Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1944 — Page 10
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TOR the first time in’ 80 years (* country’s history; Americans are going “2 ==". - dent while fightinig a war., T je“ November election is b to have its precarious moments, AS always there will be | harsh and bitter words—perhaps more than usual under : the stress of circumstances. But there can be no danger, "even oft a transitory sort, unless a widespread attack of extreme partisanship should breach our national unity enough to affect prosecution of the war. ? Such a result is unlikely. And the possibility can be avoided if each candidate and voter will resolve, before the going gets too hot, to conduct his politicking with good sense and an intelligent perspective. ‘ A’ good, workable set of non-partisan rules might be culled, oddly enough, from the highly partisaf Keynote speech of Governor Warren of California before the Republican national convention. Scattered through the address were some bits: of advice to his party that the governor “would probably, be glad to share with the entire country. Many voters and candidates have probably been thinking along the same lines already. - ? "on. / ’ . BUT GOVEBNOR WARREN was among the firpt to voice these ideas publicly, and it does not seem too arly inthe game to set- them down for study and reflection by voters of all parties: oo “This war cannot be fought and won as Republi ans or Democrats. This is an all-American war. There is-a place for every American in it. There is no place of honor for any American who is not in it. | “In or out of office, Republicans and Democrats share the responsibility of winning the war. ... The generals who command our armies, the admirals who command our fleets are no more Repptflican 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. PR Vo ® «THERE IS ROOM for honest differences among us. ere is no room for disunity. We can be of differing minds.
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pow in the} came into the lobby of the Hotel wher we. stayed. He had some sort of feud with | hadn't set foot in it for 10 years. .
in, and there were little’ whispers around the lobby. He had come to bring a bottle of w of the reporters who was ill—it was thought with bronchitis, Fae We had just returned from 2 gruelling western trip. ‘He went up to the reporter's room with his gift and sat around chatting for a while to cheer him up. . That reporter, it turned out had tuberculosis. Later Al Smith arranged to get him into Saranac hospital. TI : i Unknowingly, thisgeporter had prophesied his own fate. For pne night on that western:
a comrade-in-arms in France, and recalled how they had stood all night in the rain digging trenches. His friend now was in a government hospital in Denver with tuberculosis. He himself, Irad contracted pleurisy from that rainy night in France which came ‘back on him ever so often. A few months later the reported was in Denver with his friend, transferred from Saranac. He died not long ago. . ie
“lt Didn't Work Out That Way' -
"THESE THINGS come back to you—that night, for instance, when Al Smith left here to meet the American people, - jaunty in that brown derby he
paign manager.» It was a gesture of bravado, but America preferred the gentlemen who wore the high stiff collar, for America then was trying hard to be respectable and get info a country club—where, of course, there was plenty of liquor—and be fit citizens for the new era we were promised by Herberf Hoover. It did't work out that way. Wes headlong info the awful destiny that had been .prepared for us in the giddy years between—the depression, * ni vo ir We got another govérnor of New York in the White House. So many things have happened in the 16th years, and we live in a strange and confused world. There are cries of “dictatorship” and the end of American demodgacy and the like. = :
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'Another Governor Comes Riding"
ANOTHER GOVERNOR of New York comes riding, a younger man. He came back to Albany to receive the weléome of the home folks after his nomination. No one who saw that eould worry much about
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‘which all three were given a secret trial and sén to prison.” 8 VV > :
True in Essence, But Distorted |
- THERE IS basis for the story, but in repeated tellings and elaborations it has been’warped out of all proportions. There is a Tyler Kent was 8 rode clerk in the American embassy during Jog -ambassadarship; and this Kent Was 0 39 years’ imprisonment, in November, 1940. His mo is in Washington and she has labored four years ceasingly for the release of her boy. He was, howeler, - convicted of larceny of an embassy t of communicating’ information. of value to the presutnably hd} ie ar] At about same time Kent was arrested, authorities also took into. custody one Anna Wolkf. She was a White Russian girl, whose father had an admiral in the Czar's pavy. Somehow, with
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“I DON'T THINK IT’S VERY NICE” By Mrs. E. C. Cooper, Indianapolis
Do something to help the war effort. ‘Last night, I read Mrs, Char-
of this age-old saying; “There is sO much good in the worst of us and 0 much bad in the bést of us that it doesn’t _behoave, any prousyto talk
about the resp of, us”. Why to peo-
business and find fault with the way the government is run? Why not let one live his own life and do what they think is right and not] talk &bout anyone? - THere is a terrible war going on and it was not started by our U. S. A.’ and. if each and everyone would try to help do something for our boys and save their lives while they are over theré fighting to win peace
home, like going to the Red Cross!
this mess will end before all of the
lotte Whiker's letter and I thought |- * . t4rs should be limited fo 250
and freedom for us back here at| gf
and donate a pint of blood and pray| he (
p helps the carise for all
(Tirpes ‘readers are invited: express their views in ¥ Deal Sscourages, netie:
tHesa columns, religious con- . a.8 8 _toversies excluded. Because of the Wolume received, let- |US FYRTHER?” r Loehr, Greenfield objections, Mr. Ed Bayless, 4 use of grain for manufactur ajcohol will be sustained by { like-minded people, but why snlighten the others of .us
brds. * Letters must be ed. Opinions set forth
fer you have rescued all those d hours by building ships, and diships are loaded with the grain, shat ports in Greece and China
T es * assumes no responsi lity for the return of” manuripts and cannot enter ¢or$spondepce regarding them.) : ; dle little detail, whom do you se to have distribute this grain starving Greek and Chinese
we sometimies profit more. Mr.
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wife and daughter, the admiral had made his way § kL England, where he opened up a little resta at i South Kensington, catering to the London universit]
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opening a little dress shop. She was about 40 and! not particularly good loooking. Définitely, she was!
did open a little er’s estal ; her centers of activity. : 3a At\the same time Kent was given his seven-year sen , Anna Wolkof got 10 years. Her father, who ra received wn shorter sentence, was released from interns ment last January. British sentiment against 4 Wolkofs ran particularly high because they had found ' asylum in England and then turned around an@ worked {or the Germans. a :
‘Nature of Document a Mystery JUST WHAT Anna Wolkof’s connections were with Eg lulrgl pr eid Jig gr revealed definitely what it was that Tyler Kent her or showed her or comniunicated to
guess in the London press at the time was that as code clerk of the embassy, had access
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gover wouldn't de you any harm.
Fo) American democracy. A large crowd, mostly old and |youth of our fair land is gone. . fi have a right to express my, dor Kennedy's reports to President ‘Roosevelt
But we must be of one heart. ... There is no place among us for malcontents. ° : “We are in no mood for torch-light jubilation. Whether we win as a party is less important to us than whether we win as a people.” | ‘
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PHILIPPINE BASES AND OTHERS
e ITH MacArthur driving toward the Philippines from the south, and Nimitz preparing Saipan for the other J prong of a pincers offensive, liberation of Manila is likely long before the July i, 1946, date of scheduled independence. So the new congressional resolutions and statements by Presidents Roosevelt and Quezon are timely. : Congress pledges that “the United States shall drive "the treacherous, invading Japanese from the Philippine jslands, restore as quickly as possible the orderly, free democratic processes of government to the Filipino people,
~ and thereupon estaplish the complete i Philippine islands-as'a separate self-governing nation.” By E ¢his-measur independence can bg achieved, much sooner. As our govefnment has repe dly reminded the colonial big powers, our Philippine policy should be their model. But political freedom without military security is a - snare, and political freedom without €eononte security is a mockery—the world’s small natio have learned to their ‘regret. Our statesmen and the Philippine government-in-exile are too realistic to be satisfied with the shell, and to ignore the kernel of freedom. yr, T= On the economic side, speedy emergency measures after restoration of civil government are pledged to atteviate physical hardships of the people. The second joint resolution enlarges thé scope of a joint commission to consider long-range economic and financial rehabilitation, and | to make recommendations to the two governments.
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very young, in that straggling order characteristic of civilian parades, trudged up the hill alongside the slow-moving automobiles, four abreast, carrying small American fiags and placards praisifig: Tom Dewey. It was just noon, and very hot. There were old nen and women who have soifis in all the places of the earth where this war is being fought. . They plodded’ gallantly, this-home guard of democracy. One man carried a 3-year-old boy all the way up that long hill. At the top, in front of the capitol; they listened to their champion, the young man Dewey—“We can risk an election because that méans.to us we are free men and women. We are going to keep the things "we are fighting for and strengthen them by having an elec od in fies times. ‘It means we have thé greatest system in the world.” He had ca that marching crowd. ie E00. Ate Spiety of
"(Westbrook Pegler did. not write a column today)
"I don't think it very nicé to talk about the President and his family at a time like this. 2 § ’ = 2 i “YOU MAKE US =~ SORRY FOR YOU”
By Mrs. Walter Haggerty ” ~~ R. B. 6, Box 404 AN =
"Our friends dropped in, said their radio was out of order and wanted, Avec to listen to the speakers at the
suddenly, with a hurt expression,
a bushel and it's the worst talk I ever listened at.” Although we farmers may use double negatives, wrong contractions/and split infini-
Thanking you for your sms, and if I have hurt you, s not been my intentions, for I Bnly one of the many Americans iflg to do their level best when
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AE MIGHT AS WELL CE FACTS” ° fdward 'F. Maddox,
f TC ; | i we, the people of the United | Stites, must decide’ on our destiny | byj our. votes, we gn as well face Lib plain facts nowl® The choice to d made in the. coming e is
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convention. We listened a while; |
one said, “Hoover ain't changed af. bit, I ain't got no corn to sell at 15c|,
dt merely a choice betwee J two, nfkn or two political parties, put 4%) 4 cholce between two diverse sysdms of government, Americanism totalitarianism. The Repub stands today as the mpion of our rican way of fe, “a government of the people, br the people and by the people,"
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We The People ‘By Ruth Millett ~~ Lg: SHE 1S through school and the ‘ing. She doesn’§ know what kind | jn Washington, and of the alpha- + for anything special.
young man comes home and marries her. But she shouldn't ‘be so haphazard in her job hunting. Not |pyreaus or bureaucracy, of which he
For all she knows she may have to support herselt for years, and not always in years when jobs are easy for an untrained, not too interested person to track
Her young man may not come. back, or he may
PRESIDENT QUEZON and his associates, unlike some shortsighted independence leaders in other small countries, have long desired co-operative security measures. The organic act permitted American acquisition of naval bases and fueling stations. The new measure..modernizes that by including, in addition, ‘air and land bases. That is common sense. But more adequate land-sea-air defenses there in the future, and the heroic fighting quality of the Filipinos and their American protectors as demonstrated on Bataan, are not enough. Only American control of Saipan and other far Pacific bases after the war—by sovereignty or mandate— can protect the Philippines, China and America from attack. We have a right to assume that President Roosevelt -* and Quezon are doing something about that also.
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THE PRICE OF ALLIANCE
come back disabled so that he can’t assume the whole responsibility for a family’s support.
tives, we understand the sentiment of the commdn man, for ain't we all. These same friends have al-]
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ways been good citizens of gtheRe= publican\party and as we all listened to bitter words of hatred for Presi-
froth being sorry, there is so much hoy she plans to marry some day | lintred in the world.
ig overseas, so she is out job hunt- | Hoover spoke -of the “Beaucrats”
of job she wants. . She isn't trained | petical system, as NYA, CCC, WPA, So she'll | which brought a laugh and cheer just take whatever she is offered | from the Republican leaders, but ~—providing the Hours and pay are | none of us laughed, we were all all right. sorry, for we represent the sensible She isn’? giving it any real |yoter, , thought, though. After all, she is | "At the beginning of world war I, just marking time, just trying to |gqover was CARC, CCRB, USFA, kill the months or years until her | MTC, CUSSEB, USGC and IFC which all- stand for © different
was a part. Also, try and -write out the word, for which each letter stands, and you will find a whole page written, when the meaning can be expressed in a few letters. We hate bad ideas, but under the Constitution, we still have a right to them and through their expres-
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refent an opposing side- to those I think ‘uphold bad govern-
+or- any hat they believe, . _II'hate dishonesty in government pd” I believe that the New Deal has misled and lied to--(either in-
tentionally or unintentionally) 600
million Americans” That includes the people who are here and the next 500 million to be born as taxpayers. The New Deal first misled the people when it ‘failed to adopt and lead by the 1932 Democratic platform. Almost no one would kick if they were on that platform today. 'It is stil good and unused. The New Deal party is not Demoerat or Republican. It is a coalition of political opportunists, drifting people, Communists and rainbow chasers. I love our Constitution and its 10 restraining amendments, and I would gladly make any sacrifice if it would mean that future and
{more intelligent Americans could
have the opportunities that this generation has wasted. -Development of the individual by the in=
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Yes, 1 repeat that the Republican party is the sole champion and defender of American freedom and independence. The Democrat party blitzed, captured and appropriated by & Wr disciples of Karl Marx and advocates of international socialism —a totalitarian world state or “dictatorship of the proletariat.” They call this aliénism the “New Deal” And this so-called “New Deal” is dealing away our’ American freedom while pretending to be crusading to bring freedom to the rest of the world. Do you feel the shackles? Do you hear the clanking of the chains? Do you hear the threats of fiting squads? Do you recoghize the pattern of _decreed totalitarian regimentation imposed
br the preservation of constitu fional liberty under law, individual ghts and a return to the faith of 1 ithe defender of the!
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dom which our boys are fighting |- and dying right now to defend.
American sovereignty,
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THE, report of the AMG public health chief in Rome brings us yet another picture of the enormity: of Nazi . - greed, rapacity and heartlessness. One of every five 'persons in the Italian capital is suffering from tuberculosis, a direct result of Italy's “friendly alliance” with Hitler. First came the Italian contribution to-Hitler’s promised victory. Not only did the Italians pay with men and * goods and raw ‘material, but also with cold and hunger. . | Then the Nazis arrived in person, living as they always live, on the country’s best, while the natives endured new, acute privation. - Tre dr Fog ~The toll is only now becoming apparent to us. Defidiseases of adults and children are piled upon the \g Spr gis. Thus did Hitler treat his
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her young man comes back sound of body, it may be a while before he can get started in his chosen work or profession. It may be that his wife will have to earn a pay check, in order to give them a start.
Prepare for Future
80 that girl—and there are thousands like her— should put some thought into the job hunting she is doing now. They should all try to figure out just what kind of work will give their talents and abilities the best chance. And if they need a little special training it would be worth while to get it before they start to work, even though they have to borrow-the money to pay for it. Or they should try to get special training in a night course—if they have to take a mediocre job without any future to it. coe
of their working days, And since jobs are easy to get now they take whatever is available, without a worry about the future. But the post-war world may not be - as easy a place as they like to dream it will be. Now is the time for them fo be preparing themselves -so i they can get by even if it proves to be tough going.
. . WITH EMPLOYMENT in the (aircraft). industry ballooning toward ‘the 3,000,000 mark for 1044, and
with nothing for many of these new workers to do once the war stops, converting industry back to a
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ity —Ernest R. Breech, president Bendix Aviation COMP. = uo p2 = : i ; » ay oh 8 . % _ WE MUST learn agalfi as a nation that work is a blessing, and seldom an evil—Dr. Leonard Carmichel, president Tuts college, ee
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The trouble is, they see the war's end as the ‘end
THE INVASION was launched on “orderd fiom | ;
the countries that opposed Hitler is appalling to | Jew: Jk Tia SAHectol Aled ind veltomed by.
on you by New Deal bureaucrats¥ Of course you do.. This election is not a choice between a Republican
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
home, what would it be worth to you in war
or a Democrat. No, it is a choice petween Americanism and Euro-pean-spawned totalitarian socialisth. To shorten the war, to save millions of lives, to preserve our American way of life, vote the straight Republican ticket and thus put men in control of our nation who _stlil believe in and who will preserve, - protect and ‘defend ox constitutional liberties. “Come: on,
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New ‘Dealers! | TNL “WONDER HOW THEY GET THE GAS” By R. H., Indianapolis If you have enough money you can beat the gas rationing program by taking & chartered plane burning aviation gas and flying to the northern fishing énd vacation spots. If you have enough money. 1f not, then stay on the job, abide by the rationing rules and dream of a vacation trip or a jaunt to the folks on the farm, A local aeronatitical. company is ‘advertising these flying trips for those who can afford it. I wonder how they get the gas? : = . DAILY THOUGHTS Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance -of faith. ~Hebrews 10082. i Goin OH, the heart is a free and fetterless thing— th
fight with Aunt Martha's kids and: fhe all go |A wave of the ocean, a bird on the i
fellow Democrats, let's “purge the|
together they could govern the world?”
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Prime Minister Chamberlaih’s attitude and peace in Europe. It ix of course Kent gave the material to Ramsay and it to Anna’ W hry
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debate that “he ought rather to be in a stitution ay in a criminal place of detention.” e whole affair is another one of those cases Ogill probably hdve to await: the end of thé war tion. But as ammunition for. an American tical campaign, it is pretty thin stuff,
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Qe . ot 4 g : “ie . & By William Philip Simms © a Se ~~ LONDON, July 4-4 England could vote, President Roosevelt _ would carry it next November like he carries the Solid South. The reason’ given is that Mr. Roosevelt has “always been Britain's friend.” Leaders here say they know him as they know no other American. Therefore, he would be “easier to deal with.” Furthermore, they add, “he came A ~into the war, long befpre America ET did.” This week's News Review asserts that “It is important to Churchill's own political future that Roosevelt should remain in the presidency. for a fourth term.” Some realists foresee a postwar. period wherein . America, Britain and Russia must ride herd on the whole .world, in which event they would like to see Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill remain in power along with Marshal Stalin,
‘Bad Example' for Britain
ON THE OTHER HAND, a prominent labor member of the house of lords told me that a fourth term for President Roosevelt would “set Briain & bad example.” He"said it las been more than 125 years since any British premier had remained in office longer than eight consecutive years, He feared four terms for Mr. Roosevelt “might give Churchill ideas.”
pers probably would how be full of British politics, with plenty of pungently expressed why this or that candidate should be elected. The British press, however, has little to say and that little is said gingerly. The press steers clear of anything résembling partisanship. The Times observes that Governor Dewey has been a resourceful and successful governor, while in foreign affairs he has “moved on from the hesitant isolationism” of four years ago. But the outcome of the elections, the Times concludes, de- - pends on “many things—such as the course ‘of the war and the speed of events.” , TAR
Political ‘Bumble Bombs' oh ALTHOUGH ARTHUR WEBB, Washington eotrespondent for the laborite Daily Herald, remains noncommittal he does suggest that a number questions now being asked in America may yet become political “bimble bombs” then For instance “Did Churchill tell Roosevelt that
Similar questions are heard here, though far more often in private conversation than in the pris For quite a féw believe Mr. Churchill's stay at No. 10 Downing st. depends, at least in part, as the Néws Review suggests, on another four years for Mr. Roosevelt in the White House. :
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Were the situation reversed, American newspa-