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_ @ive Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

paper Allfasce NEA ~ Service, and Audit Bugd of Circulations.

(By Westbrook Pegler

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NEW YORK, Aug. 13—By way | /&

of starting this essay I will just} ¥ set down such terms as drunken | 4 . thug, underworld character .and |” union racketeer and you can fit.[ 2

‘them into place at will as descrip= | #54 tive matter wherever you encount- | 3

er the name of our subject, who is Joe Fay, vice president of the |: International Union of Operating |- Engineers, great. power in the | American Federation of Labor and

of ‘the ‘toughest production. roe ~ lems in fighting a niodern war is to keep equipment ultra: modern, streamlined, two jumps ahead of - the ‘enemy's. An army going into, ‘action with weapons that were. th ¢ latest thing in the last worl s ‘Tuckns ‘wouldn't stand a chance in this war. Many weapons that were considered “advanced” in 1940 and 1941 are now obsolete or ob=

Goloment. “Since Pearl Harbor, the U, 8. army ord- =

honored friend of William Green. . ¢ That. will avoid | ‘repetition and speed up the story. °° fu When, a few months ago, Mr, Fay. went into court 2 in Syracuse, N. Y., to answer a felony, indictmen accusing him of booting in the face of H. Orville] Warner, one of his-union subordinates; -hig expensive | legal staff asked for a dismissal on. the ground that |: Brother Fay was indispensable in the prosecution of | - the war. Mr. Warner, the complaining withess, had] | aken a run-out, obviously to oblige Brother Fay, who |

nance -department- has standardized on nearly 150 ' new models of weapons and pieces of equipment, in- { cluding new ‘aircraft armament, artillery, tanks and combat vehicles, small arms and’ types of bomb, ame ; munition and ‘accessories. “That word “standardized” is probably ‘a bad one. Nothing in" modern: war is ever ‘standardized. In peacetimes, the manufacturers of automahiles, stoves, refrigerators; typewriters, adding mé

, . THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1042

i KAISER GETS THE RUNAROUND "HREE weeks ago a “can-do” man appeared on the public “scene with a proposal that challenged the ‘nation’s “imagination. - For this nation was built on the can-do and

not the can’t formula. ‘The winning of the West, the building of the trans-

continental railroads, the telegraph, the telephone, the cotton gin, the reaper, the electric light, the automobile, the hard-surfaced highways, the airplane, radio, mass pro“duction; the Westinghouses, the Edisons, the Fords, the

Wright brothers, the Steinmetzes, the men who were first

Jered and then applauded—that tells the story of America. And whether we win the most desperate war in our

4 the can-do touch; J = ” 2 8 8

T= pat denier man to whom we now refer .is Henry Kaiser. By his record he has proved his ability to overcome ‘the impossible. © Read the story of Kaiser, the builder, of bridges and «roads and power plants, of Boulder and Bonneville and Cou- * lee, of his shipyards breaking records in wartime produc- ; “tion, though he had never seen a ship eunchisd until a year _ before Pearl Harbor. . In substance what Kaiser had to say ‘was this: : ; . We are in an air war. . You can’t service a war that is Tunning on a 300 to A400-mile-an-hour speed in the aiy with just freight trains on the ground and ships plowing the water. I'm building waterborne ships. 1. want to build cargo airships. Ican. And I can do it with materials and * experts and labor I will assemble, and ‘without detracting

from the war production schedule already set up. Give me |

_ a chance. 7 Now if this man’ hadn't the record he has for dig

the thing that can’t be done we would all be entitled to call him a dreamer or a braggart. But his record answers that. :

: So Kaiser went “to Washington. His Blan was received with real enthusiasm from the public and apparent enthusiasm in high official quarters. He had inspired a nation grown confused, not to say disheartened, by the negative . and defensive way in which our war was going. But suddenly something happened, and it develops that it is the same old bureaucratic runaround. ; One day it looked as if he had the go sign. Twenty-four hours later he had some documents that gave him no more headway than would be given any in,

. experienced and untried salesman with an idea and a brief |

case making his first trip to the capital and being told to come back later. 5 That's where the Kaiser situation stands now. That _ is what has become of the proposal which so dramatically . stimulated the country’s hope that, after all, we haven't lost the tnde touch.

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.. WE WERE TAKEN FOR A RIDE Nowsramms have been hoaxed from time to time by smart-alecks, swindlers- and press agents. "But it’s a new experience when officers of the United States army ‘deliberately gyp the press'and the public with a piece of ‘pipe-dream heroics. So we are glad to see that Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum : has investigated the circumstances, frankly acknowledged the phony nature of those sinister photos of atrow-shaped

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~ plowings, etc., and “meaningfully promised “appropriate

action.”

As far as we are , concerned, we'd consider the whole |

incident a godsend if it resulted in an overhauling of the , military propaganda machine and the diversion to more useful duties of several hundred press-agents-in-uniform,

some of whom think that publicizing a war is on all fours |}

with publicizing a pair of movie legs or a walkathoen.

MARION COUNTY WELFARE HE decision of the Marion county welfare board to clear and reinstate a case worker under indictment by the grand jury is certainly odd procedure. But there is . much more.to Marion county welfare work than the board's + actions in this case sindicate. The Marion | county welfare department is the vipgadt . single. unit in the’ entire county. It is a $3,400,000-a-year operation. It has a normal complement of more than 150 ‘workers. There are 12,000 individual recipients on the rolls

— mote than 7000 of them old age pensioners, more than

4000 of them children, blind children, crippled childrer, Up until 1937 Marion county’s welfare operations were disgrace. Indeefl, conditions were so outrageous that the state legislature by special action in ’37 took away from this county’s welfare board the right to name its own direcr. The largest county in the state, the most populous, the richest; declared to be incompetent. to name. its .own welfare director, The state named the: rector. That director has held the post for five years now, constantly under fire from a

board determined to name a man of its own choosing. The |

esult has been five years of wrangling, five years of condlict, five years of charge and counter-charge. . What is behind all the current difficulty? . Simply fhe t that the welfare board has exhausted almost ds

ibility of removing the. state-appointed director. ‘ It

st prove “cause” to get rid of him. And that “cause” it

now trying to establish—right or wrong. . There is more than politics involved in this’ situation. ere are more than 12,000 people involved—the aged, the

the infirm and the helpless orphaned, ‘plind and erip- :

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to get five years in prison and ‘Was: really scared 5 ps, after a brief continuance, the indictment was dis- -

missed and Fay was released.

Skimming Over the Story Again .

IT WAS A MATTER of: legitimate comment that the prosecutor’s office and the court ‘were willing to permit a dismissal under such’ conditioys, for it was reasonable to suspect that Brother Warner had been \taken care of and that somebody was flouting the dignity of the court and monkeying with the machin-

history will depend in great degree on whether we have lost |. %,9f Justice.

Nevertheless, the indictment. was dismissed, and, sure enough, soon afterward, Brother: Warner was given back his job as business agent of one of Fay’s local unions in Rochester, where just recently, by way

of helping win the war, he*pulled the ‘boys off several war construction jobs on the grounds that they were | | suffering from an ailment which could be cured only

by a raise of 13 cents an heur.. - Governor Lehman has power to order John Bennett, his attorney general and Jim Farley’s candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, to investigate Warner's disappearance, Fay’s acquittal and Warner's reinstatement, -but he has done nothing about it. Mr. Bennett, it appears, is unable to initiate such inquiry without an order from the governor,

‘Working Both Sides of the Sjreet

WELL, SO NOW we come to the real significance of that crack of Mr. Fay’s lawyers about his peculiar value in the war effort. Apparently they did not mean merely that. he would be valuable in shaking down workers for large fees, dues and ‘taxes.for the privilege of serving their country on civilian war construction jobs. They would seem: to have had. in mind also his great importance as a construction contractor, for it Huy out that Mr. Fay is working both sides of the street. labor with an upper. case L in its relations. with employers and on the cther side he is an employer, himself, in a large way of business dealing with labor. Brother Fay. is president of the International Excavating Co. of Newark, and the president of his local Newark union, No. 825, is Edward T. Shinn, who is also vice president and treasurer of the company. Then we find that Edward Shinn Jr., a son of the old gentleman, is president of another big firm called the United Crane & Shovel Service Co., contractors, who also deal in’ contractors’ machinery,

"Democracy, Clean, Pure and Fair"

NEXT, WE HAVE the International Hoist & Machine Co., also of Newark, whose president is Fred W. Romp, who was, with Fay and Edward Shinn Sr., one of the original incorporators of the International Excavating Co., in 1928. . so Pay recently put a: resolution through the Jersey Building Trades and Construction - ‘Council in favor of Senator Smathers, the man:who nominated Thomas F. Meaney as federal judge, touching off a rather gamy scandal. and Judge Meaney is a member of the Frank Hague machine which Brother Fay well serves both as a unioneer and as one; of the most powerful contractors in the state. .So you will. see how important it was that the Syracuse indictment be not allowed to: hamper the work of one who was, as his learned counsel so truly said, a vital person in the prosecution of the war in defense of democracy—clean, pure and fair.

New Books By Stephen Ellis

. WHEN SIMON BRUTE became the first Catholic bishop of Indiana in 1834, there were only two priests in the state. When’ he died five years later he had under him 22° priests and 27 churches and there were 275 students in the diocesan Schools and’ college. The story of Bishop Brute is ~ told in the book’ published today, “The Reed and the Rock,” by Theodore Maynard, poet-historian of American Catholicism. His book is not a formal Miogsapny; but rather a. revealing portrait of Simon rute The first bishop of Vincennes was born in Rennes, France, in 1779. . He went to Paris for medical training, won first prize in ‘a class which included the inventor of the stethoscope, then gave up medicine for the priesthood. When he was ‘ordained, he turned ‘down appoint- | ment as Napoleon's palace ‘chaplain “to come to America as a missionary teacher, first at St. Mary’s college in Baltimore and then, after 1812, ‘at’ Mt. St. Mary's college, Emmittsburg, Md., where Mr. Maynard teaches now.

The Reed Becomes The Rock

FATHER BRUTE spent 22 of his 60 years at Mt. St. Mary's. He collected the! best private library in the new nation and John Quincy Adams called

him’ the most learned man in America. But at’ | Mt. St." Mary's he was the reed, too weak and too’

eccentric to be trusted with college administration.

But ‘at Vincennes he became a rock, a strong | foundation for a church on the frontier.

He went to Europe and brought . back the largest umber

of’ priests ever to come in one boat to the young | | nation. - He built chapels all over the wilderness of |

Indiana and eastern Illinois. Ignoring the tuberculosis that ended his life and the hernia that always. caused ‘ him such pain, he rode horseback among settlements of Indians, Irish, Germans and French from : Vincennes: to Chicago and Madison: to. South ‘Bend. He gave his coats to men poorer than’ he (who

received $200 a year from his diocese), ‘slept welcome |

in the cabinets of Protestant preachers, -délighted

On one side "he is a unioneer representing

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disagree with wha the death your right

uw say, but will ay it.—Voltaire..

“WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HOLLYWOOD'S CENSOR?” By a Mother, Indianapolis.

these days to consider the moral irfluences of moving pictures. (or of any other institution, for that matter), I couldn't help wondering

what may pass through the minds of children and ’teen-aged boys and girls as they witness certain scenes of the current war picture, “This Above All” Hollywood is, supposed to have a movie: censor; however, hesmay be engaged in : other things for: the|. duration. ss = = . “WOMEN. THOUGHTLESS IN

EXPECTING MEN TO STAND!” :

By Elizabeth, Indianapolis I was certainly surprised to read in your papér that women actually expect men to rise and give them seats in a streetcar. Haven't they} ever stopped to realize that when a man gets home from work -and is dead tired from standing on his feet all day or jumping up and down from a desk, that he ‘doesn’t get to sit down, smoke and read a paper the way a woman does? No, he has to. order groceries; cook a supper, do: the dishes, check the laundry, straighten the house, check the budget and then write

letters to various relatives - in the]

armed forces. Don’t women know that in spite of equal rights (so called) they re-} ceive a larger salary for the. same work as men, Just because they are

women?

And, too, in spite of equal rights, haven't ‘men: proven to be weaker than women? No man is able to

-open-a fruit jar or move a heavy]

piece of furniture by himself, is he? And last, but definitely not least, most women -have probably never stopped, to think that some of these men who are sitting.are expecting, whether it is apparent or not, and by standing in a crowded and jolting ‘streetcar they would endanger the lives of the future generation, Consider. these things; - you thoughtless women and don’t ever.

.. Although. it may be outmoded]

(Times readers ar: ited: to express their i: these columns, relig «1 troversies excluded. .your letters short, s have a chance. Let be figred)

expect a man to stay i

again, ” ® ”

“CAN'T SOLVE PROB | | TEARING DOWN STA 1

22 By H. F. C, Indianapolis.

osevelt i: Honily and ; ‘down ‘pon of

In reply to. Presider and our local evident ~ Bs orables who would hysii'i blindly: insist upon te statues, memorials, relic «« the past and late Worl¥ piles of “ole Civil war canna and it seems anything 2116 thing in fact that is made + which could be, oonverisg o 50 war scrap. 7. Now bays, if this is wh al “ou have in mind, let's make a lia thorough job of it. Fe: city let us-.start at “the reat Civil War monumnei Monument. Circle, del cated to those who risked and 1 te their lives that this nation aij | live as a United States of ‘Ame a ‘Your ‘paper just illustrated tH en’ on the. pedestals at varii -* points around the Circle, (Univ( ho Park also represented), the miz# chain : dangling “rom Ur hn

waste when it now: cou; Ye put to good services in this prey, world conflict. / ly stop there; boys! Ye jerk atop this stone pile—it;, metal, too, you know! down, we can take out machinery, the stairs, the outside way up h other bits of metal to’; had. The

Side. Glances—By Galbraith

guys who planned an; Huilt this thing, ‘he suys to who; +5 i

in the childish folksongs of: French children at Vin- |] 3 A cennes and died, with ane of ‘the. seven lasi words-\} si

: That is the “portrait of Simon. Brute?

AND. Lorgmana-Gireen and Co.

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‘THE REED Pages. 33 ka

So They Say— os

Japan's quarrel is not with Indis. Se are Be

with Great Britain ~Mohandas 8 EK, Gandhi. -

THE SOGK by Theodore Maynard. 3 yo

{non, piles of those ole cannon ball

every pound of reverent memorial

3% raging; down the statue Miss Ir - na. itself |

| “In its issue of March 1, 1938, the {Nazi propaganda sheet,

: with all they have.”

| book,

{ mended highly for the patriotism

{| tributed under the name of “Patri-| | otic Research: Bureau,” she wrote,! a. is The} : {| editorials Mr. william P. Hearst| is writing in _his papers these days

fo sausl’ thet”

cated, won't know, and the many thousands of them that struggled and ¢ied and caused inspiration for its erection won't: know, and could |. never: have known the difference anyway, so what the heck. Why, I have become so enthusiastic that I recall having seen piles of ole cannon balls and guns up in Crown Hill cemetery erected to our Civil War dedd. Thinking faster and hotter than ever, I can‘:recall can-

statues 'n’ everything by the hundreds that®could be rustled out of ‘National parks: such as Gettysburg,

forget Arlington’ ‘cemetery, Washington, D. ‘C., and if ‘I remember} right, ‘George Washington's tomb has iron grilled gates we could salvage! bi

moters and headline seekers, speaking only for local conditions, for

(no matter how insignificant it might seem to you) metal you would sacrilege I will be more than glad to ‘show ‘hundreds of pounds of metal that now are oxidizing away in many parts of this eity, and I bet: that this holds true: over our entire United States. We won’t question the fact that this need is not critical, but cer< tainly it is not to be solved by such absolute fanatic attempts. ok 8 'n » “ELIZABETH DILLING’S AIDS INTERESTING TO NOTE” By A. J. Gis Indianapolis. : On July 23, 1942, Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling of Chicago was arrested: on the charge that she was engaged] in a conspiracy to circulate publications. designed to. promote revolt and disloyalty among American soldiers; sailors and: marines. It is of ‘interest. to note wko. her ‘admirers, collaborators, and asso- | ciates have been.

“World | Service,” which was published twice} a month in" eight languages by Dr, Goebbels in Erfurt, - Germany, "| praised Mrs. 'Dilling and listed - her] among those “fighting the battle]

On the jacket of ‘an hysterical, “Red Network” which she wrote in 1934, appeared ‘the following blurb:.“You are to be com-

and devotion to the welfare of your country that enabled you to pub-|-lish this “book.” This tribute was paid her by Colonel Robert R. Me-|

‘Tribune, In ‘the issue of August; 1941, of the bulletin which Mrs. Dilling dis

“Redd Hearst's Editorials!

are ‘humdingers! There is nothing

Nut, se!

ra Copan, | ) by Ernie Pyle on the’ . ‘timely and so very| down to 1. Kaw Mon.

' adopt’ the new Garand rifle.

| er range small arms.

Chickamatigh;, ‘Lookout: Mountain, | ~ ‘| Missionary Ridge, etc. We must not

Now you would-be scrap pile pro-{

Cormick, publisher of the Chicago). bn

machines, machines of all ‘kinds can ‘standardize for

= year or so. They can spend two years developing a

new model; and then bring if out as the ¢

2 they will standardize on’ ‘for ahy given. season; i

: More, More, More!

WHEN ‘THESE SAME manufacturers are ‘converted to war production, they may get a contract for say 10,000 tanks of a standard design. But before the first thousand: are. manufactured, there. ‘may be a better

1 tank designed and before the first: thousand of the

second model are completed, a still better design will be forthcoming. In a long, modern war, there just isn’t any such thing as a standard model. The speed with which new models of weapons are adopted is of course greatly accelerated in Ware time. we IE pC It took the U. S. aimiy 20 years, for instance; to But when Nazi spear heads began to thrust through French lines and when ‘Nazi parachute troops penetrated ‘deep into Poland, it became obvious that troops serving in the rear, who ‘had relied on pistols in the past, would have to be armed with better weapons, harder hitting, long. “In October, 1940, the army ordnance department sent manufacturers a circular listing requirements for a short-barreled, lightweight, semi-automatic carbine, By September, 1941, nine _models had been submitted,

tested and by the process of elimination reduced to

a single model which was developed within six weeks, Boned and put into production for infantry, artillery, armored 40708, and ‘even the navy and marines.

And You Can't Shut Down!

MAKING OVER THE M-3 medium tank inte. the ‘M-4: was: perhaps. the most spectacular of all the ordnance conversion and modernization jobs. - Over $53 million were spent in plant facilities alone to make this change, but it was worth it, ‘The new M-4 tank, with its cast and forged turret replacing ‘the old rivet job, is unquestionably the fastest, the best armored and the heaviest hitting medium tank on any front today. : One important point about this. ringing out of 8 new model of any weapon. There can't bé any shute down for retooling, as there was in- normal suienmbily production.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs, Walter Ferguson

AAR FN . vg op 3 #4

{| . DID YOU KNOW that worry about the behavior of wives and sweethearts was the" ‘chief cause of illness and: desertion among ‘army. men?” The British war of =). fice says so. In other words, men :-who"¢annot be sure’ “of the loyalty of their women are failures: at soldiering. Our own fighting men: are; ‘up against: ‘the same’ problem. ' -And so, at long last, we must look squarely at our vices; for if we lose the war those vices will be a contributing cause to our defeat. ‘For the moment then, let's indulge in some selfs castigation. - During the last 25 years there has been a gradual breakdown of morale in our country; statise tics-on crime and graft and racketeering, on juvenile delinquency, on venereal disease, on alcoholism, make unpleasant reading. But they are facts. Our way of life also includes a shamefully high divorce rate, multiple marriage, and a tendency on the part of noted people to trade their position and

| prestige for cold cash, which is just Sbait, the: shorts

_est-route to ethical degeneracy in any: f

. Here's the Worst Evidence

WHOLESALE GAMBLING, another evidence of disintegration of national moral fiber, is also on. the increase. But one can hardly deny that the worst evidence of our spiritual decay lies in the general attitude toward the marriage relationship, which we regard - almost as flippantly as did the ancients before the fall of Rome. A reputable man can leave wife: and children to take up some flibbertigibbet, and suffer ‘no “loss "of ‘social ‘or business prestige. And it is the custom to ‘praise rather than condemn the women ‘Who scatte: £0 “her. Kisses. The smart aleck, the shyster and the fashionable ‘prostitute, all of whom scoff at ancient virtues, are drawbacks to ‘the war effort: And now the ordinary _unipublicized woman, if shé’s an unfaithful wife, must be classified’ as 2 ‘subversive influence.

Ettore Sothe 7 The ows Teproned by coldmnints in wis SR newspaper are Lheir: own. They ‘are soi necessarily am of The Indianapolis’ Times, :

QT Believe that son Bae bet oaptied by ths Japanese, ‘To’ whom shall I write to obtain informa ton, apo him?, _A—Write to the Bureau of tofommiation, (Ameris can Section) Office of the Provost Marshal |

| War Department, Washington, D. C.

. @—What was the weight of the light tanks u ‘in World War I? i -A—Seven and one-half tors.

| '@=What is the origin of the

..A—The word. was. arbitrazily ‘of Burroughs, Wellcome & Comps

| land, and was applied do a" Prepatat 0 ninted aid