Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1944 — Page 10
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Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Own Way
OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL IDEA WELL, it looks as if we're getting some stage management, at last. And maybe those two national conventions won't be so dull after all, in terms of oratory and music and atmosphere—things we've learned to expect every four years. The Republicans were smart in picking an. attractive farwesterner, Governor Warren of California, for their keynoter. And now the Democrats have selected an impressive platform performer in the person of a southwesterner, Governor Bob Kerr of Oklahoma. The Republicans, however, should be warned that “California, Here I Come” can't carry the whole musical load against the most popular song hits of our time. We don't have to stretch our imagination to visualize the bands in Chicago's convention hall, come July 19, cutting loose as Governor Kerr appears, with “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'” and “Ev'rything’s Goin’ My Way.” The fourth termers will have a couple of New Yorkers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 2d, automatically on their team as well as Lynn Riggs, the Oklahoman who wrote the play and Armina Marshall, daughter of the first sheriff of the state of Oklahoma, who contributed so much to the finer nuances of the production. She is the wife of Lawrence Langner, head of the Theater Guild. n s = o E J » THERE'LL BE in the convention score the rhythm of “them high-steppin’ strutters and that shiny little surrey with the fringe on the top” and “ev’rythin’s up to date in Kansas City.” + Whether the Democratic band leader will include “I'm Just a Girl Who Cain't Say No” is a matter for expert political judgment; likewise, as to “Pore Jud Is Daid,” although it would be hard to pass up the implication invelved in that line about his fingernails have never b'en so clean. Certainly, they'll play “Oklahoma,” where the wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet and the wind comes right behind the rain; gor will the delegates assembled fail to watch the Republican hawk, makin’ lazy circles in the sky. And as a finale, no doubt we will have an appealing rendition directed from a politically border state to its neighbors in the Solid South—“People Will Say We're in Love.” : But anyway, it looks as if Mr. Hannegan or somebody had had an idea.
NAZI SECRET WEAPON
“WE are not going to be rattled by any bogeyman tricks —the Germans know we are winning the war.” With that characteristic poise which carried them through the great blitz, the people of southern England snubbed the latest Nazi mystery weapon and went on about their wartime business. As yet there is no exact description of the new contraption. ‘It is variously called a pilotless bomber, a flying robot, a rocket homh. Apparently the whole thing explodes on contact. Its course may be controlled by radio from a distant plane, or it may not be subject to control after being launched—which seems to be indicated by the large number which explode in empty fields. How much will it delay allied victory? Probably we shall not know for several days, or,even weeks. Results of its first night and day of operation fall far short of German propaganda claims, and its activity was sharply reduced the second night, after allied bombers had pounded the Pas de Calais area. But it did more damage than the stolid public reaction in England would indicate—that much, at least, is admitted by the London government. While not laughing off the damage, the minister of home security says that this weapon will not interfere with the allied war effort.
” ” os TWO ASPECTS of this challenge are reassuring. The first is that the allied governments have known something about it for many months, and therefore have had time to prepare. Prime Minister Churchill several times during the winter and spring mentioned it publicly. Secondly, the Nazis were unable to use it against the invasion armada.
This suggests either that it cannot be controlled in |
flight or even aimed with precision, or that allied preinvasion bombing of Nazi installations across the channel knocked out the launching fields temporarily. During the last month our bombers have been more active over “the rocket coast” than any other place.
We cannot help remembering the secret weapon Ger-
many pulled out during the crisis of world war I. That was Big Bertha, the long-range gun that shelled Paris. Well, it was a big sensation, at first. But it soon fizzled out, and the worst damage it did was to blast German hopes. Maybe the current secret will turn out to be another very little Big Bertha, But we cannot count on that. The mystery bomb-that-
lies must be treated as a menace until the allies produce the answer to it.
THERE AND HERE
HERE, in the order in which they were received, are three news items which came over our press associa‘on wire Friday night:
THE GERMANS put up a fierce fight for St. Saveur-le-vicomte, The infantrymen bayonetted many of them in _ foxholes, fighting from hedge to hedge to win a three-day sattle in which, outnumbered at some points 20 to 1, our boys outfought and outshot the enemy. : EA . Nai ss 9 LB S. THUNDERBOLT, fighters flew 22 missions up to p.m, to provide cover for ground troops in assault areas,
shipping in the channel.
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By Westbrook Pegler
‘By Ruth Millett
NEW YORK, June 19.—I have Willkie
dious and plaintive exhortations to the Republican party to get in step with him and the New Deal which he condemns only for its
kind, as he naturally would, and therefore, preferable. Mr. Willkle repudiates states’ rights in large looping terms as an obsolete issue, calling it a relic in a nation which, in that brave new world of the future, will have to compete and get along with other peoples who have granted their governments the power and authority to act for them. This argument contends that, because the European continent is going totalitarian and Britain's old. aristocratic system has finally exhausted itself, the United States must make adjustments.
‘Most Republicans Will Agree’
I THINK most Republicans will agree with Mr. Willkie in this, but I can't see what it has to do with states’ rights at home because the states, individually, have neithér the apparatus.ner the desire to conduct 48 separate sets of foreign relations, either political or commercial, although the new Russian states might attempt to do so, as their character reveals itself, for the sturdy old communistic purpose of causing turmoil, confusion and, annoyance among the neighbors. - But we needn’t abandon any of our domestic advantage over the totalitarian system in conferring on our national government the power to protect American interests ii competition with the interests of other nations. We can rely better on the national government to make treaties and observe and enforce them than we can on Standard Oil, for example. - In case of trouble we then would know at least that our country, not a private and unofficial interest, was our agent. Mr. Willkie would have said it better had he said that in the post-war world, American business interests otherwise might find themselves conducting their own foreign relations and committing us to their transactions, as they did in the past, and, occasionally calling on our Smedley Butlers and lesser warriors to get them out of trouble with foreign powers and political adventurers.
‘Joyously Defaulted Their Obligations’
BUT, INTERNALLY, states’ rights will be an issue until the states are finally abolished, for they are a sisterhood of republics, some richer than others and some better, but all useful in maintaining the character of the nation. It is true that, mostly under Democratic governors, many of them joyously defaulted their obligations during the long panic and hocked their integrity to Washington in return for handouts from the New Deal. But the result of this sordid failure has been the spread of agencies of the national government and intrusions and confusions to the extent that now, literally, according to one of the orders of the OPA, any citizen found guilty of any violations of any regulation,*may be denied not merely the right to buy shoes but to use them. Federal taxation has re a point at which the states now must take a sesond cut at incomes which already have been taxed to the limit, and the states are beginning to realize that there is no field of taxation which they may regard as exclusively or even primarily their own. By interpretation and extension, the federal authority at present holds that a man who sells hot dogs to individual workers in a war plant under license, or concession from the plant management, is a subcontractor and therefore is subject to government control. By further, but consistent extension, the man who sells the hot-dog man his dogs, mustard and rolls is a subsubcontractor operating a “plant or facility” useful in the war effort and therefore subject to ejection by the army should he violate any order of the war labor hoard, the OPA, the labor relations board or the theories of fair employment practice. This man’s business may not extend a mile from his shop but, although he pays state and local taxes he can't even command the services of the town cops or the local grand jury to protect his rights.
'Unannounced and Creeping Abrogation'
IT IS the intimacy of federal government, its intrusion in the person of the officious and arrogant inspector or commissioner. threatening the citizen with punishment for possible violations of a thousand laws, rules and regulations that he never even heard of, that has revived the interest of many governors, mostly Republicans, in the duty and integrity of the states and even aroused the interest of individuals who didn’t know states’ rights existed until they began to feel the painful effects of their unannounced and creeping abrogation. Brother Willkie would make this extension of the federal power less onerous, if not enjoyable, by “assuring the proper use of the power we have deemed wise and necessary to -grant to the federal government.” But, dammit, man, many of these powers we never deemed it wise and necessary to grant, and we don’t know yet when or how we did grant them! And if one set of nagging spies and political ismatists will take it upon themselves to padlock a widow's belongings before the old man’s body is cold, for leisurely appraisal and taxation by the federal government, who can say that another gang, with equal powers, wouldn't be as dirty or worse?
We The People
A ONCE strong, whole, ablebodied man comes back from the front with a leg or arm gone. He gets the best medical and psychiatric care. He is taught to use his artificial limb, so that he is useful to himself. But then unless he chooses to stay in the service, there comes a day when he puts on civilian clothes—and must face the diffi- : cult adjustment to civilian life. ibe te He left it an able-bodied man. He returns to it handicapped. How well he adjusts himself depends on his attitude toward his handicap—and the attitude of others toward it. The army is taking great pains to help him adjust, to make him realize that he can not only face life a cripple—but that he can, by his own determination and courage, make a good life for himself. To prove to him that it can be done the army introduces him, by the way of a remarkable movie, to a soldier who lost both arms in the last war. He watches the hero go through a typical day— doing all the things that normal men do, shaving, eating, driving an automobile without special gadgets, carrying on an office job, using a typewriter, and even signing his name witha flourish.
Making History in Baseball
THERE'S ANOTHER man these war cripples should meet—not ina movie, but at a ball park. He's a one-armed ball player who is making baseball hise Memphis Chicks.
I wholly disagree with-what you say
The Hoosier Forum
, but will
defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“I WELL REMEMBER” By Bea Sumner, Indianapolis
The Democrats are chortling with glee over the faux pas pulled by the Republicans in electing Lyons and his subsequent resignation. However, in all fairness to the Republican party, I would like to say that I well remember 21 years ago when a Democrat county clerk and other offices swept into power because the Democrats elected were known to be closely aligned with the Klan. In my opinion it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Why the . Republicans don't examine the records, in spite of the fact that Jackson was a Republican governor at that time, and smoke out some of these pious Democrats who so smugly deny any affilation with the Klan has long been a sore point with many of us.
To begin with, the Klan isn't the! Republican's baby but was born in the Democratic South. It's about time the Republicans stopped this internal strife, start co-operating and pull a few fast ones on the Democrats. Much has been said about the Tyndall-Ostrom fight, but
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larmy through Africa, Sicily, Anzio
(and now, God willing, the battles that lie beyond Rome, My other son has plowed across the sea on convoy duty for over 13 months. I want to do all I can to bring my boys home, but neither they nor I believe that their future dependent upon the of Mr. Roosevelt,
lurid headlines, also Joel Baker, the same Democratic banner as Mrs, Pete Concilla and Wayne Coy.| y . Charles Ettinger received a black POYS Will get their ballots. Don't eye from Jim Cunningham, so 1 You have confidence in him, or don’t believe the Republicans have ja he vou uke preg | ¥ a monoply on feuds or the Klan, RepubMcan campaign funds? Do “ you think that Bob Hannegan opNONE SO COMPLETELY erates on a shoestring? And surely GIVES HER AWAY” you are accustomed to waste by By Mrs. Janice Hull, Indianapolis now. One of my sons presented me Of all the letters addressed to the | With a piece of literature which was Forum readers by one Mrs. Walter 8iven to him, a serviceman, by the Haggerty, none so completely gives| OWI which is nothing more than her away as the one written in the|rank political propaganda for your issue of June 15 in which she ex-| chief. As for Mr, Farley, shouldn't horts friendship and understanding| YOU be eternally grateful to him for in one breath and then upbraids her| his part in bringing your Guardian neighbor of long standing because Angel before the public so many she is unable to convert her to her| Campaigns ago? i way of political thinking and callsy When I call on my neighbor, beher an idiot. I know that Spartacus| ing simple folk, we ‘talk about: the and many of the others who have| Weather, how our gardens are doing, taken Mrs. Haggerty to task could | how the war is going, my husband's do this much more aptly than I, 35-year merit badge for continuous but just this once may I prattle on/ employment at the same place, her as you generously permit Mrs. Hag-/ husband’s being a member of the gerty to do. Gallon Club, what's on at the show Of course I am no match for Mys.|and what we are going to put in| Haggerty because my thoughts are our next box te our boys. We re-| entirely my own and not those that|spect each athers’ right and ability are available to anyone wishing to|to vote for the candidate of her champion the New Deal. Some of|choice. But then, Mrs. Haggerty, her words I have heard over the|we are just simple folk and not well radio and read before. No, I am|versed in power politics, etc. But, just a mother with two boys gone|by jumbo, come to think of it, I from my arms to fight, one with our |believe I took a trip to Washington
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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“HAS WORKED HARD FOR THE UNDERDOG” By Jasper Douglas, Indianapolis
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“VOTERS WILL NOT BE FOOLED” By Lawrence Wilson, Greencastle
nation.
that although he has resigned
once to see how our great government works because I was a good little sophomore and studied my
In your rather sarcastic editorial ‘ June 14 under the caption “Return . - of the Perennial” there are two T F od | mis-statements of fact. You say’ ragic in an that Norman Thomas “didn't have! to be drafted and that he will prob-| ably get fewer votes than usual this It was my pleasure to be a delegate from Indiana at the Socialist party convention in Reading, Pa. on June 2, 3 and 4, and I heard | Mr, Thomas say distinctly that he {would not head the ticket again. | When the time came for nomina{tions his name was proposed and was a roar of seconds foland prolonged api plause, the whole mass of delegates That looks like he]
political success, Tyomas has worked hard in the N 1 oo " fight for the underdog for many Ow lor some random ODServa- years and is well known as the de- - he eity hall machine. caused: tions: Governor Schricker, Who es| fonder of the oppressed every. He went into the southern! sellor Toivola Haggerty, has promised that our states and took a leading part in or- | ganizing' the share croppers. He is government's policy. loved by his friends, feared by his| them and to the Finnish people y Nevertheless the © enemies and has all the more! friends because of the enemies he!
Darlington Hoopes was unanimously nominated. He served in the Pennsylvania legislature as a Socialist and so well that even capitalist newspapers mentioned him as the best parlia-
As for getting fewer votes this year, Thomas stands as the only candidate and representing the only party that is pledged to end the war as speedily as possible, and with the only real plan for warding off unemployment that is sure to come Millions are convinced’ that we can produce for use as well as for destruction: and, while some states have made it impossible for g§ minor party to get on the ballot, in some of the states [that do permit the Socialist party on the ballot there will be congress-
The voters of Indiana will not be fooled this fall by the recent resignation’of Robert W. Lyons as Republican national committeeman. They are fully aware that Mr. Lyons was a key man in the Gates-for-Governor camp and he also was for Capehart for the senatorial nomiOne of the conditions he demanded and received before he would consent to resign was that at least 20 of the delegates pledge their support to his man, Dewey, for the presidential €®omination. This alone clearly demonstrates , he still has and will continue to have
: : : : Bp oh | % - 3! i A : g ECS : : : . 25 ‘Mn | : : 1 ran ay 3 vs vs has to offer “oe 2.yen oe: and 1 down and We enemy planes States of Amefica.” , been hit 13 t Nazi propaganda has had its effective moments, a had It sold the Cle ahi = pseude-mythol pgical bill of goods prohaily an seems hardly worthy of a race ( mission he known) which enemy lines Joris pbc behavior. It must after 10 days analysts of . : transparent ta mny German who still practices the Be ae forbidden pleasgze of for himself, Sed lt Is Encouraging to Be Hated o! o how he escaj THE FACT that we hate what we fear Was one Elude of man's earlier psychological discoveries, And . “We were surely the thinking German can see in these hys= _ _ truck convoy terical exhorta to hatred. that fear of anothep | rectly by a great power has gripped the official Nazi heart. Owen said. It is very enocuraging to be hated by Nazi Gere planes in mj many. First Frarice and England were the villains, «: plane after then England alone, then Russia—oh, what an ogre Germans co Russia was, and ihe stronger she became, the more During his dreadful Bolshevism appeared.- Now the United foot canal an States is strong emough to be the target of howls. & Which were and snivels. Germans wer The typical Nast a typical bully. That is a safe, . block away 1 proved generality. | He first tries to intimidate a. but later he weaker opponent with struts, scowls and frightening from his hic screams. When he} has assured himself that the “1 got so t return blow won't hurt, he strikes. But if the returs explained, * blows begin to smait, he suddenly assumes the ine chains and « jured look of outrasfed innocence and accuses his an Italian” former victim of villainies to match his own. Good Food and Vice Cream Cones On Aug. 1 NAZI PROPAGANDA tells the people that we’ + ad sho 400 treat German prisoners as “supermen” and “guests, | feeding them good fowd and ice cream cones. To § dump rey { hungry Berliner in t| soup line, that may seem more Hela. w like prosperous streng.\h than softness. Nazi props ¢ ie plane th ganda says that we money-, sex-, skyscraper- and wii 4 Hollywood-mad. That,) too, must be a little hard to the May 320 | swallow in the same jegiition that carries news from ; y hi France and Ialy. $v XK Among All this seems to suggest a determination to steel Jpie hears the Germans against thes temptation to “wave us into teat clusters Germany” ahead of thé Russians, as some tion. Hs als might happen. And thett would seem to fit in pers #4 ad-for the 3 fectly with an allied tegy that calls for uncone w ditional surrender. : guished 1 ( up to the li i “The first Three out o our section 1 ! . two P-40's b { formation a By Ludwell Denny formation 2 the water. - pulled back FASHERGTON, June 19.—The Shall state der t is sending home the Finish minister and his On Aug. 1 three coumsellors as persons » e Ond Nazi = grata. Although this is not yet a ward each break in ciiplomatic relations, it is fired and we . & final warning to the Helsinki the one who regime which the United States plane had 3 | five weeks \ago stigmatized as an "JN * wing and a By excluding the four diploe base safely. mats, rather§ than formally severe Flier of tl ing all relations, our government named after seems to be putting the issue an a personal instead at the Robe: of a policy basis. But, apparenily, that was the only the preside: method of slamming the door sirji at the same tims ing the bea leaving it open a crack. M { Procope and Coun. * ¢ the Sicilian especially have been two of the most The yout] popular diplomats in Washington despite their home in the arm That has ‘been a tribute to o 19, 1942, we after winri
issue goes far beyond personalities. The issue is axis defeat, and a free world for Fine land as well as for the United Sialas. ,
Caught Between Germany and Russia
AMERICANS AND their goveimment are well aware that Finland's tragedy is to bad caught between a Germany and Russia, both of whicl¥ she has abune . dant reason to distrust. Sympathy fbr Finland when she was attacked by Russia in the 1939-40 war was vigorously expressed by the American people, press .e and government. We have not forgotten, and will not forget, the gallant stand of timat democratie -
people. The Finnish people have changed, and | neither have the American people. ¢ The best proof that we have not] changed our
friendship is that we have refrained from Joining our Russian and British allies in‘ war iagainst her. Throughout we have tried to protect thle interests of » a free and democratic Finland. ! Unfortunately, the Helsinki regime 'has not coe : operated with our government's efforts \to obtain & separate and just peace for Finland bef her war with Russia becomes an inextricable part of the larger axis war. Of course the occupation Finland by German troops under the pretense o {riendship made it almost impossible for Helsinki tp act with
| us. But regardless of the difficwties, cleaily Finland ~ 39 British can have no peace and no freedom as lang as she 41 Stands houses a Nazi army. : bq Value § } ol« 42 Tuberc Could Earn Freedom Through Victlory aie” THERE 18 ne hope for Finland until she breaks Seeks with Hitler. Because the Helsinki ent has . gy Jamag not broken with Hitler—even though it lacks the ©® 48 Doctor physical power to eject the Nazi army—it has been 4h Age classified as a satellite by our government mand the ° 31 Moo, & allies. Finland must choose. If she sticks with the - 33400 i axis, she will go down with it. S5He hu Perhaps this state department warning, and the 1 — Russian offensive, will encourage the peace-loving 87 Skill. Finnish people to choose a new government. Such a 89 Vital new government, by using more wisdom than the ® 62 Engage present regime has done, might negotiate a' fairer water peace with Russia and have allied protection for the * | @3 River | asking. Doubtless Hitler would make Pinland & ~ $4 Partot battleground, but she is that already. : -
The difference is that now she is fighting to des feat, while with us she could earn freedom t!rough victory—even as America must do
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M OUR PREPARATION of demobilization plans 121 not become an excuse for any relaxation of our Cm ent war production.—War Mobilization Director Jaf Tu . . .