Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1942 — Page 17

A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE -

Stee "1928, our Indianapolis public: schools: ave. och “administered by a nonpartisan school board, supported by the Citizens’ School committee. And, for the. first time since 1928, this nonpartisan slate this: year is being oppose] by an opposition group. : The Citizens’ School comniittee’s contribution to our ‘public. schools has been a magnificent one.. And the candidates running on that slate deserve to be elected. “However, these candidates will not appear on the wvot- | ing machine. The votes for. the school board members will be cast on separate paper ballots. And the names on the | ‘ballot will not be identified by slates. Unless you ‘know the . names and numbers of the Citizens’ School committee can- \ didates, you are running the danger of casting your vote improperly. We, therefore, suggest that you clip out-and follow this list. = : Vote for: . . Dr. Hagry G. ‘Mayer ©). _ Edgar A. Perkins (68), “Mrs. Eldo Wagner (69). Clarence Farrington (71). , Howard 5 Young (14).

SPEAKING FOR CONGRESS

“00D taste and sound judgment restrained’ ‘Speaker Sam: ® Rayburn last night in his pre-election address on congress. He did not appeal directly for a Democratic victory. He avoided the error of intimating that palriotion was a ; matter of party. He did defend—and ably, too—the yecord of the pres

ent congress. | - He stated his opinion, formed during many |

years as a representative, that “the district that. is: best. represented is the district that is wise enough to. select: a man of energy, intelligence and integrity and re-elect: him year after year.” . And, disclaiming any intention: of telling citizens how to vote, he said’that ‘the significance of. - your choice will not escape ‘our allies or our enemies.” All of which justifies the impression that the gentle‘man from, Texas believes it will be a fine thing if the present big Democratic majority in congress survives next Tuesday’s. balloting; which is ‘hardly remarkable, re RT Ne Hp ra FRAG EER He M* RAYBURN warned his listeners to beware of “voices : of political confusion seeking to capitalize selfishly upon your unselfish determination to win this war and win it soon. ~ “They will court you with promises of counterfeit cur- . rency, tites for all, taxes for the other fellow, rivers of gasoline, mountains of sugar and victory without fighting,” ~ he said. “They will promise you higher prices for what - you sell and lower prices for what you buy, higher wages for those who receive them and lower wages for those who pay them. ... We in congress may honestly and sincerely disagree as to how the victory may bést be won. But those who sing to you that it will be cheap or easy can bring you only the bitterness of broken hopes.” Lis - True words; those. But voices of political confusion are raised in cohgress, as well as out, and in some casés they are the voices of Democrats. There are Democrats—and Republicans—seeking re-election to congress who have not

displayed all the energy, intelligence or integrity that the |

country needs in its lawmakers. bents are opposed by better men. Eo And those citizens who vote for men instead of party emblems—those whose choice is dictated only by. a desire to improve congress—will do’ most to strengthen their

In many districts incum-

country a and therefore its allies, and most to discomfort its | ssa

THE GLORIOUS GREEKS

WE USED to speak of “the glory of Greece.” That was| before our contemporaries demonstrated that they |:

ire not decadent as their critics and enemies supposed.

In connection with’ yesterday’ 's second anniversary of |

Mussolini’s sneak attack, the world spoke naturally of the glory that is Greece. For no page in her storied antiquity holds more honor and courage than her role in this war.

go Axis fifth-columnists, sent ahead to prepare the way | for easy conquest by the Italian army, failed to prevent a. Greek defense ‘of saga proportions. From villages and ~ gities Greeks turned homeward to their mountains, and there defeated the larger, better-trained and better.equipped fascist army. If they had received promised allied planes 7 might have knocked Italy out of the war. Allied help never arrived until Hitler ‘had - concen ted his might against the Balkans—then it was “too © title and too late.” But it was not too late for the Greeks: 5 Sigh with a a Soroaliy and heroism Bot surpassed in this

A Look.ah the Alliances: ©. |...

then, should be defeated. ~

1 Bacon + boos of sich voting secon Bas ben polis ‘| turned out under apparently innocent susp ach ie lant ly | real source is betrayed, however, by ‘the fact that ens it peintedly omits any mention of the: records of |

Mayor La Guardia’s political protege, Vito Marcantonio, | =

the. only consistent follower of the Communist party |. line in congress. Marcantonio was anti-war, anti-. . defense. and, according to tis. book's own conten-. Bs tions, anti-American or pro-axis, up .to the hour} . when Hitler attacked Russia, but his recurd is ignored

ana his name does not ocour at all.

A Marine, However, Is Condemned! THAT 1S THE TIPOFF on this SpE “doou

Republican, who fought in the first world war and. who, while this smear was in progress of compilation |

corps in the Pacific.

ment, but it should be pointed out also that it} condemns Congressman Melvin Maas, a ‘Minnesota |

in New York, was serving as a colonel of the marine 5

So the voters may find themselves tricked nto i |

voting for men who are terribly unfit and ‘against

men of the finest patriotism if they fail to examine | Sexe

the facts carefully, as they seldom do. Many voters will want to rebuke congress for its docility in. the" matter of outrages and evil anti-

1 American conduct by the unions,” but here again

intelligent diserimination is called for, lest individuals be punished unwisely and unfairly. ‘The fact is that the house of representatives twice voted. bills which would have placed some reasonable

_restraints on the brown shirt and graft-collecting | wing of the New Deal party, but that these bills

were smothered in committee in ‘the senate under

orders from the. ‘White House, MAI Pretense Now. Dropped”

THE. CONGRESSMEN who voted for these bills might be made to ‘suffer, however, from a general public impression that ‘congress has not even tried to: put’ down this: arrogant. ‘subgovernment, with its taxing power -and. its revenue of more than one thousand million dollars a year, most of which is

‘available to the New Deal party as a slush fund

with which to buy elections and perpetuate itself. . (Of -course; .there may be some among those who voted for the antiracket bills whose records otherwise are unsatisfactory. But it is certain that there are many very bad incumbents who voted in favor of the New Deal party's goons and graft collectors and: who will. demand re-election, and with the -administration’s indersement, on the ground that they voted consistently for all the war measures. . "This administration has finally dropped all pretense of political decency and is now associated and co-operating openly ‘with some ‘of the rottenest political gangs that ever poisoned American politics

and corrupted government, =

THERE IS THE Hague machin i" Jirsey. “There Is the local gang -in Albany, where, successively, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Lehman served many years as governors, tolerant. of notorious- corruption. In

Massachusefts an unspeakable rogue has the New Deal’s ‘support and in Chicago the same low machine that Harold Ickes denounced for years is now the accredited local branch of that which in the convention of 1940 was called the party of humanity. . So this time the voters must make particular and discriminating decisions. A man may have a record satisfactory to the New Deal party and the Communists and be, nevertheless, ‘a servant of an evil gang. He may have voted honestly against the goon system and. still be rejected by the voters in blind resentment against the senate’s submission to the White House. ; Or, as in the case of Maas and Marcantonio, the voters may be told that the fighting patriot is at

‘best a fool, while the other man is indorsed not-

withstanding a record which, by the standard of

“Elmer Davis, makes him a Communist and thus, by

the standard of Francis Biddle, a Waltor, to the United, States.

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U.S. War Planes

By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, Oct. 29. — Evidence is accumulating that Ameri-can-fiade bombers and fighters really are good, and that the violent criticism to which they were 2 subjected for a time was erroneous. It ‘has been difficult to get at’ the truth because so many of the pertinent ‘facts were held to be “V military secrets. Some of them unquestionably should not be discussed . Others were held back, apparently, through that same excess of: secretiveness |. which in other fields and on other oceasions has proved unnecessary, unjustifiable national morale. °

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

“IS THIS AMERICANISM, I ASK YOU REPUBLICAN?” By Everett S. Brown, 2572 Winthrop ave.

Let me have the privilege of expressing my opinion upon the present political campaign the G. O. P. is waging that it may gain control of the local, county, state and national affairs as they are now.

particular instance where they can

being done? I dare say all they are striving: for

the way of the early success of our ‘| armed’, forces. They, the Republi-. cans, ‘have been known for decades as fault-finders outside of their own party and yet they say the two party system must prevail, do they

of that statement because they have always been the chief blasters of the opposition. To hear their spokesmen tell it, they, the Republican party’s chosen leaders, never made any mistakes. We who were fortunate to survive the never-to-be-forgotten “Hoover debacle” of misgovernment know who were chiefly responsible for that, viz. a Republican congress aided and abetted by one lone U.S. senator from the state of Louisiana, The time and place was 1929 in the senate chamber of Washington, D. C. What was the. politics of that

a Jefferson Democrat; but not. The act committed was the signing of what was and is known as the Hoover, Grundy and Watson billion dollar tariff law. Who signed that “bill,” none other than Herbert Clark Hoover who was hailed by his supporters as the “great engineer.” Do not forget, you Republican pol-

" liticians, Mr. Willkie has his Amer-

ican eagle eye upon you. : Remember also retribution comes

. | sweet, to the offended and the Amer-

ican people who read never forget a promise, especially those never kept. In the present campaign the G. O. P. politicians are endeavoring to create a mistrust in our govJernment in Washington when this nation is at war with the most vicious: barbarians in the history of

May I ask, can they cite any one} or will do a better job than: is. now

is to throw all sorts of obstacles in

mean that? - I doubt their sincerity

senator? He was supposed to be}

AT fos’ readers are invited in

¢ a express their views these columns, religious controveries . Make your letters short, so all can have a chance.. Letters must be signed) : (

‘excluded.

the world. Is that Americanism, I ask of ‘all you politicians? , Remember our enemies have ears and cruel designs and the best. any of you can do is to show a mark of - respeet for" your’ country by refraining from creating mistrust in our government. If you have any method whereby the national, state and local governments can be made to. function more’ equitable then tell it and: quit the small business of creating mistrust: in our democratic processés of government. And have you forgotten, only of recent date ex-President Hoover made this statement, “Give President Roosevelt unlimited power that he may bring this war to a successful and final conclusion and do not forget that this war will not be won easily and at an early date.”

® 8» “BE SURE OF STATEMENTS BEFORE YOU SPEAK” By M. E. Zufall, 2214 Guilford ave. .

In his letter of the 20th, Mr. J. 8. makes some very strong remarks about the carpenters’ unign, one in particular where he says: “When they are on strike they can’t take out a withdrawal card and come out and ‘work ‘with non-union men till the union takes over the job and then they 'go back in the” union again.” Later on in his remarks he says he is quoting from others so that portion must be: “heresay” also." Let him look in Sec..47 of our constitution and he will find that when a member wishes fo resign from the union he must submit his resignation in ‘writing, and let it lay over for two weeks while he is he. ing investigated. If it is found that: he is submis ting his resignaton in order to Yio-|,

Side Glances—By. Galbraith

and Harmful toithet |

Now, stung by criticism, American brass hats Have: 1

permitted publication of data comparable to whatathe | . ‘British never held back. ‘In tie light of that infor- 1. ‘mation, experts are able to say that the later Ameri.

can ‘planes are at least as gupd as their: ‘counterperts. ‘in England, Germany and Japan.

A ory oe bod oe Tumor wad, win wey]

could not help wondering whether our pilots and their crews were being destroyed wholesale. But the fact

is that on’ every front our planes have taken toll of, the enemy two, three and four to one.

We've More Than Caught Up AMERICAN! PILOTS are good.: None are better.

~~ | good. But man for man, American fliers are not three | or four times as good as German and Japanese fliers. pil They, aie not. eHough hetier to to inflict the damage | { J y Have unless their planes wete substapgially as | 3

‘|1ate the trade rules (such PY you

} { someone who has been hiring ‘men 8 { Io is now 'sote because he‘ can’t}

* |nis starvation ® wages, lean get thore. money:elsewhere. Try

2 | {bunch of knockers, who like ;your-| Self dons ¥usw what they aie lk: |

suggest) ‘the same cannot be accepted by his local union. But if he is found to be on the square.in his dealings he can secure a withdrawal card by two-thirds vote of the membership, upon payment of 50 cents for such card, which shall be furnished by the general secretary. How many do you think could get a card to go on a job where things were unfair, when he has to go through such an investigation? ? ? It t be done,

J. 8. “also. alllls that “it Pegler] wants any union he can get in touch with me and I can tell: him plenty.” Anyone ‘can tell things but—can you

prove them? ‘There is still such a

thing as libel ‘in ‘the courts, if we can’t get real proof. : Your: talk about the old timers saying that all the C. & J. are a bunch of loafers does not correspond very well with the remarks made by some of .the leading men of the counfry. on Labor day, as witness the talk by Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the WPB, the telegrams sent by Undersecretary of War . Patterson to over 500 companies who were doing war work, and the speech of Rear Admiral C. H. Woodard of the navy’s incentive division, who said ‘«The shipyard workers of this c have done a ‘great job for the navy. ‘Theirs is an almost unbelievable achievement! I wonder if the American public realizes it? , On Labor day alone more than 150 warship launchings and keel laying took place throughout the United States. That is a world’s record for the ship-building industry! It is a triumph for free labor the hope of the enslaved labor of the axis-dominated countries.” Did you know about this, J. 8.2 1

doubt it. And I doubt, too, if you|} knew, that all this was done with |g

organized labor, working under the best conditions in the world and that those conditions were made

possible for them by the A. F. of L.? | &

It is true whether you knew it or not, and it is also true that we have

members in our union’ here in’ this {§ town who are from 88 years old on];

down who are proud of their affiliations and consider’ them’ priceless. You ars ‘only quoting ‘a: few men

who couldn’t or wouldn't do a real}: :

day’s work-when they were in the union and couldn’t hold a job there and now they want to kriock ivan all connected with it. As for yourself, you write just like

as little ‘as he could pay them

get them to stay on and work for when they

paying your men a decent price in the future and you ‘won't have a

| full of holes, like a sponge. Sponge iroh is

ing national defense.

Here's What Sponge. Yon e oa

THIS 1S THE GROUP’ ‘of 10 séhatore-—riois’ of them experts—headed by, Senator Harry 8. Truman of / Independence, Mo., who gives the body its popular. name of the Truman committee, “Not much has been heard from the Truman committee in the last few months, But the senators and ‘their staff. of investi= gators under Chief Counsel Hugh 8. ‘Fulton have been. digging quietly into all manner of things, including a

| three or four months’ investigation of the iron and

steel industry and all its ramifications,” ‘including the scrap situation and sponge fron. , . Pirst, get a clear picture of what sponge fron. is. The name comes from the fact that the material is porous. It isn't solid metal, like a big iron ingot, but made by reducing iron ore as i comes rom the mins to a spongy mass, by heating the ore to Jemperatuses helow the fusing point of iron. The oxygen in the fron ore or fron oxides is removed at , the same-time by . mixing the iron ore with coal, which burhis off the oxygen, or by passing —h the heated ore a reducing gas which Soba wi th the oxygen. The theory is that sponge iron can be used as a substitute for scrap iron to mix with pig iron for the aking of steel.

The Committee \ Went Right Alisad

; NOW THIS sponge iron situation has been kickirig / around for some time. Senator. Joseph C. QMatcpey et of Cheyenne, Wyo., first kicked off on this. subject. last

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| June, He was interested primarily in seeing somie of

the low-grade iron ore deposits of his state used in the war production program. i “oi bo Reidy O'Mahoney was tackled hard: By practically every : steel “expert” in the country. Hadn't Judge Gary off: U. 8S. Steel spent millions of dollars, back'in “the '19008% trying to develop sponge fron,’ and hadn't ‘the bi steel corporation abandoned ‘sponge iron’ as iniprac= tical? But that didn’t stop the Truman committee. The : senators and their investigators followed their own’ noses. They went out into’ the field and looked things over for themselves. They talked to Republic ‘and U. 8. Steel and Ford and H. G. S. Anderson of Musko+ gee, Okla, who had built and put in-operation a ° sponge iron plant in Japan: They: ‘1goked into the American Academy of Sciences reports on: spongd

butthe percentage would be very| iron, and the profects of Missouri and Texas’ groups

ade . jron ore de-

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people who couldn’t: ‘Bossibly uinderétand one of ite highly technical subjects. The result js not. only approval of ‘Republic tect sponge iron project, but the creation within WPH iol a high-sounding stéel using’ industry advisory cor mittee to consider the scrap shortage and other SPONgE projects. Fo Now this should Tot be taken oF any lnket; iad dictment of all expérts; nor a guarantee: that eve ‘sponge iron project: will’ ‘work. * ‘But: af lea been demonstrated that you oan't Always thing to the experts. ~°- : As Gen. Knudsen saym, © i chanic away from. home. Ba

A Woman's Viewpoint. By Mrs. Walter Ferguson aed

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REEL

% FROM A DELUGE of letters from: nurses I shall select: that ofy Mrs. Elizabeth P.: Augyst’ of Li = O., to quote:

“I ‘wonder if yousenlise: hak the age limit for nurses Seri

at 40 years and the U. 8. public : health service at: 85." Onlytin a few. ro had spend cases, ‘where wok

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‘approaching ithe" gpa a irely- the registered nurse, if physically fit, should. . permitted to do her part. WAVES and WAACs Nolutteer Aides are accepted up to 50 years, of a 9 “Hundreds of letfers protesting such ha been sent in by various nursing organize toh, Wn you state that there is little glamor afta ) Aursing, ‘you are telling the plain truth. Py listed soldier is the: only one Who really iio type of sevice the: segidteren A se ‘gives

] The Waste of V