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“AT THE RISING OF THE SUN”

" AND very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.” St. Mark 16:2. ” . NM } = » # IN THE spirit of these words from the immortal story of the Resurrection, Indianapolis tomorrow will greet the dawning of another Easter day in the 22d annual sunrise service on Monument Circle. This beautiful and appropriate ceremony, first started by Mrs. James M. Ogden as a children’s service in memory of her son, has grown to be a community tradition at Eastertide. The color and promise of dawn, the peace of doves, the jovousness of song blend in a reverent mood to express the deep significance of Easter, to symbolize the rebirth of the soul, the victory over darkness and thé grave. For now the long winter is ended. And joy cometh in the morning.

BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE I a significant article entitled “20,000,000 Forgotten Americans,” Senator Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the senate committee on education and labor, calls attention in

the May issue of the American magazine to the plight of the nation’s white collar workers, caught between rising prices and lowered incomes. These people of the salaried middle class, the senator says, are taking more than their share of the punishment in this war. Theirs is a real tragedy and many of them are losing their homes and their life savings. Among them are the school teachers, of whom the senator says: “One group of these workers is made up of 900,000 schoolteachers. They exist upon an average salary of less than $1550 a year. More than 250,000 school teachers have gone into the armed services or have taken more profitable jobs, and, according to Dr. Donald DuShane of the National Education association, ‘At least 30 per cent of our children are being cared for by improperly and inadequately trained teachers who are working only temporarily.” That means that 7,000,000 children—perhaps yours are among them— are not getting the kind of education they need.” Nd ” » 8 » = THERE'S FOOD for thought in that paragraph, particularly for the citizens of Indianapolis where the teachers, even if they receive increases proposed by the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers, will be getting salaries from $200 to $300 a year under the national median for cities of this size. It is poor economy to skimp on the salaries of those who shape and train the minds of the next generation. Education is like anything else—you get what you pay for and the city that offers good salaries will attract and hold good teachers. Can Indianapolis afford to give its children anything but the best?

BLUNDERS IN BATTLE

OME of the chairborne strategists of our acquaintance have been getting apoplectic lately about the series of tragic blundérs in which our armed services have bombed and shelled our own men or our friends. We don't feel any too good about it ourselves. There was the destruction of 20-odd of our transport planes oft Sicily—by our own anti-aircraft fire. There was the accidental bombing of a Swiss town, with a considerable list of dead and injured. There was the Eniwetok incident, in which one of our warships blew up several of our own small landing craft loaded with men. This week it was revealed that in the spectacular bombing of Cassino three weeks ago some of our planes dumped their explosives onto a town that was in allied hands. We have no doubt that there have been other incidents of this sort—of Americans killing Americans because of mistakes in planning or in execution. But war, particularly war on vast a scale as this, cannot be fought with slide-rule precision, The last war produced many stories of doughboys being slaughtered by their own artillery. The possibility—and even the probability—of casualties inflicted on friendly forces is a normal consideration in military planning, The soldier or seaman who is killed or maimed by the weapons of his own comrades is simply on the short end of what is called a “calculated risk.” - - s o ” 8 THAT IS one of the uglier facts of war. There is nothing new about it. It has happened in every other war, and it will happen again. All the planning and time-tabling imaginable will not cause a battle to develop in fact as it was planned on paper. In this connection, it is interesting to note that the army—which hushed up the tragic Sicily incident, until a sergeant-reporter blurted out the facts and thereby forced official admission of a ghastly mixup—has released within three weeks of the event the story of the Cassino mishap. Perhaps the army has learned, the hard way, that the iryth is bound to come out sooner or later—and that the later it comes, the more liable is the army to suspicion that

it is suppressing news. for purposes not covered by considerations of “security.”

NO CUT IN PAY

(GENERAL MacARTHUR has made a sensible answer to the Australian suggestion that we cut the pay of our forces in the Southwest Pacific to the Australian army level. He favors raising the Aussies’ pay. A good chunk of our tremendous war expenditure goes for military pay, but certhinly the American taxpayer doesn’t begrudge it. Nor does he think that our G. I’s at In per month and keep, plus overseas pay, are being over-

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, April 81 was plodding through a speech Senator Taft of Ohio about bureaucracy but couldn't give it very close attention because it kept reminding me vaguely of something I had read a few days before which made his point much mo! effectively. : So, after a search among the propaganda for a free Palestine, backed by American soldiers, and ed handouts from the Civil Liberties crowd, the National Association 6f Manufacturers, the Communists and Wendell: Willkie, I found an address which I believe to be the most cynical damnation of the American citizen to a hell of persecution by bureaucratic picking ever uttered by any member of the New Deal government or of the opposition,

Cynical, But Honest and Practical

THIS SPEECH was delivered before the Texas Bar association by Miss Marguerite Rawalt, a special

of the bureau of internal revenue, Miss Rawalt is president of the Federal Bar association, an organization of New Deal lawyers, including judges, employed by the government, many of whom are members also of the Lawyers’ guild, whose first president, Judge Ferdinand Pecora, resigned because it was dominated by the Communists. Though cynical, Miss Rawalt was thoroughly honest and practical. The citizen occupied no place in her remarks. Her message was an exhortation to her fellow lawyers to get aware of the existence of government by bureaucracy and to grab off their share of the loot from a nation bedeviled by confusing and harassing rules, regulations and interpretations, many of them improvised by New Deal bureaus operating as courts. When Senator Taft points out such facts and conditions he is dull and querulous and easily laughed down. But coming from the president of the New Deal's bar association, the frank admission of the extent to which the citizen has been elbowed out of court and into New Deal bureaus for his justice, constantly in need of lawyers to keep him out of jail, is thoroughly convincing. Miss Rawalt certainly would not exaggerate,

217 Special Courts, Bureaus, Commissions

“SPEAKING OF opportunity,” the lady said, “are the lawyers of this country, men and women, going to take full advantage of their opportunities in administrative law? It is the most rapidly expanding area of law practice today. There are some 217 special tourts, bureaus and commissions which today decide upon and administer various federal laws directly affecting citizens and business firms in this country. This does not take into account similar state quasijudicial bodies. Administrative law, through the federal communications commission, regulates the programs you hear on your radio and determine the use of the telephone and telegraph in our country today. Administrative law, through the federa] trade commission, determines various trade practices within the industries of this nation. Administrative law, through the OPA and other departments, regulates what food you may buy and what you may pay for it. Concurrent with the phenomenal growth in this fleld of law, there has been a sudden decrease in the number of lawyers.” At this point, Miss Rawalt implored her fellow attorneys not to be caught flat-footed and negligent, as lawyers were when, in 1913, they “overlooked the significance of future income tax practice,” yielding this profitable work to “self-styled tax exferts.” She warned them, instead, to “stake their claim in this promising professional gold mine now and avoid the costly process of ejectment of others who have laid claim thereto.”

Cited Dictum of Justice Frankfurter

SHE THOUGHT they had a solemn obligation to the lawyers now dway at the war to establish pro-

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

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“SOME BOY LOST HIS LIFE FOR THAT” By Marie Dusan, 2229 Howard st. In regards to William Warren, I'll venture to say he hasn't any sons in the service. I say give me

the soup line and bring our boys home. How do you suppose our boys feel that are over there going through with what they are, to know people back home say it's perfectly all right for our country to be in the condition it’s in. Their life is just as sweet to them as ours, yes, and more so, for a little 17 and 18-year-old boy; their life’ has just begun. -It was bad when they couldn't get all they wanted to eat, but they did have a good clean bed to sleep in and shelter from the weather and didn't have the fear of bullets. Now they sleep with snakes, bugs, wild animals, mud, water and on top of all this, still have an empty stomach. When your boy writes home and says send him something to eat, he is hungry, it puts you to thinking. I wish that some of the people that think this war fis all right would trade places with some of our boys for just a few weeks. Yes, Roosevelt may go in again, but if he does it won't be by the

they could join in the sport of picking the flesh from the bones of their comrades in arms who are not that a certain provision which was expressed in 500

300 words “not to mention lengthy regulations, interpreting and implementing the code.” In the same

Justice Felix Frankfurter, the grand words of a statute are plain, its meaning also is plain, is merely pernicious over“amplification.”

Miss Rawalt closed with optimistic assurance that future tax laws would be longer and more confusing

George Spelvin, American, but only that lawyers should seize their share of his possessions as he is tossed up for grabs by his government.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

A MINNEAPOLIS husband, in a cross bill of divorce, claimed his wife wore stockings with runs in them “from ankle to knee” while she had 140 pairs of new ones put away. Evidently that wife, if the charge is true, just carried to an extreme a mistake that many wives make after a year or two of marriage—the fault of hoarding their most pleasing and personable selves to dazzle outsiders. Such women don’t pay any attention to what they are wearing if they don’t count on seeing anyone but their husbands: Only if they expect guests to drop in

do*they pay attention to what they wear around the house.

Seek to Impress Others First

THEY WOULDN'T think of bothering to have flowers on the dinner table just for their own and their husband's appreciation. They try to set a pretty table only when there are to be guests. Their manners—even the simple matter of an unfailing “please” and “thank you”—suffer a terrific letdown ‘when there is no one around but their husbands. But they are always courteous to the people they want to impress. Such hoarding—even though it is never brought out in a divorce suit—is bound to do a lot to mak a marriage lose its charm. ’

bound to know that his wife doesn't consider him worth pleasing if she wears her old clothes and her bad manners for him and carefully hoards her becoming clothes and manners for others,

So They Say—

ANY INDIVIDUAL who comes to America should become a citizen of this country. Those who do not diligently go through the process of becoming naturalized should be taken into custody and shipped back to the lands from which they came.—Rep. Jennings Randolph of West Virginia.

YOUNG PEOPLE must be helped to participate in democracy and identify it as such, They should learn that a democratic society is good for them and democratic experience is satisfying.—Ordway Tead, chairman New York board of higher education, s

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prietorship over such practice so that on their return |

lawyers. And by way of further encouragement to | her colleagues, Miss Rawalt passed on the good word |

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For any husband who is even half-way bright is

votes of the people. All you that

| want this war to go on four more

years, vote for the New Deal. And every time you money cravers put a dollar down in your sock, just say some poor American boy lost his life for that dollar.

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th {HANG AROUND?” 4 i { e New Deal, that: “The notion that because ey SI Moore, 2606 W. 16th st.

Evidently some people are puzzled

'because others try to do the right thing instead of the wrong thing. but, unlike Senator Taft, deplored none of this. Her They squabble and squall at officoncern was not at all for the survival or fate of |Cials who are actually trying to do |their duty in preserving law and

order. They are the kind who sup|port the bleary-eyed politicians who think a political office is just a business ‘instead of a public trust. These soreheads who kick at every civic and state improvement remind one of the ignorant people who object to vaccination and eradication of disease by educating the children to stay away from people that They forgot the | relatives and friends who died belcause they were not vaccinated or who thought they were too tough to contract diseases. Vaccination had to be enforced on dumb people by the learned, and law and order have to be enforced on people who are too dumb to behave. If a lot of nitwits were allowed to break traffic rules, all the intersections would be piled full of wrecks every day. If every boob that makes a few dollars in a defense plant were allowed to give it

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies excluded. Because - of the volume recsived, letters.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.)

to some gambler there would be a lot of hungry children. If children are allowed to be immoral, -they usually carry the burden of some disease for years. So long as the officials are trying to better conditions instead of taking graft from the element that lives on human filth, why do the petty shysters hang around and bother them? Why don’t they get jobs and learn something besides trying: to milk the public goat? They may get elected next time if they get honest. » s - “WE HAVE NO FOREIGN POLICY” By Maurice Rush, Anderson Each day, as the war progresses, it is becoming more evident that what our men may win militarily

they stand to lose politically. It will avail the American people nothing but heartache and greater disillusionment to win the fighting war

and lose the diplomatic war, or the]

political side. It is time that our government formed a strong, coherent foreign policy. It does not have one now. The Atlantic Charter is dead. The Russians ignored it, and the English forgot it. Our foreign policy is concealéd in the brain of President Roosevelt, if it exists at all. If it exists, he is reluctant to disclose it. We have certain ideals which are quoted by our statesmen from time to time, but we have no basic policy to work from in order to propagate the ideals into reality. Our fighting men are already writing back to leading periodicals excellent letters of their thoughts, and the majority of them indicate they don't know what the war is about. They admit their main object is to get it over with and come home. If we have a foreign policy with certain definite aims, it is evident from their letters that they also do not know what it is. If the American people are to judge our foreign policy from what has occurred up to now, then some-

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thing drastic better be done quickly. The appeasement of Vichy was disagreeable. The recognition ‘of Darlan was distasteful opportunism. The failure to deal with DeGaulle hurt us with the Iree French. The

‘recognition of Marshall Badoglio

and King Victor Emanuel was # terrible reward for the men who died in the battle of Italy. The al-ley-door appeasement of France is un-American and foul. The kowtowing to Stalin shows either lack of backbone or ‘else our ignorance of what to do. 2 These are the results upon which we can form our opinion of our foreign policy. Is it any wonder that fighting men who think are now wondering what they are fighting for? Where is the bold American spirit which once defied King George III and English might to set up an independent nation on these shores? What have we done with our great inheritance of love of freedom that we now bow before dictators and petty puppet kings? If the President has a policy, now is the time for him to take the American people into his confidence. If he hasn't one, he should get busy. It is not the mark of greatness to act coy while American blood is being sacrificed on many fronts. Many are paying the price without knowing what they're after. They should at least get a glimpse of the merchandise; it is the only American way.

t [J » “I AM READY TO FIGHT ANYTIME” By M. R. Evans, Indianapolis So youre a discharged soldier, William Lee, entitled to any job and I'm a yellow-backed, draft dodging 4-F who hunted up all his ailments when he thought he was going to be drafted. You're definitely screwy because the army docs hunted them. I personally take that first statement, which is a summary of your article of April 1, as an insult. I, along with approximately three million, 500 thousand other fellows, am in 4-F not because I want to be but because they said they didn’t want me. It’s fellows like you who are always slurring around about us that make it such a pleasant task to carry a card around marked 4-F. I work in a defense plant because that is the nearest I can come to being alongside those buddies of mine who are over there using what I am helping to make. Mr. Lee, I think that instead of insulting a lot of fellows who have been back here doing all they could to back you up, you should have come back with a heart full of thanks for fellows who take a lot of slurs and slams while trying our best to help fellows like you. I agree that you fellows are entitled to a good job when you get home, but I do think you should be more considerate of the fellows who have been at home taking a verbal beating from the general public during your absence. I am ready to give

you my job and go fight anytime

the army says they want me. ” ” # “IS SHE TAKING UP MORE THAN WILLKIE?” By Mrs, William Shipp, 1520 Roosevelt ave.

I have never written to the Hoosier Forum yet I feel justified in doing so now. I have read so many of the unjust things said about Mrs. F. D, R. that I feel sure have only been written by those who know no more about her than I do. I feel sure if any one of us could do the many acts of kindness that is credited to our First we would be only too proud to let the whole world know about it. As far as her traveling is concerned, I wonder if she is taking up

|more room in. her mode of travel

than Mr. Willkie in his campaigning tour? I do hope she doesn't make the useless speeches that he is being so loudly praised or should I say condemned, for? On second thought, I'll say praised, for every speech he makes he brings Franklin D. Roosevelt nearer and nearer to keeping his place in the White House for a fourth term! :

DAILY THOUGHTS

The yoke of my Vansgrtion

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

When the three Indianapolis Rails ways union officials conferred with former Judge Fred Vinson, eco= nomic stabilization director, here, they well might have formed a quartet to sing “My Old Kentucky Home.” . Mr. Vinson is a former cone gressman from the blue grass state, - And it turned out that all three of the Indianapolis union ; men are native Kentuckians also. “In fact the whole transportation system in Indian apolis sort of depends upon the Kentuckians,” the trio told Mr, Vinson. All are officers of Local 1070, American Association of Street and Electric Railroad and Motor Coach Eme ployees of America, an A. F. L. union. Raymond Harp, business agent, came from Henry county Kene tucky. He said he migrated to Indiana many years

ago and is an old-timer in the Indianapolis street i

railway service. “I was a miner back in Kentucky,” he said. “One day another miner and I were sitting talking at lunch

“underground when I heard a rumble like thunder,

Next thing I knew my friend was buried under seve eral tons of slate. When I got out of that shaft I never went back in again.”

‘Talked Our Carmen's Language’

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BEN DAVIDSON, vice chairman of the local union,

was born in Wolfe county, which is in Mr, Vinson's old congressional district. Emory Owens, recording secretary, is a Russell county native, They reported that the president of the local was ubable to make the trip. Then they added that he is a Kentuckian too. His name is James F. Greene, “We got along fine with Judge Vinson,” Mr. Owens declared. “In fact I was surprised with his intimate knowledge of street railway operations, He even talked our carmen's language.” Mr, Vinson could not act on their plea to accept the 8 cent per hour increase recommended -by the Chicago regional labor board, however, Because the War Labor Board here handed down a majority ree port recommending only 5 cents.

WLB labor members approved the 8 cents. So

the urion officials came here to try and get Mr. Vine son to make their minority report official. He told them that he had not yet received the data from WLB upon which his action must be based. When he does get it he will act as promptly as possible Judge Vine son assured them.

Averaged 70-Hour Week Last Year

THERE HAVE been slow-downs caused by streetcar and busmen refusing to work overtime at the present rate of 85 cents per hour. Both the company and union agreed to accept the 8-cent raise decision of the regional war labor board, but because the Indiana public service commission is seeking to cut carfares in Indianapolis the matter must finally be decided by Mr, Vinson, the men explained, Mr. Owens, who operates both streetcars and buses, said that all last year he averaged a 70-hour week, Some days he worked 18 hours he said. The men were particularly pleased with the ate tention paid them by Rep. Louis Ludlow, Indianapolis Democrat, who escorted them to Mr. Vinson’s office and then took them to lunch at the National Press club. Mr. Ludlow, former newspaper correspondent here, is past president of the club, Should Mr. Vinson authorize the 5 cent increase, instead of 8 cents, the union membership would vote on accepting it the officials said. They have been seeking the raise through governmental channels since April 16, 1943. The Chicago board's decision was handed down Jan. 8, 1044. : The increase will be retroactive,

Britain Worries By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Apri] 8.—Lone don reports that the British are concerned over Willkie's withe drawal and its effect on the presie * dential election. So far, however, their officials have observed the ban against comments which could be interpreted here as foreign interference in American affairs. That is wise, because past indiscretions have disturbed the friendly - relations so essential to . both countries. Nevertheless, as long as there is no British effort to fish in our political waters, their interest is as legitimate as it is inevitable. Their future and ours are closely intere related in war and peace. They are watching the Willkie development for the same reason we are observing reports that Anthony Eden will or will not resign as foreign minister, and that he is being groomed as Churchill's successor.

Worry Is Based on Misunderstanding:

IN THE WILLKIE CASE, however, the British apparently are not only interested but worried. That is unnecessary, It is based on a misunderstanding, Over-simplification, confusion of old labels with pres ent realities, and propaganda—to which Willkie hime self occasionally has contributed—have given the British the absurd notion that American co-operation in world affairs depends on the election of either Roosevelt or Willkie, . If they wish to read future Americdn foreign policy in terms of personalities, a rather superficial pastime, they should get the personal record straight, Four years ago Roosevelt. and Willkie as candidates, and Dewey and Bricker as aspirants for the nomination, all publicly favored keeping the United States out of war if possible. Since Pearl Harbor all have favored all-out war for total victory. On post-war policy all favored the senate resolue tion of last November, which incorporated the Moscow four-power pact for “establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security.” As between Willkie and Dewey, the latter has gone much farther in advocating close Anglo-Ameri« can relations after the war.

Cannot Move Beyond Public Opinion

BUT THE BRITISH overestimate the power of a President to dictate American foreign policy. The man in the White House, whatever his personality or platform or party, cannot move beyond congressional and public opinion—as Woodrow Wilson and others have learned to their sorrow. America’s world policy, and relations to Britain,

Lady| during the next four years will be determined by

American public opinion on the basis of the success or the failure of present American efforts to achieve the international organization arid democratic peace

pledged by the Atlantic Charter and Moscow Pact,

The overwhelming passage of the Fulbright and Connally resolutions proves that both parties’ and the American public are committed to that policy, Only failure of foreign powers to observe those joint pledges can force America to withdraw to what is inaccurately called “isolationism”—as America after the last war withdrew unwillingly when Europe re. verted to the balance-of-power system.

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