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i. BATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1042

HE COST-OF-LIVING WAR | ‘OST of living is something everyone can understand. We think President Roosevelt is very wise in deciding attack “cost of living” rather than that vaguer menace, ation,” : Of course a rise in the cost of living is a form of inlion. ‘A runaway rise in the cost of living—which is what w threatens this country—is disastrous inflation. We pe that, by using the more understandable term, the

pr gsident will drive home to all Americans the fact that the

teat is personal to them and their families. . And we hope that. the coming attack will be all-out,

' To change the figure of speech, we hope that there will ¥ be one thorough-going, major operation on the cancer

E don’t know what the president will say in his message to congress Monday, and in his later address to‘the people. We [are sure, however, that the country wants bough talk from’ him.

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ple will respond gladly. All they want to know is that al sacrifices are requires, and that no favorites will be fed. : | The problem is huge and complex. ~ We believe its

] solution demands these steps as an absolute minimum:

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Higher taxes to divert into the treasury at least eight or 10 billion dollars more of the country’s expanding ng power. Taxes should take 99 per cent, if not 100 cent, of excess profits on war contracts. Taxes on large vidual incomes should be all the traffic will bear, stoponly at the point of diminishing returns. ~ |But such taxes, at most, won't bring in much more revenue, or greatly diminish the excess buying power which

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is pushing prices up. To get the revenue the treasury must

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~ convinced that it's to their interest to make it succeed. ~ Btrict rationing will have to be enforced. The poor

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gbvernment spending. Non-defense expenditures should be cut At least two billion dollars—and can be.

have, and to really curtail buying-power, most of the new must reach where the money is—into the pockets of -and-file citizens. = | It can be done by a sales tax. We'd much rather see |!

it done by a more broatly-based income tax, proportioned |

yi ? A : i ore bond buying—voluntary or compulsory—though | we suspect saving will have to be made compulsory | re the war ends. This year’s goal should be 15 to 20

befo | ns invested by the people in war bonds and stamps. |

billio Overall ceilings, not only on retail, wholesale and manufacturing prices, but also on raw materials including | 1 products and on wages and salaries and bonuses. No ice-control plan can succeed that attempts to freeze prices eaves the costs that go into prices free to rise.

Enforcement. If the program is sound and fair the public will do much to enforce it. If it’s unsound and

lake it werk. Retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, farmers, workers, consumers—all must be enlisted and

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must have the same chance as the rich to buy scarce goods.

what we have and

to fi id substitutes for what we lack. L I 5 Credit and : limited. . 6 | conomy. Since government spending creates the . problem, it would be absurd to continue unnecessary

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ACK HITLER!” JF there has been a more remarkable official statement on i 1 ~war status—past, present, and future—than Lord -Beaverbrook’s New York speech, we have not! seen it. He gave facts and figures on Britain's condition after Norway, Dunkirk, the battle of Britain, Greece, the battle of the Atlantic, more fully than they have been given ‘before. The same for production figures as one hottleneck afte another ‘was broken, including those still unbroken. e confessed the reason for allied failure in the battle e Pacific with a ruthless honesty and brevity, uned by London and Washington alibis: “Then ‘came the Japs. They caught us unawares in Malaya and Singapore. We have little to say in defense of oul errors. We cannot explain our failures. We can only resolve to profit by our punishment and strive after higher efficiency and greater resource in the days to come.” “As to the supreme importance of the Russian front, he houted what other officials hint or whisper:

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Mf the Russians are defeated and driven out of the

ar, never will such a chance come to us again.” nd the moral of all this? ‘Why, of course, it is “to set up a western fighting front.” ; ‘IStrike out to help Russia? Strike out violently! Strike even recklessly. In any event, strike such rea] blows that real help will be our contribution.” : [here is no news in this appeal. As he said: “In almost every quarter in Britain the cry goes up, attack!” ‘But there is big news in his statement that Britain is prepared : “How admirably Britain is now equipped in weapons for directing such an attack on Germany. I well know.” t is his job to know. . Since Beaverbrook proves that a British offensive is mperative, that she is admirably prepared, that her people nand it and her prime minister is the best leader for it,

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

though we have béen formally at war for more than four months, too few of us keep aware of the sinister, poisonous nature of Germanism, that treacherous world force which sneers at honor and mocks the trust of decent people. The German individual who goes abroad and takes citizenship in an adopted land is invited, even ; put under pressure, to betray the hospitality and trust of his new country and remain a German and an agent of world-Germandom. He is expected to undermihe the country of his adoption and particularly to take advantage of any of its laws which protect him in his treachery, with the understanding that in so doing he is performing the duties of a good German. If he refuses to co-operate the German consuls and the agents of the bunds will report him to Berlin and his family in Germany. is likely to suffer.

Look at the Finance Record

one word, thievery. It was good Germanism to borrow in pretense of good faith as much money as other nations and their people would lend Germany, ‘with a determined intention never to pay back a single mark of it. American industries, representing the savings of American working people, were induced to build plants which would be useful for the war that Hitler was planning against this couniry among others, and: the plants became German possessions and the profits, when there were profits above retroactive and wifimsical taxes, were held in Germany. This was a national and racial plan of dishonoring debt adopted with cold calculation by ‘a nation and race which, at the time, was shrieking of the perfidy of the international pluto-democraticscapitalist conspiracy against innocent Germany.

'Yet Right in Our Midst . . .'

IN THE MATTER of racial clannishness, the German was told that this was, indeed, the superrace with a right, derived from some mystic emanations from the German soil, to betray, subdue and literally to enslave all others. His literatura told him to shun the Italians because they were short-legged and swarthy and scorn the mongrel French who are now invited to collaborate as slaves. Going abroad and marrying benéath tneir racial station for the purpose of establishing political and

spouses and children, renouncing such marriage, to return to Germany and marry Aryans, if they desired. So recently that the memory is still fresh, the race-pure blond, blue-eyed Nordics, who had abhorred Jews as Asiatics, conferred on the Japanese the status of Oriental Aryans and then attacked the Soviet. This was followed by the attack in concert of’ Aryan world-Germandom and Orieatal Aryanism on the people of the United States. So closely does the world-Germandom of the chosen people follow "the indictment that Hitlerism was founded on and yet, in our American midst, under fire and in peril of our national life, there rises on the altar a defender of the most formidable enemy of Christianity since the crucifixion to mock She teachings of the.figure on the Cross above him.

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The Brains Dept.

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, April Heavier chickens are a better buy for large families than broilers. That is the discovery of the month as reported in the April

number of “Consumer Prices,” pub- |

iication of the Consumer Division of the office of price administration. Not since the Two Black Crows surmised that the Treason their white horses ate more than their black horses was because they had more white horses, has thé obvious been so eniphasized. “Consumer Prices” is a free-subscription proposition, and some constant readers say the price is just about right. : - Each month it contains mdhy gems of current literature written by the staff of Ph.D's of the consumer division, such as these: ’ “Still tingling with the shock of Pearl Harbor, Americans probably paid scant attention to a small and technically worded news release from Washington on. Dec. 21, 1941—‘Price Administrator Leon Henderson today issued a revised schedule of maximum- prices for combed cotton yarns. .. . “Now-—on that Christmas Eve—what would you have done if you had discovered a yard snipped off each of your best sheets? And how would you men have felt if you had found the tails cut off each of your shirts?” : (The story really is about price fixing and cloth, but the style iz cute and poetic.)

‘The Price of Pork Chops’

“The’ Price of Pork Chops”. is dealt with in an article with this opening: . “In recent months many Americans were beginning to feel that someone was making quite a purse out of the sow’s ear.” ; The piece relates how Director Dan A. West of the consun#r division warned the butcher about pork prices and how Mr. Henderson fixed the whole price. It concludes: ’ “Consumers can help keep the price of pork down and make a direct “contribution to the war effort by buying less pork now, because large supplies are needed to meet the food requirements of lend-lease and of ‘he united nations’ fighting forces. Families with limited meat budgeis are urged to make greater use of dishes built around dried beans and peas, which make excellent pork substitutes.”

So They Say—

We are taking away from people things which make the standard of living, but this is the way of total all-out war and the price of early victory.—Donald M. Nelson.

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. France, betrayed by her ruling and privileged classes, has embarked upon the greatest revolution

in all her history. We are fighting the greatest evil |

of all time.—Gen. Charles de Gaulle, Free French leader.

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The rise of more sophisticated swing music has revised jitterbugging, which has been streamlined into something the better hotel ballrooms and army morale officers are willing to sanction.—Arthur Murray, dance teacher. lL .

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Vichy has now been reduced to the level in the

axis New Order of a 5-cent Balkan state.—British

foreign office spokesman.

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Destruction of freedom always starts—it must | | "Well, Tom, if they take us in the

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“SUCH A MAN SHOULD BE TARRED AND FEATHERED” By R. T., Spencer Just a word to “City Parent” in answer to his views that vice districts should be set up for soldiers. Such a man should be tarred and feathered and run out of the city. No real parent would consider such a thing. Those soldiers are in camp to win a war, not a brothel. Any real parent would shudder at the idea of such an earthly pit of hell. I have a son of draft age and the thohight of such is horrible. The reason we are all in such a condition now is because too

many of our parents have such ideas. . . .

2 o 2 “LET GOVERNMENT TAKE OVER DEFENSE PLANTS” By Jasper Douglas, Indianapolis | To win this war it will be neces- | sary for everyone to sacrifice to the!

limit; but it will be hard for that |

while grafting profiteers are bleeding the country to death with confiscatory ' taxes and purchase of ‘stamps and bonds so that they can make big profits. In The Times of April 22 Louis Ludlow has told what is happening. Corporations having govern- | ment contracts on a cost plus basis | have raised the salaries of their employees to more than three times] what they had been receiving sof that costs would be higher, thus] increasing the profits. | If all-out unity is to be had (and the war cannot be won without it), ! something has got to be done to stop this graft. We are told that if the rich are not allowed to make profits they will not have ithe incentive to produce as fast as possible. My answer is when patriotism can only be had by robbing the people to pay big profits, then put the scoundrels in jail and take the works and run it to produce to the limit with no profit to individual owners. Also, congressmen who want appropriations of large sums to do work that is no part of war business should be sat on and informed that they owe it to America to id

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the winning of the war above all minor considerations. Let the government take over all defense works, pay a decent living wage to all workers, operate them around the clock and leave it to the courts to decide on proper compensation to the present owners. Then we will have a unity of purpose that will make everv American do his level best to win the war... .

"8 =» “HOW DOES ONE KEEP ONE'S SHIRT TAIL IN?” By Mrs. First-Aid Instructor, Indianapolis Will someone stop discussing the slacks question long enough to give just one practical answer? How

does one keep one’s shirt tail in? Between First Aid classes I do

‘manage to read the newspaper and

would appreciate an answer that is as practical as the Red Cross training which is being given to the public. : I manage not to feel conspicuous in slacks because there are more important things to think about

unity of purpose to be attained| ignt now. But I could accomplish |

more work if the shirt tail situation didn’t have me running in circles. Let's be constructive! Either the slacks, or the shirt tail problem, for that matter, can be settled after we settle the axis. give a running answer I'll certainly lend an ear. :

2 ” ” “LOOK INTO WHO IT IS CAUSING THIS INFLATION” By “That Defense Worker,” Indianapolis Mr. Meitzler . much space .to try to straighten out the conglomeration of twisted impressions that you tried to foist off onto the public. I'm just going to cite a few examples of ‘thief, racketeer, profiteer.” : The war started, officially, for us Dec. 7. Since then, the price of the cost of living—has risen 25 per cent. The price, per hour, of experienced labor, has not been increased at all. The top pay is the same and there are very few getting We are working more hours, more regularly, which has increased the earnings of labor, and naturally given us more purchasing power. But that is the condition our pres-

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ident has spent billions of doHars to create artificially (and is continuing to spend after the need is absent—the NYA, CCC; WPA (now WPPA—much mo-ah relief). the AAA—I could go on and on, on that subject. £ Now, specifically—when was the

the form of cereal now? Certain-

ly not since Dec. Tth! When were the cattle butchered from which shoes, etc., are being {manufactured and sold? Since Pearl | Harbor! | When were the vegetables, fruit, jgrain, etc., raised that are sitting |in cans on the shelves of our {groceries? Since the “stab in the back”! { How much less fresh fruit, dairy | products, etc. are being produced? | No, sir, Mr. Meitzler, you lay |off calling laborers ‘cry babies, | sissies, panty-waists, and robbers,” land do as I suggested in my last |letter—stick your nose into the (affairs of the guys who are caus|ing this so-called “inflation”—the men who bought up billions of {bushels of grain and fruit as long |as three years ago,—the men who {were patriotic and “love thy neighborish” enough to get laws passed compelling farmers, dairy men, and truck farmers to dispose of their wares, through a system of distribution that makes the producers sell at bankruptcy prices, to consumers who have to pay kingly prices because of the commission houses—the brokerage houses—the futuristic market ° investors—the sneak thieves who do the robbing racketeering, and profiteering legal- | ly. Why don’t all you people who are giving labor hell, and trying to belittle us, devote your literary talents, your letter writing urges, to correspondence to your so-called ‘“representatives” now in office and exercise your rights as citizens by going to the polls and voting in men who would be. Americans—not wishy-washy, on the fence politicians who go with the strongest wind?

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LITTERING THE STREETS?” By A Reader, Indianapolis There has been so much talk of how to make your tires last longer. I would like. to say a few things I think it is about time that our council makes a law that it would be a penalty to leave broken glass in the street. I saw a milk driver drop a quart | of milk on the curb and go away and leave the glass in the gutter. My grocery boy broke a bottle of coke in front of my house. I asked him if he cleaned up the glass. He said he pushed it up to the curb. There I found a three-cornered, sharp, broken bottle that would cut

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” “THIS IS NOT ANY ONE MAN'S COUNTRY” By Jean Fisher, Bheridan This is not one man’s country. It’s “our” country, it belongs to each and every American. No one owns a bigger share than their

We can’t stop now to argue over our small political differences, nor can we quit work and demand that we receive higher wages simply because we would be hurting no one but ourselves. If America should lose, where would we all be? : :

DAILY THOUGHT

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.—Proverbs 15:3.

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SATURDAY, APRIL %, 102 In Washington

By Peter Edson

WABHINGTON, April 26.—~You may be hearing more about another senatorial investigation of war, defense and related activities, with particular emphasis on how they affect farmers. The noise will e from a subcommittee on agriculture and forestry. Its chairman is Guy M. Gillette of Cherokee, Iowa, and its other members, who can make plenty of trouble if they have a mind to,

|| include Senators Charles L. McNary of Salem, Ore.,

Burton K. Wheeler of Butte, Mont., George W. Norris of McCook, Neb. and Elmer Thomas of Medicine

4 Park, Okla.

For counsel, the committee has just taken on Paul

P| Hadlick, who has been battling special interests in | Washington for years, and knows all the tricks,

In a way, this Gillette committee investigation might be considered a slight infringement on the work of the Truman committee investigating national defense. But the Truman committee is concerned primarily with industfial production and war cone tracts, while the Gillétte committee is interested solee ly in looking aftér the interests of the farmer.

New No-Mores i

NO MORE JUTE imports to go into anything bus war orders. . . . No more wool for floor coverings, draperies or upholstery, except in war orders. . J+ No more jewelry of rhodium, needed for searchlight ree flectors. . . . No more than 60 pounds of honey per month to any one user in 1942, as a sugar conservation move. . . . No more dry cleaning equipment will be manufactured after July 1, except for war uses, .

| No more charter bus trips for picnics or outings,

-. .» No more typewriters can be bought, except through a rationing board. . . . No more enameled bottle caps

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10,000,000 Blowouts in '4|

SCRAP METAL dealers still give price administra= tion enforcement its worst problem. . . . Auto break=, downs in 3941 numbered 31 million, about one per car, «+. There were 10 million blowouts, one million out of gas, 700,000 lost keys, 100,000 freeze ups. . . , Busses may carry entertainers on morale building road trips, - . . Rural mail carriers will get tire preference. . Army and navy have asked Red Cross for 1.2 m pints of blood in the next 14 months.

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‘A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I'D FEEL BETTER abou things if theemen would get along with their war work and just assume that women have sense enough to co-operate about do< mestic matters. Yet day |after day the |consumers division in Washington sends out long instructions dealing with little facts which have been daily routine in the home for centuries. . Thousands of government econ omists, besides, spend a lot of brain power and time thinking up wee ways for women to save. While de-: vising chemes for more astronomical .spending within the government itself, they admonish us to pick up old string, and waste paper and tag labels and broken knives and used tin cans and pencil stubs for victory, And most of these Jovian [ultimatums they vrite, and rewrite, and mimeograph. and hand out re= porters are old, old stuff to us. When you Lib re: that vast bureaus are sef up and maintained to remind the American housewife to empty her vacuum-cléaner dust bag and to 100k out for moths when ‘she| does her spring cleaning, and to give her closefs mo thly airings, well, it simply makes you want to bite nails.

Just Housewifely Routine

MAYBE THIS I8 new and wonderful to the ree porters, but it’s routine housewifely knowledge to nine out of every 10 women who do their own work, Unless we expect to win this war by mail we

'women who were chasing moths and airing out ¢ and putting away their woolens long before so our starry-eyed economists were born or the const ers division had been conceited. Look—why can’t the government functionaries say: “We rely on you to run your home as econ cally as possible and to waste hothing”? : Women aren't wasteful! by nature. At heart, most of us are thrifty souls and many of our spendthrift ways have been learned from the newfangled theories of the college professors who are helping to run|the country. It is time the economists tried out their ideas of saving where they are most needed—and t, I say emphatically, is not in the home. .

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Editor's Nete:| The views expressed by columnists in newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily these .of The Indianapolis Times. ’ |

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Q—What are the duties of a first mate o steamship? :

A—He supervises the activities of deck workers, being the executive officer and next in command to the master; plans and executes work relative to load ing and unloading of cargo, maintaining cleanliness, and upkeep of equipment; assumes the duties of mas= ter in case of emergency, frequently stands a watch (usually four to eight). First mates, and all other mates on vessels, are licensed by the government, Q—Does freezing ruin electric dry cells? A—No. Repeated tests have shown that dry cells which have been frozen are usable after they have

been thawed and brought to a reasonable operating temperature.

Q—What is the greatest depth ever attained by a diver, and what is the record in a diving bell or suit? A—Dr. William Beebe descended to the record depth, Aug. 15, 1934, when he went 3028 feet below the surface in his bathysphere. Capt. C. B. Maye broke all navy records in a diving bell when he scented 485 feet in Puget Sound in 1933. In attempting to reach the sunken submarine 0-9, off Portsmouth, N. ‘H., June 22, 1841, two navy divers, R. M. Metzger ° and Clarence Conger, made unprecedented d ts of 440 feet in working dives in rubber canvas Jiving suits. |

Q—Have there been any American naval vessels named Houston other than the cruiser recently sunk by the Japs in the south Pacific? A—The first American naval vessel named Houston was a cargo ship used by the naval overseas t. - port service during World War I, which was originally a German collier, Liebenfels, built in 1908. Toa cruiser sunk by the Japs was the second ship with that name,

Q—Will Lieut. Gen. William O. Knudsen be ble for an army pension when he reaches retirement .age? ; ; - A—He received ‘his commission in the army of

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the United States and not. in the regular army, : Bly is not eligible, :