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WHODUNIT? PHREE OTHER GUYS M~ ROOSEVELT'S discovery that the rest of the country is far ahead of Washington in war spirit is not news to most people.

If Mr. Roosevelt, having made this discovery, had taken all or any part of ‘the blame for Washington’s short-

“comings on his own shoulders—that would have been star- :

tling news. : Hé placed the Hlarhe. elsewhere: 1. On members of congress who insist on mixing into technical military matters ‘and other things concerning which they can’t possibly have valid opinions, and who fail to pass laws desired by the president with the celerity that prevailed in the economic crisis of 1933. © 2. On the press and the radio—the worst offenders being a few columnists and commentators not named by Mr. Roosevelt—which occasionally publish news stories that just aren't so and which. give out sententious, though perfeétly honest, views. 8. To a lesser extent on people in the administration itself who haven't got a rounded viewpoint and who are too eager to issue fragmentary information. Congress probably will speak for itself. We think it's a mistake in wartime for congressmen—or editors or columnists or commentators—to meddle with technical mili‘tary matters, and we believe that most of them are ‘leaning ‘backward to avoid this mistake. ; » # 2 8 : 8 o T seems to us the country does not want either bum’s- * rush or rubber-stamp legislation from congress. The fault we find with congress is not, for example, that it didn’t quite meet Mr. Roosevelt's deadline ‘for new antiinflation law, but that it yielded to bloc pressure and produced a bad law. But Mr. Roosevelt could have had an effective anti-inflation law _long ago if he had been willing to: ask: congress to treat ‘organized labor and ‘agricultite - with even-handed justice. Press and radio, of course, have shortcomings which

x we would be the last to deny. If they sometiines publish |8

inaccurate news that is unfortunate, but not exactly surprising to those who know how often official Washington seeks to prevent the publication of accurate news. © < “Qententious” views, in our dictionary, are either “terse ‘We'd prefer the first definition for our views. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt reads a different dictionary. Anyway, we doubt “whether it is either terseness, vigor or pomposity that he objects to in the views of newspapers, columnists and com-

~ mentators, so much as it is that some of their views—

though perfectly honest—are regarded by him as wrong. For instance, Mr. Roosevelt believes and says that a minority of the press ig doing a great harm to the war effort by dwelling on a relatively few strikes. We believe and say that a minority of organized labor is doing great

harm to the war effort and its own cause by striking in

violation of a solemn: promise. Sententious or otherwise, that’s our perfectly honest view and we stand on it.

"must be admitted that the utterances of administration with all the members playing i in different keys. But, after

all, 'when an orchestra gets into that condition it usually |.

isn't necessary to. look far beyond the director to find the reason. We don’t want to et shrill about the Bits press ‘and radio secrecy that surrounded Mr. Roosevelt's cross‘county trip or about anything he said on returning to ‘Washington. We do, however, have a distinct impression that he regarded that suppression of news, not as a necessary evil, but as a pretty fine precedent. : © And, further, that he believes all would be well in lashington, and in the rest of the country, if ofly the press and the radio, the columnists and the commentators, the ‘members of congress and the members of his own official

rs would practice - similar restraint all: the time—as|: » criticism, as to views, as to expression of opinions which 1

er from his. - We venture to disagree. That wild be a sald of airs impossible to bring about in a free country. - And, | t could be brought about, it would be one.of the worst ings that could happen tothe country and to its president.

i and will never Brio aren? Thus Pay announced the t of Russia.

year later Russa is sill fighting _giving. 810 Naat 1

'S had done, Britain and the ‘United States got 12 more hs of borrowed time. Russia fought. to save herself, |! do 0. dofng she helped to save the unprepared. democ-

d brok Russia a year ago, he an as | Rusia s and pe ~thien hé might have Knocked put ‘Britain hs Si a We would have faoed

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RY - 1) case | then in Warner, lo subortiiate unliibhts

officials and sub-officials often sound like an orchestra |

| all the county board’s heat : appointee. RR a | 3

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in question concerned - the. ‘slugging

Fay kicked Warher around ‘and put him in pital for surgical repairs and Warner got him indicted and, incidentally, while he was still mad, wrote me a letter offering to tell & lot about Fay. But by the time the case came on for trial in Syracuse in February of this year, Warneg, had taken it on the lam, as they say, and after a postponement of a few

charge of the job, ‘moved for ¢ testimony from the complaining witn

He's a Big Man in Politics FAY WAS REALLY on s spot in this case, for it was only the latest of a number of brutal sluggings

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‘in which he had been involved and, what with ‘Wam- |

er's anger and the publicity, the’ heat was real bad. He stood to get five years.in prison, and the notoriety which hed attended his slugging of David Dubinsky at the New Orleans convention of the entire A..F. of L. in the fall of 1040 was revived. ‘Well, the disappearance of Warner, the dismissal of the indictment and’ Warner's prompt reappearance in his ‘old joh as a unioneer in Rochester, made such a raw job that Governor Lehman, after a little urging in the prints, decided to have a look at the case, and who knows but that there might be some new indictments now. But you have to remember that this Fay is a very big fellow not only in the A. F. of L. but in Jersey politics, too. He brought in an indorsement of Hague's Senator Smathers a few weeks ‘ago at the building trades convention in New Jersey and he is so strong that he can openly operate both a union and big construction companies which employ mem-. bers of his own union and get away with it.

He Makes No Secret of It ‘ HE AND HIS Jersey local were canted out of the A.'F. of L. for this back in 1932 by order of Brother Will Green, but today he is back in the union racket bigger and greedier than ever, having risen to the office of international vice president, and is either openly or covertly interested in several companies which are handling big war jobs. It might be a violation of the censorship to. name the jobs off-hand.

He makes no secret of some of his connections, for he is openly ‘listed as president of the International Excavating Co, and Edward T. Shinn, ‘the peop dent of the Newark local of the union, local is listed as vice president. There are a lot of other Shinns mixed up in

strong politically and in the union racket that no-. body ¢an do anything in the heavy construction line around Jersey without Fay's o. k. Lo course, he operates in New York, too, but that is another Phase of the story.

The Deserving Democrat Bers

“I "DOUBT THAT Paul McNutt or Gen, Hershey would be actively interested as manpower directors, .because Fay has Frank Hague’s proteetion and

the waste of manpower and money on the job designated as oiler on Fay’s big machines is a caution, The oiler is a guest on the ggachine at $12 for a seven-hour day and they call the hamburger-boy, presumably because he has nothing else to do but eat. Fay has been planting deserving Democrats on the jobs as. oilers, and the money comes out of your income taxes and. your bond purchases. : This is just to let you and Mr. Fay know that interest in his case is not dead—an interim report, so to speak. I will drop another shoe from time to time.

Editor's Note: The views expresséd by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They ate not necessirily those of The Indianapolis Times.

Frankly Speaking

By Norman E. Isaacs

THERE IS ‘ENTIRELY too much confusion in this running squabble over the Marion county welfare department—and too many false issues. Let's get it straight right away. Tom Neal, director of the county department, is NOT the issue. Whether ~ Tom Neal is competent or in-

‘the real point. The basic issue is quite dimple.

Fr Bo i Bisse which shall appoint the direc

county board and Judge Earl Cox, who appoints board, have been ever since, trying to

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No ‘Credit for Mr. Gottschalk,

GIVE" TOM NEAL credit fof, ong thing: He an awful lot of fortitude. For 1 years. he has

all along. number of people have been

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days, Jesse Cantor, the assistant district attorney In ;

the other companies in the combination, which isso }-

Hague is a valuable performer for the New Deal, ‘but |

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above four million men, but hints have must be # men in service. The labor supply adequate for the demand, what will it’ additional six million men sie. 1nd But the problem of the local where they will find the six million. become apparent only when you skilled laborers whom the draft ordered not to touch. It covers more sand trades and it must make the job of

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Why Boards Have to Reclasstfy THIS LIST or necessary men : serves why the local draft boards have heen f classify many of their registrants

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up to 2 per cent venereal diseased, mien | physically Soa Sousa] diseased. Han Wi. pendents,

The list of occauptional deferments: must be dug out of the nearly 450 memoranda. ‘which Natiotial

form of occupational bulletins, of which there ‘are

‘| now 21.

Since its creation, War Manpower Comimission has been issuing directives to Selective Service heads

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“CAN'T BE ANY TRACES OF A GENTLEMAN IN PEGLER”

By Enna Thurman, 419 8. 9th, Terre Haute. : I. agree: with -the contributor to this column of - Sept. 20th, about Pegler. "ns It's my great privilege to skip his column whenever I care to and I do a lot hut it isn't the fact that he writes such :trashy things but the fact that the syndicates accept and pay for it. I figure he must write what they ask for. To believe that journalism has fallen so low is. als most impossible. ‘When a man of his years of writing sinks to the lowness of taking advantage of a situation as that of ridiculing the president’s wife there just can’t be any traces of a gentleman there. Surely there is something else for him to write about besides a mother of four sons in the service. To speak of his own wife as “my old woman” puts him in the rei of a bar fly. ” # » “THE MORE WE PRODUCE THE MORE WE'LL CONSUME” By Horace Chadwick, Morristown I was very much surprised when I read in The Times the.article by Raymond . Clapper: and your editorial based thereon. That article and your ediforial proves to me that oth ‘of you are very young

_ wish to call to your atiention

|some of the things that have been|.

done within the past 80 years which bear upon this question that is so agitating you and some other young persons. . Until Abraham Lincoln became our president this country had no tariff or a tariff for “revenue only.”

the rates .... .. were very low as

Early: in his administration, a pro-|t tective tariff law was enacted but|1

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About every 10 years, we have had

a new tariff law and with each re-

vision the rates have been boosted. For quite a number of years... . manufacturers were the ‘only: beneficiaries. As a.result they were able to contribute liberally to the Republican campaign funds. But finally the wage earners decided that they would get a portion of the “swag” and organized unions and demanded and received higher wages. Then the manufacturers’ bloc demanded higher tariff rates to make up for the increased cost of manufacture due to higher wages, and these blocs always got what they demanded. This see-saw movement continued till in Mr. Hoover's administration the prices of manufactures had reached such a high point that much less of those manufactures coulll be sold. . . . i All this time there were high tariff rates on farm products but these rates were ineffective: because

compared to -the rates that have Veale rUp ru D yar

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Did he do so? Not a bit of it. But he did order the farmers" ‘to kill] their little pigs and plow under): every third row of cotton and corn to make. the prices of those prod. ucts higher.” ~ ‘Now, -with the world war in progress, foreign farmers cannot compete with ‘American farmers in the world markets and therefore Fates on farm, products . are: did so ‘to some extent in the first world war.. Now the city people are denounc~ ing the farmers for taking advant-. age of the situation to make the tariff rates really effective, and you demand that a ceiling be placed on the prices of farm products. In order that you may seem to be consistent. you also. proj to. put a ceiling on wages and the/profits of the manufacturers. You do not take into consideration the fact that the profits of the manufacturers and the wages of the workers have both been advancing for many years as the tax rates have been raised by each succeeding revision of the tariff, while the increase in the prices or farm products has just begun, think that if the congress ER repeal that part of our tariff laws that fix rates and in place of it insert very :low rates—a tariff “for revenue only” that the farmers| will consent to have a celling placed on the prices of farm products.

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trying to tell the Selective Service where oft,

A Couple of Morals . .. 02 Jee

When the WMC fook over, it tried to brig ‘order out of this by issuing new directives on what local draft boards should consider essential industeion, and then the list really grew. In 10 occupational bulletins it has emptions have been asked by WMC for approximate

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"| ly these: Fifty trades in metallic. and nonmetailie | mining; 30 professions in flying school dnstructiom, ‘1 150 trades in aircraft production;

100 trades in | petroleum, natural gas and gasoline drilling and refining; 150 trades in the smelting, mining 4nd rolle ing of metals; air ferry pilots; all agricultural works ‘ers; 80 trades In forestry and lumbering; 80 trades in ‘food processirig industries, and over 400 trades in all branches of the’ ral, water and afr, transporte tion industries. Gn mora of tis fs hot thai. here are pve 8 ‘thousand ready-made holes through which the. rats. law may be dodged. : Another moral is that the manpower people sre’ going to have to get: busy and train enough women: and unskilied workers to permit these deferred men. BT Stl Ee de emake

IA Woman’ S Viewpoint :

By. Mrs. Walter Ferguson

a VAST NUMBER, of people om the federal payroll are engaged in the business of building nae. tional - morale. :\ :

sort you create yourself. ‘The man who: wa little. business fold, 10, after yeafs of hard work building it, isn't sustained in the ordeal by rangement of. comforting words coming out of ington.’ The war brldé Kissiig her ‘new -Busband goodby probably will not depend upon any. fylminations from "he mothe amo olds I Be 4 . The mother who ho ‘Her haste fun from the war department, that ‘a. son ‘missing ‘in ‘action, can’t wt the. core ‘from ‘any official bulletin.

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