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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 4 '

CAN THE G. 0. P. LEAD? _

THE Republican ‘national committee's meeting at st. ‘Louis produced the appearance of harmony. Whether it produced anything else worthy of the party's. [present * responsibilities and possible future opportunities is open to doubt. Harrison E. Spangler of Iowa, the. committee's new chairman, is the result of a compromise. He is a 62-year-old wheelhorse, conservative if not reactionary, ‘who as Thomas L. Stokes reports has "either dash, color, nor original ideas.” “ Perhaps the Republican party doasi't: need dash, color | or. ‘original ideas in its leadership. - - Perhaps ‘its ‘cue is to sit tight, compromise internal differerices, avoid definite commitments on national and international policies, and base its hopes for 1944 on New Deal mistakes, Democratic disunity and public dissatisfaction’ with the present administration’s management of the war effort. * ; That would be no glorious role. But it brought a congiderable success in this year’s congressional elections. And many Republicans seem to think it’s the role their party should play for the next two years.

We don't. M~ " SPANGLER modestly—and correctly—concedes that his selection: was mo personal tribute. “You've done it,” he said, “in the spirit of trying to do what you can to defeat the New Deal. I started after that animal in 1932. I hope in 1944 I can be there at the kill.” And then, Mr. Chairman, what? Certainly the New Deal has a multitude of faults. It is vulnerable to attack for extravagance, for inefficiency, for proclaiming lofty motives and associating itself with base ones, for engineering an unnecessary vast concentration of powers in the federal bureaucracy, for following after strange and dangerous theories. : But to millions. of people it represents a promise, a hope and a measure of performance. With what does the Republican party propose to. replace it? Mr. Spangler saith not.

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» ‘Republican national committee studiously avoids any pronouncement upon party program and policy. ~ Granted, the position is difficult. . . There are wide differences of opinion within the party, both as to the duties this country should assume in the postwar world-and as to the measures necessary to restore permanent health to the domestic economy. The temptation is strong to pussyfoot and hope that the voters will take the G. O. P.’s.good intentions on faith. Maybe the voters would do just that. But the memory of 1920 and of 1932 persists, and generalities about restoring private-enterprise may not be enough. ‘We believe the country wants definite assurance that % isn’t just the old deal that would be restored. A party that aspires to leadership two years hence ought to start proving now that it knows how and where

to lead.

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HITLER'S FRIEND, FRAN Co

. [FRANCO'S speech praising his friends Hitler and Mussolini, and damning liberalism, should not surprise anyone. He is a two-bit dictator," who destroyed the Spanish republic with Hitler's and Mussolini’ 8 planes, guns and * blitz experts. He has been a “neutral” in this war because the chaos hunger and unrest in his victimized country have left it a doubtful military asset for the axis until recently. The situation became dangerous for us when we occupied North Africa, with fascist Spain on our exposed flank.

The danger is not from Franco as such—he has his hands |

full at home—much as he would like to be an active rather - than passive partner of axis conquest. The danger is from . Hitler. The fuehrer’s purposes were best served by Spanish “neutrality” until the allies took North Africa. But axis survival may now depend upon his use of Spain and Spanish Morocco to break the allied pincers closing in on him, "If the allies take the Tunisian tip as expected, and . strike at the soft Italian underbelly of the axis, Hitler's ‘i. alternative roads for a counter-offensive would be through Turkey or Spain. Recent Russian successes, plus Turkish _ preparedness, leave Spain the easier of the two roads as well as the more strategic. The only protection ‘against a Hitler flank attack through Spain is not Franco’s repeated professions of neutrality, but our own military power and the Spanish people's hatred of the axis. Hitler is the man to watch: —not his puny imitator Franco.

A JEWELER SPEAKS “How's businesg?” we asked a jeweler friend. | “Too good,” he replied. “I'm afraid I'll have to go out of husiness. The stock is going fast, it’s becoming harder to get replacements, and it looks as if I won't have . anything to sell next year. “The other. day a girl came in and picked out an engagement and a wedding ring, and asked that they be laid sida. The total cost Was $510. A few days later a man

“1: like to see a man in overilis able to buy diamonds {he woman _he loves, but I'm wondering what he is to have to buy with when the war ends and war work nd { high war wages stop. Wouldn't it be better if somie those hundreds he is earning were laid aside to be paid him after the war?

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By Westbrook Pegler

join unions even though they are forced

say is that all hiring for any work which MeNutt ‘deems to be essential shall be done through the U, S. employment service “or in accordance with such errangements” as McNutt may approve. So if McNutt decides that you must leave your job with an insurance company or a department store. for example, and, being thus thrown out of work, you are forced to take a war job, McNutt can order that the hiring be done through the union claiming jurisdiction or having a Wagner act contract with the plant in question.

"An All-Purpose Gimmick"

NOTHING IN the executive order even intimates that McNutt shall have the power to regulate the dues and fees of the unions, so what it comes down to is that he can drive you into a war job by deciding that your present job is non-essential and then, by approving an “arrangement” with a union, can make you pay $50, $100 or $250 for initiation and other fees and dues for which the union is accountable tonobody and force you to live up to union rules of personal conduct which deprice you of your basic rights as a free man. The gimmick in paragraph 5 also says, agsin in negative language, that your employer must fire you if McNutt thinks your services are more urgently needed in some other job. That is an all-purpose gimmick, capable of destroying all private, non-war industry in the United States, reducing & middle-class salaried worker to day wages and moving him or her away from home. For it says McNutt may do this if he thinks you would be of more service in some other "i doesn’t say that if you have worked yourself up to $7500-a-year as an office executive in a non-war business and are transferred to physical labor somewhere else, McNutt must get you $7500 a year so that you can keep up your insurance and the mortgage and the support of your aged parents, It says nothing about that part of It.

"Some of the Hidden Meanings" NATURALLY, McNUTT will require the help of

cisions in individual cases, himself, And a sub-administrator who is a erook or a Communist or a business rival of your boss can decide that all the workers at your place must be discharged, which would mean, of course, that your boss would be put out of business, The rival firm need not be disturbed. These are some of the hidden meanings of the manpower executive order which came out in spite of the fact that strikes and slowdowns and union rules and contracts are wasting a great portion of manpower of the nation. Such contracts, incidentally, include one which provides that an important steel center shall be idle on the opening days of the hunting and fishing seasfn, in addition, of course, to the usual standard holidays.

Mass Murder By William Philip Simms

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—More than one-fourth of all the Jews of Europe have already died under Nazi rule, I was told by members of a distinguished delegation here today, and millions of others are doomed unless a sudden and none too likely change takes place in what Adolf Hitler refers to as his heart. Somewhat more than half of the world’s Jews lived in the part of Europe now occupied by the Germans. The largest contingent—approximately 3,500,000—made their homes in Poland. This entire area has now been overrun. Poland has been the worst sufferer, but nowhere has the lot of Europe's Jewry been anything hut tragic. The report officially confirmed by the state. department is that Berlin is now following a policy of systematic and delibetate extermination. The president told the delegation yesterday that he was “profoundly shocked,”

What the Future Holds

WITH VICTORY, the allies will have to determine what is to be done with'Europe’s remaining five or six million homeless Jews. Zionists believe the answer is to be found in the establishment in Palestine of a Jewish national home, sometimes referred to nowadays as a Jewish commonwealth. But not everyone is in agreement with regard to the “Jewish commonwealth.” The Jews themselves are far from unanimous about it and the position of the British, who hold the mandate over Palestine, seems none too favorable. Other sites for a Jewish state or homeland have been suggested in the new World as well as the old. Alaska and South America have been nientioned as rich regions still sparsely settled. » Thus far no one has officially proposed that the Rhineland or some other lush part of Hitler's realm. be set aside at the peace table for a Jewish state,

-put there are those who say it would be poetic justice,

| A Grade-A Thriller

By Stephen Ellis

THEY FOUND. the body of Jenny Iverson where the half-witted Athene Pearsall had hidden it, under the clam shells on the beach of the sound, -The brittle Jenny had invited herself down to the Connecticut shore colony for the week-end, for what reason ner friends could only guess. Jenny, glittering career woman and cosmetics magnate, had drifted away from her childhood friends.

fortune by the depression, and his wife, Sally, who had hoped to have Jenny give her a job. There were the Blairs, the ebullient Pat and his unattractive, managing wife, Velma, and Alice and Richard Cun-

glow of having seen better days. Nobody counted Jenny's death a loss, although they shuddered at the manner of it—a fish knife in her | back, But it was Jenny's death and Sheriff Arthur

| Brent’s investigation of it which stripped from the

isle Slide is piictises ad camoufiage. “Thirty Days Hath September” is one of the season’s best-written and most Pick

all because it defles you to put it down. - It is the product of Dorothy Caimeron Disney who supplied the plot and situations and George Sessions. Perry, itinerant magazine article writer now in the air corps, Who as mags the Writing Sparkle, 1

‘7 like to. sell; it's my business. But I'd like to. have.

Baws the power to compel al workers women as well | us | 88 men, to

to accept work in the war industries. What it doss |

many sub-administrators. He can’t make all the de- |.

“this kind of graft.

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Hoosier Forum

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

(Times readers are invited to express their views in

“I WAS CHARGED $1.25 FOR TIRE INSPECTION” By Paul Boyer, 919 Cecil st.

This is the first time I have ever written to your column, but now is the time to start. I have just had my tires inspected, visual inspection, for which I was charged $1.25. I received a notice when I got my book that there would be a charge of 25 cents a vehicle. for visual inspection; 50 cents a tire if ed from wheel. Either I am wrong or someone is making good money on

these columns, religious controveries Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed)

excluded.

Uncle: Sam should give your conscience 3 warm feeling of approval. a 5s = “CANNING INDUSTRY IN INDIANA IS HAZARDOUS” By John = Souder, Canner and Farmer, Greenfiel a article a few days ago by J. W. Ingals, Lewisville, with the heading, “Canners are Chiselers,”

I have the receipt for that $1.25 graft. t 4 » »

“NEGLECT OF TIN SALVAGE MAY RETARD VICTORY”

By Louis W. Heagy, 216 E. 9th st.

There was her host Tom, an architect, stripped of his |

One empty tin can has but scant appraisement; it’s a nuisance if left on the kitchen sink, thrown in the backyard or placed in the ash can. But, if you follow salvage instructions put out by our government, that lone emplty tin can may, figuratively speaking, hold up its head in a carload of its mates. One empty can a day, thrown away in each of 100,000 Marion county homes, would in each monthly period of collection, amount to 3,000,000 cans. It is not inferred that one-half the families neglect this essential war duty, but there are far too many homes, restaurants and hotels that fail to co-operate in this simple but vital effort. The pounds of precious tin lost to production in this failure may well retard important equipment reaching the front line. ‘This is just one of the little things that relate to production that could be a cause of months’ or years’ delay in our victory drive. Regardless of your having a friend or relative on the battle

Mr. Ingals qualifies himself as knowing all about the canning industry, This is more than the writer can boast after having been continuously in the business of canning for over 25 years and a past president of the Indiana Canners association, While the minimum wage to either men or women set by the Wagner act was 30 cents per hour, the average wage paid in Indiana last season was 40 cents. This for hourly workers. Most employees were on piece work ranging from 30 to 80 cents per hour. Now he states that farmers were underpaid. The truth is and has always been that the price paid to growers for canning crops is higher than any other farm product. . . This year a large per cent of our growers produced 12 to 16 tons of tomatoes per acre for which they received $1750 per ton. This amounts to more net than the value of the land on which they were grown. + By nature the canning of seasonal vegetable crops in Indiana is a most hazardous undertaking. The

front, this small service for your

canner takes a long shot. His

Side Glances—By Galbraith

| positively “missing in action”

banker knows this, so do the can manufacturing companies and general supply men, Before the seed is put into the ground the price is fixed on everything that goes to make a can of food, yet the canner is at the mercy

of a market over which he has no: control. Crop hazard is an item of | speculation. « This year we were| out twice—the weather froze| us on the 27th of September, about | :

frozen

a month too soon, and the government immediately froze our stocks on hand. There just isn't any

precedent. This year was like all

others because it was different. Fortunately or unfortunately the canning industry is not subject to direct subsidy or any other grant from the government like the farmer, neither is he possessed with super influence to demand relief as is organized labor. On the other hand the canner is subject to all the government rules, regulation licenses and taxes imaginable, good, bad and indifferent, No ‘industry is more potent to the war effort. Indiana canners produced in 1942 over 16 million cases of sedsonal vegetables and the armed forces, including lend lease, are taking approximately 40 per cent. - Uncle Sam is demanding more next year; we shall not fail, canners always meet an emergency. Now back to the original. There is no need for our friend to be all wrought up. If there ever was anything wrong with wages paid by canners over the last quarter of a century the eagle eye of organized labor would have caught up with it. Then again the best value in foods has always been canned foods and is today. Let's give the public a break. Canners are not sensitive, we are immune; only as a matter of expediency do we answer. We are thankful that our good friend did not use stronger terms of endearment than birds and chiselers.

. t 4 x » “NO WONDER GOD IS PUNISHING US” By D. Fields, 546 E. Ohio st. A few evenings ago I was sitting by my radio listening to a silly network program which was growing more disgusting every minute, when

died. Right then I decided to voice

my protest against this lack of re-|:

spect.

Oh! You say we have got to keep | &

up our morale. If you had just read a notice from the war department that your precious son was I

know you wouldn't worry about any-

§ | body's morale. You wouldn’i listen

ningham who lived next door to Tog and Sally in the |

absorbing mysteries. it up early in the evening, if you hope to get to bed at ||

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"Dee, ye you Yow a lot about human Raine uppass you explain

why it is thet customers of mine 6 who never RS coas be-

to any silliness. Friends, in this present modern age, we are actually losing our natural instincts. These crazy mod-

i|ern people think you are a simple ‘|ton if you cry out aloud at your jlown dear mother’s funeral ‘| wonder God is punishing us for be- ‘| ing so hard-hearted, unnatural and

cruel.

DAILY THOUGHT Then shall ye call upon me,’

made to limit ce Alaska and Puerto Rico believe that commugications |

in determining that cuse for a senate Judie

of Massachusetts or Virginia. Sk recalling the Spanish population of Puerto Rico and

months. If the blonds and sed-heads that kind of to find themsel the brunets grab the jobs. -

How to Squelch the Idea | d

WASHINGTON; Dec. 10-~Hoos srs ares hats pre —prin larly in’ : This week two of them took over top-ranking jobs in Wartime Washington. Jobs with powers to tell Americans what they tan eat ‘and’ whete they should work--alk in’ the interest wu ‘Winning this total war, These are great powers’ If the Hoosiers ‘who now have them ‘are REIT IREIN hdiings Yet both at one time or another have been in the Whits House doghouse and rumored on the way out of ‘the posts they then held and still do. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, the dirt farming t from ‘Camden, was made Ware time food administrator by order of President ‘Roose: velt. Federal Sectrity Administrator’ Paul v MoNuté was given power to implement his position as War Manpower Commissioner by another order from the

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president.

Washington Rumors Take a Beating.

ONLY LAST WEEK MR. McNUTT. reportedly wag to be “kicked upstairs” to the cabinet post of secre’ tary of interior and his manpower assignment to be" turned over to Secretary Ickes, who then ‘would be~ come secretary of labor. Last summer Secretary Wickard tell otit with OPA Administrator Leon Henderson and the président took sides with the latter to the point whers Washington® rumors had Wickard about to lose his Job as secretary’ of agriculture. Now he has been made the food boss of the U. 8. A,’ and Mr, McNutt was handéd his new ‘powers at § cabinet meeting where the president himself reported" ly praised his past performance and predicted a bright’ future for him.

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Despite all the granting of new powers thers is’

really only one which has the final say. ‘The initfaly’ are F. D. R.

‘Benevolent in Their Despotism'

COMPARING WHAT THEY called “America’s twa Hoosier czars,” The Wall Street Journal said that theip personalities “differ as much as their hair-dos. (Witke ard’s thatch is close-cropped, disappearing in frong center. McNutt's needs no introduction)” and én tinued: “Decoration of their offices may be one élue.” Die’ rectly opposite Mr, Wickard's desk are hung pictures’ of Wallace, Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson—his 18’ ther’s name wis Andrew Jackson Wickard: ENT “Upon Mr. McNutt’s wall, at: his right hand, hangs a more than life-size portrait of Paul V. MeNutt, By» his door, facing the executive, is a bronze bust 6f Paul V. McNutt. Diplomas, ‘certificates- and: Wt adorn the room.” s The writer, Henry Gemmil; concludes Rovers: that both "Will 4: 1a: be: mest: benevolent in theipe despotism.”

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In Washington

By Peter Edson.

WASHINGTON, Dee, 10. Tt only when you. get aw insight’ inte some of the plots and conspiracies ' against the United States—discov< ered through censorship of mall te, and from remote points under the | American flag—that full necessity for drastic wartime Spestion of

mmunicatipns ¢an be apprects,

co ated Details of counter-espions "agh éases be disclosed now, 4 but in general it can be told that millions of dollars have already been saved the government through clews detected by censors, Huge stockpiles of hoarded raw materials, strategic minerals needed for war produce; tion, have been detected. One of these'seizures alone was of greater monetary value than the entire cost’ of operating the office of censorship for a year. V In spite of this there is a definite effort now being

p: - Specifically, some people in

with those territories should not be censored. Gow, Ernest Gruening of ° Alaska® is partidilarly bitter; against this censorship and it is largely as a result of’ his protests that the senate judiciary committee is

AS THE: MATTER stands it % ah involved egal: question on whether’ an executive; order stemming" from the first war polices act has gny standing, but t, this is to be the exs' fcommittes investigation of; / all U. 8. censorship practices.” From a practical military point ot view, it might, be difficult to understand how thi iepuld be any. question on the advisability: of censorisig. wail to and’

from the territories. |

Residents of Alaska, Puerto Rico ‘and Hawall say’ they're all just as good Americans as are the Peoria

the Japanese population of Hawaii, t beg to ater Or suppose a mail-carrying ship = rpedoed, the mails captured. It pom to, casmor-mil 10. Canada and

Mexico, why isn’t it just as necessary to censor coms}

the outlying . artiuriey and \ a A

munications

with possessions? ’

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

3 we 3 d 4 hb L BRUNETS seem to be one up 4 on blonds and red-heads. In ‘Washington, a telegraph company advertised for girls to fill the job of train pages at the} Union” station. The ad specifiedy brundts, i : Asked, “How come?” officials of / . the company said that brunets. are “more stable” than blonds and red-heads: ‘and outlast them! ‘on a job by an average of two don't a! propaganda right now, an ‘are Hedy pushed into the background

IT WOULDN'T be suriising if men, reading thas brunets are more stable ‘than their lighters sisters, world Toason. that they would make bette:

‘wives.

S80, you see, it 1s up to the Ee such pro-brunet propaganda. The long, hard way of deing it would be for the: blonds aud yed-heads lo mae a conseitus €liers: we out-sit their brown-haired sisters at a one But the rumor could be sq

much easily than that. The blon¢s and red-heads