Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1944 — Page 12

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: i Tuesday, July 18, 1944 : / PAGE 12 — By Westbrook Pegler - ROY W. HOWARD . WALTER LECKRONE MARK FERREE Ls 2 President + Editor. Business Manager | © ig . NEW YORK, July 18.—“He was

the most gallant soldier and officer and gentleman that I have ever known, and I make no exceptions,” Maj. Gen. R. O. Barton, commander of the Fourth division, said of Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt when Young Ted died of exhaustion in° Normandy.. That could express the opinion of others who had the privilege of knowing states, 75 cents a month; | Young Ted and I dare say that others, $1 monthly. | others besides me feel truly humble in the presence of this great American's character > RILEY 5551 and honored by the personal friendship of a man Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

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who always was naive in his patriotism and a simple fundamentalist in personal honor, ' Young Ted held fast to his ideals all through a time of popular cynicism when his continuing interest in soldiering, as the personal duty of a citizen to his country. was rewarded with the blase, alcoholic sneers of a licentious intelligentsia and he was called, variously, a perpetual Boy Scout and an American Junker. At one stage of his long trial he was depicted as an aristocratic feudalist because some member of his family had said, or written, unguardedly, that when, in France in the first world war, he was sent to a hospital, gassed and wounded, he was restless to get back to “his troops.”

‘Went Back Against Orders’

THIS WAS held to be an unconscioiis revelation of the aristocrat's feeling that the soldiers of his battalion were, so to speak, his serfs, an interpretation Which would be resented by men who served with him in either war. Incidentally on that occasion when he was restless to get back to “Ris troops” he went back against orders in order to lead them in a new attack. Young Ted was a slight and little fellow physically and so polite to louder but lesser persons that one who did not know him might have met in a . . crowd one of the finest American soldiers, one of. the oo 5 a. Arred .. | Breat patriots of American history, and passed him WE know all the excuses—good, standard, plausible ex | quickly by unimpressed, to join Some Wittigp group

cuses, and every one of them true. There's a war across [he oot Not hat he Joon: all reticent, for going on. There's a shortage of help. You can't get build- Kipling, type fond of soldier stories ney “ing materials. The “program” -doesn’t Satisfy everybody. heh pepsi ee] 5 TW quuy of Pretty thin, aren't they, alongside that picture? Not so convincing when you think about the 130 helpless little

IN THIS ENLIGHTENED STATE HE people of Indiana should take a long look at the picture on page one of The Times yesterday, showing a T-year-old unfortunate bound like an animal in a 6-foot wooden cage where he has been confined for nine

months. That picture was not taken in the Dark Ages. It was not taken in a slave stockade in the days of the

Ivory Coast. It was not taken in a Japanese concentration camp. No, that picture was taken in the biggest, richest city in this enlightened state of Indiana, on July. 17, 1944, at the Board of Children's Guardians’ Home, an institution maintained under the jurisdiction of the Marion county welfare department. o n

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clamorously praised as smirt business by Leon Trotchildren jammed into a place that was meant to hold 85.

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WASHINGTON, July 18.—~Those who believe that the 12-year-old Roosevelt administration has built a . three-layer cake of bureaue cracy here, up new-deal and war strong for the Ludlow introduced last May. ‘Under its provisions the house judiciary committee Would cone duct a scientific survey of bureaus

tive branch of the government and recommend proper

remedies. : Recently Rep. Louis Ludlow, Ind . Demo= the resolution’s passage and to defend any charges that it is political : A sort of trusting soul, he said: 3! “I hope that we members of congress, in considering this resolution, will completely forget that we are Democrats and Republicans. I hope that we will forget that this is campaign year.” . te

‘Disturbed by Bureaucratic Trends’

THE LUDLOW resolution reads as follows: “Resolved, That the committee on the judiciary of the house of representatives is authorized ary directed to make a study of the Washington bureau= cracy with a view to initiating as soon as may be practicable a program of limitation snd liquidation of sald bureaucracy and the restoration of govern. ment within recognized constitutional bounds.” Urging its adoption, Mr. Ludlow said in part: “The inspiration of this resolu is patriotic and not political. There is nothing the remotest degree political back of it. : “I happen to be a Jeffersonian Democrat and I come from a long, unbroken line of Jeffersonian Dem ocrats on both ancestral sides extending clear back to the time of Jefferson himself, “For two decades I have been disturbed by bureaucratic trends, thelr encroachment on civil rights and private enterprise, and their burdensome impact on the United States treasury in fostering

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| extravagant and wasteful expenditures. : "Parties Would Show Their Good Faith’

“I HAVE SAID that there is not the remotest political purpose back of this resolution and in that cortnection I would call attention to the fact that

himself against

sky, even though it turned the German armies unreservedly against the Americans in the west and left the Communists free to organize the terror that . ~ Pp i | - ow morning after a fire? begot Mussolini and Hitler and, eventually, the How would they sound the g : Jf child | PFeSent War. Ted bored many of the intellectuals of Yes, we need a sound, long-range program of child | pitime and set because he had earned the right to | welfare to replace the hodge-podge that has grown up— and been outgrown—in Marion county and throughout Indiana. Certainly, we need a set of new buildings where child wards of the county and state can be safely and de-

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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will deiend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

| the. committee on the judiciary which is designated | by the resolution as the agency to make the. pro- | posed investigation of bureaucracy could not by the remoteSt possibility complete its work and make its report until after the November election. So the ‘adoption of the resolution could not have any bear- | ing on the pending national campaign, except that in adopting it both political parties, acting not as

talk of battles, as others spoke of ephemeral plays and books in which they had a part. Their sneering against the perpetual Boy Scout was largely defensive. | "Just Wasn't There as a Politician’ cently sheltered. By all means, we need a full staff of really trained competent men and women to supervise and guide them toward an even break in life. All of us know it will take months, even years, to get them. The little boy in that picture needs a place to sleep tonight. The clash of opposing social theories doesn't mean a thing to the children crowded into the Guardians’ home, and the juvenile detention home. They can’t wait while we make plausible excuses and play politics with their lives. 2

campaign for the governorship in 1924 with the re- |B mark that “the ‘young fellow ain't there,” he measured his oppenent’s political size with an accurate eye. For a number of reasons he just wasn’t there as a politiclan, which was unfortunate, for his ideals were | decency in private and public life and pure patriotism. As head of the clan of Republican or “O Season Roosevelts,” he was overshadowed durin reign of those whom he called the mavericks an one of my own regrets that, under the political hypnotism of contrast, repeal and the strains of “Happy Days are Here Again” I once added my voice to the lis scoffing in discredit of a man whose quality, the | country, to its damage, did not know. He fought, in, the circle of his acquaintance the propaganda that loose-living was but self-expression and that poverty was an adequate excuse for Bad | morals. He defended his belief that parents, poor or rich, owed their children a good éxample and should maintain the family unit and the home at any sacrifice, I never knew a man more loyal to his word.

Insisted He Ought to Pay

~ os » o 2 OU and I may not have built that wooden cage, nor tied the knots that bound its prisoner. But we put him there, and for our apathy and callous neglect we shall be judged. We shall be judged, by the world and by our own consciences, as a people who, with a surplus of $43,000,000 idle in our treasury, allowed a pitiful 7-year-old to be tied down

in a cage for nine months because there was no place else

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for him. . ON THE train for the 1936 Republican convention, lth , Young Ted and another Republican, one of the richest men in America, sat at a table opposite Heywood . Broun and me. It was open season and we were th ALL ER 'NUTHIN’ !

needling -all Republicans. Presently, the millionaire offered to bet us each $100 to $50 that the Republican nominee, whoever he might be, would beat Frank Roosevelt. We grabbed him in a stampede Two days before election, he wired us. wanting to renege. T let him off the hook. but Broun wouldn't. A few days after the election Young Ted sent me a check for $50. He had an impression that he had taken half*ef the Republican end of my bet. I sent it back, explaining that he was not mvoived and | that, anyway, it had been called off. Again he sent his check, insisting that inasmuch as he he was down for $50 he ought to pay.

‘ ou "THERE is a song in “Oklahoma” which runs this way— With me it’s all er nuthin’ Is it all er nuthin’ with you? It cain’t be ‘in between’ It cain’t be ‘now and then’... If you cain't give me all, give me nuthin'— And nuthin’s what you'll git from me!

We recalled the song when we read of the bawling out |

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* “ A / P, IN POLITICS, Young Ted had been eliminated | Te Jo SA ‘ early, for when Al Smith laughed him off in their | INDIANAPO 18

and I don't know if you will print this or not, but here goes. jgard to the orphans’ home, why

d it is (pan learn to work on crops and in the dairy and everything that a i boy should learn to do so when he

inot a dummy. Also the girls could {learn everything that she should {know to support herself. Every in-

{porting, and there isn't any good |

[what it is, and you can't do it on

homes, and I do not approve of the Wrong before fhe wer? w People! rom what I know about labor and way they do. People go there and Were born and raised here for over |

| tion like cattle on the auction block. 380, it was about the same oe when necessary, you would have the most |Those children are very sensitive; they were born, so ime { wake

‘are penned up and it is “don’t do !6t Politics keep you down.

taught at a young age, say : . | it was required to do Some smal] Shack buildings and build a home| thing to pay its way. gpt older, they will know that they are not living on charity. I know it will take money to buy “YOU JUST DON'T

(What is wrong with that place at

it be big enough; if not enough land, joverwhelms me, Mr. Ginsberg, buy land, or buy a different place! { anywhere, and the farther away!

I came here visiting 23 ye and when I saw Indianapolis I saw | a dirty city of old buildings that Iwas not good for the city planners!

{population and there has not been

o house, the jail-and what not and in a city of over four hundred thousand people.

Sometimes I wonder what is wrong. Don’t people take any pride in their city at all? I know that one can't

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, let.

wished they had under socialism. y L. M. Kappes, Westport, I have never written in before!

stand history well enough to

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here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsiility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor-

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murder or destruction of other peo-

opinion have existed since

old enough to make his way he is 10 or 12-year-old child in this country can tell you how our present form of government will remain workable. What, my friend, led you to believe that the working people of America could be organized along class lines? Your stu!pidity is appalling. | As for the Austin-Wadsworth bill,

itution should be made self-sup-

ason for it not to be. no matter,

city block. | I have seen lots of children’s Sel some things now, but what was

e children are put out on exhibi- 100 years, and until about 10 years, “oor FC ouvion” of labor

voluntary mass of humanity that this country ever saw calling at factories offering their services. Yes, even free! Perhaps, contrary

! y vil beey have had the” world knocked UP. Indianapolis, or you will be EY under them, and then they hind and a backwoods town. Don't ’ ‘ You is or that; if you do, you will be |¢ paying, but what are on geting to your belief, they would not wait nished,” and everything is strange or your money: me on, give me

at ’ : ol until someone established a socialthem and they don't know what ® kick but I will still say vou have state before they responded. next. Each child should be 2 POOF city in looks, so clean up. We believe in private ownershi y ivaint up and do away with your old | ! ship 2, that {and an economic system and a

jright to elect our representatives. |We don’t do this on class lines either; through this method we have in the past obtained the most able leadership that any nation ever had. As for being at the crossroads, we will continue on with free enter- | prise, free speech, freedom of the Your article in condemnation of press and a free choice of spiritual lietta? If it isn't big enough, make Voice in the Crowd practically guidance. . 1/ How would you finance your know but very, very little about | Socialist labor party? Everyone m Indianapolis, the better unions, you see, I am employed in| reed it, 6h? A few yours back some po oe a factory where they are organized countries were butchering a few ars ago 100 per cent. You advocate aboli- people everytime they wished to action of private enterprise and the| quire more. They also called it

overthrow of our present form of purging. Socialists, clean, huh! government. What about our edu-|Po S08 ' '

cational system, would you wash en that down the river, too? It has “LAY DOWN YOUR not been necessary to sell democ-{ COCKTAIL SHAKER” racy as you must attempt to sell po py poyiee,, 4828 Guilford ave. | your socialism. People have but] to look about them and they se The first part of your letter on a great nation built because of free July 4, Mr. Loehr, was an excel |enterprise, free speech and a free lent presentation of the problems

press. Our part in this is to vote that would confront us if the Amerat election ‘time. I suppose yoft =

ican people would accept their privide Glances—By Galbraith

{for the children,.our future girls and {boys, that is their right to-have.

Then as they

d start this place:

all right, We | UNDERSTAND HISTORY” ve to have it and

will always |

ve it, so Why not do it right? "2 Product of Democracy, Indianapolis.

en they were out for one million | »

ch change. Look at the court-

You can't bring peohere under those conditions.

ilege and duty to try to get food to the many who are starving. But I'll never understand why you had

. |. an Attorney General Biddle got from Labor, union weekly | back and 1 have lost the correspondence. but Ip, . . “| believe he sett . vithin himself by “Heaven save us from such champions,” a labor leader said. | giving = io the Boy semi WHR Bimeell by pa Many a New Dealer has gone all out for labor and labor | Ju leadership, regardless, but none more than Biddle. He has! x winked at the faults and glorified the virtues. But wartime W Th P IA strikes got too much for him, and he warned against them | e e eopi ~ fro in a New York speech. i Whereupon came the brickbats from his erstwhile ad- By Ruth Millett mirers—*“weak-kneed liberal,” “‘double-talk,” “most vicious | kind of slurs,” ete. : | WAR BABIES are cocting the ‘wh : . , te tates ahout £8450 apic |w That is the labor leader's common technique. It runs That ts pi fem on to oar ide. the gamut from Green to Murray to Lewis, Always deny; et none of us should feel is too | MU never admit. A recent exception was Thomas of the auto on morn " Cy LO : ) : even more than =o many human workers, He said in substance what Biddle said about beings, strikes, They—of all ‘dren should Pe But usually, it's all er nuthin’, be the hope odor ) . 0 : . oo they are being "Il to parents 5 We don't believe the technique 1s as effective as would who are learning ther obligation be at least an occasional admission of fallibility. But that to their eount wo | is a matter of opinion. . They are brit: bin to men | S who are fighting this war, often to nen wig are missTT ———— ing all of their child's babvhood. - are being : i born to men who, whatever thev were Las chilBU SIN ESS AS USUAL dren, have found out for themselvey wig: is expected of a man in this world.

MAYBE you haven't seen the new 3-cent stamp issued by the postoftice department to celebrate tl tenary of the telegraph.

Or the one celebrating the first cros lantic by a steamship.

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AND THEY are being horn having to show great courac nic . fulness; women who are bring: - r chil sing .of the At- | the World without the com | husbands; women who know

te cen-| whe are

. ’ | both mother and father to the 1ildr in | Both of these are recent issues. The stamps are twice | wartime. ‘ren born in as big as the usual 3-center—just the size of the special-| If these war babies don't gi ip wih a sane and delivery stamp. They use twice as much Paper as the | They shoul eron Gel 70 CHIE ever will

They should grow up feeling pri parents played in this war. ang asn’t ‘heard of | Ler parents’ sacrifices and suffer,

scouraging the |

ordinary stamp. Apparently the postoffice department h

the paper shortage. “Or of the practice of di use of war facilities to mark the celebrati

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2 count for some They should Brow-up-knowing -

3 BL Bat what a country on of anniver- | owes its citizens is only i

saries—so tl . | . OH the story. That o les—so that you can no longer buy one of Western | Fhe citizens owe their country is important, t00. nwon's lyri S i 4 . i nd. with it all, they should have . n's lyric masterpieces to extend congratulations. zeal for keeping war out of Worl 2 deep Soaked - Ist’s dream of keeping out of the world's wars, |

They should turn out tn pe fine generation— | these war babies. And if thee are costing us $8450 | |

PROGRESS Has abandened mln - : -aplece,-they-are cheap at (h&price, ERMANY Has abandoned plans for a massive, Hitler: | or designed monument to commemorate the “total de- |

feat of the allies.” It was to have heen 4200 feet. long, | O They Say—

2500 feet wide, and 1000 feet high. And in the change of | plan we may note a slight but encouraging sign of human | hee ONE aD Bes i by 4 § 8 y re

, | fell from her head. I aske

+ Mankind couldn't prevent Cheops from building the. and he said she had bhen But after nearly. 6000 | ~~" Francis Carpenter,

Great Pyramid with slave labor, years, civilization has advanced to the point where it can FOR US, this is no lon

the hair. Then I saw at chunks of black hair d a Frenchman the reason a friend of the Germans. in France, §

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: . : J rl 3 . ger a War that may end in eh sia To T | fooushness ; Separt. from him. > thwart plans for a similar monument erected by similar > eteat. It Js & war at the end of which | “Don i ‘me that, young lady! The government is billions in Provost iis . ~ e De for us either no world at all or 8 new | debt—d u" expect t lie 'd freeze my ; s not materia ugh means ; : wo L. ie: ? | world—Nasy en 0 eo al or # o you'expect me to believe they'd f my. : a has not material enough

to end your letter with that silly, stupid crack, “Maybe a good Sunday morning hangover wouldn't do you any harm.” Such a crack certainly does not indicate very much serious thinking on your part concerning world conditions. I'll grant you that there would be many problems ‘connected with the sending of food to our allies. But, Mr, Loehr, since when have difficult problems stopped the American public? Our whole progress has resulted from self-sacrifice, mutual aid and assistance and the overcoming of seemingly impossible obstacles. In the coming days we will be faced with’ many, many complex problems, and the solving of these will require sincere, sober and prayerful consideration. This type of thinking will not result from loafihg around taverds night after night, 180, "Mr, Loehr, lay down your cocktail shaker and beer bottles long enough to read some of the books, articles, etc., vividly describing the dire need for food in China, Greece and France. Maybe even your heart will be touched, There, but for the grace of God, are we,

DAILY THOUGHTS Though thou shouldest bray a

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would murder the “jerks” if they] these liberties]

One of the troubles with you rab-ble-rousers is you just don’t under-

ple’'s property though differences of the founding of the U. 8. The ayerage

American people, it is safe to say

fool in a mortar among wheat |

| political parties but as Americans, would show their good faith in trying to get at the root of bureaus cratic evils and eradicate them so that in the ages to come our Constitution will operate in all of its pristine igor.” . During the Hoover administration Mr, Ludlow wrote a book called “America Go Bust." Its theme. was that unless the Washington bureaus of that period

: ters should be limited to 250 |succeed for a short time only. AWe were curbed or wiped out the country would be oar [Ra¥e.4he home in the city to begin words, Letters must be |have made our form “rgd ern-| pankrupt. L with? What those children need is . I. forth ment work from the very inning. To use a recent word of President Roosevelt's. the 2 the Ito be in the country where the hoys| Signed. pinions set tor We have done this without mass

bureaucracy of that time, compared with the present, could rightfully be called “picayune.”

Pearl Harbor

By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON; July 18.—Too much should not be expected of the Pear] Harbor investigations which the secretaries of war and navy are starting on orders of congress. Probably the most that can be achieved is spade-work for the later trials of the two come manders, Maj. Gen. Short and Rear Admiral ‘Kimmel, The cone gressional resolution was a come promise between those who wanted ' the trials held at once, as the two officers are reported to desire, and the administration, which objected that the trials would interfere with conduct of the war,

However unjust the long delay has been to the two commanders, we believe it is true that complete ine vestigation would be detrimental to present mille tary operations. This involves more than the unwise dom of calling back for testimony the widely scat tered witnesses now on combat duty. There are also questions of Washington military and political policy over which 'Gen. Short and Adm. Kimmel had no control, . .

'Would Run Into the White House’ 4

BLUNTLY, ANY adequate probe of Pearl Harbor would have to run into the White House. The Robe erts commission was not allowed to reach that high. And certainly in the midst of war no military bodies can investigate fully the policies, or the mistakes of commission and omission, of their commander in chief —=a title which Mr. Roosevelt now likes more than that of President. E : -

Apart from the technical responsibility of the commanding general and admiral on the spot, the Roberts report stressed the lack of co-ordination bee tween army and navy. That terrible evil has been corrected in part by the chiefs of staff, Gen, Marshall and Adm. King, and the men under them, Indeed, the army now favors a unified armed force, in which separate land, sea and air branches would operate under a single authority. But this has been blocked, so far, by the Navy and the President. Short and Kimmel were victims—and so was this nation—of the divided command system, which has not even yet been eliminated structurally overall, This is a job for cone . gress, and it will get little help from the President une less he changes his policy.

‘Basic Question ‘of Responsibility’

‘MR. ROOSEVELT 1s also involved in the basis question of responsibility for the lack of full preparedness at Pearl Harbor. Granting the Roberts ree port finding that the air detection system had not been completed, Washington failed to give Pear] Har bor the priority in preparedness which its.importance" as our key base necessitated. It is no secret that the President shared, if indeed he did not dictate, the general policy of favoring Atlantic defense against Germany at the expense of Pacific defense against Japan. Many, if not most, of our high officers ope posed this. Whatever else the faults of our come manders at Pear] Harbor and the Philippines, it was not their fault that much of the fleet had been sent to the Atlantic and that their defensive and offensive air power was inadequate for war. : In any event, a complete investigation of Pear] Harbor—if there ever is one—will cover not only the local commanders, but also the commander in chief, That will not be allowed as long as Mr. Roosevelt is in office, and it should not be attempted while the nation is at war,

To The Point—

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