Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1941 — Page 8
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A READER asks why we do not say. more about the greater menace than the coal strike.” - Because we believe the parties to the railroad contro versy are negotiating in good faith and Sincerely trying. to reach a settlement. . : Becaus& the issue involved is legitimate and: veal’ issue of wages—and because the railway unions’ aré ob-' serving the spirit and letter of the fine ‘Railway Labor Act in their effort to win greater concessions, © Because the leaders of the: railway ‘unions are. respon sible, clear-headed men, not: swayed by hatred or personal ambition, who realize fully their duty to the country as ‘well as their duty to their memberships. Because both sides know that the country canitot afford a railroad strike, and because we have little fear that they will permit what is so far only a call issued in complisnce with law to become the calantity of an actual strike.
Ive MONTHS DAY begins the sixth month of the biggest and blood“7 iest battle in history. ‘In a war of surprises, the battle | “of Russia has been the greatest. Even now the final outcome is more of a ‘myste r-than ever. Regardless of the end, Russia has saved Sughd from invasion and possible defeat in 1941. Russia has provided the precious time in which Britain, with. mounting American aid, can prepare for the decisive battle of 1942. Had Hitler, instead of playing the longer Russian shot, continued his closing pincers movement from Crete and Libya -on Suez, he probably could ‘have broken the hack of the British Empire.. Now ‘five additional .months of American’ supplies’ have prepared the British for a Libyan offensive. Turkey, then almost encircled, was on the verge of helping Hitler. Today she is still holding out.” Iraq and Iran, controlled by Nazi Fifth Columnists, then were ready for Arab revolt behind the British line as Hitler: attacked the two fronts. Today Britain and Russia have consolidated the Middle East in one vast unified barrier of men, materials and resources. Then Italy, revived by Nazi conquests of the Balkans and Crete, was able fo give some help to ‘Germany in a | final battle for the: ‘Mediterranean. Today Italy: is & Ger : man liability, 3 To supply the battle of Russia Hitler has drawn off Italy’s meager materials and craftsmen, leaving her army to disintegrate under ‘Balkan. guerrilla attacks and . her Navy to run from the British fleet. Broken and. disillu‘sioned, hating Mussolini hardly less than her new dictator; Italy now is the weakest spot in the Hitler line and vulnerable to British invasion. : i * 8 = J EWISE, ‘Hitler's failure to blitz Russia stirred the first significant revolt in the conquered countries, particularly in Jugoslavia. Throughout Europe the enslaved, who had lost hope, now lift their heads again because the Nazi 3 war machine has been. slowed down for the first time by Russian peasants.~ For the United States the result - has Deon direct. ‘When Hitler's hordes moved into Russia, several Latin “ American Governments were pro-Nazi and becoming more 80 with every Nazi victory. Today Hitler’s stock is lower | : and Uncle Sam’s higher in Latin America than at any time.
since the war began, and hemisphere security consequently. as
stronger. The unexpected Russian defense Postponed, if it did not prevent, a Pacific war. Japan planned to aftack’ in mid-August, taking advantage of the promised Naz vietory. If that had happened Britain probably éould not have “defended Singapore, or the Russians Siberia, or the United. States the Philippines. “Now the United States heads.an| A. B C. D. alliance co-operating with Russia, a:combination ntly strong enough to defeat Jayan--4ng therefore ving a better chance to prevent war. Not least of the results of the battle of Russia is thal) German toll. ‘Destriiction of German materials, ‘machines;
power and: morale has been tremendous. . Hitler has |=
admitted that he “made a mistake” in ‘underestimating the. Russians, and Goebbels twice in a fortnight. has warned the nce-confidenit Germans of worse to come. But the biggest fact of all is that Germany, though. slowed down, is still winning.’
STEEL-SAVING LICENSES
- license plates tacked up on the wall. “But only in ea. No other country would have been able 3 prodigal waste of sheet metal. _ They'll be rarer in future. Five states already. have plans, according to the ‘Federation of Tax Administrators, eliminate the rided for new license plates next year or goon. California will fasten “cover strip®”. “over this year’s ates with the-new data; only new y : ‘plates, saving BE between $100,000. and, $180,000, | in addi |
threatened. railroad strike, which’ he title = “even'a |
t > afford # ‘stich | of the Slate, County
NBW vor, ov. 22. The
‘by rioting and slaughter is. the Lewis. Up to now, President Roose~
| policy, for mass picketing, which : au Ty STINE ineans Lb brown A Er rr organized unre many “disputes ‘between ye. and rivate industry.
by the movies ‘and: still pictures and by the accounts of reporters and ‘other eye-witnesses, which always agree that. Wien. men Hy to bess through the pleket lines to reach their work, rioting sta
a EL ee a ate wr }in the armament ‘program, With the principle of
tional government has never quarreled.and Mrs, ae last winter made a sympathetic appearance
were at that very moment under indictment for riote ing against the whole community in New York.
Bringing Back June, 1922 ;
, |. THE RECORDIS SUCH that the present dispute ‘takes on an ominous hue. Lewis is a reckless and un--predictable man with a dic atorial nature and a desire for personal power. e is a knock-down and
.shares the President’s own appetite for blanket powers which enable the holder to take unforeseen ac-
g tion far beyond the intent or suspicion of those who.
confer the powers. In June, 1922, in Herritl, 1m, Lewis decreed by telegram that a number of men belonging ‘to a union of
|. steam shovel workers should .be treated as common |:
Stalkereakers and members: of an outlaw organizan, shovel men were members of a union and they. .were
In removing. topsoil for a strip-mining operation.
‘without making the outrage which followed thé posting of the telegram from Lewis in the public places f Herrin any less horrible, unless it is to_be allowed oe the strikebreaker is necessarily an. outlaw subject to extinction on sight by any union member -or other person. - That would be a dangerous concession because any woman going to her job in a department store or restaurant which has been struck by order of the boss unioneers in sympathy with, say, the effort of -the teamsters to collect import tax on food at the city line. ' By this construction she could be identified as a strikebreaker and summarily dealt with ‘by the pickets. : ph
The Herrin Massacre
AT HERRIN A LARGE party of the shovel men surrendered, unarmed, under a promise of safe conduct. One, a cripple, ‘who could not keep up with the march to the place of slaughter was shot dead in the road. " [The march proceeded to a place where the rest were told to leap a fence and run for their lives. Fourtéen were shot dead as they fled and four others staggered a short distance and died of wounds. Of eight who were recaptured, two were hanged on the spot and. the other six were dragged by a rope at tached to an automobile to the cemetery, where the mob shot all six and cut the throats of three. One, miraculously, lived.
The next day, Lewis insisted that his telegram
| could not have touched off the massacre, which he
took occasion to deplore, and suggested that “sinister influences” - had‘ been active to inflame “the spirit of violence” among his followets Nevertheless, the union rallied to the defense of 214 men’ who were "indicted ‘and ‘nobody ever: served as much. as an hour in jl for. He massacre, :
The Party Line
By Thomas L. Stokes
DETROIT, Nov. 22.—The respectability attained by the "Communists, thanks to our alliance with F.ussia, was very evident at the C. 1. O. convention here. : They wore, with conscious vir tue, -the; cloak. of support for J Ne ‘Roosevelt ‘foreign ‘policy. + accoutered, they mingled in brome erly fashion with more conserva~- " five labor men~-who are privately suspicious of this new neighborliness. “Who knows when the party Tine will change?” asked one conservative, - Only afew months ago—to be exact, up to June ja when Hitler invaded Russia—the Communists were crying down the “imperialist war” and denounce fhg the domestic program of the “capitalistic” Roosevelt regime, Perhaps most uncomfortable and suspicious in this mesalliance are the followers: of Sidney Hillman.
| At At last year’s convention in Atlantic City, Mr. Hill-
man was the particular target of the Communists, who then were lining up with John L. Lewis because of the latter's isolationism. Now, Mr. Hillman is all
right, and John Lewis is the man who wears horns.
So it was easy to interpret the smirks with which’
-the more conservative elements observed Communists
‘consideration . of - the resolution wrongly endorsing the ‘President's foreign policy.
Sense of Humor: Refreshing MICHAEL J. QUILL, head of the transport work-
x ers, at least had the grace in his speech ‘to ‘refer humorously fo the Hg-Tagging of. the party line dur- |”
quit talking shout “When
-ing th Si! He it. was Ootgien to pig the party line?’ fia, you Hitler .wins,” he warned, “you'll ‘have plenty of ‘ people . An concentration . ‘camps and then: you can ‘abswer “When did you change the party. line?” : As far as ;the Communists were concerned, the question of support of the President’s foreign policy
Sion, for Leé Pressman, C. 1.0, general - resolution
‘delegated to read the ; and he performed in his: best goletun manner Generously,
they would: “geiives liver he ul Others: who aroused cheers from the Communist rooting
a ann Union, ‘and “all-out.”
So 0 They Say—
Whosver 15 in Alaska » has it, Aud on Army rd R. B. Husbard, Alkska's
have ~ Fight to enforce their will
core of the présent fight between ’ “the American people and John L. |
velt has given negative and cullu- | sive support to this revolutionary
| No atgument or ‘evasion can put down the final! truth that mass 8 plcketing is mob: action, It is proved
, President. Roosevelt has one Sar: such defiance: .authority and coercion er worse only“when
Amob 3 aetian -loosed against nonconforming workers, |
‘before a meeting of strikers, some of whose leaders |
drag-out parliamentarian " union affairs and he
His' Mine Workers were .on strike, but these ‘not mining, but were performing shovel men’s work : That they were strikebreakers could: be conceded.
‘the war drums from the platform during.
‘was most appropriately introduced into the convenwas
aia. pf Aho. Maritime Union: /that as far as the seamen were concerned
tally as a lend. The
| to be. expanded to include
- . WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. — I don’t know how much, if any, of our settlement with Mexico is to come out of ‘lease-lend. mney.
Pejtiaps na zohe. But, o of 50 the : Toe ks doo ih.
fused to concede, It is mentioned here only inciden~ sutible of our policy under actual lease~ that we have ‘appropriated - for this purpose were with the undesstanding that they
Baring
of 4 h: 5 Re ny who is aahing. This is its; understandable but it raises a Per:
enenty of democracy as an ally.
.tinent question. Is lease-lend a military
rt of carte blanche to our Government t0 . fuoney there is for any political put
Just Like the WPA Grants
| SHOULD IT BE handled by politicians; social workers and economists? Or is the’
| sideration one of how much of this money goes where
it will do the most good in matters of Durely ll ry strategy? It seems to me that at least the ry consideration is military. but there is p little military talent. or experience being used in the administration of those billions, That great strategist, Mr. Harry Hopkins, who has spent more. of the peoples money than any other in-. dividual since the beginning of time 1 with less result is the lease-lend poo-bah, and, if there is 53 competerit soldier’ in his retinue, I cannot for the moment recall his name, Surely the situation now is ly the way in which some eA ro plicit’ out. If a certain country is DE
ness: in support of our objectives. a: fo ells of ila :
lions may be thrown that way.
American good ‘ neighbor. to gy. ns
begins J | Nazis, it may suddenly find itself the Lwin the
1 wholly defend to
“The Hoosier Foran
ihe dash with what you say, but will eth your right to say ih=—Voltaire.
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‘GETS MY GOAT HOW LEWIS GETS AWAY WITH IT’ ¢ By $1-A-Month, Ft. Knox, Ky. I had a pretty good job back home in Indianapolis making $125 a
I was ordered up for examination and then later told to get three days’ clothes and get into the Army. Nobody said anything to me about my job being bigger than the Government. I don’t particular hanker for a full year in the Army, but I'm just.as willing to do my part until it’s- all over. ‘What gets my goat is how the Government lets John Lewis get away with what he does. If ‘we haven't any .say-so about emergency, why stiould he? . . . #
, | POLICE-RAID ON BINGO
a ‘OUTRAGEOUS’ ‘By J. L. M., Indianapolis
I think the- police raids on the bingo game at the Catholic church
- |is one'of the most outrageous things x have ever heard of.
Everybody in this man’s town knows darned well that we have wide-open gambling all over downtown. . . You can place almost any kind of bet you want to, on horse races, football games or shoot: craps. Don’t tell me that the policemen in the. downtown area don’t know all about this. And instead . of cleaning up his: thing, they go out and raid churches. Our police de= partment: Sught to be impeached for this. . . 8 = ord LOOK. WHAT $76,000,000 WOULD DO FOR US’ By A Better Housing Fan, Indianapolis. 1 notice in the newspapers that the new battleship named for our state will cost more than $75,000,000 when it is finished. I know that it is necessary, but isn’t it a- terrible comnientary on the’ kind of world we Jive.in that we must spend $75, 000,000 for a weapon of death when we need so: many thing in this
|cotintry?
Look what that amount of money would. do in Indianapolis. It would Bive us the oom to tear ‘down
month. I got my questionnaire and
3 with dismay.
|ARCHAIC AND AN INSULT’
: Times reader are invited | fo express their views in “these ‘columns, religious. confroversies excluded. Make ‘your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must
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every old hotise in town and build new, modern ones in their places and to build all kinds of modern public buildings and repair all our old streets. . , . .I am all for. detenise, but | sometimes when 1 realize what it is costing us and what we col with the same amount of tirned to advancement Ish
’ * = # ‘HOPE HE FINDS MAN TO | TAKE McNELIS' SEAT’ By A Demoorat, Indianapolis
Yes sir, what you said abou ernor ‘Schriciter after his ap ment of John Niblack to Mu) Court is. all true. And I'm not saying that just because I'm a Democrat, either. If he gets off the track, I'm the kind of a guy that will let you know, and kim too. He Nas started out to do a job of cleaning up our Municipal Courts. I for one Lope he rolls right on and he finds a man just like. Judge Niblack to take John MoNelis' seat in the other Municipal court. More power to. you, Governor. - ‘#8 8
‘COURTROOMS OUTMODED,
Gov- { icipal
By A lawyer, Indianapolis I agree with the letter writer to the : Forum who commended the appointment of John L. Niblack. But as one who has praised in these Municipal Courts I would: like to point out to eo general public that these rooms are as unfit fora courtroom as anything I have aver seen. There is roach powder scattered all along the walls and the entire facilities are outmoded, archaic and an insult ‘to'-every thinking per
son. I do not see how any judge
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side Glance —By Galbraith
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can feel inclined to dispense frue
: Justice in this type of atmosphexe.
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: QUOTES CHURCHILL ON
NEEDING ONLY TOOLS
By Bettie Stockton I wonder how many people of this country remember the speech in which Winston Churchill most emphatically stated that England did not need American troops. Here are his exact words: “In the last war the United States sent 2,000,000 men. across the Atlantie, but this is not a war of vast armies hurling immense masses of shells at one another. We do not need the ‘gallant (Armies which are forming throughout ‘the American Union. We do not need them this year nor next year nor any. year that I can foresee.” @ “Give us the tools and we. will finish the job,” was his theme. Then he went on so say that Britain does need an immense and continuous supply of war materials and. to get them needs more shipping facilities.
was made when the Lend-Lease bill was being hotly debated ‘in Cone gress.
then, the most certainly doesn't need them now. Russia, with her millions of soldiers, is now England’s ally and is giving Hitler the
place of making a supreme effort to strike Hitler a telling blow, as her own people want, does ‘nothing but hope for and expect another A. E, F. to do her fighting, That same train
|of thought is voiced in this country
by some so-called Americans who are doing their utmost to high-pres-sure the American people into comDletely losing their heads. : I sincerely hope that every Amr. fcan can read the just concluded series of three articles by Herbert Hoover for The Saturday Evening Post ‘entitled, “The First American Crusade.” In passing,! Mr. Hoover remarks ‘that America is the only nation since the Crusades that has fought the battles of other people at her own gigantic loss,
CLINT . ‘DOES NOT EXPRESS
"|OPINION OF LEGIONNAIRES®
By a American Legionnaire, Indpls. 1 do not like the references in
is responsible for attempting . to Theodore Dreiser from, speak-
ing. It is my opinion that Homer
Chaillaux speaks ‘only for one
naires. i
on & t, but’ some=
-our production and. why.
By a strange coincidence this speech |
Well, if England didn’t need Hoon 8
fight of his life. But England, in}.
yours and other newspapers in-| - timating that the American Legion|
hii Dyas that Dreiser 3s oft
several hundred millions of dollars of this, that, or the other, which it has been seeking. If it is ar strating a good resistance to Mr. Hitler, it may get
“tanks or airplanes in addition to other. ‘such favors,
International Log-Rolling '
THUS THE PROCESS of international log-roiling. continues without much central planning, without uniform guidance and with almost total disregard for the obvious: and simple fact that if we are to beat Hitler, it must be done by a well-balanced program based. on military expediency. We have long had in this country an almost neglected group of experts called the Army and Navy Munitions Board. It is an agency oy equiped to. make decisions as to where our industrial military produc
tion will do the most good. It is in a position to know
all the considerations and thinking of the general staff of the Army, the general board of the yi and what should be the future task of our own orces and the plans of our allies. nips In our setup today, its voice is an almost neglected whisper at the counsel tables where it is drowned out by the clamor of the. diplomats, the politicians, the cultural experts and the new tribe of international do-gooders who are out to e the world with ‘American billions when the war. is: Ee Ais It is the latter groups which decide on their ov: considerations what county should get how much of Even our own Army and Navy are at their mercy in the question - of supply. -
Editor's Notes The views s expressed by colniinists fn this newspaper are their own, They are ot FI_—y ‘those - of Ths indisnapolis Times. 00 0 vbloeyso aes
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs, Walter Ferguson.
ONE 18 SOMETIMES of a
“loss to decide whether we have a
war or a new form of society enterprise on our hands. “The ladies
keep up thelr usual verve, but the
“charity fete” attitude runs through a great deal of their defense work. We gather that the 8 cocktail hour glamour is maine . tained, no matter how much sufe ‘fering goes on beyond. the circles . ‘where the blue bloods dwell. | -
A lot of things women do in
times like these don’t make sense. They add up only to folly. And the publicity the socialites and entertainers get is amazing, when you realize that our boys,
dying on’ the high seas, live in social oblivion syed
before they rate an epitaph, and that everybody else is asked to sacrifice for Freedom.
I was flabbergasted recently by a double~column
spread on the subject of Eleanor Powell's shoes. Did" you know the dancing dear has 400 costing less than $16.50 plus tax? nets ) will make you envious, especially if you are a who haunts the bargain basements to find decent and cheap for your two working: feet.
‘Right Now, I'm Discourage d 7
JUST HOW ARE WE going to diagramming for. thé ‘poor the methods rich to raise money for noble causes tions: of their homes and dress? EF lishers figure that the feminine se has an insatiable yearning for wary Certainly many Women b they learned that Lady gowned, and that her je when she and her't and vegetables at J
And the: a
1 |branch of the Legion anit does not| couraged |express the ‘opinion of all Legion-|-
screwy, tangen times I feel ‘the same way- about em
not: one
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