Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1942 — Page 10

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MONDAY, MAY 18, 1043

BROWDER'S RELEASE

f THE Browder commutation was aesdmugnlad by a presidential statement expressing belief that the action will promote national unity. Since the commutation is now an accomplished fact, and since no amount of contrary opinjon could put Browder back in prison, we can oly hope - that presidant’s belief will prove true.

CEILINGS AND DYNAMITE RErAlL price ceilings are now in effect. Beginning today each merchant in the country is required to mark the prices of his goods, with few exceptions, at not above the highest levels charged by his store last March, and to keep them at or below these levels for ‘the duration, Any who disobey the order can be deprived of licenses and put out of business. Leon Henderson does well to ask public patience with the merchant's difficulties. Indeed it is “no easy task” for the retail industry to adjust itself to this unprecedented and drastic new system; - Retailers, in fact, are now bearing the heaviest brunt of the program designed to stop cost of Hving's. upward spiral, In general they have not passed increases in wholesale

costs on to their customers as rapidly as they could have

done. Now, forbidden to raise prices to compensate for this lag, many of them fear serious losses, ~~ Yet, wise merchants fear price inflation even more, and rightly so. Therefore, they recognize their duty under the program, despite any feeling that it burdens them unfairly.

t 4 » » " # » BT price ceilings are only one of the program’s seven " points. And, as President Roosevelt explained so clearly, the other points are equally important, If labor costs continue to rise, if farm prices are not more effectively controlled, manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers will be squeezed disastrously against their price ceilings. ‘If the swelling flood of excess buying power is not

af drained back to the treasury by taxation and war bond

investment, scarcity goods will find their way to “black markets” and bootleg dealers, and honest merchants will lose their customers. Mr. Henderson was correct in telling the house ways and means committee that, unless. the war labor board

stabilizes wages quickly, other action will have to be taken. |

There is still no evidence that the WLB can do that job, while the attitude of congress makes it clear that the, special exemptions on farm-price control will not be removed until wages are stabilized. And the need for curbing the buying-power flood has not yet been faced frankly. In short, retail price ceilings—*“the citizen's charter of security against rising: living costs”—rest on weak foundations and cover. a lot of dynamite, , The merchants are in

a dangerous situation. And so is everyone Slee, wage earners

and farmers feluded,

RESTRICT PULLMAN FARMING

TWO months ago Rep. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma, have ing discovered that the department of agriculture was proposing to spend $16, 000,000 for travel by its officials and employees in the next fiscal year, led a fight which resulted in a house vote to cut that amount by half. The fight had other results. The house got the idea that economy in non-defense matters was not only necessary but popular with the taxpayers. It shaved $57,000,-

000 from the bill which had proposed to appropriate $695,

000,000 for the agriculture department. Since then the department’s lobbyists and the senate appropriations ‘committee have been busy. The bill, as, it ‘will now go before the senate, has been increased by :more than $82,000,000, The $8,000,000 re-

r u ‘duction in travel expenses has been wiped out,

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Trains and planes are jammed, precious tires are wearing thin, gasoline is being rationed to citizens in the east, plans:are being made to put priorities on travel and compel ordinary people to stay at home unless they have impera~ tive reasons for making trips. The need for non-defense ‘economies becomes daily more urgent. We hope the folks at home will let their senators know that they believe $8,000,000 worth of *‘Pullman car farming” by bureaucrats will be . plenty,

POOR MR. FLYNN

(| CHAIRMAN EDWARD J. FLYNN of the Democratic national committee owns a handsome estate at Lake { Mahopae, 54 miles beyond the northern boundary of New York city. A special grand jury in the Bronx spent five weeks trying to find who was responsible for the fact that _elty employees, using city trucks, took 8000 city-owned paving blocks" up there last November and payed Mr.

Flynn's antique Belgian courtyard.

. The grand jury, which has now. reported; could’ find

that anyone was responsible, but it decided emphatically that Charman Flynn was not.

Not only had he reimthe city last January “after the issuance of subindicated that an investigation -was forward,” but: . “The evidence adduced showed that Edward J. Flymn

had mever expressed any desire that this work be done un-

“! der city auspices or by city employees and without ? to him, but to the contrary he Lat atk and xsected that

the work would be done by a Private. contractor to be

¢harged for and paid by him." Well, it just goes to show what can happen when a 2 leaves home to. labor for the Democratic party and the Deal. He never can be sure that someone won't rr ery

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|By Westbrook Pegler

Fair Enouch.

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NEW YORK, May. 18.—One thought leads to another, and so my discussion of the - Negro journalism ‘brings me to a phase of the racial problem which is seriously agitating the Negro press, In brief, the Negro papers are excited about the ~ arbitrary deportation of Japanese and native Americans of Japansse ancestry from military areas of the "Pacific coast. “We are at war with Japan,” says a press yejense from Howard university of Washington, D. C.

“Japanese citizens of the United States have ‘been’ |

:placed into what approximates concentration camps. White American citizens who may be descendants of Japanese receive similar treatment. “We are at war with Germany and Ifaly. There are many thousands of American citizens who are Germans and Italians, or descendants’ eof those

nationalities. From all reports they continue to | &

receive that freedom which every white American is entitled to, Why the inconsistency?

“Ignorant white persons in the Balkan states

become voting citizens entitled to all rights and”

privileges. And yet the most educated and respected natives of India, China, Japan and many sections

of Asia are not considered fit to become American |

citizens. Why?”

'Legalized Community Lynching’

A COLORED JOURNALIST entitled E. P. H, writing in the Los Angeles Tribune, a Negro paper, deals more intimately with the question. ° . “Because, to me, it represented the first major, overt government-approved act against the bill of rights, I was fearfully opposed to a mass evacuation of people who are, on the basis of a few cases, considered ‘dangerous and a menace to the ‘common good.’ ” This writer says “such generalization and resultant persecution of a whole community on an excuse of

erimnial charges, either real or trumped up, is familiar |

‘to most of us. While, occasionally, it has been on

a polifical basis, usually it has been on a racial: basis. But in all these instances the government, by |:

numerous and sundry gestures and vague quoting of American ideals, has maintained the appearance of

being against discrimination on the basis of race,

color, creed or previous condition or revitude, “But, to visit evacuation neighborhoods and talk

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WASHDIGTON, May 18— Births wero up § per cent in .- March over March a year ago... U. 8. birth rate is now 19.5 per ‘1000. . . .. Death rate 1s:12 per 1000. . Income payments in March Were 21 per cent higher than in March, 1940. . . , Wages and small Riginees Sooo were up; divie . dends Farm income was. up -7 per cent; acturing { © wages 11- per cent. 4: ; » Giaims against ralizonds for freight damage reaches all-time low in 1041 of $376,000, though volume trafic moved was highest on rd, Price. Index Is now. ab 987 highest. since" 1926, sis of Cer 40 per vant uf. {apd pioducts afeigoh severed hy price freeze order. . . . Hollywood has been permission to spend no more than $8000" per - on new construction college radunin hi: pe. will. number under 200,000.

Up to Landlords for 60 Days

REDUCTION OF RENTS in the defense Areas is. entirely Up. to Sadlorde. tor 60. das, A5. TAROPren. ¢ vents federal government. from ordering. reductions. | within that time. ... And rent freezing dees net apply - “to stores—just dwellings. «+ « One hundred and seve enty-five slum clearance federal housing projects have been transferred to exclusive. use by war.workers. . The “Buy Coal Now” campaign has brought - results, a8 evidenced by increased seasonal car load. - ings at mines. . ... Gas rationing will Bot be enforced in areas where supplies are adequate. . . ; Red Cross volunteers have knitted over half a million garments . for soldiers and sailors. , . . WPA has salvaged 6600 - tons- of scrap steel from abandoned street: car: limes. . and tiie Westin is Now soon Whe vamsEURiiies Wil, 2 wish they had ’em back again when auto transportation is curtailed to the limit.

Relief Payments Drop nar AES RE :

DIRECT AND WORK. relief, payments have, dropped from the peak of $190 millions. in 1039 to a about $70 millions for fiscal 1043. . . . Anyone can now 2 rent a typewriter, but the freeze is still on typewriter. .. sales, . . ,.Feeding nipples have .been redesigned. to | save rubber. . ... Railroads have been asked to.space. . out maintenance-of-way work so labor demands, _ | wont compete with peak farm labor demand. Recommended legal maximum truck length is “not, less than 45 feet.” . . . Machine tool production, still .. a bottleneck, is now running at over 24,000 units & ..

with neighbors of the ‘evil, treacherous, fifth column ||

menaces' who are being summarily moved away, who have been adjudged guilty without any trial at which to claim innocence was to acknowledge an event with all earmarks of a legalized community lynching. American citizens are prsioners of war, surrounded by senftries.”

What Would They Do?

ALL POINTS IN both of these eilations seem to me to be painfully true, but neither offers any less painful solution of a dangerous military problem. We know that some American natives of Japanese

F birth were traitorous spies who helped a treacherous

enemy slaughter our people at Pearl Harbor and that many native American children of Japanese were educated by their parents to be Japanese, not Americans

Our government’s military action, then, in removnig these people was dictated by alarm or fear and military urgency. To try even one such case and exhaust all the appeals would have taken a year and any attempt to try them all individully would have prevented a military precaution ordered by the judgment of men having the patriotic responsibility of defending their eountry against a combination of mighty ‘enemies. What would Howard university and -E. P. H., the

essayist, have done instead? They don’t say, although

the university’s comments might be taken to suggest that all naturalized Americans from Germany, Ialy and the Balkans and all descendnts of these fmm grants also be placed in the concentration camps,

In that case, of course, we would have no army -

or navy, no ‘war industries-and not much free populaiton left to fight and work, Or should these people have been let alone against the judgment of the army and fo the mortal military peril of our whole population, including the Negroes, who, under a conquering Hitler, would be shipped to Africa as slaves in a Nazi empire while our western coast became a colony of Japan?

sibility, for this is the age of alibi 3. Cutien of Colgate university. Ra

De. ‘Gaulle Vexed

By Cavell Binder

: CHICATO, May 18.—Cen. de

' Gaulle and the Free French have been offenided by failure of American and British leaders to consult with them on Madagascar and Martinique policy. The Free French feel that their not inconsiderable eontributions to the allied war effort in Equatorial Africia, Syria and other places . entitle them to greater consideration than. they are receiving. When the British tried to take the vital position of Dakar they acted in conjunction with de Gaullist forces and met with a costly defeat. The preliminary arrangements had taken too long and involved ‘too many people with the result that Vichy had ample warning to Successfully repel Dakar’s wold-he dow liverers. The successful British occupation of the naval base at Madagascar was made without prior consultation of the Free French ds was the American demarche in Martinique.

De Gaulle Not Too Popular THE BRITISH AND Americar authorities base

| their policy on two considerations--the necessity of

secrecy in such actions as that at Maddagascer and a desire not to formally recogriize Gen, de Gaulle as the political spokesman of all of France. They prefer to consider de Gaulle as a military leader to whom lend-lease aid should be given but to leave the French people a free hand in selecting a government when France regains its freedom at the end of the war. . It is one of those situations in Which there is a strong case on each side and in which it is hard to choose the wiser course. The present policy runs the risk of alienating aid whieh eould be of great value.

It may prove to be more beneficial in the long run.| }. 30 meas universally 1

because Gen. de Gaulle is b esteemed by non-Vichy FPren

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So They Say. The government will: operate an voluntary compliance is the for halting inflation, ot i it | that the price ceiling bill John 8, Sly, OPA official,

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—-Voliaire. =

month, a 73 per gent increase over March, 1941, -. « + + No more metal penells and no more metal bands | on pencils after present ‘stocks of eraseérs’are used med Use of lead (rephiip In pnslls, is still per:

“WE'LL TRUST CONGRESS— BUT NOT VERY FAR”

|By W. B., Indignapolis

Hoosier - Congressmen, with just a few exceptions, are defending unlimited gaseline ration cards for senators and representatives. “Trust us to use good judgment,” is the theme of their arguments.

‘That's just as it should be. When |-

the voters elected them they did so with the understanding they would use good judgment in everything. Of course, with the country spending every available nickel for defense, 8 good many of them decided they should have pensions.

That was judgment alright—but|

not good. And with military and diplomatic experts warning what to expect from Japan, congress permitted our scrap metal to be sent to the Japanese. That: was some more judgment. There “are numerous other examples—just enough to permit us to trust our congressmen’s judgment—bit not very far,

» ” s “JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES NOT | UNPATRIOTIC OR SUBVERSIVE” By Mss. J. K. Milligan, 2628 Carrollton ave.

As I am convinced that your paper is unbiased in itg outlook, I presume that my letter will receive the same prominence ‘in this column that the letter of one Carrol of New York st., this. city, has achieved. ‘I wish to refute as untrue, his charges against the Jehovah's Witness organization, which he brack-

{ets with other organizations al“subversive in,

ready . proven as their activities. - The organization of Jehovah's Witnesses, contrary to his assertion, are neither “unpatriotic” nor “subversive,” It is true that members of this organization, to which I belong, have been arrested, tried in the courts, and many are nOW “serving time,” in various prisons in this country and abroad, on charges which are absolutely false; but the plain fact remains that in not one instance have any of these been legally convicted. The records of the FBI, the legal opinion. handed down by the Su-

(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.) :

preme Court of the United States, the public statement of our present attorney - general, Francis Biddle, while he was acting attorney at law and the court records of nearly every state in the union bear witness to the truth of my assertion regarding this matter. In Germany alone, as of today, and for the past six or seven years, there are (as QOarroll asserts should be : done) thousands of these Jehovah's Witnesses “serving time under the iron heel of Hitler.” This fact perhaps will be pleasing to Mr. Carroll. But. these Witnesses are in prison on the same false charges which Carroll makes in his letter to The Times. This is no time to add one more “faggot to the flames of war”; we should each and every one add our efforts toward real peace, “the ponte which passeth understanding.” For the refusal of Jehova's Wit nesses to “obey rather than God” (Acts 5:28, Romans 6:16, first Peter 4:17) persons like Carroll, without informing themselves of the facts, both from the Bible and from the records in our courts,

Mr. Howard.

which we hoped would be called to

statements by price administrator, Leon Henderson. The Times recently headlined on the front page

to the effect that Henderson desalaries.”

formed a press conference that he did not believe there was a need for freezing all wages. Mr. Henderson said: “Reports that I lave intimated the need. for wage freezing are untrue, but it is true that I oppose general increases in the level of wages.”

The Times; it was not front-paged.

its readers, . It suppressed informa-

Mr. Henderson's position,

make false accusations against our|y.

brother Americans; when both . are- open to any and all persons who are really interested in getting the truth regarding this matter. : ” ” 2 “YOU DID NOT PLAY FAIR WITH YOUR READERS”

Walter Frisbie, seée’y.-ireas., Pstate Industrial Ontos Couneil,

dians dianapolis. © The function of & newspaper, you will doubtless agree, is to print the news fairly, without bias or favor, and evaluated not by your. personal prejudices or those of: Mr. Howard. The Times does print much of the news; a great des) of what it prints is objective and . handled ‘in- the public interest, but frequently you

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we can run over them like a steamroller.~Lieut. John

*D. Bulkeley, torpedo boat hero, speaking of Japanese.

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10.1 wets autet 19. mame. too. 20th ahiley sim TL responwe

would not hesitate a moment: it is

The plain fact fs thet: we sill are not th

Side Glances=By Galbraith

® 0 '8 ” “I AM OWED APOLOGY, - NOT A TIRADE” 2 By a Morigage Holder, THliasantis To a Satisfled Renter:

almost ever gince it has been: my. burden, and will gladly give ypu or anyone else a commission if: they will sell it for me.

have a nice modern house, 1 do not

{kind landlord” did, as I always be-

lieve in living and letting live; consequently. am ‘behind on upkeep. I did not raise on my renters last fall, but they mo :

desert your principles and emphasize and slant the mews according | to your own prejudices or those of

A Woman's Viewpoint cs By Mrs. Walter Ferguson.

A recent and serious omission| «aa “. Bn Ho

your attention is the treatment of| #

testimony: of Henderson interpreted Si manded “freezing of all wages and| |

But May 12, Mr, Henderson in-|

A GENTLEMAN TN ‘Westfield,

NJ, has written to me shout §

women's: conscription armed forces. I havé a suspicion “that "a good " feel the same way, not say so with such’ at ‘heart they aren't sold

idea.

“Having read, with

many’ They ’1 force, on

interest ar

articles ' which

dismay, ‘advocate the conséription eri’ to serve alongside ‘soldiers and sailors in the aimed forces, handling clerical “duties, etc. I “Yeal * compelled to express: my feeling,” the New. Jerseyite writes. :

This story was not headlined by

It was nof ediforialized. The Times did not on this story play fair with

tion by failing to correct a previously exploited - misinterpretation of

The Times was guilty of dirty journalism

‘This isn't a time for you to. Soutiiar your pet ideological nests; it's a time }* to defend them—defend them from| Hitlerism. And you can’t ‘fight Hit ler by lying. to. the American Pub-

Answering you in your own lan-| guage, ‘my property is indeed af “headache,” and believe me, 1 am| not “hanging omto it,” but if is hanging onto me like a leach; for |

“War is a man's game; it makes him tough, calloused and disillusioned. When a man goes off to war he wants to feel that, if he returns, he will find everything as he left it—as nearly as possible, that is. He doesn’t want to come home to some sexless, tight-lipped dame about as feminine as a prizefighter. #1 can readily understand old maids and wallflowers going, strong for this sort of thing, but not . } the mothers und sweethearts and daughters of the mén who are doing the job. And believe me, all the stories to the contrary, there are plenty of men in

ane Germans.” Methods ‘Wrong—Motives Not ..

“nor have I heard any man wha differed with me. If the women are tired of cond their home affairs, and ‘haven't the ‘courage to stay there and care for the ‘youngsters, then what is all the fighting about? In that case we have nothing worth defending. May | the- Good Lord deliver us from females with a mission

4 finde. They are a scourge.”

- There you have it, girls, right on the chin. The gentleman may not know it, but a good many wome- | en agree with his basic principles. But let us remind him that: this man's game, war, is a damnable way of amusing ourselves, and perhaps the time is when some women feel that nothing but a comp change of social habits will put a stop to the bloody

play. = There's little satisfaction in keeping up a home

this country to best the daylights out of the Japs

oF THINE oat ARO AOD WA IY; parading about in uniforms look like hell,” he said,

I have tried desperately to sell. it} oF a oto i dear children while these periodi

sprees of destruction and killing go on, Undoubtedly some girls desire to join the army just for the theill, | but many’ others are moved by the uiekly.. Their methods ‘Remember 1 said 1 was a widow, Wak sioRE + may)

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no income, living off a smafl sav-| w |ings, unable to work if I could even get a job at my age; and while If

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