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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942

0! IKE the horned toad, the bluenose seems to have thrived on suffocation. We thought we had’ buried him for keeps, nine years ago come Dec. 5. But here he is again, umbrella and sleazy plug hat and all, oozing piety from every pore and ready to be his brother's keeper—over his brother’s dead body if

Nine years. It doesn’t Soati that long. The noisome scent of bathtub gin still quivers our nostrils. The headlines are still fresh in memory—“Beer Baron Slain,” “Booze Convoy Hijacked,” “Coeds in Rumi Orgy.” Lord, have we got to go through-that again! wi # td 2 . 8 8 WARE B. WHEELER, Bishop Cannon, Izzy and Moe, Al Capone, Rum row, hip flasks, blind pigs, counterfeit “booze, “just off the boat,” clip joints, flaming youth, “Hello } guucker! ” and jake paralysis. It seems incredible that the “most fanatic of fanatics would want to revive that awful era. But here they are. The bluenose is under the tent. Quietly ‘they capture local-option elections here and there. Now they put the heat on congress to “gave our boys in uniform from demon rum.” Our “boys,” who would a sight rather ‘be called men, deserve a better reward than this rabbitpunch from behind. The marines. in the Solomons, the fortress crews over the channel, the navy’s “expendables” in their motor torpedo boats, must be boiling at the news —unless the censors have charitably kept it from them— that the pecksniffs are trying to “reform” them i in absentia. For heaven's sake, let’s slap this thing down before it goes any further—before it builds up the momentum to “roll us back to the bootleg age. From another noble experi‘ment, may the good Lord deliver us!

'TEACHERS—AND WARTIME

NDIANAPOLIS once again bids welcome to the 16,000 teachers convening here today for the 89th annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers’ association. And this city will note that these men and women are

: not here simply for window shopping and visiting with

friends. This year, even more than in the past years, the emphasis of jthe teachers’ convention is upon the critical problems facing all of us. . 3 The teachers have an even hater “task than most of us. For it falls their lot of interpreting war fears and war ' sacrifices to minds too young to grasp the full significance. We, in Indiana, owe a lot to these faithful public servants, the teachers of .our children. ) And we wish them a highly successful convention.

TIME IS NOT OUR ALLY - - ~ PREMIER SMUTS of South Africa, in his London address : to the joint session of commons and lords, iter the customary hint that a second front is near leaned heavily ‘on the prop that time is on our side. President Roosevelt, 10 days ago did somewhat the same. Smuts had Germany “bleeding to death” in Russia, and the war entering the stage of allied victory—though 2 the war “max continue till 1944.” His optimism was based

‘chiefly on the assertion that allied resources “afé still on|

the increase, those of the enemy are on the decline.” |. Or as the president put it in his recent radio address: “The strength of the united nations is on the upgrade in this war. The axis leaders, on the other hand, know by ‘now that they have already reached their full strength, and ‘that their steadily mounting losses in men and material cannot be fully replaced.” Therefore allied Victory: = is finevitable.” |

E are onadent of victory—if the alice zo all out to win. But we are impressed by the view of many military experts that there is nothing “inevitable” about it Of course neither the president nor Premier Smuts intends to stimulate over-confidence or an easy-victory |delusion. But that may be the net result, and a disastrous one, unless our leaders begin to emphasize that the axis has conquered vast new Yesources—ihat time may fight the axis side. : y has added, and Russia has lost, territory four nes as lirge as Germany; which produced about two-fifths .Russia’s grain and livestock, more than a third of her industrial output, and about 45,000 barrels of oil a day. ‘If time and German ingenuity are permitted to restore those “scorched earth” resources, the Nazis will be well-heeled. \ Japan's success in bing essential resources has been even more startling. ‘ Time is a desperate factor for the Silion-.ve have ‘none of it to lose. The difference between a short. war and a long war probably will be our. ability, or failure, to. gaih lost allied resources’ before the a axis 5 forges them into pons and munitions.

ENN B. RALSTON - = LENN B. RALS' ‘was a political faire in Marion county. And hig death yesterday: at the age of 50, ming practically on the eve of the election, has centered jo much attention on his political stature, rather than on other talents. - Let it be said that Glenn: Ralston was: politically pov chiefly because of an extremely “wide personal followfollowing which resulted in his renomination for ty auditor despite the opposition of the Yogular party.

And it should be remembered that Before he entered life, he had attained the position of being recognized

having as much (or more) knowledge of real estate|

than any other single individual in Marion ‘county. Bot = above and beyond all. that, Glenn Ralston was a

“NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Although the appointment of Justice James F. Byrnes to the position - of director of economic stabiliza- . tion has had general approval, it is

‘clearly shown in the supreme |

court opinion which he delivered in the teamsters’ case last winter that he is committed to the proposition that unions enjoy a legal right to increase prices by high. way robbery and to. waste

: power through the operation of the stand-by tam. That prosecution was brought by Thurman Arnold, |

assistant attorney general, under the anti-racketeer-ne act, against 72 original ‘defendants, 27 of whom had police or criminal records. It was the practice

of local 807 of the International Brotherhood of | ‘Teamsters, whose international president, Dan Tobin,

is .a political confidant and supporter of President Roosevelt and the New Deal, to hold up and rob by extortion, violence and threats, trucks entering the city of New York in interstate commerce. In the words uttered by Justice Byrnes, himself: “There was sufficient evidence to warrant a finding that the defendants conspired to use and did use violence and threats to obtain from: the owners of these ‘over the road’ trucks $9.42 for each large truck and $8.41 for each small truck entering the city.”

What He Attributed to Congress

THERE WAS PROOF that in some cases the out-of-state driver was compelled to drive the truck to a

point close to the city limits and there turn it over |.

to one or more ‘of the defendants. These defendants then would drive the truck to its destination, do the

unloading, pick up the merchandise for the return |

trip and surrender the truck to the out-of-state driver at the point where they had taken it over. In other cases, according to the testimony, the money was derganded and obtained, but the owners or drivers rejected the offers of the defendants to do or help with the driving or unloading. And, in several cases, the jury could have found that the defendant either failed to offer to work or refused to work for the money when asked to do so. Later in the opinion, Justice Byrnes held the congress “certainly” intended to except from the antiracketeering act anybody who “attempts unsuccessfully by violent means to achieve the status of an employee and to secure wages for services.”

"Gave Right to Extort Tribute!"

"HE ALSO SAID: “The doubtful case arises where the defendants agree to tender their services in good faith . . . but agree further that the protection of their trade union interests requires that he should pay an amount equivalent to the prevailing union wage if he rejects their proffered services. We think that such an agreement is covered by the exception.” In other words, Justice Byrnes, now charged with the duty of controlling civilian purchasing power, prices, wages and profits, believes that congress gave the unions the right to extort tribute from employers in the guise of wages for work not performed which costs obviously must be collected from the public by increased prices. Justice Byrnes further said: “Accepting payments even where services are refused is such an activi meaning the sort of activity by unions which congress intended to legalize. He regards such extortion as “ordinary union activity” and it must be understood that the word “extortion” is the correct one. Justice Byrnes uses the word “accepting,” but it would be just as honest to say that a holdup man “accepts” the victim’s watch and money at the point of a gun.

Now He Must Combat All This

HAVING FULLY JUSTIFIED the stand-by system, and having twisted the plain meaning of extortion into acceptance of money, Justice Byrnes next said: “It is not our province either to approve or disapprove such tactics.” Apparently it was his intention to put the blame on congress for approving them, although it is to be doubted that congress even did approve them or has any legal or moral right to grant to any favored group the right to obtain money by violence or threats. The practical condition arrived at, however, is one which Justice Byrnes now is expected to combat but cannot combat without reversing himself. It would be hard to name a man more emphatically committed to abuses which will have to be conquered by the director of economic stabilization.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their ewn., They are not neeessarily those

+ of The lrdianapolis Times.

‘Men of Albermarle’

By Rosemary Redding

INGLIS FLETCHER has written an absorbing new novel. Its setting—North Carolina in 1710, two generations before the American Revolution. Its heroes—the planters, the artisans, the adventurers who made up the communities bordering on Albermarle Sound. From them the book takes its title: “Men of Albermarle.” “The story—Their struggle for Inglis Fletoher the establishment of the common law in a new land. “This isn’t the first time that Inglis Fletcher has written about these men. She pictures the part they played in the Revolution in an earlier book, “Raleigh’s Eden.” Behind this went years of research to-au-thentically picture the daily lives of planters, their dress, amusements, business, etc. Months more of study. went into her preparation for her newest novel.

"Then she came to Indianapolis last spring to be near |: her publishers, the Bobbs-Merrill Co. She wrote it

during a four month’s stay at the Spink-Arms.

t's Hard to Put Down

“The story is set amidst Queen Anne’s wars; amidst intrigue to return the Stuarts to the throne of England. Edward Hyde, a distant cousin of the queen, has been sent to take over the governorship of the Carolinas and to quell the Quaker revolt. - Onto. this scene Inglis Fletcher has brought an intriguing array of characters. There are the planters who held scores of slaves and trained their own armies. One of them, Roger Manwairing had served years on a plantation in the Bahamas for his youthful part in Monmouth’s rebellion. Now he was in America to build a magnificent plantation to which he would some day bring a lovely English girl to be his wife. ‘But before that happens, Inglis Fletcher introduces

Lady Mary Tower, a mysterious exile, secretly working |

for the return of the Pretender to the throne. Manwairing falls completely under her spell and almost ' the course of his life changed. These two carry main plot. There is a second “romantic interest”

the first love of Lady Mary's ward, Marita, and a |"

young man embroiled in the Quaker revolt. The action moves swiftly through great manor

houses, crude taverns, councils of state ‘and besieged | At times the romantic angles are almost f

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‘WE NEED MORE WORK,

LESS FIGHTING IN CAPITAL.’ By M. Shumway, Columbus. Frequently I hear a so-called big shot on the radio or read of one in the paper saying most people do not know we are in a war and we are losing it every day. Just what do they mean? How do they know what is in the hearts of people in all walks of life? In all our hearts we carry a son, father or brother who are somewhere either fighting or getting ready. Many a smile Mr. Big Shot, you see is only to hide a tear and a broken heart. Of course perhaps you mean the Big Shots in Washington. . If so I agree for all they can do is fight among themselves.

What we need in Washington is more work and less fighting. The public is getting tired of ‘the way things are going. And Mr. Washington, we put you fellows in there for a job such as we have now. If it is too much for you, be man enough to step down and let 4 better man do the job. Our president is doing his best to keep us from inflation. I think the most of us trust him. So let’s abide by his advice. Regardless of politics, he is our president. Let's get behind{} him in his fight for our freedom. When this war is won, it won’t be Mr. Big Shot who did it.”It will be our unknown and unsung heroes. The guy across the street or the one who sold us hamburgers last year. So when this is over this time, let’s see credit is given where due. 2 ” ” ‘SOLDIERS IN TRAINING NEED OLD FOREIGN EQUIPMENT’

By Lieut. .C. J. Allen, Press and Radio -Ofticer, 83d Division, Camp Atterbury. We have noticed in newspaper pictures that many pieces of foreign military equipment are being thrown on scrap piles to aid the war effort. These are evidently relics picked up on battlefields of the first world war

.and many of them probably were

cherished. It is a fine gesture on the part of our citizens to donate these relics.

Now in our ‘training here in the 83d Infantry Division we are teaching our soldiers to be able to identify our enemies by their uniforms, silhouettes, insignia, etc. have instruction and practical work in the searching and interrogation of prisoners. Our object is to make

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the men’as familiar as possible with the enemy." " In order to do this we are trying to acquire quite an assortment of foreign equipment. A great number of substitutes will have to be made although they have in the past proven rather unsatisfactory. We ‘would like to have German, Japanese and Italian helmets, uniforms and equipment—such as cartridge belts, buckles, canteens and haversacks. Also old-style American leggings (wrap around style), and Russian and French helmets, uniforms and equipment. I am sure any items of this kind would be of much more value as a training aid than as so much scrap. So we would appreciate it if your readers and those collecting scrap would save such articles and notify the Service Men’s Club, 128 W, Wabash . st. (phone, Lincoln 4414) where such articles may be picked up by us. I hop you will be able to give us some aid in procuring these items as they will be a great help in making the men of this division bettertrained soldiers.

; ” 2 ” ‘WILLKIE TOSSING MATCHES AT A POWDER KEG. By Vox Populi. . To a lot of people a keg of powder is an invitation to strike a match. Human capacity for mischief seems unlimited. Roosevelt picked some of the “typewriter generals” and some of them are up to some dangerous mischief in retaliation. Take this so-called “second front” thing— and Willkie, : The second front business is, per se, a keg of powder. Some of the

boys are maneuvering Willkie into sosition. which might result in a test of personal strength between him and Roosevelt on an altogether false issue, created partly by Willkie

Side Glances—By Galbraith

p about voting,

as a fire escape, and partly by some

. lof his mischievous friends.

Willkie polled some twenty million votes. He still has a very strong appeal to millions of people. The phoney issue which he has ducked behind carries a powerful emotional appeal. Especially since the war isn't yet going our way. Willkie now says the issue is the right of the people to criticize military leaders as well as civilian leaders, Nobody questions that. It’s not the'issue. The issue is whether mass judgment should override the technical judgment of trained military leaders, and force a course of military action which is contrary to beat military judgment—the consequences of which could be complete and irretrievable disaster. This is not a question of Willkie’s right to criticize military leadership.

sponsible public figure like Willkie has a right to toss a match into a

chievous—guys who think heavy but don’t se€ clearly—but also, he is

who see clearly but don’t think very heavy. At any rate, Willkie is taking refuge in a fake issue. He ought to be smoked out. Nailed down. Forced to face the real issue, or retreat entirely. Honestly, I think this guy, without knowing it, is fooling with deadly stuff, when he attempts to

‘|wrest public confidence away from in war].

the commander-in-chief, time. I am not expressing any apprehensions from the viewpoint of a Willkie-hater, or, for this matter, a Roosevelt lover. . . But if he had anything on the ball two years ago, he has something now. And he has something. He is a great man to give life and vitality to an idea—any idea. But one of his troubles is that he is intellectually promiscuous. An idea that will “sell” is okey by him. Essentially, he is just a salesman. But a man who wields the powper of a vast public confidence is dangerous in times like these, if he is more interested “in “selling” an idea than he is in the consequences of the idea itself. Roosevelt is pretty much the same stripe, but he- has what Willkie apparently lacks: Prudence, discretion, and a sense of personal responsibility. ss 8 =z «POLITICAL CONDITIONS CAN'T GET. ..UCH WORSE”

By Senior, Indianapolis Ask why some are indifferent Some reasons are: Many people believe political conditions can’t get much worse. The old-age pension law is a sample of

| |social-polifical iniquity. These old

people are worn out on farms and other menial labor at $8 to $10 on a week of 72 hours and up; then the law casts them off on their relatives to support if they have any that are eating three meals a day. Why not give those without income $25 a month that they will

get without strings to it instead of

this $40 they won't get. We give union groups $10 to $30 for an eight-hour day. Then when they choose to retire, a pension of $100 a month and up, regardless of the

{amount given the old people.

Let it be permanent, and above all be given in decency becoming

: jour claim to high social standards. | Either that or repeal the law en- | tively, for there is no valid excuse |why the state should make this

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powder keg. There’s no reason to|@ doubt he is being urged into this by § some folks who are purely mis-|§

probably being prodded by others |

mer Ambassador a C. Grew's4 warning that never again can a .- free: America: « do business with “robber” nations, like Japan, is k regarded here as one of the greate .:. est unlearned lessons of the war, -- Diplomats, government economists, foreign-trade experts and others with experience in axis countries are aghast at the failure —regardless of the reason—of Jabor, ieade and jndusiialists alike to see and heed ‘this profound truth, : To win, said the former envoy to Tokyo, We muss

_ throw: into the war our every asset, moral and phy-

sical. We must back the war effort with everything we've got, all the: time. Failure to do this, eoldblooded economists here emphasize, means actual, not figurative, slavery for the American people. ‘Japan is already ruined, finished, in terms of

“honest finance, as Mr. Grew says, but in terms of dis

honest finance she is flourishing. For the military crowd are in the saddle and, by hook or crook, they are out to win the war,

Held Together by. Force

THE SAME IS TRUE of Germany and the entire axis outfit. The whole thing is held togetlier by sheer force. But don't forget this: If the axis wins, the same kind of economy of the bayonet will be employed and we and the rest of the world will come out of. the war as slaves of Germany and Japan. In Europe there are 400,000,000 people.” In Asia there are more than a billion. If the axis wins—or even if a negotiated peace leaves Europe under Gere many, and Asia under Japan—the wages and hours of this billion-and-a-half people will be fixed at levels that will give the Germans and Jap a fenopoly on world trade. By employing the coolie labor of Asia at forced wages and hours, the Japs will get all the raw materials they require for next to nothing. These raw materials will then be processed in factories run in the same way. Whereupon the finished products will be distributed all over the world in governmente subsidized ships similarly built and operated.

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Americas Will Be Beggared

THE NAZIS will do the same in Europe. They can and will turn out everything from automobiles and locomotives to needles and pins at prices so low that a free America can’t compete, mass production notwithstanding. At least not without scrapping every labor gain thus far won or even hoped for.. There is no doubt who can sell cheapest. Irtler and Hirohito will fix wages so low. and hours so Jong that American workers™will be beggared. Nog only our foreign markets but our own domestic markets will be taken over by the conquerors. . The only way we could possibly hope to compete with the crooked, bayonet-backed economy of the Germans and Japs would be to adopt the same coolie standards to which they will yoke their subject peoples. To escape such a calamity, we've simply got to win this war—win it in the workshop and on the battlefield, not by negotiation with the enemy. As Mr. Grew said, the “robber states” are now putting everything they've got into their war effort, both physical and moral. We can't do less—not and hope to win.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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I LOOK FORWARD with ime patience to the day when the ¢ dressing of our soldierettes. and sailorettds is completed.” Reporters and cameramen .seem to think that war never gets past the reveille hour for women. Emphasis still is on clothes and looks and glamour, Figuratively speaking, we followed the girls to training camp. with the greatest pride and exe pecting fine things of them. But, - so far, we're hopelessly tangled up in wardrobe details and the make of their underthings. Every item of their clothing has been discussed and. pictured until the average newspaper reader might well believe this is only a powderpuff war, with beauficians and stylists as commanders. Isn’t it time for a change of attitude? These women joined the army and navy because they, wanted to serve their country, and they deserve to be treated by the press with the same dignity we accord to fighting men and workers. And who: ever heard of newspaper columns and pages of pictures devoted to a description of men’s underwear or their interest in apparel?”

"Forget Our Peacock Qualities"

WE MAY BELIEVE that clothes make the man, but ‘we refuse to think that uniforms make the soldier. It may lift morale and add symmetry to the parade grounds, but courage derives from other things than the color or cut of a dress. A Because many of our women have joined up, they, voluntarily gave up feminine frivolity for the durae tion. I do not mean that they will necessarily sink into frowsiness or cease to. be beautiful, if nature has so endowed them. But, obviously, they are concerned first with doing their duty, and probably, would enjoy more -reports of their achievements and fewer comments on their dress. In fact, it seems clear that a good many American ; women prefer to be discussed in the newspapers as if they were intelligent beings rather than clothes horses. Whether we are in uniform or not, most of us are helping to win the. war. Constant harping on our peacock qualities compliments neither our patriotism nor our good sense.

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Questions and Answers

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Q—How many people in the United States ree ceive incomes of over $5000 a year? A—The only figures available are those collected in the 1940 census. Reports on cash wages or

salary income during 1939 showed that only 356,000

(1 per cent of the workers reporting) received wages or salaries of more than $5000. Of these; 138,480 re« ceived all of their income from wages or salaries. -

Q—~What was the total number of Ametisan Goopy engaged in world war I? ' A—4,057,101. Q-—What is meant by “in-plant” tig whe “can information about it be obtained? 2 : ; A-Tt is the process of learning while

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