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MONDAY, JULY 5, 1043

JEFFERSON ON FOOD

“Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap we should soon want bread.”

—THOMAS JEFFERSON.

» ” . Ld » » T was hard to find any meat to buy in Indianapolis stores last week, even with plenty of the red ration coupons which authorized a purchase, and that is true throughout most of the United States. There is a shortage of meat, due to the war. Or is there?

According to the United States department of agri-

culture there were 78,170,000 cattle on the fields of America |

on June 1, an increase of three millions in six months, and gome 11 millions more than the average before the war when we used to worry about an unmarketable surplus. The number of hogs increased by 13 millions last year and the department of agriculture estimates the increase this vear at 20 millions more. There are some 540 million chickens, or 14 per cent more than last year. » »

T is an easy explanation to say that the needs of our

” » soldiers and sailors and shipments to our allies cause | the shortages here but it is not a true explanation. Export reports reveal that shipments to our allies are negligible, and the wartime appetites of our fighting men would not increase the nation's need for meat by more than 2 or 3 per cent at most. The supply of beefsteaks and pork chops on the hoof is getting so large, in fact, that cattlemen are worried about | feed for them on their overloaded grazing ranges this | summer, especially if there should be a summer drought. This supply is increasing at what they call “an astoundingly dangerous rate.” Why, then, is it so hard to buy meat in Indianapolis? | The other evening Joe G. Montague, attorney for the | Southwestern Cattle Raisers association, speaking on the radio, said: “There is only one answer . . . the unintelligent imposi- | tions of poorly conceived theories in restrictive regulations | on slaughter, distribution and prices . . . we just don't know what to do, with bureaucratic control exercised by theorists and with a maze of regulations to comply with.” Or about what the author of the Declaration of Independence we are celebrating today told us would happen if we left our food to the direction of Washington,

HE MADE FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON

HE members of the national war labor board—repre- | sentatives of organized labor, of industry and of the public—gave a dinner in Washington the other night in | honor of one of their number who has resigned after many | months of service. He ig Roger D. Lapham, chairman of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. You hear much about bickering in Washington. the opportunities for bickering certainly must be plentiful on the NWLB, where fundamentally conflicting interests | meet head-on day after day. Mr. Lapham is a big employer and a man of strong convictions—an able representative of the industrial viewpoint. We venture to say he has had many a lively discussion with the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. officials who have been his fellow members of the board. Yet the dinner found these labor leaders eager to praise hig integrity and his open-minded fairness, and sincerely regretting his departure. We thought you might like to hear about one man who | has held an important wartime post in Washington and who apparently is leaving behind none but friends, even among those with whom he couldn't always agree.

And |

DESERVED PROMOTION TOWELL C. WASSON has written a typical American success story into his record with the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co. He went to work there as a

| thig action of our government.

| activity | the American government employs spies, as I sup-

| and

| the

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

IN 3 NEW YORK, July B8-—Max | LTT Danish, the editor of David Due | : binsky's house organ, a paper in which you may be sure the worthy president of the Intere national Ladies’ Garment Works ers’ union receives considerable mention and never gets the worst of anything, has sent me a little note and a copy of the July 1 jssue. ‘The note says he thinks I might be interested in a marked I'll sav IT am interested, and I think you might

item.

that this private, unofficial and irresponsible body is engaged in underground activity in axis Burope, finanacing this work with money arbitrarily taken from the members. Thig is the union which last fall compelled its candidate for governor by the

put up

fine of one dollar for failure to attend. No such meetings under such compulsion were held for either of the rival candidates and Dubinsky, who takes inordinate pride in the fact that he gives an accounting of the union's funds, admitted, when called, that the facts were as I have here stated them, but added that the boys weren't really serious about the fine,

'We Propose to Continue’

HOWEVER, WE can put that issue on the spike. What I want to deal with today is the union's assumption of a right to carry on espionage, sabotage and other underground activities in foreign countries. “Mr. Pegler is painfully upset,” savs the little piece in square guy Dubinsky's paper, “by the I. L. G. W. U's contribution from its war relief fund

be, too. for the item not merely admits but boasts |

members to turn out for a political rally for the | so-called | American Labor party which is American in name | only and European in character under penalty of a |

to underground movements fighting in their home- |

| lands. ious and cannot be accountable, That is really too bad. We suspect that the United States government is currently likewise doing a sizable amount of supporting Europe. “As consistent anti-Fascists, we heartily indorse In our modest way, we propose to continue with this good work so long

| as the war to exterminate Naziism lasts, Mr. Peg-

ler's displeasure notwithstanding."

Money Not Accounted For

LET'S TAKE this apart. It is admitted that the

| money used for such purposes cannot be accounted

for. The members can't even be sure that it is not used for enemy purposes because espionage is a subtle and tricky business, nor is there any way of proving to anyone that it isn't

| simply stolen somewhere along the line.

But I am concerned with the principle of this

and this union's contention that because

pose it does, then David Dubinsky and his private organization have a right to do the same. The fact that we are at war makes no difference. Espionage is government business in war and in peace, if a union builds up an international secret machine or joins one it certainly is not confining itself to the professed purpose of unions to protect workers’ interests in matters of wages, hours and conditions of employment. It is meddling in matters that should be the government’s business only and, moreover, there is no guarantee that the secret machine will just quietly dishand and quit operations when the war is over.

'U. S. Doesn't Need Help

IT WOULD have just as much right to carry on underground operations against some friendly government whose internal policies, say its attitude on unionism, displeased Mr. Dubinsky and his friends, most of whom have a continental Buropean background and continental revolutionary ideas. With all the money available to the government

| for such work it certainly is not necessary for Mr,

Dubinsky and his group to levy a tax on his members to augment the government's secret activities and there is always a possibility that the private

| operators will cross up the government's spies, even

with the best intentions, and tip off the enemy and possibly cost some lives. Nor have I ever read of any appeal by the United States government to any

| private group to raise money and hire agents to work

in foreign lands.

This thing gets pretty close to an assumption

| of the duties and powers of government in the con-

duct of military activities and international rela-

| | tions and the insinuation that anyone who objects to such an invasion of the government's field is pro- | | Nazi, | European wing of the New Deal, is not convincing

while it is nastv and characteristic of the

in the absence of any supporting evidence,

We the People

By Ruth Millett

IT IS a human reaction for a war wife, whose marriage has been happy, to hope that it will follow exactly the same pattern when her husband comes home from war. It is human—but foolish.

clerk with the ink barely dry on his high school diploma. He worked hard, studied his job and the job ahead of him, | and went steadily up the ladder to positions of greater and | greater responsibility. As head of the Indianapolis plant he improved its facilities and processes to the point where they were fully | yeady when the vastly increased load of war emergency

company should call him to a still larger field, as it now has done.

. ‘ | To his new post, and his new home, the good wishes of |

hig Indianapolis friends and associates go with him. But fn Indianapolis he is going to be missed. As a leader in the business and financial organization of this community, and an active and effective worker in virtually every movement for the welfare of his city, he filled a place in civic life for which it will not be easy to find a substitute.

PRESCRIPTION

OOKING toward the coming of peace and weighing eco- |

nomic portents, George T. Trundle Jr, Cleveland engineer, poses a pertinent question to his fellow industrialists: “Suppose you do wind up the war with only a hundred thousand dollars cash in your company treasury. What's the difference, if you have a product designed, on hand, and ready to sell to the post-war public? “Which would you rather have—a million dollars in the treasury and no customers—or a dollar in the treasury and a million customers ready and anxious to buy?” His prescription for the future: “Let's get set right now, today, so that the moment any of us are free from the obligations of war production we can step out with a plan, a product and a price; get under way, establish our markets, maintain and increase our employment; and

Sih

For both the husband and wife

period of separation. Their experiences, which never would have been duplicated in peace time, are

| bound to change them. So when they start married

life again, they will really be starting a new marriage

| —not picking up the threads of an old one and going right on weaving the same pattern.

production fell upon it. It was perhaps inevitable that his |

That shouldn't be a fact that a war wife refuses to face, or rebels against.

It should be a challenge.

If she and her husband achieved a happy marriage once, they can build a happy marriage again. If they are both changed people, they probably will be more adult, which should make their marriage better than ever,

Life Doesn't Stand Still

THE ONLY DANGER lies in their thinking that if it doesn't follow exactly the old pattern it will not be a happy. satisfactory relationship. That is the attitude a war wife must not take. For life doesn't stand still for two people who are separated. It moves—and in war time it moves at | terrific speed. The wife who shuts her eyes to that is asking for trouble. The wife who determines to become the kind of person who can adjust herself and her marriage to whatever the future brings will get along all right.

To the Point—

IT ISN'T what a married man says that counts. It's his wife's reply.

” ” ” WE READ that enemy countries are very tense these days. Slowly but surely, we'll change it to past tense. ” ” 2 YOU CAN cement friendship with the boss by advancing some concrete ideas for making money.

international |

Such donations, saves Mr. Pegler, are mystei- |

underground activities in Nazi-occupied |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Bet the Folks at Home Are Having a Big Time Today

MONDAY, JULY 5, 1943

Pacific Offensive

By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, July 8.—Don't

look for a quick and easy victory %

in the southwest Pacific. The’ initial success is not a sample of the hard fighting ahead. If the Japs run, this will be the first time, So it wouldn't be wise to count on that. The American public has been overconfident and wrong every time in expecting our Pacific attacking forces to work a miracle. When they went into the central Aleutians, the cheering section thought they would take Kiska soon. When they finally took Attu, it was supposed Kiska would fall within a few days. The Japs still hold Kiska. When the Yanks cracked Guadalcanal, the cocktail and crackerbarrel strategists had it all figured out that the allies would climb up the island ladder all the way to Tokyo in a few months. But it has been many months and we are just starting that climb ° far down at the bottom,

Can't Expect the Impossible

THAT CHEAP OPTIMISM, which has tripped us up so often, is supposed to be a matter of loyalty

and faith in our fighters. It is nothing of the sorts \

It is grossly unfair to our armed forces, because ,

it discounts the grim job they have to do and under- , rates the enemy. To expect the impossible of our - forces does not build morale—only disappointment, °

| Our troops would appreciate fewer unreasonable de-

Tn -. La 4 « be gE" +

mands and more public understanding of the facts '. of war, In this three-pronged offensive we have not yet “rolled back the enemy’ or “broken the enemy's line." We haven't finished even the first part of the opera=tion. This is just the beginning of an exceedingly difficult campaign. But it is a fine beginning. achievements. One is organization.

It represents two prime .

In addition te the usual

| problem of co-ordinating ground, air, and sea forces, :

two commands far distant from each other must be made to mesh perfectly. Gen. MacArthur is

| commander of the southwest Pacific, and Adm. Halsey

The Hoosier Forum

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

| “SOCIAL LIFE OF

| CHILD MOST IMPORTANT" |

| \

By Charles William Schaffer, 815 N. New

Jersey

This is in {Clarkson on Rule.” It is true, Mrs. Clarkson, there are exceptions to the rule. However, I was discussing normal child misbehavior; those children which are normal physically of normal parfents, The exceptions to the rule are not normal physically and because of their physical defects they become mentally defective, Under this class are: The syphilities, paralytics, cardio-vascular diseases, several types of neurosis and most of all the endocrine cases —those children whose glands, the thyriod, pituitary, adrenal, gonadal, | ovarian, ete, are out of balance. | You wonder what

K. the

answer to Mrs. “Exceptions to

| | |

America’s

I would do if|

{I had one of these exceptions. Well |

‘I'd take that [ “endocrinologist.” {be a doctor who has researched and (studied all the diseases of the glands, and put the child under his| care until it became normal. Also, if it were a neurosis, I'd put that | child under the care of both a! neurologist and psychologist’ or psychiatirst. You see, Mrs.

child first

Clarkson, T might lget one of that type of children, but these are not “bums.” These. are pathological cases—"'abnormals.” | They are sick. { “Bums.” The bums I was speaking of are children, normal physically, who, through parental misunderstanding, neglect, improper supervision, improper education, rotten environment, a badly managed home, divorce and, most of all, ignorant parents, are allowed to deteriorate mentally until they hecome thieves, drunkards. gangsters, prostitutes and, as I call them, “bums.” | They are normal physically but have degenerated mentally and morally through no fault of their own, but through “adult delin- | quency.” I am certainly | “self-righteous.” | “smart alecks.”

far from I call these people |

to an| That happens to

church;

| supervision, your child can become being | a “bum.”

After 35 years in| home. science and child welfare work as well and they, in some cases, want my hobby and pastime I have every|to do what's right. But they don't | reason to realize how enormous this know how to do it. It's adult edu-

are going to change during their child problem is, and how poorly cation.

| “PEOPLE SHOULD OWN | AND CONTROL MINES" | By Guy D., Sallee, 5801 Woodside dr,

these columns, religious con- | The coal mines are owned by

(Times readers are invited

to express their views in

ally many parents are to handle it. | I yp $1 a day on miners who strike under Please, my dear Mrs, Clarkson,

the old contract. without egoism or self-righteousness

It was the natural thing for the I have discussed child problems with | miners to quit work in protest of | thousands of mothers like you: also

a non-existent penalty provided to| : [the old contract. It is absurd to people like Jane Adams of Chicago, think a citizen is guilty of a law or | foremost social worker, |contract violation when there is no the late Judge Ben B. Lindsay of | law or dy in Sse. . ut [ oes of the) Denver, three presidents of he BO coal is a basic | United States, college professors she industry and essential in both peace | probably about a hundred juvenile and war. It would then follow that |the people, who are the govern- | You misunderstood my statements | Rs Hy Sci own end enirgl hs ’ , te mi a | vita as str like many mothers Wisner | fe¥ multi-millionaires, corporations | their children. Most mothers are. their agent operators. | not wilfully neglectful of their chil-| 14 support of this opinion, T wish | dren. They are unconsciously neg- t, quote from The Times editorial | lectful. They do it not Knowing of june 22: “This is now, and has | they do it. wll th q (been from the beginning a dispute) When you te em they neg- patween miners and the governlected the child they are horrified. | pant, of the United States.” The | They are a as you are. They |aditor must have assumed by nat-| say I've ne everythin or my | eht. ssit : child, It had 8 good Howie, clothes; [ral Tigate ae OF hes. Tey I sent it to Sunday school and | people. I educated it; I scrimped | Because of government red and saved; I've done everything a and rigid requirements, every per- | mother can do and still it went gq, frm, corporation or union] wrong. ~ |should and must have a contract Well. vou neglected the most im- | cpecifying in detail what is exportant thing of all. You neglected | hanted of each of the contracting

troversies excluded. Because ters must be

words. Letters must

signed.)

court judges.

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(to supervise the social life of the ,..tjes before they proceed to work. |

child. [If this is not agreed to, how can The religious life of the child | ovone know what is expected of is one thing. The social life of the him, or his group, without such a child with its environments can|. tract. undo everything the church and When the president, or his delethe home has done. Without this gated agents, act in a like manner as the coal operators and owners by passing the buck, pussy-footing and playing politics and injecting personal grievances into a vital war jesue, it was good patriotism on the part of the mine workers to [quit their work in order to force the questions into issue. They

I am truly sympathetic to such a Mothers and fathers mean

Side Glances—By Galbraith

should be commended for this patriotic act; it is the only means they possess to force a settlement

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of the issue. On June 23, The Times editorial states: “As we've said, we're not certain who's out or who's in, or how much as result of these de- | velopments, except that the country is out some 12 million tens of badly needed coal, not mined because there were three strikes.” In Business Week, June 12, page 7. they report “under government operation, Coal Administrator Ickes publicized figures which showed that, in two weeks of government operation the U. M. W. set a new production record of 12,500,000 tons a week. This patriotic spirit of miners caused the central Pennsylvania operators to get together on the portal-to-portal pay on the eve of WLB's public hearings.” Whom shall we believe, The Times editor, or Mr. Ickes? Therefore, any individual who questions 500,000 coal miners’ patriotism should be considered a sacred cow of vested interest, and not desiring to present true factual evidence to clarify the issue. Because of inereased production as reported, I again restate that John Lewis should be coal production administrator of this vital war industry.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath. Zephaniah 1:18,

In Washington

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won't mind Money, which is of very uncertain " : uD :

is commander of the south Pacific under Adm. Nimitz

| in Hawail,

' We Achieved Surprise

BUT FOR THIS CAMPAIGN the two commands have been combined under Gen. MacArthur. Under such conditions, to make plans and to carry them out with split-second precision over a 700-mile arc involving diverse elements of ground-air-sea services is a tribute to the skill and spirit of all concerned. .

The second achievement was surprise. Though many months of preparation was required and though the enemy expected an attack, he was caught off guard. At the left end of the line he was surprised at Nassau bay, New Guinea. In the center the Trobriand and Woodlark islands were completely unprotected. And on the right end Rendova island, in the central Solomons, did not begin its weak defense until our marines were on the beaches. We can be proud of the superb organization and strategy which have opened this long-planned offensive with initial success and a minimum of allied losses. It remains for us at home to match in ourk small way—with patience and understanding and work=the fortitude of our fighters who now have the hard, slow job of blasting the Japs out of the southern bases.

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 5. —A further ringing note of confusion on the food situation has just been contributed by a self-appointed food industry war committee, made up of 20 leading representatives of national food retailers, processers, millers, packers and restaurateurs, who met in Wash- - ington to solve all the nation’s eating problems. They couldn't find the answer either, and there=

| by probably gave the government's war food admin=

istration and office of price administration people a good, hearty laugh up their raveled sleeve of care. This food industry war committee was formed about six months ago. It held its first meeting in Chicago, but has been meeting two days a month in Washington, where it maintains an office which tries to keep up with things. The committee admits that it is entirely unofficial, but nevertheless, it called a, press conference in a Washington hotel, with all the trimmin's, at whieh, it ballyhooed, a plan for solving the national food crisis would be announced. When time came for the unveiling, however, Clarence A. Francis of General Foods, acting as spokesman for the group, had to admit that the committee was not yet ready to give it out. “Things are changing so rapidly,” Mr. Francis confessed, “that we have. not been able to adjust our ideas unanimously.”

Ration Stamps and Man-Hours

OUT OF the bedlam, however, it was possible to. piece a few ideas on some of the things that were: bothering these leaders of the food industry. When Mr. Francis complained about the 260-mil-: lion-man hours of labor required to handle ration: stamps, he was asked if he were against rationing. Oh, no! The committee was for rationing and tort price” control and against inflation—but—a new balanée should be struck to bring prices in line with inceased labor costs. Just try to figure out the logic:

of that. ' The committee w OPA was being run inefficiently and not in the public; interest—but—they had to be charitable to OPA be-: cause the law said it must observe parity, apply ceilings as of Sept. 15, and allow for reasonable profits. The committee didn’t believe the dictates of the law could be carried out unless subsidies were used—but---they were opposed to subsidies,

Setting the Ceiling

THEY OPPOSED OPA'S plan of having several price seilings for stores doing different volume of business—but—they favored a single-price ceiling which would force the smaller “less efficient” stored out of business. Then they complained about the

large number of stores being forced out of businesg § by OFA. ) The food industry was not interested solely ix profits—but—present OPA policies had resulted in squeezing profits, resulting in losses by wholesalers and retailers. They favored the placing of food production, distribution and price control under the administration, of a single agency “in a matter of hours, not of days¥ —but—after a two-day session of their own they were unable to write a report expressing their ideas, ! J And so on. i One of the restrictions which the recent runaway session of the house proposed for OPA was that only men from the industry concerned should be permitted to work on its staff and make its decisions. The pert formance of the food industry war committee outs i above wd seem to indicate t! :

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