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es, the allies will have no more oil sources id no more major naval and air bases. would do with her offensive forces, freed lava, nobody knows. They could be used ia, India, Alaska—or Hawaii, Where there

W could have prevented invasion. American pls

nes and su arines, which succeeded in

resident to “bring home to like the supreme irnportance

from the

of war production] this crucial spring,” Donald M. Nelson will speak to the nation tonight.

{We hope the head of the war production board will

hit hard with blunt truths. Around-the-clock operation of every possible plant will require co-operation by industry

and | ' workers to a The news from Java and Burma should destroy all

degree not yet approached.

traces of the comfortable delusion that we can take our

tim

because the

ar will be long and inevitably won by

us when we finally get into full production. As the president

= said

in his order to Mr. Nelson:

| “The months just ahead are the critical mpnths of the war. Victory depends in large measure on the increased we production we |are able to get from our factories and

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arsenals in Cai ing and summer of 1942. . , . This is war. We a . No one is a spectator, we are all belligerents. To win we must fight.! Yes, we must

all under fire—soldiers and civilians

fight the Japs and Germans. ‘But we

| defeat in every moment of production we lose by

mong ourselves.

BIDDLE’S BABY?

“I AM bringing

We'll say it's broad, and we'll say it’s simple.

Too

bo rd and too simple. - .

is baby to your doorstep,” Attorney neral Biddle ells a senate _committee, abo at that

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

TUCSON, Ariz, March 2-1 am about to sign off for a while and, apprehending that some readers of these dispatches may think I have béen silenced by some political infiuence, I will say that this spell of recreation, mediation and, probably, investigation, is - strictly according to schedule and, further, that I never have been conscious of any attempt by the New Deal to shut me up. This may sound self-important, but several editors have said that when I took my vacation in recent years they received letters from persons who thought the sacred American right to make a nuisance and/or an ass of one’s self in print had been violated and I want the benefit of no such unfounded and harmful suspicions. Lately I have found Tysplt in controversy with Mrs: Roosevelt and I am glad my lay-off comes 50 timed as to 1 the heat of that dispute, because this lady, in common with most others of her politics, holds that anyone who identified her as an active and aggressive politician and opposes her methods and apparent objectives, is ‘a champion or lackey of privilege, a disruptionist and, therefore, I take it in final effect, a servant of the enemy,

'| Speak for Myself’

THIS LINE OF argument cannot be ignored. ' For the first time, I have seriously asked myself if it would not be better that all of us who disagree with Mrs. Roosevelt desist from our opposition and let her and all her group have their way, whatever their way may be, for unity’s sake the presence of an enemy who gains by every distraction among us. This we know, that none of Mrs. Roosevelt's own personal political and propaganda organizations will desist for a moment, so maybe the responsibility for disunity is put up to us. We must consider whether it were not wiser to yield temporarily than ta con-

tinue our opposition now and aggravate the risk of

military defeat. Mrs. Roosevelt presumes to speak, and may actually

think she does speak, for “the workers” and “the

people.” I speak only for myself, but she says I speak “for the privileged few against the good of the many.” I do not quite know how to deal with such arguments which, to me, clang with the brassy sound of Huey Long’s orations and Father Coughlin’s and even Hitler’s.

The Roosevelt Family Story—

I KNOW WHAT “the workers” and “the people” have lost and stand to lose to a political group which holds with and runs with bands of thugs and extortioners holding union charters and I have otten pointed the similarity between these bands and the black shirts of the Duce ‘and the brown shirts of the Fuehrer early in the game. No rule or discipline put upon “the workers” and “the people” by such methods and forces can be good for them, but I want to think over the question whether “the workers” and “the people” have ever indicated their consent. If they do consent, that is their right and I am out of step. “Privilege,” however, is a word which has always sounded strange to me from the lips of Mrs. Roosevelt. I studiously read her autobiography and, although it contained much about ponies, chargers,

voyages to Europe, town houses, country estates, gov-

ernesses and second maids, there was not one word about any toil by any member of the family, ever,

Now Take the Pegler Family

IN OUR FAMILY, on the other hand, everyone went to work early and down to my generation not one had ever been able to resist the temptation to work and earn long enough to permit the completion of high school. To this day, no member has ever held a political sinecure or possessed enough wealth to permit of retirement from daily work. There were many in Mrs. Roosevelt's book who apparently never worked and this may explain why the privilege, indeed the right to work when work can be had, is less important to her. The privilege that I speak for is, I think, the

privilege to work and to possess and enjoy and

dispose of the fruits of one’s work., within moral limitations. I can’t fix the limit and 1 know learned priests who can’t, but I agree that it should be well below a figure which permits whole generations of a numerous family to grow up so unfamiliar with work as to be indifferent to the privilege of working. In her radio address on this controversy Mrs. Roosevelt said she spoke as “a private citizen,” when everyone in the advertising business knows that she was delivered as a commercialized political attraction

‘at a high price because she partook of the presidency

of the United States, and wouldn't even have got an audition as a private citizen. I don't get her reasoning at all, but I want to study it over.

New Books By Stephen Ellis

IF YOU'RE A sports fan, try this one: Who is Homer Pettigrew? Well, in case you didn’t knew (I didn’t either), he is the present world’s cowboy chiampion—the king of that lusty American sport, the rodeo. In about 15 minutes reading time, Max Kegley, an ace photographer, tells in graphic pictures and captions of that No. 1 sport of the cow country in “Rodeo.” And the 64-page book covers the subject adequately enough too to give even easterners a comprehensive idea of the western sport which has developed into. cone of the major spectator sports of the country.

THE INDIANAPOLIS ~ Three Musketeers!

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MONDAY, MARCH 2, 19

The Hoosie I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

Forum

“I AM CLOSING MY CASE,” SAYS MR. DAACKE By H. W. Daacke, 736 S. Noble st. Does the gentleman from Attica expect to make any more favorable impression with Hoosier Forum readers than did his champion, “Voice In The Crowd,” when he

question, by substituting a long conglomeration of contradictions, as published in today’s Times?

First admitting that capital is the fruit of labor and then devoting the balance of his article to a flat denial of the fact. Since I have sent a reply to his article as of Feb. 21 as well as one to “Voice In The Crowd” as of Feb. 19, I am closing my case. ” EJ ” . “WHY, RAMMY, WE NEVER KNEW IT WAS SO TOUGH!” By Harry C. Maple, 2419 Langley ave. The following letter is a copy of one I am sending to Rep. Ramspeck who is the author of the bill to pension retiring congressmen: “Dear old Rammy,” “I never realized that you woor congressmen were in such straitened circumstances. Here we sit in our smug complacency enjoying life while you poor boys are way off there in Washington toiling as much as three. and four hours a day for our benefit and all’ you get is a measly little 10 thousand a year and perquisites on the side. “We were too busy sending bundies to Britain to see the suffering of ‘our own people right under our noses and, of course, you boys were too timid to ask for a basket. Why on earth didn’t’ you boys speak up before election and let us know what a sacrifice it would mean to take the office when you could have stayed home and earned as much as $100 per month? We would have let you off, old boy. “But no, you would rather suffer in silence and bear your poverty and inconvenience than to let the dear people down. I never realized how fortunate we are back home until I read where you boys had

evades a - pertinent, all important}

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious conMake your letters short, so all can. have a chance. Letters must

troversies excluded.

be signed.)

to give yourselves a pension to keep the wolf from the door. : “I certainly don’t like the idea of you boys having to pay $1.39 in order to get your: pension, while all the folks back home had to give up was their property and life insurance policies. “Do you know, dear ‘Rammy, that in. the last four months, while you poor neglected servants were trying to eke out a miserable existence and make both ends meet on your paltry little 10 thousand, that I without any other responsibilities than paying rent, and utilities, and buying food, coal, etc. have made the princely sum of 10 cents.

But to show you that my heart is in the right place I am sending you half of this. Hoping that this five cents will tide you over till you get your first pension check, I remain your sympathetic friend and promise that you boys will never again be asked to make the sacrifice

that you are now making.”

” ; "® o “IT WOULD SEEM FARMERS HAVE BEEN BADLY FOOLED”

By Voice In The Crbwd, Indisnapolis __ Mr. Daacke has evidently run out of things to say so he says nothing. If he ‘wishes to claim that an educator is a producer because he takes an “untutored child” and by his. “labor makes a merchantable product”—*“the college graduate,” he is stretching his imagination quite considerably. Anyway, it is his imagination and he can stretch it if he wishes. However, for a man who likes to quote Lincoln, it must be a comedown to refer to a college graduate

as a “merchantable product.” It cer-

N . Side Glances=By Galbraith

tainly does not tally with Lincoln’s claim that the body and soul of a man is mot a merchantable commodity and should not be bought and sold nor bartered for.

Now as for the farmer. I did not put him in a higher plane than anyone else. I referred to him as a basic producer who could carry out the entire sequence of production, not only producing his commodities but could market them, and stated that even he could not realize the fullest value of his production.

Now if the farmer is not the pro-

ducer, but “nature elements” are,

that is all right with me, but I certainly feel sorry for the millions of farmers who so badly fooled have toiled and sweat and saved to pay off the mortgage, when all they had to do was to sit still until nature produced the crop and then “garner it in.” A more provident “nature” would “garner” it for them.

- Now so far as evading a direct question is concerned, you asked

workers quit work. I told you plainly that we would all starve and that the dumb and the weak would starve Arst. If that is irrelevant or eva~ sive tell us in plain English what

people ‘quit working. : ” os 2 “HOW CAN NATURE DO

THE FARMERS’ WORK?

By G. Wm. Cain, 2042 N. Olney st. With reference to an article in the Forum on Feb. 24 by Mr. Daacke, I wish to express the opinjon that there are a few things about classifying the “importance of producers” which he has made the error of overlooking. As to “politicians,” I agreed but as for the farmer, I think he is sadly mistaken. True, nature has provided the “source” for not only farming but everything with which we fight this war, but has done no more toward making farm produce a merchantable product than it has anything else. It still requires a mind so fixed upon the respective, which is as thoroughly skilled and alert to the task at hand, as it does to perform any one of the many other duties and occupations’ which are of utmost importance to our na-

what would happen if all of the|

would happen if nearly 50 million|

[War Sidelights

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, March 3.—

‘the office of civillan defense, it can be told how she got in. It

selled against it by some of the president’s closest advisers, because she felt that something

had to be aroused to full ‘mobilization, that everyone had to-ges busy and do something, she went to work. She was told a president's wife couldn’t mix officially in governmex# matters. She was warned what might happen. did. . . . Donald M. Nelson’s associates and subordinates Aflectionately -call the war production boatd boss * 1 we but not to his face. .. . Here is one’ sonfl ntial but authoritative prediction of how prices may rise this year: Non-durable goods (foods, fuel, etc), up 5 per

"cent.

Durable goods (hardware, furnishings, ete), up 18 per cent, but there may be a drop of as much as'60 per cent in the total dollar volume of sales suo. inability to get merchandise to sell. : Services (rent, electricity, ete.), up per cent:

Bikes for Victory

DON'T LOOK FOR the immediate production of those “Victory” model automobiles, tires, refrigera= tors and such stuff, The victory model idea, youll recall, is to provide an economical, standard design article which one manufacturer would be authorized to make during the war period only, for sale by dealers of all manufacturers. The present theory is to produce two-year ‘stock piles of all these civilian goods items on which there may be shortages. . Replacement sales will be made

‘on ‘a rationing basis from these stockpiles in this period. The victory models will be the next step,

when the stockpiles are gone, or nearly gone. | First, and almost the only industry to get together on a victory model, was the bicycle trade. It took the step voluntarily as a sales promotion idea, and: not at government Suggestion, :

Machinist Moves

J. S. KNOWLSON, president of . Stewart-Warnes who is now head of the important division of induse try operations in WPB, likes to think of himself as “just another poor old machinist.” He introduced himself that way at his first press conference when he explained some of the headaches of the industry conversion program for shifting civilian goods manue facturers to war production. “Qver-conversion” is one of the dangers of this work, as machinist Knowlson sees it. For instance, locomotives have A-3 priorities, tanks A-1, but if all the locomotive plants are converted to tan manufacture, what happens when we need some more locomotives? ih - Similarly. typewriters. The typewriter industry can he converted 100 per cent to war production but it seems that even the army and navy and most certainly Washington wouldn't be able to win the war without typewriters. Knowlson admits the conversion effort has been criticized for lack of speed. A case can therefore be made, he says, to give makers of typewriters A-l-a priorities so as to produce more “critical articles.”. And he admits. that’s a rotten pun, too. . he

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“FREEDOM OF THE press is "not the great American blessing it is rated because there is no mens tal standard set for newspaper

joih the staff of an American newspaper. And when the newse ' paper business requires contribue tors to have a certain I. Q. rating, the vast majority of our so-called “editors and columnists will be in the discard.” Such is the cpinion of Laura M. Clark of Tulsa, Okla., who is offended by an article in this ‘column which chided mothers who neglect homie duties to sew for the Red Cross. After giving me’ g thorough’ ‘and probably welle deserved scolding, ‘Mrs, Clark tacked on the above ‘rebuke to all members of the Fourth Estate. I can’t see it her way. It seems to me American newspapers are rendering to the people the greatest service of a long and honorable career. And on the whole our major editors and columnists, and those commentators who are on the Washington scene reporting what they hear and see, are in a very real sense true guardians of our liberty.

Keeping the Rascals in Place a “

Can we even dream of what deep changes would take place in our way of living and. thinking it they were silenced by censorship? Men like Westbrook Pegler, Raymond Clapper and hundreds of others, to say nothing of thousands of equally capable writers whose names are unknown

of The In ais Times.

Now that Mrs. Roosevelt is out of

was her own idea. She was coune but had to be done, that the country

‘ people. ‘Anyone who can spell can

CAN WE IMAGINE the situation without them?

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tional defense.

I urge anyone who is so much “in the dark” about the necessity of “brains” in the farmer’s position, which come from experience of “life at the wheel” and workers as i? | |skilled at their job as the workers lof any other occupation in. this defense program, to make some effort to learn a little more about it, before making their opinion too widely known because in the minds of the

It would endow [any bureaucrat with the power to de-

secret any = issued by that bureaucrat. The It's Quite a Thing

A COWBOY, Mr. Kegley tells us, gets to be a world’s champion on the basis of dollars earned during the year at rodeos throughout the country. He gets one point for each dollar earned in purses for roping and bulldogging events and-a point and a half for each dollar in bronc and bull riding. And it isn’t all “gravy” by any means. To pile up points, contestants must travel thousands of

aucrat to be ed with a $5000-fine-and-two-ycars-in-n shillelagh with which to work on anyone who dii ed the bureaucrat’s precious output. Mr. Biddle describes the measure as dealing with a pro} blem not confined to military affairs—but applying to Por peacetime alike. What ¢ could be broader or simpler, or sweeter-—for a

Ciekiions and Answers

(The Indianapolis Times Service Bureau will answer any quedtion of fact or information, not involving extensive re search. Write vour question clearly, sizn mame and inclose a three-cent vostage stamp. Med! or legal cannot be given, Address The Times Washington rs Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth St.. Washington. D: or i

Q--Does the United Mine Workers of Amerion

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N bureaucrats can be ade sacrosanct “by statute, and given a fin e their omniscience h ich we are fighting | There are ways wartime or peace. NYC gh exercising |

nd-prison weapon with which to enthen there goes the democracy for

p insulate governmental information,

he mature judgment of congress

Nothing new about that. The process

miles to make shows all over America, pay their own traveling expenses and entrance fees. There are no salaries, contracts or guarantees in rodeo. The most dangerous animal in rodeo, according to the author, is not a bronc nor a Texas Longhorn but a newcomer, the Brahma bull. He usually attempts to seek vengeance by attempting to gore his dismounted adversary. Lemme out!

“Rodeo,” by Max Kegley. Hastings House, $1.

64 pages in photographs with running narrative.

So They Say—

Pan-Americanism is not a matter of good-will tours. To mean anything it must include the deadly hand work of seeing that things get done--A. A, Betls

readers who are a little more than “average” you have only succeeded in making known your own ignor-

| ance upon the subjects of “farm-

ing” and “classifying producers.” Nature turns out no more merchantable produce on the farm without the skilled aid of an operator than it does In the diamond

‘| industry or any other.

Choose which you will be rationed on first—farm produce, diamonds, art, music compositions, theatrical workers, etc. . If Mr. Daacke can make a plan Wurk: Whelvhy Seto. Wil) peoiice without any as-

operate only in the United States?

A—No; originally the organization,K was’ a inion) of soft-coal miners confined to the United Somes. | Through the strikes of 1900 and 1902 under J Mitchell, more than 150,000 anthracite mine.

charters were granted to Canadian miners, thereby making the union an international body. i

dried?

A—It matures after the third season, and Suites way Le out any time aii thai Siig

recommended.

Q-What i the tie of the, theme muse of photoplay “Divé Bomber”? :

were added to the rolls. During the decade 1900-1910; ]

should be deemed confidential; Congress Jr. assistant secretary of state. sane, I wish to apologise for my

; le to the people, for.approval or disapproval. ; . Boa is pistes fiom tis banked soverty After all, England ts the cradle of ety whi

A—It has 10 title, and is an original, u composition by Max Steiner. :

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Japan is the destroyer of freedom—Dr. T. F. Tseang,

Chinese government spokesman,

The world situbition at the present time indicates

ba the. hopes of Sivilisation Test upon the worthy

banners of theo

DAILY THOUGHT God is a spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him

casualties in actual combat in World War II: pOT A—Oct. 17, 1041, when te destroyer ]