Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1943 — Page 18

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1943

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‘ THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE A CONFIDENT commander in chief reported on the state of the nation and of the war yesterday. His message, in content factual, held to the achievements and broad purposes that unite us as a people. A sober report, it was lightened by a justified hope of victory. Americans share the pride with which the president recounted production gains. They understand that all depends upon that arsenal which has grown so rapidly during the last year through the co-operation of govern-ment-industry-labor.

.The president’s figures were a promise of mounting |

output. The 48,000 planes produced last year—more than all the axis nations together—already has risen to a rate of 66, 000. Production increases for the year ranged from five to 12 times. Let Hitler and Tojo explain to their dupes, if they can, how this “decadent, inefficient democracy” can go quickly outproduce them. : 8 8 o » ” o VET there was nothing smug about this progress report. The emphasis was more on what remains to be done than on what we have done—as it should be. We are “not satisfied.” In discussing the better world for which we are fighting, the president presented no tentative blueprints. Those are to come later. He simply stressed the general aim of international security and security for individuals: “The men in our armed forces want a lasting peace, and equally, they ; want permanent employment for themselves, their families and their neighbors when they are mustered out at the end of the war.” j s » » o 2 2 » ROM the president’s survey of the military situation, all = of us can get a better global perspective on present and future battlefronts. He put first the Russian offensives, which are still rolling. Our occupation of northwest Africa, and the British sweep across Libya, are preparing the way for allied attack on “the under-belly of the axis,” after much more fighting in Tunisia. We are going to strike in Europe—“and strike ‘hard. » In the Pacific, our “most important” victory was not ‘in the essentially defensive delaying actions of the Solomons and New Guinea but off Midway. We shall strike at the Japanese home islands, and bomb them constantly. Hence ‘the importance of China: “In the attacks against Japan, we shall be joined with the heroic people of China. , .. We shall overcome all the formidable obstacles, and get the battle equipment into China to shatter the power of our common enemy.” » » 8 » ” » UT the commander in chief indulged in no promise of easy battles, no pledge of victory in 1943. The axis has passed its peak. The allies are on the offensive. But there is lohg hard fighting ahead. The most he would prophesy for 1943 was “a substantial advance along the roads that lead to Berlin and Rome and Tokyo.” And even that—let us not forget for a single day— depends on all-out effort and unity here on the home front.

COUNTY THRIFT (COUNTY council met yesterday and saved you $6460. Fellaw taxpayers, that’s news. The money Was saved merely by refusing requests from various county departments for more cash than their budgets allow them, for purposes the councilmen, after

: careful study of each, decided were not worth that much |

It would be easy enough, of course, and perhaps not very sound economy, just to refuse all requests for money and make a great record of thrift. But the councilmen did nothing of the kind.” The members in person went climbing into dusty attics and leafing through statute books ‘and calling on individual officials to see for themselves what was needed. When a request for money seemed to

them to be justified they granted it. ‘But they also served |

notice on the whole county that from now on a county officer who gets extra cash will first have to prove to a very hard headed jury that the taxpayers will get a dollar’s worth of value for every dollar spent. . Nor did they stop with only a warning. They now propose to scan every county office in. an effort to find and prune off the useless jobs—of which every county in Amerca has some—-thereby saving enough money to raise pay for the employees who really do the work, and to lighten the tax load of the citizens who pay for it. Their beginning is an auspicious one. Their attitude toward the public's money is dictated by the same kind of old-fashioned common sense a careful man applies to is own private affairs. ‘They have begun to write what vy looks like a unique and brilliant record of public Service in this Sumy, :

JSER AND THE WAGNER ACT is “just plain criminal” that the heroic army of workers in his shipyards should be hampered by jurisdictional sutes between labor unions, says Henry J. Kaiser. We agree. We also agree that jurisdictional disputes, shipyards or anywhere else, in wartime or peacetime, ; an unjustifiable imposition on the public and a menace | the labor movement, And Mr. Kaiser is correct in sayhat the Wagner act not only permits, but actually 8, Jurisdictional W warfare, The present national labor be criticized for enforcing the

Many other employers have said so, and congress has d to take little. Interest in their complaints. Now

organized labor and | |

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Fair Eroush

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Jan, sn this sordid, nasty deal weren't an open

proof, even a Nazi, with opinion of American politics' and

political morality, might find it

hard to believe.’ Charles Poletti, a tag-along New York politician who trades with the foreign crowd of naturalized but: unassimilated aliens grouped in the so-called American

Labor arty, was lieutenant-governor under Herbert

and shut case backed by absolute : 5 "low

Lehman, and served 29 days as governor between Mr. | . Lehman's resignation to take a big administrative war {|

job in the national goverment and the inauguration

of Tom Dewey. During that time. he carried out a jail delivery, turning ldose 15 convicts including an evil, dangerous union tern - of Sidney Hillman’s crowd, named Alexander Hoffman, a convicted firebug and thug of the cruelest type.

Servid Less Than Eight Months \

POLETTIL SAID Hoffman had “enjoyed an excel lent reputation” before conviction which was just a plain, brazen lie with no discount, because his rec-

ord shows repeated arrests for strong-arm work and

stink bombing in furtherance of his efforts to drive unwilling American workers into the ranks of his

local union of cleaners and dyers, which is under |

Communist domination. - It has not been shown that Hoffman was or is a Communist but it took three years and two long and expensive trials in the case of Harry Bridges to show that he was one, and if Hoffman doesn’t hold a card he certainly is a fellow-traveler. Hoffman had served less than eight months of a

term of from two to four years when Poletti sur- |

reptitiously let him out without consulting either the judge or the prosecuting attorney in the case.

Back to Job After Release

POLETTI ALSO by-passed the board of parole, and this sinister thug, who had retained his office in one of Hillman's subordinate unions during his brief vacation in prison, went right back to the job after his release, thus answering the frequent assertion of professional unioneers that they ‘try to get rid of crooks and gangsters but that there are bound to be some rascals in any calling including, as they never fail to add, the clergy and journalism. Poletti scored a big vote on the ticket of the socalled American Labor party, which is neither American nor representative of labor but composed largely of Europeans and devoted to two political philosophies imported from Europe, namely social democracy and communism, Why Poletti turned Hoffman loose and-why he tried to falsify this vicious criminal’s past record in justification of his act is a subject of speculation, conclusion and personal conviction, but hardly One for proof.

Draw Your Own Conclusion

SUCH THINGS CAN'T be proved, but you can add up the facts and may come to the conclusion that Poletti was paying off the alien labor party for-its enthusiastic support in the last campaign in which he was defeated nevertheless, at the expense of justice and at the risk of the lives and freedom of countless Americans. The ‘national government yanked Lehman out of Albany even before his term ended and put him to work handling the meal ‘ticket for the world. And, as soon as Poletti had done his little trick in Albany, including his job for Sidney Hillman's gangster and firebug, Poletti, too. was taken care of in the war department in a job the nature of which, says the Associated Press, he doesn’t even know. He just had to be given a job. It might make a terrible difference if it should turn out that Poletti has custody of the keys to the jails’ where the Communists, the criminal unioneers, the firebugs, extortioners, thugs, thieves and racketeers are kept.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Even Santa Claus got regulated under the new wage stabilization plan. Year-end bonuses which many firms ‘customarily give to. their employees at Christmas or New Year’s have never been considered part of the wages paid to workers, but just. the same, your Uncle Sam has now stepped in to control the size of those bonuses in : wartime, The war labor board, controlling all wages and the salaries of © non-executives and non-professional workers earning less than $5000 a year says in its general order No. 10 that bonuses, fees, gifts or commissions which have customarily been paid to employees in the past may be continued without asking WLB approval, but two important restrictions: 1. If the bonus is paid in the form of a fixed amount—$1, $2, a fin, a sawbuck, a century or a grand —the bonus given this year can be no larger than the bonus paid in previous years for similar work. 2. If the bonus is paid on a percentage basis—say 5 per cent of your annual earnings—that rate cannot be changed.

How Bonus May Be Increased

UNDER CERTAIN conditions, however, the amount of the bonus may be increased. Supposing your com. pany paid you a 5 per cent annual bonus last year on your salary of $2000. That would be $100 cash. But you have ‘been promoted to a new job curing the present year, and that new job gives you a salary of $3000. You are still entitled to the 5 per t bonus, however, so you can be given a bonus of $150 instead of the century you got last year. These. regulations under certain conditions will mean that employees will get smaller bonuses than they previously received. Take the case of ribbon counter salesperson Susie.Gumshoe, who has customairly been paid a 1 per cent bonus on her annual sales, Suppose she sold $10,000 worth of goods last year, giving her a $100 bonus. This year, because the

firm couldn't get enough silk ribbon delivered for.

Susie to sell, poor little Susie was able to bring her total sales to. only $5000. Under the fixed rate rule,

“Susie could only get 1 per cent of $5000, or $50.

Who Is; an Executive?

THE CASES OF bonuses givers 0. salaried workers 2 | receiving pay of more than $5000 a year and to ad-| |

ministrative, executive and professional employees not represented by: a labor union and receiving pay of less than $5000 a year comes under the jurisdiction of the

it.

our nis on, 8 MAD—Or Woman—must get Fea trees

‘employee if he gets less than th. Buf See these. 3200 a mais § Jor

Teguiations.on Bonus are bug} | e same as for mere

reau of er revenue in the Yreasuny -depatts

ums, the treasury | | :

~The Hoosier Foru

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

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|“Yow SHOULD READ

THE CONSTITUTION” By Fred Wood, 613 E. 10th st. Reply to N. M.: 1 don’t believe that Mr. Johnson

a true statement. it to himself, this is still a free country and a person can say and

‘| think what they please.

You should read the constitution, especially the part giving the

and press. Somé very narrow-mind-ed people can't seem to realize what that sacred document is for. As for “My Day,” will you kindly explain to me what good it does that concerns the war effort? Blood, sweat, money and tears win a war.

® 8 = “LIFT YOUR EYES FROM HEAPED-UP PLATES”

By “Tiny” Anderson Anderson. In regards to Mrs. A. L. Sims’ letter to The Times, Friday, Jan. 1, 1943:

In your

Turner, college,

you were definitely against the plan of. sending food to the half-starved English people who have been har-

many past blood-drenched months. And you had the intestinal fortitude to say, “they prefer to work in de-

than they would growing food.” How could you say such a thing, Mrs. Sims? How can you go to the day, knowing that in England,

France, China, Japan, Germany, and in fact all the countries af-

a crust of bread to allay the gnaw-| comp.

we have had for quite some time.

made a “remark.” I believe it was As for keeping

American people freedom of speech

recent letter to The Times, Mrs. Sims, you stated that| COMPLAINING ABOUT?”

fense plants and make more money]

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controveries excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

be signed)

pagan, especially so when we stand about with our hands outstretched, waiting for some fanciful gift instead of practicing what the Master asked us to when he said, “It is more blessed to give than receive. . . .” No, I'm. not trying to chastise nor am I attempting to play upon your emotions, Mrs. Sims, but in the name of Jesus of Nazareth who walked alone up the hill called Calvary, I'm praying that you and the readers of this column will lift your eyes from your heaped-up plates and look into the pinched and drawn faces of those you are wanting to deny. « « os 2 8

“WHAT ARE PEOPLE -

By Walter L. Hess, 2544 N. Delaware st. I came to Indianapolis as one of

assed by Hitler and Co.sfor these|the refugees from Europe in Octo-

ber, 1938, and have made your city

my new home-town for more than four years now. In this time I have made many good friends ‘here, people out of every way of life, and one of the first things 1 experienced here was

table and eat your three meals a DE .o

I like your paper and read it any day from the first to the last line,

fected by war, children are dying and I never forget to read the of starvation? Can’t you hear the|Hoosier. Forum, starving babes whining piteously for{many . times what the people are

too, . wondering

complaining about all the time

ing pangs of hunger, while you, about things: that are not so bad Mrs. Sims, and yes, the rest of us|abd why there is never a good and. too, are earning more money thanifriendly word about things.

I for myself: saw much worse -in foreign

America is supposed to. be a countries. Christian nation, Mrs. Sims, though at times it appears to be quite!you, how I as a newcomer see the

And here is what I want. to tell

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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great work, nob ly have a gouc

{end and this « | {man. All the :

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not; affected yet by shness of any kind. 3 few words about partment, an instiow. in ‘the middle of ya would know the 12n -in foreign coun- . be happy how your

city, as a politics or = First of 4 your . police’ tution right politics, If kind of poli tries you wo “cops” here You can & one. from patrolman, i in uniform o everyone is bled times li! If you tun witnessed 1

very proud of every- . chief down to the . matter if they are letectives. I am sure ing his best in trouhiss 1 some alarm, ard I 1y accidents, in most of the casés | never had to wait more than ne minute for the first squad ¢c arrive and no matter how serious © lcoked at first, every policemary ws rice and friendly to everyone. ven in cases of arrists I never hes: = bad word. Especially prou¢ oa can be of your emergency co Wo, 5. And now tc the fire department, and because | worked in the old country for ¢ oag time in the fire prevention hus ness, I' know something about ec stuff. I saw fre departments many countries and in some larg: cities here in the U. S. A. alreacy, but the way the I PF. D, is handed by Chief H. H. Fulmer is nothing very, very extra... . BA " Streetcars, something ev« plain. about, - times with hi: on the stops. Have you © streetcars i through the = ment here in clean and

sses and trolleys are vhody seems to comyecially now in war big crowd waiting

:» taken one of those Chicago, rumbling ets? “No, the equiplhe eity is very good, rdern, “just another factor every ci izen can be proud of. And the way the drivers are handling’ nev sometimes 120. people. on an Illinois car of 90 people on a Centra: cur at one time, any time {friendly and smiling, never boiling, yes, t is is somethifig. . , . Yes, I cane ‘o Indianapolis as a newcorner fou: years ago and this is my ahswe: to- many afticles I read in the lo:t ‘ew weeks. Tiie Bom a ST GREAT MAN IN EVANGEL! =1T CADLE” By Mrs. M.. Froo: rman, 524 N. Lyon ave. For severtl days I have been thinking tha! 1 should "write you and cumplime:: you on the ediferent articles you put in your paper .about our late Indianapolis :v:ngelist, E. Howard Cagle, who dicc ricently. However, it seems struc that some Inglianapolis peoplc didn’t see anything until he died and rdce things abou}

struggling in his dir seemed to hardsord for him. He vid all those nice aws alive, I for ood by him’ te: - has lost. a greafi

him. - While he

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lowman a goo: vosd while they. are]

riot wait and say. ¢1l too late. I have|: ol your : paper for: ulg not heip- but

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Our Hoosier 5. :

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—tnai-

ana congressmen in

committee assignments at the beginning of the T8th session. have.

turned philosophical. In their informal

they have been considering whether it is worth while to es

and get on a major the house. That is the common ~ goal of most statesmen, but they make the point that coming from a state where the two parties are sp evenly ¢l the average Hoosier congressman stands little or no chance of reaching a major committee chairmanship. Since committee promotion is based on the” seni-

_ority system, the 10 years that is almost the top term expectancy of a congressman from Indiana loaas ‘at |

most to mere ranking membership. Th

Minor Chairmen Get Suites °

SO SOME OF the Hoosier congressmen are e begin ning to wonder if they would not be better off to re-

main on a minor committee. They ‘then could be-

come committee chairman with ah extra appropriation for clerk hire, a swell suite of committee rooms—in

addition to their regular offices—and in most instances very little work to do.

Some of the minor committees seldom meet, ‘because the legislation they deal with is scanty. Any

| important or highly controversial bill is assigned to

one of the major house committees.

These include appropriations, ways and ‘thesns,

banking and currency and judiciary. Military and

naval affairs committees loom in importance in war-

time of course and lately there seems to be considerable importance - attached to foreign. affairs.

Larrabee Had Two Chairmanships

‘ HOWEVER, IT HAS no such rank as the. foreign relations committee of the senate, which passes on all treaties—or at. least is supposed to do so. Rules is a functional, rather than legislative com mittee: of the house, but ranks tops as an assignment for members. No bill can reach the floor until the rules committee gives it the green light. One Hoosfer who pursued the minor committee policy and reached two chairmanships during his

| six terms here was former Rep. William H. Larrabee

(D. Ind). He took the chairmanship of the census ‘committee —until it came time to take the census—then he switched over to the chairmanship of the committee on education.

Southern Democrats Have Top Jobs Fo

HIS G. O. P. opponent, Rep. Raymond EB. Springer, defeated him in the newly apportioned 10th district in November, 1942. Rep. Springer is on the judiciary committee. Should the Republicans win the house majority in the next election he Would be far outranked for the chairmanship by such repeatedly elected stalwaris as the congressmen from Kansas, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa or Pennsylvania. When the Democrats are in control the major committees always are chairmaned by southerners who have spent their entire adult days in the house. Indiana never equals these records. The last major chairmanship a Hoosier congressman had was when the late Rep. Will ‘Wood headed the appropriations committee under former President Hoover.

Dynamite King By Stephen Ellis BY ALL ODDS, one of the ‘strangest personalities and geniuses of the last century was. Alfred Nobel,

the Swedish inventor who invented dynamite, who made his fortune manufacturing the weapons. of

death and then left a vast foundation for the buila- A,

ing of peace. Up to now, there hes been little or nothing written about Nobel's life. That situation has been remedied by Herta E. Pauli, who has just written a full-dress biography of the dynamite king. . Miss Pauli has done a magnificent job with _Alfred Nobel's life. The genius comes to life again in these pages and builds once more his vast plants; he moves through life the strange figure he was; and he meets the one romance of his life, Bertha von Suttner, the apostle of peace. . . This is one biography well worth your reading. It's grade-A.

ALFRED NO BEL: Dynamite King—Apostle' of Peace, by Herta E. Pauli, 325 pp. The L. B. Fisher Co., New York, FL

We the Women

BY Ruth Millett

NURSING SCHOOLS are having tough going trying to sign up

enough student nurses to fill their

1942-43 quota of 55,000 beginning students. Given a choice vetwéen worlk-’

ing for nothing but board -and X

room for three years while they - get their training or going into a well-paid war job, many: girls ' grab the war jobs: - So the National Nursing Council for War Service is trying to sell girls on. the ad-

vantages of training themselves for the Profession of ;

nursing. It is telling girls: (1). That nursing can be = permanent career. (2) That after the war there will be great opportunities for nurses to help. handle “the vast problems of disease, malnutrition and war-shetk that will exist in devastated areas. (3) That the future for nursing looks good since the nuinher of ple cared for in hospitals is on the increase. -

Last, but Not Least . . .

LASTLY, THE COUNCIL tells girls that “n make - notably. capable and successful wives mothers, and the marriage rate is: high sige n ~If the council really wants girls d y it ot

the last seven words quoted, “the marriage high among nurses.” ‘Perhaps it 1s afraid that if it bases its appt romance, it won’t attract anyiing 1 but a bi silly, romantic girls. a But if it knows what girls ‘of know that most all of them, su smart, pretty and homely, are in They wouldn't be normal 18 ‘true.

UNCLE SAM is trout 2) and in weather scar on ” # s

divided,

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