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. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1942

BY DUE PROCESS : Fre habeas corpus hearings were not, as one commentator put it, legalistic cookie-pushing. | Involved was something as fundamental as democracy ‘itself, namely watchfulness over those due processes of law which took so many centuries of blood and struggle to con_struct—going back to Runnymede and beyond. As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so the

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f real test of liberty comes when the stress is greatest. That’ stress always shows up in wartime.

i The supreme court when it convened in almost unprecedented session to hear the habeas corpus appeals recognized just that. And history will feel better, and applaud. The first reaction of the average citizen was ‘‘shoot ’em,” when that citizen read of the armed enemy agent: landing from submarines on our shores. The same sort ot reaction is what in peacetime or war causes lynchings. ... - But there always follows the second thought—the wish that you had counted 10. . & = ' ; ® = = R, no matter how apparently clear the guilt, only - through due process can there be certainty. “Better that a thousand guilty escape than one innocent be punished.” That is ingrained in our pattern of justice through law. And it isn’t so for any other reason than that experience has shown us all to be involved; that mob law, shooting from the hip, acting now and repenting later, is the essence of why the workings of justice must necessarily be slow and cautious and sometimes seemingly ponderous and silly. The Dreyfus and Mooney cases, and all the other famous ‘examples of injustice through emotion, are part of the picture. : In the heat of wartime it is easy for those due processes to evaporate, and for a vogue to develop by which secret military trials soon replace trials in the open—easy to revert back to the terrible-tempered technique of Justice Jeftreys, who in the days of the Stuarts made his name a byword for

a Judicial cruelty.

" » i s 8°88 So it is well that our supreme court was alert: THAT, by hearing the habeas corpus petitions, it chal- - lenged the idea of the military court until the military court could prove its position. : » THAT the supreme court thereby indicated intent to review each such issue on its merits, as it came up. AND THAT when other cases appear that are more in the twilight zone, rulings will be forthcoming, each according to the evidence. It is decided that these enemy agents, by the nature of their offenses as alleged, belong in the wartime area of trial—as a court-martial within our own armed forces is isolated to the military. . But it is well that the time was taken, and the avil hearing held, in order that the record of eternal vigilance might be kept clear and straight. . It is well also that the executive branch of government recognized the jurisdiction and right of the highest civil court to decide the legality of the presidential order committing this case to a military court. x As for the defendants—let the military commission - now proceed.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Well, Spelvin, this seems to be it. Lou Stark says from Washington that President Roosevelt has directed - the formulation of a ‘war service bill under which all of us and that means you, George Spelvin, would be assigned to work in a factory, on a farm or wherever. In other words, conscription for work, Spelvin, and don’t act surprised, either, because Mrs. R. tipped you off 'way last winter in that essay of hers, remember, which led off with the remark that they had had one of those interesting discussions Sunday evening at the White House, and that she had come

| to the conclusion that people would prefer to be told

what to do on the Home front and so forth. Well, I happened to have somewhat the same idea about the same time, because I figured that if it came to the clutch it would be better to turn to the full sacks like river-town people damming back a flood than to stand on the letter of our rights and let Adolf take us by invasion and polonize all of us. You know what they do in a river town, come flood, don’t you? Just everybody turns out to dig

.| ditches and fill and: pile sandbags and you will see

convicts in stripes from the nearby road camp slopping around in the mush alongside of the local garage man, the preacher and the high-school kids and all, and the women cooking coffee and doing other chores.

We're Nowhere Near It

CHINA AND THE SECOND FRONT

HE president has reaffirmed his pledge that the United ~ +7 States will not let China down. His personal representative, Laughlin Currie, having arrived at Chungking, has ~ assured the Chinese in a public statement that European hE operations will not prevent increased military aid to our Asiatic allies. i This newspaper favors concentration of a major. part yo of new plane production for an all-out continuous air attack on Germany. : Admiral King’s warning—that a belligerent which . tries to be strong everywhere will end by being weak every- © where—should prevent Washington from continuing to scatter its strength in driblets in all directions. "But no sane advocate of a concerted air offensive against Germany would propose that we give up the existing “second front” in Asia. On the contrary, the plan for a European mass air front : rpghives only two-thirds of current American production in addition to British output, leaving one-third for reinforce- : of such active fronts as China and the Aleutians. "The relation ‘between the China front, the battle for ‘Russia, and the proposed European air offensive is very close. The China front is holding Jap armies which otherwise yould be marching into Russia. The China’ front, no less than the Don front is buying time while America and Britain prepare an offensive against

AW! RAW! RAW! "HE payoft to the educational lobby for its help in loop ing NYA alive, by persuading congress to apply its’ iconomy ax only to the far more efficient CCC, was summed gp in a recent headline. The headline reads: “NYA to Aid 107,000 Students This Year.” With young men and women serving their country in mel forese, al factory workbenches and on the farms, gy educators expect college enrollments to be down to yor cent of normal. Of course they are willing to take free NYA money. But congress gave the office of education several mil3 to make loans to any students studying anything in whith might fid Jn in. winning. the war.

NOW THEY ‘MAY not compel one another to urn out for this work, but anyone who can and doesn’t had better high-tail down the road and keep a-going, because he ain’t going to like it around his old hometown no mo’ I saw them doing this one night down in a place called Yemassee in South Carolina or Georgia and in several places along the Ohio river below Louisville a few years ago and it is quite a sight. But I was figuring that before we adopted this compulsion we would be making full use of our available man power and talent and, of course, George, you know mighty well we aren't within say, for a figure, 30 per eent of that up to now,. what with stalling and that euphemistic equivalent of the strike known as the “conference” or “committee meeting” in which a bunch of unioneers call a huddle during work hours and run it around the clock for days or weeks.

Is This the Showdown?

OR IT WORKS like that case in up-state New York where that goon named Orville Warner of the Joe Fay mob has the gall to say that the operating engineers who are holding up several war construction jobs are sick with an epidemic of something that can be cured by a raise of 13 cents an hour. I guess you have noticed that Paul McNutt has’ been acting very nasty about this proposition of labor conscription for quite some time, so you shouldn't be surprised to hear now that the thing is in the works. But, George, when I say “this seems to be it” I mean this seems to be the showdown at last on this compulsory union membership thing and possibly a showdown on the status or fate of unions in this country for good and all.. Because, look George, if we get this conscription 1 suppose you are going to say you don’t mind doing a job of work wherever you can help best, but that you ain’t going to pay any $200 to any racketeer like Joe Fay, even if he did deliver an indorsement for

‘one of Boss Hague’s senators the other day.

"A Liddy Biddy Puff of Dust"

YOU AIN'T GOING to let any union tell you what way you are going to vote in the election, or make you vote at all if you don’t want to, as the Teamsters have done in California recently, and you ain’t going to let anyone grah off any part of your pay and spend it to elect any candidate you don’t favor, even if it is Mr. Roosevelt's candidate, himself. Sa all right. suppose you and about 30 million other Americans are called up in this conscription and the wages are fixed by law and you won’t join the unions, then what is the use of the unions at all and why would anyone else continue to belong to. them when there is nothing they can do for a man that isn't already being done and guaranteed by this new law that Lou Stark is speaking of? Do you know? Neither do I, George, but watch this thing coming down the road. It began as just a liddy-biddy puff of dust in Mrs. Rs column ’way last winter.

Meat Shortage By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, Aug. 1—The office of price administration is investigating a shortage of meat in numerous cities throughout the country. We suspect the OPA knew the reason for the shortage even before thgre~was a shortage. Certainly thers were responsible officials in Washington who knew, | and who were trying to get their warnings across. The meat shortage illustrates the sort of trouble that is inevitable when an administrator is given responsibility for holding prices down, but is deprived of ‘control over elements whieh govern prices. The wholesale and retail prices of meats were frozen. The price of livestock went up from a cent and a half to two cents a pound. By the time that basic rise had reached the retailer, it meant a cut of from three to four cents a pound in his markup for<overhead and profit.

every hog. The same amount of loss, these experts estimate, was being split between wholesalers and retailers, with the latier taking a little the worse beating. The smaller packers, began going out of business. The big ones, with a sickly grin, allowed that they

on their reserves.

Just a erry-Go-' Round

THE BIG SUPERMARKETS were losing money. The “Papa. and Mama stores” got by, in part because

The in-between stores, backbone of the trade, were being squeezed. What happened?

* The stores began to hold back, particularly on beef 1 and pork, since the more they sold the more money |

they lost. Raisers waited for higher prices, and lost their market.

Now. with meat. almost unbuyably high, there}

also is a shortage. But next fall there will be a glut, on the market.

«The department of agriculture says there will be

aso head of meat cattle to be sold before the | y

iillion hogs. The packing Industry says there will be 2 million hogs to sell.

pens with the most opulent utility

Government experts say that packers were losing | from $10 to $15 on every head of cattle they slaugh- | tered, processed and sold, and from $2 to $2.50 on | |}

could stay |in business as a patriotic duty, drawing |

their prices weren’t under such close observation, and | : in part because their businesses were more flexible. |

is over, a seventh more than last year, and 79]

{When this huge load is ready for market, it will | |

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PENS WITH UTILITY MAGNATE” By LeRoy 8S. Moore, Bautlerville

Since when, fellow Americans of

occupations and place of employment, and since when has there been a law passed prohibiting city, state and federal employees from expressing their private opinions in your columns? Look who is protesting vecause| the good old U. S. A. doesn’t adopt’ this form of Germanic tyranny. Carl | Mote in the July 29 issue of The! Times takes me to task for not re- | f vealing this in my piece of July | 18th. He indignantly states that I! © should have disclosed I was a clerk 7 on the state payroll. What this has to do with one up-| holding the principles of our form

know, unless it be the old military strategy of diverting the enemy from their original purpose... . In this free America the most, humble clerk has the right to cross|

magnate or express his private opinions in any manner he desires. There are thousands of governmental employees who express themselves in this fashion every day without .so ‘much as thinking it necessary. to declare their occupation. So by his very protest Mr. Mote has revealed his unpatriotic wishful thinking along these lines. Mr. Mote may be an executive for a telephone corporation and know a great deal concerning this type of endeavor, but we the people know he has the wrong number. : Tae. “LET’S START SLUGGING

WITH ALL WE'VE GOT” By That Defense Worker, Indianapolis.

" To my way of thinking, the allies are a bunch of sissified cowards who don’t know how to do anything but throw their hands in front of their face and back up ‘hollerin’ “just wait until tomorrow.” Or maybe theyre waiting for someone to shake hands with and; have someone say “come out fighting”; or maybe they have to wait until someone tells them to “play ball. ” To hell with waiting! with tomorrow!

To hell Let's start slug-

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of government, I am at a loss to! |

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ging with all we've got.' Let’s quit Jacking up and covering up. This i .a street fight, not a prize ring exhibition of fisticuffs. It’s also a free-for-all! | Let’s stop waiting I “after election”; till “after harvest”; till “after 7e get our raise”; till “after we

| Teach our best line "of resistance.”

Let’s fight! Let's lick the Axis! Liet’s get out and go!

“WE'RE LOSING THIS WAR; LET'S STOP BEING SAPS”

Hy H. E. Marshall, 37 W. 2st st.

| An ardent prohibitionist calls on 211 prohibitionists to refuse to ride tn tires made from alcohol. | All the ardent. Americans are will ing to let them walk for as I understand it the rubber that is to be nade is for the use of our boys in the armed forces and not for -prohibitionists or any other individual yarty or person, and the Lord knows the parties responsible for getting the process started and some rubber instead of so much talk is slow ¢nough without all this added talk hy some party trying to further ‘heir own ends at the expense of ¢ur boys’ lives. What all true Amer-

licans want is the production of rubber as quick as it is humanly possible to do the job and we don’t

rive a tinker’s dam what it is made of, just so our boys get it quick snough to carry them to a safe jletory. What these ardent. prohibitionsts should do is to spend the same amount of time and effort in helphe to win this war instead of trying to cause more disunity by “ringing up the issue of prohibiion now. That is the sort of thing “itler meant when he said he irould cause so much disunity in this country that we could never et ready in time to lick him. © It should assuage the feelings of

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all prohibitionists to think that their bugaboo, the demon rum, was going to be used for something besides drink. All Americans regardless of what their own pet grievances are should get behind our war efforts with everything we have and stop kidding ourselves by thinking we can’t lose this war. We are losing and will continue to lose unless we all get together. Let's stop being just a plain bunch of saps and have it said about us that we got there too late with too little, and so our boys lost because we let ourselves be lulled to sleep by some Hitlerite.

» 8 8 “ALL THIS BOUGHT WITH TAXPAYERS’ MONEY” By Mayne Hightshue, Route 18, Box 415. The people of the state of In-

diana and Marion county are a,

patriotic people; we are trying to co-operate with the request made of us by our government; we buy bonds in accordance: with our income; we conserve on our tires and our gasoline, and if the time comes when we must hitch up the “old gray mare” for our transportation we will do that also, but when I see such things as the one I saw on a vacant Southport lot I wonder what it is all about. Hundreds of WPA wheelbarrows piled high for junk, hauled in by trucks, paying a man to use a pick to make holes in the bottom so they could be called junk. Some 300 new ones never been used on a job piled and the wood burned off and junked. All this bought and paid for with the taxpayers money. You say we need the metal. All right, what farmer would not have been more than glad to take in exchange a new wheelbarrow for his old broken-down one and a fair price in cash. If we go to our hardware dealer and try to buy one he will reply, “Sorry, I just can’t buy them.” When we see such waste as this, we certainly lose confidence in the officials we have elected to office. We all realize we need metal and rubber for defense but when Mr. Roosevelt made the appeal to the American: public he said we do not ask for [the things that are still usable but for the many things that are lying about unused. Can anyone say that new wheelbarrows that have never been used on a job and an article needed on every farm is’ junk? Think it over, taxpayers. EJ f J

2 “ARE MEN TOO FAT TO FIGHT FOR OLD GLORY?” By Goldie Funkhouser, 1176 N. Warman ave.

1 received a card from the Indiana state employment to report to the fifth floor for an interview about defense training. While being interviewed by one woman who told me not to worry about my weight which is 163, another lady pops up and tells me I'am too fat and they can’t promise to help me if I take the training. Is the gov-

Jernment telling these women to do].

this or are they just trying to be smart? She seemed to think I should - thank her for telling me that I was too fat, as if I didn’t

1- | know it, then had the nerve to fol-

low me to the elevator and offer me my car fare because I had made a trip for nothing. If the girls and women whose men are over there fighting are fat and too old, does that mean we can’t work or get the schooling the government wants us to have? When the boys and men are

‘|drafted, are they too old and fat

to fight for good of Old Glory?’

DAILY THOUGHT - Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.—Leviticus

SATURDAY, AUG. 1, 1942

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—QOne of the most persistent of the whise pering campaign stories about American ‘aircraft itas been a ieport that the first time American bh Flying Fortress bombers were sent over Europe on a daylight raid, five ‘of the seven ships were shot down. This story has received wide circulation. Its effect has been to spread the idea that the Flying Fortress was unsuited for use against the Germans and to destroy confidence in what has been hailed as the most potent air weapon of the war. So alarm-. ing has this word been that the army air force and the Boeing company, which made the original ships, assigned some their personnel to run down the source of the story. It is now possible to tell what really happened. The main fact of the story is essentially accurate, Seven Flying Fortresses, flown by R, A. F. pilots, were sent over for a daylight raid against an important objective, and five of them were shot down. But the facts behind the raid reveal an amazingly care= less disregard of correct tactical handling of the big ships, and this caused the heavy losses.

Right on the Nose

IT WAS NOT THE first time the Fortresses had been sent over the continent, either, but the second, On both trips they were unescorted by fighter planes, The first time, the planes went over at high altitude, which is what the Fortresses were designed for—daylight precision bombing at heights above ack-ack and pursuit plane ceilings. The gourse to the objective was flown blind, there being a heavy haze. 3 Not being able to see their target, no bombs were dropped, on this first raid, but when the planes reached the point where the navigators said the target should he, photographs were taken, using: filters and trick infra-red photographic equipment, The planes, unchallenged, flew home. When their films were developed, it was discovered - the planes had been right over their target. Had they dropped their bombs, they would have regis tered direct hits. Elated, the R. A. F. command ordered the planes sent back on the same mission the following day. This time the pilots were told to go in at 15,000 feet. Why,

.| will never be known. Maybe it was because they had

encountered no opposition when they had gone over at much higher altitudes.

Don't Sell These Ships Short

ANYWAY, THE WEATHER on this night was clear. The pilots obeyed orders. And the Germans were waiting. Apparently warned by the previous day’s flight, they came up with everything they had in the vicinity, What they did to the seven big bomb ers was plenty. German attack planes went after them from above, below and the sides. And five of them were shot down. - One limped home and made a crash landing. Photos showed the fuselage riddled with bullet holes. It was from this tragic misuse of the Flying Forte resses that the planes began to get their bad name in England. The story was repeated, and word got around that the Flying Fortress was a washout for use In Germany, though it might be all right against undefended objectives. Better big bombers unquestionably will be built before the war is over, but the word from the air force today is not to sell the Flying Fortress short.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ALUMINUM WAS vital, waste « paper was vital, old scrap iron and rubber were vital, and now fats are vital. So it’s, “Hi there. Mrs, Housewife, we've got another job for you.” And it’s 10 to 1 Mrs. Housewife will pitch in and scrape her pans for grease, from which glyce= rin is made. For glycerin is nece . essary in manufacture of high explosives. It's a big job, this war, and Mrs: Housewife is an extremely important part of it, although she may not be aware of the fact, For she’s the kind of American who just fills in where she is most needed and asks few questions. Down at sugar-rationing headquarters-you’ll find her doing volunteer service. Maybe she leaves home= work undone because she gets an S. O. S. saying she is badly wanted to register applicants and file papers. Or she’s sweating in Red Cross sewing rooms, or looking after some canteen work of the WVS, or pounding the streets selling war bonds.

It Appeals to Her Especially

SHE ISN'T ALONE, of course. Alongside of hep work schoolteachers, using their vacations for -helpe ing Uncle Sam, and business women who can snatch a few hours from the office, and society girls who have given up being society girls for the duration. . All these women also serve their country. And . they do it without pay and sometimes without coms pliments. Few wear uniforms or insignia of honor; , they just take the extra tasks in their stride, expecte ing no ballyhoo. And there’s something about the general salvage program that appeals to Mrs. Housewife especially, For years and years she’s worried about the junkepiles littering highways into our citiés and towns, and has looked with concern at the broken-down maw : chinery rotting on a thousand farms. So this nae tional effort to save odds and ends has her wholes hearted approval, because she is not by nature a ° waster. Of course, she’d feel better about the whole thing if she could be sure that, while she’s scraping together leftover driblets of fat, the men in the federal bureaus and legislative halls would be equally careful with her tax money.

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