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THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1943

. FREEDOM FROM WANT? RESIDENT ROOSEVELT yesterday laid clearly before the nation the one big domestic political issue for the 1044 elections, regardless of whether he personally becomes =: the candidate of his party.

: - Not since the Declaration of Independence has so pro _ found a change in the philosophy of government of this nation been seriously suggested by a responsible American. « Essentially the National Resources Planning Board has * ‘proposed, and the president has recommended, a form of _ benevolent fascism under which the federal government “after the war would largely control business and industry, would regulate prices and wages, would supervise education, : and would guarantee complete financial security to every : «individual from birth to death.

Upon most of these proposed new federal powers he places nominal limits. Prices are to be controlled only for Gen rationing of foods and other commodities is to be _ continued only temporarily, private enterprise is to be + invited into a partnership with government. But practically they are powers that cannot be limited. Government price regulation compels rationing, as it has done in the past .six months, and for the last 3000 years whenever it was . undertaken. = RIVATE management will always and invariably be the junior partner in any partnership with government, and government's policies inevitably will prevail. Nor will it ‘be found practicable to place some industry under federal control and leave other, and often competing, industry out- . gide such control. Governmental fixing of the costs of material, the wages of workmen and the selling prices of ..-products alone if continued indefinitely is sufficient to elim:.inate any real private management. . With the best inteni tions in the world it is doubtful whether any government can administer such a program for some industry without rapidly expanding it to include all industry.

The partnership theory has been tried in the parallel : field of social security where the federal government con- : tributes an equal share with state and local governments . for public welfare requirements. It has led swiftly and | certainly to complete federal domination of the welfare programs of the state and county governments that participate. i An article, the first of a series by Norman E. Isaacs, in this newspaper today reveals how ‘control of relief and social security policies in Indiana ‘already has passed out of the : hands of state and local officials into the hands of federal

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of federal funds: unless complete Obedience is given to : federal edicts.

; Indiana already, in the legislative session Suit ended, * has rejected federal partnership in education by refusing : proffered federal money to aid in the maintenance of schools. * The proposed post-war plan would greatly expand this fed- ; eral share in local education, even to the extent of pro- : viding free lunches for all school children and continuing : financial help to students on through college. Here, too, . the road leads inevitably toward increasing federal jurisdic: © tion over local school systems and colleges, beginning quite

' and moving relentlessly on to complete control,

. THE ideal of a nation in which every man, woman and child would be forever free from want is an appealing : one, and one of great political potentiality. So is the reas- - surance to organized labor that the power it has gained in the last decade is not to ‘be limited, but rather to be in- : creased, and that unions are to share in the management of . industry along with the owners and the government, which has been a major goal of many potent union leaders.

But on the other hand the presentation of this dual pro“gram is in a’sense a confession that this brightest dream { of the New Deal, after 10 years of trial, cannot be made to i ‘work under the traditional American system of free enteri prise—that to achieve it the economy of the nation must be reorganized into a kind of ‘national socialism.

The proposal probably will not be received with enthusiasm by the present congress which only a few weeks ago voted the national resources planning board out of existence. It will not be accepted readily by the voters of :

the Middle West, already in ballot-box rebellion against the |

identical, but ‘smaller, program the ‘national administration | has been trying since 1933. RR

“But at least the issue is deat: The New I Deal has told the people of the United States frankly where it hopes to go. The. decision rests finally with the voters in 1944. |

IT'S LATE, FOR FINLAND: LE

Now that Finland: bas: eoragabiod | Bok cabliict and dropped some of those closest to: Berlin, Americans |

Top the Peace moves about which Bee) has been x

x fon om: Helsinki de i Set sbund very ner Tn the cabinet have. not been

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By Westbrook Pegler

as a substitute.

Tt 1s made of both animal fat and vegetable ofls| | derived .from cottonseed, the soybean and coconuts | 1 and, in some cases, of a mixture of both. In some

cases, too, it contains a proportion of real butter. There is a strong prejudice or superstition against margarine, a hangover from the sensational pure food and drug crusade of 40 years ago when pious deacons and old ladies of faultless purity would get cockeyed on patent medicines to cure the misery, never suspecting that they were rum pots, and mothers would quiet their teething babies with slugs of opium.

Dairy States Won Restrictions

SOME OF the oleo was misrepresented as real butter “and much of it was sold as butterine and, no doubt, in those experimental days it did contain some

fragments of hide, hoof and horn and some of it}.

turned rancid. : Taking advantage of this, the dairy states lobbied through federal legislation to restrict the sale of margarine and cast suspicion on it for the benefit of the dairy industry. Although its parole report has been excellent since. then, people nevertheless remember that margarine once was indicted by the grand Jury, =o to speak, and got a suspended sentence. The federal government requires a tax of onefourth of a cent a pound from the manufacturer and a license tax of $6 a year from the retailer and various states have tariffs running from 5 to 15 cents 8 pound. The retail price of margarine is 25 cents a pound or less while butter is 51 to 53 cents, but the margarine manufacturers with whom I have been conferring and who, I trust, would not take advantage of my innocence, claim that any tariff above 5 cents a pound, whether it is collected at a rate per pound or by means of a high license fee, makes the cost prohibitive for a product which is, frankly, a substitute for butter which, naturally is preferred as being the genuine article, Butter was here first and has a fine reputation and the substitute has hard going.

Government Now Buying It

MARGINE IS sold uncolored, although most butter is artificially coloréd so as to present the year-round rich appearance that is natural only in the spring, and some butter is artificially flavored, too. However, vegetable coloring matter is sold with

. margarine to be mixed in by the consumer if he wants

to.. It appeals only to the eye, though. It makes no difference in the quality or taste, and if butter were sold without coloring it would not be perceptibly gayer in appearance than margarine 10 months of the year. Recently, the same federal government which stigmatizes margarine by the tax and the retail license fee, has been buying quantities of it, never theless, for the fighting men simply because there is not enough butter to be had. So perhaps we will be lucky to get even marge, as the British call it, by the end of the year.

Tariff of No Help

APPARENTLY, in such situations, any terested party can buy medical opinion to defend the virtues of his own goods or disparage the other man’s. Thus, the dairyman probably can cite learned verdicts that ‘margarine is axle B¥ease and unfit food for man or beast, which would be a harsh arraignment of the army in view of the purchases for soldiers. On the other hand, fhe margarine producers have medical opinions which insist that oleo is practically leaping with vitamins and suggest that the tariffs and other fees were imposed not for the public protection, but as trade restrictions of doubtful legality under the constitution. Anyway, if margarine is bad for people, no tariff makes it any better. It makes it cost that much more and gives people an idea that they are eating some-’ thing not quite good, a depressing prospect, considering that reasonably soon most of us will have to come to it,

In Washington By Peter Edson eens

(Third of a series on freedom of She air.)

WASHINGTON, March 11.— Up to the outbreak of the war, there were two international regulatory bodies controlling air trans-. port between nations. As mentioned in the first article of this series, the principle of “sovereignty of the air” was éstablished by the treaty of Versailles. This was impleménted by de Paris air convention of 1920, which was amended in 1927 d 1920. The Paris conventiofi created an outfit wih became known as CENA—Comite International ge Navigation Aerienne, The United States was never represented on CINA because this’ “country never ‘ratified the Versailles treaty. CINA met frequently, nevertheless, to take up all subjects having to do with governmental control of airlines, and it was the regulatory body largely responsible for the development of European | me a oranspatt, rt, oe before the United went on bilities this business might have. = oe Pees " A country didn’t have to control her own to be represented on CINA.

represented and could put in her two cents’ worth 2s to how much service by air she required, ‘and what kind of restrictions she would impose on landing rights ii in her Spu-ajacsnt ‘air or planes dn’t even “make the Bulgarian capital a flag stop. oa :

Court Jurisdiction Puzzle THERE WAS another agreem ent se

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what wou say, but will defend to the death your right to say. it—Voltaire.

“HOMEMAKING OFFERS A BIGGER CHALLENGE” By Mrs. BR. S., Sullivan, Open letter to Mrs. Walter -Ferguson: In your March 1 column, “ ‘Home’ Woman Becoming Extinct,” I am puzzled by your remarks as well as those of Miss Vivian Rellems, whom yg quoted on that day, in regard to the fight the men are going to have if they try to make the women return to their nurseries and kitchens after the war. - Miss Kellems says, “If we’re good enough to get into the factories and turn out ammunition in order to win this war, we're good enough to hold those jobs after the war.” If the manpower problem should become so acute that the mothers of small children are needed to keep the factories going, it would be with regret that I should park my children in a day nursery to take a factory job. And you can rest assured I would be impatient for the time when I could take the children and go home.

For about five years before marriage I did secretarial work and I thought my position so fortunate that I felt a little sorry for the friends of mine who were tied down by small children and could not afford the clothes that I did, Now, after four and a half years of mar-

. |riage I have made many a mental

apology for my former attitude. These’ past four and a half years have béen the happiest and most satisfying of my life and the sailing has not always been smooth for we have had our share of illness and financial worries. Washing dishes

as smooth and white as they were when I worked in an office and 'I cannot gad about as I used to do, but I would never willingly give up my present job for the one I used to have. Miss Kellems wants to “sit at a table and determine the kind of peace that shall be made and the kind of world we and our children are going to have in the future.” It may be old-fashioned but I still believe that the hand that rocks the {their ‘cradle is. the hand ust rules the world, ; " How many orien in industry

whether we have ‘another holocaust

and diapers have not kept my hands i

will do as much to determine

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a generation from now as the mothers who are helping to build the characters and habits of the next generation?

What good will it do us to write the peace terms if our children are turned loose on’ the streets to shift for themselves and to learn the morals and manners of hoodlums? , . .

Mrs. Ferguson, you say, “If: the war keeps up: long enough. all the | soft-hearted dames will be out sling- |’ ing pitchforks and. hammers and bombs, and no master ho IW. gentlenatured you may: be, , you can’t hold the. pose indefinitely after you’ ve. been toughened up by several emergencies.” If the gentle-nature is just a pose you are probably right, but I have known farm women who have done work thal seems almost stiperhuman to me . . . and who remsined “gen-, tle-natured, soft-hearted dames.” " How a woman can be “too smart. to bother with babies’ or “too capable to waste theriselves on housework” is beyond-me. ; . . There are jobs which eall for, 20% ‘specialized knowledge but: ‘I know of none which require more knowledge than a good job of hom:making. aso A ‘woman who intends to-keep up with her husband and children needs ' to ‘know : everyting - from | taxes to what makes an airplane stay up. I think that homemaking offers a bigger challenge and pays bigger dividends to an intelligent, capable woman, . Women like Miss ‘Kel lems, I believe their number is small, will probably me an old-fashioned sentimentalist, but I'll bet most wives and mothers would not. trade jobs for one in a factory. Or if they did take a job in industry for the duration of the war, that their husbands would jnof have a fight on their hands to get them to

return home after the War, I would

Side Glances—By Galbraith _

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pate de fois gras factory, killing the passengers and i.

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hate for ‘the men who read her speech to think that very many women feel as she does. , , , ; CNEL “ACTION 365 DAYS

AND’ NIGHTS OF YEAR”

| By Holbert C. May, 916 Pearson st.

Mrs. N.K.... The title of your column was “Let's Have Action on Saturday Nigh As I understand it you were praising Mr. Beeker, our new chief of police, for cieaning up the gambling in our city. That tribute was rightfully paid. But you dlso said in your own opinion that some of his aids should have a little cleaning too. It’s rather astonishing to me that some-

a young girh. before: our ‘American ‘women : want action on or by .our police force. ' 3

placed! ‘oni the same’ footing :as men it meant just that." When: our young girls of today conceive the idea that ‘they can ‘walk into taverns, swear smoke and drink as much whisky as

“|men do, they are placing them-

selves in a position” for: the same kind of treatment that men: often get. I would suggest that before we criticize anyone that we keep our younger generation of boys and girls -away. from such places and by so doing, we would help to protect their young lives and set much

generation -to_ follow. . , .

that law and don’t be the first. to break it. . . . Pat your policeman on

prouc! you are of his service; it will not only maké him feel good, but give nim the courage to carry on. And when we do this I'm sure we - will. ‘not. only have action on Saturday nights by our’ police, but action days and nights in the year. :

“OUR, PRESIDENT IS DOING A REAL MAN'S JOB” By J. BR. Gray, 1256 S. Belmont st. I just can’t resist answering a letter written by Mr: Charles wil, liam Schaffer. omic It is very true that ‘some . think that everybody who has been elected into political office since the new deal are racketeers, shyster lawyers, soapbox orators, reds, pinks, isms, shyster - utopians, etc. but

= | |there is never any attempt by any \l one ¢1 you to name them and prove

your point. . . . I.elso wholly disagree with what you say about American political life being the lowest ever known. It is by far the highest ever known.

.| Every American every day is realiz-

nig more and more ‘what polities mears to the life of every individual

days it is the individual who decides who their leader shall be. When and eS gets rents: will

thing of this nature has to happen/| . . + (meaning the brutal attack of}

When our feniinine sex - were 5

So let's be good people and co-| operate with our police force. .And| [SE when there is a law passed uphold

the. back ‘some tite. “Tell "him how|

American, Thank God that in these

brought about a real ‘meeting of | minds between the United States, Ny Great Britain and ‘the ‘Soviet | Unioh in the near future, immense ‘harm may be done the. ‘Whole allied cause. Vide . It did take President Wallace's ie Sr

A ioe afior auoths has. Hass 0. cloud Yela-

1 tions between the British and Americans on the ‘one ’ hand, and; Soviet Russia on the other, ana

Helpful Only to Hitler

' ON FEB. 22, Preinier Stalin told bis countrymen ‘that “the Red army ‘alone is bearing the whole weight of the war.” On the same day, Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky announced caustically in London ‘that the Soviet expected a speedy fulfillment of the decisions taken at Casablanca. * Before that, Premier Stalin turned down the pressing invitations of Président Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to attend the North African conference, and before that there was bitter criticism ‘in Moscow against Britain and America for neg opening up a second front in 1942. ‘And so on. These goings: on, it is pointed out; are helpful to nobody but Adolf Hitler and his gang. Cleared of an enormous amount of underbrush, I think it can safely be said that the United States has only one war-aim, and that is the unconditional surrender of the axis.

Problems Are Piling Up

AS FOR RUSSIA, opinion here seems to be approximately 100 per cent with the vice president when he speaks of the urgent need of a better understanding between her and ourselves. Military questions, political differences, boundary problems ‘and other things are piling up between us—things that could be promptly ironed out if only we could get together. Unfortunately there are some in high place here who, like Vice President Wallace, seem to think the principal fault is ours. These forget the whole ‘history -of Soviet-American. relations for the Past decade. < The first major move in the foreign field made by President Roosevelt was to invite the Kremlin to send a representative to Washington with 4 view to ‘Russian recognition, Mr. Roosevelt said it was no concern of ours what kind of government the Russians had. If they liked it, it was all right with us. All we asked in return was that Moscow should concede - to us the same privilege of living our own ‘way; On that basis, the $wo countries resumed diplo‘matic relations in Now r, 1933. Roan

Takes Two to Reach Accord

THE TWO MEN who negotiated that pact were President “Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign. Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, now ambassador to Washington. What is needed now, of all times, it is widely felt here, is a re-implementation of the Roosevelt-Lit-vinoff spirit for the duration and after. The closest possible rapprochement is ardently desired here and in London. All hands want to lick Hitler and Hitlerism and ‘this will not be easy without a better understanding than exists at present. Nor will be the 0b. of world rehabilitation after the war. . ‘But it takes at least two to make an agreement, and thus far the wooing of Moscow by Washington and London has been a mighty one-sided affair, Mr. Wallace's inferences to the contrary Ewan Ing.

Dress Rehearsal’ By Stephen lls

QUENTIN REYNOLDS has done it again! And this time with one of his very, very best. The ; title is “Dress Rehearsal” and it’s a full-sized book about one subject—the Dieppe raid.

§ latest Reyholds’ volume, but the sheer. merits ot his. as -aocourits, of the ting at Dieppe. simply’ Em

finer. examples “for the younger| |g

Dieppe was not an sh but a ii “raid he contends was nothing more or less than practice for the invasion of North Africa. What's more, he makes that contention tenable he unfolds his story. * He was in a beautiful. spot, since he 1 on the destroyer which carried the Dieppe attackers’ high command, and he got the one, full birds’-eye picture of the whole gory scrap. 3

W's a Grade A Thril

REYNOLDS 18 ONE of the great reporters of this war. He has a flip glibness that sometimes takes the edge off what he’s trying to put across, but he comes “closest to Ernie Pyle in being, able to write so that the average man and. woman can ‘get the “feel” of

war. And that is precisely what brother Reynolds does with the Dieppe raid. Here was one of the most fascinating commando exploits of the war, partici pated in by American, Canadian and British troops and planes. ’ At long last, what apparently is the inside story comes to us in the form of this book—the planning, the stealthy creeping up, the attack, the disappoint. ments, the withdrawal . . . the stories of the wounded + + - the terrible shock of men facing their first bullets : «+. all of it told by a top-notch writing man. 0, i 2 For a grade-a thrill, get 1 this one now. ~~ © Random House, New Nor, gu : am va

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