Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1944 — Page 12

The Indianapolis Times PAGE 12 Tuesday, April 25, 1944

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Give IAght and the People Will Find Their Own Way

AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT THE announcement by Senator Samuel D. Jackson yesterday that George Barnard of New Castle, Republican member of the Indiana Public Service Commission, will be appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission brings honor to Indiana and richly deserved recognition to an able and distinguished citizen. The Interstate Commerce Commission is one of the most effective and respected of the nation’s independent agencies. Much of its power and authority has been due to the high grade men who have served on the commission, and Mr. Barnard is definitely of this caliber. It is an excellent appointment and assuredly should be confirmed by the U. S. Senate. Mr. Barnard has given outstanding, disinterested service to this state. With the broader epportunity afforded + by the I. C. C., he should be of even 1 greater worth to the

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WILLIAM CARDINAL O'CONNELL ANY great men have worn the red hat of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and William Cardinal O'Connell, who died in Boston Sunday at the age of 84, will be remembered as one who fully lived up to that noble tradition. During his long and active career, Cardinal O'Connell won high honors from his church, as well as the respect and admiration of his nation, state and community. Partly because of his office, but more because of his personality and wisdom, he was a man of great power—and he used that power with telling effect for the advancement of civic righteousness, decency, tolerance and Americanism. He was both a spiritual leader and a temporal statesman. Throughout America, Catholics mourn the loss of a father in their faith while those of other creeds, his friends in high and humble stations, pay tribute to one who was, fundamentally and unfailingly, a man of good will.

LOUIS J. REICHEL HE vicissitudes of the profession being what they are,

any coach who stays at the same school for 17 years may be set down as a success. And Lou Reichel, athletic

director at Park school, certainly was that. He was, in addition, one of the best athletes ever produced in this city. Lou Reichel, however, was more than a great coach and a fine athlete. The measure of the man who died yesterday is not alone in the great year-in, year-out record of vic-

tories won by the teams he produced from limited material.

Rather it may be found on the fronts throughout the world where the boys he coached are stationed today, where they are serving their country well because they were taught by

Lou Reichel to fight hard and, in sport and in life, to “play the game.”

“AMERICA UNLIMITED”

WERE not going to attempt here a complete review of Eric Johnston's new book, “America Unlimited,” just published. We do want to say that we hope it will be widely read. And that’s a hope which undoubtedly will be realized, since the advance sale was well over 300,000 copies—something of a record for a non-fiction work. This country has become increasingly interested in Eric Johnston and his ideas since the day, two years ago, when he became president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. American business has found in this young manufacturer from Washington state an unusual spokesman, and an unusually effective one. He started out by establishing friendly relations with the President of the United States and the heads of the big labor organizations. He was as ready to acclaim the virtues of the New Deal as to condemn its faults. He has criticized abuses in labor unionism, but he has been equally critical of similar abuses in the business system. His book sets forth his philosophy on many subjects.

o s " - 8 - MR. JOHNSTON writes about “the American way” and “individualism” and “free enterprise” without once getting stuffy or smug. He discusses government and business, labor and management, the war, and the part he

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

congressman in Washington recently led with his chin, suggest ing that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt had been given an extraordinary allowance of gasoline for use in her own automobile, He was promptly rebuked, for it appears that Mrs. Roosevelt has used her car sparingly and moreover, public opinion does not

tention that one in Mrs. Roosevelt's position in the capital should be required to use streetcars, busses or taxis on her many necessary errands about town. If she uses the official White House cars for her travels within the city that would be all right, too.

'Great Incidental Waste of Motor Fuel’

ration do ‘have a legitimate objection to the great incidental waste of motor fuel which follows Mrs. Roosevelt on her many journeys here and abroad. I am not referring at the moment to her latest air cruise to the Caribbean, for in this case the lady seems to have occupied only one place in ships which would have been flying on routine business anyway. Nor to her South Pacific flight in the guise of a Red Cross field worker, the details of which have never been volunteered by the army as to whether the de luxe transport, known in San Diego as a superduper, was placed solely at her” service in which case some enormous quantity of high-test gasoline would have been consumed for no legitimate purpose. I have in mind the trains of accompanying cars carrying local officials and civilian agents of the federal government, officers of the army and navy and neighborhood sightseers. On one occasion when Mrs. Roosevelt went to Maine to christen a barge, persens who were feeling the gasoline shortage comthat. Aare ed

'Plainly Delights in Popular Attention’

THERE WERE a great many cars in the procession as there have been at other such events, specifically in New Jersey and Oregon, and it does not dispose of the issue to say that .Mrs. Roosevelt does not encourage such attendance. In the first place, Mrs. Roosevelt plainly delights in popular attention and once explained that she | traveled because the people want her to. In the second place, she could prevent this unnecessary use of a necessary article by withdrawing from such ceremonies, knowing that her very presence brings out crowds. It is not merely that Mrs. Roosevelt, herself, has traveled surely more mileage by car outside Washington than any other persons engaged in non-essential work or any B-card citizen. And that fuel consumption has been multiplied many times her own personal mileage by the mileage of her attendance and her following. On her Caribbean trip, Mrs. Roosevelt stopped at Miami and the Miami Herald reported, without comment or the slightest editorial flavor, but just as routine description of her visit, that a 12-car cavalcade, flanked by half a dozen expert motorcycle officers, escorted the first lady on her inspection trip clearing the road as they went.

"There Is Evidence of Special Privilege’ “HUNDREDS OF PASSERS-BY stopped and

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stared as they caught a glimpse of the unmistakable “figure of Mrs. Roosevelt in the lead car,” the Herald said. Their feelings may have been tolerant in view of the fact that the horses ran in the far outskirts of Miami this year as thousands cheered who certainly didn't get there on bicycles or afoot but nevertheless there is evidence of special privilege in the spectacle of 12 cars and half a dozen motorcycle outriders attending the visit to a hospital of one person who sometimes rather tartly disclaims privileges and official position and rebukes pretensions to privilege by others. Nor, if these were government cars, would it be fair to reproach the officers who provided them and the fuel for them out of the government's pool, because any officer who took the responsibility for refusing transportation for an appropriate escort of

distinguished rank would be assuming a risk with which it is unfair to confront him in the first place. The decision in all cases is made by Mrs. Roosevelt,

knowing that quantities of fuel will be used unnec-

essarily. Thus far she has approved.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

“IF YOU were engaged to a feller and he has his leg cut off, would you still be engaged to him?” a 19-year-old boy who had lost a leg in battle asked the nurse who was caring for the wounded on a hospital plane. And the nurse, as the story is ey recorded by a reporter’ for a 7° weekly magazine, answered, “Any > 5 American girl would.” 4 Let's hope the nurse was right. And yet if our girls do stick loyally and lovingly by the boys who come back from war crippled and disfigured, it will be in spite of the ideas that have been put in their heads by the older folk who argue that a girl shouldn't marry a boy before he goes to war because he might not come through it without serious injury.

Stand by Them Through Everything

believes our country must play in the world of the future, with complete frankness and marked fairness. He proclaims that our system must be a “people’s capitalism,” | proving its right to survive by its deeds. | “It must justify itself in jobs, continuity of employ- | ment, an ever greater feeling of security for the average - man. It cannot rest complacently on selfishness. Every legitimate self-interest must be balanced by |some public good, or it is certain to defeat itself... . If ever humankind and geography have been brought together under the most favorable circumstances, it is here in the United States of America. Can man, thus richly endowed with all the prerequisites of greatness, live up to his magnificent opportunity? Can he temper his spirit and lift his mind to new and unprecedented lev els? If he can, then this is America unlimited.”

LIBERAL DECISION

THE United States supreme court has found it necessary to issue some rules of decorous dress for the Portias who appear before it. So it has ordered its marshal to ban the following items of feminine costume from the bench side of the bar rail: Siredtlergth coats, long coatsweaters, fur coats. > Not a word, you will notice: about the short, Lana Turner-t sweater. Nat a word, indeed, about bathing suits. -N3 attempt to foist those black mother hubbards “upon lady barristers.

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THAT IS a vicious idea to plant in the minds of For if it takes root, the girl who learns that flance has lost a leg or an arm will think: “I'm lucky I did not marry him before he went away.” She won't be ready to meet him with the reassuring words which that 19-year-old boy was wondering if he would ever hear: “Of course, I'm stil] engaged to you. We'll get married as soon as we can.” If we expect our boys to have the character and the courage to risk their lives to fight for us, we certainly should expect our girls to have enough loyalty and compassion to stand by them if they come back wounded. Perhaps they'll have that much character and that kind of love even though they have been fed on a philosophy of self-interest, instead of being taught to feel humble before the sacrifices their young men are making.

So They Say—

have married men telling their families goodby, giving up their jobs and selling their businesses, only to be told the next day it was all a mistake and that they will not be needed.—Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio.

THE JAPANESE soldier knows how to die, he is fanatic and brave, he obeys commands explicitly and he is a tricky opponent, He is also stupid.—Lt. Col Henry L, Shafer, back from Bougainville.

GREATER FREEDOM for the greater number neeessitates some degree of curtailment of the freedom of a few.—Sir Stafford Cripps, British minister of aircraft production, ’ LJ * *

Just park your coats at the door, girls, - And with them.

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TOO MANY workers are listening to rumors that the bottom is shortly to fall out of war production and

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| Unity ond. Vidory

By: Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, April 25—~Only disunity can lose the war for us,” Secretary of War Stimson told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. His warning is timely, because our severest military test is coming in the midst of a bitter domestic political campaign. In listing three forms of dis< ' unity, he eliminated the possibility of one—division among our armed * * forces. Secretary Stimson himself . : deserves much credit for our armed services closer together. With Gen. Mar. shall, he streamlined the army, elevated the alr forces,” and eliminated much army-navy rivalry. ; Remaining dangers of disunity are those betweeR™ the United States and its allies, aq between oui armed forces and civilian population. ’ : The first is less serious, perhaps, than a year ago. : Recent Russian victories and the concentration. of : American troops in England have underscored the ° necessity of allied unity, and the military disaster which would result from any lack of co-operation in the coming joint campaigns against Germany. If each of the major allies refrains from lone-wolf ; political tactics, Hitler will not succeed in his cons tinuing effort to divide them, :

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Administration Shares Responsibility

CLEARLY, SECRETARY STIMSON considers the ° possible failure of full American civilian support for . our armed services as the worst hazard of the three, That danger can take the form of public over-cone fidence in victory, or magnifying military faults or losses, or chiseling on rationing and security regulae tions, or putting political partisanship above patriote. . ism—any or all of which could undermine the home . front and separate it from the fighting fronts, a5 To point out these dangers, especially on the home front, should be sufficient for their avoidance. The Cg no less than the public, must ; fygalises of dom. disunity, At.the moment... p ee than {n' the political field. Some fourth termers, can be re-elected only

smearing Republicans as. - isolationists, are creating disunity over foreign policy. .

The Hoosier Forum

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

and the Democratic majority—as bipartisan passage of the Fulbright and Connally resolutions for interes . national collaboration proved.

Hull Makes Historic Contribution

BUT ANOTHER administration group, led by Secs retary of State Hull, is working to prevent friction

between the executive and congress over foreign policy

“WE NEED A CLOSER BALANCE” By D. H., Indianapolis What we need today is a closer approach to a balance between the spirit of the fighting boy in the foxhole and the attitude of the average citizen at home, based on the vision of a humanized tomorrow.

More of this type of journalism would help to shorten the war by bringing the stay-at-homes to their feet for a dynamic, keen-sighted action now too often conspicuous by its absence.

“YOU'VE HAD IT, MATE”

By Christian M. Mikkelsen, M/Sgt., U. 8, A. A. F., Somewhere in England I usually do not voice my opinions to people other than my own immediate circle of friends or family. However, there is one item that appeared in your Saturday edition of March 11, 1944, which burned me up. Before I go on to expound about the article that has me incensed, allow me to introduce myself. I am a resident of Indianapolis and at present I am a temporary inhabitant of the British Isles, still having thoughts and aspirations regarding my coming home to the crossroads of America. I am still interested enough to keep up with the hometown news by subscribing to your paper. While reading the editorial section as I usually do, I came across an article written by an individual who signs himself “A Worker.” His gripe, and I do not doubt but what to him is a very serious | one, deals with the subject of waitling for busses for periods exceeding 10 minutes. That must be a hardship that in some cases must be intolerable and difficult, to say the least. The "very fact that busses pass him by empty, necessitating his waiting in the cold, is something I can appreciate. I feel for him most excruciatingly. I know how it is to wait in the cold for transportation for minutes and even hours. Said condition is naturally conducive to illness. III workers make for absenteeism which is not for the mutual benefit of the war effort. One cannot give his full support to this effort if he caught a cold and as a result is incapaci-

(Times_readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let ters 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 manu. scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

tated because of waiting for a bus for 10 or more terrible minutes. May I point out a few things to our most worried friend about the way things are done over here? This country is also at war. Lines or queues as they are called over here are a most common sight. There is usually a queue for most everything, Over here if a person has only to wait in a line for 20 minutes he considers himself very lucky indeed. Weather has no dampening effect upon the people waiting their turn. What would our lucky friend say if he had to wait hours in a queue and then when he finally came up to the window or counter to make his purchase, have said window or counter close up on him for lack of anything to sell? Friend, consider yourself lucky and happy that the only thing that seems to be worrying you most is the condition of the busses. You are indeed a lucky individual whose main concern is the transportation system and the upheaval it is now going through. How wonderful it must be to live in a land where the lights come on every night and the people go merrily on their way worrying about busses. It must be a blessed feeling to think only of empty busses. How wonderful it is not to be bothered about such common things as the war and the suffering of other people. Brother, you -are really gifted. Do not keep your secret to yourself, let us all in on your method of keeping your mind free from such annoying everyday problems and realities. In the vernacular of the language

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over here, “You've had it mate.”

“LET FORUM KEEP ITS PRESENT NAME" By Wm. H. Stevens, R. B. 10, Bex 198 It appears to me that some of the people who write to the Hoosier Forum undoubtedly have a few wires that are crossed. Take, for instance, Mrs. Sawyer's recent letter, suggesting a new name for the Forum. After reading her letter, I would say offhand, that she did considerable wailing and griping herself. However, that is her privilege as a free American citizen. Mrs, Sawyer spoke of her son's service in the army. Well, I myself put in over three years in the army and I know far better than she does just what wartime army life is like, and still I cannot agree with her. I feel that I am entitled to the right to express my personal views and opinions and I shall do so, no matter how many people label my opinions as griping and bellyaching. I doubt very much that Mrs. Sawyer has ever read the quotation from Voltaire that accompanies every copy of the Hoosier Forum. If she had read those few words, I don't believe she would have written the first part of her letter. I don’t believe she would want to exterminate free speech and free press. As for changing the name of the Hoosier ‘Forum, well, personally, 1 can't see where we would gain by changing it, so why bother with it. After all, there are things of much greater importance that should be changed, so let's change them and let the Hoosier Forum keep its present name. How about it, folks? ” - » “MEMORIES FORM STRANGE PATTERN” By Chief Yeoman Jack H. Kerkhof, U, 8. Navy.

I'm still eagerly looking forward to the day when I can again use Indianapolis, Indiana, as my return address; and, as I reminisce, many of the little incidents of life “pop up” and créate a strange pattern of confusion in my mind. For instance, do out-of-town people still drive around and around the Monument circle dozens of times before they realize that there are four means of exit, or has the rubber shortage put a stop to that? Do people still get bawled out by that tough-looking cop at Ayres’ corner when they cross the street against traffic? Does Strauss’ still have a “Half-Price Sale”? Does Ray still have his newsstand on the southeast corner of Market and Penpsylvanias streets? Then I often wonder if Helen and Verdie still stop at Weiss’ every morning for their cup of coffee before going to work at the American National bank; and if they do, I wonder {if they remember the guy who In days past used fo meet them every morning? I wonder, too, if my Mom still Has that uneasy feeling when the 7:25 bus goes by in the morning? I used to scare her out of her wits practically every morning as I would dash madly out of the house “Dagwood” style to catch it, that is, until I got the driver trained to honk his horn when he was a couple of blocks away. Now, here I am aboard ship pitching and heaving to my heart's content (but much to my stomach’s discontent), When I awake I don’t have to rush to catch a bus. All I have to do is climb a couple of ladders and there is my place of business! I have my morning coffee, yes, but not at Weiss’, nor is Helen or Verdie sitting across from me; just me, and some two hundred other guys. When noon comes, I don't have to figure out whether I will eat at the Russett

the latitude and changed since breakfast but it's the tame “dining room,” the same cboks, and yes, the same old ocean! ———————————————————— DAILY THOUGHTS 1 will walk before the Lord in the land of the lving~—Psalm

—hitherto the most fruitful fleld of national disunity, Hull's proposal for a bipartisan senate committee to advise with the state department, and to share in policy-making, is a historic contribution to American government and national unity. : Chairman Connally of the senate foreign relations

committee seven Democrats and Republicans and the . able progressive, Senator La Follette. The Democrats, besides Connally, are George, Barkley and Gillette; the Republicans are Vandenberg, White and Austin. Omission of any senator from the West Coast - is hard to understand in view of the Pacific issues involved, and should be corrected. ° . But this 1s » good foundation for exsoutive-cone gressional in foreign affairs, which is so

peace.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aprfl 28. Sugar, these days. is being made into dynamite. No—not the kind they use to blow up bridges in wartime, but the much more high« ly explosive stuff known as politie cal dynamite. It's this way: Twice, In fireside chats, since sugar first went under rationing two years ago, the President has indicated that sugar rations might be increased and has even hinted that the ration would be entirely removed. Thus far, he has not been able to make good. The President's two hints on easing the ration naturally started a lot of rumors. Naturally, everye one in the industry agreed with the President and for once they all thought he was wonderful. The big question was: “When?” All branches of the trade—growers, refiners, shipe pers, importers, dealers, confectioners, canners, makers of soft drinks and syrups—the whole sugar lobby began turning on the heat to force the issue, They built up stockpiles of statistics to show thas the present restrictions—particularly on industrial uses—were entirely unnecessary. Whatever the figures, the combined food board, U. 8. war food admine istration and office of price administration still say there is not enough Sagar in sight to increase the rations, « }

Rumors and More Rumors

BUT THE rumors continue to fly. Rumor: There are two million tons more sugar in stockpile than the government is admitting. Rumor: The British are building up a million-ton stockpile. Rumor: Cuba and Puerto Rico are full of sugar which can't be moved because war shipping administration won't ase sign ships to haul it. Rumor to top all rumors: Sugar stockpiles were being built up so that rationing restrictions can be lifted just before the election, when ration-free sugar will be offered as a great gift to the American pee-pul who will thereupon vote Mr. Roose velt back into office for a fourth four years.

Sugar lobbyists aren't above trying to plant these

rumors just to get everybody stirred up.

On behalf of the industrial users of sugar, now .

limited to from 70 to 80 per cent of 1941. consumpe tion, Rep. Bartel J. Jonkman of the big sugar beet state of Michigan has made a couple of speeches in the house. The British supply council called a press confere ence in Washington for its sugar expert, Sir Willlam Rook, to explain that the British weren't building up a stockpile and that they were supplying sugar to U. S. troops in Britain and elsewhere, under reverse lend-lease,

OPA Report Coming Up

OF GREATEST interest, however, is a survey on U. 8. sugar supplies now being made in OPA by Else worth Bunker of New York, vice president of the National Sugar Refining Company and a member of OPA’s sugar industry advisory committee. - Bunker's study is being made with White House blessing to get the real for-sure truth. His report should: be ready in the near future. That it will change the picture any in considered an extremely long shot. Sir William Rook, speaking from the European point of view, goes so far as.to say that stockpiles have not yet been built up for post-war relief, that increasing the rations now would be a great mistake, and that to meet the sugar demands of the liberated countries it will be necessary to \continue rationing for perhaps two years after the war. But this is getting into world sugar politics, which is even more explosive than the domestic variety,

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