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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1943
AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S order has brought the “in-
excusable” Akron rubber strikes to at least a temporary | |
halt. Whether more than temporary will be seen when the national war labor board completes reconsideration of its 8-cents-an-hour wage-increase award, which the strikers call inadequate.
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler \
SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 28.— Ever since Pearl Harbor the East and the intermountain area have been hearing that the people of the Pacific Coast feel that they are more seriously, more intimately, at war than their fellow countrymen beyond the Rockies. In San Diego one sees the reason why. San Diego is a city of the war and for the war, swollen by the war to enormous size and expense, concerned with nothing else but war with the hated and unforgivable Japanese to the almost total disregard of the Germans. : They had their Japs here in the days of peace and always suspected that the Japanese fishermen were ifterested primarily in spying on our navy and our vital works and places and only incidentally, and as a blind, in the business of catching fish. They have seen green American soldiers and sailors | disappear into the haze of the Pacific and have seen many of them come back on stretchers or feebly
| walking.
War Widows Everywhere
THERE ARE guns visible from some of the public
If the board insists that the Little Steel formula will allow no more we won't be surprised to see the strikes break | out again. Chances are, however, that the board will devise some way of approving the formula, as it has done for John L. Lewis and the coa
roads and mysterious areas are posted and patroled | by sentries, and the planes which growl up and down | the coast and stand boldly out to sea are up there not
only to give their crews experience but to protect
a bigger increase in spite of ships going and coming and prevent a repetition of 1 | Pearl Harbor.
Some of the wrecked equipment of war comes back
miners, and as a special board has done for the non- operat- to San Diego for salvage and scrap and it surely is
ing railroad workers. As Mr. Roosevelt said, “in the midst of a war calling | for the supreme sacrifice of many in the ranks of our armed forces, it is shocking to the nation to discover that any
ment, the production of materials needed for our war effort.” » t 4 » 2 » 2 UT the nation has had quite a few shocks of that kind recently and is due, we fear, for quite a few more. Because, loudly as most of the national labor leaders proclaim their fidelity to the no-strike pledge, strikes against war labor board decisions are an almost inevitable by-product of their campaign to do away with the Little Steel formula. We agree with Mr. Roosevelt that “economic sacrifices, whether real or not,” do not justify stoppages of war production, but we don’t wonder that many workers fail to realize it. They are constantly being told by thei that the government is doing them an unbearable injustice by freezing wages and letting the cost of living run wild. They have just been told by the seven labor representatives on the war labor board itself that the formula should not apply in the coal miners’ wage case or any other. Workers told such things often enough are not unlikely to conclude that it is their right and even duty to
strike against the government—especially if, after strik-| ier ask for Saners or otherwise pursus the subject.
ing, they obtain from the government greater concessions | than they would have received otherwise.
» ” o 2 o ” R. ROOSEVELT insists on being the personal manager of the government's relations with organized labor.
cause industrial unrest. If he hopes to prevent unrest and | at the same time prevent runaway inflation, we think he | will have to tell workers the truth again, and again, and | And we think he will have to insist that the labor leaders with whom he deals tell at least a Ieasonable ap- | proximation of the truth. | The truth is: That the rising cost of lviing thus far has hurt organized workers far less than it has hurt millions of others. That “our standard of living will have to come down” during/the war, simply because the supply of goods available for purchase is sharply limited. That organized workers cannot maintain and improve | their living standards without doing worse injury to the other millions. That wage increases for those already relatively well paid are self«defeating, because their certain effect is to force the cost of living still higher. And that the end of that inflationary race will be collapse and general disaster.
JLoobs are spectacular and often dramatic ev ents while the waters are rising, while levees crumble and people are rescued and refugees are given shelter. There is always plenty of help—and very welcome help, too—during a flood. But the really serious phase of a flood comes after the waters have gone, as many an Indianapolis family mov- | ing back into its mud-encrusted neighborhood and trying to salvage a home from the ruins are discovering this week. There isn’t much glamour to that—and often enough there isn't much help, either. Now is when they need help, every bit of help that the city and county are able to provide, in cleaning up the flooded regions and getting them restored quickly to normal. The interests of the whole community demand it. ever-present danger of disease is not a danger to the flood victims alone, but to the entire city, when the sanitary facilities of even one small neighborhood are disrupted. Strained though the resources of these local governments
may be in these times of emergency, it is the responsibility | comes necessary for her to do extra work. But she of the men in command of them to make the fullest possible | | is bound to find the going hard during the hot sum-
use of what they have to that end.
RALPH H. EDGERTON
| born in this country who never saw Japan might be |
He opposes action by congress, on the ground that it would oval if he but had a chance. The majority of Cali- { Iornians,
| soil after that.
| Feeling Grows Since Pearl Harbor
We the People
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no military secret that new stuff is going out, but not as much as the fighters could use and probably not as much as they need. There are war widows in San Diego and war babies who never will see their fathers, and little brides who have thumbed their way, so to speak, to the jumping off place to be with the men of this marrying army and navy, taking their chances on finding quarters in an overcrowded camp. There are many no doubt, whose parting kiss, within a few weeks or months, will be farewell. A lot of them get jobs in the airplane plant and some exceptional girls, such as the young widow of an enlisted sailor who has a baby nine months old, are.taken into the offices, of the navy. Of course, there are war widows and war babies
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elsewhere, but, although there are no statistics, it seems that there must be more of them in San Diego in proportion:to the population.
Camouflage on All Sides
THERE ARE areas of camouflage around San Diego so elaborate and ingenious that they create a
own leaders. sensation almost of dizziness even seen from the
ground at close range, which should mean that from
| | the air even a Jap who fished these waters and went | to the local schools would mistake an important tar- | | get for something not worth bombing, There are guards on every hand and, as a tribute to stupidity, at some points police stop people to ask, | “Are you a native and where were you born?” The | object of this inquiry, familiar at various points in the Southwest, escapes everyone who has had the experience, for they always accept the answers and
The degree of hatred of the Japs on a per capita bags probably is not as intense in this hugely swollen S Diego as it is in other California cities where the original California population is still predominant. The Eastern American or one.from the plains or the South is inclined to hold that, after all, a Jap
however, including many of high intelligence, hate them all, trust none and would frankly write into the constitution if they could provisions to revoke the citizenship of those who hold it, intern | them, every one, until the war is over and then deport all who were born or ever studied in Japan and forbid any new Japanese Jap to set foot on American
THIS IS not entirely a new feeling. It existed before, but it has been intensified by Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Guadalcanal and the murder of the captive Doolittle raiders. The expansion of San Diego far out into country, which was only hills of sand and rotten rock, where the war plant workers and service families live in trailers and rows of rather tidy little ‘project” houses, is entirely war expansion. They have spread out mile | after mile and yet one hears of bunks in trailers | rented for two or even three shifts of sleepers who | came from outside to help turn out planes. Now and again the established local citizens permit | themselves to wonder what will happen when the war | is won and suddenly the jobs are ended, but that is a thought that is quickly swept under the rug. I Finally, for the comfort of the East, it can be reported that although San Diego considers herself to be. under the guns of the Japs or thereabouts and more grimly at war than most other cities, the motor traffic is heavy on the long-haul highways and enveined by old-style pre-war madmen who drive like ell.
By Ruth Millett
WE'VE BEEN sold on the idea that the service man needs some recreation for the good of his morale. Now what about mamma? She is going to need something for a ‘change of pace this summer. Added to the job of keeping a house, bringing up a family and doing volunteer war work, mamma will be taking on the extra work of a victory garden and canning what comes out of it. That is no easy assignment. Mamma won't squawk. She never does when it be-
mer months. Can't husbands make a real effort to see that mamma's morale is boosted by some social life? Maybe it will be enough if the man of the house takes mamma out to dinner occasionally. Or it may be necessary for him to stay at home
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The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but aril defend to the death your right to say Gliillntiidn
“WE FAIL TO READ HANDWRITING ON WALL”
By Lillian Dinehart, Indianapolis.
Have just read the letter by J.|
R., of Kokomo, May 25th. Would
|like to see it printed on the front
page of every news sheet in the country. The writer certainly has a
clear understanding of Mr. Ro6se- |
velt and what his administration has done to this country. I wonder what the masses will do when they become fully cognizant, of their situation—with the supreme court well in hand, Mr. R. is moving in on the press and radio. It is just ‘a question of time! We look with pity and scorn on
the Germans and Italians, suffering |
under their dictators, and fail to, read the handwriting on our own walls. | If you failed to read J. R.'s letter, | get a paper of May 25th and read | it, and think about it. Keep it in mind when you vote next time,
¥ 8 #2 8 “TWISTING THINGS INTO ENEMY PROPAGANDA” By C. F. L., Indianapolis. Every\ oncg i in a while a shop foreman \or boss will form a dis- |
like toward a certain worker under him, pat him on the! back and ask him to train another man for his place under the pretense that sometHing better is waiting for him. The number one worker falls for the “line,” and soon
finds himself replaced by the man]
on other ‘something
he has trained and “out” stray jobs until that better” breaks. When number one finally awakes
from out of his stupidness he real-!
izes that the Japs are not the only capable kind for “back-stabbing.” It is too late, though, to raise his voice in protest, especially “when working at a place that is not properly organized under a good rep-|! resented union. Then comes the ‘“rub-in.” When whispering starts through the shop of how number one was treated an article appears in the shop paper choosing angles from the whispering as the kind of talk the axis|
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‘likes to hear. Before the article is closed it declares the doubts and misgivings of number one's fellow | workers as enemy propaganda. This creates fear and silence, for no one ‘wants the theory that he is an en‘emy agitator thrust at him, which may in turn cause a discharge. No more is said about the affair. It seems as though anything said can be twisted into a backfire as | enemy propaganda, Yet, this is
supposed to be the land of the
| free—of free speech, free press and free thought. However, it is my advice to all Americans to begin exercising their rights more and more by .organizing into unions independent from [shop control.’ | rights of free speech, free press and. free thought more often, for practice makes perfect. Silence is golden to those who wish to coerce and discriminate, 8 ‘xn ” “DISCUSSION OF BRITISH GIVES ONLY ONE SIDE”
By Alma Bender, Zionsville,
Mr. Simms’ discussion of the Brit-
ish government and the prime minister's responsibility to parliament ‘gives only one side of the picture.’ It is true parliament can throw the country into an election at any time and try to get a new prime minister. But so can the prime minister throw the country into an election at any time and try to get a new parliament. The system works both ways. | In this country, the president has to wait until regular election time and hope and probably pray for a new congress. But that's about all (he dares do. |that he'd like some changes
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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Also to exercise their |
If he says out ioud in, | congress—remember Wilson and the |
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other war?—the newspapers are terribly shocked and call it " |. ‘purge !”
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[he is a member of parliament an | has a 1&gal right to the floor. We can't copy English practice in’ (that, if we want to keep our cherished theory of complete separation of executive, legislative and judicial departments. The president
cant be a member of congress with the separate powers theory.
| The reason Mr. Churchill gops in land talks to parliament is bec
Perhaps we go to extremes apply- |
ing the theory, however. It might pay to let the president answer questions from the floor when he ‘appears before congress. “But, it's only a short time since he Began appearing at all, and the press had jitters about it. For awhile our president only wrote “messages” to congress. | If Mr. Simms wants the two de-| partments to come closer, perhaps he should take heart at that much progress. Maybe we should go, further. It looks as though it would save, time to have cabinet members be-| fore the whole house instead of be-| fore @ whole string of committees. ! And it looks as though it would be fair to allow the president as much freedom to campaign against congressmen as the congressmen have to campaign against him, although! the American system of campaignling is very undignified compared to the British. ” ” ” “WASHINGTON PLANNERS
OVERLOOKED A BET”
By Bert Wilhelm, 2108 8. Emerson ave. When I read about the shortage of police and. firemen in the city of Indianapolis and other cities, and the hundreds of state jobs that are vacant, + I conmfence to: think, strange as it may seem, that our Washington planners have overlooked a move of ‘major importance. Not long ago one of cur countless planners for the future, whose, name I cannot recall, but if I remember rightly, it was Prof. Whosit, | fourth assistant to Dr. Whosat, who | suggested that we make clear our foreign policy by inviting England
{to be admitted as a state-in the
United States. 1t seems that it was [later mentioned by one high in the administration that requested that; ‘his name be withheld, that Dr.! | Whosat, head of the department, went even further and suggested |that we invite China and Timbuetoo also to be admitted as states. However, either through an over- | | sight, pure animosity, or a move to| | discipline Jim Farley, they have | ignored extending an invitation to] the Irish Free State to come into the union. If Eire should be invited and accept, it wollld not only aad another star to Old Glory, but two Democratic senators and 12 | congressmen much needed by the] administration, plus an abundant | supply of policemen d firemen.! | It would fill up the state jobs, | |relieve the labor shortage on our
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“Stymies Right and Left Ci :
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Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney =. ; bs é | re ASNT May : 28
Clark Springer, who came down here this week with Indiana G.0.P. Chairman Ralph Gates, | predicted that the political » ‘tide which turned back toward ehubs J licanism in the state in 1938 still | is running full tilt and 1944 seems a natural for a party victory. © That has its dificulties, as well as its pleasant prospects, he’ sf mits. For one thing, everybody will want to run for the 4 better offices and there likely will be a ‘whole lot more candidates than there are places on the ticket. So far as Mr. Springer and the Republican congressmen: who dined with Mr. Gates are concerned, the latter
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But naming a senatorial candidate is another matter. There probably isn't one of the nine G. O. P,, congressmen who wouldn't like to get the nomination., Rep. Forest Harness of Kokomo has made somewhat | of an active canvass for it already and those express- . ing more than a passive interest might include Reps. Charles A. Halleck, Raymond 8. Springer and ii Wilson. tm
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Capehart Is Big Factor 1 «AF me ALL ARE conscious of the fact that hey may meet |
some rather stiff competition from Homer Capeh | Indianapolis manufacturer and seventh. district’ Re |
publican chairman. Rep. Gerald W. Landis is ou in L the open campaigning for him, but so far his J colleagues have maintained a complete silence ab ut ||
the Capehart candidacy. | One of the best summations was made by a mem- I ber during the Gates visit. He said that Mr. Gates has the state organization functioning so smoothly - now that if he can Just keep it oiled it will be able Ww, : dictate the ticket." o But other views canie from other quarters.’ There}: i is a definite split in the Marion county and Indianapolis city organizations and Mr. Capehart” isn't, | exactly a state organization-man, either. i : .
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Gates Wants Harmony
“IT'S FUNNY,” one congressman declared, “Ralph | , Gates fought the State organization for years as district chairman, but now that he is in the saddle, all # he wants is harmony. | + “It reminds me of the story of the baseball Plager] . who attended a spring training banquet and heard | the club managér make an after-dinner speech: The: | manager said the club had plenty of pitchers, catchers, infield and outfield players and all they . needed now was harmony. 3 “Puzzled, the ballplayer turned to a colleague and, 1 said: ‘Gosh, if the boss says,we got all those players: why does he want Hermony—=whers is he going a : play him?'” :
In Washington
by Peter Edson EL g
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WASHINGTON, May Ma. . be it’s about time to revive some of the “We can lose this war!” ‘ talk which was current last Au- . gust, The news from Tunisia ana Attu is all to the good these days, but the news.from horhe, it you’ |] take the trouble to read between A the lines, is all terrible. Last August, everyone was fear- : ful we were losing the battle, oh ! The war production’ board was in a Es
production confusion itself, and its_disputes with the army navy procurement serv toes seemed endless and IMposs oN sible of solution. But WPB snapped out of it, settled the wdrst ofl its own internal rows, fired a few of its brass hats, es= ¥ tablished liaison with the army on one flank and i.
with. the navy on the other, reorganized its lines, brought in some new talent and started going places. | WLB still lacks some smoothness and efficiency, - but the battle of production is apparently being won. J Elséwhere on the home front, however, we are, ; taking a terrible licking. The battle against inflation can become a rout, ple 1 most any day, and when the history of this campaign is written the chapter covering the: days in which you are now living can be identified as the period of * great indecision and glorious inconsistency. There is no apparent plan of battle, and the co- oy ordinators and congressmen in command don't seem to be able to decide what to do about it. } = \ ~ tar
, CONGRESS PROHIBITS the fixing of a limitation: oh salaries over $25,000, yet there is a definite limit
that. oP Office of price administration, like Ferdinand the. 3 Bull, doesn't want to hurt anybody, and seems com iE mitted te a policy of tossing the toreadors ef inflation out of the ring by appeasement. * Leon Henderson had i to resign as boss of OPA because he was too tough; His successor, Prentiss M. Brown, may have to Toliow, him into exile because he is too soft. When OPA does get firm about wanting to ioe some basic food price—livestock on the hoof, for in-;. stance—the war food administration objects. ‘Prices must be kept up to encourage production. Rest : Stymie. The only way in which selling prices may be k fr dowri while production prices are kept up fis )
the granting of subsidies to producers, yet cong will have no part of subsidies or incentive paymen
Stymied again. Congress wants tarth prices kept up, and ald te to small business, yet threatens to cu off all aid to small farmers throughout the farm security admins tration. I!
WLB Swamped
THE WAR labor board, struggling to holj Raa front. against wage increases, is buried under if jts own | barrage of 17,000 unsettled applications for raises. ' It settles so few cases each week that strikes at akey war plants actually break out in protest over the board's inability to ¢ome to a decision—any dscision, Meanwhile, one man with a name something like 3 John L. Lewis, forces the war labor board ito a 4 corner, monopolizes its (time for a part of every day | for a period of over two months while sine tases A must wait. So The office of teonomie stabilization, which fs. sups $4 posed to master-mind this battle against inflation, 3
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| with the children While she goes to a movie without | him.
Papa Had Better Get to Work
IT MAY even mean that papa won't be able to count on his*day off as a day of rest, but will have to spend it helping mamma with the canning or with the heavy housecleaning, so that they both can enjoy a few hours of leisure. But no matter what he has to do to give her a little time for herself, papa ought to see that mamma does get a little time off. The burden of rationing, of the ‘“no household help” situation, and of shortages falls most heavily on mamma. If the family fst to suffer, she has to work long, tiring hours. So somebody ought to see that she gets a chance | to take it €asy once in a while. Nobody is going to— unless it's papa. That is why mamma's morale is this problem. And if he wants a happy home he had better work it out.
| railroads, Western Union and tele- | | phone company and provide a new | group of much needed Democratic precint committeemen and ward | | Chiaifmen and inject a supply in {all kev cities of competent willing |help without costing us a can of lend-lease goods.
HE sudden and untimely death this week of Ralph H. Edgerton brings not only a sense of shock to his many friends but also of distinct loss to the entire civic com“mynity. \ Best known as a decorator, from his outstanding work in preparing the setting for such national events as the | Willkie homecoming and the Shrine convention, Mr. Edger-| ton had many other interests, and had found many fields of | service to his city. He was a past president of the Rotary | club, a convention bureau director, a former jury commis- | sioner, and had been an active and tireless worker in innumerable other enterprises for the welfare of Indianap- | olis. As a businessman and as one of the leaders of the city’s business community, he had devoted much time and energy to the nation’s war effort. This city will not soon {ill the gy left by his passing.
serves no useful purpose that anyone can see, save. | to, deliver messages from the White« House. 3 : Before very much time goes by, it looks as “though there will most certainly have to be some Ww i reorganizations, housecleanings, reshuffling of hats, changing of policies—just such as WPB has through in the past nine months—before any im! ment can be made. If it isn't done, we can lose this i battle of inflation, and we can lose this war at hme, i
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their trust in thee rejoice: let ‘ 5 4.
them ever shout for joy, because | thou: defendest them: let them | A WOMAN ecucator says the modern girl is als
also that love thy name be joy- ways on her toes. Maybe it's beca 2, ful in thee.—Psalms 5:11. : yn Nel use of high ‘heels.
| | JOY, IN nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; | "You and the old rooster do all the crowing around here—but | | And ‘tis joy that moves the pinion
notice the hens and me do all the work!" When the wheel of Hine oes Jound,
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