Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1942 — Page 14

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+ RALPH BURKHOLDER

Editor, in U. 8. Service

“Price in Marion comune} ty, 3 cents a copy; deliverea by carrier, 15 cents|

‘Mail rates in Indiana, $4 a year; adjoining / "states, T5 cents a month; others, $1 monthly.

No. 5 dno or suppers in hotels; no extra food

Su} plies for public eating places; $1 limit on meals, as usual. 0 extra supplies of wines—merchants are allowed to im-

“port less than 8 per cent of their 1938 supplies—but prob-

ably beer “enough to go around.” Christmas puddings made of spice, prunes, apples, car-

rots and potatoes, boiled in government-controlled commu-

nity restaurants to save fuel. No mince pies. but doubtful, extra meat ration on Dec. 25.

A possible, Instead of

turkey, “the Lord Woolton stuffed mutton with celery

sauce.” ; ‘Gifts-difficult to find: Stockings, handkerchiefs, under‘wear, chocolate, all rationed. A very restricted quantity of Christmas cards, made from paper held in stock since last year, and they must be salvaged for repulping after Christmas. ‘Toy makers allowed only 91% per cent of normal out-

put of cheap toys (until Dec. 12, when that restriction was

lifted) and only 714% per cent of expensive toys. x No silver bells, tinsel, paper streamers, snappers, paper

x hats; no holly or mistletoe, transport of cut flowers or

. foliage being prohibited; a very few small Christmas trees at $2.50'each.

WISE DECISION : : “HE: National War Labor Board has refused unanimously to take jurisdiction. over labor disputes between state, city or other local governments and their employees. We congratulate the board on an exceedingly wise decision. - Unions representing municipal employees in New York City, Newark, N. J., and Omaha, Neb.; had asked the NWLB to issue orders to these cities concerning wages or other conditions of employment. - The board holds that the president has given it no such power, and some individual members,

going further, argue that the president himself has no authority to convey such power to an agency of the federal

: government.

. Public employees, as dompared to. tose of private in-

dusiry, are at a disadvantage in period when’ the “cost of

living is rising. Congress has just raised the pay of federal workers, and we think it’s up to state, city and other | -

: local governments, so far as they possibly can, to recognize

thei employe need for better pay. And that goes for

Indi

- endless trouble.

But an attempt by the federal government to dictate the wage rates paid by local governments would have caused The NWLB’s unanimous decision, joined in by the representatives of organized labor as well as those of employers and the public, should be thes final word to

those who would have Washington undertake to control | the internal affairs of the states and cities.

E. HOWARD CADLE E: HOWARD CADLE, whose body lies in state today in

the tabernacle which he made nationally famous, is being mournéd all over the country by the thousands upon

thousands of persons who listened to his voice over the

‘radio and who saw him preach in person. ; Mr. Cadle was a highly unusual man. He had the gift of knowing his people and he talked to them and with them.

‘Born in a log cabin in Washington county, he engaged in

any number of business enterprises, and then went into vangelism on a giant scale. That he was. successful is proved by the record. And “th t he will be missed by the people he spoke to and served is proved today by the countless _messages of condolences

po ring into the Cadle hore,

| DERMINING ALLIED UNITY LLIED unity in the war effort and in post-war peace | plans is being underminid by power rivalry within syeral national groups.

The struggle- between De Gaullists and Darlanists, as|

; which shall represent France, is widely publicized. In goslavia there is civil war between supporters of Gen. hailovitch and the so-called Dertisans, In this country |

This situation is es. 3 enough at bast. but it is e worse by ‘failure of the major allies to agree on a t method for handling it.

the partisans. : Perhaps it is too much to expect factions within Euro-

ups to postpone entirely their internal t not only dl polis, but. also old

the major allied governments now

ic Chatter | promise that the| *

British ‘and Russian co-|: De ration with the American policy of ‘dealing with Darlan ; n Africa as a temporary military expedient has not been |: complete. Those two allies in turn have divided over Yugo-| lavia—London backing Mikhailovich and Moscow favor-

| Credit Kremlin: With Miracle 1 IT IS MORE than 14 months now since Naui| |

why Charlie Chaplin has been

_ States about 40 years without be- - coming a citizen and.whether, in view of his decided partiality to

communism, which, is hostile to: =

our government, as Mr. Biddle the my general, said last sprix ; he can be deported to his 1 England and, if so, why he isn’t. The welcome on the door mat has been scuffed away by Chaplin’s low-comedy shoes -and, after years of sly pretending, when an open profession of his

political faith would have hurt his business, now | :

that he has all the money he needs and has lost his way with the public, he has frafikly allied himself

| with the pro-Communist actors and writers of the | theater and the movies, who call themselves artists,

‘but who are mostly hams and hacks. "Chaplin lately has said that he was pro-Communist, which means only that he is anti-American and my authority here is President Roosevelt’s remark when he had to call on American soldiers to disperse Communist rioters who were mobbing American workers trying to build planes which nowadays are defending Chaplin's life and easing enemy pressure on that Russia whose system he 50 much admires.

Called Form of Alien Sabotage * THE PRESIDENT SAID the trouble was no

: labor dispute but a form of alien sabotage directe

by Communist forces interested in the defeat and overthrow of the United States. Since then, however, under cover of the military situation which has made the United States and Russia allies in the war, Communists in this country have been worming their way back into the American government. The contention is boldly put forward that to remain American and, resenf “&nd resist communism as a hostile, alien force is un-American conduct. Miss Jeanette MacDonald, the actress. and singer, called Chaplin’s number: back in October in an exchange of correspondence when a pro-Communist ham asked her to lend her name to the list of sponsors for a meeting at which Chaplin was to be the honorary chairman, The list included a number of well-known reds and pinks including a Washington political commen‘tator who writes under an alias and the writer of the letter said Chaplin and Orson Welles, another of those

ballyhoo reputations, with a tendency to roguishness, |

would join him in this plea to her. The purpose was to holler up the Communist demand for a second iront to help Russia, not the United States.

Could Eisenhower Conduct 4 Symphony?

IN REPLY, MISS MACDONALD wrote that she thought actors and writers were no more competent to judge the wisdom of a second front than Gen.

Eisenhower was to conduct a symphony, and said her

husband, ‘Capt. Gene Raymond, was.on active duty in Britain and had lately participated in air raids on Dieppe and Rouen, and, she believed, in the raid in Lille. - “I have not given up the hope that he (Chaplin) will find it in his heart to_go tc England or even Russia, where he could bring great joy” to soldiers

‘returning “half crazed and exhausted,” her letter said.

On what she based that hope she did not say and she might have been needling: As to Orson Welles, Miss MacDonald hoped he would find it in his conscience to fight overseas. “There,” she said, “he can actively participate in the great second front he so patriotically advocates.” The Communists will try to crucify Miss MacDonald for that through their guilds and conspiracies and their Communist reviewers who smear the work of any actor .or writer who has the courage and patriotism to call them all what they are..

Featherbedding

By John W. Love

CLEVELAND, Dec. 22.— The increase in the number of women in factory work in this industrial region is having an effect nobody ‘expected. It is turning up a number of soft jobs, the existence of which their holders had been able to conceal over the years . The practice of nursing along these snaps in industry is sometimes known as featherbedding. "Women new to industry, some of them with relatives in the armed services, often revolt at featherbedding. These situations are often coming to light when women are assigned to jobs formerly held by men. After a few days or weeks they discover they are turning, out more work than the cld hands did. In a few instances they have been threatened, and have even sought to resign, giving the threats as the reason. Certain men have been fired on that account.

Not All of Them Are Efficient!

ONE OR TWO FEATHERBEDDED jobs have surned’ up here in which the output could be multi-" plied by three without the operator working too. hard. The new women are not all paragons of efficiency, however. One of them on a night shift here came to work tight the second evening. i - Sometimes they take the job too seriously. *The | first time one of our women broke a drill,” said an executive, “she went into the washroom and bawled for an hour.”

Moscow Miracle By David M. Nichol

MOSCOW, Dec, 22 (U.P)— Joseph V. Staiin,

and eventful career. The new offensive on the Don is a symptom of this achievement,

against the Nazi invaders, first at Stalingrad, ‘ then in’ the central sector around Rzhev, and now in thie area between. tll ‘as the army organ comments, there is no sector on the whole fron ma Ve,

allowed to stay in the United |

at the end of his | 63d year, has achieved one of the | : greatest successes of his turbulent <} eam

‘which consists of the ability of the | - Red army to strike back strongly |

vilization.. f Mr. Adamic is the Best-known unofficial of Jugoslav origin in the United States. He was BOFD in Slovenia but came Ho this; oountry: ‘when » child.

He is the author of a “member of best sellers, in.

cluding “My America” and “The Native's Return.”

‘He is a liberal, pretty far-over on the left, ‘His mother and nine brothers and sisters—if alive—are still in the land of his birth. Two forces are at war with each ‘other in ‘Jugoslivia, he said, actually spilling each other's blood, ‘One of the ‘warring forces is British-controlled and has our support. The other is Moscow-controlled and

is directed by the Communists.

Democracy, the thing for a “we are supposed

"| to be fighting, is caught in between and will. suffer

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

“ONE FOR THE BOOK ON GAS RATIONING” By O. R. Williams, 2442 N. Illinois st. apt. 3 ., ! ;

in an adjoining county who received a “C” card, giving them supplena gasoline allowance, 1 to make their “annual trip to Florida for the winter months.” : Now on top of this absurd judgment, they were not satisfied to get the allowance, but are advertising in their local paper for two persons to go-along and share expenses, --I was under. the impression that supplementary gas could be obtained only for very: definite reasons. Will

{someone tell me on what basis the

above “C” card could be issued? 1 am unable to spend the winter in

extra gasoline to a good advantage in my business. Instances like the above don’t help steady the already tottering rationing program. What do some of you other readers think?

» 2 2 “COMPARISON OF SCHOOL ELECTION EXPENDITURES” By Clyde McCormack, 1152 Evison st. Now that the newly elected school commissioners are to take office Jan. 1 and are charged with the employment and supervision of teachers and instructors whose duty it

‘will be to educate the school chil-

dren (including those whose parents belong to: and believe in organized labor) to love and respect our form of government which recognizes the right of free speech in the press; suppose ‘we . practice that doctrine by giving to the public the following facts by actual comparison of receipts, expenditures and interests in the recent election of school commissioners. The Citizens. School . committee (quoting from “The History and Accomplishments of the Citizens School commit » in part) is a voluntary non-political group of citizens who have kept the schools free from pressure groups, selfish and vicious interests. Opposing them (again quoting from “The

Here's one for the book ‘on gas! rationing. I know a retired couple}

Florida, but I certainly could use the}

(Times readers are invited to express in these columns, religious con_troveries excluded. Make your letters short, so all can Letters must :

their views’

have a chance. be signed.)

History and Accomplishments of the Citizens School committee”)

was. a ticket made up of a combina-

tion of special interest and special pressure groups, Well organized and well financed, . In order to somewhat clarify the true meaning of high financing and selfish interests to our own satisfaction suppose we review some of the figures in the reports of the acting treasurers of the Citizens School committee and the Independent School committee which are on file and open to the public in the courthouse. The Citizens School committee report shows that the so-called volunteer workers received pay in the following manner: 55 M ers N....$25 each 4T1 M - The oie secretary received $1500, whereas in 1938 he received $800. (Quite a nice increase.) Other expenditures brought the total expenditures up to 13,376.85. Total receipts were $16,742. The so-called high pressure, high financed, selfish interest Independent committee report! shows: Receipts . . ‘Expenditures The services of the executive secretary and publicity director and the time and effort of the entire Independent committee were donated, also the funds received were donated by taxpaying citizens whose only interest in the schools was for the safety and educational opportunities of the school ‘children. ‘If the newly elected board of school commissioners, who receive no salaries for their services, succeeds in making the schools safe

‘and keéps them free from special

interest and pressure groups, they

Side Glances—By Galbraith _

will merit the support of all citizens, including the some 27,000 voters who supported the Independent school committee candidates. : » # 2 “AN OPEN LETTER TO MRS. ROOSEVELT” By. Ernest Johnson, 2330 N. Illinois st. An open letter to Eleanor Roosevelt: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt: Referring fo your column,’ My Day,” just what field of journalism are you. engaged in? Ecoriormis? Politics? War business or foreign relations? Your column scems to be a con-

coction of all these, plus approximately 99 per cen of ‘“Eleanor’s travels.” Your caily travels contain no statistics or information useful to a nation at war or at peace. As to your so sure the America: little whom you

public gives very t entertain or are entertained by. . . . Don’t you reaiize this war is not 0 be decided by a score to shout about? If will be marked by the blood and lives torn from the bodies of brave young men. Your place on the ftrains, busses or taxis could be taken by a war worker who is all out in his efforts. : As to your opinio ly rated as any kin to spread your c simply cashing in of F. D. R. and | neat total. You ! title of first lady As to a recent “Everyone must their own lights ia wartime,” let me say, “there is cut one light burn-

rs, you are hardd. of an authority vipnions. You: are on the position probably netting a. ave shadowed the of the land. remark of yours,

ling now,” the Anecrican determina-

tion to win this war. All dim bulbs Should be extinguished. | » # we ‘BILLY MITCHELL’... 303 ° PAGES OF DYNAMITE = By Lotiis 'W. Heagy, °1 E. Ninth st. Three hundred nd three pages of literary dynamiic, headed «Billy Mitchell” by Emile Gauvreau and Lester Cohen, iz now available to patriotic readers. =r “Billy Mitchell Founder of Our Air Force and Prophet without Honor.”

F Ww ? The Boys of the American Air Force

with whom \ "Billy Mitchell

is flying in spirit in the Air War he predicted.

Read four pages of introduction,

describing an evening in June, 1942, ‘at “Little Venice,’ an Italian restau-

rant in ‘'W. 13th st, New York, and

| Mitchell egic airport on this earth, | bo was hootett by his

ial’ contacts, I'm i

ve according many to supply Italy with these raw materials in

extinction unless something is done without delay to prevent it.

F. D. R. Must Take the Initiative.

-* AND, ‘MR. ADAMIC WENT ON to suggest, there are only three men in the world who can do it. These three are President Roosevelt, Prime r Churche ill and Premier Stalin. Of these, he says the presie dent is the one who must take the initiative. - - . Neither of the others is likely to do so. Mr, ® Churchill and Mr. Stalin seem to be preoccupied : for ~ the moment with other matters, while a tory clique in London and the Third International in Moscow are managing the war-within-a-war in the Balkans. The president must act in Jugoslavia, in Mr, Adamic’s opinion, not merely for the sake of Jugoslavia but for the sake of Eutope and the world, “Both a principle and a precedent are involved.. If the revolution, civil war, or whatever you choose to

| call the bloodshed in Jugoslavia, is to be allowed to-

take its course, most of Europe certainly, and perhaps America, will ignite as conflicting ideologies jump the gun to get the advantage. At the time of the Manchurian episode, in 1932, the United States declared it would no longer recog-

‘nize the acquisition of territory by aggression, and

the other principal powers afterwards adhered to this doctrine,

A Quick Understanding Essen

TODAY, MANY HERE ARE convinced that it much needless bloodshed is to be averted the united

‘nations should immediately proclaim a similar policy

—namely, that no usurper government or makeshift

. regime set up now, by force, will be. Tecognized- at

peace table. Only the decision of the peoples themselves, exe pressed in properly supervised plebiscites or free elec, tions, will be accepted as valid. : I asked Mr. Adamic’ ¥f he believed that sort of solution would fit the situation in Jugoslavia. He replied that he saw no reason why it wouldn't. : The essential, of course, is for the United States, Great Britain and Soviet Russia to come to a quick understanding.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

: A Dec. 22.—Gollapse ‘of Italy is being talked of rather! ‘hopefully now, but the dison should be made that if ib tomes it will be more of a politi= cal than an economic blowup. With the help of a good under= - ground an internal explosion might be set ‘off which would knock Italy out of the war. But from the best advices available in Washington, Italy could be a lot worse off coonomically and still be able to function as an axis partner, 2 And as long as the people have enough to eat and enough to live on, it's pretty hard to stir uw revolt. The fact seems to be that while Italy is an economic liability to Germany, she still is a military . asset. Germany has to send Italy coal, iron, petro= leum. The coal and iron come from Germany over . some five railroad lines aCToSS or through the mountains.

Black Market May Destroy Morale ~ SO FAR, IT HAS BEEN to the advantage of Ger=

order ;to get back.some of the iron in the form of tanks; planes and munitions manufactured in Italian plants. Even if the ratio of raw materials shipped into Italy ‘should be as much as five 1am + to every

‘one ton of manufactured products * | per cent is still an advantage to Germany. or

The ‘other thing that Italy can contribute fo Ger-

‘many is food, and ‘here the fact must be | that Italy is not only self-sufficient nn? ‘food, but she

is a food exporter. But all foods are rationed and the black market is supposed to be ‘flourishing. That is one “hopeful indication, for if the rich are able to buy food and { clothing on a black market at prices the poor cannot afford to pay, ‘there ou have a bad public morale situation.

We he Women"

By Ruth Millet

IN THE PAST IT hasn't always been 8 girl's fault if she spent four years in college and came ou. unprepared for any kind of job. - Educators and her family often encouraged her to get a liberal arts education, even though the most literary thing she would everdo in later life would be to give a ‘book review now: and then at = some woman’s club. iy :

am But it isn’t that way any more, :

“of the country’s colleges. intent on waning, girls

ae on the Bae re

, Wiki young: men

In the “good old 8 day salegs 22