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MONDAY, JULY 7, 1941

ANNIVERSARY OF AN INCIDENT : DAY is the fourth anniversary of the China war. When . = the Japanese started the shooting at Marco Polo Bridge

in short order. But the “incident” still runs on despite all Japan’s efforts to bribe, bluff and fight China into submission. China is stronger than ever and Japan is weaker. Of course Japan has seized nominal control of the seaboard i and part of the interior, and set up a puppet regime in Nanking. But that does not mean much. For this invasion has created in China, for the first time in history, a truly national army and national spirit. An awakened, united China today means self-defense; tomorrow it may challenge Japan's conquest elsewhere, liberating neighboring peoples in. Manchuria, Korea and IndoChina.

2 . 8 8 = 8 8 =» The farther Japan moves into the vast Chinese interior, the deeper she mires. Already Japan has lost more than a million in casualties. She has just about bankrupted herself. As her people sink closer to the starvation line, they grow more war-weary. ~~ To the Tokyo militarists this in infuriating. Just as the European war opens to them undreamed opportunity for apparently easy conquest of Siberia in the North and the ¢ rich Indies in the South, they are stuck with the Chinese | “incident.” : . . Thus entrapped by a situation of their own making, the Japanese imperialists are now tempted to make one last desperate gamble. If they won, they would be masters of all Eastern Asia and the Far Pacific—so they think. If they lost—well, they don’t like to count that cost. Hitler is pushing them on. He duped them into a onesided Axis partnership. But they feared to precipitate a fight with the United States, Britain and Holland in the Singapore area because of hostile Russia on their northern flank. Now that Hitler is engaging the Russian army in Europe their opportunity—for Oriental domination or disaster—is at hand. There are several signs, including sudden withdrawal of commercial ships and belligerent statements by semiofficial organs, which seem to indicate that Japan is preparing for the big plunge. it ~~ Nevertheless, we still find it hard to believe. We hope > there are enough Japanese in high places, as among the hungry people, to face the facts of this fourth anniversary of China war. : 2.2 =» 2 = If Japan could not defeat the unorganized and virtually unarmed China of yesterday, how can a weaker Japan today take on a second or third war with stronger powers? If Japan had to retreat before Soviet guards in the border dispute, how can she defeat a strong Red Far Eastern army and air force which are not departing for Europe and leaving Siberia undefended ? If Japan did not dare start a war in the South Pacific several months ago, what chance of victory has she now - that the United States, Britain and the Netherlands have more than doubled their defenses there under a plan of joint action? : Certainly the United States and Britain have tried to avoid the Pacific war desired by Hitler. But it would bg

i madness for Japan to repeat her mistake in the Chinese in¥

cident, by thinking that these stronger powers would be: unable to defend their Pacific interests.

CANADA'S AIR FORCE

LMOST a year ago Canada cut her air force loose from the army and created a separate Ministry for Air.

She has not regretted it. On the contrary, says a dispatch from Ottawa, she will never return to the old system. ; : According to Air Minister C. G. Power, “Under the old ‘system of unified control, the present Commonwealth Air Training Scheme would be an administrative impossibility.” (Through the Commonwealth Scheme, tens of thousands of Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British -youngsters are being trained in the Dominion as pilots, bombardiers, navigators and aircraft mechanics. It is Canada’s ~ prime contributién to the war.) Canadian airmen say modern war has become so complex that it is no longer feasible for a single’ administrator or department to do justice to problems of administration, £ production, research and tactics of both army and air force. The air forces of Germany and Britain also are independent. And the world recognizes that the Luftwaffe and the R. A. F. are respectively responsible for the subjugation of Europe and the survival of England. ~The continued resistance of our own Army and Navy to independence for the air force, an independence that appears to many people to be inevitable, doesn’t seem to make sense. Certainly there is no visible reason why Congress ghouldn’t at least conduct a real investigation of the whole

issue. .

CRUELTY? MARY - TROTTER BARROW, wife of the heavyweight champion Joe Louis, has sued Joe for divorce, charging ‘extreme cruelty.” We wonder will the following be called as witnesses for he plaintiff ?—Max Baer, James J. Braddock, Thomas Farr, than Mann, Harry Thomas, Max Schmeling, John Henry is, Jack Roper, Tony Galento, Bob Pastor, Arturq doy, Johnny Paycheck, Al McCoy, Clarence (Red) BurGus Dorazio, Abe Simon, Tony Musto, Buddy Baer,

“outside Peking, they expected to complete conquest of China.

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The Horns of His Dilemma!

Our Freedom By John T. Whitaker

America Must Go to’ War, and Soon, If She Is to Save it, According

To Consensus of Lisbon Observers

Cot ne Chico Dany News. Ine ISBON, July 7—If America is to preserve her independence and way of life extolled in the Fourth of July celebrations, the United States has got to go to war . . . and soon. That seems to be the lesson of three months' con- . versations in Lisbon, the world’s best listening post—conversations with experts in virtually every field; men who, when taken together, know every country in the world and have access to nearly all the facts vital to the American public today. They are not agreed on everything, of course, and some propose one method or policy, some another. But it is surprising upon how much they are agreed—foreign ministers, ambassadors, lesser diplomatic fry, generals, sergeants, meteorologists, spies, dietitians, the world’s best airplane designer, a student of the Nazi- exploitation of Arabian tribal differences, a pilot who fought in Crete, two men who gave (weeks in advance) the exact date of the invasion of Russia and others.

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OING through my diary of my three months’ conversations with these men, I am struck by their unanimous agreement on the following points: 1. Germany is out for world’ conquest and, until beaten, will attack every country in the world—singly, if possible. bark today, or could have adopted in the past two years, offers a possibility of our escaping war. Americans endanger the security and defense of our coun-

try when they debate this truism—last illustrated in

the case of Russia, whose policy in face of Germany two years ago was exactly the policy now urged for America by Herbert Hoover and Charles A. Lindbergh. 2. American aid to Great Britain is not effective yet and the prospects of its becoming so in the near’ future are not bright. As yet, the combined output of British and American factories has not enabled Britain to mass an equality, much less a superiority, of airplanes, tanks, or guns, at any front where the war is being fought. 3. British morale remains magnificent but it eannot be expected to remain so indefinitely if the British must continue to stand alone. The British are human and will react, ultimately, if half of America continues to say “go on in and fight, they cannot hurt us,” while the other half says, “This isn’t our war.” 4. Give us tools, we will do the job,” is a heroic phrase but an impractical military policy. In truth, the British cannot use American tools with maximum efficiency. No superiority of tools or men is involved. It is merely that the differences of both technique and nationality are too profound. British pilots have the same difficulties with our planes that I have trying to drive a Rolls-Royce. I grind the gears and skid on curves while the Englishman who drives the same car with noiseless ease strips the clutch of my Ford. ” ” 5 The blockade and internal morale are serious e problems to Adolf Hitler and there is much defeatism among the Natis, but Germany will never be beaten until she is beaten in the field by superior soldiers, equipment and brains. The German masses stand huddled together like cattle and they do not quit until some Kaiser, or Puehrer, fleeing to save his own life, tells them they are heaten and starts the stampede. Kaisers and PFuehrers only run when their generals say that they are beaten. 6. America’s immediate entry into the war would have a profound effect throughout the world. Our entry into the war is now the only “propaganda” which would stiffen the resistance of the occupied countries and prevent others from going over. Failing American entry, every other country in Europe and Asia

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Britain and America alone, then, there is the real danger that the South Americans will race each other to climb on the Nazi bandwagon. These six points are not statements of opinion by your correspondent. They are six generalizations unanimously held by every person with whom I have talked here during, the last three months— individuals who know more about their given aspect of this war problem, in the main, than anybody else in the world. Events can qualify, or modify them, but they must be faced and their implications must be faced by all Americans today. :

Business By John T. Flynn

Congress Should Look Into Transfer Of Commercial Air Liners to British

EW YORK, July 7.—Last April this Government forced the turning over of a large number of transport planes to the British government. These came out of the supply planes of our commercial air

- lines. That was nearly four months ago. Yet those

planes are still in this country prepared for shipment but not sent. And now, in spite of that, this Government requires our commercial airlines to turn over another 12 transports to Britain, When these are released Britain will have either in England or in the United States 103 American commercial planes taken from our commercial airlines. Here is a policy which is deliberately crippling not merely the growth but the actual present status of our own commercial airlines. Since this policy of delivering American commercial planes to England has started this country has been delivering commercial planes to Canada for use in commercia]l aviation. Yet, so far as is reported, none of these planes is being taken from Canada to send to the British. Here is ‘a question that calls for an answer. The Pan-American Airways operates an airline to Europe. Now it is proposed to permit Britain to operate another airline between the United States and London. And it is proposed to have the Pan-American turn over some of its huge Boeing clippers. The pretty part of this is that these Boeing clippers belonged to Pan-American Airways and it was forced to turn them over to the English company. They will now be operated in competition with Pan-American Airways.

” 4 ” NE effect of all this is that the fleet of our Ameri- |

can commercial planes has been cut 25 per cent: by these transfers to Britain. There is a whole lot more to this; so much in fact that Congress should have a look at it. If there ever was a fact facing a people it is that this thing called the airplane has suddenly emerged with that kind of dynamic vigor which characterized the automobile when it became a motorcar instead of a horseless carriage. Yet here we are crippling our own commercial airways as well as our military airpower to build up, not merely the military air power of Britain, but her commercial airways as well. If the war stopped tomorrow it would find America poorer in air power and in commercial air facilities than when it started and Britain immeasurably greater. There is nothing new about this phenomenon. The same thing would be true of commercial ships. But do we wish to proceed with this policy which steadily strips America’s air and land and sea power as well as her commercial air and sea power?

So They Say—

IF HITLER WINS he will have under his control far more wealth and resources than all the rest of the world put together. America will be in greater danger than in any ‘other period.—Rep. Martin Dies, Texas. * ha *

THE AMERICAN Navy knows pirates when it sees them and once upon a time was happy and adept at

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MONDAY, JULY 7, 1948 |

The Hoosier Forum

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

FINDS NO BENEFIT IN FAST TIME

By Just An Ordinary Housewife, Indianapolis My hat is off to “By One of the Working Men, Indianapolis” about his article on Daylight Saving Time. It's just saving time for the white collar workers and big executives. . + + My family has to operate on both times since my husband is a railroader, and believe me, I don’t know whether I'm coming or going. In fact, I have one clock set one time and one the other. : There isn’t one respectable middle class person in this neighborhood who was actually in favor of changing their clocks but of course these people don’t work in the City all. . . . They are: just people.

2 2 2 CALLS FOR CLEANUP IN DEM. LEADERSHIP By W. J. P., 10th Precinct, 7th Ward Having been a Democrat for the past 40 years and always being regular in following the Party in their choice at the Primary except

in that of Otto Ray ... I feel that I have a right to express myself in the matter of the coming nominations in ’42. I am suggesting that we interested in the election of Democrats change faces and names, commencing with Haymaker, Cunningham, Goett, Miss Noone, Val McLey, Al Feeney and many others that the public think as I do, that they have been at the Public Crib long enough. ? I charge the loss of Marion County in the last election directly to Haymaker, McLey, etc., because if there was ever a poor organization made in this City and County they had it. Most of the Old Time Democrats who had organized and led us to success were ignored and were never called into conference or a meeting during the campaign. In all the names you have mentioned from time to time not one of them is competent to become Mayor of this City . . . The City, I am convinced, is by a nice majority Democratic and can be held and delivered ‘as such with a real County and City Committee made up of men and women who have no ax to grind except to get the best men in office available and trusting that they will see that the City Government operates efficiently and economically. Our Precinct and Ward organi-

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zation must be made up along the same line and not along the line of everyone who works for the success of our party receive a City or County job. . . . The G. O. P. so debauched the State, County and City that the public turned them out. We as Democrats have done none of this type of debauchery but we are and have been getting ourselves in the clutches of a self-ambitious ring of political parasites who other than their honesty are just as intolerant and politically vicious as the G. O. P. was. Let's be the type of politician that Governor Schricker is and I do not fear the result in the coming election. Nominate big men who are Democrats but not of the “for personal gain type,” men who have the interest of State, County and City at heart and by doing this we will go back to the normal majority Democratic that we are entitled to, because after all, we are the party of the plain people and not that of intolerance and plutocratic element that the G. O. P. represent.

CALLS NEW DEAL COMMUNISTIC, ASIATIC By Rev. Daniel H. Oarrick, 626 Spring St. « « «+ « The White House has four dangerous foreign meddlers who are constantly probing into European affairs. They are Roosevelt, Knox, Stimson and Wallace. These four . « « . Support all European entanglements and represent all the interests of Russia, England and China, and have changed our Republican form of Government into a communist” form of government called a “New Deal.” When the ideology of these four men is carried out, America will be a Communistic state, with not a single vestige of our constitutional and representative government left. The “New Deal” is so Communistic and so Asiatic and so different from our form of government that Washington, D. C. does not look like

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looks like Red Russia with Moscow cities like Lockefleld Gardens, built in every state in the Union... . Unless the American people stop Roosevelt, and . . . put a new set of Congressmen in the White House, this country is hopelessly destroyed. . .. . FS ” WANTS HELLZAPOPPIN MOTORCYCLES SILENCED

By A Disgusted Taxpayer, Indianapolis What about our city fathers getting up a city ordinance against pleasure ridden motorcycles in Indianapolis? They dart in front of you, and you worry about killing someone outright or injuring someone for life. = Then take our sick people, who have to stay in bed in this awful hot weather and listen to all this racket. The patient gets settled for a night of repose from his sickness and pain, and what happens? Bang, bang, pow; a motorcycle roars by. It seems as though the rider of said motorcycle has to gun his machine right in frent of your house, and the sic kpatient’s rest is gone. I am not against the police force using motorcycles because they have to enforce the laws, but, I am against pleasure riders of motorcycles in cities and towns. I know that many will disagree with me on this subject, but, I still maintain that pleasure ridden

streets and incorporated towns. ! ” ” 2 URGES AN END TO DISCRIMINATION B MeKintey Brewer, 550 N. Senate Ave,

It is good to know we have true Americans like Mr. Richard Wilder, of Anderson, Ind. By coming to the

left himself open for criticism by his own people. It takes a man with real American courage to say the things he did to a prejudiced public. It is true that the Negro hasn't anywhere to go to enjoy himself like anyone else. Why? They are Americans, aren’t they? We are all up in arms about what Hitler is doing, yet we practice the same things here in a supposedly democratic country. Some seem to think democracy is for the white race of America and not for the Negro. But where there are so many nationalities and races living all under one flag, there should be no discrimination. I should be treated the same as any other American citizen. Mr. Wilder doesn't know half the humiliation we have to bear. It is true we have some bad actors in our race, but who hasn't? If the public would judge everyone by his own deeds I believe this thing called discrimination would be solved. Thank God there are some that still believe that all men were created equal. . . .

. FORGOTTEN HALF By TEMARA TEGOUR The moon's on, oh, moon! A sailor sights rock-lit Beacon of homeland—a child Lifts up his radiant Face, loving the sky; the old Gaze out to silvered Space, call on the past and sigh.

The moon’s up, white moon!

| Receiving baptism of her smile

Lovers walk the Milky Way Tremulous again; while warriors Raise blood-dimmed eyes Searching its depths—The moon Is bright! Oh, moon!—that Hides a half, which is so dark And dead; conceals a‘ heart which Holds the silence of life ended And hugging frozen, blind ' Fires to a lifeless, cold bosom, Weaves yet, the magic of her Light, for the earth has need Of joy through a long and Black-out hour. The moon's white, oh, valiant moon!

DAILY THOUGHT

Unto me . . . is this grace given . . . the unsearchable riches of Christ.—Ephesians 3:8.

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A Tribute to Big Bill Knudsen and Some Comment on His Intimation That Auto Output Soon Must Cease

ASHINGTON, July 7.—Big Bill Knudsen is a Great Dane—literally and figuratively. In a company with Walter Chrysler, Henry Ford, Charlie Nash and a few others, he is among the best factory production men this country ever produced. By that is meant clear genius for supex= vising or even by mere inspection of mechanical design and induse trial method, seeing at once ways in which to improve and reduce costs of a product in any metal= working industry with greatly ine . creased speed and reduced effort. Beginning years ago, and long before any action was taken, this column in its long crusade for ine dustrial preparedness for wan vainly insisted that the War Dee partment bring him in to inspect its plans and facilities for the war production that is so sorely lagging now. But neither this column nor any of his many dew voted friends ever cast Mr. Knudsen for the complex overhead “control, planning and policy of the coms bined industrial effort of our entire nation. This ig no reflection on him. Neither his training, experi« ence or mentality recommended such an assignment Superlative genius in one field is enough to expect from any one man and Mr. Knudsen’s peculiar genius is so necessary and so valuable that it is a shame ta expect more of him in what is essentially a completely different field. I have a shrewd idea that nobody is at heart more aware and confident of this than Mr, Knudsen himself.

PINCH in production facilities is coming. Quite naturally it was easier in placing early defense contracts for Mr. Knudsen to turn to the field he knew best to acquit himself of his responsibility for early output—the automobile industry. There wera and there still are loud and voluminous complaints that capacity in many other industries is idle. There are more bitter complaints |that, because the auto= mobile industry is concentrated in a very few cone gested areas, this policy has also discriminated ters ritorially so that these favored localities are reaping most of the benefits of the defense program in re= employment and increased business while a vast majority of other areas which are paying and will pay just as heavily are getting no benefit at all. Now Mr. Knudsen intimates that automotive proe duction for the civil population is soon to cease, that this great segment of our national industrial life is to be completely absorbed by munition production. Maybe that is necessary, but the whole population and all the states deserve to have a case made before any such dogmatic ipse dixit is accepted with no clear showing of need. This column is being written too close to a deadline to dig up the exact figure on the employment of various segments of our people in making, distributing and servicing automobiles but everybody knows that it is very great. It is becoming a propagandist custom to call them “pleasure” autoe mobiles, 2 8 8

WE all know that our whole population has been reshuffled in both agricultural and industrial areas by the automobile. It is a “pleasure” car only on occasion. ‘In most cases and most of the time if is a necessary and highly utilitarian facility of Amer« ican life. Both for this reason and for the reason of a pose sible tremendous disruption in the automobile busi ness and employment of hundreds of thousands of poor and middle-class heads of families or bread winners for others, whatever is attempted in this re« gard should be done with studious and expert care, No emergency Administration can afford to over look this fundamental principle of modern total was —that the morale of the civilian population is just as vital to victory as the morale of the armed forces. Neglect of that principle destroyed Germany in 1918, Recognition and preservation of it were large elew ments in the American contribution to Allied vice tory. If anybody is giving intelligent consideration td it now, I don’t know the color of his hair.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

QHOULD freedom for women include the right ta bear children out of wedlock? Is it unfair tha$ men alone have the power to put the stamp of legitie macy upon babies? Recent comments of a Pittsburgh reader, who cited

the Marion Talley case as proof that American women live neither in a democracy nor a civilization, has brought forth many enraged retorts from our more convention al sisters, When I was in my twenties I was heartily in accord with our young rebel. It seemed to me that everything in the universe conspired to prevent women from gaining their just rights. I be lieved with all sincerity that society would be improved if exact equality of the sexes existed. I felt that women were persecuted and I still think they are discriminated against in many fields. But the years do change our minds, and one of the lessons to be learned by women from life is that male human nature will wriggle out from under responsibility as easily as an eel slips through water, if you give it half a chance. The man who gets an inchof freedom will soon yell for a mile. And we cannot overlook the fact that every new liberty obtained by women has bestowed another liberty upon men, When wives began to work in business, many were soon faced with the knowledge that from then on they would have to support lazy husbands. When girls decided to cast aside conventional shackles and gain the |questionable privileges of smoking, drinking and promiscuous love-making, they found that mety admired them no more and loved them less. And I dare say if the custom of bearing children out of wedlock were to become popular, the men would simply let the women do the bearing, the name ing and the supporting, without a quiver of cone science. It now seems to. me that certain maligned olde fashioned conventions ought to be taken out of moth balls and dusted off for use again. Marriage is an institution designed for the protection of mothers and their babies. Women do themselves great harm when they seek to destroy its stability and sacredness. Today many crimes are committed against child= dren in the name of morality—but by casting away even its fake and shoddy concepts they would probably suffer more. Or am I wrong?

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