Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1943 — Page 16

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“Give Light. and the Peogie Will Find Their Own Way

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To fiendishness of the Japanese government in executing some of the U. S. army fliers who fell in to its hands after the Doolittle raid is beyond American understanding. ‘But the criminals admit the crime. President Roosevelt's announcement is based on a communication from the Tokyo regime. How many of the five or eight death sentences were commuted and how many - were carried out is not clear. : ' Those prisoners were not spies. They were uniformed soldiers captured in open warfare, subject to the decent treatment which was pledged by Japan under the Geneva + treaty and which is accorded such military prisoners by all ‘nations making any claim to civilization. By this act of barbarism high officials of the enemy government took their place among the lowest type of savages. They, personally, are accountable. Perhaps their purpose—if there can be purpose in such bestiality—was to frighten American fighting men. They . have much to learn about the courage and daring of our armed services, and there are several millions of men in American uniform who will teach them. ? = # = = or , ne WE will not murder Jap military prisoners; that is not the American way—for reasons Tokyo would not tn- - derstand. But this crime will be avenged. If there were any Americans here at ‘home who had ~ thought of the Pacific war as a second-string sideshow to the battle against Hitler, there will not be many left. i “It will make the American people more determined than ever to blot out the shameless militarism of Japan”— and truer words were never spoken by President Roosevelt. On the day of victory, we shall remember Pearl Harbor. We shall remember Bataan. And we shall remember the murder of these military prisoners: : “The American government will hold personally and officially responsible for these diabolical crimes all of those officers of the Japanese government who have participated therein, and will in due course bring those officers to

justice.”

NURSES NEEDED . 4 kat Indianapolis Red Cross today issues an emergency call for nurses. : ~, Growing intensity of the battle in North Africa have taxed the nursing staff already there to capacity. To care for the wounded the army must withdraw more nurses from - army hospitals in this country—including hospitals in this immediate area. So the nursing corps of the fifth service command has asked for 200 qualified nurses, many of whom ~ will be assigned at first to hospitals within the command area, some of whom will no doubt eventually have opportunity to serve overseas. \ Indianapolis, and all of Indiana, now is far behind the quota of 500 nurses sought for the current period, and the ~ call for 200 additional volunteers is in addition to the origi"nal quota. The army appeal is directed at the 1500 registered nurses in the state who are eligible for-army commisgions. The need is urgent—and immediate. The wounded can’t wait.

THE REDS HURT RUSSIA HE Communist party and its fellow travelers and stooges have insured that the Book-of-the-Month club's May selection—"“The Fifth Seal,” by Mark Aldanov—will be one of the year’s ‘most widely réad books. That wasn’t the party’s intention when its New York .organ, the Daily Worker, denounced the novel as “viciously anti-Soviet.” - But various left-wing liberals began bombarding the club with threats of boycott, officials of a umber of C. 1. O. unions chimed in with protests purporting to voice hie “unanimous” demand of their members that

before it was De on in the United States. Most of those who sounded off didn’t pretend to have read it. ~The club's judges—William Allen White, Dorothy Canfield, Christopher Morley and Henry Seidel Canby—have i the book, and they say it is no more anti-Soviet than Pickwick Papers” is anti-British. None of these distinhed Americans can be suspected of desire to aid Hilter or undermine faith in our Russian military allies. o ¥ ” E don’t believe that any book, even one “viciously” unfriendly to Russia, will ever cause a fraction of the m to American-Soviet relations that the domestic reds “pinks are causing constantly. . The Communists who obviously are eager to knife nele Sam if they believe that would help Uncle Joe, the y-liners who control labor unions and use them to serve de Browder’s devious purposes, the self-styled liberals o sympathize so deeply with Russia that they want to press American liberty—these do more than a whole could to keep alive suspicion concerning the U. S. 8. good faith toward the U. S. A,

: MANPOWER 'ERE would be no. ‘manpower problem if all Atheticans bad the matter-of-fact ambitions, energy and endurance ssed by Mrs. Mary Hawkins and her Sister, Miss Lida | ? of Keokuk, Iowa, oy Mrs. Hawkins is 98, Miss Van Auisdale 82. Together

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By Westbrook Pegler

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pate the vermin in the house of | "labor I have carelessly neglected | to affirm asoften as I should have | that these dispatches are pro=|

Jaber and pro-union. The two are oiichy, primarily in and always am

in favor of good unions but | against criminal and seditious |

s h unionism, ~ Strictly speaking, it should not be necessary to| dibclosures should speak for themselves, | Every individual who has been exposed in this cam-|

say this. My

paign has been shown to be an enemy of labor and of unionism.

and I am pro-|

They include not only the wormy| . underworld criminals of the union mobs and the

traitors of the Communist wing of the C. I. O., but | S88

such pretentious demagogs as John L. Lewis, Wil«

liam Green and Joseph Padway, the general counsel of

the A. F. of L.

Facts Alone Should Count

ALL TOGETHER, these enemies of labor have at

their command a tremendous power of propaganda with which to smear anyone who challenges them. The unioneers have hundreds of publications in which to praise themselves as Hitler idolizes Hitler in his Beobachter, and they have stooges planted in

congress avd the legislatures and state and city gove

ernments ‘0 eulogize them and do their dirty work. that other over the six years of this camthe thoroughness of my work. Not one any criminal or Communist has although hundreds of individuals have with noguch timid qualifications as “al- " or “reputedly.” years ago I told Green that I would name 100

in his A. F. of L., and by now the number far |

exceeds that promise.

Charges Were Proven THE C. 1. O. Office Workers’ union, one of the group d

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fidential information, Within six weeks I showed that a spy belonging to

‘this union and employed in the office of district 50

of the United Mine Workers in New York had helped to arrange a lawless raid on district 50 by a gang of thugs from the Transport Workers, another partyline organization, in which agents of Marshall Field, the millionaire New Dealer, participated. . The proof was so sure that the Office Workers' union instantly dropped a letter-writing campaign and forgot the matter entirely. Field, too, was silent. What are my beliefs on labor and unionism, then? Simply that labor needs collective bargaining power in order to deal on equal terms with employers. That is the essence of honest unionism.

Workers Denied Their Rights

BUT THE workers have the right to select their own bargaining agents or remain free agents if they prefer. The political labor policy of the New Deal denies the free choice of bargaining agents to hundreds of thousands of workers and delivers them, en masse, to tyrants, murderers, thieves and Communists, Also for the protection of the workers, all union officials must be made accountable under law for union funds, campaign contributions out of union treasuries must be outlawed, and all men with crimiral records or communist affiliations must be barred {rom union office. Furthermore, I would insist that no strike could be called without a majority vote of the whole membership of the union, and I would punish assault or vandalism by a picket the same as any other assaull or act of vandalism, : All these proposals are pro-labor and pro-union. If organized labor does not adopt them, as well as some others, unionism will be destroyed and the culprits will be those boss unioneers who have encouraged and practiced atrocities against 'the whole American community, including the workers. These are the enemies of labor and unionism in the Ugited States.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

~~ WASHINGTON, April 22-A naval commander named Luis de Florez, who is attached to the division of special devices in the bureau of aeronautics, has just come back from Guadalcanal and such places with a suggestion for & new special device that should add much to morale in remote outposts. Comdr. de Florez made his discovery quite by accident. Wanting to take the boys a gift they would appreciate most, he bought a bottle of Scotch and carried it with him, carefully wrapped in an old newspaper. When he got to the base he produced his prize package, but much to his surprise and chagrin, nobody paid any attention to the Scotch—they all went for the newspaper and read it to shreds. - From this observation steps the suggestion for the De Florez morale builder: Instead of wrapping machinery, equipment, ammunition and such supplies in new kraft paper, De Flores proposes use of old newspapers and funnies.

Find Use for Wilted Lothuce

ANOTHER WASTE product for which a good war use has been found is old lettuce leaves-~the greener, wilted leaves that forn? outside head lettucé and are usually torn off before the firm, white, iceberg heads are sent to market.

Thanks to a Danish chemist, Jorgen D. Bering,

now employed as a consultant for the Union Ice Co., a Salinas, Cal, lettuce packer, a process has been

found for extracting carotene, or pro-vitamin A, from these old leaves, for use in fortifying butter,

margarine and other food “products. The inventor of the process came to Washington recently to demonstrate it to department of agriculs ture food experts, and so enthusiastic were they over

Jts/possibilities shat icy helped get priotiiss 0 pus i

a $30,000 extraction plant in operation. ° Heretofore, the outer leaves of the lettuce heads were shredded, then made into a livestock feed, Sons uf leviance leaves Making Gms of Of Now, after shredding, the carotene will be and there will still be a ton of feed left.

Give Air Veterans Relief -

GRADUALLY, AN army air force system worked out to give combat and. ‘pil Fh relief from active duty after definite perio

k two cows, keep a flock of 200 hens, a

has worried the boss unioneers

: : : ; : . % 5 2 ‘The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly. disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

“WHO DOES ALL THIS REGULATING?”

By Just A Grocer With a High School Education, Indianapolis

Please, may I voice my sentiments relative to a condition that confronts both the defense plant

laborer and the grocer? I am a small grocer. Personally 1 follow requirements of the point system to the best of my ability. But here is the hardship. No community of defense plant has the facilities to take care of the hungry hundreds that pour out with but 30 minutes to eat; consequently they must turn to-the grocery for a bite. What does this mean? Crackers and cheese or bologna, either of which require points. These people carry no points. It isn’t convenient to do so and if they did, it means one or two, but points just the same and time to do all this. Why not eliminate this little stuff, not only in an instance of this kind, but for all lunches such as bologna and cheese in small amounts? And one more item. Is the laboring man forgotten in the regulation refusing the sale of pints of milk in groceries? Who does this regulating? The average man cannot drink a quart of milk, Either he must take an orange drink which is as little as the quart is big; or do without. While we are on the subject of milk, wish you would have someone tell me why we are asked 12 cents for a quart of milk and forced to sell it for 13 cents. Is it to try the patience of the grocer or to prove his stupidity? No wonder grocers have thrown up their hands in despair. Hundreds have quit, if only to enjoy a good night’s rest. Vice President Marshall said . . . that what this country needed was a good five-cent cigar. What is now needs are fewer . regulations and some consideration for the small businessman whose educa#on forbids him of an understanding of all these silly forms made out: by college men who couldn’t run a grocery store and make half the money the grocer niakes. In short, give us a chance to help. the laborer by permitting him his lunches without points. Let us have pints of milk, a convenient life- | sized drink, Wiitiony the folly of all

(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.)

this unnecessary ‘waste. ‘Just be

sensible. #

w «AMERICANISM MEANS MANY THINGS” By Voice in The Crowd, Indianapolis “What is Americanism?” queries a gentleman who contends that it “must be Christianity.” Many people will define Americanism in many ways -but fo me it means many things. It means the great expansive homeland with its beautiful coastlines, its mountains and plains and

lakes and streams and green places and rocky heights where we can roam and visit without restraint, always tolerated, always under the protection of the community laws.

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It means the blood that boils in’

your veins when you even think of a foreign foe invading its shores. It means the customs and legends of the millions of people who have dwelled in our communities and built our country into greatness, and the hundreds of thousands who have diéd in defense of its honor. It means a system of living that rewards the thrifty and industri ous and a freedom of individual thought and action that -is bounded only by the point where the liberty of one individual encroaches on that of another. : : It means a society wherein men of every nationality and every race and creed can work togethér and build together in tolerance and understanding. Nothing in our social order indicates that the Christian, the Jew or the unbeliever shall share differently. Americanism means a system of government wherein those who govern are selected by the governed. It means a constitution. and a bill of rights that stand between .the common man and those: ho would

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set themselves up as tyrants and shear him of his rights. Americanism does not guarantee that the world owes any man a living in the world to those who earn it. Unworthiy of living here are they who without understanding would undermine our institutions and our responsibility to pass the precious legacy on to those who are to follow us. : oe... “WE SHOULD ALL HURRY AND EXERT OURSELVES” By A Times Reader, Indianapolis The following is an excerpt from & letter réceived from my daughter, who is with her husband until he goes overseas: “Mom, proud of you! (I am collecting grease from neighborhood woman. and donating money to the Red Cross) Wish you“could go on a campaign for ys and sell

bonds—more bonds—and boo those.

against married men in fhe draft. We should all ‘hurry and exert ourselves to win this war-as quickly as possible, “When one sees an outfit pulling up stakes for—no telling where— men with families, brides and piles of precious possessions, with & reckless yet. desperate gleam in their eyes-—well, it hurts. “They toss out suitcases, radios, get their last haircut, their last movie, and yet people sit back in their armchairs at home and gripe about the meat situation, the Hp taxes and the fact they might be called into the army. Burns me up, especially after I've had a taste of it and have seen men saying | ‘goodby’ to each other with tears in their eyes.” ... I thought the - ideas of my daughter typify the heartfelt -wish- | es of thé many brides and families | of these brave young men who are giving their very lives and all they love to save thelr country-our country—from the awful devastation of war and to help bring Peace throughout the world.

8» “SMOKE MUST BE AN IMAGINARY FOG” By Clarence F. Goodyear, Box 781

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* ferment currently South, it is well: to take a cal look .at the six- two chi

strategio pt champion of the Souths grievanoss. “For he ds man of the commi

People in Independent Mood

HE 18 out tn front among: those who! ade-seeking to. recapture for the states some of their one-time powers. And rot in the antiquated, eut-dated states’ . rights philosophy; but to get back for the states ‘cons trol over such functions as they can exercise most efficiently, leaving to the federal government the broader regulation of abuses in economic em which the states cannot reach. ; ’ He is & modernist, a progressive, not a mossback. Governor Broughton is not pleased with: some things that “the unsound tinkerers” in are doing affecting his state, the a at large and’ the nation. Nor, he says, are the people of North Carolina. They are, as he puts it, “in an independent

mood” no longer afraid to buck the administration ¢

Washington. Yet he does not believe his state will desert the Democratic party in 1944, despite lots of such ot the What sort of man is this governor of one of the’ South’ most progressive states? Physically, he's veritable “Man Mountain” Dean among. leaders. He has the build of o blacksmith, He wien! 215 pounds, and he played guard at Wake Forest; ‘where he got his college degree. nt anal Dislike Farm, Labor Policies “a WHEN HE begins to talk, out bubbles the charm that .derives from a pleasing and resonant voice, a calm<tempered man talking sense, and & delightful play of humor that captivates his audiences. You hear him mentioned as a keynoter for the: national convention. Mr. Broughton is Tarheel through and throughs he was born here in Raleigh. He is 54, He entered politics on his own behalf in 1097, when he was elected to the state senate. He served. two terms. Before that he had been practicing law in ; Raleigh, which he continued until elected governor in 1940. In 1935 he was chosen président of the North Carolina Bar association. In 1936 he was keyngter for the state Democratic convention. What are folks in North Carolina werried about? They are frightened, he said, about the administration’s labor policy. “They think the administration has been too 1008 with labor, too rigid with the farmer,” was the he’ put it. They think the government has been %0 stingy with war contracts for this state, particularly for, small business. North Carolina, for example,s leads in woodwork, the governor said, yet has got practically no: contracts in the program for plywood planes.’ Sees Challenge to the States foie “ANOTHER THING is the reckless statements’ and agitation about racial questions,” he said. North

Carolina had been -making advances in racial rela«:

tions through co-operation between white and Negro. leaders, he explained. Such agitation as is now gos, ing on, he said, is not calculated to improve relations. but only paves the way for demagogs such as have, capitalized the issue to the detriment ef Negroes, in; some southern states. Highly important, also, is the freight-rate come plain d Unless the states act now-and in the’ post-war period to win back the rights they have yielded Pr and necessarily so for the war period—“We will’ find ourselves drifting toward national socialism,” he warns. For there is a group in the country, he believes, which would’ proceed, “if uriresisted after the

war, to such goals as government ownership or domis |

nation’ of transportation, power, industry and insurandée.” 4 “The vast’ majority of people are willing to. » up many things of sentimental or traditional val provided they are able to eat, wear better clothes and’ enjoy the comforts and ‘conveniences of life,” he sa “If they could get thess and still maintain he old’ principles of government, well and good. But if they can’t; they ‘won’t hesitate to look to the | ernment for reliéf, and no amount of harking : to ancient creeds will deter them.” ri That, as he sees It, ne nls to to eta .

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By Ruth Millett

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"that can give the same ¢ service in wartime that

Pins that are offing i ts Topect had ot wake up. ak People will understand and accept almost \ of service, if there is a legitimate excuse for it if the reason is explained to them and eg!

" But it burns them up ta be told they are 1 ty get any segvice at all, or otherwise treated as t