Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1944 — Page 12

2 2

The Indianapolis Times PAGE 12 Tuesday, June 27, 1944

ROY W. HOWARD MARK FERREE

WALTER LECKRONE Editor. :

Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co, 214 W. Maryland st. Postal Zone 8.

Member cf United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of Circulations.

states, 75 cents a month; others, $1 monthly.

Ceram «@ RILEY 5551

Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Own Way

KEYNOTE “For 11 long years we have been in the middle of the stream . . . we want to get across.” That was Governor Warren's keynote reply last night to the Democratic theme song, “Don’t change horses in the middle of the stream!” The heat-ridden and listless Republican national convention leaped to its feet and yelled. It wasn't on the defensive any more. This was the best keynote speech we can remember. It had color, clarity and sincerity. It sounded like Republicans on the march. Of course they have been on the march, rolling up gains in the states and in congress, for some time. Governor Warren recounted that record proudly.

. = » ~ = - ASSUMING THAT Mr. Roosevelt would be a fourthterm candidate, he tore into the administration's effort to | win the election on a “Dr. Win-The-War” claim. The nation is above any party. We cannot fight a war as Democrats or Republicans, is the way he put it. Our military chiefs “are no more Republican or Democratic than the armies and the fleets which they command . . . they know how to run the war, and we will see to it that they have the opportunity to run it without political interference.” The emphasis was on non-interference. As for the administration plea that its re-election is essential to American collaboration abroad for inernational security, he pointed out that the Republican Mackinac declaration blazed the way for American commitment to world organization. So the party stands for a world court and for effective peace machinery to prevent aggression. But “none of these aspirations can be realized under a leadership that plays power politics on a world-wide stage . . . or neglects the interests of America . . . or holds itself superior to the wisdom of the people.” » - n » » » THE INDISPENSABLE-MAN idea was ridiculed as a New Deal attempt to capitalize on crisis again. “The first time it was the depression. The second time it was the recession. Last time it was to keep us out of war. This time it will be to achieve peace. The next time—who knows what crisis it will be? ... The life of a nation is a succession of crises.” And no administration or President can claim priority to office on that basis. This administration has done some good things. that does not give it exclusive rights on progress: “Progress is an American habit. We do not propose to deny the progress that has been made during the last decade . . . neither do we aim to turn the clock back and make an issue of every administration mistake . . . we are less concerned about these past errors than about the direction in which we are going. We believe the New Deal is

leading us away from representative government.” ” » = EJ - .

HE THEN SWUNG into the charges which the Republicans intend to make stick in this campaign, and which the Democrats will have to answer: The New Deal has inflated and centralized power. It has undermined the two-party system; it is not the Democratic party but a self-perpetuating clique, which destroys unity. It has by-passed state and local government. It has allied itself with corrupt political machines and misused patronage to provide one-man rule. It has circumvented congress. It has intimidated the courts. It has threatened free press and radio. It has imposed unnecessary regulations on industry, labor, and farmers. “Over all of this—and over all of us—is the ominous, gargantuan figure of one arrogant, power-intoxicated bureaucracy.” . = . . » . AS THE REPUBLICAN KEYNOTER and convention see if, this all boils down to a question of which party on the record can best be trusted to bring the nation through the national and international crisis, now and after the war: “The Republican party was born in crisis . . . then as now (it) was called by the people to displace a regime of men who had grown tired, complacent and cynical in the business of government. Then as now, the Republican party was called upon to replace a party that was torn with dissension and in revolt against itself. Then as now, the Republican party was called by the people to furnish youth and vigor and vision.” If the Republicans and their probable candidate, Tom Dewey, can convince the electorate that they have this capacity of leadership, they will win.

But

THE PRICE GOES UP N World War I this sailors and marine

marines were wounded, but not mortally,

In world war II, prior to the invasion of Normandy, the army lost 28,952 and the navy, marine corps and coast guard 19,802 by death, with 68,779 in the army and 12,253 in the navy services wounded. There also are thousands missing and prisoners of whom at least some will show up

eventually in the lists of the dead. Almost as many dead before we even set foot on the continent north of Rome as when the guns fell silent forever in 1918. The real toll has not begun, even yet. Can anything else be 1 per cent so important as trying to assure that it shall not happen a third time?

WHAT—NO BEER?

NEW JERSEY has been experiencing an acute sho ~~ of beer, in the midst of extremely hot weather,

cause

untry lost 50,140 soldiers and 10,618 from all causes including disease. Another 193,757 soldiers and nurses, and 7714 sailors and

ge

By Westbrook Pegler

free country of which they were a sacred and a time-honored indecency. Fools paraded in

disorder for a price, receivable in worthless publicity and the spendings of the delegates in hotels, lunchrooms and saloons. Always there was some ass who looked remotely like Theodore Roosevelt, Bryan, Wilson or F. D. R, and went about exhibiting his implausible counterfeit and posing for the photographers. Curbstone fakers peddled carnival pennants stamped with the names of men of momentary consequence, circus balloons, elephants and mules to be hung by stringy ribbons from lapels, walking sticks and hat-bands stamped with We Want Teddy, Tried and Found True—Taft, and He Kept Us Out of War.

There Were Casualties

THERE WERE CASUALTIES in the dressingstations from loss of sleep, over-exertion in the meaningless parades for mock-modest nonentities placed in complimentary nomination, beer-colic and appallingly clumsy fist-fights over the standards of immovable state delegations. From the time of the Republican convention of 1912 in the old Chicago

coliseum at which a shapely female in a red dress touched off a mechanized but futile 45-minute stam-

pede for T. R., the engineers in charge of most candidacies clocked the duration of all such imbecile | demonstrations and even, in later years, apace with science, measured their volume by the hands of a huge clock as though noise, alone, were some gauge of & man's fitness for the presidency. Grim though the fight might be in the smoke-filled room down-

town, the circus spirit nevertheless prevailed among |

The Hoosier Forum |

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

the actors and the idiots’ chorus in the halls and | this, until now, was the mood and method of the | national nominating conventions of the Republican That the quality of the men selected was as good as it was, has been reassuring proof over the years that these dreadful demonstrations were completely irrelevant and that the delegates and the cheering sections in the galleries had no influence in the result. Nevertheless it has often occurred to observers of the American scene that the first party to break with custom and run a convention with a dignity more or less appropriate to the occasion might deserve recognition for a very impressive reform.

Not Over-Confident

TO SAY that the Republicans deliberately and | wisely planned it that way would be to credit a | taxi-man with fine public spirit in the accidental killing of a pedestrian who chanced to be an escaping murderer. They came here with little confidence of victory in November, and it would be untrue to report that they are confident even now, although they are giving one another transfusions of optimism through pep-talks started in a word-of-mouth campaign. So it can be admitted that they have not been holding themselves in check but simply have | had nothing to shout about. But this is not a singing war for either the fighting men or civilians of any of the nations and, similarly, it is doubtful that these Americans would have made | a spectacle of themselves and their political mission this year, though victory could be taken for granted.

A Historic Mission

THE ROOSEVELT FOLLOWING may scoff and the dainty humor of the left-wing may still depict them as a sub-human breed with pot-bellied minds and no real rights but only a few privileges conceded as a generous gesture to tradition, but they do believe the republic will fall if Mr. Roosevelt and, perhaps, Henry Wallace, is President for four years more. Thus they also take upon themselves a historic mission to nominate the man to save the nation. They mean it. They talk it among themselves. And they are raising themselves from their early pessimism to a self-induced hope, if not a conviction, that it can and might be done. Of course there will be perfunctory whoops and the ovation to Governor Dewey doubtless will measure up to the opportunity to salute their hope. But the trashy nonsense which hithertd has cheapened such proceedings is missing here for the first time in my 30-odd years of attendance at 14 national conventions. Mr. Bricker’s wan little concession to the old old spirit, a brass band trying to draw trade to a meeting in the Stevens, sounded like an old-time

Chicago German hungry-five and only blocked traffic at the door.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

gs id A CHICAGO NEWSPAPER rety cently had a feature article about .%8 a woman resident who for 30 years has stuck close to home, never leaving the neighborhood in which she lives. She is happy and contented so long as she stays put, : but she has an over-powering fear CER of getting even a few blocks from Th home. A A : Now there's a type of phobia Sy that would make life happier for a lot of women—if this “back to the home for women when the war is over” movement isn't stopped. A woman with that kind of mental quirk could be

happy giving up a good job to go back home and sit the rest of her life, :

They'll Miss Their Jobs

BUT NORMAL women aren't going to be content. Having had a try at independence and having learned the zest that comes from doing a job that was their choice instead of one wished on them by convention, they aren't going to be happy if they are told there

worlds. But if and when they have fo do just that, theyll discover they miss their jobs and the companionship of working ‘with ethers instead of alone. But most of all they'll miss their pay checks, ; If women aren't going to make a fight for the right to go on working in the post-war world they had better look into this “stay close to home” phobia and see if they can't develop it. Otherwise the ones who get shoved out of their Jobs are going to be mighty

women,

is no place for them in the business and industrial

unhappy, disgruntled

“SHE SHOULD BE IN GERMANY”

and Democratic parties. | By Mrs. Charlotte Walker, Indianapolis

The other day I read what Mrs.| McGuire said, and I think she should be in Germany instead of] Indianapolis. i What does she think we have a democracy for if we are supposed to} be stood up and shot if we disagree | with. President Roosevelt? | If we have Mr. Roosevelt for! President for as long as he lives like Mrs. McGuire says we might as well don our swastikas, for the country would surely be another Germany! | And let's not forget President Roosevelt's gad-about wife using up, gas and airplane space just so she] won't miss anything going on in the country. !

New Dealist trying to trouble!

stir up

= = » “FAR TOO MANY THINK THE SAME WAY” By A True American, Indianapolis. A letter the other day in The Forum said “Down with the capitalists, let the workers run things and keep Roosevelt in the next four years and every four years after this.” Sad to say, I am afraid this administration has been responsible for far too many for the good of our country who think the same way. That writer wants him kept in because he loves the poor man and took care of him. Roosevelt is a wealthy man but did he use his own | money for the poor? No, he used the U. 8, treasury into which my husband and every man who pays taxes put their money—so he didn't take care of the poor—the taxpayers did. Roosevelt knew using this money that way would bring him thousands of votes which it did. If his heart bleeds for poor people why did he side in the Spanish war with Franco, who used the Italian and German army to put down the poor of Spain? Franco put out the propaganda that he was saving the Catholic faith. So to get the Catholic vote Roosevelt forbade arms being sent to the Loyalist “poor man’s army.” And he got the Catholic votes.

I would like to elucidate the way the way

jealous people.

man’s vote?

capitalist.

Let the workers run things. By

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

they are interfering in|pgag obviously served to attract all) 1 feel about Mr. Roosevelt. I think | war production by their hundreds ings of disreputable individuals to he is a charlatan; I also think four| op yriges it looks as if they almost is ranks and leadership. Rank and years is long enough for any one ... 4g that. But is the welfare a oo be President, even MT. Me- of this country their prime interrbgiall to . eve fonatic ©? No! They don't care about BLnnre: seem m how they keep supplies from going to the front—it's their increased

strikes and has given our country into the hands of union officials— and he gets their votes. with capitalists,” the old, old cry of the ignorant, shiftless, wasteful and Roosevelt, to gain the votes of these, cries, “down with economic royalists.” His own father was one, yet he is willing to live in his fine home and use the money earned by his father—also, who paid the money into the treasury that Roosevelt used to get the poor It was the capitalists. Every man who has a business or farm, large or small, is a But that is the Communists’ cry, and to get their votes Roosevelt—though his own people are capitalists and “economic royalists” (and he enjoys the fruits of the labor of his economic royalist father)—he cries them.” . Mrs. Roosevelt champions the Negro—did she do it before they wanted the Negro vote? The Negro mission schools of the South have begged for money for years. Did the Roosevelts give of their riches for that work before he needed their votes? Did Mrs. Roosevelt lift her voice in their behalf before she became the President's wife? But her husband needed their votes so she loudy proclaimed her devo-

“Down

“down with

Side Glances—By Galbraith

TE

| ONE THING”

tion to their cause and uplift. Did he get their votes? He did. How he has used the ignorance and jealousy and desire of something for no labor to perpetuate himself in office. Where has that old American spirit of independence, hard work and thrift that made America gone, that people cry, “He has taken care of us, keep him there!” E J - . “THERE WON'T BE MUCH UNITY” By Miss J. Ruble 2815 N. Meridian st. It looks as if there won't be much effective unity in the ranks of the Republican big-wigs in the preparations for the November elections. The “hate Roosevelt and down with the new Deal” G. O. P. approach

file Republican voters and workers will have to draw their own conclusions. James M. Tucker's blast against Homer Capehart will undoubtedly

vention. In a democratic election Tucker would probably have been the Republican nominee for U. 8. senator. As now we all know, it was the Lyons and Gates faction of the G. O. P. that determined that Tucker should not be the Republican nominee. Concerning the comparison being made between Robert W. Lyons, former Ku Klux Klan state official, and Justice Black by some G. O. P. diehards; I should say that there can be none, Justice Black's position on the theories of the hooded order are well known. Lyons’ mistake is not so much the fact that he was once a member but that he has never once repudiated the dangerous, un-American racial supremacy theories of the Klan. * . x = “ALL ROADS ARE BLOCKED” By A Defense Worker, Indianapolis Of all the inconsistencies—the highway department has blocked all roads leading into Monrovia. Road 43 from Mooresville into Monrovia’ from the east, and road 39 from Bellville (national road 40 north) and from Martinsville south, have all been blocked at the same time. More than half the people living in Monrovia and surrounding territory work in Indianapolis defense plants and travel to and from their homes daily. People cannot get into their homes from either 42 or 39. It is hard to undertsand why

they will be blocked for some time! Can’t something be done about this immediately? 2 » » » “LETTER PROVED

By J. B., Indianapolis Your recent letter, Mrs. Helen

at first come up with the claws of a three-

into Chicago Thursday morning and pick up the flaming torch from Lt.-Cmdr. Harold Stassen of Minnesota. Stassen is out killing Japs along with the

rest of the young Republicans who may constitute the leadership of the really rejuvenated party in 1948.

Wendell Willkie of Indiana, who even though

knocked out of the presidential race, still has a fol-

lowing and a political future. : In Chicago the list narrows down to these: Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota, critic of “rubber words" in the foreign policy and post-war planks in the Republican party's platform still being polished off behind closed doors of the resolutions committee. Ball is easily one of the ablest men in the senate, but there should be a dozen more like him if the party is to go places, ; Governor Warren, himself keynoter and temporary chairman of the convention and generally thought to be Dewey's first choice as vice presidential nominee if he'll take it. California's reluctance to release the governor at this time under no circumstances means that he is through as a national political even if he should turn down the vice presiden nomination. There are years of good public service ahead of him.

Cabinet Material

THE OTHER 25 Republican governors now in office form a nucleus of younger leaders coming up in the party, experienced politichlly and able to take administrative jobs in federal government as their state terms expire. Governor John Bricker of the Buckeye state becomes a politician out of a job if he gains no place on the national ticket, but he is cabinet material as are Governo® Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, Dwight Green of Illinois, Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts and others who were given some consideration for vice presidential nominations.

chairman, has the stuff it takes to make a speaker of a house that is already Republican in majority, but will not take the reins or seize the power. M. Dirksen of Illinois got a little britches in aspiring to the presidency lot more of this same get-up-and-go is Grand Old Party needs. Charles M. Halleck of Indiana chairman of Republican congressional campaign committee, and

pay, short hours and vacations the|q 4 much sympathy among those| nominator of Willkie in 1940; Clifford Hope of Kanworkers are thinking of. And t0|gh. are familiar with the Capehart-| sas, Melvin Maas of Minnesota—the list could be get votes, Roosevelt allows these my.yer struggle in the G. O. P. con-| extended. Maybe there are signs of life.

And, oh, yes, there is Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut, who will address the convention tonigh along with Herbert Hoover. If only Hoover pronounce the funeral oration of the old party, if only La Luce could hail the birth of the new!

E a

{ Battle of Europe By Maj. Al Williams

NEW YIRK, June 27--The Battle of Europe began with the invasion. The shape of that battle will necessarily be determined by the defense strategy of the Germans, which in turn shapes the offensive planned by the allies. It is becoming clear that allied strategy did not depend upon clear flying weather to land the airborne invasion plus the small sea . craft (such as LST’s, etc.) but rather upon picking a short bad flying weather period during which defense airpower would be unable to operate at full efficiency. Our first objective must be air flelds. I cannot convince myself that the Luftwaffe is washed up. German airpower is still a formidable element. It is the one Nazi force which will stage—somewhere, sometime—one last desperate (even if suicidal) effort. There's little question but that allied airpower is greatly superior, no matter what the Germans have been saving. Superiority, however, as has been demonstrated all too often is not sufficient for successful land or sea operations. What must be established, particularly in any sea and airborne invasion, is continuing supremacy of the air.

"Plus Defense in Mobility’

APPARENTLY THE Nazis’ strategy is a combination of “defense in depth, plus defense in mobility.” Defense in depth means defenses laid out to blunt the offensive by successive resistance lines with the

defense deepest in the system—at which point the offensive is assumed to be losing its sharp edge. The presence of nine or more armored, highly mobile divisions in the center of France, to be rushed

Entire Para Placed Un Of Sici

educated Prior to enlist: ployee of the Co.

PLAN PIT A pitch-in ¢ by the New Au p. m. tomorr temple.

Ac LR

man

Se