Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1943 — Page 10

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By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, May 4-1 think I mishandled an idea recently in imputing to hypothetical 18-year old American draftee named Joe Doakes Jt. the eyhicisw, dis honesty and subtlety, as dis: tinglished fom frankness, whieh hak characterized the only goverfiment of their nation that the 18-year-olds of today have ever knowin. Tie, Joe Doakex Ji, and the rest of his generation would be a sorry lob of little Blathergkites if they had derived their ethics and principles only from their national government during the 10 yeats since they were 8 vears old, but the saving fact is that the influence: of the Ameriean WHY? home, the churth and the school and the innate vol decency of the breed have enabled them to resist the {OUR deputy county clerks accused of embessling $45,000) evils of governmental example. * of public du SA i ah ! I writing of the Doakes kid IT did net believe A Pibli Wn "8 Veal nan, how want the | he had been x0 contaminated But intended only ta charges dismissed because of the long delay in bringing | suggest what a dreadful new generation of Americans them to trial, | We would have just now in this 18-year-old group if Regardless of the merits of the case againgt them they American children actually did model themselves after have a legitimate complaint. Two years ig a long time for

I'the statesmen and bostes, the government of their A man to go about with a criminal indictment hanging over | do net.

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TUESDAY, MAY 4 1943

| time, as, fortunately for them and the nation they

hig head. Certainly any man accused of erime ig entitled | Soldiers’ Character Provides Proof to a fair, and prompt, hearing of the charges against him, | : Failure to bring these men to trial sooner ig a congpicuous | mistake of the colhte's law fore t : i 1 reject the proposition that istak county s law enforcement agencies. Re-| politicians of Jersey City have a legal right to practice spect for law, and the courts, and the processes of justice | highway robbery on truckmen passing through.

bia “ A A Fake tt ! Even the supreme eourt, in a decision of shoekin depend very largely upon the quick digpogition of such | P : \ 8 pent . gel. | 1 : ! suel | wickedness, has held that congress deliberately and

ARES, upon the Swift punighiment of the guilty, or exonera- | with knoawing intent eonferved that vight upen them ioh of the innocent. as a legitimate activity of union labor Yet, on the other hand, these four defendants. if they If these kids weie no more decent than the aid abt : "| supreme court they would all be highwaymen themnow escape trial on a technicality, never will be completely | selves, for there is no legal definition of a labo cleared, if they are indeed guiltless, The erime with which | union and any gang of five or more may eall itself they ave charged is still a crime, even after two vears' delay, | ® Union and under the supreme court's interpretation bth tu} ; : of congressional intent, May 1ob with official If it ig at all possible under the law for their cases to be

approval, heard they should be heard now=—in their interest if they If trick and subterfuge ag practiced in the ease are innocent, in the public interest if they ave guilty. |

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of the captive coal mihex were common conduet among this younger generation there would be neither discipline nor honesty in the army and ne man would "trust another's word The fine character of the fAghting services is proof enough that net only 18-year-olds but their elders have held themselves to a code of eonduet | and morals higher than that by whieh they are governed from above.

LEWIS STILL NEEDS TELLING FP HE government should make four things absolutely elear to John L. Lewig right now: 1. That the coal mines were taken over in order that production might continue with or without hig consent, not | for the purpose of settling the wage controversy on his | terms,

Atmosphere of Cunning

THE BOYS and gitls of thizx generation during their growing years saw big men use the power of government to whip their political enemies in the manner of the meanest little war politicians, saw an attempt to pack the courts and eould net fail to observe that the reformist attitude of Harold Tekes i : ‘ : | wag but a gaudy pose when he huddled with Frank 3. That he must submit hig case to the national war | Hague and Bd Kelly of Ohicago whom he had labor board and accept its decigion, denounced with loathing, to put over the third term

I. That the board will award the coal miners no more and, keep himself in luxurioug power in Warhington,

That instead of negotiating with a gun held to the which ig the implication of hig 15-day | he must agree that mining will go on without time | ‘

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Apologies to the Doakeses

MY REFLECTIONS of the Doakes kid were touched off by the remark of a mother with a son 13 years old who sighed that the New Deal wag the only government the boy had ever known and that in the event of a fourth term he would come to fighting age ignorant of any other kind of governs ment or political morals, However, the boy liver in a decent home where he has been taught honesty and straightforwardness like hig two older

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: They saw high office exploited far money and, and no less than it would have awarded if he had not defied | recently, in the handling of the manpower problem it and if there had been no strike. have noted the tricky method in use again whereby ‘ i: di a law enacted for one purpose is twisted to obtain EWIS is still trying to put himgelf above the governs gh bin hh hens ment and above the law. That fs plain from hig re-| _ They have grown up in an atmosphere of cunning. marks yesterday. Ie asserted that hig union ig not bound a ran, oe rN by organized labor's no-strike pledge to the president, | together and it must be that the family keeps the thoigh 1 ep JAS in Shu Yiatge ie wi Sova Sy He denied the authority of the government to adopt| eg A pms, a formula for the settlement of wage controversies, al- | TE TN in, FEU: ut Of the iio at though congress has ordered stabilization of wages and | saerifices, prices, and although neither can be stabilized without a | formula, And he sneered again that the war labor hoard ig responsible for “distrust in the ranks of labor,” although the | board's policies are based on instructions from President | Roosevelt, " » » [LEWES in short, ig still determined to force concessions © that no other union has obtained, in gpite of the presi. | dent's order to hold the line against inflation, and without | ahd he looks \0 a day When submitting to the war labor board's jurisdiction, If he gets away with that, no union ean be expected to | of their young life under the New Deal but it did Keep the no-strike pledge or to acquiesce in the measures | Nt IeK® them conical or evasive and when (he oul necessary to prevent inflation. If the government letg him | United States. get away with that, it will be inviting all unions to strike in My apologies to the Doakes kid and to his family order to force the seizure of their employers’ plants go that | and all the Doakeses everywhere. they may demand from the government the same concesgions given John L. Lewis, We the Women By Ruth Millett

A MEMO TO JOHN L.—FROM TUNISIA RNIE PYLE, writing from the front lines in Tunisia, is not in a position to get much news from home, It is unlikely that he has heard of the coal strike. But he has written—in a wireless digpatch that you will find on page one-—a more eloquent editorial on that subject than we here at home can turn out, Sitting on “a steep and rocky hillside that we have just taken,” he describes the movement of a long line of American infantrymen returning on foot from four days and nights of battle. “Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion, , . . They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middle-aged. . . . There is an agony in your heart and vou almost feel ashamed to look at them, . , . “If you could see them just once, just for an instant, vou would know that no matter how hard people work back home they are not Keeping pace with these infantrymen in Tunisia.”

DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS have now met with a new complication, It used to be that the only custody problems a judge faced involved children and pets, Now there is the problem of who gets the custody of the canned goods. In Colorado, a judge ordered a divorce-seeking pair to bring all their canned goods mto court so

Canned goods may cause some real ecurtroom battles, . Can you imagine a wife, whose hushand wouldn't

give her any assistance in her victory garden, and

pickles, letting a judge award part of those to her husband without voicing a word of protest?

Consider the Youngsters

AND WON'T boys and girls squawk if the canned goods a judge apportions te them turn out to be everything that is good for them-and nothing they really like?

- HOW TO SAVE TYPING TE don't suppose it's physically possible for any bureauTE : 1e tremendous flow - Crat to read all 4 She us of booklets, State And do you think any woman is going to accept ments and other literature that pours out of Washington | oc ner fair share of canned goods any of the sare these days. \ dines hoarded by her snack-cating husband? ; 3 SAW dade : p qv IS Yes, sir, the judges are going to have their hands ; But w e do wish every official » ould read an attractive fll non that they have Wager on the Job of Heche little book just issued in connection with the typewmiter-| ing the fate of a family's store of canned goods. procurement program of the treasury and the war produc-

There will probably be some fights, involving tion board. Its title is “How to Make 3 Typewriters Do the canned goods, tnt will make the Gilgris Vanderbilt Work of 4.” A

case look like a good-natured discussion, Among other things, it advises:

1. Because Americans now take their canned goods seriously, “Discontinuance of all unnecessary and out-dated reports and records and the preparation of other reports at d less frequent intervals. Simplification of such reports from To the Point— a typing standpoint. Some records or reports fully justified under normal conditions might be dispensed with as aT Villain In he movies is the one who an emergency measure. : 4 Now, if the government will only practice what it| THE WORLD would be better if all of us spread preaches, hard-pressed businessmen will be able to release | around the sympathy we have for ourselves.

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that he could divide them equally | among the husband and wife and their six children,

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CROCODILE TEARS OVER FINLAND" By P. L Ludwell on Finland! dile tears he sheds over peor little Fageigt Finland the Finland of Mannerheim put in pawer 20 vears ‘aged by German bayonets. . . the Finland that joing in a toast to Japan's sneak attack on Pearl [Harbor , . , the Finland that tells (the whole world by radia that Tokyo's murder of aur hrave Ameriean Aiers wag just swell al . Finland, an enemy sinking our zhipg and killing our men on narthern eonvay duty

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“THERE ARE WOMEN NOT AFRAID TO WORK" Ry Viela Fisehey Thiz ig an answer to Sally { Myers vv. TO begin with, she KAYE | | women wearing slacks look lke | freaks or bags of cotton, but 1 won der how she would look . . . if the] bags of cotton didn't help win the war I have worked in black oil up ta my elbows for over a year, and can't | | wear anything but slacks. We have a nice place to change clothes but | some don't have. Bven then, I save {a lot of time by not ehanging and | | coming home in my ear, but I stop to pay my bills on my way home Also, she says men can't hide be. hind women's skirts, Well, it is (only men like the judge who need | | to hide. You had better hoth thank | {God there are women who are not ‘afraid of work, or slacks, or getting | dirty, to save your necks,

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. #4 # MCO-OPERATION LACKING ON TRANSPORTATION" I Ay Gene Engle, 418% 8 Otterbein ave,

[smoking in public conveyances, [against beer taverns and against [the (inactivity of our police foree, |it seems like jalocy to add my com. iplaint te the muddle. But here LORE It is in regard to the lack of eo. operation of the Indianapolis publie

al the busiest hours,

co-operation I suggest: | That only schoo! children (and! teachers) and

away from a war plant for one hour after shift-changing time,

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and the ofecials but We war workers have heen denied the privilege of driving our ears to work through gas rationing We have been foreed ta rely upon the

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of using the transportation faeilities I'm sure they could adjust their shopping tripe to meet the eurtailment of those two hours’ use of transporta

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And as for the lost of any income hy the transportation eompanies, I'm gure it would be compensated hy the more evenly distributed flow of passenger traffe, the ease of the strain on overworked operators 1 hope I've made myself clear . “A FEW QUESTIONS ON LIQUOR SHORTAGE" Ry Rabert Gemmer, 5108 Washington bivd

I have a few questions about your front page article in your April 27th edition with ita eight-column headline, “Qity's Liquor Shortage Brings Back the Speakeasy.” (1) When did the speakeasy ever disappear? We had it before prohibition, during prohibition and after prohibition, Government stat isticiane a few years back we had plenty of liquor) estimated that illegal liquor amounted to from 28 to 80 per cent of all liquor manufactured, Repeal didn't cut out the speakeasy any more than

| prohibition established it,

(2) You say "The Federal government probably will not ration liquor because it is classified as purely a luxury.” ‘True, the pov. ernment hasn't rationed luxuries very mueh==it hag in most oases their production all together! Why is it that beer, which you say

with the problem of transporting the government classifies as a “lux- Dub that is no reason to believe they war workers to and from their places ury," hasn't been treated like other| should run wild and be out playing of occupation, The public still rides| luxuries such as automobiles, wash« At 13 o'clock at night. That's what the trolleys, busses and streetears/ing machines, refrigerators, vacuum !& the making of future criminals. |oleaners, whose production has been |

Now as a solution to this lack of stopped completely for quite some and noise of children. And it cer(tainly is funny (no, it's tragie) that

Why does liquor have a preferen- people refuse to understand what's war workers—with| tial rating over such necessities as happening. They just seem to close their badges displaved, be allowed | typewriters, adding machines, coat thelr eyes to existing conditions and to ride toward a war plant for one hangers, which although necessary, call it a free country and let things hour before shift-changing time, or have had their production stopped? go at that,

months?

And why can beer be delivered at

(will while milk deliveries are re-| petter chance to grow up properly, I ean just see the deluge of pro- stricted to every-other-day delivery? what kind of a nation will it be?

You say, “Also dealers must cut

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their truek deliveries 28 per eent and their freight ear mileage by 10 per eent.” Why is that when we have difffeulties in getting eertain necessitiae transported te us that beer ean pe deliverad at D0 per eent of its normal freight ear rate? (3) Your article says: “Moat of the whisky vou'll see an the shelves from now on will hear unknown labels with the notation: This whitky ix leas than one menth old’ or ‘less than two months old.’ Dealerg explained that the unknewn labels were being put on the cheaper green’ whiskey by the distillery | firma te protect the reputation of their better labels in whieh millions of dollars in advertising have been invested.” Well, T thought that at long last, last fall, the government had decreed that ne more whisky would he manufactured but this gure doesn't sound like it (4) Why is it that when the gov-| ernment needs industrial aleohel for obvious reasens that all this Hauor (you say “351 million gallons of whigky" alone are still in ware- | houses) it allowed to he saved untill it's drunk. Why ian't this aleohel rediztilled inte industrial aleohol? (5) Why it it beer still pees on relatively untouched by the war when everything else has been af-| fected and everything that is a lux | ury net helping the war has been| curtailed and banned? I can't believe that the American soldier will | be able to do his job better because | he hax beer right handy to get in! every army canteen, (6) Why is it that reputable news- | papers don't expose liquor for what | it 18, a leech on Amerioa's side? Oh that one's easy to answer == how many pages of heer and liquor ads! did you have in last night's paper? | ” " " "CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM FACTS" {Ry Mrs, NH, M, To Mrs, M, You may suggest anything you wish, but the whole world can't mova “away out in the middle of! Ine place.” | You ean't run away from facts 1 use part of my energy in looking I love children and dogs! As Ix humanly possible,

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But if our children don't get a

Our boys over there now, glving their lives for a nation of vice and corruption and erime. And what will the ones who come back have if conditions continue? Here are a few figures: first half 1042, age 18 years, 12,865 arrested; age 21 years, 11946; age 20 years, 11,830; age 22 years, 10,180, Think of it. In six months all this happened in our fair United States of America, And it's each individual person's duty to keep this from continuing.

§ “HATS OFF TO MASTEN FAMILY" By

Dolores HW. Rexroal, 11M Bacon uf, I am 14 years old and a freshman in high school. I read the Hoosier Forum every night and enjoy it very much, Up until now TI have never thought of anything to write about, But tonight I read about the Masten family of Greencastle, We need more people in America like them. Mr. Masten could have made more money in a factory. Instead he chose to farm his 70 acres of land because of the food shortage. We can't say in words what we feel in our hearts. So I say, “Hats off, America, to the Masten family and all the families like them!”

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DAILY THOUGHTS

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.— 1:0,

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Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

WABHINGTON, May 4 -=8ens ator Raymond BE. Willis (R, Ind)

returned to his home town of Ans

gola last week to attend the fus neral of Mrs, Olyde ©, Qarlin, wife of Judge Carlin of the Steuben= Lagrange eireuit eourt. Unless there ia something more important than has been going on in the U, & senate reeently, the junior senator from Indiana intends to remain in the state un= til after he makes the commencement day address ab the Garrett high eehool May 13, Refore leaving here, Senater Willis was reminded that eangress really hasn't heen doing mueh, The reminder eame in a letter from a eonstityent, Whe

| heretofore had largely eonfined hid writings te fuls | mination against the administration

A young business exeeutive af considerable ability, he ig leaving for the navy new and wrote (6 say something like this: “You know, senator, 1 have heen against the wastes fulnest of the New Deal and all that and always ready to defend congress as the very bulwark of libs erty and demoeraey in our land

"But when you get right down to eases, you mus, s ponfest that congress hasn't dene much of anything =

| ginee it eonvened last January."

An honest man, Senator Willis readily confess that hig young eorrespondent was quite rights

Tax Work Begun All Over Again

THE MOST important task whieh faced the TRth pongress when it eonvensd on Jan, 6 1043, was the matter of high-rate taxation on a pPAY-A8=yOU=EH plan, Only this week the house again started to des bate sueh a measure. Until the tax bill passes the house the senate cannot de anything about it, Foe under the eonstitution all revenue measures must originate in the lower house Sentiment throughout the eountry seemed almost entirely for the Rum! plan and still does, But the wave and means eommitteemen, whe feel that they alone understand tax problems, deelined te consider it, #0 they brought in a bill whieh nobody wanted and promptly got slapped down. Then they had to begin all over again and a third of 1043 time has un out he “farm bhlee" whieh seems to take orders from the farm bureau, has heen busy trying te puneturs the food price eellings, although it never has heen shown that the dirt farmer was dissatisfied with prices he was reeeiving The Bankhead bill ta exelude government pays ments from parity prices passed hoth houses and was promptly vetaed by the president. The senate then “put it on lee” hy returning it to committee and there it remains,

Astute Politician Can Make Hay

THE LEND-LEASE aot was extended te June 30, 1044, and congress hy a rider cancelled the $25,000 net salary limitation order of President Roosevelt, The rider was attached to a bill inereasing the national debt limit from 128 billion dollars te 210 billion, whieh the treasury had te have at once, So the president signed the measure and made a statement lecturing

| the congress for this "dirty triek.”

A bill was passed and signed whieh permits the merger of the Weatern Union and Postal Telegraph companies. Also several appropriation bills have heen passed, ineluding a four billion dollar supplemental appropriation bill for the navy, Renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements act is heing debated in the senate now, But for the most part, the major accomplishments of congress to date have heen made by the various committees of the house and senate whioh have heen investigating this and that about the war's impact on the domestio front, Here has heen about the greatest waste of manpower in the entire country, Not only have house and senate committees heen going over the same ground, but different committees within each house have been in competition in investigating the same subjects, Wiseacres in both houses are willing to admit that these are the things which makes congress a push= over for such an astule politician as Franklin Delano Roosevelt,

‘Miracle in Hellas’

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By Roge 8 ” { THE POORLY-EQUIPPED and small army of Greece could de little to stem the Nagi war ma= chine that swarmed over its homes land three years ago, But, though starving and under the cone queror's hoot, the brave nation Is still fighting on in the hills and mountains, hopefully awaiting MN | liberation through the next inMiss Wason Ylon that by the united nae Through the centuries, Greece has been the home of many an epie, None, surely, is any more glorious than the chapter being written now by the bitter struggle of the guerrilla fighters, That is the conviction of Betty Wason whose book, “Miracle in Hellas,” is published today, Miss Wason, a native of Delphi, Ind, began her writing oareer doing advertising copy for an Indianapolis departmen . store, Singe then she has “been places and things.”

Has Convictions, Tells Them

SHE DOES NOT write in the autoblographiec mans ner of William L, Shirer's “Berlin Diary” nor with the passive objectivity of an historian, Miss Wason wr just as you would expect a well-informed, intelliges newspaperwoman to write, J Her story moves swiftly and purposefully and with little sacrifice of detail, Like many foreign corres spondents who have seen one nation after another fall prey to the German armies, she has firm cone vietions and does not hesitate to tell them, She Is convinced that the struggle put up by the CGireeks was a turning point of the war because 1% showed other trampled nations the uttimate way to freedom, “It seems,” she concludes, “lo be a rekindling of the fire which burned in the ancient Hellas, the flames which has inspired all the west in its striving for better government-—a fire born of the desire to see justice granted to the individual, recognizing the dignity of each human being as a living entity. The Greeks of the modern Hellas saw this element of justice as so important that it was worth the ultimat of sacrifice—and, accepting sacrifice, they grew spiritual stature.”

Guerrillas Still Fighting

MISS WASON spends little time tells of the invasion, of how the Greeks a allies were unable to hold back the : the final collapse when the swastika the Acropolis. She is not pa : with the involved political situation in its repercussions although she tells of the ti those who are patriots even though they to’ be traitors, or The second portion of Miss Wason's bo heartening. Even though the ry occupied, fighting is still carried on by Klepht revolutionists, guerrilla bands hidde the mountains, the saboteurs and the underground. Some of these e 4 dramatic stories. In her descriptions ending battles, Miss Wason excels, “Miracle in Hellas" is very much

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