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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
For Congressmen” a growing number of sillies are collecting old clothes, plug hats, hot water bottles and Christmas slippers to be sent to Washington with the contempt of the donors.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1942
In Washington, Jim Mead, a Senator from New York, a New Dealer and the complacent colleague of the author of the vicious Wagner Act, has promptly
timism.”
ness” of the people.
flected the people.”
American people.
victory.
official communiques.
higher taxes; pension system;
Cl at t
into the winning of the war?
DON'T BLAME THE PEOPLE
ENATOR FRANCIS MALONEY (D. Conn.) rose in the | Senate vesterday to warn that the American people are | “lapsing into apathy and indifference” because of a false | belief that the war can be won with little or no effort. This, | Mr. Maloney thought, is because the newspapers “magnify” our military successes and stimulate “undue op-
The newspapers, under Government censorship rules, can give them only such news of military operations as the Army and Navy are willing to sanction or to disclose in If successes are magnified and unfavorable developments minimized, it seems to us the fault is not altogether with the newspapers. When Congress dallies and dawdles—this being an election vear—over its absolutely necessary duty of voting
But let that pass.
When Congress chooses this time to vote its own members the new benefit of admission to the Federal employees’ |
When Mrs. Roosevelt's young dancer protege, Mayris 1aney, shows up on the office of civilian defense payroll | £4600 a year as head of children’s rhythmic dancing in | the physical fithess division— How can the American people believe that Washington | is alert to danger and determined to put unstinted effort |
DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN
program.
ment service. and dollar-a-year basis alike, delivers on the job.
That is the only reasonable test. | played a courage and a willingness to support and defend his assistants which are the marks of a true executive. The committee did well to revise its previous attitude and assure him, in Senator Truman's words: | “If you need dollar-a-year men to win the war, the | committee feels you should have dellar-a-year men.”
VV ASHINGTON'S dollar-a-vear men certainly do not deserve the blanket criticism directed against them recently by the Truman Senate Committee—a wholesale | charge, supported by no specific evidence, that they favor’ their own companies at the expense of the war production
We're glad Donald M. Nelson has told the committee that. The indiscriminate attack on dollar-a-year men, he | said, is hampering his War Production Board. ‘good men” of the type he needs afraid to enter Govern- | His one test of personnel, on regular salary
will be whether the men
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would lead off with some such
no strikes in war industries.
attention.
was called to collect dues from
tank parts.
25 per cent for a week.
isolated cases, and I have no importance.
AS THE “LABOR WAR BOARD” MEETS
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT meets today with his “labor | war board”—Messrs. Green, Meany and Tobin of the | A. F. of L.; Messrs. Murray, Thomas and Emspak of the | We do not know what will be said. But we think a great many people would appreciate it if the President |
remarks as these:
“You gentlemen, on behalf of your great organizations, have repeatedly and solemnly promised that there will be
Your pledges are welcome.
“In the last few days, however, several strikes and other interruptions of war production have come to public |
78 men who either had not
joined the union or were behind in their payments, “Members of your C. I. O. auto workers’ union, Mr. Thomas, struck in a wage dispute at the Detroit plant of the Michigan Steel Tube Products Co., making gun and The company reported, according to a state labor conciliator, that a ‘slowdown’ had reduced production |
“Another wage-dispute ‘slowdown’ by 80 workers in the sorting and shipping department of the Carnegie-Illinois tin mill at Gary, Ind, resulted, according to company officials, in some 1900 other men being laid off for several days, | and in cutting production by half. “You may say that these are comparatively smail and
desire to exaggerate their
Yet the question is sure to be asked whether yeu gentlemen really have the authority and the will to see that your no-strike promises are kept. public is entitled to your answer to that question now.”
I believe the
WASTED BRAINPOWER
war industries.
HE New York Police Department has broken up 2450 confiscated pinball machines and obtained 10 tons of copper, nickel, steel, aluminum and other scarce metals for “Geod work!” But we have a better idea, too. Let the Government seek out the great mechanical geniuses who design pinball machines and put them to work on secret weapons. men who invent these intricate devices, with their wires, their flashing lights, their buzzers and bells, their springs and snappers and scoring attachments, certainly ought to produce something to baffle the ‘Germans and Japs.
we say in envy.
The
Earlier this week the entire Senate spent most of the day absolving Congress of responsibility for Pearl Harbor and blaming that disaster on the “complacency” and “smugMrs. Roosevelt, at Atlanta the other evening, opined that, after all, official mistakes only “re-
We think something should be said in behalf of the We believe most of them have been, and | are, far out ahead of many men ana women in their Government in willingness to regard the war as a deadly serious business and to make heavy sacrifices for early
It has made |
Mr. Nelson has dis- |
“The Madison, Ill, plant of the American Car & Foundry Co. was closed by a strike of 1200 A. F. of L. members. The union secretary was quoted as saving that the strike
from an aviation mechanic training school, the paper | work recording his activities and his relations to the
responded with complaint that this movement will hold up to prolonged ridicule the popular branch of the government and create serious disrespect for the legislative body. Senator Mead is right, but he ignores the true reason for this contempt and distrust and probably underestimates the depth of this feeling among the people. The pension law is a trifle of itself. The real reason wny Congress has fallen in the public opinion is that the people's representatives have been found guilty of a wicked and cowardly political sellout to a small group of men in comumnand of a very small minority of the whole American people, whereby all the people are faced with the proposition that they must surrender one of their most important rights of citizenship to the bosses of the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L.
The Citizen Now Understands
THE EVIL WAGNER ACT, a slimy lie in its very title, has never been amended, notwithstanding thousands of cases of individual and mass persecution of the people by power-hungry criminals, Communists and fascists in command of the union movement. The inequity of the law and of its administration has been proved publicly and notoriously in Congress and out and its meaning to the ostensibly free citizen has at last become clear to him, The citizen has begun to understand that he has been betrayed into the power of a few mouthy and arrogant and utterly brutal mob leaders who will beat his head off with stakes and bats in the hands of their brown shirts unless he pays tribute and taxes to private organizations having no legal or moral right to intervene between the worker and his lawful occupation. He has seen that shameless body of which Senator Mead has the doubtful honor to be a member permit the creation of an agency which even intervenes between him and his government, has seen the government defer to these criminals with the mocking explanation that they represent “labor” and has watched with increasing disgust, cynicism and despair the steady refusal of Congress to risk the political wrath of the brown shirt leaders by passing laws which would curtail their power.
Look in the Mirror, Senator!
FELIX FRANKFURTER'S decision in one key case, that of the carpenters in St. Louis, positively established the right of scoundrels of the lowest type to commit acts against the rights of clean citizens which, done by any individual outside this privileged class, would be properly regarded as violations of law and decency and punished without hesitation.
Congress permitted Justice Frankfurter and his colleagues of that majority to put this intention into laws which Congress passed with no such intention and has had not even the civic decency, much less the political courage, to deliver to these adventurers the public rebuke which their shocking dictum deserved. Senator Mead is right as far as he goes.
Congress
| ceive the real reason or too sly to admit it. If he will look in the mirror he will see one of the most i influential authors of the dangerous decline of the popular branch of the American government in the mind of a people who have almost given up but may express a last hope the next time he and his partners in this betrayal come up for re-election.
U. S. Aviation
By Maj. Al Williams
THOSE WHO contend that the Army and Navy should be run on a business-like basis, with a responsible single head, often meet the objection that, “You can’t run the Army and Navy as you would a business.”
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
The ‘Premier of Norway’ Goes for a Walk
DETROIT, Feb. 6.—Some wag in Spokane has started a campaign of ridicule against those members of both Houses of Congress who voted for pensions for members of the national legislature. Under the slogan “Bundles
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
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“LET'S SPEND MORE TIME BEING THANKFUL”
(Times readers are invited
to express their views in By Mrs. Ervin F. Miller, Indianapolis, ' il In answer to C. K. C, Indianap-| these columns, religious cone olis, of Feb. 2d, may I say you are troversies excluded. Make
acting very un-American complaining about such a trifie thing as giving up a little sugar and daylight saving time. I too have to get up at 4:30 as my husband rides the trolley 10
your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)
World War II will have to be provided for but why can’t we do our duty and show a little appreciation to the boys of the last war who fought to make this a world safe for democracy. My husband and many others fought in Russia where they did their hardest fighting after the armistice was signed. His health is impaired, yes, but he hasn't tried for a pension, but we have been
miles to work, but I certainly would
doing so I can aid our Government thousand in this day when the least bit.
The trouble with
us
have. ful for that we live in a land where |
Isn't it enough to be thank- morning fire.
to our radios and enjoying our|/to Knitting clothes for beautiful churches, parks and Congressmen? schools? That's so much more than | gy 8 uw our foreign neighbors have. LET'S NOT FORGET Let's spend more time looking for . ds . , things to be thankful for and not BOYS OF WORLD WAR I so much time complaining, and by] doing so we will all be happier and a happy cheerful country is sure to come out victorious. é ». 9 “LET'S ALL HELP THE POOR CONGRESSMEN" By C. B.,
I have heard a lot and read lot on the H. R. Bill No. 4. after it had already bill in
{the Senate, this
Indianapolis widows and children, has poor Congressmen. like the boys in the Army. must have seven or eight thousand dollars a year or they can't keep up| square shooting.
their Cadillacs. Just think,
They | War 11.
Why not? It's a matter of administration. We have a job to do—a war to win. Why not administer it as we would any other big job? Billions are being spent in organizing and arming millions of men. What else but business administration can efficiently handle human and economic operations on such a scale? We all know that there is a lot wrong with business. But, after all, American business is the envy of the whole world. And it got that way on the merit system. The Army and Navy are hig businesses, and who is running them? Non-businessmen. That's the explanation of the ridiculous volume of unnecessary paper work in those organizations and of their ineffective, time-wasting methods. By the time an ordinary youngster is graduated
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school and Government make a load of papers he can hardly lift. Could American business have grown to anything ike its present status on a seniority system of promotion, or a lottery system, such as prevails in the Army and Navy? Certainly not.
Army and Navy Unmoved
UNDER WAR pressure, American business has been radically changed. The world is facing a new type of war. Flying weapons have upset all the dyed-in-the-wool experts in land and sea warfare. But the Army and Navy will not contemplate a shake-up in their organizations. Even though they have failed to get together, to work out the coordination so essential for the nation’s safety, they will not agree to. creation of a modernized national defense system with a high command empowered to effect co-ordination. The man in the street knows the need for a three-way system of defense—Army, Navy, Air—with a supreme command over all. The demand for such a System is rising in the country. The Brass Hats know it. But I predict that, very soon, their retired admirals and generals will be deluging you with excuses for maintaining the status-quo and scare stories about the dangers of trying to change in mid-stream.
So They Say—
Self-sufficiency is always the earmark of a second-rate life. Not in the denial but in the acceptance of mystery do men find greatness and courage.—Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor, New York | Church of St. Nicholas. |
It may seem strange, but it is excellent to be young now, even as it was in my post-war generation. | —Jonathan Daniels, editor and writer, -
We dare not turn our back to either front.
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These criminals are too good with daggers.—Navy Secretary Knox.
| wages of the Congressmen from BY
would you like to see your gressmen riding to work on
nasty machine guns? jamination first. . ..
After all, the boys in the Army
can afford to run their cars.
Another worry the poor Congress-| gion.
make a motion that we raise the|titude. We all know
not complain about that or the mere or seven thousand dollars to 20 or fact of giving up all our sugar, if by 30 thousand. After all, what's a few the: | Government speaks in billions just] Americans, | as though they were going to use| ‘i. & A : : {we don't appreciate what we do|/the money for kindling to start the is in contempt, but he is either too ignorant to per- | Why can’t all of you women who we breathe good clean air, listening are knitting for the Red Cross turn the poor
| By Mrs. Lila Day, 454 White River Pkwy.
How passed the House and had been presented to favor of protection by pensions to the veterans of World War I, and their been | Let's all of us taxpayers help the pigeon-holed to make room for bills They are not|pertaining to the boys of World
Now I ask vou if this is fair or dictate to you the necessity of this : These veterans|H: R. No. 4 bill. .,, how | that are left are filling the Vet-Con-|erans’ Hospitals and many not able seeing the boys taken care of in alto get into the hospitals are de-|the future, these boys that were in |streetcar or in a taxi? How would pending on the measly little pen-|the thickest of it all, would write ithat look to people from other | sions a lot of them get to Carry} few lines or just a card to their |countries who might be touring the them through until they pass on.| | country, like the Windsors, to keep Very few of them are able to get|bill be taken out of the pigeon‘away from the horrid noise of those work that calls for a physical ex-|hole and worked on, I know some-
This bill H. R. No. 4 was pre(get their clothes furnished to them sented to the Senate Finance Comand they have the honor of getting mittee without recommendation by their insides shot out or a leg blown a sub-committee headed by Senaoff just so that these Congressmen| tor Bennett Champ Clark, one of} the founders of the American LeI would like to know if Mr. men have is how to feed the long Clark ever saw service overseas? breadlines after the war is over. I If he did I can't understand his at-
that the boys of
on relief, CWA, WPA, FERA and what have you because he can't [pass a physical examination to get
{into a factory and his age is fagainst him, too. Isn't that a laugh?
When these boys left for parts unknown at the time to do their bit for us we promised them that their jobs would be here for them when they got back. We promised to stand by them. Have we done it? No! Every bill to help the veterans has been fought tooth and toe nail. Why? Thousands of slackers who sat back, coined money (and looked on during the last war | feel that these boys only did their auty. All right, they did their duty and thousands didn't come back and thousands of them did and are paying for it today and will until death releases them,
Go through any of our Veterans’ Hospitals and let your conscience
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If every one who is interested in
congressman, demanding that this
[thing could be done. Let's not only remember Pearl Harbor, but let's not forget Flanders Field nor Russia's Field and the Buddies of World War I either.
Here's hoping for a revival of this bill. » ” »
‘LET'S FIGHT TO END UNFAIR STATE TAX’ |By E. G. H., Indianapolis Now that another installment of
Side Glances=By Galbraith
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"Under the new war orders we may have to give up this old tinpile, Mother, in spite of all your sentiment about the picnics, weddings and “funerals it reminds you of,"
that very unfair tax has been paid, let's plan now for the next one. Not of paying it, but of getting together enough fair-minded Indiana citizens, both Democrat and Republican (as both parties promised before the last State election to get rid of it) to band together and fight, putting pressure on our State representatives to discontinue it as they promised and if they won't, then get enough taxpayers to declare a tax strike and if John Lewis could win in an unfair strike like he did in the captive coal mines, we should win in a fair one. Now the Government is asking us to buy defense bonds and stamps to the limit of our ability. I think that all this unfair money paid to the State should be released to buy defense and not to pay a lot of po-
FRIDAY, FEB. § 1042 ‘P il arasites By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—So the President thinks all the parasites should get out of Washington to make room for Government workers and permit ‘em to win this war. Ont and all will agree this parasite elimination program is one of the best ideas the Administration has thought up so far, The only difficulty is that there will be considerable difference of opinion among the District of Columbia citizenry as to just how a parasite should be defined and deter= mined. Consequently, for the duration you may expect to hear at almost any cocktail party such raucous diatribe as, “Who's a parasite, you parasite!” Or, “Smile, buddy, when you call me ‘parasite.’ ” Today you can actually feel people all over Wash ington preparing their own private lists of “Parasites Who Should Leave Town.” The trouble is that if all these nominating lists were placed end to end they would make up the city directory or the District of Columbia census of 1942.
He's Got a Little List
THE PRESIDENT himself, in starting this little birthday party pastime, dropped the handkerchief behind only two classes of people— a. Those who live in 20-room houses on Massachusetts Ave. b. Those who, just as in the last war, have come to Washington simply to have a good time. : The Massachusetts Ave. address is of course a generic term. It could just as well apply to Cone necticut Ave. or any of the swanky northwest addresses, including 3303 R St., where on the night of the President's birthday, Washington's high priestess of society, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean was holding a housewarming in her new palace which even the uppitiest of Washington's society columnists has dubbed ‘*‘a kind of Union Station.” The President was, however, leading with his chin and on his birthday, too. For this list still leaves unclassified a large number of specimens, politically and entomologically speaking. For instance: All those Congressmen who voted Just recently in favor of granting themselves a Gov= ernment pension.
'Run 'Em All Out’
ALL THE Congressmen’s relatives and patronage leeches who have been fastened and fattened on the public payroll, The 400—it's probably a thousand now, but anye way—all the assorted lobbyists, fixers, lawvers, exCongressmen, ex-New Dealers, ex-administrators and assorted stuffed shirts who are trying to use their past or imaginary influence with the Government in pleading for special privilege. All of them should go out on the first flat car. Later politicians, dollar-a-day men who put selfinterest and corporation anove country, scions of wealth in cush jobs to dodge the draft, debutantes, the people who live in Washington and make their livings at the expense of the Government workers, the parasites on the parasites—run ‘em all out.
Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own, They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,
New Books By Sterling North
(Copyright, 1942, by The Indianapolis Times and the Chicago Daily News, Inc.)
NOW THAT THE isolationists and other traitors are beginning to crawl out from under their stones and renew their campaigns of sedition, it is well to remind less subversive citizens that we are at war with Germany, that we have not won that war by any ap~ palling margin, and that we had better start burning the midnight oil in a serious study of our mor= tal enemies, the Nazis. Wallace R. Deuel, who for six years covered Hitler's Europe, has had the good sense to prepare his book on Germany with meticulous care. It deevlops much light and little heat. Readers who are seeking sensations: (heads sent home in paper bags by the Gestapo, mass murder in Poland, breeding experiments conducted by pseudo= scientists of Hitler's hysterical Reich) will find plenty to feed their curiosity. But Deuel never uses such occurrences merely for sensational purposes. He uses them as a criminologist or pathologist would use them—to holp us understand the pathology of a nation, . Deuel does not believe that an entire nation can be considered intrinsically and basically “evil.” He does believe that the Germans in their present mani= festation are evil beyond the power of the democratic imagination to visualize. :
Mr. Deuel
Frustrated Human Beings
THE PROFOUNDLY anti-democratic and mili« taristic German tradition was rampant even during the days of the weak Weimar republic. The loss of the war and the arrival of the world-wide depression furnished the perfect breakdown for this schizo phrenic people. Almost overnight they returned to their blood swilling and schrecklichkeit. And Deuel takes you carefully step by step through the appalling trans= figuration. Using Hitler as the best miniature of the entire dispossessed lower middle class he shows by what mental gymnastics such a pitiful little failure seeks and finds reasons for his failure outside himself, Not only Hitler, but those who swoon and scream with joy during his illiterate, guttural, animalistic speeches are similarly frustrated human beings. Deuel reveals enough about the big insane asylum beyond the Rhine to explain the well-deserved reputation of its more notorious inmates. If the entire book had lived up to its first 150 pages this would easily outrank all others on the subject. Even so, it was more rewarding to this reader than Shirer’s “Berlin Diary.”
“PEOPLE UNDER HITLER.” By Wallace R. Deuel. (Hare court, Brace. $3.50.)
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litical hangers-on who walked in to good paying jobs when this law! came into effect.
MRS. LOFTY AND I
Mrs. Lofty keeps a carriage, So do I; She has dappled grays to draw it, None have I; She's no prouder with her coachman Than am I With my blue-eyed, laughing baby Trundling by. Mrs. C. Gildersleeve (Longstreet)
DAILY THOUGHT
Show me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.—Psalms 25:4.
GOD WHOSE gifts in gracious flood unto all who seek are sent, only asks you to be good and is con-
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Q—Who invented the diving bell used by thas Navy? A—The Navy Department states that there was no single inventor of the bell. Its development was worked on by the Bureau of Construction and Re= pair of the Navy, by men at the New York Navy Yard, and also by a private company,
Q—What are the sailing distances from New York to San Francisco, via Cape Horn, and vie the Panama, Canal? A—By way of Cape Hore it is 15,348 miles, and via the Canal, 6059 miles.
Q—What is French cream?
« A—Brandy is often so called from an age-old French custom of putting brandy instead of cream in the cup of coffee taken after a meal.
Q—Is the verb “worsen” good English?
teft.—Victor Hugo.
A—Yes. It is used of property, and in diplomatis , ahd means to cause to deteriorate.