Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1943 — Page 16

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943

D NUISANCE TAX FoR those who delayed buying the federal auto use tax stamp ($5) the task of getting one now becomes more difficult. Originally on sale at all post-offices and in many stores, this stamp now can be purchased only in seven internal revenue bureau offices in the whole state of Indiana. There is a new edition of the stamp ($4.59) available at post-offices for any motorist who can prove he did not

~ drive his car during July. Otherwise he faces the extra,

bother of applying to an office that is probably distant from his home and often difficult to reach. In adhering strictly to what no doubt are the regulations covering the sale of these tax stamps, the collector of internal revenue may very well be doing a service to the people of Indiana in the long run. This tax is-a needless nuisance. The total amount of money it brings to the United States treasury is insignificant in today’s budget figures. It places an additional levy on the already overtaxed automobile just at the moment when use of the vehicles has been sharply reduced and when further restrictions in driving appear imminent. It should. be re- ~ pealed. If enough motorists are annoyed by it ‘eventually it will be repealed. S

' WITHOUT STALIN

HE announcement that Prime Minister Churchill is in Canada preparatory to another conference with President Roosevelt is good news. The closer the co-ordination of allied policy the better. . Indeed, allied military progress has outdistanced political policy so far that the enemy is now taking advantage of the lag—in Italy and elsewhere. Since the only hope remaining to the enemy is to divide the allies, and thus trick us out of a total victory and a durable peace, lack of allied agreement on major policies leaves us dangerously vulnerable to enemy maneuvers. Unfortunately, most of the pending European questions cannot be settled by London and Washington alone. They involve Russia. They must be passed on by Stalin, who has hitherto declined to join Roosevelt-Churchill conferences, Since he will be absent from the conference table again, the president and prime minister will be definitely limited. ‘Somehow, somewhere, they must manage to negotiate a closer working agreement with Russia. The lack of agreement is only too well known to friend and foe alike, because Stalin constantly publicizes it. His paper Pravda has revived charges that the western aliies broke their definite pledge to open a western front, and is demanding that the alleged pledge be honored immediately.

E don’t know the facts as to this—any more than we know the facts as to Russia's relation to the Pacific front—but we db know that allied negotiation of differences ~ of judgment would be more effective than propaganda campaigns injuring mutual confidence. \ ’ The break between Russia and Poland also is common knowledge. The entire allied policy \regarding application of the Atlantic.Charter to Eastern Fiirope is up in the air. From Finland to Rumania the claims of Russia are ~ unclear or conflicting. In Yugoslavia Moscow is supporting one guerrilla group, London another. And in North African and French policy, Moscow’ 8 position has differed from that of Washington——though in this case Moscow and London seem to have co-operated. Much more serious is the apparent difference regarding Germany. While the Roosevelt-Churchill policy is unconditional surrender of the German army, Stalin has said he wants to wipe out Hitlerism but not all German military force; and the Moscow-inspired “Free Germany” committee has in effect warned Germany against occupation’ by [the western allies.

T is not pleasant even to list these disagreements, much less to stress them as Moscow does. But, since they exist, obviously it is to the mutual advantage of all concerned to reconcile them. There is nothing wrong in Russia striving for her own interests, or in Britain or the United States doing likewise. But the fact that nations so far apart in ideology, ritain and the United States have found it to their higher interest to fight as allies against a common enemy is the 08 ost eloquent proof of the need of unity now. Russia at unprecedented sacrifice is winning on the battlefield, ‘with British. and American aid which she (n owledges. Russia cannot win the peace without allied also. ‘The same applies to Britain and the United States. ‘e hope that Stalin i is realist enough to recognize this, and ] b there will soon a Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin unity

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|By Westbrook Pegler”

but unassimilated New York union _ politicians, for a brisk opinion on

The Communists are a minority group of the so-called American Labor party and, for several years they have been trying to get control of the key offices, according to their standard plan as

| followed successfully in the Newspaper Guild, the pseudo-artistic guilds

Lawyers’ Guild and some of the in Hollywood. The majority’s political faith is not quite Communistic but pink in relation to revolutionary red. The party was designed to be a balance-of-power

and thus to be more influential than the American major parties. It does not go out after major offices on the basis of its own competitive strength at the polls but contents itself with supporting new deal candidates, and others who look promising. Thus a mincrity European bloc would decide issues and elections according to the European plan which degenerated into tragic absurdity and finally into disastrous political confusion,

ALP Warns Members

IN A final appeal to the members of the so-called ALP, this committee published a display advertisement Tuesday warning the members if the communist wing should win the primary, the party would become “another Communist party adjunct.” “The so-called left wing, representing the thinking and the politics of the Communists, is nothing but

a Trojan horse smuggled into the ALP by the Come munist party,” the ad said. The ad then frankly boasts that the ALP, admittedly a minority group, “nevertheless holds the balance of power in our state and points the way to the future for the entire nation.” In other words, David Dubinsky, Alex Rose, Luigi Antonini, Dean Alfange and a few other professional political unioneers representing a mixture of leftish political philosophies imported from continental Europe, look to a day when their minority holding the balance of power between the Democratic and Republican parties may decide national elections for the Americans and their leaders may collect their reward in the way of influential national offices and European innovations in our government.

meaning thé Communist wing.

Cite Marcantonio's Action

LET US examine the regord of their lead spokesman: “Vito Marcantonio,” who is Fiorello LaGuardia’s political protege and leader of the Communist racial agitation in Harlem, “has consistently opposed in congress during the period of the Nazi-Soviet pact, measures for the defense of the United States. “He voted nay on appropriations for construction of ships and planes. He voted for Ham Fish’s plan to postpone the draft for 60 days. He voted against the selective service act. He voted against lend-lease. He voted against the bill giving the president the power to seize the ships of aggressor nations, “Marcantonio changed his mind when the Soviet Union was invaded. So did the Communist party. So did the ‘left wing’ controlled by the Commute; party.” So also did Joseph Curran’s national markime union, which now controlls on the Atlantic coast the manning of the great American merchant marine, a national asset of the United States and the property. of the whole American people, although the advertisement, pardonably did not digress to the extent of saying so. “Where,” the advertisement asks, “would Ameriga (and Russia) be if this nation had followed the advice of Marcantonio and his ‘left wing’ during those darkest hours of the war?

Feed-Box Information

the Communist-controlled ‘left wing,’ has followed no less faithfully every turn and twist of the Communist line, In 1940 Connolly in a speech declared that ‘President Roosevelt is betraying the American people and will destroy our labor movement.’ “Today, these ‘left wing’ leaders are proclaiming their undying affection for the president.” There is much more of it and, of course, none of this is news to any American who has watched the communist operations, but coming as it does from the European bloc itself, the admission is feed-box information. These people know each other and when they get into jealous spats they shrill the truth for the neighbors. Incidentally, in the same paper which carried this ad, Mr. Antonini, of David Dubinsky’s garment workers, boasts of receipt of an “underground” message from the Italian General Federation of Labor telling of a strike of “irresistible proportions” against the Badoglio government—which would seem to be good news, if true. But do you know what would happen to George Spelvin, American, if he put himself into communication with any underground organization in an enemy country? ; The FBI would be all over him in an hour and he would spend the rest of the war in a federal prison, that’s what.

We the People

By Ruth Millett

IT IS a wonder anybody ever worries for fear things women do will take away their femininity.

seemed “like heaven” to her and she wrote a letter asking a Red Cross employee to bring her one from

| the United States.. She also wanted such other femi-

nine finery as silk stockings, gloves, evening shoes,

fine was her punishment,

ni JF 4 ‘Important

resents not labor but the political | ambitions of 4 few naturalized |

group in New York, a minority with decisive power, |-

“What is the left wing?” the advertisement adie

“EUGENE CONNOLLY, second in command in’

WASHINGTON, Aue. ‘12—Dure

‘ing the decades he dianapolis, before he’

United Mine Workers’ BE

ters here, John L. Lewis was & ..

high tariff Republican. ~ Hoosier Republicans who come i

across the current issue of “The

United Mine Workers Journal,” can rejojce Cin Mr,

completely Lewis’ return to that Jim Watson .

ideal. For there is an editorial in Mr. Lewis’ magazine entitled “The Same Old Ma« larkey” which should make Wendell L. shudder. It reads, in part, as follows: “It 18 easy to see that Vice President Wallace hopes to take labor's mind off of wages, off of ‘Little Steel’ *

and off of OPA by telling us of the good times we " are all going to have in the’ sweet bye and bye’ when ys

America assumes ‘world leadership.’

“Stripped of the political patter and ‘come on’ 5

stuff, Wallace's speech (in Detroit) boils’ down ww the same old pleas for international free trade that

| the Wall Street bank circulars have been printing

The Hoosier Forum

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

“REFORM GROUPS MAKE MESS OF EVERYTHING” By ao Ratcliffe, 2101 Boulevard »l., Apt. 217 ;

I hear so much about child delinquency, there is no question about the seriousness of its existence. I think the question is the cause. If a disease were to break out and run amuck among people, the doctors would not just find a treatment, they would do some research and find the cause and try to eliminate it. Well, there is a cause, and

it would not take much research to|

find it. I was born in Indianapolis, lived in same most of my life. I am at the age where I have lived in about three different ages. Boys and girls are about the same as ever; they are about the same anywhere you go. A boy steals a car to do one of three things: To get money to be

'a big shot, to take a girl out, or is

just plain nuts. When I was a boy I used to swim in old dirty creeks. I have walked 10 or more miles if I did not hop wagons to get a clean place to swim. A boy with a good baseball, glove, and a bat was the boss of the gang.

A boy with 200 marbles was eithef"

a champion or rich, Any -boy in Indianapolis can swim in a clean guarded pool within a couple miles of his home. All boys have balls and bats, marbles that they put in the rings, we used for taws, It is not that the cities are too large that is the cause of delinquency. Here is a cure, give the city more police like Preston Heater, Jack Hadaly, P. Henry, Dan Cummins, Dan Hailey, and many more that I have not time to mention, and a chief like Cliff Beeker, stop these over-indulgent parents and reform societies from their infernal meddling and petting and covering up, give Indianapolis another Judge Stubbs. . . . The truth is, it was not their intention, but these reform committees have done nothing but made a mess out of everything they have tried to do. Their first bungle was to go into the red light districts, run the prostitutes out of their homes, make

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them move next door to you, your mother, your sister or your wife. . No, they were not through, they wanted prohibition. I don't know why after one mess like they made they were not satisfied but undertook something bigger. You know the restits. . . . ” ” » “THIS IS NO TIME

FOR PETTY POLITICS” By C. W. Hinshaw, Indianapolis. We are fighting a great war for freedom of expression. Our kids are out there giving their all to win and then to come back to their country and to their city. We at home are supposed to be shoulder to shoulder in our efforts to bring this great task to a successful conclusion. We at home elected a military man as our mayor. becausé many figured he could blend the military with the civilian affairs and it would make for Tine leadership. The citizens felt this “military mayor” was greatly interested in their welfare and the: welfare of the city. - He made promises of reorganization of the City hospital, and building a much needed Indiana ave. bridge, he championed the cause of his city workers, his city firemen and policemen, and the other workers of his city were going to be given the raises that the newspapers and public have clamored for, for three years. His great campaign promises have been swept aside in a maelstrom of his “organization’s” grab at the “booty” of their election win. Their present attitude of “to hell” with anybody that didn't vote for our “military mayor,” or who are not in line with the party's patronage -czar, exmayor chuck-hole Charley Jewett,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

has turned what had possibilities of a good administration into the most clownish political exhibition this city has ever known. Our “military mayor” and his organization's ability at making wholesale unwarranted vice raids, of making a big “local issue” of who to make the city park superintendent, of arguing down a $12 raise on the year. for ‘his policemen and firemen, must have made him the “funny man ef the year” .for our local boys that are away at the “fighting fronts.” Certainly the public can't go on accepting this strangle hold that this Tyndall-Jewett group has inflicted on their city, and the everyday lives of all Indianapolis people. Certainly this is no time to be concerned with petty political issues. The citizenry won't be hushed by the big stick of a Desi-feathering political group. This group had better forget its differences and go to work for their city, -for we know what's. wrong with Indianapolis and we are going to see to it that the problem is solved in time for our boys to return to a city of political happiness, where all can express their opinions without fear, otherwise their fight and the hours we are spending on production for their fighting will have been in vain. . ” » 2 “AS UNLIKE AS SEWER MUD AND LIMBURGER” By Jasper Douglas, Indianapolis Our friend Edward M. Maddox is doing a mighty good work for his country in his frequent bursting into print in condemnation of socialism, communism and naziism, for in his classing them all as one he displays an ignorance of the subject which will awaken curiosity in the minds of many of his readers and cause them to investigate the three isms to find out what it is all about. As a fact there is no similarity between naziism and communism. They are as unlike as limburger cheese and sewer mud and both smell rotten. Socialism as advocated by the Socialist Party of America will stand the most searching investigation and those who Tread its literature and learn its aims and objects cannot fail to see that it is pure democracy and when inaugurated will forever abolish poverty and lessen its offspring crime and disease. It stands for a community ownership and democratic management of production, transportation and distribution of those things that are vital to human welfare with employment of every man and woman who wants a job at a wage that will enable those who do the useful work to buy everything that is needed for comfort and enjoyment. No unearned profits to idle drones who now are in control of industries that they have inherited and have never done one cents worth

every month for 26 years. It's the same old malarkey that Richard Cobden and John Bright peddled to the British 100 years ago. They fell for it and got low wages and the vilest slums in the western world, 2

Bankers 'Cut In’

“BUT IT WAS fine for the fat money changers of London who manipulated the foreigh exchange markets so as to ‘cut in’ on every shipload of stuff shipped across tlie seven seas.

“They got a bite out of every farmer’s crop and an

‘cut’ out of every workingman's pay check. Naturally the New York money changers want to do the same thing, as the world’s financial center leaves. London to come to their town. And even if he doesn'd know it, Wallace is a good salésman for them. can talk about ‘liberalism’ and the ‘common: m until the cows come home, while his family works prisoners of war on the corn farms that breed hybrid corn seed for the Pioneer Hy-Bred Corn Company out in ‘Iowa where the tall corn grows.’ { “If Wallace comes to your town we advise that % committee of genuine working people ask him to talk about wages, price levels and ‘Little Steel’ larceny from the workers, right now. This is the time. A “Unless he can get down to such brass tacks his baloney is just more dust thrown in the eyes of labor. There is just one way to deal with these politicians who try to soft soap labor and this is to tell them ‘Put it in the pay envelope’ and ‘Lay it on the line.

‘Wage Based on India

“AS FOR international free trade, the people who cry for that really hope for a wage standard based on the lowest common denominator of the world labor market—Hindu labor at 7, 10 and 14 cents per day, according to which locality it is hired. “Does Mr. Wallace like that sort of thing While denouncing ‘international cartels'—that is, industrial monopolies owned by the capitalists of many coune tries—~he wants this country to quit making, syn rubber after the war so that the international ruse cartel running rubber plantations with serf labor i Malaya and Sumatra may not have to compete with modern rubber making, “Another of Mr. Wallace's international afliations is that his right hand man in dealing with other nations has been Nelson Rockefeller, son of John D., Jr. Maybe Nelson is that ‘common man’ Henry thinking about when he speaks so. unctiously of th coming ‘century of the common man.'” \

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-—Any day now, you may read an announcement that the U. 8. gove

ernment has made a deal with the ,

Cubans for the purchase of Cuba's. entire 1944 crop of sugar. The making of this deal is be« coming quite an annual events This is the third year in a row that negotiations have been han dled on an entire crop basis. The Cuban sugar planters and

| the Cuban government send up a delegation to do the

dickering. They put up in the de luxe suites of the more expensive hotels. They are made much of at the Cuban embassy and the Cuban ambassador, Dr,

Aurelio ¥. Concheso, takes them around to the state =

department to meet Secretary Hull. The Cubans love it, and no wonder. Washington, hot as it is, has something in its favor over Havana. in July and August, . When the boys get around to making’ their d there is none of this “We gotta have $2.75, all we can’y pay is $2.50, let's split it at $2.85, okay it's a deal” stuff, The negotiations drag on for weeks, with daily huddles. After all, it's a $150,000,000 to $200, 000,000 deal for 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 tons, Which ain’d hay, but is a lot of sugar,

Signing Celebrated WHEN THE deal is closed, sométimes the contract is signed in Washington, sometimes in Havana, but the custom has been established to have the Shak signing announced in Havana with & great b flourish and one ‘great big party, which is jusit@ed. Sugar ‘is Cuba's life blood of If Cuba can’t sell sugar, Cuba goes broke, ; The pressure is, t oes Jus > the. Cuban deles : gation to make the besp try, to make a better deal rosie they made the

before, and to make it 100k good. in any event,

Cuban national pride is involved, and gradually. gringos are learning how to play the game. Busin men types in the CCC and the DSC who would like to close this deal in a hurry and get it over with are now properly restrained by. state department ine fluence of protocol and punctillio. © So the Cubans announce the deal in Havana and it's their shag which is as it should be. The importance of the negotiations for the 1944 crop, which opened in ‘Washington in mid-July, can’t be exaggerated. On the outcome of this contract will depend whether or not you get all those “greatly increased allowances of sugar” which the president passed out with Such. SsSUEBNSE Dd generouity: In Hg last fireside chat. :

Premature Promise? SOME SUGAR brokers and even some government officials say that the President may have been alking about too much too soon. After all, the contract 4 next year's Cuban crop hadn't been signed at time, and men in the sugar business, who seem conduct their business in a couple of hours each day and then spend the rest of the down rumors, haven't been able to see where

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