Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1945 — Page 12
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NO RELIGIOUS TEST
* ganda thinly disguised as news have been making, and | repeating and reiterating, the statement that the United States senate is applying a “religious test” to Aubrey | Williams, and that the vote on whether he shall be REA | administrator hinges on his religious views, Just to keep the record straight, the statement is completely false. The senate did examine the qualifications of Mr, Williams for this job, as it is bound to do, under the Constitution. In the course of this investigation of ‘his record it was revealed—by Mr. Williams himself, as we recall it— that he had been sent to college at the expense of a church and prepared to be a clergyman, but had later changed his
mind and gone into social work instead. » » ~
THAT'S ALL there is to it. It is not uncommon for a church, either as a denomination or as a congregation, to send to college a promising young man who expects to become a minister. Occasionally the young man in question decides upon graduation to take up some other work. Some of them whose ethical standards are very high do pay back to the church the money advanced for that purpose, although there is no compulsion to do so and no record that | Mr. Williams ever did. No question of his religiolis convictions is involved and the only religious issue is the fake | ofg invented and introduced by some sponsors of Mr. Williams, who seem to fear he won't get enough votes to land the job. On that score we trust they are right. There are plenty of reasons which appear adequate why any senator should | vote against his confirmation, the principal one being that | the job is one for which he has never shown the slightest | qualifications. REA is actually a gigantic electric power | company engaged in the retail sale of electricity to farmers. Mr. Williams’ entire career, since he left college, has been as a professional social worker, culminating finally in the fantastic playhouse into which he developed NYA. And] REA is simply too valuable a project to*the rural population of this country to be risked in incompetent hands.
GOVERNMENT POLLING
polls. See Mr. Brooks’ article today, page 13. : Polls are a passion with some agency chiefs. scribe polls and results of polls in terms like control limits,” “fraction defective” and “error bands,” lingo with meaning only to the pollsters themselves. Their findings have béen something less than profound —for instance: OWI polled out ‘a revelation that a woman with three children is less inclined to collect tin cans for salvage than is a woman with no children; and * WPB went arsnd prodding people with a poll ¢ on what hardships they experienced in being denied rat traps and | ‘wash tubs. Doing this, the agencies employ ekpaditers, technical | analysts and liaison officers (agency slang for poll takers). You see, the agency heads think they have to poll us to | see how their stuff is sitting with us: Certain hard-heads in congress frown on this waste of money and manpower. Well, it brings a slight furrow to most of our brows. That's our dough they're spending.
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MEXICO CITY WELCOMES SIMMS WE ALWAYS knew that our foreign editor, William Philip Simms, was good. But it took the newspaper, Excelsior, of Mexico City, to give us the kind of words we need to describe him: “Distinguido periodista” says the Excelsior, designating our Mr. Simms in a three-column picture on page one. We agree, a distinguished contributor to periodicals. Under the picture, “El mundialmente famoso escritor | William Philip Simms.” Thanks, Excelsior, he is indeed | a world-famous writer. «The headline calls him “gran most of us can translate in a jiffy. And in the story about Mr. Simms he is described as “amable v suave.” Yes, not
{ she was doing for them the things we would, but
columnista,” a phrase
Price in Marion. Coun= delive |
$5 a year; all other states, |
| let her tell it:
| had anchored &bout 500 yards off the beach. The ERTAIN radio commentators who specialize in propa-|
| could hear the heavy guns firing in the distance,
| wet with blood.
| one. All the men weren't sent to a ward immediately;
| abundantly to almost:all with battle wounds.
"I've Dreamed of This for Two Years’
| of that first day I was able to start on my job—that
| came on without anything but the remnants of uni-
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| man who rode that ship back from battle.
By William Philip Simms
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REFLECTIONS
Back From Bate
By Joh W. Hillman -
“KEEP YOUR Red Cross at his side” is the slogan of the current Red Cross. campaign. It is a good one, but few-of us here at home can know just how much the Red Cross does for the fights ing men, : This realization - is brought Pe home by a letter on my desk. It {8 __ is from my friend Helen, a Red | : Cross field director on a hospital & ship she calls “the Clem"—its real name, obviously, she cannot use. Helen has seen a lot of war, and the Clem followed close in the wake of the landing craft that spearheaded the invasion’ of Southern France. But
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“By 9 a. m.” she writes, “we had slipped in and beachhead had been established a day or so before
so that the fighting was several miles inland; we
'Victor and Vanquished Side by Side’
“ALMOST IMMEDIATELY LST's came out from shore bringing the wounded to our ship. They lay on litters in the bottom of the boat, victor and vanquished, side by side; uniforms torn, dirty and still
“We worked fast to load that morning—a full barge immediately sliding into the place of the emptied
many were in such shape that plasma had to be ad- | ministered at once. A room on the receiving deck | had been prepared for this. Boxes of plasma had been stacked there and a team of trained enlisted men were on duty. I, too, worked in there, for we were loading so fast and the emergencies were so great that there just weren't enough hands to go around. i “You can imagine my feelings, having procured | plasma for a year, to see it seemingly bring men back | from the dead, or keep them alive until they could be gotten to an operating room. And so that morning I opened the boxes and held the bottles while the | liquid drained into thg, veins. I would like to know | how much plasma was used throughout that trip— it was a staggering amount, I know, for it is given It is a | And
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marvel in treatment of shock and exhaustion. no matter how comparatively slight the injury, stiffer from those in war.
* “AS SOON as the last man was aboard we weighed Hoosier anchor and left in a hurry; headed back for N#ples All day I helped where I could; with the plasma and | : : : then because the nurses were so rushed I helped | NO-LEFT-TURNS SHOULD carry, soup to the men. Most of them had not eaten | | BE RE-ESTABLISHED” for three or four days and were ravenous. Many |! had to be fed, but we didn't bother with the slow | . i process of sipping from a spoon, but instead I'd hold Any close observer of traffic con up their heads and pour the soup into them. They'd | ditions knows full well that failing grin and as‘ often as not say, “God, sister, that’s to give through traffic the right of good.” hen ilaly sink back into deep sleep. way ip making left turns (turning “I wonder how many miles I walked "within this : i ship. in thgse two days. Toward the late afternoon Yas dhe of he Hos : Setious yauses ¢ of the 350 accidents in Indianapolis
in June, 1944) ‘went out of, control within 36 hours after the Indiana
of issuing Red Cross supplies. All of these patients forms that they were wearing, so the Red Cross stuff was essential and how welcome. “The second day I got around to every man with an ice cold coke, some chewing gum and candy (for those who were able to have it).
March 29, 1944, “It necessarily
sion on Wednesday, which said in part:
One man (probably 23 years old), when he got bold of the cold bottle, said, as the tears rolled out of his eves, “I'm sorry to be such a baby—but I've dreamed of this for two years’
"You've Done So Much’
cars must yield the right-of-way to vehicles which so entered the intersection on the ‘green’ or ‘go’ | light.” “The highway
statute,” the opin=|
By John Alvah Dilworth, $164 Broadway
supreme court handed down a déci-
It is hard to believe | follows that an intersection where] v . | what this, and especially the cokes, i " - ¥ that segment of Washington known as the Bagdad | DGCIA’Y the coses, 1eans to the men fthere ale Wrallic signals, the sires
: . "| who have been over there for a long time. of Bureaucracy, our Washington corréspondent, Ned |
Brooks, has been examining government public opinion |
Forum
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whether it comes from peaple who are white, black, yeMow or pink.
“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your
| “AMERICANS ARE CONTRADICTORY”
Iple.
right to say it.”
By Estella R. Dodson, Bloomington
POLITICAL SCENE—
Americans are contradictory peoProbably that is requisite to our
|free state, but’ it istaiso confusing,
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| people, old people, of all
even to ourselves, For instance, we get positively drooly about how the boys in the! armed services are “fighting to protect our homes” and all that. We! Americans love our homes, we do. And so what happens? Young! colors, genders, and financial and marital! (conditions, scream like catgmounts! |if they must “sit at home” any eve- | ning. Juvenile delinquency increases | because “the children have no place! to go.” If a child gets so bad that
The working man seems to be too even his parents happen to notice!
dumb to know that when wages go|him, he is
up $5, living costs go up $7.
“kept at home” as a
They'll rather cruel and unusual punishion said, “provides that the driver| {lose ‘$1000. going on a strike to. get ment. - Infants are taught that they "of a vehicle. within an ifitersection, (2 ‘couple of dollars a week raise. must “go bye-bye.” “WE DOCKED early in the ‘morning and there’) intending to turn left, shall yield You van fompare ulighs With one-one lookea for children in ‘their!
In former. times,
was the now-familiar sight of the lines of waiting | the right-of-way to any vehicle ap-|2rm bandits or slot machines. Afier homes, now one looks for them!
ambulances. Soon the litter bearers were filifrg in to | proaching , . . and that no driver return with the patients—now shaven, washed, fed, |of a vehicle or operatdr of a streetrested, with some medical care behind them but a |car shall disobey the instructions of ‘great deal more in store for many. I stood at the | {any official traffic control device.” end of the dock so.that I might see and speak to | Let it be clearly understood that each man. Many, in fact, most.-of them said to me + am not criticizing this decision. | as they went by, ‘You've done so much, you'll never |On the contrary, I think it is a fine| know how much. And please be sure so say thanks {and just decision and the blame | to the medics and nurses, -too.’ <5 rfor “out of control” traffic condi“Imagine being thanked! gesture by all had been made with heartsick but ders of our_mayor for not requiring humble thapks to them.” And that's the picture. A slim, siraight, good the law. Also the hand signal | looking American girl in a trim Red Cross uniform |when turning. No-left-turns should
standing at the end of a dock in a faraway land |pe re-established at the intersec- Det union officers get many a good country, yet.
with a smile and a last personal word for. each man | in that long line of litters—a bit of home on the | weary, bloody road. . That is my friend Helen standing there—and not friend alone, the friend of every tired, brgken And the of all who had a loved one there—for
in the mile square because of failure of vehicle drivers to abide by Judge! Swaim’'s decision. Let our traffic engineer, J. H. Hollett study the intersections of the four downtown avenue points. tersection of Capitol ave. and Washington st. for information regarding law violations. In dealing with .this subject all {peace officets should fully under- | stand the meaning of the words intentional and unintentional. » ~ » “THAT SEEMS THE | PERFECT NAME” | BY a Working Man, WASHINGTON. March 13 | In answer to Industrial Chaplain, For the “next 43 days, Secretary 14 say that active C. I. O: members | of State Stettinius will be the ‘do study discrimination and race busiest man in Amefica. Back | prejudice and know it's foolish. The Irom lily: Money 300 Mammo {C. I. O. has learned that dues, as- : 3 3% sessments, fines, check off and any
orepare for the united mations : prep . rR 5 other means of squeezing money out! conference at San Francisco, beof the working man is good cash |
my friend, too,
cannot, ‘That's what the slogan means: Keep the Red Cross at his side.
WORLD AFFAIRS—
The Busiest Man
Clermont.
When “every move and | tions rests squarely upon the shoul |
puttifig. 20 nickels in a slot machine, | thé player hits for 10 nickels, ‘and then yells “I hit for 50 cents.” he so dumb he doesn’t realize he spent a dollar to gain 50 cents. Is| {he so dumb that he doesn’t know | that under a check-off system means he's forced to pay money to rurtions-or lose his job. The unions are smart SR00gE t know that - without ‘a check-off| racket.
off and they make you like it. I'll}
man yell “I hit for fifty. cents.”
Living cost goes up $7 but the smart | {myself without city working man says “What do I care, | trouble and exp
we're making $5 more too.”
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| they don’t have to go home.
anywhere except in their homes. People are willing to hang out in hot, crowded noisy, tobacco-smoke-filled booze joints, or gad the streets, {even when so tired that they can hardly walk; or endure any dis-| jcomfort or inconvenience, just so | The |
~fonly possible amusement is lapping |
0jup, booze and chasing about.
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The!
booze, can't be bought and carried | thie police department to enforce system few men will pay Cott fo a {home to be soaked up. It must be! With a closed shop, you pay | accompanied by “
going.” \ All right. It's a free All I can say is that |
All right.
tions which have been discontinued ''8ugh when they hear the working I'm glad I have a home to sit in |
and intellect enough to entertai ni &Koing to a lot .of| ense to go to places I don't like with people I don't like
The unions say “What do we care, to do something I don't like, just to]
wise the working man up to the] facts«of how we do it. colored glasses on every member. While he’s looking at visions of a |thirty-hour week at $100 a week, six weeks vacation with pay, two-hour lunch periods, thirty weeks sick | leave, double time for all hours over | twenty, pensions after five years | with -free lunch and beer, we slip {around in back of him and yank a {few hundred dollars out of his pocketbook.
Unions now want to change the phrase “closed shop” to “union security,” That seems to be the perfect name. Without ‘the check off and closed shop, the union wouldn't have much security. They should phrase it “gestapo.” - It is more appropriate ' *
We put rose-|«
Also the in- we're pulling in millions but don't be on the. “go.”
~ I WILL STEP OUT OF LINE” By Mrs. RB. L., Indianapolis This, Mrs. Barrett, is an answer to your letter. I have been trving| very hard to understand why you| wrote such a letter. It just doesn't | make sense to me. Now you say putting on a uniform | doesn't change a man. That sounded like a nasty dig to me. Please, Mrs. Barrett, our boys in uniform do not consider themselves heroes, but to me they are, every last one of them{ And if they are wearing] medals they got them the hard] way. About the mother waiting] in line” at the theater. You say |
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Credit Program
By Thomas L. Stokes . WASHINGTON, March 13, Thé administration is anxious " : get the Bretton Woods agreement, = approved by congress as speedily as ‘possible and as they stand without revision, for very Liss hy reasons. tl Any major change in the pro. = gram formulated by the rep. sentatives. of 44 nations, including | : ours, would invite proposals fois changes from others which would delay operation of the financia, machinery embodied in the international bank anc stabilization fund, might make another conferency necessary, causing further delay, and might in th end endanger the whole program.
‘Agreements Are by No Means Perfect’ ANY UPSET might have a discouraging effect or the united nations conference beginning April 25 ir} San Francisco which represents the attempt to creatt’ an international security orgarrzation, political in na | ture, of which the international economig¢ anc nnancial organization represented in Bretton Wood is a complement, : Success by congress in this first big.step in inter national co-operation would- certainly have an ex: hilarating effect on the San Francisco meeting. 3 The agreements are by no means perfect. The represent compromises all around, Neither the Unite States nor any other government got exactly what i wanted. But the administration feels that the pro-= gram represents the best compromise possible, that g it should be approved, and that changes can be made later, if necessary, after the plan is in practical op< eration and experience shows what revisions are needed, Po It represents negotiations extending over nearly year and a half which began with a series of dis< cussions between technicians of 30 different countrie , to work out the preliminary outlines. Before the” formal conference opened at Bretton Woods, N. H last July, representatives of about a dozen nation met in Atlantic City to discuss various proposal further. The final agreements came after three week al Bretton-Woods.
U. S. Has Commensurate Voting Power TYPICAL OF the problems presented was that o the various natipng ta the bank and stabilizatio fund. This was done by a formula taking into ac<
count various factors about the resources of the varies ous countries, worked out after much difficulty, China wanted to count in population, for example, She was placed fourth in contribution. She wanted | to be third, which is the place Russia got after the United States and Great Britain. Russia wanted to have post-war potential productive capacity consid} India, which is sixth in contribution and vot-} ing power, wanted to be higher. The United States’ large contribution, about a third each of the 10 billion bank capital and the 88} billion stabilization fund, has been questioned in some quarters. But this country has commensurate voting? power. It is stressed also that the United States? shares one-third of the risk, but it is argued that, conversely, two-thirds of the risk is shared by others’ in an enterprise from which this nation should derive the.major benefit. It is the biggest producer, will be} in the Pest shape economically after the war, and is in the best position to capitalize on trade advantages, |
'American Viewpoint Will Dominate’
EDWARD E. BROWN, chairman of the board of the First National Bank of Chicago, who favors the: program, unlike some other bankers, thus described the influence of the United States in the StabRizae1 tion fund: “Sirice voting rights in the fund and control of its} | management. are closely reldted to the quotas of varie
lgrgest quota I think it can reasonably be assumed } that the American viewpoint will dominate the man} agement of the fund. Furthermore, if, as is certain j to be the cese, the American dollar is the currency j most in demand after the war the knowledge on the § part of other countries that the United States can § withdraw if its viewpoint is flouted by the manage- @ ment should practically insure recognition of our j t views by.the fund.” The .co- operative international credit program is} presented as one of the best protections against? “spheres of influence” politics since: ft provides. a place where smaller nations can get. credit. It won't | be necessary for them to go to some large nation and | thus tie itself to that power in-one of those “orbit” § arrangements so common in Europe in the past.
IN WASHINGT Nor
Canadian Policy |
By Douglas Smith®¥
WASHINGTON, March 13
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“civil defense” organization, | office of civilian defense in the United States and it in § | being disbanded. Disposal of the Canadian equipment has been § turned over to the War Assets Corp. a government which estimates that $5,000,000 worth of the § original $5,500,000 equipment can oe salvaged.
~The Canadian governs | ment is selling practically all the equipment of ita # which ‘corresponds to the
7 ous countries “and since the Uhited States has the J
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Cities and towns in which emergency fire equip= ment was located were given first priority to buy the #
equipment, and many of them have taken advantage }
of it, Canadian officials say,
Meanwhile in the United States only about one« }
fourth of OCD’s equipment has been declared surplus §
for disposal. The rest—more than $30,000,000 worth of it—is in the hands of state and city defense councils all over the country, OCD officials say they can't
only amiable but suave, but also our idea of a gentleman and a scholar, Or, as the Mexicans might say, un caballero
ginning April 25 gens “How durable and secure. the peace will be after victory,” he
she has lost two sons and one is| dispose of it without special legislation by congress, missing. Well it is hard to’ believe| and that meanwhile OCD has to maintain a staff to that a mother with that much| keep track of it.
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REST GO. AL FOR FLIERS OU probably noticed Ernie Pyle’'s suggestion that Pacific area combat fliers be given a definite number of | combat missions to be flown, and then automatically go | fo a rest camp: Air crews now “are just flying in the | dark,” with no definite goal in time or number. “A man | flying under those circumstances is apt to feel that “I'm in this until fate catches’ me,” Ernie says. That fails to | create an ideal state of mind for our sky men who deserve | every possible break. We hope Washington “will give the suggestion prompt | attention. '
NO PANTS NO WORK-* i, N the midst of the controversy over the efforts of the war production board and the office of price=administra-
tion to increase the manufacture of essential civilian garmnts, a Texas congressman received this telegram from |
home:
“Re: WPB orders. ing men need Beg
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Men's pants are essential. Work-
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i NEW SERVICE SYMBOL. -
‘already have a lapel button to designate the honorably discharged soldier. Now a service flag in his behalf has heen contrived. The désign of the button. will = be. used as the symbol. It will be placed on the flag in lieu biue star, The honorably discharged Sahter ¢ derecognition,
| peace league as
said on his arrival here, “will
Side Glances=By Galbraith
depend” upon whether we can | together with the other united nations even and successfully -than we have in’ this
work more closely war.” San Prancisco will go far towards deciding | whether there is to be world -co-operation or not. A tremendous responsibility devolves on the United States, host to the other nations. The conference is not likely to be smooth sail- | ing. Already there are indications of squalls ahead. Some, of the smaller countries and some which are not so small—France, for -example—suspect that the Big Three. intend to boss the world ‘after | the war and that the little feHows are up against | another Congress of Vienna. | 1
'Those Most Concerned Not Consulted’ UNFORTUNATELY: MUCH that has been done, either unilaterally: or by the. Big Three, is already creating anxiety within the raifkg of the united nations, Disposition has ‘been made of Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Hungary and, to a large | extent, of Italy and Germany. Yet, for the most part, thpse fnost concerned were not consufted. France, without which. the future of western Europe will be extremely dark, has.yet to sit. with the, Big Three. New frontiers have been. set. up between Romania dnd Hungary; King George of Greece and Peter of Yugoslavia—allies of Britain and the United States—to all intents have been dethroned and a new Balkan federation (Sreated under Moscow's protege, Marshal Tito, ? All this may be for the best, , say’ some of the smaller members of the united nations, yet almost without exception they agree with Senator Vandenberg when he said: “1 think we have the duty and right to demand that, whatever immediate unilatera] decisions have to be made in consequence of military need . , . they "shall be temporary and Subject to revision in the |
objective light of Jk post as yx and the Post ~war |
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-|cannot be proved (oo often, a ‘Bernard
trouble would be waiting in line at a theater. IT am a war mother— my son has been overseas a long| time. 1 will step out of line anytime,| any place,” for our boys and” girls in uniform, » » » “YOU MAY AS WELL KNOW THE TRUTH”
By Te Walter Haggerty, R..R. 6 Box For information regarding cooking pigeons of the variety we have in Indianapolis, you may as well know the truth; they have a wild flavor as that of a jack rabbit and] are no good for “pie.” and here is 4 tip for restaurants, we could make a sort of a. "goulash,” flavored with big long Tred peppers so hot you ‘couldn't taste anything but “hot.” This would produce the same effect as some of the other stuff they call chili. For instance 1 saw an innocent little one order ‘a bowl; she took one_ bite and ran for the door. This sort of thing should be served at taverns, where they don't know what they eat or care less; this would give them meting w think about.
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DAILY THOUGHTS
1 thought it good to shew the signs ‘and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me. — Daniel 4:2
A THING that nobody believes
of course, However,
| Almost Entirely a Voluntary Program
CANADA'S OCD bought fire-fighting apparatus, gas masks, special equipment for dealing with ine cendiary bombs, decontamination outfits, helmets, boots, “ respirators, tools, special clothing and other minor articles; in general, the same kinds of equipe ment bought by the United States OCD. But the functions of the Canadian organization were more strictly confined to physical defense than have been the rather ‘broad activities of the agency. Civilian defense in Canada has also been almost entirély’ a voluntary program; the dominion ‘headquarters staff in Ottawa never contained more than 15 ‘persons. : @anada's OCD as such is being, disbanded now, authority has been granted for the cone tinuance of local units in several Nova Scotia sea= ports and on the coast of British Columbia, ‘All equipment has been called in with the exception of 1 such articles as boots. Government officials in the dominion emphasing that disbandment of the OCD’ does not imply any | feeling that “the war is over,” put rather the attitude
that the necessity for the agency has ceased to exist
and that its property should be liquidated now.
To The Point—
r _— FASHION DESIGNERS say the 1945 bathing suits | will be without frills. Guess ~there won't -be much !
left of them,
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