Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1941 — Page 9
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Hoosier Vagabond
OMAHA, Neb, Aug. 11.—Well, we did make Omaha. The last 60 miles I drove with one leg and then the other hanging out the car door, in order to keep from setting the upholstery afire. We got to Omaha and dashed up in front of a fire-station just as spontaneous combustion set in. And here I'm the guy who was yelling his head off about being cold in Scotland last winter. How's the temperature where you are? Let us look back through the few mental notes I jotted down under my sparsely vegetated dome while crossing the prairie these last few days. . .. In one town in western Nebraska there is a filling station called “Terrible Terry's.” At another place along the highway there is a filling station and lunch stand with a huge sign out saying “1733.” Why do you suppose “1733?” Because it’s 1733 miles from there to Boston. But why Boston? I don’t know. In practically all the Latin American cities I've § been in, you can lie in bed in your hotel and hear roosters crowing all night. But in North Platte, Neb, you can lie in your perfectly swank hotel room and hear calves bawling all night.
Outdoing Hollywood
It suddenly occurred to me the other day that auto-makers have got very careless about their horns. For almost any moment of the day or night that you stop and listen, an auto horn is stuck somewhere within hearing distance. At the Capitol Hotel in Lincoln, the coffee shop has a telephone on every table. That's going one better on Hollywood, where they bring you the phone and plug it in. The other night I went to see the movie called “Kiss the Boys Goodby.” The star in it is Mary Martin. I don't know what you think of Mary Martin, but I've just made out a new will, leaving her everything I've got. The railroads are doing a land-office business these days. The highway across Nebraska parallels the Union Pacific, and there's just one freight train after another. They go fast too. I was doing 60, and a long freight went right around me.
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town’)
JACK GULLING (Gulling Electric) is looking, we hear, for a way to get even with his friend, Ralph Edgerton (Indianapolis Tent & Awning Co.).
One day recently, a pious sounding voice introduced itself over the phone as a prominent North Side minister, who invited Jack to “come to church.” The man called again and again. He was so friendly and courteous that Jack tried to be nice, at the same time putting up the usual lame arguments for not attending. After the fourth conversation, Jack was getting pretty annoyed. Then his friend Ralph played a phonograph recording for him. Jack, we hear, nearly jumped out of his chair when he heard his 3 own voice. The “minister,” it developed, was an employee of the awning company, who kept Jack in conversation while Ralph operated his recording device. They say Jack hasn't gotten over it yet.
Fifty, Fifty YOU CAN'T ACCUSE the local U. S. Agriculture Marketing Service of wasting Uncle Sam’s money or with being unfair to either of the two telegraph companies. The agency provides newspapers and radio stations with daily livestock reports. For some time now, the reports have been coming in on Western Union telegraph blanks. Sometimes a Postal Telegraph boy brought them, sometimes a W. U. messen-
ger. Last week they started coming in on Postal Tele-
Russian Puzzle
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Taking stock at the end of the seventh week of history’s biggest and bloodiest battle, the experts still are surprised by Russia’s defense, but also still unconvinced. The very thing that makes the public think Russia is winning makes the experts fear she is losing—that is, the fact that for three weeks she has held the line and refused to retreat. Machines are being destroyed and burned out by the thousands every week, machines which Germany can replace but Russia cannot, they say. When the Red Army uses up its reserve planes, tanks, trucks and artillery, it is finished — no matter how intact the defense line, and no matter how deep the Germans may be mired in mud or snow. Russia might, and probably could, continue to exist in Siberia; but with her military machines gone she could no longer threaten Hitler. Of course the experts may be wrong in this, as they have been wrong in everything else regarding the German-Russian war to date: They did not think Hitler would fight Stalin this vear; they were positive when the attack came that it would be concentrated against the Ukraine, instead of spread over a 2000-mile front with first pressure against Moscow; they were sure Russia had no good officers because of the purge.
Productive Capacity Weak
They thought the Stalin regime was weak and the people disloyal; and Russia's poor showing in the little Finnish war proved to them that she could not last more than a few weeks against the Nazi blitz, which defeated the combined French-Belgian-Dutch-British armies in that time. - Significantly, the main factor which made thos
By Ernie Pyle
I don’t believe there are as many hoboes riding the trains as there used to be. But I did see one delightful sight. It was a flatcar in the middle of a train. It was empty except for a raised platform which apparently had held a threshing machine or something. And on this platform, speeding along at 70 miles an hour, were four Negro boys just dancing their heads off. As the train passed they waved and laughed and yelled and kept on dancing, as though they were on a stage before a big audience.
The Truth Prevails
The other day I went into a city where this column runs and met the boys on the paper, and they said: “What's this you're always saying in the column about weighing 110 pounds? You surely weigh more than that.” I raised my hands and rolled my eyes and swore my eternal veracity, and said I could prove it. So that night we were at the house of a friend who had some bathroom scales, and I said, “All right, come on, we'll see how much I weigh.” So they all gathered around and I got on the scales and they stopped at 118 pounds. And I didn’t even have on a coat. So I got the razzberries. I knew the scales were wrong, but they wouldn't beiieve it. After all a man has his pride, and I couldn't let this thing stop here. So next day we went to a place where they have government-tested scales. And I weighed just 109 with my coat on. Lincoln, Neb., has the widest and neatest streets of any city I've been in for a long time. In Omaha most of the streets are brick, and your tires do such a screaming and your whole car such a vibrating that you can hardly concentrate on the traffic lights. Nebraska is worked up because it can’t seem to get any defense projects. Only big one so far is the new bomber plant at Omaha. Coming across Nebraska, a lone fellow in a car trailed within 50 feet of my rear bumpgr for nearly 100 miles. He never tried to pass, and when I slowed down, he would too. I'm still sorry I didn’t stop and ask him what he was doing. I think he was probably a gas-saver, and was running in the semi-vacuum created by my car, as race drivers sometimes do. He was a good driver, and although he stuck so close it wasn’t actually
annoying.
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graph blanks. Curiosity overcame us, so we inquired. It’s simple. To save money, someone up there obtained a big supply of blanks from W. U. and has been using them for the reports. The delivery service has been divided between the two telegraph firms. It irked: Postal to be delivering messages on Western Union blanks, so Postal persuaded the government agency to use its blanks for a while.
On the Water Front
THE WHITE RIVER, even under drought conditions, is pretty deep in spots, Bill Merrill, the Red Cross’ lifesaving and swimming director, informs us. Bill recently took soundings from Michigan St. to 38th while placing “no swimming” signs. The sounding line was only 20 feet long, and there were a lot of places where it wouldn't touch bottom. At the Emrichsville Dam, he found the water about 15 feet deep above the dam, and eight-foot holes below it. It’s plenty deep—15 feet or so—all along in the vicinity of the Naval Armory. And, then, farther north, there are spots where vou can walk across without wetting your shoes.
Only Siz More Weeks
STANLEY NORTON, assistant Scout executive, has had a tough summer, most of it laid up in the hospital. A leg broken last spring has had to be set three times, and placed in a complicated cast. Now it’s in a simpler cast, which, Mr. Norton has been promised, probably can be removed in, about six more weeks. . . . Emmett Belzer, who travels hither, thither and yon making speeches for the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. is booked up pretty heavy for the remainder of 1941. He even has a lot of '42 engagements in his date book, and one for 1943—at TriState College, Angola—we’re told.
By Ludwell Denny
early expert forecasts cockeyed is precisely the same factor on which any forecast must be made today. That is, the amount of Russian mechanization. Instead of having fewer and poorer tanks than Germany, as supposed, Russia seven weeks ago was superior in tank numbers and power, it now appears. But still it is assumed that her productive and replacement capacity is much less than Germany's.
The destruction of mechanized equipment has been tremendous, and even larger because of the continuous Red tank counter-attacks to hold territory. Likewise, the plane loss has been heavy, even though the Red air fleet which the Nazis have “completely destroyed” so many times is still active.
Russian Losses High
But clearly Russia today is short of planes. American observers on the Finnish-German front, which threatens Leningrad, have seen virtually no Red planes recently. It is not necessary to take the pnony German figures placing Russian losses at 13145 tanks, 10,388 guns and 9082 planes. The Russians officially admit losing 5000 tanks, 7000 guns and 4000 planes; &nd such admissions in war are always low. If and when Stalin reverts to his original retreat strategy—the old strategy with which Napoleon and other invaders were defeated—there will be more hope here that his army will still have the necessary planes and tanks when winter comes. | While the experts are still fearful that Hitler, may destroy the Russian mechanized army before | winter, thus freeing himself to concentrate on the British, they are more hopeful than a fortnight ago that he will be seriously weakened in the process. For even if Nazi war industry can replace the unexpectedly heavy destruction of machines in this campaign, it probably cannot do so for many months. Also, this is wearing out the machine tools and factory equipment. which cannot last forever.
Raymond Clapper is en route to London. His column will resume in about two weeks.
My Day
HYDE PARK, Sunday—I woke today to a strong breeze and, for a moment, thought that autumn was already with us. The trees were blowing and the air had a snap almost like September. I was be-
ginning to feel really melancholy, when I remembered that August occasionally gives us days like these to remind us that our summer days are drawing to a close and we must enjoy them to the full That reminded me of a quotation which came to me in a letter the other day from a young man who used to work with an airline and with whom Franklin Jr. and I once went on a special trip to Chicago. This young man is now in the Army and seems to be get-
ting much out of his military -
service. The explanation of his success may lie in the fact that this quotation appeals to him:
“Today is your day and mine: The only day we have: The day in which we play our part, What our part may signify in the great world we may not understand,
By Eleanor Roosevelt
But we are here to play it and now is our time,” (DAVID STARR JORDAN)
We spent a quiet day yesterday. In the afternoon, Mr. C. R. Smith, president of the American Airlines, came in time for a swim, and then we all went to dine with Secretary and Mrs. Morgenthau. The Women’s Democratic Club of Hyde Park gave its annual card party on our picnic grounds. I went down to greet them and found myself signing quite a number of books which had been given as prizes for the card games. This is a day for walking in high places. I am sure that the view from the top of the hill will be clear and far flung, so that is where I am going. A friend of mine in Connecticut has just sent me a record of the accomplishments of the CCC camps in that state. It is an impressive list of achievements and one does not wonder that he feels sad at the realization that a carefully built supervisory personnel has practically disintegrated because there is at present such a cut in the number of CCC boys. I wonder if those men rejected for Army service might not be greatly improved in health, if they could receive basic medical care and then be assigned to CCC camp work for a while. It also seems necessary, however, to change some of the opportunities offered and give boys in CCC a chance for training as well as
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ing man or woman feel that he has himself to go to the root of the matter. While there are a dozen extremely pertinent books to delve into, if we intend to form a sound, a competent opinion of Hitler and Naziism, there is only one indispensable book: Mein Kampf. Feeling its import, I wish to convey it. There are two aims I have in mind. One is the necessity of representing Adolf Hitler as fairly as possible. The other is to obserye the bearing of his socalled revolution on those conditions of creative existence that it
is the object of democracy to provide. 2 2 2
JUST BECAUSE Hitler is repugnant to us, it is hard to size him up. To dwell on his repulsiveness is a temptation, but I have tried to avoid calling him a bandit, an outlaw, a criminal, and all that. His challenge to all that is genuinely creative in our free existence has to be more objectively examined. Otherwise we cannot dismiss the assertion that his is a “revolution.” The forces that he has gathered until their directed velocity has become uniquely destructive are forces that have always been latent in human nature. He has, in Germany at any rate, temporarily mastered these forces. He rides the whirlwind and directs the storm. Like certain men when physically intoxicated, this German can surpass himself and even for a time carry the world before him. But we need to look deeply into Mein Kampf before we call this sort of thing a “revolution.” The book is the missile of a man of action. He flings it out with violence. It is a passionate, madly ambitious, hurtling book, inflammatory and intensely vital It contains the whole set of mesmeric passes by which he induced young Germany to drop Marxism and take extreme nationalism in its place. The master idea in it, of course, is the idea of a Master Race. This is the fixed idea of Hitler as the promoter and organizer of the German people. And Mein Kampf, writen in a period of national abasement, never lets go of it for a moment. With this legend, Hitler was to win the masses. However, by giving the world no possible alternative to regarding the Germans as either masters or enemies, he is forced to proceed from arbitrary self-assertion to the most vulgar and devastating
S-H-H! SCHOOL OPENS SEPT, ¢
Slight Enrollment Rise Expected; Book Rental Plan to Continue.
This may come as a rude shock to 60,000 Indianapolis school children, but the Indianapolis Public Schools today issued notice that only four weeks of vacation remain. The public Sept. 8. The schools have been freshly scrubbed by janitors and custodians, busy throughout the vacation period renovating school property. And although it doesn’t fit in with today’s weather prediction, Business Director A. B. Good said school coal bins now are being filled with 10,000 tons of coal.
Expect 3400 Freshmen
All high school offices will open Aug. 15 for advance registration of transfer pupils. Approximately 3400 high school freshmen are expected to enroll this fall and 3100 6-year-olds are expected to start their schooling. Because of national defense industry bringing new families to the City, a slight increase in enrollment is expected. Teachers will hold their annual Institute at 9 a. m. Thursday, Sept. 4, at Tech High School when they will be addressed by Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan. Teachers meetings will be held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 4 and 5. With the start of school, 2400 safety patrol boys will go on duty at street intersections. The officers of the Safety Patrol will attend the annual Training Camp at the Boy Scout Reservation Sept. 1 to 5.
Continue Rental Plan
Assistant Superintendent Virgil Stinebaugh said that parents of pupils need have no worry about increased costs for textbooks despite the adoption of new textbooks by the State Board of Education. In the grades, the rental plan whereby pupils pay 75 cents a semester to rent books will continue, Mr. Stinebaugh said. The plan annually saves approximately $100,000 for Indianapolis parents, he estimated.
11 HORSES BURNED IN CHICAGO STABLE FIRE
CHICAGO, Aug. 11 (U. P)— Eleven horses including a prize breeding stallion were burned to death tonight when a $50,000 fire swept through Harry McNair’s rambling brick stable—one of the oldest landmarks in the Chicago Stockyards. Another 20 horses were led to safety after breaking out of their stalls and stampeding into the yard surrounding the stable. McNair said the dead stallion, named Roman Soldier, had been valued at $3800. Deputy Fire Marshal Michael L. Corrigan said there was no indica-
schools will open
for work on forest and conservation projects.
tion of how the fire started.’
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‘One People, One Reich, One Leader’—this is Hitler's credo for a super-race to rule the world.
of all nationalistic programs, race hatred. . 2 - AMERICANS, in particular, must note his crass method of gingering up the Germans. His theory of race forces him to clash with the theory of democracy, and the simplest way of illustrating his intolerance is to quote a few of the racial utterances with which he has sprinkled his pages. Concerning the Austrian Empire: “I detested the conglomerate of races that the realm’s capital manifested; all this racial mixture of Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, Ruthenians, Serbs and Croats, etc.,, and among them all, like the eternal mission-fungus of mankind—Jews and more Jews. To me the big city (Vienna) appeared as the personification of incest.” Vienna might be Chicago or New York. Concerning the Japanese: “One can perhaps call such a race a
Hoosier Goings
‘culture-bearing’ one but never a ‘culture-creating’ one.” ° Concerning the Russians: While admitting that the Russian Revolution had a “new great idea,” as Fascism did, which gave “strength for subjecting a people in the most comprehensive reshaping.” Hitler speaks of no people more contemptuously than he does of the Russian leaders. The intellectual and the moral standard of the great masses of the people were, he says, “terribly low.” Hence the Russian illiterate “was made the defenseless slave of his Jewish dictators.” Concerning France: “She is racially making such progress in negrofying herself that one can really speak of the establishment of an African State on European soil. The colonial policy of pres-ent-day France cannot be compared with that of Germany in the past. Let the development of France continue three centuries more in the present manner, and
On
SAVED FROM SEA
Sends Check to Sister in Greece;
It's Recovered in Mediterranean. By EARL HOFF
ON NOV. 25 LAST YEAR, Nick Paikos, manager of the Diana Theater at Tipton, mailed a letter containing a cashier's check to
his sister in his native Greece.
While so much fighting was going
on in Greece he was glad to feel that his sister had the money. However, many months later—not so long ago—the letter came back to him, pretty well faded and illegible except for the printed
return address.
It had been opened by British censors Dec. 3, at Gibraltar, and then resealed. Apparently shortly after it renewed its voyage its ship was torpedoed. The British sent divers down to recover the mail, but the salt water had done the ink no good. The address on the envelope was gone. But the check itself, with its markings in India ink, was perfectly legible and was returned to him. Thus, had it arrived safely, his sister could have cashed it. He sent along another check. Stamped over the recovered letter were the words: “Saved from the Sea.”
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AMONG THE SOONER-or-later items is this one from Paragon: Mrs. Lee McDowell placed some eggs in a skillet and then put the skillet on the sidewalk. The eggs fried. Among other hot weather items from over the State, H. M. Dowsey at Monticello reported a 5% -foot tall potato vine grown on his farm at Patton. . Bloomington barbers voted to close shop every Wednesday
afternoon. . . . A bantam hen owned by Hazel Henderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Henderson of Plymouth, laid two eggs in the same day. . . . The Goshen City Council decided hot weather is no time for sound trucks to disturb siesta takers. Sound trucks were barred from the city. ” ” 2 WITH JUST A MONTH of vacation left, school children don't like to be reminded what opens up again in September. But at Charlestown, School Superintend-
ent U. B. Jeffries announced freshmen could enroll in the high school Aug. 11 and 12 and secure lockers—if they agreed to double up. At Logansport, Cass County School Superintendent E. E. Benson said that schools will definitely be on Standard Time when they open Sept. 2. Madison County children were informed by Superintendent James Frazier that school would not open until Sept. 8, but they must report Aug. 29 for instruction and booklets.
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the last remains of Frankish blood will have succumbed in the developing European-African mulatto State.” And so on. In regard to the, Jews, we observe Hitler's race prejudice at its peak: “I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work.” ” ” » THESE QUOTATIONS from Mein Kampf show the ineradicable bias of Hitler's mind. It is not infrequent, of course, for irascible people everywhere to lash
out at the foreigner. A pinch of .
race prejudice, in fact, adds to the savor of ordinary life, and is as habitual as salt and pepper on the dining table. But Hitler's discriminations are not salt, they are spirits of salt, virulent and destructive. When Hitler hints at “lesser breeds without the law,” he means
LEGION LOOKS T0 CONVENTION
Expect Largest in History At Milwaukee With 1500 Delegates.
The 23d national convention of the American Legion at Milwaukee, Sept. 15 to 18, will be the largest
in history, national headquarters officials predicted here today. Reports from 11,777 posts in the United States show that this year’s membership exceeds that of any other year by many thousands. More than 1500 elected delegates will represent 1,100,000 members and hundreds of other Legionnaires are expected to attend from all parts of the country.
Parade Sept. 16
The annual parade, one of the most colorful street pageants in the country, will be staged on Tuesday, Sept. i6., and nine contests, including band competition and drill teams, will be staged throughout the convention. Pre-convention executive sessions, presided over by National Command Milo J. Warner, will start Friday, Sept. 12, when the resolutions committee will study hundreds of resolutions adopted by various departmental conventions.
Closes With Election
Other convention committees will convene Saturday, Sept. 12. Headlining the Sunday sessions will be the annual meeting of the National Executive Committee and other divisions of the Legion. Election of a new national commander and selection of a 1942 convention city will be Thursday, the last day of the convention.
OPM ACTS TO OPEN STRIKEBOUND MINE
SILVER CITY, N. M., Aug. 11 (U. P.) ~The Office of Production Management today asked that the Chino Mines of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Corp. be reopened immediately and the labor dispute which closed them be certified to the Defense Mediation Board. With an annual production of 143,000,00 pounds of copper and 18,000,000 pounds of molydbenum, both necessary to defense production, the mines at Hurley and Santa Rita are the nation’s largest open pit copper workings and it's second largest copper producer. The company shut down the mines, mills and smelters at midnight Saturday, throwing more than 2000 men out of work, when 600 American Federation of Labor craftsmen voted to strike for union recognition. ‘
CHURCHILL IS CRITICIZED LONDON, Aug. 11 (U. P.).— Emanuel Shinwell, Laborite member of Parliament, criticized Winston Churchill yesterday of wanting to be “Prime Minister and everything else” and failing to give his assistants enough power to carry
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it; and he believes in enslaving them or exterminating them. And the deduction he makes from all this is categoric: fear of chauvinism is a sign of impotence, the Germans are a master race, “it sees in the State only a means to an end, and as its end it considers the preservation of the racial existence of men. Thus it by no means believes in an equality of the races, but with their differences it also recognizes their superior and inferior values, and by this recognition it feels the obligation in accordance with the Eternal Will that dominates this universe to promote the victory of the better and stronger, and to demand the submission of the worse and weaker.” Here you have a Doctrine, and Hitler does not disguise for one moment that it brings him into direct conflict with democracy and the United States of America.
Tomorrow: “Against Every Man.”
CUDAHY ASKS FDR TO PROPOSE PEACE
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 11 (U, P.).—John Cudahy, former U. S. ambassador to Belgium, asked President Roosevelt last night to “raise his voice as an arbiter” in the European war and to propose a program of peace creating a “sover= eign international government.” In a radio address over the NBC Blue network, Mr. Cudahy said he was convinced the President “can and will keep this country out of war.” He said the “American people will be more confused and dise united than they are today” if the United States should enter the war without making a peace proposal. “Let the President raise his voice as an arbiter in the name of peace and democracy,” he said, “and neither Hitler nor Churchill will dare to ignore his petition.
KEEFE GOES BACK T0 HIGHWAY POST
Merton R. Keefe of Lebanon toe day took over. his old job as chief engineer for the State Highway Commission. He was renamed by the Commise sion Saturday to succeed Earl B, Lockridge who was called to duty wit hthe U, S. Army at Colume bus, O. Mr. Keefe resigned as chief ene gineer last November to take a job with a construction firm, after serving in that post for eight years, He will receive $6000 annually.
TEST YOUR | KNOWLEDGE
1—Which actor in silent motion pictures was known as “the man with a thousand faces?” 92—Mistletoe is a part of the foot, a nut, or a parasitic flowering plant? 3—Who were the “three men in the tub” in the nursery rhyme beginning “Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub?” 4—A fortnight is a week-end, one week, or two weeks? 5—Which country was once called Cathay by Europeans? 6—Pavlova was a Russian scientist, a dancer, or Trotzky's wife? 7—Chaulmoogra oil has been used in the treatment of what dis« figuring skin disease? 8—Name the capital of Bermuda.
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1—Lon Chaney. 2—Parasitic flowering plant. 3—The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick maker. 4—-Two weeks, 5—China. 6—A dancer. T—Leprosy. 8—Hamilton, es 8 8
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