Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1944 — Page 12

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RILEY 5551

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

BROWDER AND HILLMAN HELP DEWEY 'OMMUNIST Leader Earl Browder and his Communistcourting ally, “Clear It With Sidney” Hillman of the C. I. 0.-P. A. C picked the same day last week to do Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey an immeasurable joint

service. :

Mr. Browder’s Madison Square Garden speech made it clearer than ever that Communist support of President Roosevelt and the New Deal is based on Communist gratitude for past favors and a lively Communist sense of

benefits to come.

So great is Communist fear of a New Deal defeat that Mr. Browder fairly outdid himself in picturing the horrible consequences of a Dewey victory—‘“strike waves,” “witch

hunts,” mandates to “put labor out of politics,

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an Amer-

ican invitation to Europe to plunge immediately or soon into the most devastating civil war,” “the sharpest accentuation of class struggles in America ever seen in history” and, most horrible of all, an end of “collaboration between

non-Communists and Communists.”

All this nonsense only serves, of course, to draw rhore public attention to the strength of Communist hopes pinned on President Roosevelt and to indicate what Mr. Browder and his comrades confidently expect from another four

years of New Deal kindness.

THAT MR. BROWDER makes many votes for Governor Dewey seems to cause even Sidney Hillman considerable

uneasiness.

Otherwise why did Mr. Hillman, in his own

diatribe against Governor Dewey, feel it necessary to stress again the outworn assurance that neither he nor his

P. A, C. is under Communist control?

+ The Browder-Hillman political partnership has its difficulties. For Hillman well knows that, while Communist " vote-getters and Communist votes are New Deal assets, communism itself is a heavy liability. So Partner Hillman has to deny the influence of Partner Browder, even while making full use of Partner Browder’s followers in ways

and positions that won't be too conspicuous.

Nevertheless, the partnership is there and can't be concealed. It has already alienated many Democrats from

the President and the New Deal.

It will alienate many more now that Partner Browder proclaims Communist love for the New Deal and Communist hatred of Governor Dewey in words that make the relationship of the New Deal and communjsm sound like

nothing short of a marriage.

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LET HENRY

UNISH GERMANY

THE trouble about the row in. which Secretary of the 3 Treasury Morgenthau wants to be tougher toward a defeated Germany than do Secretary of State Hull and ‘Secretary of ‘War Stimson is that Henry the Morgue is ou

of his proper sphere."

He would eliminate German industry and send German workers to tilling small farms. Messrs. Hull and Stimson also want to be tough, but think Morgenthau’s plan won't

work.

If they can only switch Mr. Morgenthau from farms to finances, there is a tough plan that will work. And he’s

ideal for it.

Impose a reparations tax and a defeat tax on Germany

—and let Henry collect them.

Instead of making Germans into farmers,

into accountants, bookkeepers and tax clerks.

turn them Henry can

provide ready-made forms that will keep them endlessly

occupied at those peaceful pursuits.

Send them Form 1040X. Put them to figuring their reparations tax and then, for added measure, a defeat tax

{just like our Vietory tax).

Let German ‘soldiers and arms workers spend their lives trying to understand Instruction 21 (D) so they can fill out their estimated reparations tax net income (line 10, col. 1, minus line 19, col. 1). Then, having established that figure, start them all over figuring their estimated defeat tax net income (line 10, col. 2, minus line 19, col. 2) less specified exemption (see Instructions 34) to which shall be added 5 per cent of line 29 plus line 30, or the difference between line 20, col. 1, minus line 15 (A), whichever is

greater,

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Here is an occasion when the time, the man and the forms coincide. A reparations tax and defeat tax for Germany, changing yearly and always retroactive—and with

Morgenthau to collect them!

What an opportunity to keep Germany too confused

and busy ever to prepare for another war.

PEPPER WITH A GRAIN OF SALT

SENATOR CLAUDE PEPPER, who has made the New Deal in Florida synonymous with “politics for profit,” sounded off here against the anti-fourth-termers by saying, “stated simply it is Wall Street against Main Street or the

country club vs. the country.”

: To borrow a phrase from President Roosevelt's cynically facetious speech to Dan Tobin's Teamsters that is “an

~ 40ld worm-eaten chestnut.”

That this campaign is a duplicate of 1920, as Senator Pepper maintains, even the most hardened backers of the Roosevelt Forever policy must take with a lump-size grain

of sait.

MR: ROOSEVELT SAID—

‘Our federal extravagance and improvidence bear a double evil; first, our people and our business cannot ‘carry these excessive burdens of taxation: second, our

“financing made necessary

hi credit available for business,” &

) y the unprecedented magnitude ese deficits. Instead bf financing the billion-dollar de: 1981, the government simply absorbed that much lending capacity of the banks and by so much im-

~ credit structure is sa by the unorthodox federal

ndianapolis Times Reflections

By Joe Williams ,

DETROIT, Oct. 3~Though the custom is bewhiskered, it is still something of a shock to be reminded that our Jeaging states men, even our Presidents, don't always roll their own speeches.

of a wrench to find the lesser

prophets in the company of ghost writers, the short order chefs of

cent bystander feels he is entitled to the raw meat of originality from the top leaders. These are the ones he looks

~to for guidance, illumination and encouragement. | He becomes disturbed and doubtful when the thought |

occurs that the message he has just digested is more

likely to be the mental hash of several than the}

studied opinions of an individual. It now appears that one of the literary spooks who had a hand in preparing what will be remembered as Mr. Roosevelt's Be~-Kind-to-Fala speech was Robert E. Sherwood, the playwright. ! This is more than plausible since Mr, She is or was a professional humorist and at one time edited a New York magazine devoted to the smart crack and the quick quip, and there was much in Mr. Roosevelt's speech to suggest that it had been carefully keyed to the easily amused.

‘To Whom Are We Listening?"

MOST OF our Presidents have leaned heavily on the flimsy arm of the ghost writer. Even Lincoln, as Carl Sandburg reveals, was not above such eerie co-operation, and the Great Emancipator seems to have been meticulously individualistic in the composition of his state papers. It was seldom difficult to tell where Lincoln ended and the ghost took over. This is one of the perplexing features of the puddle system as practiced by our statesmen: To whom are we listening—the spirit or the flesh? How are we to know when we hear a point especially well made that it isn’t the brain child of a fugitive from some city room now laboring in the canned speech department of the contemporary administration? In this way isn’t it possible for a statesman to jieve a distinction for immense wisdom not altogether authentic? In his book; “The Ghost Talks” Charles’ Michelson; himself long a writing wraith, insists: “I was never present when a big speech was born that the Presi. dent did not take the political viands offered and cook them in his individual way. Franklin Roosevelt is a better phrase maker than anybody he ever had around him.” . .

'An Avid Fancier of Ghosts'

EVEN SO, Mr. Roosevelt appears to be an avid fancier of ghosts. No President ever surrounded himself with so many professionals like Mr. Michelson, semi-pros like Sam Rosenman and amateurs like Ben Cohen. a, In sports we once had an enthusiastic collector of ghosts—one Christy Walsh. His stable was composed of gents more noted for masculinity than mentality—Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Nick Altrock (for the Sherwood touch) and Lou Gehrig. All at once the business collapsed. A revealing law suit in which Dempsey was involved may have been a contributing factor. The suit had to do with a piece Dempsey allegedly had written. “I never read the stuff,” Dempsey testified. “I can’t understand it.” There ought to be a place for this particular ghost in Washington now. On second thought, maybe he's been there all along,

World Affairs By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 —President Roosevelt's blast at the Farrell regime in Argentina gives color to the report that a new meeting of American foreign ministers will take ‘place in November or December, * It also marks a break between the President and former Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles who, since his resignation, has been outspoken in his opposition to the state department’s policy toward Argentina, Secretary Hull, Mr. Roosevelt said, has already “clearly set forth” U. ‘8. policy, hence “there is no need for me to restate it now.” The Argentine government, the President's statement charged, “has repudiated solemn inter-American obligations on the basis of which the nations of this hemisphere developed a system of defense to meet the challenge of axis aggression.” and, he concluded: “I have considered it important to make this statement of the position of the government of the U. S. at $his time because it has come to my attention that the Nazi radio beamed to Latin‘ America, the proNazi press in Argentina, as well as a few irresponsible individuals and groups in this and other republics, seek to undermine the position of the American republics and our associates among the united nations by fabricating and circulating the vicious rumor that our councils are divided on the course of our policy toward Argentina.”

Greater Confusion Than Ever

NO CONFERENCE of American ministers has been Leld since January, 1942, at Rio de Janeiro, A similar conference, at Havana, in 1940, had passed a resolution saying that any attempt on the part of a nonAmerican state against the territorial sovereignty or the political independence of any American state would be regarded as a menace to all. Accordingly, after Pearl Harbor, the ministers met in Rio. Now greater confusion than ever threaten interAmerican relations, The European war is drawing to a close and the Japanese peril has been driven back to the extreme Western Pacific. Thus, as the Americas begins to plan their post-war course, their objec= tives naturally tend to broaden and to diverge, politically and economically. Meanwhile, inside the Americas, there is a growing fear that the defeated Nazis will seek to transplant their ideology in the western hemisphere. Under favorable conditions, they might keep fascism alive and spreading, pending their next attempt to impose it on the rest of the world. Friday, in commons, Foreign Secretary Eden warned that the Nazis realife they have lost this war and they have begun to prepare for the next,

Perfect Springboard for Fascists

ARGENTINA WOULD SEEM’ to offer the NazlFascists a perfect springboard for their operations in this hemisphere. Dictator Farrell ahd those a him have the Nazi outlook. They have the superi , or herrenvolk, complex. They hope to split the Amer~ ican republics and dominate at least one of the blocs, if possible, up to the Panama canal, And they have the German-trained army with them. « As in Germany, the evil is starting out as a minority. The bulk of the Argentine people are not in sympathy with it. But with a muzzled press, and a gestapo-like police, they are afraid to speak up. Asin Europe, the poison may spread. In Latin American circles there is a feeling that it is high time for another all-America conference. Otherwise Pan-American unity may be undermined just when the new world peace and security set-up needs it most. :

To The Point—

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“WOULDN'T CALL HIM A PERCHERON By Floyd Roberts, Indianapolis

In a recent speech by Governor Schricker he termed Governor Dewey a pony, saying we shouldn't swap a horse for a pony. Getting down to business, what is a horse? Down in Kentucky we only call them horses when they are from 3 to 8 years old. Above that we have a different name. called plugs. As for Schricker, we wouldn't call him a Percheron by any means, » ” s “GIVE HIM A

CHANCE, AMERICA”

By 8, Basey, Indianapolis. Just read Mr, Pappas’ letter of Sept. 27th asking me (of all things) how I dared to criticize F. D. R. Such communication deserves no answer, . really, but doesn’t Mr, Pappas know that such is still our privilege? ’ He also has the audacity to call our national debt a mole hill. I doubt if even Roosevelt would attempt that one.

Mr. ‘Daacke’s letter was of the more intelligent variety but surely he knows that those dirty political machines of whom he states, I quote, “They’ are all rotten,” are closely affiliated with Roosevelt and Truman. 1f is common knowledge everywhere. Earl and Mrs. Browder are obviously here to stay, as long as the New Deal is in power, at least. Lastly, let us not condemn Mr. Dewey unheard. He is working night and day to unite America. He is intelligent and morally clean. Give him a chance, America. ” 2 » “MY BLOOD PRESSURE SOARED”

By A. Taxpayer, Indianapolis. I have just finished reading the letter sent in by Mrs. Mayme Long of New Augusta, and, like her, can readily say that my face has burned and my blood pressure soared several times when our “officers of the law” have acted more like gestapo agents than I have always thought policemen in the United States should act. Let me say here and now, however, that I realize being a policeman is not a pleasant job, and people are bound to aggravate them many times, but we got along fine before they were given their orders

: . : @ : | a 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 fo express their views in sv these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, let-' ters 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 responsis bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

the street and when we could go to work and when we could catch our bus, and even when we could step off the curb. If citizens of Marion county and residents of Indianapolis are going to sit idly by and let the Chamber of Commerce make laws such as has been suggested, namely, that of giving pedestrians stickers. for crossing the street at the wrong time, etc, and fining them $1, $2, $3, etc, for their successive sins, then I'd say that they definitely have forgotten what our boys are fighting for. They aren't fighting for a country where their people are never allowed any freedom whatsoever and ‘are told just how and when to do everything they want to do. ” o os “IS MONEY JUST WORTHLESS PAPER?” By J. H. W., Elwood. Until Nov. 1940, one of the great achievements of the U. S, A. was the policy and practice of not electing any person to be President of the United States for more than two terms. The electorate forfeited an enviable status in world opinion by an elective confession that American individual integrity and capabilities have been so distorted that only one of 135,000,000 souls was able to pilot the Ship of State. The deplorable act of 1940 is shameful history. Has the individual initiative of the American people become so corrupt, so polluted, and delirious that the world again will see the debacle of a fourth term being promiscuously profiigated upon a long suffering and hoodwinked American population.

to tell us just when we could cross

Shall we Americans tolerate and

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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don’t deny it.

treme to another, similar to a ‘bullfrog in the bottom of a deep weM, jumping from one foreign substance to another? :

Let us take one stunt propounded

“YOU AND 1 ARE RESPONSIBLE" By A. Martin, Indianapolis Get your heads out of the sand, Mr. and Mrs. Ostrich, turn your eyes onto yourselves and take a good look. Awful, aint it? I'm referring to those of you who have been writing into this column accusing President Roosevelt of getting us in this war, blaming him for the sale of scrap iron to Japan ete., etc. You and I are responsible for all these things and it is about time we accepted that responsibility. ' We could have stopped the selling of scrap iron to Japan because we are the peoplé and this country is governed by the people. We couldn’t be bothered though—remember? Some of you are saying Roosevelt didn’t prepare or try to prepare us for war. I'm saying he tried his darndest to warn us of what was coming and to get us ready for it. I'm one of the millions who shouted “war monger” at him, You did the same and

Roosevelt said he wouldn't send our boys to fight on foregin soil. Well, would you all like to stop this war right now and send a note of apology to the Japs for not letting them stab us in the vitals as well as the back? I don’t know who will be our next President, but I do know he is in for a rugged time if he makes that first little human error. I guess there are so many god-like people on this earth that they don’t have to look to their own faults, just the other fellow's.

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the pe on Nov. 7 Ss was no easy decision for the young man to It is rather risky, in fact, for a young man on. the rise in politics to take such an attitude toward : head of his ticket, particularly with such a close fight as there seems to be in Minnesota. The state now is listed as leaning toward Governor Dewey, - Senator Ball is not up for re-election for four years, -| but politicians, who put much store by party regue” larity, have long memories. Did Not Bolt to Roosevelt

Governor Dewey should the Republican candidate's furthey. elaboration on foreign policy satisfy him. But. jhe senator's announcement indicates the depth of his concern about the creation of an effece tive post-war-world organization to keep the peace, Senator Ball was co-sponsor with another Republican, Senator Burton (O.), and two Démocratic senators,

em x ‘fila for a post-war world organization, yy solut groundwork for, and cone ‘tributed to, passage of the milder Connally resolution

, Senator Ball wag one of the few Repube

In Washington By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.— Women newspaper correspondents in Washington ha

and a "Desk Athlete® These “public enemy” appellations give a clew to their behavior. For protection, the gal reporters interview these in public. » » . WAR MOBILIZATION Director James F. Byrnes, speaking before a National Press club luncheon, was

asked if he favored raising wage ceilings by breaking ~ the Little Stee] Formula. ~ by

‘Whoever asked that” said Justice Byrnes, “was certainly no friend of mine.”

"I'l Have Nothing to De’

ASKED LATER if he intended to resign his OWM Job, as he stated he intended to do last June, he go} around the question by explaining that the new ree conversion bill provided for the appointment of a new “Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion” and the turning over to his office of all the work of the present OWM. “So,” said Justice Byrnes, “if I do nothing, I'll have nothing to do.” » 8» DEMOCRATIC Glamour Gal Helen Gahagan Douglas of Hollywood, who is a candidate for election to congress, got herself in 3 glorious mess and some publicity she wasn’t counting on in Dies come mittee investigations of the C. I. O. Political Action . Committee. Dies investigator Robert E. Stripling in« troduced a telegram from Mrs. Douglas to Senator Claude Pepper which said: “If at all possible, please prevail upon Vail Pitte man to run against McCarran in Nevada. Everything is in his favor and he is most electable.” Strike one against Mrs: Douglas is that Pittman was defeated by Senator Mu Strike two is an unwritten law that no candidate for congress has any business interfering in his party's primary in ane other state. Strike three: The C. I. O.-P. A. C. paid for her telegram. 7 . : ; ®

8 =n P. A. C. Grass Roots Work Exposed

duration of this political campaign the myth that the national headquarters of the C. I. O.-P. A. C. did

McKeough gressman and Chicago OPA- official, now Midwest P. A. C. director. The wire went to all his sta directors and it said: “Please immediately notify all locals and P. A. committees throughout your state to positively no political indorsements until by and national offices of 0.1. O-P. A. CO" a mis wherv American and Bish aicials didn’t know

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