Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1943 — Page 12
Evrythin's up to date in Kansas City, hemi They've gone about as fur as they ¢'n go! ° They went and built a skyscraper seven stories high, About as high as a buildin’ ort’a grow. lines are from a song in the year’s greatest show hit, ~~ “Oklahoma,” produced by the Theater Guild. Scene: "Turn of the century. A cowboy from that newest, then, of _ frontiers, Oklahoma and Indian territory, had taken a trip, and was telling the prairie folks back home about it— “about the seven story skyscraper and what the modern * world was comin’ to; about “gas buggies goin’ by theirsel's,” - about radiators whenever you want some heat; about the “Bell telephone; and how “you cn walk to: o privies in the rain and never wet your feet.” ~~
Along about the same time, the Flatiron Sailing = was w pidice in New York as the Effipiré State and Rocke:
~ the shadows of structures that followed in a decade or two
en . - . : ‘sa 4 INCE THEN we've seen the automobile era; the develop+ ment of modern plumbing ‘and air-conditioning; the airplane, radio, and a thousand other creature-comfort improvements to change the face of the life of this generation. But always—and it’s only natural—there have been those of us, most of us in fact, who, like the cowpuncher, have been singing “we've gone about as fur as we ¢'n go.” It was so before “Oklahoma”—with the Mississippi congressman in 1839 who declared, “our system is finished,” and the U. S. commissioner of patents in 1844 who said, “we see the arrival of that period when human improvement is at an end,” and the commisioner of the interior, in -1875, “new. materials and new inventions have now trans- |
ormied our society into its final phase—for scientific inven“tion can take us only a little way further.” Read Eric
es Digest s “We're Not Washed Up” in the November Read-
UT WHAT we are driving at here is to tie this in with the appointment by President Roosevelt. and Jimmy |, Byres of Bernard Baruch to direct post-war economic adjustments, Bernie has seen all those things come to pass =but never, no never, has he sung “We've gone about as
fur as we c'n go.” ~ A lot of good news has been rolling in the last week. But none better than that we are going to have, steering our economic ship of state, this man of many years who in ‘the richness of his vast. experience. still ‘holds the young man’s vision. And, without vision nations perish. __ With Bernard Baruch at the helm we are not only not going to perish but we “ain't seen nothin’ yet” of what the modern _world is comin’ to. (Read “Tomorrow's Job,” by : E. A, Evasa, Page 11.)
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: GEN. MARSHALL IS ABOVE POLITICS | GENATOR JOHNSON of Colorado urges the Democrats fo draft Gen. Marshall as a presidential nominee next
.is dead, and that the. Democratic. party will go.down too- if it hangs on to the corpse. He thinks a presidential candidate a popular as Marshall might save the Democrats.
The senator, regardless of good intentions, is thinking asa party politician first. In his understandable enthusiasm for our great military leader, the senator has seriously _ embarrassed the chief of staff, whose freedom from politics must be above question. This indiscretion is all the worse because it is timed on the eve of Marshall’s anticipated departure for London to become Anglo-American generalissimo. To jeopardize Marshall's non-politicat-standing now is “an act deserving general condemnation. So far he has been ble to keep above American service rivalries and political maneuvers. The fact that he is acceptable to the British as
suspicions and jealousies which usually afflict allies. ss 8 = ee JOHNSON had any comprehension-eof the delicacy of al 8 position, and how much allied victory depends the patriotic senator would not bull into the military d with his political proposals. : “the senator adds that “Marshall is not a candidate, and ll emphatically say so, but no patriotic American from 8 Washington down can refuse such & call” Jf course the country knows the general is not a candi3ut whether he can now come out and deny the sugor of hich he isa vietim, without making it worse,
: far from political ambition that even his party , is unknown. So it is particularly unjust
year. He says last week's elections show that the New Deal |
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dodgers for deferments and blackmail men who were actually essential with a threat not to esomiend deferment.
The tury ‘was Beipless also and Sully Was Sn. pelled to make a clandestine appeal, not to the FBI
Jor the war labor board, but to individual newspaper | “| reporters to expose Posner, in the hopé that thé pub- |
lication of the crook’s record and character and the
‘facts “of - the Brewster sttustion; would cause af -exs 1H © feller center are now, the Flatiron now being flattened in | Plosion that would blast him out.
Mrs. Agnes Meyer, the wife of Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post, did the job in a report which covered a whole page. It was an excellent feat of coverage and presentation, which did not fail to present i failures of the management, and quickly resulted ‘in a call for Henry Kaiser to take over as president of Brewster and placate Posner, both of which Kaiser did, He also got a new. contract.
Just One Small Flaw
IF MRS. MEYER'S fine work on the story could be criticized at all the criticism would be that she failed to run her man down, but that could be excused in a reporter who refuses to believe that unionism {is infested with crooks. The army already knew that De Lorenzo was actually Posner, and had his police ‘Fecord, and presumably ‘the FBI had him cataldgued. But, such is the power of the unfon bosses in Jeague with thie gove ernment that much information of this kind is merely filed away and not put: to use. The labor relation agencies and the department: “ot justice Jet them go_ their way, as legally they are justified in. doing, because the. Wagner act takes the position that a: evook is: Re: good as: ai honest man, a3 Communist 8s good as a loyal American, &nd a certified representative of a: collective bargaining unit must be met as such regardless of hig character; ~ Kaiser knew" Posner's record but he is a man who accepts the Wagner act as the law, and deals the best he can with crooks who are certified to him as bargaining agents, throwing the responsibility back is, and the loss from union looting or time 1 back to the treasury,
He Doesn't Fight Them : HE DOESN'T try to fight them as the old Brew-
‘| ster management did.
Posner's pecord consists of one ¢ charge of automobile homicide and one indictment of turning out 2000 rioters at an aviation plant in 1941, both dismissed, and 15 traffic charges. Much worse, however, was his declaration, on file with the navy, that “our policy is not to win the war at any cost, The policy of our local union is to win the war without sacrificing too many of the Tights which we have at the present time.” He is only one of many upstart unioneers elevated to power by the New Deal who have abandoned their original names and taken others, for reasons best known to themselves. Another is Lewis Merrill, president of the C. 1. O. Office Workers’ union which follows the Communist party line, and is in a position to plant Communist spies in American business In. one such case, & #py got a Job in the New York office of District 50 of the United Mine Workers and: helped rrange a violent raid on. the premises | ‘by Mike Quill and other officers of the Transport Workers’ union which also follows-the party line and representatives of Marshall Field's paper. The spy J in this case claimed to" have resigned from the union of Mr. Merrill, whose name was Louis Cohen when he came to the United States from Canada. :
We the People By Ruth Millett |
HOW OFTEN these days you hear someone say with a sigh, “I dread the long winter ahead.” Winter shuts people in with their worries and troubles. Win. = 1oF. algo. takes..away such “getawiyifrom- f-all” pursuits as golf, : back-fence visiting with
quiet, gloomy, depressing days. No wonder people dread it in war time. But winter should Be a chal® lenge to homemakers. It ‘should make them deter mined to keep their homes happy, theerful It should make them resolved that their faniilies
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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“GIVES 11TH PINT OF BLOOD TO RED CROSS” By Floyd Garris, RB. RB. 1, Box 354. Tonight I went to the Red Cross blood. to give my 11th pint of bl and while there talked to several NUrses; and also the- doctor; about the response on the blood drive. 1 was very disappointed, in what
empty while I was there and very | Tew tied Gee Ney fall
hurt either one of us. Both of us work six and. seven days a week at Allison's and are gaining weight. Feel better. every time we give for two reasons: (1) We eat better and sleep better; (2) the main one-is that the boys overseas are losing more than a pint of blood at a time, so if our family can help our country and our boys by going and giving a pint of blood every two months, we will do it Glad that we live in a country that is fit to live in. The Red Cross does everything in its power to protect the blood donor. I. know by being turned/down last week. —I went-up-last Monday; they checked my record and found out I was 12 days early, and turned meq down flat. Told me I had to wait. I returned tonight and was accepted, What I am trying to bring across is the fact that blood and more blood is needed and the people of Indianapolis are letting our boys
go to the Red Cross, give a pint of blood, and know that we are all doing our part. > “LAWYERS SHOULD PUT OWN HOUSE IN. ORDER” is By Guy'D. Sallee, 3001 Woodside dr.
The old saying “tell it to the marines” may be changed in Marfon county in the near future by a military order reading, “tell it to the M P's” It is reported that hipaa politics from the beginning has been one of the major obstacles in making the home front clean and safe for the soldiers when they visit the “no mean city.” In most all other cities where army camps are located, their police departments are controlled by the underworld politicians; they
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My wife, Mary, has given nine times and is due again. It hasn'ti
down. So let's all get together and |g,
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the police from co-operating with the military authorities in health crusades; : ' Without question, the Indianapolis police department under Chief Beeker is free from ‘the influence and dictation of this element; this is as it should be, But errors of judgment in making arrests has. proud criticism. . . , t is'not the duty of the police wo police court attorneys from taking money as a fee to represent a client, and then failing to do so; this is the duty of the bar association and the judge of the court. It might be reported to the grand Jury which is under the prosecutor's
pervision. But let's not forget (anything and everything is all right when it occurs between friends) the de-
uce their political power to prevent
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oner or reduction of the bond. However, the judge lowered the bond to $100, then the municipal court judge again raised the bond to $750, and decreed the girl should| be deported to Nashville, Tenn.” ~He gave her-a authorities there; when they read it and learned she had been a resident of Indiana for two years and had voted here, they Thought her a J nitrcad ticket back to Indianapolis. Sh is inc Indinnapolis today ooo x This action cost this gir] $100 to
Prove she was iced of all the
“charges. an in Ee proceedings. Lawyers take an oath to uphold the constitution and are supposed to be- the protectors of our liberties]. and rights—Lincoln once said, “if we deal just and fair with each other, and stop our quarreling, we lawyers will have to go into another kind of business.” Under our form of government and the established methods of doing things, we can't do without the lawyers, but they can “clean up” and should put their own house in Hn 8.» ; “PLANNING NEXT MOVE WHILE THEY SMOKE” By Pearl Coffman, 828 N, East st. To Positively Despondent: The writer who wrote in saying he worries because F. D. R., Churchill and Stalin smoke and Hitler does not: Well, good morning glory, how's your little reindeer? I'm glad everyone doesn't feel the way you do. Hope, you haven't jumped in the {river yet! Are you kidding?
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can at least prevent a ‘continuation of the long-weeke end recesses and the recurring skipping of sessions in the middle of the legislative week and this we propose to do,” the committee statement read. shall endeavor to hold the house in continuous
has been “going y for exposing such waste peg 5 ag a seventh district congressman from another G. O. P. congressional ne herp protest. He already heads the fruit and vegetable of the Republican food committee of the Fringe a Namen ] Leader Martin (R. Meso put ion! . narily The pronouncement lambasts the Democratie AD py since tie sumimét Teton, : no ma \ sented tor measures have been pre Went Home to Campaign
_. | session hereafter and in these daily-sessions we shall “do our part to press for action on matters demanding
-early attention if the war effort and the home front...
“TT'eéonomy ‘are to function at maximum
In 1940, it was recalled, the Republicans took a similar pious stand. They forced th house to stay in session, won all the newspaper decisions, and then quietly sneaked. home to campaign for themselves... Just like the Democrats. - The Landis et al committee listed the following for immediate action: z
: 1. The. necessity. of acting. promptly. once. and for. ‘all to dispose ‘of the -food subsidy question so that .
farmers will be able to plan for their next year’s crops and so that progress can be made in stimulating maximum production by providing farmers with fair prices in. the market place without regimentation,
This should be coupled with the naming of a single
food administrator to bring order out of the chaos
which is doing so much to aggravate our serious food situation.
Want Fuel Oil Relief
® 3. THE NEED to take action to increase the production of crude oil so that existing gasoline and" fuel ofl shortages may be relieved. i 3. The double checking and careful investigation of all appropriation measures to be sure that economy
“Pecomes § workiiig policy of govérnmént rather than
- merely. a pious politicat promise. We vigoronsiyoppose : |
all expenditures and bureaucratic actions which are contrary to the expressed will of congress,
4. The passage of legislation to provide “citizens
- an appeal through regularly established judicial chane WelE Yue. any bureaucratic directive, 4. YoRuALop.
‘Maggie No Doubt’
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. “Maggie No“ Doubt” by Maggie Owen Wadelton is the autobiograe ~ phy of a mischievous, impulsive Irish lass who now lives in.Indiane apolis as the sedate wife of an ~, army colonel, : With this book the name of Wadelton is entrenched on the list of American authors. “Maggie No Doubt” takes up where “The Book of Maggie Owen” left off, and the Wadelton's young son, ‘Tommy, is the author of “My Mother is a Violent Woman” and “My Pather Is a
there are none save in the far off woods.” .
‘Great Place for Sanwerches' SHE 18 ENTRANCED by the “felyphone” and
“twirling fans” agog at newspapers with “coloured -
likenesses of people who. have great adventures and get into trouble with constables and with bludgeons and what not.” She “there. is more clammer in the U.S. than in the
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