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PAGE & Thursday, July 27, 1944 .

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RICHARD FAIRBANKS

UCH WILL be said—and justly said—about the brilliant career of Richard Fairbanks, in journalism, in law, and in finance, which yesterday came, too early, to a

close. We prefer to remember him rather as the

man—warms-

hearted, generous and fair — whose personality shone

through all he did in public life and whose made a little brighter every passing contact.

quiet charm We doubt if

Richard Fairbanks ever for one moment harbored a mean, or a little, thought. Certainly he never performed a mean or an ignoble action. All his impulses were kindly, and decent, all his thinking broad and tolerant. His personal integrity was such that his community long ago had paid him the supreme compliment of forgetting it entirely. His

hand was a calm and steady one atgthe hel

m of one of

America’s great newspapers through one of the most tfurbu-

lent periods in our nation’s history. -

e was 91 Ul NC + A HER] “Fon Wpicar, “Wet like to believe, or the = Sone ol Re a : = - TO mg ered ET TI ec MAE ichard Fairba mpetitor. ‘ most of our people were indifferent and too preoccu- ? : : pied with simpler, more obvious and pleasant concerns. We are proud that he also was our friend. But, in the menacing presence of the American adaptation of the European pga for usurpation | Y and woe, as revealed in the Democratic convention in| COMMUNITY HELP FOR VETERANS Chicago, the time and effort seem to have been well N JUST a few months now some 50,000 Indianapolis | spent. ‘

men will be coming home fron the wars. They will need jobs. They will need to homes temporarily disrupted while they wen

The distinguished scion of a distinguished American | as, in the finest seige ‘of the words, a truly

re-establish t out in de-

fense of their country. They will need information on their

own rights as veterans, and their own indi lems of again becoming civilians. It will be fi

vidual probully as hard,

in many cases, to make the change from soldier to civilian

as it was to change from civilian into soldier.

o 2 2 ” » ” JXDIANAPOLIS is ready with a'cemmunity plan, backed by official sanction, to help him make that change. Through a single agency, made possible by the unselfish

co-operation of veterans organizations, welfa

labor unions, the Chamber of Commerce, and the state and}

federal government, the community proposes

re agencies,

to give him

authoritative information, instant service, and thereby a measure of protectiop from any who would seek to exploit

him for their own selfish ends. It is a civic enterprise as worthy as any w

e have seen.

1t deserves the wholehearted support of this community.

SENATOR TAFT'S BLUNDERBUSS ENATOR TAFT complains that the army,

in carrying

out a provision of law which he wrote, “has badly misinterpreted both the letter and the spirit of the law.”

Mr. Taft made his complaint after the p which followed the banning from army reading

ublic outery courses and

distribution facilities of such books as Charles A. Beard’s

“The Republic” and Catherine Drinker Bowen

's biography

of Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Yankee from Olympus,” and such magazines as the American Mercury, Harpers, Atlantic

Monthly, Nation and New Republic.

“I feel justified in stating that it was never the intention of congress to discriminate against such books as the

two I have mentioned,” Mr. Taft said. “What was reading material of a clearly propagandist

we aimed at nature about

which there could be no possible mistake and which stacked the cards in favor of one candidate or another.” The truth is Mr. Taft aimed with a blunderbuss, and he

brought down everything within range, good

or bad. His

amendment to the soldier vote law created a new crime,

punishable by a year in jail and $1000 fine—

the crime of

delivering to the armed forces any material containing political argument or propaganda, specifically including

books and magazines, designed to affect any federal election. |

It isn’t strange that the army, fighting a proportions, wants to keep its officers from spe

war of huge nding a year

in the hoosegow for technical offenses, and that it ‘there-

fore construes the law literally.

2 = = * x 8 Co WHAT IS strange is that Senator Taft should so

temper his stand after the effect of the law bec

omes known.

Last Dec. 1 he told the senate he had no criticism of the army's selection of books and magazines up to that time. “But what an opportunity,” he added, “before an election,

to flood the world with books which are all on omit all the books which may be on the other.

one side and

We won't lose the war for lack of books and ‘magazines, but we can lose something of what we are fighting for if such openly expressed distrust of military commanders can bar whole sections of our literary resources from millions

of American soldiers.

Isn't it Senator Taft's duty to try to replace this law with a more sensible and workable one? He can perform a

public service by sponsoring an amendment congress resumes. :

THE FARMER'S JEEP

OST-WAR planning for the jeep has turned into quite a lively discussion. The department of commerce has’

as soon as

come out with the flat assertion that the little war vehicle will be no good for farming—that its chassis is too low and its gear ratio too high. Others haye leaped to its de-

fense as if the jeep were old faithful Dobbin instead

buggy almost untried in agriculture. Now comes a definite word from the jee

of a

p’s manufac-

turers. They've toned down earlier predictions to the ex-

tent of admitting that the military jeep is not

the farmer's

perfect vehicle, but that there will be a post-war bantam with lower gear ratio which ought te fill the bill.

And that probably ends the argument.

For even if

the present jeeps were perfectly fitted for farming, most

leaped, bumped, slithered and waded over all rain be tive

over.

.. of them will have taken an awful beating in battle. Having

sorts of ier-

and under all conditions; the G. I. jegp-probably will pa, fol pasture, and willing to let a new rural rela- |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, July 27—Time was, a few years ago, when I could have told you the club for which every regular ball player in the major leagues was toiling at a given time, approximately how well he hit, from which side of the plate and where he picked up his glove. 1 was weak” on the tennis people because the hypocrisy of their mock-amateurism made me sore so I got even, in my pouting, juvenile way, by ignoring them. The college athletes, all but a few exceptional, boxoffice giants, went by so fast and in such confusing hundreds that before a man could memorize and peg them, they were out and gone, to be met, some of them, a year or two later as unpretentious young salesmen, doctors, lawyers and the like. But I did know most of the fighters, including young fellows in Sandusky or Seattle, who seemed to be East-bound and likely to be met one night in the Garden or the Stadium; the quality of the people they had licked,

twist’ of that knowledge which comes only of hearty interest, that Dempsev, at his best, could, or couldn't, have knocked Gene Tunney for a row; and let you pick your side of the proposition,

The Golden Era Passed

THAT FIGURE of speech about persons being knocked for a row, incidentally, was one of the sturdy banalities of the era of wonderful nonsense, a mean-

ous mileage, and was retired, for age, in 1a 96r of “terrific,” “but definitely” and “too, too divine.” _ The golden decade passed, and popular interest, although not forsaking sport entirely, turned to new fields of celebrity—the movies, radio and later to the heroes and commanders of the great war. My own interest became fixed on politics and, particularly, on that misty, murky underworld of conspiracy known as the “liberal” movement which included the Communists and, of course, the malevolent but oily schemhad discovered in the Ae

Emancipate ‘Common Man'

HOWEVER, RELATIVELY few other Americafs, probably not more than one in a thousand, who know their Bob Hopes, Gracie Allens, Grables, Sinatras, Eddie :Cantors, and who got the medal of honor and for what, know anything about the lineup of hundreds of tireless individuals and organizations whose operations this year may change the form of government of the U. S. The Americans have been reassured that this change would not bring communism but merely achieve “liberal objectives” and emancipate that vague and faceless object called contemptuously the “‘common man.” . They have begged the difficult and controversial duty to themselves of knowing the names, associations and resourceful methods of strangers, who mean more to them, their children and their country than all the records of Ruth and Cobb, Hornsby and Frisch and the scores of old fighters and other athletes and all the actors and band leaders, whose achievements and flirtations, marriages and earnings they know as surely as they know their own telephone numbers.

Whoever Heard of?

WHO AMONG the Americans has ever heard of Saul Mills, for example, and of the Greater New York Industrial Council? What is his political record and how does the council stand on communism? Is it a Communist organization and, if so. what candidates does it put forward and what are their politics? What is the American Committee, for Protection of the Foreign-Born? What is the Greater New York Emergency Conference on Inalienable Rights, the International Labor Defense, the Joint Committee for Trade Union Rights? Who is Franz Boaz, and where did he come from, and what are his politics: And who is Lewis Merrill and what was his name before he was Merrill; and what is the United Federal Workers of America, and who is Eleanor Nelson, its secretarytreasurer? , Americans who know the records of their golfers and the regional jurisdictions of the Amateur Athletic union, and what year it was that Bobby Jones won all the titles there were, know nothing about the persons and groupings, the past performances, the changes of line, the political attitudes, now disguised, now defiant, of the organization whose chief, Sidney Hillman, with a power to levy millions of dollars from their own wages, has declared its intention to elect the president of the American Republic this year. But they all know that Babe Ruth holds the world's record of 60 home runs.

We The People

‘By Ruth Millett

AT NEEL'S CREEK. N C there is a stream where only women are allowed to fish. It's supposed to be the only creek in the world set aside for the exclusive use of women. Perhaps that is because most women really don't want to be set apart. . They want to fish where the men fish, but they want an even break. They don't want men hogging the best fishing places or using better bait than is permitted

Women don’t want special privileges, but they do want equal rights, and when they do a man's work

the same job) they want a man's pay.

Men Fear Competition

THAT IS ALL they ask of the post-war world. A chance to compete with men for the Jobs available on the basis of ability. They don't want to be told to go and fish in their own creeks. Not after they have proved their ability and worth standing right alongside men. We'll bet that idea of having a stream just for women was an idea the men cooked up. That way they could discourage women from competing with them in their own chosen streams. It is certainly the reason why so many men" are already talking about sending women back home as soon as the war is over. What men really mean when they say “woman's place is in’ the home” is “If we give them their own stream to fish in, and discourage them from fishing ours, they won’t be cluttering up the place, and we won't have to compete with them.” . And that is a line that women-should be too smart to go for, even if the bait is made to look attractive.

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{Dewey Speaks By S. Burton Heath | nd

“ISN'T IT POSSIBLE TO ELECT QUIETLY?”

By Jerry It's very discouraging, to say the least, to observe our present political feud when “real men” are fighting, .dying, going through hell in general every second of the day and night. Dying or, even worse, maimed for life. Conventions, hotel parties, ballyhoo in all ways; money, millions of dollars being poured down the drain —down the drain of their own selfish desires. Could it be that they are “too” interested in what they term “their” America to notice that an item of a well-known reporter stated that’ on one of our fronts real Americans did not have adequate clothing when the weather was cold? Rain, cold, hunger, filth and misery, and, yes, death. That's the price they pay for a soapbox orator! The public cutting one another’s throats because of an election. Isn’t-it possible for us to elect a President quietly and without a home-front war? Can't we do it without sc much waste; put that money to more worthwhile uses? Wouldn't it be a lot more to our credit to express our views in a sane, sensible way, do we have to sling mud? This country is deeply in debt at the present time. Our boys still need everything and more, yet our Silver Tongues lead us on to pouring our wealth down the drain, keeping them in luxury (examine the big mouths); sleek, fat and protected. Protected by whom? Who do they owe it too? Who do we owe it to? We aren't ducking bombs. Why? Our cities arent overrun with inhuman, slant-eyed denizens or goose-stepping maniacs. Why? Two words will give the answer. “Johnny Doughboy.” For all this we can’t or won't make it an all-out. We talk big; we start big things that somehow get lost in the making because we haven't the “guts” to stay with them. (That's right, there will be another election.) ) There's one consolation. Johnny Doughboy will come home sometime, even if we can't or won't see | the light to bring him home sooner, {but I don’t like to think of what | he could come home to if we don’t | mend our ways. Also, what he may (do because he'd surely see that {| we needed a housecleaning. He's | Just the guy for it, too. A lot of people won't like what

(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 hece 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.)

I've said but as long as I have Johnny Doughboy I don't care what they think! ) ” ” “HAS ME GOING IN CIRCLES” By Tim, Indianapolis I'd like permission to ask you readers of the Hoosier Forum a few questions, but first I'd like to say that I've just come to the voting

saved for war news that might tell something of the ones we love. Folks, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we need all those expensive and elaborate parties, speeches, posters, newspaper space and time wasted that could be spent at a war machine, But me, I'd much rather vote for a guy I felt was worthy, buy more bonds and bring the boys back home than waste the money for the elections and no one would care.

” » » “GERMAN OFFICER WAS A GUEST” By Puzzled, Indianapolis Just writing to let everybody pass their opinion on what I saw. Was in a restaurant in Manchester, Tenn., nine miles from Camp’ Forrest. One of our army captains and a pfc. drove up in an army car with their “guest,” a German soldier., He was dressed in his own German uniform with all kinds of insignias, decorations and above all

|a swastika emblazoned on the front {of his uniform. They sat down at ‘a table, ordered their dinner and

age and trying to catch a tail-hoid | Proceeded to ‘eat’ The German

on the politics you guys argue in the Forum has me going in circles. Couldn't we have an election just this once without the never ceasing controversy that occurs each time? You know there's an awful lot of money, good old American money, going .out for this coming election. Money that would be well spent if it were transferred into war bonds or used to further the war effort.

Now don't get me wrong! I say have your election! Vote for whoever you please. That's what our sons, sweethearts, husbands and dads are fighting over there for. Yes, I know politicians think they won't be recognized without having a lot of money, time, and effort spent for publicity. As far as I am concerned I never try to elect a guy just because he speaks well or has had more publicity than he needs. I'd try to elect the man who has proven his worth the hard way. Men who are good enough, intelligent enough to be our President can be known and are known without all that money for publicity, without all that newspaper and poster space that should say “buy more bonds” or “join the service.” And without all that radio time used for speeches that could -be

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didn’t look humble or embarrassed at being there among us. On the contrary he sat with his head held high. Everybody was staring at him. He didn't seem to mind though. Nobody seemed interested enough though to find out what he was doing there. We have a son in Camp Forrest being taught how to fight the Germans. He was with us. My hus‘band went over to their table and asked what kind of a uniform that was. He just could not believe he was seeing right, seeing a German uniform. The captain said he. was a colonel in the German air corps. We went outside. The pfc. was standing outside also. We started to ask him a question about it and he insultingly told us we had better not interfere. He acted as though he were proud to,be seen with a German. We were just burned up with the wonderful treat ment this German was getting when they treat our boys so terrible. I'll bet our boys aren't taken out, dined and feted the way this one was. Do you people think our boys would want to give their lives over there if they knew the Germans were getting such good treatment over here? Would like to hear from everybody if this is printed. Would like to know if he had a right to be out of the prison encampment at Camp Forrest and why he didn’t have the P. W. (prisoner of war) uniform on. This happened July 4, 1944. ” » “WHAT PAY DO OUR BOYS GET?” By Ralph E. Newman, 2030 W. Michigan st. I read an article in this after noon's Times where 48 Nazi prisoners were on a sit-down strike because they claim that they can’t earn more than 40 cents daily. The official announcement was because they were eating more cherries than they were putting in their 10-gallon baskets. Now what I want to know is what kind of pay do our boys receive for their labor while war prisoners in Germany or any other enemy territory? x Please print if possible large enough so it may be found in your our

' DAILY THOUGHTS

Whereas ye know not “what: shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.—James 4:14, ; : : :

WE ARE in this life as it were in her_man’s house. “In heaven is our home, in the world is our inn: tertaln. thyself in the.

ALBANY, July-27.—During the, next three months you are going to hear and read a lot of speeches

may be interested to learn how these will be prepared. I can give you a pretty good idea. Let's suppose that Gov. Dewey has accepted an invitation to ‘speak in your city on a certain date. >

SR He will call into conference about half a dozen men. They will probably include Eliott Bell, former member of The New York Times editorial board and for several years Dewey's personal adviser on financial matters; James C. Hagerty, former political reporter for that paper; Paul Lockwood, longtime intimate friend and associate; John Burton, since 1038 Dewey's chief research assistant; Charles. Breitel, his former law partner; Hickman Powell, writer, who has been associated with every campaign Dewey has made, 2 - ; Bell now is his superintendent of banks, Hagerty his executive assistant, Lockwood his secretary, Burton his budget director, Breitel his counsel. Powell is research specialist on farm problems for the G.O. P. national committee, ‘

There May Be a FroaforAl

TO THIS group Mr. Dewey may present a very tentative first draft of the projected talk, More probably he will tell them in broad terms what he proposes fo say. If any disagree, there may be a free-for-all without gloves until substantial accord can be attained

Then one or more of the subordinates will volunteer or be asked to prepare a draft. If more than one Is written, the best material from all will be combined by somebody—often Powell—into a single version. - - “There is,” one participant tells me, “no pride of authorship in .the members of this group, though sometimes we will fight for a phrase of which we are

proud.” ia * This working version combines Dewey's, ic fh ANE AR be 0

urate sources fo be found. Mr. Dewey is a on checking all data. . There is another get-together on this draft. If the speech is to be a major opus, somewhere along the line four other men are liable to be called in.. These are George Medalle, who first brought Dewey into public life; Rogér W. Straus, mining expert and Pollamtieopin; John Foster Bulles, expert on internationa airs, .and National 3 Chariman Herbert As the campaign goes on other consultants will be added. A speech to be made in California, for example, would be taken up with one or more trusted advisers from that state: one. for the Middle-west would be gdne over with persons who know at first hand the problems and sentiments of that region.

Now Enters Mrs. Dewey

AT ABOUT this stage Mrs, Dewey draft. One regulat participant cannot speech which she did not see shortly before version was prepared. Nor is her part s She makes suggestions as to both content and form, and ‘often they are taken. At last a draft, now pretty well worked to correct length, is taken by Mr. Dewey into seclusion. From it, as raw material, he dictates—or writes in longhand with pencil on legal-size ruled yellow paper pads--his own words. He may, and often does, lift a smooth phrase intact—Powell and Burton are good at catch phrases, but so is Dewey himself, Some of the best are his own.

: He dictates or writes methodically and meticuously.

The acceptance speech was a partial exception to this procedure. He started on that Tuesday morning, locked in a room in the executive mansion. That eve ning he went over it wtih Bell, Lockwood, Powell ahd Hagerty and smoothed it out on the plane flying to Chicago. .

War by Robots By Maj. Al Williams

NEW YORK, July 27—Introduction of robot machinery into warfare was marked first by the suppression of news, then scoffing of those who could not see it: later deprecation of its effectiveness, and, finally, emotional opinions. : The elimination of personal heroism, courage and gallantry by robot engines of destruction will remove all the inspirational fac tors of war as history has known them. But the type of machinery, the impersonality of robot engines, will not eliminate wars, because they are fought for basic reasons—to break the will of an enemy nation, to capture its territory or seize its wealth. The removal of personal glamor from martial destruction will not alter these reasons. For sometime now the world has been moving toward robot warfare. We have been hunting, detect ing and destroying submarines without seeing them. We have been firing at sea, in thick weather and at night, without any visual evidence that an enemy target is within range. :

New Type Warfare

WE HAVE been shooting down aircraft hidden by thousands of feet of dense clouds. And our planes, above such cloud screens, have been detecting the

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them. The current crude robots, and the radio-directed winged loads of destruction to come, mark the begin. ning of the end of armies, navies and air fleets, as we have known them. But men will always destroy other men and their property for what they cannot gain otherwise. Orthodox air rald shelters don't serve well against the robots because of the uncertainty of the point of attack and the greater destructive potential of the robot over the ordinary bomb. The continued “blackout” merely hampers rescue and fire prevention under the robot attack. There's a radically new type of warfare which must be reckoned with.

So They Say—

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