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RI LEY 6581 ® Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

WILLKIE'S OPPORTUNITY LLKIE'S withdrawal as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination is a bow to the inevitable. He chose to make the Wisconsin primary, in which he was the only active candidate, a-personal test. Crushing defeat was the result. As he admitted last night with commendable candor: “It is obvious now that I cannot be nominated.” Unfortunately, he is not equally frank regarding the question posed by his rejection in the primary. Will he remain a Republican, and actively support the party nominee to bring about the change in national administration which Willkie has been demanding? This question existed before the Wisconsin primary. ‘Indeed, it was a major factor in his defeat. The suspicion that he was not a Republican, except for what he could get out of it, enshrouded his Wisconsin campaign so completely he had to spend much of his time trying to dispel it. He failed. : # . . » u ” HIS WITHDRAWAL statement does no more to clarify that point. He says: “I earnestly hope that the Republicans will nominate a candidate and write a platform which I have advocated and which I believe are shared by millions of Americans. I shall continue to work for these principles and policies for which I have fought during the last five years.” That, of course, leaves him free to walk out if the convention majority does not agree with him in every respect —free to return to the Democratic party, or to try to split the Republicans with a third party, or go fishing for the duration of the campaign. That he contemplates making peace with the administration and accepting the policies which he has attacked so vigorously—even in his Omaha speech last night—does not make sense. His sincerity would be self-impeached. He could not try to split the Republicans with a third party unless his aim were to perpetuate President Roosevelt in office, which he disavows. : Of course he could sulk. But we don’t think Willkie is that kind of man. We prefer to think that the implied threat in his withdrawal statement was rather the inadvertence of one momentarily stunned by unexpected personal defeat’ ¥ - » 2 . ” AS AN AMERICAN, he knows the meaning of sportsmanship. As a politician, he knows the public has no use for a poor loser, . This defeat is at once a test of his character and a new opportunity. In losing his chance to be the Republican nominee, Willkie by good sportsmanship may get a better chance to serve the ideals he professes, now that the personal ambition barrier has been removed, the people may hear him without their old suspicion. If he believes in his crusade enough to serve in the ranks, he may yet achieve in another way the results and the popularity he missed. He has been fighting against the administrations excesses and failures on thé one hand, and against “economic toryism and narrow nationalism” on the other. Weli, that fight goes on. It will go on with or without Willkie, If the Wisconsin voters have their way it will go on under the leadership of Dewey. But Willkie can help in the fight. He can help very much, for he has a great deal to give. We hope he will.

THE SPECIAL SESSION - | EADERS of both political parties are now making plans for the special session of the Indiana legislature called By Governor Henry F. Schricker for next Tuesday. The purpose of the session is to revise the election | aws in order to facilitate voting by members of the armed | ‘orces in the November election, There is no doubt that the people of Indiana want the | soldiers to vote, and we believe that the legislature can |

allow them to do so speedily, and conveniently, under | ..

oroper legal safeguards and within the constitutional | framework. It should not take long to pass the necessary legislation. We believe, also, that this is the only business suffi- | ciently pressing to warrant the attention of the special | session, Election year is no time to go into an extended | consideration of other matters, particularly while different | parties control the legislature and the governor's office. | An extended session, we fear, would accomplish little of a | constructive nature and it might easily degenerate into a | political Donnybrook at a time when unity is most needed. The legislature should meet, pass a soldier vote bill | hat will stand up in the courts, and adjourn. If that can ne done in one day, so much the better. Spring plowing will be that much farther along.

| BEAT ME, DADDY, EIGHT TO AN EM QUAD HE government printing office in Washington is experi- |

menting with the use of music to soothe the frayed nerves of its employees. : |

e Indianapolis Times Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, April 6, — The Dies committee £3 We House a Representatives opera ing since May 26, 1038, and has performed a great public service

“© munist organization and its radio and press claque in Washington. * The Dies committee was apas successor to an earlier

committee which ni somewhat the same mission. JéhAi McCormack of Massachusetts, the New Deal's leader in the House of Representatives, was chairman of this earlier committee and Samuel Dick~ stein of New York, was vice chairman, However, Mr. McCormack was not very active and Mr. Dickstein took over and ran the show, He was mainly con- | cerned with the oppression of the Jews in Germany, which was just then becoming severe, and with the extension of the Hitlerian Anti-Jewish campaign to the United States. He was less interested, if he had any hostile interest at all, in communism as a subversive influence. Mr, Dies has looked into not only | Hitlerian and ' Italian fascism, but communism as well. He also discovered alarming evidence of the Japanese intentions before Pearl Harbor and presented it to the government,

Committee Started Off on Nazis,

MR, DICKSTEIN preferred not to be chairman

of the new committee because he felt that the fact of his begin a Jew would embarrass the inquiry, However, he did hope to be namd a member and was disappointed when Speaker Bankhead passed him by. He had enjoyed great publicity as vice chairman and director of the McCormack committee. The Dies committee started off on the Nazis and received a cordial press from the New Deal-Com-munist element in Washington journalism which was almost unchallenged at the time. But when Mr. Dies turned to the Communists and began to expose men and women Communists and Fellow Travelers in appointive jobs in the New Deal, he came under attack at once. One legitimate criticism laid against him was that his methods were irregular and unconventional, method of Senator Hugo Black late of the Ku-Klux Klan, which had received noisy approval when Black was hounding political opponents of the New Deal and earning, as his reward, a seat on the Supreme Court.

However, he was only following the

Seized Files of German Agencies

NEW DEAL journalists openly heckled Mr. Dies’ witnesses at public hearings and Mrs. Roosevelt, to show her disapproval of any interference with her Communist friends, publicly sympathized with members of the Muscovite student and youth rackets called before the committee and ostensibly invited them to lunch at the White House,

However, the Dies committee has examined about 175 witnesses concerning axis activities, German, Ttalian, Japanese and American and including the leading bundists of the pre-war period. And has about 4000 pages of their testimony. In 1940, the Dies committee seized the filles of a number of subversive German agencies and American off-shoots of German propaganda and espionage arms, and the closing of the German and Italian consulates followed the presentation of this material to the state department. More recently, the Department of Jus= tic went to the files of the Dies committee, now grown to enormous size, for information on which the indictments of 30 Americans on charges of seditious activity were based. Much of the evidence which will be presented in these trials was turned up by the Dies committee. It is important to note also that information of great importance now available to various departments of the government, including national defense, doubtless would have been destroyed by the enemy agencies if it had not already been seized by Dies.

Persistent, Impartial and Successful

IN SEPTEMBER, 1941, alarmed by discoveries on the West Coast, Dies planned to hold public hearings in- Washington of a number of witnesses whose testimony might have aroused the people to the danger of attack by Japan. Three months before Pearl Harbor, he wrote the attorney general's office inquiring whether such hearings would interfere with the government's plans of international relations, Matthew F. McGuire, acting attorney general, replied that he, President Roosevelt and Mr, Hull all felt that such hearings would be inadvisable. Dies therefore abandoned his plan, but on Feb. 28, 1942, after the Pear! Harhor disaster, he did publish a portion of the evidence.

The Dies committee has been persistent, impartial and successful and has become a great Source of information for other agencies regarding anti-Amer-ican activities, It has given absolutely no indication

of being anti-Semitic, and the charge that it is, is [additional gas to speak of. only the familiar and old reliable reaction of the Com- [tainly not the prodigious amounts

munists and Fellow Travelers in all such situations.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

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of victory... ."

Young Mrs, America was smiling when she finNone of that, she.knew, would seriously affect her own private dream of a post-war

ished the story,

world.

| Mrs. America Is Willing to Wait

OF COURSE, it would be fun to run right out and buy all the: things she needed as soon as the war was over—buy them with the war honds she and her service man husband had been putting away in envelopes labeled, “new car,” “washing machine,”

“radio.” *

But they could walt for those things and still

First think you know, the Congressional Record will | have their post-war dream undamaged.

betlittered with pi-lines like— . “Etaoin ‘June! Shrdlu moon! Boogie-Woogie ShooShoo, and a Kiddle Tivey Too, Wouldn't You? . . .”

HOW COME?

HE chief reason for wartime censorship is to keep information, aid and comfort from the enemy. Yet Brendan Bracken, British minister of information, has announced that the text of leaflets dropped over Germany, written for and read by enemy soldiers and civilians, will not be released for publication.’ : Is allied propaganda so full of whoppers that the public can’t be trusted to read it? You figure it out.

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HERE'S YOUR HAT! OFA has dropped the tire-inspection nuisance. Goodby

damentals.

live with a feeling of peace and security,

by a little thing like rationing.

So They Say—

livery is don't give them fo your husband. . . * “THE ALLIES hold the key to real peace an eventually will do the whole world a good turn. :

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to feel at

“POST-WAR DREAM WORLD Fading; New Things May Be Ra-

Young Mrs. America looked at that headline and then went on to read the news story under it. “Those new automobiles, washing machines and radios that float through American dreams of the post-war world may continue to be rationed after peace comes. From two influential sources now have come suggestions to the sen< ate banking committee that rationing and price controls may have to be extended beyond the day

For their post-war dream gets right down to fun It means having the enemy complgtely licked and the -world safe from aggressor nations. In a world like that a young husband could come home, get out of uniform and go to work. And he and his wife could pick up their life together—and

| They could do all the important things again, | Have their family make plans far into the future. That's a post-war dream that can't be touched

MAYBE the best suggestion for speedier mail .de-

MORE JUVENILES would stay at, home nights if

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“THEY ARE NOT PROUD OF IT” By Fairplay, Indianapolis The tone of the icwspaper articles in regard to the 4F's is a disgrace. The majority of them} have already taken it on the chin from Mother Nature herself, I know of some that were denied employment in war plants for physical reasons only last fall. Some of them took jobs in private industry at low wages compared with those paid in war plants. Others went to college. I believe every last man afd] woman physically able should be | utilized to end the war as soon &s possible. Some of -the 4F's have been dubbed unpatriotic by" the war manpower commission, How are they going to live down this stigma? neighbors and acquaintances tw know that they tried to do the right thing but were denied? The 4F's don’t go around telling these things because they are not) proud of it.

» s s “WHAT IS ALL | THE FUROR ABOUT?”

By Tolerant, Indianapolis What is all the furor about rela- | !tive to Mrs, Roosevelt's traveling?)

1, too, think it would be better to] [stay home and play hostess. How- | ever, each of us must, and is per-| | mitted, to live our own life as we {deem best—within certain restric{tions of course, = It would seem to be a “tempest in a teapot” kept alive by the ill- | advised. The press does not make {an issue of Mrs. Roosevelt's use of { gasoline, nor do the more level- | headed opponents of the President. '1 may be misinformed, but outside lof the usual ration of gasoline for | personal use, I do not believe Mrs. | R. uses, or causes to he used, any Cer-

| some of your more ridiculous cor- | respondents attribute to her. | Am I wrong, or does she not al- | ways travel by regular scheduled | plane service? If so, the gas would {be burned in any event, or so it (would seem to this misinformed person. Further, with but one exception to my knowledge, any of] her ridés in army or navy planes have been in the nature of ‘“hitchhiking” on a necessary routine flight. Inadvisable maybe, but not as criminal as so many Roosevelthaters would have readers of your column believe, Spiteful and nar-

row-minded, I say. Incidentally, I am not a Democrat and I will not support Mr. R. for a fourth term.

How are their friends, .determine if “the boys” do or do not

all Mrs. R. is not a fool and would

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want to see her? Possibly some feel that way, but it is just as possible that many do enjoy her visits. After

certainly sense an attitude such as “Disgusted” claims to exist throughout the service. Methinks that “Disgusted” is female, and slightly jealous. Congratulations to you, “Jerry” on “Disillusioned.” See my letter in The Times of the 23d under “I-want-a-locker.”

kitchens, etc, 1 work all over the country, and bfother, take it from me, lots of times we have to drive five or 10 miles to find someplace to eat. As you know, the New Deal has put most of the eating places out of business. And you say he stopped stealing, begging and borrowing. Well, Mr. Warren, if you will get out of the New Deal nest and wake up out of 13 years sleep, you will find plenty of stealing of hogs, gasoline, gas stamps, oil, tires, ete, You know the New Deal's alibi is the war, So let's you and me get together this fall and elect a Godfearing Republican. ® . .

“BUT PARKING ’ METERS NEVER” By Rachel Willowhy, 4763 Allendale dr. Now that the salesman for the parking meters has had his say, I would like to speak my piece. I lived in Oklahoma City, which was one of the first towns to install these nuisances, but, thank heavens, not the last to jerk them out. Naturally, Mr. Winters wants to make a sale as it means thousands of dollars to him. What salesman doesn’t expound the wonders of his wares in an effort to make a sale? He speaks of the: out-of-towners

“NEW DEAL'S ALIBI I$ THE WAR" By Earl Beeson, North Salem In answer to William H, Warren's

taking all the parking spaces and | I wonder how these parking meters {can change that? That's quite a selfish and inane argument anyway, ‘as all cities of note seek a good

letter of March 16, I am glad there reputation among strangers. Yes, is one man in the good old U. 8. A, cities have something to sell too,

How does omniscient “Disgusted”

that ean tell us who will be elected President so many weeks ahead, Maybe, Mr. Warren, you haven't been away from home in the past few months. I am sure if you had, you, wouldn't talk fourth term. How about electing a good Democrat and throwing the New Déil in the trash pile? You say MacArthur is out of the picture. Yes, I think the fourth term men would like to see him out of the picture, Yes, the Repub- | licans are on the march as never; before, and only through them can we gain our freedom back. I think you are taking in too much territory when you say Roosevelt is the only man out of 130 million people that is capable for President. You say the majority of people are. against him, but they don't know why: Yes, everyone of them knows why; ‘ust too much New Deal and not enough good common sense, You say Mr Roosevelt saved us from starvation, going to soup

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- COPR.“1944 BY NEA

‘ M. REG. U. 8 PAT "| suppose it's unpatriotic to complain in I-AMl just h fi

goodwill, and these meters are poor bait. Travelers going through town never forget the burgs with the parking meters and never stop downtown for a bite to eat or to shop at the stores. They always remember, . however, ‘that nickelgrabbing town, so and so, One thing that could alleviate trafic more than anything else would be the elimination of the no right turns downtown, One has to drive at least four blocks before he can turn and thus has to bum up uncalled for precious gasoline, Of course, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities do not have the immense traffic that Indianap¢lis has, so they allow right turns at every corner, and I mean every corner. Oh well, we might forget this nuisance, but parking meters, never. » ” . “LAW LOSES RESPECT OF THE PUBLIC” By L. V. Mingee, 1265 E. Naomi st. Perhaps I am asking for punishment from the police, but this has! been on my mind for some time, and this is America so I feel safe to say it even if you disagree with what I say. i I am a stern believer in law and | order, always have been and always will be, but I ‘also believe there should be a difference in the methods by which we bring the most dangerous and notorious “pokerplaying” and “crap-shooting” criminals to justice, than in the gestapo methods. I believe the long arm of the law loses the respect of the public when it reaches out on the street and snatches an innocent victim to charge him with vagrancy, ete.; to batter down the portals, without warning, of a man's home and his last resort to privacy. I, top, believe it is a sin to play poker (especially when yqu don't win) but I sternly believe and think that the home should be one of the first places for one to enjoy the American freedom. P. 8.~Do I have the wrong conception of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

DAILY THOUGHTS *

~ When my soul fainted within te I femembered the Lord. Jonah 2:7. ,

° WERE I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, Las 1 must be measur'd by my soul;

The minds the standard of the

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"Have Never Been an ‘Isolationist'

7 “RIGHT HERE I want to make it clear that I am no

t and have never been an isolationist, nor am I,

nor have I ever been, an interventionist, but 1 will

as a shining example of the workability of the dooe

trines - we preach.”

Mr, Wilson then quoted a pre-war speech of Charles

Lindbergh which declared “We cannot win in Europe,” ‘|| and continued:

J e face known objectives of Great Britain and Russia, Mr. Wilson then concluded: “So far it looks as though we are, in addition to

{n—Japan 'o must pull them out. We, ourselves, must do that job, and we know who will dictate the terms of peace and be responsible

of the European war can be clarified

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Danger Signals By William Philip Simms

LONDON, Aprii 6-—-When Undersecretary of State Stete tinjus arrives he will find the air as thick with danger signals as it is with barrage balloons—signals warning that the need of the hour is for diplomatic ‘and political unity between the United

right a prominent labor leader. Opposite me was a big industrialist. Although their political views differed widely they were in accord that understanding between the Big is needed. They agreed that without close and perma-

nent collaboration there is small chance for a dur- °

able peace or early rehabilitation in Europe. The political muddle in Italy is a trifle compared with trouble awaiting the allies throughout enemy and occupied Europe. Almost every country has its well-organized factions ready to take advantage of the chaos they are expecting at the moment the armistice. ;

Political and Diplomatic Unity Imperative

UNLESS RUSSIA, Britain and America can agred at once on a common plan of sction and are prepared to act on it literally at a moment's notice all Europe might become another Italy. Or what is worse it might become another Spain as Spain was in- the 30s, rent by civil war and pulled this way and that by foreign powers. The immediate and imperative necessity, it is almost universally recognized here, is for unity of political and diplomatic decisions. Unilateral action is to be avoided at almost any price. Post-war collaboration depends on whether or not the principal allies can act now Jn accordance with pacts already agreed upon, Aside from Polish, Jugoslavian, Grecian and other problems yet to be acted on, incidents like Moscow's recognition of Badoglio without notice either to London or Washington add to the general confuse sion. Washington and London complained they have not been consulted and Moscow~through Izvestia, its official mouthpiece—replies that Washington and London had not always consulted her,

Press Is Equally Outspoken

THE MERITS of the case aside, the grave fact remains that however much the Big Three may be in agreement militarily they remain miles apart politically and diplomatically. 1 have gited what 1 bee lieve to be a cross section of British opinion on the dangers such differences involve. The press is equally outspoken. Says the Lone don Times: “Without permanently close relations grounded upon full and confident understanding between the Soviet Union -and the western allies there can be no hope of peace or progress in Europe.” It is widely hoped and believed that Mr. Stete tinfus’ visit will start the ball rolling again in the right direction. . x

To The Point—

IF THE alternatives of war should require sending

our army to defend the common cause, we are willing -

to do so. We are ready for it.—President Avila Camacho of Mexico, ° : i "IT 18 high time that the people of this nation select men for congress on the basis of their character and ability. and not according to the badges of political affiliation they claim to wear—Senator W. Lee

“We, as a nation of free people, can help the world most by keeping our republic strong and impregnable,