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Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way

TOJO WAS NOT ALONE : ToJo's bungling suicide attempt is sufficient warning to Gen. MacArthur and his associates in direct charge of war criminals to bestir themselves before others escape. Whether the culprits take their own lives or disappear otherwise, they will be lost as witnesses. Full testimony in the trials is essential not only for punishment of all involved, but also for an understanding of the devious Jap system we are trying to destroy. Since it was generally assumed that Tojo and others would attempt suicide—which is virtually obligatory. for such persons according to the Jap code-~the reasons for the American delay in arresting them are not. clear. It is said that, until yesterday, there were not enough American troops in Japan which could be spared for that purpose. With the Jap police retained anyway, and the Tokyo government supposed to be co-operating, why shouldn't it have been held responsible for delivering the suspects on our list? This applies to the 39 leaders, and also to the thousands of accomplices and commandants of prison camps. As for Tojo’s statement taking responsibility for the war, he is not the only one. He has been in disgrace in Japan for more than a year, because of the American sweep nih ac fica sould he. a convenient figure on which to dump most of the blame. 5 : There is evidence that the Jap ruling caste hopes that the sacrifice of Tojo and a few others will satisfy allied demands. Of course it will not. But, if full justice is to be satisfied, not much time can be lost in rounding up the thousands involved.

WARNING FROM TOKYO

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HENRY W. MANZ

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By Anton Scherrer

TODAY'S PIECE is in the na~ ture of a warning desigued for those readers who might be misled - by the hope that the atomic bomb will end ‘all wars. Don’t be so foolish. We entertained the same silly notion 84 years ago when an Indianapolis physician Invented what everybody thought was the last word | in the line of deadly weapons, I bring up the subject at this time because today marks the 127th an~ niversary of Dr. Gatling’s birthday. Richard Jordan Gatling came to Indianapolis in 1848 when he was 30 years old. He arrived with a bag full of mechanical tricks. When he was just a little shaver back in North Carolina (his birthplace), he helped his father think up a cotton-seed sowing machine; and he was but 20 years old when he invented a new kind of screw propeller—this time with out the help of his father. He was just about to market the propeller when he discovered that, way out in Timbuktu or some equally outlandish place, somebody had beat him to his invention. Five years later, Mr. Gatling perfected a rice drill, only to learn that there wasn't enough rice grown in the U. 8. A, to make it pay,

Considers Steam Plow AFTER HIS RUN of bad cards, Richard Gatling adopted the technique of poker players who, even as far back as then, used to leave their seats and walk around their chairs in the hope that it might bring them luck. His walk took him all thé way to St.

Louis. It looked like an up-and-coming town: ine deed, just the kind of place in which to invent a steam plow, an idea that had come to him on his way west,

During this period Mr. Gatling boarded at a house MY in what was then known as Glasgow Row, and it was SOLEthere that he ran into a world-traveller by the name - DO of Lord. One night while exchanging reminiscences, You SEE Mr. Gatling told Mr, Lord about his unsuccessful rice

drill, whereupon Mr. Lord surprised Mr. Gatling with WHAT the news that the drilling of wheat was quite a com- | mon practice in certain parts of England. It put new, SEE

ideas into Mr, Gatling’s head. Instead of fooling any longer with a steam plow, Mr. Gatling looked up a mechanic and had him make a number of his rice drills. He laheled them “wheat - drills" and they sold lke HOU PARES RF TO FIREIPET [rosa sales-talk helped a lot. He claimed that broadcast- ; d ing seed was just a waste of time; in support of which

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he argued that when sown in: rows, the air would circulate between the rows. It was bound to yield a | bigger harvest, he said, for the reason that there was less chance of frost-killing. In no time at all, Mr, Gatling had $3000 salted away in the bank,

Hoosier

“WINNING POLITICIANS ARE WHERE YOU FIND CAPITAL” By James H. Webb, Elwood

Plans Changed by Smallpox HE TOOK this money and went to Ohio where he

called for a firm policy in Japan.

- have never been united more firmly than on this,

which has not changed its spots.

including warnings against alleged American atrocities show the way the wind is blowing.

islands is to carry on under MacArthur orders.

in the initial stages of the occupation and as long as it co-operates fully with allied orders, has been proved by the lack of violence and generally docile conduct of the population, The case of Korea is quite different. But even there the only alternative to temporary rétention of Jap officials is chaos—until the army of occupation is able to bring in ~ enough of its own civil administrators and to screen loyal Koreans from disloyal. So much must be said in fairness to Gen. MacArthur and his associates, who have taken on this thankless, difficult and all-important job. . \d . .

other Jap—is boss. Though it is expedient to keep some of the old crowd in office for a transitional period, that obviously increases the danger they will use us—instead of the other way around. Washington, the supreme commander, and all occupation authorities must be alert to prevent a political Pearl Harbor,

“THE HUMAN SIDE”

NEW Baruch report just submitted to Ger. Omar Bradley, administrator of veterans’ affairs, deals with “the human side of demobilization”—the problems of re turning soldiers and sailors and of civilians let out of war Jobs. It proposes quick steps to® reorganize, modernize and expand the veterans administration and to correct faults in G. I. legislation. Gen. Bradley, a man of action, will do all he can to see that such steps are taken. We are sure of that. But some things in the report are beyond the . general's jurisdiction. ; ; Bernard Baruch believes that “the human side” is being tragically neglected The veterans’ problems, he says, “cannot be solved except as part of a larger program, in which work for: all—both veterans and civilians—is the prime essential, He warns of grave danger in setting the veteran off from the rest of the nation, “at odds with his fellow Americans, his feelings and explosive fuel ready to be ignited by

future demagogs.” - rn ” »

ND so the new Baruch report urges prompt appointment of a national “work director”—a man of vigor, imagination and such outstanding caliber as to command the country’s immediate confidence, This director, Mr. Baruch says, should give his constant aftention to the program of jobs for all workers; should make certain that none of the human problems gets lost in the many gaps of responsibility and conflicts of authority between government agencies; should work closely with congress to develop and carry out & comprehensive plan for “the human side of demobili« zation.” ~The recommendation has a familiar ring. It was first made in the Baruch-Hancock report of F ebruary, 1944, on post-war adjustment policies. But in 19 months there has _ been no effort to carry it out in any adequate way. Now that ft has | on from congress and the Baruch’

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EN. WAINWRIGHT, welcomed in Washington Monday, Similar statements have been made by President Truman, Supreme Commander MacArthur and many others.- The American people

That is why there is growing concern over current reports from Japan and Korea. Dispatches of responsible ; American press correspondents indicate an attitude of frustrated arrogance on the part of the-Jap ruling caste, The diet sessions, and _the anti-American propaganda, of the official Domei agency,

On top of this is surprise that the Jap governor and officials will continue to administer Korea under the American commandant, as the Jap government in the home

N OUR judgment much criticism of this, as a so-called + “soft” occupation policy, is unjustified. The wisdom of using and working through the imperial regime, at least

BUT let there be no misunderstanding either in America or among the Japs that MacArthur—not Hirohito or any

been made again, we hope it will have earnest

sold his machines and territory rights during 1845 and ‘46. While going up the river in a steamer, he contracted smallpox. There wasn't a doctor in sight, and for 13 days he went without attention snd very little food. He was not allowed to land in Wheeling, At Pittsburgh he was takeri off and put ‘nto a pest house. He stayed there three months in the course of which time he made up his mind to study medicine, He wanted to know semething about himself, he said. - The Medical College of Ohio gave him his M. D., and shortly thereafter Dr. Gatling hung out his shingle In Indianapolis. His practice, in the beginning, left Bim enough time to look around. He married Miss Jemima Sanders, a daughter of Dr. John G. Sanders, The beautiful Sanders girls enJoyed a social status in Indianapolis not unlike that of the daughters of Queen Victoria, which is to say that they achieved fame not only because of themselves, but because of the men they married. For example, Zerelda, eldest of the Sanders girls, became the second wife of David Wallace and thus the stepmother of Lew Wallace, (It worked out beautifully, Lew Wallace sald so himself), :

Head for Business

ALL OF which may delude you into believing that Dr, Gatling enjoyed a lucrative practice because of an influential wife. It helped, of course, but he had amazing gifts of his own—two of which were outstanding. First of all, Dr.- Gatling had an exquisite gentle bed-side mmanner; and, secondly, a head for business the like of which has never been matched by an Indianapolis physician, In support of which I cite the fantastic fact that Dr. Gatling sold $75,000 worth of wheat drills while practicing medicine in Indianapolis, He had a whimsical method of merchandising which he thought up himself. He would sow 20 acres with his drill as against 20 acres sown broadcast and take the difference In yleld as first payment for his machine, Even as far back as then, the farmers of Indiana had to be shown, - . Dr. Gatling didn't get around to his devastating gun until 1861, which is another story, God willing, I'll bring forth something by Friday—maybe, even -| something to substantiate the thesis with which I started “today's piece. i

THE FLYING FISHERMAN—

Fishing Gadgets By Andy Anderson ;

DALLAS, Tex., Sept. 12.—~Pishermen are the doggondest gadget makers—there isn't a fishing enthusiast in America who doesn’t have some special gadget he uses which he believes aids him in catching fish. And doing a fishing plece every day for 25°yéars, naturally one comes on to a lot of these “fish foolers.” You only have to walk into your: favorite sporting goods store and have a look at the nice shiny baits on display. You'll find them in every design, Is there a bit of bug life or marine life that hasn't been duplicated? Everything from mice and frogs to gold fish. You find all sorts of special gadgets such as stringers which guarantee to keep the fish alive and all sorts of live buckets that keep up a continual air flow to the live minnows or shrimp.

Gig Attached to Line

BUT THESE things were invented by the more adept fisherman. For real inventions, you've got to get down to the hard:knocking, one-gallus guy, the potlicker. For instance, there's a fisherman at Gale veston called Sheepshead Joe (I've known him 20 years and never heard him called anything else). His hobby is fishing for red fish, Well, Sheepshead Joe figured out a gadget con sisting of a little hook on a short wire lead, Below this, so arranged that it will slide up and down and fixed to the line is a bigger hook. You bait the little hook. When the fish nibbles you give a yank and the bigger hook slides up the leader and gigs the fish in the tummy, A fellow named Al Allen, of Dayton, O., sends me what he calls “Al's minnow pin.” This is just a hook with a piece of plano wire so arranged that you hook the minnow through the plano wire and it is set back on the hook far enough that the only way a fish can get it is to take the hook too. .

Shiimp In. Corn Meal 1 KNOW a number of fishermen who think they

can keep minnows alive longer by- some aspirin into the water, And it is a proven fact that

in corn meal. : I know another fisherman who has a glass bottle,

-overboard. Then: he drops his hook near the bottle, The idea is, the fish see the minnows in the bottle and: try to get em, and anything you drop near them

drop the bottle and the fish “go-fer” it. And the veterans in the Pacific have their own

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you can keep saltwater shrimp alive by packing them |

and he puts some live minnows in. it and drops it |

they go for. In fact, he calls it a gopher balt—you |

Inasmuch as the hula-ba<lu expressed by a per cent of the Forum contagious writers is for a respectful writer to sign his name, address and pedigree, I must rectify two errors in my recent contribution titled “American Capitalism Won the War.” First, my name, according to my betters, is Jarhes H. (Harrison) Webb, instead of J. G. Webb. And, second, the word Russia about half way down should have been omitted. Now for more enlightenment I think The Watchman is a grand (old, young or whatever) fellow. I think the catalog of names by Haggerty and most of her writings are nonsensible and that most of the proRussian writers are ignorant, “He that lives in a glass house should not throw stones.” “Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.” Where you find the most capit®l or money, you will find the winning politician—whether America, Britain or U. 8. 8. R. v We laboring Americans relish golden promises—look for the will-o’-thé-wisp, Utopian era—deluded by oratorical chats—stand in Republican soup lines—starve, freeze suffer, bleed and die in Democratic beggers row, or icy alleys—and earn a meager living by the sweat of the brow, ” » » “lI BLUSH AS I LOOK AT THESE DIAPER WOMEN" By “I Am a Modern Person,” Indian. apolis ¢ Gee, 1sn't it wonderful dad doesn't have to sneak out to a burlesque show anymore, Well, dad had one advantage over us; he gazed at picked beauties and we have to look at them mine run. But it really is amazing what you see on the streets, coming and going in halter and shorts. If the men were on the streets dressed in shorts, how we would giggle, may= be we would be shocked and have them arrested. I blush as I look at these “diaper women.” I want to put them in.a baby carriage and cover them with a "wabbit blunket.” # » » “SURE IS BAD TO GET UP IN THE DARK”

By A Times Reader for 35 Years, Indian apolis

1 sure agree with Hal P, Smith about turning the clocks back to peacetime. Sure is bad to get up in the dark and like the winter we had last year, sleet, snow and ice. We are all more awake of evenings.

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“EVERY COLUMNIST, DEEP IN HIS HEART, FEARS STALIN” By A. E., Indianapolis

The watchman asks will not someone speak in his favor. Fear not, Mr, Watchman, you have thousands of sympathetic listeners. What you hear are but those en whose toes you are stepping. Not the gusto. You had better never let them know who you are; they, like Stalin, have no scruples. Woe be unto you, You have your answers in every daily. Pegler hates their kind. Eleanor Roosevelt, in her sweet way, hopes and prays that Stalin will prove worthy of our trust in him. Can't you read between the lines? The prayers, the fear. Wm. P. Simms, in Saturday’s paper, speaks of Russia's repudiation of the Yalta agreement, Every columnist I read, down deep In his heart, fears Stalin. They want to believe but past experiences and not knowing what tomorrow may bring forbids of any great enthusiasm. Let's go to bat for Mr, Watchman. He's got something that every man and woman who keeps abreast the times knows to be a fact. We need many watchmen. Champions of democracy, a ® = » “THE CHILDREN NEED THEIR FATHERS NOW” By a Soldier's Wife, Indianapolis I agree one hundred per cent with the sallor’s wife on the subject of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers. My husband is in the army and still serving overseas, and we, too, are pre-Pearl Harbor parents. The children need their fathers now, more than ever, because they have reached the age where the guiding hand of a father is necessary, So let's raise our voices and keep them raised until we are heard and every pre-Pearl Harbor father is back in his home where he is

needed so badly.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

{been unearthing there Greek tem-

was transferred to the 7th-a and salled from Prance for the le on Aug. 1. ’ y If there ever was a time I felt like

your right to say it.”

“DO MACEDONIANS BELIEVE SELVES GREEKS, OR SLAVS?”

By Luben Dimitroff, editor of the Macedonian Tribune, Indianapolis

In one of your recent issues Mr. John Prattas (I believe a Greek, not a Macedonian) showed great concern about the fate of Macedonia. He writes that “ethically and his torically Macedonia ever should be

an integral part of Greece.” Why? Because ‘‘the anthropologists have

ples of civilization.” Archeologists—not anthropologists as Mr. Prattas states—unearthed in this country many Indian temples. But no one, foolishly enough, had vet argued that this country should ever belong to the Indians. Mr. Prattas may not also know that since the sixth century a great part of the Balkan peninsula, including most of Macedonia, was populated by Slavs and that since then the course of Balkan history has been greatly changed. One does not have to take long excursions way bagk beyond the medieval ages in order to verify the present truth about Macedonia. A short walk to the city library will give him plenty. of knowledge from the book, “Report of the International Commission to Inquire Into the Causes and Conduct of .the Balkan Wars,” published by. the Carnegie Endowment for International. Peace, Washington, D. C, in 1914. In this book the atrocities which the “civilized” Greeks inflicted upon the unfortunate and innocent Macedonian Slavs are documentarily exposed. To make it brief and close the argument we propose to our Greek. opponents this: Here, in Indianapolis, live quite a few Macedonian families from Greek Macedonia. We are willing at any time, under the auspices of your paper, to accept an inquiry among them in order to verify whether the majority of these Macedonians feel themselves as Slavs or as Greeks, We further ' propose” that the proven facts be made public and whatever side loses to donate $100 to the American Red Cross. : » » Ld “FEEL LIKE SHOULDERING GUN, HUNTING POLITICIANS” By F. M. 0., Indianapolis Today I read where one Senator Ferguson of Michigan, and the pf ple of Michigan surely are proud of him, thinks 18-year-olds would not at present make ‘. policemen in a foreign country, t they should go to school. ’ To offer these boys who went into | the army at 18 and 17 years, those at 18, not as policemen, but to face bullets and live in mud and the elements, and those at 17, I say seduced by brass hats—he thought then that was the proper legisiation. Now he wants to pass legislation to re-enlist; he wants to trade a 60 to 90-day furlough which he knows many a kid would give anything for, and a few paltry dollars. I wonder how he thinks the parents of these lads, also the boys who have faced hell and damnation, think about his proposition. I have a son who has spent almost two years in Europe and through one winter was bombed almost nightly while in Holland with the 8th army. Then when hostilities ended in Europe, his outfit

shouldering a gun and go hunting for politicians, At is now.

: : tions RE ERA A RAR It could be another "full

poLICS—

A Herifag

By Charles T. Lucey - -

“ “WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—A month after the war's end and only { ‘a week deep in the first peacetime congress in four years, Democrats and Republicans are squaring off for the political fight looking to 1946 elections, The pro-New Deal line of President Truman's message, partisan maneuvering on the Pearl Harbor : investigation, the split on how to get “full employe ment”—all point up the struggle ahead. Ll Democrats charge the Republicans are out to “smear the Roosevelt name,” in the Peall Hare investigation. Republicans deride the Truman mes sage. The political trend is“to the right, they say, and the 1946 issue will be “old fashioned conservae : tism.” Democrats say they'll be battleground. The stake is control of congress. The Republicans need eight senate seats and 28 house seats to achieve it. Democrats acknowledge they will be fighting from 8 defense position in that their vote falls off ‘more sharply in off-presidential election years than the * Republican vote. They've got to try to change that in 1046. : \

Both Starting Early . THEY'RE starting a lot earlier this time in both national committee organizations. The Democrats have begun by making what probably are the mast, microscopic examinations of closely contested cone gressional districts ever undertaken, They're preparing pamphlets for next year, and the national organiza. tion has begun to discuss names of candidates for top offices with state and local organizations. The Republicans have a new national newspaper coming off the presses this week with a starting cire culation of 150,000. So far, with Mr, Truman under full sail, they haven't had an issue worth shouting about. They think they will have from now on. Reconversion and the ability of the Democratig administration to return the nation to a peacetime economy wihout prolonged unemployment may be the No. 1 issue of the next election. Democrats know they'll face losses if there are millions jobless next summer and early fall. But, thinking politically, they believe they are lucky V-J day came when it did and not, say, next February, which would mean 1946 eléce«

happy to fight on tha

dinner pail” campaign, , The real battles for house seats narrow to abofit 100 districts of the 435--the rest are fairly safely Democratic or Republican. But: in these 100 districts the recent margin has been under 10 per cent of the: votes; in more than half of them it has been under 5 per cent. Some of them have gone one way or another by only a few hundred votes. 2 That's where national and local organizations will” center their heaviest fire,

Close Districts Studied THE CLOSE districts are being studied minutely as to voting characteristics county by county and by -different population groups—industrial, farm, nae tionality and so on. If one type.of candidate: has failed consistently, the ‘idea often will be to get & different type. A In tHe senate, the Democrais will not have as many sure Solid South seats up as in most other years. They'll be all right in Virginia, Florida Tene nessee, Mississippi and Texas, But party strategists think they may have their hands full holding seats in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Missouri, Delaware, New York and some other states. The old magic of the Roosevelt name will be gone, Politicians on both sides say Mr. Truman could win easily today. But with the course of reconversion to be run and many other top issues arising in the next year, nobody can predict his party pulling power in 1946. 2 After reconversion as a political issue, and in many ways part of the same issue, is the handling of the veterans’ problem. The Republicans are mak« ing their own bid for veteran support with a Repubw: lican veterans league headed by Warren Atherton, former national commander of the American Legion, It all adds up to a much earlier start than usual in planning a national campaign instead of leaving it until the last three months before election, as has * - generally been the case.

POST-WAR PRODUCTION

High Wages | By Edward A. Evans

HERE, FROM Henry Ford, is 4 something worth remembering as debate waxes hot over post-war wages: : “No wage is too high that is i earned. Fifty dollars a day,—earned—is not too high, « But a dollar a day, unearned, is much too high.” We believe that wages must rise, and keep rising, - That means real wages; representing steadily growing

not keep going, in a machine age, unless it keeps real . wages rising. But many wage-raising proposals now being ad-. vanced seem to us to ignore the fact that cash in pay envelopes is only part of real wages. The .other part—and it's just as important—is production. Vole ume of production determines whether cash wages are real or unreal, earned or unearned,

Wages and Profits Linked : TRY TO create more buying power by raising cash wages, without producing more goods and serve ices to be bought, and you only create higher prices,

game, and everybody else loses. Try to force cash wages up and hold prices down by over-rigid government controls, and you only dis= courage production. Wages are a cost element in every. step of production and distribution. If costs get so high that controlled prices offer no prospect of fair profits, production falters, jobs evaporate, and every body loses. But find a way to keep production and cash wages marching upward together, and everybody can win, Earners can have higher real wages, and all cone sumers can share the benefits of high production in lower prices.

Ford Saw It Early HENRY FORD saw the way 31 years ago. Many employers -of that time thought him crazy when he said he was ready fo pay a $5-a-day minimum wage, © But Henry Ford had figured out new, more effi.

cars, to be sold at low prices and still yield good profits, that the lowest-paid worker in his plant could

We believe that way, constantly ang humanely

wages wi Increasing volume production can end only in

disappointment and loss for all,

buying power for all who earn. Free enterprise can<-

Those who get the wages seldom stay ahead of that +

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cient methods which he knew could produce so mary NE

earn—not just get—$5 a day. vi

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INDIANA B PRINCETON Robert Eugene was injured fat Patoka river bri he fell from a uncle, Lawrenc Halter discover missing when | nation.