Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1942 — Page 22

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942

CONGRESS DOING ITS JOB ONGRESSIONAL leaders -hadn’t “intended to do anything’ about controlling farm prices and wages until after the election. But the public became impatient, demanded courageous leadership. So congress got into high ‘gear and passed the anti-inflation law. The same leaders wanted to wait until after election before taking final action on the heavy new tax bill. But ey learned that the public was ready to make sacrifices, eager to get the bad. news over with and prepare to pay ‘the bills. So congress put on steam and now it seems likely the new taxes will be law within a few days.

i Drafting 18 and 19-year-olds was supposed to be anher political hot potato that had better not be handled til after the November balloting. But the public didn’t it to wait; it wanted those young men started on the training that would fit them for battle. - So now congress, in response to the president’s urging, is getting ready to make ‘quick work of that legislation. ~All of which demonstrates that under our democratic system the people, when they stand on their hind legs and ‘howl, get what they want from their congress. When the people demand action, it's not good politics to wait till after election.

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RUSSELL WILLSON

T= death of Russell Willson at 57 comes as a shock to the many Indianapolis persons who knew and admired . him as a vigorous, energetic and devoted citizen of the community. Russell Willson served this city well. He served as president of thie city council in the post-war I days, he was elected to the first ticket sponsored by the non-partisan school committee and he served ably as school board president for three years, he was president of the Indianapolis Bar, governor of district 1 of Gyro International, and active in many cultural groups. He was a man of sunny disposition who made many friends and kept them. His honesty and integrity made him respected far and wide. A great many people will miss him.

LET'S KNOW THE WORST “HE American people need more frank, more prompt information about the casualties suffered by ' their forces on land and sea. The truth, told quickly, would help them to appreciate the gravity of the ‘terrible struggle in ~ which we are engaged. Bad news, delayed and accumulated, . may prove a shocking blow when it finally comes out. “+ Loss of three heavy cruisers in the Solomons is announced after more than two months; but thus far the casualty lists haven't come through. When they do, publieation will be restricted to “local fields.” =‘ This war has been relatively free from American : easualties—so far as official information is concerned. In . sharp contrast, losses in the first world war were announced more promptly, lists of the dead, wounded and missing were issued daily, and names and figures were published widely. ~ In sharp contrast, also, is the present policy of our neighbor, Canada, and we believe the Canadians show an awareness of the realities of war not yet general in the ‘United States.

HE writer of this editorial was in Canada at the time . "7 of the Dieppe raid, in which Canadian troops were in the great majority. Newspaper accounts and radio broadcasts promptly informed the people of Canadian cities and provinces that their own men had been in action. On the third day after the raid the Canadian government had al-

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+" The reaction of the Canadian people was magnificent ) see. Knowing the tragic cost of war, they became all more grim and determined. . By and large, the conduct of our offices of censorship

war information has been enlightened, tolerant and |

npathetic. But these offices can’t get or authorize inmation which the military services don’t issue. . And we the military authorities have been too tight in their plicy of holding back unpleasant facts. 8 8

‘HIS country, born at Valley Forge and preserved in the ‘dark days of the civil war, has suffered through : terble, tragic times—and in peril and privation has shown greatest strength. But this war has seen too much ptimism, too much withholding of bad news, too much n-feeding of the public. A people which, like the Canadians, is told the worst, y and promptly, is less apt to be plagued by profit5, by strikes, by peanut politics and pressure-group nds than is a country where harsh truths are red slowly and reluctantly. e do not want to print one word which might aid enemies, but we believe the American people want and "all other information—and that they, and their counbe bette off 3f they are given 3t, he

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carpenters : Frankfurter, in the majority opinion, that a union could do just about anything for own interest in a labor dispute. But up in Syracuse Thurman won a a decision w might result in the jailing of mobody knows how many dirty parasites who for years have been extorting money all over the place from workers on government projects. The decision in the might have expected. on Aug. 4th any action against Petrillo and his union would fail “because he is fully protected by the laws, the policies and the decisions of the New Deal” Jimmy had forbidden his subjects to make recordings for use on the radio and in juke boxes and Elmer Davis of ‘the OWI, and Mr. Fly of the FCC, took on something awful about it.

It's the Law of the Land

WELL, THERE IS no need to go into the thing. We don’t know whether congress actually did intend to grant to unions the right to.commit offenses against the rights and property of innocent individuals and firms and to operate stickups on the highways, but we do know that the supreme court has held this to be so and that will be the law of our land until congress defies the New Deal party and enacts corrective legislation in spite of White House opposition. To the credit of the lower house it must be said again that it has passed two bills, but that both of them were smothered in committee in the senate to oblige the White House. In the Syracuse case Tom Clark, one of Thurman'’s assistants, got indictments against four low-grade New Deal union racketeers of the outfit conducted by William E. Maloney of Chicago and Joe Fay, the thug who runs with the Frank Hague chapter of the New Deal party in New Jersey, and known as the International Union of Operating Engineers.

The 'Permit Card’ Racket

THE DEFENDANTS seem to have crossed up Thurman and Clark, however, by pleading guilty, whereupon they were fined $10,000 each which, of course, is just peanuts to men in these rackets. Their racket was the “permit card” whereby men are forced to pay unions all over the country for the privilege of working on public jobs but are denied membership in the union for one reason or another. Having won without a .contest, Thurman and Clark can’t take it up to the supreme court for final decision, but for the time being they can have a field day because this stickup has been common, However, the next set of defendants might decide to make a struggle and, on appeal, the supreme - court might again decide against the people and in favor of the privileged racketeers of the party’s subsidiary. Of course, it is just as bad .when a union extorts the money and does give the worker a nominal membership as a condition of permission to work. on a job which lasts only a few weeks or months, After that his union membership is meaningless and is allowed to lapse. Or when he is admitted to the union and

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and then fired to make room for a new sucker with fresh money.

A Few Words Can't Do It

THE SYRACUSE MOBSTERS may have been told that they were out of line and couldn't win: on appeal, even if they did fight the case, because they made a dumb mistake in refusing to let the suckers have nominal membership. Thurman and Clark might win all over the place in similar prosecutions for this reason. But the grafters might remedy that error in future cases by issuing such nominal membership. That might put them in the clear. vou have to read a lot of law and opinions and debates to get a surefooted understanding of the Petrillo case and nobody can explain it to you in a few words. That Frankfurter decision in the carpenters’ case, which ‘governed Judge Barnes in Chicago, is a devious document which may not give you a clear understanding of his thoughts, but certainly leaves you in no doubt that unions have a right to do things to innocent people that no other person or

group would be allowed to do.

And that will be the law until congress, particularly the senate, decides to wrest back the government

‘of this country from the subgovernment of the party's

subsidiary.

Captive Italy By William Philip Simms *

: WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—~The to the impression that has been growing here for some time that the land of fascism is becoming one of the ‘axis’ chief dangerspots. Italy is now just as much an occupied country as France, Posand, or any of the others. If is estimated that there are now no less than 20 Nazi divisions scattered throughout the country, and probably more. But for their presence it is doubtful if Mussolini's militia could maintain order. . ‘Even Mussolini never wanted Germany for a partHe ‘preferred France and Britain, But after Paris and London had given him the cold shoulder, he had no other place to go. It was either Germany and a partnership in a new balance .of power, or going it alone, without any real voice whatever in the affairs of Europe. And to Mussolini, of courrse, .the thought of that was unbearable.

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3 : oY \ : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“STOP THIS DESTRUCTION OF GOOD. MATERIALS in By J. F.. Meyers, Mars Hill It is a sad and dangerous state of affairs when all the nation is practicing extreme self-denial to buy stamps, war bonds, pay exorbitant taxes, take part in all the drives to save and help in the war effort and those who dip into the funds take the brazen attitude of “To hell with the public” by wantonly destroying good material. The contractors at the Allison plant are burning thousands of dollars worth of good lumber, planed and milled, every day. Lumber is rationed—the people cannot .get lumber to build homes. Do not be deceived by any excuse. Go out and see for yourself any afternoon or evening. : Why not turn the FBI loose an the people responsible for this? , . What do you have to say about this, Mr. Tyndall? - Where do you stand, Judge Myers? The WPB has control of production of lumber, hence should have control of its destruction. All of these large plants are pursuing the same policy and it is vital

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view the workers! Stop it!

Investigate!

# " # “NO, I DON'T THINK AN APOLOGY IS IN ORDER” By Richard A. Thompson, 905 N. Grant st.

I wish to reply to Elmer Taborn of 821 Roache st., who seems to think I owe an apology to the Indianapolis Railways for the statements I made in my letter of Sept.

Mr, Taborn, would you apologize to them if your wife had been insulted time after time by the operators, your car had their fenders scraped by a bus driver who didn’t even have the courtesy to stop, (I wasn’t in the car at the time but I saw it happen from my office building and had no chance to get his number) and whose flagrant traffic violations have narrowly caused many accidents which didn’t happen because of the quick- thinking of the motorists? I don’t think you would if you

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20,000 miles a year and hardly ever go out of the city limits on my job and know the accusations I made are true and I wouldn't think of apologizing until these conditions are corrected. And quite frankly I don’t think you would apologize either. I also wish to reply to Mrs. Isabelle Austin, 3420 W, North. No, Mrs. Austin, I don't want = job driving a trolley. I am quite satis-

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I'th kind of particular where I work. i ” 8.8 “NEGOTIATED PEACE WOULD BE INGLORIOUS DEFEAT” By John F. White, 2502 Park ave. The one dominating question that must- be settled by the war itself, and to be ardently prayed for before peace can be considered by the allied nations, is that the axis powers must be so completely and s0 decisively beaten that these nations shall have no potent voice, if any voice at all, at the peace table that would result in endowing them with any power to herafter threaten the peace and tranquillity of any other nation. If the conclusion of the war does not settle this question as a first vital conclusion, then the war will not have been won, and no kind of peace can be assured that will have any basis in justice or give any assurance of either a short or long duration. Historically, this secoiid world war grew out of a deliberate and secretly planned preparation for war by the Nazi party of Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, and the war lords of Japan, to which the fasaist party of Italy, led by Mussolini, became a partner The development of these war

plans, beginning with the military

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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vasion of Austria by Hitler, along with Japan’s invasion of Manchuria and China, led to a continued series of iragic world events, breeding a war into which the United States was inevitably drawn in spite of all efforts to remain neutral. : This war is now being fought under circumstances in which prin-

ance to this nation are involved, that it must be waged to a conclusion so decisive that will leave no doubt about the principles on which peace shall be founded when the war ends. These principals must not be clouded nor hampered in: their application by the interjection of the

ldeclogies and contentions of supe-|

riority* that animates the axis powers in this war, contentions and ideologies that would inevitably arisé in the event of a negotiated peace, to defeat the ideals and objectives that animate this nation and its allies: To conclusively win this war is the first objective which the allied nations have set for themselves, which to win lays the foundation on which an enduring peace can be built. To give heed to any proposal for a negotiated peace, from whatever source it may come, that does not call for an unconditional surrender, would be an inglorious defeat for the allied mations themselves. EJ 2 B

“I DON'T THINK IT’S FAIR

TO TAKE MINOR BOYS”

By A 100 Per Cent American Indianapolis

Two gone, one to go. As-a mother of two boys already in camp and one ready to join, all past their 20th birthday, I wish someone would try to stop this 18-19-year-old boys in the draft. I don't think it is fair to the boys or parents to take minors, Of course if they really want to join, that is their business. Boys of this age have no mind of their own as to what they want to do. I think if these draft boards would go through their 1-B and 3-A, they could get several hundred men whose wives work and have no children to support and some who have been married as much as 10 years and finally decided to have a baby. I don’t suppose this will ever be printed in our paper but I just thought if they did, it might help some mother keep her boy until he is at least 20 if someone who has the authority to check these draft boards, please do if. ‘There should be some responsible person to do

Mother,

’ ® ® 8 “LET'S GET RID OF ALL THESE AUTO HORNS”. By Mabel Taylor, 4487 Kingsley dr. Why don’t the police arrest these “Just Married” hoodlums who insist upon driving around the Circle and all over town, blowing their horns incessantly as part of their celebration? They disturb the peace every bit as much (if not more) than a lot of other people do, and they deserve to pay « fine or stay in jaf], too. With the war on and nerves all “keyed up to high C,” we can and

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—~The way a few ‘insignificant words can shape up international affairs was never better illustrated than in the case of this classic runaround given the United States by the Chilean government. The recent speech of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in Boston brought this situation to a head, but the events leading up to that showe SEN down make a story of tremendous trifles in themselves. In its Oct, 3 issue, the Foreign Commerce Weekly, overseas trade magazine of the department of commerce, printed an article cape tioned “War's Effect on Chilean Economy.” First paragraph of that article follows: “Chile, the second largest copper-producing coune

‘| try in the world, possesses ore reserves estimated at

more than 1,200,000,000 tons. Although the Chilean government has not yet severed relations with the axis the Chilean mining industry is shipping to the United States thousands of tons of copper and other strategic metals vitally to our antie axis offensive.”

Then Things Started Popping : '

THE ARTICLE then went on in routine style to outline Chile’s domestic conditions, foreign exchange, agriculture, manufacturing and so on.. Copies ‘of this article apparently were rushed to Santiago. Almost immediately thereafter, leading Chilean newspapers appeared with obviously government-ine spired editorials, quoting the paragraph given above and then going on to say that in view of this official U. 8. view of the situation, it would not be necessary for the Chilean government to break relations with the axis powers. When the official state of mind was reported back to the United States things began to happen. Under Secretary Welles made his speech denounce ing Chilean aid to the axis, the Chilean government protested, and the the facts came out on the pare ticipation of Chilean citizens ih a Nazi spy ring fure nishing information to axis submarines.

1,100,000 Civilians in the Army

THE U. 8. war department now has more than 1,100,000 civilian employees, making it the largest employer in the country. This means the war departe ment has one civilian employee for approximately every four men in the armed service. If that figure looks high, the army thinks it has a justifiable explanation. The civilian clerical force of the war department in Washington numbers only 46,500, or about one clerk for every 100 soldiers. That leaves 1,053,500 civilian employees to account for. They're scattered all over the United States as machinists and helpers in government-owned and operated ordnance plants, as construction workers at corps of engineers army camp projects, as quartere master corps storekeepers, storage or maintenance employees, and so on. This million or more workers does not include any of the people working for private employers who have war department contracts. Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson:

MRS. HERMAN BAKKER of Rochester, N. Y. president of the Women’s Overseas Service league, is an enthusiastic admirer of the Des Moines WAACs to whom she made the graduation address in September. A forceful person with white hair but youthe ful skin and eyes, .she is a good: judge of healthy womanhood, bee ing such a splendid specimen here self. Since I haven't got around to Des Moines, I liked having first hand information from someone who doesn’t. write for the papers. “I got a real thrill out of those wonderful, whole some girls,” sald Mrs. Bakker. “They're the picture of health—no curls, no noticeable makeup, not a vestige of glamor as we usually think of it. But such perfect posture, such supple bodies, such clean looking faces! I tell you, I nearly burst with pride.”

You Can Understand Their Zeal

PART OF MRS. BAKKER'S pride came from ane other cause. She feels that the service rendered by her group in the last war laid the foundation for our .

present woman's army—and I daresay her boast ia justified. Some 23,000 American women served their country overseas in 1918 as volunteer workers and to day they are proud of their small organization. : At the moment that organization is concerned chiefly with inspiring its members to study the problems of peace. Quite rightly, these women regard those problems as vitally important, «They feel, as many of us do, that it is folly to fight at all unless we can finish the job by making the kind of a poste war settlement that will insure good will between nations for a long time to come. Having proved their patriotism long ago by tackling jobs no women of our land had done before, they feel rather like pioneers ‘who cut a way into the wilderness. One can easily understand how gratified they are to see these later results of their daring and. Zeal, They may justly be called the spiritual grande mothers of our WAACS and WAVES. And, like most fodern grandmothers, they haven't lost their pep.

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