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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941
'A"GOOD HABIT ; yi ‘s HE railroad companies and their employees : have ac- * quired an addiction to the habit of peaceful settlement of their arguments. Last night's announcement that their latest dispute has been settled, without a strike, is a spec‘tacular demonstration of thejr mutual respect for the mediation processes set up for them by law, and of their mutual | willingness to make concessions rather than trample on the public interest. Aare “7% | | A railroad strike would have made the recent coal strike look like small potatoes. The danger now passes, ‘and the public owes congratulations to the men, the man-
agements, and the Government. Se
THE PRESIDENT AND THE CORK ~~ EVEN his old friend and boss, the President of the United ~ States, seems to have a poor opinion of the way Tommy Corcoran has been cashing in on his popularity and influence among Government officials. . Mr. Roosevelt, in reply to a press conference question, said he was in favor of legislation to curb lobbying: by former Government officials. He didn’t mention. “the Cork,” but those who have read Thomas L. Stokes’ dispatches ‘are aware that Mr. Corcoran has been a spectacular success at the “practice of influence” since leaving the Federal pay roll last year. ‘Every agency of the Government has its coterie of bright young men, and some not so young, who feel that they owe a certain loyalty to Tommy. And that loyalty has been ‘worth plenty to him in the last year. Mr. Corcoran is not the only New Dealer, by a long shot, to step out of office and into the heavy sugar of the lobbying trade. Charles West, one-time White House leg- . man, is up to his neck in the influence racket. There are _ many others. The whole crew ought to be told, by Congress, that this sort of thing is out. And this is just what will be done if Congress passes the new bill of Senator Hatch. . This measure would bar former Government .employees, for two ‘years after resigning, from practicing or appearing before any agency of the Government. It ought to be passed. : .
THE NEW FLANNER HOUSE - HE announcement of plans for a new and larger Flanner > House and for the development of one of the most extensive Negro recreational centers in the Midwest is one _ that should be applauded. - oo 2 : For there is more to Flanner House and this proposal than meets the eye. For 43 years, this organization has been serving this city’s Negroes on a many-sided front. ~The extent of its work—and its goals—constantly amazes those who come in contdct with it for the first time. Here is an organization compressed. into a series of antiquated buildings, serving Negroes, of every age and from every walk of life. There is-an employee training service, an employment service proper, a nursery school,
a.toy lending library, dental clinic, tuberculosis clinic, recre- |
ational sections, woodworking courses, and a score of other _ activities all directed toward character-building, citizenship and high morale. gh sod The proposed expansion is simple. The Park Board proposes to buy a city block of property at 16th and Missouri Sts., then lease part of it, to Flanner House for" 99 years. Flanner House proposes, in turn, to erect a modern new building on the site, help the Park Board develop the remainder into a recreational center for Negro families. It is a far-reaching program. We wish it ;unlithited success. : :
JAPAN HESITATES—A LITTLE : APAN’S resumption of Washington conversations is a welcome straw to lean on. Whether this is just another stall, or the first indication of retreat from her extreme demands, nobody knows. Washington is pessimistic. . Only a reversal of Japan's warlike acts can convince the United States that the negotiations are in good faith. Japan continues to pour more offensive troops into Indo-China, across from Singapore and Manila. One of her fleets is reported on the other side of the Philippines. Those are not precisely peace gestures. If they are not definite moves toward the. Pacific. war desired by Hitler, her Axis partner, they are bluff of the most dangerously explosive. : If the next week-end is as favorable to the Nazis on the battlefields as the last week-end was favorable to the Allies, ~ will Japan start the Pacific war for which she is so feverishly preparing? ~~ ; Washington's reaction to that question is to keep its armed forces on the alert, while hoping that Japan even yet may refuse to let Hitler lead her into a war in which neither he nor any other can save her. ak
ENGLAND’S EDUCATED MINES © ; (From “News of Norway”) Er HE Germans would prefer to have the people of Nor- ~~ way think that the British are “doing nothing.” Therefore all news of the sinking of German supply ships by the British along the Norwegian coast is carefully withheld. At the official investigation into the sinking of one such ships the Norwegian captain explained that a submarine had risen to the surface, halted the ship, given the crew 10 minutes to get ihto lifeboats and had then sunk the ship. : A. German officer interrupted: / a “That is nonsense!” he shouted. h submarines along the have struck a mine!”
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- The captain répeated it was a submarine, but the German insisted he was wrong. ; __. #Very well, then,” ‘said the captain. He then revised “account for the records: “A mine came to the surface yrboard side. It halted us, gave us 10 minutes to get
orwegian coast. You .must.
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, Dec. 2—In the |
case of the three murderers who procured the death by stabbing of an’ anti-Communist ship’s engineet in Oakland, Cal, and were paroled last week after serving less than five ‘years .in prison, there may be an impression that the _ parole somehow mitigates ir guilt. The Communists who conducted the campaign for their release would have it appear so. Presently it will be represented
justice and a victory for American labor. «+ = - The truth is, however, that these three men, Earl
|' King, Ernest G. Ramsay and Frank J. Conner, all
union officials, are murderers, now put at large after. a relatively brief term in prison on the ground that they have been punished enough for contriving an assault by five members of a pro-Communist union faction on a lone American sailor in which the victim was fatally stabbed for opposing the Communist cell on board his ship. : :
The parole does not vindicate these men for their,
guilt is still established on the records as the result of long legal proceedings in which they had expert counsel and strong financial backing. Governor Olson indicated a doubt of their guilt, but even he would
not-go so far as to declare a belief in their innocence.
‘Regardless of Right!’
HAD HE BELIEVED them innocent he would have | | been bound in conscience and in duty to pardon them | §. -
unconditionally because innocent men owe no debt to the State and should not be required to meet the
. conditions of parole. ‘So it is plain that the Governor,
however reluctantly, still regards them as murderers. - The Governor expressed himself on Oct. 3 when he said, in an address to the California State Indus-
trial Council, “They have served a long time. I'think | |
they have just about served all thei¥ time.” The Communist defense organization argued .that
“regardless of the merits of the case, regardless of
right or wrong, regardless of guilt or innocence, King, Ramsay and Conner should be released immediately.” That is now the official decision of the California Parole Board. Regardless of their ‘established guilt which has not been disproved and which is not even denied by the parole board, these three murderers of an anti-Communist American sailor have “served 21 their time” in less than five years and are now ‘free. :
It's Not the Only Case
PRACTICAL EXPRESSIONS of this disquieting attitude toward Muscovite conspirators are not rare in the tourts and state government -agencies of California. In another case, Sam Darcy, alias Sam Dar-
deck, or vice versa, the leader of the Communist Party in California, was paroled from the bench by Superior Judge Schonfeld of San Francisco, following his conviction on a charge of perjury. - This case began in August, 1935, and Darcy, or Dardeck, evaded arrest and fought extradition successfully until Nov. 13, 1940, when the U. S. Supreme Court decided against him and he was returned to San Francisco. He went to trial last July. He was convicted last Aug. 7 and on Sept. 17 was placed on probation for five years by Judge Schonfeld. Darcy, or Dardeck, was a leader if not the boss of the Moscow forces in-California for years and was the Kremlin's candidate for Governor of this more or less American state in 1934 at which time he swore falsely that he was born in New York whereas he was born in the Russian Ukraine and so stated in a passport application in.July, 1935, when he was preparing to attend the Comintern congress in Russia. . Darcy has had a long career in the anti-American strike activities of the Stalinist agencies in California and now, thanks to‘ the decision of Judge Schonfeld, like the three pro-Communist murderers, King, Ramsay and Conner, he is free to continue .his activities, but without having served a day in prison.
- ‘Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those "of The: Indianapolis Times.
U.S. Too Late’
By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The United “States has come too late to stem the Japanese tide in the Pacific, according to Rear Admiral _-Tanetsugu Sosa, noted commen“tator on naval problems, in an; *. article written ‘solely for Japanese consumption, fn the magazine “Sekai Shukan.” The aim of the ABCD (American - British - Chinese - Dutch) powers, he says, is the encirclement of Japan. And. the leader is the U. Ss. : oli , “Matters, however, will not go as mapped out by the United States,” the Admiral asserts. “Britain and the United States may join hands to bottle up Japan from afar but they have undertaken the job a little too late.” ! Within Manchukuo, China, French Indo-China and Thailand, he goes on to. say, Japan will find the wherewithal to fight a protracted war. “Moreover, by making full’ use of strategic ‘advantages (due to her position at the hub instead of on the rim of the circle) she can counter-attack the blockade lines -and, bring about their dismemberment.” “As soon as Japan's sealing ‘up of the Burma Road is completed,” he continues, “the Chiang Kaishefl regime is certain to fall and take China out of the ring. Meanwhile Japanese troops in French IndoChina can, at any time, present a dagger at the throat of the enemy. The so-called encirclement, therefore, is little more than a name.” :
Bombing Plan Is Mere Talk
. SIMILARLY, ALL TALK of bombing Japan from American advance bases, he declares, is mostly that: Just talk. Air raids from the north, via the Aleutians, would be over the world’s foggiest and nastiest route. From -the east, via Hawaii, Wake and Guam, planes would have to fly through the: swarm of Japanese mandated islands. From the south, enemy bombers would have to pass along the China coast, and run the gauntlet of all the Japanese islands from Formosa to Nippon. ) On the other hand, he asserts, Japan has naval and air bases in Hainan, Spratly Islands and French Indo-China all relatively close to the most important of the CD bases. “Thus, in case of an emergency, all these ‘bases and advance bases could be deprived of their value long before reinforcements could be sent from their home countries.”
The Japanese naval expert admits it would be
“difficult to break through the main American lines’ of defense.” But, he adds, “it would be equally dif-.
ficult for the United States fleet to negotiate & Pacific approaches to Japan.” is Te
So They Say—
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It takes humor.- In fact, you'd better keep ee.
-all the time.—Jokn Humbard, engineer in charge of
the new trans-Panama road, 3 : Ta. me It costs Japan $1000 to make a hole, and i us: $2 .to fill it up.—Chinese official, discuss Arnstein, Ameri
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‘TAKE UP SONG OF LABOR AND THRIFT AGAIN’ - By Raymond H. Stone, 531 E. 56th St.
7 years in international banking and the same number of years in small tenant livestock husbandry in the midcontinent of America may give the folks through your “editorial page a creative line of action.
There are three things to do. The first is to take the burden off the shoulders of the man who sits in the White House and start carrying them ourselves. The second is to resume specie payment in America in order to release local inventiye genius and aliow natural migration from the congested areas of population through the folks own devising. The third is to adopt the sale of government bonds payable in gold as a means of raising four dollars of each five needed by the treasury and only one dollar of immediate cash through collection of current taxes. This will start the wheels of industry and give the farmers a market without artificial stimulant. It is time America take up the song of labor and thrift again fr our own sake and that of the world.
® a =z ‘C. 0. T. NEEDS READING TO NEUTRALIZE HIS ACIDITY’
By Voice In The Crowd, Indianapolis It is too bad that C. O. T, is still infected with the bad case of indigestion that he acquired by reading the wrong kind of books during his college years at Indiana. A good physican ‘would recommend the reading of a few books that he did not like in an effort to neutralize his acidity. His" claim that business management is inefficient because’ Dun & Bradstreet list a high mortality of business concerns is only an analysis that he himself would like to believe. The fact of the matter is that business mortality is high because business is: efficient and only those concerns remain in business that can render a service efficiently. Under any form of government the economic system must be managed. It will either be managed in the competitive manner that is typ-
The opinion of one who has spent|
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can \have a chance. Letters must be sigried.)
ical of free men or it will be managed by the political powers. Any one who believes that the standard of living would be higher under the management of politicians who by subsidies and grants to the pressure groups could perpetuate their power, is gullible indeed. ~ One of the finest displays of the free enterprise system is the case of the Daisy Mine reported the other day in The Times. Fifty-eight
men waiting for a defunct mine to|
open with jobs for all of them. One of them (now get that one, not 58) said let’s run it ourselves, They did not have to consult‘a commissar about it. All they had to do was to get a little support and they would do the rest. They got the support. They formed a 58 mar partnership. They did not say mow all 58 will manage this thing. These men have ambition and they have brains, so they selected four of their number to manage the mine. , All of the rest of them were willing and proud to work. They have succeeded and they will keep on succeeding because they have exactly that kind of stuff from which America was built before a lot of idealists became convinced that everybody who tried to do something was an exploiter and a cheat. ; ~ We can all be proud of and congratulate the boys who own the Daisy Mine, I wish that one of them would tell C. O. T. whether private or political management is preferred jn our production system. ; 8 8 = ‘MORGENTHAU IS GREATEST | TREASURER SINCE ADAM’
By , Claude Braddick, Kokomo ~ There is a tendency, even gmong those who should know better, to picture Secretary Morgenthau as a firebreathing ‘monstér, complete
with horns and other appurtenances,
Side Glances—By Galbraith
| |us the defense program
because of his recent habit of sending up “trial balloons” advocating 6 per cent profit limits, 15 per cent
“Ipayroll taxes, ete. I'll admit such
floaters are startling; but is Morgenthau to blame? Seems to me the man is deserving of sympathy rather than gensure. Does Morgenthau appropriate money? No. That difficult job is attended to by Congress. All he has to do is find it. That Morgenthau even attempts to find it should classify him, not as an ogre, but as ‘the greatest secretary of the treasury since Adam.” A less conscientious secretary might say to Congress like this: “Well, boys, that last appropriation was quite a tidy sum. Where do you figure to get it?” “We? Where do you get that ‘we’? You're secretary of the treasury, aren’t you?” ’ “Sure, But who ever told you a $100,000,000,000 debt was a treasure,
energy from your tremendous appropriation labors to add a few details about how and from whom I'm to get it. Until then—good day.” Obviously, such a secretary would never do‘at all. Or would he?
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UNMITIGATED GALL” By A Contracfor, Indianapolis
I have just come across the following letter in the October issue
Monthly, which I think you ought to publish. It was written by a San Diego reader who reported: “WPA is not relenting its vigorous campaign to justify itself before the public even at this time when most of us sincerely believe that there is no earthly basis for its continuance. On the .contrary, they are making capital of the defense activity, claiming they are particularly well endowed to perform certain phases of defense construction, such as airports and ac-
'|cess roads.
“Only last night I listened to a
lucky the United States is to have such far-sighted leaders who created WPA in a period of emergency when it wasn’t really needed just so that the country might have it now when it is indispensable. "WPA’s initials, they say, now stand for ‘We Prepare America’ because ‘without would - bog down completely.’ ’ “On checking this up, I was informed that this station has allotted
-115 minutes three times a week and
that the entire program is tran-
by the Federal Works Administra tion in Washington. : “Here then is an excellent ex-
4 ample of a fine public relations ~|campaign plus unmitigated gall.”
WORLD'S WANDERERS Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light de va PE Speed thee flery lig : In what cavern of the nig
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After this, please reserve enough|
@ : “FINE PUBLIC RELATIONS PLUS|:
of the Contractors and Engineers|
radio program over Station KEMB,| San Diego, extolling the virtues of| ‘WPA and telling the public how
same old theme. But he at least
scribed, distributed and sponsored|
* Will thy pinions close
Tell me, Moon, thou pale
Pilgrim of heaven's hon
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' MOGADISCIO, Ifalian Somali. land, via Nairobi, Dec. 2.—The _ Union Jack, flying above the fore mer Fascist party headquarters, and the white ensign. of Great Britain's fleet, upon the standard f a big building still labelled Italian “Capitaneria Dia Porto,” | ‘are . symbols visible far at sea. which indicate that Mussolini's African empire is waning. along the sun-baked, wasted shore, England calls no
‘conferences. of Vienna hor preaches sermons on. the new world order. oF
Y rder. But ca is being divided just as’ it has been for the pdst 80 years. Even Jon : Bull's, capacious colonial pockets cannot conceal nor contain two of the longest of the valuable’ stretches of coastline that have been fought for in this war. Italian Somaliland, until last March a two-edged sword turned against India and Africa, now is only 2 memary. A strip of coast as long as from Maine South Carolina, the outer hallway’ to the invalue _
, Passage, has become British, thanks and West Africa. £5
Within the same hallway to’ Suez, Britain won for her empire another strip of strategic shoreland as long as the American Gulf Coast from Alabama to Totus Bred, Haiys Just Toothold in the East, as ‘her secon : British now. e Suez route is all
Britain to Emerge the Master
The First World War resulted in enveloping m. of Germany's African empire into the British, owe but surely the same thing is happening to Italy now. , With Frasxce unlikel - recover for: . even after an Allied Lr it is certain han Yo as America stands at the right and Russia at the'l ye Britain will emerge from the war titular as well as - de facto master of the world’s second continent, ; Mogadiscio, like the rest of this lengthy African Chile, fell virtually: intact into British i By Only the masts of a sunken oil tanker outside the breaka: battle cruiser hidden somewhere beyond the horizon sent two 12inch shells toward the town and struck the tanker amidships, with a third blowing it sky-high. Air raid shelters are still intact, and along the waterfront are big rusty barges showing ‘only signs of" Constantly used, however, is the excellent Italian autostrada across the formerly impassable 5000-foot escarpment up into Ethiopian Harrar. Thus, although Djibouti remains in French hands, tHé British have a second way, besides the Berbera-to-Harrar road, to bypass the obstacle of the temporarily useless seaward end of Ethiopia's single railroad. :
An Empty Handed Emperor
THE ROAD IS macadamized as well as an American Nignvay ‘throughout most of its length and the journey ch took a week in passing during the wet season now is reduced to four days for American trucks carrying British columns. Fo
“While the Djibouti-Addis-Ababa railroad remains | nominally partly French, it is clear ‘that the nine when the Ethiopian emperors from Menelik to Haile" Selassie could play France against Britain and Italy. against both are now over. Thanks to the British having taken both Eritrea ‘and Italian Somaliland, Ethiopia whether able to conquer its present. unrest o Hk will Tomas merely an Amharic kingdom enrely surrounded by and, to this de ‘encysted within British territory, Sie Ane
If restoration of order should justify the British withdrawing from Ethiopia tomorrow, Ethiopia's ish eign policy would henceforward remain unilateral, It is still probably too soon to say that the Lion" of Judah ‘is destined to take pis place among semiindependent sovereigns like the Sultan of Zanzibar: but it is evident because of geographical rather than . political circumstances that his bargaining powers. already are proportiohately circumscribed. a Copyright, 194 nd The coe. ol SSR wd Th
UR Sat om : a oe —~ A ble A Woman's Viewpoint - By Mrs. Walter Ferguson .
WE NOW SUFFER an ine vasion by the ex-pacifists, most. of whom are working actively for: United States intervention in Europe’s war. #Sir Phillip Gibbs, Sir Norman Angell, Maude Roy- \ den, {0 name a few, gained their fame as peace advocates, but are moving in on us with all barrels loaded, and repudiating most of the things they said with such‘ emphasis yesterday, or last year" . or a decade ago. Many of our’ native notables have joined with’ them. So we findindividuals like Walter Millis, whose book “The Road to hgh will stand J oineiually as a war-making ex- - pose and a sermon avor of peace, now siding wi the belligerent. To 4
Many others, clergymen and religious leaders as well as politicians and scholars, whose reputations have been built upon their pacifist theories, now pound the war drums, . : :
Young May Doubt Sincerity
‘I AM CONVINCED that the minds of men and women can be changed by events. Nor have I any wish to deny to. those individudls the right to Speak at this moment or any other. But I believe the fact that they do so adds immeasurably to the mental" and moral confusion in this country. = "The cause they now serve—intervention—would be’ far better served if they had remained silent. Such a short while has passed since they spoke another kind of language. Library shelves and student note books are still filled with their denunciations of war and of war’s ftility. By their sudden about face theyretard natural unity more than they help it. ‘They actually hinder the spread of war psychology, which now seems to be a national objective. Nobody pays much attention to the pacifist, harping on the’ possesses the virtue: of consistency. 3 ;
Just as a congregation can put little trust in the temperance lectures of the reformed drunk, so the: young are apt to doubt the sincerity of men and women who have changed their opinions overnight, and foresworn the very principles upon.which their fame is built. : { yi $ i
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