Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 January 1943 — Page 18

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HE NO-STRIKE COMMAND RESIDENT ROOSEVELT should be praised for his speed in acting on the anthracite strike—within 24 hours fter the problem was placed on his desk-—-and for his decisiveness “as commander-in-chief of the armed forces” in ordering the strikers back to work. The president will be upheld by the public in taking e necessary steps to protect the security of the nation gainst a strike which is doing serious injury to the war effort.” The government with all its responsibilities should not be forced to take over the mines, nor the army diverted from its immediate war task to police the strike area. But if that is the last resort, it will be done. The trouble started over resentment of the anthracite miners against a 50 cents a month increase in union dues. Later some of the leaders thought it a good idea to toss in another demand, for an extra $2 a day wage. But that, too, was an outlaw demand—present wages are fixed, on the basis of what the union itself demanded, in a contract running until April. John L. Lewis has lost stature in this controversy. So often has he boasted that the miners’ union is a disciplined organization that lives up to its contracts. ~The 50 cents a month increase in dues was not large. couldn't have been merely the money that provoked thousands of miners to lay down their picks and sacrifice weeks of wages just to protest the dues hike. Many of them resent Mr. Lewis’ high-handed methods, ‘and his use of union funds for political purposes. : It: does not enhance Mr. Lewis’ prestige as .a labor leader to let a situation develop where order can be restored in his union only by recourse to President Roosevelt, whom ne dislikes perhaps more than any other man.

{ . " " PAVING BLOCK IDEALISM 3 F the president had foreseen the public reaction to his * nomination of Ed Flynn as minister to Australia, probably he would have paid his party debt to the Bronx hack ‘with less cost to his own and his. government's reputation. For the protest against confirmation, pouring in upon senators, are of a kind to worry the most hardened politician. Perhaps it ‘is unusual for the average citizen to get ‘excited about such ‘a post, halfway around the world, even if filled by an unfit henchman. Whatever happens to Flynn is no coupon off John Jones’ ration book. But there has been go much administration talk about international idealism and the four freedooms that the “paving block, as a symbol of that brave new world, simply _nauseates Americans. \ And that is to the good—however unexpected and emarrassing to the administration. It is good because that ery idealism of the American people is the world’s best ope of a just and lasting peace. If this idealism ever turns to cynicism that can stomach a deal of the Flynn variety,

“it will be a sad day for all of us—and particularly for Mr..

Roosevelt.

= s » - ® 2 IW 'T is for the senate to decide whether America’s ‘high ‘professions of world leadership are to be dragged down

‘to the level of ward heeler patronage. It is for the senate] 7 save the president from one of the worst blunders of |

career—so little a thing, but so big in implication. The constitution makes the senate, through confirmaon power, jointly responsible with the president for our diplomatic officers. The senate is controlled by Democrats. If the Democratic majority in the senate will put patriotic uty above misdirected party regularity, America and Australia’ can be spared the indignity of a Flynn appointment.

SAM LEARNS OF THE ELECTION RPEAKER SAM RAYBURN was surprised when house a ‘Democrats in caucus refused his request to-place Rep. : ntonio on the judiciary committee. The American Labor party congressman and commu-

nist party line followers from New York thought the Demo-

ats owed him something because he had voted for Sam for ker, The Democrats thought otherwise. They hadn't ded his vote; he could have voted for himself—just as voted alone against defense until his party line flip-flop

Last November's election was in the minds of Demoats who decided they didn’t want Marcantonio in bed with them. Many of their former Democratic colleagues haa ost seats to Republicans for less.

ke. \

For so many years congressional leadership consisted

carrying orders from downtown Washington to Capitol | to be rubber stamped by an overwhelming Democratic

The last election changed that. If the speaker forgets yet find himself only the titular leader of a | : © |scious rivalry

, he may iy

SLAY WON'T HELP SAR EMOCRATIC and Republican leaders in congress’ aré reported planning to delay any action on new revenue ures until April. They are said to want to wait and e the reaction of some 50,000,000 income-tax payers

he higher levies which will be collected for the first

* Yet most taxpayers realize, and all leaders of congress not only that the présent tax increases are. neces-

Sam: must: pinch himself now to see whether he is.

sumption. En Guardia clicked, so this pattérn

By Westbrook Pegler

faction of the New Deal party Guardia, Sidney Hillman, David and most of their subordinate bosses in colonized and politically regimented trades which they govern, and Charles Poletti, the lieutenant governor who was allowed to spend a few weeks in the

No Need to Be Naive : THE POLITICAL PROGRAM of both factions of

firebug and thug of the Sidney Hillman group for whom Hillman interceded, although the man, identifiled with the Communist element, had served only eight months of a two-to-four-year ‘sentence. Fo this service to the Socialist-Communist wing of the New Deal in New York Poletti has been given a strictly political job in the war department which is supposed to be non-political and certainly neither Socialistic nor Communistic but straight American. It is plain that Poletti had no qualifications other than political for this job, whatever it is, because even

after he had taken over in Washington he still did |

not know what the job nor his duties were to be. There is no need to be naive about it. He was just another repudiated New Deal radical out of a job.

Political 'Big Brother’

MAYOR LA GUARDIA, who has been unusually erratic lately and engaged in a ludicrous campaign against penny-ante gambling, is an old associate of Hillman and is the political big brother of Marcan-. tonio. : He has often pretended to be anti-Communistic but his differences with Communists have been headon, personal clashes K with individual Communist leaders or bosses who challenged his own power. He lacks the sense of discipline to operate as a party member but he revealed his attitude on communism when he indorsed Marcantonio for congress notwithstanding ° Marcantonio’s party-line voting record. : Regular Democrats in all areas may soon realize that in their strict adherence to the New Deal party, they have been associating with and helping an alien organization.

Dabbles in Faction's Affairs

MRS. ROOSEVELT, who is occasionally seen in company with notorious fellow-travelers of the Communist party and who graciously publicized in her column an anti-Capitalistic and pro-Communistic documentary film some time ago, also has dabbled in the affairs of the New Deal faction to which Marcantonio belongs and which Mr. Sumners described as Socialistic-Communistic. Her sympathies have seemed to be with the Socialists but her repudiation of the Communists was based not on their program, but on the fact that they were under control of a foreign government—meaning Soviet Russia. ;

In Washington By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—U. 8S. “propaganda” for overseas consumption has now branched into so many different forms you'd hardly recognize it. Of course it isn’t supposed to be propaganda, the way the United States puts it out. Propaganda is only the nasty stuff put out by the Nazis, Fascists and Japs. What the U, 8. puts out is purely educational material designed to tell other people the truth on what the American war effort is all about. Not much has been heard about this American counter-propaganda show. The short wave radio broadcasts beamed in many languages and to many lands have been publicized. But radio is oniy one phase. Movies are used, and the printed word. Some: of these printing jobs would knock your eye out, and they're published in two, three and four colors and in languages such as ‘Arabic, Chinese and Afrikaans, as well as the familiar Spanish, Portuguese, German and English. ‘Most pretentious of the publication jobs is the new magazine Victory. It's a big picture-magazine job of the Life, Collier's, Look and Satevepost size. Vol. 1 No. 1 was put out as a trial a few months ago. Issue No. 2 is‘ nowon the press, and No. 3, edited and pub-

. lished by Crowell-Collier’s under direction of the office

of war information overseas branch, will be out in February or March.

Competing With Nazi Magazine

THIS ISSUE No. 3 will contain paid advertising, solicited from American business houses in foreign

trade. The magazine will be placed on the newsstands |

in foreign countries and it will be for sale.

The idea here is to make it compete with a Ger-

man propaganda magazine called Signal, which has

been. distributed all over the world for the past three:

yearspand by perhaps 25 million copies to make the Gernian cause look good in the eyes of neutrals, nonbelligerents and conquered countries. es The first effort tc knock Signal off the foreign

published a magazine called En Guardia, or On Guard, in Spanish and Portuguese for South American con= : was adopted for other countries, and a certain unconhas perhaps developed between the

The Hoosier Forum

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

“LET'S LET HER CHEW TOBACCO”

By O. H., Bargersville I have just read in The Forum about a girl at Allison’s chewing tobacco.

Well, T neither chew, smoke nor swear but if she chews it's her. Don’t hurt anybody else. But I have an idea she can take a mule and tend a tobacco patch 0. k. and working in tobacco sometimes causes a desire to chew. It hurts nobody. ! But if she smokes cigarets or curses it really hurts others to hear the language or smell the smoke. Either one is worse than chewing. So as long as she isn’t hurting anybody, let’s leave her alone. Uncle Sam needs her to grind right on. No time to sling mud.

EJ 8 2 . “ENEMIES MAY BE PEACEFUL BUT STILL ENEMIES” By W. I. Weiland, 1621 Lexington ave.

I do not doubt: that the coming peace terms will be based on the attempt to prevent the present enemies of the united nations from arming for war but I do not believe that such efforts can : bring lasting peace. I am convinced that this peace will be an illusionary one and I doubt that it wiil last much more than 20 years. For one thing one of the nations permitted to be armed so the peace can be enforced may be the one that will start the next war. If its neighbors are not permitted to be armed, then it could easily make fast progress. If it is a nation which already covers vast stretches of territory, then it may spread itself even further. Perhaps it is best that way, I do nof know. Hy I believe the true way to bring lasting peace would be for all nations to deal fairly with each other. I know this is expecting too much because those nations which hold advantages cannot be convinced that they should let go of some of those advantages without being forced .to do so. a So I cannot see how there can ne

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lasting peace except when the world is much different than we know it. Peace is a static condition and cannot be lasting until the world is ready to remain stationary in development.” This cannot be until the world is perfect or nearly so. For the victors to force their enemies to be peaceful certainly does not change them from being enemies. 8 os “WHY PLACE JAPS IN VITAL AREA?” By Mrs. R. W. Clift, Mooresville '

In the January 15 issue of The Times, in type large enough not to be overlooked, was this heading, “Skilled Japs May Take War Jobs in State.” \

: Amazing, isn’t it? How many of the unjust John Q. Publics have objected to working with the colored folks who, by the way, are shedding and giving blood to save the same ungrateful people that can't understand that they are as true blue and red-blooded Americans as anyone can be . . . I'll wager that third and fourth generation Americans in Japan are being tortured. if we. only knew it. And then talk about allowing them to accept skilled jobs in our war plants when there are unemployed enough right here in Indianapolis begging for work. °° Take a sashay around the city in search of work and see for yourselves. There are men and women that have applications for months and they are healthy and unencumbered and want to do their bit, so why should we want or allow these undesirables to get set where the bullets are the thickest? It seems to me that we are for-

getting Pearl Harbor, If they can't

|Side- Glances—By Galbraith. E

1look at this dog.

| “CITY REFUSES

be trusted on the coast, then why in heaven's name place them in as

‘|vital an area as Indiana? No good

Japs, only those in Davey Jones’ locker, . This article has a suspicious odor of a feeler to see what our reaction will be, for it ends up with the fdl-

|lowing:

“Chief obstacles to large scale employment would be the extensive investigation required and anticipated aversion of war plant employees to working with Japanese.” They. don’t know these loyal Hoosiers very well, it seems. All of us must waste no time in nipping this move’ in the bud for it could have been hatched up by our enemy agents. I will welcome any constructive criticisms on this, but nothing in the appeasement line, please. I choke when I hear that bunk. » ” ” “WE SAVE MEAT FOR SOME PEOPLE'S DOGS” By A. Himmelhaver, 1517 Linden st. §

I'm not much of a writer. I only hope to start something. It may be some writer may make some people feel low ‘enough to spare a little butter and meat for our families which I find getting rather hard to obtain. Of course this is war. Cheese is a good dish to take in place of meat and margarine a good cne for butter. That's what we the people of a little brotherly love will resort to. We. will save the meat and butter for some people's dogs. I'm rather hot around the collar so I'll get to the point. I was in a meat store one Saturday night. I

overheard a very intelligent looking |

man bargaining with the butcher. This man finally settled. for $1.07 leg of lamb. He looked up at the man and said, “That will last my dog three meals.” I asked him, “Why not try- horse meat?” He said he don't like it. Now isn’t that a shame? I often scold my children for not liking this and that. As a rule they generally learn to like whatever they have been taught is good. Well, this about passed my mind. And on Sunday night ‘a lady carrying a black dog stopped to talk with my mother, Mother called to me to

The lady spoke to. me and said,

give it all to your dog.

By Ruth Millett

Polit

Stokes

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‘Now he ‘is a lost soul, of crying in vain to that great horde who inhabit thousands of offices in W: perform the complicated functions of that he cannot comprehend. 3 Those people, nameless to him, are uifamil ar with the simple language of politics which he uses. What irks him most is that he has so littie to do

Senators Also Complaining

THIS FEELING incidentally is begining io show itself in Washington among senators, tl emselves once

managers in selection of their help. Government is getting away from tiem. This feeling of frustration broke lcose in speech after speech at a secret closed session of the Democratic national committee. On the lollowitg day individual members poured out their grievances, one at a time, in conferences with the new national chairman, Postmaster General Walker, The outbursts in the secret session got n¢where, for seemingly there is nowhere to get, It wis just talk. Resolutions were offered ; some (icheme whereby national committeemen would be consul more on patronage, but none was passe:l, ;

Missed Their Gravy Train REPUBLICANS, TOO, ai their St. louls meeting a few weeks back, cried out against bureaucracy. But their complaints were more politicil. Thee was a highly personal note in the Democratic comy laints, for their party is in power in Washington. A This shoyld be their gravy train. Mr. Walker has a delicate task. He recognises it. He is shrewd. He has the political in:tinct, aad he has even temper. : He let the steam blow off at the meeting. . When someone commented on the wiy the sission - had turned from a solemn, sedate grnthering to a free-for-all of the sort for which I'emocrats are famous. he said with a grin: “It's a good thing for them to blov off. Then I can find out what's worrying them.”

A Forest World

By Stephen Ellis

THE AUTHOR of “Bambi” has pclished of “A Forest World” with a literary feat sildom accome plished. Felix Salten creates in his for:st and hare vard characters the ability to talk with & natursIneséh that removes any hint of the fantastic. The «ffect is achieved because the conversation moves the story forward. : : True, Mr. Salten’s latest book is a fantasy. But

they'll thrill to the antics of the forust dwell }rs— and possibly find in the barnyard “pet: a counter. part of some they know on “grandpa’s” farm. For the adult mind there's a moral for living, even though the publisher's review on the jacket is ine clined to dispel any thought of “a message” for the reader. : Perri, the squirrel, tells us to benifit from the reverses life holds. Of the danger-infested fcrest, with its killers preying on the weak, he: said: ‘The way things are—with danger, with the need for courage, with the sweet relief of escepe, with the well-earned success of staying alive—'hat’s wliy I love the forest!”

Formula for Better Living a THEN THERE'S the “message” coniained in the wanderlust of the forest-bred mother roe-and her {wo fawns who ventured into the domesticated birn= yard only to find that life poring; and the barn ard donkey who soon returned to his home ¢ fter a “fing” in the foresf. - . “A Forest World” doesn’t “preach.” It's packed with a wholesome formula for.better living, if you're willing to see it. But it's a formula you won't re: lize is there until you've closed the covers .. . for it’s too exgiung and humane to permit you ta weigh the tences as you go. ; a They're so human, these animals ¢f the forest and the barnyard, that you'll find yourself sympa-

thizing with their problems and even winting to aid segregat

their ambitions. Too, you'll + them and criticize certain ones for petty jealousie: and self ish-

their weaknesses to those of your everycay acquantances. ; chip jn The best that can be said about “A Iorest World” is that it’s human, so human you can 'eel its pulse beat. Cae If you're too busy for it. be sure the you:ger members of the family have an opportu ity to tlirill to the Salten genius. : hia A FOREST WORLD. By Feliz Salten. Tra | by | SET BES ’ 2 No

ness. And youll probably catch yourself likeiingd

don’t think it's strictly for children, even though

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