Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1944 — Page 22

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STALIN ELECTIONEERS FOR F.D. R. ONE of the current mysteries is how such busy men as Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin find time to mix in American politics for the re-election of Roosevelt. Even harder to understand is how such intelligent men can fail to see that these efforts are_self-defeating, that they boomerang in favor of Dewey. So They also strain Anglo-American and Russo-American relations. Nothing causes deeper resentment in Americans than attempts by foreign governments to influence elections here. That always has been so, and it is even truer today because of greater emotional tension. Though Churchill had been warned by earlier hostile American reaction to such blunders by the British press and officials, he could not resist the temptation in his Quebec statement last week to put in a few personal plugs for the fourth-term candidate—without specifically mentioning the election. s = = : p » = = . "STALIN IS less subtle. He simply takes one of his Moscow party line magazines, and a stooge writer, and cuts loosé against Dewey and Republicans. “He has‘the G. 0, P. candidate and party smeared with all the lies and insults which pass for clever propaganda in a dictatorship, but which informed readers in a democracy find revolting. According to “War and the Working Class,” the Republican party “always has been a citadel of isolationism.” But ‘the article slips in its list of alleged isolationists by including prominent Democrats, and by admitting that Dewey “has attempted to shake off die-hard isolationists like Hamilton Fish and . . . Gerald Smith.” Extreme reactionaries, Fascist elements, and even Hitlerite agents are trying to use the Republican party, it charges, which is supported by the National Association of Manufacturers, du Pont, Ford, General Motors. These firms are said to be trying to preserve their interests in Germany, Italy and Japan. [ J f J »” : . # # : OF COURSE this poison pen stuff is not much different from that of Stalin’s Communist organization in this coun.

try, which is working so hard to re-elect Roosevelt. But} Stalin and Browder think they can maintain the fiction{:

that there is no connection between the two here, while it is clear to all that nothing could appear in the Moscow magazine without the express approval of Stalin censors. This Moscow propaganda is bad enough as foreign interference in our election. But it is much worse when linked directly with Communist operations, and indirectly through the C. I. O.-P. A. C. branch of the Roosevelt campaign. The Idtest P. A. C. purge list of Republican members of congress includes some men with long progressive records, whose chief “sin” apparently is their opposition to the Communist line and to a fourth term. We do not suggest that Candidate Roosevelt approves of such blundering tactics by his Stalinite supporters in Russia and in this country. As a smart politician, he knows that the loving Red buss bestowed upon him is apt to be politically a kiss of death. And the Republicans know that many voters will judge Dewey by his enemies.

OVERSIMPLIFICATION

E in America love slogans and other forms of oversimplification. = We hear and read a lot nowadays and big business, the general implication being that the two operate in airtight compartments. Senator Joe O'Mahoney and Maury Maverick and Paul Hoffman and the committee of economic development he heads and many other public leaders are working for the welfare of small business as the ultimate economic hope of the nation. We are all for that. But can the “smalls” and the “bigs” be considered as separate and distinct? We think not. . =» 3 A STORY about a soldier: - His ambition is, when he gets back home, to buy a general purpose repair truck like the one he has been operating in the war. With that he wants to go into business’ for himself as a sort of village blacksmith on wheels, not confining himself to any one spreading chestnut tree. His individual irfitiative envisions the idea of covering his own countryside, repairing farm machinery, using the acetylene torches and other gadgets he has learned to use on the front. Looks like a good idea, for it takes-a farmer a long tine to haul a broken plow to town and back for fixing up. Here the farmer would have a door-to-door service, and the ex-soldier would have a business. But where would he get the repair truck? From big business—from Ford or General Motors or Chrysler or any other mzker of trucks and from those other businesses, some big some smaller, who make the gadgets.

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8s 8 = IF YOU are running a photographic studio you are in a small business. But your supplies come from Eastman, or other big photographic concerns. If you are owner of a corner drug store you sell the products of big medical outfits, soft drink makers, ete. But you're running a small business. Or if a gasoline station owner, you are a small business man selling gas and oil and tires and parts made by big business, = So when we shake the proposition down, small business? and big business aren't in,separate compartments—they are very intimately related and in effect interchangeable, The one couldn't live in our economy. without the other.

And that’s true of just about everything, from insurance to shoes. :

The important factdr from the public policy point of |

view—and that goes for the ultimate consumer who pays all bills—is to see that there is no monopoly in the goods and services in which both big and small business deal. Gen-

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Either a Messiah or a Monster FOR THIS, and other reasons, campaign biogra-

flesh may be grass, but the biographers only make hay. ted political scribblers, we

The author, naturally, thinks Mr. Dewey is here to stay. But he has avoided the pitfall of extravagant adulation and, for the most part, is content to let the record speak for itself. 2 Mr. Walker is more familiar than most with Mr Dewey's career. As managing editor of the New York Herald-Tribune and editor of the New York Mirror, he was in a position to appraise the Republican candidate’s activities as governor of New York, as special ;racket prosecutor and district attorney. And through personal acquaintance, he has seen the human side of the man,

Analyzes Arguments Against Dewey

THE BOOK is interesting; the section on the prosecytion of the rackets and their Tammany protectorsereads like a detective story, which indeed it is. Mr. Walker also examines some -0of the arguments against Mr. Dewey, and analyzes them in the light of what he knows of the governor—something of a new ‘departure in books of this type. - |

Bg portion presents 21 of the gov-

_grnor’s past speeches, in whole or in part. These are significant as evidence that the course of the present campaign is an outgrowth of Mr. Dewey's long-stand-ing philosophy; that he is not, as sometimes depicted,

a mercurial opportunist, charting his course by the changing winds of the Gallup poll. Clearly Mr. Dewey has been fhinking hard about public issues for a long time. There will be some, of course, who will not like the book—but they are the ones who wouldn't like anything about Mr. Dewey and wouldn't hesitate to

so. That's politics, and this is an election year,

World Affairs

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The taking of the Palau islands, now under way, will constitute a great allied victory and mark, by tacit admission of the Japanese themselves, one of the major turning points in the war of the Pacific. That is why there are more enemy defenses to the square yard in those islands, according to eye= witness reports, than the Americans have encountered on any other islands they have yet at-

tacked. In a report written by Vice Adm. Kichijiro Hamada shortly before Pearl Habor, the waters within lines drawn from Hongkong to Palau, to Darwin, to Singapore thence back to Hongkong constitute a

sort of “Mediterranean of the Pacific.” Singapore and the straits were likened to one entrance to this “Mediterranean,” with Palau as the other. “When the South Seas islands were taken by Japan,” wrote the Jap admiral, “the naval headquarters were established at Truk, but after careful consideration, they transferred it to Palau. This’ was certainly a wise step. . For the Japanese South Seas not: only serve as a check to a western advance of the U. 8. fleet, but also help develop Japan's economic advance in times of peace. From this views point, Palau is best situated. -

Forecasts Showdown Near Formosa

“IP SINGAPORE commands the Western Mediterranean of the South Pacific, so does Palau the East Mediterranean of the same ocean.” Were the combined naval forces of Britain and America to challenge Japan in the Netherlands Indies, Hamada indicated, Japan would have to stop them at whatever cost. Japan would have to draw most of her supplies from this area, so somewhere in that vicinity would occur the decisive sea battles of the war. The admira] was inclined to believe the big clash would occur somewhere near Formosa. The Japanese naval officer predicted that the Americans would attempt to drive southward and westward in a sweeping curve from Hawaii toward Australia, then try to reach Manila from the very direction U. 8. forces are now striking at Palau. But, he added, “it remains to be seen whether the Japanese navy is so dull-witted as to allow that passage.” Success, he’ indicated, would play havoc with Japan's war efforts thereafter because it would interfere with her exploitation of .thd “rich natural resources in Borneo, Sumatra and New Guinea, the world’s treasure houses.”

& Palau Called a 'Tropical Yokohama PALAU HAS BEEN called a “tropical Yokohama.”

. The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voliaire.

“RESORTING TO A NEW LAW" By Bea Sumner, Indianspolis. Mr. Schricker, in a campaign speech made Sept. 16, certainly deserves a dunce cap for hitting below the belt. He wondered who would want to change a horse for a pony in the middle of the stream. The Republicans, despite anything the Democrats might say to the contrary, have been gentlemen about referring to Mr. Roosevelt's afflic~ tion—but if the Democrats persist in casting reflections on Mr. Dewey's size, which is considered average in this country, I suggest the Republicans stayt throwing verbal brickbats. Mr. Schricker looks to be about five feet seven, yet he believes himself to be big enough that Republicans along with his Democrats will elect him to a high office, just as they helped put him in the governor’s chair. And as for ponies, they can beat a big lumbering horse in the middie of a stream anytime, Mr, Schricker inadvertently cast an aspersion on Mr. Stalin and Churchill, not to mention his own small stature when he referred to ponies, King Edward VII: of England, although fat, was short. Queen Victoria was very short, Napoleon, although ashamed of his height, managed to go down in history, something which Mr, Schricker probably won't attain. Paul McNutt was ridiculed and called a glamour boy, but he was one of our best governors, We don’t choose. our size and looks. God gives them to us, The Democrats are certainly resorting to a new low when all they can find wrong with Tom Dewey is his stature. He is a good, clean-cut American. # » “LITTLE TRUTH FOR 11 YEARS” By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis. “Great is the power of truth” quotes Mrs. Shipp. The New Deal's power is not derived from truth, There has been little truth in the national administration for 11 years now. The great power amassed by the New Deal was derived from two sources: First, the people of the United States between its settling and 1933 had accumulated and conserved 400 billion dollars in assets that could be “divided” by taxing the middle class out of existence, and second, a majority of the American people are the most gullible in the world. In 1937 in his Chicago speech to “quarantine the outlaw nations,” Mr. Roosevelt did assume a “war monger” role. Had he then kept mouth shut and led us to preparation for war or defense, he might have kept us at peace or led us to to an earlier one, As late as May 15, 1040, Mr.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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Roosevelt said that the idea of a two-ocean navy was “utterly stupid” and “just plain dumb.” May 28, 1940, Roosevelt told the press he had no thought of asking for the draft. Congress voted it.. Jan. 27, 1941, Ambassador Grew warned that “a surprise mass attack on Pearl Harbor was being planned.” In 1938, Chief of Staff Craig said our army ranked 18th among the standing armies of the world. In 1939 he said, “we do not have a single complete division of our regular army available.” One month before Pearl Harbor, Senator Byrd said that the army did not have a single division ready to fight. After Pearl Harbor, Gen, Arnold said, “When thé Japs struck,

our aircraft strength little better than a corporal's » All during the last half of the

30s, industry, especially the aircraft, was pleading for a chance to develop war planes and products. The heavy industries were pleading for trial orders and “pilot lines” so that in case of war they could produce war material quickly and without chaos, ‘Where then was the commander in chief? He was seven years behind time then and if he stays in to make the peace we may find ourselves back in the middle ages. “Great is the power of truth”; it is high time that we elect an administration that can again carry it back into our national capital » - . “I DON'T BELONG TO SIDNEY HILLMAN”

By Paul 8. Welch, 338 N. Davidson si.

When any politician or political group works for one class or group of people, they are working a hardship on all other classes. When Sidney Hillman and his P. A. C. claim they are working for labor, they are working against labor instead. Such actions antagonize business management. To antagonize business means” the jeopardy of the employees’ future.

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By A. B. Short, Richmond Propaganda is being put out by the Democratic organization that Governor Schricker will run ahead of the national ticket. The tail is not going to wag the dog. It is my humble opinion that Governor Schricker will receive

disgusted with the New Deal that they will not vote for a New Dealer for U. 8. senator or governor either. If anyone reading this article is interested, if you will make a check and some inquiry in your community, you will find that this statement is correct. . = “IS THIS PEACE TALK SINCERE?” By Earl D. Hosking, 1266 W. 26th st.

like to be enlightened, Is this peace talk by the leader of the G. O. P. (or Great On Promises) party sincere or an isolationist trick? I can’t see the four great nations who were not afraid. to fight for freedom getting down on their knees and imploring the nations who were scared to fight those same battles, to have as much to say about world peace as they, Now to be sure their word is out that the boundaries of smaller na-

‘|tions will be respected, also their .i1laws and customs. There will be

councils and ideas advanced by all. It's all up to the Big Four—~America, China, Russia and England. With the policy supplied by the aforementioned party we will fight again in 25 or 35 years and we will Let's not play a lone hand. Sud ot Now for another item—the play for the colored vote. Their plank, “We will see that an anti-poll tax, an anti-lynch bill and fair employment laws are enacted.” But we enact

chising any of its citizens and lynch 1 can’t see these points

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THE EPISCOPAL bishop who delivered the ine vocation at Portland spoke of his campaign as “s crusade.” It is not’ exactly that in the frensied meaning that Wendell Willkie gave to his 1040 came paign, but it is in an earnest sort of way, from the sober determination that he seems to arouse,

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the major and in a serious voice this “V-Day-minus-30" was, so they could planning.

Just a Victim of ‘Coercion’

a plane for him from W Krug told Batcheller Batcheller demurred. time to WPB, he owed his time said that he necessary to use force, and Pittsburgh. Arriving at his Batcheller found a telegram to ¢ board from War Mobilization Director James Byrnes, saying the President had requested that Batcheller be assigned to Washington. It was fole lowed by a telephone call from Bernard Baruch, peating the same message, Wednesday Batcheller reported in

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