Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1941 — Page 9

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1941

‘The Indianapolis Times

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Hoosier Vagabond By Ernie Pyle

In addition, Towa has a quarter-billion bushels stored from past years. They say it would take two or three bad years in a row—even counting the great bulk of cornstuff we’ll probably send to England—to cause a serious corn shortage.

The price of corn is all right this year, too. It's selling for about 60 cents a bushel. Of course during the World War corn got to $2.25 a bushel. That was too much. And in 1933 it went down to eight cents a bushel. That was too little. Sixty cents is a fair and decent price, everybody seems agreed. Well, there's my promised half-column. So the other half I'll write on Jake Perkins. He’s a preacher I met in Council Bluffs. He ealls himself a preacher, too, not a pastor, He has been preaching at the Congregational Church in Council! Bluffs for 20 years. Hardly anybody calls him “Reverend.” Everybody calls him Jake. Lots of people go to his church who aren't awfully churchy. They go because Mr, Perkins always says something worth listening to, and they feel better for having listened.

A Former Prison Warden

He is slight, gray-haired, nice-looking, and sensi-tive-faced. You can tell by looking at him that he thinks for himself, instead of just racing on the treadmill of dogma. And he’s a man thai a sinner like me doesn’t have to be scared of. When I asked him if it was all right to smoke, he said, “Sure, I'll have one with you.” Mr. Perkins is noted around Council Bluffs for other things than just being a preacher. For one thing he was warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary during the World War years. For another, he wrote the official biography of Gen. Grenville Dodge, who engineered the Union Pacific Railroad. For another, he wrote the “Code of Ethics” of Rotary International. He has also written an ecclesiastical play called “The Money Changers,” and a novel that sold 33,000 copies. He has one son who is an artist in New Orleans, and another who is city attorney of Council Bluffs. In addition, Mr. Perkins, is dead against us going into the war.

SOMEWHERE IN TOWA, Aug. 16.—The other day in Des Moines I met a lovely young lady beside a swimming pool, and upon learning that I was a writin’ feller she dropped upon her knees, wrung her hands, and entreated me as follows: “Please, please, dear sir,” said she. “On bended knee I ask it. Please promise me that you will jeave Iowa without mentioning the word corn.” “Dear madam,” I replied, “the lengths to which I would go to please a lady are long lengths indeed, but what you ask is impossible, not to say preposterous. Leave this fair state without writing a column about corn? Why, I would sooner—.” “Please, I beg of you,” she cried. “It’s all I've ever asked. If one more visitor comes to Iowa and writes about corn, I'll—oh I'll—> She could not finish.

I wot not of what she spoke, but her eyes were green and her skin was fair, and aw heck, I don't care much for corn either. So we compromised. I promised her I'd write only half a column about corn. (Between you and me, I had already investigated the corn situation, and half a column was all I could get out of it. But I didn’t tell her that.) ‘ So here is the dope on corn in Towa in 1941. It's a whale of a crop. It has been a wonderful year. Everything is Jooking up. It is still possible for some dire catastrophe to ruin the corn crop, but not likely.

The Price Is Right, Too

More than a fourth of Iowa is planted to corn— 0.100.000 acres this year. That isn’t the biggest corn acreage Towa has ever had. But this new business of hybrid corn produces more corn on less ground. Up until a few years ago a big corn yield was 40 bushels to the acre. But this year the estimated crop is 52 bushels to the acre. Which brings the total close to a half-billion bushels for the state this year.

Inside Indianapolis And “Our Town”)

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Dr. Irvine Heinly In a way it was a home-coming as he had worked Page, director of the City Hospital clinical laboratory in the Lilly Laboratories at Woods Hole, Mass., in his of the Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, and one of youth, even before he began his medical studies. As the country’s foremost young scientists. He first an assistant to Dr. G. H A. Clowes, he had had a

gained wide attention with his book, “Chemistry of part in the development of insulin, the Brain,” now a standard text- - He's Fun on a Party

book. More recently, he’s been in the limelight because of his Ske Dr. Page works hard in his laboratory. He has periments un Sh of something 01, powers of concentration that the roof could fall to relieve high blood HA or in and he wouldn't be aware of it. But he differs hyperiesion, BS from the popular conception of a research clinician web rr it of a1. Five feet 10 10 that he has a wide variety of interests outside his inches all. he weighs about 160 laboratory. For instance, he speaks quite intelligently His hair oh d his rather deepset on international affairs. He's a good mixer, likes to eyes are brown. He wears rather Hg Pop: RSIS: SOUND Or div, AU Dey Won Jos an . n a party. Iasge Sipe Spacing . In the laboratory, Dr. Page and his assistants, sass he $yre al INSPIres Con- working under the eminent supervision of Dr. Clowes, fidence in others. Alert in aP- jaye developed an extract with which they have been able to lower high blood pressure temporarily. It's

Dr. Page pearance, he’s utterly unpretentious. Yet he has a decided air of f5, from being a safe or satisfactory remedy yet.

self-assurance that's inoffensive. In general, he's quiet and deliberate in manner. However, in walking, he leans forward and steps along as though in a hurry. He looks every inch the wide awake, inquisitive young scientist.

Brother of Noted Danseuse

The son of the late Dr. Lafayette Page, he's also the brother of Ruth Page, the internationally famous danseuse. After graduation from Shortridge in 1916, he obtained his medical degree from Cornell. His internship was followed by appointment to an important post in a scientific institute in Munich, Germany.

fident, it will take its place alongside insulin as the hope of doonted thousands.

Directed Jazz Band

Tennis is his favorite sport, partly because it provides a maximum of exercise in a minimum of time. He plays a steady, effective game. Golf holds no fascination for him. He reads quite a bit and finds time for an occasional movie. Probably his greatest interest outside his science and his infant son is music. Although he never got around to learning to play any instrument, he’s been It was in Munich that Dr. Page met his wife, deeply interested in music since childhood. At Corthen a dancer with the Ruth St. Denis troupe. He nell, he directed one of the first college jazz bands, attended a dance congress and became interested brought it home one Christmas to play for the local in the young American seated next to him. She social affairs. ignored his attentions, but that didn’t stump him. He has a splendid collection of symphonic records He found a mutual friend—Ted Shawn—to introduce which he plays frequently on one of those deluxe him. And it wasnt long until they were engaged, phonographs. A few years later he returned to the U. S. and In fact, he prefers the phonograph to radio. He engaged in research work on hypertension at the can turn it on and get what he wants when he Rockefeller Foundation Hospital in New York. Sev- wants it. eral years ago the Lillys brought him back home to And he probably wishes his test tubes ig the join their research laboratories. laboratory would behave as well.

The 8 Points By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—An Anglo-American Although this seems natural enough, it underalliance to defeat Hitler, followed by an Anglo-Amer- writes the major blunder of the Wilsonian program ican armed peace for worid freedom and economic &s demonstrated by experience — the division of security, is the essence of the Roosevelt-Churchill Europe into many small sovereign states, which muljoint declaration. The announced aim to defeat Hit- tiplied political conflicts, trade barriers, economic ler, and the secret agreements on chaos and minority problems. Mr. Wilson heped to how to do that necessary job, are control these obvious evils, which cause wars, by the much more important than the unity and regulatory powers of a. League of Nations. generalized peace program. Like Therein is the vast difference between the entire political platforms, official peace Wilson plan and the entire Roosevelt-Churchill plan. programs never have been faith- The essence of any peace plan is this: Who is going fully observed by the victors. to enforce it—who will be judge and police? The two Neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. general alternatives are some kind of super-state, or

But some day, Dr. Page and his co-workers are con-{

Hitler's Home and Abroad Is Based on 'Macht.'

Mein Kampf is the accepted bible of German National Socialism, the frenzied outpouring of wild political philosophy having for its goal the domination of an entire world by the Nazi “race.” The Times today publishes the sixth installment of Francis Hackett’s powerful exposure of Hitler's fanatic purposes.

THE UPHEAVAL that Hitler procured at home was recklessly violent. Domination at home on the principle of macht, in defiance of constitutional method, was a denial of live-and-let-live. And the natural sequel is a similar program for domination

abroad.

It could not have been otherwise. You cannot believe in the unbeaten German, the invincible army, the Master Race and the degenerate democracies, without going forward to a war of conquest. The very doctrines to which Hitler lent his power of eloquence, and from which he gained the frantic response ; of the excited Mr. Hackett and stimulated masses, imposed on him the absolutely unavoided obligation of making good. There is grandiosity about the old pan-German dream, and in Mein Kampf, Hitler puts it as bluntly as possible: “Today we are eighty million Germans in Europe! . . . Foreign policy will be acknowledged as correct only if, a bare century from now, two hundred and fifty million Germans are living on this continent, and then not squeezed together as factory coolies for the rest of the world, but: as peasants and workers mutually guaranteeing each other's life by their productivity.” Strictly speaking, this is the object of the policy. It is not, of course, a United States of Europe. It is Europe wiped around and around by the mop of war until the platter is cleared for two hundred and fifty million Germans. - ”

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France Isolated First

THE FIRST necessary step was to isolate France. The German people’s “irreconcilable mortal enemy is and remains France.” The “eternal struggle” had to be final and decisive, “on condition, of course, that Germany really sees in France's destruction a means of subsequently and finally giving our nation a chance to expand elsewhere.” But where? Territory in Europe where? “We take up at the halting

BEGINS MONDAY

Domination at:

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“It was the common people who...... activated opposition to Hitler, forcing Chamberlain's resignation

and backing Churchill to the limit.”

place of six hundred years ago. We terminate the endless German drive to the south and west of Europe, and direct our gaze toward the lands in the East.” Russia. “If we talk about new soil and territory in Europe today, we can think primarily only of Russia and its vassal border states.” “Fate itself seems to give us a tip at this point. In the surrender of Russia to bolshevism, the Russian people was robbed of that intelligentsia which theretofore produced and guaranteed its State stability.” “We must never forget,” he says, “that the regents of presentday Russia are common bloodstained criminals; that here is the scum of humanity, which, favored by conditions in a. tragic hour, overran a great state, butchered and rooted out millions of its leading intellects with sav-

When Miss Ann Quinlan was in-

age bloodthirstiness, and for nearly ten years has exercised the most frightful regime of tyranny of all time. Nor must we forget that these rulers belong to a nation which combines a rare mixture of bestial horror with an inconceivable gift of lying, and today more than ever before believes itself called upon to impose its bloody oppression on the whole world.” ”

It May Be America Next

YOU OBSERVE in this passage, full of “burning passion,” the moral indignation that Adolf Hitler has in the gas-tank when it is necessary to fool the democraci

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es. “Bloodstained” criminals, from the man who was to murder two of his closest collaborators, Gregor Strasser and Ernst Roehm. “Bloody oppression,” from the

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man who slew Warsaw, who crippled Norway, who bleeds Denmark white, who invaded neutrals, who bribed his way into Bulgaria, who crucifies Holland, who Kills women and children. But with Russia as his objective, and denounced on ethical grounds, we may applaud Hitler's adroitness, in view of the plutocratic democracies to whom this policy was intended to appeal. There are those who lie back and say, “the real enemy is Russia.” But when Mein Kampf assures us that the joker in the pack is Russia, we must know that tomorrow it may be Britain or America. on

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Early Critics Disregarded

BRITAIN DISREGARDED such critics as Winston Churchill, who from the minute the author of Mein Kampf laid his hands on

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War 1s Answer to Aims

And Methods of An Aggressor.

the wheel in 1933, said that Ger= many intended total war. Impe= rial Britain, to the astonishment of the world, allowed Germany to pursue rearmament in defiance of the whole motive of Versailles, These British, the pluto-demo-crats, dominated the scene until Munich. It was the common people who saw in Hitler's New Order the threat to every acquisition of liberty they had secured paine fully. It was they, not the Brite ish Empire, that activated opposition to Hitler, eventually forcing Chamberlain’s resignation and backing Churchill to the limit. When the fleet failed to checkmate the invasion of Nogway, the British people wanted a man of action. They felt the time had at last come for Winston Churche ill. An impetuous and self-ase ured man, but with driving force, he was not the sort of Englishman to stand by while Hitler made Europe his springboard for world domination. He is made to be a leader. He has vision of a far goal, reso nance in stating it, tenacity, flashes of genius, a human touch, candor, and a lion heart. These help the people. He hasn't quailed before Hitler's tom-tom, or bowed under the pounding of German words. He vivifies England. Where the Germans vow blind obedience to a man of genius who still has a light remi= niscence of the captain of Keo penick about him, England has chosen a bold man of illustrious name, and one vested in tradition,

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Contrast Significant

THE CONTRAST between the two men is doubly significant because of the methods they use, Winston Churchill is a man with

ceivably be overbearing, but he has sought for consent and stuck to consultation even under the stress of war. Against this, Hit= ler has been an autocrat. Britain waited five years before it admitted to itself that the autocrat was aggressive. And the war is basically an answer to the inter= national methods, as well as the international aims, of this aggressor, For certain Americans, there is nothing to choose between the two, and this may be the result of profound moral soul-searche ing and a tense rffort to do jus= tice, come what may. But it is, in some conspicuous cases, the result of an emotional insufficiency, Sometimes, when a man is drowning in the surf, the specta= tors remain spectators. They think the job is for the professional lifesaver. They do not leap in. They think the swime mer took an unfortunate chance, and underestimated the surf. The Americans cannot afford any similar detachment, for when Germany strikes at Britain it says, “And this means you!”

NEXT—“Hitler's Challenge to America.” (Copyright, 1941, by Francis Hack=ett: distributed by United Feature Syne dicate, Inc.).

50,000 U. S. NURSES SOUGHT BY PARRAN

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (U. P), —Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service today called for 50,000 young wome

Churchill, with all their great the victors. The Versailles peace provided the League, County Requests Exceed vested with the veil of the order

Haute to the Carmelite Monastery 58 Per Cent Believe He IS!en to begin training this fall for

powers, has authority to commit in name, but a victors’ control, in fact, because the] the United State or the British victors ran the League and had the guns.

Empire to the basic political and ,, Freedom of the Seas

economic changes invelved in their joint pledges. Such authority ex- : : joie 1 S Sus hority Of course, the ancient Anglo-American conflict over freedom of the seas—which Wilson demanded in

ists only in Congress as restricted by the Constitution, and in Parliament—not to mention the Dominion Parliaments. war as in peace, subject only to international control The Rooseveit-Churchill i eration] —disappears under joint Anglo-American control. The EE i arn Ue or new declaration says that in peace the seas will he far as possible, of all economic barriers and the estab- free, oe mention the status in war, which

ishiment of oh equality of Geile conditions. Perhaps Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill would Colonies and Economics prefer an international organization as guardian of

Ci ¢ LY . werid peace, protector of freedom, and provider of The territorial and colonial pledges which made the prosperity, rather than assuming that Anglo-American Wilson points the most powerful propaganda of the

victors and their associates would be equal to such last war are lacking in the Roosevelt-Churchill state- responsibilities or capable of achieving such a millenment. It could not be specific on territory, as Wilson nium. A pax Anglo-Americana would be heaven comwas, because Britain may need to make secret terri- pared to Nazi slavery. But they know that many neutorial deals to pry away some of Germany's allies tral nations, no less than enemy nations and colonial or to hold her own. peoples, distrust Anglo-American power. Nor could Mr. Churchill be expected to mention, But Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill cannot be much less have authority to pledge, ireedom for colo- blamed for failing to pledge the alternative of an nial peopies.- international organizaticn, when a majority of the But, since the exiled governments of Poland, American Congress and public apparently are opposed. Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and others are part of the Thus many of the inconsistencies, evasions and inpresent British alliance, it was necessary to include a adequacies of the Roosevelt-Churchill declaration are “wish to see sovereign right and seli-government re- more inherent in existing international chaos and stored to those who have been forcibly deprived of domestic prejudices, than representative of the statesthem.” manship of its authors.

My Day By Eleanor Roosevelt

HYDE PARK, Friday.—We all listened breathlessly ever comes we have to meet it. Evervbodv has to do yesterday when the radio from England gave us a his job in the world, but just the rin hat statestatement of the peace aims, drawn up by the Presi- ment on the radio this morning started me off for dent and Mr. Winston Churchill. There was nothing the rest of the day with a lighter heart. new, nothing in hg not hoard wuany te ge Yesterday was a very nice day. Mr. Marshall Field . 5 , came to lunch with us, after which we went over to foreign policy. Yet, stated this look at the library before he went to visit the Greenway to the people of the worid, wich House Camp af Lagrangeville, N. Y. which one felt it was an important mo- is in this county. There are not many people who ment in the history of world take their positions on boards and various organizaon Chairman May, of the tions as seriously as Mr. Field. : Affairs Committee in the I have grown to know him better through our asHouse of Representatives, ex- gyation on the United States Committee for Refugee pressed very well in his short Chjigren, and constantly am impressed with the fact speech which Joliowed i agar that he gives so much of himself. He never seems to Connally’s, the feeling many consider that the money he has donated absolves him of 3% Shared. this ‘4 ; [rom a personal responsibility. me hs, Fadio this Morning rouse I think Mr. Field has learned what I feel is a great Elliott and Franklin Jr. were i lesson for all of us to learn. Namely, that if we really their father during these last days “somewhere at sea” I knew that Franklin Jr. had gone off for undisclosed length of time to these waters, but the through personal contact. last T heard of Elliott was several weeks ago, when Last night, Mr and Mrs. Neilson Rockefeller were he was starting to fiy over undisclosed and barren here for the night, and a few friends were here for and no word from that time on. ; is foolish to worry, for all of us know that what-

Raymond Clapper is in England. His column will resume Monday.

The Appropriations by About $769,000.

The annual ordeal of trimming the County's departmental budgets

to bring them down from the highest peak they have reached in history, will be started Monday by

the County Council. The County general fund requests for departmental expenses total about $400,000 more than was appropriated this year and the County Welfare Department submitted a budget $369,000 more than the current appropriations. Councilmen said they would make “substantial reductions” in all budgets, indicating that many of the requests for salary increases would be lopped off in an effort tc approach the level of 1940 spending. Budgets, as they have been submifted to the Council, would require a County rate of well over 50 cents per hundred dollars property valuations compared to the current 43-cent levy.

penditures in executive session Monday and Tuesday, then hold a

will be offered an opportunity to speak on budget items.

RAF FLEDGLINGS END 10 WEEKS’ TRAINING

AMERICUS, Ga., Aug. 16 (U. P). —Twenty-nine British youths who expect to pilot fighter planes and bombers for the Royal Air Force against the Germans completed 10 weeks of preliminary training at Southern Field here today. The fledgling airmen are among the first of hundreds of R. A. F. pilots trained in the South through the co-operation of the United States Government. During the 70 days here they have soloed and

want to know and understand the life of this nation, learned the rudimentary principles we must see things with our own eyes, talk to people, | 80 ourselves, and build up a power of understanding other 10 weeks course at Macon, where they will learn formation.

flying. Then they will go to an advanced school for 10 more weeks

Shout hemispheric Tai to our Rare content ing,

of advanced training in combat fiy-

of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the Carmelite Monastery today, Mr. and Mrs, John V. Quinlan, Soperton, Wis, gave their second daughter within two days to religious life. Miss Quinlan, who is a graduate of St. Mary-of-theWoods school at Terre Haute, will be allowed to talk to visitors at the monastery for three days after her vows are spoken, then she must forswear the world and permit herself to be shut away from the sight and sound of everyone except other members of the cloistered order, A sister of Miss Quinlan’s was inducted into the Order of the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary-of-the-Woods yesterday. Mr. and

te witness the second ceremony today. Miss Quinlan’s religious name will be Sister Grace of the Holy Spirit. Her day as a Carmelite nun will be filled with prayer and sewing, baking for religious institutions, gardening, and maintenance work at the monastery. Other of her relatives who were present at the investiture are a sister, Miss Stella Quinlan, a brother, Daniel Quinlan, and an aunt, Miss Edmire Quinlan, of Green Bay, Wis. Other guests of hers will be the Rev. Fr. Francis Exler, O. Praem., Chicago, and the Rev. Fr. F. F. Dupont, O. Praem., St. Norbert’s Abbey, West De Pere, Wis.

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Helping Hitler; Speech Ineffective Here. By GEORGE GALLUP

Director, American Institute of Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. J., Aug. 16.—As official Washington adjusts its policy toward the Vichy government following Marshal Petain’s blunt announcement of fuller “collaboration” with Hitler, results of a nation-wide public opinion survey shows that the average American had already put the Petain regime down as pro-Hitler and anti-Brit-ish, even before t h e marshals

latest statement. In a survey be- | gun the first week |in August, the In- | stitute asked men {and women in all parts ‘of the | United States: | “In the war be- | tween Britain and Germany, do you (think the Vichy government is | helping one side rather than the { other?” The question was purposely left {open in order to see what net im|pression the average American had received from Vichy policy.

Aid to Hitler Seen

And the answers indicate that only four persdns in 100, on the average, felt that Vichy's policy had been guided by an underlying sympathy for Britain, and that only 13 persons in a 100, on the average, think Vichy has acted as a neutral. The majority (58 per cent) said they thought the Petain government had been clearly assisting Hitler. Think Vichy Helping Hitler. .589; Think Vichy Helping Britain 4 Think Vichy Neutral .Undecided ‘or No Opinion....25 The survey has special significcance in view of the fact that Marshal Petain went out of his way in

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his Tuesday address to ask for a | “better understanding” on the part | |of the United States, | In the light of the ordinary | | American’s sympathy for the effort | {being made by Great Britain and | her allies, it is not likely that the ‘Marshal's words will have much :ef- | fect on U, S. listeners.

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professional nursing careers in order to “avert serious damage to the nation’s health during thé pres ent emergency.” Recalling that 20,000 nurses were on active duty during the last World War, Dr. Parran said that if the United States should “declare war at any time in the future, the need for more registered graduate nurses would mount astronomically.™ He estimated that there are at least 10,000 vacant positions for graduate registered nurses in the nation’s hospitals.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—During the first World War, which were the Central Powers? 2—Give the terms used in musical composition that mean “very slow” and “quick.” 3—Who wrote “The Man Without a Country”? 4—Name the patron saint of Iree land. 5—Does osculate mean to vibrate, to swoon, or to kiss? 6—What great English poet was blind ? 7—Which two retired Presidents died on July 4, 1826? 8—The name of which Roman deity is associated with the forge?

Answers

1—Austria, Germany, Turkey and Bulgaria. 2—Adagio and allegro, respectively, 3—Edward Everett Hale, 4—Sarut Patrick. 5—Kiss, 6—John Milton. T7—Thomas Jefferson. and John Adams. 8—Vulcan.

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