Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1944 — Page 14

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Give Light end. the People Will Find Their Own Way

N THE DRAFT, AGAIN | THE NEW “directive” ordering local draft boards again to start calling up men up to 37, is plainly not designed to strengthen our fighting forces. Both ‘army and navy have made it quite clear that they do not want these older men, who, except in rare, individual cases are a liability and a hindrance to a combat unit. Thousands of them, in fact, are being discharged as physically unable to stand the rigors of training, much less of combat. By its own terms this order is primarily designed to scare into war industry the handful of draft age males who are not there already, Whatever small effect it might have in this direction seems hardly worth the new wave of doubt and uncertainty it will create. There has been confusion enough, and to spare, in the application of se- _ lective service laws. For more than two years a third sof the nation's adult males have been in continual turmoil

from the flood of changing and contradictory “diréctives™

nearest approach to a defipite program of military induction that we have yet had. If the nation now needs a labor draft presumably th€ administration will have the political courage to ask congress to enact one. If not, why not keep the military draft what congress said it was to be—a military draft?

"INVERTED LIBERALISM

R centuries man’s fight for freedom was against the power of the state—against kings and monarchs and emperors and divine right and all other forms of totalitarianism. Finally, came Runnymede, the Magna Charta, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and inalienable rights. Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic party were a projection of that, Today a force is out to kidnap that party. It is the movement, Its objective is precisely the reverse. It is to exalt the state. It includes “American” Communists. . The liberals of yesteryear are the Tories of today. That is the paradox.

®2 8 w ss = = WE DO NOT here deal with motives. We do challenge . the judgment and the knowledge of history involved in this ~ drive for power. For despotism through the state is still | _despotism, whether its motives for arbitrary rule are good or bad. . Phil Murray, head of the C. I. O., sensed that once when he said, perhaps inadvertently, “What the government gives, the government can take away.” But with the rise of Hillman and P. A. C,, Mr. Murray isn't reiterating. We quote, from a recent issue of Time, a concise description of what P. A. C. is up to: “P. A. C. well knows that labor's major dealings now and in the future are primarily with the government, no matter how much unions might yearn for the simple days when they had only to deal with employers. “But beyond the 1944 objective, P. A. C. has a farsighted purpose. From now on, labor has political ambitions of its own. P. A. C.s young thinkers are already skeptical of the ability of private enterprise to provide full —employment after the war: They argue that without government initiative the U. S. cannot be effectively mobilized for peace; they are prepared to accept—and even seem eager for—a post-war world in which the economic initiative belongs to the government. P. A. C.’s 1944 platform

"| docile arpedivess wher were always willing to put on

"C. I. 0. Political Action committee. It ealls itself a liberal |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.—I have just come away from the mirror and what do you know? The Republicans nominated the wrong man in Chicago.. _ . Height six feet, something; weight - 180, clean-shaven, except on week-ends, with a distinguished touch of gray at the temples, gay. witty, popular, lovable and just: the right age, 50 next month, if not any too bright. So they had to pick a little guy with an eye-brow mustache with not a gray hair in his head and a serious preoccupation with the problems of national government who doesn't try to wow them with gags at his press conference and won't be 43 until after election. ; These deficiencies are being exploited rather importantly against Mr. Dewey, who doubtless will be called Tom Thumb before long if he hasn't been socalled already, and some of the objections from the direction of Sidney Hillman's Communist front are enough to make a person check back to make sure whether our fellow is a candidate for the presidency or the police department,

Couldn't Be a Policeman

THEY ARE particular about such things in the cops. Their minimum height would disqualify Mr. D. and I doubt that he could bring himself up to weight though he got awash with water and bananas, a sly resort of border-line aspirants just before reporting for their physical examinations, Mr, Roosevelt, by contrast, is a big, limousine job, above six feet even now, and back in the: early twenties when he ran for vice president there were fight managers in town who would have been glad to take him over, knock five years off his age and | throw him in there for a shot at the heavyweight title. ' . True, Dempsey would have taken: a bead on that big chin of his and knocked him into the dollar seats but, with that Harvard-Groton Choctaw of his and his yachts on Pundy and the spanking bays up around the old ancestral halls at Hyde Park, old Les P. Flynn -ei~-James-d-dehnstansconld have aut. him. updo sos for -a-mithor-insrousng meckeries -with-some: shthe-}-i

the splash for & modest consideration. | "He might even have knocked over & few bums on

corps of official of the behavior of federal employees. There none is planned.. The civil serve

"Little Chance of Getting By'

THE THEORY is that a federal employee cannot become active in party politics without making hime

who are on thle other side.

Says Lawson A. Mayer, executive director of th ‘getting by with it” :

| “Big, black “WARNING” signs have been posted |

in hundreds of thousands-of places where they will

the square for he had plenty of height and heft and | get-around but it wouldn't nave been necessary for | him to level. There is always a certain element of |

skate with a million dollars worth of color when you | can protect him for a few hundred bucks?

‘McNutt a Picture Politician’

Ft eve Theres who cori ment of The Hoosier Forum

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

ANOTHER ONE who out-scores Mr. D. in height, stance and looks is poor old Paul McNutt, who has found himself behind the eight Lall ever since Mr. Big first got elected in 1932. There is a nice guy who, by force of circumstances, was compelled to waste his own chances serving the career of the very man who blocked his own ambition. Mr, McNutt is a picture politician and one of his old managers admitted back around ‘36 that he was practically all looks but was figuring to do a lot with him just the same. SE This Hoosier politician was talking over the fleld one day, along toward convention time, and said that but for Roosevelt his guy would be worth a fortune on the roof, & ; “McNutt,” I yelled. “Why the Republicans could beat him with Hoover. All they would have to do would be to drag out his record as a lower-case Huey Long when he was governor.” “Oh, I know all about that,” the Hoosier said. “I don’t figure to really run him for President. The mugg couldn't run a lick but he is a hell of a showhorse, just the same. With that white hair and those dark eyes I could do us a lot of good in the convention if the big guy would get out of the way.” I don’t want to be dirty to the Communists but, if it comes to a matter of height and the way a candi-

“IS COUNTRY GOING

By Helen H. Long, Columbus -

their tirades by

violence? Remember the

atheists and/or crackpots? date landscapes his lip in this campaign, I wonder how they figure on squaring ‘themselves with their boss? Because Little Joe isn't any taller standing up than Roosevelt is sitting down, and that tangle of hair-combings that he wears would make a good start toward stuffing a sofa,

How About Love for Little People?

HE PUT ON long pants for the first time when he went to Tehran \and before that he always wore those stove-pipe boots which, as any military stylist will tell you, are used more to create an illusion of height than to ward off rattlers. They certainly must = ® = be affectation of vanity in a man with a desk job | “YOU DON'T KNOW such as Joe's because they are hard to get on and T off and they murder your feet. HalF OF 1 So, if Dewey had to sit on a dictionary to see over that big desk in Albany, Stalin could keep house in a drawer of the same desk and LaGuardia couldn't get into the chair without a ladder. This is a hell of a big desk, built just for show. Sulzer vas the fast governor todse it, nyway, the Commies should be the last D. about his size. That Hillman, himself, 0 Sibel nera and moreover they are always hollering up their great love for the little people of the U. S. A, This sounds as though they are against little guys.

backward witch-hunting

Europe and Asia?

’32, but I will just say this:

sibly find.

is a specific blueprint calling for a planned economy, feder- | ally controlled.” We believe that in all this the P. A. C. will turn out | to be the moth and the state the flame. That any pressure | group which tries to take over the state will ultimately find itself consumed by the state. | We particularly urge that the dues-paying members | of the C. I. O. recall the words of Phil Murray—and think it over, ” » 2 » o ” AND IN this connection we quote a news dispatch: ALTOONA, Pa, July 31.—The Pennsylvania branch of the C. I. O's Polilical Action committee plans to collect $5,000,000 for use in the political campaign this year. David J. McDonald, secretary-treasurer of the United Steel Workers (C. I. 0. and finance chairman of the Political Action committee, described the plans in a speech at a meeting in which the Pennsylvania branch of the P. A. C. was organized, “I hope we get $25,000,000,” Mr. McDonald said. “We want all we can get. The more we get, the more we can spend. The more we spend, the better congress we will have. The more we spend

in Pennsylvania the better legislature we will have. It's as Eimple as that,” he said.

A CALL FOR ACTION

ROBERT TAYLOR'S series of articles, which started yes- - terday in The Times, spotlights the extreme urgency of getting, into operation as quickly as possible the Indianapolis information center for servicemen. The “G. L bill of rights” has been in effect about a month. Throughout the country the same story is true—a flood of inquiries from veterans—and “plans.” Admittedly plans are necessary to avoid floundering. The job is tremendous. Already 1,250,000 veterans of this war are eligible for the benefits of veterans legislation. In Marion county servicemen are returning to civilian life at the rate | of at least 10 every day. They want to know about jobs. —dhey want to know what benefits they are entitled to. They want to know how to begin life over again, for themselves and their families. They need Adelp. They need advice. The framework of a Marion county information bureau | has been blueprinted. Fro now on the theme must be Action, because the faster these blueprints can be implemented, the sooner the n who have been fighting this war that we are lems with the same

: meeting their sort of courage they have tackled,

To The Point—

home front, can prove tothe men | °

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We The People By Ruth Millett |

WAR WIVES who have taken over most of their husband's responsibilities for the duration think and talk about what a relief it will be to be able to unload extra burdens when their men return, But if they expect their hus-

TO SWING BACKWARD?”

By Mrs. H. McGuire, Indianapolis Time and space, J. B, does not permit me to explain in detail our destitute circumstances in '31 and

Folks, have you ever noticed that many people making a huge outery against liberals, New Dealers, Socialists and Communists usually end recommending

Nazis’

technique regarding the Reichstag fire? Our own self-styled patriotic organizations that refuse to let Jehovah's. Witnesses practice their religion as they see it? The Kul. Klux Klan? The American Firsters? The Jew haters? The instigators of racial discrimination? The people who won't let their children play with so and so—he’s illegitimate, or from the wrong side of the tracks? The people who urge you to come to “their” church (and ignore you if you do)? The people who ha#ien to tell anyone who differs with them that they're un-American, Nazis,

Is this country going to swing into a ‘hate-inspiring, conservatism that will lose the peace and engender the very conflagrations in this country that we're helping smother in

Read “They Shall Not Sleep” by Leland Stowe, 2 man who deserves the same accolade as that laid on the level-headed writer we lost in Raymond Clapper—integrity,

I had

Ta tiny baby and conseqlently could not work, and my husband, who has a high school education, walked the streets day in and day out in search of any kind of a job he could pos-

He shoveled coal off a car for some coal company for 10 cents a

door

trying to sell moth tabs for 10 cents each, that cost him seven cents. Some days he walked all day long with his feet practically on the grouhd and only sold one. We ate fine that day, for it netted us exactly three cents profit from that one moth tab. And then you say anyone who really wanted to work back in ‘82 could have found a job. That might have been intended for a joke but it isn't very funny. And you spoke about having too much

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies excluded. Bécause of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters mugt 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 responsie bility for the return of manu. scripts and cannot enter core respondence regarding them.)

pride to ask for a basket. Were you ever so hungry that you feit like you'd surely go crazy if you didn't get a bite of food in your stomach? Did you ever taste coffee that had been boiled from the same grounds for three days? Or did you ever taste green beans cooked in just plain water without a particle of seasoning, or potatoes? Well, I have. Brother, you don't know half of it! ’ os - 8

“M. P. AND 1 ARE NOT KIDDING” By Gustav A, Stark, Indianapolis

As to M. P's article concerning Indianapolis being the filthiest town in the nation— How dare you malign the name of our fair city of 500 thousand population—shame on you! I am fully in accord with your statement concerning the condition of the alleys. It's true the city maintains a cleaning force for the alleys, but I have frequently gone into these alleys after this cleaning force has passed through and supposedly emptied the garbage and ash containers, and these men seem to be in such a hurry to get through their work that they scarcely ever get these containers more than half or two-thirds free of the garbage and ashes which they found in them and drop back in the alleys in that condition and there they lie days at a time with the swill remaining in the cans and the lids off where they give out their obnoxious smells for days without any officer of the city feeling himself called upon ¢o investigate the work of these garbage removers as to their mane ner of doing their job. The result is

we find many of these streets and

bands to immediately step back into harness and take over exactly where they left off when they got

5, J into uniform, the wives are going to be mighty disappointed, For the man who has been living a soldier's life, with no personal claims on him, is likely to be a bit slow about picking up his_responsibilities, ’ Not because he doesn’t want or intend to or bes ¢ause he cares less for his family than he once dif but simply because he has been out of harness for 80 long.

Adjustment Is Tough

ANYONE WHO has ever held down a job knows how difficult it is to walk into an office after a vaca tion and start in on the old routine. It takes & few days, when you've only been away from an office for two weeks, to get back into the habit of work and attention to details. And the men who return from war will find the process of fitting back into the old life and taking on their old responsibilities difficult in the same way ~only much more so, For that reason wives of returnin, will have to be patient and Ors Jogi ri it bother them if their men for awhile act more like guests than heads of families, ’ : ] And they'll have to use tact an omacy 0 | unload the responsibilities they a oma their husbands had to drop them. : But it will all work out all right, if the women don’t get impatient or discouraged. ?

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AN OPTIMIST is anybody who starts out to work 1.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

| {in suburban districts who,

alleys littered with all manner of trash and garbage filth which the alleys are scarcely ever free of. Again it is not an uncommon sight to see a dead dog, dead cat or rat ling in the street or alley for days without anyone seemingly feeling their duty to remove these dead animals from the view of the public. I have traveled around some in my time and always thought the alleys of East Detroit were the filthiest of our nation; however In-

hundred times. M. P. and I are not kidding.

. ” “ASSETS INSTEAD OF FAMILY HEIRLOOMS” By 8i Moore, 2606 W. 16th st. Indiana has always been recognized as a great state. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is her government and the most important factor in her government is the law that prohibits the governor having more than one term in succession. Many men might do the job well over a period of four or five terms, but that is not the best way. That way could allow a stumble-bum to be kept in office too long, by the expedient of covering up his weaknesses by those who milk the public goat... , . Politics should be a public trust and not a racket. Some of our perennial politicians say that it takes years to get on to the ropes. That is the trouble, they know which rope to jerk. So if we {want to make public assets out of ‘our political offices instead of fam{ily heirlooms, we should change when the goat goes dry, at least. s ” . “HE MAY AS WELL VISIT THE SALOON" By Mrs. C. Nicholson, Shelbyville, } This is my first time to ever write to the Forum or any other such column, but just this one time 1I can't hold myself. I simply don't like smug self-centered people, and Mr. Ben P. Voiles of Westport riled me. He says, “I do not think any one who patronizes saloons has much right to tell how or by whom the government should be run.” It seems to me he has completely forgottén that in voting for his beloved F. D. R. that he himself voted the saloons back into existence, So, why kick down something he himself sanctioned? In my opinion, he pd as well visit the saloon as vote

” ” ” “UNABLE TO THINK IN BIG TERMS" By H. A. Mm, Indianapolis One of the post-war problems now in the limelight is the planning of the future Indianapolis. This, of course, is as it should be. There are many details to such a project, however, and it will be found that all citizens are not in accord with some of the ideas which have. been put forth through the press. For instance, it was announced as the opinion of an out-of-town expert that the spread of the city’s area should be restricted to certain bounds. Why? This has not been the policy of many other large and growing municipalities, Many Indianapolis people are owners of lots at least

ultimately, would welcome annexa-

tion.

I would like to see our extend from CE es Davis ahd from Southport to the north county line. I have witnessed much of this city's marvelous spread. Why should it be purposely halted now? One permanent trouble with our leaders is that the§ are unable or unwilling to think in big terms. I say let ‘Indianapolis grow as far and wide as it wants to.

tt ———————— a wD LY THOUGHTS e Lord is my strength my shield; my heart a him, and 1 am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with ‘my Song will I praise him. | — 1. ; : <= 2 5

reach the attention of the persons most concerned,

dianapolis has Detroit skinned a

They cite first: Sr t shall be unlawful for any person employed executive branch of the federal government , , , ) his official authority or influence for the pure of interfering with an election or affecting the ult thereof, No officer or employee in the executive of the federal government, or any agency or department thereof, shall take any active part in poe litical campaigns. All such persons shall retain the right to vote as they may choose and to express theip opinions on all political subjects and candidates.”

Specific Acts Prohibited TERMS OF the law indicate one of its main diffe culties—that the propriety of political activity free quently depends on its degree, For instance, while express if he does so in a public speech he would He may make voluntary to a regularly constituted political. ore not make them in a federal building or {0 some other officer or employee within above-quoted statutes. forms of prohibited political

No 'Political Leadership’ MANIFESTING offensive activity at the polls, as primary or regular elections, soliciting votes, assisting voters to mark ballots, or helping to get out the voters on registration or election days. Acting as recorder, checker, watcher or challenger of any party or faction. Serving in any position of election officer, in which partisanship or partisan political management may be shown. Publishing or being connected editorially or man. agerically with any newspaper generally known as partisan from a political standpoint; or writing for publication’ any letter or article, signed or unsigned, in favor of or against any political party or candidate, Becoming a candidate for nomination or election

“Ito office, federal, state or local; which is-to-be-filied—

in an election in which party candidates are involved. _ Distributing campaign literature or material, Initiating or circulating political petitions. Assuming political leadership or becoming prome inently identified with any political movement, party or faction, or with the success or failure of any candle date for election to public office.

Big-Gun Subs By Maj. Al Williams

NEW YORK, Aug. 1—The world ahead holds scientific and mechanical progress that will dwarf all that has gone before, Only a handful of men could see the airpower factor of this war, Now what's ahead? The world won't stop here, because we sense even if ‘we don't know that the present war machinery, especially in the air, is undeveloped. Just as the world had settled ERO down t0 accepting current air warfare as routine, along came the revolutionary dee velopment of air-power sending its machinery to war and keeping its manpower’ home—the robots. This is the first stage of a new trend in air warfare, Other robots will be bigger and faster, more elusive and harder to shoot down, No adequate defense has yet been developed, Someday a defense will be evolved. And then will come a transoceanic robot to be launched against surface seapower. There will be 5. 10, 16 thousand pounds of explosive in a sea-war robot. No surface ship today could stand such explosive loads. But what- kind of big gun mount can we send to sea if the robots sink the heaviest armored?

Must Be Able to Hide

MY ANSWER is a submersible gun mount—a sube marine critiser, or possibly a sub battleship carrying one or more 16-inch guns. In other words, the big gun warship of the future will have to_be able to

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i’ imminent. ; Only today a pamphiet came to my desk detailing the patents awasded Nevil Monroe Hopkins for such a big-gun submarine. The recoil of such a big gun on a comparatively small vessel is the item which causes naval experts to stoff. But Mr. Hopkins provided an open well in the bottom of the sub through

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