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Tuns In WNOX THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEC Want Ads SStSl Page 4 Thursday April 2 1942 Relief Pitcher Also Seem To Have Stuff on Hon Ball The Knoxville News-Sentinel I Supreme Court Mocks Arnold and People in Teamster Case Rulingl Fifty-Sixth Year of Publication Sc I pp s-Ho wa rd Newspaper LOYE MILLER Editor CHAMBERS Business Manager 3sss: A Editorial Rooms and Business Office: 211 West Chereh Arennal Telephone 3-3131 Entered at Knoxville Pott Office at Second-Class Mail Matter Full Reports of the United Press Scrippa-Howard Newspaper Alliance Chicago Daily News Foreign Service Acme Telephoto and NEA Service Inc By Carrier 25c Week By Mail Daily $500 Year Daily and Sunday $1000 per Year mGivs Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way" THURSDAY APRIL 2 1942 By WESTBROOK PEGLER NEW YORK April 2 Wa can gain nothing by ignoring the leering cynicism of the majority decision of the Supreme Court in the so-called Teamsters' Case one of those foredoomed Thurman Arnold prosecutions wherein it was held again that no criminal act of a union or its members acting as such is beyond the privilege of such predatory bands provided that they are pursuing legitimate aim of bona fide union The fact must be faced that this court is now strongly committed in sympathy with criminality by union-eers and grants them the right to assault rob end otherwise abuse law-abiding citizens This attitude was expressed in the case in an opinion by Felix Frankfurter and has now been affirmed but emphasis in a majority with bolder You the People Are Fighting for Your Country YOU the People are fighting for your country just as the Army and the Navy are To date YOU the People hare won more victories than the Army and the Navy and more important ones YOU the People are showing the way The drumfire of your voices from coast-to-eoast has blended into one thunderous roar that is the American voice YOU the People are getting results YOU the Feople have made the little men in Congress and in the Administration tremble before your power and YOU the People have strengthened the arms of the big men who have been fighting your battles VOU began when YOU made the Congress turn tail and run to give whether it be for aynthetic rubber or quinine can be used for any other Clapper Says: Indian Leaders Chant of Independence and Do Nothing for War By RAYMOND CLAPPER CALCUTTA (Delayed in Transmis-V aion) Although independence leader Nehru la a socialist hie Congress party is heavily backed by native industrialists They are conservative and usually disagree with Nehru's socialism But they see in' the Congress Party an opportunity for their own business expansion as against British interests which they claim are holding them back The American picture of Gandhi sitting at a spinning wheel fails to reflect this economic side of the Independence movement In fact Gandhi's close friend and advisor is the chief native industrialist Birla senior partner of Birla Brothers This company operates a vast array of business enterprises Mr' including Insurance sugar mills paper mills jute mills cotton mills investment companies brokerage houses shipping chemicals foodstuffs The list of these partners' subsidiaries fills almost a page In the Calcutta telephone directory Birla the leading industrialist in the Congress Party is a tall slender man in the late fifties He is shrewd and cosmopolitan Gandhi is often a guest at his mansion most recently for the meeting with Chiang Kai-shek Birla haa been opposing the "scorched earth" policy He openly expresses suspicion that the American technical mission to India headed by Henry Grady may have imperialist designs As the big voice for more business as usual and more profits as usual he seems indifferent to the -urgency of war effort ia which he twins up with Gandhi The Grady mission will have to deal with and win the confidence of men like Birla Not Interested in War Effort ANOTHER similar business leader ia Gaganvihari Mehta (the last name is as common here as Smith at home) He is the new president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry President of the Scindia Steam Navigation Co and also one of the port-commissioners he has been Indian delegate to International Labor and Chamber of Commerce conferences Ha la a dictator of several firms He studied at the London School of Economics commands sardonic English and writes many articles advocating rapid industrialization of India through Congress Party independence Handsome and engaging he is me of the rising younger men who look to Nehru rather than Gandhi India must be an important supply base lor the United Nations' effort ia this part of the world Japanese conquest of the Southwest Pacific throws a new burden on India as a supply source This wu the reason the Grady American mission was assigned to help develop Indian war production One difficulty ia that Indian industrialists see an opportunity to develop profitable-post-war industry but are only mildly interested in the war effort They are absorbed in resentment over alleged blocking of their enterprise in the past Past Is Ever Present MEHfA says that even in the third year of war India cannot build- a merchant vessel or an automobile and can assemble only few airplanes He adds that this is not for lack of capital or machinery or trained personnel but Is a question of outlook and policy India cannot be strong economically until it has independence One organ of Indian Industry asks whether the Grady mission is coming to help Indian industry or to start a new American industry Every effort haa been made to emphasize that the American mission is interested only in developing war supplies Bui the Indian leaders have made a fetish of self-industrialization of India So they are unable now to readjust themselves to the idea that unless the war ia won India will be under Japanese which will tolerate no back talk as the British do One must sympathize with many aspects of the plight of India and make allowances because of the treatment it has received in the past But the attitude of some of these native commercial interests needs a lot of missionary Work before India can be considered fully in the war News-Sentinel Forum: purpose than to serve the Nation as a whole YOU the People must tell the munitions makers that big profits are out far the duration that no executive can grow fat on bonuses filched from America's War Treasury YOU the People must tell Capital and Labor that YOU want not only more but cheaper war production and that not only are profit out but that the 40-hour week is out too wherever lt impedes production YOU the People must order the abolition of CCC NYA WPA and all agencies that arc not needed for war YOU must make your representatives attend the sessions of House and Senate so that economy amendments will not be defeated as 19 were last week when 51 to 129 House members were present and 384 to 306 absent YOU the People a tell your President that he must get tough with the members of his Administration who are not carrying their ahare of the load that he must fire his friends who are not doing their jobs that his first and only duty is to YOU the People YOU the People must tell your Generals and Admirals that YOU want to carry the war to the heart of the country at the earliest possible moment COME In Washington have been talk- ing of investigating the voice of YOU the People whose indignation deafened and frightened them because they saw the end of their selfish plena But they wont They do not dare Would that they did dare Once they tried it the wrath of YOU the People' I would shrivel them into nothingness I America can not lose the war now because YOU the People have taken its conduct in hand YOU the People are awakened YOU the People will stay awake because YOU must YOU the People have always done and will always do what must be done for YOUR AMERICA Thank God for YOU the People back its pension grab YOU made the House slash $60000-000 for boondoggling from the Agriculture Appropriation Bill YOU made Speaker Sam Rayburn who spoke harshly of YOU the People and your efforts for your country reverse himself end declare he favored a 48-hour week Thereby YOU the People made him something more than a rubber tamp YOU made Cleveland war contractor who paid his secretary $39000 last year cut his own pay reduce his prices to your Government and discard his tax-dodging bonuses YOU made the top labor leaden in Washington promise to stop strikes end YOU made them agree to no doubletime far Sundays within the 40-hour week YOU made the bureaucrats of WPA CCC and NYA go hunting excuses to remain alive end YOU forced them to quit most of their wasting YOU cleared the dancers and the do-gooders out of the Office of Civilian Defense YOU the People put your representatives to working for the Nation instead of -their political future YOU have made departments and bureaus in Washington submit budgets already reduced to escape your wrath YOU the People have done many other things in the last few dramatic weeks But many things remain to be done rnHE Army that wins a battle but does not follow it up to full victory has not done all that it could So it is with YOU the People YOU must follow up your first victories and see that the things that must be done are done YOU the People can't stop now YOU the People must tell those at the top of industry that such dickering with the Germans as those of Standard Oil of New Jersey are shameful and will be punished YOU the People must let the industrialists know that no man'a patent Says N-S Opposes Bibb Because Ha's Not a Democrat EDITOR The News-Sentinel: Sir with interest I read your political articles on Bibb for judge and will say that I am of the opinion that you would prefer a Democratic one and that you are using your influence to that end and that you are so unscrupulous in the matter that you have let go by facts of the city administrations bootlegging policies and gambling and other devices too numerous to mention in the past You have never called to the attention of the wide open bootlegging establishments under the last administration of the city government namely Bomar and Co A man of the world could buy illegal liquor and go to many joints in Knox where gambling and horse racing bootlegging and other crimes were rampant and I am sure that you are picking out incidents of where law violations that there have been many convictions therefrom in order to discredit the Republican party and Bibb in Knox County No Complaint I have heard no complaints from your Democratic cohorts while they were in power at Knox prior to our last administration caning in power which has arranged the matter to the extent that I do not know where I can get the next drink 1 do not know and am not personally acquainted with our present administration of whom I think is in the majority as Republicans in a Country instead of a boost to production I am convinced that labor is willing to make any reasonable sacrifice that would increase armament even to being drafted for defense work at the rate of pay our enlisted men receive but 1 am afraid the Smith bill is designed more for the purpose of breaking labor unions than of stepping up production Speaking of labor means the greater part of the population of the country and I conceive the idea of them showering Congress with requests to destroy something we have -spent a lifetime to gain I would like to see an investigation carried out by the FBI and see what the picture would look like when all the facta are brought out Wer as patriotic citizens of the A are willing to be drafted for military service or for defense work at any rate of pay our Government sees wise to establish but we are not willing to have fifth columnists dictate and have laws passed that will tear down1 the democracy that our forefathers made and we hive fought to preserve May God give us more Roosevelts and Donald Nelaoia WALKER HI Wrisht HtrMl IvNIviur Tana 'Submarine Genius Still Gets Brushoff' rE American inventor of the submarine Simon Lake got the dqor slammed in nis face when he offered hia aea scourge to the Navy Department in 1901 Later he waa told by the same group be inly" when he designed a two-man submarine The Japs used them effectively at Pearl Harbor Now the same Mr Lake feta the same bruahoff from the Navy the Maritime Commission and Washington dignitaries in general with his plans for a big cargo-carrying submarine Designed as the answer to Axis sinkings of Allied shipping the cargo submarine reportedly Is used by Germany NA Sarvlc REF JAMES PTRIE8T Tennessee Democrat: "The time may not be far off when it will be necessary to register women and assign than to tasks necessary to continue successful prosecution of the war" Will Britain Attack? opinion by Jimmy Byrnes who always seemed a rather decent citizen when he was in the Senate The Carpenters' opinion was just what might have been expected of Frankfurter but Byrnes had given no previous indication that he might ever hand down from the Supreme Court any such brutal dictum as he put his name to in vindicating thuggery and highway robbery as permissible methods of compelling honest citizens to submit The decisions of themselves are bad enough but they are so much the worse when it is realized that the policy which they express the recognition of vice as a weapon of ostensible virtue will now be accepted by judges in the lower courts who go by the theory that whatever their own abhorrence they must follow the Supreme Court as Arnold Doss His Best IT is tragic that in such a time as this indeed in any time the American people should receive from their highest court the shocking news that any group has the right to slug and rob threaten and possibly kill unoffending citizens in the furtherance of its own special aims however noble those aims might be But the fact must be faced that this is the policy of the Government and the Supreme Court It is written and rewritten in two important decisions which challenge Congress now to repudiate these dangerous men with legislation disavowing the evil intent which the court has read into the supplementary anti-trust and anti-racketeering laws Probably most Americans would prefer to believe that these decisions do not mean what they plainly cay and thua to retain an artificial confidence in the Supreme Court That would be a fool's confidence however The decisions and opinions are plain and the court la unmistakably and defiantly on the aide of the thug and imputea this intent to Congress It becomes plainer day by day that Thurman Arnold waa put up to his job of prosecuting union racketeers as a fake gesture by the Administration He selects strong and outrageous cases prepares then! carefully and tries them well but is licked before he starts because even though he wins all the way up to the Supreme Court he doesn't stand a Chinaman's chance there Thus the Administration pal and patron of the brutal goon thief and extortioner may say for the political record that it fairly tried these cases and is not responsible for the failure of Congress to correct evils which no Congress could have intended to write into any law but which the Supreme Court finds there nevertheless By election time it will be seen whether the present Congress Intends to submit to this insulting and degrading declaration of the court Affront to the People IN this Teamsters' case it was shown and Chief Justice Stone in his dissenting opinion observed that members of the Teamsters' Union waylaid trucks approaching New York from New Jersey and Connecticut and by beating or by threats compelled the operators to pay them a toll of $942 for a large truck or $841 for a small one for permission to enter the city It was shown and Justice Stone held that such payments were made "only to secure immunity from violence" and to the fading honor of the court he added his disbelief that any member of Congress had the temerity to say that payments so made could be regarded as wages by an employer or that the compulsion of such payments "is a legitimate object of a labor union" Byrnes and bis concurring colleagues on the other hand had the cynical gall to say that in such circumstances the extortioner becomes a bona fide employe of a bona fide employer and even granted immunity under the racketeering act to outsider" meaning one not employed by the victim attempts unsuccessfully by violent means to achieve the status of an employe" That Is in this time of wer the most dangerous of all the mocking decisions which the new court has flung in the face of Congress and the patriotic law-abiding people of the country It is indecent immoral and an affront to Congress and the people DONALD NELSON War Production Chief: going to see to It that nobody pushes labor -but we're going to see to it that labor doesn't push anyone around either There's small number of short-sighted employers at one end and a small number of short-sighted labor folks at the other end of the line" alike to get more emotional about winning the war to have such general demand for unlimited production that nobody would dare stand in the way To stimulate that is Roosevelt job "I think I reflect whst has been written to me by many workers and what haa been said by others to whom I have talked and by many employers to whom I have also talked when I say this: 'The situation can't be changed by appeasement The wey to get rank-and-file labor whole-heartedly behind the war effort is to crack down on excessive company-profits The way to win management is to crack down on union abuses Each side seems willing to take some rrugh treatment for its own faults provided the other fellow gets the same sort of treatment" Obviously because lt is only the desirability of successful offensive that Is deer Whether Britain has the power to make such an offensive is not dear And another unsuccessful offensive such as Norway and Libya would be even more costly in morale and military loss than Inaction Of all the world leaders today Churchill the gambler of Gallipoli has the longest record of taking a chance if it offers If there is any real opportunity to win an offensive by temperament and for political and military expediency doubtless will make that gamble From which there are two possible conclusions: either Britain lacks the necessary strength or Churchill even now is quietly preparing that offensive In either case it would be wise for Americans and Britons to restrain their understandable impatience that has given ua this condition I waa once charged in the County of Knox as a felon Fred Bibb being the prosecuting attorney A noy that I have known all his life used his utmost efforts to send me to a prison I am defending him today on his efforts therefore although I will say he was misguided by perjured evidence Therefore I know from the experiences that I have had and the gentlemanly manner of his attitude in his defeat In the matter referred to I can have the utmost confidence in Fred candidacy for judge I am satisfied that so many of our citizens that know him and hia attitude toward crime and from right from wrong that he will be elected in regardless of your attitude towards hia candidacy and clean up In Knox and Knox County Oh why do you not get the record of Bomar and our last city Government in respect to this matter when you see such a change in the affaire of the city since our last election? Why you commend the present administration for their efforts and wiping out almost ell of the illegal liquor traffic and many many of other illegal places in our city? A Good Lawyer Fred Bibb is a good lawyer and knows the law If he veered from the law it must have been on the account of the public opinion of which haa been paramount for the past several years on the account that your Democrat cohorts from the President down ask for it lam surprised at the attitude of your paper to take a stand agianst one of our best citizens when you could and will I know talk of others who have been so far delinquent and In the administration of their duty that you want to crucify certain ones of who you in your mind know is a credit to soma of those whom you back up I am satisfied that you are using sharp practice to defeat Fred Bibb for judge and I sincerely hope and will use all Influence that I have that he might be elected ANDERSON 101 Pruett Place Poster -Says Low Hit Quilificitions for i Good Judgt EDITOR The News-Sentinel: There is no more Important link in the chain of law enforcement than that of criminal judge The qualifications for such an office of so great a public trust are mainly two-fold: 1 A man's legal qualifications and understanding of court procedure' 2 A personal integrity interest in law enforcement and moral courage to stand for the hard right against the easy wrong: a man whose high moral standards and Christian character will not let him put personal gain above hia public trust In the person of Mr Lowe candidate for criminal judge we have a man who possesses both these qualifications in a marked degree I would like to urge every voter to give careful consideration to Mr Lowe I am sure that a vote for him la a vote for law enforcement so that we may have a cleaner environment in which to rear our children WALTER RUSSELL pMInr Trinity Mcthodiat Church SSI Luttrell HI met Sms Fifth Columnists Bo hind Smith Bill To Ruin Unions EDITOR The News-Sentinel: Please permit me space to express my views on the Smith Labor Bill From long experience and careful consideration of the bill 2 believe it to be a handicap A A BERLE JL Assistant Secretary of State: peace cones it will be an opportunity to use our vastly increased plant and human resources to raise the stahdard of living for us alL" GEN DOUGLAS MaeARTHUR: shall win or we shall die Thera will be no compromise" By Galbraith SIDE GLANCES rpWO-THIRDS of the British public favor an immediate offensive from England according to the Gallup Poll In -that country In historic Trafalgar Square 20000 Englishmen met to demand such an offensive What of it? Since when should public pinion Influence military strategy? To these obvious if contemptuous questions there are several replies: 1 Under the British system of parliamentary democracy public opinion does rule in the long run even in military matters The theory is that the people pay and therefore have the right to call the tune 2 The Churchill Government is par-' ticularly sensitive to public opinion now -because though still holding a safe majority it is losing support Unlike an American Administration it can of course be replaced at any time 3 Civilian demand for an offensive is tint a purely emotional and uninformed sentiment On the same day that the public demonstrated in Trafalgar Square Lt Gen McNaughton Commander of Canadian Forces in Britain said that don't win wan by sitting in defensive positions no matter how important they Also on the same day Lord Eeaverbrook whose information is presumably second only to that of Churchill called for an offensive 4 Russia demands such a British of- tensive And as long as Russia engages the bulk of the Nazi Army which otherwise would be free to attack England and Egypt it is risky for London to con- tinue to withhold a flank attack on the Nazis in Norway or elsewhere Beaver-brook's statement on debt we owe and the new Roosevelt order giving shipments to Russia over-all priority are significant 5 Troops in the British Isles which Include Canadians and a sprinkling of Americans are reported restive to attack 6 Hitler's ability to keep such large British force virtually immobilized -is his least expensive strategic success to date And If maintained may have a decisive effect on the crucial spring campaigns Most of these factors are so clear that Americans share the Impatience of the British publie for action fTHEN if it is as simple a all why does Churchill hesitate? A Country Calendar By LUCY CURTIS TEMPLETON AFTER what has seemed a long winter the spring came swiftly and I found a very different world outside on my first walk around the garden in over a month Flowering trees my particular passion have for the most part not yet emerged Japanese cherry trees ere an exception both the pale pink upright sort and the deeper pink weeping variety are in full bloom Both of these trees are almost too beautiful to seem real So was the deep snow that fell during the time that I was 1U I was a little light-headed anyway and it seemed to me that I had some way found my way into a Walt Disney film I was particularly pleased in my perambulations over the ilace to discover that one of the ittle Chinese plum trees given me this past year by Mrs White was in profuse bloom This in fact was the fifst tree on the place to blossom Neither the peach tree close beside it nor the wild plums at the end of the garden were in full bloom Perhaps it is because this tree blooms so early often emerging during mild days of late winter that in the Chinese floral calendar the plum blossom signifies winter The peony is the blossom of spring lotus of summer chrysanthemum of autumn Speaking of these oriental flowers reminds me that I have been told that the effect of Japanese photographs being taken through a vista of cherry blossoms is usually obtained by means of an assistant obligingly holding an artificial spray of flowers in front of the camera That sounds rather ill-natured and la so Intended This however is not I am particularly grateful to all my friends who have cheered me up during a long end tedious illness with notes and messages As long as I had to be ill it waa grand to stay in during the bad weather and to be out in time to enjoy the spring Suspicion Aids th Axis rpHE Peglers Clappers Lippmans Thompsons others address natiohal audiences Here and there in the country are local columnists writing in one paper only and mostly about local affairs who command equal attention in their limited spheres One of the best of them is Art Cay lor of The San Francisco News Recently Mr Caylor has interested himself in a subject of vital importance to the whole country: What is wrong with production in the shipyards? He has appealed directly to rank-and-file workers to tell him their ideas And because they have confidence in him they have responded with hundreds of letters of the frankest most interesting letters we have ever seen We wish the President and the national labor leaders and big industrialists and members of Congress could read them We asked Mr Caylor who has read all these letters and pondered them to summarize his conclusion What they say about the shipyards probably would apply to mast war industries Here is Columnist Caylor's reply: "The real hindrance to maximum production is suspicion that the other fellow is using patriotism to cover up some private grab We all seem to fear the Japs less than we fear that someone will make suckers of us "It's my personal opinion that we need icrkeri and employers and publie1 on jour aide Sergeant! I told Sia aha ought to marrj you or ehe might get eome bird that waa turned down in ths draft because offlat feet.