Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 February 1943 — Page 10
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, ; 1943
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BLIND LABOR LEADERSHIP
THREE members of congress, interviewed today by E. A. Evans of our Washington staff, state some views on labor which we think important. The story is on page one. t's a warning that the administration's blockade against corrective labor legislation may be about to break and let through a flood of possibly destructive legislation, - Leaders of the big unions seem to sense the same danger. They are forming a bigger labor lobby representing the C. I. O., the A. F. of L. and the railroad brotherhoods, and also taking in the farmers’ union, but omitting loneolf John Li. Lewis. We believe their plan is foolishly wrong.
The public will not be pleased to see the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L. join forces, the better to browbeat congress, en they never have been able to make an effective agreement to spare the public the damage done by their jurisictional warfare. And blind resistance to corrective legislation will only increase the likelihood of restrictive legislaion sooner or later—perhaps very soon, as things look now.
The people, in our opinion, will never let “tories” and ‘abor-baiters” deprive~the workers of their gains if only he immense power given orgagized labo? under the New: Jeal is used properly and not abused. There are glaring buses of it now, hurting the country and the rights of individual worke rs, and those who control the big organizations ¢ either unwilling or unable to stop them, yet they prepare to fight any attempt by. congress to do that job.
ANDREWS TAKES OVER
ANY informed persons rate Lieut. Gen. Andrews our ablést airman, so his appointment to command all American forces i in the European theater is no surprise. It is a tribute ® the man, and to the still mounting importance of airpower, that a flier is chosen for the London job which Eisenhower held until he was made allied commander in North Africa. The immediate task of the London command is bombing Europe. But Andrews will be in charge also of co-ordi-nating other forces with the air service as a combat team. The bombing, however effective, is only the softening-up for sea-land-air invasion, 8 recent experience in the Middle East comprecision teamwork of ‘ship-tank-plane forces mel 1500 miles from Egypt to Tunisia, has him for the new job. Se did his Panama com-
mand, Which involved naval as well as land and air forces.
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; AS fo thi immediate job, there has been some disappoint- ~ ment, over failure of around-the-clock bombing of Ger-. many to materialize. British all-out raids on German centers have been infrequent, and American raids are just beinning. | : Conditions are growing more favorable, but Andrews “should not be expected to work miracles. He cannot make the weather, which has grounded American planes 80 many days this winter. . | _ Hitherto the biggest probiem has been to get planes. Other fronts anés originally intended for all-out bombing of Germany. production may now have reached the point where ‘Andrews can get what he needs without shorting others. - Part of his aim is not only destruction of German subine bases, shipyards, railroads, oil plants and war faeories, but the attrition of Nazi airpower. Thé more planes ean put over Germany, the more planes Germany must om Russia and Africa for home defense-—and quicker Andtéws can prepare for a land front in He
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SERVANTS ARE HOSTS : ; | J this newspaper today appears the story of an unusial ‘event: On Wednesday night, the organized employees this statels institutions, in conjuction with two wellwn civie organizations, are to play host to the members e legislature and to state officials at a dinner, Not: only i is the occasion unique because of the sponsorip, but because of the hosts’ announcement that there is to grind. And the list of speakers wotld séem to bear ut. On the program are the superintendénts—these §’ bosses—of two of the institutions, plus the member one board of trustées. The toastmaster is a distinguished Unique; t Ng OT nguency all the m their own
a 0, is the: announcement from the two wo anizations—the Indiana Council on Crime and and the Indiana Mental Hygiene association— embers of their societies an and their guests will ~way at he dinner “in tribute to these
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Jost one of its finest educators i in the death ) s 8M. ay of oie mlvensiiy, Thor-
particularly Russia and Africa, have taken |
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WASHINGTON, Feb. a —n be
~ gins to look as though the manpower proble mof thé baseball in-
dustry will be solved for the}
“duration by the abolition of that
_ which, in Tank injustice to the | % called |
pastime. : fia bartenders, gamblers and ~ fortuns ' and non-essential, ther. the dashing athletes ‘must recognize that isis numbers are up 00 T3Mie 1s a setiows; If net a grim matter, 2 Baseball has heen growing on us; It means more
‘to us than we know, and if it is washed out now that
will be the first interruption in the history of the professional game. i This might have happened in the first world war but the vietory in France saved baseball at home in 1019 after the abbreviated season of 1918.
Landis Guessed Trend
IT WAS a sturdy industry and a pleasant enter
tainment for the patrons before the other war, but when such millionaires as Ruppert and Huston and Wrigley bought in and the papers gave it more and more ‘importance and space, it really’ took us over, Men formed parties -and came all the way from California and Texas to New York for the world series and the training parties in the South were calendar events, the forerunner of spring. The baseball reporter had the easiest and happiest job on the newspaper staff and, incidentally, gave us some of the best newspaper writing of the last 20 years. But two years ago, Judge K. M. Landis, In a farseeing moment, guessed that if this war should turn up our street, baseball would have to yield because; as he thought, the people would not be generous to any American male, young and strong and agile enough to play major ball, who didn’t find something else to do.
American Interests Changing
THE ARGUMENT that baseball is essential to good morale among civilians seems rather wan, for any civilian population that can’t stand up under a war as far away as Africa and the Solomons won't be cured by a few afternoons at a ball yard, or the box scores in the five-star final, Moreover, with most of the best players gone already, some of them as long as two years; the type of ball that might bé expected from the old crocks, cardiacs and cripples might be more de-
"pressing than none at all.
American interests seem to be changing and I just wonder whether professional sport as we knew it in the last 20 years will éver come back. I would include intercollegiate football because it was a business, even though the athletes who did draw pdy
got little of that or only board, room, -books and tuition.
Prizefighting Puny Combat
THE OLDER GENERATION may live in the past, mumbling of Ruth and Gehrig, Grange and Friedman, but the young men who have stepped ott of planes into space to fight Japs and Germans or slug it out’ with big guns at sea may find it beyond them to come up yelling because someone has caught a fly or a pass or a left on the chin. Prizefighting would be puny combat to men who have learned 26 ways to kill with their bare hands and without sound, and if I were still writing sport I think I would fry to anticipate a change in that i new world of the future that we hear so much abou It may be said for baseball, in appreciation of its importance in the U, 8. A, that it is hard to imagine any other happening, short of a bombing at home, that would make a deeper impression on the people, than its suspension for the duration, For, if baseball goes, then things must be serious indeed with us who had comeé to regard it as some-
iting fixed, untouchable and privileged in American e.
In Washington
By Peter Edson
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—While : Governor Herbert Lehman has been organizing his office of foreign relief and rehabilitation, the Nelson Rockefeller’ office of inter-American affairs has been carrying out a practical experiment in post-war rehabilitation of its own down in. the El Oro province ‘of Ecuador.
This is the border country, you probably. won't recall, between Ecuador and Peru. The two countries have been fighting over it for 135 years without reaching any decision. All the geography maps have printed this area in two colors for years, blood has been spilled all over it, no one could live there in peace, and thousands of square miles have degenerated into a kind of international No Man’s Land: . Every effort by third parties to settle this cen-tury-and-a-quarter-old squabble failed—until the third meeting of Pan-American foreign ministers in Rio last Jahuary. Then Ecuador and Peru got together and agreed to end their war, Ecuador getting some 80,000 square kilometers of territory and’ Peru withdrawing its troops just a year ago.
Forced to’ Start From. Scratch ¥
THAT WAS ‘THE béginning. Ecuador wanted to colonize the area but had no money and lacked téchnical experts. So, last March a deal was made with the institute of inter-American affairs, a Rockefeller office subsidiary corporation, to lend ‘a hand. A.
Us. 8. mission of engineers, specialists in tropical medi-
cine; agricultural economists, nursing administrators, sanitary engineers, relief workers and assorted. experts | was recruited to go inte the ares. ‘Forty thousand colonists were to niove An, but were totally lacking in’ equipment and know-how.
Nearly 90 per cent of these people had tropical : .entery and malaria which gy.
anything could be accomplished. They had mio food to last tll they could get thelr own crops producing, no seed, few, tools. It was rietly from scratch. The list of supplies for the ts included everything from 200 machetes, to |e Hlenells. | to 80,000 boynds of fou -priseipaly ans :
Country Has Rich Resources
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lack recalls, Europe Blacy ro about for Tg ae r food and fighting every effort, good or bad,
to restore order.” © “This time” he continues, “the suffering people
must be fed, and the disorderly, irresponsible elements: ‘held in check, This time the united nations will not. fight a great war wasting millions of lives and then let ‘the very objects for which it was fought melt’ away like a snowball in the heat of post-war strife
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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.—Voltaire.
“DOG CAUGHT BY USE OF HOOKS” By Virginia Hunter, 418 E. 30th st. On Feb. 1, I witnessed the catching of a dog by the city dog pound. This dog was pulled to the wagon by fhe use of hooks, which tore the animals throat in two places.
Is there any need for this treatment? Honestly, I personally don’t think they should be. allowed to treat these animals so cruelly. The dog could have been caught by another method less cruel,
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3 » » ® # “THIS KIND OF BILL IS SO PETTY” By Mrs. Ernest Dale Ritchie, Greenfield I'm just an ordinary citizen in a small town and perhaps my" ideas aren't so hot but just once I'd like to know if others agree with me. A recent front page article in The Times stated that Senator Charles Fleming of Hammond introduced an anti-dish “bill. Senator Fleming doesn’t. think shows should give dishés away to women. In fact he thinks women spend entirely too much time at the movies. I wollld like to know if this 1s what Senator Fleming gets paid for. If it is, the taxpayers certainly waste good money. This kind of bill is so petty, especially now when our counrty is at war. The American women are supporting this country as never before —in defense work and hundreds of other ways. If after these women are through work and wish to see movies, I think it’s all right. If
| giving them a free dish makes them
happy, why so much the better. If Senator Fleming thinks of any more bills like the anti-dish one he should definitely not take up the senate’s time with it now or in my opinion, . never, : ; 8 8 8 “WHAT ABOUT WOMEN LEFT BEHIND WITH CHILDREN?” By Mrs, Jean Hartley, 830 N. Illinais st. In response to the headlines of Tuesday, Feb. 24, papers: : I am the mother of & year and a half old baby. My husband, age 34, works if a vital defense factory and yet hé is leaving for the army. Now your headlines stated that starting April 1, fathers would be drafted. I have been well informed of several married men with children who have been in the army Tor months. Every day I hear mothers crying aloud that their sons just 19 have to leave for the army. But what about the women thaf are left behind with children? Why dons the draft boards look
‘men and those without children,
starve?
(Times readérs ars invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed.)
around and get the tellows that drink-their paychecks up and their working wives have to foot all the bills and they don’t have any children either?” : My husband, a very adept lathe and press operator, could certainly do the jobs these footloose men are doing. In taking my husband they take part.of my life as well as break up my home. 1 would be perfectly willing to see my husband go to fight for our country if the draft boards had already exhausted their files of single
I know this letter cannot give my Husband back to me but perhaps the members of the draft boards will read this and stop and think « « + Instead of breaking up more homes with children before it's necessary, » » “THINGS 1 WOULD LIKE TO KNOW” By Just-s Dumb Housewife, Indianapolis Things I would like to know:
e politicians and heads of government departments expect the people to co-operate when they use that “Don’t do as 1 do, but do as I tell you to do” attitude? : Why they tell yout what foods they are going to ration weeks in advance so fhe “haves” can buy it all up and the “have nots” can
Why bring Japs here to work when the U. S. employment office is full of people looking for work every day? Why men are offered jobs of 40 hours a week and they expect a woman to work 66 hours and then go home and do housework besides? I mention the last because I-am one of many housewives who would be glad to get a job if the hours were reasdhable and I wouldn't have to neglect my family too much, Why did they let that lady do 90 hours of schooling knowing they wouldn't accept her anyway? I Hope she found something to do. Do the politicians have unlimited ration cards for sugar and coffee that they can go on giving re-ceptions-and banguets as usual? How come there is supposed to be a ceiling on wages and yet all the politicians in Indiana séem to
Side Glances—By ¢ Ga aforaiih
be raising theirs or aren’t they supposed to be Americans? : What is this ceiling price talk anyway? The prices keep going up. A month ago the ceiling price on a jar of peanut butter was 26 cents and two weeks ago the ceiling price on the same jar was 32 cents. The ceiling seems to be “unlimited.” : : » » Bw “PREVENTABLE DELAYS ARE INEXCUSABLE” By T. McGuire, 1105 W. 28th st. 1 wonder why in your issue of Feb. 3, 1943\ you go to so much trouble to defend Mr. Jeffers at the same time attacking Mr. Patterson, assistant secretary of war. Is the big business union of America ‘endéavoring to garner a bloddy profit by delaying the production of synthetic rubbber? A long period of time has been used in doing nothing along this very essential line of endeavor, x am sure that if Mr. Jeffers were kicked out of the way instead of the army and navy representatives he desires to be rid of, that material results would speedily follow pleasing to those who teally want to. finish the war as victors. Preventable delays are inexcusable, dangerous and detrimental to our cause. Unity of purpose to win because our cause is just, not protecting dissenters to the real American way of doing things will eventually solve ‘the vexing problem. It might be well to add that perhaps taking the feather bed lining out of speedy pleasure’s tires might after all release some of the luxury-loving manpower in this United States for vital physical effort in some of the armed branches of the service. The transportation situation is not serious as yet, within the continental boundaries of the "United States. I have in my time walked five miles and did eight hours work per day. There was something about morning exercise that gave me a healthy, honest viewpoint in observing things of national importance. : 2 8 ~ “WHY LITTLE OLD WORLD IS GETTING SO DIZZY” By Ruth Bryant, 3722 W. Tenth st, After reading The Times tonight I wonder if we have any right fo call ourselves civilized or thinking human beings? Under one-half page are all the reasons why this little old ball of ours is getting so dizzy. First, there is the column asserting “Measure Asks $495,000 for Operations the Next Two Years” = Next column: “Increased Pay for
| State Police Urged. ”
Down -at the bottom of the page:
|“Bin Aske Extra $15,000 for Blue to! '| Hire Investigators.”
Over at the edge of this page, and
1}: | enjoying two columns: “New Group {| Praises Move to Support Local Sym- | phony.”
And tucked in between: “Old Ape
'l' | Fund Bill Opposed.” Z I know we need fi-| =
How idiotic! nances for the government. I know we- need the police. I don’t know about Mr. Blue's investigators. I
| |hope he does. I like good music, :{ too, but I have been taught from a child on to take care of the neces-
sary things first, . . . ‘Well; someone wrote a long time
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{ago thas “Man's inhimanity to min 4 A Sauses countless. thousands grief.” | neg hn were not to read
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“THE ‘NAZI despots are feeding their own people at the expense of occupied Europe, and using starvas: tion as a weapon of offense and oppression. “The untutored savagery of the Gothic ancestors, of the Germans took the form of slaying an oce casional enemy citizen with a sword or bludgeon,” Professor Black writes, “The modern and income
dreds of millions with the sufferings of slow starvastion. “The great blessings which the modern sclence of. nutrition has to offer to mankind, the demoniacal, scientists of Germany now turn upon: mankind as instruments of torture.” But the question arises how long Germany can feed her own people at the expense of the rest of. Europe. ’ “The 1942 crop was poor in much of Europe,” Professor Black states. “The winter was severe, tha spring was late, and the summer weather unfavorable, in many regions: ® “More food suffering is ahead than” behind it"
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BY CONTRASTS, he adds: “The food-producing. empires of the new world are preparing to meet the: challenge. The granaries and warehouses of some;
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vital foods were already well filled this time when:
the war began and others are now filling or produce tion is being planned that will fill them.” Food requirements of the U. 8. army and of lend lease will increase sharply in 1943. Military and lend= lease purchases are expected to be equal to 30 per. cent of current domestic production, as against 13, per cent in 1942 and four per cent in 1041, The agriculture department anticipates that the total supply of food, production plus stocks, will be, "of record size in 1943, but—and this is important t0the folks at home—the amount available to the. average civilian consumer will be less than in '43: or ‘41,
Professor Black thinks plans to build up tood re- :
serves must be made now. Rationing, he adds, Reeda, to be made general betore many months,
‘Yesterday’ By Stephen Ellis
FOR NINE YEARS Jinx Perris had been haunted by the fear that she had married the wrong man. Sha” loved her husband, Stephen, “the way you might love a glass of warm milk at bedtime.” But she had loved Mike—the dashing rebel and lover of her college days —“the way you love champagne and a wisecrack.” And now Mike was coming to town, to her own.
little town, to lecture as a world famous war co - a
respondent. And that’s where June Wetherell begins “But, That Was Yesterday.” It opens the evening of Mike's. lecture and ends the next afternoon but between the, opening and closing pages, Juné Wetherell takes you. back through Jinx Ferris’ college days. They form, the major portion of this new novel, It’s something like a sandwich with the opening on an evening at home with Stephen, the quiet; intel; lectual college proféssor, who suddenly seems dull; and prosaic when the wild emotions of those days} with Mike come surging baek, ‘a Together Mike and Jinx had defied convention’ when they challenged the pettiness and hypocrisy of : college life in the living of their college lives and : their writings in the school’s paper. Mike in that day had a courageous independence and a contem for ivory towers. The tempestousness of his be to which Jinx became 8 party, léd them into many; troubled waters. Jinx couldn't forget. And now she | was t0 see him again,
Book Moves at Rapid Pace
AND IN THE closing portion, the top part of thet. sandwich, she does find that she can reconcile her past with hér present and find emotional peace, for} Mike through thé years really had conformed when ;. conformity meant success. And that’s the essence oti this triangle romance. June Wetherell writes well and the book moves» along at a rapid pace. Her characters, especially. Mike | and Jinx, are warm and alive. Some may take ae ception with her picturization of the “wild side” ‘of college life but will read with interest her description: of life among “the sisters in the bond” at Jinx’s 80+! rority house. The latter is something of an indictment which the “organized” can’t be expected to take without a “re-! action.” The book doubtless was written for reading’ entertainment and not as an object lesson about 80rority life—but it’s there. If you're without bias on that score, you'll ie’ “But That Was Yesterday.”
“BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY,” Dutton & Co., ‘New York; 278 pages;
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