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WHAT FIGHTERS WANT
F it's a fact that a work-or-jail law for the home front
“would please our fighters and boost their morale, that is
important. But whether it’s a fact is a matter of opinion, |
gince the fighters have not been polled on the subject. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson believes
sincerely that it is a fact. In support of his opinion he |
cites an editorial from the Paris edition of the army news-
paper, Stars and Stripes, urging passage of the May bill, |
wlhich it says should be called a “must” bill. How many goldiers agree with that editorial? Frankly, we don’t know.
But certain members of the Stars and Stripes staff evi- |
dently disagree. They have protested publication of the editorial, which was written by the paper's editor, Lt. Col. Arthur Goodfriend. They suspect Stars and Stripes is being used to promote the ideas of “higher, ups,’ and say they have felt on several occasions that Col. Goodfriend's editorials were resented by the fighting troops. The colonel says the editorial was his. own idea, and stated his personal view. The newest member of congress—Rep. James G. Fulton of Pennsylvania—is a former navy lieutenant just back - from service on an airplane carrier in the Pacific. He says | that the men on the fighting fronts are against compulsory _ mahpower legislation because “they don't want to see the | home front regimented.” '
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TWO WEEKS AGO 12 eminent university and college | presidents wrote to President Roosevelt that consideration | ‘of post-war military training should be delayed—that it |
would be a mistake to adopt it “under the tension of war | psychology.” Last week 14 other eminent university and |
college presidents wrote to Mr. Roosevelt that compulsory | “The Patience of Job,” replied that they thought it| MANY A RAISE™ _ training should be enacted right now—that it would be a | ~ mistake to wait until after-‘the-war-‘“when-again-we will.
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Tie. * = = ** IT WOULD BE possible to poll all university and college presidents on post-war military training, but the result would not aiter the duty of congress to do what, in its own |
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It would be possible, though difficult, to poll all fighting | men on a work-or-jail law for the home front. Again, the | result would not alter the duty of congress to act on its | own best judgment. If we were congress—thank goodness we're not—we would consider the opinions of various people about the good or bad effect of such a law on fighters’ morale.” ;
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a work-or-jail law would be good or bad for maximum war preduction, that being the thing we're absolutely sure all
STEEL STOCKINGS
f-— GLAINLESS steel hosiery is a post-war possibility, ac- |
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supporting markets will be most likely to succeed if it starts
" cording to Walter Tower, president of the American | fron and Steel Institute. Several companies, he says, are | experimenting with wire finely drawn into silk-like fibers, | and maybe women of the future will use welding torches, instead of nail polish or chewing gum, to stop. stocking | “runners.” Well, we won't call the idea fantastic. Not many years -8g0 we might have hooted at a prediction that amazingly |
durable sheer hosiery would be made of the elements of |
- coal, air and water. Yet that's what we_have-or had
before the war, and will have again—in nylon. We've |
learned to expect such marvels from the chemists, and why |
_.shouldn’t they be expected from the metallurgists?
But Mr. Tower’s suggestion puts an intriguing reverse | twist. on the notion that synthetic materials may put metals out of business. Here is a metal, stainless steel, threaten: | ing to compete with a synthetic, nylon. And Mr. Tower | goes on to say that his industry will market permanently | colored sheet steel which may do-away with much of the | need ‘for using synthetic lacquers on automobile bodies. # Our guess is that metals won't be displaced by syn- | thetics, or vice versa, in any total sense. More likely, some | metals will be found better than other metals or any metal | for other specific uses.. And the cliemists and metallur- |
. gists will go on improving both synthetics and metals, of |
all kinds, and adapting them to. new uses, An a brisk and | healthy competition that should mean steady progre probably will be almost as exciting as the prospect of limbs sheathed in shimmering stainless steel—or,
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THE LEGION’S JOB PROGRAM
ATIONAL COMMANDER SCHEIBERLING announces £8 ‘grass roots program” through which 20,000. Ameriean Legion posts and auxiliaries will seek to, help build the markets necessary to support 55,000,000 post-war jobs. + We congratulate the Legion on this program. It is ed on what we believe to be thoroughly sound premises ~that war veterans can’t prosper if other Americans ‘suffer from mass unemployment ; that lasting jobs in industry and agriculture depend on adequate demand for what the people in ‘those jobs produce? that to create adequate demand it will be essential greatly to increase employment in the fields ‘of ‘service and distribution; that the task of builditig job-
d is carried on in communities throughout the country, We hope Indianapolis Legion posts will be active in pgram, and assure them of our eagerness to help.
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Are We Smart? By G. B. Parker ”
preen ourselves on being the mos widely read and best educated o people.
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literature than to any other subject. The university's proposes to keep a high emphasis on ‘the same during the whole four years of college. Specifically, this means that Ichabod Crane will | take precedence over Ivanhoe ‘in the educational | protocol, and Emerson over Carlyle,
Students Must Have Real Conception
THE STUDENT who might prefer a business course in typewriting, bookkeeping, pharmacy or
| evoking, nevertheless will first have to learn the | nature of American government &s compared with | those of other lands; that. is, if he wants to attend the University of Maryland. | As President Byrd puts it: “We must teach our! | leaders of the futuresto have an understanding of | our place in world affairs. To have that they must
appreciate what we are and what we stand for. We
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good for the future of our country, to see that one great university has! taken what is called an unprecedented- educational step, ' Why it shouldn't have been taken before—why it should be But
. The University of Maryland, under the leadership of its president, Dr. Harry C. Byrd, has adopted a new curriculum which gives more of the student's first year time to American history, government and |
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the history of his country.” | | This is a far cry from that cynical day a couple of | | decades or so ago when Henry Ford, the world’s lead- | | ing industrialist, described history as “the bunk” and | | when questioned later as to the identity of Benedict | Arnold testified about him as being a famous Eng{lish author. :
! Mr. Ford hadn't been routed through any such] "
curriculum as the .University of M#¥yland now sets up. He knew all about “machines and business organization. He was, and is, a genius. But he lacked an elemental which would have made him at the time a much greater citizen. In his later years he has made up for the contemptuous!
{ remark about history by becoming one of the great | students of and contributors to our Americana.
Remember the Gold Bricks
BUT WE STILL have such examples as those | reported currently’ by President Paul Klapper of New | York Queen's college. Three out of five of tested | college seniors, he says, when asked the meaning of |
had something to do with the employment problem. | And citations in a New York Times survey at- | tributed—to—25—per_cent of, 7000_college freshmen | ignorance as to whether Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States during-the Civil war. ! What all this shakes down to is very well: expressed by President Klapper: “Students are en- | couraged to form judgments before they possess the pertinent facts out of which judgment grows.” { Certainly there is a lot to think about in that comment. It may explain why we as a people, while ! priding ourselves on being so “well read” fall for so many nostrums and buy so many political goldbricks, at home and abroad.
WORLD AFFAIRS—
Poland Juggled By William Philip Simms
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They did, however, make it clear <hat while Poland's eastern fron-| tier is really no longer debatable, | she “must receive substantial ac-| cessions of territory in The north and west.” T Moscow already has indicated that, in the north; approximately two-thirds of East Prussia will go to Poland and, in.the west, practically everything up to the River Oder, that is, up to within 40 miles of Berlin. However, says- the Big Three communique, “the final delimination of the western trontier of Poland should . . , await the peace:conference.” The Poles themselves—that is, the Polish government in exile in London—are under no delusions when it comes to what the annexation of purely Prussian territory will mean to them. They know it is loaded with dynamite. »
London Poles Alarmed
SOME MONTHS AGO when the London Poles became convinced that what has just happened at. the ‘Big Three meeting was inescapable, they were alarmed. "History was full of warnings that it would become a perpetual bone of contention between a diminished Poland and a potentially powerful Ger- | many and they knew they would be doomed unless | they had the permanent protection of one or more! of the great powers. So they approached Washington. They inquired | if the United States would guarantee Poland's pro-| posed new frontiers. The inference, of course, was| that if this country acquiesced in the Moscow plan, | she should stand ready to guarantee the boundaries! in question, ’ | Washington said “No.” The United States never guarantees anybody's specific frontiers, | The answer, however, might just as well have been “yes.”
Dumbarton Oaks formula is ratified by the senate, the United States, of course, will automatically become a guarantor of Poland's new boundaries—uniless the senate writes in reservations.
Would Commit America
THIS MEANS that should Germany stage a comeback 10, 20 or 50 years hence and attack Polgnd with a view to getting back her lost provinces, the United States would be bound to help put down the aggression, As for Poland herself, the “Yalta pact all but destroys any hope she may have had regarding her future independence. Hereafter no government at Warsaw will dare enter into a treaty, trade arrangement, non-aggression pact or any other deal with another government without first asking Mdscow, That wili be the case even if the political phase of the Polish agreement works out exactly as President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. doubtless hope and expect. pit ot It was agreed that the so-called Lublin (or| Moscow-sponsored) regime should be reorganized “on a broader democratic basis” with' the "inclusion of democratic leaders from .Polapd itself and from Poles abroad. This new ' government should then be called the Polish provisional government of national unity, pledged to the holding of free elections, | When formed, this government would be recognized by Washington and London (which now recognize only the London Poles) and by Moscow which recognizes only the Lublin group.. ; ol 5
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POLITICAL SCENE—
5 Land Of The Free?
By Thomas L. Stokes £ * - WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Little items culled here and there in the “Land of the free and the home of the brave” : : fF. A Japanese girl, an American i citizen, born in this country, ejected from a Chicago hospital where she had.been taken for an emergency operation. , . , A group of Japaneseé-American citizens donate blood to the Red Cross in MM Boston, and the state commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars protests: “I wouldn't want any Japanese blood and I don’t think that our servicemen would.” In Placer County, Cal, 300 residents sign a petitlon to boycott returning Japanese-Americans and those who do business with them-—a petition circu lated by a deputy sheriff, commander of the local post of Veterans of Foreign Wars. . .'. In that same county a vigilante band attempts to dynamite and burn a fruit-shed on the ranch of a returned Japa-nese-American, an act denounced by Governor Warren as “atrocious.” . .°. In that same county also, Japanese-Americans wounded in.the service of our
country are afraid to go outside the hospital for exercise and air. , .
Names Erased From Honor Roll
_ IN HOOD RIVER, Ore., the American Legion post erased from its honor roll the names of 16 JapaneseAmericans several weeks ago. National Commander Edward N. Scheiberling recommended that the names
| be restored. The local post refused. . . . The Her-
minston, Ore, post of Disabled American Veterans votes “never to allow a Japanese or a colored veteran” to become members. ; Japanese-Americans are fighting ' valiantly, | Italy, in the Pacific. Stories of their heroism are coming back. . Are we going into another era of intolerance suc as followed the first world ‘war? Numerically the Japanese-Americans are negli gible, almost infinitesimal. The importance of these isolated incidents lies in- the fact that intolerance
‘| breeds intolerance, that it may spread to include
other racial elements. : There are indications that the Japanese-Ameri cans are being used as a ready instrument by some} people and some interests for their own purposes including intolerance against others, particularly: Ne
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their views in By Carroll Collins, Indianapolis The very wrath of heaven has beerr-brought-down-en-my head for] helping the working man. Decent wages make. a man worth while, yes, self-respecting, and gives him | ideals. Working with and for the common man (without pay) I un-| derstand their problems. Do you ! know how jnany men in industry make three thousand dollars a year? 1 do. The war labor board has denied | many a raise-to the average citizen. Some of these men make $25 to $30 a week and have a femiiv.)
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other public officials to have a raise By J. A. Michael, Indianapolis in salary? They, these public spir-
ted “men, can refuse thal “fais: Times for g good many years-and OUr armed forces need for victory
Will they? You pay tax to keep them in. office but do ou make | COntinue to read it every day, but
these salaries? vice president, $15,000; cabinet seems to others, that your editorial members, $15.000; senators, $15,000; of Peb. 6, 1945, on welfare is blind Teplesentatives, 30000. : $8000 in that it fails to lead anywhere. ernor Gates receives 3 ro the lieutenant governor, $6000;| It leaves the people to conclude Mayor Tyndall, $6000—and the that you favor all departments of legislators receive $10 a day. What the present bureaucratic setup, and do they want; our blood? The {aX- there is plenty of reaction and
J WS er ” caren. Gov, negation in some departments. of ernor Gates, what do you think that. . Asa Smith is getting in this war | Please, Mr. Editor, if you are to and He has been in since the first. 'seek<the destruction of the work of Not $8000 a year. Still I'm a fool |... lawmaking body of men be-
when 1 ask for a few dollars for| : the working man. {fore they get started, then give the
: ; thing constructive, » First I'd suggest you fought tooth People somethin and nail for these jobs, politicians, | Come out of the haze and tell use every trick in the trade, even them if you are in favor of all deto mud slinging. You knéw what partments of the bureaucratic setthese offices paid, now stick to your UP in the great state of Indiana, guns the same as the fighting men, | Which includes the so-called OldEither take-it-or get-out. Remem- Age Pension — a disgrace to our ber ho man is indespensible. {great state. - I am not conceited but believe I| I believe the people would be
could do s much better job than glad to have a political football in|
Remy or Tyndall with no pay at|place of bureaucratic hammer, and all, I would certainly pick menito the senate and Governor Gates who were honest, truthful and had the people in Indiana believe in a very active conscience. Give the you: and I believe also that your women a chance and they will get future endeavors will substantiate results without bleeding the tax- our voting the Republican ticket payer, {straight again next time.
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“WHY ARE OUR BOYS FIGHTING?” By H. J. Wilson, Indianapolis Why are our boys fighting for a
{when America is fast drifting to [national socialism? This is not to {influence the minds of anyone to ishirk' his duties, either on the |
| foreign fronts or on the home front, | {but we are confused by the everyday issues. Why is the working class being told where they must work and for how much, why they cannot change their jobs for betterment, what they must eat and how much, at what temperature they must keep their] homes, etc:? - |
What are the boys going to do| about it when this conflict is over? Are they goipg to come back and] aceept the very conditions they! have seen so many of their buddies die for? Can anyone expect an un-
Supplies and fuel “are “being i shipped to unfriendly, though non»
{home workers who must support {this war, are forced to go without. “You can lead a horse to water but {you can't make him drink.” When [a man's hungry and the government {cannot keep supplies from the black market, do you think he is going [to go without when there is so {much done to encourage and favor the black market? The public is more than willing to co-operate but not to be brow-beaten, When a market closes and there is scarcely enough in the three in the locality to supply the demand, are the other two given his share to distribute? No, we must just tighten our belts and produce just as much. If a parent or child dies or is injured in another community, can we obtain gasoline to go to their aid? No, not from the OPA. Yet any government official from the President down to Elliot's dog can get anything from a battleship to an army plane to tour the world. And do they cut down on their food? If you think so just read about the banquets in Washington, D. C. I will not appreciate any rabid, anonymous replies, but I will appreciate ' any" sensible answer, I being the judge. » # ~ “GO ALL OUT FOR A BROWNOUT”
By M. R. Stuck, 1300 N. Pennsylvania Our “brownout” seems to be suc cessful and will possibly save a lot of coal. There is one other thing along this line which seems almost ridiculous. “War Time.” We are all urged to save coal by eliminating the use of electricity as much as possible. Most of our defense plants operate 24 hours a day. They will
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makes no difference. Other plants working 8 to 5, war time is really 7 to 4, standard time. Give us back standard time and an hqur of coal can be saved. Our schools open 45 minutes early due to war time, and look at what a saving that would be. Why not go all out for & “brownout” and possibly double the savings| in coal? ” 3
DAILY THOUGHTS
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. —~Numbers 14:19.
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groes. The Negro population on the West coast ha grown tremendously during the war,
1250 Sent Back to Coast
. THERE WERE only 127.000 Japanese in our popu lation of 130 odd millions. They were concentrated on the Pacific coast. The war relocation authority
its jurisdiction at various camps. Already 23,000 hav been relocated, scattered about the country. "Thus far less than 250 have been sent back tg the Pacific coast, There should be no trouble in taking care of this tiny. minority among our great population and vas ~The-danger-is-that-this fairly simple problem w be exploited by the demagogic types which ri fronting for selfishness and prejudice, despite the fine intentions of most of our people and the splendics job being done by the churches and. other organiza tions. : 3 There are signs of this on the Pacific’ coast. There is, for example, Dr. John R. Lechner, former clergy man, who has occasionally posed as a friend of the Japanese, and yet has spent much time going arouic haranguing against them, organizing meetings, in spiring resolutions, ~
Did Our Pioneers Found This Land?
HE HAS been cliarged by responsible sources witk being a front for landowners, produce growers,”com mission merchants and florists who took over th business of the evacuated Japanese. He operates through an organization called “Amers iscanism Educational League.” He parade his “Amer feanism.” Another sample is a booklet, “The Japs Must No Come Back,” by Lambert Schuyler, recommending deportation of Japanese both from the United Stale and Hawaii which, he says, would leave to “our farms ers” a heritage of “a vast and lucrative truck-garden+ ing business.” 5 Mr. Schulyer plays much on “white supremacy,’ saying, among other things, “Perhaps we here on the Pacific coast, removed as yet only a generation of two from the pioneers who dared anything, car} solve our racial problem before it becomes insolublé€ and at the same time can show the way whereby the South can solve its race problem, too, instead of sinking under it.” His book has a distinctly Naz ® flavor. . A Is this the kind of land our pioneers founded?
IN WASHINGTON—
Reforming Congress By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Ped. 13 " Bvery idea for reorganizing econ gress, regardless of its desirability meets with some more or less vali objection, h | There is in congress itself cong y siderable sentiment to change the procedure which requires twog | thirds senate approval for an) international treafy negotiated b) the President. . This rule is considered bad fo three reasons. First, 33 isolationist members of the senate migh block a broad international post-war security plan. Second, the house is cut out of any participation] Third, the President is driven to making “execu tive agreements” with foreign countriés, not requir ing congressional approval, when it was the intent o the founding fathers that the senate should participats in making foreign policy and treaties. Letting the full congress ratify or reject all in ternational deals by simple majority vote is proposed as a remedy for these evils. Yet students of cowgres point out that the house of representatives is th most unpredictable thing in government, subject strange moods and temperamental acts which af | times defy reason. : :
Suffrage for D. C. Citizens? at
RECENT ACTION of the house in bringing td life the committee formerly headed by Martin Dies after everyone thought it was safely dead and buried is cited as an example of this whimsy. | And if foreign relations are to be subjected to suc ble actions as this, say the experts in inter national affairs, the country would be letting itsel in on many strange upsets should the congress b reformed in this manner. wii : “ Anbther desirable reform of congress is the proposa that thé governing of the District of Columbia b taken away from congress and given back to th people who are resident in the capital, along with th right to vote, : : avy - "Opponentd of any kind of congressional reforr
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