Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1941 — Page 15
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 194I
‘The Indianapolis
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Times
SECOND SECTION
Hoosier Vagabond
AFTON, Minn, Aug 22 —It is disgusting that a man who makes his living as a traveler can go through life with as few unusual experiences as I have. Other people can take a half-day’s trip and come home with a whole bagful of hair-raising incidents. But almost nothing ever happens 3 to me. When, now and then. some little thing does happen, I sure make the most of it. One of those mild little things has just occurred.
I have been staying a few days with my mother-in-law (this is no mother-in-law joke; if all of them were like mine, there would never have been any mother-in-law 3 : Jokes). TN She lives alone in a cottage 8 in this little village on Lske St. Croix. It is very rural here, ard nearly every house in town is just two steps frem the aeep, weedy countryside. Well, this morning I started out the Kitchen Just as I pushed the screen open something rom it, hit my hand on the way down, and dropped to the ground And I suddenly realized, with a horror that is indescribable, that the something was a snake. I let out one of my impromptu ogre noises, and my mother-in-law caine running to the kitchen. “A snake fell on my hand,” I said. “No.” she said, “surely It certainly did, I said.
What's Your Hurry, Ernie?
And then I began to think how preposterous it was for a snake to be lying on top of a screen door, so IT compromised and said. “It was a tiny one, onl} SiX inches long So we pushed the screen door open again, and looked down expectantly. I was sure the snake would be gone bv now, and she would think I had been at her cider again. But lo. the snake was still there, and it wasn't six inches long—it was two and a half feet long! Oh, its just a little garden snake.” mother-in-law. “It wouldnt hurt anybody.” “No, of course not.” I said. “Just scare a body to death, that's all.” You know me and snakes. So my mother-in-law went down the steps and shooed the snake, and it crawled over to the corner where the kitchen adjoins the main part of the cottage. and then it crawled up the foundation wall and disappeared in a crevice.
door
fell
said my
Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town”)
By Ernie Pyle
“Oh I see where it's going.” said my mother<inlaw. “There's a hole in the floor there, and it can crawl right in the house. But it won't hurt anything.” It was at this point that I received an urgent telegram from President Roosevelt asking me to meet him in Mid-Pacific right away, and I am now packing in great haste.
Why Fire Engines Are Red
I have a lovely niece here by the name of Babette! Johnson who is just out of high school. and the other evening we got to discussing the Double-Dutch that is talked in Albuquerque. It seems they don’t know double-talk up here, but they do have a type of joke or rambling conversation that I've never heard before, For instance Babs asked if I knew why fire engines are red, and of course I didn't so she told me. Here it is: “Fire engines are red because newspapers are 1ead too and two and two are four times three is twelve. Twelve is a ruler and so is Queen Mary. The Queen Mary goes in water and so do fish. Fish have fins and the Finns fought the Russians and Russians are red. So fire engines are red because they're rushin’ too.” ~ Babe said that was the only one she knew, but that she could easily make up a few more for me if I had time. But I didn’t have time. Babes’ parents have a cottage on the shore of Lake St. Croix, and they have a rowboat and also a|duction of passenger automobiles speedboat which will go 40 miles an hour. Being a which will permit manufacture of slow fellow, I have centered on the rowboat. Every only 2,148,000 units during the year afternoon I get in the boat by myself and row half beginning Aug. 1. This would ava mile out to an island in the lake, and then row erage a 50 per cent cut below the] back again. 14,297,000 units produced during the] That makes a mile’s row altogether, and it is cer- 1941 model year, starting at 26.5 | tainly wonderful for the muscles. Also it is wonder- per cent for August, September, ful to be out there in the lake all alone, rowing along October and November and reachrhythmically and majestically (I always row that way) ing an aggregate of 75 per cent in| with nothing around you and nothing to think about.’ April, May, June and July of 1942 | It makes a philosopher out of you. Spokesmen for the Office of Pro-| The truth is I've rowed out there only twice, but! quetion Management and the Of-| vou see a man like me doesn’t have to row himseli fice of Price Administration and | to death just to prove he's a philosopher. Civilian Supply which announced Driving to St. Paul vesterday, a pheasant came the automobile curtailment said running cut of the roadside weeds, took off in a) that conferences with goods indusfrightened rush, and flew smack into the front of tries will be called soon to carry
DEFENSE UNITS ORDER 50% CUT IN NEW AUTOS |
OPM and OPACS to Seek] Similar Slash for Other Durable Goods. (Another Story, Page 24)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (U, P).— Defense officials disclosed today that the increasing need of armament industries for raw materials will force at least a 50 per cent reduction in the output of refrigerators, laundry and heating equipment, metal furniture and other household appliances. It was said the reduction would parallel the cut ordered in 1942 pro-
Rep. W. A. Pittenger
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(R. Minn.), left, and United States Senator James J. Davis arrived here early for the five-day convention of the Loyal Order of the Moose. open Sunday at Cadle Tabernacle.
Arrive Early for 5-Day Convention
(R. Pa.) have The convention will
my car. out the proposed cuts in household!
That makes the third bird I've killed in a weeX.| equipment “as quickly as possible.” They seem to come in eyeles. I'm sure it had been . : Conservation Is Aim ‘ The curtailment is designed to]
gives me the creeps even to kill a worm on the road, but to smash a pheasant makes you have goose-fiesh all over, If I ever Kill a dog I think I'll quit driving.jmanpower for the rearmament effort. Automobiles and most of the com-
modities to be subjected to the order] are included in the list of articles) listed by the Federal Reserve Board in its recently recommended curbs on installment buying to prevent inflation by holding down consump-
at least three years since I'd hit a bird before. It conserve material. machine and
Women's Division of Defense Committee to
Meet Monday.
Swedes Report |PROBES PUSHED
New Plane Trap
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 22 (U. P). —The newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported from Berlin today that the British were using a new anti-
dive bomber device consisting of |
rockets containing long wires attached to parachutes.
IN KENNEDY FIRE
Blue's Aid Confers With
Mayor; Rites Held for Fireman Stumm.
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‘Resolution
MOOSE TO AID MEMBERS WHO SERVE IN ARMY
for $400,000 Fund to Be Offered at Convention Here. Plans for creating a $400,000 fund
for the members of the Loyal Orde of the Moose who are in the U, S, British and Canadian Armies wers being worked out here today by the | supreme council of the order.
A resolution creating the fund
| will be presented to the national {convention of the Moose, which | opens at the Cadle Tabernacle for | five days beginning Sunday.
| Pennsylvania,
U. S. Senator James Davis of director general of
| the order who arrived in town for
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he convention yesterday, said i#
' was planned to have each of the
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ociety’s 400,000 members contribute
$1 apiece for the fund.
This fund would be used, he said,
just as was a similar fund in the last war, to pay medical expenses
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or members and help their fame
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national
35th for Senator Davis
This will be the 35th consecutive convention of the Moose o be attended by Mr, Davis, a fore
| mer Hoosier who has served as die
rector
genera] of the Moose for
[over three decades. . | He said that the convention would | ay away from political subjects, in | accordance with its policy, but that
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[able time to problems arising among
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he membership from defense
matters.
For example, Mr. Davis pointed
‘out, some program likely will have o be worked out for organization
members in non-defense industries
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who may lose their jobs because of
he demand of defense industries or raw materials. “Our order is very strong for nae
ional defense,” Mr. Davis said. “We
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already have purchase $50,000 in |U. S. Defense Bonds and it has been suggested that members pay their annual dues early so that the ore ganization could buy another lot of bonds.”
tion of civilian goods. The board proposed to limit time purchases to as A chester, only woman member of the cent of the articles’ value. : Governor's Defense Council, will
While the automobile curtailment address a “morale meeting” at 2 program was set forth for only |p m. Monday in the World War four months, it was learned that iy : Saad | Memorial. RI a On Sgvised by Mrs. Jacqua, who until recently PM and OPACS of their possibl 8. Jacqua, LU be ih Ch = : was president of the Indiana State
1 u roduction. Produc- ‘ jotal iil) Daan TORU Federation of Women's Clubs, will
The idea of the anti-aircraft
missile, it was said, was to foul an enemy plane in the wire, One German Condor plane which attacked a merchant ship in the Atlantic was said to have returned to its base with a wire draped over its wing tip. The plane had been shaken but undamaged, it was claimed. Eight
together, utterly oblivious to traffic, turning into a private drive and backing out again—safely. A seven or eight-vear-old boy standing on the vellow center line as cars zipped past him in both directions—inches away—for three or four minutes before he could finish crossing. That's just a sample.
A 10 to 1 Shot HERE'S A TIP: Most anv afternoon, about 4:30,
The two-way investigation into the explosion at Fire Chief Fred Kennedy's home Monday that was fatal to a fireman was continued today by Mayor Sullivan and by Prosecutor Sherwood Blue. Charles J. Russell, a member of the Police Department assigned to Mr. Blue's staff, yesterday conferred with Mayor Sullivan and Leroy, Keach, Safety Board president, and |
ON PRETTY GOOD authority, we learn that the Federal Communications Commission has at least three mobile short wave monitoring stations in and -about Indianapolis. listening 24 hours a day for anything resembling subversive activities via radio. The monitors ride around in a truck equipped with directional antenna and a high powered receiving set able to catch and trace
Mrs. George W. Jacqua of Win-
Here on Leave
Senator Davis took a leave of abe sence from the Senate Finance Committee to attend the convention, The committee is now conducting
Tom
anything from the lowest to ultra high frequency waves. The FCC men are pretty secretive about their work and thus far we haven't heard of any of our neighboring hams running afoul of the law. The importance of keeping a close watch on amateur short wave radio is obvious when it's considered that there are quite a few sets in this area that can be heard as far away Australia. They might be pretty dangerous in the hands of columnists.
The Rush Hour
IF YOU ENJOY watching life in its varying moods, dick a spot along N. Meridian St. somewhere south of 1 some evening during the traffic rush. For mnstance, if vou had spent five minutes there one evening this week you'd have seen: A barefooted woman, apparently “under the weather,” carrying one shoe and “laying down the law” to 8 silent male escort. A motercycle cop. hemmed in by autos, looking longingly at a car parked illegally, but unable to cut through a bumper-to-bumper lane of cars to get at It. A woman, driving with one hand and with the other holding a small child A couple of spooners in an out-of-town car, heads
War Lull Due?
The following commentary by a former member of the Chicago Daily News Foreign Service gives the view of one who has studied and written about European affairs far more than 20 years. Mr. Fodor is now on the faculty of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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1241, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc CHICAGO, Aug. 22 —The current Nazi offensive against the Ukraine will be followed by a lull in the fighting along the whole Russo-German front, in the opinion of this observer. This prediction is based on two considerations: Germany's growing supply problem; and the shortage of oil soon to be felt by the Reich. according to the latest figures obtainable. In the first two months of the Russian campaign the Nazi war machine has expended 36.000.000 barrels of oil, according to these estimates. The amount—equal to Germany's total available production per year as late as November, 1840—has been used as follows: For 15 Panzer divisions. 10,000.000 barrels; for 200 motorized and infantry divisions, 16,000,000 barrels; for aviation against Russia. 5.000.000; and for all armed forces in the past two months in occupied lands, another 3,000.000.
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Nazi Oil Consumption
Now in the 10 months before the start of the Russian campaign, I estimate that Germany used roughly 50.,000.000 barrels of oil. Actually this approximates the total Germancontrolled oil production, figures most hopefully for '
My Day
PENSACOLA, Fla. Thursday.—Yesterday morning, very soon after breakfast, I left Washington by plane for Jacksonville, Fla. I have hoped for some time to find 48 hours when I could get away to visit some friends who are now stationed near here. The young man, Lieut. E. R. Miller, is a Naval Reserve officer and he and his wife are from the North and therefore not accustomed to Southern summers. The heat has seemed a little extreme at times, I think, particularly since they moved into a new house and completely settled it during the hottest month of the 8 \ summer. . It is fun, though. spending 24 UN hours with young people who are 2 t enthusiastic about a new home X and all that they are doing. So many of us never show our enthusiasin about anything. and I think that does make life rather drab. ~~ When I was in Washington yesterday, a king {itend spoke to me about the work carried on by the Live Sisters of the Poor. ‘These sistéfs, who are
when you're looking for Tom Hendricks, Ruckelshaus or Walter Hiser, you might wander out to the Woodstock Club's tennis courts. It's a 10 to 1 shot. . . . We saw Jesse Moore, new member of the Tax Adjustment Board, grabbing a “sneak preview” of the 1942 municipal budget Wednesday night in the rear of the City Council chambers. . . . George A. Saas of the Gas Company suggests that a guy with a name like Montmorenci McGillicuddy wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance of being named head of the Indianapolis Railways system. You couldn't get his signature on the streetcar tokens. It has to be somebody with a short name, George says, such as Charley Chase or Harry Reed.
Those Roving Realtors
AUGUST MUST BE Indianapolis Realtors’ favorite month for vacations, judging from the number out of town. Joe Schmid. for instance, is at Wawasee where he had about 20 “drop-ins” for dinner Sunday, we hear. = Among the others gallivanting around the country are J. Allen Dawson, in Mexico; Ralph Hueber, touring New England; Edgar E. Brodbeck, at Ludington, Mich. C. A. Dahlman, at Lake James; B. L. Edwards, at Pokagon State Park: A. C. Maldthan, Wisconsin: Louis S. Hensley, Wisconsin; Bill Hackemeyer, near Grayling, Mich.; Glenn Holsapple, near Denver; W. T. Boyd. near Manistique; Dave Nicoson, in California. and Realty Board Secretary Urban Wilde, in southern Indiana. Board President Earl Teckemeyer just got home from Wawasee.
tion for General Motors for the g : 1942 model year was said to have [Speak on the subject, “Indiana Allbeen estimated at 950,000 cars; Out for Uncle Sam.” Chrysler, 496,000; Ford, 399,000:| The morale meeting is sponsored Studebaker, 92.000: Hudson. 68,000: (by the women's division of the InNash, 58,000; Packard, 60.000: and diana Committee for National Defense. Mrs. Felix Vonnegut, chair-
Willys-Overland, 20,000. ; id x man of the division, is to preside, Seek 100,000 Jobbers assisted by Mrs. Olive Belden Lewis, Labor officials estimated that the [chairman of the speakers bureau. initial cut would mean the displacement of about 100,000 workers in the industry. The OPM's labor division is conferring with C. I. O., A. PF. of L. and industry representatives in an effort to retain some workers in defense plants being constructed by the automobile industry, to re-train and reemploy others in defense work in other areas and to convert present passenger car machines to defense production. ) Large truck orders have been assured the companies to maintain their employment. Truck production will increase this year from 900,189 units to 1,189,000 units. Walter P. Reuther, head of the U. A. W.-C. 1. O.'s General Motors division, said that the answer to the whole industry employment problem “is tooling up these plants for defense.”
Mrs. Ralston to Speak
Other speakers will be Mrs. Samuel Ralston and Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds. Cambridge City, and Mrs. Richard E. Edwards, Peru. Mrs. Ralston and Mrs. Reynolds will both speak on “All Out for Unity." Mrs. Lewis said the meeting is designed to unify women of the State behind the defense effort. She cited a letter from Mrs. Reynolds: “I realize that a united stand of the women of our country in this critical time is vastly important to the preservation of the American home,
Must Go Forward
“The protection and continuation of the American way of life provides the only basis for happiness Work Week May Be Cut and individual liberty for our gen- : eration and those generations to Other labor officials said that “one|follow. We must go forward of the first steps” to be taken prob-|a united. an invincible America ably will be the cutting down of|standing firmly behind an efficient the work week from 40-48 to 32 program of defense.” hours as provided in some existing] Women from all over the State labor-management agreements. are expected to attend the morale The OPM’s priorities division an-|meeting. nounced it will grant priority aid mr rm
and medium motor tracks “tranes [ROOSEVELT THANKS LOBSTER FISHERMAN
passenger busses and their replacement parts. The priorities division also announced it will provide materials to SUSHI, Me. AUS 3) WD producers of farm equipment and|—Fisherman Bert Betts has rerepair parts “to produce crops, live- ceived a letter from President stock, poultry and other farm prod- [Roosevelt praising the quality of lobsters delivered to the Presidential vacht Potomac off this port last week.
ucts” needed for defense. The President said that the lobsters, and Mr. Betts’ courtesy in supplying them, brought added [enjoyment to “a most pleasant cruise.” It was during the cruise that Mr. Roosevelt held his historic sea conference with Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
By M. W. Fodor
the Nazis, as of July, 1941. The figure was arrived at by totaling these sources: 21,000,000 barrels from synthetic plants, 21,000,000 from Rumania, 4.000000 from German wells, and 5,000,000 counted on from the Ukraine. Certainly the last named quantity is no longer available for German use. Ang British bombing of oil plants at Cologne, Gelsenkirchen, Hanover, Magdeburg and the important Luena works cannot have failed to reduce synthetic production to some extent. There is also no telling what damage the Russians have actually inflicted on the Ploesti oil fields of Rumania. But if these Soviet bombings have been at all effective, then surely Germany will feel the oil pinch before long.
The Supply Problem
For we see the Nazis using a total of 86.000.000 barrels of oil in the last 12 months—a period when their own most hopeful estimates placed their total available production at 51.000000 barrels. Evidently they have been operating on the slack given them by oil seized from Norway, France, Holland and Belgiuni. Unless the Reich gains access to the fields of
Australian Baby Has 'V' Birthmark
SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 22. (U. P.).—A daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. A. Dunlap showed a distinet “V” birthmark on the center of her forehead today. Her phy-
Iraq. Iran or of Baku, they will find themselves operating on the slimmest margin of oil reserves.
sician said it was “most extraordinary” but discounted a suggestion that the fact Mrs. Dunlap
R. A. F. AGAIN OVER FRANCE FOLKESTONE, England, Aug.
The other factor leading me to foresee a lull on the Eastern Front is the German supply problem. It has been the fashion to emphasize Soviet transport problems, but those of the Nazis are no less difficult. German railroads operate on a track 16 inches narrower than the Russian, Having crossed the Soviet border, the Germans must transfer all shipments to cars that can travel on Soviet rails. Further, German shipments to the front must pass through hostile territories—Czechoslovakia and Poland —on their way to Russia. Sabotage in these areas is daily increasing, according to all reports.
22 (U. P.)—A large Royal Air Force formation roared over North|ern France today. |,
had seen so many “V for Victory” signs recently had something to do with it.
HOLD EVERYTHING
AJa MUNITIG
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By Eleanor Roosevelt| [use
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devoted to poverty, are the most indefatigable workers. With the gifts which they collect, they care for old people, children and all those who, for one reason or another are overwhelmed by the difficulties of living and need kindly support for a time. Sometimes, in the case of old people, they care for them until they die. In spite of the hard work, the care is gentle and there is always an element of gaiety in ‘whatever they do. My friend tells me that in summer it is even harder than in winter for the sisters to obtain the gifts they need to carry on their ministrations. Each time that TI visit the Old People’s Home in Washington, which these sisters run, I marvel at what they accomplish. I hope that we shall make their tasks easier by remembering them both in winter and in summer. U hear that there is to be a conference at Wil- | lilams College from Aug. 24 to 29, which has as its] purpose a discussion of the problems which may! be faced in the post-war world, if we are to build | a permanent peace. This conference is called “The| Williamstown Institute of Human Relations.” Because many religious leaders of various denominations feel the urgency of arousing public opinion now to discuss these problems, I sure that there will be good speakers and a large al ce. . . . :
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wire rockets were reported to have been fired at the plane. The parachute was reported found unopened in a small metal box when the Condor returned to its base, the newspaper said.
AUSTRALIANS KEEP
(U. P.).—Maj. Gen. Sir
McKinney.
inspected the data already collected [hearings on the $3,400,000,000 tax bill
by city officials.
Meanwhile, funeral services
land Mr.
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Davis said that he might
for have to return to Washington bee
the dead fireman, Alfred H. Stumm, |fore the close of the convention.
were held yesterday afternoon at
“The people must not be sure
St. Peter's Evangelical Church, with [prised at what they get in the form
an honorary escort of 60 firemen | of taxes,” the Senator said. | headed by Assistant Chief Roscoe must pay for national defense and Con- | everyone,
Burial was in
“We
including Congressmen
rereld tery. and the President is being taxed— UP FIGHT IN CRETE ay was in Boston a everyone should pay cheerfully.”
MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 22| tending the national convention of}
Senator Davis and Governor
Iven| fire chiefs when the explosion oc-|Matthew M. Neely of West Virginia
Mackay, back frem the Middle East| curred. Fireman Stumm was killed [Will address the opening session of
to command the Home Army, said and Lieut. today that many Australian soldiers burned seriously.
were still holding out in Crete.
Humble Greek cottagers risk their |
tralians in every way, Mackay said.
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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 eleventh installment of Francis Hackett's powerful expose of Hitler’'s fanatic purposes.
WHY SHOULD anyone suppose that democracy would be immune to the seductions of a demagogue such as Hitler? The war of 1914-18, with the inept capitalist peace thaf followed it, vitiated the emotions of the younger generation. Though the earlier generation that had to face the Germans in 1917 had the problem of international order before it, they came home disgusted with the outcome and resolved never to be tamboozled again. By a natural revulsion from the horrors and waste of war, from the futility of the peace, they simply abandoned the § main issue. TS. ER Though the war Mr. Hackett had been a duel between the would-be. wrecker of international order and a tamed imperialism, the American supply of moral aspiration and purpose, of international energy, ran out. And the younger generation reflected this. They were debilitated, and this is one of the reasons that the incomparable horror of Hitler's war has not been studied in Mein Kampf. This may be lamentable. It is intelligible. Since 1918, a certain group has come of age that has considerable ego in its cosmos. What leaps from these throngs of new citizens is the moral fact that they have no real community and are not politically vital.
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Shop for ldeas
THEY OFTEN belong to a party and play the game, but having lost faith in the pre-war values and having acquired no post-war values, they shop around among ideas as if everything was on the bargain counter and perhaps an excellent ready-made idea could be picked up cheap. They may call themselves “Communists” or they may find Hitler powerful and dramatic, but they are essentially disconnected from the political process and they conveniently disown it, Hence, their acute sense of grievance when they are drafted to serve in the Army. Hence, their anger with a Britain they feel themselves called on to save. Hence, their rancor phout a world
' on which they think it futile to
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Arnold Phillips
Chief Kennedy flew
here from
was [the convention at 11:30 a. m. Sun-
day at Cadle Tabernacle.
The services, open to the general
Boston, gave a statement to Mayor public; will be broadcast from noon
lives without fear to aid the Aus-| Sullivan, and then flew back to at-iuntil 1 p. m. over stations of the | National Broadcasting Co.
tend the closing sessions.
By FRANCIS HACKETT
act and yet which acts on them. They were born into a century that presents them with glittering means for diversion. They regard themselves as having a ticket for the show, or a seat at the wheel, and any breakdown or delay or interruption, is just so much poor service. Behind these slouching attitudes, there is a miserable evasion. Nothing has been really looked into. Nothing has been faced squarely, Nothing has been felt through. . This, if you like, is a bad aspect of freedom. These young people, swilling along, are still unaware of any brutal objectivity in the universe at large. What democracy has given them is wings for responsibility. They take them as wings for escape. Now the clever enemy of democracy, and Hitler is one, looks on this generation as vulnerable. Just because it is dissipated, disorientated, baffled and bitter, he comes along with a harness which is at the same time a brace. He takes the wild hawk and by hooding the bird trains it for action. This Government, as he conceives it, and the power he has extracted from his *“lost” generation is due basically to a rough mastery that imposes itself, that derides as degenerate the looseness here indicated and exalts in its place the enslavement from which democracy is intended to emancipate us.
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In a Nutshell
THERE IS My Fight in a nutshell. Hitler is the merciless authoritarian, and it is here that his quarrel with democracy is bitterest. Yet, so shallow is democracy in certain Americans, that Hitlerism, for all its brutality, cynicism and despotism, has been greeted with respect even in the United States. And the philosophy we are offered is this: If a movement is sufficiently “dynamic,” it is a wave of the future and we must make terms with it. There is this to be said of Mein Kampf—it has no respect for rival creeds, no matter how dynamic they seem. It upholds its own dynamic against all comers, never suggesting a supine attitude to the more powerful cliques whose ideology is unacceptable. What it sets forth is a racialism that gives it the broadest possible appeal to the predatory blond, and on this racialism is takes its stand, saying “mort aux Juifs!” Are we to suppose that such racialism can be “dynamic” in America? The Ku Klux Klan thought so. The nearest thing to Fascism or Naziism that this country has produced in recent years was the New Crder of the Kleagles,
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mounted into a “wave of future,” we may believe that some pacific person would have arisen to say, “Let us avoid turmoil. Let us see in this movement a genuine adum=bration of the New Order. The Ku Klux Klan represents Change. It represents Power. It repre=’ sents Dynamism. Who are we to defend Catholics, Negroes and Jews? Our democratic-capitalis-tic-motely state has been unable to cope with these night-riding dynamists. “We are very sensible of the Old Order. We, too, are reluctant
-to see it changed. We are reluc=
tant to see the path into the sunrise paved with corpses of Catholics, Negroes and Jews. But it is {futility to frustrate the strong. All power to the Klea= gles!” Had the Klan been a more howling success than it was, it would, according to the “realists,” have been inherently more dynamic, and if it had been more dynamic it would have been ine evitable. That is the sort of so cial mechanics the new order is built on. It is based on the dogma that if an organization has mem=bers and gains more of them it is necessarily dynamic, regardless of the method by which it gains them or the grounds on which it gains them. ” ” 2
Klan Broke Law
HOW WAS this dynamic Kue Klux Klan blown to bits, in a decaying democracy? It had broken the common law, and it was brought under the law. Its .eadership was exposed as criminal. One of those regrese sions that borrow the bright feathers of revolution, it could deceive neither the eye nor the nose of men who lived outside its habitat. A healthy dynamism was indeed generated by it, but it was democratic dynamism, so that the Klan was squelched and its racialism made politically impos= sible for at least another generation. If racialism like this came to_be crushed in eur America, why should a European racialism be put forward as “inevitable” and transplanted to the United States? It is the root element of Hitler's dynamism. Must the whole world defer to a domination that could not be less oppressive than a Ku Klux Klan domination in rural America?
Tomorrow — “Peace—at Hitler's Price.”
(Copyright. 1941, by Francis Hackett}
gistributeq by United Feature Syndicate, nc.)
BILLIARD CHAMPION SPEEDY SYDNEY, Australia (U. P.).—e
Walter Lindrum, billiard champion, established a new world record break of 100 in 46 seconds. the fastest three-figure break ever made and eclipsed his pievious record of 51 seconds, '
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