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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1942

SHAMEFUL VICTORY

HE farm bloe won a shameful victory yesterday when the Senate voted to vest control of agricultural prices in the Department of Agriculture, thus setting them apart from all other commodity prices. ; As President Roosevelt had warned, “the whole price structure is linked together.” The farm bloe's hope, of course, is that agrieulture will get preferential treatment from Secretary Wickard. That hope, if realized, is likely to wreck the entire effort to control prices and to hasten

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

? NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—In yesterday’s essay I deseribed as “unmistakably Hitlerian” the attitude toward the art of the drama and I might have said toward alkart and scienee, too, which Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt revealed in her refusal to eross a picket line of the Musieians’ Union at a New York theater. At the time of writing that I was afraid I was being a littie severe, but I am still uneasy but for another reason. For Mrs. Roosevelt, herself, in her own daily piece flatly says, “I do not cross a picket line and so I turned in my tickets.” This substantially confirms the version ef the theater people who said she said, “I can’t cross a picket line—fair or unfair.” Do I exaggerate the seriousness of this declared attitude of ene who unquestionably partakes ef the office of President of the United States. I am afraid I don't, If you substitute the word Nazi for the word uhion in this episode you will have, in principle, the attitude of Adolf Hitler and the Germans. In Nazi Germany the only art is National Socialist art, Mrs. Roosevelt prebably will concede that nen-union art may be art, nevertheless, but if it is non-union er is merely eon-

issue having nothing to do with art, she will not give it a hearing.

an inflation from which farmers, along with consumers, industrial workers and everyone else will suffer severely.

SPEAKING OF ECONOMIES—

OST of us in Marion County talk in terms of “the metropolitan area.” We talk knowingly of taxes, of public services, of possible savings. It costs $25,025000—approximatelv—to run Marion County each year. And here it is, so that you can see for yourself: The Civil City . ver... $8,500,000 The Behe] City ..c..u... i ivuintiunis Pesibbabian cheese 1,000,000 The County Administration .......cceeviviivieneniarveses 5,750,000

Township Relief shteathibiibiiiibRiiaibiiiiiil . 1,275,000 Township School, ete, cvi.esienniense Shbaet vesssnsesisess 1,500,000

$25,025,000

Simply by consolidating all our purchasing by a single, centraiized purchasing agency we could save at least 1 per cent, taxation and purchasing experts agree. One per cent is £250,250. A quarter of a million dollars is something to save at any time, particularly desirable in war time. And if you want to dream a while of Utopia, consider what might be saved if we had one single governmental unit running the whole county. Maybe we ought te start thinking about a county manager plan.

INTERESTING—AND INSIDIOUS

ERMAN officers are plotting a revolution against Hitler, according to an official spy report of an Allied Government to our War Department. Such reports are interesting, if true. But they can have a most insidious propaganda effect of lulling Allied war plans and efforts. Doubtless it is true that the old conflict between Hitler and the officer caste continues. That the war has shifted some power from the Nazi party to the army. That huge losses and suffering in the eastern campaign increase | soldier and civilian discontent. That Hitler and the officer caste are maneuvering, each seeking to make the other the public scapegoat, and to profit by any popular revulsion. But much of this has happened before, though perhaps in lesser degree, and each time Hitler has emerged stronger in his control of public, government and army. This wishful thinking, fed by half-truths from Germany, is the chief reason to date for the Allies’ long and tragic record of giving “too little, too late.” And the net effect of this newest crop of reports—regardaless of their source and intent—can be to siow down our working and fighting unless we stop wishing. Nobody ean predict what will happen in Germany, and when—not even Hitler. Our job is to win the war, regardless.

COMPENSATION

OME of the sting is taken out of our failure to arm the Philippines adequately by the exploits of American planes and fliers elsewhere in the Far East. It is not much comfort, for many Americans, to be told —as Mr. Churchill and others have told them—that the sacrifice of Pacific preparedness was to save Libya and Russia and other vital points. All that is true. But it requires comprehension of world strategy which the ordinary eitizen does not possess. But it does not take military knowledge, or imagination, or a sacrificial spirit, to observe that the American planes in the Dutch East Indies and Malaya, and the American fliers in Burma and China, are fighting Japan just as well as they could in the Philippines. Perhaps better. If most of our planes had been sent to the Philippines, instead of to the Indies, Malaya, Burma and China, we probably would hold Manila today. But the strategically more vital Indies, Singapare and Burma road probably would be gone—leaving the Philippines useless and undefendable. The American fliers in Burma and China, and the American planes flown by Dutch and British in the Indies, are helping MacArthur's men and are defending the United States. So there is compensation for the lack of American concentration on the Philippines.

CROCODILE TEARS

HE Spanish Falangist newspaper Arriba praises Japan, states that it could scarcely any longer tolerate Amer fcan opposition and interference, and hopes that heathen . pation triumphs over the United States. Naturally one finds it difficult to reconcile this with the Christian professions of the Spanish faseists, and causes one to wonder if in their case political belief has not outweighed the religious. While hoping for the downfall of the United States, Arriba weeps a crocodile tear or two in hoping for the preservation of Manila “for Christianity” as *a fragment of the heart of Spain.” Spain’s colonial administration in the Philippines apparently left something to be desired, since thousands of Philippine patriots fought grimly to be delivered therefrom. Under U. S. rule, thousands of Filipinos have been converted to Christianity, and if a Shinto shrine ever replaces the

Like Hitler's Beok Burnings

IT MAKES LITTLE difference whether you burn books for Hitler's reasons or merely refuse to read them because they do not bear a union label, I even detect something in Hitler's favor here because he never admits that any non-Nazi or anti-Nazi art is art at all and rejects all non-Nazi science as untrue. Mrs. Roosevelt, on the other hand, would not discriminate between a fair picket line and an unfair one which means to me that she would uphold the wrong. Hitler has never admitted that anything which he has upheld could be wrong. Mrs. Roosevelt doesn’t concern herself with the rights and wrongs of a picket-line situation and in this particular case the union was absolutely wrong because there was no controversy over wages, hours or anything else between an employer and any employee. It was simply that a union tried to compel an employer to hire four unnecessary hands to loaf a certain number of hours a week and pay them $337.50 a week for that.

Sacrifice of Principle

I WILL CONCEDE that with the finest original motives Mrs. Roosevelt and many others who believe themselves to be liberal have sacrificed principle for an attitude. . " 5. think no person should make a blanket commitment to support any organization, right or wrong, except his country, but it is well known that many of our leading citizens do undertake to support unions even though they be in the wrong. Very often the vietim is an absolutely innocent and helpless third party who hag nothing to do with the dispute. Often he is a small employer who is commanded to disemploy his own wife or daughter in a little mom-and-pop store and hire an outsider from the union. And more often the victims are unoffending American citizens, with all the duties of citizenship, who have refused to join some union and whose boss has refused to make them jain, When unity is our great need unity is not served by a declaration from such a high personage that she will not consider the merits of a case but in accordance with a blanket commitment will uphold the oppressor and oppose the oppressed among our own people.

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Silver for Tin? By John W. Love

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Short of an early Allied victory in the Pacific, tin is due to fade slowiy fram American life. Even some of the things New Englanders enJoyed in the days of itinerant Yankee peddlers are to be cut off. Tin will never disappear in this country, but we may get down to where most of it is going into things like bearings, which are generally out of sight. Shortages of tin and rubber are the two most serious ones created by the war in the Pacific. Other materials which will be scarce or completely unavailable to civilians are copper, nickel, chromium and tungsten, not to mention the aluminum to which we have already said goodby. It will be important that the public be aware of the reasons for these shortages as hardships accumulate from them. Their effects will keep popping up in unexpected places. No expert exists who can forecast them, least of all the shortages resuiting from the turn to substitutes—as the shortage of machinery for packing foods in glass.

Glass Containers for Food

ONE GROUP in Washington has been wanting to stop all tin-canning of feod for civilians and te turn us in one jump to the use of foods put up in glass or dried. As a compromise, and initially, the use of cans will be stopped for beer, cosmetics, lubricating oil, dog fcod and tobacco. In the meantime, such is the vitality of industrial research in this country, substitutes for tin may come forward. One of them is silver, of which America has quite a hoard. Though expensive, it is a precious metal in the political sense rather than the industrial or military. The really precious metals are copper, tin, tungsten and the like. America commenced building up a political stockpile of silver long before we started a practical one of tin, even though the piling of tin had been agitated for 15 years. Some technicians say silver can be plated on cafs so thinly as to make them almest competitive with tin. More promising, however, is the use of silver in solder. By carefully doling out supplies to a diminishing civilian use, the Government figures we can get by until 1945. If the Japanese are still in Malaya then, we shall be through with tin cans for the rest of the war,

So They Say—

AMERICA today is confrented with a task of eonverting industry into a machine fot victory. —Denald M. Nelson, executive director, SPAB. * * »

The man with actual dependents who are supported by his earned income will continue to be dee ferred. The future of this nation depends upon the family. —Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service head.

The average American has a better job and more money, but he is squeezed between higher prices and fewer consumer goods to be had at any price. He can pay his money, but he can’t take his choice.— Colston E. Warne, Eimhurst College.

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The Hoosier Forum

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AGREES TO ABOLITION OF WELFARE BEPARTMENT

By M. §., Franklin I read in your Hoosier Forum column a letter, “Suggests Abolition of Welfare Dept.” This is a wise suggestion, I think, as there is much unfair treatinent of needy people here in all counties. Here in our county, we have four high salaried ladies costing around $5000 yearly and are calling for more workers (or loungers?). This money ceuld be used for defense to win the war. I know an able-bodied young man of 18 years, whom the welfare department is keeping who brags “he does not have to work, welfare keeps him,” while he trifles his time away

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“GERMANY’'S ENEMY IS PRUSSIAN MILITARISM”

By Claude Braddiek, Kokome

Adolf Hitler, at long last, has deigned to ask God’s help in delivering Germany from her enemies. And such help will be forthcoming, never fear. For Germany's enemy is not Churchill or Reosevelt or Stalin, nor yet the Jews, or even Adolf Hitler—it is Prussian militarism. The 26 nations now opposing her are but the merest tools of that

malignant serpent of “blood and iron” which she has nurtured since

in school. We taxpayers work for a living, are tired keeping such men on the payrolls end tired keeping the Welfare Department ladies at the county oftice. I hope our legislators take steps to stop this waste.

about a God or Supreme Being,

but 1870 in her own breast.

lany rational being on earth admits

there must be a Power much higher than his own. We have in our own land too much self-styled confidence in our own ability to ac-

camplish whatever we wish without any recoghizance that we are but a tiny thing compared to that Unbounded Force that rules the affairs of the Universe.

” 2 ” “SURPRISE IN DEALING WITH RUSSIA” FORECAST By Arthur 8. Mellinger, 3500 W. 3th Bt. While many folks were taken unawares by Japan at Pearl Harbor, more are going to be surprised later on when we go to dealing with Russia afvee the war. It makes no difference what you] would like them to be, this is what! they are, The underlying philosophy of the Russian people now living is more Asiatic than any other

URGES STATE GIVE FAIR GROUNDS FOR CAMP

By I. David, Indianapolis In Wednesday's Times, there was a front page story that the Government has given the green light on spending $25,000,000 for a can(tonment down near Brown County. . Don’t k urself. that I knew of t kid yo It seems to me, in the interest of

They killed off most of the White ona whose background is more Public economy and since President like our own | Roosevelt stressed the need for prse Bulow. 'speed and more speed, that the Their development is at a stage! ’ comparable to a boy of perhaps 10 State of Indiana could render the or 11 years who has found out there Ration a great service by renting the is no Santa Claus. He wants to vel State Fair Grounds to the Governthe world that he has found out| tent for $1 a year for the durasomething that is not true. Hel °o™

only knows about the concrete angle] At the Fair Grounds, we have a of the thing. {ready-made camp. Soldiers could

I read the same papers that you do, Water, toilets, parade grounds, telehear the radio broadcasts that you Phone lines, transportation, railroad do I just read between the lines. [Sidings and the million and one The above letter was written from things necessary for the welfare of this little fact. A missionary was soldiers. trying to comfort Russian prisoners| Since there are similar facilities in the early part of the war, ‘who in almost every other state in the were condemned to death. They Union. . . . How about it, Governor were asked if they wanted to be|Schricker? . . Indiana could set

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With what marvelous efficiency do the Germans build an “invincible” war machine; How cleverly they plan their far-flung campaigns! Nothing is overlooked— nothing, that is, save the simple truth that the rest of the world won't stand for it! At whatever cost, at whatever sacrifice, the world will fight back, and eventually erush them to earth. When they have learned well this final truth—with God's help—then will Germany's enemy be van-

quished, and a scourge of the earth laid low. 2 ASSAILING PROPOSAL TO LEGALIZE LOTTERIES

By A. Lenn Hartwig, 4721 Caroline Ave.

I have heard many people express their opinion as to making slot machines, lotteries, bingo, etc. a national institution so that the States and our Government could get the revenue now being collected illegally. America was founded on principles of right and good and not evil and wrong. We as a nation cannot afford to institute gambling as a national institution. Sure, there are those who wiil get the revenue when the Government could get: it but those few will turn to other foul illegal ways if we take gambling away from them and corrupt our Government and Nation by legalizing something evil. If there ever was a time that we should be turning to right and good Lit is now. . .. ® =

“WILL HITLER OPEN DOORS ON PASTOR NIEMOELLER?” °

By a Reader

Hitler in his New Year's message calls upon Divine Aid to come to the aid of his people during 1942. We wonder if he will open the jail doors on Pastor Niemoeller and all the other honest clergymen he has imprisoned and persecuted because they refused to place the swastika above the cross of Christ. Not likely, “The devil was ill, the devil a monk would be. The devil was well, the devil of a monk was he.”

SAND DUNES AND SEA

Blue skies and bluer sea with its white teeth showing, Gold dunes made sweet by yellow jasmine growing, And over sand and sea a keen wind blowing.

Gray skies and grayed days and the years swift going, Youth's golden dunes all white with winter's snowing. . . . And in my heart the bitter wind of memory blowing. John Richard Moreland (1880-)

DAILY THOUGHT

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.—John 14:18. 35 we Ey

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A Fe Gen. Johnson Says—

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The disagreement between management and labor about the composition of an “industry committee” for automobiles seems to show either that OPM does not understand the industry commit tees used so successfully in 1918 or does not approve of them. Led by Phil Murray of the C. I. O, labor wants to have equal membership with industry = on these committees or equal membership with industry and Government. This point could probably be composed if this were all. But it isn't all, :

Labor wants these committees to have adminis trative as well as advisory authority. In short that: means these committees are to run these industries very much as a board ef directors runs a corporation,

Now that wasn't the method used in World War I at all. Then these committees, composed of lead« ing men in such industries, met to hear Govern ment's demands. Then they sat in conference to consider how these demands could be met and where and how and when and by whom. After a decision had been made, it was their job to follow up to see that performance was acceptable and on’ schedule.

U. S. Must Retain Control

WITHOUT SOME such organization of the supe ply end there is no possibility of successfully mobiliz« ing our great industrial organism in all its parts to make it function as one single machine. This system was used with excellent results throughout our whole industrial pattern, but never, in any circumstances, did Government give up its right and duty of control regardless of the recommendation of any committee or the recalcitrance of any member of any industry. It can’t do so now. If an industry is run by mixed committees of equal membership of antagonistic elements, most votes will be tied and the chairman will have the final decision anyway. If in the alternative the committee is formed of three laborites, three industrialists and three Government representatives, we must remember that ours has many of the aspects of a labor Government now. If such a “majority” is to “administer” and not merely “advise” and assist in lining up industry it will be a long step teward turning most of industry over to the management and control of labor.

Tried in Italy and Russia

THAT WAS TRIED in Italy and Russia with disastrous results. The old-time labor leaders such as Sam Gompers wouldn't even listen to the argue ment. If this plan, or any plan to take ultimate control of war production away from Government, or immediate responsibility for results away from manage-~ ment, is adopted, we shall have taken a very long step toward Communism, er Naziism, or both. I see no reason why labor should not have a voice in any recommendation by an industry to its Government, dissenting from, or concurring in advice of management or making wholly independent suggestions of its own. But it seems to me that there are a multitude of reasons why the well-established and separate functions of Government, management and labor should not be disturbed by some untried and wholly unneecessary experiment.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NEWS THAT several govern= ment bureaus will move out of Washington is welcome. Not that we folks in the country aren't proud of Washington. We are, indeed. Its lovely landmarks—the Capitol dome, the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, Arlington -—have become dear because they are symbols of those ideals in which we believe. We would like them to remain as they are fore ever. And many of us were beginning to wonder whether that would be possible if the rapid expansion of the capital continued at its present pace. We don't like to think of Washington as just another city, and we trust it will never degenerate into an ugly, sprawling, slum-like area, which seems probable unless the mushroom growth is stopped. Besides, the common people hope that this move may mark the end of centralization. A Government which stretches out over this vast land, instead of huddling in one little spot on the Potomac, fits better into our conception of a Republic. ;

It Would Help a Lot

AND I HAVE an idea that the individual Ameri= can may feel a heavier sense of responsibility if he: is able to see a bureau functioning in his home terri-: tory. Perhaps he will be mare anxious to find out: how his tax money is spent and whether his officials are honest and efficient. It has been frightening, sometimes, to hear some peaple talk about “the Government.” They sounded as if in Washingtan some great, infallible power. dwelt, whose fist could dip forever into an empty. Treasury and who stood as a glorified Santa Claus! with perpetually offerad gifts. I So, while the move may be hard upon many, it. will be generally beneficial if it. only helps us to! understand that in a democracy WE are the Gov-' ernment, and that whether it is good or bad depends’ greatly upon our own personal behavier and vigilance,

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Q—Please give directions for building a fire in a fireplace. : : A—The best woods to use for an open fire are hickory, apple, cherry and oak. Make a cradle of kindling on the andirens by laying some pieces lengthwise and others across and on this lay two logs with space between. Acress the logs arrange more kindling crosswise, and place one or two logs of fair size over . all. To start the fire put paper under the cradle,’ Fireplace wood should be seasoned at least one year; green wood is hard to ignite and smokes excessively, but a green log may be used as a backley.

Q—I am single and the sole suppert of my aged father and mother. Can I claim exemption as the head of family and deduct $800 for two dependents under the new federal income tax laws?

A—Under the new tax law, in reporting your federal income tax for 1841, you ean claim $1500 as head of the family and $400 for one dependent. -

Q—What is an FCO monitoring station? : A—A station equipped to listen in, ohserve, and measure the on frequencies of all classes of radio stations, to determine that they -are operating nnels, and that the’ eter of , ance with treaties, lawé and regu- % tions Bsion

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