Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Own Way

E-DAY FOR INDIANA -DAY for America came last week. On that day, the forces of the united nations launched their great assault against the occupied continent of Europe. And today is E-Day for Indiana. Today the people of this state will begin their concerted campaign to meet a $281,000,000 quota in the nation’s $16,000,000,000 fifth war loan drive. E-Day stands for the $100 Series E war bond that each citizen is asked to buy, in addition to his regular allotment, during the crucial months of June and July. E-Day stands for the effort that the home front must dedicate 100 per cent to the support of the men who are fighting on the plains of Normandy. D-Day has brought home to us the importance of our | own E-Day. The landings on the continent were successful | because the courage ‘and skill and determination of our troops was made effective by the best weapons in the world, massed in a volume unprecedented in warfare, War bonds bought those weapons—but D-Day was only a beginning. In the days to come, as we meet the main forces of a desperate Germany, as we fight our way mile by mile to Paris, to the Rhine, to Berlin, many more guns, more tanks, more shells, more planes, more trucks and jeeps, more of everything will be needed. E-Day will supply them—if we meet the test. o ” » Ld . » OURS, BY FAR, is the easy task. The men on the beachheads face bullets, flame, bombs, cold steel and shrapnel. We listen to swing bands. They are at grips with a relentless enemy. We entertain movie stars. They go hungry or bolt down a field ration that sustains but does not satisfy. We attend patriotic luncheons. They march long hours and sleep on the ground, they storm pillboxes, they crouch in a ditch as the strafing planes zoom down. We write a check. They give their lives, their limbs, their youth. We only lend our money. Yet all their sacrifices and their hardships, great as they are, will be in vain unless we do our little share. They need our help, they need our best and our utmost. Is there anyone who will deny them that?

A LIBERAL ITALIAN CABINET

HOICE of the underground democratic leader, Ivanoe Bonomi, to head the new Italian government vindicates our state department’s much maligned policy. Our government has been charged for months in this country and England with favoring Badoglio and his ex-Fascists while London and Moscow allegedly were taking a democratic tack. Of course the contrary has been true. When the showdown came last week in Rome, it was the Communist Leader Togliatti and the British who joined Prince Humbert in trying to keep Badoglio in power. But five of the six anti-Fascist parties—all, that is, except the Communists—refused to accept office under Badoglio when Humbert invited him to form the new coalition cabinet. They insisted instead on naming Bonomi as premier, This was an American political victory; not because he was our man—the state department had no candidate— but because we have stood for the right of the Italian people to pick their own government. Pending the liberation of all Italy, which will make possible a national plebiscite, a free choice hy the recognized leaders of all the anti-Fascist parties in Rome and Southern Italy is the closest approximation possible to representative government. It is a great advance beyond a premier hand-picked by the discredited monarchy, ex-Fascist militarists, and the London and Moscow governments. |

WHETHER BONOMI is the best man available is not

the times but it will arouse no nalists or ballplayers of the old school, and I doubt that any veteran traveling drummer will wish the lady well. That is not the way the game is played. You don’t try to collect for personal Injuries when a sportsman bleeds your nose in a friendly fight.

‘Beautiful Examples of a Peculiar Art'

AUDITORS, IN their peculiar way, are not bad. Their job is to detect not larceny so’ much as stupidity, and some have been known to glow with admiration for beautiful examples of a peculiar art. If a war correspondent with Pershing's column in Mexico lost $125 in the poker game and the item showed up as the price of one horse shot from under him by skulking Villistas, the auditor might know privately that the reporter had an expensive curiosity and a weakness for inside straights, but pass it, nevertheless,

But if the correspondent had two bad nights and

charged $250 for the horse, the auditor was justified in faulting him for sheer laziness. He should have

{ had the energy and personal pride to split it up

into two entries, accompanied by receipts, of $125 each, separated by several other items and dates, such as “Mess bill, May 8 to 15, $84.50.” “News tips from Mexican peons, $35, May 11,” and “Share of cost of presentation sword for Capt. Patton, May 14, $40.” An auditor has a right to demand a little plausibility.

Of course auditors do vary but mostly they vary

according to circumstances beyond their control. If |

the paper is frugal, the people know it and reckon their expense accounts accordingly, A rich and extravagant paper has another set of values and higher expense accounts, although the two men may share the same foom and the same taxi and bot@ patronize the same chili parlor for their meals.

'Got Away With Murder on an Assignment’

AS A YOUNG REPORTER in Iowa on a very economical paper, I got away with murder on an assignment to a hamlet called Cambridge, where a little boy was reported to have been murdered by a neighbor through the cruel and unusual device of stuffing him down a post-hole. The fare was only 80 cents, fixed by law, and subject to no liberties but I belted them good with 75 cents for a room overnight and $1.25 for dinner and breakfast. The farmer who found the little boy in the hole put me up on a sofa in the parlor and fed me night and morning because I honestly assured him we would print a picture of him in his wedding suit. The $1.25 for meals really amounted to $2.50, for I would have spent that much anyway had I remained in town. However, we didn’t print the picture because the little boy hadn't been shoved down the hole at all, the dirty little liar. He climbed down, himself, and couldn't get out and there was nothing wrong with him that couldn't be fixed by’a good licking. So the story made up to nothing more than a little item back among the electric belts and goiters. That farmer and his family probably believe to this day that our press is utterly untrustworthy.

For ironic contrast, many years later, a city editor whose name will ever be revered, wired me $500 in Miami and bade me gamble illicitiy and write a fear less denunciation of wantonness in a prohibition state For two nights fortune mocked me and I ran the $500 up to $800, and won, even at the slot machines. Meanwhile, however, champagne at $24 a bottle, and caviar, and burning cherries in candy liquor at $3 an issue, plus couverts at $5 each for “self and party” as the stilted expense account phrase has it, helped toward a balance. And then I really did get caught in the spokes and disposed of the nest egg with ele gant grace. But it was an ordeal. Had I won a

but the city editor had been a reporter, himself, and he still respected the fine old manners and customs of the craft.

‘Original Gibbons Suitable for Framing'

I NEVER SAW a Floyd Gibbons expense :uccount, but an original Gibbons would be suitable for framing, for Floyd had grandeur. His uniforms were beautiful, his leathers aristocratic and where another man might have hired a Model T or a camel to cross the Sahara, Floyd qrganized a caravan. Where others telescoped phrases into frugal gibberish Floyd expanded, using “the's,” “and’s” and punctuation, and filed only at urgent rate. He said the Chicago Tribune expected its representatives to maintain its prestige and he never let it down. John McGraw said the same of the Giants when he set a new social scale by lodging his club in the best hotels. But, for contrast, other teams got a mean allowance of $2.50 a man per day and some of the athletes saved $1.50 out of that and

so important as that he is representative. But from this distance he appears also to have other qualifications. He has proved his democracy by risking his life in leadership of the underground. He has proved his intelligence —*1 am not inviting Badoglio to join my cabinet, because | I have no place in it for anybody who has been compromised |

by fascism or connected with fascism in any way.” And he | is experienced, having been liberal premier before the Mussolini dictatorship.

It remains to be seen whether the Communists, the |;

old monarchist-militarist crowd and the puppet prince— who was almost assassinated when he appeared in Rome— will undermine the new democratic regime.

CONGRATULATIONS TO LABOR

EN. EISENHOWER can chalk up at least one back-home objective gained in his assault on France: ‘ The war labor hoard, for the first time since its creation, had a docket entirely clear of strikes Friday.

BUREAUCRATIC IMMUNITY

A NEW YORK housewife hired a young woman as parttime maid through the United States employment service. A few minutes after the maid reported for work, . the housewife went up to the roof for a sun bath. When #he returned both the maid and a purse containing $18 were gone. ~The housewife, who had forgotten the maid's name, called the USES. She was told that it would be against ations to tell either the figme or address. Only in the ent of an infraction of the social security act, violation of e federal income tax law, forging a social security benefit eck, or illegal action by a social security employee could information be given out. Not even the FBI could ge USES from that firm stand, which was backed up by € War manpower commission. : : Mayor LaGuardia called the regulation “cock-eyed.” and then some. We also think that the regula-

ore someone, tempted by this |

{ showed up for work so weak from malnutrition that

they could barely make a single out of a hit that

{ should have been good for three.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

THERE HAS BEEN a lot of fuss made about the young girls who are marrying in wartime. But what is actually much more serious is the wartime rush of boys and young men to the altar. According to recent statistics more than three times as many boys under 20 were married in 1942 as in 1939. And that is something to worry about. For actually the girl who marries in her teens has a good chance of turning into a successful wife and mother and of making a go of her marriage, Homemaking is a job a girl can learn as she goes along. And by the time they are 17 or 18 many girls know that marriage is

the only career they want. So they are glad to settle |.

down in homes of their own,

Robbed of Career Training

BUT THE BOY who marries when he is under 20 will come out of the war faced with the responsibility of supporting a wife, and perhaps a child. Chances are he won't be trained for any job in which he can get ahead, and the necessity for going to work ime mediately will keep him from getting any training. He'll have to put his nose to the grindstone and keep it there the rest of his married life. So the girl who marries a boy under 20 is really gypping him and herself in robbing him of his chance to get his job or career training before he takes on the support of a family. The marriages in which there is a boy husband are going to have harder going than the marriages in which there is a girl bride, Yet it is the girls who get all of our concern.

So They Say—

WITH ALMOST 12000000 men in uniform and

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thousand dollars, the auditor might have been pleased, |

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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.

“WHIPPING IS QUICKER” By Herbert W. Walter, Union City

The reason why so many of our young folks go wrong can be traced directly to the mothers. I say mothers because it is- they who are with them more during their formative years. What do I base my conclusion on? The answer is my experience as a teacher in various parts of the Buckeye state, my visits to homes of the pupils and my associations with the members of the local communities where I taught, Many of our mothers have gone through the school of hard knocks and it has done them good. Nevertheless, they often lack a certain measure of firmness and are quite unwilling to guide their children along the paths which they were obliged to follow earlier. Parents and especially mothers, should whip their offspring to check bad habits. The punishment will hurt, otherwise it would not be punishment. It will do no harm if Mamma is sure she is right and does not become angry. If a child were hurt or ill, a remedy could be found quickly. Should a parent become worn out when she whips her child she will be punished more than the child. Besides, the young one will soon realize the fact, A youngster has a conscience which is often much keener than an adult's is, When he does wrong {he knows it. He will love and respect his mother the more if she

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only person left in the U. 8. A. with jconfidence in the chief executive { who is either Communist or Fascist. | The facts are that I am neither. Nor am I a political historian nor {a Drew Pearson. But here is political history most of us are old enough to remember. i These same Rickards, Maddoxes! and Horace Greeleys of the un-| bised press antagonized the self-| thinking voter into supporting Mr. | Roosevelt in ’36 and in 40 by | harping on trivial matters such as Eleanor's travels and the Scotch name Mr, Roosevelt gave his dog, | but forgetting entirely banking] insurance, social security and the remarkable record of our own army |

behalf of the working class. It was an act of a powerful state machine disciplining a recalcitrant capitalist corporation that was endangering the usefulness (to capitalism) of the existing unions in keeping the workers and their demands in check, I fully agree with the Socialist Labor party's conclusion that the capitalists and their congressional toadies are primarily alarmed because the seizure of Ward's revealed that private property is not so sacred, And even though the capitalist class can appreciate the disciplining of a recalcitrant member of its class, it is deathly afraid that the~fdea that private property is not sacred may take hold of the working class. Such an idea would challenge class rule and cause the workers of the nation to organize politically and industrially to eject and lock out the whole capitalist class —but for good, - s » “LET US VOTE FOR FREEDOM” By Edward ¥. Maddox, Indianapolis Since. the soldier and sailor vote may decide the coming election, let me point out the vital issues involved. First this war, as far as our fighting men are concerned, is a battle to preserve, protect and defend our constitutional rights, our own freedom and to help other peo-

metes punishment - for misdeeds. 'and navy under F. D. R.'s command. P'¢ !0 escape from totalitarian de-

{Whipping is quicker and more ef- |

fective. » n »

| “TACTICS WILL MAKE POLITICAL HISTORY”

And my prediction is that these | very tactics will make political history in ‘44 repeat. Like the man in the Occidental bldg, I am not a fighting man,!

By Victor Loehr, Greenfield

either; but I was in 1918. I was

spotism and socialist slavery. Now, since socialism is the parent of every totalitarian dictatorship in existence today and since the New Deal is a disguised form of social-

{ism, what will it profit our soldiers,

sailors and airmen to fight totali-

A word to Benjamin Cronin of With the 5th Marines. Possibly | tarianism abroad and vote for it at

(Sullivan: Why take issue with this

guy who signed himself Rickard? | pe possibly some guys left in Ger-| His attempt to expose another man’s |

ignorance of political history only exposed his own. He ends by stat-|

{ing Herbert Hoover held the respect of employe and employer, alike. {Political history reveals that the | presidential election of 1932 was delcidedly a display of disrespect for!

we were forgotten along with the! forgotten man about 1930, but there |

many who will remember us as long as they live,

® x = ; “MUCH NOISE, BUT LITTLE LIGHT” By Charles Ginsberg, Indianapolis The seizure of Ward's and the

home? Yes, I say with all the force that

|I can command, a vote for a fourth

term for the New Dealers is a vote for totalitarian socialism. Do you boys out there on the front realize that fact? Gen. MacArthur wasn't Just talking when he warned against losing our liberty on the home front. It can happen here! The Democrat party has been taken over by the

‘Mr. Hoover on the part of the subsequent ejection of Sewell Avery|left-wingers. You boys know what

{American voters which included employee and employer alike. Anyone who has reached 20 years of age knows this fact, Now, Mr. Cronin, can you take a! {political historian of Rickard's type seriously? He reminds me of the man who, disliking Mr. Roosevelt, wrote the Forum recently, demanding to know what we are fighting for. Now the pay-off is he gave-his address as the Occidental building. Why even every schoolboy knows we have no fighting men stationed in the Occidental building, If T were {to take guys like him, Rickard, Madrdox and the editorial writers of The | Times seriously, I'd feel I were the

Side Glances—8y Galbraith

has, among other things, brought forth a veritable deluge of printer's ink. There's been much noise, but little light. The die-hards of “free enterprise” condemn the seizure as an act of “labor dictatorship,” and the big wigs of the so-called labor unions are falling all over themselves in their ecstatic approval.of the seizure. But of the many tons of ink consumed on the war case, only a few ounces served to clarify the issue as well as the implications. I refer to an article published in the issue of May 20 of the Weekly People, official organ of the Socialist Labor party. Therein it is clearly

war thinking along the lines of the ‘at sntioned

that means, don’t you?

Now let me give you some quota- | tons to think about between now {and election day. Gen. ‘Johnson {said of Mr. Roosevelt: “He is not | “Mr. Roosevelt is tory-socialist and |anti-capitalist.” The Socialists and {the Communists are called Jeft- { wingers. In 1933 Gen. Johnson

(stated publicly in his column in

[lin | (for re-election) he will g0 completely to the left but he will not give up the ship.” In plain Hoosier that means that if Mr. Roosevelt was in danger of

was that desperate to remain President in 1936, what about 10447 Look out for tricks! by quoting George Bernard Shaw, an English ‘socialist, who, while on a visit in this country, “President Roosevelt is doing his best to get around your confounded Constitution.” Deal leads to totalitarian slavery!

| Let us vote for freedom!

o n 2 “THERE WOULD BL LESS FOOLISH TALK” By Forum Fan; Indisnapolis I should like to congratulate the Times for :the publication of two splendid editorials “America Prays" and “It Isn't Luck” in the issue of

June 7.- 1

If more people would base their

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{a Democrat.” Walter Lippman said: |

The Indianapolis Times, “If Frank- | Roosevelt is pressed too hard |

losing the election he would gO} completely Red and try to hold his office and power by force! If hel

said:|

‘Which Is Right, One or Both?’

SOME OF the discrepancies that mystified Mra, Bolton were: On e 606, for “food and kindred products® there are two listings; in one place the total number of employees is given as 1676 and in another place 461, “Which is right, one or both?” asks the represen tative, who points out that one Cleveland food cone cern alone employs more than 3000 persons; a single grocery chain more than 1800—not to mention the four other large chains and 1092 independent groceries and 378 delicatessens—that have an average of three employees a piece—nor hundreds of persons working in the production of food. On the same page, there is this entry: “Fishermen and oystermen, 13.” This sounded fishy to Rep. Bol ton—Cleveland being a lake city—so she did a little private sleuthing on the piscatorial front, as of 1940, “A check with the fish companies,” she reports, “ree vealed that there were 43 active fishermen at tha$ time and—strangely—no oystermen.” Again she was outraged to find this figure: “Tex« tiles, textile products, and apparel, 200." There are, she adds, 12 textile manufacturers in Cleveland, two of whom employ 2100 persons and 1550 persons, respectively, and those engaged in the industry estimate that this classification embraces at least 10,000 employees.

For workers in the wholesale and 1 trade, the total is 1721, which again insulted ton's civie pride. “Any one of the big di nt stores eme

ploys more than that,” she protests,

Professional Figures at Variance

IN TRADE and manufacturing, there might some overlapping or vagueness of classification, this confusion certainly could not apply in the fessional figures. A store clerk might be listed either “retail trade” or “apparel” but a dentist either a dentist or he isn't, regardless of what patients may think, And in the table on these totals:

Osteopaths, 10. “All anyone had to do to get the right number* comments the representative, “would be to take the classified telephone directory and count them—all 60 of them.” : Teachers, 766. College presidents, professors and instructors, 180. * There are 3587 school teachers in the Cleveland public school system and a faculty of 705 at one of the city’s eight major colleges and universities alone, Trained nurses and student nurses, 57. There are over 3000 nurses registered with the Cleveland Bureau of Nursing Service, and that ine cludes only about 65 per cent of the actual number, But when she came to the section headed “Professional and semi-professional workers,” Mrs. Bolton got her biggest surprise, Listed under this head were “Hucksters and peddlers, 553; newsboys, 552; mail carriers, 936.” The hucksters and peddlers have come up in the world, apparently. It's a profession! These are only some of the instances Mrs, Bolton cites. The census bureau hasn't been heard from in rebuttal, as yet. Possibly there is a good explanation but, off-hand, we can’t blame the Cleveland represene tative for being a bit indignant over the “facts” on her constituency. But then, Mrs. B., you must remember that some of those census takers were party precinct workers, They might have gotten their two jobs mixed up. Maybe they only counted the Democrats.

Get Ready Now

By E. A. Evans

WASHINGTON, June 12.—The fears that have been besetting war - production subcontractors ought to be materially relieved by the uniform procedure for settling their claims which has been an‘nounced by the government's Joint contract termination board, John M. Hancock, acting chairman of this board, was Bernard M. Baruch's associate in drafting the famed report on war and post-war adjustment policies. More than a million war subcontracts are now outstanding, many of them held by small companies to whom delay in settling claims could mean disaster, The government has no direct relationship with subcontractors, who must look to the prime contractors for payments. The board’s new policy means that prime contractors can make such payments promptly, with assurance ‘of government approval, if they observe certain specified principles which seem to be ‘reasonable and fair, ‘ ~The government thus takes an important step toward preparation for the huge job of contract sete tlement, which must be done with utmost speed if a long post-war period of widespread unemployment is to be avoided,

Delays Are Piling Up Work

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