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THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1941

HISTORY IN THE MAKING HIS day is pregnant with history. On Europe's Eastérn Front is being fought a battle that is without much question the most enormous ever fought—in area, in stakes, in weight of weapons and in “expenditure of personnel.” Its issue may decide the fate of the whole continent for generations; its sequels may threaten India and China, Turkey and the Middle East, the Suez and Gibraltar—the whole earth, for that matter. As this is written, word has just come from Mr8Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill of their meeting in the Atlantic. It will take perhaps davs to appraise the full significance of such a Roosevelt-Churchill tete-a-tete. In the Pacific the sands of peace are running out, though neither side is anxious for a fight. French Africa, and its strategic shoulder jutting toward South America, are a gigantic question mark, with Vichy's palsied hand guided by the fist of Berlin. In Washington a politically

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EW YORK, Aug. 14—In Washington, custom forbids officers of armed forces to be seen in | public in uniform, except in time of shooting war i or in time of cocktails or other ceremcnial banality, | the idea being tha take fright or umbrage at the riors, and cut off ail military appropriations to prevent a putsch. The wisdom of this pathetic decree has been debated informall® in the services, with only a few officers holding that a soldier should wear the habit of his trade in peace as well as in war.

several persenal reasons which apply not only in the capital but everywhere else. One is that the officer in uniform has no privacy

a cousin serving at Ft. Snelling and regards that fact as a bond of interest with a professional man of arms who is weary of talking shop and only wants to read a detective story or lock out of the train window. Another is the idiotic, useless, expensive and uncomfortable affectation known as the Sam Browne belt, adopted from the British in the first World War and never abandoned by our Army, lest a decision to do so wound the feelings of Gen. John J. Pershing.

0 8 Y THOUGHT for the day is that if it is pos-

very number of officers on desk duty in Washington

idea to insist that all Government press agents, regardless of their official classification or guise, be required to wear some distinctive garb to identify them to the statesmen and the people.

nervous Congress consents by only a single vote to carve | They have crept in during these last eight years and | all of them, it goes without saving, are bread-and-

another 18 months from the careers of hundreds of thousands of young Americans.

Near-famine threatens half the |

world, and here at home the specter of inflation is struggling

to materialize. Der Tag. From Revkjavik to Vladivostok, from Cam Ranh

In Latin America fifth columnists toast |

Bay to Martinique, from Dakar to Teheran, the peoples of |

the earth await the lightning.

As far forward as imagination can project itself, the |

There are so many of these now that no man in the Government has any idea of their total number.

utter Socialists, at least, and some true-believing collectivists. It is not merely a question of numbers and of the gross aggregate expense of keeping them in jobs on salaries ranging as high as $10,000 a vear. Equally

i interesting is the fact that they constitute a horde of

tenacious and cunning parasites who have developed a remarkable skill in discovering quiet hiding places

! on the payrolls and spotting new ones in advance

future of the world looks bleak enough to dismay the most

determined optimist. terms, might aggravate rather than mitigate the economic miseries of the globe. share of the hardship is no longer possible. to avoid direct entanglement in war is by no means certain. Mr. Roosevelt has great daring, Under his leadership the country has been committed to a degree of participation in the affairs of the other hemisphere.

Even a sudden peace, on whatever | IL That America can escape a heavy | Even its ability |

when some developed instinct warns them that a new administrator is coming in.

x = » ° KE creatures of the wild, they have developed a protective coloration, which is to say, the appearance of statisticians, librarians and quiet geniuses and an art of disguise on the books whereby a disruntled ex-journalist may be listed as an executive

assistant or research secretary, whose job actually is

. to ballvhoo his chief and the general philosophy of

resourcefulness and great | the New Deal, whatever it is.

Their recommendations

| are as various as their number is great, but the basic | reason for hiring in each case is not one of public

. 6 | interest but the individual's desire for a tolerably easy | At the same time he is pledged also to keep |

American troops out of the wars of that hemisphere. The !

immediate future may determine whether those two commitments can function side by side.

INFLATION—WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT?

HE experts agree that inflation is just around the corner. Common sense, and an ugly recollection of the postWorld War deflation, tell us we ought to barricade that corner. But how? . : At the risk of offending those people who regard the defense emergency as their Heaven-sent opportunity to

and secure job involving only mild exertions.

It is my theory that if all the members of this corps of both genders were made to wear a distine-

| tive uniform. not necessarily unattractive like that of

orphats or paupers in an English town or gaudy like those of the station master and postman in pre-war continental Eurone, Congress and the people both would learn and view with a certain alarm a condi-

{ tion which today only the most cynical can suspect. | About one person in four, in Washington, I believe,

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would preve to be a tub-thumper for some bureau or bureaucrat and, thus identified, their appointments could be traced down and revealed as an item of pork or de luxe charity. It seems unnecessary to predict the effect of this

| revelation on a legislative body which long has been

make up for the long lean years, we suggest the following: | 1. Since it is the Government's huge spending program |

that is causing the stream of purchasing power to reach flood stage, let Congress resolutely tackle the problem of cutting non-defense spending. Let it regard with skepticism the propaganda of bureaucrats who profess to be indispensable. Let it summarily reject the Florida Ship Canal, etc. States and cities, by the samg token, should devote their surpluses to debt retirement and let improvements await the post-emergency slack. :

2. The Senate should rewrite the House tax hill to |

produce the $5,400,000,000 in added revenue which Secre- |

tary Morgenthau says would be necessary to cover two- | (Alternatively, some of the |

thirds of the Federal outgo. already budgeted outgo could be chipped off.)

3. Power to fix price ceilings over individual commodities |

should be granted.

4. Installment credit and other consumer credit should be curbed. This has just been authorized by Presidential |

order,

5. Labor should refrain from wage demands except | And it should

strive to keep down these costs by encouraging the produc- | ¢ ing of the present economic system. It is defensible

(Punitive overtime rates, like double !

where plainly justified by rising living costs.

tion of more goods. time for Saturday work, have the reverse effect.) 6. Farmers, who are enjoying an unusual prosperity, should reject the leadership of demagogs who urge them to demand parity-plus prices and the freezing of the Government’s stores of cotton, wheat, etc.

deliberately deceived by so docile and harmless a body as the officers of the Army, Navy and Marines,

Business By John T. Flynn

Rationing of Labor May Be the Next Step if Wages Are Controlled.

EW YORK. Aug. 14 —Those who insist that there should be a ceiling over wages as well as over the prices of materials are right. Mr. Henderson says wages must be controlled, but that the price-control bill is not the place to do it. No one is going to find or name the place to do it as long as the Government can duck the responsibility. It does not want to cultivate unpopularity with the labor leaders, so Mr. Henderson invents an excuse for leaving wages out of the law. However, while wages, like prices, must be controlled, those who favor this must not fool themselves with any easy solutions or suppose that the subject can be ended by applying price control to wages too. It is not all as simple as that. The truth is that legal control of wages, ilke legal control of prices, is wholly hostile to the proper work-

here merely because - that system has already been

| thrown completely out of balance by all sorts of other | interferences in its workings.

7. Every citizen should buy Government savings bonds |

to the extent of his ability.

vest in the new tax-anticipation notes. This, so that the

Treasury may minimize its inflationary borrowing from | ,... the raw materials of munitions. A huge factory

banks,

Income-tax payers should in- |

Nevertheless the only way to keep down prices of goods is to keep down all the elements of cost in those goods, and wages constitute one important ele-

, ment. But after having given the Government the | right to put a ceiling over wages, there is plenty more which must be done to meet the situation.

ET us suppose that a ceiling is put over wages. Then comes the problem of getting men to work in the munitions plants and also in the plants which

| is built outside Baltimore, or a factory near Pitts-

8. Citizens with money to spare should also, as advised |

by Undersecretary of the Treasury Bell, shy away from the purchase of heavy goods that compete with defense production and “if we must spend, spend more on food,

health, clothing, amusements and similar items” which are | '

abundantly available.

power to increase she reserve requirement of member banks, or some direct Governmental control over the issuance of bank credit should be provided. 10. Congress should study the possibility of applying some form of compulsory savings in case the voluntary program falls short. Taken together, all those things add up to a stiff dose of medicine,

THE MEN CAN HELP, TOO ROBABLY most men think of the silk stocking situation as an exclusively feminine concern. It isn’t. Men have a part to play in this great mass transfer from Japanese sheer silk to American cotton. Here's the part: When Agatha comes home with her first pair of cotton - stockings, and, sticking out a tentative foot, inquires, “How do they look ?” that's where the man's part comes in. Start learning the line nowy “Ravishing, darlihg, they look just swell!” Thus may even a mere male contribute his bit in putting the ax to the Axis. 3

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burgh doubles or trebles its capacity. Both need men. How are they going to get them? They have to offer

inducements. And the inducements are better pay

and more overtime. If that is done away with, then the Government must be prepared to ration labor, to mobilize it, to apply priorities: to the labor market as well as to materials. Men will have to he more or less drafted. Or mills not essential must have their output cut dawn

“ EB 9. Either th serv $e; | in order to throw men out of work to shift them to the Federal Reserve Board should be given | needed places, Or the Government may have to go

further and issue orders as to where men will work. We might as well face the facts—the very grim facts—if we want to go on with this adventure \n world-saving. : ‘

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So They Say—

I CAN ONLY compare conditions there (Ft. Bragg) with World War conditions. like it in the World War. know that every dollar that is spent down there for

New York, on leave from training camp where he is a reserve officer. « * ® : I WARN YOU . . there will come a vast danger that we in America . . . may lose these four freedoms we hear talked about. so much and ‘which we are sup-

posed to carry world—Joseph W. Natiénal Committee,

“ oie the loss of able young men who are just to make their mark in their chosen fields, for these are the potential leaders of a new generation.— Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. report. . * *

WITHOUT THE voluntary and enthusiastic cooperation of American workers not a factory could

turn a wheel. —William Green, hi of the A. F. of L. Le + hens of

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sight of so many clanking war- |

in public, but may be badgered by any bore who has4

were they to go in uniformg it would be a very wise |

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DENIES WAR FOR !U, 8S. IS “INEVITABLE” By Lester Gavlor. 4334 Sangster Ave. Our present Communist-infiltrat-ed Government, conceived to thwart the people. deceive the people, and |to enslave the people. contends that |war is inevitable for America. This | deliberate fabrication is necessary, of course, for the warmongers con-

spiracy of drafting a large army | for an indefinite term of service. | Deceit is a malicious practice and sooner or later those who practice | it, whether their names be Rooselvelt, Willkie, Knox, Stimson, Welles, | lor others, will pay the penalty of | their crime. War for America is not inevitable. It is only made to appear so by those desiring to destroy further eur republican form of government. War is their pretext and smoke screen. They work behind it to accomplish their sinister ends. War can still be avoided if the American people rise up and cour- | ageously oppose the purposes of the {Soviet crackpots in Washington. ” o ”

OFFERS SUGGESTION ON |THE FOOD PROBLEM

| By Myra Carey Morgan, 6868 Bellefontaine St. A great many people are talking about the high price of food. We

all know prices are advancing rapid-

ly, but why get so bothered over something we can do nothing about. | Instead why not use a little head]

work. Why not, in time of high] food prices, buy for winter without |

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DEEMS IT FUTILE TO PLEAD FOR PEACE By A. J. M., Indianapolis If memory serves us right. Hitler

has broadcast to the world in a threatening tone of voice that democracy and his form of government can never be mixed. We should think that he had in mind the United States, but maybe after

a second thought, he decided he] didn’t care to get mixed up with us| anyway. There is every reason to believe that Hitler is out to convert the world to his one-man belief, and he. is the man. He is now holding a protracted meeting in Russia.

URGES REPUBLICANS GET BEHIND WILLKIE By W. B.,, Indianapolis Having just returned from the Pacific Coast, I am enthused to report that national unity predominates there. Willkie was enthusiastically received everywhere. As to Wheeler, the people of Montana would never elect him in an election of today. They are not fooled by his disguise as a peace ‘“crusader.”™ They know Wheeler's hatred of F. D. R. governs_His activities. Then, too, Wheeler, like Robert Taft, is hoping to plant his seed in the election of 1944. It is with regret that I, a Republican, admit that so many of the die-hard G. O. P. members have lined up to disrupt unity. Political hatred and personal poiitical desires are actually strong enough to govern this group's activities at this hour of national emergency. I want to see the G. O. P. survive and once again come into its own. It will never be done as long as Republicans follow the Hoovers, Nyes and Tafts. But it can be done under the brilliant leadership of such

There is much enthusiasm, but one does not hear date. It is evident that he does not believe in water baptism, but had rather immerse with fire bombs. Those who disagree with him, be they men, women or children, are

of any converts to

Yes, he likes to make threats and tries to intimidate us. In this country, one is foolish to threaten the life of another; in most cases it is the worst kind of evidence against

We never had anything | I want the Congress to |

military training is well spent.—Rep. Hamilton Fish,

to all the people everywhere in the | Martin Jr, chairman G. O. P. |

ONE OF THE most destructive aspects of war is |

{feeling the extra burden on your | budget. : E Each week when you buy your | out. If his opponent beats him to groceries, buy {wo extra cans of your | It. the threat would be very much in favorite brand of peas, corn, fruits the killer's favor. or even soups. Then when you stack| Wheeler and Lindbergh may be] away your supplies, put the extra |nonorable men, but it is our opinion | cans on the winter shelf—it will|that they tried to put the cart be-| surprise you when cold weather | fore the horse when they insist that comes what a neat store you have to|the American people should bow help out. By doing this you will|{down and plead for peace when not be hoarding, but saving. It'sithere is no peace. a lot of fun, as well as being thrifty| Evervohe has his little notions. in a small way; in following this|It seems to us that so long as the little plan, you will not be penny German nation follows its present wise and pound foolish—but just ruler, and if we lend a hand to aid plain wise. . . . It will be a surprise|the Allies, and send bombing planes, to find how well the meals are with- and volunteer pilots to England, out a good many things, and yet then Hitler might decide to build be well balanced too. other things than the instruments Any problem can be met face to|of war, and he would save his good face—like high food costs. All it|people -just that much waste of takes is a little mental adjustment. expense. :

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liberals as Willkie and Dewey. The American people. will never forget the bread lines, banks going under and disastrous depression during the

THURSDAY, AUG. 14, 1941

Gen. Johnson

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Hitler in the Doghouse, Army Chiefs In Saddle, According to Reports Now Reaching Our Military Experts.

HICAGO, Ill, Aug. 14—The substance and ace curacy of the following column can't be guare anteed. Most of it seems reasonable and in accord with such facts as are known, although ,I can hardly credit some of it. The only thing I can say with confidence is that it is a fair consensus of our active professional military experts. Much of it they don't know and have to guess. But they have more to guess on than we news= paper kibitzers. In the first place they have military map-specialists a n d mountains of statistical information with an organized system for sifting and drawing conclusions. In addition, quite recently," some unquestionable information : 4 has been coming through from brother officers abroad in our own or other services. Piecing it all together, the result, for whatever it is worth, is something like this. The recent rumor that Goering is in the dog-house is untirely unfounded as is the explanation that he and the generals, Von Keitel and the rest, opposed the great Russian adventure or that the latter has bogged down. The truth, according to these reports is that if anybody is in the dog-house, it is Hitler himself, » » ”

HE small but powerful group of Nazi politicians T wanted to posture and gesture around in the West. The professional soldiers insisted that Germany could not risk further westward action leaving the powerful Russian Army on its flank and rear. They also argued that 1941 was the last chance to attend to it. Every strategic consideration required the des struction or practical paralysis of that great force before making another move. The professional view was adopted. Hitler is confining himself to political affairs and has little to do with the campaign. The soldiers are in the saddle. That certainly sounds reasonable. The next important assertion’ is that while what was called Plan A—a three to six weeks decisive campaign—has been slowed up. Plan A was merely a tentative gamble, not greatly relied upon by the general staff. : If it worked by some spectacular break-through such as that in France, so much the better, but the possibility of its not working was never forgotten and Plan B and Schedule B were not to be inter= fered with if Plan A—a swift stabbing blitz—didn’t perform a miracle. Plan B and Schedule B were a systematic chewing into red-mince meat of the whole Russian Army-— corps by corps and group by group. This required much more time. You can’t kill 2,000,000 men in a day—even in a slaughter pen. The Russians are ex= pert at demolition—destruction of roads and bridges. Plan B required the bringing up and supply of masses of German heavy infantry. This in turn depended upon the speed and efficiency of the great German specialized road-building corps. 5 » ” N the meantime, by grand scale encircling move= ments, such as that now going on arounc Odessa, and dozens of smaller pincer attacks, all the way from the White to the Baltic Seas, Plan B is one of wholesale slaughter and destruction the like of which the world has never dreamed. Plan B is said to be ahead of schedule and it is beginning to be clearer that the communiques of the German High Command are more accurate and timely than those of Russia. With all this and with less circumstance of verity and more conjecture is a question of tottering control of the highly powerful political minorities—the Nazi Party in Germany, the Communists in Russia—and of the ascendancy of military commanders. The German plan for Russia is said not to be, as it was in Poland, reorganization of a whole people and country for complete digestion. Rather it is first to liquidate the Communist Party and then to seize certain mining, agricultural, petrol eum and industrial areas and let the havoc of defeat, destruction and disorganization take its course else where on Russian political fronts. Well, there it is. As I began by saying, I can’t vouch for it but it certainly opens up some interesting vistas for imagination. If it is true it might bring in sight an earlier end of war.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times, :

Hoover administration. Labor will never accept Robert Taft. One does not need to be a political expert to realize these facts. The Republican Party almost put over a winner in 1940. Many said, “Willkie is a Democrat.” Well, maybe so, but there wasn't another man at Philadelphia who could have polled half as many votes. One thing is certain, Wendell Willkie is a fine American, with the courage of his convictions and the will to leave politics in its place. o ” ” LAUDS FORESIGHT OF

R JSSIAN ARMY CHIEFS By W. W,, Indianapolis

I am forced to marvel at the 3 plain fact that Russia had prepared |i

itself so thoroughly as to be able to stop Germany's best mechanized units—while our seem never to have known what Germany was getting ready mechanically for its proposed conquests. I think we can trust Russia militarily under the circumstances, for her military chiefs were absolutely wide awake and intelligent in their preparations. o o o

CLAIMS HOME REMEDIES FORCED OFF MARKET By J. B. P.. Indianapolis Now that the Medical Promoters in the AMA have succeeded in driving most of the worthwhile home off the market, one what they will concoct convene here next

wonders when they month. . . . o ” “2 FEARS TREASURY RAIDS WILL BRING DISASTER By J. J. K,, Indianapolis If the Administration does not put a stop to the fantastic raids being made upon the Treasury the crash to follow this war will make the depression after 1929 look like a piker.

AUGUST BROADCAST

By MARY P. DENNY Lightning and thunder, Crash of the great tree limb Clouds and twilight dim, Patter of the summer rain On the bank of the forest stream Where the wild deer wander. Glimmer of the August skies Where all the deep glory lies. Vespers of owl and thrush In the green wild grape brush. All voices lifted far Unto the distant star, In one great vesper hour, Kept in God's power.

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Man is born into trouble, as the sparks fly upward.—Job 5:7.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs.-Walter Ferguson

SAT in a crowded hall listening to a visiting lady talk about women's duty in preserving democracy, I longed several times for the courage to heckle, Ladylike instincts at such moments are a great ine convenience. I longed to cry: “Explain yourself, Madam. Give us a diagram. In simple words, what do you mean when you sav we must act now to save America?”

I'm sure she didn’t know. None of her audience knew, Each in=terpreted her phrases to suit a personal prejudice, Like most audiences we were intoxicated by cadences and tones and word pictures, We were not thinking of reality, and the speaker wasn’t talking about it. There were women present who would faint if you told ‘them they could help na« tional defense by looking at conditions on the opposita side of the railroad track—or by reading both sides of the capital-and-labor question. Their thinking about the American way doesn’t go far enough to include their own gardener or laundress or the peddler who comes to their back door. ,It has to do with snappy uniforms, parades, and flags embroidered. on stylish blouses. Economics comes into it of course, buf Father looks after that. To the club-minded lady, another pictures arisea, Instantly her mind leaps to new organizations, fresh recruits, drives, committee meetings, banquets, speeches, and all sorts of exciting get-togethers. Pose sibly democracy means something different to the housewife and office worker. Business as usual, says the latter to herself: the former, while dreaming about schools for Mary and Joe, resolves to set up a new budget and to give more to the Community Fund, Women who think they love denocracy are works ing hard at the Red Cross, sewing Bundles for Britain, taking lessons in motor mechanics and flying, sellnz defense bonds and begging te ‘join the Army. Yet of these many do not understand the meaning of the term. That's why the times call for specific words— Anglo-Saxon preferred. The average citizen is mors confused by language than events. Why doesn’ someone have the courage to say, “To be prepared, democracy must be practiced every day, everywhere, by everybody.”

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Q—What is the difference between ‘“‘capital goods” and “consumer goods”? A—Capital goods are those destined for use in proe duction, as machinery; consumer goods are those that directly satisfy human wants, as food and clothe ing. Q@—How young are dolphins when they begin to swim? ’ : A—They are expert swimmers from the time of birth. A baby dolphin can keep up with a school of dolphins as soon as it is born. Q—In which branches of the U. S. armed forces are the four sons of President Roosevelt serving?

; winning, think it worth enjoy-

ing. —Dryden.

A—Eliot, Army Air Corps; James, Marine Corps;