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The Indianapolis Times

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TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1943

FUNDS FOR THE PARTY FROM the Indiana statutes: “Any public official who shall demand from, or shall, directly or indirectly, receive from any deputy or clerk appointed by him, or any employee employed by him any part of the compensation provided by law for such deputy, clerk or employee for his or her services, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be imprisoned in the state’s prison for not less than one year nor more than five years.” (1919, p. 688, No, 1.) » ROM the hearing before the Marion county council last © Saturday:

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Addison J. Parry, president of the council: “You are

trying to raise political funds from your department's em- |

ployees, aren't you?” William T. Ayres, Marion county commissioner: “Why, vec. Ed Steers, treasurer of the Republican committee, asked us to ask all county employees to donate to the party fund and I merely passed the request along to the highway department.”

MR. ICKES AND BUSINESSMEN

HINKING a little more about that crack of Secretary Ickes that if there is any criticism for gumming up the

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

| | NEW YORK, July 27—I feel that I have profiited by my little refresher course in the case of Dr. William A. Wirt, the Gary, Ind, schoolmaster, who got the works from a loaded New Deal committee of the house of representatives in 1934. Dr. Wirt wrote a manifold letter to a iot of Republicans in which he reported that a number of New Dealers, in the course of some general conversation after a dinner party, had said that President Roosevelt was to be the Kerensky of an American revolution who would later give way to a Stalin. Now none of them may have said just that and Dr. Wirt may have been a bad reporter who gave general impressions as accurate information, but my review convinces me that the three New Deal congressmen who constituted the majority of the committee did not get at the truth of the case and did not want to. It is my conviction, based on much experience, that those other persons at the dinner party, five of them government bureaucrats and all of them underlings, could not have been telling the | truth when they told the committee that, whatever they might have liked to say that night, they were unable to say anything because Wirt took the floor in a harangue on the subject of money and they were unable to break through his service at any time.

Too Thin for Belief

THAT STORY is too thin for belief because anyone who has had any social experience with New Dealers will admit that not even Herbert Bayard

Swope, himself, could put on much of a rally, much | less hold the floor all evening against a roomful of | them, even a roomful of the scrub. Mr. Swope would | be my man today in almost any contest for I have heard him stand down a whole round table, including | Jack Pearl and a novelist, but I would not back him against those who were present at that dinner party for more than a sprint of one minute and I would want plenty of odds, even so. Against one or more of the New Deal varsity I would not even pay the entry fee for that would be just throwing money away. And, after all, who was Dr. Wirt? If he was so hot he surely would have been heard from before the dinner party at which he is supposed to have turned in the performance of a world champion and in the years that remained to him he would have won further recognition in fast company. is that he didn't even have a metropolitan rating | much less a national reputation and he never entered even the 5 o'clock trials at the National Press | club.

works in Washington's war effort, the blame should attach |

to the doilar-a-year businessmen, and not to the New Dealers, brain trusters and bureaucrats— Well, let's see: Did businessmen organize NDAC (national defense advisory council), the first stumble-bum approach to the war effort? No. Some businessmen were placed on that

council, but they never were given the power to do the job. |

Did businessmen create OPM (office pf production | That was that |

management), the second stumble? No. famous Knudsen:llillman, management-labor partnership, of which neither nor both had the power to do the job. Did businessmen invent SPAB (supply priorities and allocations board), which B. M. Baruch described as “a faltering step forward”? Again, No. There were still several dollar-a-year men around, but not earning their pay, because some of those whom Mr. Ickes calls New Dealers, brain trusters and bureaucrats, had readier access to the White House.

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No. Or OES (office of economic stabilization) ? Or OWM (office of war mobilization) ? No. With each reorganization, businessmen have been called in and asked to do a job. But each time they have been required to accept their responsibilities within the limits of circumscribed authority. Although Harry Hopkins still sits before the same fireside, there is not yet in the whole hierarchy of Washington a single businessman within shouting distance of the president's ear. Sometime perhaps it is not so important whether a man is a businessman, professor or a New Dealer. Sometimes it is of more significance whether the man has authority commensurate with his responsibility. Certainly Mr. Ickes is nb businessman. Yet he has done a very business-like job of running the oil industry. The reason is that Mr. Ickes is a tough hombre, and has never permitted anyone to wedge in between him and the man in the White House who has the final say.

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No.

FRANK E. SAMUEL

PT"HE sudden and untimely death of Frank E. Samuel is very probably the most severe loss the American Le-

gion has sustained since it was founded. In general, the |

spotlight of Legion affairs played upon officers other than the national adjutant. always to be carried out by the organization's permanent administrative staff, which Mr. Samuel had headed for the last decade. : How ably this duty was performed is written in the record of the American Legion itself—now at its greatest peak in membership and in influence. His was always a steady hand at the helm, a calm voice in its Councils. Through some of the American Legion's most difficult days his contribution to its progress has been very great.

MANPOWER SHORTAGE NOTE

D in a theatrical magazine: “The ‘Great’ Kelly—now booking for '43. Riding a regular bicycle flaming with fireworks down narrow chute through house of solid flames, crashing solid or glass walls. Jumping over two automobiles uging American flag and V for fireworks for grand finale, Write Mike Kelly, Goshen, Ind, U.S. A” Mike, if you haven't asthma and china teeth, we think we know where you may land some temporary work. Write Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr., commander of the 7th U. S. army in Sicily. . You'd be terrific in a tanks corps.

EMBELLISHING THE OBVIOUS D® GEORGE GALLUP lines up his statistics in good

order. But his comments are sometimes peculiar, for example:

“The election vote will depend not only on attitudes toward the Republican candidate, but also on attitudes te-

ward the eandidate put up by the Democrats.”

So! Could it also be true,

the most votes wins

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sinessmen establish WPB (war production board) ? |

But the policies they made had |

Dr, Gallup, that the fellow who

Need Speed, Endurance

EVERY CONGRESSMAN knows that | superb speed and endurance to out-talk and over- | talk any gathering of New Dealers, with or without | stimulants and that the man or woman who can do so for an entire evening hasn't yet been born,

| My man Herbert Swope I am sure, would be the |

| first Lo admit that such a contest would be an over- | match and Mr. Swope has never been accused of flinching for he talked his way through the peace conference in Versailles and once won a spectacular victory over David Lloyd George and Georges Clem- | enceau, who took him literally when he said he rep- | resented the world. He meant the New York World. | His famous match with Isaac F. Marcosson was really | no contest, which may give you an idea. Mr. Mar- | cosson got in only a few feeble “yes, buts” and “may | I interrupts” and was helped away by his handlers | in 30 minutes muttering “we was robbed.” If Fielding H. “Hurry Up” Yost were still in his | prime, of course I would have to rate him above my | man Herbert, but age takes its toll and it was sad to | see him murdered a few years ago at a football

coaches’ meeting by Robert Zuppkes, a good man, to |

be sure, but second string, after all.

| | He Was Marvelous

BUT WHEN Mr. Yost was good he was marvelous and I believe that, although he beat my man Swope | one night long ago, Mr. Swope learned lessons from | that defeat which have contributed to his enduring greatness. That night, at Grantland Rice's house, Mr. Yost was talking and acting out football plays | and Mr. Swope, just a brash and impetuous novice at the time, tried to challenge him. It was slaughter, for Mr. Yost talked right through him for three hours.

| Finally, conceding defeat, my man got his hat and |

| was starting home and then, as a last crushing blow, - Mr. Yost exclaimed “this Eckersall used to kick off the side of his foot, like this” and seizing my man, | Herbert's hat, booted it out the 11th floor window into Fifth ave. Mr. Albert Lasker has been very good but he has a flaw in his style that is fatal against any man of Swope's class. Mr. Lasker runs out of words at times | and when he does he goes “hoomp-hoomp.” so one night my Herbert sized him up, tore in through one of those openings and never let him get in another word ail evening. . But New Dealers are special. My man is game and has plenty of class and endurance, but I don't want to get him murdered. |

We the People

By Ruth Millett

FOR THIRTY-FIVE years she made homemaking her full time job. And she was a success at it. But now her children are grown and gone from home, and no matter how often she washed the curtains, and baked the pies for her husband, and went down to the Red Cross rooms te roll bandages—she couldn't keep as busy as she liked. She wasn't busy enough to keep from worrying about the son in the army or to over-

| band was at work. So she went out and got herself a job. It is her

It not takes care of her working hours, it gives her something to think about when she isn't at work. And she is making friends she never would have met if she hadn't become a working woman.

Husband Is Proud

HER HUSBAND, who even five years ago would have found a dozen reasons for objecting to her getting a job, didn't offer one, when she told him proudly that she had applied for a position and had been hired on the spot. He, like most men, has a new respect for women who are able to get and hold jobs—since he knows how | dependent America is today on its woman power. Of course, he teases her a little. But it is the kind of teasing that is founded on pride. He is proud of her—and if the truth were known, she is probably just a little bit proud of herself. After all she proved a long time ago that she could handle the job of homemaking as well as

different kind of job.

children are grown to think about. Something for thei: hushands to think about, too.

To the Pointe

STATISTICS SHOW that the use of halr dye has jilted The d gray hair she ain't what she

But the truth |

it takes |

' look the lonesome silence of the house when her hus- |

first experience in the business world—and she loves it. |

anyone. Now she is proving her ability in an entirely

Her experience is something for any woman whose |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

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WE AFIS GO AFTER MIs GITZARD

NOW MOP UP LE

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1943

By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, July 27.—Old= line G. O. P, Republicanism, ini the person of Harrison E. Spang=* ler, Republican national chaire man, will come face to face with a new and fractious element within the party at national head= quarters here today. He will see a committee ine structed by the Republican Poste war Policy association to demand that party leaders, through their

own official Republican post-war advisory council, go

I wholly defend to

The Hoosier Forum.

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

FOR GOOD CHRISTIANS"

(By An American, Indianapolis,

If someone baits their hook with | pungent truth, and casts it into the | Hoosier Forum, right away some- | one, with a lot of bluff and bluster, | will come with mouth wide open, to | gobble it up. Then all one has to | do, is to reel them in. If they snap |the line, one can at least tell of! the big one that got away. | Mr. Daacke says he does not un- | derstand what I am talking about in my article on Superior Wisdom. | | Well, a child told me it was very| | plain to her. | My opponent claims to be a So- | cialist and a real Christian, but adds, “I do not attend church.” It might interest us to know why he stays away from church, but he] leaves us guessing. If all good Christians were like! him, America would be a churchless nation. Foreign powers would perhaps not be kind enough to send us missionaries, but an army of invasion. Many people attempt to go places who do not ride inside trains. They prefer the bumpers. This is hardly fair to the railway, and very dangerous. | Mr, Daacke, come off the bump- | ers, and have a cushioned seat in! | the gospel train. I quote frem the | book of rules for good Christians: | | “Not forsaking the assembling of]

| “FROM BOOK OF RULES

| ourselves together, as the manner

Hebrews 10:25. # “FIGHTING BOYS DESERVE | TO GET THEIR MAIL"

By a Fighting Seabee’'s Mother, Indianapolis

of some is.”

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Why do our boys overseas have to wait so long for their mail when they are stationed at a certain base? Of course if they are on the march or changing locations all the time, we do not expect the mail to follow them so soon. My boy left the states April 17th, and up to June 19 he had never received any mail. He said one good letter from home would do more for the boys than all the medicine the doctors could give them. He (said mail and thoughts of getting {home are all that they look for- | ward to. | We mothers watch for mail twice |a day and if the carrier passes us

to be just as good as anybody else, pats They said they would come

(Times readers are invited | nowadays a Christian can't drink it.

to express their in| these columns, religious con- | Some things in the rise of a na-

views

up, it feels like the pit of our stom-| Isaiah 28:7, 8. “But they also have ach had dropped out. jerred through wine, and strong | One Indianapolis boy has been drink are out of the way, the priest | awarded the purple heart posthu- and the prophet have erred through | mously, but he never got any mail strong drink, they are swallowed | before he died to let him know he up of wine, they are out of the way | was not forgotten at home. The through strong drink; they err in) purple heart won't do him any vision, they stumble in judgment. | good NOW. | For ali tables are full of vomit and Those hoys of ours who are build- | filthiness, so that there is no place ing, fighting Japs, mosquitoes and clean.” ... heat ought to deserve some con-| I hope Mr. James R. Meitzler and sideration from the mail depart- all that believe like him will read | ment. . . . The radio advises write up and rightly divide the word of to your boys to keep up their mo- | truth. rale. What's the use when they are! not delivered? ” “YOUTH LIVING A HIGH LIFE NOWADAYS”

By H. M. B., Indianapolis

words, signed.)

” ” “IS THIS WHAT WE PAY TAXES FOR?" By A Taxpayer, Indianapolis To the taxpayers: We taxpayers support the board How can I believe what you say 5f health and in return they are | when what you ape speaks louder g,nnosed to keep our city clean. | than what you say: About two months ago the board of | Men and women, young girls and heath had a notice in the paper young men are living a high life requesting you to call them if your nowadays and some of them profess neighborhood was

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infested with | |

but it's sad to look on them and o,( immediately and rid the neighknow that they are far short of the borhood of the rats. [right way. | The rats in my neighborhood are Women and young girls sit around so bad that they are coming in my | and strut around in public places house, If I knew what to do I ‘smoking and drinking their beer would do it, but nothing I do gets ‘and whisky and wearing their | rid of them. I have called the board (dresses way above their knees. Had of health: they promised to come they been caught in such a garb 26 out, then they didn’t do it. I called |yvears ago as they wear nowadays again and again and all they do is they would have been arrested, and take my name and address, and | they are far different from our that isn't getting rid of the rats. |great-aunts and grandmothers years| I am the mother of two babies ‘ago that stayed at home and wore and I guess one of my babies will |dresses down around their ankles. have to get bitten by the rats be- | They would at times smoke their fore the board of health will do clay pipes for a toothache. Back anything. Is this what we pay taxes then sometimes the preacher would for=the runaround? ‘take a drink of good whisky for a 4 a % 'eold and there wouldn't be any harm “REDUCE THE FARE | to it. ”" { Because of such an influence of 70 5 CENTS By A Rider, Indianapolis

(harm the strong drink is doing| I ld like for the h bi | on e for the honorable

Side Glances—By Galbraith

mayor to tell the people of this city what is going on in regards to rate reduction of our city public carrier.

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because peopliaren't

"Now remember—if they ask us to stay for dinner don't refuse,

Some fellow I do not know comes lout that he wants reduced rates but |it seems he wants to raise the streetcar fare to a dime and give| [free transfers, which is 3% cents |increase to 0 per cent of the riders. A check on several lines shows 70 per cent of the riders do not require a transfer, so I am told by a railway employee. Reduce the fare to five cents, give free transfers and remove the un- | necessary steel in the streets and bus station.

» “THANKS TO ‘VOICE IN THE CROWD'” By An American, Indianapolis I wish to thank “Voice in the Crowd” for taking care of Mr, Daacke in such a fing manner. Mr. Daacke evidently thought I was just playing hopscotch. It's true that Christ and His disciples had things somewhat in com. mon, but the one who held the bag went haywire, . Then the early Christians had a common fund, but Ananias and Sapphira lied about funds, met violent deaths, and caused a scandal. Others got to leaning too much on their shovel handles, causing so much dissatisfaction that the experiment ended. .Spongers and crooks are a drawback to good government.

“Voice in the Crowd,” let us h us 10 oop

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insisting these days!" slg’ dg,

mendous victory for Secretary Cordell Hull a

are to be tied

| on record for a world organization after the war, with

the United States participating, to keep the peace. Behind the committee of five, but not pmesent i the flesh, will be the pugnacious intruder, Wendell L. Willkie, for the Republican Post-war Policy associa tion. Standing figuratively alongside the ruddy-faced, 64-year-old chairman—for they will not he present either—will be such party leaders as Senators Taft of Ohio, Vandenburg of Michigan and Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio. Mr, Willkie, on the one hand, and these men, on the other, symbolize a conflict which has been raging within the Republican party. It broke into the open most recently at the national committee meeting in St. Louis last Decembmer in a fight over who should be national chairman.

Aware of Battle

MR. SPANGLER .s acutely aware of this cone tinuous battle, for he was the compromise candidate who came out victorious after a deadlock had dee

veloped at St. Louis between the Willkie forces and

the “regulars.” The chairman treads political land-mines, How far the commi{tee representing the rebelliong Willkie wing of the party gets in its conference with

constantly in a field of

| Mr. Spangler will become apparent when the official

Republican post-war advisory council meets, Sept, 6 and 7, at Mackinac Island, Mich., for its first session, The council is composed of national committee mems=bers, members of congress and the 24 Republican state governors, a total of 48. ; The committee from the Republican post-war policy association, which will see Mr. Spangler con= sists of Mayo Adams Shattuck, president of the Massachusetts Bar association, chairman; Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, eastern.co-chairman of the association; Mrs. Frances Burke Redick, secretary of state of Cone necticut, and Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of Lafayette college. Accompanying them will be Deneen Watson, Chicago lawyer, national chairman and founder of the association,

And Then Mr. Willkie

AT ITS RECENT New York meeting, in which the association advocated a post-war world organization, it also endorsed a resolution adopted hy the Republican national committee at a meeting in Chicago, April 20, 1942, which said: “We realize that after this war the responsibility of the nation will not be circumscribed within the territorial limits of the United States: that our raion

has an obligation to assist in the bringing about "3

understanding, comity and co-operation among the nations of the world in order that our own liberty may be preserved and that the blighting and destructive processes of war may not again be forced upon us and upon the free and peace-loving peoples of the

earth.” 5 There is a story behind that April, 1942, resolu«

tion, and it involves Mr, Willkie. Much against the will of some national committee members, the 1940 candidate forced that resolution upon the commitltee, by threatening to fly out from New York and appear personally unless the committee adopted suchy a declaration. Now Mr. Willkie has gone a step further in agitate ing endorsement of a world organization. He is bringing pressure from every direction te get the G. O. P, leaders to take that next step.

In Washington

‘By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 27.—Re= percussions of the recent Henry Wallace-Jesse Jones fight are apt to be bouncing around in administrative circles for many moons to come. First off, you may expect soms sort of a face-lifting operation to save the vice president's face. The: White House administrative assistants and budget bureau experts who presumably wrote the executive order divorcing Mr. Wallace from his heloved board of economic warfare are now reportedly going around wondering how they really could have y been so cruel to Henry who is, after all, No. 2 man in the New Deal. Early reaction was that Henry had been ditched. That sentiment is changing now, Henry must be made to look good. Secondly, it is going to take months to effect the reorganization of the Wallace and Jones govern= ment agencies which the executive order so glibly shuffled about. So vast and so complicated have these multi-billion dollar government agencies be= come that there are few people even in government who know what they are doing.

Collossal Complications

THE FOREIGN operations of the reconstruction finance corporation subsidiaries, for instance, are un= believably colossal, and all bound up with domestis operations in the same commodities. Switching control and management of these corporations is the

| equivalent of a series of international big business ,

deals which would take private industry months and. months to negotiate. . To get some conception of wiat this order means, it is necessary to invent a parallel. Imagine, then,

| that one of the big corporations like General Electrie

or General Motors were ordered to transfer all thei foreign business to another company overnight. Thig: switching aound of government agencies is a bigger deal by far than both the two examples would ke, together, for the reason that the RFC subsidiary ops.

| erations are in the cases of some 50 items monopoly

trading rights. Involved are such things as the pur= chase of Cuba's entire sugar crop, import of all wool from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa for distribution to both the United Kingdom and the United States, the import of all strategic materials from Russia, and so on and so on and so on. Third, congress is going to have a look at all these goings on. Sen. Harry Flood Byrd's committee on the, reduction of non-essential federal expenditures previously indicated a desire to look over RFC ope! tions. The President's order transferring the foreign part of this show to the new Office of Economic War= .

fare under Leo T. Crowley specifying that RFC should A

continue to finance them until OEW could get its own’ appropriations from Congress simply means that this whole business will have to be opened yp and some of it so fantastic that it will not bear scrutiny because of the tremendous multi-million dollar losses which it necessarily involves. ":

State Department Takes Over POURTH, AND most important of all, the shuffling of these government operations was: state department, by reason of the fact that the policy making on all non-military foreign operations

of all BL agencies is now to be managed hy

the state departmient and hereafter.all together throu the foreign. seits

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