Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

WHAT'S THE ANSWER? UST a week ago, in an editorial on the police raid at the White Swan Social club, we commented that “it will be interesting to watch the future progress of the present It has been. We suspect also that a number of other people have found it interesting, though we must admit that it was a case that has been difficult to watch. Often the hand is quicker than the eye. In some ways, the case has followed a familiar pattern with the selection of a special judge instead of the one duly elected and responsible to the people; the hearing, and the dismissal of the charges on the grounds of insufficient evidence. But there have been several interesting variations. The judge has explained that there was no evidence offered to prove that the defendants were members of the White Swan Social club or that they had rented the clubrooms. Prosecutor Sherwood Blue has explained that his staff presented to the court “every possible bit of evidence furnished by the police department”—though he did not suggest that his office made any effort to obtain additional evidence. And surely, if the accused men were connected with the club, such evidence was in existence.

. » » - » THERE ARE several other things which remain to’ be explained. Why was it necessary for the complaining witness to be arraigned along with the accused men? How can the presence of two truck loads of dice and poker tables be explained? And how was it possible for the complaining witness be be convicted of visiting a gaming house at the same time the court ruled that it was not a gaming house? There may be good, legal, logical answers to these questions, though the person who is prone to jump at conclusions might conclude that it is more dangerous to testify in a gambling case than to be accused of gambling. There may be a legitimate reason for the White Swan enigma but, at the moment, we doubt if the average citizen can. get it.

And, frankly, we don't either.

OPA GETS SOME HELP

THE ENFORCEMENT program of the Office of Price | Administration has scored two notable victories—one national, and the other local. The national victory is represented by the supreme | court's 8-to-1 decision upholding the OPA’s right to issue | suspension orders against firms which have been found guilty of violating rationing regulations.

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minds by inquiring among resident friends who were supposed to know, just what were the numerous French political parties and groups and what they stood for, It was a baflling experience for there were Conservative Radicals, Revolutionary Monarchists, Capitalistic Socialists and many other apparent paradoxes and their attitudes and relationships were inexplicably mixed. But, those Americans and Britons who lived in Paris, used to say, if you understood France you would realize that this was just French politics and rather tasty and ‘enjoyable if you just shut your eyes. You wouldn't try to identify and separate the taste of each ingredient in some delicious and mysterious triumph prepared by a great chef, would you?

‘What Our Democratic Party Is’

I WONDER, now, if any French refugee among us has tried to understand what our Democratic party is, and how he is getting along with his study. For the Democratic party is the party of the southern, white poll-taxer who formerly wore a sheet and a hood and burned crosses at night to terrorize the Negroes and hated and tried to intimidate Jews and Catholics. It is also the party of many northern Negro politicians and of Vito Marcantonio, who demands absolute social and political equality in the southern states and who adheres to the principles of the Communists. It is, moreover, the party of Frank Hague, a powerful boss of dictatorial mien and method, who once ran New York Communists and other revolutionists out of New Jersey by force and denied them freedom of speech, and of Earl Browder and all the Communists who recently indorsed Hague as a wise and good man after calling him a Fascist and arguing their case convincingly.

'Precisely What Benito Mussolini Did’

THEN, TOO, the stranger in our midst should | understand, the Democratic party is the party of | Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky who recently has | accused Hillman of joining the Communist front and denounced him savagely. These two, moreover, are among those whom the southern Democrats of the ! Ku Klux tradition would demote to some inferior | social, . political and human status and. Mr. Hillman, while thundering against Fascism, proposed that all the workers in the state of New York and, in principle, all the workers in the United. States, be compelled to join unions and to contribute to the Democratic party's funds which, oddly, happens to have been precisely what Benito Mussolini did to labor in Italy. It is the old state's rights party which, however, in the days of prohibition, fought for the principle that the national government had a right to regulate the social habits of the states but, since then, has held that the states are outmoded and merely nominal divisions and now holds both that the federal government may and may not interfere with the election customs of the state in the matter of the poll-tax and elections.

"Unified While Hating One Another

IT IS the party of Ed Kelly, of Chicago, who boldly upheld his police when they killed a dozen rioters at the Republic Steel plant on the ground that the riot was arranged by Communists with in-

the party, nevertheless, of all those who accused Kelly's police of murdering blameless toilers who were just holding a patriotic parade. The Democratic party of Jim Farley who is opposed to a fourth term for President Roosevelt, of Senator Harry Byrd, likewise opposed, of Senator Burt Wheeler, who distrusts the President and thinks he could have kept us out of the war, and of Senator Josiah Bailey who declared that the party's own government had given his co-partisans, such as Hillman and Dubinsky, “so much power that this government, itself, is in danger.” All these and many other distorted and, in many cases, mutually-detesting elements make up that interesting American political organization called the Democratic party, all unified in a strange way while hating one another with religious, racial and sectional loathing that flows in their very blood and all so quaintly reminiscent of the politics of France.

The local development is ‘the announcement that the Indianapolis police department and the OPA investigators | will co-operate to stamp out black market operations. It is both wise and logical. It is no secret that black markets are flourishing in Indiana, and it is reasonable to assume that the lush profits of illegal trafficking in gasoline, sugar, meat and other rationed commodities have attracted the racketeering element of the underworld. Few others would be willing to touch money that is stained with the blood of men who died for their country over Germany, at Anzio, Kasserine Pass and Tarawa. It follows, then, that routine police activities will un- | cover leads which will be valuable to the OPA. And it is a patriotic move for Chief Beeker to agree to pass on to the OPA staff all information on rationing violations gathered by his force.

TOO OFTEN, different law enforcement agencies have | operated at loggerheads. Jealous of their prestige and pre~rogalives, they have worked against each other instead of pulling together. - Prima donnas have been more concerned with who gets the headlines than who gets the | criminals. So it is refreshirg to find a case where two | enforcement staffs are willing to get together. Co-operation is a fine thing, And while it is in the air, | this city could use a little in the mutual relations between ! police headquarters and the prosecutor's office.

FRIENDLY TIP TO HENRY

PHIN EAS FOGG, the fleet figment of Jules Verne's fancy, circled the world in 80 days. Vice President Wallace has been allotted less than 60 days to skip halfway round

(whom some suspect of preferring more ponderable evidences of our esteem), inspect half a dozen Siberian cities, and hurry home in time for a certain social event at Chicago in which he has betrayed interest.

Travel is broadening, but it is not necessarily votegetting. Ask Wendell Willkie, some of whose footprints the vice president may come across in Asia—footprints perhaps fossilized by now, along with those giant eggs the explorers of the Gobi used to set such store on. One thing we wish we had cautioned the V. P. about, before he packed his Russian and Chinese grammars and took the wind in his teeth. Maybe he'd better not make that flight over the Himalayan hump between China and India. Fliers have begn known to refer to that route as “the milk run.” Some of our short-rationed Oriental friends, ‘who may not understand that Henry is just kidding when talks about a daily quart of milk for the Hottentots,

to discover that the global milkman

‘We The People

the globe, deliver a cargo of good will to the Chinese]

By Ruth Millett

A WAR WIFE, whose husband has been stationed “somewhere in the Pacific” for more than a year, told me her scheme for improving on the quality of letters she writes al her husband. It is such a sensible TIN idea, other service wives might find J of it helpful. ih K This wife keeps a copy of all the letters she writes her husband. % Then once a month or so, she sits oy down and reads the last batch of them she has sent out. That shows her just what kind of a general impression she has been giving her husband about how she is getting along, what she is doing, what her life is really like, and how she is taking separation and loneliness.

Makes Some Surprising Discoveries

SHE SAYS that several times she has made discoveries which surprised her. After reading one batch of letters she decided that she was talking too much

about the children—enough so that’ her husband might assume she had no other interests and no other thoughts. Again, on rereading a stack of letters written during a period when she had been over-worked and worried, she found that her letters sounded as though she were turning into a self-pitying woman who had forgotten how to laugh. : And she made other discoderies that helped her to write better letters. : This wife was wise enough to realize that since a husband who is out of the country has only lis wife’s letters by which to judge what is happening at home and how his wife feels aboyt him—those letters must not give the wrong impression.

NATIONS CAN only maintain their existence by being’ prepared to risk it. Power politics, where weak nations are used as pawns, irrevocably lead to warfare.—Mme. Chiang Kai-shek.

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THE GERMAN leaders have not escaped the psychosis of invasion fever. They prove it by their .speeches and by the measures they have not dared to take.—Swiss newspaper.

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AS THE automobile ushered in the epoch of America’s greatest material advance, just so will the air. plane quicken our industrial life—~Henry J. Kaiser.

THE FUNCTION of government in a modern economy such as ours must be at all times to sustain | the level of the national income, to insure that mar-| Kets are available for everything we can produce | and that jobs are thus provided for all who seek them. |

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

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but what will be our holdfast for| each and every man ‘and woman] returning. Will it turn into a ques- | tion of throwing political sops to] the boys in return for a vote and] then cutting them to the bone] | when things get tough and normal! |again? { Let's get behind our boys and let them return to a nation not grubby with protected unions and close calls. on our rather forgotten civil rights. As for casting aside our right to vote, the Germans and millions of others lost their fran- | chise through neglect. n » » “ABBREVIATION IS SENSIBLE” By Mary Studebaker, 22 E. 22d st.

“YOU PRATE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION” By H. W. Garner, 630 E. 23th st.

I would advise J. E. R. to read the articles in the same issue of the Hoosier Forum by Mrs. William Shipp and Mrs. E. E. and compare the words of these two mothers of servicemen with his own. J. E. R,, I am going to do you a favor. I am going to give you credit for being far more intelligent than your letter indicates. I am going to give you credit for knowing what any nor-mal-minded person knows. The present congress did seek to deprive, and through their action will deprive, thousands of servicemen of their right to vote and for a very obvious reason. I need not tell you| how or what that reason was; you Bai aus x Rragaerly nt know. Yo Iso know that the] present on as representa. Past 12 years. Whether you like it on the subject of alphabetical desigtive of the American people, Many|°F Not we are not going back to nations for various wartime bureaus. | of them having been elected by a Capitalist dictatorship. We are go-| Her first paragraph, a long one, very small vote while the boys were n8 ahead to a realization of that| listed 10 wartime bureaus in exist | over there fighting and could ‘not Bovernment of the people, by the ence during world war I It re-| vote. | people and for the people. |quired 15 lines or so to write them | 1, too, have a son and con-in-law| My only disagreement with Mrs. | out by their full names, If the somewhere in the South Pacific. | Haggerty is in the matter of an first letters of each name had been I also get letters from several other | €i€ction this fall. I say the forces used probably only two lines would boys in service, and if they get a |Of fascism in America will do all have been required. chance to vote, it will "be for | Possible to keep as many soldier| SO. What is wrong with the pres-| R elt 100 per t Th ore | DOYS from voting as they can, but ent alphabetical names? I can't] Boseve ine the decresir |let's have an election and return Se¢ What all the griping is about, uly Shiigren during the depression Roosevelt to office with such a vote in regard to this matter. Using let- | a eC orgotien (hat PIC” that it will throw chills into all the ITS in abbreviation seems to me ure they saw in vivid reality o | forces of fascism, American brand entirely sensible and practical. I, children slowly starving. They still included " | wonder If these gripers about alpha- | einguhoe speins children grab pic- | ’ » betical names also dislike the WAC| ures advertising baked hams and , ? other foods in old issues of maga- | “LOST FRANCHISE TOF WOISIS Asn) Corp sid WAVES zines and try to chew the paper. THROUGH NEGLECT” 1

J. E R. if you didn't ses those service corps. Some folks hunt cB By 3 x 5 : [By A Ret d Veteran, Indi L {awfully hard for something i things you missed what most of us | Y e'Alucs Veletan, Inflanepoiie y r to gripe)

saw, and we don't forget. We also _1D€ issue in the recent harangue about. * =v = saw soldiers standing guard at! PetWeen two Indianapolis people in oo py ot VIGILANCE steel mills to keep workers whose YOUr column seems to have become HE RICE" familles were starving from going|® Dit confused. We all realized T F to work. And then you have the | When going into the service that a By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis audacity to write of Mrs. Haggerty | SO-Called shooting war would prob- | It would be well for the people of that she doesn't “say much that aPly be the only solution to our) this nation to improve their politimakes sense.” Well, J. E. R., if Problem, but we were also going in| cal education by reading some books | it makes any sense at all it has|{OF a much larger issue, namely’tojand speeches written and spoken by, you beaten. {protect our civil rights, some of dyed -in-the-wool New Dealers, You say Mrs. Haggerty must be Which are rather on the short side especially “Government in Busi-| herself on the receiving end. Well, |S We return, due to many condi- ness” by Stuart Chase and some of | J. E. R, if you haven't benefited | tions. | Rexford G. Tugwell's speeches made | by the so-called New Deal, then| Anyone who believes in the tripe while he was the White House fa- | you are one of the very, very small ©f indispensable men must realize|vorite! ! minority of Americans and there- that no man was ever made who, Stuart Chase started his book this | fore have no qualifications to speak | could not be replaced or bettered way: “Socialization is upon us, for the American people, because all by another man. {horse, foot and guns . . , outright except the exploiters of the Ameri-| People who are referring back to government ownership is growing can workers and farmers have ben- | Hoover's day are living in the past. rapidly . . . the AAA has begun the efitéd by the progressive measures Regardless of who is in, the vet- socializing of agriculture , . . ” of the Roosevelt administration. | erans of this war will be plenty able | And Rex Tugwell is quoted thus:| You prate about the Constitution.’ to take care of themselves if they “Business will be required to disWhat do you know. about a consti- have anything left to start on. We| appear. This is meant literally , . . tution when you gladly see the must not forget that a depression|the future can be seen in Russia.” American people deprived of the is the follower of every great con-|{ Is that the New Dea] attitude on gains they have made under the flict. Our main issue ign't what business? Then read “Prohibiting provisions of the Constitution in the'sent us into this, our greatest debt,| Poverty,” a book which contains a

“winning plan” to compulsorily Side Glances—By Galbraith

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communize American youth and which boasts that it has the backing of Mrs. Roosevelt, Beside that, a little gasoline means nothing! I want you Hoosier Forum readers to read these books and one called “Fools Gold” and another named “Smoke Screen,” then write to the Hoosier Forum and say whether you think, as I do, that the New Deal is a left-wing movement to socialize and regiment this nation into totalitarian slavery? : Yes, my friends, don’t be dumb clucks; educate yourselves on the real New Deal objective, international socialism! Remember, the

plan to communize our children. Upton Sinclair's left-wing scheme was “End Poverty in California”; and now, listen well, the latest New Deal bait for the gullible is “End poverty all over the world.” Same " {old stuff! The socialist-communist . goal is to have all private property . confiscated by the government! The socialists work on the political front and the communists work on the industrial front. So, if the socialists run the government and the communists control the unions, in any national private enterprise, individual liberty and constitutional government will be destroyed! “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!” Remember the Montgomery-Ward

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And Peoria called on district representatives of federal agencies for help, They knew that their efforts should tie in with legislation and plans for veterans now under way in Washington. But they also knew that the final job must be done at w bureaucracy calls the “local level.” :

The Government Cannot Do It All

IN THE CASE of handicapped men, the Veterans administration will see to it that they learn new skills, if necessary, in preparation for readjustment. Bug the government cannot do all. The Peoria planners decided that “delay is dangerous and demoralizing," and that their prime objective was to “conserve the greatest of all American assets—useful and selfe respecting human beings.” o. It became a city-wide concern that handicapped veterans should resume their places in community life quickly, not as objects of pity or charity, but as normal citizens capable of making their own way in a worthwhile job. It will be difficult enough at best for wounded veterans to return home as different men from those who left it. But surely such a pro= gram as this will greatly lessen the psychic shock of disability or disfigurement; Such a plan as this is worth thinking about im other towns and cities. Concern for the returning

| veteran is a shining national exception to the domes

tic disagreement inevitable in this election year. Plans for service men, both sound and handicapped, are under way from Capitol Hill to the smallest crosse roads town. These plans are a decent expession of gratitude and of a determination that victorioug soldiers and sailors shall not come back to disillusione ment and depression. ‘ Incidentally, they are among the more hopeful antidotes for “peace jitters.”

In Washington

By Peter Edson

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i WASHINGTON, May 23.—When Gen. Henry H. Arnold of the army alr forces appeared before the war labor board to declare that the war in Europe was no mere labor dispute which could be allowed to run on and. on, the assumption may have been thas he was talking to the Foremen's Association of America whose 3300 members pulled the Detroit area strikes that tied up war produce tion of 35,000 workmen. Actually, however, Gen. Arnold might have done a little blitzing of the war labor board and the national labor relations board, for they also share responsibility for this home front breakdown. This Detroit strike of the Foremen's Association of America is regarded by Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson as the most serious threat to Packard production of Rolls Royce aircraft engines for the P-51 Mustang planes, which have the longest range of all U. S. fighters, which fly to Berlin to protect the bombers, and the type of plane which recently broke the transcontinental speed record, stopped come pletely, Also stopped were production of parts for Flying Fortress and Superfortress bombers at Briggs, Murray, Hudson and Gar Wood plants, That is serious monkey business, But this strike didn't just happen overnight and when you dig into its background and causes you find that the grievances have been kicked around by the war fabor board and the national labor relations board which up to now have spent most of their time worrying about their precious procedure,

This Is a Spreading Poison

THIS TYPE of procrastination is becoming toe much of a pattern for comfort. You can let a boil alone for -just so long. Before it reaches the stage of festering and spreading poison over your whole body vou have to do something about it or suffer the conseguences. a . In this Foremen’s association case the two doctors— WLB and NLB—are again getting in each other's way. NLRB ruled yes, foremen have a right te

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but, no, unions of foremen cannot bargain collectively because foremen are part of management. This cone” tradiction in decisions is about as clear as if old King Solomon had actually cut that baby in two and given a halt to each mother. Confronted by this dilemma, the foremen struck and war labor board, following its custom, refused to consider the case as long as the men were not working. The only issue before the war labor board is one of union recognition, but that is an over-simplification. The only reason the Foremen's association wants recognition is so that it can bargain collectively later for bettter wages and working conditions,

Get Less Than Subordinates

THE COMPLAINT of the foremen is that in many of the plants they get less pay than the men working under them. Such foremen are paid straight salaries while workmen get fancy overtime. The foremen deny that they are a part of management in that they do not have the right to hire and fire. The position of such foremen is that they are really “white collar workers” in factories, caught in the freeze of wage stabilization. ; If these conditions were generally true, the case of the foremen might be easy to settle, but there do not appear to be established rules for employment of foremen. Ford, which signed a. contract with the Foremen's

book “Prohibiting Poverty” was a-Association over & year ago and renewed it recently

for another year, basis, plus overtime, General Motors; as yet unaffected by the present disturbance, has a rule that foremen shall average at least 25 per cent more than the average of the five highest paid men under their direction. Conditions in &ther plants vary but the range of pay is put at from $3500 to $5500 a year. , What really complicates the situation is ‘the poste tion taken by the auto industry through its Automotive Council for War Production; that foremen are a part of Management and that-management cannot bargain By inference it is charged that the present organizing effort of the Foremen's Association of ‘America is ‘an effort to put labor In control of management. Management is prepared to fight to the finish, 3 :

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LIGHTNIN FOUR

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