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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1943

OCCUPATION DOLLARS HEN the Nazi hordes poured into France they brought with them ample supplies of paper money which their * soldiers spent freely in French shops. The money had no value, as-the French soon discovered, but no Frenchman dared refuse it as legal tender. The Nazis called this currency “occupation marks.” The Japs did approximately the same thing in the Philippines with phony money they had printed in advance of the invasion. Americans roundly denounced this practice at the time . as nothing better than looting of civilian property in occupied areas, which of course is what it was. It is, therefore, a little disquieting to learn that American soldiers in Sicily are being paid in paper money resembling Italian lire, but which has no known value, and that they are spending this money in making personal purchases from Sicilian civilians. The Constitution of the United States explicitly reserves to Congress the power to coin money and regulate its value, and we recall no act of Congress authorizing an issue of Italian lire, or the payment of United States soldiers in any currency other than United States dollars. Presumably the government 6f the United States has no intention of looting the meager property of the impover- ' ished Sicilians and in fact, on its past record we might rather expect fantastic over-payment to them. So far our government has given no hint .as to where it got authority to print this money, how much the money is worth, or how it expects to redeem it.

® = » 0 DOUBT it is desirable for occupying troops to have a medium of exchange acceptable to the native populaOur troops usually have had, .As any veteran of the A. E. F. will recall the native populations of Europe in 1918 were quite willing to accept ordinary United States money, and ~ even, in remote and backward villages, a few United Cigar Store coupons. There may bé some good reason now why . our troops abroad in 1948 should not be paid in standard United States dollars, as, the law provides they shall be— but if so the reason has not officially been made public, On the contrary this “occupation money,” worth whatever our government may sometime later decide it is worth, has interesting possibilities that will not likely be over- - Jooked by our native uplifters, intent on quarts of milk for -Malayans and the more abundant life in Labrador. Is all Europe to be financed, as our armed forces reconquer it, with printing press money for which the United States has somehow assumed some kind of responsibility ? Are we to undertake, with the credit of the United States and a printing press, to stabilize the monetary systems of the rest of the world by tinkering with the value of a currency issued by the parallel to their own? Is congress, as a fait accompli, sometime to be handed the bill for an incalculable number of francs, marks, lira and zlotys : at a rate in dollars that cannot even be estimated now? . Probably not. But in all fairness to American tax- : payers and Sicilian farmers, our government should make an ‘immediate and complete and candid statement of its intentions as to occupation lire.

F. D. CATCHES UP ON HIS FISHING THE president is back from Georgian bay with a healthy tan and a confident smile—and we trust with relaxed rierves and a few tall tales about the fishing. One secret of Mr. Roosevelt's great staying powers is his habit of occasionally shrugging off the endless troubles that pile up on him, and taking a train or a ship to some far place where he can refresh his skill with rod and reel without interruptions by bureaucratic “crises.” ; For 10 years and 5 months he has carried a load that would have broken the health and spirits of any man who the rule against taking himself too seriously. There en many things in his day-by-day handling. of his d in his over-all perspective, in which Mr. Roosevelt t been as wise as we had wished. But we think he has shown a remarkable and rare wisdom in knowing that there are limits to what one man can accomplish, and in realizing that this resourceful country can be trusted now and then to roll on without his guidance. :

Te Sow. ee. ” HERE! is a moral, too, we think, in considering those who * accompanied the president on this latest fishing trip— ‘and what happened in their absence: Adm. Leahy, his chief ‘staff; Adm. Brown, his naval aid; Gen. Watson, his secretary aid; Adm. Mecintire, his personal physician; immy Byrnes, his home-front stabilizer, and Harry Hop-

kins, his “man Friday” in both world and ward politics.

These are men through whom radiate the great authority of the White House. While they are in Washington | nothing much can happen without their participation and assent. But last week they were out of Washington. And bow did things go?

~~ Well, Secretary Hull continued to Koop the ship of | ‘state on an even course. Gen. Marshall and Adm. King | continued to run the war. There are some who called last | week the greatest wesk of the war inmilitary and diplomatic

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By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—I never did give much importance to the document called the resolution of the presidium of the executive

committee of the Communist In-’

ternational which ‘was broadcast last May and ballyhooed the world over and accepted by most of the world as an act dissolving the socalled comintern, which is Russia’s fifth column in other countries, including ours. Any government which was capable of maintain] ing such an organization in the first place would not hestitate to practice a small deception in its own. interests, and’ intelligent and wary people cannot be d to believe anything it says or rely on any of its promises.

The Communist faith is so treacherous and im-

moral that no act which to normal and decent human beings is wrong is forbidden a Communist if it serves his political beliefs and aims. Anything that serves communism is right and good, and that is the only moral test that a Communist knows.

Wrong No Wrong to Communist

TO HIM it is not wrong to commit a wrong but it is grievously wrong to refuse to do so if the interests of communism seem to require such commission. He is exactly like the Nazi and the Fascist in this respect and the fact that he is at odds with the Fascist and Nazi, and for this reason is killing, large numbers. of Nazis, should not confuse our judgment. Some of our statesmen and our people go in fear that if we recognize these truths and keep them to the fore by discussion Joseph Stalin will be hurt in his feelings and moved to decisions harmful to us. This is an absurd proposition and more uncomplimentary to Stalin than anything that could be said about the known duplicities of his Communists in our midst, for it assumes that he is a man who would make important decisions petulantly when the fact is that Russia's interests are his only guide in all decisions. He would neither take any action unfavorable to us for any such reason nor be swerved from any such decision out of gratitude or friendliness begotten by any act of appeasement on our part. So even if the resolution of the presidium of the executive committee and so forth had, in fact, professed to be a dissolution of the fifth column known as the Comintern and repfesented here in a number of C. I. O. unions which enjoy the favor of the New Deal administration, no shrewd or cautious American would have had any excuse for believing it.

It's Jargon and Double Talk

AS THE resolution itself said, in the course of a long and strikingly Hitleresque confusion of ideological jargon and double talk: “Communists have never been supporters of the conservation of organizational forms that have outlived themselves.” This means that if and when the Communists decide to reorganize their fifth column and reshape it and rename it, they will do so; but nowhere in the resolution is there any excuse for believing that they have any intention to abandon its activities and purposes. But the fact is that this resolution did not announce the dissolution of the Comintern, and the further fact’ that editorial writers and savants and commuters of the 5:15 all’ though it did constitute a triumph for those who composed the resolution. They tossed off a whole newspaper column of rhetorical rope-tricks and by the time the saps got down to the important part the effect on them was the same as that induced by a particularly goofy chapter of “Mein Kampf.” This is not accidental. It is methodical. Did the last paragraph of this resolution say the Comintern had been dissolved? Well, what do you think? “It says the presidium and so forth, “puts: forth the following proposal for ratification by the sections of the Communist International.”

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pf > : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“EQUALITY IS A THING THAT HAS TO BE. EARNED” By Mrs. Herbert Larson, Indianapolis In an article Friday evening, a

the Negro people. Mr. Bush and any others interested in opportunities and improvements for the Negro race should

read “The World's Biggest Negro Business” an article in the June issue of * Reader’s Digest in which Charles C. Spaulding, 68-year-old president of the $60,000,000 North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., made the following statement in regard to equality for his race: “Equality is a thing that should not be demanded, because it cannot

- {be granted. It has to be earned.

Davies Swollen With Importance

THE “FOLLOWING proposal” is that the Comintern be dissolved but the resolution itself is not an act of dissolution, although it was gulped down as such all over the world and the Communists, themselves, in the United States secretly chortled over the dumb stupidity of their enemies in deceiving themselves through careless reading. I am afraid that it is going to be necessary to stand toe-to-toe with Joe Davies and Henry Wallace on this issue of communism in our country because Davies, greatly swollen with self-importance, and Wallace, grim and hot-eyed with the zeal of the political bigot, would have ‘our people trust Stalin and the Communists with unquestioning faith—which is one sure way to set our country up for a serious disappointment. They have almost succeeded in making us believe that we have had solemn promises from Stalin, the non-fulfililment of which would grieve us sore, when the fact is that he has not bound himself to serve anyone but Russia and has let us do all the promising and idealizing. And that resolution did not announce the dissolution of the Comintern.

We the People By Ruth Millett

No Utopian dreamer can achieve it for another man. “You can’t drink from the spring high upon the mountain unless you climb for the water. If the Negro wants equality—except of opportunity—he must pay for it, and, the unalterable price is character “and achievement. “For a long time, possibly forever, there will be two distinct races in America, and instead of insisting on the forced recognition “of socalled equality I’ give my time to bringing up the level of my own people. They can, by attainment, without being like white people, still be Americans of whom this country can be proud. The fact that our races are segregated does not prevent the Negro from rising. It is idle and foolish to talk about gaining equality, except equality of opportunity.” Mr. Spaulding is doing his race the greatest kindness possible hy such a ‘statement if they vill only heed it. . Though the papers didn’t tell the facts concerning the riot in Vancouver, Wash., a few days ago, it like many others throughout the nation, have been provoked by unthinking men putting Negro fore-

“| men over white workers. This will

A RECRUITING OFFICER for the WACs says that the reason many childléss war wives don’t

get into uniform is because their |race

husbands want them to stay at home and “keep things as they are” for the husband’s return. She says a good many wives to feel that their husbands are right in that attitude. But the recruiting officer points out: “What they don’t realize is that things are going to be different; that the man who enters the sérvice is going to be a different man. He will have been places, lived through exciting experiences and will have a different outlook on life.” That Is something for a wife without children, whose husband is in the servies or soon tn go, fo think about, . The role of the little woman sitting at home wait-

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never work and any thinking person can well realize that this isn’t equality of opportunity but merely an act to gain favor with the Negro at a terrific price of life and

Mr. Bush demands equal rights for

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equality opportunities for the future. : Certainly it is all right for a Negro to become a foreman, a president of a. company or any position he can earn by way of advancement through capacity and knowledge, but. he should be put in charge of those of his’ own race unless riots are desired, for otherwise they are inevitable, Roosevelt, Wallace and Willkie all advocate equality for the Negro— yes, but would they be willing to socially live and mix with them or have them as next door neighbors? Politicians have been known to mix with them for a dinner .or a tea, but it was purely politics or diplomacy. The Negroes should have their own businesses, nice homes, cars, parks, theaters, and recreation faciilties, but no greater thrill is ever felt than that when people acquire something by their own ingenuity. That has been the American way and it should continue. To dole out homes, parks, theaters, etc, does not strengthen a nation or provide that incentive to improve conditions around themselves, that comes only from private enterprise and the privilege of exercising one’s own free will. People can live in their own section of a city, carry on business and enjoy a free way of living without friction if they will only settle down to having city council meetings at which representatives from every race and class of a city gather and plan the spending of the city budget with a view to distributing the public funds according to impending needs and usefulness. When riots among their own race cause a damage estimated at $5,000,000 as the recent one in Harlem,

their request for equality sounds

Side Glances—By Galbraith

pathetic. It is a shame that this should have happened for the Negroes who have earned the right of equality of opportunity are punished with the rest who for the lack of reasoning and self-control resort to such marauding. Pushing the white women off sidewalks and threatening the men does more harm to their cause than good. These are the ways that lead to civil strife and certainly now of all times when we are at war outside this nation this is no time to stir up race troubles within. May plans be offered and cooperation be given to settle matters in a responsible and friendly way. » » » “WHY DOESN'T OPA DO

SOMETHING ABOUT IT?”

It is not very often that I gripe about anything but when I do it is usually for a good reason. Tonight, we went to a certain ice

asked for two pints of ice cream. We had to purchase an extra pint of sherbert to get the two pints of ice cream. The government asks everyone to save on everything and buy no more than we need. We have always tried to do this because it is a patriotic duty. It so happens that there are four in our family. Two pints of ice cream is not any too much; as you might know. We very seldom go to shows or buy unnecessary luxuries. I do think people are entitled to some pleasure at least. My point is this. Why doesn’t the OPA crack down on this practice. Another thing is that we ordered a pint of “pecan cream.” j no more pecan in it than nothing: What was supposed to be pecans was nothing more than “grape nuts” or some sort of &ereal. Another thing is, why doesn’t the

OPA do something about market prices. On City Market, grapes, 40 cents a pound; apples, 10 and 15 cents a pound; tomatoes, 10 and 15 cents a pound; roasting ears, 5 cents each. Watermelon is 5 and 6 cents a pound. Where is the ceiling or price control? I heard a comment on the radio tonight where wages have risen higher than prices. They may have for' a few, but my wages haven't, and I'm a defense worker, in office work and not factory work. I think the white collar man should be given some consideration

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By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Alr. "force friends of Col, Reed G A dis of Stout field, Indiana ; * predicting that he soon will brigidier general. . y For with the transfer of Brig.’ Gen, Fred 8S. Borum to ‘a new: assignment, Col. Landis was named commander of the first troop carrier command. Head-

quarters. are at Stout field, but’

its operations encircle the globe, Col.. Landis has been chief of staff of the organiza=' tion since its inception. ‘He was at the two-day glider show at La Maxton army air base, N. C., when his prom

commander was announced. He took it with the °

same nonchalance as shown by Maj. Mike Murphy of that post doing nine loops in a glider. Son of Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the 46-year-old colonel and world war I ace, is a jaunty officer with, plenty of zip. Although he calls himself a

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special” soldier, .he fitted in nicely with Gen. Henry Hh

H. Arnold, air corps commander, and the numerous two and one star generals on hand for the Sligee, show.

A Speech Maker, Too

IN FACT, he impressed the visiting newspa P with his speechmaking at dinner in the Officers elub,’ Paying high tribute to his predecessor, Gen. Borum, he told -the several hundred officers attending that he expected to see his command carry on with conte’ tinued efficiegcy. “The troop carrier command is somethisig far more, than a group of aerial chauffeurs,” Col. Landis’ “We really are Paul Revere’s horse.’

He then outlined the command's many accom, plishments since its activation. They have carried’ men -and munitions to all the great fighting and evacuated the wounded. It is his men hon the gliders carrying the airborne troops and to new rank—flight officer—Col. tribute. Earlier one of the generals, with an Alabama ace cent, had talked about the new tactic of “vertical envelopment” and pointed out that the glidermen and paratroopers are prepared to carry out thak great military axiom summed up by Confederate Gen. ‘Nathan Bedford Forrest's saying: y “Get thar fustest with the mostest.”

The 'Rebel Didn't Yell'

COL. LANDIS cited the similarity between tha and the motto of his command which is “Vincit Qui Primum Gerit,” meaning “He Conquers .Who : There First.” He slipped however in attributing’ Forrest saying to “General Sherman.” iy The southern officer smiled and said nothing, Asked later why he had not given the “rebel yell,” he said he did take the point up with Col. Landis later and they had a good laugh about it, Although born in Ohio, Col. Landis expressed 3 deep feeling of kinship for Indiana and the Hoosiers, His father’s youngest brother, Fred Landis, long a Progressive Republican leader in the state an had been elected to congress from the second’ trict when he died. pe! Congratulated on his speech, Col. Landis said? “It comes natural. Speech making is just in the Landis blood.” Another Stout field officer who made a hit with the visitors was Maj. Barney Oldfield. He reportedly has become somewhat of a Paul Bunyon character among airborne oops, just as Maj. ™ is

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By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON; Aug. 11.-If, in smug complacency and optimistic over-confidence in the belief that the war's going to be over quick, you lean to the belief ak: there is no use worrying & t the threat of naziism in this c try, you're just kidding yourself, Nazi propaganda in the United’ States today appears to be just

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is being financed is still somewhat of a mystery. If it is being financed by German. money, cashed in the United States before this country got into the war, it is hard to trace because money tends to lose its identity in passing from hand to hand. But even if the downfall of means the end of the Nazi party, there is no assur= ance that the source of funds will dry up, for right within America means have apparently been found to continue the publication of millions of copies of tracts, pamphlets, direct mail pieces, vermin weekly newspapers and slick paper monthly magazines. It preaches a line of hate Britain, hate i hate international world Jewry, race hatred wiki the United States.

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Few Battle Propaganda - THE BATTLERS against this domestic propaganda are relatively few. There is no one in congress crus sading against Nazi propaganda today. In fact, all the crusading seems to be on the other side. Throughout all ‘the’ “literature” printed and. distributed in the United States today, there is an undercurrent’ tionism disguised as nationalism, and from

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. ters, circulars and mailing pieces point to the leader-

ship of Senators Burton K. Wheeler of Butte, Mont. Gerald P. Nye of Cooperstown, N. D., Representative ‘Hamilton Fish: of Duchess county, N, Y. Clare E, Hoffman of Allegan, Mich., and Paul W, Shafer of Battle Creek, Mich. i Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin, who against the United States declaration of war in both 1917 and 1941, was defeated for re-election in 1943 but her “farewell speech,” in_ which. that Pearl Harbor was the direct result dr a Churchill agreement to bring this country | war, is still being circulated, sometimes un postal franking privileges of ‘an boisdcin minted congressman. ;

Crusaders Lauded

"ONLY A FEW crusaders have continued to Nazi propaganda in the United aig singe