Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1943 — Page 38

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1943

CONGRESS GETS A BELLYFULL Y swift, emphatic votes—56 to 25 in the senate, 244 to ~, 108 in the house—congress has overridden President Roosevelt's veto of the Connally-Smith bill and enacted its own version of a law intended to prevent wartime strikes. Anger at John L. Lewis, and dissatisfaction with ad‘ministration failure to deal firmly and effectively with the intolerable Lewis obstruction of the war program, help to explain this stinging defeat for the president. - But, more fundamentally than that, it was a rebellion against a governmental philosophy with which most. of the ‘American people, like most of the members of congress, are fed up to the teeth. That philosophy was stated accurately by Mr. Roosevelt’s attorney general, Francis Biddle, speaking to a group

Lg of self-styled “liberals” at a dinner sponsored by the “New

Republic” magazine, as the New Deal began its tenth year. The New Deal, said Mr. Biddle, is successful— “Because it is a political party tied up with the labor movement under an able political leader. A vigorous labor movement gave it strength.” 2

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HE people of this country do not want their government tied up, through any party, with a big business movement, or a prohibition movement, or a farm movement, or any group movement—including the labor movement. They want it free to practice the true liberal doctrine of equal rights for all, special privileges to none. They have seen the New Deal government practice the exact reverse of that doctrine, for the alleged benefit of workers, until what should be a vigorous labor movement sickened, and its leaders become as blindly arrogant as were the leaders of Wall Street and the leaders of the Anti-Saloon League before retribution overtook them. John L. Lewis is the boldest and cleverest of the big labor bosses, but the others also suffer from the delusion that it is their right to run the country.

William Green could dare to write to the president that “the workers would hever become reconciled to this legislation. They would protest against it and rebel against it.” Philip Murray issues almost daily ultimatums to the government. And Mr. Roosevelt does their bidding, whether the arders are to subsidize living costs or to veto the ConnallySmith bill.

8 U'L' congress, as we say, is fed up with threats of rebellion and dictation by labor leaders. Congress has decided, at last, to do its duty. And, beyond all doubt, overwhelming sublic sentiment is with congress. ; The new law is not the “labor-shackling” legislation which the labor leaders absurdly call it. It is effective only ‘or the war's duration. It leaves individuals free to quit ‘work at will. : Its first seven sections, which Mr. Roosevelt would have een willing to accept, put statutory authority behind the administration’s own war labor board machinery for settling ~ abor disputes, and provide penalties for those who instigate or abet strikes in industries under governmént operation. They regulate the conduct of union officials but leave ‘ndividual workers free—which, we think, is less dangerous. han the president’s proposal to draft strikers up to age 65, ‘hus coercing, individual workers and leaving union leaders ree.

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WE believe congress should repeal section 8, providing a legal method for taking strike votes in plants not under yovernment operation. The method would be desirable in ordinary times, but Mr. Roosevelt is correct in saying that, ‘n wartime, the government should not appear to sanction strikes under any circumstances. We also agree with the president that if it is desirable “0 prohibit political contributions by labor unions—as it certainly is—the ban should be permanent. Congress should make it so—as the law for many years has forbidden corparations to make political contributions—and should apply

the same prohibition to business associations and all “non- |.

nrofit” organizations which undertake to infiuence govern‘nental policies. And congress should now write permanent ‘egislation requiring public financial accountings by all anions. «Mr. Roosevelt and the labor leaders mvited the rebuke administered yesterday by congress. They were urged to gke the lead in drafting sound, thoughtful legislation to . sequire responsible use of organized labor’s vast powers. They were warned what would happen if abuses continued unchecked. If they ignore this latest, most impressive warning, they will invite legislation far more drastic than the Connally-Smith law.

GOOD PLAN, ANYWAY HE $41,000,000 post-war public works plan proposed ~~ this week by City Engineer Arthur B. Henry as the ~ aroduct of zealous endeavor (“working nights and all our . spare time”) in his office, now turns out to be an old plan drawn up in detail by M. Gs Johnson, Mr. Henry's predecessor under the Sullivan administration, and left behind in he files when that regime went out of office. ‘We trust no one is going to hold that against the idea, which is basically pretty sound, regardless of a little professional plagiarism. A good many of the projects it describes would be of lasting value to Indianapolis in addion to providing jobs during a critical period after the war, d the fact that Mr. Johnson's bldepriat has been Balter

s| Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, June 26—It is interesting and encouraging to note that, as of the date of the Detroit race riot, President Roosevelt has adopted a new policy regarding unlawful and insurrectionary proceedings. President Roosevelt is against them now. In recent times he was indifferent to unlawful and insurrectionary proceedings in that same city of Detroit and elsewhere in the state of Michigan.

For the riots in the centers of the motor industry under the auspices of the C. I. O. were no less unlawful and insurrectionary than the more recent trouble in Detroit, and the worst offense that the president could see in them was multiple trespass in the. socalled sitdown strike was not, in fact, a sitdown but mass vandalism and pillage, accompanied by bloodshed and general public terror and the breakdown of municipal and state government, all directed from a central headquarters and executed by riot leaders appointed for that purpose, many of whom were imported from other states.

The Learders Got Their Way

THOSE UNLAWFUL afid insurectionary proceedings laid whole cities helpless at the feet of criminal terrorists who belonged to the president’s political movement and the law-abiding people, who, of course, vastly outnumbered the rioters, were deprived of the protection of government. In the end, the leaders of the insurrection got their way and certain of them have since been courted and consulted by the very government which they were allowed to‘'flout on matters having to do with the fight of the American people to ssiablish the four freedoms everywhere in the world. It is no answer to all this to say that it is water over the dam because it happened some years ago and in a time of peace. The record remains and it is the worse because Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward that lawlessness and insurrection was such that he rewarded the defaulting governor with a place on the supreme court of the United States. One of the freedoms to which the president has pledged the nation is freedom from fear. This means, specifically, the fear of lawless aggression and brutalitarian might which was the very thing that terrorized those Michigan communities in those days and drove thousands of law-abiding citizens into a lawless organization which the president encouraged, under outlaw leaders for whom he had not the slightest rebuke.

Movies Show What Happened

THERE STILL exists a long record of moving pictures taken from plant windows showing men and women under attack by members of this iawless and insurrectionary force as they tried to go to their lawful employment. It shows these rioters carrying cudgels, rioters slugging defenseless citizens whose government had abandoned them to the fury of the mob, rioters blockading the streets so that even the bravest of the good citizens could not go to their jobs. In the end they had to join the lawless and insurrectionary group, pay taxes into its treasury and submit themselves to its own laws and discipline because the rule of fear had been imposed on them with the consent of the same government which now undertakes to guarantee to all the peoples of the world that they need fear no aggression by the mighty. And it has been fear of the same brutal treatment, even violent death, which has forced millions of other Americans, all over the United States, to abandon their rights and dignity as free human beings and citizens and pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes and extortions to the cohorts of Mr. Roosevelt’s political movement.

Letters Received From Victims

THERE IS a temptation to say, and seme have said, that this was a good insurrection even though it may have been slightly lawless around the edges hecause it was an action in a class war. Even if it had been such it still would have been a lawless insurrection, no less evil than a fight between races, but it was not a class war. It was a completely lawless and violent overthrow of government whose. victims were almost all plain toilers of the group known as the working class, and that demonstration under the license of the government’s connivance and default put most of the rest of the people into such fear that elsewhere by the million they have not even resisted. Every day I receive letters from victims of this terror, some of them with sons fighting to extend the four freedoms, including that freedom from fear, to all the peoples of the world who, in unconscious irony, close with the earnest request: “Do not disclose my name or I might lose my job or even my life.”

We the People

By Ruth Millett

POLICE IN an eastern city picked up a -seven-year-old boy waiting for a movie house to open. He had plenty of spending money in his pockets, money given him by his mother, who had a goodpaying job in a war plant. In commenting on the case a social worker pointed out that some war-workirg mothers are apparently trying to make up for the neglect of their children by giving them money—probably more money than the kids have ever had before. Can’t such mothers be made to see that they can’t make up to a kid for leaving him alone all day by giving him spending money, or sticking him in a day nursery, or hiring someone else to take care of him? There just isn’t any way a mother can pay a youngster for shifting him off on someone else. And the months or years, when his mother puts a job ahead of his care and welfare are months and years that cgn’t be reliyed.

May Be Ruined For Life

A CHILD may develop a sense of insecurity in that time that he never outgrows. He may get into serious trouble. His health may be so neglected that it is ruined for the rest of his life. There is only one consoling thought in this whole problem of women getting jobs at the expense of their young children, and that is this: The mother to whom a pay check Jooks better than

her own child's welfare and health could not have |

been much of a mother in the first place, so the child isn’t giving up a really good mother. None of this, of course, applies to the mother who must work in order to feed her children. It does apply to the mothers of small children who are working for the “extras” a pay check will buy.

To the Point—

DOG DOESN'T eat dog any more. Wieners take ration stamps and the price is up. » ae i er FIGURES SHOW twice as many women as men live to be 100. “That kicks around the old theory § Aout talking yoursel! ts desth,

TURDAY, JUNE 2,

AL BURT

The Hoosier Forum

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

“ANYTHING MORE GENTLE THAN A HAYMAKER?” By Anna L. Wright, 528 West Dr. What does The Times think ought to be done with the flophouse bums of yesterday who are now working and have money but can’t forget

their flophouse manners? They go into a restaurant, order their food, unload it on a table and then take .their trays and lay them over on your table. Why do they have to show such utter disregard for the rights and feelings of others? ; Would it not be just as easy to lay these trays on an empty table, on the floor or lean them against something? . . . Could their behavior be influenced by anything more gentle than a haymaker? 2 = = “SHOULDN'T GOOD AMERICANS DISCUSS THESE MATTERS” By F. S. Hetrick, Fortville

In re “Try Being All Out American,” June 21: All well and good but how did we get that way? Not by playing turtle and being satisfied to let things slide as is. There are continual changes in our existence and the only way to save your American system is to discuss the variousgsubjects as they appear and The Times provides a good outlet. What has saved our Americanism up to recent times is that we had a wonderful country to develop and when people began to think that they were crowded in the East they could hitch up and move to the West where there was plenty of open country to develop. In my youth I lived on an Indiana east-west highway—some of it corduroy, very few bridges—and have seen hundreds of covered wagons passing on their way to Kansas, Iowa and other western states. But the public lands are now practically exhausted and the buffalo, antelope and the like have disappeared and if you go West you need capital to sustain you while in the early days you could live off

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the game and the country. Did this American ever see some of the poor people in the South where a poor white man is the poorest thing on earth and what about the four million families that don’t have an income of $400 per year and the small per cent ot our capitalists who own 90 per cent of our wealth? Shouldn't a good American discuss these matters, call it what you will, capitalism, communism, socialism or an American system?

“SO YOU NEED WONDER. NO MORE” By H. W. Daacke, 1404 S. State Re A Times Reader, Hoosier Forum, 6-21-43: Since you are wondering why they do it, and since I am one of those who do it,” I will endéavor to let

you have a little light, so you need wonder no more. Since there are so many statements in your article that are incorrect, in the light of past (very recent) history, that it would make too lengthy an article for the Hoosier Forum, I will cover only a few of them at this time. “Except in wartime you are free to work and live where you wish, etc., etc.” From 1929 up to the economic pickup due to the start of world war II, 10 millions of men were denied the right to work and earn a decent livelihood. Made work, raking leaves, pay approximately $7.50 per week. Then came WPA with an advance to approximately $16 per week. And the restrictions placed on these applicants to obtain work

Side Glances—By Galbraith

on WPA were so ridiculous, and you still speak of freedom of action. How about the two-day men, sawing wood for that length of time weekly, before they could get a relief basket from the township trustee to feed a hungry family. Result —children kept home from school, because they were not in condition to attend. “A country that has all the natural resources necessary, etc., etc.” In whose hands are these natural resources and how were they acquired? References: “Myers’ History of American Fortunes” at the library. Workers of brain and brawn, willing to do the work of the nation, yet they are denied the privilege of using those resources. “Free speech is glided over.” Not true, since I have stressed it many times. in past years in my articles to the Hoosier Forum. “Precious freedom of religion is ignored.” Where is your freedom of religion? When Jehovah's Witnesses are herded to jail for selling or giving away their literature, and for refusing to allow their children to salute the flag, since it was contrary to their religious belief. Of course this error has been corrected by the supreme court . .. very recently. Yes, we can and will make this a better home for ourselves, but it will require some drastic changes in

Sole division of the products of lar. Had our forefathers been as complacent and self-satisfied as yourself regarding their condition as you are with yours, we would not have attained what we now have.

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“ANY WONDER THAT CHILDREN ARE BAD?” By Just One of Them, Indianapolis

I have just finished reading the letter from Mrs. McDonald in your Forum. We are . in the same “boat” only we have three . . average boys. We have just a few days to move. For two years we have lived in two rooms and my husband sleeps days. That's all o. k, but he is helping out in the war effort and we are proud of it. \ But when we want a larger house it’s always “no children.” We can’t move too far away as he can get only an A card. Well, what is there to do? Take these boys as Mrs. McDonald says and plant ourselves on a park bench? Put a tent up to sleep in like dogs and go ahead and buy. bonds and work 11° hours a night in a defense plant? ' So this is Indianapolis. Well ag far as I'm concerned—to hang with it. But I say, let us mothers who can’t find a home gather our unwanted children up and turn these park benches into an “unwanted children’s depot.” How many members on this so-called juvenile delinquency board have children? Is there any wonder the children are bad when we try to raise them right, They are kicked around like a bunch of stray dogs. This is rather plain, but from a mother who has tried to raise her boys to have someone tell her “I'm afraid you have too many to make behave”—that burns me up. . . . Come on, mothers, let's go to the park benches.

DAILY THOUGHTS

And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.—I

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In Washington

By. Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June %— Farm goals for 1944 are now being. | determined by the war food administration department of agricultural setup. They'll be annouriced by the middle or end of summer, beginning with the winter wheat acreage program which must be determined by July 1 in time for first planting. Fixing of these farm crop quotas to meet the war requirements is about the most difficult responsibility ever thrown on any government agency. The success or failure of the war effort may hang on these decisions, which will be carried right down to the individual farmer-—the number of head of livestock he will farrow next spring, the number of poultry hatchings he will figure on, the acreage of each crop he will plant, Then will come the big job of persuading the farmer, through their county war boards, to grow the crops needed. Involved in the decisions to be made are complicated factors of the degree to which lifelong farming habits can be changed, the relative incomes to be derived from different farm products, the farm machinery and equipment available to handle special crops, the human and animal food requirements, the labor supply, the very future fertility of the land itself if the usual crop rotation routines are to be changed appreciably.

Can't Push Farmers Around

IT IS easy, say the agricultural economists, to i down with paper and pencil and figure what is needed or what should be done ideally. But that involves shoving people around, ordering them to do thus and so. The problem is to make goals that are attainable in a practical farm program that will be acceptable to farmers. Basic determination of the entire program is te balance the number of livestock with the available’ feed supply. Boiled down, that means devoting as much acreage as possible to stock feed, in the light of other farm crop needs and taking into considera tion the amount of feed grains that might be imported from Canada, Australia, the Argentine. U. S. livestock population is now over 250 million head of cattle, sheep and hogs, over 540 million chickens. How much feed can be raised to support how much bigger a food animal population? And how many of each kind of animals? If whole milk has a higher priority as war food than eggs or pork, shall dairy herds get a higher priority on feed supplies than chickens or pigs? And at what weight shall the meat animals be sent to market? Choice and prime beef that people like is fattened ahd slaughtered heavy, but you get more pounds of lean meat per bushel of stock feed if the animals are slaughtered light.

How Are All Factors to Be Controlled? i

SIMILARLY WITH pigs. If fattened to 250 pounds the farmer gets more money return for the corn he feeds them than if he sells at 200 pounds. But the customers get more pork per bushel of corn if the pigs are sent to market at lighter weight. Also beef and sheep have an advantage over pigs in that they will eat hay and pasture crops, while pigs need corn. How shall these factors be controlled, if at all? In the corn belt, the need for other essential farm crops—particularly soybeans—competes with corn for acreage priority, and much-needed flax competes with wheat. More wheat might be grown in the plains, but there is danger in plowing up the hazardous lands, the loose soils west of Minnesota and .Iowa, in that it might start the dust bowl blowing around again. Shall sugar beet acreage be reduced to increase} potato, dry bean and pea production? That might be done jf ships were available to bring more sugar from the tropics. : Should cotton acreage be reduced for more peanut production? There's a law against reducing cotton quotas, and it's a problem to get enough peanut harvesting machinery. There, in over-simplified form, you have the outlines of the battleground for the war of food production. Where is the acreage to be found to glow all the food that’s needed for civilian consumption, for the army and navy, for lend-lease, for relief and rehabilitation of occupied countries?

Navy Reader’

By Dan Gordon

WORLD WAR I was strictly an army war as far as the United States was concerned. Pearl Harbor, Singapore, Midway, the Coral Seas and the Solomons have reversed the picture in this war. The United States navy is America’s bulwark against invasion by the Japs. : The war correspondents “have. given ,6 the American people a vivid and accurate picture of the. exploits of Uncle Sam’s naval men in numero newspaper and magazine reports and books. “Th Navy Reader,” compiled and edited by Lt. William

«| Harrison Fetridge, U. 8. N. R., is an anthology con-

taining more than 50 of these articles about the navy. -

A Book For Everyone

DESIGNED TO make naval officers and enlisted = men more familiar with the branch of service which they are serving by giving them the first-hai “experience of others—before they see combat—so they may know how it feels to be under fire,” “The Navy Reader” includes among its authors Adms. Hale sey and Hart, Paul Schubert, William L. White and Robert J. Casey, Indianapolis Times and Chicago Daily News foreign correspondent, who is represented.

‘with a chapter from his latest book, “Torpedo Junc+

tion.” Lt. Fetridge has also seen fit to include Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox's Pearl Harbor report and those parts of President Roosevelt's speeches in which he gave the nation the now-famous reports on the heroism of the missionary, Dr. Wassel, the naval commander, Rear Adm. Callaghan, and the Fesuls rection of the submarine Squalus. This is a book for everyone, civilians and men and women in all of the armed services alike. It is probably the most comprehensive volume about the role our navy is playing in world war II that has been published to date. Of course, many readers will find: some of the selections familiar—that's because they: have read them in this newspaper and others at the time they were first written. -

Recounts Epic Battles ; :

IN “THE NAVY READER" you will find the story of the P-T boats, made famous by “expendable” Joht Bulkeley; the “Life and Death of the U. S. S. Yorktown,” the aircraft carrier, off the Midway islands Casey’s account of “A Field Day at Wake Island”; a description of a “bull session” aboard a destroyer; th account of a convoy on its way to Murmansk, and story of the U. 8. S. Boise, a light cruiser which in’ ft furious minutes poured more than 1000 shells from’ her five and six-inch guns into two Jap heavy cruisers, one light cruiser and three destroyers—and s: them. “The Navy Reader” contains 36 fine and excitir photographs, many clearly-drawn maps, a descripti of the various types of naval craft and a gloss of nayy terms and definitions ard slang. Bai a a - : i