Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1944 — Page 12

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“ STEP FORWARD To new municipal personnel regulations issued yesterv bv Mavor Tyndall mark a decided advance in the traditional ! concept of ethical propriety in the administra--rien of city affairs. If enforced and observed strictly, they sntribute greatly to impartial. efficiency in municipal ment. These regulations, basically, recognize that city apsaintees are employed and paid by the people of Indianapois. As employees of the city, it is manifestly improper and unfair for them to devote their time on duty to partisan ical interests. As citizens, they have the right to take part in such activities in their off-hours, but the service for which they receive city money belongs to the city, not

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OF. ALMOST. “equal importance is the provision that “fio city employee shall be-réquired, as a condition of continued or future em ployment, to make any contribution of money or services to any- political party, faction or candidate.” We have always opposed ‘the practice of making public employees pay tripute to the campaign funds of the party in power; this comes dangerously close to being a subsidy from the public purse for partisan political activities. And an employee hardly can be expected to give full value to the city for his salary when a substantial portion of his pay-check is.withheld before it reaches his pocket; he soon concludes, moreover, that his job depends less upon honest and efficient service to the public than on keeping up his payments to the party war-chest. The outlawing of this practice certainly is a step in the right direction. The same, may be said of the procedure under which prospective employees are selected by the Personnel director from a list of qualified applicants submitted by the department head. Appointments, of course, are subject to the approval of the mayor but it is specified that in case the recommendation of the director is rejected, full reasons must be made a matter of public record.

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” on » ” ” » THESE REGULATIONS are a foundation on which good government can be made a reality in Indianapolis. Their effectiveness, however, depends upon the sincerity and integrity of the administration in power. We hope they will be followed, both in letter and in spirit, and we believe it is a hopeful sign that, by approving them, both Mayor Tyndall and Republican Chairman Henry Ostrom have signified a willingness to forego their present partisan advantage for the sake of long-term efficiency in municipal service. v

CHAMPIONS ALL OOSIER supremacy was demonstrated in two important sporting events over the week-end when the Riviera Club team of Indianapolis retained its national A. A. U. women's swimming and diving title at Kansas City and Bob

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

word robot which we have. applied to that German flying bomb is not pronounced roe-bot, as so many of us think. Nor roe-boe as though it might be French, but rubbut. It was introduced to this country in the early 1920s by the Theater Guild in a play presented at the old Garrick, which has since burned down, called “R. U. R.” meaning “Rossom'’s Universal Robots.” The author was Karel Capek, pronounced Chapek, of Prague, who later surpassed “R. U. R.” with another called, variously, the world we live in and the insect play, in which the whole disgusting human race, reduced to the scale of insects, went to war because the red ants and the black ants got into a dispute over the pathway between two blades of grass.

'Patronized My Alarms in a Lofty Way'

CAPEK, BEING himself a Czech, or anyway ‘a citizen of Czechoslovakia, lived right in that very pathway but when I suggested this to him, Sunng a call at his office, in a newspaper shop in Prague in the winter of 1936, he patronized my alarms in a lofty way. I believe he figured that Russia and France would prevent the -Nazis from overrunning his country. Anyway, it was his good luck to die of natural causes before it happened. “R. U. R.” was a little scant on logic but so noisy and exciting that it took a few days for our intelligentsia to get over their shudders and detect the little flaws. A Miss Theresa Helburn, the administrative director of the Guild, has filled me in with some off-hand recollections of the story and with her. own stab at the moral which Capek was trying to make. The scene was an island where the Rossom Co. was manu-

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facthrir®.a soulless, sub-human, flesh-and-blood creature roughly in the form of man and, generally very | dumb. docile and durable, to take over the labarious | tasks of the human race. Miss Helburn's idea of the | moral is that Capek wanted to say that labor is | necessary for the well-being of man. This seems in‘consistent ‘to me, however, if I am correct in my belief that Capek was, if not a Communist, then anyway a great friend of their philosophy which constantly promises a world of longer and longer vacations, shorter working hours and increasing luxury. The ultimate goal would be a life of effortless ease never interrupted by toil. And here, if Miss Helburn is right, Capek was warning the human race that man would degenerate and destroy himself if he quit work.

'Began to Resent Their Status in World

THE ROBOTS were a great success. They were shipped all over the world to relieve the human race of physical work but Hglena, the heroine of the piece, there on the island wore she married the manager of the yobot factory, féit sorry for them and wanted to give them souls. Her father was president of the company, incidentally. Encouraged by Helena, a scientist in the plant continued to improve the robots who then began to have ambition and to resent their status in the world. However, the human beings were over-confident and slow to take alarm because about the nearest thing to an expression of emotion of which a robot was capable was a kind of fitt And when a robot got |, too temperamental the practice was to send him to the stamping mill and pulp him, so to speak, as we melt down the scrap metal of an old car, and use the, material over again. The girl thought this a verv unprepossessing practice. In the end there was an awful uprising, with blood all over the sky and the people on the island wiped out, all- but an old gardener. At his age, and, in the absence of any human mate, he was in no position to get the human race off to a fresh start but, thanks to the scientist's experiments, a couple of very tasty young robots, male and female, appeared who actually were human and he sent them forth at the close of the show, saying “Go man, go woman,” or something very close to that.

‘Strong Back and Weak Mind, if Any’

THEY MIGHT have found another human race,

Hamilton of Evansville, playing at Spokane, Wash., upset pre-tournament dope to win the national professional golfers association championship. Winning titles is an old story for the Riviera girls and | {or their coach, Bud Sawin, to whom much of the credit for fourth successive championship should go. On the other hand, Hamilton :is a comparative newcomer to bigtime golf —yvet at the.age of 28 he now holds the most prized crown of the sport. To these Hogsier champions go our congratulations.

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Indians are hardly that—especially when playing against the Milwaukee Brewers—but it would be-hard to convince | local fans that the old reliables, Bob Logan and Wayne Blackburn, are anything less than championship caliber. Almost anyone can be a hero on a pennant-winner, | t it takes real courage and skill to play championship

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but, as I said, the logic was loose like an old union suit. They and their progeny wouldn't stand much { chance in a world of robots and the secret formula

| for the creation of the superior robot with a soul | had been burned in the revolution. It, is Miss Helburn's recollection that robot was a | "word that Capek just made up, but it just happens that IT asked him about that and was told that it was l'a Russian word meaning, approximately, a very low grade of serf with no rights whatever. A strong back and a weak mind, if any. We have had a robot pilot or automatic flying device which relieves the human pilot of much of his strain and now this flying bomb, also called a robot. But, as you will see, the name is only roughly appropriate in either case. Anyway. the pronunciation is not roe-bot nor roe-boe. This is officialk It is rubbut.

‘We The People

By Ruth Millett

WHEN A MAN gets Into a political discussion with a woman he usually quits it with two feelings. He basks in the belief that women don’t know anything about politics, and that he really set the woman straight. There are two reasons why

the evenings wouldn't be ended in

“KEEP THE UNION

| Aug. 4 addressed to a Mr. Mullins

hasel all on a second-division team. And that is what4 and Bob have been doing this season, climaxing | €ars of faithful and conscientious service with the Indians. That 1s why they are favorites with the fans and | why the athletic committee of the Chamber of Commerce | e management of the local club are dedicating {o- | cht'z came at Victory fleld to them. It is a tribute earned | 1d well-deserved.

OPENING DUMBARTON OAKS

U NANIMOUS agreement on lofty ideals marked the open- |

ing addresses at the Dumbarti = - SL e ° po m Oaks international | discussion and find themselves defending their stand curity conference yesters av. ecretary of State Hull, | with vague generalities, while the man they are welcomed the Big Three delegations, and British U nder- | | arguing with trots out a lot of figures and statistics. cretary Cadooan a S<=iay hasss Ye le se . retary Cadogan and Russian Ambassador Gromyko, who | Back Opinions With Facts esporced for their countries, were in perfect tune. Such THE OTHER reason, of course. is that a woman armony represented in part the amenities of openi 7 is a little bi “that | “star } ¢ in pat anmienities of opening day, | is a little bid afraid that if she stands too stanchly ars 1 t opr Y i and In Nn: e e agreement on cert: un broad principles | by her political beliefs in the face of a man's f post-w terna al organ izatiofl. All of which is to dissenting opinion, she may lose her charm for him. the oo : And so when it looks as though he is getting dis- &! gusted with her for having a mind of her own, she Bu ne public should not assume from this that no suddenly goes feminine and savs with a smile, “You're i1l1¢ al Thore aie robakly right” or * ‘tt il e ahead. There are plenty. Inherent conflicts | proval ly right” or "I hadn't thought about that angle ( W ! ire 80 ¢ v obscured by acceptance of hoble j And all that adds up to the fact that men have eralities, become troublesome when the principles are absolutely no ‘respect for the pglitical opinions of lied women. A man may think his wife is the smartest } woman in the world—but if she differs from him s 8 2 #8 =n politically he is sure she -hasn't enough sense to be

THE GAP between words and acts is apparent in the sue, a matter stressed for a long and last week by three speakers vesterday went out of their

case of the small-nations is while “by the smaller Mr. Dewey. All way to deny Big Three domination. The spread between words public -relations. Speakers emphasized that any kind o world organization will be worthless without continuou and informed popular isupport. after yesterday's formalities, is to be held in such absolut

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secrecy that delegates are not even allowed to talk with

.which destroyed Wilson's democratic peace ‘at the Paris con-.

women usually come off second best in their political discussions - with men. The first is that women aren't as experienced as men in talking politics, and so don't have as many facts or alleged facts at their finger tips. They get into a political

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The Hoosier Forum

I 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 responsi= bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

“DO YOU KNOW YOUR DAUGHTER?" By William J. Pittman, Charleston, 8. C I have been in the service for 18 months. During this period of time what I have seen of the young girls (married as well as single) makes me wonder if the parents of these’ girls know their daughters. What are these parents doing? Is it that they can only find time to argue about®the election? Could it be that the good wages they are making have blinded them? I'm afraid for these voung girls when their war-torn husbands and boy friends come home and find out the wild habits and non-trusting habits they have formed since their man went away. I admit these young girls have a

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actionaries” and “waving the Amerbright and tempting picture painted ican flag in one hand and a razor in full before them, with a nice- jin the other.” They sound like the looking fellow in uniform wit hn an words of politicians and rabble et le of action peRind rousers. 1 doubt if many of us him ut i ese young girls ha been put on guard by their ‘parents, understand what we say, but, rather repeat them parrot-like. It is a intoxication or physical misconduct. {mark of weakness to rely too much I ask you, parents, is this the | on words placed in our mouths by

the current that flows in the genersl direction of your ideas and vote for that current or party? You surely believe in organization or you would not be an active friend or labor. The “maintenance of membership” clause is an admission of weakness. If you don’t like a political party, if you don’t like a religion, if you don't like the land of your birth, you have the freedom of changing to another, and that party, that church, that country, if they have any worth, manage to subsist without your association very well. Why then should a union that fights for all these freedoms deny us the right to work in the place of our choice if we wish to discontinue our membership in that union? Mr. Taylor, assumption is a dangerous thing to use in judging -another. - You assume that I do not know the C. I. O. program; you assume that I am not familiar with my constitutional rights in voting; you assume that I am ignorant of conditions that existed without organized labor; you assume that I' .am a “company stooge” 8uch assumptions have no basis of fact, are

daughter you want your son to COMe | thars even though they be our home to? Hasn't he died a thou~|,seials. sand times hy having to be away I do label the C. I. O. a Demofrom the girl he loves? He will be| patie party supporter. the one who deserves the best when ; phatically. he comes home. So, I ask you, parents, “Do you know your daughter?” Roosevelt. that!

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OUT OF POLITICS” By Paul McMullen, Pendleton. 1 take it, Mr. Taylor, that your letter appearing in The Times of

pay our dues we are labeled as C.

lows with the C. I. O.-P. A. C. If

was in response to the one In the Aug. 9 issue under my name. If you read the letter as carelessly as you read my name, it is easily understood how you missed the truth as I wrote it. Tt was not my intention to take part in an argument via the press, but you seem] so utterly confused that I feel called upon to reply this once. ’ For your information, I shall state that I am a member in good standing of the C. I. O., the organization that I so freely criticize, I sincerely believe that organized labor has done a lot of good, and I am the last one in the world to ask for a return to certain practices engaged in by some employers before its inception. At the same time, I decry any action which, in my opinion, will work toward organization disunity. Let us keep! the union out of politics; let us | Individual. I do believe, when these discard the “maintenance of mem-| individuals align themselves with bership” clause and thereby allow a strong political party, you can the union to perpetuate itself for | gain knowledge of their organiza- | the good of its members. | tion. Now, you cannot make much | It is the practice of many of our] | progress pulling against the current, | members to adopt certain catch | wherein lies the weakness of voting “re- for an individual. Why hot select

of your choice, I respect you for it. Am I not entitled to the same re-| spect, without embarrassment, if I differ with you and the union on that man? I know your answer is “yes” because you have displayed your knowledge of our constitutional right in your letter. You very graciously offer an example of two candidates of opposite parties being worthy of equal support. From the tone of your letter, I shall presume to assume that the only standard by which you gauge these men is their friendliness toward labor legislation. That {is most commendable, but let us not look at ‘only one facet of the gem. They also have made a record in, other matters of equal import. Mr. Taylor, I believe you cannot know all there is to learn of an

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Most em- «| HAVE FAITH IN

The C. I. O. asks its| N » members to review the records of | AMERICA'S INTEGRITY all candidates and vote for Mr. By Jim, Elwood. Now, you cannot deny | It is true that we are not forced to contribute directly to the oynression of its readers’ views. C.1. O-P. A.C, but as long as we xP

I. O. members and we are bedfel-| presented. Each participant should

you, as an American citizen, exer-|be sportsman enough to receive as] cise your right to vote for the man]

have caused untold national harm.

in very poor taste, and serve only to becloud the issue. x = =

The writer appreciates the medium of The Times Forum for an

During the next two months many harsh and rash arguments will be

well as to dish out. The unfortunate Republicans for 12 long years have been the re[cipients of sneers, jeers, scorn, jibes, {slurs, slams, falsifications, cusses and discusses of the often unworthy |

and psychologically to yield and concade. The majority are not self-conceited nor egotistical. The unholy ultraconservatives of both parties truly

One favorable trait of the average American is that he detests a hypocrite. He believes in fair play. He does not approve of fouls. The long-suffering Republican nas been rebuffed, rebuked, reproved, re- | pulsed, pressed, depressed, repressed, | suppressed and oppressed. The table has begun to turn. The thoughtful Republican will not have to falsify

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to find enough evils of the New Deal |for campaign material. We indeed have a very poor national leader if the Democrats can[not find a few laudable accomplish‘ments to credit him with. But in all probability, if they will trouble themselves, they will find the true author or executioner of the measure was a stanch Republican. de is a patriot. The trouble with the majority of us proletarians is that we are too prone to berate, belittle, ridicule and scoff each other instead of recognizing, respecting and appreciating the geniuses in our midst, and, by doing so, we may deliver our destinies into the hands of the bigots, selfish, intolerant, un-Chris-tian. He that lives in a glass house should not throw stones. “What is good for the goose is good for the gander. He that has been dishing it out should not be cheap, imbecilic, feline. I admire many of our President's expressed purposes. I respect the responsibilities of his office, requirements of his office are deserving of our prayers. But I do not . think he is indispensable nor infallible nor immortal. T have faith enough in American integrity to} place my national destiny in another's keeping for the next your We. should strive to be wise —not vain, patient—but purposeful, submissive to constitutional authority—but not supine to the -évils and dangers confronting our national commonwealth.

- DAILY THOUGHTS _ Take ‘heed, and beware. covetopsness; for a ‘mins’ Wid consisteth not in, the abundance of ‘the things. which he posses: seth.—Luke 12:15.

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of lands, Ang Javing nothing, yet ‘hath

[Reflections By John W. Hillman, *

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opposition, The average Republican|® |is. big enough morally

‘THE GIRLS in our office are marching off to get married so fast that they're stepping on each other's bridal trains. . ,": Who said there was a shortage of men? . + . We suspect that the same situation exists elsewhere, and that businessmen are having to train new secretaries with the same monotonous regularity with which. wé're breaking in ‘reporters. So our old friend, Prof. R. W, . Pence, head of the English - “department at DePauw university, has picked the right moment to bring out his new book, “Style Book in English, a Secretary's Manual,” which is being published today by the Odyssey Press. Pop Pernice, as he has been known to generations of DePauw students, is one of the great teachers of English writing. We personally learned more about how to round ott a sentence from him than from any of the English teachers we ever harassed in high school, college ‘or graduate school—and we weren't even in his classes, just a callow cub instructor learning the “business under his guidance, our is, at best, a confusing language, but Dr, Pence knows how to make syntax make sense, how to straighten out the mechanical intricacies of punctuation, spelling, letter form and abbreviations; he knows how to make clear the meaning of unity, coherence

dl and emphasis—all the niceties of style that: give He has done it for thousands _

of baffled freshmen, as well as for the advanced students of his seminars and his classes at Bread Loaf Institute in Vermont.

Practical, Rather Than Academic

THERE 18 nothing academic, however, about this manual. It is an orderly and practical presentation

4 of the rules of good usage that often puzzle a prace | ticed writer and- must indeed plague the beginning

stenographer. It will be valuable to anyone who | writes or transcribes—for it answers the questions | that pop yp every day: Should you capitalize this? | Where should you divide this word? Should you { use a hyphen here? Should you say “anyone's else” or “anyone else's"? How should you address a letter to a congressman; to a bishop: to an ambassador? There's just one answer that may cause some eyebrow-raising among those who have been reading the newspapers and listening to the radio in this election year. Illustrating the address and salutation for a letter from a civilian to a military officer, this example is given:

“The Commander in Chief * * Army of the United States My dear General Smith:"

Why Dr. Pence! Hadn't you heard? The information in the manual! is indexed, and arranged in alphabetical order under the chapter headings, “Punctuation”; “Capitals”; “Italics”; “Abe breviations”; “Writing Numbers”; “Compounds”; “Syllabication”; “Spelling”; “Outlining”; “Bibliogra« phies and Footnotes”; “Letter-Writing”; “The Manu. script”; “Preparing ‘Copy’ and Correcting Proof”; “Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms and Usages.” As these titles suggest, the book's scope is not limited to the needs of a commercial secretary; it will be useful to the student, editor, or professional writer, as well.

Wouldn't Hurt the Boss, Either

AN AMBITIOUS stenographer or secretary will want this manual; if she is not too ambitious it is even more important to her employer that it should get to her desk. Maybe she'll take the hiht. And it wouldn't hurt the boss to sneak an occasional look at it, himself. All this data on sytle and mechanics is already available, of course, but hardly in as compact and comprehensiblé form. And since inertia is a common

point. Furthermore, as WI. who knows the author would assume. his is a common-sense approach to the realities of writing, utterly foreign to the hard-and-fast dogmatism of old-line grammarians. The purpose of the book. Dr. Pence points out, is “sloely to record present-day practice; never to assert what ought to be, but what actually is the prevailing practice of today.” And the book is thorough, too. In fact, as far as we could gather, it answers almost every possible question that could ever bother a secretary—with the possible exception of where to park her gum and the right reply to that immemorial inquiry: ’ “Doing anything tonight, babe?”

Quick Victory

By Maj. Al Williams

NEW YORK, Aug. 22-—The quickest way we can end the was against the Japs is'to bomb them to ‘a standstill, isolating Japan froin- the Asiatic continent. This can be done by our airpower and navy task forces, which might be likened to a great rope, strangling her to inactivity. We have seen England and Germany take terrific beatings from air bombgrdment and still keep going. Ii. must be noted, however, that while England staved off a breakdown during the Battle of Britain, she never could have recovered and would long since hi&ve gone down before the Nazis had ‘we not supplied her with what her broken factories could no longer produce.

that first great air battle of the war, would have forced her to stop fighting, just as Germany will have to quit now; and for the same reason—the n= ability to keep ner home-front production machine going full blast. ‘When a nation’s production system cracks, that nation stops fighting.

Strategy Pointed Toward Air Control

. APPLYING THESE observafions to Japan, it is a foregone conclusion that - just as soon as our naval air forces snap that line of communications between Japan's sources of production on the home front and her empire to the south and on the Asiatic continent, the empire will tumble. Obviously our naval strategy is pointed toward laying our air control over Japan's sea transportation. That accomplished, we undoubtedly will move northward and complete the isolation of Japan proper from the continent. All of this holds the prospect of bringing Japan to her knees without having to destroy her vast armies on the continent and to the southward. No situation in history evér held such an opportunity for victory at such a low cost. The Jap high command can do nothing, ‘or next to nothing, about stopping the sweep of American naval airpower and task forces. A record of dominant airpower over the sea, in

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So They Say—

WE DON'T expect. Gen, McArthur and the Brit dsh to return the Netherlands East Indies to us on

army in the Netherlands when the Eu war is ended, and our Dutch boys will fight wherever needed, —Dr. Adsian Hartog. Netherlands consul in the U. 8,

characteristic of the huss race, that is an important -

The bombing of England, even though she won.

conjunction with a surface navy, is being written

a silver platter. Plans have been mdde to raise an

pert fe EVERY WHERE=with new weapons and with all .

the ancient tenacity and fanaticism of mankind—our

’ —Sir Henry Wotton.

{hemes are fighting back. But HloTe Wo ale