Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1944 — Page 18

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; , August 3, 1944 k Peale PAGE 18 Thursday, Augus JE By Westbrook Pegler ; MARZ FERREE a OWA TER RON Baits Manner | SPRINGFIELD, WL, Aug. 3—

In the hearing of about a thousand men and women and some

them carrying _— "political placards on sticks, Tom Dewey intimated on his arrival in Springfield yesterday that his journey from New York to St. Louis for a pains ng tx Republican governors » & campaign trip, Governar

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All NEA Ser others, $1 monthly. He said he and Dwight oe and Audit Bureau ’ Green of Illinois, who met him at the railroad of Circulations. Srey HOWARD] Re RILEY 5551 | station, were engaged in a great campaign, a oon-

/ tinuation of their war on gangsters in which both ” ; nd Their Own Wa, took part 14 years ago. 3 : : ® Give Light and the People Will Fi y kre das reorce 1 Green's Prasseation.of a vd Capone which condemried Capone to long, pensive vi yeags in Alcatraz and to continuing oblivion in Miami, “esha and his own attacks in New York on the underworld te alliance of Tammany and the racketeers of unionism. Up to this point, the Dewey party had preferred to pretend that he was not campaigning just yet but only conferring with others leaders of the Republican party. It is a fine point but he did campaign today, both in his small oration to the crowd at the station and in the press conference at the executive mansion. This, incidentally, is a large and remarkably tasty house which markedly excells the equally large but monstrous old heap in Albany which, nevertheless, has served four New York governors, to date, as a prep school for the White House, }

'He Is Still Doing Calisthenics'

DEWEY'S PRECISE MIND apparently has ft that a campaign doesn't begin until the nominee actually starts throwing volleys of lefts and rights to the face apd body in prepared speeches. In that sense, he is still doing calisthenics and workihg out on the heavy bag in the gym, for he refused to elaborate on \ LAE J J : ' «® 8 2 his reference to the continuing ‘war on gangsters, R incip id- down in the report— | just now. cua I . ITH THE head principles 1a d - ces : rep |. “This. may be. taken as-an intimation; however, that :__.__..a& personnel system eliminating political -patronage | ye the seconds are out of the corners and the bell which, the report points out, “has definitely limited and | rings he will tear .into Franklin D, Roosevelt ag the | i SHY mecsrtial tas’ y NORLION- Ads or bf 2of the foulest criminals ; . essential services”; an employee: DENSON ANdarg- | Diviecor of pongo he ules crminale of the age ils ar RNA IP al ES EE) : who, TI oes br, “ Als contest, et Jr. Re, = ent plan; establishment of an up-to-date public health both financially, out of the colossal treasuries, which, "code, 4nd elimination of overlapping. offices and loose or- ["he, helped them to amass, and, politically,- through o oli wd theroughly a i. | PE the organizations which, in the guise of labor's gains, ganiza 20n-- We ‘ oroug ~ g ', - he helped them to create. The mention of gangsters The city’s health is of too vital concern.to be made a | an4 the continuation of the old’ war against them political football. The functions of this department defi- | refers to the legal protectorate which was maintained nitely call for persons qualified by technical training, ability and experience. And such persons should be secure

THE JACOBS REPORT THE INDIANAPOLIS health department, like Topsy, has “just growed,” and it is high time that the sprawling agency should be co-ordinated into an efficient organiza"tion that “makes sense,” as recommended yesterday in the report of the J. L. Jacobs & Co. municipal survey. The Jacobs company, experts in streamlining city governments, has been employed to study the operation of municipal offices here. The money appropriated by the city council for this survey has been well spent, if one may judge by the report on the health department. We believe that if the city authorities follow the recommendations in this report, the health department will gain in efficiency and’ effectiveness, and at a considerable saving .t to the taxpayers through the suggested elimination of 34 “unnecessary jobs. :

‘He looked ag A Hippopotarnus: ‘It ths should stay

... And dine} he sad, , Ther€ wont be rowch for us

John Knox in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.

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for highway robbérs of the. criminal underworld of unionism, when congress tried to pass laws against union racketeering, and to the late Lepke Buchalter, in their, jobs against the whims of changing administra- | whose field of operations was that section of the tions and the insecurity of old age. Only thus can the | New York needle trades dominated by Sidney Hillman, city procure and retain a competent staff in competition | "Neither Awe Nor Illusions’ with the opportunities offered by private employment. It seems entirely logical, too, that the health board be appointed on a non-partisan basis from among ‘citizens

The Hoosier Forum

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

MR. HILLMAN, the boss of the C. I. O.«Communist + ve : political action committee, is politically and personally in Roosevelt company, and Dewey is thorhaving demonstrated experience and interest in public dais mon roe associations health and hospital service.” The members of this board ! » largely control the policies and supervise the operation of a highly technical department, and this, obviously, is no job for amateurs, however interested and well-intentioned.

“NO PLANKS SUPPORT CONSTITUTION” By J. Dinny, Columbus We understand that neither of the recent political conventions contdined any plank for the support of our constitution. As. the sole oath of the President is to defend and support our constitution, this should be affirmed by any political party. The real Americans in this country, and we're still in the majority, continue to believe in

with Hillman. And he has neither awe of nor illusions about Roosevelt as a machine politician, Mr. Roosevelt will not come into the ring gs commander in chief in this phase of the campaign, but as one who befriended the oppressors and dictators of the labor movement on a quid pro quo understanding which reduced labor to helplessness. ve Dewey's themes apparently will be jobs under private enterprise when peace comes, as distinguished from public employment at dole wages, and the exploitation of the work by subsidiaries of Roogevelt’s party through racketeers and manipulators in the unions. He has returned to the thought, first ex- , pressed in his acceptance speech iri Chicago, that untij | Ur constitution, and we'd like to the war created millions of jobs at public expense, { XROW that the party we vote for inRoosevelt's only solution for the unemployment of lends to defend and support that 10 million workers had been government make-work constitution. It has been violated projects. too many times in the past 11 Wendell Willkie refused the issue four years ago | Ve&rS: but this year, for the first time, the subject of real | And we understand that neither jobs’ and law-abiding unionism, all for the benefit of [Political party made any declaralabor, itself, is coming to challenge, tion about sending Gen. MacArthur more help so that he can the sooner raise our flag from the mire in the Pacific. Our flag has been left lying in the mire in the Pacific for nearly three years now while our men are being sent. to save the flags of foreign nations. We real Americans still love our own flag best and first notwithstanding all’ that the internationalists can claim for the saving of other flags before our own... And wee for the political party that holds and will declare the same views,

» » 2 . i ~ ” 2 A LTHOUGH THE SURVEY found that the department has suffered, as naturally it would, from political interferente and haphazard organization, some phases of the health program received high praise. The City hospital, for example, whith has had administrative continuity for a number of years under the direction of Supt. Charles W. Myers, was commended for ‘efficient and economic management.” Conditions at the city isolation hospital for venereal patients and at public health clinics, however, were reported to be greatly in need of improvement. Integration of the eight units of the health services into four main bureaus: Preventive medicine, public health nursing, community sanitation and administration, also was proposed. With this impartial, non-political and thorough fact- - finding report before it, the city administration now has © 1" an opportunity and an obligation. The survey has told - what is wrong, and how to correct it—but that is as far as it can go, To finish the job, the city must—and should—take action to put the Jacobs récommendations in effect. The decision of the mayor and the council to follow or ignore the report, will show which they are most interested in: - Efficient government, or politics.

Pilgrimage Stirred Deep Feelings

FRANK SIMPSON, a Negro employed in the governor's ‘office in Albany, is a member of Dewey's staff on this trip. As the party drove to Abraham Lincoln's tomb this afternoon, he remarked gravely that this pilgrimage stirred in him feelings which he could not well express, His grandfather came North with Gen. Sheridan and became a messenger in the court of appeals. Frank's father succeeded him. The grandfather had no education, but both the son and the grandson went, through public school No. 6 and Albany high school and now Frank's own daughter has followed the same course. He was invited to Join the party entering the tomb of the fr man whom he reverently regards as his emancipator “CAN MAKE A LIVING and was shocked to hear that, back in the "70s, after | UNDER ANY ADMINISTRATION” Lincoln had been moved 20 times from one more or less temporary resting place to another, a gang of criminals tried to snatch the body, intending to hold it for $200,000 ransom.” That Was why now it was encased in solid concréte and steel, deep in the ground. : On the way to the tomb, Simpson, who sees Tom Dewey every day, very full of his feelings, heard two little boys playing near the cemetery. One of- them yelled to the other: “Did you see Tom Dewey? 1 saw him good.” ’ } 2

We The People By Ruth Millett

SOME SMALL hotels, unable to get replacements for help on

By J. B,; Indianapolis, To the doubting Thomas, James Faulkner: Yes, Jim, you too were one of the 10 million who had to be helped in depression years—I knew that before. I read your letter, but I thought you too proud to admit it. Do you want me to tell the people more? No one ever sald that all could make $5375 in one year—I sald, and I quote, “I could make a living under any administration regardless who was President and anyone else who was willing to pay the price could do likewise, providing their health would permit”— now let's be honest about this thing. One other point, you say, “No doubt T hogged every cent- I made and let those around me starve and

NOT SO INDISPENSABLE ‘ -. BETWEEN now and November, Indiana Democratic leaders will extoll the leadership of President Franklin D. loosevelt. By their votes at the Chicago’ convention they indorsed the belief that he is the only man who could carry the party ticket to victory. In the campaign ‘they will - assert, in ringing periods, that he is the only man who can lead the nation to victory and to peace. They will claim that his election for a fourth term is assured. But actions speak louder than words. And it is significant that the Democratic chieftains now are making strenuous efforts to have the name of their candidate for senator, Governor Henry F. Schricker, removed from the federal ballot — where he would be | bracketed with Roosevelt and Senator Harry Truman, the | vice presidential candidate—and placed at the head of the |

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freeze.” Let me make you one proposition and that is this, I'l show up how much money I gave away during any year you say from 1932 to date, 1944, if you will. The one who can prove he gave the most to churches, Red Cross, etc. the other has to pay a $25 war bond to the Y. M. C. A, Red Cross or any organization you mentign. Come on in, Jim, the water is fine. Also I can prove what my commission was in 1932-33-34-35-38 and s0 on. You never saw. or heard of one man who starved to death during the depression and you know it. Some of your friends did freeze to death but their liquor was responstble for that, wasn't it? Jim, I'll be seeing you at??

» ” » . “INSULT TO READER'S INTELLIGENCE” ° By Hal Shideler, 130 W. 18th st. The column, “The Commander” by Burton Rascoe, was probably the poorest excuse for wasting news space I have ever had the misfortune to encounter.

We hear time and again about the news being condensed and some even left out because of the paper shortage, yet you find space to print a full half column which says exactly nothing. I fully appreciate the fact that there is an election coming up. I understand, too, that

Mr. Rascoe would like to lose Mr.

vacations, have solved the problem by letting the manager take

over the job of each vacationing employee,

state ticket. In 1940, these Democrats were equally in-! sistent that the name of their senatorial candidate he on |

Side Glances—By Galbraith

That scheme born of the waretime labor shartage, have

the same ballot with President Roosevelt. : We are not a legal authority on the ins-and-outs of the

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Indiana ballot statutes, so we'll leave the question of where | Ro Son) paralis, . . . | o After dog an employee's work the senatorial tandidate shall be listed, up to Attorney | J for a while himself, a manager General James Emmert to whom it has been referred— | would be better able to know

though it does seem pertinent to remark that the law, if | plaints were Justified and the mart eros bably not the political climate, is the same now as it was in 1940. | find ways in which the job could be made easier, and Sut that was 1940 and this is 1944, and Indiana Sand the empiayes wou mL: Demuerats never have to wet a finger to tell which way | tification for the common ripe on the wind is blowing. So this anxiety to change ballots, | their bosses, “If he just had to do if not horses, must mean something. himself Til bet. he would change Can it be that the Roosevelt name has lost its magic, those cuat-tails-their potency? .

r have any jusnployees against this job for a while his tune.”

Here's an Idea for Mothers

BUSINESSES HAVE to find some way to give their workers vacations, even if it means that managers must take over the jobs, or even if it, means the establishment must close its doors for week or two while everybody gets a rest. :

But in the home, if there is no available substitute for mother, she usually gives up the idea of a vacation. Why couldn't mothers of large families resort to the manager’s-taking-over scheme in reverse? In the home the mother is the manager. So why couldn’t she get away for a few days by turning over her job to every member of hep family old enough to hold 1t down? Dad could take it over on his day off and on Sunday. Sixteen-year-old Sue could take it over two or three days out of the week, and 14-year-old Phil could handle it the remainder of |. the week. The job probably wouldn't be home. manager could do it. by—and mother would get titled to, : - ‘ . And there would be one added advantage. The whole family would get a better ides of what the Job of running a house is

hy A a . like, ‘and what & "home 4 { manager has to put up with—especially in war time.

LT. COL. ROBERT S. BROWN

T. COL. ROBERT SATER BROWN, who died this week in a South Pacific airplane crash, was our associate in newspaper work for many years. He served the ScrippsHoward newspapers as managing editor and editor of the Toledo News-Bee, as Washington correspondent, and as * editor of the Columbus Citizen until a few months after : Pearl Harbor, when he asked for leave of absence to join thearmy., . : - His chief in the army service forces, Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell, has paid high tribute to Col. Brown as a val“uable and loyal officer Who will he remembered for his devotion to duty and his remarkable tact and ability. ; These same qualities endeared him to. us and to a host of others who will think of him always as Bob Brown,

newspaperman and good friend.

done as well as the But the family would get the vacation she is en-

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‘|cons of either party, but Mr. Ras-

{fense to tell me that my vote is

Roosevelt some votes, but I can't understand his choice of a subject. He will get a lot more votes for the President than he will lose him. If using the phrase “commander-in-chief” as he did, be Mr. Roosevelt's cardinal sin, that is the man we want for our president, not only for a fourth term but from now until eternity if possible. If Mr, Rascoe can find ‘nothing more condemning to write about Mr. Roosevelt, I would suggest he leave his pen dry, at least until after the election. I have no political affiliations and care nothing about the pros and

coe’s article is an insult to the in-

telligence of your readers. I am].

an ardent follower of The Times editorial page, but cannot condone such tripe as this, Hoping to have no more of the same... = » LJ “CIVIL WAR OVER; THIS IS WORLD WAR 11” \ By Mildred Marshal, Indianapolis, | I am an ardent reader of the Hoosier Forum, For the last two or three weeks the fighting and disagreeing of the North and South amazes me, I should think that the present

conflict would "be sufficient enough to keep us all busy without taking up the Civil war. It might also do this nation a lot niore good to stress unity instead of division by the Mason-Dixon line. The longer we remain divided the harder it will be for us to fight together as we are having to do today on our many battle fronts. 1 was born in the far North but I have spent thd most of my life in the South; therefore, I understand both sides of the question. But I am for the U. 8. A. as a whole nation, not divided. It would very likely please the enemy greatly to hear of such squabbling that has been going on in the Hoosier Forum. No doubt such incidents have already given them food for thought, : What if the boys in the fox holes refused to ‘fight with their company because their leader was a Northerner or a Southerner? No, they don’t refuse to work with their buddies if they didn't come from the same side of the Mason-Dixon line as they, ’ I think it would be much wiser for all concerned to bear in mind that the Civil war is over, This {8 world war II o n - “AN INSULT TO : PATRIOTIC INTELLIGENCE” By Independent Voter, Indianapolis * To my mind, as an independent voter, the keynoter at the Democratic convention sure did hit a sour note. ‘Isn't it enough for the New

Deal to try to put over half the

population on government jobs “sol |

that elections will be in the bag long before voting time, without trying to, intimidate the balance of the people by trying to make them believe that they will be aiding Hitler if they vote against this thing

of one man running off with the U. 8.7 I consider it a greater of-

going to be a secret wedpon for Hitler than it would be to offer me a bottle of liquor for it. This part

of the Democrat convention was an insult to patriotic intelligence.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Every man according as he purposeth in his heatt, so let Sim | give; not grudgingly, or of nece sity; for God loveth a cheeriid giver.—Corinthians 9:7.

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WRG EE lace might have béen put over by the P. A, 0. demonstrators had he not adjourned he convention session July 20, summed up the Demviewpoint: - $ : : Was no favoritism shown by me in adJourning at that time. Senator Guffey (D. Pa), a Wallace manager, urged me to do so. Had we remained in session the demonstrations might have gotten out of hand, but the result would have been Just the same, ‘I am concvinced that the Democratic party was determined not to take the yice dent after that showing. Many felt it would mean that the C. I. O, bag oaten over the party and they would never stand lor .

Refused fo Accept C. I. O. Dictation:

3 “PERHAPS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S dictation of a Wallace nomination might have won out; but the party refused to accept such dictation from the C.LO”

Senator Jackson conceded that when he first was .

selected as permanent chairman he had the definite view, if not the understanding, that Vice President Wallace would not be put in second place on the

| ticket again.

Martin Miller, ‘legislative. representative of ‘the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, expressed a sime ilar viewpoint dbout Mr. Wallace and

“The convention was poorly handled, so far ag ler said.

Wiest Ot ute mim elivy ~ot wm gelegaes “There was- that they were not -going to be dictated ‘to or

couldn't

| dominated by the O. I. O. That was why Wallace

win, despite the demonstrators.”

VEST POCKET EDITORIALS—

The Home Front

What is the state of morale on the home frond today? Three famous women .authors—in the following brief articles written especially for The Times—survey the scene.

Who Is Complacent? By Sophie Kerr |

Miss Kerr placency in the serious young faces of the men and women in uniform. : It is not the American way to parade our doubts or difficulties. We pride ourselves on “eating our own smoke,” on “keeping a stiff upper lip,” on “not beefing,” and “not griping,” on being “poker-faced.® We know that we will win this war, we trust our fighting men.. The look of coolness and calm we wear is NOT COMPLACENCY, but a reasoned, sane and honest CONFIDENCE. s =

No Complaints

By Cornelia Otis Skinner

I HAVE met a good many of the boys who have returned from overseas, for its been my privilege to perform in a number of the big hospitals where the wounded men are being cared for. Those of you who have also visited these hospitals know what a wonderful, moving and inspiring experience that is. Those boys are cheerful, uncomplaining and not in the least disillusioned. ’ Only. last week I met a kid who had lost both legs and one arm "in Sicily.

Miss Skinner I was asked if IT would go over to his bed and say something to him. Of course I didn't know just what to say, so I weakly mure

mured, “Hello, how are you?” He gave me thas kind of grin that only American kids, God bless them, can give, and said, “Oh, I'm. fine~no come plaints, no .complaints at all.” But on my way home on the train, I thought of a few complaints I had made during the day. I'd complained because I didn't have enough gas to drive my car to the house of a friend: because I no longer could get a certain kind of lipstick, and because I spent my ration stamp on a pair of shoes that hurt my feet. And I can tell you I felt pretty disgusted with myself. And behind me a woman was telling another woman where she could buy black market nylon stockings at $9 a pair, and if I hadn't been what I fondly suppose myself to be—a lady-I'd have hauled off and socked her one because I was haunted by the thought of those boys—haunted by the question of what can I do for them. Those boys, as I said before, are uncomplaining and not in the least disillusioned. But they are going to be plenty complaining and plenty disillusioned if, when" they come back, they don't find us doing as much in our way as they have done over there. - . . ” ”

Mr. and Mrs. Scrooge By Fannie Hurst

THE MEANEST MAN in the world these wartime days is the one who drives his wife to the ‘market place on black market gas so that Mrs. Scrooge can load up the car with black mare ket food products to which neither of them is entitled. While Mr. and Scrooge +are taking on weight and cheating young men who are fighting and

.diers in jungles, pilots in aire "planes, crews locked in submae

‘Miss rines under oceans, are. being deprived of their chances of survival. : : Black markets all over the face of the United

States prove the ce of masses of people wh must be in the despicable image of Mr. and Mrs, Scrooge, or these illicit marts could not survive. What must it be like to be Mr. and Mrs, Scrooge? What must it be like to ride around, illicitly pro pelled ‘on gas that belongs ta young men Who ace being sacrificed ou? What must it be to gulp down gobs : the government

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