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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1942
THE ELECTION YESTERDAY the people of Indiana spoke, in no uncertain terms. - - Politicians who try. to find, here at home, the reason for the sweeping and unexpected Republican victory are simply looking in the wrong place. The answer is not here. The' answer is in Washington. Yesterday's vote in Indiana was a protest, and a perish —against all the things that have been done—and that have been left undone in this time of crisis—of which Indiana voters disapproved. It swept aside personalities, and individuals and records. It gave pluralities, in some cases to candidates less known, ‘and perhaps less qualified than their defeated opponents. It decided issues of local government, down to the most minor offices, on the basis of the record of a national administration. Let our enemies take no comfort from this. This was no vote against war, or against the prosecution of the war, nor was it any sign of weakening on the part of Americans. On the contrary, it was a plain demand for a harder, tougher more uncompromising conduct of war, and for a quicker total victory. The voters of Indizna are tired of temporizing. 8 = 8 ” t J ® HEY are tired of tid off vital decisions till “after election.” They are tired of being spoon-fed on a synthetically balanced diet of victories and losses. They are tired of a ‘social revolution” in wartime. They are tired of the fantastic pyramid of “war agencies” with ill-defined powers and overlapping jurisdictions. : They are tired of the maze that has produced one civilian in a federal office job for every two soldiers in uniform. They are tired of the decrees of bureaucrats, and of blundering and fumbling, and of taxation for reform rather than revenue, and of glowing words without deeds and large promises without fulfillment. <0 They are tired of the assumption that Americans outside the District of Columbia are child-like creatures, who ‘must be coddled and shileded from the facts of life. They are tired of being told they are complacent and indifferent, and unwilling to make sacrifices for victory. t 4 ” o » 2 ” HEY want action, and .they want facts, and they want ‘positive leadership they can follow. They want to get on with the war, and, they are © willing to pay the. price, whatever it may be, to win it, and to win it quickly, and completely and finally. : They want to get down to the cold, hard elementals of the struggle they understand full well is a struggle for survival—and they want to do it now. That is what their ballots said yesterday. If these election returns are correctly evaluated in the proper quarters yesterday’s voting may yet prove to be a tremendous victory—not for Republicans, but for Americans. ¢
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“By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, Nov. 4—This undoubtedly will be another of those vicious diatribes against a great and gracious lady, because it has come to be vicious to disagree with one of the most active politicians of the New Deal party and any dissent from any expression of purpose of Mrs. Roosevelt is a diatribe. Our subject is Mrs. Roosevelt's own law, enacted by fiat, against the will of the legislative body established by the constitution, providing a top limit of $25,000 on salaries for personal services. The United Auto Workers of the C. I. O. first proposed this limit, Mrs. Roosevelt took it up, the president then twice recommended it to congress and congress positively refused to comply. The merits of the order which gave the force of law to Mrs. Roosevelt’s whim, contrary to the expressed intent 6f congress, cannot be fully discussed in this essay. My topic is the effect of this law on
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President and Mrs. Roosevelt themselves,
"One of Greatest Individual Incomes"
IT IS SAID that the president willingly complies with the fiat as to his own salary of $75,000 a year. However, the terms of his employment as a public officer are such that he receives the use of a large house and a staff of servants, heat, light and maintenance. A private citizen, employed by a private enterprise, who received all these extras would be required to list their cost, reckoned on a reasonable basis, as additional compensation from his employer and would have to pay income tax on that further] amount. Mrs. Roosevelt herself has an income which {is
‘large and may be, these days, one of the greatest in-
dividual incomes in the United States. It is derived from her writings and her lectures. of these profitable private commercial activities she is provided with an office in the White House at public expense, although none of these activities is officially in the public service or the public interest. Her royalties from her syndicated newspaper writing are not salary and thus are not subject fo the limitation, although they may far exceed the limit of $25,000 a year. Her payment for magazine articles, if she sells them by the piece, is not salary, and if she delivers 100 lectures a year for 100 different organizations at $1000 a lecture, that income of $100,000 would not be subject to the $25,000 limit, either.
$30,000 a Year From the Estate?
THE ORDER FORBIDS any one employer to pay more than $25,000 a year to any one employee, subject to certain complicated provisos, but it is doubtful that a sponsoring organization which engages a lecturer to make a talk for $1000 is to be regarded as an employer at all. Last April 23 the Associated Press reported from Poughkeepsie that a transfer tax appraisal showed that President Roosevelt's late mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, left a net estate estimated at $1,089,872 and said that “under a will probated earlier President Roosevelt receives nine-tenths of the entire estate and his mother’s Hyde Park property.” This estate is invested largely in good stocks, and if 3 per cent is not too large a figure to hit upon as a yield, the income to the president from his nine-
tenths would be about $30,000 a -year, in addition to
his limited official pay of $25,000. Of course, that income would be subject to the income taxes of both the federal government and the state of New York, but so would any other man’s, However, it is not subject to the limitation and neither is any other large income of any heir to wealth accumulated by others.
"She Misunderstands Her Own Law"
THUS IT WOULD seem that the limitation will touch very lightly the joint and separate incomes of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, and that there is established by Mrs. Roosevelt's law a gross inequity as between them and an individual who by his own meritorious efforts over a lifetime of work has established a salary value in the upper brackets. “If such a tax brings the war to a close sooner or saves any young lives,” Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, “I feel sure all of us would accept it with joy.” Mrs. Roosevelt here shows a misunderstanding of her own law, for it is not a tax, as she calls it, but a
EN. ROBERT H. TYNDALL is our mayor-elect. With _ him comes an entirely new group of city and county officials. Gen. Tyndall and all the new county officers face a: great opportunity for intelligent and efficient service. These next few years may well prove to be the most trying this community has ever gone through. : With our congratulations to the successful candidates, go the assurances: of the citizens of Marion county—Re- ~ publicans and Democrats, alike—that they will pull together for the common good. Good luck, Mr. Mayor-elect, and good Tuck to the new : Sounty officials.
SUBS SAW' JAPS, SANK SAME
‘HE steady, silent destruction of Jap shipping by our submarines is less spectacular than the pitched battles of sea-air forces, but no less important in winning the war. ~ The navy communique announcing the sub sinking of seven enemy ships, plus damage to a Jap carrier, destroyer and tanker, is very good news indeed. : _ This latest addition brings the Pacific score for our undersea boats up to 133, of which certainly 86 and probably 106 were sunk. ~ It is easy enough for Americans to understand what that means to our enemy in the Pacfic, because in the Atfants ¢ we are on the receiving end. ~~ / At the moment, we seem to be gaining ‘more than we are losing in that exchange of blows under water. Our heavy losses have been declining while our production of new ships has been rising faster; that provides-a net gain in our tonnage afloat. 3 If we continue our recent progress in anti-sub warfare and our record-breaking production of new ships—there is
~ reason to hope that our lonely, daring submarines in enemy }
waters will keep us ahead in that battle of attrition.
OFFEE rationing has eome, some experts say, because of unnecessary hoarding by housewives. Hoarding ‘entered into the timing, if not the ultimate necessity/behind rationing. ‘Now the department of commerce estimates that con-
Imers have 50 million pairs of shoes hoarded—quarter as.
ny as are on the shelves of the nation’s shoe stores—in r that there will be a shortage of shoes. Let's get it clear. There will not be a shortage of unless one is created artificially by hoarding. There Il be a gut. in Varieties, Sivies, trims.
Bn there will be i
limitation. Neither is it shown that it will raise any money .and it is argued, to the contrary, that it will result in a net loss. And the suggestion that it might save any young lives is gratuitious and supported by no argument whatever, although it would put in a very bad light anyone arguing against it. But, finally, it does not apply to Mrs. Roosevelt's own earnings, which are not salary, nor to the president’s income from his inherited wealth.
Flying Health By Major Al Williams
, NEW YORK, Nov. 4 — We |
have developed an unsound and unsafe national habit of brushing off enormously significant considerations with generalizations. We've heard a lot about the necessity of health to an airman. With health requirements accepted, too many athletes who have never flown or known the rigors of hard flying immediately i compare flying to their own specialties. Having played football and baseball intensively and had a little experience in boxing, I'm convinced that flying health and fitness requirements come closer to those demanded of the baseball player. Football and boxing are strenuous, short-term training activities. Footballers and boxers aim. their conditioning toward a peak. Physical fitness is either improving—moving toward the peak—or declining— going “stale.” But baseball is a long-term activity and its training is designed to establish a norm of fitness well short of anything like “the pink of condition—a state of fitness that might be termec a cruising speed which a man can attain and hold without undue strain. The pilot’s aim is for the same state of fitness.
Digestion Is the Key
THERE'S NO TRAINING season for him, He must always be in “shape” Assuming his organic make-up to be perfectly sound, his digestion and all the things affecting it must be rigorously watched. His nervous system—for the preservation of which he must plan—is his key to physical air fitness. : The key to real air health is to be found in living moderately; eating, sleeping, drinking and exercising. The rules are‘in no book, Bnd the'auswer 1s oily to be found by each individual. Dogfighting in the air, in
wartime, is with guns and for keeps. In peacetime, the |
dogfighting airman suffers the same physical strains with prestige and pride as the premiums. Ten to 15
minutes of dogfight in a big speed fighter plane is|
plenty of test for any human digestion—with’ “black-
outs” of vision, the depression in each blackout, the
sinking feelirig in one’s stomach, the keyed-up effort, and, most critical of all, the absolute lack of an outlet in physical ‘exertion. Just. set. someting you kiow doesnt agree with fight—no
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“THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS ‘THANK YOU!’”
By Michael F. Morrissey, Chief of Police, Indianapolis
Last Saturday night was the quietest Halloween in the memory of this generation, probably the quietest in the history of Indianapolis. No considerable property damage was reported, only six minor complaints attributed to the season reached police headquarters, and our emergency holiday force was released at 9 o’clock,
The sanity of this wartime Halloween celebration is due mainly to the ready co-operation of the young people of the city, enlisted through the efforts of the newspapers, the motion picture theaters, and the directing heads and teachers of the public and parochial schools. We ask that you accept and convey to the members of your staff and to your readers and the boys and girls of Indianapolis the thanks of every member of the Indianapolis. police department.
#2 = 8 “STOP THE PERSECUTION OF DRUGLESS DOCTORS”
By. Mrs. R. M. Edwards, 1115 N. Gale st. Our boys are marching off to war, your boy and mine, to right an injustice, to keep freedom here and over there. Let us not forget this when he march to the polls on Noy. 3d. Forget politics and vote only for men who will think of the people’s welfare and happiness as their responsibility so long as they hold office. Men who will defend our rights as American citizens, regardless of groups or organizations. Let’s stop the persecution and revoking of drugless doctors license, give back to the pill-discouraged people a chance for health and happiness. Let Indiana be proud of the men and women in office who will help keep the home front strong by
healthy regardless by what method they secure health, either the drug or drugless :way. Our constitution gives us the right to choose for ourselves and when this clause is disregarded, then it’s high time for the people to act.
helping the people of our state keep
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“I'M HOPING AND PRAYING TO SEE PROHIBITION” By Mrs. H M. W., Indianapolis, I agree with Mr. Ruse of Shelbyville. We don’t need taverns in our army camps and we ‘don’t need thenr at all,
What good do the taxes do the government when they have to spend so much doctoring so many thousand for venereal disease that they wouldn't have if they weren't half drunk and did things they wouldn’t do if they were sober. And look at all the accidents because of drink—people crippled for life or: killed and look at the insane in our institutions because of it. No, the government isn’t doing so well.
But as Mr. Ruse said, quite a few politicians are sure getting theirs. I intend to vote dry and I hope enough others do to put Indiana dry. And as for the bootlegger, no one can convince me that he can’t be stopped if the law sincerely wishes to stop him. , . . I'm hoping and praying to see prohibition, 2 2 = } «PROFESSIONAL UNIONEER AS
DANGEROUS AS SYPHILIS”
By a Discontented Vassal, Indianapolis I am a union man. I believe in the principles of organized labor. I have fought for the rights and principles of organized labor with whoever cared to dispute them. I have been kicked around a lot. Mostly by professional unioneers of my own international union who will brook no criticism of their iron-fisted Reine torial rule. The average professional anloneer and his complement of stooges is as dangerous to the accomplishments of civilization as is syphilis to the human body. His method of attack is generally the same as that used by the spirochete; he moves in,
Side SAY Galbraith
he breaks down the victim’s resistance, he destroys. The chief difference is the spirochete does not attempt to palm itself off as its victim’s friend. Once a professional unioneer gets himself put in charge of a union’s affairs his first step is to destroy all potential resistance to his rule. He seeks out the worst element of the union’s membership—men who would be criminals if it were not for the law. These he organizes into a block. ‘They are his stooges. At a nod from Brother Whodanny these stooges raise his salary. They force through laws which make criticism of Brother Whodanny’s dictatorship ‘punishable by expulsion. They spy on the honest members and report any opposition to Brother Whodanny’s rule. They whisper and sow filthy rumors about the honest members. Where dishonest collusion exists between Brother Wkhodanny and the employer of his vas-
go-between, . . . We need the help of our courts, our legislators and our newspapers.
of degracled vassalage. Certainly we don’t want the school teachers of Indianapolis organized, stooged and reduced to our level, . . . ! 8 8 = “J DIDN'T SEE DRUNKS IN THOSE AWFUL DAYS” By A Mother, Spencer. Some time ago I saw a sketch in the paper where a man said, “Lord, deliver me from the blue noses, the awful old days of prohibition.” I know one thing, in the awful days I didn’t see many drunks. Now in our small town of Spencer we can sure see drunks, fights, nothing to see mothers take children in arms in the beer joints, women on the streets around these joints talking to men if they can be called men. I do not think the 18 and 19 year olds want drink as much as the old soaks. They are afraid the
them. If all parents. remembered there was a God and lived Christian lives we wouldn't have any trouble with drink. I don’t think the boys will be insulted a bit without drinks. I think : their minds are on more serious things. : 8 a = “COMPARE FIGURES WITH THOSE OF WORLD WAR I*’ By Arthur H. Stiles, 943 N. Jefferson ave. I read Mr. James R. Meitzler’s article of Oct. 27 and wish to say if Mr. M. would compare figures of the present and of world war I he would find that he himself is get-
er under this administration than
-|he-did in world war No. 1.
No longer ago than 1931 potatoes in my fair Sfate of Maine sold for 35 cents per barrel (11 pecks) at digging ‘ime. After the farmers were paid by the government to cut down thelr acreage - they began getting more money for “their crop. The
‘| same ' is - true of hogs and other
things. They were paid to cut down production and got more money for what they did raise and glad to grab it and now criticize. barley,
With wheat, oats, soy
_| beans, hogs, beef and other things | the price they are, I say the farmers “1 | could’ pay inore wages than they do 8s they demand practically day and | night service.
According to government statis-
nk | ties ‘there: are:fewer mortgages and Faye tax sales’ ‘than: in 1031. So, there-
sals the head stooge is usually the |
What we don’t need, though, is|§ company to share our pitiable state |}
precious stuff will get away from|
ting the things he has to buy cheap-
about have the symbol of what . happened yesterday at the polls @ from one.end of the nation fo the other. ' Of course; it wasn't §im the Tokyo lie alone. Tt we ¥ a few other things, too.’ ‘Roosevelt's trip to. Lot or rationing, ~The 18 and 10syear--old draft. The new tax wif Tho war in general. Coffee, The war in specific. Everything. And nothing in particular. The stage was all set here yesterday.* Democratie party statisticians were still sitting around in the afternoon and figuring. They recounted registration figures, played mental tag with the doubtful vote, conceded 50 per cent of it to the Republicans, gave themselves 25 per cent, added it all up ‘and sald, it was a cinch for the Democrats. They « coulda’s lose, Couldn’t they? 3
The Story of What Happened
THE STORY OF what happened can be Suriiric ; up in a hwrry by recounting the story Judge Russell J. Ryan told me last night. He was helping out in a strong Democratic precinct on the West side. In weng the voters and out they went. They said little., Late in the afternoon, the machine broke down and mee chanics had to open it. In company with the other watchers, the judge looked and he shook his head: T sadly. f “Our own people were going in all day,” he said; | “and slaughtering us.” At 5:55, Earl Richert of The Times stood talking with Jim Carr of G. O. P. headquarters. “Earl,” said Jim, “you can take any combination of figures you want and we can’t win. .Take our fige ures. Take their's, We're out of it. It’s impossible, But we will win. Wait and see.” : Twenty minutes later—6:15—Jim Bradford picked up a flash card in the G. O. P. tabulating room, stared y, . at it wide-eyed and turned to say: “Here it is. When this precinct goes. Fopupiiogn," it’s a landslide. Boys, we're, in!”
Yes, the Silent Vote
CALL IT THE silent vote if you will, Sure, the people don’t say much when they learn from Japan that the vaunted Doolittle raid on Tokye was not as successful as they had been led to believe, It’s not the thing to squawk your head off about the. government in the middle of a war. But a fellow: can think, can’t he? Sure, Mrs. Roosevelt is a great and gracious lady. It’s not the thing to jump on her because she. goes gallivanting around. But a fellow has a right to his own idea, hasn't he? One civilian employee in Washington for every two men in the army. . , Keep the bad news down, The people want good news, not bad. , . . No cone scription of family men. But family men go. . . Manpower draft coming up. Oh, no, no manpower draft coming up! . . . The people don’t know there is a war on. Only Washington realizes it. . . . Can’ stop a fellow from thinking about things like this, can you? : Ever hear the paraphrase of Robert Louis Stevens - son’s classic quotation: “Many a man has gotten up and left the room without saying a word and in his silence was the greatest liar of them all.”
A Woman's Viewpoint - By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |
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“TODD BROWN’S place is up for sale—they’re holding- the auction tomorrow. The old man died, you know, and the boys are scat tered everywhere. Two of ’em in the army. Bud has a swell job in Wichita, and the youngest is working in a defense plant .in California.” I was back on a visit to a farm home I have long loved when I heard those words. The country around about was that to which.I had come as a bride—a spacious, fertile, lovely land. Its wheat fields had fed our soldiers in the other world war. The: bones of men, women and children venturing into trackless wilds had enriched its oil. The native grass was no tougher than the souls of the people who took it from the Indian and the buffalo and planted an American civilization there. The Todd Brown place—how_ could that be? For the Browns had been one of those immovable families, wedded to their fields, proud of their cattle, taking prizes at the county fair, and with the chil« dren standing up in the parlor to speak their mare. riage lines, and plenty of hard cider in the cellar,
Birthright for a Mess of Pottage?
A QUEER SORT of sickness shook me, . For Todd Brown used to tell us about his grandparents when they made the “Run” and got that piece of ground. There was nothing there then but grass and sky and the wind whining across the. plains. : They dug the well; they built the first sod pom that sheltered them; they literally scratched a scant living from the reluctant earth. They bucked up. against sand storms and blizzards, scorching heatand cruel cold. Even when I first knew him Todd was as. gnarled as an old tree which had been failed by . many winters. I'm glad none of the early settlers lived to. see ‘this day. The old folks would turn over in their ave, : as we say, at the sight of ‘this desecration.” =~ There is always sadness in the passing of an order. I couldn't help but wonder whether the young Brown clan had the oaken hearts of their an+ f cestors who wanted a piece of ground so much they were willing to dig and die for it. They gave up & pay envelope in order to own and build something—. and what they built ‘was the greatest country on: earth. Is today’s generation exchanging its birthright— the land—for a mess of Botiags, a. wig pay envelope?’ I wonder, 5
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