Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 October 1943 — Page 14

Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Woy

'TY-EIGHT per cent of the voters questioned in a * Gallup poll say they believe this country’s greatest probJem in the next presidential term—1945 through 1948— will be jobs. Only 13 per cent gave first place to the problem of drawing up’a lasting peace; only 11 per cent to the national debt and other government financial problems; only 6 per cent to post-war food problems; only 4 per cent to labor

problems.

This does not mean, we think, that voters minimize | . the importance of establishing a lasting peace; of main- |

taining a financially sound governmer.t; of feeding this country and others, or of putting labor relations on a better basis. It means a large majority of the voters believe that

the United States has little hope of solving these other

problems, global and domestic, unless it provides jobs for its own people after the war. And in our opinion, the voters

who believe that are correct. ANOTHER poll report, by Fortune magazine, says that 74 per cent of the country’s top business executives— as comipared to only about 40 per cent a year ago—now believe private business and industry, if given opportunity,

can maintain high post-war employment. That's important. |

But maintaining high employment will call. for more than optimism. It will call for determined action to remove obstacles to high employment. Such obstacles are found in policies and practices that restrict production, that keep prices up, that prevent the birth and growth of small businesses and industries, that throttle competition, that discourage investment in new enterprises and in expansion of existing enterprises. Government is responsible for some of these policies and prac-

tices. Business is responsible for some of them. Labor is |

responsible for some of them.

Solution of that key post-war problem—jobs—demands |

wisdom of the highest type in government, in business, in labor, from now until 1945, and from 1945 onward. )

DELEGATION TO MOSCOW

GQECRETARY OF STATE HULL'S reported decision to attend the Anglo-Russian-American conference of foreign ministers at Moscow is good news: So-is the appoint- .. ment of W. Averell Harriman to succeed Adm. Standley as ambassador to Russia. . : : But the American delegation will not be complete unless the president includes also a minority member. of the senate foreign relations committee. The names of Senator La Follette and Senator Vandenberg have been suggested. This proposal is in no sense a reflection on the-ability or

high patriotic purposes with which Secretary Hull, and his |

aid Mr. Harriman, will conduct the negotiations. It is simply a realistic recognition of the constitutional. role of the senate in foreign relations, and the importance of the senate minority in co-operation with and ratification of administration policy. . » . »

MUcH could be achieved by naming a ranking senator, | It would dispose of much of the criticism to the effect that the president has |

such as La Fpllette or Vandenberg.

withheld from the senate the co-operation so essential for |

treaty ratification. It would tend to lift foreign policy. . above partisanship in congress, and might help to remove diplomatic issues from the coming presidential campaign —an end devoutly to be desired. Also it would free Secretary Hull's hands. He could say and do many things at Moscow, if a senate minority member were at his side and in his confidence, which he might otherwise have to avoid. Finally, the British and Russian delegations—and Stalin in thé Kremlin background—probably would welcome the more representative American delegation. After all, the historic American conflicts between president and senate in foreign policy and particularly the disastrous results to the Wilson foreign agreements after the first world war, are not unknown to our allies. On the contrary, this factor is over-emphasized if possible in London . and Moscow. So anything that would remove the doubts of the British and Russians as to the completely representative character of the American delegation, and which would enable Secretary Hull to speak with more precision and

force for American interests, should increase the chances of constructive results,

THE SYMPHONIC CHOIR

EETHOVEN said: “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be master of that which it creates through music, yet it blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of is mightier than the artist.” Which Sects MpTORviate Lunnse Beethoven's Ninth phony, as the “Choral Symphony,” is am scheduled concerts during the seventh a ne Indianapolis Symphonic choir. The choir opens its y rehearsals tonight at the Athenaeum. In charge of the choir has been enlarged new voices, bringing its. total

one choir has won a firm place in the hearts -

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Operated on a small budget encouraging, according to credit for ‘advancing the

members and active members, pros- | at. The choir has proved itself |

Mob Rallied Again

i | JOHN POSSEHL, a vice president, who was lunch- | ing with Huddell and Langdon, was not hit and be- | came president on Huddell's death and held the job | until his death from natural causes in September, | 1940. Then the mob rallied again and elected William | E. Maloney of Chicago whose selfless altruism in the | service of the working stiff and in the maintenance of labor's gains under the new deal-underworld-com-

munist axis has yielded him a stable of race horscs, a

villa in the wintering place of the criminal scum: of |

unionism in Miami Beach and a large farm near Chicago. | Posseh] was Maloney's man in the presidency in a. rivalry with Joe Fay, the New Jersey thug and old- | time bootlegger. In fact, Fay later was thrown out of the racket by Possehl, with Maloney's support, but subsequently made peace and is now not only an international vice president again but a contractor in a large way of business. The police work in the Huddell case hardly could have been worse. The fille in the Washington police department contains incomplete and unsigned data, | including a statement attributed to the wife of one of the union officials in which she said her husband consipred in her presence .to bump off Huddell so that | another member of. the mob could get his job. In the end, nobody was punished or even tried and the union became cven more aggressively a racket | of racketeers which, during the long depression, | | thrived on public made-work projects and, since the | | war began, has shaken down workers and contractors | and always, iif the end, the people of the United | States, who' eventually pay the costs, in all sections | of the country.

| | Could Be Embarrassed | ALTHOUGH ON the surface-of things, Huddell | might appear to have been a martyr, the attempt to beatify him today could be seriously embarrassed | by any fairly alert devil's advocate for the union was a racket even then and there were plots and counterplots of shooting and some of the members in Washington complained that favorites of the union bosses received preferred treatment in he. divisions. of the available work. One statement in the files, taken in connection with another plot not long after Huddell's death, quotes a working stiff as saying that “they had starved him | long enough and caused one of his children to die | from undernourishment.” This man was arrested and indicted, but he died in jail before he could be brought to trial. The christening of the 8. 8 Arthur M. Huddell, naturally, will'be made an important occasion by his" successors, particularly by brother Maloney, who is a prominent member of Ed Kelly's Chicago chapter of the party of humanity, and brother Fay, whe is very influential in the Frank Hague chapter in New Jersey and in Washington, as well. ) It might be more fitting to name a ship after Dennis Bruce Zeigler of Chicago who was murdered near his home on Feb, 14, 1033, after a long fight against brother Maloney for clean unionism and after he had given-information to the United States treasury concerning the income of certain of the Chicago racketeers,

Repudiated Zeigler

The Hoosier Forum

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

“LOVES PETS BUT IN THEIR PLACE”

By Mrs. 1. K,, Indianapolis My hat off and three cheer for

the only sensible dog owner (I for one had read about) in these parts. Am referring to “A Times Reader” in the Sept. 30 paper. . Wife of Disgusted is having a nervous breakdown because her dog can't run wild. Your wife is having

ia nervous breakdown because your

dog (on a leash) isn't safe from

{ other dogs.

And me? Well, my daughter was bit in three places by a dog (not on # leash or muzzled) 10 days ago on her. way to. school which is only two and one-half blocks from. home. ‘Sure, the owner admitted the dog was cross and getting old.

owners were nice enough to pay for doctor and rabies shots (if they should be necessary) it is perfectly all right for the dog to be let loose after 10 days to attack some other child. Motto of dog owners who. do not keep them on a leash or muzzled should be “Down with humanity, long live the dogg.” Is it any won-

The murder occurred about 24 hours after Zeigler reported to an agent of the government that two union officials including one of those against whom he had given information to the treasury had chased him through the streets and that one of them had | yelled: “I will kill 'you yet.” However, William Green, the president of the | American Federation of Labor and a strong and ad- | miring supporter of brother Maloney, had repudiated | | Zeigler as an enemy of labor for appealing to him for | help against Maloney's mob. | Thus to name a ship for this genuine labor martyr | | would be an implied criticism of brothers Green and | Maloney and a disavowal of racketeering generally and so, on the whole, impolitic at this time. .

the People

By Ruth Millett

IF YOU sometimes wonder how you have been able to take on so many extra jobs both inside and outside your home since the war started, ask yourself these questions: fi How long has it been since I had to spend half an hour trying to get rid of a door-to-door salesman? ] How long has it been since I have been to a bridge luncheon, playing ‘cards until 4 or 5 in the afternoon? How long has it been since I've given the kind of party that required two days of hard work in preparation? How long has it been since I had a letter from a friend or relative saying, “We'll be driving within a hundred miles of your place next week, and if it's convenient we would like to stop off and spend a few days with you"? : ' How long has it been since I was the family chauffeur, driving every member of the family to work, to school, to music lessons?

Window-Shopping Out

HOW LONG has it been since I've met a friend in town for lunch and spent the afternoon windowshopping? ; oN How long has it been since I've dome anything “Just to kill time”? : How long has it been since I have done anything ; Joneses?

der that ever so often you hear

|of a wave of dog poisoning? Don’t |

misunderstand me, I love pets as well as anyone else, but in their

place. ~ TR eo»

“ANOTHER DOUBLE. PLAY ON GASOLINE RATIONING” By Jim Kelly, Knigistown What in the name of all that's reasonable is going to be the outcome of this put and take game that OPA is playing with the Midwestern

people? Since gasoline rationing went into

ing as a transportation office representative in one of the greater war industries in central eastern Indiana. This company hires in excess of 15 thousand people. The task of helping these people to secure their gasoline rations and trying to solve their transportation problems is in itself a difficult and responsible one. During last August the employees

Bure, the police came and as the

effect Dec. 1, 1942, I have been serv-/

Side Glances=By Galbraith

(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 - ~-here-are.those. of the writers,.. and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor~respondence regarding them.) of our department worked 12 and 16 hours daily, seven days per week, in order to secure new rations for | all persons whose ration was voided after Sept. 1. At this same time we were taking care of a multitude of applicants whose ration normally expired Aug: 31, Besides doubling our regular renewal period it was necessary to issue 25 per cent more stamps, due to the one-gallon cut, in order for | these employees to have a sufficient

ration to cover a fixed mileage to and from work, After this cut OPA declared that any person who drives over 60 occupational miles per month would be entitled to supplemental gasoline ration. Results: Hundreds of new applicants who -had previous |to this cut found their “A” ration sufficient for their occupational driving. Hundreds were forced -to [try to use already overloaded busses rather than go through the red tape {of applying for more ' gasoline,

| Transportation representatives who |are taking time off from their reg{ular essential jobs having to spend | more time on this problem. Thou{sands of extra applications and ra{tion books issued and the jamming | of limited filing space in our local {ration boards. We are under the | impression there was—and is a paper shortage, too. { On Oct, 1, 1043, another double

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play is being re-enacted. Another cut in value of “B"” and “C” ration. But, OPA says, “Never mind, we will give it back to you if you are working in an essential war industry.” It is my belief that a close investigation would reveal that not less than 90 per cent of “B” and “C”

“ration -holders. are already in. an

essential war industry, are farmers who cannot regulate their gasoline demands beforehand, and people living in outlying rural districts who have no other means to obtain food, medical care and other neces-

, |sities of life except in their auto-

mobile. We are constantly being warned to prevent monetary inflation but it seems that there -is no stopping of this inflationary movement of the gas ration coupons. 1 wonder how practical it will be to carry a gasoline ration book that is the size of a mail order catalog? .... How much longer will people stand for such foolishness?

» " - $ “STRENGTH OF GERMAN ARMY UNDERESTIMATED” By E. R. Dickinson, 4715 E. 13th st.

I was very interested in the! | article submitted by C. F. L. in| Wednesday's edition of the Hoosier| |

Forum. It seems as though a great number of people are definitely underestimating the strength of the German army as of this writing, Just how many troops has Russia thrown into its forward wall up and down .the Dnieper river? We do not know the exact figures and so can only guess, but it is certain that Russia is in no position to reopen an old wound with- Japan at this time. , You must also remember that Russia and Japan have signed a

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Had Germans on Run

MILITARILY, he went on to say, they went into action against the Germans on Sept. 9, soon > the Italian surrender. Contrary to reports, the I fans on the island did not fight the Nazis, but ree mained passive. The French patriots had been armed by allied submarines, and by planes which dropped weapons by parachute. Quickly they had the Germans on the run. Politically, things happened just as swiftly. | As soon as the Italian armistice was announced. according to M. Maillot, the streets filled with enth astic crowds. Vichyites were ousted from Many were arrested and jailed. They were re by patriots. 4 “As good Republicans,” continued M. Maillot, took care that our new officials were properly elected. | This was done by popular vote in the public squares.

Passed in Order

IN SOME instances municipal officers who still] enjoyed a certain confidence were left where they were until their jobs could be ratified at the pop polls, If they passed muster, they were retained. Othe erwise, out they went. The whole thing is sald to have passed off in perfect order. y Asked if the population participated in alt this pretty much as a whole, M. Maillot replied yes. “About 90 per cent of the people were with us, That is, 90 per cent of the population is De Gaullist. We have ‘lived ‘here on our island for him and because of him. His name unifies us all.” The above quotations cabled to the French dele gation here were from a De Gaullist newspaper, Com bat, published in North Africa, but that fact does not lessen, their significance. On the contrary, they indicate that the political situation is. increasingly in the hands of General De Gaulle.

Cry "Vive Giraud!

DISPATCHES FROM American correspondents in North Africa quote Gen. Chambe—who accoffipanied Gen. Giraud to Corsica iast week—as saying the French commander had been met with deafening cries of “Vive Giraud! Vive le liberateur!” Where= upon, Gen. Giraud.is said to have faced the crowd and replied that it ought also to shout “Vive De Gaulle!” Which, it is said, it did with equal enthusie Another dispatch to the French delegation here paints still anothter picture. It quotes the newly appointed Corsican prefect Luizet as saying he had just returned from a swing-round of the islands with Gens. Martin and Mollard and had seen “the popus lace crying with joy as they marched through the village streets behind a porfrait of Gen. De Gaulle pinned to the tricolor.” Everywhere, he added, people were singing “La _Marseillaise” while children romped alongside the automobiles shouting “Vive la France| Vive De Gaulle!” as they ran, -

WPB Portals

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