Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1943 — Page 15

‘Rep. Johnson Says Action

4 “Would: Release Rail | Ee © Cars for War. ..

4 WASHINGTON, oh OP, — . Rep. Calvin "D. Johnson (R. I.) Said yesterday that War Production Chief Donald. is considering the feasibili ea 1000: new

coal cars by eliminating for the] duration the St. Lotils and Chicago)

@nti-smoke ordinances.

The WPB recently authorized | construction of 1000 new coal cars| by the Pennsylvania railroad to} carry coal into the two Midwest

metropolitan areas. - Rep. Johnson said that 9,600,000 tons a year of “smokeless” coal is being shipped annually from West Virginia fields into Chicago, and 650,000 tons to St. Louis.

“All this could be avoided. if the

two ‘cities relaxed their smoke or-

* dinances and: used soft coal from|’

the nearby Illinois fields,” he told reporters. He said Nelson had prom-| - ised to give the plan careful consideration. ‘ “If this were done, we could save enough steel to build 10 new synthetic ‘rubber plants,” he added, “and the price of this would be only the necessity for the women of St, Louis and Chicago to wash “their curtains a little’ more often.”

TWO LOCAL WOMEN "ENLIST IN WAVES

Two. local women are among. the eight . from Indiana who have enlisted in the WAVES during the] past week, according to Ensign Mary Richmond, procurement officer for the Indianapolis area. They are Ethel Marie: Smith, 639 W. 30th st., and Helen Miller, 1603 Central ave. .

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Gent of the C1 O., discuss the matter further.

URGE RE-ENACTMENT

OF 1933 TRUCK LAW

A bill to re-enact the old 1933 {ruck weight tax law was introduced in the house of representatives yesterday, one of the measures {sought by the highway’ department

to bolster revenue during the war emergency. The measure would place a tax of $1 for each 100. pounds of gross weight on. trucks.used on the state's

highways and ‘would partially re-

place the tire-weight tax law which was repealed in 1941. - Chairman Samuel C. Hadden of the state highway commission esti-

mated that enactment of the bill

would bring: between $750,000 and $1,000,000 into the highway fund, annually.

BRITISH BOMB BURMA BASES NEW. DELHI, Feb. 4 OP). — Royal air. force Blenheims raided Rathedaung, approximately 25 miles north of Akyab’ in western Burma, twice ‘yesterdsy and ‘Wellington bombers aided. Akyab last night, a British headquarters communique

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| Health Official Warns That

Campaign Must Be: Continued. . The fight against social diseases in Indiana has brought good results

in the past year, officials of the state. board of health said today in

‘More syphilis et re toantenty the an-

“| nouncement said, but warned that | we still .need ‘to redouble our pres:

a lesions, and 678 were n a contagious stage,” Dr. George W. Bowman, chief of the bureau of

‘| venereal disease control of the state

health board said. “Of this total, 392 cases presented evidence of having been born with syphilis, Gonorrhea is not as well reported as syphilis, but 3219 cases of that disease were reported in 1942, This means more syphilis is being discovered and put under treatment but we still need to redouble our present efforts.

New Low in Army

“Generally, social diseases have hit a new wartime low in the army and navy in the past year. Health, law enforcement and welfare agenPcies, schools, churches, and newspapers have been co-operating in placing information before the public,” ‘Dr. Bowman said. “But with the prospect of millions of men in the army in 1943, millions more of men and women on the production lines, and an increasing number of young people having to be left without- adequate parental supervision, we are likely to have a great in‘crease in delinquency and incidence of these diseases unless protective measures are taken.” To reduce the spread and damage of venereal diseases, Dr. Bowman suggested the following methods of attack: Widespread popular education to help soldiers, sailors and industrial workers and the population in general to understand and avoid the ‘hazards of social diseases; rigid enforcement of existing protective laws; passage of protective legislation especially in areas of concentration of armed forces and war-in-dustry workers; establishment and

| early use of facilities for overcom-

ing infection and other measures to prevent exposure; provision of early diagnosis, adequate treatment and facilities for isolation and care wherever existing institutions are now inadequate to cope with the situation.

5 MORE FIRMS JOIN 10 PER CENT ROLLS

Five more. Indianapolis firms joined the Marion county 10 per cent war bond honor roll today, swelling the county’s 10 per cent employee total to 51440 men and women workers in 380 stores, offices and factories. Thirty-five employees of the Canada Dry Bottling Co. Inc. allocated 15 per cent of the plant’s over-all payroll for war bonds, and 21 employees of the Scherer Electric Co. are buying bonds at the rate of 11.5 per cent of the payroll. Others added tb the honor roll are the Police and Firemen’s Insurance association, with 15 employees; American Airlines, Inc., 15 employees, and Pedigo’s Drive-In Market, 15 employees.

EDUCATOR ADMITS ASSAULT ,ON GIRL

TOLEDO, O., Feb. 4 «U. P.). — Walter Kilpatrick, 29-year-old president in absentia of Cedarville, O., college, pleaded guilty today on charges of felonious assault upon a T-year-old girl three weeks ago.’ He was given an indeterminate

following his plea. A second charge of assault with attempt to rape was dropped. - Kilpatrick was indicted on the charges Tuesday. He had been free for three weeks following his arrest under $2500 bond. His attorney, Lehr Fess, contended Kilpatrick suffered a nervous disease and needed sanitarium treatment, The state said his offense was degrading and he was a dangerous man.

.DEMOLAY MOTHERS MEET The ‘regular meeting of the Indianapolis chapter Order of DeMolay Mathers club, ‘be held at 2 p. m. tomorrow. The style show has been canceled. Mrs. Leona

'| Yarling will preside. 3

sentence to Ohio state penitentiary

ment. - In any knockdown

is beaten from the start. A C. I O. leader had good sense when he remarked the other day: “I would rather bargain with any e.et private employer than with any bureaucrat... The bureaucrat has jails.” I fear no direct effort by labor

to destroy business in favor of government. What 1 fear is that peuple in general—including millions who are wage workers and millions who are not—may forget just what it is that makes business go. For this I very considerably blame us businessmen. We are too mealymouthed about the basic principle of our economic system, We fear that the ord capitalism is un‘popular. we take refuge in a nebulous bt and talk about the “free enterprise system.” We even run fo cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the “American way of life.”

You Need Capital

Such language disastrously obscures fhe main issue. You cannot take a whiff of “free enterprise” or a stretch of a “way of life” and start a factory with it. To start a factory, you have to have savings. You have to have money. You have to have capital. It takes thousands of dollars of

factory with the machinery for one job for one wage worker. Freedom ‘and Americanism are the atmosphere. But capital is the seed in the soil. Unless we produce that seed, and unless we plant it, there will be no new crops of private jobs for the American people when this war is over, : . - Right there is the’ basic point, I think, in all planning for postwar prosperity. And right there is the reason why I say that the word upon which to fix the national mind. is simply, outrightly and frankly, capitalism. ,

‘Old-Fashioned?’

Do I sound old-fashioned? Do I sound reactionary? I summon to my aid one of the wisest friends of labor and of business that this country has ever had: the late Mr. Justice: Brandeis. Addressing a trade-union audience in Boston, Justice Brandeis once said: : “It is absolutely essential that a business be. profitable. I do not mean merely that the business should not be run at a loss. I mean that the business should be run under such conditions that the owner is willing to risk his capital in the business.” Experienced labor leaders generally quite agree with Mr. Brandeis. William Green, president of the American federation of labor, recently said: “If this country ever gets a system of governmental regimentation, labor will suffer most. Labor, therefore, is deeply interested in the preservation of - private business; and labor should everlastingly maintain that the owners and managers of business are entitled to a fair and just return upon their investments.”

Business and Labor

Business can get nowhere by starving labor. When it starves labor, it is starving the purchasers of its own products. But labor, similarly, cannot get anywhere by starving capital. < When it makes demands which starve capital of all profits and ‘savings, it is preventing the creation of new capital and thus preventing the creation of new and petter jobs. It is starving its own future. People will never understand this pont unless we say capitalism. The same remark can be made on the point of taxes.

capitalism, a great many people have thought that you can tax business just as you like and still have “free enterprise” and “the American way of life.” You cannot. Because: Just suppose that you taxed all new savings and all new profits and all new capital out of private hands into the public treasury. What would you have left to be the creator of new jobs? Only the government. Only the totalitarian state. Everybody now is willing to be taxed right down to his last crust

FUNNY BUSINESS

President, Chamber of Commerce of the United States. ie 1 am for capitalism; and almost all labor ders 1 kriow are really just as much for it as I am. ‘They know that either private business or government bureaucracy must save this country when the ‘war is over; and they prefer private business. They have a sound reason. a government. You cannot even truly bargain with a govern-

You cannot strike against

contest between a govern- E ment and a union, the union|

capital to equip a really modern|

- Just because we have not said |

of bread rather than let the axis|]

win. But what about the day after victory? : For post-war prosperity we need not only freedom but freedom plus capital. Our taxes after the war must permit both employers and employees to to stand on their own

el and labor should be able to unite toward that end with good will. .

Labor should drop all “makework” devices. It should drop all devices for getting paid for work not necessary or for work not done. It should drop all merely negative resistance to improvements of ma-

universally adopt the positive policy which some outstanding unions have already adopted. That is, it should help management to improve processes and to reduce costs. More than 1500 labor-manage-ment committees are doing this now in the course of the “war production drive.” They should keep -on doing it after the war to make the peace also a victory. They should master one other remark by Justice Brandeis: “The one final way in which we

chines and of methods. It should]

The president recently abolished

the WPA. . Why did he ever estab- |

lish it? Because business was not| giving full. employment. If business again fails to give full emanother

ployment, there will be

WPA. This will be so under any}.

president.

No American president will ever|

‘again permit American citizens to} pn ‘be unemployed. They will be employed by business or they will bef

employed by the government. I say that business can employ all

American citizens except = those|

n for absolutely necessary governmental furictions. There are two unpopular words. One ‘is capitalism, which is hated in certain quarters. I am nevertheless for it. The’ oiher is planning, which is hated in certain other quarters. I am nevertheless for it. I say that business, if it wants to escape from being taxed for another and larger WPA, must plan; and on a scale of which it has never before even dreamed. It has always planned for-its own individual enterprises. It must now plan for nation-wide projects by whole industries. Need Co-operation

It must look, for instance, at the horrible houses and at the vast wretched, unwholesome, substandard residential areas in which mililons of Americans. still live; and it must say: “To change all this squalor and ugliness into decency and sightliness is a job meaning billions of dollars of business.’ It cannot be

Free private business is like motoreycle. It must move. It stops, for lack of gasoline, it toppl And then, I repeat, there vs only totalitarian governmentalism. ; What is the price of freedom! I say it is the capital with which to operate capitalism. The word is capitalism.

YOCKEY TO ADDRESS

RAID WARDENS HERE:

Harry E. Yockey, Indianapolis ci- 3 vilian defense director, will speak on “Work and Win” at a meeting of

8 p. m, today at ‘Merrill and Alabama sts. - Inspector Jack Small of the police department also will speak on “Po=¢ lice and Wardens.” John J. Riley is’

district warden.

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