Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1944 — Page 12

Indianapolis Times GE 12 Wednesday, September 13, 1944 : ) WALTER LECKRONE MARK FERREE Editor Business Manager

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TALKING LIKE REPUBLICANS NOTHER month and you won't be able to tell the Democrats from the Republicans. Not at the rate the

Democrats are dressing up in Republican clothes. Take that Byrnes report on the administration program for industrial demobilization and political remobilization—that report decrying fear of prolonged post-war unemployment and promising tax reduction, a loosening of government controls, a pruning of government payrolls, and economy in public. works. As for the profit system, who could ask more than this in less than 50 words?: “Everybody cannot be an employee. There must be an employer if people, are going to get jobs. Before a man puts his own money and asks his friends to put money in a business he wants to know that there is some prospect-of his-making-a rot Or, to quote further: “The workers want jobs ‘and not unemployment compensation.” “When the controls are released government employees should be released.” “I have abiding confidence that ways will be found to make certain that we do not return to a policy of (agricultural)

scarcity.” . ” ”

BYRNES SPEAKING, not Dewey. It is Mr. Dewey's hard luck that campaign theme songs can’t be copyrighted. Anyone who thinks a political tune a likely hit is free to swipe it—and to try to out-sing its author. Mr. Byrnes has rendered his aria, and now you'll hear the Democratic chorus chanting the praises of job-creating private enterprise and hitting the high notes with pledges to encourage same. 5 = No more from the administration about the closed frontier. Or the mature economy. Or the need for federal spending to maintain’ employment. Or the necessity for continuing government's wartime economic controls. Or the idea that it would be just about as cheap to keep . soldiers in the army after the fighting stops as to create an agency to support them. ; No more predictions from the labor department statisticians of a year or a year and a half of post-war unemployment for 7,000,000 to 14,500,000 people. No more of the old official despair. Not till after election day anyway.

WE HOPE HE STAYS HE reported decision of the city council to pay Fred Telford, municipal consultant, for his services in putting into effect the recommendations of the job survey he conducted for the J. L. Jacobs organization is, we believe, both fair and just. And the further decision to retain him on a more formal basis to oversee the organization of the newly-created city personnel system and to effect budgeteconomy measures is an intelligent step.

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call a trained seal—one whose product leans more

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hons . .- Hillman - SOME OF HER severest critics, ‘though not necessarily her best

friends, have charged that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt hardly has the

} regular columnist. That is a serious, and probably unjustified, charge—all kinds of writers churn out columns, as witness your cor- | respondent. * So we take with a grain of salt the argument that Mrs. R. is selling, not her literary product,

| but the prestige of the White House. To be sure, | -

she is what we begrimed toilers in the type mines

heavily on the by-line than the syntax. And there are times when those “interesting pall on us, if not on the author, But Mrs. Roosevelt is read—and what better test is there of a columnist? Read, the cynics may infer, more in spite of what she writes than because Of ite but nevertheless read: thoroughly and, as far as we can gather, read widely. Sometimes she writes of human trivialities, but any smart newspaper editor will tell you that people are intensely interested in human trivialities, They are interested, too, in the doing of interesting personalities—particularly when recounted first-hand—and you cannot deny that Mrs. R. is an. interesting and colorful personality. Else how would she generate such a storm of con=troversy?

Good Writing in Any League

EVERY NOW and then too, Mrs. Roosevelt comes up with a piece that is good writing in any league. Such a piece was her column yesterday on Dr. E. H. Bennett, the family physician of Campobello, Me. In simple terms, and real sincerity, she tells in a few words a great déal about one who, in her own words, was “a very great person.”

on call in time of trouble, crossing the dangerous “Narrows” in a rowboat in all Kinds of weather because someone needed him and was depending on his skill and devotion. “He knew the people who lived on the lonely island.” she says, “on the poor farms, and in the

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little villages all around him, for he practiced medicine for 66 years.” Practiced medicine, we venture to say, with often little pay except the knowledge that he had done his duty and been true to his oath. He lived in an out-of-the-way place, but obviously he had the spirit of a great doctor. He was not content with what he knew, for “many a time he went back to Johns Hopkins during the winter months.”

’ , ; ® The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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And we suspect that it was not his technical skill, but his willingness to use it for whoever needed it— vegardless of his personal comfort or whether his patient could pay in anything more than gratitude, and sometimes not even that—that won him. the 1937 award of the Maine Medical Society for “outstanding service as a doctor.”

Humble, Yet Great, Practitioners

WE HAVE known a great many doctors like Dr. Bennett, humble, yet great, practitioners in Iowa, in Indiana, in Kansas, in Ohio, in Michigan and other states. They were able men, all, for theirs is an able profession. Yet they charged, not what their skill was worth, nor in proportion to the expense or inconveniences of their calling, but what they felt the patient could comfortably pay. And if that was nothing, that was all right—they were doctors, weren't they? . They had the wisdom and understanding, too, of men who live for others, not themselves. So we can understand what Mrs. Roosevelt meant when she wrote: “I looked upon him as a friend as well as a doctor, and I had the greatest admiration for him. He was calm and philosophical. He lived with people who did not make a fuss about little things. He had been in many a home where one did the best one could with what one had at hand, and he had little patience with anything that. was not real, sincere and courageous. His son is following in his footsteps.”

Would He Have Made Those Trips

AS WE read that, we wondered what Dr. Bennett thought about socialized medicine, which is being so earnestly advocated by Mrs, Roosevelt's friends. As he looked back on his life of toil, self-denial and charity, we wond® what he thought of those who say that the doctors of America have not provided “adequate medical care.” Had he been “socialized,” with patients assigned | by a medical bureaucracy, we wonder if Dr. Bennett |

By reason of his nation-wide background of municipal experience and his familiarity, through close and painstaking study of this city’s departmental organization, Mr. Telford is in a position to do a further service to local taxpayers. There is a certain amount of “fat,” possibly as much as $100,000, in the recently-adopted budget, and Mr. Telford knows how and where to trim it without impairing essential services. We doubt if anyone else has the intimate knowledge of the municipal setup to do this thankless job, or is willing to take the heat which economy measures can generate. We hope the report that the council and Mayor Tyndall have agreed on this sensible course is correct. We hope Mr. Telford stays to finish the job.

KRUG IS NO PROGRAMMER

. A. (CAP) KRUG, the new 36-year-old WPB chief, is giving better than a fair demonstration of a young man getting a job done. If he keeps up his present pace and direction, it is likely Mr. Krug’'s name will soon be mud with most of the bureaucrats of Washington. For he's

ing policies just contrary to the “let papa fix” formula, and Je's talking out loud. He's saying that as fast as the needs of war will permit, the thing for the government to do is to get out of the way and let the business of the country get back to doing business. ; That’s nothing less than heresy to the planners and programmers and reconverters who have been talking as though they believed our industrial managers and workers would never be able to make waffle irons again without the benefit of directives, orders, allocations, priorities and master-minding from Washington.

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, IN THE TEETH of that foggy thinking, Mr. Krug gays simply that business doesn’t have to ‘go through

duction. . . . We can't wet nurse 200,000-odd enterprises. WPB will not remain on the Washington scene forever. As rapidly as different functions dry up, we'll liquidate that segment of WPB. . . . We are not responsibfe for making work, but it is our responsibility to remove every obstacle that may prevent American industry from going boldly ahead when materials and facilities can be released.” He

condition,” if they.are needed.

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predict that the conversion of industry to ¢ivilian-goods

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trampling all over the tenets of bureaucracy. He's adopt-|

a lot of cumbersome red tape to get back into civilian pro- |-

‘intends to keep WPB'’s “steering gear and brakes in good Mr. Krug is not impressed by the “worry warts” who “production will entail long-time and large-scale .unemploy-

There hasn’t been i talk from inside the New Deal since Mr, Roosevelt's campaign speeches back in 1932. We

would have made those trips to Johns Hopkins in winter so he could serve his flock better. Would he have stood by so stanchly in the family crises, such as Mrs. Roosevelt describes? Would he have been as ready to cross the Narrows in the teeth of a storm? Would he? We wonder, Doctors like Dr. Bennett, and their name is legion, have always been socialized—not in the narrow technical meaning of the Murray-Wagner-Dingell bill, but in the sense that they gave their lives in service to humanity; that they labored, not for pay

ladden they were and are, in both spirit and truth, the Good Samaritans, And much of their reward must be in heaven. Wouldn't it be a good idea, Mrs. Roosevelt to think a long time before we discard a system that produces such doctors?

We, The Women

By Ruth Millett

REPORTS COME back that British girls who are marrying American soldiers are convinced that American husbands are more generous and considerate than the British. > As time goes on and they learn more about American men they'll realize just what prizes they are : as husbands. A J They'll find that, on the whole, i American husbands start accepting part of the responsibility for the care and training of their children the minute they come home from the hospital—and aren't above whipping up a batch of formula or washing out a tub of baby clothes, if they think the mother is having to work too hard.” = =~ They'll find that American men, despite all jokes

their wives’ clothes.

Let Them Run Homes, Lives

They'll find that American husbands don't butt in on household affairs, but let the women run their homes the way they want to—even when the wife's way calls for filling a house with dilapidated antiques instead of comfortable furniture, or going 4 modern to the extent of making a living room look like the lobby of a hotel. :

against working wives, will> they insist—or for that’ mat lives pretty much to suit They'll find that American

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out first consulting the little woman first.

And if they finally get to America and look

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but for the common good. To the poor and heavy- Tparticularly immediately recognized

to the contrary, take a real interest and pride in

They'll find that American men, though prejudiced t their wives work if | | let them run their

en may make cracks about women drivers—but that their women usually. keep the family car more than half the time. or They'll find that while a British husband's ‘home. may be his castle, American men concede that the home they support is the little woman's castle and they wouldn't dream of inviting guests to it with- |

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MY MORALE” By S. Basey, Indianapolis

I had wondered when you were going to bring to the notice of the people those four million letters to our voting-age servicemen. Thanks for coming through. It helps my morale to know that our President is still free to speak, at. least partially, the truth. And, by the way, still considering those four million letters—do we or do we not have an acute paper shortage? This last offense is on a par with other similar ones— namely, Eleanor and Franklin's non-political (2?) excursions by private trains and planes all over the face of this continent and others, while they preach to us common people daily to conserve gasoline. What a life!

" ” ; “MASTERPIECE OF MISREPRESENTATIONS” By Gene Engle, 4163 8. Otterbein

As is the case with all C. I. O. mouthings, Prisbie's letter in the Sept. 2 issue was a masterpiece of misrepresentations and contradictions. For example, he says that unions have “attempted”—he omiited saying if they have succeeded—"to negotiate into their contracts provisions protecting men who go into the armed forces, etc.” Yet, in the paragraph preceding, he had conveniently pointed out in what ways management could get around these “provisions.” : He says that “Neither Mr. Murray nor the C. I. O. has ever expressed

stayed at work, accumulating senjority, should be given job preference over former employees who have been fighting.” And yet, in the next breath, he says that “Unions generally and the C. I. O.

hat under the law there would be many service. men who would not be able to return to their former jobs. As a result, provisions--pro-tecting them not only in the senior ity they left, but that they accumulate seniority while they are gone.” A few lines farther on he states that “Mr. Murray in his talk before the V, F. W. was not objecting to service men and women accumulating seniority; he was objecting to newspaper publicity for double, triple, preferential seriority for

“PEACE CANNOT BE BASED ON PAPER” By John Coulter, Indianapolis % We, are in danger of making the same sort of mistake that Hitler made—a mistake in judgment of others. ‘He misjudged us, meaning by “us” the united nations, He under-rated our power, And now, through similar misjudgment of oth ers, we may lose the peace. The peace cannot be won by docu-!. ments and agreements, It cannot be based on paper. It can be won only if it is based upon mutual confidences between the people of the peace-loving nations, confidence of each that the strongest desire of the others is to maintain the peace. Our urgent need as a first step is the need for mutual respect and confidence between Great Britain, Russia and the United States. Whoever contributes to the undermine ing of that necessary confidence imperils the winning of the peace. And yet the air is filled with all sorts of rumors and half-truths designed to make us mistrustful—designed, consciously or unconsciously, to lead us back again toward the fatal path of isolation. The road to peace is not an easy road. There is much to tempt us toward withdrawal from the chaos of western Europe. We withdrew before. We are paying very dearly for that error now. And we shall pay even more dearly if we repeat it. { Hitler underestimated the capa-| city of the united nations for war. Our danger is that we shall underestimate our mutual capacity for peace. The results would be similarly tragic. Let us /be very careful then not to sabotage in advance whatever. international partnership is essential to the prevention of war, Confidence begets confidence. Mistrust can lead to disaster. ” » » “INDIANAPOLIS LOST A GREAT MAN" By Walter L. Hess, 2544 N. Delaware sf. The death of Fire Prevention Chief Lynch came as a great shock to everybody who knew this officer, Not only to the professional firemen, but tothe auxiliary men, and to everyone interested in fire prevention, too. I met him first a few days after Pearl Harbor, at the time the first classes of the auxiliary firemen got started, And, interested in fire prevention as I have been all my lifg,

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tell me? It seems I remember one of their big shots said that, i + 4 it comes to giving up any of labor's hard-won gains, the boys in service could die first.” Later on in his letter Frisbie sald, “To avoid catastrophe following the war, we must have full employment and production.” And yet, through its. P. A, C, they are willing to “spend 25 million to retain the present administration in office.” An administration that sponsored and uselessly carried out an economic program of scarcity, extravagance, and Communistic theory of centralization of power in national government.” He ends up by saying “The greatest gift to our folk in service is lasting peace, a prosperous economy for jobs at decent incomes for all who want to work—and hope that this great country of ours will continually give better opportunities to their children—" Again, while seeking to retain in office an administration that would limit our potential earning capacity to a set scale and discourage individual initiative, an administration that has unsuccessfully tried its hand in business, that has seen the disastrous result of “robbing Peter to pay Paul” by collecting higher and higher taxes from those who want to work to take care of those who don’t care to work. Tt is such letters and arguments that will help to convince the voters that they should take our government out of the hands of the dreamers and schemers and “indispensable” men under the in-

service men.” I wonder {if they are for or against the serviceman. Can you

fluence of high-pressure groups, and to place it back im the hands of the people of the U. 8. A.

I watched him and his work closely. There is only one thing to say: Indianapolis lost one of its greatest

Side Glances—By Galbraith

men at a time when fire prevention is needed ‘more than ever. : Chief Lynch worked” day an

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night. You could see him the very day or the next after every fire, never using many words, but looking . latter the cause of the blaze. He was one of the men who never got lthe applause of the people as the acting firemen get at the scene of a fire, but working behind the curtain, saving the people of Indianapolis loss of life and property. Yes, he had plenty of worries, as he told me many times. In his own words, “What is the use of the best fire prevention if the people of the city just don’t care what we think is good for them, keeping on gambling with fire hazards. If they would do only a little bit what I have in mind, Indianapolis wouldn't have so many fires. I just keep on.” And so he did, up until a few hours before he died :

Indianapolis lost a great man, We will have a new fire prevention chief in a few days. He will do his best as Lynch did, and it is up to you, Mr. and Mrs, Indianapolis, to ‘|give him a great hand; in other words, help him to t fires. It is easier than to fight them. :

- DAILY THOUGHTS So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them —~Genesis 1:27.

illustrated by the | dozen years ago, 1932. $

“vidualist by na when he is desperate in the dep gsi again become a capital. ist in psychology, now that he is again a capitalist in fact. He swings naturally back to political and economic conservatism.

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PARTY, Sept. 13. — Governor Dewey brought his presidential campaign cavalcade into Iowa and Nebraska on what amounted to a carrying-coals-to-Newcastle

expedition. . Both of these states are

_stanchly Republican. There's no doubt about that. The people

Here triguing political paradox, best contrast between today and a

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Then there were poverty on the farms

ship in the towns here. Angry and rebellious farmers armed themselves with pitchforks to keep the sheriff form foreclosing their acres. Milo Reno, the angel of farm revolt, was riding high in newspaper | headlines. The desperate farmers swept up behind ‘Franklin D. Roosevelt as their deliverer, and admittedly his New Deal farm program helped put them back on their feet. :

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TODAY, THE FARMERS are prosperous. The

The farmers wrap up all the evils, of which they see themselves victims, in OPA, though this is really

Washington which issues regulations for them, They complain’ about price restrictions, though prices are good, and they are making plenty of money. They have a grievance in prices for feeder cattle which they assert do not give them enough spread for profit. They have a problem in the shortage of labor, for which they blame the wages for labor at war plants and the draft, though this latter situation has been remedied by the Tydings amendment. They resent gasoline rationing.

Farmers Irked at Restrictions MOST OF ALL, perhaps, they resent New Deal

been weighted heavily farmers, . Today, the division between farmers and labor in this country is wide and deep, and any attack on Sidney Hillman's C. L O. and its Political Committee is relished. Farmers have some justice in plaints, but one of their prominent leaders, a Repub

lican, said that things are not nearly so bad as farm-

ers make out. They are making money, administering regulations on the scale necessary for war is at best an almost job, certainly a thankless one, and somebody is always going to feel that his neighbor: is getting better treatment. : But the feeling here is a fact, and expresses itself

Dewey Didn't Have to Sell Anything

80 GOVERNOR DEWEY didn't have to sell any. thing here. It was already sold. Consequently, there was no great excitement attending his visit in this country, Had there been any to be loose, little outlet was offered, for the Republican made no major speeches here, stopped at no major cities, except Des Moines, where he paid his political obligations by talking briefly from the back platform of his train to a crowd of about 4500, But he kept as busy as the average doctor these days, consulting with representatives business and labor, as well as politicians. ing valuable political contacts in this section, necessary tow, but which will be elected, and, perhaps, even if he is not. some who think that the young man, time, will try to get control of the party organization for four years hence, No body has done that successfully in recent years, but he did it in Néw York, being the only defeated candidate for governor in our time who was re’ nominated.

World Affairs

By William Philip Simms

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QUEBEC, Sept. 13.—Some observers saw a coldness if not a touch of reproof in the carefully phrased regrets of Marshal Stalin in reply to the invitation of Presi. dent Roosevelt and Prime Minis. ter Churchill to meet with them here. “At the present time” Mar shal Stalin's message read, “when the Soviet armies are fighting

developing their offensives ine creasingly, IT mm deprived of the possibility of travel ing out of the Soviet Union and of leaving the direc .4ion of the army for the shortest period. All my collaborators agree it is quite impossible.” :

Message Does Seem Blunt

ON ITS FACE the message does seem blunt, There appear to have been no cordial words of greetings as from one ally to another, no special regrets At not being able to meet with them. It sounds as if he might be implying that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill can hold meetings outside their countries if they like, but that he has a war on his hands and he, at least, can’t let go.

the biggest military and naval

with the planning of It will be bigger than getting

operation in history.

and America will have to be shifted from Europe

be done in a matter of months.

Obviously Stalin Could Not Sit In

of Japan. The logistics problems to be solved here are colossal, > BL : Obviously Marshal Stalin could not sit in on such a conference for Russia is not at war with Japan, As a neutral, Mr. Stalin could hardly aid in planning the -destruction of a regime with which he enjoys friendly relations, but with ‘which has a treaty of non-aggression.

So They Say—

IF WE get off on the wrong foot of cynical power

: Ii i , : at the middle-aged widows living handsomely on the : 1. TL de litics, we will have lost the war before we have would like to think that Mr. Krug's statement marked a | money their husbands have leit them theyll see XE vi | | THEY that deny u God desires) Loy mmomas E. Dewey. i : permanent change in Washington thinking. But .just| that American ‘devote their lives to giving their | |, _ as J. Cer as def pine yi for oe by his-Rody; - Safe ew “as one swallow doesn't make a summer, one clear head | ¥'{¢* ond chilaben secortty., 0 | uate) at Wednssdey mavies Thursday gin rummy, and and, i he be not of kin to God y| al A Ne At ag Be those h Amerftan| ight the opera—we certainly ars butterflies since ~~ |nis spirit, he is a base and ignoble |

battles oh such a broad front and |

Unless all signs fail, this 10th wartime meeting | between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr, Churchill has to do

ready for D-day in Europe. For it is to prepare 1 for Dgday .in Asia, if my information is correct, = and to do that the combined resources of Britain ©

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