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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

provide the remedy?

tion between the

there was a precedent in South after the eivil war which reminds us how the people react if the human rights and property rights of the individual are disregarded bevond a certain

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1943

point of endurance. It surely is possible and worth while for the na-

¥ ato GET THE HOME FRONT IN STEP IF you are a quail hunter vou will have learned that the way to get results is to pick out a quail, not to blaze away at the whole covey. That technique goes for what's happening on the home front in this war. Domestically we are firing at the flock, while our armed forces are concentrating. To switch the simile, we are out of focus. The battle " on the Jones-Wallace sector is engaging more of our in-

terest than the attack on Europe. concerned about 1944 than about 1943.

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are going abroad.

We have been getting musecle-bound.

untangle ourselves domestically the war which can be made |

short will be long. Congress has gone back to the grass-roots. We believe : its inspection of main street and the countryside will soon refiect the public's resentment of the paradox. main street and the countryside have gone millions of our youth to risk their necks while we at home are only risking our pork chops. So, In sizing up our part in the great and tragic drama,

let's keep our eve on problem No. 1—the winning of the |

war. Let's ourselves—is what I do or what I sav adding" to, or detracting from, that over-all objective? Let's bring our performance at home up to the standard of our armed forces abroad.

ask

INSTALLMENT PLAN TAX

"THIS week probably most of the men and women who

out of the weekly salary or wages before we ever get to see it. Let's not forget that this is not a hew tax, nor a bigger tax. paid anyway, if the law had not been changed. The new law only puts the payment on weekly installments, as we

money has been spent.

indication that during the next few years we will pay much higher taxes than we do today. They will be easier to pay this way, every week, than under the old plan. So let's not be alarmed about the deduction from the pay-check—it doesn’t mean our taxes have been raised. And above all let's not stop buying war bonds because there isn't quite so much money in hand on pay day. You have just as much left, after taxes, system,

PLEASE, JUDGE— “HAT was a well-intentioned gesture from Judge John McNelis this week when he gave a man found guilty of smoking in a streetcar his choice of paying a fine to the city or contributing a like amount to “a newspaper cigaret fund for soldiers overseas.” The defendant willingly chose to

go to fighting men in places where neither streetcars nor city ordinances interfere with their use. But, as the proprietors of the only newspaper cigarvet fund for overseas soldiers in this city, we hope that doesn't become a courtroom custom. For the sake of our soldiers

contribution Indianapolis people make to their comfort. But we don’t want, and don’t believe they want, even a suspicion that those gifts are anything but the voluntary generosity

might have been an element of coercion about it. So thanks, Judge, for the kindly thought that prompted that ruling, but please—not any more.

PEGLER, LL.D. pt WESTBROOK PEGLER was awarded the degree of | LL.D. by Knox college at its 98th commencement. This midland college, a living embodiment of the best in Amer-

We are getting more Not that domestic controversies are unimportant or should be ignored—but that we should adjust our vision to first things first: that | we should get our proportions on straight and realize that } winning the war transcends the sum total of Joneses and Wallaces, subsidies, rollbacks, Little Steel formulas, Acards, B-cards, low or high ration points, and all that host } of home questions which seem go vital but which, added | up, are nothing as compared with military victory which is now possible much sooner if we can keep things rolling in

HE paradox in the present picture is our confusion at | home as contrasted with our certainty of where we |

If we don't |

For, from |

have jobs in Indianapolis are drawing their first pay- | . . 1 checks with the federal income tax taken out. To many of | us it may be quite a shock to find that much money gone |

It is exactly the same tax every one of us would have | °er of a free choice of bargaining agents. Not one

. . i dart A : > - ; earn the money, rather than in a big lump sum after the | PArUment of justice, nor any of the anti-American

It is not likely that anyone now living ever will pay a | lower rate of federal tax than this one. There is every |

under this system as under the former

tional government to yield some of the advanced salients of its political and social revolution at home for the sake of unity and efficiency. Those were peacetime experiments, some of them undertaken in an adventurous spirit, which can be waived for the war period but, if not waived, will still be opposed by those who believe them to be wrong. This opposition will not amount to such lawless insurrection as the C. I. O. resorted to to gain its objectives in Michigan but wiil be stout political resistance nevertheless.

Blames Wagner Act for Disunity

THE PRINCIPAL cause of disunity, in my belief, is still the Wagner Act and the labor policy of the New Deal, not only because it denies the worker the | very right which it professes to guarantee him, namely the right to select his own collective bargaining agents, but because in its administration it has placed a large | and worthy element of the American people, the employers, in a class roughly parallel to that of the disfranchised white Southerners after 1865 Such men cannot by any legal distortion be placed | under condemnation as unrepentant traitors as the case was with the white Southerners who supported the Confederacy. They had obeyed the existing laws prior to the | Wagner Act and they were willing. though in many | cases reluctant, to comply with the Wagner Act. They have not tried to disrupt the union of states and are in all ways, except as may have been charged in individual indictments, good citizens. Nevertheless, the class and character of the men who were sent out to administer the law. even to conduct trials as prejudiced judges, was comparable to | that of the northern Carpetbagger. Elections were rigged. | Emplovers were endlessly harassed and workers were terrorized. The enforcement personnel

| openly and mockingly partial to the organizers who | were political allies and appointees of the governing i | of unions were rascals, either thieves or Communists | or both, for the Communist is not free of the larcenous motive. Yet, consistently, the employer is held to have two strikes on him in any controversy even though the organizer is a total stranger to the com- | { munity and to the workers for whom he has set his trap.

Administrators Trick Little People

AGAIN. AS in the South, the opposition is not an : aristocratic move. There the little people, as the | New Deal in its patronizing way describes the workers | today, were goaded to opposition by the overbearing | impudence, the trickery and the clever little schemes | | of the administrators set over them. | Here, today, millions of workers have been taxed outrageously for membership in organizations which they were forced to join through terrorism, open | and unrebuked. As an overtone to the protest against such excesses, has come the constant ery of “labor baiter” and | “labor hater” from men and women who are, themselves, baiters and haters and political exploiters of labor, Not one of them has dared to defend the propo- | | sition that a pick-and-shovel worker should have to | | pay $350 down, plus dues, fees and other taxes for | the God-given right to work nor the proposition that | compulsory membership is consistent with Wagner's |

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| of them has dared to defend any of the thieves who | have been caught red-handed, most of them by newspaper initiative and few by the initiative of the de-

Communists bent on substituting one-party, minority despotism over the free American people, It would be no sacrifice of any right of labor so to amend the Wagner Act as to give a defendant em- | ployer his day in a genuine court and a fair trial or | to guarantee the worker the same protection against | union terrorism that is provided against boss terrorism,

Remedy Was Up to Congress SUCH A CONCESSION would remove from the | domestic situation the most disruptive point of dis- | agreement in ail our family disputes. But every proposal to that effect has been denounced with fury by the Carpetbagger and thwarted by quiet but thus far successful resistance by the party. whose ramifications | now extend into the depths of the criminal and po- |

| litical underworld.

buy smokes for soldiers, and as a result 4000 cigarets will |

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and sailors overseas we are glad to pass along to them every |

of the folks back home, or anv slightest hint that there |

icanism, in conferring the degree on the least stuffed shirt in all America, did something different. Pegler is a plain | newspaperman—never was an editor or publisher, and never wanted to be either. If there is anything else in the business that Pegler hasn't done, and done well, we can't

recall it.

praised Pegler as a “defender of the common man,” and for Bud that’s merely one sort of self-defense, as he is one of

em. of the game, and woe comes to the man or newspaper that forgets it. We wonder, however, if Doc Pegler's degree should not have been D. Litt. For Pegler is perpetuating a standard | American literary form in hig column which echoes every | day the style of thefighting editors of the Jacksonian age, the Kansas county seat war editors who also said it with shotguns, and the mining camp editors who cleaned the bad |

men out of the gulches and ran ti: road agents oft the road,

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| stand that.

| fetching tools and giving his ideas on how a job | should be done.

| Boy '‘Needs' a Man

Dr. Merrit H. Moore, professor of philisophy at Knox | bor down a bit—but he doesn’t seem to mind. He | knows a 4-year-old boy needs some companionship

He is also a newspaperman and that defense is part | being noticed by another dad, fathers who haven't in

This, I believe, is the most troublesome single factor in our domestic affairs. Congress should have passed the remedy years ago but, plainly, congress lacks the political and civie honoy and courage to do SO against the oppositn of the national government. Then, let the national government yield a point

of internal discord and see whether the people are not reassured and relieved of a doubt which troubles their faith in the leadership of their country in time of terrible war,

We the People

By Ruth Millett

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Today's Lineup! >

NEW YORK, July 10.—If disunity among the American people has reached or should reach the point of disruption, who then can

I am not persuaded that mere disagreement and political opposiins and outs constitute disruption at home but the

American

were |

party and many of these organizers and executives |

[until the Republicans win the next | election, | When the New Dealers admit their mistakes “we can all get together invade their country. land France, they invited Hitler. In that England they rearmed Germany as “the danger from within is greater a bulwark against communism, In than the danger from without” is' America they will do anything to man who has laid a | was before Pearl Harbor. Of course, restraining hand upon their un-

| elsewhere try to save at the spigot

refuse to supply jobs to the unemployed, the soldier who has been | taught to hate Americans can have | Which is morally indefensible and the principal cause |his way. What kind of a breed are his teachers? found, the breed runs true to form | —always ready to risk their coun- |

sacred fortunes.

peasants to fight to the last man! and beat it across the border.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

"LETTERS REVEAL STARTLING EFFECTS" By W. Scott Taylor, 156 Middle dr. | The letters to the editor reveal some startling effects of Republican propaganda. A soldier writes that he would rather fight American |

workers than Germans. A factory | worker sees no reason to buy bonds

| to express

words,

sighed.)

A farmer writes that

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troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 be

| Dis even greater readiness to fight] {anyone who claims any other ma-

[rine or sailor is better than ours.

| It is his

ping up fioors, shining his shoes | | and straightening things up, yet his | indignation at even the suggestion | | that his tent or barracks is not the |

grumbling about mop-

[neatest in the squadron. It is the proud feeling of smart-

| ness he experiences as he gives a! military salute to an officer on the! street in town.

and win the war”

The Republican doctrine

even more effective now than it defeat the

it is intended merely to win the limited greed. election. But its effect ic the same | Wat. . Those who will resort to anything

foreign conquerors. Those foment disloyalty among the people | ® #8 in time of war are not consciously | “WHAT SOLDIER'S traitors to their country. They

merely prove the truth of the state- MORALE MEANS»

ment that “where your treasures are there will your heart be also.” Since history proves that the extent of the post-war depression is proportionate to the cost of the war, we will have to wait for the next great depression, after the post-war boom collapses, when Hoover's 40 million paupers become | 80 million or more. Then when the economy Byrds of Virginia and

what they lost at the bunghole and

word refers to.

In Poland, they exhorted the as he gets there.

| In Norway

Not until the great post-war deas if it were intended to lose the | pression comes will we realize the

| full effects of hate-breeding propa- | ‘ganda. Then, with men in power AGREES WITH BONE

to regain control of the powers of Who regard the human right to a IN ANACONDA CASE" government obviously feel that job as less than the property right g, Roosevelt is more of a threat to to deny it, the soldier, the farmer | I their personal fortunes than any and the worker will feel justified in who | expressing the hate that is in them | Homer T. Bone (D. Wash) in de(nouncing Federal

Slick of South Bend for letting off

| By Cpl. H. 8. B,, with the A. E. I. You know gallons of printers’ ink | have spilled over miles of type dis« cussing the morale of the American soldier. It has been admired, eriti- |

cized, fretted over and cheered, but | never have I seen it defined.

I cannot |

world,

wholly

with “light

Copper officials who sold defective wire and cables to our government, I, being a Republican, same as

Judge Slick,

lof them are

HE IS A big-eyved, swaggering 4-year-old, and his dad, who is an | army officer, has been out of the country for nearly two years. The other kids in the neigh- | borhood have fathers — so he knows his house is incomplete. They have fathers to take them swimming, to fix their tricveles when & wheel comes off, to watch for at supper time, to flatter them with a man’s attention. But Jimmy just has a mama, and though she tries hard to be all that a small kid needs in the way of a family, Jimmy senses his loss. One father in the neighborhood seems to underIf he is working on his car, he answers Jimmy's questions carefully. He even lets him help by

JIMMY'S “HELP” slows the understanding neigh-

with a man. If they could see the thrill Jimmy gets out of

the past been so thoughtful of the kids of far-away servicemen would put themselves out a bit to give those youngsters a little of what they are missing. It doesn't matter what age the man is—whether he is 16 or 60. He is a man to a little boy—and his attention and interest are flattering and exeiting. Surely when it means so much to youngsters who are temporarily fatherless, the men in a ne'ghbsrhood

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can take time to notice them—no matter how busy the men are, or how much easier it would be to tell the boys to run along and play. Kids n to have their morale built up, too—even though of us usually overlook the fact,

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"The motion is, with so_many young military women strangers in our city, the club do something to entertain them!"

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the FBI. to prove mean tyrant,

a sap.

vote for what

just in order a social glass.

ginning of

Morris A. Mason, Indianapolis

judgment handed out by Judge Slick entices other companies to commit the same offenses against our govA lot of us have wonderea about ernment, endangering the lives of this morale of ours that is so fine. |r boys in the armed services. so poor and so much the subject of everyone's concern. define it, but I would like to make Outcome of the Anaconda case and an attempt at indicating what the say if such cases as this continue (we will lose this war and something Morale is a soldier strutting down has to be done to prevent such small the avenue with his chest stuck |Judgment. . , Wherever thay are out, his chin up and that “I-can-lick-the-world” glint in his eye.

All war mothers and fathers should demand that something be done It is his absolute confidence in| immediately to save their sons and try’s independence to save their the ability of the American forces daughters. If not, we are liable to to clean up the whole mess ¢s soon lose this war and all of our boys. It is up to you war mothers: and It is his readiness to fight alllfathers. In| marines or sailors who claim their | Spain, they invited Mussolini to outfits are better than his own, and

Side Glances—By Galbraith

“STRONG DRINK 'A MEAN TYRANT” By A Prohibitionist, Indianapolis I wish to answer M. R. L.'s tirade | about prohibition under the head|ing of “Killing the Cat to Get the

M. L. R. called prohibition some hard names. , the gestapo, it should be reported to I have several witnesses that strong drink

very moderate drinker, said “You're a sap if you do drink, and they will think you're one if you don't.” So I prefer to merely be thought

Listen, M. R. L, T would rather

than to vote for what I don't want and get it. You want to put temptation in a thousand persons’ way,

Have you ever heard of the Bible? Well, there is something in there about you and the doctor you quote. I quote: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: And whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”

DAILY THOUGHTS The fear of the Lord is the be-

knowiedge of the holy is understanding.—Proverbs 9:10,

AND seeing ignorance is the curse of God, wledge the wing wherewith

we fy to heaven.

It is his uncontrollable rage as | he sees newsreel newspaper reports of American defeats or tragedies due to superior number of enemy forces. Finally, it is opinion that he is the best soldier (in the highest branch of the serv- | lice in the greatest country in the *

shots or reads

his unshakeable

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agree with Senator

Judge Thomas

fines” the Anaconda

say that such a small

All very angry about the

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is a My doctor, who is a

SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1943

Post-War Controls

By Daniel M. Kidney

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WASHINGTON, July 10.—Nine potential candidates for the Republican senatorial nominatits next year will be back home in Indiana during congress’ recess. They are the nine G. O. P. congressmen from the state. Ace cording to latest reports, any of these espirants will face plenty of Stiff opposition. For the agile Seventh District Chairman Homer E. Capehart, Washington, Ind. farmer and Indianapolis manufacturer, definitely is in the race. And that has brought out a so-called “ore ganization candidate.” The latter, according to reports brought here row cently, is James Emmert, Indiana attorney general and long-time a Republican judge in the usually Democratic county of which his home town, Shelby ville, is the county seat. Judge Emmert was a G. O. P. gubernatorial cane didate in 1940, but was defeated for the nomination by Glenn Hillis, Kokomo lawyer. Mr. Hillis was dee feated in in the general election by Governor Henry L. Schricker, the only successful Democrat, Republican State Chairman Ralph Gates, who long has been listed as a leading candidate for the governs orship, has not and will not announce any blessing for Mr. Emmert from Claypool hotel headquarters i is understood.

Capehart Too "Expensive," Some Say BUT THE WORD passed around here is that Mr, Emmert is the man they want to head a “stop Cape« hart” movement. The active Mr. Capehart, who fed all the lowly party workers at his vast Cornfield Conference, expects to increase his strength in x state's party hierarchy through popular pressure from the so-called ‘rank and file.” One of the slight raps the congressmen are putting on Mr, Capehart here is that he is “too expensive.” They say he started out to arrange the Elwood RE out party for Wendell L. Willkie in 1940 with a state budget of around $25,000 and it finally cost more than twice that sum. In fact it took considerable solicitation from tye coons before the bills were finally paid, it is reported. And Mr. Willkie treated the matter like a New Dealer viz. as though the debts were none of his concern, it is said, While all of the Hoosier G. O. P. congressmen cons sider themselves as possible dark horses, Rep. Forest A. Harness, Kokomo, has been the most active subrosa candidate for the senate seat. Most mentioned for background and conservative capability is the dean of the delegation, Rep. Charles A, Halleck. Many, however, including those who are against his candidacy, point out that he has a good | chance to be floor leader if the Republicans carry the A house next year, They say that he is sure to return to congress from the strongly Republican second dise | trict,

'LaFollette Expects No Promotion

REP. EARL WILSON feels he might be struck by lightning, but so far, this view is shared largely only with his wife. Secretly, the other Republicans may also feel that they should be promoted, with the exe ception, perhaps, of Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, Evansville. ! | He knows, at least, that he will never be tnd’ organization choice,” since he seldom votes with his colleagues on the conservative side of labor or social welfare issues. All of the congressmen seem to think that the winner must have the organization blessing. At the moment, according to some observers, that would | séem to put Judge Emmert in, . -

In Washington | By Peter Edson A

WASHINGTON, July 10.—Tak= ing the profit out uf war is a noble principle—like not beating your wife and not kicking babies in the teeth—to which most of the citizenry subscribe, in public at least. * Since the last war with its

ing, there have been some 168 different proposals before congress, all aimed at amputating the exe cess profits out of war contracts by one means or another. At the beginning of the defense effort there was a proposed limit of 12 per cent on war profits. Later it was cut to 8 per cent, then 6 per cent, but when war department and the old OPM officials protested this curb would interfere with war production, it was dropped. In its place there was passed the renegotiation law of April 28, 1042, which enabled government procurement agencies to renegotiate war contracts to reduce war costs and recover excess profits, It seemed a reasonable proposition, in view of the fact that many contracts had to be shoveled out in a

which costs were often unknown,

Progress of Renegotiation

UP TO JUNE 25, when the last tabulation was made, some 14,300 of the services’ more than two million war contracts outstanding had been assigned and cleared for renegotiation—11,000 by the army, 2800 by the navy, 400 by the maritime commission and war shipping administration, 100 by the treasury, Agreements had been reached in about 22 per cent of the cases, 44 per cent were under renegotiation, 34 per cent are still being analyzed. Up to the end of May, covering about 13 months of operation under the renegotiation act, covering largely business done by war contractors in 1042, price reductions of over $2 billion had been negotiated on some $20 billion worth of contracts, representing a saving of 10 per cent to the government. Of the $2 billion savings, some $800 million was actual cas recovered and paid into the treasury, according De Maurice H. Karker, chief of the war department's price adjustment board, who also declares that in 37 per cent of the cases excessive profits had not been made. During the last three weeks in June, however, a parade representing over 130 war contractors camend' to Washington and in personal appearances or signed statements submitted to the house naval affairs sube committee hearings, they protested forcibly and at

I want and not get it

that you may enjoy

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wisdom; and the

investigated. Senator Carl Hatch of Clovis, made an earlier investigation and report for the Truman committee, proposing constructive admin. istrative changes in the way the services were han dling the renegotiation job.

length against the provisions of the renegotiation law,

‘Everybody's Wrong But Us' THROUGHOUT the testimony runs one recurrent strain: We are against excessive profits, but we must have our future guaranteed and therefore renegotiae tion should be applied to everyone but us, because we're different. It is always difficult to get into any discussion of motives but it became apparent during the hou

naval affairs investigation that while the subcommite

tee was doubtful about renegotiation in the beginning, the failure of the witnesses to make their case swung

the committee over to an almost opposite point of view.

Those who were protesting against renegotiation

were almost invariably in the profit class which made them subject to renegotiation. vealed a startling disregard for the future of the free enterprise economic system which had enabled them

Their attitudes re-

to make those profits, This is the second time renegotiation has beeny

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The real attitude of congress, however, is bess

shown by the passage of an amendment to the war department bill which will make contracts of RFO

here to say, apparently, for

subject to. renegotiation. It's

the

horrible examples of war profiteer~

hurry after Pearl Harbor, on a cost=plus basis ng.