Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1944 — Page 12
PAGE 12 Wednesday, April 12, 1944
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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way,
THE SCHOOLS MUST BE OPENED
ITH 28 of its 84 public grade schools closed today
because of a strike of custodians, Indianapolis is faced with a deplorable condition. The city’s educational program is being retarded, and children who should be in school are running-the streets—at a time when parental supervision is at a minimum because of the manpower demands of war
industry.
This paper advocated the increased salaries voted last night for school teachers. We believe, also, that other public employees—including the custodians—should receive fair pay, taking into consideration the hours they work and cur-
rent living costs.
But we do not believe that a minority of
the custodians should be allowed to hamstring the public
education of thousands of children. .
No dispute ever is insoluble, if approached in a fair-
minded spirit, and someone in authority should step in and |
bring about an agreement on the points at issue.
The chief controversy seems to be whether the school board can legally negotiate with the union. The law is on the books and it should be easy to establish its provisions and intent, if necessary by asking an official ruling from the state attorney general. If the board's interpretation of the law is correct, then the union's only course would be to ask to have the law changed by the regular legislative procedure. Meanwhile the school board should weigh the wage and hour demands, to see if they are justified, and make any necessary adjustments. It indicated last night that it is
ready to do this. .
The people of Indianapolis want to be fair with those who operate its schools. But they are determined that the
schools shall be operated.
Every public school in Indianapolis should be opened,
and kept open, at once.
THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE
N his address to the special session of the Indiana Genaral Assembly yesterday, Governor Henry F. Schricker advocated a sound program of legislation that doubtless would
be readily enacted under normal circumstances.
However a special session in an election year, with political cleavage between the legislature and the executive, can
hardly be considered normal circumstances. The legislature was called for one pricipal purpose, to pass a soldier vote bill, and we believe that it will be in the best interests of the
state if it adheres closely to that purpose.
Close analysis of the governor's proposals reveals that while most of them are desirable, the only ones that are urgent are those affecting soldier voting, Several of the other suggested measures already are in effect through mutual agreement or executive action, and the purposes of the suspension of the 7-cent state school tax can be achieved, as the governor suggested, through the medium of the state | board of finance without further legislative authorization. The disadvantages of an extended legislative session at this time are obvious. Many of the legislators have pressing | friend by selecting Big Joe to preside. responsibilities at home; hence their inclination would be to | rush through a program without weighing fully the merits of each proposal. With the primaries and general election looming large on the horizon, the temptation to play poli- | tics and use the session as a sounding board would bz great. And it is not wholly in the spirit of representative govern-
ment for those whose terms are about to expire to act on |
critical measures. The legislators chosen in Noveinber will more clearly reflect the thinking of the electorate than those
whose mandate is now in its last hours.
The governor unquestionably knows this, and we doubt
if Re is any more anxious for a long session than are the | |
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler. ~~
NEW YORK, April 12.—Big Joe Mpreschi, one of the most defiant and arrogant of the union fakirs in ihe American Federation of Labor, at last has been indicted by the federal government in an enormous Washington under the eyes of Mrs. Perkins, William Green, the labor relations board, Senator Wagner and other false friends ‘ of labor who delivered millions of American workers into the power of this ruthless gangster and others of his kind. He is low, cunning and brutal in the tradition of the black-handers of the New York and Chicago slums and it would be incorrect to call him the worst of the incrediby evil lot in the A. F. of L. only because | some of his associates in the Common Laborers Union, of which he is president, through a phony election, and some of the officers of the Operating Engineers Union are just as bad.
‘Charged With Failure to Prevent Frauds
IN THE Washington indictment he is charged with failure to prevent frauds against certain local unions under his jurisdiction in Washington and vicinity.” “His son, Faust, president of the District Council of Labor Unions in Washington and thereabouts, and formerly secretary-treasurer of the coun= cil, and two of his international officers, Achilles Persion and John Garvey, are indicted with hin. Altogether there are 13 defendants, some of them ordinary, dumb union hoodlums. The evil history of this racket has been traced
five years or so. The story of A “Dago Mike” Carrozzo of Chicago who began his American career as a roustabout in a chain-store system of brothels on the old 22d st. line and died owing the U, S. government about a quarter of a million in income taxes, has been
| related. The life of Nick Stirone, Moreschi’s chief
racketeer in Pittsburgh and elsewhere in Pennsylvania, has been sketched and the newspaper morgues contain fat envelopes of clippings/about the thieves who ran the racket in Westchester and Rockland | counties in New York,
‘Gorillas Were Straddling the Roads' MOREOVER, a couple of years ago Congressman eteering by the Moreschi mob on the enormous pro-
gram of government war construction jobs and proved that Moreschi’s gorillas were straddling the roads
| leading to these great projects and shaking down the
regional workmen, many of them farmers, for inijtiation fees amounting in most cases, to $50 for the right to take part in the war effort. Many of them were fired as soon as they were paid up and replaced by other victims of the same shake, Mr, Hobbs brought im a bill and pushed it through the house which would have curtailed the powers and the loot of these gangsters, but President Roosevelt has been their protector all the way and he had the bill stopped in the senate. For this public service, Mr. Hobbs was called a labor-baiter and the American people simply did not rise up to the issue and support him. Possibly they were too seriously concerned with other thoughts. Or they may have believed that Mr. Hebbs actually was the real enemy of labor instead of Moreschi and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor,
'Close Little Gang of Highbinders'
MORESCHI WRIGGLED his way up to the presidency of the laborers union through the action of its executive council, a close little gang of highbinders operated like a Secret society during a period of 30 years in which the union did not hold a single con-
vention. Three years ago publicity forced him to call a convention which was duly he® in St. Louis and he was re-elected by the delegates by a-show of hands. The constitution called #@F &*secret ballot but Moreschi’s thugs were there in strong force and those who tried to insist on a constitutional election ‘were overwhelmed.
Green has been not only acquiescent in all this betrayal of the workers, but actively and unnecessarily
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Republican leaders. And the consideration of any measures | beyond the four proposed by the majority caucus could | easily become controversial and might result in a prolonged
session.
Personally, we can think of nothing that the state needs less, right now, than a long, noisy season of legislative |
bickering.
CLINIC IN ENLIGHTENMENT
NITY is the need of the hour. It is needed tp win the war, and it. will be needed, as well, during the trying | period of readjustment that will come when the nation | shakes down a war-geared econorhy to one of production |
for peace.
The basis of unity is understanding, and one of the
encouraging signs
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helpful to Moreschi. Last fall, during the A. F. of L.'s
{ convention in Boston, Greeh, as usual, was required to
step down from the, presiding officer's chair when he, himself, was up for re-election, and to name a man for the honor of sitting in his place. In that moment, Mr. Green showed his opinion of his racketeering
We The People
By Ruth Millett
A GROUP of church women in New York, studying the problem of post-war employment of women, asked a group of women who had formerly worked as’ cooks, maids os and housekeepers why they left Ri domestic work for other fields. Nose Two of the main reasons they Le named were lack of privacy and %- es lack of sufficient dignity associated LE , with the work.” 4 ‘That isn't very complimentary to women as employers, but no woman can deny the truth of the accusations. Back in the days when women had maids, their get-togethers usually included a session of gossiping about the girls and women who worked for them. “Mary has a new beau,” Mrs, Jones would say. “and she is so thrilled it's funny.” and then Mrs. Jones would go on to poke fun at Mary and her beau for the amusement of all the other women present. Women, for sume reason or other, think there is always something hilarious about a servant being in love,
Assume Superior Attitude WHEN THE women were through laughing about
| that, Mrs. Smith would say she had missed a new
on the economic horizon is the sincere |
effort being made by leaders of industry, labor and the
public to reach a common point of view.
Symptomatic of the recognition of this need by one
of the three great economic partners is the announcement | of the Indiana Executives Conference on Public Relations | which wili be held in the Claypool hotel Friday. This war- | time clinic, under the auspices of the National Associatidn of Manufacturers and the National Industrial Information Committee, in co-operation with the Associated Employers of Indiana, the Indiana Manufacturers Association, the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Chember of Commerce, is one of a series of similar
pair of silk- stockings (which she probably later found just where she put them) and she couldn't help wondering whether her new maid had helped herself to them. That is another thing about women, they always start ‘out by doubting the honesty of anyone
I who works in their kitchens.
conferences “being held throughout the country. Lothair Teetor, president of the Perfect Circle Company of Hagers-
town, is chairman of the sponsoring committee.
The keynote of the clinic is expressed by Frederick C. Crawford, chairman of the hoard of the N. AM, who points out that: “Sound public relations policies were never so - important as they are today. The motives and good faith of management and the ability of our private enterprise system to provide a strong post-war program are already
being questioned. The immediate future presents both a
challenge and an opportunity to the best in public relations
thinking.”
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And then Mrs. Brown would tell a series of dumb things her maid did or said—and there was a lot more superior laughter, Yes, it’s generally true that the.women who go into domestic work haven't any more privacy than a gold fish,
dignity. ;
So They Say—
Alvin York, world war I hero.
Stabilization Director Fred M.
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racket operated in|
from time to time in these dispatches over the past]
Sam Hobbs of Alabama ran an investigation of rack- |
{March 18 is interesting for the rea-
Because the average housewife looks on a maid as an amusing topic of conversation—instead of as| |, another human being with a human bheing’s right to |
I'M GOING to make one prediction. This is nothing official, but in my opinion, after April 15 Germany will be out of the war within 60 days.—Sgt.
DESPITE THE fact that our mobilization has been twice as great during this war as in the last, the cost ry of living has risen less than half as much.—Economic¢ i
der fire must get what I call battle cunning, and that | can only be gained in battle—Gen. Sir Bernard L.
WHENEVER A huckster sells you a basket ‘of top of the basket, and
~ r . : ~The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“WE CANNOT ISOLATE OURSELVES” By D. G. King, 438 N. Drexel ave. Mr. Quill’s letter in The Times of
son that he thinks we are “fighting England's battles,” and Eire is singled out to be picked on because
England wants us to! How anyone with intelligence could be so utterly blind and deaf to the perfectly obvious is beyond me. Mr. Quill hates England 8b he vents his spleen on our government, state department and press. No facts as to our reason for asking Eire to rid
could possibly change Mr. Quill's viewpoint, This is. no time for indulging our hates against any of our allies. Mr. Quill hopes that “some day a man with guts enough to tell England to go where all Britons should go will head this country.” Well, I hope we never do have a government that tells any nation to go to h—— unless we are at wars with that nation. We cannot isolate ourselves from any nation. We must all strive to {be friends. Certainly at this time {our hate must be directed against the evil forces that started this !world war not against our com-rades-in-arms. Such a distorted i tirade against our ally and our state department, our military inteljiigence and press is decidedly out of order.
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2 = = “THREE CHEERS FOR THE RAILROADS”
herself of German and Jap spies}:
By L. Sheean, 1501 Samoa st. After reading Mr. W. E. Beers’, article on “Service Men Should {Have Seats,” I'd like to, as a civilian, stick my nickel's worth in. I have just completed a round trip
to Los Angeles and after reading your article, Mr. Beers, I'd like to {ask you the name of that fortunate | person who can approach a train{man and ask nonchalantly, “Where {do we get tickets for reserved seats?” and then to be told where {to get them. I was called to California due to the _serious illness of my father. After making futile attempts to fly, I started by train. Reservations were out so I started to St. Louis in a coach. So far, so good. I had a seat—so did all the servicemen. From St. Louis to Kansas City I stood in the aisle along with women with children in arms. (All the servicemen were seated.) From Kansas City to Los
Angeles I slept in vestibules, rest
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rooms and one night I walked the aisles to keep awake. Why, you ask? Simply because our servicemen have preference even in coaches. The railroads are "up against a big job in trying-to: move our boys to and from camps and still have to cope with civilian travel. At all points en route that changed trains all servicemen were permitted to enter trains before one civilian was admitted. If servicemen took all the seats we were told there were no more seats or that standing room only was available. At all points to and from California this seemed to be law rather than a wartime practice. All railroads are interested first and above all in our fighting men and believe me, Mr. Beers, after returning to Indianapolis sleepy-eyed, with stiff neck and aching all-over, I know whereof I speak. Three cheers for the railroads. Nuff Sed.
- - - “PLANTING WRONG KIND OF CORN” By Percy Vere, Indianapolis Mr, Willkie’'s trouble seems to
have been that he couldn't get used! He couldn't seem!
to the big time. to realize, for instance, that what he said in Cicero would be heard, not only in Chicago, but all over the
country, and that when he dis-|),
missed something at a congressional hearing as “a bit of campaign oratory” it wasn't quite the same as if I had said it to somebody I met on the street. It is characteristic of the man, too, that he chose Wisconsin as the state in which to make his test, and rest upon its decision. No other state, probably, has so many isolationists, real or pseudo. (A pseudo-isolationist is one who
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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would be an interventionist if the U. S. were allied with Germany against England. A pseudo-One Worlder, on the other hand, is one who would be an isolationist if we fought on a different side than Russia.)
It is my prediction that Mr. Willkie will be campaigning for the Democrats well before election day. He says, however, that he is coming back to Indiana and plant corn. If he does that, his political stock will not deteriorate further, may even improve. He's been planting the wrong kind of corn all along. Barnstorming went out when the radio came in. » - s “ONE CANDIDATE CLINCHED MY VOTE” By Harry S. Winterrowd, 439 W. Mgrket st. From newspaper reports of the names filed it seems that 75 or 100
for State Representative in Marion
of these men have the necessary intelligence to act as a member of our state legislative body if he should be elected next November, and it is also to be presumed that each of these candidates have, at least, a small personal following who will vote in the coming primary. With so many entries it will require only a small fraction of the electorate to nominate a man, so surely there will
candidates to appeal to such of the voters who, like myself, have no personal acquaintance to hold them to any particular candidate. I expect to vote in the Republican primary, and so far only one candidate has clinched my vote. He will have to repeat his announced purpose for I have forgotten his name. He said he was in favor of repealing the Gross Income Tax Law: and if he will repeat that statement so I | cans write his name in my memory book, he has one vote as good as counted. . There is no fairer system of levying taxes than upon a net income basis, and no more unfair system nan levying upon a gross income asis.
So, if you Republican candidates for the state legislature are interested in my vote, you can see or write me at the undersigned address from 6 a. m. to 8 p. m. any day except Sunday. : Sg And, as an after thought, so far as I remember just now only one candidate for the U. 8. House of Representatives from this district has shown “guts” enough to declare in favor of discarding the rationing system, » » J “IT IS ARRANGED JUST THAT WAY” By C. P. M., Kokome I wonder why people who are supposed to have brains can't see through the tactics of Wendell Willkie and our present leader. Whether the former runs and wins or loses would mean, very little to the latter because, in my opinion, it 1s all arranged just that way between them. Either way our country will be under the same leadership. The only difference would be failing to make a fourth term. But when you can still be the boss it won't make too much difference, : : I “ONE WORLD WILLKIE COULDN'T CONQUER” °° By Willlam Shakespen, Indianapolis Evidently Wisconsin was “One World” Willkie could not conquer, so now in the words of Gray's Elegy: “Homeward the ployman Wendell's his weary way, ; world to Stassen
men have entered the primary race!
County, - It is quite likely that most |.
be some effort on the part of these! j
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Communist state may be so outraged by the nt trend of Russian policy as to lead him into extravagances. e This man is no “Old Bolshevik” or “Trotzkyite.” was
Some give explanations (through perhaps not the right ones) of confusing moves like the Russian about-face in Italian relations. : : Other charges are scarcely logical. It is difficult
assertion that the Russian people “are subjected , . . to unspeakable oppression and cruelties . . , have lived in constant dread and want.”
So Mr. Kravchenko's indictments serve now to add
encouraging the war situation at present if the Soviet defeated.
Much of Russian diplomacy is mysterious, if not suspect. A jot of people will be only too glad to swale
low Mr, Kravchenko's charges whole. But it would
seem mote expedient, at least, to sit tight. For if prove , then international relations will not suffer. If they contain truth, then this government may be on its guard.
De Gaulle Issue By William Philip Simms
LONDON, April 12.—While here,
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Rapid Strides Toward ‘Personal Rule’
GEN. DE GAULLE'F rapid strides towards “personal rule” are causing increased anxiety not only
Giraud’s post as commander-in-chief and take the job himself is cited as only one of numerous signs pointing in the same direction. Nomination of M. Dithelm—a financial expert—as commissioner of war is interpreted by the French correspondent quoted above as due to M. Dithelm's “readiness to be a passive instrument” of Gen. De Gaulle's
will. Similar appointments to key positions are now
regarded as inevitable, Added up, it makes a somewhat ominous picture, The consultative assembly at Algiers has long shown signs of uneasiness but while it is composed of well-meaning individuals they have no power, Moredver due to direct and indirect censorship over newspapers and news agenciés it is said that they know little of what is taking place in the outside world,
Roosevelt and Churchill Face Dilemma
THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has been pretty accurately informed of the situation is clear. Yet he is under a terrific barrage fo do something to make Gen. De Gatulle's position all the more absolute. Prime Minister Churchill is under somewhat similar fire here. Both risk being damaged if they do or damned if they don't, Of the two, Prime Minister Churchill holds the less enviable position. During the next 10 or 20 years—probably the most crucial period in European history—Anglo-French solidarity will be more important to both countries than it has ever been. Yet if Britain throws her weight behind De Gaulle and makes him supreme in France it is altogether possible that. France's 40 million people might later accuse Britain of ulterior motives. Refusal to back the general, however, might likewise arouse resentment. SER eh These are some of the pitfalls which Mr. Stettinius and the British must try to avoid. It wan't be easy. With no axe whatever to grind save that of retaining France's traditional friendship, President Roosevelt has consistently refused to intervene in France's domestic politics. ‘Even that stand has been bitterly criticized. ; 5 fips
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