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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1941

LITVINOV SPEAKS

OR more than two years after his sudden resignation |

as Soviet Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinov was in the Moscow doghouse. There were repeated reports that he had been liquidated. His offense was that he had advocated Russian co-operation with Britain and France for collective security and opposed the deal that Stalin made with Hitler. Well, Litvinov was permitted to live—and a lucky thing that turns out for Comrade Stalin. For yesterday Litvinov was available to broadcast a speech, addressed particularly to the English-speaking people, in which he said: 5 “The English people now have some respite because the .- Red Army is bearing the shock of Hitler's powerful machine. But it is important that Hitler should not have a moment of respite. His strategy was to strike each of his adversaries at different times. Ours is to strike him simultaneously.” ~ We can’t help gagging when we hear other Communists proclaiming that it is Britain’s duty—and America’s—to save Russia. We can’t forget how they cheered the StalinHitler pact which gave the Nazi war machine the green light .in August, 1939; or how they labored to undermine resistance in the countries Hitler was attacking, and to sabotage defense preparations in this country—up to the day when Adolf turned on Joe. : But to Litvinov we could listen with at least a certain amount of respect. He didn’t want to conspire with Hitler, he risked Stalin’s disfavor or worse rather than be party to the double-crossing of Britain and France, and he is no recent convert to the idea that the Nazi menace to one country is a menace to all. It is Russia's misfortune, now that she needs the trust of other nations, that she doesn’t have more Litvinovs.

“NO A.E.F.”

RESIDENT ROOSEVELT, through his secretary, yesterday silenced official British suggestions for another American Expeditionary Force to fight Germany on the European continent as in the last war. The effective White House response to the proposal of Gen. Sir Archibald Auchinleck, new British commander in ‘ the Middle East, was to quote the Churchill pledge: “Give ‘us the tools and we will finish the job.” The President's spokesman then added dryly that, presumably, the general is subordinate to the Prime Minister. . Later the President himself again emphasized that U. S. operations such as those in Iceland and vicinity are purely defensive measures for Western Hemisphere protection. : “The Germans must be beaten on their own soil, exactly the way Napoleon was beaten,” said Gen. Auchinleck. “And if this is the way it is to turn out we certainly are going to need American manpower, just as we did in the

“last war.” :

Last week Gen. Wavell, indicating his belief that Britain ‘wants America’s full participation on European battlefields, said: “We shall have to have airplanes, tanks, munitions, transport, and‘ finally men.” He added, “the ' sooner the better.” . However indiscreet these statements, coming from Britain’s two ranking field commanders, they have been +. useful in bringing the issue into the open officially. For *“ they reflect the belief of many Britons, by the London press," that the Yanks are coming as they came in 1917-18.

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Certainly every American can sympathize with the British desire for an A. E. F.—they would not be human if ' they wanted less. But disappointed hopes can be a boom- _ erang, destroying friendship. Therefore, in the interest of Anglo-American friendship and the lend-lease program, no false hopes should be “allowed to grow in Britain.

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{For the A. E. F. idea is harmful also in the United

| States, where it multiplies fear among millions of parents that their sons will be conscripted to fight in Europe. This fear causes much of the disunity that is our chief national weakness, and which must be rapidly transformed into a solid front for hemisphere defense.

THE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS NCE again Indianapolis is playing host to a big league tennis tournament—the Western Tennis Championships at the Woodstock Country Club. Indianapolis can boast a tennis tradition just as lively as its literary background. It began back in the days of Hence Orme and the old I. T. A. courts (now the Tech grounds), where such stars as Felix Geddes and Sam Sutphin brought us our first fame by winning the Central States championship, and where Charley Trask, Breck Kipp and Fred Appel learned to volley and chop. : And then came Gage Hoag and Cullen Thomas and a score of others. Later the tennis interest shifted to the old Hawthorne Club on 38th St. and we were winning more titles through Fritz Bastion and Ralph Burdick and where Tommy Hendricks was shining. . And the days of Johnny ‘Hennessey, who won international fame as a Davis Cupper. + Yes, we're right at home being host to a tennis echampionship. . We welcome America’s top-flight stars—and we ‘hope this js only the first of a great many visits they will . pay us. fog :

ARKING RESTRICTIONS HERE is considerable merit to the new ordinance passed ~ by City Council restricting parking in certain districts uring rush-hour traffic. But Both ‘Mayor Sullivan and City Council must surely alize that these restrictions are purely stop-gap methods ind not the solution to our growing traffic flow problem. What Indianapolis needs are complete, one-way arterial

ion to several other drastic steps. We

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By Westbrook Pegler -

Camp Workers Want Families With Them Which Creates New Problem

EW YORK, July 9.—One of the problems of the defense, or rearmament, program which has been causing a slow, dull ache is that of providing house room for the toilers who are building the barracks and plants and further house room for citizens drawn into new communities or old ones to work in the factories when they are done. This need seems not to have been anticipated, nor the further need for schools for the children of workers attracted to new surroundings by patriotism and pay. There is a similar want of private quarters for the wives and children of officers serving in the Army posts and, again, of schools for the young ones who have followed their fathers into the field. ; In other times when the railroads were being pushed through and towns were booming for one reason or another the men were less domestic, for they lived in bunk houses and converted box-cars and took their meals either in pine mess buildings or tents not unlike those maintained in

greasy-spoon restaurants which somehow followed the jobs. As to the problem of the officers’ families when the officers were in the fleld under emergency conditions I am not informed exactly, but believe it was

| solved by leaving the loved ones at home, where they

were not only out of the way but better accommodated. " » ”

ERR HITLER and Comrade Stalin have met the difficulty efficiently by drafting civilian labor and ordering great batches of men from place to place, as required, where. they have been colonized under semi-military conditions with the understanding that their home life is suspended until further notice. There is no doubt that it is easier to house and feed a force of stags on a temporary job than to provide suitable family quarters under a polite standard of living. And, of course, to improvise schools and hygiene for whole new communities, which may be there for only one or two years, not only runs up the bil] but dislocates local life and politics. We are very affectionate people now, by comparison with the days when men hit the road to follow the jobs, usually in the non-winter months and, presumably, sent more or less of their money home by postal order. Some of them undoubtedly kept on going and never returned or, to the detriment of their morals, established little homes away from home and left no small litter of broken hearts and sad-eyed hairs to grow up wondering what their daddies looked ike. The Mexicans on construction jobs, as in their military life, carried their women and children, kettles and bedding with them, but the Irish and Italian immigrants who did so much of the spade work in the West, were mostly single-handed men who lived a tough masculine life, saved something out of their pay, in general, we may suppose, finally gathered their faniilies together and settled down permanently somewhere, with g little stake.

# » # Ir it is that American men nowadays simply wil] not . leave their family life, even to serve a year in the Army, then there is no other solution than to provide temporary homes for them now and pay the bill and face the consequences later, whatever they may be. Some of the men will not be staying on when the war industries close up, if ever they do, but will be drawn back to their original homes, leaving the factory towns with cold chimneys and ghost communities. Others will iinger on, adding their numbers to the more or less fixed local population in the post-war slump. The housing, if it is well built, would seem to be an asset, but the mass migration of families into new surroundings is pursuit of jobs which, it is hoped, will be only temporary certainly raises a question of where they are to go or what the breadwinners will find to do there when the row is over. The little brides of young officers called to active duty are a special problem. They live off the reservation, and the young men have to fing transportation to and from their work in the Army and wangle nights off and fret about the contrast between the tacky accommodations rented in a high local market and the love bowers, with breakfast nook, which they might have had back home; War and the war industries are best conducted as stag enterprises, but the family unit is the basis of the society which we are preparing to defend, even though it prove too cumbersome for its own efficient ense,

Business By John T. Flynn

Bank Deposits Rise Enormously As U. S. Loans Finance Defense

EW YORK, July 9.—~We may not be making planes and tanks as fast as we should, but we are certainly making money speedily. By this I mean not so much that individuals are making money in the sense that they are getting rich. I mean that our financial mechanisms are creating money— adding to the money supplies of the United States, bringing into existence money that did not exist before. For instance, the statements of a group of banks in New York City—probably seven or eight— show increases in deposits in the last year of something over a bil- 4 lion dollars. These increases are due almost entirely to one cause, They do not come from outright introduction into those banks of additional sums of money. They are due to the creation of that much new money by the process of Government loans. ? This will be the most important phenomenon to observe from now forward as we look for evidence of inflation. The expansion of bank deposits by means of private lcans—that is, through the internal energies of business itself—was stopped a long time ago. The expansion is due entirely to the operations of the Government, first in gold imports and second in Government loans. The banks have been seeking to protect themselves from these inflationary tendencies by passing on to the public great amounts of Government paper. Also, the collection by the Government of large sums out of the pay-rolls of workers through Social Security taxes, and from railroads and other employees through retirement benefit systems, has had the effect of preventing the expansion of bank deposits, however open to objection these methods may be on other scores.

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JD UT now the Government's demands for funds are growing progressively, and so voraciously that there will be no means of satisfying them save by bank loans. We may therefore look to see an ever increasing amount of Government obligations in the banks and, along with that, of course, progressive expansion in the creation of bank money. For all this, of course, there is no remedy as ‘long as the indiscriminate and unconsidered outpouring of funds by the Government continues. Great as it has been, it is just really getting under way now. But keep your eye on bank deposits and the manner in which they are invested if you would follow the rising tide of inflation. By inflation, of course, I do not mean crazy, runaway inflation. I mean the steady expansion of purchasing power with-

out a corresponding expansion of goods.

So They Say—

AFTER all, labor is people, and the national record for taking the big broad view—either by business men or by labor—is none too inspiring.—Morris Llewellyn Cooke, OPM. i

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' THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES see ‘Where Do We Go From Here, Boys?

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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.

AGREES WITH COMPLAINT ON NOISY MOTORCYCLES By Another Disgusted Citizen in the 1100 Block, E. Ohio St. I heartily agree with the disgusted citizen in regard to these socalled pleasure-ridden motorcycles. There are two or three in my neighborhood and not only the noise but also riding small children on them while showing off. We also have two or three cases of sickness in our neighborhood. 8 = SUGGESTS CRITIC OPEN A FACTORY

By James R. Meitzler, Attica My {riend Mr. Taylor in his specifications of a “decent wage” follows “the world owes us a living” principle. A man who gives an honest day’s work is entitled to a variety of things, states Mr. Taylor, summing it up in one epistle at $2200. In another he wrote ‘“‘workers employed in auto, construction work, etc.,, must have wages high enough to offset lost days and weeks.” That is if I only got one 8-hour day’s work a year I should still get my $2200. Now who pays? Who is Santa Claus? Why, the greedy employer, of course. That man born rich, though he did admit Henry Ford started from ‘scratch, who is tak, ing excessive exorbitant profits pt of his slaves toiling all of 40 hours per week, Awful! Thousands of passed dividends, closed factories, bankruptcies attest that the employer does not always profit from the workers’ labor. But granting, for argument’s sake, that some employers make large profits, why does not Mr. Taylor and his unions go after the big money instead of fooling around striking, fighting, working and begging for a measly $2200 a year. He has stated Ford started with $10,000 and made a billion. Now since free labor was outvoted, Ford is garnisheeing the wages of his 130,000 employees and handing it over to the unions. If Mr. Taylor would tell us just how much the C. I. O. graft was it would be informative. Supposing they mulcted each worker only $1 a year, that would be thirteen times Ford's original capital. So there is his capital.

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the brains. Mr. Taylor has advised us in the Forum that Philip Murray and Walter Reuther could produce a $165,000 bomber for $1100 and show a profit. Then take all those union men away from Ford and pay them really good wages so they could pursue happiness, see preamble to the Constitution and Mr. Taylor’s last effort, in Mr. Taylor's factory. Try it, Taylor. I am betting on you. ’ ” ” ”

LAUDS ROOSEVELT’S 4TH OF JULY TALK

By James E. Hawkins, 3720 N. Pennsylvania St., No. 31 I believe President Roosevelt's Fourth of July address will go down in history as comparable to Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. Both are very short, but very expressive; both preach the cause of freedom, and both are remarkably similar in construction and specific thoughts. Lincoln: “Fourscore and seven years ago, our‘ fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” Roosevelt: “In 1776, on the fourth day of July, the representatives of the several states in Congress assembled, declaring our independence. In 1776 we waged war in behalf of the great principle that government should derive its just powers from the consent of the governed.” - Lincoln: ‘Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this nation, or any nation so conceived .and so dedicated, can long endure.” Roosevelt: “—now, in our generation—in the last few years—a new resistance, in the form of several new practices of tyranny, has been

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struck down abroad and definitely they are threatened here.” Lincoln: “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining = before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain;”Roosevelt: “And so it is that when we repeat the great pledge to our country and to our flag, it must be our deep conviction that we pledge as well our work, our will and, if "it be necessary, our very lives.” 8 8 =n

A SLAP AT CLAPPER FOR HIS LINDBERGH CRITICISM

By John N. Koll, 2245 Brookside Ave. I wonder where Raymond Clapper got his idea from that he has got more brains than our beloved former President Hoover, or more moral courage than our brave and highly capable Col. Lindbergh, Anybody “can swim with the stream”—it takes no courage to be 110 per cent pro-British and fall in step withour Administration's warcrazy functionaries, anxious to put new laurels around their ancient brows, or our so-called “high so-

courage and endurance to against the stream.”

draws a good salary. However, here is where, according to my motion, the trouble starts.

draw big salaries. draw, the more they are drawn under the influence of “high society” —all of us are more or less creatures of our surroundings!—and get entirely out of touch with our millions of good, plain, common Americans, who have too much good common sense to want to inflict all the sufferings of war upon our great and prosperous nation. They certain ly don’t like the Russians any more than they do the Nazis. The last two paragraphs of Raymond Clapper’s article of July 5th about Colonel Lindbergh are simply silly, if not actually “dirty.” Talking about “juvenile oratory”!

8 n =» SUGGESTS MR. ROOSEVELT HAVE HIS OWN POLL

By C. K. H., Indianapolis In his press conférence July 1, Mr. Roosevelt doubts the value of “polls” on whether or not America wants war, because, as he says, the “polls are meaningless.” Very well, let him announce his own poll, Let him ask the people of America, over the radio, to tell him personally by United States mail or by telegraph: 1. Did they believe him when he said: “Fathers and mothers . . I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent to any foreign war.” 2. Should the United States fight alongside of Communist Russia? 3. Does the United States taxpayer want to pay for the adequate defense of the United States or for the problematical defense of places 3000 or more miles away? By all means let's have a poll— an official poll that we can trust— on American Intervention in Foreign Wars—Yes or No?

THE RAINY DAY

By HARRY G. BURNS When the days are prosperous, And success has come our way, It is best to put something by . For a vossible rainy day.

The sun may shine for days, Out of a sky that’s clear, But a raincoat is mighty handy When darkening clouds appear.

DAILY THOUGHT

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‘Gen. Johnson Says—

Old-Time Soldier Didn't Expect fo Get Killed in Battle, But the Present Crop Seems More Fatalistic

ASHINGTON, July 9.—Among the many changes brought about by the mechanization of modern

“war are two that are very little noticed, They are so

intangible, reside so clearly in matters of the mind— ways of thinking—that it may be denied or questioned . that they exist. After talking to a good many officers—mostly young ones—I am convinced that they do exist. The first is what seems to me, after a life time as a soldier; to be a sort of new, harsh, fatalism, almost suicidal, in the thinking of younger soldiers and sailors. There were always plenty of brave men, courage is the mos common of human qualities. Thé disgraceful, panic-stricken routs of history have been in nearly every case due to faulty organization or untrained and amateur leadership. A conspiciuous example of this is First Manassas or Bull Run, where raw Union troops ran all the way back to Washington and raw Confederate troops were only a little less demoralized, Yet it was exactly the same kind of men who later, when trained and “shaken down,” dished out some of the coolest and most desperate, stubborn courage and fighting in the history of warfare at Fredericksburg, Gettysburgh and Cald Harbor, » » »

UT the soldier of my generation expected to take his chance bravely, and yet somehow not get killed. A common boast was “the bullet that will snuff me out has not been poured.” We heard of troop leaders tell about how many horses had been shot under them or how many bullet holes there were in their clothing at the end of the scrap. Belief that you bore a ‘charmed life” was considered an excel lent quality. The difference that I see today, in talking to young officers, is that they do expect to get killed, have discounted the expectation long ago and dismiss it with a shrug “and so what? I get mine, What am I here for?” : I don’t know what has made the change. Maybe it is the all-out risk of submarine, air, tank or other mechanized forms of fighting, Maybe it is the tres mendous shattering power of modern explosives. May - be it is the habituation to risk of swift and shocking death that all of us take daily and hourly on automobile roads in piloting tons of steel and glass and rubber at terrific speeds and possible shock of impact, Whatever has made the change, it is there, It is fine and brave and manly but it certainly is a bleak and sinister outlook. Another change grows from perhaps the same causes. A very able, distinguished and high ranking naval officer—an oldster of course this time-—said to me last week, “I doubt if we are going to see many more surrenders of crippled warships at sea or any more such fleet actions as Trafalgar.” » ” » HAT he meant was that in such encounters of small units as occurred when the Bismarck was destroyed, the captain of a wounded ship is going to fight her till she sinks, National high commands seem to demand that. Officers and crews seem to expect and accept it. The surrender of so powerful and costly a weapon is just too much to concede to an enemy as long as she has an ounce of power to burn or of steel to fling at her foes. The conjecture about future fleet action has some= thing of the same basis. It is better to retain the fleet as a threat, like a boxer’s right hand, to use it or parts of it when it can be used with a near certainty of results, but not to risk the whole of naval strength in one grand gesture. That risk to the whole nation is also too great. This is perhaps the old doctrine of the ‘fleet in being,” but it seems to have become more generally accepted than ever before, It is cheaper to risk . smaller units, especially air-craft even if that does require ‘suicide squads” and “battalions of death.” Tha mental preparation for these in the minds of young soldiers and sailors is complete and universal as the early paragraphs of this piece tried to show,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“YF you're tired of your face, experiment with powder and different shades of lipstick,” says a beautician. It may be good advice for the girls, but there's something better for the middle-aged woman. If she's tired of her face, she ought. to exe periment with new thoughts and different mental attitudes. Those of us who have been look ing into our mirrors with treme bling and reluctance for several years might do better still; we might make up our minds to like the old mug, homely as it is, if we lighted the candle of love behind it and let the glow shine through. Beautiful veneering is a poor substitute for real beauty, whether we are considering furniture or «faces; there must be the red stuff underneath, else any job of decorating will look shabby. “I think your mother is lovely,” I overheard one young girl saying to another, ‘‘She’s so motherly.” Maybe we mothers have lost something by refusing to look motherly. Maybe we've lost more than all that is given us by the glamour we've won. I happened to know the particular woman under discussion, Ycu've guessed it—she’s a little on the. fat side, There are wrinkles in her face—laughter wrinkles, which are somehow so much more lovely to see than other kinds of creases. Her nose is often shiny, but so are her eyes, It's easy to see she likes herself, which is perhaps the real reason why everyone else likes: her, Everv time I spend an hour in her company I thank the Lord there are still a few women left who get along with themselves. She doesn’t run herself down; her body has served her well, and she's fond of it, even if it deesns measure up to dress shop charm qualificaS. Her eyes are precious possessions. on beauty and glory and so when the she needed glasses to protect them, she put on glasses, A good man has loved her. How, then, could she lack self-esteem? She has borne children and lived so as to merit their respect. Therefore the word motherly is not a term of reproach; instead, it is an honorable title. Because life holds interest for her, she isn't the least bit tired of herself, and for that

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