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Give Ligh and the People Will Find Their Own Way
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1942
THE PRIMARY pus are almost 300 candidates for city, county and ~ congressional offices at tomorrow's primary election. On either ticket, the voters will experience great difficulty in making a selection for some offices. Fortunately not all of the contests are as confused, for example, as the Republican race for mayor, where the public must choose between two high-type citizens, both _ with the interests of the city at heart, and both with party . supporters that are a source of embarrassment. In the congressional race, each party brought out a superior candidate. The ablest in the Democratic field is
Louis Ludlow,
who deserves renomination. For the
Republican nomination, there is no question that that place should go to John G. Coulter, a man of great ability, wide experience and liberal views. . There are contests for both the Republican and
Democratic tickets for prosecutor.
For the former, we
prefer Sherwood Blue to Glenn W. Funk despite the fact that Blue has been a weak and inefficient prosecutor. For the latter, we prefer Maurice Harrell. We bélieve the Democratic organization candidate, Oscar Hagemier, should be defeated because of his active interest in a wholesale liquor distributing business. It is contrary to public interest to have a law enforcement officer directly in the liquor business.
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N the Republican contest for judge of probate court, we cannot too strongly urge the nomination of Judge Dan V. White. He is an able and respected judge and would administer the affairs of that court with strict fairness. We have no such clear preference as between Judge Smiley Chambers and David M. Lewis who seek the Democratic nomination. Judge Chambers is perhaps the abler man,
though he can
be criticized on numerous counts in the
conduct of his office, Of the Republican ‘candidates for the important office of ‘the criminal court judge, we urge the nomination of
Clyde Carter.
In the sheriff's race, we believe the voters would do
James P. S¢ott on the Democratic. Petit is an experienced
‘well to Sites Otto Petit on the Republican ticket and
law enforcement officer and possibly the best: qualified man
on either ticket.
| For the convenience of our renders, we summarize our
| | Demaoerat
Louis Ludlow
2 Maurice Harrell
(No Choice)
: No Contest)
(No Contest)
(iq Contest) . Chalmer Schlosser | (No Contest)
_ (Ne Contest)
smiley Chambers
3 (No Contest)
5 Glenn B, Ralston
Rehert Allison
James P, Scott
recommendations as follows:
Republican CONGRESS : (11th District) John @. Coulter
PROSECUTOR Sherwood Blue JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT - (Roam 1) 5. Davis Harrison JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT (Room 2) Hezgle' B. Pike
JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT Room 3)
Sidney 8. Miller
JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT (Room 4) (No Choice) JUDGE OF SUPERIOR COURT
(Room 5) : ! ; Addison M. Dawling
JUDGE, CRIMINAL COURT Te Clyde ©. Carter
JUDGE, JUVENILE COURT Edwin ©. Boswell
un V. White
Walter E. Hemphill
JUDGE, PROBATE COURT COUNTY CLERK CQUNTY AUDITOR
bag C. Otto Abshier COUNTY TREASURER
i ea (No Contest) COUNTY. RECORDER COUNTY SHERIFF COUNTY CORONER COUNTY SURVEYOR
Harold R, Holtam Otte W. Petit (No Contest)
(No Contest) > BOUNTY ASSESSOR Samuel L. Montgomery ‘county COMMISSIONER } - {¥irst District) : ; Emr ‘ William J, Heim J (‘Third Distriet) . ia Charles 0. Adams STATE BENATOR (Marion) : Frank O, Fechtman STATE SENATOR (Marion and Johnson) 4d Mrs, F. G, Balz : STATE REPRESENTATIVE be : Lloyd C. Clayeombe
Harry W. Clafley Howard S. Mills >
‘Mrs. Nelle B, Downey Wilbur H, Grant Charles P, Ehlers Paul G, Moffett
Mabel L, Lowe : B Alva Baxter F2ATE REPRESENTATIVE (No Contest)
. CITY CLERK hy : (No Contest) CITY COUNCIL (First- District) (Second District) ~ (Third Duro ourth District pen pio
John A, Schumacher (No Contest) Frank RB. Beckwith Duke E. Hanna
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, May 4—Mr. Sam Hobbs, Fourth ‘Ala. House of Representatives, Washington. Dear Sam: I am afraid you boys on that little subcommittee of the judiciary committee booted one the other day when you had before you old Joe Padway, the general counsel of the American Federation of Labor and late mouthpiece for the rottenest group in the union racket, meaning the movie and theatrical mob when George Browne was the nominal president and Willie Bioff, M. P., or master of prostitutes, was actual head man. : You had a wonderful chance fo rub old Joe's nose publicly in his own record but, instead, a committee of our national legislature just sat there and let him tell you what laws to pass and what proposals to turn down. Didn't you know Padway was G, C. for the Browne-Bioff thing? Sure he was, Sam. That's the guy who went out to their convention, or hoodlums’ reunion, and told the saps what a wonderful human dynamo their worthy president was when everyone knew Browne was just a big slob who kept himself pretty well bottled meat of the time and that Willie the Mackerel was the real boss.
‘What About George, Too
YOU SHOULD HAVE asked him about George Scalise, too, 8am. There was another mack, and Padway once told me he get a thousand dollars from George for revising the constitution of the building service workers. I remarked that this constitution sounded. like something that a bunch of kids might devise for a club in a tree house or cave under the title of the dirty dogen, for it was full of lewcomedy ritual, and this touched Joe on his professional vanity, for he retorted that the constitution, as revised by him for the thousand bucks, was a very different document, I don’t know what George ever did with that eonstitution, Maybe he just put it on ice or maybe he didn't actually want any new eonstitution at all and just took his way of showing his gratitude fer an indorsement of his appeal for a presidential par= don on an old score in which he went up for white slavery. Sam, I am telling you that Joe, himself, told me he had recommended this parden for Georgie, knowing exactly what the offense had been, but figuring, he said, that the man had gone straight for many years and deserved a break. ‘I will face him down on that.
You Boys Not on Your Toes
THAT IS ANOTHER laugh, Sam. Gone straight for years! Why this union of his was just a raw eriminal racket of a mob, and, anyway, if Scalise. actually did need a new constitution, why didn's he go to Judge Oscar Nelson of the superior eourt of Cook county, Illinois? Nelson tried to deny to me that he ever was counsel for the racket, but, Sam, I nailed him square when I dug up a union magagine that Sealise had turned out in which Nelson sent cordial greetings and referred te the years in which he had served them as their counsel.
But the records in the department ef justice should shew who indorsed Sealise’s petition and: I will make oath, moreover, that an attorney general of the United States told me that jnasmuch as this petition was a public document he saw no reasen net to let me know that not only Padway but brother Will Green recommended favorable action, It seems to me sort of like you boys weren't on your toes. It seems sort of like this would have been a fine ehanee to let the people know what soré of people these are who presume te speak fer the whole honest, decent body of American workers and push our congress around in the name of “labor,”
The Aerial Trend 5
By Major Al Williams
THE PRINCIPLES OF valle
haven't changed one iota “since
strategy and tactics were first evolved. It is the application of these fundamental principles to each new war, with its own new weapons, that unmakes old commanders and makes new conconquerors, The newest topic is air strategy. We have air weapons to attack cities in the effort to dislocate the life and munition-producing capacity of an enemy nation. This stage has developed long-range, heavy bombers, usually the feur-engine types, which ean carry the necessary heavy leads of bombs.
A four-engined bomber represents a lot of eggs in one basket, expesing priceless equipment in ene single unit te heavy less at the cost of a single enemy anti-aireraft shell. One shell can smash a feurengined homber, but ne single anti-aireraft shell can destroy two twin-engined bembers. This is an argument against the four-engined bombers. But they are the only ones having the carrying eapacity and range neeessary, and so we must use them—while wishing for twin-engined and singleengined bombers of comparable performance,
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“The Foosier Forum |
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will - defend to the death your right to say it—Valtaire,
“706 BAD WORKERS MUST LIVE NEAR ROYALTY” By Eastsider, Indianapolis I seq. the North Irvington Civic League protests against the federal housing project for location near the ‘new naval ordanee plant. I hope they succeed just as I hope Hit, Muss and the Yaps win this war, It is sure toe bad, that is if these warkers would have to live so near reyalty, Thank goodness some of us eastsiders don't feel we are too good to have war workers live in our section of the city. Why not eall the war off if it is going to fret or inconvenience these folk? - Or do they know we are in a war? Wake up before someone kicks off your high hats, # 8 = “LET'S NOT FORGET THE HEROES OF CORREGIDOR”
By A Veteran, Rushville After mare than 250 Japanese air raids, Old Glery still flies over Corregidar, and the litfle brown men are deprived of the use of Manila harbor against us. Some of the drama went out of the Philippine epie when Bataan fell. But over there, on an island rock, Americans still defy the Japs to do their worst. While we remember Pearl Harbor and Bataan, let's not forget the heroes of Corregider. |, # » f J “WHY IS AUTO RACING PERMITTED TO CONTINUE”
By Katherine Shearer, Indianapolis In Monday evening's Times I read of the death of a young Indianapolis man, Harry Schwimmer, who was killed in a dirt track race at Franklin on Sunday afternoon. His death was deplorable in more ways than ene. To think that a man with cours age enough to drive a race car and flirt with death at every turn should lose his life this way when he
would have been just,what Uncle
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con- _ Make your letters short, so all can have a chance, Letters must
troversies excluded.
be signed
Sam wants. His won't be the only life lost this summer in a sport whieh is using up one of our mest vital products—rubber. Also using the oil which many men have periled their lives to pring inte this country. Why this form eof entertainment is allowed to eentinue in spite of this I do not know. It seems very foolish for the men whe drive to lose their lives and burn up what may prove to be the life blood of our country, to give thrill-seekers something to satisfy their love of the morbid. ; 8 8 = “WE CAN'T WIN BY SLAPPING AXIS' WRIST!" By T. W. G., Noblesville The demand for a sepond front against Germany, on the European continent, is meunting constantly throughout the united nations, There are millions, literally, who agree heartily with Lord Beaverbrook’s exhortation; “Strike out te Russia, Strike out violently. pe even recklessly.” The strategians, upon whese decision the fate of the world rests. are inclined to be cautions.. They do not want te launch the decisive counter - offensive until the united nations are equipped down to the last rifle bullet. Lord Beaverbrook. who might be expected to have accurate information, says: “How admirably Britain is now equipped in weapons of war for directing such an attack on Germany, I well know.”
Shirping to carry to Europe for a
long time to come, If we intend to take the war to Germany, we mustn't wait too leng. We can’t win by slapping the axis’ wrist. 5 0 “BIG JOB IS TO EDUCATE
NORTH SIDE PARENTS"
By a Noyth §ide Parent. Recently I noticed several letters in the Hoosier Forum calling attention to the manner in which the ‘teen-age group handled automobiles and, specifically, to the situation in the neighbarhood of Shortridge high schoel. Surely, there must be some solution to this problem. The school officials have been trying to edycate these youngsters, hut what can they do in the face of this great group of parents who purchase
ag they are 16 or- 17 and then purchage gasoline and oil without thought of cost. This can only end in one thing. Undisciplined ehildren who think they can get away with anything.... I think the big job iz to educate the parents.
"8 8) “WHAT HAS CAUSED PEGLER'S WILD RAGE?” By E. D. Skinner Westbrook Pegler sneers at Mrs, Roosevelt's “private, non-political” column. He calls these who belong to unions ‘faceless slaves,” and beeause the United Automebile Workers (0. 1..0.) failed to speeify otherwise in their advertised proposal, he assumes that the “non-negotiable” bonds they proposed that their members accept for gvertime pay, would be diverted to the financing of the “political* ambitions of the “poss unioneers.” In his wild rage he even ignores the manifest absurdity of attempting to divert “non-negotiable” bonds to the pockets of those not entitled to
In all probability the United |them.!
States today can equip as many well-trained troops as there will be
A TOPIC MUCH discussed among airmen Is |=
whether a comparatively small number of big bombers, eaeh earrying four 2000-pound bombs er two 4000-pounders, are es militarily effective as
many twin-engined or single-engined bembers, each |
carrying a few 500-pound bombs,
The dive bomber executed the first major form .
of swarm air attack in this war, blanketing strategic areas with showers of bombs. Some of the dive bombers are always shot down, but enough of them get through to aeecomplish great destruction . of enemy property and lives. Have we now gone so far in the development ef huge, multi-engined bombers that the next swing will be teward an adaptation of the swarm tactics? The layman who confesses that he knows little
shout aviation or military air strategy may feel |
petter if he realizes that no one else knows very much - about them. But, day by day, new methods
of using flying weapens are being ‘tried out in actual |
combat, where the results form the foundations of
| the next and newest plans for airpewer,
TEER E—_——
So They Say—
We honor beyond measure the hereic people of Greece, who have written a page ef glory in their annals from which they shall yet reap the fruit—The Rt. Bey, William T, Manning, Episcopal bishop of Kew Yor
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Income limitations may be suitable in these times,
and I'l support the president's proposal, ~-Senator Ar= 4 Repub!
thur Capper, Kansas ican. : * pe, i he Ask the women and children whem Hitler is starving whether the rationing of tires and gasoline ‘and
ee is too great a “sacrifice."—President Boweveth 1
Side Glances—By Galbraith
And what has caused this wild rage of Pegler's? President Roosevelt has suggested that for the duration Ro person be allowed to receive a net income exceeding $25,000 per year! In Pegler's eyes, such a ceiling upon ‘the “price of every Amelican's ability and ingenuity” is a plain a Possibly he thinks that that oe pe worse than anything that
‘“11er would do to us even if hi
could! We sympathize with Pegler’s wild ‘panic at the prospect of subsisting
|upon a paltry $36,000 por year, but
we fear that the boys wha, in the trenches in the far corners of the earth, are giving their lives for us for $31 per menth will respond enly
autos for their youngsters as soon
In Washington
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, May 4.—Dras- - tic revision of thousands of state and local laws affecting labor, ; transportation, distribution of agricultural products and building codes! will follow the conference of . state and federal officials in Washington tomorrow, Wednesday and" . Thursday. Most of: the ‘changes will be. in the nature of wartime modifica 3 ? tion of state laws handicapping - the war: affort. The changes will be effected in seve ~ eral ways. There will be some emergency agreements ° to suspend ‘enforcement of laws, where such alterna-
tive rests with the state attorneys general. There will
be some exercise of wartime emergency powers i granted to .state governors, giving them authority to . suspend . state Jaws interfering with the war effort.
The majority of the modifications will come only after _
action by the state legislatures. . Forty-three of the state legislatures meet Tegu-
larly in. 1943, five having met this year, but a number
have held special sessions to enagt emergency war measures. Other special sessions may be called during the remainder of 1942 to enact relief laws or to amend existing codes, It may therefore be six mopths or a year before many of these changes ean be made, but taken together they will unquestionably provide a sweeping change of state and local laws, :
What Needs to Be Dene . , .
THE NATURE OF thie changes rieeded is extremes ly varied, Most publicity has been given to the ine terstate trade barriers, hampering the free movement of war goods across state lines. Enactment ef unis form limits on load weight and truck length is needed, or at least upward revision in states having substandard limitations. With shortages of eritical building materials, state or local building codes requiring the use of these erit= ical materials in new eonstruetion may have to amend their restrictions to permit the use of substitutes. ; These are the types of state law which must be repealed or amended if war Frodgction is not to i i stymied,
Dry Rallies in the Offiin iing
PROHIBITION ORGANIZATIONS are trying’ to use Mother's day as a springboard for dry rallies. . Army will train a mountain warfare division at.a new Colorado camp, 9500 feet above sea level. . ., When you store your car forthe duration, the ragg around the intake breather te keep out wasps. . Office of defense transportation’s latest suggestion on conserve ing transportation facilities is for workers to move closer to their jobs. . .:. Manufacture of metal heb mets, for use hy civilians in case of air raids, has been prohibited. . . . Civil | alr patrol calls itself “The Flying Minute Men, n :
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Fog ton J
NEW YORK, May 4.—Rockefeller Center: proves the truth ef John Ruskin's werds, “architepture is frozen music”. The buildings are rhythm caught in stone, : Daily hundreds of tourists go through its mazes with guides, which is the best way of seeing it, They gaze at its miles of ghops, its vast theaters, its luxuripus carrj= dors; they marvel at the gleamin chandeliers and the gold-l ceilings, se high above that they look as far away as heaven. They visit gardens in the air and a city uns ~ derground, while in between are marvels of art and commeree and entertainment beyend deseription. The place is so big, it encloses 8» many people engaged at such a multitude of tasks, that its signifi cance cannot be grasped at sight. One needs the perspective of time and memory to make it real, Curiously, its press agents and ifs guides, whe give detailed infomation about every other item of interest and activity, never mention the name of its architect —Raymond Hood. Vet it seems to me this name, along with that of the rich man who supplied the money, should be graven in flaming letters gqver its - entrance and headlined in al] its publicity material.
The Eighth Wonder of the World
THE MAN WHO dreamed these buildings was 8 genius. Why should ‘he not be honored above these who now use it for esimmereial purposes? It's ale most as bad as publishing a book without the name of the writer. - He From the 70th floor ene sees i pa
gleaming in the sun, “reathihg up fo figures ereeping about, far below. and women? The great Normandie less, looks like & child's fa upset in two sides ¥ivers wind 1/1 a pale blur against the fog, the | babue of her toreh.. i 4 Imagination is stnggeted 34 at
ig So wonders whether he'll get ‘aby With 2 5 For this is indeed the eigh SD Nohting can match, nothing Yet per haps the same thought was in fhe minds & the sight seers at Rhodes as they gazed on the Colossus, and if may ‘have prieked the patie of King Belshaz= gra while he walked through his hapgiig. sasdens in Babylon. of : — * é ! - pA 4 Editor's Note: The views exprissed by golamnists’ in Rod
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