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SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1941

CONGRATULATIONS, I. U. HIS evening will see the beginning of Indiana University’s impressive five-day celebration marking the opening of that school's new auditorium and music hall. Tonight will see the presentation of the huge building by Governor Schricker and the dedicatory address by Dr. Walter A. Jessup of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Tomorrow will be open house with an address in the evening by Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington. On Monday, the famous stage team of Lunt and Fontanne will appear and on Tuesday Lauritz Melchior and Lottie Lehman will give a joint recital. And Wednesday

will bring the celebration to its climax with a concert by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Fabien | Sevitzky. Indiana University, dedicating this auditorium, is al- | ready looking into the future. The school hopes to see the new auditorium as the dominating structure of a great fine | arts center with an open-air ampitheater to the south of it and a fine arts building to the north of it. We congratulate I. U. and we wish it success.

MRS. NORTON SPEAKS THE TRUTH

EP. MARY NORTON of New Jersey has always been known as a labor Congresswoman. As chairman of the House Labor Committee she has gone along with whatever the union leaders wanted, showing indecision only on those occasions when she found herself in a crossfire between rival labor factions. No matter what happens in this emergency, it’s safe to assume that Mrs. Norton will continue to vote “for | labor.” But she is wise enough to see how the public- | opinion tide has been running, and courageous enough to warn her friends, the unions and their leaders, that they | are inviting “dangerous legislation” by their strikes in | bottleneck defense production plants. “In most of these disputes management is at fault as | often as labor,” she says, “but the public as a whole blames

| fighting is stylish no longer, | shrapnel of the old war is disappearing.

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

The New American Army Has a Wide Range of Weapons and Some Of Them, Brother, Are Pretty Potent

ORT BRAGG, Fayetteville, N. C.,, March 22.—The guns which new soldiers of the American Army are learning to shoot and their special purposes suggest a vague comparison with the odd-shaped hoes, rakes and apple pickers that a golfer thinks he

needs to flog-a little white ball | There are some who never knew any- |

under varying conditions.

thing about golf and others who

have grown up and forgotten the

sweet, agonizing mischief of the

era of wonderful nonsense, and |

perhaps to them this illustration of the nature and purpose of the

guns will have no meaning at all. |

But it isn't my duty to teach the basic facts of life. They are supposed to know, when I say that the soldier's personal rifle, 4 whether the old reliable Springfield or the new automatic Garand, is the equivalent of the golfers putter, that I am speaking of the golf stick that counts most at the instant when the decision is to be made. It is the precision weapon. The rifle is the gun that wins the hole on the green after the artillery have blasted away with their big clubs. It is the weapon that shoots the individual soldier, personally, after which he cannot capture the position, even though the artillery has churned it upside down. This army has or will have altogether four of these caliber .30 weapons—the Springfield, the Garand, the Browning automatic and that

playful old friend of the prohibition days, the Thomp-

son, or tommy gun.

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HE tommy was rejected by our Army along toward

the end of the last war as being inaccurate at |

certain ranges and, being thus snubbed, turned to a life of crime. It was first respectabilized, I helieve, when the British, in their hour of great need,

| last summer, let out a yell for anything that would even make a noise, and our people sent them, among | other relics, a lot of Tommies, presumably taken |

out of the property rooms of our police stations. Incidentally, the .45 automatic pistol is being abandoned because it is more like a cannon than a one-hangd gun and really ought to have wheels under it. Very few men can hit a painted bull on the side of a barn at 10 paces with the .45. This pistol was adopted many years ago on the suggestion of Lieut. Gen. Robert, Lee Bullatd, now retired but then a captain of infantry, that the American Army should have a pistol which would knock a man off his feet by impact.

The American infantry battalion alone now has a | the | soldier's personal rifle or putter, shooting a slug |

variety of weapons increasing in bore from about as big around as a fat pencil up to mortars of 60 and 81 millimeters which are about a No. 5 ron. a firm sitdown and from a mile to about two miles of distance.

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HE 60 is about two and a half inches thick and the 81 more than three inches thick, and both are packed with commotion and malice, but just what conditions of rough or fairway they are intended for I haven't heard. They would seem to be trench-fighting tools, but everybody says trench Even the fashionable

But in between the personal rifles and the mortars there are a couple of approaching weapons. They are the caliber 50 and the 37-millimeter rapid-fire

They give plenty of height and accuracy and |

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The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

road tracks with her mind and not with her heart alone.” It is indeed time, for the women’s clubs throughout the nation to de- | part from self-cultural efforts when there are those who talk about the| sections across the railroad tracks as needing attention. What about [the development of the FHA which (has resulted in a vast number of slum clearance prcjects already?

(Times readers are invitea their these columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letters short, so all can

to express views in

By a Worker, Indianapolis

I don’t want you to use my name and address because I'm on the op-| posite side of the fence on this] question with my employer and he might take some offense. However, I would like to take this opportunity of expressing my sur-|

troversies have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

“Dutch stubbornness.

| for power alone. | gation but if, in developing for navigation, power | Was produced as an incident, that was permissible,

‘Gen. Johnson Says—

President's 'Dutch Is Up' Again And This Time He'll Probably Get

His St. Lawrence Seaway Project

Vy ASO, March 22.—A principal chare

acteristic of our President in respect of which his pride is amply justified by the record is what an observer might call persistence but what he calls his Whatever you call it, it certainly is there. If you look back over the story of what he set out to do and in which he was temporarily frustrated, you will find that the purpose remained and that, through one or another avenue—sometimes after years— the end was achieved. He wanted to remake the Supreme Court. Congress stopped him but death and advancing age gave him more than he had ever sought. He has already appointed more justices than anybody since Washington, and there is a possibility that before the tale is told he will have appointed them all.

NRA was as dear to his heart as any policy. The

| Supreme Court stopped him but in the National Labor | Relations Law, the Wages and Hours Act, the Bitu-

minous Coal Law, and the Walsh-Healy Act, he ate tained piece-meal at least half his principal purpose in NRA. If we go to a really all-out mobilization of

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| industry, as seems very likely, he will get all the rest | of his vision in industrial organization and control,

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ERHAPS the most uncanny of his “bobbing up serenly” to get what he wants in the end is the so-called St. Lawrence Seaway. It was advanced first as a navigation project to “bring the great oceangoing vessels of the commerce of, the world ta the docks of Cleveland, Duluth, Chicago and all lake ports.” It almost certainly would do no such thing, Practically all impartial engineering studies have indicated this conclusion and there have been many of them over many years. The waterway is closed by ice 40 per cent of the time. The low speeds required in “tight” waters and in locking would so greatly slow the speed of vessels that the journeys would not be economical. Finally the proposed depths available would accommodate none but a few ocean tramps and coastwise vessels. But the “navigation” ballyhoo was necessary for two reasons. If it could be sold to the Middle West it was good for political support. More important still, as the Supreme Court decisions then stood, the Federal Government could not develop a waterway Its powers were confined to navi-

So the emphasis was all on navigation—nothwithe

| standing that, on the billion-odd dollars estimated | cost (probably twice that now) only one-third of that | amount would be necessary purely for power.

Navi gation improvements of highly dubious value would cost $614.000,000 of the lower estimate, or perhaps double that. .

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INALLY boundary waters between the United A States and Canada had always been subjects of treaties—to be confirmed by two-thirds of the Senate. The then “navigation” argument wasn't good enough and the Preisdent’s proposed treaty with Canada for the St. Lawrence Seaway was rejected. Now new elements have entered. First it is clear

(prise at the action of some labor | |Ahe we to believe that the sums

|raised through Community Chest [$2.50 a month, $30 per year, will drives annually are not being used | provide a child with such supple- to advantage?

that under the Supreme Court, as now constituted, the Federal Government can develop a stream for power —especially if an element of “national defense” can | be imagined and now under war pressures we are

guns for anti-tank purposes which might knock out unions in opposing daylight saving — the enemy tanks but. again, might not, although our [time for Indianapolis. boys seem to think the 37-millimeter would. That Like a lot of others, T work late, one shoots a thing about the size of a pickle and |and by the time I get home washed

labor. In the present mood of the House and of the coun- | try, labor must realize that much of its present progress

might be wiped out overnight.” We're glad to see many signs that labor is beginning | to act as Mrs. Norton and many other of its friends advise | —settling some of the unnecessary strikes, trving to avoid | new strikes, promising full co-operation with President | oosevelt’s new Defense Mediation Board. If labor con- | tinues to act thus, we believe it will find public opinion | making itself felt for the p#tection and promotion of | labor's legitimate rights and needs.

TIP FOR WALL STREET

USTRALIANS were so enthusiastic over the visit of an | American naval squadron that even the stock markets | had a bullish day. Maybe the governors of the New York Stock Exchange | ought to ask Frank Knox to rush a few men-of-war their | way.

DOUBLE-SIZE BATTLESHIPS

HE Washington treaty of 1922 put a limit of 35,000 tons on the size of warships to be built thereafter, and fixed the relative naval strengths of the United States, Great Britain and Japan on the famous 5-5-3 formula. In 1934 Japan, as was her right, “denounced” —meaning | abrogated—the treaty as of Dec. 31, 1936. After that, the sky was the limit. Japan started throwing steel together | at a terrific clip, determined to overcome the inferiority of | tonnage that was weighing on her pride and limiting “he | scope of her ambitions. | In the meantime, the United States has been treating | its navy like a stepchild. It had not even been building | up to the limits authorized by the treaty. But in March, | 1933, “a certain naval person” named Roosevelt took over | in Washington, and the Navy began its comeback. In June of that year the President allocated $238,000,000 of publicworks funds for the construction of 32 ships. In March, 1934, he approved the Vinson bill authorizing naval construction up to treaty limits. And since then bill after bill | has further expanded the naval program.

The nation may well be thankful today that Mr. Roose- | velt went to bat for the Navy eight years ago, and kept |

going to bat for it. This spring we are commissioning two new battleships—the first in 20 years or so. And 15 more

are under construction or planned. (Our present battleship |

strength is 15.)

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minority member of the House Naval Affairs Committee— that five of these new battlewagons will be of 58,000 tons

each. This, he said, means that when fully equipped with | guns (possibly of a record-breaking 18-inch caliber) and | succeeded, not by some plan for keeping the American | capitalist system going on its normal energies, but

In view of the fact that Japan is supposed to be building |

ultra-heavy armor they will displace 60,000 to 65,000 tons.

from four to eight battleships of as much as 46,000 tons, Mr. Maas’ report strikes us as good news. If Britain ever fell, and her navy with her, we would need a tremendous fleet in two oceans to keep the Axis out of this hemisphere. Advocates of air power may sneer at battleships as out-

moded and vulnerable—but a 60,000-tonner should be so |

powerfully armored as to minimize the menace of aerial bombs and torpedoes. Anyway, nobody can say the Government is starving the air arms. “If we fail to provide ourselves with a sufficient number of battleships we will invite that which we dread most —-the bringing of war to our shores.” So said the Senate Naval Affairs Committee in its famous Walsh report of 1940, That seems to us a basic truth. And the bigger the battleships—hence the bigger the guns, and the thicker the armor—the better,

about eight inches long. and if it hits a tank fair 1t will waik in or, anyway, knock one of its shoes off and make it spin around in one place. But the old French 75, somewhat mvised but shooting the same old concentrate of meanness and noise, is the one the new army is really counting on for anti-tank work. That one will knock a tank's brains and tripes right out the far side. and they are using it flat, like a shoulder rifle. ~ So even in the infantry outfits there a rising in size to more than three inches, while, on this post. the artillery are firing drivers. brassies and sandwedge types of guns that toss shells ‘way

to hell and gone, up to almost 10 inches across, They |vide us with this extra hour of rec- tan Tower, 1

don’t have to worry about the neighbor's children, their chickens or the wash, either. There is plenty of

fairway here in a reservation 24 miles by 12 without a habitation on the range.

Business By John T. Flynn

Post War Projects Sound but Sums Mentioned Seem Inadequate

N= YORK, March 22. —Congress has been given a six-year plan by the President—a six-year plan for post-war projects, Certainly there can be no objection to the idea back of this procedure. Governments always are improvising hasty plans to meet some emergency. If money is to he spent to keep work going, it is infinitely better that it be spent on carefully projected and wisely matured plans which bear some relation to the nation's needs. One of the very gravest complaints against the WPA PWA projects finished in the last s2ven years is (1) that many of the projects completed were undertaken, not because they were the ones most needed, but because they were the ones that would

| give the most work at the job site. and (2) because

they were the ones on which the of Federal money could be obtained. Therefore, confronted with a chance to build things that cities and states needed—in order to create employment—we built, not the things most

greatest percentage

| needed, but the things that fitted the hastily prepared

campaign. This, beyond doubt, was unavoidable under all the circumstances. But now, with plenty of time to think about such things, we should, when we must repeat this per-

formance, have ready those projects that are most | desired plus carefully matured plans for them. On this head, therefore, the policy of careful planning |

ahead is not open to any criticism.

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Br it would be a great mistake to suppose that a | program of $6,000,000,000 of projects over a six- | | vear period will have any important effect in cush- | loning the fall from the vast inflationary projects of | the defense program.

Now comes word—from Rep. Maas (R. Minn.), senior |

In the last war we spent $2.000.000.000 the first

year of the war (1917), $14.000,000,000 the next, $18.- |

000,000,000 the year after the war and $6.000.000.000 the year after that (1920).

boom on war production. If the war production is

on a spending program—if that’s all we have ahead— then it has got to be more than $6,000,000,000. over

| six years.

Therefore we may assume that this six-billion-dollar plan is merely a beginning. For if it is to get anywhere under the theories of the New Economists it will have to be a six-year plan of at least six billions a year, not for six years but forever. In fact, Rexford Tugwell has said that nothing less than 12 billions a year will do the trick.

So They Say—

HE BELIEVED passionately in the moral! worth

of the individual regardless of race or religion or the | in |

accident of antecedents. He therefore believed the Uinfettered spirit without which man cannot live a civilized life.—President Roosevelt in tribute to the late Oliver Wendell Holmes. - - - THERE is no people or race endowed with the responsibility or endowed with the ability to dominate the world.—Ambassador Winant in England.

{get out in the daylight. (golf, take the kids to the park or fare of other tots, who cannot be [go on a drive with the family re weapons |

though, I could do these things and 0f supporting the endavor will be

(cil would jump at the chance to pro- | tion headquarters in the Metropoli-

'children, as well as provide money | land muntions of war for its fight-|

| where

and |

And, of course, we saw a | tremendous and destructive slump. The present plans are for a grand and glorious |

mental help that his chances are| Perhaps this outline would be a| good for becoming an adult; at/wise program for club women to] least, there is a chance for him to adopt at this time: live and be happy. | 1. A study of those laws enacted | i S 5 : e wel- Dy Congress, State Legislatures, and | It is most essential for the wel City Oourciis, Which deol with the, income of families, these to be brok-| en down into pay envelopes received | from private enterprise versus gov- | ernment checks for relief or work project jobs. 2. The operation of these laws,| nationally, state-wide and locally,! with this question in mind: Are] the purpose of these laws carried | out as defined by the lawmakers, or| {are they operated to build personal prestige and power?

up. fed and squared away it's nearly 6 o'clock. And even in the summertime that doesn't leave much time to

Now TI would like to play a little

pos- evacuated to this or any other sibly enjoy a roadside picnic, put Peaceful country that they too be there isn't time. [given help at once. All informa-|

With that extra hour of davlight, |tion regarding ways and means

more. I should think our city coun- furnished on application to Federa-|

Madison Ave. New

reation. And heaven knows, in these | York. times, most of us could do with this 5 = = extra relaxation. | RAPS CITY POUND'S BAN ® ON SELLING DOGS 3. There is a possibility that elect- | EXPLAINS WORK OF | By Mrs. John B. Strong, Indianapolis ed officials do not study the laws in SAVE THE CHILD GROUP | Knowing that your paper is al- detail, therefore misinterpret ‘them. ww : we ways anxious to serve the public, I|Letters addressed to officials in the Snild Federation. New York Cite.. "am writing on behalf of all dog lov- | €Xxecutive and law-making depart- | : . ¥ ers in Indianapolis to see if you can ments of governments, requesting] All of us, I think, feel that elp us in some way about dogs at information on the carrying out of | must help Great Britain save the Cr Pound. ’ | provisions of an act in its relation | There are many fine dogs taken in | 10 the nation, the state, or locally, | down there that are never called for Will not only be educational to the, ing men. There are thousands and people who love dogs would be club woman, but will Jooals Wo upon thousands of children who glad to have them and want to pay| "Wrong ingredient which has Rh have to be given at least a meas-| for them, but they have a big sign | mixed in Je cake,” creating new ure of comfort, and so provided at the Pound reading "No Dogs for | PTO lems daily. for that when the war ends they | Sale.” »

: | » ” may take up as nearly as possible] Now that they are always crying TICIZES G. O. P. oy Cody left off when Pe I ao the city does not have enough | CRIME i 0

to places comparative money for this and for that, yet| ON LABOR RECORD {they would rather kill these dogs By John Bartee. secretarv-treasurer. inThese children are to be the! than let people buy them. Recently diana State Industrial Union Council, |Churchills, Bevans, the religious,|/hree people have gone out to the 2 ‘educational, industrial and other Dog Pound ready to pay to get them |labor severely for not supporting leaders of the good day that wiil & dog to take home and they would | their party. I ask in all fairness, ultimately 1 : will become tillers of the soil, dig-| Price. What kind of a silly law is|a whole when they elect reactiongers of coal, sailors of ships, ope-| that, and why can’t the people of| aries like Mr. Knapp and Mr. Jen‘rators of business, participants in Indianapolis who love dogs have ner to such pewerful positions. \professions—the man in the street. Such a law annulled? It is true that there were irdi- | Their lives are doubly precious to s # vidual $2Nai0s wg Fepieenta ja democracy. SUGGESTING A PROGRAM lives who were .very fair to organ

The Save the Children Federa- =v ized labor's program. But, in my) {tion has willingly taken up the FOR WOMEN’S CLUBS opinion, the party as a whole will

[task of trying to find Americans/By L. S. Waitneight have to do more for labor than it} who will become godparents to| wMps. Ferguson on the subject ofiJiss done 2 ihe A years) his . | | be 1 ) yi [10,000 British and other children | for club women, only had that p

{now being sheltered in England. | labor votes. [Up to this time about 6000. have to offer from the pen of a male; The Democratic Party has proved|

| been assured this care under the correspondent. His advice was “Look its friendliness by deeds as well as | Federation program. The sum of!beyond her doorstep across the rail-| words, through enactment of the]

NLRA, the Fair Labor Standards Side Glances=By Galbraith

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Act (Wage-Hour Law), unemployment compensation, social security law, and their respect in general of workers’ civil rights, the right | to organize and strike and their | knowledge of the important part |that labor unions play in our | economic and political society by] | bringing about higher wages, short- | er hours, more sanitary and better | | working conditions, and industrial! Democracy which is so important | to our political Democracy. | | The officers and Executive Board | {of the I. 8. I. U. C. wish to take] this opportunity to thank all of our| | afflintes for the co-operation in| (helping us defeat the anti-labor| bills, presented in the 82d session.

STREETS

By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY | How do you know what you pass in a day | While you're walking along a broad highway— | People whose faces are listless and dull, Like battered ship with barnacled ull,

If you'd on the street that might have been You'd have a far different feeling within. Success would greet you from near and far. What pity we must walk the streets that are.

DAILY THOUGHT

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.—Matthew 21:14.

EVERY BELIEVER is Gods miracle.—Bailey,

"How do you do, Mg Hopkins? Please don't get upl"

| COPR. 1941 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. §. PAT. OFF.

The Republicans have criticized | J

dawn. Many of them not allow them to buy one at any how we cah support their party as|§

inclined to do anything suggested for national defense and do it without any debate or back talk. Son Mr. Roosevelt returns with an “agreement” for his “seaway” rather than a treaty—which by some alchemy is not supposed to require Senate ratification, The lopsided “navigation” appropriation is still preserved and there is an entirely new pressure of the emergent necessity of national defense which. since there can be no results before late 1945 or 1946, sounds a little queer. It is too bad this project can't be debated, at least to make clear whether it can't proceed at one-third the cost and openly as a power project only, which; while probably not yet necessary, eventually will be. When we are apparently going to need all the labor and machinery we can get in the defense program, why bring this up now? The answer is easy. The

| President's “dutch is up” and this time he will get his

way. He usually does.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

» Wo are to blame for decreasing enlistments : in the Navy,” according to a newspaper intere view with Recruiter H. FP, McGee. “When women no longer had to worry about being protected,” he says, “they began to turn around and worry about protecting men. Now they are running this protective business into the ground.

~ “Somebody has made them believe if you join the Army and Navy you're likely to get hurt and they're determined that their own men must not get hurt. The only solution I can see is to take women into the armed forces and give them a little excitement. If they're so protective they ought ta have to do the protecting them. selves.” : This, I take it, is supposed ta be funny. But how I wish some of these men had to swallow a good dose of their own medicine! If the tables were turned, and they were forced to bid goodby to the women they love, their sweethearts and wives, departing for war service, going off as the Commander so naively puts it, to excitement, would they be any more enthusiastic than we are? It is

| an experience they have never met, and so all their

comments on the question come from the depths of a vast ignorance, It is because feminine populations have had to endure this ordeal so often that their protective instincts are somewhat over-developed. But we women are not ashamed of those feelings. Nature implanted them within us and it would be going against Nature if they were entirely uprooted. And we imagine the recruiters themselves would heartily deplore the uprooting. Actually, men want their women to be fully equipped with these instincts; they like us to be protective, only they want to name the moments when we can exercise the emotion. They honor, respect and praise it while we are mothering boy children. And they also favor it heartily after the fighting is done and some of the glory ends in a hospital war. Those men broken and mangled by the war excitement finally run to the comforting cares of mothers, wives, and nurses. P. S—To Commander McGee: If women’ the world over were entrusted with the protection of their children and their civilization, I believe they could think up a more effective method than has yet been discovered by the Fighting Fathers.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are mot necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times. '

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