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The Indianapolis Times PAGE 10. Monday, April 24, 1944

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

_ NEW YORK, April 24.—As an example of propaganda disguised as impartial and objective biography, . let me call your ate tention toa profile of J. B. Mat= thews, the back-slid Bolo who is the Dies’ committee's expert on Communists and fellow-travelers and organizations of the outwardly innocent snd pretentiously. progressive type which the Come

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Give TAght and the People Will Find Their Own Way

GETTING THEM NOWHERE HE opposition to national service legislation is so wide and deep—in congress, among labor leaders and among industry's spokesmen—that it. is difficult to see just what Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land hoped to accomplish with their statement pleading for such a law. Perhaps they thought -their formidable presentation

“of facts would convert the opposition, Or perhaps they spoke for the record only, in the full knowledge that they espoused a cause that must be counted, for the present at any rate, lost. Whatever their idea was, no conversions

are visible today.

munists, themselves, call transe mission belts. ’ This article is published in the current issue of ‘the New Yorker, which long ago pioneered a new freedom that might be called freedom from decency

heard but not seen. You may see it some day in your dentist's waiting room.

‘Technique of Continental Propaganda’

THE AUTHORS, Matthew Josephson and Russell Maloney, purport to present, in a flippant but strictly honest way, the story of a man who certainly is erratic and, on his own word, unworthy of belief without corroboration but who cannot be challenged as an authority on Communist activity in the United States for he provenly was there in the thick of it for a long time. The real effect of the article on the uninformed reader, however, is to discredit the Dies committee's disclosures of Communist activity and the technique is that of the continental propagandists of both the Communist and Fascist or Nazi schools. They describe Matthews as one who has engaged

The statement was an impressive and even eloquent “one. It pointed ott that “if it is logical to require some to fight, then it is equally logical to require others to supply | "them the weapons.” It spoke of “excessive turnover” and |

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taking 1,390,000-more men into uniform this year, Moses; as replacements, and warned that the fortunes of war might’ greatly increase the number . required. Most of these men, it said, must be drawn from essential industry, although in many cases industry requires more rather than fewer men—the aircraft plants and shipyards needing 200,: 000 more, radio and radar factories 30,000 more, and so on. It warned that “we are poised for our greatest wndertaking as a nation,” and concluded that the need for a law to “mobilize and maneuver” industrial manpower “cannot, in our judgment, be denied or evaded.” Nevertheless, various congressional and industrial leaders pronounced a quick and convincing “no.”

s s 2 & 2 s s } IT IS not necessary to search far for reasons. In addition to a natural reluctance to yield up a basic freedom, people are particularly distrustful of the abilify- of Washington to administer sensibly and equitably a grant of power to order civilian workers from one job to another. People are also thoughtful of the fact that some industries have been permitted to hoard labor with a reckless disregard of the public interest; of the fact that little has been done to channel discharged servicemen into essential work; and of the army and navy's disinclination to call up 4-F's out of nonessential jobs or idleness and assign them to service

“housekeeping” jobs now occupied by able-bodied men.

amgration of Tabor It “told ot ie need nf

in “liberal activities of the kind now described by the FBI as prematurely anti-Fascist but who enjoys a special, almost’ unique, immunity from prosecution™ by the Dies committee. Now. that would lead the unsuspecting reader, with .complete confidence .in. the

finally denounced. were—no--worse—than-liberats-and pioneer anti-Fascists, but the fact is that Matthews was a Communist conspirator against this country’s government and knew them all,

‘Left Nothing for Investigation’

YOU GET here an insinuation that the other persons and organizations exposed by him were persecuted, as though they should have been immunefrom | investigation just because, being Communists and | fellow-travelers, they naturally were opposed to fascism which originally, in Italy, was provoked by the atrocities of the Communists, Matthews was immune because he confessed. He left nothing for investigation. The Communist line these days makes big capital of the fact that because they are antiFascist, all Communists and fellow-travelers among us are just the same as loyal Americans who are at war with fascism because fascism declared war on the United States. The reason why we are at war as allies of the Communist state is that Hitler declared war on Russia before he’ attacked us and we therefore found the Communist state fighting strongly on our side when we came in. Had Hitler not atetacked Russia, we might be fighting communism, too. The Communists, with this advantage, are able to continue their work while the Fascists and their fellow-travelers are, by the reckoning of Josephson, Maloney and the New Yorker, persecuted. “By: Matthews’ definition,” the author writes, “the Communist party's united front movement includes every organization whose members have ever de-

As a practical matter, it looks as if the army and navy | and the war manpower commission had better give thought to some of the expedients now available to them for im- | proving the distribution of labor, rather than count on | legislation which shows no sign of getting anywhere. In the meantime they—and the rest of us—may take some comfort from the phenomenal increase in output per worker, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. This paper cites numerous specific instances; for instance, 31% years ago it took 16 man hours to produce one pound of airframe for a Douglas A-20; today it takes one man-hour. And Gen. Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co. says his index | of output per worker, which stood at 100 in January, 1943, “had reached 138 in February, 1944. That won't solve all our manpower problems, but with- | out those advances in productivity—for which management | and free labor are entitled to enormous credit—we would | be in a lot worse fix than we are. |

AN HONOR DESERVED

HE Indiana conservation commission will consider in’ the near future the proposal made in this column that the name of Col. Richard Lieber be perpetuated in one of the state parks which he founded and developed. We hope | they will find the suggestion appropriate. Some associates of Col. Lieber have pointed out that, during the 24 years he headed the conservation department, | he battled constantly against efforts to name parks after the donors of land or political leaders. That, he felt, | “would cheapen the parks and establish an unwise policy of | using public property, indirectly at least, for exploitation. |

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By so doing, Col. Lieber served the state well, and we | believe this is all the more reason for honoring him with a | given to no other. No weakening precedent would be éstablistred by this | action, for to no one else do the state parks owe the debt | that they do to Col Lieber. Not only did he found them, | but, in a very real sense, for many vears he was the state | park system. He gave a lifetime of devotion to the cause | of conservation. He served the people of this state faith- | fully and well, and his memory deserves high honor at | their hands. No tribute could he more fitting than one that will link his name forever with the parks that were his dream and his accomplishment,

THE “ERNIE PYLE BILLS” D*® GALLUP has taken a poll on the “Ernie Pyle bills” - —the proposals of Rep. Weiss (D. Pa.) and Senator Tobey (R. NIH.) that men taking part in combat be given extra “fight pay.” The idea originated in a dispatch by Ernie from Italy, Of those polled, 70 per cent were in favor, 23 per cent against, 7 per cent noncommittal. That is a whopping majority, and we hope congress is listening. : . The sentiments of the public would be especially good news for troops of our 5th army, in Italy, who are now being fined $2 a throw for neglect to wear a helmet or failye to salute. :

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out his state. The governor undoubtedly will set a by giving his customary answer to all ques

distinction that has been accorded no other and should be | pr

\JEW YORK’S Governor Thomas E. Dewey has designated "the present week as “Noise Abatement Week” throughshining

plored Hitler or condoned Roosevelt,” and there goes the needle again. You get the suggestion, that, in reverse, anyone who deplores certain policies, works and methods of President Roosevelt, is a Fascist who condones Hitler. This would include all members of the Republican party and many men and women in the armed forces who are fighting Hitler.

"Like Trying to Keep Weeds Out by Hand'

SHIRLEY TEMPLE was included among the freelance conspirators of the Communist front exposed by Matthews and the Dies committee, if you believe | Josephson and Maloney, as you might if you didn’t | happen to remember the truth of the incident, which | was merely that Shirley's name was inadvertently |

were able to obtain the use of the names of decent | Americans to dress their demonstrations. The Communists, and fellow-travelers of the Washington press corps made great sport of this incident at the time, however, distorting the truth to depict the Dies committee in a great lather of fear lest the country be destroyed by a little girl who was | the darling of the Anierican people.

But such scotching of such propaganda in detail are not taking kindly to the idea couldn't,

by publishing out loud words which hitherto had been |

ew Yorker's honesty, {6 believe iBat Matthews and | he: erstwhile comrades and fellow-trivelers whom he |

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of them a gentle to remember.

|By James Thrasher

WASHINGTON, April 24 —Mrs. Irene Kelly is a woman of dignity. She is not rich, and she is not well. Her eyesight and hearing are failing. But there is nothing wrong with her pride. She is the mother of Charles (Commando) Kelly, holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and of six other ldier sons. ; " As such, she has come to her countrymen’s attention. And in consequence, she has given some rebuke which they would do well

Many people were aghast when they saw news

| : | "The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—VYoltaire.

“EVERYTHING CALLING FOR OUR BEST” By Mrs. A. H. G., Indianapolis

We are hearing a lot of people these days ‘getting all “fussed and bothered” over the passing of “the American way of life in old times.” Congressman A. L. Miller of Nebraska and Gen. MacArthur are two noted examples of the back-to-nor-malcy advocates at’ the moment. Both MacArthur and Miller are well paid government employees. Quite naturally they do not desire competition in government-supervised industry to become too keen. If Gen. MacArthur had been brought up in private industry he would have found that business ethics do not. consider a man loyal who writes letters against his em-/ ployer on his employer's time. “The! people” whom MacArthur tries to flatter a bit in his letters happen to be his employers, and most of] lus want him to get busy on war] {generaling, and we at home are not, {looking for his guidance in civilian laffairs unless we hire him for

Icivilian duty.

If the people would honestly se-|

lect things of worth from the past

i land support the necessary changes|

of the present we could become a

. |strong people, otherwise we will relent to a Communist occasion and that the pur $2 orv ! i Purpose main rather weak when everything,

| of this revelation was to show how the Communists

is calling for the best we can con-

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“WOULD LENGTHEN THE WAR” ’ By H. C. Whiteman, South Bend

Fathers and mothers who have trying to establish a bridgehead of | By B. M. Conley, Indianapolis

sons in the Pacific theater of war

{Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies 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.)

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never been a Germany there would be no Japan as we of today know it. To erase one and allow the other to stand would be one way of losing the peace. . With Germany out of the way for good the world will soon return, not to the lasting peace we hear so much about—let us be honest—but to the sporadic and comparatively harmless clashes of a more peaceful era. . a = =» “FAITH IN FAIRNESS AMPLY JUSTIFIED”

By Thomas J. Luke, pastor, Sti Methodist Church, Indianapolis

Some people told us that “the i papers” would not publish our story. The citizens of our church community did not want a tavern in

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with a veritable avalanche of words, ! to tell us just what we and our al-| lies are fighting for. Nearly all of their long-winded dissertations with the inevitable de-, tour into the European political jungle leave the casual reader, who, long since accepted the fact of fight

their immediate neighborhood. They |. knew full well that nine places with {three-way licenses within a mile and a half expressed a feeling of | tolerance from the community at!

rge. : . Our people were sincere about this

lor submit to German domination, more than a little disturbed.

Instead of the clear-cut picture he had in the beginning of a tyranI nical, bloodthirsty Hun going down to defeat before the gathering might of an aroused free world, Mr. {Casual Reader now finds himself | being worried into visualizing a political and ethical mess, the con-

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| templation of which is bound to do

| him anything but good. If the writ

ers of such stuff were deliberately

doubt on our spiritual shores they in my opinion, have hit

is like trying to keep weeds out of a garden by hand. of some of the American leaders on a more effective way of doing so.

There is a powerful wholesale weed-killer within the who would draft Gen. MacArthur | covers of a book called “I Confess,” by Benjamin out of his leadership in charge of posers like who shall take over patience with the transportation Gitlow, Earl Browder’s predecessor as chief of the military operations in that Japa-.what and why, or Joe Stalin sald | poords of local war plants. Republicans hello to Badoglio without our permany defenders who do not call themselves Com- and Democrats alike say that it mission, so what? Is it a part of} | munists. Nobody can deny that Gitlow was a Com- would be a victory for the Japs to our job to take over where the!

anti-American conspiracy which, somehow, finds so

nese infested region.

Why distract the home front with

munist and his confession is more revolting and remove MacArthur, and in all prob-!power-mad Germans leave off and

mittee, .

We The People

By Ruth Millett

WHAT THE

teen-age

ters, more than lectures, than conferences to find out what to do abouf her—is a creed of her own made up of a set of standards she refuses to break.If you 15 and 16 and 17-year-olds haven't figured out a set of rules to carry you safely through

“I won't be a pick-up. For actually the young girl in wartime who lets herself be picked up by a serviceman is no better than the common pick-up in peacetime. A uniform doesn't change the picture one bit. “I won't date men who are several years older than I am—because no matter how sophisticated I pretend to be, I'm likely to find myself in situations I don't know how to handle. i “I won't drink just to be one of the crowd. I have to look out for myself, and to be sure of doing that I need to be cold sober—not softened up by a few drinks I took’ just to be smart.

Best Part of Life Lies Ahead

“I WON'T, even though I'm young, fall for the ‘today 1s all we have’ philosophy. The best part of my life is before me—marriage and motherhood and being the kind of person I most admire, and want to be. I won't gum that up by going haywire now and

be what I meant to be. ) “I won't be high-pressured or ridiculed or kidded into going to places where I know good and well I have no business going, or into doing ‘things I have no business doing. I'll be grown-up enough to be able to say ‘No’ -and make it stick—and what’s more, I'll learn to ‘No’ in such a way that nobody worth bothering about will hold it against me.

ing for me and seeing ihe parents and I agree is okay.

but that doésn't mean I

have to be a war y a few

to maturity, you might try these:

cheapening myself so that I never have a chance to |-

J won't wander away from my family or my home, and I won't be ashamed of either. I won't meet boys dewntown, but I'll insist on my dates call“home dt the hour my

cost the American soldiers and sailors.

= 2 “WHY DISTRACT THE HOME FRONT?” By J. W. C., Indianapolis

| damning than the entire record of the Dies Com- ability would lengthen the war and dictate the affairs of others by polives of thousands of litical finagling when possible or at

{the point of a gun when necessary? In a recent statement Secretary of State Cordell Hull reminds his hecklers that the war is not yet won. That the threat of German | domination—a grim reality to many

It is not so long ago that the —remains a threat and our first job small army of self-appointed for-|is to remove it, and permanently. leign experts were telling us with a;To that I would add that the war

{ perts are exhorting the government,

cod th git] blethora of words just what we and in the Far East should be regarded needs—more than recreation cen- ‘our allies were fighting for. Today, as another front jn the war on Germore | strangely enough, these same ex- many. Japan is the Pacific bastion

lof everything German. Had there

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thing and gave a good argument to {the local board. We lost the case

paper pictures of Mrs, Kelly as she stood in the door of her Pittsburgh home, reading the letter which ine formed her that Charles was coming home on leave, Mrs. Kelly’s house looked poor and unpainted. It faced on an alley, hemmed in by tall buildings. There didn’t seem to be much chance for sunlight to ‘get to it. These people thought it a shame that a hero's

mother had to live there. :

Mrs. Kelly Is Not Ashamed

NEWSPAPERS SAID as much, editorially. Then a representative of the Public Housing Authority came around, with all the best will in the world, and offered to move Mrs. Kelly to a modern dwelling, Apparently no one stopped to consider that Mrs, Kelly might be embarrassed and humiliated. She knew it wasn't much of a house, but she didn't care to have a lot of strangers poking about, holding her neighborhood up to unflattering comparisons and -genteel scorn, Mrs. Kelly is not ashamed of her two rooms and an attic. They. are probably as neat and well fure nished as any tHereabout, She may tot have electri lights and hot water and an inside toilet. But she has a nice gas stove and an enameled ice box. . The kitchen walls are a fresh, cheerful grefn, The

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Everything is clean. If is quite possible that Mrs, Kelly is used to being enviéd a little by her neighbors, And now what will the neighbors think, with all these strangers trying to make her ashamed of the place?

Some Can Understand How She Feels

MRS. KELLY and her seven boys have probably planned for a better place some day. Some of the folks who are trying to help can look back a generation or two in their own families and understand how she feels, * This is not a defense of poor housing, but a protest against the unconscious snobbery of a lot of profes. sional do-gooders. Perhaps Mrs. Kelly has taught us that we need a little more respect and a little less head-patting in our laudable aims toward social betterment.

An Oracle Speaks By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, April M4 Ever s0 otfen an oracle speaks and you know what's coming. Such was the statement of , 9 Col. R. B. Creager, long-time OK Republican national committeeman from Texas, that he could not i see how Governor Dewey of New E ! York could fail to win the Re. a © publican presidential nomination or on the first ballot. ho k He made the remark at Chi- ~ © cago after the meeting of the arrangements committee of the Republican national committee. It was generally overlooked. It should not have been, It meant, for one thing, that Governor John W. Bricker's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination is washed up, if this was not apparent already. It meant, for another, that not only Texas but the rest of the South will drop into the Dewey basket, for Col. Creager is a kingpin among southern

And TEN wnid table ‘are’ painted: shinitig "Whits,

but won an appeal. | We thought you would publish our ‘story. You did. And our faith in the fairness of newspapers is amply | justified. . | Incidentally, the ABC did not see i fit to grant the license,

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{PROBLEMS ARE REAL”

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| My personal experiences, also ‘others of my acquaintance, with! /gasoline rationing have upset my

The idea of rationing gasoline is necessary and agreeable to me, providing it is distributed in sufficient amounts to go to and from work. When workers do not have enough gasoline, they will seek out and patronize black markets. Why do ration boards affect an indifferent attitude toward the requests of those in need of gasoline? They merely give you a non-com-mittal blank stare, inferring they don’t care if you get to work or not. Their attitude discourages employment in war plants. Transportation boards should be capable of handling their duties; if they can't, they should be dissolved. An aircraft worker was given the above treatment when he and other workers asked for gasoline allotments. They have to leave their homes an hour and a half earlier to try to catch a bus that is sometimes earlier, which in turn causes extemporaneous absenteeism. Time is the one thing that is essential to the war; it is also essential to the people. Our transportation problems are real to us. We have been raised in the belief that motorized transportation is necessary and not just a luxury. The lack of intelligent cooperation by the transportation boards with persons needing more gasoline is causing a very unhealthy state of find to many otherwise patriotic Americans. Average citizens: do not like to patronize black markets. If the ; black market is utilizing such great quantities of gasoline, why can't the legal ration of gasoline be raised to four or five gallons a week? This would stop the black markets in a hurry, thus saving tax money that is being used to fight the black

63 | | market, besides keeping thousands

of Americans from becoming dishonest.

DAILY THOUGHTS

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience. of one “shall many be made righteous.— Romanshils. =

bosses of what are sometimes known as “the kept delegations.” :

No 'Stop-Dewey' Movement at Chicago

IT MEANT, further and most important, that there will be no “Stop-Dewey” movement at Chicago, Col. Creager has long been identified with the Republican old guard, and in recent years with the Taft forces in the South. He was floor manager for Senae tor Taft at the 1940 Republican convention when the Ohio senator lost to Wendell L. Willkie. This year the Taft forces were turned over, lock, stock and barrel, to the Bricker candidacy, and it was presumed that Col. Creager was co-operating. But he has seen the light gleaming from the watchtower at Albany, and has submitted to the course of events. It was learned that In conversations the colonel went further and said that the Dewey candidacy had gone so far that nothing should be allowed to interfere with it. An inquiry here today disclosed that leaders of other southern delegations are of the same mind. This means no “stop-Dewey” movement. For if there were such a movement it would come from the Old Guard group in which Col. Creager is included, and which revolves about Senator Taft. The

senator, himself, is resigned to the Dewey nomination. ~

‘Events Have Gone Beyond Them'

THIS IS not to say that some of the Old Guarders are entirely satisfied with the New York governor, Some would prefer some fellow more tractable, less inclined to make up nis own mind. But events have gone beyond them. Nothing more than the Creager word is necessary to indicate a first ballot nomination. It was learned here that Republican leaders have decided upon this, to do it quickly and unanimously, if possible, for the effect that will have upon party unity and party morale. i This early surrender of-the Taft forces, as made pubiic by Col. Creager, would indicate that they will now turn to promoting Governor Bricker for the vice presidential nomination. They will expect some consideration for stepping, this early, out of the way of the Dewey bandwagon, and catching on as it went by. Something of this sort may have been arranged already. There was a big crop of “Dewey-Bricker” “ticket rumors when Governor Earl Warren of California, hitherto considered almost sure-fire for. second place on the ticket, was selected for keynote speaker by the arrangements committee, a position usually ree garded as a bar to candidacy for either first or sec= ond place.

To The Poini—

WHEN ROAD hog meets road hog, we're glad of it! * . *

ALL LITTLE kids will be glad to hear that the OPA has granted a price increase in rolled oats. LJ » .

BUYING war bonds is standing up for the Stare Spangled Banner even when it isn't being played. . . ~e, THE average person uses eight matches a day, according to statistics. One of their own and seven borrowed.

UNLESS you get busy, the first thing to turn green

this summer will be your envy of the neighbors’ i i 4 ; . . . . _ FARMERS tell. us that “back to the farm” is the way too many people are standing. Ce 7 5 Cole ies . 2 ws

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