Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1943 — Page 16
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THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1943
DRAFT FOR WOMEN? HETHER or not you agree with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt—and we sometimes do not—her ideas are always interesting and often important, since they have, upon occasion, turned up a little later in the form of presidential
directives that have the effect of law. So when she returns from her travels and suggests that unless more girls enlist in the WACs, WAVES, SPARS, etc., and pretty soon, too, women will have to be drafted to fill up these services, it may be more than just idle conversation.
The army and the navy are, in fact, very highly pleased with the performance so far of the patriotic young women who have enlisted in order to free men for actual fighting service, and enlistments are still being sought. But it may be that Mrs. Roosevelt is looking too far ahead, this time. What the need for more women to enlarge these auxiliary services may be we do not profess to know, and we don’t believe Mrs. Roosevelt knows, either. But obviously it cannot be very great or the government would not be able to keep 840,000 young men of draft age—the equivalent of 56 army divisions—in civilian government jobs, most of them with no connection whatever with the war and many of them doing things that might much better be left undone.
PROGRAM FOR PEACE
HE Indiana Committee for Victory is performing a valuable service to this community in bringing here next Monday evening two distinguished members of congress for a discussion of America’s part in world peace.
Senator Burton and Representative Ramspeck, a Republican and a Democrat, are among the leaders in the two houses who are seeking a way free from party bias to solidify sentiment in the United States in favor of full American participation in responsibility for world order. Both house and senate have now before them resolutions setting forth their proposals of general policy.
Paramount in the building of a successful peace is full participation by the people of this country, through their elected representatives in congress, in its construction. Another peace treaty drawn in secret and handed down from a star chamber session holds no more hope for permanent freedom from war than past treaties have held. Today, with victory in the war at least in sight, is none too soon for a serious discussion of a program for peace, and of our own part in that program.
THAT UNION ‘PURGE’
. F. of L. and C. I. O. politicians are preparing to attempt a nation-wide purge of congressmen who voted for the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill. Local union organizations throughout the country are being told to organize active opposition to them.
But this is something which may very easily boomerang.
A considerable number of congressmen who voted to | pass the Smith-Connally bill over the president's veto had | for many years earnestly supported legislation sought by union labor. But they failed to be 100 per cent subservient to the union politicians; they wouldn't support the cause of strikes against the government in time of war. So, for that one act of independence, they are scheduled for the purge.
We have a hunch that this brazen belligerency of the union politicians will boomerang at the polls. For every test of public opinion has shown that the people—aven union members—wanted such legislation.
A lot of congressmen are apt to gain supporters because of the enemies they have made.
Moreover, the issue is so clearly drawn that candidates ‘who gain enthusiastic labor indorsements are likely to find that they are a liability. For such indorsements will ‘be accepted as proof that they favor a policy of governmental surrender to war plant strikers; that, if elected, they are willing to become rubber stamps for union leaders.
By their blacklist, the union politicians may furnish the voters an easy guide for marking their ballots.
A MATTER OF ORGANIZATION
HEN the president rebukes the office of war informa- : tion for crossing up administration policy in foreign broadcasts on Italy, we wonder why it does not occur to ‘him that foreign policy is the state department’s function, and why he doesn’t place the overseas branch of the OWI under direction of the state department. That is what he had to do recently with the board of economic warfare, which also was running crosswise with the state depart“npnt,
Secretary of State Hull enjoys the full confidence of the American public. He has earned the full backing of the president. There would be fewer causes of embarrassment if the president would channel all foreign office affairs through Mr. Hull.
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OVERLOOKING BRAINS
D*® MINNIE L. MAFFETT, president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs, complains that the war is being slowed down because ghe government is not making use of women’s brains.
& Not to be bitter, and conceding that there are many pxceptions—there are those who hold that the war is being flowed down because of the government's failure to use
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, July 20.—Denunciation of fascism comes glibly from such men as Henry Wallace, who use the word as a big, rugged rock to heave at all who resist their attempts to make over the American society and economy with materials imported from Europe and with the help of diligent, even pestiferous personalities steeped in European thought and tradition. « Such men are displeased with this America, and the Europeans who are so influential in Washington bring only European blueprints for reform or improvement. Fascism, to such minds, is big blisiness, the same big business whose managers have toiled tirelessly to achieve the colossal production of all the weapons, vehicles and vessels of war which smashed the axis in Africa and Italy and enabled Communist Russia to save her life when her own long and secret prepararations for war fell alarmingly short of sufficiency.
They Were Enthusiastic to Produce
IT WAS ODD that such men, if they were Fascists, were so enthusiastic over the task of manufacturing on a scale that Hitler and Mussolini never thought possible, and that some of them, in fact, and the sons of many of them, went to the war in person to kill Fascists. But for big business and the devotion of its managers, the United States might be invaded by the Fascists of Germany, Italy and Japan today for the government, of which Mr. Wallace and so many others of like mind have been a part for 10 years, had concerned itself with politics, the planned exploitation
of want and the impairment of industry to the neglect |
of the nation’s fighting powers. Nor can it be said, when this marvelous production
has killed fascism in Europe, permitting the Commu- | nists to substitute their equivalent of fascism in large | areas, that American big business provoked the war as |
a means of selling its products and making profits. These men knew there would be no profit for them or anyone else in this war and they lagged until war was upon us because Mr. Wallace's government had no plans for them and because they still re-
‘membered that their kind had been called merchants
of death after the last one. They realize now, moreover, that when this one is won some great change must ocgur in the United States because the debt will have to be written off one way or another and not handed on to new generations and 10 million fighters will have to be absorbed back into domestic life and twice that many civilians relocated, fed and employed,
Does Initiative Constitute Fascism?
THEY WANTED no such change in the United States for, defending the old order which had made the nation great enough to defeat armed : hd ruthless fascism, they were called Fascists, themselves, as though initiative, ingenuity and ability and freedom of the individual from government controls constituted fascism. Meanwhile, however, they have seen Mr. Wallace and his regime imposing more and more of fascism or communism, for they are interchangeable in all important points like two automobiles off the same line, different only in the radiator caps and hubs. Mr. Wallace and his school rather lean to communism without frankly adveeating it. The clements of fascism which they have introduced in the guise of reforms have been taken from the book of Lenin rather than from Mein Kampf. Yet the effect is the same and a nation which grew up and grew great far away from Europe in spirit as well as in miles has been tinkered and defaced with European devices developed for the control and the support in decile poverty of masses of people in lands where there was not enough to go around and opportunity meant only a chance to live a little above the poverty level, with the state standing over to give alms and demand obedience,
How About Those Mobs in Michigan?
THE CORRUPT heart of fascism is graft, cynicism, state espionage over the people and gang politics supported, in case of need, by gang violence in the streets. If Mr. Wallace will look to the record of his own regime he will find that these elements of fascism have been the strength of his party. His mobs in Michigan were no gentler than Mussolini’s early Blackshirts but he has never been heard to disawn them or disavow their insurrection nor was it in the character of this pious idealist to repudiate the political support of some of the foulest scoundrels in American history when their gangs turned out the vote in Chicago, Jersey City, Boston and Albany to elect him vice president of the United States. Hitler and Mussolini also promised, and gave their people pensions, vacations, fixed wages, medical care and something called security against their employers.
We the People
By Ruth Millett
UNLESS THERE is some reason why she has to live in a city, a war wife with a child or two is much better off if she picks a small town for her duration home. Friends are easier made in a small town than in a large city. The folks who live next door in a small town are usually neighbors, in the real sense of the word. And knowing a good percentage of the people she sees on the street gives a woman alone a sense of really being a part of her community. Life isn't nearly so pleasant for the woman who has a child, but no husband ‘to look after her, if she lives in a large city—where people are impersonal, and most of the people she sees in the course of a day are strangers. And the very aloneness of a war wife living in a large city can have tragic results. In New York the other day the wife of a soldier living alone with her four-months-old baby died of a heart attack, and by the time her body was found her baby had died of starvation.
Choose Small Town
THERE ARE good reasons why many war wives live in large cities after their husbands have gone into service. But if they are free to rhake a choice of where they are to live—the small town is usually a better, safer place for them. And having their families settled in a small town would probably be better for the husbands, too. For at least they would know that if their wives needed help, there would be help at hand. City wives should consider the advantages of a small town when they are deciding how and where they will live for the duration.
To the Point—
WOMEN STILL talk about their bathing suits though some have littie to speak of.
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“HE SHOULD SEE A GENERAL RUNNING CITY” Recently in a statement for the press, Senator Vandenberg of MichMacArthur for president of the | United States. | ability of Gen. MacArthur as a soldier, but as Gen. Pershing once said ; “ _|nature of soil, and also plant life. ng! Se y igh dliiee, 2 4th g sol {Don’t think you are going to learn| ety. ny Po y [the many tricks in gardening in a | y Ks. Mr. Vandenberg should see the|f¢W days, or from books results of a general running a city deners will beg. to go places. Too in Indianapolis, then I think he|Many experts make you wonder. , |W would change his mind in regard 0) Study the nature of your plant {by watching it grow, tiien go right 2 ” ” ist. “ AN'T BE change its natural way of existence, GARDENING C Some may have ripe tomatoes be-| By J. F. Hoover, Batesville not do it. They just had an earlier As 1 promised on July 20, I kind. A 70-day tomato means just would give the readers a few sejen- Hore ar¢ few of the many dis- | tific pointers on different subjects, oes to watch for. First, Common | deners a break. The Victory Gar-| dew, Fruit Rot, Leaf Spot, Point dener’s Almanac is far from scien- | Rot, Western Blight, and Wilt, or tific methods in gardening. poor rattled, if your tomato starts to of actual experience have taughtiy,,.. yrown or yellow underneath. make Buy nan 8 gardener OF farmer. ),ocely around your plant, just You must get right into the soil enoung to keep the wind from drag-| in | over a period of years. Then Infgrgung Experts have a big name years to come, you can win by €Or-|gon it hut it is not a disease. The! earlier years. rubbing the top branches. Now let's see what to do abouj the 8 ‘ P yi» Irwin says tomato worm, sometimes called tobacco worm. Well, Mr. STAY IN WAR” southern tobacco worm, while the By H. W. Daacke, 1404 8, State ave. so-called tomato worm is about E. Remmetter on the improvement| and works on the tomalu roots, 8s in his recent contribution to the well as many other plant roots. worm walk slowly along each row, attached to his article.” I like it a watch the soil under your tomatoes, |lot better that way. I am sure if it, the droppings on the ground will|the capable Mr. Hoover and his effishow you. I carry a pair of shears, cient FBI to take care of the things this. not have misplaced his trust. Now cauliflower, it is too late, for| As we have had no serious losses to 130 days to mature. Even with 200 sabotage by the enemy, as we had days before frost, transplanting in/in world war I, I feel safe in statdog days. Then what, let me tell | we need not worry on that score. you, a nice mess of green and black|I am probably as much interested The remedy that stops them will/this country a better place to live also take your plants. So have it{in, therefore cannot accept it as spring as early as the soil will per- {change the entire form of governmit. ment if I could get results in no that gardening is a trade, one that| Does the gentleman approve of a requires: skill, and knowledge of the'remuneration of $607,048 in 1040,
By Wm. A. Frise, Indianapolis igan proposed the name of Gen. There is no question about the when his name was proposed for And that! is the case of Gen. MacArthur, In 25 years from now, new gargovernment, such as we now have hat next. a soldier running the United States. along with it, but don't try to LEARNED IN HURRY” fore others, but crowding them did] |that, and you can't make it 656 days. | but first, I want to give new gar- Blight, Damping Off, Downy Mil- | {Summer Blight. Now don't get] me that no book on agriculture will Just get a soft string and tie it! with both hands, and stick to it ging the lower branches on the| recting mistakes you made ingame could happen by anything! big worm on your tomatoes. Mr. “THE PROFITS STILL Irwin, it is just that, a regular I want to congratulate Mr. Paul one-half inch long, dirty gray color, s h But in order to locate the big Hoosier Forum, namely, “His name and any plant that has a worm on he will trust the government with and clip them in two plmves try he is so worried about, that he will this plant. They require from 110|due to and directly traceable to July would bring cultivation during|ing that the FBI is functioning and lice, and they will take your plants.|@s any one next person in making out for this year, and start it next|is, without finding fault, and would New gardeners must remember other way. Side Glances—By Galbraith
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$704,425 in 1941, and $949,766 in 1942 for one Individual? Against that let us quote from the late Jane Adams of Hull House, when she said that 50,000 children, less than one year of age, die yearly of malnutrition, mostly lack of milk, The profits still stay in war, in spite of the boast, some years ago, of the American Legion that in the event of another war, capital as well as labor would he drafted. A recent issue of “Your Investment,” the crgan of the American Investors Union, is the authority of the abovementioned salary with the recent abnormal ine¢reases in wartime.
a list of 28 officials mentioned, the proportionate increase over the years mentioned (40-41-42) is about the same. The Elk Hills oil scandal, recently mentioned in the press, similar to the past history of Teapot Dome, the sabotaging of a bomber plant by one of our wealthi~ est men, because of his anti-union attitude, a certain trust in a muchused commodity, withholding possibilities of an increase in farm products of from 30 to 60 per cent on the same amount of land, without additional labor, at a time when we are threatened with shortage, are just a few of the things I refer to as faults. No, I have not forgotten, but still
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jon the part of the rank ‘and file
that makes these things possible. Does the gentleman know these! things and ignore them and just| be complacent, or has he never lear :d these as well as other weaknesses in our economic system?
ys 8 3 “THE KNOCKIEST KNOCKER IN HISTORY”
By Ralph W. Thompson, 2050 S. Holt rd.
Dear Mr. Meitzleér: I wish to compliment you on the good work you are doing for the] Democrat party, As everyone knows | you are a Republican and express the true views of the Republican party. And any laboring man who would vote Republican after reading your stuff would have to be off his base. So keep up the good work, every knock is a boost and you should have a medal for being the knockiest knocker in history.
y uw 2 “WE DON'T WANT ANY COMMUNIST OFFICIALS”
By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis
Well, since Mr. W. H. Edwards sees fit to see mine and Pegler’'s griping, because the New Dealers are, as Pegler says in tonight's Times (July 21) are giving “aid and comfort” to the Communists who have been defined by Francis Biddle as subversive and dangerous to our American form of government, I must try to relieve the boredom of Hoosier Forum readers. Now that congress has become fed up on the great power, influence, favor and immunity given Communists and fellow travelers by the New Deal administration, and after a large amount of public exposure of communistic elements in high positions of power, to which they were appointed, not elected, congress has, at least, tried to purge three of them. A great hullabaloo is raised and the president himself takes the defense of these men upon himself and goes so far as to claim that congress has viclated the constitution! Well, the congress has full power to legislate for the security and general welfare of the people and if trying to clear out subversive officials from government jobs isn't protecting the general welfare of the American people, what is it? Congress has served notice on Mr. Roosevelt that we the people don't want him, his wife, Mr. Ickes, Mr. Harry Hopkins, or anybody else, appointing Communists to run the American people's government, Is that plain? Congress is right. Let us back them up! Out with the Reds!
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ltalian Trick
By Ludwell Denny
WASHINGTON, July 29.—-We had better take a good look at t. Italian dictatorship trick. Becaus! the Germans and others will try it later. The trick is for the milie tarists to keep control and get a compromise-appeasement peace by changing dictators when the old one flops. The German generals will not hesitate to murder or otherwise dispose of Hitler when : he ceases to be useful to them, and when they think they can get a better deal from the allies and quiet the people by deodorizing the dictatorship and making the swastika look like ay Cross. Meanwhile, apparently the Italian powers have bungled the trick with their usual stupidity, To that extent democracy is indebted to them for unwittingly exposing how it is done before they are half way through the routine. In justice to them, however, it must be admitted that they had poor material to work with—-a craven king, who has been the laughe - ing stock of the world for a generation, and buttere fingered Badoglio.
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Badoglio, King's Crutch AND THE KING'S crutch, Badoglio, whom the innocents abroad are touting as the bluff and honest" old patriot who defiled Mussolini, also is a very’ tarnished article. As II Duce’s proconsul in Libya, he was called the cruelest man in Africa—which is saying a lot. He did Mussolini's dirty work in Ethio= pia, and got the title of Duke of Addis Ababa. He was Mussolini's closest military adviser and chief of staff until the aggression against Greece broke down, He accepted membership in the Fascist party. And ’ on Oct. 28, 1939, he sent Mussolini this flunkey's praise: “On the beginning of the 18th year of fascism, I am sure that imperial Italy’s fortune will alway be greater under your infallible leadership.” Tha% Badoglio had the professional soldier's hatred and jealousy of the upstart Duce is doubtless true. That this fawningly ambitious militarist ever fought for the Italian people against the, Fascist dictatorship of which he was an important part is not a matter of record. But it is not necessary to go back to the record, for Badoglio has revealed himself sufficiently since Sunday in his acts and proclamations. In assume ing full powers of dictatorship, he does not even go through the motions of consulting the people. He makes no pledge to restore the constitution or any of their rights. He clamps down even worse supprese sion than Il Duce’s. The only pledges he proposes to keep are those to Germany. He does not forswear fascism and its crimes, or the axis and its loot. He X' orders his slaves to support the king who betrayed them, and to continue a war they never wanted.
Not Apt to Fool Us
ALL OF WHICH is stupid, even for Badoglio. I$ it not apt to fool either the allies or the Italian people, Doubtless the Prussian militarists will be more clever, They made Hitler and they can break him, when there is no longer hope of winning with him, But presumably they will make Hitler the scapegoat of defeat and misery, and not burden themselves an their new leader with that unbearable load—as the Badoglio-Savoy dictatorship is doing. And presumably they will try to buy a compromise peace from the allies by complete elimination of the crude Nazi dictatorship in favor of an iron fist decently gloved. For several weeks there has “been reported dise cussion of Gen. von Brauchitsch as the new military dictator when the time comes-—carefully camoufiaged behind = a “democratic” president-without-powers, preferably a prominent figure from a Hitler concen tration camp, and Dr. Schacht or some other finane cial man supposedly acceptable to the allies, But we shall not be taken in by this trick, nef, matter how cleverly played, if we stick to the allied policies of unconditional surrender and disarmament of the enemy, of allied military occupation until the people are free to choose their own representative government,
In Washington
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, July 29.—A forthcoming plan to “integrate” all the rail, highway, water and air lines of the United States into 11, 14 or 17 regional systems, each system to previde all types of transportation service in its area, is being discussed with increasing concern by transport represent atives in Washington. This staggering proposal has been in preparation for mere than a year. Its genesis goes back to the Transportation, Act of 1940, under which congress created a board of investigation and research to study the relative fitness. of railroads, motor and water carriers for transportas tion services. This board held hearings in Washing ton in June and July of 1942, but its hearings were never published. : A year later, in hearings before the senate come mittee on interstate commerce, some of the earlier testimony beefore the board of investigation and ree search was introduced by the department of justice, Publication of the senate hearings within the next few weeks will reveal the plan for the integration or co-ordination of all the country's transportation’ system in more detail, though complete revelation of just how existing carriers would be grouped into ‘the 11, 14 or 17 regional systems is still to come.
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Reorganization Analyzed
CHIEF DOCUMENT outlining the plan for this national transportation reorganization 1s by Donald » D. Conn of Chicago, executive vice president of the: Transportation Association of America, identified ag a non-political, non-partisan, educational and. ree search organization of 4000 corporations and 20,000 individuals. Air transport, motor truck and water cars | rier executives, hcwever, identify the Transportatio Association of America as a cloak or front for the railroad lobby. Conn's statement declares that the subject of na« tional transportation integration has been under study by his organization for a matter of six—now seven— years. It isn't ready yet, although the transportation association was to present its complete plan to the board of investigation in June,
Task Is Staggering
THE MAGNITUDE of the job is of course stagger ing. Conn is authority for the statement that thai country now has 38,000 truck lines, 4700 bus lines, 2600 water lines, 500 short line railroads, 139. trunk line railroads and 20 airlines. Taking these 45959 transportation services and combining them into 11, 14 or 17 systems would be a banker's nightmare, | It would probably take years to work out plans for the exchange of stock and control to effect the mergers, The idea of the proponents of integration is that it would give the public better service. The proposal is that a program can be consummated during the war period so as/to “avoid the uncertain repercussions of a post-war period of readjustment.” Ant But the anti-trust division of the department of Justice and the airlines and water carriers and motoy lines look on this with suspicion. To them it lookd like a monopoly grab—an attempt by railroad intere ests to get control of all the other forms af transportation and stifle them. That's why these other care: riers would like to see an abortion performed on this’ integration idea before it gets born or, if it ever is