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RI-5881, Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy
VETERANS’ HOUSIRG T { national scandal of inefficiency in solving the housing problem is pointed up by the revelation in The Times yesterday that 10 months after the end of war the city of Indianapolis has not provided a single dwelling for the families of the men it sent off to war. “© Responsibility for the housing program now is in the ‘hands of the Federal Public Housing division of the Nationa) Housing Administration, insofar as the stalled Stout field project is concerned. And the federal housing officials cannot complete the job for an indefinite period. Reasons for the stalemate seem fo lie in shortage of _ materials, inability to compete with black market purchasers, and the low priority of the Stout field project. There are 1190 applications on file for the 375 uncompleted units of the project. : We don't know what the answer is. We do know that thousands of veterans are separated from their families or living doubled up because a nation that planned so well for war seems unable to have been able to plan for peace.
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POWER ENOUGH FOR OPA
AUT OF their differing OPA-extension bills the senatehouse conferees can and should fashion a measure much better than either. : ©The faults of the two bills are not the same. The worst “defects of each can be discarded, the wiser features of both retained. Doing this will not satisfy Chester Bowles and his adherents. But we think it would enable OPA to do
reasonably well the only useful job it now can do at all—
Hoosier Forum
"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.
namely, to make abandonment of price controls a safe, orderly process rather than a disastrous rout. : s : » » ~
SMART propagandists too successfully have sold this country the notion that government price fixing is of itself a noble thing; that all it needs to be fully effective is enough power for OPA, and that catastrophe is inevitable (if OPA’s power is curtailed. "None of these things is true. The historical fact is that
the ages, never has worked well for long and usually has _ caused disastrous trouble.
« the line” until a partial and belated acceptance of Bernard M. Baruch’s advice brought some attempt to control wages. Post-war price control should have been recognized
off gradually but steadily, administered with extreme care not to obstruct reconversion and rapid production of abundant peacetime goods, and stopped at the earliest safe date. . Instead, the administration has represented OPA as an ideal device for a politically popular use—holding prices down. And, at the same time, the administration has done other “popular” things which raised pressure beneath prices. Wage controls were all but abolished. Rationing of most scarce commodities was ended. Government economy was delayed and deficit spending continued, to the tune of $22 billion this fiscal year. Efforts to sell government bonds to the public were virtually stopped. Treasury financing through the banks, at low interest rates, swelled the supply of money and credit. Each of these made OPA’s task more hopeless, and OPA's efforts to do that task more certain to discourage production. And now, we believe, no amount .of power would make it possible for OPA to undo the damage done. * The administration has opposed any change of pricecontrol law, when it should have acknowledged its own great errors and helped congress to make the changes needed. It is now telling the people that all will be lost if OPA is shorn of certain powers, when it should be telling | them the truth about the present situation:
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O law, no government agency, no bureaucratic power can save the people from inflation, boom and bust, unless they are willing to do their part— To stop grabbing for dangerous quick profits and equally dangerous quick wage increases; to conserve instead of squandering present purchasing power; to avoid time-wast-ing disputes and strikes; to co-operate for mutual advantage; to work; to give full energy to the months of unchecked production required to balance supply with demand and release from government control all elements of what can function best only as a free economy.
IT'SUP TO US
T 18 up to communities to see that returning war veterans are adequately housed and employed, according to Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veterans administrator. The general was speaking sharply against a state of mind that .apparently threatens to misguide this gountry. Top many of us are slipping carelessly into a notion that Uncle Sam will take care of the G. L's, The government called them to war, trained them, supported them and now— Well, now we here at home have to take our share— and it's a big one—of the responsibility for making certain that the veterans have jobs and homes: Gen. Bradley says he fears that our negligence may set four million veterans to pounding the pavement by autumn, looking for work. ~ That would be a tragedy and a disgrace. . Let's get it straight now, and from now on: It's up to us.
GEN. CLARK
/ DHE senate military affairs committee has approved pro- ~~ motion of Gen. Mark Clark to the permanent rank of major general. It is a promotion of merit and doubtless will firmed, despite protests regarding isolated incidents je Italian campaign. : : our commanders in Europe, Gen. Clark i ‘n= e outstanding job of Tr fa if ST [ the affairs of the American zone in Austria. Unficulties, he has maintained American policies ust The man who lost his pants on a
for what it is—a necessary evil-something to be tapered |
cultural impression!
trons not give it.
barber shop patrons. It interest to you, sir, that
and reaffirmed at every
barber and beauty work ceive a decent and fair 1
future.
and I thank you.
WILL BRING
By F. A. Vaughan, R. R. 16,
me, in his recent article.
help were working,
"Many Persons Prefer Patrons Not Give Tips for Services”
By L. E. Worthall, Educational Director, International Journeymen Barbers’ Educational School, 342 E. Washington st. . Your editorial “Clipping the Tipping” was refreshing to many who believe that the tipping system is a degrading foreign importation which humiliates the average recipient. : ‘We are known, at home and abroad, to be fourflushers and to make price fixing, though tried by many governments through [splurge of the “vulgar wealth” which we suppose to possess. Not a very
No real self-respecting person likes to accept a tip from anyone Ne : . whom he or she may happen to serve. Our essential wartime price controls could not “hold | patron may be offended should they refuse. This tip, which may be better called an eleemosynary contribution, is not’ always appreciated, and many of the vocations and) trades would much rather the pa-|the cost of his education and I am
Your editorial brought in the
neymen, Barbers, Hairdressers and Cosmetologists International union has always been opposed to the tipping system. This fact has been made known both through the columns of their official journal,
nial convention. As an organization, we believe that operators of both
rather than depend upon the liberality of those whese generosity of alms make personal service workers’ earnings equal to a living wage, which is, most of the time, in the subsistence bracket. With the price of commodities and services as they are now, no employer should cry “wolf” in meeting his responsibility of a standard wage in commensuration with the general cost of living $$ 8 and a reasonable saving for the
Again, your editorial was timely,
“UNION CO-OPERATION SUCCESS”
What a laugh Mr. Hapgood gave officers of industry drawing down $50,000 or more. He spoke of these | companion and I can almost besan® men being at home when his| lieve sometimes that it understands
I wonder what Mr. Hapgood is| great deal of pleasant cdmpanion-
“GET BEHIND WASHINGTON BIG SHOTS WITH G. 1. BOOT"
By Reader of The Times, Indianapolis I have lived in this eity about all
my life and I never thought I would ever be ashamed to say I do. We had loved ones that went across,
fought, starved and died, for what? To return to as raw. a deal as they are getting is a dirty shame. People seem to forget what they went through. No place to live, no food, going to work with very little bread and stale lunch meat to eat—most of them are not in good health. Children in other nations may be hungry, so are many of ours, for food they need we can’t get. Don't forget some of our boys were tricked into death by some of these children. What have they sent us? Look in our hospitals and on the| street. There is your answer. { During the war everyone that
Many accept such because the
quite sure 99 per cemt of our children get all of their education through the efforts of Ma and Pa. Mr. Hapgood’s article would be a gem if it came from one that produces. I would like, for Mr. Hapgood to defend the average union man could worked long hours, gave all for patronizing non-union work. (they could, did. without food they Maybe he don't know it, but most needed so it could be sent across. union men spend most of their|We were all glad to do that. But union earhings in non-union goods.{now to do without to feed our foes If Mr. Hapgood don't know, he canis not fair. Our boys that are back find out by looking for the union |need that food and all they can get. label in the unioneers’ suits, shoes |We should get behind these big and cigarets he smokes, When [shots in Washington, but with a big
may be of the Jour-
quinquen-
should reiving wage,
| would dash his hopes for the 1948 nomination.
IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Reever os Rockin” Chair’ Money for Ve
IT'S OUR BUSINESS to examine the causes heHind the condition that makes it necessary for 45,000 Hoosier veterans to collect approximately one million dollars a week in unemployment compensation . . , “rockin’ chair money” is their disdainful term for it. These men’ many of them with no adult experience in working or in finding jobs, call themselves the “53-20 Club,” too . . . because unemployment, compensation has a maximum ceiling of $20 per week for 52 weeks. Over $17 million have been paid in this state to these. veterans. '
Deserve, Good’ Civilian Start THEY ARE JOBLESS because there are no jobs for them, not because they are shiftless or unwilling to work. And in only a relatively few cases are they accepting readjustment allowances because they could get more income that way than they can in low-paid beginner jobs. That percentage probably is about the same as the ratio of shiftless to energetic in all walks of life. ay The Veterans Administration, which has the legal and moral responsibility of aiding the returned servicemen and women, takes the sound position that it would rather have a veteran accept the: allowance while looking for a good job. This is regarded as preferable to taking a poor job just for the sake of working. After all, that was ore of the primary purposes of unemployment compensation. Nearly 2,000,000 veterans are receiving this “rockin’ chair money,” and that is an alarming preportion of those who were in uniform, But it certainly isn't their fault. Bix or seven million veterans went into the army too young to have had a real job before they went to war, and they are entitled to look around before settling down for the long-haul of building a home and family. Many ‘of them have reached an age where they cannot afford to take a job unless it has a future. In other words, I cannot feel that these
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Isolation Main
ST. PAUL, June 20.—Senator Henrik Shipstead has come back home to try to save the seat he has held since he was swept into the senate 24 years ago on a wave of western farm unrest. But far more than a senate seat is involved. At stake also are the hopes of a rising young Republican —Harold Stassen—for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination, and an issue still big before this country, that ¢f international co-operation.
Senator Opposed United Nations SENATOR SHIPSTEAD IS a leading isolationist. He was one of two senators who voted against the United Nations. Mr, Stassen, three times elected governor of this state, is out to defeat him, both to hold his own state as the nucleus of his Republican nomination campaign, and to promote the cause of international co-operation to which he has given such valiant service. To try to unseat Senator Shipstead, Mr. Stassen is backing the present popular governor, Edward J. Thye, for the Republican senatorial nomination in the July 8 primary. He hand-picked Ed Thye for this race, just as he selected him a few years back as lieutenant-govefnor so that Mr. Thye would succeed him when he entered the navy and went to the Pacific as aide to Adm. Halsey. Tn this contest, too, Mr. Stassen is trying to recoup his recent set-back in Nebraska. There he interceded on behalf of Governor Griswold who was badly defeated for the Republican senatorial nomination by Senator Butler. Because of all of these factors, the contest here for the Republican senatorial nomination—which is tantamount to election — has attracted national interest. A defeat for.Mr. Stassen A vietory, on the other hand, would keep him well in the running. ’ Re-election. of Senator Shipstead, on top of the
union men are willing to give value heavy G. I boot. Why don't they in work for value in cash, when they | Pass these. bills that would help rego out of their way to help fellow [turned G. I's out? They pass bills workers prosper, then and then only not half as important. These boys can they expect full co-operation. I {could all use a bonus so they. could am and have always been a wage | find homes to live in. Houses are earner. Many times I have wailed, |S0 high very few can afford to buy| and as long as I continue to be a one. What are they to do? They |
wage earner I imagine I shall be a didn’t falter when they shouldered wailer. {a gun and said goodby, and very|
{few of them really wanted to go. {Mothers and ones who loved those . A < {boys don't forget, and never will. AND ARE BETTER COMPANY” | Why don’t other nation’s teach their By P. L. C.. Indianapolis {children to work and raise food inI'd like to get into this cat-and- stead of handing them a gun as dog fight, or rather to contradict soon as they are large enough to the Forum writer who says dogs are hold it. smarter than cats. I have a cat| ® x = that has been in my home for six |«wHY SHOULD GRAND MUFTI years, a regular old alley cat that strayed into our house back in the winter of 1940. It is my constant
“CATS AS SMART AS DOGS
Box 308.
He decried
By E. R. Egan, 701 Markwood ave.
Nazi collaborators is not quite clear to the ordinary observer unless it could be the naivete of the British
{what I say to it. Tabby gives me a
| sour. Just why the Grand Mufti should | one program play out, from an acute shortage of escape the trials and sentences of | sponsors. He got fired from another.
NEW YORK, June 20.—One of the newer taxi licenses in town, No. 57641, belongs to George McCoy, a veteran, a former radio voice, and a man whose attitude is refreshingly free of self-pity and any idea that the world owes him a living. George is an unwitting symbol—a large-faced symbol which smokes a cigar and wears a John David Glen plaid suit. He won the suit on a radio show. He is one example of the ex-G. I. who has come on hard times and has adjusted himself without whining, accepting unemployment compensation or using his discharge button for a crutch. As a matter of fact, he has stopped wearing it. i
Sidewalk Interview “I GUESS IT'S A COMPLEX with me,” he says. “The war was a strange interlude as far as I'm concerned, and I'm through with it. . It hasn't got any beating on my current difficulties, and I want no
«George's post-war luck, to date, has been pretty An old hand in the radio business, he has seen
His literary excursions have paid off in rejections. (“I hit the bottom of the writing business,” he explains, around his cigar. “Just got a rejection-slip from the Hobo
doing when the miner or the 2d|ship, and isn’t the trouble a dog is. and 3d shift men are at their jobs,|I've never owned a dog, but I do and I am wondering if the counsel know I don't have troubles with for the C. I. O. would- like to be|any dog of mine trampling down paid on an hour basis the same|the neighbor's flowers or keeping as the men from whom his salary|everyone awake with senseless barkof 15 to 20 thousand comes from.|ing. I'll take a cat every time. I I am quite sure Mr. Hapgood | agree licenses should be increased | would try and justify his salary by'on dogs as was suggested.
Carnival —By Dick Turner
tory to troop landings in Africa is bi Uncle Sam doesn't lose his shirt in
es recognition and a vote of con-
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“And now, having voted the employes such a large increase in
News.”) He even had a lot of trouble getting his cab license. this tutelage the Arabs of Palestine Policemen at the stations to which he applied kept would have the unprecedented | mistaking him for a brother plainclothesman, reportdiplomacy to ask aid from Rusts | ing in from strange precincts. George looks more
when his—the . Mufti's—unceasing | like a detective than Dick Tracy. George's specialty is the impromptu radio Inter-
official who appointed this adroit rogue to begin with, or why under
efforts during the war were to y ’ engage Russia on her eastern view: the sidewalk pitch. He has interviewed strangers borders. | from the world's fair to Rome. Asa sergeant on
The Grand Mufti has a career | Stars and Stripes, he had a pitch under Mussolini's
as profitable to him in the role of HT chief trouble maker in the Near | ~B East as any of Hitler's agents snd TODAY IN EUROPE “ v.0"0Y in defense of the peace of the world a ‘price should be set for his capture, trial and execution, thus proving to these horse and camel thieves crime does not pay. This whole “Arab revolt” ridiculous—a matter of the repatriation of a hundred thousand Jews in this vast waste of pillage, plunder and poverty—as to make a mockery of the allied civilization— its United Nations for the establishment of justice and fair dealing balked or at least halted by ‘barbarians whose exploitation of their own people should put them beyond the pale of the United Nations until a modern civilization, &s near as may beg, is established. To let a situation like this get out of hand, and a petty agent of intrigue escape conviction, is by no means contributing to the peace of the world, justice, or any other attribute of the civilized world, which is on trial itself-—its integrity and perspicacity, as its mercy and Jove of fair dealing, make no mistake about it.
———————————— DAILY THOUGHT
Be kindly affected one to another with brotherly love: in honor preferring one another. Romans 12:10, . :
ZURICH, June 20.—Pirst stirrings in the plot
is so! which ultimately led to overthrow of Mussolini date
back to summer of 1942. Most active though not the most important figure in mobilizing and organizing influential officials,
politicians and generals against Mussolini was Gen, ‘Giuseppe Castellano, assistant to Gen. Vittorio Ambrosio, then chief of staff of the Italian army.
Glad to Quit in 1942
AT THAT TIME, the Fascist party had lost much of its former ‘political strength. Mussolini's popularity had practically vanished. Many Fascist leaders had been opposed to Italy's participation in the war from the outset and there was scarcely any one except Roberto Farinacci for continuing the war. He was more pro-German than Mussolini. But all the other Fascist chiefs, in common with the whole Italian people, would have been glad, by summer of 1942, to } get out of the war on almost any terms. By autumn, Gen. Castellano’s activities had succeeded in bringing into close touch King Victor Emmanuel, Gen. Ambrosio and Count Ciano, foreign minister. Victor Emmanuel was represented in preliminary discussions by the Duke of Acquarone, head of his household. As early as November, the king gent for Ciano and personally discussed with him ways and means of getting Italy out of the war, : The conspirators early recognized two main difficulties. One was how the new Italian government “to be formed at the moment when Italy quit the war was to protect itself against the Fascist party and
os ” Love is the tyrant of the heart; it| mjlitia, and also against the inevitable German re-
darkens action. Italian generals, strangely enough, were more Reason confounds discretion; deaf| apprehensive of what the Fascists would do than of to counsel ‘what the Germans ‘would do. But the politicians
involved in the plot correctly foresaw that there
It runs a headlong course to desper-
wages, | tender my. resignation to accept a position 4 _on the assembly line!" - ‘
ate madness.—John Ford.
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| would ‘be virtually no opposition from the Faseist
ram . readjustment allowances encourage idleness on any broad scale. . ol Quite the contrary . . , they relievé the veteran of a certain amount of worty while he's looking for a job, His home town community, glutted with man= power accumulated during the five years when mili~ tary service took almost all physically fit young men, frequently cannot absorb him. And he probably cannot find a place to live away from home . . . if he does, his beginner's wage usually is inadequate. ; These youngsters need advice and help more than they do money payments. Perhaps they have been led to depend too much on the government &nd various “veterans’ service” groups . . . certainly they were led to believe overseas that jobs would be found for them when they returned triumphant from licking the Italians, the Germans and the Japs.
System Is Meeting Need
THE PICTURE IN° MARION COUNTY reveals pe local veterans are not taking the taxpayers for a ride, | In the week ended June 8, there were 6100 who claimed the readjustment allowance, Of total claimants, 55.7 per cent had received the payment for from one to nine weeks. Only 43 per cent had received it for 10 weeks or more, proving that well over half had used this compensation merely as a cushion while looking for work. .And that is its purpose. There arp 10,536 applications for employment in the United States employment serviée, from world war II veterans in this area. Last year and up to the end of May, 6830 veterans were placed in positions. The major manufacturing firms’ of the county and its eight adjacent counties, which constitute the local area, report 9400 veterans account for 18.9 per cent qf their employees, - : ’ Ve rans are trying . , . and trying hard . t find jobs. Criticism of the vehicle of RE mis eompensation generally does not seem justified.
POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes
Issue In Minnesota
Nebraska success of Senator Butler, whe voted ins the British loan and other measures of TA ana} co-operation, would encourage the isolation forces in the Republican party, particularly in the Middle West. So the outcome will have far-reaching oconsequences, Here, as in Nebraska, local issues and cross-cir-rents are involved. But the result naturally will be analyzed from the standpoint of the international issue. Both Governor Thye and Senator Shipstead are stressing it. The. senator is making Mr. Stassen the issue. ‘The contest has not yet aroused the public interest that its importance justifies. Here, as elsewhere, there is apathy over the primaries. An unusually large vote is not indicated. That of itself is favorable to Governor Thye because of his effective state organization. : Senator Shipstead is expected to get considerable support among the German element, largest single bloc, though outnumbered by the Scandinavian popu= lation, Swedish and Norwegian, among which Governor Thye has large support. Senator Shipstead
has always had strength among the farmers. But
Governor Thye, a farmer himself has long been identi fled with their interests in farm organization activily and as deputy commissioner of agriculture under Governor Stassen.
Odds Favor Thye-Stassen Victory
SENATOR SHIPSTEAD WILL GET some old-line labor support among the railway brotherhoods and
A. F. of L. but he is unpopular with the C. I. O, Most of the C. I. O, probably will vote in the Demo-
cratic Farmer-Labor primary where there is a bitter =
fight for control among the C. I. O. left-wing and the |
Irish Democratic elements. : Odds favor a Thye-Stassen victory, but a surprise is possible.
REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark
Frustrated G. |. Cab Driver-Author
He used a good kickoff line then,
balcony in Rome. y He'd open with: “Anybody here from out of town?
He dislikes straight announcing and rehearsed |
programs,
“Why work every day with the same old bromides? 3 I like to walk up to a guy 3
cold, and get him gabhing about himself. You never 3
I know all the cliches.
know what he'll say, and lot§ of times it's good.”
When he got out of the army, George picked up a i 13-week interview job ig the theater belt, but sponsors 3
are gunshy and it died. Then he got a cold turndown on what I think is a swell idea—a circulating
interview of the bleachers before baseball gamesiime,
George figured that a single question: “Why ain't
vou workin’ today, Bud?” would lead into some in- §
teresting answers, but the stations couldn’t see it. So now George has his hack license, which he says is tougher to get than a serial number in the army.
which adorns his permit. “I figure it this way” George says. “Everybody has a caoyple of frustrations. I've always been a frustrated cabdriver, and a wishful writer.
No Fears for George
“T AM REALLY a very lucky guy, because I can get rid of my inhibitions and earn a living at the same time. I will drive a cab and write some stories and
do some of this and some of that—anything to keep
from being one of those brooding ex-G. L's.” I have a‘lot of faith im George. When he was a soldier in Algiers, he was ahle to wangle a pass allowing him to live in the Casbah, whigh was off-limits to everybody except M. P.'s. Anybody who can do that has nothing to fear from radio, literature, or the exact science of pushing a hack.
Randolph Churchill’
Growth of Plot to Remove Mussolini
party or militia, but that, if Italy quit the war with the allies, it would certainly mean war with Germany, Second obstacle was the fact the chief of the general staff, Marshal Ugo Cavallero, was staunchly pro-German. When Mussolini became gravely iil in November, 1942, there seems no doubt Cavallero conceived the idea of becoming his successor. Mussolini recovered and showed by word and deed that he intended at all costs to keep Italy in the war at the side of Germany. By this time, all were agreed that first step must be the removal ‘of Cavallero. Mussolini was alrdady prejudiced against Cavallero, who had urged him, when Rommel had advanced to El Alamein in September, 1942, to come to Libya in order to ride into Alexandria and Cairo at the head of the Italian troops. He arrived just in time to witness Rommel's repulse by the recently arrived Gen, Bernard Mont gomery. This loss of face Mussolini blamed on the ineptitude of Cavallero, The conspirators were now ahle to reinforce Mus solinl’s dislike of Cavallero. They let him knaw,
cat
- It is typical of. him that he had to borrow a | | sympathy for my two and a half years overseas.” * o two sizes too small, for the identification photo ESCAPE TRIAL AS NAZI?” p 2D, Wo
through Ciano and other channels, that Cavallero |
had been planning to take over his job. This proved decisive with Mussolini and, at the end of January, 1943, he dismissed Cavallero and, after some days of hesitation, replaced him with Gen. Ambrosio.
Switching Opponents UNKNOWN TO MUSSOLINI, Ambrosio was his deadliest enemy and had, in fact, been “planted” on him by those who were plotting his downfall, From this‘ time on, the conspiracy gathered
momentum. Detailed plans were drawn up as to the
method by which Mussolini's removal should be achieved and Italy maneuvered out of the war. Up till now, everything had been tentative and provisional. Henceforward, plans blcame concrete, and the real. leaders of the conspiracy began to assume responsibility, : Ee .
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