Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1943 — Page 20

‘LANDON charged at Kansas City this week that the New Deal was “pla ‘to change your diet.” He rhert H. Lehman, director of the office of foreign qd eh bilit ti 4 ti ‘had Tite in a’ m o ¢ America must go pn & cereal diet: Lx _Americans—at least those who treat the black ‘with a proper contempt—have already changed ir diet. They can’t get as much good red beef as they for one thing. Many other foods fall short of meeting swollen demand. And insofar as the shortage is due the needs of the troops, it is o. k. with us, ’ But Mr. Landon seems to be inaccurate in accusing Lehman of a plot to make rice-eaters of us all. At Mr. Lehman's office denies he ever made such a stateAnd a search of his recent magazine articles reveals REY Ry ale Res FT . "8 ‘the contrary, in the June :Country Gentleman Mr. » Lehman had a word of reassurance for “farmers who, soking at their greatly expanded herds, feel the cold touch ; sidation. They look at their herds and ask, ‘What abou those when the war comes to an end?” Remembering She debacle of falling prices at the end of world war 1, y ask, ‘Will it happen again? ” Bie In reply, he describes the depleted condition of Euroherds, both as to size and quality, and says the reSSuvenation. of these herds can be accomplished only by drawing on America’s splendid stock. (Incidentally, he sugsats the possibility of artificial insemination on a large sale. with airplanes linking bulls, boars and rams in America with their opposite numbers overseas.) Certainly not sound as if Mr. Lehman wanted to sacrifice. in favor of bread and spaghetti. a. . ” ; 2 : . # . AF LEHMAN does concede—in the American magazine * that we will face continued food restrictions for a after the war, because of the needs of liberated peoples ope and Asia. ‘But, he warns, “If we allow famine revolution further to weaken” these peoples, “they

Il hate the whole world and will rush into the arms of |

o first crackpot leader to arise.” That makes sense. (But Mr. Lehman also emphasizes that we are not going

e ourselves in order to play Lady Bountiful to the |

supplies,” he says, “must go-to: (1st) Our (2d) our own civilian population, (8rd) our _ After these are sup government food y to stop starvation and semi-starvation.”

The prime danger to our meat supplies lies not with

hman but with various complications of price policy |

and feed supply. Noi : THE POPE'S PEACE PLEA : [E pope’s plea for a just peace this year voices the hope of all the world except the axis dictators and their who want peace without justice. As President Rooseand Prime Minister Churchill have declared, there can no just peace until the axis surrenders unconditionally, Hitler and his accomplices are desperately trying to: d by a compromise peace that which they took by aggresand that which they will lose by allied victory. Such a would reward the criminals for their crimes, perpeturbarism, and force a later war of liberation. When the pope speaks of “the people who are asking r for bread; for work, ever more clamorously,” obvi-

he is thinking of the popular demonstrations in Italy|

elsewhere against the axis. There is no such clamor

pited States or in other allied countries, where the |

» . Bi . ® » tling sentence in the press report and lation of the pope's address—if accurate—must jeen aimed at the axis countries alone: “To continue s to © m to national interest as against human e” This could not apply to those ense against. the aggressors. allied people pray that just peace may “is possible, but they will not falter if

r. Churchill ! 1 has just expressed the feel- |

God, in his mercy, should lighten or and the torment of mankind, all his serv-

little to say about it since’ it was first released and, although he is recognized as a first-class angry man in matters by which he sets particular store, skepticism regarding the charter has moved him to no large annoyance or boastfulness, Josef Stalin, the man who wasn't there, may have thought it a tactiess document in view of the fact that, by inference, it might be construed as a criticism of the governmental processes of Russia with which, however, he may be

intention to interfere,

Ideals Are Lovely

IN FAIRNESS, it would seem that it's belief in, and. loyalty to, the Atlantic charter is to be made binding on Americans, the step should be taken formally by congress because up to now it is merely a statement of ideals which are lovely, although une realized as yet anywhere in the world, and of objectives which, in the belief of many patriotic but practical Americasis, lie far beyond the range of the guns with which is'is purposed to-enforce them; If, hows ever, “congress, after consulting the people and debating the case should add this document as amended to the required articles of our national devotion, then the people no doubt would say “so be it” and the Atlantic charter would take its place, appropristely framed, in the-townyhalls and public schools, That

temperamental author would deny offhand, for the “Magna Charta itself was a limited victory with littls concern for the common man and was amended | much. And the United States Constitution was unactable until it had first been fortified with that Hill of rights of which Mr. Hefiry ‘Wallace has spoken in vague disparagement within the last year. The Ten Commandments went as was.

Where Is Charter? AND WHERE, incidentally, is the Atlantic char-

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We the People

By Ruth Millett

sure, the American people and the British ‘have noi -

it might be helpfully amended nobody but a very |

. § # 5 The Hoosier Forum ; 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will ~~ defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“WE CAN BLAME ONLY THE PARTY LEADERS” By Paul E. Miller, 3500 Broadway

Substantial ‘ fbsidents of Indianapolis and Marion. county who are interested in the success of the Republican party should remember that the. present Republicans were not elected entirely by a Republican vote. It was evident last fall that a new element of voters, who had not been: active in politics for a number of years, joined in the campaign to elect Republicans, The Republicans in this county are confronted — unless an entire re-organization takes place soon with losing not only those voters who helped swing the election last fall, but they will also lose the support and confidence of many Republicans who have been stanch | party supporters for years. There is an impression among a great many of our Republican voters that some of our leaders have been losing Republican - elections for their own financial gains for the

* {last several years. Fe i A-definite lack of ability of the

ten laws, Aphoristically, I may be my brother's keeper. But long ahead of that, I am my own keeper. That 1 am possessed of wan e.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies_ excluded. ‘Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth hére are those of the writers, and publication “in; no way implies agreement with those opiniof® by The Times.

periods between wars has not subdued our native predatory belligerence, Our’ “headway mechanically, scientifically, ethically, appears to serve mainly for making war the fiercer and more widespread. One of the main reasons for this must be that we spend vastly more time and effort the world over in

“GET RELIEF . .. VOTE THE NEW DEALER OUT” By Walter C. Reese S¢., Shelbyville Many people strike a pose and declare certéin acts of the president as unconstitutional, but I have long contended that the only way we can ever get any relief from the New Dealer is to use political action, that

is, vote the New Dealer out. A few of the acts of the administration

“Ihave been declared unconstitutional,

but most of these measures. which have stifled free enterprise are result of careful study before they are adopted. pri It is said that there lies in Washington a plan if adopted will be the death of free enterprise, that is the plan of the government to buy up all the farmers products and thereby control the food situation. A system of controls much like the

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tion—a revolt from the tyrany of fear and reactionaryism; ‘a recapture of the will, as well as the:

‘making. There signs that bysiness and industry —which surrende their obligations and responsibilities to government, and in the end diluted their authority-—are to reassert their responsibilities. Once they move to discharge those respon sibilities, the “little people” will restore their authors ity, for the little people, too, are on the move. ‘They, too, are hearing the harsh commands of regimentation; they, too, are beginning to comprehend the

can there be maximum employment, maximum opportunity, and maximum prosperity. :

War a Good Teacher

THE WAR has taught us many things: It has re-

our fidelity to democracy, \ We & with awe and apprehension at the power of thé nazi military machine—but saw that machine wrecked by the Russian t who was fighting not for the state, but for homeland, not with his faith in the state, but with the countryman'’s simple faith in himself. \ We have seen that the not_ invincible .at all, but is a showy {facade for an economic System which, when the chips ‘were down, couldn't compete with the inventiveness and produc-* tive capacity of a system of free enterprise, : We have comprehended that security does not lie in isolation, but in a willingness to assert: the power

in a world made mad. by the drug of absolutism, -

man, destroy the super-Nazi and the super : have seen a man in a rubber boat, through faith

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

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mirage of curtailed production, and are learning the economic verity that only in maximum production

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