Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1944 — Page 22

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— Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Own Woy WELL DONE, NAVY! : HE precise dimensions of the new naval vietory may not be known for a long time. But the communiques "and the dispatches of on-the-scene newspapermen make "it clear that the Japs, venturing out of uninformed udacity or out of save-face desperation into Philippine ‘waters, have been administered a whopping defeat. | Let us preface these remarks by a cold-water reminder ‘that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, nor one conquest at sea a victory over the Japanese people. The Japs, we ‘may be sure, will be quite as determined in the defense of ‘their homeland as Churchill promised in England’s darkest ‘hour that the English would be if invasion came. The fight thas just begun, and at best it will be long and hard. But all of us may be spared a moment of exultation at ‘the performance of those American men and machines, so ‘many thousands of miles from home waters and so com‘paratively close to the bases of the braggart Japs. Not nly the aircraft crews who risked—and many must have pent—their lives. But the steadfast gunners aboard our challenged warships, the sweating “giredales” manhandling those ship-based planes, the unsung specialists of the fleet ‘tankers, and men in a hundred other more or less obscure ‘Jobs—Ilots of them in their teens, lots of them recent land‘Jubbers—deserve our thoughts and our thanks. ; And if toasts are to be made, we ought not to forget ‘some people here at home—the people who make, for ‘instance, those 400-knot Grumman fighter planes that roost, ‘on vengeance sent, aboard our carriers. They have wrought well.

td ” ” THE JAP high command will know soon, if it does not ‘already acknowledge in its inner councils, that the jig is up. The situation is comparable to that of the Nagis, {although perhaps the imminence of total defeat is less near,

But we are dealing in the Orient with a proud and never defeated people, just as in Europe we face a proud and pap-fed nation making its final bid for wide dominion. In either case defeat means the end of grandiose national ambitions—and, more personally, the disgrace and death of national leaders. The tragedy, to Americans as well as to the enemy, is that even as defeat becomes inevitable to the . stupidest of fanatics, the fight will be carried on in the name of a maudlin and threadbare ‘honor”—the kind of _ honor that is practiced, when convenient, among felons. ! The Philippine victory is bringing the felons closer to ‘the gibbet. os

DEWEY READS THE RECORD i OVERNOR DEWEY Tuesday night read the record of President Roosevelt's handling of foreign affairs. He cited the. President’s failures ‘in diplomacy and national \defense, which left this nation unprepared for the Jap attack. The President, by his distortions of the record ‘Saturday night, asked for it, and Dewey has given it to him. It is not pleasant to recall those 12 years of Roosevelt ~ blindness to the warnings of his own experts, of his fatal belief that he alone knew all the answers, and of the price which this nation paid and is still paying for his mistakes. ‘But, since he still insists that he is the one man capable to

‘the voters: Roosevelt on taking office said the world picture was an image of substantial peace—not bad for his Republican predecessors. But the next day Hitler became dictator, and the world started its downward plunge. What did Roosevelt do? He had given up his advocacy of a league of nations. He scuttled the London economic conference, though it was a desperate effort at international co-

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AS THE AXIS menace grew worse, Roosevelt made a quarantine-the-aggressors speech, but as usual talked one way and acted another. He kept cutting down the ‘army and navy appropriation requests—even after the European war began. When in 1940 Dewey and many ‘others demanded a two-ocean navy, he called them “just plain dumb.” He tried to send congress home, but congress .~under public and press pleas—stayed on and passed preparedness measures. He continued to appease Japan by ‘allowing vast shipments of scrap iron and steel, and of oil. i The President failed to foresee or to prepare for the Japanese attack, despite constant warnings of his state department and military chiefs—not to mention members of congress, The fact is that the President has guessed wrong so often that he has had to resort to secret diplomacy, to secrecy-about Pearl Harbor investigations, to secrecy about many of his inept operations, Not the least costly part of his record is his inability “to work with congress. If he could not get along with the Democratic congresses of the past, certainly he could not co-operate with the coming Republican congress. We are not apt to get very far with the international and domestic problems ahead, if we have a President who is in constant feud with congress, which he considers a nuisance.

MR.ROOSEVELT SAID— 3 ‘AND I propose to use this position of high responsibility to discuss up and down the country, in all seasons, af all times, the duty bf reducing taxes, of increasing

nd our governmental structure, of getting the most ice for every dollar paid in taxation.. That I and nothing I have said in the campaign importance this covenant with the taxpayers

| REFLECTIONS—

Was It Helen?

he pushed back his plate, “A good way to spend a

‘lead, let him be judged by the facts of which Dewey reminds |

efficiency of governmerit, of cutting out the underbrush |

By John W. Hillman

WE DON'T do it too often, lest our fellow toilers suspect us of crass commercial motives, but lunching with the boss is both a profitable and pleasant pastime. Not only is it balm for the budget, the boss being one of the most nim#le check-snatchers in the business, but it rarely fails to produce some form of intellectual stimulation, For the boss has interesting ideas, which usually | are interesting and sometimes are pretty sound, despite what the letter-writers say. Just the other day, for example, he remarked as

rainy afternoon some time is to read the Iliad, sub- I stituting the words “foreign trade” for “Helen of Troy” every time her name appears. It's amazing how {it will make sense.” Now the boss, ought to know how we spend our rainy ‘afternoons—and it's not reading Homer—but we didn't say so. After all, he's the boss, and anyway the idea intrigued us. One day, after we retire to spend our declining years in some genteel poorhouse, we're going to try it,

There Must Have Been Something Else

BUT WE SUSPECT the boss is right, and we're not just saying that because we hope well get 8 raise when they become legal again. And we wonder if his amended version won't come closer to the real basic causes of the Trojan war than the way Homer wrote it, Of tourse that war is purely legendary, so no one tan prove anything. Helen must have been quite a gal, but we've noticed that when men fight over a woman the chances are that they didn't like each other very well in the first place. And we've a hunch that perhaps the reason Agamemnon called out the guard wasn't entirely to avenge his brother’s personal honor; there must have been something else, We've read that the archeologists digging around the ruins of Troy have found pottery that is a crude imitation of the Mycenaean ware that was made in Agamemnon’s kingdom, So isn't it reasonable to Suppose that those unprincipled Trojans may have been doing a little underselling in the world market? Hence when Helen decamped humming “The Last Time I Saw Paris,” instead of shrugging his shoulders and consoling his kinsman with the contemporary equivalent of the proverb, “Never run after a woman or a street car; therell be another one along in three minutes,” Agamemnon said, “Troy, eh? We'll see about that!” Then he called out all the stockholders, and they launched those thousand ships—, which later came in mighty handy for the export. trade—and ° sailed to Troy. They recaptured Helen, of course, and saved the honor of Menelaeus, But they also smashed all that cheap Trojan crockery and burned the pottery works to the ground. And Mycenaean Housewares, Inc. paid a neat dividend the next year,

You Won't Be Far Wrong

THAT'S THE WAY of wars. With the exception of the Opium wars, which were only bush league skirmishes by modern standards, hardly any are named after the real reason. for the shooting. It's much nicer to say you're fighting for human freedom or the glory of the empire than to admit that you're trying fo make the world safe for the textile mills or that you're grabbing for oil, or markets, er raw materials. But if you follow out the ‘Helen of Troy” formula and substitute “foreign trade” for the announced causes of most any of the wars of history, you won't be far wrong, Homer may have known all this when he wrote the Niad, but after all he was a poet and not an economist. And a war over a beautiful woman makes better reading than a scramble for a favorable balance of trade. : - We don't blame Homer. As a matter of faet, when you come right down to it, we'd rather spend that rainy afternoon with Helen ourselves.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Polish: Crisis By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.— There is grave anxiety inside united nations circles over reports that Prime Minister Churchill’s Soviet-Polish peace-making mission to Moscow was a failure, Poland, according to these reports, will shortly have to submit to the loss of half her territory and to the imposition of a puppet government inside what is left. Russia, apparently, is determined to hold on to the.part of Poland which she acquired in her pact with Germany in 1939. The Poles will be allowed to retain Western Poland—the half which was to have gone to Hitler— plus a ‘slice of Germany, perhaps up to the Oder, But much depends on whether the new Warsaw government suits Moscow.

Britain, U. S. Face Grave Decision

IF THESE reports prove true, Britain and the United States likewise face a grave decision, Either they will have to let Russia do as she pleases with their ally, Poland, and with Germany's eastern frone tiers, or risk the demolition of the peace plans blueprinted at Dumbarton Oaks, All this is bound to have tremendous repercussions in the United States senate when that body comes to pass on American peace participation. Any arbitrary disposal of the Polish state to please one of the Big Three, will netessarily became part of the post-war set-up which we will be called upon to guarantee. Those who are most alarmed are not the isolationists. On the contrary anxiety is chiefly among ardent internationalists—those who are working for world security through co-operation. If anything, the isolationists are pleased because it bolsters their thesis that the great powers will play ball only so long as it doesn't interfere with their own interests. Informed internationalists, on the other hand, are alarmed because they know world collaboration based on power politics and injustice sooner or later will go on the rocks.

‘Why Not Co-operate Now?"

SPEAKING AT Sabetha, Kas, Tuesday night, Alf M. Landon, former G.O.P. candidate for the presi~ dency, said something that, in one form or another, is frequently heard here. Baid he: “Pew question that the nations of the world must set up an organization to co-operate in maintaining peace. But why not co-operate now by participating in the European settlements? , . . Now is the time to exercise our full influence, politely but positively. aie Future war or peace is being decided in these European arrangements—more than at Dumbarton Oaks . . . but we don't blow the whistle to restrain and strengthen democracy in the world, By the time the inevitable clashes from the cockpit of Hurope reach the united nations security organization. it will be too late to stop the ‘threat to peace’ if an imperialistic voting procedure is” adopted.” Mr. Landon charges President Roosevelt himself with isolationism. He says the President remains aloof while “allowing Churchill and Stalin to deter-

‘retreated to the isolationism which was the policy of his administration from 1032 until after the 1940

Hitler."

_ Election-year accents aside, it is obvious that the

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mine the frame of Europe... . . Mr. Roosevelt has |’ ‘election, and which encouraged the aggressions of

future of Europe is being decided now, day by day. |. a regular peace conference is held, it |

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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’S BETTER TO HAVE JOBS”

By a Daily Reader, Indianapolis 1 think it is an insult to the American people to say President Roosevelt is the kind of a man the Republican party tries to make him out, after they elected him for 12 straight years, and the American people must be very dumb. » The Republican party ruled from the time of Abraham Lincoln to Grover Cleveland, about 24 years straight. What did they do for the working man? From Grover Cleveland to Woodrow ‘Wilson, about 16 years straight, what did they do for the working man? Woodrow Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 12 straight years, what did they do for the working man? Because they are not for the laboring class. : After 12 years of their rules, there were bank failure and bread lines, and shops closed everywhere, and men begging for a job at any pay. It's better to have jobs and pay taxes than no job. If you are a “yes man" to your party, you will have nothing te quarrel about. You would think Mr. Roosevelt was on trial for his life and Dewey was the prosecuting atterney. >

“18 DEWEY TOO YOUNG?" By One of Many, Indisnapolis

* There has been considerable talk lately, by folks in high places, that Candidate Dewey is too ‘young for the job of President. Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Andy Jackson was just Dewey's age when he won the battle of New Orleans as general of the American army. George Washington was 42 years old when he was sworn in as commander of the American armies which wrested our independence from England. Alexander the Great died at the age of 33 after he had eonquered the known world. Augustfis Caesar was 18 years old when his uncle, Julius Caesar, was assassinated, but by the age of 26 he had made himself absolute ruler of the Roman Empire. Theodore Roosevelt was under 45 when he became President of the United States, and his fifth cousin, Franklin Delano, voted for him for President in 1004, so he says. Thomas Dewey is in the prime of manhood, physically and mentally. Sidney Hillman, the Rus-sian-horn C. 1. O. leader and the Reuther brothers of the C. I. O. auto workers’ union (who were educated in Moscow in the technique of sit-down strikes, street fighting and boring from within) and Earl Browder, former Communist candidate for President, next a federal convict pardoned by President Roosevelt, may not like Dewey because he stands for the old American way of the home,

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-» referring to mine of Oct. 4 in a mass of falsehoods, that certainly are entitled to the blue ribben. I challenge him to find in that article, Russia or Communism, mentioned, directly or indireetly, by implication, or even between the lines, to use a common slang phrase.

» “ ” “LEOPARD HAS NOT CHANGED HIS SPOTS” By Pred Hamilton, 534 Maple vd. 1 notice with amazement that Governor Schricker, in a recent speech at Muncie,” Ind, drew com ns between the present campaign and the campaign of 1864, I cannot but think that the governor does not know the history of the campaign of 1864 or he would surely be as much ashamed of the

the church and the scheel, but

forests and “malaria

down the wolves, Indians,

safe in Europe. H » »

“DOES NOT SEE THE GRIM REALITIES” By H. W. Daacke, Indianapolis

a lot of the rest of us do, folks whose ancestors fought the revelus tion and the civil wars, wha eut battled and drought to settle the country while the Petrillos and their ilk were

Conjributors to, and readers of the Hoosier Forum, to all you lovers of fair play, honesty, truth, I appeal to your judgment. Let's hear from

ou. During the dark days following

part his party played in an act of disloyalty as history records, Does the governor know that the Democratic national convention of 1864 was held up for two months to permit leaders of his party to meet with leaders of the southern confederacy in Canada for the purpose of selling out the U. 8, gov-

during that entire campaign, his was a party of disloyalty? But perhaps he does know these things, ‘Maybe he has some inside >| information on the alliance between his party and the Russian Communists. Is history again repeating as it has so often in the past? Is there a similarity between the present campaign and that of 1864? Is the

ernment? Does he not know that{ concerned,

Democrat party again attempting

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tween victary and defeat. Paradoxically, if Republicans win, they alse m give the Political Action Committee some credit. it has stirred up Republican organization leaders and workers. They are more frank in conceding this than are most Democrats. For example, when the Rolitical Action Committee began to send out ita sound trucks through the steel mill districts around Pittsburgh, it woke up Republicans,

Dollar Campaign Gives Others Ideas

LIKEWISE, in New York City, many people who have complained long and loud but never bothered previously te do anything about it at the ballot got in line this year and registered, This explain the high registration there, Also the dollar-per-worker campaign Political Action Committee has given

by the Council of Republican which insists, however, that it invented this some years ago and is not aping P. A. C. the Political Action Committee's paign has been disappointing despite by Republicans some time back about the chest the C. I. O. was going to have Having whipped up registration so licans got busy and swelled their the Political Action Committee itself, in looking forward Consequently, the erganisation now to get its own followers to the polls

IN WASHING TON—

Meet the President

the financial debacle of 1929, with millions of workers deprived of the right to work and earn a livelihood for themselves and their families, when the cream of statesmen and politicians were, helpless to even alleviate the conditions of millions of unemployed workers, came our President, and through the much criticized alphabetic agencies, NRA, WPA, CCC and others, provided what probably was a sub-standard of living, but prevented millions of workers being forced into the bread and soup lines, On Oct. 4, 1944, my contribution to the Hoosier Forum stated a case history of a nation, that solved that problem, through co-operation and compromise, between the owning and working groups. ? Yet on Oct, 12, 1944, a contributor, calling himself “Voice in the Crowd” has the audacity to accuse me of having said nothing. Then through his rose-colored glasses he goes on to state, with a lot of rhetoric, on the brighter side of life in the U. 8. A. He does not seg the grim realities of life as they are in that

to sell out their country?

prima facia

. “KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN”

title than the text.

Hillman and Browder,

more fitting.

Pardoning of convict Browder in time for his participation in the fourth term campaign, the sure render of the Democrat party to him and to Hillman appear to be evidence that the leopard has not changed his spots.

By William Loehr, Greenfield, Indiana Having read a Mr. Victor Loehr's article entitled “Shame on You Mr Roosevelt,” I agree more with the Poor Mr. Loehr, I suppose Mr. Dewey and Mr. Roosevelt should become bosom pals like Such a nice thought. Also, anybody who talks about our great President should be ashamed of themselves, of all things, ashamed. Albeit, a medal would be He doesn’t come out in the open and say this but you have to read more than the title, which is lucrative enough. Enough of this Loehr business. Now, I would

same U. 8. A,

The late Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, in Chicago, was not challenged when she stated that 50,000 babies, less than one year old, died in the Chicago slums for lack of milk and other nourishing foods, On Oct. 11, 1944, S. Basey had a contribution to the Hoosier Forum,

like to answer some who say Dewey, it elected, would be surrounded by capitalists. This caffitalistic country of ours has fought and won two great wars, and is winning the third ane, but of course, with the help of the Communists here who have gone underground since the war started. But surely not so far underground that we cannot still hear politieal

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

diatribe from their leaders ever so often, Mr. Roosevelt is surrounded by very able Communists, able that is to secure their own desires. In closing I will say “I would rather have a capitalistic country, which we have had for years, than a Communistic Red network, emanating from various groups of our country.” This is surely what we have been heading for in the last few years. If you doubt it, read the newspapers, There are speeches by

open for the sake of our country, a» “IT'S LAUGHABLE, THIS BLARNEY” By T. J. Swan, "3600 NMillside ave. It’s laughable, this blarney that

Dewey, and his crew, are passing out to the American people. What

cussing President Roosevelt's little flea hound. But glancing through The Times’ Oct. 19 edition, it .|amazed me that a man, or men, {woud throw slurs at Roosevelt's

monster. 1 doubt

ore pasture. Did his dog in The and 1 laughed,

DAILY THOUGHTS Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill can-

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gome of them. And keep your eyes!

when Dewey's dog is a dog,|

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Oet. nu

that this organization has the makings of one of the most powerful pressure groups ever created to influence White House opinion. : ‘ Every member who kicks in ° his $1000 gets a beautiful copper-engraved, red enamel inlay life-time membership card and a copy of the constitution, a noble and inspiring document of lofty

The prospectus for membership makes this bald statement: “Every member should and will know our President, to more intimately realize the zeal with which he so successfully guided our country's ship of state through the most troubled waters of our history : In other words, join up and you get to know the President personally. Some of the franker approadhes to prospective members havé been along the line of, “You want to get in that White House, don't you?" When the prospect indicates that he sure does, that greases the skids for the $1000 touch.

May Contribute Additional Sums

THE CONSTITUTION of the 1000 lub states that this “voluntary contribution of $1000 shall be one of the qualifying requirements to membership." There sre no other dues to this exclusive club, but it is provided that, “any member may contribute additional Payment of the $1000 initiation fee is not, however, the only way a prospect may become & member. If a good party wheelhorse gives the equivalent of $1000 in services, that would make him eligible, or if he had given $1000 to other party organisations—the Democratic national committee, or Democratic stdte or county or township or city committees, he could still get in by proving his good deeds of the past, “The board of trustees,” says the constitution, “may clest to membership any eligible person who has in its opinion contributed outstanding services to the objectives of this elub.” Borrowing 8 ling original with Gerald L. K. Smith, Dr. Edward A. Rumely, Pappy O'Daniel and other such educational leaders, the first objective of the 1000 club is stated as “Ta support and defend the Constitution.” In politics,- you can apparently do anything you want to just so long as you say it's to sup and defend the Constitution, ! ond and third objectives of the 1000 club are: “ro promote the general welfare of the United States” and “To support the ware." The club's constitution provides members should

a time the Republicans have dis-| prepare

“Io participate actively in political campaigns . In supporting the men best qualified to hold public

It Costs Money to Elect a President

BUT THE PAYOFF comes in the final precept: ° “To accept contributions and make expenditures for the purpose of influencing the election of candi-

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