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

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‘ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1043 :

EE my | the imagination of the country and continues hold it.

And the jeep now plays a large part in our dreams of

e future after ‘the war, when ‘we can do again all those | hings we can’t do now. ~~ After the civil war it was “40 acrey and a mule.” Wall, vhy not 40 acres and a jeep? The department of agricul-

ture has tried them out and finds that they can pull a plow, |

Itivator or mower as well as a small tractor. And you ~ can unhitch the plow; load up the wife and kids and go to . town in the jeep on Saturday nights. The farmer lost the old family horse when he got a flivver and a tractor. The flivver couldn’t work the fields, and he couldn’t go to town in the tractor. The jeep, bless its heart, can do both. ’ And it will be even better for large farms or ranches. It can take’out across the pasture like a horse. With its four-wheel drive and high clearance it can go blithely over 8 and brush and climb hills almost anywhere a horse

: i 8 8 8 8 WW/ILLYS-OVERLAND is turning out jeeps in mass pro- : duction for the army. No one else can buy one now. But Willys engineers think they have something for after the war, and we agree with them. If you're not interested in farming 40 acres with a jeep, or in using one to herd cattle or ride fences, maybe you would like to take a two-week vacation roughing it. The modern auto is swell, but it can’t be everything. t has been refined for superluxurious city use. The jeep as outdoors as a hunting dog. With the new Alcan highway leading from Alaska to the U. S., a lot of dream trips have already been planned by men who are now ‘kept from ‘their hunting and fishing. ~ Some day jeeps will be carrying vacationists from ‘Alaska to the Isthmus or perhaps even to Buenos Aires. That may be the grand tour for future tourists. There will be jeep honeymoons, jeep camping trips, p cowboys and jeep farmers. The jeep is in the army

‘now, but there are a thousand Jobs waiting for it when it |

its discharge.

ETH FOR MR. McNUTT G men in the 38-44 age group is justified by the growing seriousness of the manpower shortage. tive service has abolished the automatically deferred I-H classification into which all such men have been placed Ee 2 last December, and has ordered draft boards to reslassify these older registrants according to their occupa- , ‘dependency status and physical fitness. The army probably still does not want men past 37 for jombat duty, but there must be many of the 4,000,000 in the 44 group whose age has been their only reason for deferent, and who are fully capable of non-fighting duty in th e military establishments at home and abroad. The army nd navy should accept them and stop depending entirely ‘the dwindling reservoir of younger men and youths for ill its needs. : . Wehope that i is the purpose of the’ new selective service

: However, there apparently is another prpose—ito put teeth into Manpower Commissioner McNutt's “workght” order. Older men, when reclassified, can be told : fay on the farms, or return to the farms from-jobs in 7, under threat of military induction if they refuse. te , older men can be similarly told to move from nonntial ‘to essential industries, under the same threat.

“Work or fight” seems to us a sound principle, but we |

‘not believe Mr.- McNutt has any legal power to enforce

Indeed, many Congressmen contend that attempts to} | the draft to make men work where Mr. McNutt thinks %

7 should work are, contrary to the intent of congress. We still believe that no man, except by clear authority | congress, should be granted draft deferment for working | whe he i is told to work, or threatened with induction for fusing. Congress should write “work-or-fight” into law, “congress should lay down the rules for its fair and ctive enforcement. : :

VANCOUVER merchant has sent to. Canada’s price administrator, Donald Gordon, a striking reminder of avpent ™ when Inflation is permitted to take over a

The reminder was three German stamps; sich used jend a letter from the Reich to (Canada at six-month i inIs in 1922-23. The first stamp was for 250,000 marks ab preworid exchange $59,500. The second was for 200,000,000 t pre-war rates $47,600,000. The third was for

00.000 marks, at pre-war exchange one. billion, one |

' carelessness over the years and’ in the ‘confusion of | the scuffle with John L. Lewis and thé C. I. O,,.gang- |

with a record as a white-slaver, bootlegger and brawler had been "feted by officials of the national

° war labor board nd of the textlle| ,

workers’ union of the C. I. O. in

the . central Massachusetts Joint board of that union, embracing 23 locals. -

| = The next day there was a follow-story reporting. | the personal disinclination of a press agent for the

New England regional war labor board, a public

employee, himself president of aC. L -O. local in| Worcester, namely the Newspaper Guild, to publish . ‘the facts of the case on the ground that this would ‘be more harmiyl to the workers than the continuing | | activity of a man who, it now. appears, had

managed to conceal his record from his fellow - Yownsmen of the rank and file.

Prompt Action First of Kind

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS TE ‘however, “the Massachusetts state director of the union announced.

that the new president of the Joint board had re-|

signed, presumably by request, ‘effective at once, The director added, without disputing the facts as published, that nevertheless they had been exaggerated and colored and insisted that the retiring official was not, as stated, an habitual loafer but on the contrary, a mill worker, employed steadily since 1939. This prompt action of a group of C. I. O. unions to remove an underworld character fr a position of authority and power is the first of its kind and presents a contrast to the conduct of the American Federation of Labor in many similar worse cases. The higher councils of the textile workers, a poverty trade in need of clean, responsible organization, apparently disagreed with the president of the Wor-

cester Newspaper Guild and they will be respected |’

for their decision, whereas William Green, thd president of the A. F. of L., and others of the arrogant hierarchy cf the older group have aroused opposition in and out of the unions and brought the A. F, of L. into disrepute as a front for racketeers.

Case Closed With Honor

THE TEXTILE WORKERS’ union will gain, not

lose, by this prompt, honest admission of error, for they have closed the incident. with: honor. : Green made a very bad decision about four years ago when. he took the attitude that attacks on the crooks who infest his organization were attacks on

labor. He tolerated a program of couiiter-atta through a number of dirty little union: Ppublicatio: which are, ‘in themselves, rackets used to intimidate merchants and other employers: and to promote the crooked enterprises of union racketeers. - Pi Had Green admitted, for example, that, ‘throught |

sters and other ‘traitors to labor. ‘had acquired ‘power in A. F. of L. unions and: had he sincerely. tried .to throw them: out, he would: have spared his organization the scandal; wish Neg dicisaged fhe A. F. of be itself.

‘No Hands Raised i “Help IN NOT A sir ‘case dia any A. F. of L. umion or the executive “in Washington raise ‘a hand to help a public. prosecutor to indict aa convict any.

parasite on Igbor and every ‘person who ; ok. to drive out such and put them in jail Vi vitfed tn

the orations and the press ‘of the very tacketeers who

used, and still use, A. F. of L. charters as permits to |

rob workers, employees and the public and exploit. the members to support. racing stables and acquire yachts and villas in Florida. Infested though it is with Communists more dan< gerous because of their intelligence, nce subtlety than the common crooks of the A. PF. of L., the: ©. 1. O. nevertheless is by commdn on including mine, inhospitable and unattractive to ord!nary racketeers. Still, KeteeTse o 1. adsurance Wat if a crook was uncovered in high position in a C. I. O. union, the reaction would be honest and decent. The present test case, met swiftly and without pain, shows that the A. F. of L. has paid heavily 3 for the mistake of

Mr. Green.

In Washinglon

By. Peter Edson

(The second of series on fresiom of the air)

{ WASHINGTON, March: 10— Continuing this . pow - wow = on “freedom of the air” for flying— not talking—as started by La Luce and Senor Wallace, there are today two ways in which a country like the Argentine republic might grant the right for ‘planes of another nation to fly over her terri-

tory. First, the Argentine government might grant a franchise to an + Aisioah company to operate the service, Argentina, having no aviation industry of her own. The U. S. government cuts no figure in a deal of ‘this kind, other than the normal control which any government has over its own citizens and corporate entities. Some government officials are openly hostile to ‘any’ private citizens making an airline “franchise. contract with a foreign government, though other

foreign business has been done that way for years. |

This brings up the second method by which an

[ international air agreement can be made for planes |

of. one nation to fly over or land on territory of another nation. This is to have the two govesnmants make the contract. .

International Complications a

_HERE YOU RUN into complications. When two goverriments make the deal, tendencies are for them to grant recpirocal rights. “We let you fly over our territory if you let us fly over yours.” Or, in the case of a country like Argentina, which has no avia-

. Worcester, Mass, on his eleva- | * tion to the office of president of |

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! ‘WASHINGTON, March ‘There is no longer much doubt that in the post-war the United States will take over “control of Japan's 1 iid . islands in the Pacific. But ‘talk:

Japan's teeth must be A

ol 7 Once that is done through her unconditional surren= .

der and disarmament, the Pacific will be Xeph; iia, by international agreement. Sirice events have placed the chief burden Uncle Sam’s shoulders, he must be allowed ad naval and air bases/throughout tk t ares to facllitate

Apt

“-f the job.

But this does not ‘that countries other foes Japan will be in the least disturbed. Great. Bl France, The Netherlands, Australia and New all possess islands there, and no informed here doubts that they will retain them. : What is likely is a working agreement making the naval and air facilities of a available to all.

Obtained by ‘Blackmail’

THE UNITED STATES is the logical hele to - Japan’s Pacific mandate. These islands are the step-

-ping stones between Hawaii and the Philippines. -

Without them, Japan's sneak punch at Pearl Harbor and her rapid conquest of the Philippines ond the. East Indies would have been impossible. Japan got these islands by a ‘species of blackmail. Early in 1917, Japan and the entente entered into & secret agreement entitling her to take over German’ * interests in Shantung and elsewhere dn ‘the western * Pacific. At the Paris peace conference, she demanded fulfillmeiit or she would walk out of the parley and 4 disrupt, if not destroy, the budding league of nations. This was the real beginning of the ent = policy whick: continued to flourish until Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, and the Japs have never ceased to 3 chuckle over their cleverness.. Their admirals have frankly admitted that the gift was worth more than a fleet of battleships.

An Admiral Gloats

“AMERICA’S ONLY naval base in the Orient.” #: said Admiral Kichijiro Hamada, “is ig the Philippines. _ And.America will not be able to protect the Philip-. pines unless she can gain control of the strategical

"| line stretching from Pearl Harbor to Manila.”

The Hoosier Forum

i wholly disagree with what you say, but will gefend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

| “$100 DEPOSITED T0: COMPLY

WITH MR. BERLING'S TERMS" ao: ey Beaten, 1405 Merchants Bank / Thomas A. Berling, of 2823 N. Olney gt., Indianapolis, had a pubig letter in the Sattirday afternoon | edttion. of your newspaper, casti-

| = gating Pegler. His offer of a thou-{ ‘|sand to ‘one bet struck me as on a

‘par ‘with’ the loose tisinking in the ‘test of the letter. The letter did contain a most worthy thought, ‘he beneficiary of this wager should be the. Red Cross. Tam!’ ‘therefore attaching’ hereto ‘my personal check in. the amount of $100, fo comply with the terms of Mr. Berling’s letter for the purpose, not of engaging in any dis-

and | pute as to the merits or the truth={" fulness of Mr. Pegler’s writings or|

Mr. Berling’s irresponsible lefter, but ‘with the- thought that this check might serve as a basis of enlisting in a good cause, namely the Red Cross, the services of Mr. Berling, whose enthusiasm would be most valuable if devoted to something worthy, such as the Red Cross. ten Mr, Berling has deposited his $100 with you in accordance with the terms of the letter, you may use the $100 enclosed as a gift to the Red Cross. Then in accordance with the terms of his letter he is to obtain 1000 affidavits from satisfied, honest, unselfish unionists in accordance with his own terms, for each labor leader found to be either selfish, incorrigible or otherwise undesirable during wartime. The only reason for my requirement that Mr. Berling submit his $100 to you is not to carry on this argument about labor and its leaders, but to obtain solicitations for the Red Cross. If he does not wish to get the affidavits mentioned in his letter, a donation from a union member in the amount of $1 or more to the Red Cross may be accepted ‘by you in lieu of the affidavit of satisfaction. When Mr. Berling has deposited

his $100 with you I will supply the

Py readers are invited to express t their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. « Because of the volume received, letters must be limited to 25Q words, . Letters must be signed.)

names of American labor leaders from Pegler’s file of the last twe years, taking only those that have criminal or near ¢ ‘records, and ‘for each one so named Mr. | Berling is to obtain either one affi-

davit in accordance with his letter, or a”donation of $1 from each| member in the raiio of 1000 such

dollars or alfidavits per name sub-

mitted by me, I do not care tc have any publicity to this letter or add .to thei; already over-stimulated feeling of

animosity on the part of Mr. Berl-}

ing and his friends to Mr. Pegler. My only purpose is to get Mr. Berling and his labor friends to work for the Red Cross and obtain $1000 for the Red Cross for each une worthy labor leader so named. conceive his letter as an excellent opportunity to get some vigorous solicitations in behalf of the Red Cross. I believe it is incumbent upon ‘Mr. Berling now to put up the $100 and do the solicitation for: the Red Cross in accordance with his letter. Else he and his group stands convicted of public dissemination of information which willl: not stand -the light of publicity. After all, I do riot like a number of Pegler’s articles, but I have yet to find anyone who has successfully disputed the basic facts on which his conclusions are from time’ to time drawn. If the fact that I put up the $100 causes ‘Mr, Berling to renege on his bet, I will assume the responsibility of getting Mr. Pegler’s permission for me to act in his behalf. LA 2 ® 2 (Editor's Note: Mr. Scales’ $100 check is now on file at The Indi anapolls Times) Ee :

Side Glances—By Galbraith _

ok is bus at 5 0 the {ios wou save. teem fussed back

God made the irae and it 1s no ; right ck

(Mc) NUTS. : I want it knowr. to all of the

Westbrook: Peglers gripers, that 1 um for him one hundred per-cent, in all of his writings, and what he has to say, and if he didn’t have the proof, I don’t believe he would

off to you Mr. Pegler on the writeup in the Feb. 10 Times. That expresses ‘iy * thoughts to, concerning one George Spelvin, an American, of which I am one. I would’nt give you a dime for all of {he Harry Hopkins, Paul Vorhis Me-

Nutt, Ed Flynn, and all of the rest| of the so-called big shots, also the

louse, senate, and congress, when fhey ‘do nothing but throw sixty-{our-dollar questioris around, and almost get in to a fight over dogs, which has'nt any-thing to do with winning this war, snd helping the {ax-payers ease their burdens, well, {io get back to Mr. Fegler, I'll quote, MeNutts to you McNutt, unquote, I think that Roosevelt is making a big inistake in giving McNutt so much isower, and to much power is’nt good

wou all see what happened when Hitler, and Mussolini got to much power, and now comes along Boob McNutt telling us where to work, how long to work, stc. Why not put us all in a consentration amp, Heil, McNutt, You und your man: shortage, gives me & laugh, ‘there are men right here in our own home town willing and

{ence factories has the same silly unswer, (nothing to-day) you put in un application and they will tell you ‘we will call you,” yes in 1963 when ithe next War starts. As George {ipelvin say’s “What sbout those ums, why don’t they: quit their jobs +nd go to work.” Iv'e often wondered what would

‘liappen if the tax-payers went on

iitrike and refuse to pay any-more

"i the state, sna'e ad to caich clock {his winter, the

le aloud to publish same; so hats|

We the Women

or any one man, even Roosevelt, |;

ready to work, as all of these de-}

Guam, he gloated, “is America’s. only stepping stone. - to the Philippines, and Guam is surrounded and nul-.. lified by the Japanese group.” As long as Japan holds’ = these’ islands, he continued, she can: lick both the =~ United States and Great Britain. Pearl Harbor be- *- ‘comes just a “white elephant” on the hands of Amer- - ica and Singapore “a useless luxury in the possession of the English.” i Jaluit, among the Marshall islands, was ‘the first of the German archipelago seized by. the Japs in 1914, .- From this vicinity, apparently, they launched the attack on Pearl Harbor. ‘

Worthless in Peacetime a EVEN IN 1014 Washington realized; at least to --

some extent, the value of th8 islands, for the day. ‘=

after the Jaluit seizure the American naval attache = at Tokyo called on the navy office to get confirma= * tion and inquire if the occupation was to be Jermak ae nent. Japan’s first naval headquarters—after! the mandate—were set .up at Truk, but soon after moved to Palau, This, sail Admiral Hamada, “was certainly

a wise move.”. 'It made it easier to keep watch over ...

the Philippines and the: East Indies as well as “to =:

check the western advance of the American fleet.”

The Japanese admit the islands are “worthless ‘= in a region where there is no war.” Economically they are not productive, but “they are unsinkable bat- ot tleships and aircraft carriers.” Financially they will be liabilities rather than _assets, but in our hands, and with the. co-operation...

of the other interested powers, the peace of the .-

Pacific will be safe for an indefinite, period.

! caxhy

Sey

By Ruth Millett

MICKEY ROONEY, who has . played the typical American boy " in a whole series of Andy Hardy films, has let his employers ask that his 1-A classification be changed on the grounds that. he - is an essential worker in an essential industry. It looks as though it were time

don’t you write the last half?

| “Write it the way an Andy Hardy story