Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1944 — Page 10

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Give Light ond the People WAl Find Their Own Way

DEEP in the general heart of men, his power survives,” wrote Wordsworth of a man who spoke for and to “the common people. And that, we believe, can well he said of Wendell L. ~ Willkie whose death means more than the passing of just another political figure. Millions of Americans feel today that they have lost a friend. Millions throughout the world know in their hearts the power of his ideas and principles. * His career is ended, but his work will go on. For Wendell Willkie left his mark. He was a big man, and he cast a long shadow across our times. And that shadow was shaped by the personality of Wendell Willkie. There was power in the man. You felt it when you met him. You felt the friendship that reached out to even the most casual stranger, you felt his interest, the warmth, the depth and the sincerity of one who knew only the inherent dignity and nobility of all men. There was no sham in him, so he could look beyond the superficial to the real in others. ne & = = s&s = » WENDELL WILLKIE was as American as baseball. He had no awe for the rulers of the world, no condescension for the humble. "He saw them both as men, and he liked * them because it was said of him, as of Will Rogers, that “he never met a man he did not like.” This feeling for humanity was the basis of his liberalism, the midwestern liberalism of a Lincoln or a William . Allen White. He saw all men as equals, and he fought with the passionate intensity of his great heart against injustice and tyranny in every form. This, with him, was not the pose of demagoguery ; it was real and sincere, a flaming spirit that was part of his being. And the little people sensed it in him, and loved him. : His was a large soul. When the very ones for whom he fought jeered him and splattered him with eggs and epithets, he knew no bitterness. In defeat, he rose to greater sthture. Scorning the tricks and pretenses of politics, he labored on to preach the gospel of human rights, he drove on for unity and understanding that would make the whole world one. He saw life clearly, and, like another great American, he “held the long purpose like a growing tree.” He had two high ideals, the American way and the way of peace. And truly, as one of his closest associates said yesterday of him, “Freedom has lost its great-

# ~ . ” 5 " OTHER MEN have felt as Wendell Willkie did, but few have had the power to project their ideals to others, to stand as a symbol and a standard bearer, head and shoulders above the crowd. The secret of that lay largely in his sincerity. In his Elwood acceptance speech, he spoke of “the political philosophy that is in my heart.” He might as well have said, “the political philosophy that is my heart.” His mind was broad and brilliant, but it was his heart he trusted. i : People had faith in him, too, because they knew his ~ courage and his independence. “I wear my sovereignty under my own hat,” he said, and this was no idle boast. His - was the courage that knows no lost causes, his the forths right spirit that scorns the easy courses of expediency. No ~ man is ever a great leader, as Willkie was, unless he dares "to walk alone. ce Wendell Willkie never became President, after he rose fo national stature in a single night, though 22,338,801 Americans gave him their indorsement. But Wendell Willkie did not need to become President. His influence, and his greatness, was more truly shown and was stronger - than that of many who filled the office he failed to reach. For he held men’s respect, their trust, and their affection. ; And America is better, the world finer because he lived to give expression to a nation’s ideals, to become the keeper . of its conscience. Wendell Willkie is gone from a world that has need of his talents and his statesmanship. And, like a tall oa fallen, he leaves a vacant place against the sky. :

DOWN ON THE POST-WAR FARM

IT may be that the beating of swords into plowshares will take on a new twist after this war. Already the jeep, or some form of it, is promised for farm work. The department of agriculture says that come post-war we shall be able to attack mosquitoes with the aerosol bomb, apparently a combination of air raid and gas attack which is harmless to man. A message from France says that mine detectors have been used by G. Is to locate caches of brandy that French farmers buried to keep them from the Germans. - And if this can be done, it seems reasonable that we may see a modification of the detector capable of locating woodchucks and gophers, and of divining where grandma left her spectacles or the old turkey hen her. nest. : Perhaps, too, the bazooka will come to replace the scarecrow and shotgun as guardian of the vegetable garden. And Junior, sent to find the wandering herd and bring it in for milking, may line up their position with his portable ; aa set; ne summon them with a “Co, Boss” on his

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. teeing deposits in all national banks, I believe that

both banker and depositor. 1 believe that it would be an Seferat treasury to make good any

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IF ANY monuments are to be built to honor the home front heroes of this war, we'd like to ~ nominate Lorna Slocombe of Cambridge, Mass, for an obelisk or

something. Miss Slocombe, you may recall, is the young woman who was

We Think She Was Justified THERE'S A difference of opinion about how that

no doubt, claims that the dishes slid off the tray. That explanation, like squash, is a bit hard to swallow—restaurant china doesn't break that easily. But even if Miss Slocombe let the waitress have the mashed potatoes right in the teeth, as we suspect she did, and tossed the blue plate special into the bleacher seats, we think she was’fully justified. We're for Miss Slocombe 100 per cent, in spite of the fact that we don't usually condone violence and we've always believed that anyone who preferred squash to potatoes—even restaurant potatoes—was slightly subversive, It was only a question of time until someone started dishing il out on this “Don't you know there's | a war on” business. If ever a cliche was overworked, this one has been. And usually it has been used to justify sloppy service or downright discourtesy that has no relationship whatever to ihe war. If you ask the girl at a lunch counter to interrupt the play-by-play account of her date. last night to get you a cup of coffee, she ruffies her stringy hair, shifts

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her gum to the other side and sneers, “don’t you know there's a war on?” If you protest against inferior or misrepresented merchandise, you get the same answer. And it's said in a tone that cleatly infers that you must spend your spare moments siphoning gasoline from B-28s and boring holes in invasion barges.

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

Quite frequently, the question is directed at people who, like Miss Slocombe, do know that there's a war on—and know it more personally than any supercilious I-dare-you-to-buy-anything hahe:dashery clerk or any this-is-much-beneath-me ‘waitress,

It Happened to Ernie

FOR EXAMPLE, there's an incident that never got into Ernie Pyle’s column, and probably wouldn't even be known to Ernie's closest friends except that one of them happened to be along at the time. A year ago, just back from Tunisia and Sicily, war weary and short on civilian clothes, Ernie stopped nt a store to buy a hat. The clerk couldn't produce the kind of light felt that Ernie wears, but attemptedgto sell him something else. And when Ernie said le guessed he'd look elsewhere, the clerk snapped—you guessed it: “Don’t you know there's a war on?” The same thing has happened to thousands of service men back from the fighting fronts. And to mothers whose sons will never return. So why not consign this moth-eaten crack to oblivion? You never can tell ‘whom you may be addressing and, by this time, most Americans do know there's a war on and are doing something about it. : Personally, we'd be quite willing to join a Lorna Slocombe club, sworn to follow to the last saucer the example of our gallant founder, whenever we're goaded by that inane question. We'd even bring our own china. Furthermore, if Miss Slocombe ever comes fo Indianapolis, we'll see that she gets all the squash she wants: ‘Our garden is over-run with the stuff, and even our best friends won't touch it.

World Affairs

By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—~The final phase of the. Dumbarton Oaks conference on an international security organization is coming to a close in the same secret diplomacy that has cursed this and all the other Roosevelt foreign policy meetings. When the hush-hush opening of Dumbarton was protested, the official excuse was that a full statement would be made after the sessions * attended by Russia and again after those attended by China. But the announce ment after the Big Three meetings was only a coverup of generalities, and now a similar meaningless statement is planned when the Chinese leave. This is happening in a democracy in which there is supposed to be public control of foreign policy, and at the only time within a four-year period in which the people have a chance to vote in a national election.

Another Issue Is Not Settled

THE COUNTRY is indebted to Secretary of State Hull and Democratic senators on the one side and to candidate Dewey and Republican sénators on the other side, whose co-operation created an American united front on the broad issue of American partici. pation in an effective democratic world peace organization. By the bi-partisan passage of the Connally resolution, by their platforms and by the pledges of their presidential candidates, both parties have removed this as an issue from the campaign. ; But there is another issue which is not settled, and which cannot safely be withdrawn from public discussion. Is the international organization now in the making the kind pledged by the senate resolution and party platforms and allied declarations, or is it to be much less—even a screen for big power spheres of influence and world domination?

. Dewey properly raised this question at the be.ginning of the Dumbarton conference and again in his foreign affairs speech at Louisville.

Time Has Arrived for Full Debate

THE TIME has arrived for full American debate on the question which has deadlocked the Dumbarton conference. Shall a big power aggressor have a right to veto a league vote or action against it—in other words, is only a small state, which cannot force a world war anyway, subject to league restraint? That is the Russian plan, according to Dumbarton leaks. The British plan, according to Churchill, is for a big power council to control the new league. Another question is whether, in the proposed league, our President is to have complete American authority or is the U..S. senaie to retain its con. stitutional, right to ratify foreign commitments and congress its constitiitional war-making power? Under Roosevelt secrecy the public does not know what is administration policy on these and related

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“WARS ARE NOT WON THAT WAY” By L. W. Heagy, Indianapelis

It is my pleasure to again congratulate The Times for its forthright reasons in {its support of Thomas E., Dewey. Without verbosity, the 10 reasons plainly stated give a plenty for the electorate to mull over and chew upon. Ten paragraphs of facts, such as given, should be rated of more worth than all the political propaganda of the present campaign. To me, this is the most vital presidential election of the 14 in which I have had a part. It is not a question of trading horses. The big issue is the saving of the Constitution. o Remaining are four more weeks for . consideration by the independent voters. Consider it this way: Why should I vote for ‘my granddad's party because he won the Civil war, or for President Wilson's party because he won world war I. Bosh, baloney and applesauce! Wars are not won that way. It takes a united people to win a war. We shall win this war. The major problem is . , . it takes brains to win the peace. s » tJ “TIME SOMEBODY _ SET YOU STRATE" By Saianthy, Indianapolis. Ezry, it's about time somebody set you strate on matters of the world and in pertikkler, the political world. The trouble with you is you've been settin’ around the corner cracker barrl too long an your brains is gettin’ fuzzy along with the rest of them New Dealers. You musta been listenin’ to some radio program and heered that new song “Is you is or is you ain't” caus where else would you ever think up such a catchy phrase? Well, to get to the point. Dewey ain’t—but he’s goin’ to be. And when he is, you'll prob'ly read it in the newspapers—or have it read to you—cause I can't quite figger how a guy as dumb as you can read. You might vote for F. D. R, once more—but you'd better hang onto the rekklection, cause it'll be yer last chance. Now as I figger it out, Dewey ain't tryin’ to nose F. D. R. out of his job—fact is, from what I read in the papers, the American peepul want the job done right and they figger this man Dewey is the one who can win by a nose. I know F. D. R. is bein’ given

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, letters 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 responsi bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

credit for the good things he has did, cause I heard Dewey say 80 himself. It's the things he has failed to do that has the peepul up in the air. I personal like to hear a man say he'll bring the boys back as soon as he can after the war is over, for I've got a boy in there pitchin’ and I'll be mighty glad to see him home agin. If Dewey done any mudslingin’ the other night on the radio, F. D. R. oughta pattern after him. For it sure was a.swell job of dignified and restrained mudslingin’, Course, Dewey doesn’t have no dog to talk about and couldn't bring man's best friend into his speech--but it kinda appealed to the mothers and fathers of the boys givin’ all they got to make it safe for a man to get up and talk about his little dog and wisecrack with the boys and talk about Dewey in a kinda sly way. It was a doggone good show but sure was a let down comin’ from the President of the United States. Mr. Dewey has a right good sense of humor, too—the difference bein’ he knows when and where to use ft. : Nope, I don’t think it is just because Dewey wants to be president

(quoting you). I think that since the thinkin’ people of America have showed him he is one of their favorite peepul by honorin’ him with the nomination for president of this wunderful country, that he wants to show his appreciation of their faith in him and is givin’ the best he has in him to the job. He didn't ask for it you know—but when he got it he didn’t fumble the ball, When Dewey gets in the chair of

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By M. E. Clark, Noblesville A friend of mine said to me the other day, “You're not for a 4th term are you?” Then I thought of the 33 years 1 have served one firm. Then I said, “Yes, why not?” But I am like Mr. Dewey, I prefer to think of Mr. Roosevelt's terms, not as first, second, third or fourth, as it may be, but as one term of 16 years. Why has he served the country so long? Because the voters have ok.'d the continuity of office, Yes, four terms if satisfactory and one term of four years if not. Sorry I did not mean to bring back memories of a one turner away back in 1028, B. R. He might not of been satisfactory so some folks started voting for Mr. Roosevelt and kinda got the habit. I believe instead of a tired old man, Mr. Roosevelt has nerves and constitution, unmatched in this country. He has worn out two or three vice presidents and some of the candidates of the Republicans. I have no faith in the sincerity of Mr. Dewey's intentions of world co-operation to keep the peace while Mr. Roosevelt sells bananas; Mr. Dewey probably can't say “bananas,” so he just says, “Me too.” He can keep on saying “me “too” until election, and if successful can get out of this commitment or will be lifted out of the situation by the isolation group which is supporting him by killing the program of reservations tacked on, or in other words, we are for it but not that way, as they did in 1920. I'm not sold on Mr. Dewey's economic philosophy. I'm not afraid of a 4th term but more afraid of a 1st.

» . “SERVICE HERE IS MUCH BETTER” By: Walter DeMoss, Indianapolis I have read the articles on the first page of Friday's and Saturday's

Times regarding the taxi bandits as referred to by the city weight and measure “Matron.” And I can’t see the reason for the at-

I have used taxies ‘daily for the past five years from the Union sta-

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‘Other important committee chairmanships include military affairs, where Chairman May, 8, Kentucky, would be replaced by Rep. Andrews, 55, New York; naval affairs Chairman Vinson, 61, Georgia, by Rep. Maas, 46, Minnesota. : Fifty-one<year-old Rep. Hope, Kansas, would take over the agriculture committee chairmanship, replacing Chairman Fulmer, 69, South Caralina. Young Republicans wbuld head nearly all of the minor house committees.

In Washington By John W. Love

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Industrial Relocation Considered

THE SAME TENSIONS are partly responsible for objections being raised by congressmen and others to |

their highest level, both within Detroit and outside, in order to forestall a centrifugal movement of the motor industry on a wide scale. Some decentralization is being considered and is expected to lead to impor. tant industrial relocations, Among the latest prospectors for new sites, are the Brothers Fisher. Glittering prizes dangle before cities anxious about their industrial future. A large works in the motor inaustry wiil be located in one of the first communities in the middle states able to offer a plant of 1,000,000 square feet.

Some Companies to Build New Plants

THE CRISIS in the new industria] rivalry is not likely to be reached for more months than most

before its plant disposal program billions’ worth of plants must be:sold or leased or kept in standby condition and no city wants to see any of its plants closed, if it can help it. At the same time a number of companies will go ahead and build their own new plants after the war, without waiting for government decisions on existing plants, no matter how new they are. One of their

have been priced low enough to take into account poor location, too great a specialisation, original high costs, wartime depreciation and so on, the public will ery out that the corporation has gypped the govern ment and got the works for next to nothing. Thus if the McCarran committee had its way and got congress to freeze seven billions’ worth of government property in the North and East, there is no assurance that its objects would be attained. It might simply inspire another wave of industrial building in the old manufacturing centers.

Says West Got Too Many ‘Lemons’

THIS COMMITTEE (four Democrats, two Republicans) has published elaborate charts of plant construction, war contracts and population shifts which tend to show that of the plants the western states managed to get during the war, too many were high. priced and specialized, while the plants built in the East were more readily convertible to peace-time uses. It argues that for every new plant the East wants to use Post-whi, it must scrap an old plant of the same According to Lawrence Drake of the committee's staff the West got too many “lemon” plants. Some of these, it will be remembered, were located in the old defense days, when Sidney Hillman, co-ordinator of production with William 8. Knudson, and others were

with “social” aims, The committtee will hold hearings on the report in San Francisco on Nov. 16-18,

considerations is that after the government plants

tion to the stock yards and my fare has never been more than 55¢ and this is not too much for that distance, and the cab returns empty, 0 pays for that? Another thing, are several hundred former ‘ serving overseas, and fully resent drivers are men turned from overseas|

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over which we have to get agreement before can be done.—~George T. Christopher, president ard Motor Co, on reconversion. i *

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