Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1944 — Page 12

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BASEBALL MAKES ITS BOW

HE surest harbinger of spring, the opening of the baseball season, is here again. The major league schedule opened yesterday, and tonight at Victory Field the Indianapolis Indians and the Toledo Mud Hens will ring up the curtain on the 1944 American Association season. Opening night—it used to be called “opening day” back in the years B. C. (Before Candlepower)—always is a gala occasion here, and our operatives at Victory Field assure us that a capacity crowd of fans will be out to cheer the 1944 edition of the Indians and to view with alarm the astigmatism of George Trautman’s almost-new crop of umpires. Traditionally, the opening battery would have been composed of Governor Schricker and Mayor Tyndall, both of whom have indicated their willingness to be drafted into the big leagues—though not on the same team. But apparently neither wished to risk impairment of his billsigning arm this early in the season, and the first ball “ceremony has been delegated to representatives of Junior Baseball, Inc. Youth will be served, and in turn probably will serve up a faster and more accurate pitch than some of the paunchy dignitaries of the past. = tJ » o 8 os IN-OTHER respects the baseball season of this wartime year will be somewhat leaner than those of bygone days—many of the stars of yesteryear are playmmg a more important game on the hot corners in New Guinea and the . Anzio beachhead. But it will be baseball, and that's the important thing. Despite the difficulties of the times, the Indians’ indomitable Ownie Bush has assembled a colorful team for his loyal fans. And he did such a good job of combing the country for talent that at least three of the sports writers around the circuit have picked the Indians for first place. Our own sports department, remembering what happened to Anderson, says they'll finish fourth. Which shouldnt hurt their pennant chances a bit. - Being neither a soothsayer nor a sports editor, we aren't saying where the Indians will land but we can predict where most of Indianapolis will be, come 8:30 tonight. Sorry boss, but we've got to knock off now and buy a wreath for grandmother. Play ball.

A NEW BADOGLIO REGIME MERICANS should not expect too much from the new “democratic coalition” government which Badoglio is trying to form. At best this move is a short step forward. But no good can come from expecting miracles in Italy when none is in sight. Disillusionment resulting from false hopes in the past—allied disappointment over the lack of Italian unity and war effort, and Italian bitterness over allied failure to make the liberated provinces flow with milk and honey—is already a major barrier to progress. Regardless of whether the allies were wise or unwise after the armistice in perpetuating the King and Badoglio in power, the old setup is crashing. It achieved neither popular support nor war action against Germany. But still the King and Badoglio will not let go, and the allies cannot permit a revolution behind their military lines. Hence the compromise—the King keeps the title, but promises to let his son act as regent after the allies take Rome; Badoglio agrees.to reshuffle his cabinet to include some opposition representatives. Significantly, the move was forced by Moscow. First, | Russia recognized Badoglio. Second, Stalin sent back to] Italy from Moscow, where he had been for 18 years, the, Communist party leader Tagliatti (Ercoli), to insist on the | anti-Fascist parties joining a Badoglio coalition. Third, Russia pressured Britain and the United States to accept this. ©

o ” s o 2 » A HERE IS further evidence that Stalin's plan is not to | create Communist revolution so much as to make deals | with any kind of regime which serves his purpose at the moment. Since Russia's long-term policy is to increase | her power in the Mediterranean, Stalin’s tactics of playing | with the top man in Italy—Badoglio today, and maybe an- | other the next time—may pay out. London as usual wants | 1 weak Italy, which cannot challenge British dominance in | the Mediterranean. The United States. hag no ultimate in- | terest there except a free, healthy, strong, democratic land. But the immediate interest of all the allies and of Italy is the rame—axis defeat. The new Badoglio regime will be judged by its contribution to victory.

A THOUGHT ABOUT VETERANS

WO short news items about returned service men point their own moral. One 1s of the lad who had lost three fingers of one hand in battle, and who quickly found a job after he was discharged from a hospital back nome. He had to find another because he couldn't stand his co-work-ers’ pity.’ He asked for a job “where they're used to seeing banged-up men. aid The other is of a soldier who came home from sea with the Purple Heart, and who got a job as a bellhop. An older bellhop chided him for not being in uniform. That started a fight, and the wounded veteran came out of it with a black éyve and a broken arm. - Let’s go a little easy on the fulsome sympathy, which is only embarrassing. And let's think twice before making wisecracks about-a likely looking lad who isn’t in uniform. . With manpower as short as it is, some of them have a good ~~ reason for wearing mufti. rs El

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THE FREEDOM NOT TO RUN LEN. MacARTHUR has as much right to be not-a-candi-

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, April 19.—The reason why I have not offered Mr. Hull any advice on foreign policy lately is that I think the old Et gentleman has been handed one © God-awful mess which cannot be solved in consistency with the war aims which we have professed in general terms, I know it is an ‘unpleasant thought to dwell upon, but I still think Mr. Stalin will try to set himself up as head man on the continent, certainly in Eastern Europe and down through the Balkans, and just can’t see our people fighting him about that after Hitler is demolished. This country’s objective then will be Japan and Stalin will be able to do about as he pleases in the West Indies. There is nothing in his past performances to assure us that he will turn to.and help lick the Japs, although he has as much interest in such a victory as anyone else considering that a victorious or an undefeated Japan would remain at best a nuisance and probably a serious menace to Russia. But why should he help when he knows that the United States and Britain have got to do it for serious reasons of their own? h

'Snarling, Chiseling, Settling Old Grudges'

I DON'T believe we will be able to restore brave little Finland, as we used to call her before she became an aggressor, or Poland, either, and I am afraid our people are going to be pretty sick and tired of the Italians and the French in a very short time because we will be seeing them at their worst; snarling, chiseling and settling old grudges by the firing squad. Already, in Italy, we are having truck with the Communists in an attempt to reconcile the very elements that produced fascism in the first place. The Catholic church and the Catholic people, the individuals, in Italy and everywhere else will not, and our own Protestants and other Red-haters will not assent to any system, call it whatever you like, which puts the Communists in power or in a position to acquire power in Italy and it certainly would not be fair to the real, patriotic Frenchmen who are, after all, the majority, to give the Communists any say in the establishment of the new nation, considering that the French Communists stabbed their own countrymen in the back just as surely as Mussolini did. Our people will not forget that the Communists in the French army quit and that the French nation was shooting Communist saboteurs in their airplane plants, when they could catch them, right up to the final disaster. But now De Gaulle has acknowledged the Communists as Frenchmen instead of holding them to be the traitors that they were. To ask the real Frenchmen to submit to this would be like asking the Americans to accept Earl Browder and some of the other friends of our own Henry Wallace in a new government of the United States. You know what the American people would do in that case. .

'Arab Smells Bad and Likes to Smell’

FROM ALL accounts, the opinion of the American soldier on the subject of thé Arab is that he smells bad and likes to smell that way and doesn't want to wear pants or bathe and ought to be let to be as. he wants to be. Anyone who wants to see a first-class row in this country need only to go out to the people with a serious proposition that Americans must pledge: themselves to fight to protect g free and independent

- Palestine.

I think we were unnecessarily kind to the Italians and should have been, not harsh or brutal, but certainly strict and victorious because they were fixing to be pretty nasty conquerors in the event that they had won. Now they have neither self-respect nor respect for us and are just a deadweight burden on our shipping and our police forces. Mr, Hull probably paid too much attention to the yammering of the radio liberals of the Eastern seaboard when he should have been listening to the silence of the rest of the country—which was plain permission to treat them reasonably rough and to establish, for the duration of the war in Europe, a boss-government to make them mind.

‘Who Is Going to Pay the Enormous Cost?"

ANYWAY, OUR foreign policy as the war progresses toward victory will be subject to the influence of our own internal politics, which may take a turn, and to our costs in ‘competing with a world of cheap labor. Who is going to pay the enormous cost of operating all those fine cargo steamboats of ours all over the world with time and a half for serving the skipper’'s sandwich and coffee when other nations of that brave new world are using breech-clout

money? Well, this isn't very constructive, is it? But old

Mr. Hull can't just think about it for 10 minutes | tax is being currently collected, and |the despotic rulers. Not a sparrow g y falls without the Father's notice; land he that harms one of these in-

and then think about something else. He is supposed to think about it all the time and tell us clear, convincing, practical answers.

We The People

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“MERELY METHOD OF COLLECTING” By W. H. L,, Indianapolis Regarding the collection of federal income tax through the method of withholding from wages, I was rather amused at the letter published in The Forum on April 13 ffom G. W. Sharkey who seems to be under the impression that the “wage bracket” system of deduction leads to inequality in taxation. Having heard this same erroneous idea from other workers, I would like an opportunity to refute it. As the law is now, the withholding feature merely provides a method of collecting the approximate annual tax from the pay envelope. The total annual tax of any taxpayer is computed on his

Postmaster Seidensticker and printed in The Times recently. If the soldier requests, a package limited to 15 inches in length and 36 inches length and girth combined and five pounds in weight can be sent to every soldier, one per week by ene sender. ~ Now we have had some large ballots, but none that would not come within the five-pound limit, and the soldier only needs one ballot, not one every week. The Roosevelt bob-tail ballot is only a Roosevelt bob-tail bogeyman to make the soldiér and his friends think that those who stand up for local self-government and constitutional methods are trying to deprive the soldier of his rights when in truth they are defending those rights in giving him a ballot

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

annual income, less allowable deductions, arriving at his tax for

proper yearly tax.

government in due course. Although the “wage bracket” sys-

tial jumps in each bracket, and i sometimes a small addition

| that a larger portion of your year's

{| you will get back any over-collec-tion. There certainly is no reason for a war worker to stay away from his job on the theory his additional

pay will be taken and kept in|

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“HOME SHOULD BE IN COUNTRY” By Si Moore, 2606 W. 16th st. “Inasmuch as ye did it not unto

AS WONDERFUL as all the one of these, ye did it not to me."

the year. Total deductions from his | pay envelope during the year are applied as a credit against the Should with- | holding be less than this proper) annual tax as shown on the return, are being butchered in foreign the taxpayer must pay the balance. | countries to make a Roman holiday| wag quoted as having 24 decks of If withholding is more, the over-

deduction will be refunded by the might be somewhat inclined to show “Ace,” maybe it would be best to!

tem necessarily. uses a graduated (are too feeble or too rich to pack | scale of deductions with substan-|# gun and help out in that way.

to | ture of our boys being slaughtered | sailors who eat rice in a squat and are paid off in tin | wages will result in most of it|in foreign countries is the fact that

{being withheld, it simply means]

the election boards can count. -8 . »

been kicked about by their parents or society in general seem to be classed along with the glue works or| “SEE WHAT soap factory. I MEAN?” When one thinks of the millions yp pp yragianspetis of babies and older children Bia “Ace” Jennings, at the time of the

famous raid by “Beeker’s Peekers,”

for a lot of moronic thugs, one... for our boys overseas. Now

a slight interest in some of our un-

; ole t view derprivileged here at home since wejoreet the whole thing in of

[the following: Tyndall, Mayor, Indianapolis. Tyndall wants to be governor; no poker in Indiana. Then, of course, after this brilliant record, ah! the presidency, and no poker in the U.S. | But, wait, Ace. The guy is now { commander in chief of our army ‘and navy. See what I mean? No

no poker in In fact, the main redeeming fea-|

poor little innocents are treated as] so much muck under the feet of

nocent ones, it were better for that ‘man had he never been born. What

. wi a price some of them will pay. 2 However that may be, the juve-| P.8.: Is it true the playing card

nile detention home should be in| Companies are now manufacturing

[the country where children can see | Stepladders? :

{something that is a bit more up-| [lifting than even classy shrubbery | and poodle dogs on leashes, not to mention garbage wagons and bums. o . ”

2 2 . “PROPOSAL SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT” By Walker Hull, Columbus, Ind. . I see in the Indianapolis newspapers where a state commission

| poker for our boys any place in the] .

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when they are thinking in terms of babies coming in threes or fours or fives? . And how can she expect her husband to stick out his chest as he hands around cigars, when the world is busy congratulating fathers made suddenly famous by multiple births? even get his picture in the local paper—while if she had produced quads it might have been sent to every newspaper in the country,

Two Surprises for Mothers

NO, THE women who are having one baby these days just picked an unfortunate time, if they expected to impress their friends and families. Having one baby at a time has become so insignificant that along with the newspaper accounts of all these multiple births were two stories about women who didn't even know they were going ‘to have a child until it was born. Most mothers aren't taking single births that lightly, of course. Any proud father who says these days, “Have a I've just become the father of a seven-pound boy” is likely to be met with a nonchalant, “What, just one?”

cigar.

So

THE WAR situation in the central Pacific may appear on the surface to be calm but if we knew the unreasoning plans of the enemy it would be called the lull before the storm.—Tokyo broadcast.

You can get killed just as dead ina minor engagement as in a major one and many of us did-—Capt. ‘| Robert W. Blake, marine tankman, back from the

Pacific.

date for President as Mr. Dewey has, or as Mr. Roose-

EVERY LESSON of modern warfare points to one inescapable conclusion—mastery.of the skies is a pre-

recent multiple births (quintuplets | One is reminded of this saying when in South America, quadruplets in lone reads that it seems no one England, quadruplets and triplets | wants a juvenile detention home at the same hospital in New York) near their sacred precincts. Of must seem to their parents, and | course, never having owned real esas interesting as they are to read tate, some ofgus do not understand about, they must be pretty hard | the drawbficKs to having a lot of on the average new mother, who, | children where they might detract in midst of all this stepped-up | from the aristocratic flavor of propproducticn, bears just one child. erty. In fact, a high class dog and How can she expect to impress | cat hospital might set up the neighher friends with her achievement | bor no end. But children who have

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“THEY ARE DEFENDING THOSE RIGHTS” By James R. Meitzler, Attica Q Those who advocate the Roosevelt bob-tail ballots for soldiers and oppose the constitutional state ballots because of their size and weight and the supposed inability of the APO to deliver such state ballots to the army personnel, should have read the rules for mailing clarified by

Why, the poor man won't ; if SR | Rs

But unfortunately their friends are.

They Say—

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to the invasion of Europe.—Maj. Gen, Frank |

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

applies in time of need for a pen-

/|a costly investigation. The old applicant is asked all kinds of silly|.

i} | sary questions, the applicant is in- ‘| other

has recommended removal of the entire welfare department personnel, new laws governing the work of the Indiana Welfare Department, and also new personnel out and out. Due to my experience with the Indiana Welfare Department, I can readily see that the recommendation of this board should be carried out without delay. County welfare boards with their investigators, directors and lady visitors should be promptly dispensed with. Granting.of pensions should be dcne by a centralized state board at Indianapolis, thereby eliminating favors shown to a few pets by county welfare boards. Besides, the present set-up is very expensive and is falling far short of anything near the accomplishment of what it was intended for. « At present, an old-age applicant

sion or possibly an increase over the little mite they are now giving said applicant. Well, right here this poor needy applicant is given a sugar-coated promise that they will investigate and will be glad if possible to ald that person, so they give said applicant a sugar-coated pill promising said applicant to investigate as soon as possible. Well, after considerable delay, here comes a so-called expert investigator drawing a fancy salary and he holds

questions and finally after answering all those foolish and unneces-

formed that for some reason ‘or r the board cannot grant the request. ; Right here they get one of the welfare department's sugar-coated

alibls. After a while here comes a lady visitor drawing a fine salary, giving words of consolation when neighbors could do that free of charge, It fs a hoax and should

“student and a maker of history he knows that

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5 ; : oF 2 0 Re vy : Governors’ Day i Le nors Day : 0 LongY ! = > h i 1 4 : Y u By Thomas L. Stokes n° See : } i By JOE WASHINGTON, . April 10." © BR United Press State governors and state governor = 1 ‘| The united psychology are predominant in: begun Republican affairs this election :4 |} t Japat year. They lead among candi« 4% 4 Joost allied le dates for both the presidential - : | nts. and vice presidential nominations, : +! ‘The peoples * There are 26 of them, execu= 4 J cept the C tives in more than enough states - 3 ear concepti to win the election. They will ~% against in dominate the national convention; =: { jeaders believ Also they will be effective In: ; nt need . shaping one of the major issues -:\§ ’ rn situa of the party, revolving about what Governor Dewey" ‘ focus so ti of New York calls “personal government.” "3 ritons, par The governor, the leading candidate for the nomis" 7 emselves {0 nation, set the tone for this issue in his latest speech f° The followir giving an account of his stewardship in New York, ' ; tained by a speech undoubtedly directed to the nation. rey i military He spoke about the “spirit of teamwork” exhibited . Jule Scues in his state “between the legislative and executive : a and fie branches, working in co-operation. with- each other, Eso. Jo with the people of the state, and with the local units pence In t of government which are closest to the people.” ~~ . = 3 govern . “We are striving” he added, “to establish and ~~ ops: maintain a genuinely competent and progressive gove © The defe: ernment—in sharp contrast with that type of personal _. will requ government which talks fine phrases of liberalism.. : rs more fis while seeking to impose its will and its: whims upon - been crust the people through centralized bureaucracies issuing : 3 t to victor directives from a distance.” a ni e Japanese 3 bserv Dewey-Warren Parlay Fayored : dea by X ONE OF the surest bets anyone can make this . ojo. They w year is that a governor will fill each end of the #7. their milli Republican ticket. Almost as sure a wager is that a. ed, and 1 wager is that both the candidate for President and 1 Segrate onl vice president will come from this group of governors: ¥ has bee Dewey, Saltonstall (Mass), Bricker (0.), Baldwin iy @ The prob (Conn.), Griswold (Neb.), Warren (Cal), and one not . * stable pe so long out of the governer's chair, thrice elected, 3 5 deteated Stassen (Minn.), now in the navy. 4 ed statesma: Favored in betting odds is a Dewey-Warren parlay. . ere is no a ~The governors bring to the party vigor afid prace owever, sO 1s tical experience in government. For the most party can now they are not of the old-fashioned G. O. P. mould, " § luble. A suc but are more forward-looking in their , both & collaborat on domestic and international affairs. There is only g the defeaf a stray moss-Back among them. 2 ean an equa They will be an influence for progressivism af ° Asia. the Chicago convention, both in framing the platform i Defea and in selection of candidates. They will make this influence felt because they are organized to act in = The po concert from experience in working together in. JN Into India numerous governors’ conferences in the past few. I] limited ir years, *1 apanese succ _ They proved this at the Republican postwar ade . | who ‘visory council at Mackinac last fall when they ree eT volted against the senate oligarchy represented by 3 oan fore Senators Taft (0) and Vandenberg (Mich). and + es rig : forced adoption of a more forward-looking domestis oe bri and international declaration than the old guard Suteome leaders had intended. it~ ihe det ism—is cert . . ' 3 1 allied supe Governors Recognize States Responsibility po of warls FOR THE last two years the governors have cone the air. centrated on recovery by the states of some of the : %.4 ‘The Unit powers and functions they had yielded up to the fed~ + ® an eral government in the : Suminant To their credit, it can be said by one who observed Deal ul HOSA OF ate ions Ste thr Oey Ti dherved 3 taRen 10 4° tent themselves with merely shouting about “states’ Slat vi re rights” as an abstraction, as is so fashionable in HO Or some quarters. They recognize that if the states are uatidated iia to recapture some of the functions they previously - Sous force had exercised they must accept responsibility and - addition, § take the initiative and see that the states meet the . ok he yup needs of the matters of social Reeds of the people 19 o and economie which le m They saw the immediate need in planning for the Marianas and postwar period. Many states have detaalled plans PT China wi for providing work for veterans, for re-training Asia with programs to fit former soldiers into industry, and A restoration have laid aside surpluses for this purpose. Burma, Mals Beas Hongkong, ant the Netherlan ® : gidered certai tudy in Parallels Sa some of her {i Ate te Manchuria, ir 0 : the old Chin By William Philip Simms fhe aig Cote ; : traffic from M Japan will be _ LONDON, April 10—A very of a third-cla interesting parallel is developing between the political fortunes of - Y ks Att Prime Ministep’ Churchill and anks a those of President Roosevelt, : _ Some of Britain's shrewdest | Druk Islanc Qigervers tell me that the prime ! By U minister may not be able to re-~ I American bo: tire in the full flush of victory as fensit he would like. If it can do so, his fieady offen party won't let him. ese in the Ca Immediately after the Euro k's protec pean war Great Britain have $emporarily ki a national election. With Churchill as leader, many - Peld at Sataw are saying the conservative party will remain in power, : Past of the er With anyone else in his place the chances are it - Was disclosed 1 would be defeated. With him in, the country would

accept the election as a vote of confidence in its leader and act accordingly.

Knows the Moment to Step Down

THE PRIME MINISTER would like to retire fronds public life as soon as possible after victory. As &

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be the moment to step down. But he has yet tg: reckon with his party. ety

Today in America scores of Democratic candidates = are plugging for a fourth term for President Rooses velt. Without Mr. Roosevelt at the head of ¥ ticket they are afraid the Democratic party will b defeated. And as their best if not their only of election is by riding on the President's they are doing everything in their power to keep. in the race. : Just as the Democrats want President ; to run, the conservatives here want the prime 1 ister to run. The latest Institute of Public Opiniodss poll showed 86 per cent of British voters approve off} his leadership as against 79 per cent a year ago ) only 41 per cent in July, Joaa. 3

Strong Feeling «of Party Responsibilty

THE BIG QUESTION is whether Churchill will himself be persuaded, Like others in his position, E&# am told, he is not without a strong feeling of p responsibility. Whether President vs prime min a political leader doesn’t like to “let his party down at a critical moment and certainly Britain's post-war election will come! at such a time. Should Churchill listen to his party's call however, I am told, he would almost certainly seek an early | opportunity to withdraw after the elections. With his sense of dramatic values he would hardly wait until his wartime glory began to dim under the routine of daily irritations to which post-war domestic needs must inevitably give rise. That is a procedure cone stitutionally closed to Roosevelt,

To The Poini—

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Other doctors doubtless would like to know his cole lecting methods, a3 5] : . * . 5 iis IT'S ABOUT time the small fishing town photogs