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SHOES? OX page 24 is a story of a revolt in the advisory board of the office of war mobilization and reconversion. |
One swallow doesn’t make a spring, but this is a
healthy sign. Maybe this board is going to start function-
ing after all.
congress, its
‘pharged with the responsibility of advising and recom- | mending«en policies dealing with war mobilization and reconversion. But so far the board has done little except |
hold a few meetings. At last, however, the hoard apparently has forced a showdown, determining to use its independent initiative and judgment on what matters to investigate and what policies te recommend.
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IT IS HIGH time. This board was supposed to take up the good work where B. M. Baruch, Director Byrnes’ former unofficial adviser, left oft. The board cannot fill Mr. Baruch’s shoes by loafing on the job, its passive approval to policies undertaken by the office of war mobilization and other government agencies. Mr. Baruch was an adviser who knew how to outline a course | of action and sell it to congress and the public.
There are many recommendations in the Baruch- |
Hancock reports on manpower and reconversion which |
never have been implemented. Had there been followthrough action, we wouldn't now, be in this sorry man- | power mess, with employers still hoarding labor, with war orders which could go elsewhere still being channeled into labor-tight areas. And we wouldn't be witnessing the] spectacle of Director Byrnes at this late date suddenly | appointing an export-control committee, and charging it to | regulate shipments abroad lest our civilian economy be
‘stripped of essentials needed to carry on the home war
effort. n = s s n » AS LONG AGO as January, 1943, Messrs. Baruch and Hancock called for a constant review of military and lend- | jease requirements, ‘to balance one against the other and to balance the whole program against civilian needs. “We have reached a stage of our war economy,” they gaid, “when there is not much to spare. Something gained | in one direction must mean a loss in another direction. | Consideration of the over-all obligations for food, ships, | planes, munitions, etc., raises doubt whether we can carry, | through all our promises and undertakings unless there | is an increase of ficiency, or civilian supplies are reduced, or the program readjusted , . . by keeping the program | under vigilant-review, we can make the cuts where they | will do the most goods” : That was over a year ago. And in March, 1945, Mr. | Byrnes appoints another committee to stop the indiscriminate dipping into what has proved to be not a bottomless barrel. Well, better late than not at all. But, meanwhile, | what about .the advisory board—which supposedly supplanted Mr. Baruch—what- has it been doing? Nothing much yet, ‘but maybe so from hereon: : me -
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THE RIGHT QF REVIEW CMDR. HAROLD E. STASSEN, a Republican member of | the United States delegation to the united - nations says he agrees | with Senator Vandenberg’ that the proposed international organization -should have authority to review wartime | political agreements. This is encouraging. ‘He offers an unclear qualification, however. He says | “some,” though not all, such separate agreements should | be subject to international ratification. Certainly if the important ones were excluded from review—such as Poland, | or German reparations—international authority would be a delusion.
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in the same direction on this all-important issue, we hope | they will not have to operate as a minority party bloc | within the. delegation. There is nothing peculiarly Repub- | lican about this policy, or at least there should not be. It | is typically and fundamentally American. So far as the | evidence goes; it also is accepted as a matter of course by
most countries. » =” ” - » »
THE ISSUE is not whether Stalin, Roosevelt in a compromise agreement, have found the wisest solution of difficult” post-war problems. The issue §&¢ the right of the other allies—and, in the case of the | United States ratifving authority, the senate—to pass on such decisions whether: they .are wise or unwise. More than international morality and the pledge of democratic processes is involved. To achieve the professed aim of security and stability, the European nations jointly must be responsible for terms they are expected to respect and preserve. Several of them | #lready have announced that they cannot be bound by | agreements to which they aye not a party, a rather self- | evident truth. : It is unthinkable that any member of the United States delegation, regardless of his approval or disapproval | of any tentative agreement by the Big Three, should challenge united nations authority to review, all major political provisions of the peace treaties.
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MONKEY BUSINESS J. 09K, brother, as one husband to another, let's hope the Little Woman doesn’t hear about that monkey which was hired to clean the courthouse at Kansas City. (Sure, just an ordinary, non-com monkey like at the zoo.) It First the monkey, dragging -little brushes, is run through a vent in one direction. Then she is sent back tugging a little vacuum sweeper. And the vent is
. Comes our next day off’ from ‘work and the furnace seeds cleaning, or attic, or those inaccessible corners of the
U. S. possessions, Canada | § and Mexico, 8% cents a |
members | be Appointed bv the President and confirmed by the senate, |
| river crossing for | Cumberland gap and the Wilderness trail, its real | estate speculators boomed it as the gateway to the
or by just lending .keepers and
| caved in.
| rafts.
| 1839-1939, by Jay | previous bibliographies and brings down to- date all
|.4rom pleased. Only
| gradual.
most
Twar against Japan. The British, French and Dutch undoubtedly will be expected to*purge their own arcas | of the Japs while American forces deliver the knock- |
“| 'may continue around the fringes. —There is a-growing
REFLECTIONS—
The Earth Sha ke's
By Harry Hansen
RIVER FLOODS are terrible, put who would want to see a town slide into the river because it was shaken by an earthquake, The farmers and the fownsmen who have been fighting the floodwaters in the valleys of the Cumberland, Monongahela and Alleghany and along the flatlands of the Ohio may think the flood is the worst of luck, but if the | pioneers of New: Madrid, Mo. could return they would probably declare that “the shakes” which tore the very foundations from under them, beat everything for destruction and terror. “Henry Harrison Kroll, Hoosier-born Tennesseean | who teaches in the. University of Tennessee Junior college in Martin, Tenn, has been mulling over the fate of New Madrid for years. It disappeared in 1811, John James Audubon ran across its story when he made his trip to the Missouri over a century ago.
Created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee THE SAME earthquake created Reelfoot lake in Tennessee and left deep fissures in the earth near Dyersburg, where Mr. Kroll lived as a boy. It nearly | finished the first steamboat to ride the waters of the West, the New Orleans, captained by Nicholas Roosevelt. - With this catastrophe as the central episode, Mr. Kroll has spun a tale of frontier life, of trading, competition, love-making, jealousy and passion, in “Fury in the Earth” (Bobbs Merrill, $2.50). New Madrid had French, Spanish and American settlers, and because it lay opposite the most likely those foming west through the
terrain they called the purchase—Louisiana Purchase | territory There were traders, gamblers, rivermen poling flatboats with farm products to New Orleans, tavernslaves. Mr. Kroll has worked all of them into his narrative of action, with one strapping fellow. Hogshead Bolivar, as the best man in the | crisis, who is pursued by Betsy Lou, who in turn is pursued by Waits Burnsides, the schemer of the | piece.
‘Like a Big Dog Shaking’ HERE WAS hope and disaster, the promise of a rich, new world and utter ruin when the earth It- happened by stages — like ‘big dog shaking himself.” Hogshead Bolivar was as heroic as a man can be and persuaded most of the people from Little Prairie and New Madrid to depart on
At first New Madrid sank only 15 feet and some
Faw eR RRA
| REPORT FROM EUROPE—
ea TET
gs City of the Dead
By Thomas L Stokes
PARIS, ‘sare’ 18.-This city * - is almost like = city of the dead, As you ‘wander down its suects you have the feeling that a ‘us neral has passed, Just ve minutes before. Physically, everything is here--the same buildings, the same wide Champs Elysees, ‘the Palace de la
Corcorde, the Tuileries, the Arc de Triomphe. But something is missing.
The Germans didn't damage the They hopeu it was their own. But the spirit It is hoped earnestly, by
city of these people is gone. all of us, that it shall return, but you don't know.
'l Was Young and It Was Gay'
1 WRITE as no expert on Paris. I write as one who knew it once, briefly, when I was young and it was gay. But being in Paris for even a short time was an experience never forgotten.
wife and I were on one of those tours of Europe that they map out for you back home—in our case a friend who once had conducted such tours—with
Hoosier
thought of staying. But when Bolivar preached at them from Revelation: “I'm telling you, the time of the thunder in the earth is high upon us!” he had help from tremors that everybody could understand. The tale has the additional merit of dealing with an authentic historical episode that guickened the Impeination of the story-teller. 2 2 » The Illinois State Historical library, Springfield, 111, announces publication of the Lincoln” Bibliography, Monaghan, which supersedes all
known publications, including 3958 books and pamphlets by and about Lincoln. The foreword is by Prof. James G. Randall. The work is part of the Illinois Historical Collections and comes in two vol- | umes, $5.
WORLD AFFAIRS—
Explosive Issue ‘By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, * March - ¥5.— Now that the defeat of Nippon has become a mathematical certainty within the nearly predictable future, the fate of the Asiatic colonies’ which she has overrun is as- | suming an increasingly explosive | character. The- United - States, Britain, | Holland, - Russia and China all have very special interests in the | areas which the Japanese must give up. And some, probably most | | of them, are going to come out of the Pacific war far ‘Russia=—which, oddly enough, is not now involved in thé Far East—is likely to emerge satisfied.
SHE ANGE
International Trusteeship Discussed
THE BRITISH and the French suspect that the United States intends to urge the independence of all colonial possessions, either immediately or by stages, depending on tne subject peoples’ stage of advance- | ment. There has been talk of an international trusteeship for such colonies and neither the French nor the British like it. Prime Minister Churchill stated Britain's -position a year ago. He sald, emphatically, that he had not |
ough Stassen and Vandenberg seem to be headed | become His Majesty's first minister in order to preside
over “the liquidation. 'of the British empire. And Gen. De Gaulle is just as jealously watching over the possessions of France. There is no doubt that the United States would like to ‘see all colonial areas given a “Philippine | status.” “When we occupied the Philippines 47 years ago, we promised them independence as soon as they learned the art of self-government. In.1935—a single | generation dJater—congress_ set them free. At their | own request a 10-year transition period was given
| them so that the economic readjustments could, be
This will end July 4, next year.
| France Plans to Hold On
AT PRESENT, only Holland is planning a somewhat similar tutelage for her colonies. The principal
Indo-China, France's chief possession in Asia, can't | be compared with the Dutch East Indies for wealth or | population. Nevertheless. Albert Sarraut, French minister of colonies before the war, called it “the | important, the most developed and the most ! prosperous “of our colonies.” So France plans to |
| hold on |
Britain has Hongkong, Malaya, Singapore, Burma, the British East Indies and India with nearly a | quarter of the population of the globe. But the big headache is almost certain to develop
{ | atve r Russia, mov es in, as she is expected to do when-
ever sh& thinks the time is ripe. She is likely to take | over control in Manchuria, Port Arthur, Inner Mongolia, ‘Korea, the southern half of Sakhalin, and to show at least an increased interest/in Sinkiang adJoining Russian Turkestan. ‘These will complete her chain of buffer states from the Atlantic to the. Pacifio and strengthen her position with regard to India. She may claim the Kurile islands or -insist on their internationalization,
Bound to Affect Course of War
CHINA, OF COURSE, wants back Manchuria and Inner Mongolia as well as Formosa, Hongkong and other former possessions.” Like Poiapd, however, she ‘may not get what she wants. . The United States will want some if not all the Jap-mandated islands of the Pacific—not for their colonial value (as such they are worthless) but .as naval and: air bases. These things are bound to affect the course of our
out at Tokyo,
shoud fall with it. But a sort of guerrilla warfare
When Tokyo falls, Nippon's newly acquired empire |
| “FRANKLY, WE THINK | WE WERE LUCKY” Pfe. Victor W. McGinnis, Camp Atterbury It’ was last Friday when a friend
of ours noticed that our shirt was
torn. “Shirt’s torn, Mack,” he said, “better turn it in for salvage.” We nodded, wanting to keep away from an explang®ion if possible. But the effort was not successful. “How'd you tear it?” We said nothing. “I"said, how'd you tear it?” So we talked. “You remember the little skit we .
| had in the Times about®the scarcity .|of matches here at Atturbury?”
“Yeah.” “Well, yesterday -we get our mail
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“did it without complaint—as have
thousands like them. The wife
“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to’ the death your right to say it.”
'18-year-olds who have been
| it's very different now,
“DON'T LET OUR 18-YEAR-OLDS DOWN" By A Mother,
Indianapolis
I am writing this letter to mothers
{of 18-year-old boys who are in, or
soon will be in, You may
the armed services have been surprised
{when you read a few days back that
Senator Taft of Ohio brought ‘the truth to the floor of the senate—
{that our 18-year-olds are being sent
into action with only seventeen
[weeks training.
I can name dozens of our local sent overseas with less than seventeen weeks, many with only 13 weeks and some less. A When the draft was lowered ‘to
as usual and find a small box from moved to town’in order to do laun-| 1g, years, an amendment to require Harry W. Beebe, Architects Bldg. {dry at home where she could keep a; least a year's training for, these
Indianapolis, phone LI 1196. “We know of no Harry Beebe and wonder about the contents of the box. racks. Four feilows spot the bOX | when we get back to the barracks and say, ‘Hurrah, we eat. They crowd around our bunk. “Well, naturally, we don't khow { what is in the box and hesitate be- | fore opening it. “One fellow asks, ‘What's the matter? Aren't you going to open the box? They shogt us the dagger.
“So we open thé box, and find! where the snow melts.
her babies with her, yet help pay expenses, With all her hard work and numerous guests, the sudden,
ness of -hér mother, the little wife carried on cheerfully. Every week saw boxes packed and sent overseas to brothers and her husband, and newsy letters as gay as she could make them. From the cold rugged mountains in Italy, her husband wrote cheer-| fully: “We have modern air-condi=_ tioned rooms, with running water Honey, 1
bays was ruled out when Secretary Stimson -. -promised. - -that:~. these youngsters would be giv ven adeqirate
We take.it back to the bar-; death of a young brother and ill- traini ng before. being sent across
What happened? Just what happens to all promises coming out of Washington Some of the higher army officials say they can train.a soldier in 17 weeks—then why ‘do we need peace time military training? Now mothers, don’t let our 18year=olds down. - Write to the con gressman of your district and to our
two U. S. senators, asking them for"
that ~Harry W. ‘Beebe, Architects was just thinking I would hate to legislation to prevent this slaughter,
Bldg, Indianapolis, Phone LI-1196, is a fine fellow indeed, “and has sent us some matches.
| “Well, you know the guys ‘around. vour feet off before you can come FOUR FREEDOMS?” { here.
They've. ,been ‘away ‘from, matches so long -they go slightly berserk when they see one.
get our civilized ways for awhile. “Frankly, we think we were licky | just to get our shirt torn. If necessary, a man can do without his shirt... s un 8 “LET'S PLEDGE OURSELVES TO REMEMBER” By Helen H. Long, Columbus According to novelists, war Is just a backdrop for romance. But this is a true -story. It has more of courage than romance, and more tragedy than joy. These’ peoplé™are simple, warmhedrted and modest, married nine! years and pdrents of girls, 8 3 and 1, They had to make major readjustments in” their lives when he went into the navy, but they!
Natu-| {rally a box of ’em makes them for-
be a ¢ivilian again. You know you have to wash. your face three times ay, take a bath, shave, clef
in the house, then sleep on a mattress and .kéép. the fire burning. That is a lot of trouble and work.| Here all you have to do is just get |: fin your hole. The sergeant asked us to wash our faces today—he sald it was nice and sunashiny. I am having a little tmouble with my | | whiskers now; they are getting in my coffee. I love you lots and keep | wishing I were coming home Io you and those three little chicks.” But he isn't. The telegram sald: “Regret to, inform you—kifled in action.’ Let's skip the ration griping. And the war memorials, too. Let's pledge ourselves to remember. Remember | men sleeping in alien soil; men who | wanted to come back. Honest little wives carrying on alone. Little boys | and girls growihg up without daddys. And don't forget the men | who do come back. They’ 11 remember, always,
! |
Side Glances=By Galbraith
| ones the Dutch Indies are now occupied by the Japs. |
CT RICY.
disinclination in this country, however, to spend’
ca co snr
: “Shes sugar is so “Fard to get
couritless lives and billions of money In order to reSoper E My colonies. .
he tg Spot to. pid them joutl
a soar. on. » eli 3w
I've been hiding thie cookies, | but |
of * Poles.
"to the constitution.
not any more flimsy promises. ® 8 = “WHERE ARE THE
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By The WatchGiald Sulisaagatia After reading your editorial, ‘What's Wrong With UNRRA,” 1
{thought®I would ask you a few questions. [ Do you not know that Communist | policy and political strategy has long {considered food a political weapon?| Are American and British officials] {silently acquiescing to the starvation| Yugoslavs and other] people who have fallen intq the clutches of the Communists? Is that the price of peace? Do you believe there can be any successful international organization | for peace and security where such inhumanity ‘exists? Where are the | four freedoms? Can Britain, the United States,
{France and other civilized govern-,
ments co-operate and concur with | such inhuman practices as planned starvation in Poland and Yugo-| slavia—to force communism on those of our allies? * Brother, all of these are #§§4 questions! “He that stoppeth his ears) at the cry of the poor, shall cry! himself, but shall not be heard!”| “Freedom from want and freedom {from fear”, . ..? ~ » » “NO PROVISION FOR FORCED LABOR” By E. Sprunger, Indianapolis
Someone has to fight for our freedom. In answer tb H. G. Winston, U. 8. army, I wish he would read and re-read the 13th amendment He could find that.the constitution makes no provision for forced labor, even in time of war. I uphold Mr, Ginsberg and the Socialist Labor party, regardless of what H. G. Winston or any other army officer may say. Step by step is the way dictatorship got in Germany. Make no mistake; this is what our “would-be slave driver congressmen and senators are striving for. Indiana has reason to be proud of the stand our congressmen
this forced labor ‘bill.
DAILY THOUGHTS
For rebellion is ds the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of |
sthee from being king.—I Samue], 18:38.
904. somal
and senators have taken regarding}
the Lord, hé hath “also rejected
everything carefully planned, so long here, so long
| there, with this and that hotel designated because
it was cheap and clean. The schedule of tips was carefully made out, so much to the maid on the floor, 50 much for the man who drew the bath (a ceremony) and so on. We came, toward the end of the trip, to Paris after seeing .London and crossing over to Ostend and then to Brussels, to Cologne for the cathedral, and down the Rhine on a Sunday, with the olive
| trees on the slopes and the castles seen through a | mist" of Moselle wine, | crowd paraded through the streets on a Sunday after-
to Bingen where a. holiday
noon with a band. And to Switzerland and the Alps (and the high prices) and through Italy, then back up the Mediterranean coast and to Paris, there to spend what we had left, saving just -enough to get back to New York.
'It's Very Different Now!
WE LIVED in a hatel in Montmartre and we cele-
| brated one night with a bottle of champagne which
.was brought to. our table with that ceremony that only the French have—if you have the “price—and we floated out, two very happy youngsters .and wandered down the streets and looketl at the exhibitions of the street artists. We boughy | a picture that looked like “September Morn"—if you
artist we paid him with the $4 in American money. We were young and gay. And so was Paris. But nearly 18 years-later. [I felt it even as we cruised over it by air and looked down to see the city, once so beautifully lighted, now shrouded in darkness. It was cold and dark when we landed a considerable distance outside Paris. We got into a bus to go to the city, all of"us who had flown the Atlantic. A stoical Frenchman, no longer young. wearing the eternal beret, was at the wheel. A young American lieutenant, who was eur guide, tried to tell him, in practically impossible French where to go.
Little Man, What Now? THE DRIVER nodded his head obediently, as he straightened out the situation with ‘a tew questions. I thought of him, sitting there with his back to me, driving that ramshackle bus. For four years the Germans ordered him around. Now the Americans are here, ordering him around. He has no soul to call his own. I didn't associate him with politics, with De Gaulle, with the events that shake and shape the world. He is just one of the little men, so like the little people in the United States and everywhere else, in the world. What is he thinking? language, shall never know it. Perhaps if we could talk 1B one another I still would never know. Dbwn dark, glootny str wa went:into the city. Since then I have seen thése Parisians. On Sunday they came out to walk around, but there was something mechanical about it. There is no light in their eyes. They are short of food. Those who have something left are buying in the black markets. Frenchmen who have what. they want are making their profits in the black ‘market. I am _ not trying to explain it, or condone it. I am just %rying to think of that little man ‘driving that hus. Off inthe distance the guns are- going, and we are pushing the Germans back. But what about that little man driving that bus?
IN WASHINGTON—
War Mobilizer
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, March 15.— You can get up an argument in Washington almost any time on the qualifications of ex-Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes to be director of the office of war mobilization and reconversion, which. 1s his present official title by act of congress and presidential appointment. Byrnes is not, a manufacturer, - not a businessman, -He is a lawyer and not even a Harvard or Philadelphia lawyer at that. He quit school when he was 14, studied shorthand, became a court reporter and read law on the side. Then he published a news- | paper at Aiken, S. C., for four years, was a state solicitor, was elected to congress.
Ducks Publicity’ Spotlight
ONE OF BYRNES first acts on being named head of OWMR was to select Bernard Baruch as his adviser-in-chief-without-compensation. That was generally hailed as a step in the right direction. Baruch, with John Hancock, prepared a manpower report, calling for much more drastic controls, . That was shelved for a time, came out in September, 1943, to be followed in February with another Baruch-Han-cock report on war mobilization ‘and reconversion, ¥ Foor dropped out of the picture shortly after that and. for six months the office of war mobilization and its director made no news that got into the papérs. Actually, Byrnes is credited with having forced government procurement agencies to scale down their demands by 24 billion dollars: It was all done so quietly and so far Behind the scenes that it never caused a public ripple. Byrnes is like that. He {#* interested in results, not publicity. In the nearly two years he has been head of war mobilization he has held 10 press conferénces.” One of his operating axioms is to let the other fellow announce the news and make the headlines. »
Announced Reconversion Plans LAST SEPTEMBER Byrnes did announce a plan for reconversion. Eisenhower's armies were racing across France then, it looked as though the war would be over soon, and it was safe to talk about cusbacks. Also, food stockpiles were molunting ‘and on the insistence of War Food Administrator ‘Marvin Jones, who didn't want to be caught with huge surpluses, 17 foods were removed from the ration list. OPA was opposed to this move, but Byrnes took the responsibility and issued the order, to the joy of the consumers and the consternation of the Republicans who hailed it as a cheap, vote-getting political trick. : When the war didn’t end, all this had to be
J began to go back on the ration list with much grief. | Then Von Rundstedt broke through on the West
. | ern front in Europe, capturing large stocks of U. 8, | supplies, and that the pace of the war in the Pacific GUILT is “present “in “the very was tremendously-stepped-up by MacArthur's Sucve hesitation, even though the deed " y Sed Ciskto.
ful invasion of the pli poines Those were the thing thay I Byron. 1 ) Stars. i tough.
The only other time I saw Paris was in 1927, My
are middle-aged you will remember that—because the | looked so forlorn and was so gracious when
I do not know: his.
changed, At the end of September Byrnes was on the air to say -that wartime controls would have to stay for the duration. "And after the election the 17 Toods .
Peasan fine with broider
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