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+. THE WOMEN ARE LEARNING

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OMEN - are beginning to learn what men have known all along about how difficult it is to deal with our gow ernment; . Men ruirmost of the Pusinestes. pay most of the direct taxes, govern. most of the labor. iinions; operate niost of the - farms. Men have long known the annoyance of overlap- | ping questionnaires, the irritation of trying to conduct their affairs in the teeth of ‘conflicting’ “directives and changing rules. They have known, for instance, how costly it is to the pocketbook to run a business 10 months according to one set of tax laws, only to have the laws changed in the | 11th month, predenting ‘an “entirely different tax liability © for the year’s business. ‘ But the women are learning. Women handle most of the ration hooks.. They budget the red and blue stamps, ays to use them sparingly to provide the familys needs. They keep close tab on the changing point values of goods and foodstuffs: -They read statements of OPA officials urging them not te-rush out and spend their stamps to hoard up unneeded supplies, but to save the stamps and ‘spend them only as-needed because the stamps will be good indefinitely. Then overnight OPA announces that all un-

- used stamps have been cancelled. The woman who spent all

her stamps and hoarded stuff is.not penalized. ¢ The woman ‘who didn’t hoard, who saved her stamps planning to buy a8 ham for New Year's dinner, feels cheated. 3 2 # = a a » THE CHARITABLE thing to say is that the OPA had to do what, it did—and certainly in wartime patriotic ¢iti‘zens will want to take that attitude and be tolerant of what had to be. But if you admit the OPA had to change the rules suddenly, the only charitable conclusion is that the responsible officials of OPA or the war food administration, or both, miscalculated civilian suppiies—which is another way, of saying they didn’t know what they were doing. Howgrarjvigwad the effect is to undermine the housewife's conice in the rationing program. and to tempt her to spend her next ration stamps quickly and hoard -up stuff before the government changes its mind again. Men have had experiencé with the ‘vagaries of government changing rules at its sovereign will, or to caver up | the mistakes of officeholders. Women are getting some of | the same experience. : TEN Ss. ; ONE OPA OFFICIAL admitted that when that agency suddenly cancelled unused ration stamps the initial reaction

of the public was “indignation, confusion, bewilderment and

irritation.” But he said he was confident that people “won't. stay ‘sore long.” = That fellow, besides Being "an optimist, must also be a bachelor. We haven't heard any male acquainjance mention the ration stamp cancellation, ‘but since it happened | we can’t recall hearing any housewife talk about arnything else. .So the OPA shouldn't be too sure that they. wivonct stay Women don’t like to have théir intelligence scorned. And-they have long memories, as any. husband can testify. Nor are the members of gir sex; observing How the government plans things in ‘wartime, likely to be too credul- | ous when they hear promises that there will be abundance for everybody in peacetime if we just let the government plas evervyag.

“LISTEN TO THE DEAD”

HE old year produced no more eloquent editorial than the one that has just dppeared in the London edition of

"HENRY W. MANZ]

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Our Small Pat

By’ James Thrasher

THERE'S no need to tell again © the story of America’s” war- -time accomplishments. We know .- it well. And’ we canbe proud that

“ unprepared and stung by initial defeat, had ever -armed -itsélf so strongly and so quickly. . But perhaps. the story is too familiar. Maybe we have thought : Hbout it too much, and in the past tense. And so it is>more of a «shack to find now that for all we have done, we4have not done enough. We have not done enough because too few have done too much of the work in what should be an allout effort. We have not done enough because some of us seemed to think that victory was -a long but assured process, which. somehow .could be achieved without disrupting too seriously our normal diets, comforts, and pleasures. It has not been entirely the people's fault. of our military leaders and heads of government have more than once tried to spare us-the full information and stern demands that-war requires. They have | predicted in intemperate hope, and Yolk. too far +-beyond. the day's. tasks... ie — [ .

Blunders Were jhevitable:

NOW, SUDDENLY, disquieting reports have come |

from Europe. Here at home we have learned that the food supply is tighter than ever. (We may have to eat fewer things“and pay ration points for more | things) We have léarned that many items of war equipment are short. (Some of us will have to forego an afternoon at’ the race track and stigk to our jobs.) Such’ news in the past has been the signal for. i many of us to. blame the ‘OPA or something, and | pass the buck to “government bungling” to ‘excuse a cheating, chiseling, and black marketing. | There -have been inequities and blunders in putting our vast and complex national’ economy on a war basis. © That ‘was inevitable. : The job was in -the hands of many human, fallible men. But instead of trying to ‘make thése mistakes less frequent and damaging; a lot of us have aggravated them. We have balked at being inconvenienced.

Sorrow of War Comes Home

THE GOVERNMENTS and people of England and Russid have contended with ‘worse things than the bureaucratic mistakes of our own untouched land. They have preservered against hunger, cold, destruction and death, while too many of us have connived to get steaks and extra gasoline. But now the sorrow of war is coming daily into more and more of our homes. Is it not time to realize, as the casualty lists grow, that we at home cannot help end this war with half a mind and half a heart? Is it not time to admit that it is neither "possible nor important that we have all our. usual creature comforts? If we-inust fast a little, can we not do it_ from humility rather. than compulsion? We are only asked to taste a morsel.of our soldiers’ and sailors’ sacrifices in gratitude for the. exemplary courage with which they fight and die. ~

On Two Fronts ‘By Hal O'Flaherty

ONE OF THE most gratifying phases of the Pacific war lies in. the perfect co-ordination between all--of the armed forces of the

no nation, caught almost wholly |

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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.

NOT AS SIMPLE”

By Roger N. Baldwin: Director, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City

We note in your issue of Dec. 1, a letter by A. J. Schneider, 504 West dr., Woodruff Place, commenting on the termination of the con-

mentator for a National Broadcasting Company sponsor. Mr. Schneider states that this is “the first squeeze by .the Communist pressure group”

.|and says that the American Civil ‘Liberties Union is conspicuous by its

silénce. We “have endeavored without success to-determine just how this termination of Close’s contract was brought about. ‘Mr. Close is unable

United States. One victory after : ahother has been gained with ‘a minimum loss to our side and a miximum loss to the Japs. : Such close co-dperation = between the army, the navy, the marines and the air corps could only evolve from the harmony that has been established in the high commands. Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Ches~ ter Nimitz are the responsible heads who have laid aside all pettiness and who today are proving thems selves masters of the most complicated combat problem of all history. Through their combined efforts, the huge naval force, built largely since 1941, is moving relentlessly across the waters between our present operating bases on Mindoro and Saipan toward new conquests. They have sent their scout planes repeatedly over the area selected for the new strike, and from the pictures brought back, hugé maps have been made showing -in ‘mihutest detail every contour of the land, every building, every obstruction in the -surrounding waters. Great lessons have been learned by thesa amphibious task force commanders since the, terrible day of the landing on Tarawa. Tgday, _we know beyond. question the ebb and flow of fides, the strength of the enemy and the most BdvamageOuE

“Stars and Stripes,” United States army newspaper. Its | soldier author's name is not mentioned in.the PEWS report, |

but whoever he. is, he probably has come nearer than any |

point of attack.

Preparations Are More Thorough THE' PREPARATIONS proceeding aboard our

civilian could to expressing the view point of the men | fleets are more thorough and more detailed as the

who are fighting this war. tion, we reprint his words: +. “For the holy living love of God, let's listen to the dead. Let’s learn from the living. Let's join ranks against _ the foe and toward the future. “Only yesterday lots of folks—front- ine Hosners Xcepted—had the war in the bag. It was all over but the unity and solidarity—strong when the united nations were weak— were in a bad way. “Well, the bugles of battle are heard again above the bickering.. The enemy lashes out in. a’last bloody bid for victory. Once more ‘the warning sounds-—Germany, the Nazis and fascism are the enemy. Not the Poles versus the Russians. Not the British versus the Greeks. Not the state department versus the foreign office. Not the British commonwealth versus communism. “But all of us who believe in the dignity of the.common man versus Germany. © Germtany, which in this, its

“last great strugglé, hurls the" ch: illenge? United nations, remain united ,or die apart.”

With admiration and apprecia-

FULL-TIME. JOB - i ICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMAN showed. good jidgment in his announcement that he planned to devote his full time and efforts to the Job of being yice president. For that job promises.to he a-man-sized’ assignment. in the next four years. And we don't think Mr. Trurnan is putting | -himself in the-Throttlebottom ¢lass by electing a narrower | range of duties than that undertaken by Henry Wallace. _ As presiding officer of the. senate, Mr. Truman may ‘help to guide, that contentious body ona wise. course of

t-Ametican. Public Uneasy

When Uncle Sam hits it- is with Rule No. 1 in Never pull a punch on

war, progresses. every ounce of strength he possesses. the Pacific Is “hit to KiIL a Jap.” The great dramas that marked the end ot The year 1944 in Europe have produced the heartening spectacle of the British and American peoples celebrating their Christmas holidays in prayer for their hardly pressed fighting men. The heart-aches ofc Americans were fiilly shared: by. their British allies who remembered: only too vividly their own trials in the Christ-' mas of the blitz. : And now that the pressure of Germany's desperate offensive has been somewhat relieved, the dllies can share the hope of. peace in the. New Year. “It is a definitely improved prospect that rises before the war-weary world. —Russia’s drive toward Vienna is one of the brightest spots on. the horizon’ and the staunch resistance of the Américan armies in Belgium and. Luxembourg another. Germany's .death agony will be shortened by the outcome of these clashes.

ON THE POLITICAL front; Prime - Minister Churchill has failed to create the harmony he sought by his' flight to Athens. The guns still are barking and men are dying although Archbishop Damaskinos has been appointed regent and hopes for an early peace are brighter. It remains to be seén whether the forces of liberation in Greece itself will accept the compromise. Until a satisfactory settlemerit of the Greek problem. has been found, the American public is certain to be uneasy in its view of the war objectives. At the mioment, there is admiration for Churchill's courage and forthrightness .in going to Athens. But doubt will persist as to the rightness of. the prime |

Greek soil and ‘with this doubt will also go a serious question asap the failure of the United States to declare any policy whatever Figrding the liberated areas of the Mediterranean,

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foreign policy. And, 4§ liaison man between the Capitol * and the White House, he will have .an_opportunity to pro- | mote executive and senatorial co-operation in ‘the vital |

conclusions of peace treaties and our membership in the

ae postwar. united nations organization. 1 | |

Mr. Truman brings to. his new post a reputation for

Gi integrity and the respect of his collegues in the sehate.

~ Jf Weean use these assets to help bring about a peace settle

“Ment in ‘accordance with the peoples wishes, he will have aised the oe of yiey rastient amiatatly above its

minister's catise so long as’ the fighting continues on .

to get the facts himself. The Na-

ment is evidently evasive, Until we ‘have something more definite. on which to hang a protest, silence. is necessary. We can say in a general way what

radio networks are unduly sensitive to pressure by minorities and particularly in .the case of sponsored news commentators. Half-a dozen of them have been taken off with< out—-adequate explanation to. the public. Columbia Broadcasting System took them all. off because it didn’t wish to be involved in controversy on paid time. Since N. B. C. operates under the code of the National Association of Broadcasters which prohibits the sale pf time for the discusison of controversial issues, it must exercise great caution in the latitude given to news commentators. The problem is obviously not as simple as your correspondent’s assumption of * ‘Communist pressure.” r s » “THIS COUNTRY NEEDS CO-OPERATION" By Mrs. Frank M. Harritt, 5310 E. 9th st.

Due to. the labor shortage, my husband and ,I are operating a small business bn the East side, We are trying to co-operate with our government to the best of our ability. A few days ago we redeived a letter from the government asking for information as to the volume of business we expect to do next year. How 1n the world do they expect us to know that far ahead. when the

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tract of Upton Close as news com-

tional Broadcasting Company state-|

we have long known; namely, that

{Times readers “are invited: to express their views in’ 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 ways implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes ‘no responsibility for the return of maniscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

officials ih Washington don’t know from one day to the next what {they are going. to do. “For instance, look. at rationing. We “housewives never know from one day-to the next which stamps are valid.“ However, I do wholeheartedly appreve of rationing if it will bring our boys back sooner. It seems to me they are trying (the government) to freeze. out small businesses. If it were not .for the small industry our country would have never prospered as it has: For

instance, Mr. Colgate "is one ex-

ample, and their are many others in the same category. I don’t see how we could hardly get.along without our small community stores. Let's patronize our neighborhood stores whenever possible. If there was éver a time this country needed co-operation, it is now.

“WHAT 18 THE MATTER?” : ) By Hoosier Housewife, Indianapolis No meat, no butter, no sugar, no eggs and no lemons!

~Yet talk in Washington of a great’

surplus to be disposed of. Eggs were

kept in storage so long they became stale and retailers would not buy;

so they were sold for fertilizer at 5°

cents a case, What is the matter with the housewives of this ;country that they have forgotten that the “hand that rocks the cradle rules the

ndtion?”

Side Glances—By Galbraith

To The- Point— — Hg

L -..THE IAPS were caught NApPIGE bo our B-20s— | and a lot of them are Heer going to wake up. £

THERE ARE a that hens have dtécoyéret how much masons are Jad I Toying “bricks.

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gr ¢ of turns 5 a worm When they oe home. i

“I'm standing Svard for Papa and Matra he are not feeling wel : “and asked me fo see that nobody for heaven’ y kg try hin football’ ,

“WHY. PICK--|ON RACING?”

|tHousands- of horsemen in this coun.|try a. very merry Christmas by call-

"|them. If this happens and racing is

| labor jobs—how many professional [*

surely he. shall not feel quietness .

By Old Turfman, Indianapolis

Our government sure gave the

ing off all racing. This was a very severe shock to all horsemen as well

as to the millions of turf fans. Why pick on racing? Why should it be stopped and other sports and amusements permitted go on? Any kind of am musement uses labor and must have transportation. Speaking of labor, let me mention the kind of labor used at the race tracks this last year. The only youths employed at the tracks were some of the Jockeys. But some of them were men as old as 60 years. Old men and even some old women were taking care of horses, even cripples were.. doing this kind of work—people who are not wanted in defense plants or anywhere else. Who is going to take care of these people? The rich who own race horses can send them to Mexico and Canada to| race but what about the poor fellow who makes his living by racing horses?

racing would not continue. They would ‘not have had the great ex-

Florida, .California, New Orleans and Phoenix, the only four tracks now operating. Now they must send thém home (those who have homes) or give their horses away. Horses that have had a value of from $1000 ‘up to $20,000 won't be worth $50. What a loss! Big breeding farms will discontinue to raise colts as there will be no sale for

discontinued very long it would be years before racing could start again. Yes, we know: this war ‘In ‘very bad. But horse people have backed | the war effort 100 per cent. Many ‘days have been set aside for war relief at every track -in-the -country. Millions of dollars ‘have been raised this way. Then look at the other millions of dollars raised each year in state and federal taxes from race meet ings. ~ By stopping racing this tax must be made up from some other source. . Remember; war bond money must be paid back to the peoplé but money raised for war relief at the tracks. and tax money is for keeps. 3 ” Cs » “BILL IS PRETTY VAGUE THING” By L..C. M., Indianapolis The post-waF full-employment bill proposed by. Sénators Murray, Revercomb and Truman, the latter soon to be our vice president, is a pretty vague thing. It is said to be a means by which President Roosevelt can keep his ‘promise of 60,000,000 post-war jobs. . Even in our Worst times, there were a great many millions gainfully employed on other than government~created jobs, "| I would like to see some responsible analyst produce a. breakdown of the nature of these 60, jobs. How many will have to be provided by agriculture? How many by manufacturing? By railroad and marine shipping companies? How many - white collar jobs—common

workers? Won't - we get a much clearer picture of the problem then?

DAILY THOUGHTS

h he hath violently taken away an house which he ‘builded = not;

in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired ~+Job a0; AB ».

+ : " iswno’ Titire pang can deal justice. on the self con-

congress, it is generally agreed. For one or both

Why were horsemen not fol: that!

pense of shipping their horses tol

POLITICAL SCENE—

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|By. Thomas L Stokes /

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The “79th eongress which convenes to morrow will be a “new” congress _ to a greater degree than the last—y’ or some back of that—even hough over-all. It will be & “new” con-| gress in an important: Sense that! the American people should keep in mind. This new congress has a defi‘nite and specific mandate, as most | | everybody interpreted the election! This is to provide for making this country a full partner in the family of nations by arranging. fori United States participation in an international organization to keep the peace as outlined tentatively | at Dumbarton Oaks, |

Eloction Called for New Appriah

IT IS a direct mandate" such as a congress hasg not had since 1932 when the Roosevelt administration came to power for, like. that, it calls for an abrupt change of direction. The 1932 election called for af new “approach to settlement of ‘distressing domestich problems which brought the series of, New Deal reforms. This las{,election calls for a new approach to foreign affairs, an about-face from the isolationism decreed by the senate after the first world war, This and continuation of the war without change’ of administration were the major influences in the’ re-election of . President Roosevelt and a Democratic”

reasons many Republicans voted for President Roosevelt. Many Willkie Republicans: and -many independents - scratched the - - Republican candidate,

‘Governor Dewey, almost solely on the issue of inter-'|

national co-operation, trusting Mr; Roosevelt and the | Democratic party more than their own. But both, candidates and both parties espoused | an international organization, so Republicans, too,’ are a party to the mandate. ! The congressional elections, creating the 79th con- ; gress, also reflected the predominance of the inter | national issue. - This was indicated in two ways, and should be | kept in mind* as the New congress goes about its} work. ‘a International Issue Was Dominant FOR ONE THING, Republicans expressed great | confidence during the campaign that they would J make substantial gains in ‘the senate and would ||

| | actually carry the house, largely on the theory that’ voters would be influenced mostly on domestic issties | as far as members of congress were concerned. They

thought the voters would take out their dissatisfaction with New Deal doméstic policies on congressional contests, even though they might uphold President Roosevelt because of the war. This theory did not work out. Seemingly the | international issue was a dominant factor.. For another thing, the voters mowed down wellrecognized isolationists im house and senate, thus expressing themselves by striking at these symbols. They cut a deep gash in the isolationist bloc in the senate, which is important for that is the treatyratifying ° body. They knocked out Senators Clark (D. Mo), Clark (D: Ida), Danaher (R. Conn.); Davis (R. Pa), Holman (R. Ore.), and Nye (R. N, D.), while Seriator Reynolds (D. N. C) got out ahead of the hurricane by declining to run again. Only a third of the senate was up for re- lection, so that other isolationists did not have to face the voters this year. In the house such isolationist. symbols as Rep. Fish (R. N. Y.) and Day (R. Ill.) were defeated.

IN WASHINGTON—

Wrong Guesses By Peter Edson

_ WASHINGTON, Jan, 2.—Price Administrator - Chester. Bowles “.wants a little help in his other capaeity of rationing administrator, He isn't saying that an actual cribs exists’ on the civilian food front, ‘but in a letter sent to every newspapér editor in the country he has frankly asked for support in putting over the idea that food supplies for next year will not be as big as anticipated and that.the only way to get ahything like an equal distribution is through more rationing. The implication is clear that Bowles thinks the alternative—less rationing—means a food crisis in 1945, Happy New Year. Again all the authorities have been ‘Proved wrong, Pirst, the military authorities who thought ne war would by now be over. Second, the food supply authorities who: likewise’ “thought the war would soon be over and therefore discontinued the building up of reserves through the summer harvest season for the leaner months ahead. “Third, the distributors who also thought the war was going to end, feared that accumulated surpluses of any kind would knock the bottom out of the market, and therefore exerted full pressure to let current supplies be consumed as fast as Produced, without restraint. : Fourth, the top drawer officials who also thought the war was going to end soon and so ordered the restraints taken ot

Public Got the Wrong Idea

YOU MAY have forgotten it, but last Septainiies War. Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes ordered OPA to také” 17 processed food items off -the ration list, with a great tribute to the war food adminis« tration for having done such a marvelous production job. Blue ration tokens were made useless by this far- reaching order and the consuming public got the idea that a part of its ‘wartime nuisarice troubles were over for Keeps. Of course - there couldn't have been any political significance to this easing of rationing restrictions two months before election. Nobody thought of that. ! “In full justice to everyone, it should be made clear that not all the rationing curbs were lowered or removed. The sugar lobby did its best to put over the idea that there were big surpluses being built up and that sugar rationing could be eased or would be eased just before the election. But OPA sat tight, relaxing only on sugar foi home canning.

Supply Out of Kilter

POINT VALUES on butter were increased in October, But with only about a third of the meal | supplies rationed during the latter part'of the year supply got all out of kilter in three-fourths. of the country and therefore has to be readjusted. So here you are again, Haat Yhtte you vame in three years ago, with supplies of meat, sugar, butter and processed foods far bélow demand. ‘And Jo

{ have to be sold all over again, on the idea

rationing does not take things away. from people, but

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supplies go. ‘around, giving “everyone an equal~ share: Besides, you're eating too much, The figures show annual per capita consumption of 33 quarts’ more

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