Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1944 — Page 10

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- “DEAR WENDELL” ; : 0 Candidate Roosevelt is woolng ex-Candidate and Opponent Willkie. It's an obvious thing to do. Perhaps too obvious. Just how often a politician can flop back and forth between parties before the law of diminishing returns reduces his popular influence to zero, we leave to. the experts. But the limited help the 1940 Republican candidate could give that party in this campaign certainly would be considerably less if he tried to transfer it to the

Democrats. The White House political wizard knows that, of. course. Sometimes, however, he outsmarts himself when he allows his cleverness to be sidetracked by a certain impishness. He loves a joke — on ‘the other fellow. And ‘the thought of his late opponent, Willkie, supporting him is just too funny for words. If it is the kind of joke which could boomerang, the President may let his less humorous aids worry abeut that. EC s a 8 . 2 & = , AT ANY rate, it seems that the Democratic candidate in the midst of preparations for his commarnder-in-chief trip wrote a third letter. Besides the two famous ones which popped up at the Democratic national convention in Chicago — the first left-handedly supporting Wallace, and the second nominally supporting Douglas and Truman, but actually naming the latter as his running mate—a third was addressed to “Dear Wendell,” according to those who say they have seen it. Willkie, it will be recalled, had just attacked the Republican platform, especially the foreign affairs plank. Dopesters were saying he would support the presidential candidate who came closest to his own foreign views. Whereupon Candidate Roosevelt wrote him this cordial note — nothing partisan or sordid about a political deal, but an invitation for Willkie as a foreign expert to come and give his advice when the President returned. Since a White House invitation is a command, and since Willkie naturally likes to be flattered as. one having diplomatic double-sight, doubtless this campaign meeting above politics will take place. ” » s o 8 2 BUT “DEAR WENDELL” — being a polite fellow and accustomed to consort with this one world’s rulers from London to Moscow to Chungking and points north, east, south and west — is not likely to embarrass the President by expressing his full feeling about Candidate Roosevelt's foreign policy. Nevertheless, those Willkie opinions are available in the White House press clipping flle, if needed. They are not as fresh in the mind of the fourth-term nominee as in the memory of American voters. For of all such attacks none has been more devastating than that of Willkie when he was unsuccessfully stumping the Re- - publican primaries this spring. ‘We do not doubt Willkie’s sincerity. Therefore, it is inconceivable to us that this so-recent Republican campaigner can or will support the indispensable Democratic candidate. But, if Willkie were to do so, wouldn't this little White House laugh at Dewey’s expense soon turn © against the not-so-wise Roosevelt described by the critical Willkie primary speeches? By the sincerity of those speeches, it would appear that any Willkie effectiveness in the remainder of this cam- - paign has been self-limited to opposing Roosevelt — despite “Dear Wendell” letters or other Democratic devices.

THE OIL PACT AND THE SENATE its face the Anglo-American oil agreement is all to the good. Its purpose is to prevent rivalry between the two nations which control the largest part of the world’s petroleum reserves, and thereafter to facilitate an international agreement to protect the interests of smaller countries along Atlantic charter lines. _ Certainly few commodities are as important as oil to national defense. None has been more dangerous to the peace of the world—in secret diplomacy, ruthless exploitation, and imperialistic plots. - It is impossible to judge how far the amiable generalities of this new two-power pact go. The American people will want to know whether the wide post-war naval and air supply interests of this nation are adequately protected. Moreover, they will want to know whether America, having depleted her reserves to provide most of the oil and gasoline for the allies in this war, will obtain compensating reserves from Britain and others. Because this agreement is in the nature of an interim accord, the state department has not yet decided whether it is a treaty, requiring senate ratification, or a so-called executive agreement which does not. We can think of many reasons why it should be examined and approved by the senate, and none why it should not. a The Roosevelt administration has carried secret diplomacy to such an extreme that there is now an inevitable public resentment and ‘congressional suspicion. That : will reproduce the tragedy of the Wilson treaties, unless Mr. Roosevelt shares foreign-policy responsibilities with the senate as required by the constitution. ‘The history of oil diplomacy is so smelly and so explosive that the President, for his own protection as well as in the national interest, should insist on sending this agreement and it related unpublished material to the senate. > RELATIVELY SPEAKING PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN has disavowed the authenticity of much material in the new biography of him written by his former son-in-law. Somehow it makes the distinguished scientist ‘seem much more human to know he may understand relativity, relations present

tires.

Fair Enough

whom Francis Biddle, the attorney general, | furtive political pilgrimage during the Democratic convention, they would be heckled ‘and persecuted, they might be expelled from the union and, thus, | fired altogether, and they might be beaten up by

do some good by exposing the situation, but I thought The American people are just so numb and blase that they no longer giver a damn. We have had thousands of such cases. Thurman Arnold made a big factual record of man-wasting practices enforced on workers by the unions and the American peopl

the goons. This man argued that an

not.

just yawned him off.

aren't.

but that is a fake.

combination?

cans to be spent for the fourth term.

' boy, yes. Let him die.

union can pay the fine,

the fine. "Here Is the Court Opinion’

of a man who tried to work his best:

perform his duties.

Jaw. . .

the production of war materials.”

By Ruth Millett

Sure service

raphers, laboratory technicians etc.

as job hunters once the .war is over?

no ronm for zdvancement,

is an over-optimism

‘American Soldiers Will Be Killed"

SINCE THEN, as before, Biddle’s department of justice has been protecting the unions even though the army is crying up sabotages, especially of those We even hear today that sonfe number of | American soldiers will be killed in France for lack of those Akron tires which might have been but

made

could

4 \ > This Akron man said the shortage would be felt |

in about three months. Now it is here and a survey by the war manpower commission confirms all that he said then. The success of the advance following’ the invasion has been jeopardized by restrictions on the production of individual workers. And this restriction was enforced at the very time when Paul McNutt was wiping out the last vestige of your right. to find your owrsjob and work at it, without joining a union. McNutt pretends we are ‘short of manpower, We have it to waste. But the survey is confidential and may never be revealed; because it throws the guilt on the C. I. O, under -Hillman; and the C. I. O. {s raising money and campaigning for Roosevelt's fourth term. What chance for his life has your son got against that

‘Government Is Tied With the Unions'

ANOTHER REASON I didn’t tackle the Akron story is that it wouldn't do a bit of good against the Roosevelt propaganda. Biddle has announced that the Roosevelt government is tied with the unions and Hillman and his Communist front are collecting political assessments from millions of straight Ameri-

After much stalling, Biddle’s department finally had to do something about this low crook who said he would let your son die. Buf® Biddle didn’t do anything to the union which still keeps De Lorenzo in the same power and authority and defends him in court and in dirty propaganda. All Biddle did was convict him of making a false statement under oath; He gets 30 days for that and a fine of $500, but the

After McNutt forces. you to join the.same union, it can collect money from you toward payment of

DO YOU THINK the Akron story is exaggerated? If so, here is part of the court opitilon in a case of eight Akron Firestone employees who beat hell out

“The evidence reveals a conspiracy on the part of certain tirebuilders to intimidate Raymond Elliott into curtailing his production to conform to the union men's ideas of a proper daily output,” the court said. “Union tirebuilders congregated around the machine upon which Elliott was doing his work, and heckled him by. calling him names, wrinkling his stock and threatening him so that he could not Likewise they refused to discharge their duties, with a resultant work stoppage and loss of production of war combat equipment. “On Monday, March 29, 1943, a large group of tirebuilders assembled around this machine and some of the defendants took Elliott to the outer gate where he was turned over to more of the defendants. by force, took Elliott to a parking lot where, in typical gang fashion, they set upon him, beat him, kicked him, and améng other injuries inflicted, broke his

These,

“As to Elliott, the only offense of which he might be said to be guilty was a whole-hearted attempt to L.do-a- full day's work’ each day in order to facilitate

We The People

“SERVICE WIVES Are Welcemed as Job Hunters,” the headline in a Chicaga newspaper said. And the story went on to list all of the various agencies ready to help find employment, wives are welcomed as job hunters today. Many a town near an army post would be hard put to carry on its business if it were not for the army of service wives working as waitresses, hairdressers, clerks, stenog-

Service wives are not only welcome as job-hunters, but employers are begging for their services. But the question is: Will these same service wives be welcome

Their Need May Be Just as Great

THEIR NEED for a job in the first few post-war years may be Just as great as their need for a.job today. Many of them are married to men who have never worked for anybody but Uncle Sam—boys just out of school when they went into the service. Their wives may very well be called on to help earn the family living while those men get theirjob train= {1 ing, and for some time afterwards, so that their men can take jobs with a future at little money, instead of settling down to a fairly well paying job that has

The question is: When the war is over are em--ployers going to be as eager to give jobs to the wives of ex-service men as they were to give them to the wives of service men when the war was on. These service wives, following their husbands about the country, have kept a lot of small concerns from having to go out of business. Let's hope they won't be. a legion of forgotten women when the war is over.

I THINK the men in the atthe forces. toward: the war

Pushed

Around and Tired of Tt

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“VIEWS OF 'QUARRELSOME, TIRED OLD MAN” 2 By George Gott, Waynetown Being a constant reader of The Times and its editorials, it has begun to dawn upon my mind that time and age are casting their shadows upon this writer. These editorials now appear as the views of a quarrelsome, tired old man. In your editorial of Saturday evening,

over this picture? Why not counteract it by retaliating with such great pictures as, “The Last Days Hoover,” “Silent Cal,” “To the

of One of Hillman’s crowd, calling himself De {Bottom of the Sea with’ Ships” hy. Lorenzd, already had said flatly that if it came to a question of sacrificing the life of your son for lack of something to fight with, or sacrificing some gain by an aggregation of malingering loafers in his union, he would let your kid.die. Not his kid. He has no kids-in the war. Not him, either; he is young enough, and all that, but he is a Hillman unioneer. But your

Harding, or “Gunning for Gangsters” by Dewey. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. What do you think?

8 = “DEFEAT LABOR’S ENEMIES” By William L. Taylor, Morgantown

The C. I. O. has not missed the boat, Mr. Mullins, but is aboard getting matters in tip-top shape for a real excursion in November. The reason for C. I. O. in the political field is in answer to those reactionary congressmen: who wave the American flag in one hand while whetting a razor with the other, hoping to do a nasty job on all laboring men when and after they are placed in office.

The C. I. O. firmly believes in private enterprise. Today we must produce for war. When peace comes, millions will need autos, homes, electric appliances, furni=ture, anid thousands of other items. Painting and repairing of homes, etc, will be in order. This would take years to produce all of these things, working at full capacity. To guarantee fulfillment of those aims requires election of representatives in all branches of government who have the welfare of the people at heart. This is the fundamental reason for the C. I. O. taking an active part. Do not forget that industrial representatives actually organized the C. I. O. Starvation wages, discrimination, discharge and speedup forced the workers to form unions for survival. The political front has assumed what these dictators formerly did in the shop.

supporter is a false statement gnd proves you do not know the C. I. O. program. The C. I. O. asks its members to review the records of all candidates and to base their convictions upon the merits of the individual wholly upon the record and qualifications ande not on party affiliation. No funds are used from local union treasuries. These funds are raised from ‘individual contributions. No member is forced to

members are asked to support a candidate only after he is voted worthy of support by the majority

belong to C. I. O.-P. A. C. Union|

“Wilson and Hollywood,” why fuss}.

|ENEMIES; ELECTING Ta label the C. I. O. a Democratic]

~~ The Hoosier Forum = 1 wholly ‘disagree with what you say, but will’ defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions: set forth “ here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no .responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

of the membership, Those who wish to vote otherwise are guaranteed this right by the Constitution of the United States, A programme of education which teaches people to register and vote should not be confused with maintenance of membership clause, Examine any company union in the country. You will find no maintenance of membership, but a closed shop. - These company unions force the worker to pay the company money which is then used to deny the workers any benefits. I hore you are not a “company stooge,” Mr, Mullins, but trust you do not understand the C. I. O. program. Mr. Ludlow, a Democrat, is worthy of support for re-election. Mr. Lafollette, a Republican, is likewise worthy of equal support. These two gentlemen have discharged their duties in a manner that merits the support of all voters. They are of opposite parties, proving that individuals and not parties must be supported. These United States are a bulwark of democracy. To solve the problems of all the people means that office-holders must represent the worker, farmer, school. teacher, etc. It is time we defeat those who twist our constitution to benefit only those financial barons who contributed most to the campaign fund. To accomplish this purpose, vote for the man, forget the party affiliation, and Keep uppermost in your mind the aim of DEFEATING LABOR'S LABORS FRIENDS, A } 2 = = “DO SOMETHING, BUT QUICK” By Vernon Rhoades, Indianapolis

Now that one reader has started on the subject of the city’s sanitation, I'd like to add my bit. Yes, it's a shame the way such things are neglected. The incident about the dead dogs is enough, but, if we are to have a clean city, why

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in thunder don’t the responsible parties set the pace? All the too - much - talked - about help shortage is realized, but it

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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isn't that acute, and nobody can make me. believe it is. It's funny that adequate employees are found for other jobs far less essential. I would cer consider the sanitation job essential today, Tine was when Indianapolis was considered one of the cleanest cities in the world. Too bad we can't say that now. Come on, Indianapolis, do something-—but quick! s 8 8 “WHAT DOES THAT MATTER?” By Robert L. Miller, Indianapolis I don't understand why there is so much furor about our President “double-crossing” Wallace.. Maybe he did, but what does that matter? Let's reason this thing a little: First, the President is not only our commander-in-chief and the head of the nation; he is also the leader of the Democratic party. Second, the duty of a leader is to lead. That it, it is his duty to have a hand in shaping the policy and directing the future of the party. Third, if this is true, then it is also the duty of Mr. Roosevelt to, dominate the national convention, to form its platform and to see that the ticket nominated is the strongest possible, from a vote-getting

‘standpoint.

No doubt our leader respects and admires Mr, Wallace. But the cause for which he is fighting is bigger than any one man (except our leader) and, if the President should have felt, after more thought, tbat he was premature in indorsing Wallace, and that Mr. Truman was

the man who would win the sup-|

poit of our big city organizations, at the same time holding the union vote in line, then our leader would have been derelict in his duty had he not done exactly as he did. To be sure, Mr. Wallace was disappointed. He, himself, may have

felt he was mistreated. But what

‘does that matter? "The cause is so great that all men must surrender their personal ambitions to its A man who is the successful leader of the New Deal must be almost superhuman.” No matter who his friends are or how kindly he feels toward them, he must discard them if they are weak, just as he discarded Wallace, Tugwell and a host of others. He must ruthlessly crush them if they stand in his way, just as he crushed Jim Farley, Al Smith and other turncoats. We must be logical in our thinking. The cause of the New Deal is a holy one. There is no place in the party for so-called “old-line” Democrats. Either you are a New Dealer or you are not a Democrat. If you are not a New Dealer and if you are squeamish about sacrificing men to the cause, it is time to get out of the party. All power to our glorious President, who wil win with such & that we can chance ion, if need be to make him our permanent leader! ” 2 8

“I'D LIKE TO GET SOME ANSWERS” By Pfe. R. L. B., Oklahoma City

I'd like to get some answers to two questions I have in mind. 1. I have just returned from a

1 furlough, and, while at home in In-

dianapolis, I scraped up enough gas to visit some relatives, but I received an advertisement from Ros coe. Turner to take a nice fishing trip up to Wisconsin for a week and | then fly back. Now where does he get the gas for that? : 2. The Army “E” was awarded.to one of our large plants in Indian-

apolis while I was home. The service |

took 28 minutes. Now why award. to be given? bs

DAILY THOUGHTS Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and fet thine ears he attent unto the. prayer that is niade’in this place. - =1I Chronicles 6:40. dials

was an| $11,000 platform needed for this ;

Stationed in Philippines

“RETURNING TO PM. Benning, he became test officer in the of experiment at the ine

Legal Loopholes By Fred W. Perkins

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—The

of congressional enactments, which frequently are vague and

For instance, although associations are prohibited - from kicking In to political funds, it is still possible for “fat cats” to make individual contributions practically without limit, so long as they are spaced judiciously and in no instance exceed $5000. Such a generous person may contribute up to that limit to any number of political committees. ’ .

No Limit on Number of Committees

~~ 18 “possible, -also—=although the ~ expenditures of any single committee working on an Interstate | basis are limited to $3,000,000—for any number of “political “committees fo be formed. Thus, six come mittees with the same objective could spend $18,000,« 000, or ten could spend $30,000,000. The C. I. O, Political Action Committee and associated bodies apparently have discefned this possibility—which is easy to see because the Republicans were accused of using the same scheme in 1940 (unsuccessfully, it now appears). ! This interpretation of the committee question may be challenged by some of the C. I. O.'s foes; But it is the view of the department of justice authorities who have the duty of enforcing the law, There is even 8 question as to whether the letter of the law would be violated if two or more such committees were headed by the same persons—Sidney Hillman, for instance. These political committees will have to report to the clerk of the house of representatives, both before and after the election. They must itemize all expende {tures of more than $10, and they must give the total of ‘their receipts, but they are not required to lisg the names of contributors of less than $100.

Laws Governing Political Campaigns

THE PRINCIPAL laws ‘applying to political active ity and political spending are the following: 1. The corrupt practices act of 1925, which cone

tains the apparently flexible restrictions on political committees, and also sets up a set of regulations for senatorial and co \l candidates. 3. The original Hatch act of 1939, which is mainly devoted to “pernicious” political activity of federal employees, and also contains the $3,000,000 limitation on expenditures of any political committee, ; 3. The second Hatch act of 1940, which extended the political restrictions on federal employees to state and county employees partly paid from federal funds, 4. A section of the war labor disputes act of 1943, which added “any labor organization” to the banks and corporations forbidden under the corrupt practices pet “to make a contribution in connection with any dlection” of federal officers. : Te Deed 1 NE EE EH