Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1944 — Page 14
Peace First? © By Thomas L. Stokes
e Indianapolis Times
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ROY"W. HOWARD: President ip
tor WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — An ! issue is cropping up in relation to rapidly developing plans for a post-war world organization that may become more important later, ‘ This is the argument that the g © setting up of an international or- % he, ganization should await the set- . tlement of peace terms. , The reano ‘% son advanced is that the United Nein States should not agree before- : Rh h hand to support with force the maintenance of a status when it does not know what the status will be. Its chief exponent in the senate is Senator La Follette (Prog. Wis.), formerly an isolationist. It {is
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- Give Light and the People Wal Find Their Own Way being agitated in his weekly paper, The Progressive. Senator La Follette is a sincere and effeetive pro- alked HOT SP OT gressive, as his record shows. : SD et Sitish | : . . . . they said they could not bargain away what was not OW would you like to be in the shoes of a young man Some Still Cling to Old View i Spd diy :
OTHERS TAKE the same position. Many are formar isolationists. Some are of the progressive stamp. They are akin to many in the Roosevelt administration who, in the years when the holocaust was brewing in Europe, contended that this country
should devote itself to creating a just and equitable order here and not become embroiled in a foreign
named J. A. Krug? Mr. Krug is the earnest and apparently able: 36-year-
old who was smapped up out of the navy and told to clean up Washington's latest mess—the debris of the NelsonWilson explosion in the warkgproduction board.
Stalin About to Win His Point TODAY, AFTER five years of war Marshal Stalin
powers refused to yield in 1939—when it might have staved off the war, for Hitler would not have dared strike then had he known he would have to fight
He is going about that task with the vigor of a new broom, and all who appreciate the importance of making the WPB an effective agency In finishing this war quickly and converting industry to peacetime production and jobs | will wish him well. s He will need those good wishes and a few extra prayrs on the side. ‘ For Mr. Krug is only the “acting chairman” of WPB. His titular boss, Donald Nelson, has gone off to China on a mission for the President. Whether Mr. Nelson will be away several months or only a few weeks seems to be a matter of confusion in the President’s mind. Also whether Mr. Nelson is out of WPB for good, or will come back some day and tell Mr. Krug to move down a desk. All of which Mr. Krug naturally can't help thinking about if, in straightening out the WPB, he has to change some of Mr. Nelson's policies or step on the toes of some of Mr. Nelson's friends.
the WPB should be striking its heaviest blows for victory and clearing the way for reconversion. With the Nelson men and the Wilson men at each other's throats, Mr. Krug is sent. in to sweep the WPB clean, wielding the whiskbroom of temporary and indefinite authority. We're going to win this war in spite of Washington. America’s mass production industries, its skilled management and skilled workers are producing the tools, and America’s fighting men are using them, for victory. But if you have any prayers to spare, say a few kind words for young Mr. Krug. He's on a tough spot.
A MEMO FOR SIDNEY ONE swallow doesn’t make a summer, and Utah isn’t ex- - actly the No. 1 stronghold of the C. I. O. or of its Political Action Committee. Still, Sidney Hillman's digestion is probably not improved by the indignant resignations just tured in by certain Utah leaders of the P. A. C. - It appears that at a meeting in Salt Lake City, a few weeks ‘ago, members of the P. A. C. were told that they must vote Democratic or resign. That is rough talk in the mountain country, if not elsewhere. So the P. A. C. officials representing two C. I. 0. locals resigned. “No one has the right to demand that we vote a straight. ticket or resign,” said one group. Said the other: “We wish to be, and remain, free Americans with the right to cast our votes as our forefathers intended, free from pressure by any one man or group of men.” |
war that would stop long-needed domestic reforms.
how short-sighted about events in Europe. Some of
to their old view despite all that has happened.
organization afterward fear another imperialistic settlement, as it Versailles. tions. What is going to happen to India? To Poland? To the small nations? dled? full access of all nations to raw materials? cartels to continue—those international business mo= §{ . nopolies hitherto operated outside and above any government which helped the Nazis down the road to conquest and hamstrung us in the early days of the war?
Overlook Important Considerations
Most of these now confess how wrong they were,
his type, however, including influential persons -outide Washington, and plain people, still cling secretly
Those who advocate peace terms first and world They raise many quesHow is Germany to be han-
Will there be freedom in trade relations, Are
And so on. All very valid.
BUT THEY OVERLOOK important considerations,
SERVICE WIVES, sitting at home alone without much money | to spend, sometimes speak bitterly of the “lueky” women, whose | husbands are still with them, particularly those whose men are | drawing down fat pay checks in | war plants. But those “lucky” women have | 3 their troubles, too, Over and over | FEY again they write of the troubles 5 that have come into their lives ' along with their husbands’ big pay. A typical letter came today from a woman who | says she has been married 18 years, and in that time had built up-a fine companionship with her husband. | Always in the past she accompanied him on fishing | trips, etc., and they had good times together,
Wives Aren't Invited Now
NOW THE husband is earning a lot of money in a war plant. But he isn't saving it or spending it on | his family, He is throwing it away on the young girls who work along beside him in the plant, and | who, because there aren’t many young men around, | are using their flattery and their come-on on any | family man with enough money in his pockets to show them a good time. This wife say: “All the parties are stag affairs now. At least no wives are invited. A man who wanted to take his wife with him on a party would be considered a freak.” The most pitiful thing about those letters is the fact that there is nothing much to tell wives, that will help them. They are doing what they know they must do—sticking to the job of running their homes and looking after their children, trying not to let their bitterness and indignation drive them into the divorce courts, and telling themselves their husbands have
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manent wealth. There is just so
| —but an abundance of just enough.
needs require and against natural law. The land question overshadows all (others. City people will soon own
gree are always ready to say all could do as well if they had the stuff it takes. Such reasoning i8 an old time-worn fallacy. is no truth in it. Let us look. at the facts: God made all true per-
That will be minimum production, scarcity, high prices, subsidies and peon labor, just as they have now in Central and South America. We have one way and one hope to give us peace and true prosperity—open up our farm lands to millions of small home owners, not in foggy Alaska but in every township in the land. Limit all farm land owners to reasonable needs. We can make this beautiful country of ours an Eden or a hell just
much—no more, and never will be
That is the way of the ‘Master Hand.” From the day of Adam, man has not added one dollar value to that wealth and never will. All we do or can do is to produce of that natural wealth for our current needs. To} keep value at near level, we hold] production at the lowest point. If . that fails, we shut down, kill, burn,|8s We choose. So can all other plow under, subsidize the farmer,| countries. put labor on W. P. A. Value level A must be maintained at all hazards. “RATING WILL We are pretty smart, you see..Then,| SOON BE LOST” to say a person does or can go out and make a fortune in new perma- BY B. H. Stone, Indianapolis The parks of the capital of this
nent wealth is more bunk. It is not done. state were erected on the foundaAs you acquire a farm, it does tions of minds whose first interest was the husbandry of the natural
not add one foot of earth nor one dollar of hew wealth. True wealth beauty of local scenery. The pub-
is in the good use we make of|lic demand today is for developbountiful nature and not in the ment of amusements amid those
accumulation. In the true sense of scenes provided by the founders
wealth, a family can be as rich with of the parks.
Side Glarices—By Galbraith
The basic setting
There the farm land, with one result.!
“landed estates,” . = hae well-planned job distri- |
{tablets of bronze, city beautifica-
|tion, sewer construction, or elevat-
ing the railroad crossings. None |
lof these items, however, is going to help the majority of the. people
'bution program. What better way ‘could there be of giving jobs to all who want to work for their living than to instigate a 80-hour work week in every state? Alfred F. Chapmén of Glen Dale, W. Va.,, has some sound, sensible and practical ideas on this matter of the 30-hour work week. His plan is arresting in its scope, combined with its simplicity, and merits consideration. of all emhployers. To me, it is evident that this is an answer to many employers’ problems -regarding employment after the war. If a state sees to it that all its employable citizens have employment, it will work to the benefit of every man, woman and child within its borders. When all citizens are employed steadily, debts can be paid, taxes can be paid, and contributions can be kept up, thereby aiding the state's aged, the ill, the orphans, the insane and the criminal. Thus, a stable economy is established. And, if statues and memorials are wanted then, the solvent citizens and state can buy what they want. We have got to get at this transition period problem at its lowest common denominator—which is JOBS!
Russia, too—they seem to be ceding now: It is pretty certain that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will soon join the 16 “autonomous” republics of the Soviet Union. Part of Finland, at least, will be taken over, as will approximately half of Poland." And if the Polish government in London will accept Mos cow's terms, political as well as territorial, Poland may be “compensated” with considerable slices of Ger man territory. That all this is bound to have its effect on the
ganized by the Big Three here is obvious. The new league's principal job will be to enforce the peace settlement, and for an indefinite time the burden will rest.-almost exclusively on the shoulders of America, Russia and Britain.
Unjust Peace Would Force Issue
WHICH, IN PRINCIPLE, is all right with the U. 8, By an overwhelming majority, congress put itself on record. favoring international co-operation, including
My sailor boy ain't got much rank, But he commands a Landing Ship Tank. 3 ie Be it known $hat the challenge has been accepted ~but twice. Mr: Robert Taylor, who writes from Washingtoh for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Allle ance, spoké upto say that he had a couplet to con-
clude’ the stahaa; But that somebody else would have
to fll in between, “Taylor's contribution: Hush now. baby; don't you cry, Daddy's coming heme on an LCL A Muse (Or Is 1 Bemuse?) Speaks
AS A VULGAR display of versatility and to show how these things can be done—or can they?—it only
took & few moments to drool off doggerel to fill in
the gap, like this:
' LANDING CRAFT LULLABY My sailor boy ain't got much rank, But he commands a Landing Ship Tank. He anchors a-weigh to give ‘em hell, Leaning on the rudder of a Landing Craft, Vehicles, Personnel. Don't ever fear he'll be capsized, Bouriding the main in a Landing Craft, Mechane
ized. If he should ever be attacked,
If a nasty old whale rams him with its blubber, He'll save his life in a Landing Craft, Rubber. So hush now, baby, don't you cry, Daddy’s coming home on an LCL The ship is really not a barge, It's what is known as a Landing Craft, Infantry,
future of the new league of nations now being ore .
They'll come to the rescue in a Landing Vehicle, } Tracked.
: 2 » s = among them, the very practical one that there prob- MAKE MORE : he ust Gog wi ey we Noo, ] ” bly i to - gs \ A NOR ARE these the only mental hazards Mr. Krug ably 1s not going to be one general peace agreement, LOAFIN' ueRE : are in complete accord. ’But, regardless of who is : J: J : . drawn up complete and signed at one time, but " YEN Man! 3 lected. thé 1s made that another big sene v faces. On the record, even while he is the acting chairman | that instead there will be a series of agreements, Sd eo I. veda er ok treaty is inevitable if force 4 : : z ’ Orv re | over a period of time, cevering various problems. on fg SOO ol : fo i] and the sole boss in sight Mr. Krug can’t be very su The very object of a functioning world organiza- : alone, or power politics, 1s made the basis of the new how far the President will back him up. Mr. Roosevelt | tion is that as these problems arise, they may be John Knox tn the Memphis Commercial-Appeal. = |OTder, » 88 th rtain—-should th ' seems to have the bad habit of picking a man to do a job, | handled in concert, with all nations represented. In . ‘Such & battle 1 2 mofe ce 4 the ; that way, the influence and good will of all nations above prove fo be'the case—because the new league, telling him he will have a clear alley and ample powers to | "yo" ont to bear. Everybody with a problem ° it it is to fénetion properly, will have to function i i LY . That means force may | get the job done, then promptly forgetting about that and | will have a voice. } 'h H F promptly ind. vigorously ; passing out conflicting powers and sailing orders to other a hese problems are not going to be settled quickly. € 0 O S1 € r O rum Hs to be, ubed and the la rave a Jryvide a 2 : : cs ustments an ustments w necessary. | \ . . s share.” Congress. certainly, thormen—and being surprised and pained when friction de- | ne solution of Mow us pple: a, 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will ize the use of American troops to enforce an unjust : velops between these men, each of whom 1s trying to do the | down rigidly. Conditions will change. That was dejend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. peace. . residential biddin the trouble with the treaty of Versailles. It was too | p g ; . rigid, If the United States had joined the League |, nS Tis I= LHe Parks Io Oeteriorat : Another bad habit of the President is to pretend such | or Nations, we might have been able to remove | LET HIM TRY (Times readers are invited Date he parks» Sut % . ’ frictions don’t exist until so much heat has been generated | some of the inequities in that treaty over a period |TO RENT A HOUSE” to express their views in ond jr be ho stage of nature In as Ington that the situation blows up in his face. That was the rec- of ime. By P. & Burdsal, Seotisourg these columns, religious con. |for community centers-and amuse- : ; y ord in the Cordell Hull-Sumner Welles controversy over | Organization Must Come Fir "| I see where Mr. John K. Jen-| 4. o.oo excluded, Because |ment facilities. ; : 9 ° & mrs nings cannot see why people are . The ¢ need of the parks is [DY F€ er son who was boss at the state department. And in the Henry THE ORGANIZATION must come first this time |jeaving this city. Well, let him go of the volume received, jot oor modern equipment and ade-Wallace-Jesse Jones row over foreign economi¢ policies. | to provide the machinery, some contend. The United © t ¢ : v to ent a house| ters should be limited to 250 |quate numbers of men whose first WASHINGTON, Aug. 20~This And in the Ickes-war labor board conflict on th | strike. | States is big enough and powerful enough to raise |OU¢ Once anc ty for ds. Lett must be |interest is husbandry of the natural being the silly season when it's nd in the Ickes-war labor board conflict on the coal strike. tment and tell th a] words. Letters too. ROL-for even a congressman And in the Claude Wickard-Chester Davis-L Hend its voice effectively for just solutions, they assert. or apartment and ie em yo ‘aned. Opini + forth beauty of the parks. Indianapolis nd in the Claude Wickara-Chgster Davis-Leon Ilenderson | = here is also one danger that concerns the senate, (have one or two children. I live| Signed. WpInions 58-110 parks have been rated third in the to run for re-election, go back s clash in the war food program. And in many other messes, | which is the ratifying body that must pass upon the |out of the city and am a war work-| here are those of the writers, |United States, but that rating will few weeks jo one < of those lighter and now again in the Nelson-Wilson blow-up. world organization. er, and, of course, will be like! and publication in no way |soon be lost if the public demands pieces knocked off by your pixie An issue, such as peace terms first, world organ- |hundreds of others when the war| ._ . amusements first instead of men correspondent in a whimsical mos = s = =» ization -afterward forms a convenient cover for ob- |is over—go back where I can be implies agreement with those | Gyn iodern equipment to hus- ment. This piece concerned the THE DIFFERENCES between Mr. Nelson and Vice | structionists without the sincere motives of, say, 8 |ith my family and have a house| opinions by The Times. The |band what is already a part of the lack of inspiration or romance oF - : ,e Senator La Follette. However, the senate now seems ve i ted b . :. public domain. challenge to adventure in LOIL~—Chairman Charles E. Wilson have been common knowledge | determined to go along. Bo and ot oe psu he pet Times assumes no responsi ds for landing craft, infantry, large oi for several months, and Mr. Roosevelt knew all about it he- I have two swall children. bility for the return of manu- | oo BETTER WAY —and the similar LVT, LST, LSM, 5 cause Mr. Wilson repeatedly offered his resignation and z a = scripts and cannot enter cor- | © 1 THERE BE = ae ae len Jenguations wiih : . | . : . . ; ; or y e navy persists in hanging the President repeatedly refused to accept it. Either, on We Th e Peo e “LAND QUESTION respondence regarding them.) By TREE TIN Lu 7 of the unglamorousness of these names, his own, might have done a creditable job running WPB. OVERSHADOWS OTHERS” nob 3 consider th subject of | the point was hopefully made ma. you ooulensy Both had been successful in large operations in pri By T. W. Lloyd, R. R. 6 100 acres of good land as the fam- n e write a song or wring a poem out of such names, busin But the Presid h a pe at ons in private B Ruth Millett ’ . ily with 10 times as much—for the post-war planning, we usually think {and as an example the challenge. was flung at any ess. But the President handled their affair in such | BY Most people whom circumstances | c... amount is sufficient, the, orial auditoriums. B tunesmith to forge & melody for a couplet such as: . a way that he loses the services of both men at a time when .ie have favored financially to some de- |larger is far more than reasonable 5 » parks,
. been hit by wartime restlessness and may get over it Large. 1 Mr. Hillman seems to have let the impression get | in time. y 8 8 - 11, around, in Utah at least, that the P. A. C. is a rubber- But how they would laugh if they could hear them- “WELL, IT'S A + All this should make Mr. Taylor sorry he ever
stamp operation, a “Ja, Ja” outfit in which the leader must ! be obeyed implicitly and in which no dissent can be tol- | erated, It will be interesting to see whether the Utah insurrec-.. tion is an isolated case, or a symptom of wider revulsion
among C. I. 0. members against an attempt to.treat them like sheep.
WORLD WAR 1 VETERANS THE contribution of veterans of world war I to world war II should not be overlooked. They did not have to
selves called “lucky” women, or “women that the war hasn't touched.”
So They Say—
IF THIS country should fail to maintain its domestic economy at a high level of activity, to pur- | sue a’ foreign economic policy consistent with its economic position in the world, and to take the leadership in world economic co-operation, the frustrations of the thirties will undoubtedly be repeated. —Howard P. Whidden Jr, Foreign Policy Association research associate.
GREAT LIFE” By a Property Owner, West 28th st.
Well, it’s a great life. One day we're up and the next day we're down.. You never know what the day will bring, etc., etc. The people—most of them property owners and all of them Yaxpayers—of West 28th street, east of Harding, are wondering wherein they erred or why the difference between the east and the west sides of the street. Twenty-eighth street was fixed
grand .recently—west of Harding—
spoke up, and it should further convince the navy these names are hopeless. But it has remained for a correspondent, Mrs. J. E. Howard of Houston, Tex, to really catch: the spirit of the thing and crash through with a professional poem.
Tunesmith Takes Up the Challenge
“and I am as proud of him as if he were on a battleship. . . . In fact, he wrote me in April to write 8 poem about their LST 360. Well, I don’t boast about such things, and I don't think I am good at writing poems and songs, but I have one song to my credit and a number. of poems. So I am sending you a copy of the poem I wrote for the boys on LST 360
“I HAVE & son on an LST." writes Mrs. Howard, .
go to war, but many of them went promptiK and eagerly >. sha 1 vas SSHiing ready to gins = a2] they said 1, Was 0, Kv 7s Her JOSS" : : ’ : ‘ praises of or : Some of them, like Col. Theodore Roosevelt, have given A JUST Tare the Lpited support of he whole fixing the streets so fine, but now THE LST 360 ‘ their lives in combat. Some like Capt. Eddie. Rickenbacker, | made for the peace and to keep the peace will be there's vo mend Dn Friday, Jus. We are sailing along on an LST, i have endured unbelievable physical strain. supported year in and year out by our people, re- 3. the tuck mag Ps own Dreaming of home and Vic-io-1y._,
But most of them, denied their xéquest to go into combat, trained and supplied and ;gacouraged the young men
gardless of the administration in power.—Thomas E. Dewey.
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28th street—east of Harding—pouring colored water or. creosote oil (there's a difference of opinion) on it. »
We want the whole world to know
That we're the crew of the three-six-oh! She's just another LST,
entering this war, The vigtory we are winning is due in| IF WE are to follow the belief that America is & | So, We're the “before” and ‘across wg ot 1% Viotory. no small part to the work of veterans of world war LL. vigorous and growing nation and can expand ine the street is the “after” We're and 2 Wor 10. be Wo
COMMON WORRY, a VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE says he doesn't Jefow
definitely and infinitely, we must follow the come petitive theory of free flow of goods.—Attorney Gene eral-Francis Biddle. - ’ . 3 Co. 3
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ashamed of you, Luther Tex—you intimated you'd do the right thing by us. ;
IF THE conflicting political issues remain, a Hew . DAILY THOUGH TS this anything about the government position that President | faves to thaw a ness of sonditiong pre- But be ye doers of the word, |® fe letters and ;
Roosevelt was reported to have promised him, if’ re-elected. It may be that the most ardent champion of the com-
ahout post-war ent,
20 mon man is sharing the common man’s apprehensive feeling. :
prevent, a new war.—Berlin Foreign Office.
YOUR PEQPLE make new roads all over the
‘island. I start for home but can’t. find, the I
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“When | join the paratrgp ~ =—too bad you'
and not “hearers only, deceiving your own selves.—James 1:22. : knavery adds 1 false-