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THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941
ICK'S PRIVATE TANK HILE things were happening in his bailiwick including a call for Congressional investigation of his oil and gas czardom, Mr. Ickes has been on vacation in one of his many national parks. Now that is all right, though perhaps a bit off in its timing. Vacation builds you up, and hardy as is the Ick, he no doubts needs a bit of leisure too. There are even those who would wish he would make the vacation permanent. But it happened that while he was gone from the seats of the mighty, a 500-gallon private gasoline tank was discovered on his estate at Headlands, Olney, Maryland—an estate which in itself wouldn't have been so tough for vacation purposes if there were no other place to go. Anyway, it has been explained that the private gas tank is used only to provide gasoline for farm equipment and the Ickes station wagon. Further, that none of the gas from the pumps goes into the limousine that takes Mr. Ickes, when he is home, to and from his work—to his private elevator in the Interior Department Building, his more-than-spacious office, his private dining room, and back to his Maryland estate. That limousine gas, as distinguished from the farm and garden variety of gas, and that limousine, are provided by the Federal Government. Which fact is no shock to those who know Mr. Ickes. “It was reported,” the news article continues, “that Ickes had at least one tractor and other assorted farm machinery which use gasoline, as well as the station wagon which he uses when not on official business.” All of which would indicate that Mr. Ickes personally isn't exactly sweating in behalf of his own gas-saving cruade. His petrol isn’t dished out with any eye dropper. But the thing that especially strikes us is that station wagon. For some reason or other, a station wagon has come to symbolize wealth and lush country life and social superiority. We don’t know why. But the impression is abroad. While it may be only an old Ford trimmed in wood, nevertheless a station wagon is more hotsy-totsy than the long and glittering limousine. So, to class-angle all this, we would venture that, come the revolution, Mr. Ickes would be more quickly condemned for having a station wagon and a private gas tank than he would for those other evidences of luxury to which we have referred. Certain it is that this professional bleeder for the poor does not bear any of the scars of sacrifice which he has asked of others.
THE ANTI-CHRIST
It is strange that no one so far has described Hitler as the Anti-Christ. From Churchill, the superb orator and pastmaster of invective, down to Claude Pepper, fiery if not effective, that description of Hitler has been overlooked. Yet, even in the so-called “crusade against bolshevism,” the term fits almost exactly. There had been a conception of the Anti-Christ even before Christ appeared; the idea of the personification of the powers of evil which fought the powers of good. With
the ancients the prophecy was of a false prophet who would
lead the people to worship the wrong God and so bring them to their end. With other races it was of the great Lucifer who did actual battle against God. With the early Christians, oppressed by the Romans, the Anti-Christ was believed to be incarnate in Nero, then Caligula. And why not? A part of the myth of the Anti-Christ was that he should arise from the lowest depths—from “the bottomless pit’—become a malevolent ruler of all things and in his battle against God bring about the end of all things, even the end of the world. The early Christians believed that the end of the world would come soon. Slowly, as the centuries crept on, the positive tenets of Christianity, faith, hope and charity, love for the neighbor, the beatitudes, the Golden Rule, displaced this negative conception. Since the Middle Ages little has been heard of the Anti-Christ. ’ As we read and hear of the state of this belabored world, as ruthlessness, wicked destruction, battle murder and sudden death cover half the globe, we know that one man, one voice, one evil spirit is responsible. Can Hitler at long last be the prophesied Anti-Christ? It seems not impossible.
OPENING UP THE AIR CORPS
HE first course for aviation flying students in the U. S. Army ever to be opened to enlisted men is being organized at Muskogee, Okla., and Cuero, Tex. One hundred and eighty-eight enlisted men, not officers, will become pilots, and larger groups will follow until the plan for 6000 nonofficer pilots is realized. The candidates must be high school graduates and be able to pass stiff examinations, as well as enlist for three years. On completion of training they will win warrants as staff sergeant pilots. This is a step which every other air service, including even the British, has taken long since. It is overdue here, as are other steps to open as wide as possible the opportunity to progress within the Army a¢cording to ability, and to give the opportunity to use fully every bit of talent it has.
COMPENSATION?
UST at the time when the American male adjusts himself, with a nation-wide sigh, to the idea of girls without silk stockings, comes balm to Gilead. Skirts, in a patriotic move to conserve dress materials, may be shorter. Though legs may be less glamorous, they'll be more in evidence than ever if this proposal goes through, thus making up in profusion what is lost by way of illusion. As the dignified Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed in his famous essay on “Compensation”: “For everything you have missed, ypu have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something.” }
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
He Calls Bill Green a Hypocrite Again and Charges a Conspiracy Exists to Thwart Federal Trial.
EW YORK, Aug. 28.—I go back to the preaching of William Green, president of the A. F. of L. and call attention to his repeated demands that the law-enforcement agencies proceed vigorously against crooks in the unions under his jurisdiction. I shall now reveal the hypocrisy of his position. As most of us know, George Browne, the gangster president of the stage and movie employees’ craft unions, and Willie Bioff, his criminal colleague in the same racket, are under indictment here charged with extorting $550,000 from the very employers with whom they carried on negotiations ostensibly in behalf of the workers. This union is a development of the old Capone-Nitti mob of bootleggers, murderers and free-style criminals, but, nevertheless, its general counsel is Joe Padway, whe is also general counsel of the A. F. of L. in Washington and one of Green's confidential associates. Both Green and Padway extolled Browne when the fact that he was a common Chicago gangster was well known and Meyer Lewis, who as Green's regional agent on the Pacific Coast, went so far as to send an official vote of confidence to Bjoff when that evil parasite was entering jail to serve time for living on the earnings of a stable of streetwalkers.
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ROWNE and Bioff were to have gone to trial in Federal Court on Aug. 18, but the Government had to ask for a postponement until Sept. 8 because the FBI had been unable to find Nick Circella, alias Dean, a Chicago stickup man who occupies, by Browne's appointment, a position parallel to that of Bioff. Dean is a well-known dive-keeper in Chicago, operating a low but pretentious dump called the Colony Club, which is frequented by all the best drunkards of the Gold Coast and the Corn Belt. His ownership of the joint is masked because his criminal record disqualifies him as a licensee, but he is the head man, nevertheless. And lest it be thought that I am speaking from hearsay in describing this joint as a joint, I may say that I, personally, have been solicited by a captain of waiters there on behalf of the prostitutes who sit in the shadows and that I have seen the tables in the Playroom where the gambling is done when the heat is off. This Circella has been wanted as a witness in the trial of Browne and Bioff and without his testimony the case might be lost, but he has disappeared from his dump and the FBI has been unable to find him. It is not customary for Circella to disappear at this time of the year and he usually can be found without difficulty at any season, either in Chicago or with the rest of the criminal scum in Miami during the hibernating period of the union racketeers, such as Umbrella Mike Boyle, Browne and Max Pollack, alias Caldwell, lately caught robbing a clerk’s union under an A F, of L. charter.
= 5 » Coy, Circella is on the lam and yet William Green, with a membership of four million, according to his claim, has made no appeal to his organization to dig up key witnesses in the prosecution of men charged with preying on labor and thus discrediting the union cause, I specifically refrain from charging Green with participation in the conspiracy, but submit, nevertheless, that the existence of a conspiracy among Browne, Bioff and Circella, to hamper a prosecutor performing his duty according to Green's oft-repeated demands, is too apparent toc permit of any doubt. Neither am I prepared to believe that the FBI is exerting itself fully, because this failure does not consist with the reputation of the FBI or with J. Edgar Hoover's boastful personal and departmental publicity. The Department of Justice is seriously infected with politics and there are political interests which would suffer serious embarrassment if Dean were turned up
and the politics of the movie industry. That consideration aside, however, we still have Green exhorting prosecutors to punish union racketeers. while a notorious powerful criminal holding official credentials from one of his unions is hidden lest he be forced to reveal the vicious history of the union governed by gangster Browne, who sits with Sten 3 a member of the executive council of the .F.of L.
Editer’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.
Our Role in Iran By Ludwell Denny
ASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—America is more deeply involved in the Iranian war than indicated by official Anglo-Soviet explanations regarding Nazi agents or by aloof statements of Washington officials. Though Iran's failure to deal with fifth columnists is the occasion of the war, the basic cause is the need for a safer all-weather supply route for American aid to Russia. Washington officials denied that the Anglo-Soviet ultimatum to Iran was made with American knowledge and support. The pressure was applied immediately after the Roosevelt-Churchill con= ference. The actual military invasion began within a few hours of the Churchill broadcast reaffirming the Anglo-American united front. The secondary importance of the fifth column dispute is stated frankly by Lord Beaverbrook’s London Daily Express. After admitting that the expulsion of Germans from Iran is “a subsidiary object,” it says the primary objects are: “First, to close the last gap in the land boom against any eastward drive of Hitler; and second, to keep a carriageway open for British-American aid to our fighting Russian allies.”
HUS material aid to Russia has become the No. 1 priority in Churchill-Roosevelt strategy. That aid is of two kinds—both American.
The more important, because it is the only aid that can reach the European front quickly, is the supply of American planes, tanks, trucks, and munitions already in England and the Near East. The second includes the small amount of supplies now being shipped from the United States, and the much larger amount still in production or on order.
In both cases the Iran route is the key to delivery. Except for a few bomber and transport planes flown directly from England to Russia, and the blockaded Arctic route soon to be closed by ice, the two possibilities are Siberia and Iran. The Siberian route is inadequate by itself; because Amerian ships must pass through Japanese-controlled waters, because Vladivostok is ice-bound in winter, and because the Siberian transport system is a long bottleneck. Iran, however, can complete several safer routes. First, for the American planes, tanks, and other supplies which have been piling up in Egypt for months. Secondly, for new American shipments via the Atlantic and the safer South Pacific. Thirdly, for the speeded-up American plane ferry service via Brazil-South Atlantic-Central Africa-Near East.
So They Say—
HE LAUGHED A LOT and was kind to his friends. « « « What more can you say of a man?—Reported toast of a British pilot to a comrade shot down over Germany.
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IF WE COULD GET into the right spirit, nobody on God's earth could out-produce us.—William Knudsen, director, OPM. ® * - IT IS GOING TO BE an American order, suited to our country, to our way of life..—Mayor La Guardia,
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FROM THE OUTSET, the War Department has striven constantly to safeguard labor’s interests.— 8 : of War Pa all : §
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VISITOR DOESN'T LIKE OUR CITY STREETS By 8. T. A, Chicago. As a recent visitor in your very pleasant city it is perhaps unbecoming to offer criticism, but I urge that my comments be taken in the spirit in which they are intended. I think that the appearance and efficiency of your community would be enhanced remarkably by some repaving of your important streets.
{So many of them are badly pitted {and rutted and it is difficult to ride
smoothly. May I be permitted to point out
» 2 o URGES MORE HELP BE GIVEN DESERVING OLD AND NEEDY By William Rupert, New Castle County Welfare Needs. They will need a greater tax allowance for
1942 because there are more needy old people to be cared for, besides some of the trustees’ care has been turned over to Welfare Boards. Again, cost of living is higher and some pensioners just can’t live decently on the former allowance. It's just too pitiful to cut down the allowance of the old and needy and allow the many whose income is sufficient more. It's Rooseveltism and reform to help the poor and most needy first and properly care for them. And it's Hitlerism not to do so. A few pensioners in some counties don’t get much better rations than war prisoners. Let's try to help the deserving more, which will gradually elevate us all.
$ # w PLEADS FOR AN END TO RECKLESS NAME-CALLING
By Robin Adair, Indianapolis
The constant attacks on the administration by Mr. Maddox and his sort grow a bit wearisome at times. At a time when democracy is being assailed from all sides as unworkable, when free men should be leaping to its defense, these men are swayed by party prejudices and hurl accusations of the wildest sort at the leadership of the greatest democratic nation in history. If this great democracy has been so blind as to elect for three terms a crew of communists and fellow travelers to direct its destinies, then what hope is there for democracy? It would certainly indicate an in-
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and the whole story was told of the union relations ‘appearance of your city?
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ability on the part of the people {to govern themselves wisely.
This is a time for constructive criticism, not reckless name calling. If bombs fall on New York, they will not fall on Democrats or Republicans, on liberals or conservatives, on pro-Roosevelts or antiRoosevelts, but on Americans. And it is high time Americans were getting back of the leadership they have chosen.
CHARGES PERJURY COMMITTED BY BONDSMEN
By John Hanson, Indianapolis
My hat is off again to Sheriff Al Feeney for his stand against professional bondsmen signing drunken driver bonds. A drunken driver injured my brother and the bondsman that was in the case is the one who is supposed to have gotten the case fixed. The drunken driver paid ohly a small fine. A judge pro tem heard the case and I know that all was not according to Hoyle. I was informed by an attorney friend of mine that this bondsman is on bonds in criminal and police court to the amount of $75,000 and has very little property. Why doesn’t some one check into the perjury committed in the affidavits that are made by professional bondsmen? Seems that the prosecutor should do his duty. ” = 8 SEES POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE UNEDUCATED By Willis ¥.. Rexford, 2107 N. Delaware St.
Winston Churchill in his muchpraised speech on Aug. 24, mentions perverted science, and implies that it has caused the trouble in Europe. What he means is that modern inventions have been put to bad uses by men who evidently cannot see why they shouldn’t make bad use of them. I don't believe that Mr. Churchill explained how it has happened that inventions have been used for destructive purposes instead of friendly purposes. I hope that Mr. Churchill and everyone else, is
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curious about that. My belief is that inventions like the airplane and the gasoline engine, and the much older inventions of explosive chemicals, have been perverted because our social practices‘ or customs, which are really man-made inventions, too, do not represent the best and latest knowledge possessed by our learned men and women. Our social practices and living habits simply do not conform with even the most elementary teachings that are presented every day in our institutions of learning. Power is often in the hands of the uneducated. We must either quickly educate the powerful, who have failed to get desirable results, or we must quickly seek out and elevate to power, those sociallyminded, educated persons who are much concerned about public affairs. They can get desirable results. And the change will not hurt anyone!
” » ” BEING A COMPLAINT ABOUT A LOCAL GAMBLING JOINT By Mrs. Ray O'Neal, Indianapolis ‘Would you please explain why a disreputable place like the gambling joint at --- Maryland St. can continue to operate in open defiance of
place and loses our money on dice and horses.
our debts.
I have written the police department but they have not helped.
” » ” DETECTS “RING OF DECEIT” IN CHURCHILL'S VOICE By E. Brunson, Castleton In regard to your Times’ editorial covering Humpty Dumpty’s talk. Bless your heart, if Moses seemingly
has failed with words offering people freedom in the Ten Commandments, how could words of Mr. Churchill obtain peace? It surely is not in the voice. It is not his commanding appearance. He is built not to look up to as was Lincoln; which does command respect, at least, from the short fellow. It is not a spiritual appearance at all. I somehow cannot conceive of his molding anyone's mind for the better. There is a constant ring of deceit in his voice. Then, too, as I wrote you months ago, “Brevity is the soul of wisdom, e.g. ‘The Lincoln Gettysburg Address.” In a few words, Lincoln said something immortal. It possessed beauty and strength, because of the simple sincere man behind it. It was powerful, the man had something to say, that first touched him. I'd gamble my future in eternity that Pope Pius has the power to end the war tomorrow if he were permitted to call the nations and dictate the terms of peace and how to preserve a lasting peace. The world is foolish looking to Churchill for leadership. We need a man free from politics to mold the world’s minds!
LITTLE BOY By NELL MACE WOLFGANG
Oh, little boy that I adore! This life holds much for you, Which seems so full of questions, With an answer that is due. Oh, little boy, I dearly love! Because God gave me, you— I'm going slow with patience tried And try to answer true. Oh, little boy, I idolize! I sometimes think that I Have most forgotten since I've * learned These questions that you ply. Oh, little boy of innocence! Whose staggering questions burn But if you did not ask them, How would you, the answers learn?
DAILY THOUGHT
Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.—Luke 6:28.
HATE is a fear, and fear is rot that cankers root and fruit.—Robert
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THURSDAY, AUG. 28, 1041
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All Honor to Churchill for Protecting Britain's Interests, First and Last, But Just Exactly Who Is Doing It For Us?,
ASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—“You will perhaps have noticed,” said Winston Churchill in his radio report on the Atlantic charter, “that the President of the United States and the British representatives have jointly pledged their countries to the final de= struction of Nazi tyranny.” ; Maybe they did, but the At= lantic charter didn’t do.it.in. seo many words. It expressed high minded hopes and principles to be applied to the world “when”. the Nazi tyranny is destroyed—which is a very different matter. There is the further question discussed here earlier, whether a President of the United States, acting alone; can pledge this country to engage in land war in Europe. The only outspoken pledges we have heard "about that are those of the Presis} dent that we will not send land armies to Europe, In this connection it should not be forgotten that leading British military men, including the Prime Minister himself, have expressed an opinion that Hitler cannot be conquered on European soil withe out a rew American expeditionary force. Every prine cipal American authority agrees with - that.
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HERE are some qualifications to those opinions, They do not mean that Hitler cannot be blocked by sea and air and so frustrated that the areas of his threats are considerably reduced. Neither do they mean that he, and with him the Nazi party, could not be overthrown by internal stresses and explosions, not alone in Germany, buf in the conquered countries, or at least that the Nazis could be so softened up by such events that land operations from the west would become possible, That is a condition impossible to predict. Such operations are not possible now. The worst mistake we could make is too much wishful thinking with & possible effect of ever “pledging” our country to ob= jectives too remote from our own proper interests and too far in the fog of the future to predict. Another curious passage in this Churchill speech is his warning to Japan that, if she does not come to an accord with us on a settlement of Far Eastern questions, “We (the British) shall, of course, range. ourselves unhesitatingly on the side of the United States.”
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OR these kind assurances much thanks, but when did the growing threat of this particularly senseless Far Eastern shindy become so clearly our war that an offer of British assistance can be made as an act of grace and loyalty to a friend at bay rather than one of mutual, and I may say imperial, interest. Our stake in the Far East which might be menaced by Japan is to that of Great Britain as a molehill to a mountain.
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to protect her interest than our own. Now it seems - a little presumptuous for Britain to assure Uncle Samg that, if he really gets his whiskers in this wringer, John Bull will be on his side. With what? Not much more than the use of Singapore as a naval base for our fleet to. protect British possessions. z It is probably wrong to criticize a great British oration in this war of words and nerves. But itis not wrong to hope that we can approach this probe lem with clear eyes, unsealed to our own interests, and to remember the outstanding lesson of all hise torv: “There is no altruism among nations, especially those at war.” They always do and they always should protect first, last and all the time, the lives and homes of their own people. All honor to Churchill for doing that well—but who is doing it for us?
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
NQUIRIES from brides of her acquaintance prompted Nancy Shea to write a book. It is called “The Army Wife” (Harper & Bros). Being a long-term helpmate to a lieutenant-colonel, she is qualified to instruct the fledglings. In case you are thinking of falling in love with a soldier, read this book first. If love hasn't quite jelled, it may stop the process; if it has, you will be able to view the future with rosier anticipations. Because being any kind of wife with suce cess depends largely upon your enthusiasm for the job. Life is hard on brides, and Army life is more so. There are cast-iron social formulas which the civilian’s wife never has ta bother about — and which Mrs, Shea knows by heart, and tells. Every soldier of course is a male animal—as well as a member of the fighting forces—so underneath that snappy uniform breathes the eternal masculine, Army brides must learn to manage that too. 2 It is interesting to discover what I had previqusly guessed to be true—that Army officers are just like other husbands in certain respects. For example, there is a code which says their wives must not ask them to trundle baby carriages when they are dressed up, nor expect them to carry bundles home from the grocery. It's beneath their dignity. Did you ever meet a man who didn’t feel put upon. if asked to bring so much as a head of lettuce from town? Probably not, because this is one of. the surest ways to outrage the feelings of a man, no matter what his trade. The soldiers get around it by making it strictly against military codes. - The book merely proves one thing, and it’s something all gals ought to know—that wherever you find him the male animal is full of funny whims, and successful wives must humor them. 5
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Q—Is the pay of Senators and Representatives in Congress docked when they go away on private busi-. ness, such as lecturing? : A—The pay of Senators and Representatives is $10,000 a year and no deduction is made when they are absent during sessions of Congress. Q—What is a tutrix? A—A female tutor, also called tutress. Q—For what cause are the largest number of. physically unfit ‘draftees rejected? A—Defective teeth, : Q—Who composed the song “My Heart Stood Still”? , 3 A—It was written in 1927 with music by Richard Rodgers, and words by Lorenz Hart. : ris How many soldiers came to the American Colonies with Lafayette? A—Only eleven, including Baron De Kalb. They sailed from Pasages, Spain, on a yacht which La« fayette had equipped. - Q—When was the first speaking newsreel pro-
duced? gi A—In 1927, when scenes of Lindbergh's departure
for Paris were taken. Q—What is the origin of the proverb “Shoemaker, stick to thy last”? = A—It is a Latin proverb, Ne supra crepidam judfcaret, quoted by Pliny the Elder in his “Natural History,” xxxv, 10, 36. A shoemaker’s last is & block: shaped like the human foot on which the shoe is made. Q—In the Naval Academy at Annapolis, some of the “Middies” are called “clean sleeves.” What does that mean? x A-—Midshipmen at the Academy who are not petty officers and therefore have no insignia on their sleeves are given this nickname. . Q—What is kunzite? : A—A precious stone found in southern Calif | and named in honor of Dr. George F. Kunz, specia agent in charge Of precious stones, United Statcs Geological Survey, 1883-1909.