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date but not running “in
seriously, they must be shocked politicking in the last week.
he was a candidate above poli
Democratic National Chairman
Of course there is nothing wants to be President just a litt —he has to map his campaign forces, pick his political aids,
in chief in the midst of war, t job again—if at all—is to cam Mr. Roosevelt is doing.
be elected without running.
“THE CRY OF BLOOD”
maelstrom of destruction where cry of blood.”
than the desecrated homes of Poles, Russians, Frenchmen,
the British have forgotten the
savagery by deeds more terrible
man Kultur last month slaught armed civilians. According to th puppet regime:
opened up point-blank fire. W
and “the cry of blood.”
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MR. HULL TO THE PRE
Secretary of State Cordell ment seem to us important: you move in here because you car
“You are engaged in work
responsible as any work 1 can thi which we all are passing, “There has never been opinion than there is today. It ingly greater until victory ‘has
skill and intelligence and pract
we call an alert public opinion.
citizens, not only in this war and that are involved, but in planni
that stand right before thelr today is to make the
fa maxithum
to basic international questions war and those that are inevitabl lon to post-war peace.”
sense,” was a mistake after all.
“maelstrom of destruction” can be frightened now? they think that German land is more “holy” to Germans |
Dutch, Belgians, Norwegians, Yugoslavs and others are dear to those victims of German invaders? Do they think
Czechs, or any of the allies, have forgotten Lidice? Have the Germans not just reminded the world of their
In the Greek village of Distomo near the foot of Mount Parnassus, seat of Apollo and the muses, neighbor to the birthplace of Hesiod and of Plutarch, the supermen of Ger-
“The villagers were rounded up within a square, facing machinegun posts and troops with sub-machineguns. ! When over 1000 of the villagers were assembled, the Nazis |
E call as a contributor .to the editorial column. today |
press conference in the new press room of the state depart. |
“I greet you ineyour new quarters.
post-war problems have been settled. a tremendous function for good or bad according to the
you aid in developing and keeping thoroughly alive what “There is, unfortunately, today in this country and -in
other countries @ decline—I may say, an unconscious decline—in interest on the part of a surprising number of
1 notice that at times an increasing number of people will listen to that part of the news which is :
porary or trivial nature and neglect the big basic questions |
to what we would call an inforined public opinion ‘relating
THE CANDIDATE. WHO WOULDN'T “RUN” AYBE that Roosevelt statement about being a candi-
the usual partisan, political If any voters took it by all the President's party
Within a few hours of his Tuesday announcement that
tics, he was deep in party
conferences to control the Democratic convention, to prevent a southern split, and to pick his running mate. has held no less than three long sessions with To-Be-or-Not-to-Be Wallace, and nobody knows how many with
He
Hannegan and sundry party
heelers. Presumably the commander in chief did not limit these meetings with his partisan political staff to discussions of high military strategy.
PAGE 10 Monday, July 17,1944 ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE MARK FERREE President Sav Md Editor. Business Manager
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wrong with that. If a man!
le bit—much less four times plans, marshal his partisan and prepare for the battle
"of the ballotbox. Since the constitution ends the presidential term every four years, even though he is commander
he only way he can get the paign for it. That is what
Why he feels so guilty about participating in this process of democracy—to the point of a cover-up promise that “I would accept and serve, but I would not run”—is not | pose. too. clear. Plenty of voters question his right to a fourth term, but surely none is so stupid as to suppose that he could
It isn't the running “in the usual partisan, political sense” that Mr. Roosevelt needs be afraid of. running in the unusual partisan sense of campaigning as a non-political commander in chief, when he is an ordinary party candidate. That will be resented by many.
It’s the
HE Nazis threaten that if the war “spills over our holy German land,” they will “turn this continent into a
only one cry is heard—the
As if their blood lust needed advertising! Do they think the survivors of five years of the Nazi
1By Westbrook Pegler
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NEW YORK, July 17.—If you have no better use for the next few minutes let me bend your
en
-torney . general, has called political party tied up with the labor movement.” The’ political party is, of course, Mr. .Roosevelt's New .Deal which runs the
‘because Biddle knows that this movement is gov-
dreds of millions of dollars by eérooks and licensed
the same, then he isn't one-tenth the man that he and his party represent him to be.
other government jobs of the war construction on
government, and the “labor movement” is the union movement, composed of workers, or, as he says, “labor,” Rol However, to call these unions “the labor movement” is a piece of demagogic, political dishonesty,
erned almost entirely by dictatorial groups and individuals, including some of the most revolting underworld rascals unhung and anti-American Communists and that, in its entirety, it is an anti-labor movement under our preset laws. He knows that a large proportion of the Americans constituting “labor” are not members of the unions in the common meaning of the word but captives driven into the fold by the government of which he is a member.) and that millions of them have been robbed of hun-
ynion grafters who also have preyed upon and collusively combined with employers to cheat the workers and the government. And, if Mr. Roosevelt, himself, doesn’t know all this, too, and more of
But he. knows,
'l See No Excuse for Such Hypocrisy’
IN REACTION to the fumes arising from the 300 million dollar Delaware aqueduct job and many -
which Americans were charged big fees for the right to. work, congress last winter decided that henceforth the unions, although remaining exempt from tax on their graft and their statutory income from rental properties, securities and the like, must at least make -what they call “informational” income tax returns.” The idea, frankly, was to" present to the public the enormity of the union ‘income and |. warn the people, including “labor,” of the menacing
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financial power of these over-privileged organizations and their bosses. The unioneers hollered that | this congiessional proviso was but the beginning of | a campaign to expose union business affairs to gov-
| ponents blandly denied any such purpose, I see no
| excuse for such hypocrisy and agree that this was | the purpose and insist that it was a very good pur-
Mr. Roosevelt vetoed the bill in a message that | finally aroused his old friend, Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky to fighting words and the President, himself being thus publicly stood up to and realizing that he had over-spoken himself, quit cold. The bill then passed over his veto.
‘Silly Bit of Flippancy, Anyway’
AT THE TIME there were those who said the President's real objection did not lie against the tax rates which he ceplored on the ground -that they favored the greedy, not the needy, which was a copy desk phrase reflecting the literary counsel of ore of his’ selfless assistants and a silly bit of flipipancy, anyway, inasmuch as need and greed are as ‘often found together as greed and wealth. The suspicion instinctively arose that Mr. R. was actually trying to turn a trick for his old friends, the unioneers, and might gét rid of the dingbat concerning. informational returns from unions if he could throw the whole bill back into conference and debate. i However, that hope was lost when the bill went through over the veto and it then became necessary
Do |
blitz? Do they think the
than their words of blood ?
ered more than 1000 une report by the Nazis’ own
hen all the victims had |
fallen, the troopers went among them, pistoling those who were still alive, and stamping the life from babies whom mothers and others had protected with their own bodies. The Germans then fired the village.” | And now the Germans warn us that, if “holy German | land” is touched they will cause “destruction” everywhere By Ruth Millett
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Hull. His remarks at a
I am glad to see | 1 work better in this place, !
and because you deserve the hest possible facilities,
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that is only second in its
spot | just about as | nk of in this crisis through
greater need for an alert public | of
will continue to be increas- | crowned our efforts and | You will perform
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ical judgment with which !
the awfulness of the issues ng for the future as’ well*
of a minor or tem- |
ces. Your most vital task contribution in your work
, those. arising during the y ansing even now in relaLog 7% re
or rs . -| about his smile. responsibility to the most important work of the govern-
ment itself, that is, disseminating in the most understandable manner all of the pertinent and material facts and | circumstances that would be included in what we call | news.- That range of work especially is
for the “political party tied up with the-labor move-
| ment” to whip up another of its clever little schemes,
having the color, though not the odor, of legality, That scheme has now been effected.
‘Undue Hardship for Little Unions'
THE UNIONS won't have to do as congress said they must. Mr. Rs internal revenue has ruled that
the big, parent unions shall make informational re- |
turns but that the little, component unions need not tell how much they get or where or how or what they do with it.
their total disbursements and that is enough.
Motveover, their filing dates even for this general 1
and meaningless information was postponed from May 15 to Aug. 15 for their convenience although
George Spelvin. American, with no office help or!
bookkeepers had to get his return in on time or pay cash penalties. And do vou know the excuse for all this? will slay Mr. Spelvin, American. It would have been an undue hardship on the little unions to fill out returns and the parent unions deserved the postponement of their big money returns becausz they were inexperiencd and néeded time for some practice swings.
We The People
WOMEN are suppesed to be the ones concerned with personal appearance. But have you noticed how | seriously men are discussing the appeal of Thomas Dewey? They speak’ and write of his personal “oomph” or lack of it. They discuss his height with Tn as much concern as though they { were trying to fix him up a blind & date — instead of tying to get him in or keep him out of the White House. They talk about the. appeal of his radio Voice, and from the conversation you might think they were discussing Prank Sinatra.
And in all ‘these aspects he is compared, either |
favorably or unfavorably, with the man in the White House. :
This Is Entirely Different
DOESN'T IT sound for all the world liké a bunch of women discussing a candidate for president of the women's club? But don't laugh. When men 80 in for this kind comparison it isn't silly, or inconsequential, It 1s mighty important. They. even have a high soundIng phrase for it. _They call it a candidate's votegetting ability. . If it were women discussing two, women candidates, it would be just so much feminine chatter and cattiness, But this is entirely different. gf you don’t believe {t just dare to smile when you hear a group of men arguing over who has the more thrilling radio voice, Dewey or Roosevelt. You'll get put in your place, and fast. After all, that's mighty important? pd
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So They Say—
IT-18 OUR business to be friends with both Russia and China and exchange with both Russia and China the goods and information’ which wil} raise the stands
ard of living of all our peoples.—Vice President Hen A. Wallace, sa ents
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UNLESS WE begin now an orderly resumption of civilian production and use surpluses of materials and manpower Seveigped as war needs are expect that y thousands of employees. will face
‘atpleast tem unemployment.—Senator
| ernment inspection and,. although some of its pro-
| keep our freedom in this, the great-
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If a parent union has 500 | locals it just lumps together their total income and |
|ing at large.
. | of good principles, and at the same This | time they wish to be free and foot- | loose to enjoy. all the privileges of
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: ° LE : The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you sqy, but will delend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED” By L. M. Roseberry, Indianapolis The stanch clique who advocate ‘no elections with perpetual oneman communisiic rule and general
acceptance of the rules and laws
{that are used in the worlds of dic- | tators for which our wise, sensible | American boys are now fighting and !dying to eradicate, seem to be the ones, and the only ones, “who are building on sand,” as a most brilliant New dealer prognosticated in the Hoosier Forum, Friday, July 7, in his vivid description of the Re- { publican convention and what they were doing. His clique wants a noisy, blaring meeting with voices from the sewers and megaphone records to cram their candidate down the unwilling people's throats, whether or no, “I want ‘em, you take it” style. Because a quiet, re-spectful-for-the-war-condition convention was held, he called it “lifeless, a flop” and other praiseworthy epithets It was much more commendable to show respect and sympathy for the aching hearts of parents all over our nation whose sons jare being sacrificed, along with the material aid of the rest of us, to
est nation on earth. Hats off and three cheers for Mr. Benjamin Stevens, with whom we fully agree as to there being many silly, also ignorant, creatures roamAmongst which, the most ignorant and silliest of all being our dear New Deal sticklers, striving to do away with all our laws
our great country. Try and do it. “By their works we shall know them.” They prove their ill-in-formed silliness in each letter they inflict on the patient, forgiving public. “Porewarned is forearmed,” and by said literary efforts on their part we can be ever on the alert for their misdemeanors’, » td 2 “WHY CRAM IT . DOWN OUR THROATS?” By Mrs. W. H., Indianapolis
The Hoosier Forum seems to be devoted almost entirely to radicals fighting one another anymore. When there is so much worthwhile news to be published, I think:it is foolish to take the space in the paper and employees’ time to print such
(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 responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)
while articles such as a Priend of {the Kids writes, pertaining to the
body's time. We all know how Mrs. Haggerty and Mr. Maddox feel so why con-
Since they both ‘like to write so
pany where they can be paid. How Mrs. Haggerty ever gets anything done around her. home is beyond; me. I only have my husband and I am busy all the time, but that is some more of my business.
2 ” s “CHECK YOUR HISTORY” By George C. Moore, Indianapolis Hoover did not cause the depression. Henry Ford did not design every Ford car that has been made! and driven. F. D. R. did not show us the way out of the depression. | F.D.R. did not plan how to win, the war. Hoover inherited the de- | pression. from Coolidge who saw it | coming and ducked. He probably |
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" |ducked because there was nothing |
he could do to avert it. Hoover, | with a minority senate and representative support, could also do nothing, especially with big business cutting wages and laying off help in order to cut prices under | competition's prices. That, to my mind, is the solution to the - depression. Henry Ford was and is smart. When. he started his business, he hired educated, competent men for
drivel. If we could have worth
Side Glances—By Galbraith
important jobs whose interest was
“1. haven't spent much time s - every three month:
ing war strateqy. give fhe Red Cro
{I thipk, myself, it was better to
Juvenile Detention Home, enlighten. every war. Check your history. ing us on conditions and facts that | Indispensable? Neither am I exist, it would be well worth any-! * = =
tinue to cram it down our throats?
well I don't see why they don't! get a job with a publishing com- Geiger, when you called yourself a
(thing besides
to help build up his business and their jobs. F. D. R. was still struggling. even with full support of senate and representative majority, to find some way out of the depression. It took U. 8. participation in the war to solve his eight-year problem; and if you remember, WPA was only abandoned a few short months ago. His third campaign was conducted with the promise that our boys would never fight on foreign soil unless forced to do so. They did. immediately after his re-election.
fight -then than wait and sacrifice our own women, children and cities.) F. D. R. is a politician, grant him that; but he is not a military man. The experienced army. navy, marine and aviation officers are. They are the ones who have planned our successful course to defeat the enemy, the same as it has been in
“THEY DIDN'T SIT . BACK AND WHINE”
By An Intelligent Common Person, In. | dianapolis
You used the right adjective, Mr.
“dumb” common man. I'm not!
Westbrook Pegler, but I can surely answer a question like yours. By the way, you could answer it yourself if you bothered to read somethe funny papers. There is no law except the aw of human nature which prevents! everyone from becoming a millionaire. It is human nature to take’ the line of least resistance, and the man who decides to get out of the rut and makes an effort is the one who makes the fortune. 1 I'm from a middle class family. My father had only a grammer school education, but I know that if I set my goal high, prepare my-| self by studying and work hard to- | ward my goal, I shall reach it, with’ God's help. I certainly haven't in’ the past nor shall in the future depend on a union or Communist organization to get my rainbows for | me. The men who founded the! du Pont, Ford and Morgan fortunes! were common men, but they were; not “dumb.” They had intelligence | enough to realize that with cour-| age, guts and hard work, intelli-| gently directed, they could get some place in this world. They didn’t sit back and whine because someone else had more money than they.!
They did something about it. They; ;
did not stick their heads in the funny papers. ‘ ) | What have you done to prepare, yourself, Mr. Geiger? An ox works | hard too, but he doesn't get any-! where because he doesn’t use his brain. = ” 8 “PUT THE CALVES ON TRIAL” By E. A. Hunt, 413 Lemcke bldg. i I read your editorial on the Guernsey Milk Company and the findings of the court. I took it that after due investigation you could not find just who did water the milk. Maybe I can help you out in this matter, and I feel sure that you are open to any suggestions that. will put the spotlight of public opinion |: on the guilty party. I believe you can trace this all to the unborn calves that this herd of milk cows were carrying at the time. The calves were looking forward to the date when they would see light, and were fearful that when the time came they would not have enough milk to drink for themselves. “So, while the cows weré not watching, these calves slipped out, watered the milk, and quietly returned to their abode. jSo, catch the calves and put them on trial and you will have the solution. And this tip won't cost you a dime. stots
DAILY THOUGHTS And the servant of the Lord
must not strive, but be gentle
unto all men, apt to teach, ‘patient.—Timothy 2:24, de ChE
HOW poor are they that have not mat a
‘worst time of year to go
By Fred W. Perkins =~ Th WASHINGTON July 17—At- # torney General Francis Biddle, known as an ultra-New Dealer, is denounced in an organized labor publication as “a weak-kneed libI eral” because he recently criticized . wartime strikes. : © “Labor,” a weekly published by the railway brotherhoods, quoted an anonymous labor leader as saying, “Heaven save us from such * champions!” 5 AE Mr. Biddie is the ad ls tion figure who said following the ection of Mr. Roosevelt: “The Roosevelt adminis-" tration has been successful because it was a political party tied up with the labor movement under an able political leader.” In recent months he has drawn fire of conservatives because of several official opinions that the C. I. O. political action committee was within the law in its use of labor union funds for political purposes. The “Labor” attack on ihe attorney general was based on a speech he delivered on July 6 before the New Work county organization of the American The publication said: “Biddle boasts of being a ‘liberal’ and a ‘friend of labor, but his address was an extraordinary example of ‘double talk,’ in which he tried to balance faint praise of labor with the mast vicious kind of slurs.”
‘Must Share Unity of Purpose’
A DEPARTMENT of justice copy of Mr. Biddle's address shows he said: “The men a; home must share that unity of purpose with the men at the front if we are to finish this
-|"Job as swiftly as possible. It is not hard to understand
the biiterness of the soldiers and sailors reading of strikes at home while they fight and die abroad. Why should strikes be permiited, they ask, ... “Such talk is not easy to answer because, for the most part, the soldiers are right. And yet it is largely founded on a misunderstanding of our domestic economy.” . Biddle credited both’ management and labor,
on the whole; with carrying out the no-strike and no- -
lockout agreement that was made With the President a week aftér Pearl Harbor, and he said that “union leaders, except for a willful and selfish few, have insisted on discipline.” Bul, he said, there continued to be unauthorized or wildcat strikes which reached a peak just befere the invasion of France. (Today's figures show the strike situation “spotty”; strikes have increased since the invasion period, when they vanished from official records; but no large stoppages are on today's record.) Mr. Biddle gave an anlysis of the causes for wartime strikes, including “protest against real or imagindry unjust wage treatment or personnel handling,” and\also union attempts to force decisions from government agencies.
‘Dangerous Impediment to War Effort’
“BUT WHATEVER the causes,” he said, “The results are selfish—unthinkingly selfish, perhaps, but nene the less selfish. And whatever the causes, they do not justify work stoppages, however short; for every strike, every interruption in production is a very real and a very dangerous &mpediment to our war effort and postpones our ultiméte triumph. ... “Let's get this much straight: We cannot take things easy so long as American boys are fighting and being killed! , . . If strikes impede the war effort’
-—and every strike is a tank trap in the path of our
invading armies—the resentment against strikes, already so marked among soldiers today, will not die down when they return. . ., . They will blame, fairly or not, organized labor and the leaders of the unions for the interruptions in production which hampered their victory and endaiigered their lives.” The publication “Labor” said that Mr. Biddle did not point out that “newspaper stories of strikes have been deliberately exaggerated,” and that “he had practically nothing to say in criticism of hard-boiled employers who have provoked many of the stoppages.” The labor publication declared that “few ‘brass hats’ have ever gone so far in swallowing anti-labor
| propaganda as has Biddle. Lately, as a matter of fact,
they have paid a good many ungrudging tributes to labor's achievements.”
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Closer Relations By William Philip Simms
LONDON, July 17.—~The United States and fhe Soviet Union are 14OW nearer a real rapprochement (han they have been in the history of their kaleidoscopic relatons. That is the view of one of Europe's best informed diplomats who has long enjoved the confidence of both Washington . and
He/ meant an understanding on mutual permanent and 1 te self-interest instead of
a temporary diplomatic or political advantage. The Soviet-American honeymoon of 1933, the diplomat observed, followed the latter kind. For that reason it was very short. Moscow wanted recognition at that
administra-
time more than anything else and Washington wished
to put an end to the unsatisfactory state of affairs which had prevailed between the two countries during the preceding administrations,
Both Desire a Lasting Peace
NOW THE picture is transformed. Soon America, Russia, Britain and China will begin to draft plans for the future organization of werld security. There can be no lasting peace without the collaboration of Russia and the United States. Should either hold out no peace organization will have much of a chance of survival. Both countries know that and both desire a lasting peace. } Politically and economically, the diplomat said, ‘their interests tend to dovetail more and more. Both are as interested in the "Pacific as in Europe. Economically, he continued, Russia will need American friendship for a long time. She will need all kinds of capital goods for many years. She will want new railways, rolling stock, farm and factory equipment in great quantities, She must rebuild her great power plants destroyed by the war and construct huge new ones. And America will be the only country able to supply her either with the goods or the necessary credits, Other countries will need all they have for themselves and more besides.
Nature of Peace Is Important
TODAY AMERICA and Russia have the necessary mutuality of nativnal interests without which inter national relations are pretty flimsy stuff. The diplomat warned that everything stil} depends on the nature of the peace.’ It is clear that if it is not a just one in American opinion, the United States will not underwrite it. In particular, it frontiers are shoved about arbitrarily by the unilateral action of one or the other of the great powers in violation of the principles of the Atlantic Charter, the Pacts of Moscow or the-Connally and Fulbright resolutions, the United States will almost certainly refuse to go along. :
To The Point—.
EAKING OF buying more and more War bonds, now is the time for all good men—and women!
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