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SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1941

IT’S STILL FAR TOO LITTLE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has now challenged some of the dismal figures on defense production that Senator Byrd of Virginia recited the other day. We are glad to hear, from such an authority, that the situation is not quite so bad as Mr. Byrd had been given to believe. Still, the President’s statistics won’t make many Americans feel like throwing out their chests. He concedes that the production of military planes only held steady in May-June-July, due to changing designs. Including training planes, the monthly figure was below 1500.

Price in Marion Coun-'

ered by carrier, i2 cents !

And this, of course, was not only for the Army, Navy and | Marine Corps; not only for our mainland defenses plus |

Panama plus Puerto Rico plus Alaska plus the Philippines plus Guam plus Hawaii plus Iceland plus Greenland plus

the leaseholds on British possessions in the Atlantic and |

‘ibbean; but also for Engl: * the Britis ees in| ©, : Caribbean; but also for England, for the British forces in | Silt Tt ai LATE Geer Une oily.

Africa and the Middle East, for Singapore and Java and |

Sumatra and Australia, for Russia and China. At 1500 a month—including trainers—the arsenal of democracy has hardly made a beginning toward meeting the enormous demands upon it.

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craft guns, anti-tank guns, mortars, tanks. figures are bigger than Mr. Byrd's,

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increased output in the next few months are encouraging. |

If we were arming only ourselves, the prospect might be |

considered at least hopeful.

We are undertaking to deal And the

But that is not the case. out weapons for every continent on the globe. raw fact is that we have not got going fast enough. the blame Mr. Roosevelt can hardly escape a share, espe-

all boss of defense production with the vision and authority

being done.

NOT ALL WASTED

OT by any means all of the money being poured out for | Some of it—nobody |

knows just how much—is going for purposes that will be | Shc } { builders, one of them for

national defense is being wasted.

served after the emergency has passed. For instance, con-

That |

. cc : : ‘ | crook I am almost flattering him, because the U. S. is not the fault of any one man; but in the distribution of |

struction and improvement projects on 288 airports, sev- | eral in Indianapolis, have just been announced by the Civil |

Aeronautics Administration. Eighty millions are going

into this, but—

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When the war is over, there will certainly be a great in- |

crease in civilian flying. Thousands of trained pilots every major country will seek to use their skills in making a living. It has already been predicted that the day is in sight when every bit of first-class mail in the country will be airborne.

frequent airports. Dividend?

EXPERT ON ECONOMY

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That means airports, bigger, better, and more | | speak

F Mr. Roosevelt or any future occupant of the White |

House should ever want a director of the budget with | | our second greatest city and we ask humbly, what

a genius for thrift, we suggest consideration of President George S. Benson of Harding College, Searcy, Ark.

Mr. Benson has talked more sense than any other wit- | ness who has testified in connection with the pending tax |

bill. To both House and Senate Committees he has submit-

ted an itemized program for slicing two billion dollars off |

‘By Maj. Al Williams

the Government's non-defense expenditures. He would eliminate the Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Youth Administration, now competing with the Army in recruiting voung men. He would abolish sail-conservation payments, now that farmers are getting fair prices for their Crops.

le would stop Federal aid for non-military high- |

ways. He would reduce the outlays for various public works, |

park improvements, Government publicity activities and the

like by half, and the costs of most other Government peace- |

time services by 25 per cent.

. 1f Congress will lay the necessary direct tax on a broad- | er income oase, “pay every possible dollar on the war as we | go, and seriously economize in all non-defense expenditures, | we can weather this crisis and successfully preserve our!

freedom and democracy,” he said. Mr. Benson qualifies as an expert on economy. operates a small college with 500 students.

He |

His school, an |

accredited four-your institution of higher learning, has no!

state subsidy, no private endowment.

Yet. he testified, for |

the money which the Government spends on one CCC ex- |

rollee—81025 a year—he can put four boys through Harding

day.”

And the chances are that the boy who completes a |

course at Harding College, under so practical and thrifty an educator as Mr. Benson, will be better equipped than a CCC graduate to compete in the everyday struggles of this world. At least the record so indicates. existence Harding College has never had an unemployed graduate.

WHITE SIDEWALL HARDSHIP

THE white sidewall tire for automobiles is doomed for the period of the emergency. They require two pounds more of crude rubber for each tire, and we have more urgent things to do now with those 13,000,000 pounds of crude rubber each year, to say nothing of the zinc used in the coloring. : No white sidewalls, with all their chic smartness! Yet the human spirit is infinitely adaptable. It should be possible to contrive a way to make life bearable, even without white sidewall tires.

: . | ity College,, “provided the student works about one hour per | | or discovered they were retracing each other's flight |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Heads of Electricians’ Unions Can Cripple Our Biggest Cities Yet Few People Seem Concerned About It.

ASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—By right I ought to be ; having the jumps over the state of the nation, the war, and all, but the business of viewing with alarm is in competent hands, and, anyway, I want to know whether this war emergency is to be used as a sort of general amnesty for all who have been exploiting not only the Nazi war but the war on want as well. Long before Hitler went crazy, our President told us that we were engaged in a war against want and there was an implied promise that there should be no profiteering in the struggle, no exploitation of the great emergency for private gain in wealth or power. Recalling President Roosevelt's first inaugural address, I remember that it would have been almost heretical to suggest that anyone could be so low as to imposé on the situation, and the noble mood of the people, with greedy or ambitious motives. Since then certain discoveries have made me cynical, but I still hold that wrong done in the name of recovery and reform shculd not be allowed to go by default just because we are moving into another war. Now I have just been going through a book the size of a New York City directory, containing the transcript of an old trial of Umbrella Mike Boyle, the boss of the electricians’ union in Chicago, who is so powerful there that he can threaten the whole city with paralysis just on his own say-so.

I River and left them up, completely blockading these vital public works, the property of the whole people, or threatened to do so, I disremember which, to show his power over a small group of slightly

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New York, his opposite number, Harry Van made a similar demonstration for similar reasons only recently when he pulled a general strike of electricians on construction jobs, including war

| construction at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and blacked | out

Broadway at night, I just hold that no one man, nor any relatively small group of men, should be allowed to possess this power to grab amy community by the throat and that the National Government, which now rules us all, has This power under cover of the idealism in which war on want and whenever the

we groped in the

observe dark forms up to dirty work we got a few | more grenades of that idealistic gas to obscure their, | {| doing { Just lately this Boyle of Chicago has been blockading the installation of certain lights in a factory |

which is intended to build airplane engines for the Army. because he doesn’t approve the company which manufactured the lights. In calling him merely a

Circuit Court of Appeals once denounced him as “a highwayman, a betrayer of labor, a leech on com-

i merce.” cially in the light of his persistent refusal to name an over- { have gone through this big book and at last have : ‘ | found what I was after. to get things done much faster and bigger than they are |

I have mentioned this before, but since then I

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WAS looking for the part where it was brought out that as long ago as 1915 Boyle was blockading the products of certain manufacturers of electrical switchhoards to the advantage of other manufacturers, all in the sacred name of labor, and that he owned stock in one of the favored companies. This occurred in the testimony of Roy O. Samson, a special agent of the Department of Justice, who helped

prepare the prosecution in the course of which it was |

Umbrella Mike had shaken down many $20,000. The agent swore that another defendant in the

shown that

same case told him that he had turned over to Mike |

Boyle $19,000 worth of stock in the States Electric Co., and that by reason of that interest, Mike was able to throw “a great deal of work” to the company Not even Van Arsdale, red-hot unioneer that he is, apologize for his colleague in the same internaUmbrella Mike. I mentioned Mike to Van

tional,

Arsdale one €ay during a little conference and Van | le turned his palms up, shrugged, and said he | However, |

Arsdal would prefer not to’ discuss Mike at all. Van Arsdale, in telling me of the recantation of two men whom he had been convicted of shooting in a union battle, clean forgot to mention that the two recanting brothers first got $15,000 out treasury. So maybe it is just one of their ethics to no evil of one another lest too much truth come out and they lose their power. How do we know Mike's motives now in disallowing the product of one manufacturer in favor of certain others, remembering that he once got a gift of stock

| in an interested competitor and was able to throw

‘a great deal of work” to his own company? What is the point of all this, says you? For God's sake, that is the very point of it. We all realize that such a man holds all this power over

of "it?

Aviation

Army and Navy Planes Duplicate Patrol Work Off Florida Coast

HE most essential objective in all plans for the reorganization of our national-defense system is unification and co-ordination of effort. got it under the present setup, and we could never expect to get it under an obsolete system which grew up like Topsy. Orthodox military and naval leaders are continually drumming away on the necessity for unified control of their respective commands. Paradoxically, we will have to break down the present arrangement in which both the Army and Navy are bickering

about priority of aircraft materials |

and their respective zones of command and privileges. In short,

we will have to differentiate ang |

separate the Army, Navy and Air

Forces before we can ever hope to |

co-ordinate or use them in joint operations. Right now our Army and Navy Air overlapping and duplicating one another's operations The most glaring example was found in the neutralpatrol and Coast Guard planes met one another on patrols

| paths

In its 17 years of | { plane is good for 600-700 miles per hour when the | only way it might be run that fast is by standing it |

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HERE is soe bad advertising in current publica-

tions about the outlandish high speed claims for some of our fighting planes Our fighting airmen, silent under the restrictions of military service codes, are helpless, against telling the public that an American fighting

Ss nose and diving thousands and thouThat's useful when running away

squarely on it sands of feet. from a fight.

far faster in straightaway flight.

~~ We had one dose of that business when an American plane was super-advertised all over this country |

as a 375-mile-per-hour plane—in a dive—only to find that when it was flown in combat over the Maginot Line by French pilots the German Messerschmitt 109s were overtaking it and shooting its French pilots down at will.

So They Say—

AS AN AMERICAN you must lay aside petty poli- |

tics and individual beliefs and willingly sacrifice yourselves for the good of our nation, whatever its final action may be. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

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f saTURDAY, AUG. 23, 1941 Gen. Johnson Says—

Morale Difficult to Define, but Present Methods Are Not Likely to Inculcate Any of It in Our Army

ASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—This is another piece about Army morale. It is being written about by some as though you could weight it like a pound of sugar. Of course it is no such thing. It is an in=tangible, like the love of sweethearts or religious devotion. Nobody knows what makes it. Probably the principal elements are three—confidence of soldiers, first in the ability and second in the justice of their officers and third, and just as indispensable, a similar confidence of officers in their soldiers. Without attempting anything like a complete survey, two outstanding examples of morale at its apogee are the devotion of Stonewall Jackson's “foot cavalry” to “Old Jack” and the idolatry for the Little Corporal of Napoleon's guard, Bonaparte's prime maxim was that, in war, the moral is to the physical element as three to one. There are other examples too confused in the fog of distant history and religious or other fantacism to appraise. How could a handful of gaunt Arabs, lightly armed, poorly equipped come howling out of Asia Minor to threaten every kingdom in the Western Europe and to subdue most of them? How could an obscure Tartar chieftain, with a few savage tribes, like Ghengis Khan, subjugate much of the world within the span of a single life?

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T is now said on high authority that the way to get morale into our new Army is to scare hell out of our soldiers and their families about the threat to America and, at the same time, to relax the rigors of conscription and make a brigadier general out of an untrained civilian, so that he can act as “morale”

I wholly disagree with what you say,

The Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

but will

A WORD OF ADVICE TO {SOME YOUTHFUL DRIVERS

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(Times readers are invited

to express their views in these columns, religious con-

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By James Swarmer, 554 S

A Caution: Children, be a little careful about reckless and ‘“showoff” driving. Don't get quite so drunk when you drive Do your “jollopy” racing in the less crowded streets. Remember, blowing all three horns on the car at once won't {change the color of a red light, and [i the overworked police should hap- | political war! A war of communism pen to get you, “Papa” Bradshaw |acainst fascism. A war in which | will march you right straight to the republics like ours have no business, {movies! So there. neither should we be forced to finance Communism! We have more than we can do, more than we can pay, for years to come, and more than we ought to be asked to do to By Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th St. provide for our own national de- { Fi Pe fense needs, aid England to defend | An opth ister in Uniigress and herself, and re our own ma- | the American people: Gentlemen of | terial and economic necessities. | the Congress and fellow Americans, | Buf no! today, we the people of these satisfy our internationalists and left United States stand face to face Wingers—we must finance the world, | with dangers as great as any which | Police the world and fight all over forefathers met so nobly and |the world. We, the American people, : land Congress must make the decision—now # ®.et us pray, and look to God for wisdom.

troversies excluded. your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

the worst kind of war—a fanatical

# & | WARNS AGAINST OUR INVOLVEMENT IN WAR

our solved so wisely. But we must know | exactly what the problems are before we can solve them. We have lbeen told that we are in an| ¥ 3 » ! “emergency” and also that we face! yr 5 g ' emergency” and also tha e face QUOTES LINCOLN IN

a grave ‘‘crisis” but nobody has ex-| 3 | plained the “emergency” nor de-|¢ RITICISM OF F. D. R. | fined the “crisis.” | By Paul B. Sallee, Holton | For the last eight years we have The people are not Soft or stupid | been guided, directed and controlled | 5 8 y AG . Be Ife {by a left wing group of planners, { Tey sip Sa yoy ys whom few of us know. Now, a left pioiitiv. they d t believe the winger is better defined as a Com- bt PA vs y Dr Jake. he munist, Socialist or fellow-traveler rien of zongueting another ous They are also known as interna- ove Jpcis ae Lopes a ore tionalists, or revolutionists of the 2 Bons wu 2 ane Red type {them at their expense and personal Strong evidence exists that sov- | Sacrifice, although an attempt 13 eral powerful key officials in aur ade fo Saal Tuk 2 ut in lofty government are, to say the least,|PHraSCS and nigh ldeals. fellow travelers of Joe Stalin ’I If Roosevelt believes the words We Americans Know that an of the Great Emancipator he should Communists owe, and give their al- | read the Inaugural Address of 1861 legiance to, and direct their whole 31d govern hate host Joropdingly: powers to promote Communism. So] The lmmoria inceln. Suite this address:

in line with these facts and the", A ew Soup policies now being made, ana open| Can aliens make treaties easier ds ran make laws? Can

We haven't |

Forces are

off the Florida coast where Army, Navy |

but furious |

It does not mean an even break when | engaged mn a dog fight with an enemy plane that is

efforts to align our great Republic|than frien ; |with Stalin’s dictatorship. to force t'eaties be tore faithfully enus into internationalism and to sad- forced between aliens than laws can le on our people costs so staggering |among friends? Suppose you go to that bankruptcy and ruin are cer-| War, you cannot fight always; and tain, I must agree that whoever says When after much loss on both sides, we face an “emergency” and a/and no gain con either, you cease “erisis” are putting it mildly. (fighting, the identical old questions, | But that is not half the sordid as to terms of intercourse, are again story We also face war—now!|upon you. This country, with its |Every possible left wing plan,| institutions, belongs to the people scheme, device and trickery is and who inhabit it. I fully recognize will be used to dupe us into the the rightful authority of the people war. And this is now resolved into over the whole subject, and I should,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

8-23

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under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it. “The Chief Magistrate derives all} his authority from the people, his duty is to administer the present government as it came to his hands, and to transmit it, unimpaired by him, to his successor.” Americans would willingly and gladly give their lives and fortunes to the defense of this nation and the Western Hemisphere, but they are not willing to sacrifice their

That is not enough tol

[liberties to perpetuate the tyranny of bloody Russia or the Britist Empire. 8 = =»

| RAISING SOME DOUBTS

|ON G. 0. P. HARMONY

| | By Jack Bain Sr., Greenfield.

Recently a gentleman was ruth|lessly rejected as State Chairman of the party and another very courtejas gentleman was inducted into That procedure in itself,

| the office Mr. Republican, I ask does that

point to harmony? One State official playing politics with the Democrats, in return received the privilege to appoint a few supposedly Republicans working under his office. This official ap-

pointed as his right hand man one who asbholutely was not sanctioned by his county committee, not even by his precinctman. Mr. Republican, do you call this harmony? Now this right hand man appointed. as his assistant a man not even an active Republican and

was one at all harmony? A gentleman walking about the corridors of the one who has received an appointment was investigated in the campaign of 1936 and it was a known fact that he was reporting important information from the Republican headquarter: to the Democratic organization. Will this create harmony? Active workers in the party waiting to have an interview must wait with patience while those of a special interest walk in without even being announced and then the bench warmers are told it will be some time before another interview will be made as quite a number of long distance calls are being made.

Leaves one in doubt as to whether the special interest has anything to do with this office or not. Will this create harmony? Now two gentlemen aspire to office: one as United States Senator, the other as Governor for the State of Indiana. One, we presume, has the backing of the special interest and the other naturally has not. Both being, one might say, from the same district and only by a miracle could Hoth be nominated. Mr. Republican Voter, who will be your choice? In conclusion, the newly elected State Chairman no doubt wants harmony and we must have it to win an election, but what a job this gentleman has and we as Republicans trust that he is equal to the occasion

RAY OF SUNSHINE

By HARRY G. BURNS

There's a wee little Miss, So young, sweet and fair, Who makes our home brighter Whenever she is there. She wears a big bow-ribbon On her golden curly hair, And she scatters sunshine About us everywhere.

I wish I knew her secret, So free from every care, With not a single worry, Nor even a burden to bear. It would be worth a million To travel in her class— So bright and free and happy, This gentle little lass.

DAILY THOUGHT

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.—Matthew 5:10,

AS YOU SOW you are like to reap.—Butler,

Ghengis Khan. making service easy, but by making it hard. so far as Napoleon and Jackscn were concerned, with

some doubt as to whether he is or | Will this create | §

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officer,

“Old Jack” and Napoleon had no and neither did Mohamet and They didn't arouse enthusiasm by And,

Horsefeathers! “morale officer”

a few exceptions by Jackson, the soldiers knew that they could absolutely rely on the truth and justice, however, bitter, of what their commanders did.

One initial mistake in softening up our Army was in not making it abundantly clear to them, that if the national interest should be imperiled, they were in for the duration of that peril-——as all the pertinent laws clearly stated. So what do we do now to correct that error? We say we are going to let some but not all of them go after 14 to 18 months total service. We are going to do that on some kind of “priority” basis that is bound to favor some and prejudice others. We are going to do that with our fingers crossed. All of them are going back to a reserve, subject to be recalled at any moment. Furthermore, there is really no definite promise that any of them can go home at all. None can if things get worse.

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T is true that the national interest is no more ini= periled now than it was a year ago. But it was sufficiently imperiled then to justify every step that was taken for defense. It still is. The peril may not be any more definite and specific. It is possibly lesz well-defined, but this is enough that in the presence of a world filled with vast armed, armored, metorized, mechanized modern troops, we have no such adequate force. We have done little to get them, because through blunders in production and transfers of modern equipment abroad, we have not been able to train many of the men we now propose to release— with a string tied to them. “To increase” morale through a sort of domestic softness and—I will not say ‘“trickiness”"—but appeasement, is a doubtful expedient. ; These released men can’t plan their civilian lives with confidence. They will be constantly on call. They have not yet been treated frankly and, on announced plans, their release may be more a matter of favor than of military justice. This may be the royal road to morale, but, if so, it is not on any formula yet revealed in history to build confidence by frankness and justice.

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

A Woman's Viewpoint

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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson }

“Y ET us fight or go home.” According to a res porter who has visited 11 Army and Navy camps, that's what the boys in training are thinking —and saying. You aren't surprised, are you? Certainly Army officers and political leaders shouldn’t be, because the business of soldiering must be exciting or it is a flop. Nobody, not even kind old Uncle Sam, can keep millions of voung men drilling indefinitely. War is never static. It must offer continuous prospect for movement, change, and danger. We all know it. It was said over and over when Hitler was building his army. Sooner or later he would have to let it march, and then, we said, he couldn't stop its marching. And he can't. Neither can we pass the miracle with our own. ; There is enough repressed power in our training camps to blow the lid off domestic security for decades, and if we are capable of sustained thought we should use some on that phase of the situation. I gave up hope of staying out of Eurcpe's war when we passed the conscription bill. We shall be forced to use this enormous fighting machine we are making—or demobilize it. The people who talk about democracy must be prepared to give up a vast deal of it, no matter what happens to Hitler, if our future plans call for the maintenance of a huge Army. Freedom is not possible to a people committed to such a plan, for two reasons. The soldiers themselves have no liberty as Americans have always interpreted the word, and civilians who pay their bills have only one left—the liberty of slaving to support them. Whatever our fate is to be after this period of world insanity has passed let up hope and pray we shall not be an armed camp or an arsenal. In either event we will kiss the American Dream goodby.

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Q—Didn't Galileo, by dropping balls of different sizes and materials from the top of the Tower of Pisa, prove that weight has nothing to do with the speed of falling bodies? A—Galileo did not prove that weight has nothing to do with the velocity of bodies falling in air. From his experiments on the Tower of Pisa he inferred that “all bodies, even the lightest, would fall at the same rate were it not for the resistance of the air.” In a vacuum all objects fall at the same rate, regard= less of size, shape, or weight. However, if two objects, identical except that one is heavier than the other,

are dropped in air from the same height at the same

time, the heaviest object will reach the ground sooner since air resistance is less in proportion to mass and consequently the terminal velocity is higher. Q—What is the Indian population of the United States and how does this compare with the number when Columbus discovered America?

A—The present number is approximately 360,000 : and in Columbus’ time, conservative anthropologists ~

estimate that there were 700,000 to 800,000. Q—Do American Indians derive much from their talents in Indian arts and crafts? A—In 1939 the production of Indian rugs, blankets, jewelry, baskets, pottery and other native craft yielded an income of almost one million dollars to the Indians.

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