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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1941

BUY DEFENSE BONDS; PAY TAXES, TOO

EFENSE bonds and savings stamps will go on sale tomorrow. They offer an attractive investment as well as an opportunity to help the country. The stamps will be sold in denominations as low as 10 cents. When enough stamps are accumulated they can be converted into bonds which will increase in value by onethird if held until the maturity date 10 years later. That is, $18.75 will buy a bond which can be cashed in for $25 10 years hence; $37.50 buys a $50 bond; $75 buys a $100 bond, and so on. Most of us, and our children, will have need of all the bonds we can get when those 10 years have rolled past—if for no other purpose, to pay the taxes that will be levied to carry and retire the public debt. Commerce Secretary Jones estimates that the nation’s debt, now nearing 50 billion dollars, may reach 90 billions before this defense emergency is over. All of us, or our children, will have to pay a share of that debt. The more prudent among us will try to make sure that we, and our children, also own a share of i% —s0 that we will have money to take out of one pocket and put into the other. Meanwhile, to keep that ultimate debt as low as possible, and to reassure the buyers of defense stamps and bonds that they will be paid off in coin of comparable purchasing power, Congress ought to seek the maximum in additional revenue now through stiffer taxation. Even under the most expansive estimates of tax proposals pending, our Government will be able to meet only two-thirds of expenditures out of current revenues. The situation confronts Congress with a stern duty, and demands sacrifices from all

citizens.

WHERE WILL HE STRIKE NEXT? VERYONE is asking: Where will Hitler strike next? Will be attempt the repeatedly delayed all-out against England? Or move through Spain on Gibraltar? Or attack Russia for the grain of the Ukraine and the oil of the Caucasus? Or continue his Fastern drive toward Suez, and perhaps also toward Iraq and Tran? Hitherto Hitler has been rather successful in outguessing his opponents, and in making surprise moves. But— for what they may be worth—here are what seem to be the majority military guesses of the moment: They expect him to delay his all-out against England, | while of course continuing the devastating raids on North | Atlantic shipping and the “softening-up” bombing of English ports and cities. They think there is a 50-50 chance that he may put off his march through Spain until the much-needed summer harvest is in, unless reverses in the Central or Eastern Mediterranean force him to protect his Western flank. Military men apparently are not as much impressed, as some diplomats, by warnings of Churchill and others of a Nazi attack on Russia in the Ukraine or Caucasus—much less through Finland. But if German pressure on Stalin for the Black Sea route grows strong enough, Stalin might repeat his earlier race with Hitler for Eastern Poland, the Baltic states and Bessarabia, by attacking the British sphere in Tran and Iraq. For once they expect Hitler to do the obvious. This would mean using his new Greek and Aegean bases to strike directly down the Mediterranean toward Suez—either with or without Turkish consent. That would be the left prong of his customary pincers movement, with his right swinging from the Libyan-Egyptian border. If this military guess is accurate, Britain needs the help of Turkey more than ever.

LINDBERGH TODAY URTEEN years ago, come May 20 next, 80,000 persons were gathered in the Polo Grounds, New York. OM Joe Humphreys, prize fight impressario, stopped the show. In his characteristically rough but effective way he told the audience about a boy who was flying somewhere over the Atlantic, trying to make Paris. He asked that everyone stand for a minute of silent prayer for that hoy’s safety. And 30,000 stood, silent. Over the whole nation similar scenes were enacted, in churches, theaters, ball parks, and wherever even two or three were gathered together. Lindbergh made it. A spasm of ectasy swept America; hero worship, such as never before seen in our time. It took raw courage for Lindbergh then. It takes another and a tougher courage for him to do what he is doing now. Physical courage then. Moral courage today. And the latter is much the rarer. He is opposing the same force which, when the last war fervor was raging, ran down his father. So he knows better than the rest of us what he is going up against. In the course of his fight he resigns as Colonel in the Air Corps; from a position which, he says, next to his right to speak what he believes, “has meant most to me in life.” » » ” Mutual tolerance is necessary if the right to speak is to continue in this land of ours. In our own editorial exercise of that right, that first of the four freedoms which our President proclaims for our country and all the world, we want here to suggest that Lindbergh—the Lindy, the slim, the “we,” the super-hero of that earlier year—be granted the over-all appraisal to which he, as much as any man in this generation, is entitled. And entitled even by those among us who despise his ideas about the war. If we are indeed tolerant, we all should be able to admire courage, whether physical or moral. And we could all use a lot of that spiritual thing which could be found in such an inclusive size-up of ‘Charles A. Lindbergh from the perspective of May, 1927,

THINKING IT OVER | A YOUNG woman going to take a job in Alaska has promised not to marry for two years. A wort of “cooling off period”

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Words of Praise for Hal O'Flaherty,

The Navy's New Press Agent and His Good Friend for Many Years

UCSON, Ariz, April 30.—Hal OTFiaherty, the T managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, has peen appointed assistant to Admiral Hepburn, the Navy's Director of Public Relations, with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. Mr, O'Flaherty is not an igeologist or Communist but a Model T, or primitive, Americanist, and thus will be a queer bird among the forces of press agentry which have been recruited for Government service in the last eight years and a bit. Moreover, he was not out of a job, but gave up a much better salary to accept the President's shilling, wherein the same difference will be observed between him

and the general run of misanthropic

failures who have crept into the j woodwork of the Government under the New Deal to serve their personal grudges against the economic system and the profession in

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they staggered. Time Magazine, with a weakness for capsuled and insulting characterization, used the word “brawling” to describe O'Flaherty, whose only fist fight of which I have knowledge in an intimate friendship of 28 years was a stout remonstrance against a remark by another journalist in the Adlon Hotel in Berlin in 1920. The remark left him no alternative, so Mr. O'Flaherty tagged his colleague out, and that settled that. un n

N 1914 in Minneapolis, he cracked a beautiful cherry-wood bar, but he and his companions were

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not brawling. They were singing and beating time | on the bar. He used to love to sing songs in saloons | and was partiai to a ribald Wisconsin college air | which began “Minnesota, see the Badger; you can |

stroke his tawny hair.”

That, however, was mere rejoicing by a robust,

ambitious, self-confident young reporter who had worked in a quarry and didn’t know his strength. He had also served briefly as coachman of a farm vehicle near What Cheer, Towa. This equipage, being loaded with fertilizer from the pile behind the barn, is driven sedately across the fields while mechanical arms, operated by gears and chains, hurl nourishment in slow, graceful arcs to the hungry soil. Mr, O'Flaherty set out behind a team of spanking mules, one of which stepped on a ground-hornets’ nest, arousing the inmates. The mules then ran away while the spreader-arms flailed wildly, and the young driver accidentally achieved distance records which are believed to stand to this day in this event. u un n

R. OFLAHERTY, still a cub, arrived in London in the spring of 1916, and it was there your correspondent shared with him a life of toil and not too miserable poverty on $30 a week in a number of Bloomsbury boarding houses. There, in the sooty, foggy mornings after the long night trick, he would lean out his window and revile the cat-meat man, the lavender woman and the unsightly old woman who would come trudging by when he was trying to sleep, yelling in a dark, deep voice, “Roses! Sweet, lovely roses!” The romance of the ancient cries of London was not irresistible at such hours. Mr. O'Flaherty returned home in 1917 to enlist in the Army, becoming a pilot second lieutenant just as the war ended. And when he went back to London with his young bride he discovered to his own consternation, no less than hers, that he had achieved a romantic conquest over a young woman he had scarcely ever seen. During the old London days the young American reporters habitually patronized a ‘cheap Fleet St. restaurant called the Wellington, and now, When O'Flaherty returned with his American dream girl there arose from the scullery such a squalling and yowling as you never heard. And then there emerged a red-eyed, sallow little pot-walloper to point angrily at Mrs, O'Flaherty, screaming for all the world, “She ain't ’alf good enough for ‘im. 'E deserves better than the like of you, Miss— 'E’s beautiful, 'e isi” 'E weren't 'alf-bad looking at that, 'e weren't.

Business By John T. Flynn Urges Start in This Hemisphere for Rebuilding Our Post-War Economy

EW YORK, April 80.—When this cruel war is over a large number of very difficult problems will face America. The most serious will be ‘economic. And this is the time to form our plans for dealing with those problems. Among them will be the general economic state of all the nations to the south of us and ‘our relationships with those nations. In formulating such a policy one ‘of the first things to be kept in mind is that group of mistakes which are to be avoided. The very first among these may be stated as follows. In this hemisphere we have been singularly blessed in one respect. The ambitions of the nations in it have not traveled very much in ‘the direction of ‘conquest. There have been, of course, a few quarrels among South American states about boundaries. But all this has been on a minor scale. This one fact has ‘enabled us to exclude from among our hemisphere problems all those terrible irritations which grow out of what in Europe is called power politics. In Europe, for instance, much of the turmoil in the Balkans has arisen out of and been fostered by the continuous activity of the great powers to bring these small states into their several orbits of control. Intrigue goes on there incessantly to win this state and that one for Germany, or Britain, or Russia, or France, or Ttaly. And among themselves these states are engaged in ‘endless political maneuvers about their aggressive ambitions against ‘each other. Of course there is some political maneuvering among our South American neighbors and ourselves, but it has not been either of the kind or the ferocity which smoulders in Furope always and breaks into flame at regular intervals.

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OW, an understanding ‘of this should furnish us with the first idea in ‘our program of policy with reference to South and Central America. mm the last year the most active efforts have been made by European governments to introduce their politics into South America, and unfortunately the United States, instead of aiding South America to repel this, has actually taken a hand in the game and, in fact, the most industrious hand. : In framing our post-war policy there we can be guided by one of two general plans. First, ‘we can pick our stens with a view to ‘earning the confidence of those nations because of ‘our disinterestedness, our desire to trade with them without a political ingredient in the trade, and to ‘enlarge our social and economic relationships on a basis of mutual interest. Or, second, we can treat South America as a sideshow of the great European circus in which we will attempt to line up her nations for one side or the other—whichever side we h to on at the time—in the great power battles of Europe. second would be fatal.

So They Say— THE UNITED STATES may have confidence th the friendship of Colombia and her capacity to prevent all danger to the (Panama) Canal by way of her territory —Dr. Bdwarde Santos, President of ‘Colombia . .

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BIG PAPERS,

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1041

Gen. Johnson Says—

Time's Report on Sinkings Shows Alarming British Shipping Losses; Situation Worse Than in April, 1917

ASHINGTON, April 30.--Tn the April 28th issue of Time Magazine, Page 24, there is a remarks able analysis of British and neutral shipping losses, The essential figures are 21 million tons of British 4

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The Hoosier Forum

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

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UPHOLDS LINDBERGH, HITS NAME-CALLING By H. C. Wallace, Crawfordsville

There is one thing in common in such letters as have been published in the Forum attacking Lindbergh. They all do nothing but call names. This is the old device of reducing an argument to personalities, and it means in reality that the person doing sO can not answer the argument. Our President himself is guilty of this. Lindbergh's argument is merely that while we can protect ourselves at home, we can not do so in Mesopotamia or Egypt. Certainly this is worthy of serious consideration, and vet much of what we hear is simply

[undignified name calling. I believe

that Lindbergh is a patriot and a man of great courage for calling to our attention something that he believes from his observations to be a fact. » » »

POWDER PUFF HELP FOR BRITAIN ASSAYLED

By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville

Saturday, April 26, an ‘editorial appeared in The Times stating that polls being taken show a big majority ‘opposed to our Navy conveying to help England. I think, Mr. Editor, that statement is a flat contradiction to6 the last ‘Gallup poll printed in The Times April 28 in which Mr. Gallup polled the people on two questions: First, should the U. S. Navy be used to guard ships carrying war material to England? Answer, ves 41%; no, 50% and 9% undecided. The other question was, if it appears certain that Britain will be defeated unless we use part of our Navy to protect ships going to Britain would you favor or oppose such ‘convoys? Answer, faver convoys 71%, oppose 21%, undecided 8%. I think it's very obvious we are not going to help defeat Hitler by passing resolutions condemning him as a ruthless dictator or standing by without lifting a hand to protect the things we are trying to send to England, arms, munitions and food. If we do our part to deliver these things to #ngland, she can with our help stop Hitler. Tt seems to me we as American citizens have a ‘tremendous stake dependent on the outcome of this conflict, We are spending billions for the things that are vitally necessary that England should receive to enable her to win. But while a minerity quibble and fight the idea of our Navy giving protection because there would be risk and danger Hitler's men are waiting in the At-

(Times readers are invited fo express ‘their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

lantic to sink every one possible. The whole mess doesn't make sense. We are a part of the plan to defeat Hitler. His defeat depends on the efforts of England and U. S. together. If we haven't guts enough to perform our part of it then we might just as well take our shingle down as the biggest, most powerful democracy on earth. 1 think it's time to ‘quit this powder puff offensive and substitute some real action if we want to save democracy and the prestige and influence we exert in the world. If we are really in favor of helping England, let's quit howling about putting into effect the force to make our help effective. 8 ve ” CLAIMS PROPAGANDA USED BY F. D. R. TO GAIN ENDS By Karl 0. Learner, Kckomo

The propaganda methods that are employed by the President and his supporters cannot be matched by any system In the world today. When boiled down te their cynical essence they seem to be a sequel to the old story about which came first, the chicken or the ‘egg? From the standpoint of a casual observer these facts seem to be clear. When the President wishes to put something over he will first announce it in a offhand manner. The press that is violently favorable to his policies will pick it up and kick the issue around awhile. Then in another fireside chat it will receive more attention, Mr. Roosevelt using as the reason for more lengthy dis cussion the attitude of the press. The question will then be forgotten for a month or two. Suddenly something will happen that has a bearing ‘on the topic and the newspapers and Washington columnists will blaze forth with the demand that such and such a measure be passed without delay. Now is the time the President acts coy. He puts on the frail Victorian lady faint, He does not want to appear too forward and seem to be taking too much initiative. He puts his ear to the ground, listens to the rumble, and goes on a fishing cruise. While he is gone a Cabinet memper or two, plus an ambassador will

Side Glances=By Galbraith

“I'll play you the next hole for the doctor bills our wives predicted whip they saw this rain"

haunt the radios of the nation. The press rants and raves, The President returns to Washington only to find that public opinion is still against him. He will make a roundabout suggestions that the issue will possibly, maybe, perhaps be given to Congress. Then the press becomes furious and charges the executive with poor leadership. His friends seem to turn against him and he is pictured in the minds of the people as being the true guardian of their rights by not acting. Mr. Gallup will take a poll. Tt is favorable. “We must act,” says the President, “all of America is behind me.” And act 1» does. The bill is passed by the universal demand of the people. Another right goes out the window. Which came first? The chicken or the egg?

®» BB. .% CHARGES THE BRITISH RAN OUT ON GREECE By Chas. Norris, 1505 Kelly St.

How times have changed. Tn 1776 the cry was the British are coming, in 1941 it is the British are leaving. Running out on another country that they promised to back up. The great British Empire with a population of 500 million wants everything but gives nothing but double taxes and a headache to the American people and we hold the bag. Im Mr. Roosevelt's criticism of Mr. Lindbergh's speech T was very much surprised to hear him admit that we fought the dear British at one time. Also his mentioning the appeasers warning George Washington to surrender to the British during the hardships at Valley Forge, if that isn't just what Mr. Roosevelt has

I was still under the impression we have the right te express our own personal opinions, but maybe I am wrong. God give us more men like Lind-

who will put AMERICA FIRST. Why should we help a country that can’t even help themselves? Any child knows that a convoy sys=tem of any kind means war and that is vomething the American people do not want, Let's build our own national defense and let Europe take care of her own troubles, This is not our war, regardless of what a few of the war mongering politicians try to shove down our throats. ® B® CONTENDS CRITICS OF ISOLATTONISTS UNFAIR By G. K. Smith, 218 8, Awdubon Ra.

Mr. Gillander and some others ate quite Tiberal in their condemnation of nationally prominent men such as Wheeler, Nye, Lindbergh and Ford, who differ with them on matters of foreign policy, One glaring error which crops up in all these antiWheeler et al letters is that anyone who doesn't believe in sending another A. BE. ¥. to Burope' is automatically guilty of being pro-Hitler and therefore opposed to any form of national defense, Since when has it become impossible to work for your own country’s defenses exclusively without at the same time becoming an honorary member of the local Bund chapter? When it comes to downright intolerance, bigotry and cooked, propa-ganda-soaked thinking, these “Dene Br Bp: Fh ing the re” fellows certainly make Doktor 's best efforts look like an old fashioned

temperance movement by compari-

GOLDEN STREETS By JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

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- nine million tons of Allled and neutral shipping since acquired; three million tons built, bought, chartered and captured, total 338 million tons. Deducting losses of 5,300,000 tons leaves 27,700,000 tons, * & That wounds encouraging but then comes the bad news. Des ducting tonnage unavailable for cargoes for military, naval or other reasons the general cargo-carrying capacity is 13 million tons. The necessity for using longer lines such as that around Africa instead To of that through the Mediters N ranean, and for various diversions to aveid sinking, slows normal time of turnaround (round-trip voyage) by half, leaving the effective tonnage for supply 6,500,000. Add the damage to ports, slowing stevedore and dockage service, and the time of wounded ships In impaired dock-yards for repair, and you get about four million effective tons. The present effective rate of sinking is about five million tons a year, and of new construction in both this country and Britain, about two million tons.

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will go down by reason of aerial bombing. Ours

improvement it is plainly appalling, Starting with four million tons, adding two million a year but losing five million is a lot worse than what. seemed the “handwriting on the wall” in April, 191%, . In the first quarter of 1917 submarines destroyed two million tons of Allied shipping. The world’s coms bined output of new shipping was replacing less than a ‘quarter of the loss. Great Britain had less than six million tons available for ocean transport. Then Congress appropriated $3,700,000000 for - shipping construction alone. We embarked on a Pro= gram of constructing 12 million gross tons and exe panded our ship-building capacity 10 times in 10 months. We started with 234 shipways and at the armistice had 1099 shipways—a potential shipbuilding capacity equivalent to that of all the rest of the world combined. That plus the throttling of the submarine through new devices and a new convoy system and other measures saved the day. We are moving on no such schedule today and the initial condition is worse, AS the Time analysis points out, undersea attack is not even the principal commerce destroyer. The tally of sinking reads: Submarines 39 per cent, aircraft 23° per cent, mines 22 per cent, warships (surface) 8 per cent, unaccounted 8 per cent,

» ” ” 8 the Time analysis exaggerated? The rumor and unquotable dope around Washington indicates thas. it is the reverse—an understatement. It figures only . an average of one million tons of wounded ships laid up in shipyards for repairs, With acknowledged outs right sinkings running at a rate of five million tons

a year, this seems very low—and our own shipyards are terribly overcrowded for this work by a building program beyond their capacity, while those in Britain are terribly impaired by bombings, This country should demand to know the exact truth about this situation and to know it right now, At present, public opinion is groping in a black vacuum of controlling facts, slightly tainted by epithets even if also highly perfumed with brave words, towers. ing aspirations and noble sentiments. The latter aie” courggeous and Fommendable but all we have at stake in reliance on possibly blundering action is an ades quate defense of the life, liberty and property of the whole American people. We have a right to know the facts and this Administration has a duty to res veal them.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T= most important thing you can do for defense & is to go on with what you are doing=only do it better than ever before.” Here, T think, is an excellent suggestion from & woman Who represents consumer interests in the des fense program, Miss Harriet Ele lott. Tt is excellent because it is" sensible, Im times like these, the natural instinet is to dash out and do something. So urgent iz the desire to get busy that many of us simply go into tailspins. thout planning, without considering our talents, we join something or other or start a new organization a a community already over organized, But each woman has a task she is now doing, or can do, and it is our own particular work that dew serves our best attention. In a manner of speaking we, too, are soldiers, and good . soldiers do one job at a time. When we take on too many extras we often neglect the important task, and emergencies are not then wisely met. Ii seems to me the present one requires something moire than work=-it requires thought. American women never had so many opportunities to get ine formation, and never before were they =o encouraged to week it and to act upon their own conclusions, The military progiam is but the fret of a vast number of basic changes which are likely to come in our tinte and which may alter our lives past all belief, The way to meet thowe changes is to learn tO think straight. At the moment our country is suffering. from a confusion of tongues, False statements can be heard, even fiom (he people we most respect. The sensible woman will set up in her own mind a court where each statement must be proved before ft ix accepted. She will listen to both zidex of the arguments, and form her own decisions. The mental wealth of this land hax not been tapped beocatse a ° majority of its people have never been or taught to get facts and make up their own m X Falters Note: The views oxprowved by wolumnints ww Wie BewspAper Are thelr own, They are not necessarily thom of The Tndianapolis Times, »

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August, 1940, lost their citizenship. a much good farm land is in the United tex » A=The present cropland area of the United States is about 415 million acres, of which only about 342 million acres is classed as “good,” the remainder being too steep, rough, shallow, or infertile for profits able cultivation. . Q=Whieh orchestra furnishes the musical acoom< paniment for the Andrews Sisters on Decca records? | A==Vie Schoen and his orchestra, A Q=How i& the octane rating of a fuel determined®” A=The fuel, and a substance known as octane,’ are mixed and used 1% operate a one-cylinder tess’ engine; the relative proportions of the two substances