Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1943 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People wir. Pind Their own Way .

_ MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1943

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SESSION ENDS Two months ago the Indiana state legislature corivered 7 with high hopes for a constructive, progressive session. Although both house and senate were overwhelmingly iinder control of the opposition party, Gov. Schricker met the new assembly more than half way in his opening message, as he outlined the state’s problems, recommended ‘sane, sound steps to meet them, and refrained entirely from . injecting partisan issues out of which he might have made much personal capital. Today the legislature ends its session without having realized any of its possibilities. Its record of constructive legislation is practically blank. With the. nation engaged in a desperate war for sur‘vival, with the state in the midst of a transition to heavy _industrialization, with major problems of state business crying for attention, the measure which aroused the most. interest among legislators was a bill to change the management of the state high school athletic association. Leaving state employees still working 80 hours a week for $40 a month in ;Indiana’s institutions, the legislators enthusiastically passed bills to give themselves a 50 per cent increase for this session and a 300 per cent pay intrease for. next session. Shocked into a fleeting ‘feeling of responsibility -by the tragic fire which destroyed the Evansville state hospital for the insane in the midst of the session, the legislature appropriated money to rebuild—and did: nothing about. the thousands of other insane men and women locked up in other crowded, antiquated, state-owned firetraps in constant peril of horrible death. s 8 2 Tei ex a SOUND progressive proposals, such as the amendment to ~, permit cities to govern themselves and the bill to permit citizens to have low-cost insurance to cover hospital ex‘penses when they are ill, were voted down at the behest of organized pressure groups of lobbyists. Questionable: legislation backed by lobbies, however, such as the motorist’s lability bill which may cost Indiana drivers as much as $5,000,000 a year in insurance premiums, got fast and favorable action.” Personal grudges against individuals were satisfied by elaborate campaigns of legislation, which occasionally threatened to ‘destroy painfully-attained gov_ernmental gains such as merit systems and parole systems to get rid of men with whom legislators did not agree. o The biennial budget achieved no spectacular economies, ~ but it did avoid spectacular extravagance, It was a negative session, but on the: whole, ‘while it

accomplished virtually nothing it did’ felatively iittle’

damage to the state, In large measure this was due to valiant, and often unseen work by a few forward-looking legislators and by party leaders not even themselves members of the body, who managed to crack political whips wit enough menace to head off the more dangerous moves at got started. There were some fine, able senators and representatives in this assembly and there were more sinets merino Tad Ele members than the results it attained would indicate, “Somehow, once they got together, they seemed to be stampeded in the wake of the a east able, but sometimes the lo#dest, of their confreres.

"To such members, and to the Republican party which |

ad complete control’ of hoth houses, and to the state at Jarge, the session in general has been a disappointment. It is faint praise, indeed, to'say that in 60 days of legislative tion this assembly did very little harm to the state of

Indiana. It had a golden opportunity to do a great deal of |. good for the state of Indiana—and it frittered away that

prospect in a maze of trivialities, leaving Trearly all the important problems that confronted it in January still un. solved, for another; and we hope a more straightforward, state assembly. #o:deal with two years hence.

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GOVERNMENT GIRLS

THE government is going to hold 2 beauty clinic in Wash- 3 ington, in the hope of helping to stop the exodus of gov-

ernment girls unhappy in their jobs. . Lily Dache, famed designer of millinery, tells how to ave handsome hats on an annual salary of $1440, less ncome taxes and war bond payments. Ann Delafield of New York will advise discouraged young things from small “that “Beauty Is Your Duty, n : Probably this beauty clinic is a good idea. - But it's a tribute to the patriotism and. good sense of tens of thousands of ‘government girls that so many of them say it 1't “the overcrowdin in Washington that makes them t to leave their jobs, oy It’s the feeling that lack of proper supervision and ganization makes it impossible for them to do good ‘work. We hope the experts’ advice on beauty will cheer them , but-we. think their morale would be more surely raised a ‘government management clinic, designed to put better stem into Washington offices and take out the present te of time, enthusiasm and womanpower.

[OF WASTING MANPOWER!

FOUR attention is invited to the article on page o one by]

Mike Monroney, Democratic member of congress from oma, Rep. Monroney contends that none of the pros |: solving our wartime manpower problem can work til certain flagrant wastes of manpower are stopped. Be tells how union labor's “made work” rules and practices, surviving from peacetime, enidleness on many thousands of workers, and he of the hundreds and thousands of*such practines. is clearly right in saying that these

, must be suspended for the duration, ‘preferably | ut

y action of the. unions, but, failing that, by law.

he is also right’ in saying that the workers |! She oppoetunter 2 sake o grate; :

-| packed in motor trucks of special design,

be flown away. os se overland, some of them as far as Galitoedi, 1 :

] sembly.

There is no other plant like it in. the wor it could be that the reticent Russian ong. hidden in that fabulous land far behind the stvide Still, Willaw Buin 4s Jush Boginaug. la £9} gt!

Production a Military Secret

the number of ships, assembled and unassembled,

still being installed in progressive line. That figure is a tary secret but there may come a time within a year when this nation will tell the secret of American bomber production, as Hitler used to display his mechanized might in great parades before the war. Such a statement might convince the Nazis that they have been cverfaken here and in other Amers ican factories and doomed to defeat in the air. Production at Willow Run is rising and doubtless will continue to rise because now that the inert load has been budged and started rolling, speed. and volume will follow, Whatever the original expectations may have been as to production on a given date, the fact remains that today sheets of metal and steel frames and miles of wire and cable feed into the process, slowly, at the starting end of the factory, take shape, come together, move steadily along a half-mile course and grow into bombers complete with guns, |

Some Don't See Final Product

PROBABLY THOSE who work on the early operations, or most of them, never see the great big ships grow, for they are stationed at their jobs and those great frames on which the wings are built obstruct the view down the line. They include women with white hair, young ‘wpmen and men of the type known to plant managers and insurance doctors as marginal labor, unfit for lifting or main-strength “jobs but equal to the strain of sorting and checking. Women ride aloft in the suspended cabins of trav eling cranes and midgets work in cramped spaces in the wings at jobs inaccessible to people of normal size. There have been many explanations of the delay at Willow Run. The shortages of rubber and gasoline were not anticipated and these have interfered with transportation to and from the job. The labor shortage was not foreseen, plans were changed and pew housing for the workers has lagged. Moreover, this job is a triumph of union organization and so there are upward of a hundred stewards, nominally workers and paid to work, whose right it is, nevertheless, to circulate among the people, inviting grievances and interfering with their tasks, On the-books as manpower, the stewards are marked off not merely as a total loss, but as a drag on the

.| effectiveness of the others.

A Miracle of Production

CERTAINLY THERE’ i8 ‘no rushing speed on the | production job at Willow Run and relations between semployers and the unions in the whole area have been ‘so embittered by fights, trickery and riots that it would be dishonest to pretend that all is unity and ' co-operation between management and the unions today, for the sake of the boys overseas. The fight still smolders and there is no doubt that the staff engaged could do considerably more in g given working period if they were allowed to or wanted to. Absenteenism is a drag although some of it is unavoidable and the tempo of the plant is leisurely. i Nortwithstanding all of the reasons for delay, the miracle is producing great warships of the air in important numbers only 19 months since Willow Run was a stretch of woods and cornfields,

In Washingion By Peter Edson

. WASHINGTON, March 8—This victory garden campaign has some strange angles. The big idea is to get six million farm gardens and 12 million city and. suburban gardens under cultivation. As there are approximately 38 million families in the United States, this means that one family out of every three is supposed to. spade up and start planting. The oi million farm gardens figure will fool you.: Offhand you might. think that every farm had a garden, but it doesn’t work that way. It used to be that nearly every farm had a vegetable patch and raised most of what it ate, but in

many farms have given up raising ‘vegetables alto-~ gether and in some areas the farmers are the largest consumers of store foods, ‘consuming more canned :goods ‘than city folks, So, the department of agrioultiire’s campatgn to get a garden dug on ain farm is ‘what you might call revolutionary. Some { .do pot produce as much as three-fourths of all. the meats, eggs, milk,

Ton of Groceries Per Year!

roughly three out of every eight urban dwellers will 'be expected to raise 8 bean, a tomate, s radish snd

quantity. Anything is to be a help,

‘which seems high but is a statistic nevertheless. If the average urban garden plot

of vegetables for 156 weeks, that person family’s food consumption. tory gardener, he will have his troubles. Implements,

wide a variety of tools as heretofore, But don’t let that worry you. : All the a

hotus St lisiment~-one Spade or Tork,

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that were sent away last month, less than a year | from the time when the tools and giant frames were

; Jones, who sees not only a need for

;this modern age of automobiles and specialization, |

vegetables and other groceries consumed on the place. | | AS FOR THE 12 million town and city gardenérs— ;

several callouses—there aren't any. definite goals for| |

The average adult puts away shout s ton of gro-| .| ceries a year, That's a little over five pounds a day,

‘Getting down to the specific problems of the vio-| | for example. The hardware stares will not: offerss 4

rdaner mend is hes tols—tour if you inchide the :

| | sat to judge the peonle; and the people stood ous, |

"| morning unto even?’

people; At that point, Jethro cams to visit his son= in-law at the Mount of God. “And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses

from the morning unto the evening.

Why Sittest Thou Alone?’

“AND ‘WHEN. Moses’ father-in-law

i* ihe’ did to the peopls, he said, ‘What’ | that thou: doest to tis people? Why stttest

self alone, and all the people stand by thee

“And Moses sid unto his father-in-law, * 5 the people come ‘unto me to inquire of God. Wheh

8 | they have a matter they come unto me, and I judge

The’ Hoosier F

I wholly disagree with: what you say, “but will defend to the death yoursight i say it— Voltaire.

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“LET'S NOT GRIPE ABOUT THE MENU” By V. G. 8., Indianapolis I have read several articles in the Hoosier Forum concerning rationing. I think people eating in restaurants and hotel dining rooms

should realize that waitresses and

waiters can’t help about the shoriages of coffee, sugar and food. I've. heard customers talking to waitresses like they are dogs. They are only doing what the government is asking them to do. Please let's all stop being so selfish. Waifresses are very hard to get and hard to keep. Let's all help them all we can. After all, they are Working under a strain, too. They have husbands, brothers in service and are buying war bonds and stamps. It's not because they don’t want to give you more coffee, vs because they can’t. ‘More girls have quit because they can’t take it anymore, being talked to. so harshly. Let's take just what's on the menu and.not gripe about it. Lira 8. : “WELCOME SAM JONES INTO THIRD PARTY” By Walter ©, Reese Sr, Shelbyville The progressives, the Jeffersonian and Constitutional -Democrats welcome Sam Jones. of the deep South into ihe third party. Governor Sam: Jones has placed the demands of} the South for a third party slong} sectional lines, but we of the Narth believe that we need such a parly at this ime. “We voted for Willkie Beoatise we did not want the third term tradition _abolished, nof beacause we loved Willkie, and thousands of|B Democrats will not vote for Willkie this time, but we will vote for Jones if he will run as a candidate of the Democratic party. The restoration. of dem: Facy needs the touch of & young a terprising candidate like. Esaversar

bisinesslike administration, . but] who knows that the best encourage-! ment which small business can have is the assurance . . . that little business as well as big business will be permitted to carry on. - Thousands of our yeung men Me dying that we might have a d cratic form of government, and our task is to assure them that is the| kind of government to Which they will. return. They want to come home and

‘have ‘the opportunity to ‘establish|

homes and rear their familiés under the favorable conditions: which: ob: tained when they left: = This means that they must he assured: employment, and to have employ= ment, business must have the co-

- {large public . works; nothing more ar less than the | creation. of another WPA. We can't

Sem | oa anufacturers ernploying a

Operation of the administration inl

Side Glances—By Galbraith _

{Tin imes readers are ited to express their views: in "these" columns, ‘religious’ cons’ troversies excluded, Because ° of the. volume: received, letters must be limited to 250 words,” “lotten must { signed J

power inl every. effort st be made: to conserve. he assets of al] business. : ; ‘Regardless: of the ‘great carpors-| tions ‘and - thel¥ . enormous profits, the “dorher grocery store is an essential’ part ‘of our business economy, the smali garage and the filling station are a part of our economy, in plain words it is by these factors we make a living. If small business is to be wiped out by’ the OPA and other boards and commissions, and the people terrorized by threats and intimidation by these agents, just what will we have to offer the returned soldier? The administration says that the returned soldier must have employmerit, even if we have to have this - means

agree that it offered anything toward the hope.of a home or the reward of a business of our own. I like the way Sam Jones analyzed the situafion, ard a third party must pledge that we will reserve for the people the American| (way and as a campaign pledge it will pledge the entire resources. of the Sation first to the -American peop le. ] s = 8 “ISN'T IT TIME TO : THROW A FEW BOUQUETS?” ye 8, 5 Alten, Indianapolis ’

large amount of laber, have for a number of years been the target for just and: unjust criticism. The =| employee, the labor orghnization, the butcher, the baker, efic,, have all taken a “pot shot’ at him. Isn't is time now to throw a bouoiet or:two his way? None of us ¢ 12sfjon the splendid jab they doing in quantity production’ o planes, tanks, guns, ele, asl would eur condition be mow had these large manufacturers not been o- | fortifiéd: mentally, physically, and fina , to weather the storm? They had the buildings and equ t, or at’ least {part of it ready for labor to step into and start producing. “Too little and teo late,” as well a8 our resident's statement, “Never before did we ever have $0 much to do, and such little time” would have been a death knell for us without the setup alrendy under way by our large manufacturers. 2 am an ‘employes; of a large

yielded 15 pounds | | A be & harvest.of | | 225 pounds, or between 3 and 4 per cent of the three-

“MAKE AXIS

| manufacturer. 1 believe if we ‘all

knew more of the origin, the struggle and development, as well ds

‘| the-ideals of these large organiza

ions, "we would throw a few more

| bouquets. Or is he, the manu- . | facturer, just paying the price of -| leadership?

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REDEEM WAR BONDS”

By Pat Hogan, Columbus Copy of a letter sent to Rep. Earl] Wilson. My dear Congressman: The 6 per cent victory fax aad} ther taxes in the iacubator make| she victim pay for bzing victimized =a mockery, of justice. If I assault

tan collect damage or get a Judg-| nent against my estate, but uncer the tax system in order 1 have all to gain if I can subdue you. Instead of es Way not a compulsory savings in war bonds—eand make the axis redem them? We sre willing to sacrifice and suppart an army. to blow Germany, Italy snd Japan: off the map, but there is no sane reason why we and our children must pay for insanity hatched in the old. world. . Of] course the axis is broke. Germany enuld not pay the lait war debts-~ and build another war machine, so the debts went on ice and the miachine went into action. If the axis people know they fate annihilation and their ‘children nust pay for this madness, thiy will bring their leaders to their senses or the scaffold and keip tlieir country intact.

mentum with ever increasing expinse of bureaucracy. The Indianpolis Times recently published the analysis of a survey that showed

at the taxpayers table. tvice damned; wr effort where vitally needed arid acids to expense Willeh needed. We the people are ager to loan thi government money to win this wir but we will not be taxed to denth to feed an army of burealcritic parasites, or to pay for the

2 hy old world. so» 8 “WHY DOESN'T ‘VOICE' RAP GHEATEST PRESSUE GROUPS?’ By H. W. Daacke, 1404 8. State ave. “Voice In The Crowd” has failed, up to date, to give any contradicfor proof. to my receat contribu-

of

shown conclusively (hat unionism wai an important contributing fat tor in obtaining betier working cor ditions, wages anc hours o labor. &ince this cannot ‘be successfully:

betier citizen,” a better American.

if jou please, than the man ‘who

does not belong to a union. The union man, for "he benefit:

derived, gives ‘his. ‘time, energy anc

money, whereas the non-unior mali, oo absorbs ‘the benefits derived from cn, ‘without con|ributing toward the cost. Ii he is so definitely opposed fic preisure groups, why doasn’the oc-

then all, the Chambers of Com

|mezie, and the manifaciinpg as- > sociition? ee

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you and destroy your property, youf

wi have an army of idlers feeding| This is| it takes from the|

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midness of the megalomaniacs of :

tio) to the Forum in which I hava|

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Another gross injustice gains mo-| §

pafalel,

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.distinetion.”

.sidarate and democrafie.”

between one and another.’ “And Moses’ father-in-law said, “The ‘thing that

thou doest is not good. Thou Wik surely wear wsk: :

both thou and this people that is with thee, for" thing is too heavy for thee, Thou art not able perform it thyself alone . , . thou shalt provid . of all the people able men . . . men of tru ng covetousness, and place such over them, to of thousands and rulers of hundreds; rulers o

and rulers of tens. Every great matter they shall |

bring unto thee,” but evey small’ matter they shall judge. So shall it be easier for thyself, and. they shell bear this burden with thee. . “ ‘Then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people ‘also shall go fio their place in peace. “So Moses hearkered . . . and chose able men. And they judged the people at all seasons. The causes they brought unto Moses, but every small mate ter Whey Judged themselves.” EE

ern Parallel? . :

sous aay sex, in the old story, & modern The people of America, menaced by ene-

confusing issues ‘whieh . ns he ili hn 3 on wo he on mor Qh: 2d and they ‘may “go to their place in peace. jar government, as now organized, Pl A une bearable burdens of responsibility on their leader, the resident. * SEighty different government agencies are “trying eal with various phases of the war effort. Their He stand about the president, waiting for him to

“judge the matters that arise amang them—waiting, in

many cases, dangerously long, for no mah is able to perform this task by himself alone, ¢ *° And so the president is being urged to choose a few able men and make them heads of groups of these government agencies, delegating to them au~ thority to judge the small matters themselves at all seasons, but requiring them to bring the hard causes{ ~the ones they cannot Judge—to him for prompt

~-Gecision,

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

be You CAN'T get housenola ‘help for love nor money, your own attitude may be to blame. In Northern Westchester, N.Y, 8 couple who ran conventional ““meaid wanted” ads in several ‘newspapers didn’t get, a nibble.

10 the POople, WHO Lan Yorret bo apere ty released them from bondage, so to speak. been exploited, been made painfully

So. the enlightened @uple wrote a vertisement that startad like this: by, but we offer a friendly country: genial family of only two adults whe And it ended

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housekeeper.” an of apptieaion poured " in never hy Women who had never. worked out ; they woul like a job with such a couple. Two of the applicants were mo of, sous serving in the army. . Many of the. x well-educated. ig :

Jeb Given Dignity

contradicted, it also is a Self-évi-| dent fact that 4 union man'is &l

BUT THEY WERE women whe, Srobablgs fo

never had any business experience but who knew they B i

could. run a house for a couple—and who didn’t ming | taking the job with people who wanted a “house-

keeper” rather than a “maid,” and who Were obs

viously anxious to ses Spat their housekeepers work

.was pleasant and agreeable.

casipnally lambast ‘the test of |° ; : y s grea of PRipbandbg ping nib phe

- Women~especially working women-—who are des perately in need of Sunitoue fo-take ; duties might: learn a lesson fro that New York couple. if they are able to give the

homes has a Sood home

After all, there 1s 10 ragatel

ning another woman's house cant

Sy 5 eb as suing

WAR WORI has wade a lot of 1 furs over & new leat. sah e]