Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1943 — Page 14

ILL G. IRWIN ee T WAS entirely in keeping with the remarkable career of ~~ Will G. Irwin that it should end in midstride. Always a vigorous, energetic man, on whom the weight of 77 active years rested lightly, Will Irwin was not one who could have enjoyed slowing down or relaxing to the pleasures of re " tirement in the twilight of life. He was not that kind of a "man and it was his destiny, and doubtless his choice, to die The life span of Will Irwin extended across two eras in the development of Indiana and the nation, and he belonged : equally to each. He was one of the last, and one of the ‘greatest, of the builders of the state, industrially; financially, culturally and spirituaily. Born and reared when | industry, thrift and integrity were the watchwords of the "times, he lived faithful to those doctrines to the end. Yet . he had the spirit of modern times, too, for he was ever open"minded to new ideas, always receptive to a better way of { getting things done. It was no accident that he was a | pioneer in the traction development of the '90s, and was instrumental in building the first interurban line into Indianapolis. Nor was it an accident that when, in recent years, an employee came to him with a revolutionary idea for adapting Diesel engines to highway transportation, he was ready to give the support and encouragement that made the Cummins Diesel Engine Co. possible. © He was a leader in the truest sense of the word, and © his influence was felt in many fields. He lived while the i state was growing and he grew with it. In the best tradition of the old-time banker, moreover, he shaped and stimulated that growth, 'His judgment was valued and sought by great business organizations throughout the nation, yet "he remained truly loyal to his friends, his state and his "home community. First things came first with him, = Will Irwin had high ideals of public service and the responsibility of wealth and gave generously and wisely to Butler university, the Christian church and other public | causes. He played an active and constructive part in the ¢ councils of the Republican party and was a close friend and © adviser of many of the great men of the state and nation. His leadership will be missed; his influence long felt.

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SOUR NOTES FOR A HOME-COMING ARMONY may have been the watchword at Cairo and Tehran, but if President Roosevelt is returning home in the expectation of finding more of the same at Washington, he is due for a jolt. ‘ In the political field, his own party has been badly shaken by angry words between some of its very disparate elements, and the Republicans’ are beginning to lick their chops ds they look toward 1944.

operated entirely by the owners. There was no argument whatever between the owners and any employees because there were no employees,

New York Court Reversed

THE NEW YORK court of appeals made the obviously right and moral decision that the union had no right to picket the place but the United States supreme court reversed this and the final result is that 3 union may make false representations to the public and use its other weapons such &§ the boycott and blacklist to wreck the business of an unoffending and law-abiding citizen, ‘ . In the carpenter's case, Frankfurter held that the Carpenters’ union was within its rights in spreading throughout the country a lie against the Anheuser Busch Brewing Co. of St. Louis. There was no dispute between the union and the company. The carpenters and the machinists had agreed on a certain division of the work in a building operation and the carpenters admittedly and deliberately broke their agreement, demanding some of the work be allotted to the machinists. The company was helpless and unoffending in the matter. It just tried to hold the carpenters to their contract and the carpenters then declared Anheuser Busch to be unfair to organized labor, which was a lie intended to damage its reputation and prevent the sale of its products to union people and to others who could be intimidated, such as saloons and restaurants patsonized by union workers, \

'Morally That Is a Rotten Thing’

FRANKFURTER DECLARED that this was justiflable as familiar union practice and thus we were handed the proposition that if unions have been getting away wtih some particular kind of dirty work for an undefined period of time the dirty work acquires legality and respectability, To extend the idea, if a union has had a custom of placing lye in the soup at a cannery as a means of coercing the employer, that, too, becomes familiar union practice blessed by the supreme court of the United States. Of course there is nowhere in any act of congress or any debate any justification for the contention that congress ever intended to grant any organization & special right to tell lies about any innocent citizen. Morally that is a rotten thing to do and not even congress has any right to confer such a privilege on any organization or person, but the two cases cited, plus Jimmy Byrnes’ utterly cynical opinion written in the teamsters’ case, granting unions a right to commit highway robbery, have deflantly imputed such intent to the lawmakers on the hill. -And the lawmakers, incidentally, have taken these insulting imputations lying down for no law has been passed repudiating them, although there has been long opportunity to do so,

‘Exposed to Willful Wrongdoing'

IT IS no answer {o say that congress is much too busy with problems of the war. After all, we are still carrying on domestic life, too, in this country and the conduct of the unions is one of the most urgent dangers to the liberties of the people at home and to those of the soldiers and sailors on their return, The effect of this queer attitude in the supreme court is simply that the people of the United States are exposed to willful and wanton wrongdoing by a political element allied to the New Deal party with no chance of redress and without any legal protection. I believe this is the only group in our country that ever received from the supreme court not one, but three, open invitations to do wrong, The moral issue is more important that the legal questions, and the worst of it is that the men who entertain thése thoughts will be sitting in judgment for a long time to come.

In the politico-economic field, the crazy-quilt of governmental controls has been severely mauled. The senate’s | overwhelming vote to override the raiiway wage decision | of Economic. Stabilizer Vinson-—and thereby slip another | stiletto between the ribs of the Little Steel formuli—is typical. The treasury’s tax program has been cut to ribbons by congress. Inflation is leering around the corner. ~~ The soldier-vote row, the liquor mess, the unholy operations of pressure groups operating to advance their special interests, and let the chips fall where they may, all contribute to a very untidy desk which will greet the President as he returns, 7 Good luck to him. He'll need it.

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“MAC” EING a secretary to the President of the United States is no sinecure. It involves hard work and lots of it.

ring illness, devotéd himself single-mindedly to the service of “The Chief.” The President, and the whole White House personnel, will miss him, :

PRE-PEARL HARBOR FATHERS

HE hot breath of the draft boards on the necks of the fathers of riper years hasn't cooled noticeably with the announcement of the plan tc cancel occupational deferments for all pre-Pearl Harbor fathers in the 18 to 22-vear-old age group. : It would be interesting to know: just how many 18-year- | old pre-Pearl Harbor fathers are registered in Indiana. : Let's see—Pear] Harbor, of course, was Dec. 7, 1941, so the father, if married without benefit of shotgun, probably * took his vows when he was 16, or possibly'15, What do they think this is—Kentucky?

ER a a5 ow TO WIN FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS k is an essential ingredient of salesmanship, and fice versa, and the prosperous merchant, even nowais the one who knows how to deal with 8 man-to-man or man-to-woman basis. lain the popularity of a certain stand at City

wher ithe proprietor has housewives standing in

his personal attention.

{of this success. Casual hamburger-buyers

Marvin H. McIntyre, despite his frail physique and recur- |

erS get courteous service and are adthe third prime porterhouse from one of the eloct, however, : ust-you” smile. And|

We The People

By Ruth Millett

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JUNIOR, age 15 months, took a long look at the navy officer who had just stepped off the train and said, “Daddy!” Hg was right, though he never had seen his dad before. He had, recognized his father because his mother was determined that her son and his father, out of the country when the boy was born, would not meet as strangers to each other. . As soon as the boy learned to say “Mamma” she taught him also to say “Daddy"— and then she taught him who “Daddy” was by the { large pictures that were in every room in thé house, Meanwhile Mamma made sure that the boy's { father knew as much about the kid as could be told i by letters and pictures, | And so at the first meeting of father and son, each was prepared for the other.

Recipe for a Happy Home-Coming

THAT HAPPENS to be a true story, and it should make mothers see how worthwhile it is for them to | take pains to keep their children aware of their | fathers—even though they are gone for months or

| ! years,

{ For it would certainly make a home-coming hap=4

| pier for a man if his child yelled “Daddy!” instead | of backing off as from a stranger. Another thing a mother should do to prevent a retlumed father from ever feeling like a stranger with his children 1s to warn him, if he has been gone a long time, not to rush the child who is top young to remember his father vividly, but to sit back quietly and let the child do the making up. : Any mother would feel repaid her efforts if her returning husband sald: “Junior hasn't forgotten me, has he? I was kind of afraid he might, I've been away so long.”

So They Say—

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tm the danger of = depression—MAJ. GEN. PHILIP

ent operatives have ferreted out what may| TOUT AMERICAN production the united natons could never have won the war—JOSEF STALIN. . =

. Mr. Landon failed to carry

tendency in America has not been to build in times of depression, but in boom

construction boom. Our problem is to reverse the tendency, to get construction .started in time to head off any | |

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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.

“YOU HEAR A LOT ABOUT SINATRA”

By Ple. Vietor W, McGinnis, Army of the United States J You hear a lot about Frank Sinatra. Young women say that he's wonderful, divine, nothing short of terrific while young guys allow that the skinny fellow appeals to womenfolk because he appears to be a little: anaemic,

I will say that the guy is the first fellow that I ever heard of that could be 80 = = «= ~~ blunt and still hold a flock of people crosseyed in interest. He stands up there choking the mike in front of a bunch of our young women and tells ‘em quite plainly that he prefers a paper doll to any of them, and they yell and scream and get hoarse telling him that he's wonderful.

SAME OLD MEDICINE” By A. A. Sandstrem, Indianapolis From all indications throughout the various localities of the country, the Republican party has its best chance to elect a President since 1928, If it does not get overoptimistic and neglect to nominate

1 don't mean to take sides, but|

(Times readers are invited to express their views ‘in these columns, religious con- . troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let. ters should be linfited 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 responsi. bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

1944 race you had better select a jockey whose initials are W, L. W;; and I don't mean anyone from the WLW Broadcasting Co. . . ” “MINERS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM” By Mrs. L. A. Allen, 634 N. Hamilton ave. In answer to the two G. 1s somewhere in the South Pacific: I would like to say to the boys

a man who is progressive and qualified to represent the United States) in foreign affairs as well as being able to construct our home reconstruction period as efficiently as possible, Of late it seems that ex-Gover-nor Landon and his campaign manager, Mr. John Hamilton, are giving all the lip service and from the tone of their voices it is a duplicated dose of the same old medicine administered to stimulate the party in the 1936 election, the results of which everyone. is familiar. ; .

own small state by a plurality of $4,000 votes while Mr. Capper was elected by 15,000 to the U. 8. senate, which goes to show how the people respect the ideas of Messrs. Landon and Hamiiton, Mr. Hamilton says he never supported a Democrat in his life and never will, which is very typical of the old stand pat element in the Republican party. But as the old saying goes, “A smart man sometimes changes his mind, but a less intelligent one never does.” Not to intimate that Mr. Hamilton should vote the Democratic ticket, but to inform him that a young man should get out of an old-style

rut, ' Old Jumbo has been a very sick boy ever since he took to the high road and went on that fatal stampede in 1929. However, if the Republican party wants to revive him they had better get some more favorable physicians to diagnose his case instead of the old reactionary element which is a thing of the

past. 80 if you want Jumbo to finish

of the South Pacific that the coal miners are in just as much danger as th are. There are lots of miners and union men in the war. If they were all in the war who would mine the coal? It takes a coal miner to know how. As far as ‘their striking, it is the only weapon a worker has. They are fighting for freedom just the same as you are. They are fighting to hold what they have already won for themselves and you, so that when you do come home you won't have to work for starvation wages. You couldnt win a war without the coal miner; every man and woman no matter what work they are doing, is essential to the war. 1 suppose the. miners are very fortunate to be down under the earth working for starvation wages, never knowing when the earth will give way and bury them alive. ! . » » “IS THIS WHY WE SAVE PAPER?” By C. M. D., Indianapolis

‘1 am 33, married 12 years, a railroad fireman. In June I enlisted in

better than a place position in the

Side Glances-By Galbraith

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without. The job is done six times a year, using 13,000 sq. ft. of paper. In the 4800 block, or near there, on state road 67, are seven sign boards. - All are changed every month. One was changed Nov. 16, another the 17th, another the 22d, two on the 27th and two on Dec. 4. Five trips every month to change these signs. What do they advertise! Bread, beer, tobacco, antifreeze and cigarets. There is one good sign asking that we “conserve materials.” They burn the paper they take off the signs, “Obeserve ration rules,” Why? So they can waste gas and tires driving several miles through the city endangering war workers? “Reserve dollars for bonds.” They could buy more on defense wages. “Deserve America by serving on the home front.” How guilty they must feel; 2500 man hours per year on seven signs. How many signs in the U, 8.2 Is this what we save our paper. for ,.., ? 2's » “SOME HATE YOU FOR TELLING TRUTH" By Pat Hogan, Columbus . Some sage said, “To those who think, life is a comedy; to those who feel, it is a tragedy.” Even so is the argument for subsidies. Indeed, it would be excruciatingly funny were it not a wolf in sheep's clothing, Behold the zeal of all parasites and their narrow-minded sympathizers to keep their fingers in the jam, Mary Studebaker extolls the virtues of Frisbie and a social worker from Kokomo, and deplores the

Times editorial writer. Frisbie wrote a long-suffering article of half truths with the fundamental - principle cunningly concealed; the social worker is grossly ignorant or honestly mise taken: both are victims of the “gimme” age. The farmers who would be beneficiaries of this nightmare are wise,

stick their necks in the noose, So who wants the subsidies? Bureau~ crats, sleek politicians, and other parasites who live at others expense. . Mrs. Studebaker says she knew nothing about subsidies until she read the views of Frisbie et al . . and was then convinced that subsidies were of holy origin. I suppose if she knew nothing about drunkenness, she would take the word of a drunk regarding its vir. tues. : The only trouble with Pegler, Maddox, Metzler and The Times editorial wfiter is that they are al» ways right—they have the courage to come out with the grim stark truth. But some people hate you

paperifor telling the truth, and the lie is $0° sugar coated that it is much]

= =» “TAXPAYERS, DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN"

By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, indianapolis

Poll tax is as obsolete as the hitching post. Originally it was called a head tax, imposed upon the heads of families as their of helping to keep

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if the people, by plebiscite, showed by an overwhelme Ig iON vag they’ wanted him, he could not

Plebiscite Overwhelmingly Favorable 80 THERE was a plebiscite and it was overwhelms

ingly favorable. He returned to Athens. Even so, he first consulted the major capitals to see how they

felt about it. He did not want Greece to suffer if, for.

any reasons, other European nations were against him, Within 24 hours after his arrival in Athens, he broke with Gen. Kondylis, the man who engineered his return to the throne. Kondylis wanted him to head the monarchists. King George said he would be king of all the Greeks or none. His second act was to release all political prisoners and clear the way for the return of those in exile—~including the most rabid Venezelist republicans. George's program was to reconstruct the nation. Politically, it was split open. Factionalism was bitter, the people were poor, revolutions all toa frequent. The

hope of Greece, he felt, was for some healing influ.

ence, above party—perhaps the crown--to unify the people. If he failed, if the various factions blocked his way and again wanted to try something else, he could return to exile knowing he had done his best. Being king was no sinecure. It was much pleas. anter being a gentleman of leisure, free to travel and engage in sports. But when George sets out to do something, -he likes to do it. He is a hard worker. He drives others, but he drives himself hardest of all He very much wanted to do a workmanlike job, =

George Won't Take Orders

THE ABOVE is from notes made in Athens. find this comment: . “That is what XK. G, has in mind. Unless he makes good at the task, I venture the opinion that he will return to Dover street (where he lived in London.) He will not be a puppet. He won't take orders from another, or from a faction. As I read him, he'd rather

be his own man in exile than somebody else’s man on

a throne.” I have the same opinion still, But the new Anglo-American formula for Jugoslavia means two strikes against King George befors his return to Athens. The precedent set by London and Washington when they gave their support to the revolution against King Peter II, offers a well-nigh irresistable inducement for similar factions in Greece to unite against their absent king. My bet however, is that he will not try to thwart the popular will, whether arrived at by ballot or by bullet,

In Washington

By Peter Edson

(Second of a series on mistakes in our war production effort.)

gating the war effort will raise again the question: of whether or not a war—particularly this present war—can be run-effieient ly at home, behind the lines, In preparation now are reports on transportation and the build. ing up of army inventories which will go into the whole matter of war department policies in these two fields, Ci Particularly, there will be studies in the procurement of motor trucks, industrial tractors and lft

-| trucks, as well as spare parts forall mechanized

equipment, The purpose is to determine whether the army procurement services over-ordered, not only getting more equipment than they could pose sibly use, without regard to requirements for maintaining the eivilian economy which must support and continue to supply the armed services,

War has always been considered a wasteful “busi=

ness.” A prevalent idea has been that the side with the greatest resources, the side which could put the most men and materials in the field, the side which could withstand the greatest losses, the side which could afford to waste the most, was bound to win the war,

Wastefulness Theory Questioned

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