Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1944 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MR. RAMSPECK’S OPPORTUNITY PERHAPS some good may come of the Montgomery Ward labor controversies, after all. The current congressional investigation, under the able chairmanship of Rep. Ramspeck of Georgia, shows signs of getting at the heart of the whole problem. Namely, the lack of a definite labor policy in Washington, and the confusion and overlapping of agencies dealing with labor issues. It has already been brought out—in the testimony of Chairman William H. Davis of the war labor board, as well as in that of Gerard D. Reilly, member of the national labor relations board—that in the Ward case there existed what our correspondent Fred W. Perkins calls ‘“‘jurisdictional {roubie” between WLB and NLRB. That is to say, the WLB was obviously hampered in the dispute at Montgomery Ward's Chicago establishment by the NLRB regulation denying Ward or any other employer the right to petition for an election to determine whether a union actually represents a majority of the workers. In the Chicago case this difficulty was eventually got around, the union itself consenting to ask for an election. And the NLRB, apparently as a result of the Ward trouble, has been holding hearings on a proposed change in regulations to permit employer petitions for elections. (This, incidentally, stirred the vehement objections of the C. I. 0., which hews to the position that all labor legislation and all labor agencies exist for the benefit of labor alone, and must lend no aid or comfort to a boss.) ” » td 8 ® - PERHAPS AS the house hearings continue Mr. Ramspeck can develop information that will lead to constructive legislation. The crucial question of maintenance-of-union-membership contracts, imposed on unwilling employers by what amounts to the fiat of the WLB, without specific legislative authority, certainly #n stand some exploration. Mr. Ramspeck, being known as a friend though not a lackey of labor, would be in a better position to sponsor new labor legislation than, for instance, Rep. Howard Smith of Virginia, author of many so-called “anti-labor” proposals in the past and hence automatically suspect by the unions.

PLANNED ECONOMY

DESPERATE situation at the Indianapolis stockyards yesterday forced an embargo to be declared on the receipt of hogs for the second time within a week. Yesterday’s receipts skyrocketed to 17,000 head, on top of a 9500 carryover from Monday, while long lines of trucks waited outside the yards with their loads of prime hogs. In the glutted yards, hogs were losing weight—a hog can drop as much as 15 pounds overnight—while in the trucks others died of the heat. The lost poundage and the dead hogs represented precious man-hours of labor and tons of scarce feed, as well as a substantial financial investment by the farmers of Indiana. They represented, too, a loss to the nation’s tables and the larders of the world: Ten years ago, such a shocking waste in a time of need would have been cited by New Deal economists as a sign of the breakdown of private distribution facilities and as an argument for an economy managed according to plans formulated in Washington. In the last year, we have had such a system. The department of agriculture and the Triple-A have told farmers what to plant and what to raise; the WPB has controlled their materials and the WMC their labor supply; the OPA has set retail prices and has rationed commodities, 4 while the WFA has outlined civilian and military requirements and has controlled distribution, prices and general food policies. Farming has been a managed economy, if there ever was one, implemented by the urgencies of wartime. Everything has been done according to blueprint and program. There has been planning a-plenty. Yet as the dead hogs piled up outside the Indianapolis stockyards yesterday, we heard no one saying: “We planned it that way.”

INSULT TO INDIA

IF Italy and on most fronts crack East Indian regiments. fight for us. Also American troops are giving their lives # to prevent Jap invasion of India. They are accomplishing much with little. But they are not getting the proper support in psychological warfare, Jap propaganda there, as elsewhere in the Far East, is more effective. Americans are apt to blame that on the unpopularity of British rule in India—admittedly a major factor. But America also has given the Japs propaganda ammunition particularly our immigration law insult to India. : Under the present law certain Far Eastern peoples are singled out for exclusion. Only recently the ban on Chinese was lifted, with excellent results for our international relations and closer friendship with the ally diverting most of the Jap army. The pending Luce-Celler bill would remove | discrimination against Eastern Hemisphere Indians, Of course nobody is suggesting that East Indians be allowed to flood this country, and there is no evidence that they wish to do so. The question is one of their self-respect and our fair play. The proposal is that they be put under the regular immigration quota system. That would work out to a maximum of about 75 East Indian immigrants a year—the Chinese quota comes to 105, } :

3 t as citizens. Though our State Department is quite properly inter- | in this reform as an immediate war rr it er. ant post-war ramifications also. When peace comes, ‘prosperity will depend 800d business—as well as good ethics,

states, 75 cents a month;

"us do not know that Britain is now providing us with

; | World?—Sumner Welles, former under-secretary of

in part on foreign trade. |

By William Philip Simms

come to. an

Britain and her dominions ~ Bl destroyed it would be our turn next,

Folly to Leave Defense to Chance =

of the English-speaking world again to leave their defense to chance arrangements at the eleventh hour. It is now pretty clear that the British ‘commonwealth can not defend itself alone against an enemy such as the present. That is not her fault. The world has simply moved on. Once she was the world’s merchant, manufacturer, shipbuilder, banker, middleman, and policeman. Today her colonies are no longer dependents but trade rivals. No longer can she afford the land, sea, and air forces required to police the world. Somebody has got to help her. Two wars would seem to suggest that such help must come primarily from the United States. But if the United States is to continue after the war as one of the chief defenders of the English-speaking world, it must have bases from which to operate.

U. S. Must Have Strategic Bases

IN THE PAST when Britain policed the world it did so from bases “on which the sun never set.” Although Uncle Sam has no such ambitions, the Japs in the Pacific and the Nazis in the North and South Atlantic proved pretty conclusively that if he to be-an effective policeman on the beats which wii] almost certainly be assigned to him in the post-war security system he cannot do it from the Brooklyn: navy yard or Pearl Harbor, Sir Keith Murdoch, noted Australian publisher, said here: “The empire will be disappointed if the United States doesn’t take the Jap-mandated islands in the Pacific. Also some other island bases which might be arranged for.” And Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand declared while in London that the question of future defense bases, airplane bases, and territorial questions generally, in the Pacific would offer no. great difficulties as between the dominions, the united nations, and the United States.

Atlantic Situation More Delicate

BUT THE SITUATION is more delicate in the | Atlantic and the Caribbean. A big name in the United Kingdom said that while he foresaw no difficulty over bases in those waters, any American demand for sovereignty over islands where the British flag now flles “would rub the British public the wrong way.” An English-speaking bloc against the rest of the world, most leaders here believe, would be a tragedy. But an English-speaking bloc co-operating with the rest of the world—taking the lead and using its enormous prestige to keep democracy everywhere alive—might prove to be the world’s salvation. The British commonwealth is just as vitally interested in the peace of the Pacific as'is the United States. So are Russia, China, Holland, France, and others of the united nations. With a switch in names, the same is true of the Atlantic. But if the new league—or whatever the proposed world security organization is called—functions at its best, it will be because the United States and the British commonwealth police the two great oceans together,

(Westbrook Pegler did not write a column today.)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

THE CHIEF DEPUTY of a circuit court in the South, appalled by the increase in the number of divorce cases in that city, told a reporter he thought some of them could be prevented if couples had to wait six months on their divorce

petitions. He might have something there. Something that would be

especially effective at the war's end in helping to preserve some of the war marriages about which the experts are being so gloomy

Both Will Discover Other's Faults

IT IS CERTAIN that a lot of young couples, with no real background of marriage behind them, but only a few months, weeks or even days of living together before the husband left the country, are going to find marriage and each other less perfect than they imagined. . They will discover that they both have faults which don't.show up in letters, and that trying to settle down together and get started on the civilian road to success isn’t all fun. It may be harder work and call for more compromises and more understanding than either dreamed. If they get discouraged right at the start —or get to quarreling over how they spent their time when they were apart—they may decide to get divorces. But if they have to wait around for six months before a judge will even hear their case—they’ll have time to do some thinking and perhaps to work out their difficulties, especially if they are urged to live under the same roof until time for their divorce hearing. The wife's parents should be wise enough to say nothing about “coming back home to live.”

So They Say—

LESS THAN half of us know this country was not a member of the League of Nations. Two-thirds of

military supplies under reverse lend-lease.—Hadley Cantril, director, Princeton U. Office of Public Research,

WE DIDN'T pay our debt to the dead of the last war ‘when “through self-ifitérest we “let conditions grow up throughout the world that caused war for us. This is our second chance.—Eleanor Roosevelt.

IF WE FOLLOW the path of a pure four-power military alliance and embark upon the course of imperialism which will accompany it, how can we expect to see accomplished those fundamental reforms without which there will be no hope of a more stable

. . * CAPITAL MUST be made available for the sound development of latent resources and productive capacity in relatively undeveloped areas—Secretary of

LONDON, May 25.—Now is the time for the United States and the British commonwealth to

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MKEULAR POLITICAL Pow

The Hoosier Forum

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

for the voters of his district is therefore between him and a Democrat . . :

t “WE ARE HOLDING OUR LINES” By Benjamin Stevens, Indianapolis Those of us who do not see and think as Mrs. Walter Haggerty sees and thinks have been adjudged ignorant liars and traitors. What have we been traitors to, our New Deal wasters who believe in taking all they want and destroying all they don’t want? Can Mrs. Haggerty or anyone else be so ignorant of the fact that calling people liars

through the press is one of the best steps they could have taken to advertise their own ignorance. What would this good old United States be if we all saw and thought alike. It's nice we can express our

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telligent people will concede that it {might not prove wise to “change {captains in the middle of the {ocean” but regardless of that fact, | we should and we must be given the | privilege of electing our captain. | If we should, under any circumistance, give up any one of these |“unalienable rights” our cause be[comes futile. Why should we send jour youth to die for a cause which we do not feel merits sustainance? Are we going to forfeit the very (thing for which they fight?

” ” ” “CONSTITUTION STILL ON FIRM GROUND” By Voice in The Crowd, Indianapolis W. G. D. in tite Forum of May 19 expresses his opinion very well. It

views and opinions, both through| v the press and the polls at elec-| SHALL WE ABANDON tion time. This privilege is granted OUR CAUSE? by the Constitution and Bill of By Allen Sayres Vincents, Indianapolis Rights of the United States of | America, God bless seem to think the Constitution is 50 many words where it says: “I am flexible and will work to the

for either good or bad for the coun-

of people.” to vote until the war is won. It is my opinion anyone that ad-|

vocated the destruction or misuse of

or any part of them is a traitor

paying people for doing nothing. exponent of liberty. We all well know our debt is not

is & freedom-loving honest Amer- Might someday see reality. ican in this country who wouldn't

eous never lose in the end. To give that foundation is the right to se-

over in the old country and is di- and the edifice would crumble. rectly the cause for this country! Can we, as Americans, “co-oper-being at war today. ate” ourselves into a despotism It seems those of us who believe! which would indubitably arise once in freedom are doing ‘nicely; we are we forfeited our right to vote? We holding our lines both at home and are now facing the most formidable abroad. May God help us and keep enemy that mankind has ever the good work going that the world known so that we might leave to

may enjoy peace and freedom for our posterity the blessings of lib-

all time to come. erty.” I am confident that all in-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

OEY aa RD. | 25;

1 have been reading the Hoosier gem Some Forum since becoming an Indian0 apolitan four months ago, and have flexible. Has anyone ever seen in| .o. 4.4 jts articles with a certain|It tells those who govern the comjamount of complacency, for I realle’s opinions may difwish of those who may be in power oe otter Poop is By E.

: {my anger was aroused by an article try and the honest, thinking class | suggesting the abolition of our right [into our domestic life because for

One hundred and sixty-nine years tration that does not like to be re- ; ; ago, a group of statesmen convened |strained by the Constitution, By the Constitution. 4h Bill of Rights in Philadelphia to draft a document | the United States of America and Which they called the “Declaration i, pyjg personal popularity to a its people. The trouble with our Of Independence.” Some few Years gegree that would cause a large New Deal advocators has been hence, another noble document Was section of the people to forget the. brought on by the decline in their drafted. In this document, these gonstitution. I believe that they ranks at the polls during our last Statesmen set forth certain prinfew elections, They vision their CiPles by which we might elect men gion js still on firm ground. This

death in the near future. Let us 0 represent us, men who should is true if the “self-appointed guardkeep up the good work and get rid Sovern what has become the world’s

of this New Deal waste and stop greatest nation and the foremost

Those selfsame statesmen went all war debt. Billions were handed forth to fight, and if necessary, die out and wasted before this war that their dream of “life, liberty started. I don’t believe that there 8nd the pursuit of happiness,

On five occasions since similar divide his last with his unfortunate men have offered their lives that comrade; - but I and many others this nation might live. Once again, are going to object to making any Americans have arisen to conquer a more million dollar stool pigeons. force which threatened the very We are fighting for our rights and foundation of the edifice which we freedom the world over; the right- call freedom. The cornerstone of

up our rights of being free people lect our governors. Without that would be doing just what was done rock the foundation becomes weak

|“NO FISH LADDER

does seem, however, that the Constitution is much more rigid than [he describes it. There is no difference in the word and the intent of {the Constitution. It does not tell {the common man what he can do.

mon man what the government cannot do. Let's defend it. | Much confusion has been brought

11 years we have had an adminis-

various means they have attempted

| have failed and that the Constitu-

ians” watch current events, Régardless of Roosevelt's message to the T4th Congress, you cannot build 2 new order under the Constitution unless you first (by provisions set up in the Constitution) change the Constitution to fit ‘the new ‘order. Mr. Roosevelt, depending on his great popularity, told his first congress not to be too careful to fit its legislation to the Constitution. He feared and degraded the then honorable Supreme Court as “nine old men.” He sought permission to pack the court so that his own legislation would be approved. As the members of the old court resigned under the strain, F. D. R. appointed members who (approved by the then “rubber stamp” senate) did not in the opinion of many people form the best court. The “unwritten law” is the property of the lower courts which are close enough to the facts and conditions to base their decisions on the actions and intentions of the defendant. It is the duty of the Supreme court to protect the people against lower court decisions that encroach on their rights. In the Constitution the Supreme court has a precision instrument by which it can form its decisions. It is not

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OVER, NEW DAM” By John Connor, 2430 Park sve: On a recent visit to the new dam across Fall Creek I was surprised to find that the conservation de-

Fails to Name Senator Brooks

IN INSERTING the full text of the Tarkington letter into the record, Senator Jackson identified the Indiana congressman, but failed to name Senator Brooks. He said: “I include a statement made by a representative from my state, Rep. Earl Wilson, in which he suggested that the United States of America withdraw from the conflict in Europe. “Immediately after that statement became public, Booth Tarkington, the beloved Indiana author, who is dean of American letters, and of whom we have been proud of 30 years, issued an open letter to the American public. Hels » member of Rep. Wikscu's pasty 3nd 1s oui who is deeply esteemed and respected. “ mous consent to have printed in the recordsBooth Tarkington's open letter upon the pounded by this extraordinary and : gestion on the part of the representative from diana.”

In Washington

By Peter Edson

munications commission. RID to-. day maintains a network of over 70 monitoring stations all over the United States. They constantly “cruise” the ether to discover unlicensed radio stations; by longrange radio direction finders it is possible for them to locate clandestine stations in any part of the world. It was the spring of 1941 when this RID network first picked up German outlaw stations operating from Latin America, Before that time and even right up to Pearl Harbor there was no particular need for the Nazis to use secret radios, as commercial cable and radio telegraph and telephone communication channels were open to thém. “But on this particular spring night, 8 monitoring station at Millis, Mass., outside of Boston, picked up faint signals from a station attempting to hide its transmissions by operating on the same frequency as a trans-Atlantic radio telephone circuit. Through this “interference,” at the same time every day two stations identifying ‘themselves as REW and PYL kept calling each other in an apparent effort to com= ' municate. All the RID stations were alerted and by radio direction finding they established location of REW as Hamburg, Germany, and PYL as Valparaiso, Chile, The interesting detail is that RID picked up and located both stations before they were able to communicate with each other.

Girl Spy in U. S. Embassy

INTERCEPTS FROM this and other Nasi clandestine radio stations in South America, monitored in the United States, were sent to department of state, FBI, army, navy and other agencies, - In July, Hamburg queried Valparaiso: “Can you place suitable man for us among students going to U. 8. for air training?” In a message from Valparaiso to Hamburg concerning activities of a German agent named Clarke, it was reported: “Daughter of Clarke, secretary in U.S.A. embassy, Quito, since November one.” ; , 3

work was operating, but later intercepts revealed transmission of information that was to endanger American lives. Ten days after Pearl Harbor, this

own and a edge that: “. . , reports on equipment of English

and American cruisers and suxiliary cruisers exceptionally correct.” ;

gence division of the federal com-

These messages showed how the German spy net-

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