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FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1043

“THE POWER VESTED IN ME”

“IF work at the ‘mines is not resumed by 100 ‘clock: Satur- . = day morning I shall use all the power. vested in me as / president and as commander in chief of the army and navy ‘to protect the national interest and to prevent further interference with the successful prosecution of the war.” The president’s ultimatum to John L. Lewis is a “ptomise to the country—and a welcome promise. - His appeal to the patriotism of the men who work in the coal -mines, an appeal made as their friend, hits exactly the right note. : They have been dangerously misled: Lewis, using them and their union to serve his own reckless ambition, has told them they are entitled to large and special gains “which in fact they cannot achieve without bringing economic disaster on their country. He has encouraged .a false belief that the government is against them, and so he has incited them rebellion against the government. : ” 2 # 2 » ME ROOSEVELT has told them the truth. The government has provided machinery for the orderly, peaceful settlement of labor disputes. Lewis has ignored this .machinery. Under these circumstances the coal strikes, actual and threatened, are not against employers but against the United States itself. They challenge the power of the government to carry on the war—to get produced the tanks, guns and ammunition without which “our ‘sailors on the high seas and our armies in the field will be helpless against our enemies.” ~The president did not Sxapystate when he said that the effect of continuing and spreading strikes would be the ‘same as a crippling’ defeat in the field. : Coal is basic to the making of steel and scores of other indispensable war materials, to industrial energy and to ‘transportation. i A prolonged coal strike could lose the war. Even a brief strike would delay victory and take toll in casualties to American boys who are the sons and brothers of many coal miners, We hope most earnestly that the miners will follow the leadership of Mr. Roosevelt, return to their jobs and submit their case to the war labor board. ) "But if he finds it necessary to use the power vested in “him to protect the national interest, he will have the « overwhelming support of the country.

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HE WANTS NO SUBSIDY

BoB POST, publisher of “The Villager,” a weekly paper at Glenshaw, Pa., speaks his mind about Senator Bank‘head’s proposed bill to order expenditure by the federal ‘treasury of $25,000,000 to $35,000,000 a year for news‘paper advertising, at least half the money to go to weekly ‘newspapers: “Allow us to state our case openly and frankly as just ‘one of the 12,000 weekly newspapers that might benefit ‘by this federal subsidization. : “First off, we're in a helluva financial shape. Our allot‘ment of government advertising—carrying “messages” urging people to buy bonds, etc.—would be a very healthy thing for us financially. But, if we derived almost one-third of

our advertising revenue from the government, how would |

‘we be able to criticize the government whenever ‘we felt, in our humble opinion, that a justified and constructive criticism was due? / : “The Villager would rather dose shop than accept a dollar’s worth of advertising from the government. oo lf ‘the local merchants can’t see the value in a publication, if ‘the readers fail to subscribe because the editorial policy -is weak, then there isn’t any reason for the existence of that ‘publication. A federal subsidy would only mean: that the smart boys in, Washington, looking to the election next year, ‘would try to woo the weeklies. : “If the Bankhead bill goes through, the freedom of the ‘weekly press will be shot to hell—that is to say, for those ‘weeklies that would accept the govermment’s proposition. ‘Our position can best be described in the words of that ‘immortal bard of Hollywood, Sam Goldwyn-~Inecinde us jout’ I"

REUNION EN ROUTE

MES. ROOSEVELT hasn't been home much lately, but ~~ it does look as if she had time for one of these interesting little chats she writes about with the president dur:ing his recent trip. i No sooner was he back in Washington han he an‘nounced his interest in another of her pet projects—this ‘time a plan to draft all young men and young women for a year’s compulsory service to the government in peacetime as well as wartime, an idea long in successful operation in ‘Germany, and very highly thought of in the circles from [Which sprang her earlier. P, $25,000 salary limit.

GEN. McNAIR- i 5 Eg Ey

MERICANS hope for the speedy. 1 recovery of Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, commander of all U. S. agmy ground ores, who was wounded at the Tunisian front. Fortunately, late dispatches from North African hendquarters indicate that his injuries are not critical. 5 | To Gen. McNair the United: States and the united na‘tions are indebted for training the great modernized Amerdean army in record time. It is characteristic of the thor-

ness of the man that he insisted on visiting the front

check on that basic h = ai i for which he was

ALP BURKHOLDER

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

: e great-hearted, idealistic peoee 8. A, have got our=

~ Japanese of ours, 14,000 of whom are impounded, so to speak, in

“call a relocation project on this God-forgotten Arindha desert. The native Americans among them are entitled to every right and privilege of citizenship, but

country who would delight to do us dirt if. they could. If, individually, they should sue for their freedom our courts would have to turn them loose, although in that case some of them would be mobbed in their old home towns back in California and elsewhere on the Pacific coast. Even the loyal ‘Ameribans among them would be in danger if liberated and sent home, because all Japs look alike, in a manner of speaking, and the ‘hatred of the Californian for a Jap is ‘more ferocious than ever after the murder of some of Gen. Doolittle’s boys.

Public Bows to Expediency

SO IF we turn square with ourselves and decide to abide by our reversed constitution and our-laws we risk not only their lives but our own and, consequently, here they are in the desert and there we are behind the eight-ball. The fortunate marvel of it all is that our public opinion which, after sll, runs things in this country, has bowed to necessity and expediency. The civil liberty fakers of the East and the Communist cells of Hollywood,’ always in & terrible swivet over a Tom Mooney or a Harry Bridges, have been intently tying their shoes ever “since the roundup a year and more ago. The only agitation of the case has occurred in a few Negro publications which, without taking up for the Japs as Japs, nevertheless have viewed with alarm the fact that race was the sole consideration in our handling of this problem, and of course it had to be. These papers have conjured a future situation in which the white people would try to treat our 13 million Negro fellow-citizens likewise which, of course, is sheer mischief and nonsense.

Believe Many 'Planted' Here

NOW THAT the first confusion is over and we have gained some experience and got a line on the loyalty or disloyalty of individuals, we could improve our handling of the job. ‘The known enemies among them should be moved into separate “camps where they can’t contaminate or worry the loyal Americans, and be ruled by strict, efficient units of the military police. In time, in due process, we could arrange to let Japan have them in exchange for some of our people. The worst class are those who were born here and therefore are no less American than George Spelvin, himself, under the law, but who were sent back to Japan, as children to attend Japanese schools and in some cases, to serve in the Japanese army. Harper's magazine published last October, with the government's consent, a confidential report which said this group, returning here as adults, “may very probably have been deliberately planted here by the Japanese government. »

Scatteration Might Help

IT IS impossible for the traitors and the immigrant Japanese who, of course, are still citizens of Japan, to make an armed uprising. The loyal Americans would get wind of it and tell the camp administration and, anyway, if the M. P. detachment couldn't handle the job with its weapons and grenades, plenty of other troops could be rushed up in a short ‘time. But they could burn sorhe of the buildings and start a riot .in the course of which some of the innocent might be hurt along with the enemies. Far. be it from me to attribute any act of Harold Ickes to altruistic motives, but when he took a few approved Japs for work on his farm in Maryland he performed a good deed by publicizing a way out for some of the loyal Americans. If you can employ a Jap or a man and a wife on a farm or in a household and if you can satisfy the ot that you are all right yourself and that the neighbors won't molest them, you may be allowed to take one or more of these Americans out of detention. It would seem that indiscriminate hatred of Japs

.on racial grounds diminishes toward the East and that

if they are spotted around in singles, pairs and trios

there is negligible danger of plotting. There is a

trace of peonage in this but it seems to be the best

we can do under the circumstances.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 30.— This grade labeling dispute that has kicked up such a fuss among consumers, in connection with the price control orders on cajned foods, isn’t exactly a new argument. It has been going on for roughly a quarter of a century without getting much of any real solution. The Copeland bill, now known as the food, drug and cosmetics act, which set up without grade labeling the standards of purity now required on all canned goods entering interstate -commerce after July 1, 1940. Seven foods are now covered—apricots, cherries, fruit cocktail, peaches, pears, peas and tomatoes,

Standards Now Required .

' CONSIDER THE standards of quality required for tomatoes: The contents of the can must be 50 per cent tomato meat, all tomato material with no water added. The tomatoes must be ripe. They must be peeled and there must be no more than one square inch of peel per pound. There may not be more than one-fourth square inch of: blemishes to the pound, They must meet a minimum standard of uniform red color. : If goods fail to meet this standard they must bear a prominent label statement, “Below Standard Quality—Good Food Not High Grade.” Those standards of quality are probably higher than most home canners set for the stuff they put ‘ny their own kitchens. Getting over into the proposed standards for grade labeling, it is found that whereas grade A tomatoes may have one-fourth square inch of blemish per pound, grade B may have one-half square inch and grade C may have up to one inch.

Safeguards Are Formidable

quirements, of the food, drug and cosmetics act on sanitary preparation, absence of foreign matter, coloring or adulteration, and you have a pretty formidable safe for the consuming public and the honest manufacturer. ~The penalties for misbranding, by the. way, are adequate, to say the least, involving seizure and condemnation of product, fines, and so on, ” What the “cannery people fear is that the imposition of grade labeling on top of these standards al-

, | ready in force under the Copeland bill will so com-

plicate their processes in this year of extra demand

PUG. up. enough fonds 10 mest, thelt goals.

|; SACATON Ariz., April 30.—We, | _ selves into a terrible fix with these |

the concentration camp which we

many of them are hateful, reptilian enemies of our |

BUT ADD to these differences all the other re- |

and short labes supply that, they may zt. be able t

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INVASION | FRONT"

The Hoosier Forum

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

“FOR THE NATION'S OWN GOOD” By Mrs. H. M. W., Indianapolis To Mr, Goodyear and others interested: Here are some of the facts and figures I promised. This is a report of the FBI for 1206 cities for 1941. Driving while intoxicated—>51,731. (How many accidents and deaths do you think they may have caused)? Drunkeénness — 677,312 Other liquor law violations—20,735.

(The law made liquor legal and yet

all these couldn't and didn’t obey the law). Add all those together and you have 749,778. The FBI goes on to say that arrests for ' prostitution and disorderly conduct could be added to the other liquor law violations without doing an injustice to the correctness of any report on crime as those crimes are influenced and aggravated by beverage alcohol. With those two added, it brings the total for which alcohol is responsible to 969,824. (That many people disobeyed the law). Now can you wonder why I feel as I do? Maybe if more people could know the facts and see the figures for themselves they would be more interested in helping combat crime. It's for the nation’s own good if people would wake up to conditions. » # » “IT WOULD BE STRANGE IF SOLDIERS WENT ON STRIKE”

By Jas Sgt. Joseph Barbour, 538 Marion

I just received news that my cousin, Pfc. John Jarrett of the engineer corps, has been listed as missing in action since Feb. 17, 1943. Johnny was not by himself; there were quite a few others, youths from vhe farms, cities, factories, mills, schools and the boy next door, remember him; he always seemed so polite when you met him, kept himself well and though he got rowdy at times, you would laugh and say to yourself, “I guess that he has keen working too hard lately. He is such a nice lad.” Yes, that is the way that Johnny

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struck me, a typical, healthy, carefree fun-loving American youth and

always ready to fight for what he|m

believed to be right. He was more like a brother to me than a cousin and I shall miss him as such. Johnny joined the army during the reign of peace in the United States but while the turmoil in Europe was reaching a boiling point. He knew that we were going to have trouble and wanted to be in the thick of things when it exploded. It was tough sledding in those days, however; there was a group in congress who had been elected by the people to represent them, who called themselves isolationists; it was this so-called clan which refused to approve any bill which would increase our army and to increase the weapons that they would be called upon to use. He would write and tell me of maneuvers in that year, 1940, trucks for tanks, stovepipes for anti-tank guns; we're lucky now that they do not have these implements to use against their enemies. The theory that the so-called isolationists were working on was the fact that we had twu large oceans which would serve to protect us in event that we should be attacked, but the mere suggestion that we would be attacked only served to bring chuckles from them. I wonder what they are thinking about now. , «. Those youths who’ have already paid the supreme sacrifice for their mistakes are not chuckling. . . . Recently, there was a large strike in one of our important industries on the west coast; those people are not helping the war in any way.

It would seem strange to pick up

Side Glances—By Galbraith

. | as older people should be subjected

'| forbid smoking on busses at any

a newspaper and read in the headlines that the soldiers now fighting for their life in Africa, New Guinea, Guadalcanal had voted to go on strike for higher wages per hour and shorter hours per day. Yet, they would have as much right to do so as the people who are working in the war plants. They, as soldiers, are working 24 hours per day, seven days a week. . , . The people in the United States are not fully aware what war is; they are working in a war plant, aking good money, buying war bonds and paying their victory tax. Yes, in every aspect they are fighting ‘the war, too. But, there are those who are hampering themselves, and those who are fighting for them, by continually going on strike. The men and women who “are in this category should be drafted and placed in vital war work under the supervision of the veterans of our numerous fighting fronts. .

” » ” “THANKS TO PEOPLE WHO STOOD BY” By Corp. Wyldes H. Munroe, Co. C, 34 Platoon, MDETS, Ft. Harrison I want to thank the people who have stood by me in the matter of smoking on busses. I will say that I have not seen any smoking on city busses either, but I think the action of the city fathers is a wise one. They have forestalled any tendency in that direction by passing the anti-smoking ordinance. When I wrote, I was thinking more of busses in general as well as trains. People who wish, smoke on all the out-of-town busses while they are still within the city limits and that’s something to be con~ sidered, - too. : Many mothers travel on these busses with their children and it’s a shame that these children as well

to the poisonous tobacco smoke, which contains a good share of the nicotine that is given off by the burning tobacco. Smoking mothers should consider this too when they thoughtlessly smoke in the same room with their children anywhere. The Pullman Co. realizes this

ing patronage not to make secondhand smokers out of unwilling people who are forced by circumstances to ride in the same car with them. The Pullman people, provide special cars or.sections for people to smoke in and the busses stop every hour and a half to two hours for 15 minutes to half an hour for people to.rest and smoke, Should not the average person be able to control his appetite for a smoke for two hours? And smoke only during these rest periods? ; It would certainly be mtich more pleasant on these busses for nonsmokers if such were the case. I am glad that some sections of the country are beginning to see the light and laws are being passed that

time. Speaking of bus drivers smoking, only recently have I noticed such a thing while en route. I believe that is one thing that should be absolutely forbidden. It is enough to be able to drive your own car while ‘smoking, ‘but to endanger the lives of numerous other people while lighting up or handling a cigaret is a different thing and shouldbe yrohibieed

when they plead with their smok-| §

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By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, April words “Truman committee" come to mean something Wrount hi Hee

Ww. hy WEY no i. i, who attsial to who: -committee which has os

The war machine lumbers much less because the Truman committee. For those in high fear its watchful eye. And it has won the | confidence. mor This is because it has pointed, ime after time, 0 flaws in the production system, to bad here in Washington. Corrective changes have quite consistently. . Behind such a courageous and thoroughgoing job as the Truman committee has done you'll ‘usually

find a man with persistence, imagination, the “seeing #

eye,” and those not too common qualities, common sense and ‘‘guts.” Such ‘is Senator Truman.

Investigated Camp Construction WHEN THE defense program was inaugurated and it became obvious that untold millions would have to be spent, Senator Truman was convinced that this expenditure ought to be watched by an outside agency such as a senate committee, while it was going on—instead of being pawed over after the war.

He got letters from friends in Missouri reporting

waste in the construction of Camp Leonard Wood. X

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Hence his resolution of investigation, which ‘

started the committee to work over two years ago Its first project was an investigation of camp con« struction all over the country, and it turned up an unsavory situation which, thanks to the committe), was corrected with a saving of millions. The senator knew something about watching the spending of money. As a county judge in Missouri he had directed the spending of $25,000,000 for publie

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construction, and he knew how closely such operations « h

.| must be watched. He watched that one so carefully

that none of the money went for waste or political

grease. ’ The Truman committee attracted public notice by

he i on LINE }

its revelations about camp construction. From thas ,

time on it gathered support and prestige.

Background Against Him

HARRY TRUMAN meant business. The higher ups found that out, So did contractors. . The senator, who came to Washington - in 1938 under somewhat of a handicap, and who is & modest gentleman and not given to the showy tactics ‘which project some politicians quickly into the spotlight here, finally has come into his own. His story is that of the ugly duckling in polition For when he entered the senate his political backe ground was against him in an atmosphere them roseate with political idealism. He had come up in Missouri through the auspices of the notorious Pens dergast machine in Kansas City. Harry Truman came back from France after the first world war a major of field artillery. He went into a haberdashery business in Kansas City which failed after a year and left him stranded, a young man with a fine military record and a four-foot-high loving cup, capable of holding 10 gallons, which the men who had served under him in France had given him—taking a cut from the crap game on shipboard returning to this country. He had lots of friends in Jackson county, in which Kansas City is situated. He had been born on a farm 15 miles from the city. Some of his friends were in the Pendergast machine, and young Mr. Truman, looking about for something, decided to try politics, His first political job was as a road overseer. Then,’ as the machine candidate, he was elected a ouniy

judge.

Loyal to Pendergast

IN THIS office he made a fine record, but still he was unknown outside his own section. So it was a surprise when Boss Pendergast selected him to run for the senate in 1934. It was another surprise when he was elected. He kept in the background in the senate, and was spoken of in those early days as a “Pendergast tool.” He voted the straight administration line.. Though & shy person, he has a capacity for friendship, and slowly his colleagues warmed up to this Missourian who made po pretensions to statesmanship. He stuck loyally by Boss Pendergast. “Tom Pendergast never asked me to do a dishonest deed,” the senator says. “He knew I wouldn't do it if. he asked me. He was always my friend. He was always honest with me, and when he made a promise he kept it. I wouldn't kick a friend when he was down.” The reform element went out to get Harry Tame © man in 1940 when he was up for re-election, but they divided behind two candidates for the Democratio nomination, former Governor Lloyd Stark and Maurice Milligan, and the senator scraped ‘through, At 58 the senator is a trim figure who still takes his setting-up exercises every morning.~<de says be can still get into the army uniform he wore in He would like to wear it again. He offered his serve ices right after Pearl Harbor. But the army, fold him no. Va ET He's doing & good job where he is. i

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

, TWO WOMEN, strangers, : each other, happened to be | and ing side by side as a large group of young’ navy Pre-fight, caters passed by. on: el

The first woman said quietly: in the service”

attitude of the people who are going around : ging their own sacrifices, their own worries, thelr | trouble to them-—and failing to see that few are untouched by this war. There are many people like that, They think so much about themselves and they a7 going through. that fey cant talk

is happening to anyone else. Service Men Know

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