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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1942

BEWARE ANOTHER “SURPRISE”

HERE is not much left of our relations with the Vichy government, but the feeling of America for the French people remains. If ever a nation tried to maintain a friendship under adversity, this country and this government have done that in the months of Vichy betrayal. Washington even turned the other cheek when Vichy handed over Indo-China to the Japs and provided the bases for most of our enemy's Pacific victories to date. For that the president and state department have been much criticized. Unjustly, we think. . It was a choice of evils. And on a pragmatic test— which is all that counts in winning a war—the Roosevelt policy of plaving along with Petain has kept from Hitler

the French African bases and fleet for many critical months. |

If now the game is almost up, the president at least has gained time at little expense. And time is the most precious commodity in this war. Would that we had just a

few more months of it, even a few more weeks, before the |

decisive campaigns of 1942 begin!

But now that Hitler rules Vichy through his puppet, |

Laval, the chance of gaining more time is rapidly disappearing. The chance of keeping contact with the French people through that government has aiready disappeared. If there was any doubt that Laval was the most hated man in France even before the war, it is clear now that the French people do not recognize him. The violence which meets his return is proof of that. So the president has recalled Ambassador Leahy. More than that, Acting Secretary of State Welles has formally rebuked the Vichy ambassador for the subservience of his government to Hitler. That could hardly occur unless the president had decided definitely to break.

We hope the intervening time, however short, will be |

so used by Washington as to prevent any of those *‘surprises” with which the axis strikes.

GET READY

OU are going to do a lot more toward winning this war

than you are doing right now. If you do it with a smile, so much the better. But you are going to do it—and how. Things you haven't even thought about are going to happen to you. You doubt that? Well, just look back a year ago or even less. Suppose someone had forecast that today you'd have no cuffs on your pants, that you'd turn in

an old tooth paste tube before you could get a new one, or |

ride a bicycle instead of a car—if you have a bicycle. You would have laughed and gone on listening to that radio commentator telling vou the Japs would be a soft touch for us big rich Americans. Get ready, brothers and sisters, changes made before you win this war.

there'll be some

A START, BUT NOT ENOUGH

FTER many months of obstruction the senate labor committee has agreed to consider a bill restricting extension of closed-shop contracts and increases in wages and salaries. Its hope is to head off more drastic labor legislation. This committee and its counterpart in the house, have invited drastic legislation by bottling up reasonable proposals for the correction of outrageous abuses. The plea was that voluntary methods must be given full oppor-

RALPH BURKHOLDER MARK FERREE |

By Westbrook Pegler

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Fair Enbugh

AJO, Ariz, April 18 — Hugh

Johnson worked harder than any other man I ever knew. He was better qualified by experience and education for the role of cosmic columnist than any other journalist in the country. He was so tenaciously devoted to his job that he would not take vacations and, as the paper says in the dispatch from Washington, he wrote his Jast column in bed a few hours before he died. Of course, he was an exceptional

points the mawkish absurdity of the contention that the law of diminishing returns begins to run against the efficiency of human beings after they have put in five working days of eight hours each in a calen- | dar week. This poisonous political fallacy, dreamed | up by some soft-handed study-boy of the New Deal ivy league, had in the beginning the worthy purpose of spreading the work and the pay among the many, but it never had any truthful basis and Johnson flouted it every day of his life, as do many other government administrators in Washington today. If the president, himself, worked only eight hours a day and only five days out of seven he would be so far behind in his job that as of today he would be boning up on the complexities of the middie months of his second term or thereabouts.

'Pure, Sentimental Devotion’

WHEN JOHNSON WAS running NRA he often | went 24 hours with no more than four or five hours |

off the job and after he left he had so much energy beyond the requirements of his newspaper job that he went bouncing all over the country by plane filling lecture dates, carried on a regular practice as a radio commentator and ground out good articles for such an exacting magazine as the Saturday Evening Post. He ran WPA in New York and once, having time on his hands, he holed up in the St. Regis hotel and from there ran the mile-of-dimes campaign for the infantile paralysis fund. He gave this country more service than he received credit for and, although he was personally on the outs with the president for some time before he died, he was still as loyal to the office of the presidency and to his country as he was the day he entered the ary academy as an ungainly plebe. His patriotism was the pure, sentimental devotion of the professional army and navy which cannot express itself in words and persists through all dis-

milit

agreements with any policies of any passing admin- |

istration composed of mere men.

He Was a Hero-Worshiper I SUPPOSE WE will have to charge against him

| the fact that he really made John L. Lewis back in | {| his NRA days, but we can be very lenient, because | Lewis then was playing the role of a leader of labor |

| and a fighter for labor's rights and welfare. Hugh | was quite a bit of a hero-worshiper and personal | heroes have a way of letting a man down. In the same way, Hugh developed a terrific crush on Wendell Willkie and wrote two quite boastful articles which boiled down to “I Saw Him First.”

| But one hero, at least, stood up in Hugh’s estimation |

| to the end. That is Bernard Baruch, to whom he |

| maintained the devoted and respectful attitude of a youth to a wise and kindly elder. He would not take a drink in Baruch’s presence and he savagely defended Baruch against insinuations that he had used his position for profit in the | last war. Hugh studied law while he was still a young soldier, he wrote boys” fiction for diversion and some profit, he helped run the draft in the other war, and

after the war he ran a big industrial company and |

litigated a very complicated case in Chicago which concerned the water supply and deep engineering | problems. It was this background of experience, plus | { his knack for expression, which qualified him so | highly to di-cuss public probiems. And it was his gift as an epithetician which brcught his first renown in the davs of NRA. wien he said dead cats would come sailing his way, as they did, and, spoke of the lawsuit which destroyed NRA as the sick-chicken case.

Test Season By Major Al Williams

tunity, that labor must not be coerced, that the war labor |

board must have a chance to formulate a war labor policy. | The truth was that union bosses objected to any restraint |

on their power.

Voluntary methods have not ended such union abuses | as racketeering and the extortion of huge initiation fees !

from men seeking work on war projects. Unions have not been coerced, but workers have. “policy”

confusing, but its main discernible features are two: To

grant wage increases, regardless of their effect on prices |

and inflation. To grant some form of “union security,” which means that the government compels workers to belong to unions, whether or not they want to belong, or lose their jobs. = 5 » =

OST Americans, we are sure, are against unionism by government compulsion. It is, as the president has said, “too much like the Hitler methods toward labor.” And most Americans know by now that wages must be stabilized if prices are ever to be brought under control. It is the long-neglected duty of congress to enact a war labor policy of which most Americans can approve. The revised Ball hill, which the senate committee has agreed to consider and perhaps to report to the senate Monday, certainly does not go too far. It would forbid government approval of a closed-shop contract except where the closed shop already exists by voluntary agreement between union and employer, or unless within two previous years the national labor relations board had found the emplover guilty of unfair labor practices. It would forbid government approval of wage or salary increases not found

to be justified by increased living costs or other good

reasons. That would be at least a start in the right direction. It would not be enough. For one thing, no government labor policy will be adequate until it curbs such racketeer-trade-restricting, price-boosting union activities as were described yesterday by many farm witnesses who testified before the house judiciary committee in favor of the Monroney bill.

MEMO TO LAZY PEOPLE:

PRODUCTION of lawn mowers ends June 30. If you have |

not stocked up on this item—and hoarding is unpatriotic —you will just have to let the grass grow. Also, gadgets won't be wrapped in cellophane. Hours saved opening things should be devoted to the war effort.

The | toward which the war labor board is tending is |

PITTSBURGH, April 18 —Just as Christmas degenerated into the peak of a sales program, and Easter became better advertised as the zero day for new hats and clothes, so has spring—in this war—become the season in which the latest, swiftest and most deadly aircraft, after cooking all winter in laboratories and factories, are looosed for test. There seems to be a consensus that all the cards will be face up on the world table i by the end of next October. Don’t mistake this as a prediction that the war will end by that time. What 1s meant is that the aim of this summer's campaigns will disclose the real objectives of the various belligerents.” No matter which way Mars tips the scales, you can bet your last nickel that the tipping will have been achieved by an overweight of airpower on one side and a deficiency of the same weapon on the other.

The Way to Lick It

THIS IS A WAR of transportation. It makes little | difference how much any nation may be able to build | in the way of tanks and guns and planes—long-range bombers excepted, for they alone can fly themselves to the combat fronts across the ocean—if the cargo bottoms are not available to carry the weapons and supplies where they can be used. We are fighting the axis gang on exterior lines of communication, which is like sailing around the edges of the world and trying to dodge in to take a crack at an enemy who is operating on interior lines of communication, and for the greater part actually flying nearly all his air force equipment to the combat zones. This is a sea warfare in terms of the necessity for sea transportation. But you can’t conduct sea transportation successfully unless you have established control of the air over the seas. The only way to lick this submarine business, for instance, is by complete and sky-darkening air patrols —not by a few planes skipping ail over the heavens. But the effective air patrol against subs ends at nightfall, and then its destroyers and swift torpedo boats also are greatly handicapped by darkness.

So They Say—

One almost gets the impression that some American business firms regard this war as an annoying interruption to their Fascist economic alliances. — Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin Progresssive. ® a »

We are out not only to save our democratic way of life, but we are out to save our very skins. —Rear Admiral John Downes, commandant of ninth naval district.

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Fascism contains basic principles that are abhorrent to the church. —Carleton J. H. Hayes, new U. S. ambassador to Spaii and prominent Catholic layman.

man, but his survival to the age of 59 under the strain | of long hours and intense application to many tasks |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ‘Yeah—I Guess We Better Take 'Em Back’

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will : i .

SUGAR :

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

|“TRUCK SPEEDS CERTAINLY ARE KILLING TIRES.” By Suburbanite, Clermont In answer to the truck driver's | wife wno was so offended by the! criticism of truckers driving all over | the state at high rates of speed—| ot ‘Ss true. I travel back and forth every day and I see trucks rumbling down

the highways at speeds which cer-!

(tainly are Killing tires. We people have eyes. Truck drivers may scream all they want to, but there will be eriticism just as

long as they keep driving the way]

they do. 5 ” z “THROW THESE YOUNG AUTO DRIVER PUNKS IN JAIL.”

i By Indignant, Indianapslis

{got busy and started throwing these | voung auto driver punks into jail.| | They skate around town in their] |father’s cars, racing with every passing automobile and trying to {pick up girls at every corner.

‘plain dangerous—and the traffic records last summer can prove that. Heaven knows how much precious] rubber has been worn off autos

And we're stilling letting them get away with it! Why doesn’t city council pass an ordinance barring until 21 any! voungster who gets arrested for a traffic violation? That might stop, some of this silly business. Or just!

the camp instead of having the soldiers do it. That would teach them a lesson! ® =» “LET US GET OUR THINKING STRAIGHT.”

By A Nurse’s Mother, Indianapolis

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per which disturbs me ‘but completely unthinking lady from Franklin condemns rurses for going out with officers and intimates that these people who are on the firing line are playboys and playgiris. Nothjng could be more cruel than to take this attitude toward all

It's about time our city officials!

You have a letter in today's pa-| beyond | words. An apparently well-meaning,

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‘these young men and young women {who are risking their lives in warume.

And the is something bad in out with officers! There are words to describe my emotions. These people are reaqy | through hell. ‘of bombs and shelis.

They want

companionship. Why not with peo-| own age and from:

ple of their |their own country? | We mothers with qaughters now very well that these officers are gentlemen and that our daugh-

[ters are ladies. We would be de-| For a long time, these kids were jjghted to have them date each around downtown looking for pas-|

Why |

other if they were home. | frown on it because they are a few miles away? Please, let us get our thinking

‘sakes. = o 2 “CAPITAL-LABOR HISTORY IS ONE OF FIGHTING” By L. C. A., Indianapolis | You people who keep attacking

put into the Fort some of these | unions have utterly no idea of what | young prigs and let them clean up| | the working man has to go through articles

in order to keep his end up.

There seems to be an idea that]

union men should go around praising their employer, hours when he gets paid for 40, giving up this and giving up that so as not to irritate so-called “public sentiment.” This is just plain screwy. The 1s one of fighting. No employer is ever going to give a nickel more than he has to. It's human nature for them to want to make as much as they can.

about these big-hearted industrialists, but I know plenty of them

who live in 15 and 20-room man-

Side Glances=By Galbraith

7:8

"Believe me, if | were you !'d let that nice bald-headed man with the limousine take me home!

You with your cold, and

it's raining, tool"

intimation that there nurses going. no |

to g0 | They're in tne range

working 42)

whole history of capital and labor |

You can talk all you want to]

sions, surrounded by servants, who think they're doing their help a| favor by paying them $20 a week. The only way the working man can improve his status is to organize and then use that organization for what it is—a weapon. The employer has his weapon: The power of dismissal. The worker has his: Strike. There is always this big-talk about working men striking. But | capital has often struck itself and you naven't heard a word of protest. The unions deserve freedom of action because that's the only way you can operate with employers.

You've got to cram it down their | throats. They can afford it. on ” 5

“SAME OLD TAXICABS CRUISING DOWNTOWN”

By a Sudden Pedestrian, Indianapolis Save your tires! Save your tires! ‘Save your tires! All this the government keeps [ae at us. And then what do we see. The same old taxicabs cruising | sengers. , . . | Why talk about conservation and | let things like this go on? When the governmemt cracks down

by these boogie-woogie teen-agers! {straight! Please! For our children’s on this sort of thing I'll be more |

. inclined to believe we are all-out) {in the war effort. | z » » |“NOT AN OUTSTANDING

| CANDIDATE IN THE LOT”

By R. D. B.. a North Sider

I notice in The Times several criticizing the public's apathy toward the coming primary elections. I would like to know how the public is expected to feel any other way in the light of the two [tickets. I have lived in Indianapolis for ‘more than 40 years and I think I (know most of the more effective people around this town. It is my judgment that there is not a single outstanding candidate for any of the major offices. , . . There are a few gond names on the judicial tickets but for the jmost part the tickets are made up of . , . second-raters. The tragedy is that at a time like this we need real men and inStead we are to get what is commonly referred Yo as “stumblebums” .

» = s “HOME FRONT MUST NOT FAIL BATTLEFRONT” By J. P. M., Indianapolis. In this darkest of hours we are most critical and extremely sensitive of what is not right and what does not fit to meet our greatest crisis. We all stand to be condemned until we prove ourselves unflinchingly loyal, contrary te our fundamental concepts. To labor we say “you came up the hard way. You and your leaders will have to prove yourselves worthy of your gains or fall of your own failings in the test.” To capital we say “measure up on the scales of unselfish devotion to your country or you will be destroyed because of your cupidity for gains to the sacrifice of the country that nurtured you.” From our leaders we demand courageous and skilful leadership. From our public servants we expect competency and devotion to the cause of our country. Our home front must not fail our sons on the battlefront.

DAILY THOUGHT

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.—Job 18:5.

Corruption spring from light; ‘tis one same power. Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon it works, or e'er self-transmutative form, common to now the living, new the

SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1942

In Washington

4 Ey Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 18 — Senator Truman of Missouri says private motorists need have no fear of having their cars commandeered or tires confiscated. . . . But he adds, “No one can foretell what might happen as a last resort in wartimes.” . Use of lead in buttons and jewelry has been prohibited. . . . WPA now puts national unemployment at 3.6 ’ millions. Executive departments of the government issued 7850 proclamations, orders, rules and regulations in the fiscal year 1941, . Use of tacks in shoes has been ordered cut 20 per cent. . . . Ten yellow to brown dyes are hereafter reserved for the military. . . . Bureau of mines reports U. S. mineral production worth $6.6 billions in 1941, 18 per cent above 1940. . . . Quantity was greatest on record though value was below 1920, when prices were at record highs. . . . Mineral fuels, coal and oil, accounted for more than half, $3.6 billions. . . . Aluminum was at 600 million pounds, 50 per cent above 1940, but still less than a third of the ultimate goal of 2.1 billion pounds. . . . Only two metals declined in production, gold and silver—the former 8/10 of 1 per cent, the latter 4/10 of 1 per cent.

Found by FBI: 1500 Guns

THE NATIONAL (Mellon) Art Gallery drew two million visitors in its first year. . . . Some government bureaucrats are now advocating that the Mellon Gallery and the Supreme Court building should be taken over as office buildings for the duration, the art treasures and the nine young men being moved to other cities. . . . FBI found 1500 guns in its search of 8000 German, Italian and Jap residences. . Motorists would save $35 million worth of gasoline a year by reducing maximum speeds from 40 to 35 miles an hour, . . . Add great words of famous living states= men: “Every time there is a manifestation of true democratic spirit in America, some one of the federal bureaus runs out and tries to suppress it, ties it into the federal machinery and smothers its spirit of independence.”—Congressman Hatton W. Sumners of Texas.

“Retired Service Men Exempt

COPPER SCREENING is now banned except for war or lease lend projects. . , . Private importers have been ordered to stay out of the babassu, cashew and cohune nuts market. . . | New industry advisory committees include those for the elevator, escalator and dumbwaiter trade and the robe, negligee and housecoat business. . . . 950 Chinese students who can’t get home have been permitted to take jobs in the U. 8S. Retired soldiers and sailors between 45 and 65 don’t have to register April 27. ... Buy next winter's coal NOW,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

CONGRATULATIONS ARE due California, Gov. Olson and Mrs. Annette Adams of Los Altos. Mrs. Adams has recently been appointed presiding justice for the third district court of appeals. She is the first woman to hold tnis high office in her state. The appointment of Judge Adams is a well deserved honor. She has a splendid legal record, having done much government work in the oil disputes. She served in Washington as an assistant attorney general under President Wilson. The news is important for another reason. It constitutes a definite boost for feminine talents. In placing heavy responsibilities on one member of their sex, Gov. Olson merits the gratitude of all women

| who believe they also have a contribution to make to | their country through the professions.

The Supreme Court Next

IT HAS ALSO been argued that women lack the judicial mind; they are personal and emotional in their attitudes, we say, which by implication endows men with all the legalistic talents. This is nonsense. The law is something which can be taught and learned exactly as one learns medicine or horticulture or music, When one visits the supreme court, however, walking humbly down its marble corridors, too vast and splendid for the comfort of the ordinary visitor, and when one looks in at the nine austere men sitting there, it is hard to imagine a woman in their midst. Yet, if democracy triumphs, the day will surely come when a woman will sit there. Every change that boosts another one into a position such as that now filled by Judge Adams makes us more certain of

{ the fact.

In a nation where equality of the sexes really exists, justice must be dispensed by both men and women in order to create a truly democratic society.

Fditor’s Note: The views expressed bv columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily these of The Indianapolis Times.

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Q—Which musical selections were played at the funeral of Ignace Jan Paderewski? A—His favorite hymn, “God, Who for Years Hast Given Thy Protection,” by Kurpinski, and Chopin's “Funeral March” were played at the solemn pontificial mass of requiem at St. Patrick’s cathedral, New York. When the coffin was being borne out of the cathedra! the organist played the Chopin “Funeral March,” nd when it was en route to the railroad station 1. shipment to Arlington, Va. the army band played “Dead March from 8aul,” by Handel, and the Chopin “Funeral March.” Funeral marches were also played by the army band as the cortege proceeded into Arlington cemetery.

Q—Has Great Britain a suger rationing program? A—The government buys all of the sugar, and sells it to wholesalers who supply retailers from whom the consumers get their sugar. The British consumer is registered at a specific retail store. He presents his ration book and leaves the pages with the storekeeper. As he buys sugar and other commodities, he presents the cover of his book and the store checks the purchases on the pages.

Q—Was the father or the grandfather of Henry A. Wallace, vice president of the United States, a mine ister? A—His grandfather, Henry Wallace, was a farmer and a Presbyterian minister, Henry C, Wallace, his . father, was Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Harding and Ooolidge. Q—Is Brazil larger in area than continental United States? A—It is the largest state in South America and is larger than continental United States excluding Alaska, by about 250,000 square miles. The comparative areas are: Brazil, 3,275,510 square miles and continental United States 3,022,387 square miles.

Q=In which countries of the world. is produced?

* A=It is produced in almost every country, but Cuba leads all countries with an annual production

of four million tons.

sugar |