Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 12 December 1941 — Page 4

POST DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1941.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT d Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrat* of Muncle, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncle, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE S CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main street. 0 Muncie, Indiana, Friday, December 12, 1941.

%Hobsier i \ Political ^ x Scene A column of new* and comment irritten by members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association.

Jacob W. \Vittmer. who writes this week’s THE HOOS1ER POI.1TTCAE SCENE, is editor of k The Hoosier Sentinel, offieial weekly newspaper of the Pemonratie party in Indiana. Mr. YVittmer began his work on the Sentinel a year ago after serving on The Corydon Democrat and The Noblesville Morning Times.

By: JACOB W. WITTMER

(Editor, The Hoosier Sentinel) Indiana doesn’t get its reputation as one of the hottest political states” in America without earning it. The war in Europe and the unprecedented effort to build a strong defense here, of course, are receiving their bit of attention and temporarily have distracted many Hoosiers from their daily exchange of rumor, speculation, prediction and verbal battles on state politics. , Although 1941 is an off-election year in the State, the pros and cons on every political topic are keeping things humming. The political writers too, who profess to have every candidate, issue and bit of party strategy doped out far in advance of everyone else, are keeping their typewriters warm in dashing off the latest. They even claim to know the names of the Democrat and Republican who will carry the banners of their respective parties for Governr in far-off 1944. It all adds up to the “hottest political state,” Hoosierdom —the land where even the two-year olds sit on father’s knee to learn how Democracy works. With the close of 1941 in a few weeks, the people of Indiana will gird themselves for real political action. The talking will become faster and more furious—and the real job of participating in a primary and then a general election will begin. Governor Schricker, who is leading his people with recognized wisdom in this time of emergency and strife, probably realizes more than anyone else the importance of doing a good job in that primary and election. In many of his recent addresses throughout the state, the Governor has pointed out that to get the “good government” that the citizens of Indiana admire and desire to perpetuate, it is imperative that men who are sincere believers in the Democratic party and its principles be sent to the General Assembly in 1943. To do their job well, Hoosier Democrats must, after adequate consideration, place men and women who are truly im terested in the welfare of their state and carry no selfish motives in their minds on the ticket. There can be no room on the ballot for the names of cheap politicians or individuals who have no mind of their own and can be manipulated at will. If the party ticket carries a list of conscientious, civicminded persons, half the battle will be won. There will be no opportunity for “coat-tail riding” at the election next year. Every man will be judged on character, initiative and ability and his sincerity in standing by the progressive proposals laid down in his party’s platform. The Democratic party in the state is prepared to live up to the high standards it has set in the past. With that purpose in mind, Governor Schricker can feel assured of competent aid in handling the many, emergency problems and other important needs for action that are and will be facing the state in time of crisis. It is important too that the voters of the state should remember the same qualifications set out above in choosing their other state officials who must work every day in harmony with the chief executive. They too must be unselfish men and women who know the job of public service well and are ready to make personal sacrifices that they and their Governor may do a good job—a job that will require no interpretation or rejection by the State Supreme court. Heading the list on the ballots in the primary and election next year will be the name of two men in each district who would represent their fellow citizens in Congress. Under the Democratic emblem will be the name of a man who believes in a strong defense, a man who despises Adolf Hitler and all he stands for, a man who believes in the President and every phase of the policy that has kept us at peace so long while the rest of the world rages in conflict. Opposite his name will be that of a man pledged to tread the “lonesome trail of isolationism,” a man who pledged hatred of the President to obtain his party’s support, a man who must (as a matter of form) oppose any Administration proposal, regardless of its wisdom. Each Hoosier must make a choice. Perhaps his one vote might decide whether Democracy shall live or die. He alone can make that decision.

Anticipating a Crisis

TOO COLD IN RUSSIA FOR HITLER, TOOHOTINU.S. W We are now at war with the Axis powers. Hitler, the self-appointed dictator of the Axis powers, surprised the world Sunday when he egged on the yellow peril, Japan, into a dastardly attack on our Pacific outpost while peace negotiations were still in progress in Washington. Hitler abandoned for the present his Russian campaign, giving the weather as an excuse, and in order to divert the attention of his faithful followers from dwelling on that failure, he has launched an all out war on America. He no doubt came to this momentous decision as the direct result of the many encouraging reports from his paid followers and spies who have been for the past several years working in this country, feverishly organizing the dissenting groups and prganizing them into units with the idea.in view, that when a national crisis arose, these groups , would throw us into a revolution here in our own country. This error in judgment on Hitler’s part will prove to be his Waterloo. Neither he nor his paid agents here know much about the real temperament of the American people. What he did not understand was that our heritage of free speech in America is used overtime to say anything and everything we please. This is our national pastime, but almost instantaneously all political differences can be wiped out in the face of a common enemy. Instead of finding a disunited American public, imagine Hitler’s consternation at learning the real truth about our people. We are united to a man to fight any foreign enemy, and if Hitler has the idea that it is now too cold for his armies in Russia, he is going to find it too hot for them in America.

The worries of many Hoosiers for the welfare of the state and its citizens in the post-war period when hostilities throughout the world cease and the reconstruction and readjustment begins were allayed this week by Governor Schricker’s announcement reviving the State Planning Board. Governor Schricker anticipated a possible crisis in industry and other phases of Hoosier life when the defense boom ends and the country begins its return to normalcy. He showed foresight in beginning long in advance to plan for what may be a more trying emergency domestically than America faces even now. He took the first step toward preventing the return of breadlines, poverty and misery such as that experienced after the Hoover administration’s bungling

in 1929.

It is imperative that plans be laid now to absorb defense workers and their families in either projects, both public and private, after the European war which threatens America ends. Unless this is accomplished in advance, a depression far more disastrous than the last one may result. Indiana realizes this and working with Gov. Schricker, who is cooperating wherever possible with the national administration, the state will be prepared for any eventuality after the war.

DISPELLING THE FOG (Continued from ^age One) There will be among us, doubtless, a new group of isolationists who will advocate that we let prostrate Europe welter in its extremity and there will doubtless be others who will want to go as far in the other direction and want to spread our sovereignty indefinitely. We have frequently heard the first World War described, so far as our participation in it went, as a waste. Perhaps those who use this description are balancing what did happen with the rosy hope of twenty-odd years ago that there would be no more wars. Undoubtedly, the period of peace would have been immeasurably extended had the victors of the first World War checked the rise of Hitlerism before Germany became the most formidably armed state that history records. But after all, twenty years of peace was eminently worthwhile. That period sufficed to raise the United States to a peak industry, to greater wealth, and to the establishment of new liberties. In that period we were able to check and overcome the most terrific depression we had ever experienced. The American standard of living went up and up. What Did Not Happen Through the doom-sealers that darkened the sky with their visions of complete destruction at our entrance into the first World War were just as mournful then as they are now, none of the things they prophesied came to pass. In all probability, in the future as in the past, would-be world conquerors will arise. One nation or group of nations may feel the urge to impose their will on the rest of the peoples and there will be new nightmares. Perhaps in the present struggle, some lessons will have been learned or, in other words, some nations may not be as dumb as events have shown them to have been, and may take the salutary precautions that will, for a long period at least, avert, the dread disease of war. Of course there are trials ahead for us in the post-war period. Taxes will be high, economics of various sorts will be forced upon all of us; quite likely we will become infuriated at the greed of some of the victors, but that, too, will pass. Within a few years we will again be more excited over whether a Republican or a Democrat is going to be elected than whether one European country or another flies its flag over some city of an unpronounceable name. There will be a period of stress, obviously, but destroyed cities will have to be rebuilt, sunken ships will have to be replaced; in short, the world will have to be restored. These enterprises will utlimately take care of the unemployment problem. How the work is to be paid for, the economists must figure out. We need a multiplicity of things, and they will be sent us in exchange for the commodities and supplies we, in turn, furnish, and unless the precedents of history are all wrong, this will not be by any direct barter system but in the old-fashion-ed way of bank exchange and the other vehicles of international commerce. In any event, the immediate worry is not what is going to happen two, or five, or ten years from now, but the job to which the democracies have committed themselves. That job is to break down the Axis and all it represents. And the sooner that job is finished, the nearer we will be to normalcy.

“Indiana’s citizens fully appreciate that only the processes of free government have made all of their achievements possible, and they also know and realize that only an adequate navy, well equipped and well manned, can guarantee the future safety of our democracy and maintain the freedom of our seas. A two-ocean navy, the greatest in the world, is now the goal of our republic, and no power on earth shall thwart our will.”—Governor Henry F. Schricker.

Refugee Woes Are Unchanged Schenectady, N. Y.—The troubles of war refugees have always been the same, it seems. Non-Aryan groups, harrassed by the Nazis, fled Germany and sought haven in Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and other prewar democracies, only to find their new homeland swallowed by German armies, had their counterpart in Colonial days during the American Revolution, according' to papers discovered at Windmill Point, on the shores of Lake Champlain. Colonial Tories took refuge in lower Canada to escape the wrath of Colonial patriots. Later they discovered instead of being resi dents of the United States, Today Windmill Point is in Vermont, which was organized in 1791. William B. Efner told a Schenectady genealogical society meeting that the papers, important in the local history of the Windmill Point area, were discovered in a chest of old documents. They are lated the business affairs of Joshua Prime Hammond, a hat maker, who settled in Caldwell Manor, which is part of the town

of Alburgh, Vt.

Efner explained that the Hammond papers date from 1793 and the Hammond business from 1811. Included in the old manuscripts were letters, ledgers and miscellaneous account books, invoices, receipts, due bills and notes, legal documents and indentures, covering a period of half a century. Plans are under consideration for the establishment of a silk industry in Uruguay.

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Says America Was Inhabited In 23,000 B. C. Washington — Dr. Kirk Bryan, professor of geology at Harvard University, in a bulletin issued at the Smithsonian Institution, contends that human being may have been distributed widely, with a variety of cultures, over North America more than 25,000 years

ago.

Bryan assigned an approximate age of more than 25,000 years to human products found recently in the Sandia cave in New Mexico. The Harvard geologist does not believe the Sandia man is the direct man, whose artifacts have been fbund over much of this continent. Bryant said it was indicated that the ancestors of the Minnesota girl, whose bones were found a few years ago in silt deposited in a glacial lake in Minnesota, may have entered North America at the same time as the Sandia man. “On such a supposition,” Bryan said, “ample time would be available to develop several unlike cultures by the time of the beginning of the retreat of the 'Mankato ice sheet . . . “The marine shell found as an ornament with the Minnesota girl without doubt came from the Gulf coast, but if settlement had been so Jong established, it might easily have been obtained through wellestablished trade between Minnesota and the Gulf.”

State Will Act On Food Stamps Indianapolis, Dec. 12. — After hearing arguments, the state budget committee announced that action on a state food stamp plan will be taken before the end of the

week. \

The committee allocated $43,528 for improvements at state institu-

tions and received a recommenda-

} tion from Warden Alfred F. Dowd

Outbreak of war Involving the j of the Indiana State Prison, that United States found the American i Prison guards’ salaries be increas-

Legion in Indiana prepared to throw its whole energies in aiding defense efforts, Department Commander W. Carl Graham, of Fort

Wayne said today.

The 325 Legion posts in Hoosier cities were asked by F. Dean Bechtol, of Garrett, state defense chairman of the Legion, to form immediately local Legion post defense

committees.

These committees, consisting of a chairman and four members at present, will cooperate with existing defense agencies locally. One members each of the committee will be assigned to navy recruiting, aviation recruiting, marine corps recruiting and civilian defense ac-

tivities.

The 11,774 posts and 1,100,000 members of the Legion throughout the nation, and in Hawaii and the Philippine Islands, are on a “war footing” in the matter of national defense already; Department Commander Graham said. Among some of the defense activities that the Indiana Legion are engaged in are the following: Since the start of 1941, the Indiana Legion registered by vocations, for volunteer emergency service, a total of 26,000 Legionnaires. They stand ready for instant defense service in their communiies. A total of 3,000 Legionnaires are cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Indiana in its important work against sabotage and protection of defense industries located in this state. The Indiana Legion is assisting in the employment problems ot war industries in an effort to get trained men in the right place. The Indiana Legion has kept constantly in front of the Hoosier delegation in Congress the need for an adequate national defense on land, air and sea. Nationally it has been fighting for national defense legislation. The Indiana Legion has plans formulated to establish and man a volunteer aircraft warning and air raid warden service when the Indiana Civil Defense committee says it is ready. The Indiana Legion has conducted and is continuing a campaign to recruit air cadets, navy and marine cadets, anj is assisting local draft boards. The Indiana Legion took the lead in the alumiaum and USO drives and is standing ready to assist in scrap paper or metal collection cam-

paigns.

The Indiana Legion has enrolled a record 1942 advance membership as has the National. The more than 500,000 auxiliary members of the Legion are engaged in Red Cross sewing, recruiting nurses, providing blood donors, and otherwise aiding national defense. Many Legionnaires are serving in the national guard, other armed forces or the home guard. More than two years ago the Indiana Legion approached Governor M. Clifford Townsend with the suggestion that he create an Indiana Civil Defense Council. This suggestion was accepted and sixteen leaders of business, agriculture, industry, organized labor, veterans group, the government, and other groups were named to consider the problem of civil defense. From this preliminary council came the present Indiana Defense Council appointed under the authority conveyed by Senate Bill No. 65 which the. Legion backed in the legislature. This bill carried an appropriation of $200,000. The Legion then backed a state guard bill in the legislature as the national guard was in camp, and an appropriation of $50,000 was made of the home guard use. Q Radio Listening On Curriculum At Penn State

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State College, Pa. — Declaring that the education of people to be more discriminating radio listeners is “highly imperative” in a democracy, Raymond W. Tyson, instructor in 'public speaking at Pennsylvania State College, urged that public schools and colleges give more courses in radio. “Educating enough people for intelligent listening eventually will raise the standards of radio programs,” Tyson said. “Furthermore, such listening will stimulate wider reading of newspapers.” The Penn State instructor pointed to the relative simplicity of equipment necessary for presentation of such courses of study. All that is needed, he said, is a microphone, amplifier, and an extra class room, where the broadcasters can be heard and unseen. Tyson is teaching a course in redio appreciation at Penn State, stressing program planning, rigid adherence to professional standards of timing and study of production technique.

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San Francisco. — The United States can overcome the so-called Nazi infiltration of South America by an energetic influx of North American technicians and a largescale interchange of students and professors, according to Dr. Gustav Egloff, world famous petroleum and explosives expert. Dr. Egloff, director of research for a Chicago oil products firm, recently returned from a survey trip to South America as one of a group of 21 American specialists in their field. The trip was sponsored by the Nelson Rockefeller Pan American committee. “What I saw in South America was enough to convince me South American countries not only have an abundance of natural resources needed for their own industrial: zation but also the latent talent to grasp problems involved and develop them to their fullest extent,” Dr. Egloff said. Urges U. S. Action Latin Americans are temperamentally fitted to develop these talents among their nationals, he said, but needed instruction from the outside, chiefly from the United States, to develop their own technical schools. Dr. Egloff advocated United States action to launch this educational program. What is needed is an exchange of students and professors by the tens of thousands with South American countries— at U. S. government expense, he

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o Blames Love’s Hypnosis for Wedded Misery New York*— Alfred Feldman came out today against love. He says it gets in the way of a good marriage. Feldman is a marriage broker, the only one, he says, who has the “unique distinction” of getting a mate for another marriage broker. The reason he is against love, he adds, is that it has a “hypnotic effect” and blinds the girl or boy to the faults of the other. When the hypnotism wears off, the wedded ones too late see each other in their true lights. The result? Disillusion. “It takes,” said Feldman, “an extremely broad-minded person to admit to himself openly that he is subject to the call of life’s requirements. Therefore, one does meet a superior type person through personal service than can be met through any other medium.” Feldman is shocked by insinuations that most clients of marriage brokers place monetary consideration before other qualities. He likes to think of himself as a cutter of red tape, an intermediary who provides a short cut for those floundering around in the search for a

mate.

o - Circus Driver In Cavalry Fort Riley, Kas.—Pvt. George E. Nesbitt, a Pennsylvania recruit, finds the cavalry a simple place to get adjusted. He drove an eighthorse team for Cole Brothers’ circus before his induction.

FIND SUPPORT FOR FDR NAZI PLOT CHARGES

Details of German Plans Disclosed In Brazil And Argentina The assertion by President Roosevelt in his navy day audress that a German map exists, illustrating a Nazi plan to carve South and part of Central America into vassal states, has received support from two sources. Juan A. Solari, acting chairman of the Argentine “Dies Committee,” a congressional body which for several months has been investigating anti-Argentine activities, mostly of a German nature, has reported the existance of a Nazi plan to make a protectorate of the South American continent, under a “gauleiter named by Adolph Hitler.” \ Almost simultaneously, Coelho Souza, secretary of education of the southern Brazil state of Rio Grande do Sul, charged that Nazi plans have been drawn up to take over Brazil, and that all Nazi activities leading to that end are under the direction of Hans Henning von Cossel, counselor of the' German embassy at Rio de Janeiro. Headquarters in B. A. Except for minor details, the {statements of the two South American public officials do not clash. Solari said that the headquarters of Nazi infiltration and propaganda in South America were moved from Rio de Janerio to Buenos Aires two years ago, because the Germans found a more sympathetic attitude in Argentina. Souza^ stated that a German consular official in Chile is chief of the German “general staff” in South America. Solari’s statement declared that a person prominent in finance and industry in the South American German community already has been selected as “gauleiter” by Hitler: that he was to subordinate only to the supreme council of the Nazi party in Germany; that his vice-gauleiter would work in close cooperation -vyith the German foreign office, army and general staff and Gestapo; and that a council was to be created including Germans from Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, to aid in ruling the new South American slave state.

HUMIDITY AIDS FOREST FIRES

Cincinnati, O.—Daniel R. Bergsmark, associate professor of geography at the University of Cincinnati says that forest fires in this country annually destroy wooded areas 35 per cent larger than the state of Ohio. Bergsmark, reporting on studies he has made op-forest fire devastation, declared recently that relative humidity is the greatest natural factor in the start and spread of fires. “All the great historic fires have occurred during periods of low humidity when the air feels dry,” he said. “I have observed in northern ' Minnesota and Wisconsin that a relative humidity below 30 per cent has caused fires to ■ spread beyond control. “When humidity is between 50 and 60 the spread is slow and only when the humidity is above 60, fires cease to spread.” _T h e Cincinnati geographer’s study shows that careless smokers are the leading cause of manmade forest blazes. Other causes are incendarism, burning of debris, lightning, sparks from railroad trains, campers and the lumbering business.

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Admiral Kidd Killed In Hawaii Washington, Dec. 12.—The navy has announced that Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd was killed in action during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Sunday. Kidd was flag secretary and aide on the staff of the commander in chief of the Pacific fleet. Admiral Husband Kimmeli f Admiral Kidd was in command of a battleship division of the Pacific fleet at the time of his death. The ship was not named. Born in Cleveland, O., March 26, 1884, Kidd was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1906. Survivors include a son, Isaac Campbell Kidd, Jr., a midshipman scheduled for graduation at the United States Naval Academy next week. His widow has been living temporarily in Annapolis. ARSENAL OUTPUT UPPED 400 P. C.

Philadelphia—Among the 20,000 plants now working on ordnance contracts in America the Franktord Arsenal here is setting a fast pace. It has increased its output of war materials four hundred per cent by using streamlined methods, modern machinery, and thousands of trained workers. Officials predict that soon the present rate of production eventually will be doubled. The commandant of the Arsenal, Brigadier General Walter P. Boatwright, said there are more than five times as many workers employed in the Arsenal shops today, as in 1938. The Frankford Arsenal represents the latest step ahead in the 125-year history of the government’s ammunition factories. Befor the first World War, this country 1 had only six arsenals and two civilian factories equipped to produce artillery ammunition. At the time of the Armistice, almost 8,000 plants had ordnance contracts. Today’s total of 20,000 is increasing &s more plants go up. Terming the demands of national defense “colossal,” Colonel James Kirk of the small arms and artillery department of the arsenal said, “Previously, we talked of ammunition in terms of millions, but today the ranks of the army being swelled almost daily and the 50,000 airplanes ordered by President Roosevelt not to mention the thousands-t»f tanks, scout cars and other mechanized equipment that must be furnished with ammunition, we now speak in terms of billions.”

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