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BATURDAY, svoust 28, 1943

NONSENSE, MR. ICKES HE Guffey law to regulate the coal industry has been dropped off the statute books by congress, is no longer 2a Rar and ought to be only history, but: , In a national magazine on Indianapolis newsstands this week-end, Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior and administrator of fuels, among other duties, charges | that we may run ‘short of coal this winter because congress ‘refused to ‘re-enact’ the Guffey law before it expired last Monday. He says: E “My fear now is that the inconsiderate and ill-advised

action by congress will mean that we will fall still further

_ behind . . . we won't have the coal we will need . . . to “keep our homes warm this winter.” . Ickes really believes that kind of hokum he should xamine the Guffey law and find out what it was and what it did. [Ten years ago, in the midst of the depression, the ‘national recovery administration asked coal mine operators to provide more jobs for coal miners. The operators said they could do so only if the price of coal, then very low, could be raised. Under government supervision they drew up an NRA code providing ways to fix the lowest price at which coal could be offered for sale. Eventually the United States supreme court found the whole NRA system unconstitutional. The coal operators then induced congress to pass the Guffey law, which was nothing more or less than their old outlawed NRA code, and intended solely to keep coal prices high enough so mine operators could make a profit. » 8» # 8» did nothing whatever for coal miners, whose wages and hours are fixed by union contract. It did nothing to stimulate production, and on the contrary was partly devised to restrict production of coal. It helped some mine operators, who got higher prices, and it injured others, who lost their markets because of it.

“<Today the demand for coal is greater than the supply."

The office of price administration, a huge government agency, is fighting desperately to keep prices, including coal ‘prices, down, not up. Whatever its justification in 1935, if any, there is obviously no longer any more need for the Guffey law than there is for a WPA leaf raking project. : Congress rechghizia that ttuth, Yet the "Guffey Tn expire by its own time limit, and released for more useful .occupations the several thousand federal employees who administered it. That is’ what Mr. Ickes “fears” is going to make our supply so short that our homes will be cold this winter and our war industries will suffer. -

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MOUNTBATTEN FOR BURMA | REATION of a new allied southeast Asian command ". under the British king’s cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, is generally taken to mean an all-out successful Burma campaign after the monsoon season in October. That may be overly optimistic. For several reasons Burma is the hardest nut to crack of all Japan's outposts, and in 1948 victory there will require much more allied force than is: yet in sight. The Mountbatten choice is | excellent. The East being what. it is, and the involved British-Indian complication adding to the difficulty, it was desirable to have a separate southeast Asian command but one with sufficient front to rank with viceroys, generalissimos and the like. Fortu- - nately the king’s cousin fills not only that difficult requirement, but the military need for vigorous initiative. Lord - Louis is young and daring, and his contribution to amphibious warfare as chief of the British commandos has been outstanding. Whether he lives up to dimestations will depend in part on factors beyond his control. Will they give him a top field commander who knows the ground, like Gen. Stilwell, and an ace air commander? Will they give him the large number of ships, planes and men required ? ” ‘Bvery American will be pylling for Mountbatten and hix forces,

HIYAH BABE!"

(OFFICIAL American propagandists may have their shorteomings, but some of our informal practitioners of : psychological warfare (morale division) seem to have put over a neat one on the British. We refer to the matter of “Hiyah' Babe "

Just the other day we Heard Burgess Meredith explain- |.

: ing, from England, that the girls over there had been ~ shocked, at first, when greeted by strangers in American . uriform with the aforesaid salutation. But they soon discovered, he indicated, that in the United States this was the normal boy-to-girl idiom. So “Hiyah Babe!” has been ac‘cepted in the United Kingdom as Yank protocol, and apparently many a fond friendship has resulted. Now we don’t want to say anything to prejudice this

new ‘holding-hands-across-the-sea movement. But, for the |

record, we would like to caution Englishmen visiting this

country against a reciprocal policy of addressing pretty |

an strangers with a “Hiyah Babe!” Young men of our acquaintance assure us that while such a greeting may

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

with his personal plan for the brave the future before the National Hallelujah! I had a preview of Mr. Kelland's days before, a long, hard-reading script that

that purified him of all prejudice, preconception, rancor, meanness and bile. .I laid it down at the

Mr. K. was being comic but wasn’t at his best. For I have known Mr, Kelland these many years: in role of jester as president and toastmaster of Dutch Treat club and could not picture this little imp, two pounds lighter than a nickel’s wo ‘of nothing and with a Mr. Punch profile, as author of a world-plan.

Saluted’ by Others, However

‘Ray Clapper, however, now salutes him and, with an implied amen, says he had always had him rated

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as a humorist. : It isn’t so hard to take an isolationist seriously but to pay respectful attention to the Mr. K. of the Dutch Treat club you first have to tear him all down, throw him away and build you a new charSo I got out his text again and studied it through, all the while watching for the gags and gimmicks with which he used to lacerate the vanity of the Dutch Treat’s guests of honor and his fellow-mem-bers at the confidential luncheons under our venerable and dusty cheese-cloth rose. I concluded that our

at that, offering to go walking into the future: with Britain, China and even Stalin; but insisting, for ‘the first time in any such discussion, that, instead of renouncing all benefits from the war in the name of pure. amateurism, this time we maintain our fighting strength and nod the defensive outposts now in our possession.

Previous Proposals Refused

All previous proposals that I know of had piously repudiated such. designs as unworthy of a breed

{ thrice-armed because our cause is just and, as though in growing great, we had never acquired an acre by |

force or pressure or a subject without the written consent of the same. Mr. Kelland wants us to turn pro and he makes his plan solid and specific by contrast with the shapeless dreams of men without the candor to say what they mean about Bermuda and other European outposts near our shores, nor even to mean it if challenged. He may not trust Russia but he yields to the practical fact that Russia will have to be dealt In on the receivership of the smashed-up nations and

. | treated as an associate or, in time, met as an enemy.

He bows to a conviction that the United States, as one of the four great victorious powers of the world, can remain great and hope to avoid further world wars only by loyal collaboration with the other three.

| Other Somber Thoughts

© Now this Mr. K. has been suspected of having somber moods several times in the past, Usually at the annual Dutch Treat show, somewhere after the intermission, some historic patriot, such as Nathan Hale or Paul Revere, would appear in a green spotlight and declaim a Fourth of July oration by Mr, K. about the founding fathers, the sacred heritage and the elusive joys of honest toil at loom or plow. Bug by that time the guests and members would be strayed all over the Waldorf and , up la Guardia to ask him why he didn’t stay on the job and earn his pay and we gave Bud the benefit of the doubt. Then, a few years back, he threw in with the punch-drunk regular Republicans in earnest, aging men so. badly mauled with epithets and shocks that they still thought Harding was president; and still we figured that our Bud was just studying amusing types and would come up with material for a novel. I am now forced to believe, however, that he has had a streak of senator in him all the time, for our little chairman has given the Republicans a much more talkable and salable program than the Atlantic charter and all the speeches of Henry Wallace and the columns of Mrs. R. It is something that people can understand, debate and accept or reject in whole or in part on its merits, and it doesn’t promise food off our tables and shoes off our feet forever to peoples the world over who outnumber us 10 to 1. My sense of humor may be numb, but if Mr, K, is jesting now the gag eludes me. %

We the People

By Ruth Millett

IF YOU TALK to enough service wives who have sold their homes or rented them furnished so that they could follow their husbands about the country ydu - will find that most of them have i} made one discovery. They say i} that in the past they made too § much of their houses and their possessions, and have worked too . hard at the job of housekeeping.

with a search of his soul and a purge of his innards :

end of this preamble, however, with the thought that |

as an’ isolationist. That's nothing, I have known him 4

Mr. K. was not the novelist being precocious nor the wit being funny but an American, and a Republican

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‘The Hoosier Forum 5 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“TRY SLEEPING DAYS IN SOME NEIGHBORHOODS”

By Mrs. South Sider, Indianapolis, To Mrs. C. V., Indianapolis: In reading your article Aug. 25, 1043, I would like fo. express my view on “War Workers’ Sleepless Days.” First of all, Mrs. C. V., have you ever tried working in a defense plant from 8 to 12 hours a night?

and see how it is.

You say people work to keep from going into service, and only money. Have you ever thought that loads of men and women are in defense factories Who can’t pass physical |’ examinations, yet they are on the beam seven days and nights on the production line, also buying bonds trying to-do their part in this war. I, "too, have a brother and three brothers-in-law in service, across the waters, too, and lots of friends, so say, come on war workers and readers of Hoosier Forum, tell Mrs. C. V. to fry sleeping days, in some neighborhoods, after a hard night's work, with trains, «children, radios, car horns, etc. I have had experience mysélf, I know how it is. 2 8 “THERE ARE PARENTS WHO DO CARE” By Mrs. F. L. White, Mooresville. In answer to Mary E. Studebaker of “It’s Parents I'd Refuse to Rent To.” I'd certainly not rent to parents either who treated my property with such disregard. I would, however, leave a little spot in my heart for us parents who don’t allow that sort of thing. There are parents who care. Even with five mischevious ones I dofr't think I ever sat by while they tore up anything, and I know we've improved plenty of places. As for finding a suitable home, our conclusion is, there isn’t any such thing. : . ® 8 “RIGHT--EQUALITY MUST BE EARNED.” By Pat Hogan, Columbus. Mr. Meitzler is right — equality must be earned. Now comes a gentleman accusing Mr. Meitzler of using the Negro problem as a wailing wall to drain off political tears; but Mr. Meitzler made no such inference; indeed, his article was mild in exposing the thing we call democracy. A better name would be hypocrisy or bureaucracy. We are no longer governed by elected officials, but by hypocritical bureaucrats, who, if not soon throttled, will usurp power to over awe every intent of congress and dedicate every

No? Perhaps you should try it}

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lives—and make us pay them a fat salary for the privilege. Mr. Maddox thinks it is socialism and communism. Pegler’s views are the same; but it is worse than all of these combined; it is a veritable Frankenstein growing like the proverbial snow-ball, and as Mr. Maddox says, we are a lot of dumb cluks to sit asininely by and watch it gather power. Senator Byrd says the government could be more efficiently operated

three times the price). In fact he sometimes gets up and says, “Get the hell away and be quiet.” Selfish, isn’t he? Of course, he can go in and work without much sleep, what's the difference if he nods for a minute at work. He may cut a hand

off, but then he will probably be|

able to find some way to make a living without it. But, how abdut your brother? If my husband should be sleepy and make some faulty equipment or let one bad piece of stock go through— your brother might die, because that equipment failed when it was needed most. Would you then blame the person who made it—or the one who kept that person from getting enough rest to keep a clear head while at work. We can’t all go to war—but we must all do what we can. According to government figures, for every fighting man, there must be at least 20 workers to keep

{him in equipment. I think if your

brother were here he could tell you that to win this war we will have to drop our petty differences at home and work together instead of slinging mud at each other. If you just

with 300,000 less federal employeus. nave to be mad at someone, take it Senator Aiken says there is-an an-|{ .: on Tojo and Adolf—buy another nual waste of 21 billion dollars. bend. In closing I sincerely hope Every taxpayer can visuglize fOr|yoy:. prother never finds - himself

‘Equality of opportunity, Equality in reality, faugh.

,are reared on adjoining farms. Jones GRIPE TO YOURSELF” is & hustler; his son learns a trade ny 1. 4. 3. Stinson. ‘ an prosperous. S I, too, say — Who do these detakes it easy on a hand-to-mouth|fense workers think “they are? existence, raises seven sons for the I'm beginning to think" that you . P. A. Brown inherited an ill- have: to look up to the defense Jordin adds to it by hiring | workers because they work in. detical pull (because of his wealth) | yes for the ‘night sleepers they 8 bureaucratic|stop all dogs from barking, stop the sirens of the police, fire en-one-third game gines, stop car honking, train

“in : the —one-third ill fed, ill clothed; nne-|whistles, radios, and a lot or other third living by its wits, and the noise after 8 p. m, till the time to

other third pays the bill, get up. it a eep g the day, yes, but pin Tao vr wonkzs SUPPLIES doesn’t a person get used to it MAD after a while, I live right next to By Mrs. M. A. Butler, 273°N. Reisner st. |a railroad, the wh g of the Mrs. C. V.: ; train kept me awake at first, but As I start to write’ this an an-|now I sleep right through it. nouncement is coming ‘over ‘the Every day you can see on a trolradio, saying that many defense|ley, busses, 'streetcars, a person plants are behind on their schedules |Sleeping, but it doesn’t disturb because of the shortage of workers.|them, even all the Jjolting and Without them, the and|jerks. So why gripe about some equipment our armed forces need |noise which doesn’t really amount so badly cannot be made. My hus-|to so much. (Do the boys overseas

‘reduced. The resultant delay in the transportation

band works on the t shift from 6:15 p. m. until 5:00 a. m. Now, about that sleep. Yes, when he comes home in the morning and goes to bed it does irk him slightly for someone to knock at the door or for another to

word, deed and thought of our daily'c

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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gripe because there’s neise where they are sleeping?) The only defense worker I feel sorry for is one who has his hours changed at intervals and doesn’t get used to them, I'll finish by saying, if you have Yo S10, nin fwies, then gripe to

8 8 8 : “IGNORING FACTS WILL NOT WIN WAR” By An Independent Voter, Indisnapolts.

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: ‘censorship and was featured in The’

Post, He will-have a story on Rep. aday J. Engle (R. Mich.), the one-man investigating: committee of the house, published in The Post shortly, In Indianapolis “Bob” covered the statehouse for INS. When he transferred to Kansas City he bee came a close personal friend of Governor Alfred M, | Landon, the G. O. P.. presidential nominee against Roosevelt in 1936. Ha At one time Bob had done publicity for the Indie ana Republican State committee. So when he came back 10 nga as a newspaperman on the Landon cam he was the op who told the Kansan ‘hot to be misled hy the WE Wi | parade and elephants. he A ar

Crowd Was on Hand

IT HAD BEEN arranged for the candidate. "w be in Indianapolis in the midst of the annual Indians ‘State Teachers association convention—so a ‘crowd, was assured. The elephants were supplied from circus winter quarters at Peru and in the very: years there are enough Republicans in. Indiana stage a sizable parade. When Mr. Humphreys gave - Mr. Landon this ine sight, the latter received it with a wry smile. on’ election day he felt certain the Hoosier state Re be for him. But as Bob predicted—Roosevelt won here and everywhere else except in Maine and Vere J mon n Much. of this Humphreys discernment is found 10, e icle on Wallace. Here ar S0me. exceIpls illustrate the point: . i “If the 1940 Democratic convention thought *, was nominating another Throttlebottom when it chose , Henry Agard Wallace for vice president, that. Hiusion. has by now been thoroughly dispelled. Here is one vice: president who lives. and labors in the torrid zone of controversy; who plays no waiting game against the day when tate’ might: cipate him bodily into the White House.

‘Sincere, Righteous Proposals’

“INSTEAD, FROM him flows a stream of : i and righteous proposals that have an 1g Way of stirring both bitter attack and passionate d strange to the-tradtional obscurity of the office

he holds. gs rob Rodiendin

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“On one hand, some of the most’ : haters pray daily for the chief executive's health bes} cause they are petrified -by the thought of Wallace in the presidency. “On the other, countless, Ameridans fing that Wale 9% lace, in some vague emotional fashion, expresses their aspirations; while outside our frontiers ‘millions have | come to regard this Iowa farmer as standard-bearer of al peculia rly American idealism.” wire service work, -Bob Rumpus helps make as well as break newsbeats in h memo he wrote recently was giveri wide. publ it was referred to by Chairman’ James L. Fiy 8s. the les : Jala down for the Cox committee in investigat« A Columbia university esthate who loves the : Best Jassie, Bob when not. writing for on ho world mag es tening. ; la own excellen college ton of first rate. h sitar K

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Dumping pial By Major Al Williams =

NEW YORK, Aug. 28—United ‘Airlines reports that air sickness has almost ‘disappeared, X Well, that's fine, but we 'noté | with anything but pleasure that { some other . items hve, disap yy : peared, Sabi souk tte Wo ts

rently is irmail. Tn viw of munications in the war program, I cannot understand why airmail is the first bit cargo dumped off an airliner when the load must

correspondence naturally overloads our already overs burdened telephone and telegraphic facilities. On wh of this sacrifice of speed in the:

them sit on the ground or using them in non ; travel. Wh The matter of maintaining the efficiency

Wo are sill trying to. apply the Paceline sl ards to our wartime pilot selection. Wom