Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1943 — Page 22

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FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1943

INDIANA LEADS GAIN Indiana is first of the 48 states to respond to a ~ war need of the nation. Asked to lend 125 million dollars for war in thres weeks, Hoosiers today. had loaned 127 millions in two weeks to make Indiana the first state to pass its second war bond sale quota.” It’s been some time since we have heard $nuch from the east about “complacent Indiana” secure in the heart of

the Middle West “where they don’t know there’s a war.” |

Perhaps we won’t hear so much about that hereafter. True, we haven't done much excited screaming about the war, There hasn’t been any panic or any hysteria over ~ it. We have objected to rationing when we couldn’t see any sensible reason for rationing, and we've grumbled about shortages and restraints that obviously were the fault of bureaucratic blunders. We've been calm, here in Indiana, and often critical, too. ; ; s 8 = ss 8 8 UT we've sent our young men off to fight in deserts and jungles and oceans. We've turned broad Hoosier acres

into training camps and great industries into munitions

plants, and our whole state into one mighty arsenal of ships, guns, warplanes, bombs, explosives, weapons for victory. We've given our, toil, and our personal privileges and our time and our own sons and daughters ungrudgingly as the nation has needed them—of course, we would give our money, too, and, of course, we will give again and again ~ and again until victory is won. x ‘Superb’ organization and competent, vigorous leader- . ship of Indiana’s second war loan campaign made it possible to carry the appeal quickly and directly to the people of * this state, and to Chairman Eugene C. Pulliam and his able associates are due congratulations upon a job magnificently : “done. : Good old-fashioned Hoosier patriotism made possible ‘the response that set the pace for the whole nation—the kind that speaks in action rather than words.

THIS IS THE PUBLIC'S BUSINESS ROTESTS against the Roosevelt rule barring reporters from the coming international food conference continue to pile up at a rate which should impress the White House, and doubtless does. The opposition to this secrecy plan is virtually unanimous. Indeed, the president lacks support even within his own official family. The two chief officials directly affected, Secretary of State Hull and Elmer Davis of OWI, are ‘opposed. Following protests from members of congress, the Washington correspondents and others, representatives of the country’ s editors have now registered. Pointing out that military information is not involved, the unanimous resolution of 10 directors of the American Society of. Newspaper Editors states: “Without adequate information, sound public opinion cannot be formed. THe president’s policy challenges the rights of the American people to receive public information free of government restrictions or control. A pattern: 18 being established which, if continued, will stifle the rights of free inquiry and prevent continuous flow or full information to the public. “Dangerous precedents are being established which will hide in a cloud of public misunderstanding and doubt the ution of international problems, raising a . question hether her open covenants are being openly arrived at. The policy should be abandoned. . . . Only as the Piblie is informed can democracy survive.” 2 8 = . ® 8 = =o HAT is the issue. It far transcends any dispute between the president and the press as such. The press has no selfish interest in it—conference coverwill mean another burden for already busy reporters, yerloaded wires and papers that are crowded with more xciting war news. : The interest of the press in this is the public interest. he issue is the denial of democracy. And that is precisely why the opposition to it is so espread, why the president’s own advisers are so much raid of it. For when that issue is clearly drawn the ple can react in only one way. They will have none of it. Our concern is with the destruction of congressional nd public confidence in post-war settlements which this If-defeating secrecy policy is causing. By trying to elimiate both press and congressional representation, the presit has aroused suspicions as barriers to co-operation for ust and lasting peace. With the memory of the dispute between President on and the senate, surely neither the president nor gress nor any American citizen wants a repetition of failure. The president should wipe out this poisonous vy “before it becomes a Precedent.

'R R-ARMED JILIP MURRAY'S story that 650,000 persons soon will be thrown out-of employment, as we shut down war to stop overproduction, can do much harm if, as seems the C. L O. chief is off on the wrong foot. There have been errors in planning, due largely to-the rush required to get out of the wooden-gun military “before it is:too late. But also there is necessary nual shifting i in emphasis on various types of defennd offensive weapons. No human being: could possibly r war progress accurately enough so-that frequently |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, April 23.~Presi- | dent Roosevelt is a rich man who |’

inherited in 1941, in addition to his inherited wealth, the estate of his mother, amounting to. more than a million dollars, = Henry Morgenthau, his secretary of the treasury and his neighbor in the rich country of the landed gentry up the Hudson river, also is a man of vast wealth, likewise inherited, Neither man earned his own fortune, neither ever has had to earn even his own living and both have so much money that ‘they could pay their income taxes for 1942 and 1943 in the current year by dipping slightly into their

‘| inherited capital and still ride the cushions the rest |

of their way through life. Although it is the duty of congress to levy: taxes, the president, through Morgenthau, who is not an originator but an obedient and dogged servant of Mr. Roosevelt, has been the actual taxing authority of the nation ever since 1933. : ?

Taxes May Exceed Income

NOR HAS the president any reason to worry over the economic future of his family. He can leave them substantial bequests out of his inheritances and, moreover, they have been prodigious money-makers since the day he was first inaugurated in 1933. That day the market price of the family’s writings. went up and the exploitation of the highest office in the American republic for personal profit on the air and otherwise became standard practice in a violent break with tradition and accepted ethics. The situation of most of the 17 million veteran income taxpayers is quite different. Those who are without inherited fortunes must pay their taxes out of current earnings and the present indications are that this year’s toll in many cases will take almost all of the 1943 income. Indeed; in some brackets the total of federal and state income taxes will be much more than 100 per cent ‘of the 1943 income, so that the effect of the taxing policy will be that of confiscation of capital after the manner of Mussolini and Hitler. Many Will Be ‘Liquidated' MOST OF the victims whose sons, of course, are not denied the right to fight for the preservation of the American way, will have some savings, possibly in war bonds, but this money will have to go to Mr. Morgenthau, whose agents will have authority to search it out, and the end of the year should find them thoroughly liquidated in vindication of the old dictum that the power to tax is the power to destroy. Moreover, from the beginning of the income tax, the system has been retroactive and nobody ever suspected ‘that a time would come when it would take not only a year’s entire earnings but a portion or all of the victim’s savings, or leave him in debt at the substantial rate of 6 per cent. And the fact remains, although it is now forgotten, that many. citizens took seriously and complied liberally with urgings of the New Deal in the panic days to renounce the homely old American virtue of thrift and squander money to stimulate trade, revive prosperity and re-employ the jobless.

"Triumph Over Middle Class’

THE RUML plan seems to be out the window, not only because it would save a group of citizens from bankruptcy who are almost unanimously anti-Roose-velt in their domestic politics and held in a class designated as tories and reactionaries, but also because anything of this sort would be cried up as a special favor to the dirty rich, so it is just as well to relax and see what happens. The argumeént that Mr. Morgenthau is against the Ruml plan only because the treasury didn’t think of it first is thoroughly unconvincing because he would never have proposed it even if he had thought of it first. This is the end of the :long campaign to wipe out gross inequities in the social and economic system of the United States and it is wrong to accuse Mr. Morgenthau: of latent defeatism: in the hour of his party’s triumph over the middle class. There should be some wonderful bargains for heirs to millions in the way of depreciated stocks and real estate when the liquidation really gets under way.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 23.— Things have come to a pretty pass, indeed, when you have difficulty . in getting a potato. ‘Yet the mere fact that potatoes are now hard to get—in .some places impossible to get—is perhaps the most significant development of the war. It isn’t just a home front development, either. The army, too, has had difficulty in getting spuds for overseas shipment. And so, the decline of the potato becomes a burning question, an issue—the hot potato issue, you might say, and fraught with’ social significance. The OWI report on the U. S. wartime food it uation, hot off the duplicating ‘machines, indicates that there should be as many potatoes this, year as last. In fact, more: 129.7 pounds per capita in 1943 as against 125.1 pounds in 1942, and only one pound (exactly) less than the. five-year average of 130.7 pounds per capital, 1935-39,

Experts Can't Explain

ALL OF WHICH goes to show how much the experts know about these things, the truest line in the OWI report being a magnificent generality, “The food situation is not entirely predictable.” Life is like that, too, to coin another phrase.

But seriously, now, and not to belittle, Just what

is behind this potato predicament? Is production off? Are people eating more? Has the American distribution system gone completely to pot? Is it the

weather? Are people hoarding potatoes? Are they 4

all going to lend-lease? Or has the black market got ‘em? '! The answers would seem to be a little of each. - Now is the tag end the 1942 potato se: to come to market, or should be. But the Florida freeze cut the early potatoe crop by 50 per cent. Louisiana and Mississippi crops are three weeks late. Texas potatoes are just beginning to move. And the next tier of potato states, Alabama, Georgia, California, won't be doing much digging til the first of May.

Deny Crop Shortage THAT PUTS up the demand on the Volddyer crops of Idaho and Maine some 15,000 to 20,000 carloads. The army has practically taken over all of the remaining Maine crop, about 5000 to 7000 carloads, for overseas supply. No one in Maine can now ship old potatoes without a government permit, and what

the army doesn’t want, the food distribution agency | : does, for emergency shipments. 2

- |BPFFSC (Ernie Pyle’s Fund for

‘| DON'T WEAR IT”

1* 1 said “the tavern bums who make

CONE ERENCE

-| people, to remove the greasy hand of

constructed, self-confessed ’ deme gog, as governor of From all over gratulations” Poured

purge. _ But the new governor did nob." stop there. He put through the legislature in 23 days. & reform program to return the government 8 the

machine from the state university and “ths ‘ed tional system, from the highway board, ‘and from the pardon board. ; And then he set about’ to do something tor" thie whole South, to raise a’ little hell—in concert with other southern governors — about. grievances, “peeves” as he calls them, that the South has’ ang ; the administration in Washington, About freight rates that penalize the South. im shipping finished: goods to the East and Notth. uy About the niggardly manner in which the admine istration’ assigned war industries t6 the South. Ceili Also about a lot of things the rest of the country . stews over, too... . . OPA regulations, Dureancratie . bungling and the like. '

Plays the Political Game

GOVERNOR. ARNALL has risen suddenly tos commanding position in this new southern cone federacy created to bring the administration to terms:

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".| by use of political power—just how, no one yet seems"

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

“HOW ABOUT PYLE FUND FOR SOLDIERS’ CIGARETS?” By Many of Us at L. Strauss & Co., Inc. ‘This little article of Ernie Pyle’s, in which he relates the boys’ urgent desire for cigarets—struck spontaneous combustion among many of us here. We're fired with the purpose to send cigarets under Ernie’s sponsorship. How do we proceed? We know the alphabetical agencies are: crowded—but if there should be room for one more:

Soldiers’ Cigarets)—we want to be charter members. If it’s in order— would you please accept $5 help germinate such a movement

® » " “DOES JUDGE KNOW THERE'S A WAR ON?” 1B, Mrs. Wm. H. Hessler,

"I wonder if Judge Emsley W. Johnson Jr. knows there's a war going on? Did he ever hear of absenteeism? Maybe the divorce court isn’t an assembly line but the rest of the world is gathering there. . . . All people who ask for a divorce don’t get it from their husband’s pockets. Some of them have been forced to work fo even live long before they thought of a divorce. Hoosierdong is supposed to be one place in the world where a working woman is as much respected as a working man.

rie. 8 “IF SHOE DOESN'T FIT,

Lockwood

By Mrs. H. M. W. Indianapolis

Well, Mr, Goodyear, if the shoe doesn’t fit, don’t wear it.

life miserable for peace-loving, lawabiding citizens.” I didn’t. say they were all bums. But look around and see for yourself just how many (especially in lower - brackets) don’t know when they've had enough. And maybe I couldn’t match you bond for bond, but we do buy on the 10 per cent plan. I buy stamps and have turned in pound after pound of grease; I save and prepare

my burned-out bulbs to the collection barrel and we have given all our scrap to the government. And really, Mr. Goodyear, I'm not a nosy busybody: Just interested

all tin cans for collection; take alll.

(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.)

never in my life molested anyone in any way. Why shouldn't I and thousands like me. get some consideration? After all, we're part of government and anyone who has to have liquor for fun and relaxation certainly hasn’t got. his feet on good,

.|solid ground. No one needs liquor

to accomplish anything. That is a false idea that people who drink have played up for a long time. And this majority talk is so tiresome

‘when we all know what majority

has doné to the world. Write again, Mr. Goodyear, and I'll give you some figures and facts on what liquor has caused here in Indianapolis. 2 =n » i BE “UNIONS DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT EXECUTIVES’ PAY” oT ope Bn NE E. Market sf. We appreciate Mr. R. S. Foster's sympathy for those of us who belong to large unions, namely the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. However, we do not complain about the salaries our international executives

receive, In nearly all manufacturing industries, the senior executives receive even higher salaries than do ours. It is not a common practice for industry to furnish and maintain homes for employees who have given them 30 years or more of faithful service. Small, company-dominated - unjons are unable to do this; also, they could never be heard at any lawmaking bodies. We are proud to say we do all of these things, and many more which are beneficial to the public, and we are interested enough in our government to do our part. All industries such as dairymen, canners and meat packers have certain laws very beneficial to them, and likewise do thousands of others as well; so why is it unjust for labor to have consideration also?

in seeing conditions improved. I've

We hear so much about the farm

Side Glances—By Galbraith

bloc and labor, but the middleman and real profiteers are kept hidden. However, we do realize Mr. R. 8. Foster saves about 25 per cent on his labor cost in competition with his union competitors who sell to the public within ‘the ‘same price range as Mr. Foster himself, .

“IN FAVOR OF . DECISION ON SLACKS” By Lester Wilson, 1621 Carrollton Slacks in court for divorces or any other cause seem to me to be very much out of order. And for one, I am very much in favor of “Judge Emsley W. Johnson Jr’s decision against slacks and sweaters. eh Dignity to me seems to be forgotten, Pride is a high degree toward decency and courts should ‘be higher respected. : So carry on, Judge:. . wo ® 8. 8 “LONG VACATIONS, TWICE A YEAR” By 8. D. Davison, Falmouth __ . About this and that, I certainly would not be willing to defend to the death the right of ‘such men as Westbrook Pegler and Ed Maddox to say .the mean things they write for the Forum. So Pegler was on vacation. That is fine. I'd be in favor of giving both Pegler and Maddox ga long, long vacation and’ extend it twice per yean They should go to some undiscovered country—I would not care where—and start a government to suit them. At least they could rave at each other. We see, hear and read of so many delinquent children. We have too much of that in this community. It is the parents who should be spanked or punished for not controlling the children properly. With about two exceptions, the letter page is very interesting.

. 2 » 2 “HEARTILY IN FAVOR OF VACATION”

By F. 0. McKee, 525 N. Parker ive. In reply to “Vox Populi:” “Westbrook Pegler is on vacation.” Wish to say I am heartily in favor of ‘said vacation. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if same could be for six months, twice a year? If necessary, double it, “And all will be forgiven.” 2 ” 2 “BY WHAT AUTHORITY DOES THIS JUDGE ACT?” By Clara Cheadle, 620 Division st. By what authority does Judge Johnson bar a woman from a hearing in the court because she 1s wearing slacks? Have we been paying lawmakers for dictating styles of women’s clothing? Or does the judge presume to set aside the rights of free Americans in our courts because they are not pleas-

ing to his eye?

Has he not betrayed the trust of the people he was chosen to serve? What is his oath of office? 8 » 8

“JOB-BACK GUARANTEE

WOULD HELP”

By F. E., Indianapolis.

DAILY THOUGHT

But he that ‘dosth wrong shall | receive for the wrong which he hath done.—Colossians 3:25.

be able at first to conceal

| buy for them.

to. know. It’s all a bit vague. It points threatenivgly to 1944. It contemplates a block of states would hold out, perhaps in alliance with others os. where, to terrify the fourth-termers. . Governor Arnall is astride. a precarious paradox.’ and must sit his saddle delicately. He is f to President Roosevelt, and Mr. Roosevelt helped in. his election. Likewise he is, sympathetic 1 New Deal objectives for the people of the South. He is

a progressive fellow. He is not anti-Néw Deal, as

are some of his partners in this southern revolt. His friends concede’ dll that, and still! say "tha" he puts the interests of the ‘South, as he sees them, above any personal’ political relationships withthe? president. They don’t say how far he would ge. ' Nor does he. He, too, is purposely: vague. For, like the others, he is playing a game. by

Is Both Pleader and Bolter .

.: HE IS no states’-righter like some of the others. He says that's a dead issue. He believes in a strong central government. He calls himself a “federalist.” He is outspoken in demanding that the South get more federal money for education and public weltaro,, because the South is poor and must have it. Away, says he, with the requirement that a dollar } x of federal money must be matched with a dollar | from the state. The wealthy states get plenty thet | way, but the South doesn't. 5 He's in the dual role of pleader and bolter. He} has the independence which flows from making politics} a career rather than a livelihood. He comes from J 5 an affluent family of mill owners and merchants at 1 Newnan, 30 miles from "here. He went to Sewanee, university in Tennessee and took his law at the Ul y versity of Georgia. He jumped into the race against Gene Talmadge : ’ a year before the primary, seizing the occasion when | luckless Gege began to. “pack” the University of & Georgia board .of regents so he could throw out a. couple of teachers on charges that they were trying 40 break dawn race barflers in the university. :

Champions the University ;

HE CHAMPIONED the university, which by this} time had been thrown from the accredited college} lst. He cried out againét politics in the ‘highway : board, and against the pardon racket. { He made effective use of a device fashioned by: Ralph McGill, managing editor of the Atlanta Cone : stitution, and based on Gene's" great pride in his’ white Herefords, .all of which are registered and | preperly accredited with the association which ‘Zooks { after the pedigrees of such animals, There was a picture of a big bull, marked “ace } : credited,” and’ beside it a picture of ‘university stue dents marked “unaccredited.” 3 Gene fumed and fussed and raged, but he could ! not make the grade, despite handsome gontributions from financial interests in Georgia. Ellis Arnall is a mild-mannered fellow to have bagged the roaring lion. He is almost cherubic, and, oh, so innocent looke ing. He is boyish in appearance; except for a recese sion of hair from his forehead. His diction has’ that creamy quality peculiar to north-central Geore gia, and he is not above a little “corn” in his speeches and a bit of poetry at the end. . Folk& here: like their speeches that way. But underneath he is tough of fiber, and he knows his way around. He seems (0 bo on is way in soute plies

We the Womeri

By Ruth Millett:

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M: ANY YOUNG" married] « couples, separated by the war finding that the best way to the insecurity of the present is build ‘now toward the security the future. The wives are getting jobs, husbands are saving as much their army pay as they can i age and the money is being . vested in war bonds and their future together. Right now have almost none of the things they need to be But they mean to have those things in the future. | If the husband wants some: kind of a , ‘training after he comes out of service, the is being saved for that. If the couple: has decided “that ‘they are enough to wait until the war is over to start a then they are saving toward that. If it is furniture and.a home they think they first, their war bonds are being bought ¥ with in mind.

There Will Come a Tomorrow

BUT THE MONEY they are putting away Bat a a ng It is important to their ¥ , for J6-mean that they haven't fallen for the “there may not »

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