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THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943
HE ALSO SERVES WHO QUITS PROMPTLY
HE best light-hearted crack of the week was Chester Davis’ remark on leaving Washington: “I lasted quick.” His three months as war food administrator set something of a record, not only in brevity of tenure, but also in the manner in which he cashed in his chips. He didn’t wait to be ushered out or kicked upstairs to some other meaningless job. After trying for three months to come to grips with the food problem, and finding that all the big decisions on |
food policies were being made by other men in other bureaus | while he was denied a place in the inner councils, Mr. Davis said “T° hell with it” and checked out. And in re- | gighing he set forth his reasons in clear language. The president seems not to have liked Mr. Davis’ blunt words, for he replied sharply that there had been a lack of teamwork on Mr. Davis’ part, and that when the food administrator and the price administrator disagreed on a policy they should be willing to accept the arbitration of the economic stabilizer. The fact is that even if the food administrator, the price administrator and the economic stabilizer all were | to agree, for instance, on the price of a food product, that agreed price couldn't remain frozen long, with the government pouring its borrowed billions into the people's pockets | and the people using their excess spending power to bid up the values of scarce products. »
= » UCH upward pressure on prices can be relieved only by draining surplus spending money through realistic taxa- | tion and borrowing. But fiscal policies are under the jurisdiction of the treasury department, and strangely enough | the economic stabilizer has no jurisdiction whatever over the secretary of the treasury. Well, anyway, we are glad to see that Mr. Roosevelt is going to give a better break to Marvin Jones, who is | Chester Davis’ successor. le has given Mr. Jones a place on the war mobilization committee and a place on the war production board, two seats of importance which he denied | to Mr. Davis. This means that Mr. Jones ean git at the | table where the big decisions are being made about farm machinery, manpower, fertilizer and price policies. Unfortunately it ig still true that price decisions won't be effective so long as Secretary Morgenthau operates on | the outside, with his special short-cut to the president's ear. But some progress has been made. Mr. Jones is going to have more tools to work with than My. Davis had. My. Davis apparently has accomplished more by resignifg than he did by serving.
WAR OF NERVES WAR of nerves they call it. Hitler ig jittery all right. Otherwise he wouldn't be predicting an allied invasion | first one place and then another, and changing the dates so frantically. One day his axis radio save the attack ig coming in Italy; the next day he is certain it will not be Italy but Greece; then he switches the forecast to Norway and back | to France and the low countries. Last week the day was | Wednesday. This week it is supposed to be Saturday, Fourth of July eve. But the purpose of this highly successful war of nerves ig not only to make Hitler fume and fret—agreeable as that is. 'The object is more realistic in military terms, It is to make him shuttle men and supplies when hig erippled transportation system needs repair, to make him pull troops away from the Russian front and the actual invasion fronts to guard places which need no protection, to spread thin. » ” s » ® » THE net effect is to immobilize many Nazi troops, in addition to those already required to police the interior of occupied countries, How large the figure is can only be guessed, but the Hitler-controlled Paris radio says there are 1,700,000 German troops spread from Norway to France to the Balkans. Not the least effective part of thig war of nerves is the guerrilla activity, In the possible invasion countries, guervillas are busy blowing up bridges, wrecking trains, firing warehouses, exploding ammunition dumps, sabotaging war production, raiding isolated Nazi military posts and killing high Nazi officers and officials. Specially trained native leaders have been landed by allied planes and parachutes to organize this “silent” war, and to prepare for local co-operation with the allied forces of liberation when invasion begins. These are not fifth columnists betraying their land, but patriots welcomed by the enslaved peoples. Hitler must face an allied offensive, perhaps several, and at the same time fight the hidden armies behind hig lines. No wonder he is nervous.
THE ALLIES GET A BREAK
ALLIED prospects are improving not only on the fighting fronts but algo on the crop fronts, The latter, though Jess spectacular, are hardly less important than the former, as Napoleon and so many generals have insisted. If that were not 80, the United States would not have spent go much of its precious shipping space in the last year for food for our allies—food in many cases taking priority over munitions. Latest crop reports carry relief to our allies and gloom to our enemies, department of agricultuve’s pessimistic forecast of a fort. night ago has been followed by a hopeful one. With our allies producing more food this year, and with fewer allied ships being sunk by U-boats, more men and munitions can be transported to the fighting fronts than
| gress has fought President Roosevelt.
| laws to congress, | never dictated to the president, except in the negative
| their leaders or bosses, | which more than any other, has been emphasized as
| Duten is up he is a stubborn fighter, fight congress nor should he affect stubbornness in
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By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, July 1.—Although recent actions of congress have been described as a rebellion of the legislature against the execiutive, and not to minimize the danger of a deadlock between them, the position of congress is misrepresented in this estimate. Congress has not rebelled but has merely reasserted its authority under the constitution and reassumed its responsibility, There should be no fight between the president and congress. There should be neither victor nor vanquished, and there will be neither unless Mr. Roosevelt insists on a conflict to a decision or a knockout instead of yielding to reasonable and peaceful adjustment. There are those who certainly would delight to see the president humiliated and thwarted at every turn, even though this would result in still worse confusion on the home front and deferred painful effects on the fighting front. On the other side of the econtroversy, there are many among the president's cover-to-cover political following who would have him fight congress without the slightest compromise, even though this course, too, obviously would cause the same harmful results.
'Must' Laws Not Forgotten
ON THE record it cannot be claimed that conOn the con-
| trary, congress has consistently yielded its function
and defaulted its duty. The day of the “must” legis-
| lation is not forgotten nor is it an exaggeration to
that for a long time the president did dictate Congress, on the contrary, has
say
sense in rejecting his eourt-packinhg program which was a cynical proposal made in & spirit of power, and in a few other rejections of proposals which amounted to commands. When has congress dictated to President Roosevelt? He got all his New Deal laws for the asking, some of them socialistic and abruptly contrary to the customs and traditional thought of the American people. He got his Wagher act, and it was showh later that he permitted the labor relations board to
be packed by the Communists who harassed and be- | deviled decent Americans, who happened to be em- |
ployers, in bitterly humiliating proceedings. Congress did “investigate” this persecution of reputable Americans, but even after the case had been proved against the board there was no gesture of amend or apology to the victims. Commiinist was quietly allowed to vanish from a commanding position with ho explanation as to how this enemy of the American government had been selected for a position of such power in the first place.
Labor Has Been Favored
LABOR, or unionism, has been the chief concern
| of President Roosevelt's government on the home | front since the New Deal began.
Unionism has been favored above all other elements in the vast Amer= fean community and to the detriment of other elements and legitimate interests, even though it has
| been demonstrated that the union movement is in= | fested with bad men
in positions of tremendous power,
Yet, repeatedly,
posals were up to place responsibility on unions and The ohe recent incident,
ah alarming rebellion by congress, was nothing mote
| defiant than an assertion at last by congress of its
right to pass a law to control internal menace. It is ho remedy to say that when the president's
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matters which are subject to adjustment and reason. There is nothing in the present situation that the president himself cannot cure by a change of attitude,
First Lady 'Disquieting'
IT WAS exasperating but not necessarily dangerous in time of peace to place over millions of Amer
| feans, and even over congress, euch men as Leon
Henderson and Harry Hopking whe had never been to the polls or stood public Inspection, And Mrs. Roosevelt's associations, activities and proposals were endurable in peace but in war ate seriously disquieting. Mrs, Roosevelt recently proposed one day that election campaighs be financed out of the public treasury and, a few days later, said that the domestic scene gave one a feeling that, as a whole, the people of the United States are not really prepared for democracy. Is it too great a sacrifice to ask, for the sake of internal solidarity, that for the duration of the war Mie: Roosevelt refrain from provocative association with controversial elements and from uttering such sentiments, considering that she partakes of the president's office and speaks ex eathedra? The quick passage of the Bmith-Connally bill over Mr. Roosevelt's veto was actually unimportant, What happened here? Congress merely performed a cohgressional duty according to the method prescribed in the constitution, The republic is ih a sorry state if this incident must be taken to mean that the president is knocked out and that the American government now has no chief executive in domestic affairs, there being no challenge anywhere to his conduct of the wat,
We the People By Ruth Millett
"GET BUSY and answer your letters,” Uncle Sam has told the soldiers who are out of the couns try. Uncle Bam isn't interested in teaching his nephews a fundamental rile of etiquette, that all letters should be nnswered promptly, He is just trying to stop the flood of letters that has been pouring in to him from an. lous mothers, wives and sweet hearts who want to know what is the matter with Johnny, who hasn't been heard from in weeks. What Johnny doesn't realize, obviously, is the vivid imaginations that the folks back home have, Johnny knows he is all right, at least for the time being. And #~ “Se doesn't see much reason for writing home just say so, He doesn't worry about himself or his safety and he can't understand that those who love hin worry almost constantly, He doesn't®now how a period without mall from him can get their imaginations working overtime,
'No News' Not Good
THEY ARE sure he is ill. Or that he is being moved. Or that he is on a fighting front
In wartime the old slogan "No newt is good news” |
is forgotten. If Uncle Sam can make Johnny understand that, he won't have to keep after him to make him write home more often. For Johnny doesn't want those who love him to sit around and worry, He just doesn't realize that if he goes without writing them for a few weeks that is what they are bound to do. He doesn't know that morale,
in wartime no news is hard on the
A notorious |
the president has dictated to | congress, not congress to the president, when pro- |
ished ‘em building material,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943
The Strategy of Anatomy!
Party Fund Bans By Charles T. Lucey
- — WASHINGTON, July 1-A new congressional struggle involve ing organised labor appeared in prospect today over an amends ment by Senator Oarl Hatch (D. N. M), which would write into permanent, law a ban on political contributions by labor groups and business associations. The Hatch amendment devels oped as a result of Section 0 of the Bmith«Connally anti-strike law, which laid down such a restriction on organized labot's political activities for the duration of the war, and six months thereafter. President Roosevelt, in his veto message, sald that the provision had no place in a war labor act— that if it had merit it should be permanent law, and that consideration should be given to extending the prohibition to other non-profit organizations
More Important to Labor Groups
BENATOR HATCH, sponsor of the Hateh election reform act, who previously had argued in the senate judiciary committee that this provision should not be in the labor bill, immediately introduced an amendment to the corrupt practices act to assure a balance by bringing employers’ associations under the ban. : But in doing this, the amendment also would make the labor-contributions ban permanent, And because the issue 18 much more important to labor groups than to Chambers of Commerce, boards of trade, manufacs turers’ groups and the like, that is where the fight is likely to center, Business and employers’ groups as such, according to politicians, generally do not contribute te cams paigns, although many of their members do ine dividually.
Called Unjust and Unfair
THIS IB one of the points organized labor makes In upholding its right to spend money as a group or unit in political eampaigna-that employers individe ually have means to contribute but that union memes bers haven't, In the joint A. F. of L.«0. I. O. statement opposing the Bmith-Connally bill, {t was contended that no
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—=Voltaire.
“YOICE OF EXPERIENCE ON VICTORY GARDEN" By R. B. Davis, 2438 EE. Washington st, Did I ever tell you about my victory garden? Now I khow what they mean when I read about the farm problem. I know all the
farmers’ problems. Well, just about | So far I've harvested mostly |
all blisters—and experience. The calloses, I am told, come along later. My radishes must have been flower seeds. Anyway they all bloomed. I dug them up and my wife had a mess of greens. I can see how people might eat greens
ing them, But, oh boy! My lettuce! the birds did enjoy the lettuce! put up strings to scare ‘em off and they carried off the strings for their nests. I not only fed ’em--1 furNow I'm looking for the guy who coined
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[the phrase “our feathered friends.”
” ” » “DON'T DISCOURAGE TROOPS BY BICKERING AT HOME" By W. H. Edwards, R. R. 2, Spencer
Those of tis who believe that important lessons in our present lives can be learned from careful study of ancient history see our homeland
drifting into the same confusion spell disunity, dangerous disunity? |!
engendered by greed that was the major case of the decline and final disintegration of the ancient Roman empire. The all-conquering legions Rome marched victoriously near all of the then-known world, sending back to their homeland
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coming from the national treasury | in the form of I. O, U's?
| prices that are already too high
raised still higher,
1 organized labor in a mood of near
[insurrection against government becatise { living.
We see farm organizations using but I can't understand anyone lik-| pressure on congress to have food |
cise the will power to do right, His adolescence yields too easily to temptation. The notion of suspending the law which reqtiires children to attend school untill they are 18 years of age and dropping the age limit to | 14 will be a grave mistake. | An education is an assential thing, Without it there will be no | hope at all toward correcting juvenile delinquency. i I am mote in favor of raising the | age limit to 18 and occupying their | sumer vacation with a law of compulsory military training for boys from 12 years of age to 18. If | [they complete their high school ed- |
Then we see ucatioh before they reach the age
18 the compulsory need of indus trial training in the NYA should be |
of the ever mounting cost of | considered. | Then we see big industrial
Buch measures would be benefi-
| concerns endangering the lives of cial to both the child and the pars |
our fighting forces by palming off ents.
defective oh the
war materials government, all for that private profit, the sacred so-called
| Incentive of individual initiative,
We gee, too, members of congress in each of the dominant parties “OFF AGAIN, ON
who, to all intents, are more inter(ested in the welfare of party than they are interested in the welfare of people and nation. Does all this [spell unity or does it not in fact
Do any of those who ate strugjgling on the home front for loot | coming from I. O. U's want to | change places with our men who are
of facing treacherous, brutal armies then quit work. over on the far-flung battle fronts of the |
| world? Let's back up our fighting forces with individual and mass
god of ture, and for a greater and stronger
While the child would be | preparing himself for a greater fii-
America, the parents would have | summer vacations, ” ” ” AGAIN, | GONE AGAIN” By James R. Meitzler, Attica Roosevelt created the war labor hoatd to hold the line against inflafon, preventing wages from becomsing inflationary. The coal miners demanded more wages, The WLB ‘ordered the mine owners not to comply. They obeyed; the miners
The government took over the property of the law-abiding mine | owners. The miners went back to
rich loot of every description. Rome | sacrifices, not discourage them by work, asked mote pay, were refused
waxed fat, so fat in fact that quarreling arose among officials about who should receive the choicest portions. Those quarrels caused a rapid disintegration of Roman government which spread to the citizenry of the empire. Official disintegration eoupled with the same disease among the citizens of the empire finally weakened the efficiency of Roman
armies, leaving the way wide open
for barbarian armies of the North to put the final blow to Roman ideals of conquest,
Shall we of these Uniied States!
then, forget the lessons of history and let the home front degenerate into a squabble over who of us shall get the front places at, not the loot sent back to us from foreign battle fields (for there isn't any nor there isn't going to be any) but the loot
out bickering among outselves, “ § 8 “AGAINST LOWERING AGE LIMIT ON EDUCATION” By A Forum Critie, Indianapolis I do not wish to discourage any (attempt to correct juvenile delinquency, but as one who is closely associated with a group of juveniles, I feel as if it is hopeless to try to
[correct some cases. ‘There are
|always some who ate incorrigible penalized by the overtime payment
and a bad influence to others,
There will always be the "“smart(aleck” type whose egotistical front has been developed by the biological | reactions of their unbalanced glans dular functioning. | The morals of a child dwell in his [own self. He may know right from ‘wrong but does not care to exers
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‘and again quit. Then they went | back to work until Oct. 31. “Off again, on again, gone again.” Tekes proposes to confiscate the property of the men who obeyed the government, Ickes says these work | stoppages may necessitate coal ra- | tioning next winter, If the mines were operated on a [48-hour week there would be plenty | of coal, But in that case the law|abiding mine owners would be holdup. | Here is a power, a power created by the president and congress, a power irresponsible and unregulated, a power that forced laborers |to pay tribute to its treasury or lose their jobs, a power that uses its money to elect submissive presi{dents and congressmen, a power that flouts the agencies of government, penalizes the consumer and sabotages our country's war effort. And when the representatives of the people attempt to regulate this | [power in the slightest degree, | Roosevelt vetoes the bill, ” ” ”
“FHOROUGHLY DISGUSTED
‘WITH THE MINERS" By J. B. Noel, Spencer Like Mr. Guy D. Sallee, I too feel sorry for the poor coal miners, but not in the same respect. 1 always have had a certain amount of sympathy for an ignorant person. As well as feeling sorry, I am thoroughly disgusted with the miners and John L. Poor devils, risking their lives for a paltry $7 to $10 per day while our sons, brothers and cousins are living a life of ease by sleeping in nice soft mudholes, and they are getting as much as one-half as much as they need to eat, only working from 10 to 24 hours per day and the only risk they face is a few million machine-gun bul lets and little old bombs, Boy, what a sweet setup. Heck, they do not need any guns, tanks, ships, planes or munitions, so why bother with producing coal to | manufacture these articles of war?
DAILY THOUGHTS
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether —Psalms 10:9. THERE 1s no virtue so truly great
similar political contributions restriction is placed on fraternal, church, farm ot other non-profit organiza tions, It was pointed out that wealthy individuals whose Income comes from corporation dividends (corporations themselves are forbidden to contribute) find ways of making their own contributions individ ually. “To permit these individuals to make political con« tributions and to deny the same right to organizations of workers is highly discriminatory, unjust and une fair,” the national labor organizations said,
In Washington By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, July 1.-<Re= member that potato shortage of a few weeks ago Well, it's a potato surplus now. And you're actually going to have to start eating Murs phies till they run out of your ears, just to save them. There are ace tually so many early potatoes coming out of the ground that it's a problem finding what to do with them to keep them from spoiling. The surplus may not have filtered down through the distributive channels of trade to reach every community in the land, but the department of agriculture prediction is that they will before long, so get ready for a potato feast to make up for that famine of last spring. As you recall, that shortage was caused by two things, First, a demand for more seed potatoes to increase the acreage and the yield for this year. Becond, bad weather and a late growing season in the south, which delayed arrival on the market of the first new potatoes. A potato biack market in which even the people who lived on the tenth floors of crowded apartment districts were signing phony certificates so they could pay exorbitant prices for seed potatoes—not to plant —but to eat, It was one of the disgraceful lows in wartime mob psychology.
Potatoes, Potatoes, Potatoes
ALL THOSE NEW early potatoes which didn't ar rive on the market when expected have now come to market-—late, From North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, potatoes by the carload are coming out of the ground, flooding the market and running right into the normal supply of early spuds being harvested on time from the next tier of states, Virginia to Kansas, Those early potatoes don't grow the thicker tougher skins that the later northern potatoes do, so they won't keep as well. Cold storage facilities for early potatoes are limited. Furthermore, these early potatoes aren't as suitable for drying or dehydrating or canning, though they can be handled in this way. War food administration has therefore come through with assurances that it will support the market, buying all surplus potatoes not taken up in regular trade channels at £2, more or less, per hun dred pounds,
Stuff Yourself on Spuds
HAVING BOUGHT up these surplus potatoes, the war food administration agencies will do everything they can to get them used. Shipments will be diverted to areas not receiving their proportionate supplies. Above all else, consumers will be asked to eat potatoes as they never ate potatoes before. Victory gardeners will be asked to refrain from digging their first, tender but immature little spuds, but to save
[ ‘em, let ‘em grow to full size in the ground and harvest
them late so as to help eat up this surplus, The moral of this potato tale, if any, is that you never can tell what fickle old mother nature is going to do, and all the agricultural economists, price ex perts, rationing lawyers and congressmen in the world can't control the weather or the growing season. What has happened in potatoes might happen on the beef situation. Right now, as you know, beef cattle aren't coming to market, They're being held on the ranges, and cattlemen are frankly worried about the dangers of overgrazing. If a dry spell should come along and the grass lands start to shrivel up, you might see the biggest stampede of range cattle toward market that this country ever experienced. You might even get some roast beef to go with your potatoes and make roast beef hash, It just goes fo show you what uncertainties these government regulations have to gamble with in trying to manage the war on the home front,
To the Point—
THE THEORY of too many apartment houses is that children should be seen and not had.
” ” ” FARMERS WHO have raised fine crops should be given sufficient harvesting help to saye them from having to raise a howl,
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