Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

LSCRIPAS ~ NOW

PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES FTER THE organization meeting of Marion county ward chairmen in the Columbia club Wednesday night, the titular leaders of the Republican party in Indiana

might well have asked each other: “Upon what meat does this our Caesar feed that he

is grown so great?” For James L. Bradford, 11th district chairman, left the boys in no doubt who is boss. James put the cards on, the table, led with a club and called a spade a spade.

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o » 2 THE CANDIDATES, accustomed to attending Republican rallies where they are praised as peerless leaders, __unblemished statesmen, and certain winners in November, must have suffered a rude shock when they heard plain: spoken Jim say: “I don’t care what Ralph Gates or Homer Capehart says, we're going.to gel

UGESESHESEY GTP SEAT: To set right any of the boys who might be cherishing an illusion that the decision rested with the voters, and not with Mr. Bradford, Jim advanced an interesting theory that elections are won in August, not November. “We won this election a week ago,” he said, “when we made George Johnson general election supervisor and Carroll Kramer director of registrations.” It's as easy as that, apparently. ss x = ) 8 = JIM MAY NOT have cared, as he stated, what Gates and Capehart said, but they lost no time in saying it. ‘Mr. Gates, the gubernatorial nominee, protested that he wore no man’s_c8llar—though he may have been a bit, warm under his own—but he assured the Bradford legions that the pie would be on the counter and not in*the sky. “Pm organization 100 per cent,” Mr. Capehart told the faithful. ri And Attorney General Emmert pointed out that five of his 18 deputies were from Marion county, appointed, no doubt, with the advice and consent of Mr. Bradford. “Lay that pistol down, Jim,” was the theme song. And the boys put their hearts into it, even though the harmony wasn't close. What Jim was driving at was indicated by his praise for “my boy,” Prosecutor Sherwood Blue and Secretary of State Rue Alexander as *the two guys who, during all my years in politics, always played ball.” Perhaps that hint was not wasted. The moral of all this? We're not sure. Perhaps it is that Republicans are their own worst enemies. Or that if you need a smoke-filled room, Jim Bradford will be there with the smoke.

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FREDERICK C. KROEGER

ODERN WARS are not fought onthe battle field alone. No army, today, can go into combat unless the brains and labor of the nation have first provided the tools with which to fight; no campaign could long continue unless it is sustained by an unending stream of supplies which rises in the mines and farms and flows without intérruption through plants, mills and factories to the front lines. And the home front, as well as the fighting front, has its heroes. : A few weeks ago, an American general gave his life on the Normandy battle field. A veteran of the first world war, he returned to service al an age when most men would be considered too old for combat and landed in the forefront of his troops in two invasions. He would not spare himself and the long days without rest, the merciless driving of the flesh took their toil of a heart no longer young. BN oo The victim of combat fatigue, Drig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt died for his country. ) Yesterday at his. home near Indianapolis, another man died. Almost the same age as the other, he too had served in another war and had reached the time of life when most men find they must ease off. But he could not, and would not, rest in his nation’s time of need. From dawn till {ar in the night, he worked without respite. He did not lead troops, but his genius and leadership, his energy and skill, were just as important to the fighting forces. He knew this, and he stayed on the job until he dropped. And then, after more than a year of striving to regain the health and strength ‘he had given for the nation's cause, his tired body yesterday at last gave out completely. In a prodigious accomplishment that is measured wherever the more than 50,000 Allison engines are carrying fighting men of the united nations to victory in the skies, Frederick C. Kroeger, general manager of the Allison Division of General Motors, died of production fatigue. He, too, gave his jJife for his country.

OUR FACTORY FIGHTERS

HE furloughing of experienced men from the army to work in tire factories does not mean that our labor shortage is becoming alarming. It simply means that tire manufacturing is heavy work. - Much of it can’t be done by 4-F's, the aging, or women. Lo y Before synthetic rubber was sufficiently plentiful, tire factories had to lay off. many men. They went to other factories or into service. Today, with ample rubber, it is easier to bring back former workers from the army than to alter present employe regulations. And these men will still be in the fight. As the enemy

moved by truck. Trucks mean tires. .'And since synthetic tires wear out more quickly than those of natural rubber, and are frequent casualties aiong with the trucks that they

‘retreats and destroys railroads, these supplies must be |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler a

NEW ‘YORK, Aug. 11—-In Wichita, a promoter amiably known’ as & nut, which he is not, ‘has run a semi-professional game of ball in which the right-handed hitters were allowed to run to third base, if they preferred, and thence to second and so on around. This droll innovation. might cause

casualties at second with runners sliding into the bag simultaneously from both directions and a double play combination attempting to perform, but let's not go into that. A wacky idea opens up an entirely new field of thought and | action and my purpose is to point out that just as we have closed our minds to these possibilities for years and years, so also have we blacked out some truths in other affairs which affect our lives. Outlandish as it seems to propose that defensive ballplayers should have to guard aganist runners going against tradition and with the clock what's wrong with the idea? And now, outrageous as most of us have come to believe it is of an employer to meddle in the affairs of a union of the employees, what's wrong with that? I know it is illegal. But is it wrong?

‘Union Infested with Communists’

IN THE Philadelphia transportation strike, the company has been criticized almost as an accomplice of the strikers and citicized by the Transport Workers union of the C. I. O, at that, because it didn’t fight the strike but gave in and quit operating. The strikers were a union actually striking against the union which is infested with Communists in high places and makes life miserable for anti-Communists who are forced to join. i The C. I. O. people are saying here that the company. should have helped them to break the strike. A federal grand jury is looking into the case and inssmeuch~as Attorney-General -Biddle--made--a- clan~ destine pilgrimage to the political command post of ‘Sidney Hillman of the C, I. O.. ;

on. share-oz- well beat basnision, thers i Putuinn {2 4itit $58 company

or the strikers will get a fair and impartial break from the department of justice. ’

that its deeper motive was to discredit the Transport Workers’ union by showing that it couldn't control its members and therefore did not really represent them. Wouldn't you do all you could to damage a communistic outfit?

‘Reversal of Its Old Propaganda’

TO THE FIRST supposition, the C. I. O., itself, has given the answer many times; and its present position is a reversal of its old propaganda. Hitherto it has always insisted that factories, utilities and other “facilities,” as Mr. Biddle so cleverly calls them, should never resist any strike, even by a minority, but should shut down promptly. This usually helps the union to win and the management is held responsible for violence and bloodshed caused by the strikers if it doesn’t fold up right away. But this time, the C. I. O. says the management was guilty of something real bad. What it means is that the company should have helped the union out of a nasty problem within its own ranks. An American company should help Communists. Are we crazy? . Why should an employer help his enemy? Why hasn't he the same right to enjoy his enemy’s pain that” the enemy has to chortle over his headaches? Enemy is the correct word in this case, although not in all relationships between employers and unions. This is a mean, tricky union, and here was the company’s chance, by passive action, to strike it a blow. After all, the employers, the stockholders, are Americans. They are badly handicapped by the laws favoring unions over all other elements of the community and this was a unique chance to harm a union, not by breaking a strike, but by submitting and encourag the strikers,

‘Action Doubtless Will Be Exploited

IT MAY be found that the company consulted strike experts. There are such people'on industry's side, too, just as there are renowned experts on strike strategy on the union's side. But again, why not? ’ If this is found to be the case, the company’s action doubtless will be exploited by the department of Justice in “sensational revelations.” But the revelations would be sensational only because we have .forgotten that the employer does have rights remaining on the books. Unions meddle in the employers’ afairs. They plant spies in the shops and even in confidential office positions. They buy in as stockholders and look over the books. They demand a voice in management, ‘ But. management must not interfere in unions whose books are their own business. And who ever heard of an employer demanding a voice in union management since the company unions went out? We have heen running the bases all one way. Our minds have worked that -way. We have forgotten that if capitalism and management are to survive which made it possible for this country to produce enough war material to save Russia and to arm all our allies and ourselves, then capital and management must have rights too, -

We The People - By Ruth Millett

MANY PEOPLE are worrying about adjustment problems of servicemen who will return to civilian life at the war's end. But nobody much seems to be concerned over the disillusioning process in store for servicewomen when they step back into civilian life. It isn’t going to be an easy adjustment for many of them. Of course many servicewomen are finding husbands—and their . step back into civilian life will be comparatively simple. From the feminine point of view, when they shed their unifoms for house dresses they'll be trading a good job for a better one. But what of the girls in uniform who don't marry during the war? They may have a rather painful adjustment to make when the war is over.

Adjustment May Be Difficult

TAKE THE case of the WAC, WAVE, MARINE or SPAR who resumes the job of school teaching or working in an office after a taste of being a uniformed glamor girl. That is what the women in service actually are. Because they are usually surrounded by men, even the least attractive of them gets masculine attention. . . And the uniform makes them noticed and singled out wherever they go. That kind of attention and admiration is easy to get used to—and hard to do without once a woman has it. A girl may find it difficult to get back into civilian clothes which don’t make her stand out from the crowd and to go back to working at a job where she isn't surrounded by men. The best solution seems to be for a girl to get a husband while she is still in uniform, as so many of them are doing.

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“SAME PERCENTAGE OF LONE DRIVERS” | By Mary Studebaker, 1811 N. Meridian st., Apt.

Occasionally, I make a game out of waiting for the bus in the morning. I practice counting the automobiles passing by which have but one lone occupant. Strange to report, these mornings of gasoline rationing I note the same old percentage of lone drivers. For years, my. morning. statistics have run approximately as follows: In 10 cars tearing past, you will see about two having two occupants, one will have three or more cccupants, and seven will have a single occupant, Yesterday morning I counted and found the same percentage that I found on any morning about five years ago. Yesterday, in the two cars occupied by two people, one car contained -a man, probably going to work, and a woman, who probably was going to take the car back to the house until evening. And the car having three or more people yesterday contained a family with children, apparently making a little trip. And this morning, when I stepped out of my building, I glanced up the street and saw, in rapid succession, five cars contain ing a single occupant! Anyone can stand on North Meridian st. and gather similar statistics. Think of it—people running their personal cars in time of war! You can be sure people in Russia love their country too much to be as unpatriotic as these drivers, I'd bank on that Russian spirit any time as a sure-fire winning team. For they just wouldn't have the compulsion and wish to drive a pleasure car to work every mornfhg in the middle of a war. t J t J 2 . “WHO TRADED THE NEW DEAL HORSE?” By W. H. J, Elwood, Remember who in 1932 promised elimination of many unnecessary governmental bureaucratic. departments if elected? ) How about the ramifications and red tape. of . our. present. governmental structure? Who can distinguish the head from the tail? Remember the pledge to economize in government expenditures? Remember the only fulfilled pledge

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—taking the pensions from our soldier veterans of world war I ? Remember the 1932 national debt, 29 million? What is it now? “Who declared “we welcome criticism”? How has he responded? Who insinuated in 1936 if reelected prosperity would successfully continue during the next four years? Who originally advanced the idea, nine old men were wo antique and hard to handle?

Who said new blood was needed in the tribunal? Is new blood 63 years old? ’ Who conspired with minority organizations to unconditionally sit down and, with bribes of government orders and brow-beating of the innocent, forced the employees to sign contracts? Did not small

business and the free thinking laboring class suffer? Remember the

1937 mid-winter industrial crash? Remember the national of unemployed? Remember the ill clad, ill ‘housed and ill fed during 1938 to 1940? Remember the. poor needy slaves in want who begged and groveled at the political minded trustees offices, WPA, CCC ‘and NYA surplus commodities distribution centers? Who was the great presidential adviser and humanitarian! ! | that stated that the American people were too d - - - n dumb to understand? Was not he proven right by the result of the 1940 national elec: tion? Remember who promised in 1940, “Mothers, I promise you again, and again, your boys will not have to

fight on foreign soil”? It was the lie

a in our pocket.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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-| ganization of world war II

/| from New York while Mr. Roosevelt

told and not the present event to be criticized. Is it a truly representative government when our current governmental political convention was boss-controlled by a pre-acceptance; speech, secret political train powwow at government expense, doubledealing, dopble-crossing, character destruction, remote control and deWho said, “Do not trade horses in the middle of the stream"? Who traded the New Deal horse for the raw deal double-deal type? What other animal except a chameleon could do likewise?

- ” “NEW VETERANS SHOULD ORGANIZE” By Martha Louise Scott, Columbus I have been wondering why no attempt has been made to organize a world war II patriotic organization such as the American Legion of world war I. Surely, enough veterans have returned from overseas, and they are returning weekly in large numbers, to get their organization started.

The American Legion belongs to and represents world war I, but world war II belongs to another generation of fine young men who have gone forth to all parts of the globe to defend our country and {flag. Therefore, they should have their own organization. We still have this victory to win, but the organization should be in full swing when the boys come marching home again, Some of you returned veterans gek together and select an appropriate name, name units and committees, and everyone put forth a good effort across our nation and your organization will soon be going strong. This organization will be important, it will be worthwhile, and it will be distinctive, as it should be. ‘Talk things over and then get busy, and it will be going in a short time. It will take some money, but we have a lot these days, and it will be money well spent. I am sure everyone would want to donate to this worthy cause. Come on now and- get busy and have a royal welcome awaiting the boys on their return home from foreign coyptries. They will be glad and proud of you. Select a good name. “Victory Legion,” “The American Allies,” “United States Veterans” and a score of other good names would be suitable. Best wishes for a fine or-

” . 1 “THINK OF THE OTHER SIDE” By Pvt. Morris Stein, Ft. Harrison, I just read your one-sided article in The Times, “Gold Star Mother.” I am writing this with all due respect for you and your position. But you seem to be very narrow- | minded. Did it ever occur to you that the Republicans held what they called a convention about two weeks before the Democrats held

theirs, and if I am not mistaken the Republicans had the same attendance if not more. Then to top it off Mr. Dewey arrived at the convention in a chartered airplane

came to join the Democratic convention in a railroad coach, Please, the next time you. begin | to make a comment think of the {other side because there are always two sides to every story. . :

DAILY THOUGHTS The words of wise men are

By William Philip Simms

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Starting Home

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—TIt is now likely that President Sergio

Osmena and the government of i. Second Lar the commonwealth of the Philip- ] 4 pines, will soon say goodby to Seen Des Washington in order to’ move closer to Manila. Corn Est Not content with waiting until the Japanese are driven out of the _ WASHINGTC islands, I understand the presi- ~The agricul: BEWVER™ dent and his entourage plan to f A Wk move in right behind the barrage, looked forwara Where the interim seat of the to the second government-in-exile will be, has not been made publi, in the nation’s The American flag, however, now flies over Guam, and drought losses Guan is less than an eight-hour flight from Manila. Gast central sta President Osmena plans to enter the Philippine capital with Gen, Douglas MacArthur, and hence may Current pros be expected to join the general somewhere along the 1044 crop prod: line. per cent above | ; . 1 than any other Prompt Return Is Imperative BE FILIPINO LEADERS here regard it as of the The drought utmost importance that the return of the govern= in Kentucky a ment-in-exile be delayed as little as possible. The dry weather fu Tokyo radio announced in October than Japan had conditions of 1 formally recognized the Philippine government. The corn and gard axis and other Fascist-minded countries sent cone shortages are grat! messages to J. P. Laurel, the puppet presi« however, to’ a dent. To the masses this had a welcome sound. They from ‘eastern can’t be expected to see immediately the difference through Misso between the immediate “independence” granted by # of Texas and the Japs and the delayed independence granted by the and Georgia. U.S. : Full Reet In view of that, Philippine independence may be announced by President Roosevelt and Osmena on the Nevertheless, day Mr. Osmena and his government enter Manila board said, be

with the allied forces, or perhaps even sooner. In Washington, the machinery is read Mr. Roosevelt. believes the time hy fre SVE CEA

he ranted Power by Congress from Chicago t tag ; : *particularly fa ON OCT. 7, last year, the President asked congress July weather to grant him authority to proclaim the independence prospective cor of the Philippines “as soon as feasible,” He said the mate Fy of Aug U. S. regards the islands as already in full possession uaz Ny 1 -

of. all the. attributes of complete and respected na- § tionhood.” As matters now stand, they are to become a full-fledged republic on July 4, 1946. But, the President pointed out, “it is possible that the fortunes of war will permit an earlier consummation.” .

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Congress gave him that authority plus power to Jute product draw ‘up plans, with the president of the Philippines, Sen T to set up economic safeguards for the islands and BAYS ae

provide for the future maintenance of the peace of the Pacific, The recent death of President Manuel Quezon

tion of the fou:

changes none of these plans. He was pin would pe 0 succeeded by Vice President Osmena, ply on recetrd.

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ting Tough ~~ J == Getting Toug " d P ki However, the 000-ton hay pr By Fred W. Perkins oust hay pr unit of livestox . WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. ~= six years, the When a young fellow gets drafted result, some lig he gets a “greetings” which Is drought areas r definite and brief, but when the Among the ¢: war manpower commission ate near-record pre tempts to put, some iron into its dicated for ric efforts to supply 200,000 civilign vegetables for j workers at the spots where they crops for mark

erate supplies o

can get us over the hump in war potatoes are in

production, some 4800 words are

to tell the regional directors the survey. a “ Deciduous fr : This is charged to the differ forecast at 21 ence between the selective service law, which leaves year, with signs no doubt about the obligation to wartime military equal the recor: or naval service, and the lack of any law requiring ar Whoeo 5 ’ n. civilian service to back up the fighting me Set fhin_swe 1 1 sult of a * Compulsion Is of Three Kinds ol A oP HENCE, THE war manpower commission has fall, the output issued 11 pages of instructions, plus five pages of ©0 —used in m general argument put out & week ago by War Mobil. now placed at t ization “Director James F. Byrnes, directed toward record with an placing some compulsion benind the persuasive efs of $84,150,000 p

forts to induce skilled men to stay in, return to, or move into the hdustries where they are most needed to help win the war. The compulsion is of three kinds: (1) Workers qualified for employment in critical war plants will be offered jobs by the U. S. employe ment service only in such critical spots; if they refuse these assignments without a good reason, no other offer is to be made. (2) Employment “ceilings” in non-essential ine dustrial plants may be lowered to force men into more eéSsenfial employment. LOE (3) Raw materials may be withheld from, and other sanctions may be used against employers who think their civilian production is more important than the added war production which is said by LS, Gen. Brehon Somervell to be necessary for completion of the military drives now going on in France.

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WASHINGTO «A “slight iner of sorely neede enabled the rub an additional 2 tires for Augus Civilian allotn were cut on Jul 000 requested b fense transports ereased army de be largely respc

Persuasive Methods Come First gies move c BUT THESE compulsions will not be used- for a% declared to be least a week. In the meantime the WMC still hopes a threatened t to get results from its persuasive methods, these The ODT said i being: ... . ee meer that many he gh Persuasion. through the patriotic appeal to “were unable to “ men who think the European end of the war is about of tires. to end—persuasion to get them to stay on the job or go back to the job, and not to flirt with something MILK SUBS ‘that may look better from the peacetime view. rtm (2) Persuasion on managements of less-essential Applications { industries to give temporary leaves of absence to men burgh, Warrick, who can be used in more critical industries, with a son counties for guarantee of restoration to their employment and subsidy payme

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seniority rights. (3) Persuasion on la h arrangements. x enough men don't volunteer within a week oe two the commission says it will make its compulsion really compulsory. : Here is a part of the official language: “While giving an opportunity for employers and workers to volunteer to meet the needs, the area director shall proceed witli plans for requiring release of workers in case the necessary number of workers is not made available. In no case should action’ be delayed more than one week from time of the public appeal unless it is clearly demonstrated that further action is not required.”

Difficult to Get or Keep Men

THIS STORY is part of the public appes. the authorities on whom the people depend in winning the war say that when war production started It wa easy to gather millions of men for the essential in. dustries; but that now, when successes in France have caused hopes of an early victory, it is becoming. difficult to keep or get men for production of mate. rials that are vitally needed. Part of the story is in Akron, O., Where heavy-duty tires are produced for military vehicles. Much of the’ military complaint has been about a lack of heavy-duty tires which are chewed up quickly in the

bor unions to co-operate in

r nf war. It has been charged, ffom the man- , : * ar side, that union restrictions on work of the Permanen individual prevent maximum tire production, and Wonderwa: from the union side that the managements are ate Long or Sho tem an inexcusable speed-up. TE tii from the war production board, in $396 : cluding L. R. Boulware, heir-apparen it to the job of % | ‘national rubber director: Joseph Keenan and Clinton ~ Cold Wave respectively the A. PF. of L. and the C. I. O, . Reg. 41780val to go to Akron soon to