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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1943

NEW GUINEA—UNIONTOWN—WASHINGTON VER Finsch harbor, on the coast of New Guinea, a Flying Fortress was attacked by 16 Jap Zeros this week The bombey’s .crew—men from Oregon and Ohio, New, York and Texas, California and Alabama—fought the swarming. enemy planes for 35 minutes, shot dqgwn at least, five of them, forced the others to flee. Three of the

. Americans were wounded, one of their engines was put

out of commission and two others were hit, but they flew the Fortress home. One example, that, of the courage and teamwork we

expect of America’ Ss defenders.

| # 2 #8 EAR Uniontown, Pa, last night, a coal miner named Charles Hartmah led 15 other men to work in the Palmer ‘mine, marching past the union’s pit committee. It was a gallant gesture, for Charles Hartman and his companigns risked being barred forever from membership in the union and so from work at their trade. And it was hardly more than a gesture, since the coal that can be produced by 16 men is pitifully little by comparison with the coal that is not being produced by more than half a million miners who are on strike against their government. But these 16 brave men were earning the right to face America’s soldiers and sailors proudly. They were refusing to lof their county down. ashineion, the capital of that iy the coal strike was the subject of conferences in the White House and of loud debates in congress. John L. Lewis issued another defiant statement. The government had yielded much ground to him, had promised to help him obtain large wage But he wanted more, and to get more he was determined to break through the government’s faltering defenses against economic disaster. . ‘The president, whose policies had helped to concentrate such (dangerous power in the hands of one ruthless labor leader, had told the country that “the production of coal will not be stopped.” But the production of coal had been stopped. In Washington there v was not much evidence of courage and teamwork.

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THE HELFENBERGER CONTRACT contract which Charles Helfenberger got last winter to redecorate the county jail is back in the news again ~ this time in a dispute over payment for the actual work. In case anyone has forgotten, Mr. Helfenberger was foreman of a county grand jury which was investigating contracts which had been let by the county commissioners —a procedure that sometimes, if evidence is available, leads to criminal charges. Right in the midst of this investigation, after weeks of work and much cost to the county, the county commissioners awarded this contract to Mr. Helfenberger, foreman of the grand jury which was investigating them. Upon learning of the deal Judge W. D. Bain fired the whole grand jury, and a new jury had to be called to start the investigation all over again,

at sdfiiions] cost to the county.

ME: HELFENBERGER did not himself do the work, or at least not all of it, but sublet parts of it to other contractors, one of them an unsuccessful bidder against him for the whole original contract. They now complain that he hasn't paid them. Mr. Helfenberger replies that they didn’t do the job properly. The county commissioners, however, ,who are broad minded about such things, accepted the job as properly completed, and paid off Mr. Helfenberger in full—a matter of $1985. . This whole deal, aside from the current pay dispute, smells more than a trifle over-ripe, with an aroma which we sincerely trust will not go unnoticed by the members of the second grand jury who are still investigating the letting of contracts by the county commissioners, and who go far as we know, haven't been awarded any contracts: for

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SCHOOLS AT WAR

JDIAN APOLIS public schools plan no shutdown during

the summer, and announcement this week of their very

“full simmer schedule serves also to remind us of the tre-

mendous job our own local school system has been doing in wartime.

Indianapolis public schools, for instance, have trained

Box 000 men and women for jobs in war industry since 1940 gure beside which the paltry hundreds enrolled by the national youth administration looks quite insignificant. They have enrolled 17, 000 boys and girls in victory garden projects, with 100 teachers and principals as supervisors, and started them with a special course of instruction. They have arranged schedules under which thousands of pupils ‘hold regulat jobs in the war emergency and continue their classroom studies. They have given special training to boys about to enter the armed forces. They have handled the registrations for war rationing, and participated largely in salvage and scrap collections, in civilian defense preparaHons and in many other enterprises. The summer school schedule announced by Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan offers a wide range of courses and activities to adults as well as children, with the emphasis again on war work but with opportunities also to lay the foundations for a broad general education. . The entire program continues to be geared effectively to ‘the requirements of a city in wartime. Its achievement in community service above and beyond .the routine gation expected is a noteworthy one. The performance oy the locally controlled, and locally financed Indianapolis gblic schools under the usual stress of extraordinary a source of considerable—and well justified—pride

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 3—Of all the unions of the sea, that organization of the unlicensed sailors, mostly West Coast men, bossed by a bucko Swede named Harry Lundeberg, seems to me to be the most honest and the least devious. The Sailors’ Union of the Pacific is anti-Communist and Lundeberg hates Joe Curran, the president of the widely publicized and glamorized National Maritime union, the Communist party-line organization, and fights him and

“Harry Bridges all the time. Curran has been trying

to muscle his union into the West Coast with Bridges’ help and as a return favor has been trying to establish Bridges’ longshoremen’s union on the East Coast. " Curran is cunning in the sly and slippery manner of the Communist or fellow-traveler and a bit of a moocher and glory-hunter. Lundeberg is a tough guy who wants none of your united seamen’s service

and welfare work for his sailormen.: He wants pay,’

more of it all the time, and let the men buy their own grog and flop where they want to and promote their own girls of their own social set if they want to cut a rug.

Lundeberg Talks Turkey

LUNDEBERG DOESN'T TRY to pretend that merchant sailors don’t get drunk, jump ship and break discipline. He is always giving them hell for it in his union paper, which any enemy can read. Curran pretends that such things cannot be and takes unto himself much of the credit for the supreme sacrifice of the sailors who have been lost in this war. Lundeberg calls Curran Moosejaw and Ham-Head in editorials reminiscent of Huey P. Long's happier moments on the platform and the air and he is no less diligent to establish Joe Ryan's A. F. of L. longshoremen back on the West Coast and to drive Bridges right into the sea than Bridges is to give Curran’s Communists a beachhead here. It is a great brawl and Lundeberg has the appeal of Popeye the Sailor and a loyal personal following which Curran can never enjoy. Lundeberg wouldn't fool you about sailors. In a Page One box in his paper he warned his men that anyone who quit his ship without relief would be tried on charges by the union. “This action was taken,” the article said, “as a result of the manner in which the crew of the President Fillmore left the vessel in Seattle without getting replacements, only thinking of themselves. Diss. 45 short notice about crew replacements, the ship” manned by an army transport crew. {

\ ‘Not Thinking of Union’ A “THROUGH THE EFFORTS "i agreements of

the union the men who made the trip to Al made a great big payday. But they did not thi

of the union, but .only of their own selfish interests)

so they scrammed, leaving the ship wide open for the army to move in on them. They prevented the S. U. P. man from making a good payday.” Lundeberg doesn’t talk patriotism or rant against the axis as Curran does. To him the union is everything. Any man who shirks duty or breaks the union’s contracts embarrasses the union. That he jeopardizes soldier lives and the allied cause, seems

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Again, Lundeberg, openly and for his enemies to read, denounced men aboard the Matensia for going

‘| to town leaving only one man on the security watch,

“not once but a couple of times.” His union is the only one that gets overtime pay for security watches in port. He regards this as a personal achievement and he has warned all his men that the next one who does it will be tried on union charges. If convicted by the committee the offender might be set on the beach, and if fit, might be drafted as a $50 a month punk. A terrible punishment for men who make “big pay” for runs to Alaska and enjoy the right to talk back to their officers.

Must Man the Ships

AN ITEM from Los Angeles reports that some members of a crew who drew a travel allowance of $21 each from union headquarters in San Francisco to man a ship in San Pedro got drunk and stayed drunk for days. ‘After the mates stood for this a few days,” the paper says, “they fired the drunks and left us short of able seamen. We finally managed to get the ships manned and they sailed with a full crew.” “If you get gassed up, dont do your job, the unioft will unload you in the first U. 8. port,” says another warning, “and you will .not be allowed to sail in S. U. P. ships out of S. U.P. halls. So it is up to you.” Still another candid note admitted that in San Pedro “Some of the fellows refused to stand for their security watches, some disappeared for a couple of days and others got drunk and passed out on the job. Most of them came back for another chance, but it’s

‘no dice.”

We the People By Ruth Millett

A WOMAN who works in the toy department of a gift shop that used to have every kind of expensive and ingenious toy for sale, and now has only the most simple play equipment, says she gets disgusted every day at the attitude of many of the parents who come into her shop. The ones who get her down think it is just a shame that more toys are not being made, and they usually phrase their attitude like this: ‘I should

think that toys for: children would be one of the last

things we would have to give up.” She says such parents usually have a spoiled junior by the hand, who turns up his nose at every simple toy offered for sale because since he was 3 years old he has been playing with complicated electric toys.

Probably Good for Them

THIS TOY shortage, that indulgent parents are so worried about, will probably actually be good for the kids. It will teach them to take care of what they have, more than any amount of parental preaching.

+ It will also do something else for children. It will ;

force them to use a little more imagination in their play, if they have to get along without a lot of fancy, complicated playthings. No, the kids will get along all right for the duration without a lot of expensive toys. Parents don't have to worry yet not being able to buy them electric trains as long as they can provide them with milk and oranges and cod liver oli.

To the Point—

THROUGH WAR jobs more and more college students are finding out Vhen and where education

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“GLAD OF COUNTY'S ATTITUDE ON BINGO”

}By Otis Todd, 1723 N. Meridian st.

I am glad to see that the prosecutor and sheriff will not let some jealous people arouse them because a few folks are getting some relaxation from g little ame of bingo. Personally, I enjoy playing it and never have lost money that amounted to anything. I think that the game if played orderly is all right

and I am glad that our elected officials feel the same way.

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“WORKING CLASS MUST MEET CHALLENGE” By C. F. L., Indianapolis

When a strike occurs it is not to be entirely looked upon as a rebellious attitude to slow up the war effort. It is to be regarded more as the workers’ struggle to maintain their collective bargaining rights here on the home front. The wageearner should remember this, regardless of how many sons, daughters or relatives who are in the military ranks. Remember that the majority of those men who are fighting to win the war were laborers before they went. They are fighting for the four freedoms and those four freedoms embrace and include the col-

laboring class of people. They want to return home where economic standards to work and live under have been improved, not to a chaos of unbalanced conditions. The working class of people must meet the challenge of discriminating employers with every weapon their resourcefulness can think of land one of them is the strike,

” ” 2 “THE PROPAGANDA THAT MR. LYONS OBJECTS TO” By N. Dunson, 2010 N. Meridian st.

I believe that the public should know a few facts about Eugene Lyons, whose article on “Mission to Moscow” appeared in The Times. In 1936 Mr. Lyons became an editor of the American Mercury which the Writers Digest described as “pro-Fascist in a sane and liberal way.” We know now at the cost of

lective bargaining rights for the.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because ot the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed.)

millions of lives that there is no such thing as a “sane and liberal pro-Fascist.”

In 1937 Mr. Lyons wrote “Assign-

{ment to Utopia.” He said that he

had read everything about Russia and considered his assignment as “an assignment to Utopia.” It seems incredible that anyone - who had read anything about Czarist Russia, about the slaughter of Russia's army in the first world war, about the intervention in Russia’s internal affairs and about the civil war could expect Utopia. Maurice Hindus (who lived in Czarist Russia and in Soviet Russia and never described the latter as a Utopia) said of Mr. Lyons, that only one other man could so wantonly have ignored the achievements of the Soviet Union, and that man was Joseph Goebbels. Richard Lewis, drama critic for The Times says, “ ‘Mission to Moscow’ that it is important for this country to have a working agreement with Russia both in the strategy of war and for the peace to follow. It offers the hope that if the united nations work together they can enforce a durable peace so that the newborn generation can

reap the benefits of the American|:

way for which so many of our best citizens are dying today.” This is the propaganda Mr. Lyuns objects to. And so does Mr. Goebbels.’ 2 a = “IS MONEY OF GREATER IMPORTANCE THAN LIFE?” By J M. W., Indianapolis. Like a well-known man—now dead—all I know is what I read in the papers. What I read there is not very clear to me sometimes and as I read the Hoosier Forum every

night . . . I thought that some reader might see this and give me some

Side Glances—By Galbraith

enlightenment on the questions I will mention, I have noticed large posters with the following words: “12,000 American soldiers have been killed up until April 27th”; “They gave their lives, we only lent our money.” Can anyone tell me what the author or authors of this poster

read it? Did they mean to convey to our mind that life was of greater importancé, than money?

Along comes the annual meeting of the Indiana Bankers association

and a Hungarian-born economist tells us “We must forego the ideal of full employment as a foolish mirage which cannot be attained except by wrecking the financial system . ., .” If the Indiana bankers believe this, then they cannot believe that life is greater than money. The financial system . . . must or must not be more precious than the lives of the soldiers... Somewhere or other I read that this war was being fought for high ideals, among them being the freedom from want. Probably the soldiers who come back from the war and cannot find a job will be greatly pleased to know that their unemployment is helping to keep up the financial system. On page 10 of The Times for May 29th there is a picture of a soldier's grave with the caption, “These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain,” It all depends on what they thought they were dying for. If they thought that they were fighting for the high ideal of freedom from want for their loved ones, then according to Dr. Payli, they died in vain. On all sides we are told that this war is the greatest emergency that this country ever had to face. If we lose this war we are faced with slavery. Any sacrifice we make is worth-while. We, the sovereign people of this country, we, the government of this country need money to carry on this war against slavery. We, the people, lend to we, the people, the necessary money. We, the people, owe ourselves money. If we were really in earnest about what we talk about sacrifices, we would not need the incentive of paying our-

|’ |selves interest on thé money we

lend ourselves. Certainly we do not owe any money to anyone outside of this planet earth, and it is almost as certain that those who have lent their money are convinced that we are fighting for our existence. Is it too great a sacrifice to give our money to help ourselves? Well, maybe money is more precious than life, but you will have a hard time trying to convince a mother who has a son killed that such is the case. As an afterthought, maybe all the teaching we got in school is wrong. It might be that we are not sovereign. It might be that the men who do the governing for us are not elected by us. It might be that the government is something apart from us altogether, something over which we have no , .. control. I do not want to believe this. I am old-fashioned enough to want to believe that we, the people of

{the United States of America, are

sovereign.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision; for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.—-Joel 3:14.

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The Glory Trail By Walker Stone

WASHINGTON, June 3—In a recent and magnificent under- ° statement, OPA Chief Prentiss | Brown said that many of the .- resignations from OPA were “not altogether undesirable.” : The latest to resign is Deputy - OPA Administrator J. Kenneth . Galbraith, B. 8S, M. S, Ph. D,,. formerly of Toronto U., Cambridge : U, California U., Harvard and Princeton, who at 31 followed the , academicians’ glory trail into the New Deal and had a meteoric rise in bureaucracy to B place at the right hand of Leon Henderson. . Now, at the riper age of 34, the doctor finds himself out of a job because Mr. Henderson’s successor, Mr. Brown, desires a stroriger right arm. That is, he is out of a job as of the time of this writing, but be not surprised if he shows up in another govern- . \ ¢

* ment position.

Remember Dr. Tugwell

OTHER'PROFESSORS have quit this or that New Deal job only to pop up somewhere else, still on the payroll. It has been said of Dr.. Tugwell, the dean of all New Deal profs, that “he failed his way to suc=:y cess,” gaining a new promotion after each flop.

The task of OPA is to regulate the prices of the . things people buy and sell in.this workaday world. Dr. Galbraith had no experience as a producer wholesaler or retailer. But his lack of intimate knowledge of our distributive system did not pre vent him from having positive ideas about it. In his years as a research fellow and an\ assistant professor of economics, he had done some academic thinking, and once he wrote a book called “Modern Competition and Business Policy,” The theme of this book was that our established commercial practices were all wrong.

The Country Wouldn't Adhere

SUDDENLY CATAPULTED into great power by the fortunes of bureaucratic politics and the emergency of a global war, the doctor thought he had a grand opportunity, if not a mandate, to change our ways of doing things to conform to his own pet ideas of how to conduct business in the best of all possible worlds, as set forth inside the two covers of his book. Even under the vast powers of a bureaucracy, where the man who has taught a class or written a book iooks down on one who has met a payroll, the good doctor was somehow unable to make this sprawling and stubborn country of ours adhere to the neat pattern of his economic monograph. So he quit, .

| leaving us to the consequences of our sinful practices.

But be not dismayed. Dr. Galbraith's resignation does not mark the start of a parade of New Deal professors back to the campus. On the contrary, the latest news is that OPA .Boss Brown has appointed two other economics profs “temporarily” to the same job.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 3.—The next and perhaps. the most radical * development in flying to prepare for is the advent of the flying wing. This is the ‘wide V-type airplane, with the fuselage and the tail eliminated to reduce drag, the rudders being placed near the tips of the wings, pusher-type engines and . propellers being built out of the trailing edge of the wing instead of the leading edge, so that the plane itself flies in relatively smooth air. Aircraft designers have played with this design for a number of years. It is flyable, on paper. But Vice Chairman Edward Warner of the civil aeronautics board, delivering the 31st Wilbur Wright memorial lecture on “Post-War Transport Aircraft” before the Royal Aeronautical society in London, has just given the flying wing ' a definite place in aviation development which indicates that its actual appearance in the skies is only a short time ahead. Main difficulties of the flying wing are in stability and control. Assuming that these may be overcome, Mr. Warner, sees a real, though limited, place for this design. ra Previous theorizing on the practicality of the fly- - ing wing has limited it to giant aircraft of 175 tons or. . more—as compared with the 12 tons of a standard commercial DC-2, or the ‘44 gross tons of a Boeing 314 Pan-American clipper. Routes on which a plane of that size could find traffic are, of course, limited. For an airplane designed to carry concentrated cargo only, however, Mr. Warner foresees that the flying wing could be used in substantially smaller sizes, and such a machine might have & cruising speed 10 per cent higher than that of conventional aircraft, p

Large Pay Load Essential

* FOR 200-TON flying wings, the speed might be 20 * per cent higher and the cost of operation per tonmile might be 20 per cent lower than for a conven=tional medium sized airplane of 30 tons, such as the: DC-4, the 40-passenger, four-motored Douglas Sky-:"! master. - The 200-ton flying wing, by comparison. would have a carrying capacity of some 350 pas-/ sengers, would cruise at from 280 to 300 miles an’ hour instead of 180 to 200. i If the future development of the flying wing reveals no shortcomings, Mr. Warner believes that there might be a place for such a craft on a transAtlantic route, or on trans-continental routes. Its limitations are that to secure these benefits of lower. cost and greater speed, it must carry a high co rn 2A mercial pay load. This would tend to limit the oe of a flying wing to a single schedule a day, instead of to more frequent service which is more suitable to the convenience of the passengers. s All these problems of commercial post-war flyingreduce themselves ultimately to the limitations of how much paying business there “will be to carry. In the best pre-war years, trans-Atlantic passenger steamship travel averaged. iess than 800 passengers a * day, each way. Less than 200 of those gere first class or cabin passengers who might be expected to: be potential customers for trans-Atlantic air travel:

Maximum Traffic Expected oo

TAKING THOSE facts into consideration and adding to them’ a possible 50 per cent increase to. allow for the likelihood that Detroit automobile magnates having a deal to close in Europe will hop a" plane instead of sending a cablegram, the maximum post-war passenger traffic to be borne will not ime mediately increase over 300 passengers a day, each. way. “a f A The question then becomes whether all those passengers will want to travel on one huge flying wing making one flight each day, or whether passengers - will prefer to *travel on smaller planes, flying on - more frequent schedules. Mr. Warner leans now, to: the latter view. Allowing for flights that may start from various § points on .the continent of Europe as well as the British Isles, a normal traffic tancy . be eight flights a day in each direcifon, the aa: N carrying up to 40 passengers a trip, . Advent of the flying wing as a commercially profe itable development would therefore seem to depend as much upon the development of more Business ox it to heal, a8 upon its aerédynamic |