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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1943 .

REFORM IS SLOW

[NDIANAPOLIS and Marion county today face a problem common to many other major cities of the United States —the problem of -efficient operations under duplicating and : overlapping governmental forms that were created to fit an entirely different situation. - The weakness and the extravagant costs of an outgrown gystem as they apply specifically to our own community have been set forth in some detail in the series of .articles which Noble Reed concludes in today’s editions. It an boils down to the obvious conclusion that machinery of focal government that was quite suitable a century ago is inadequate for our needs now. . Marion county is essentially one metropolitan community and any intelligent planning for the future must consider is as such, regardless of city, township and village boundaries. Such problems as sanitation, health, flood ‘control, transportation, police protection and others are common problems of the whole community, and many of them cannot possibly be solved by any lesser subdivision acting independently. ; i . =

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s 4 FOST citizens who ‘have given the matter any thought recognize the need for reform and simplification, which éould provide better community services at lower cost. But the hold of long established custom is strong, and attainment of a modernized system is not easy. In neighboring states, for example, laws were enacted years ago permitting metropolitan counties such as ours to establish streamlined metropolitan governments—and so far not a single major city actually has taken advantage of the oppor- - tunity. i Marion county and Indianapolis are in more favorable position to move in that direction than most metropolitan districts because of the relatively few organized municipal governments within the area. If the current growth of Indianapolis as an industrial center carries on into the postwar period, as it seems likely to do, such a move will become increasingly difficult as moré and more municipal governments are formed to provide the services that will be required outside present city limits. There are many complicated and difficult details to be worked out before any over-all plan can be achieved. It is not a matter to be undertaken recklessly. But it is a question worth the serious consideration of every citizen and every property owner, and every resident who has an interest in the orderly development of this city.

WAR WEATHER

SHE weather has been our major ally in Russia and the Mediterranean this summer. But it is about to change -gidés briefly, That may slow down allied advances for a little while in those areas, though it’ will not prevent action. In the Ukraine the short rainy season begins in about 10 days. Mud makes rapid road movement difficult. There are relatively few railroads and most of them are destroyed. Though the Russians from long experience are better able than the Germans to conquer mud, as well as snow and ice, even the Red army may be unable to push its summer counter-offensive to the Dniéper river as hoped before it mires down.

This doubtless explains in part the willingness of the |

German command to pay such a heavy price to hold Khaikov an extra week or two. The Germans have strung out this battle, which they can hardly win, by taking very heavy losses in both men and equipment. They have even risked: being cut off by the Red army’s double flanking movement, ‘and sent more reinforcements in through the narrowing escape corridor, to buy a few days. Thus, with the aid of the coming rain, the enemy may. be able to stop the Russians just. short of their Dnieper _ goal a8 happened last time. ‘ » #

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HOUGH that would give Hitler a brief respite to reorganize his breached defenses, it would also be used of course by the Russians to consolidate their large sums mer gains and prepare for the greater fall offensive. - The Russians are not apt to repeat the mistake of theiy last precipitate advance into the Ukraine, when they outran their communications and were thrown back. In the Mediterranean the September weather will clip our wings a bit. That area will remain better for flying than the rest of Europe, but the perfect summer when planes could operate any time and all the time will be gone. i That will not prevent allied offensives against Italy or the Balkans. But it will shift more of the job from the air to the allied ground forces.

THE GIRLS CAN TAKE IT | Wyre from North Africa weeks ago, Ernie Pyle said:

“The WAACs are much prouder of being over here, |

believe, than the men are. I doubt if even a handful of ‘them would go home if given a chance.” : About the same time it was announced in Washington the WAACS were to drop their auxiliary status and be incorporated into the regular army, under the new name ‘WACs—and that each member would have. the option of oe on or getting ott. Now comes word from North Atrica that only one { ng to get out and go home—and most tenth are sctupted by family problems back in

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By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 21—~At &

tasks and the maritime service is short of merchant sailors to man the ships, the National Maritime Union, a Communist party-line organization of the C. I. O. yéesterday was able to spare more than a thousand men, ostensibly sailors, to picket the New York World-

The picket-line was an attempt “0 intimidate the paper into suppressing these dispatches, which have factually revealed misconduct at sea by Communist unioneers, including drunkenness, insubordination and

persistent embarrassment and derision of patriotic

bluejackets and young officers of the navy detailed |

to serve the guns on these vessels,

Invarisbly, when the communistic penetration of |

the merchant service is held up to public notice and the conspiracy to establish the alien Communist, Harry Bridges, on the eastern seaboard is dwelt upon, the maritime union cries’ up the sacrifices of men who have lost their lives or sufféred terrible hardships and dangers at sea, as though this récord somehow were to the credit of Joseph Curran, president of the union, who has taken no part in the war at sea hut on the contrary, obtained deferment in the draft for the sole reason that he is a unioneer faithful to the Communist party.

Sacrifices Accentuated

THESE SACRIFICES by men who may have been unwilling members of the union, driven into its ranks by the labor policy of the national government, were accentuated again during the picketing of the World-Telegram. Thé demonstration madé no attempt, howevet, to refute the truth but had for its purpose only the suppression of public knowledge of the conspiracy to establish communistic control of both shipping and the loading of ships on all our coasts. The answer to the emphasis on bravery and sacrifice by party-line shore-side boss-unioneers was stated in salty language a few months ago by a publi~ cation called the West Coast Sailor, official organ of the sailor's union of the ‘Pacific, an anti-Communist organization whose president is Harry Lundebersg, who hates and fights Curran and Bridges because he has their number,

Editorial Is Biting

“THESE ARE those who use the plight of the seaman to obtain cheap benefits and cheap glory for themselves, such as Joe Curran and the N. M. A. officialdom who are breaking their necks to get in the public eye by trading on the misery of the seaman,” said Mr. Lundeberg’s editorial. “They care nothing

about the welfare of the men themselves but are only |

concerned with advancing their phony front organizations and themselves. They do their fighting on soapbozxes in ‘second-front’ rallies staged by the Communist party. “We see the ‘sweater boys’ ‘of the N. M. U. occupying the limelight, performing like a bunch of yellow college punks. Lots of these babies have never seen a ship but are used by Curran and company to ade vertise their ‘contribution to the war effort.” Fortunately, the sailors’ union and the seafarers’ intertional have no need for this type of clowning to survive as an organization. Probably no union: has lost as many men through war activities as has the S. I. U. The record will bear out this fact and we have the names of the various vessels torpedoed, and the majority of the ships sunk on both coasts have been S. U. P. and S. I. U. ships, manned by A. F. of L. seamen.

Ghoulish Performance

“WE ARE of the opinion that it is more than a little ghoulish to use the killing and maiming of our members in order to gain a little chéap publicity for the organization or for any individual.” There was no reason to believe that all or even a majority of the thousand-odd pickets who had no move pressing business yesterday had ever been to sea at all, except perhaps on the ships which brought some of them over from Europe to attempt to substitute, communism and dictatorship for the American form of government. They were the familiar, Union square type of demonstrators, Curran’s record in this war was one of faithful collaboration with Hitler and naziissm while Britain | stood alone in Europe and Africa and Germany and Russia were allies. During that time this party-line union loyal to Communist policy and hostile to this nation’s efforts to re-arm, picketed the White House under the slogan “The Yanks Aren't Coming,” After Hitler attacked Russia, Curran demanded immediate intervention by the United States. - And, in the open letter to me last May he said: “In my opinion, this war did not become a people's war until the Soviet union was attacked.”

We the People By Ruth Millett

THE WAR food administration is planning to dllot more sugar for the making of jams and jellies, becausé it wants the American peo‘ple to eat more bread—a plentiful food. And it figures teat in order to sell the people on the idea; it must be jam-coated. What are we civilians, anyhow, a’ bunch of kids who have to be bribed and cajoled into doing what is’ best for us and for the war effort It looks that way. In order to sell us bonds to fight the war, we have.to be shown promising pictures of what our money will buy for us when the war is over. In order to get enough of us women into our countrys’ uniform (a privilege for women of a country fighting a hard war) we must be shown how much we'll GET out of the experience: In order to keep us from complaining too much

about the things we can’t have now, we have to be |

told constantly what a luxurious life tomorrow is going to bring us, with a private plane for papa and a mechanical dishwasher for mama as part of the picture. . » Everything we are asked to' do or go without has to be sugar-coated.- We must have jam for our bread, promises of 10-fold return on our sactifices.

Jam Not Needed :

- BUT DO we really have to be treated that iy Can't we stand a little blood-sweat-and-tears talk —straight from the shoulder? Can't we be made to see that we are lucky to have plenty of bread? Do we really have to have jam on it? Maybe we've been misjudged. Maybe we aren't the chil our leaders séem to think. Maybe we are adults who can take our bread. without jam and remember to thank the Lord for it

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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly ‘disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“WHAT ABOUT THE WORKER OVER 60 AFTER THE WAR?”

By Will J. Faust, Noblesville

circumstances in after-the-war period is a much discussed topic. Perhaps more so than in 1918, before that armistice, because thé experi-

férent objective. Doubtlessly, the employment quest following the cessation of arms this time is the most mentioned problem. The account given out by the “Century Fund,” New York City, states there are 137 organizations, national - and private, taking cognizancé of this after-the-war condition. Some of this number are studying exclusively a scheme to cope with thé employment of soldiers .as well as the other people for that instance, Here arises a question. What of the ones now employed? This would mean an important exchange in workers, from civilians to soldiers. There will be at the same time a displacement of many now employed into seeking work elsewhere, if obtainable. For a certainty, the men and women in this group past 60 years of age have no expectation of being gainfully employed in post-war time. Here is a case of negation, because of not being young enough, as in pre-war time, to have part in the production ranks. Thére should be ratification of a means to expedite a provision against this, inadequacy, and let them who are eligible have employment for the post-war period. Now briefly, I hold that the plan proffered by Dr. Francis E. Townsend will be of consequence to this after-the-war time. Coincidentally, those not familiar with this movement, I would ask they apprise themselves of this approaching new assighment for mankind that has gained much influence by the continued circulation of the idea in the past 10 years. 2-88 “WE CAN'T PROMISE MILK AND BREAD FOR THE WORLD” By Voice in the Crowd; Indianapolis

No, Pfc. E. R. Furber, I am not a provincial isolationist. I am like you, first an American. Wheh & man realizes that 80 years after our civil war all of its aims of equdlity of opportunity still lack fulfillment ahd that half of our people still differentiate between tlie North and the South; he can readily believe that world unity is still a very long way off. This is not thé last war. We did not start this war and we will probdbly never start a war. It behooves us, theéréfore, to be ready for any war that 18 to involve us,

The uncertain anticipation of

ence since then has designed a dif-

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no mattér who starts the war. We were in an ignominious position in the Pacific in 1942 and it. should never happen again. That is not isolationism, it is common sense. The Unitéd States has 6'4 per

cent of the world's’ population— |

931% per .cent of the earth’s inhabitants aré not under our jurisdiction and more than half of the people aré not under our influence in any way. How can we promise to the world a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread for everybody. What right have we to promise a new world order? We are fighting to suppress some “new world orders,” and we have all we can do to maintain our way of life. We cannot guarantee a world free from want, when they who first want bread increase their wants to automobiles and old age pensions, I believe that every person of every racé that is born into this world should" have opportunity to attain the fullest life possible. We cannot guarantee that equality of opportunity to thé world. We might inspire them to it, however, if we succeed in proving that it exists in America. Our Wrst duty is to attain high charaeter in our national and community life and then protect it against any one who would war

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” s “ADOLF MIGHT KILL ALL YOUR DEAR LITTLE BIRDS” By Richard Bush, 1117 Finley ave:

In answer to L. G. Marshall: It is too bad we haven't more de-fense-minded péople like our city prosecutor whom you so aplty titled, “the champion of our dear defense workers.” Undoubtedly you have never had to try sleeping wheén it is 90 in the shade, all the neighbors’ dogs around your. window barking, and the lady next door lets her baby scream at the top of its lungs for a couple of Hours. I for one can tell you from experience that it is not easy. But you wouldn't know about that, you go to your non-defense job, moré than likely sit at a desk ‘with a nice fan blowing cool breeze over you—or is your office or what have you—air conditioned? By the time you go to bed it is

nice and @ool, all the neighbors’ dogs

Side Sloe Galbraith

. |to hear birds singing early in the

‘| workers who are behind our fight-

.|city in America. (See the Saturday | o ‘|Evening Post; ‘July 24, 1943) and our dog

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and babies are asleep and you can go to sleep right away. It is nice to know that you like

morning. I am so glad you do. Who knows, if we dear, dear defense

ling men don’t keep building tanks, guns, and- planes, we might lose this war. ’ Then instead of a city prosecutor telling you to keep your dog quiet it might be Adolf Hitler telling you to keep quiet. He might even kill all of your dear little birds.

® oN “NOTHING TO DO BUT HEAR BIRDS CHIRP?” By a Times Reader, Indianapolis I'd like to know just whe L. G.

Marshall, 1729 N. ‘Oxford, thinks he is? I'll bet he’s not a defense

you work nights, off at 12 and have

around 2 o'clock and usually 2:30

like to be wikeéned évéry morning at 5 by some disturbance in the neighborhood? No, you wouldn't if you'd tell the

that prefers dogs to children. If that’s all you have to do, sit around and listen to birds chirp, yowd better get out and see if you can’t find a defense job, as maybe you think you'd be helping the war ' effort, -and they don’t want people like you in a defense plant anyway. I'd like to add this, do you know what time taverns close? Get out and see -for yourself, if you work nights, there’s not a tavern open, and why don’t you get things straight before you ridicule the defense worker? Moré power to our city prosecutor. No, find sonmiéthing else to gripe about, L. G., and leave the defense workers alone.

yom “POUND TRUCK 18 PICKING UP TOO MANY DOGS”

By Friend of -Dogs, Indianapolis It has come to my atténtion sevéral times lately that the truck of the municipal dog pound has béen picking up dogs more or less indiscriminately—for example, all the dogs in sight in one block, and some 14 on another street. That won't do! It almost amounts. to stealing to take dogs in that fashion, or to pick them up upon the complaint of some anonyrhous ‘‘neighbor” down the street. True, according to our city’ 5 ordinance, dogs should be kept upon their own premises or on leash (and would that every dog-owner would take this precaution!) but in many cases ‘they are are on their own premises, or at least on friendly territory, when they are snatched up by the city. Many pets have been lost lately in this fashion; often they are wearing their harness and even license tags, Dog owners should look atr the city pound for their lost pets first, ‘for too many such “mistakes” have been made. And may we urge more. care on

ups?” Then perhaps will lose the doubtful honor of having the most “stray dogs” of any

will -have the security it deserves.

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” “PROGENY OF ROOSEVELT

By J. F. . Bainster, T.'re Haute President, Roosevelt is quoted as temark about _ Certain

worker, and doesn’t even know what] ! the word defense means. L. G., do| :

to ride downtown and transfer|: and wait 20 minutes for streetcar, ride 30 minutes before you get home| :

before you geét in bed, and youwd|:

truth, or maybe yoi're the type

the part of the. city in their “pick- | -

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21,— ‘west farmers have a new according to Rep. Earl W (R. Ind). It is “tie me loose!” By it they mean they want to shake off the shackles uf Wash~ ington dictation, he says, and up production by their own “know how.” The Hoosier co . came here during

rumors regarding a five billion dollar “buy the produce and the farmers vote for 1044” roetem, “If these file cabinet farmers and ma ny mane agers of Washington don’t get out of the Vilson de« clared. “They are like the little boy who claim to know rabbit. : “These horticultural hallucinations ar bringing onfidence | in their own omnipotence never flags. Every morning they spring out of bed with new plagues to inflict Points to Corn-Pork-Poultry a “LOOK ‘AT their recent management of the corne of $13.75 per hundredweight on pork. Then they put | a ceiling price on chickens, turkey and ducks. prices they had to pay for feed would have ed them to sell their poultry at a loss. To fix that corn and later raised it to $1.07. “Our farmers all ate in their right mind, so [ney to $1.40 for it by feeding it to hogs. The whole brid ness was about as sensible as using butter for axle in Washington figured it out.” Doesn't Expect Much Reform thése methods, he said. “We've confused our \armers; sh thoroughly that bering like maniacs,” he concluded. “The {farmer is beginning to wonder if his govern war effort. He keeps trying to please, but the bungle~ crats can’t keep their minds made up five days 2»

Marvin Jones about the many he said. ers’ hair we're headed for trouble,” Mr, ig all about the fur business just because he had a on a food famine. But seemingly their on the American people, y fn pork-poultry situation. First they put a support price “Of course, the poultry men screamed, since e situation they popped a $1.02 per bushel ceiling on didn’t sell corn at $1.07 when they could bet grease, but that’s how these tanned _sons-of-the-soil MR. WILSON doesn’t expect much reform in its 4 wonder they don’t come in'trom the flelds gibe ment is going to allow him to do his part for the succession about what they want him to do.

“1 try to fight Washington's plow-boys loose from the shirt tails of our farmers and businessmen. But { sometimes I feel that I'm trying to loosen a log jam - | with a toothpick. I concur with Senator “Cotton Bd» Suwiitn (D. N. C.) when he said ‘we're in one helluva ess!’ ”

Bit-By-Bit

By A. T. Steele

NEW DELHI, Aug. 21.— age ing assaults by Gen. Douglas AC Arthur and Adm, William H. Hal. sey Jr., against Japanese air and sea power in the South Pacific are altering the strategic piekure throughout the entire Far East, in the opinion of allied Tfry experts here. HEvéty Jap alplaile” ‘brought * down, and every Jap ship sunk or ; ; immobiiized, reduces by another fractional Japan's chances of renewing offensive ace tion on a big scale in continental Asia. The bulk of the Jap air forte at present is tied up on two major tasks: First, attempting to stem the allied counter-offensive in the South Pacific; secondl ‘attempting to block any ‘possible ‘allied bombing af fensive against major bases and cities in ‘or r Japan itself.

growing suspicion that the allies plan to carry their bombing attacks into the hedrt of the Jap empire, To meet this threat the enemy has concentrated more than his usudl number of aircraft in occupied China and for the past month has been bpmbing fore ward “springboard” bases in central China.

Chinese Chief Sufferers THE MAJORITY of tHése raids have resulted in

Meanwhile allied piloté in Chita have been conserve - ing their costly gasoline and their precious bombs for the more decisive test of the future. 3 It is evident from their sparing use of. airplane i Burma since the beginning of the monsoons that the = Japariese have very few surplus planes beyond those required for the defense of home territories and for urgnt operational tasks. ¥ - Our attrition tactics in the South Pacific are cutting deeper and deeper into this nartow margin of security. - Even the usual Japanese boasting about the

‘more and more aircraft production to meét the mount. 5 ing allied air might. {i ‘It is probable that airplane production is Japa biggest bottleneck, with shipping a close second. . % i About the only offensive operations which ‘the = | Japanese could seriously contemplate under present conditions would be in China where air and transport requirements are at a minimum.

Japanese Are On Defensive

THIS IS an ever-presént menace though at ph there is no indication that any such offensive is ime pending. - The Japanese are on the strategic defensive Svesy where. while, in India and China, a power ine créases slowly biit steadily. China, sted. fo is the improved co-ordination between all théaters of the Pacific war—one of the most impottant results of Gen. Joseph Btilwell’s recerit Jotirnéy to Wi Little by little, the war against Japan is 10sing guerrilla character. The various fronts on the Pacific | which-once were widely separated an Sdeperient one another, aré now growing grad a giant nut-cracker which will e

life out of Japan. 's woeatae a8 Brite ish commander-in-chief in’ India was a Sen 1h the

direction of closer

this theater and the g-expected

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‘milestone in: closer Chinese and

sional recess to see WFA Chief

For some weeks, Jap propaganda has reflected

no great damage except to thé Chinese population which as usual has paid a heavy price in suffering,

feats of their so-called “wild eagles,” 1s now somietimes tempered with serthons on the necessity of