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FROM PRISON T0 WAR 'N collaboration ‘with the state selective service ead, Governor Henry F. Schricker has worked out arrangements by which state prisoners can be released to join the armed forces. . Habitual criminals: and perverts will not be considered. Nor is it contemplated that military service shall be forced upon anybody. But those who would be good parole risks, and who would like to fight for their country, and are sound physically, will be given suspended paroles. ‘The released inmate must request classification and waive all appeal rights. He will be called when his number comes up. If he fails to register and ask for immediate in‘duction, he can be recommitted to prison. If he fails to pass the physical examination, but has shown Food faith, the parole board can decide what to do. The idea may “appeal to. other states, now that Iidians has done the:spade work on it.

“ .. WAY TO RESUME IS TO RESUME” IT IS good mews that the senate finance committee will take another look at the Ruml plan to shift the income tax to pay-as-you-go. The more the senators Jook at it, we think, the better they will like it. They will find that it~can be fitted in perfectly with the treasury’s withholding-tax proposal. Indeed, the withholding tax may prove to be impossible unless it is. coupled. with pay-as-you-go. For unless income-tax collection is made current with income earning, the treasury will be trying.to collect a withholding tax as partial payment on the current year’s income at the same time it is trying to collect the whole tax on the previous year’s income—both to be subtracted from one year’s income. And the treasury will. find that many a turnip can’t give that much -blood. ~The Ruml pay-as-you-go plan is simple and “fair and automatic. This plan, or something like it, will have to be adopted eventually. The sooner the better. The way to switch to pay-as-you-go is to switch to pay-as-you-go. Why | i, not have done with it and get on with financing the war?

‘A MATTER OF CONTRACT. RGANIZED labor’s goal, in collective bargaining, is the contract. - Labor's top. leaders—Philip Murray, presi- _ dent of the C. I. O., among them—have been jealous of the reputation .of their unions for living up: to contracts. Last February ‘Mr. Murray’ s own union, the United Steel Workers, had no contract’ with any of the four little steel companies. It had never been able to win one. Early ~ that month the union filed demands on these companies for certain concessions. In July the war labor board ordered ~ the companies to’ grant union security, checkoff of dues, a . guaranteed ‘minimum daily ‘wage, and a general wage increase of 44 cents:a day: retroactive to February. Mr. Murray's union did have a contract with the U. S. Steel Corp. —big’ steel. It specified wages and conditions which both parties solemnly agreed should remain unchanged until Aug. 9, this year, unless either party gave 20 days’ formal notice to the other of desire to bargain for new terms ‘before that date: The union did not give the company such notice in February or at any other time. # = . . 5 FJ » 8 BUT: having: waited until time to negotiate a new contract, ; the union ‘demanded from big steel exactly the same concessions that the war labor board had ordered in little steel, including the retroactive payment of increased wages to February. Mr. Murray appeared before the WLB in support of this demand. And the board, with four employer ‘members vigorously dissenting, has now ordered big steel fo grant it. ‘The amount of retroactive pay involved is said to be about $12,000,000. : TU. 8S. Steel can afford to give that much money to its employees, instead of paying most of it to the government in taxes. :The real-victims of the: WLB order, it seems to us, are the treasury and the principle of collective bargaining. Here a government agency has held, at the request - of a union, that the yniows: signed contract did not mean - what it ‘said. Employers have been denounced for charging. that col- : lective bargaining was the bunk because unions would seek some way of getting around their agreements if it became _ expedient or profitable to escape. contractual obligations. ~ We fear such employers have received strong support from the attitude of the C. I. O.’s president and the decision of : the war labor board in the big steel case.

LIN COLN, GRANT, WHISKY ‘—AND KAISER : ENRY ‘KAISER, the can-do man, now finds himself up against ‘an. injunction brought by OPA charging that Kaiser has been ‘buying steel in the black market. "Since whatever steel Kaiser. has ‘been using has been into victory. ships and other ¥ war implements—and

ant was ee too much whisky, and Lincoln said: 2 wish some ‘of you would tell me the brand of whisky I would like to send a barrel of it to

Bit 1 am'one; 1 can’t do everything,

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW ‘YORK, Aug. 28—We| °

have only two disagreements among ourselves, neither of which

need seriously impair the unityof

the country in the face of the enemy. Many of us think the so-called Atlantic Charter and the Four Freedoms everywhere - are just

visionary stuff like the 14 points |

and, like the 34 points, never to be realized, and regard the war

as a national fight for life and to the death of |

Germany. . The other point of disput is the matter of strategy. Many amateurs think the U. S. is teking in too much territory ‘and should concentrate strength at some point and start slugging. However, nobody has pointed out where this could be done, so the criticism on this score is not much more than mere noise, and most of the people seem to feel that we are just stuck with a hard military situation and must trust ‘the military leaders to play for a break and to do their best.

So Let's Quit Worrying

IT 1S CHARGED that President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill are not military men, but that they, nevertheless, boss the admirals and generals, and this may be so, but it happens that this pair are two of the four toughest men in the world at this writing, the others being Joe Stalin, also on our side, and Adolf Hitler. Mr. Roosevelt is just so much bigger and tougher than any other man in the United States at this writing that he has no rival, and in the rest of the world

his is the only name that represents the United |-

States. None of our allied generals-or admirals is very big yet. Some apprehension is being expressed lest Mr. Roosevelt decide to get himself elected for a fourth term, which would be a serious blow to our tradition, although not necessarily very harmful to our form of government. But if this war is still going on in 1944, as it probably. will be, a change of administration would be such a risky thing that it might be better to keep him, with all his faults, but with his great strength, too, and trust to the future and the wisdom of the people for the restoration of the old American liberties later on. At the present moment there is no man in sight who would be an acceptable risk as successor to.the presidency in the thick of war.

We're Far From the Ideal State

FOR THE PURPOSES of propaganda among ples of other complexion who are on our side or have yet to choose one side or the other, the four freedoms are good stuff because they suggest abolition of all color lines everywhere in the world as one of our aims, whereas all races know that the Germans and the Japanese regard themselves as. chosen peoples with & mmission to subdue and exploit all others But the mass of American people are far from that ideal state of Christianity bespoken by the freedoms and the charter and nobody need believe seriously that after the war is. won this ideal will be realized a free mingling and commingling of all races and BR And, meantime, this will be, in the hearts of Americans, regardless of all such lofty political expressions, a war to exterminate an enemy Who brought war to us with the proposition that either the United States or Germany ‘must perish from the

‘earth.

On the home front, there is nothing wrong that American processes can’t cure. : ?

| Now That You Mention Lincoln

THE NASTINESS WHICH expresses the spirit of the New Deal can be cured at the polls by the people, but might have to be endured through that problematical fourth term as a lesser evil than the risk of military defeat during a switchover. Congress can easily attnd to the rascality and

: arrogant ignorance of the unioneers and, one day,

will. It is often said in President Roosevelt’s behalf that poor Mr. Lincoln took a terrific lambasting from his political opponents, the idea being that it was very wrong of them to treat him so. The facts are, however, that there was plenty to criticize, that many of the critics were just as patriotic as he was, that he had his Harry Hopkinses and Harold Ickeses and, on the propaganda side, his abusive epitheticians, and that much of the criticism was sound and, in the long run, helpful.

Camoutlage

By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Reading from aloft the terrain, its nature, the growth on it and its contours, was once the greatest task of the ‘airman. Rapid developments in .the art of camouflage have created a complexity, far beyond the capacity of human eyes, Which must be solved. by the camera lens. And some of the new stunts are too slick even for the camera.

Any mere network covered with-

scattered leaves and foliage is, of course, instantly detected by the camera plate. But when I think of camouflage I recall the slickest stunt I ever saw. During my 1938 inspection of European airforces 1 was driving along a road one day in a motor car. Looking across some level farmland, I was told that it wasn’t farmland, at all, but a great military airport. * Another look, and I spied the end of a hangar. The airport had been laid out and planted with grass of different colors. The varying colors, laid in the

pattern of the adjacent farmland, was baflling to ;

the eyes.

How Cleverly It's Done

IN ANOTHER INSTANCE, I saw a hangar at the side of which was a fake highway. The fake continued up the sides and across the roof of the hangar in cleverly applied paint. Across ‘a military airdrome two little concrete troughs had been laid. There were about the width

of the usual European railroad rails, and spaced at railroad

the customary distance of the European

gauge. Finely ground stone, of the same color and characteristics as that used for rail beds, was used |

also. These troughs were flush with the surface of the field, contained water, and continued out’ of the airport to join with a genuine railroad running past the field, The purpose of this setup was to reflect moon-

| tight and so fool night bombers in to missing this | | | open; and otherwise

suspicious, level land. Naturally, a bomber wouldn't expect to see gleaming railroad

| srasits sunning across an ampont,

|So They Say—

the United States.

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

“I'VE OFFERED RENTAL OF MY HOME TO MRS. WHITE” By Mrs. Ethel Rice, Indianapolis

Mrs. Floyd White offering her the rental of my home which is about 38 miles from the city. I have the most implicit faith in that family

and glad to do that patriotic duty for the man with a family. Who knows, maybe some day those fine boys may be the salvation of this good old U. S. A.

: ” » 2 “REAL MERIT IN U. A. W.’S NATIONAL BOARD IDEA” By J W.iT, Indianapolis. Le LTE There is real merit in the United Automobile Workers’ (C. I. .0.) proposal for a national board to handle all Jurisdictional disputes among unions. Such an organization, given the necessary authority and support, could. do much to eliminate the strike nobody loves. To achieve results the national board would need to have two firm assurances: First, that. no strike would be called in a jurisdictional dispute until the board had "been given reasonable opportunity to act. Second, that the board’s decisions would be enforced with the full, militant might of the unions and, if necessary, of the government of

8 s ”® “LAWS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THE REAL FARMERS” By Horace Chadwick, Morristown I have just read the first -editorial in your issue of Monday, Aug. 24, entitled “What Congress Needs.” * It has forced upon me some idle speculation. I have noticed, in riding over the community hereabout, that those farms which are occupied and operated by their owners have . unpainted buildings and a generally run-down condition, while those farms which are owned by persons ‘who live in cities and are operated by tenants who live upon the farms have buildings that

I-have just written a letter to|

fat lady get off the toes of the

. {Times readers, are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. © Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must .

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are well painted and fences are spick and span. In a conversation with a man who lives in Morristown and whose business takes him over ail parts of Rush county, he told me: that

the: fact stated above is ‘more

noticeable in Rush county than in this county. From other sources of information I am led to believe that the same condition exists over

‘most of our country.

And now for my “idle speculation.” What is the cause of this condition? -- ‘Every condition that confronts us has its cause or causes. It is up to us to ascertain the causes of those conditions that benefit us and to protect and foster those

causes, and to ascertain the causes

of those conditions that are detrimental to us, and do what we can to combat them and remove them it possible. - 1 have thpught much upon the condition here stated and my conclusion is that the man who owns, occupies and operates his farm makes a bare living and does not have a surplus for painting and fencing, while ‘the city man who has other sources of income than | his farm is able to keep his farm in tip top shape. What is the cause of this condition? In my opinion it is due to certain laws that we have had for many years and which discriminates against the real farmers and in favor of the people of the cities.

8 » - “LET THE FAT LADY GET OFF THE BOYS’ TOES!” By A Reader, Indianapolis : ‘Could we adults step back and let small children come to the front of the crowd, please? will the big

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

small boy who stands pack of her? There, that’s better, thank you! ™ Now, let's consider whether or not men without children should be taken into the armed forces first. Perhaps some of us were small children during the last war . . . how did it affect us? ’

My. father went into the last war as an officer. We were mighty proud of him, every last one of us. We had been trained, as he had, that real people didn’t stand back and let other people do their fight-

ins for them. For lucky families|

tragedy of war ended in 1918; He others, less fortunate, it meant a series of difficulf ‘adjustments. | Our home was irreparably broken. ‘It is only in adult years that one can see the sum total of what broken homes do to the lives of children. They become “surplus material” and as such must find some justifiable reason for clutter-

ing up the landscape, It may: fake |- years for them to become situated |. where they feel again, that they] .

actually belong.

My husband and 1 have been i very fortunate ‘in establishing our.

home so that no doubt can exist in the minds of our.children that they are secure. But, since . the war started, we do not know how long such ‘a basis can be held firm. Yet there is one thing of which we are very ‘certain. If “our daddy” goes to lick the axis he will leave two A-1 small soldiers on the home front. We do not want some other man who has three children, instead of two, to go into service before our daddy goes. By thejsame line of reasoning, we cannot appreciate having our “daddy in’ service while some capable man , vithout: children stays home. . And as for the “invalid wives,” there are many of us ‘who have serious physical defects. So what? This cointry is fighting for its life! Some of the strongest peaple, I mean the most courageous ones, have had grave physical battles on their hands. They often ‘win them, but not when they expect someone else to do their fighting for them, Least of all, children. When the fathers of children are taken to war before men without children, whether we like it or not,

-|we are putting part of the battle

on small shoulders. Will the big fat lady in: the front row please

move over,. you're on the toes of | the little boy back of you. There,|

that’s better. But why ref give him a break and let him stand in front of you for a change?

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«I, TOO, PROTEST STORY

ABOUT MAIMED SOLDIERS” By Mrs. Leslie Myers, Kingman +..I feel that I must add my protest, too, to the one written by James L. Dilley. Can you for one minute imagine the feelings of. the

many mothers and fathers, wives|

and sisters when they. read such terrible things as appeared under , “The, Wounded Don’t

‘way we live it.

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‘spells their triumph over it.

War. Organization of the Pan-American Italian ‘Legion from the 10 million Western Hemisphere Italian descendants will he the specific assignment of Col. Pacciardi. To Count Sforza falls a larger task of building up an Italian National Council of Free Italians all over the world to work for the liberation of Italy from fascism. .. This Free Italy or Italia Libre movement will not -

| attempt to set up a new Italian government in exile, ‘| but will work for thé idea that when the war is over

there shall be a constitutional convention in Italy to determine what form of government the country should have. : The Picture Changes

MANDATE TO COUNT. SFORZA to head this =

| movement comes as a result of the ‘conference just.

held ‘in Uruguay, to which some. 400 delegates were

sent from Italian anti-fascist. societies in both North

and South America. . It is a. movement which may in the end be just .as important as the Free French activities, or the Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian independence ‘movements in thé iast war. Until the fall of France, opposition to fascism. z and Mussolini had centered among Italian exiles in® Paris. Italian liberals who were able to. get out: of France then made their way to the United States and to Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. But with the shift ‘of the anti-fascist headquarters to the new world, the character of the movement underwent 2 complete change. In ‘launching a new Italia Libe . Movement, the. Bo emphasis was shifted to restoring Italy to the ranks. of the democracies in order to give the people of ° Italy the same opportunities which the ItalianAmericans had found under: the Pan-American, republics. : .

Roots Ready in the U. S.

‘ORGANIZATION OF THE Montevideo conference and the Free Italy movement have in no sense heen a revolutionary activity. It has all been done in the open, and since Pearl Harbor. Leading spirit of the movement in South America has been Torqualis Di Tella, a prominent and wealthy industrialist .of Buenos: Aires. The conference could not be held in the Argentine, for though that country has the largest Italian population in

‘South America, the right of assembly has been

suspended in a state of siege. In Uruguay, however, the latchstring was out. A century ago it was Garibaldi himself who led the revolution for Uruguayan liberation. A further factor in the choice of Montevideo as the meeting place was the desire to free the movement from any taint of U. S. domination. It is in the United States, “however, that the Italia Libre movement has its roots and it is here that the new Italian National Council under Count Sforza will probably receive “its greatest stimulus, through Italian-American societies Sready - in ex= istence. : + : Editor's Note: The views expressed: by columnists in this

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A Woman s Viewpoint.

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WAR 1S DEATH'S ambassador. Persons capable of thought now feel a new intimacy with fear "of oblivion—the thing that endows death. with dread. So, in view of what the future may hold, perhaps we had better think more realistically about the subject. - . When we begin to do so, ‘death ceases to be a grim ogre, and we realize it may be a friend - hiding behind a hideous mask, .s children cover their smiles on Halloween. A very great many people have lived too long. 1 do 5, not mean that the person of 80 or 90 or 100'years is always useless; the opposite is often true. But our . lives spin out too lengthily after we have lost our ability to contribute something of value’ to one or » many individuals or to our society. A Unless we yearn to be better than we are, are | moved by: a desire to create beauty or spread: kindness or alleviate niisery, or to dedicate ourselves to a

cause which seems ‘worth perishing for, thén our brief

career on this planet is not worth the eens of dust ‘we shall leave behind.

Only a Vegetable, After All? -

LIFE MAY BE ‘exciting, gloriéus; ‘provocative, enjoyable, happy, blessed—but only ccording to they)

Plenty of yoiing people. might better ‘be dead, too : —which_is a shocking statement, I know. But the individual who puts no. higher value upon existence then the indulgence of his own ambition or lust is only a vegetable after all, nd nok haf so,usetl as healthy carrot, - Neither bodily vigor nor power. makes’ man worthy of lifé, but: cept: of himself and his destiny. § ay y "Only when a man feels he is a crea God with 4 mission to fulfill does he become being, even though he is ‘afflicted with

; It has sivays ssemed to me ¢ war is the most terrible of those who fight, suffer and who weep, it may be an od fi nd God. The fact that men

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