Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

MEMORIAL DAY THROUGHOUT most of the states today, Americans will do honor to the men whose lives have brought us ad far along the road to victory, There is no need to urge the solemnity of this Memorial day, for no one can be insensible | to the increasing debt that the nation owes to them and | to the others who, with tragic certainty, must follow them | hefore the-end of that road is reached. This is a day of American homage to American fighting men. But it does not seem inappropriate to the spirit of the observance that we should remember at the same time the soldiers and sailors of allied and occupied nations vho have died in the common. cause. Let us lock back at other Memorial days of this war. May 30, 1940, was perhaps the blackest day of the blitzsrieg. The retreat from Dunkirk was at its height. The | allied armies were shattered and fleeing. Nothing stood | in the way of onrushing Germans,

= n o ” ” A YEAR later Dunkirk was being repeated in Crete. | Nazi paratroopers had driven the British into the sea, Nazi | planes were bombing the transports that rescued the rem- | nants of the defenders. The next Memorial day found America and Russia in| the war. That day one Japanese submarine had sunk an | American ship off Seattle, another had shelled Australia, | The Nazis were completing their occupation of Kharkov and the Kerch peninsula. But that day, too, the tide began to turn as more than | 1000 British planes bombed Cologne. » ” » ” 5 ON MAY 30, 1943, great fleets of American bombers were over France. On Attu, American soldiers fought with | rifle butts, bayonets, knives and fists. By the end of the day the Jap defenders were annihilated. The men who fell at Dunkirk and Crete, at Pearl Har- | bor and Bataan, at Kharkov and Sevastopol, died in desperate, bitter fighting for what may have seemed then a | hopeless cause. But the blows they struck, with what weapons they had, made possible the turning tide and the victory that will come. Let us remember them, all of them, and the men who | must give their lives today and every day until the enemy | _ is finally crushed. And let us honor them with honest | ~ efforts to speed this war to its end to secure the world from | the horror of its return.

WHOSE FAULT IS IT? THERE is nothing the people of Indianapolis would appreciate more than a little co-operation hetween the various law enforcement agencies of Indianapolis. All were | elected for the same purpose, to enforce the law: all have | sworn an oath to do so. They have a duty to the citizens of Indianapolis that is greater than any personal feuds or alliances with political factions. And there cannot be effective law enforcement here as long as the police, the prosecutor and the courts are working at cross-purposes; under such conditions, as any ene may see, criminals prosper and the people suffer. An example is the charge made vesterday by police officials that their case against the Washington Athletic club, accused of gambling, has collapsed because the 17-year-old boy who was their chief witness has been released by Judge | Mark W. Rhoads of juvenile court, who ordered the vouth | returned to his home in Hudson, Mass. Judge Rhoads says that he disposed of the case promntly “because I don’t like to have boys of this age stay in jail \ very long.” He explained that, after acting on the case, he | ordered the youth held in jail a week longer to give the | police a chance to bring the gambling charges to trial.

» 2 ” » ” a IT IS UNDERSTANDABLE that the judge should not want a juvenile offender kept in jail, along with hardened criminals, longer than necessary. But a judge of a juvenile court owes an obligation not only to the individua) offenders who come before him, hut to all the vouth of the community, as well. He, if anyone, | should be interested in seeing that the conditions which are | responsible for the crimes that come to his attention should be corrected. He has power, if necessary, to punish those | who contribute to the offenses that bring young boys and || girls into his court. | If the police charges are true in this case, not only the judge but all citizens should be greatly concerned. If there are places where a 17-year-old boy can gamble until he is forced to make up his losses by stealing from his

employer, those places should be closed. They should be | . closed for

breeding ground for crime. And no one should be more i . . Interested in seeing them closed than the judge of a juvenile

—rourt, who-every-day-sees the tragic-evidenee-of the forces that corrupt youth. )

“ . ” r on o ” 1 ( ERTAINLY will not stand for a young boy being held in jail while all thos

n- jal se gamblers are out running around loose,” said Judge Rhoads.

We agree. But whose fault is are running around loose?” Is it the police? They have made arrests, the cases thrown out of court the complaining witness, punis it is reasonable to assume th as Judge Rhoads to see the tried promptly. do not set trial special judges. Whose fault is it, then? Is it the prosecutor's? i Is it the court's? Isi Is

it that “those gamblers

only to see with no one, except possibly hed. In the present instance, at the police were as anxious Washington Athletic club case But the police do not prosecute; the police dates; the police do not ask for, or name,

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( the sake of other boys who may become crim- | 3 nals through this pernicious influence. Such places are a a

labor, or unionism. The next day

i one editorial on labor.

essays have political implications, and this is election year.

‘Labor News Ahead of Other Topics’

AT ANY RATE, I think our people have jumped labor news and comment ahead of other topics which used to interest them much more, such as sports,

which once were almost mania with us, and murders |

and other crime,

We are now familiar with the personal and politi- |

cal histories, characteristics and connections of many union bosses who 10 years ago were only background figures and people are beginning to realize that these

| few men, not more than g hundred high-ranking

officials, with absolutely no mandate from the voters, have more power in this country than all the state governors put together and, actually, up to now, more power than congress.

The reason why they have more power is that, first |

they have millions of dollars to spend to defeat in-

| dividual governors and individual senators and con-

gressmen in isolated contests, and second, have the backing of the national government, meaning the administration, and the friendship of the supreme

court. The governors aren't organized together on a |

national front and if a congressman is knocked off in a primary or election by union money and propaganda, the others just say, “Tough luck. pal,” and, pull in their necks. Jot all the rest of them, but most of them.

'We Might Just as Well Fold Up'

SOME PEOPLE have said to me that the public and particularly the women are sick and tired of labor stuff but what I say is, “The hell they are,” although they may have been once. But, if so, we

| might just as well fold up the republic and slide into

naziism or communism. It makes no difference which because these few men have absolutely no regard for our rights as citizens and are hell-bent to take over the country with a sub-government operating under the protection of the administration. For example, they think nothing of passing an economic death

sentence on a citizen for violating a union oath, taken under duress, for appealing to the public courts against a union sentence or for attending a meeting of discontented members to organize a rival faction. Some of them came here as young refugees from oppression, themselves, along about the time of the last war but went out soap-boxing around New York for a revolution to louse up the Promised Land instead of enlisting in the army to fight the enemy of the Promised Land in France. If they had got away with their revolution the Kaiser would have won the western front and probably the Promised Land would have gone the way of Russia for the next 25 years but nevertheless, today, some of them are up to their eyes in American politics and putting themselves up as leaders of the American working man and woman. Others -are just common crooks, others native gang politicians of the true Tammany type who tolerate crooks just as a Tammany boss protects gamblers and jury-fixers, and other dictatorial ignoramuses who rule with the gavel and the bat and, for an

actual fact, don’t know enough about the freedoms |

which they babble about in speeches written for them by their prostitute publicity men to realize that they violate those freedoms every day.

'If They Win, the American Workers Lose’

IT HAS BEEN a long and repetitious process, teaching the American people what unionism is under the New Deal laws, what its powers are, who is who among the bosses, how they line up in their rivalries, which are the Communists and how they operate. And, most important of all, how the whole gang of them. with the greatest financial power in American politics have interposed their authority between the people and their constitutional, financial, economic,

civil and human rights. With the exception of the Mine Workers, an absolute dictatorship under a tyrant who-has an ex-convict, a burglar, on his governing board, and the Carpenters, a greedy, sprawling shakedown ruled by a family dynasty, they are all in the Democratic party. They are out to win and if they

| win the American workers lose, for there is no reason

to believe that in a fourth term President Roosevelt would permit any more impairment of their powers than he has permitted in the past, amounting, in all, to Just exactly none.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

A MARRIED American soldier has illegitimate quadruplets by an English girl—and there is no great hue and cry against him. His children are even titled to -support by American taxpayers. News columns are full of stories about people in Hollywood and cafe society circles whose marriages and divorces are so frequent that you can hardly keep up with them, but public opinion does not condemn them as immoral. Yet, when a group of people believe it is all right for a man to have more than one wife, they are hauled into court and convicted of unlawful cohabitation, the maximum penalty for which is five years In"prison-—They are condemned as criminals, despite

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the fact that they are ving quite happity and quietly,

according to their own confirmed belief,

Public Disapproves of Polygamy

SOCIETY HAS very good reasons, of coutse,. for condemning polygamy. Certainly chyrch leaders have been conducting an active fight against divorce abuses, Yet the public, exhibits a strange blank spot in its attitude toward violators of marital morals. Society considers it all right for a man to have as many wives as he wants—so long as he lives with them one at a time. ' But decency is outraged when a man, with the full consent and approval of the women themselves, is the husband of several women and the support. of their children. : : He could marry the same woman and it would be all right, legally and in the public's eye, if he finished with one before he took another. married to one and have affairs with the others, and a large segment of the public would pass it off lightly as none of its business. a he says, ook here. I want to

women, supporting them

‘the New York Times had two stories on Page One, three on Page 10, plus two jumps from the Page One pieces, one on Page 16 and

This was just an average run of labor news and comment and it suggests to me that, next to the news from the front and perhaps the news of the political campaign, it is the most important topic of the time in the United States. However, you can't separate labor, or union, news from the political matter because some political stories deal with labor and most labor stories, editorials and

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be married |

The Hoosier Forum

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

“TO SAFEGUARD THE VOTER'S RIGHT” { By James RB. Meitzler, Attica The lady who wanted to do away with the 1944 election says congress

gave the soldiers the runaround and that the Roosevelt bob-tail ballot was the only honest one. Now an honest ballot is one which indicates the voter's choice and the election boards can accept. If she will read the federal and state constitutions she will find that neither congress or the President has the right or the power to limit or define a ballot. { That right and power lies in the 'state legislatures. Every election ‘board in Indiana would, by state laws, be forced to throw out uncounted as fraudulent the bobtail ballot she and the President wished to impose on the soldiers. The Australian ballot and registration were designed to safeguard the voter's right to an honest ballot and election. Before that time voters could be given marked ballots and the boxes stuffed. An uncle of mine, home on a furlough from the Civil war, once told me how he voted for Lincoln at Avon and Pittsboro and could have voted again at Brownsburg only he thought twice was enough. Who could guarantee that the Roosevelt bob-tail ballot was genuine or represented anyone? It was announced that the soldiers received 20,000,000 packages and 6,000,000 letters before Christmas. | five-pound package to be sent to leach soldier by one sender every | week provided the soldier asks for {it by letter. That is 52 letters and | 52 packages per year. Ernie Pyle, in his column, told of eating fried chicken, sent in a quart mason jar,

| with Sgt. Bazzel Carter of the 5th

|army in Italy. Sgt. Carter was re- | ceiving three packages a week, one |from his mother, one from his sister and one from his cousin. If the soldier wants to vote, he surely can ask for a ballot and if

{the army, navy or postoffice can

carry all these letters and five-

| pound packages to and from him, |

{it surely can carry a legitimate ballot to and from him, one that the election boards can count.

2 = “DESPERATE PLEA FOR MERCY”

By Battle-scarred Bus Rider, Indianapolis

This is a desperate plea for mercy from one who has been pushed, shoved, mauled, trampled, pummeled and beaten to a pulp by the impatient swarms of people trying to get ahead of other people on busses, on elevators, at the meat counter and off and away from same, Now, Hoosiers are an ambitious people, anxious to get ahead and. if possible, to be a “first” in a particular “fleld of endeavor. Byt when they apply their natural am-

| stitution,” Bill of Rights, Magma

(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 correspondence regarding them.)

| bition, backed up with plenty of

brawn, toward being the first ones {on and off the aforementioned conjveyances and the war-torn battle{field of the butcher's counter, then, in my opinion} is when they could use a little of the well-known Hoo-

sier philosophy. What if they can't

quite make it to the open door

ahead of the little old lady with the (17 bundles. If they should stand aside and take their turns, they {could assume the ‘pious face of a {real homespun philosopher and | conclude that while the early bird gets the worm, who wants a worm ranyway? The fact that someone else has philosophized likewise

So, why not line up at such congested points and spare the tem-! pers and bodies of the present victims? Take your turn, Hoosiers, ani remember “he also serves who

{only stands and waits ’ | | ’ =»

“DO YOU THINK ‘A IT WOULD HELP?”

By E. L. Mobley, 4411 Evanston ave. |

| After reading the articles in the! Forum for the last week or two, I have noticed the greatest dispute was over the Constitution, interpre-| tation and understanding of the, people. Your motto “Give light and the people will find their own way," fits in with an idea that came to,

(me when reading the Forum. |

May I suggest that The Times! start a column free from all po-| litical discussion in which the Con- | Charta and other documents of! American interest be thoroughly! explained and discussed along with | their values and effects on people! living in this nation and under such | documentary laws, It should profit, | not only the naturalized citizen to’ better understand his country, but also help the American horn citizen to better appreciate their responsi-, ‘bilities and make them all the more | capable of governing themselves. Do you think it would help? I! would like to know other's opinions about this matter,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

shouldn't deter a Hoosier. | Postal regulations allow one |

4 Follette and Ludlow. senators when

stop being a leech on society, '

“SHE BURIED HIM BY OUR GARAGE” By Just A Soldier, Somewhere in Italy When we, the soldiers of the U. S., came over here to fight, we left our homes, property and loved ones in care of the best pedple‘on earth and the greatest country in the world. We still think the same, and will always put our trust in the people back home, but I cannot put much

.o tion of industry ; 3. Limit and confine the OPA to about 40 essen tial food items. 4. New price ceilings must reflect any wage in. creases. 5. A single agency to control all matters of food production, price and rationing. .

Would Exempt Perishable Fruits

MR. LANDIS is chairman of the fresh fruits ang vegetables subcommittee of the Republican food stud committee. He is introducing an amendment plums, apricots, melons, lettuce and tomatoes from the price control act, he said. “Highly perishable fresh fruits and vegetables must be exempt from price ceilings,” Mr, Landis explained. “Perishable fresh fruits and vegetables cannot be hoarded. They must be eaten day by day. If there is a scarcity of one individual item, which causes the price to go too high, the housewife usually passes it by. A scarcity in such items is usually caused by frost or a drought. Low ceiling prices on a scarce item will force it into the black market. “Even the present bureaucrats cannot build up a large enough organization to prevent black market { operations. If these highly perishable foods were lefg | on an open competitive basis they will flow through legitimate channels.

‘Price Ceilings Have Failed’

“PRICE CEILINGS in the past have failed in this business. There has been too much bungling and delay In establishing these price ceilings. Last year we had a difficult time in getting a price ceiling on sour cherries before they spoiled. It took too long to get ceiling prices on fruits and vegetables that were to be processed. OPA officials made a ‘mess of the strawberry crop this year and, now, they are about to put the melon growers out of business. “This year many farmers had to plow under their fresh vegetables because of low price ceilings, the high cost of harvesting and increased shipping exe penses. These farmers cannot afford to market their crops at a Joss. Our farmers have had a difficult time

confidence in a person or persons that will poison the dog of a! soldier, My home is in Mars Hill and the dog was a pet of mine and great’ company for my wife.

and he was cute as the devil. So

today, telling me Butch had been! poisoned and had died. She buried | him by our garage at our home -t| 2602 Holt rd. I think all of the people around there knew he was! my pup and that I had raised him. I can't understand why anyone would want to kill him. I and my! buddies think we could very well! get along without those people and hope, when this war fis over, we won't have to go back and meet anyone so demented. As you see, I am highly “cheesed off,” as the British would say. If You run this letter in your Hoosier | Forum, I hope the guilty party or parties read it.

~ » ” IN THIS COMMUNITY" By A Citizen, Indianapolis to our principal law-enforcement ances in} this community? The ite Swan | sifted to the bottom. And then the Cangany, Joseph Rolland and Herald Weidman, where one of the! was selected as special judge. , . Mr. Blue says he is going to in-|

“WHAT IS HAPPENING What is happening case is a scandal that should %e! case of the State against William attorneys in the White Swan case] vestigate. If memory serves me cor- |

rectly, he has said this on many occasions during the three and one- | half years he has been prosecutor, | and peculiarly, in most of those in-| stances the same deputy, Mr. Blum, has been the man whose acts were to be- investigated. Nothing has ever come from these investigations. Incidents like these create disrespect for law-enforcement agencies. This is a dangerous thing. Mr. Blue and Judge Bain

cannot escape the responsibility that is theirs, Ld “AIN'T IT SO, MRS. HAGGERTY?" By H. L. Smith, 2937 Hillside ave. Mrs. Haggerty, after reading the | letter by Spartacus, you and I both | must admit you are wrong. But not as wrong as Spartacus would have us believe, He took up quite a bit of space and the reader’s time to enumerate four different points which are practically off the subject. First, he speaks of Wisconsin's Progressive senator whose name happens to be LaFollette. Then he takes nearly 100 words to tell you that Mr. Ludlow is a representative, Your mistake is very simple and I'm sure many people, even our intellectual Republican friends, have had the same trouble. You merely called La-

they are, in reality, representatives. We Democrats are beginning to notice that the Republicans will make the most of anything they can get their hands on. Ain't it so, Mrs. Haggerty, ain't it so? . » ” “SHOULD BE PLACED IN WAR WORK” .

By J. P., Indianapolis .

He was a! little beagle and was harmless. We | had trained him to do several tricks!

in getting gasoline, tires, farm machinery and fertilizer to carry on their work. “One of the main reasons for so much confusion is that we have too many bureaucrats and agencies handling the food problem. What we need is a &ingle food agency and let the farmers alone to run their own business and we will get the food to win the war.”

you can see what a blow it was! {when I got a letter from my wife

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, May 30.—This is a story of Robert H. Keys, founder, president and spark plug of the Foremen's Association of America whose strike of 3300 fore= men tied up production of six Detroit area war plants recently, put 30,000 workmen on the street and, according to Gen. Henry H. Arnold, cost the army air forces 250 planes. It is a good case his tory of how and why industrial relations sometimes go wrong. Keys is 32 years old, married, has two children. He was born in Cincinnati, went to. high school for two years, took a year's course in the Ford technical school, went into the Ford plant in Detroit and soon became a foreman. He is of medium height, pinke cheeked, clear-eyed, neatly dressed, soft spoken, grammatical. He has never been fired from any job and he has no grudges against management. He got the idea for the Foremen's Association of America back in August 1941. He was, he says, sick and tired of seeing good foremen in the Detroit area called into the office, handed a check for a couple weeks’ pay and summarily fired. He was tired, too, of seeing the ways in which labor was sometimes kicked around. and of the ways some labor didn't give management a good day's work. He thought that if he could form a professional association of foremen, the men who were in the middle and could see both sides, he might be able to do a little toward correcting some of the things that were wrong with defense production,

Ford First to Sign Contract

HIS IDEA caught on. The Ford Motor Company, last to give in and sign a contract with the United Auto Workers, was the first to sign a contract with the Keys Foremen's association. Henry Ford himself recognizing the importance of the foremen in produe« tion. Chapter No. 5 was formed at the Packard Motor Car Co. A relatively small company before the war,

it had expanded tremendously on government con-

tracts. Also Packard was having trouble with {ts foremen, who were mostly on straight salary. When the Merlin engine plant went on three-shifts, 48-hour week operation, a lot.of the foremen just didn't show up on Sunday because they said they weren't getting paid for it. They joined the Foremen's Association of America by the dozen. Initiation was $3, dues $1 a month. There has been one special assessment of $3. Keys says charges that he is backed by U, A. W. or anybody else are false. When the Packard chapter had enough members Keyes says he went around to bargain. The management told him to never mind taking the case before the national labor relations board—the company would hold its own election and let those results govern future relations. The management wanted to draw up an agreement on the election, exempting certain supervisory personnel. Keyes, asked who, and they named 12 general foremen and superintendents,

‘Keyes okayed those 12, and the agreement was written

up. How- thePackard Strike Started

“THERE,” SAYS Keys, “I learned my first lesson.” The election was held off company property on one of the coldest days of last February. The foremen stood in line for several hours waiting to vote. Instead of exempting 12 supervisors, the company challenged 89 votes. In spite of it, the Foremen's association won the election 483 to 2. : Negotiations began. “There wasn't anything too good for us,” says Keys. “They wined .us and they dined us and they took us on picnics.: We were the heroes of the production line. And then on May 11 the national labor relations board handed down its decision in the Maryland Dry Dock case, saying that foremen were part of management and not entitled to the rights of collective bargaining, and the Packard management said, ‘Sorry, boys, you see, the govern. ment says we can't bargain!'”. © : : And that's what led to the strike at Packard,

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