Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1941 — Page 15

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941

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MUSKEGON, Mich, Aug. 28.—The way of the traveler is frequently as hard as that of the transgressor. Sometimes the traveler has not even a place to lay his head. Last evening I blew into Milwaukee about dark, all full of anticipation over spend- § ing a few days in that famous 3 city. But I reckoned without the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They were in convention assembled— and they had all the hotel rooms. So I had to make other arrangements, fast. I think I would have liked Milwaukee, too. The store windows looked extremely nobbish, and the people were polite, and the sunset was a lulu. But when the Eagle screams you gotta make room for him, so I decided to take the midnight boat across Lake Michigan. So I sneaked into the basement of the Schenley Hotel and washed up, and then went to the Medford coffee shop and ate my supper, and then went to the cinema as we say in England, and then near midnight drove to the dock. This boat across Lake Michigan between Milwaukee and Muskegon is the berries. It is brand splinter new, and looks like a Norman Bel Geddes version of the “Boat of the Future.” It’s so streamlined I'm surprised they ever get it stopped. It's a big thing, too, big as an ocean liner. It is called the Milwaukee Cliper. The boat will hold 900 people, and plenty of autos. You'd be surprised at the throng that was down there at midnight to get on. Most of the passengers spent the night in the ship's lounge, sleeping in chairs. They do have sleeping accommodations, however, for us aristocrats with big dough in our pockets. Thev have both staterooms and plain Pullman berths. The Pullman berths are for bush-league aristocrats like me.

The Porter's List—

This Pullman-berth business for overnight boats is a smart thing, it seems to me. They say this is the first. and only, boat in the world that has it. On the forward part of one deck the ship has outside staterooms on both sides. Then between these

By Ernie Pyle

there are two separate sets of berths. It's as though you had put two Pullman cars there on the boat. lengthwise, except that they're inside so there are no windows. In the daytime the “Pullman” is made up into seats. But at night it is converted into sleeping berths, upper and lower, with green curtains and everything. The berths are a little wider than on a train, and the whole thing is air-conditioned, Being the first of its kind, they've naturally made ristakes. The porter said he was keeping a list of things that were wrong, because the president asked him to. They work this boat to the limit. It takes five and a half hours to cross the lake. And it makes two round trips a day. That uses up 22 hours. So they have exactly half an hour at each end for unloading, reloading, servicing and cleaning. You get several hundred excursionists on a boat and they make a pig-pen out of it. Well, the very second the hundreds of excursionists get off, hundreds more are on the pier waiting to rush on. That boat isn’t actually empty two minutes. There's simply no time to clean the thing up, unless you clean up right around the passengers’ bodies.

That Pyle Method

The only solution I see is to hire 10,000 workmen to jump on that boat and give it about three strokes each with mop, broom and dustrag, and then jump right off again. With 30,000 strokes you can get a boat pretty well cleaned up in 30 seconds. Of course our trip was the poorest one of the: four, because the midnight trip is solely for the purpose of transportation. The other three are excursions. And I imagine the people have a pretty nice time, There's an enormous lounge full of chromium chairs in creamy yellow, and a big restaurant and all kinds of resting and reading rooms. And there's a bar and a big open-air dance floor and a hot band and, well, there are even lots of dark nooks and crannies up among the lifeboats where a fellow could hold a girl's hand—if he had a girl and she had hands. But I'm much too busy for that sugary stuff, and anyway girls always act as though I had warts on my hands. Sco I just went to the rail, sneered twice at the moonlight, and then crawled into my bounding Pullman berth.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town")

OUR ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Inside Indianapolis, president, secretary and board of directors) wishes to bring to your attention the fact that the most popular attraction at the Indiana State Fair all next week will be—as it has been for many years—the State Conservation Department's exhibit. You guessed it. The exhibit is a miniature zoo. which contains (a) raccoons; (b) bobcats; (¢) foxes: (d) wolves and coyotes: (e) porcupines, and so on up to (8), the snakes, not to mention (f) the fish. As we've told you before, and as we probably will tell you again and again, Indianapolis needs a permanent zoo. The State Conservation Department already has offered to stock us with all the surplus wild animal life they have and they've offered technical advice in erecting cages and other paraphernalia. Our Zoological Society has the promise of an elephant. No kidding Now, all we need is another member of the so~fety,

like Father, Like Son—

ASIDE FROM BEING Republicans, our new fire hief and assistant chief have another similarity in 1aat both are the sons of firemen. Acting Chief Harry H. Fulmer’s father was kilied in the famous Bowen-Merrill fire in which 12 firemen died. The Chief himself drove a team of horses in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American war in the same outfit as the then Private Robert H. Tyndall, and it was his love for horses that took him into the Fire Department more than 41 years ago.

America First?

LONDON. Aug. 28 —Already it is evident in dispatches coming from the United States that a smear campaign is on to kill the forthcoming Second LeaseLend Bill I don't believe I've been swept off my feet over

here vet. I've told a considerable number of Englishmen that the United States won't come into the war on the basis of the present situation. Better informed Englishmen of balanced judgment already knew this. They will continue to hope that we will come in, and you certainly can’t blame them for that. But I think those over here who are fair about it recognize that the United States is following Mr. Clapper about the same course that Britain would follow under similar circumstances—indeed, exactly the same course that Britain did follow. Whether it's a wise course or not, it’s the way democratic peoples act. What is so deplorable, to my mind, so injurious to American interests, is that our own extreme isolationists are so jittery that they are blindly trying to sabotage Britains war effort. If they know nothing else about this war, they must know that British war industry is too small to stand up alone against German war industry. If they are as smart as they pretend to be, American isolationists ought to know that if Germany won the war and converted British mdustry to Nazi uses, as French, Dutch, Belgian and Czechoslovakian industry has been converted, then the United States would be up against a combination that would far outclass our cwn industrial strength. In the long run, that means we should become a power inferior to Germany in economic strength. How a group whose slogan is “America First” can be stupid enough to pursue a policy that would make America second-rate is difficult to understand, except on the basis that exaggerated fear of war distorts its members’ normal vision.

NOW WE COME down to another test of judgment, Lord Beaverbrook says, on returning here,

My Day

NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday.—I went this morning to Astoria, I. I, to go through the National Youth Administration workshops. It was over a year since I had seen them. They have expanded greatly, and the equipment is far betyer than it was a year ago. Now they are on a really excellent proauction basis. At the present time, when the shortage of skilled labor is what we are trying to meet, it is most important to give every young person who is learning a traae the number of hours of work required by empioyers on the particular machine he intends to use.

The worker may, of course, acquire a number of hours on a number of machines, but whatever the employer's requirements are, they should be met in training / these boys and giris. Of course. they must alse have sonie related training, given by the departments of education 10 supplement thair skilis. In many cases this related training has to be condensed, and the number of hours required by the departments of education should be lowered in order to make it possibie to meet the requirements for actual work. This is not purely an educational job. It is designed to give us skilled workers.

Acting Assistant Chief Otto J. Petty is the son of Jacob Petty, former battalion chief of District 2, who retired in 1922. The elder Petty, now 88, lives at 2222 Carrollton Ave. And Son Otto is authority for the information that his father still leaves his trousers and his boots at the side of his bed every night, just as he used to do. Just an old Spanish Fire Department habit!

Hoosiers On Tour

ONE OF THE BOYS just back from a vacation trip out West tells us that most Hoosiers, on the road. are as interested in seeing other Hoosiers as in view-

ing the marvels of nature. Drive up. for instance, to the geysers at Yellowstone, he says, and the first thing you hear is a fellow motorist calling: “Look, Mary, there's another Hoosier. Hi, Mister, I'm from Indiana, too.” Back home, the motorist is peeved when someone honks to go around. But on a long vacation trip, a series of toots from a car coming up from behind brings a couple of quick toots in reply and a friendly wave of the hand. For, nine times out of 10, it's another of us Hoosiers saying “Howdy.”

Might Try a Bear Trap

THE SAFETY BOARD, worried by a series of false fire alarms, one of which cost the life of a fireman, decided a couple of weeks ago to try out what a salesman described as a false alarm trap. The device causes a siren to sound when the box is pulled. The idea is that the siren will cause spectators to observe who is sending in an alarm and result in the capture of false alarmists, Well sir, four false alarms have been received over the box on which the device was tried. The score: Four false alarms, four runs, no catches.

By Raymond Clapper

that at the moment England has more troops than weapons. That is about as specific as one can be. Unfortunately, censorship makes it impossible to give supporting detail. But I hope the censor will allow me to say that, without American industrial supplies, Britain's best effort alone would never be able to produce what will be required adequately to defend the British Isles. Even if British industry were able to work at 100 per cent efficiency it would not be possible, so far as I can see. There could be more efficiency, as numerous investigations here by the British themselves show. They are no nearer to perfection here than we are in the United States. But to use their shortcomings to use their normal percentage of mistakes, of poor administration and bad judgment as excuses for denying anv further aid to England, as isolationists in America apparently suggest, doesi't make very good sense. = 2 =

I HAVE NEVER thought that the bulk of isolationist sentiment in the United Statcs was in favor of a Hitler victory. I have always believed that, with some minority exceptions, it hoped for Hitler's defeat and that its main preoccupation was that the United States should not be needlessly involved in war. If that is the correct assumption, then it makes no sense for isolationists to oppose whatever LeaseLend program is n , because such Opposition would be a direct contribution toward a Hitler victory. No matter what kind of arguments are used to gloss over facts, there can be no question that choking off Lease-Lend aid would be the same as putting more guns in Hitler's hands. He could ask no greater contribution te his cause than to have America throttle down the flow of materials to Britain. He would do that job himself in the North Atlantic, if he could, but his submarines have been unable to carry out that mission successfully. Surely it is not possible that a majority in Congress is willing, by killing Lease-Lend, to do for Hitler the job his submarines have been unable to do. I wish it were possible for a considerable number of House and Senate members to come over here and see for themselves. I believe they would be less susceptible to befuddling words in the United States if they took a look with their own eyes at England.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

I think we should realize also that there are comparatively few trade and technical schools throughout the nation with modern enough equipment to do the job required by employers. This is something which, of course, should be remedied in the future, but it is

impossible to do so at present because the emergency makes it impossible to buy this equipment now. [ was very glad to see a number of business executives and educators also visiting the shops this morning, and particularly glad to have a few words with James G, McDonald. There is vne other thing aboul Pensacola, Fla. which I forgot to mention yesterday, and yet it made a great impression on me. The Government, through its Division of Defense Housing Co-operation, is establishing defense homes registration offices in cities where industries and camps are located. People are asked to register their houses, if they have rooms to rent, and workers coming in may go to the office where this registration is done and find out where they can get accommodations. It is asking a great deal of people to register their nomes if they are going away for a short time but, if they are willing to have them used, it is very helpful. This is one way of co-operating in the national defense effort which is very valuable, and I would like to congratulate Pensacola and its citizens on having made a very good on this program,

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U.S. at Mercy Of Bandits If Nazis Win

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be able to keep the peace between each other and follow their common policy of aggression against what remains of a free world, Probably none of the leaders in these two totalitarian countries knows himself just how the future will work out; but this is certain —we must prepare for the worse. We must take into account the possibility that these bandit nations can achieve a measure of effective collaboration and continue to synchronize their aggressive acts in such a way as to cause us the maximum of embarrassment and danger,

We dare not afford to rely upon a falling-out among thieves. I believe that these robber states can at least temporarily find a common accord in their intention to expand their areas of control and loot their neighbors. Even supposing the Japanese do fall out with Hitler some day, they may postpone this until after they have finally settled accounts with us. . It would be dangerous for the United States if we fail to allow for the possibility of a concerted and sustained attack upon North America by these two totalitarian groups, assisted by all the slaves, vassals, and stooges they can muster anywhere in the world. ”

A World of Slaves

WE SHOULD EXPECT, if Hitler wins, that any controversy in which we might engage would be timed by him to coincide with similar pressure applied by Japan across the Pacific. We should have no free nations to whom to turn; we should have only our own strength to rely upon. Our enemies would have under their flags 80 or 90 per cent of the human race. They would command the oceans outside the zone of our effective naval and air patrol near our shores. We should have to be a whole nation of “min-ute-men.” ready to rush to arms at the first sign of invasion, Our children could not. of course, expect to enjoy “a better world” under such conditions. Just how far could the Nazis succeed in introducing their economic, military and political system over Europe, Africa, and part of Asia? I feel that, given time, they could achieve a stability which might be unbroken for a long period to come. As soon as German armies have put down opposition, once the Secret Police have removed dissenters and the concentration camps have received the rebellious, the first battle has been wen. The Nazis will be able to use their satellite governments as pliable tools to secure uniformity and regimentation throughout the area. The Nazis will control supplies of food, clothing, and money. Non-compliance with their orders will mean starvation. Most people must submit and take their allotted place in the regime, 2 ” 8

Era of Rebuilding

I FORESEE an era of vast construction enterprises: the rebuilding of bombed cities: the relocation of industry within Central Germany and construction of immense plants for the manufacture of ersatz and other products: the construction of thousands of miles of railway and motor high-

ways, the building of planes and ships. If Hitler succeeds in driving the British out of Africa, which ought

' not to take very long once Britain

is defeated in her home territory, we may see Germans’ feverish exploitation of the Rand Gold Mines and the South African diamond deposits. These products may have some. value in dealings with the rest of the world, or might presage the reintroduction of a gold reserve behind the German reichsmark and a supply of industrial diamonds for the machine-tool and aviation industries.

The first few years of conquest would be the hardest. Every additional year of peace would permit the Nazis to extend their systems of training and discipline over the subjugated peoples. The ‘children would be taught new versions of history in the elementary schools. They would be carefully insulated from contact with the outer world, In another generation Hitler would have a passive and acquiescent population which had lost its hope, though not its love, of liberty. ” » 2 I SEE NO REASON why a new Caesarism could not be maintained by these methods just as effectively as the Roman emperors held together their subject

“All transactions with the outside world must pass through a

central bureaucracy, probably the

German Ministry of Finance and

the Reichsbank. Production, consumption, transportation and finance will be handled from, Berlin from the North Cape to the tip of South

Africa.”

populations for nearly 500 years. If the administration at the top continued te bé farsighted and severe, they could reintroduce the proved technique and practices of ancient Oriental despotisms, refined by modern knowledge and sharpened by modern science. The scientific slave state on a Continental scale is not a dream. It is taking shape before our very eyes. Some critics may allege that economic difficulties will cause such widespread dissension that the regime must fall of its own weight. Such critics consistently prophesied the early collapse cf the Soviet experiment.

They were correct in asserting that Soviet economy was cperating badly, but that fact failed to shatter the strength of the Soviet state.

In 1936 and subsequent years, Stalin decided forcibly to remove the Russian peasants from their small farms and place them on giant collective farms, where they lost the ownership of their land, livestock, and much of their personal property. It is well known how the Ukrainian peasants resisted and how the Red Army was sent in to collect all food supplies, so that after a large number, estimated at between six and seven million persons, died of starvation, the

remainder were placed upon the collective farms. o ” o IN THE SAME WAY, Hitler will not be unduly disturbed if there is widespread resistance to his agents in the conquered coune tries. It will simply prove to be the worst for the discontented; they will lose their meal tickets and soon pass out of the picture, The Nazis have no scruples and no inhibitions. They cannot be dissuaded from any course of action by mere words. ‘It does no good to accuse them of wickedness or crime. One of their favorite tactics in the past was to shock conventionally - minded Germans into complete paralysis of thought and action by admitting the truth of criticism and bragging that they were worse than anybody had imagined. All weapons or arguments lose their effectiveness against the gleeful cynicism of Dr. Goebbels, Shortly after the blood purge of June 30, 1934, Goebbels made a public speech in which he pointed out that the extinction of many innocent persons could be considered a gain for the Nazi movement; for the shedding of innocent blood made the cause more holy. This came from a man who was implicated in the murder of between 1200 and 1300 persons. Such an idea seems a throw= back to the old belief in human sacrifice.

(Copyright, 1941, by Little, Brown and Co; istributed by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Tomorrow—*“Nazi Influence in Latin America.”

RAIL UNDERPASS DELAYED AGAIN

Two Roads Unable to Agree On Degree of Grade For Project.

The City’s efforts to get under way on the proposed railroad grade separation on W. Morris St. has met new delays over inability of two railroads to agree on engineering details of the project. The Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroad construction engineers yesterday revealed a variance of preference on the exact degree of grade to which the companies’ tracks at the crossing should be elevated. The City plans to depress W. Morris St. under the grade crossing

between 10 and 14 feet and elevate the tracks by three feet, the first project in a new long-term grade separation program by the depression or “subway” method replacing previous and more costly track elevation plans. At a Works Board meeting yesterday, attended by Mayor Sullivan, I. W. Greer, chief engineer of the Pennsylavnia’s Western division, and Paul Hamilton, chief engineer of the New York Central's Big Four Division, said they would have to study the City engineer's tentative plans before attempting to reach an ent on the amount of grade and elevation for the tracks.

Consider Future Changes

In addition, Mr. Greer told the City officials that there were two factors which his company must consider before approving and contributing to the expense of the proposed grade seperation. One, he said, was future plans of the Federal Government to sponsor grade separations. If the Federal Government should move to sponsor a program, it might establish engineering requirements at variance with specifications of the City’s

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“Listen here, Private Squeek! Cut out complaining to your Congress-

man every time I give you an order you don’t like!”

change the separation structures it would help to construct now. Pointing out that any change in the grade of tracks at one point must be considered in light of future changes in track in any part of the City, Mr. Greer further said, that “there is no assurance that future administrations of the City would not change its policy over the type of track elevation for seperation construction. The proposed W. Morris St. separation would cost around $204,000, with the City and County each paying 40 per cent and the railroads’ 20 per cent. The third railroad using the tracks over W. Morris St. is the

and the only one which has agreed to City engineer's plans and is prepared to go ahead with the project. The Belt line was represented by J. J. Liddy, superintendent. Mayor Sullivan pointed out that

the City wishes to complete the project as soon as possible because of the importance of W. Morris St. as an artery to serve the new defense plants on the southwest side, in addition to the increased traffic to and from the Municipal Airport. He told the engineers that the City had decided upon the depression method of separation because it was “about 80 per cent cheaper than track elevation.” He said that the elevation of the tracks over Morris St. as originally planned

Indianapolis Union (Belt) Railroad, would cost well over $1,00,000.

PLAN ‘PROGRAM FOR THE STRONG’

Long-Term Objectives Are Outlined by Defense Committee.

Plans for a long-term program for the Indiana Committee for National Defense will be made at an executive committee meeting of the organization at 5 p. m, today in the Claypool Hotel. Representing more than 60 Indiana cities, the Committee members in a statement last night outlined the objectives of the group. The statement is called “A Program for the Strong,” according to Kenneth L. Ogle, committee chairman. It is as follows: “The United States must work toward world order: otherwise, our country in its present form cannot survive. “World order as we would have it is, of course, impossible of a‘tainment with Nazi participation, “The United * States, therefore, cannot afford to have Germany win the war. It follows that we assume and ACCEPT full responsibility for her defeat. Hence, we fight with vhat we have until the job fs done.

“Power in Our Hands”

“To have the victory, the Reichswehr must be defeated. Russia, of course, is now and can continue to be an invaluable aid in bringing this about. No matter how distasteful the thought, therefore, Russia must be accepted as an ally for just so long a period ‘as she makes war upon the Nazis. . “When that useful activity comes to an end, we diassociate ourselves from Russia until such time as she abandons Communist intrigue as an instrument of national policy. Meanwhile, our committee continually does what it can to deprive Communist trouble-makers of whatever remaining power they may possess in our own domestic affairs.

“We assume that victory will be won by ourselves and allies. y Tore

must then be full assumption of authority by the United States and the British Commonwealth to maintain the peace.

“To those who scoff at this as impossible of accomplishment, we say: The power will be in our hands, We will have to acquire the wil} to use it.”

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Pharmaceutical ingredients are pounded or rubbed in a mortar with a p=---e. 2—What is -Gen, Pershing’s ful} name? 3—Who was the author of Peter Pan?

4—A ship traveling westward fis heavier than when traveling eastward because of the earth’s rotation; true or false? 5—Diesel engines are named after a man, a fuel, or a mechanical principle? 6—The names of which two of the nine planets in the solar system begin with the same letter?

7—Parson Weems was a follower of Martin Luther, the inventor of the legend about Washington and the cherry tree, or a foe of witchcraft in early New England? 8—Godfrey of Bouillon fought in the Wars of the Roses, the Cru sades, the Crimean War, or the Wars of the Huguenots?

Answers 1—Pestle. i 2—John Joseph Pershing. i 3—Sir James Barrie. { 4—True. ! 5—A man. | 6—Mars and Mercury. T—Inventor of the cherry tree lege end. 8—Crusades. |

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