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ets when he went

f fire but it was almost that spectacular. he. paraphrased Elijah when he referred to a gger than a man's hand, as now appearing on mocratic horizon. \ e good book recounts that what followed Elijah’s ominous warning was, first, a great rain; then a wind so, ong it rent the mountains and broke the rocks; then an quake and after that a fire. "Whether the Ickensian forecast will materialize and ‘Biblical history repeat, remains to be seen. But certain it is that the manner of Mr. Ickes’ separation from the federal payroll was no mean show. A . »

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SO THERE goes, au revoir but not goodby, one of the most interesting and unpredictable characters of our tim

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os over which My, Ickes has presided. ...

mind everybody else’s business in which he became interested. And in addition, to engage in the great game of political phrase-making. That brought forth such contributions as “Willkie, the barefoot boy from Wall Street,” and of Dewey's “Throwing his diaper into the ring.” Now on Mr. Ickes’ departure, he warns of the political gnats. He has been the political gadfly. _* But, withal, his has been about the only interior department operation of eur recollection in which there has ~ been no major scandal, no charge of graft, no Fall or Bal ¢ linger stuff. And while he has been frequently loose and loud-mouthed and not always either accurate or funny in hig extra-curricular activities, he has been, we think, an exceptionally dble secretary of the interior, oil and solid fuel administrator, and, in all directions, a great aid to the ¢ winning of the war. / iE % # 8 = nn - WE REMEMBER vividly June, 1941, when the big shots 1 of the oil industry were holding a convention. While | it was on, Mr. Ickes was appointed oil co-ordinator for warv The gloom that prevailed among the oil men on that announicement was of the suicidal sort. = : Yet, ‘after the war, those very same oil men whq had worked with Mr. Ickes through all the war years gave a

the congressional directory to list the duties and high-rank-|- ; Yet, in peace and war, he has always found time to

manpower ready for immediate and effective mobilization.

stepping population and a vast military establishment,” but to available well trained men plus necessary eqyipment and supplies sufficient to insure superiority over an aggressor. Call it universal military, educa-

great banquet in his honor, with everything from cocktails to flowers, from soup to nuts, including bronze medallions by a famous sculptor of the curmudgeon, for all guests So that's why we refer to him as Ickes the unpredict- _ able; and why we aren't getting into the Elijah business as to where he may go from here. : ~~ He may prove to be no bigger than a man’s hand, but then again it may turn out to be the real and super-rein-carnation of the original Bull Moose. — We'll Joalt and watch for the possible rains and earthes and great fires—and great winds.” Only as to the latter do we feel somewhat sure, 2,

“THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW” WHEN practically all the business of seven and one-half BL million New Yorkers can be tied up by a strike of 8500 tugboat operators— When nearly three million people in the Philadelphia areas couldn't get about their peaceful pursuits, because 9600 transport workers were on strike— When nearly two million residents of Pittsburgh and | suburbs went without enough electricity for 20 hours because 3400 power company employees quit work— ~~ When things like that happen, it's obvious something ‘is wrong. The rights of more than 12 million people are in conflict with the rights of 16,000. What the 16,000 want is more pay for their work. That's a good American ambi- ~ tion. For the sake of argument, let’s concede that they are entitled to more pay. a . n . . ¥ [ UT do we have to have a civil war and disrupt the lives ~ of 12 million just to settle pay-scale disputes between 16,000 workers and the few tugboat owners in New York, the transit management in Philadelphia, and the power company in Pittsburgh? Should innocent people suffer cold in New York, or housewives in Pittsburgh be deprived of their washing machines and surgeons be forced to cancel ~ Operations? Even Senator Jim Murray of Montana, who yields to no one in eagerness to please labor with a capital “Ly thinks something should be done. ‘There oughta be a law.” But Senator Murray isn’t sure just what kind of law.

i vision im the Hatch-Ball-Burton bill.

there

8 this simple solution (we quotesfrom the bill) :

, compulsory settlement , .

ty goes on.

To provide for just such emergencies, there is a pro1 : Senator Murray's ” ‘committee of education and labor has yet to give that bil 8 hearing. It provides for a long procedure of collective * bargaining, mediation and conciliation to avert a shoWwing But if the showdown comes in disputes such as those in New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, then

“Whenever the board . . . determines that a special nding commission should be created: . . . The board t the same time , , . make a finding of facts and announcement as to whether it is necessary, in the interest, to require the parties to accept tempo- . 80 as to avoid any Lion to the supply of a commodity or to a service the community affected is so dependent that ip would be inflicted on a substantial number ot The board is authorized and directed to hardship would be inflicted in case of any icted interruption of a public utility or ce, or of the supply of an essential food e supply of an essential fuel as coal or of ‘any serious or portracted interruption ly or service on the continuity of which jor welfare of a community depends.” ns, whatever the fact-finding board le as if by arbitration. And

tional training, or what you wi Details are not important, but results are fundamental. Lack of them will cost us in future lives and blood just as it in the past.

| Congressman Ludlow reverently mentions beloved dead, their graves, and the homes with ‘the vacant chair. From personal experience, I can tell you that a substantial percentage of these dead and vacant chairs were caused by lack of sufficient training, proper indoctrination and, particularly at the start of war, lack of proper equipment. Ont cannot rush from farm to battlefield and know how to take effective advantage of cover; or how to operate and repair intricate radar or other equipment that tells when thé enemy is coming. Ohe cannot dash from factory and maneuver a ship in the typhoon, navigate uncharted waters or make an amphibious landing through mine fields and reefs, any more than he could perform an intricate surgical operation. Lack of sufficient training, both men and officers, cost dearly in casualties during both world wars (and I served in both) directly chargeable to those, who with good intentions but lack of knowledge, preached unreasonable disarmament and against preparedness from 1919 to 1940,

All of us who were in world wars I. and II will gladly work for a “Road to Peace.” But we want to do it realistically and practically, knowing from experience what happens, who gets killed and who gets maimed when good intentions alone do not work out and sufficient and proper security is not provided during the change-over period from war to permanent and everlasting peace,

- Hoosier "Bitter Lesson of Two Wars Shows We Must Be Able to Protect Self:

By Stuart A. Bishop, Capt, USNR, Ret, 3857 Guilford ave. 1 should like to emphasize the necessity on the world front of our

being properly prepared to prevent war. | : Nations are but collections of individuals, subject to the “ame passions, same lust for power, same disregard for same lack of morality and same covetousness for possessions of others. As long as we require local police forces to protect individuals,” we need the same protection at national level. Police forces and FBI personnel are professionally trained to a high degree. Our ndtional armed forces, to be an effective guarantee for security, must be in sufficient number and as highly trained, backed by an emergency reserve of high trained

I am not referring to a “goose By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville

will. whole peace organization for failure

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“WAY TO GET ALONG WITH RUSSIANS IS TO BE FIRM!”

I think the world owes a great deal to Mr.. Bevin of England for the courageous and effective man< ner in which he locked horns with the representative of Russia. I think his courage probably saved the

“| do not agree with a word that you

will defend to the death to say it." — Voltaire.

“YETERANS HOPE CAN HELP CORRECT ARMY INEQUITIES” By D. E. Killiam Jr., Camp Atterbury Every enlisted man and former enlisted man in the country owes you a debt of gratitude for your recent article in “It’s Our Business” entitled “Give G. Ls a Chance to

Seek Jobs.” It is most gratifying to learn that you, at least, recognize the inequities that exist under our “army caste system” and’ are doing your best to bring about rectification of at least one of them— one which even carries over into the post-discharge stage. ~ Every man who is or has been in our army is, primarily, a citizen, and is entitled to the basic privileges glaranteed citizens of our country by our Constitution and bill of rights. However, each of these “citizens” who has served®as an enlisted man in the army has had, not once but many times, these basic privileges arbitrarily denied him or taken away fromgshim by

and I think from the way Russia has backed down from the ruinous stand she had taken shows that if the other big powers will quit appeasing her they will have a great deal better chance of getting along with her. The big powers, I am afraid, made the fatal mistake when at San Francisco in a gesture of appeasement yielded to Russia's demand that any one member of the Big Four be given power to veto. Imagine one power given the right to veto a measure that was designed to give and protect 50 other nations’ rights to self government, one of the cardinal principles of the Atlantic Charter. What could be more ridiculous or undemocratic. That should have been the tip-off to the other powers that Russia was more interested in proteciing her aggressive plans than she was in amity and world peace. Her attitude during all the proceedings and the fact that she had to be coaxed and almost dragged into conversations with the, other big powers, and when she did attend these meetings, she has had to be appeased on some question to keep her in line. All of which indicates to me that her heart is not in a world organization for peace, but instead her paramount idea is self interest. The next time Russia attempts to disrupt the peace organization with her demands I think if the U. 8. instead of trying to appease her, would follow Bevin’s lead, roll up his sleeves, let down his hair and junk all diplomatic jargon and put it out to them in good old approved understandable barber shop language, might cause her to abandon her unreasonable attitude. I think it's worth trying. Our appeasing is a flat failure,

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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some officious, arrogant “fellow citizen” who happened to be an officer and his military superior. All of us resent these violations and the system which makes them possible, but few have the dogged determination to correct that system. And so, when an excellent article like that appears in a reliable newspaper, it is, to those of us who do possess that determination, most encouraging. We enlisted men and former enlisted men need more intelligent, far-sighted men like the writer of that article to champion our cause, This letter is to let you know that your efforts are not in vain, but they: they are appreciated —greatly! ” » »

“GOOD PICTURES DESERVE SUPPORT OF THE PARENT” By Mrs. C. T, Earl, Indianapolis Last week I wrote a letter to this column commenting on the type of motion pictures being presented in our theaters, of how so many of them are unsuitable entertainment’ for children. My letter did not go unnoticed, and I received an invitation from one ‘of the distributors of motion pictures in this city inviting me to a preview of a film titled “Enchanted Forest.” It was being shown to members of the Indianapolis Church Federation, P.-T. A's, Boy Scout executives, Indiana Endorsers of Photoplays, and those organizations that wish to see more of the wholesome family entertainment pictures produced. As quickly as I will protest a bad movie, I am just as eager to com=mend and approve a good one. “Enchanted Forest” is one of the most wholesome family story pictures that I have Seen, In my opinion; and this opinion prevailed among those people representing their respective organizations at this private showing. I do not hesitaf® to’ recommend the picture for children and adults to see because of its wholesomeness and simplicity of story. We should get behind good pictures and then maybe the producers will give us™more of them. » » . “STREETCAR SERVICE BAD HERE, FARE 0. K”

By Mrs. ‘James J, Dawson, 917 Franklin ave, St, Louis

Have just finished reading about the streetcar rate case in your paper. My business caused me to spend & few days in your city. ‘I rode the trolley car™ several times, From what I overheard it's not the price of the fare but the service the people are complaining about. Frankly, the service smells. If [the fare is worth a dime here, it |surely is worth a quarter in St. Louis or Chicago. Your city should allow some independent bus lines to operate, then your people would be able to ride instead of standing on a corner waiting. My one wish as I leave your city is that I never

again,

DAILY THOUGHT

And who is he that will harm you,. if ye be followers of that which is good ?—Peter 3:13. :

| ‘The

| mander in the Philippines, awaits the gallows now.

have to use your streetcar system

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JESS . Car yp mth bed Orient Learns OUR BUSINESS to realise that the death Jap Generals Homma and Yamashita will Oriental co of West on Which the Far

Badger of Baguio' YAMASHITA, who succeeded ‘Homma as com-

He has descended far from the pinnacle of acclaim

" | his people gave him as the “Tiger of Malaya.” Even when he surrendered, to our troops last Sept. 2, he was known as the “Badger of Baguio” because of his re- | fusal to come ou} of the mountains and fight.

Homma awaits a firing squad , , , and a death

more decent than that his men brought to thousands

of Americans and Filipinos. A death more decent

than that which came to the tortured souls he had ‘herded into Intramuros and burned to death. I shall

neyer forget the sight of ‘the partially-burned bayoneted bodies, hands tied behind them; nor the stories of those on whom his hideous atrocities were perpetrated. : I shall never forget the scarred thumbs of Jose,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William H. Newton

SHANGHAI, Feb. 14.—A violently anti-American AMMPAIFI is being: carvied on in. Rus~-= Janguage newspapers mn Ohina and in Soviet sponsored Chinese language newspapers. The apparent purpose is to arouse public opinion to demand

removal of American forces from China. The pub-

lications frequently portray American soldiers and sailors as drunkards, thieves and hooligans. The Novosti Dnja, leading Russian language newspaper in Shanghai, grows almost hysterical ia its issue of one week ago today about what it says is an “anti-Soviet” campaign in the American press. The same week, however, that paper ran a series of cartoons showing U. S. army vehicles careening down streets leaving dead Chinese behind. Another cartoon pictures an American sailor weaving drunkenly along ‘the street with nine empty whisky bottles at his feet and two more in his hands, Still another portrays an American serviceman making violent love in public to a girl in a rickshaw. ° : Headlines selected at random from Russiansponsored Chinese language newspapers in recent weeks read as follows: - “United States autos kill helpless Chinese civilians.” “Ko Chou Godown (warehouse) robbed of gasoline by U. 8. naval, officers.” “Why do American troops remain in China?” “English truth and American lies about Red army.” “Liberal party in U. S. house of representatives must keep faith with President Roosevelt and quickly call back U. S. forces in China.” In North China, where there are few newspapers, anti-American propaganda is being circulated by a well-organized whispering campaign.

False 'News' Reports ‘

AT TIENTSIN, two U. 8. marine officers found a Russian civiian—who had injured his head in a fall —lying on the street. They picked him up and took

LONDON, Feb. 14.—If Congress fails to vote the requested $3% billion loan to Britain, what will Britain do? ; Various expedients are suggested but all seem to fall short of promising either real or permanent relief. ‘The country is war-weary to the point of exhaustion, as is evident from acute manpower shortages in such vital industries as transportation, coal mining and agriculture. Nearly 1000 trains were late last year because one or more members of the crew simply dropped off the train at intermediate stations without notice and quit railroading. The practice is growing. - When it happens the ‘train must be held up until a replacement can be called. Sometimes a man quits his job to see a football game. More often the worker has been on the job 12 to 14 hours and yields to £ “what's-the-use?” attitude. The British income tax, which takes half a man’s overtime pay, has something to do with it. Taxation, it seems, can reach the point of diminishing returns.

Try to Get Dollars Abraad a

THERE has been a progressive decrease in coal production until the curve is now at its Jowest point in many years. Mines are becoming deeper and workings more difficult. Britain has lagged in modernization, Conditions are such that veteran miners urge their sons to enter other fields. War-weariness is a factor, So are high wages. Men don’t work regularly because there's nothing to spend money on, once bare subsistence needs are satisfied. Meanwhile modernization is delayed because dollars are needed to buy machinery. Agriculture suffers from a variety of ills including lack of feed. Again there are no dollars to buy feed.

: WASHINGTON, Feb, 14.—We never pay any attention to our prophets. For example, Henry Wallace, now secretary of commerce, advocated months ago that we use surplus war plants to produce needed things and provide jobs. : So did ‘a bright young labor leader by the name of Walter Reuther, United Automobile Workers vice president, But it seems to take a specific problem, thrown right into our faces, to wake us up. One hag come along now in the dire need for housing for veterans and lots of other folks. Young and energetic Wilson WwW. Wyatt, new national housing administrator, caught the ides quickly. He suggested that surplus war plants, chiefly aircraft, be utilized to make prefabricated houses, a part of the comprehensive progragh submitted to congress the other day by President Truman. : As a quick follow-up the War Assets Corp. successor to the surplus property administration, has prepared a list of 13 afrcraft plants in various parts of the country which might be used. There are many others that may be available. It is estimated that only about a third of the 305 aircraft plants can be

kept in operation.

Former Operators in Market

TOTAL government, investment in the 13 sample plants is something above $200 million, All have been standing idle except two which have been partly used. All belong to the government five fo the army air forces. the others to the Dgfense Plant Corp. Six are “standby” plants for the army air forces, that is,

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Parker LaMoore ; War-Weary Britain Faces Hards

IN WASHINGTON . + + By Thomas L. Stokes War Plants Offer Housing Source

Use of these plants for making prefabricated houses

a Pllipino friend who¥still played the piano bril-

song when

Public Execution of Homma

NOR THE demure girl who came into’ my office in Leyte in November, a few days after landing, to ask for a job , ., she left in disgust when we told her we couldn't give her one where she could handle a

.when we landed. a Nor Mrs. Mary Osmeng, my supervisor of civilian personnel, who was in constant state of worry bee cause she did not know whether her®husband, an army colonel, had been taken to a J ? after he was captured or whether the rumor that he was beheaded was true. It was true... he had refused to

Russ Anti-U. S. Campaign in China

him to a Russian doctor. The man died.. Within This false report—which amazingly found its way into a New York newspaper in a Tientsin dispatch"

The "Soviet-sponsored Daily News in Shanghai - recently published a letter allegedly from “a leading Chinese daily,” saying that a Chinese woman had

been accosted on the streets by a “glad-eyed G. I.” *

and that the woman “waxed highly indignant over the man’s assumption that all women in China were prostitutes.” A careful search of all leading Chinese dailies revealed no such letter.

The same Russian paper a few weeks earlier care

ried such headlines as: “American sailors smash bars, rob restaurant keepers, take away money and

whisky and are not being punished for it.”

A cartoon in another Russian paper portrays an American sailor and soldier riding together in a baby carriage and bawling: “Wé wanta go home.”

Misconduct Is Punished |

MANY OF the attacks against Americans here 3

contain enough half truths to make them effective.

It's true some civilians have been injured by Amerie ' *

can vehicles. What the Russian newspapers do not point out is that most American army vehicles are driven by Chinese~and Russian—civilian drivers. : It's true that some servicemen get drunk hers, It's true that there have been ‘a few scattered incie dents of rowdyism. But again the Russian press neglects to point out that those guilty are promptly and severely punished by courts-martial

While Soviet papers in the American-occuplied

areas are most outspoken about alleged conduct of U. 8. servicemen, no information is available as to the conduct of Red army troops in Russian-occupied cities such as Mukden and Harbin. American news

papermen so far haven't been permitted to go there |

hi Laborers who left the farm for better-paying war work are not going back. There is talk of allowing

higher pay in various skilled categories, but the

demand for a-general wage increase is countered

by the farmers’ demanding higher prices for their- -

products. .

German prisoners of war are being brought from. . ;

Canada and the United States in an attempt to solve the immediate problem, but this increases food consumptiofi without offering a permanent solution. The government is resorting to expedients and regimentation to a degree unheard of in the U. 8.

in an effort to rebuild expart trade to obtain more dollar exchange. And the British consumer is taking

it on the chin.

Real Answer Not Yet Found

BRITONS are proceeding on the theory that rae tioning in. general will be continued for two years longer, but this timetable seems to have no real basis. Moreover, it is predicated on obtaining the loan from America, and other uncertainties. The serious food shortage, which the governs ment finally admitted last week, will be relieved somewhat by emergency shipments from Canada and Australia, but. thesé can do more than maintain the present low rationing levels and provide somq variety in diet for a flmitéd period. In a poll of 100,000 readers conducted by a Lene don newspaper, 79 per cent favored elimination of American film imports in favor of more food; 57 per cent recommended stopping imports of American tobacco and 56 per cent favored doing without Amere

fcan fruit and canned milk. in favor of other basig ,

foods. The real answer to Britain's problems has nod been found.

would meet several needs; first, of course, being house ing. Companies which leased them for this purpose, those that operated them during the war, or others, . could finance ultimate purchase by returns from this new business. Utilization would provide many thoue sands of jobs. The nation, too, would realize op these valuable assets in which so many millions of taxe payer's money were invested, instead of airily Klssing them off. r 4 Negotiations are going on for: purchase of three of the plants by their wartime plane manufacturers for that business. . ’

Labor and Materials Involved ~~

THERE ARE some obstacles to the usé of these aircraft plants for prefabricated houses. They are, with one exception, set up for aluminum, and no way has been found to work with aluminum in housing construction. But experiments could be carried on with funds for experimental plrposes requested of congress, $ be One of the plants, Higgins at New Orleans, was set up originally for plywood plane manufacture and -

has a wood-working adjunct which wquld make it

particularly available for prefabficatéd housing.

Many problems of materials and labor are ine’

volved. Labor training programs would be required, - There is, too, a critical shortage of plywood. o Helpful to inform the public on all phases of this problem would be public hearings sought by Senators Mitchell (D. Wash) and Kilgore (D. W. Va,)-on the

bill they are sponsoring jointly. It would create in

the national housing agency a clearing house and pool -

for projected housing programs for veterans and others, in co-operation with local agencies, with spée cial emphasis on use of surplus war plants, .. ; ‘ -. 1

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