Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1943 — Page 12

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TUESDAY, JANUARY §, 1943

TIME FOR SOME CHANGES

ITH one proposal attributed to various members of the new city administration we find ourselves in full agreement:

The legislature should change the merit law covering Indianapolis police and fire departments. We suspect that our agreement begins to diverge, right at that point, from some of the ideas held on the subject in city hall. The legislature certainly should change the merit law—but the changes should make the law stro ger, not weaker. The new law should make individual merit the only basis for entrance into the departments, or for pro-

. motion inside the departments, and it should be admin-

istered by an absolutely impartial and completely nonpartisan civil service board to that end. There was a time when jobs in the police and fire departments of this city were almost openly for sale and when the two departments were primarily arms of whatever political party happened to be in office. We have come a long way from there. = s [2 * s 8 EARLY half the men on the police force today won their jobs in open-and above-board competition by their own personal qualifications and training for the work and without being asked what ticket they voted on election day. Those men hoped, and were promised, and had every right to expéct, that they might advance to higher rank in the department as they earned advancement, on the same basis of qualification and record and training. They are the kind of men who make a good police department. This city wants a law that will guarantee the fulfilment of that promise; a law that will open the highest ranks in the department alike to every man in it when, as and if he becomes the man best qualified for promotion without even a consideration of party politics; a law that will have not legalistic loopholes by which its clear intent can be defeated as it was this week by an over-smart maneuver. Clifford Beeker may prove to be a very fine police chief —possibly one of the best in the city’s history. We hope he does. But we don’t know that he will. Nobody knows whether he will, because the feeble machinery already in existence for determining the qualifications of a policeman for promotion was short-circuited by impatient political

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UPPOSE he does live up to the confidence Mayor Tyndall has in him and to the hope the rest of the city has for him, and becomes an outstanding police executive. Is he then to be demoted back to the rank of patrolman and given a night beat out among the city dumps if his party should

“ happen to lose the election next time?

That is what his backers are asking for in sabotaging the merit law that has been so painfully inaugurated in the past. 5 ~ That is not what the city of Indianapolis wants. " What the city wants is a first grade, efficient, modern, capable police department. The way to get one is to take politics entirely out of appointments and promotions,-to

. provide security of employment, fairness of promotion, a

chance for every beginner to make a satisfactory career in the department as a reward for his own merit and his own hard work. - The legislature can write that into the law, and do it at this session. We believe they should do it—snow.

. TO THOSE WHO CAN TAKE IT

HEN a notorious liar speaks the truth, that is news. ‘One line in the usual rubbish of Propaganda Minister Goebbels’ new year’s blast was more important than most of the well-meant predictions of our own officials. Goebbels said that endurance, more than courage, would win the war. Certainly courage is essential. But it’s taken for granted

in war; it is characteristic of our forces, but also of our.

allies and enemies, But in the,end it is usually engdurance, more than any of these, that is decisive. 74 ® 8 = : 82 8 = ‘ (GOEBBELS and every other German knows this, because lack of endurance licked Germany in 1918. The British . know this, because it was the almost superhuman endurance of bombed English civilians which kept Hitler from

winning the battle of Britain and the war. The Russians |

know it—when defeat seemed inevitable, Leningrad, Mosw and Stalingrad endured against the largest and blood-

jest attacks of all time. The Chinese know it, because they

_ have held on for nearly six years. | Alone of all the major belligerents, we Americans at-

home still have a relatively easy time. Our rationing leaves us with what would be undreamed luxury to others. Our

casualties are still light. We still work short hours. | American endurance in sacrificing much more and

much faster, to give our troops and allies the weapons of victory, will be the test of 1943, We are not yet taking it

as we ‘must,

je HAL BASSO, a Nutmegger serving in the ‘Canadian army, suggests that some kind soul start.a bundles-ericans-serving-in-the-Canadian-army movement. The bundles would contain American cigarets. | There are some 10,000 men, he says, who have been hting the Nazis up to as long as three years and who ‘have failed to get transfers to their own country’s army. They seldom see an American cigaret, though their countryen in our own forces are well supplied.

“They send bundles here. They: send bundles there,”

$s he. “Well, how about us?” Lieut. Bast hag something there. How about, them?

NEW YORK, Jan. 8—Of late.

it seems that a card of member- * ship in the traitorous organization known as the Communist party or

a record of affiliation with avowed |

traitors of this group, is one absolutely safe certificate of immun-

ity from punishment for murder; | arson, treason and other crimes. |. The lptest affair which sup-

ports such a belief is the release from prison of Alexander Hoflman, galeral: manager of local 239, cleaner and dyers of the {. I. O., by Charles Poletti, during Poletti’s

= | brief term as interim governor of New York, after | Hoffman had served less than eight months of a sen-| tence for arson which was to have run for from two |

to four years.

There was absolutely no doubt that Hoffman was: guilty of a crime which imperils the lives of firemen’

and others and, because of the vulnerability of innocent human beings and the cowardly stealth of the act, is placed among the most despicable offenses.

Lost Before Highest State Court

IN ORDER TO drive unwilling workers into an organization subject to the rule of communism, which Attorney General Biddle has identified as a traitorous force in the United States, Hoffman conspired to start fires in diy cleaning plants, the intent being that the owners, for the sake of peace and immunity, would force the workers to join his union, : One witness against Hoffman testified that Hoffman said there would be “more” fires if he did not sign a union contract on behalf of a chain of dry cleaning stores. Hoffman appealed to the highest court of the state and lost and went to prison last May. : Sidney Hillman, a man whom President Roosevelt selected as a fit person to direct the war labors of the American people, was among those who interceded for Hoffman, whose union is affiliated with Hillman’s. Hoffman, returned to his office at union headquarters, said he had continued to hold union office during his imprisonment.

Took Advantage of Short Term

POLET'IT'S ACTION was surreptitious and irregular, He took advantage of his short term of less than one month as governor, between the resignation of Herber; H, Lehman and the inauguration of

‘Thomas E. Dewey, to turn out/a dangerous terrorist

without consulting either the judge or the prosecutor in the case or the New York parole authorities, The most flagrant previous recognition of communism asa ground for lenity to a criminal of traitorous hue was President Roosevelt’s commutation of the sentence of Earl Browder, chief of the conspiracy against the United States, last spring. Although it was urged that Browder’s sentence was too severe, the president rejected that claim and frankly injected politics into federal justice in saying that Browder’s premature release would “tend to promote national unity.” Previously, in San Francisco. Sam Dardeck, alias Darcy, a Russian born in the Ukraine, was paroled from the bench by Superior Judge Schonfeld, upon his conviction of perjury in swearing that his name was Darcy and that he was born in New York. Judge Schonfeld accepted Darcy's assurance that he would not advocate overthrow of the government by violence but said he might remain a member of the Communist party which, as Atforney General Biddle has said, is committed to that end,

In Washington:

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—1If thére is an usually heavy fall of snow all over the United States this winter, a large part of it : may turn out to be stuff that “doesn’t melt but will burn. They will be letters from workers asking In effect, “How do I go about gefting a raise?” Or they will be letters from employers saying, “It ‘is next to impossible for us to keep old workers or get new ones at the existing wage levels which have been put under control by government order. How do we go about increasing wages to meet these conditions?” All such letters and variations thereof will be queries for more information on the government's wage stabilization program—one of the least understood of all the wartime controls, yet the one which will affect every wage earner in the country. Indirectly it affects every member of every family right down to the !sub-deb’s allowance.

Main Object Is to Halt Inflation

BRIEFLY STATED, the reason wage stabilization is necessary is that wages represent the biggest single item in the fotal cost of the war. The government

is now spending for war at the rate of 6 billions a month, or 200 million a day. Since approximately 70 per cent of the national income is wages and salaries, it is fair to say that 70 per cent of the war cost is wages. That amounts to 4.2 bien a month, or 140 million a day, If the tots] cost of the war runs to 300 billion, 210 billion will be wages and salaries, not just to the men in the armed services, but to every man, woman and child who does a lick of war work. If the

.| cost of the war is to be kept down, if taxes which

go to pay those war costs are to be kept down, wages must be stabilized. The principal reason for keeping wages and salaries under control, however, is to prevent inflation. To prevent it, the government is actually interested in seeing that you have no more money to spend than there are goods and services to spend them on. By last September .it was apparent that everything which had been done up to-thén in the way of price control gnd wage adjustment was still not sufficient to check inflation. On Oct. 2, congress, there fore passed an amendment to the price control act authorizing the president to take this drastic wage

control step. Moving rapidly, the president created ||. % the office of economic stabilization, with ex-Supreme

Court Justice James: F. Byrnes at its head. . Responsibility Divided Further UNDER THE PRESIDENTS order, however, the major part of this authority was delegated to the war labor board, which had been set up previously

to “handle wartime labor disputes. Director Byrnes

divided the responsibility further. Control ovér farm wages of less than $2400 a

‘| year was assigned to the secretary of agriculture.

All other wages—workmen’s pay calculated on an hourly, daily or piecework basis—was left with the war labor board. Salaries—under $5000 a year, except for executive or professional employees not cove ered by a union “wage agreement—-were also left under the jurisdiction of WLB. All other, salaries—pay computed on a weekly, monthly or annual basis—were assigned to the control of the commissioner of internal revenue in the treasury department. General orders, rulings, regulations and interpretations of the war labor board, the commissioner of internal revenue and the secretary of agriculture will

The Hoosier For:

I wholly disagree with what you say, but wi “defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltai-

“REMEMBER WOMAN WHO TURNED TO SALT?” By Cleon Leonard, 1047 Concord st. I read the article, “By the Old Man.” Doesn't he know the Re-

publican party controls money and the Democrats have to take it away from them to carry on? - Here is a problem I can’t understand. . . . If after Christmas stores can reduce the prices, why can’t they reduce prices two days before Christmas? Give people a chance to buy some bargains. Every soldier ought to bé& noticed by saying “good luck, buddy, or soldier.” But some peqple shove and bump them around like animals. I think myself that .these elder congressmen who were raised in the 18th century ought to take a step down and let young men with honesty, grace of God and good character be there, a young man who has had new experiences in life. : Times change and the earth changes. I would like to get in contact with someone who studies maps. I want to ask a few questions about the land changes. If folks would always put the good

a better world this would be. Do you remember the woman who turned to salt? She looked back snd saw evil. God bless our president, he does all he can to help others.

ss 8 = “LET MR. RAILROADER. COME TO BLOOMINGTON” By Mrs. Jerome Miller, R. R. 1, Bloom ington -

I read in your column the other

day about a poor railroader who

can’t live on $49 a week. Well, my husband works at Indiana university and draws $50 twice a month. Ten per cent for war bonds and the 5 per cent tax will come out of that. With the rising cost of living, I don’t know how we will feed our two children all the vitamins they need to grow on. I don’t like to squawk, ‘because I lived through the other war on cornbread and gravy half the time. For myself I can take it willingly, although I am a semi-invalid from hardships I had in my childhood. When I read in the paper about the other state workers’ pay, I wondered if people knew what the state

-lare:to be more students trained for

in front and the bad in back, what|

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pays janitors at Indiana university. They worked for $90 a month till last July. “We have WAVES and sailors here also now, so I guess it must be as important as defense work. There

war later on in universities also. Ask Uncle Henry Schricker if he can do anything about this. I guess the Republicans won't let him de anything, though. Let Mr. Railroader come down here and work for half what. he gets and see how the other half lives. s = ® “LET'S STOP THE WASTE OF BREAD” By Mrs. G. W. Watts, 1210 Central ave.

There is some controversy about what to do to cut on expense of putting out bread—to wrap or not

to wrap, to slice or not to slice seems to be the question. Well, most if not all bakeries already have a slicer, so way not slice? And the bread should, for sanitary reasons, be wrapped at the bakery, for that in this age is very important. So, since bread is more, much more healthful a day or two old, as most doctors advise against bread too fresh, why not stop the waste of the pickup or exchange of bread? If a store gets 12 loaves of bread and sells, say, seven loaves, leaving five, next morning when the baker comes, let him leave seven but the grocer can hold them back until the five from the day before are sold first. Cut out the exchange instead of sending or selling truckloads to the chicken farm that is absolutely good bread at 1 or 2 cents a loaf; cut that out, slice it, wrap it, but no exchange.

Bread a day old or two days ‘ld

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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' people in this world love to have a loaf of if it was a month old, think our fighting men tiag bread right out of

the waste, for after all, read. Thank God and nen. ® ® 8 NOT JUST WAR” ards, BR. R. 2, Spencer. hating, feminist colWalter Ferguson, in of Dee. 29, states that: “Honest 1«cple who aren't afraid of facts know that democracy, as we use the vord, 1s bound up with capitalist: And she continues: “One thir¢ we North Americans are fighting ‘cr is-the preservation of the capitalistic system.” If Mr: which I sun unwilling to concede— then my own bey in the service and the millions of other American boys in the service had better be demobilized and returned to their homes to fizht an even greater, evil than Hitleriam, Mrs. Fercuson, like many other capitalistic ninded, people, fails to see that hs is not just another war to preserve a capitalistic system based cf greed that has been the mains: ng of war after war in which the winners were the ones who held full sway over government | and governments through their absolute co: ol over the nation’s lifeblood, which is money, and the losers wer: the ones who fought, bled and cic. then those who came back hegar: naying with their sweat for the cesis of war, to those who controlled tc economic life of the

nation. . Most people are beginning to see that this is 0 ordinary war, but is in fact a world revolution against the Rothschild system of financial greed tha cursed all Burope for more than = century and bred wars of hatred hi wveen nations because those war: ware profitable to the Rothschild : igi and its aristocratic adhere old Baron

“THIS 18 ANOTHI |= By W. H, dw That ic umnist, Vrs. The Time

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Heiachild was exactly | correct wher he said: “Give me the power over ‘a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.” I, like n=nriv all Americans, am more thar + ling to do what is necessary ‘oc ccfeat Hitler and his brutal adhe ts. We want not his naziism fer cur land. But to be honest wit! guson- sugs:¢ the evils of = wallowing ‘2 end of the

, ‘we must recognize yortion of our people xtreme luxury at one Je while millions of 1demned - to extreme poverty at (1: other end of. the

this, our homeland, rtia living for, worth worth dying for if

Let's make a2 country vu fighting for need be.

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HER FIRST LADIES A REMARK?” : ‘sident, Indianapolis. 0 express my opinion s+ remark of- Mrs. the hoarding of I wonder if Mrs. Wilson, in fact any 1st ladies, would at make such a stateronderful what your about you.” to sow the seed of re or disunity among ies? DAI" THOUGHT ‘Wisdom «i-th without; she uttereth he: ice in the streets. Proverbs 1:0. Rp

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year friends here receive & ied Year's greeting from former

Democratic Rep. Satya B. Rel

tengill of South Ben ! Usually these Be exprees the philosophy of his homespun Hoosier Jeffersonian, who has “been working for the Republicans because he no longer fea thik ¢ the New Deal represents the ; ciples of the founder of the Demos Stat pay. This year the title of the tiny is “Liberal or Conservative.”

"Must Conserve a Free America"

HERE ARE SOME of the things it says: - “An immense amount of nonsense has been poured out over the word ‘liberal’ Like a flock of Hmid: sheep we have been stampeded by it. Every candi date for public office has shouted his liberalism, and beaten his breast that he was more ‘liberal’ than, his opponent. E 2 3 “Thoughtless radicals have smearéd into oy. ; everyone who asked why and when and what it wh to be ‘liberal’ ‘Tory’ and ‘reactionary’ have the air. Because we have been cowards we have the conservative side go by default. . . .

“We are fighting this war as conservatives. We. : want to conserve our freedom, the American way.

home. Every soldier and sailor is a conservative. We who remain must conserve a free America for wa; a while they fight for it abroad. : Ia

“WORKINGMEN STRUGGLING to improve dad condition are liberals. When they fight to keép thele, ; gains they are conservatives. What is the use of being. & liberal unless you are equally brave to cone serve whatever good liberalism has won? re

“The Declaration of Independence was a liberal document; the Constitution of the United States "

conservative one. It was to ‘insure’ d quillity, and ‘secure’ the blessings of Some to ours: selves and our posterity. . . . “The attic is a conservative institution. In if wes store grandma’s old spinning wheel; grandpa’s musket, oe 4g ‘little toy soldiers’ your soldier son once playedf

“Why Be Tyrannized by a Word?" . - .;

“SOMETHING IMPORTANT to our life ol when men and women began to live in houses withots: attics, in apartments and trailers where they could: store nothing that tied them to the past. ... - : “New Year's day is liberal. ' Resolutions are madn, dreams are dreamed and hopes flourish. day is conservative. It conserves the love of parents; the bond between husband and wife; the laughter o

children; charity for the poor, and remembrance . of, the Master and his mercy. . “Why be tyrannized by a word? Let us be bert, as seeds in the springtime; as conservative as law which hold the great stars in the sty, or tho; stars in Old Glory.”

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Morgan's Raiders By Stephen Ellis

OUT OF THE idl of wae books has come a book of anothes war—a book of romance, of color, of ‘adventure, one that should ape; peal to all Americans, It is the story of John Hunt Morgan, that A handsome, gallant who raised so much hob during, the Civil war with his troop of , cavalry and who even extended, Mr. Holland his operations into southern Ine diana. The book is “Morgan and. His Raiders” and the author is Cecil Fletcher Holland, now a captain in the air corps, but who was a long= time newspaperman before his enlistment. A city; editor of a southern newspaper, his last post was ay a member of the Washington staff of the Chicago 8u Mr. Holland has done a sincere and faithful bie ‘ography. There are no literary flourishes te this book. Rather it is a direct, easily-written, easilye understood story of this great Civil war hero. ®, 4

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MORGAN USED spectacular devices in ‘his Taide Indeed, he actually lived off the country. He ana his men went into action, practically unarmed. Th y picked up their weapons as they went. They scorned. the use of sabers, and went in for rifles and. AWOnt gun attacks. 3% AE 0 They took so many prisoners that Morgan : was. a forced to hand out paroles by the droves. And, oddly: enough, these paroles were respected and. in that day of American chivalry. This is; frankly, an excellent biographical. ol on & little known American. I hepe a great man, a persons read it. : ST

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We the Women

By Ruth Millett

MORGAN AND HIS RAIDERS. . By Cecil 73 Pages. The MacMillan Co., New York.

“I WAS JUST one of alot guys,” a sailor on the cruiser 8 Francisco told a reporter ‘wanted to know about + sonal part in the battle in" he the San Francisco accounted for a Japanese cruiser, crippled 2 battleship, and sunk a " That is one of the first a man learns when he any branch of the his is jus one of 3] And it is a lesson that civiliahs are goifig learn—and the soonér the better. =. Sure, the wife or mother whose husband overseas is lonely and worried—but she is . of many, so feeling sorry for herself is out. the Joneses would like to visit their p clear across the country. But they 2 of many to whom a tfip, through not e important. They won't make it if that their peed is no worse than fellow—and that they can't all tra want lo.

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