Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1943 — Page 8

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| been dono before. On the house side, $100,000 was voted last winter for a similar purpose, and members of the house

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. business than is enterprise. Every farmer who takes a

. have got ahead.”

_ committee votes to spend $30,000 on hiring more experts

been recouped many times over in economies forced upon

E kie has been talking and writing a lot ‘about | problems, and saying little about problems home, Pe : : Last night in St. Louis he opened up on domestic issues. It was a stout speech. If it is a sample of more to come, Mr. Willkie is off to a good start in his campaign or the Republican nomination. Mr, Willkie is at his best when he talks on the American system of free enterprise—its adventures, its hazards, its rewards to the individual, and its dynamic contribution to the living standards, liberties, opportunities and security of all. : He was in good form last night, as he talked of what has happened to the mental processes of an administration that is rounding out 12 years in power and now wants to stretch its tenure to 16 years, of the growing tendency of Washington officials to think they know all the answers, to think it is not safe to take the people into their confidence in the conduct of the nation’s affairs: “Those who hold power too long begin to distrust the very source of their power; the people seem to them hopelessly ignorant.” He was on the beam when he spoke of the function which risk capital must be called on to perform, if we are to provide real jobs and greater opportunities in the postwar period, when he said that our “social insurances are not worth the paper they are written on unless a great and growing America stands behind them,” that “such an America can be built neither by setting up an all-powerful state, nor by turning over our economic system to a few self-appointed private individuals.”

¥ . . » » » * ONE part of Mr, Willkie's speech well worth re-reading is that which spells out what private enterprise is

“The present administration would have us believe that enterprise is the private, selfish and abused possession of a few big businessmen and as such is to be watched | like a hawk and have its wings clipped and its tail-feathers pulled out every time it

misunderstanding of what makes America tick . . . “Risk capital is the name today for money which ‘people Stand ready to risk in backing a new invention, | organizing a new air route, or in any other pioneering enterprise. It is what America and the world will need most for and expansion in the tough.and adven-| turcus days cetfin to follow the war . 5% "¢ A : “And risk capital is not, as the administration would have'us believe, any more the private possession of big

chance and buys the next-door farm on a shoestring, is risking his savings in exactly this spirit. . . . When a family saves pennies and sends a boy to college, that is risk capital. When that boy does chores to help pay his tuition he is risking his capital. It is by such risks that men in America

The country will want more such speeches from Mr.

| Willie, and from any other candidate who thinks he has | © an alternative to four more years of “let papa fix.”

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| ECONOMY IS

A JOB FOR EXPERTS THE job of a senator or representative does not, despite] the cartoonists, consist entirely of posing like Daniel | Webster while giving tongue to windy essays. The fact is, much drudgery is involved. And the reward of the drudges is often nothing but a feeling of frustration. - We are thinking especially of the appropriations com“mittees. Befgre them, in budget-making season, march the ‘bureaucrats in endless procession, their brief-cases bulging with statistics, estimates and tabulations, in justification of their requests for money. The whole thing runs into such a bewildering mass of detail that no committeeman, no matter how keen, could digest it all and pass competent judgment. The result is that the committees are often at the mercy of the men .who are asking for the money. ~ Soit is a forward step when the senate appropriations

to do some of this digesting and analyzing. It should have

~commiitee think the results have justified the outlay. - Money spent by congressional committees has often

the executive branch. Last year, for instance, the Byrd committee of the senate claimed a saving of $1,313,988,208 in the wake of its recommendations, which included such _ matters as the abolition of CCC. And this week the samspeck committee of the house mentioned that its stigation of overstaffing had led to the dropping of civilian employees by the war department. ‘Such economies, in both money and manpower, are dy needed. Congress cannot accomplish them with. 8 to the facts, and the facts are hidden in such ded bureaucratic labyrinths that the committees | cannot reach them without just such professional a the Senate appropriations committee has

shows the least sign of fiying-or

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We the People

/| But now you finish up the food you take.

ber may have only one-five-hundredth or sandth of a vote, which is really no vote at all. political inferiority is based on his inferiority skill, which may not be actual inferiority at all b arbitrary. classification. But imagine, if you can, the uproar that wou raised by our friends and neighbors on the anyone of were to propose that and-shovel man should have only a fraction in the public elections while a banker sh & whole vote, he For i

A 'Permanent Inferior’ $ THE CLASS B UNION member, however, is per-

manently inferior, The A class closes its rolls for varying periods, rigs the examinations so that aspire ants are bound to flunk or, in some cases, picks relatives of its members for the

get and a certain bonus per unit of production, and’ was exactly the system that the C. 1. O. used In its great manhunts when captives into the union pounds by the got so much per head. That was one reason why they people’s brains out with clubs and tire riots. You give a couple of poor stiffs a w and scare 2000 others into the union hal] to join and you are doing all right for yourself,

New Deal Says ‘Union’ Is ‘Labor’ +

loss of prestige and can faking the operation, but with it, . This happens right along. They hire will and no labor relations board ever won any union is labor and that labor can’t be anti-labor any ‘more than you can be anti-you.

There are a lot of things about unions that most ! peaple don’t know,

By Ruth Millett

HAVE YOU stopped to think how many of the old-fashioned virtues you have acquired since the war began? You weren't especially known for your promptness, were you? But now aren't you always ready

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and waiting with your hat on when the day's driver of your car i pool pulls up in front of your | house? | Saving a definite amount of each pay check | probably was something you could never quite manage—until it became a matter of patriotism. | You even may have been one of those people who | put off taking care of repairs until an article needing | a little work became a piece of junk. But no more. You treat your prized possessions with loving and gentle care. After all, a lot of them have to last for the duration. And you never used to worry about wasting food. If you took a second pork chop and then only a bite of it—that was all right. And your conscience didn't bother you if you left butter on your plate.

As for the neighbors with whom you had only & nodding acquaintance before the war, well, you're neighborly with them now, sharing rides, sharing pressure cookers, swapping the produce of your Vietory gardens.

bothered with before the war. You just weren't that thrifty In the old days, were you? €s, you are probably practicing as many of the old-fashioned virtues as did your grandmother. Even the one about early to bed—if you've swapped § desk Job for one in a war plant.

Inside Stuff

By Maj. Al Williams

even 10, bad ones. Evidently you

Side Glances-By Galbraith * 3

The Hoosier Forum

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

“ONCE A ‘NICE MEAN

By A Mother, Indianapolis In answer to “A Constant Reader” to send undesirable people to the dog pound: I read your article and I for one

certainly got out of place when you wrote that letter. r » » “ERNIE SHOULD HAVE PAID VISIT TO WHITE RIVER" By DM. C., Indianapelis Ernie Pyle was surprised at the heavy traffic he saw in Indianapolis and said, “Where do the Hoosiers get all the gas?” Well, Ernie, you should have paid a visit to White River above Broad Ripple to Liberty Beach and watched the boats: go by—big ones,

boats dashing to pieces the docks of the people who live along there. Just having a good time. Like Ernie we say, “Where do they get the! as?” Ickes warns the United States that the gas supply is low but the people running these boats do not believe that, so do not make this sacrifice to win this war. . > “HAPPY TO SHOW ‘ONE GOOD CHILD” By Herman Garey, 933 Broadway An open letter to “A Constant Reader” (of Coalmont), I also am a constant reader of the Hoosier Forum. With disgust I read of your “personal” comparison of dogs and children. I would be very happy to show you one good child if you can show me 10,000, yes,

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