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MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1843
“WE CANNOT TOLERATE THIS” h AND when bombs fall, remember that the blood of every Italian struck is on the heads of the men in Rome, who, in Italy's hour of decision, have temporized instead of acting for honor, for peace and for freedom.” With this fixing of responsibility on the Badoglio- Savoy dictatorship, the allies have warned the Italian people of the de-
struction to come. Rarely has there been a more bitter—and justified— indictment of a government, than this broadcast from Eisenhower's headquarters against the regime that succeeded Mussolini. : Reminding the Italian people that—"while you were working for your liberation” and while the allies “let up on the aerial bombardment’—the Germans were allowed to use “that breathing space to strengthen their own position,” the allies name the guilty: . \ “And for that, full and sole responsibility rests with the new government in Rome. Had that government acted speedily, Germany by now would be in full retreat. But instead the new government temporized. It missed the opportunity. It permitted the Germans to recover. Ital ians: We cannot tolerate this, and we issue to you this solemn warning: The breathing space has ended.” » » =» » = - HOUGH it is now thus officially charged that the new Rome regime has stalled for a week, allied generosity was not in vain if understood by the Italian people. For it is the people, and not the Rome dictatorship, that count —the people who, in the end, will force an armistice depite
Badoglio. Now that the Rome regime has discredited itself in the | eves of the Italian people and of the allies by this betrayal, | its days of usefulness as am axis stalling device are probably numbered. The axis may soon be looking for another dics tatorship to repeat the tragi-farce of the past week and to gajn more time by trickery. Maybe the crown prince will replace the king, and Marshal Graziani take Badoglio’s place. Anyway, Eisenhower is wise in resuming the attack to force unconditional surrender quickly, either from this regime or another. Only in that way can chaos be stayed, and victory advanced.
FISCAL BOTTLENECK . N recasting the budget for this fiscal year, President Roosevelt again points out that the hundred billion dollars of war expenditures is increasing the demand for civilian goods at a time when the supply of these goods is diminishing. Again the president warns that in wartime we must reduce our standards of living. Again he calls for “a truly stiff program of additional taxes, savings, or both,” saying that “the cost of living cannot be stabilized unless price and wage controls are supported by a further substantial absorption of purchasing power as a deterrent to bidding up prices and resorting to the black market.” And once more he elaborates that the alternative to stabilization is inflation, saying: “Inflation is the most inequitable way of distributing | the necessary wartime curtailments. Inflation shifts the full burden to the shoulders of the people in the weakest | bargaining position, the people whose incomes do not rise ! with increasing prices. Inflation also reduces production by creating unrest and friction.” x - » = = ”
QINCE the war began, Mr. Roosevelt's statements on what | is required in the way of a wise fiscal policy have left nothing to be desired. Those statements have been clear, concise, positive and indisputably correct. But there has been a world of difference between the president's statements of policy and his execution of policy. In executing fiscal policy, the president deals through the treasury department and congress. The role of the treasury is to present to congress proposals designed to effectuate presidential policy. But the fact is that, although nearly 20 months have elapsed since Pearl Harbor, the treasury has not yet proposed an adequate war revenue program. Indeed, by playing politics with tax issues, certainly with the knowledge and presumably with the consent of the president, the treasury has blocked most of the constructive revenue efforts originating in congress. Secretary Morgenthau’s attitude is that any tax proposal is no good if he didn't think of it first.
COMPULSORY- savings law would have been adopted long ago if the treasury hadn't blocked it. The treasury tried to defeat, and did delay by a year, the pay-as-you-go reform in our income-tax system, using demagogic and phoney arguments that “forgiveness” would rob the government of revenue. How dishonest those arguments were is shown again by the president's new budget estimates that pay-as-you-go will boost revenues more than five billion dollars this fiscal year. This is recalled just to keep the record straight. It’s all water over the dam. We can hope that in the future things will be different. The only reason for hope is that War Mobilizer Byrnes and Economic Stabilizer Vinson apparently. have taken a hand in administration fiscal policy, and they may be able to work out a real war tax and horrcwing pro-
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—In 1938, when Frank Knox was still free to speak his mind, he wrote a boek called “We Planned It That | Way,” the title being a pat phrase | which President Roosevelt had | used in claiming for his first New | Deal full credit for the monetary | economic rally of the nation which | had quickly been put down. | In this work, Mr. Knox dis- | cussed, among other matters, the New Deal's propaganda services, paid for out of the people's taxes, which had for their purpose the glorification of the personalities and policies of the administration and the abuse of business and those individuals in business who had the patriotic temerity to raise a political opposition. Mr. Knox, now secretary of the navy, perceived that this propaganda machine, since expanded into an international outfit, was similar to those of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin and developed his argument at considerable length,
Propaganda Agencies in All States
THERE WERE New Deal propaganda agencies In | all 48 states, he wrote, whose purpose was to Spread the message of the New Deal and the president and | to report to Washington any hostile or suspicious movement among the citizens. | If any prominent person criticized the administration, he said, that person would presently be called before a congressional committee for investigation, publicly castigated by some obedient office-holder or harassed by the internal revenue in some tax matter. Or, possibly, all three of these punishments would be visited on him. Even if the citizen's tax returns were in good order, the usual effect was to frighten him into future silence by the very belligerence of the treasury’s investigators. | Mr. Knox said a full list of these agencies would require several pages and that a full revelation of their duties would require a separate book but he had found 70 of them listed under the first three letters of the alphabet. | He then observed that the dissemination of
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propaganda glorifying the party in power at the | people's expense was the technique of the Com- | munists, the Nazis and the Fascists, and charged that | the New Deal's machine had been created in open | contempt for laws forbidding such use of the people's | money. He also cited the law, and said he personally believed the president of the nation should be the first citizen to obey the law.
FDR Objective: I-Man Government PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, Mr. Knox believed in |
1938, had gtaken the country far along the path | of socialism leading straight to communism, naziism | and fascism and ‘he was explicit on the point that he no longer believed, as he once had believed, that | all this was the work of inconspicuous planners who | were taking advantage of the president. He said | Mr. Roosevelt himself was responsible for the New | Deal and that his objective was one-man government. Indeed, his very reason for writing his little book was that he, Mr. Knox, still believed in the traditional American democracy and had become convinced |
by his acts that the president did not believe in it. | what the person has for his services| As that was his reason for writing the book. so | after he pays his income taxes, his raised again long ago if Gen. Mac-
is it my reason for citing from this and other works | charities and his community obliga- Arthur had been sent half the help |
of men who have shown beyond challenge their ferocious detestation of fascism and its equivalent, communism, in a running reply to the new and daily more bold and clamorous New Deal propaganda which would identify with the enemy and as American Fascists, all who have fought the New Deals extension of its power, oven the peopie and property. I have observed this insidious adoption, in the guise of social and economic reforms, of measures and methods which Mussolini borrowed from his former Communist comrades and called fascism and which Hitler in turn, borrowed from the bum and called national socialism. For tracing the parallel I have been hammered persistently by organizations and individuals professing to believe in democracy.
‘Mr. Wallace Is Enemy of Labor’
I BELIEVE, too, that Henry Wallace, the vice president, meant me when he spoke last Sunday of “midget Hitlers who continually attack labor.” He knows I have never attacked labor by as much as one word and he knows, too, that his administration hss created the equivalent of Hitler's labor front and, like Hitler, has used the power of the government to suppress independent unions. Mr. Wallace is one of labor's deadliest enemies because he approaches labor in the guise of friend and labor trustingly believes him. Mr. Wallace said powerful groups of money-loving American Fascists were trying to take advantage of
| President Roosevelt's preoccupation with the war to | destroy his domestic achievements of the last 10
years. My earnest contention, so help me God, is that Wallace and the Communists are taking advantage of the patriotic preoccupation of the whole American people to establish in this land the equivalent, their American adaptation, of the very vices that the nation is fighting to destroy abroad.
We the People By Ruth Millett
A COUPLE who have gone out of their way to be hospitable to the war wives among their friends
received a gift from one couple, |
separated by the war, with a card on which was written, “Thank you for all that you have done for us.” It was that “us” that got the couple thinking. They had seen a lot of the wife, but they hadn't seen the husband since he went into service. And yet he felt that in being a friend to his wife, they had done something for him. And of course they had. The couple decided that if the average person thought of helping war wives as doing something for service men, the war wives would be less lonely and would find their friends far more understanding and helpful. They are probably right, for most people are interested in doing things for service men. It just doesn’t occur to them that perhaps a man in service would be made happier by having his wife invited out to a nice party than by being entertained himself,
Service Men Worry
FOR THE average husband who goes away and leaves his wife to live alone does worry about her loneliness, and about what would happen if she were where she needed help. He has been used to looking after her, and he can't stop without some worrying. If he knows that their friends are seeing as much
gram with congress. That hope will vanish if it is found that Sécretary ithau is still F ; is.
The Hoosier Forum
disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
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“GIVE MEN PROPER CREDIT IN INCOME FIGURES”
By Voice of the Crowd Much loose talk is entirely legal and is tolerated under our rule of free speech. Oftimes it is libelous, however, to victims that are valuable to our economic welfare and deserving of better consideration. Abuse of our privileges is the reason for most of our laws and the
| mounting cost of law enforcement. ihe rather vague excuse that all birth of organizations comparable
In the interest of unity and a
| much better understanding it would |
seem that no one could publish figures or give them verbally relating to anyone's gross income. If anyone publishes figures supposed to represent any person's earnings, those figures should be
tions. And further to keep the information straight it might be well if the informant also stated what
the offense can’t reach it. Don’t demand any rights, but clearly prove to your fellow men you are entitled tq all rights and privileges. As it now appears—you have some among you who are demanding equal rights and privileges and in doing so are being extremely rude and discourteous, the result being open conflicts—here in free America. If such is allowed to go on what will be the result but a re-
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'the other flags must be saved first, to the Ku Klux Klan and you will and our own flag last Gif at al.| lose the golden opportunity for
: genuine equality. Very few Americans and very few * ” ” h st of th ld can accept | [o. oi yy as must | “ONE DRINK. CALLS FOR ; ' ANOTHER . . , ENSLAVED” all the other flags be saved first? ANOTHER By Kenneth Pope, Franklin
Our own flag could have been 1 ith H. M. B. 100 per | agree with H. M. B.
cent. Anyone who upholds the sale and use of intoxicants cannot be a true Christian. They have a form | of godliness but deny the power |
that had been sent to save the | other flags.
will make it harder for Hitler. | holding Washington and London at arm's length is
the person's tax liability would be| And the very patent reason why in case of his death, this has not been done is because A man might gross a million [raising our own flag again would dollars in a year. After he pays his bring Gen. MacArthur into a promtaxes and meets the many obliga- | inence that would interfere with tions that such a man might meet, | the president's fourth-term plans. his net amount may conceivably| Must Americans then see their be well under 10 per cent of his OWn flag continue to lie in the supposed-to-be earnings. Such a Mire to serve one man’s political man’s earnings may be the life | ambitions? blood of an orphan’s home or a! school, or several community char- “CAUTION AND DISCRETION ities. It is criminal to condemn CAN BRING EQUALITY” iy Bs 45 gp to ive [mv Henry W. Reger, 1909 N. Talbot ave. No one is to get rich from this! A message to the colored race of war. Congress by a wise move gave America, | opportunity to all to get their tax Abraham Lincoln, the foremost payments on a current basis. What exponent of freedom, gave your
they actually and very wisely did | : was to clear the decks in prepara- | forefathers freedom by issuing his
tion for real taxes that will make Bmancipation Proclamation Janu- | every person conscious of his obli- ary 1, 1863. This was followed by gation to the national expenditure. the 13th, 14th, and 13th amend-
: . n = ments, which gave you equal rights “WHY MUST WE SAVE with your white brethren, but OTHER FLAGS FIRST?” By I. R. Destin, Columbus | equality with the white race in
| We listened to President Roose- every sense of the word throughout | velt's latest speech, and we noted this paradise of freedom of ours. that not once did he mention the You are on the threshold of acAmerican flag. Yet he must be quiring equality in every respect—if jaware that all the world knows | you will proceed with caution and that under his administration the discretion. It is up to you to prove American flag was torn down for | by vour deeds and actions not just the first time in the history of our | your equality but your superiority nation, and that, under his policies, to your white brethren. You can do that flag is still left lying in the|/this by raising your moral mire while he busies himself using {standards by improving your homes America to save the flags of other and living conditions, by working nations. |longer hours and doing better work Nor did he once mention Gen. than the white people. MacArthur, who still begs for aid| Improve your minds by taking adto raise that flag again. And at vantage of the educational possibilino time has the president ever | ties at your disposal. Work fur the | given any adequate explanations for | sole good of thy nation. If anyone | thus ignoring our own flag and should take offense to you—ignore | Gen. MacArthur, except, of course, |it by raising your soul so high that
Side Glances—By Galbraith
thereof. No harm to drink? It wouldn't be [if a person would stop with one | drink but one calls for another, etc., | until they become enslaved and can't give up the habit . , .
| It is time that Christians arise |to be doers of the word and not
| hearers only. » » » “WHY DOESN'T HE GET MY V-MAIL LETTERS?”
By Mrs.: Mable Jacobs, 735 Massachusetts | Ave,
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After reading a seabee's mother’s | larticle in the paper—on why our
| boys don't receive any letters, I too
lam a soldier's wife and my husband
| hasn't received but two letters from
J me since he arrived in North Africa.
|'They were forwarded from his last | camp in U. S. A. He writes and begs me to write—probably thinks |T have deserted him. I have writ-
two and three.
He is now in a hospital and would |
enjoy hearing from me. He has written to several of our friends saying his wife hasn't written to him. Why doesn’t he receive those letters and where are they? I received one from him today written on July 18—funny I get his letters.
ey & “I LOVE CHILDREN— BUT NOT VANDALISM" By N. 0., Indianapolis
In answer to Mrs. K. V. : “What are we going to do with
our children?” I wish to state that I rented to ‘people with one to three children land every time they moved out, I had to have the house completely 'repapered and the woodwork repainted as the children tore the paper off the walls and marked with ink or other fast fluid on the painted woodwork. So I would ask the people if they would watch their children and not let them do such things, and they always said
things. So how can you blame a landlord if he has to continually keep spending every time a family moves out? I myself love children but it is the parents who are to blame for such vandalism. So raise your child right and it won't do such things. * » = “WE VOTERS DON'T NEED PEGLER'S ADVICE...” By Herschel W. Kern, 621 Arch st.
In regards to Pegler’'s column of July 30, here goes my dollar to the
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Post-war Puzzle
By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—-Lack of understanding between United States, Great Britain a. the Soviet Union with regard to the post-war set-up. in Europe is causing increasing anxiety here, The sudden downfall of Benito Mussolini seems fo have caught both Washington and London by surprise. - Thanks to the fact that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were already in complete accord on Italian policy, however, the epochal event did not disturb the even flow of An American relagions. But what if Adolf Hitler were to fall? This is not regarded as an academic question. Many believe his exit will come as suddenly and as unheralded as Mussolini's. In the absence of any German agreement between Russia, Britain and America, what would happen? I have discovered no one here who can answer that question with anything remotely resembling confidence. There is a world of guessing, much of it with forebodings, but nobody seems to know. For while it is agreed that Britain and the United States would take it in their stride as they took events in Italy, Russia's attitude remains a dark mystery. When Russia became a member of the un nations and signed the Atlantic charter pledges, it was felt that collaboration between the big three was assured—not only for the duration, but after tha war, Of late, however, the signs seem to be increasing that she intends to hoe her own row.
What About 'Free Germany'? 3
MOSCOW HAS broken with Poland and gives no indication of a desire to resume relations despite the outstretched hand of the government in exile. She is fostering a Polish “army” in Russia which i none too friendly toward the Poles in London. d earlier in the week she announced with considerable fanfare, the formation of a “free Germany” moves ment in Russia, the purpose of which being to overs throw Hitler and set up a new government in Berlin,
All concerned more than welcome anything that But Moscow's way of
not exactly heartening. More and more it is felt heres that Marshal Stalin has his own ideas with regard to Germany, eastern Europe and the Balkans, and that these are not in line with those of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. What then, it is asked here, will be the policy of Washington, London and Moscow? Will they quarrel over which regime to deal with? Grave Trouble Seen 1 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT this week repeated that what we must do now is to defeat the axis and dis~ cuss peace details afterward. Diplomatists here agree with the president, But they insist that unless Mos= cow, London and Washington can agree on funda=mentals now—as Britain and America agree, say, on Italy—there is bound to be trouble, Certain circles in London take a gloomy view. The influential Londun Times says there seem to be oRly two ways out. One is to ‘assume that in ce areas of Europe, where British interests are regarded as predominant, the ultimate decisions will rest with Britain, acting in close understanding with the United States but independently of Russia, and that, in certain other areas of special concern to Russia, notably in eastern and central Europe, the ultimate decisions will rest with Russia acting independently of tipo United States and Britain.” Which may be true. But it offers little inducement for the senate to come forward with the pledge of full
collaboration in the post-war world which so many are urging it to sign, sight unseen.
In Washington
By Peter Edson
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 = When congress comes back Washington in September, one its more immediate problems, not directly connected with the war effort though related to it, wiii be what to do about the U. 8S. syse tem of transportation. Not just the airlines, but the railroads, the waterways and the bus and truck
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lines. All of them are making money now as they never made it before and should be reasonably happy, but theyre not. They are clamoring for more planes, busses, trucks, barges, boats, locomotives and cars to take care of their increased war business. They will be clamoring even after the war is over to get additional equipment to replace that worn out in war service. . If there's a post-war business boom as most people anticipate, all such new equipment be used, for the old saw has it that “transportation the life-blood of trade.” So, what's to be done to regulate transportation? Before anything can be done, congress may have to decide on policy. It can be piece-meal policy, deale ing with each phase of transportation separately, though it would be better if it were an over-all cam sideration.
Some New Legislation
PENDING IN congress is the so-called Lea b which would reorganize control of aviation. It championed by Congressman Clarence F. Lea of Santa Rosa, Cal, chairman of the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce. : Senator Burton K." Wheeler of Butte, Mont., chaire man of the senate commerce committee, has ane nounced he will present new legislation to prevent railroads from owning and operating busses trucks. Wheeler is also opposed to railroad opera v of airlines. Senator Bennett Clark of University City, Mo, chairman of a commerce subcommittee on aviation,
their children did not do such! has yet to determine what legislation to recommend.
Chairman Land of the maritime commission
| that the U. S. war shipping fleet be kept on the 3
after the war. As a war emergency, the government has built several pipelines whose post-war place in the national transportation scheme must be determined, Water and highway carriers, now under interstate commerce commission regulation, would like separate control to get out from under what they consider railroad domination. On the other hand, the railroads would like to see unified regulation of all means of transportation by
one central body.
‘Integrated’ Transportation IN ALL these varying points of view you have makings of a major internal economic dispute that
can be settled only by the establishment of a ny
tional transport policy. ~ Railroad investors have their own solution for this muddle in their proposal for “integrated” systems of , combining all air, rail, highway and