fio Angeles sitae. THURSDAY. MORNING. 'AUGUST 27, 1942. FART II.
The Frankenstein Bubble Letters to mmm mm The Times Editorials The Fight's Ahead in State Election showing thus far, but one of preparation for the greater struggle immediately ahead. Earl Warren was not the only candidate whose character and competency caused the voters to approach election issues in a nonpartisan spirit. There were many others. One of the outstanding political victories in Tuesday's primary was that of Assemblyman Frederick F. Houser, who won the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor and piled up a.
big Democratic vote against incumbent Lieutenant Governor Patterson. Tatterson, renominated by a vote greater In the Democratic primaries than that received by Olson for Governor, has been a political nonentity since his election four years ago. Without prestige as presiding officer of the State Senate, his known views have been such as to cause few persons to look with equanimity upon the possibility of his becoming Governor. With Warren as Governor and Houser as Lieutenant Governor the State would have two officials whose courage, fidelity to public service and alert intelligence would never be brought into question. While many lessons may be drawn from the primary election results, the soundest conclusion to reach is that the mass of voters is not influenced by the traditional political campaign claptrap; that the individual voter is earnestly trying to exercise wisdom and discrimination in his ballot selections.
But the fight- far from being finished is Just beginning for good government in California. In assuming that the results of the Tuesday primary election indicate that Governor Olson Is scheduled to meet the traditional one-term fate that has overtaken almost all of California's Covernors over a period of many decades, supporters of Atty. Gen. Warren should also realize that November's fight 3s just beginning. Warren won an impressive 'Ote of confidence in the Republican and Democratic primaries.
His support was not confined to any particular section nor did it represent any special class or segment of the population. His appeal was made to the electorate on a straightforward and honest statement of his views and his plans. Obviously, the great majority of those who voted on the Governorship had confidence in his pledges and in his capacity. Warren will win in November if the1 electorate is keenly alert to the genuine issues and remains unimpressed by the specious and inflammatory arguments that assuredly will be made to assure Olson's retention in office. The Governor got what he deserved: a vote that practically represented an expression of "no confidence" from the electorate.
That he won a majority in the Democratic primaries is not at all as astonishing, however, as is the fact that he narrowly missed defeat in a contest which many voters regarded as merely preliminary to the real decision. For those who sincerely seek improvement in State government and who see Jn Warren a leader who can and will bring about such Improvement the hour is not one so much for rejoicing at his splendid Japs After War There has been no little discussion as to what Is to become of the Japanese after we have won the war. That is to say, those living in this country, particularly those who are. American citizens. That it is a problem with many angles there is no doubt.
Would it not be worth while to consider the education of the entire group in the ways of democratic government and then, on the defeat of Japan, put them In charge of that'eoun-try. It Is almost a certainty that there is no one In Japan that we can trust to keep a peace or perhaps even discuss elements of peace. On the whole the second generation Japanese in this country have undergone a tremendous change in mental attitudes and even physical appearance and it might be that with proper instruction and treatment they might form the center from which we could work into a Japanese nation that might gain somewhat of a respectable place among nations. A. C.
KARR, Los Angeles. A desirabl object Preferences I am backing up Lester Matthews. I am very sure that many times President Washington expressed his views on whom he would like to see elected. President Roosevelt Is bound to have a preference just like any American citizen. He also has the right to say whom he prefers just the same as the Los Angeles Times.
Also what about the many times that your paper has agitated the abolishing of politics for the 'duration, yet continues to let a guy like Frank Kent keep the pot boiling. He is certainly the head man on keeping up the feud by hl3 prejudice and outmoded ideas. Of course he is doing no harm, as nobody pays any attention to what he says. So If you are lacking in copy go ahead and use his stuff to fill in and see who MRS. J.
W. Georga Washington probably iin't much comfort to poor or Senator Mead right now. Precautionary Going up to his schoolteacher, the lad asked: "You wouldn't punish me for something I haven't done, would you?" "Certainly not, my boy," was the reply, "Now, tell me all about it." "Well, I haven't done my homework." Exchange. Vote on Orange Proration Starts A New View Inside India Lee Side o' LAJ By Lee Shippey One hundred women can keep a secret! Last Monday was Bill Henry's birthday anniversary and a group of his frlend3 who had crossed the Atlantic with him some years ago planned a surprise party for him, enlisting a restaurateur who is noted for his crepes suzettes. Others heard of it and so 'many of Bill's friends flocked to the restaurant that they almost had to sit in one another's laps." The 'guests included actors, artists, radio men and such personages as William May Garland, who bore a big hand in building the Coliseum and got on the Olympic Games Committee years before in order to adroitly plan for bringing the Games here 10 years ago.
Yet the party was such a complete surprise that the guest of honor almost missed it, arriving about an hour late. BEFORE, WITH OR 'AFTER MEALS I can't see any chance for the Nips. have plenty of fellows in our Army, Navy and Marine Corps who have the habit of taking a nip every time opportunity presents. COLLEGE ISN'T f*ckXT I didn't realize how war is affecting our colleges till I visited U.C.L.A. the other day.
In order to make it possible for students to be graduated in three years the usual summer session which ended, recently has been followed by an interim session which is keeping students in class for long hours six days a week. Boys who were used to earning spending money By getting week-end Job3 are finding that pretty hard. Now that chemistry playa an important part in war the chemistry building can be smelled for a block. I understand that six-days-a-week school la going to be the regular thing for some time. There will be no special trains for football rooters this year.
There are 10 gold stars on the university's service flag and many students are studying to fit themselves for Army, Navy or war production. College is getting to be pretty serious business. COLLEGE HUMOR But nothing can repress the collegiate spirit. In Royce Hall, the stately audi-torium which is a well-equipped theater, the legend over the stage was meant to read: "Education is learning to use the tools which the race has found to be indispensable." But someone somehow climbed up and changed the in "tools" to an AIR MAIL TO HONOLULU A reader tells me that some of the post-office substations do not know what the air mail rate to Hawaii i3. He says two or three wished, to charge him 24 cents to mail a letter to Honolulu but at the main postoffice they charged only 6 cents.
HEARD ABOUT TOWN Charley King, Pasadena columnist and dramatist, Joins the Marine Corps Robert Chapin, who collaborated with Charley on several good plays, has been in' the Army for some time, having left a nice scenarist's job to put on the uniform. These were the two fine fellows who saw a way to make a play of my novel, "The Great American Family," and I wish them luck and somewhat envy them. Beverly Hills woman says the sun suits som3 neighbor girls are wearing are Injuring her husband's eyesight. They make him shorts-sighted. Tomokazu Hori, former Jap Consul here, is broadcasting propaganda from Japan and F.
thinks we should call it Hori-bulL Reader phones that you can keep files and mosquitoes from bothering you at patio dinners by burning citronella candles. She got a Los Angeles store to get the candles for her and hasn't been bothered by mosquitoes or flies since. How about the guests? E. T. W.
seriously Inquires if one can buy pastries at the bakeshop without having a pieority rating. A Pasadena woman has a letter from an Army flyer who Eays: "As far a3 the war is concerned, get set for a surprise. If it lasts longer than June, 1343, I will be much surprised." That's confidence. He adds that when two months' pay came in a lump the other -day he bought a $100 War Bond and another for $30 because of a girl in Los Angeles who is waiting for him. That's mora confidence.
The Hollywood Canteen, patterned after the Stage Door Canteen in New York and representing 17 organizations connected with entertainment, launches a fund-raising campaign with a "Talk of the Town" premiere party at the Four Star Theater Saturday and each premiere ticket entitles you to dinner Los Angeles, Aug. 24, 1942. patent-leather-shod "gentlemen" shopkeepers and landowners in the All India Congress nor yet the "bed sheet" following of Mr. Gandhi, but by the Indians who Sin the establishment of prorate districts, allotment of quantities of oranges destined for markets among the distributors. Some of the growers feel there is no need for centralized control and shipment regulation in a time when the demand for the product is as favorable as it un-doubtedly now is.
There are those who oppose such restrictions at any time. The prorate advocates, of course, have had the best of it for years, but there is no telling, pending the vote, just how they may have been influenced by the emergency conditions. Many have argued strongly, however, that close marketing organization is more necessary than ever before to insure a more effective co-operation with government in supplying the armed forces and In meeting lend-lease requirements. would seem the part of wisdom for all concerned to take a long-range viewpoint while considering the marketing aspects of the hour. Normal problems are bound to be encountered again after the war, with, perhaps, perplexing new ones thrown In.
It will be for those directly affected to decide what is to be done about proration and they have undoubtedly given, a lot of thought to a program in which they are so vitally interested. Starting today and continuing for a week, California and Arizona orange grow-ers will conduct an election that will unquestionably bring out a far bigger proportion of the "electorate" than did the primaries of Tuesday. They will decide by their ballots whether the marketing order and agreement drawn up by the United States Department of Agriculture and incorporating suggestions developed by the public industry hearings in April shall be put into effect The crop prorate plan, suspended last December after nearly a decade of becomes the issue of a referendum of direct interest to 22,000 orchardists producing approximately CO per cent of the nation's oranges. It will be the test of its kind in the history of American agriculture, and to say that election feeling is running high is to state the case accurately. On the basis of the vote the Agricultural Marketing Administration, as official handler of the proceedings, expects to ascertain the predominant viewpoint of the industry on the moot question of marketing regulation through quantity A favoring vote will authorize government to invoke an order providing for the systematic control of shipments, 1 9 -A.
The W.LB. Grants Another Steel Wage Rise Suttee. Btltlmore Sua Something new has been added. Seattle Timet The War Labor Board's ruling that more of the country's steel workers are entitled to a wage rise of 5V cents an hour, retroactive to Feb. 15, and closed shop privileges, is consistent in all respects with its July 15 findings granting a similar increase and perquisites to men covered by the C.I.O.'s first demand.
Which is to say that it is Inconsistent with every-thing else, including the President's anti-inflation program, the facts with respect to the relative rises of steel wages and the cost of living since January, 1941, and the board's own findings in other cases. In April Mr. Roosevelt declared, and has reveral times since repeated, that all fairly paid workers must forego wage increases for the duration because of their inflationary stimulus. An elaborate survey and analysis of steel wages and living costs, made by the National Association of Manufacturers and published Aug. 6, shows, first, that steel wages are the highest -in any manufacturing industry; second, that steel wages have been Increased by an average of 19.4 per cent since January, 1911; third, that the cost of living has advanced in the same period by 15.1 per cent (In Pittsburgh, capital of the steel Industry, it had risen 14.3 per cent, or 0i8 per cent less than the national average.) So far, the War Labor Board has thus allowed substantial wage increases to some 400,000 steel workers who do not need it and are not entitled to it.
In the same time it has denied, among others, wage rise demands, based on similar grounds, to the 1200 employees of the Remington-Rand the 2750 employees of the General Cable Co. and 32,000 employees of the Aluminum Co. of America. But 61,000 New England textile workers are given pay rises of 714 cents an hour on the same day that the Alcoa men's plea was turned down. In the areas of operation of these several industries, there has been very little difference in the regional cost of living rises and there are certainly few occupations where pay rises have been more frequent and generous than in the steel business.
Yet it Is on these two items alone that the W.LB. bases its formula governing action on wage demands. It is this formula which is to "end the tragic race between wages and prices." Maybe so, but the uninitiated wait to be shown. May I protest through your paper at the alleged one-sided reporting of the Indian situation to the American public, who must be in ignorance of the true facts. I commanded the Calcutta and Lahore military division, and my wife has spent 15 years in India, so.
between us we have a certain knowledge of that country. Owing to the exigencies of war since 1929, the British government has been too patient with the situation, and this Non-violent, Non-co-operative Nonsense of Mr. Gandhi has resulted in the death and serious injury to many British subjects. Just six weeks before the government woke up to the fact that Mr. Gandhi's Non-violent scheme wasn't so Non-violent as it sounded, the mail train to Simla was held up by an armed mob of some hundreds of these "Non-violent passive re-sisters." Three British officers were led from the train and shot in cold blood (I can.
supply their names and the date of their murders.) India always has been for centuries a house divided against A Hindu (not a fighting man in my opinion as an old soldier) is in a large majority and -heartily detests every Moslem, (from whom the finest fighting troops in the world are drawn) with a hatred that is inherited. Each is intolerant of the religion of the other and neither could worship in peace, except by the intervention of the British, who are completely uninterested in taking sides. Then come the "untouchables," which class supplies the "garbage men," "sewer 1 cleaners," "house sweepers" work spurned by high caste Indians, looked down on and exploited by both parties (though tolerated outwardly by Mr. Gandhi for political reasons,) detested less than the converted Christians who are derided as "turncoats" by all classes. All parties are scared to death of the wild and warlike tribes on the northwest frontier and Afghanistan, who appear to be a people apart and are only kept in subjection by respect for British bayonets and Justice.
The countless millions of poor and entirely uneducated workers on the land, who supply most of the wealth of India, still prefer British justice, and If a case is to be tried, ask for a British judge, secure in" the fact that they will obtain unbiased judgment and will not have to resort to the expensive preliminary of secreting a gratuity in a basket of fruit delivered to the Judge in order to secure a hearing at all! India Is divided into statei and provinces because it Is the easiest way to handle administrative affairs, probably copied from the U.S.A. Even the animals have to be protected, the cow being considered a "sacred" animal and the pig an "unclean beast" The Moslem will cut off the udders of his neighbor's cow, and the Hindu will retaliate by burning a pig alive and scattering the ashes on the Moslem's doorstep as a sort of "Non-violent" Joke! The "untouchable" will cook and eat what Is left of both animals. These acts of violence against animals era not, cf course, committed by th A Valuable Service by Women Workers are of and live In India, who have no hope but heaven, no life but sweat and toil from dawn to dark who know nothing of wars and care less, whose only Interest Is in living through the next monsoon season or in escaping the next scourge of plague. Those are the people who provide the money for the Congressmen, to live in luxury and a cleanliness taught them in British-built schools and colleges. Any American who thinks he or she can solve this age-old muddle, worse than any Italian vendetta, is rushing in where angels fear to tread.
If you could make a Hindu think a Moslem a mine of good qualities, persuade a high caste Moslem to marry his daughter to an "untouchable," convince a warlike northwest frontier chieftain that the rest of India was not his for pillage and plunder, then it would be an easy matter, to persuade a mouse that a black cat is lucky! Yours truly, GEN. SIR SYDNEY LAWFORD, LADY LAWFORD, British subjects. Did You Hear About the Famous Guacamole? "When I get back home," commented the eastern visitor, eying the salad bowl with respect, "I'm going to spread the gospel of guacamole far and wide and even if my folks and my friends cannot pronounce it they can glorify their picnics with it." Guess it is its simplicity a3 well as Its Indescribable tastiness which attracted him to this California, delight; simply mash your ripe avocados, season with onion juice along with the salt and chill pepper and pack the chilled mixture into a bowl. Californians embellish with a few scarlet ripe pomegranate seeds before serving and as for that guacamole can double for an appetizer a3 well as a salad at your affair whether it's in the back yard or In the sedate dining room. Are you acquainted with thii delectable dish? W.
J. B. Just a dress rehearsal. Chlciio Dllr Newt Women war workers, volunteers all, are serving the nation in an Important way at the Los Angeles Art Association headquarters on Wilshire Blvd. adjacent to Westlake Park.
Their achievements speak for themselves more than 10,000 sewed garments, nearly as many knitted articles, hundreds of patchwork quilts, turned out by busy hands in a literal beehive of industry. The same patriotic groups appear day after day to contribute their efforts to the cause and to prepare themselves for even sterner duties by first-aid' training. It is a service that truly count3. As You Might Say By Ed Ainsworth THE TIMES-MIRROR COMPANY NORMA CHANDLER Pr-Mnt tod C.ntrU HtnircT DIRECTORS Hn7 ChBd'r. Marias Otia ChaaHJer, Knneam Cbudlwt Mabel Otia Booth.
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Onfral Motora R'liMinC Tmnmrn OfrV. fl Marlr-t MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS T- Atru-l PrM It fhttir aMi'lwt i tht i'-i f4 all itfrrtf rrttwl Mltwiw twwita cr-iitl ui thi wT and alto fh. lorai ikw. herfin. Ail ricMa af mwfeicatua at aK-eial UiFatcsa tenia ara a A THOUGHT FROM THE BIBLE Thou shnlt not take the name cf th Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord vUl not hold him puiltless that toketh Hit name in vaiJUDcutcrcnomy ty 1L The terribly galling uing to Culbert Olson is the terrific way his cynical contempt for the voters backfired in his face, he had to haul out the oldest bewhiskered political alibi of them all to explain how Earl Warren got nearly 50 per cent of the Democratic votes in the primary Olson says in his alibi his backers were so sure of nominating him that they didn't bother to vote in ihe primary You remember that one, don't you? It was the first time when the pyramids were pups Olson dresn't seem to recall the proud boast of bis backers that Warren wouldn't gtt 20 per cent of the Democratic votes, ht ignores the axiom that the incumbent "machine" always tries to make the best possible showing In the Trlmary, ht doesn't mention that he was afraid to file on the Republican at all A lot of chickens came home to roost when they counted the votes, did you notice, for instance, what happened in Tomona? That was where Governor Olson skulked Into the Los Angeles County Fair last fall amid bcos after having helped union leaders in their effort to wreck the people's fair with an unfair picket line In Pomona Olson got 1172 votes and Warren got 3750! The only possible advice to give Olson: "Run, don't walk, to the nearest exit not quiet on the second front Krv 0rient Tlmt-Ptcrui).
