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NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—So that the American people may have a
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Torpedo Junction By Stephen Ellis
BOB CASEY has done it again, The famous war correspondent, | whose superb stories you have frequently read in this newspaper, | has a camera eye and this time he has turned it on the United | States navy.
the New Deal party, further citations are offered today from the record of the C. I. O. convention in Boston earlier this month,
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His new book is called “Tor= pedo Junction.” And in it, life with the Pacific fleet from Pearl Harbor to Midway is described so |
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RUBBER-STAMPISM OUT ConGrEs SIONAL leaders, under White House pressure,
have promised to try next month to put through some
. sort of bill siving the president power to suspend immigration and tariff laws during the war. plainly are not in the effort.
But their hearts
Mr. Roosevelt, as has long been his custom, demanded
too much at the start. We believe he could have had quick action to remove any real handicaps to the conduct of the war in present immigration and tariff laws— '
If he had consulted the Democratic and Republican lead-
ers bf congress in advance; if he had explained to them precisely what he felt it essential to accomplish; if he had asked them 10 draft the necessary legislation, and if he had suggested formed.
open hearings so the public might be in-
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Instead he ached for another blanket grant of power
through a ready-made bill written in-.an administrative department, © .ereby creating such opposition and suspicion that the presant congress, although still heavily Demo‘cratic, is like! - »
to give him nothing. - ? ” & »
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AR- ROOSFE VELT, we think, is going to have to alter
his technique in dealing with congress. ably will be no more grants even of limited power except for clearly defined purposes. ‘administration spokesmen to promise that authority surrendered by congress would not be abused—for instance, that the bars would not be let: down to a flood of immigration. :
There prob-
It is no longer enough for
The fact is that powers previously granted hase been
used in ways that congress did not intend and would not ‘have approved, in some cases despite promises by administration spokesmen.
Democrats as well’ as Republicans in the house are
balking at the immigration-tariff proposal. sentful because Majority Leader Barkley has been used as a transmitter for administration orders, has revived its steering committee to provide more independent leadership. The new congress, taking over in January, has an unmistakable mandate from the voters to halt the trend toward administrative absolutism under the guise of war
‘necessity.
The senate, re-
Congress will work effectively. with the president if
treated as a_partner and an equal, but we believe and hope that congress is through with the role of rubber stamp.
HONEST POLICEMAN N 1916 Capt. Duncan Matheson of the San Francisco police
force helped to send Tom Mooney and Warren Billings
to prison on charges of bombing a Preparedness day parade. Evidence later brought to light convinced him they had not received a fair trial, anf he assisted the movement which, many years later, brought about their release.
We admired Capt. Matheson as an” honest policeman,
and now we welcome another evidence of his integrity. He retired from the police force in 1929 to become San Fran_cisco’s city treasurer.
Recently he died.
His widow has turned back to the city $22,883 in un-
cashed police pension checks—money to which Capt. Mathe- , Son was legally entitled but which he did not spend because he was receiving another municipal salary.
IF YOU'RE BROKE ON MARCH 15—
ENTLEMAN with a long arm that’s growing rapidly longer—Internal Revenue Commissioner Guy T. Helvering—says he is confident the millions of new federal income tax payers will pay up with good will next year.
’ We hope he i is right. We agree with him about the good
will, but we aren’: soesure they'll have the cash in pocket with which to pay, whether cheerfully or not.
The tax that ‘alls due next March 15 is a levy on this
year’s income—income that in millions of individual cases will haye been long since spent when the day arrives.
That is one hig reason why the Ruml plan—for skip-
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ping a year’s taxes and bringing everybody up to date so that he will be p: ying taxes next year on income earned next year—is so appealing.
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These are not opinions of outsiders or enemies of the so-called labor
movement. These are the words of men of authority, |
the union bosses, themselves, who know one another by long association and who if their political patrons, apologists and defenders are believable, are men of truth. In that C. I. O. convention in Boston, Phil Murray, president of the C. I. O.;: quoting from the Journal of the United Mine Workers, said that John L. Lewis, the dictator of the mine workers’ union, had called him, Murray, and other leaders of the C. I. O. traitors and yellow dogs. “He must be brave,” Mr. Murray said, “because John said he was a brave man and all those Who disagree with John are lap.dogs and yellow dogs and traitors.”
"| Knew He Would Run Away!"
Mr. Murray revealed that he knew long ago, out of long association with Lewis when both were in the mine workers, that Lewis was not a steadfast man. “I took over the presidency (of the C. I. O.) against my will,” Murray said. ‘“I told John Lewis that he would run away from me, that I was conscious of the fact that he would run away from me. .I made that statement to John Lewis because I knew John Lewis.” Alan Haywood, who, like Murray, was thrown out of’ the mine workers by Lewis after many years of association when Lewis took the miners out of the C. I. O., also revealed an opinion of him which was never publicly expressed when the boys in the back room were getting along together. “A man is a traitor who deserts something,” he said. away from the C, I. 0.” But Mr. Haywood knew, of course, that not only Lewis but most of those who now condemned Lewis in Boston for pulling away from the C. I. O, all of them, themselves, had pulled away from the A. F. of L. several years before. They accused Lewis of dual unionism, which is a very serious offense under the code of the national subgovernment, but they started a dual movement themselves when they organized the C. I. O. as a rival to the A. F. of L., :
"The Rule of Starvattion!"
Mr. Murray is the one best qualifed to give an opinion of the man whom he once would have placed in a position of dictatorship, and he speaks the plainest language. He said Lewis had a “diabolical mind,” and added: . “Mr. Lewis is an established national prevaricator, universally recognized and very definitely placed in that category by the organized workers of the United States and the citizens of our country.” And, finally, on the subject of Lewis’ dictatorial methods, he said groups of miners in Pennsylvania had met to petition Lewis for the right to elect their own officers and that Lewis adopted a rule forbidding such meetings and threatening all present with expulsion and loss of work. : “That old rule, you know,” Murray sald. “The rule of starvation for the women and the kids.” But Lewis had the same power and exercised 1t constantly in similar ways before he and Murray fought over money and power and Murray said never a word of protest then,
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Uruguay's Election By Allen Haden
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 1.—When Catalan ancestry combines with the spirit of the Charua Indians, who inhabited Uruguay and preferred extermination to co-oper-ating with either the Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores, the mixture is likely to produce stanch characters. : Such a one was Jose Batlle Ordonez, who, before dying in 1929, Se had, in 30 years of dominating Uruguzy, aceusiomed his country to a system which elsewhere “would “simply have been called liberal Here it was called Batllismo. Ordonez was equally despised by Catholics and Communists. He never stopped passing laws but put into effect the eight-hour day, universal free education, the honesty secret vote, old-age - pensions, divorce laws, votes for women and state operation of certain basic industries,
The Spirit Never Dies
OLD BATLLE’'S spirit is still so strong in Uruguay today that the fraction of the Colorado party calling itself the Batllista, pollel most of the votes in last Sunday’s elections although it had been out of power for 10 years, having abstained from voting in 1938 and with its leaders sometimes exiled. With the election of Juan Jose Amezaga as president and Alberto Guani as vice president, Uruguay recovers its dignity and pride, soiled by the Terra dictatorship of 1933. On the Batllistas, who will form the largest single bloc of deputies and senators, Amezaga, who takes office rext March, will largely rely during his administration, “in accordance with the constitution and with the legislature.”
“Who deserted what? John L. Lewis pulled
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“TWO-THIRDS OF RATIONING JUST PLAIN PROFITEERING”
By H LW, Indianapolis For a number of years I have eaten almost entirely in restaurants throughout the country. During the past several months we have heard all forms-of rationing “tales”, in fact rationing seems to be fast becoming a by-word to. all of us. Just recently I was refused a second cup of coffee in a restaurant “because of ‘rationing” although I could have stepped just outside and returned as a new customer and received the second cup of coffee. However, only yesterday a new one was pulled on me, I asked for a second pat of butter with my lunch. The answer was: “We have been rationed on butter but for a nickel we can let you have it.” While just across the street where I often eat they always give me two pats of butter. At both restaurants sugar bowls are on the tables for general consumption while at other eating places a customer is limited to one teaspoonful of sugar to a cup of coffee. Doesn't sound consistent, does it? ... If we are going to have rationing of foodstuffs as well as other commodities, why can’t we all get together and everybody tell the same story at the same time or have a very strict rationing on the propaganda and hocum that we are hearing in connection with rationing. Under prevailing conditions it would seem that about one-third of our rationing is possibly for a good cause — the other two-thirds is nothing - more nor less than lying and profiteering, both of which in the long run will defeat our purpose —beat the axis!
“ONE. WAY TO HELP ON INDIANA'S PRISON PROBLEM” By Pat Hogan, Columbus Your editorial, “We're All to Blame,” portraying the shameful conditions of the state prisons where guards work long hours for small
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pay should goad the legislature to amend matters immediately. But there is also another slant to this question which demands sober thought and action at onge. Before we build more and more prisons to hold more prisoners, hire more and more guards to watch them, why not get down to common
sense and analyze the situation asi:
it exists. There are thousands of men behind prison walls for petty offenses while the state supports them and their families, and meanwhile the nation is critically in need of productive manpower, Why can’t the governor and the parole board take a few days to study the records of these petty offenders, and if they are not dangerous characters, give ‘them a parole with a stern lecture that they must go to work, go straight:or go to the army; and if they run afoul again th2y will be returned to do double time. I believe it is a safe guess that 99 per cent of them would make good. Desperadoes should not be released under any consideration; but thousands of the inmates now confined can. trace: their petty thievery, etc. to lack of work or opportunity. Now that- every able-bodied man can find work at good pay these fellows would welcome the opportunity to make good; and now as never before, the nation needs them. No doubt one-half of the prison inmates could be released with mutual benefit to them and the state; this would make it possible to employ fewer guards at shorter hours and increased pay.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
“SOUTH MUST REALIZE WE FIGHT FOR BILL OF RIGHTS” By Robert W. Starms, 2116 Boulevard pl. After reading the opinion. of the writer on the subject, “You Can't Force South to Change Its Ideas,” I feel some reply necessary. I, too, believe in freedom of all
peoples and that one should be free to dislike or like individuals. However, the South's dislike of 13,000,00 Negroes - is tinged with the same idea of faseism practiced by Hitler toward the Jews. It is the same kind of idea constructed upon the false doctrine of race superiority which our armed forces, white and Negro, are giving their blood to destroy. Any idea practiced to prevent any group of American citizens from enjoying the blessings of liberty and freedom, democracy. Further the practice of such an idea by a segment of America against fellow Americans is basically contrary to the fundamental principles of democracy. Thus it raises a question in" the minds over a billion freedom loving allies as to whether America is truly united in its aim to spread freedom to all peoples. It appears that the South would rather lose the war or even lose the support of Ws colored allies than to allow Negroes the privilege of enjoying the blessings of American democracy. The South and its champion must realize that we are fighting for the preservation of the Bill of Rights and the sanctity of the principles set forth in our constitution, not for the ideas of any/geographical section, but for all American citizens. ” ” » “VOLUNTARY RATION SYSTEMS
JUST WON'T WORK!” By Robin Adair, Indianapolis
In response to Mr. Huffman’s letter I would like to saw that neither I nor apy of the advocates of gasoline rationing favor the restriction of essential driving. The whole purpose of the rationing plan is to make absolutely certain that such essential driving be continued uninterrupted. The blunt truth, if you must have it, is that much of the driving claimed to be essential to the war effort is essential, after all, only to the driver and his business. Cer-
have no place’ in our|’
Mr. Casey might just as well have been there yourself. Bob | takes you right along, step by step, minute by minute,
interest, as the seven months’ drama unfolds.
made Pearl Harbor their “torpedo junction.”
act by act. . ‘by the Pearl "Harbor tragedy but by the global war that grew out of it—suddénly setting out to do whatever could be done with what materials happened to, lie at hand, going ahead with ever-increasing momen-~ tum , . . striking cautiously at first, ther with dar ing—through the Marshalls and Gilberts and Wake and Marcus to the ornate shambles of the Coral sea, And, finally, outnumbered and outgunned, fo the ine credible victory at Midway.” ;
He Wrote It on the Spot
ABOARD A HEAVY cruiser, Bob watched the men prepare for battle. He lived with them just as he lived with fighting forces In early phases of the war in Europe. Daily he recorded his impressions while they were still fresh and sharp. You have them just as he wrote them during the heighth of battle—exciting, picturesque, terrible, and sometimes amusing, for Bob's sense of humor is always with him. You get the feel of the “calm” before the battle and the: few breathless hours it takes to smash the Japs at Wotje. From there the navy moves on to the bombing of Wake and by the time it attacks at Marcus, Casey is calling the youngsters “veterans.” Bob rides with the fleet through fighting in the Macassar straits and down through the Coral sea. But the highlight, of course, is the Midway battle to which all this has been but a prelude.
He Speaks His Mind, Does Bob :
BROTHER CASEY doesn't mince words. He disJikes brass hats and unnecessary and dumb censorship He thought correspondeits took a lot of kicking around and said so. But angry as he got, to him the fleet was making a comeback from the worst Ninja ever dealt us to the greatest of naval successes. .. And he came home finally, sorer than h—, felt we, in the States, didn’t recognize what meant. Maybe after going through it with pnd Casey, we will. This book may not appeal to some of his fans as much as his “I Can't Forgei.”—But to others, it may appeal even more, for it is the story of our own—the first great American victory of the war . + . a jgrand American “torpedo junction.” And it's told as only Bob Casey can tell it,
TORPEDO JUNCTION, by Robert J. Casey, 423 page {llustrations, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, $3.50, pug
That 1939 Meteor
By David Dietz
‘story of A meteor that shook an Americafi city with the violence of an earthquake is told for the first time by Dr. J. Hugh Pruett of the University of Oregon, in a report to the Astronomical society of the Pacific. The city was Port land, Ore. The évent toook place just before 8 a. m. on.July 2, 1939. “No material damage was done - anywhere,” Dr. Pruett writes, “but the nerves of many in and around Portland were severely shattered by the frightful detonations caused by the compressional wave from the meteor’s flight, Those indoors believed the siding of their houses was being forcibly ripped off; those outside thought a neighbor's dwelling a block away had surely been wrecked by an explosion. “One woman wrote, ‘I don’t believe I ever could live through another such terrifying ordeal.’ ” The tremendous commotion was due to the fact that the “shooting star” met the earth head-on. The meteor was moving due east, and the earth in ape proximately the opposite direction.
Only Two Giant Fireballs Known
IN PROF. PRUETT'S words, the meteor had ®» “brilliant, noisy, smoky flight!” To chart its course required the co-ordination of information from hune dreds of persons who had seen it flash across the sky. “The data indicate,” he says, “that the fireball became visible near the northern Oregon coast line, traveled about 14 degrees north of due east, passed over northern Portland, and after doing about 25/ miles per second for four seconds, disappeared beyond Bonneville at a height of hardly 10 miles.” A black, “varnished-looking” stone, weighing half a pound, is all that is known to be left of the meteor, Luckily for civilization, fireballs of only two gigantic ones are known, the prehistoric fall thas
fall of July 30, 1908. The Arizona meteorite left: a crater 4000 feet in diameter. Its walls rise 150 feet above the desert, and its interior sinks several hundred feet below, The Siberian fall occurred 500 miles north of Taishet, a village on the Trans-Siberian railway, Prof, Leonide A. Kulik’s findings showed clearly thad had the meteoric fall taken place upon a large city, no living creature would have survived it.
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TF the new congress doesn’t move in fast and adopt the Ruml plan or something similar, many people are going to find themselves without money to pay their taxes March : 15. In that connection, John L. Sullivan, assistant secretary hv of the treasury, issued some sound and helpful advice the
other day.
We the Women
In Washington: By Ruth Millett
By Peter Edson
tainly it is going to put a lot of salesmen out of business, but defense industries are crying for men. This is war. I will admit, too, that the business of this nation has been built But I also
What he said, in effect, was this: If on March 15 you haven't got the money to pay your.
federal tax, don’t go to a loan shark.
Go to one of the many offices of the internal revenue
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bureau, explain your difficulty, and arrange to pay later on,
or in easy stages. _ arrears—but that’s peanuts compared to what the loan
sharks will take you for. \
You'll have to pay 6% interest on the
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WHETHER OR NOT demoeracy has flourished during this war year we have been through, America certainly has a more democratic look. You are just as likely to see a dignified college professor as a telegraph messenger pedaling down the street on a bicycle. Both the long, lean limousine and the rat-tle-trap jallopy parked beside it
have “A” stickers on the wind- |
shield. Children are walking to private as well as to public schools. The butcher's boy and banker's son are going through officer's training school together, -
around the automobile. face the fact that according to the Bauch report there is just so much rubber available. The choice théh
i | lies between business and the army.
As for this appeal. for a 90-day postponement to test voluntary rationing—it is a little absurd. The country has been on just such.a
'¥' | system since the Baruch report. The -{ country has known the rubber situ-|
ation is desperate, yet gasoline consumption in Indiana during the past
4month has been just 10 per cent
off the same period for last year when there was no thought of war or a rubber shortage.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Ralle roads may not pass on to shippers the new 3 per cent transportation tax. . . | All eating places must keep full records of persons served, foods consumed and cash receipts for December as a guide for future rationing policies, . . . Sale of knock-down parts which can be assembled into a complete unit is forbidden if sale of the unit itself is restricted. . . . Coffee 1s the 12th itém to be rationed. . . . Six univers sities are giving short courses in civilian defense, « + + Over half a million names, are now registered with the National Roster of Scientific Personnel. . . .
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There is your answer to a voltintary system of rationing—it just doesn’t work. .
DAILY THOUGHT * And oppress not. the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.—Zachariah 7:10.
Whatever we e give to the wretched, lend to fortune.—Seneca.
~ JUDGE R. M. DUNCAN of Vale, Ore. admitted two cows ~ ¥ and their calves to his court as “witnesses” in a cattle larceny trial , . . Chief Justice Griffin Smith of the Arkansas Supreme Court isn’t worried by gasoline rationing; he ‘rides a motorcycle to the state capitol daily . . . Judge Luther Emerson Barnes of North Brookfield, Mass., an associate ‘judge of the district court since 1874, has just celebrated his 99th birthday. He has never worn an overcoat, ‘ ‘used Fam, whi sky, tea, coffee or or fobace, and has been
They still need more chemists, physicists, engineers.
‘Cotton Pickers’ Wages Doubled
TIRES-OVER-FIVE per car turned in by hoarders were expected to number over three million before A the deadline. . . . Material for women's work clothes may be sold for work clothes only, not for | sport or play outfits. . ... Several thousand rural schools have had to be closed for lack of teachers, . = . Wage rates for picking 100 pounds of cotton are averaging $1.41 this year, 32 cents above last year, | double they were in 1940. : : j
They're Working Side by Side
GIRLS WITH little education and girls with college degrees are working side by side on assembly’ lines. People who live beside each other are becoming neighbors as they share rides, look after each other's children as a means of meeting the help problem. | So while there are still people who worry about the war's taking democracy from us, the outward signs / indicate that the American people haven't {seemed so truly d atic since pioneer days.
"Now you'll just have to clean up that cellar! With a man meter inspector it was different, but,I'm not going to have a
woman seeing any pert of my house that dirty