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SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1943

1776-1863-1943

|F IGHTSCORE and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Mail rates in Indiana,

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK. July 3.—Pals. I]

am taking off the whiskers because I wouldn't fool you any more about this guess of where a fellow stands if he isn't doing essential war work. I don't know and I doubt that Paul MeNutt knows, himself. Paul has his duties and powers, Jimmy Byrnes has a piece of it and the president has some vague, but apparently mighty special, authority derived

from some act of congress but, recoghizing all this, | |

| where are we at, anyway?

Last winter, McNutt issued a list of occupations |

including that of lavatory man in a night club, which

| were held to be non-essential, the idea being that all persons so emploved had better go into war work

| or the armed forces.

There were several fast develop-

| ments between September of last year and last March,

Now we are engaged in a great world war, testing |

whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. Portions of the great.battlefields of that war have been already dedicated as final resting places of those who there gave their lives that that

nation might live, and other portions of other fields will |

Jater be so dedicated. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—that ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled there, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did there. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought there have thus far go nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the

dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain— that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

CHARGE IT AGAINST TOMORROW

OE JONES flies a bomber over Germany. landed with the shock troops on Rendova. is on a submarine, somewhere out toward Tokyo. They are fighting this war—they and two million others like them.

Bill Smith

That isn’t enough. They are going to help you pay for the pound of butter you bought at the grocery this morning, besides. Partly that's what President food subsidies in congress meant yesterday. butter will come down five cents. The government pay the five cents, with borrowed money. That will “save” you 60 cents a vear now, to be paid back, plus 15 cents interest, ten yvearz from now—when Tom and Joe and Bill are home from the war to help pay, out of what they can earn at their jobs then—if they have jobs.

Wosevelt's victory on The price of will

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T is to apply to meat, too, and to coffee, and if the leaders

| what order.

Tom Brown |

which went by so quickly that nobody could analyze

them, compare them to the laws as they are popularly |

understood and relate them to each other,

Like Trying to Score Assists .

I AM REMINDED of my own confusion in trying to score the assists in those run-down plays between third and home in world series games when I was young and gay, or some of those Pop Warner sletght-of-hand jobs in which everyone, including the dean, the janitor and the old man, himself, seemed to handle the ball. Then it sailed out of the mob and plopped for another touchdown into the arms of an end or back, who, under cover of the confusion, had planted himself in the end zone. In the

little task was to report, infallibly for the historical record, just who had handled the ball and in just We were supposed to do about the same on those Warner things, but either I was the dumbest one or the only honest one in the press coop because those jams were always who-dunnits to me, and I would settle on my own arbitrary version and stick to it. But this is a little more serious, although I must admit that the reading public was pretty grim about

great task remaining before us—that from those honored |S News of the tremendous trivialities of sport and

sent me plenty of “dear sir, you eur” letters challenging my misrepresentation of lightning incidents which individuals had seen distinctly otherwise with their own eves,

Impromptu as a Pin-Show

THIS IS heavy business. People want to know where they stand and how come, and vet it seems that nobody does because it is all done impromptu like a pin-show in the attic on a rainy day, and there

| seems to be no effort to make it make sense but just

an intent to bull it through by bluff and threat.

They say, all right, you get out of your non-essen-

tial job and get into, say, a factory, but then some louse stands at the factory gate, with old Sam standing back of him, who tells you to get up as many

bucks as he takes it into his head to demand of you

| and submit to a private system of government com-

plete with fines and vou appeal to Sam to give him | | worth

a little push to one side, and Sam calls you a slacker.

| He doesn't say ves or no about the proposition but

lets him get away with the stickup just the same. You want to put up a serap for a showdown decision but you figure that, after all, why should vou be the patsy for the whole lot of men in your status and mavbe get pushed, anyway, so vou decide to skip it and pay the gorilla, and when you get home at

| night you read in the paper that this ape. who may

have a prison record or mavbe wasted x-million man |

hours of absolutely vital production of shooting weapons with a Communist strike, has been deferred by

| the same draft board that is threatening to put the | shatch on you, on the ground that in shaking you

down for ransom tp keep you out of uniform, he is

| performing essential war duties,

rundowns, sometimes the whole ball elub | would get implicated in the putout, and our simple |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

His Whipping Boy!

EN Sr MEI I 1 HO aR

SATURDAY, JULY 38, 1043

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, July 3--That

cial security board carries on in ity! effort to put the states out of what

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they consider “their business” is still going full blast and ig cone tributing nothing but increased confusion and animosity to the greater war eftort, according to a Hooeier visitor here, He is Fred R. Bechdolt, chief counsel for the Indiana employs ment security division. And he came here on orders from Director Everett L. Gardner, division head, to attend a meeting of the executive committee of the state directors’ association. Putpose of the meeting ig to see that the sum for unemployment compensation administration in the states, which was cut in the house and restored in the senate, is retained. But also Mr, Bechdolt it having conferences with SSB officials to tell them what Col. Gardner thinks of their federal formula to “straitsjacket and hams string” state operations in the unemployment field,

SSB Fights State Program

IT LONG has been: an objective of 88B, backed by Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt, te put the states out of the unemployment compensas tion business and grab the funds they have piied

up through collectiong from local manufacturers and businessmen, Thus far the states have won the war still goes on, Mr. Bechdolt pointed out that the SSB effort te demand administrative efficiency in state organizas: tions and then curtail funds to make such efficiancy impossible merely is “part of the plan." To show that SSB isn't particularly interested in faving, as such, he pointed out that as soon ag they took over complete control of the employment service (through a presidential directive taking all eontrol away from the states) personnel and other costs ine creased,

Federal Pay Scale Highest

"THE FEDERAL pay seale makes it almost iniposs sible for stetes to get help, since staff men ean meke more and do less by transferring te the federal jobs," Mr. Bechdolt explained. Col. Gardner ig a regular member of the execus tive committee of the state directors’ association, He armed Mr, Bechdolt with a scathing letter to presents

the battles, bus

to SSB officialdom. It deals with the formula for

| budget review which ig rigidly applied to all states

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly defend to

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

which of an inch and four vears ago lost three fingers on

for

“WHY NOT HIRE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE?” |

By R. 0. ©, Indianapolis I would like to put but doubt

nickel's | will

in, if you

print it,

I'm a man 50 years of age. 1

had infantile paralysis when a baby

left my leg short about 2

hand. tell

the left

Now my point is, they you

that they hire handicapped people.

But when you go to the plants to

get work they tell vou that vou

lean’'t pass the physical, but at the : a wor same time holler their heads off done. Bootlegging, with all its cor-

manpower,

I'm a 100 per cent American,

| the same in all movements of this type, although =ome are merely started to satisfy the egotism of some individual who prefers to be a big fish in a small puddle, com‘pared to being just a fish among [many in a large puddle. Who is to ba the judge as to which is the] proper or correct method of many, when we are all striving for the same goal? All have made their influence I felt, to a more or less degree, in “moulding the action of legislators to be the benefit of all humanity, even as minority groups. What this or that individual says or does has no particular bearing on the case. Deliberations in convention by any group with the resultant program, platform or declaration of principle are the matter that shows definitely |

(Times readers are invited

to express their views in these columns, religious con- . J troversies excluded. Because

lets 250 be

he volume received,

be limited

of ters must to

words. Letters must

if it

could

the earth,

be wonderful off the face but the prohibition demonstrated that it

would blown experiment

cannot be

ruption and vice to an even greater

degree took the place of so-called

what they stand for and is the thing |

and leaves Indiana short about $27,000 for efficient operation the letter stated. “There i& no discernible relationship between the need of an agency for funds for proper adminis« tration and the results shown by the formula,” Col. Gardner wrote, “We are strongly of the opinion that proper and efficient administration cannot be determined by a mathematical formula placed into effect by Washes ington theoriste who seemingly have no Interest in the actual operations and budgetary need of state agencies, “Your present conception of budgetary review is the most fallacious and unsound theory yet emanate ing from Washington,"

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 3-—-Ware

time legal war has been declared by the U, 8, department of justice against international cartels — agreements of big business trusts to control world production and

perpetual warfare which the so«

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Loses Track of Directives bought bonds when I could and is to judge them by, | As far as the Socialist Party of America being on the rocks, it's no | news to a Socialist, who has carried on in his own small way and has

spread the gospel of Socialist phil-

divide up world markets so as to maintain monopolies and high prices and eliminate competition, Return of an indictment against National Lead Co. and E. I. Due Pont de Nemours & Co. charge

of certain labor unions get their way, eventually to all | the food vou buy. To the labor leaders who demand this | of the president, it means a blanket increase in pay— and the bigger the subsidy the greater the increase.

port and I know they can't get! Certain people are bound to out and work at their ages. have their liquor. They will have

| Bo it you are so badly in need it by hook or crook, in spite of

THERE HAVE been so many of these off-the-end-of-the-tongue orders and directives that I, who am | supposed to make a business of remembering and understanding them, can't even remember how many there were. I don't know the extent of the president's

It is exactly the same as if the government added the

amount of the subsidy to every pay envelope every week. |

An increase in pay means more inflation—the President himself has said so again and again as he exhorted us to “hold the line” against it. In congress 228 repre-

sensatives took him at his word, and voted against this |

subsidy subterfuge, to only 154 who were for it—but that wasn't enough to override a veto. So everybody in America, rich and poor alike, goes on the dole. At the moment when our incomes are the biggest any people of any nation have ever drawn since the dawn of history, the government begins to borrow money to help pay our grocery bills,

Civilians too selfish to cut their living standards just a

little in wartime will get a tiny, temporary personal gain | | oF

out of this. Civilians and soldiers alike will pay for it— with interest

jobs are fewer than they are today.

GRAND JURY ACTION

special powers for the period of the war h y or | : ; ! ae Ere (of manpower, why not hire handi-

lcapped people America most of the cripples would shoulder | guns

Undoubtedly there is need for a certain degree | Ente

what authority McNutt and Byrnes possess or whether they got it from congress on a forward pass from the president or whether he had any real, legal right to take the position that small, private business such as a cigar store is a legitimate casualty of the war.

of quick, arbitrary authority in government in this war, because there isn't time to run to congress for a law every time the quartermaster needs a can of

| beans or some individual with the disposition of a

guard-heuse lawyer wants to see the letter of the law covering some minute problem of his own,

that as

and no

prove shows favoritism,

and fight if given half a

“BOOTLEGGING WORSE THAN LEGAL LIQUOR”

By George Britten, Indianapolis

Mrs, Bernice Harris wishes an

laws or police officers. It is not a question of whether liquor is bad and demoralizing. To that we can all agree, but the question is “What is the best way of handling a great evil?” I hope that legal liquor does not become too scarce so that bootleg racketeers will again have a chance to bring back a gangster world with its poison alcohol.

But here we are wasting men by the thousands |answer to her letter in The Times “SOCIALIST MOVEMENT in slow-down and fake-work systems and strikes. and as to why liquor is not being ra- CONTINUES ON COURSE" there is McNutt hollering for men and threatening | tioned people who are still setting pins in bowling alleys in- | stead of riveting planes or Jeeps, and you ean read

the selective service act and find nothing in there | | paratively speaking, now as aganist When I read that egotistical six months ago. It is being rationed

about such alternatives and if you ask your lawver your zongressman just how about it and under

| what law, you get no answer for an answer,

along in 1953 when wages are lower and |

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RAND jury indictments in the Sunnyside food scandal By Ruth Millett

and jurors’ recommendations for more business-like | handling of county purchases this week may very well be |

the first step toward eliminating the slip-shod methods that have been used heretofore.

The jury's true bills simply charge that certain food | dealers sold meat and eggs of a specified grade to the county, delivered a poorer grade, but collected pay for the higher. |

More important than the charges, however, is the revelation they contain that the county had no system for checking on these deliveries, and that the county responsible for proper spending of public moné¥ either didn’t know, or didn’t care, whether the county was getting what it paid for,

Prosecutor

looking obstacles, to push this inquiry through te the present point. It is encouraging to note that they do not intend it to end here, and that they now propose to lay before the new grand jury the sorry story of Julietta (where a $260,000 building has cost $500,000 and still isn’t finished) and quite a few other items of county business.

TAPERING OFF MBASSADOR WINANT, in London, reveals that two million Americans have been sent to fighting zones in 1R months—a lot, but no more than we transported overseas in a similar period in world war I. Then bur men under

arms did not reach 5,000,000; now they surpass &000,000. | is why, George, you are the head of the house.

© This might have something to do with Secretary StimBon's concession that the war department is studying the desirability of tapering off the induction of new trainees, If we can’t use them in uniform, we surely need them on 5 Rr and in factories,

fumes ate

officials |

DO YOU ever wich, George, that you could little woman? Well, women are getting themselves understood these days, Not at home, to be sure, but in the factories where they work. For instance, the director of industrial relations for the Consolidated Vultee Aireraft Corp, says his company has discovered these things about women- since

{ it found itself with almost as many women employees

as men:

Women are slow at making decisions. Having to

| stop in the course of a routine job to make a de-

UB AAAS ! ‘Bye I Si Sherwood Blue and his staff overcame a | cision upsets them enough to Slow down their work.

great many obstacles, including a few very suspicious- |

(80 when the little woman says, “What do vou think I ought to do, George?” help her out. Don't Just mumble “Whatever you think is best, Dear” into the evening paper.) Emotionally, women are less stable than men. (So never mind her tears, George. Just be sympathetic and as patient as you can.) Women dislike open competition. (Your lesson is obvious there, George. Don't give the little woman any cause to feel that she is in open competition with another woman for your affection, admiration, or attention.)

Flatter 'Em, George WOMEN ARE especially appreciative of praise,

and work better under commendation than criticism.

(You can’t pile the praise on too thick, George.) Women are less self-assertive than men. And If the little woman ever to assert herself—you wouldn't have a

a lucky thing, for vou, too. decided chance.) Women resist monotony well, (Let's not make that one personal, George, After all, you do take the ‘ittle woman out to the movies once a week, which

shovs you mean

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understand the |

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interest is quite

It that

might liquor

her to know |

|earce, com-

right now and has been for some

time because the government has put a bau on capacity manufacture, Not being an essential commodity |

there is no retail rationing to in-|

dividuals as such, but there is much less liquor for sale per each individual. And that is good.

Liquor is bad and theoretically it!

Side Glances—By Galbraith

By H.W. Charles L P.t

Daacke, 1101 8, State ave,

Ginsberg, secretary, 8S

“holier than thou” or "mine is the only correct cult” ete. I am always amused, as it shows up what I have to deal with. The error he makes is when he alludes to the Socialist Party of America, failing to take into consideration the fact that it is a movement international in scope. The ultimate goal is practically

"Now | know he loves me, Mothar—I've inve:tigated! None of those girls who threw themselves at him when he worked at the

in ever hears from him

since he went h

| suggestion

| only assure Johnny of a job, but wiil prevent him from striking for

chance to do something for Johnny,

poe : knavery adds |

osophy ever since a group of Com-| munists gained control of the man-|

agement of the Socialist Party of America. But, the world-wide Socialist movement continues on its set course and will eventually do fits bit to bring about the economic change that we are all looking for- | ward to. In the meantime, we Socialists are willing to take concessions that benefit all humanity, al-| ways keeping in mind that ultimate

{ objective, that all radicals are striv- | ing for.

We don’t have much faith in the sky pilot that urges us to remain | meek here on earth and accept our reward in the hereafter, ¥ ¥ # "SOME METHODS FOR A ‘NEW AMERICA'"”

By GG. T ridian st,

Here are some methods by which we can obtain a “New America" for | Johnny Doughboy when he comes marching home: First, support Mrs. Roosevelt's for a national service act, so that Johnny's chil- | dren may get at training and education to offset the |

Fleming Roberts,

| evil influence of home, church, and

public and parochial schools, Second, re-elect an administra-|

dustry after the war, This will not

higher wages and will deprive him of the chance to become a wicked old millionaire like Henry Ford.

Third, rush through congress al never

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youth |

least a year's)

| tion whose social planners advocate German firms were able to escape government operation of private in-| oj1ts seized by

| resold,

ing them with participation in a world-wide conspirs acy with German, British, Italian and Japanese chemical companies for the control of titanium coms potinds used in paint, is just the first step in this campaign, Other cartels of similar character are now under Investigation and further indictments may be oxe pected from time to time, Assistant Atty, Gen, Tom C. Clark, who succeeded Thurman Arnold as head of the anti-trust division in the department of justice, hag set up a special cartel division under Herbert A. Berman of Newark, N. J, with the pure pose of serving notice on American business that their participation in post-war cartels will be prose« cuted under the Sherman anti-trust law,

How Cartels Helped Germans

TO MANY people, it may seem that all this is stratosphere stuff bevond their ken or interest, but it isn't so remote at that. As Tom Clark points out, the effect of all these agreements is to put a tax on the things you buy, and to restrict the rights of U, 8, companies not in the cartel from doing business on a freely competitive basis. What typical cartels did in the pre-war period was to give German companies trade monopolies in South American countries, freezing out American competi tion. The Germans were able to build up business contacts which were invaluable to their fifth column activities. When the war broke out, the German companies turned over their patents to American corporations which were partners in the cartel, and made arrange« ments for these American companies to supply the German dealers in trade territories reserved to the Germans, U, 8. companies paying the profits to the Germans, By assighing patents to U, 8. cartel members, the having their pate the alien property custodian and

Post-War Problem

WHAT THIS amounts to ie that even though Gers many were defeated on the field of battle, it would be defeated economically, for its business

cradle-to-grave social security pro-| coniracts would be continued during and after the war.

gram, because it is a well-known

tion of the Norden bombsight he hasnt sense enough to spend and | save his own money properly, Fourth, strengthen the bureaus cratic stranglehold so as to relieve Johnny of the burden of self-gov-ernment. Fifth, give F. D. R, a chance to make the peace because he demonstrated his peace-table patience so well at the London economic conference in 1033. Of course this won't be the America Johnny was sent around the globe to fight for, but now's our

And won't it be wonderful--maybe?

DAILY THOUGHTS

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?-—Jeremiah 17:0.

WE never deceive for a good pur e to false

The problem of controlling cartels in the post-war

| fact that while Johnny is smart world is one that is now receiving attention by gov | enough to learn the intricate opera- ernment thinkers,

Nearly all European and the Japanese governments are now cartel-minded, favors

| ing these monopolies. It is believed, however, that no | cartel could succeed if it did not have the co-opera«

tionn of American business. The only existing U. 8. controls over cartels are the Sherman anti«trust law and a new amendment to the reciprocal trade agreements act introduced by Congressman Charles 8. Dewey of Chicago, which gives the president permissory power to cancel a trade agreement if he finds that the operation of a cartel interferes.

To the Point—

IT'S THE bad lie that a golfer gets that sometimes makes him tell a good one,

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MAYBE THE early bird doesn't enjoy the worm as much as the late bird enjoys sleep. ;