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CHALLENGE TO CONGRESS BROOKLYN (N. Y.) war plant refused to comply A with a national war labor board decision. So Economic Stabilizer Vinson, acting under one of President Roose- . velt's executive orders, imposed ‘‘sanctions '—that is, he directed the army and navy to cancel all contracts with the " plant, and the war production board to deny it materials for making civilian goods. That's drastic punishment. It would ruin the Brooklyn company. Yet, as Mr. Vinson says, if the government fails to act when the war labor board is defied the wartime machinery for peaceful settlement of labor disputes may collapse. And, he points out, neither “of the methods of action now available is the best method possible to imagine. Sanctions, as in the Brooklyn case, are not only drastic. They are impractical if the army or navy has urgent need of the products a plant is making. And the other, more-often-used method—government seizure and operation— while usually less severe and relatively quick and easy, can answer in only a few cases, since the government can't well operate plants all over the map. 8 s 2 “THE BETTER method,” says Mr. Vinson, “would be a congressional act which would provide penalties, enforceable by the judiciary, for non-compliance with NWLB orders.” Amen to that! War Mobilizer Byrnes also has asked for such legislation. So has NWLB Chairman Davis. Congress should enact it quickly, without waiting to see what the supreme court does with the Montgomety Ward case, "in which Federal Judge Sullivan held that the President had no authority to seize a retail business. Many congressmen have charged the executive branch with assuming too much power—with substituting government by men for government by law—especially in labor relations. Here are three officers of the executive branch urging congress to provide government by law in wartime labor relations. It's a challenge—an opportunity for congress to fix legal penalties, court enforced, which can apply fairly against defiant unions as well as defiart employers and, as Mr. Byrnes has said, “treat the Petrillos and the

Averys alike.” 2 Congress will be derelict in its

opportunity.

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duty if it passes up that

NOT TOO HARD, PLEASE LOT of big words and massive figures are being swapped by Henry Wallace and Senator Taft on Mr. Wallace's call for 60,000,000 post-war jobs. Mr. Wallace, sometimes known as an idealist, appar-

ently assumes that everybody wants to work. Senator Taft, a hard worker himself, is not convinced that jobs for all is |

exactly what some of. us crave. "Heretofore in peacetimes our efforts have been directed toward keeping young people in school, shortening the work | week and retiring oldsters who stili could function. We tell |

sonny to study and try to make it possible for grandpappy |

to fish. With only about 33,000,000 families in the country, the senator points out it would mean nearly two work- | ers to a family to fill 60,000,000 jobs—and some families | would prefer to get along as they always have with just one

REFLECTIONS ~~ Indiana Footnote By Jeannette Covert Nolan

MANY HOOSIERS have read with keen enjoyment Margaret Landon’s sensationally popular “Anna and the King of Siam,” yet few, perhaps, realize that the book had its beginnings right here in Indiana~— in Richmond. September, 1939, was the month of Dr. Kenneth P. Landon’s arrival at Earlham college, where he was to teach philosophy. Dr. Landon brought his family with him—Maragaret, his wife, and the three young Landons. ; For the next two years, until August, 1941, th Landons were residents of Richmond.” Those were, Mrs. Landon says, very happy years—“idyllic they seem to all of us, as we look back on them.” Dr. Landon is a distinguished scholar, an author in his ‘own right, a linguist. In 1929 he had just returned from a stay of 10 years in Siam, during Mwhich time he had studied and written extensively about that strange and interesting country. His wife had helped him with all his research. : Incidentally; Margaret Lanham had accumulated a fund of information and experience which she was planning to put into literary form.

Story Was Something. Different

THE ACCOUNT of Anna Leonowen's amazing adventures with the king of Siam was started as straight biography; but Mrs, Landon soon realized that the book had other and greater possibilities. It was emerging in her mind as something different, a story which would have no definite classification, because it would be unique, She wrote the first 15 chapters and an outline of the chapters to follow, and sold her manuscript to the John Day Co. Immediately upon publication, “Anna” was an outstanding success. After a year, it still remains well up on the nation's list of best sellers, and is in proeess of being adapted both to the movies and the stage. Margaret Landon is a charming, and gracious woman. She is widely traveléd, familiar with such odd pockets of the world as most of us dream about, but never expect to see. Recently, when I asked her

The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

GEE! DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE RAD BREAK. FOR THE FOLKS BACK HOMET = NOW THEY GOTTA Go To THEIR NICE, WARM, CLEAN BEDS COME{ MIDNIGHT!

about her life, not in Siam, but in Indiana, she made this characteristic reply: | “I loved Indiana. I like the ‘rich look of the | land, and the wood lots, the substantial brick farm houses, the corn standing high in the fields, and the | fat, sleek cows. I liked the easy, friendly manners of | the people, their kindliness. I cannot count the acts of courtesy they seemed to do as a matter of course.

Special Feeling About Indiana Autumn

“WE ALL LOVED Richmond. We rented a house on the edge of the campus, and so far as the family was concerned, it was almost as if home and campus merged. Bill, my son, who was 10 then, used to hustle out the back door after school with a golf ball and a baseball bat to play a round of golf on the links that was laid out on the campus. “Bill had not aspired to the dignity of real clubs— but soon his father lent him some, “Peggy was 12, just going into Dennis Junior high school; and Carol, who was 6, started that September into the first grade at Joseph Moore, “There is a special] feeling about Indiana falls— don’t you think so? I loved the long, golden days when life feels as if it were held in suspension, -the leaves dropping slowly round and round, the gold and red of the maples and beeches. “Earlham, as you know, is a Friends’ college, and | we carried away from there the feeling of its warmth | and companjonship.” .

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Argentine Enigma ‘By William Philip Simms

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24 —Ar-

foreign ministers here. A delegate from Paraguay al- | ready has demanded that Argen- |

tina's status within the American |

family of nations be settled once |$38¢ Sergeants were explaining to/only gone home for matches,

The Hoosier Forum

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

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| POLITICAL SCENE—

Religious lssue By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. —Ed{e torial criticism has been poured upon the senate agriculture come mittee for reaching a new low in raising the religious issue in the inquisition of Aubrey Willinms as REA administrator, * Benator Raymond E. Willis (R, Ind.) is a member of the commits tee and took part in the crosse examination. But, although he opposes ape proval of the Williams nomination, he objects to the way the religious issue has been “misinterpreted.” ~~ Here is how it came about. Senator John H. Banke head (D. Ala.) reportedly got in touch with the Rev, Joseph Broady, Findlay, O., who was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Birmingham, Ala. which Mr, Williams attended in his youth, Upshot of that was that Senator Kenneth D. Mee Kellar (D. Tenn), who spent two days before the committee attacking Williams as an allebed (Come munist or fellow-traveler, read this telegram: “Aubrey Williams grew up in the Sixth Avenue Presbyterian church of Birmingham where I was pastor for 30 years. W. M. Cosby paid his high school expenses and the Presbyterian church paid his college expenses. He denied the divinity of Christ after the church educated him for the ministry, He is utterly unworthy of any official place in our goVe ernment.” Addressed to Senator McKellar, the telegram was signed by the Rev. Mr. Broady.

Willis Explains His Position

THE LATTER and a layman from Birmingham were scheduled to appear to give details, but in the interim the criticism of making a religious test, exe pressly forbidden by the constitution, became so grea they did not do so. rXPlaming his stand in the matter, Senator Willis said: “I think it was entirely unwise to raise any religle ous issue, or to read that telegram into the Record, “However, it was the friends of Williams and not } foes which caused the furor. The purpose of { inquiry on this subject was to show that since Mr Williams did got become a minister, as planned, should have reimbursed the church for his education “Of course he had a perfect right to change h

“I AM UNABLE TO ENLIST” By A Registered Nurse, Indianapolis

The hue and cry for registered nurses in the armed forces is so very critical that they are talking cf drafting them. I can't understand this. They “claim draft is the only alternative. My opinion is that draft is a lot of poppycock, this wrangling and blowing off hot air in Washington about nurses is so much stuff. The army could probably get enough nurses

by merely changing the regulations]

in the physical requirements. There are a few of the nurses who have been turned down on weight alone. The nurses who have been turned down on just weight would help cut

{down upon the quota, needed. I, for one, was turned down on| : I wasn’t given a physical] i : Although I am clip-holder and gave T-4 Steininger

weight. examination either.

{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 implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi-bility-for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

in “good health and able to work a badly-burned proboscis.

every day, because I haven't a

chorus girl's figure, I am unable to reached the proportions: whereby |

enlist in the army nurses corps. 5 ® 8 - “THERE MUST BE FIVE” By Pfe. Victor W. McGinnis, Army of the

| By the problem had]

Saturday dates were being arranged by “the | match method.” WAC’'s were re-| fusing (rather bluntly) to date any-| one who could not furnish a light] and it was reported that the num-|

rine? I do. I know a swell guy that has been in the army transport service for about three years. “\He has been to Alaska, Panama Canal Zone, Ecuador, Australia and New Guinea. He had jungle fever and has been on ships that have been bombed. He wrote to me the other day and said he is in the hospital with malaria and thought his seagoing days are over. Yesterday I! received a letter from him saying! he is O. K. now and is going out| again soon. When he is leaving | after being in the U. 8. A. on fur-| lough, he calls me and says: “Well,| sis, this is it. Keep your fingers crossed and wish me luck.” Don't those who make the laws]

1think young boys with spirit like!

that deserve more than just theiy| old jobs back? "1 a a = “THEY HAVE ALL DONE THEIR SHARE” By Cpl. A. E. Smith, 1152 E. 9th st. The following is an exact copy of a letter I sent Governor Ralph F. Gates: | I have just returned to Indiana after 18 months overseas in Eng-|

|ber one “hit” on the WAC parade land, France and Belgium. I do

Here at Camp Atterbury, Indiana,|of men (or facsimiles thereof) was {not consider» myself a staunch Re-|

last week, especially in ‘the recep-|the 110-pound private who was not publican or a New Deal Democrat. tion center where the post exchange stacked so well himself, but who |I have voted the past eight years gentina is the Hoftest issue be- | "2° entirely without them, matches had quite a stack of matches which|and I vote for. the man not the| fore the conference of American | "crc 2CquUIring a new importance in|he had purchased and laid up on party.

the lives of the brown-clad. The latest estimate placed five

his last payday. Furthermore, AWOL’s were being

Now—in regard to the proposed bill that I read about in the paper,

men grabbing for every match and|given more benevolent treatment the bill for appropriated state towards the latter part of the week, | since it was found that many had money for the erection of a memo-

And |

rial building at our state fair grounds or using that same money

| bility of the man.

course and become a welfare worker. Since it all happened 25 years ago, it was rather pointless te bring it up anyway. “But to my mind it does show the general | I feel that the religious issu was whipped up by his backers as a smokescreen create sympathy. I am against him because I fee he is not fitted for the REA job.” . Senator Homer E. Capehart (R. Ind) also opposed to approving the Willlams nomination on the grounds that the latter's economic theories s “socialistic and unsound.”

IN WASHINGTON—

New Oil Treaty By Marshall McNeil

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.— senate foreign relations -commi tee has been given a preview off the new proposed Anglo-American oil treaty, thus setting a pattern for handling international com modity agreéments, which prob ably will play an important par in the peace. ‘ The treaty, only a consultativ pact in its present form, is never theless seen by Secretary of the Interior Ickes, the petroleum ad ministrafor for war, as a means of bringing harmo into the international petroleum. trade, long the generator of devious power politics that have often threatened the peace. . ; He told the committee In executive session tha# he and the state department want to know whethe the new treaty is acceptable to it, before they resum negotiations with the British. r

Oil Representatives Support Pact THE COMMITTEE heard Mr. Ickes, Ralph Davie:

his deputy, and representatives of the oil indus support the proposed new treaty.

SATURD!

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ault—not a bu huainted with t Elmer A. Linble hate a pint of | nd got a brigl ogether with th or five gallons e says, the blo hight, and there lifton Hickam yone knows bne weighing le or her son, F hf a C-46, over nice, we have adio. But we'd Dfficer Hickam,

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STEVE WIL] he elevated cor our approaches ype used at | vould make it pircle to cross painted islands

and for all, right now. Consider~ |neir subordinates new plans forias one understanding officer re-

breadwinner. # able heat was engendered by the | “lighting up.” |portedly said, “If there is to be|as a war bonus for servicemen who “In working toward the goal of an agreemen

SOVIET RU

Our office wit_asks: “What's the use working hard to | buy gadgets which you can't enjoy because you got to work 7” What's more, senator, a lot of us .gonfess we'd rather | whittle than work most times anyhow; so you go right ahead with your argument. * .

SENSE FROM THE CENSOR (CENSORSHIP Director Byron Price talked in Washing- | ton this week about the responsibility of the press. | Here are a couple of paragraphs lifted from his speech: “The press neither does its duty nor fulfills its destiny if it poisons its news columns with propaganda and private opinions; or is careless of its facts; or presents editorials written by the uniformed and swayed by hearsay; or pub- | lishes mi%leading advertising or vicious and sensational | ' gossip from whatever source. : “One of the mysteries of ‘our own day is the wide-. spread assumption that syndicated columns on any subject and in any degree of inaccuracy or mendacity, may be presented to the public, just because they are bought and paid for, without the slightest assumption of responsibility by the publisher. Such a thing makes a mockery of common | sense and a travesty of the first amendment.” . o n ” " n | IT IS ALMOST a general rule in the news business that everybody hates the censor and the censor hates every* * body. But Byron Price is the exception. So far as we have observed his conduct of his office, Mr. Price doesn’t hate | anything except incompetence and irresponsibility. And | he has handled one of the meanest and potentially troublous | jobs of government in such a straight-thinking, fair-minded | way that he has the respect and admiration of those who | Fhave been subject to his censorship. : 8 The paragraphs quoted above may cause some people | uirm. But we think no publisher or editor worthy | rve as a steward of a free press would dispute Mr. . statement,

- FROM WISCONSIN

ve follow one course with one hand and then nother course with the other hand, we are in double talk® —Rep. Reid F. Murray 8 quoted in the Congressional Record, - ndeed, Mr. Murray might well hayve.extendinto" the realm” of metaphor. He might ut fear of suecessful contradiction, that following different courses with its

{ That would create @ dangerous baldhce of power | system in the hemisphere like that which repeatedly |

of the pro-axis is not recognized by the vast majority of American [Out when one match turned on-its

Side Glances= By Galbraith

demand and the matter. was re- | ferred to the. steering committee. | That, it is generally agreed, was |

| merely a starter. Before the conference is over there

may be real fireworks. { There can no longer be any real doubt that Ar- |

One ingenious plan that was given smoke, there must be fire.” Everyone agreed to this.

release from the cerebral honeycombs of a Tech Sergeant worked (or rather, failed) in the following

manner,

Six men (including the fortunate

of the best-posted delegates even go so far ag to (Dicotine formed a group. The posassert that the peace of the western world is at |Sessor of the match then would

stake,

Long Shadow Falls Ominously :

American bloc in opposition to the United States.

has proved so fatal to Europe. ; | Argentina was not invited to Mexico City because leanings of her present regime. She |

republics. Nevertheless, her long shadow falls ominously athwart the gathering here, for all the delegates

| obvieusly d¢* not think alike regarding Argentina. She | will not want for adyocates, even ardent.cnes, |

Further complicafiig dmatters, Argentina is ex- |

| pected to declare wat against the axis soon—perhaps |

during the present confgrence. She is almost certain

| to do so before thé united nations meeting at San |

Francisco hext "April. Should she do so it would influence the situation strongly ‘in her favor. Delegates with whom I talked admitted that Argentina's entry would make no difference in the war. | Every other American nation has joined the war ahead of her. Yet few dispute that infervention now would help, emotionally and morally, when her demand to be heard comes up here. {

Permanent Rift Is Feared

“PRACTICALLY EVERYONE here is perturbed | | over the possibility of a permanent. rift. between the | American nations. They have seen what rival blocs have done to Europe and.they want none of that in this hemisphere. Therefore, many who disapprove of the Farrell-Peron ‘dictatorship are inclined to let bygones be bygones tf Argentina will indicate” a change of front now. . ~ Other Latin Americans co not like the idea of | using recognition as a club to influence what they:| regdrd as the purely domestic affairs of other nations. | They. recall, somewhat unpleasantly, a former tend- | ency on the part of the United States to extend or | withhold recognition as. a means of pressure on Central and South American governments. These | tend to sympathize with Argentina. : vic Finally there are .some who privately peint out | that not all ‘American ‘governments are 100 per cent | democratic; in fact some are distinctly authoritarian, | Where, these ask, do-we intend to-draw the line once we start. passing on governments all the way | from Canpdd to Cape Horn. =~ ie hs There /are signs ‘that some of the delegations here are weakening on Argentina, even the American delegationg Hemispheric unity ‘is very much desired, r the

some uncertainty as to whose’ th on the other foot.

both now ‘after Disunity might ‘even lead, eyentually

proceed to “light up.” Although this plan did have its points, it was decided and agreed upon unanimously that they were mostly bad and the plan was voted

have served 12 months or more in the service. I anr just one of many millions of men in the service, but

.* 2 I've lived with the men who spend]

|“DON'T THEY | DESERVE MORE?” | gentina menaces unity among the Americas. Some |OWNer of thé mafth) who craved py mrs. c. v. K., Indianapolis.

{under G. I. Rights where merchant straighten out a paper clip and stick | marines are entitled to their old jobs one of the ends through the paper | when they come back but are not end of the match. The owner of] the match would then get down on| THE RULING CLASS at Buenos Aires. has long | his knees while the other five would | | aspired to place Argentina at the head of a South [remain standing and form a circle apie to take the old job, he can just jaround him. The match would then| pum around and watch the soldiers | be struck for flame and all six would | ang sailors, for whom he has risked | his life so many times, drawing their

Just read in the ‘paper tonight

entitled to G. I. benefits as provided by law. Now isn't that nice? Of course if the merchant marine isn't

| pensions. I wonder if whoever made those {laws ever read the book, “Heroes in | Dungarees,” or really knows anyone | that has been in the merchant ma-

: “It's peculiar how few things I've had the rather with me since the | doctor told me flatly he didn't.have time to see me more ©

for the

weary, cold, wet nights in a muddy foxhole.” I've spent days with the transportation corps boys who drive for days and nights on end with only what little sleep or rest they grab while their assistant driver works in the seat beside them. I've seen many so-called rear line ordinance outfits work 18 to 20 hours a day and only the remaining hours a day for rest. I've seen many other branches of the service work long, hard hours, all for that one purpose in mind—victory. Now when all these boys come back do you think they will appreciate a memorial building in3tedd of good old cold cash? The old saying “money talks” is as true a saying as was ever uttered. You should hear how the boys gripe about the civilians back home making $60 to $160 a week while they make $60 to $160 a month —and with an hourly risk of their lives to boot. y . No, governor, you're on the wrong track if you are sincerely out to help ‘the returning servicemen into civilian life. The present mustering out pay of $300 maximum {is far too inadequate for the boys who go through hell every hour of many days. The Democrats aren't trying to embarrass you, sir. They have the right and only idea that will meet 100 per cent approval of our returning servicemen, Think twice, governor, before you push the passing of a memorial building bill. I'll venture to say half the veterans of world- war I in Indiana ‘haven't even set foot inside their memorial building af ‘Michigan and Pennsylvania streets. Remember you will have returning servicemen from every little town and community throughout Indiana. Give them all the same. Treat them all equal. They have all done their share for very little wages. No, governor, I plead with you. Think twice, sir., Money will .talk to the boys Where a Governor Gates memorial building will not, I know.

DAILY THOUGHTS

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to

|| «dwell together in unityl—-Psalm

1 ET _ HOLD him alone truly fortunate

im. alone ‘has ended his life

which would promote a harmonious internationa petroleum trade, and so contribute toward lasting peace, we have been mindful at all times that wi must protect the domestic industry,” Mr. Ickes told the committee in executive session. “We have alsq been mindful that our first responsibility was th public interest. Our objective always has been ta work for an agreement which would best assure the public ample, uninterrupted and reasonably pri supplies of petroleum. “We look toward the end of the war, nizin as never before the importance of oil. We know tha! there will be great rivalry for control of its sources We hope this rivalry may be decent and lawful and peaceful, which it has not always been. This hope wi be stronger if we can proceed under sensible, ethics principles, such as this proposed agreement enun ates.” -

State Department ‘Made Overtures'

MR. ICKES, outlining the history of the agree ment, said the state department “made overtures” ta the United Kingdom, hut that nothing happened unt he proposed that the goverrynent build a pipelin across Saudi Arabia, where American companies hav vast concessions in an garea once considered in th British sphere of influence. A short time later British and American delegations began discussions. . “You will not hold it against me, I trust, if I admf that. a pipeline sometimes can serve a purpose othe that the movement of oil,” Mr. Ickes told the com: mittee. = ~~ n ; A treaty was drawn and submitted to the senate But the domestic oil industry, led by the Pews of th Sun Ojl Co. rose up in arms, and condemned th proposed pact as imposing’ new restraints upon thi industry, and giving the government new powers ove: the industry. The President, in the face of this proe| test, withdrew the treaty from the senate. Then, at Mr. Ickes’ suggestion, the industry pro posed its own version of what an Anglo-American oll] treaty should contain. | “There were meetings and meetings, within the industry and within the government,” Mr. Ickes said, “And so by hours of study, debate, writing and ree! writing, we managed to come up with a tentative ine! strument which seemed to be -acceptable to both sides.”

No New Powers Conferred ; |

THEN MR. ICKES put the issue up to the come mittee: : . “It is my great hope,” he said, “that out of this discussion today we may get your reactions to the tentative new document in a way that will be a guide to us when we undertake new conversations with the British.” Se The new treaty does not confer any new powers on the government, or upon the international oil coms mission ‘which it would create. That commission would be empowered only to make suggestions ‘to twe governments. It doeg provide, however, that the two governments shall respect the valid concessions secured by each other in foreign countries. Scnator Tom Connally (D. Tex.), foreigh relations chairman, said this means

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