Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1942 — Page 19

Scout Executive Delmer Wilson hears first-hand service reports from Cub Scout Jack Buiger turns over a shel, Tell of world war 1, fo Scouts John Glass (left) and Jack Moss (right).

0. K. AUTOMATIC

Blanket Approval Given by

‘WLB to Such Raises

Under Contracts.

WASHINGTON, Oot! 15. (U. PJ). —Automatic ‘wage/ rate increases provided: by contracts had the| ‘blanket a, oyal of ‘the ‘war labor ‘board today. In the an general order promulgated by WLB since the wage stabilization order of President Roosevelt was issued Oct 3, the

board last night ruled that indi-|

viddal ‘wage adjustments can ‘be made without appfoval of WLB if . they fall within certain. prescribed limitations. 7 ‘The board held that ‘its order should not result in any substantial increase of the level of costs and shall not furnish a basis “either to increase price ‘ceilings of the com- * modity or service involved or to resist’ otherwise justifiable reductions in such price ceilings.” Adjustments permitted without formal application for WLB approval must be “incident to the application or the terms of an established wage agreement or to established wage rate sclhredules covering the work assignments of employees.” "Phey. specifically must be the result of: 1. Individual promotions or reclassifications. _2. Individual merit increases within established rate ranges. { 3. Operation of an established plan of wage increases based upon: length of service. - 4. Increased ‘productivity under 4 piece-work or incentive plans. £5. Operation of an apprentice or trainee system. .

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Moderated by FRED G. CLARK General Chairman American Economie * Foundation

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ALFRED M. BINGHAM

Author: New Techniques of Democracy MR. BINGHAM OPENS: Congress is in low repute. Few of the politicians we vote for command our deepest loyalty. Constitutional liberties failed to prevent a disastrous depression and a ‘catastrophic war. The dictators say democracy is obsolete and so far

they have won most of the battles.

Are they right? The traditional forms of democracy were developed to meet the problems of the 18th century. Some of them fit the modern world as a boy’s short pants‘fit a man. If we depended only on legislative debate and electioneering to fight dictatorship we should lose. Fortunately, democracy is a way of life, and like life it is subject to growth and change. America has been developing new. democratic forms and techniques. Even before the war these new devices were giving people new freedoms. Labor unions were giving workers

sion. Millions of farms were participating in the administration of agricultural planning and controls. Public housing was giving mare

"| children a real chance to grow up:

Now the war is bringing vast numbers of citizens the opportunity

Ato share in +a common effort as

néver before. We are building a new democracy on the sound foundation of the past. ’ DR. SAXON CHALLENGES Mr. Bingham’s position sums up as fol“Democracy” must expand through . compulsory labor unions, collective farming and publicly subsidized. housing. He fails to mention that this involves taking away the individual citizen’s constitutionally guaranteed freedom of economic choice and establishing complete - government control over the means of production. “This. is not “building a new It is nothing but clumsily camouflaged totalitarianism based on. the pretext of “good”

.| controls; ‘for the “good” of the peo-

ple. But there is no halfway house on

[the road to totalitarianism. Once

§ the government starts “taking over”

g |it must, of necessity, go the whole

way. MR. BINGHAM REPLIES: The best refutation of Dr. Saxon is America today. The government is doing more than ever before under the demands of total war but because we are not afraid of inventing new methods of popular partici-

“i |pation as we go along we actually

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Ask the air raid wardens and. rationing board. Ask the members of labor management committees in: the factories. Ask the home ‘cane ners, and volunteers, ang ‘nurses’ aids and millions’ of others if what \|they are doing is: on the road to

i totalitarianisn, ~~ +4. Democracy means free men work{ing together. Cl {what it can accomplish.

There is no limit to

tealing | WCTU HEAD FAVORS THE ICE CREAM SODA

BQZEMAN, Mont., Oct. 15 (U. P.).

gestion that recreation programs for war workers emphasize ice cream sodas rather than liquor drew a fervent “amen” last night from the

‘national president of the Women's |

Christian Temperance’ union. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, head of

°° |the organization, sald, however, that

the increase of illegitimate births would not be solved until the production

facturers replaced women nthe |war plants. 5 “The nation’s principal reotentioh

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Are We Outgrowing Democracy in U, S.?

Each week this newspaper presents a debate by two outstanding authorities on some current nation-wide prob-

new opportunities for self-expres- | gq

|AF.L. ENDS SESSION; GREEN RE-ELECTED

—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt's sug-.

of liquor was halted and the manu-

Leader Harry Ice to throw on the nation’s scrap heap.

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each debate are selected for the subject under discussion.

By DR. O. GLENN SAXON Prof. of Economics, Yale University DR. SAXON OPENS: One hundred fifty years ago, our Founding Fathers, with an acute knowledge of mankind’s 3000 years of political experimentation, set up a government which they knew would keep men free as long as the constitution remained fundamentally unchanged. ‘Basically there are only two kinds of government: either the people control the government or the government controls the people. - Any other situation is merely a transition. Which kind is pest depends upon the character of the people making up: the nation. . The people who organized the United States of America were the sturdy self-reliant type that did not f} want or need a paternalistic government which, in exchange for complete obedience, ‘would promise them food, clothing and shelter. If today the constitution is no longer the best formula for America’s government it is not because the constitution has failed; it is because Americans no longer have the personal characteristics necessary for political and economic freeom. ..Mr..Bingham may be right. Maybe the majority of Americans today want constitutional changes that offer illusory collective security. By voting away freedom they may get some color of ‘slavish security. But if they do, it means that America will go the way of Greece, Rome and other great empires, into the limbo of history. ‘MR. BINGHAM CHALLENGES: One hundred fifty years ago a group of young revolutionists invented a new form of government. They made use of what Hamilton (aged 30) termed “wholly new discoveries” in the “science of politics.” The strength of the Constitution they wrote lay not in its reliance on tradition but in its adaptability to change. We have moved far since their day. They would not recognize some of our new discoveries. But they would expect their descendants to make “useful alterations suggested by experience” (The Federalist). Dr. Saxson need not despair of our generation. Millions of selfreliant Americans are sharing new tasks today. DR. SAXON REPLIES: The Constitution is adaptable to change— through amendment. But presentday reformers consider constitutional ‘amendments and due process of law too old-fashioned (largely because they fear their reforms could Rok stand. the test of public opinn). We have “moved far since their day.” Since 1932 we have moved steadily away from representative government, toward that “excess of democracy,” ‘demsgoguery; against which the Constitutional convention warned the nation. Let’s remember Benjamin Franklin’s answer to ‘a friend; inquiring as to the kind of . gavernment established by the Constitution: “A republic, sir, if: you’ can keep it so!” and as we value Hberty; we must “keep it so. Xetaet

TORONTO, Ontario, Oct. 15 (U. P.).—The executive council of the A. F. of L. meets today to wind up the 62d annual convention. _ William Green, re-elected to serve his 19th term as president, said he expected the council ‘to consider only “routine matters” “dealing ‘with convention actions, The convention adjourned last night after unanimous re-election of all officers and naming Boston as the next convention city. Green brought the convention to a close with a prediction that Germany will collapse next year and

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WARING LAUDS GREEN'S STAND

Cartridge Plant Strike by A. F. of L. Head.

Roane Waring, national] American Legion commander, has sent a telegram commending William Green, A. F. of L, president, for his action in repudiating the unsanctioned walkout of 11,000 workers of the Western Cartridge plant at Alton, Ill, recently, “The American Legion commends your courageous action in making public immediately that the strike was not sanctioned by the A. F. of L.,” the telegram stated. Mr. Waring supported Mr. Green 100 per. cent .in his demand that the “irresponsible leaders of the shutdown movement follow responsible leadership of the A. F. of L. and go back to work at once.” - “In normal times the American Legion has leaned backward not to inject itself into controversies be(tween labor and capital but these are not normal times,” Mr, Waring told Mr. Green. “We are in the midst of a war to death, a war in which the winner takes all. The: Alton plant is turning out bullets that our marines must have in the Solomons and it passes’ our understanding how any American can fail ‘those marines in the jungles. »

GIRLS TO RIDE JEEPS

Army jeeps piloted by soldiers and their girl friends will participate in a Square dance, 1942 style, at the World War Memorial plaza Oct. 24. The event will benefit the id and the war bond drive. Music will be: furnished wy) old phonograph records brought to the dance by the young women who attend. In fact, an old phonograph record will admit one lady, and after it is played will be ceremohiously broken and sold for scrap. All service men in uniform will be admitted to the dance free. The treasury department war save ings staff comes into the picture in its “Everybody - 10 Per Cent” war bond drive, by selling bonds at the war dance. Telephone orders for bonds will be accepted by radio station WIBC, which will stage the program. Delivery jeeps, in which the girl friends may ride, will scuttle through the city with war bonds only after orders have been verified by a return telephone call. All payments must be in cash and homes must be sufficiently lighted to be identified easily in order to simplify delivery.

Women fo Join The Coast Guard

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P.). ~The WARCOGs had their day in the house yesterday. G5 The WARCOGS, in case you hadn’t heard, will be to the coast guard what the WAACs the army and the WAVES to the navy. A hill creating a women’s auxiliary reserve of the coast. guard was passed unanimously by’ the house and sent to the senate. The WARCOGs will perform’ Ji. similar duties to fhose of the WAACs and WAVES — work at. shore ' establishments to relieve men for combat service. Under the house-approved bill, they will have one officer with the rank ‘of lieutenant commander, 18 officers - ranking as lieutenants and not more than 35 per cent of the entire group may be Heutenanis, * junior grade. - :

WINS A COMMISSION Donald Talbott, assistant chidf

been commissioned a fire lieutenant

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in the sanitary corps and is now in

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6000 Local Boys Serving Nation on the Home Front

Wartime Indianapolis is using its senger. At the third session the|first class private and a chevron Boy Scouts. hours of handling incendiary bombs, {boys learn to identify silhouettesadded:to his “commando” arm bar And the Boy Scouts, whose key-|two hours of drill and five hours of jand the fourth concenirates on|When he gets 50 pounds more, note is “service,” are meeting the|general messenger instruction. drills. The fifth class studies fire|becomes a corporal, 200 pounds me test. : Three hundred already have com-|defense and an analysis of incen-|a sergeant, 500 pounds additional, But that’s the Boy Scouts for|pleted their training. Five hundred|diary bombs. lieuténant, 750 pounds more a tape you. There are more than 6000 of more are in training. And there are| Gas defense features the meeting tain, and the final 1000 i them in Indianapolis and when the|hundreds more .ready to begin. and first aid the eighth.. makes him a major. war is over they’ll be listed as home| - There are 27 schools in 22 dis+| The messengers are scouts between| The boys are directed by front heroes. tricts meeting twice a week. The|l4 and 18, while all the boys, in-|Hook, chief messenger of the state Before long 2400 will be in civilian|first class deals with the organiza-|cluding the cubs, take part in the and chairman of the scouts’: waf = defense messenger service. That tion of civilian defense, air raid|“commande” raids on the city's|service committee, Mr. Hook an doesn’t mean they just run errands.|zoning details and local blackout|scrap. Delmer Wilson, scout executive, e: They are going to school to become requirements and practices. In this work, the boys gather the pect the 6000 scouts in the cot experts in civilian defense. The second meeting deals with|scrap and are advanced in rank as/to be augmented by hundreds Their 22 hours of training is/map reading and pathfinding along|their work progresses. When a scout|other boys who will become & divided thus: Ten hours of first aid,| with the general duties of a mes-{gathers 10 pounds he becomes ato aid in war work.

three hours of gas defense, two

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