Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1944 — Page 10

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BRITISH business and parliament group is working for a compromise peace with Japan, according to a Lon-

‘don Daily Mail article.

Included in the group are said to’

be “sentimentalists brought up in Japan and persuaded that our present war is but an unfortunate misunderstanding; nervous diehards, who still regard Japan as a bulwark against communism in Asia, and Far Eastern merchants

who want quickly to cover their losses.”

Americans cannot help but be concerned by such reports—just as Britons would be alarmed if such an American group were trying to deal with the Nazis, which is not the case. Maybe the Daily Mail report is not true. Certainly it would be unfair to believe these charges without

specific proof.

But there is no use denying that American opinion from the beginning has been super-sensitive regarding British policy in the Far East. Though the British government after the first world war traded its Anglo-Jap mili-

tary alliance for American naval reduction, London con- | tinued to work with Tokyo. In China the British policy was |

closer to the Japanese than to the American.

” o » ” s s JAPAN WAS able to destroy international peace machinery and open the way to world war II when the British government broke its pledge to Washington to apply joint sanctions against Japan for the rape of Manchuria. And London shortsightedly strengthened Japan for her attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore by closing the Burma

road to American military supplies for China.

Even during the allied war against Jap aggression,

there has been friction—over Churchill's successful insistence for two years that the Pacific remain a secondary front, over Britain's refusal to use Chinese troops to save Burma in 1942, over Britain's refusal to permit American good offices in her India dispute so that fewer American #roops and machines would be needed in India, over Churchill's announcement last year that there would be large-scale British demobilization after Hitler's defeat, and over the current Mountbatten-Stilwell dispute on British delays in

the Southeast Asia campaign.

At last the British government is aware that this Far East friction is not helping Anglo-American relations, which it is so anxious to improve. Therefore Churchill, Eden and other cabinet members during recent weeks have been repeating over and over again that Britain, after Hitler's ‘defeat, will use her full resources with us for the complete

defeat of Japan. America should accept that in good faith.

» s . 2 2 ” BUT WORDS won't lick Japan. And Churchill pledges | will not produce full public support after European victory, unless the British people understand the issue. The English are only human; certainly they" will be war-weary when European peace comes. If their government is unable now. to show them that the Pacific war is their war too, they are

not apt to believe it when Hitler falls.

The most serious charges made by the Daily Mail article is not that there is a pro-Jap group in London high places. Even more disturbing is its charge that the English people view the Pacific war with a “tepid. eye,” and that the Churchill government is making no effort “to arouse either

our self-interest or idealism.”

AND TAXES AFTER THE WAR

HILE the ways and means committee is simplifying, and we hope strengthening wartime taxes, it had | better begin the spadework on post-war taxes. millions of our fighting men return to jobs and opportu-

| By Fred W. Perkins

collected from C. I. O. unions for political activities.

-Charges Violation of Connally-Smith Act -

WASHINGTON, March 8-—. Attorney General Francis Biddle | will announce this week a decision that no law is being broken by Philip Murray, president of the

. of a large fund collected by the © ©. 1 O. political action committee for use in connection with this year’s elections. 3 The complaint was entered two months ago by Rep. Howard W. Smith (D. Va.), co-author of the Connally-Smith act. He asked the department. of justice to prosecute Mr. Murray on the basis of pub- | lished statements by the latter that $700,000 had been

THIS, CHARGED the Virginia congressman, violated the Connally-Smith law, which says, “It is unlawful , . . for any corporation, or any labor organization to make a contribution in connection with any election” in which federal officers are to be chosen. Aides to the attorney general said ‘an investigation had been made by the FBI in localities where the ©. I. O. political division is organizing. Mr. Biddle's opinion was expected to be based on a finding that the money has been used so far mainly or only in encouraging citizens to register for voting in the 1944 primaries and election.. That is held to be non-partisan. * °° Investigation of the C. I. O. fund has been viewed with interest because leaders of the organization have been Roosevelt supporters, and are expected to back the fourth term drive. The attorney general is, said to have insisted that the investigation be carried to completion.

Will Affect Hatch Amendment

THE BIDDLE decision will affect congressional action on a pending amendment to the corrupt practices act of 1925. This amendment, sponsored by Senator Hatch (D. N. M.), makes chambers of commerce and trade associations as well as corporations equally liable with labor organizations for political contributions. It was passed by the senate Feb. 15, now awaits house action. This amendment, Senator Hatch said yesterday, goes

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further than previous legislation because it adds chambers of commerce and the trade bodies of any character to the corporations that heretofore have been forbidden from engaging financially in elections.

The Hatch amendment is two-pronged—it makes |

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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will

law, the Connally-Smith :enactment being only for wartime: it places the same restrictions on management organizations, from now on. The house judiciary committee, now considering the legislation, is receiving protests from management as well as labor bodies. - ’ }

CIO Fund Now in the Millions

THE C. I. O. political fund is reported to have grown rapidly from the original $700,000, and to be now in the millions. The argument was started in 1936 when John L. Lewis used $500,000 in funds of the United Mine Workers to promote the second election of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Lewis now is on the outs with Mr. Roosevelt. The Lewis half-million of 1936 will be chicken feed compared to this year's spending by labor organizations in politics—according to labor spokesmen anticipating the forthcoming Biddle decision. Unless the Hatch amendmepj becomes law, the chambers of commerce and the trade associations also are expected to get busy. :

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation. His column will be resumed when he returns.)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

IN. A RECENT speech, Mrs. William Hastings, who is president of the National Congress of Par-

dignify the work done at home, when well done, to the same degree that society respects successful careers in- business and the professions. It certainly would he a boost for homemaking if it could be accomplished. But it hardly "seems likely. Have you, for instance, ever witnessed | such a scene as the following: A hostess brings a guest up to a middle-aged

Whether | woman and says, “I want you to know Mrs, Brown,

| who has such an interesting job!

She's a very suc- | cessful homemaker!”

nities—or to unemployment—will depend upon how wisely | and speedily a peacetime tax program is put into effect. Formula Is Familiar One

The case was stated succinetly in the Baruch-Hancock |

report:

“Let us not provide credit to the returning soldier or | small businessman which will only chain him like a galley |

slave to a loan he can never repay.

it possible for a man to repay what he borrows.

“At current tax rates, few new enterprises or indi- | viduals could repay their borrbwings out of earnings less | taxes in any reasonable period of time. There will be] general agreement that tax rates should be reduced after |

the war.

war taxes are to be reduced, the launching of new enter: | of it numerous tines. prises and the expansion of existing ones will be deferred........That shows how. strongly Americans feel that the

We recommend, therefore:

“That a post-war tax law be drafted now, during the | money that our attitude, immature as it is, will be war, and put on the shelf to go into effect at the end of

the war.”

Incidentally, it might_be a good idea for the ways and | ® means committee to invite Messrs. Baruch and Hancock | To The Point— to propose for its consideration a post-war tax program | in detail. It would be a pretty tough order, but the team ! of Baruch and Hancock is not one that shrinks from rugged |

assignments. . .

WHO'S YOUR SENATOR?

of the two senators, and47 could name neither.

A similar check by the Gallup poll two years ago showed that an even 50 per cent of the population could not

name their congressman.

of “that madhouse in Washington.”

BACK TO THE BUG

army stands triumphant

and the Red

And yet, it is a good bet that those people who don’t know who represents them are the loudest in their criticism

DROBABLY no group of Americans are cheering the Russian advance more ardently than our radio announcers. They must look forward i to the day when their. catarrhal struggles with Dno and Pskov are but a memory, on the banks of the

{ how you happened to get started in it?”

| homemaker. i And then the other person says flatteringly, “You must be terribly busy. And yet your job must very satisfying.

always will be.”

| troduced as a SUCCESS—you've heard or been Part | sname you aren't able to do more | may fail, appeals to reason may

the prohibition of labor political funds a permanent |

Tportant established freedoms. If the’

Chances are you've never witnessed a scene like

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

“IS THIS A SAMPLE OF OUR FREEDOMS?”

By a Bewildered Soldier, Serving In England. * The components of the character of American individualism are at least partially responsible to our past glories and inevitable future victory—bravery, righteousness, gallantry and the willingness to die for a just cause. We here are fighting to protect guaranteed freedoms, of which the right to worship God in the light of personal righteousness is one of the oldest and most im-

trial in Indianapolis of Donald and! Leland Stanley, two members of the Watchtower Bible society, better known as Jehovah's Witnesses, is a sample of our future freedoms, I suggest we either change our fight-

their doctrine. We have no right to ostracize or maliciously convict] them unless we wish to transgress| these fundamental privileges our

{My personal interest in this par-

| ticular case is more than a passing

fancy. Being a member of a com-

| freedoms that we here are defend{ing are worthy of our efforts.

2 2 » “DO YOU FEEL BETTER QUALIFIED?” ‘By a Young Lady, Indianapolis. | Sometimes I marvel at the pa-

| tience of the Times staff who have adult delinquency. It is an’ evil anapolis will

| to print the letters of such chronic | gripers as Mr. J. G. 1 must admit it is very chivalrous of you, sir, to say there are still a few nice women in the world. To

my knowledge, there are 10 decent We must not fail again. Civiliza- | tragic.

{ women for every undesirable female

AND, THE other person starts right in to ask such | you can show me. What kind of at- | | questions, reserved for the successful, as “Your job | mosphere do you prefer that offers truth; and when tr | sounds terribly interesting; do you mind telling me | yoy such a low opinion of girls in other human value, moral, Spirit- | be a good President. Neither does : X } | general? If you are always your ual or ethical, can long survive. !it mean he would be. It all depends And she listens spellbound while the housewife | sya) pessimistic self, Mr. J. G. Could war on the present scale on the man.

We must also make | tells just why she did decide to spend her life 88 & | then I can understand why you are

single. No self-respecting young

| woman would even consider marry- | tion, as we know it, would be yy FAIR PLAY” ’ ling you. The terminal station and stripped from man revealing the) . 1 certainly envy women who DO cheap bars will present a poor pic- animal beneath. A protracted sethings. But I'm just a career woman and guess I |ture of the decay of men as well [ries of such wars might easily

as women. Don't forget that. You

al. . . : | seem to know all about the assets| Now the picture is not as black However, until it is definitely known that post- | that. But in reverse—when the career woman Is In- | ang jiabilities of women. It is a as it seems. Leagues and courts

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let- ° ters-should be limited to 250 | words, Letters must be 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 correspondence regarding them.)

ing slogans or stop this bloody Orgy. | (1,05 write about them. And, as for tralia by your Mr. Roosevelt himI personally know these two men | your ideas on broken homes of fac- self. He had no choice and he is to be conscientious in their belief, | tory workers, why don't you let Mr. doing a splendid job and none of us and we have no right to criticize) Anthony take care of that—or do!can truly judge ft. MacArthur is

you feel better qualified? “s = =

“FIRST CASUALTY

people are so gallantly defending. IN WAR IS TRUTH”

By Percy Vere, Indianapolis { “The terrific increase in juvenile

ents and Teachers, urged that the bat unit near a fighting front, I delinquency,” says Ruth Millett, public be taught to respect and would really like to know if these “would seem to indicate that the

present generation of teen-agers

| has accepted a looser standard of 'morals than the. one before it.”

At last somebody has hit the nail {on the head. Mass juvenile delin|quency is just what it always has

been,

(outgrowth of war psychology, an {inevitable result of our signal failjure to outlaw ever more brutal and {costly wars. And this, by the way, is the most compelling reason why

tion itself may depend on it. The first casualty in war

{have the same result.

a concommitant of mass,

is but just because MacArthur is a| uth is gone, no general doesn’t mean he wouldn't]

|continue for even a single gener-| . = = 8 ation, the thin sheen of civiliza-| «1 BELIEVE

| successful woman 18 the one who $hines outside the home, not inside it. And I wouldn't like to bet any

changed any time soon.

DEFEATED JAPANESE generals use a sword to | destroy themselves via the hara kiri route. There's an economical idea for Hitler, who has been using up

| valuable bullets on some of: his Russian-front

| generals. . . *

FAILURE OF the Germans to push the allies into | OME of our statesmen would do well to hire press agents, | the judging from a cross-section survey by the national opinion research center of the University of Denver. Out of every 100 persons interviewed, 31 could name * both of the senators from their states, 22 could name on

sea 25 miles below Rome is blamed on numerous mistakes made by Field Marshal Kesselring, He didn't use his beachhead. » . v IF DAD forgives a poor report card the way Uncle Sam forgives taxes, Junior can expect a trip to the woodshed. .

THOSE WHO wonder about Mussolini once in a while needn't worry. - He probably took along his own

social security. * * "

IT'S HARD to see how some of the candidates find time to do any campaigning—they're so busy talking. « * " . z THE NEW YORK library has received 4000 books about tobacco. We can get the same quantity of matter by listening to the radio a few evenings. 3 . * *

WHEN PLANES become common with civilians it won't be the original cost that'll be so important, but the upkeep, : 2 . Hh 0» * A TENNESSEE man was arrested for having three wives. He should be

glad they caught him before

; "Rememb

| vacation time.

er, let's not

until Dad ha

Side Glances—By Galbraith

fail; but the time is certainly near at hand when all the peoples of the world will have come to a realization that war under modern conditions cannot pay, that both victor and. vanquished are losers. When that time comes (and we are at present teaching some of the more recalcitrant pupils), then war will vanish from the earth. TTT ae eo. : “MACARTHUR SLAP HARDLY COMMENDABLE” By V. M. D, Indianapolis. The slap Mrs. A. C. H. gave Gen. MacArthur is hardly commendable for a navy wife. I agree that Gen. Wainwright is truly a hero and he had the chance to leave his men. But MacArthur was ordered to Aus-

used to obeying his superiors regardless of his personal feelings on the matter, Then some have said that a military man doesn't make good presidential material. Aren't they forgetting George Washington? Again, having people in the serv-! ice doesn't change a person's type. Some of the most patriotic selfsacrificing ones I know have no one close except as they accept all humanity as brethren.’ : 1 also agree with Disgusted, etc, that this is a bad town .in which to raise children. I was a teacher and have five children myself, so I know a little about them. Some day Indiregret treating ‘her young people like stepchildren. They | have playgrounds and parks, ves, but what good are they closed or too far away to get to? I won't go into the house question; it is too

| By the way, I'm a Willkie fan;

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“known the old place.

‘4 WASHINGTON, March 8-— _{ There are 10 words which, in this campaign year, should be labeled “Dynamite—Handle With Care,” says Dr. Wilfred Funk, the dicmaker. They are “ghost

tends, and they have caused “more . ships, mayhem, murder, family brawls and barroom fights than

The words? Liberty. - Equal-

ity. New Deal. Communism. Isolationist, Fascism.

Capital. Labor. Justice, Democracy. An Dr. Funk is, of course, eminently correct. They are not the only trouble-starters, but they are prob-

-| ably the most frequently employed. We had a fine

sample of their explosive qualities in the 1940 presidential campaign. We have had even more pointed examples since the war began. And this year, when

the campaign really gets hot, supporters of both candidates are going to ride these words to the limit

of their flag-waving or vituperative powers, 3 The eminent lexicographer offers some sensible suggestions. "Ask each member of a. group to write down his or her definition of ‘democracy’, he sugges. “You'll be amused at the widely divergent T Ln

Advice Will Be Little Heeded

UNFORTUNATELY, Dr. Funk's advice will be little heeded, for each of these words has become an emotional compound of personal passions and prejudices. They have reasonably precise and limiting definitions in Dr. Punk’s or Mr. Webster's dictionary. But they have come to mean something different to everyone who uses them. Few private arguers have the logical mind or logical training, and few public speakers have the grace, to define terms before using them. x In recent weeks Vice President Wallace has spoken

of “American Fascists” in our husiness world, while

Alf Landon has called the New Deal “Fascist” Obviously, both accusations could not be right, short of the impossible hypothesis that Wall Street and the White House are’ like-minded.

Mussolini Wouldn't Have Known the Place’

WALLACE, it is true, was asked fo define ‘a “Fascist” at a subsequent press conference, but his

| answer did not remotely. resemble the dictionary

definition, and it's doubtful that Mussolini would have

One could go on down the line. Take “the democracies,” which can and do include such divergent governmental systems as those of Russia, Chins, and all the South American coumtries in a lump sum, as the occasion and the speaker's purpose warrant. But what's the use? Deeply as we believe in the power of the printed word, sincerely as we admire Dr. Funk's observations, we are appalled at the pros pect of trying, in a campaign year, to wean Ameris cans away from the practice of using as bricks ’ bats and smokescreens.

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In Washington ~~

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, March 8Appearance of Maj. Charles F. Hemans as a grand jury witness in Lansing, Mich., on March 4 to tell of his part as pay-off man in the. bribery of 20 Michigan state legislators was made possible only by the co-operation of war department and U. 8. army authorities in Washington. These officials were faced with the ticklish problem of deciding whether to dis charge an officer involved in political scandal, or keep him in uniform to assist Circuit Judge Leland W. Cair's one-man legislative graft investigation, Maj. Hemans' disclosures, revealing one of the worst state political graft scandals in recent times, are described by Judge Carr's special prosecutor, Kim Sigler, to be just the beginning of a series of graft and bribery charges which will rock the entire state of Michigan and may have profound effect on 1944 election results, Involved are investigations into illegal influencing of legislation under consideration by three sessions of the state legislature, in 1939, 1041 and 1943, :

Small Loan ‘Deal’ Involves Hoosiers IN THE one case now disclosed, a bribe conspiracy of “at least $20,000” is charged. Six finance company officials of Detroit and South Bend, Ind, are named

as having contributed the money for a slush fund to influence passage of a new small loan bill which would grant more favorable interest rates and terms to firms making these credit advances to poorer people with little or no security. Of the 20 legislators accused of having accepted bribes, 13 are still in office, the other seven having been defeated for re-élection. Eighteen of the officials are Democrats, two are Republicans. Maj. Hemans is now identified as the famous “Charley” who was the pay-off man. Since early in the war, Maj. Hemans, formerly a Detroit and Lansing lawyer, has been on duty in the office of the provost marshal general in Washington. Some weeks ago he made request for overseas

By Mrs. H. W.. Indianapolis. ! I've never before written to the| Forum but can contain myself no| longer and anticipate a furore in answers; nevertheless I feel the) urge to express myself, regardless.) First of all, why hasn't Willkie done something towards the war effort? That is, besides taking trips over the country and to Indiana occasionally for a chicken dinner on his farm taking up space needed for military use. How in the world could he be & wartime President when he can't, won't or. doesn’t know how to help win this war as a civilian, even? He looks healthy enough and they're yelling for factory workers. If he is helping, well and good, and 1 wish someone would enlighten me. Of course, we are all buying bonds as a matter of course. I am not a Democrat, but for the best man whosoever he may be, 1t burns me up the way Roosevelt haters jump on Mrs. Roosevelt, no matter how much good she accomplishes while all they do is gripe. A wounded soldier. in a magazine article recently told how good-it made them feel that the Clilef's wife would go to all that trouble to com~ fort them and make them feel they .|are not forgotten. She is really a Christian woman, thinking of others first; and it is & low person who | calls her names because she is the President's wife. I still am not a Democrat: but I believe in fair play.

DAILY THOUGHTS

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that ' Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.—I Timothy 1:15.

IF Jupiter hurled his thunder-

ention the subject of Easier at the table orgotten about his income tax!"

bolts as often as men sinned, he

i assignment, but while this application was being con-

sidered, he returned to Michigan on leave and there gave information on the pay-off of state legislators. Records of his payments, by name and amount, were found buried on his farm between Jackson and Lansing.

Case Weighed in Washington

RETURNING TO Washington, Maj. Hemans is supposed to have reported what he had done to his superiors in the provost marshal general's office. While war department authorities were considering his case, presumably weighing his discharge or a demand that he resign his commission, Michigan officials came to Washington to insist that Hemans, as their key witness, be kept in uniform at least until he had completed his testimony. If permitted to resign or if discharged in Washington, Hemans would not have been subject to subpena in Michigan and could not have been returned to the custody of the Michigan grand jury investigation. Michigan authorities. therefore wanted Maj. Hymans Kept subject to army orders, In the end he Wis placed uncer guard in Washington, then transferred to the reserve officers’ pool. at Camp Custer, which is a provost marshal and midtary police training center. At Camp Custer, Maj. Hemans was examined by Judge Carr, and it was from Camp Custer that he went to Lansing for his sensational appearance before the grand jury. Hemans, who is 48, comes from a prominent Michigan family. He served as a second lieutenant in the last war. Following graduation from the University of Michigan, he took his law degree at University of Detroit. For eight years he served as a regent of .the University of Michigan. He was

Detroit, representing finance and banking interests. When he moved to Lansing, he became known as

appearance before Judge Carr in Lansing was as a witness under grand jury grant of immunity,

So They Say—

IT 18 one of my dictums that the man who does not do more than he is paid for doing is not worth

would soon be out of thunderbolt.

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tionary - words” of fuszy meaning, he con-

associated with some of the leading law firms in

an associate of ‘legislators and state officials, His’

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