Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1942 — Page 20

Ratem BURKHOLDER MARK FERREE Baditor Business Manager

_ ROY W. HWA! * (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

"President

ek k in order to win this war. : al y to do a lot move than has been done to jet rid of Profits as usual and priess as usual ernment has moved too slowly and tee gingerly on both these hame fronts. laying tax legislation, the administration and congress hav: permitied some corporations; ‘especially those in war industries, to pile up undue profite—encouragions te try to get theirs, “while the getting is ough the “getting” from both sides is at the

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to cut deeper [into the worker's family budget. Fortunately the tax bill which congress is finally conises to put an end to excess profits—and to igger cut out of nermal profits. are emcowraging signs that the president and congress 2 lk are recoquising he need of an acressing on both prices and wages. Well, better

8 8 =» " workers, farmers and businessmen have alirlotleaty iting to aceept equal sacri-

of dealing out special group privileges, There is no overtime or double-time pay on Bataan peninsula, no overtime or double-time profiteering. If we are to save what we proudly call the American way of life, we must stop [those things at home: In the mail today is a card denouncing “business as usual, pleasure as usual, comforts as usual, social gains

Washington By Peter Edson

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Ne Plowing Up Parka ;

THERE 18 A shortage and public debt of ri oy $1268 per capita or, if your family of four is $5000 in debt, youre average. . . . Horse and dog tracks take in twice as much money as professional baseball, by bureau of census checkup. . Eighty per cent of the British government’s expenses since September, 1939, have gone for war. . . . Firms making women’s handbags do a $55,000,000 ual business. . Department of, agriculture is putting the wet blanket on plans to plow up the parks for war gardens, as was done in the last war.

"Watch Your Pennies!"

_ DAN A. WEST, director of the consumer division of the office of price administration, has listed some of the things civilians can do to offset high prices and shortages. . . « Use your credit union to buy next year’s coal now. . If price of meat takes a jump, can you substitute eggs or fish? . . . Learn how to make wool last longer and how to give it noth yront storage. . . . Patch raincoats and rubbers. . Ore ganize shopping groups to save rubber. " Trensportation pools to save gas. . Form neighborhood exchanges to pass on outgrown children’s clothes. . + . Share your washing machine. . . . Start community canning projects. . . . Learn to eat nourishing and not just filling foods so you'll stand the war strain better.

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagrees with what you say, but will defend to the death your right ta say it.—Voltaire. -

is always a great loser and strike| YOU.

"What Could We Have Boned"!

ONE Bl RY copipartont suk his Bick for Uncle Sam chat son thet Amgrican a, the way he put it.

« ymong all the pilots of the: 4 Snuffy is: just a laughing, b syed] kid Hagle Biver, Wik whe started 54 & Ar) fe in Ss army ed u li t in ey Sq ali . ig : Anyhow, this was our first ta get Snuffy to. ry at big ut kh ot ot Rane, od as a e, north o eyes danced as he told ys He “It was more fun A you S vald at,” Snuffy said. “Nothing to it. I just in the sun and picked off Japs, ang at sn they came in. - Boy! ¥ we only had Kittyhswks er. Republics, or Vultees—what wouldn't we.do to a Japs! If we can knock them x

wks, and they having climbing speed and

Tomaha ape maneuverability ouldn’t: Suey some " ny st yo "de wa.

L Hops They Know Back Home!"

SIGHED and got serious all

the guys who are going to win this war. a th Baht wih via toay iv ue "TY Sel Jou Whe megle whe Theyre the gurs In ¢

this year" Snuffy took # long drink, then spout clean. “Listen. It's as simple as duck soup. ta he wen frst by the birds ‘back home. da is held on till they give us the stuff, “Brother, I just want to be en it

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comes. 166 wei to be & bared of 14, Ti alle

; (Times osdon 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 be goed)

all hat bur has gained and quicker than you think. You claim 10

million members. Sixty per cent of them are members, not hy. eheice,

“But it can't come top soon. “It's got to happen faster than anything over pened in America before. p> “I hope ta God the folks back home kiow Bow % nd The

9» §¢ as vedal and the whole gimme eangept of “how can I get losses can never be regained, mo

matter how you may figure it. No one gains anything, but those who are your leaders, they are nen-pro-ducers, they are termites. They draw large salaries while you gre on strike. They lose no time or money. You do. , Just a few days age one of your big shet” C. I. Q oor Jesdem, ju boi Shows Sars Ppa c Pet made this public assertion that “any means justifies the end,” Masnine that if you don’t join us and tribute, you will be blackjacked

SCHOOL JANITORS GET? By Mrs. L. M. H., Indignapolis. We are soon to select a new school hoard. As citizens of this “no mean city” let's see to it this time thdt we get a school board that has a little sympathy for the custodians and janitors of our schools. In these days of ever increasing prices it is imperative that these public servants he given a

living wage. Could you live en the fellawing schedule? Janitors start .working

Man of the Hour

I type is this admonition which all workers, By Milton Bronner

farmers, businessmen, politicians and other citizens would do well to repeat daily: 1% live that you ean Jook MacArthur in the face!”

WE WANT TO BRE E CO-ORDINATED TOO SO the OCD has a co-ordinator for herseshoe pitching,

another for badminton, still others for billiards, bowling, archery, candeing, camping, paddle tennis, miniature goif,

much it will mean to us gut hers.”

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A Woman! 5 Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson E

NEW YORK, March 13.—He * looks like an assistant cashier whe Has given up all hope of becoming cashier, er perhaps an undistinguished associate professor in an undistinguished eollege. He is partly bald. His teeth are partly bad. He is no Churchill as an orator. His manner -of speaking

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ete., ete. ‘What about the bridge players? And the poker players? And the crap shooters? And the keno, bingo and beano players? .And the participants in bank night? Are they ta be left high and dry? Is Mr. Landis trying to drive a wedge through the heart of this| nation, elevating the red-bloaded expenents ef billiards, etc, to a place of special honor, and abandoning the rest of us to Ynosanifiated eblivion ?

MOST WITH THE LEAST

AN Ameri¢an general once staked out for himself a permanent place in dictionaries of quotations by observing: that the way to win wars was “git thar fustest with the mostest.” Another way te look upon things during such trying times is “do the mostest with the leastest.” Mrs. W, A. Marsh of Dallas, Tex,, started a drive to collect enough in pennies, nickels and dimes to pay Gen. Douglas MacArthur's income tax. She understood (correctly) that he would be toe busy to file that necessary return by {arch 15. The other day Mrs, Marsh got a $1.50 money order for her fund, Certainly wasn't enough to make her fund topheavy. But it was signed, ‘The Boys of Camp Tyson, Tenn.”—~$21-a-month lads who not only earn their §21, but. probably need it themselves. Here are men already doing all that could be expected of them, serving in the armed forces, ready to give up _ their lives Jf necessary, Yet the spirit of America moves them to dig down among their not too numerous pennies and dimes and come up with semething for the man the Japs can't lick, the man who drives the Japs to hari-kari. These boys are what some refer to as the little people. They don’tl do. much social-butterflying on $21 a month; they don't rash the gossip columns with accounts of their night club fighting, or make headlines because they refuse to work.or sign a contract, or demand big wages, profits or prices, | Yes, they are the little people, And it's the millions of people like them who keep plugging away at little things and win big wars,

over I0ME PLATE TO THE POOR HOUSE

Jog ot AGGIO probably can make & good case for spurna i the New York Yankees’ offer of around $40,000 for ; 08 this year, Ted Williams argues convincingly

deferment’ is just and that his mother would h ne did not play baseball this year. ‘probably only the mild beginning when “The

. 5 s” at Camp Blanding, Fla, sent this wire to

ally invite you to a tryout witly the"1434d inath division—the fightingest regiment in this my, The pay is only $21 per month but that is ‘nothing. Please advise, . Te. would settle for last year's salary.”

is austere and he dees not bether to leaven the bad news with good glib generalities. Yet 8ir Stafford Cripps today has captured the imagination of the English masses. In his opening speech as war eabinet member and new leader of the house of commons he told the English that all extravagances —including popular amusements—would have to go, naming specifically such people’s favorites as racing and boxing. They loved it. Now he’s off to India on one of the higgest missions of the war. He is a political misfit. His father, the first Baron Parmeer, was a prominent lawyer, Sir Stafford is a lawyer and a good one, goad enough that he has earned $100,000 a year. In 1827 he was appointed king’s eounsellor, in 1930 solicitor general. But he is a “radical” too. Four years age the British Socialists expelled him. He was econserting with left wingers, said they, and pushing too streng= ly for a popular front with Russia. He insisted then that a combination between demoeratic England and communistic Russia was a natural alliance to stop the dynamic pelitical aggressions of Hitler and his threatened military conquests.

He's Still a Misfit!

HE IS STILL A misfit politically. But he ‘is fitting neatly into the fighting mad Britain of today, the Britain that is demanding an end to the long series of Punkirks, the Britain that is demanding pasitive offensive action te help the Russia that Cripps has been se right abaut. Sir Stafford’s one-time detraetars are jumping in bed with him. Many Britons—high and low—believe he may replace the eelorful Churchill. The Col. Blimps whe called Singapore impregnable said Russia weuld fold yp under the Nazi army’s first pressure, Sir Stafford didn’t think so. He was in Russia as ambassader to the Kremlin when Hitler invaded. He stayed in Moscow when the Germans were almest within artillery range, He returned to England after the Red Army had hurled — the invader, He came back as & prophet with ner. “He is the man of today in England. And somehow to the British peoble—and to other peoples=-his Bomely face is a shining symbol of better days come, a

Sir Stafford

t— Editor's Note: The views. expressed by ctnbists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

So They Say—

Idle tools aid enly the axis.—~Ceorge © ! Brainard,

chief of war production board Youla eo % * Substantial advances have acbutied in ‘the of sporting goods, It is remain stable, sinee sporting goods civilan recreation and are important in the .tenace of civilian morale~~Leoh Hendersen. * * . Literally -our hides are at stake. We Ha wip, oF submit to the fate of a conquered People~AY Landon.

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" The more bitter the struggle against the criminals |

Invasion of ‘Sustéalia is hot a matter of monte : px but of weeks~—Maj. Gen. Honky union Bennet, Who ; commanded A

that these prices | | WY Reedeq Jor |.

for $75 a month. They receive $100 a month for the remainder of the year. After serving this “trial period" they receive $105 a month payable twice a manth which leaves five weeks in a year they werk for nothing, No more pathetic scene eould have been presented by any working greup in America than the one at ane of our high schools when the Janitors, custodians and their families shared the eost of a dinner just before Christmas. How the school officials (whe, by the way, did nof share in the expense) could face that group of 300 or mare shabbily dressed and in seme cases undernourished peeple and enjoy eating is a mystery to the writer. Such conditions need net eontinue, You as citizens ean demand that a small degree of cansideration be given to those who serve you and your children sp faithfully Select a seheol beard that will keep Indianapelis schogls the best in America fram the tep te the janitors, whe eertainly are on the bettem. # = 3 “MILLIONS PAYING TRIBUTE I8 NOT AMERICAN WAY!» By sore W. Davis, 507 Montgomery st., Why should workers preach democracy and practice destruction? Why demand life, liberty and freedom and in the same breath, deny it to your fellow werker? Your leaders are not men but muddlers, gangsters, racketeers, chiselers. They will destroy you and

but by compulsion, intimidation, eaercion, the club and the blackjack. How ean you expect tg survive any more than Hitlerism? Your involyntary silies er members will help destroy you, just the same as they will Hitler. So long as you use the Hitler method to grow and gain, in the end they will strike you down, . . . I firmly believe in labor erganizatian. In fagt, I have been an official in one of the greatest labor organizations in existence today— the great BR. of R. T.

ances of 500 railroad 1ien, aver a period of five years, with the higher railway officials and can truthfully say that theusands of complaints were settled peaceably and satisfaeterily. Simply because real men were meeting real men and both sides were glad and willing to make sacrifices and te respect each other’s rights. No pressure is gllowed by either side to join any railway order er net to jein. Membe ) is valuntary, which is as it uld be, Only 10 eut ef 500 did not heleng and they were fine railroad men. They taught us railroading. They were there ahead of us and we respected each other's views. Ne ane gains or leses by this arrangement. In modern labor unions, the argument put ferward that all new workers must pay from $100 to $300 initiatery fees for the right te werk on defense projects is treason!

Union mak ever galNg’4 penny, but

Side Glances=By Galbraith

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ished, The millions of workers must not he fore tribute to any o forced to pay dues is not the American way. It is the dictators’ way. 3

firm stand toward beth labor industry and do it now. We demand the right ta werk on defense prafects without further interference from any clique, group or labor

I have hal settie the griev-|union. The respect that is due you, ped to you will get, hut act ani do it now.

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By your gwn deeds and a you have caused s wave of public

resentment to Spread snd a demand must be abal-|

to call a halt.

The closed sho triotic to pay

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We demand of congress tp take a

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# H 2 “PEOPLE READY AND WILLING 70 DO THEIR PART"

By RB. Beynalds, 1139 S. Righland st.

In his recent speech, Donald M. Nelson, war produetion chief, seemed to be appealing to the people as a whele. One part of his appeal I eeould understand and appreciate — that of co-operation between business and the workers. That we must have—fully, but here is the question that immediately came to mind as no doubt it did to many others. Again and again it 15 being upon—the proper spirit, mood, or what have you, and the

willingness to saerifice tp no end—| | I refer to the peeple as 8 whole— 2

factory workers, etc, el¢. Are we not doing our. pert carrying our th vietory and

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chusetts ave., which sd Was donated by the f national organizatoin. It's a great ghost sumptous dignity must ence have been awe inspiring,” but whose glory is now as dim as the me ry of those’ days when the Walshes of peti, flung out: their’

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