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Fighters Carrying Lighter Bombs Replace Heavy Bombers Which Proved Vulnerable in Day Attacks.

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ECONOMY IS JUST A WORD

ACH time Secretary Morgenthau takes a new tax bill to Congress he utters a few well-chosen words about the | peed of economies. And then nothing happens. Refore the House Ways and Means Committee yesterdav he once more urged Congress to “re-examine with a magnifying glass” the Government's non-defense expenditures. “We simply cannot carry on business as usual and | government as usual from now on and still take adequate | care of our defense needs . . . it would be folly to assume

HE demonstrated vulnerability of bombers to faster, more maneuverable single-seater fighters | confirms a warning airmen have given. The com- | paratively recent adaptation for bomb carrying of German Messerschmitt 109s and 110s, normally designea for fighting other aireraft, is an outstanding lesson of Europes air war. The essence of a hit-and-run war is smaller, fast. moving units instead of greater, slow-moving units. The heavy daylight casualties among German bombers raiding England disclosed that English single-seater fighters were effec tive against them, The logical step was to adapt German single-seater fighters to carry bombs and go on with the bombing raids, Using many fast smaller planes rather than a few big slow planes, it is obvious that the Germans also had discovered that a large number of 300-pound bombs widely scattered wera more effective than a few 2000-pound bombs. A 500-pound bomb is powerful enough to smash anything except fortified positions and military positions are of secondary importance in a war directed squarely against the man in the street.

® » » ANOTHER reason for using fast fighting® planes

that we can continue to spend now as we did in normal times.” | Under questioning, the Secretary suggested that as | much as one billion dollars could be lopped off non-defense | items in the Government's budget—and called special at- | tention to the possibilities of savings in the Soil Conserva- | tion, CCC, NYA and Public Works expenditures. But we'll bet a good cigar against a plugged nickel that Congress won't save that billion, which the Secretary says could be saved, or anything like that amount. The Govern- | ment’s executive departments will go right on asking for— and receiving—the large appropriations to which they have become accustomed. That's what will happen because our Federal tax system is so rigged—and under the proposed new drastic revenue bill, it will still be so rigged—that only a small percentage of American voters are required to pay taxes the hard way. Of course the Government gets, and will continue to get, the bulk of its revenue by hidden taxes which sap the living standards of all the people and lay the heaviest burden upon the very poor. If Mr. Morgenthau and Congress really wanted to do something about economy, they could get action—and get it quick—by broadening the income tax base to double or triple the number of citizens who pay their taxes direct to the tax collector. Then enough voters back home would feel that they had a stake in economical government, and would stand on their hind legs and howl until their repre- | gentatives in Washington did something more than give lip | service to economy. But not until then.

BRITAIN TAKES STOCK . FFECTS of the Allied-Balkan defeat on the policies of Spain, Russia, Turkey and Japan may be even less im- | portant than those within the British Empire itself, Those internal repercussions may not stop with customary demands for a popular scapegoat, but may raise the dominions from a junior partnership to nearer equality with London in control of war action and aims. It would be as | much a mistake to underestimate as to overestimate the sort of questioning, even resentment by the powerful Labor Party, which has now burst into the open in Australia. The extent of these effects within the Empire, as upon other nations, doubtless will depend in part on whether British failure in Greece is followed by successful evacua- | tion and on whether Britain quickly defeats the Nazi Libyan conquerors. The first would cushion the present pessimism, | and the second would allay some of the fear for Suez. But even such successes probably would not quiet the ! growing labor demands in England and in Australia for democratizing and streamlining the control of war effort | and aims. So far as Australia is concerned there is also a geo- | graphical consideration. There are charges that Singapore | was left under-protected while Anzac troops and ships were gent to guard the Mediterranean and Africa; and that then | thev were sent to the Balkans without adequate support, | leaving Anzac-won Libya ‘o fall to Hitler, Mr. Churchill's appointment of the Australian General | Blamey, as second in command to Wavell in the Middle East, | is admittedly a hasty concession to prevent the fall of the | Menzies government in Canberra. The opposition Labor | Party there is only one short of a parliamentary majority. | Of course, Hitler would like to see in this general ! process of British stock-taking a fatal split. But all signs | rre to the contrary.

BIG NEWS OHN NUNNALLY, 40 years a fox hunter, was chased up a tree by an enraged fox near Baldwin, Ga., and stayed there until rescued by his hounds. . Farmer Preston Ramsey was attacked and painfully pecked by his pet rooster at Gastonia, N. C. Policeman Mike Griffin “meowed” like a hungry kitten at the rear door of a building in Boston. When the door was opened, Mr. Griffin and fellow officers rushed inside and arrested 10 men on gambling charges. : Two pedestrians were injured in a head-on collision on the sidewalk at Jamestown, N. Y. Both admitted they hadn't been looking where they were going. W. D. Meyers of Deemer, Miss., refused to file a claim when his cow was killed by a railway engine; said the cow had no business on the track. Keith Kennedy, Cornell University student, sat 924 hours in a pasture near Ithaca, N. Y,, to observe the working habits of a dairy cow. He found she put in 12 hours lying down, four hours just loafing around, only eight hours grazing—and even then, though capable of 90 bites | of grass a minute, averaged only 50 to 70 bites.

COULD IT HAPPEN HERE?

WHEN the head of a state government announces a program of reducing state taxation, to assist taxpayers in meeting increased Federal demands, that’s news. We would consider it better news if it had happened in America. It did happen in New South Wales, Australia, where Premier Alexander Maid said that it had become the paramount duty of the state government to give the Commonwealth maximum help in raising revenue to defend the

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for daylight raids was that air crews quickly be-

| come more precious than planes. Speedier production

of planes and engines is merely a matter of expanding materials, and factory facilities. But no one has discovered a method for seasoning a green youngster into a finished pilot overnight. Additional flight training

{| facilities can train more men, but time is required to

give them the experience for which there is no substitute, So, soon after the war lords of Europe began plunging into air warfare as they had managed land warfare, uselessiy slaughtering trained personnel, they

| found that orders had to be modified and pilots

warned against attempting missions in the face of

| impossibly effective defense forces.

The most dangerous factor in a military organization is the “hero” complex. The most useful soldier,

| sailor or airman is the cool-headed chap who alters

his plan when faced by impossible conditions, »

HEN a single-seater bomb-carrying attack has been caught by equal or overpowering defense singie-seater formations, the order has been to release the bombs and so immediately regain full combat speed, climb and maneuverability. In short, when the fighter-bomber runs into a Stiff defense against which it can’t carry out its bombing mission effectively, its bombs are dropped and the escape from that situation is worked on a flight performance basis equal to that of the defense fighters. This is something the true bomber can't do. His lack of speed and his gunfire limitations make him meat for the defense fighters. place in modern daylight warfare for the bomber, but It Is not In the presence of enemy fighter forces. For a time, fighter escort for bombers was thought to be the answer. But unless the escort is at least aS strong as the defense, it is unable to protect the bombers, since fighters will always be faster and more maneuverable.

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Business ' By John T. Flynn

7 Billion Tax Increase Urged as Insurance Against War Inflation.

W YORK, April 25—No reasonable argument can be made against raising $3,500,000.000 in additional taxes. The only real argument from the point of view of sound fiscal and economic policy is that it is not nearly enough. We must not deceive ourselves, however, by supposing that a $3,500,000,000 tax which will not be collected until next year will completely protect us from the war inflation. The reasons are several. First, the tax which is now being considered is to be levied in 1942. Like all income taxes, the people will not begin to pay for it until March, 1942, and they will not finish paving for it until December, 1942. But the vast sums which will be poured out into the business world for our own defense plans and for the British Empire's war will have flowed out and produced a large part of its effect before we even begin paying the tax. In other words, we have already started to put our foot on the accelerator and are already pumping the gas into the cylinders for speed, but we will not begin to apply the brakes for another year and then only in four installments. Another reason why this plan will not protect us fullv—though it will mitigate the danger—is that it still leaves nearly $7.000,000,000 to be financed by borrowing. And this will probably be a good deal more— first, because expenditures will be more, and second, because tax receipts may well fall off.

HE experience of the last war may well be studied. Corporations found a good many ways 0. avoiding the ta They paid huge bonuses, they piled on the promotional expenses—any businessman will remember how this was done. There is still another reason. The ending of the war will leave every country in the world a victim of the economic stormis which peace will unleash. And

| one of these will involve the currencies of every

country. No European country can escape the inevitable currency debacle which awajts it. And our whole foreign trade situation will be gravely affected hy this. There seems little doubt that we shall turn to currency experiments when the time comes. What they will be no man can tell. This will depend entirely on the kind of minds which are in control of the Government’s fiscal policies. If they are the men who have been preaching that the defense program should be used as an instrument for prosperity, the last act of this squalid economic tragedy will be a pathetic one. The safest protection against the vast deflation

now to prevent a vast inflation. To do that the first step must be a tax program that includes everyone. Not a $3,500,000,000 tax boost, but a $7,000,000.000 boost is the way of safety.

but want it to be as pleasant as possible. But if we really mean we want to save America, this is the way— unhappily, not the complete way, for much else must be done—but at least to save it from those deadly evils which will follow the war.

So They Say—

NEVER IN MY experience has there been so much co-operation between labor and management, and I

| sav that without overlooking the disagreements that | have occurred.—Sidney Hillman, labor member of the

Office of Production Management, - » »

policy of aiding the victim of aggression to defend himself we should not now be at war at all.—Sir Norman Angell, Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1933. » » »

TIME IS A terrible enemy. You can only beat him to the goal by working hard-

Production, OPM. * * * FIVE HUNDRED people to see one tank!

of new medium tank at Aberdeen. s M ® *

WE HAVE UNSHAKABLE faith in justice, in the victory of our great allies and friends, and in a happier future for our e.—Premier-in-exile

country.

Dusan Simoyitch of Jugosla

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which will follow the war is to adopt heroic measures |

I know this will scare the patriots who want war |

IF WE had applied 10 years ago resolutely the

You cah't stop him. | er and longer—John D. Biggers, director, Division of I just

wish there had been 500 tanks and only one person | to look at them!—William S. Knudsen, viewing test |

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say

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

CLAIMS UNION DICTATES TO BARBER BOARD "By E. RH. M, Indianapolis Barber is amused. It is wonderful {men are amused. I read where a J. H. McKown was amused at the Indiana Independent Barbers’ Association, Inc, asking our Governor to appoint non-union barbers! bibs mndabeh on the State Board of Barbers gv SONNE of miohey, i yeh of d be non-union He simply writes this

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Mr. McKown goes on being amused. to read it and think it over. Why is the Barber Examiners| Board dictated to by the Barbers " hE Union? I guess Mr. McKown is very| FORECASTS EVENTUAL much amused at this. TRIUMPH FOR GREECE A Ly S ry 1

up before the Barbers Board for in-| So the Greeks fight on against

well as union barbers. consideration of anyone who cares low Laramore.

|about three or four weeks. Can't {these holes be filled up and the street tarred? IT am sure the whole neighborhood would appreciate any- | thing good done about it. = » 5 | SEES SOME AMERICANS DOING HITLER'S JOB

By Robert L. Kirby, Hospital, Reom 315

How about an answer for Mr. Wil- | lam Walker: | That a-boy, Bill, go after this felThis is just the thing that always tickles the bund pink. Those fellows Wheeler, Nye,

patient at Veterans’

| Lindbergh and yourself sure are do- |

| Ine just the job Herr Hitler wants | the bund to do but we have to lay { low. You are doing a very fine job,

sanitary conditions in his shop. I the great German odds, fiercely and thanks. As to this thanking God

| will admit that there are some shops that are insanitary, but what is the| State Board of Health for? » » » OFFERING A SUGGESTION ON THE TAX PROBLEM ‘ y { coi ) ; y By S. R. Port, Knightstown Say ye. wi Fees BY ' gals I WONDER: Will Greece fall to the AXis?

Having read and listened to the ll know the answer! radio a great deal lately, in regard! Four hundred and eighty years to the tax problem, I have a few pefore Christ another barbarous

suggestions to make, | “ . ; : ER Jet's call this a defense prop- army, multitudinous and mighty, osition. First to take every citizen forced its way through Thermopylae then as now

of the United States from the high-| Pass. The Greeks

est to the lowest who is receiving a fought valiantly for their land, hut! py paul Unger. M. D.. Chairman Commit- |

salary or income of over $100 per were outnumbered and slaughtered

month and compel them to donate before the overwhelming numbers | to the Government all in excess of | pressing upon them, until the citithat amount for the period of one| zens of Athens in desperation fied

month. Then let him try his hand | their city. From the nearby islands | at living for one month on $100 the| they watched as the Persians set same as the common horde of peo-| fire and destroved all they loved and ple have to do. held dear. But the mighty conqueror had not self a few luxuries, such as a fancy, qubdued the people and it is the | yacht or a trip, but on $100 his wife people who make a nation. He was and family will not go hungry. Ifi, citer of their lands, but he would in that class he has Some obligation | never master their souls and they |such as rent his credit should be hated him with a hate that could |good for one month and he Can| ever be quenched. Can a nan

| make slaves of such people? Can

; ‘ wal he hold them subject forever? We There are boys in training who| know he cannot!

have had to forfeit jobs paying as ‘high as $3000 to $4000 per year to| #5 « |are training to protect the property| a | and lives of this class ef people. The TO BOYD AVE. | writer always believes that it is a By Mrs, |good time to pay a debt when you| Bovd A {have the money. When you think| Is there anything the Street Com{of hundreds and thousands of men mission can do about Boyd Ave.? | who are drawing from $50 a week to Every year after they go over it the as high as $1000 a week and more, | holes are bigger and the dust is this should produce an enormousiworse. The oil they put on it lasts

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Side Glances=By Galbraith

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"That's exactly how | used to feel during our old courting days!"

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courageously, but the enemy creeps for your free speech—well—? When | ever closer to Athens, the goal. The strong are the rightful CONQUETOTS | you effort . . of the weak, so assert the Germans, who have many times proven the|let you say your say and not kill

{ Der tag is up for Amerika I hope | to be able to intercede for you and

I'll try to get Dr. Goebbels to

you for it. Only knock a few of | your teeth out. Because vou helped You as an American can sav | our say for us. As to old bloody

England—just remember old bloody |

Amerika, too. . . .

| » = ” DENIES TABLING OF BILL DEFERRING STUDENTS

tee on Public Relations, Committee on National Health Defense. Newspapers on April 18 and 19 carried an erroneous report that | the Senate Military Affairs Committee had tabled the Murray Bill, |S. 783, providing fer deferment of | medical and dental students, in-

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| ternes and residents until the com- | pletion of their training. Com-

| munications from Senator Murray {and Senator Reynolds state that the Bill has not been Pecliarly enough, on April 21, the newspapers carried a request by President Roosevelt, asking for 1000 American physicians to volunteer their services to Great Britain in order to help meet that nation's acute shortage of medical personnel. This nation is also facing a rather acute shortage of doctors. Hospital superintendents throughout the country are reporting very | disturbing conditions in the operation of their institutions, due to the mass withdrawal of internes and residents. All these facts are fa- { miliar to you already. However, | despite all this, Selective Service | has failed to announce, to date, a | plan which would conserve the na- | tion's medical resources. | There are known cases of physi- | cians serving as privates and also | many cases of medical officers train- | ing troops in the field. It is the purpose of the Murray Bill to avoid all this, to continue the nation’s | supply of well-trained physicians for use in civil or military capaci-| ties as the occasion demands. . May we ask that you request | careful consideration of this meas{ure by the Senate instead of the | untimely death it is apt to meet in| Committee.

APRIL RAIN

| Rain, rain, rain, rain !In one silver strain Dropping over field and plain, Pattering on the window pane. | Crystal beauty of the rain, All of life shines in one strain. Diamonds of the earth and sky, | Sparkling down from far on high. Rain, rain, rain, rain, Giistening, glistening everywhere, Gleaming far a silvery spray Blessing on the earth today. | In the coming of the rain.

DAILY THOUGHT

And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation. — Luke 22:40.

IF WE KEEP ourselves from op-

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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941, Gen. Johnson Says—

It Was a Lack of Leadership That

Ruined France and We Are Seeing Plenty of That in the U. S. Today.

ASHINGTON, Apri] 25.—“Business as usual” in this production emergency is, of course, absurd. The place the phrase is heard, however, is not among businessmen. It is used as a kind of reproach by some officials and some commentators who seem to think that the way to get production is to kick the lights out of the producing machine. As to the officials, they are frequently gents who didn’t themselves wake up to the emergency in time, who have not yet been able to endow the effort with inspiration, and who think that the way belatedly to do the latter is to jump up and down and holler, Some in this school of so-called thought are actually now saying that the only way to get this country awakened to “all-out” effort is to push it all the way into “all-out” war and “get a little American blood spilt.” That is the way to create “all-out” hysteria, but “all-out” hysteria never yet created “all-out” production. It was exactly that argument that pushed France, all unready, into war—and so ruined her. It is becoming increasingly clear as the facts about , the European 1940 spring campaign are coming to N light that it wasn’t any inertia of the French people that resulted in their fall. It was the most Godawful lack of generalship and staff work in the history of wars. There just weren't any sufficient and competent French troops athwart the line of the German advance, although the French had such troops in abundance. o 8

HE current custom of turning up noses at great defensive works like the Maginot Line and using | that example as a reason for turning up noses at great natural barriers like the Atlantic Ocean is the same kind of errdr. The Germans didn't despise defensive works like the Maginot Line, They built their own Siegfried Line or Westwali. The trouble wasn't with the Maginot Line as far as it went. Like a bridge built half-way across a river it just didn’t go far enough. Its whole left flank was exposed and the French relied on other nations like Belgium and Holland to cover that flank and do that part of their fighting for them, The fault so far as any concrete evidence shows wasn't in the French army or the French people. It was in French leadership and staff work. Something of the same sort may explain some of the shouting and gee-hawing at the American people that is coming out of Washington today. There isn't | and hasn't been anything the matter with the Ameri- | can people. If anything they have forged ahead of their leadership. They certainly have not lagged be- | hind.

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HEY asked to be taxed before Government began seriously to consider war taxes. It was popular demand for peace-time conscription, before any offi- | cial demand of leadership, that wrote the Selective | Service Law. There has not been a dollar of the | astronomical war appropriations that has not had al- | most universal popular support, As to American industry and business itself, if there has been a single solitary case of lagging, much less of obstruction, I have yet to hear of it. This popular situation needs no whip lash. That need has« been elsewhere. If this shouting for “all-out” something-or-other | means that most of the people want to get into bloody war unnecessarily, or to defend the far-flung parts of the British Empire and the shouters are “all-out” for that, it is true that a great majority stil] don't favor our entry into shooting war, But they were told by leadership on both sides of the political argument that they were not going to get into it and no fact has yet been presented logically to argue that they should | get into it. If they are thus to be tom-tommed and bum’s- | rushed into it by an hysterical appeal for “all-out” effort, it will he an act of blundering leadership that | will make all the other blunders of leadership pale, by comparison, into insignificance.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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{ HICAGO University's gadfly, Dr. Mortimer Adler, i stings so hard he raises welts when. he talks about his own profession—education. His first puncture is the statement that the average high school graduate has only the competence of a sixth grader in reading. H=2 follows that with an up-to-the-hilt stroke: Most individuals with college degrees don't know how te read. Why? Because it’s been made too easy for them. Our silly habit of predigesting everything for the kids started it. And I, for ‘one, think intelligence began to wane and self-reliance to die in the United States at that very moment. ; There was a deluge of children’s : books, beautifully illustrated, of { course, but with all the two-sylla= ble words left out. Thus we protected the little dears from meeting strange and unusual letter formations | and wrestling with more compiicated sentences, which, in turn, led in due time to a shrinking from anything that required concentrated mental effort. The fashion has grown to such proportions that I am an now told special simplified editions of Dickens | are provided for high school students. The poor | things musn't strain their brains with his sermonizing. 80 thé books are cut down to fit the formula of a movie scenario giving only the bare outlines of plot and story. Perhaps the professors feel the children need not become acquainted with the greater Charles Dickens, social reformer, Short cuts to culture are a spreading evil of our time. If I've heard one woman, I've heard 20 say, “I read Jan Valtin's ‘Out of the Night’ in the Reader's Digest.” Magazines such as the Reader's Digest serve a good purpose because they bring busy people a great deal of information they might not otherwise get. But it is deplorahle when they lend themselves to the murder of a book by hashing it into morsels for lazy readers to gulp. If learning is to survive we've got to do something besides fight Hitler. He is trying to destroy it, and’ we aid him with our mutilations.

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| Q—What was national ’ income in 1040?