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Their Own Way

CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY

DAY jis primary election day in Indiana.

There may

nt be some who will yawn and say, “Oh, it’s just another

election.” But they will be wrong.

No election ever is “just another election.” Every

day on, which the citizens go to the polls is

a day when

“ democracy is put to the test. For our system of govern-

ment is strong or weak in direct proportion to

the number

of citizens who participate intelligently in its processes. And today, when democracy is under fire throughout the world, it is especially important that this nation should

prove its strength,

Ne

If you are one who says, “Oh, my vote deesn’t matter. Let those who know all the ins and outs decide it,” you

don't believe in democracy. That's fascism.

If you are one who says, “The bosses pick the candidates anyway,” it is your fault that they do. For the pri-

mary gives you an opportunity to make your

voice heard

in your government. Your vote counts as much as that of

any ‘boss, and there are more voters like you

than there

are of those who have selfish interests at stake. If the "bosses “run things,” it is because you, and thousands like

you, have defaulted on the fundamental debt the nation that has given you so much.

you owe to

So if you haven't voted today, by all means cast your ballot before the polls close. Men are giving their lives to

defend your right to vote.

It is little to ask. But it means a great deal—to you, to your children, and to your children’s children.

Every vote counts, yours most of all

SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE?

HERE can be no question about the legal and moral

right of any worker to belong to a union

of his own

choice, nor of the right of any union truly representative of employees to engage in collective bargaining with the employer of those workers. That is embodied in American

statutes, and has repeatedly been upheld by

the nation’s

highest courts, and we feel sure the International Brother-

hood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen would not dispute it.

and Helpers

Just now a local unit of the Teamsters’ union, indeed, has gone a little farther than that, and has shut down the whole operation of Omar Bakeries, Inc.,, by a picket line in an attempt to compel, or “persuade” Omar workers to

join the Teamsters, whether or not they want

to join, We

disapprove of that method, but at least it leaves no doubt that the Teamsters believe every worker ought to be rep-

resented by a union.

Now it happens that the Teamsters union is also an employer of labor, in its international offices located right here in Indianapolis, and that the workers employed there

by the Teamsters have joined a union of their

own choice,

though apparently not the one their boss might have

chosen for them.

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NEVERTHELESS, this ought to be a very

tionship, between this employer who believes

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astically in the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively, and this union of his own employees who have organized and who do want to bargain. You'd naturally expect he would welcome the opportunity to negotiate a con-

tract with them.

But he didn’t. He not only refused, and still refuses, to deal with them at all, but when they grew persistent he ordered them all fired, backing down from the actual firing only at the last moment when the criticism became

_ alarming.

- Omar Bakeries, Inc., on the other hand, professes to

be willing at any time to negotiate a contract with any union representing its employees, as it has done repeatedly in the past. We have heard of no firings there because a worker was a union member—in fact the trouble seems to

be that the company can’t find any Teamsters’ ber working for it.

union mem- |

Maybe it would be enlightening to the Teamsters’ local

which believes so strongly in the benefits of

bership that it is willing to shut down an essential industry.

union,mem-

while it tries to strong-arm unwilling workers into its ranks, If it would check into the doings at the Teamsters’

international, which from the record doesn't lieve in unions or collective bargaining at all.

NOR TO ONE MORE DESERVING

seem to be-

HE Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernie Pyle, our columnist ‘and war correspondent, not only is a tribute to the Boswell of the American doughboy, but is a high-honor to Indiana, as well. For Ernie is, and always will be, Hoosier to the bone—and much of his greatness springs from the fact that simply and genuinely he is just that.

We are happy over Ernie's honor, not

selfishly but

personally. To us, as to millions of others, Ernie is more than a man whose words we read and enjoy; he.is a friend, a member of the family, a blood brother. And with - all the others who know and love Ernie, we say, rejoicing

and in all sincerity: It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

FLYING MANPOWER

me, even though it took a little Squa

IE! DING to criticism of its plan for turning loose 11,000 civilian flying instructors, the army air forces has red pilot commissions or other posts commensurate : : a in their abilities to these trained fliers. The news is | ween wu ests a ew cor ero anfluence basis, public indignation | politics.—Sen

the good old days, some such figure, of American slums or croppers’ cabins, the population had had to two and one-third eggs and six, of meat a week and one and one-third year and all such as that while 427 families hogged 92 per cent of the national income and but $5394 and some odd cents of the nation’s Mr. Spelvin did not take notes on this is about the impression that he effect being a pretty miserable scene and he dragging himself along as he walked home high school hall with his ever-loving old lady.

‘People Doing Pretty Good Back There'

“I DON'T know where they get all those per cents and seven-eighths that they rattle off so easy,” Mr. Spelvin said, “because, the way I remember, why it seems to me people were doing pretty good back there in the good old days and the trouble is somebody beats you over the head with a lot of statistics and the first thing you know why you just want to set down on the curb and bawl your eyes out you feel so sorry over how you suffered and if you could just get your hands on a ball bat you would march right down there to Wall Street and bust a couple of millionaires over the head for treating everybody so low-down onery mean and babies didn’t have enough milk while those rich society bums were slopping up champagne wine down at Palm Beach at $25 a quart and dressing up in Tuxedoes and di d rings every night.” “I think they get the per cents and eights from the, government,” Mr. Spelvin said. “I think they have got a department of per cents and eighths down there because whenever you hear about strikes why Mrs. Perkins she pops back that we only lost one, decimal, two-oh-two man days per million workers per month by strikes while at the same time we lost twenty-seven point four man days from malaria alone to say nothing of the loss because pedple were so raggedy poor they were ashamed to go out of the house.”

‘Practically All Pullman Trade, Too

“WELL, BUT you just think back,” Mrs. Spelvin said, “and it certainly doesn't seem like they could be right figures because you take when we were young, say back around 1905, and we didn't have any movies except the nickel shows and some two-bit vaudeville and maybe ye went to a show two or three times a month and nobody had any automobiles except you were rich and then think how it was in the twenties after the war when so many people were going to Florida you couldn't rent a doghouse under $100 a month, and practically all Pullman trade, too, except a slew of them drove down in their own cars whereas when we were growing up, why only the millionaires took vacations in the winter and Miami was just a trading post and think of how the ads used to say “See America First” and, winter and summer, people were tearing all over the place up to the mountains and the lakes and California and buying expensive clothes to slide down hill on skiis and sleds and all those country clubs where they played golf and got plastered, so I don’t see how anybody could say it was just the millionaires that had a good time. And the great big movie houses in every town and swell cafes and meat shows to entertain the public while you toyed with the rare viands and exotic delicacies and that expensive hootch we used to get from the boots, so how can they say they were such lousy days because the only reason they advertised to see America first was because so many thousands of Americans were getting on the foreign steamboats and going over-to France to get stewed.

Just Remember by Ear Because | Was There

“SO IT seems to me any way you figure it I don't know the per cents but an awful lot of Americans who certainly weren't rich were having a swell time just the same and if those were such rotten days why you can call me peculiar but I just love suffering and I would certainly like to see them back again just like they were with almost everybody having a new car ‘every- year or so and think how all those miles of swell little new houses went up in the suburbs of all the towns all over the country and swell new schools and how the college attendance went up so 10 times as many kids got an education than when we were young.” “Why didn't you pop up and tell the guy all that?” Mr. Spelvin asked. , “I just wasn't sure,” Mrs. Spelvin said. “I just remember by ear because I was there, personally, but you can't argue against statistics so I figured I better keep my mouth shut.”

We The People

By Ruth Millett

“OUR SHOP WINDOWS are filled with luxury goods because women are still willing to buy them; although the workers who produce them should be transferred to war plants.” So said Dr. Lena Madesin Phillips, president of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women in a talk in which she took American women a to task for living a “life of ease” . in contrast to the war conditions that Europeans must endure. But are American women responsible for the fact that expensive luxury items are still manufactured and offered for sale? Isn't it unjust to blame them for that—simply because théy succumb to the temptation to “buy the luxuries that are held temptingly in front of their noses?

It's Human Nature to Want Things

IF IT IS WRONG for women to buy luxuries in wartime, then there shouldn't be: luxuries for sale.

luxunies should be at work in war plants, then it is the place of the government, to put it there. It wouldn't be human nature for women with money in their handbags to pass up the luxury items that are offered to them. And it's a safe bet that if the women in other countries had the money, and if luxury goods were available, they would buy them, too. . So why pick on America women? They have the money to spend, and so long as luxuries are available they'll buy them. So would English women or Russian women—or any other women in the world. ' »

So They Say—

ern the peace in the Atlantic Charter, which is being interpreted to death”these days, it appears that the

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“ARE YOU ENJOYING YOURSELF?” By Mrs. G. Hoagland, Indianapolis Are you enjoying yourself with your black market gas, Gassy Saboteur of Elwood? You should be, for with every gallon of illegal gas you burn some honest person has to pay by having an A book cut down. Well, brother or sister, if gas is all your worries, which it seems it is, you are a lucky person. You are not where the bombs: are falling around and you don't have to look up in time to see a comrade fall, Maybe you .don’t know what it means to have a son over there fighting and doze off to sleep at night only to awake wondering where he is, Maybe you don't know what it means to get word, “sorry to in-

form you your son has given his

life or is a prisoner of war.” That is going on every day, yet giving up a little pleasure means more to you than the young men who fall on the battlefield. As for the farmers, they are doing a good job trying to feed the world. And for the defense worker—he is on the job. Maybe you are the only one not 100 per cent. If you are burning - black market gas, you are the guilty one, not the one who sells it. Well, what are you doing to help win the war? » ## 2 “STARTLING STORY IN THAT PICTURE” By H. L. Willits, 1310 N. Pennsylvania st.

Here are some $64 questions for every American. Do you believe: —in the Bill of Riglitts, the Constitution of the United States and all the rights and privileges guaranteed therein?

(Times readers are’ invited to express their views in these columns, religidus 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 responsis bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

—that in a few short years the

leges has made a great nation? —that some of those rights have been taken away from us that our war effort may be more effective, but that some have been taken away for political purposes? ~—that we may lose many of our rights forever if we don't start doing something about it now? —that in a few years our government has wasted enough money to pay & large part of our war debt? —that, as a red-blooded American, ¢ou would rather make your own way and work out your own destiny win or lose than to have

exercise of these rights and privi-|

some alphabetical stew garnished

Side Glances—By Galbraith

with bureaucratic bait handed to you on a political platter? —that our' governmental structure is lousy with political parasites and bureaucratic barnacles who will cling for dear life until they are knocked off? . —that our government must be rid of these blood-suckers before it can function efficiently and economically? —that with some recognized faults corrected we should return to the free way of life that has made our country great?

time has either shot down in combat or destroyed on the ground 30 Naz planes, which is a very fine record and speaks for itself. To my way of thinking, he is what would be termed a self-made man. This boy does not possess a college education, and on that account he was at one time turned down by our army men. Later he joined the British air force, where he became a crack pilot, and since has béen transferred to our own air force. Please correct me if I have this wrong. ‘ Now my contention is, and has been, that the average boy with a normal amount of gray matter can be taught to do any and all jobs

| required of him.

I do not wish to give the wrong impression as to our wonderful college boys’ abilities as fliers, as all of them are doing a wonderful job. But what ¥.want to point out is the fact that more of our boys who did not have the opportunity to go that far in school should be used to a greater extent.

I believe you will agree with me, when I say many of our employers in this country require a college education to be eligible to fil¥ a $25 a week job in normal times. Which is wrong in my estimation, so I will say that Capt. Gentile has gone a long way to explode that

—in fact, do you know that you|myth

would rather die than to live under the rule of Hitler-Tojo & Company or any similar government? And, are you familiar with their gestapo methods of getting what they want? If your answer to these questions is yes, then by all ‘means get a copy of The Indianapolis Times dated Thursday, April 27, and look at the picture on the front page, a picture

(of Sewell Avery being evicted from

his place of business. No, not by the decision of a court of law but by the order of one than. There is a startling story in that picture. Study it well; think it over and then act accordingly. If your answer to ‘the above questions is not yes, just skip it. You wouldn't be interested anyway. = s “MORE POWER TO CAPT. GENTILE” By Okley R. Patch, Indianapolis ‘Much has been said on the radio and in the newspapers concerning the excellent flying ability of Capt. Don-8. Gentile, who at‘ the present

More power to you, Capt. Gentile of Piqua, O, and keep them falling. ® eo » ' “HERITAGE MUST BE PRESERVED” By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis The reaction in congress against the New Dealers’ apparent disregard for constitutional provisions for the protection” of individual rights and private property in the seizure of Mon \ Ward's property may mark the beginning of the end of New Deal left-wing control of our government! Leftwingers, of course, believe in and work for government seizure and confiscation of all private property, and government ownership and operation of all our national resources, factories, farms, mines,

intend to force socialism on the whole world. The New Dealers are showing their hand; both:in foreign and domestic policy, they are playing the left-winger’s game. . To complete the regimentation of “We, the people of the United States,” whose forefathers gave us

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_ FAILING TO obtain the script from the station, Mr. Warrick wrote Mr. Fly and received the following

reported it to the membership of his association, ag well as calling it to the attention of the Indiana cone

not seem to recognize a responsibility to the publis *

which has long been upheld by Warrick wrote.

'Radio Dodging Public Responsibility’

“FOR INSTANCE, Mr. Bausman, manager of Stae tion WISH, Indianapadis, told us that if we wanted to know what these commercials said” the thing to do was to get in front of the radio and write these commercials down as they were broadcast. That is a ridiculous observation to make. z “This means that a competitor of any type can. go on the radio with commercial advertising programs and engage in misleading advertising, make misstate« ments and neither a competitor, a purchaser or a *

newspapers,” Mr,

‘prospective purchaser nor the public has any right

to see that radio script. “People with whom we have discussed this are amazed tp learn that the radio is dodging this publie responsibility.” , Rep. Charles M. LaFollette, Evansville Republican, said that he thought that Mr. Warrick had raised a point which well might attract -the attention of congress.

Bill of Rights

By Walker Stone

. WASHINGTON, May 2-—-Can you identify the Bill of Rights? If you can, according to a survey of the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Dene ver, you are among the bettere informed one-fourth of American citizens. Polltakers asked: “What do you know about the Bill of Rights?” : “Of every four persons intere viewed,” the Center announces, “one had never heard of the Bill of Rights, two had heard of it but were confused as to its content, and only one could identify it satisfactorily.” We cannot believe that many readers of this page are among the uninformed three-fourths. But some good may be accomplished, and certainly no harm can be done, by a refresher course on this most important section of the U. 8. Constitution—ihwe first 10 amendments.

Submitted by First Congress

BY GENERAL AGREEMENT among the founding fathers, to overcome fears that a newly constituted central government might infringe on the rights of the people and the rights of the states, the original 10 amendments were submitted by the first session of the first congress, and they were promptly ratie fled by the states. These explicit reservations came to be known as the Bill of Rights. Here are the amendments, in the order in which they were ratified: ; ARTICLE 1. Congress shall make no law respect= ing an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. : ARTICLE 2. A well-regulated militia being neeessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ’ " ARTICLE 3. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the ‘consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

‘Right of People to Be Secilre' .

ARTICLE 4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio lated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particue larly, describing the place to be searched, and the or things to be seized. ARTICLE 5. - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service, in time of war

y. or public danger; nor shall any person be subject

for the same offense’ to be twice put in jeopardy of

life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal *

case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for publie use without just’ compensation. ;

assistance of counsel for his defense, , "Powers Not Delegated Reserved to State ARTICLE 7. In suits at common law, Where the in controversy ‘shall exceed 20 dollars, the

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