Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1943 — Page 10

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TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1943

ANOTHER FOOD ADMINISTRATOR ~ (CHESTER DAVIS quit his job as war food administrator for two good and sufficient reasons: ; 1. He found “that I have assumed public responsibility while the authority, not only over broad food policy, but day-to-day actions, is being exercised elsewhere.” 2. He could not advocate and defend the administration policy of roll-back price subsidies because “I do not believe such subsidies will be effective in controlling inflation unless they are accompanied here, as they are in England, by current tax and savings programs that drain off excess buying power, and by tight control and management of the food supply.” But are there any.reasons for believing that the new food administrator, Judge Marvin Jones, can do better? Not so long as he is fettered with the same lack of clear administrative authority. Not so long as the treasury’s pro-inflation policies make mockery of anti-inflation gestures and talk. There has been a lot of loose and confused talk about how much authority should be delegated to the food administrator.. The farm bloc in congress apparently wants to

give him all the powers—to let him dictate to selective

service how many men from the farms can be drafted, tell the WPB how many farm machines should be produced, and determine the prices of all food products without regard to other prices. Obviously that would not do. Food is important, but in total war it cannot be given priority over munitions or fighting or the board considerations of the nation’s economy,

” 8 2 2 Ed ” HE man who is responsible for feeding our fighting men, civilians and allies does have, however, the right to demand that the requirements of the food program in manpower, machinery, fertilizer, price policies, etc., be given full weight by those who make the over-all war mobilization decisions. And that has not been done in the past. Farmer’s sons and farm workers were drafted into the army for months without any consideration given to how ‘much help was needed to raise corn and milk cows. The WPB slashed the production of farm machinery without regard to the consequences in food production. OPA’s professors and lawyers went about fixing food prices at retail and wholesale levels and drawing up their crazy regulations for the food processors and distributors, not caring what the food administrator thought. And all the while Mr. Wickard, and later Mr. Davis,

were trying to do their jobs under broad, generalized direc-

tives from the president holding them responsible for the production of food. Which is why Mr. Wickard and Mx. Davis failed, and which is why Mr. Jones will fail too, unless he gets a better break.

” ” ” 2 o o S a substitute for a real war cabinet, the president a month ago created the office of war mobilization, under To serve on the war mobilization committee, as a sort of general staff for Director Byrnes on home-front problems, the president named War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Knox, WPB Chief Nelson, Economic Stabilizer Vinson and Harry Hopkins ' (what

_ Harry is doing in that high command, we don’t pretend to

understand). As a constructive criticism, we suggest to the president that he also give the food administrator a place on this war mobilization committee. He can’t expect Mr. Jones to succeed in his difficult task unless he is given a seat at the top council table in the war effort. If Mr. Jones has to sit below the salt—as Mr. Wickard and Mr. Davis did—he’s going to get, as they did, only what is left after the other have speared the platter clean. °

PURDUE’S LOSS

URDUE university this week mourned the almost simultaneous loss of three of the men who have contributed most heavily to the building of its firm place among the great universities of the world. The loss was

‘not alone Purdue’s. All three were distinguished citizens

of Indiana, men whose achievements during long and bril-

liant careers had earned for them far more than local |

‘recognition in their respective fields. David E. Ross, once described by an Indiana governor

‘as “Indiana’s No. 1 Citizen,” had devoted much of his time

.and millions of his fortune to the welfare of the university which gave him his professional training, had continued

in spite of advancing age as the active head of the univer-

sity’s board of trustees until his final illness. There can hardly be a more fitting tribute than that written by Ernie Pyle a few years ago that “he was one of those few capable people in the world who make almost a profession

"out of elevating other people . . . he was all wool, without

embroidery.”

8 ” un ’ ” 2 ” R. STANLEY E. COULTER, emeritus dean of men, ~~ had been identified with Purdue for more than 55 years, although technically retired since 1926. An authoritative writer in the field of biological science, he had published an imposing array of scientific material. Nevertheless he found time to take an active part in Indiana’s

Gilbert A. Yours, an alumnus and a profosser at Purdue, had been head of the school of mechanical engineering

8 ago. He, too, was an authority in certain fields of ineering and prominent in the work of national engineer-

-societies. He was a devotee of sports, a noted golfer] comes from earning her own mon

served as chairman of the university’ s faculty com- |

e on athletics.

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great gall, lg pois vo tice Hie Shess.

To a very large degree the stature of a university is nined by the caliber of its professors and its alumni.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, June 29.—-Presi-dent Roosevelt was right in disapproving the Smith-Connally bill but wrong in his reasons for doing so. : : The bill, now a law, passed over his veto quickly and obviously in anger, has only to recommend it that it is the first challenge by the United States senate to the outrageous conduct of unions in

peace or war and the dangerous |

paternal relationship of the nation’s, government to

an utterly irresponsible sfib-government which has |

been given the power to levy taxes against millions of individual citizens, collect duties on interstate commerce, to engage, literally, in highway robbery and extortions and to pronounce the economic death penalty on workers who defy its rule. . This is the first time that the senate has enacted

any law to curb the power of the unions since the |

New Deal began. The house had passed two bills, but they were killed in the senate at the president’s request, without debate on the floor.

Fails to Reach Root of Evil

NEVERTHELESS, the Smith-Connally law is a bad and slovenly law because it does not go to the root of the evil arising from uncontrolled unionism mostly under the direction of tyrants including many vicious criminals who should be, in prison and many political enemies of the free American form of government. The law is intended as an emergency war measure and there is no doubt that the emergency does call for some strict legal prohibiton aigainst strikes ene forced by penalties against those who promote strikes and those who by violence or other intimidation prevent loval citizens from doing their war work. But the Smith-Connally law cannot achieve that purpose for it sets up a method by which strikes in wartime may be made legal, President Roosevelt's own attitude toward ‘the lawlessness of union conduct in time of peace is plainly indicated not only by the record and the attitude of his government prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor but by a phrase in his veto message. “It is clearly the will of the American people that for the duration of the war, all labor disputes be settled by orderly procedures, established by law.”

An Open Admission From President?

THERE YOU HAVE the problem. Why should such disputes be settled by orderly

procedures, established by law, only in this time of war? Why shouldn't unions be required, along with the rest of the community, to follow orderly, legal procedure at all times?

This passage amounts to an open admission from the president of the United States that in times of peace unions should have not done so, not that the world has any need of such an admission from any quarter to confirm a notorious fact, and of his belief that when peace comes they should again be given permission to settle their disputes by disorderly methods not forbidden by law. The New Deal labor or union policy has been good in that it has forbidden employers to use violence against strikers and to hound men for Joining unions. But it has pointedly refused and has defeated efforts by congress to provide that unions also must face penalties for violence whether against workers or the property of persons of employers and that union terrorists be punished for brutalities against workers who refuse to join.

Sub-Government Getting Out of Hand

THE LABOR or union policy of the national government has been consistently hostile to all American employers as though they were citizens of an inferior grade not entitled to the full rights of citizenship, although the employer group must exist in any ‘capitalistic nation, and has actively and positively favored union rulers who were notoriously evil even by the admission of their colleagues in unionism.

The Smith-Connally law.does nothing to correct that lopsided condition and its provision against political contributions, limited to the duration of the war, is a weak restriction which betrays the confused and irresolute mind of congress in dealing with the great menace of bad unionism. That restriction originally was intended to apply in peace as well as in war, but it got mixed up in the debate on the Connally bill and was trimmed down to the duration. Congress had better act. This sub-government is getting out of hand. It has defied and ridden down local and state government many times and finally John L. Lewis, acting strictly within the rights conferred on him by the New Deal and in the absence of any law from congress to curb him, has been able to defy the national government and close the furnaces which produce the steel to make the weapons that American men need to fight the Nazi and the Jap.

We the People By Ruth Millett

AS SOON as school was out she told her mother she wanted to get a job. She is only 14, so her mother didn’t think it would be a good idea to let her get 8 job downtown. Instead she made this suggestion: “There are hundreds of service men’s wives in town, who have small children and no help. Why don’t you go into the baby tending business?” It didn’t sound like a real job to the girl until her mother said: “We'll get you an appointment book, and you can make appointments a week or two in advance. You'll work on the same kind of schedule as a photographer’s model. . It will be good business training for you, and it will also teach you an awful lot about handling children.” The girl took her mother up on the idea, and she is busy every minute she has set as “working time.”

Gets Vital Points

SHE IS HER own boss, running her own little business. Because she has an appointment book and keeps track of her earnings she doesn’t feel like just another school kid who minds babies for so much an hour. From going into dozens of houses she is learning how different women manage their homes, and she is figuring out how she will run her own home when she has one. She knows it won't be like Mrs. Brown, who is always in a dither. She knows, too, mistakes she isn't going to make in bringing up her own children. She can see the results of those mistakes—when the children are left in her care. So her summer’s work is really teaching her something, and giving her a feling of independence that

Her mother is so much smarter "than mothers who let young girls take jobs against their better judgment,

just because the kids are determined to work, or Who :

say flatly, “You're too young. to ork plenty. of time for that when

If work you can

The Hoosier Forum

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

“INDIANAPOLIS, CITY OF CULTURE AND LIGHT” By A. H. Berman, 2841 N. Delaware st.

By way of an obituary notice. Unmourned and unwept, a theatrical enterprise of consequence has departed from our midst. The Theater guild has dropped Indianapolis frm the circuit, presumably for lack of patronage.

Apparently the local theatergoing public is not as numerous or as interested in adult theatrical fare as they are in the neighboring towns— Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville— where the Theater guild continues its half-weekly stand. Indianapolis, the city of culture and light. 8 8 » “WE CAN TAKE IT ON CHIN, WHY CAN'T MINERS?”

N. ®l067. ‘Camp Ban Luis Obispo, Calitornia. I was just reading about the coal miners’ strike . . . and I, along with the rest of my detachment, think very little of the men who go out on strike when everything we hold dear to us is at stake, I, along with millions more, gave up good jobs to come into the army. We're taking it on the chin, why oat they? : If they could only see some of the boys coming into our station hospital I think they would change their minds, hecause some of these boys may be their own boy. I hope they wake up before it’s too late,

2 a un “BOYS AT FRONT WANT

MORE LETTERS FROM HOME” By Sgt. Thomas M. Wilkerson and Pfc. Noble H. Midkiff, Hgs. Co., 70lst Tank Destr.; A. P. 0. 251, New York, N, Y. We have been getting your newspaper, and we want you to know how happy we are to read about the local news from home, the people we used to know and the activities of the old home town. The Tunisian campaign Is over now and we are allowed to state that we have seen and gone through four battles before the Nazis were finally beaten in Africa. We are prepared to go through any that may come our way in order that the United States and its citizens may never have to experience -the bombings and ruins of war which we have seen in the cities of Tunisia. The one thing we would like more

(Times readers are invited to express their these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 Letters be

views in

words. must

signed.)

than anything else which is practical just now is to get more letters from the people back home so that we don’t lose touch with our friends and neighbors. Therefore, we'd like to make the offer to anyone who would like to write, that we give them the address of three other boys Lif they will pass these on to three of their friends and so on. Many thanks for your kind attention. a 2 ® “SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY AGAINST FIELD” By Chas. Ginsberg, state sec’y., Socialist Labor party, 2201 N. Keystone ave. Mr. Daacke: I may have “been asleep at the

switch for the past year” but I haven’t been asleep about what has been published under the names of some who called ghemselves Socialists, which is anything but socialism. Whenever an attack is made by a true Socialist against the false doctrines of socialism the falsifiers have always cried out, “He should save his ability and energy to attack the system of opposition, in stead of spending them criticizing a group that is in the field for the same purpose as his own—. . . .” - If this “group” was in the field for the same purpose as the Socialist Labor party, why did they organize the Socialist party? They should have aligned themselves with the former. For many years the Socialist party poked fun at the'S. L. P. for its small numbers. What has become of the 900,000 and odd votes cast for Debs some 30 years ago? Or to bring it up to date, what has become of the Socialist party? It has been an the rocks for several years, and a national convention called last year, an off year for ‘a national election, revealed that the party was split ‘into several hostjle groups, If it had been a true party of social-

Side Glances—By Galorsith

“ can't think of auything else

/ 629 hese do but You ‘and banana

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ism such a condition would not|

exist; they would have one understanding and one platform and program the country over. The names of the world’s greatest contributors to the science of socialism are practically unknown. , . . I have heard them on no few occasions say that Marx may have been right in his days but wrong now. Mr. Daacke, the Socialist Labor party .never withholds a blow at an error and never compromises a truth to make a friend. It is always alert and watching. Its members are not so stupid as to accept everything labeled labor to be genuine. Some of the biggest fakes are labeled socialism and industrial unionism. Paraphrasing Daniel DeLeon’s warning of several years ago that with movements it is as with the alphabet—without the alphabet there can be no good literature; but the alphabet may also furnish vulgar words. There are a great many members

and sympathizers of the Socialist|

party that are honest but misinformed and misguided. Had the leaders been honest and true Social-

ists and not opportunistic reformers| there would have been but one party |

of socialism in this country. It is the Socialist Labor party against the field, or, the field against the Socialist Labor party, whichever

you prefer to call it, until we have socialism, ” ” ”

“ONE OF MOST TIMELY AND VITAL DISCUSSIONS” By Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th st. It is my opinion that the long debate — “Americanism vs. Socialism”—has been and is one of the most timely, important and vital discussions ever brought before the

people of this nation! It means liberty or slavery! Right here in the Hoosier Forum, through the wisdom and fairness of .., Times editors , . , we, the people, have been permitted freedom of the press to publicly declare and discuss the question of whether we prefer to g0 on in the American way—the way of constitutional liberty under law, or scrap our whole system, political, economic and religious, and embrace and extend to this last and first citadel of real freedom for the individual and totalitarian regimentation of an alien ism—Marx-ism-Socialism! There is no use for Socialists to rave and lie and ridicule, nor attempt. to smear me or Pegler or anybody else who lays the plain truth before the American people! “We, the people of the United States,” that is the great majority —all patriotic, loyal Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, are firmly united on this one vital issue: We, the people of the United States, are highly resolved to protect, defend, preserve and perpetuate for ourselves and our posterity the precious heritage bought by the blood of .our forefathers, grandsons and noble American women, and for which today precious American blood is

being offered up on the altar of}

sacrificial service to our beloved land of liberty! And I know, as did Patrick Henry, that “There is a just God | who presides over the destinies of nations” and “He will raise up friends to help us!” It is my whole aim, desire and purpose to serve God and country to the very best of my ability! God bless and save America!

DAILY THOUGHTS

How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.—Lamentations 4:1.

IF YOUR riches are yours, why

don’t you take them with you to| worth

5 Other Outfits Training

NYA Squabble

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, June 29.—8en~ ator Harry 8. Truman (D. ‘ who as chairman of a a investigating war expenditures has tried to encourage some seme blance of thrift, is operating in reverse today by trying to Testors $47,000,000 for NYA. Both the senate and house ape propriations committees knocked out the NYA wartime request and gave this pre-war youth outfit $3,000,000 to liquidate. Although Senator Kenneth D. McKellar (D. Tenn.),

acting appropriations committee chairman, had been

quoted as saying NYA wasn't “worth two-bits,”. Sene’ ator Truman pleaded for its continuance on the grounds that some senators like. what NYA is Solng in their, states, Since Rep. Albert J. Engel (R. Mich.), who was instrumental in halting NYA in the house, proved by war manpower commission estimates that there will be 7,500,000 federal trainees (exclusive of NYA) foe 3,500,000 wartime jobs, WMC Chairman Paul V, McNutt today came through with new esumates to support the NYA cause.

ISSUED BY OWI, the new figures give support to the adage that “the first law of bureaucracy is selfs perpetuation.” training courses will be needed for the fiscal year 1943-44, Pre-employment training (which NYA claims

They show that 10,000,000 federal

its specialty) is estimated for 1,300,000 ante

workers. NYA planned to drop the 16-t0-24 age provision and train unemployed as well as employed. workers up to 60 years of age. The McNutt statistics claim they trained 597,000 youths this year. But the WMC-OWI report also shows that if NYA is knocked out (as CCC was last year with & similar administration fight put up for it) MecNuts still will have five other outfits training young 5 old under the WMC bureau of training. . These include; 1. Apprentice training service. 2. Engineering, science, and management training. 3. Training within industry service, 4. Vocational training for war proe duction workers. 5. Vocational training for rural wag production workers, 3

Educators Get Warning

SOME COUNTY courthouse politicians have been, prevailed upon to send pleas to their congressmen and senators to keep NYA alive. Rep. Wesley EB, Disney (D. Okla.) made public a series of such petie tions from his state, La But all members of the National Education assoe ciation (now meeting in Indianapolis), American. Association of School Administrators and American Vocational association have been warned against any further extension of NYA in a joint letter signed by the executive secretaries. These officials are W, E. Givens, N.E. A.; L. H, Dennis, American Vocational association, and 8. By’ Shankland, American Association for School Admin. istrators. Their letter reads in part: “The public schools’ war production training proe gram can absorb the trainies of NYA and thus save for genuine war purposes the tremendous sums Bowe spent by the NYA federally controlled and opera! education system. “We are now face to face with the issue of establishment of a federalized system of public edue cation with no state or local control.”

In Washington

By Peter Edson

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WASHINGTON, June 290. Without much fanfare the bottle neck breakers have, in recent months, been doing a large-sized job of reconversion of American industry engaged in war produce tion. It isn't the reconversion of industry from the production of war materials top production of civilian consumer goods which, some dealers and manufacturers have been agitating. That's still

| not in the cards for a while. This other reconversion

involves the shifting of contracts from one plant to another to increase production, the stepping up of sub-contracting, the utilization of every idle tool and every idle plant and along with it, a definite halt in the construction of new factories and manufacturing facilities unless it can be proved that such new mane ufacturing it absolutely necessary. All these moves emphasize the fact that was proe duction is now limited to supplying the most critical war materials, but they do not indicate that any lete down in war production is impending. Spark plug for this shifting about of war produce tion has been a staff of 25 engineers in the facilities. bureau of WPB. They do most of the research and spade work, though the actual shifting of contracts is made by army, navy, maritime commission and other procurement agencies. Scope of the work can be. indicated by a few of the intricate industrial plays. these bottleneck boys in the backlog-breaking departs

ments of WPB have been up to, through rescheduling

of contracts.

Idle Tools Found

WHEN THE NAVY had a new job for heavy boring mills, the search for idle tools disclosed 11 of the type -

needed in Rochester, 14 in Cleveland, six in Warren, go

O.,, and four in New Hampshire. Instead of letting contract to manufacture 35 new mills, the job was split up so that the 35 idle tools could be put to work, A vacuum cleaner company which had a contract for making 8500 plane turret motors, was turning them out at the rate of 1500 a month. Examination: of the plant facilities disclosed, however, that this’ company could make 10,000 a month, So contracts were taken away from other firms making the same motor, and these other plants were put to work other work for which they were better suited. Sometimes it is discovered that there are needed worse than big guns. . Mesta Machine Wo at Pittsburgh, for instance, had a contract for 16-in naval guns deferred so that it could get onto m six aluminum extrusion presses for a mill that was turn out four million pounds of aluminum shapes t year.

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Plant Swapping

ENTIRE PLANTS have on some cceasions | 6 swapped by companies to speed up war produ t When the navy wanted a manufacturing plant =» an airport from which Vultee torpedo bombers ¢ .be built and tested, it was found that a Mack : ufacturing Co. works filled the bill of requirements, The Mack company was already making Aor vehicles, but a deal was started whereby Mack 1 lease space in five other plants so it could I own plant to the aircraftmaker. All kinds of unused buildings have been put to tory uses. A. O. Smith Corp. of Milwaukee,

]a contract for. 10,000 propellers, found space in

buildings on a state fair grounds, and moved in." Emgrgeney. feconberaions.of this 1ype are § d

strating to an amazing degree the extreme fi

of American industry and its ability to do “impe jobs. Backlogs are eliminated by these shifts, | necks broken, labor tightness relieved by mov plants into less critical labor areas. In the big. nance cutback of last fall, $5. billions. worth

Se.