Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1944 — Page 6

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Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE SENATORS DISSENT ATTORNEY GENERAL BIDDLE remarked a few weeks ago, in the Montgomery Ward case, that “no business or property is immune to a presidential order.” He made a number of other assertions, all adding up to the judgment

Seweil Avery and take over the mail-order house. More lately Mr. Biddle, perhaps chastened by criticism, told the Ramspeck committee of the house that there was “room for disagreement” concerning the legality of the seizure. And now, on the other side of the capitol, a senate subcommittee has expressed just such disagreement in no uncertain terms. The subcommittee, headed by Senator McCarran, says Mr. Biddle's opinion advising the President that he had power to seize Montgomery Ward contained “erroneous, misleading, irrelevant and immaterial statements.” Hazy as the constitution and the statutes may be on borderline questions about the President's wartime powers, there is no doubt that a strong body of opinion in congress and in the country is skeptical of the glibness with which the obliging Biddle seeks to bestow excessive powers upon his boss. Regardless of the merits of the original dispute between Avery and the C.I.O., there is ample “room for disagreement” with a Philadelphia lawyer who prefers sergeants to judges for administering the law as expounded by himself.

WITH CLARK IN ITALY

"HEN Gen. Clark's 5th army was united at the Pon"tine marshes, he said it was the happiest day of his life, That meeting of the Anzio beachhead forces with those which had broken the Gustav and Hitler lines was the symbol of the total victory to come. Not that there are any illusions about the job vet to be done. The Germans are in slow retreat, but they are not routed. They still have the advantages of mountain terrain, good morale, and wily leadership. They were clever enough to escape Clark's pincers on the coastal road, as they have withdrawn from other traps up the mountain line. They are still 17 divisions strong.

other place; it is to wipe out those 17 divisions and, if possible, to force Hitler to divert more trogps from Western Europe to die in Italy. That is why the heavy toll taken by the allies in this new campaign is more important than the territory reclaimed, ” » o o ” ” SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON has pointed out that a 60-mile advance in 14 days by the 2d corps of the 5th army was due largely to replacements having their

ing can take the place of combat in seasoning troops, ap-

that in its rigorous and realistic training. That should continue to show not only in Italy, but also in the big west-

land will be going into battle for the first time, against enemy veterans.

in Italy. It was erroneously assumed that very large allied | forces were engaged, and their fighting ability was judged | accordingly. As a result some began to wonder whether | Hitler could be defeated. This was especially true in the wavering satellite states.

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political and military effects in the Balkans.

CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS ACQUITTED

IF federal court at Pittsburgh a jury of six men and six |

a U. S. Steel subsidiary, of all charges of “faking” tests | for steel plates used in war production. The verdict was returned in such a manner as to indi- | cate that all the jurors were fully convinced, on the basis of the evidence, that the corporation was guiltless of the charges made against it by the government and aired previously by the senate’s Truman committee, The corporation and its employees having been acquitted by an impartial jury after a fair trial, CarnegieIllinois officials are entitled to interpret the verdict as a |

acknowledge that some of the fest reports had been “made | up,” but contended that no harm resulted, that the gov- | ernment was not defrauded, and that no defective plates were ever shipped. In the light of the verdict and assuming that, in this case, the “making up” of test reports was | harmless, it does not strike us as a commendable practice, | nevertheless, and we trust that it has been stopped. When our fighting forces are involved. no chances, however remote, are justified. And now the government and the corporation had best forget the trial and concentrate on the job at hand—maximum production to win the war.

‘LE PETIT FLEUR’

ANYONE who ever read a perfume ad will understand why the New York City Board of Estimate acted as it did in that matter involving Coty, Inc., the perfume peo- . ple, and Mayor La Guardia. Coty’s, as you have read, offered $25,000 for the privilege of broadcasting the mayor's - weekly “talks to the people.” The board turned them down. What undoubtedly prompted the board’s-action was the ‘mayor's first name. Fiorello, as you know, means “little wer.” But the perfumers, following professional custom, would certainly have translated it into French. First thing

himself being announced as

his honor knew, he'd he Petit Fleur.” goo Then they'd probably name a perfume after him. Just what the commercials would be: “The zestful fra. ice of an effervescent personality . . , the tantalizing

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Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; adjoining

that President Roosevelt had a right to sick the army on

The main allied objective is not to take Rome or any |

first combat experience. Though soldiers agree that noth- |

parently our army has now come as close as possible to |

ern invasion—for most of the troops now waiting in Eng- |

Allied prestige suffered from the months of stalemate |

Continuing allied victories in Italy can have major |

women has exonerated the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., ||

“complete exoneration,” ‘which they do. The company did |

Schibsby. At the bottom of the back page, devoted to literary criticism, there is a mysterious notation ‘reading “FPI, Atlanta,” which would appear to mean “federal penal institution, Atlanta,” or, in other words, that the federal prisoners there, undér the jurisdiction of the department of justice, are scabbing a commercial] printing job in competition with free | labor and the free, unsubsidized press. ‘Diligent, if Mediocre, Propagandist' AMONG THE BOOKS reviewed in the April issue, under the title of “Readers’ Guide,” is one which, considering the author's background is of unusual interest, not to say significance. For the author of this work, entitled “The Proud People” and described by an anonymous reviewer as “an interesting addition to the growing body of literature about the American scene” is Kyle Crichton, who, under the altas of Robert Forsythe, has been a diligent, if mediocre, propagandist of the Communist line for many years. Crichton has two personalities. In one he writes harmless and undistinguished articles for Colliers’, | mostly non-political ess&ys about actors, Hollywood { and such frivolities. In the other, as Forsythe, he has been for a long time a member of the changing list of emotional slummers who served the purposes | of the Kremlin the Daily Worker, the New Masses and the late publication Fight, whith was the organ | of the League Against War and Fascism, a Communist | organization of which Earl Browder was a vice president. As Forsythe, Crichton wrote an ephemeral proCommunist book called “Reading From Left to Right,” with illustrations by a cartoonist who regularly served the party line in the New Masses and the Worker, and another called “Redder Than the Rose,” which was listed with approval in the Communist party's “Guide to Reading on Communism.”

‘Critical Approval and Free Advertising'

THE BOOK PUBLISHERS in the United States turn out about 10,000 titles a year and the page of literary criticism of this department of justice publication has room for no more than three or four

devoted entirely to reviews of magazines, not books. Nevertheless, out of that enormous volume of new books, the department of justice selected for critical approval and free advertising a book by a man whose | record should be in the files of the FBI, if it is true that the FBI does keep records of those who have been hewing to the line. However, although the FBI may actually have a | complete and factual directory of such individuals and their associations, declarations and activities comparable to its record of pro-Fascist and pro-Nazi conspirators, it does not necessarily follow that its reports would be respected as to Communists and pro-Communists, even in the department of justice. Thurman Arnold, when he was an assistant attorney

general in charge of the anti-trust division, was asked

| whether he knew in what branch of the department | a well-known young Communist lawyer had. landed | a job. Mr. Arnold said he had never heard of the man, who was then discovered to be in his own anti-

| trust division, but later got a better and more | influential] job. |

‘Subject to Suspicion and Discount’

| IT IS for such reasons, including the appearance | of Communists in the office of war information, who | were supposed to have been certified by the FBI, { that the FBI's report cleansing a long list of government officials and employees named by the Dies committee has been subject to suspicion and sharp discount. Now the department of justice, at the taxpayers’ expense and apparently through the use of prison labor, is offering a government-subsidized press and making propaganda for a writer who, under another name, has himself been a propagandist for communism in the Kremlin's long conspiracy against the | American government,

We The People

By Ruth Millett

SOME TIME AGO I wrote a column urging parents to let their sons spend their own furloughs, instead of spending the furloughs for them, by lining up family dinners with all the distant relatives included, dragging the tired men

i around to see people they don’t LH care anything about, and so on. ; i Today a letter came from a { marine in the South Pacific sayA ing “Thank you for explaining

something to our parents that we couldn't very well explain to them ourselves.” And then he went on to say that he thought he would get a furlough soon, but that there were so

go so fast he was hoping against hope his family wouldn't have a lot of things lined up for him to do.

Don't Parade Him Around

HE WAS anxious to get home—but he wanted home to be the way it was when he was a part of it. He didn't want a lot of extra fuss made, and most of all he didn't want to be paraded around and made to talk about the fighting he had been through. It is kind of pathetic, isn't it, to think that men who have dreamed of home for a year or two get afraid when their leaves are about due, that somehow those leaves won't be just as they want them? A family can make it all right if they'll remember just one thing, “It's Johnny's furlough—and nobody ought to try to spend even a small fraction of it for him. It's his to do with exactly as he dreamed he would.”

To The Point—

A WIFE is a person who gets so mad at her husband she cries on ‘his shoulder. =

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BENITO MUSSOLINI is said to have decreed a new flag for Italy. It would be appropriate to run it up to half-mast right now. 3 . . . > LISTEN TO the neighbor next door taking them down and you'll understand why they call them storm windows.

8. ; — A PET regret is that we have but one vacation to spend in our country—and no gas to get there. * - LJ GEN. MacARTHUR and Adm. Nimitz met to plan blows in the Pacific. A spring get-together tha means a fall apart for Japan. : » ; 3 » . . - THE 1944 BATHING éults are on display. Go down to the to swim.

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The Hoosier Forum

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

{ “REMEMBER THIS IN NOVEMBER" | By John D. Heron, war veteran, Indianap5 | The more a person reads the ar-|

[ticles written by so-called thinking ' people of this, a modern city in the

| most advanced country in the world, |

the more one wonders where these people were in the old high school] (days of political science and other | courses of city, state and federal] | government. The general trend seems toward | a rather fanatical attitude of wanting their names in the paper and the other half leans toward taking| a crack at some various and sundry | odds and ends which used to be]

known and respected as an Atlantic|

Charter, the Constitution of the] United States and the Bill of Rights, | I would suggest that some of these upholders of our so-called rights | and privileges should take a short! {glance at the public library's col-| lection of American history books. | It is amazing just how much wool | can be pulled over some people's | eyes and yet they beg for more of the same. To try and be basic and not bor-| ing, I do think that a number of | people realize fully that our gov-| ernment runs under three very good checks and balances, namgly the congress, the supreme court and last but not least the President of these United States$ Everyone of any age remembers the rubberstamp congress of a few years back, | and the same people who are crying about taxes and loss of dear ones remember too well the good old man-ruiner, the WPA. The $64 question to rake over old chestnuts is why, when we appreciated the fact of a need for lend-lease and financial backing for a world conflict- and we had the necessary money and man-power, did we not prepare when two of our checks were working nicely. Farsighted- | ness is one thing I give the President credit for, but he must answer in November why this tremendous loss of manpower and money could not have been set toward at least half-way measures of preparedness? I've done my stretch at a threeyear army career and in this time, along with ten million other boys, I have seen a few things here and there which are better not mentioned in this still time for wholehearted co-operation, but in the mind of every right-thinking Amer-

jand girls, along about 1949?

(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 responsi. bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

ican the question is bound to occur as to why we could place ourselves in a position where thousands of men can strike for their rights and yet other matters can be settled in an orderly manner (R. R. strikes of this year). The laboring man has benefited in plenty of ways by these so-called

reforms but will that feed him and |

his family, plus the returning boys The man who has to clean up this mess of what was spent for nothing in the dole lines and then has to turn around and pay for another costly mistake of lending without putting up his guard is the same old boy, John Q. Public, who earns now about $200 per month. Let us remember this when we vote next November. Vote while we still have something worthwhile to vote for. ” » » “DOES GOVERNMENT HAVE THE POWER?”

By Walter Frishie, Secretary-Treasurer, Indiana State Industrial Union Council.

Saturday, May 20, a Times editorial took issue with our request that the United States intervene to end defiance by the New Indiana Chair Co., Jasper, Indiana, of the authority of the WLB. Your theme seemed to be that

‘the WLB, the attorney general, the

President, congressional leaders and the statute books simply do not give evidence of any authority for the government to enforce compliance with the WLB order. The editorial writer doubtless knows the facts of life; there is

Side Glances—By Galbraith

| For the past five years I have

little excuse for his overworked coyness., The issue in the New Indiana Chair case, like the Montgomery Ward case, is succinctly this: Does the government of the United States have the authority to protect itself by acting to prevent or end employer-labor disputes, especially during a crucial war? That the government does have this power, that it lies in the hands of the President, is a simple historical fact. Theodore Roosevelt in 1902, forced the arthracite coal operators of Pennsylvania to agree to submit a dispute to a commission by threatening to take over the mines. Woodrow Wilson used his authority to seize factories; Franklin Roosevelt has used it. The power that the President is given by the constitution, the basic law, has been intepreted and used so that by the end of Wilson's administration, the President of the United States in an emergency or war period is the most powerful executive in the world with this important footnote—that his powers come from a constitution that also limits his tenure and that popular support is essential for use of these

pOWers. { Franklin Roosevelt, in spite of all the fuss raised by Mr. Howard's pa- | | pers, has used his tremendous pow- | |ers much more sparingly than Mr. | Jackson, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt or Mr. Wilson. | In January, 1942, by evecutive order, the war labor board was estab‘lished to assist in the peaceful set-| tlement of employer-iabor disputes. | The economic stabilization act and! ‘the Smith-Connally act, recognized the authority of the WLB and gave {it additional duties. It was never given power to enforce its decisions! except to refer them to the President. But the fact that the public, {labor and business were equally represented in making all decisions | imade it inevitable that the great! majority of all unions and businesses would obey its directives. | The Times obeys the WLB: so do 999 out of every 1000 employers. | If an employer or a union refuses {to obey a WLB directive, then the | WLB can only refer the case to the | President who can try to influence | the obstinate employer or union and who, when all else fails, can fall {back on his wartime or emergency powers as President of the United | States, administrator of the laws, icommander-in-chief of the armed forces and take over the operation of the plant. This power has been used sparingly and carefully. That is as it should be, but if Montgomery Ward, the New Indiana Chair Co. and others may openly defy the authority of the board and the laws of this land, we can be thrown into economic chaos. The WLB's effectiveness will be destroyed and our country may very well be riven with struggles at a time when each of us should be conducting only one war, the war against the axis, ” ” . “THANKS FOR THE LETTERS” By W. E. H, Indianapolis

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Was 'Whip Without a Cracker’

“NEARLY EVERY family in Indiana has someone directly involved in the war,” he declared.

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are fighting that there are not some Hooslers on hand, “So in my opinion the vote this year will be to up-hold the commander-in-chief and back him with a congress dedicated to do so.” Mr. Greenwood was majority whip in the 73d cone gress. Walker Stone of the Scripps-Howard News paper Alliance wrote about him at that time ang termed him “a whip without a cracker.” It didn’t take much cracking to be Democratie whip back in 1934. For instance, there were 12 cone gressmen from Indiana and the whole dozen were Democratic. Those were the days when there was nothing synthetic about a Democrat rubber-stamp, If they didn't go along they had to quit or be ousted, An example in that congress of what happened to a maverick was Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill, who was then Democratic congressman from South Bend, When he no longer could stomach the New Dealers he just didn't try for renomination. He has been working with Republicans since and at one time headed the finance committee for the national Ree publican organization. The South Bend district now is represented by Republican Robert A. Grant,

Says F. D. R. Has Kept Prices Down

“THE WAR has proven President Roosevelt right

"on both his foreign and home front policies” Mr,

Greenwood maintained. “While the opposition has fought against his measures, he has succeeded in keeping prices down and conducting the greatest war in history, with production at all-time peaks, with very little inconvenience and small sacrifice for civilians, 2 “I'm convinced that the people appreciate thag fact.” Mr. and Mrs. Greenwood visited their son who is an army major here. Another son is a sergeant and a son-in-law in New York also is in the army, They left here to go to New York for a visit with their daughter and grandchildren.

Phony League By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, May 20.—Y¢ the British government succeeds in its plan to put the league of nations under control of the big powers, it will wreck any chance of genuine international organization. Such a thinly disguised balance of power system is opposed not only by most of the small united nations and by

States. Secretary of State Hull ree peatedly has opposed that system, and so have rep=-

| resentatives of different Republican groups such as

Senators Taft and Ball. Congress itself, through the Fulbright and Connally resolutions, has insisted on the kind of Democratic international organizae tion pledged by the Atlantic Charter and the Mos-cow-Hull pact. Yet Prime Minister Churchill in his Wednesday

report to commons proposed “a world-controlling council . , . comprising the greatest states,” and “a world assembly whose relations to the world executive or controlling power for the purpose of peace T am in no position to define.” Note the word “controlling.” This of course is in line with the continuing refusal of Britain and Russia to permit the smaller united nations to share in present policy decisions regarding European settlement, and in violation of the Moscow pact.

‘Same Thing in Different Words'

FOREIGN MINISTER EDEN in his. Thursday statement to commons, while disclaiming any idea of a “three-power dictatorship,” proposed virtually the same thing in different words: “Since its (the world organization) success must depend on the power of the organization to enforce its influence for peace, it must be built around the four victerious great powers.” His “five principles” for it included no mention of the equal rights of small‘ nations. Certainly Mr. Churchill and Mr. Eden are well aware that the United States has not deserted its pledges. On the contrary, the two most recent official statements of American policy specifically insisted on the equal rights of small nations. Secretary Hull in his Easter declaration of policy said: “Essential understanding and unity of action among the four nations is not in substitution or derogation of unity among the united nations. Nor do I suggest that any conclusions of these four nations can or should be without the participation of the other united nations. . . . A proposal is worse than useless if it is not acceptable to those nations who must share with us the responsibility for its execution.” That is the exact cpposite emphasis from the

Churchill “controlling power” by a. ‘council comprise .

ing the greatest states.”

Stressed Rights of Small Nations

SECRETARY HULL again in his Pan-American day address stressed that the principles of equal rights for small nations, which are the basis of our hemisphere agreements, have been written into the allied pledges: “They were stated in the Atlantis

‘Charter, the united nations declaration, and the

declarations made at Moscow. Specifically it was agreed at Moscow. that membership in the world security organization must be on the basis of the sovereign equality of all nations, weak as well as strong, and the right of every nation to a govern. ment of its own choice.” "The Umted States is officially committed by cone gress to that kind of Democratic world organization, Therefore the United States never will join the

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