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Gire 1.1 the People Will Find Ther Own Way
FRIDAY 1210
JULY 5
THE PROBLEM OF MAN ‘POW ER F we could scare Hitler by appropriating billions of dollars and by legislating authority to spend more billions, Fuehrer by now would be shaking in his boots. But apparently neither the five billions which Congress has laid on the line, nor the four billions it is now in the process of authorizing, nor the five billions additional lately impression on the 20th century Napoleon. Nor is he likely to try to appease the United States until the weapons “on order” are actually “on hand” —and are literally in the hands of men trained to use them. Our Government's gingerly approach to industrial mobilization for the production of defense weapons has been matched by its reluctance to face the necessity of training nien to handle those weapons when and as they
Der
proposed, has made any
1
roll from the factories.
First there was the scheme to train the CCC boys for services— photography,
there was a lot of foggy talk about
“non-combat” cooking, mechanics,
communications. Then bs in industryv—as if there weren't tv of unemployed men more than eager to volunteer would lead to good jobs at
conscription for skilled )¢ plen for training good pay in private industry
in any trade which
x x 5 = an n THE only head-on recognition that men must be prepared for actual combat is the Burke-Wadsworth Compulsory litarv Training Bill, on which Congress has finally started We don’t say this measure provides the answers the President there 1s
Ings.
But, in words
Harvard,
training problems.
Bryant Conant of “no method and
and
building an army in a free democracy more efficient
more just than that selective service,”
of compulsory mn
to give notice of
of some such program is essential
adoptic
that “we are alive to the realities in this new world
foi ce,
The
and ready to meet them.” the recistration of all citizens from 2] and for the immediate training of all 45 who can be spared from their private jobs damage to the defetie production program. it a citizen army .of from 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 them single men and 30. It would
utilize men between 18 and 21 and between 45 and 65 for
nil calls for t age of to 65, 21
without
{rom
1d 1» y ula mean
Wi
men, most of under
home defense purposes. er plan than the Burke-
We should get
a bett it forward. training.
If the Administration has Wa Bill, it should bring going soon on some program
lsworth for combat » un n = n ”n
P! RHAPS
testiiy
no man in our country is better qualified to
an Gen. Pershing, who led
American soldiers in the World War. the Burke-Wadsworth
this subilect th
on
ireds of untrained
hun Senate committee considering
1e sent a letter saving:
“If we had adopted compulsory military training in
1914
tially
would not have been necessary for us to send paragainst we could have ended the con-
saving of many thousands
mto battle and certainly with the lives and billions of treasure. down to the present war in Europe, it perfectly evident that if universal military training had been the practice in Great Britain the results would have different. In modern war the advantage on the side that is ready. Such a in by into
men
trained boys veteran troops of adversary,
sooner,
oul flict
much
1S
Coming
vastly 18
ly
been decide opinion, intimate contact all walks of life. the determining factor in
neasure, bring ing
voung
my would promote and on More-
keeping
fooling in
it might well be
of war.”
us out FRATRICIDE OFF ORAN AS {range and tragic a battle as evel where was that between Britis at Oran Alger
the line ani
was fought h and French warships of His Majesty's the Royal Air Force rained death and destruction upon men and ships that had so recently been comrades-at-arms. It was, as Mr. Churchill told Commons, a “melancholy” and “unnatural” action. The tears that sprang from the Prime Minister's eyes as he described the outcome wer: stimony to the reiuctance with which the fight was ordered. Even in victory, he acknowledged the propriety Admiral Gensoul's refusal to disobey his Government, and paid homage to “the characteristic courage of the French Navy.” Mr. Churchill appeared on the defensive. le was entering a cemu:rer, at the bar of history, to the inevitable charge of fratricide. it
any-
1a, where the great guns
ships of the bombs of
of
to be
fo eriticize the British action. To h: permitted the French Navy to be turned have been an act military sald to have heen given the French naval officers to aay their ships peacefully internment, to join the British in continuing the They refused. For England, it seems to us, there was no alternative to the terrible step which followed.
EXPANSION AT THE AIRPORT
TE are glad to see an expansion of hangar facilities at Municipal Airport get under way.
distance 1s difficult
w hig of
Full ovportuni
over to (;ermans
madness 18 for or war
Approval by the City of a lease to Col. Roscoe Turner |
assures the construction of a $100,000 hangar at the field.
Such facilities are sorely needed. The airport proper
is one of the finest natural fields in the ¢ountry, and capable of expansion for any program that civil aviation or the Goveynment may decide upon. But its potential usefulness has never been reached, largely because it was woefully elacking in hangar facilities. Accommodations were lacking not only for visiting planes, but were inadequate even for The proposed hangar project by Col. Turner should meet immediate needs. We echo the hope expressed by Col. Turner when he said “this is a turning point in aviation in Indianapolis,
lacal needs.
- sald, in paraphrase of her fellow Hoosier,
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Mrs. Willkie, Now Public Personage, Will Be Subject for Heckling And 'Sneak-Punching' by Press.
EW YORK, July Republican National Convention Mrs.
5.—Through the action of the
Deal press, anc covert, of the "queen. the obscure and wholly mavoress of New York, is still remembered, doubtless without the slightest justification in fact. Although she is not running for any office herself. Mrs. Willkie will be required to hold press conterences wherever she goes in deference to the American tradition. which has some substance, that those pubiic figures who do not make. themselves available and cordial to the press deserve its ridicule. At her peril and at some peril to the political chances of the Republican nominee will she refuse unreasonable demands on her time, strength and patience and resent attempts to put her on a spot with questions planted not to elicit her ideas for what they are worth but to embarrass her.
including not a few Communists, and to nasty little word-of-mouth stories vou said a mouthful” type. for which
late lady
= = = HIS sort of thing will be done--not by all reporters but by an occasional tricky one—under the pretext that the public has a natural and legitimate interest in the mind and personality of the wife of the nominee and on the ground that by some intuitive process the husband may be judged by the wife If Mrs. Willkie tries to establish a rule against questions touching on matters of politics and state, occasions will rise in which only a very surefcoted person of great experience will be able to decide on the instant whether the questions are on the fairway or out of bounds. and some which seem legitimate and receive answers will lead to others intended to draw to dangerous ground Willkie is small and fair not obtrusively so. and of
ner om Mrs though
and rather stylish her it might be George Ade that if she not exactly a queen for looks she fis distinct better than a nine-spot. However, she has had no preparatory experience in politics or, personal publicity, and the realization that she will now be quoted and. occasionally. misquoted widely, and that her remarks may be held against husband, may give her the stammers and make her answers worse
IS
iv
her
n = =
to give the press a bad The American press 185 never turned out more conscientious journalism i 1t 1s producing today, being especially careful to deserve the freedom which it enjoys, alone in all the world But
vilest
I" these observations seem name that can go as it lies
185%
at the same time it is producing some of the journalism in its history, the result of the introduction into the newspaper business of interlopers without the slightest notion of propriety or newspaper methods Unavoidably Mrs. Roosevelt a1 velt, of
ness
Mrs Willkie will 1d vice versa and course will treat her polished into diplomacy Willkie, with the best intent regrettable remarks
be compared with though Mrs. Riosewith instinctive polite= by long experience, Mrs.
ions, may be drawn into
Inside Indianapolis
Is Safety Half a Generation Away? And About the Chief's "New" Car
EAL traffic safetyenforcement agencies—is Sheriff Al Feenev contends. He and most other thoughtful p rectly with the traffic problem are doleful ate future, he say: engineers, safetv campaigns, law and educational programs. the death toll The Sheriff says that those in the best position to evaluate things figure this way Almost notl can be done with reckless or attentive adult drivers because can't be made driving habits of a They, thinks, will if arrested, will exert in-
law
off,
despite best efforis of all
half a generation ersong wrestling ovel
dithe immedi In spite of safety enforcement rises ng nto few
con-
thev realize Vvears ago tinue
the easv-going won't work now to be careless and. fluence to lighten penalties Neither has he much hope for of the smart alec driving set and high school age groups. down somewhat, but that many of them will grow up 0 be a: careless or as unconscious of the traffic laws as their elders The real hope, grade schools dinned In their laws better
he
the eventual taming of the present coilege He feels they may settle
the children now in have traffic safety day. They know the parents. And they respect them hen up and drive, this man savs. they'll observe traffic laws because they will have been educated to observe them And then, he says, we can be sure the traffic toll will steadily be reduced. x = n HIZZONER., THE MAYOR, autos. He has one of his own, more than once in two weeks. his official auto which never The other day, Chief Morrissey happened to menHizzoner that his (the Chief's) 1936 official a lot of miles on 1t and wasn't in such good
he savs, are These children ears day after than their driving Wi they grow
is not long on driving which rarely gets out Then he has—or had— was out
tion to had shape Mavbe the
the Mavor
the
thought the Chief was trying to budget for a new one and the likes anvthing that resembles a bite
put bite on Mayor at time on the budget H s how but
no
En That 1336, too
izzoner. “You the Chief with almost
SERS can have mine new’ official car
no miies on it
got 8 It's
” » ”
THE OTHER DAY it became necessary to send a messenger boy to the office of a political headquarters for a copy of a speech that some candidate was to deliver. Pretty soon the messenger showed up in the ofice and he was very jolly. “Here it is,” he said, forth. “You asked for it. wanted with it.” After we read it,
shaking his head back and | But I don't know what you |
neither did we.
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson N his column Ernie Pyle talks about people instead
I of politics. Being wise, he knows that people are the most interesting things under the sun Now and however, Ernie turns philosopher, and when he does he saves a mouthful. On his recent trip to New York City, he hurled a sizable chuck of common sense at his readers, of which we quote a paragraph "Whether we decide to go into the war or stay out, the nebula of that decision will originate in the small dense East and will filter out as growing public | opinion through all the rest of America, and not vice versa, as you may think. The words, thoughts and
then,
decisions of the men in the East are the CAUSE of |
American public opinion and not the result of it.” If more real their hatbands and act upon it, different sort of history to write
we might have a
| recently removed from Europe. Multitudes have relatives there; others have traveled abroad. And scores of the rich and influential are | intermarried with European aristocracy.
Such people would be less than human if they | did not feel tremendous concern over affairs on the !
Eastern Hemisphere. " Nor can anyone deny viduals are fine citizens. liberty, umbilical cord to their ancestral past, become real Americans. Moreover their thinking and emotion permeates the whole of our Eastern seaboard. It is there where
that many
they have not
THE INDIANAPOLIS
Wendell | Willkie is now a public personage,-subject to heckling | with sneak-punch questions by reporters of the New | avowed |
domestic Mrs. John F. Hylan, '
Americans would stick that under |
In the small dense East live millions of people but
extensively |
of these indi- | They may love and cherish | but because they are tied by some spiritual |
TIMES
FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1940
National Electrification
The Hoosier Forum
I who!ly disagree with what you
defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
say,
but will
PRAYS AMERICA WILL STAY AT PEACE By Mrs. G. A F Mr. Martin are you? war service, or the World War? anxious for the U. S. (and 1 expect vou mean U. S./ instead of vow to go to war in Europe? If there 1s anything glorious about haven't seen it. Don’t get me wrong. I am strong for defense, everybody will fight without conscription or draft 'n case ol! defense or Invasion It was. .'i our quarrel 20 years ago and it isn't our quarrel now. Let pray to God to give us sense What did it get us Row upon row of little white crosses in Flanders and France, wrecks in our Government hosprials ' We =isters have visited 20 vears and them for vears anvthing else but of Americans and pray God this awful fate
vited
their views
(Times readers are in
express in
religious
con-
and Mr. Benedict Too old or too did you fight in ir letters short, Why are you so have a chance. Letters must
how
old rsies excluaed. Make
oung
for so all can
be signed, but names will be
withheld on request.)
war I cenerations or maybe belore this one has passed. America must and seif-initiative
to sacrifice now,
cultivate courage She must learn that tomorrow, 1 it comes, will be brignter. We as individuals must stop thinking about our own corrupted, selfish and vain interests, and learn to protect the homes of our neighbors as though they were our own. We must demand from our Gevernment the right to suffer and sacrifice today. and to live only by the mitial courage instilled in the hearts of men by man's creator ” ” ” FEARS DOMESTIC AFFAIRS ARE BEING NEGLECTED
By Clarence F Lafferty The people of this nation are giving too much concern to foreign affairs, and not enough consideration to the problems of this country. When it comes to foreign relief, we have people who are in need right here. We also have the problem
2 us
20 vears ago?
mothers who hese visiting can't do destiny ourselves sons
ana our these hospitals will keep on to come sav the to save will spare our
18
» n 5 FEARS U. S. HEADING TOWARD COMMUNISM By Maurice G. America can live only by taking
Merriman
of unemployment when it comes to welcoming refugees from Ewope. Why increase it? And as to ging aid to the Allies by sending them arms and ammunition, why sacrifice our present supplies when our President complains that the present equipment is inadequate for our defense? Defense? What defense? If. it is a defense against the fear of Hitler menacing this nation with the ambition of conquering the world, that is absurd. That contention can easily be discarded as any other rumor from someone's senational imagination. The thought of such intentions is beyond common sernse comprehension, While our attention was diverted toward the foreign war, I wonder how many people are aware ot the Smith Bill (H. R. 9195) being passed through the House of Representatives at Washington on June 7 with a vote of 258 to 129. a bill which has been designed to strike at, and
crush organized labor in the scope
and the affiliations of the C. 1. O. and the A. F. of L. The House vote can be regarded as 258 Representatives who are
against the welfare of the working While a na-| “thrusts its sword in the
class of this country. tion abroad back of its neighbor,” we had our double-crossers here within our own national boundaries. We must not let oum attention he distracted from problems which concern our own welfare.
a complete turn about In some things which the Government is doing. The Government for the last seven years has been encouraging people to lay down iheir personal and private affairs and to let the
New Books at the Library
&overnment regulate them by laws. It has tried to Kill the spirit of courage and the will-to-do by telling the people they should have Government regulations. Is 1t possible that the peopie are ignorant as to what this means? If anvbody has any doubt as to what it means. let him or her get down the dictionary and look up the definition of Communism [= it not true that we alread) are two-thirds Communist? Is 1t not true that any regulation of prices or wages by the Government are pure and undefiled practices ot Communism? [I cannot neip but believe that, unless the pepole of the nation demand the right to struggle and work tor what they get, they will institute a Communist Government within the next two
Side Glances—By Galbraith
ENRY TETLOW'S latest glorification of rural lifé, “On Medlock Farm” (Morrow) continues his popular “We Farm for a Hobby and Make It Pav.” Here is meat for the vivacious farmer, the armchair hunter, the near antiquary, (oe would-be chicken fancier—in 1lact, for all of us common ordinary hookworms who like to read about how someone goes out with brain and brawn to meet a tough situation, like farming, and bring order out of chaos by the sheer love of doing The author. self-styled ruro-ur-banite hybrid, one who speaks noth the city and countty languagzes, puts across in an ingenious and humorous manner a lot of information. Several nice bits of Southeastern Pennsylvania folklore star his pages.
. Yi 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, WNC. T. M. REC. U. S. PAT, OFF.
| the numbers nf foreign born are most numerous that |
American public opinion is formed. Before that power, we citizens of Middle America often feel as felpless as Hitler's minions.
“N
"I'll bid six who do you suppose | saw walking down the street this afterncon spades.”
| |
[is to correct those impressions of
' The others wanted,
While he felt the garden,
delights in the Wismar, seven
Our Americanism story of one pioneer,
generations back, who stood by his
unloaded goods and chattels in the midst of a virgin forest, in his ea.s the admonition of the driver who had brought him from the distant settlemént: “Now, Wismer, worx or die!” There is the, K tale of Zeke, who was chief inflater for a white
mouse raising boom, and the melan-|
choly saga of the table, “an early American eight-legged so-and-so,” which sold for $3.75 out of the junk heap in the cellar of the Tavern House, only to sell and resell, by degrees, for and finally land in the Early American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum. The author
look at it. Part of his job, Mr. Tetlow admits,
rural life cherished by the city slick ers. ish, both to his own satisfaction and to the delight of his Teader,
GIVING AND SHARING By ANNA E. YOUNG sunflower willowy, stately tall, Swaving so gently garden wall, Surround by flowers that were well satisfied. Yet he wanted to see, outside,
A and
o'er the old
just what was
te just sit and nloom Just a bit of a room; Seemed to know there was beauty outside the wall, | Knew he might share it, growing tall.
by lust
| Wanted to vision while he also did { bloom, | And feeling also, the need, of more room; | We should not criticize, growing tall, |He may be—Giving and Sharing— outside of our wall.
DAILY THOUGHT
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born.—Matthew 26:24,
IN THE CLEAR mind of virtue a reason can find no hiding place. Sis P. Sidney,
| It | placing of contracts.
| are necessary,
| one of these principles.
| people for drive and effectiveness. | ness.
| flexible terms. | administration which had not proved its willingness | to use lump-sum appropriations for such surprise and | purely political monstrosities as Quoddy and the
the speediest,
| is in a terrible mess. | watch the British facing defeat in spite of their far
hundreds of dollars] | present. warships.
insists that he| | has never had the heart to go and
This he does with a fine flour- |
‘Watching Your Health
| By Jane Stafford
| Adrian Gordon Gould, of Cornell University,
| physical reserves; | ested | others (5) has good reasoning powers; (6) perseveres
the os) propriate feelings;
7 judgment.
Gen. Johnson Says—
Knudsen Hasn't Been Given the Task He Can Do the Best and Maybe God Won't Give Us Time for Fumbling
ASHINGTON, D. C., July 5.—Industrial mobili= zation isn't just madly appropriating billions. isn't even necessarily the swift and unstudied It is like the creation of a new in quality, low-cost and
industry for competition
| speedy mass production.
Billions are necessary. but success is threatened
if they are thrown away. Contracts with suppliers but they are no good if they don't result in swift and acceptable production so regulated that all the separate parts come to the assembiy line properly timed to all other deliveries and with no spoiled work or parts that do not fit. I doubt if We are giving enough attention to either There is too much ballyhoo It tends to pacify the demand of the That demand 1s the necessary pressure to procure the production and speed to end our present disgraceful defenselessAppropriations should be no greater for any period than can reasonably be spent in that period. They should be made in the broadest and most If ours were a more business-like
about billions.
Florida Ship Canal, it would be wiser than an item-by-item donation if we made the money available on some such broad designation as “for raising: and supporting armies” and “providing and maintaining” a navy. That can't be done with this crowd. n on HIS column began insisting years ago that we call in Bill Knudsen—but not in his present job of passing on and clearing contracts. What this situa= tion needs is a great production man and Bill is the the best we have. What he should be doing is fitting Army désign and specification to civilian manufacture to insure best and most economical production, but few know
»
Army design engineers are excellent, civilian manufacture. Your designer is always a perfectionist, The whola secret of American mass production and sale—speed, quality and economy—has been due to nard-headed common sense production managers—usually grad= nate machinists—who know how to compromise be{ween drawing board perfection in material, precision and gadgets on one hand and practical limits and requirements on the other. That is Bill Khudsen's specialty. That is what he should be doing—exclusively. It is also necessary to know that the contractor is not merely the low bidder but the surest operator, Knudsen knows that, o n ” been given that job. Nobody ‘is doing it. This sounds like a trade school lecture. It isn't. It is the most important constructive criticism of what is being done. Failure to Yecognize and provide for this service cost us needless billions and months of avoidable deadly delay in the world war. God gave us time ta fumble then. Maybe he won't this time. Why do we have to fumble at all? The lesson was taught in 1918 But this administration's outfit of amateurs are too brilliant to need experience.
A ‘Pushover’ By Maj. Al Williams
Foreign Powers’ Superior Numbers Would Eliminate Our Air Force.
{jm STATES airpower would he a week-end pushover for Germany, England or Italy—and perhaps even Russia, by sheer numbers, could down our (Gen, Arnold concedes them so) ware planes
E hasn't
just,
obsolete
In addition to the Administration's failure to formulate a comprehensive national defense policy (the President himself ruled out a separate and unified air force), we are suffering from another ingrown disease. When we faced the issue of Neutrality or Profit was chosen for us. And now, when it triotism or Profit, in getting our national system in order, Profit wins again. Billions for more warships, while airpower is prac=tically neglected. The Administration seems to be concerned solely with mass production of planes and
engines, and the critical bottleneck of pilot training Billions for warships while we
Profit, is Pa~ defense
superior seapower, After 20 odd years to get ready, and billions of dollars spent, the Navy reports to the country that it is not ready for action or defense of the United States against major air attack. And now, without proving that it won't make the same gigantic mistake in designing ships that cannot stand up to air attack, the Navy gets more billions
Why Not a ‘Real’ Experiment
Why shomldn't our Government tell the Navy ta build air-attack proof warship, and then subject it to real experimental bombing to see if the Navy dreamers had dreamed correctly? We have to prove each new type of airplane. The 2000-pound bomhs have already junked the Suppose the Navy builds warships that will float after being kicked around by a 2000pound bomb. Airplanes have carried 10,000 pounds of payload into the air already. Suppose we air people “up” the bombs to 5000 pounds against the new . floating-and-whistle<blowing forts? What then? And what are we taxpayers going to use for money ?
one new
OST of us are anxious to develop in ourselves or our children a good personality. We cannot all be glamour girls or go-getters, hut we recognize that a good personality helps toward success in busie ness or The ideal personality is difficult to dee fine, and perhaps each person would define it somes what difterently. . A hes hy personality, what physhiatrists call a well-integrated or well-balanced personality, has been defined by Dr. Dean Franklin Smiley and Dr, in their
love
new book an hygiene for rollege students. The man or woman with a well-integrated person=ality, they say, has (1) Good health and normal (2) good health habits; (3) is intermn others: (4) makes himself interesting to (7) reacts to various situations with ap(8) has normal control over these | feelings; (9) is honest; (10) is fair. According to this, the woman who resorts to tears to get what she wants, or develops a headache or nackache when faced with a difficult situation, does not have a well-integrated personality, however charming she may otherwise be. The same is true of the man who shouts or pounds the desk in a crisis,
| with work;
| or sulks when things go wrong at home.
For the ideal personality, the Cornell authorities add to the well-balanced personality the following components: “1. Seeks as a rule the higher types of satistgetiony “2. Has a true appreciation of beauty. “3. Balances initiative and originality with good
4. Seeks’ the god. of society (is idealistic) !