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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
ANOTHER JAP TRICK ADM
attack on latest peace feeler,
NIMITZ’'S announcement of our great task force the Tokyo bases is the best answer to Japan's’ The day .before the American navy
made its dash into Tokyo waters the Japs’ official propaganda radio said the foreign minister's policy is “not to
reject any hand that offers peace.
» It is hardly news that
the Japs, like the Nazis, have wanted a compromise peace
ever since the peak of their conquest.
That desire is naturally sharpened by last night's raid on their capital, by MacArthur's Philippine victories and by Halsey’s sweeps through the South China sea. And = the Japs know Germany's impending defeat pill. release
larger allied forces for Asia and the Pacific.
Also the prob-
ability that Russia eventually will join’ the war against Japan seems to have been increased by the Yalta Big Three
conference.
But it should not be supposed that the Japs’ desire to make a deal means they are reconciled to the allies’ | unconditional-surrender demand, much less that they are on |
the verge of military collapse.
There is no such ev idence.
nly if we forget that—and thus let down in our war effort—can Tokyo's “peace” propaganda harm us.
HARDLY A WEEK passes without some high Amer: jean officer or official warning us that Japan still has vast military power and fanatical morale. Thursday Secretary
"of War Stimson reported to congress:
“Although we have met and defeated substantial ‘ armies of Japan in the broad fields of the Philippines, we have not yet even engaged. the main forces of her armies in the area of her homeland or in the countries that she . occupies in Asia. She is also a nation of over 70,000,000, which’ for six centuries has cultivated among its people the ideal that the fighting man is the hero who is superior
to all his compatriots.”
Even on Luzon, American officers whe-have questioned the relativély few Jap prisoners find them-still certain that Japan will win’ the war. Here are typical answers, as reported by a Yank correspondent: “Why were you ghting?
For the emperor . . . Is Japan right only ‘because
he has
the emperor? The emperor is God. Japan never Tost a I war. She cannot be beaten. All Japan is one mind.” That Jap attitude explains why our enemy will not quickly agree to unconditional surrender—and why Amer-
ica will accept no less.
MIXED, MR. MAVERICK? AURY MAVERICK,
cials.
chairman: of the Smaller War
Plants Corp., is one of our favorite government offi- | He made a statement yesterday, before a coneres-|
sional committee, advocating better pay for members of congress who, he said, are handicapped in their work by
grossly inadequate salaries.
He included a budget comparison which shows, he said, that congressmen need at least $15,000 a year (they get
$10,000 now) to do their jobs properly and live as well as | ~ $8000-a-year executives of Washington bureaus.
Having
been both congressman and bureau executive, Maury speaks
with authority on this subject and we think there's a lot in};
what he says. But—
We knew he was going to make that statement because | It came by mail in a large | * Manila envelopé with no postage stamp. On the envelope | were such legends as ‘United States government,”
we received an advance copy.
“Official Business,” and “Penalty for Private Use to Av oid |
Payment of Postage, $300." graphed on 19 pages of paper.
letter, headed “Smaller War Plarts Corporation,” and signed by Paul H. Jordan, director, | |
“To the Editor,”
The statement” was mimeo- | And attached to it was a and *
addressed
erisCTIONS~ The Home Front
By William H. Stoneman
SOMEWHERE ON THE ATLANTIC.—“Don’t you think we are being awfully lighthearted about the war?” Americans keep asking you when you come home from the front. “No, not by a long shot,” is the answer, : Three years after Pearl Harbor, the United States is a country touly at war, full of deadly serious people, who take their responsibilities as they come. The battle of Manhattan is over. Most of the lads who used to strut around the streets and jam the bars, proudly sporting their Pearl Harbor ribbons like medals of honor men, are out there fighting now. Some of them have made the long haul. Most of the soldiers you see around New York, Chicagq and Kansas City today are wearing other ribbons, showing that they have been out there where the air is noisy and the climate bad. A good many of them have canes or crutches.
People as a Whole Are Warking Hard
YOU CAN ONLY generalize about. a country -of 130,000,000 people, not all of whom are patriotic and self-sacrificing and many of whom obviously are rascals. But you can generalize to this extent: A lot more people are being decent about the war, and the country as a whole is practicing for more selfdenial, than the fighting men themselves have been led to think. The impression we got during the month ih the United States was that the people as a whole were working hard and taking things seriously, almost to the point of overdoing it. Those who have lost their husbands, .sons and brothers in the war have taken | their losses bravely and with determination to carry { on. Fathers, mothers, wives and sweethearts of men | who are serving overseas talk about them constantly | and think about them all the time. Life in the United States today is still Utopian compared to life in the belligerent countries of Europe but is full of inconveniences and hardships which, to spoiled people like ourselves, come hard. Compared to what it was even two years ago, life seemed surprisingly difficult.
America's Biggest Contribution
THESE THINGS, admittedly, are trifling and no- | body pretends that America isn't living well. Amer- | ica’s biggest contribution to the war, it seemed to us,
was being made in the form of mental and physical energy. People were definitely trying to use their
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heads about the war. They were deeply resentful because they felt they had been misled regarding the progress’ of the war, and although they had themselves largely to blame, because of their bad habit of “headline reading,” they sharply criticized the press and radio. Always willing to kill themselves in order to make money and support their families nicely, Americans today seem to be working harder than ever and they show the strain, Even tgpflight business executives whom we met were definitely burning the candle at both ends, and were more than two years older than they were in 1943, Out impression is that American citizens, whoever they may be, can be mighty proud of the home front. Excuse us if we are wrong.
Copyright, 1945, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Dally News, Inc.
WORLD AFFAIRS—
~ Small Countries By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17— United nations envoys here are more than a little concerned over the future of the small countries under the Dumbarton O.a k s formula as previewed by the Big Three at Yalta. Moreover, they are expecting further significant developments. Before the united nations conference at San Francisco. next April, there is reason to believe that both the Polish and Yugoslav governments-in-exile, in London, will have been dis"solved and recognition extended to the “reorganized” Poles of Lublin and the partisans of Marshal Tito.
J ; The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.
“PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS” By Harry P. Sims, Indianapolis
An article recently appeared in the Hoosier Forum quoting a petition presented by the Anagnous Group of Epsilon Sigma Omicron to Mayor Robert Tyndall and his post-war planning committee, setting forth the benefits and needs in Indianapolis for a Municipal Building with Civic Auditorium. This answer is a challenge to Mayor Tyndall, his planning committee and the three ‘Indianapolis newspapers. No doubt such a building would be a wonderful thing for Indianapolis and its lovers of the opera, ballet and symphony. But there is doubt that each and every
(Times readers are invited to express their, views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of .the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication. in no way
~ opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter cor.
citizen would benefit from such a building as stated in this petition. | However, Indianapolis should at|
building.
constructed, or in super-duper A nar boulevards or monuments, before any improvements in beautifying the | city is made, let's take a look at!
from visitors in our fair city, something that many Indianapolis people cannot believe is true here, yet | lee than a mile from the state house,’ and in the shadows of the Indian- |
slum settlement so to speak. Yes,| in Indianapolis, scattered in all] directions in the city there are houses: with children that are unfit
.- A pattern for dealing with recalcitrant small nations is seen in Prime Minister Churchill’s-ultimatum | to King Peter in Landon last month. When Peter | held up things by demanding a voice in the regency
and | whith ‘Tito was setting up in Belgrade, Mr. Churchill sn
served him a warning. The Big Three, he said, had agreed on a fusion | of the royal government with Tito's administration, ‘if we are so unfortunate as not to ‘be able to | | obtain the consent of King Peter, the matter should | have to get ahead, his assent being presumed.”
office of information, SWPC, who said that "in preparing | Similar Ultimatum Served on Poles
the statement Mr. Maverick makes it plain .that he is | presenting his views as ‘an interested citizen.”
‘Well! ss = ” un
MAURY MAVERICK'S
right to present his views as | an interested citizen on this or any subject is something’|
we would defend to the death, even if we disagreed with |
them violently.
But we don't believe Maury or any other government official has a right to publicize his views as al
citizen at public expense—to use government paper, gov-
ernment mimeographed machines,
government
franked
envelopes or government press agents for that purpose. Maybe this is just a slip of judgment by Mr. Maver rick | or Mr. Jordan, and in any case we're sorry to have to call
them on it. easily give people the idea—erroneous,
But it’s an unfortunate slip, because it could | we
hope—that
Citizen Maverick has got himself mixed up with Chairman Maverick, whose views on better pay for congressmen might possibly be influenced by the fact that the Smaller War . Plants Corp. depends on congress for appropriations.
PROFOUND TRUTH HAIRMAN DAVIS of the war labor
t board has, properly, urged employers and unions to go as far as |
very
they can with direct negotiations before they appeal to the
board for settlement of disputes. Too often, Mr. Davis says, small
differences . are |
brought to the WLB when no full attempt has been made
- to reach agreement by collective bargaining. This delays
the settlement of major issues. - It clogs the board’s machinery. And, furthermore, “failure to negotiate may be dan-
to freedom of action which'the parties might better
p retained. Labor and manggement may find they have.
ndered
them.’
their liberty by asking the board to settle every
at Se end truth, and we're glad to see it stated i ! government agency. Citizens do surrender ty each time they ask the goveinment
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A SIMILAR ULTIMATUM, in effect, has now been | | served on the Poles in London. The Big Three agree- | [ment at” Yalta was tantamount to a withdrawal of | | recogniticn from the London Poles and an extension | of recognition of the Lublin regime. True, the London | Poles have been allowed a limited time in which to make up their minds to be swallowed by the Lublinites, l put unless they hurry, as Mr. Churchill told Peter, their assent will be * presumed. n Of course, it is admitted, both the Lublin and the | Belgrade regimes are to be ‘reorganized on a broader | democratic basis,” as the declaration of Yalta phrased it, but while the new “Polish provisional government” | | will be pledged to hold “free and urifettered elections as soon as possible,” there is no guarantee that such elections will, in fact, be held. For the Big Three only promised to “jointly assist” in“such matters when | and “where in their judgment conditions require.” As for Three merely “recommended to Marshal Tito and Dr. | Subasic” that the fused regime on which Mr. Churchill insisted last month be enlarged in line with the | Yalta declaration. However, no informed observer | here expects Tito to do other than he and Moscow | pleases.
| Intent on Business of Revolution
WRITING IN the current Saturday Evening Post, John Chabot Smith, an able correspondent on friendly terms with Marshal Tito, said: » “In many ways the Communists of Yugoslavia today are like the Communists of Russia in 1917. They are extremists, they are intent on the busin®ss of | revolution, they liquidate the opposition ruthlessly. . .. | Political commisars keep close watch on everything done by both military and civilian officials. Their spy | system is apparently well organized, for people who | are seen in the wrong company, or who make unwise remarks in public, are promptly punished, often by arrest or death. , . , Generally speaking; in partisan held (Tito) territory, if you are" not a partisan you do not eat—at least you don't eat well.” . When Mr. Smith asked one of Tito's leutenants what the partisans intended to do about the Yugoslav -governmerit after the Germans were driven out, the | answer was: “Marshal, Tito will decide that when | the time comes.”
with his plea that allied decisions regarding frontiers | and regimes be regarded as temporary and subject to |
liberated peoples could be 8 Beard: smaller
| newspaper to expose it.
“broadening the Yugoslav regime, the Big |
_ Eenator Vandenberg. won international ddclain’
review, after victory is won, when the voices of, the | | they can possibly do for themselves, $1
for human beings to live in. Rat | infested homes, filth, grime and grease, improper and make shift | plumbing, kerosene lights, cold and | ‘Why not go across the tracks so to speak and see how the other side of the fence: looks. takes a death of an innocent baby | to make the headlines on | conditions, {What about the owners of such property, what is said to them? Yes, Indianapolis, has its dirty shirt town.
| planning + committee,’ a mayor a|
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“EXPLAIN WHY WE HAVE A MARCH OF DIMES” By A Reader for Years, Indianapolis Please explain why we have a March of Dimes and dollars for children to enjoy better treatment and health, then call them 4-F's and‘ condemn them for the mistakes a bunch of draft dodgers and politicians make later on. Why sentence a man forced into the armed forces to .50 years or life for an offense our politicians would get a medal -for or a German ,|prisoner would get six months on (chicken? I don't get it. » = » | "WARS WOULD CEASE | AUTOMATICALLY"
[By Henry W. Reger, 1909 N. Talbott ave.
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“HERE'S A RECIPE | FOR PIGEON By Mrs, Charles Keller, 1561 E. Southern |
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some future time have just such a llenge the governor of Illinois and | {the mayor of Chicago to put their] Now before such a building is? lum clearance first, to clean up the a single stene. laid ‘back yard when they painted the! Chicago is now
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Much has been said and written about the four freedoms with {lengthy expositions on the equality of all men. The foregoing meets with my whole-hearted approval [both in theory and practice. There is one form of equality that
responsibility, It seems to
equality of duty,
It was only a year ago that the
in the history of human endeavor have so many owed so mich to so few.” "1 concur with Mr. Churchill, but I ask why should only a few | endure all the suffering, why should the few make the supreme sacrifice
the while others make a!l the profits at
|the expense of the lives of others? Why should a few endure the hard-
e [themselves to wealth and power? | Why should a few carry ninety per cent of the load, while others live at their expense? . If we could take all the profits out of .wd#r and distribute the sacrifices, and suffering equitably, I assure you there would no need of peace plans. Wars would cease automatically. If ‘we can arrive at the latter equality all forms of equalities and freedoms will follow in its wake, - » » » “LET'S TEACH ° HONESTY”
By Louis M. Vaughan, 109 8. Bolton st, When I went to school we started the study of history in about the fourth grade and.I find that my feeling toward any nation with whom we had fought wars was anything but friendly. The study seemed to build hate and mistrust toward most all foreign powers and filled me with a desire to some-day be a soldier and hero like many of whom I had studied, So when I went to war in 1017 our convoy landed at Liverpool and the British gave us such a welcome that it changed my whole idea about this line of thought. Now if our children have to study this, the worst war of all wars, how can we ever build a peaceful world? Suppose we abolish the study of war history in all schools all over the: world and teach instead -clean polititcs, good government, citizenship, tolerance, neighborliness and indiscrimination instead of wars and aggression. We cannot force or legislate Christianity but we can build a sound foundation for a more, peaceful world. Instead of building soldiers, let's teach honesty | the world over. It will ‘take two. generations to get rid of our present stock of corruption but wouldn't it be swell to have people in public office that we knew were. honest,
DAILY THOUGHTS
a there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.— 21 CorWas 12:4. 2 :
no one has mentioned which needs| one of our papers—citizens, walk [t, pe propagated before the other something which we try to hide [down some of our side streets and| forms of equality and that is the the door of some lof these homes, your eyes will be | service and sacrifice. Don’t blame the peopleime that there is a greater disparity {living in these conditions, put the| of equality in those categories than federal building, court house; blame where it belongs. Some part ithose we ordinarly speak of. of our system of health, education | apolis, Times building we have a| land city administration is standing | British Prime Minister said, “Never
lsts not in what “but in intention | into a. political
POLITICAL SCENE—
Wolcott S Crusade
By Thoms L. Stokes
‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 1. Members of congress océasionall: get themselves into some strang poses which, if tried out first ix front of a mirror, would mak them laugh at themselves—that is granted the average sense 0 humor, Take, for example, the Honor able Jesse P, Wolcott, Republi can of Port Huron, Mich, whd -got so wrought up over th thought that Henry Wallace, th former secretary of agriculture and vice president o! the United States, may become secretary of com merce.
Makes Another Big Discovery
MR. WOLCOTT has done nearly everything on man could do.to stop that. He wasn't at all satisfies with the bill the senate passed to take RFC and its affliated lending agencies away from the com merce department so that Henry couldn't get h hands on them. He prepared amendments to isolate Henry fron any contact with ‘money. One of them would ha deprived President Rooseveit of his war pow to transfer bureaus and agencies = here n there, because of Mr. Wolcott's fear that Mr. Roosé velt’ might transfer something to Mr. Wailace late It -seemed to a good. many others that it is rathe touchy to start monkeying with the President's powers in the middle of a whr. But Mr, Wolcott made another big discovery. h secretary of commerce is one of the directors of th $2,000,000,000 export-import bank. “That was So he fashioned another amendment to throw secretary of commerce off this board of directo even though the commerce department is suppo to have something to do with foreign commerce,
Hillman or Browder?
IN DISCUSSING this proposal before the committee, the Michigan member argued with straight face that President Roosevelt might point Sidney Hillman, C. I. O. leader, as head of éxport-import bank, the job now held by Leo Crowl as head of the foreign economic administration, But when Mr. Wolcott stood up before the ho with all those members present and the galle
| filled, he had an even more horrendous, if slight! | madder, inspiration, Why, he said so solemnly, th
President might appoint Earl Browder as head the export-import bank! “Browder, the Communist” turned “Browder, banker.” What a thought! This shows the extreme frenzy into which som congressmen have worked themselves over Hen Wallace. Watching it all, one wouldn't have bees! surprised much if ‘someone had proposed to build little sentry box outside the commerce departme and lock Henry up in that every morning at 9 o'cloc and let him out at 4.30. Then, surely, someone would move to amend th to make sure there was no telephone in the box, © Henry might call the Kremlin: After all, he did study Russian for a while, alon with Spanish,
'Cure Can Be Carried to Extremes’
THE MICHIGAN congressman made another sertion, equally solemnly, with his fear about Mz Browder. “It is unfortunate,” sald he, “that a personalit, enters this matter.” He knew,” and teveryone there knew, that if wasn't for a personality none of this would hav happened. The house would not have intrud itself into nominations to the cabinet, which is sup posed to be the exclusive right of the senate. No would congress as a whole have found out abo the lending agencies and the power they -exer That is a good thing, though the cure can be carrie
‘to extremes, as Mr, Wolcott demonstrated.
IN WASHINGTON—
Political Blocs By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — Fo ease in understanding what ma things happen the way they do this crazy town, it may be venient to strike a parallel wi the pre-war French system of po litical blocs. ; Instead of there being one TU S. Democratic party which d termines all policies of the ad ministration, there are in realit about five blocs. For lack of b ter names, call these blocs th Middle, the Liberal, the extreme Left Wing, the Con servative and the extreme Right Wing Ultra-Con servative. Each of these blocs has its dominant personaliti There is no formal organization in any sense, bu making an arbitrary division of “people who c¢ pretty much be counted on to think through the sam straw makes it easier to understand how these b pull and haul against each other in trying to fluence White House opinion and the administratic line,
Breakdown Sheds Light
MAKING THIS BREAKDOWN will shed a cen tain amount of background ‘enlightenment on thy Wallace-Jones affair, the fight over the work-or-elss bill, the teacup tempest over the six assistant sec retaries of state and practically anything else tha is likely to happen in the next four years, In the Middle is the President and the pe
who can be counted on to think what he thinks n matter what he thinks, for publication at least. Ed Stettinius, Claude Wickard; Madam Perkins, Pa McNutt and such people. Perhaps presidential ad visers Harry Hopkins, Judge Sam Rosenman and th yes-men of the White House secretariat should b included in this group of the Middle because they gs along with whatever the President does. Most observers, however, would put Harry Hopkin somewhat further to the left. The President himsel has sald that his course is just a little to the left o
center, so that throws the balance in this scheme 0’)
‘things well toward the Liberals. In this group shoul¢ probably go’Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurte Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner 8: Eccle and Henry Wallace,
Early New Dealers Are Missing
HERE AGAIN there will be many votes to put no{ only Harry Hopkins but Henry Wallace in the group of extreme Leftists. Most of the real radicals of th early. New. Deal now turn. .up missing—Rex Tugwe Leon Henderson and that group. Accepted spokes: men for this group now are Harold Ickes, Attorne General Francis Biddle and the anti-trust crowd the department of justice. : Looking on the other side of the Middle, you apt to find in the Conservative group such.figures War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes, Stabilization Direc Fred M. Vinson, Secretary of the: Tréasury Hi Morgenthau, War Food Administrator Harv J Budget Director Harold Smith, Among the Ultra-Conservatives there should listed Bernard M. Barus. Foreign Econornic--Admin:.
istrator Leo Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State Wilt Clayton; Secretary and Undersecretary, of Way f
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