Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1942 — Page 14

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TUESDAY, QCTOBER 6, 1943

A SUSPENDED FREEDOM FREEDOM of contract—the right of employers and workers to negotiate wage rates without asking the government's approval—has been suspended for the first , time in American history. Clearly, it had to be done if the effort to prevent a runaway increase of the cost of living during the war was to have any chance of success. The normal processes of collective bargaining, even the normal liberty of employers to volunteer pay increases to their employees, could not safely be left to work alone. The war has introduced a new factor. There are thou: sands of employers—and this, also, comes near to being a historical “first time”-—who literally have no reason to object to paying higher wages. Many of them, holding war contracts, can pass the costs on to the government. Many “others would have to give most of the money to the federal tax collector if they didn’t pay it to their employees. With labor scarcities becoming acute, management has incentive to pay well to hold its workers or attract others. And that | is the easiest way to keep peace with the unions, which are stronger than ever before. But constantly rising wage rates, plus the added effect of time-and-a-half and double pay for overtime work, in a period when war’s demands are drastically reduting the supply of civilian goods, make a stabilized cost of living impossible. Wages and salaries cease to be a private matter * between employer and employees. They affect directly the general welfare and become a matter of general concern. »

” ” 2 HAT is why President Roosevelt has ordered the “no increases in wage rates, granted as a result of voluntary agreements, collective bargaining, conciliation, arbitration or otherwise, and no dgcreases in wage rates, shall be “authorized unless notice of such increases or decreases shall have been filed with the national war labor board, and unless the national war labor board has approved such increases or decreases.” The order, to be sure, has many ylopholes. Much is left to the discretion of Economic Director Byrnes and of the WLB. It remains to be’ seen how firmly the possible curbs on wages will be applied, and how far organized labor will go along with a policy effective enough to prevent inflation. But there is no reason to believe that Mr. Roosevelt would permit a policy . unfair to labor, ‘and’ 4t is-certain that organized workers, like everyone élse, will be better off in the long run if the cost of living can be held down during the war and a postwar collapse of. the price-wage structure is avoided. 4 :

ANOTHER DELAYED TAX FUSE THIS ‘tax bill not only calls for the largest revenue increase in history—about $8,000,000,000—but it is also a record breaker in wordage—575 pages of as complicated language as man ever put to paper. Now, just as the senate gets ready to pass the bill, Secretary Morgenthau comes forward with the non-comforting assurance that we've just begun to tax. The treasury’s experts, he announces, are preparing recommendations to raise another $6,000,000,000, in a new tax bill, to be considered next year. If we understand the: American spirit, the people are not going to object to high taxation. But they are going to resent the monthiafter-month and year-after-year suspense and confusion. that go with constant changing of the gp tax laws. .

There is no legal reason why Mr. Morgerthan’ s added |

six billions could not* have been included in this tax bill. That would ‘have been done if revenue had been the primary. consideration. * But Mr. Morgenthau and his experts ‘were interested more in pet ideas. _ The record of financing the new deal in peace years, and the record of financing the war up to now, stand out ‘as a great example of how our government's fiscal affairs ought not be handled. =~ . Henry Morgenthau, without doubt, is the greatest secretary of the treasury since William H. Woodin. In case you have forgotten) Mr. Woodin ‘was Mr. ‘Morgenthau’s immediate predecessox, ©

F. D.R. AND THE COURTS.

N connection’ with the “resignation of Justice James F. " Byrnes to become economic stabilization director, it is pertinent to observe that the U.S. supreme court is still without a member appointed from. west of the Mississippi river. President Roosevelt soon will make his eighth appoint- ~~ ment to the supreme court. No other president since kc Gouge Washington has named more than five members.

“Even after the Byrnes vacancy is filled, of course, only

seven of the mine justices’ will ‘be serving by original apStet of Mr. Roosevelt. ‘Of the pre-New Deal court, two. members will remain, but Chief Justice Stone was elevated to his present position by F. D. R., leaving only Justice Roberts without a. Roosevelt ‘commission. Che president; ‘who once ‘proposed to: change the com of the supreme. court by’ other methods, De on ‘epochial ‘struggle with congress, ‘has done

ter it by normal processes than any of his predi hint Mr. + Bocsevel's Jifitéuse on the lower |

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Well, like I told you, it wasn’t only, you - know what I mean, you don’t like to have a woman riding the bench telling the ball players what to do but the confusion was terrible that summer. Charlie Dissenat’s wife ‘was just as nice and pleasant to talk to as anybody you ever saw but after all she wasn’t supposed to be the manager and yet you find her butting in on all

1 kinds of things that were strictly none of her busi-

‘ness and all those funny friends of hers that she brought around, like for ‘instance, this Professor Weeney, well he just thought he was the head man and the ball players they were just nothing but & lot of scrabble. But anyway, the worst of it was the confusion, because when you come right down to it why there is no two ways about it because you are either out or you are safe and you either win or you lose. But it wasn't that way with our club after Mrs. Dissenat and Professor ‘Weeney and the lady first baseman from Smith college and the youth twerp and the Bulgarian economist got to messing around and everybody in the. bleachers gets $1.25 for a bonus with a 50-cent ticket.

"Just a Little Social Gain"

looked out of the hole and I can hardly believe my eyes, although by that time practically nothing could surprise me, because I thought I had seen five bases out there. 1 counted them over again and sure enough we had, no kidding, five bases as I said well fan me ere I swoon but what goes here if you don’t mind my asking. So Mrs. Dissenat she said, “Why, Mr. Dunno, this is nothing but just a little social gain, because we want to open the horizon of opportunity to the masses so we. are going to have five bases instead of four.” “Well,” I said, “pardon me all to hell, Mrs. Dissenat, but I am not a lawyer myself, but what about the rule book and all I want to say with all due respect, the trouble with this ball club is we don't even know where we stand any more. I sometimes go nuts trying to figure out where we stand and now we have got five bases.” “You have got to be dynamic, Mr. Dunno,” she said. “The rule book wasn’t written by nature. It was written by some men and everything that man does man can undo or improve so we will change the rule book.” :

"Oh, Here Are the Assistants!"

SO YOU CAN CALL me a liar if you want to and I don’t blame you but just then old Weeney showed up with a whole lot of funny people from a thinking school that he was connected with where all they do ig sit around and try to think up different kinds of thoughts and Mrs. Dissenat rushed up to them and “Oh here are the new assistants. I am the base-

so happy you could come because now w a rest and

bali gets too exciting we can stop pi have a discussion.” I am telling you and you doo’t have to take my word because you can find it in the'clippings. Mrs. Dissenat and old Weeney they had hired these queeries from the thinking academy downtown where he was professor of thinking, and every man on our club has now got an ‘assistant to assist him making the plays. They were just all over the place and they would get in the way and one twerp by the name of Boris why he nearly got his brains knocked out the first inning trying to assist-on a drive past third but she says the world needs more assistance between people because that is the spirit of co-operation and helpfulness and without it, well you have wars.

"If It Was My Old Lady..."

BUT IF YOU THINK that is all you are crazy because just before game time and Brooklyn is ready to hit and we are scattered all over the lot and our five bases with assistants, what do you know but here comes 3 whole mob of parties nobody ever saw be-

fore and Mrs. Dissenat lets out one of those whoops

of hers and we discover that we are not playing just two teams against each other but a three-handed ball game. Did you ever try to play three-sided baseball? Well, if you can understand what I mean by how terrible the confusion was and how it got on your nerves and it is no wonder old Eddie Deezanose went crazy and ate up a bar of soap and killed himself and I still say she was mighty nice just to talk to but if it was my old lady, well brother, I guaTantse I know what I would do.

In Washington

| By S. Burton Heath

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Nationwide gasoline rationing, the rubber conservation measure - recommended by the Baruch committee, .may go into effect as early as Nov. 15, Nothing is final yet, but that is the date tentatively agreed upon. Big problem is getting the ration books printed and ° distributed, rationing boards set -up, and car owners registered. When nationwide rationing does go into effect, there will be further changes in the plan now operating in. the eastern states where gas rationing is already in effect. Principal change will probably be a marked reduction in the number of “C” permits issued, and a further restriction in the amount of gas issued to C-card holders. Reason is simply that there have been too many abuses of C privileges. Nationwide rationing will attempt to correct them.

This Synthetic Rubber Business IOWA SENATOR GUY.M. GILLETTE'S sub-com-

| mittee on agriculture, interested primarily in getting

wider use of surplus farm products in production of

industrial alcohol for synthetic rubber, has ‘not dis- |

banded. For the present, the Gillette committee is content to sit back and watch how the new administrator,

William Marin Jeffers, tackles his job. But-early in | October the committee will resume hearings and will | § have on the grill Ernest A. Hauser, an ‘ex-Ausirian | -¥

chemist now a professor at M. I. T. Hauser was one of the Baruch committee's: tech‘nical ‘advisers but also he is one of the authors of a new book, “Rationed Rubber.” In the book, manufacture of synthetic rubber from alcohol is called a “rabbit whisker process.” Paul BE. Hadlick, Gillette committee counsel, wants to know why and to look ito Mr. Hauser’s background.

>So They Say— The political sniper today is just as dangerous as the Jap sniper in a palm tree. The man who stirs

LIKE ONE DAY we showed up for work and I|

The Hoosier Forum

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

“AGE AND EXPERIENCE ARE

VITAL IN JUDICIAL POSTS” By Mrs, Sylvester Johnson, 3668 Central ve.

Norman Isaacs’ recent article on the local political situation . . , was a very interesting one. I was .particularly interested in his statement that Emsley Johnson Jr.'s youth will certainly be used in his judgship race. From his article I learn that Mr. Johnson, who is a candidate for superior court, room 3, in which Russell J. Ryan is the present judge, is only 29 years of age. I can understand how that would be a handicap for a man who is a candidate for a judicial position. I believe that in. our system. of government no office can be of more importance than that of a judge, and while, in respect to some offices, youth would be an advantage and not a drawback, in a judicial position age and experience are absolutely necessary qualifications to deal with the many perplexing problems, arising from civil controversics and ‘ domestic. relations problems. Many of these deal with the welfare of children, cases involving the rights of soldiers and their families and insanity hearings, 8ll of which arise in our superior courts. In times of stress, as today, it is most important to have sound local and national government, administered by officials of experience and integrity. Great care should be taken in the selection of these officials, for our government should be conducted in such a manner as not to detract from our war effort. Now more than .ever the voter should be non-partisan in his choice snd select the man - best fitted for the position to be filled. In his column Mr, Isaacs spoke of Judge Russell J. Ryan and Congressmar. Louis Ludlow, Both of these men—plus Judge Bradshaw of juvenile court—are men of experience and integrity and have the interests of the people above everything else. Let us Rope they are retained for the good of our own state and our country, 2 & =» : “I! HOPE MR. THOMPSON WON'T HAVE TO GIVE UP +HIS CAR!” By Mrs. Isabelle Austin, 3430 W. North st. I wish to reply to :Mr. Richard Thompson 01.905 .N, Grant st., for

‘(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.)

the statements he made in The Forum Sept. 30th concerning the trackless trolley operators. . . . He says he does not like to gripe but from the article he wrbte he

appears to be no amateur. From the number of new operators that appear on the trolleys no doubt the Indianapolis Railways are hiring men to take the place of the operators who have gone to the service.. If Mr. Thompson is such a skilled driver he might be able to obtain a job driving one of the trolleys and then he will be able to understand the other side of the question. He will find 50 or more passengers on each and every trolley that are taxpayers who are in as big a hurry to get to their work as he is. . . .

Being familiar with the traffic conditions on the E. Tenth line and the narrowness.of the street I know that the trolley operators have to cut in and out of the traffic or they could never get their passengers to town on schedule. As far as the reckless: driving and the. trolley operators running through red lights, it seems Mr. Thompson only looked at one side of the question. I find by riding the trolleys that the operators give the motorist more breaks than they receive, . . . Mr. Thompson states that he dreads’ for the time to come when he will have to put his car away and ride the trolleys. I hope that the rationing board will give him enough ‘tires and gas so he can continue to drive his car. . . I am a trolley rider 100 per cent, behind the war effort, and not a

griper. ; By Mrs. Maralyn Barnes, 2115. E. 12th st. In reply to Richard A. Thompson: I, too, dread the day when you have to store your car—not because’ of the inconvenience to you-but be-

cause I realize with what the trol-

Side Glances—By Galbraith,

ley operators are going to have to contend. It isn’t the fellow who has used the trolley every day for years to get. to work who squawks about the local transit system. These people from daily observation, know something about the job it has to do. The schedules, the loading of a hundred passengers in a few minutes, making change while driving in heavy traffic make the operators’ job no cinch even under the best conditions. As for being slow, it is true that you should sllow a few minutes more for taking the trolley than when driving. I worked for six years; rode the trolley every day and was only late once. And then it. was a situation for which I could hardly hold the trolley operator responsible. It is some of you infrequent passengers who make the trolley operators’ blood boil. Of course the fact that they run on schedule does not mean anything to you. You probably expect him to wait when he sees you running a half block down the street. Of kourse,

you would not be running. Now after he waits a few minutes on you, he surely won't stop to pick up any more passengers—because, after all, you are going to be: late already. Most people do not expect limousine service in the trolleys. They are pleased with the safety record of the Indianapolis Railways. They are content with the fact that the trolleys are comfortable, load, unload and transport their passengers safely, and run on well planned schedules. After all what do you want for your 7 cents? If you had ever had experience with transit systems in other: cities you would agree that Indianapolis has one of the best. . . . The Indianapolis Railways are carrying about 30 per cent larger load than they were last year. When gas rationing goes into effect, their burden will be even greater. I for one appreciate the good job they are doing. Every one is ready to give the war production worker a pat on

sideration for the fellows who are just as essential to the war effort— the railways employees? ® = = : “ENOUGH OF YOUR NEW DEAL HYSTERICS, MR. MILLER!” By E. F. Maddex, 929 W. 28th st. Well, Clyde Miller . . . has finally spilied the New Dezl beans. He... jumps off the deep end and demands a ‘dictator” to save our democracy—“right ngw.” Dictators don’t save democracy, they destroy it as Mr. Miller and the rest of- the .intelligent Americans well know. Look at Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Are they in-

{terested in democracy?

Well, Clyde, we: knew all along that you real New Dealers were cogking up a mess of dictatorship bean soup. We are glad you lifted

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By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—Indiea- © - tions that Hitler intends to assu : a predominantly defensive position behind a barricaded, reorganized, R Nazi-driven Europe continue to pile

up. i Among the chief obstacles in the way of these ‘plans, according to ‘latest reports, are Poland and France, Political developments “in both countgles are jeopardizing Nazi gains, and drastic efforts to crush anti-Nazi forces there are likely very soon. Unrest in France is causing headaches in Berlin because France and the Low Countries are almost certain to become the scene of the long-threatened second front. The arrest of former Premier Edouard Herriot may be the beginning of Vichy's effort to bring France into line with the axis. * France and Belgium are bristling with fortifica tions against an Anglo-American invasion, These defenses are constructed from the coast to enormous distances in the interior. French workers have been conscripted to do most of the labor. But the defenses may be built on political quicksand. .

Poland Fly in Ointment, Too

FOR THE FRENCH people are extremely bitter against the Nazis and against the Vichy regime, Hitler knows this and realizing the peril from such a situation in the face of a probably imminent ine vasion, has ordered it removed—if necessary hy violence, Similarly, Poland is a fly in the Nazi ointment, Poland still holds the strategic middle position of the land bridge connecting the Baltic and Black seas, And try though he does, Hitler has been unable to find a Pole who will stooge for him at Warsaw. Every

Polish leader thus far approached has turned hil y

down, even at the risk of death. The first to be offered the doubtful honor wis Prof, Estreicher of Cracow, a leader of the Polish conservative party. This was in November, 1039, Re fusing, Estreicher was put in a concentration : where he died two weeks later under) mysterious cir ¥ cumstances. !

He's Still Searching abi

THE SECOND CANDIDATE was Prince Janus Radziwill, scion of one of the oldest, richest and most aristocratic families of Poland. This was shortly France's collapse. He refused. There is no authen record of ‘what happened to him. No. 3 was Prof. Bartel, three times premier of Poland under Pilsudski. He said’ no so categorically that the Nazis shot him last July. The fourth man approached was Dr. Wysocki, who was Polish ambassador in .Berlin when Hitler. rose to - power, and later, in Rome. He, too, declined. Where he is now I do not know. Today Hitler is searching for yet another candi~ date. There are many former Polish officials available but the fuehre? has yet to find one who will play his game—even when some of them hardly know where their next meal will come from. Unless Hitler can pacify Frarice, his powerful forti= fications there rest on a volcano which might blow up the day France's allies of old come to her rescue. And unless Poland can be adequately organized as a puppet state under some hitherto undiscoverable Pole, Hitler's domain in eastern Europe can hardly be called stable.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OUR WOMEN have been fitly rebuked by Lieut. Luidmila Pavy

lichenko, a visitor from Russia. Here is a girl of 26 who is said to have killed 309 German invaders of her country. She has endured hunger. cold, weariness and the revolting sight of bloody slaughter. She says this to Amer ican reporters: “The difference between Soviet women and American women is that we think chiefly of strength but Americans appear to think chiefly of beauty. We exercise to be strong; you exercise to reduce.” When the picture of Luidmila Pavlichenko was flashed on the screen at our neighborhood movie, snickers and giggles swept the place. The missing front tooth, the broad, sturdy figure, did not fit the popular conception of screen heroines. A fashion we find hard to give up has been set. Even though we are putiing our own girls into training camps, and teaching them to work ‘in factories and fields, we ‘cling to the old habits of thought. Our women, we say, will be able to do all these difficult jobs and at the same time look as glamorous as our favorite movie sar miter a Pero Westmore make up.

The Times Call for Strength

DOESN'T NATIVE good sense tell us this is im« possible? In my opinion we should prepare for drastic changes in feminine appearance. We should even encourage them. Calloused hands that have done useful work, windtossed and sun-scorched hair, bodies disciplined by labor to different curves—these are the changes we must be prepared to accept. : Our standards of feminine beauty will be altered, and ‘those things which seemed lovely yesterday, may seem unlovely tomorrow to’ women and men *ho,jave dedicated themselves to a high and difficult task.

to see that strength’ is beauty, and of peril the womea of a country must pe valor before vanity. Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are nop necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times, ’ i

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