Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1946 — Page 12

GO HOME...” rs barat od many letters these days purpo Fool many} soldiers. Some of them are pretty sure, do not. Although more words to say it, they all say one thing: ‘wanna go home.” oa : their desire to come home, and with the desire of lies and friends to get them home, we are in full . With some of the other angles behind this cam_and some of the methods—we are less sympathetic. We are not, naturally, unaware that the current “party ‘of the American Communists—always subject to s without notice—is “get the soldiers home.” They not mean replacing the veteran occupation forces with soldiers. They mean withdrawing entirely from Eue and Asia. ' They feel, of course, that the presence of ican troops in Europe and Asia keeps the local Comminorities from seizing power by force in those So they beat the drums for American isolationists n, just as they did up to the morning when Germany Russia. . ® 5» . 8 when. we hear about mass meetings, under the auspices, “invariably, of perfectly respectable and innocent and ‘organizations ‘and individuals, to protest against 5 occupation forces in the’ countries they have so recently had to occupy at such frightful cost, we just re-

ember that our Communist friends are adepts at organizing mass meetings that look quite respectable and patriotic ‘on the surface and of hoodwinking innocent individuals into ‘appearing to support them. ‘+ And when we get, as we did this morning, several different mimeographed copies of a form letter signed variously (and in typewriter only) “600 Soldiers of the Umpteenth Regiment” or “Sixty G. Ls in Manila,” etc., why, : of course, they go into the waste basket and not into the Hoosier Forum. The Hoosier Forum is set aside for the expression of opinion of individuals who fully identify _ themselves, and not for the promulgation of propaganda by anonymous persons in or out of uniform. %.4 We, too, would like to see all our soldiers home, and soon, But nét at the cost—even the possible cost—of having again to send out armies in another war, because we . +Jét the victory of this one slip through our fingers. Ae :

_ DEMOBILIZATION oi EN. EISENHOWER made a good impression yesterday

=" when he appeared before an informal joint meeting

of congress to explain the army's demobilization problem and plan. He announced a further reduction in the pcint - goore. G. L's with 45 points or 214 years’ service will be discharged or homeward bound by April 30, and those with 40 points or two years service by June 30. ; ‘4 The recent slowdown in demobilization was explained as a result of the earlier speed. So many men were let otit so fast, there were not enough men in prospect to perform occupation duties and guard supplies abroad. + Though the general's presentation was able, we doubt tht i will stop the agitation at home and abroad for ‘faster demobilization. Logic will not cure the homesickness fiich the general says is the basic cause of the demonstfations. And it will not change the desire of fathers, nithers, wives and sweethearts to bring their loved ones Also, this is a campaign year in which political dema‘are looking for popular issues to exploit for partisan . Between the candidates too cowardly to buck public steria, and those who deliberately fan such emotional piitbursts, more agitation is inevitable. :

3 ¥ . » . . . THETHER the situation gets out of hand, or is kept “under control, will depend largely, on the government's “ability tp meet certain policy and efficiency requirements ~ before the July 1 deadline. For, as Gen. Eisenhower warns ‘us: “Should we fail to obtain the 1,500,000 men we require ont July 1, something would have to break in the tight little net which we have now woven to perform our job in this country and discharge the nation’s overseas comts” ; : * Part of the responsibility rests in the war department id with the army commanders. Though only a minority 4G. I's are the victims of injustice due to inefficiency inition of the discharge system, such injustices under- } morale. So do subterfuges by commanders, such as “made work” system for troops which Gen. Eisenhower § now banned. : ‘The main responsibility rests with congress and the dent. The basic problem is to provide regular troops our obligations. It is the job of the President and 8 to determine our foreign commitments and to the necessary forces. Those political policies in many have not yet been fixed. And congress has not yet for the post-war military establishment. army, navy and air forces, conscripted for war, - victory and are being rapidly demobilized—as ; be. But we have not yet set up the peacetime 8ystem of military training and of incentive volun. fing to replace the conscript forces. Until we do so, 18 going to be trouble and more and more of it.

PLACE FOR SECRECY

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Brought Us Home!"

By a Siate Guardsman, Indianapolis

"See, Mom, How They

As you know, the governor used the State Guard to relieve the

holiday transportation crisis. I know you will be interested in what actually happened during one of these trips by a State Guard driver. After hauling blankets for the Red Cross to emergency billeting halls, I returned to the motor armory. My relief driver and I drew our bedding and had made ready for bed when our names were called over the P. A. system, ordering us to report to the operations center, where we were ordered to the Union Station to pick up a load for the Gary

and Chicago area.

their honeymoon, and 10 G. L's. The sailor's bride rode in the rear of the G. M. C. six by six army cargo truck. We stopped at Lebanon where the bride was forced

to seek the warmth of the cab. At Lafayette I attempted to buy a bale of hay to keep their feet warm.

snow. It became colder and colder. We finally reached an all-night filling station and lunchroom where the soldiers unloaded looking like snowmen. The sailor carried his bride through the knee-deep snow to the restaurant. The restaurant keeper's wife told us that we were just two hours behind another load of servicemen. I asked the soldiers if they thought we had better attempt to go on. Nothing could have stopped them. After thawing out, we again loaded up. I attached the rear tarp

for Crown Point. The drifts were getting deeper and the driving was becoming more difficult as no traffic had recently preceded us. We carefully traveled at a snail's pace. The sky was beginning to grow light. We came up behind two workmen whose car was stalled in a snow drift and who were trying to shovel their way out. I changed gears to pull with all axles and attempted to pass the stalled car. After moving about twenty yards, I too stalled. A sergeant borrowed the workmen's scoop and we dug out. It was getting colder and the wind was increasing. We attempted to hit snow drifts at a rate of speed that would carry us through, but we were stalled a second time. After much grinding and seesawing, we gave it up as hopeless.

and laced it securely. We headed

Our passengers were a sailor, a sailor and his bride who were on

I started back to a farmhouse we had just passed. The wind seemed to be going 60 miles an hour sideways. I found the farmer in his barn and asked to borrow two scoops, but the soldiers in their anxiety to get home had dismounted and had dug the snow out with, their hands and feet and were strung out between the truck and the farmhouse, heading for warmth and shelter. “Whitey” (a sergeant from the old 38th) had taken over the driving and was backing the

truck through its tracks to the

armhouse, The farmer's wife welcomed us, snow and all, into the warm kitchen which was filled with the aroma of baking cookies. Weary G. I's were hesitant about carrying the snow and ice into her kitchen. One of the sailors made a long distance telephone call. The farm er's wife refused payment, saying that was her Christmas present to him, She gave the sailor's bride a pair of warm socks to wear with her toeless shoes. After drying out, we boarded the truck and started again. Our first passenger was home in Crown Point, and hurried away with his duffle bag on his shoulder, "almost forgetting to wave goodby. I asked the next passenger to ride in front and direct me to his home in Gary. He had not been home in four years. He was an interesting conversationalist, but I noticed that it grew difficult for him to talk ag we neared his home. He was tense and speechless the last two blocks. His folks and neighbors were waiting expectantly while he grabbed his duffle bag and ran to them. The scene more than paid for the difculty we had encountered. We drove the others, who continually applauded the hospitality and sympathetic effort of the Hoosier state, to the South Shore Electric station. Another Gary resident insisted that we go to his house for breakfast. After another happy welcome scene, his sister prepared

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ham and eggs and we again warmed and dried. He proudly pointed through the window to the army truck which was parked at the curb and said, “See, Mom, that's how they brought us home,” and added warmly, “Boy, that’s a good deal.” Our return trip over treacherous roads was nerveracking and tiresome. We passed many cars which had skidded into ditches and fields. We drove into the moter armory 24 hours after we had left, having safely delivered our passengers. A sergeant told how he had waited many days on his journey home and had almost given up in des of being home for Christmas. But when he saw the effort being made by the Hoosier people he commented that he once again realized that we will never forget the service man and the job he did so well - - » “HOW ABOUT WIVES HAVING LOOK AT BOOKS” By G. M. Worker's Wile, Indianapolis A few.days ago I drove out by Allison’s and noticed only one or two pickets to a gate. Then I started to drive up Henry st. but had to detour because there were s0 many men picketing the Chevrolet plant. > Even the ones who voted against a strike must picket 12 hours a week or be fined $15. They are on strike to see the company’s books, yet the union bosses won't let them take a look at their own. Also, what happened to the $4,000,000 strike fund? I want an answer, Oh, yes, and here's another one for you union bosses—just before Christmas the local unions here donated money for the &. M. workers, Well, just how many of those workers got any of this money? Can you answer this? : My husband is now working 45 hours a week, 65¢ an hour and driving 50 miles round trip a day, And what does he do on his day off? Well, he’s picketing 12 hours, without pay. He certainly has a full week. How about us wives having a look at the union’s books? Come on you G. M. wives. Let's hear from you, ” ” » “AUTO WORKERS ARE GOING TO WIN THIS STRIKE” By Ernest Archer, Indianapolis The auto workers union is not ignorant and should have nerve enough to demand their rights Open shop lovers are the ones that are ignorant and as far as the Géneral Motors, they are about as unfair a corpgration as you find. Didn't President Truman form a fact finding panel and because it didn’t suit them, , they turned {it down. Who says labor is not en-

I know that the auto workers are going to win this strike and so does General Motors. They Lave been ‘holding out to beat the United States government out of taxes,

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take in washing, and of a brood know where the next meal was coming from. . Without saying another word, Mr. Bryce loaded the rear of the surréy high with freshly-baked bread, after which he ordered two men to roll out a barrel of crackers, The two men, I recall, had all they could do to get the barrel up the slippery steps and into the surrey. Then with the kids on the front seat beside him and the rear seat loaded down with good things to eat, Mr. Bryce drove off triumphantly behing ‘nis spanking ‘team of ‘horses. As for myself, I walked home that evening wonder« ing why poor kids always have all the luck.

GMC on Government Pan Since 1939

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16~When Attorney General Tom C. Clark 'fessed up to United Auto Workers’ President R. J, Thomas that the department of jus-

tice had been investigating General Motors, he raised a hot question. Department of justice officials are mum on the nature of the investigation and Washington representatives of GM profess to be equally uninformed on what Clark is shooting at. — Any idea that the department of justice is just beginning an investigation: of General Motors as a result of the Thomas-UAW blasts during strike negotiations would be entirely misleading. Some people tried to put that interpretation on the matter, but it’s wrong. nt of justice economists and lawyers keep a routine check on many big U. 8. corporations. As a matter of open court record, the government has had General Motors on the pan for over six years. Action was begun in November, 1939. * In 1941 a criminal conviction was obtained in federal court at South Bend, Ind. against General Motors, General Motors Acceptance Corp., General Motors Sales Corp., and General Motors Acceptance Corp. of Indiana. guage, the charge was that these corporations required General Motors dealers to finance their car sales exclusively through GM facilities, in restraint of trade and in violation of the Sherman anti-trust act.

Civil Action Pends

SHORTLY after the criminal conviction was handed down, the anti-trust division of the depart

ment of justice began a civil sction on the same grounds. That case has been pending in Chicago for four years. For the past two years or more, Gens: eral Motors attorneys have been obtaining depositions for some 400 out of 600 dealers on their relations with the corporation and its financing and sales subside faries. The case has not been set for trial. y The mere fact that a corporation is big does not make it a monopoly. In 1941, the last full year in which automobiles were manufactured, General Mo tors produced 47 per cent of the cars sold. Chrysler was second with about 25 per cent and Ford was third’ with 20 per cent. Thus the Big Three accounted for over 90 per cent of the industry, and the independs ents have tough going. While General Motors divisions produce five lines of cars, GM is not a completely integrated manue facturer like Ford, for. GM does not produce its own steel, glass or rubber.

"Practices Under Study

A NUMBER of trade practices in the automobile industryzas a whole are known to have been under:

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yi in a report of} degree this was corrected, Selling cars all over the U. 8. at f. 0. b. Detroit, prices, even though some cars are assembled in Calie

' fornia or New Jersey, Has Ween questioned. This is.

merely another version of the old Pittsburgh-plus basing point fight which has plagued the steel ine dustry.

WORLD: AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

UNO Lip Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—While the state department prepares to ask congress for approximately $25 million for its new office of international information and cultural aftdirs, the UNO’s backing for freedom of the press seems to be languishing.

A Philippine request that the general assembly call an international conference to discuss the subject, reports from London state, “was kept off the agenda pending clarification.” When first brought up—the second day of the assembly—it was explained that

it had failed to get on the agenda due to the delayed .

delivery of a cable from Delegate Pedro Lopez. Now the session has agreed to consider the resolution at its secona session in April : The Lopez proposal was that the assembly sponsor an immediate conference “to formulate the principles and adopt ways and means to insure and promote the establishment amd operation and movement of a free press throughout the world.” The . United States position is said to be that the proposal is “impracticable.” And that while it is in complete sympathy with the proposal’s aims, it is of the opinion that a conference of experts would be more - fruitful than a conference of government officials. ;

U. S. Press Leads Way :

DURING and since the war some of this country’s foremost experts have worked on it early and late. Wilbur Forrest, of the New York Herald-Tribune; Ralph McGill, of the Atlanta Constitution; Carl

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

LONDON, Jan. 16.—Yesterday I gave some account of the recent activities of 12 members of parliament who went to Jugoslavia as unofficial guests of the government to observe the elections. There is no doubt they. were hampered in -their investigations by the prejudices which they brought with thém. Politicians are very apt to find In every country they visit what they are looking for. And modern political jargon, particularly of the Left, usually en= ables them to find suitable phraseology for explaining away anything which does not fit in ‘with their preconceived opinions. Right-wing politicians can be just as prejudiced the other way. A notable example was during the Spanish Civil war, Nearly all British Conservatives supported Gen. Franco, and nearly all the Labor party supported the Republicans, It was almest impossible to form a balanced view because nearly every observer who was sent to Spain returned a violent supporter of one side ly nn than a handful of objective reporters who really tried to let the people khow what was going on.

Russians More Realistic | THE RUSSIAN Communists are far more realistic

in this respéct than. the British Labor party. The’

Russians have never allowed their political ideology to interfere with their foreign policy. Soviet Russia was the first country to sign a trade agreement with Fascist Italy; and the fact that Germany was under the National Socialist dictatorship did not prevent signing the celebrated agreement

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Ackerman, dean of the Columbia school of journalism; Hugh ‘Baillie, president of ‘the United Press; Kent Cooper, general manager of the Associated Press, and many others at home and abroad have devoted much time: to this vital issue.’ But while governments almost without exception pay lip-service to the ideal, most of them .do so with their fingers crossed. . Among the things which the state departmen plans to do with its $25 million are: To maine tain American information libraries abroad; distribute textual and , material; prepare docue mentary films for foreign audiences; sustain short wave broadcasts; continue the publication of a Russian-language magazine in the Soviet Union, and 80 on.’ To do these things, ‘the department plans to] employ 2500 people. © !

World News Blackout SOME OF these projects unquestionably are sound. Without a free press, however, others will go} up against an inpenetrable wall. At least two-thirds! of the earth’s two billion population live in a more or less completé news blackout relieved only by what their governments want -to tell them. The American magazine now published in Moscow, for example, is limited to 10,000 copies and there are 190,000,000 people in Russia. And its contents are equally circumscribed. -- : «+ If the UNO is what it is cracked up to: be, it will do something to set the world press free, For, without a free press, there can be no free world and no lasting peace. hn

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~ Traveling Britons Form Extreme Views

ing friends with those countries whose internal polie tics are similar, without regard. to divergent national interests. The Toures, except for the unfortunate aberration pver Spain, are Jess culpable inthis ree spect than the Labor party and it should always be remembered that the British alliance with Russia in 1942 was essentially an act of Tory statesmanship. The extravagant lengths to which political bias can drive quite intelligent people is shown by the fact that four or five’ members of the recent parliamentary: delegation to Jugoslavia stated, after they left Bel. grade, that they regarded .the staff of the British embassy as “reactionary.”

Parachuting: Diplomats

» FIRST SECRETARY Colonel Eakin, Second Secré« tary Major Henniker, Colonel Clarke, military atw tache; Mr. Stephen Clissold, press attache, and his assistant, Miss Sibyl Sturrock, all served in Jugoe slavia with the Partisans during the war. Eakin was the first British officer who parachuted into Marshal Tito’s headquarters and was with hiny through some of the bitterest fighting, even being wounded by the same bomb as Tito,” Henniker, pre= war career diplomat, parachuted into Serbia, where he served more n a year with the Partisans. Miss Sturrock has the distinction of being one of the véry few women who jumped by parachute behind enemy lines dyring the war, : ey It is very much to be hoped that Mr. Bevin and ‘the foreign office will continue to believe the faithful and conscientious reports ‘they receive ‘from and highly qualified staff in Belgrade, rather prejudiced misrepresentation of. traveling

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