Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1944 — Page 16

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Give Light end the People Willi Find Their Own Way

EVERY VOTE COUNTS HE strength of the United States lies in its democratic form of government. And the base of the democratic process is a vigilant and enlightened electorate. The broader

the base, the stronger the nation. It is important, therefore, that every voter should be informed and that every citizen should vote. We of this newspaper, along with many other institutions, hold it as our highest duty to keep the channels of information open to the voter, free and unpolluted. But we can do no more. The responsibility of voting rests with each individual. That responsibility is especially great in this year of decision, when the nation must choose the course it will follow in the next four years, when it must select men, and good men we hope, to guide its destinies in a period that is bound to call Tor clear thinking, wisdom and the highest statesmanship. The policies and the actions of the nation in the next four vears will affect the lives and fortunes of every citizen. So every citizen should have a voice in shaping them. We hope every citizen will. 2 » ” KJ . BUT YOU, as a citizen, will not have a voice unless you take the trouble to qualify and to vote. Wise precautions surround the integrity of the Indiana ballot, and you must observe them or lose your franchise. If you did not vote in either of the 1942 elections, if you are a new voter or have moved from your old precinct since 1942, you must register before April 3. Otherwise you cannot vote. Branch offices will record registrations at Lawrence grade school, Decatur Central high school and New Bethel school from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m. today, and the main registration office at the courthouse will be open daily, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m., and Sundays from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., until the deadline. Register now, if you are not already registered, and vote in both the primary and the general election. It is your privilege and your duty, both to yourself and to your nation,

LOOKING FORWARD FTER peace comes it will be one of the duties of congress to apply the lessons of the war in shaping military policies for the future. We're strong for the proposal that the House prepare for that task by creating a special committee to begin studying the issues now, while the lessons are fresh in mind. The plan, said to be backed by leaders of both parties, is for a group of 21 representatives, of whom 14 would be selected from the regular committees on military and naval affairs, with Rep. Woodrum of Virginia, a leading member of the appropriations committee, as chairman. Among subjects to be explored would be unity of army, navy and air command, universal military training, problems of supply, matters of industrial preparedness. Decisions on such post-war questions will have to wait, but meanwhile the proposed committee can gather a wealth of information which may not be so readily available later. Better yet would be a joint committee of house and senate members working with co-operation from the President and from the war and navy departments toward the goal of military policies to preserve the peace we're now fighting to attain, es = . - . . H AN EVEN MORE urgent duty is to get ready a postwar tax policy which will permit-and encourage economic growth and high employment, as urged in the Baruch report. House Republicans have organized a party committee to study that subject, and the Democratic leader, Rep. McCormack of Massachusetts, has denounced them for what he calls “an obvious political move.” Political it may be, but intelligent it certainly is. Whether or not the Republicans realize their hopes of electing a President and winning control of congress, they’ll deserve gratitude if they develop the basis for a sensible workable tax program. The peevish Mr. McCormack might better be asking himself why he and other Democrats

haven't been smart enough to do something about the Baruch recommendation.

JACKPOT. DOWN UNDER

A USTRALIAN war workers recently received a shipment of some 85,000 American alarm clocks. And now a story out of Melbourne states that “arrangements are being made for shipment to Australia of a modified form of the jeep,” in response to large orders pouring in from farmers and ranchers down under. It iz to be hoped that the general morale of the united nations will not be injured if we insert here a wistful note of envy on behalf of the many American war workers who have nothing but insomnia or a rugged conscience to get | them up in the morning, and the many American farmers who are wondering whether they can patch up their trucks

and farm maehinery well enough to get them through another season,

HARD WORDS

THE dignified Supreme court, it seems, has once again fallen into that lamentable and contagious Washington habit of internal dissension and name-calling. We. regret it, but at the same time we admire the high tone of the" judicial billingsgate. ~~ For instance, there is Mr. Justice ing rebuke of his colleagues: “Apparently a cloud of unreviewability is compounded by intermingling” doubts on | several scores.” : } Scarcely a crack to arouse immediate and fiery resent-

Frankfurter’s sting-

in high places, let them be of this sort in which the injured

ment. In fact, we feel that if there must be insults hurled |*

Side-Stepping

By Thomas L. Stokes

turn to power. -

gram. Senate Republicans took the easy way when. they

instead of electing a permanent leader now to suc

command - boldly in shaping a party program to arouse the voters.

Willkie Takes the Hard Road

WENDELL L. WILLKIE is taking the hard road, out beatfig the bushes, speaking day’ and night in the personal interest of his candidacy for the Republican nomination and in the broader interest of a progressive domestic and international program for the party. : . He got somc dividends in the New Hampshire primary in winning six delegates who, though not actually pledged, will support him at the Chicago convention. Five others are unpledged and one is for Governor Dewey. Next week Mr, Willkie takes to the hustings in Wisconsin and later in Nebraska, with primaries April 4 and 11, Whether the bolder method, exemplified in Mr, Willkie's one-man campaign, is the better party policy strategically remains to be seen. But some of the newer and younger Republicans think a definite and aggressive policy by the party in the Senate is wiser. “They wanted to set up a permanent organization now. But they acquiesced-in the temporary organization. ’

Vandenberg Explains Temporary Set-Up

SENATOR WHITE (Me.) will continue as acting leader; Senator Vandenberg (Mich. will be chairman of a steering committee of nine appointed by Senator Vandenberg. This committee includes the three named, and Senators Wherry (Neb.), party whip, Danaher (Conn.), Bridges (N. H.), Brooks (Ill), Bushfleld (S. D.), and Millikin (Colo.). Senator Vandenberg explained that this temporary organization is based on expectation of Republicans winning the Senate as well as the White House next November, in which case “we wish to be entirely free to fit the permanent organization to the necessi‘ties of those events.” Such a position has been criticized as based on the implication that Senate Republicags would lean upon their President to name a Senate leader, which is .just what they have so often jibéd at in President Roosevelts intervention to elect Senator Barkley (Ky.» as Democratic -leader, all a part of the picture they build up of a “rubber-stamp Congress.”

Co-Operation May Not Come Too Easy

THE NEW set-up is defended on the ground that the steering committee will be active in developing party policy and will meet every two weeks which, if it happens, would be an almost miraculous performance for steering committees in recent times. Co-operation between Senators Taft and Vandenberg may not come too easy. They frequently disagree, most recently on the soldier vote issue. Senator Taft led the fight for a state ballot, while the Michigan senator wanted a Federal ballot. or What is most regretted by some younger and more progressive Republicans is that the Senate policy of delay and evasion seems to fit a pattern favored by the G. O. P. Old Guard of avoiding party conflict and side-stepping troublesome issues.

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

We The People

By Ruth Millett

A “SLEEP NOOK,” outfitted with 75 steamer chairs and blankets, has been set up in New York’s Grand Central terminal for the use of service men who want to get a few hours sleep between trains. That's & wonderful idea, and after service men are taken care of, civilians could use. a few steamer chairs —if the Travelers Ald society has any left. . _ They would come in handy in dentists’ waiting rooms—in place of those straightbacked chairs in which you have to sit and wait three hours these days. And they'd be fine on the corners where busses are supposed to stop—especially at rush hours when it isn't unusual for three or four loaded busses to pass you by as you stand with your arms full of the bun-

dles you are asked to carry with you instead of having sent,

Not a Bad Idea at All

AND WOULDN'T they be a welcome sight in the offices where weary soldiers’ wives sit by the hour while a patient woman tries to locate rooms for them. The tired war worker wouldn't mind finding a nice comfortable steamer chair in her favorite grocery store or delicatessen—since so many women who could have shopped earlier In the day always wait for the hour when working women are trying to do their marketing after a full day's work. . There are even times when you wouldn't mind finding a comfortable chair in a store, if it is your luck to have to walt until a couple of young, untrained clerks get through with a “He said and I said” conversation before they look in your direction. Yes, the idea of “sleeping while you wait” isn’t a bad one at all. Not in these times, when you seem to spend half of your time waiting.

To The Point—

never stays where it ldoks like a swell place, vo. . .

THE JAM smart folks:avoided by making out their

_income tax early is nothing compared to the jam

some folks will get into for not making one out. . . »

laying more this spring, egg prices are pretty sure to decline from exorbitant to unreasonable, . * ». - © IT'S NO April Fool joke that liquor prices go up on the first, It's not even a joke, ’ »*

one-way street—but there's always room for one more. * . .

PEOPLE DO a poor job of growing old unless they take: their time at it. Pele *» 2 J * - WHEN THE liquor price goes up more people will go around with a rye face—or will they? . . . :

THE LARGEST single opium haul in the city's history was made in Washington. But the most important wartime dope still will come from the capital | * . > pod

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WASHINGTON, March 17, — Two political developments in the day’s news point up the alternatives which confront the Republican party in its attempt to reThe choice lies between a passive, wait-and-see attitude which counts on drifting in to power on what looks like a Republican tide,

and moving out aggressively with a definite, forward-looking pro-

decided to continue with a temporary organization ceed the late Senator McNary, one who could take

WE'LL SOON be finding out that a fish i$ what

LOOK AT the bright side! When chickens start |-

THE ROAD to success is crowded because it’s a|

YOU CAN be doubly proud of being a red-blooded |

‘ > : The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“CAN'T SOLVE RENTING PROBLEM” By Mrs. W. G. Helliday, Public Relations apolis ’ The majority of the members of our organization are adequately housed because they have returned to homes owned by their husbands and themselves, to the homes of

their parents or because they were lucky enough to find rental prop-. erty. But there is a minority in our group that we are anxious to assist as they are victims of those famous lines spoken too often and too loudly by rental agents and landlords: “No army. No navy. No children. No women living alone.” Our organization was created and has succeeded, as it is essentially a home front moral booster. We are able to find the right answers to financial problems. We have resources for legal aid. But we can't solve the renting problem that involves our members being turned down because they are army or navy wives, because they have children or because they must live alone. We are wives of officers of all branches .of the armed forces whose husbands are stationed outside of Indiana. We are certainly in sympathy with all service wives. We'd like to help this minority group within our membership who can't find adequate living quarters. Our husbands can never be baffled by tactical or strategical military or naval problems. We would like to be equally efficient in solving our home front tactical and strategical problems. ss = = “HOUSEWIFE KNOWS PRICES HAVE SOARED”

By L. T. C. (One Not Seo Gullible), McCordasville It is amusing to say the least to read in the newspapers and hear on the radio how the OPA has held down prices. Some may be gullible enough to really believe they have, but an observant housewife and buyer knows that prices have soared and are still soaring when she goes into the stores to buy things -for the home; and what's more is the fact what these outrageous prices are allowed for almost worthless materials that will not hold up at all, with the war as an exouse. Plenty of manufacturers are turning out goods that are not using essential materials that should not be allowed by the government, yet they get away with it. I can cite a few prices that justify my condemnation, for instance, small lampshades that we formerly bought for 25 cents now are selling from $198 to $3.00; curtains (cote

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above $1 now are $2.98 to $4; grades of print material formerly 9 to 12% cents per yard, now 29 to 45 cents, cheap grades of common play shoes formerly around $1 are now $296 to $4, purses same grade formerly $1, now $2.98 to $6 and $7. I could go on and on and yet they try to convince me the OPA is holding down prices. Bosh! ? s = “HE WASNT THE TYPE” By Leon Von Schepper, U. S$. Veterans’ Hospital The article “Vice President Once Second-Best Man” by Thomas L. Stokes in today’s Times says: “Greater care on the part of party managers in the choosing of vice

{ presidential candidates is needed.

Many Republicans regretted exceedingly the nomination of Andrew

Jackson and his rise to power in a critical time. Their resolve not to repeat the error led, in 1868, to the most spirited contest for the vice presidential nomination in the history of that party . . ."” Is that an error? How could the Republicans regret the nomination of Andrew Jackson when the Republican party wasn't founded until 1864 and Andrew Jackson was nominated in 1828 and 1832? Why should the Republicans in 1868 go back to 1828 or 1832? Perhaps I am wrong, but, as a history teacher, I wonder about it.

Editor's note: It was an error, Mr, Von Schepper; The Times had its Andrews confused. The article should have read: “Many Republicans regretted exceedingly the nomination of Andrew Johnson.” They probably would have regretted the nomination of Andrew Jackson, too, but as you point out there were no Republicans (in the present sense of the term) in 1824, when Jackson received the largest number of electoral votes but lost to John

tage sets) grades formerly never

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Quincy Adams after the election

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was thrown into the house of representatives, nor in 1828 and 1832, when he won the election. Andrew Jackson never was Vice President. He wasn't the type. Andrew Johns50n was. s » » “TROUBLE MUST BE CURED AT ROOT” By W. H. Richardg, Indianapolis We read every day of juvenile crime and nobody seems to know how to proceed to stop it. To enforce a curfew law and punish parents is not a wise move for the youngsters who commit crimes have long been beyond the contro] of their parents and they defy parental authority as they do the law. The trouble must be cured at the root. A child should be taught from the very beginning to obey properly ordained authority or it will be a problem for the police at an early age. I have heard a mother command a 2-year-old who only made a face at her and ignored her words. Then she turned to another person and said in the child's hearing, “I don't know what I can do with that child; he don’t mind a word I say to him.” If that mother can't compel obedience in one of that age, how can we expect anything else than that it will take a whole police force to control him before he reaches manhood? There is another thing I would mention and that is it is wrong for a parent to tell a child, “Here comes a policeman! You had better be good, or he will take you and lock you up.” The child is thus made to fear and to consider the policeman as an enemy. He should be taught that a police officer is a man with little children of his own

“BROTHER, HAVE YOU NO MERCY?” By Pat Hogan, Columbus H. M. T.'s exposure of the “Innocent Babe That Has Grown Up” is cruel, ruthless and heartless. Tut, tut, brother, have you no mercy? Why burst this toy balloon when the political royalists are bellowing about the “indespensible” administration that has succeeded in keeping the fleece on the eyes of this nation for ten years with the fond (but futile) hope of perpetuating it until the crack of doom? Your argument that the government pays subsidies with funds collected from the taxpayers who pay the farmer, merchant and other middlemen 10% to stay under ceiling price is not a new trick hatched by the political royalists. It's the old game of “Beat the Devil Around the Stump.” Of course you can't beat it, but it does keep you interested and steals your mind from the main issue, Subsidies, you must know, would create another bureau. As we have only 99,000 bureaus now one more would not hurt much, and it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back and force the people to wake up. Ws How many ‘million. bureaucrats have we in the score of “labor”

agencies . absolutely nothing, indeed that confuse, mismanage, bungle issues vital to the safety of this nation while they wantonly waste billions of the taxpayers’ money with

dent enjoyment, turned to Dr. Wise and

“Rabbi, when are you going to give up that quaint religious eccentricity of yours and eat a good ham sandwich?” ’ . The rabbi’s eyes sparkled as he replied without rancor or hesitation: :

at each other's religious customs. Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise was born 70 today in Budapest, Hungary. He was born to tradition, both in Judaism and in liberal thought, for he is descended from a long line of rabbis, and his grandfather, Joseph Hirsch Weiss, chief rabbi of Eger, Hungary, was a follower of the great Hungarian patriot, Louis Kossuth. The father of Dr. Wise, Aaron Wise, who came to the Unitdd States when Stephen was less than a year old, was rabbi of Temple Rodeph Sholem in New York for 21 years.

Refused Pulpit, Retained Freedom

of was proved in 1907 when the 33-year-old rabbi refused the pulpit of New York's richest congregation th offer contained a clause that “subject to and under the

spect and influence; a pulpit that is not free, however filled, is sure to be without potency and honor,” Dr. Wise replied. In this spirit, he established the Pree Synagog. where for 36 years he has commanded “respect and influence” not only in New York but throughout the world.

Untiring Foe of Persecution

A RELIGIOUS statesman, he was the recognized leader of the Zionist movement for many years, and led in the establishment of the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress, unifying §j! groups of Jewish opinion for the solution of the problems of his race. He has been an untiring foe of petsecution, a friend of the friendless and he has backed his words with works. * When on his 60th birthday he received a purse of $22,000 as a gift from his friends, he used the maney to assist Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression. But he has been not only a leader In Zion but a champion of all that is right in America. He has battled for justice in many fields—an upholder of the rights and dignity of labor, a mighty force for civic decency, a wise and forthright spokesman for tolerance. And at a time when tolerance and understanding is the need of the hour, in America and throughout the world, it is fitting that the nation should pay tribute to Rabbi Wise, for 50 years the enemy of greedy exploiters, of tyrants and oppressors, of corruption in government, of bigots and Hitlers, and of all that is small and mean and unworthy, Perhaps it is not so strange that Rabbi Wise should have been born on good St. Patrick's day. He hasn't cared much for snakes, either,

Flying Eyes By Maj. Al Williams

perception 1s off, or they are color blind.

he finds wrong with your eyes. the best civilian eye specialist available, If firms the findings of the recruiting doctor, for saving your life,

Heading for a Grim, Fast Death

THE LAD. whose eyesight is faulty is heading for a grim, fast death if he persists in flying by circumventing the vision tests, * There are a lot of other excitirig roles in this war for the youth who can’t make the grade for piloting. There never will be anything but certain death for poor eyes in a cockpit. The real reason alcohol and gasoline don't mix in a cockpit is upsets the acuteness men, such as Wiley pilots. But their one eye was equal to any two first class eyes. : : : .

So They Say—

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