Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1943 — Page 10

RRR GS One IS rom

$4 a vear; adjoining states, 75 cents a month; others, $1 monthly.

al RILEY 5651

“Give Light and the People wi Pind Their Own. Way.

aper Alliance. NEA Service, and Audit Bu- 8 : roan of Olzeulations.

SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1043"

; F. D. R_ILLUSTRATED T is too bad that Elmer Davis, who has always seemed to us to be a sane, honest and intelligent American, should now be caught in a spot where he has to be attempting a hopeless defense of what his nominal subordinates are doing. - Hopeless because there can be no defense, nor any 5 excuse, for the product of OWT’s brilliant thinkers which Rep. John Taber laid down before congress yesterday. "This exhibit, in case you missed the description, is a ~ cartoon-biography of Franklin’ D. Roosevelt, got up along ‘the lines of the familiar newsstand fantasies of Tarzan and Dick Tracy and Dumbo, with words and drawings and ‘published by the Office of War Information. It speaks very highly of Mr. Roosevelt, leaving the impression that he combines the better qualities of Galahad, Lincoln and Superman. ~~ This masterpiece, evolved out of time and materials gand money for which you will be making a modest payment on account a week from next Monday, was distributed in iforeign lands “in the national interest,” according to Mr. Davis, and also in the United States in the interests of a fourth term for Mr. Roosevelt, according to Rep. Taber. 8 » » 8 8 2 | WHATEVER value, if any, this document might have abroad obviously will be somewhat curtailed by the fact that in the only copy at hand, at least, all the words tare in English, a language not commonly read by our galant allies in Russia, China, New Guinea, North Africa and : elsewhere, nor by the people of any neutral nation on the i face of the earth. . As a matter of fact, the publication of such a piece of literature about Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini or. Francisco Franco almost certainly would be denounced with

trad view a4 &

: ; heartfelt contempt and indignant scorn by these very same

“bright young men on Mr. Davis’ (and your) payroll, as a

sample of filthy Fascist propaganda, especially if ‘those

“Fascists had been cynicdl enough to publish it at governnent expense. = It is"a piece cut out of the same cloth as the early

q “This Is War” radio programs that were so nauseating to

‘millions of American listeners and no doubt to Mr. Roosewelt himself if he had time to hear any of them, a few

‘months ago.

: There was some hope; for a while, that the Office of War “Information might be able to cast overboard some of the remarkable: cargo its predecessor bureaus. were carrying, tand in justice to Mr. Davis, it must be said that he has tried, albeit with both hands firmly tied behind his back, | to lop off at least the more foolish fringes. The current example indicates he has not quite succeeded.

LTHE RED CROSS

QOME time between now and the end of 1943 an army of = ‘American soldiers will invade the continent of Europe i what we expect will be, the beginning of the end. Starting from North Africa or England or the United States, or quite possibly from all three, hundreds of thou‘sands of our men wil] be ferried across waters in which the _ greatest submarine fleet of all time will lurk. From the air they will be bombed by the luftwaffe—perhaps by those

Nazi aircraft which have been so mysteriously missing of “late.

. After they land—the majority that does land—they will seek to whip a mighty German army which has had years in which to prepare powerful fortifications against the very invasion that now is in the making. - We shall win, at a cost that is. incomprehensible to us now. Tens or scores of thousands of men will be killed utright. Other tens or scores of thousands will be wounded.

Thousands, perhaps, will be taken prisoners, even in

an ultimately victorious campaign. Who is going to look after these en? The army — and the Red Cross. ~~ Who is going to help them send reassuring word to he folks at home? Who is going to seesto the welfare of risoners? Who will distribute cigarets and candy in the very fighting lines; search records to see whether Johnny ead, wounded, missing, or merely too busy and tired to 2; maintain clubs in rest areas; produce surgical dressgs; gathér blood for transfusions? ~ The Red Cross. : 3 March is Red Cross ‘month. Faced with the. greatest challenge to merciful duty in its long history, the Red Cross this ‘month is "asking the American ‘people for ,000,000. - The Red Cross. always has been deserving of more n its most generous friend has done for it. This year, 8 very month, it deserves even more than before to get ? really big contribution from YOU. You won't have done too much if You give until it

.gambler and drunkard with no record as a worker,

| they were informed and conscientious experts in

.that he could not be expected to know the personal

"would ‘be more ‘harmful $han sthe continued tenure

Farm Values Rising

THE LATENT FORCES which might develop into | a speculative boom are listed as the existence of large :

| years of 1

A of farm: products,” Ee de oy ; | Homi tare Sana would sour

board of the Textile Workers of |

America, C. I. 0, in Worcester on Jan. 16, were three officials of the national war labor board, Among the union officials of

the textile workers then and there | :

consecrated to the cause of labor |

with an upper-case L, was Amos |: °

Cote, elevated to the post of president of the Cen- | tral Massachusetts joint board, who has been iden tified by the vice squad of the Worcester police department as a convicted brothel-keeper, petty

but with a record of three terms in jail.

The government officials who made speeches were 5

Saul Wallen, director of the first, or New England region of the WLB; Emil Rieve of New York, a labor member of the 'WLB, and J. William Bellanger,

a member of Mr. Wallen’s regional WLB. Mr. Rieve | is also national president of the textile workers and

Mr. Bellanger is regional director of the union. Duty to Keep Roster Clean’

' ALL THREE are presumed to have been selected}

for the war labor board on the assumption that

in labor relations who would know. the personalities and background of influential union representatives and would neither actively nor passively encourage the elevation of a disreputable person, Oh Mr. Wallen’s behalf it is suggested by Hugh Kingsley, press representative of the regional WLB,

history of every union official and other person present at the many union Sainerings Which it is his duty to attend.

As to Mr. Rieve ‘and Mr. Bellanger, the same

excuse would be less convincing. The textile workers union is not so large that Mr. Rieve could not reasonably be expected to be personally acquainted with the new president of a joint board. Mr. Bellanger, as regional . director of the union, responsible to Mr. Rieve and living in the area, had a duty to the rank and file workers and the cause of unionism to know his fellow officials and keep the roster clean.

‘Never Heard of Cote’

‘MR. KINGSLEY himself, zranted that he is only an employee and not an official of the WLB, achieved a fine seat of detachment in his own ignorance of the character. of Brother Cote.

For Mr. Kingsley was a Worcester newspaper: re=|I

porter who might have got wind of one of the more notorious local police characters and he was, and: remains,” president of the Worcester chapter of the American Newspaper Guild, also, like Brother. Cote's textile workers, a union of the C. I. O. Mr.: Kingsley states, nevertheless, that he never heard of Brother Cote during his time as a reporter and C. I. O. union president in Worcester, explain-’ ing that the Worcester guild was apart from other unions and not a member of any C. I. O. council. Still, speaking personally, as he was careful to make plain, and not as an employee of the national WLB, Mr. Kingsley said he would not be disposed to co-operate in any expose of Brother Cote’s past and present and of his rise in unionism. This, he thought, would be a’ story harmful to a union and he would want no part in that.

'A Sideline Answer’ ASKED WHETHER he thought the disclosure

by silent consent of a convicted pandef and bootlegger identified by ‘the Worcester police ds a common local racketeer, in high union office, Mr, Kingsley gave a sidelong answer. He then irrelevantly reproached your correspondent for resigning from the newspaper guild when it became a Trojan. Horse of the New York and California Communists, instead of remaining in the organization to fight them. . Here: you have three officials of the WLB and one employee of the board and three union officials, two of whom lived right beside him, so to speak, all unaware of or indifferent to Brother Cote’s police record and the method of his rise, and adding it all up, you find another reason why congress, at

this - writing, is about to take labor relations out |

of the hands of ‘the New Deal ideologists and perform a delousing operation in the interests of the rank and file and the whole people of the U, 8. A

In Washington

By. P Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, March 6.—One of the most popular hedges against inflation is the old dodge of buy=ing a farm. Businessmen, par=ticularly farm boys who went to town arid made good, always have

the yen to get back to the land, |

own a farm, put a tenant on it— . and then write Checks to pay for . the losses.

But * the businessman- farmer justifies this as an’ investment. Says he to himself, “This is my protection against inflation. If business blows its top and everything goes to wrack and ruin, I can always move the family back to the farm and stay there till things get better.” While there is a genuine threat of inflation through wage -increases and price rises, it would | be well to keep an eye on the farm land front to see if there is now in: the making any speculative boom in farm lands and farm values. And if there is such a bogm, is it attributable in part to the desire of investors to put their money in farm properties as a hedge against inflation or, for the rest, is'it a genuine belief that the {nereasing war ‘demands for food, fiber and other agricultural prod-

ucts with a likelihood of ‘increased prices make ¥

farming at this time good business? 2

In short, is there going to'be a farm land booifi: §

like there was inthe last war? It so happens that a department of commerce study on this situation has just been completed by Frank R. Wilson, an Towa farmer himself, by the way, but now one of the editors of Domestic Weekly. It is Wilson's conclusion that there is as yet little evidence of speculative activity in farm properties, but there is a genuine fear that the situation

is shaping up to develop such a boom at the end of

the war,

pr. J

evce |

CEA HE ° : The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagres with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to soy. it.—Voltaire.

“QUESTIONS CONCLUSIONS

OF VOICE IN CROWD”

By H. W. Daache, R. R. 2, Box us

In reply to an article in the Hoos-|

ier Forum by “Voice in the Crowd” on Feb. 20, permit me to say that I agree with him in his deductions regarding men who found romance in doing tough jobs with bare hands and strong backs, but I question his conclusions that these men were broken-hearted when the jobs weré “sissified” for them: or those who followed. Even a moron would not be affected that way as he, ‘as such could even see the logic of ‘shorter. hours and increased pay with equal results for the same amount of effort involved. ” ” » “NEW NAME FOR POST-WAR PARTY” By Edmund J. Rocker, 1324 W. Washington st. 2

I have a suggestion to make in regard to a new name in the fufure of a new political party after this world war II. The name is as follows: “Victory party.”

This Victory party will have)

plenty to say after this war is over and it will be the ex-service men of the present war who will reorganize everything and form

{their own Victory party. History|

will repeat itself as .it did at the

‘énd "of the civil war, as it was the -|“Boys’ in Blue” that returned home

and who elected. President U., S. Grant: for the “Grand Army of the Republic” party. Oné can see ahead of time that organized labor will never be a

political party as there are too

many racketeers and the New Deal and the Old Deal of other parties will be on their way out as history proves we have seen enough and heard enough about them.: » 2 2 “WHY DO THEY BROADCAST NEWS OF A SHORTAGE?”

| By Mrs. 3 W. Sweatman, 825 E. 6th st.

I see by the evening paper there|

is a prebability of a potato short{age, which of course as usual gives

‘the hoarders a chance to lay in an

excess supply. I can’t understand why they always broadcast the

like the little grasshopper who sang

_ (Times esders 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.)

great news of a shortage. I overheard a woman remark most anyone would do the same ‘thing if) they had the money to doit, ‘which’ certainly. isn’t a very » patriotic thihg to tay. Oh yes. we have lots of people who are going to sing this war out

all summer. From my obse:vation, I've noticed the most of this type of people are the ones the viar has hurt the least. It’s pretty casy to ‘be smug about the whole thing when there is none: of: your blood being spilled. I certainly wish every person who has loarded would’ get a lump! in their taroats so big they ‘would be unable to swallow. ' It must give them a grand feeling to be taking food out of other ‘jicople’s mouths Jus to sauisty their ‘own ego. » -

“LET'S NOT BLAME SOME OF THE KIDS” By Ed Bayless, 4928 Guilford ave.

No doubi; all of us are appalled by the steady increase in juvenile delinquency. But in most of these cases the kids are not fo blame; the real cause is parental negligence, With 60 per cent of our children never coming in contact with Sunday school or church, and with no religious training whatsoever in most of our homes, what else can we expect irom our children? And those insipid excuses Dad and Mom give for not taking their Children to Sunday school. Poor Dad works so hard every day and Sunday morning is tke only time he has to sleep. Or poor Dad and Mom were up till 4 a, ni. Sunday morning playing poker, dancing or loafing around some fayem: or

Side Glaiices—By Galbraith _

savings cast, Sd yar bonds Jesuits Syom several | R

ge Tain neomes, the desire of young.

{every Sunday morning,

cocktail bar, so you kids look at the funny papers and be quiet so we can sleep till noon, Horsefeathers. If Clark Geble and Hedy Lamarr were. to put on -a show at 9:30 ‘most of these Dads and Moms would be there at 6:30 to assure themselves a front seat. Let's not blame some| of these kids who are unfortunate enough to have parents who have lost their sense of values. er a 8 ’ “VERY WELL, PEGLER, HERE'S A BET AT 1000 TO" ONE” By Tom Berling, 28238 -N. Olney at,

Attention Westbrook Pegler, In the Feb. 6 issue of The Indianapolis Times you said in regards to our war effort: “The unions can claim no part of the credit for they have been greedy, Obstructive and ob= streperous all ‘the way and their record, when it is over, will surely receive the attention of veterans coming home to take their part in political life.” Very well, Pegler, you have insulted thousands of honest, solid, conservative, God-fearing men and their sons’ fa the service of our armed forces." I will place $L00 cash in the hands of the editor of The Indianapolis Times and give you a bet of |

Terms of the bet as follows: For every crook, shirker, ‘greedy,

or woman belonging either to C. I. O. or A. F. L. that you can name with affidavits, I will. supply the names of 1000 rmen or women ‘who have sons or close relatives in our armed forces and are doing their best and are satisfied with their union, With affidavits attached and witnessed by a notary public. ‘The loser to turn $100 over-to the home service department of" the - Red Cross to be used in sontacting war prisoners. Recently you Wrote ‘and Collier's published an article on “Thieves with Union Cards.” You had the title placed on the cover of the

that I and many others were thieves when you were really writing about: one union. You had bet-] ter begin to call your shots ‘and hit what you are aiming at. * Now ‘you “have plenty of money, $100 is nothing to you. Come on and bet me sind donate to the Red Cross. Then by percentage ‘point out a better group than we. Also if possible point out a method and

fofter a suggestion to remedy the

conditions -you - criticize. However, if they are no better than your

get for that idea? - I have a letter from the’ com-

“|mander of an army post ‘commendting us on’ finishing the Job, three

weeks: ahead of time. I ‘also have

| |two sons in service and two more -} |to go. Now you puf..out your chest | {and tell us what you have done. .

In closing, let me appeal to every who has read

| of their authority. 3 can’t work well: . &

1000 to one. This Is my own money. x

obstructive and obstreperous man |-

magazine anc gavé the impression]

HE 18-year-old son go away Tr “the army, have asked why I said that President Roosevelt is the only man who can’ end tke present Costly muddling in the Wash. : War program. ‘A few have read nto nef ] j article something I certainly did” not intend to write there— : desire to undermine the president's authority, What I want, as the father of a boy who may be going into battle a few months hence, is to strengthen the president's necessary authority, as it will ‘be strengthened if better results are obtained in mane sgement of the various war programs—production of planes, ships, tanks, guns; production of food, cons trol of manpower and the rest. : Mr. Roosevelt, backing up the Judgment of the /ermy and navy, has made the basic decision that ° 11,000,000 men must be put into uniform this year. But that decision requires many others, and I believe that Mr. Roosevelt is leaving too many of them

| to be made by men who, in fact, can never make

them under the government's. present organization for war.

Only FDR's Authority Final ‘

AS I TRIED to Stow yesterday, Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, who has been made respon. sible for production of more food than ever before, has no. control over many of the: elements that enter

{ into his problem.

The same is true of most of the other soedliedt “czars,” including even War Production Boss Neisont and Economic Director Byrnes, to whom the presi dent has delegated—on papér—what appeared. to be complete authority. : ~The army and the navy, for instance; obviously have not considered Mr. Nelson's authority as final when it fails to give them the war supplies they want, when they want them. Organized labor is not like] 8 fo accept Mr. Byrnes’ authority as final if he decides’ that there must be no more wage increases. ‘It will

-| accept such a decision, it at all, only from the: presi.

dent direct. When Secretary of: War. Stimson and Manpower Commissioner McNutt ‘disagree publicly as io the necessity for drafting labor, obviously only the president can settle that conflict, and obviously leaving it unsettled leads the country to believe that the wap government Is sadly corifused,

Better Organization Essential

THE MUDDLE-BREEDING conflicts are tempte ing congress to step in and enforce its say about how some of the war problems shall be run, That may really undermine the president's necessary authority and make muddling worse. I believe the people will

never let congress interfere dangerously—if the presi dent will provide the type of organization that can get the programs running more smoothly. - Stronger men might be found for some of ‘the top Jobs, but better organization is even more. -essential, ‘and congress has given Mr. Roosevelt all the power he needs to create a far better organization. $i He is trying to manage the war government through 80 different. agencies, large and small, all of them directly responsible to him, but most of them hk; constantly conflicting with each other in'the exercise That. dan’ Working. well, Fad

Wartime ‘muddling. Is: ii new. There. was lots of it in 1917 and early 1918. President Wilson finally cured much of it by creating-& special {war cabinet, a small group 6f his key officials. One who was a member has written that Mr. Wilson; at the weekly meetings; would ask, “Gentlemen, have you any troubles today?” Then he would canvass the circle, member by member, Histen; to: the conflicts, ‘and make ‘his decisions. - + i

President Would Be the Umpire

MR. ROOSEVELT, remembeér, is the ultimate authority on the military and most of the homes front problems of this war,’ as Mr, Wilson was of the last war. Ta 4 So, I earnestly. hops, Mr. “Roosevelt will ¢redte: real war cabinet, inehuding; his. secretaries of war :

for the ‘various’ parts’ of ‘the whole “war program. Even witki fewer, ‘clearer and more direct” of of authority and responsibility thus established, conflicts would: still start. But, in a war cabinet, they could be stopped before they. do damage. a Meeting with the members of his war cabinet each week, hearing them explain why they are having trouble among themselves, Mr. Roosevelt could umpire their disputes and settle their conflicts. quickly, .1 believe a war cabinet, providing &~ hy whick: he could enforce co-ordination, “would save Mr. Roosevelt much: time and energy and trouble; 1 believe it would mean an (ear lier, ‘less A victory. - T beliéve. it. might mean that a plane 4 ‘gun or.a shell would be ‘thers, ready, when ny Boy's life and the"lives of many other boys might depend on it. I believe it oould help to shorten by weeks and months the time duriiig ‘which. Amer\cans: must face death in battle. : And I believe it would give us 8 “better chianioe to keep this war won agar our sons win it’ for F as they will. % : :

<¥y NE.

We the Women - >

By Ruth Millett

“ON THE. GROUND 1 “lacked glamour,” a Los husband sued, for divorce,

The wife's lawyer. . prove that She Joally o did : Slamonts :