Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1944 — Page 6

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Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Own Way

’ i THE SCHOOLS DO THEIR PART, AND MORE HE Indianapolis public schools are making a fine contribution to the community, and their usefulness is to be increased appreciably through the summer program announced yesterday by Virgil Stinebaugh, acting superintendent of schools. Such a plan has been long overdue. This program calls for musical, educational and recre-

ational activities throughout the summer months. Orchestras will be organized and greater emphasis will be placed upon the Victory gardening projects in which 17,000 children already are enrolled. Summer classes will be started for both high school and elementary pupils, and, in cooperation with the park department, the buildings, grounds and gymnasiums will be made available for vacation recreation. These plans for the fuller utilization of educational plants will be continued into the regular year next fall and winter, when such activities as athletics, dramatics, arts and crafts, music and recreational reading will be offered in the after-school hours, All of this meets an acute need of the time when, because of relaxed parental supervision, many children in the city, more than ever before, need wholesome vacation and after-school activity. Not only will the program keep the children off the streets but, by turning their interests into constructive channels in their idle hours, it will enrich their lives and make them better citizens in the future. This is a real public service. The schools of Indianapolis are fully awake to their civic responsibility and are meeting it with vision and vigor.

FERMENT UNDER THE MAGNOLIAS

JTEM: Mississippi Democrats, in convention, vote to absolve Mississippi members of the electoral college from any obligation to vote for the party's presidential nominee if the Democratic national convention doesn’t toe the:line =the line drawn by the Mississippians, N\ ITEM: James A. Farley resigns as New York state Democratic chairman. Perhaps the two developments have no connection. But it is known that Jim Farley has been busy in the southern vineyards, and we don't mean peddling Coca-Cola. The Mississippi action, coming on top of similar rebel yells in South Carolina and Texas, makes it look as if the Solid South might actually turn fluid this year. And if it did, the tide might conceivably sweep away the fourthterm ambitions which President Roosevelt—last night pronounced in “excellent” health—is commonly presumed to harbor. Texas has 23 votes in the electoral college, Mississippi 9, South Carolina 8. If the November election produced a narrow Democratic victory, and most of these 40 electors cast their ballots for someone other than the party nominee (as they could do, under the constitution), then no candidate would have an electoral majority and the next Pres- , ident would have to be chosen by the house of representa-

tives, with each state delegation in that body casting one vote,

. 8 ” . » ” . IN SHORT, these Southern Democrats are brandishing a large stick of dynamite. .Some of them are even talking about negotiating with other Democrats—after the election, and before the electoral college meets in December— in an effort to get an electoral majority for some Democrat other than the party nominee, on pain of throwing the whole business into the lap of the house.

Thus the Democratic platform-makers will have a formidable job this year. If they include any anti-poll-tax plank, or any racial-equality plank, for instance, they will invite trouble with the southerners. If they exclude such planks, they're in hot water elsewhere. A convention which has been expected to be cut-and-dried may become interesting indeed. If it turns out that electors from various southern states bolt the party nominee, a lot of southerners may feel that they have been euchred out of the right to vote for the man of their choice. The constitution says the elector is a free man. But custom, which says the contrary, has the force of unwritten law. ! Keep an eye on this southern situation. And don't assume that Jim Farley, a pioneer anti-third-termer and a fervent anti-fourth-termer, is divorcing himself utterly from politics after more than 30 years. :

A GOOD MAN LOST VJ AWRENCE A. APPLEY, who has just resigned as

right-hand man to War Manpower Commissioner Me- : Nutt, is typical of hundreds of men from industry and business who have interrupted their personal careers to serve the government in this emergency. As deputy chairman and executive director of the ‘War manpower commission, Mr. Appley has struggled siduously with one of the toughest problems Washington

had to face. He has run his health down, so finally on | doctor's advice he is leaving the government.

= To him and the many like him in Washington, the y owes a debt,

THERE, HARGROVE!

i of the best things about this country is that Amer. ans can always come Pp with something funny about stance, according to a story now getting off to One of the soldiers who carried Sewell Avery

members ever actually worked; who inherited a fortune herself, and married a young man with a million-dollar background. Without having to turn a hand, this young couple had an income of more than $10,000 a year between them and lived with the husband's mother in town and country dwellings amount- | - ing to mansions at their disposal. At one stage of or WA the young husband's career, when he became a politi- ! cal lame-duck after his campaign for the vice presidency, he was given a political job with a bonding |. company at $25,000 & year, an enormous salary by any standard at any time, just for his name and connections. Frankly this was a handout. The young husband had no experience in the business, nor had he worked his way up to a figure that is still beyond the ambitions of most career men. This salary was their own, personal gain added to the income on their in- { heritance; and no biographer records that they spurned any part of it, or gave away any more than any other pair, similarly situated.

'Income Increased Ehormously and Abruptly'

DURING MRS. ROOSEVELT'S career in the White House she has developed a personal income amounting, in the aggregate, to another large fortune, This was accomplished by the exploitation of the presidential office and the problems and anxieties of the pgople who had elected Mr. Roosevelt President. It

is not harsh to put the matter so, because it is a fact | that her income from journalism, books and lectures | on the platform and on the air increased enormously and abryptly after the election of 1932. Her friends |

have said that she gives much of this income to charity. We just know that her own, personal gain has been great and that she has been free to do with it as she pleased. Meanwhile, others close to Mrs. Roosevelt, personally and politically have prospered as few have in the same time. Her uncle, Forbes Morgan, treasurer of the Democratic national committee in the 1932 campaign, which resulted in repeal, was given a whisky trust sinecure at $35,000 a year. Harry Hopkins, a career man in professional charity, and never very prosperous, went to the White House in the role of the man who came to dinner and mislaid his hat and lived on there for years better than he had ever lived in his life before, and got more pay. Nevertheless, for his own, personal gain, Mr. Hopkins sold ghosted magazine articles based on his intimate knowledge of the war on want and the war on fascism.

‘Profit Motive Was Certainly Not Lacking’

AND HAROLD ICKES, who, like Mrs. Roosevelt, has professed indifference to personal gain, also sold articles and developed a profitable practice as a public speaker. By the precedent of William Jennings Bryan, who was even mindful of his own, personal gain, and often left the state department uncovered to pick up lecture fees, this was respectable practice, but the profit motive certainly was not absent. And Mr. Ickes and others, although thriving Jfinancially, were still so frugal that when they were ill they put themselves away in government hospitals at the nominal rate of $3.25, and largely as the guests of the taxpayers, when a room on an inside court in a second-rate Washington hotel would have cost $5 a day without meals. I realize that greed is unpleasant, but personal gain is the economic outlook of almost all mankind and the very basis of the labor policy of the Roosevelt government and of the devotion of those workers who think the President has put money in their pockets and therefore praise his name. I am the more puzzled by Mrs. Roosevelt's remark because I can think of no ruling family or administration whose members were

more conspicuously devoted to the pursuit of easy money,

We The People

By Ruth Millett

A WAVE officer says that service women are rarely invited for dinner in private homes the way service men are. That is probably | ‘true—but service women shouldn't | take the matter personally. ae It is just the way of women to Fo Ree enjoy cooking a meal for a man | ‘%. ©®, and fussing over him and making | B. him comfortable. Women, of all! i ages, get a kick out of that. 3 : they don't find it in any way satisfying to bake a pie and fry chicken for another woman. That is so much true that even when a woman | Invites & couple for dinner she usually prepares the | favorite meal of the man guest. She knows that if | he likes steaks and his wife goes into ecstacy over lobster, chances are ten to one the meal will feature

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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.

“QUOTES ONLY PART OF LAW” By Vietor Hood, Marion Judge John L. Niblack had an article in the Hoosier Forum that I

would like to answer. The judge states that the seizure of the Montgomery Ward and the ejection of Mr, Avery was a violation of the Constitution and quotes the fourth and fifth amendments to prove his case. Judge Niblack, being a lawver, quotes only that part of the law that he supposes supports his case. May I ask what constitutional authority President Washington had {when in 1794 he sent 15,000 soldiers {into Pennsylvania when the people refused to'pay a tax on whisky? What constitutional right did President Jackson have when in 1833 he sent six revenue cutters and one man of war to Charleston when South Carolina sought to nullify a federal law? What constitutional base of law did President Hoover have when he ordered Gen.

out of Washington in 1932? President Lincoln in his first inaugural address said: “To the extent of my ability I shall take care as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me that the laws of | the Union shall be faithfully executed in all of the states.” I believe this statement is the constitutional base of authority all the Presidents used in the particular actions described above and it was the base of Mr. Roosevelt's authority in the Montgomery Ward action.

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once and all benefited by this action. President Roosevelt said, “I| was voted into oftice to do justice | for the many and not the few.” But how easy these things are for-! gotten by the public. Do not come back and rib the writer with the remarks that all of | these things were in the making before the change took place in! 1932, but failed to materializé be- | cause they ran short of silvertongued orators. To the who belong to this category, let me say just the reverse. The workers cannot deny that the last 13 years have been the best in a century, I am ready and willing to admit that this war has brcught to this country a false prosperity, but our people did not ask for it, and since it is here and most of us are enjoying the good fruits that have derived from it, let us say O. K. The only workers. who have not

Connally act and congress passed it| white collar or small-salaried work|over his veto, but Mr. Roosevelt, in ers. MacArthur to drive the bonus army | Spite of the fact the law had his the same consideration as the hour- 2 ething appropriate someexpressed personal disapproval, fol- ly-paid employee, but have not as Big-wigs who fry to say som Bg. eProp y

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Advance Improves Over-All Position

HERE ARE some of the ways in which the rapid allied advance north of Rome is improving the overall allied position in Battle of Normandy: 1, It prevents Hitler from shifting troops or planes to Normandy as reinforcements, 2. It tempts Hitler to draw troops and planes from his scanty ‘reserve or from Southern France to stop the retreat in Italy. 3. It creates a new allied threat to southern France, thus preventing Hitler from drawing on that area for Normandy reinforgements. The allies already have in Corsica close bases for an intasion of Southern France, which would hasten victory in Normandy and facilitate landings in the Belgium-Holland-Den-mark area by dividing Hitler's forces. But until we capture the Central Italy bases, the enemy might outflank or cut any Corsican and other allied supply lines for an invasion of Southern France.

Bases Would Open Up Balkans

4. SIMILARLY, CAPTURE of Central Italy bases would permit an allied offensive in the Balkans, the softest part of the Nazi inner fortress. 5. It can provide new bomber bases closer to | France, Germany and Austria. | 6. It is hurting the morale of Naz troops in Nore

| mandy, as prisoners captured there testify. It en-

courages the morale of the French underground and | the Balkan guerrillas.

| 7. It shakes the satellite countries, particularly | Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. And it impresses

such neutrals as Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Sweden, still sources of Nazi war supplies and espionage, By destroying one of Hitler's best armies, our

bringing total victory nearer. So don't overlook it as an unimportant sideshow now that the western invasion is on.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 10— News of the invasion put news from Washington in its proper perspective. DtDay found the capital duller than at any time gince it was invaded by Coxey's army, and there is every indication it will stay that way, till the ® beachheads are firmly established, and then some. Matters that had seemed ime portant on D-Day-minus-1, somehow have become insignificant.

Europe and particularly in the

lowed his oath of office to faithfully! yet been compensated for staying execute the laws of the United on the job as true and loyal AmerStates. Had Mr. Avery had as much jcans. However, 1 am confident respect for the laws of his country that these people will not be for-

been necessary to forcibly eject him. It was the cheapest political trick since J. P, Morgan had his picture taken with a midget on his knee at a congressional hearing.

regiment of soldiers could take over Indianapolis. (What Judge, with

it certainly does not protect people! who openly and defiantly disobey | the laws of the United States, | Judge Niblack might read with profit the so-called Smith-Connally|

dent is vested with authority to take | over and to operate any corporation, | business trust, etc, when and! wherever a labor disturbance ex-

ists or is threatened to exist whether

the business is directly engaged in! the war effort or not. He will find in Sec. 2-B that the term war con-| tract means: Sub. Sec. 3 “a con-|

But | tract, whether with tHe United Still holds the reins. | States

The fourth amendment to the Gen. yoga = pan kn 1 ® 2 = Constitution does protect the people! certainl % If the people of) against eho seizures, but| Indianapolis ever act as did Mr. “WAKE UP BEFORE

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“HOW EASY THINGS ARE FORGOTTEN”

| By T. A. Casey, 2832 E. New York st.

Isn't it queer how a few short years will change’ people? It sure is a

American people wanted and welcomed a change on the political front with the slogan “Rogsevelt or Ruin.” It worked very well and he

Before this took place the windjammers were telling the American people they would have two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage. Even these promises failed to lure the voters. Then things began to happen. Big Business was

as the President it would not have gotten by their employers.

Judge Niblack is afraid that a

| This nation is doing the same |thing our forefathers did a century land a half ago—fighting for life, | liberty and the pursuit of happiness. | [To the bigots and haters of true | Americanism this may be a queer! {world at the present time, but it is!

still the best world of all,

IT IS TOO LATE” By Mrs. B.' Nichols, Indianapolis On the corner of Pruitt and Hard- | ing ‘sts. Monday evening, I saw a boy 12 years of age smoking. I asked {him where he bought his cigarets;|

put it, against selling minors to- | |bacco. I had picked up a young! girl to take some place and she! told me her kid brother came in| drinking the other night. Sometignes I wonder if the morale of the soldiers needs lifting as bad as the clvilians. Are we so disinterested in these | children’s futures that we can't see the dangers that our future men and women are drifting into? I am not a prude, but I wonder if we

how sound and look silly. Who cares about Sewell Avery of Montgomery

| Ward and his little fight with the government over | a labor union?

Secretary of State Cordell Hull was taking a vacation which, in a way, was the most sensible activity of all. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.

| was getting ready to launch his Fifth War Loan

Drive to buy more than you did before. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal had a regular Tuesday press conference but emphasized that this was the army's day and the navy had no desire to steal the show. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, exercised commendable restraint by staying home in bed and not dashing out to the Pentagon building at 2 a. m. Gen. Marshall had the situation in hand. .

Mr. Secretary Ickes Speaks and Confer

SECRETARY ICKES had been in New York the night before, making a speech in which he said among other things that sending armies to Rome; Berlin and

the American but of course he would not tell me.| “Tokyo would do no good and that this country would mystery. Back|I heard an older boy explaining to] make certain its own defeat—unless religious and race In 1932 the vast majority of the him that there was a law, as he

hatred were wiped out. Arriving in Washington around ngon, Mr. Ickes came to his own office, then went to Capitol Hill to confer. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard was out of town. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones made a few extemporaneous remarks and then crawled back into his usual seclusion. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones was doing business at-the usual two stands, with a calendar full of appointments, seeing a lot of people on routine affairs, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins worked on her budget in the morning and had some international labor office people in for lunch. :

steak.

Mr. Roosevelt vetoed the Smith-

first to be heard to say, “Save me, I come first.” Action was taken at

won't all suffer from this laziness We are enjoying now. I can't help

Service Woman Has Glamour

THEN, TOO, there is another reason for women's not being too anxious to invite a service woman for Sunday dinner, The service woman today is a glamorous creature. She is as much a strange being as actresses were in grandma's day. And chances are she is young. So wives, hating competition as all women do, are loathe to have these glamour girls in uniform around, They are probably a little afraid that a housewife might look somewhat drab beside a skirted sergeant, If women are slow-to invite service women into their homes, thése are probably the reasons. And it isn't because the wouldbe guests are service women— Just because they are women.

So They Say—

BEER AND GIRLS and a friendly home atmos. phere are what the (wounded) men want most,—Mrs, Horace T. Greenwood, national chairman Convalescent Service, & x * . * . * ONE OF THE foremost longings in the heart of every American soldier and sailor is to come to a real job in a real American enterprise. He doesn’t want a government dole. He doesn't want the government telling him what job he can have or where he must work.—Gov. John W, Bricker of Ohio,

istic, Russia's conduct as communist indoctrination, and say unkind things about China and our other allies lack the great attribute without which complete success can never be attained, and that is faith. ~—New York Supreme Court Justice

THE SKEPTICS who term England's acts imperial- |

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but remember that just a few years ago that boy was just a baby. Now that méther failed him. What is happening to us that we do not see

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THERE CAN and should be peacetime use for all

that our laws and ordinances pro-| hibiting the sale of tobacco and liquors to minors are not enforced? Let us wake up before it is too late. » » J “SOUNDS EIKE POPPYCOCK TO ME”

most logical for the leadership of the Indiana Republican party which : out emphasized hatred for the New Deal and President Roose-

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and had to walk out on his own feet, ator Bennett Champ Clark introduced a couple of

War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson hurried back ta Washington from Detroit by plane, canceling what he had intended to be some important conferences there. But the war production board's regular Tuesday meeting had been called off, too, and there wasn’t much for Mr. Nelson to do. He has been planning to go to Mexico to give the Mexican government a postwar plan, although nobody in Washington has been able to find out very definitely what the U. 8. postwar plan is, if any. .

WLB.Grinds On’ As Usual *

THE WAR LABOR BOARD chairman, William H. Davis, is in Hawaii to advise the army on what to do about the labor situation there. In his absence, the board was in session, grinding away as usual. War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V, McNutt put out a canned statemeht in the morning, telling everybody else to keep on working to deliver the goods to the boys over there. Then he went on working himself, at whatever it is that a war manpower commissioner does. Up on Capitol Hill, Sewell Avery drew a poor house

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