Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1943 — Page 14

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ENGE TO THE JAP NAVY

ILI Japan yield up the Gilbert islands, and then per- |

“haps turn her other cheek to sacrifice the Marshalls,

~ these “un aircraft carriers”? That is a question ~ posed by our landings on Makin and Tarawa. If she should send out a major segment of her seapower, ‘from Truk or elsewhere, the result might be something close to a decisive battle. She would be taking a colossal chance. But the alternative is loss of face, and, more importantly, loss of strategically important outposts. Makin and Tarawa are thousands of miles from Tokyo, and from Bataan. But they are symbols of the vital fact ‘that the initiative in the Pacific continues in our hands.

“HATTON SUMNERS—ON THE HOME FRONT

- Novem ‘congress gots-a.more attentive audience. than.

diciary committee. When the word gets round that Sumners “48 ‘to make a set speech, the cloakrooms empty, the seats fill, and the colleagues of both parties listen.

Judge Sumners has just made one of his most im-. __ portant addresses, but not in the house. It was before the

~ NewsEngland Council in Boston. 1t dealt strictly with the

~home front and with an issue as important as any ofthe

global ones with which we are now contending. In it you find no reference to London, Moscow, Vichy,

. Lebanon, New Guinea or Guadalcanal. And yet, over the

Jong haul, it may mean as much, or éven more, to our manner of life, to our form of government, to what we're fighting for, as anything that may come out of any inter- . national conference. It deals with a very simple and fundamental. subjéct—centralization, home rule, We quote the high spots: .. .. ;

CEE mw CA ew ve . By HATTON W. SUMNERS YOU PEOPLE are the government. The government . is mot in Washington. = ~ ae ganization was never intended to do the job. It cannot do it. except as a bureaucracy. The people created the federal organization to do a relatively small number of things: To be their agent, pot their master. More and move in later years we have been engaged in fhe perfectly sly undertaking of tying to make this federal argsization a colossus utterly beyond human com-

_ geehension or democratic control, regardless of what party |

3 i» power. It is inevitable that there shall be extravagance, wasle, tyranny, government by directives issued by appointed, met elected, personnel, working without supervision. ~~ We have all but reduced the states to the status of governmental vassals, subject to federal control by financial dependence on the federal treasury. Money we thought we were getting for nothing we pow realize was got by mortgaging the taxpaying power _ of unborn generations. : : : . Let us not deceive ourselves. We are now in the initial stages of another great battle between concentrated power ~and democratic government. : ps Whoever controls the purse strings, controls. We must right-about-face. FT

CONGRESS AND CABINET i SECRETARY OF STATE HULL'S address to a joint session of congress has stimulated public questions as to why the executive and legislative branches of our government do not work together more closely? Statesmen and _ students of government have been saying for a long time there is no good reason for the exaggerated barriers which produce inefficiency instead of efficiency, conflict instead of co-operation. Hence the many resolutions now pending to streamline the creaking relationship between congress and the executive, . : Among proposed reforms ope of the simplest, easiest, and more obvious is the Kefauver resolution, It would amend ‘house rules to permit cabinet officers and agency heads to take the floor periodically to answer written ques‘tions. The house would obtain, quickly,- authoritative information without which it cannot legislate intelligently. istrative chiefs would have fuller and more effective. 1a, contact with the expenditure of Jess. time and It would make both parties more respsonsible in ir relations to each other and to the public.

‘risking a battle fleet in defense of these ramparts— | 2

ties to finish his time.

senterice first, (i . ie : Thoroughly. Familiar With Career

the case until it comes before him in the isial legal way with ‘the prisoner in state custody. It appears that Capone and Weiss, who were Lepke's underlings, can count on successive postponemets of their death sentences as long as the department of justice protects Lepke, = : Of course, Dewey is thoroughly familiar with Lepke's career, for he got him on an extortion charge when he was district attorney in New York and kicking wpart ‘a “fHunibér of rackets which “Mr. Justice

justifiable union practice.

the department of justice to turn over the prisoner. He can only sit tight ang let the office which prosecuted the murder charge pursue the demand for custody.

nothing: but the governor's clemency to -save him from death he might ‘be very angry at his old associates, now important in New Deal and union politics, and agree to tell his story in return for which

Limon Braet inin

LEPKE OPERATED In the needle and fur trades

| from about 1930 to 1935 and was.an uncommonly

| brutal terrorist, playing both sidés of the street, avail able for hire to both employers. and unions. Several

1 of those who had dealings with-him- in.those days have

| since pushed themselves into advantageous political i positions in the American Labor party which is a i local subsidiary of the New Deal party and, al- ; thougly it might not be provable that any of them | actually committed or procured any important crimes, their relations with Lepke weére not such as would advance their political fortunes, if they should be told in court. ; No reason has been given for protecting this criminal except the general and perfunctory answer that in the opinion of the department of justice the interests of justice are best served by denial of the request for custody. He wasn't released to the state even when \ he was—on trial for murder but just loaned in the custody of the United States marshal. After conviction and sentence he was again taken under the federal govérnment's protection, ii

We The People

| By Ruth Millett

something about juvenile quency. i : Some have a ten or ten-thirty

delin-

a certain age. Some have set up a “children’s

| say about what they’ want and guidance, and other conditions,

considering & law fining negligent each offense their children commit.

high school students can gather to have fun. steps yet taken to keep teen-agers out of trouble. Here's lowa's Answer

tionsble to their parents.

school hang-out was paid-for firms,

The Dry Dock has everything

the prisoner is offered back to the federal authori-

Atty. Gen. Biddle has ignored two requests from ‘Thomas Hughes, the district attorney of Queens county, addressed to him after the pardon attorney x the brine of ee ‘had ruled that the in- k oe : ont TTL | terests of justice ‘require Lepke’ to serve BIS PRSSHT TS Hatton Sumners of Texas, chairman of the house ju-| ee - 2.

DEWEY IS refusing to have anything to do with

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~ The Hoosier Forum

}-wholly-disagree with-what you. say, but will. .

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“LET'S NOT BE SUCH

Franfurter might regard as familiar and therefore

However, as governor, it is not up to him to ask |

But, if Lepke were turned over to the state with | leaders of Germany and Japan

FOOLS AGAIN" By Dale Carnegie, New York City, The biggest problem by far that we face today is to prevent Germany and Japan from rearming and attacking us again in 25 or 50 years from now. The military

to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be know. that they are going to lose] this war; and they -are already

planning right now, how they will rearm and attack us again. They

here are those of the writers, and publication in no way

1 {Times readers are invited

the governor might decide to commute him to life. : } +

MOST TOWNS and cities in the United States are trying to do

curfew for boys and girls under

forum” where kids can have their néed in the way of recreation, |

At least one city is right now parents $25,000 for

Some ‘towns have set up “juvenile joints"—where

. And that seems to be one of the most. sensible

TAKE A-lobk at the “Dry Dock,” Fort Madison, Iowa's answer to the complaint from adolescents that they had no place to congregate that wasn’t objec-

The cost of turning some empty rooms into a high by parents and business

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are as. certain to do that as the sun

can; but will we? Ah, that is the question. Will we? Of course we will for a little

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‘marched into Germany then and disarmed her and. made it impossible for her to fight. Then they made one mistake that brought on the present war; they neglected to keep their armies in Germany permanently. If the allied nations had put their military - forces in charge of all Germany’s heavy industries — if they had prevented Germany from making even one submarine, one battleship, one plane, one tank or one gun—if the allied nations had done that—could there possibly have been a Hitler and a second world war? Could there? You can answer that one yourself? :

The real way to be kind to the people of Germany is to save them

seize control of Germany and poi-

flaming desire for conquest and glory. Let's not be such fools as we were the last time. This time let's keep the armies of the allied nations in Germany and Japan; and let's keep them there not for 10 years but for

utterly impossible for the aggressor the half insane Hitlers and Tojos and again fill the youth of that day

they will gladly die for what they have been taught is right.

member is this. If the allied na-

ts to shine—unless we make it im-- Nt PRESS AA TT i ESI I es RR We KERRY ARE SAYS {--Can we do that? Of course, we - .

| while—just as we did after the first . . The allied armies

And now again some people are saying, “Let's be kind and good to Germany after we conquer them.” from the military gangsters who

son the mind of its youth with a

centuries. If we do that, it will be

nations to make war. If we don't,

with a flaming hatred and desire for revenge—a desire so fierce that

The. most important truth on earth for future generations to re-

, implies agreement with those

“bility fae the return of manus" scripts and cannot enter cor respondence regarding them.)

tions fail to keep their armies sta-

peat itself; and American boys will again be dying on the battlefields of Europe and Asia. » ” » “SUBSIDIES A SCHEME TO HOODWINK US” By A. J. Schaeider, 504 W. Dr. Woodruft Place

This is to answer tonight's car respondent, O. R., Indianapolis . . . with his cheerful willingness to pay 60 cents a month to avoid inflation. It is quite apparent that O. R, is one of that rapidly growing army who would be the sole beneficiaries of the subsidy scheme and I don't mean the farmers. I mean the army of bought votes on the New Deal payroll. 1 blush to think that our modern educational system would produce anyone so gullible and naive as O. R. pretends to be.’ In the light of the New Deal's promises to end the depression by means of the WPA, CCC, PWA, etc, their promises to avoid war by cod-

Hirohito, Hitler, Petain, Franco and others, their promises earlier to avoid inflation by means of price ceilings, wage ceilings and job

will do the trick? .’. . Moreover, does O, R. . . . expect us to believe that we can turn over to the New Deal 60 cents or six cents to pay out without any

believe that this subsidy scheme

“opinions by The Times. The.

dling and cajoling with Nomura,

freezing; what assurance does the of the future will again seize power |New Deal offer that this new scheme

tied to it? Does he expect to)"

can be put into practice without

Side Glances—By Galbraith

bungling existing distributing ma-

month and continue to go to the stores and buy what we want when it is seasonable, at current.or lower

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» “TODAY'S CUSTOMERS

NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

Ruth Millett who, because of her antiquated belief that the customer is always right and her lack of knowledge about the clerk's side of

. + + + Ruth Millett should accept wartime cerks with the same attitude that patriotic citizens have toward other unpleasant’

‘No Need for It Even Now' .

“EVEN TODAY, there is no need to resort to sub 3 price control and to prevent |

sidies in our efforts for

“Let no one tell you that those of us wi these subsidies are in favor of inflation. 1 voted for, the various price con tot stand for their repeal today. My only that the demands of some of us for an effective and complete price control from beginning were not heeded by the administration. “It is. the failure to adopt such a plan and

further failure to properly administer .the various statutes which have been enacted that lias resulted in the price squeezes and the increases in the cost of ° living which are now sought to be alleviated by the ent of consumer subsidies. .,." = |

IT 1S admitted by the office of price

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) NEeCessary : “Juvenile joint.” It has a juke box, which almost pays the “Dry Dock’s” expenses. It has enough floor space for dancing. It has booths and a soda fountain. And it is open every day. : It is always jam-packed with young folks, many of whom would spend their time in real joints, if the “Dry Dock” had never been opened, This is such a simple solution to the problem of giving young folks a supervised place to hang out that it is a wonder so few towns and cities in the country have set up “juvenile joints.” Z There ought to be one in every residential district in cities, and one in every town, no matter how small.

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~ WOULD THIS destroy our constitutional system of eparation of powers? The separation was never intended be absolute—the constitution gives the president joint with congress over legislation; it gives congress controls over the courts and the executive, includ. rs of impeachment, and in scores of ways it interthe functions. The constitution requires the ex- ) report to congress; there are presidential mesabine reports, and personal appearances, of departids before congressional committees. Indeed, the nces of cabinet officers before the full house would

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