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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1942

TWO GOOD APPOINTMENTS Vj AYOR-ELECT Robert H. Tyndall has shown splendid * judgment in his choice of William H. Remy as president of the safety board. Bill Remy is known far and ‘wide in this community for his rugged honesty, his high character and his tenacity of purpose. We hope that our new mayor is as fortunate with the rest of his boards. :

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> AND we congratulate Governor Schricker for his good

judgment in appointing Harry Champ to the post of municipal court judge, succeeding Dan V. White. Harry Champ likewise is well known for his integrity and his high purpose. We wish him success in his new post.

FLANNER’S 99-YEAR LEASE | '

AN unusual and significant ceremony took place last night at Flanner Houses’ 44th annual founders’ day dinner when the city of Indianapolis formally presented to the Negro social service agency a 99-year lease to the site ‘where the institution plans to erect a modern new building. The city of Indianapolis is formally recognizing its responsibility in the education, training and assistance of its thousands of Negro citizens. Flanner House has played a’ unique and distinguished role in this community. It is one agency which has striven always to help its clients to help themselves. That the system works is amply demonstrated by the record. Now the city has allied itself with this splendid movement. We congratulate hoth our city officials and Flanner House's executives for their vision.

SOCIAL SECURITY AND RED INK IR WILLIAM, BEVERIDGE’S proposals for social security reforms in post-war Britain will revive talk of the need of more social planning in this .country to cushion our own econoniic shocks to come. There is little revoliftionary about Sir William’s recommendations. They are designed to extend and expand Britain's present system of social insurance, maintaining the principle that those who are to be protected against the hazards of old age, unemployment and sickness should make larger contributions to support the larger benefits. As the New York Times correspondent Yeporis, “It is not a something-fqr-nothing scheme.”

Americans: reading Sir William's proposals will be im- |

pressed by the fact that, in the fields of old-age and unemployment insurance, the goals for which he is aiming are

- for the most part short of the standards our own social-

security system already provides. And, proportionately,

~ employees would contribute more, and employers less, than

under our system. » ” N the fields of insured medical treatment, maternity care, funeral and marriage grants, Sir William's ideas are: beyond any acceptable formula yet advanced over here. So, too, the plan to provide coverage for all citizens, employers, as well as employees, and housewives as well as factory workers. But our own social-security planners

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are at work, and proposals to expand our system will be

placed before the next congress. ‘Sir William was careful to point out that his recom-

‘mendations “are concerned, not with increasing the total

wealth of the British people, but with distributing whatever

wealth is available.”

“ a 2 ' S the proposed larger social benefits are debated in parliament, considerations of increasing the wealth of the British people will necessarily come to the front. Wealth has to be created before it can be distributed. So, too, with the pending plans for improving America’s social-security system. Like Great Britain, the United

a. States, government is stil! operating on deficit finance.

Our public debt has just passed the 100-billion mark. In the long run there can be no security in red ink. The social- ¥ security taxes we have paid into the social-security fund have been lent to the government, and have been spent. When the war is over, we will have to build by private enterprise such a volume of business that the government

' through taxes may pay back what it has borrowed.

* Only then can we have social security in the real meaning of the term.

WOMEN ON JURIES ; A committee of federal judges, appointed by Chief Jus-~ tice Stone, has recommended that women be made eligible for federal jury service in the 20 states where they are now disqualified, and that their service be made compulsory in 15 other states and the District of Columbia where it is now optional. It has been amply demonstrated that women jurors can serve capably. In these times, when women are being urged to undertake the same work as men in so many other fields, it seems especially absurd to bar them from equality

“in the courts, either federal or state. The legislation urged by the judges’ committee should be enacted.

But isn’t it strange that while members of one sex are fighting for the right to serve on juries, many members. of the other sex, who have always had that right, fight almost as hard to avoid jury service when they are called?

HO-HO-KUS POINTS THE WAY QIX local families having bought horses and buggies to ~ replace their automobiles, the Borough Council of Ho-o-Kus, N. J., has installed four hitching posts, and stands to erect more if required. The council announces the sy that “if horses are to be parked safely so they , run away, they must be tied, and hitehing posts ; ective,” Titus

Fair Encugh

By Westbrook Pegler

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NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—President Roosevelt has said that the press has given the public an erroneous impression of Mrs. Roosevelt's Communist - decree limiting salaries to $25,000 a year. The fact is that nobody can understand the damn thing and when it is considered against its shady background, suspicion naturally occurs, that it was purposely made confusing and ambiguous, so that those affected would be thrown to the discretion of the nasty little shysters, masters of many clever little schemés having the color of legality, who customarily interpret the income tax laws, regulations and rulings, according to their own whims. Within 24 hours after the president's attempt ' to* blame the press for this probably intentioned ambiguity, moreover, the treasury admitted that Mrs. Roosevelt's decree left many questions unanswered and advised all concerned, when in doubt, to consult the nearest stabilization office. The most important is that this regulation not only lacks the sanction of the United States congress, but flouts the expressed intent of congress.

It's Not a Law—It's a Decree

form ‘of the Communist party of 1928 by the same C. I. O. union which struck at the North American Aviation plant to sabotage this nation’s war preparations before Hitler struck Russia, boosted by Mrs. Roosevelt and then’ proposed to congress by the present. And a third is that it isn't a law at all, but a decree. Arthur Krock of the New York Times called the turn on the latest development a few days after the first objections were heard against the inequalities of Mrs. Roosevelt's decree. He ‘wrote from Washington that criticism on the ground that it did not affect unearned income was just what its authors wanted, suggesting that the next move would be to limit all income, which was the broader proposal of the Communists in 1928. Sure enough, soon after Mrs. Ropsevelt’s return from her mission of vital importance to England, which doubtless will shorten the war by at least a year, she expressed regret that her decree applied to money earned by personal services alone and, sure enough, in the familiar sequence, the president has expressed a wish that congress see to this,

"She Was Assured, Was She?"

THERE IS AN admission, possibly inadvertent, but certainly convincing, of her authorship of this decree in a remark by Mrs. Roosevelt. quoted in a

Washington dispatch of the United Press on Nov. 23. The United Press said she had been disturbed to learn that private income from investmants was not affected by the limitation and added, “I was assured we would tax that, too.” ’ Mrs. Roosevelt did not say who assured her or who, but congress, had any right to give her that promise, nor explain whom she meant by “we,” but this remark is further evidence that Mrs. Roosevelt does consider herself to be one of the rulers of the American people. Personal experience teaches people that the tricky and devious man can get by only just so long. After that those who know him are on their guard, and this reaction occurred when the house ways and means committee turned down a request for presidential authority to suspend the immigration laws, another ‘idea expressed in the Communist plagorm of 1928.

Stassen’s Plan By Ludwell Denny

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—Governor Stassen of Minnesota in a New York address yesterday proposed a seven-point program for a post-war “united nations of the world.” What he says is important because he is a leader of the younger Republican group, and a potential presidental candidate. There is added significance in his timing of this particular statement. Monday the Republican national committee is meeting to name a chairman, with lines drawn between so-called internationalists and isolationists. Doubtless the party will pick a compromise candidate, more representative of the middle-ground majority than of either extreme wing. Certainly the public now realizes that the basic interdependence of nations, which finally involved us in the war, also will involve us in peacemaking and peace-enforce-ment—whether we like it or jot.

He Uses the Wilson Technique

TO FIND FAULT with Stassen’s seven points would be easy. They are tentative and incomplete. Some of them are less specific even than the generalizations of the Atlantic Charter. But the fact that. Stassen has presented a forward-looking program for discussion is more important, for the moment, than its details. In addition to such commonly accepted proposals as * a world police force,” he makes one point which cannot be stressed too much. Though criminal leaders of the enemy must be punished, and the: pcwer of those nations to repeat their folly must be curbed by disarmament and otherwise, there should be no post-war vengeance against entire populations. Some of our propagandists in their fervor talk

man people and all the ‘Japanese. Apart from that being an impossibility and the surest way to provoke future wars, it is the kind of boomerang propaganda welccmed by Hitler and Tojo for keeping their pecples in line. Stassen is more intelligent. He uses the effective Woodrow Wilson technique of appealing to the enemy against their dictators.

‘Devil Mountain’ By Stephen Ellis

THERE IS A “lost world” down in (Venezuela, our neighbor to the south. It is the 300-square mile area, 8000 feet above sea level called the Plateau of AuyanTepui—“Devil Mountain.” To this forbidding area went L. R. . Dennison, known as “Diamond Denny” with a daredevil flier named Jimmie Angell. And L. R. Dennison has put down on paper what he found and what he experienced. For this “lost world” is no figment of the imagination—it is a site of perhaps some of the richest deposits ever known, a site which ‘may remain forever impassable. But in “Devil Mountain,” Mr. Dennison has recorded ‘faithfully what he experienced arid what he saw. Besides its adventure theme, it should attract a great many individuals who are just now learning of our great South American continent. i not only good reading, but it's illustrated as we

DEVIL MOUNTAIN: The Lost Lost World of Veneruels. By. L. R. nison. W trations and endpaper maps,

ANOTHER IS that it was lifted out of the plat- |

as though we could or should wipe out all the Ger- |

The Hoosier Forum

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

In Washington.

By Peter Edson

SWASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Flying Fortresses, the biggest, toughest fighting planes the U. 8. army or any other army possesses today, are now being made by a labor force that is 50 per cent women, and by the end of next year officials at the Boeing plants in Seat“tle and Renton, Wash, say the labor force will be 70 per cent women. In Washington it is believed this is the highest percentage of women employees of any aircraft plant in the country. In April, Boeing had less than 4 per cent women employees. By July it was 25 per cent and it his been doubled since then by simplifying work processes. Eighty per cent of all beginning and probationary mechanics being hired are women, and there are now some women doing practically every job in the plant. Ninety-five per cent of all the rivet buckers are women. Big surprise has been that most of the married women with children prefer the second shift, from 4 p. m. to midnight. They do household work in the morning, let a neighbor take care of the children till the husband gets home from his day shift.

Putting 'Em in Their Places

MUNRO LIEF, the whimsical fellow who wrote “Ferdinand the Bull,” has just been promoted to an army captaincy and sent out to a Kansas service school to find out what & fighting branch of the service was all about. But a short time ago when he was just a first lieutenant in Washington, writing serious speeches for ‘generals to deliver, Lief was sent on a Speaking tour with a lot of colonels and majors who thought they were something, Imagine the surprise of the colonels and majorg when, on picking up the local newspapers to look

|| at the photograph of their arrival at the railroad

station, they saw it under the headline: LIEF AND PARTY ARRIVE IN TOWN.”

Unseen Sight

THE FAMOUS and highly secret Norden bomb sight is still believed to be just as exclusively a U. 8. weapon as it was at the beginning of the war, all of them being accounted for and none having fallen into Jap or German hands. What has surprised U, S. observers, however, is that the Japs appear to be better precision bombers than the Germans and it isn't known what sight the Jap bombers are using, either.

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“WHY NOT MARGARINE FOR THE POORER FAMILIES?” By David E. Kennedy, Indianapolis

I have a suggestion that will take care of the butter situation and the poor will benefit by it. Heretofore and now margarine is taxed. It is forbidden, only with a heavy tax, to be colored and sold. With scarcity of butter, why not do away with so many taxes and permit it to be sold in quarters and prints (colored) ready for the table? This has been forbidden because they say it hurts the farmer in that it hurts the sale of his cream, etc. Apparently at present he does not need this protection. 4 Then why not make it for the duration? The average farmer sells his cream and buys margarine. I know this. The restaurateur could serve it, which he cannot now without a great big sign, conspicuously displayed, and the 90 per cent who refuse to color it will eat it. My greatest trouble was to get my children to eat it unless it was camouflaged into quarters or prints, but that was all that was needed just to do away with the ugly mess home coloring caused. The farmer can’t supply the butter. Why be silly when we all need to be fed? The lawmaker need not eat oleo, as he will call it. His salary will permit him to eat 59cent butter, but too many must eat the margarine or nothing at all. It is far more palatable in prints, psychologically so, and the added butter would furnish the vitamins «the undernourished, the poor in fact, need. ... With all our shortages I know of nothing of more benefit to rich and poor than this turnover of noncolored, taxed margarine, to a rich, yellow colored 50-50 butter and margarine, Let's get busy...,, ” 2 » “] WANT TO ASK WICKARD TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION...” My Mrs. Peter Brobeck, R. R. 1, Reelsville. I read Mr. Claude R. Wickard’s appeal to the farmers in The Times and wish to ask him a question. We bought a tarm two years ago and still owe $175 on it. We lost two horses this last summer and we

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both worked from daylight till dark trying to raise our crops. We did not get over 20 bushels of corn to the acre because the land is sour. We went and signed up for our allotment of lime but never have got it. Now Mr, Wickard, how is the poor hard-working farmer going to raise more when he is used that way? I know of several farmers that have over a hundred acres of land and are working in defense plants geting $8 and some $9 a day. They got their lime and depend on hired help or their boys to do the farming. Load after load of lime was hauled right by our farm to these farmers but we never have got ours, why? We have had a lot of sickness to contend with, but have tried to do everything possible to help and shall continue to do all we can to help win this horrible war, and then to help feed our allies. We know that when this war is over those countries that have fought and bled and died to help us have got to be helped for a long time and we ought to be willing to do with a little less ourselves to help them. How are we poor farmers going to help unless we can get the things necessary to work with? ” ” » “RATIONING IS ONLY WAY TO ALLOCATE SUPPLIES”

By Elmer Jonason, Communist Party organizer, P. O. 489, Indianapolis.

All those Americans who want to

+{win the war realize that a thor-

ough-going system of rationing is the only way to allocate supplies so that our armed forces will have the instruments of victory. Without rationing, some of our boys might die in their tanks in Africa while pleasure drivers burn up their tires.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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Rationing is the democratic allocation of war essentials to the most important fronts, be they at home | or abroad. It is based on the premise of war essentials versus non-war essentials. Among those leading the fight

against rationing are downright!

defeatists who want to waste rubber so that our army will be without war essentials. Then there is the business-as-usual group. that wants

to continue to sell war materials for |

civilian use as long as it brings additional profit, come what may. Then there are those Americans who complain about minor inconveniences brought on by. the war. They are unwittingly helping the appeasers. Rationing protects the great mass of people because it guarantees that they can get necessary living supplies in accordance with their income. Rationing helps eliminate profiteering and shortages and helps maintain an effective price control. The poor housewife with her ration book has the same privileges as Mrs. Millionaire. : The defeatists are screaming hard and long about the bungling of the government’s rationing program. But they themselves, are putting up obstacles to the removal of bungling. This is a matter that the public and particularly the labor movement should be concerned about. ” ” ” “EVERY STORY HAS TWO SIDES

AND THIS IS THE TRUE SIDE!”

By Matilda Porges, Anderson J

Answer to HL. W, L. I read your letter in Tuesday's Forum. I notice you have been eating for a number of years in restaurants and you called two-thirds of rationing just plain profiteering. I notice also -you have been refused the second cup of coffee in one of the restaurants where you eat. That is just a nice way of telling you that you had plenty and they do not want to charge you for an extra cup of coffee. They would like to make a good customer out of you and perhaps they could make a nickel profit on you. Also notice you try all the restaurants. Before the war started, restaurants were plentiful and experienced labor was plentiful and groceries were quite a lot cheaper than now. Butter was 28 cents or 30

cents per pound—now butter sells]:

for 52 to 55 cents per pound. And the one restaurant which wanted to charge you five cents for extra patty of butter—that was just a polite way of telling you you had plenty for. amount of money you wanted to spend. And the restaurant where you found the sugar bowl on the table —they probably are short of help

and perhaps 75 per cent or more of | i

their customers do not use sugar at all in their coffee, so the other 25 per cent can have all the suzar they wish. The restaurant wh we they serve you two patties of butter

should refuse to serve you food at| - Wik

all. If they cannot operate at a profit, why serve you? It is just like taking milk away from the baby. I wonder If H. L. W. had to fry

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with inexperienced help, wait table and put a smile on to meet the public and probably wash the dishes when customer gets through eating, if he would be fussing about the rationing, but would try to be a little more humane and reasonable. Every story has two sides and this is the true side of it. *

‘DAILY THOUGHT

And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou

say, Thou art my God.—Hosea

| Maritime Captain Raymond Lytz of Mobile, Ala. Just back in Washington from Guadalcanal, says that

| when the Japs come over Henderson field for a high | level bombing raid at 22,000 feet or better, they can | hit the runways with remarkable precision.

To appreciate what good bombing this is, you have to consider that the Jap bomber is not only more than four miles up, but he is also two-and-a-half to three miles horizontally off his target at the time he releases his eggs.

50,000 Feet High!

By Major Al Williams

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—A recent dispatch of the British air ministry discloses that Spitfires are now reaching 50,000-feet altitudes to fight off the Nazi high- - altitude bombers. This tips us off that the Spitfire fighter has. been so altered that its cockpit is hermetically sealed and supe plied with pumped air to maine tain livable air pressure. This sealing of the cockpit has been accomplished—or else the Spitfire pilot didn’t get to 50,000 feet, or, if he did, he didn’t live to tell about it. The rest of the dispatch is all mixed up with ground mechanics working fiercely to give Spitfires even greater height. The only way ground mechanics could increase the altitude attainable by a plane— especially in the Libyan desert—no matter how fiercely’ they worked, would be to remove the old wings and replace them with wings of greater span and possibly to change the gears in the supercharger which

| would speed up the air pressure supplied to the engine. | 72,000 Feet the Maximum to Date

THE ATMOSPHERIC combat zone is going higher, and if it gets above approximately 33,000 feet, the pilot in an unsealed cockpit must breathe pure oxygen, That level is about the bottom of the stratosphere. The highest altitude yet attained experimentally by pilots without pressure equipment is about 43,000. At 50,000 feet, everyone is satisfied, man cannot live without pressure equipment even though he breathes pure oxygen. In planes with cockpits kept under air pressure, the highest altitude attained thus far is about 51,000. And, to cover the maximum achievement of man in altitude flight to date, Anderson and Stevens, in a sealed gondola suspended -beneath a balloon, reached 72,000 feet. The air doesn't change its chemical makeup at altitudes. The ration between oxygen, nitrogen, helium, etc., remains constant, from sea level to beyond the stratosphere, so it is necessary only to gather enough of this thin air together and crowd it into a sealed place, pumping until the pressure is high enough to sustain life, and you have the “pressure cabin,” of experimental status today and the Ordinary : provision of the future, a

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

TEMPLE university coeds took a ‘look into the future the other. day and predicted that after the war women are going to feel less dependence on men then Shey have in the past. But the coeds were quick to add that the feeling of independence women are sure to gain from working side by side with men in war industries will be ‘well hidden from the men. No wonder women’s advancement has been a slow process. Here is a group of college students facing a world that is in desperate need of their brains and their ability, a world that is at least ready to offer them industrial and professional equality with men— and they are already worrying about the old problems of whether or not the men will approve of them if they become really independent humsdn beings, .

They Still Play Helpless

THEY ARE all set, before they ever gain thei. independence, to hide it in their personal relation= ships with men. They are convinced women have to pretend helplessness in order to get along with men. It is a pity today’s young women aren't ‘willing to break with that old idea, and “strike out for a finer, ‘more honest relation between the sexes. If young women don't take this chance to discard the old feminine fear that men don’t like them unless

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they think they are helpless and ‘just a bit stupid, they don't deserve any kind ob. equality, and they