Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1943 — Page 16

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‘ope RILEY 8551 ‘Give Light end the People Will Pind Their Own Way THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1043

LLOWANCE FOR UNIFORMS

MAYOR TYNDALL has put his finger very quickly on : one needed reform in the police and fire departments, “and he has wasted no time in asking the council to correct it. . In the past, policemen and firemen serving this city have been required to buy and keep in repair their own uniforms, and to provide out of their own salaries many other items of equipment, ineluding, in the case:of the policemen, even the ammunition they use for target practice to maintain department efficiency. Their uniforms and equipment frequently were damaged or destroyed in service, and many a member of these ‘two departments must occasionally have faced situations in which he had to decide whether to take swift action which would cost him a persenal eash loss, or to hold back and perform less effective service for the city. We do not expect our soldiers and sailors {o equip ‘themselves with uniforms and guns to fight our battles, “and we should not expect eur police and firemen to do so either. i The mayor's propesal that the city assume the main- ~~ tenance of such essential equipment is a geod one, and its F “reception in the council seems to promise that it will receive favorable and speedy action.

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

THE fascists cast many aspersions on American democ-

Fair Enough.

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Jan. 7--In the

rankest story yet sent from |

franke North Africa, Ernie Pyle writes. that our people have left in office a lot of small-fry officials who were put in by the Nazis and ‘who therefore must be pro-Nazi and are permitting Fascist societies to continue to exist.

~ among the French Africa,” says he, “and they are hindering us." So what te do? : Well, the French are politically demented for the time being, and deserve no great consideration from an army and a people whose mission in Africa is, incidentally, to free them both there and at home, from Nazi Germany. . : Eventually, if this sort of thing goes on, the Americans and British, in self-defense and for military reasons, will have to abandon the pretense that we are indifferent to their politics and the actions and attitudes of their civil authorities, establish a firm military control and tell them what to do.

Time to Insure Troop Security

ONE OF THE MANY reasons why France fell was that the nation was politically incoherent and corrupt. There were pro-Nazis and Communists who worked at cross purposes but, paradoxically, for the common purpose of destroying the republic. . Their press was Unbelievably traitorous and venal, and most of their politicians were vile, including some who have been held up fo us by Red or otherwise radical left-wing refugees and some of pur hemegrown but expatriate propagandists as high-prin-cipled fighters for freedom and democracy. i When forced te it en some past occasions, Amerjcan commanders in foreign lands have had the capacity to take ever and establish military government for the security ef their troops and the success of their missions. This could, and judging from Pyle’s account, should be dene again. ' /

French Have Nothing to Lose

THE FRENCH PEOPLE on the continent have nothing to lose by such a meve, unless one takes seriously the orations of Henry Wallace, and believes it is the purpose of the American people to liberate the French colonies and feed and protect them perpetually even against France.

But, whatever they think, American troops that |

far from home should not be needlessly exposed te treachery by Frenchmen on the ground of a temporary waiver of idealism. A resort to firmness would

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WASHINGTON, Jan. T7—The | 78th congress shows signs of - toughness of fiber. : It is by all odds the teugheit congress with which President Roosevelt has had to deal in bis 10 years at the ‘White House. 1% "is expected to assert itself ecori= stantly in the next two years, in a running battle to win back as much independence ‘as possible : . and restore itself as an effective atm of the government. Basically the new congress

| is conservative, This will be reflected in its challenge

to further development of the New Deal philosoply, to enlargement of paternalism. It will be all out to win the war, and will demand that sacrifices reach into. the government structure itself—that some ef the bureaucratic fat represented in the horde of government employees be slashed off.

Social Security F. D. R.'s Weapon

THE PRESIDENT IS aware of the temper of the new congress. He realizes that the next two. years will see a fight over his power, not only as president but as leader of his party. And he has devised strategy to meet the expected challenge, For his battleground he has chosen the great masses of the people, where he has been so successful before. And for his weapon he has selected a broad | , along the lines of the much publicized “cradie-to-the-grave" Beveridge plan for England. \ : This program will not only embrace many classes not now covered, and provide additional benefits for those now included, but also will be recommended as an anti-inflation measure to draw off surplus pure ° chasing power through increased pay-roll taxes.

Looking Ahead to 1944

FOR THE FIGHT that is certain to develop, Mr Roosevelt will rally the people over the heads of the legislators, and thus he hopes to win in a test of strength with congress. , He is looking forward to 1944, and to a continyae tion of New Deal dominance within his party and within the government.

The social security proposal will be presented as an example of what must be done all over the wérld to supplement the ultimate victery.

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, bul wil! defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltair: .

racy. It must be hard for them to fathom the story of hel Shes Hew for lives that otherwise

~ George Washington Carver. Here was a man born a slave | After all, the French people should not be given on a plantation. His skin was black, He worked his way too much to say in this affair. In saving a drowning

America’s Wealth By Stephen Ellis i

through grammar school and high school. He laundered map, the rescuer has the right to bust him en the students’ clothes when one misguided university refused | him admittance, earned enough to enroll at another college, received his degrees in agriculture, then went {o Booker T. Washingten’s Tuskeegee Institute to head its agricultural _ division. He saw the farms of the south impoverished with cotton. He urged farmers to grow peanuts, sweet potatoes— anything but cotton. And then he turned to his laboratory and made more than 800 useful preducts from peanuts— | including paper, plastics, insulating beard, face powder. He made 118 produets from sweet potatoes. He proved "that cotton could be used to build roads. He was the first person to make newsprint from southern pine. Fame came to George Washington Carver—and the .opportunities for fortune. He turned them down. He de‘clined to patent any of his inventions, refused many and many an offer to make himself wealthy. ot “I am only a trail blazer for those who come after me,” he said, “I want my work to serve all the people, regardless of race, color or creed.” Now, George Washington Carver is dead at 78. America can well mourn him—net only as the greatest Negro of his day, not only as a great scientist, but as a-truly great American, on, ’

IT'S A HELP "THE army and navy have agreed that their warplanes shall be called by names instead of letters and numbers —in most cases by the names already used in England, The army’s B-17 is, of course, the flying fortress. The army's B-24 and the navy's PB4Y are Liberators. Among medium bombers, the army's B-18 is the Bolo, the B-26 is the Marauder. The army's A-25 dive bomber is the Hell- ~ diver and the navy’s SB3U dive bomber is the Vindicator. The army's P:38 fighter is the Lightning, and navy’s F4F is the Wildcat. And so on through the whole list of bombers, fighters, observation planes, transports, trainers and liaisen ~ planes, from which we cite here only a few samples. : This ehange may not be necessary for the benefit of the younger generation, most of whose members seem able . te remember all those combinations of numbers and letters and to use them appropriately, We are continually amazed by the facility with which our 17-year-old son discourses on B34s and SB2As, on PBMs and F2As and PT22s and C69s. And we are still abashed by the scorn he displayed when we said recently that we thought the P-47 was a bomber. 5: ‘But to most oldsters, we think, the change will be welcome. We still may net be able to tell instantly the difference between 3 Dragen and a Buceaneer, a Catalina and a Warhawk, a Voyager and a Valiant. But it ought to be easier than it has been, and on behalf of an earth-bound generation phimped suddenly into the middle of an air age, we ‘thank the army, the navy and the plane manufacturers who have somewhat simplified our task of adjustment.

IT’S A GREAT LIFE JFOR the last several years we've heard quite a lot of indignant complaints about the eounty clerk's practice of ing glamorized marriage licenses for $5—3$3 more than the straight $2 legal fee. The county clerk was a Democrat. The Republicans said it was a terrible situation.~The new county clerk is a Republican, He's selling $5 morized marriage licenses “on public demand.” We ext to be waited upon at dny moment by a group ef Demopts, They'll probably say it's a terrible situation.

'HIN MEAT Sik : CIENTISTS working with the marvelous electron mieroseope at the University of Pennsylvania have found a to into wafers so thin that 100,000 of them

slice meat

chin to stop his threshing and grappling and if the French insist on ‘playing their complex politics to the

“WHY 1 RESENT

detriment of the American soldier, they should be | THIS-CITY’ PROPOSAL”

made harmless as long .as the necessity requires,

Ernie Seems a Bit Naive

. THE AMERICANS ARE not there to rescue France primarily but to drive the Germans out and invade the continent at the conclusion of which enterprise,

Prance, as an incidental result, will be free again to |-

mess up her affairs as of old, and doubtless will. Officially, at least, although certainly net popularly, we have been very kind te Communists and party-liners. Within 12 hours after Pyle’s story appeared there was published a photegraph of Mrs. Roosevelt in a jolly group which ineluded Joe Curran, the president of the National Maritime unien. :

In Washington By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Who

By J. B. Noel, Spencer. To Mr. Oscar Andy Hagen: Of all the selfish persons who have signed their names to a letter in the Hoosier Forum, you certainly ‘cap the staek.” :

indeed, Do yow think only Indianapolis residents read The Times? Do you think that; only Indianapolis residents are classed as Hoosiers?

I do not even live in a city but I pass through the town of Spencer every evening as I go to work and if the news dealer has not saved me a copy of The Times, I am praetically lost until the next day. We used to get The Times by mail 25 years ago, when I was a kid, so you can see why:I resent your proposal—to prohibit oqut-of-this-city members of The Times family the right to express their opinion in the Forum, ’ . 2 © =

can get an increase in wages un- | “ARTICLE ON HOPKINS

der the government's wartime wage stabilization policy?

The answer is contained in the |

war labor board's general order

No. 5, setting forth the classes of individual employees whose wages may be raised without approval and even without appeal to WLB. Such increases can be made automatically by the employer if they follow a fixed wage agreement policy, such as a union laber eontract or a company customary practice established prior to Oct, 3, 1942. ’ The one important restriction on all such automatic increases is that they must not be used hy the employer as the basis for a request that the price ceiling be raised en the goods he manufactures er the services he performs. In general there are five types of employees who may be given these automatic increases without governmental approval: . . 1. Individual prometions or reclassifications. If you are prometed or transferted from a job at $35 a week to one customarily paying $45, you're entitled to the $45, :

Raises for Merit

2. Individual merit increases within established rate ranges. Supposing you are hired to sell groceries

‘at the going rate of $18 a week. But by diligent

application, at the end of six months or a year, you

have proved so handy and you have such a winning

smile that the customers start asking to be waited on by you. You're good. The boss wants to reward you and raise your pay to $20. ‘He can do it provided he has other clerks in the store doing the same work youre doing and getting $20 or more—elerks who began at $18 just as you did. 3. Operation of an established plan of wage increases based on length of service, Suppese the Big Store has a customary, fixed schedule of pay. Beginners, $17.50 a week, raised to $20 after one year's service, $22.50 after two years, $25 after three years, $30 after four years, $35 after five years. Those customary length-ef-serviee raises ean still be made, even though there is no written agreement,

Increase Through Piece Work

4, Increased productivity under piece-work or ineentive plan. ¥ou werk in a gimmiek factory. It's a pieee-work shop, The established rate for making gimmicks is 10 gents a dozen. It has always taken you about a minute to make a gimmick, se you have been averaging 50 eents an hour or $4 a day. But along comes the war. The demand for gimmicks is

terrific, You gel all patriotic and start working as |

you ‘never werked before. First thing you knew, you're turning eut a gimmick in 45 seconds. That

makes you 80 cents an hour, or $640 a day. You're{.

entitled to it and no official permission from the government is necessary. oh! 5. Operation of an apprentice or training system. Any place there is an established system whereby become into a shop to learn a trade at a beginper’s wage, then graduate to a journeyman’s wage scale when the apprenticeship is gver, can go right on with the business as usyal. = a Now it might seem that there are a number of loapholes in this regulatien. The catch is that every increase granted must be in accordance with established 1f, is a custom that must have been in

WORTHY OF REPRINT” By W. G. Camphell, Scottsburg. Some months ago, around the time of Mr. Harry L. Hopkins’ most recent matrimonial plunge, an article by Robert Ruark appeared in The Times dealing with the health, habits and other personal characteristics of Mr. Hopkins—the president's alter ego, I believe he was called. ‘| This writer, in a letter to the Forum, indicated his belief that Mr, Ruark’s artiele contained a more or less thinly veiled condemnatien of Mr. Roosevelt's choice of a confidante trusted with such power and authority as that bestowed upon Mr, Hopkins, The letter was duly printed, but with a footnote of pre. test by the editor, who seemed to find nothing of the sort in Mr. Ruark’s piece, Now comes Peter Edson, columnist (Dee, 29th), writing with a lighter touch than his colleague, Mr, Ruark,

Put the Forum on a this-city basis|

(Times readers are invited to express their views in . these columns, religious controveries Make your letters short, so_all can have a chance, Letters must be signed)

excluded.

calling attention to a magazine article by Mr. Hepkins—which evidently was intended to awaken a pleasure-leving peeple to the realization that severer restrictions are pending, that greater sacrifices and self-denial are seon to be expected from everyene—and he (Edsen) follows threugh with a short description of a “hard-times” party honoring Mr. Hopkins and his bride. This. party, it seems, was a wedding gift to Mrs. Hopkins from Mr. Bernard Baruch, “thrown,” quoting Mr. Edson, “at one of the capital's snazzier hotel-night clubs” and was one in which the lady was given a free hand in the matter of all arrangements, exeepting, of course, that of paying the bill. Your correspondept thinks he detected a note of sarcasm, of distinct rebuke, in Mr, Edson’s writing, but he isp’t insisting on it for he doesn’t want to worry the editor by seeming to read into it a meaning which maybe wasn’t there at all. However, he will say that he found the article bath enjoyable and informative; se much. so, in ' faet, that he believes it worthy of a reprint, so that these readers who missed it the first time could have another chance. They, toe, might reach a similar conclusion. - Who knews? ® 8 = “REPLYING TO ARTICLE ON - JEHOVAH'S WITNERSES” By Frankie Lovell; Pittsboro, In reply to aw article denouncing the organizatien of Jehovah's Witnesses, I submit this explanation to your paper. :

I think that if this persen weuld

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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: ) hate to delay your |

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investigat> thoroughly before he-

popular iv aority she would find that Jeho 1's Witnesses are as true American ing persos, but this action shows typical fulfillment of the statement at 2 Peter 2:12, These are not mere words of Almighty Creator, Jehovah God. _ There nrc absolutely no. true witnesses fo J:liavah who do not pay due respect (0 the flag of freedom. The fact {1a they don't salute it is not proot thal they don’t respect it. ‘Prue Christians are commanded of God that trey must attribute salvation te Him alone, To do so to or things "Would mean their everlasting destruction. Christians in Ciermany do not salute Hitler and Lhe swastika for to do s0 would mean to put trust in that devilish regime for deliverance. As for the part of that letter giving the reason why the witnesses don’t go to other countries to exercise their beliefs, I'm ‘afraid the writer dpesn’t know the facts. The facts are thal there are Jehovah's Witnesses: in every land on earth. Scriptural proof of this is found in Revelations 7:9, 10. ‘Those whe do not. bow to the dictators are either in concentration camps, prison, or are ruthless'y murdered. "Concerning their message, they prove thai {he most reasonable and only hope for human kind is God's kingdom whish will swallqw up the dictators and estghlish endless peace on earth. Godfearing creatures have for cenfiyries been praying for the kingdom ef God; now it is an impending realization - (Matthew 6:10), If Tre limes is an unbiased newspaper, they will publish this article in fne Forum as a symbol of

freedom of opinion and expression.

» » 2 “WE CANNOT GET OUT BECAUSE OF MUD” By Mrs. licrihs Blaylock, 1665 Knox st. If you wish a good writing for your Ties. you should send 8 half dozen Demoerat city werkers out on Knox st. between Carson and State, ¥nox st. around State to Troy a'¢. : Knex st. is one square south of Troy, iunning east and west same

‘as Troy ave, and the eity claims. our addition, It is impossible to|

get seriice new en this street. We eannet cet a ten of eeal hauled

|in here bzcause they will net take

a chance on being hung up. Wee vere hung up in the 1600

a wrec: cr to come and pull us out. Cost u; $5. We are all poor people

‘| and eqonot afford to do this. +

Now we gannet get eut of here becausc of mud, I went to the city building, asking that they do something. They will not, They say

let the othaps do it.”

Several of our neighbors have

| gene to tne last two years but no

ene is geiling co-operation. Ish't this fine” What should be done?

a et ————— ET DAILY THOUGHT An spid, O My God, I am ashan ec’ and blush to lift up my. face 0 Taee, my God: for our

| inigpities are increased over our

head, and pur trespass is grown up unto the heavens—Ezra 96.

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coming. pr uciced against an un<

1ny other freedom lov-

sen but those of thel!

plock cn tals street, couldn’t get 3 | out, worked twe heurs, then called

INDIANA 18 NOTED for its splendid park system, fer the far-reaching recreational pregram whieh has made it such a pleas ant vacation and scenic spot during the summers, The man responsible for the building of this great system is Col, Richard Lieber and it is particularly significant to Hoosiers that the beek “America’s Natural Wealth” has just been published for the author is our own Col. Lieber, 4 This is a book telling of the uses and abuses of our vast national resources, written by a man whe knows and loves hig subject. There are few’ men in the United States who understand the subject of conservation as well as Ceol, Lieber, He deals with every phase of conservation and park planning—with minerals, with water, with forests and land, and scenery—with the problems of tourist trade, with the care and feeding of parks, with the complicated problems of conservation, all in the highly able. manner of a recognized expert.

Looking at the Political Side +» +

COL. LIEBER speaks from the vantage point of long cxperience in public life and he varies from. his main thesis only long enough to look upon and comment, somewhat bitterly, upon the manner in which most city gevernments: are operated. “ “Too little attention,” he writes, “is paid tothe furnishing of wholesome amusement and recreation; too little, above all, to the proper housing of vast numbers of our citizens. . . : “Urban housing is one of our most troublesome problems; it must be solved, however, net enly from the humanitarian standpeint of secial justice, bub also from the eencurrent one ef hygiene nacessity, because slums and other blighted areas represent & herrible municipal liability, <i “That eur eities are maladministered is openly admitted, . : . Our cities are administered by pelities te ebtain spoils, not ta ebtain efficieney, , » » It is whelly absurd te proceed with the election of a new man and cast aside the old administrative machinery every four. years. . . . It is 8 shameful waste to throw: expert knowledge—partly obtained at the taxpayer's expense—on the municipal serap. pile every four years.” £3] Fo Ay That ought te give you an idea hew - directly Col. Lieber writes. : 5 Here's a book a goed many Hoosiers ought ‘to own. : ;

Ui h 3) . 3 i AMERICA'S NATURAL WEALTH, by Bie pages, log led Be

Col. Lieber

a foreword by Dean Stanley Coulter. with" appendix and index. Harpo & Bros, New York.

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

OAR’ SHARING - IE - having some good effects en the Amepl» can peeple, SB Ian | Used to going thelr own way without considering anything but their own comfort and convenience, they are learning to think about other peeple and to eens sider others when they make their plans. : hat Neighbors who had only |

ve : h —and are learning te depend on ea of their social life as well as for their tran

And Romanee May Share the Ride!

more, a young man invited a young with him. A year of §

| ending their working days together resul

falling in love and deciding to share well as the young man’s ear. 15 80, having to depend on each other for

tation isn’t always the hardship it might if people go about the business of sharin

and sceepting rides from other people in some fun out ef this” spirit. Americans have always hated the thou one for anything.

| dependent on