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Ta WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1943

OVERPAID!

HE iconoclastic Mr. Ickes says dollar-a-year businessmen are running the war effort, and the criticism, if any, for alleged failures and fumbles, should be directed at them, not at the brain trusters, New Dealers and bureaucrats.

We wonder if it could have been a dollar-a-year lawyer | If so a dollar is |

who invented that fruit cake formula? too much.

ASKING CONGRESS TO HELP V E hope the report is true that Food Administrator Marvin Jones will submit his 1944 food production plans to congressional leaders for approval before trying to

4 cents a copy: deliv- |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

; NEW YORK, July 21.—The y rider in an appropriation act by which congress has tried to shake | loose from the payroll three po- | ¥ litical house pets of the new deal may be a bill of attainder, as Presffs ident Roosevelt has said, but if b congress has erred in this matter, the motives of those who voted so were purely patriotic. This was a protest, voiced in exasperation against the persistent sympathy of the new deal for Communists and fellow-travelers, who have burrowed into the very walls of government in Washington and in the bureaus out through the country. It was also a general rebuke to the defiant impudence of many men and women who have flatly expressed or convincingly indicated their hatred of the economic system, meaning capitalism, on which the American government is based and the only system ‘under which those freedoms can exist which we are supposed to be presenting, with our compliments, to all the other peoples of the world, with the notable exception of our Russian comrades in arms, who have other preferences.

Dies Put the Finger On

THE DIES committee has been blackguarded and derided for years. It is true that its methods under Martin Dies have been irregular, unconventional and unpleasant, approaching at times the cynicism of that memorable exploit of Hugo Black by which that | vicarious nightrider established his moral and civic fitness for a place on the supreme court according to

new deal standards. Nevertheless Dies has put the finger on many a covert mutineer on our ship of state and that fact, more than his methods, has been the cause of the up-

put those plans into effect. That will be something of a departure from administration procedure of recent years. executive agencies has been to announce high, wide and handsome plans, and make generous and ofttimes conflict-

ing promises to various pressure groups—all without both- | ering to consult congress, until the time came to get the | As a result |

money to make good on the commitments, congress sometimes has balked at providing funds, and well-laid plans have come to naught. Much of the confusion in Washington can be traced to this habit of ignoring the constitutional powers and responsibilities of congress. The blank-check days are over. Congress has come back into its own. And the sooner departmental executives recognize that fact, the eariier | procedures can be developed to enable the executive and legislative branches to work as a team. x » =» 5 =» » 00D ADMINISTRATOR JONES, who served a few years | in congress, apparently realizes that he doesn't have any “mandate” to run around promising subsidies to everybody until he first gets an understanding that congress will | make good on the promissory note, Working with congress ig really no great trick. The! Democrats have a sufficient majority in the two houses to put over most any legislation which is in the real sense a party measure. But that doesn’t mean that they will rubber-stamp just any idea hatched up by Harry Hopkins | or some other downtown New Dealer who never had to carry a precinct. And on measures necessary for successful waging of the war, the Republican minority has always shown an inclination to go along. In the two houses and the two parties, whatever the government problem requiring congressional whether it has to do with agricultural, fiscal, military or foreign affairs—there are alwavs a few leaders who can tel in advance how far congress will go. In the conduct of government, especially in wartime, it is just plain good sense to call such leaders into conference and hammer out policies that can be made to stick. If other administrators, cabinet thiefs, bosses . and czars—and the president, too—would do what it is reported

The general practice of |

action— | suspicion,

Food Administrator Jones is going to do, we might soon see |

| roar against him. Dies has accumulated an enormous file of information on thousands of individuals, including Nazis, Fascists and bigots of one kind and another, but including also many friends and political | proteges of the new deal who have identified themi selves with Communist organizations,

Congressmen Not Fools

NOW CONGRESS is not pro-Communist, the majority of the new dealers are just as hostile to

Even

Communists as to the Nazis of the late unti-American |

| bund and they have been imposed upon for vears by the executive branch of the government in its partiality to individuals ineiuding some who answer all the specifications and lack only the political label. The men who make up the two houses of congress are not fools and, like the newspapermen and others who have learned their way around Washington, they

| know what goes on.

They have seen special pets of the new deal party bounce from bureau to bureau and, finally, they just got good and sore and hopped on three individuals

whom they have identified, rightly or wrongly, but |

to their own strong conviction as fellow-travelers. In attacking this action as usurpation of the executive function, the president may be legally correct but, remembering his own usurpation of the legislative function within the last year, it is easier to believe that the effect is more offensive to him than the quality of the act.

The effect Is to publicize to the people the strong | | affection of the new deal for people who see little

good in and less hope for the preservation of the form of government which was intrusted to Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 and who have tried to junk or alter it and with considerable success to gate. Mr. Rocsevelt may be able to keep on the payrolls the three relatively unimportant and harmless individuals who were singled out for the special attention of congress, but the country of course will

| wonder why he 1s so devoted to them when he has a

Americans whose ideas are whose associations are above

choice strictly

from so many orthodox and

Do Not Stand Alone

I WOULD AGREE with those who sav that communism is not dangerous in the United States if the Communists had to stand alone. But in appraising communism as a menace it must be kept in mind that they do not stand alone, but have always received

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WASHINGTON, July 21.-That old expression “nutty as a fruit cake” may be changed to “Rusty as an OPA fruit cake order” sMice Lou R. Maxon cited same as the last straw in cdmplexities cooked up by the OPA lawyers and professors. Mr. Maxon at that moment was resigning his OPA post, as assiste tant to Administrator Prentiss M, Brown. To get a right idea of what Mr. Maxon meant we cite the following from an OFA document: 7s

What's in a Cake? A “Section 1.1 Fruit cake; sales by producers. a) Producers of fruit cake who dealt in fruit cake of a comparable type in the period Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1041, inclusive, shall determine maximum prices to each class of purchaser as follows: Each producer shall ascertain the cost of ingredients and packaging materials as if such ingredients and packaging materials had been purchased in March, 1942. To the figure so obtained he shall add the difference between his average selling price to a purchaser of the same class and his average ingredient and packing material cost for fruit cake of a comparable type sold by him §- ing the period Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1941, inclusive, fin computing the cost of ingredients and packaging materials as cof March, 1942, each producer shall ascertain said costs from the highest prices quoted in March, 1942, by his usual supplier or suppliers or, if no usual supplier was quoting prices in March, 1942, from prices quoted in March, 1942, by a seller of pe same class as his usual supplier,

Let Them Eat Bread

“thy A PRODUCER of fruit cake who did not dal in fruit cake of a comparable type in the period AS 1 to Dee, 31, 1941, inclusive, shall determine his maxi« mum price to each class of purchaser applving the maximum price to the same class of purchaser of his most closely competitive seller selling a similar fruit cake,

The Hoosier Forum

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

“OFFICER DUNWOODY | DOING GOOD JOB” [By Mre BM. W., Indianapolis | To Disgusted: We have an anti-smoking |Officer Dunwoody is enforcing it; and that is the way it should be. The trouble with Indianapolis (and

are made but not enforced. I sav, “Officer Dunwoody, keep up the good work, and more power to you.” This is one law that some innocent citizen doesn’t have to sign a warrant for before anything can be done about it; and then chances are that before it's over, the innocent one is proven at fault, And, Disgusted, remember that the taxpavers who don't care for smoking dont mind paying the salary of an officer who will do his fduty. And I feel that he is doing a good job. We will have to have a 'great deal of law enforcement if we want a right kind of eity in which to live. =” ” » [IT'S THE HUMAN FACTOR THAT COUNTS" , By James R. Meitzler, Attica. | Because Senator Byrd

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make a modest success, as the most do, or he may make millions. Astor invested in cheap land in Manhattan. But look at the money lost in town lots, Jim Couzens

backed Henry Ford with his sav- plood of our country is now playing | ings, but what of the many inven- that deadly game of war again.|

l tions that lose?

They claim owners of coal mines 3 hundred billion dollars that our | receive fabulous profits. How about phoys will win and I am willing | the money wasted in holes in the again to wager my life that we hold | ground? Today we find our liBeral- {he good cards in our hends and

minded administration shackling free enterprise wherever possible and stripping it of its profits when | it succeeds. As for its own ventures, | it gambles with the people's money, { has been in the red constantly since it took office and has nothing to show for its efforts but increasing taxes and augmenting debts, Truly, it is the human factor that counts. 4 & &

important aid and comfort from the new deal admin- to the swarm of bureaucrats that ap ET MONEY CIRCULATE

istration. That makes a great difference as congress knows, and even among those representatives and senators who regard Martin Dies as an unintelligent

{are harassing the common people and devouring their substance , . . E. H. decides he is not a statesman, |

and clumsy country boy, as many of them do. there are not many who doubt the evidence which he has accumulated.

an end to that Battle of Washington.

NOBODY LIKES TO BE WEANED

SAN FRANCISCO correspondent writes about a re- |

cent union labor decision by Superior Judge Elmer E. Robinson in California.

asking damages. The union, it was alleged, had attacked by cireufars and pamphlets the company’s reputation and its products.

The judge ruled for the company and held that unions. |

once weak and struggling in this country, had now taken on the characteristics of large industrial organizations and should be subject to the same responsibilities for which capital under the law is accountable. [le mentioned the union's membership of over 233,000 and its millions of assets in cash, mortgages, bonds, stocks and real estate, with annual income of six million dollars.

He said that unions have achieved rank and power |

“collateral with capital.” ‘

The correspondent’s letter gays: “I recall from one of Sam Blythe's books a reference to the Republican tariff

as a protector of infant industries with long white beards. |

The description appears to fit organized labor today.” ” = » ” = » N our early national history the country’s development was desperately dependent on getting capital. tariff grew as a protection of infant industries which needed that capital to get going. After capital became dominant in our economic life, it became arrogant, which is the way of all flesh. It oppressed labor with low wages, long hours, poor working conditions and managerial insolence. But it never wanted to give up the tariff. Then labor, long the underdog, called for and finally got its special privilege, as had capital in an earlier time. It was exempted from those legal restrictions which had been imposed on capital, grown overpowerful. Now labor is strong. But like capital it fights and howls to hang on to its special privilege. That is by no means unnatural. Which reminds us of a story, very old but pertinent. We heard it first back in the teens in a rousing Democratic anti- “infant-industries” speech by former U. S. Senator Robert L. Owens of Oklahoma. He told of a 6-foot, 16-yvear-old boy chasing his mother through a corn field, bawling: “Damn her hide, she’s trying to wean me.” When it comes to special privilege, capital or labor, ‘tis ever thus. The world has never yet produced the human being that wants to be weaned.

If this action does amount to a bill of attainder | which President Roosevelt defined as a legislative | edict of punishment without legal proceedings, it | should be rescinded for the peace of mind of the

| but a penny-pincher. E. H. claims | penny-pinchers ruined France. | Many men have cited many causes, but E. H. knows. E. H. says, “We have kept the) cash register ringing by spending! even when we lacked the down pay- |

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BUT OPENLY" By T. McGuire, 1105 W, 28th st. To open minds there is no narrow way to destruction. ~Knowing that my own piety has been to me | at times a seli-deceiving coat of | nypocrisy, I feel deeply for those |

have some one or two pet!

| hobby-horses that they believe the |

[local option a number of times, I

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lof prohibition,

| | found the devil did not print play-

|ing cards, make dice or dominoes {My mother long before her death | also assured me herself that her

[Tout ideas were wrong. . . . During the last war, I, like many

"other boys, put away the things of

my childhood and gambled my life (that Uncle Sam was right and Kaiser Bill was wrong. It was a good bet; I have my life and we won the war, The best

| The American peopie are betting

will win, | I work seven davs a week and (find no time left to relax in a good friendly game of chance. But I love to think of the good hands I have held and the wonderful horses that have been raised in Kentucky for people to bet on, So long as people ihiave money to waste, let them circulate it where

they will, but openly. Moving money |

| will keep down inflation and hasten (the end of the war, {when the boys come back as men) to us, we will not force them to hide out in the barn when they need a drink or desire to flip a coin on a card or the pass of a| pair of bones. It also has been said to, “render unto Caesar the things that are| Caesar's and to God the things that | are God's. . . .

Before I entered high school, I

And I hope]

The case involves a suit by a | corporation against a union charging malicious libel and |

| country, the desired effect having been obtained anyway, But while in that mood, congress should repeal

| of property may lose possession of the government if only some individual kicks up a row amounting to a | labor dispute. Those owners are punished and for the offense of another at that by legislative edict and without legal proceedings, aren't they?

We the People

By Ruth Millett

THE UNEVEN . distribution of men caused by the war, is creating two types of problems for girls, There are the “lone girls,” left Jiving in towns where young, eligible men are rare enough so that the appearance of a man at a party causes a near-panfe. ) Those girls have to try to make the best of a practically dateless & existence, getting all their excitement from writing to Johnny or

The Jimmy and hoping against hope that he'll come back |

| and marry them, Then there are the girls, like the Red Cross workers abroad, who get so much masculine attention and flattery that it is hard to handle it all. One woman who has had an important job in the Red Cross organization in England, now back home | on leave, says in summing up the qualifications for girls who want to do Red Cross work:

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Abundance of Flattery

“A GIRL must be able to work with men and not have her head turned. She may have her meals regularly with hundreds of soldiers and she must not be | over-impressed by the good-natured flattery that is | bound to come her way.” | At first glance having too much attention may not | seem like much of a problem to the girl who has far | too little. But the problem is one for the future. Any | girl who has been flattered and sought after by hun-

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and flat when she goes back to normal living. Settling down with one man, who without doubt | won't be admiring all the time, is certain to be a terrible let-down.

To the Point—

" Huston: HAS wired his soldiers in Sicily that e t em in spirit. Imagine comforting that will be when read in prisoner camps. Ts ; gl, et

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also those other bills of attainder by which the owners |

| dreds of men is bound to find life pretty humdrum |

ment.” This is certainly an argu‘ment for tax and spend, borrow rand spend. And then he lists the ccomplishments of free enterprise from the settlement of America until today, as if they were the results of extravagance. One big truth in his message, “In

human factor that counted most.” absolutely equal. A believes in living as he goes, spends everything. B pinches pennies until he gets a stake, invests that stake in an education, a business, tools, farm =a hole in the ground. He may lose and come out no better than A; he may

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devil is using as mounts for the unwary to ride into hell. From my own mother I inherited as a child the fixed ideas that playving cards and alcoholic drinks were cursed of God and a sure way to {ruin one's soul.

To quote Biblical truths as re-

this nation it has always been the formers do, I am impelled to speak |

of Job. A very patient man who + « suffered many plagues. It also is told that Job was a wise man who finally, seeing plainly what God willed of him, obeyed the will of his Heavenly Father and escaped the plagues and torments of his own making. During our last war after voting

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

"Maybe I'm not old enough to have a beau, Father, but his dad's in Africa and his mother's a machinist, so he needs a

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| So, I am prepared to render my | taxes willingly to win our war, but | somehow, I could be more cheerful about collecting a war tax from legal gambling than paying it out in a spending tax that breaks ene! of the Ten Commandments, “You shall not steal.” Big business gambles every day! in our land. Would vou stop it? I wouldn't stop a game unless, like the Ruml plan, it oppressed the poor (taxpayer and forgave the rich U, S. treasury raider,

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“LET US KEEP THE BIBLE STRAIGHT" By Sally Ann Myers, 4136 Vandalia sf. | People will take the Scripture out | of its setting to uphold evil. , , . | Men and women are drinking and | | reveling while our young men who | were just children a few short years ‘ago playing marbles on the side- | walk now are dying, wounded, shed- | {ding blood, sweat and tears for a | bunch of Belshazzars back home| | who are weighed in the balance and | | found wanting, . ., It is bad enough | to advertise it much less to cover | up drinking with the pages of holy writ. Let us keep the old book straight. | It is the lighthouse for the weary.

8 & W “CIGARETS BEING SOLD TO MINORS

By a Forum Critie, Indianapolis, . «+ + The sale of cigarets to children is not being suppressed closely enough. Stricter observance of the law which prohibits the sale of cigarets to children must be complied with. The arrest and conviction of persons selling or giving cigarets to

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minors would help to curb some of this evil.

DAILY THOUGHTS

And he said unto him, Oh, my Lord, wherewith shall, I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.—Judges 6:15.

CONTENT WITH poverty, my soul I arm;

sensible girl to guide him!"

| Providence, R. I.

“(e) ‘Fruit cake of a comparable type sold by the producer in the period Cct. 1 to Dec. 31, 1941, inclu= sive, means a fruit cake (1) the ingredients of which would have had the same approximate total cost if such ingredients had been purchased in March, 1942, as the total cost of ingredients used in making the | fruit cake for which a maximum price is to be deter= | mined if such ingredients had also been purchased {in March, 1642, and (2) of the same weight when corfpleted and ready for packing as the fruit cake f which a maximum price is to be determined. “(dr ‘Similar fruit cake means a fruit cake of aps | proximately the same total cost of ingredients and packaging materials and of the same weight when completed and ready for packaging as the fruit cake for which a maximum price is to be determined,"

In Washington «

By Peter Edson

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WASHINGTON, July 21 Laken neat a little job of legislative manipulation as was ever pulled off, congress has just put over an inflationary boost in the price of silver bullion, raising the Il&ual price on some 1.3 billion Wg : E so-called “free” silver held by fhe > U. 8S. treasury from 48.69 centg4rr ounce to 71.11 cents per ounce, In effect, it raises the price of y the treasury's free silver stock | from its original cost of $633 million to a new value of $924 million, At first glance it might seem this gives the treasury a profit of $91 million, which would be dandy if true. But if you think this thing through, | it figures out like this: The free silver which the treasury owns is wanigd for use as a copper substitute for heavy electrighl conductors in war plants. The treasury was willing to sell this free silver at its cost price of less than 50 cents an ounce. If the treasury had sold at that price, this would have been the cost which the war contractors using the silver would have entered on their books in billing the gove ernment for the war materials they manufactured. Since the silver must now be sold at 71 cents, the manufacturers using the silver must buy at the higher price, bill the government for the war supplies they

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price by the U. S. treasury. All the treasury's potential profit on the original sale of the silver to the war industries is thus wiped out, and the cost of the war to the taxpayers is just that much greater,

Price-Cut Threat Removed

THE SILVER bloc has thus removed the threat that the treasury’s stock of free silver, acquired over the years at an average cost of less than 50 cents an ounce, will be used to force down the price of newly mined domestic silver below the present ceiling of 71 cents an ounce. The author of the act putting over this siluer price rise is Senator Theodore Francis Green » If the interest of a New England statesman in silver at first seems remote, remember that the jewelry manufacturing and the silver arts and crafts industries are centered in Rhode Island and Connecticut, The war has hit them hard. War production board limitation orders have re» stricted the use of silver and other precious meta for non-essentials like jewelry and sterling. Spokesmen for the industry, made up of relatively small manue facturers, have been in Washington to protest that they were being strangled, forced out of business. Senator Green makes clear that the silver ma l= facturers are entirely patriotic in their desires at.d motives. They don’t want any silver that can be used in war industries. But if there is any left over—

Still Backs Up Your Money

IT WAS Senator Green's job to increase the supply by his bill “to authorize the use for war purposes of silver held or owned by the United States.” The bill provides for considering these stocks of silver in war industry use as part of the required backing for silver certificates. Instead of burying the silver bullion in the vaults at West Point, it's made into bus barghio carry electric current, but it backs up your paper money just as legally. When Senator Green first introduced his bill j January, it provided that the free silver could sold at 50 cents. Before the bill could get out of committee, however, Senator Green had to agree to have the price raised to the aforementioned 71 cents plus. But none of the members of the western silver bloc had anything to do with it. Oh, no. “The silver producers want to keep the price at 71 cents for sentimental reasons,” says Senator Gress “They feel there's a certain psychological valuty in keeping the price at that figure, and it really isn't as important as you think. The treasury ma a profit, and it really doesn't make much difference which pocket the treasury takes its money into and pays it out of.” But just watch how tough it's

Boing to be to get

that price or any other price down, once it has been

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