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INDUSTRY'S ROAD BACK
Now is the time, says the Senate's Truman committee, for government to start relinquishing its wartime controls over industry in preparation for the speediest possible return to free competitive enterprise. The committee thus stands firmly — and we think rightly—against the idea that government must manage and direct industry’s progress to peacetime production. The appealing argunient for that idea is that manufacturers who have to keep on making war goods deserve protection against old or new competitors who may try to get 8 head start in the race for post-war markets, We believe the committee’s viewpoint is .realistic. Where materials and labor become surplus, manufacturers for whom there are no war contracts should be allowed to use their own ingenuity and judgment in making what
Price in Marlon Coun-.
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, March 7.— Theme song of the third annual report of the Senate's Truman committee to. investigate the national defense program is made up of these principal strains: ° .
‘ment planning, with complex rules and regulations on post-war business. Limit government controls over resumption of civilian goods manufacture to a few score mechaniitems such as automohiles and
cally-complicated washing machines. Leave manufacturers free to exercise their ingenuity in resuming production of any items they choose from surplus materials not needed for war. “Experience has taught us that our country will flourish best when least hampered by government controls,” says the report. 3 control over the production of hundreds of thousands of items which might be made from surplus materials would do more harm than good.” .
Points Underscored in 200-Page Report
tion record since March, 1941, this Truman committee is in the best possible position to sum up accomplishments and point to problems immediately ahead, and its third annual report—how those years have flown !—is a detailed 200-page statement appraising today’s situation. It would be impossible to boil all this down to something you can read over one cup of coffee, but hitting the high spots of its introductory survey and recommendations, you underscore these: MANPOWER—Still the most serious problem, but unless the armed services require more men than now
port war and civilian production with increased: vigor.
they choose. Nobody is likely to get a very long head start, because many materials and machines will continue | to be scarce while the war lasts. Those who do get any sort of head start will be chiefly small companies, and they certainly need a break. Th#k first of all about protecting the home economy. Let it gain the strength it must have either for a long war or an early peace. Fight inflation by permitting all production of civilian goods that won't interfere with the war effort. Some government controls will have to continue. When scarce materials are allocatéd for output of essential civilian goods the government may have to decide who shall manufacture what; it may have to fix quotas for companies. But no quotas for those who use only materials and labor not required for war. No government ban against newcomers competing with established companies. Instead, as much freedom for ali as the circumstances make possible. , 8 8 @& - 2 8 =» THAT WON'T mean “soft or luxurious living” for the home front. It will mean a slow, gradual return to the civilian market of certain articles, most of them fairly simple, whose production has been stopped by war. Beyond that, it will mean industry regaining the power to make its own decisions, take its own chances, plan its own future. There are those who believe that government can do a better job of planning for industry than industry can do for itself. We don’t agree with them. We agree with the Truman committee that government management of industrial reconversion—beyond the limited degree made necessary by considerations of war — would “create for peacetime production of regimentation more complicated and more difficult than that which we have had -during wartime.” It would, as the committee says, place an intolerable burden upon any government agency that might attempt the task, and an intolerable burden upon industry.
EXIT: THROTTLEBOTTOM
R a century this country has not taken the vice presidency seriously. Some citizens still think it is a Throttlebottom office, But the vice president has become & key official. In the future he is apt to be more so. At the beginning of a national campaign this is of more than academic interest. Soon the major political parties will nominate presidential tickets, The second man on the successful ticket will become at least a kind of assistant President—and fate may make him President. That has happened before; six times in fact. It can happen again,
The next four years probably will be the most momen- | tous in our history. That is why the American ‘public | faces the coming campaign ‘in such serious mood—why presidential candidates, avowed and otherwise, are being | watched and weighed with such care. o » 2 8 s AND YET, for all the public awareness of the supreme importance of picking a President this year of all years, there is little concern about the vice president who may become President. The politicians seem to be thinking in the same old rut—assuming that the second place candidate will be named as an afterthought. Any second-rater who can “balance” the ticket geographically or otherwise to snare some extra votes. Democrats almost take it for granted that their routine choice will be made not even by trading party bosses and tired delegates, but by Roosevelt dictation. Only an informed and vigorous public demand can produce first class candidates for second place on the Democratic and Republican tickets, either one capable of being President during the critical years ahead if fate so decrees. You will be interested in the series of articles on this subject by Thomas L. Stokes of our Washington bureau, beginning on Page One of this newspaper today. ——————————
BORROWING TO PAY TAXES
ANKS, small-loan companies and credit unions, according to the Wall Street Journal, are doing a brisk business among people who have discovered, after traversing the jungle of form 1040, that March 15 is going to catch them short,” Some taxpayers are cashing in war bonds to make ends meet, but most people, according to the Journal's survey, prefer to hang onto their bonds and borrow money, at higher interest, to meet their tax obligation, If congress does a real job of simplifying future tax returns, these periodic personal crises that send so many folks scurrying to the money-lenders will ‘be alleviated. There is no reason why the withholding tax, now 201 per cent, should not be made adjustable—that is, tailored to fit every size of wage and salary, so that the entire tax due would be withheld from the pay check or pay envelope each week. Most taxpayers would then be con- | there would be no need for them to make any tax return whatsoever, ‘That might’ be tough on the lenders, but it would be
unmitigated blessing to everybody else, including the
NATIONAL SERVICE LAW-—Opposed as impractical and unnecessary. THREE-YEAR PRODUCTION TOTALS—153,061 planes of which 105,126 were combat planes, 746 war vessels, 1899 Liberty ships, 702 other cargo ships, 28,286 subsidiary naval vessels ingluding 23,867 landing craft, 1,569,018 military trucks. LABOR FORCE—Contributed 45 per cent more man-days work in 1943 than 1939, for all industries, 89 per cent more in manufacturing alone,
"Pipeline of War Supply’ Is Filled
. WAR PRODUCTION—The major battles have been won, and people should be told of this fact as it will create confidence and not create overconfidence as feared. The “pipeline of war supply” has now been filled and will continue to flow. CONTRACT TERMINATIONS—As of Jan. 31, army, $10,600,000,000; navy, $2,349,000,000. WPB estimate of terminations for 1944, $1,500,000,000 per month to June 30. RAW MATERIALS—Supply of aluminum, copper and steel exceeds both war and civilian requirements, RECONVERSION TO CIVILIAN PRODUCTION— Now beginning and should be permitted at highest possible levels to maintain sound civilian economy. FULL EMPLOYMENT-—Must be maintained so that purchases of consumer goods will not decline and capital investments shall not be reduced, but— FULL SCALE CIVILIAN PRODUCTION—and soft luxurious living cannot be resumed soon. Needs of army and navy preclude manufacture of complicated items such as automobiles. é
Twelve Months Work in Sight
UNFILLED WAR ORDERS—Total on Dec. 1, 1943, $67,000,000,000, which must continue to receive first preference. Rate of delivery now $5,500,000,000 per month, indicating 12 months work in sight with more coming. CONDITIONS FOR RESUMPTION OF CIVILIAN MANUFACTURE—Manufacturers should be permitted to make any article they desire, provided (1) basic materials are not required for essential production. (2) There is no acute manpower shortage in the area. (3) Manufacturer has not been offered a war contract. PRODUCTION OF NEW ITEMS—Will be difficult because of inability to procure new dies, jigs, fixtures and tools. QUOTA DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS— Necessary at first for essential civilian production, but if extended, wquld work unfalrly. Judgment of bureaucrats should not be substituted for. economic trends. , RECOMMENDATIONS—(1) Do not prevent use of surplus commodities and thereby create unemployment. (2) Do not create a new series of unworkable industrial controls. (3) Do not establish pattern of regimentation for initial peace-time production, for such regimentation will have a tendency to become permanent. CONCLUSION—*At all times the emphasis should be on increasing production of consumer goods: and eliminating government restrictions.”
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(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation. His column will be resumed when he returns.)
We The People
| By Ruth Millett
“TELL ME about your experiences during the war, Daddy.” There are men in every town who, unless their present attitude is chénged, would say something like this: “Well, T thought I had it pretty tough, Son. It's true I wasn’t in uniform--but life on the home front was no picnic. Sn “For instance I used to pay $6 i AY a pair for your mother’s nylon — stockings. And I couldn't have bought any at all if I hadn't had friends. “The same thing went for gasoline, The ration
board only gave me an A card, in spite of all I could |
do to convince ’em that I was entitled to a C. The only thing that saved me was the fact that I'd ‘bought all my gas from Joe for years and he used to fix me up with an extra 10 gallons now and then. But even so, I couldn’t drive any distance without taking a chance on being picked up.
Things Were Tough Then
“AND IT'S a crime how hard liquor was to buy. I got it, all right, but only by paying twice what it was worth. Boy, that used to burn me up—to have a fellow look me right in the eye and charge me twice what a bottle of Scotch was worth, “And as for my business—well, of .course, I made money. But the restrictions were a headache. And then when'I had nearly gone crazy running a business
in wartime, the government came along and took so |
much in taxes that I wasn't much better off than I'd been in peace time. . “And if you wanted a nice thick, tender steak, you usually had to go to a restaurant and get it. And, boy they really soaked you for it, too! , “No, I may not have been in the army. But your old man had it plenty tough anyhow—and don’t think he didn't.” 2 Wonder if that would impress a kid?
To The Point—
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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.
“WORD OF DEFENSE FOR NURSING HOME”
By Myrtle Lee Nursing Home, 1429 Carroliton ave.
Just a word of defense for the women who operate the most hu-
homes in the city and state, the homes for the aged and chronic cases that hospitals cannot or will not take. I have owned and maintained a nursing home for the past 20 years and the heart-breaking experiences I have witnessed between cast-off parents and ungrateful children would be most surprising to the public to know about. The children of relatives will misrepresent the physical condition of the patients, most of whom are mental cases, but are mild enough not to do bodily harm but who re-
ments of a baby and should have a private attendant. But you cannot give such service for what they pay you, including three meals a day, and then get the slander and ridicule of the public for having such cases in your home which I always thought dn essential work. No one knows the thankless and unappreciativeness of this work except one who owns and operates one, as I do. Anyone is welcome to come at any time and see the care and treatment we give and the type of patients we care for, as there is an attendant or myself on duty 24 hours.
2 8 = “MACARTHUR KNOWS HOW TO WIN THE WAR” By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis.
drafting Gen. MacArthur for President which Arthur Mellinger objected to, I would like to advance some reasons why I think Gen. MacArthur would be the best candidate the Republicans can find for the job at hand. In the first place Gen. MacArthur knows how to win a war! In the second place he is not a professional politician, as Mrs. Jean Cheek so abruptly points out, and that meang something right now! I believe Gen, MacArthur would divorce politics from the war effort, a great need! Certainly he would not play second fiddle to Churchill, Stalin or any other allied leader, nor would he need a Harry Hopkins to advise him on war strategy. The Republicans need a strong man with war experience and a positive personality for a presidential candidate! The New Dealers hope to convince the voters that Mr. Roosevelt’s war experience is indispensable to win the war. And Gen. MacArthur would take a large slice of
manitarian, but least appreciated, |
- |a general, Since it was my proposal for,
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any civilian candidate! So we conclude that winning the war is the first consideration of both the
that winning the election is a close second. All right, MacArthur is the man: to win the war and also the election, As a former chief of staff he is closely acquainted with our army and navy leaders. And don't discount his chances for getting a heavy soldier vote, Well, we want to win the war and also the next eléction, don't we? Then why not MacArthur? We need a man for President who will safeguard American interests and who can hold his own with other leaders. We don't want a weak-kneed President swayed and entangled in international political juggling. George Washington was We need a President who can and will bring this war to a successful conclusion unhampered by overwhelming political ambition, entangling foreign political commitments or starry-eyed dreams of international socialism. So, why not MacArthur and Tom Dewey? Yes, the commander-in-chief should know the war game and well, “Let's get on with the war with Gen. Douglas MacArthur!”
o es 8 “ONLY REASON IS TO CHEER BOYS” By A Reader, Indianapolis
reason for her trip to the Caribbean is to cheer our boys on. So you think, Mrs. A. M. Baker, that you are an average mother? No, far from that.
An average mother realizes the impossibilities of a ‘trip to the Caribbean and is happy to know there is such a person as Mrs. Roosevelt who is brave and kind enough to leave behind her all the protection, security, home and
the soldier vote, much larger than
loved ones to go on such a danger-
Side Glances—By Ga
5 7 . ; : iis SSOPR. 1944 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. 7. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF. I
"Those kids certainly have got the
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Democrats and Republicans and"
I am sure Mrs. Roosevelt's only |
{over the nation are asking the same
-|boys? Other industries are mak.|dress industry use the sewing ma-
ous mission to cleer our boys along. And also you spoke of the boys getting a raw deal; I haven't heard any of them complaining. They know that the fighting men are getting everything our Uncle Sam can give them to make the going easier and heavens knows they deserve it. From what you said, you don’t want your boys to die or fight either for their country, If you would spend your fime rolling bandages in some Red Cross center or trying to get blood donors you wouldn't have time to find fault with such a loyal, unselfish person as Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. This is what an average mother, forgetting politics as you must in a time like
letter. It would be well for you, Mrs. A. M. Baker, to read Mrs. Roosevelt's “My Day” and see if she ever mentions how long her boys! have been gone from home or how far. : o ” = “GAMBLING IS NOT PICAYUNISH” By Viola Lovett, 1215 Pleasant
I wonder if all violators of laws and restrictions couldn't be called picayunish. I think personally gambling is not a picayunish mat ter. Little things usually develop into bigger things and many a man has lost his entire week's wages’ by starting to gamble in a small way, and what does his family suffer from the results? Gambling and drink are always associated. I say, Mr. Beeker, hats off to you for enforcing the law. Why can't these men that are running these places get out and work or fight for Uncle Sam? If they could clean out these pool rooms and taverns we wouldn't be so short of manpower in the service either way. These men that waste their money this way should be home after working all day helping at home, especially if there are children. Maybe we wouldn't have so many juvenile delinquents running the streets. What do you expect your children to be when they grow up—gamblers and drunkards? Teach them the good things in life, not the evil and vice. More power to the police department for enforcing the law. { » » “IT WOULD HELP IF WE COULD AGREE” By Alma Bender, Zionsville. It would certainly be a help In charting our future policy if we could agree on what happened in our past and why. But it is discouraging to find your correspondent Switzer quite sure that we could have avoided this war if we had joined the League of Nations, and correspondent Saunders emphatically believing we should not. We shall never know whether it would have worked if we had joined the League of Nations. We do know that it didn’t work to stay out. Per haps it wouldn't have worked to go in, either; but it would be a satisfaction, wouldn't it, to know that we tried everything we could to prevent it? The only sure way, you know, to keep out of a war is to keep from having the war. ! ” o - . “WHY NOT MAKE ESSENTIAL THINGS”
By Mrs. Roy Jobe, R. ER. 4, Shelbyville,
I would like to ask a simple question and I know mothers of boys
thing. Why it is that there are} women’s Sunday dresses galore to be had ‘but not one single pair of or corduroys for small
ing war changes, why can’t the
chines they already have and make some things that are essential? I've tried in three towns to ‘buy boys’ coveralls and believe me, there are
‘DAILY THOUGHTS For I will restore health unto three, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.—Jeremiah 30:17, ; ’
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he is for Gates for governor.
race—Willkie, Dewey, Bricker or MacArthur?” Mr. Landis was asked. ! 3 “I do not want to say at this time,” he replied. “You see I want to be an uninstructed delegate to
1 the. national convention.”
Praises Gates for Leadership
SO AS of today, Mr. Landis has refused to come out with his own “full ballot,” or even one indorsing the places which would have been provided under the federal balloting for soldiers. He believes, however, that the Indiana politicians will see and approve his point. Here is what he had to say in his Mr. Gates and reindorsement of Mr. Capehart: “I have known Ralph Gates for a number of years ‘and T have found him to be a ‘fightin’ Am : He is well qualified for the office of governor. e has made a succéss in his law business. H¢ has aiso been successful as a Republican state and district chairman. He believes in the fundamental principles of the Republican party. His main objective is to de« feat the New Deal. “Homer Capehart started thes ball rolling for the Republican party in 1938 at the cornfield conference held in Daviess county. Republican workers ail over our state appreciate the efforts Mr. has
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{ made to eliminate the New Deal in Washington.
‘Americans Before They Are Republicans’ “MR. CAPEHART has been successful in the busi-
| ness field and his manufacturing plant in Indianap- | olis is doing its part in the war effort. He under-
stands the problems of labor and the farm. He made an excellent showing as Republican district chairman in the last election. He will make an able senator and we welcome his type in Washington. “Both of these men are Americans before they are Republicans, They will lend every effort to win the war and peace. They are familiar with post-war problems and they will fight to preserve the private enterprise system to be controlled and financed by American individuals. “Both were servicemen in the first world war and they know the problems of the veterans. These two outstanding men will lead the Republican party to victory in Indiana next fall.” Other recent business here of Mr. Landis includes introducing a bill for a unified food administration and another to put off income tax payments until
Words’
‘Beautiful By William Philip Simms
the Adriatic coast, across from Italy, axis forces in Jugoslavia and Greece would be cut off and annihilated by the reinforced guerrillas unless they beat a hasty retreat as far as the Danube. Allied warships could enter the Black sea and threaten Hitler's weakest and most vulnerable flank. To meet this Balkan menace, the Nazis would be compelled to.weaken both the eastern front and their Atlantic wall. They would then have to wage & major war on three fronts, each remote from the other two.
Only 300 Planes and 500 Tanks
YET, ACCORDING to “authoritative sources” cited by the United Press correspondent at Ankara, Turkey is being kept out for lack of a mere 300 planes and 500 tanks. : When they met at Cairo last fall it is said that Turkey's President Inonu told Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt of Turkey's requirements. If she entered the war, he said, she would need certain equipment, principally tanks and planes, Without them, she could not begin an offensive, and a defensive war would not help the allies and might prove disastrous for her.: Turkey's pri the above information is correct—is considered to be absolutely picayune, The United States, it is pointed out, has given Russia 8300 planes up to the first of this year, and 4300 tanks plus 220,000 motor vehicles including more than 150,.000 trucks. This is cited not by way of begrudging Russia a single horsepower, but to emphasize the inconsequential dribble demanded by the Turks. “So far,” the Ankara authority told the United
All we got were beautiful words.”
Small Countries in Turkey's Corner
UNFORTUNATELY, THE situation is such that all of the sympathy is not on our side, Most of the small countries seem to be in Turkey's corner, Some of them profess an acute understanding of what she means. by “beautiful words,” and of how ineffectual these are in a showdown against Nazi guns, tanks and planes, Some recall, too, allied plaudits and the prom.
turned to coolness and forgetfulness. Rightly or wrongly, there is a deep-seated impres-
Anglo-American activities in the Balkans and that, at Ankara, London and Washington deferred to her wishes. Russia is believed to have demanded a crosschannel- invasion for the present, leaving the Balkans
stay outside depending on the signal from Moscow,
So They Say—
without comment, and industrial physicians must be prepared to fit injured men into jobs that do not ts the injured portions of their minds or bodies. Gen. David N. W. Grant, air force surgeon.
TODAY THE TRUST, understanding and eonfidence that we have achieved among the Americas can well be set up as a pattern for other world regions to follow.—Go-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs Nelson Rockefeller, : : a eT » ®- * Q, 2 IT HAS become very obvious toeus the Japs suffered severe losses among theif pilots, throwing green pilots at us and we are taking of them in workmanlike mannper.—Adm,
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until such a time as she herself will be free to direct | the enterprise. If so, Turkéy will enter the war or |
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FARM GOJUGOS
George Radir gate to the unit lief and rehabi will speak on “C Dictator” at the the Indiana Fe sLrative associat today in the Li ‘Mr. Radin’s t: the experiences under Nazi don The conventic morning, will c morrow noon, election of thre Dean H. J. R versity was to lationship betw Distribution,” at sions. Daniel | the Ohio Culti scheduled to sp Morning mee by I. R. Hull, the association, president.
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“Man and Ge only combinatio insure victory,” wood Sturtevan Fond du Lac, \ day congregatic