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A MILLION PLANES A YEAR?
ICHARD T. FRANKENSTEEN, head of the aircraft |
division of the C. I. 0.'s big Automobile Workers’ Union,
somes up with two interesting proposals:
1. That private flying be stimulated as a practical way of saving the aircraft industry from shrinking disastrously
after the war. Specifically, Mr. Frankensteen
says that
research should develop really safe, easy-to-fly family
planes, and he predicts that could be sold each, year.
about a million such planes
2. That the wage-hour law work week should be made
30 hours instead of 40, with hourly wage rates so there would be no cut in workers’ weekly pay.
raised that
Many aviation authorities hoot at the idea that—at least for a good many years—therell be an annual demand
for anything like a million planes.
When we think of all
the young men who'll want to fly their own planes after they're through flying bombers and fighters for Uncle Sam,
we're not sure Mr. Frankensteen’s prediction is
some experts think. Anyway, he's certainly on the right |
as wild as
track when he advocates creating a mass market for planes gs a means of keeping the industry hig and maintaining
jobs for aircraft workers.
BUT HIS second suggestion, it seems to us,
feat his first.
would-de-
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
, NEW YORK, March 3.—Thanks to a series: of revelations these dispatches during the last year, the National Maritime Union, of the Communist front, has been ¢ forced’ § adopt some interesting changes. It no longer prints in detail,
or in its official minutes of the meetings held in New York, the details of its kangaroo courts in .. which, notwithstanding the short- | age of “competent sailors to man the transports and cargo vessels, men have been put ashore for terms ranging up to 99 years for conduct unbecoming union sailors. : Opposition to Communism comes under the general heading of unbecoming conduct and expressions, of racial or religious prejudices are crimes &f equal gravity. :
"Vicarious Heroes of the Deep’
THE REASON for this reticence is found in the fact that the Pilot and the official minutes were a regular source of information for outside reporters opposed to Communism in the merchant marine which is the property of the American people and is manned largely in growing proportion to young American sailors ‘who detest Communism and oppose the non-seagoing salts who haunt the seaports”and claim for themselves credit for the sacrifices of real sailors who do. accept the risks of the sea in wartime. Prominent among these vicarious heroes of the dgep are one who calls himself Joseph Curran, president of the N. M. U,, and another who calls himself M. Hedley Stone, the treasurer. The one who calls himself Curran is an uncommonly fragile and highstrung hero, for the only time he has gone to sea in this war was during his summer’ vacation last year
either in its publication, the Pilot, |
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when he actually announced that he was taking a | fair-weather cruise as. a vacation outing, and who |
child a few months ago. . i In particular, testimony concerning sailors charged ! with selling ‘sandwiches from the galley to enlisted American soldiers bound for the war, with trimming |
suffered a nervous breakdown when his wife had a '}
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soldiers in crap games through the use of loaded dice,
‘The Hoosier Forum
vholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
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games at exorbitant rates was deleted from the minutes.
New Policy of Appeasement
THE ONE who calls himself Curran also was at pains in a recent meeting to soften a previous scur-
Suppose, after the war, aircraft workers do get the | rilous and general denunciation of young American
game pay for 30 hours a week that they now get for 40. The |
hourly wages of aircraft labor would increase
one-third.
army officers sailing for the war. This was consistent with a new policy of attempting to appease the army and navy men sailing on merchant vessels in the hope
That increase would be added to the price of planes. A lot | that after the war they will forget the many extor-
of returning aviators and other people wouldnt buy planes. Mass production for a
be able to
mass market can do wonders;
once it gets going. It can—and we believe it should—enable industry to employ more people, to pay them higher wages, to reduce hours of labor, and at the same time to bring | have been alarmed by the afrival on board the transdown the prices of products. But, first, it has to get going. And if the aircraft industry has to start its post-war career by raising its prices, in order to give workers the same | follow the sea as a calling after the war. weekly pay for less production, we fail to see how it can create the sort of mass market Mr. Frankensteen talks about, or get into real mass production of private planes,:| ago, the Communist sailors sneered at the naval unior maintain many of the jobs that Mr. Frankensteen’s union
wants to save.
THE REPUBLICAN TREND
R EPUBLICANS are happier about results of the special election in the New York 21st district, which they lost, | previous propaganda boasting of the high pay, bonthan over some of their victories in recent off-year elections ; uses, insurance benefits and other gains for which it
in Kentucky-and Pennsylvania. - They think the
New York
tions and indignities of which they were victims, at the hands of Communist sailors. The president told the membership his abusive remarks referred only to a few lieutenants, who were in league with the ship owners to cause trouble between the gun crews and soldiers and the civilian merchant sailors. Meanwhile, in recent months, the Communists
port and cargo vessels of a new and unfamiliar breed of young American merchant sailors, officers and men, trained by the government, who apparently intend to
These new men have a high resistance to Communist indoctrination and discipline and do not yield easily their right to their opinions. Where, a year
form as a monkey suit and flaunted their pay including overtime and bonus money, at the enlisted men, both army and navy, nowadays the union is running propaganda to the effect that the union sailor is badly underpaid, . /
Contrasts With Previous Propaganda THIS NEW LINE conflicts sharply with the union's
was claiming credit until the contrast with the en-
listed soldier's and sailor's pay became an irritation
test was even a better indication of Republican national | to the enlisted men and an embarrassment to the success in November, because the G. 0. P. vote jumped from 33 per cent of the total in 1942 to almost 48 per cent Tuesday in that normally heavy Democratic district. Significantly, the Republican candidate polled more than the Democratic, who barely slipped in with American
Labor party votes.
that this “is an indorsement by the voters of President
Roosevelt's” record sounds like the quavering a boy passing a graveyard.
whistle of
Certainly all signs indicate the electorate is swinging
away from the administration now. of time for reverse trends before November.
But there is plenty
If the Re-
publicans count on easy victory and stumble around, they probably will lose. If they provide leadership in congress,
unite on a strong presidential candidate, and campaign on a high level of national interests, th
THE OPIUM WAR
keep their ey can win.
R the first time the United States has some chance of | winning its 40-year fight to destroy the international |
illicit traffic in opium.
Hitherto the British, Dutch, French and other governments, which finagced colonial empires on drug monopolies,
have sabotaged effective action.
re-establish their monopolies when the Japs are
Now the British and Dutch have agreed to co-operate. They promise not to| ®
driven out
of conquered lands, and they agree that there must be limitation of production in the opium growing countries. Chief source of opium and its derivatives are Iran and other countries of the Middle East, the Japaneseoccupied areas of China, and a few Latin American coun-
tries. | China, through heroic effort, had almost
eliminated
the opium production forced on it by other powers when the Japanese invasion revived the curse. Systematically
the Japs have used this method to debauch and enslave the |
Chinese, while making it a capital offense for Jap soldiers to use the drug. The Chinese government will root out the
evil as rapidly as it regains its territory.
» SO-THE to persuade middle eastern countries to limit
MAIN problem, besides defeat of Japan, is
production.
Most of these are Mohammedan countries, whose religion-
ists do not usesthe drug financial.
and whose interest is exclusively
: Rep. Judd in ‘his masterly ‘presentation of this problem to congress pointed out that most of the opium growing countries are now dependent on the United States, finan-
cially or otherwise, and therefore may be encouraged to
shift from drug to food crops. In his resolution requesting the President to urge this reform on the governments involved, he warned of the fiew opium danger to Americans: “There are now thousands of young American citizens in countries where opium is cultivated and freely available, and other Americans are on vessels delivering war mate-
rials to those countries, which condition constitutes a
real threat to the healtlj and welfare of these Americans
and affords easy opportunity for the highl smuggling of opium into the United States.” Unquest ARI) 1 we
y profitable
ionably the Judd: fesolution will pass and the i » ; a. 5 Fh
union, . As an item of the new propaganda, recent issue of the Pilot contained a picture of a group of licensed, merchant marine officers, not members of the N. M, U., and some enlisted sailors for whom the merchant men had given a dinner in New York. However, the basic conduct of the union’s inner
So the Tammany leader's statement | affairs has not changed and Curran announced at a
recent meeting thdt he and the other officials henceforth would not bother with the formality of trials of sailors charged with “racketeering,” which. means anything displeasing with the ruling group. They would simply “clean: them out.” “Moreover, as’ thé first open announcement of the Communist revolution after the war, he promised that “with the backing of every soldier back from the trenches,” the union intended to “nail the ship owners to the wall.”
We The People
By Ruth Millett
THE CLERK .of a South Carolina selective service board says
I get my husband in the army?”
that the country gets them
than patriotic. Motives Are Not Patriotic
she could call her own. —might like to get rid of him for the duration. “his having to take orders for awhile.
around with another woman, it would to have him out of the way.
easier to collect than alimony. -
To The Point—
Illinois movie theater. The picture could have bee any one of several we've seen lately. ¢ ‘. » *
we are giving the enemy. Buy more war bonds! id 2 - . - »
want more,
long as some husbands do." i < * - »
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that one of the most frequent questions asked him is: “How can
If you didn’t know women very well, you might assume from that bit of information that women are more patriotic than men, and that there are a lot of women who think their country needs their men, and who are ready to see
But if you know anything about women, you have
to admit that the reasons for women wanting their husbands in the army are probably more personal
IT'S EASY to see why Mrs. Brown, whose husband never gives her any money for herself, might welcome |’ a government allotment, no matter how small, that
And it is easy to see why Mrs. Smith, whose husband is mean when drinking—and 4s usually drinking
It isn't even difficult to understand that a woman who is married to a bully rather relishes the idea of
And certainly, if a woman's husband is running please the wife
No, women aren't quite patriotic enough to try to get perfectly good husbands into the army. The ones they are eager to give Uncle Sam are probably ones they don't want.~ And a government allotment is
THREE MEN were pinched for sleeping in an
SMART MONEY is. being put into the sock that SYMPATHY IS great stuff unless it makes you | AFTER ALL, congress doesn't argue over a bill as
that it's always fair ther—and
and with renting tables to soldiers for their card | «PEDESTRIAN
IS AT FAULT” By W. B. Johnsen, 1608 Central ave. The Indianapolis police department drive to decrease pedestrian accidents is commendable. Figures obtained from the check made by Boy Scouts showed that more than (16,000 persons crossed the streets illegally in a two-hour_period last Saturday. Although this drive is commendable, I believe the police are wrong in trying to lay practically all the blame on the motorist, In several recent accidents when pedestrians were injured the motorist was arrested for “failure to give the right of way to the pedestrian.” In one case the motorist had the green traffic light. In another case a child ran across the street and was hit by a car. The police will defeat their own
right of way. The pedestrian will take more chances and there will be more injuries. In most cases where a pedestrian is injured the pedestrian is at
difficult certainl¥ can see the headlight of a car if he will only look. should the’ police give such encouragement to the careless walker? According to the recent survey {16,000 persons crossed the streets lillegally, 12,847 persons. against the red light. How many, motorists crossed against the red light? Why ean’'t the police use some common isense and fairness in the matter of | these arrests. os ” os | “CONSTITUTION 18 | LIVING DOCUMENT” ’ By W. G. D,, Indianapolis.
Certain legislation and some governmental = policies in operation since 1933 have brought an unprecedented interest in the American constitution. Millions of our citizens have again turned to this great document to study its provisions and principles set forth. \ And with the coming of this renewed interest, there also came a
document. Unfortunately, wherever
its attitude toward the constitution. This division of opinions can be understood when we consider that even the highest court of the land falls in most cases to agree unanimously in important decisions.
In order to present an authorita-| tive and scholarly analysis of the suggested that, as a candidate for constitution—in order to be able President, Mr. Willkie should be to separate the truth from the|called a “maverick”—a maverick be-
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious, controversies excluded. Becauseof the volume received, letters should be limited 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 responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter core respondence regarding them.)
So
{ tions under which this great docu-
the social, economic, political and
| xisted fault. At night the pedestrian is religious conditions as they e see, but the pedestrian | at the time and prior to the time
when the idea of popular govern-
Why ment came into the minds of our
{ forefathers. ‘ . | Literal interpretations of the written constitution without squar-
ing them with available informa[tion based on social and economic
changes in the national life of our {republic fails. to make the constitu-
| tion the living, human epic it was lintended to be. The constitution is not an instru{ment to be worshiped, but a document to be’ used. I like to think of
{the constitution as a living, grow-
|ing, expanding institution, - It is
{in line with evolution, it is an illusItration of evolution. Instead of the constitution coming to America full grown, fully developed, we must ac{cept the fact that the seed of popu{lar government was sown, and that It grew year after year and always [subjected to economic and social (change. So instead of the constitution coming to America and hav-
ling reached a fixed and final form, fine critical treatment of this great it never can and in the nature of
| things never will reach it, for every-
there is rife speculation and critical thing in the universe is undergoanalysis, one finds a certain con-|ing one or two processes, it is either troversial atmosphere. Thee are growing or it is decaying, in either almost as many interpretations as| case it isn’t standing still, it is there are individuals, certainly as| many es tiiere are groups of in- documents, the reposifory of truth dividuals, and each group claiming and righteousness, must be inter-'
changing.
to find sufficient material to justify preted in the light of change and!
{human need. » |“MR. WILLKIE {IS A BARNACLE”
, By J. Dinny, Columbus
. political brand, and having wan-
error—the permanent from the purpose if they give the pedestrian | transitory—the » flexible from- the the idea that he always has the | inflexible, one ‘must have a knowl{edge and understanding of the un!derlying circumstances and condi-
ment was written. One must know
This document of all
Some time ago, in the Forum, I
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ing “an tnbranded animal, especially a calf that has wandered from its mother"—Mr., Willkie bearing no
dered from his mother, the Democrat party. The other day, I heard another person say that Mr. Willkie should be called a “barnacle”—a barnacle being a kind of “fish that attaches itself to the bottom of a ship”"—Mr. Willkie having attached himself to the bottom of the Republican ship (and like all barnacles, becomes harmful to .the ship, and should be got rid of). Either name would seem appropriate, though on second thought, I rather prefer “barnacle,” especially the “should be got rid of” part of it. * » = “EACH STATE HAS ITS OWN PROBLEMS” By Charles William Schaffer, Indianapolis The members of the 63 agencies | which voted to have the state colleges take the leadership in’ the social work program are to be congratulated. This is the correct and only way to handle a social program, I say this as an “Old Timer" who has covered 43 of the 48 states
problems which may be entirely different from its neighboring state. Even the social problems of large -cities—like-Ghicago--and- New York are different, due te industrial environments. No flat national program can hope to be effective in different localities. ‘What works in one city or state does not effectively work in other cities or states. Social problems and their solving are legal problems to produce a workable state program. One .must have an intimate knowledge of the laws of the state. Who is better qualified to do this than your state universities: and schools? Laws must be revised and new laws made to-fit. the-program.-An educational program must be devised to teach youth how to be good parents. And parents must be taught their responsibilities to youth, to the home, to the church, and to the community, Juvenile delinquency is in reality “adult delinquency,” and “adult delinquency” is due entirely to “irresponsibility” to the home, the parents, the church, the community, and to the individual. To have a good social order, you must first have responsible people, The educational program must be a program to teach responsibility of the state, the county, the city, the home,- the church, and the school. And last, but most of all, any educational program that does not teach the child and the adult to be a responsible citizen is- an absolute failure. It ceases to be an educational institution. }
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“BETTER TRY TO CLEAN UP ANDERSON" By Mrs. H. M. J., Indianapolis Why, Civitus, are you trying to tell the people of Indianapolis about the anti-gambling law when just a year or so ago who was violating the laws of Indiana any more so than Anderson? Why didn’t you show the bingo laws to Anderson? If any place was wide open Anderson sure was, for I saw things going on up there that were hairraising. When it comes to posh and bunk I believe you, as a citizen of Anderson, had better try to help clean up Anderson of its gambling and pools and leave Indianapolis alone, for I feel we are perfectly capable of handling our own affairs here in this city without the aid of Anderson. Why didn’t you as a lawabiding citizen of Anderson help clean up the doorstep of that city when things were going wide open and full tilt? You just calm yourself, sit in your easy chair and quit writing to people | about Indianapolis and _ their |troubles, as you will have your hands 1 full cleaning up Anderson. : bd A hi - DAILY THOUGHTS Many SOITOWS be to the
wicked: but he that truste th in the Lord, meroy shall compass him
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not tell Mr. Jones your
in r bridge tonight? He's . | found out you m
an expert, and | ke han h
come tax trou
about.—Psalm 32:10. ONE sorrow never comes but
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in my days. Each state has its own |
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re-election and then let's all of .us. forget this quarrel and get down to serious work in the senate. ‘That is what the folks back home expect us, to do"
Some of the old-timers present, particularly the
| anti-administeation men from the South, reportedly
were mumbling in their beards regarding the
audacity of newcomer in- telling them such facts of life, Voted to Over-ride Tax Veto
THAT NIGHT they still were talking about it over their cocktails. When asked about it, Senator Jackson stanchly defended his right to talk out in such a party meeting and declared he only was pointing out what he knew the home folks felt. Next day he voted to over-ride the President's veto of the tax bill. It was the veto message which touched off the Barkley revolt. Admitting that he . had announced, when he was appointed to the senate seat by Governor Henry F. Schricker that he would support the administration, Senator Jackson explained: “Had the matter of the Barkley business been merely one of senatorial pride, I should have voted
ride was because I felt it was better to have some new taxes rather .than.no new taxes, which appears to be the prospect how.”
In Washington
By Peter Edson.
WASHINGTON, March 3. — Two weeks ago the livestock people were all singing the biues about the meat famine staring the
the U. S. office of price administration cutting point values on rationed meats because there is a surplus. ) Of course these two poinis of
poor meat-edting public is left completely befuddled by the contradictions, what else could be expected? The whole ball-up is really a paradox; it takes a little unwinding of tangled threads to get to the core.’ In the first place, war food administration and
from three important factors: First, livestock marketings, particularly of pigs, have been heavy all through the winter. All-time records for Fébruary killings were set on many days last month; packers have been working at capacity in what - is hormally an off-season, building up reserves.
tlenecks' in both Canada and the U. S. because military supplies get preference, Third, as a result of both these heavy marketings and the transportation bottleneck, cold storage warehouses have been filled to capacity. This is particularly true at nearly all ports Where there have been
THE ONLY away WPA arid OPA officials have been able to get off the prongs of this triple dilemma has been to ease up on rationing restrictions. So where does all this meat “famine” stuff of the livestock producers come from? WFA officials haye repeatedly stated theye is no meat “famine” in sight this year, . . . . Total meat production for 1044 is forecast at 3% billion pounds, as compared with 23 billion pounds
go to the armed services, For civilians, there may be more pork in the year’s supply, less beef; lamb and mutton, but the total will be about the same as for 1943. Nobody starved then.
there are more demands on this supply for feeding meat animals, dalry animals, poultry, for making flour and industrial alechol.
Fattening Up Is Down BECAUSE OF this feed shortage, the WFA says it will be necessary to reduce the number of meat animals perhaps by as much as 16 per cent, and to force more grass-fed beef catfle directly from the range feed lots where stock is normally fattened for market. it will apparently be im
fattening livestock for market, and this is what causes them to raise the cry of “famine!” °
So Ter Sor. |
IN THIS WORLD of complex human pelationships, |
brings an heir,
to sustain the veto. The only reason I voted to over-
country in the face. Then along
veiw don’t make sense, and it the §
OPA officials say surpluses today are temporary, both = § in Canada and the U. 8. Today's surplus results §
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“Second, there are Yall and ship transportation bot= 1
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decreases of lend-lease exports because of shipping | shortages. 1 No Famine, Says WFA _
for 1943. The increased production will, however, all *
All the meat famine talk stems from Just one fact. §! There very definitely is a shortage of livestock feed. §! There is more feed than there ever was before, but §!
to the slaughter houses without going through the | In spite ofall the efforts to increase the feed crops, | |
for all this increased livestock production. This 1s || ‘What irks the people who have been in the business of | |
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