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Man of Facts

By Harry Hansen

By Charles T. Lucey |

“The Indianapolis Times "PAGE 16 Thursday, February 15, 1945 =

HENRY W. MANZ

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE Business Manager

President Editor (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) ; ; ONE OF THE authors of bestsellers I know is the editor of the “World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1045"—E. Eastman Irvine. : . Sometimes I meet him in the hall, and we stop’ to exchange ‘reminiscences about life in Amer-

. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. = A drive to bolster by law the proposition that a Negro has the same right to & job -as anyone else— to create a permanent fair employment practices - commission will begin soon in congress. But

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15 MILLION HOMES HE American Federation of Labor executive council announces an interesting program calling for the building of 15 million homes in the first 10 years after the war.’ President William Green says it would mean 19 million jobs in construction, material, furnishings, appliance and related industries. It demands government action along’ many lines—more liberal federal mortgage guarantees, money grants to aid slum clearance and community project planning and housing for low-income farm families, continued control over building-material prices until supply equals demand—all to be directed ‘by a new national housing board. But it is silent about action along another line. We mean action to bring down the cost of good housing. Action by the building industry's employers and unions. Determined action to get.rid of the monopoly practices, | the restraints on use of better and more economical mate- |

which have made the building trades a vast. conspiracy |

against every family that wants to build a home. ” " ~ ¥ » »

IT IS a conspiracy born of fear—fear that the market |

ica's breadbasket, the Mississippi valley, We talk about the big river, the steamboats, the weather in LaCrosse, Wis.—seems he hails from there—and other topics important west of Hoboken, The other day we were talking about cold days on Lake Pepin, a vast body of water created by a bulge in the Mississippi. Now, you'd expect him to say: “The ice was 10% inches thick on Lake Pepin at sunrise, 2:10 a. m., Thursday, Feb. 1,” wouldn't: you? Well, he didn't. He just said. “It's darn cold out there in winter; Lake Pepin Is frozen over in this weather.” ; Sometimes he asks me about Davenport, Iowa, #nother river town, and do you think he says: “What do you hear from Davenport, the seat of Scott county, Towa, population 66,039, by the census of 1940?" No. - He merely says: “How's E. P, Adler's paper doing out there nowadays?” and other remarks just as general, imprecise and unexpected, coming from the editor of the=world's greatest compendium of accurate information, the life saver of dozens of aspirants to radio fame.

Other People Talk Shop

YOU SEE, I am giving you an informal glimpse of a man who might be expected to lisp in numbers every time he opens his mouth, Other peoplé talk shop, don't they? : Maybe he indulges in it when he converses with his editorial associates, Messrs. Cooper, Martin and Raymond. You'd think so, aftéf putting in a year putting together all these population tables, statistics about areas of great nations; names of rulers, living, defunct and crouching in bomb shelters; square roots,

. : : fractions and tables of weights and measures: mem-= | rials and methods, the labor-wasting rules and agreements | orable dates; information’ about all the states and

territories; data on crops, meat production, oil and steel output; names of New York's societies, and all the sports records you ever want to know. You'd imagine the talk to be like this:

it looks like an u southerners who may try to talk it to death, . ~ The scope of permanent FEPO legislation isn't limited to Negroes -{it extends to barring discrim=~ {ination in employment because of “race, creed, color, national origin or ancestry” But the fight on it will relate chiefly to its application. to Negroes, The house labor committee headed by Rep. Norton (D. N. J.) has before it a dozen FEPC measures and, Mrs. Norton says, there's a good chance a bill will be reported out Yavorably within 10 days or so. A subcommittee of the senate committee on education and labor has been named to consider FEPC bills in the senate and it will be called together soon. Senate hearings were held last fall,

Fair Chance of Passage in House

THE BILL is believed to have a fair chance of passage In the house. After it comes from the labor committee it must go through the rules committee to get to the floor, and conservative southerners on this committee probably will try to block it. If they succeed, sponsors believe they can get a majority of house members to sign a petition to by-pass the rules committee and bring the measure’ directly to the floor. Leaders think it could be passed. But in the senate, where there is great latitude of debate, southern members could talk indefinitely on it, filibustering as they have with anti-lynching a tax bills which earlier had passed the house. . e 1044 Republican platform declared flatly for a “permanent - FEPC, and the party's presidential nominee, Governor Dewey, stressed the proposal in many speeches, The Democratic platform. ducked the issue directly by including a broad general statement about tie rights of racial and religious minorities. Republicans, it i8 believed, would have a hard time backing away from an FEPC bill now, but some Southern Democrats are expected to make a bitter

Irvine to Cooper—“It's 4026 miles to Berlin by air.” Cooper to Irvine—"If you stand on a 50-foot hill

for housing is so limited’ that employers are in danger of | you can see for 8 and 1-10th nautical miles.”

building themselves out of profits, and workers of working | themselves out of jobs and earnings.

Raymond to Martin—"The Dodgers won 63 games and lost 91, that puts them next to last.” Martin to Raymond—"Franklin D. Roosevelt is the

It results in costs so high that they do limit the market | 31¢t man to serve as President of the United States.”

and destroy profits and jobs. Yet: the employers and the unions cling to their restrictive practices, and the A. Fork

But they don't. One day a lot of figures floated | out of the door of the Almanac dffice and turned out | to be points for steak at the Washington market. The

of L. denounces A. Thurman Arnold as labor's arch-enemy | editors are human, like the rest of us. But they do

because he says that such practices are wrong and tries | pack an awful lot of information into that book.

to invoke law against them. . The housing market could be almost unlimited. The goals of the A. F. of L. program could be attained. This country could well use at least 1,500,000 new homes each | year for many years. The building of .them could support 19 million jobs. | It could maintain healthy activity in the construction industry and so stabilize the whole national economy. All this is possible if the cost of housing is brought within the reach of enough people, and that also is possible.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Yalta Sidelights

By Leigh White

| fight against it.

LaFollette Introduces Bill in House

THE LEGISLATION has plenty of sponsors. In the house, bills have been .put in by Reps. Norton, Dirksen (§. Ill), Clason (R. Mass), LaFollette (R. Indd, Powell (D. N. Y.), Bender (R. O.), Baldwin (R. | N. ¥.. Hock (D. Mich), Dawson (D. Ill), Douglas (D Cal), Doyle (D. Cal) and Hoffman (R. Mich), Senator Chavez (D. N. M.) has introduced the .senate bill, on behalf of himself and Senators Downey (D. Cal), Wagner (D. N. Y.), Murray (D. Mont),

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will - defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

|“WORST PIECE OF

(Times readers are invited | | CLASS LEGISLATION"

to express their views in these columns, religious con- By William Tayler, Morgantown : . t _| Capper (R. Kas), Langer (R. N. D.) and Aiken (R. troversies excluded. Because Reviewing the past election cam-| ZHDP

: / | Vt). Another bill is fostered by Senator Taft (R. 0). of the volume received, let- |palgn promises, the charges of) Except for the Taft bill, the proposals are someters should be limited to 250

{bureaucratic bankruptcy, red bait-| wnat on national labor reiations act lines. They de{ing, “clear it with Sidney” -smears,| fine unfair employment practices relating to race, what does the term “war worker’ werds, Lette rs must be lete, I am positive the majority of creed or color, as they may be' practiced by either | mean. Isn't everyone working to-| signed. Opinions set forth | here are those of the writers,

the voters picked the wrong legis- employers or labor unions. An FEPC of five memward victory? Perhaps the war] and publication in no way

| “WHAT DOES THE TERM MEAN?" By Idler, Indianapolis I've read some repulsive letters in the Hoosier Forum but Mrs. War | Worker's letter in a recent edition | tops them sll. In the first place.

MOSCOW, Feb. 18.—It is impossible to give the “inside story” |

But unless the industry—management and labor—is | willing to reform or be reformed, to demand such a program

through government action, amounts to demanding that the American. people pay an exorbitant price to perpetuate a conspiracy against themselves,

WEAPONS FOR PEACE A BOARD of 40 civilians and military scientists has been appointed at the request of the army and navy to make certain that development of weapons continues without lapse after this war ends. ot It may not be a happy thought that America must go right on, when peace returns, devising new instruments of warfare and improving old ones—but it's an essential thought if we want peace to last. We should do our utmost, through co-operation with other nations, to prevent future wars. We should make it plain to the world that we have

—no-purpeses of aggression. But we must also make it plain

that we are able and determined fo defend ourselves successfully against any aggressors. ) n : That does not mean that we must tarry constantly a back-breaking burden of armament. It does mean that we must be always ready to produce and to use the best weapons in the world. It means manpower preparedness through universal military training, production preparedness through careful plans for industrial mobilization, and scientific preparedness through research adequately financed

.and-ceaselessly. prosecuted.

Hence the new board of scientists, set up by Dr. Frank

'B. Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences,

with President Karl Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology heading its executive committee. The intent

‘is that this board shall serve until congress creates a perma-

nent independent agency to carry -on the work of the present wartime office of scientific research and development. oj . Congress should create that permanent agency soon. The need for it would be obvious if we intended to fight another great war—and the need for it is just as urgent because we intend that no nation shall dare to start another great war,

FAIR EMPLOYMENT

ELSEWHERE on this page, Charles T. Lucey of our Washington staff tells of efforts in congress to make the fair employment practices commission a permanent agency with statutory powers. At first blush this may seem to some readers one of those reforms that might be postponed until the war is won.. But we think the ideal of equal economic opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race, color or creed, is something more than an objective for a remote peace. It represents something even more than the kind of country which American fighting men—of varying race, color and creéd—want to come home to. It bespeaks the kind of country we need here and now to produce with maximum efficiency for war, Congress is now considering legislation to compel men to take war jobs. At the same tinie, there are ‘still many "Americans. who are eager to take those jobs but who, ecatise of their color or creed, are being denied the oppors by the discrimination of employers or the prejudices already employed. tip rse legislation will not force all Americans to

\merican_prejudices. ‘But the force of public |

w should constantly uphold the principle / ‘has an equal right to get ahead ual right to employment in a job

| % mation picked up from persons of { 3 various nationalities, who attended, it is possible to piece it together in thé following manner: For eight days President Roosevelt, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill met almost continuously ‘in the banqueting

Livaiya, five miles down the coast from Yalta.

German: Occupation Still in Evidence:

THE LIVAIYA PALACE was the -home of the ‘President and other leading members of the American delegation for the duration of their stay. Out of courtesy to the President, Marshal Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill came to him. The prime minister lived at the nearby palace of Prince Vorontsov, the garden of which was filled with very British-looking concrete lions. Vorontsov had been ambassador to London in czarist days. ~The marshal lived at the palace of Prince Yusupov,.the man who killed Rasputin. The Crimean hills are still covered with the ruination left behind them by the former German occupants of these imperial villas and palaces, which the Soviet had converted into workers’ rest homes. The British and American visitors were almost as impressed by the amount of rehabilitation which the Russians have managed- to carry ‘out, however, as they were by the extent of the wanton destruction left behind them by the Germans,

Soviet Point of View Accepted =

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT slept in a room over |l6oking the sea, and although it was six weeks before the season, the days were bright and sunny and the contrast between the snowcapped mountains and the bright blue water of the Black sea was pleasant to behold. In the opinion of unofficial . American observers here, the results of the conference may be summed up as follows: 1. With regard to the treatment of Germany, the United States and Britain have accepted the Soviet point of view and have associated themselves. with the Soviet Union in the execution of the peace which has long been advocated by Soviet experts and which has frequently found expression in the Soviet press, The very wordihg of the second section of the Crimean agretment recalls a number of articles which have appeared in Pravda and Izvestia (Communist party and Soviet government organs). 2. With regard to Poland and Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union has compromised with Britain and the United States, at least to the extent of agreeing to the ‘inclusion in the existing provisional government of groups and individuals who, though opposing fascism, have not necessarily always seen eye to eye with the Soviet Union.

'Sanacja’ Clique Is Out

BRITAIN AND the United States, on the other hand, have agreed to associate themselves with the Soviet Union in the recognition and support of these provisional governments as soon a8 they have broadened their membership. oh The London Polish emigre government has been consigned, thus, tb oblivion. The “Sanacja’ clique— the followers of Pilsudski-and Joseph Beck--are out; but all the others are back in tH running once again. As soon as it can be arranged, a delegation of the more moderate London Poles will be called to Moscow to come to terms, definitely and finally, with. Polish leaders from Poland. They will be brought together and assisted in settling their differences by Foreign

withthe British and American ambassadors.

yright, 1045, by The Indianapolis’ Times and op " “The Chicago Dally News, Inc. .

To The Point— :

- Li PEACE OF MIND is often destroyed by a plece of somebody else's, i . . Sing .

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WARGWORKERS should go lightning one better

‘puns ARE most popular this winter with the

[TI could use a few of those checks |

hall of the late Czar's palace at |

Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov, acting together |

and not strike even once in the same place. - iy : : ou : Is

| | bers would be appointed with power to subpena rec- | lators and governor after noting the | ji. 414 compel appearances before it, to investigate workers are only the ones who pull] down the big checks. By the way,| implies agréement with those opinions by The Times. The

| tew laws now passed and signed.) complaints, hold hearings and issue orders.’ | The worst piece of class legislation {to become law is. HB 36. | measure would intensify racial and religious feeling { | and lead to new abuses, has proposed a permanent Times assumes no responsi- | The school veachers in Indiana FEPC to work by voluntary Te a inbility for the return of manu- {having Invested several thousand yegiigations and offering recommendations. scrints and cannot enter core jootiare in securing their training, | . ; ey din th {are being paid the magnificient| Many Complaints of Unfairness respondence regarding them.) | minimum salary of $000 a year.| THE MORE RIGID bills make it an unfair employ- : | Here in Morgantown, a teacher can| ment practice for an employer to refuse to hire, or [tainly has it compensations besides ” {secure a maximum of $1400, pro-| to discharge any person becatise of race, creed or (the money. If your war job getsiand would go on Monday night if vided she has a BS degree plus 5| color, fo discriminate in compensation or conditions I= your nerves at times, you ¢an|my husband had a job where he years experience. The legislature| of employment for the same reason, or to limit run up to the rest room for a smoke could get home early enough for me cannot seem . to. get around to} hiring to any employment agency which discrimlor just loaf around until you feel {op go. I tried taking the baby remedy this unfair pay situation.| inates.. . 3 better or you might even knock off through town about a month ago.|Yes, she still has the prerogative of | Similarly, it is made-an unfair employment prac-, early and go home; a mother can |1 was going to the doctor. The doc- going into a much higher paying! tice for unions to deny membership or expel mem- | tpull her. hair and. go. right on. If | tor's office opens at 1:30 but I was position in & war plant. Provided, | bers for reasons of race, creed or color. There have ! {a “worker” stays out late -some there around 12:30.- I thought by the school patrons don't pick her been many complaints of- union unfairness to Ne{night ‘and feels he needs alittle being early I could get out early bones like vultures for deserting the] groes, and the American Federation of Labor has’ {more sleep, just go to the phone | enough to niiss the crowd. The of- children with such -a shortage of | served notice of its opposition to any provisions bring{and say “I can't make it today.” |fice chairs were all taken by painted | teachers. | ing unions under compulsory FEPC jurisdiction, | But a mother can stay up all night old women in slacks and turbans| A couple desiring to offer the ad- FEPC friends say the purpose of the legislation {with a sick baby and keep right on and I consequently. stood up Jold- | vantages of a home to a child un-| is wholly economic and not sociological, that Negroes | through the next day and there's ing the baby until my turn} and fortunate enough to be under the| would not be forced on any -employer, that the em{no getting out of it. I could go on caught the 5 o'clock bus-heme. and! jurisdiction of the welfare depart-| ployer would still hire and fire and ‘manage his own like this for pages because I was/azain stood and held the baby for ment are allowed now a 25-cent a| personal problems. But if an employer needs 20 a worker until about two years ago 28 blocks. To make matters worse, day increase, to a grand total of $1,| men and the fifth man in line is a Negro and “avail. |and have ‘been an “idler” for 15 two old “hens” (war workers, I pre-| thanks. to this same legislature and| able” as to ability he should not be turned away: {months. If only I had a week or |§ume) mumbled something about governor, [two of good old factory work, 1 people that took their kids out that| The old age pensions of course are to firing. (think I could get rested enough to time of day should have to stand. not to.be tampered with as they are [go ahead with my _“idler’s” job. | Finally some girl offered me her seat already taken care of. Here in|. : That part in War Worker's letter | and before I could get to it a war | Morgan county we have a few un-{ IN WASHINGTON— |about expectant mothers with dirty worker glared and took the seat. She fortunates that we certainly can't | kids tagging along was the cheap- [couldn't have been any more tired {brag about when speaking oft the

myself, but 1 have a 15-months-old |

|pecially Mrs. War Worker who | | pushes her children on her sick] | mother so that she can’ enjoy her role as a war worker which cer-

& | est thing I ever saw in print (cheap-| than I was and she was going home {amount of their allowances. For in-| i est 18 the only word I know that|to rest. But then all I had to do| stance, a lady owning a small home| WwW O al | 1 uc \ S te

could be printed). An expectant Was batlfe ‘and feed the baby, get a receives $18. With help of her chil- | 2 mother doesn’t go to town on Mon-|8 o'clock supper, do the dishes, mop (dren she is able to “make it.” A i a day night to be pushed around. | the kitchen where the baby had his|neighbor, owning no home, with no! By Ma rshall McNeil alone, let alone take children unless bath and then put him to bed. By children to help her, receives $12. > Bs it’ is absolutely necessary. The dirty that time it was only about 10:30 No, not per week, that is for a | kids probably got that way from pe=tand-there-was Jots-of .time-until 5 month. The legislature doesn't care {ing walked over by" the high and | o'clock in the morning so I did alto remedy. this situation, ! I mighty workers, who are so much little mending after I took a bath. | A governor's widow is a different | better since they've got a dollar in I finally got myself sleepy enough matter. Certainly she couldn't live |their pocket. And for the women|!o 80 to bed about midnight, to get on the. allowances now prevailing. | | getting away from the monotony of | UP at 2 o'clock to change and feed | That must be taken care of in the| | housework. Well, one way is to go the baby. |amount of $3000 per year. Being | to town: another is to get-a war job.| Oh, for the life of a war worker | distinguished and maintaining her| I've Been trying to get to town for again. I sure wouldn't gripe about|diSnity of standing with the

| several weeks to buy a few things my good fortune, politicos. Some will disagree with | . me in saying “class legislation.”

. : . : Yes, I donated a buck to PAC. I _gressional directory informed with Side Glances —-— By Galbraith ..{supported Hank Schricker and 8am - . the latest news about his children Jackson, and should either approve | and grandchildren. The other is Wilburn Cartwright, . of this-type of legislation I would | who was defeated in 1042, who later got in the army then declare:' It Must Be Cleared as a major, and who ran unsuccessfully again last With Sidney. . year, Mr. Patton is now “going to school” here-—being trained for the job as an assistant attorney in the veterans administration office at Waco, Tex. He is expected to handle guardianship cages for which he will get $3200 annually. As a member of co I agree with Evelyn, the war| he got $10,000. y y go worker, wholeheartedly, I. too, am Mr. Cartwright, a formef employee of the agency, a war wife with two children and a! Will become a member of the administration's rating husband oversees fahiing for the 0d A Muskotee Oka Ho vil help detain the . . 8 ex- J get by rating | rights of his family and people Who | {em according to their disabilities. He will get $3800 | think his children should stay at|-annually. =e 3 home all the time, I feel'the same | : .

a bus or streetcar I feel like I'm! PATTON WAS a witness in 1935 before a senate committing a erime, but as my chil- | Sommitiee \nvestijuting the jpressurs aguinat the pus re utilities holding company bill. A news § foun apa La a wp AR described Patton's connection as follows: ; away from worry and have a little The committee ise interested because Eugene OC. . relaxation, ‘I say, come on dirty Sellers, NRA employee in Texas, has testified that looks, T can take it, because my job Patton visited John C. Carpenter, president of Texas as being both mother and father is Power & Light Co, the day before the house voted on to me the most important one in the the holding company bill; that he left carrying & world. You see we really know there newspaper-wrapped parcel which was too small and | is a war on as five of our loved top soft to contain a cigar box, which Patton said it | ones are All overseas. did; and that Patton's nephew voiced suspicion after the’ congressman, two days later (which would be

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—The veterans administration--has-just hired two former congressmen, one a lame duck who was defeated for re-election. last summer, the other a lame duck of two years ago but who meanwhile has been in the army. The former is “Cousin Nat" Patton of. Crockétt, Tex. who used to keep readers of the con-

: : . » » » ‘ . / | “WE REALLY KNOW THERE IS A WAR”

By Mary, a Sailor's Wife, Indianapolis

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"DAILY THOUGHTS . - | just purchased it, : ke . “Patton denies buying & bond in June or July.” 11% ; 5 a i etiey ae ‘The article said Rep. Patton testified that : 1 IES Y to say, Arise and walk? May “purchased four bonds for $3000 during his first | M Ey i iY ! : Ji thew 9:8. ot months in office; that his salary in that pe

g ©. + | +3200, and that he had ‘not a penny’ of |! HE that had never seen, a river| He adds, however, that he brought $600 cash d rr {magined ‘the first he met to be the| from home, that he cashed a $301 mileage check - Father can't find any yh 's. going fe fan within. our, degvie lima er hosing "barefooted as soon as the | Its—I id |¥ conciude the extremes Thus

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