Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1943 — Page 10

Monday, Dec27, 1943 ¥ RALPH BURKHOLDER | _ Editor, in U. 8. Service

(A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

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THE OLD “NEW DEAL” s DD? DILWORTH LUPTON, columnist of The Cleveland

Press and -stanch supporter of President Roosevelt, picked up an interesting and exclusive news story in W ashington last week. The story, published in The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers, is to the effect that the President would like for the newspapers to stop using the term “New Deal” to describe his administration and proQ that the term.is no longer descriptive—that time, war and «ircumstance have made it obsolete. 4 Mr. Roosevelt is the author of “New Deal He coin in his election campaign of 1932. There was to he a shuffle of the deck, he told the people, and a new hand o cards was to be dealt to “the forgotten man.” No longe would the “privileged few” hbld all the aces “New Deal” became both a symbol of hope and a pro-

our capitalist system, shoring up the rights and underpin- | Ti ning the security of rank-and-file citizens. Those were the

days “New Deal” was a happy phrase. 7 > 2 - uo " o BUT IT CAME to pass—as has been the history of all

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workable method of resolving wage disputes has been the procedure under the railway labor act. It tributed to mutual good will and understanding on the p: of railroad workers and management, and to uninterrupted functioning of ‘our transportation system—essen peace, indispensable in war. E Of all the wrong ways to handle a wage difference, one of the worst is that recently exploited in the codl industry ~the resort to strikes and rough stuff by which John L.

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owners were dispossessed of their property. The railroad unions have voted to strike. They have said that they mean business. As with the mine workers, their quarrel is primarily with the government rather than with management. They charge certain government ofli cials with bad faith—and in turn are accused of selfishly. trying to wreck the nation’s price and wage stabilization.

found ways to give John Lewis what he demanded—m why shouldn’t they get the same treatment? What is the government to do? The matter is in President's hands.

the

came to conflicting conclusians.

strike deadline, is for the government to take over tl railroads—just as it took over the mines to running. ‘The President himself has now directed the attorney general to draw up the "appropriate in case it is necessary to take over.

Keep

papers, just

* = ® 8 # = . BEING PATRIOTIC. the workers probably would stay = on the job and keep the trains rolling for Uncle Sam. But would it make them any happier to have the government as the boss? The miners haven't been happier. Would it increase efficiency? “It hasn't done so in the coal mines. In the last war the government took over the railroads, and in 26 months ran up a deficit of $1:604,000.000. In this war, under private management, the railgopds have made a profit, have paid the government two Billions a year in taxes, and have done a far better job than in the last war, carrying much heavier traffic and with greater expedition —though equipped with fewer locomotives and fewer cars— ? Nobody will gain if the government takes over the

effort probably will lose.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A SONG THE decision of the Communist International (the Comintern) last May to dissolve itself is now supplemented by the Moscow announcement of a new Russian ~ national anthem displacing the celebrated song, “The Internationale.” : . This is important testimony supporting Russia's sin- | cerity in her retreat from the classic Bolshevist goal of id revolution, and in her new preoccupation with the of patriotism that world revolutionists used to despise. | w anthem, with its repeated references fo “Our | is symbolic of a new conception of -Russia’s ssion ‘in the

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gram. The President, reports Dr. Lupton, thinks at gy om

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gram of action—reforms sweeping aside old abuses under |

“We The People

The rail unions reason quite logically, that the government pe:

It got there because the President's gM subordinates, acting under contlicting policies, naturally Te.

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= WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — § When Gen, Charles de Gaulle

gories of Arabs in ‘Algeria re- . cently, it went almost unnoticed in this country. Yet -it marked the beginning of the end of a large part of the French empire. Having blundered in Lebanon and Syria, the head of the French “committee of national liberation is now trying to salve the dangerous {irritation of his Moslem sub-

ts. Yet his first move in that direction is widely arde having opened up a hornets’ nest, De Gaul ; not the first of his countrymen to Ie p Leon Blum, Socialist premier of

nt government, was pressed to take é

As a Socia st. Blum 'gaid wryly, “I am more Butias a Frenchman, I simply can't

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PREMIER RAYMOND POINCARE faced the issue | im, and met it in much the same | to the chamber of deputies: “You | am gone, if vou like. But as long

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h knell of the empire.” yoint emphasized by every respofisible French |

that once you start giving the vote to colonily they will dominate every situation. | s more than 70,000,000 colonials as against a | e population of approximately 40,000,000. 1 Algerians alone, observes French deputy now in this coun- |

iisement of

11d give the Arabs a balance of power. Under | e present rule, they would have 90 members of h agdinst some 600 for all the dozen parties combined This would be instances to swil the balance

ey wished i . With Irish M DE KERILLIS draws a parallel between 19th irv | land and what might happen in France e Irish had only 70 votes in parliament, yet the | Whilz votes are usually so evenly divided | he Irish as often as not decided the issue. In | i found, it advisable to give Ireland |

| l head of the government, I refuse to sound | | i

vn to the collapse of the Third Repub- | ’

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1 Harry Hopkins.

event 1ally have to do, send deputies Otherwise the laws of a Mohammedans

That 15 what France will her. Moslem and other colontals t of government would be made by

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tal gy Ruth Millett

IF YOU have a maid you have a new problem on hands—

and you might as well face it,

your How are you going to g¢t your | maid to and from work without | having her shanghaied en route? It's no joke, .Such a thing actually happened the other day. A woman motorist stopp :d and picked up another woman waiting for a bus. A few questiors, led to the information that her: passen- | ger was a maid on

ua maid that she should change Jobs » id, going home with the woman motorist and hi er former employer t he had an{ef bett and shorter hours

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§ 4 THE REASON voujidon't see and hear so many |

1 13 because we are using this invisible ine at night.—GERMAN HIGH COMMAND two

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IT ISN'T good sense to declare war and then wait

to make provision to care for the wounded until you

see if you get some wounded —~WARREN ATHERTON, American Legion National Commander.

THE JAPANESE in the very last month have been able to deal annihilating blows to American air and | sea forces.—GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER JOA- |

CHIM VON RIBBENTROP.

' . . .

THE BOYS whom you want to give credit to' | helping get the war over are the ground crews. They | work day and night keeping our planes in flying condition. Then they sit behind and sweat us out on a | , mission and get us back.—~AIR FORCE CAPT. RICH-

ARD I. BONG, 21 Jap Planes.

THE THIRD year of the fighting is truly the period | that will decide the structure of victory or defeat. | It can be expected that there will be many seroius fips mounting difficulties in the fu-

assumes

| that his exalted identity will re=| main unknown.

{ Hopkins.

| precaution before he undertook the

in the same boat with | maidless housewives you had better not | 1 |

and try to make a living under the |

the cloak of an alias so register- and paying his room rent in advance. Instead he was smugRather, it seems, gled in, probably under cover of it is the grand vizier, Harrah-el- darkness, sequestered on the top- | most floor and during bis stay there referred to mysteriously, in the best | Hollywood -tradition, as “Mr, X.” | Why this should be so is something that only a Washington soothsayer could explain. Mr. Hopkins’ stomach hardly can be regarded as a great military, or in this case | naval, secret. Nor could the facts about his digestion give aid and| comfort to the enemy.

The story has just leaked out that the fabulous Harry, the harnessmaker's son who parlayed an ob scure job as a social worker into a place of power and influence, reently went to the new navy hos-| pitai &t Bethesda, “Md.,, for a physical checkup. As is well known, Mr. Hopkins] has a temperamental tummy and the checkup was prescribed as a

news that a pretty nurse was inier-s ested in Harry's pulse might be a tipoff ‘that his

long journey to Tehran in the entourage of advisers and -native beaters that accompanied the President ‘to meét the Great Shah of all the Russias, Uncle Joe Stalin. Mr. Hopkins had been exposed to Russian hospitality previously and he knew that a dinner with Uncle Joe] was no place for a man with a nervous stomach. But the navy doctors—for whose work the taxpavers presumably picked up the check—explored the Hopkins - innards, tabulated his metabolisms, held learned consultations and finallv decided that Harry's gizzard could take it. So Harry went along to Tehran and had his picture taken for posterity” alongside Stalin Who, incidentally, in his out-size marshal's suit looked as stiff and uncomfortable as a boy in his first pair of long trousers. This medical precaution of

zoning predictions that the Big Three was going to hold a potent |

moment knew more about the time | and place of the meeting than even

Nor could signs of gastric acidity in the Hopkins entrails have de-| moralized the stock market, depressed public morale nor impaired | the nation’s confidence in ultimate victory. For it is a matter of record that Mr. Hopkins has been popping in and out of hospitals almost as; regularly .as he drops into the] President's bedchamber. Had the public been duly informed that

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pow-wow very soon and, in the light Lin of subsequent events, it is probable beams I have never heard of anythat the axis agents at -that very {ody enforcing it. I think that the state should de|vise ®» method of periodical inspec- | Mr jioprins: {tion of brakes and lights of all | partment get lo registered mniotor vehicles for general safety of the operator, passénger and pedestrian. I think that motorists pay enough taxes for the right to drive, 'so why can't we have that protection? I have seen this system of periodwork with great success elsewhere and I hope that something will be done about it. It is too late to blame the accident on faulty brakes or “I was blinded by his lights” after the accident has happened and people are injured or killed. It is true that liability But it will never replace a life or Jost limbs. Prevention of accidents is a great step toward saving lives.

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what if is, deaf, it might fot be a bad idea. for go on some kind of diet for 9441" ~~ = |

i"'Rationing “being il us.

vo) — i HE'S TRUE TO GOD who's to man.—Lowel ;

lam? | Could it be- that Mr. Hopkins 's having trouble with company over the payments on that | new electric refrigerator?

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'“GLARING LIGHTS MENACE SAFETY” By P. w., Indianapolis Why can't we have a safety drive for the benefit of Mr. Motorist? | IL am referring to the eternal | menace of the highway, the mo- | Possibly it was reasoned that the iorist ‘who does not dim his lights approaching an oncoming think that if this problem ready ta leave the country. But the were taken care of the decrease of press of the world already was bla- highway accidents would be very surprising. Although there is a law protectg the motorist from glaring high

helpless

inspection

insurance will cover

“RAILROADERS DON'T GET $2000 BONUS” By a Trainman's Wife, Indianapolis It seems that it is no serious offense for 100 mblders, 500 ship buildérs or 1000 bus drivers to walk out on strike. “They are only small fry, put when the railroad men talk of striking, that's different. The railroaders would tie up too much at

nce. Why is it any more of-an act against the government and the war for 500,000 men to strike than for 500? The rafiroad men are not war workers, they are only “essen--tial industry” and they're not getting a $2000 bon make much over § six days a week—48 hours and

overtime.

DAILY :THOUGHTS

, _Pight the good fight with faith, { lay hold on eternal life,

unto thou” art also called,

hath professed a good professipn ‘before many witnesses. —Timothy

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Mr, Roosev elt,

time.”

See Fourth Term Portent

about liké. this: “New Dealers.” some, conservatives,

middle-roaders,

under the demands of war.

New Dealers.

{New Dealers of yesteryear? | absent.

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WASHINGTON, Dec President Roosevelt's

Harry Hopkins Gave Tip-Off

| NEW DEALERS got the tipoff some time ago from

aroused wide interest as & symp- - tom of the changing times and as

a prognostication of things to come, IL rs The President's view that this

phrase now is putmoded was revealed in an exclusive dispatch in Scripps - Howard newspapers by Dilworth Lupton, Cleveland Press columnist, after a talk with

€ynics in extreme camps had quick retorts. Rightists: “Suits me, if he means it. It's about

THE POLITICAL WISEACRES also had thelr say, and to them it was préof that Mr. Roosevelt was - a candidate for a fourt term. Their argument ran

The Democratic ‘party has been split asunder, off and on, by the fight between conservatives and The fight has broken out again in--congress in recent weeks with renewed vigor. Roosevelt needs a united party to win next year. He would like to remove the eager, wild-eyed reférm tint that the term “New Deal” implies to

Mr.

The President would go before the country as commander in chief, with the war the chief issue and on that basis seek the support of all classes alike, : progressives, without tags tq divide his forces and delight his foes. THe President, the political sages argue, has been moving to the right a long time, anyhow, shifting He drafted businessmen to fill the war agencies, much to the discomfiture of He took about him as top administrators on domestic fronts three southern conservatives, | veterans of congress. Call the roll, and where are the They are impressively

When they went to him for help on

New Deal objectives, he turned them off brusquely,

saying, in effect:

“That business is over.

Get into

the war, somewhere, and forget about reform.” Republicans have been carping that the President would make the war the chief issue next year to cover up derelictions on the home front, and for that reason their leaders have been trying to match the President on foreign policy to remove that from- the campaign, so they could fight it out on domestic

Issues.

They have criticized Wendell L. Willkie be-

cause he would not tear into the New Peal. But can the President discard “New Deal” by

willing it sd? Hardly.

Republicans won't forget it.

They doubt

that he is really through with reform. They think

he wants to get re-élected.

“New Deal” is probably too well imbedded in the

language to be wished off.

By Peter Edson

ne of the New 1) ;. including polygamy, are at vari- 1 wholly disagree you say, S t yi whe J V i ay as | y iy ) “ . y . jental ideals defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. I ses, but desiy But the difficulty would not end there, says. M aa . ©S3 Mie I Just as the interminable wrangling be- ] . y h and Irish proved a bad thing for Brit- WHY THIS “MR. X" (Times readers are ited Harry had the miseries again, it is t « i : co 9 Frevehi-Moslem disputes in the chamber would : MUMBO-JUMBO? io esprass their views in probable that the average citizen & t me unrest throughouf the empire i ! oat ol - would have yawned and replied, , i ; ) , By a Puzzled Citizen, Indianapolis these columns, retigious. con- . on ; X were—in the United States, Can- | ESS ‘ BIOUSLG So what? . New Zealand and elsewhere— Britain ! The man on the street or in the troversies excluded. Because True, the great and not-so-great | * , critics. and that is the way it would | COrner grocery has long since ceased of the volume received, let of: that other modern Bagdad, Hol- . . . . INE oium Ceivel, IC: i “ t I e it G De Gaulles' proiect were car- | © be amazed at some of the per- . lywood, often dust off their as ion. And now that he has plexing goings-on in Washington. ters should be limited fo 250 |glasses and sally forth in carefully ! ted. he or - French- | Though the once-prosaic capital has words. Letters must be publicized incognito as “John ) nd it difficult to withdraw the .promise, accounted for miracles of wartime signed. Opinions” set forth Brown” or “Mary Jones” to indulge t . . . , accomplishment, it also has pro- oo oo » in an evening of privacy reading a they did was belabored by the New Dealers wit Moslem Population Increasing duced a never-never land that. is nere are those of the writers, good book at the Stork club. But | LC ~ Ca oo tL oo er ArT . : i _, {far beyond the dreams of Holly- and publication in no way their necessity hardly parallels that thets as “Tory” and “reactionary.” In time t {OTHER DANGER arises from the fact that | '= eae 0 ARE puis hn no way y hardly P : ; > it stationary at 40.000.000 wood or the gaudiest fantasies of implies agreement with those of Mr. Hopkins. After all, autobegan saving that sueh words and stones br 1 t ae aa oo | Scherezade. = Ay 0 graph-seekers are a hardy race, but v drop. Her Moslems are rapidly | | opinions by The Times. The p y ' “Call me anything you like except a New Dealer; il you « As anyone who has read the 0 ~~ J or Ne |there is no record that even the ne that, smile!” n was to grant independence to | “Arabian Nights” or the immortal] Times assumes no responsi- Host snfeTInising ever penielrited ¥ I Ce of te 5 > ( observe his stand would | fables of O. Henry knows, there biiity for the return of manu- o the upper deck of a naval hos. Then the war—two years ol il—and ther ti B far as anvone knows (once was a caliph in Bagdad who | t + pital. And, even so, any connoisseur . . 3 3 8 anyone Knows, - en eee ' scripts and cannot enter cor- i ; ; which: still 'we have not. y delighted in venturing forth incog-| ... ~ © of chirography knows that a dozen ' aefnondenc carding tH 1 5 S The President is right. The term “New Di . inl" about Arab question. | hito to mingle with his humble sub- respo gence regarding them.) forte or RES could . 4 . ’ Lar! 1] Guadeloupe have jects. Thus he” learned of their mer reer : DU rotten ripe for burial. ; A er x | rehle . teint alm r 1vd doubtful Sinatra in the open I } reff in the chamber and senate by black problems and distribt ted alms “Nd pa rrvs sounds practical and more | market : errr Se ce ee r : gos. Under Andre Tardieu, ohe ‘was advice where it would do the most cil . : \ o 1€U, on 38 ood sensible than many things that . So the question remains, why all i fl ance. ‘The question is whether to be or 800d. have happened in Washington But TiN, ] Mr XT A yn — Ga Co A i. i § ap] asiing ‘tthe furtive mystery and “Mr. X TAKE OVER THE RAILROADS? mn | In our modern Bagdad-on-the- Mr. Hopkins did not enter ihe mumbo-jumbo? Why did Harry ) SESS Potomac, however, it is not the hospital in a normal manner, as have to conceal his identity and 0 us for years it has seemed that the most sensible (Westbrook Pegler did not write a cplumn today) | caliph, Haroun-al-Roosevelt, Who might be expected, by signing the hide out .like .a mobster on the

of the Portland Oregonian.

man.

In Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—"The " domestic branch of the office of war information should be liquidated the ‘minute the shooting stops; but as long as the war lasts it will be necessary to keep some kind of centralized government news bureau manned by civilians.” This, is the opinion of Palmer Hoyt, for the past six months director of OWTI's domestic news bureau. He is leaving Washington soon to return to his job as editor

He goes back home the usual sadder and wiser He came to Washington full of beans. He saw his job.-at OWI.as one of getting out the War news, and he didnt think the war news was getting out. He. intended} to stay only three months,’ in which he would reofganize the bureau, then get out himself. He stayed six, and things aren't all hunky dory yet,

{though Mr. Hoyt admits freely that things are now

better than they were,

Some of the battles’ which OWI goes through, internally and with other government agencies, in just

Navy, Army Swap Attitudes

trying to get out the news, are really pretty disastrous.

SIX MONTHS or a year ago, it was the navy that

| was holding onto all its news with a death grip, for | fear someone would find out about what was going on. Today the navy is apparently trying to let go of stuff | while it's hot, as witness the record on Tarawa, in getting out the story within 24 hours after it hap-

| pened.

|" On the other hand, it's the army that now hoards { news like an old hen with an urge to set. The wails lof the Washington press corps covering the war deHolding up for two

uder every day. ; f the German. sneak bombing raid

| against the “Italian port of Bari is a case in point.

|for the fact that frbighters instead | were hit, Was a greater blow to

[This disaster, as bad as a second Pearl Harbor except

of battleships

the British than it | was to thé Americans and a terrible reflection on the

| British lack of anti-aircraft defense at an important

| port.

mand, however, and the war department's. ; | effort to minimize the news by burying it infthe mid-

It was all under Gen. Eisenhower's top comt's. apparent

|dle of Secretary Stimson's otherwise dull war sum=mary, two weeks after it happened, is a sad reflection i

| on a bad news policy.

ness.

result of OWI prodding. would get out. broke one OWI deputy,

former New York and Buffal the job now. He is entitled

domestic press,

navy departments

tion,

Brewster Aircraft mess.

news.

BZ i

Although OWI does not deserve a. speeding up the navy's release of its war news, not deserve all the blame for the army's current slowThe Bari story was forced into the open as a & As a matter of fact, OWI |

seems to have let the story leak to make sure that it

Il the credit for ’ § it does

. Bug this very difficulty, according to Palmer Hoyt, is what makes necessary some kind of an inside government agency, run by civilians, to keep after the

Whether or not OWI stands between the reporters and the news is a debatable question. Certainly army and navy public relations departments stand between the reporters and the direct news sources. The reason given for this interference is: the need for maintaining secrecy and protecting: there can be no argumen think like OWT in such a situation is to keep proc the nest eggs of mews before Peep i

military security, with t. The need for some-

Cc, 27.— desire to

Leftists: “The New Deal's been dead, anyhow, for a Jong time. Might as well pronounce the benediction.”

SEM BR

Trying to get army and navy to release news faster Nicholas Roosevelt of the Oyster Bay branch of the family. George H. Lyon, ' o newspaper editor, has to at least some of the & credit for whatever ‘improvement, if any, has been made in the release of war news in the last few months. But in this effort to get more news for the Lyon has had the full backing of

OWI Director Elmer Davis and Palmer Hoyt.

Let's Have the Unfavorable

THE FIASCO over the Bari story, the bad release on the Gen. Patton incident, and the beautiful ball-up over the release of the President’s Cairo and Tehran conferences indicate how much room there is for still further improvement. What it really seems to take to get the unfavorable news pried out of the war and is a good congressional investigasuch as the Truman committee conducted on the army's Canal oil project in Canada, and the house naval affairs committee conducted on the navy's

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