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THE CHURCHILL PARADOX RIME MINISTER CHURCHILL comes out of his parliamentary fight much weaker than when he went in. His prestige in domestic affairs has suffered. His resignation soon after European victory is highly probable. Another British leader may put the finishing touches on the peace settlement. All of which is of interest and importance to the United States, and indeed to the world. Only those completely uninformed will assume that ais large majority in the vote of confidence—the count was 125 to 28—is an accurate reflection of present harmony or future temper. The bitter statements of those who voted for him and of his newspaper supporters show widespread resentment even within his fold. The London Daily Mail charges him with attempting “creation of a rubber-stamp parliament.” A London political commentator, comparing him with a raging bull in a ring, says: “You know what asually happens to a bull before the fight is ended.” On Tuesday he was defeated by one vote on an opposition amendment to equalize women teachers’ pay with that »f men. Rather than bow to the majority, including many of his own party, he insisted on a vote of confidence. He knew that only a tiny minority would risk a change of government on the eve of the western invasion. So the author and advocates of the majority amendment reversed their votes under the confidence club.

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BY FORCING an unwanted and unnecessary confidence | vote on a domestic issue this week, and by threatening one last week to prevent debate on the Atlantic Charter, the prime minister in effect handcuffs parliament, according to his critics. Their only alternative is “take it or leave it” —and, although they take it now because of the war crisis, they are not apt to forgive the leader they think has taken unfair advantage. The tone of the Churchill broadcast last Sunday, which was interpreted in London as a bid for post-war political support, showed a man Sennen on ihe

defensive at home. Let none suppose, however, that the prime minister's increasing weakness in post-war domestic and diplomatic policies affects British war unity. As a war leader his position remains unique. Even those who insist that he be ousted after European victory insist so far that he stay until that job is done. Therefore he remains stronger politically than President Roosevelt, whose critics want to swap horses in midstream as the British swapped Cham- | berlain for Churchill with excellent results.

GIBBERISH ON THE POTOMAC AURY MAVERICK, ex-congressman, ex-mayor of San Antonio, now head of the Smaller War Plants Corp, is in danger of being blackballed by the Bureaucrats club. Maury's offense may be pardoned on the ground that

he is a comparative tenderfoot in the jungles of downtown | Washington, and that he hasn't been properly indoctrinated | in the double talk by which it is commonly agreed all the business of the government must be conducted. Nevertheless, he is guilty of an appalling breach of bureaucratic | etiquette for issuing to his staff a communique which said |

“Memoranda should be as short as A will allow. The naval officer who wired ‘Sighted sub—sank same’ told | the whole story. Put the subject matter—the point—and | even the conclusion, in the opening paragraph and the whole | story on one page. “Stay off the gobbledygook language. It only fouls people up. For the Lord's sake, be short and say what | you're talking about. Let's stop ‘pointing up’ programs, ‘finalizing’ contracts that ‘stem from’ district, regional or | Washington ‘levels.’ . . . No more ‘patterns,’ ‘effectuating,’ ‘dynamics.’ “Anyone using the words ‘activation’ or ‘implementa- | tion’ will be shot.” There are men in Washington, and no doubt in Mr. Maverick's own establishment, who would be left completely inarticulate if this brash edict were actually implemented —er, we mean to say, if Maury endeavored to activate—uh, that is, if he tried to carry out this reactionary assault on New Deal English, .

TOO MANY MEDALS?

“lavish” distribution of medals by the army, particularly in the air forces. In the last war it used to be said that the French “sent up the Croix de Guerre with the rations.” This time it is whispered that the newest American bombsight not only releases its bombs at the appropriate split second but then automatically pins medals on the whole bomber crew. Well, as far as we're concerned, a bit of ribbon and bronze is not overpayment for anybody who makes five bomber missions from England over the continent, through “Focke-Wulfs and flak.

GOOD NEIGHBORS

PORTS Writer Harry Grayson, returning from a trip to Mexico City, reported that the unruftled Latin-American attitude of “manana” doesn’t apply where bull fights are concerned. The fixed ‘and inalterable starting time, he wrote, is 4 o’clock, and the late-coming spectator is greeted by a chorus of boos that make the Bronx cheer seem a chautauqua salute by comparison. : : This being so, we may rest assured that the goodneighbor policy down Mexico way is solid, sincere, and a

formance an hour last Sunday so that a group of American newspapermen could see thd horse races first.

| administration shall keep hands-off. No meddling

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VARIOUS wise-cracks have been appearing about the |

success. For the bull fight impresarios postponed the per-

By Thomas L Stokes

are really hard up this year. You are sure of that when the boys in the back room, meaning the notorious Kelly-Nash Democratic machine of Cook county and this city, accept as the party's candidate for governor a hard hitter, who has been tossing nasty adjectives their way for years. He is Thomas J. Courtnsy, A Cook county state's attorney for Y three consecutive terms over the opposition of the machine and for whom, times being normal, the bosses would not give a second thought, and certainly not a kind thought, The Courtney case is typical of the compromises that are going on here among Democrats in this year of desperation, themselves the measure of the worry of Mayor Ed Kelly, who now rules the roost alone since the.death of his sidekick, Democratic National Committeeman Pat Nash; the worrygpf Senator Scott Lucas, up for re-election, and the worry of the national administration.

Essential Jobs in County at Stake

BOSS KELLY is not sitting so pretty. Republicans have been whittling away at his once lavish majorities in the city. At stake this year is a whole flock of Cook county jobs which are essential cogs in his once well-greased machine, This translates itself into administration’s worry. The machine's Cook county majorities, offsetting downstate Republican votes, have given President Roosevelt the state's 29 electoral votes three times in a row. His majority, however, dwindled to 105,000 in 1940 against Wendell Willkie, falling from a peak of 700,000 against Alf M. Landon in 1936, with a middle range of 450,000 over Herbert Hoover in 1932. Nor is it pleasant to recall that while President Roosevelt carried the state by 105,000 in 1940, the Republican Dwight Green won the governorship by 150,000. The President thus ran 250,000 ahead of the Democratic state ticket. Governor Green, running for re-election, is assured of renomination at the April 11 primary. Mr, Courtney has no opposition and will be his opponent,

Roosevelt Will Help State Ticket

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT will be helpful to the state ticket. Mayor Kelly knows how much. He's been an ardent fourth-termer for some time. But, conversely, a smooth-running state organization can be helpful to Mr. Roosevelt. He knows that. The President's political lieutenants, looking dolefully over the terrain, are anxious to win Illinois to. put together with a big state or two in the East, scattering small states in the Far West, and the Solid South to carve out a scant victory in November. Out of the common plight of all concerned has emerged a series of deals typified by the Courtney case, an all-for-one and one-for-all program. Boss Kelly has made his compromising. gestures. The result is that the party has an unusually respectable slate of candidates, The object was to build a good base for President Roosevelt. It was arranged that there should be no contests in the Democratic primary April ‘11. But the candidates, headed by Senator Lucas, are out stumping the state, and the plan is set for them to take long and loudly from now until November, with particular attention to the heavily downstate Republican domain.

Things Look None Too Bright A PART of the program, too, is that the national

is wanted by Washington New Dealers with more ardor than practical political sense. Democrats will play the war heavily to offset the influence of Col. Robert R. McCormick and the Chicago Tribune and their hand-picked candidates, isolationist in hue, on the Republican ticket. A certain victory is seen for the Tribune candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination, Richard J. Lyons, a hell-roaring orator, in the primary against Deneen Watson, sponsor of the Republican post-war policy association organized to jimmy the party away from isolationism. © Mr. Lyons will oppose Senator Lucas in November. At this stage, things look none too bright for the | Democrats,

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

‘We The People

By Ruth Millett

WOMEN OF the Norwegian underground, fearing that the, unnecessary lying and stealing of parents in the movement will permanently affect the moral standards of their children, are already planning to re-educate them once the Nazis are beaten, That is the report that Dr. Lena Phillips, international president of the Federation of Business and Professional Women, brought back from a visit to Great Britain She says the Norwegian refugee women |

and Sweden, she met in Stockholm are so concerned with the | problem that they say if their children grow up accepting underground methods as a way of life “the | Nazis will have won after all.”

War Can't Justify Cheating

There is a message in that report for American parents. There is no underground - here, of course, | and so no need for parents lying and stealing to hasten the end of the war. Yet black markets flourish, often patronized by parents who in the past have been law- abiding citi zens, and who evidently don’t realize just what a profound effect their cheating may have on the moral standards of their children. 1t ought to be comparatively easy for Norwegian parents, when the war is over, to explain tq their children why they were justified in lying and stealing —why both were a necessary part of fighting a war through an underground movement, But American parents who are going through the war breaking laws and cheating to get a little extra gas and a little extra meat, a few pairs of nylon stocking, won't pe able to justify that kind of behavior to their children. And if their children grow up thinking it is smart to break laws so long as you can get by with it, and think that co-operation is for “suckers,” it will be their parents’ fault and nobody else's.

So They Say—

SEVERAL TIMES our cook, whom we knew 8s

raids, and we finally consented. While we dropped small bombs, Nick crouched grinning at an open gun port and ladled out garbage that he had accumulated for several days.—Lt. Abraham Hellman, back from Cape Gloucester. * * . YOUNGSTERS AND PARENTS in each American home must pitch in and add to the immense flow of materials needed in offr global operations. The scrap

for ammunition, Your scrap metal becomes a grenade. —Marine Commandant Alexander A, Vandergrift, ; * .” PEACE, when it comes, will not last long if it is merely a grab bag in which each nation or groups within each nation seek .to take reckless advantage

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say,

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

but will

“WE CAN SURELY IRON OUT THE SEAMS” By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis Alma: Your letter of March 25th was sincere and commendable. You lean a little toward overstatement, but reasonably 80. You know that the constitution

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because . of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be

“C-I's ENTITLED TO CIVILIAN JOBS” . ‘ By William Lee, Indianapolis Before they draft C-1 men (ex service men) the draft boards should look into the 4-F's apd over 38 age limit. We C-1's are entitled? to civilian jobs more than anyone

was not framed because its signers

thought alike when they set out

to frame it. Don’t think they did not battle with discord until their

signed. Opinions set. forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way

else. Most of us have put in two

years or more in the services and don’t forget wc only got $21 a month

implies agteement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no -responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor respondence regarding them.)

ideas fused sufficiently to draw up the instrument. Otherwise, it would only have taken a day. Even then it was not a good job until the Bill of Rights was attached after more|struggle and bitterness and fusing af ideas. No one can contend that dissension for its own sake is good. Dissension, however, that right may Spoken gentleman seem to offer prevail is our greatest blessing. much in the way of soft lights and You surely remember a Very Pop- | sweet music. ular President that received‘100 per cent co-operation from the people's While it must be admitted. that congress. Twenty pieces of legisla-| much of Winchell's stuff is muck tion a day and 50 blank checks were and tripe, it must also be granted his for the asking. They got along| that he has been fearless and favoramiably until one day he asked per-| less in his attacks upon those both

mission to pack the supreme court, Wasn't it a blessing that congress | inside and outside of congress who

was of different mind? “My Day’ | are wont to stray trom the accepted by now would supersede the con-|American way of life and governstitution. |ment. It must also be remembered Do you’ remember when this man | ‘that the moment Winchell is proved from his high office in Washington | in error on any point, or caught in deliberaéely tried to purge the con-| | any lie or fabrication he is through stitutional Democrats? — Wasn't it a; [as a newspaper and radio column{blessing that the great American | ist. His enemies and victims realpublic said—NO—in the following ize this full well, and make no election? ! mistake, if they possessed proof of Eric Johnston's speech was ideal any such deception they would have and superbly written. But, did you!silenced the Broadway Don Juan notice that in confessing the sins| long ago. of “labor” he did not say that 90) Congressman Dies charges; per cent of “labor” is clean and| Winchell with an attempt to dis- | right-minded. They are (this 90|credit the congress in the eyes of per cent) good enough that their the American people, [t is feared

sins need no reproach.

before we received $50. “These 4-F's were healthy men before Pearl Harbor. After the war started they suddenly had everything but Chinese rot. Their ailments don’t seem to hinder their making $75 to $100 a week. They've lived off the fat of the land while playing ‘possum behind their ills and family deferments, so give us a chance to save a few nickals. Why should a man that’s been wounded in combat be forced to keep a job in the army at a couple of bucks a week while the civilian 4-F that can easily fill his job was living the life of Riley while we were living the life of cavemen. I know a dozen or more men that were in 1-A and after reporting to draft boards said they were put in 2-A because someone or another put a good word in for them. Then they sit back and laugh at the C-1 because he wasn't as smart as some of the present, should I say, draft dodgers. I think if the draft boards were investigated there wouldn't be any draft shortage. What do you say, ex service men? o » SONLY ONE KIND OF IRISH” By R. A. Freeman, 1311 Kelly st.

I just read the feeble attempt of

In confessing the sins of business, | he did not differentiate for the | great upstanding men who built] security for entire - communities, Men whose integrity is high were thrown in along with the speculators and highjdckers that create

| nothing Perhaps 90 per cent is as high a then work menths on a tax bill, and perfection as we can attain, but in|

a nation ruled by the majority (when the majority can get it back) we can surely iron out the seams

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“YOU MUST

RESTORE FAITH” By Robin Adair, Indianapolis Unhappy Martin Dies finds himself in the position of the man who seized the bear by the tail and was

at a loss where to go from there. |He cannot back down now in his

that the congress itseif has done|the guy who signed himself “Britmuch too much along that line for |; american” tryin | g to smear Mr a mere columnist to add or detrdct.! Quill, who in my opinion wrote the

The congress hag, in this high point | in the history of their nation and| best article I have ever read about

the world, deteriorated into a bab- | bling group of vote-conscious, pow-er-jealous prima donnas. They scream they are given no nower,

finally beget a two-headed monstrosity to be thrust upon a warweary nation as an income tax law. They burrow their probing proboscises into every act and statement of the President and emerge with the triumphant shout, “Politics!” Wake up, congress! . You are fast becoming exhibit A for the advocates of, fascism. Weigh your personal ambitions and aspirations against the vast ard heroic heritage which is yours in the halls of the American capitol. You cannot break faith with Clay, Webster and Cal-

Nick the Greek; begged to be taken along on harassing |

paper you collect, for example, becomes a container |

houn.s You must restore faith in American democracy!

attack on Walter Winchell, nor does a continued battle with that plain

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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COPR. 1944 BY NEA SERVICE NG. ¥ 'M._REC. US. PAT OFF. a

That's not a mere good-will gesture—that’s love!

of their associates and their Relghbon. Assistant Secretary of State Adol! A, Berle Jr.

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“There's the campus Cleopatra at it again! Isn't it dis usting the way she goes after the Professors during exam week?" '

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our good saviours, the British, God Bless the King, and in the Forum at that. . . . We fight for a little thing called democracy over here that the British know very little about. And a little common sense will tell anyone that it would be next to impossible for an axis spy to secure {and deliver to his headquarters information of value to the axis cause from the poverty stricken people of Eire. Thanks to the British their condition is pathetic. And as far as turning over a rock and stepping on what crawls out, I might say while a lot of you British still love Britain and its class rule much, you must love American dollars more. Then for Mr. British-American’s statement that there are two kinds of Irish, I must say he is wrorg. There is only one kind of Irish, the fighting kind, as the English well know. And for his cry “propaganda,” Mr. Quill simply told the truth. For while we all hate the axis, there are many of us who remember our little history books. . 8 “HOW MANY PAY TAXES?” By H M. w., Indianapolis

So 11,000 attended the basketball finals at the Coliseum? And without a doubt thousands drove from other cities. I just wonder how the ones with A cards managed. My husband works in a very cssential plant, food dnd meat, and because we don't live as far away as the OPA thinks we should we have an A card. All my husband's people live near Evansville, and we can't drive that far on our gas. He hasn't seen his mother in two yéars. Yet thousands can drive from Evansville to see a basketball game. The government tells us- to stay off busses, then cuts our gas to where we can't go to see our -moth« ers, Still they grab our taxes and if we say anything about it we are considered unpatriotic. I also won. der how many of those thousands pay taxes? . |

DAILY THOUGHTS

die.—Ezekiel 18: THE one thing in the world, of

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| turbing : Joseph T “T. McNarney, deputy chief of staff of the U. S. army, is aot a talkative man. ‘At least he is not. talkative in

he says something and says it in a way that inspires

confidence in the man who is carrying a major share of the administrative load of our vast army. The remarks of two who met the general while he was here in Indianapolis last week pretty well sum

up the impression he leaves.

“If that's the kind of generals we have, I can

“I like his eyes,” the other said simply, You are conscious of the general's eyes as you talk with him." He looks directly at you, with no evasion or difidence, and even in a group you have the feeling that he is speaking to you.

No 'Side' to His Manner

ALTHOUGH HE is a three-star general—four, really, for in addition to the insignia on his shoulder he wears the star of the general staff on the lapel of his blouse—~there is no “side” to his manner; his dignity is an easy, natural dignity of inherent mane hood, a dignity that wouldn't be offended if you

dignity of competence, not pretense. And he must have thousands of friends, for you cannot be with him for even a few moments without feeling close to him. It's partly that trait of looking at you, it's partly that you feel that he is deeply and sincerely interested in you—the same feeling that men like Wendell Willkie-and Will Rogers generate, You caught a hint of that when the general mene tioned the hundreds of letters sent to him with ree quests. for changes in assignment—letters from mothe ers, from fathers, from friends and from the service men themselves, ‘ “Sometimes I think that everyone who ever met me has written in. .. . ‘I'll just write to Joe McNarney —he’ll fix it up,’” he “said with a twinkle. Despite this flood of petitions, you have the feeling that the general reads them all, considers them carefully and makes his decision on the basis of humanity and common sense. Neither army red tape and protoe col nor personal friendship tip the scales with this man whose word can send soldiers overseas or assign them to any one of a dozen branches. .

Austrian Asks for Reassignment

“THERE WAS one boy who wrote in from a port of embarkation on the Pacific coast,” he recalled. “He said, ‘I'm about to be shipped out to fight the Japs, and I don't want to fight Japs. I'm an Austrian, and the Germans killed my father and my mother. I want to kill Germans.’ “We have an iron-clad rule that after a man is ready to go*across, he can't be transferred,” the gene eral explained. “But I figured that when the Gers mans have killed your father and mother, you've got a right to kill Germans. So I sent himsover to kill Germans.” Letters asking for safe jobs or easy assighments are quickly passed over, but when a boy wants to fight, that’s different. “When a boy wants to fight, and wants to bad enough to go to the trouble of writing me, I'm for him,” Gen. McNarney said: “I've sent lots of them over—maybe it was some little thing, some physical test he couldn't pass or something like that. But if a boy wants to fight, I let him fight.* >

Good Tribute to American Army

THAT's A pretty good tribute to the American army—that there are hundreds of youngsters who want to fight, and want to badly enough to carry their case up to the deputy chief of staf. And it speaks

staff who will fake time to read their letters and bypass a few hidebound regulations to let them fight, if there is no good, common-sense reason why they shouldn't.

general said, speaking of his visit to Indianapolis— and somehow you get the feeling from the way he says it that he knows the army exists for the country and not the country for the army. “I don't do it as much as I should like to”—and again that quick smile—“but you know we're pretty busy in Washinge ton these days.” The general may be “pretty busy,” but you may be sure he isn't too busy to do a good job, nor too busy to know what the score is. And that's a pretty sound thing for the men at the top. This hasn't told you a great deal about the general ~you’d probably learn more by talking to him for five minutes. 3 But if I had a boy in the army, I'd feel very cone fident and very proud to have him serving under & man like Lt. Gen, Joseph T. McNamey. ;

Added Burden

By Maj, Al Williams

NEW YORK, April 1. «~~ The politicians are going to add to the tax burden by setting up state duplications of the Federal Civil Aeronautic Administration which regulates sommereiat and private aviation. The tax will be levied first against your state treasury funds to get these commissions started and then against the aviation ine dustry. And the industry will pass it right along to you in costs for aircraft, for airline Wansportation and for the use of airports. A bill recently was introduced in the New York legislature proposing an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the establishment of a technical institute to give instruction in all phases of the science of aeronauw ties including design of aircraft, construction, maintenance, equipment, navigation, operation, repair and use of aircraft, and even the design of airports,

Millions Will Be Seeking Jobs °

IT MIGHT be well to reflect that upon demobilizae tion there will be three to four million young men— pilots, mechanics and general aviation workers—

tion, Against this must be reckoned the fact that our present aircraft industry is five times larger than the pre-war automotive industry, and ho matter what any bright dreamer is willing to estimate, it’ .will have reduced to a small fraction of its present labor force. . This will mean a few more million aircraft workers will be without jobs. Our post-war aviation picture, in even its rosiess tints, can accommodate no more than a small frac tion of these people. On such plain statement of the case would you invest your money in post-war aviation schools? And yet the New York politicians BO¥ Sdvocating sp spending tax money for state aviation

f a To The Point— A WYOMING man, bitten by a snake, went 60 miles for a doctor, He probably knew what was good for snake bites, but eon get any.

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