Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1944 — Page 16

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Thursday, April 20, 1944

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

HIS NAME SHOULD LIVE ON ;

F an institution is but the lengthened shadow of a great man, Indiana's system of state parks may truly be said to be the fruit of the efforts of Col. Richard Lieber who | died last week. Col. Lieber served as state director of conservation from 1919'to 1933. During that period, he forged his dream of public stewardship for natural beauty info an eternal reality. And even in retirement his ideals shaped the continued development of the state parks; his "counsel guided the men ‘who followed the trail he blazed. Great tributes have been paid to Col. Lieber, not alone in Indiana but in the neighboring states whose citizens also share in the benefits of the Indiana parks, whose leaders have studied and emulated his methods. Throughout the nation, too, newspapers and conservationists have testified to his enduring contribution to the people of the United States. The large debt that the citizens of Indiana, of thig generation and those who will come after, we to Richard Lieber should be acknowledged by a memorial that will be as perpetual as the accomplishments of his life. Not a monument of granite or bronze, to weather and be forgotten. This should be a memorial of the things he loved, of the work he did. And what more fitting tribute could there be than to give his name to one of the splendid parks he created? Indiana can do no less than to preserve and pass on to those who owe him most the .tradition of Richard Lieber. He built for the future; his name should live on in that which he created and preserved.

FREEDOM—ACROSS THE SEAS

“THE dispute became so heated that crowds gathered in the streets shouting ‘Gestapo! ” Thus a dispatch from Sydney describes the public reaction against an overdone censorship as practiced in Australia. A high court stepped in and the Sydney newspapers resumed publication after a one-day suspension, the court | commenting that the censored material contained nothing prejudicial to public safety or of value to the enemy. If the protest had come from the newspaper publishers, that would have been one thing. But when the readers so quickly registered by gathering in the streets and shouting their protests, that’s another and much more significant thing. For newspapers, after all, aren't the only ones involved jn a freedom-of-the-press issue. It just happens that newspapers are the medium by which information and opinion are quickly transmitted. So, it is reassuring, not merely to those who publish in this country, but to those who read, that over the far reaches of the Pacific there is another country where eternal vigilance prevails in protecting freedom of the press, or, as more broadly termed, freedom of expression. And it is also reassuring that, because of the wise administration of censorship in wartime U. S. A. under Byron Price, no such crisis as developed in Australia has been permitted to develop here.

GRAB

HE crass and grasping nature of the small-town newspapers’ drive in congress for money to pay for war bond advertising is now fully exposed. A Scripps-Howard Washington dispatch by Rgbert Taylor has revealed that the National Editorial Association, sponsor of the subsidy campaign, which has historically interested itself only in the editorial affairs of the small papers, has now set up an affiliate, “Newspaper Advertising Service, Inc.,” to handle advertising for the weeklies at a commission of 814 per cent. The proposed legislation, which would require the Treasury (against its stated judgment) to spend 121% to 15 millions a year for space in the small papers, stipulates that the Treasury, in placing its bond ads, must co-operate with “recognized existing nonprofit national newspapers’ associations,” one representing the small dailies and one the weeklies. The National Editorial Association is the weeklies’ only representative that could answer that tailormade description. So, as Mr. Taylor points out, this “nonprofit” association's new affiliate would collect more than a million dollars 8 year in commissions from the Treasury’s reluctant outlay of tax money for bond ads—commissions which under the circumstances should certainly, be waived in the government’s favor. There have been some hold and blatant grabs in Washington, but this one just about takes the cake. We can think of no apologysto offer for our colleagues of the weekly press. .

DRAFT OF WOMANPOWER

HE American Association of University Women has gone on record as favoring the drafting of women for military service, if the need is demonstrated by the war This is a bold statement on a : or touchy subject that has been hinted at often but seldom |

and navy departments.

discussed openly.

There is bound to be considerable opposition, much of it based on whispered exaggerations. This is unfortunate | and unfair to the splendid young women already in the

service and the excellent job they are doing.

But if man- s power needs become increasingly acute, the subject of | selective service for women will have to be discussed sanely,

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, April 20. — My great, loving heart bleeds for the sad and disillusioned right wing | of the late so-called American Labor party of New York, whose | bosses, with mixed feelings of sorrow, anger and frustration have found it necessary to abandon and disown their own brat. 1 write with the sympathetic understanding of one who has suffered, for a similar reason, namely the invasion of the Communists and their fellow-travelers, caused me to resign from the Newspaper Guild several years ago; in which case, however, a number of these same idealists scolded me as'a Baiter of Reds and labor and insisted that the thing to have done was ‘to stay in there and try to capture the Guild from the Bolos. And moreover, they said, the term fellow-traveler was vague and insincere and just a label which we reactionaries used to discredit all with whom we

disagreed.

'Whip-Sawed by Their Own Methods'

NOW, HOWEVER, the machine politicians of the ALP’s right wing, whip-sawed and beaten by their own methods at their own sport of manipulating minorities to the frustration of majorities, have turned on their old friend, Sidney Hillman, calling him a stooge for Earl Browder, and, as Al Smith would say, havé taken a walk, Mr, Hillman collaborated with Browder and with Vito Marcantonio, the protege of Fiorello La Guardia, and others of the same hue and his late colleagues have issued manifestoes repudiating him out loud. All this amounts to not much more than tf personal- rivalry between Mr. Hillman and David: Du- ! binsky, presidents of the two great unions of toilers ! on- apparel for gents and_ladies, who are much alike in many ways, out hate each other’s tripes for reasons which any fair-minded third party could easily perceive with the naked eye and indorse without reserve. Squirming with the machine parliamentarian’s | itch for power and both skilled in the art of exploiting the immigrant vote, they thought to decide who should govern the millions of Americans of the state and city of New York and, next November, even to wield the balance in the election of the next President. of the United States.

‘Distress Relieved by Touches of Humor

HILLMAN, THE bag-man of the C. I. O.'s 1944 slush fund and a facile collaborationist, threw ,in with the Communists and, by means so devious that 1 cannot .pretend to understand much less explain

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WASHINGTON, April 20. — Benator Samuel D. Jackson (D. Ind.) came back here oozing with optimism regarding the improved chances for Hoosier Democrats winning the election in November. Since Governor Henry F. Schricker has announced for the Senate, it is understood that Sen ator Jackson soon will announce his ‘candidacy forthe governorship. He is scheduled to return : to his home at Ft. Wayne and address the Scottish Rite theré April 28. The announcement may follow shortly thereafter. : Some of the things upon which Indiana Democrats are counting for- victory next fall were enumerated by the Senator. He says that the withdrawal of

| Wendell L. Willkie from the Republican presidential

race will throw 30,000 votes to the Democratic side in the state,

Thousands of War Workers Registered

. BOTH THE Democratic state committee’ under Chairman Pred Bays and the C. I. O. committee for

2 political action are credited With retting thousands

war workers registered for the first time, Most these are from Kentucky and other southern states will vote Democratic, Senator Jackson said. He credited the popularity of Governor Schricker members of both parties as another exceptional

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the Democratic editorial banquet was a a Te nea Senator Jackson's opinion. BE pa showed how the Republican legislature in Indiana feared giving soldiers and war workers a free hand at voting.

‘| They refused to accept the Governor's proposals to

recognize the Federal ballot, for which every Hoosier G. O. P. congressman voted, and also were afraid to leave the polls open extra hours for war workers,

'Big Job Which Requires Big Men’

| “WHEN WE are fighting for democracy all over the world, it is a poor time not to believe in it enough to let our soldiers and war workers vote,” Senator Jackson commented. ; Having made a tour of West coast shipbuilding and airplane plants with the Truman committee,

them, took the so-called party away from Dubinsky.

The Hoosier Forum

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

Senator Jackson reported that he was greatly impressed by the sheer vastness of the war effort in the production field. “So gigantic a task, perhaps the greatest ever undertaken by men anywhere on earth at any time, must continue to move forward. It shouldn't be handicapped by petty political bickering. It is a big job which. Yequires big men of broad vision to exe-

Dubinsky’s distress, heart-rending though it be, is relieved by touches.of. humor here and there, however, as when one of the right-wing writs of repudiation says that the ALP was organized to provide a home for liberals and laborites, free from the sordid mechanics of the old parties. This naturally recalls his own faction’s selection of Judge Matt Levy as a.candidate for the supreme court a few months ago, a choice conducted in the familiar atmosphere of the old-fashioned smoke-filled room, which proved unwise when the most casual investigation showed that this friend of labor had, in fact, made a very profitable thing of this friendship as attorney for a local of the Browne and Bioff mob in New York and, on a certain occasion had spoken highly of Brother Browne, a dirty racketeer with no standing in labor and a figure of shocking notoriety at the time.

Parting May Serve Unintended "a

THE PARTING of the Hillmans and the Dubinskys may serve an unintended purpose in the interests of decency in politics and the labor movement, however, for, in their rage the bosses of both factions are waving their arms and, in a wide range of continental dialects, are now telling, in the voice of inside authority, plain truths about one another which long have been known to most of the public, but always was denied before. Their many publications have long been my most interesting political literature and I find new riches in their current denunciations, which they will be unable to deny when I employ them in debate hereafter, for I shall then cite chapter and verse and bow to their own authority. It is not really necessary to have relations with stooges in the unions to keep aware of perfidy on the inside. One merely goes to the file and looks up what John L. Lewis said about Green and Murray, what his pompous self-adulation, revealed about himself and what Philip Pearl, the ministrel of the American Federation of Labor, has written about the C. I. O. in the frenzy of the long and ribald fight for power over the bewildered American toiler and loot from his wages. They speak with knowledge from the thrones of high

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‘We The People

By Ruth Millett

A HIGH SCHOOL in Memphis, Tenn., has a cooking class made up entirely of boys. It’s one of the school’s most popular courses, for aside from learning the fundamentals of cooking, the boys learn such things as how to order in a restaurant and the duties of a host. When three of the boys recently faced induction into the army, they decided® they ~would like to be army cooks, if Uncle Same were willing. So they were given some intensive training right out of the army cook book. “Why shouldn't the boys learn to cook? says the high school principal. “It has become part of the national emergency.”

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THE NECESSITY for men’s cooking has always been part of family emergencies. Mamma gets sick, and if the family is to eat, the jobs is up to Papa." But in most families that means that poor, sick Mamma has to worry about every meal Papa gets, and tell him in detail just how to make milk toast or scramble an egg.. Wouldn't it be a sensible idea if all our high | schools had a cooking course for boys? It certainly would prepare them for home emergencies. And more than that, it might materially add to their happiness in life. °° For did you ever see a man who boasted that his steaks or his spaghetti were the best in the world, and who wasn't a proud and happy man? He's proud even if he is married to the kind of woman who always adds: “But you should see the kitchen after he gets through.”

To The Point—

BLACK MARKET are high up because some people are low down,

barges out—23-of ‘em off the Wewak coast.

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In such a discussion three points at least will surely | sleeve buttons hurt the little feller’s nose. - be put forth in favor of conscription: The almost unanimous |

? approval by top military officials of the work already done; of to meet WAC and WAVE quotas;

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“THE VENOM i CAN SPREAD” CVE ded By P. H. Fishbein, Indianapolis Some evil minded rats have plastered certain places in the city with a scurrilous pamphlet of the so-

called humor type whose main implication is that this war is being fought for the benefit of the Jews, and that they are not doing any of the fighting but are standing on the sidelines trying to see how much money they can make out of it. Isn't there a newspaper in Indianapolis with the courage and decency to use its’ editorial columns to show up this foul attack for the lie that it is? Of course, it is only a small thing in itself, but so is a snake bite when it is first received. Yet, in a short time the venom can pread through the entire system ind end the life of its victim. Isn't there an editor among local newspapers with the guts to get the statistics which will prove that this kind of Nazi-inspired propaganda is all lies and that the number of Jews in the fighting. forces is in greater proportion to their total number than the proportion of other races? The number who have been decorated with the Purple Heart and other decorations for bravery is no inconsiderable proportion of the number in service. Or do the editors take refuge behind the excuse that this subject is religious controversy and therefore hasn't any place in its columns? 'I have continued to. hope that sometime the public press would take up the cudgel in our defense, just as they have often taken up the defense of other persecuted minorities, but I guess I am just too optimistic. 1 probably won't even see this letter in print. - » » “MORE POWER TO YOU, CHIEF” By C. L. Denney, 1884 Kochne st. Why all this fuss about the Jennings case? Give the police a break. They made the raid, the arrest and they confiscated cards and money. The man admitted in court they were playing for money. Isn't that gambling, or {is it? Just because there were a couple of big shots mixed up in it, there is a great howl raised. They were in the Claypool and they had a friendly twobit limit. Many a game has started out with a friendly two-bit limit and ended up a week later with

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for blood. It seems gambling would be gambling whether it was done in some swank suite of the Claypool or the back room of some beer joint. The police thought they were doing their duty but found out they made a great mistake. Indianapolis is fortunate in having as efficient a police force as they have. Every man on the force with any standing knows that if he makes a mistake and steps on some big shot’s toes he is going to held up and ridiculed by court, and public, then broken and slapped out pounding a beat in the sticks somewhere. That must be very. encouraging to the ambitious policeman. They have so much to look forward to. Chief Beeker sald he was going to clean up Indianapolis, so here's more power to you, Chief. Personally, I think you are licked before you start. You are going to step on the wrong guy, then you will be broken down and finally thrown out on your ear, When that times comes you can have the satisfaction of knowing you tried, if that will help any. . " . “COLUMN IS

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and have to work for 50 cents a day and then they would have room to gripe. Otherwise they. should ‘shut up, for they didn’t know how lucky they were. As for the Eleanor-haters, I doubt that many of them have sons in the areas she has visited or they would know from their letters what a morale uplift she gives to the boys. She is, you know, just a woman like the rest of us, with four sons in service. I often think how much Herr Hitler and his buddies must enjoy seeing the rift widen they have started here among our people. And from the letters our family gets from boys in various war theaters, politics as we know it is not what they think they are fighting for. When and if they get to vote it will be for the man and not the strict party line, War is a waste both in human life and materials, and the next administration can lay the plans for either a just and lasting peace or another war for their sons to have to fight. They think F. D. R. can do it, for they feel they know what he stands for. That's why I .doubt very much whether they get a, chance to vote. It is all right for| them to hava to die or live through a living hell so a lot of people think if they can just get the people here at home to believe in their party's strength when the party is controlled by the same old bunch that caused the depression. So people, count your blessings, for compared to the life of one of our boys overseas, we all live in paradise. We eat regularly and sleep. We don’t need to carry fatigue pills in our pockets. They do. Yet they have to go back time after time, so long as they are able or all in one piece. :

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» ~ » “RESTRAINT IS A POOR WEAPON” By W. P. Jared, Indianapolis With the many debates and open

By Lettie Sawyer, Clayton Your column is named wrong. It should be the Wailing Wall columxy. | For all you ever see anymore is, letters cussing or griping about the; government or Eleanor. What most of them need is to see service overseas. My son who had just returned from overseas told a bunch of griping loaf country store that wha

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to read whereby anyone ever chose to refer to the word ration for what ration really symbolizes. The facts are (and I.refer to Webster's dics! tionary) that the word ration actually means restraint. Limitation and restraint have served as the New Deal's guiding stars since this administration’s second triumph in 1936. The birth of our present scheme of restraint began with the department of agriculture’s issuance of fat checks to the farmers to refrain from a ‘production beyond the standards and live stock schedules as set forth by the department of agriculture for the expressed purpose of price boosting for stabilizing the nation’s markets. But the New Deal's brainstorm syndicate failed to take into account or consider a possibility that some dire calamity or war may make its dreadful inception since war has become the rmer’s hottest potato they were forced to create the present inconsiderate raRestraint is a very poor weapon in time of war and any sane citizen could concede that the average American would be patriotic enough to refrain from over-indulgence of his purchasing power if properly educated on the als but since

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Shaky Senators By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, April 20.—The reaction against the New Deal in the south, which seems to be centered around “bureaucracy” and “the racial issue, is threatening two Democratic senators who have supported the administration. Both of them Senators Claude Pepper (Fla) and Lister Hill (Ala.)—face stiff fights for renomination, tantamount in their states an to election, in primaries May 2. > Each is now busy on the home stump trying to get straight with the voters. This is a scrap among Democrats. No Republicans are involved. Nor is President Roosevelt yet seriously involved, except that many voters will take out their spleen against his administration on the two senators. Not enough voters are mad enough at the President, himself, to chisel either state away from him in November, according t@ polls.

Southern Senators Seldom Knocked Of

SELDOM DO southern senators get knocked off by the voters, so it's news when there are as serious threats as jeopardize Senators Pepper and Hill, The southerners become well entrenched by the one-party

ity system in congress, makes them powerful here. They sit still, for the most part, behave themselves according to southern lights, throw sufficient sop to the voters, and gradually move up to be chairmen of key committees, speakers of the house, sametimes vice presidents. But supporting the New Deal now is not in the category of behaving oneself, in the present mood of southern voters. So the two senators, who happen to be up for election this year, are in trouble, Senator Hill is less fortunate because he has only

| one opponent, though he seems from preliminary

polls to be doing better at this stage than Senator Pepper, whose oppostion is scattered among five other candidates. Opponents of both are raising the racial issue, using the two senators as scapegoats for everything that has happened in congress and in government agencies on racial relations and their political outgrowths which are unpopular in the South:< Some of this demagoguing has reached a new low level

Poll Tax Fight Complicates Position

SENATOR HILL'S opponent, State Senator James A. Simpson, also is unloading on the incumbent the responsibility for the ills of bureaucracy, on the theory the senator is a part of the administration; one of Senator Pepper's opponents, Millard Conklin, is dragging in Mrs. Roosevelt in his noisy diatribes about “white supremacy.” The position of the two senators Is complicated by. the fight over the poll tax in the soldier vote bill,” the supreme court decision invalidating the “white” primary in Texas, the charges of racial discrimination against southern railroads by the President’s Fair Employment Practices committee and the preliminary agitation over the federal anti-poll tax bill which is to be brought up.soon in the senate. Senator Rill: seeking to protect himself, lined up with the “state’s rights” bloc on the sgldier vote bill Senator Pepper did not. He is the sponsor, himself, of an anti-poll tax bill. But, since fie has been back inrFlorida campaigning, he has joined up for “white supremacy.”

themselves when the going gets tough, as now.

So They Say—

IT IS difficult to adjust If after you return home. After the sacrifices that have been made, you feel that people ought to be more serious about the war~Cmdr. Donald J. MacDonald, Navy's ost decorated, officer.

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thelr leader, no matter what happens—as if they are afraid to branch, off—Capt. Don 8. Gentile, a lesditg American air ace. L] * * THE MAGNITUDE of our total war production 1s J| now equal to thé combined war output of.the rest of the | world.—War Manpowes Director Paul © MeNutt.

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