0 A. (including Cuba) .. vesesis 904000
e sussssasresidhiviesssteensnce 7
Canada Rhodesia 9060000600000 000000000000 Belgian Congo 60000000 isos0sbson 1 68,000 30/000
324,000
jis
obo $0860000604v0is0s06s08000
' Other Africa 060d0000000s00c00vb000
Mexico Veiesisseavesbsntcesicaibone Peru ses 240940080000 s0s bo esdnsudetVe Australia sssvaiine ceiciiarnevenviine India (including Burma) s8ds0cdisn Newfoundland: 99990040 080s8000080an Bolivia coves s60v000060s006s s6s0bosine Philippines evsevsssssastosess sese x Ecuador sevrescsnsseccnsserstonises
France sessseescessosesansnstiveine ®600ce
Venezuela aescenseesabrisersoctones” edeer. . Totals ses sae ee seasassincenorsUnass 2418300 138108
“THE MODERN GIRL is more interested in curling her hair than
‘ “in baking a cake.” This statement, made recently by an eminent educator, deserves attention, % It is true, of course, and the reasons are not hard to find. They derive from the peculiar’ nature of the male animal who, while praise ing ‘ virtue highly, s inclined to run after vice. All the fellows nowadays are more interested in a guts cu curls than in her cakes, and modern misses are smart ‘enough to : You have to do more than “feed the and hold a man these days. Trying to". heart by way is Sie stomach is almost sw
of masculine propaganda, since t to profit, most from thelr pOpuFit Food will Never Man ty FOR DON’ JUANS,/ who Lh ‘to. have th
Will Mt. Roosevelt wiggle around | Ww and find some way of saving Lewis’|’