Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1944 — Page 6

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WHY WE ARE FOR DEWEY TE are for Thomas E. Dewey. Our readers are entitled "TY to know why. These are the reasons: = . BECAUSE we believe our country needs his type of * leadership in order to make the mast gf itsgreat oppor- * tunity to turn from victorious war to victorious peace. : BECAUSE we believe he realizes that, to achieve domestic tranquillity and effective influence in world affairs, * America must gain and keep the strength that can come only from abundant employment in abundant production. BECAUSE we believe he trusts the American people. "+ In dealing with the issues of war and peace he would, we think, respect their right to know and understand what their government is doing. He would not tell the men and women who are winning this war, their parents and their sons and daughters, to wait in patient ignorance while questions affecting their future are settled behind closed * doors. He would practice the doctrine of open covenants, openly arrived at. » s s » 8 » BECAUSE HE HAS SHOWN determination to unite the country, not to divide it. He has never sought political : advantage by playing workers against employers, labor against agriculture, labor unions against labor unions. He says that he never will, and we believe him. "BECAUSE, as district attorney of our largest city "and governor of our largest state, he has proved himself _ a good administrator with an orderly mind. He has selected . able assistants, given them his confidence and support, and enabled them to do their jobs well He has drawn and preserved clear lines of authority and responsibility. A national administration headed by Mr. Dewey would not, : in our opinion, be constantly disrupted by family rows; would not be honeycombed by the intrigues of palace favorites; would not be perpetually muddled by dissension

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and inefficiency. BECAUSE he has shown himself an enemy of racketeering, graft and corruption in business, in labor and in - government, BECAUSE he has no affinity for Communists and crackpots. There are no Browders among his supporters— and many a Browder disciple would get out of federal departments soon’ after Mr. Dewey came in. He would mot clutter up the business of government with eurythmic dancers, chronic cranks, professional dogooders and feverish faddists intent on getting rid of other people’s money. : . w= ® a = BECAUSE HIS VIEWPOINT is widely different from | | that of the reactionaries in his own party, and of their . counterparts in the Democratic party. He is looking forward. He is seeking counsel, not from those who yearn for a “normalcy” that has gone forever, but from such new * leaders as the many able Republican governors whose _ recent elections testify that they are in tune with the times and with the hopes and aspirations of the people. "BECAUSE he believes that it is government's duty £8 serve the people, not to rule them; to encourage honest, enterprising, job-creating business and industry, not to dominate them; to deal justly with the members of economic groups, not to promote bloc competition and class warfare among them. . BECAUSE he lays no claim to omniscience. Because with maturity of experience he combines youthful vigor and ability to grow in understanding. And because, in his campaign, he is displaying courage, resourcefulness and effectiveness. os » o y » ” 2 THESE, AS WE SAY, are the reasons why we are for . Mr. Dewey. We recognize the right of any reader to disagree with them, or to ask how we have reached the conclusions stated. In further editorials we shall undertake ~ to set forth, in greater detail, the reasoning behind our decision.

¢ THE INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR eo THE Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, whose eighth rehearsal season will open next Tuesday, is one of the ~ organizations which is contributing greatly to the musical = resources of this city. Not only do its choral interpretations, presented in conjunction with the Indianapolis Sym- ~ phony orchestra, bring a richer appreciation of the musical masterpieces to a broadening audience each year, but its ~ activities offer a medium of training and expression to a considerable group of citizens. As it opens what should be its greatest year, thee choir is more than ever a cultural asset to the community.

NO QUACKS; PLEASE

OWN Argentine way they recently showed a couple of cartoon movies in which Secretary of State Hull was shown in quacking colloquy with Donald Duck. This aroused the indignation of Walt Disney, Donald's creator. Mr. Disney says he is taking steps to see that his characters are not plagiarized or his rights infringed on again. We hope that the state department will do as much for the other aggrieved pafty in this case of animated = i animosity. Argentine moviemakers can't be forced to like - Mr. Hull, but they ought to be made to pay him the pre3 | vailing Screen Actors’ Guild scale.

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"MR. ROOSEVELT SAID—

“N OW, to bring about government by oligarchy masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our national government. j The individual sovereignty of our states must first be ddstroyed, except in mere minor matters of legislation. We are safe from the danger of any such departure from the principles on which this counry was founded just so long as the individual home rule

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“Oh, that. "Well. we'll Just do the best we can. Get out the scotch and sit around and try to look intelligent.” “But Mr. Wallace doesn't drink, I understand. You wouldn't want to offend him.” “That's right. Well, well just sit around and listen. Maybe we can learn something, He's an

authority on a lot of things, you know, The Hot- :

tentots, for example.” “The Hottentots? Are they liberals?” “ “I wouldn't know, but Henry is always talking about milk for Hottentots, and it would be interesting to get the dope from him first hand.”

"Henry Had Become Too Hot to Handle’

“DO YOU know anything about liberalism?” “In a vague way, I guess. Tolerance, compassion, equality of rights. Your brother’s-keeper stuff.”

“What I can’t understand,” she resumed, “Is why |

Mr, Wallace is campaigning at all, Didn't Mr. Hillman defeat him at the convention?” : “Well, yes and no. Actually, it was one of those ‘switches common to politics. The boys in the back ‘room decided Henry had become too hot to handle, so they settled on Truman. Figured he'd give more balance to the ticket.” “Is Senator Truman a liberal?” “I suppose he is—now. In a campaign year a politician can be anything or all things. I can gemember Willkie saying”— : “I remember Mr, Wilkie.” “Well, that makes two of us. But don't interrupt. As I was going to say, they caught Willkie in some sort of contradiction, and he laughed it off as campaign oratory, which is a polite way of admitting hd didn’t care what kind of bait he used as long as the fish bit, so I wouldn't be surprised if Truman is a liberal these days.”

‘Doesn't Sound Quite Decent’

SHE SHOOK her head gloomily. “It doesn't sound quite decent.” Then she brightened. “Of course, it's entirely possible and proper for a very sincere politician to change his mind.” “If any.” “If any what?” “Mind.” “I suggest you save your cynicism for the company of your vulgar associates. I am trying very hard to comprehend what is going on in this campaign, and I can get along without your flippancies. And just what do you have against Mr. Hillman?” “I wouldn't know the guy from a bale of hay.” “Yet only the other night you were repeating your indignation over that meeting he had with those two supreme court justices in a Chicago cellar,”

"There Were Some Backstairs'

“IT WASN'T a cellar; it was a penthouse. And it wasn’t two black robes; it was Ickes and Biddle. And what gave me the scorch was Biddle says, | ‘I never thought I'd ever do this for any man.’ ” “Do what?” “Oh, there were some backstairs, and Ickes and Biddle used them to call on Hillman.” “But why did they have to use the stairs? Doesn't Chicago have elevators?” “Of course. They used the backstairs because they didn't want the reporters to know they were visiting . Hillman, What I want to know is, what were they hiding?” “I don't believe they were hiding anything” she snapped. “You are too ready to think the sinister of people. And, anyway, that hasn't anything to do with Mr, Wallace. Suppose he does call on us?” “Well, if he does I'll turn him over to you. I don't call you my dream girl for nothing.”

World Affairs

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—In the light of anti-British criticism in the U. 8. on account of the empire's Indian policy, the break. down of the talks between Mohandas K. Gandhi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah this week in Bombay, is important to the American people, The big problem in Indian politics is the relations between the Hindus and the Moslems, Until it is solved, there can’ be neither political peace in India, nor & constitution, nor independence. Thus it was to compose their differences that Hindu Ghandi and Moslem Jinnah met. In a sense, of course, India is no business of ours, That is up to the Indians and the British. Nevertheless, we are partners in this war and, unless all signs fail, we shall be committed to the armed defense of the post-war set-up, including the security of the British empire. And approximately four-fifths of the empire's inhabitants are concentrated in and around India.

Answer Is Not Simple

IN THE U, 8. critics often ask: “Why doesn’t Britain give India her independence?” The answer is not simple. Of India's 390,000,000, approximately 255,000,000 are Hindus and 94,000,000 are Moslems. There are twice as many Moslems as there are Britishers in the British isles. To speak of them as a mere “minority,” theretore, begs the question. They

refuse to be governed by a “majority” of Hindus, ' And |

although they are just as ardently for independence as the Hindus, they prefer British to Hindu rule. They declare they will fight rather than submit to Hindu domination, The Moslems want nationhood. They call it Pakistan, meaning “the land of the clean or pure.” Orthodox Hindus regard other peoples as inferior. Christians and Moslems are known to them as “melachyyas,” which means “unclean, impure, dirty.” But as Moslems, like Christians, preach that cleanliness is next to godliness, they resent the Hindu attitude. The term “pakistan” reflects this feeling Jinnah heads the powerful Moslem League and Mahatma Gandhi dominates the Hindus and the Congress party. Some months ago Gandhi indicated that he was not hostile to Pakistan and invited Jinnah to come to Bombay to talk things over.

Both Desire Indian Unity

JINNAH DESIRES Indian unity no less than Gandhi. But the Hindus say that if his ideas were carried out it would Balkanize the whole sub-conti-nent. Gandhi apparently is willing to grant certain

“state's rights” to the Moslem areas—subject, however, | |

to nationwide majority rule. To this Jinnah objects on the ground that, under such a system, the 94,000,000 Moslems would have little or no voice nghational affairs. Accordingly, in the words of Sir e ¢ followers, he Javors “a Raj of the Indian princes, a Pakistan of the Moslems, and a Hindustan of the Hindus ‘united under a great Pan:Indisn conception nationalism. *

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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“IT IS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT” By Lillian Dinehart, Indianapolis. Many people, hearing the President speak Saturday, applauded his wit and were greatly amused, but is that what we want and need at this time? We can go to the theater for amusement—just now we look to him for serious, constructive information regarding his plans for our future welfare, instead, he continues to play to the grandstand, will do or say anything for a vote or a laugh! He and his family have made a three-ring circus of Capitol Hill Do we wish to keep this show running for another four years, perhaps indefinitely? I am wondering if some of our juvenile delinquency may not stem from the lack of dignity and facetious, wise-cracking attitude of this family. They have known no other you know—it is something to think about, Mr. and Mrs. Voters! ” ” “MAYBE YOU'RE

JUST JEALOUS” By Mrs. Audra Simms, Indianapolis.

My, my, Mr. and Mrs. J. Dinney, what do you have against Mrs, Roosevelt's looks? My husband is in service and he and the other fellows over there (unless they are Republicans) think she looks O. K. If I remember correctly you sald in your letter to the forum that you had rather look at Mr, Dewey's mustache and lack of height than to look at Mrs. Roosevelt another four years. Maybe you're just jealous because you're not the President's wife. - And as for the jokes that are told about her, why should she be laughed about? I guess it's because certain people don’t like her husband. Every time I get on a bus or trolley I hear someone talking about “old Mrs. Roosevelt.” Isn't she just an ordinary woman? Oh, I get it, somebody's jealous.

. =» “IT IS MY DUTY TO MY CUSTOMERS” By J. Stanley Jones, Frankfort. An opén letter to Ruth Millett: You have seen fit to criticize grocerymen for what you call unfair selling methods. In a recent article you compliment a grocer who just opened a neighborhood store and who “put his” bananas out” and sold everyone all they wanted as long as they lasted. You also said they did not seem to know a war was going on. Well we do—we

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have a two star service flag and already one of the stars is gold. I have operated a grocery for 30 years and in accordance with that experience I am conscientiously trying to do what is fair but I do not consider “putting my bananas out” and selling them until they are gone to be fair, Let me illustrate—Not long ago a person I had never seen before came in for a box of soap—I told him I was sorry, but I followed him to his car and he had eight boxes of soap thrown on the rear seat in the car, Just a day or so ago I had a lady ask for a certain brand of cigarets. In this instance I was honest in telling her I was nut, but I overheard her tell the lady with her that she did not care much because she still had twenty-eight packages at home but that she always bought this brand whenever she could find them, A large per cent of my customers are women who work and cannot shop until evening, and if I did not save scarce items for them, they would never get any of these items at all. Instead they would go to the shopper who makes it a point to tour the neighborhood trying to buy up scarce items whether they need them or not. Even the OPA upholds the grocer in the policy of limiting the sale of scarce items in order to give everyone a chance, In fact, that seems to me to be the basis of all rationing. I would like to hear some customer express his views on this. If I am wrong, I will change to “putting the bananas out and sell them as long as they last.” If everyone was fair and bought only what he needed when he needed it, then your policy would be OK, but unfortunately we have those in our midst who want all

Side Glances—By Galbraith

| As a Democrat proud of the fact

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they want of what they want when they want it whether their neighbor gets any at all; therefore, I feel it is my duty to my customers to see that they get their share, even if they do not get to the store until evening to get it. ” o “WE DO NOT APOLOGIZE” By C. P. Miller, R. R. 17, Box 231 In your editorial of Sept. 21 you say that you have “a hunch that the New Dealers will talk less about the indispensable man from here on to Nov. 7. They're going to be pretty busy dodging Tom Dewey's punches.”

that his party has provided the nation with the New Deal, as dis tinguished from the old deal, the former comprising a system of reforms no single one of which Dewey nor any Republican has had the temerity to advocate the repeal, I accept your challenge. My hunch is that after Hstening to Dewey and watching his efforts to punch below the belt, we New Dealers will just amusedly watch little Tommie Hoover Dewey continue to demonstrate how dispensable he himself is. In your editorial you quote the candidate as saying that he will be able to get along better than Roosevelt with congress. A coaliton of Republicans and queer Democrats makes up the group that he must

of people we don't want any President to get along with. What we want is to see these men defeated and replaced with men who will be capable ‘of appreciating the New Deal and proud to extend and clinch its benefits, As for the administration setting class against class, etc., that is just an incongruous falsehood. No administration has ever done more to erase class lines than has this one. What Dewey means is that in the effort of Roosevelt to secure social, political and economic justice to ali the people, he has caused the minority opposed to such efforts to gang up on the rest of the people to grab back again the means of exploitation. No, emphatically, we do not apologize for the New Deal. On the contrary, we deplore its ungrateful beneficiaries and its self-seeking critics,

#” » 8 “NATION CERTAINLY NEEDS NEW BLOOD”

By 8. Basey, Indianapolis In answer to your letter of Sept. 20 Mr, J. Faulkner, I defy you fo name one instance when Mr. Dewey has lied to us. Just one People like you resort to name calling because you can’t think of one sensible answer. . Have you no curiosity as to what Kimmel and Short have to say of the Pearl Harbor disaster? Certainly that affair needs a thorough airing. Do you then approve of the Hague, Kelly, Flynn and Pendergast gangsters with whom ¥F. D. R. is affiliated? It has been said of us that we are getting soft, decadent, and ripe for conquest. Sadly enough, it appears to be true. If the Amer-

they vote the same man in office for 16 years merely because ihnyne afraid to change, I'd say that the nation certainly needs some new

ous, advehturous ancestors, things have come to a pretty pass, indeed. ————————————————— '

DAILY THOUGHTS

Because thou hast kept the. word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation; which shall come up-

dwell upon the SArn.~Revelation 3:10.

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IT 18 ar Ti f to strike the wi st ae space = “ag ain. EE desolate as they look from the train window, in Arizona and New Mexico, against the background of stark, lonely mountains; for there at least is space, and some place to move around as an individual, though the isolated cabin must be lonely in the night, Always, everywhere, are the small towns, lined up along the railroad track, where people still to church on Sunday, where they grumble now the restriction somebody in Washington puts them, and yet who give their boys unsparingly. understand that, you have to know America. they still have church sociables, and about one another, and they sit, for da; side of the sick, and send each other sla fresh from the oven, and vegetables from the It is good to remember the people them, .so friendly to the stranger, so thoughtful, and yet apologetic, in a pioneer at what they offer to the visitor from the East is so grateful for it all, and yet unable fo thanks, self-conscious and humble in the tion of it.

‘And the Kids Who Run Along’

AND YOU remember, as you look back, the stout, dominating ladies of the G. A. R. auxiliary at Des Moines who were shepherding the handful of Civil War veterans about at their convention; the traine man and his wife who lived in a railroad car on the high plateau of the Cascades, sitting there watching the Dewey special train as it stopped for water; the grinning, snaggle-toothed Indian boy who stood by the Republican presidential candidate at Belen, N, M., to have his picture taken; the four little Negro girls, neat and shining, who stood; hand in hand, along the street to watch the New York Governor and his wife ride by in the parade at her home town of Sapulpa. And the kids who run along the street and shoug “Fooey for Dewey” and “We Want Roosevelt” and who, if the President should come along, would probably invent some slogan that wouldn't be come plimentary to him. For that's the way American children are, and that's why they fight for their rights when they get older, And that's the way their older brothers were whe now are fighting in earnest somewhere, It's a great land—and it is still free,

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In Washington

By Peter Edson

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WASHINGTON, Sept 30. Operations of Lt. Gen. Lewis H, Brereton's 1st airborne army in Holland now expldin to a large degree where all the U, 8B. air transport planes have been going, For over two years domestio airlines have been crying for more equipment, Their prewar fleet of 354 planes was reduced to 166 in . May, 1942. It has been gradually increased by release of planes taken for the army—to 200 last April, to Su today, with 30 additional planes now in the shops undergoing reconversion for commercial aire line operations. By crowding schedules the airlines have been able to carry vastly more passengers, mail and express than they did in prewar years, but as today’s air traffic demands would justify a fleet of 600 planes, the commercial carriers have been putting on a constant Oliver Twist act to get more and more planes. However, the army air forces have been forced to turn deaf ears.

Let ‘Em Talk, Was the Strategy

THE WAY in which spéculation was permitted on possible uses of the 1st airborne army #0 mislead the Germans on its actual use offers one of the best examples on record of how to wage successful psychole ogical warfare. Creation of the 1st airborne was announced in London early in August. Its strength was even estie mated at 250,000 men—the equivalent of some 18

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crews necessary for maintenance and supply. This announcement came at the time of Gen, Patton's break-through in Normandy, and as his forces swept across France, the military experts began to speculate freely that Brereton’s army would be a natural to hurdle the Siegfried line and the Rhine river, stabbing the Nazi rear and opening up the road™ right to Berlin. Nothing was done to stop this speculation. How much it threw the Germans off in planning their dee fense strategy is of course unknown. But when Breree fon’s paratroopers and glider trocps landed in Hole land, it was a complete surprise operation,

Preview of Things to Come

TACTICAL EMPLOYMENT of airborne troops has been developed in American army operations in New Guinea, Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy. In the bigger and bloodier invasions of the next cosmic cute ups, long-range airborne operations will play an ine

part. “ That furnishes the link with the Dumbarton cone ferences. 2 Le a In Gen. Brereton’s army there were not only Amere lean, Canadian and British troops, but also Poles, Dutch, Belgians 2 and sprinkling detachments from other allied armies, Now a united nations airborne army, backed by ited Buon) Sombat Jit foes 5 just what the