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: : . “Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

. ‘MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1943

IT HAD TO BE DONE

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S order to “hold the line” against inflation took away from the war labor board

. authority to approve wage increases beyond the little steel

formula for the purpose. % correcting y Inequalities” or “gross inequities.” ‘That made it necessary for the WLB to reject some 10,000 pending applications for increases, affecting at least half a million workers. Many if not most of these applications probably would have been approved had the president not changed the rules, or had the board acted on them before the president issued his order.

~ So we can well understand why workers who have lost raises that seemed all but in their hands feel that they have

8 been unjustly treated. And why organized-labor repre-

sentatives on the WLB, although they joined with the public

- and employer members in obeying the presidential order,

contend for the record that the order itself is a serious

mistake. 8 8 8 £2 8 =

ET we believe Mr. Roosevelt had to do what he did or lose the war against inflation. The American wage

structure has always contained many inequities and in- % equalities—many groups of workers getting less pay than

others for the same kind of work. The WLB was finding

- their correction an endless process, an upward adjustment

for one group creating new inequalities and bringing demands for adjustments for others. These adjustments, instead of stabilizing wages, were making stabilization

workers are employed more steadily than ever: Sindust] but that their incomes in general—hourly, ‘weekly and annual— are at the highest levels ever attained. he Inflation, an uncontrollable rise in the cost of living, would rob them of these gains. It would mean terrible hardships for unorganized millions whose incomes have "not grown much if at all. “Equities” attained at: the cost of breaking the line and letting wages and prices spiral to “a dizzy peak and a disastrous collapse would, in the not-

_ very-long run, Denes nobody and penalize everybady.

HINTS ON'POSTAVAR poicy + HE three Pan-American day statements by Preside Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull and Undersecretary Welles, alongside recent statements by Prime Minister Churchill and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, -and Stalin’s silence, indicate that the powers have not yet agreed on [post-war rganization. Churchill proposed a council of Birope. and 3 a council f Asia, related by an international organization. He offended China by failing to list her along with ‘Britain, Russia and the United States. He surprised many in the United States by failure to mention a council of the Americas in his regional setup; and by his reference to a council of Asia, which might not include the United States, rather than to a Pacific council where the United States would have the major voice. In response to bad Chinese reaction, Foreign Minister Eden added China to the Churchill list. But the Chinese still complain that the emphasis should be on a world rather than a regional basis, The American statements are more cautious and less clear than the British. President Roosevelt, after praising Pan-American security conferences as a “practical mech‘anism of consultation,” then said: " *Rach nation carrying out these recommendations, | which represent the statesmanship and foresight of the. aders of the 21 American republics, will assure its place in the world-wide concert of free nations which will contute the international society of the future.” t J ® ® ® # 8

QECRETARY HULL, calling this Pan-American model “the : most successful example of co-operation between sovpreign nations in modern history,” added that its principles “are universally ‘applicable and are open to universal adoption.” Mr. Welles, noting that “the Americas have already sated a regional understanding,” advocated “the ultimate sation of an international organization in which every gion and every peacerloving state is represented.” These statements might lead to the paradoxical consion that Britain is stressing regionalism while the United States and China want stronger world organization d Russia waits to commit herself. Actually they may be nothing more than trial balloons and early diplomatic maneuvers. Meanwhile, there is as yet no closed agreement on this 5 bject among the big four, much less the smaller united tions. All of which is to the good, for it is still not too 2 for the president to include senate representatives in e policymaking which must evaniyally be ratified by the

te—or fail.

ORTABLE PREMISE” = an, RTHER regarding hush-hush food conferences, back-

door diplomacy, secret covenants secretly arrived at,| acts totaling 2565 for small businesses, ius 3381 sub-

we quote a potent paragraph from a distinguished writArthur Krock of the New York Times: The first rule of political government in its fundalaw of self-preservation is t any injury to it in ‘confidence is an injury to the nation as a whole. On fortable premise, politi government then argues R SUpBrassion; | : in Order to

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= the social security program.

.| approaches to that question.

sings. er, and delays are|

[ash ington By Peter Edson

3 7 ' WASHINGTON, April 19, — ~~ What to do about social security : . benefits—the old age pension money

‘and the survivors’ insurance of men and women going into the

ployment—is one that is still kicking around, unsettled, Forty-one of the states and the territory of Hawaii have made provisions to freeze the status of workers going into -the services with Yespoot to their replant insurance benefits, but the federal government; still pokes along on its part of

The way matters stand now, every year that s service person stays in service the old age and sur\vivors’ insurance benefis from social security decline, | and if the person stays in service for as long as five years, the benefits will be entirely canceled out. That is a rather severe penalty for anyone doing. his patriotic duty to his country. It makes it necessary that when the guy or gal gets out of uniform,

benefits.

| Some Not on Social Security THE CATCHES on passing an amendment to the

any benefits a worker may. have accumulated before going into the armed services seem to be three: First, not everyone going into the services has any benefits coming to him. The way the law now stands, it covers ‘only workers in indusfry or commercial jobs. ‘Agricultural workers, domestic servants, housewives and such aren’t eligible for coverage under social security. But a lot of these people go into various branches of the army and navy, just as do people from commercial and industrial occupations. The latter are no better than the former or vice versa, and to let the people who in civilian life used to enjoy the social security benefits hang onto all those benefits while their brothers and sisters in arms don’t enjoy similar privileges is a decided gyp. Second, the social security law specifically excludes from coverage all government employees, and that; of course, excludes those in the armed forces. ~ Third, army and navy people have certain other benefits of their own in the way of allotments to dependents, which are not available to civilians. Also, the service people can take out war risk insurance which in a manner of speaking might be considered just another form of social security. .

What to Do About If?

GIVING THE PEOPLE in service those benefits plus social security might by some be considered too much. Anyway, that’s the muddle. What to do about it? A change in the law is the first requisite if anything at all is to be done, ard there are two principal

First, free the rights of all workers as of the time they enter the service and guarantee them the same rights when they return to civilian life. Second, consider military service as covered employment so that social security benefits would continue to accumulate. Under this latter approach, it would probably be necessary to extend coverage to everyone in the services, regardless of whether they enjoyed coverage before. Senator Theodore Francis Green of Providence, R. I, has a bill before congress now, not only extending social security protection to all people in the armed services, but also providing that all costs for that protection be met by the federal treasury, without making any deductions from the soldiers’ pay. That's a pretty generous settlement. About the only thing the Green bill wouldn't give the service men is the enjoyment of both social security insurance and military pensions. Apparently double largesse of that kind was considered too eon for even a soldier. ] a I 8 Westbrook Pegler h on vacation.

Fa rm Expert

From the Springfield (Mo.) Leader and Press)

“I.AM Mr. Brown, the new agricultural expert for this division. Here are my credentials.” “Ah, yes, Mr. Brown.. Harvard man, I see. Splendid. Now, which department do you—" “I think I would prefer the publicity angle. I have some new ideas I should like to give the farmers. Take, for example, our most delicious berries, the potato and the onion. I think we should plant the trees closer and prune the branches in the spring just after the molting season. That would give us more branches to produce more burrs. This same plan would help the peanut tree.” “But, Mr. Brown——" “However, my chief interest is bovines or cows. It has been our practice to produce numbers of useless male cows, and this must be discouraged. Such as are produced should be butchered and made into sausage and ham: to. Telieve the pork and mutton shortage. Lives

Butter? Just | Process. it]

“WE HAVE also’ followed the ‘waseful practice of feeding our young female cows a year or more before breaking them to ‘give milk. I think these fillies should be trained to produce: milk within six or eight weeks after hatching. “The whole dairy business: needs efficient reorganization. We must {each our dairymen to: specialize. The cows in one region should give nothing but milk, those in another nothing but cream, those in a third section nothing but butter, and those in a fourth section nothing but cheese, “It will not be necessary to specialize in buttermilk, for we can use ordinary milk and add the butter at a processing plant.

Very, Very Wasteful

“WE HAVE been very wasteful. No doubt you have read about the breakage of milk bottles. This, .can be corrected by using larger containers with rubber cushions around the top. We should not blame the cows, for. it must be very difficult to sit on those small bottles. “Cows are nervous animals, easily disturbed by. noise. I think we should disconnect or plug up the horns they use in making that mooing sound, and—" “Yes, yes, Mr. Brown. That is splendid. But excuse me a moment. I need a little air”

War Cohiracis By Ruth Finney

now getting war contracts at the rate of better than 200 a week under the guidance of the Buhller War ts Corp. - Reorganized several ‘months’ ago, placed’ under’ Col. Robert Johnson, and divorced almost entirely from the WPB, the Smaller War Plants Corp: 1s branching out into new fields*of activity. ° Since its organization: 1t:has. secured prime con-

contracts. Dollar value of the primes was $481,700,000 and of the subcontracts: $180,400,000, ¥ : It has lent some $2,900,000 to firms niéeding money io pit them fi shape forbidding on ‘war business,

armed services from private em- |

Be or she, will have to Start all ever gain, building up

social security law which would automatically freeze|

WASHINGTON, April 10~Small bibiness firs are

‘disunity’ and—in |

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

“FOR PETE'S SAKE, GET HIM BACK” . By Vox Populi, Indianapolis “Westbrook Pegler is on vacation.” . » » H

Well! For Pete's sake! Send for him—get him back! Wire him to come on home and all will be forgiven! # ” 8 . “A BOON TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY”

By Harry J. Gasper, 908 E. 11th st.

It certainly is a boon to the Re-|all publican-party to have as one of its|

most ardent supporters Mr. Ed Mattox. Just think of it, one stroke of his pen and he has their political

-|convention for '44 all settled. Ah,

wonderful! Mr. Spangler and Mr. Gates, think of the money he has saved you. No Ed, T don’t think anyone will have any objections to your nominating MacArthur for president. Unless maybe it would be MacArthur himself. And I think he pretty well answered it when he said “On with the war.” You see, Ed, that’s what's heen the trouble all these years with the Republican party. Too many generals and not enough privates or, politically speaking, too many capitalists and not enough laboring men and women. Give us more of your socialist cutbursts Ed, until convention time, and then you boys will have your bands fully trying to figure out what do to with Wiilkie. As for myself, I'll stick by our commander-in-chief who knows more about

what's going on at home and abroad|

than any man alive. God bless him. ; 2 8 = : “ERNIE PYLE BRIGHT SPOT OF DAY” By Royelle Campbell, Bloomfield I just want you to know what Ernie Pyle is doing to my pocketbook, my peace of mind and last, my pasting finger. All three are very muck worn out—why? It all started one day when I read The Times column of Ernie Pyle being on the battle front — well, brother, I have never had a good

Linstead of so far back. I can hardly

of my whole day. And I have a

“(Times readers 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.) -

day since. I cut out each one, day by day. This one I keep—that one —oh, darn it, I wind up with them

.He is just too good! has. a certain something "in his writing that I can’t resist! Here is my o. k. on Ernie Pyle— he should be put on the front page

control myself in turning the paper. You could save me a lot of wory if you would. . . . If you ever have a chance to do so, will you tell Ernie that I wish him all the luck in the world and that his column is the bright spot

busy one, too. Thank you for reading this letter. I am so thrilled about his column, the way it is kept up to the minute —his wit, his moments of sadness all rolled into one supreme pleasure of the person who reads it. Thanks to him for his viewpoint of the war.

» » » “THEY COULD STOP IT IF THEY WANTED TO” By Mrs. HL M. W., Indianapolis . I had the same experience as another writer to the Forum. I ‘was sick in bed with’ the flu. Ice cream ‘was all I could keep: on my stomach. But my husband had to go to my uncle’s drug. store to get it. The drug store three. squares from us wouldn't sell if to take out; yet his shelves are full of whisky. This government is sure in a disgraceful condition. There’s a tavern two doors from me and it’s crowded from morning until closing time. Then the drunks get out on the streets and try their can

best to run people crazy with their

|Side Glances—By Galbraith

The man|

noise. They can buy that nasty stuff and the government o. k.’s it, bu. says “no ice cream for sick

pe le. »

knowing what kind of men we elect to run this government. Things certainly wouldn't be in the mess they're in. I've never seen a com-

this one does. Dogs bark all night, drunks blow horns and quarrel, children play and “yell, 12 o'clock at night and juke box screaming until you feel if it doesn't stop youll lose your mind. How much of that would the big lawmakers stand for? None of it, and they could stop it if they wanted to. o » td “THERE'LL BE AN ELECTION: NEXT YEAR”

pearing in Tuesday, March 16; oaltion of The Times. r Do ‘the bigwigs in this country and the congressmen realize he was

the Americans? I don’t think there are more than 15 per cent of the Americans who wouldn't wholeheartedly agree, because I think about 85 per cent of us ‘Americans are the laboring class. What I'd like to know is, “What's

. |all the shouting about Ricken-

backer?” Is he any better than ing this war? «They wouldn’t agree with’ Rickenbacker’s sentiments, I'm sure. In a way theyre fighting against just what Rickenbacker advocates. We poor people starved during the depression. So did our sons and brothers. But when the call came for service, they.answered and forgot the past. But they won't forget after the war, That is if capital still insists on taking all and leaving

_ |1abor out in. the cold.

And now congress doesn’t want to put a ceiling on wages. Let mie see the color of the man’s eyes who can’t live on $25,000 a year, Why, we. poor. people lived on $250 during

a decent: living, someone like Rickenbacker who lives in the lap of luxury says wean’ do it. Let the rich man make all hie wants to, but let the poor ‘people. eat his dirt. ‘Well, we poor people still ‘have one right and that is the right to vote.

' |And ‘when ‘we go to the polls next

time, we'll remember the congressmen who were in favor of making the rich man richer and we will also remember Rickenbacker and any‘one he’ll back; you can be sure we'll put thumbs down on. Who realizes any better than we

; DAILY THOUGHT : But gary, Soudus, and peace

1 wish there was some way of]

munity that needed cleaning up as

By Mrs. Arline Mitchel, 4708 Fletcher ave. | Three cheers to Marion Priest for that perfectly wonderful article ap-|

any of the other boys actually fight«

- {the depression." And now when we|,, poor people have a chance to make

should be the lughing stock of the coup.

Training Fliers

By Major Al Williams

of the greatest sinigie<acator fighter

air corps. To me, the the: dingloiosater pbk has the luiror all: Joe drag air force.

" wonders in providing the instruc tors. And following an eminently sound policy, we are bound eventu

| ally to dominate the skies over the combat zones “alF

over the world. Around me I see nothing but bright, “keen, alert, vigorous faces—healthy ' young ‘Americans—all ‘obs sessed with one idea, to become the best, fighter plows in the world. There's no question but that the air forces have skimmed the cream of our young manhood and fired them with determination.

'Eat, Sleep and Drink Aviation’

MEN at this fighter training. feld, the’ come. manding officer, the instructors, the student pilots and the mechanics, constitute one. great team. They have time and attention for nothing but flying and. discussion of flying techniques, gunnery and maintes nance of equipment. They all eat, sleep and rink aviation. Military acrobatics, accuracy of flight: , control, precision of airmanship, all point toward one objec= tice—gunnery marksmanship. And they. keep the program pointed in that direction. That makes sense. ; Jak You duck shooters know what “leading” the targe$: means, and you know how much practice is required to learn how far you must aim ahead of the duck and shade the “lead” as the duck’s line of flight is altered. ~ ; The duck flies about 50 or 60 miles an hour; the fighter pilot's “duck,” the enemy plane, flies five six times as fast. ‘

Youngsters Are On Fire' YOU'D BE AMAZED to learn the lead. required to SE

hit a modern airplane flying between 300 and 400 miles an hour atright angles to the marksman. The lead is so great that one is inclined to believe, unless he has tried it, that the fighter pilot is determined to hit the open air an unbelievable distance shead of

| the target.

The study of the sights compensating for this “lead” is a full-time job for a keen mind—and the practice required to learn how to use that sight a all any man has to give. The air corps is leaving no angle uncovered, ne suggestion unexplored, to teach these youngsters how to become expert. aerial marksmen. And how these kids eat this stuff up! Morale? Hell, these youngsters are on fire, I have been on the “line” and chatted with the mechanics. I've talked to the student fighter pilots and yarned with the instructors, and it’s all the same. Each one is eager to show you how he worked ous a new and more efficient. way to do his job.

Real Air Age Is Here

ABOVE ALL ELSE I have been amssed st the. alacrity with which these youngsters handle fast single-seater fighters. I can't give you the figures, but I can tell you that in this training center the accident rate is less than one quarter of one per cent against total hours flown. And they are turning out first-rate fighter Plot. who can fly and shoot like the very dickens. Two or three years ago, if loin Pp A picture to me as I find it here today, I would Have, said it was an utter impossibility. I have always believed that a real air age coming. But I have scrapped all those Sptetia, cause it is here.

Editor's Note-Maj, “Williams is madi a of the single-motor flying schools under the trainer command, at the request of the war ment. He talks to students on airmanship and dementctions In bis own snie-seter pia.

We the Women

speaking for about 85 .per cent of].

By Ruth Millett

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THERE IS fast growing up nm America a new aristocracy—the. aristocracy of sacrifice. The woman whose husband is away in the army thinks that the woman who still has her husband with her hasn't given up anything, no matter how hard the war has hit her family financially or how much she has changed her of life so as to contribute to war effort. The wife whose husband is abroad thinks that the woman whose husband is still in this country, even though. he is hundreds of miles away in an army camp, is just plain lucky—that the war has hardly touched her. After all she gets his uncensored letters, and she cah see him occasionally. The woman whose husband is on a a fighting front thinks the woman whose Dhshand is. comparg= tively safe in'a country like England hasn't any rights. to worry at all. : And so it goes. There are different. levels in this. new aridlocracy=depenting on how un fi Woman, has given up. : 3 mA

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Listen to Group of War Wives hen

IF YOU don’t believe this is so, it is because you haven't listened in on the conversation of a. on, war wives.

‘Guinea. The wives whose men are still in this oO try hardly dare to open their mouths. They know they haven't yet given up much-—compared with: the Women whose men are in constant: danger, And. sg, they take a back seat. : ae 1t’s a new aristocracy, but one that will bom ede. dence as long as the war lasts. s a

«To the Point—

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