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MONDAY, JULY 20, 1942

WHY WASTE FLOURISHES NTIL now you may have heard little, if anything, about Dr. Gerhard K. Colm, Prof. Alvin H. Hansen and Dr. Gardiner C. Means. ‘Well, these three gentlemen are largely responsible for the fact that a whale of a lot of your money is being “ wasted—that is, if you take the word of a U. S. senate subcommittee for what's going on in Washington. , The subcommittee, headed by Senator Tydings of Maryland, has been trying for months to find what progress “has been made toward streamlining the government for war. It has just reported that the progress has been in the other direction. Instead of consolidations ‘and economies, “an wriselieyable inflation of administrative personnel.” Little attempt to curtail non-war activities. Untold thousands of employees, ‘needed by war agencies, continuing in non-essential jobs. “Widespread ‘confusion and duplication of effort. Back of it all, a lack of over-all planing and efficient management. ? The subcommittee puts the blame for this state of , affairs on the budget bureau and the national resources planning board. Both are said to be crowded with people committed to the theory of “continued deficits”’—men who believe the government mush go on spending more than it takes in, in order to keep the economic system alive, and “who are opposed to economy now because they want to . keep the peacetime spending agencies ready to spend more - after the war. And Drs. Colm and Means and Prof. Hansen are pictured as the high priests of this philosophy. » » » » ” OW the administrative branch of the government £ certainly does harbor many advocates of the evergrowing deficit, and we view their influence with as much ¢ apprehension as the Tydings subcommittee displays. 2 But the budget bureau and the planning board, -after “all, have no power to appropriate money. They cannot “order the spending of any dollar that is not appropriated “by congress. They cannot keep alive a single non-war agency that congress votes to discontinue. And no matter 8 how many professors and doctors in administrative agencies advocate deficit spending as a permanent policy, they can‘not fasten that policy on the government unless congress -Sacquiesces. 3 Once congress determines that there must be economy “and efficiency and an end to waste, it can get results. So {fax congress has found it easier, pleasanter and politically

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1 more profitable to go along with the spending theory. That's:

% the. real reason for the deplorable conditions which. the : Tydings subcommittee’ describes with such’ C greht Becntacy:

[EASY 0 MONEY IN WASHINGTON

N time of peace, when a smart operator makes a fat piece of money out of a deal involving the government, a good tmany people tend to envy rather than condemn such a “triumph of shrewdness over the taxpayer. . Things are different now. Few will covet the predica“ment of the various gentlemen whose outlandish fees for {helping to. land war contracts are currently being divulged iin Washington, before the house naval affairs committee. So far ‘as has been brought out, no law violation is tinvolved. But something more durable than statutes is i concerned here. It is a matter of ordinary conscience. g The publicity afforded by the house committee is likely “to dilute the recipients’ enjoyment of their fees. And the itax collector will reclaim a good share of the money. But “congress, or the’ navy department, ought to figure out ways

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EA UNIFIED COMMAND?

ip is a rising demand for unification of the Amer- % ican fighting services under a single staff and one fcommander. It comes from no one group or party. It infcludes officers in the services, members of congress, many snewspapers and an increasingly vocal public opinion. * The Pearl Harbor disaster was caused chiefly by flack of co-operation between army and navy commanders, Laccording to the Roberts report, which hinted at similar ¢failure of integration in Washington. Since then some of : the combat zones have been put under single commands— funder an admiral in Hawaii, for instance, and a general in tthe Canal Zone. But there is plenty of evidence that the ‘progress is slow. ¥ Gen. MacArthur, at first given nominal unified com“mand over all the South Pacific, was shorn of authority “over the integral New Zealand part of his Australian area ¥in favor of an admiral subject to another admiral in dis-

: fcampaigns of this war prove the necesity of land, sea and air services opersiing as an integrated ki

HE ory Tears of the problem is the ot Horce, which modern warfare has made the dominant instead of the auxiliary arm. In any unification of the services, the x forces almost inevitably would become a co-ordinate _ fequal branch with land and sea branches under the single icommand. This is what the army and navy chiefs have een blocking for so long. Recent army reforms, giving the air force a bigger slice of power than ground branches, Shave gone far in this direction; but the navy lags behind. ~% There are hints that the president will install at the

W hite House a trusted military adviser, such as his friend

$Admiral Leahy, to improve liaison. But there is no indication as yet that he will agree to a unified command. The upshot is that some see in this a legitimate and potent political issue. io We hope this overdue military reform can be completed 7 the president long before the November election. There

too puch. setvice litics involved without

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Franco's Tet By Leland Stowe

MOSCOW, July 20.—Six years

world war began—with the Franco revolt in Spain.

Hitler's air forces gained invaluable experience at pulverizing villages and towns with bombs—

done in the history of the world. It began in Spain, also, because there Nazi and fascist officers and soldiers fought as allies for the first-time, thanks to the blind acquiescence of the governments which then ruled France and Britain. Now, six years’ wiser, the frightful cost of the Nazi-fascist alliance in Spain should be plain to .every Briton and American. And now, six years later, it happens that Anglo-American armed forces are preparing to open a second front in Europe and that Gen. Francisco Franco’s pro-Nazi government may conceivably be persuaded by Berlin to take steps fo stap our liberating troops in the back.

The Puppet ls. Summoned

THIS SIXTH ANNIVERSARY of the beginning of the Spanish war seems an appropriate moment for one of the exiled former ministers in Spain’s republican government to tell why Hitler is exerting all

he won in Spain when he presented his puppet Franco -with victory in the spring of ’39. The man is Senor Jesus Hernandez, who was minister ‘of education in Dr. Juan Negrin’s republican government. Since the Loyalist army was defeated, he has been living in Russia. Hernandez is a quietspoken, mild-mannered little man with spectacles, who looks and acts like an intelligent college professay, as our novelist Thornton Wilder. - “Pranco’s notorious pro-Nazi foreign minister (and brother-in-law) Serrano y Suner, conférred in Rome with Mussolini and Ciano within the past month,” Hernandez told me. “Then Suner talked with Laval. There can be no doubt that these discussions centered upon the menace of a second front and what the Nazis and fascists want Franco to do.”

"Hitler Can Count on. Franco"

“AFTER ALL,” said Hernandez, “why did Hitler inspire and intervene in the Spanish war? Because he wanted to be ready for the moment that has now come, He intervenéd in the Spanish war to have a frontier at France’s back, to have ports on the Mediterranean, to have a littoral -on the Atlantic, and to have a bridge to Africa, These were his motives. Not to aid Franco but Bb aid his plans to conquer Europe. “Now the moment has come for Hitler to use all these leverages. Until now Spain has been a diversionist’s situation, a pawn... Now Hitler will play his pawn if he can. “Franco has an army of 500,000 men and can raise it to 1,000,000 Spain is the only country in western Europe from which an army of several hundred thousands can be sent into France to aid the Germans crush Anglo-American efforts to establish a second front. Thus the Nazis will not need to withdraw nearly so many divisions from the Russian war theater. “Hitler knows he cannot count on the French, but he knows he can count on Franco.”

Westbrook Pegler did not write a column today.

Whipping Boy

By S. Burton Heath

sorry for Leon Henderson. I think ‘ that the record, considered dispassionately, will show that he is getting a raw deal. I have disagreed with much that Henderson has said, much that he. has done, much that he believes. Obviously he has made mistakes. But if ever a man stood on a keg of dynamite in the midst of a fire, and tried to save his fellows, the price czar is that man." All that Henderson has to do is prevent inflation. The simple task handed to him is that of keeping retail and wholesale prices down while wages, raw materials and transportation go up, without destroying the nation’s mercantile fabric by bankrupting its merchants. If the price czar lets prices go up, he has failed on his job. If he suggests “stabilizing wages, he is an enemy of the working man. If he advocates an effective ceiling on farm prices, he is the farmer’s foe,

He Has a Partner—the Public! |

The war labor board can approve a pay raise: for steel workers—and later perhaps for all in similar jobs. But Henderson can’t let prices go up to absorb such raises.

When gasoline distribution among dealers works undue hardship, and a plan is evolved by Henderson’s staff to correct the evil, he must get: WPB and petroleum administration approval and co-operation— if he can. It was obvious to some from the beginning, and to most before now, that ceiling prices cannot be maintained without subsidies unless we are prepared to let all but the biggest businesses go out the window—to ruin small and medium-sized manufacturers and merchants. When Henderson asked Congress to authorize such subsidies he was turned down. The OPA is expected to do one of the biggest jobs of administrative policing in history, and is given a very inadequate appropriation with Which to do the Job. If Fenderson fails, who gets the blame? Orgsnized. labor, the farmers, Congress, the WLB, the WPB, Mr. Ickes—or Leon Henderson? That's right, Leon Henderson is the goat. Leon Henderson and the public,

So They Say—

down.—Mayor F, H, LaGuardia of New York. * . »

It is vital to the welfare of the country to have real strength in the opposition.—~Wendell L, Willkie, ] . » A Whever and whenever free men continue to fight tyranny, they will remember the name and learn to say: Leed-eat-say—Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of the Czechoslovakian government-in-exile.

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We are making the greatest number of machine tools any country in the world has ever .made, and it’s still not enough.—Lieut. Gen. William S. Ruigsen, former General Motors president. ; » [ * : i This is. really one war...You cannot entirely disassociate -one area from others. You have to consider the picture as a whole. You cannot say

ago - last ‘Saturday the second |

something that had never been |

possible pressure to capitalize on the “positions” which |.

van and the county and city defense council for calling attention of store owners and householders to the glass in front of their establisments and homes.

the streets because apparently our city street cleaning department can’t cope with the job.

tionists. so far this year, ds: the worst city in the country ‘as far as glass in the streets is concerned. Let's all pitch in‘ and help. , + +

CLEVELAND, Tuy 20-1 feel Mzbel Taylor in Iast Tuesday's

Times.

and appeasement failed at Munich. It failed because of the weak members of the appeasement’ party be-’ ing afraid to stand up for their

tinental Europe under the heel of the German gestapo. This is the].

son. He had accepted your hospitality and departed, seeming grate-

other thugs and maniacs to mur-

As a matter .of survival we just can’t let :China- |

you will concentrate on one thing and neglect .the |

_ MONDAY, JULY 20, 1942

It began in Spain. Pecause i there, for the first time, Adolf | °

1 wholly disagree, wh

> what you say, but will defend to the death or right to say it.—Voltaire.

“LET'S ALL HELP CLEAN uP CITY'S STREETS” By E. C. H., 4025 Kenwood. Congratulations to Mayor Sulli-

(ime Haders are invited their hs, religious conxcluded. Make +4 short, so all can

“to exp ‘os | views Lin. these tbl troversiss your leit Letters must

have a cha ce.

Let everyone. take his broom in hand and sweep the debris out of

serve no less i | penalty. In myn aad ng of American history, our gave 'nment never tried to ha. ‘merican ‘Indian ‘when

Indianapolis, according: to vaca-

expanding na ion, they simply took it. Neither dh they dicker with a person today when that person has property ii lhe right ‘of way of progress. A feir price is set and they take it. This | is as it should ‘be ‘because if yoi1 ried to educate people against their will, it is impossible. If there exe any flaws in our social order, it is: hit there by the people themselves) Lic cause of their unwillingness tol hive the law enforced. Prohibition iia good example. Today, pinbg ind slot machines and other vices contrary to the law are

t J » ” “WE CANNOT GIVE OUR ENEMIES ANY ADVANTAGE” By Floyd Allison, 50 S. Bradléy ave. This is in response to a letter by

Dear Mrs. Taylor: Complacency

rights. . . . The results: All of con-

type of person for whom you are shedding crocodile tears to spare their lives. Let’s bring this to a closer parallel. Suppose you had befriended a peér-

| energy to enforcing the law. . os ”

“NIBLACK’;| RIGHT—AND' CITY HALL SH( WED WAKE UP” By An ol, Bekhoerat, Indianapolis. I'll say ¢ne thing for Judge John Niblack, | He! anybody sire he took over the bench in mujicipal court. His latest outburst was directed against the restaura-t keepers who hire women of questionable character in their establishments and as a result jeopardise. the health of their patrons. i I'd think shat City Hall «0. and

particularly A Dr. Herman Morgan . « « Would | ake up and demand that a clos

ful. Then during the night he would steal back into your home with

der your family, and plunder your property, Would you then cry for mercy for those persons, or would you say let the law take its course, and bring a warning to others. Mrs. Taylor, war is a terrible thing and we cannot hope to win, giving our enemies all of the advantages and saying we are Christian people and must not kill a spy or a Benedict Arnold. The law enforcement bodies of this country accept the responsibility of executing all murderers, fiends and persons of like character. Since

Side Glances—By Galbraith, |

The stern.

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He hasn't been afraid of

€ ¢heck be kept on all

workers and that they be required to furnish health certificates, as Judge Niblack suggested. It’s come to a pretty pass when these things suddenly are aired in court. Our, health authorities . . « Should have seen that this sort of thing

"|couldn’t have happened in the first

place... ” } ” o “WHY ALL THE EFFORT BY OUR CYCLE POLICE?” By. “That. North Sider” Congratulations to Mr. Rupp for exposing that little speed trap at Bouleyard and’ 34th st, where the cop lies in ambush and arrests mtoorist who ignore a stop sign that shouldn't be there in the first place. I've been wondering lately at the antics ' of the police department. They seem to be covering the North side and maybe other parts of the city with great gusto lately. Why? Accidents and fraffic deaths are being held at a minimum. In fact, the death rate is dropping considerably—not from the efforts of the motorcycle men, but from little use of automobiles. Maybe city hall has decided to make one grand smash and attempt to build up police department revenue before gasoline rationing forces almost all the automobiles off the streets. # #2 = “THOSE SQUEAKS I'VE HEARD HAVEN'T CHANGED MY MIND” By Don Quixote, I see where I have been taken to task, first by “Air Raid Warden,” and second, by one Margaret Stearns Reese. . Mr. Warden, you phrased it correctly. That place you term a “dandy windmill” at Vermont and Meridian has been precisely that. Just & big windmill—mostly wind. The letter from Margaret Stearns Reese, however, was not so amusing. She termed my letter “an insulting bit of slimy propaganla,” cast doubt on my patriotism, and all else. It sounded pretty much like those old 100 per cent letters. "Her first premise is the very knockout blow for all democracy. She objects to publicity! In her own words, any “decent” person would never “OF ALL THINGS,” dare to write a letter to a newspaper! I submit that as the type of thinking which is the death knell of democracy. If we cannot discuss in the open, we are doomed. But that, mind you, is Margaret Stearns Reese’s method of fighting—no publicity!" Hah! She then goes one step further and lays down the edict that civil-

Indianapolis

‘1 ‘lian defense work calls for “only 41 -|the highest type of citizen®

I've heard that “highest - type ot citizen”. gag before. Been used by a good many outfits that never

‘|did believe .in, good, honest Ameri-

canism. ; I ‘made myself clear the first time. I said I registered for civilian defense work. I did. I said that I wasn’t wanted from all I could gather, since I hadn’t even received a penny postcard to say “Thanks, Mister.” I said it looked to me like thus far in the game we’d had one big boondoogle. Those squeaks I've heard haven't changed my mind. Matter of fact, quite the contrary... .

DAILY THOUGHT

The tongue is a fire, a world’ of iniquity: so is the tongue: among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and. it is set on fire of hell.—James

3:6.

in Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 20. — There is a good deal of official worrying in high places about the morale of labor. The underlying thought is that workmen must bay kept in a perpetual dither of excitement about war production and that the only way to do this ~ is by constant resort to Billy Sunday pep talks and the scheduling of a succession of drives, slogan contests and campaigns accome

J panied by song, all wiooped up like a holy rollers’

revival. Before Pearl Harbor, there was a lot of worrying about the morale of the army, too. But the minute real war started, soldier morale practically ceased to be a thing to worry about. Artificial stimulants for the morale of labor, ‘however, are ‘still being concocted in profusion. Army has a big section of officers which does missionary work to maintain morale. Navy has been more cone servative about this morale business, but is overe hauling: its labor relations organization under Ade miral Woodward and a labor reporter from Col Knox’s Chicago Daily News. Maritime Commission is worrying about the morale of the shipyards workers. WPB has its’ big war proe duction drive on, and so it goes all over the lot.

It's Become an Obsession

BUT THERE IS AN apparent inclination to baby labor for fear it won't support the war effort. The unuttered question behind all the long-drawn-out negotiations over the Little Steel ‘labor cases was fear that if the union requests for $1-a-day increase and the closed shop were not handled right, it would be bad for labor's morale. Maintaining labor’s morale has become a kind of obsession. It has gone so far that some of the ine spired or misguided experts are trying to: frame a laboring man’s 10 commandments to be known as the “War Workers’ Victory Code.” No one has reduced this to writing, but the code was to include pledges which would practically com-Y mit workmen to take a pay cut and work overtime’ free. Labor leaders laughed and suggested a code for manufacturers, asking them to give up golf. and all profits.

Gold-Stripers Leave 'Em Cold

‘THERE WAS A genuine improvement in labor morale right after Pearl Harbor, just as there was in army morale. The maritime commission people have found out that a “talk” by some gold-striper leaves the workmen cold, but a few stumbling remarks from a seaman who has been on a ship that was built in a given yard, shelled and maybe torpedoed but still brought into port, do wonders. The “Lunch Time Follies,” a few good minutes

‘of good, professional entertainment and relaxation

inaugurated at Todd shipyards in Brooklyn, has been an instant hit and morale builder. At Bethlehem Fairfield shipyards: the workmen asked management

‘to fire one man who wouldn’t buy war bonds.

Labor, in other words; shouldn’t have to be coddled at this stage of the war. In the words of a spokese man for the A. F. of L., the high pressure propagane dists can confine themselevs to something like this: “Boys, youre doing a swell job. Keep up the good work.” A pat on the back will do more to build morale than all the slogans and codes in the copyhook.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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ONE: PASSENGER yelled his delight as the hig plane settled) down at the Albuquerque airport. He was the l4-months-old baby whose mother, a slim, dark young woman, was heading for El Paso to join a husband in the service after a stay with parents in Washe ington. Her eyes shone with happiness at the thought of reunion. Her two-hour wait was spent in downe town Albuquerque with the youngster riding his mother’s hip.

The story of her three years of marriage was & record of change and uncertainty. Strictly speaking, she is a nomad woman. To me her future looks haze ardous and her present insecure. But once again, bee cause of her, I am persuaded that there is nothing so important to progress as the buoyancy of youth.

Life holds no terrors for that young woman. She is immersed in the moment, as every good worker should be, in the job at hand, without thought of anye thing but the day’s demands.

In the Business of Living

I'M SURE, TOO, that my young friend and all others in her group never think of ‘themselves as “having a job to do,” as popular talk puts it, and de not believe they are “saving the world.” They are engaged simply in the business of living and, if times are precarious, it doesn’t matter. Peril only deepens its joys. And so they move gaily from one army post to ahe other, endure separation and hardship, accept wha§ the day brings, and probably get deeper satisfaction out of living than the secure generation which Pres ceeded them. Actually pioneer fathers and mothers were ne more gallant. And, I dare. say, they did not regard themselves as heroes or heroines either. Somehow you feel better about the future after talking with a few of our young soldiers’ wives. The country is safe in their hands.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those

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