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“SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1943

| PERSISTEN T BOONDOGGLE |,

© Wr is only a memory. CWA is long gone. CCC has vanished before the needs of the armed forces. But nk 2 lingers on—still relieving the unemployed in April, Under the distraction of acute farm labor shortage and compulsory 48-hour weeks and civilian work armies we might have forgotten all about this’pale ghost of the great depression if NYA had not, this week, fallen into : dispute with Marion county. NYA, it appears, has a buildng which Marion county owns and gravely needs and NYA . intends to keep it, come hell an’ high water. There is nothing, it would seem, temporary about the national youth : administration. 3 -NYA began in 1935, reputedly at the behest of Mrs. : Eleanor Roosevelt, as a division of WPA, to provide relief and cash handouts for nominal duties to unemployed young men and women. By 1939 it had grown up into a fullfledged bureau in its own right, under the direction of Aubrey (“Vote to Keep Your Friends in Power”) Williams, who at that time still had an open mind about retaining the : American form of government. 2 a 8 ; ® 8 = Y 1940 it had become obvious that there no longer was any need for its services, if indeed there ever had been any need, and NYA career executives were out beating the

. bushes trying to find young people they could aid without

: finding as many as they wanted. There was considerable

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sentiment in congress against keeping it at all, but the E Dresidon was insistent, and NYA announced it had changed © its ways and henceforth would train large numbers of

: ! young men-and women for jobs in war industry. Subse-

quent examinations of this program in many cities revealed

that this “training” frequently was only a sham, and that |

at best it was far more costly and considerably less thorough than training offered by the public schools or the war industries themselves. “Last year it cost $87,842,459.73. That is approximately the total income tax paid by 1,200,000 families who earned $2500 each last year, or roughly the price of 350 Flying Fortresses. = ® » # : » ” ‘ HERE is some evidence that the Indianapolis training . center is one of the best NYA has, from the standpoint : of management and operation—but that is hardly the point.

With, & fhortage of labor so acute that ' farms and fn |

dustries gre pleading with women to quit their homes and

. old men to come out of retirement and work, how can we

justify a government relief project for the unemployed—

: no matter how efficiently its local branch may be run?

In the face of those circumstances it is easy to understand the impatience of Marion county officials who rightly

now find it blocking the way to a needed reform in the care

of Marion county’s delinquent children.

- FOR UNITY IN LABOR POLICY

IN these difficult times,” reports the senate’s Truman

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committee— “It is most unfortunate that labor is split into several . bitterly antagonistic camps, the leaders of which, for the . preservation of their own positions and prestige, must compete with each other in an attempt to convince the rank

{ and file of labor, organized and unorganized, that they, and * they alone, are the true champions of labor's rights.”

The president of the biggest A. F. of L. union, Daniel J. Tobin of the teamsters, has just stated the truth even ‘more bluntly. Asserting that he is “losing all hope” that A. F. of L.-C. I. O. peace conferences can produce any genuine agreement to end jurisdictional conflicts, Mr. Tobin says:

“Individual selfishness, a great desire on each side for its full 16 ounces of its pound of flesh, and a desire to

: . wrangle over small matters to the injury of the great

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* multitude of workers, in my judgment, will make it im-

% possible to reach an understanding . . . for the interest

and for the preservation of the membership of labor. Some men on both sides are so hungry for officership, and so timid

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"are in the wrong, that they will not help to bring about an

agreement.”

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jurisdictional wars and membership raids between and within the big labor organizations impose heavy and fut nalties on employers, on the public and, now, on the war{production program. They.injure workers, instead. of promoting their welfare. They" grow out of the _ ruthless ambition of labor leaders for personal power, and there isn’t myth prospect that they will be ended by appeals, uch-as the(Truman committee makes, for these" leaders to “demo ate that they are statesmen and patriots.” But, as the committee observes: \

“The situation is made much more difficult by the cregen and continuation of a number of separate government agencies, each attempting to administer a segment of the : problem, and some in competition with others, with e “result that none has the prestige and authority to, cleave straight to the issue and announce a settlement which obtain general acceptance.”

a And the committee is clearly right in urging that these

separate agencies be “co-ordinated and stabilized under |

: one ‘competent, experienced and responsible head,” just

as it is right in urging that authority over all phases .of

the domestic ‘war program be centralized in a few officials

_ of high ability, each solely responsible for the administration of certain activities.

. Editor, in U. 8. Service

' hospitals, schools, nurseries and recreation halls near

By Daniel M. Kidney:--— ~~

member of the-house labor sommittee which is holding hearings

his own interim’ report. In it the absen are absolved of any guilt.

tigue,” Mr. Landis says.

liquor, labor hoarding, workers who quit™ without. giving notice, inexperienced workers, monotony of

and wet floors), long distance to jobs and faulty planning of the work. :

Laws Not the Only Answer

“OUR NATIONAL AVERAGE for absenteeism is from 6 to 8 per cent. Willful violators will average less than 2 per cent.. The national average in 1918 was 18 per cent. ; “During the first world war a survey was s made of absenteeism in 90 shipyards. The monthly average varied from 26 per cent in January to 13 per cent in June in steel shipyards. The nine-month average for wooden shipyards was ahout 13 per cent. :

“Absenteeism in 81 shipyards in 1942 was reported at 6.7 per cent in April and 7.8 per cent in October.’

_ “Great Britain learned by experience that legislation and force were not the sole answer to the problem of absenteeism. England's average is about 10 per cent.” Urging co-operation between labor, management and government in solving the problem, Mr, Landis suggested that an adequate survey be the first step taken so. that data may be studied upon which to base future action.

A Program to Follow

HE ‘RECOMMENDS the following program now: Eliminate poor housing and transportation; establish good labor-management committees; build more

war plants; establish better community service, such as shopping accommodations and entertainment; better plant facilities, including sanitary and safety conditions, which insure proper heating, ventilation and adequate lavatory facilities; use worker incentives, such as badges, chevrons, honor rolls and weekend vacations; present educational programs, including moving pictures, lectures and bulletins relating to plant; operations; have government and management assume proper raw material allocation and the proper ‘scheduling of fabricated supplies; appeal personally to workers, emphasizing the grave importance of each individual’s job to the war effort; establish a well-organized medical and health program.

Out Goal: The Maximum

“INFORMATION RECEIVED in the committee hearings so far does not warrant any penalty legislation,” Mr. Landis concludes. “But the data received does establish the fact that we can eliminate a great, portion of absentesism by other methods. “Our job is to get the maximum production with the least amount of delay. Many reports are coming in which indicate that our workers are doing a real job in our war plants. Free labor and free management in America can out-produce any economy in which labor is enslaved and management shackled. “American workers are like any one of us, they want to be led, not driven. We must continue to correct our problems in the American wav of adjustment, arbitration and with a live-and-help-live policy.” 28. 3 Westbrook Pegler is on vacation.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 3— About a year ago, a group of major Hollywood producers came to the government film co-ordina-tor, Lowell Mellett, and proposed that the movie industry produce a series of 26 morale pictures a year, to be run in the movie theaters of the country. on alternate weeks with - government-produced short morale films. ~The proposal was agreed to and thus began the arrangement by which some 13.000 out of the 17,000 movie houses now show a “propaganda” short on every program, boosting salvage, [ood rationing; 'car-pooling, rubber congervation and all other multitudinous phases of this complex war effort, as it affects the civilian front. .The difference between industry-made films and government-made films is principally that industry films are more €laborate, since they. can make use of actors, sets, props and fictional treatment of subjects to which the government cannot resort. Government films are forced to stick as close to factual information as is possible. Say it is decided to give a boost to specific war program of a particular government agency. Like salvage. War Production Board Chairman Donald |. M. Nelson is made narrator to tell how salvage can win the war, against a background of shots of junk piles, steel mills, shell factories and fighting fronts. Like manpower. Commissioner Paul V. McNutt is made narrator to encourage men and women to take jobs in war industries, against a series of closeups of what some of those jobs are. 1

Picture Reports’

THE GOVERNMENT also makes what it calls “picture 2 Dont: ” An example is its recent “Troop. Train” It explains why train schedules are i at and goes into the detail of organization required for-troop movement. Incidentally, it puts over the idea that thi¥ is a good-looking army, well handled. But for all such pictures there are no

of real people, being themselves. When Hollywood talent tackles one of these jobs,

tized, treated.

al story intended to drive home the need - for rationinz at home.

phlet on horrors of Hitlerism. Similarly, studios have handled pictures on the

time, conservation, and so on,

New Morale Pictures

FOR THESE. 26 my are making this year, “the government bureau of motion pictures will do research and it does suggest

» will be no conflict between ‘industry and govent issue pictures. The industry doesn’t have to follow the government suggestiofis. ‘The industry's war committee Works out in its bwn way decision on which studio shall make what picture. * .

will have their premiere showings up to May 1 in clude “Paratroop,” “Spirit of '43,” “Troop Train” an explantory picture on “Point Rationing,” “Farmer St

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The Hoosier Fotwm

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

“CONGRATULATIONS ON ‘NO SMOKING’ PROPOSAL” By Mrs. Walter Bracken, 2036 Pennsylvania st. \

Congratulations to Edward Kealing, councilman, for introducing a “no smoking ordinance” in public vehicles. This is one of the finest pieces of humanity I have heard of. There are thousands of people

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because ot the volume received; letters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed.)

and to get on e trolley bus full of

.|my four cents and read some other

the policy of The Times, for I well know that the only force The Times has ever exerted toward making me buy a paper is the fact that the paper is so interesting that I want to read it. And I could keep

paper, or none at all, feeling sure that such a course would not be offerisive to The Times management, even if they were personally acquainted with me.

If it is so depressing to you listening to people enjoying themselves and forgetting for just a lit-

smoke is awful. Also try to get the holes fixed on Pennsylvania street between 16th and 22d streets, Mr. Kealing. Good luck to you. |you should not turn on your radio, at all would be the last ones to want us; to do away with our. entertainments here at home. And so in closing, my dear lady, let me say, I too like sports and as

» » s “POLICEMEN NEVER RECEIVED $200 MONTH” By A Policeman's Wife, Indianapolis . I would like to tell Mrs. James Brothers and anyone else that po-

| written a head over this letter as tle while the horrors of this war, follows:

The boys who are away,

licemen have never received $200. a month in the last 25 years. “There is a bill now passed fo give them $200 but they don’t get that till in ’44, So she doesn’t know what she

{cause life does go on even though

you say there is a time and place ‘for everything. Now is the time for anything that will help us from worrying too much about the boys who are away for the duration, be-'

jwon't starve if you don’t have | meat,” { telligence, if any, but I read ‘the

{body of the article I was told that

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actors, the cast of characters being ‘made up entirely however, the problem is presented with all the tricks 3 in the studio bag, Situations are Aotionized, drama- | . For instance: “Letter From Bataan” was 8 fiction- | “Divide and Conquer” was a dramatiza- | | .| tion of an office of facts and figures Jeopdsands pams | §

eed of the shipbuilding program, keeping £ fit in in wees | shorts which the studios

titles or subjects which might be covered, so- that |

"Morale pictures’ Which ‘are currently showing or

War,” a nutrition picture. called “Food for Fighters,” | led, “Right of

at times it does seem very hard.’ o

“16 POUNDS OF PIGS’ EARS” By Harry 8. Winterrowd, 439 W. Market st,

I note that The Times is using. columns of space, day after day, in the apparent effort to clarify Never did I think I would write a an POI aiioning * letter to Jou Mysell. i us ne i ments of our officials that the raPrasad “ de > TY a o tioning system would be so simple thinks, 1-feel compelled ‘to write| 15%, Everybody. would esstly um you in regard to a letter by Ruth| no 45unt much of the copy for Grey . . . entitled, “There's a Time i; space-filling material is fups for Everything. » nished by the U. 8. government, In this letter, poor Miss or Mrs. jand The Times may be paid for Grey tried to get a radio program its publication. If it is being paid and lo and behold, all she could get’ for why not mark it “advertisewas baskétball and so she thinks ment” or “official” so that readers such celebrating should be stopped. |may study it from the proper view- * My dear Ruth Grey, you are only pgint?* one not to like basketball out of | . In addition to U. S. government thousands who do. Why should we | copy, The Times is daily publishstop something that our boys are ing special articles about rationing fighting to preserve, namely our py writers who are, no doubt, paid American way of enjoying our- py The Times for their special efselves, forts. Since I am a fairly regular ‘May I suggest Ruth, you should reader of The Times and buy a have listened very closely and after|paper when I wish to read it, I the game written all to some friend tee] that the extra cent which I or relative in the service who could ;am now paying for each copy probnot be here to take part. Don't’ ably helps pay for some of these you think they would have. enjoyed | special articles. it? . I am not sttempiing to criticize

» “TIME FOR ANYTHING THAT WILL HELP BAN WORRY” By Mrs. J. C. M,, West Indianapolis I. am an ardent reader of Hoosier Forum. Not only is it interesting, but. at times very amusing.

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MADAME / LOL\TA | YOUR PAST «PRESENT AND FUTURE

|family, and not. for a free tene|ment house for outsiders.

. |kie wouldn’t have. spent her time

.|what to do. .

2 1 -1on lives ‘a lopser life {1 I-pity she grandchildren that see their grandmother

{mi exentty wise io: talk with our

But, (and here is the point I want to make), suppose I ‘had

“1 can live without The |Times.” Of course that statement ‘would be the truth, but don’t you think such a heading would carry a definitely plain suggestion of a very

uncomplimentary attitude toward

The Times? | So when one of your special ‘writers heads an article, “You

it did not appeal to my in»

.article out of curiosity. In the a man of my social standing “could buy 16 pounds of pigs’ ears in a week under the point system.” I am trying my best to remain calm under the rationing system which a government official said today would probably last long after this war is over because we would have to feed the world for a long time. Many of these people which we are expected to care for and show how to live have a civilization hundreds of years older than ours and may know how to live as well as we do, Thousands of people have lived long lives without meat, but such a heading and the suggestion of 16 pounds of pigs’ ears per week do not help to soothe my desire for American living. ;

*(Editor's Note: The Times is NOT paid for publication of. rationing news. “The information is published entirely in the interest of public service.) » ” » “MR. WILLKIE WOULDN'T SUB-LET WHITE HOUSE” By R. F. Remsden, R. R. 1, Ft. Wayne / Many comments have been made to the effect that although Reose« velt has done no end of bungling in Washfngton, maybe Mr. Willkie wouldn't have done much better. Probably Mr. Willkie wouldn't have done much better, being little more than a New Deal satellite himself. However, we don’t think that Mr. Willkie would have sublet the White House.

respect for the dignity of the house which the nation built for a residence for its president and his

And we are sure that Mrs. Will-

running around telling the - world

“PLACE TO noel BEFORE YOU BEGIN” By. Mrs. Ethel Bates, Milltown. I read Ruth Millett in the March

go unchallenged. If each generathan the

preceding one, where

i ey The place to stop is before you begin.

DAILY THOUGHT

Sow to yourselves in righteoushess, reap in mercy; break up - your fallow ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain righteousness upon YO Hosea 10:13.

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N estless R T | By V William hi Sims

NEW YORE. April 3.~Spaiish Morocco constitutes a great dane ger to the allies in North Africa, " Dr. Fernando de Los Rios, exs minister of foreign affairs ‘at Mae drid and former ambassador to Washington, told me here. ‘ The danger, he said, does not stem so much from Caudillo Fran cisco Franco as from his Moroce can army, now ‘on Gen. Eisenhcwe | er's flank. Franco himself does |

§ | not want war and the Spanish pepole do not wang |

war, ‘but the Spanish army in the Riff, as this part of Morocco is called, may take the bit in its teeth and strike out on its own regardless of the governe ment at Madrid. Across the straite from Gibraltar, said Dr. de Los Rios, there are between 150,000 and 200,000 Spanish troops. The Riff country is as difficult as there is in all Africa. Its mountains and passes constitute a natural fortress.

Their Job: War

MOST OF the soldiers are natives—fierce Moors, professional fighters from boyhood. War is their business and they will obey their officers thou question. Commanding them are Franco's most ardent Falangist, or Fascist, officers, plus a sprinkling of

Germans. If the fighting goes well for the allies in Tunisia, thinks Dr. de Los Aios, nothing is likely to happen in

the Riff. If the fighting is prolonged, however, the -

peril will increase. Should the allies suffer reverses in North Africa, the menace would at once become acute. I inquired why Generalissimo Franco's hold ol the army is so problematical. The distinguish Spaniard replied that the generalissimo’s position is paradoxical. The aristocrats are against him because for the most part they are monarchists. The workers. are against him because of the (civil war. The middle class is against him because the war failed fo bring expected after years of dy vation and hard times.

Situation Unpredictable !

HIS CHIEF support comes from the dyed-in-the wool Falangists, who are not numerous. That exe

| plains why the generalissimo has found it necessary

to surround himself with Moorish soldiers. His bodyguard is composed of Moors from the Riff. The head of one of the most Catholic of all countries, he

depends for his security not on Christians but on

Moslems. \ : It is this, Dr de Los Rios explained, which makes the North African situation so unpredictable for the allies. Right now these Moors are very confident, They say that Franco had to depend on them to win the war for him in Spain, and that now he has to rely on them for his safety. They feel that they put Franco in power and. that they are instrumental in keeping him in power. And what they have made they can unmake. Furthermore, the Moors bitterly resent having been pushed .back by.the French from.the black agricultural lowlands into the rocky mountains. of the Riff,

Ready to Spring to Attack

THEY WOULD liké fo get’ théir black country back—the country around the Riff where Americans and their allies are now camped. They also want port of Oran, which is largely Moorish. At a word from their Falangist officers. they would gladly spring to the attack, . Gen, Eisenhower's lines’ ax foOmmuiioation—between Casablanca and Tunisia —pass close to the Rift border. But Dr. de Los Rios pointed out that the situation is not entirely one-sided. The Nazis would not be a 2 all welcome in Spain, and it is ‘across Spain tha Hitler's. communications would have to pass in the event the war spread to the Spanish railways and rolling stock are’ run down, Food is lacking and hard to get. Hitler, therefore, will hardly force the issue unless the allies in North Africa bog down so that the situation would seem to warrant the risk. ; “But,” the diplomat warned, “this I do know: Nazi officers are already planted at ‘all strategie points in Spanish territory and are cid to move if and when they get the word.”

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

OIVILIANS AREN'T as dumb as a lot. of them act. "They ‘COULD learn to tell .a "lieutenant from a technical aN _ geant—if they would Just put theig ‘minds to it. © But thousands of men and women still ‘ask. men in unif ““Nqw just WHAT {5 your rank? I know a thing about all that.” Well, isn't it about time they took the trouble to learn? We realize that it is important to know the names and titles of civilians and how to introduce them. We wouldn't introduce a civilian doctor as “Mister” or get the president of » firm confused with a clerk ox office boy. EF Yet we think it is excusable (and. women are thie worst offenders in this) to’ be so ignorant about uniforms and rank in the army, navy, and marines that we sometimes have to ask what branch of service a man is in. :

Familiarize Yourselves With Intighia

OF COURSE, it is a little trouble to familiarize ourselves with the insignia of our armed forces. Bus it is certainly not very hard. And it is the very

‘ledst we can do to show our uniformed men that we

are proud of them and that we consider their. Jobs:

jmpartant. { How do you think & man feels ‘Who has worked hard to get a promotion only to have its insigne

| unrecognized by his civilian friends?

If women would put as much effort into memorize ing .the insignia of the different branches of service that they have in the past put into memorizing the latest bridge rules—they would have it down pat in no time. ‘But. most of them haven't bothered. They still think that it doesn't matter whether they ean tell Heuianan, rom 4 lieutenant cotinfuder or 8 private first class from. a master sergeant. Ll It matters a whole lot. to the letasany and to the master sergeant.

: And ask them what report they have | fh