Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1943 — Page 18

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1043

LIS coal dealers, concerned because they canthe Heaviest demand for fuel in their experipetition the federal government for more coal. Yet coal production last week was 12,050,000 tons, a million tons above normal for the season, and sly at a rate adequate even for our wartime needs. " Why, then, should there be fear of a coal shortage? 7hy-should there be panic buying and overbuying ? There. “One is that, even though we may not be conscious of it, ‘8 great many of us donot believe the federal government ‘can handle the distribution of coal as well as it has been ‘handled in the past without government assistance—a “belief well justified by experience. ; _. The situation has not been helped by irresponsible and ‘generally uninformed statements from Harold L. Ickes, the government’s administratcr of fuel. Such as: “The nation’s coal situation is bad and is going to get worse before it gets better.” And his prediction that “some coal” is going to have ~ fo go to Italy. And soon.

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HE coal situation 's not bad, and is rot likely to get worse unless the government of the United States further bungles the wage negotiations with coal miners’which it has taken out of the hands of the mine operators. It “is not likely that much, if any coal, is going to Italy with ships as scarce as they are, when ample coal is available in England, 2000 miles nearer, as Mr. Ickes should and very probably does know. . yas Mr. Ickes’ “scare” has had its effect. Many a domestic user who ordinarily spreads his buying over the whole ‘winter has been frightened into an attempt to get his whole winter's supply in right now. Coal dealers have been swamped with erders. The quantity of coal they are allowed to receive has been cut by order of Mr. Ickes, to less than one-third of their normal supply for the fall months. : At the same time retail dealers have a serious lahor shortage. Not permitied, by federal regulation, to offer wages high enough to attract workmen from easier and I better paid jobs, and unable, by federal regulation. to obtain + new or additional trucks to replace worn out equipment, they have found it impossible to maintain deliveries to consumers at the rate Mr. Ickes has helped to build up. ._It.is true there is every need to conserve fuel this winter, to avoid waste, and to make available supplies stretch as far as they will. But as the picture appears now © there is no need for panic buying, no need Tor hoarding— and definitely no need for more “Scare stories” from the - federal fuels administrator. ;

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HOME RULE IN THE WAR EFFORT : RECENT changes .of Policy in Washington raise the hope ~~ that conditions on the home front may start looking up in the near future. ay : The hope does not arise from any possibility. that civilian life will be made any easier. To the contrary, as the hard and crucial fighting gets underway overseas the pinch will be greater here at Lome, The hope rather stems ‘from a late but apparently sincere official recognition that this war effort is too stupendous to be operated by directives from Washington., Two recent announcements indicate that the administration at last is mobilizing America's great talent for home rule. One is the statement of OPA General Manager Chester § Bowles that the district OPA offices ars being given author- § ity to make final interpretations and rulings on commodity prices, rents, ete. Heretofore all decisions of any conse“quence have been-referred to Washington; = Considerable progress seems to have heen made in eCrga nizing the OPA, Men with-business experience have been placed in“ administrative posts, the professors have been relegated to advisory positions and ‘the lawyers have . been made subordinate to the administrators. (Maybe - that marks the end of such complex futilities as the fruit cake order.) And now Mr. Bowles says he is reducing both the payroll and the authority of the Washington OPA headquarters and relying on local officials to use their own Judgment in making quick and final decisions,

Ee (a a fs 0» THE other is the announcement by War Mobilization Director James F, Byrnes of the plan to speed up pro- | or of war materials, especially airplanes, on the West The plan was recommended by Mr. Byrnes’ toughd advisers, B. M. Baruch and John Hancock, two men 0 have the know-how when it comes to getting results, plan is drastic and far-reaching, and has many features, draft deferments for aircraft workers, reallocation ets. to meet the realities of labor supply, and an plus contracting to stop the waste and hoarding

“basic efor | is the one which looks to homehunity, committees and administrators, to determine labor priorities. The governhe WES, notifies each community as to Y r

men, locally chosen, have the ‘résponsito direct the flow of workers register‘those plants producing the things or from the Seattle area,

stitute the great majority, are not inspired and en-

pete for control after the manrier of the professional

principles and taking detours toward

! goals that not ideals but mere advantages. is

Energetic and Daring Leader IN MRS. ROOSEVELT, Arherican youth is offered

politician in a party which has often betrayed its dwn professional ideals. To think of Mrs. Roosevelt is to think of such as Senator Joe Guffey, of Pennsylvania, and the Hagues and Pendergasts and the second Louisiana purchase and the degradation of the ideal of government of the people by the

and & zest for the game of politics. As youth is able to detect in the home unfairness, dishonesty and untruthfulness in this conduct of

did not positively approve, actions by her party

and women. rr ; 5 ; As a party politiclan, Mrs. Roosevelt probably cannot do otherwise, for she would disrupt the plards of the party's leaders if she were to repudiate openly

party politicians who are forever compromising their |

an energetic and daring leader who sought them | | out when nobody else did, but one who is an sective |

people as an expedient justified by a desire for power |

the parents, so youth in the nation cannot have been | unaware that Mrs. Roosevelt has condoned, if she |.

which violated the ideals and faith of young men |

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_| rap is to plant a- small tree in your yard now, then | figure on digging it up the night you're ready to start trimming. ;

ent that still rages in the army trans is. whether there should be military bands arrive at the pier to board ship for overs a time there were no bands. Now there's 3 play for every troop unit as it arrives, mix ing military marches with hot licks.

Lack: Incentives

. WITH INDUSTRY advisory committees -and labor

before the youth of the country, and for their moral | benefit and inspiration, the routine connivances and schemes of ambitious and grasping men. But & party | politican cannot personify the ideal of ‘American youth, and the true idealists among them, who ‘con=

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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will ; defend to the death your right to.say it.—Voltaire. 5

management. commiitees, incentive payment and in< creased efficiency plans being urged upon all civilian

investigators have ' discovered that in every naval appropriation bill since 1916 there has been an abso Jute ban on using a stop watch to time any government employee oh any job, or clock the movemen

of any employee while engaged on any job. Further,

couraged, but repelled by the camera-ogling and flippant -semi-professionals of Mrs. Roosevelt's en~ tourage. ? ¢ There is a precocity, even a cynicism, among that following that suggests a desire for personal publicity, even notoriety, rather than a sincere devotion to high principles.

Class-Struggle Phase of Youth

HERE 18, also. a class-struggle phase of the youth movement, and ideals are not foreign to the character of the sons and daughters of united: and af-

which the parents strive constantly from the arrival

questioning respect of the children by conducting themselves as models of fairness and integrity.

the submerged third by substituting the mothering and fathering leadership of “groups” and government bureaus for the leadership of the parents.

Tunney Tried Rival Movement

AT ONE STAGE of Mrs. Roosevelt's activity, Gene Tunney organized a rival “movement” to, provide a haven for those yearning young ones who had come into personal and ideological collisions with the more resourceful campus veterans “of her following. It amounted to little, however, because Tunney tried to lead youth in his spare time, so to speak, and his principal occupation was selling liquor, which is a legally and socially respectable trade, to be sure, but not idealistic.

saving, and the ideals that they are: fighting for.

the example and teaching of parents in millions of modest homes. i : i

compromise and expediency and stand forever in all

“TO WHOM DO WE OWE OBEDIENCE AND SERVICE?” By IM WwW, Indianapolis

Policy,” which. appeared in’ the _ | Times of Monday, Sept. 13, is one to be commended. However, there| is one sentence that has me puzzled; I refer to the last sentence of the editorial, which reads as follows; fectionate American homes of the middle class in | “Here is a sane policy of co-opera-tion by the sovereign United States of the first baby to deserve the confidence and un- | With other nations for peace.”

power, and generally . accepted as Nor is this idealism ‘less influential in the |being supreme to ail other rights. homes of the poor, although there. were many who Sovereign rights are royal rights thought, during the long depression, that financial primarily, the rights of a sovereign poverty and spiritual. squalor were inevitably com=- |prince.. The assumption is that the plimentary and essayed to “save” the children of {subjects of a principality of kingdom

United States instituted this democratic commonwealth in place of the monarchial system of government of England, who became inverted with sovereignty, or was the idea completely abrogated?

; _| sovereignty passed intact to the naRE EE A EE or Stara x: oe , no youth who were in such need of inspiration and any personal EXISOnon Expt in te aries. several persons of ts citizens. are derived not from any debates or resolutions of | Therefore, we the citizens of the that artful and youth.conscious minority, .nor from |United ' States are vested “with | them! » the Atlantic charter or the four freedoms, but from [princely severeignty, all of us; and it cannot be taken away from us; it is unalienable and we have it in perpetuity.” We the citizéns, the|judges, who make = They have no one hero or heroine or ideal person, | component .parts of these United |divorce trials! but: millions. of them; most-of whom, however, on the | States, hold dominion over the citiaverage, taught the same things. There may come |2ens of the United States, and each out of this some idol, some beautiful knight who of us owe unqualified and unalienwill personify all-the virtues and beauties of char. rabie allegiance to ourselves. - Does and other states, is & scandal and acter, but If so, that person must be one who will scorn _| not seem logical, butt is consistent. [menace to our

A things for exact fairness and justice at whatever |we owe obedience and service? If sqverelsn ghia srecaupieme 10 alii laws on. our statiite

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words.

Sbvereign rights are rights of

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AMERICAN HOME’

When the founders of the

Experts in law are of opinion that

If we are sovereign, to whom do

sovereign we do not owe obedience : ay and service to anyone, we demand became: sbjectly inferfor to thé|it—from whom? prince or king, and owed unquestioning and unqualified obedience and service to the sovereign. The . whole question of sovereighty is one of divine right.

+ Probably the writer of the “editorial can clear up the question.

“MODERNISM WRECKING

By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis “Modernism, liberalism, European ideas,” us" Pegler dubs them, are

‘needed awfully bad, is that no marmenace! Our lawmakers are taking

And for this evil departure from the laws of God, the American people are’ paying a fearful price in ; misery and suffering! And the poor little children pay

Don't you know, ( the foundation of our nation?

risk or cost, : other rights, from whom to we exact (ever it was has stuck & dagger obedience and ? I we are the heart of the American

“|great evil upon our state and

a bill to draft labor. Industry is ‘op-operiting with local judges in an| "0 effort to rehabilitate habitual drunks, loafers and bums. -

and inflicted the poison that will national morality! * ' ee

enough, but this looseness and lcense among married people is a

live together unless they were married! The law and the people would pot allow it! But now, under “modernism” and “liberalism,” men and. women, by thousands, “step out” and leave a family, break up a home, or two homes, and leave their children to the care of strangers! We see this now on every hand, and looseness in the law, ahd in the conduct of officials, is the direct cause! There are thousands of lit. tie “childrén suffering in Indiana right now- because daddy or mother, or both, betrayed them and left them! and abet this evil. Woe unto you scribes and lawyers, hypocrites, that wrote the laws which brought this

nation! . .. % ae The state of New York will not grant a divorce, except in case of adultery, according to my information. - That is a law based on the Bible! It should be the law in every state of this nation! And ahother provision needed, arid

riage can be anfiulled, or divorce be granted, to anyone having minor

Here, then, is the law I would recommend: No divorce shall be granted to any person having minor children, nor shall divorce be granted to persons without minor children, except in case of proven adultery! anne : in ® = =» “JOB LOST WHEN U, 8. AGENTS ARRIVE" By Abeunded, Indianapolis ey i It seems that the manpower shortage has become so acute in

We the People”

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finally overwhelm and disintegrate

thousand times worse! Time was when men and women could- not

And our loose laws uphold |

it~ls forbidden -to pay any bonus, premium or cash reward to any employee, above his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements.

Gambling and drinking’ are bad These restrictions apply to all work done in govern.

ment navy yards. . _ Soon before the Brookings institution issued its report praising Canada’s control of living costs as better than controls in the United States and Great Britain, Donald Gordon, chairman of Canada’s ware time prices board, made a speech in Toronto. “Pressure on the price ceilings is rapidly becoming insupportable,” said Gordon. “Labor is demanding wage | adjustments. Food prices are creeping steadily up= wards. . Black markets are commencing to develop, If the dam breaks, God help us.” Just like the United States.

\ ’ ; . / Triumvirate’ By Helen Ruegamer

THERE 18 little that gives one greater satisfaction and content= ment than to read a book which mentions the ‘familiar or recalls the similar, thus creating the feel- = dng of kinship between the writer Therein lies the charm of “Triumvirate,” a new book by Oliver

. Robinson, Vincennes university. It is the ; lively, sympathetic story of three young people who were a law: unto themselves in strait-laced Gouverneur, Ind. Not only does the story warm the hearts of Hoosiers at the mention of familiar

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war plants to increase production, Truman committee

“professor as Indiana's