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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1941

HOLY WEEK, 1941 ‘A S IF to underline a contrast Hitler chose Holy Week to launch his assault on two more countries. On the very Palm Sunday which marks the day when the Prince of Peace entered Jerusalem riding humbly on the humblest

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beast of burden, Hitler's armed men rode across the borders | of Jugoslavia and Greece mounted on the most modern of |

flesh-destroving machines. During that climactic week when Jesus faced His ordeal, and trod the road to Golgotha, twenty additional millions of people in 1941 are also placed on the road that leads to the place of the skull, face to face with the crucifixion by shell, bomb and fire that is war. »

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» Let us not forget that what died during the original Holy Week so long ago was again resurrected-—that the whole story is one of the triumph of life over death. So it

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may be that those countries which are being led this Holy |

Week down to the place of the skull may yet live again,

We have faith that the way of life will yet triumph over |

the wav of death.

GREENLAND NOW: AZORES NEXT? EW departures crowd on each other's heels these days. In a single morning the President proclaims an interim protectorate over Greenland, and asks legislation permitting him to take over idle foreign vessels in American ports, Whether this latest and double-barreled intervention in the Battle of the Atlantic takes us closer to the shooting stage or not is difficult to say. It is possible for supporters of the Government's foreign policy to argue that it will have the reverse effect will help to defer the fateful issue of convoys. For instance, there is the argument that Greenland

to say that each of these steps |

tan be utilized as one of several northern stepping stones | by which short-ranged pursuit planes could fly to England | from America, as bombers are doing now; that would elimi- |

hate the danger of our lend-lease warplanes being

®board torpedoed freighters.

: But an even greater advantage—from our

lost |

aid-to-

. : 5 » . | Britain viewpoint—may lie in the mere getting to that icy |

Jand first, and thus discouraging the Nazis from trying to | 3 occupy it.” For some naval authorities say that Greenland's | fiords would make ideal bases for U-boats preying on North | | has the President's action comes as no sur- | time he started talking about Western |

Atlantic shipping. : In anv event,

prise. From the

‘Hemisphere defense he has included Greenland in his cal- |

culations, » o The President justifies the commandeering of foreign vessels on the ground that they are needed for our own

use,

Of course one reason why we are short of bottoms is |

that we have been turning over all we could spare to Britain, |

to replace her heavy losses at sea. On that point it is force-

fully argued that the more tonnage we can place at Britain's | disposal, the less pressing will be her need, and the less

insistent her cry for American warship escorts.

Anvway, the taking over of foreign vessels seems a |

imoderate measure by comparison with some of the anti{Axis steps already taken by the President and Congress, If it will help to fend off a decision to convoy—for which

‘Winston Churchill seems to be angling—certainly it is a |

‘development to welcome,

It is interesting, in light of the decision to occupy | ‘Greenland, to recall a remark dropped by the President |

Jast December about another insular possession of a Euro-

pean state—the Azores, that string of pinpoint islands far |

over in the eastern part of the Atlantic. If the Nazis won this war, the President asked, would freelom be permitted—'"as an amazing pet exception in an unfree world’—in “the islands of the Azores, which still fly the flag of Portugal after five centuries?” And then he warned— “You and I think of Hawaii as an outpost of defense

fn the Pacific, and vet the Azores are closer to our shores |

in the Atlantic than Hawaii is on the other side.” That is something about which the President may have

to make another quick decision some day—if Hitler mops | up on the Balkans and then chooses to absorb that other |

‘great peninsula occupied by Spain and Portugal.

‘ONE ANSWER FOR CITY REVENUE PADUCAH, Ky., has a tax.

one’s unusual,

All cities have ‘em, but this | It's an annual license tax of $5 on non- |

residents who regularly drive their autos on the city's |

streets.

The tax has been upheld hy the State Court of |

Appeals, reports the American Public Works Association, | as being imposed under the city’s police power over the | privilege of using the streets, and is not a tax on the autos

of the non-resident.

Many cities today have an increasing problem. People |

‘move to the suburbs in a growing stream, decreasing the tax potential of the city. Yet those same people, though living

in another taxing district, regularly use the city streets to |

‘drive to and from their jobs, and derive other henefits from ‘city services which they no longer help to support. The ‘Paducah tax is evidently an effort to make them carry their ‘share of the cost of services from which they regularly ‘benefit. The trend to the suburbs is going to make many ‘cities consider measures like this one.

‘SOME ‘HORRORS’ EASILY BORNE

: ELL, let's face it. There may be a shortage of peroxide blonds and blood-red finger-nails.

tof defense with some fortitude. {running short, and that the goo which women smear on their finger-nails is made of nitro-cellulose. That's needed {in high explosives. Let’s face it bravely, men!

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If it really comes to that, the average American male | ‘will probably be able to face this deprivation in the name

It seems that peroxide is |

gees By Thomas L. Stokes

Unfair Accusations by Politicians And Uninformed Citizens Make it Difficult to Help Fugitives Here.

(Second of a Series)

ASHINGTON, April 11.—Refugees who have come from Germany and European countries subjugated by Hitler gradually are making their adjustments and finding places for themselves in this vast country which has become their haven. In charge of this process of assimilation are various relief organizations privately financed, Jewish, Catholic and Protestant, which pave the way for departure from Europe, sometimes a tedious and difficult job, meet the refugees on their arrival, and then begin to work out the individual problems, case by case, of fitting the newcomers into what is a strange world for so many of them. In this task they have the cooperation of official committees, one recently appointed by President Roosevelt to synchronize relief activities growing from the war, another he designated some time ago to handle special cases of persons in danger in European countries, and an intergovernmental committee created in 1938 representing nations concerned with the refugee problem. Of refugees who have come here since Hitler assumed power in 1933, about half of them, 70.000 to 75.000, have remained in New York, according to the National Refugee Service in New York, The others are scattered about the country. Details about their disposition are lacking. n ” ” HE task of the relief organizations is handlcapped somewhat by politicians who shout that millions of foreigners are coming into the United States, or trying to; by whispering campaigns that refugees are taking the places of American workers, that they are coming here to go on relief: that fifth columnists are getting into the country in refugee auise, and the like All such reports, rumors and innuendoes are proved groundless by careful investigation by relief agencies and hv denials from officials of the State Department and the Justice Department Altogether. only 130.000 to 150,000 refugees have gone to the United States since 1933, according to varving estimates. An official estimate is impossible hecause the Immigration Bureau makes no classification of refugees as distinct from immigrants. About per cent are Jews. The majority has come from Germany, though other countries now are supplying an increasing number Germanv has a quota of only 27.730 a vear, and has been filled only in the last two years. Immigration on the whole has been low in the last few vears, and is nothing to compare with the twenties, No refugees have become public charges. organizations have seen to that, because, being aliens, they are barred. n ” immigration

» HIS refugee is different from of middle class and professional families. One analysis, which is borne out generally by others, breaks down 100 typical refugees as follows: 55 will be women and children and unemployable old men; 8 in professional ranks, clergymen, engineers, lawvers, teachers, doctors and other professionals; 18 in commercial occupations, of which 14 will be merchants and 4 of some other commercial calling; 12 skilled one farmer; servants, or domestics; one with an occupation falling into none the other classifications; one an unskilled worker. Foreign doctors have tremendous difficulties because all but four states bar their practice, Criticism over competition from refugee doctors come from some American doctors, despite the fact that the country needs more doctors in some sections, particularly in small and isolated communities, Lawyers also encounter difficulties because American citizenship 1s necessary, and it takes five years to become a citizen, Many refugees among groups have solved thei businesses, some of them non-competitive with most American business. Fitting the refugees into the American pattern has become an interesting experiment and has developed ingenuity NEXT—How refugees are heing absorbed,

workers: four

business and commercial problems by starting small of an unusual character

(Westhrook Pegler is on vacation)

Urine

Business By John T. Flynn

Biggest U. S. Dilemma Is to Fill Vital Need for Ships.

N= YORK, April 11—It is now clear that the greatest immediate need of the British Government is ships in which to bring home its needed supplies and war vessels to convoy them. Therefore the problem that confronts the American Government in its effort to ald the Empire on the economic

Britain's

front is a problem of providing it,

first, with ships and, second, with the means of protecting them. The shiv problem is made difficult by reason, first, of the shortage of America’s own shipping facilities and, second, bv the dangers involved in providing naval vessels England needs ships. But, as it happens, America is one country which, considering its size and needs, is very poor in ocean-going ships. Operating ships under the American. flag has not been a very profitable business. It is unprofitable because of the high cost of operating an American ship compared with a foreign vessel. It costs a great deal more to build one here than in Europe or Asia, and the wages of seamen and the most of supplies are all far higher with us. This is due to our standards of wages and living and to laws that are designed to protect our Merchant Marine Whatever the cause, however, our shipping capacity is small. We ship only about 30 per cent of our imports in American vessels, and only 17 per cent of our exports, The rest of it is carried in foreign bottoms, ”n » ” E have to get goods from other countries, We have to ship goods to other countries. Even our war preparations require enormous shipments from other countries. And, as the amount of our shipping has decreased, the Government

giving or selling or lending any more of our ships to England ously opposed the transfer of any more of our ships. Of course we are building ships. We have about 240 actually under construction and another 200 being

made ready to build as soon as the yards are ready. | We shall have a very large shipbuilding capacity in a |

year. But Britain needs the ships now.

I'he opposition inside the Government to handing |

over any more ships is strong. One argument is that

the Navy needs more ships as auxiliary vessels than | If we got into the war our Navy and |

we now have, Army would require at least 80 per cent of existing ships for transport service. To give ships away, or sell them, would be to further drain our naval auxiliary vessels, The alternative is keeping our ships and using them under our own flag to carry goods to Britain. But this cannot be done wtihout an actual involvement in war.

So They Say—

WE MUST solve {he tragic problems of our starve ing youth, but we must first have guarantees that the Germans will not be helped. —Camille Gutt, minister in the Belgian government-in-exile. » s *

I DON'T believe, in a democracy, in forcing anys body to do anything until we have exhausted all mean of persuasion.—John D. Biggers, production chief, OFM.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES An Old Greek Bust Comes to Life!

Relief | None are on WPA |

the usual type of immigration, with a preponderance | people and their

is running | into serious resistance from shipping interests against |

Even the Maritime Commission has vigor- |

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I wholly disagree with what you say,

The Hoosier Forum

but will

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited |

their views in

I PUBLIC'S WAR STAND to

{By E. F, 8S, 1013 8S. Capitol Ave,

Reading an article in the Forum [1 was inspired to write, Please print {this in the Forum. A writer suggests that 80 per cent {of the people are against war and {that 80 per cent are against Hitler He considers this inconsistent Now, for the last 10 vears, I pre-| {sume, 100 per cent of the people tle of were against millions being unem- | high [ployed and destitute—but nothing century, to wit: | was done about it! stand on the { Now, the same thing can appl today. We can be against Hitler | {and still not go to war—or do any[thing about it.

express these columns, religious cone

troversies excluded. Make | your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must | be signed.)

SEES NO INCONSISTENCY | | |

famous debates among during the 16th | “How many angels head a pin.”

gentlemen didn't

the churchmen

can of

I'he ecclesiastical see themselves as ridiculous either, if the worst should » happen and Hitler wins, his system DENIES HITLER VICTORY of government could hardly withWOULD IMPERIL U, S, stand a victory for long. It con- | i ¥od tains all the elements for its own fn ! destruction, A victory would De- leash them. The failure of Italian fascism indicates what such centralized political patronage can do. And the peeks we get at German finances show their day of reckoning will not be a Sunday School picnic. | If after an exhausting war there should be anything left to trade for or with, we may be sure it will be done as it has always been done— | if the buver needs the goods badly enough, he'll come to terms with| the seller, We have the goods and also the gold, so it's likely we'll not | come out at the worst end, provided ! we still have any left. It appears to me our extremists are using everything in the old hat except a little gray matter. Calling | them “hysterical war mongers” is really being kind.

Even very

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By R. G. L., East Chicago,

Our such the diana Committee for National fense who are so anxious to plunge this country into war, stoutly main- | tain they are not “war mongers” and are not hysterical. Then they turn right around and give the lie to their own words by exhibiting exaggerated fears of { what will happen if Hitler wins| | the war and how the Nazis will demand that we trade with them on | their own terms, the main item of | which is that we hoist the swastika. | And they formally challenge the | America First Committee to deny | their fears. { Dear me, It seems the professors have a great deal less intel- | lectual fortiude than the degrees | they wear would indicate. John T. Flynn has made an adequate reply but I'd like to com-| ment. Since the I. C. N. D. made | the statements of what Hitler would | do (according to them, not Hitler) | it seems to me the burden of proof [is on them. The whole thing is a { little reminiscent of that ancient | fable about the young woman go{ing into the wine cellar to draw| | some wine and not return. When the guest went down after her he | found her in tears because she im- | agined that if she one day got | married and had a child and that { child went to draw wine, he might | be killed if the loose bung overhead should fall on him, The argument, too, smacks a lit-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

un-

extremists, as

” » CONTENDS CAPITALISM CERTAIN TO SURVIVE By

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Voice In The Crowd, Indianapolis, | Folks, don't read this; it is a per- | sonal letter to Curious, It seems that the first unseasoned |

man who fresh from school that “Capitalism is dead” lived about 3000 years B. C., when the New Dealers of that day were| continually drawing the copper wire coins to ever smaller dimensions and | telling the populace that they were] more prosperous because they had more coins. In that day too, that

voung claimed

| cons 1941 BY NEA SERVICE INC. TM REG U.S PAT OFF "We had a little housa with a garden years ago—| can't help thinking about it every spring!”

young man had gone to school in vain, There will

be Capitalism. The

only question is whether it will be In America it seems that capital will because better political And it is for the people

private or state Capitalism, with the they can trust than they can monopoly, to decide,

remain people, other

each trust

' | I don't believe you do me justice |

in the 19th century, when 1 embrace the fundamentals of good government that were established in the 18th century. Fundamentals do not

|change simply because a weak and dependent generation comes into be-

ing.

say that I am for leaders of any party who can make and honestly live up to their Constitutional oath, and who can lead the people back to the 18th century of moral the American home, Those leaders seem to be very scarce. I don’t have to read the “Socialist Sixth.” I have learned much about Russia and I note that every nation that borders on Russia fights desperately against the ills of Communism. They don't like it right across the border and they should Know, Even in the dark age that mav be facing the world, I believe that

‘in your claim that my ideas belong |

| | |

As for being a Republican, let me |

courage, self reliance and respect for |

| = |

America will remain the best place

on earth to live. » WANTS MORE TIME GIVEN TO GOD By E.

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G. Rexford, 2107 N. Delaware Sf,

While driving west of the city on |

Roac¢ 40 I noticed a large billboard with the appeal “Let's give Sunday mornings to God.” The trouble with the whole world today is that there are too many individuals who give no more than Sunday mornings to God. Let's have more who will devote

168 hours a week to God, following the example set for us by Jesus,

both in our thinking and acting and |

the deplorable conditions existing today will clear up very rapidly.

CATHEDRAL AT NIGHT By FLORENCE F. MacDONALD

Gleaming aloft like a luminous jewel— Sending its beams through shadows of night, The historic church window hallows the Saviour In an aura of glowing, transparent light; The nocturnal scene with splendor the window's intrinsic, morable flame— Alas! gross and glittering lights of the city Imperceptibly dwindle in garish acclaim,

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Wooing the stranger with inburning beauty-— Luring the throng with transcendent appeal . Sanctuary’s peace in Christ's name is proffered Where in prayer and devotion, life's pilgrims may kneel. pictorial window's spiritual triumph Proclaims the legend no mere fiction of old— For Lo! in the tumultuous heart of acity . . .

The

The Good Shepherd still gathers | . . . beloved sheep to His fold! |

DAILY THOUGHT

O generation of vipers, how can ve, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—Matthew 12:34.

» o ” AN EVIL-SPEAKER differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity. ~Quintilian,

Gen. Johnson Says—

Censorship a Ticklish Problem,

And if Made Compulsory Military Men May Be Hard to Deal With,

AN FRANCISCO, April 11.—This question of volun tary press censorship to prevent military or naval information reaching a possible or potential enemy is a prickly one. In the first place, it not, purely “voluntary.” There is no statutory authority as yet to demand the submission to some Gestapo of news and editorial comment for revising or editing before publication. But, as was explained in a recent column, there is statutory authority to punish by 20 years imprisonment any disclosure either through ine advertence or design. You publish at peril, Nobody doubts that should be the utmost not to reveal in press dispatches infore mation that might help an enemv, But what kind of information is in that category? It is a question of judgment, That judgment will be exercised by the publishers, under the aforementioned threat. If they don't exercise it well, we shall have a compulsory censorship and then, as nearly all authority agrees, ‘‘good-by freedom of the press and good-by democracy’—unless the rarest kind of judgment is exercised by the military and naval censors. That may come later but, at the beginning, it is not likely. The official censors will be men suffering through our slow promotion systems from the effect of years of plodding in positions of no importance and, by reason of cloistered lives with only a sketchy idea of anything of American life that is not found in the Army and Navy drill and other regulations and professional books,

thers

care

n n ” USHED overnight inte positions of nw creased rank and tremendous responsibility, this type is not likely to be liberal, is apt to be completely censorious, especially of criticism, to feel, like Atlas, the weight of the world and, with complete authority, would be difficult to get along with. Out here in San Francisco, it is already to mention in the press an event which any one of hundreds of thousands of a very mixed population on these hills can see on the very visible bay by simply lowering his eyes—the arrival or departure of a naval vessel. After departure from Los Angeles, from whence this column described its first encounter with the growing Gestapo, the press carried a report from there that, before wheeling the super-bomber B-18 out into the vard for engine tests, a canvas wall had to be built around her to shut her off from the public gaze. I can't understand this. Photographs of her have been published to the four corners and reams of press writing have been published about her. Thousands of people have seen her, " n n DAMAGED British battleship steamed info New York Harbor under the eyes of millions, It was officially sugested that the press not mention that and I wouldn't if it had not already been published with photographs of the damage. It is a good case in point. The photography should have been omitted. It reveals tactical information that might otherwise not to have been available but the arrival could not have been concealed in an open harbor and it was high-handed and silly to suppress it, This inexperienced and arbitrary aspect of war government has put pressure on the most experienced and expert manufacturers to locate and manage plants in areas where their own judgment and exhaustive expert surveys have indicated that prompt, economs= ical and efficient operation is impossible. It showing an ever-increasing impatience with

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| any other opinion than its own on technical produc-

tion against

problems. Already the courage even to argue it. is becoming rare. It is all not merely bad democracy. It is also the worst kind of judgment for production. This is an axiom of good factory management, even of foremen: “Sell ‘'em. Don’t show ‘'em.”

Fditor's Note: The views expressed by columnists {n this newspaper are their own, They are not necessarily those

of The Indianapolis Times,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“¥T'S an insult to Heaven for us io celebrate Easter this vear,” said a friend who often lets herself get into the dumps over the state of the world. There are moments when most of us feel that way. And those are the moments when our need of spiritual sustenance is greatest. It seems a pity that we put so much emphasis upon the proper variety of physical footls while we neglect to provide ourselves with vitamins for souls and hearts, which are equally necessary in the making of a healthy individual. At Eastertide we are faced once more by the old, old questions. What is Man? For what was he created? Whither is he bound? And again we hunt for the answers and take courage from the story of the greatest of all miracles—the Resurrection. Surely it is not beyond the bounds of our helief! All those with eyes to see have looked on at lesser wondesys, We have seen men and women rise from the most erusaing defeats; we have watched our friends climb forth from the blacke est pits of despair, staggering away from the graves of those they loved, to fight back to hope, usefulness and peace, Such resurrections are as amazing as any rebirth of physical vigor, for they remind us that the Spirit of God can be breathed into dead hearts to make them peau and live again, We are in the midst of horrible events, Peoples with Christian consciences know they are horrible cnly because tlie principles of religion have not been used in international affairs, and the Golden Rule is popular chiefly as a Sunday School text. And as we Sow SO must we reap. Noise and confusion surround us; serenity seems to have become as remote as the past of old Palestine, Yet, the words are plain for us to read. When Jesus wanted strength and courage and clearer vision He withdrew irom the multitudes and sought them in solitude. They will never be found by moderns anywhere else,

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Q—What is the annual salary of the President of the United States? A—875,000, Q—What is the rank of the officer in command of a U. S. Army regiment? A—Colonel, Q-—Has anyone ever been born without a leg or arm? A—Yes, and some persons have been born with both arms or both legs missing. Q—Was Vermont one of the original 13 States? A—No, it was the 14th State of the Union, and the first admitted, Feb. 18, 1791, after the proclamation of the Constitution. Q—-What was the largest number of persons ems ployed at any one time under the various Federal] Work Relief programs? A—The number of such persons reached its peak in November, 1938, with a total of 4,594.000 Q—Was the ship Manhattan built in America? A—Yes, at Camden, N. J. Q-—Have Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared" together in any photoplays during the last 10 years? A—Their last co-starring screen appearance was in “The Guardsman” in 1931-32, Q—What is the area and population of The State of Vatican City? A—Area, 1.6 square miles; population, 1035. r