Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light end the People Will Find Their Own Way

VICTORY IN ROME GEN. CLARK and his 5th army entered Rome amidst Italian cheers and German bullets. The welcome of the populace was partial compensation for the expected Nazi treachery. For weeks the Germans had sworn that Rome was an open and undefended city. The Pope had asked the allies not to attack. But Nazi tanks and snipers killed the first Americans entering the city. For three hours Gen. Clark held back his army to allow the enemy to escape and spare the city. Most of the enemy did escape, while the Nazi rear guard kept up the fight. So much for the responsibility for making the eternal city a battleground. » ” ” LIBERATION of Rome—the first European capital to be freed from Hitler rule—is a great political and “psycho‘logical victory. It is a symbol of future allied victory. As such it will weaken morale in Germany and throughout the enslaved continent, especially in the Balkans. Moreover, it should hasten the cleanup of the internal political mess behind the allied lines. The discredited king has promised to retire in favor of his son, and the military dictator, Marshal Badoglio, also has indicated that he will get out. Badoglio still may cause trouble and the crown prince has little support. But, with the capital restored, the anti-Fascist parties already represented in the Badoglio cabinet should find it much easier to establish a democratic interim government pending complete national liberation and a national plebiscite.

. ” » ” . » FROM A MILITARY standpoint the capital of Rome is of secondary importance. The major allied objective is to annihilate the German army. That job remains to be done. Most of the 18 to 19 Nazi divisions have escaped the allied trap so far, though the figure of 20,000 prisoners probably will increase within the next few days. . The allied armies have smashed three German mountain lines which Hitler boasted could not be taken. The Nazis fought well from superior defense positions, byt the allies outfought and outmaneuvered them. In 23 days our offensive swept forward 75 miles, and the Germans are still on the run. To Gen. Clark and his valiant Yanks, and to Gen. Alex- | ander and the troops of the united nations, all honor for | the liberation of southern Italy and Rome.

FLASH!

HEN the invasion actually does come, that “Flash Eisenhower's headquarters announce allied landing in France” is likely to stick in the A. P.’s throat. But recalling a previous incident—to be exact, 26 vears ago come Nov. 7 next—we are disposed to be tol- |

10Udd By Westbrook Pegler

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Wo during the dictatorship of Huey Long, he might have told the editorial writer to turn the matter over and consider other possibilities, .including the interests of the clothing and necktie trades which would be in jeopardy and worth saving at some cash outlay placed under a stone by a bayou bridge, five miles out of Baton Rouge.

"Interests Relied on His Discipline’

THIS MAY, indeed, have been; as the Times suspects, a low-comedy bill, such as often drop into the hoppers of the state assemblies every year, or even an honest, if unconstitutional, protest against discomfort imposed by convention. Still another possibility, however, the Kingfish recognized when he said, in his day, that he could buy and sell the members of the Louisiana legislature like sacks of potatoes, and not necessarily at the market price for good potatoes, and in the interests of efficiency, decreeds that all shake bills were to clear through him. That did simplify matters while the Kingfish lived, for the petroleum, shipping and soft drink interests relied on his discipline and thus were spared the need to haggle with individual up-country clay-and-acorn eaters and runners for books and cribs of New Orleans who, ordinarily would have gone after extra money in a manner honored by time and legislative practice, if not by ethics, the country over. But Huey Long lies moldering in his grave; his speaker

an elaborate manner of speaking, the United States

whether for better or for worse we do not know,

‘Utterly Practical, Knowing His Statesmen’ |

IT IS optimistic, to be sure, and good policy, to | assume that this bill was offered as a protest against | the heat of the Louisiana summer and those who cannot join in this assumption surely will not refuse to hope. But a realist of reminiscent mind may permit himself to speculate how much it would be worth to manufacturers apd dealers in coats and ties to protect their market during one-third of each calendar year, bearing in mind that Huey would have reckoned this down to a fine figure and settled out of court for a free-will contribution to his Share-Our-Wealth society, ) I have sometimes wondered whether Huey was the cynic I thought he was, or I was at fault myself. He was utterly practical, knowing his statesmen as a small-scale farmer knows his swine, and he had reached the sensible conclusion that, with his superior intelligence, there was no sense in trusting them. - It

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Where Did They Get These Ideas?

THE SMITHS want air conditioning summer and winter;

according to family requirements. They are cone fidenf that all these improvements will be available within a year after the war's end. And here's the payoff. The Smiths won't buy or build ‘unless they can have at least the first three of these improvements. Now, where did the Smiths get their ideas for the post-war house? From stories and advertisements, most of which, it turned out, originated outside the building industry.

Better to Face Facts and Redesign Dreams

The Hoosier Forum

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

“WARD CLEARLY THE AGGRESSOR” By W. G. D., Indianapolis

“LET'S ALL QUIET DOWN"

By Thomas C. Whallon, 414 Peoples Bank bldg.

Today you published number 68 of volume 55. I was one of your salesmen of number 1, volume 1. The price then was 1 cent a copy.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controvérsies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be

gomery Ward, Judge Niblack cited

amendments. What the judge and| {much of the press failed to do was, to give us the facts concerning the

would be wasteful and disruptive to permit each threatened interest to deal individually with the members, whereas he, a man of his word with power to keep his pledge, could do business briskly in the governor's office while that gentle servant played spit-for-a-crack with the commissioners and fly-cops down the corridor, He rewarded the statesmen on a sort of week-pay basis the year round through jobs for their indigent kinfolks, commissions on state pure chases and per diem and mileage for the theoretical committee work. I thought otherwise, but I was thinking of ethics and ideals which had no place in the problem. So Huey surely was right to the extent that, under the known conditions, his way was more

| efficient and more profitable to all concerned.

Played the Clown, but Never the Fool

HE MIGHT not have permitted such a bill to |

come out of the box at all for, although Huey sometimes played the clown, he never played the fool. Mussolini, in his early days, forbade the Austrians of his conquered lands to yodel but still they yodeled under their breath and Huey would have realized that rebels in Louisiana, forbidden to wear coats and ties, might hold secret meetings in the woods to defy him

| in wholly unnecessary expression of his authority.

Moreover as a practical matter, he might have

signed. Opinions set forth here ere those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

case which are of some importance, too. About a year ago when the mines were idle, an enraged public de- | manded congress to do something, to get John Lewis. The Smith-| Connally bill was the result. The act empowered the President to take over any plant equipped for the manufacture, production or {mining of any articles or materials

Forty-five years ago last Satur- | day, I defended my first client on la criminal charge. Since then as | attorney, deputy county prosecutor, city prosecutor, judge, once by appointment and twice elected, I have participated in approximately 200,000 criminal cases. I think I can speak with authority, We have an exceptionally fine police department. We have a fine and ¢apable

Discussing the seizure of Mont-|

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outfit of enforcing officers, both city and county, in the prosecutor's trait, if planted in receptive hearts, offices. Our Judges are outstanding cultivated by kindly attitudes and ph op 0 hore sid Bn brought to fruitage through friendchanges. All these judges have ly ministrations, becomes the only been responsible to their political basis for the peace we all earnestly

Non-partisan election of desire. that ' re-| As many enthusiastic groups have

| parties, judges would eliminate |havoc. Nominate honest men on devastating wer to a successful end.

{both tickets and nothing can ad- 50 Must those who are lovers of iving in, Peace organize and work to secure

{versely affect us. We are 1 a speeded-up tempo. We see things : WH ap ong and cry for it whenever it is launched. new legislation. The average per-|C2DNOt be won or peace maintained

| esponsibility and I believe cause been formed to help bring this

and insure a happy continuation of Wars

| by wistful-wishing, prating-prayers,

{which may be required for the na-| tional defense ov useful in connection therewith in case a labor dispute exists whicn may lead to substantia] interference with the war effort. Under the act the President, steps in when th2 WLB (fails to! bring desired results. The President didn't ask for this special power. .: Congress went on a rampage and; passed it over his head, Invoking this power, the Presi-| dent took over the mines, forcing! Lewis to negotiate who won some-| thing less than he had originally, demanded. The Smith-Connally, act provides no other means for!

Xx erant, and then age mellows.

We can't forget completely, however, the way the A. P. poured it on in those days. And, incidentally, the U. P. didn't make use of anyone so convenient as a girl | teletype operator. The boss assumed such responsibility | as was involved. So we'll just dismiss, with a couple of homilies and a rule, this episode of the false landing in France as chronicled Saturday afternoon by the Associated Press. Homily No. 1: the radio are not perfect—and neither is the human race. Homily No. 2: No explanation explains the need for ane, Rule No. 6: Don't take yourself too seriously.

‘LIBERTY FOR ALL’

SECRETARY HULL'S ringing defense of small nations | and their liberty was significant just because it was :pontaneous and extempore. He and the President have aid the same thing repeatedly in the measured tones of diplomacy and the careful phrases of state documents. But our elder statesman, speaking straight from the heart, vas more inspired and inspiring. We hope his words will be heard around the world. For he spoke for America. The words he used are~the | words of Americans on the farms, in the factories, in stdres, m the streets and in the homes today—the old cyy for 1uman liberty that our forefathers raised so long ago, that 1as been handed down as the great American tradition. We hope that Prime Minister Churchill, who is so wise n so many ways and so tragically wrong in this, will hear ind heed the warning, not only for the sake of small iations, which will never willingly accept the dictatorship of Britain and Russia, And not only for the sake of America, which will have no part in any such balance-of-power imperialism. But also for the sake of Britain, which can find no peace and no security in such a war-breeding system, When America joined with Britain and our allies in ‘he Atlantic charter, the Hull-Moscow pact and other pledges for equal rights of small nations, we meant it. For, as Secretary Hull said with spontaneous fervor on Thursday: “We have for 150 years preached liberty to all the nations of the earth, to all the people of the earth, and we nave practiced it. We have encouraged all nations to aspire to liberty, and to enjoy it. Our attitude toward the Philippines is a striking example.”

BIRDS OF PASSAGE AN American war correspondent in Italy is of the opinion ~~ that the taking of Cassino was not so much the result of reinforcements and more guns as it was of the effect of Ir as againdt rain, marigolds versus mud, its, t0o,! the French forces’ feeling that

t may have influenced the Nazis, 1 Italian tourists all winter. But, any, the defenders of im-

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decided that because so few Louisiana men do wear coats and ties in summer the trade would have been unable to carry a pay-load on a negligible market.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

FOR YEARS we have been hearing about how many “neurotic women” there are around. Any time a woman wasn't ideally

office she was dubbed a “neurotic woman.” The term was used so much that the general public had the idea that only women were neurotic. And then came the draft. We discovered that thousands of men suffer from psychoneurosis, of one type or another. Many of them slipped by examining boards and got into the service, only to be discharged when it was found they couldn't adapt themselves to army life,

Got Along in Civilian Life

A LOT of them were getting along fine in civilian life. Their jobs didn't demand too much of them, and they had doting women folk on whom to lean— a mother or a wife or a sweetheart who could make them feel important and who could smooth out their difficulties for them. But when they were thrown entirely on their own, torn away from the kind of life they knew, they couldn't make a go of it. Now the general public, as well as the psychiatrists, realize that being | neurotic isn't a feminine complaint like the oldfashioned “going into a decline ” Now that we've realized that, maybe we'll be less inciined to dismiss all of modern woman's unhappiness and poor adjustment with the phrase “just another neusotic woman.” Maybe we'll wake up and take as much interest in the mental and emotional health .of individuals as we take in their physical health. Since men, too, are neurotic—there must be a reason for it. When we thought only women were— we could dismiss it as just a feminine weakness, not important enough to worry about,

To The Point—

THE NAVY will continue to prohibit the serving of beer on war vessels. Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink—of beer!

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JUNE 18 is necktie day, or Father's Day—it’s all the same.

A CIRCUS man says the price of giraffes has gone up since the war. Darn the war, anyway. 3

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~ A BANQUET is to be held in an Indiana town at $25 a plate and no It's a bargain.

son does not know what a terrific enforcing WLB orders than the one’

lor hapless-hoping, unless such is

happy in her home life or in an!

amount of work our courts have on| hands and when some one or two| cases misfire, they cry that some-| thing is wrong. The best of cooks} sometimes burns a meal. That does| not mean the cook is poor nor the food bad. Let's all quiet down and give some thought to the good] qualities of our officials and commend them for things that we may see of which we approve,

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By Jamer W, Cory, Dunkirk To all friendly folk, and to all those who want lasting peace after this holocaust is over, I make this appeal: Only fleeting peace can come to any people who hurriedly lav a temporary foundation. A peace to be lasting must be laid carefully and patiently upon the bedrock of friendly relationships. No legal formalities embossed upon “mere scraps of paper,” embellished with ribbons and flourishing signatures, can accomplish this most desired result. Any peacé agreements must be, based upon the rock-foundation of sincere friendliness. This desired

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the President used. i Montgomery Ward was clearly the aggressor in this case. The firm| signed a contract with the union a| year ago under protest. When the! | contract expired the firm refused to] renew. The workers struck. Both] sides had hearings and, in spite of! a five to one ruling, the firm re-| fused to renew. The firm. claimed] that the union was no longer repre- | sentative. The NLRB was ordered to! call for an election, and the firm! was also asked to extend the con- | tract for 30 days. The firm defied this order too. The President ordered | the firm to comply; the firm re-| fused; the plant was seized. Mont- | gomery Ward has asked for 36,000 preferential war priorities on the grounds that it is a distributor of! essential farm equipment and maintainer of services on that equipment as being vital to the war.

backed by carefully organized, sin-, cere effort. So, let us all band to-| gether to strengthen and make permanent the peare-bonds whenever this terrible thing has come to a Peace can only maintain through and careful cultivation of; peace-ideas in the minds of the people. This can be done by the! tedious process of forming friendly habits. The world needs a “Fellowship of Friendly Folk.” A group far-sighted enough to lay plans now

only through organized effort that this most cherished condition can come and continue, Let us of the U. S. band ourselves together, having no motive other than the promoting, of peace throughout the nations. This pro-, posal is no fiy-by-night thought, nor is it a scheme to make money, os promulgate some pet theory; but an honest attempt to make peace permanent. It can become a reality through the efforts of sin- one, and does over a half billion cere friendly folk. Let us help put dollars in business. Not bad for a good earth back into friendly ways little country store. Mr. Avery is and keep it there. Out of future chairman of the board of directors, friendly communications may come The NLRB condemned the firm four the peace so universally needed. | times for unfair labor practices. In

employees, several thousand stores) represented in all the states but

all four cases the circuit court of appeals found the firm guilty. Judge Niblack says the nation was

Side Glances—By Galbraith

| shocked at the sight of Mr. Avery | being carried out of his office, Why, Judge, these shocked people are the very ones who urged the passage of i the act in the first place. Perhaps | they think it is a good act when (applied to labor, but not so good | when applied to employers. You say a regiment from Ft. Harrison could take over Indianapolis. Well, Judge, if Indianapolis with its vast war contracts defied the WLB, defied the government, defied congress and defied the commander-in-chief, what should be done, cite the fourth and fifth amendments? You shock us, Judge. ”

The members of the 11th District

Montgomery Ward has some 80,000}

THE ASSOCIATION canvassed most of the sources and came to these conclusions: There is no basis for thinking that the Smiths will have the “revolutionary improvements’ they want at the time they expect them, or at the price they wan$ to pay. Some of the new materials are now on the market, but at the present stage of development, most of them are more expensive than the traditional materials. None are available in lower-priced dwellings. Dreams of such things as electronic cooking and heating are groundless at present; other innovations seem destined for an evolutionary growth over a period of years. All this is important, since the building industry offers one of the most hopeful sources of immediate post-war job opportunities. Byt there will be no

| healthy “boom” if a disillusionéd public, misled by | impeactical prophets of quick miracles, thinks it's

being cheated. It's better that the Smiths face the less glame orous facts and redesign their dreams—then go righ$ ahead with their building plans,

Anxious Nations By William Philip Simms

LONDON, June 5.—United nae tions spokesmen here express sate {sfaction over the news that the Big Four may soon begin discuse sions of a new international organe jzation to make the pease secure, but their pleasure is not undiluted, There is considerable anxiety, especially among the smaller members, that one day they may find themselves confronted by a series _ of accomplished facts fatal to their sovereignty, territorial or other they would have to acceph

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but Almost without exception the small nations hold that. so far as the allies are concerned, the war should end as it began, territorially speaking. At the peace table they could discuss and make changes.

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More Scraps of Paper?

FEW TAKE the position that Europe's boundaries —which have been in a state of flux for 2000 years— are sacrosanct. They do {A*, however, that for one ally to fix the lines to suit itself by unilateral deci. sion, or for a group of allies fo take similar action at the expense of another would be immoral. They assert it would be tantamount to declaring that the Atlantic Charter and Pacts of Moscow are phony bits of paper. To start out to rebuild a new league of nations on such a foundation, say the spokesmen for these small nations, is unthinkable. America particularly has always stressed the importance of justice to the weak and small, no less than tn the great and powe erful. The small nations therefore are now more than ever looking to her to champion their cause not by force, of course, but by her moral backing, They hope America, Britain, Russia and Chins will not suffer them to be dismembered and then invite them to enter the International Palace of Peace and Justice in tatters. They want first to be invited to come in while they are whole and to arrange such matters as frontiers afterwards.

Poles May Seek Formal Guarantee

THE POLES say they are perfectly willing te discuss all outstanding issues with Moscow, including the question of boundaries. They do not like, howe ever, arbitrarily to be shorn of Eastern Polamd and then be told they can have East Prussia and perhaps other slices of Germany by way of compensation, Moreover, they contend that Poland's eastern and western boundaries are quite separate problems—not just a single horse-trading population. Accordimgly, both should be thoroughly threshed out at the end of the war, they say. In fact, they don't relish being saddled with an eastern European Alsace-Lorraine for which eventually they would have to fight to retain, If the United States, Britain and Russia acquiesce in such a swap, the Poles probably will insist on 8 formal guarantee of aid in case they are attacked, Poland, of course, is the test case. But there are others—the Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, for example. 80 now is the time, it is pointed out, for America and. other members of the Big Four to make clear their positiohs. This time Europe expects the United States to go through with whatever commitments it makes in the intere national field.

. x = 4 “WISH TO THANK INDIANAPOLIS” "Sara. Ralph ‘Kate, dleiriet porpy chelr. So They Say— man, an s. E. P. an, publicity : 5 A £ chairman Indianapolis : : :

WHAT (POSTWAR) NEED will there

be for large numbers of paratroopers, machine po }

OUR MATERIAL POWER today is not exceeded

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stitution, would r Senator Jackson That is the “ for the Democrad to be held in Inc 16. Cornelius O burg is to be short « term (Nc nomination for t! - Rep. Ray Madde the convention k Pays Hi Senator Jackso to the governor i ment as follows: “With the Der vention less tha '1 feel that I st nounce my cand of Indiana. “It would be : the same ticke Schricker who nounced - his c¢ United States sei “The press of | make it impossi turn to Indiana vention campaig: 1 am confident tion will fill o .ceptable men ar « “With Govern standing record popularity, and + our best in a ca .to war times, 1 will be given a by the voters of | eral election in

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