Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1943 — Page 10

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@E3p- RILEY 5551 Give Light: and the People Will Find Their Own Way MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1943

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DIN THE SYMPHONY “HE membership campaign of the Friends of the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra deserves the support of every citizen who appreciates and believes in the role the ‘orchestra plays in our community life. The symphony orchestra deserves praise for the frank ay it is facing its problem. Fabien Sevitzky, the director, Howard Harrington, the manager, are reluctant to campaign each year for outright contributions to the maint tenance fund. They have brought the Friends of the symhony orchestra into being, patterned on the highly sucful Boston plan. They believe that by this means they can widen the ase of the symphony orchestra’s membership and eventuobviate the necessity of any extra appeal. It is a goal ‘well-worth driving for. We wish every possible success to the campaign.

WE'LL WISH WE HAD

HE post-war trade bonds idea has one thing in common with the idea of pay-as-you-go income taxation: If we don’t adopt it, when the war is over we'll wish we had. If we don’t adopt pay-as-you-go, the end of the war boom will find several millions of us owing more taxes than can pay, while the treasury ruefully examines a long of “taxes receivable” and contemplates the adage about e bloodlessness of turnips. And if we don’t prepare for our future with some kind of post-war trade bonds program, when the war production jobs cease several millions of us are going to be without work. : Corporate taxes are so high that private industries are finding it impossible to build up capital reserves to use ‘after the war in maintaining their payrolls while reconverting to peace-goods production. All of which means that, unless other plans are made, industry will start laying off workers wholesale on the day of the armistice. And the government will have to hatch up something like WPA again, and spend more billions, just to keep worlers from going hungry. ” 2 » UT we don’t have to go down that sorry road again. We can prepare for the future, in an American way. Though short of capital reserves, if factories have orders on. their books for peace-time goods they can borrow from the banks to tool up for production of automobiles, refrigerators, radios, air-conditioning units, etc. - Henry J. Kaiser was the first to popularize the idea, with his program for selling post-war trade bonds now to people who can be persuaded to set aside excess war-time earnings for the things they will want and which can be manufactured after the war. A similar program, usually referred to as a plan for ‘advance installment payments, has been proposed by Rolf Nugent, credit policy director of the office of price adminstration, and indorsed by Leon Henderson, retiring OPA chief,

” 2 8 ” # R. NUGENT estimates that consumer income this year ~ will be about $130,000,000,000 while the value of available consumer good will be about $77,000,000,000. He says that several billions of this excess spending wer can be impounded for post-war needs, by taking orrs for automobiles, refrigerators, etc., givilg the purchasers priority on the goods to be produced, and collecting vance installments. This plan, says Mr. Henderson, wolild * ‘utilize the energies of private industry in enlisting consumer spending in e fight against inflation. It would permit dealers and salesmen who can not serve otherwise to participate in a program of importance to the ar and to peace time reconstruction. It would keep a rudimentary sales and finance organizaion together for the peacetime tasks that lie over the hill. «Jt promises an enlarged market for all types of goods the war.” ~ Why are you waiting, Mr. Morgenthau? What are you iting for, Congress?

HIS WAR MUST GO ON

WAS a happy inspiration that made President Roosevelt’s birthday, in 1934, the occasion for a nation-wide licitation of funds for war on the scourge of infantile alysis. In the nine years since then large sums of money have en raised through birthday balls and “miles of dimes,” great good has been done." The National Foundation for faftile Paralysis has granted more than $3,000,000 for search: by medical schools, hospitals and laboratories into cause of the disease and its treatment and prevention. ly $5,000,000 more has been left with local chapters, w almost 3000 in number, te provide. means for prompt effective treatment of victims. But victory in this war is still distant. The 10th annual ind campaign is now under way and we hope its culmina,"on Jan. 30, will mark a generous response to one of .worthiest of all the appeals made: to the ‘American ple.

C OKS FOR FIGHTERS

‘addition to giving the books that you want our soldiers, ors, marines and merchant sailors to have out of your |

ictory Book campaign from Jan. 5 'to- March 5 5.

everybody is a self starter. Probably sone or many

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Workers knows that it tion but a boss-ruled inessey in counts the votes ar decides the workers’ Et Hs i

all “is not au

But now that Lewis is a loner, and their en former friends and accomplices frankly truth of the worst allegations ever laid

by the most reactionary employers.

Petrillo Is in the Right

LAST WEEK, in Washington, we had the ribald spectacle of Jimmy ‘Petrillo, a rich and rowdy unioneer, kidding the senators and defying them to interfere with his make-work and mock-work program, even at a time when Paul McNutt is proceeding to squeeze non-essential businesses out of business, because there is said to be a shortage of vital manpower.

Petrillo is in the right, and he knows he is in the

right, and the worst of it is that the senators realize that Be is right and that they, themselves, not Petrillo, are to blame.

It Spe to the senate and the house of representa | tives of the United States congress that the supreme |

court delivered two insulting challenges within the last couple of years, in opinions from which Petrillo derives his power. The court said unions could do no wrong, and gave approval to systematic and outrageous waste of manpower under the stand-by system which is the whole cause of the controversy with Petrillo's union of musicians.

Defeats Own Stated Purpose

HENRY KAISER’S troubles with the C. I. O. in his shipyards prove that the wicked Wagner act, far from assuring workers the right to bargain collectively through agents of their own free choice, instead defeats its own stated purpose: What right has any employer, starting a big new industrial project, to go into a huddle with a few union bosses in advance of the opening of the plant and agree to compel future workers, whose identities are unknown, to pay tribute to them and submit to their discipline? Yet, if it were not for the challenge of the C. I. O. inspired only by jealousy and greed, this slave trade would have been blessed by every department of the government having to do with labor and union affairs. It is common practice in many plants and it has the approval, indeed the savage backing, of the labor relations board under the Wagner act.

Responsible for Outrages They Deplore

A REPORTER or copyreader, coming to work for a newspaper which has-a closed shop contract with the newspaper guild finds himself sold down the river as a condition of employment. No senator

would be so fatuous as to argue that this man, or one’

of Kaiser's workers, has selected his bargaining agent. The hidden, treacherous labor policy of the government has been to drive workers into unions and place them at the mercy of scoundrels.

Some workers have been compelled to make contributions to the cause of communism in Russia and Spain and on two occasions which I am prepared to prove, and one of which is acknowledged by David Dubinsky, the president, members of the garment workers ' union have been compelled, under penalty of a fine, to turn out for political rallies for new deal candidates. Harold Ickes, congress and all those who are now exercised over the aggravation of the tragic fuel shortage by the miners’ strike and by the mock-work system, are responsible for the very outrages which they so piously deplore.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. Washington life is like this: The charming wife of a young government official holds down an outside, job so she'll have enough money to keep a maid. Recently, this c. w. of they. g. 0. wanted to throw a cocktail party. But her maid asked to get off early to go home and take care of her own :children because the maid's own hired girl, who took care of the maid's children, was. throwing a cocktail party. Seems that the maid was working as a maid so she could afford to hire a girl to take care of her own children.

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2 ” 8 » : Neatest nickname coined thus far for Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce, of Connecticut is, Congressional Sweater Girl.” Not that Mrs, Luce

had actually appeared in a sweater, but in her first three days in Washington she appeared in a different costume every day, and people began to make book on how long she could keer that up. » ” fd Federal rent control in crowded war production areas is estimated to have saved tenants some 300 millions in 1942, may save them as much ‘as one billion in 1943 on the basis of a total rent bill of eight billion. ‘To achieve this saving the rent controls division in the office of price administration had, as of the end of 1942, 283 offices, 5000 paid empioyees, and ‘was spending money at the rate of 10 million a year. In other words, for every dollar of the taxpayers’

money spent by the government to control rents,

tenants were saved $100.

Dear Sir—

LEON HENDERSON, wearing dark glasses and on | |

the verge of retiring from the thankless job of price administrator, says he got only three letters of the

“Dear Sir, you cur” variety. But an indication of | | how much luck he is wishing the man who steps inte | | “next winter, if I'm I

his shoes, Henderson declares, in a climate where they burn coal or oil; and if I'm cold, I'm going to write letters to my congressman, 5 saiitvads and evesybidy iss; powsting os 2 Dri: vate citizen.” »

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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The Hoosier Forum .

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

“CONGRESS HAS FINALLY AWAKENED”

By Mattie Withers, 1525 N. Arsenal ave. . It is heartening to know that the

most promising auspices. After all its rubber stamping, congress has finally awakened to the fact that it is its duty to maintain a legislative branch independent of the executive’s orders. It is, I hope, an augury of things to come. It portends a return to our old spirit of nationalism—the spirit that animated the pioneers at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge. It now appears that congress is going to look after our own affairs first. It is truly gratifying to know that congress is going to assert its powers. In view of such, it is only dutiful to say “God bless America.”

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“LET’S WIN THE WAR FIRST”

By C. R. Hitch, Kirklin

This is no time to start a wet and dry fight. - It will create a hatred between friends, neighbors, lodge, club, church and even party members. You can’t hold either together on that issue, It is tolerance we need at this time. We are at war and need to be united.: So let's win the war first. During the last war the prohibitionists took advantage of the” absence of the soldiers to push their cause and secured the 18th amendment. This outraged many of those men who were giving their all for

_|liberty, freedom and justice (many

in Europe) and on returning home to find their own personal liberties so curtailed, resented not only the amendment but how it was obtained especially. : They helped take that amendment out, and I feel quite.sure these soldiers of world war II would do so again. To those who are seeking local option and prohibition, I suggest you not only consider the question of national unity but how and when you will pay for the damages you propose to inflict on those who are engaged in the business. The golden rule should apply here, too. Sure-

78th congress has opened under the|

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have a chance. be signed)

ly no right-thinking person would destroy their neighbor’s business without paying off. The manufacture of distilled liguors has been stopped and the stocks rationed, limiting the consumption to less than half last year’s. Again I say, let's win the war first. » ” “THAT'S ADDING INSULT TO INJURY” By Mrs. Albert Middleton, 1826 Ingram st. I am writing in regards to the article, “Take Situation in Hand, Uncle Sam,” written by Margaret Stearns Reese, Monday evening, Jan. 11, 1943. That article probably echoes the thoughts of millions who are think-

ing the same thing, that there is|

definitely something rotten in Denson, Ark. (and I don’t mean Denmark), i

I don't really believe there's a single person who minds paying the high taxes or the forthcoming food rationing if it will help win the war, but when you read about those dirty little Japs being pampered with steaks, salads and heaven only knows what else and on our money, too—that’s adding insult to injury. Not only that, but I guess for those Japs being so considerate and not killing Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Ball, they are toying with the idea of releasing a certain per cent and furnishing them farms. Well, all I can say is, I would like to see a bunch of marines, sailors and soldiers turned loose in -that ‘evacuation center and be able to watch the fireworks. That particular bunch &8f Japs would soon find out Mr. Paul Taylor was out for the duration, along with the steaks; salads and pampering, too, and that some of their own special brand of treatment they give our boys was in.

Is that the president’ message to ; bis ‘considerably between g

‘neighbors who ‘mean to give books will not get office

little help. yo as an , individual, ;

“rM GLAD TO BE AN AMERICAN” By Mary Wise, 1701 N. Tacoma ave. What's wrong, Mr. Maxwell? Maybe I'm too much of a Polly-

® anna but I'm glad to be an Ameri-

can. My husband is not a defense worker and he doss not make big money (0. k. by me). We have three small sons and I do all my own housework, washing, ironing, tending furnace, etc. (0. k. by me). We rent a house that is too small for our family (o. k., we crowd up and like it), ; They deduct 5 per cent for victory tax and some for war bonds from our pay (o. k. by both of us), One son has a 10 cent stamp book, one has a 25 cent stamp book, one just paid for a bond (double o. k. by me). We don't have any nice furniture and no money in the bank, no coffee or sugar in the basement, but we don’t owe any bills (0. k. by me). We have plenty to eat but no fancy fixings (0. k. by me). What isn't o. k. is the achers who aren't intelligent enough to realize this is “war,” not a “sham battle.” I hope my sons never have to fight for a bunch of block-headed, weali-kneed squawkers whe haven't the intestinal fortitude to face the little hardships of 1943.

Sl “THANK YOU FOR SHOWING US THE WAY”

By Mrs. Rosemary Chamberlin, 4116 E. ‘38th st.

To Mr. Walter Hess: Thank you for your little lesson. I.think we Americans of Indian-

of us are so busy complaining about the ruts in the road we never see the flowers blooming at ils edge.

We have to have a newcomer point them out. More power {n you, Mr. Hess, and to the others who forget their personal discomforts in praise of this wonderful land of ours. There are so few of you. From today on, whenever I start to voice a complaint, I'll stop—and look for the good side. There almost always is one. Come on, Indianapolitans, can't we all make that resolution? And thank you, Mr, Hess, for showing us the way. : » ” ® “HOW ABOUT SOME SAND #

AT BUSY INTERSECTIONS?”

By H. K., Indianapolis Dear Republicans:

you boys to get back in the groove

i|after being left out of it so long, so

thought I would lend a helping hand. You boys probably forgot © how good the Democrats took care of our’ streets in the wintertime and didn’t think to put out- some sand at busy intersections for the safety

.|of us eitizens who have to drive. in

7 | | will have to

{this perilous weather. 1 You may say the boys are soft

after ‘their. long vacation, but you ‘toughen them uj) some

{it may be, see if the boys won't go Gut in Khe gold Jong cavugh 4a scat:

ier, some, sand,

DAILY THOUGHT

Shall mortal man be more just ‘shall a man be more

belly - Fo

apolis needed it very much. Most|

I know how hard it must be for

than pure than his maker?—Job. 411. | hasn

French Feud”

|By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan 18—Une less the l'rench adjoun their

effort in North Africa, the United States and Great Britain are expected to cet in the ery near future. :- Now thit Harold IiacMillan, British minister for North and West Afric:, has arrivid at his post, official ‘spokesmen in London are beginning to take a somewhat different tone, Mr. MacMillan has now publicly stated that he feels “absolutely convinced that Gen. Eisenhower was right in originally dealing with Adairal Darlan” and is believed to have so reported 'o the British foreign office. : Moreover, these same spokeimen now a/imit that" Gen. Charles de Gaulle has iar from suceeded in rallying a majority of the French to his ide, even those in England. However riuch they aimire his gallant, uncompromising stand :gainst the axis, many deplore his more recently deve oped flair for politics,

One Faction Demands Purge

EVEN THE FIGHTING FRENCH, the followers of Gen. de Gaulle himself, are divided on this score. One group holds that this var, once deprived of its ideological character, loses its significance. To these, anybody who had anything to do with Vichy, | directly or indirectly, is a “traitor” with who:a neither the French nor the united nations should have anys, | thing to do. On this they are adamant To them the fact ‘that Admiral Darlan saved {ze allies months of {time and thousands of lives in the occupation of [North Africa means nothing. As for Gen. Giraud, ithe murdered Darlan’s successor, they would likewise have nothing to do with him unless and un'il North Africa has been of all whom even the :xtremeleft wing de Gaullists dislike. But, says Henri de Kerillis one of th¢ leading Fighting French spokesmen in ‘his country. another group of de Gaullists “holds an *ntirely different and even very antagonistic position.”

Want Germans Beaten Fir:t

WRITING IN MME. GENEVI EVE TABOU/IS’ New York newspaper, “Pour La Victnire,” he obsirves: “These (Gaullists) maintain that the (Germans must be beaten before openirg the slighiest rift among the French people. The enemy will not fail to profit by such a rift, which were it to ¢ontinue, would endanger victory. . “This section of Gaullists thinks it is diingerous to demand sudden eliminations among leaciers, for such demands can frighten or irritate the sub irdinate

| staffs and throw an immense confusion into this | African army which is fighting the Germaiis cours | ageously and is not concerned with anything olse. . .

“They would have liked to see, landing the very first day in Africa right behind the An ericans, Gen. de Gaulle leading a contingent of his soldiers, without pronouncing a single world of politics, asking only a place of honor in combat. “In their opinion his persona! prestige would have grown enormously and the heroic and selfless character of his magnificent movemint would this have been established in striking fas) jion in the eyes of the entire world. If, concludes M. de Kerillis, Gen. de Gaulle and Gen. Giraud cannot agree now, they can't unite on the battlefield. Most high officials here are in complete agreement with this view. For that reason urgent steps sre now being taken to bring some semblance of order out of the chaos now hampering w:r operations in the vital, not to say decisive, North Af ican area.

The Book Counter

By Stephen Ellis.

MacMILLAV'S. SPRINC: ane nouncement includes the listing of a by cur little Indi:inapo= lis fo correspondent, Miss Betty Wason. ' he 31-year-old local girl broke intc the news ir 1938, when she started broadcasting from Stockholm, and ther later from Athens.’ Her book has been tent: tively titled “Miracle in Hellas; The Betty Wason Groeps Fight On.” MacMillan’s date for publication is March and ‘he price will be $3, MacMillan also lists the publication later this month of “We Cannot Escape History,” by Joan T, Whitaker, whose penetrating articles from It:ly in | this newspaper won him so many local friends.

This Week's Best Sellers BRENTANO’S listing of this las! week's best ; ‘ollets run this way: . FICTION THE ROBE, Lloyd Douglas. ‘THE VALLEY OF DECISION, Marcia Dave: path, MRS. PARKINGTON, Louis Br mfield. REPRISAL, Ethel Vance. SONG OF BERNDADETTE, Fra az Werfel. NON-FICTION 3 : REPORT FROM TOKYO, J. C. Grew. BEVERIDGE REPORT. Beveridue.QUEEN OF THE FLAT TOPS, Stasiloy: ‘Johiison, OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY, Cor= nelia Skinner. °

We the Wornen

By Ruth Millett

THE ARMY TOOK her |juse band and her ccllege-age son and it was up to he: to manage the large farm. The tenant who. hadn’t minded having & ma: as overseer didn't ike the ide: of working for a ‘voman and just quit trying. ie Forunately tiie woman was’ : able to get other help, and she Li; going right. on ruising hogs. But ‘she might have had to let hat farm stand letos because it hut a man’s 6 to find himself working for a wom n, hd That woman's experience isn’t just an case. All over the country men are Jue of and leaving their farms and small bu wives to run. Whether or not the wives make a go of to a large extent on the f women who used to work for the hus a Uncle Sam Might Be Loser.