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‘ @ive Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1943

GLOBALONEY Po HRASES have frequently shaped the course of American history—‘Give me liberty or give me death,” “No ‘nation can endure half slave and half free,” and “Remember the Maine.”

To Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce may go the credit:

for shaping it with a word—"Globaloney,” meaning global "thinking gone haywire. \ @Globaloney is sure to appear on many a political bill of fare in the months ahead, but it will probably be taken with a grain of salt and a raspberry.

HOOVER, FOOD AND MANPOWER

T'S too bad that Herbert Hoover's testimony before a ' senate committee this week wasn’t made public immediately and in full. Mr. Hoover's views on the necessity for greatly increased food production, to win the war and the peace, seem to us so important that they ought to have ie widest possible hearing. On wartime food questions, Mr. Hoover is the Worlds foremost authority, by right of successful experience. His warning that American failure to produce more meats and fats would endanger military success and mean starvation for millions in Europe after the war—that cagries tremendous weight. His plea that agriculture be treated as a munitions industry, which indesd it is, cannot safely be ignored. Mr. Hoover's public remarks following his testimony indicate he told the committee that the farms, the oil fields and the metal mines should have this year some 4,000,000 more workers than are now in sight. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, before another senate committee, is said to have testified that at least 3,100,000 more farm laborers ‘must be recruited to produce the crops needed this year. x ® » » O go much longer without great success in solving the farm-manpower problem can mean disaster. So, we think, Mr. "Hoover's suggestions for solving that problem and stimulating meat and fat production—by furloughing large numbers of soldiers for the planting and harvest seasons, importing temporary stipplies of Mexican labor, moving workers from other industries to the farms, recruiting boys, girls and elderly people for light agricultural work, modifying price policies—should have the administration’s earnest and immediate consideration. We hope congress will insist that they have it. We find it hard to enthuse over the manpower bill introduced by Rep. Wadsworth of New York and Senator Austin of Vermont, Republicans both, for drafting men between 18 and 65 and women between 18 and 50 for any jobs to which the government might assign them through the draft boards. The bill is defective in not specifically psrsniesing to persons drafted for war work the right to join or refuse _ to join unions. And we still believe that there is little sense _ in talking about drafting labor while the government continues to wagte manpower on its overstuffed payrolls, and the labor unions continue to waste manpower. by their “featherbed” practices and their resistance to proposals.for

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lengthening the artificially short work week in civilian in- 7

dustries.

LESS FIGHT—MORE WORK ~~ E can’t quite share Raymond Clapper’s cheerful view of the quarrels and controversies in Washington. His idea was that war production is increasing anyway, that a pretty good job is being done in spite of the continual dogfights, so why worry? As to the latest of the several hundred rows in the war . production board, we go part way with Mr. Clapper. We can’t get much interested in it; in fact, it bores us. ! The trouble there seems to be that Donald N elson, though given on paper what seemed to be plenty of power to run his job, either is too slow in using his power on suspects . that other men may have had later access to the president’s ear and obtained even greater powers. : But we're no Pollyanna about the Washington con-

ing great harm — spreading the impYession through the country that all is gonfusion in the capital; tempting con- . gress to step in and undercut the president’s authority; keeping important officials from giving undivided attention ~ to their work. Sure, the present job is pretty good. But it could be a lot better if there was less fighting.

of creating a real war cabinet. What is urgently needed, we believe, is a few clear lines of authority down from the

to the president, and a method enabling the. officials sup-

¥ i settled quickly by the president—the only Ruihonisy y who § ran definitely settle many of them.

IN A FEW WORDS

To! the New York Times goes credit for the briefest and clearest description yet made of Beardsley Ruml’s pay-as-you-go tax plan, + In an editorial titled “What Pay-As-You-Go- Mears” the Times said: “The essence of the Ruml plan may be stated quite briefly. It does not mean skipping a year, either ini ‘imposing * in paying taxes. It means simply that the measuring od for a man’s income tax in any year would be the income

f the same year, instead of the i income of the year before. tf

requisitioned. “One blow-out and you, as s well as the | ie; will be left flat. :

> the same revenue. : likely to produce more Tevente, because it tak then he st

Hditor, in| U.S. Service|

Price In Marion Coun-

.troyersies, in the WPB or elsewhere, We think they're do- |

That’s why we hope Mr. Roosevelt will see the wisdom |

president, a few equally clear lines of pesponsibiny back up |

- posed to be running the war effort to gel their differences

‘The substituted measure, in

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12-—-In some ways it was a pity that it . had to make the most needed he-man speech on foreign policy that has been heard from the floor of either house of congress since the war. began.

It was a pity because it failed |:

to get, either in the press or on: the air, the kind of attention it deserved. Or from the admiring

ale members of congress who heard it. For Rep. :

Clare Luce, the gentlewoman from Connecticut, is so famed for pulchritude, chic, wit and wisecracking that these got the headlines instead of. the sound doctrines expounded and the grave warnings sounded. “Glamorous” was the word her listeners thought of; not “how damn true!”

Important to Plain People

IT SEEMS—as pointed out here. recently—that the United States is now formulating a policy to govern the future of our civil and commercial aviation, do‘mestic and overseas. A committee of high officials is busy on it. Congress is considering the formation of a permanent standing committee to deal with the same subject, and Rep. Luce rose and made this the topic of her maiden speech. Nothing could possibly be more oporiank to the plain people of this country, she suggested, for upon the way we handle this problem depend the post-war peace and prosperity of the nation. . Quoting Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, she told the house that our foreign policy should be

determined only from the standpoint of what the | .

people believe is their real, their practical self-inter-est. Our foreign policy must not be—and in the long run never will be—based upon emotional altruism or sentimental aspiration.

British Making Plans

SHE PARAPHRASED Prime Minister Churchill. “We, gentlemen,” she said, “were not elected by our constituencies, on either side of this aisle, to preside over the liquidation of America’s best interests.” The greatest of all patriots she called him, but Mr. Churchill could not see anything inconsistent in fighting for democracy and at the same time defending the interests of the nation which sired him. Right now, Rep. Luce reminded congress, the British and all the other nations are making their plans for after the war. On the day the shooting stops the British will have their international airways system ready, and, she said, “I deeply applaud the wisdom of this policy. I wish it were ours.” The gentlewoman from Connecticut made it plain that she.is no isolationist. Far from it. The day is past for such crotchety notions. .Nations no longer can hide behind Chinese walls, however, high. Planes can fly over them and tanks grind them into dust.

to be left to a pretty woman |.

Charles A. Halleck, Hoosier G. O. P. dele-

or Sunday to ‘speak on the same platform with Gov. John W, Bricker of Ohio, it immediately ‘was interpreted here as part of, ‘the “Build Up Bricker for Presi- - dent in 1944” program. For the young and able. con=’ _ gressman from Rensselaer is rated: high, not only in the house of representatives but in, national party councils. He made the nominating speech for Wendell L. Willkie: at the Philadelphia oon. . yention in 1940. The Cleveland meeting was held - under thet slispices of the Cuyahogs county Republican commite: tee of which Rep. George H. Bender is chairman, Praising Congressman Bender and his colleague from

land

| Cleveland, Mrs. Frances P. Bolton. Mr. Halleck also

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

It's 'Globaloney’

BUT ALL THIS stuff about global sweetness and light, making ourselves poor so others may be rich; is “globaloney.” The country would not stand for it, as Mr. Welles pointed out, and we should wind up in disaster if we tried it. In some of our post-war planning there has been too much cockeyed altruism and too little healthy Churchill realism, But disabuse your mind if you have the idea that Clare Luce is just a clothes horse; she's a thinking thoroughbred. Had a Bill Borah or a Champ Clark made that speech, the male members of the house would have savored its deep national meaning without having to read it the day afterwards in the congressional record.

(Westbrook Pegler did not write a column today.~— Editor's Note.)

In Wathingior

By Peter Edson

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WASHINGTON, ‘Feb. 12.— Standing stiffly at attention at the Philadelphia quartermaster depot is a row -of 18 life-size models of soldiers. Every model is clothed in a different uniform, and there you have in one line “what the well-dressed soldier of the U, S. army wears to this man’s war, not counting the uniforms for the WAACs or the aviators. This Philadelphia; @M depot is army headquarters for procurement of clothing. It experiments with new materials, new styles, new equipment. It tests:

everything from buttonholes to sleeping bags. When ‘changes are made, Philadelphia makes them.

Of course not every soldier gets every one of the 18 uniforms mentioned above. But these uniforms will keep the soldier clothed and in his right mind, protected from the elements in any climate from Alaska to Africa. All told, there are 2800 differer items of equipage. 2

One Extreme to the Other

AT THE ONE extreme is the ntw tropical uniform of shorts and pith helmet now ‘being worn by the Yanks on Bermuda. At the other extreme is the Arctic parka, which is something extra. Outside, it is a reversible poplin wind-proof and weather-proof fabric, one side white to blend with snow and ice, the other side the new

: shade of olive green to blend with woods and tundra,

For ‘extreme temperatures, below this pants-and-parka are two suits ‘of half-inch thick undergarments made of alpaca and mohair, warmer than fur, and worn hung from 'specil suspenders. If a soldier gets too warm and sweats, then cools

but it’s easily removed. Simply take off the underwear and shake out the icicles, or brush them off. t » ”

Blue jeans, more properly known as blue denims, may disappear from use as overalls and work clothes as one result of this war, for the army has developed a new material for fatigue uniforms, a herringbone

‘twill in the new army olive green. It's much stronger

than denim, and just about the same in price.’ 2 x » s » \

The quartermaster corps licked the raincoat prob-

lem with a new fabric that will probably find wide

acceptance when made available to civilians. If's a

‘cotton sheeting impregnated with a viscous resin that It won’t crack and it won't |

is better than rubber, stick like the old oilskins, Manufacturers of the new rainwear for a time tried to have a lot of garments rejected, so they could sell \them to civilians for more money than: they get from the asmy, But the QMC put a quick stop to that.

To the Ponies IF STALIN will just drop in on Berlin, we'll gladly Tongive him for not«dropping in at Casablanca.

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INFLATION DOESN'T help anybody—not even a person Who is a flat tire.

mr” * ® » "THE ARMY wants all passenger tir spare: tires

“PUT JAPS ON A BOAT WITH A TIN FISH HANDY” By J. M. Wetherald, Thorntown I notice that some government officials are in favor of replacing our good Americans with so-called American Japanese. I don’t know of a more ftreasonable act to our boys in the service than that, I have three boys in service which I have worked hard to rear and educate and it certainly makes my blood boil to hear so soon after that dirty blast the treasonable Japs gave us at Pearl Harbor that H. L, Stimson would want to replace our young manhood with American Japs... . Why send our boys overseas to be killed by Japs in those islands and swamps, and turn right around and import the Japs in here to take our boys’ jobs and hdmes. . . . The best thing to do with those Japs is to put them on a boat and put a good tin fish to it on the ocean. , 5,

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“ ” ” “IT IS MUCH CHEAPER A TO MAINTAIN A JUST PEACE”

By W. H. Edwards, R. R. 2, Spencer. Out of the confused thinking that has hindered our nation’s war effort; a confusion that has had its ifception from the struggle for power between the various Washington bureaucrats, is at last beginning to arise some cumulative ideas of what this war is about, what we are really fighting for. We are beginning to realize that ours is not a nation all sufficient unto-itself, that we are, in fact, dependent, to a great extent on the products of many other lands; that only through the | interchange of goods between nations can we or any other nation hope to attain the highest possible degree of human welfare; that no community peace can be maintained except by a p&ace of justice. The so-called peace that came after world war I was not the kind of peace we want td attain, because it was defeated at the peace conference by selfish interests. The Atlantic charter and the “Four Freedoms” are mere “scraps of paper” unless they are backed up with a well-thought-out program of international co-operation, agreed

(Times readers are 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.) :

to by all the united nations and ready to begin operating the day the axis is defeated. : The ideals of world peace and cooperation for human welfare may be disastrously hampered by selfish groups in our own or other united nations if we or they try to force other people of other nations: to adopt our form of political’ government, or if we attempt to force our economi¢ views upon other nations. Political co-operation has lagged far behind economic co-operation, simply because selfish interests seeking their own personal welfare have had overall access to governmental

agencies denied to the unorganized

public. Another thing that has hampered political co-operation as well as economic co-operation between natiQns is the struggle always going on between party partisans to gain and hold the front line at the political pie-counter, _Our big financiers, cur big industrialists, our politicians will have to realize the fact that it is much cheaper . . . to maintain a just peace than it is to finance frequent wars in which all nations and all people are losers. , . . Let's face this war and the peace to follow it with the true concept that we, as a nation, cannot long progress on a highway leading up-

ward to greater human welfare un-,

less we are willing to put forth a greater effort than we have put forth in the past to further a po-litico-economic co-operation based on true justice, - \

» FE “ARE REPUBLICANS GOING TO SPEND THE 30 MILLION?” By Oscar Houston, Box 62, Elletisville.

Our Republican legislature has so far run true to predictions made by many of our citizens. That is to

Side Glances—By Galbraith

‘down, the tendency is for the perspiration to freeze, | |-

3 | OUTSPOKEN MEN” .

grab 'ill they can by’ boosting salaries all they can for the boys that have been away from the pie-coun-

‘| ter for 10 long miserable years, . . .

One . bill presented would pay each member, of the legislature $2400 per year. That would be their pay for 61 days of work. If a labor union would say to

‘| these same men that they would

do a certain job of work for the state for $2400 each and the job required only B61 days’ work, you know the answer. The whole thing is ridiculous. With probably a very few exceptions, raising salaries wholesale is just a grab to pocket all they can out of that surplus of 30 million those spendthrift New Dealers left in the “treasury to’ support school teachers, pay pensions to the blind, assistance to ‘the aged, child welfare, in fact to guarantee the maintenance of the whole social welfare program and not to be squandered in the way.of useless salaries to build up any: party vote-getting machine. They say these raises are justified on account of the high cost of living. Not many believe that. Our Republican friends promised the people if they would kick the New Deal spenders out they would give us cheaper and better government. They knew what salary went with each office. It seems to me if they want to be justified in spending some money where it is most urgently needed, why don’t. they appropriate some money to help about 70,000 aged citizens in our state who are trying and sacrificing in every way to meet the high cost of living out of a budget of only $10 per month for groceries and some counties won't allow that much. I wonder how these gentlemen would like to try eating on 33%; cents per day. They kicked the old-age assistance question around. the last legislature like a football with the result the aged weren't benefited one penny, and this legislature is again passing the buck. . . . The state surplus has grown to 30 million. What are they going to do with it? Are they going to spend it to build up a huge political machine? They probably will, if cooler

heads don’t step in ‘and stop it. os om 8 ?

“WE NEED SUCH

By Mrs. Aliabelle Pearson, R. B. 8, Box 583. To Mr. F. C. McKee: . I resent your article against Westbrook Pegler. Just who are you to

1 | judge whether he was talking about

his betters? We are all equal—but

am sorry to say not free. It is such | §

opinions as yours, and like practices, that have gotten this world and our U. 8S. A. into this present muddle. If we did not have such peple as Westbrook Pegler and Fulion Lewis Jr., where would our freedom, such as we have, go? No one person is better than another. The difference is, some use their brains for reasoning and others are just led by a smooth talker; of which this country is full. The. ones that are led easily fall into

mental laziness and very lax habits.

The others are always helping their ‘brothers, , .. - I sincerely hope since we lost such

| a man as Will Rogers that the high-

er power will keep us ‘supplied with

| |such courageous speakers as Mr. | Westbrook Pegler and Mr. Fulton | | Lewis Jr. We need such outspoken ‘I |men to keep us in the knowledge jof some of the srogkedness that [BOSS ON. , +

DAILY THOUGHT

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We the Women

‘took occasion to commend the “fi ot the governor of Ohio. :

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ON FISCAL ‘matters, it generally is conceded that. Governor Bricker does have a fine record. But where’ he stands on national policy, either foreign or domes-. tic, remains ds much a political secret, a8 though i were a military one. The only thing anyone here seems certain about where Governor Bricker stands is that “he stands for election,” or least for the presidential nomination. «» +. Senator Robert“A. Taft, who was the 1940 Ohio: candidate, announced his support of She governor some time ago.. But unlike Mr. willie” the governor only smiles and says nothing about where or what ‘he stands for, : Many Republicans, think that this is the best 48 tactic to take. They expect to win in 1944 as sort of receivers in bankruptcy. They think/ that the war strains and restraints,

1-plus burdensome taxation, will permit the G. O. P. to’

win by default. And maybe Bricker will be the man; ‘He seems to suit most of the Hoosier Republican SoBe gressmen just fine,

"The Hoosier Viewpoint ;

BESIDES HIS bouquet throwing on. behalf of Governor Bricker, Mr, Halleck made one of the most .rabble-rousing partisan speeches of his career, He .called the new dealers in Washington “long-haired ‘and dingy-nailed dreamers” who are wasting publie money and planning to waste more. Yet he did advance the view that the Republicin party should stand for something to merit the support of the voters in 1944. He denounced post-war isola~ tionism, as well as complete internationalism Wierin. American sovereignty would be sacrificed. Giving ‘what he termed the “Hoosier viewpoint,® : ‘Mr. Halleck said: " : “He sympathizes with the East Indian when he things about him, but the Indianian is always on his mind.” What is on Governor’ Bricker’s mind “In these mate ters, still remains a mystery. 5

World Airave

By Major ‘Al Williams

NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Tt 1s foregone conclusion that the post

war period will mark the real .

birth of air transportation-= passengers, freight and mail. All tao readily. it seems to. bé assumed that the network of world airways will be built and

operated by private capital. Well,{

_ probably the bulk of it will be. "* But there's a vital factor that may complicate this situation cond siderably, and that is the absolute certainty of some government-controlled, operated and fully subsidized international air lines. At odd times we find some private air line operas tors begging to advocate the plan to utilize the in{ernational air line as a self-supporting, post-war, world policing agency. Operating an air line is orp thing, but the added feature of depending on the in‘ternational air line as a policing agency inevitably means a far closer. liaison between government and private industry than has been attained thus far. Just as soon as one nation decides to own and operate its own air lines, we can rest assured that others will be forced to do so. Private capital will not be able to compete with the government-owned air line,

A New World Business STRATEGICALLY SITUATED air bases which

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rave been szproprisied and acquired by grants dic-

tated ‘by war necessity will not be readily relinquished —if at all. They are the keys to world domination ‘of air commerce, and the nation that dominates air com= merce will dominate the world militarily in the air, Those in Washington and Londo who are charged with post-war planning must be cognizant of these future contingencies. This may help to explain the rumors which point toward the. organization of & governmentally owned and operated international aie line by the majors among the united nations. . ? Irrespective of whether they will be government. or privately owned and operated, there is one thing of which we can be fairly certain in this iincertain world, and that is they will constitute the beginning of the full development of the world’s network: of air lines, And with it will come a new world business with ify own peculiar formulae routine, and new world politico-commercial standards, ; 2

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By Ruth Millett

THE SHOE RATIONING order limiting us to three pairs of shoes a year adds one more weight to the scale that is slowly, but surely changing women’s standards of . values ‘and giving them new, and saner ideas of what's Tmportant and what isn’t. Remember ‘way back whine : Women depended on a new hat to give them a lift? : Felt they HAD to keep up with the Joneses? Wouldn't have dreamed of walking three blocks to a grocery? © When they bought an article, no matter how san, automatically said “Charge and send it, please?” Kept their husbands poor by puying on n the | installment plan? ; up their noses at the tally ar a car a soon as Sy friend bought a newer model? Found fault with their maids? (Now they smug it they have one.) AT BE

These Were "Vital" Once ' HAD TIME to be bored?

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