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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1942

HERE'S THAT MAN AGAIN REP ANDREW J. MAY, who by virtue of seniority rather than sense is chairman of the house military | a affairs committee, and accordingly enamored of his own: importance, predicted some weeks ago that the war would . end “probably” this year and “unquestionably” in 1943. * At the same time he said there would be no immediate need for drafting 18- and 19-year-olds or married men. For those loose statements he was widely criticized. But the criticism didn’t take. Andy has come back for more. He says now that men with dependent wives and children shouldn’t be drafted for another 18 months and “possibly not at all.” We wish Mr. May knew whereof he Sooke, but we are sadly sure that he doesn’t. To him we commend the slogan: “Oh Lord, make me keep my big mouth shut until I know- what I'm talking

about.”

THEY PROMISED NO STRIKES STRIKES in war industries cost the country the equivalent of a day’s work by 1,130,678 men. in the first seven months of 1942, the war labor board reports. One viewpoint—it has seemed to be President Roosevelt’s—is that such a figure isn’t very disturbing. After all, only about eight in every 10, 000 war workers have struck, so why worry? The answer, we think, is that making light of a few strikes has encouraged more strikes, and that the damage they do is 3 many times sresient than the figures indicate. Each month since J anuary has seen more war-industry strikes than the month before. Each month, except July, has: seen more workers involved and more man-days lost. August figures, when available, seem certain to continue the upward trend. And strike news in this first week of September certainly provides no basis for complacency. Re . : Ct Be 8 » THE president of the Aluminurn, Workers of America, claiming support by high C. IL 0. officials, threatens to call out 32,000 workers in seven vital aluminum plants unless the war labor board backs down on its refusal to order a general wage increase. And he denounces as a “renegade” the head of tlie Pittsburgh local union, who dares to call such a threat unpatriotic. A regional director of the construction workers’ branch of the United Mine Workers urges striking truckmen in the Connellsville: (Pa) coke region to stay out and “paralyze the whole coke situation,” promising that “John L. Lewis will get action for you.” The strike endangers production at most of the steel mills in that area. Only about 100 cranemen were involved in a wage dispute at the Carnegie-Illinois ordnance works, in Farrell, : Pa. But when they refused to work the assembly line had to stop, the ‘entire department was closed and 1900 employees were made idle. Production of military truck tires at the Goodyear plant in Akron was halted for four days by a controversy over whether a union shall permit its: ‘members to work .. eight hours a day instead of six. Members of an A. F. of L. lonzchoremen’ s union strike in defiance of a war production board order to unload freight cars at Philadelphia piers while a wage demand is arbi- . trated. Their strike prevents the loading of ships with + war materials for the battlefronts. :

4 » # # i 8 SO it goes, disputes which apparently involve only a few ~~ workers spreading paralysis far beyond the points . ‘where they originate, although there is elaborate government machinery for peaceful settlement of such disputes, ‘and although this machinery, when used, strains to give unions all—and sometimes more—than the traffic will bear.

The promise of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. was not |

that there would be only one or two hundred strikes a month in war industries. It was that there would be none. The

country had every right to assume that the leaders of the | . impatience with red tape. He was trying to get the

big labor organizations had full authority to make this promise, and would try determinedly to enforce it,.. But

to discipline their affiliated unions, even when strikes create industrial bottlenecks whose effect on the war effort’ obviously is most serious. The weakness of the present method of dealing with war-industry strikes is increasingly evident. We believe the situation will grow worse until definite rules require’ responsible use of unionism’s power—rules: ‘written into. law 4 congress. +

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STILL BOONDOGGLIN G a FROM July 1 through Aug. 31, the first two onthe of : this fiscal year, the government spent’ “$10,877 ,681,470, | In the same period it collected in taxes $1,334 ,124,380. | Yet yesterday, nine months after Pearl ‘Harbor ‘and: eight months after Secretary’ Morgenthau announced that a war tax program was imminent, the senate finance. coms |: mittee had to recess its consideration of the tax bill to give the treasury experts more time to put the finishing touches on a brand-new revenue. schefne, called the spending tax, which seems to be a complicated formula for accom li | by indirection what could be. done directly through

2 at eo cheese. It’s a ‘much ast alt he says. |

many people have & wrong impression of it: Actually,

is Soe of the most healthful of foods—made from sweet;

$4 a year; adjoining.

“or anyone but the smokers themselves.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Sept. 3—Since ‘.Gene Tunney, some time ago, ‘wrote a magazine article against the cigaret and, I believe, against

blown up against: the dirty weed, in which I am glad to raise my voice as one who has suffered much, not that the clamor will do any good. The smoking habit is a ee anod nuisance, and if you Want to call it a plague that will ‘be all right with me, too. Certainly nothing good can be said in favor

of the cigaret, because, obviously, the human system

was not intended to breathe the smoke -of burning leaves and paper; and all decent medical testimony condemns the habit, but still the sales grow and total abolition by law, if it could be accomplished, would cause great economic commotion, so important to our well-being is our most popular vice. ‘The growers, the farm hands, the factory workers and machinists,

countless thousands of men and women in the sales |

department of the business, and. advertising men,

would suffer; property owners would lose rents and

federal and state governments and some municipalities would take a deep cut in their tax revenues.

It Helps at the Box Office

SOME PEOPLE, Harold Ickes among them, have suggested that our press has been unwilling to tell the truth about the poisons that people put into themselves by smoking, because we would sacrifice some degree of the public health for the money we get from cigaret advertisements. I don’t believe this is true, although goodness knows the money is a help at the box office. ;

I think people would continue to smoke anyway, :

even if we did dig out and print horribly all the old

‘ the use of tobacco ‘generally, : quite a brisk little agitation has | :

propaganda of the anti-cigaret league. To most of 8

us the cigaret has become as much a part of our diet as bread, and youngsters seem to take to it just naturally, even though their elders tell them from early childhood that smoking is bad for them and that the habit, once formed, is hard to break. : TI can't say that I ever got any pleasure out of smoking except two or three first cigarets after two or three heroic but futile attempts to swear off, the longest of which lasted about three months when I was in high school. It is a nuisance, because the victim must always be sure to keep cigarets and matches

or a lighter in his pockets and feels something like | .

alarm or fear if he finds himself fresh out and unable to get any.

Marijuana and the Lodphrs

© THIS BUSINESS about tobacco soothing the nerves or stimulating thought is just nonsense, because a non-smoker is much less likely to need soothing in the first place, and there is no testimony that the great thinkers of the world were smokers or that

smoking had anything to do with the cerebration of .|}-

those who did smoke. My personal experience is that smoking irritates the nerves, but my trouble, and I believe the trouble most smokers have, when they try to'quit, is that the doing without after long and steady usage also causes irritation. For a few days you go nuts and kick the cat and slam things around and then you give in and irritate your nerves in another way. Tunney is one of the very few men I have have ever known who doesn't smoke, which is a way of commenting that the non-smoker these days is a member of a very small minority. I have known hundreds of star athletes who smoked as soon as they broke training and others who smoked somewhat in training. They all recognized that smoking is bad for an athlete and if that is so it certainly doesn't do. a non-athletic person any good, but you just try to stop it by law and you will have a nation of maniacs in 24 hours. Furthermore, people would start smoking all kinds of hay and weeds and probably stumble onto marijuana in the back yard and develop into leavers. * I am sorry cigarets have got such a hold on us, but I don’t blame it on the papers or the companies They take to tobacco ‘in spite of all warnings and all the proof that it is going to harm them: But I am not going to crusade’ to save the people from the cigaret. I can't even save nyself.

‘Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. Tey are not necessarily these of The Indianapolis Times.

This Red Tape By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—It's going to take men who refuse to worship at the altar of Red Tape and Tradition to win this war. | The greatest handicap we have ever had to overcome, as a peaceable nation undertaking a war, has been the peacetime psychology which does not catch the “pitch” - of ‘getting things done. Donald Nelson is a good example. He has nobly subdued his

job: done and still be polite. But, apparently and

) “happily, he has reached the end. ~ evidence piles up that these leaders are unable or unwilling | : : produce the machinery and the trained men to oper‘ate it. ‘Our current job is to get the whole setup

We'll: win this war. But to win it, we'll have to

Sganifg and Tunning smoothly in the’ production angle. We watch men like Kaiser ‘come over the horizon,

cooly stating that he can build great cargo plajes

faster than anyone else in the game. He’s got a grand batting record in getting big, tough jobs done

‘efficiently and in a hurry. Turn him loose and let . him bat, and don't try to change his stance or his | method of holding his bat.

: £: Give the Man His Bat!

JOHN McGRAW never tried to change any of the natural characteristics of a natural batter, as long as the man could hit. He never tried to impose orthodox technique on a hitter who got results by unorthodox methods. Kaiser looks like a natural hitter. He doesn’t ask for a title, for money, for political power. thinks he cen hit the'kind of pitching we are facing. So, 1 say, give Kaiser his bat, and anything else he ‘wants. “We urgently need great cargo planes to supplement ‘our surface cargo carriers, which have been

|cahing hell from the Nazi subs. x: ’ “To me, Kaiser looks like a rejuvenation of the spirit |: which. made ‘this country what it is today, a spirit | sales ‘that-has been somewhat subdued by the Jogumentation

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A Ahieeweek ‘Wouir of British. factories has con=

| vinced me that America has a lesson to learn in the 18 ‘making—Brig,

employment of women in munition Gen. G. M. Barnes, U. 5. army, ;

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.—~Thomas E. Dewey, of ork.

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‘The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“DOWN WITH HITLER, DOWN WITH THE UNIONS , " By ‘Martha ‘Long, Edgewood , . I think it is terrible that we have

four hundred dollars a week. All ‘they think of is calling strikes and walkouts. As far as I am concerned I think they are more like Nazis

than Americans. I have two sons in the navy. They

fight for so many un-Americans as the strikers in America. Germany| is a good place for them. Down with Hitler, down with the unions until they realize there’s a war in the U. S. A, 2 EJ » “WHY CAN'T WE DO AWAY WITH THESE TAVERNS?”? By C. F. L., Indianapolis Last Saturday night (Aug. 29th) seemed to be a most hectic night for the taverns—or for some of them at least. At one tavern a man killed his wife by breaking a chair over her head, a fight occurred between several men at another, and a man and his wife quarreled as they left a tavern, creating a public disturbance. Yet it seems that we must still contend with the tavern system. It is terrible and deplorable! Why can't we do away with the taverns? It is still my contention that we can do very well without them. X gs =» = “BURNED UP ABOUT THE DEAL KAISER GOT . . .” By Lillian Dinehart, 3920 Cornelius ave. Well, the Washington weasels are having a fleld day at the éxpense of Henry J. Kaiser. If he was a

crackpot, the weasels, recognizing a kindred spirit, would give him anything he asked for. But his amazing record of ~accomplishment embarrasses these gentry. The con-

to pay the defense workers three or|

worked every day, they take what} they get. I hate to think my boys|

(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 be signed.)

hand him the old “weasel. run ; 3 O Fd >a : I wonder if my fellow Times fans are as burned up about this as I ‘lam! My hats off to Ray Clapper for his persistent hammering on this subject. I think it is time we were beginning to collect: “Bundles for Washington Weasels.” ; By Celia Warren, Indianapolis I'm really burned up about the deal Kaiser got in Washington. Raymond Clapper says it smells fishy. I say it stinks. One would honestly think that some of our red tape Washington politicians were on Hitler's payroll. How do other folks feel about it? I'd like to know,

By W. H. Richards, 137 E. New York st. I do not always agree with Raymond Clapper, but I believe I am only one of millions who agree with him in his article in your issue of Aug. 29 100 per cent... He says that if Kaiser can get steel and other materials only by breaking the laws made by the bureaucracy: at Washington he hopes he will break every law on the books sc that he can make the cargo planes needed to get fighting materials to the allies. A I would go farther and say that the dollar-a-year PAYtriots who are holding up defense work for profits to the corporations to whom they hold greater allegiance than to their country should face a firing squad

trast is too, too painful, £_they

or be given the hot seat as were

Side Glances—by —

the Nazi spies, for they are traitors

and saboteurs worse than they, on|.

account of the throttle-hold they have and are using to defeat our war aims ‘and thereby prolonging the war and causing God “only knows how many American lives to be sacrificed needlessly.

We are in the war and something:

has got to be done to prevent profiteers causing us to lose it. It

|is useless to plead with poor work- : ing people to sacrifice and buy|. bonds and stamps to submit to sales| |

tax so long as profiteers are making 100 per cent or more on war contracts, and congress is afraid to pass the bill to limit the profit any man may retain beyond $25,000 a year (after payment of taxes) for fear the industrialists will not then bend every effort to mass production. : If those hogs would impede progress in all-out effort unless they

By Rev. J. 1. Saunders, general chairman,

F. B. Ransom, treasurer, and J. St. Clair

‘Gibson, publicity director, Americans for|

Vietery, Indianapolis, The Americans for Victory committee takes this means to publicly | thank The ‘Times, Gov. Henry F.

Schricker, Lieut. Gov. Charles J.| .

Dawson, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Col. Walter 8. Drysdale, com-

a hal: and found‘ thet t total cost of operations—for personnel, travel, time on the air, movies, posters, publications, propaganda and paper matches to drop from bombers—would run to about $7.8 million. This divides roughly. into $3.3 million for domestic operations and #5 million for overseas operations. : The OWI hastens to warn you, however, not to

.. On the other hand, they might run higher. A purely unofficial guess as ‘to the maximum would be $15 million a year for domestic operations, $25 million for overseas operations.

The Basic Staff Totals Some 3500

OWI WAS CREATED, as you may recall, by & June shotgun wedding of the fires, winds and waters of the old office of government reports, the office of facts and figures, the foreign information division haif of Col. William J. Donovan’s old office of the co-ordinator of information, and : the - information section of the office of emergency management, which is the holding company for all defense organizations, For the last 10 weeks, OWI has been transferri personnel all over the place, ironing out ovet-lapping functions of two or more bureaus; going: through the typical Washington labor pains that a new :paren§ organization always experiences with its first born. OWI today admits that it has an active fulltime personnel of around 3500 people, of whom some 1540 ‘are assigned to handling government information’ for

The payroll for the whole 3500 has run shout $100,e 000 & month.

But Wait, Brother, Wait!

"BUT THAT 3500 doés not include’ the ‘appifbxte mately 100 army officers and 100 civilians ‘in in the

independent public : relations staffs, Staring, heir releases through OWI. ar A It does not include the 120 people on the ‘pul relations staff: of Nelson Rockefeller'’s office ot American affairs, which was not A, the other four organizations in the creation of Add all those in and you get a total of more: 4000. people working on this war information job." And that does not include the 2500 people wh work full time, nor the 30,000 people who “work pardf time—for a total of 8000 man-years, Aoeatting to the last budget bureau 1 survey for congress, oR

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Fergiison

; Although the war is global, ale ee aL ie ol. al put forth efforts which can be described truthfully only . in grandiloquent language,’ yet to _ you, to me and to Mr. and Mrs, " Sullivan next door, it. all boils _down to one. very small aim—the right of decent people everywhere to enjoy a simple

: life filled with the normal joys and normal struggles,

That's really all ib poopie want eit 'ut J And TI daresay the boys who are fighting think very seldom of national honor or personal glory, and do not pies ture themselves with medal-covered chests. - What, exactly, do the big words—liberty freedom, the American way of life—mean to our fighting men? Many different things, perhaps. But you can be sure they are no longer ‘rhetorical abstractions or po= litical theories. They have become symbols of 8 man’s memories and his dreams. Ren

The n Things That Soult Home" |

cance until we begin to lose them. Vainglorious thoughts of Valley the and the Marne, sre the meat of historias ed dier's mind must have other fare. ‘Our boys sweat and work and. ight Decauss want to hold to the old certainties of everyday Hoi” Sipe, Somunplace: things Suse;

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