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1e Indianapolis Times

Friday, August 4, 1944

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Give Light ond the People Will Find Their Owe Woy

GOVERNMENT BIG BUSINESS ENATOR BYRD'S economy committee has just put out some interesting information about government-owned corporations and how they have multiplied. In 1931 there were only 10 of them. Now there are 44, with borrowing power of 83 billion dollars, loans of 61% billions, liabilities of 1614 billions covered by assets “the value of which will not be known for years to come.” They operate at a current loss of nearly 103 million dollars, and have 70,000 officials and employees scattered all over the world. Some of then apparently have unlimited power to

. create new subsidiary corporations. They engage in 2’ wide : Variety of commer cial and other enterpr i8es. ” TR go Ea a } . UNDER SOME circumstances, no doubt, it is advantageous for the government to do business through corporations. * But, the Byrd committee say s, their purpose often “is to create “reseivoirs of capital”. which bureaucrats:can rast Rmansial operations "Hie avoiding “u}

SIRT ry “yestraints placed upon regular government establishments.” Furthermore, in many cases: “Corporations seem to have beem created with little thought as to the advantages or disadvantages. . . . They encroach upon and compete with (private) business—with business under serious disadvantage. They have practically unlimited government credit at low rates of interest; freedom in some instances from federal, state and local taxation on property and securities except taxes on real estate; they also enjoy the privilege of penalty mail and other concesgions. Add to these the prestige of a government agency, and business meets an invincible competitor. + « » There is no effective over-all control. Alone or in certain groups these corporations are autonomous.” The possibilities of serious abuses are obvious. The committee recommends that congress provide sensible safeguards—that each government corporation be required to submit business-type budgets and work programs yearly for approval by congress as in the case of appropriafions, and that the gentroller general be designated as auditor for each corporation. These recommendations should be adopted promptly,

LOUDER THAN WORDS THE C. 1. 0.8 Political Action Committee has had a lot to say about equal rights for all Americans, regardless of race or color. Grown strong enough to hold veta power over the Democratic national conventioh, it heaped scorn and defeat on southern Democrats whose states with. hold those rights from Negro citizens, «Its leaders have loudly and earnestly demanded, as a major aim of their movement, the same right for Negroes as for white men to vote, and te hold jobs, and te earn personal advancement. Those are fine words. Do they mean them? Actions speak louder, In Philadelphia thjs week, eight Negroes ‘who "had earned advancement were given promotions, to jobs drive ing city busses. And instantly 5800 C. I. O. members—all a part of this same Political Action Committee—walked off their jobs, stopped all the streetcars and busses in a huge city full of vital war plants, and touched off a series of brutal race riots. » s . 8 8 » FROM THIS Philadelphia story there is this reasonable conclusion. Either C. I. 0.8 political left arm is trying to trap Negro votes with promises it does not intend to keep —or its leaders are making pledges to Negroes which its members do not indorse, and which they could not keep if they would, Men who are willing to shut down our nation’s war plants in wartime—who are willing to fight in the streets with clubs and stones—to keep eight Negroes out of jobs, are not likely to do much to help Negroes get the American rights to which they are entitled—no matter what their leaders say. Every Negro voter in America will do well to remember, next election day, what the men who support the Political Action Committee did in Philadelphia this week,

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COLONEL STARLING

Co EDMUND W. STARLING, who died yesterday in a New York hospital, might have written one of the most interesting hooks of our times. He did not, for it is one of the fine traditions of the United States gecret service that its men leave no memoirs. As a member of the White House detail for three decades, and its chief since 1935, until illness forced his retirement, it was his duty to guard the lives of five Presidents, te aceompany them on their travels, to make certain that in every city they were to visit there were adequate preparations for their safety, He became their friend and confidant, From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, from world war 1 to world war 1I, Col. Starling watched a lot of history in the making, but if he had opinions about what he saw, he kept them to himself. Few men have carried so heavy and constant a load of responsibility so long and so well.

COMPLIMENTARY ABUSE

- EVIDENCE introduced in the Washington sedition trials reveals that Governor Dewey as well as President Roosevelt has been the target of abusive articles in bundist, anti-Semitic and ultra-isolationist publications. Defense attorneys protested thd “insult” to the Republican candidate. Actually, of cou + the ‘abuse was a distinct om pliment,

: oth cai eltizens. regnriless of party, should rejoice that candidates for our Sighait or office have experienced

a supplemeniatform under Tom

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This is a "political fight heiween two American candidates for one office. If that office were mayor, sheriff or coroner, the Republicans would be at ease and ready to throw the record at Roosevelt. If an incumbent sheriff, elected on a crime-must-go platform, had established a flagrant and mocking alliance with the very same sordid I s2om, comparable to Ed Kelly's and Frank Hague he had affected to despise and promised to Bagues In the oppasition would disgrace him with proof of his own hypocrisy. If the sheriff had exploited his office to enrich his own relatives and his political parasites through by-products of jis office, his opponent would hound him day ight-with proof of his avarice and his betrayal cf misplaced trust. If he had organized a new underworld gang of his own, levying tribute on every worker in the country for his own political funds, as Roosevelt has done in the pseudo-idealistic and humane American labor movement, the rival candidate would not be calling him “mister” but uglier names more appropriate to their accusations.

YET, THESE. Republicans speak softly and with a

longs to Roosevelt as a candidate than it belongs to Dewey in the same status. . They have been so dazzled, AER CR Boney fe Seat that when Congressman Ham Fish, a: Republican,

states an indigiiage fact, Dewey and.the rest of the party disown .

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issues of clanishness, religion and race into this campaign: but Roosevelt's own Communist auxiliary which went underground a few months ago and emerged as the Political Action Committee of the C.1O. Poles, Irish, Catholics, anti-Catholics, Jews, Masons, Protestants and units of labor. and business all have voted as blocks in this country, off and on, according to the heat of the moment, for generations. Roosevelt, himself, appointed to the United States supreme

win a cheap, local job as county prosecutor in Birmingham, Ala., he joined an oath-bound gang of nightriding terrorists whose guiding creed was hatred and persecution of Jews, Catholics and Negroes. Yet, such is the power of the Rooseyelt propaganda and the spell of his New Deal cynicism, that today there are even Republicans who disown Fish, not for his infallible oafishness but merely because he remarked that Roosevelt would command the Jewish vote.

Prejudice Is implement of Communists

TO THE EXTENT that there is a Jewish vote this is a fact which all politicians, including Roosevelt's following, set down in their praghical reckoning. Roosevelt's organization counts it as in the bag and Republican politicians are writing it off. Similarly, the Polish vote in Buffglo, Chicago and other Polish centers, is regarded as a block which may go against Roosevelt and for Dewey hecause Roosevelt has abandoned the anti-Communist Polish govern-ment-in-exile, Every honest politician and political writer in the United States knows that religious and racial prejudice are political’ implements of the Communists as | well as of the true bigots. Where the bigots arouse such issues in plain, stupid hatred and superstition, the Communists do it for the cajculated purpose of causing bloody disorders. They do it by selecting despicable characters to commit outragepus attacks on the dignity and character of honest, telerant Americans. For years the Communists of Roosevelt's own political auxiliary have been trying the souls of exemplary patriotic men who shed their blood in France in the purest devotion to American ideals, by subjecting them to loathesonte abuse, They call them Nazis and Fascists and, thus, traitors to their country and, for the delivery of these trying provocations, they have selected ingrate refugees who not only scuttled out of the American draft in the last war but employed their time in soapbox exhortations to other immigrants to make a revolution here in the absence of the nation’s best; fighting men.

‘Communists All Will Yote for Roosevelt’

THAT ‘IS the Communist way. The Communists all will vote for Roosevelt. Their agent in the Political Action committee, Sidney Hillman, has been a guest at the White House where Herbert Hoover and Tom Dewey, Americans, surely, never had been invited in Roosevelt's 12 years. Yet the Republicans eringe and repudiate Fish on the very day that Vite Marcantonio, the Communist candidate, is renominated for congress in New York. Marcantonio epenly preaches Communist doctrine and is loyal at once, both to Roosevelt and to Josef Stalin who, slaughtered more human beings, his fellow Russians, in eeld-hlooded butchery and calculated famine than the United States has lost in all our wars from the Revolution down to this very day. Fish fought bravely in the first world war. Marcantonio has never worn a uniform or heard a shot and resisted every effort te arm this nation for its own defense until Hitler attacked Stalin. And while the Republicans, in pallid voices dlssociate themselves from Fish, what says Roosevelt about the nomination of Marcantonio? Hg doesn't even. bother to deny that the Communists are his, The American people don't even now know where he is,

We The People By Ruth Millett

BACK IN the good old days of Sunday afternoon drives in the family automobile, Mama could get back at Papa for telling her how to vote, asking other women to please let her have their recipes, ete, by doing a little back seat driving. It was a wonderful outlet for pent-up indignation over being treated like a nit-wit in so many circumstances. But women haven't been able to do much back seat driving since

rationing.

How to Put Papa in His Place

IT MIGHT interest all those frustrated by the loss of that feminine prerogative to know that a Minneapolis woman has found an even better way. of putting Papa in his place than back seat driving in a car, She has a job as conductor on a street car and under her present. schedule her husband is motor. gman on her car several hours each week. That means a gets tp tell him when Wo ,80 ahead and when to stop. If street car: companies " other cities need more womes conductors than they can recruit it might be $ Soo idea for he to ek the wives of motorpointing ou k seat of the fon.” riving ee

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“THE HOOSE IS ¢ NAE LONGER FOR RENT” By Angus MacClaviele, Indianapolis. I was forteonet enach the other day to be perombulating by a wee sma’ hpose joost as a mon was pute ting oot a sign which said on it “for rent.” As the mon tairned his“boack to walk away, I tootled a whustle at him. “Joost a moment, loddie, the hoose is nae longer for rent. I'm a mon of action and vuity {few wurruds. Here's ma money—whur’s ma reseat?” “Weel, noo, pray tell who might you be?” says this landioord. “Aye, and I might be Eleanor Roosevelt, but I'm na’, I'm your new tenant, Angus MacClavicle, an’ I repeat—here’'s nia’ money, where's ma’ reseat?” “Noo, don’t race your motor, Muster MacClaviele, there are a noomber of questions to be asked.”

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“Lay on MacDoof,” I said. “An’ how many chuldren did ye say ye had?” asked his loordship.| Without a thocht of the reseolts | I replied, “I dinna say I had any bairnies. I left that sma' detail to, | the Missus an’ she had thr-r-ree of the little roscals.” “Sorry, Mr. MacClavicle, but the! eenterview is tarminated. Guid day.” : “Aye, noo, I dinna ken that wud mak’ a dufference,” I said apologizing like. “Ye sairtainly wuldn't expect me to rent to a mon who had chuldren, wud ye?” asked his loordship. “I hadna thecht of it that way, Muster Landloord, but cud ye gie me a chanee, your honor; if I gie ye ma saered wurrud that there will be no bairnies in yur hoose or en the premisus?” “Weel, all richt, but remember, nae chuldren.” . “Aye nae chuldren, sir. you, sir.” Me owld wumman an’ myself are very happy and contented in eur wee sma’ hoose and she is a yurry gud sport aboot it becuz seein’ hoo it- was myself what drownded the bairnies in the bathtub, she is going to tak’ care of their graves,

8 » 2 “WALLACE AND WILLKIE, TWO GREAT AMERICANS”

By Warren A. Benedict Jr, 2010 Madison ave. Take time out for two great Amer- | icans, Wallace and Willkie. They

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as| The G. O. P, reactionaries, the Chi-

‘tunism. May they stand at atten-

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{tion for & future draft regardless of parties. A proud salute te beth of them.

“AMERICANS TOO SURE OF VICTORY" By W. H. Hickman, Lafayette.

Idle talk and inaction of clyilians tends to slow a8 U. 8. victory. It is

that over-confidence might easily result in disaster, The American penple are too sure of victory. They have grown somewhat comp! Too many civilians spend. complaining about petty sacrifices which they are required to make. Lawyers, whose education and training gives & fluency of language and power of expression far above the average and who haye july, ence in home communities, could and should use their resources to bring to others a realization of the serious situation which confronts the public. By properly performing the tasks | which lie before us, we can he of {material assistance in speeding the | Success of loan drives and reducing {casualty lists. No prophet can teil | when the last homb will be dropped and the last shot fired. Before the war is over practically every family will know the tragedy of a father, a son or a brother killed, maimed or missing. Lawyers should impress upon their communities the time to strike hardest is when the enemy iz weakening. Buy mare bonds.

" “I AM FRANKLY ASHAMED" By Forum Fan, Indianapolis This is in reply to Charles Ginsberg's Forum letter of July 21. I 1 cannot tell where you would go where there are no capitalists unless it would be where there is as yet no civilization, However, I can tell you that my letter was provoked because I had just read one of the many accounts of what eur cembat forces are having to endure before reading your letter of condemnation of free enterprise. I certainly am not happy about this terrible war but I am grateful to our industrial and military leaders for so far protecting our homeland from the horrors of this war, I am afraid I used the word happy in my letter when 1 should have used grateful or thankful. All

belong to oppesite political parties, In 1040 rabid partisans who admired one viewed the other with fear and alarm. Today an ever increasing number of independent citizens, interested in their country’s welfare land growing increasingly weary of ithe professional politicians, can 'speak in terms of admiration for both of them. For they possess a great deal in common. Both left the party of their birth to attain eminence and respect in| the opposite parties. Both placed good of country above the views of | the political bosses. Both saw, ahead | of the narrow-minded partisans, the | problems this country faces, and both spoke out fearlessly, By doing so they incurred the enmity of the political hosses in their parties as they won inereased respect from independent citizens the country over, Both were becoming the symbol of progressive and intelligent leadership. among independents who tecognize politicans as necessary evils, 8o it became evident both would be matked for the double cross. This was easy with the average citizen more interested in winning the war than watching the maneuvers of the professional politicians.

cago Tribune and the Republicans still fighting the Civil war got Willkie. The corrupt big city bosses, the Southern Democrats still fighting the civil war, and a tired old man envious of others’ popularity accounted for Wallace, Wallace and Willkie, two great Americans, place love of country and principle above political oppor«

Side Glances—By Galbraith

of the restrictions you mention are war measures as you admit and are témporary.

The Austin-Wadsworth bill was not passed and will not be unless we suffer some unexpected military defeat, I venture to predict. Yes, I remember those dark days

for I was hit plenty hard by ihe depression. Nevertheless our system of free enterprise has built in comparatively short time a great aation from a few forlorn colonies. We do not kill people who become ill and by the same token we should not destroy a system of government which has proven itself because of periodical setbacks in its function-

ing. If civilization is to endure

capitalism or socialism are faultless and both contain merit,

had the opportunitydo do so. Perhaps some ‘day it shall, “Regarding my suggestion about leaving the country—I am frankly ashamed of having written such a thing to The Forum. It was in bad taste, intolerant and un-American, made without thinking and realizing that in this free country we must respect the rights'of others to state their opinions. I apologize, Mr, Ginsberg. :

DAILY THOUGHTS

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Apprehended Nazi Sabeteurs

ANOTHER COAST GUABDSMAY, John Cullen, apprehended three enemy ne rv Fh Lo submarine on Long Island : ang execution of 3 group of Nps

its organize an 4, 1790, as the I JERR, A

and customs laws, eon big peacestin job of port security, which inciudes 1 fire prevention and fire fighting, is more important than ever today. And in addition to its vithl convoy and sob duties,

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war navy. But coast guardsmen have performed a sesviee ns out of proportion to thelr numerical . returns many of them will

Stick. with their § More power to them—and many happy returns. -

| VEST POCKET EDITORIALS—

Qur Enemy

Three noted men of letters look squarely snd realistically at our arch-enemy of the twentieth century—Germany—in. the following tabloid edi. torials written especially for The Times.

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The Illusion of Victory

by Son Aras Wiliams GERMANY won World War I go When the armistice comes, she ] OE I is enly a phrase, without res meaning. Not Peace treaties, but ) the ability to capitalize the frults o of battle, distinguishes the wine ner of a war from the loser, / In Europe before 1939, Gere A industrial piant; she possessed at i least half of Burope’s total “worth” in people and ; lant. 3 » Since 1939, she has increased that proportion Fram the point of view of population, she has Killed 8 at leas) one non-German for every German who has . been killed; she has hundreds of thousands moye; and she has undoubtedly won among the : conquered peoples many converts. By using to the

break-down point the industries of conquered countries, by transporting to Germany or hid destroying what she could not use, by making the conquered countries tributary feeders to Germany's industrial needs, her industrial predominance in Europe is greater now than it was before 1939. Only an honest recognition of this fact can make possible the framing of a peace which will deprive her of victory. On. the day of her surrender, Germany will be the victor in this war, .

Are There Good Germans?

By Emil Ludwig

IT'S QUITE TRUE that in the past the Germans produced not only great characters but great geniuses. Today, the air is filled with radio waves earrying German music all over the world, Wounds and injured limbs of allied soldiers are X-rayed by rays discovered by the German, Roentgen. Millions of Germans, I am sure, blush to think of the atrocities committed by their brutal seune trymen against ‘defenseless civil« ians, There are clerieals and lay-

Ludwig men among Germans who feel ashamed of the eruel: ties that will be forever connected in people's minds with German rule. Yes, there are "good Germans” but all these good Germans, all the German geniuses today and in the past, have never had the slightest Influence on the

German government. For 500 y the power to govern has remained in the hands one class, a class that had no culture. Culture rested in the hands that had no power, Hence the Germans are the only people of modern history that have never made a genuine and successful revolution. “In 1932 they voluntarily ‘voted in the Nazis as the ‘strongest party. Because they did not protest, the many “good Germans” whe may be among the regimented masses that compose Germany today are also responsible as a group. We cannot entrust them with self-government, »

The Truth About Atrocities By Baeige | Creel

barities in Belgium and northern body was ever set up to make a and criminals, Not until 1019, well tice, did the allies create a Commission