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Give Light and the “People wilt Find Their Own. Way.

SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1061

IVEY NOT? NT Th ey

WA ARS" develop few benign By-groducts One may ve

to end the irritations and inefficiencies that attend the pnnual daylight-saving- squabble and the local-option system pf clock-setting during spring, summer and early fall months.

6 “Secretary Ickes proposes daylight saving across. the | come to pass—namely, that well get & separate and

Board” to conserve electricity, of which a serious shortage |

is developing because of defense and drought. The reaso

is 50, obvious that all other arguments, pro and con, —_— :

daylight saving fade i in face of this one vitally important

THE PUBLIC IS NOT «COMPLACENT Vy AsHIy GTON dispatches. quote “an authoritative ". source” as explaining that the President’s unlimited emergency declaration “was designed largely for its psychological effect” —that “the Administration wants to get the people away from: the complacent ‘business as usual’ §dea and to impress on labor that this is no time for work stoppages.” We wonder whether this does not account for the sense of national letdown that has followed the President's speech, for the expressions of heightened bafflement and confusion we hear. What people wanted was concrete evidence that tis Administration had got itself away from.the complacent ~ *business as usual” idea and was at last determined to do whatever was necessary, and .all that was necessary, ‘to _ gwing America’s full capacity into production for defense. That is the issue on which Americans can be ‘united. As to- what national defense may require us to do beyond pur own borders, there are differences of opinion. But as to the absolute necessity for producing ships and planes and tanks and guns in ever-increasing numbers, patriotic citi-, gens have but one opinion. Here isolationists and inter_wentionists stand together, for without expanding: -and unimpeded production. of modern ‘weapons. neither intervention nor isolation can now offer hope of safety.

Yet the public has seen production impeded by strikes |

in defense industries, and such strikes actually encouraged by Administration spokesmen who said repeatedly that these work stoppages were doing no great harm and must not be used as an excuse for restricting organized labor’s freedom of action. 7 . 5.8 » NN IT is something: that the President now officially recogriizes: the menace--in -the strikes, and appeals to labor and capital to end them. : The President revealed that “the present rate of Nazi ‘ginkings is . . . more than twice the combined British and ‘American output of merchant Ships today.” Suppose he had added: “Yet, despite this ‘tragic situation, 11 Atneriean shipyards, working on half a billion dollars’ worth of defense orders, are tied up by a strike which even the leaders of the American Federation of Labor repudiate and deplore. © “Such a strike must not continue, and I-will use the full powers of my office to see that it does not continue. 7 demand in the name of national safety that this strike

end tonight—and, if it does Bot end, I will back up my de-

mand with immediate action.” ° The effect on the country would have been electric. The great majority ¢ even of organized labor’s rank and file would have welcomed such an utterance as evidence that at Just the Administration had rejected “business as usual” i favor of defense to the utmost. This country wants production—not talk. It wants attention to the home iront. How can we hope to stop dictators abroad unless we find a way to stop defense strikes

ONE PROBLEM SOLVED ROM Science Service's report of the American Museum Association’s convention at Columbus, O.: “Etched brass is the new solution of the model-makers’ problem of what to use for miniatare leaves on trees. Edmund Greacen Jr., of New York, told of perfecting a‘method whereby leaves for trees only three: to four inches tall can be turned out with realism and in quantity, relatively cheaply. For a War Department - landscape diorama, he gaid, the new method enabled him to provide about 8,000, 000 leaves for more than 100 tiny trees, on exact scale, and the work was done ‘within three months.” : Many citizens have not: realized the urgent importance of this problem: so :ingeniously ‘attacked by. Mr. Greacen. Many “eitizens’ may not appreciate the War Department’s need for a “landscape diorama™ with more than 100 tiny $rees and 8, 000,000 leaves “on exact scale.” § Diorama-building has become a leading activity of Government under the New Deal. The WPA, the PWA, the NYA, the TVA and: dozens of other agencies and departments have constructed thousands of dioramas—small models. of their prajects—and have spent for them millions oi dollars. Naturally, the art has advanced. In earlier days nce, ‘a little. gob. of green-dyed sponge, stuck on was considered a sufficiently likelife tree. =

_ The purpose of dioramas is to be exhibited.” Wherever |’

ns- gather together, from world expositions. to. townD fairs, there are likely to be from one to: several score dioramas. They come under the he dis ‘the public. ' The more realistic the dio- - e enthusiasm among - ‘taxpayers for: bigger sopris i ons, to the Government agency,

the Rstionsl-dctense program, and Hitler must be s lly. - Our country may be ‘behind in th

ty, 3.cents a copy; deliv- |

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Aviation By. Mai. Al Williams =

President at Last Agrees Air Power Isa Major ‘Weapon But It May Take A War to Give. If Its. Proper Place

x must command the air, ‘Mr. ‘Roosevelt ‘has ' said. How the admirals and generals must be | ‘And how we need ‘Billy Mitchell today to show the President and the SOURIZY Haw We are goltig to. commant the air. ‘We must command the air! "That opinion "officially tips the - scales. The President at last rec_ognizes airpower as a major: unit, a ‘major weapon, a major arm. of national defense to win a. war. Gone are. all thdse reactionary ' claims that airpower is merely: the eyes of the Fleet and the Army. 7 At last it is openly that, without Shi mighty weapon

as a unit,

carrying the war where and When it pleases, ‘victory is -impos- €.

‘Now, I suppose, we shall wait patiently, since there |

is nothing else to do, and. watch another autonomous’ air force in thé United States some day,

What. the move should have been made years earlier. One thing we can always expect from bureaucracy —resistance to change. The progress bureaucracy plans is to buy and build more of the same things on which it grew greai—and bigger items. in each cate-

gory. : ro. 8 » 8

ATURE. seems to decree that a thing or an animal or a man can grow only so big. There is always a point at which she seems to. bring on her next development in the age-old rule of survival of the fittest. : ‘Consider Jend-War tactics as they were at the end of the first ‘World ‘War. 'Stagnant warfare—a war of

| economic attrition, of trenches and barrages and

waves of men moving forward across areas swept by sheets of machine-gun fire—had grown big and Twenty. thousand or more men were killed trying to capture a mile of territory. The theory was, “We have more men than the enemy has bullets.” That “thing” was doomed, like the dinosaur, by its very weight and impracticability. - Sea weapons also became. gigantic and ruled by reason of their weight and cumbrous might. They,

‘too, became those gigantic “things” which nature

abhors. Their heavy steel sides were built thicker as the power of projectiles was increased. “Stand and slug,” was all they could do by reason of their immobility. Their very design was defeating them. The torpedoing of three great British warships by

one puny submarine within a few hours should have.

sounded their death knell in the minds of those designing seapower for: the future. 8 x = came this war, with the experts decreeing that it must begin just where the-old war had left off. Their theories tumbled before the blitzkrieg —8 front of sharp lance-like points instead of the old waves of men. The war of movement was on— and the old war was caught flat-footed. At sea, the mastodons of steel; capable of 25 miles per. hour, were as helpless as a Firpo against a Joe

Louis. For the enemy was on the move, on wings, at ‘200 and 300 and 350 miles an hour. Winged weapons

not only hammered the men and women whose toil and taxes had built vast battleships, but they destroyed the naval bases and dockyards upon which the" warships depended for seaworthiness. Then the Skagerrak, the fall of France, Dunkirk, Greece, the Mediterranean and the progressive destruction of homes, facilities, and life in the British Isles—and the breaking of a steel-sided sea blockade.

+All these dreadful things had to happen because the

minds of unwieldly bureaticraties would not see that we must command the air.

(Mr. Pegler’s regular eolumn will appear Monday.)

by John T. Flynn

History Proves We Can Compete . ‘With ‘Slave. Labor' If Nazis Win

EW YORK. May 31.—This war will end one of these days—somehow and in some way. If Germany wins, America will have to face that fact. For a year we have been told that, if Germany wins, then we will not be able to trade in the world save upon Hitler's terms. To meet the Hitler threat we will have to streamline our Government, reduce our living standards, cut wages, submit to the most exacting regimentation. All this, we are told, will be necessary because we will find ourselves competing’ with slave labor." Because this has been said so much, in such high places and with such force, it is entirely possible that, should Hitler win his ar) a Tosement do. do these very’ gs may get under way in country. Whether Hitler will AL with TE As i & question which must yet be answered. The term slave labor” is a little obscure, Certainly men who work in Hitler's Germary do not have that freedom of action and of movement that American workmen have and demand: and—let us hope—will always

In the sense that the Hitler government will move labor about, drill’ it, conscript it, force it to work where the government wishes rather than where the

-worker wishes, at hours and wages fixed by the gov-

ernment—in this sense the labor will be slav. Whether it will be labor working for the Sate Sabor, which men work all over the continent of Europe outside of Germany is another question. But whatever the wage paid the German workman, that wage will be important to the American producer only when he meets the products of Gerap producers in’ world markets—in international We do not want to lose. our international any considerable part of it. But, if the de or bodings of those who say we will not be able to trade are true, then at worst we will be confronted with alternatives. Either we will have to sacrifice some of

our foreign trade or we will subject our Whole eco-

nomic society to low-wage standards. 2 » - o

S our JJoreian trade-~when duplications are removed—amounts to little more than 5 per cent

conceded |

x | but not until the actual pressure of war demonstrates 1

. DE hues MATERIAL Must NOT Be . INTERRUPTED!

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—FDR

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| | some of our transport planes furnished to,

The Hoosier Forum

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

ADVISES F. D. R. CRITIC TO “PIPE DOWN” By George R. Brown, 3609 N. Keystone Ave.

In the Hoosier Forum of May 27th Mr. H. C. Wilson takes his trusty pea shooter in hand and blows sev'eral wads of spite at President Roosevelt. Of course they have not hurt the President. They probably were senf on their course to make Mr. Wilson feel better. In normal times it would be best to pay no attention to such a letter.as Mr. Wilson’s. But now, in these ominous days, it is my opinion that this letter should be’ answered. In his first paragraph Mr. "Wilson asks “Whose pie-crust promises are the easiest to break—Hitler’s or his Royal Highness, F. D. R.?” President Roosevelt is no. “Royal Highness” but ‘was constitutionally elected to his high office by the people of the United States. Nothing he’ has ‘ever said could justify the insult of comparing his veracity to that of Hitler, whose constant use ot the lie in the control of the German people is known to every literate American. In his second to fifth paragraphs the mothers -of America are appealed to by Mr. Wilson. ‘The President is quoted as promising them and the fathers that their boys are not to be sent to foreign wars. None of our boys has been sent to foreign wars. May I suggest that any criticism on this point be reserved until they are. Mr. Wilson adds a pathetic little non sequitur when. he says, “When this great leader of ours tells us England's fight is our fight, did he just forget the above promise to the fathers and mothers of the United States?” Mr. Wilson, feeling as he does about President. Roosevelt, should not have used the word “great.” Of course, it was a feeble attempt at sarcasm. I inform Mr. Wilson that by supporting England our truly great President has not forgotten his promise, but is taking the only course that can keep war from our: shores. In his last paragraph, among several insults to the President, Mr. Wilson says: “If Lindbergh is a Copperhead, our great peace loving President must be two Copperheads.” First, Mr. Wilson should be told, for it is the truth, that Presi-

bergh a Copperhead. This statement of Mr. Wilson takes me back

dent Roosevelt never called Lind-|.

(Times readers. ara invited to express their views in ". these columns, religious controversies “excluded. Make - your letters short, so all can . have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

to childhood days. If one kid called: another a name the response. was

always “You are ten times double

and you can’t’ get ahead.” When I was a child I.-spoke as a child; when I became;a man I put aside childish things. ‘Suppose Mr. Wilson does just that. Mr. Wilson's letter, if it: hag any effect at all, would- be to stir up fear and trouble among the fam-

ilies of men called to the colors: If

will not ‘do that.. These parents have too much sense and patriotism, 1 feel sure. But-that is evidently the intent of the letter. Mr. Wilson |; compares ‘the President unfavorably with Hitler. Doesn’t he know that he is helping Hitler. by making such statements? Any person writing a letter for publication at this time should be careful to write ‘only what will help our country’s effort to save civiliza=~ tion. I am sureit would be impossible for Mr. Wilson to do that. His prejudices are too strong. I think he had better “Pipe down.”

Fol mente OPPOSES RELIGIOUS TRAINING IN SCHOOLS By Mrs. E. C,, Indianapolis Just a few questions I would like

to have ahswered. Why has Hitier not been excommunicated from the

church? 2. Why a Ie they trying 1 get the public schools to teach religion? There is no hatred: taught in our public schools so why .gc back to the dark ages? There ave plenty of churches for that if people want it. But why try to force it?

: ‘® 8» NO ACTION ON CONVOYS BY CENTRAL LABOR UNICN By Louis C. Schwartz, president,

0. Barneclo, secretary, In anapolis Conrail Labor Union.

Recently the, ‘local newspapers printed an article stating that certain Jabor leaders had signed peti-

Side Glances - By Galbraith

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of our production, we will then be seriously consider- || =a i

ing putting the 95 per cent of our le who wi on our domestic production on a fin de bi order to hold the 5 per cent of our trade which goes

{nto foreign production. _ This, of course, does not |

make sense ot ee we will not: have to sacrifice our foreign trade,

or any considerable part of it. For instance, we will |

not ‘have to lose our trade with America or other North American a pa, of changed work standards -in those countries enforced by Hitler. Yet, with these countries we had nearly half of all our foreign exports in 1938—the last Ds trade with Asia—certa e fearful lest slave labor conditions ye 20 We have had to compete against Oriental “slave labor”

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EE mt eupportuble, ; will, therefore, not only 18] to meet, it. but. may do. | ovmelves an. Sreparabis injury. x

| So They Say—'

tions for rs under the Lease-

Lend Law. Many people have the impression that -this' would indicate |

" {that Organized Labor of Indianapo-

lis is in favor of this move. We wish to correet such impression by stating that such action has never been: taken: by the Indianapolis ‘Central Labor Unioh composed of A. PF. of L. Unions of this City. Any signatures obtained on such petitions were as individuals and not as representing this body. Any statements contrary to the above are erroneous Labor, as such, and that naturally implies, Organized: Labor, associates itself: as .an observer and. critic: of any action taken. by the Indians Defense: Com-; mittee. ent ass ® #8 BLAMES LEADERS ‘FOR BRITISH DILEMMA : By BE, Be “virgen wl 1 have never: ‘been asked to vote |

that I know of.

writing letters to our Jegislators, and edtiors. None of us want to see England

tunately, the common people of ‘a country ‘pay the price: for the in= efficiency ‘of their leaders. I am opposed to. sending -our;’ American boys into the European cdldron and to the propaganda that is trying to make us‘feel that this: is ‘an’ absolutely- necessity. ; :

x ou LL. CONTENDS MAJORITY ; FAVOR ENTERING WAR. By R. 8. K. - Cur isolationists and puacifists have lost out in every major controversy involving American policy:

badly licked on repeal of the arms embargo, on. conscription, on the Lend-Lease Bill. Now the 'Gallup poll and other reliable soundings of public opinion show that they are | being defeated on convoys and other items of all-out aid to Britain. ‘Un-

pected turn.for the better it is obvious: that we shall soon enter the world’ conflict: with the backing of a ' substantial . mdjority . of our people. e

every: opportunity to present their case to the public. Why have they been unable to check this steady in-

ferventioniss trend? ‘The reasons

seem ‘tobe: (1) ‘Lack of leaders capable ‘of: ‘inspiring respect ‘and confidence. (2) "Inability" to convince

the Communists, Nazis and other groups who are’ either openly sub-| versive. or who place their ‘hatred for Britain above their obligations to the United States. Ha

WINDOWS. ‘By VINA RETTOP

Windows are: the eyes, Of houses, I would say— - Windows can’ be bright And they can be gay!

They can smile ‘invitingly,

Or look hard and sleepy— Windows’ mn a darkened house

11a fo 1 my windows With gay. Trim -each side De iffies : And Uight iny tops up lots!

DAILY" THOUGHT “For in - that he himself hath

ta ‘being tempted, he is able ot fein 4 eh

transportation in the world. It ‘| tem of air transport lines, It is.

in a Gallup poll,: ‘nor. has anyone. ox

For those of us: who nave. wok been so favored there is still time|§ for an" expression of * opinion. by | 3

beaten, but much of her trouble is p due to thé colossal error. and blind-|3 ness. of “her statesmen. . “Unior- | 3

‘have -the experience’ my heart sings,

toward. the present war.: They were :

less British fortunes take an unex-}|

our’ gnti-war” groups - have had :

i peth—Arrow. n ; motionless forever stands the BS ra ] Q-Are tity in Colombia, Sou

Says—

Instead ofs Duplicating. Facilities: ~ Army Should Experiment With Use Of Our Plane a

ASHINGTON, May 31, — This’ country has the best system of sutomotive il ‘and truck has the best systed with: the task of Working. a miracle in motorizing overnight its land forces and providing adequate aerial transport for. a new yas Army. : . The air: transport ‘commercial ‘lines ‘have : already been denied further supplies of passenger planes except a small fraction ‘of those already in production. The. automotive plants: have already : been curtailed 20 per cent in oper- ~ ation for civilian Production | ani

planes; There are some stories, hard: confirmy the Brite ish are being used on British’ com commercial lines... It is' the easy way, in motorizsing out’ Army: io" restrict production for normal civilian uses. If that is the necessary way no bit some

body will . |: thought should be given to whether it is the necessary ‘| way, or-even the best way. Transpor

t ‘planes of the passenger type strictly for the movement of troops are used: only -occasionally. The same thing is largely true of motor friicks and busses for the mere movement of troops and sup-

‘plies. This does not refer to the armored, motarized,

mechanized and armed motorized equipment of . all sorts for the Panzer divisions. This is highly special ized modern military equipment .of- A-1 priority and indispensably exclusive ‘military control. , .

BE what sense is.there in duplicating a ast. civil

jan equipment for transport only to.immobilize them hub-to-hub or wing-to-wing in vast idle parks for transportation only? ‘The personnel to organize operate and maintain them, if not amateur and unproved is certainly not comparable to the highly

‘trained men and remarkably efficient organizations of

the commercial lines. ‘In all this supposed general. staff planning ‘and brain-work, what effort has been made to. organize, experiment with and prepare. to use as a force in. reserve at least the vast: aerial and ground motorized - transport of the United States to the end that withqut duplication and without- unnecessary impairment of

‘| -civilian ‘services .it can answer any reasonably ex-

pected call for the transport of armies and -muni-

» tions anywhere any time?:

. * The maintenance of clvillan- morale is a principal object of good general staff work in modern war. There is'a possibility here too of immensely speed--ing up to the motorization if not the Tnechianization, and armament of our new forces. : ; Ta ® ok : ‘HE yoent “highly sensible step, proved by ‘espe ence, of orggnizing all war-affected industries into “war-service-committees” of hellweathers in each industry to help to solve the Government's industrial problems cffers a way at leasi to. approach ah pond: and expert: study of. this highly. promising: 1t probably won't. be’ done. until: it is too late {0 reap maximum benefits. -That~is the trouble with .panicky action bum’s rushed at the last minute: without sufficient study and regardless of expense. It is so much easier to crack down: with arbitrary restrictions on. the manufacture of commercial transport. planes and interchangeable civilian equipment for motor transport than it is to iry to make the most intelligent and least disruptive use of the commercial facilities we have—possibly to much better agyaniags to all interests sopnenied, 2 \

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A Woman's Ss Viewgoini

y Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LIKE a ‘cross-country bus ride—the DAPPY-go-Iuoky. relaxation, the friendly chats with other passenne ag ‘the “Sureness: of the driver's hand upon: +4he whee I like - to. “eavesdrop: on. “the conversational: frag-: : “ments which give keyhole. peeps into ‘other: people's lives. - Best. of all, I like .to sit, .mooning and happy, watching the: opuntrysige

i ; a country. “it is! . What a wide, ‘eautital,. fruitful land! Wheat, barley, oats, corn, cotton and alfalfa, “Thousands of acres where herds of fat caftle feed, oil derricks piercing the. sky; _ engines chugging, windmills turnitig, ‘telegraph wires humming, vegetable gardens, -flocks of white chickens drifting like snowballs over brown" and green ‘landscapes; hills, plains, and valleys; ‘birds, bees, butterflies. And’ homes—little homes, big homes, middle: sized homes. Unpainted shacks, many-roomed mansions and cottages, vine-covered, flower-enfolded, where all ‘sorts of men and women live and love: and - work and suffer.’ It makes you feel small to watch them as ‘your. ‘bus rolls ‘on—a constant ‘vista. of roofs and meadow. and workers as fa as ‘the eye: can see. Every time I “This: is My giten ca! This is where my. roots , .are, and where. I ong. ” Fis And’.how I wish and pray that those ‘Who gulde the destinies of the nation could glimpse this vision, could get. this; feeling that our ancestors sacrificed to create, not gilded cities, not those decadent centers _of populations which harbor so many ideologies alien to, our. land, but : these wide free fields, this fine, - comprehensive, sturdy way ‘of life which is to be: seen now only in our great Middle West. Out of it eventually must come the teadership to save us if we are to be: saved. For on these: farms and in these: cross-road: towns ‘live the prototypes of our founding fathers. They won't give up their heritage without a struggle—either to a reign: Te, or to bureaucratic (domestic power. . —— x " gaitor's Note: The views ‘oy coliisning in. thle. : newspaper are - their ewan. Sty are apt Seemanly voy

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Questions ond Answers

"(The indianapolis Times gerviei-Sureas- wits answer * any. question: of fact or information, vot tnvolving estensive oe ‘search. ‘Write your questions clearly, sigh name ‘and 8 «nctose a three-cent postage stamp. . Madies! of Aoga) advice

cénnot be given. Address The * ‘Washington Service Bureau, tots Thirteenth st. Washington, D.. oe ; 5 Q—What was the air-postege: Tate when fie first a a le

| States?

- A—Twenty-four ‘cents: for: one. “ounce; or fraction. It-included special delivery service. The first air mail Toute, operating on’ a schedule was opened a SE a che ls n, D. C. The ra 16 cents on July, 15, 1018, and to: 6 cents, exciudiog .Q-Please Schiller’s words’ abot the’ at Peer: t and future.” ‘which he attributes fo. ConSrey are from * “sprueche des Confucius we in English translation

- special delivery, Dec. 15,. 1018;

“Threefold: the: of time from first to last: fe Loitering slow, the. cree the present mye

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