Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 June 1942 — Page 15

SECOND SECTION

6. 0. P. KEEPS ITS PROMISES, TUCKER SAYS

Cites 1941 Law Setting Up Merit System and Slash in Budget.

Complimenting the Republican state elective officials on the mane agement of their offices, Secretary of State James M. Tucker told dele= gates to the state convention here today that Indiana Republicans “have a record of achievement and keeping promises.’ The retiring secretary of state, who is permanent chairman of the convention, told his party cohorts that all of the ‘elected Republicans” have made records of which the party could be justly proud. He said some critics had sought to “heap ridicule on the efforts of the Republican leaders in the last legis jature who struggled valiantly for

THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1942

The Indianapolis Times

By Raymond Clapper WILLIS SLAMS NEW DEALERS AS KEYNOTER

Charges F. D. R. Scuttled London Economic

Conference.

A bitter attack against the New Deal was delivered by Republican Senator Raymond E. Willis in the keynote address at the G. O. P. convention here today. He charged President Roosevelt with the scuttling of the London economic convergence of 1933 and asserted that “when President Roosevelt decided upon that course of action he chose to take the nation down a path which New Dealers now claim led unavoidably to war.” The advent of the war, he as-

Washington

WASHINGTON, June 18.—Now don't look, see if vou can guess who said this: ‘Ours may be the tragic privilege of living the greatest military crisis since Napoleon; the greatest economic crisis since Adam Smith; the greatest social crisis since the fall of the Roman empire. But if ours is the tragic privilege, it is also the magnificent opportunity—the opportunity to mould and form and direct this society, which will lead to greater happiness. greater enjoyment of life—a society which can lead to permanent peace.” Who said it? Wallace? Nope. Milo Perkins? Wrong again. One of those dreamy theoretical New Dealers who never met a pay roll? Sorry. Well, it was the president —not of the United States—but of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Eric A. Johnston. The C. of C. president was facing the questions that are coming up as sure as taxes: When war production stops, what is to take the place of artificial demand which has kept us all busy? Where will the twenty million people employed in war industries, and the seven million military who return to civilian life, find employment? How will we repay a national debt which will probably be no less than 200 billion dollars?

What the C. of C. Head Said:

JOHNSTON SAID—And all of this was in a recent speech he made in Baltimore—that business would not permit another period of economic stagnation such as followed the last war. He said it is a matter of private enterprise taking cognizance of social as well as economic needs It is a matter, he added, of business realizing that we have undertaken social responsibilities, of business providing employment for a majority of the workers when the war is over. Otherwise, he savs,

As Republican Leaders Conferred

the government will do it. The C. of C. president believes American indusiry can do the job. He gives five reasons: After the war we will have the largest plant capacity in history; we will have a larger source of raw materials, both natural and syntheti¢, than we ever had; we will have the largest number of skilled mechanics, and technicians ever available to any nation; we will have the iargest backlog of accumulated demands for all sorts of commodities; the people will have accumulated savings with which to satisfy this backlog of deferred demands.

Yes, He's Talking Generalities

SAYS JOHNSTON—To use this vast store of machinepower and manpower, we must have a new order of co-operaticn between government, management, labor and agriculture. A new perception by management of the problems of government will be nesessary, and a new understanding by government of the problems of management. “We're going to have to have statesmen in the true sense of the word in business and in labor and in agriculture and in government.” Sure, he’s talking generalities like Wallace and Willkie and the rest of the people who are trying to think about what is coming. I am suspicious of anybody who pretends to know the precise answers at this time. Old Doc Townsend had a specific

plan. The people with the specific plans at this stage are usually the crackpots. Nobody knows what serted, operated to cover up and

definite shape the problems will take. We can only | to distract the public attention from judge in a general way what some of the larger | the failures of the New Deal proones will be'like. [Era [§ : § In this period the important thing is te hecome; Recalls Fall in Farm Prices ' : : : ; 61 days to bring order out of the os familiar as we cen with the probable diflouies wpe the war broke out he said lah en" ron hm inset wi ris S : ‘ : ; j | 10 year: iy © eal with them and not merely submit to them. I I ore at their lowest Conferences like this one were common sights in the Claypool hotel last night as the Republicans | The last time we allowed ourselves to be pushed ont . yi Joals. fhe bo. Se held informal gossip sessions prior to the state convention today. Left to right are Arch N. Bobbitt, Gave Tax Relief, He Says around by them. Europe was pushed into economic ne means thot ppd po former state chairman; Charles Jewett, local Republican leader, and William H. Remy, former Marion | “The Revublican legislature collapse and then into war and we were unable %|.; a1 life and the unemployed county prosecutor. slashed $5,500,000 from our state escape either one. numbered 10,000,000 Americans. budget . . . in order that our tax * 000, E ; ight have relief when the He said that the peace-time New payers m v Deal wasted money on Arthurdales, had been told repeatedly by the new doubled expenditures, set class deal that it could not be done. It against class, baited business, gave was done because the Republican aid and comfort to the Communists, party had promised the people of and attacked the supreme court. Indiana in their platform that it “At the time,” he declared, “the would be done. 3 * . ° American people did not take these Mr. Tucker declared that “for I di na olis B Lowel l Nussbaum New Deal shortcomings and ineffi- years under both Democratic and nsi e n a P y ciencies very seriously. They knew Republican administrations ems that the New Deal was expensive; nloyees of state institutions were _ The shoe shine parlor boys’ eyes involuntarily that it was weakening the nation, ee ftom Gi spoils system of politaking in the condition of your shoes as you pass but ey had no idea what all 8 oe Ser Mov: > sidewalk ‘avs giv iity feeling. this would mean to our peace an ‘ ' \ ps a x | stability.” pe thrust into the maelstrom of spoils Night Life in the Cit politics.” ag J y | Misread Future, He Says “In accordance with the Repube

IT WAS HALF an hour past midnight yesterday. " : iol es 4 Around the Circle strolled two middle aged women who ee has ee Chl [ivan ir pany ve Slaps Jotyged like ney nie I kan se De er quoted from a 1937 statement of his legislature quickly passed in 1941 a a a too pe » Replied the other: in which the British prime minister law setting up a merit system for “Yes. Joy called a straight flush and I only had four|S8id that the Washington adminis- the selection of these employees, kings.” Sounds like deuces and one-eyed jacks wild.|tration had waged so ruthless a and if the legislature had done no ‘The navy boys wish they could straighten out a|VAar upon private enterprise in the more than this it would have been misunderstanding that’s slowing down recruiting. It|U. S. that it was leading the world a success,” he declared. eems that when the draft boards place a man in 1-A, back into the trough of the de-| thev tell him: “Now you can’t enlist.” It's true thatjPression. : he can't enlist in the army. But HE CAN enlist in| “One of the major reasons for the navv—any time before he raises his right arm to the New Deal administration's inbe sworn into the army. Some of the draft boards!efliciency was the New Deal experiknow it but don't pass on the information because menters’ belief that they could read they have army quotas to fill and don't want to lose the future with infallible accuracy,” ; Senator Willis said.

Ernie Pyle is now in Washington, getting ready to go abroad. He hopes to start within the next few weeks.

E. PARK AKIN. manager of the Columbia club for

quite a few years, sees the Soldiers & Sailors’ monument every time he looks out the club's front windows. But he admitted the other day that he’s one of those birds that never have been to the top of the monument. Sort of a case of familiarity breeding neglect. . . . There's a sign on the door of the Schultz Pharmacy at 739 N. Pennsylvania st. It reads: “Closed—on vacation.” Painters have been touching up the interior and exterior of the Indiana theater, readying it for its reopening July 3. . . . One of our feminine agents reports a note found on the mirror of the ladies’ rest room in a downtown office building: “Will the girl who accepted the diamond ring from my husband please return it. It is mine.” The note was unsigned. . . . A lot of nicely started

Watson (left) of Terre Haute, Democratic candidate for state superintendent of public instruction, confers with Lew Oliver, mayor of Franklin, a Republican.

James Bradford (left), Marion county G. O. P. chairman, and Paul Tegarden, Washington township assessor, get together in the picture at left, while at the right, we have something a bit rare. Ralph

Crush German Power to Fight for 100 Years,

Cut Tax on Retailers

He stated that the legislature had kept its promise to reduce the “bur= densome” gross income tax by cure ting the tax on retailers 50 per cent, He also claimed that it was a Re= publican majority in the legislature

40 nights. From the Note Book

SEEN AROUND TOWN: The Stars and Stripes and a faded British flag in front of the headquarters of the Journeymen Barber's International Union of America at 12th and Delaware. . A teen-aged vouth leaving University park with three live pigeons under his arms. . . . The driver of one of those oid fashioned one-horse ice cream wagons stopping on Maryland at Capitol, getting out, petting his horse's nose. and then leading the elderly animal carefully through the heavy traffic intersection. . . . Sign on Madison ave. hardware store: “Gifts for father ™ one window, and “Paris green.” on the other. . . . Workmen preparing to remove the new sidewalk blockades in front of the Hume-Mansur building

Japan's Might

WASHINGTON, June 18 —Unless the Japanese are driven out of the Aleutians and their task force destroyed, an allied intelligence officer told me today, further attacks on Dutch Harbor, Midway, Hawaii and even the Panama canal are to be expected in the near future. Japan, said my informant, has little choice in the matter of grand strategy. If she hopes to win her war, she must knock out China, occupy the potential bombing bases of the united nations in eastern Siberia and make herself mistress of the western Pacific. Furthermore, she can't She must do these things summer. If the Japanese can hold on to Attu and Kiska, therefore, thev will press on toward Dutch Harbor and destroy, if they can, American supply bases in Alaska. Midway probably would be their next objective and then some of the outlying, less strongly defended islands of the Hawaiian group from which to work toward Honolulu and Pearl Harbor. Any attack either on our west coast or the Panama canal, It is felt, would be a hit-and-run affair. Nevertheless, Pearl Harbor is proof enough of what hit-and-runners can do, especially to key positions.

Don’t Count Those Chickens!

AN AMERICAN pilot with 20 years’ flying experience south of Panama recently told me that Germans, Japanese and Italians have all made intensive studies of the Central and South American countries contiguous to Panama and know the terrain as they know thie palms of their hands.

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesdav—T am becoming very familiar with the forms and applications which have to be filled out by people who desire to find some way of being useful to their government in the present crisis,

wait. this

Some of the people who turn up in Washington are able to support themselves and only wish to find some place where they can contribute their efforts. Others must have a salary. Still others wish to be in the armed forces. If they cannot achieve actual combat service of some kind. thew want at least to feel they a part of the war effort, serving In some civilian capacity in the government. I think there must be a certain amount of duplication in the information which is finally gathered on the various seekers of “opportunity.” Occasionally some of the questions appear to be rather amusing and not to have much bearing on the ability actually to do the job in hand. I can see why a certain amount of information

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their candidates to the navy.

The Tires Are Back

PVT. DWIGHT F. MORGAN is receiving good news as a graduation present. He finished his preliminary flight training yesterday and is ready for his basic training. The good news was that the tires and wheels on his car, stolen a week or so ago, have been recovered by state police and returned to his wife. . . . The Central library staff has begun to feel the pinch of war. A small-sized coke dispensing machine has been substituted for, the big one they had. The small cne is big enough to handle the present coke rations. There's very little grumbling, though. The staff members just look out the window and look forward to some ice cold juice from Fremont | Power's super tomato plant on the library lawn. We! hope they're lucky.

By William Philip Simms

Enemy planes, he said, would not need to approach the canal directly from over water, but could and probably would hedge-hop over the hills and’ jungles. And they would be difficult to spot. In this connection, the more conservative observers here are cautioning against taking it for granted; that Japan has now lost most of her aircraft carriers. | Some of the reports claim that of a total of 11 aircraft carriers which Japan had at the outset, she has now lost all but two or three, including all six of her regular carriers. What she has left, therefore, would be only small, makeshift craft or converted: merchant vessels.

Worst Is Yet to Come

THE FACT IS that nobody seems to know exactly. how many carriers Japan had on Dec. 7. Before the! war it was common gossip both in this country and abroad that all of Japan's more modern liners and some of her freighters had been designed for con-! version inte aircraft carriers in event of war. It is entirely in the picture that within the next 120 days the United States and its allies will have to meet every desperate ounce of might that Japan can hurl against us—in the air, on sea and on land. Such being the case, makeshift carriers, converted! tramps carrying 15, 20 or 30 planes each, may show, up off the Aleutians. Midway, Hawaii or the Panama canal on missions to do or die. If the Japanese navy! has been crippled as badly as some experts tell us, the rest of her fleet won't do her much good in| hiding. The United States alone is outbuilding her, so fast that, by 1943 she will be smothered. Her, one hope is to strike now and strike with everything she’s got. Otherwise she may as well ‘throw in her chips. i Which is why my intelligence officer friend thinks,

“The world of the future was to be the world they planned,” he went on. “Anything they did not plan for just couldn’t be... . When war came they were unprepared. They were unprepared for the simple reason that they conceived themselves to be the masters of destiny, so according to their own reasoning they would let ns war oceur.”

Charges Lack of Planning

He attacked the New Dealers for criticizing those who did not agree with their pre-war program and cited many instances to prove his contention that the New Deal did not see war coming. ‘If the New Dealers saw war coming, he said, “why did they persist, in the face of continued efforts in the congress to stop it, to send scrap metals and oil to Japan? “Why did they continually underestimate our aluminum requirements? “Why did the administration fail to lay up stockpiles of rubber?” If the administration did see war coming, he declared, “then it stands indicted of having failed to prepare us for that eventuality.”

Efficiency Called Issue

Senator Willis said that the Republicans must show clearly in the fall campaign the New Deal record of failures together with such reasons for its failures. “This is our responsibility,” he declared. “This will be one of the ways in which we will make a vital contribution to the nation’s war effort to win this war completely

‘and decisively, and the nation’s

effort to rebuild a happy and prosperous post-war world.”

After this war is won, Germany should be crushed to such an extent that she could not start another war in the next 100 years, James E. Watson, former U. S. senator. declared in an address before the Republican state convention at the Coliseum today. The former Hoosier senator, who for many years played an important role in national affairs, said he hoped that when this war is over that the “kindly disposed sob sisters” will not be able to control the policy of the administration. “When the last conflict was over,” he recalled, “I called on President Wilson, whom I knew very well, and urged him to send Pershing right through Germany and into Berlin and create a reign of terror in that country so that they would be taught something about the consternation they had caused all around the earth. “I said to him that not one brick had been knocked off of another brick in the whole German empire in that war, and yet they caused wide-spread destruction and disaster around the earth,” he continued. Wants Just Punishment

“I remember that President Wil-| son took me by the arm and said | | ‘Senator, I know that you are a] Methodist and I assume that Jou} occasionally read the Bible. If you! will recall, you must have read a passage which says: Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.’| “I said to him: ‘Mr. President, | if all nations were on the Christ

philosophy, but the trouble is that these Germans are wolves. and

Bradford, Tyndall Meet: Sen. Willis Is All Dolled Up

Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall and James Bradford, who are not exactly political chums, finally have met. Though the general is the Republicans’ mayoral nominee and Mr. Bradford the Marion county G. O.

New York: “I doubt if I shall ever again aspire to public office.”

Candidates in Bleachers

plane, I could well understand your|®

One factor detracting from the

is it premature to believe that the worst is over, so|P. chairman, it took the Republican confusion is the rule that no can-

far as the Jap menace is concerned.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

state convention to get them together yesterday in the Claypool hotel. Accompanied by friends, marched into the Claypool, paths crossed and some one intro-

both

|duced them to each other.

about people's personalities is necessary, but oceasion- | ally I feel we allow people rather little leeway as 0] privacy in their private lives. I saw a decision in the papers the other day announced by Admiral King for the navy, which points the way to a similar action perhaps for some of the rest of us. I wonder if we could all cut down in half the paper work we do. Admiral King thinks it will make it easier to fight the war. I think it might save everyone hours of time. Alv decision to accept the opinion of the treasury department on joint income tax returns has brought me one of the most amusing editorials. They wonder how I dare to set myself up as a tax expert, and why I talk about something when I so obviously disagree in my final decision with many people who know much more on the subject. : The truth is that I am only too conscious nf my lack of knowledge, but am trying to get my information from what I think is the best source and to interpret it as accurately as I can. Nobody is bound to agree with me or to accept what I think. The only obligation I feel is to give an explanation as accurately as possible in to me. : §.:

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They shook hands. Later Mr. Bradford mumbled something about not seeing “him around headquarters.” Which is explainable. Gen. Tyndall is planning to open separate headquarters for the campaign.

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‘No Willkie Picture

Conspicuous by its absence in the coliseum is any picture of Wendell Willkie, theoretically the national leader of the party. The honor pictures went to SenRaymond E. Willis and to Gen. Douglas MacArthur (whom the Democrats could also claim if they wished). Also in prominent positions were “blown-up” pictures of Calvin Coolidge, William Howard Taft and

their

form was R. O. Jane, of 1701 Ruckle | st. He's 92 and attending Republican conventions is practically a profession with him. . . . Most im-! pressively dressed of the “big shots” | was Sen. Raymond E. Willis, the keynoter. Garbed in a cream white | suit, his all-over appearance was!

pointed up with a beautiful red rose! in his lapel. . . . Later Sen. Willis! had a tussle with the public address system. First his voice was boom- | ing through the Coliseum like the! roar of a thousand super-men.| Next, Mr. Willis was cooing. Tech- | nicians were working frantically. . . . Jim Watson, the former senator and G. O. P. big-wig, was having a field day, beaming and shaking hands all around and jumping

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Mr.

Watson Suggests to State Republicans

hyenas, and jackals, and you can- but, whenever he does give forth a not deal with them as if they were declaration, it is certain that it will emissaries of peace and messengers be one that he thinks will prove to

of mercy.

head a mad hog in a lane, he does]

If a farmer wants to| his ultimate political advantage.”

Mr. Watson said that 10,000,000

not climb up on a fence and read tons of old rubber could be scraped

him a psalm, but he gets down in

does business with the hog on the hog plane.’ That is just what we must do with these people.” Mr. Watson asserted that such punishment is just and is what the German people have coming to them for what they have done and must be meted out to prevent them from doing worse in the future. The former senator said that insofar as waging the war in concerned, all political differences should be forgotten and everyone should stand unitedly behind the president. He said that the Roosevelt administration should play its part too in shelving politics and New Deal objectives during the war and

charged that it was not doing so.

Claims President Partisan

“While we do not doubt the Cized its policy of controlling agri-

president's patriotism and are behind him to a man in the contest we are now waging with our barbarous enemies, yet we are still aware of his weaknesses even in time of war,” he said. Mr. Watson charged, as evidence of the President's “weakness,” that he is stil intensely partisan and has not, with rare exception, utilized the services of any Republican in his administration; that he insists

unwilling to establish a truly national government which will unify the people for war, and finally that he has a disinclination to choose the best men for his assistants that can be found and delegate the proper authority to them. Turning to the rationing situation, the former senator said that

{the president is now in a muddle

over the rationing of gasoline and is uncertain just what to do about the oil situztion. “We peopie in the central west are opposed to any gas rationing because it is utterly uncalled for and there could be no possible sense in it for any assigned reason,” he said. “He has not yet made a pronouncement on this question

HOLD EVERYTHING

| together throughout the country

| the lane with a hickory club and and that this should be done before

| “depriving the people of a necessity [like gasoline.”

Links Tariff and Wage Issue

On the subject of tariffs. the former senator asserted that history proves that whenever the country had a tariff, “we had in the main a condition of prosperity. “The whole question of the tariff lis a question of wages,” he added. “From top to bottom and from bottom back to top. from skin to core and from core back to skin, it is a question of the American wage scale as long as it comes into ruinous | competition with the European | wage scale and that is all there is {to the story.” He charged the Roosevelt administration with “waste and confusion” in the war effort and criti-

jcultural production. | On the matter of our alliance with Russia. he quoted the old Rumanian proverb which says: “It is always permissible to walk with the enemy

accepted from in this struggle. “What I am insisting on doing now,” he said, “is to keep away from

{the socialization of our industry

anyone

for the war. Governmental paternalism and individual liberty cannot exist at the same time.”

GRIP TIGHTENED BY ~ COUNTY CHAIRMAN

| James L. Bradford tightened his thoid on the Marion County Republicen chairmanship today with the announcement that 62¢ precinct [ccmmitteemen and ‘ice committee/men have signed a statement in|dorsing him and urging party har{mony, | The statement came after Charles |W. Jewett, manager of the Tyndall-

\for-Mayor campaign, announced he

| would open separate campaign headquarters for Gen. Robert H. Tyndall and would sponsor Tvndall-for-‘Mayor clubs. | Earlier, Mr. Jewett and his sup‘porters had sought to force Mr. {Bradford to resign as county chair/man. Behind the split is the fact {that Chairman Bradford supported Henry L. Ostrom, instead of General

l | Tyndall, for the mayoralty nomina3% tion in the primary.

The 624 precinct officials signing the statement represent an overwhelming majority of the 732 in the county. The statement county party officials and urged ali candidates to join them “in a united front to elect the entire Republican ticket, to which we pledge our un‘divided loyalty.” : | It added that the G. O. P. will | Win the election if all will “forget jany past differences and harmoni{ously pull together achiev

while one is crossing the bridge.” | and pointed out that aid should be|

indorsed other]

which increased the unemployment compensation benefits to $16 per week. He complimented Lieutenant Gove ernor Charles M. Dawson for “showing an increased profit in operating the state fair” and declared that it was under the leadership of Auditor Richard T. James and Treasurer James M. Givens “that the board of finance reduced the state tax levy from 15 to 15 cents.” He also complimented Auditor James and C. T. Malan, superintendent of public instruction, for “reducing the operating expenses of tneir own offices.” He said that in view of the record, Indiana citizens have turned tc the Republican party to lead them out of the new deal chaos, and predicted that they “are going to turn to the Republican party for sound American leadership.”

STATE POLICEMAN’S GUN STOLEN IN CAR

State Policeman Gene Norris is taking a personal interest in a cere tain case on file at headquarters. He parked his squad car against, | the state house early today while he | was inside on office duty. A thief {pried open the car ventilator znd | took his revolver, uniform holster, | Sam Brown belt and handcuffs.

HI-Y DELEGATES NAMED

Four Indianapolis high school pupils will attend the fourth nae tional Hi-Y congress at Miami unie versity, Oxford, O., June 25-29,

n a personal government and is| Under the guise of doing something| They are: Robert Stitt and Joseph

Weaver, Howe high school; Fred Kleine, Southport, and John Pich|ard, Washington.

What You Buy With [WAR BONDS

| Tractors and motors will never wholly replace the army mule as a factor in the mobile units of our army. The army mule is a tra< dition and the “mule skinner” is a breed unto himself. Army mules are used by the field artillery and the cavalry in areas where the | terrain is rough and tractors can= not operate.

ree YN Pack trains in mountainous secs tors are often necessary and hers