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. MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1043

MR. ZONARICH STOPS A STRIKE A RMY and navy officials say that the strike by a few

hundred workers at the Celanese Corp's plant in

Newark, N. J., has tied up production in 21 other war plants dependent on the Newark concern for essential materials.’ The strikers are. members of the United Mine Workers’ District 50, catch-all branch of the John L. Lewis union. President Roosevelt ordered Mr. Lewis to end the walkout. The president’s firm attitude may—we hope, does— presage equal firmness if similar defiance is met from Mr. Hews | in the soft-coal miners’ wage controversy. . Another item of news. tells how a strike by 77 A. F. x of L. bus drivers and maintenance men, protesting a regional _ war labor board denial of higher’ wages, disrupted public _ transportation i in the Aurora, mn, area, and delayed work in ~ 100 war plants. : For months government spokesmen and leaders of na‘tional labor organizations have sought to minimize the - damage done by strikes, arguing that the strikers are only a tiny fraction of the total number of men and women eniployed. : The figures they use are completely misleading.” The truth is that a small strike in one plant, interrupting the flow of parts or materials, can and often does curtail pro‘duction in dozens or scores of Other places. os » » » » " CKNOWLEDGMENT is due one labor leader who does “not regard strikes as trifles. He is Nicholas A. Zona_rich, international president of the C. I. -O. Aluminum - Workers of America. When a local of 2000 members at Edgewater, N. J., voted to strike, Mr. Zonarich instructed their district board member to see that action was withheld, gaying: “l want opportunity to carry the issues involved through the proper procedure as provided by our contract -and by the government. I will not authorize any strike or “curtailment of production in any plant or department during this war. -Our union has a splendid record of participation in the war effort and I intend to see that this continues.” The local union’s executive .board promptly recom- - mended to the membership that the strike call be revoked. An army representative has promised that the workers’ grievances will be settled fairly, and that promise should be

Aulfilled.

- Tn an Each iniring broadcast to the American lie, Tokyo. threatens that Li flier that comes this

migking and “Manila; ‘and, are stupid enough to think r-criminal- barbarism against uniformed war prisoners I stop us. How little they know the American! Just as their attack on Pearl Harbor in the midst of friendly”. diglomstls negotiations $pughs + a trusting Amer-

Our bombers. will certainly ‘blast the military targeis of Tokyo again, and again and again. We expect them to ¢ bomb our ‘cities—if they can get close enough. But they

3 know, as we know, that our strategic cities will be standing

when theirs are ruins. » 8 JRONICALLY, on the same day the news was catching up with their crime, Tokyo militarists were shuffling their binet for an apparent peace move. Tojo, the arch criminal, picked a “pro-American” diplomat, Mamoru Shigeitsu, as his puppet foreign miinster. The plan seems to be to strike with terrorism and military offensives with one hand, and reach slyly for peace with the other hand—an old nique. 1f ‘this is the plan, it is nok surprising. The Japs naturally will try to walk out on Hitler when they think he is ; [] g. NR And why shouldn’t’ they Vani peace? They have all the conquest they can digest for a while. Why not jtop the A war before we can force them to disgorge? The only. answer is that America: will not let them end possible, however long it takes. Japan must be and will be beaten into dneonidiional rerider. Japan must be fixed so her militarists never ain will have the power to attack, so ber en oititials er again can murder Americans.. os

OT-SO-DUMB ANIMALS SF va WILD fox tried to steal a lunch box froin a Biyear-old girl on her way to school near Darlington, S. C. . Since hunting season closed a four-prong buck deer is reported ‘have taken up residence in an abandoned trailer near sdale, Mont. Farmer Archie Barnes at Chardon, O., tractor gasoline by using two bulls, Fetdinand and

to do his spring plowing: And a cocker spaniel at Wat-.

Glenn, N. Y., swallowed a $35 roll of currency but is said ve coughed up the money intact 12 days later, “ust as big war r bond: campaign got under way. ir

A a h NG oF SACRIFICE

Fir | By Westbrook Pegler

a 4 cents a copy; deliv-

They started it and we shall finish it. There is only

nough

different sort.

Young Joe Doakes was born in

1926 and was a little less than 8 years old when President .Roosevelt was inaugurated the first time. He has lived all of his conscious

life to date under the rule of Mr.

Roosevelt and the New Deal. In his mind, Mr. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace -and Harry Hopkins are the fixed government of his country, for he has never known any other. Unconsciously, during these years between babyhood and young manhood, the Doakes kid has-been

influenced by the events, the methods and . the’

ethics that have swirled around him, Notes Governmental Evasion

HE CAN'T remember when it was improper to]: toss off a solemn promise and break it with a mock-

ing grin, when gangsters were held to be outlaws, when the government was scrupulous to obey the laws and disdained clever tricks upon the people, when

high personages were careful not to claim special |

privileges on a pretense of public service and a citizen could oppose a policy without fear of personal reprisal. He does remember, because it happened the day after Pearl Harbor, that, after President Roosevelt had taken a public vow not to deliver a lot of coal miners to John L. Lewis, 8 man named Steelman, acting in the president’s name in the role of arbitrator, did for him precisely what he had sworn he would not do.

Because his government did that and because this : is the only government he has ever known, the

Doakes kid thinks that was pretty cute and, his regard for his own promises is affected accordingly. :

Sees Racketeering Flourish

HE HAS a sense that the best citizenship and the best way to get along is ta belong to the crowd that is in power, for he has seen that racketeers who string with his government can get away with highway robbery and that wien congress tries to abolish their immunity, the president slips the word to a couple of his trained senators fo kill the bill because it would embarrass the boys. He noted, in his juvenile way, that Harry Hopkins made a nice piece of change out of magazine stuff which he didn’t even have to write, himself, at a time when the president was damning war profiteers and, further, that although Hopkins warned the common citizens that they must live a hard life, Harry is living higher and making more money than ever before in his life. And it has not escaped the Doakes kid's attention that anyone who sticks his neck out is likely to be handed an iron cross by the president to signify that he is a traitor or vilified by LaGuardia, Ickes or the New Deal party press or even hounded by the FBI. The Doakes kid has heard his old man mutter that such a way of doing ain’t right and grumble that they didn’t do that way before 1933, but the day before 1933 is just olden times to him and he figures that his old man is getting along.

Knows No Other Code :

THE KID has never known anything else but the New Deal and its moral code and he is just one of a whole generafion of’ Americans, boys and girls, who

.{ have been so conditioned, as the ideology: writers | | would say.

Like the young generation that Mussolini seized to train in fascism from childhood, these Americans, who naturally look to their government for the highest example, have been getting a course of what the navy calls indoctrination. since they first were able to realize that there was such a thing as the government. . That is why the Doakes . kid doesn’t take very seriously all he hears about. the four freedoms everywhere in the world. He figures, what the hell, promise them anything and appoint an arbiter to break the promise, keep yourself in power and take care of your own mob and if one of those small nations puts up a beef, put it on the defensive with your propaganda. Without conscious reasoning, Joe Doakes Jr., reckons to deal with the rest of the world as he has seen his own government deal with the people of the U. 8. A. because that is the code under which he grew up and he knows no other.

..\In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 26.—The . frequently expressed idea that 1943 would see the U. S. civilian economy reduced to some absolute bed-rock minimum doesn’t . seem to be working out. . Several confidential surveys of recent trends in various merchandising fields have revealed evi-

dence that the amount of goods

and services to be purchased by consumers will be about 10 per

cent less than it was last year.

+ Based on reports of what stores sold in the first

three months of 1943, today’s estimates show that the

total dollar volume of goods sold during the entire years will be only about 1 per cent below the total sales of 1942, which certainly isn’t any indication of an approaching bed-rock economy.

What You Can Buy

BREAKDOWN ON the estimated sales in each major line is important because it indicates what you as a consumer will able to buy with your money during the balarice of the year. Roughly, it runs something like this: As an average citizen, you may spend 20 per cent more in eating and drinking places. Higher restaurant prices plus your inclination. to eat out more, to

stretch your rations and because you have extra |

dough in your jeans and culottes, account for that. You may spend a little more in clothing stores than you did last year. Production of wearing apparel hasn’t been curtailed, with the exception of shoes. Your purchases in drug stores appear to be headed for a 10 per cent increase in quantity over last year, You may cut your purchases from the house furnishings stores by as much as 10 per cent.

Radios Out, Food Up

THERE WILL be furniture there for you to buy, but not the radios and appliances. The quantity of food available to you—and this will hurt—may be as much as 10 per cent below what you got in 1942, but you will probably pay the grocer and the butcher as much money as you did last year.

« Your sharpest cuts and your biggest changes in |

NEW YORK, April 26.—Thes Doakes kid, Joe Jr. was -takeny into the army the other day. He |. is 18 years old and a very patriotic American, but of .a new and |

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“MOVE OUT IN MIDDLE OF NO PLACE” Mrs. M. L. D., Indianapolis Dear H. M. W., Indianapolis:

in the April 19 edition of The Times,

to do is to move way out in the middle of no place. Since you can’t stop dogs from barking and God forbid we ever have children that don’t play and yell. It’s almost funny. Here in America, a heaven to the poor souls in war-torn Europe who would be thankful if all that worried them was & few barking dogs and happy children, much less the - “noise of gaiety. All I can say is that the chronic gripers; ‘and there seem to'be plenty, should change places with some of the poor souls over there. And if they keep on using all their energy finding something to complain about

the war effort they may not even have to go over there. And if such a thing happens, God forbid, they most certainly won't be able to complain openly in a public newspaper about it. For shame! Anyone who wants to silence children defies description, Evidently they were born at the ripe old age of 65. » ” » “DON’T MIND DYING TO SAVE MEN LIKE PEGLER” By Pvt. Harry Long, Indianapolis In answer to Mr, 8. D. Davison re Pegler, I wonder why he reads Pegler, If he doesn’t like him, why read him? Hence, he does read Pegler, or he could not disagree with what Pegler says. And that is sufficient proof of the truth of Pegler’s writing. Men died in hundreds of thousands to keep the truth of Christ from being known. Men still hire attorneys and fight to keep the truth from being known. ‘The axis shouts propaganda over the wires and airways to cover the truth and |P keep it down. And many of our own politicians do the same, Pegler exposes crooks and thugs— genuine racketeers. . . . living as parasites off ‘the labor of working men. Pegler has court records for every crook ‘exposed. Those who have the brass to say “he lies” and not the guts to prove it seemingly

May I, after reading your letter|

make a suggestion? What you need

instead of doing a little good for|® *

(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.)

are just a part of the gang he is fighting. And Mr. Davison, your sunwillingness to defend the rights of Mr. Pegler to speak” brands you as one of the guys who don’t believe in “freedom of the press” as the American way of life. It hints you are of the brand that -teaches “might makes right.” Personally, 'I don’t mind dying to save men like Pegler, but I hate to think I am in the army for . you, 5 ” » » “IT’S A WASTE OF LATHER” By Joseph A. Dickey, Anderson Some time ago . .. Edward Maddox challenged anyone to deny that

the new deal is based on “socialistic totalitarianism.” I have made a case study of this man’s drivel and thought it would be fun to accept his challenge, knowing that he did not have what it takes to maintain his charge with any degree of intelligence. A week: ago Saturday : . . Maddox referred to my letter. So far I have not been able to determine whether he said almost something or almost nothing. At the very best, there was nothing to answer. However, quite a number of people have written me asking what 1 intended to do about Maddox. A few Republicans have suggested that Maddox not be taken too seriously; they seem to be having trouble enough with the Democratic Gonkey without being embarrassed . their own. ’ “ruis Maddox has visions of grandeur; he tells the military authorities how to run the war, gives advice to the wise men and nominates governors and presidents. Just a brief reference to Maddox's silly statement; our constitution, as written at Philadelphia, was an eco-

nomic document dealing with com-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

merce, debts, taxes, coinage and

tariffs. that of capitalism and any modification of it, from a purely political science standpoint, would be a step toward socialism. The interstate commerce commission, the pure food ‘and -drugs act, the Clayton act, the federal trade commission, the federal power commission and many other bureaus and commissions established before 1933 are steps away from the old laissez-faire doctrine or strict capitalism, but all are based upon capitalism and not upon socialism. When Mr. Maddox asserts that the new deal is based upon socialistic totalitarianism, I very much doubt that he has the faintest conception of what he is trying to talk about. So now, my case study of Mr. Maddox is finished; I have him classified and shall pay no more attention to him; it's a waste of lather. " &N “ALL WEEK LONG, DRUNKS KEEP US AWAKE” By Mrs. H. M. W., Indianapolis

No, Mr. Goodyear, there is no smoke in my eyes, imaginary or otherwise. ‘I wasn’t the one complaining. I've never seen anyone smoking on a bus. Mr. Daacke gave the impression that because smokers’ are in the majority that. it was all right to smoke wherever one pleased.” I was merely trying to point out how unfair that would be to other passengers .if the smokers were that inconsiderate and rude. But I have still got alcohol on the brain (as you call it). All week long, the drunks have kept us awake until after 2 o'clock in the morning and that’s only the beginning of worse to come. . . , I notice you live oni a R. R. Well, I'm not that fortunate. They put this tavern right under my nose, after my living here 20 years. Believe me, Mr. Goodyear, I'm not writing just to make some good citizen angry. I'm hoping, through this column, to get help in. improving conditions in this community. 8 x =» “GRATEFUL FOR THIS TRIUMPH” By C. M., Indianapolis . We cannot quite understand why prompt, front-page notice and publicity has not been given to the very worthy and splendid action taken by the city council apropos smoking

on cars and busses—particularly so |.

because of your own rather recent excellent editorial relative to smoking on public vehicles. Do you not think it would -help such a good and comfortable cause

along for all the newspapers “to | | tell the people” such on their front | pages?

It just might also help some reads ers—specifically one, a writer in the

Forum, a Mr. C. PF. Goodyear, to re- | move some of the “imaginary fog’ | & from his own observation. He stated

he had seen but a very few smokers in 15 years, those he could count on one hand! He must ride cars with his eyes and “nose” closed. Even those of us who do riot ob-

| ject to smoking in right ways and

proper places will be very, very grateful for. this council ‘triumph |

fof deesnt good taste and consider |

ation, We thank then}

"DAILY THOUGHT

Wherefore away lying, speak every man truth with his

Florida

inesse

By Thomas L. Stokes

TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 26 ~A temperate voice in the South's present turmoil is that of Gov, Spessard L. Holland of Florida, who refuses to get unduly excited + about the political agitation that is disturbing others. And Governor Holland carries weight in southern councils, not only because of his balance and a Te ie t part he has in seeking to remove the South’s No, 1 economic grievance—discriminatory freight rates—and because ' of the fine record he is making in Teorgunizing Florida's finances. : Florida, in his judgment, will remain Demociatie in 1044, despite resentment among the people. over some of the actions and attitudes of the Roosevelt administration, In the bill of complaints he included not only the ancient freight-rate grievance, which applies even more drastically to Florida than to the rest of the South, and gasoline rationing, a particular peeve, but also what he regards as an attempt by “the reformist group” in Washington to exploit the war emergency by imposing their political ideas on the people.

South Must Prove Her Case

SOUTHERN AS he is in heritage—both his grand fathers fought in the Confederate army—he does not

‘| believe that a “rebel yell” is. the cure for the South's

ills. The South, he believes, can best get her grievances adjusted by proving her case, factually, to the rest of the nation, As an example he cited the freight-rate cases. Already, he pointed out, the South has won livestock \

| and commodity rate cases before the IOC, which

removed disparities. And he believes she will win the. pending case, the most important, Tel ng te classified rates. This was because southern governors organized, went to work, hired experts, dug out the facts, and got a congressional survey of comparative rates which proved discriminations. He recalled how, when he testified at an Indisnapolis. hearing in one of the cases, the ;eyes of certain eastern shipping interests were opened to see that they, as well as the South, were suffering dis« criminations, and thy became allies. He said they told him they had never derstand the South’s complaint before.

Resents Wartime Reformers

“THE SOUTH,” said Governor Holland, “must. al» ways hold before it the idea that anything we ged must be sold first on: the basis of justice and fair play

to the Jle- of the rest of the country.” Our economic system is| peop : Sry

Discussing the worries of his people, he said they were resentful at gasoline rationing only because they did not believe it necessary. He pointed out that twothirds of the state is in the Gulf area, accessible to inland-waterway transportation of gasoline, “There's a feeling here, t00,” he went on, “that some of our reformist groups in Washington . have seized upon wartime as a. time: to further their. po= litical ideas. “The racial reformers have been trying to go much further than many of our people feel is justified. “There are various social agencies in Washington which have béen making a field day of the war opportunity. In social security they've tried time and again to take over state unemployment compensation, _ They've seized upon the war emergency to over= emphasize every social program.” He paused a moment, and unwound from his desk those long legs which made him a star track per. former at college, a fast man on the bases and on the gridiron, a rangy basketball player--for he was a four-letter man at Emory university in Georgia, (He took his law at the University of Florida).

Favors Local Administration

A SLOW grin rambled across. his finely chiseled face. He ran his hand through his shock of graying hair. “Well; it looks as if many things are wrong the way I've been talking,” he said. “I do want. to. say that Washington ‘and the nation have done many fine

"1 and kind things for us in Florida, and we are appre

ciative.” : He was asked how he felt about the movement to recover for the states some of their lost powers, “I'm still a strong believer in having government just as close to the people as is possible,” he it, “The further off it gets, the less economical it the most wasteful, the more bureaucratic. Equally I believe in holding for the cities and counties as much as can be effectually handled by them.” Goverhor Holland has lived close to local problems, and is intensely interested in people. Soon after came, home from the first world war to Bartow, middie Florida, where he was born 50 years ago, was appointed county prosecutor. After a year ran for county judge, and served on the bench eight years. He returned then to the practice of av. In 1098 he re-entered politics,” winning election to the state senate. There he served for eight years, specialising ! in state finance. He was elected governor. in 1040, and is n the third year of a term that ends Jan. L 1948.

We he Women

By Ruth. Millet

But when a woman housekeeper decides to factory. to work she has adjustment before her. ; So far, there hasn’t been much offered her along that line, t.dt will come. In New York ‘the American Women's Voluntary Services is «ffer-

OI patel Sore for ne th to litlp Women who have never worked outside the home before to eiitsgé thous a 'soutd sbiitude- Yo = business. cherisg develop a new set of work habits, to combine the [ePSAipiijacs WL inking 4 me Wi hulding dn % : .

Short Cuts Help

SUCH COURSES are needéd wherever war plants. For, the: homemaker who decides to! on a factory job is bound to find the going tough at first, as. she tries to combine, homemaking and job holding, without neglecting either. ; Any Vays of Mataging end uay shoes]