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‘to opp se: an further deepenwar. % But they yield to the

[ OE. COURAGE 7. Fi IS week will show whether there is enough courage one branch of Congress to grapple with, the growing ér of inflation. : he so-called price-control bill now "being debated by the House would be worse than ineffective. As originally _ offered by the Administration, it was bad. As altered by the House Banking Committee, it invites the evil it pretends to be aimed’ against. It would encourage farm prices to soar without real restraint. It would exempt wages and salaries—costs in- ; peviierly affecting prices—from any control at all. It would empower an appointed administrator to select certain commodities and order their prices held down, with criminal penalties to force business compliance ‘with the orders, and the committee, under Administration pressure, now proposes. to add the power of life or death over business firms by a licensing system. “But it wouldn’t prevent inflation or stop the rise in the | : cot of living: - For unless. costs are controlled, efforts to control some prices ean result only: in the worst type of inflationary maladjustments. is SH | : og a Lh Ey ss = : RERNARD M. Baruch: has ade this clear, and his ideas 52 are embodied in the bill by Rep.’ Gore of Tennessee which will be considered asa sul stitute for the Committee's

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cell on profits. Prices the ceiling, but could not

’ yessional courage will come in the e labor lobbies and the farm bloc

: control of arth prices 8 : of. wages. * fx Those Congressmen whi 8 tpport, it may visk reprisals

that they are for a genuine instead of a phony: attempt to prevent the disaster of Inflation. |

: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER \JOBODY but Hitler: should

cannot well raise the fal ue of Yankee eral : Protection, of bauxite deposits, which are the source of more than 60 per cent of the requirements of our defense aluminum industry, is the official reason given for the occupation. By whom and how this essential raw material is threatened is not stated Pesuttiably- by Fifth Columnists. Doubtless there is connection beiveen this Washington decision and the recent increase in Vichy collaboration with. Hitler. French Guiana;: under ichy control, is next door to Dutch Guigna.: ~~ - oo : : p! sia ee TY wie gm HIS protective movement, American. troops follows the cutting off of America: supplies to French North Africa, as the result of the Hitler-inspired dismissal of Gen. Weygand. as:pro-consul: there. ~~ The Ere has approved lend-lease to the Hon French. Whether Washington will take the next step of breaking diplomatic relations with Vichy apparently de8 on Marshal Petain’s next move. | : 1 Petain’ allows Hitler to the French fleet, or Affan bases looking toward Tiatin Ameries, ‘the ‘Washitgs | n Government with consent of certain South American Sreramats. probably . also WO d take over protection of

take protective 0.and its oil,

Jutch West Indies— as A and. its bauxite—in ¥ Soians Instead, the British |

in, Indiana, $3 8 yeal, |

| orders’ and the members of ‘both ‘ yd” 2 8 -crime-against the people and the, American form

i: mewspaper are their own. T ey are; he Soomsunily : those

object tothe U.S, itny . According to the. ‘White ] tion with, the Netherlands. ?

o eritics 4 :

-{ ‘chance of

| novelist,

and panhandlers” our ‘Congress | | these days when it is openly said |. &8¢

and never denled, because it Is

tch true, ‘that .the law- |" wretchedly ha

- making ‘body -of ‘a nation purports to be the greatest. opie “lic on earth is afraid to pass any “law that would place decent restraints on an organized mob of

racketeers and dictators because | - the President won's give the high-sign, The Presi- |"

dent of the United States is not the legislative body. He is the executive, the general MAREE e chair. man of the board, and he has t to orders to Congress but a duty to ed execute them. Congress has a oo to issue

are. guilty |.

ent when they deliberately. ‘refuse. to hh

hd their job.

The. President's advice. Jmay be sought and ‘re-

_spected but thete: “was. no’ intention ever that he |. -

Well Conlsigsa _wiisf: Jiws Ii must. pass and

#1 should what aws it must refrain from passing:

The

: Not Much Better Tha : French

NEVERTHELESS “THE NATIONAL legislature of ‘the United States, under the rule of President Roose-

3, +f welt, has abdicated its powers, its duty and all but the |

‘petty’ rewards of office and Is now so far gone, in’

‘whining, yellow ‘submission’ to the rule of the boss |

‘that the members: - admit that all legislation must have the approval: of the White House.

The French parliament was rotten at the end and |

‘perished of its own. poison but the pathetic crowd of

flabby political slobs who sare selling out the-Amer- |:

“ican ‘people today.at the price’ of their contemptible |. patronage jobs and Treas

any. They talk. of .the robbery, extortion; ‘physical brutality and arrogant suppression of citizens’ plain rights by groups of thugs, thieves and anti-American: conspirators in the service of the Kremlin and they conduct investigations which prove their worst gossip and suspicions. But, in all the years of the Roosevelt _presidencies, not one law have they had’the honor

and manhood to -enact which would’ trim’ the powers’

of these undisguised rascals "Traitors to the People”

*'*'HEY SEND OUT fiycops to the ends df the cotin-

try. to dig up evidence which can.be. found in.any newspaper any day. They drag witnesses 10 Washington to give irrefutable and undisputed evidence of the viciousness which is corrupting the whole nation; they draft bills;: They argue and then, having discovered the foul truth they .whimper like -a kennel of curs because the President won’t: give them his gracious permission to do their ‘obvious duty. -

. There are said to. be some men .in-both houses in {

whom _ self-respect and honesty are not quite dead

but if ‘so they are so inexcusably docile ér dumb that

-all few of them together can’t event raise‘a yow. .And all of those appalling frauds who clown it before the country as friends of labor are, on the contrary, traitors to the interests and rights of the very people whom they profess to servé best and have

sold them down the river to as vile and greedy a’

lot of slave-drivers as ever laid the lash on the ‘cringing Uncle Toms of ante-bellym days. .

| What: the U. S. Congress Lacks

THEY KNOW AND ADMIT that ‘millions ‘of dollars have been wrung from the sweaty grasp of common breadwinners by the most audacious and rapacious gang of thieves that ever preyed on humankind. They know that the laws known as labor’s gains are, in fact, labor's chains and that the so-called

labor policy of the President is a policy of political :

‘conspiracy with the bosses of the: unions.

It isn’t that the United States .Congress -lacks |

information or the authority to restore freedom to the people and destroy this monstrous outrage. These aren’t the lack. What the United States Congress lacks is guts,

is by Administrative permission. and when the flag of the new order is unfurled it

should contain a broad yellow streak in memory of

| <5 men who sold their couniry out for a few lousy { S. * : I

“iRdttor’s Note: “The “ewe Eprcii by columnists in this

of The Taisuayons Times. ie

dione Polis La Vem Boniall.

I J MAYORALTY - omy ; : g ‘waged in the ceurts is 5 Setting sph: ‘as the next primary

view. ‘ob ‘things to come: * ‘sults

rete Court. ee on by Circuit Judge Earl Cox declared the Skip-Elec-tion Law (which would postpone all Indiana ‘municipal elections excepting: Indianapolis’ until 1943) | I sien ons apis Means Indiatiapolis; and all other cities will elect Now Edward Knight, of the City’s legal staff, "has ‘another suit on file at Crawfordsville. Its aim is to have the law declared valid, with the clause. excepting Indianapolis ruled invglid. Then ' all cities would ‘elect in 1943. Mr. Knight, who represents Mayor. ‘Sullivan and the so-called City Hall faction of the Demacratic Party, says there are no political motives in his move. But leaders of the Court House faction feel otherwise. They say their Alabama street neighbors want the election moved back’ so"

lower ours. “Jt 1s now ‘before the

mayor. The City Hall boys, they say, are thinking. about Fred Hoke and Dr. Carlton B. Metwiiough as mayoral candidates. Ee

Around the State—

EUGENE CROWE of Bedford, ho Tost out as

Ninth District congressman last year, is reportedly feeling out his chances for a place on the Democratic : State ticket next year, “He might go for Congress, “even

find the going tough because Henry Miirray, three-

time Bedford mayor and now on the State Tax Board,"

also is a candidate, Probably for Secretary of State. ... A First District G. O, P "new chairman will be called soon by State Chairman

Ralph Gates. Harold E. Miner, who ‘claims the sup- {

port of 222 precinct officials, is one of the candidates.

Another group favors making the Lake County chair / at présent Elmer Watts, the district chairman]

= Chief opposition ‘to Mr. Miner, it’s said, is: com-

ine from Mayor Ernest Schaible of Gary. .~: Eighth 1} report that 1 G..V. Montgomery, New Albany Tribune. - editor, will

Republicans are cheering. thi

run for Congress. They heliove he Woul] stand = good getting: elected, especially the Evansville Democrats get 15to 8 84h over Sep. Vohul-gotige;

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So They Say— ©

Mois Wosgaih ea. Sense 45. poxaierst) Bia ; mate and has become man’s mateh.—Tewis Browne, | ‘3 author. SAN

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‘The selntionatind. Betweis 80 complicated that they make ple crossword

“handouts with which |: to buy, ielr own. ‘re-eletten, aren%: much etter, if

28; It's sort of a pre: ‘Three : now have been filed and‘one sof ‘them. has heen ruled upon by ‘a

‘Dewey Myers will run again for his Criminal Court bench, thus ‘eliminating him. “from” the mayoralty election, and so Al Feeney will be qut of ‘the Sheriff’s office a year before he tries for .

though district leaders are NS E him not to. As for the State ticket (auditor or treasurer) he may’

. meeting to ‘choose the | ig

men and. yon ar |

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"The Hoosier] Forum 1 wholly: disagree with what you say, but will. defend to the death Your right to say it. —Voltaire,

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‘PROHIBIT STRIKES, END FREE MANAGEMENT By BR. J! Rheinl ‘There is much to-do in the nation at this time concerning strikes in defense industries.- The question is: “Should strikes’ be permitted in de-: fense industries?” -

question which is “Shall we have defense?” Is it not fair to labor to say that so long as free and competitive management exists strikes should be permitted? -And is it not fair to the people; to America; to say. that so long as we have’ paralyzing’ strikes in defense industries we cannot have adequate defense? The majority has ruled ‘through public opinion to have adequate national defense. Labor and management are proving their inability to get together to insure mutual and necessary benefits and, at the same

“time, industrial peace.

There: is left only an alternative —to ‘prohibit strikes in defense in-

‘|dustries and to abolish free man-

agement in the same. ‘We know from past and current events that not to abclish these elements means civil war between labor

- |and management’ with government: -:}and people ag.onlookers. and inno-

cent victims.: < “This 15" #gains; the will of. the majority. - lds : 2-8 8 REACTIONARIES AWAITED CHANCE TO GET LABOR’ By LS Hayes, ! 3136 N.- Meridian St,

es. legislators are yelling in Congress, “It is time to act, not talk.” Nothing more can be expected from them. These reaction-| aries have long awaited the. opportunity to outlaw the hard-earned gains of labor. They have found it in the name of “defense.” Many people will hear and listen to them though they formerly would not, for these peaple realize America is at a crisis. Perhaps unnecessary but nevertheless America is at a crisis. In the: name of geterise are we go-

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Is this. not an unfair question? wg ‘| Moreover is it not beginning the true

.|ganda on the desert air... .

.-fthe less we’ ‘hear from you the bet-

ir mes readers are “invited . to express their views in ’ these columns, religious on: troversies .. excluded, - “Make “your letters short, 50. all. can “have a. chance. . Letters must be signed.) .

fairly, must be “no.” ’ mand for an increased wage the rapidly rising cost of livin not unreasorable. { Also the United Mine headed by John L. Lewis ¢ expected to grant special privileges to the war profiteering steel companies in the form of an ‘open shop. “If the problem of a high cost of living in this country and the strikes that result. from it is to be ‘|effectively solved, prices. must be lowered LPnough a - Yeguiation of profs; :

ig al ow ‘WE WILL STRING ALONG WITH HOMER CHAWLLAUX.

{By Edward F. Maddox, 950 Ww. 28th St. ce. It the Tuesday Night Club has " demonstrated its choice by: bringing ‘Thsodore. Dreiser to our fair city to extol the “virtues” of Communism and the “true democracy” of the Russian dictatorship, I fear he has wasted his propa-

For. Dreiser, or anybody else, to attempt to convince intelligent, informed Antericans: that Russia: has “a ‘truly’ deraocratic form of government” is an _insul to our intelligence. and to further insinuate that our own political and economic system is no: “worth saving” is an insult to our patriotism. Let's: have no more suck: trash! And let all sensible patriotic Americans bid Dreiser; ‘the Tues‘day. Night Club and all other... :. fellow-travelers “good - might and

side Glances—By Galbrs

ter.” Yes, we will string along with

for milddy’s wasn’t too much for scores of ‘folks| ,| who wear ordinary shoes and who,| & having. ordinary pocketbooks, can’t

Homer Chaillaux, ‘Martin Dies and American democracy, so. peddle

Keep it out of the schools.

# 8 =» ‘SOME. SYMPHONY PATRONS THOUGHTLESS AND SELFISH’

By A Balcony Sitter, Indianapolis

The weather was bad Saturday night and the slush on the sidewalk in front of the Murat Temple was awful. Maybe that was the reason there were 50 empty seats in the _|first 10 rows alone at the symphony + |concert. But if the slush ‘was too tanch ‘evening ' slippers,

afford to go to the concerts. Why can’t these folks tickets but don't go to the concerts give their tickets to music or ofhers ‘who do want to seems inexcusably thoughtl selfish of some of. the 's ticket-holders,

: B.n nw ‘PASS COMPULSORY ‘SA LAW ON ALL WAGES’

and phony

GS

{By Ww. m. awards, Spencer

Possibly a plain, homespun citizen will be called brash if-he comments unfavorably on the plan to take 15 per cent from workers’ wages at the SOUrce: . « . ; During the long depression, many of the workers had no employment whatever; many of them pinched out a miserable existence on WPA or direct relief; now that they have once more obtained employment, they, - under the Treasury’s plan, would be compelled to give up 15 per cent of their wages in the name of national defense, then, when the emergency was over, they probably would’find themselves jobless again and flat broke, with all the undesirable consequences it would mean to the nation’s economic life. :

decreased manufacture of civilian goods and the enormous amount of

workers’ purchasing power creates a danger of price inflation, we: know

{that effective steps must be taken to

restrict bidding for civilian goods in a diminishing supply. But we believe that there is a better way than excessive taxation to accomplish restricted ‘Purchasing power; here,

Lis:

“Pass a compulsive savings aw on

~ |all wages above a fixed, reasonable ~¥ {level; those 4 |in a special -accoutt: with some -re-|

those savings fo be deposited

sponsible agency designated by Congress, for the duration of the emergency. At the end of the or emergency there would be possibly billions of dollars of a backlog in purchasing power in the hands of the workers ready for the pos sible emergency ‘of keeping ‘the

| manufacturing establishments going, thereby maintaining continued |

employment in all lines of endeavOfrev.- oe

DEJECTION: AN ODE

Late, late yestreen: 1 saw ‘the: new

Moon, With the old Moon in her arms; |

‘| And 1 fear, I fear, my master dear!|

We shall ‘have a deadly storm.

1 Samuel Taylor Colartage

|.48 found. ol ape

| and later for substantial improvement was one of the

| captive mines, but no : question the breadth of mind of the three.steel coms

your propaganda to your own ilk.|

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0 buy.

tudents|. ? It],

- Recognizing that with the greatly| houses. money that is ow pouring into the].

- of Jife upon a creature that isn

Jef! -hand throwers?

: ‘WASHINGTON, Nov, 2%—The issue In the captive ‘mines trouble

? es {cri and other conclusions which oe ‘miners for the most arbitrary and un possible course of action for Which 10 excuse

e ‘Worst exploited class of labor: in-the ‘over the past. 60 years was:in. the mines. y first for any kind of union

‘bloodiest in our industrial history. It was not until, beginning with NRA, mine union organization became almost complete, that working ._ conditions became even tolerable. - They did at long last and through much sacrifice approach conditions in other fields. Partly as a cause and partly as an effect, nearly all of the tens of thousands of mines in the United States. were not merely completely unionized as a result of collective bargaining, but they were unionized on a closed shop basis

| Closed Shop Pledge Implied

THE IDEA OF THE organized miners is that there is no element of fairness in a man working in these mines under the vastly improved conditions secured by unionization and not being. willing to: pay the relatively light dues and adhere to the common loyalty of the union. ‘As a result, all of the so-called commercial mines, tens of thousands of them, and most of the other Jin, are 100 per cent unionized on a closed -shop

bee the other “captive mines,” which are owned. bye three great steel corporations to produce coal, not for sale commercially but to manufacture iron and steel, there are five. In these mines somewhere between 90 and 95 per cent of the miners belong to the union. The remaining few refuse to join. Rightly or wrongly the miners understood in negotiating the so-called Appalachian : that it carried a promise that when the captive mines agreements should come up again for negotiaetion, the closed shop would begincluded as if has been in the overwhelming majority of ‘union sgresmenta.

Slight Point to Concede

THE MINERS’ RESENTMENT at the refusal of the steel companies now to make this it. concession to the general rule has caused a resente ment among all the miners, with which I think the organization officials have very little to do. Those officials are being castigated for mot ‘con‘ceding the open shop to these few holdouts in we y ‘ever seems to stop to

pany officials who are unwilling to concede, for the sake of peace and unity, a point that seems even smaller and more trivial-—an unwillingness which -is

injustice and bitter resentment. | | 2 Of course, there are so many other elements such as the personal feud between the President and Mr, Lewis, .the threat of the broadseale .of troops to coerce tens of thousands of men, d the clamor for stringently restricted labor laws, that the whole i “ter is far more complete than I have made 2 4his # aspect of it appear,

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs 5 Walter Ferguson

Xs mw HE 18 YEARS 1 Have been ‘permitted to express my opinions in. the public print, I have learned: several facts about human nature as it flourishes in these United States. The average citizen will. stand . for a great deal of criticism, He . isn’t miffed when you find fault . with’ the way he conducts his _ business, or treats his wife and children, or interprets his ethical . and moral codes. You can insult his cauntiy and slander his creed and he ‘won't turn a hair. But just try making cracks about his ‘dog and ee " what happens. And not just his dog either, but any dog. In fact, thé dog is the only creature in these perts that is regarded with absolute reverence, and to hordes of people he is as untouchable as the sacred Cows of India. And city people are twice as dog ed as coune try people. By dog-minded I mean J oditively hypnotized and completely submerged Sentimental shush.

She Risks Her Lifet ;

. AT THE RISK OF my Tite, therefore, 1 make: the statement that we have debased and are debasing a ‘fine animal by ‘away his dignity, and that only country people, who still regard the dog as ‘man’s “helper and friend, truly understand or appreciate him. For, in spite of his foolish keepers, he is a noble and dignified beast. Perhaps psychologists may be able to sxplain ua urban attitude as” a repressed longing for. lost earthy fundamentals. Since barnyard 3 as fowls are unknown, to the average big ¢ity. cept as carcasses in meat shops, the dog. lash Sink with primitive existence. As a

Existence 1s different, and often ‘Harshet for 1 the farmer. Perhaps this is why he never debases either his women or his dogs by turning them into toys parasites, He treats both as useful members o domestic and social order, and doesn’t Jntlict his:

Questions od nswers

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Q—Is Mayor Fiorella La Guardia older than Senator Burton K. Wheeler? :A—Senator Wheeler is the older by nearly a year, He was born Feb. 2, Je82, amd Mayor Ls : Guatdla, Dec. 11, 1882. |Q—How many rs Sn ts ave Been are they a rarity? | A—Only six have performed in the major leagues, ee usually advanced for their scarcity is that

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certainly setting the miners aflame with a sense of :