Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

OTHER BILLS CAN WAIT

EPUBLICAN legislators are meeting today -to determine whether the special session of the Indiana General Assembly opening tomorrow will be limited to passage of the soldier vote bill or will consider other matters, as

well. .

We believe that the soldier vote bill, which can be passed under suspension of the rules in one day, is the only issue of sufficient importance to merit keeping the legisla-

ture in session at this time.

All other legislation can, and should, wait for more deliberate consideration at the next regular session.

SECRETARY HULL'S SPEECH

THE most encouraging thing in Secretary Hull's statement was his suggestionl of bi-partisan congressional committees to advise and help the executive in foreign

policy. concern.

This will remove much of the current criticism and

His assurance that the big powers will not monopolize decisions but that the smaller nations also will participate will encourage the Poles aud others who are properly

worried.

Within the limits of allied unity and pending negotiations with Britain and Russia, Mr. Hull apparently felt that too much official frankness about disputes over application of the Atlantic Charter would do more harm than good. Perhaps the time has not yet come for the United States publicly to challenge the Russian trend toward spheres-of-influence in eastern Europe and Prime Minister

Churchill's support of that trend.

But Americans have a right to insist that our government in its negotiations make very clear that this country will not be a party to scuttling the Atlantic Charter and

Moscow pact pledges.

Mr. Hull definitely reaffirmed the Atlantic Charter. His differentiation that the charter is a fundamental objective rather than a detailed solution of international problems is literally accurate. But, coming so soon after Russian and British statements in apparent conflict with the charter,

the Hull emphasis seemed less than frank.

THE SECRETARY was vigorous and constructive in

other parts of his speech:

FIRST, he repeated the no-compromise-ne-negotiated-peace formula. The Nazi and Fascist systems, and their

Jap counterpart, must. be destroyed “to foundation.”

their very

SECOND, he clarified our Italian and French policies. Though we shall not give full recognition to any regime during the period when allied military control is necessary, we want to turn back civil authority to the liberated peoples

at the earliest possible moment.

We want them free to

choose their own governments. We shall support stability

but not reaction.

Order “must be achieved in a manner

which will give full scope to (those) who will end fascism ‘and all its works and create the institutions of a free and

democratic way of life.”

THIRD, in the Polish dispute, and any boundary questions which can be settled in advance by friendly agreement, he offered again our good offices to achieve unity.

FOURTH, the big powers must not monopolize. “This

essential understanding and unity of action among the four

nations is not in substitution or derogation of unity among the united nations . . . nor do I suggest that any conclusions of these four nations can or should be without the

participation of the other united nations.”

FIFTH, he disavowed secret agreements and announced

congressional participation in policy-making.

“No matter

how brilliant and desirable any course may seem it is wholly impracticable and impossible unless it finds basic acceptance, not only by our allies, but by the people of this country and

by the legislative branch of this government, which under

our constitution, shares with the executive power and re-

sponsibility for final action. . . . Accordingly, I have re-,

quested the chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations to designate a representative, bi-partisan group for this purpose (of advice and help).” There will be siini-

lar discussions with members of the house.

BY INSISTING that smaller allies must share decisions

with the big four, and'by inviting advance advice from congress through representative bi-partisan committees, Sec-

retary Hull has strengthened the democratic processes.

The policy he has outlined—of complete victory and a democratic peace through effective international organiza-

tion—is that of the allied pacts and of the Fulbright and

Connally resolutions.

It is supported by both political parties, an American

policy above party.

THE NAVY DOES IT AGAIN

FTER eight days of waiting for the official report, our naval victory in the Western Carolines turns out even greater than expected. The largest task forces in Pacific history, operating more than a thousand miles behind enemy lines, blasted his bases, downed his planes, sunk his

ships—and all with little American loss, Twenty-eight Jap ships were sunk and

“tions on several islands were wrecked.

18 damaged, not counting small craft, for the record bag of the war. His plane loss was 214, including 54 damaged. Installations and bases, docks, warehouses, radio stations and fortifica-

For this we paid 25 planes, 18 men, and no ships.

~ Such was the balance sheet of three days running fight the enemy doing the running—at Yap, Woleai, Ulithi and Palau, key base within 350 miles of the Philippines. ~ A few more Palaus and Truks and the job of pushing back the enemy to the Philippines and his home waters, | for the main battles, should be quicker than the old islandn; But iu the fush of § victory, we dare not think still

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Fair Enough

By: ‘Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aprik10.—About two years agn, yielding to the wild impulse of the man who threw an egg into an electric fan, I composed a restrained and dignified but daring criticism of the Negro press of the United States, finding it low, venal and violent and ethically no better than the journalism of Charles Coughlin, of Detroit, and I should have added, Marshall Field of New York and Chicago. As I expected, the retaliation was vigorous, and the guiltiest of the Negro opportunists in the field of journalism, profiteers in their people’s perplexity and exploiters of ambition and frustration among their brothers, naturally were the most violent. Their racket had been recognized and challenged. In the name of racial amity and co-operation they had been promoting race riots and, in contempt of their own professed respect for the intelligence and dignity of their brethren, they were taking dirty money from swindlers whd advertised voodoo perfume, guaranteed to bewitch reticent females, lodestones to bring luck to clients of the numbers racket and lucky charms to help in filling inside straights and in shooting ten the hard way.

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Mild Admonition From Eleanor Roosevelt

RECENTLY, HAVING received a mild admonition from even so moist a friend as Eleanor Roosevelt to inspect their sights and alter their methods, the magnates of the Negro press celebrated an occasion designated National Negro Newspaper week. I do not know what exercises went on but, for the record, I should like to quote from an editorial in the Tribune of Los Angeles, a newspaper published by and for Negroes, “This,” said the Tribune, “by decree of the Negro | publishers’ assn., is National Negro Newspaper week and this paper has been encouraged to mark the event with editorial mention. Well, we will, but what we heave to say about the Negro pless won't be what the majority of the craft will like to hear. For by and large we share Westbrook Pegler’s opinion of Negro newspapers. For the most part, the Negro press, to a journalist of any training, talent and respect for the profession, is nauseating. That is distinctly our re-

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action to the local crop, the national ‘biggies’ and | the smaller weeklies all over the country, most of | which we read often enough to know that they are | not improving any . . . We know that some of the | papers have circulations vast in proportion to the | Negro's population. . . are powerless while the white ones really possess that | much vaunted power of the press. Negro newspapers are powerless because the men and women behind them and on them have no power. They lack the power of skill, of qualifications for their jobs, of knowl.edge without which zeal, of which they have plenty, is just a damned nuisance. After a while, the job gets too big for them, too demanding. And they suffer further handicaps which are ugly frustrations of ego and they become corrupt and crooked,

'Have Only Politicians and Promoters’

. “EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS make newspapers. And the people who work on newspapers help make them, the columnists and reporters, the men and women who have what it takes to fit in their jobs. And you have no ‘Negro editors’ in the best sense of

the word. You have only politicians and promoters with their eyes on power, with zeal to lead, to do something, without the tools for the doing. “Which is why Negro newspapers fall back on imitation and, in their ignorance the editors imitate the very worst elements of the white press . . . and, when it comes to sensationalism, to vulgarity, to shallowness, to cheapness, the Negro newspapers go the white press one better. If the white Winchell is vulgar, the black Winchell is downright licentious. If the details of a rape case in the Hearst papers are lurid, they're downright elemental in a Negro paper. And if the white tabloids glorify cheapness, Negro newspapers go farther in glorifying vulgarity, even viciousness.

'What Is the Solution?"

“BY FAILING in their duty, which is to be really a beacon, the Negro press, more than any other single agency, has retarded the progress of the Negro . . What is the solution? It lies with small newspapers like the Tribune, conducted by trained journalists whose zeal is for the job at hand—not power, not prestige, but the production of ‘models of journalism’; and that includes everything connected with the publication of a newspaper; service to the community, financial success and technical perfection.” Having been a reader of the Los Angeles Tribune for two years, and of other Negro publications even before, 1 feel qualified to indorse the contrast which it perceives between itself and the Pittsburgh Courier, the Chicago Defender, the Afro-American and other Negro publications of more renown.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

“A SUBSTANCE theoretically capable of bringing under-sized people to normal stature has been obtained in pure form by two University of - California biological scientists. “Although not enough of the stuff has been collected to influence the growth of a single human being, there is a possibility, these scientists say, that it can be put to practical use in time to help the war.” So says a recent news

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Now, if the scientists could just find a substance that would help folks to mature mentally and emotionally—that would be a real help to the war effort. Then we wouldn't have to be “sold” on the war, by stunts and super-salesmanship.

No Need for Bribes for Housewives

GIRLS WOULD join the WACs because the army says it needs them. And it wouldn't be necessary to put a male movie star, such as Sgt. Gene Autry, to recruiting women for the army, as he has done recently. Housewives wouldn't have to be bribed with ration points, as well as money, to get them to take their waste fats to the butcher shop—instead of pouring

because the need for such salvaging was pointed out to them. And we wouldn't have to have all sorts of stunts and drives to get us to buy all the war bonds we possibly oan. That is the kind of “growing substance” we really need. Something capable of making grownups face the war and its demands on them, instead of regarding it like children who have to be bribed, wheedled, and flattered into doing the things that must be done.

So They Say—

IT HAS become increasingly apparent that the allies have under-estimated the enemy in this sector. ~United Press Correspongent James E. Roper of Cassino. .

WHEN A man hath taken a new wife he shall not g0-out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year and an cheer up his wife which he hath taken.—Chap-

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them down the drain. They would do it for nothing

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, But wilt defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR AMERICANS” By Earl -D. Hoskins, 1266 W. 26th st.

The essay or writing entitled “Without Friends” by Peter Edson in Monday's edition, March 27, was much food for thought for we Americans. Russia, China and the Central and South Americas are of darker swarthy hue than the Englishman and the American. Lend lease may be a great help, 'tis true, but our talk belied by our actions offset the good intentions of our allies. We advocate freedom of livelihood for all, yet, our actions are against a few of our dark skinned citizens. This causes a doubt to many, for if we treat some of our own citizens with disdain and hatred can we be sincere in our words of freedom for all? Why all countries honor our great President is because his words and actions have been for these freedoms. This administration has brought respect from all foreign lands. We advocate Christian brotherhood and practice hate for the darker races. England is wise for her salvation she sides with us for aid but in 20 years or the next war we will stand alone and the world will ip us. Wake up countrymen and let our deeds speak

+ |as well as words—four freedoms for

all ‘mankind, then we will not be without friends.

= “AM I RIGHT, BUDDIES?” By William Stevens, Indianapolis

I served in the U. S. army from Jan. 17, 1940, until Aug. 21, 1943, at which time I was given an honorable discharge and consequently classed 1-C. I obtained employment in a nationally known concern which was doing quite a lot of defense work. Employed by this concern were a number of 4-F men. One evening 1 overheard two of these 4-F men talking. One of them brazenly admitted that he was physically okay and that he had fooled the examining doctor. I second the motion to examine the present 4-F group and to weed out these draft dodgers and put ex-service men in the key jobs now being filled by these phony 4-F’s. At present they are discussing a labor draft—well and good. Draft the 4-F men for farm work. Life on the farm out in the fresh air and sunshine will improve the health of the real, honest 4-F men and will soon show up the fake 4-F

(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 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 responsi bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

for the dirty frauds that they are. In this manner men can be conditioned to fill the places of the exsoldiers who are being released now. I feel I must agree with Mr. Lee of this city when he says the ex-soldier is entitled to good jobs. I myself am lucky as I am back working at my old trade and making good money. However, there are plenty of ex-soldier boys who are not and I say, “Give them a chance at some of the gravy too.” 1 believe every ex-soldier will agree with me. Am I right, Buddies? ” ” ” “FUTURE CITIZENS ARE BEING PROTECTED” By A Citizen, Indianapolis Too often we accept a job well done without comment but will rise up in indignation at a job performed unsatisfactorily. A pat on the back is appreciated when he is doing a good job; it encourages him to repeat and improve. Without personal or political motive and merely as a citizen appreciative of a fine job being done day in and day out, I nominate Judge Mark Rhodes of our junvenile court for a hearty commendation from the citizens of this community. He stepped into a discouraging mess of sociological blunders carried over from the prevjous administratfon and was also confronted with the juvenile confusion and upheaval associated with the war, Having an ideal background and temperament for such work, he is using common sense and Christian principles in the decisions instead of visionary theories that are yet untried. He gives every child the fatherly attention he deserves and probably did not get. His work is to protect and assist a child where

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necessary and yet protect the rights of society as a whole. In keeping this to the fore he has been unusual. We have had judges from the Toledo and Nashville courts here and they have proud and lengthy records in their own respective localities. But I am sure that we too can in time point with pride to our juvenile court and its record and have as nationally prominent a judge as the Toledo and Nashville administrations. If citizens would drop in to court as I did and see the workings of the court, I am sure they too would be glad to see its inner workings and the work being done. It is enlightening. They probably would want to start a crusade for getting it out of the basement first, however. That is disgusting. Nevertheless, I am such you will feel a warm feeling of satisfaction to know how well the rights of our future citizens are being protected and handled, as well as the plans and interest for future development and better (facilities towards paring our delinquency down to an ideal minimum.

. 8 = 2 “STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING” By E. Leet, Indianapolis I would like to leave a few parting words in the Hoosier Forum, I read it so religiously. To an old woman who has lost all but her second eyesight and the action of her pen this privilege is important. Strange things can and are happening in this mad world.’ I've been having a slow burning fever ever since the OPA rent inspector walked in unannounced and told tenants they were paying too much rent. After making numerous trips for several weeks, after the supreme court action they said it left us no recourse. If there is a schedule for rental units they should be published in our papers so all can have the same prices. If it is a war measure then there should be no rent areas. That is what ruined us. We fixed our rents to conform with our daughter's neighbors on Delaware st. Their rents are such they can keep their place up and

were called slums. We were not allowed enough to pay our taxes after our bills were paid. Low prices gives the barflies more money to drink on. They in turn destroy and demoralize our country while I or my children lose their property because of rental areas. This is the fault of no one but an oversight of our courts and I feel so unjustly ruled against. I've lost not only our last cent but health and perhaps my mind so I had to relax steam by getting it off my chest.

® 8 = “CONSIDER QUESTION FROM BOTH SIDES” By A Pedestrian, Indianapelis This is in reply to a Mr. D. B. J. of 2051 Perkins ave. - He speaks of motorists’ rights, and I am willing to admit to the fact that they have some and so have the pedestrians--or should have. But some of the motor clan don't seem to think so by the way they rush up to a crossing and block it off, and I seldom ever have seen an officer do anything about it even though he be standing. nearby and sees it done. That could be one good reason why 50 many people cross the street in between. I have done that very

crossing should be -blocked (which often is the case), people are compelled to take out into the other street to get around a machine blocking the crossing. So consider the question of rights from both sides. I think that a pedestrian should have some squeaks coming also.

DAILY THOUGHTS For thy work shall be rewarded, Lord. —Jeremiah

get nice people. Ours downtown].

same stunt myself because if the

deal about the Republican paity, about the forces now dominant in the G. O. P..and about the battle lines that will be drawn in the November election. . . .

of the die-hard isolationists, who still infest the G. O. P. He did not resort to the cheap and dirty

Republican oratory.

‘Addressed Himself to. Real loot

“HE ADDRESSED HIMSELF to real .issues and, by and large, the stands he took were clear-cut. He plainly stated that the G. O. P. isn’t big enough to hold both himself and Col. Robert McCormick. “Well, it now looks as if the Republican politicos have given him their answer. Col. McCormick can stay. . “Willkie can have this consolation: The men and influences that have arrayed themselves against him are the same men and influences that ‘will insure ultimate Republican defeat. As for the ideas which he proclaimed on his Wisconsin journey, Willkie might aptly cite an old observation: “‘When a good cause has been defeated, the only question its advocates need ask is: “When do we fight again?”"* Not so much “when?” as “where?” is the question being raised by Republicans here. For they looked in vain for a hint in the Willkie retirement statement as to his future course in or out of the G. O. P.

Grant Expresses Hoosier View

HOW HOOSIERS FELT was summed up in a statement by Rep. Robert A. Grant, third district Republican from South Bend. He said: “Mr. Willkie is to be commended for the fine attitude he has shown ir accepting the verdict of the Wisconsin voters. “As a contender in a Republican primary, he has had his try and failed. . “He has said, and rightly so, that .this eountry desperately ‘needs new leadership. _ “That goes for both the war and the home front. “Mr. Willkie can now meet his responsibilities as a citizen and as a member of the Republican party by supporting the Republican nominee for President.”

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 10. —Congressional proposals for putting all 4-F's in labor battalions, which will be taken up after the Easter recess, make it worth while looking tt thee 43 to see whats the

matter with them, and what kind of a work force they would make. Selective service reports that as of Jan. 1 there were approximately 3,437,000 men between the ages of 18 and 37

classified 4-F. body of ane-teatly 45 per cent of the strength ‘the entire army itselfl—and considering that bottom of that barrel has already been exposed in search for effective manpower for armed services and

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which to draw. Also, it offers congress a convenient substitute for the Austin-Wadsworth compulsory service law proposal. Thus far the armed services have successfully fought off all pressure for lowering their physical standards, and when you look at the reasons for the rejection of these 3,437,000 men, it isn't hard to see why. Broadly, there are three principal reasons for a man's classification as 4-F. Physical and mental defects ascount for 2,565,400, or 74.7 per cent. Educational or mental deficiency, including only those men who have failed to meet minimum intelligence standards from June 1, 1943 on, account for 472,200, or 13.7 per cent. Manifestly disqualifying defects, such as having only one arm or one leg or being deformed, 361,200, or 105 per cent. Other non-medical defects account for 38,200, or 1.1 per cent.

Here Are the Figures on Deferments

PURTHER BREAKING DOWN the physical and mental deferments as to cause, selective service presents these figures: Mental disease, 497,800, or 14.5 per cent; venereal disease, 328,000, or 9.6 per cent; musculoskeletal, 252,800, of 7.4; cardiovascular, 219,200, of 64: hernia 202,400, or 59; neurological, 186,100, or 54; bad eyes, 182,000, or 5.3; bad ears, 131,700 or 3.8; tuberculosis 89,108, or 2.6; under or over-weight, 68,600, or 20; lungs, 56,500, or 1.7; feet, 40,500, or 12; adobminal viscera, 39,300, or 1.1. All other causes, including kidney and urinary trouble, insufficient teeth, varicose veins, nose trouble, skin disease, hemorrhoids, bad blood or infectious disease, each of which amounts to 1 per cent cr less of the total, account for 270,500, or 7.8 per cent. Now what kind of mobile labor force would these men make? A lot of them have already found essential’ jobs that they can and are doing. The number of 4-F's not now on essential jobs is estimated by War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt at 850,000 and by Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson at 1,000,000. These are probably the worst cases—the men who are least employable, through no fault cf their own, but through their misfortune of bad health or physical disability. Trying to round up the other 2,500,000 4-F’s to create a mobile war labor force would conceivably dislocate men who have already found a niche that they can fill. ;

Should Government Take Responsibility?

THERE IS good reason for not wanting to take these 4-F’s into the army or navy. Once these men were inducted into the services, the government would be responsible for them for life, the samé as any other veterans. Now, if the services discover physical deficiency within a reasonable time after induction, a man may be discharged before he becomes a public responsibility. Maybe it is the public's responsibility to care for its physically handicapped, but is it the job of the army and navy to care for them? Undersecretary Patterson recommends legislation making it clear that 4-F’s in labor units should not be eligible for veterans’ benefits. But why not? If a man is drafted and shoved around from one job to another in a labor battalion, why Isn't he in an. army, even if he gets civilian rates of pay? And even the undersecretary agrees such men should have government insurance in case of disability incurred on the job. All men being physically or mentally handicapped to begin with, such disabilities would unquestionably be tremendous.

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