Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1943 — Page 10

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THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE : (ovERton SCHRICKER’S message to the new legislature yesterday outlined a sane, sound, war-time legislative. program for this state. : There is in it no suggestion that is ¢ strictly partisan, ' no proposal that is not a calm, carefully reasoned idea for

the benefit of the state as a whole. Its reception by legisla- |

tive leaders of opposite political faith is, in itself, evidence of the soundness of Governor Schricker’s thinking. High in the list of legislation that must be taken he ~ placed reform of the alarming personnel situation in In- + diana welfare institutions. Republican leaders, too, are on record in agreement. Conditions in some of them, ' brought to a crisis by war-time drains on manpower, and ~ war-boom wages elsewhere, were described in this newspaper some weeks ago. Corrective measures can and should be taken quickly. It was gratifying to note, too, that Governor Schricker made no reference to the highly controversial “war powers Bil sehen proposed that all state legislatures grant almost dictatorial powers to governors for the war period. Governor - Schricker is one of the few state executives we would be - willing to see given such powers—and he feels he does not need them. 3 He asked for no sweeping reforms, no hasty turning _ off into new and untried paths, and no legislation that either a ‘Republican or a Democrat could not conscientiously vote ! for. Reading his message, somehow, makes us glad Henry } Schricker is governor of Indiana in 1943.

MANPOWER SHORTAGE?

: I 2FOWER Czar Paul McNutt might find part of the answer to his problem of manpower shortage in the article by Robert W. Bloem in this newspaper today. Mr. Bloem discovered 4073 men and women in full | time federal jobs in Indianapolis alone last week, although ‘he admits he may net have found all there are, since no one anywhere appears to have a complete list of government employees. Just the 4073 he found, however, are twice as many as the city of Indianapolis ever required to maintain and operate all the administration and all the services of | | this city, including policemen and firemen and all municipal | departments. And how many of these 4073 are in any work connected in any way with the war? Just 538; including all the helpers- at the ration boards, and all the other civilian war workers. Some.of-the-remaining 3535 beyond doubt are engaged in Services everyone agrees are essential. But we have a : feeling that Mr. McNutt could, by careful selection, find : maybe 1500 at work here who are not doing anything that anyone in Indianapolis either needs, or wants, done. ET a 8 8 . 8% THESE 4073 workers draw down around $7, 800,000 a | year wages, or about the price of 80,000 Garand rifles, or a modern submarine or 100 pursuit planes -each 12 . months, but maybe that isn’t important. They are Indiapolis’ quota of the 3,000,000 federal employees’ who are

| 80 glibly explained away in some quarters as necessary |.

“to the prosecution of the war. How necessary they are, ; and how efficient, is indicated by the statement this week i of the officials of the National Federation of Federal Em- : ' ployees, a conservative and long established union of govi ernment workers with 75,000 members and with logals in : every state. They said: : “There are too many federal employees . . . the whole . basic structure of the federal civil service system is being jeopardized by the antics of administrative incompetents i ' whose demands for more and more employees are insatiable . . ordering large numbers of employees, excessive amounts of floor space . . . makes for impressive show, and for multi-

We doubt whether one civilian employee for every two soldiers—which is approximately the ratio today—is conibuting anything toward winning the war. “And we will begin to take more seriously the story of a manpower shortage when governmental agencies come out of £the clouds and release the million or more surplus workers ey now are keeping out of productive occupations.

RATIONING REFORM

E of the brightest spots on the home front in a long time is the report from Alex Taggart, Marion county rationing commissioner, that the rationing system now is beginning to work more smoothly, and that there is yery prospect that the new “point” program can go into ation without a major hitch. Mr. Taggart, you will recall, is the man who first had the courage to make public the dangerous confusion that nly a few weeks ago threatened to disrupt the whole aderal ration system in Indianapolis. He was backed in s by his immediate superiors, and local rationing offis all over Indiana supported his statements with addional facts of their own. Overnight it grew into almost nation-wide storm of protest. But it began here in Indipolis. The protest has been effective. OPA torms and inctions have been simplified, there is evidence of the inning of intelligent planning. Mr. Taggart believes on boards now have a system that will work. If they e, he and his associates have made an important contrin to the war effort...

ECK THOSE TIRES . TORISTS have ‘been slow about having their tires

ion n stations for this month. .

The OPA says flatly that neither gasoline. ration

nor tire Feplacements will be issued in the future to

Price in Marion Coun- |

$4 a year; adjoining :

World Solidarity By William ile Simms

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—European envoys with whom I have talked are in complete agreement

with President Roosevelt on the |

urgent need for world solidarity after the war. But, they warn, unless the major powers prepare against it by some kind of advance understanding; we may be in for bitter disappointment. Undoubtedly there are now few Americans who believe this nation “can end this war comfortably and then climb back

into an American hole and pull the hole in after |

them.” But unless steps are taken to guard against it, there is danger that events abroad may drive them back into just such a hole. For instance, I have before me a memorandum from Louis Adamic, the American author of Jugoslav extraction. now going on in Jugoslavia between the Anglo-American-sponsored guerrillas led by Gen. Mikhailovitch and the so-called partisans, who have the backing of Moscow.

Invaders Might Not Be Welcome

“IT IS MY DEEP conviction,” says Mr. Adamic, “that any military plans in reference to Jugoslavia

will have to go hand in hand with a successful effort

to deal with the political problems in that country.

“Otherwise, the military plans will risk the possibility, even the probability, that the American inva-

sion army will not be welcomed as an agency of |

liberation by large elements of the Jugoslav peoples which are developing effective armed forces under the title of the liberation front of the partisans.” Military plans, he says, should include at least a tentative resolution of the current political tangle in Jugoslavia.. © Otherwise the American forces might encounter there a wide-flung and powerfully motivated resistance against them.

Fighting For Own Way of Life

THERE IS A CURRENT saying that every one

of the millions of American doughboys who return from overseas will constitute a committee of one against future isclation, But not everyone is in unconditional agreement with that thesis. The average doughboy doubtless believes he fis fighting to help win this war against the axis. He is doing that to preserve the American way of life. He is not risking having his arms, his legs or his head shot off in order to impose his way of life on others, and he does not want their ways of life imposed on him,

There Are Other Trouble Spots

SUCH BEING THE case, the doughboy will hardly relish dying in the Balkans to make some Balkan country safe for this or that political faction. Should he disembark in Jugoslavia or elsewhere only to be shot at by the very people he crossed the seas to liberate, he is going to be terribly disillusioned and sore—if he survives.

Jugoslavia is not the only trouble spot in Europe. So unless the United States, Great Britain and Soviet Russia, at least, can agree on some basic formula to minimize the danger, they may encounter wholesale trouble of the kind predicted by Mr, Adamic in the Balkans. And nothing could be more conducive to a return to isolationism in the United States than that.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—1If you ‘have any questions about how the government’s new wage stabilization program affects your individual case as a worker or an employer, take your troubles to the nearest office of the wage and hour division, or write them a letter. There are over 100 of these wage and hour offices scattered around the country. Your local postmaster or any one of the 1500

U. S. employment service branches should know the |/

address of the office closest to you. The point is, you don’t have to write to Washington to get information on how these wage control rulings affect your case and whether or not you’ re entitled to a raise. Right off the bat, when the wage stabilization order was signed by the president on Oct. 3, 1942, it became apparent that this control over the wages paid to some 30 million workers in over 300,000 establishments could not be run. from Washington, so an organization was set up to decentralize operations. At wage and hour offices you can get all the forms and information needed to file any application for any kind of a wage adjustment, and wage and hour officials will help fill out the forms.

You Have Right to Appeal

IF THE LOCAL wage and hour office rules that

| the application for a wage increase must be approved

by higher authority, application will be made to one of the 10 regional offices of the war labor board, in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Kansas City,

Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and San Francisco. At each of these regional WLB offices there is a regional director who will sit with a regional advisory board of 12 members, four from labor, four from management and four representing the public. Each of .the 10 regional directors has power to act on any application for a wage adjustment in his area. But suppose the regional director turns down your application for a raise. You have a right to appeal within 10 days. The regional director then appoints a panel of three from his advisory board, one representative from the laber group, one from the management. group and one from the public group; to review your- ‘appeal. If the panel overrules the previous finding of the ‘Tegional director, okay, you get the raise. « If the ‘panel rules that your application should be turned down, there isn't much you can do about it. Any one member of the panel can recommend that the finding be referred to the war labor board in Washington, or the WLB itself can on its own initiative ask to have the record of the case sent to Washington for review, and WLB can, if it chooses, overrule the panel and grant the wage increase.

WLB Can Reverse Any Finding

THE NATIONAL war labor board sitting in Washington can, in fact, overrule and reverse any findings Hide by any regional direstor, any findings made by pane

: In case there is any dispute over a wage agree- | ment being negotiated between an émployer and his |

employees, that case can be submitted to the U. 8.

conciliation service, which will then attempt to work |

out a settlement. In case of inability to conciliate,

the case may be certified to the war labor board in |

Washington, whose decision is final,

For salaries, meaning pay compiited on.a weekly. |

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“WE HAD BETTER TAKE OUR SILK GLOVES OFF” By W. J. Pittman, 902 8. Missouri st. When I read the article, “Lazy, Impudent and Wasteful Japs Turn ‘Dream Center’ Into Nightmare,” I began wondering who we are fighting, Mr. Taylor, project manager, and the supposed to be loyal Japa-nese-Americans or the axis? It seems to me that we had better take our “silk gloves” off and use the rod- te such’ instances as Mr. Taylor and our supposed-to-be loyal Japanese-Americans. We the people who work from eight to 12 hours a day. . . . Then have to read such happenings as

my good old American blood boil, . 2 2 2 “DEFENSE WORKERS ARE DOING A SWELL JOB” By T. A. Casey, 2832 E. New York st. Just a few lines regarding a letter published by H, W, Johnson. My letter is to him, and, I expect. to many more just like him. Mine is in the defense of the defense workers in ‘the defense plants. Mr. Johnson, you are all wet on this subject’ about these defénse workers getting from $1 to $2 per hour, and, if it were true, would you begrudge it to them? By your letter, it. seems you would. Then shame on you. . . . I think you had better wake up "and put on your Sunday shoes. Remember, these conditions were changed when the United States declared war on our enemies. We all know they get time and a half

the conditions the working people enjoy today they really deserve. . Also, please remember, the workers didn’t always have the good conditions they now enjoy. They obtained them through presever-

“Tance over the years. . . . I know

that the war did raise wages inasmuch as the ordinary employer is

Mr, Taylor's and his evacuees makes

for over 40 hours. "Also, remember, |

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now forced to pay more to keep his employees: from leaving for other higher paid positions: Competition for workers has become great. Then you had the nerve to say that the defense workers are the greatest gripers of all. If. I were you, I would dig a hole and pull it in after you. I, for one, would like to say to you, you should pick up spunk and ambition enough to get yourself a well paid job in one of the defense plants. . As far as that goes, ‘the most of the defense plants are working their people six and seven days each week and between 50 to 70 hours each week instead of the five-day and 40 hours that you state in your letter. It seems to me you'd better get yourself a pair of overalls or a shop apron and stop this griping about the defense worker. . . I am not affiliated with any union or any organization whatsoever. I am just one of the underdogs. I am also a person who realizes what a swell job these defense workers are doing. 3 % 2 » » “SUCH STATEMENTS MIGHT DO UNINTENTIONAL HARM”

By Mary B. Cochran, 4620 Washington , blvd.

Referring. to the article in this column on Jan. 1 entitled “Not in Favor of Sending Food to the English,” I should like to answer ‘it for the reason that such statements as were made might 46 much unintentional harm at a time when an all-out effort for winning the war

is being made and when the

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By Ludwell Denny

weakest link in the allied chain is China. That is not her fault, but ours—nt least in the sense that we haven't yet been able to produce enough materials to go around. China feels neglected by the united nations. And she is losing patience, which means a lot in the longest-suffering nation in ° the : world. China accepts, though she does not agree with, the Roosevelt-Churchill strategy of trying to lick Hitler first. [Even so, she fears that

| this policy is being applied so one-sidedly as fo allow

Japan to consolidate vast strategic and raw-materials gains that may postpone allied victory indefinitely.

plies intended for China and refused to allow China to share the defense of Burma until too late, plus

| memories of Britain's closing the Burma road ab 4

Japan's request in the pre-Pearl Harbor period, ‘have ? not increased €hungking’s confidence.

Delicate Situation Arises

BUT HITHERTO China has trusted the United States, because of close ties between the two nations and because our government refused to sacrifice China to Japan as the price of peace. Now China has recalled her military mission from Washington, after its failure to get a seat at the combined chiefs of staff board or flo get delivery on more war supplies. So a delicate situation is developing, which pleases the enemy as much as it troubles the united nations in general and Washington in particular. For there can be no doubt of the determination of the American government and people to (lestroy Jap militarism «completely, or of their recognition that China is an essential ally, Obviously, China is the only land front against Japan proper. She has the only bases for effective bombing on Tokyo and of major enemy supply lines. Moreover, she has the largest trained army in the

| world, ready to take and keep the offensive against

Japan the moment it gets the necessary weapons.

Planes Pay High Dividends

IT IS TO OUR selfish advantage—apart from any

| gratitude to a nation which whittled down Japan for

five years—to enable China to defeat the common enemy on land while we wipe out his seapower. The record shows that American planes pay higher dividends in China than on any other front. ‘The job of getting material into China is ‘difficult; as long as the Japs hold the Burma road. But the immediate demand is only for a relatively small amount, compared with requirements of other fronts. It is to be hoped that the president, in his difficult task of apportioning supplies to our own expanding forces and to many fronts, may be able to adjust the balance somewhat by sending more to China soon. Meanwhile, we can only count on the Chinese and their honored unofficial ambassador, Mme, Chiang Kai-shek, to trust in this alliance.

: ‘On the Beam By Stephen Ellis

ONE BOOK which has been very close to the top of best-seller lists for months is A. Hooper's “A Mathematics Refresher.” And, I might add, deserv=-

reputation in pre-war England. This reputation was considered enhanced when Mr. Hooper started using his advanced methods for the training of R. A. F, pilots, navigators and bom ~ pardiers, Mr. Hooper's original British edition was written primarily for these R. A. F. men and the Henry Holt & Co. certainly deserves a feather in its cap for seeing the possibilities of an American edition. The result has been a sort of minor ‘miracle in book publishing—a mathematics book which thas sold by the droves. Mr. Hooper has handled in this book everything any student of mathematics can possibly want to know. The method of teaching is revolutionarily simple and it seems to me that a great many Amer= ican public school teachers might use it to great advantage in handling pupils who have no affinity whatever for mathematics. I don’t want to seem dreamy-eyed about this book, but it really is a remarkable document. Every teacher ought to have one and, every man who is going into any part of the service where he is going to need mathematics ought to study it.

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MATHEMATICS REFRESHER, By A. Hiober. aac

A IR, illustrated and indexed. Henry Holt & Co., New York.

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

“A; MAN—and a highly. nei gent man he is, too—says he - doesn’t agree with me on the - stand I took about a girl's wearing slacks in court. ; The judge before whom she gppeared sent her home to charge into a dress. I thought the jucige was wrong, since slacks for women ¢ AT¢ nO ' longer play : “but work clothes. The man says the Judge vas entirely right—and in telling why he thinks so he sums up men’s attitude towird women’ s wearing pants. Let’s let him have his say: “There is nothing in the world wrong with women

factories. They are doing men’s work and if men’s clothes are safer and more suitable and comfortable for the job—then men’s clothes are what they ought to wear. 3 One Man's Opinion | . ie AND THERE IS nothing wrong with a Yonge pn wearing slacks arourd home when she is doing

to be firing the furnace herself and even doing ner

overalls are work clothes for men. _ “When a working man who wears overalls on she

court of law, or goes oui socially he gets. dressed suitably in a business suit. Women

shop, go into court or: go ¢alling th ey ought to appropriately in street clothes.” “Toa Is one mans srs, and he sas he thinks most men féel the same way.

est to touch. : 3 : ® a a, 5 WOMEN MAY be smirter than 1

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. — The

“Allegations that Britain diverted American sup=

her work, especially in these days when she is likely yard “But slacks for women are work clothes—just LB fob goes to fown to transact business, goes inte a himself

ought to follow the same rule. For hard, _ physical work slacks are all right. By ea i to

edly so. Mr. Hooper, it should be said, won a national

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wearing slacks to their jobs in airplane and munitions