Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1942 — Page 10

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BILL signed yesterday by Presiderit Roosevelt makes * | immediately available $8,000,000 for construction of | b

a new aux | ‘worls will be rushed with all speed. £5 | _ The present Soo locks are inadequate in number and size for such shipments of iron ore from the Lake Superior mines as are now essential to make steel for war. An “gecident” to them could cut the nation’s steel mills of! from the source of 85 per cent of their basic raw material; ,.. Yet the appropriation for a new lock ‘was delayed for months by efforts to keep this urgent project in that hilliondollar pork barrel—the rivers and harbors bill—on which congress will not act for weeks to come.

y-lock at the vital Soo canal. We hope the

The separate provision now made for a new Sco lock |

‘may hurt the chances of some of the needless and eytravagant projects left in the pork barrel. We trust it will . Meanwhile, it is a victory for national safety... }

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IT HAPPENED AT BENDIX Ba

REMEMBER the labor trouble last year at the Bendix |

> (N. J.) plant of Air Associates, Inc.? Remember how

a hard-headed management and a C. I. 0. union rowqd with

each other, and how there was a strike with violence which stopped defense production? Remember how President Roosevelt finally ordered the army to take over the plant? Well, after installing a new management, the¢ army turned the plant bo its owners. And now it’s 4 pleas-. ure to record what has just happened at Bendix. The president of the sag C. LO. union has posted thig bulletin attesting the workers’ satisfactioni with the new man- _ agement and their altered spirit: “We all serve hotice on the United States of 'Amerjean that we intend to line up solidly behind our ‘chief’ and our ‘boss.’ ‘We intend to hit a new high in production and a new low in scrap. We are all going to try. a little harder, give a little extra, do our part for our country, our boys in the it line, gur ‘chief’ and our ‘boss.’ We've got; a job to do. Let's do it ”

! l STRANGE THINGS COME CRAWLING VEEN you turn over a rock that has been long in place, "strange things come crawling out. The world is in process of being overturned today, and some remarkable creatures have already begun fo crawl toward the light. | LT ~~ Look who's rooting for freedom today! Clip out this _.. gtrange collection, and Paste it in your hat, or preferably in your service cap: & . | Carol of Rumania. At present the king of the Mexico City night clubs, Carol was rumored about to come to the TU. 8. to try to whip up a “Free Rumania” movement before the State Department frowned on the visit. If there ever has been a time in Carol's checkered history when anybody _ could tell whose side he was on ‘except Carol's, ‘we don't ftemember it. = t - “The two Ottos—Otto| Strasser and Otto of Hapsburg. ~ Btrasser is essaying to head a “Free German” movement. Dne of the founders of th with Hitler until they disagreed on matters of policy. No doubt Strasser would love to “get” Hitler, but ke cannot isscape the fact that hie helped tear down the German republic, and that there is no reason why, just because he hates

Hitler, he should be taken up as a great democratic leader, |

Otto of Hapsburg, a pleasant and apparently innocuous young man, would like tq rule Hungary again, but what is this business of “free” movements under the scions of utterly discredited and ~~ As well bring forw: of Iran as great free spirits and pillars of democracy. The Dutch, the Norwegians, the Danes, were free undeg kings, and there are kings and qlieens who have worked and fought for freedom. But none of these Graustarkian royalties has ‘demonstrated a devotion to-or any Accomplishments toward freedom such as to suggpst that they would be serviceable in establishing it after the present war. ied ‘Nothing could hurt the cause of freedom more today ‘than to identify it with ated alike at home and abroad. Let us rally to the cause of freedom those who have proved their devotion to free‘dom in the past, or those who will prove it today inaction; not merely use the war as a'stepladder to a formerly abused

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“STRAIGHT” THINKING THE new deal, says Michael Straight, Washington editor

of the New Republic, is “more dynamic than fascism, and more revolutionary than communism.” His speech was.

delivered at a dinner given by the new deal New. Republic celebrating the start of the 10th year of the new deal, Attorney General Francis Biddle was guest of honor and did his bit with his mouth. ; : With Messrs, Straight, Biddle et al, indulging in selfpraise and denouncing internal political “enemies,” we are moved to wonder whether they think the country is fighting a-world, or a civil war. | y af Bal

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The Public's Part in It

been censored. When these slips have been they have promised not to repeat. e pf the most amazing manifestations of this

| public has checked up on its

‘radio announcers. Let a some keen reader or listener-in comfort to the enemy

a spy. s a ‘ Even the’ of Censorship gets

-appojnted, volunteer censors. Some

newspapers or listen to all the broadcasts. Checkups of this kind from sharp-eyed and eared citizens are

tioning at its best. As for the .1 or the .2 per cent who won't play , this war game according to these rules—“We will cross

come to it.” And he hopes and believes it ‘won't be necessary to put on the screws.

The Biggest Loophole

BIGGEST LOOPHOLE in censorship is perhaps the provision that any information coming from a governmental “appropriate authority” is okay, What this boils down to is the fact that there is voluntary censorship on the part of the government, too. Office of Censorship has no control over what other departments of the government give out for publication or broadcasting. These: other departments can eall up censorship and ask for advice, but that’s as far as it goes. Consequently, when an “appropriate authority” issues ‘news, all the Office of Censorship can do is give a clean bill of health to anyone who uses this information, even if it contains military secrets. There is no list of “appropriate authagities” An army corps commander, the head ‘of any government department is an appropriate authority. Any skunk wanting to beat censorship could probably save his own skin by pulling some appropriate authority out Jom Rader a {aysiack or old board, and getting this , auth, to stand for ahi 1 having a few quotation marks If this happens, if the fringe of ‘from . cent of writers, editors, publishers, priikimiil broadcasters prove: so irreconcilable to self-imposed discipline - that ‘voluntary censorship breaks down, there is only one alternative—to slap on an ironclad censorship that will make the shackles imposed on

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Westbrook Pegler is of Vacation

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

ay DON WE launch an : uate gliding and soaring gram to train real airmen re oculate in our youth that deep love and enthusiasm for the air —for flying and for aviation careers—essential for making the United States of America the dominant commercial and military airpower wmtion: of world? : I ask that, as I have asked it many times before, because I have ‘Just read Come mander. E. F. McDonald's new book, “Youth Must Fly.” The author hit§ hard and his vision of the air future is clear as crystal. He explains gliding and soaring so that anyone can understand it. He tells of the congressional hearings on gliders, autogyros, helicopters and underground hangars, which exposed the hidebound, obsolete opinions of some, wing-wearing, flight-pay-drawing setvice people in stupid opposition to gliding and ‘soaring.

It Takes Brains and Skil

ALL ABOUT US are forces with which man can fly and, in flying, learn nature's carefully-guarded secrets of bird flight. On rising and falling air currents man can fly for hours and days without buming an ounce of fuel. The sailplane, the soaring glider, draws all its power from the forces of nature. Sailplanes are cheap and easy to operate. Our youth is eager for anything that has to do with flying. The glider and soaring planes are the greatest gifts we could present to the youth of the future and: to our commercial and military aviation. it, Manpower for America’s airpower is to be found in youngsters who can be trained now in: gliders and

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of the editors and broadcasters, |

pointed to as perfect examples of democracy func- |

that bridge when we come to it,” says Price, “—if we ||

‘ ° = : ; % ~ The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to aay it.—Voltaire.

“MORE POWER TO DIES-—LESS TO UNION OFFICIALS” By. Mabel German, Morristown One wonders after reading Pegler’s exposures of C. I. O. and and A. F. of L. official racketeering and unAmerican strikes which delay our war production output how much longer union officials like Walter Frisbie of the C. I. O. think they can fool the people. Certainly he and his group want the Dies investigating committee discontinued, , . . Pegler and the Dies committee have done a marvelous job and done it well, More power to them. Less power to union officials. . , .

® = % “DEFENSE INCOMPETENTS NOT HIRED BY THE UNIONS”

By H. W. Garner, 2210 N. Talbot ave.

An answer to H. E. Marshall and some others who have been writing sbout organized labor holding up production in defense industries, ete.

It seems to‘me that people, when they feel the. urge to write, should write about something of which they have at least a fundamental knowledge. While I agree with Marshall to the extent that there are incompetents in the defense industries, the unions did not put them there and are not keeping them there. Many of your incompetents are holding jobs in supervisory capacity or. on the inspection of parts of which you write and through their lack of knowledge are in fact retarding the efficient working of old-time skilled mechanics, I have worked in defense industries as. far as the west coast, have held foremanships and worked at my trade, tool and die making. Am making 10 cents léss per hour today in defense ind than 1 made in 1937 but I have held membership in some labor union or another for 24 years and I have yet to see a single instance in which: a labor union hired the, workers for a defense industry. .. . And, by the way, it is the union which is the only one putting up a fight for .your “40 to 60s” to be

(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.) :

: ( kept on the job when the boss kicks them out because: he thinks he has gotten about.all out of them that is profitable to him; © * _A labor unibn is: nothing more nor less than the workers in a

‘|given industry organizing to better

the standard of ‘living for them and their families. And to bring into their lives a little more of that cherished democracy and since the great majority of us Americans are workers, democracy for us only exists to the etxeni that we have it on the job where our daily lives and the lives of our-families are regulated. ; As for labor union bosses or leaders calling workers out cn - strike, if you know anything at all about labor unions then you also know that a strike can only be called after a majority of the- membership has voted to strike and surely we are democratic enough to ‘concur in the wishes of the majority. .,, # 8 » : “HOW WE GO ALL OUT ON WAR PRODUCTION” By a Defense Worker, Indianapolip Protests at the source of my cause for grievance have had no material result, so I am hoping this letter reaches your column in order ‘that the public may know how one department at————e—imen’s ig “working all out for war production.” This is the 4 to 12 (midnight) I am telling about, We

soaring planes. The powerstrdined pilot can push |[{

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| —'s painting again!” And instead. of speaking to ————— about improving his work, he just smiles and- laughs when

booth signing ‘up-new members for the OC. I. O., instead of helping his fellow workers. :

with too, his quests and les. He’s the he is q knows how to though he doesn’t of the time. Another man we are proud-of and enjoy-very much is 3 He has improved, lately, and doesn’t drop as many pieces on the floor as he used to. Of course that might be because he doesn’t work every night any more. He lays off whenever he wishes, Gee, I wish I could do that and still hold my J

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Thank God it is proved to be wholly unnecessary, No nation ever responded more whole-heartedly and unanimously to the -call for military duty than have our young men to selective service. . = i+ I am aware of one argument that is used in all these cases of class-handouts: ine “Everybody else who is part of a potential ‘p litical organization that demanded it is getting | You had better be getting yours while thé gettin Military service stands apart. It is a thing. From old tribal days a man lived protection of his fellows from attacks by strar This raised a sort of moral obligation—a “social coms pact”—to pay for that protection, should the feed ever arfse, by service in community defense. o It was not a service to be paid for. It was a pay« ment of a debt incurred in the enjoyment.of security

throughout years of peace Pay adequate to the scant heeds of s fbi ey Wad a necessity, but we have already provided that and anything beyond that cheapens military service,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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