Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1943 — Page 14

The “Indianapolis Times,

ROY W. HOWARD : RALPH BURKHOLDER Presiden Ee Editor, in U. 8. Service MARK FERREE WALTER LECKRONE “Business’ Manager Editor / (a ‘SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

re i pols en

Owned and Published = dally Sally (ensept Sunday) by Lah i 1y, 4 cents a copy; deliv- ; 8 week. . Mail rates in Indiana; $4 a year; adjoining states, 75 cents a month; - others, wn monthly.

bod RILEY 5551

Give Lalit and the People. Will Find Their Own Way

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1943

DETECTIVE CLEARED THE fantastic charges a delinquent 15-year-old boy made against an Indianapolis city detective in court here recently exploded yesterday when a thorough investigation failed to turn up a single shred of evidence that they were true. The report of the safety board completely exonerated Detective Thomas Naumsek—and it left only one thing unexplained; namely: Why did anyone take such a charge seriously in the first place? The boy, a self-confessed member of a gang of juvenile burglars, apparently was able to convince Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox that the detective, an officer of long and unblemished record in the police department, had instigated burglaries so he could bask in the glory of solving the crimes, or at least Judge Cox placed enough credence in his tall tales to demand that the police department “take action” against the officer. Even after the charges turned out to be nothing but the workings of an over-active imagination Judge Cox, apparently still unconvinced that the lad needed the corrective influence of the juvenile court, turned him loose on what appears from here to be a technicality, although no doubt quite legal. The effect on the boy himself, of an episode of this kind, cannot fail to be bad. He has had an elementary lesson in crime. He has learned that even a court may sometimes be made to believe a fantastic lie and he has learned that even a boy who has admitted his part in a series of offenses may get out of trouble on a technical error. ‘In freeing him Judge Cox expressed the belief that the law creating the juvenile court here is unconstitutional, and that may be correct. But he certainly has demonstrated : ‘that Indianapolis needs a juvenile court, staffed by men and women with a real understanding of delinquent youth and how to deal with them.

WHAT PRICE PRESS FREE ? HE Pennsylvania Newspaper, Publishers’ association points out that a bill prepared by Senator Bankhead to order the federal treasury to spend $25,000,000 to $35,000,000 annually for war bond advertisement directs that at least half of it be spent in weekly papers. It quotes Senator Raymond E. Willis, publisher of an Indiana weekly, as saying that “the advertising would Hide

"over an instiimiion grieviously hit by the war.” 8

“PRINTER'S INK, ”. trade publication of the advertising field and, as such, a consistent advocate of advertising, correctly sums up the situation created by the Bankhead bill in an editorial entitled, “What Price Press Freedom?” “The newspapers of this country simply cannot afford to accept Senator Bankhead’s startling proposal,” it says. “There is not the slightest thing wrong with the government’s buying publication space, radio time or using any other form of advertising strictly on a commercial basis. “But the Bankhead idea, as we see it, is something entirely different. It is obviously a move to subsidize the ~ press, particularly small town weeklies, and a subsidized _ press is no longer a free press. : “It is literally full of dynamite and is a grave menace to American institutions. “The idea was proposed to the senator by a number of country newspaper publishers in Alabama and Georgia. It contemplates the ‘distribution’ of the appropriation primarily. among weekly newspapers. The result would be that the mine-run newspaper of this type would get an annual fifteen hundred dollar advertising order from the government, which is around one-fifth of the average gross yearly advertising revenue in this category. “In other words, to all intents and purposes the goyernment would own the American country press. “And this would not be all. Inevitably and willy-nilly, other media would enter the picture. With all that easy money floating around, it would be only ordinary human

nature for many of them to try to get their share.” j » 2. 8 i # o 2 : IF the Bankhead bill becomes law, freedom of ‘the press will go out the window as a great new relief plan costing untold millions comes in the door.

WHY TAXPAYERS Go CRAZY ROM section 740 (¢) of the excess profits tax title, as congress amended it by section 228 of the revenue act of 1942: “For the purposes, of section 712, section 742, and section 743 in the case of a corporation which is a component corporation in a transaction described in subsection (a)— “(1) Except as Sioa in paragraph (2), for the ‘purpose of computing, for ‘any taxable year beginning after Dec. 81, 1941, the excess profits credit of such component corporation or of an acquiring corporation of which the acquiring corporation in such transaction is not a component, except in the application of sections 7138 (f) and

- ‘742 (h) (other than. the limitation on the amount of aver-

"age base period’ net: income: or supplement A average base: period net income, ‘as the case may be, determined thereunder), no account; shall be taken of the excess profits net income of such corporation for any period be-

fore the day after such transaction, or of the excess profits | me

_ net income for any period before the day after such transaction of its component corporations in any transaction before such transaction, and no account shall be taken of the capital addition or capital reduction of such component

or ion either immediately before such transaction or |. for any prior period, or of the capital addition or capital.

. Price in Mdrion Couns | ered by carrier, 18 see.

Fait Ercogh By ‘Westbrook Pegler ;

Yablonski, 32 years old, of Cali-.

tw von, AotiinSomt pr fornia, Pa., a burglar, is a member |

of ‘the international executive 2

board of John b. Lewis’ union, the

United Mine Workers, represent- |

* ing District 5, the Pittsburgh dis-

trict. His salary ls $5008 JGR (i

of urylar: county ° rationing board ‘No. 6, at California, a federal position of public trust. He also is entitled to “serious consideration for

. deferment” in the draft under the terms of activity

and occupation bulletin No. 20, as amended, issued to all draft boards. On Sept. 23, 1930,” Yablonski broke into the clubhouse of the Loyal Order of Moose at Monongahela, Pa., and stole $318 and a quantity fr-eigats,. candy and chewing gum.

Lewis Backs Jailbird HE WAS indicted on two charges, felonious break-

ing and entry and larceny, and pleaded guilty. He |

was sentenced to serve one to two years in jail. He served a little over seven months in the Allegheny county workhouse and was released on parole in September, 1931, and discharged from parole In Jan-

uary, 1933. In-1936 he was charged with deserting and failed to support his wife and child and ordered to pay $6 a week. John L. Lewis supported the burglar for election to the international executive board of the mine workers last July. He was elected even though his opponents circulated his police record in the form of a pamphlet containing his rogues’ gallery picture with his convict number, 24,786, across his chest. This was a special election to fill a vacancy and Patrick T. Fagan, the president of District 5, opposed Yablonski’s candidacy on the ground that he was unfit for the office of district representative. Fagan later charged that members of the John L. Lewis faction in the district had stuffed ballot boxes, intimidated watchers. and tellers and tried to buy votes. He said Yablonski’s campaign methods were the most disgraceful in the history of the union.

Mine Union Honors Him

AS A result, a special commission of the union was appointed to investigate Fagan, not Yablonski, and his election methods, and when Fagan himself ran for re-election to his office of district president last December the Lewis faction defeated him. He had been president for 20 years. At the same time Yablonski was re-elected district representative on the international executive board for the regular term. Yablonski endeared himself to Lewis and the international office of the union by vigorous work in the captive mine strike of 1941, shortly before Pearl Harbor. The activity and occupation bulletin for the guidance of draft boards previously cited says that serious consideration for deferment is recommended for such men as he because it is “in the national interest and essential to the war production program that a harmonious relationship be maintained between labor and industry.” That harmony in the coal mining fleld has been keynoted by the strike last winter which cost half a million tons of production and by the recent threat of Mr. Lewis to call the men out of the mines unless they get a raise.

New Deal Supports Him

YABLONSKI IS sturdy and aggressive and, at 32, is ‘distinctly eligible for military service. Dependency’ would be a minor claim for deferment in view of the fact that his contribution to the support of his family

has been fixed at only $6 a week. This man is only one of hundreds of the same general type who rule masses of workers with the support and co-operation of the United States government and with the assistance of a few key men in the senate who, in obedience to orders from the White House, repeatedly have killed reform bills passed by the ‘house of representatives. One such measure, the Hobbs bill, recently passed by the house, is'now blockaded in the senate and probably will die there. Its simple purpose is to declare that unions have no right to resort to highway robbery of truckers engaged in interstate commerce. Those who oppose -it are determined that unions shall continue to enjoy that right, and, although convicted cr Is automatically -become ineligible for public office, all proposals that criminals be made ineligible by law for union office have: been denounced as labor-baiting and defeated in accordance with the labor policy of the New Deal.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 28. — How to get full or even just partial post-war yse of the Northwest’s new aluminum productive capacity is now being surveyed in a study undertaken by Dr. N. H. Engle and staff for the bureau of business research of the University of Washington, . collaborating with the U. S. department of commerce and the aluminum industry. . In less than two .years, ‘this Washington state aluminum industry has been built up from nothing to produce 25 to 30 per cent of all U. S. aluminum. The entire setup represents an in-

‘| vestment of $100,000,000 to $115,000,000 of U. S. gov=-

ernment, defense plant corporation money in addition to Alcoa and Reynolds investments. The government owns the plants and may therefore shut them down after the war if there isn’t a market for the 500,000,000 pounds of aluminum they can produce.

Western Market ls Light

BUT IS that good business? If they are shut down, from 6000 to 7000 employees are thrown out of jobs and there is no market for from 75 to 85 per cent of the electric power developed in the BonnevilleCoulee system. It is good sense to keep the Plants going if possible. But the Northwest isn’t exactly the perfect Joona. tion in ‘which te produce aluminum. The 11 Western states have only 11 per cent of of U. 8. population and 12 per cent of the purchasing power, so it isn’t a good market, area for 30 per cent of the country's aluminum. If chesp water transportation were open, via the Panama canal the Northwest aluminum might compete in an open market, but as the University of Washington research shows, what this gigantic infant industry may need to survive will be the development of still other industries and facilities. ~ : At a minimum, this might do it: Pe 1, Develop a western aluminum industry to pre aluminum-bearing clays known to exist in ton, Idaho and Oregon. 2. Build another aluminum rolling A water. Cost, $50,000,000 to $75,000,000. Cray EE

The Hoosier Forum

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

“A LOT OF PRETTY PHRASES" By H. W. Daacke, 1404 S. State ave.

A lot of pretty phrases, interspersed with a lot of nonentities, is the sum and substance of the contribution by “Voice in the Crowd” in the Hoosier Forum of the April 22 edition of .The Indianapolis Times. Besides calling it Americanism it could, and just as correctly, be called Germanism, Norwegianism or Swissism. Germany as a republic before the rise to power of Hitler, Norway before its temporary subjugation by the Germans or Switzerland any old time. So you ars still out on a limb, just as you were when you were wrongly accusing the unions of laxity in contributing their share of sacrifice toward the betterment of society in general. So I can repeat: “One of us is wrong and it ain't me.” » ” » “EFFORTS TO KEEP ALLEYS CLEAN ARE DISCOURAGING” By The P.-T. A. Civics Council, School No. 12, Indianapolis The people who live in the vicinity of school No. 12 have discourag-

ing situations to overcome in their efforts to keep the alleys and vacant lots clean. It seems to be impossible to keep containers and without containers the city will not collect the debris. Consequently ashes and cans are piled in vacant lots and alleys as the only way that many see to dispose of them. This general appearance tends to make the already careless collectors more careless and many say that they drive through the alleys for weeks without collecting from some of the few containers or fail fo

{drive through some of the alleys

at all. Some think that the collectors are responsible for the loss of a good many of the containers as they make convenient baskets in which to collect the glass and other forms of junk that are found on their routes. The people seem to feel quite willing to co-operate in the cleanup campaign but many also

much against them that there is little use to try. We wonder whether there are a lot of WPA shovels some place lying idle that might be used to get the ashes and old cans into the disposal

seem to feel that the odds are so

(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.)

wagons and out to the dumps. If this were offered,” we think that there are many volunteers who would help load the wagons. This might also tend to discourage the extreme carelessness that collectors seem to have in this section eof the city. 8 8 f J “LET'S KEEP THESE THINGS IN MIND”: By Oséar ‘Houston, Eletisville When Harrison E. Spangler was made chairman of the Republican

{national committee a few months

ago he made this interesting state-

ment: “I have been fighting the New

Deal for 12 years and now I hope to be in on the kill. That is the

mission of the Republican party.” Mr. Spangler’s statement is made in perfectly understandable English. There isn’t any reason to try to interpret it as meaning anything besides what it says. He casts aside all pretense that his party has any sympathy for the forward-looking laws that the New Deal has enacted for the masses and that has

|enabled them for the first time in

our history to enjoy a great degree of economic security. The leaders of the Republican party have spent the last 10 years in criticism and denouncing the New Deal as being un-American, In all this time they have never indorsed anything the New Deal has done for the people. They have. never proposed any program of their own to advance the cause of progress for the masses. To their way of thinking, everything that has been done is wrong. Mr. Spangler has made the issue plain. He speaks for the leaders of his party. He doesn’t speak the language of the masses, but he does speak for the ones who hate the president because he has stood between them and a return to their fleshpots for ‘three Sucoussive terms. In all this time he has been on

the job, using his ability and the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

power of ‘his office to give us all a break by securing the passage of laws that guarantee to the masses a greater measure of social and economic security. This is what he has. been fighting for and he has never let us down. If our masses in the coming election listen to the false propaganda and loose talk against the New Deal and lend their support to its destruction, when could they ever expect to see another president with courage and will enough to make another fight for the security of the common people? Let's keep these things in mind. » ” ” “GOOD IDEA AS FAR AS IT GOES” By F. Kennedy, 1562 Central ave. No. 1 This is a follow-up of the article of April 24 in the Hoosier Forum by PF. E F. E's idea is very, very good as far as it goes, but here is an angle that he does not know about. One of our large retail department stores gives a letter to each employee who enters the. armed service to the effect that when they return they will be given back their old jobs. That's all very fine on the surface, but I know of one instance, personally, where the employee was given one of these letters and. the very next day after he left, an ad was placed in one of the local papers for someone to fill his position, and that it would be permanent. Now, how in the world can they promise the old employee a job when he comes back from the war if they give his job to someone else on a permanent basis? If the promise to the soldier is only a “scrap of paper,” how much would a promise to the production soldiers be worth? That is what I wanted to bring to the attention of F. E. 8 » 8 “HEAR OURSELVES AS OTHERS HEAR US” By J. 0. Y. Chapman, 4110 College ave. Bobby Burns once said: “Oh for the gift the master gie us to see oursilves as ithers see us.” I change that just a little and say: ‘Hear ourselves as others hear us.” I got up early Easter morning to go to the service at Monument up earlier. The crowd was there

§ 135

i i

i ' Ea

j 5k

: taf

_ WEDNESDAY, APAIL 2 18 Poison Gas

ph pv ot ve Mga (gd my iN

: By David Dietz i

the Russian front. : ¢ Apparently, the Germans nave not yeti ited lth gas in world ‘war II although theré have been - sional reports from China, apparéntly well: tle cated that the Japs have made spores has, of .

Gases Have Limitations

' THERE HAS been much talk by commentated the radio the last few nights about poison gas, most of it based on a discussion of its horror, its barbarie nature, etc, and asking whether the Germans will stoop to this final atrocity. \ I think that such discussion is all beside the polit The Germans have riot used poison gas until now bes

They will begin to use ;poison gas the moment hey;

: believe that it will serve their ends.

To understand the situation, we must’ upderstand the scientific ‘and technical facts involved, the nature

| and limitations of poison ‘gases and their tactical uses,.

Bombs Were More Deadly :

GERMANY conquered France and the Low Soune tries by blitzkrieg tactics. The use of poison gas would have delayed the advance of the Nazi troops. It would have been a hindrance and not a help. Following the fall of France, Hitler launched his aerial attack on Britain. I am convinced that the only reason he did not use poison gas in this attack - was because more death and destruction could be’ spread with explosives and incendiaries. : It is significant that each time the threat of the} use of poison gas by the Nazis has arisen, it has been on the Russian front and at a time when conditions were beginning to approach those of world war I.

Static War Changes Picture

IN OTHER words, Hitler begins thinking in terms of poison gas when the war on the Russian fron loses its mobility and the kind of statig situation thas marked the trench warfare of world war I begins to develop. » Under such conditions, gas shells become useful, = For offensive action, to silence enemy artillery, eto, the lung irritants are preferred. These are the true gases, such as phosgene, which attack the lungs. For defensive action, to slow. up enemy charges, . etc, the preferred gases are the mustard gas types which are not actually gases but liquids. These contaminate everything they touch and ps tainting the ground slow up the advance of attacking troops. Their action is to attack the skin, ine blisters. Should Hitler begin to use gas in air attacks on the cities of Russia, mustard gas would probably be eme ployed. The lung irritants are dissipated so quickly . that it is highly doubtful that they would prove efe fective in attacks on cities.

Flying Men By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, April 28—The.}: are reams of records and contro-.: versial treatises on how big or how" small a man should be for mille : tary flight duty. Actually the . physical factor is incidental, Candidate airmen at flying schools have often possessed superb physical assets and yet: somehow or other failed to click.’ Athletes with national collegiate reputations could pass any meds ico's examination, but sometimes were rejected as flying men. Yet humans of all sizes, weights, heights and descriptions were being turned into crack airmen; There have been, bitter controversies over how long. or how short the flying man should be for a Even type of ship or a given flying task.

There Is No Yardstick

LITTLE, CHUNKY men have become crack alls around airmen. Long, lanky individuals do the fyinga job equally well. Little men have set their hearts on fiying gress. bombers, and tall fellows have been just as deters mined to pilot tiny racking planes and small fighting ships. a As a matter of fact, we have been attracted dure: ing the years by the fact that nine times out of ten the crack bigeplane pilot—bomber or transport—was s a small fellow, while the six-foot lad was challenging hell and high water for a seat in the tiny fighter, plane. ‘In short, it required no great mental machinery to become aware of the fact that the physical makes » up of the human was only of incidental importance, and that “something” else--something mtangibio." was the determining factor, The difference between the crack pilot and the mediocre airman is a difference of temperament. ' We have no yarasiick for measuring $e 2 :

We the Women

By Ruth Mille

v »

”

tr |