Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 September 1941 — Page 4

POST-DEMOCRATFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941.

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, September 5, 1941.

German Boasts Not Fulfilled

It was just about a year ago that a Nazi newspaper proudly announced that British resistance was beginning to crumble even “before a single German soldier has set foot on British soil.” Other German newspapers followed along in the same swaggering Nazi vein. They assured the world that British air defenses were broken down and that the tight little island was lying limp and prostrate, awaiting the final blow from the Nazi conqueror. We recall this typical sample of Hitler boasting for a purpose. The Germans now claim to have the Russian resistance virtually smashed. Perhaps they have, although it is well to recall that they were premature before. But the most important thing to remember is that one year after the British were ready to be “counted out,” they are still in there fighting and delivering a flurry of savage blows to the Nazi midriff—to borrow a term from the boxing writers. Think what this year has meant in terms of American defense. Had Britain gone down, the United States would now be facing across the Atlantic a boastful and belligerent tyrant who harbors a deep. and consuming hatred for the American way of life. The British fleet by now might be cruising the Atlantic, officered and manned by Hitler’s minions. Perhaps its strength would be augmented by that part of the French fleet which is still afloat and out of the Nazi hands. Added to the German submarines, and their few but powerful warships, this would have been a formidable fleet indeed. But control of the Atlantic is still out of German hands. The President of the United States and the Premier of Great Britain could meet at sea, and with a calm disdain for the power of enemy ships, announce to the world the kind of peace which they think should follow the destruction of the Nazi tyranny. Even the most ardent isolationist should be willing to concede thdt this is far better than having the Atlantic sea-lanes patrolled and menaced by a hostile fleet of tremendous size and striking power. It would be a rash presumption to say that American aid was an outstanding factor in turning back the Nazi hordes. The British did the job themselves by a superb display of courage and fortitude. Yet a nation, like an individual, must choose its friends. Certainly it was a worthwhile policy to give moral and material aid to a country which has proved so valiant in resisting the sweep of tyranny and oppression. The flow of airplanes and munitions to Britain is far greater than it was a year ago. The tight little isle is still standing fast and the chances of England holding off Hitler’s might have vastily improved. The eight-point program fashioned at sea under the protection of American and British warships was more than a simple platform of ideals, drawns up by Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill to reassure their own peoples. It had a further purpose. It was a declaration of principle designed to encourage the citizens of those countries which have already fallen victim to the Nazi war machine. The reports from Europe indicate that the Poles, the Czechs, and the Yugo-Slavs are doing what they can to make things difficult for Herr Hitler’s ruthless overlords. Taken alone, their efforts may seem little. In the aggregate they mean much. As long as the dictators are kept busy at the task of subjugating Europe, and the Atlantic sea-lanes remain open, the position of the United States will be relatively secure. And the longer this continues, the less danger there is of an ultimate Hitler triumph. Developments thus far have confirmed the wisdom of the Roosevelt foreign policy.

It Only Happens Here In a hundred and ten of the largest business corporations in America there are four million stockholders and two and a half million employes. In many of these companies 85% to 100% of the workers are part owners. The purchasing power of the average hourly wage in America has increased 60% since 1929. These things can’t happen in any land under the sun but here.—Missouri Dem. State Committee.

Victory Now Seen In the Offing Whatever the final outcome of the Russo-German War, there is no doubt that Hitler’s mighty army has lost the shine of invincibility by its failure to mop up the despised Red legions in a month or less. Because, incredible as it may seem, that was the private boast of the German war lords. Before hostilities commenced, they predicted that the entire Soviet war machine would crumble like a house of cards under the furious assaults of the stukas and the panzers. Three weeks was the usual time span they allotted for this particular military operation. The fact that Hitler’s time-table is off schedule is hardly significant in itself. A few weeks more or less may not be decisive in determining the fate of nations. But the important thing is that by their stiff resistance, the Russians have shown that Hitler’s war machine can be stalled temporarily and that, under the’ proper circumstances, it can be stopped altogether. That is the plain lesson of the Russian campaign to date. It should give heart to all those people in conquered and unconquered territory alike who look upon the overthrow of Hitler and his evil satellites as the greatest task confronting the civilized world. Once before, Hitler saw his time-table disrupted and the assaults of his warriors turned back. That happened last summer and fall when the magnificent courage and tenacity of the British people sustained their island fortress in the grim battle to withstand the hammer blows of invading Nazi planes. The Battle of Britain was one of the really great occasions in modern military history. It did more than save the British Empire. It helped to show the whole of Europe that all was not ended, that resistance was not futile, that Hitler could never be the real master of conquered countries until he had first beaten down British pluck and grit. It is fortunate for the United States that its policy makers never took the attitude that resistance to Hitler was futile. Even at the darkest hour last year, when the Nazis were sweeping over the Low Countries and France with hardly a shadow of opposition, President Roosevelt and his chief adviser on foreign affairs, Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, refused to succumb to the philosophy of defeatism. They declined to agree that “you might as well deal with Hitler” because the latter’s triumph was inevitable. They refused to believe that the free peoples of the world were powerless to halt fhe onward sweep of force and violence. They took the view that no matter how long the struggle, no matter how great the cost, the democracies of the world were duty bound to preserve personal liberty and free government from extinction. It becomes clearer as the months roll on that President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull were right .in their appraisal of the world situation. Certainly, the ultimate triumph of Germany seems far less certain today than it did a year ago. England is still carrying on boldly and defiantly, more confident today than at any time since the struggle first began. The real weight of American war production is just being felt in England. Planes, guns, and tanks are go ing across the Atlantic in ever increasing numbers. The R. A. F. is carrying out its task of bombing Germany in superlative fashion and by next year, the combined American and British production of airplanes will far surpass that of Germany. The picture is satisfying, ev-en hopeful. Best of all, a new spirit of deriance against the Nazi conquerors seems to be sweeping through the countries which were over-run by Hitler’s legions. President Roosevelt has never wavered in his conviction that the cause of the democracies would ultimately triumph and it may be said with accuracy that the majority of American citizens now hold this view.

MELLON TRUST IS HINDERING II. S. WELFARE

Greed For Fabulous Profits Leads To Aluminum Shortage

BALL STATE (Continued From Page One) an eight-hour course, and it is required for a superintendent’s license. Should there be insufficient registration for any one of the courses on the opening day of the period for which it is scheduled, it will be withdrawn. Courses numbered in 500 are primarily for graduate students. However, 525Ed, Mental Hygiene, may be taken for undergraduate credit by students of senior standing who have the approval of the Head of the Education Department ] and the Executive Officer of the Graduate Council to enter the course. Anyone desiring the course for undergradute credit should first present his request to an official student counselor. When he makes his program and registers, he will be sure to write “for undergraduate credit” opposite the course if he is taking it for undergraduate credit. Science 359, Science 376, Social Science 342, and Business Education 409 may be taken for graduate credit, but must be marked individually “for graduate credit” on the program and on all registration forms if this kind of credit is desired. Also, a student who has not previously established his eligibility to graduate study in this College will make formal application for admission to graduate study. It is evident that Business Education 409 may be taken by upper division and graduate study students with a background of a year of College credit in accounting. Because there is now much general interest in taxation and in the filing of tax returns, this class is being opened also to students holding baccalaureate degrees who

Defense and the Farm The Democratic party is fully conscious of the vital role agriculture plays in our national life. We know the farming communities are far more than mere producers of food and other natural products. We know that the farm is still the custodian of the spirit of American independence and selfreliance. After a century of neglect, our nation is making desperate efforts to preserve its greatest single natural resources— the soil. Our Party is determined to give full aid and assistance to our farmers who are cooperating with the Federal Government’s soil erosion control program. We believe that rural roads are essential as high speed arteries for the transportation of motor freight and have increased state proportions for that purpose. The Democratic party is fighting to provide better educational facilities for rural communities, with teachers trained to give community leadership in the new techniques of modern farming. The Democratic party had its original among the tillers of the soil. In many sections of the country it has traditionally been the rural party. It has expanded its constituency in recent years, but it still draws heavily upon the farm for leadership.

No War Party The studied campaign of Republican newspapers to make the people of this nation believe that the national administration wants an unnecessary war is little short of criminal. No patriotic motives are involved. The one dominating intent is the transparent effort which has been ceasless for eight years. That effort is to destroy your confidence in the President of the United States. There is no war party in this country. No one wants war. Probably no one and no group of men in America can prevent war when Hitler is ready. And he is more nearly ready every day. It is believable that none of the countries now under Hitler’s heel wanted war. He decided for them. If this country goes to war it will probably be the day Hitler gets ready.

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In the first period, September 13 to January 17, a student may carry one or two courses, four or eight hours of credit. In the short period, January 24 to April 18, each student is limited to one course, four hours of credit. A student taking 582Ed may carry an afternoon course in the September 13 to January 17 period, but he may not carry a course in the short period January 24 to April 18. In any one period the fee for four hours of credit for a student who is a legal resident of Indiana is $11.00; for eight hours of credit (in 582Ed or two four-hour courses carried concurrently), $16.00. When a registration on September 13 is for twelve hours of credit (582Ed and one four hour course in the September 13 to January 17 period), the fee is $22.00. The opening day of a period is the day for registration and payment of fees for that period.

Seattle, Wash., Sept. 6.—Sensational charges that the “Mellon Aluminum Trust” is still hamstringing national defense to preserve its fabulously profitable monopoly were made here this week at hearings before the Senate Defense Contract Investigating Committee, headed by Senator Harry S. Truman (Dem. Mo.) The charges also involved the Office of Production Management and its “dollar-a-year” men. many of whom came from the Trust— the Aluminum Company of America, or “Alcoa.” These charges so impressed Senator Truman and the other members of the committee that they rushed a telegram to the O. P. M., demanding its aluminum production record's and threatening stern action if they are not immediately handed over to the committee. At hearings several months ago in Washington, the Truman committee heard a mass of testimony that Alcoa and the O. P. M. kept insisting that the Trust could and would produce all the aluminum needed for airplanes and other vital defense equipment. Even when the shortage of that metal became the tightest defense “bottleneck,” and so hampered the airplane program that old aluminum pots and pans .were collected from house to house, new concerns found it almost impossible to break into the Alcoa aluminum monopoly. New Process Discouraged. The TrUman committee followed up its Washington ifrobe by coming here to uncover the reasons for the delay in building proposed new aluminum plants in the Northwest, where Uncle Sam’s huge Bonneville and Grand Coulee waterpower systems make available vast amounts of the cheap electricity required for smelting alumin-

um.

The most sensational testimony was given by Frank Eichelberger, president of Kalumite Company, which has a patented process for producing aluminum from a mineral, alunite, which is abundant in the Bonneville-Grand Coulee area. Einchelberger said that Japan, by using his company’s process, surpassed the United States in aluminum production, but despite that fact, the O.P.M. “discouraged” the use of that process in this country. Answering a 'question from Senator Mon. C. Wallgren (Dem. Wash.), Eichelberger added that Alcoa and its dollar-a-year men in the O.P.M. have constantly tried to “harass him and put him out of business.” After hearing similar testimony from other witnesses, Truman declared that “it seems to t me that Alcoa is more interested in preserving its monopoly Chan in sav-

ing the national defense program.” Another member of the committee, Senator James M. Mead (Dem. N. Y.), remarked that: “It appears that the O. P. M. is responsible for the delay in aluminum production here in this area. This is the most serious situation which has come before our committee. I am beginning to wonder about the patriotism of some of these men.” Further charges against the Aluminum Trust were made in a statement by Paul J. Raver, the Federal government’s administrator of the Borjneville and Grand Coulee power systems. Raver declared that Alcoa and the O.P.M. are working together for two pur-

poses :

Alcoa and O.P.M. pulling Together 1. To transfer to Alcoa two new aluminum plants which were to be built and operated in the Bonneville area by competing concerns. 2. To get plants which may be built by their rivals located where they will not compete with Alcoa,

after the “emergency.”

Raver said that about three months ago, when plans were announced to build the new plants, Bonneville engineers made a “careful study” to determine the best locations, and the O.P.M. was notified that an ample supply of electric power would be available. Nothing was heard from O.P.M. until recently, when “O. P. M. experts and Alcoa 'engineers visited the Bonneville area and made purely cursory examinations of pos-

sible sites.

Hillman Names Committee To Aid the Auto Workers

Delaware County Students To Get $504 Monthly

A far-reaching program to aid workers in motor parts and equipment plants whose jobs are threatened by the government-ordered slash in auto production was proposed to defense authorities this week by the A. F. of L., with the collaboration of the International Association of Machinists. A. F. of L. unions have over 200,000 members in such plants. President William Green reported, in presenting the job-saving program to the Office of Production Man-

agement.

Chief of the proposals is that the defense administration smash the resistance of the' army and navy and of big manufacturers and compel greater farming out of orders to small plants. Bring Jobs to Workers “Every effort should be made to bring jobs to the workers rather than workers to the job,” the unions' document declared. It demanded that workers laid off be given priority on other defense jobs; that special plans be worked out to get defense orders to one-industry towns which would otherwise be stranded; and that workers who are forced to tak^ new jobs, because of closing or

plants, shall be guaranteed sen-

“We offered them the services of io pty status and union affiliation

when such plants reopen alter the

defense emergency.

Sidney Hillman, associate director general of defense, announced prompt action to carry out the union proposals. He named an emergency national committee on automobile employment to work on the problem, and announced that communities and industries hard hit by layoffs would receive spe-

cial attention.

Bonneville engineers,” Raver continued, “but our engineers' services

were not accepted.

“The fact that Alcoa engineers are assisting the O.P.M. in selection of these sites is certainly significant and disturbing. Meanwhile, the delay is costing the national defense program at least 250 tons of aluminum a day.”—Labor. AVIATION CADET IS LATEST RANK Special Inducement Offered In New Branch

Of Army

Creation of the arade of Aviation Cadet in the Army Air Corps, putting Army flying cadets on a uniform pay and allowance basis with those of the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps, has been announced by the Air Office, Fifth Corps area

headquarters.

Among the benefits accruing to the Army’s Flying Cadets under new legislation is the authorization of a $150 uniform allowance when the aviation cadet eempletes his training and is commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps reserve. This uniform allowance formerly was given only to Navy and Marine corps flying ca-

Allotment of $248,937 of National Youth Administration funds to 775 secondary schools in the state to enable boys and girls to‘continue their educatftms has been announced today by Robert S. Richey,

state NYA administrator.

Money is to b^ appropriated to the schools on a monthly basis, and used at the discretion of the principal or his faculty representative. Young persons will work on faculty planned and supervised projects, an^l may earn up to $6 a month, although in most schools the money is divided so as to provide assistance to the greatest

number of young people.

Quotas for each school were determined by a school work council composed of W. E. Wilson, superintendent of Clark county schools, Jeffersonville; H. B. Almanr superintendent of schools, Muncie; J. R. Mitchell, principal of high school, New Castle; Lynn Miller, assistant principal of Jefferson high school, Lafayette; Earl W. Berry, principal of high school, Merom; Harland White, principal of high school, Morocco; Brother Benedict, .principal of Reitz Memorial School for Boys. Evansville; and Wilbur Young of the State Department of Public Instruction.. Delaware county with its 10 schools will receive $504.00 monthly through the N.Y.A. to be used toward the education of deserving

pupils who need it most. / o Granite State Hopes To Spur Lumber Ersatz

dets. The government also will pay $10,000 life insurance policy premiums for Aviation Cadets whereas the student flyers formerly paid their own insurance premiums. After being commissioned, all Army, Navy or Marine Corps pilots are required to pay their own in surance premiums. Aviation Cadets are entitled now to an additional $500 bonus payment for each complete year or additional fraction of a year of active duty, where they formerly were allowed a $500 bonus only after three years of continuous duty. The new payment plan is in line with regulations previously authorized by legislation for the Navy and Marine Corps. Young men interested in Aviation Cadet Training should contact First Lieutenant John J. Wolf, Jr., of the Aviation Cadet Examining Board at Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Lieutenant Wolf will be available for conference every week day between the hours of 8:00 a. m. and 4:00 p. m. and on Saturday mornings.

Concord, N. H. — The Granite State may start an “ersatz” business. University of New Hampshire engineering research labbratoiy workers have developed a plastic material made from wood-waste products. The only thing holding up production is money for necessary machinery. The plastic is said to be more durable and resistant to shock than wood-waste and could replace materials essential in national defense manufacturing. The 1941 legislature appropriated $2,500 for research but said no state money could be spent until private interests match the state’s contribution.

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