Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1942 — Page 10

Editor, in U. 8, Service

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1943

VHINA’S response te the American and British move: to abrogate. extraterritorial rights, and negotiate treaties f equality, is as generous as it is enthusiastic. Without i rehashing a century of humiliating discriminations suffered i by China in its own house, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek 'welcorhes the change as “one of the glorious pages in the history of the Chinese republic.” President Roosevelt is to be congratulated especially for his timing of this reform in our foreign relations., He ‘chose China's independence day—her double tenth, the tenth day of the tenth month—to announce the policy of equality, which was one of Sun Yat-sen’s aims in founding the republic 31 years ago. The timing was important because the promise was overdue. In 1934, in 1940 and again in 1941, our govern-

ment stated its willingness to give up the unequal rights— |

at some future time when conditions were. favorable. No date was set. The Japs, of course, have used this as propaganda against us. But there is nothing indefinite about this new pledge to negotiate “promptly” for the “immediate relinquishment” of extra rights and related questions. oH o ” # » 8 THIS will be much simpler for the United States than for Great Britain, which joined in the new pledge. We earlier gave up territorial concessions, while Britain held hers until the Japs took over. Nor have we any complication like the British crown colony of Hongkong, now occupied by the enemy. China has been asking four things of us. Equal treaties, action in the Pacific war, supplies for China, and a prompt compromise settlement of the British-Indian | conflict now aiding the enemy. With the exception of India—and Washington continues to press London for a settlement there—the United - States is meeting all ‘of those just Chinese requests. Our government is increasing the flow of planes and supplies to Chungking, and results are showing on the battlefronts. Soon perhaps Chinese airfields can be used for bombing Tokyo. And the long American retreat in the Pacific has stopped; at both engs of the line, in the New Guinea-Solomon areas and in the Aleutians, our strengthened forces hold the initiative. Meanwhile, we can rejoice that the new policy of treaty equality has defeated Japan on one of her major propaganda fronts to divide the allies. After five years of heroic defense, our Chinese allies now feel they have even more to fight for,

WHY “A” STICKERS? THERE are approximately 27 million passenger automobiles. in the United States. Under the gasoline rationing system, each: automatically is entitled to an A card.

Some, for special reasons, are entitled to B, C or S cards.

~The purpose of the windshield sticker is to corroborate Sons are that. more: than “000 will shiend

to filling station attendants that the car owner does hold legally a B, a C or an S card—if he does. Why, then must 27 million A stickers be printed, distributed and. exhibited at great expense? There is no need to convince anybody that. ‘one. Sa an A card, “It is only ‘if one has one of the supplementary llowances that he is called upon to show his lors. :

AN D1 MORE TAXES TO COME IT NOW seems likely that the new tax bill will be on the statute books before election day. The sudden show of ~ speed is more than welcome. For: most of ‘the new taxes are laid en this year’s incomes of individuals, and businesses, and we are already in the 10th month of this year. The people have known that high taxes were upavoidable. Families and businesses can adjust their affairs to pay high tax rates, but they can’t adjust to prolonged uncertainty. _ Men entering the armed services after a year of good earnings in civilian: life are out of: luck unless they have & (A married man with a $5000 net income this year will owe a net in-. me tax of $639; a whole year’s pay of a $50-a-month uck private is $600). Such men will have to fight the war.

wing a tax debt to their government. If they are killed |

fighting, their widows will owe the tax. Others remaining ‘in civilian life, whose businesses hit the toboggan because of priorities or- other war restrictions, likewise. will be in debt to the government for the duration, with an aequmulatring 6 per cent interest charge. 0 8 8 8 8 8 =n “A LL this could have beens avoided by adoption of the ~" Ruml plan for pay-as-you-go income: ‘taxation, but Sec-

: a political issue out of the Ruml plan, and congress let the matter go until after the. elections. © But some such plan will have to be: adopted eventuly, and even the" thick-headed treasury officials will have , consent. There is no gther way to et the taxes be-

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By Westbrook Peglr

NEW YORK, Oct. 12 — A Jouching, (5 1 Jou. Wil, Schulins. occurred = recently in Juclient

Local 25 of the teamsters’ union held a mass meeting and, in a great outburst of devotion, decided to support James M. Curley, ex-governor of the state and ex-

congress from the 11th district, as a loyal, not fo say typical, New Dealer, and to pay off all his debts, including a judgment of $50,000 held by the city of Boston. The Judgment was. won against his late honor, the ex- , mayor, in a litigation which did not burnish his name but, considering his record, hardly can be said to have

» sullied the same perceptibly.

John M. Sullivan, president and business agent of the local, issued a statement in which he said that Mr, Curley was speechless from emotion and therefore was unable to thank the teamsters.

has enjoyed a high standard of living on public salaries, Mr. Sullivan did not say. He did say that “labor always pays its debts and we all know that labor owes a debt to this man,” but that figure has always hitherto been understood to mean moral and political obligations.

A Precedent Is Cited : THE INCIDENT IS consistent, however, with the

ternational union, the parent body of local 25, some

‘| months ago, that it would spend as much money as

might be necessary to achieve—or, to put the same thing otherwise, buy—the election of its’ candidates for congress this fall. The international has “over one and a half million dollars in cash, lying idle in the banks,” but not in war bonds, according to the current issue of its offi‘cial publication, but the strategy of Brother Sullivan's Boston local is a reversion to an old and tried form of racket, for it is not intended to tap the treasury for Mr. Curley’s indebtedness; instead, Brother Sullivan will, “conduct athletic carnivals and similar benefit ‘| performances, as one means of raising money, and invite all members of organized labor to send in contributions.” This is a traditional method of raising money for boss unioneers, but I have never before heard of its use to pay the old debts of a candidate for a job paying $10,000 a year, plus $5000 in gravy, in the U. 8. congress

Taking Care of the Brothers

BROTHER JOE MORESCHI, the boss of the racket known as the common laborers’ union, received “a substantial check” some years ago on his departure for England as fraternal delegate for the A. F. of L. to the British Union congress, Brother Tommy Maloy, the predecessor of Brothers George Browne and Willie Bioff in the stagehands’ and movie employees’ union, or racket, received ohe even more substantial when he, like Brother Moreschi before him, set sail on a similar mission accompanied by his mob of eight male secretaries. It is considered very bad taste and unhygienic conduct in any ordinary working stiff to decline to buy tickets to “athletic carnivals and similar benefit per'formances” held to raise money for all ‘such tokens, including “substantial: checks.” And, considering how very much money it will be necessary to raise to get Mr. Curley out of hock, the rank and file toilers not only of the teamsters’ local but in other trades doubtless will feel a strong moral obligation breathing down their necks as Brother Sullivan's “benefit” promoters present the opportunity to cancel their debt to the noted statesman,

"Friends" Not Forgotten

"BROTHER SULLIVAN'S statement added that not only the ‘union. rank and file but all “friends of the ‘former governor” would be “invited” to contribute, and in this connection it may be noted that businessmen who dread interference with deliveries of merichandise naturally will weigh the situation carefully and may ‘buy tickets anyway. Now, local 25 is promoting a “testimonial dinner” for Mr. Curley to be drunk on Oct. 31, and expecta-

At $5:-per head that would be $35,000 gross, and sdeducting the usual 75 cents for the usual $5 testimonial: dinner, the net would be $29,750 toward the retirement of the personal debt of the Hon. James M. Curley of. Boston. J

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those

“on of. ‘The Indianapolis Times.

Dive Bombing By Major Al Williams

. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—1It is difficult. for airmen to understand, but some high commanders in this country and many in England are still attempting to discount the dive bomber. I suspect that some old school military and naval minds reflect the impression, all

the dive bomber doesn’t seem able to do any and all kinds of jobs. Remember that airpower, like other arms, has its own particular weapon for a particular task. The infantryman has his bayonet for close in-fighting. Seapower “has various types of ships for various jobs. So with" airpqwer. - It's suicide to send dive bombers against enemy objectives, on land or sea, without having established

a dive bomber in breaking up ‘or softening: enemy

army. Teansport Plane Use Regogriied:

mayor of the city, for election to

blunt announcement of the executive board of the in-|

too common among laymen, that.

The. Hoosier Forum

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

“PUT CONVICTS ON PAROLE ON THE FRONT, LINE” By Mrs. Rose L. Jackson, 716 Economy st. I have a son who will be 18 years old in a few months. He is going to enlist in the navy. He is a good boy who wants to defend our country. 1 also have a nephew who is in northern Ireland. What I want to know is this: Our good boys are fighting for our country while convicts on parole get drunk and have fights in beer taverns and on the streets and are running at large while our good boys are defending our dear flag. I say put these criminals in the front line. They would make good cannon fodder.

2 2 = “WHAT ABOUT THE ROWLEY CASE, MR. PROSECUTOR?”

By Harry J. Rowley, 2023 Gent ave, "I see in the paper where Mr, Blue says the war is stopping justice by witnesses’ being _ called. Why not bring into court things that have happened over two years ago, cases that have been under advisement for more than a year like the case of John B. Rowley who drove a truck for Keeshin Motor Express who was burned to death at Ritter and E. Washington sts. The .lady had | been drinking, driving a car one and one-half years without a license. The witnesses have all been heard on this case, but still this case was taken under advisement. That was January, 1941. The accident was August 21, 1940. Why is she still not brought into court. She was tried in crimingl court, Mr. Dewey Myers as Judge, 2 2

“EVERY coal CONSUMER IS NOW ON HIS OWN” By Retail Coal Dealer, Indianapolis I am writing to give you some of my ideas on the coal situation as it regards the retailer and the publio been a

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did not take the coal haulers long to realize this and as they know they cannot hope for the high wages paid in the defense plants, many of them have left this work for the better paying jobs. Coal hauling is not pleasant work at any time and when the temperature is below zero and the coal is frozen hard and the man’s hands are cut and bleeding from struggling with this frozen coal to get it to the public, I cannot truly blame him for seeking more pleasant work. Today, we cannot get any more good men to haul coal, and the ones we have are not working as hard as they should. . . . This sounds preposterous and impossible, yet this is the true state of affairs as regards the coal hauling industry. Let one of the dealers ask for prompt appearance of the men or for more efficient service from the truck, and the driver is ready to quit his job right now. The service the customer gets now is pathetic. The coal hauler used to be/a courteous servant who performed his unpleasant task in as neat and clean a manner as possible. Now he is a bad-mannered ruffiian who is interested in only one thing—getting his load off as quickly as possible, and the ill-fated customer who

dug-in or fortified positions ahead of an Silvancing

in the rhorning and late at night for coal. They didn’t order it this summer. They didn’t order it last week. They all waited till they were cold and needed heat to call their dealer. They all call at once and they all want coal right now. This is now impossible for the duration. Every coal consumer is now on his own. This useless phoning back to the dealer a dozen times after his order is placed only places a load on the already Reavily-taxed telephones and also makes it hard on the coal dealer to answer all these silly complaints. Of course you ordered your coal last Thursday and now it is Monday and you still don’t have it. You should have to freeze if this is all the co-operation you can give your country when you have been warned all summer long to order your coal early. ... Let’s face this thing, let's all get together and call a spade a spade. A man who lays in bed till nine o'clock in the morning and won’t come to the job with his truck and haul coal is a, “slacker.” He is a no-good saboteur when he loafs all day long in a saloon when he should be working; he is worse when he

his tires and truck by careless driving. A citizen who waits till he gets cold and then asks his coal dealer to deliver a small amount of fuel

as the lazy driver. He is more guilty when he calls back a dozen times and very indignantly inquires as to why the coal wasn’t delivered right when he asked for it. Women who go away and do not watch the delivery of their coal have no right to complain. We can’t help it. "We hire the best we can get, we pay them all we can, and we can’t help it if the men are careless and ignorant, and if the consumers are insiiofent until after the damage one. ss.

s ® = “HORRIFIED AT THOUGHT

OF A DICTATOR” By) Raymond Lee Pedigo, 5657 W. Washing-

Under date of October 2, 1942 there appeared an article in The Indianapolis Times in which Mr. Clyde Miller made a statement that what this country needed was a dictator immediately, and that con-

deliberately and carelessly wrecks|§

as fast as possible is just as guilty |

[By Peter Edson

This 1 per cent deduction is applied to only the first $3000 of the wages. In other words, it costs you a maximum of $30 a year.

Up to $150 a Year for You THIS PRESENT LAW calls for this rate to be

year, however, so the amount you pay next year is still to be decided. But now comes the Eliot bill which proposes among other things that these payments on people now cove ered be raised to 5 per cent for both you-and your employer for 1943-1945, then go to 5% per cent for 1946-1948 and end up at 6 per cent thereafter. If this bill became law, it would cost you up to $150 next year, and it would cost your boss up to $150 a year for each employee. The Eliot bil would further broaden the social security structure by taking in some 30 million citizens not now covered. Included would be 11.5 million agricultural workers, 2.4 million domestic workers, 6.5 million employees of public government and non-profit agencies, 5.5 million self-employed workers like insurance salesmen and storekeepers, and from 2 to 4 million people on relief work projects. These 30 million people would not all pay the 5 per cent to 6 per cent rate, but varying rates of from 2 per cent to 6 per cent.

It Would Be in to Stay

WHAT REP. ELIOT proposes to give you would include: Increase old age benefits from $1.50 to $8.00 a month, depending on earnings; pay unemployment insurance to workers disabled for less than six months; set up a system of hospitalization benefits; extend benefits in the same amount as old age benefits to . workers disabled more than six months; federalize unemployment insurance and extend unemployment payments up to 26 weeks, with shorter waiting periods; provide additional disability benefits for workers’ de= pendents; provide maternity benefits. Now the chances of any bill such as this being: passed are. of course uncertain. . But there is one point on which you should not let yourself be kidded. If any broadened social security program such as this is passed as a war measure which would help check inflation, don’t expect that this hill will be repealed when the war is over and the threat of inflation gone, Once this bill gets passed as a ‘War emergency 1 will be there to stay.

A Woman's Viewpoint | By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OUTSIDE MY WINDOW: stands a golden tree. When the - first cool nights come, it decks itself for death. ‘The long. slender leaves on spread-finger branches change from a dull green to a pure yellow. Between the setting and rise ing of the sun the little tree. which all summer is the least noticeable and the least beautiful of all the trees. becomes a flaming torch. Outlined against a rosy sunset sky it is a sight to turn one’s thoughts heavenward. And how clever of it to end its summer in a burst ot glory. Brief as its autumn may be, it is a time of rarest beauty; it decorates, inspires and uplifts. ' Saying goodby to it has become a kind of annual ritual for me. Each day it wears its golden gown I rejoice, for I know that tomorrow or the next day, or surely next week, it will be naked and old. As I watch sorrowfully its transient splendor, it seems strange and sad that men and women fail to use and glorify their own autumn, x a

A Folly Only Mortals Commit

THE TREES are wiser. Their early beauty moves us to ecstacies because it is tender and timid and’ wraps itself in gossamer. But when the year ends what gestures of bravado the forests: make! Trees die as heroes should, flaunting defiance at fate, holde ing up their heads to meet the enemy wind. Emphasis upon spring is opposed to nature's wise dom. For she has chosen certain graces and uses and loveliness for every season. To refuse to recoge nize the advantages of our own seven seasons is as stupid as if we refused to acknowledge the loveliness of the forest's autumn time. It is a folly which only mortals commit, What a pity that Hotiig bu aware of the usefulness 2 he

but war can make us

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