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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

: 1 W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE MARK FERREE

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WE MUST DRAW THE LINE C WE doubt if congress will take very kindly to the proposal to create a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration for education and culture. We noticed that the senate examined the recent $1,350,000,000 UNRRA appropriation pretty carefully to make sure that the huge fund would not be used for anything except to feed the people of the occupied countries and restore essential production facilities. The senators obviously did not want to rebuild any art museums or opera houses. The education and culture project still is in vague form, but enough has been said to indicate that it would be set up along the same lines as the present UNRRA, with the nations that have not been invaded supplying the bulk of the funds—and the United States contributing considerably the largest share. Arguing for the proposal, Rep. J. William Fulbright (D. Ark.), chairman of the American delegation to the recent conference of allied ministers of education in London, asked yesterday: “Why feed a lot of destitute people, such as UNRRA will be doing, if we don’t go further and

. - » ” WE'LL ANSWER that, Rep. Fulbright. Feeding starving people, and supplying them with education and culture are two different propositions. If people need food to stay alive, it is our humanitarian duty to share our goods with them. If private individuals or foundations want to support schools and cultural institutions abroad, that is their privilege—they have done it in the past and doubtless will do so again. But to ask American taxpayers ‘to assume that function is something else. We must draw the line somewhere, and this nation will have its hands full providing jobs and education, and possibly culture, for those to whom it does owe an obligation—its own citizens and its returning veterans. America will do its share, and more. Tt will, to the extent of its resources, feed and clothe the victims of |

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some neighborhood boy who will As this day approaches, it

and rescue of their country. De Gaulle has warned those who are about the make the invasion that the French people will not submit to any civil administra. tion but an administration of Frenchmen:

'Communists Would Have a Field Day’

THIS PLAINLY means that he intends to be the judge as to whether this or that Frenchman is a good and worthy Frenchman and it probably means reprisals against all who collaborated with the Germans after the collapse in 1940. - In that case, millions of spiteful individuals would be squealing on one another and the Communists, who were as guilty as Mussolini of stabbing France in the back in 1940, would have a field day slaughtering those who tried to fight them in the declining days of the Republic. De Gaulle has no credentials from the French people. Nobody has. They were disrupted and filled with hate among themselves for a long time before the war and it would be no more correct to accept De Gaulle’s pretensions than to select almost any other man with a clean record of opposition or forced submission to the Germans. Thewonly reason to accept him would be the assumption that he could establish a strong and hard-boiled rule to keep the country in reasonably good order and relieve the rescuing armies of Americans and Britons of the necessity to protect their rear from treacherous ingratitude and police the population,

'France Fortunate to Be Saved at All’

DE GAULLE seems to forget it was the failure of | France that now has made it necessary for the in- | vaders to storm the beaches. Men who were there in 1918 and again in 1940 reported that the French soldiers of 1940 were no true sons of their fathers

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and that elements of the army which were infected with Communism gladly quit because, in those days in France as well as here, the Communists were actively helping Hitler. Yet De Gaulle has accepted Communists as good and worthy Frenchmen, France will be fortunate to be saved at all and De Gaulle’s own contribution has consisted mainly of obstruction and political quibbling reminiscent of the

oppression in the conquered countries; it will help to re-| store their economy so they can earn a living and rehabilitate their own institutions of education and culture. But America is not going to play Uncle Santa Claus— nor Aunt Mayris Chaney—to the world.

disastrous and disgraceful party squabbles in the chamber of deputies before the collapse. And the | French people can be sure that whatever temporary administration the Americans and British might establish until the fighting ends in Germany and the time comes when it will be possible to attempt to hold elections will be considerably less painful than the rule of the Nazis. ’

‘Some Grotesque lllusions About France' THIS COUNTRY has had some grotesque illusions

HEM-what-has-gits seems {o be the rule in the pri-| of the great crush which began before 1914 and cooled Fourth term advocates won in Florida and! somewhat when French mobs prowled the streets Alabama, while in South Dakota the Dewey supporters beat the Stassen boys. “Of course the leadership of Dewey and | Roosevelt is such—despite the fact neither is an avowed candidate—that this week's primaries could not have made

In the case of Dewey, the South Dakota Republican primary indicates the bandwagon is rolling so fast that a first ballot nomination is probable and that even most of the usual favorite son ritual may be dispensed with. The weak Stop-Roosevelt movement within the Democratic party had its best chance in Florida and Alabama. Senators Pepper and Hill are New Deal symbols and made their primary campaigns as such, bureaucracy cry, the opposition raised the race issue in a particularly dirty way. But not even the usually sure fire “white supremacy” appeal was strong enough to rout the administration forces, : Florida, while voting for F. D. R.’s man Pepper, appears to have given more support than expected to the anti-fourth term convention slate. important in terms of the convention, but it may be in the national election—especially if it shows up in the deci-

In addition to the anti-

This protest is not

Most of the Democratic politicians who dislike the President think he has made it impossible to build up any other candidate at this late date—that he is their best The Florida and Alabama primaries

And they also indicate that if the Republicans are going to carry the November election, they must win it in New York, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Kentucky —not in Georgia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, Alabama, MisThe Deep South may not be happy, but

WE'D WRITE OUR CONGRESSMAN ROBABLY you know what a maze is. It's a cunning arrangement of passageways so intricately patterned that the unwary visitor soon becomes hopelessly lost. Baffled, he wanders about until he starves, dies of exhaustion | else—and of girls who marry two, three or is led out screaming. After a harrowing experience . in one of these booby-traps, a survivor once confessed that every time he entered a new corridor he met himself com-

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Anyone ‘who ever has explored the labyrinths of a government questionnaire knows that feeling. So we can sympathize with the local businessman who mailed us a copy of the April, 1944, instructions for filling out a priority application on Form WPB-1319. The instructions fill seven and one-half pages of fine print, and on Page 5 the sub-

“ scriber has circled these two consecutive lines: Do not fll in blocks 2, 12 and 13.

In block 12, state also why it is necessary to install the

equipment at this time.

* “What would you do?”

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Above this, our reader has pencilled plaintively:

THE SUFFERING CIVILIAN (Continued) PROBABLY you read the latest installment of the saga of the suffering Ametican civilian—the one about the woman who wrote to Gen. Marshall, asking his immediate and personal attention in the vital matter of her lost sleep. It seems some soldiers were quartered in her hotel, inconsiderate as to slam their doors on

about France and the French character, a hang-over

| shouting, “Down with the debt!” and jeering Ameri- | cans in the streets. If the United States ever owed a debt to Lafayette it was paid in full long ago, and while there is no. false idea now that the impending invasion is intended for the benefits of France, alone, the soldiers who do the job and those behind them at home cannot ignore the fact that otherwise France would remain in slavery indefinitely. ‘On the record to date it seems likely that an administration of De Gaulle's would be about as kindly as Franco's rule in Spain, so if the rescuers do accept him it should be done with provision to restrain him from establishing a reign of terror in reprisal for more political and personal dislikes,

We The People

By Ruth Millett

The Hoosier Forum

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

“WHAT BECAME OF SECRET BALLOT?” By E. L. Redwine Sr., 20 S, State st.

Please print my little bit in the Forum in regard to the secret Bal: lot we have at our polls at election time. - What I would like to find out is what became of our secret balloting system, or have we ever had one? When a fellow walks up to the polls to vote, his most sacred privilege, here is what happens: You first meet the walking delegates; then by the time you get to the door, you meet some more; then! here is where the fun begins. One| fellow grabs you by the arm and leads you up to the sergeant-at-arms and you identify yourself,

| then he asks you to sign your name, |

then at the end of your name and address you have to tell them just] how you intend to vote and do so!

(Times readers are. invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be | signed. Opinions set forth | ‘here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor- |

respondence regarding them.)

ner. This unconstitutional act, in-

tdeniable fact is that the order to in-| \vade Chicago was given by the, No Man Has Taken More Heat | President himself and could not. be given by anyone else. Therefore, if | the act was unconstitutional, it is' goement by C. I. O. President Philip Murray. He {the President and the {alone who is guilty of defying the! the democratic process of debate and decision, rather

President |

constitution which protects him in. {office and which he swore an oath |

|to respect and enforce. Is this not pointed out and praised the co-operation which has |basis for impeachment? Moreover,| existed between capital and labor on the WMC this homely example of the kind of | labor-management committee, | activities our production | | tary are being exerted to wipe out in {other countries merely emphasizes peeped. So insiders take no stock in his Look listing {the need for a little house-cleaning/ and many feel that he is one of the men in Washat home. And I repeat an assertion ington who can qualify as a Democrat today with previously made, that it is the duty! both a big and little D. of every mother, wife or sister of a {fighting man at the fronts (or fight-| two greatest production programs in the history of ling women) to keep them fully in-| American farming were prepared under his leader-

and mili-|

formed of what is going on behind

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any man in the U. 8. government.

When he first became war manpower commission- -

| er, Mr. McNutt was looked upon as a person who | might turn out to be the man on horseback. His | one-man rule in Indiana often was cited, particularly

the calling out of the Indiana national guard in labor disputes. When he recommended “universal service,” which is a polite word for a “labor draft,” many felt their worst fears confirmed. His contacts with labor chieftains and management in trying to solve the difficult manpower problems seems to have changed his somewhat highhanded attitude. Now it is Mr. McNutt who battles the army and navy brass hats to preserve as much possible eivilian rule in wartime, so that our democracy does not become a military dictatorship. ‘ He even asked President Roosevelt not to indorse a labor draft now, That proved futile, like many McNutt suggestions which were later followed.

HIGH PRAISE for his conduct of WMC was volced recently in an executive session of labor and man-

stressed the fact that under the McNutt leadership than mere orders from the top down has been

followed. Things are not done in army style Mr. Murray

No man in Washington has stood more heat than Mr. McNutt. He has taken it in his stride and never

On Mr. Wickard's behalf it might be said that the

ship and complete delivery made. Whether this year

by putting the letter D or R at the|tended to cement the votes of & their backs at home so they will will do as well, with the programs shifted to Marvin end of your address. Then that is handful of Communist labor agi- know what they can face when they Jones. war food administrator, remains to be proven.

not enough, they just hand you just one choice of ballot and that ballot; is to correspond with the letter D, or R whichever the case may be. Now, fellows and friends, I am asking you where is the secret ballot system? Will the lawmakers of our great country ever make a law to protect the voters so they can have a secret vote as was intended in our constitution? The politicians

are wondering why the voters do, . ...o the appearance of & soul- REASON FOR ELECTION"

not go to the polls as they should. Well, that is the main reason they

do not. They don't want every poli- . .

tician in the country to tag them as a political leader, as they want to vote for the man and not the party and not be classed as a poli-

THERE ARE no hasty war marriages for Yanks who decide they are in love with Australian girls. The Australian brides who recently arrived in this country pointed out that before they could be married the girls had to get : character references, doctor's cer- \ tificates, and letters from ; parents. Their Yank fiances had ; A to get recommendations from their commanding officers and “certificates of singleness,” in addition. And there was a required wait of six months between the time of the application for permission to marry and the wedding ceremony. :

Regulations Are Needed Here

WOULDN'T IT be a good thing if there were {hat much concern with the problem of hasty marriages in our own country? If it is necessary to make such regulations for the

their

protection of the girls of foreign countries—isnt it

| can girls from too hasty marriages?

service men just to collect allotments.

old story. ,

abroad.

So They Say—

war controls until such time as big business and small business can re-enter civilian production simultaneously. I cannot agree With such a policy—it points the road to ruin of small business.—Maury Maverick, ¢hairman Smaller War Plants Corp, 2 3 * . . YOU'LL FIND an awful lot of religion where men are scared to death. They've found themselves in a situation which will determine who shall live and

front tour, - - & TODAY WE feel that the world will be so weakened after this war that it surely will have learned its lesson. Yet in 1919 we thought the world must surely

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protection of American soldiers abroad and for the just as necessary to protect service men and Ameri.’ We hear so many stories of service men who marry young girls when they already have wives somewhere

or four i i

And the plight of the high school girl who marries | a soldier she has only had a few dates with is an oid,

Many of those tragedies could be prevented if the |

army were as particular about the marriages of serv- | ‘ice men in this country as it is about their marriages |

SOME PEOPLE advocate a policy of enforcing

who shall die.—Rabbi Barrett R. Brickner, after war

have been convinced that not even to the victor || could war bring rewards to outweigh its cost.—British ||

tician and a private citizen at the Now, folks, the way I | see it, the people are tired of being | railroaded at the polls and it is driving them away. Why should a . man’s vote be tagged in this manner and then be called a sécret vote according to his own conscience? tJ [J 8 | “IS THIS NOT BASIS FOR IMPEACHMENT?”

By A. J. Schueider, 504 W. Dr. Woodrufl PL

No single act of the administra‘tion, not even the declaration of {war, has caused so much widespread comment and discussion {amongst average men, the ones usually inarticulate, as has the President's invasion of Chicago to iske over a mail order merchandis-

ing business in true Hitlerian man-

tators, has boomeranged to the cost |

of millions of thinking voters. How- | ever, whatever the intent, the act| was plainly unconstitutional and |

has disgraced the majesty of this

fair nation as no other act since

its birth, It is just another prece- | dent broken by Mr. Roosevelt. Westbrook Pegler says “This gives|

less corporation grinding the toilers. | And it must be conceded that

such a construction could be placed upon the case, yet the fact remains | that it is only a “soulless corporation” which can contest the constitutionality of acts of the government. Our constitutional rights as individuals are daily being revoked or denied us, but who can afford to enter the supreme court to defend his rights? The few individuals who have dared to do so (and they were rich individuals) ended up broke. | The cost prohibits the average indi|vidual from any attempt to defend | himself, although the “tonstitution | lguarantees him his day in court, | but if he can't pay the price, the guarantee doesn't mean anything. Therefore, it is only a “soulless

return. has a loved one in the services to write to members of congress urging them to insist that Elmer Davis’ OWI broadcast a full and unbiased report of the battle of Chicago to all fighting fronts. We owe them the debt to keep them {fully informed. l s » »

"STILL AN IMPORTANT

By Vcice in th Crowd, Indianapolis Mrs. Haggerty, you surely note by | now that in your opinion of the| Ward case you stand with a small} minerity. Most of the people still believe in the process of our constitution. You know, of course, that we are going to have an election, even

If you know anything at all about dictators, you know that they got] their power by “postponing elections.” If you and the majority of the people still cannot see the domestic muddle of the New Deal and wish to continue with F. D. R., there! is still a very important reason to| hold an election. That reason, ofi course, is to elect a vice president

corporation” with millions in its

treasury that can afford the luxury | capable of taking the job in case { Mr. Roosevelt's health should -colAlthough administration stooges lapse in the terrifying years that who have begun to realize the folly |

of a defense under the law.

of the Battle of Chicago have since |

been trying to place the blame on Attorney General: Biddle, the un-

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lie ahead. The people will, of course, decide the issue, but Roosevelt should not go in without a running mate who is honestly the convention's second choice for President. You understand that Mr. Wallace was not. Incidentally, if Mrs. Roosevelt is not a delegate she could in very good grace stay home that week. » - » “THEY HAVE PLENTY TO WORRY ABOUT” By Another Times Reader, Indianapolis I note a recent article on The Times editorial page with reference to pedestrians walking with the

writer that the ordinance should be repealed. ET There are many times when no autos are in sight, but the pedestrian must waste his nerves and valuable time needlessly. When the streets are crowded and the crowds

And I urge everyone who,

though it “clutters up the nation.” means the Curzon line

green light, and agree with the|

New Appeasement By William Philip Simms

LONDON, May 5.—The price of Russia's collaboration with the United States and Great Britain in the post-war world definitely will be Anglo-American consent to her plans for Eastern Europe and the Balkans. } This conclusion was reached after talking with many top ranking officials of the united nations here. Moscow wants and intends to get back the frontiers of imperial Russia except in Poland and possibly in Finland. In the case of Poland this is probably the best eastern frontier our Polish allies can hope for, this being only a slight improvement on the Molotov-Ribbentrop line of September, 1939.

Baltic States Have Been Written Off

THE THREE Baltic states—Lithuania, Estonia and. Latvia—have been given up by most observers here as irrevocably lost as independent republics. Apparently they have been definitely written off as “Russian. The new Poland, it appears, will consist of territory west of the Curzon line, along with parts of Eastern Prussia, . : A few weeks ago in Washington this was discussed as a possibility. Over here it seems to. be. considered a certainty. In Washington, Russia's territorial demands were widely regarded as endangering post-war unity among the united nations In London, acquiescence seems to have been taken as an indispensable condition’ of her participation in the post-war setup. As summed up by a distinguished Britisher whose name and position cannot be divulged, the realities of the situation are: - The end of the war will find Russia the’ most powerful nation of Europe. Without her collaboration | no international peace association can succeed. There “are certain things she will insist on, among them the relocation of her Eastern European frontiers. If the Anglo-American groups oppose her she will go ahead anyway, and her resentment and suspicions being aroused, she will make her own security ars rangements and withdraw into herself.

Smaller Nations Strenuously Opposed

IN SUCH EVENT she would almost certainly fol-+ low a different and more two-fisted course not only in

and Far East as well. The alternative is for Britain

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