Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1943 — Page 20

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1943

KELLAND'S POSITIVE POST-WAR PLAN the Republican party and to the American people Clarence Budington Kelland has offered a foreign policy, challenging, positive, specific. Details of Mr. Kelland’s plan were published in yesterday's news columns. It is not necessary to agree completely with all of Mr. Kelland’s proposals in order to say that it is a fine thing

he has spoken so boldly. His proposals invite debate. It is |-

likely they will provoke discussion aplenty, especially at the meeting of the Republican post-war advisory council on Mackinac island next month. The Republicans who gather at that cool setrest to try to hammer out a broad foreign policy for the party will have something to chew on—something much more substantial than the glittering generalities about the “brave

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TEVER criticism anyone may offer to the Kelland ~~ plan, no one can say that there is anywhere the slightest tinge of isolationism—that doctrine which was: blown to pieces at Pearl Harbor. - Mr. Kelland’s suggestion for post-war colishoration with Britain, Russia, China, our American neighbors and . all other nations who want to work with us to preserve ~ peace in this world are more definite and far-reaching than any we have seen offered by any other Republican. So too his ideas about extending and strengthening our own defenses for come-what-may if collaboration and alli- _ ances fail. . Come to think of it, his proposals are also more definite and positive than we have heard from any Democrat. The administration’s foreign policy has been the fabric woven in the day-by-day improvisations of the: president, | abetted and sometimes confused by the conflicting pro- © nunciamentoes of the state department and those agents of the office of war information and the board (now office) of economic warfare who have felt free to dispense. postwar promises in-all parts of the globe. ‘ pa . The Republicans meeting at Mackinac have. an oppor tunity to develop something better, something ‘more surefooted.

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' OUR CANADIAN KIN RESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S tribute to Canada in his

Ottawa speech yesterday voiced the sentiment of all our people. The relationship betweeh the two countries is unique; toward no other people have we the same close kinship. And now the war has Brought us even nearer together. "Not that we talk about it much. Indeed, it is one of the things taken for granted, as among members of a . family. Perhaps we should give more expression to this emotion. : When the president before the war made his famous declaration for joint defense of the two countries, that was much bigger news abroad than here. The typical reaction in the United States was simply “of course!” And that was at the height of our ‘so-called isolationist wave. : The president in: effect | was announcing a perpetual . military alliance, ‘with ‘the United States as the larger partner taking the heavy responsibility. This momentous Roosevelt commitment was made without consulting the senate or the people; and still it ‘was taken as a matter of course. That eoilld not have happened with any other country. It is.the best proof that in our minds and hearts Canada has a special place, : : s 8 y a INCE then the military association has become almost complete, as symbolized by the Alcan highway. That road and its related airways, which join the United States, | Canada and Alaska, are the lifeline of North American Pacific defense. And, because total war involves more than ‘the military, the economic ‘and financial systems of the two nations have been interwoven. Thus to the bonds of graphy, of blood relationship, and of common culture and democratic ideals, have been. added. increasing military d economic ties. That this relationship i enduring none can doubt. : Whatever the. uncertain. future may hold internationally, much at leat; fs certain. te

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BREWSTER STRIKE

F all the strikes in the hair of warring Americ, this - week’s by the'U. A. W.-C. IL O. at the Brewster aircraft nt in Johnsville, Pa., is in many ways the most appalling. Four thousand men abandoned their work on combat because “four plant guards, members of the coast d 4 temporary reserve, had been arrested by the coast lard for insubordination. .. | - A war labor board demand that operations De resumed t a blunt answer, when the men met and voted to remain

by the navy. Not oniy that; plans were made to strike Brewster plants in Newark and Long Island City. Now it may be that a bona-fide grievance existed in the “of the coast guard to recognize certain seniority 3 he pla that wore sifted by the slant gusnis— : d be

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| Is This Americanism or Fascism?

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Fair By Westbrook Pegler

A. FP. of L, the railroad brotherhoods and all others, shall afiiliate with the so-called American Labor party and pay into the party's treasury a per capita tax based on their membership. He further proposes that all state and county committees be. composed primarily of representatives of the affiliating unions, pledged to carry party policies as determined by these representatives. s

Party Is European, Not American

NOW THIS so-called party is not American but European, That must be emphasized, It is almost one-half communist and the so-calleq right wing is no further to the right than socialism, Much of its membership is European by birth and subject to the European huddling or herd political instinct, and many of its bosses are Europeans who bring to ‘their unions and their political careers in this country the philosophies and methods of the old world, the insistence on.‘security” for the docile, the weak and the unventuresome at the expense of freedom, individuality- and: opportunity for all. A They bring to American union affairs ang ‘polities also a cunning deviousness which: has neveribeen more shockingly expressed than in this proposal by Hillman, a man who nevertheless has enjoyed the favor of the New Deal and; in the early stages of our. war effort was given outright political recognition by President Roosevelt through appointment to an important position of authority over American worimen everywhere.

Worker Must Belong to Work

NOW LET us see what this proposal comes to. It means that first you have to belong to a unjon’ or you can’t work for your living, You simply have. to join and pay and submit to the authority and discipline of the union. It means that, under this authority and discipline you must not buy certain prescribed goods and can be fired from membership if you do or in some urions, even if some member of your family should buy gqods blacklisted for any reason, good or bad, legitimate or crooked. It means that you must renounce your right to appeal fo the public courts for redress of ‘wrongs - inflicted by the boss unioneers until you have; first fought your way through all the dragging Dp. of the union’s courts and then may be thrown of anyway, for: ‘appealing to the public courts. |. All right, to work you have to join and theh, in. order ‘to ‘remain ‘a member in good standing’ and retain your right . to work, you must pay a per capita contribution to a political organization which is not a party but a conspiracy against Americanism, to finance the attack on your American liberties,

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NO MATTER how strongly you may oppose the purposes of this European organization you must give your money to promote its program or be thrown out of work in your own United States; It this Americanism or fascism? It is pure fascism, right out of Mussolini's’ book, for Mussolini’s labor front, composed of unions called syndicates, had precisely the same system, The Fascist party controlled the unions just as the so-called American Labor party would control all the unions in the state of New York and, presently, in Jersey and Connecticut and Pennsylvania and, eventually, it hopes, in the whole nation. And the Fascist party maintained itself in large part by dipping into the union treasuries. That is exactly what Sidney Hillman is proposing here and that course, if adopted, would be put over on the rank and file by those union politicians whom Hillman calls the rrepresentsiives” of the unions. : Does this bore you? = ’ All right, go on back to sleep.

We the: People

By Ruth Millett

It’s a great day for grandmothers. They are needed again. And it isn’t just a case of Annie wanting mother to keep her kids so that she can get a war job or go to stay with he husband who is away at an army camp. \ Grandma is needed in industry. She doesn’t have to go begging for a job, pretending to be 10 years younger than she is. She doesn’t have to dye her hair to try to fool a prospective employer. ' She doesn’t have to either hide her age or

: She 1a wanted just-as she 15-80, 60, or possibly 70 years old. She is needed so much that the war manpower commission is planning a program to get her into industry.

There Are Jobs for Her What if she isn’t as young as WE the taut de_yiiy ab Shi yest fo the years haven't left her in top physical condition?

What if she isn’t quite as fast at her job as a

younger worker might be?’ and do well ‘ And she doesn’t have to miss work because she has a sick child at home (a thing that happens often among young women workers). And she isn’t so likely to have a ‘disagreement with her husband at breakfast that will affect her work whole day. She is settled, and steady, aren’t many homé demands on r So she is wanted. again, which makes day for her. .... SH One of the. tragedies of the o depression the fact that worfien with gray hair found to get work, Nobotly seemed to. want fo. hire

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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.

‘OUR: PARTY IS SPLIT HIGH, WIDE, HANDSOME’ » By Veritas, Indianapolis Like ‘any Republican who wishes the success of his party, I have been following with prayerful in-

and others to bring together the

- |yarious factions in Marion county.

‘Anyone ‘except a moron will admit that our party here is split” high, wide .and handsome,’ | Republicans, Joe Rand Beckett; James L. Bradford, Addison J. Parry and Sidney sS.° Miller representing all the factions, agree on a procedure and give each other their solemn pledge that they will each separately and collectively bend their best efforts to bring the agreed proceedure to a successful sses | conclusion, there must be something ‘| rotten in Denmark when sufficient pressure is evidently brought on one of these men to make him hastily break his given word—and use such an amusing excuse as he did. Beckett, Bedford .ei al. knew from the beginning of their talks, of course, that there was only one way the factions could unite, namely, the withdrawal of Ostrom and Daniels from the picture. No extra. intelligence .is needed to see that the so-called City Hall crowd would ‘néver. accept as head of the party the man who had done his best to defeat Tyndall and the rest of the Tyndall ticket; such an acceptance would never make political sense, Beckett, Bradford and the others evidently took it for granted that Ostrom and Daniels would be men enough and sufficiently good Republicans fo step aside for the benefit of the party as a whole. Republicans in our community should realize that there would be no difficulty whatsoever in bringing about a union of all Republican factions if new and clean leadership were had. Back of the present county chairman's refusal to make way for a fusion of the party is a

is too long ot bring out in this letter. This much can be said, however: Ostrom'’s- desire to hang on to his office has its backbone in Joseph Daniels’ desire to control and name the delegates to the Republican national convention next year. To do this, he must either control the Marion. county state]. convention delegates or he must be able to manipulate the counting of the votes at the 11th district convention. The delegates will never allow Daniels to repeat his debasing of the ballot. Last time, few people expected that Daniels, a man supposedly of integrity, would play dishonest politics. In my own humble opinion, the whole controversy boils down to this one question: Which is more important, Republican success: next year or keeping Ostrom and Daniels in their present offices? I don’t

terest the efforts of Mr. Beckett]

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story of intrigue and plotting which

“(Times readers are invited to express their views in “these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of -the voiume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed, ~ Opinions set forth here re ‘these of the writers, and publication in no way “implies agreement with those opinions. by The Times.

think the public will be ‘fooled by the recent publicized vote of the Ostrom-appointed ward chairmen endorsing the present county chairman. It would be about the same thing if an employer called his employees np and asked them to en him as their: employer... A bit of horse play. I wonder if Daniels and Ostrom are good enough citizens to eliminate themselves for the benefit of the Republican party in Marion county? Such a thought must be running through the minds of thou~ sands of other Republicans. ‘ss 8 ® hin “WHO MAKES POLITICIANS CROOKED? YOU AND I!” By R. H. Burford, 51 8. Chester st. Here is a paradoxical situation: Have you. ever ridden home on the streetcar or bus and heard two men berating the double-dealing politiclans, making raucous denuncia< tions of the crooked government, proclaiming that there ought to be a law.. , . etc, while they unconsciously or carelessly are enveloping the persons just ahead of them with -a thick cloud of smoke. Their right to criticize is. irrefutable and nowadays is quite justifiable, but their right to disobey:the law, even though it may be trivial, just does not exist according to the Bill of Rights. Whether anyone likes it or not, smoking is prohibited by law in streetcars and busses, but with one exception the police department seems not to know about it. Patrolman Dunwoody has been the only officer with enough conscience or fortitude to enforce it, and if I know human nature, I suspect. he has -been the object of much sarcasm for having the nerve to enforce such a “dumb regulation,” as some would say. a The lack of enforcenient of laws stems from the idea héld by most of us that laws and rules are made for others to obey, not ourselves. If we are really honest with ourselves, the only .laws that you and I want to obey are. those which will _ prevent someone disturbing or infringing

upon us. We fail to realize that. “all|

men are created equal’ and. that

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Ja politician to get a speflal con-

.|the guts, they had the brains to

{equality but superiority. Mrs. Gay{nelle N. Hibbitt lists a number of

they -deserve consideration equal to that we expect from them. ‘How can we criticize governmental officials for not obeying and enforcing laws when we refuse to obey similar regulations ourselves. We accuse - politicians of being crooked. ‘Who makes them so— other politicians? Not entirely, it’s mostly you and I when we want a ticket fixed, when we want bootleg gas or meat, you and I ‘every time we impose upon our friendship with

cession. ‘It is impossible to erase underhand politicians until we cease being underhand ourselves. We are consistently howling for honest, fearless men in office and when they get there, we deliberately turn around and crucify them if they are truly honest and fearless and step on our toes. .Can’t we see that unless laws are enforced and obeyed 'by you and I, the milkman, electrician, salesman and the engineer of the’ “Century, ” until we realize that everyone deserves the same exceptions we ask for, that the democratic form of government is doomed to fade out as an ignominious failure. American politics will cease being crooked when American people cease being crooked and selfish. Laws must not be sentences meant for others fo read and follow; they are meant for US, They are far better left unmade than wantonly broken, ” s » “ISSUE PASSES FOR TRANSIT LINES HERE”

By A Young Reader, Indianapolis I agree with the person who offered the suggestion of having passes for transit lines here in In-

dianapolis.’ I, too, saw ‘what the: pass can do’ in outstate ‘cities.

Might I go just a’bit further, ‘and

suggest that those with passes be let on the streetcars’ before those without them, Perhaps with: this in effect we can keep.some of these

“all day” shoppers off thie Street. ! ;

cars at busy times, = _ I should like to heat an explana-

tion of why these women insist|

upon getting on streetcars which they know will be crowded with people ‘who work-all- day—and then look so terribly insulted if a man doesn’t’ get - up "and give her his seat. I just can’t understand it! Perhaps if the stores would open earlier and’ close ‘earlier it would help the situation, too. Other people go .to work before 8 o'clock—

why should store workers be the. ne, of economic warfare, or at the officé of Léo

exception? : Cele.

“BUT LAWS CAN TAKE AWAY —~—AND GIVE T0 OTHERS” By James RB.’ Meltaler, Attics

In the case of Spaulding, Negro head of a $60,000,000 life insurance company, an Indianapolis writer | says this, “His success was not due to equality of opportunity, but to a monopoly on a business which he and a few others had-the brains and courage to exploit.” Now here ‘was a demand for a life insurance company. Here was an opportunity to do business open to all. The writer says it was not equal, that it was a monopoly—why, she fails to explain, For this chance was open to. all. White men lacked the courage to take the risks involved. So did the majority of colored men. But Charles Spaulding and his associates did not. They not only had

win success, to win not merely

Negroes who ‘have proved their superiority over he average White, They did not get this equality, this superiority by law. No, they earned it. No-Jawwal give you: bealps, no

Opposition to Panacea

‘where, an unusually poignant interest in

this war.” i ; This view was predicated on 5 Totter} eng tor Raymond E. Willis (R. Ind.) which appeared in & series of solicited correspondence from senators and ” - congressmen published by the WwW: Star. Subsequently to i Pe A of the Willis letter,” Reps. Barl Wilson and Gerald W. Landis, both tndia ana Republicans, have joined the anvil chorus. : The lieutenant expressed the view that such sharps _ shooting would increase as the 1044 elections approach, ~ Here is what Senator Willis wrote trom ‘his. home in Angola: “Farmers in Indiana, for the first tine In’ oy?

memory, are displaying a virtual unanimi ‘thought. They are angry at what they von pe a8

handicaps placed by the federal government on | Storia toward ‘all-out’ production g’ and undependable regulations; rice control, ‘which has obstructed the flow of feed ee normal and’ necessary channels; lack of equipment and Dian, power. "

“They are vigorously urging reform in the bs credit program so as to separate the finance A from control by the department. of agriculture. ized farm credit which they term ‘Santa Claus credit,’ should be left, they say, if at all, with the department ”

of agriculture in such a way as not to yeflecs versely. upon. sound financing.” - o

Retailers Bitter About OPA ny ry 3

“a “RETAILERS ARE particularly bi abou regulations which, they charge, Bg ‘normal ar tions—even in non-shortage fields, “Industrialists stress vigorously the need for - an! announced program for the liquidation of war CON: tracts, more definite principles of renegotiation, lbw; eralization of reserve allowances to assure the means. ' of conversion, expansion and rehabilitation of plant. 3 equipment and facilities after the war, Sd “Farmers, retailers and industrialists bi terly opposed to subsidies — as being inflationary ite a. means of Sontrulling further the citizenry. . “There is profound and frequentl resse N nizance of the ‘danger to the American form a ea ernment from widespread, strong, bureaucratic ‘dice tation. One man said: ‘T wouldn't let them kick my Seg So like they're pushing our American olidzeng!.

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“THERE IS much opposition to the Wagner-Murs ray cradle-to-the-grave panacea for full-blown: - cialistic control in the.guise of ‘security.’ “I have found during the current : recess

a and principles, and an unusually small amount of interest —expressed—in behalf of any particular personality for the Republican presidential nomination, There is a nersasing Jocling in Indiana, where it was already of large ensions, against. the 5 of led concept ‘of any worlds . “embers os a group of 50 well-informed, . Antellle. gent west-central Indiana farmers with whom I mek’ last night told me after our formal ‘meeting things” which in print would be. condemned by the New Deal as the highest of treason. ; “They expressed themselves, however, 1 factually, and above all, with obviously deep oe and love of country—this country—with potential ase’ ceptance of any post-war world-wide program likely only if consistent with the primary safety and’ welfarg of the United States of America.” Were he not in the army where regulations prevent, .

the first lieutenant said he wo ite rst Jie uld write Senator Willig

“There is a war on, Senator, haven't you heard?” J

Hush-Hush

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WASHINGTON, Aug. newly-created Petroleum rian one of = nos tin the: governments | . lations with the ofl industry #nd. with the other united . “nations, turns up today as the most Bushs hush agency of the war, es Those connected: ‘with. A vo peep about its ons; indee they won't even tell’ w 4 officers and directors, except Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, also the: petroleum administrator for war, is its president. “- Mr. Ickes, whose frankness has been: one. of hig outstanding characteristics, decliries to Say: Who ary. the directors of ‘his company. No information about it can be: had at

ley, the director of OEW, Who appeints the die ot

Pass Buck on Inquiries

HIS OFFICE refers inquiries to ‘the partment. Thete, the petroleum war refers questionerg to the secretary’s I And at the secretary’s office, ohe ‘finds: out: When the reporter explains, through the public rela= tions office, that he isn’t inquiring about the opera tions of the new corporation, but merely about officers and directors, the yield is’ still nothing, The indirect announcement that Mr. Ickes is. the president of PRC was made this week in a handout

.revealing that two PAW officials were being trans

ferred to PRC. These are E. De Golyer, PAW

.ant. députy ‘administrator, who becomes “consultant” ‘for "PRC, and Mortimer Kline, ‘associated

counsel of PAW, who becomes general counsel of PRC. PRC was created by Secretary of Commeice Jesse , Jones and following Mr. Jones’ ‘row with -Vice Presie dent Wallace, PRC, then merely a paper corporation, was transferred to Leo Crowley and the new. office of economic warfare, sung: with several other RFC cor= porations.

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