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Give Light and the People Will Find Thor Own Way

“DO WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN OX one principle we believe the congress and the people of the country are completely agreed. Whatever it takes .to win the war—to win it quickly and at the lowest cost in ‘American lives—that we must do. From that viewpoint—-and that viewpoint only—congress” “should consider the draft of-labor which - President Roosevelt now urges. Consider it calmly, and without hysteria over a temporary military setback. Consider it in the light of the whole military, and production and manpower situation. ‘We have questioned both the wisdom and the necessity of a draft of labor. On a purely practical basis we have believed—and we still believe—that it would create or aggravate more war production problems than it would solve. The fact that many labor leaders—perhaps most labor leaders —and a great many employers of labor feel the same way about it adds the confirmation of the men who should know most about the practical problems of production and of labor. A military draft is the most democratic and the most effective way to raise armies solely for the protection of the whole country. . Compelling men and women: to work in industries operated privately is a very different matter.

» # » » LJ » MR. ROOSEVELT'’S suggestion that such a’'law would prove to our fighting men ‘that the country is behind them with its total effort, and to our enemies that we were finally committed to total war, is the most impressive argument for his proposal. But it is psychological rather than practical. In actual practice a labor draft would not add a single worker to the number already in the country, but it would - control their distribution.. To assure, as the President put it, having “the right number of workers at the right places at the right time.” That faulty distribution is the main prob-

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changed his prescription for a just peace and a basis for post-war security in the valuable encyclopedia of international information, Guide to Peace,” which bears his name as, general editor. (Dryden

cise opinions on the needs and pfospects of every nation, his

American goods but a live-and-let-live policy, should

real peace plan. Mr, Welles opposes the unjust ambitions of nations, great and small and gives even the ‘devil his due. That this is not merely a book that uses Sumner Welles’ name for purposes of advertising is attested by Stanley Burnshaw, president of Dryden Press, who tells me that in all his experience with manuscripts he never has seen any general “editor work as assiduously and thoroughly as Mr. Welles did on this book.

Decentralization for Germany

AFTER DESCRIBING a nation’s. resources, history and needs, space is given to its stake in the peace, and here, no doubt, Mr. Welles’ views are clearly expressed. He repeats what he prescribed for Germany in “The Time for Decision"—decentralization of govs ernment, a tri-partite Germany, suppression of the general staff and the union between landed militarists and industrial overlords and allied supervision. As -an authority on South America Mr. Welles’ comments on our southern neighbors should be much to the point. But he makes no attempt to use this Guide in-order to criticize the policies of his former chief, Secretary Hull. In discussing Argentina the Guide describes the totalitarian character of the.Peron-Farrell government, but does not exploit the view that it is: proNazi. Its policies are identified with “the basic national pride of the people,” but the masses are still

| democratic and pro-ally despite the repression.

Mr. Welles has always urged a careful understanding of this national pride and has criticized American

comments on South American countries stress is laid on a more equitable division of land, possession of which has developed a class of rich and unprogressive owners not.in sympathy with the aims of the people.

Many Nations Need Help

WHILE THE GUIDE cannot say what form of international co-operation: is’ to be established after the war, it does recommend repeatedly that international help be used to give struggling nations a lift. Norway will need temporary loans to tide over a social crisis; Italy will need free trade, better farming methods, dustry; Greece will need financial guarantees of security. Great Britain is described as no longer able. to

assistance and

lem of manpower cannot be denied. Wage scales have had something to do with that. Short-! ages have been most acute in jobs that were hard, dirty and | low-paid. The men have simply preferred essential jobs| that were clean and easy and offered higher wages. W LB has just announced a belated policy of wage adjustments to] meet such shortages, several of them recurrent right here in Indianapolis,

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LEGISLATIVE EXTENSION. of Vo Sock or-fight” | principle promises to be more effective, and vastly more] likely to gain public approval, than a draft. There has been| no resistance to speak-of as to the proposal that 4-Fs, for| instance, stay in essential jobs or get into uniform. : There are three or four million—the number keeps. growing—civilians working for the federal government itself. Some of them are unquestionably doing essential jobs, but there can be no serious doubt that government efficiency would be improved and upward of a million workers provided for needed tasks if one out of every four were dropped. Among them, the last report we saw, were 850,000

men of military age, the equivalent of 50 infantry divisions,| 2

thousands of them with nothing more important to do than #publicity” for sprawling overstuffed: federal bureaus. not start there? Production.of war materials is definitely critical, in this | critical stage of the war, though the problem is essentially | no different now than it was last October when the same men who now demand drastic measures were telling us it had been solved and that adequate production of all needed supplies had been achieved in abundance and according to plan. Those statements alone drove thousands of workers out of essential war production jobs into ‘other occupations, or into idleness. We believe the President has cleared the way for a thor-| ough congressional consideration of the whole subject., And we believe congress ought to consider it with one idea and one alone: Whatever it takes to win—that we will do.

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get security by the balance of power. “The remarkable powers conferred upon the island in -the past by naval supremacy and industrial primacy can no | longer be sustained Without collective, international ! action.” The American need of a consistent foreign policy | is stressed. The United States must turn from “self- | centered tariff policies” to give other nations a chance to deal with it, help stabilization of money through an international bank and help the industrialization

| of backward areas of the world. And here, as else-

where, Mr, Welles .sees the solution of our troubles in international co-operation.

| WORLD AFFAIRS— Status Quo By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—~The small, hard- -pressed members of | _the united nations see very little

__ President Roosevelt's message to . congress. As they see it, the key to the forthcoming Roosevelt-Churchill- | Stalin meeting, now promised. for | soon after Jan. 20, is-already pretty clearly revealed, insofar as they | are concerned.

It is to be found, they observe, |

first in the President's statement that “we shall not hesitate to use our influence—and use it now—to secure t principles’ of the Atlantic Charter,” and, second, his expressed determination to allow nothing to stand in the way of the world sect urity organization | begun at Dumbarton Oaks. SUt; Iti pomted out,

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Yugoslavia, Hungary and possibly other | The Anglo-American statesmen, therefore,

will have to accept it or abandon their own plans for

| an organized peace-which almost certainly they will |

THE PRESIDENTS FOREIGN POLICY

HE President in his message replied to demands of the, British government and press, and of ntémbers of con-| gress and American newspapers, for clarification of his! “foreign policy. Those who had-hoped he would be specific about the Big! Three disagreements over Poland, Greece, and others, will| consider his reply inadequate. But his reaffirmation of general policy was courageous and clear. Perhaps that was as| far as he should go on the eve of the Big Three meeting, ini view of the explosive British statements and Russian acts. - » un ~ ~ : ADMITVING “concern about many situations—the Greek and Polish for example,” he reminded that we and] our allies have promised to respect the right of all peoples to choose their own form of government and to preserve their sovereignty. On the basic issue he reasserted with complete clarity what he and former Secretary Hull had said before, and! what members of congress and the American press have | seen saying—the only position which any Ametican Presisent could take.- Pointing out that the Atlantic Charter had béen incorporated into the united nations declaration | signed by all the allies, he stated flatly that— “Power-politics must not be a controlling factor in international relations. | That i is the heart ofthe principles | to Which we have subscribed: sible, ‘we shall not hesitate 0 use our influence—and to use it now-——to secure so far as is humanly possible the] fulfillment SH the prnciples of the Atlante Charter, 4

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Takes Leaf From Wilson's Book

THUS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT seems 10 have taken a leaf from President Wilson's notebook at | Versailles. There were many things about the Ver- | sailles treaty which Mr. Wilson did not like, but which he had to swallow or gi¥8 up his hopes for a league of nations, {-tions and a world-court could be set up, any injustice |

| contained in the peace treaty could be réviewed and

corrected later on. It did not work out that way, that is what he hoped. “Perfectionism,” President Roosevelt said in

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| power politics may obstruct the paths to international | peace In our disillusionment after the last war | we preferred international anarchy to intern: ational |

| co-operation with nations which did not see and |

think exactly as we did. . We must not let that | happen again! While the President reaffirmed his loyalty to ite | principles of the Atlantic Charter, he realistically reminded congress that the charter “does not provide rules of easy application to each and everyone of this war-torn world's tangled : situations.” But, he added | significantly, “it is a good and useful thing , have principles toward which we can aim.”

President Will Not Insist

INTERPRETED BY SOME of the smaller nations | i whose independence—or whose very existence for that |

that matter—is immediately threatened, this would seem to mean that the Presidént, when he meets with

*. While perfection is impos- | Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill, will not | insist- on the application of the charter but merely

as something to hope for. The President recalled that “we and our allies have a duty . .., to use our influence to the end that no

SUMNER. WELLES has not

“An Intelligent American’s |. Press; $3.75.) But his clear, con- |

pragmatic attitude, based not on the desire to get markets for |

remind us anew that we are fighting to nail down a |

attempts to ride roughshod over it.. In nearly all the

intensified development of heavy in- |!

{planted within our ‘country little

immediate hope for themselves in |

so far as humanly possible the fulfillment of |

that Marshal Stalin will. pre sent the American | President and British prime minister with a fait ac- | {compli in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania,

His position was that if a league of na- |

his | message, “no less than isolationism or imperialism or |

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seeds of hate that grow into greater weapons against us than any scientific weapon of wanton murder and | physical destruction their ingenious | scientists can produce. These. seeds | are words against a picked group of Americans that tend to split the

American people into small groups | fighting against each other. They are rumors of a quick finish to the ! war causing our people to-relax-in | their way efforts. They are rumors against our leaders, against. our allies, against anything which might | cause accusations of one American | against another. They lower our| morale, they break our unity, they | {they do miSs most civilian luxuries slow up our great war effort. jand home, We might take any one of. these | These women are sacrificing their rumors apart to prove how wrong | homes and families, a part of their they are, and the destruction. they lives, maybe even their very lives can do within the so-called safe So You can keep your luxuries. wall of America: The one I particu- | They are human and deserve larly have in mind at the moment consideration the same as our sol{1s the propaganda against a group [die rs. The uniform-they wear is a. ‘of patriotic women who are sacrific- | § symbol of the United States--army {ing a lot for the final victory, the and it deserves recognition just WAC. as the soldier's uniform. These | Nine out of 10 civilians will tear | women are soldiers working for the them: apart with the usual- sordid | government. “of. the people, for the | stories, with remarks to the effect! people and By the people.” Remem- | {that our money is being wasted Der this the next time you start |upon their training for they “are to carry enemy prepaganda and doing no good.” This is one of slur the Women’s Army Corps. Re{the most false statements to come member they are outstanding citi- | out of this war. izens, as a whole, and they suffer | These women weren't forced to | for you give up civilian luxuries for the {hard work, military discipline, low pay, and loneliness. for their fam{ilies. They enlisted on their. own: initiative. Most of them didn’t Join for *the ‘heck of it,” rather! they joined to be contributing just a little more toward that final vic|tory. I personally know several very {fine women in the corps that are {doing more than many pf those {who, when they see a WAC uni- | form, would ask in a sarcastic tone, “Why did you join?”

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” “PATHETIC OBJECT OF MOURNFUL SYMPATHY”

By Charles Ginsberg,

Indianapolis The Atlantic Charter occupies the the stage -as a -pathetic mournful. - sympathy. Woodrow Wilson's 14 ‘points fared much . better than the . Atlantic Charter. True, they didn’t survive the Versailles peace they at least survived the war— which is more than can be said of| {the Atlantic Charter. Do they have morale troubles?| Quite some time ago, the Socialist | | You probably wonder why they Labor party’s official journal, the] enlisted if they were going to be Weekly People, charged that “the homesick or miss the things .they Atlantic Charter was drawn up not gave up. You've probably asked as an expres sipn of principles to that question many ‘times and guide. Anglo-American powers, but found your own answer out of a pious and moral camouflagé net | propaganda. That answer is wrong. beneath which each would work { They want to do their best, and for its own national capitalist ad-

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POLITICAL SCENE—

Undetstariding By Thomas L. Stokes.

WASHINGTON, Jan. ‘9. haps the outstanding needs j now, ds far as our foreign po and -its objectives are concernes are the development of unden standing between President Roose velt and congress, between President and the people, and bg tween congress and the people. | This requires ‘moderation restraint on all sides in these time when it is so easy to yield a quic ‘impulses. The President and Sec retary of State Stettinius have demonstrated. they have an appreciation of these needs and: ar willing to go far to fulfill them. Congress has responsibility, too, particularly the senate, and 80 d the people,

iq Restated “Adherence to Atlantic Charter | |

IN THE INTEREST of understanding by congres) and by the people Mr. Roosevelt recognized events if Europe which have diSappointed people here, t

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@reat Britain and Russia. Hp. recognized. also. ‘the_closer the ‘allies approach victory the more co: sciobs x each ‘will become of differences with the other That's human reaction. He restyled our adherence to the Atlantic Cha: ter, but he nphasized that its ideals cannot realized all at once. He condemned power politi He expressed cond 1 over what has happened Greece and Poland. But he stressed the difficultie involved in these situations and others which wi arise, and he counséied understanding and patienc He made it clear that no Pr ovisional governme must prevent an ultimate expressivg by all the peopi on their permanent government. his Becomes af] important standard upon which we can:insist. If there's to be international co-operation, we must do some of the co-operating, too. Its not one-way street. We cannot all see alike, amy “i must not assume a monopoly on virtue. All this we sound advice to the American people,

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Main Objective Is Important

NONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES must .turn aside fromi the main objective—creation of an inte national organization to prevent another such war Here he was reminding congress without saying it So many words, that this was a mandate of the elec jon. Apparently the President's discussion of foreig policy helped to clear~the atmosphere in cong even though some thought he should have been mor specific. He will follow up his general statement on for}

| prot: .Churchil] dealt the Atlantic Charter a blow. in the solar plexus) when, at the height of Indian agitation, he said that the charter did| not apply “east of Suez.” This he followed up with his “unconditional surrender means that the victors have a free hand”; and now the showdown in Greece and Poland. Mr. Churchill demonstrated (as he said*he would) that he does not propose to “preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” And P. D R's late secretary of the navy said that he could “readily imagine that a group of Americans sitting at the peace table could make a very strong case for retaining those (Pacific) bases” because “we've expended our own money on these bases.” To have expected that the Atlantic Charter was to mean what

eign policy by personal conferences with members of the foreign relations committee, at which he will dis cuss his aims at the Big Three conference to be held soon. Secretary Stettinius also plans to keep in clos touch with the foreign relations committee, as did former Secretary Hull. Next week he will appe before the members at an executive session to giv them a fill-in on developmients and answer questiona,

IN WASHINGTON—

Work-or-Fight By Charles T. Lucey

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Bailey (D. N. J). The war and}

lits authors and others at first said | 1t would was equivalent to expectling that the capitalist leopard could change its spots. But the practical repudiation of the APlantic | Charter is more than an indict- | ment -of capitalism; it it a con-| firmation of the urgent’ need for| socialism. » |“FLIERS HAVE

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| SOMETHING’ EXTRA” By Pre. Victor W. McGinnis, Army of the United States. Article in paper: Washington, Dec. 125 (U. P.).—Pneumatic pants, com- | plete with built-in girdles . . , are | saving allied fliers from that | dangerous foe of combat pilots

p | known. as the “blackout.”

Well, I realize now after having read the above bit in the black and | white that I will have to transfer from Gen. George Marshall's army

to Gen. Hap Arnold's army air corps. |

To be candid with you, I've had a

secret, yen for the air corps ever

since about a year ago when an Sshaped pretty stood me up for a |bridge gdme date with an air corps |ecte: (I later learned to my {chagrin and utter amazement that | the y didn’t play bridge at all.)

Anyway, about a week after the]

{ memory of that humiliation had | managed to seep out of my cerebrum, I spied this cutie in a drug store hung over a coke and entered | to throw her a hook and dot. | “what was the big idea of standing me up a week ago? Who do you think you are? Hedy Turner?” She turned—away from me, but after I had tapped her lightly on the shoulder, she gave me conversation, sayifig, “You mean’ Hedy Lamarr, don't you, Mike? Turner's first name is Lana.” “Lamarr-—Turner—what's the ait ference?” “Have you ever seen Turner in a sweater?” My motor sputtered a little and I thought that remark over for a moment. But soon I recovered and id, “You never answered my question.” She asked, “What question?” I replied, “You know-=you know what I mean. What was the idea of standing me up?” “I'm sorry about that, Mike. Really I am--but well, the fellows in the air corps just.have something. extra that you soldiers don’t have.” After that, I departed. And I didn’t realize fully what this cutie was getting at. until today, as I say, I was inthe black and white and it says: “Fliers have pneumatic pants with built-in girdles.” :

navy departments and selectiv service ware expected to marc their men up to. Capitol Hill to support the 4<F measure, | they did when it was before th senate last year. There dre 4% deferred men and Rep. May think it may be possible to get 1,000,000 of them into war jobs now. ; Mr. May believes this, plus the : 18-yed¥-olds coming ¢6f age each year, - {100,000 a month) may sole the manpower; problems without recourse to a national service act, He said Mr. Roosevelt's much broader proposal will b | placed before the committee for an expression off opinion, but he d®ubted that there would be grea enthusiasm for it. Senator Thomas (D. Utah), who is expected to) be the new military affairs committee chairman, and who has opposed a national service law, said he hadn'§ changed his mind. Mr. Thomas generally follows a rigid New Deal line, and his position indicated no great warmth for] President Roosevelt's suggestion even among close! : White House followers. Senator. Barkley (D. Ky) majority leader there, indicated he had no plans fo | getting; a national service bill rolling. The doubts being expressed in congress may reflect President Roosevelt's own uncertainty about /a na- | tional service law. ‘In 1943 he said he wished to avoid compulsory national labor service as long as possible’ because it would create a lot more government ma= chinery, complicate life and make for _ increased | regimentation.

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THEN, last year, he propdsed such a law to con={ gress only on a conditional basis. He linked it with a request for tax reform, the contract renegotiation law, a cost-of-food law and a wage stabilization law. He | said national service should be voted only if the! others were. Most observers then considered such conditioning obviously impossible. of fulfillment. ! A national service law, as it has been proposed in | congress by Senator Austin (R. Vt.) and Rep. Wads« | worth (R. N. J.) would maké men between 18 and 64 J and women between 18 and 50 Hable to cofitribute by | personal service to the war effort, in non-combatang capacity, according to abilities. President Roosevelt, under it, would have power to | direct workers into any kind of war job. When he | found workers needed in industry or agriculture ne § could issue a call for volunteers, but if such a call was § impracticable or if there were insufficient volunteers, the labor draft would then be applied to persons liable for service.

Guarantee of Return to Job :

DUE REGARD would be given to assigning men or women to service in or near their’ communities, and adequate housing would have to be furnished. Transportation would be paid and there would be & guarantee of return to former job at the end of the emergency service, The Bailey-May bill would apply only to physi~ cally-deferred draft registrants. Its first aim would be te reduce job-skipping by freezing deferred 4-Fs into war positions unless a change was authorized by a local drdft board. It then would provide tor voluntary - recruitment of 4-Fs not in war jobs for new jobs. contributing to the war effort, Where 4-Fs. balked, they then would be subject to service in military work battalions. But the plan. is to make sych service so onerous, by depriving it of all

the, usual benefits of military life, that everyone would go into war. work voluntarily rather than #ccept it, - L

| te mporary or provisional] authorities in the liberated | countries block the eventual exercise of the people's | right freely to choose the government and institutions under which, .as free men, they will live.” But, he This organiza-| amended, “we must not permit the many specific and

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voi MOST "AMERICAN S will agree with the President, we | “believe, that “1945 can and must.see the substantial be-| ginning of the organization of world peace.

tion must be the fulfillment of the. promise for which men ‘have fought and died in this war.”

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; Sisagreements and to strengthen the unity on which victory | We: hope the: President cari. conv ince Churchill

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Such an organization now would be. the best, phan the only, way to handle fairly the growing” ‘allied ‘policy |

immediate problems of adjustment to delay the estab HSHens s of permanent machinery for the maintenance of peace.”

Big Three meet, seems to be taking form.

senateshould the issue come béfore it in treaty {ornwouid unreservedly pledge ‘America’s resources

ment and money to maintain an international

And ‘so. the shape of things to. come When. niéxt ‘the. |’

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15: The Point—

- THERE IS talk of another meeting of the allies big three. hen these-good fellows get together it's always bad . weather on ihe enemy, WERE STILL, wilting for ibe Joi 0 \akb chance with what's left of their nay, ang let hie

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