Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1944 — Page 12

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- PREPARATION FOR PEACE “(CHAIRMAN NELSON of the war production board proposes no step that would impair ability to produce war materials or interfere with all-out prosecugion of the war. That is a vital fact to remember as you read of the current reconversion battle in- Washington. If there were any evidence that the program which Mr. Nelson wants to put into effect could delay victory or cost lives, we should stand with the army and navy leaders who oppose it and the WPB vice chairmen who are blocking it. We find no such evidence. What Mr. Nelson does propose is simply intelligent preparation to win the peace as well as the war. Putting military requirements first, he would give the army and navy all they say they need. But, as the senate’s Truman committee points out in support of his proposition, the time is ‘nearing when drastic and abrupt cutbacks of military

Price in Marion Coun- |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

! NEW YORK, July 11.—Mayor LaGuardia has announced the conditions governing gainful summer employment for boys between the ages of 14 and 18 and his personal opposition to all work for hire by those who are under 14 . The eligibles must obtain official j* permits and boys under 16 are forbidden- to work in shipyards, factories, bowling alleys, liquor establishments, garages, bakerfes, laundries, tailor shops and newspaper and publishing plants, : 2 These restrictions, applied in other days, would have hampered and probably would have altered the careers of men now noted for their achievement and proud of their. early adventures. Jim Farley, for example, tells us that when he was about 10 years old, his father died from a kick of the family horse, John, which he was hitching ‘to the surrey for the funeral of a neighbor's child, the morning after the wake at Grassy Point, ‘There was little insurance so, about two years later, Mrs. Farley, with five small dependent children, bought with her last $1500 a small grocery and saloon. Meanwhile, ‘Jim and his brothers had run errands and sold newspapers. : So In his autobiography, Jim wrote that the saloon was not a beer parlor but a saloon in the full meaning of the word and that he, at a tender age, topped kegs and served drinks of all kinds. This gratuitous candor recalls an interview with Babe Ruth when he was Just becoming a national personality if the era of wonderful nonsense. Assigned to do the Babe's autobiography, and coming to the subject of his youth, I tactfully suggested that we just say he had been a boarding student in a Catholic school for boys. “Hell, no,” the Babe said, “it was a reform school.”

‘Forbidden Lest He Stunt His Growth’

MR. FARLEY worked in a brickyard, shoving sand

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production must come as a shock to the whole national economy. i ’ » Unless something like the Nelson program gets under way soon, the shock will be terribly severe, making itself felt in long idleness for many factories and many workers. That could lose the peace. To use Bernard M. Baruch’s phrases, it could substitute an “adventure in adversity” for the American “adventure in prosperity” which is in prospect if reconversion is managed wisely. » » . ~ o » THE NELSON PROGRAM is designed to cushion and | soften the shock. It could mean no immediate large increase in output of civilian goods. It recognizes the priority of military claims on manpower and materials. Only when and where these claims are satisfied would it permit industries to use surplus materials and manpower in starting a gradual, orderly expansion of production for the civilian market and in getting products and plants ready for swift action when defeat of Germany, Japan or both makes largescale reconversion possible and imperative. Army and navy chiefs, opposing the program, imply that it would make “the existing lag in war production” worse. We disagree. In our opinion, it would help to overcome the lag by combating fears of the future. Certainly it would be fairer than the scheme, attributed to military authorities by the Truman committee, to force workers to’ - take or keep war jobs by making other jobs scarce. And, we believe, much more effective. If we want men and women to stick to war work as long as ‘they are needed, with good spirit and with best results | in high production, we must resist the desire of some military men to delay even the first few steps toward reconver- | sion until the last shot has been fired. We must resist the desire of some businessmen to hold yp the whole procession . for fear competitors may get “head starts.” And we must do everything possible to assure those | men and women that when the war work is finished they | won't be turned loose in a country that has no peacetime | jobs ready for them.

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‘WHO PUT THE OVERALLS...”

* HO put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder?” In our lighter moments, and a trifle off key, we've often wondered. But, to the greater glory of barber shop | harmony, that question remains unanswered. And now we have another question that seems an | aquatic relative of the great chowder mystery: “Who put the water in the Sunnyside milk?” The water was there, just like the overalls—the Mar“jon county criminal court has decided. But. whoyput it there? ; Was it the officials of the Golden Guernsey Farms corporation? Special Judge Harvey Hartsock ruled. that it was not. Anybody knows that, in these days, a businessman doesn’t have much to do with running his own business. Was it somebody in Washington? Was it osmosis? Or capillary attraction? action? Or gremlins? Or a heavy dew? Or_did the roof leak? | We don't know. As far as we can gather from the court decision, it was the nasty old corporation—legally defined as soulléss which, in the present case, is a pretty apt designation for anyone who would adulterate milk that was intended to build up the health and resistance of those who were fighting for their lives against the inroads of tuberculosis. . Probably it's fortunate for corporations that they don’t have souls. If they don't have souls, they can't have consciences, And they can’t go to jail, or any of the other places reserved for people who do things like that. That's a pity, isn't it?

Galvanic

chowder, after all. Who put the overalls , . . ? It must have been a corporation.

SOCIAL STANBARD "THERE was a time when you could almost Judge a person's position and income by the number of servants in his household. But now a proposal that maids be put on

made by the Women's Advisory: Committee of the War Manpower Commission. If this goes into effect there'll be an entirely new standard by which to gauge social standing, It well may be that after July 1 employment offices will “weigh requests for*a maid first by what the employer is doing to win the war rather than. by what she is prepared to pay. And the amount of help a family has will indicate ‘whether they're riveters or idle rich.

‘GRAND STRATEGY : aces the predicament of not being able to flee. This is just to our liking.” ; : i

“RECAUSE the enemy his landed troops on Saipan,” said" {Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, “the enemy task force faces ~ Undou btedly this clever tactic is a part of Tojo's grand y of planting his neck firmly upder Uncle Sam's heel.

| diamond was recounting, as he often did, for the

(on himself till he got broke and then go home to

But maybe we've found the recipe for Mrs. Murphy's |

the pridrity list, to relieve absenteeism in plants, has been |

in a wheel-barrow at the age of 12 and thinks the work was good for him, although today by Mr. LaGuardia he would be forbidden lest he stunt his growth, he being six feet some and LaGuardia about five nine. -

The mayor's own life story, on the other hand, is |

poor in early experience. and he seems to me to be reaching for an adventure that wasn't really there when he tells of having been an accredited war correspondent at the age of 15 in 1898.. He was living on

Gosh! And Almost Time to Go to the Post!

the post at Prescott, Ariz, when the.Spanish war broke and his father, a bandmaster, was ordered to : active service with his regiment. We are invited to believe that the doughty little fellow, alone, found his way from Prescott to St. Louis and there got the job as war correspondent for the Post Dispatch, always, in | my time, an exacting paper with ‘high professional standards and no vacation play-room for little boys. But then it develops that he was with his papa at Mobile and Tampa and that Signor La Guardia was mustered out in August and returned to Jefferson barracks, which is in St. Louis, He wore a little soldier-suit in the photograph of the boy war correspondent and looked real cute, but suspicion persists that this was just a summer vacation war and we are left hungry for samples of the pieces filed to the P-D by the young genius. ' You can check back on Farley's feel any need to.

story, not that you

‘Reputation May Have Helped Some’

SOME MEN think up the damnedest early hardships and adventures for themselves, George Berry, the president of the pressmen’s union, for years was known in recurrent newspaper biographies as a homeless boy who, among other adventures in wayfaring, had won thé national amateur lightweight boxing championship. This reputation may have helped him some In winning bloodless decisions over irresolute opponents in union politics, for most laymen hesitate to trade punches with one ‘who has had ring experience, even in the amateurs. But the truth is that there was no such championship around 1906 nor for about a dozen years later. I once asked Mr, Berry whom he had ever licked and his answer was very sketchy. He said he had had to “engage in a few fights for the purpose of getting money to buy food,” which sounds pathetic, to be sure, but every other fighter I have known, however obscure, has been right there with names and places and other details. Simliarly, Earl Browder, our chief Communist, can't remember a | single incident of his alleged career as a professional | ballplayer in Kansas and Nebraska, which seems very | un-American,

"Typed Himself As an Alger Hero'

SOME YEARS ago, at a large drinking in Palm Beach, a New York professional Irishman and rough

amusement of the ri€h, his youthful trials and his life as a waif in the Brace Newsboys’ Home under the Brooklyn bridge. He had typed himself as an Alger hero and had held many an audience with his niemoirs. On this evening, however, another Irisher from Hell's Kitchen, who had lived neighbor to. him .inyouth, listened quietly and- blew him up, f “The truth.is,” he said, “that this bum had a fine ‘mother who kept a good home and supported her kids by taking in washing when the old man died. But this louse was just a natural born sleep-out. He always came home when he got hungry and the reason he ran away was that his ong: used to make the

kids go to confession and communion. Moreover he didn’t want to turn in the money he got selling papers, to help keep the home together. He would spend it

his mother.”

We The People

By Ruth Millett

‘land the man génerally wins who

rights in fighting the. federal soljdier ballot, but completely reversed

conventions. Some take their pol-

: . The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will detend to the death your right to say it.—~Voltaire.

“GREAT AMERICAN GAME IS ON” By N. G., Frankfort The great American game is on, a dirty game it is, but truly American, It is the game of politics. In this contest anything goes. There are no rules of fair play acknowledged, little regard paid to the future welfare of America as a whole

can spring the most last-minute lies, flash the most money and secure most favored publicity. When, thrown in with a group of men, some fellow pulls your sleeve and says, “Have you heard this one on Eleanor?” Morally elevating, yeah? Another speaks of the unreplacable man .who wants to be king and finally a sleeper pulls an old one on the WPA, a gag worn out! back in 1936. Nifty surprises and reversals are sprung. The GOP in one breath loudly condemns bureaucracy and then proceeds to involve a new rule before it was made in order to depose one leader and to elevate Mr. Lyons with much cash. And what a storm this act brought from a maverick pclitico from Evansville, all because Mr. Lyons once was a Klansman, Was this bombasting politician really thinking of the future of America or was he looking for votes on the racial question? .

The GOP championed states’

itself in advocating a federal law abolishing the poll tax, plainly bidding . for southern Negro votes. Anything to secure votes, After what happened in Chicago last week, surely they wil not later speak of boss-controlled political

itics seriously. The” lost* Voice in the Crowd assumes the role of the sage phi losopher in his regular anti-New! Deal letters, picturing the evils of socialistic trends, Yet the Voice on a. hot Sunday evening may rest at ease in socialistic Garfield Park, quench his thirst from socialistic Water Company fountains, read mail delivered socialistically, feel protected by a socialistic police system, feels assured his home is protected by a socialistic fire department and as he watches the children at play, he is inwardly proud of the extra-socialistic public school system. The Voice would defend each of the above socialistic institutions and many others, yet!

THE UNITED STATES Cadet | Nurse Corps has exceeded its first | year quota of 65,000 student nurses ' by 500. | How come, when WACs and | WAVES ale having so much re- | cruiting trouble” It can't be just because Uncle Sun 1s financiry the education bf the girls who go into the Cadet Nurse Corps. The girls who g0 into the WACs and WAVES sare getting valuable job experience at their tasks and many of them are being given spe- | clalized training. | The reason the girls aren't hesitating to become cadet nurses is probably because nursing isn't anything new for women, and so tlie girls’ families and | the men they know aren't prejudiced against it.

; army and navy, and marine corps as regular serviee | women 1s just too new and different for many people to approve,

Maybe Uniform Was a Mistake

MAYBE UNCLE SAM would have done better at recruiting women: for jobs in the army and navy if he hadn't offered them the chance to hecome service women, but had offered them the chance at a job, instead of an opportunity to get into uniform. i Then he wouldn't have antagonizeq the men, as many men are opposed to the thought of women be= ing captains and ensigns. He wouldn't have caused parents to feel their daughters would be trying some- | thing dangerously new when they talked of going | Into the~army or navy. > | Many a man and Many a family might Have acs | cepted Sally's decision to take a job gh a of at an air base who balked at having her go inte | one of the services, Lo

| ve treated like men for doing a man's

t Perhaps the ideq was a. little too new job.

for many of the girls listen — their families and

But the idea of American girls going into the H}-

But Uncle Sam tried to give women a chance to |’

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

he ponderously condemns collectivistic agencies of the New Deal as something very dangerous. And there is Maddox, the poor fellow who every night looks under the bed for a Red before retiring. He is s0 eager to save his country, but for whom? He lost a stanch fellow savior in Homer Chaillaux and now Martin Dies walks out on him. Too bad!

same people for $21. The second was the consistent defeat by a Democratic congress of every progressive proposal fostered by Mr. Hoover at the expense of human misery. During 1938-40, the unemployment rolls were the largest they ever have been in history between 15 million and 23 million. WPA

ak was about 7 million one day before election and 5 million two

| Favors Passage of Dirksen

days afterward. The writer stood in an alley from 4 a.m. to 9a m. in zero weather to obtain a handout for his hungry, family in the winter of 1939. The handout consisted of about 50 grapefruit without any sugar or!

your soup lines, the stuff we got was not fit for- soup. My family with’

many other families experienced [these starvation days during 1938-40,

What would the wages be now if Hitler had not started this ungodly ! European war. sl | How would relief be administered {now if' we were mot in war? How

imany are employed at war work? | igh

{Who wants any credit for any ac- | complishments that are paid for by {the blood of yours and my sons

money to buy it with. Talk about]

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, July 11.—Wendell L. Willkie's only 1944 supporter in congress from Indiana, Rep. Charles M. LaFollette (R. ' Evansville) today declared that Governor Thomas E, Dewey and the @&. O. P. platform are “more _ progressive than the party's. congressional leadership ‘has’ been.” He expects to campaign for both the presidential candidate and

~~. ‘he said. When he announced his primary candidacy in Indiana last March, Mr. Las Follette termed himselt a “Willkie Republéan” and. invited the “Old Guard” to run someone against him it they didn't like his “progressive ideas.” : They did ~but he won, two to one, i” n More than any freshman on the Republican side, Mr. LaFollette has won the respect of his colleagues for his independence on roll-calls, He has voted with little regard for party lines, *

| Introduced Permanent FEPC Bill

f - “I WAS particularly pl at. the platform ine dorsement for federal legislation to establish a permanent committee on Fair Employment Practice,” Mr. LaFollette declared, . “That made me feel like the ugly duckling after it had been turned into a swan. For I was the only Republican congressman who introduced a bill te carry out such a plan. If it were not for my bill our party would merely be indorsing measures introduced by Democrats or Rep. Vito Marcantonio of the Amere ican Labor party of New York.” Mr LaFollette told the story of how he went out to Indiana to make a Lincoln day speech and left the FEPC bill with Rep. George H. Bender (R. O.), whe had planned also to introduce such a measure, “While I was gone, Mr. Bender put my bill in the hopper, but he didn't even add his name to it,” Mr, LaFollette laughed. “So that makes mine the only one from our side of the aisle. far as I know the Stpsbiean leadership did nothing whatever about it,”

. Bill ANOTHER PLANK which brought high praise from Mr. LaFollette was that for agriculture. Hepointed out that it indorses the principle of crop insurance and he was one of a handful of Ree publicans who voted for continuing the crop insur. ance plan, Just before congress recessed for the party cone ventions, Mr. LaFollette introduced a discharge peti« tion to bring the Dirksen bill for congressional ree

| organization to the floor for action.

“The Republican plank for abolition of useless bureaus can be made a reality only when congress has the acumen and their own information upon which to act,” he said.- “Passage of the Dirksen bill will ‘be a step in that direction.” Pleased with Governor Dewey's choice of youthe ful Herbert Brownell Jr. as Republican national ehaire man, Mr. LaFollette recalled that when the retired chairman, ‘Harrison E. Spangler, announced he had taken an army poll on politics he (LaFollette) ine troduced an amendment to the soldier vote bill te prohipit such poll taking. ‘ i “IVs mistakes like that which I believe will be avoided under the new leadership,” he declared.

Through the Hoop By Thomas L. Stokes

PAWLING; N. Y. July 11. It's almost a shame — what America demands of her public figures. This is no new discovery,” but it is ealled up again by watching Governor Thomas E. Dewey and his family put through the paces at his farm here, in the middie of a hot summer day, by a corps of 2§ photographers to satisfy the curiosity of the American people about the Republican presidential cane didate, :

We can’t let our public figures be as they are, once

Mrs, Haggerty may not know her brothers and sisters, sacrifice and| yy attain or ‘begin to reach toward high publle history and government as she Vears of wives and mothers and de-' ,m.,

should, hut her letters showed more tolerance and common sense than did those of her better critics. There are more Mrs. Haggertys

than one may think. Most of them.

keep their opinions to themselves and express them as they did in 1936 and 40, But it is a great game, this politics. But just remember the result of this game affects us all and that is why we must think. » 2 “FORGIVE AND FORGET THE PAST” By J H. W,, Elwood “He Won't Quit!” is the title of an article writteh by Mr. Stokes at Chicago. “To the older people he brings back dark days of unemployment, bread lines and soup kitchens” is a phrase under the above title.

Mr. Stokes could use the same phrase for 1038-1940, as he did for 1030-32. Any innocent knows the tragedy of 1930-32 was caused by two events. The first was the Wall Street crash. Stock was dumped overboard at $200 to $300 a share in 1920 and rebought in 1932 by the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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ican still be passed over his head,

!spair of the fathers. | Let us respect our only living ex- | President. Let us admire our present leader. Both have made mis- | takes. We should forgive and forget {the past. One was victimized; the {other succeeded by methods of fate ‘and not his own choosing. Let us {profit by past etents and prepare {and pray for the future welfare of our country's population, f

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We must mold them into something very average,

| something akin the nom, something smelling slight. | ly of the barnyard or exuding the homely quality {of the simple frame house on Main street, all de-

riving perhaps from that tradition, so long worn out, that a President must be born in a log cabin, Or else we try to make vaudeville or circus charace

| ters out of them, since politics in this country always

has smacked of the Midway when it was not trans‘ated, on occasion, into the plain religious devotion

| of the country church.

bo s = COULD TEACH YOU A LITTLE"

‘He Made a Very Strange Indian'

I SAW Warren Harding made a member of the

i By Anthony G. Gasveda Jr.. Ili ir uolis Blackfoot Indian tribe, smiling uncomfortably under

‘seemed so Nazi-like as that by A True American in The Indianapolis

amount of income or salary to pay debts and provide for the common

into his pockets to pay your bills

Franklin Roosevelt is a symbol of progress, of unremitting

aggression throughout the world. For your knowledge, Miss True

know, it takes the majority of the 96 senators and the 435 representatives to pass a bill and then it must be declared constitutional by the Supreme Court. If five of the nine members of the Supreme Court hold out, then a bill must be presented differently in order to have it passed Furthermere, President Roosevelt may veto a bill and it

so this country is well represented. It may interest you to know that I am a school boy in my early teens. Perhaps we could get together some time and I could teach you a little American government.

DAILY THOUGHTS

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. —Hebrews 11:6. ; THE ONLY FAITH that wears well and holds its color in all

{ I have never read an article that .

all the people hear you crow, tell-| young girl caught in a sudden shower with a new ing them what you have done to dress and new shoes, free their sons and daughters Con-| I gress has the power to tax any, to get some hay in his hair when he was nominated,

i front cover of a magazine, leaning against a rail defense and for the general welfare | of the people. This country isn't a one-man affair as you refer to, so, why should President Roosevelt dig!

| ally more than you should pay your " (neighbor's. |

American, if you don't happen to

Weather 3 thus which ‘is woven of

the sharp| They have

gaudy and unwieldy headdress. 1 saw Al Smith inducted into the Shoshone tribe, and he made a very strange Indian with that long, bulbous nose and

{ that” wide grin, sparkling with gold teeth, and that Times on June 27.- This country is eventual wisecrack out of the corner of his mouth run by the choice of the majority | in his hoarse, East side drawl. Then there was Calvin of the people and not by minorities.| CooliCge the time they dressed hir1 up in chaps and

Since you are on the high roost, tet | ® 10-gallon hat, and he walked down the steps,

mincingly, anxiously, lest his spurs trip him, like a

‘ae Wendell L. Willkie went off to his Indiana farm

and, after his defeat, when they were .rying to build him up again for this year, they had him on the

fence, with the waving grain behind him, and his | eyes straining into the distance on some object which didn't turn out to be the Republican presidential nomination.

‘Dewey Didn't Milk Any Cows' GOVERNOR DEWEY didn't milk .any of the huns

struggle to improve the lot of the dred cows on his 486-acre farm here, or piteh hay’ underprivileged, of constant battle] —he Won't go in for that sort of stuff—but he did against the forces of tyranny and | most of the other things that the photographers could

think up, he and his wife and two sons, Tom, 11, and John, 7, The Dewey family was taken on the wide front porch of the comfortable, 12-room house here atop a rolling hill. They were taken on the steps, walk ing down the steps, walking down the drive. The Governor posed in the barnyard, leaning on a fence, with the chickens and ducks around him. He had off his coat by this time, and the perspira. tion rolled off him. He and Mrs. Dewey posed before ‘the building housing the deep freeze unit, of ‘which they are very proud, and the two of them posed on :

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the party planks with enthusiasm,

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the grass with their two sons who, by this time, had” ~

gathered in a couple of kittens. It made a very pretty family picture. :

It was an ordeal, lasting about three hours.

‘Have Moved Into the Glass House’

THE GOVERNOR took it all good-naturedly, and came out of it, smiling. - 80 did his wife. Te the two boys it was really a lark. They called for more and more pictures. : . ui And all the time, a crowd of newspaper: reporters followed the photographers around, asking questions--how many cows, how many chickens, the-names of the two dogs,-and so on, down te the last minute de-

tail, all of which the Governor and his wife answered, bth

and then all trouped into the house and bottom floor, back to-the kitehen. = = _ 5 The Governor enjoyed it.- He likes his place here, Mrs. Dewey watched it all, this excursion through her house, with a wise and tolerant smile; ~~

Garden right time. have soft, pl filled, but ti will stop be: until the en begin to dr do keep of weeks after, be harvestec a time, Lettuce wl has been gr ing a long is likely to k bitter out leaves. Likev the large of the midri often bi and should broken off @ precau t | when _servin of the easie often aliowe cause it m It must be bulb gets as or it may b ifrge. Rad grown fast they are to | Swiss cha table when | a foot high, | so that the growing proj turity the ou large midrit

after a fros Pick melo round the garden, mel to ripen m when they