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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1941

WHEN THE BOYS COME HOME

QON after Sept. 1 the first young Americans will begin

to come back from camp, being entitled to discharge because of age, dependents or other obligations. Now is the time to get ready for them. Remember ‘they were to have their jobs back if the condition of the employer’s ‘business permits it. Those who had no jobs when they were inducted ought, whenever possible, to have an opportunity to get them. This is part of the selective service system as we, the American people, enacted jt. The returning soldier will have done his part; now it is up to the rest of us to do ours. _. Gen. Hershey, director of selective service, has made it clear that the working of the whole military program depends to a great extent on how this civilian re-employ-.ment end works out. If it works reasonably well, and men who have done their share in the military end are quickly reabsorbed into civilian life without prejudice for the time spent in service, then future inductees will go into their _ service petfiod with lighter hearts. 4 Indianapolis draft boards have been instructed to get in contact with employers and see that the law has been complied with. They will also receive complete records of the returned man’s military experience for the use of the U. S. Employment Service and its affiliated State offices. It is asked that all returning men clear through the State employment offices even if they get their old jobs back immediately, so that records may be kept of just how this added manpower has been distributed in industry. This fitting of discharged Army men back into civilian and industrial life is more than a legal obligation, more than a moral obligation; it is a practical part of the defense of the United States, no less important than the purely military part. Many of the men who have served their year . will have valuable experience which they did not have. before. Even if they had no jobs on induction, they will be better qualified for them now than they were then. Scarcely ’ a man will return who is not a better potential employee than he was before his year of service. Now is the time to begin getting ready for smooth and effective performance of this new and vitally important ~ phase of the defense program. ;

* STATESMEN AND SOLDIERS

OST of the soldiers and officers to whom we've talked "like those slacks they wear, finding them much more

: comfortable than the old leg-binding wrapped puttees or :

than stiff leggings of canvas or leather.

Congressman Pete Jarman of Alabama doesn’t like

them. He thinks the new Army looks like a bunch of fillingstation attendants, and he wants the Quartermaster General to put our soldiers and officers back into the old-style leg coverings. He considers the present uniforms “disgraceful.” Well, the dress parade plays a pretty small part in ‘modern warfare. The new uniforms were designed for ‘comfort and freedom of the legs, and if the men who have " to wear them think they serve these purposes, their opin“ions, it seems to us, ought to carry even greater weight than the opinion of the Representative frorn Alabama. What if today’s soldiers don’t look as Mr. Jarman believes soldiers should look? For that matter the House of Representatives, viewed en masse, bears little resemblance of statesmen. It looks like a gathering of small‘town lawyers, dressed-up farmers, merchants, businessmen and Sunday school superintendents—which, after all, is precisely’ what it is. We have a citizen Congress, just as

we have a citizen Army, and clothes don’t make the men

in either case. > If Mr. Jarman insists on making the Army wear stiff regimentals, let's insist that all representatives wear the recognized uniform of statesmanship—cutaway coats, striped pants, gates-ajar collars, wide black hats and Congress gaiters. : :

FORMULA big : THE record Mr. Ickes is making in getting people to cooperate on gasoline consumption suggests a formula for handling our cotton surplus— : Appoint The Ick administrator of the surplus. Then let him announce that a cotton shortage is threatened, and solicit the public to use less cotton goods. If his experience with gasoline repeats itself, that will immediately start a cotton-buying spree, and before we know it the surplus will have vanished. : Li The zest which the public enjoys not co-operating with ‘Horrendous Harold might also be utilized for other noble purposes. Take unemployment, for instance—which even ‘the tremendous defense boom hasn't dissipated. Put Mr. Ickes in charge, and let him publicly proclaim that a perilous scarcity of labor is imminent and that employers ought to quit hiring so many men—and overnight that problem might solve itself. I hl, :

JASHING MACHINE, NO LUXURY .. NE argument often mfde for selective excise taxes is that they usually are laid on luxuries enjoyed by the

-to-do. But we notice that the Senate Finance Com-.

ttee has clamped a 10 per cent tax on washing machines. The argument advanced here, of course, is not that the pusewife who buys a machine to do her Monday washing seeking luxury, but that the materials used in the manu2 of mechanical washers are needed for the producof weapons. But why do we have a priorities system, not to restrict civilian consumption of scarce materials make sure that military requirements get the first call? try to-do the same thing by a discriminatory tax? _ The fairest raethod of raising revenue is to tax the inof the people—which is taxation

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Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

A Word of Praise for the Alison

Company, Sticking to its Guns in the Face of All the Political Locusts.

is unfair and misleading to blame the Allison Engineering Co. for any deficiency of. quantity or quality in the liquid-cooled engine field just because it happens to be the only outfit producing such engines., In fact, if any defense organization rates a = word of praise today, it is the Allison company. : The only reason we have any liquid-cooled, streamlined aircraft engine today is because the men

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of this concern have hung onto ||}:

_ their purpose of supplying such a power plant, to a virtually uninterested nation. A vacillating bunch of Government agencies first wanted liquid-cooled engines, then ~ didn’t want them, then. wanted them half-heartedly, and then suddenly found that they had to have such an engine. It’s been a

tough pull for Allison. The company announces bhoost-

ing the output of its engine from 950 to 1300-horse | | Every additional horse power turned out by |

power. an American liquid-cooled, streamlined engine means additional safety for the United States in the air. I've complained about American deficiency in this type of superspeed engine, and I want to make it plain that the criticism is directed at the Government agencies—not at the one company which stuck to its guns through the years eaten by political

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r the admirals and generals would like a. field demonstration on co-ordination of land, sea and air forces, I recommend that they occupy balioon or otherwise elevated seats while the Coast Guard and

local police officers stage the round-up of illicit still

operators, There's a Coast Guard plane overhead, with radio

control and communications between it and the land

forces—motorcycle or motor car police—and the patrol surface water craft.

- Stills are usually found in lonely areas, and it is | |

the hawk eyes aloft in planes which generally narrow the search of a suspected district down to given

‘point by locating the tell-tale footpaths and tracks

worn through otherwise uninhabited country by the home-brewing interests. From aloft you can read these signs as easily as you can see footprints in ik ting and plating e necessary scou and Di done, the stage is set for the coup. Highways and byways leading to and from the still’s location are policed. The necessary surface water craft are on station. Up

above circles the Coast Guard plane, communicating

by voice radio telephone to both units. Word of any attempted break in any direction, by land or sea, is immediately communicated to the forces below—an the ‘jig is up. : s = 2 I= almost impossible to escape the eyes that can see right down through the trees, and a break across the flelds, away from the highways, is imme-

ditely checked by, “Field Car No. 3—there’s a man

running through the brush 100 yards east of your position.” -- 2 . : Our Coast Guard is a fine, upstanding American organization, efficient without the fanfare that too often atcompanies anything done in the line of duty by other outfits. My admiration for its personnel datas back to the coastal patrol days of the first World War, when a forced landing at sea or along the coast line invariably brought a Coast Guard rescue party, seemingly out of the empty sea or the sandy wastes. An inSreasing amount of its work is now being done by airplane. If any American youngster seeks real adventure— and can take it without Hollywoodian cellophane heroics—he can get it in the U. S. Coast Guard.

The Finns’ Problem By Ludwell Denny

yy inoron, Sept. 2.—There is still a fair chance that Finland will stop fighting soon, despite denials by the Helsinki Government and by U. 8. Ambassador Winant in London of Russo-Finnish Peace negotiation reports. The uncertainty as to

regaining their former territory, concerns Nazi power rather than Helsinki policy. Hitler, with his ‘troops in their country, may be able to force the Finnish Government to wage a war of conquest even though the Finnish people only want to be let alone by both . Germany and Russia. : This embarrassing situation was foreseen by Britain last June when she warned Finland that it was easier. to. let the Nazi army in than out, and that the price of Hitler's “help” would come high. There is little

.doubt regarding Finland's desire to stay within her

own old borders. As a matter of fact the careful denials do not deny that. There are many reasons why the Finns are not anxious to continue the war: They want the opportunity and time to rebuild their devastated country. : They are too small and too poor as a nation to have delusions of conquering Russia. They are hungry—and more war means more hunger. : They want American aid.

Oo" COURSE the Russian, British a American governments hope that Finland will stop fighting. To make it easier for the Finns, the large Soviet Army on the Karelian Isthmus is reported withdrawing to the old Russian frontier. But, because of the presence of Nazi troops, the apparently mutual Finnish-Russian desire for peace may not be enough to stop the war. Among the possibilities are the following: ' 1. A formal peace—this probably will be prevented by Hitler. | 2. Aggressive war of invasion against Russia—

this probably will be prevented for reasons listed |

above. 3. A formal truce, with <a formal peace treaty awaiting the end of the European war. There is a good chance commitment to Hitler is true. . 4. An unofficial truce. If the Finns are unable the Nazis, the latter may go on fighting from Finland, while the Finns themselves do little or nothing. | .

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IF YOU ASK ME about the Canal defenses, they're 0. k—Maj. Gen. Sanderford Jarman, just returned from comma there.

THE CLO i = e ual om granted to all our e under the Constitution.—Albert W, Chamber of Commerce. Bsc ¢ * .

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which can as yet be only dimly foreseen. —President |

IT'S GETTING so bad that évery. time I hear or || drop 8 bomb.— 1%

see an I think it's “Cotton Ed”

going to th, U. S. Senator, South Carolina, 1 WORE cotton myself ga. _Haywo TH, movie Star, WE

the Greek in the Fw ihe

‘say, “Christ hung’ between two Crane, U. 8. oil man formerly In Athens, : THERE WILL be no place for the country club for itterbug generator, for th Bf

whether the Finns will stop, after |

of this if the Finnish. denial of any

monopolistic, and interferes with Hawkes, president U. 8. |}

. Italian on the other. The Greeks look at t Silas, ne thieves.”—Frederick:

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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A LITTLE BUSINESS MAN'S SIDE OF THE STORY ‘By A Little Business Man ‘America, the land of opportunity! Twenty years ago I took all my savings and opened up a small establishment. For about five years I worked 16 and 17 hours a dsy, giving the best service I could p . ly provide. ; : My business grew somewhat and by 1933 I was running a small but

efficient business with 16 people working for me. My employees were getting paid fairly and they were happy and satisfied. In seven years the New Deal has done this to me: 1. It has piled on taxes to the point where I am about to despair. 2. It has given a racketeering union the right to walk into my shop and practically run my business, with NLRB action if I even dare to protest. The NLRB officials have actually told me they were against me simply because I was the employer. : 3. Now, I am forbidden certain items because I am not on anybody’s priorities list. The result: If something a little brighter doesn’t happen in the next six or seven months, I'm going to have to give up the ghost and get myself a job working for somebody else. You can figure out what happens to the people who work for me. Land of opportunity! What a laugh! : # a 8 CONTRADICTION SEEN IN AMERICAN ATTITUDES By Jean Roessinger We want to see Hitler smashed, yet we give forth with gusto a great barrage of boos and jeers for F.D.R. because he’s sending aid to

Britain for that very purpose. We realize that we should make

| ourselves impregnable and then we

gripe because our young men are drafted to accomplish it. We marvel at the courage of the English civilians because they are sacrificing the luxuries and even necessities of life, and now we scream profanity because of the inconvenience of gas curfews, shortages and defense taxes. We denounce Communists and Nazis, only to follow blindly as they

‘| lead us so very cleverly into strikes,

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disunity and faithlessness. We sing proudly “God - Bless America” and paste flags in the windows of our cars, but go home to bellyache to our friends and neighbors that the country is “going to the dogs.” Why is it? Haven't we the strength of our convietions, or is it that we just don’t have any convictions? : : 8 # 8 LINDBERGH CASE AND NATIONAL MORALE By M. Lowerre i I see that Mr. Lindbergh has been barred from speaking in an Oklahoma City public building. It is pretty hard to ask ‘Americans to fight for the democracy when we don’t see it being practiced right here. Our country is swarming with British agents of all descriptions, from every walk of life. They are feted and entertained by our Government and they are members of a country at war. We have our own American, Mr. Lindbergh, denied the right to speak in a city of the United States. This won't help the Army morale or the civilian morale, and I can assure you it won’t help unity. # 2 2 INDIVIDUAL WORKER AND THE LABOR ‘LEADER’ By Sol 0. Maltz : shal Compare the “maintenance of membership” clause which the C: I. O. endeavored to foist upon the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. with the practice of ousting the union member who has’ criticized the activities of his labor leader,

and the victim, as always, is the individual union workingman.

Side Glances

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In each instance, if the union member dares to criticize the labor leader he is a marked man from that day on. Upon one pretext or another suspension or expulsion is likely ‘to be his -portion. The warkingman then will be discharged by his employer and prevented from getting a job. : It is to the credit of the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that it refused to be bullied into such an arrangement. z 5 » 2 =» FAVORS STAYING OUT, LETTING ENGLAND LOSE

By J. P. Rush Wee«do a lot of bragging about democracy. It's so wonderful we should die for it. My concept of it is: freedom and the will of the people. Will you, who want war and who do your mongering over here instead of in front of Adolf's blitzing, tell me how much democracy thére is in all these steps to war via pro-British Roosevelt and his marionettes? a : What voice have I; or the other 130 million people, in this belligerency that borders on the doorstep of doom? If this is a democ-

stooges gotten us into such a fix|$ that the rest of the world hates us, including our desperate friend Johnny Bull? . Why not be honest and call it totalitarianism or else call it democracy after proving first through a referendum that this nation wants war, not just a few groups who have special bones to pick with Hitler. If we give one man complete powers, power to antagonize the rest of the world, then we are simply Nazis, Fascists, Communists or what have you, How and why in the first place did this nation decide to strip itself | of all its riches in order to save| Britain’s hide. Why did we pick sides? Who dictated that we should side with England? Why are the British propagandists here ' our “friends” and the Germans fifth columnists? : I would think that if this were a democracy that many people would not be afraid to openly say they favor Germany over. England, but yet they are afraid. Why can’t a national hero be allowed to say that he thinks England will lose without being called names by the President? : ; Let us hurry and restore real American democracy. Let England lose. She declared this war. She is|. apparently losing even with our help. Must we become an ‘absolute ruthless dictatorship. in “order to

mocracy? Germany, Italy, France pan have been our bosom alongside : of England’s chery. The Axis powers can win this war and still we can get along with them, as we have previous: to the British fifth columnists taking control of ‘our Gov- | ernment since 1916. We can hardly defeat the rest of the world. Let's stay out and let England: find the} doom she deserves.

DROUGHT « By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL Squared fields whose stored - up

5 Brought forth a wilderness r Now lie parched and dried, Yet, uphold their withered stalks] eC oOpIng Hees winds’

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Johnson Says— 4 2 Now Setup Parallels Perfect!

Famed War Industries Board. Together by Bernard Baruch nl

X X 7ASHINGTON, Sept. 2—1I suppose there w a good deal of doubt and criticism about

we still have no single responsible o ; ’ of the effort, that a F , obviously overburdened as with the affairs of. the. whole

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that the setup doesn’t W proved excellence of the War dustries Board of 1918, etc., ef _ As a veteran of that earlier fort and as a constant student its principles as aftected by 1 developments over many ¥ can’t’ agree, or at least pre ‘ withhold judgment, until this ; ing has a chance fo jell. To take the last supposed objection Hirst, this setup very closely follows the pattern of B. M. ruch’s own War Industries Board. In most cases, ib who think differently do not understand that dent. The slight variances from it can easily: be nded on the ground of changed circumstances an personalities. Furthermore, this organization so close= ly follows Mr. Baruch’s own present ideas and recs ommendations that it would take a good deal -of quibbling to distinguish between the two. It isn't & Rosenman plan. It is a Baruch plan. 3 ® ” ”

st brifigs up a second supposed objection, fre queftly discussed in this column, Mr. Bar was never any real pooh-bah. He depended on locking boards with representatives of all the heads of effort—price fixing, priorities, economie. fare, civilian supply and the separate administra of food, fuel and transportation, war and Navy, & “Allied purchasing” (lend-lease)—all sitting toget on major decisions, with appeal, in case of disagree ment to the next higher or policy-making boar final appeal, if necessary, to the President. This order adopts that principle. Hid a Take price-fixing as an example. Robert was in charge of that, reporting directly to the dent, as Leon Henderson is now. But he was also & member of the super-control board, just as is Hi

derson. Prices were established after due consideration

of both priorities and rationing. The modern para at least on paper, is perfect. fo No one would pick Henry Wallace as an adminis trator of industry. But there, was an excellent reason for making him chairman of the top-side board ant leaving its detailed aministration to an executive secs retary, also in charge of priorities. There are cabinet. , members on that board and Mr. Wallace 1s vice presi i dent. Ln ; dy » 4 hi various shifts that were made—like Kicking Biggers and Stettinius out and upstairs— made necessary for other clear reasons not refl on them and too long

to detail here.” © = L It will be said, and is true, that this puts the more radical New Dealers in the control they have-always:: © coveted and relegates industrialists into the shadows. # This may have evil consequence. Let's wait and see ~ - about that also. ; : Vian Asa plan, this column can’t Sifjetze it. Its tune damental principles have been advocated here fo years. The pity is that it is three years late and ime * measurable harm has been done in the meantime. As to most of the personalities, it could be said that this is just a realignment of the same old bunge ~ lers. But maybe they couldn’t do better before withe out this kind of reorganization. Again, let's wait # see and wish them well. Bi

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ay it s By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Lik

“WEAT are you reading these days?” That common question in mid-summer. First ras books: are scarce, as always when the sword seem} to be mightier than the pen. But, with people who love books, reading, like eating, sleeping and breathe ing, must go on. ; he I have always thought books should be regarded as mental . meals, each day having its proper proportion of proteins, calories and vitamins, with a sweet or two. to finish on. “Something old something new” is my rule. So, balance Douglas = Miller's “¥ Can’, Do Business With Hi

nothing is more enjoyable than to open new bright-covered book. Today the stock or desk offers a fine diversity. : Ear “So To Speak” (Stokes)—one of those

Roosevelt's speech teacher), is entertaining as instructive. It’s personality-plus stuff, and : 2ble unless Jose 8 deat mute, : Le “My Friend Flicka” (Lippincott)—a_ lovely of a boy and his horse by Mary O'Hara. It. everything to lift the spirits—Wyoming hills sunshine, nice pedple and horses. = : “Country School Ma'am” (Little-Brown)—by Lutes, who can resurrect the country, its sounds, smells and meals better than writer I know. i ST “Aviation From Shop to Sky” (Lippincott-—a. book for boys by John J. Floherty, it manages to both technical and imaginative: ° co HO “A Doll Shop of Your Own” (Stokes) by Edith Flack Ackley—a strictly utilitarian bundle ‘done up in snappy wrappings. Worth-while for women hunting for a career. : ! “Rudi Finds a Way” by Joland Foldes, and “Para chute Pup” by Decie Merwin (Lippincott) will be welcome to the next to the littlest and the lit of your family. The “Pup” is gayly illustrated, ¢ of those swell “read aloud to Buster” books Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists per are their own. They sre not necessarily. of The Indianapolis Times. se

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