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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1942

PACIFIC CHARTER, TOO yf 22r0EL QUEZON wants it understood that the Atlantic Charter also applies to the Pacific—that “it is a chatter for Burope and for America, for Africa and for Australia, and—Ilet us be clear on this—it is a “charter for freedora for the peoples of Asia and all the Far East.” ” . The Philippine president is correct. . - The Atlantic Charter was so named because it was on the waters of that ocean -that President Roosevelt and Premier Churchill met to promulgate their idealistic declaration. But the 0 pledges. were unlimited geographically.

ms LATE IN INDIA IME grows short in India. ‘The rainy season, wiiich has "held up the Jap invaders at the frontier, is almost over. The Nazis are advancing through the Caucasus toward the Middle East. China hangs by the thread of her Indian ‘supply line. - And to meet this many-sided menace, India is offering nothing better than a form of civil war, hastening her de«struction from without and from within. It is too late to discuss blame. There is plenty of that i on all sides. i The test now is whether the disputants will steals 3 a "truce, a working compromise to save India, to save China, to save the united nhtions. Gandhi and Nehru must be "judged: by that test alone. So must Ali Jinnah of the * Moslem league, and the other minorty leaders. ” » ” 8 » 8 : BECAUSE the British government is the authority in “7 command, because it arrested the nationalist leaders to “curb violence and chaos, its responsibility for finding a com- . promise is greater. “There is reason to believe that China and the United States, loyal allies of Britain and yet friends of Indian free“dom, stand ready to help in any possible way to advance a Settlement, : : There are also. reports. that Ali Jinnah is seeking an : interview with the imprisoned Gandhi in an effort to bring “ the two largest Indian groups together for the duration, So the situation is not hopeless. Statesmanship and a willingness to compromise can break this dangerous deadlock. But the opportunity it fading with every tick of the clock. Beware more Malayas and Burmas,

mM FARLEY COMES BACK:

Rex .of the outcome of the New York state Democratic convention, many Americans will recall what ‘happened two years ago. in. Chicago— When the ‘delegatés who gave the third-term nomina“tion to President Roosévelt gave their tributes and applause, their cheers and tears to Jim Farley, the good loser. Harry Hopkins and the others who had maneuvered ~ Jim out of his national political leadership probably held no ‘special grudge as the convention closed with the bands playing “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.” - smile covered a bitter: disappointment. They looked upon the demonstration for Jim as just a bit of sentiment, anyway. Jim was bowing out of national politics—they thought. i * 8 ® “JIM stepped down from the chairmanship of the Demo- *" cratic national committee. He resigned the job of postmaster general. A loyal party man, he supported the president’s race for a‘third term. The election over, he dropped quietly into private life, and back into the politics of his home state—still. smiling. That famous smile was still there this year when the time came to count noses for the party’s nominee for New York’s governor. Jim had been doing his spadework. He had canvassed the available candidates. He and other Democratic leaders had decided that their best bet was one John J. Bennett, the state's attorney general, a rather colorless figure, to be sure, but a man who had a good record ‘as a steadfast Democrat and public official. And Jim had ‘rounded up a majority of delegates pledged to nominate Mr. ‘Bennett. Meanwhile the president, Harry Hopkins and “others around him had been busy with the war. » » 2 ; # » ATs too late hour, the president—for some reason we cannot understand—decided that Mr. Bennett would not “do, indeed that it wouldn't do at all for a Farley-picked candidate to wear the party’s colors in New York this fall, that instead the nominee must be Roosevelt-picked. ‘So the president gave the beck and nod to Senator ames M. Mead, a good=enough man, a man of about the same caliber and about the same record as Mr. Benneft. All the administration’s power, with the president’s great onal influence and wartime prestige, and the machinery Tammany: Hall, Were wheeled into action. But that was little. : Just why the president—weighted down with responsi-

yin the most serious war in the nation’s history—should-

e chosen to take chips in this game, we do not know. y he should have underestimated the spadework of a n who had twice handled his own race for the presidency, cannot comprehend, : ;

OUGHTA GET IT FTER Max Stephan was sentenced to hang for assisting

an escaped Nazi- aviator fleeing through the United 3, the owner of the shoe-shine establishment next to

: an’s Detroit tavern was asked if he didn’t consider the

ce pretty stiff. ” was his answer. “He ouihts get it.”

That, in tabloid, was the feeling of most Americans

hE tid and the sx would-be saboteu

‘cago painters. It was a-unioneer of the

They- knew that the |

3 a little ashamed of the way a lot of our people: ARSE J 3 4h Home bY, B00 Samy U. 5 UES,

Fair Enough

By Wesibrook Pegler.

the stupidity of ‘Brother Will |

Green and the executive council

of the A. F. of L. in selecting |

as the site of important delibera-

tions the city of Chicago, which |-

~ is'the hell's half acre of the union racket, the center ‘of the foulest “and most. t corruption in

their entire omain. ‘By way of |

proving up, and lest it be said again that I was deal-

ing in generalities and in half-truths, I. gave some | Gi

biographical data from the A. P.. of L.

rogues’ gallery, but clean forgot to mention the Chi. Gr

painters, incidentally, who went about the horse and dog tracks and the gambling joints of Miami a few ‘winters ago in the relaxing season of those whom Edgar Hoover calls the criminal ‘scum, cashing checks drawn on the sick benefit fund of his treasury, but

that I mention merely as reminiscence and to report |

that, of course, nothing ever was done to him.

Read What Someane Else Writes

THIS LITTEL SURVEY of the affairs of the | painters, which I am about to present, is not my

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COMMANDS

own writing, but a lift from the editorial columns of | ‘sate

the Chicago Daily News, which is Frank Knox's paper and, thus, I assure you, free of the bias and labor hatred of which I am so often accused, to my anguish, by Brother Green. ~ Under the title “Painted in Blood,” the Daily News opionates and reports as follows: “Throughout the country, groups are organizing, circulating petitions and writing letters to the editors of various newspapers, including the Daily News. The tenor of their efforts is summarized in the ultimatum: ‘You must throw Westbrook Pegler movement out of your newspaper.’ “Pegler, it is alleged, is ‘unfair to organized labor’ because he has exposed crooks, ex-convicts and racketeers who are at the. head of some union. groups. 1»

"This Is Where | Came In" / /

“EARLY YESTERDAY morning, * goes on the Daily News, meaning on July 17 and before Brother Green and his council met in Chicago, “Mrs. Charles. Youngblood, wife of a business agent of a Chicago local of the Painters’ union, was shot and killed in her home. Her husband, an ex-convict, was seriously wounded. Arthur Wallace, secretary-treasurer of the union, was found critically wounded on the lawn of a hospital. “Many Chicagoans, readilie’ this story in their newspapers, must have been struck with the thought: ‘This is where I came in’. They were right. “On the night of March 16, 1939, this same Charles Youngblood and the same Mrs. Youngblood were shot in front of their home. But both recovered. “And on the night of Jan. 3, 1936, Mis. Elsie Henneman was shot and killed by assassins who shot at her husband, George, one of the bosses: in this same Painters’ union.” :

"They've Done Better Than Pegler"

“FARTHER BACK, on Feb. 24. 1931, reads the News’ story, “Frank Carr, the financial secretary of the Painters’ union, was shot. to death. Just eight years ago, on July 19, 1934, Michael (Bibs) Quinlan was shot to death in a row over affairs of the Painters’ union. “A month later, Roy Thompson, business agent for the union, was shot to. death. On July 25, 1937, Robert A. Shields, financial secretary of the union, was shot to death. On Aug. 18,1938, James Duncan, known as ‘czar’ of the union, was shot to death. On Aug. 17, 1940, William Schaaf, former business agent for the union, was shot to death. “So union labor organizations ‘ throughout the country organize to browbeat Pegler and newspapers who print his column because, as the agitators allege, Pegler paints an unfair picture of some labor unions. " “Some people, it would appear, prefer to have their painting done by union ‘painters. True, the union painters have done a far better job than Pegler has done. “He did his delineation with ink. Theirs is done with blood.”

The Lower Bracket By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, Aug. 21.—Congress is trying to draft a new tax schedule which will achieve two principal purposes. One goal is to raise every possible dollar of revenue to finance the war. The other is to place an effective brake upon inflation, These two objectives would not necessarily involve the same approach to taxation. In this case it happens they do. - Both call for a radical departure from the old “soak the rich, forget the wage-earner” philosophy. The rich, and even the moderately well-to-do, have long since been rolled over the tax barrel until it is evident that they cannot produce much of the new income that is needed. Even the most rabid of spread-the-wealth advo. cates now concede that the treasury must get down to business .and collect nickels and dimes from the lower brackets, even for revenue purposes. More than four out of five Americans fall into the class whose income, last year, was not more than $3000. Ninety-four out of a hundred had incomes that did not exceed $5000. Only one out of fifty received as much as $10,000.

Tap the Little Fellow

OBVIOUSLY THIS WAR cannot be POP on the taxes from the one-sixteenth of our people who fall into the $5000-and-up bracket. A spokesman for the New .York Teachers’ union (which was captured and long dominated by Communist party members and notorious fellow travelers). claims that low-paid workers will get only $1.400,000,000 out of an 11-billion-dollar income rise this year. He says that persons in the $10 1900-ang-up class will get seven billions of the increase. : That is not the way we heard it—from the office: of price administration's research division. The $3000-a-year-and-under bracket last year received 49 per cent of the national income. On that basis the $3000-and-under workers will get Bilogt dollars more this year than last, while billion more—before taxes.

various union - labor {

dnd his foul libels on the labor |

$10,000-and-up class will get less than four : a

The Hoosier Forum “1 wholly disagree ‘with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“WE PAROLEES EAGER TO FACE NATION'S ENEMIES” By Ducky, Ihdianapolis I am writing in regards to men

that Have been released from institutions such -as the reformatory and state prison. They have been given - freedom - from these places,

our armed forces. . It is claimed that persons who have served sen- | tences would lower the morale of soldiers of our wonderful country. I. am one of these paroles. .I and others like me would gladly face our country’s. enemies. anywhere -on the broad face of this. way-torn. earth, I admit when a "soldi or sailor passes me on.the street I drop my head and say a silent prayer, ask~ ing that in the near future .I .be given a chance to take battle station with our fighting Yanks.

“LIMIT REACHED IN THIS

WHO-SHALL-SIT BUSINESS” By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis It seems: that with the very

serious job on our hands of winning

a war for which we are unprepared, many things ‘could occupy the Forum instead of the argument as to who is going to get a seat. : The limit 's reached, however, in the scurrilous writing of 28th st. E. F. Maddox in the Forum of Aug. 18 in his verbal attack on Amer-

‘ican women. Mr. Maddox until re-

cently a writer of “Give me liberty or give me death” evidently cannot accommodate himself to the life boat era in which we now live, and in which everyone has his right in the boat, where it is everyone's duty to share at the oar and the bail. Anyone who loves this grandest spot on earth can also bitterly resent the late article of Mr. Maddox in which he assailed the last few comfortable months at home for those service men who will go to -CGod knows where—to fight as men have never fought before—to preserve liberty. " And then today his absolutely childish appraisal of womén, makes the Forum. It is not the women nor the men that change, they are

but are not given a chance to serve] .

iy (Times. readers are invited

to express their ‘views in ‘these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can “have a chance.

be signed.) -

Letters must

perfectly natural.. = What - does change is the individual viewpoint, from youth who trusts everyone to senility that trusts no one. Mr. Maddox can” pick. his own Blage.

“The --most - interesting thing

America: is: its -people, and 90 — cent of then are real folks. . Now about the streetcar seats: Women who- never ‘have worked before, tens of thousands, and there will be millions, are going to work in: our war plants.” They ‘are work-

|ing on jobs that are too ‘tedious

and too confining for the ‘patience of men. At the end of the day a lot of these women are going to be honestly - tired, they certainly deserve a seat on: the streecar or bus. If it will not kill you to stand up for 15 minutes they will appreciate a seat that is offered them: If you are too tired to give up your seat, the ladies will. understand and net expect it. , If Mr. Maddox does not believe that it is “more blessed to give,” he should try it ‘a few times and then if he does not feel better he should keep his seat. No lady that read his outburst would care anyway. .» 8B By Mrs. E. B. Fox, Indianapolis I think the discussion of -the streetcar question has gone too far when it comes to. degrade womanhood. Mr. E. F. Maddox, where Sid you come from? .. . . 8 = » By Ted R., Muncie, Ind. -tead with interest the Jetiers on who sits in trolley question. I do not wish to enter the argument but: would like to relate this expe rience in Indianapolis. A man got up and offered a woman his seat in a streetcar. The lady fainted. When she finally was

Side Glances—by Galbraith _

“prought to” she‘ looked ‘at the

If Washington wants to mop up the excess m- [|

| come that would inevitably make for price inflation, |

that eight billion dollars going to the lower - ‘bracket i

| cannot be ignored.

So They Soy—

When I see how the British are working, “how they're living, ‘how their food is rationed, it makes

me] | are

gentleman and said “Thank you.” Then he fainted. 8. 2 ” By-Guy D. Sallee, 5801 Woodside drive Maddox, the modern Diogenese,

‘sees through: ‘colored . glasses. the "120th. century woman “flirting and flaunting their naked hodies. in|

public places”—he says they are suggestive. How does he know they are suggestive? -. Get the liniment, Maddox, but let the young people have their ‘fun— they are-as clean-minded Raley 8 5 when grandma was. a girl, . daddy, rode a high-wheeled bike... TRNIeNte | oF, Les Harmen, ms E. Third st; v - Judging from her vocabulary and as I- suspected; it remains’ for a sensitive southern. girl to tell. we men of the busy northern cities just how rude and unmannered she thinks us to be. But if we seem ‘so,

there is a reason, and it’s not all our fault either. ‘Not by a heck of a lot:|

‘If men allegedly have lost their chivalry, women first lost their selfrespect. and noticeable on every side. Almost any day on the streets you may see the young things (and others not so young) disporting themselves ‘in their short shorts or in some. sort of ill-fitting masculirie makeup; and half of them, or perhaps more, puffing ludicrously. at cigarets like an.old freight hog under full steam. After a strenuous day I sometimes drop in for a quiet drink, and while there, it is not the exception to see aimless pleasure-hunting females come in, and .in as graceless a posture as is possible, hang themselves over the rim of a stool as they light cigarets and have their glasses filled and then try to make themselves as . noticeable as possible. Yes, and these are some of the creatures that will try to freeze you with scorn if you don’t jump like a Mexican ‘bean and give them your seat. However, you may damn the men all you want, but.you will still find them gallant and ready to rise to the needs of the occasion. if and when it is really necessary. Only a few days ago a lady was making a rather trying journey when she

- [found herself in a strange city with

a difficult train connection to make:

| There were three ‘small and very

sleepy-headed children to handle, together with ali her traveling luggage. She became confused. Just then one of those fellows

“Woikin' Gal” ealls “ordinary man,”

noticing her predicament, stepped]

lup and volunteered assistance. She| told him where she wanted to go,|.

whereupon he called .upon some. of the fellows, nearby to give a helping hand. Some gathered up the

- | weary children, others carried the

luggage, and in no time they had

| the motherly and beamingly grate-

ful little woman comiortably seated in her train when the conductor gave the “all aboard” signal. This didn’t happen down South either.

“The breakdown is obvious]

being the first city in which the war manpower con

i mission has set up & regional office, with

pirating, labor hoarding, “increased employment. of ‘training

, women, control of labor migration, increased of unskilled and -semi-skilled :labor,” housing, trans‘portation and all such headaches. .

If Baltimore can solve these problems by volun. i:

tary co-operation within the community, the volune tary co-operation method might stick for the auraian,

What May Happen to Us

IP IT's NO GO in Baltimore, then ook out. Tor increased agitation for a law that will draft labor the same way it has drafted men for the army-—a law that will give'’'the government power to:say in effect, “You, buddy, have the rare talent for pouring sand in a boot, while you, sister, are God's gift ‘to the buttonhole industry. You will therefore imme-. diately repair to:St. Louis, Mo., to pour.sand and cut out the goods that a buttonhole ‘goes around, for the “duration. And you will like it.” There may have to he a-law like that, anyway, ab ‘matter how the Baltimore experiment works out, After election, when | congress’ gets back on the job, the lawmakers may cut loose on"the theory that no= body else is better than a soldier and therefore everybody that doesn’t ‘Nght will have to do war work: *

Stage i in Transition * i

IT IS DOUBTFUL if a law that drastic could be forced through congress; but in ‘the same breath it must be admitted that winning a long war with only voluntary regulation:of labor supply is like going to bat with two strikes already called. The war manpower commission's stepping into the Baltimore and other critical war production areas calls for big league pinch hitting. But’ whether it

|| fans out or knocks a-home: run, this effort to do the

‘manpower regulation job on a voluntary basis is a necessary play in ‘the ‘transition from a free to - ‘more rigidly controlled war labor market. ~~ It must be proved that the democratic voluntary system won't work before something else is tried.

‘Getting a Committee a Tough Job

GETTING A .GOOD strong labor-management advisory committee was important. It was. tough, ‘WMC's, original job freezing order had been a bust. Every. employer had ‘been grabbing: labor for hime self, looking out for his own interests. Management wasn’t. any too anxious to sit ona committee With the unions. But finally .a commitiee: of nine was agreed on, four from A. F. of L., CI. O, Machinists and Marie time. labor unions, a gf ‘manager of Bethlehem Steel; a vice president o 3 Koppers company division, " and the president was picked because it was not-an essential to. uetion: intsity.

TA Woah’ s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A ONE NEEDS ONLY to walk :.gbout - in ‘any populated area’ to :~-pelieve :that -2,500,000 American : babies will be born in 1942. This is fine news: But-let’s not allow . -oyr: enthusiasm for war babies to «run away with us, as some Worthy,» - people urge. There's a fifth frestiom in :< which Americans believe, although -- it. was not specified in the Ate -lantic Charter. It is the-freedom of parents. to plan: and space ‘their. families -to- suit themselves. -Also. it:should be the right of every freee born child -to have a decent home. . Some of the pre-war statisties on. our own failure to decrease: maternal deaths, still-births and infant mortality are horrible, nothing less.

"Facts Speak for Themselves”

WE . KNOW THERE are religious groups which oppose ‘planned parenthood—and, as has been often said, their members are not ‘coerced in any ‘manner and their right to oppose wilh always be respected. But the facts speak for themselves. Today, while the nation fights a desperate war, the néed for more and healthier babies is obvious. There is also a greater need for ‘women to work outside their homes, which means that community help must be given to some mothers in the rearing of ‘their ‘children. I am very much firterested ini ‘any movement tg induce poor. parents to space births with regard to family. health and income, and to induce well-to-do people to increase the number of their children. It seems to me to be a program offering an inspiring job. for every American woman who is interested in her Sounizy,, its children and “thelr future; 3 > Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this’ newspaper are their own. They are mot: menbsstlly | these

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