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. POLITICAL SCENE— Ad Wallace Test

By Thomas L. Stokes

| REFLECTIONS — ay Sport of Kings

By Harry Hansen

he Indianapolis- Times

"PAGE 6 Saturday, February 8, 1945 "

WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor i Business Manager

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-—The precarious position of, the liberal wing of the Democratic party, «when it comes to domestic issues in +congress, was revealéd in the preliminary test of Henry Wallace br the senate. *® The appointment of the former vice president to the post of secretary of commerce became, by common consent and circumstance, the first big fourth-term issue, He is, for the time being at least, the ‘| symbol about which the active and aggressive liberal | and left-wing forces have chosen to rally. ] He was saved from outright defeat and the party oH > from a severe blow at its prestige, at a bad time for 1 such a blow, by the careful strategy and necessary into the Jerry d compromise of party leaders and by the scattered divisions. have | votes of Republicans, largely of the progressive wing | defenses overru The line ran !

of that party, kilometers, foll Barely Staved Off Defeat troops thers h

South of St. Vi TO SAVE Mr. Wallace from complete and utter and paused-ye defeat, party leaders had to: arrange first to strip line, PH the office to which he was appointed of the various He lending agencies embodied in the federal loan ad- How About ministration. This was in itself, of course, a defeat FEBRUARY of some consequence, for he wanted jurisdiction over and melung sno

these to help carry out his proposed post-war job Goring) aw program.

+ forts? Will th Even this compromise hardly staved off defeat. movement forw For his foes lost only by a hair their attempt to throw « ing down, as n his nomination immediately into an executive session | because of long and beat it, at the outset. Now it appears certain We got into that Mr. Wallace, after four weeks of walting during ago: A gener which congress will separate the federal loan admine junior officers 1 istration from the commerce department, will then the ranks—a fir be confirmed as secretary of commerce, again shrunk Every man held back to its original function as an advisory and re search agency for business, and not the grandiose : agency that Jesse Jones administered. - Senator Barkley (D. Ky.), majority leader, said Pei he had assurances the house would speed considera- NnS1 tion of the bill of divorcement which the senate passed after a short debate. President Roosevelt has iy FOUR-YEAF 328 E. 47th, doe restrict his ente: recently during throwing snowb

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B\ REDS 250 MILES Away § BA REDS 183 MILES Away \ ; AWAY |5 MILES AWAY 83 dnd has made race tracks pay ’ all over the country, looks over the population figures

\ WALK for the New York area and says the attendance is LB) ; MILES A 4 just picayune to date. People are just waking up to the glories of horse racing... What a future for “monster race tracks” with planes landing patrons on “huge landing fields” and the golden age of thorqughbred racing still to come! : And by crackey, the cunnel is going to be right in the middle of it—for when the building restrictions are lifted he and the Butlérs are going to make Empire City “mighty and magnificent.”

'Find Another Customer’

ANOTHER CIGAR for the cunnel, boy, and let's and Filipino guerrillas, 25 miles behind the enemy lines, to | take a peek into his record, as he tells it to Frank G. ‘release a gallant remnant of Bataan and Corregidor, : | Mense in “Down the Stretch. (Smits & Durrell, For when MacArthur in those dark days made his | He had-been attending every derby in Louisville : ‘ ’ n”—he and America were | since the first in 1875 when, in 1902, the owners asked famous promise—"1 will return”—he | si : x , Haag mot only of American honor and the fate of our | am io wy an dd gd brave Philippine ally, but also of the American fighting men | customer.” left behind to die or to suffer in prison camps. It was the | (Buy Sey Dudmed BE SAnTasel Ov a terrible debt to them that never could be forgotten. | racing going? He had a family of nine girls. He coni pe Jap cruelty in prison camps, and | sulted his wife. She was a thoroughbred. “You were Since then reports of Jaj ‘ : 5 ished. have | & success in the grocery business, and you didn’t know the bestial death marches in which so many perished; have | & te "0 0 870 the start,” said Mrs. Winn. made this rescue more urgent. Most of the remaining | «youve been a success in the tailoring business, al- | * c » S. ] i ; rdly knew the difference between a | i y 8 been taken to camps in China | though you hardly ; | prisoners have long Ince left on Luzon MacArthur needle and a tape measure in the beginning. You | and Japan. But if others are le Gilneas | knew Spokane was going to win the derby in our | will find them. . | honeymoon days. You know horses—you know racing | people. . . . So go ahead.” : . "2 : | The record says that from 1902 on, when Matt J. | . THE DEBT is not paid. In a larger sense It never-call| win, took charge, ‘Churchill Downs never ended a

Pe.” But those who died, as those who suffered in thé’ season without a profit. 4 . . - . . is L : prison camps,-offered their Safe Ppt i Eta n Memories of Esmous Tracks s, and that task is still unfinished. | Should Hot Tule over us, 2 : h 'mbol of YOU CAN GO ON from there and refresh your. Happily, the Cabanatuan Yescue 5 rihe Sy moo or memory of racing with these reminiscences of a busi‘America’s avenging might. The liberation of Manila itself Frias man. He Sl’ s0 well that he ad $0 take over is at hand, after a brilliant campaign in which our sea-air- | other tracks—Empire City, Laurel, Douglas Park, La-

. . ar : o the enemy's | tonia, Lexington, Lincoln Fields, Fairmount, Wash- “DON'T MAKE IT Bland forves have swept across the Pacific to t ® |ington Park, Juarez and Mexico City. He had a 50 ANY HARDER” ner daeienses. :

| per tent interest In Eplte City from 1907 10 1918, By Evelyn, the War Worker Indianapolis} y ataan and Corregidor when he sold it to James Butler Sr. Now he’s back as | Eve”, ’ Am From te allowed oun i, our oie our | executive. Some of the tracks have been closed— | Something happened to me that erican bases will rise ag . 8, 8 S, troops will carry the battle closer and closer to enemy con- | jie Fairmount, near St. Louis, are fairly new. Leche 1 “EOld thelr forbes” be:

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THE LOST REMNANT OF BATAAN HEN American Raiders rescued the 510 allied prison- | ers from the Jap guards at Cabanatuan, Gen. Mac- | Arthur said: “No incident of the campaign has given me such personal satisfaction.” That goes for all Americans here at home. In a war filled with heroism nothing hae

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1 Split in Party Again Disclosed

THIS ISSUE again disclosed, for all to see, the | split in the Democratic party between the New Deal“ers dnd the conservatives. It was the conservatives | who ehgineered this coup which will keep the loan agencies away from Henry Wallace and which almost i succeeded in kicking his nomination out bodily. The conservative Democrats can be so effective ‘because of their coalition with Republicans, 27 sof whom joined them in this first test. This coalition is a fact that will constantly plague President Roosevelt in his fourth term on domestic measures, in the house as well as in the senate, for it operates, too, in the other body. The only offset is a group of progressive Republic--ans of the Willkie stamp who may save the adminis-. {-tration—on—some—issues,—as-they-did—on-the-Wallace nomination, including such interesting new figures as Senators Morse (Ore) and Saltonstall (Mass.) both of whom had labor support in their elections to the senate. : :

a o : + The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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| "GOOD SUBJECT {FOR A SERMON” |By Charles B. Geiger, Indianapolis On the frontspage of today's Times, Jan. 27, is one of the best! arguments on the race question. | All you race discriminationists take | Tote; 2 : The one story is that of the local | colored boy who made good and has {reached a very high level of nl lized living; has contributed much to the common good of humanity.

Yes, Todd Duncan is a living proof that superiority does not lie in skin pigmentation. The other story! is that of a white man who re-| -|cently died in disgrace, Tom Pen- |

IN WASHINGTON— dergast, whose life is an example of |

Changing Congress |

‘undermine human progress. | By Peter Edson

It was perhaps a very rare coin- | {cidence that such a contrast should | | ippear on the front page of al Jewspaper and might | a gaqod

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scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The . > Red army is almost in sight .of Berlin. Hitler's. doom, says radio Moscow, is now merely a matter -of weeks—not: months. The end of .organized resistance on the part

of the Reconstruction Finance Corpordtion and had collected 80 per

cent of the loans, whereas Mr. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—~The

| including Lexington, which ran for 100 years. Others {should serve as 3 warfiing to all centrations in China and the Mikado’s bomb-blasted home | This is racing from the business end—a story that |o 0 i100 accuse other people of pletely it never can threaten free men again. atin {My husband is serving overseas and . my man comes back. I have a ride OVERHAUL THE RFC Fo ; taken | By William Philip Simms a streetcar, then transfer to a bus. ment to require a general accounting office audit .of 8] Re a | | when war workers were getting off k at these vast government corporations -with their al- | ~ 2 79th congress will probably have

fslands, until all Jap military power is wiped out so—com= LE A the tracks Tor the duration. Sr .| I have two children, age 4 and 2%. debt to the legions of Luzon. . % h ot Ww Id that I may have my home when Hope of the Wor my * youngsters home at night on yesterday when the senate adopted the Byrd amend: | Ian ar # ‘ . | (on streetcars with children at a time It means that at last congress is starting to take a new | Am I supposed to get rid of my

| is doubly nostalgic now that the wartime ban On oR ow : y ; : | ¢ Only then will be have paid the possible part of our | WORLD AFFAIRS— I have to work in & war plant so every morning, but I have to take ar ter government was | NE step at least toward better g | Fr Reconstruetion Finance Corp. and its subsidiaries. remark that “I had my nerve riding work.” most unlimited power to borrow and lend and spend and |

invest and speculate on the credit of the taxpayers, present |

and future. It is high time.

} of the Nazis seem definitely in g& sight. It was against this background

babies because they take up extra space on a streetcar? I stand up many a time and if anyone thinks

Jones had collected only about 76 per cent of his loans. = A few months ago people were awake clergyman, laughing because Mr. Wallace said |

subject for a sermon by some wide-

However, 1 prefer to let the read-

For it was not enough that the senate voted to divorce | the RFC from the commerce department and then post- | poned for 30 days consideration of Henry Wallace's nom- | ination as a wing-clipped secretary of commerce.

It was

that former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles told the League of Nations association in New York that the great powers | today are “in process of making decisions which will determine the destinies of all mankind in the centuries

not enough to refuse Mr. Wallace that high-riding authofity | to come”

to do business on the taxpayers’ cuff. Such power should | not have been given to Jesse Jones, and it should not be con- | tinued in the hands of Mr. Jones’ successor as loan adminis- |

trator, whoever he may be.

TESTIFYING BEFORE the senate commerce committee, Senator George of Georgia undertook the “summarize” the powers congress had voted to the RFC over the years. The senator’s “summary” consumed 55 minutes and covers about eight pages of fine type in the record of the hearing. In addition to its lending powers, the RFC has author-

Ry to further the war effort by creating other corporations

with the power to buy, sell, lease or otherwise acquire almost anything that might be thought to be needed, from

railroad rolling stock to critical materials to machinery, |

and the power to produce and manufacture, and—as if that

The gathering was symbolic. The association met to commemorate the 25th anmiversary of the founding of the old League of Nations, now just a memory. At the same time it formally changed its name to the American Association for the United Nations, in the hope that the United Nations may blossom into I? new and, this time, effective league. |

| Depends on the Big Three

WHETHER THIS happens depends almost entirely on the Big Three meeting. As Mr. Welles recalled, President Wilson was responding to ‘the desire of mankind everywhere when he tried to set up an international organization whose ideal was right over might. “No man,” he quoted Mr, Wilson as saying, “can turn away from these things without turning away from the ‘hope of all the world.” Nevertheless, realists hold out little more hope for the new league than for the old. There are already two strikes against it. True, fit Is Just as ardently

I enjoy that, they have another think coming. v I hope .you print this beczuse then. maybe people will think twice before they make the same mistake this woman made that spuke about me,

something about two quarts of milk| for- the Hottentots. Some people do not have the vision of Mr. Wal-|

Hottentot or the people of China or| |India in their poverty can be] Ihave never boarded a bus or Prousht to consume more “of -our| streetcar yet that someone hasn't products much more work will be | given me a dirty look or made found to solve the question of sixty some remark. I feel like I am com- Million jobs. mitting a crime or something. | We all lived in the period when] Please, folks, don’t make it any millions of Americans were idle and | harder on us war wives than you the conservatives tried to solve the | have to. matter by handouts. The senators| 5 0 {now in Washington should realize | “WALLACE 1S {that Mr. Wallace is concerned about | 9 the return of unemployment and is |THE, RIGHT MAN { willing to use the powers of his of- | By W.C. Reese, Shelbyville fice to avoid unemployment. Not | It is hard to understand the at-|since the days of Andrew Jackson tack on Henry Wallace. Have we has there “been arrayed the. vested hed int where the conserva- interest against an individual. Mr. [reathes a po : _ Wallace is honest and capable, and fives will stop at nothing to hold {what more could you ask of a pub(the power they have? Mr. Wallace lic servant. Mr, Wallace was a fine is the right man for the place. He vice president, and has shown a does not want the returnéfl soldier Villingaes fo step Sawn 3 Jat 32 to have to peddle apples on the ician ‘agreeable to the conservative street. nor does he want millions of

Democrats who want. to see the

lace. Mr. Wallace knows that if the :

ers of. The Times who have read both news stories, form their own conclusions.

4 nn .» “THE STATE DOESN'T NEED THE MONEY” :

With the state treasury already overflowing with surplus cash, our esteemed governor sees a need for additional revenue and insists upon | a tax levy upon cigarets. If the| poor misguided public thinks that such a tax will make cigarets more plentiful and easier to obtain, they | are due for a rude awakening, To introduce such a bill at this time when there is a drastic short-

age of cigarets is no doubt a wise political move, but if the man on the sireet, out of whose pocket will come the tax, will just take time out long enough to survey the real reason behind the demand for this tax, he will hasten to stop this move with everything at his disposal. The state does not need this ad-

Hetats it this. year no. domestic ' iSsue of greater importance than its own ‘reform. The house has approved a proposal by Rep. A. S. (Mike) Mon- " roney of Oklahoma, calling for a joint committee of six senators and six representatives to study congressional reorganization, Senate confirmatién is expected and the new joint committee is expected to organize a staff and make its first report by April 1, Every one of the more than 500 congressmen has a few ideas on how congress could be “streamlined” but that is only the beginning. Books have been written about it and. magazine articles by the score, Privdte organizations like American Political Science association and National Planning association have made independent studies. .

Suggestions Are Plentiful

SUGGESTIONS range all the way from removing the snuff box which-by senate rule must be filled daily with fresh sneezes, to removing many of the congressmen themselves, making the congress a smaller body, paying the members more money, giving them pensions to boot, and providing them with more help at higher’ pay-so they can do more work and keep a better check on the rest of the government.

ly the other day tenant (army) c halted him, ha “That's the first

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were not enough—a little extra bonus authority “to take suoh.other action as the President and the federal loan administrator may deem necessary.” |

wanted as it ever was—probably more so—but coming frem within the Big Three itself there are signs that force is still supreme. ‘ Force is being employed right now to change

; Y the 5h : q | ditional revenue, but some of the 3 : poverty of the share cropper andi, .; poo hlicans do need jobs to] The problem is going to be one of getting any.

the small farmer continue, - Presi-| " | xin of t on whit if anv changes should ire th for. th § .| kind of agreement o y : should _ riot Dackf Toward Hie 10 vuir Jan wip | be made, boiling down all the proposed reforms into a

Columbia Unive | needs to be stu the practice of

| unemployed to march in the streets] of our cities. He is for a construc-|

Ng | , | tive gra after the war. {dent Roosevelt port of the party during the cam-|

* As for its lending authority, Mr. Jones himself summed that up neatly by saying he could lend to anybody, for any purpose, any amount of money, any time, at any rate of

interest, :

If it is going to re-establish itself as a responsible branch of government, congress had better recapture those Powers and not wait to see who is to be appointed to the Job which the senate has decided Henry Wallace can’t have.

AND WATCH THE BOWL

“The business of all the surplus war property agencies should. be conducted in a goldfish howl "-

Baruch-Hancork report, written a yeap ago. J)

disposal From the

OF all the wise things in the report, that was one of the - Wisest. Witness current revelations before the senate

war investigating committee,

A $6500-a-year engineer for the Defense Plant Corp. testifies that the president of a New York company offered

to hire him at a $15,000 salary if he would report favorably |

on the company’s application for a contract to sell surplus

turned in adverse reports, but somehow the company got

the contract, New .York’s Mayor La Guardia charges |

“scandalous proceedings” -—collusive bidding, sales to speculators, dummy transactions, refusal to accept bids from public agencies—at auctions conducted by the company,

peated it four times in their report.

sale of war surpluses has barely begun, Now is make doubly sure that all of it is congucted ; And that what goes on inside that bow]

Messrs. Baruch and Hancock well knew that the liquion of surplus properties which have cost the government ons upon billions of dollars would be an’ irresistible imptation. Hence their remark about the goldfish bowl.

frontiers, shift great masses of population. At the same time something both strange and dreadful] seems to be happening to democratic thought on both sides of the Atlantic. People who call them-

selves liberals apparently are so hypnotized, partly by |

what brute force can accomplish and partly by clever propaganda, that they are blinded to what is actually going on.

‘Unreasonable Attitude’ Criticized

“LIBERAL” CORRESPONDENTS in London, for example, tell of growing “impatience” there over the “unreasonable attitude” of certain Poles who refuse to be happy about the partition of. their country (by force) and the imposition (by force) of a puppet regime. to rule over their territorial remnants. And there are stories of the “stubborn” and ‘reactionary” stand taken by certain Serbs who object

and their country by members of the Big Three. And so on, clear acclaim Prime Minister Churchill's famous dictum that he had not become’ his majesty's first minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British empire. ’

| outery of other patriots whose countries may be

The Little Peoples Are Hoping

THE LITTLE PEOPLES no less than the great and powerful are hoping for a just peace. And they are pinning their hopes on & new league of nations which will give it to them, °

The goal of Woodrow Wilson, Mr. Welles said,

hope of the world.

brute “force.” pe ’ ir - Unless ihe. Big Hives make such a world

to a lotalitarian dictatorship being thrust upon them

Yet these same observers quote with |

__To this writer, the prime. minister's outburst is | both natural and understandable—even though he | "had in mind not England but Hongkong, the Malay materials at auction. The engineer and other DPC officials | *4¢5 And other fringes of empire. But so. is- the |

smaller, but whose heartstrings are no less sensitive,

| “remains forever unchanged. It still represents the It will forever be the supreme effort on the part of men and women to live in a world where “their existence will be ‘shaped by the power inherent th justice, in individual freedom and popular government, rather than in the power of |

that the United States will |

Prew” Pearson made & point An down on-this appointment. Wallace favor of Mr, Wallace in that he|is the Andrew “Jackson of the| stated that Wallace as secretary of | present time and I hope that he will | agriculture had loaned three hun-|live to see the day when as Presi-| |dred thousand farmers more money dent of the United States he will be| than Mr. Jones had loaned as head able to appoint his own cabinet.

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paign “just past. A cigaret tax is| made to order for this purpose, Tax inspectors fer each county in the state will be needed and an office force here at the Capitol of huge proportions to administer the tax, With the manpower shortage being what it is today, it is inconceivable that the governor would even mention such a tax, Investigation of“ cigaret taxation in neighboring states will prove to even the more gullible that such a

jobs to politicians. The cost of collecting such a tax is so great that the revenue left is of almost So again, John Q. Public has several hundred more political leeches to support. The state administration was elected to office by conscientious voters who protested against a wasteful and extravagant national administration. Instead of rewarding these voters by square play, the first move they make is to follow in the footsteps of the New Deal and offer a taxation bill conceived only to create more political jobs. Wake up, smoker and non-smoker Deluge the lawmakers with your protests against a cigaret tax The state doesn’t need the money and it will only result in a raise in price of the few cigarets which now reach this market.

- DAILY THOUGHTS

And the-king said unto Haman, the sliver’ is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to.thee.—Esther

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program acceptable to practical politicians jealous of their historical prerogatives, That being the case, many of the suggested alterations simply aren't going to get any place at all. Many of the things which seem the silliest—like the senate snuffbox and the right to filibuster—are a part of now-traditional rules which will be changed only over some solons’ dead bodies.

Last Reorganization in 1921

PROOF of that is the fact that although several hundred bills and resolutions to change the structure of congress have been introduced by congressmen in the last 50 years—there were 50 reform bills offered in the "8th congress—the last reorganization was in 1921, As Governor Dewey might say, “That's why it's time for a change,” but as. Governor Dewey found out, there won't be so many changes made. A straw in the wind is provided by the recent house vote to reconstitute the; Dies committee to in«

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manent instead of a temporary committee. Senator Robert M, La Follette of Wisconsin introduced a bill to cut down the number of senate committees so as to streamline and simplify the work of the members.

More Power Urged by Some

THIS WHOLE BUSINESS of . congressional re form in its broader aspects -is hinged on what you want your congress to do. That's why you find suggestions for giving congressmen ‘less to do alongside sueeestions that congress should do more. part of the agitation In the latfer direction comes from congressmen and others who feel that the ex-

ecutive branch of the government has usurped many = | of the legislative functions and that congress should | |

regain lost powers. Reformers who think this way would therefore build up a- big’ congressional staff, ‘give it police powers over the executive departments _and furthér curb the President himself, - i ; uld be aimed at taking it. of congress sho » aime aking it. furth of the executive business and keeping it what Pounding Fathers intended to be--a law-making

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