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Give Light and the People “wai od Thetr Own Way "TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1943

SOMETHING GOOD FOR ED JRESIDENT ROOSEVELT serenely ignored the storm of - public protest aroused by his shameless abuse of war- _ time diplomacy to provide a payoff for his political hench- . man, Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn. The president has not only sent the nomination to the senate . but also, in a personal letter to “Dear Eddie,” he expatiated on the high honors in store for him, not alone as minister to Australia but as Mr. Roosevelt's “personal representative with the rank of ambassador” in a “very large area of the Southwest Pacific.” : “All ‘this for a man whose diplomatic experience has never been broader than that of a party ward heeler and vote getter, who has earned his party’s promotion only by his political activities as a party boss, and whose political reputation has been clouded by scandal. We are reminded of the easygoing attitude of Bronx County Judge Lester Patterson, who presided at the proceedings of the grand jury that whitewashed Flynn in the .affair of the city-owned paving-blocks. After the whitewash Judge Patterson, informally discussing what he called ‘the “Flynn gesture” of Robert L. Moran, then Bronx works commissioner, said: “That’s all Bob Moran was doing when he sent Flynn those paving blocks. He wanted Ed to have something

NOW it’s the president of the United States who wants . Ed to have something good. And to see that Ed gets it, the president is ready to flout diplomatic standards, affront Australia in a critical wartime situation, and send Ed roving over the Southwest Pacific on a high-titled difficult job that he has never done one thing to merit! Playing politics with war diplomacy and war needs is “both disgraceful and dangerous. The senate should block the Flynn appointment. Our wartime ‘diplomatic relations with Australia should not be degraded merely to produce something good for Ed. Senator Willis of Indiana is sure to- vote against the Flynn confirmation from a standpoint. of principle, as well as politics. .We hope that, Senator VanNuys will do likewise. He owes nothing to this element of the Democrat party for his second term in the senate. Should he want a third term, ‘nothing could’ add’ more to his’ prestige than opposing the fhiym » nomination,

MORE REVEN UE—PAY AS You GO

ITH war spending in high and gaining momentum, our government cannot afford to delay syitiing to high gear 'in war taxation. Too many added billions of national fAgome are being spent before the treasury can get its share, under our antiquated system of a year-lag in income tax collections. The only solution is the formula of pay as you go. By moving the tax calendar up one year—that is, bringing it up to date—the treasury would automatically collect several billions in additional revenue this year. The government estimates that the national income will be 20 billions higher this year than last. It is simple arithmetic that applying the same rates to this year’s larger total income, rather than to last year’s smaller total, would greatly increase the treasury’s take. Moreover, the pay as you ‘go formula would be more humane and just, and more in accord with the principle of ability to pay. A taxpayer’ s ability. to pay would be measured by what his ‘income is at the time he i is paying, not what his income was last’ year. ‘And by putting ‘income taxes on a cash basis. the treasury could get its share before the taxpayer has a’chance to spend it, by systematic collections at the source—payToll deductions, etc. As. President Roosevelt said, a man: can’t spend money that doesn’t: pass through his pockets.

AN AMBASSADOR’S SON

¥ a palatial home in Washington lives a ‘tall Englishman of austere appearance whose heart, we know, is heavy. He is Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Viscount Halifax, ‘the ambassador of Great Britain. To Lord and Lady Halifax came word that their youngest son, Lieut. Richard Frederick Wood, had suffered injuries which made necessary ‘the amputation of both his legs as a result of an enemy bombing attack on a ‘base in Libya. Less than three months ago their second son, Capt. Peter Wood, ‘was killed in action in Egypt. Their eldest son, Charles Ingram Courtney Wood, also is in Egypt; in

the British army.’ : Much has been said_Though too much can never be

said—of the calm courage with which the people of England |

have met the hazards and sacrifices of war. American sym- |:

thy will go out to their representative, twice touched by |

ersonal sorrow in so short a time, and with it American dmiration for what he typifies—the fortitude, the uncomining ability to take punishment, the fighting spirit of magnificent British allies.

NE GUN—100 PLANTS = : of the navy’s’ wonderful 1 new sntbaireralt guns is to

bo takimonc fo of 38 states nd shows to fie i | Som

s of more. than 100 plants which contributed to the

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NEW YORK, Jan. 12. — One night in June, 1938, Norman Thomas, - the perpetual ual candidate of the Socialist party for president of the United States, went to Newark, N. J., to ‘test his right of |

freedom of speech and was mobbed | :

and pelted with eggs by a gang of gorillas organized by the same local politicians who, later, at the convention of the party of humanity in Chicago, stood up with.

Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins to draft President | §

Roosevelt for a third term. ‘One of the gorillas was a former heavyweight fighter born Anthony Zawalick, alias Jack Lawrence,

Andy Wallace and Jack Wallace. . He is a habitual:

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criminal and for a long time afterward was an official | }*.¥-

Of the hod cartiers and common laborers union or racket at Newburgh, N. Y. At present he is racketeering on big government construction jobs around Orangeburg, N. Y. having dusted qut of Newburgh last winter i the heat.

was turned on by Edward G. O'Neill, assistant attor-

ney general of the state of New York.

Started Stealing When 16

I WILL TELL you about Wallace as he calls himself and then tell you how he happened to land in

Newburgh as a business agent of the racket known :

as local 17 of the hod carriers.

His record began. with a conviction of stealing

copper worth $300 in 1923 when he was 16 years old.

Two years probation. In 1924 he stole an automobile

and got an indeterminate sentence. Paroled Septem-

ber, 1925. In 1929 he got six months for sticking up |

a lunchwagon with a gun. He broke jail and was recaptured. In December, 1938, he got 30 days for throwing eggs at Thomas. Mr. Thomas knew Wallace was an ignorant hoodlum and wanted to question him to make him tell who had hired him to break up his free-speech meeting. Thomas realized that the apes had been sent out to do a job on him. But Wallace was tipped off to plead nolo which meant, in effect, guilty. So Thomas lost his chance to question him. Remember, Thomas was mobbed in June of 38.

Pay Continued While in Jail IN SEPTEMBER OF that year, while a fugitive on the Thomas charge, Wallace turned up in Newburgh as business agent of local 17 of the hod car-

riers. Sam Nuzzo, the local boss of the union, now just convicted of robbing the workers, says Wallace was sent up to him by James Bove, of Yonkers, N. Y., president of local 60 and fourth vice president of the

big international union with headquarters in Washington, D. C. . When Wallace went to jail in Jersey for mobbing Thomas, Nuzzo’s local continued his pay nevertheless, although he never was a member of any union and never worked in his life. In August, 1939, after he had served time for the riot, Wallace sat in with Joseph V. Moreschi, interndtional president, Bove and all the muscle of the international executive board at a meeting in New York to decide a jurisdictional question. His name is in the official minutes. Just a low-grade, underworld racketeer without a standing. as a workman or. union member but accredited just the same,

Harvesting Money From 9000

WALLACE WAS NOT Nuzzo’s subordinate. He was Nuzzo’s boss and Nuzzo swears that he represented Bove, the international vice president. Nuzzo’s local was harvesting money from 9000 poor suckers and giving them nothing. Working conditions, which a union is supposed tc supervise, were dangerous and hard. The union was just a shakedown and an outside gangster was sent in to supervise the shake. And contractors were giving Nuzzo presents. In December, 1939, Wallace and the mob went to

-a brawl in honor of George Meany, who sits with

William Green in the council of the ‘A. F. of L., and Wallace was stabbed. He and Nuzzo then went to Florida and Nuzzo tapped the union till for $500 for Wallace to help him recuperate in the night clubs and at the race track among the criminal scum. Nuzzo swore that Bove authorized this present. Bove is still a hig shot in the executive board of the International Flod Carriers, Builders and Common Laborers Union of America; a dirty racket which has extorted millions of dollars from workers on war construction jobs, highway improvements and the like for years and years.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The big question about wage stabilization that will bother everyone _ most is, “What will happen to me "if I don’t pay any attention to all these regulations?” . The employee may ask, “What will happen to me if I take a raise the government says I. shouldn’t have?” The employer may ask, “What will happen to me if I raise wages above the levels prescribed by wage and salary stabilization orders and decisions?” The answer is, “Plenty!” * So drastic are the penalties that every worker and every hoss will want to think twice before taking or

| paying out one cent of wages or salaries above the

established ceilings, unless he first gets approval for

wage increases from the war labor board, or unless

‘he first gets authorization for salary increases from

‘the salary stabilization unit of the, bureau of internal

revenue. It you as sp employee take an unauthorized wage increase in ul violation of the regulations, and if you are tried and convicted, you can be fined $1000 or given a year in prison. If as an employer you pay unauthorized wage or salary increases, you also are subject to this $1000-or-one-year penalty, and in addition there is an even more drastic punishment to be meted out--probably | | the most severe ‘enforcement provision sver written ‘in any government. order.

Is Intended to Work

¥ IT 1S INTENDED to work something like this: {Suppose the war labor board or the salary stabillzation unit discovers that you have violated their regulations by granting unauthorized pay increases. As you know, money paid out as wages in any business are deductible items on the employers’ income tax return. But if itis discovered that you have paid out. unauthorized wage increases, this fact will then be certified to the bureau of internal “evenue. The

bureaus will then disallow as a legitimate income tax

deduction’ not only the amount of the unauthorized |

a Jove pd but also—and get this—the upead, wil. disallow the entire amount of your

ample; ‘ The International Gadget Co. Inc, has averaging $1500 a year apiece, or a total annual payroll of $45,000, . Suppose it grants an unauthorized wage increase of $1 a week for sll its 30

| employees, Tare.» toa) wma wip oem |

of $1560. When this the ‘bureau of

® . The Hoosier Forur: 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. -

“A FEW THINGS THAT BURN ME UP”

By Mrs. Lynons, Indianapolis I've read the Hoosier Forum as

published it. I've never written in about my views on anything, but I just don’t seem to be able to keep

things that are being written to the Forum that burn me up. 1. Mr, Peats: If you don’t approve

why don’t you {ry wearing a dress ‘and a pair of high heel shoes on

your own job and see how it works out for you? 2. Mrs. Dorothy Reidy: You and your mother. certainly have my sincere sympathy. My brother has been gone for one year. ~ I don’t know where he is, he hasn't been home during 1942 and he’s all the relatives I have.

those who are condemning you for writing to our president, that is still your. privilege as an. American. After all, we aren’t living under Jap or German ruling yet and let’s pray we never shall. 3. To Mabel Glover: In your lefter you said everyone that needs gasoline is getting all they need. I

you would disagree with yourself. I know of one person, in particular, who has an A book, and he is walking the remainder of two days a

- |week to work, through this weather,

too. ‘There’ are many others and the ration board keeps putting them off for a B book. ' 4. To those who gripe about coffee, sugar and other food that is rationed, I don’t think any of us have ever sacrificed very much because of food rationing. As for coffee, it won't hurt anyone to go without coffee even definitely and I like coffee, too. . = “TO MR. HIT AND RUN DRIVER—" By Mrs. William Wright, R. R. 8, Box 129 Mr. Hit and Run Driver, on Dec. 31, 1942 you knocked down my husband, broke both legs, one in 10 places. and other in two. You were speeding up Carson ave. Now Mr.,, who ever you are, we are elderly people, have had g lot of

long as The Indianapolis Times has|

quiet any longer. There are a few]

of defense workers wearing slacks,

I would give. almost anything to see him. As for,

am sure if you lived in Indianapolis, | “W

(T imes 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)

bad luck and are now trying to make some back after the depression. He had the first easy job he had in years and you knocked him 20 feet in a ditch, breaking both legs. Do you think -it right to go your way, would you want someone to do your “father” like that? “Why were you not gentleman enough to. stop and acknowledge your recklessness? ‘We are known to be tolerant people and treat others as we wish to be done by and would have been same by you. We are losing time and I mean a long time. He built place we're in and is not completed and thanks to you, may never be. He is not even insured for this. Go out and see what drivers like you cause on third floor, City hospital. God is just, though, and we will pull through somehow. ; ® 8 = HAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR SON WERE IN CANAL?” By Henry I. Mets, 1508 W. 29th st. What would you do if your son were lying at the bottom of the water company’s canal—and had been’ there for three weeks? I'm up’ against such a problem and frankly I've asked a lot of people for a good answer. Could you print yours? Far away in Miami, Fla., S gfield, Mass., Washington, D. C., and in my home town in Pennsylvania relatives and friends have been reading your paper hoping to find out Ww has been done to find my son. My many friends of Indianapolis have been watching, too. I'm. writing you now to inform them all that my boy has not been found, nor has any single bit of evidence been discovered in all of the dragging and searching with every conceivable device by crews

Side Glances—By Galbraith

of the police, C. A. A, navy and|

volunteers “fro screens at M: When my s home from sc! 18, I notified quently found ! glove on the c st. bridge. On ing I found a box that was before. From ft been conclude: partment that the canal. E: tainty all searc. to the canal. I have: been Mayor Tyndall and Chief of I that a co-ordi canal will be i body was four companies . usin; including the In Light Co., anc operation in e: would have to b Fire departmen! assured me th: would furnish might normally the lowering © canal water. In a meeting Sunday with off company, it wz the level of the

search. While I appr: efforts now bein; city departments friends and nei: vinced that the |

junk and’ debris « in the bottom of will not be recove ing the canal I¢ feet or possibly pletely. This is the onl to my question, and praying it ca 2

PEGLER’S SYM By F. OC. McKee, 5; I like The Tin thought they Ww picked up The '

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any of our other anyone who is Ii country, regardlze

pathies lie? Re knocking Paul Mc! trol of working 1 country. Would

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their flag may be . When a man i | the allies, I won

{if Mr, McNutt w= work? Ditch-dig ‘| | tainly be the pro; as Hug slinging 3

ixils of the water agreed to lower 2nal one foot on to aid in the

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aswer I can see nh IT am hoping ye accomplished. ’ : HE VIFHIES LIE?” |. Parker ave.’ very much and I + improving, 1 nes a couple of jee any column hought possibly orining but in a was again and

testinal fortitude y name. ‘king Russia and ussia has been our cause than

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Flynn Appointment By Ludwell Denny

days before the White House an nounced it, Boss Ed Flynn of the - Bronx formally told reporters that the president had named ‘him “ambassador and personal repre- ** sentative” to Australia with roving “duties. That is very smelly, ~~ - Last summer Mr. Flynn let it be known, more discreetly, that ~ he“had been promised the job of ambassador to Mexico. That produced such a reaction from the state department, congressional leaders, the press and Latin Americans, that the president quietly dropped the plan—if any. The objection then was this party hack had

' neither experience nor other qualification for & 4 diplomatic post, that his appointment would be an

insult to the United States and to Mexico.

Australian Relations Important

TO SEND HIM to Australia is even worse. Our war relations with that ally are so important and complicated that the Australian prime minister now contemplates an emergency visit to Washington. Why Mr. Flynn made this announcement, which the president alone has authority to make, is not clear. Maybe he was trying to force the Roose= velt hand. Or maybe he was jgnorant of the rule that such information must come from the White House—for the reason that the foreign government and senate leads

- ers must be consulted by the president first.

The White House said the premature disclosure was

| because a White ‘House - official told Mr. Flynn

“erroneously that the president was sending his nome

: ination to the senate Friday.”

U.S. Not Indebted to Flynn

IF IT is necessary for Mr. Roossvelt to reward the retiring chairman of the Democratic national committee—who is no longer available as such, bee cause of his recent campaign failure and connection with the New York paving-block scandal—it should rot be at public expense. The United States is not indebted to Mr. Flynn 0. She’ extent lof a, diplamauis oh or SHY GUBEE,; ;

1942's Best Books

By Stephen Ellis

TWO RED AND ONE of the nation’s book reviewers are represented in the Book-Of-The-Monthe= Ciub’s 1942 poll, just announced. I know youll be .initerested in the books these 201 critics have chosen, Here you are in the fiction field: : 1. “The Moon Is Down,” by John Steinbeck, “ point; 2. “The Song of Bernadette,” by Franz Werfel, 899 points, 3. “The Seventh Cross,” by Anna Seghers, 740 points. : 4. “Dragon Seed,” by Pearl Buck, 636 points. 5. “Look “to the Mountain,” by LeGrand Cannon Jr..-541 points. The next five in the fiction field, in order, were “The Pied Piper,” “And Now Tomorrow,” “The Just and the Unjust,” “Signed With Their Honor” and “Hostages.”

"They Were Expendable," of Corie

IN THE non-fiction fleld, the leader, of puns was W. L. White's “They Were Expendable,” exactly twice in front of everything else with 1038 _points,

‘The rest of the Hist:

2. ep Creek,” by Marjorie K, Rawitugs;

3. yA) to Arras,” by. Antoine de St. Exupery, 502 polite; 4. “Victory Through Air Power,” by Ma). Alexander de’ Seversky, 469 points. ' 5. “The Last Time T Saw Paris” by Eliot Paul 435 points; 6. “Mission fo Moscow,’ ” by Ambassador. Joseph 0 Davies, 422 points. 7. “See Here, Private Hargrove,” by Marion Hare grove; 398 points. 8. “Paul Revere and:-the World He Lived In ‘by Esther Forbes, 391 points. . 9. “The Raft,” by Robert Trumbull, 382 points. 10. “Last Train From Berlin,” by Howard K. Smith, 342 points,

That ought to take care of 196 i ood shape. J

We the Women

By Ruth, Millett *

APPARENTLY women aesd’le improve “paying guest” manners, ‘Word from Washington says that landladies in the capital have such a preference for men roomers that girl war workers have a dife ficult time finding a place to Hye. 4 Years of experience have probe ably taught landladies that men are easier to have around than women. Anyhow, the girls who Sto tive in rooming houses or private homes ought k into the matter, ‘and if they think ft may be dh their “paying guest” manners aren’t as good as their guest manners, they ought to bet busy and improve them.

A Whole Lot of Maybes— y

MAYBE THEY have ‘long, chatty conservationg over the telephone every night—keeping the line ‘busy so that the other roomers can’t get their calls. 7 Maybe they hold the bathroom for long periods at a time while they put on their makeup, wash out things they could send 0 the laundiy; and try ouithe latest reciucing exercises. Maybe they borrow the landlady’s iron and forget to return it when they're finished. 4 Maybe they are a little bit snooty tovara ‘the landlady. A Maybe they can’t resist

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