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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1941

~ LINKS FOR THE BRIDGE OF SHIPS

AST March, speaking at a dinner of the White House Correspondents Association, President Roosevelt said : “The British people and their Grecian allies need ships. From America, they will get ships.” . : “Hitler's Balkan blitzkrieg ‘revented the fruition of that promise insofar as the Greeks were concernéd. But as for the British, the prospects are distinctly encouraging. There is under way in America today the greatest shipbuilding program—both naval and merchant—in world history. And unlike some other facets of the defense program, shipbuilding is really going to town. Today, in a collective splash that should be heard in Berlin, 14 new ships are sliding down our ways. That doesn’t happen every day or every week, but the figure is prophetic, for present schedules call for an eventual output of two merchantmen a day—14 a week. In an industry whose payroll has numbered fewer than 100,000 men in recent years, the blueprints call for 725,000 workers when the peak is reached next year. The number is already around 800,000. : Prospective production of merchant bottoms is estimated around 6,500,000 tons annually in 1942-43—compared with 750,000 last year. In ‘he meantime units of the twoocean Navy, from battleship. down to motor torpedo boats, are being launched many months ahead of schedule. And British men-of-war in important numbers are having their * battle wounds mended in American yards. The shipbuilding industry, long neglected and abused, has responded magnificently to the call of the emergency.

THEY'RE OFF

A CCORDING to the record books, the football season &™ opened “officially” last week. But actually this is the week-end when the heavy firing begins, when the tough teams take on equally case-hardened ‘opponents and when loyal fans either will begin bleeding for the plight of their alma maters or take on that slightly fevered look that means they have begun to hope this may be the great year. : There's fine foothall on tap today at Lafayette, at Bloomington and at South Bend. We wish we could see all three.

ALLIED WAR AIMS

HERE was some refreshing honesty in the official debate of the Inter-Allied Conference, committing Russia and nine exiled governments to the Roosevelt-Churchill Eight Points. : Of course this declaration of aims is not binding on any of the democracies until it is ratified by their legislative bodies, including the United States Congress. Meanwhile it remains merely the pledge of executives. The Dutch Foreign Minister, Van Kleffens, pointed out that the famous fourth point, pledging equality of all nations to world trade and raw materials, is virtually meaningless because of the Roosevelt-Churchill reservation. That reservation favors international economic equality only “with due respect for their (Britain's and the United States’) existing obligations.” : After protesting against perpetuation of such set-ups, the Dutch representative warned Britain and the United States that in the postwar world “we will have to do away to some considerable extent with measures designed to protect existing economic units.” | #8 os 8 2 o 8 INCE the Netherlands, along with Britain and the United States, is one of the Big Three monopolists of world trade and raw materials, the Van Kleffens statement is more frank and constructive than the Roosevelt-Churchill fourth point. The Dutch are trying to force the British to accept in affect the Cordell Hull declaration of economic policy, on which the President was unable to get the Churchill signature. ; But none of the Allied representatives apparently went to bat for that other major American peace aim Mr. Churchill sank at the Atlantic conference—civil liberties, the two most important of the Roosevelt “four freedoms.” Though the President told Congress that the Atlantic declaration “includes of necessity the world need for freedom of religion and freedom of information,” these liberties have not been pledged by any of the Allies. Unlike some Americans who are cynical about the failure to include civil liberties, we think it is far better for non-democratic allies to refrain from hypocritical pledges. After all, they have a fundamental and unquestioned defense right to fight for self-survival—even those that are not ~ democracies. : , There will be less American kickback if we give them ' material aid on that legitimate basis of licking Hitler aggression, rather than on the 1917 basis of “making the world safe for democracy.” :

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‘, .. BY OPPOSING, END THEM’

HE United States is squarely up against a Hamlet's choice in the matter of small industry: whether to lie back and moan that small industry is to be crushed in the impact of the defense program, or to get in and do something about it—“to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.” : A start has been’ made at Manitowoe, Wis,, town. of aluminum pots and pans manufacture, hard hit by pri--prities which denied it accustomed aluminum, OPM went after that problem, which was acute, and has already awarded an experimental defense contract to one Manitowoc plant. : Others are in preparation for other aluminum plants, and Floyd Odlum is going into action against the whole uation. The plight of small industry

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By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—There may be some who think I am hysterical or guilty of deliberate misrepresentation in comparing some union pickets with the brown shirts of Hitler's earlier days in Germany. I think that is the worst criticism that can be made of this line of discussion. Predictions are out of my line, but I will undertake to show that those unioneers who close factories by force and intimidation are a menace to the liberties of us all, including the very workers whose battles they profess to fight, and that they have committed their offenses knowing that the National Government will view them with a tolerat eye. bin : . ese people have assurhed police powers, powers of Censorship an the ‘right to rule the Prive lives of union members, and they grow bolder day by day. They take it on themselves, at the command of unruly and ambitious bosses, to declare an industry unfair, even when the industry has no voice in a controversy, one way or another, and throw picket lines, which are nothing but privileged: mobs, about the affected plants, They here present a threat of force against any American citizen who wants to go to his work and, meanwhile, by phone and personal visit they carry the message of terror to the families.

Attend or Be Fined!

WHEN EMPLOYERS HAVE done that they have been condemned by these very same unions and by an overwhelming weight of public opinion and I submit that such conduct is equally wrong on the part of a union, and the more dangerous now because it is committed with Government sanction. This persuades the workers who want to go to their jobs and the vast majority of the other citizens that their Government actually has sold them out to the mob leaders. Not many of us really appreciate the arrogance of the unioneers. : . . A waitress recently sent me a call from her local union to attend a meeting at which the members would have the distinguished privilege of hearing an address by Mr. Ed Flore, the national president, who, in Miami and Chicago, turned the waitresses, bartenders and other saloon and restaurant help over to the mercies of notorious underworld characters, and a political speech by a boss of the local who was a candidate for a local public office. Failing to attend they would be fined $5 and even though they had worked as late as 9:30 p. m,, they had to come anyway or pay the fine. >

"Not Horrible Examples"

IN CHICAGO, RECENTLY, a member of a local union announced that one brother in his little lodge had been fined $25 for reading the Chicago Tribune which had been placed on the index for publishing stories about the criminals in union racket there. In Los Angeles, a woman was warned that if she patronized a certain grocery her husband would be fired out of the union and thus blackballed from employment in any unionized occupation anywhere in the land of his birth and citizenship. These are not horrible examples. They are typical instances and rather on the mild side, for they do not concern the real threats of death or injury, which are used to keep American citizens terrorized, or many cases of actual killing and beating by the goons. It takes few men, given to violence and other methods of terror such as’ the German brown shirts employed, to whip into fearful submission a mass of other people many times their number. A union has no more right than the Ku Klux Klan or the Silver Shirts to resort to the club and the secret terror, but, nevertheless, we find that these goons enjoy a special privilege. Thus organized and trained and hardened in their ruthlessness the goons of the unions constitute a terribly dangerous force which could be taken over by an unscrupulous brutalitarian in time of future emergency. Their power should be broken now and by Congress, not by President Roosevelt.

U. S. Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

EVERY NEW AIRCRAFT is launched, not on wings, but on the imaginations of the builders. The back-wash then takes the form of critiques by people who hardly know one end of an airplane from another, and by the “appointed” experts who knew something about aviation 20 or 25 years ago, but have learned nothing new about it since. > Long before a new flying boat takes ithe air for its trial flights we are deluged with nonsensical opinions as to its worth. It's about time to learn that each stage and period of the world and of industry ‘must discover by trial and error just how large it can build anything. In other words, the “point of diminishing returns” for a particular form or design of anything must be discovered. . It is generally accepted that the Navy's new giant Martin flying boat was laid down on the drafting boards about the same time the Army's B-19 was hatching. That was about five years ago. Trying to plan for five years ahead in this rapidly changing aircraft industry borders on unrealistic thinking, but how else can such aerial Goliaths ever be built? And build them we must.’ >

B-19 of No Value—Now

THE B-19 IS OF NO military value in the war now being fought, and I suppose the same thing may

be said of the new Martin flying boat. But the Navy's Martin and the Army’s B-19 ships will some day be recognized as the prototypes of still bigger aerial battlewagons for the war between the continents that I believe is coming. And from what we have seen thus far of airpower dominating the land and the seas within range of its shore-based bombers, it is likely that those zones in the war to come will be the perimeter not of the longrange bombers alose, but rather the range of the “permanent possession” elements of airpower over the land and all but the defensive p-rtions eof the oceans. Until bombers are capable of effectively defending themselves, that super-performance flying gun nest—the single-seater fighter—will prevail on the, defense. : How about the oceans? Only long-range aircraft can fly them. The single-seater fighter, by reason of its design and flight requirements, cannot fly the oceans and compete with the short-ranged, shorebased fighter. i That means we will have bombers poking out farther and farther, attempting to extend the boundaries of military influence. It seems evident that long-range aircraft will play the vital role in the inter-continental wars of the future. Where that future is, no one knows, and it is essential that our extra long-range experimental work should be done as quickly as possible—now.

So They Say—

Unless: labor and material priorities are granted quickly to those areas which cannot participate in defense business, Michigan and the nation will see economic chaos in three months.—Governor Van Wagoner of Michigan. J * i

f It is a mistake to think of Russia’s war as a battle to save communism. It is a battle to save Russia, and communism may be one of the casualties, even if Russia is saved.—Dr. R. J. Kerner, University of California. *

Mothers who come and go, preoccupied with social or professional interests, are a definite menace to the emotional stability of their children.—Dr. Clarence M. Hincks, Toronto psychiatrist. ~ » »

There is always the possibility that admiration for some one aspect of a totalitarian regime . . . may blind men to the whole truth.—Dr, James B. Conant, president, Harvard University, b ;

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WANTS ALL BOND MONEY KEPT IN THE U. S. By George O. Davis, R, R. 4, Brazil I think the U. 8. Treasury could increase the sale of our defense bonds if they would have guarantee slips printed which could be attached to each bond, at the option of the buyer, which would read, “None of the money received for this bond will be loaned or given

to any foreign nation, or be used to buy anything to loan, lease or give to any foreign nation, especially dishonest ones.” I suppose I'll get some answers from the bad rubber stamp citizens. All public officials should be good rubber stamps to express the needs and reasonable desires of the majority of the citizens under their jurisdiction. A citizen should only agree with public officials when, they are convinced the official is right. That is his legal freedom of speech and thought. A citizen should not agree with any public official because of politics or social relations, when they think the official is wrong, unless he wants to be a bad rubber stamp. There are good and bad rubber stamps. I hope no one misunderstands me,

: Ba Le A DRAFTEE PUTS IN HIS SIDE OF IT By A Draftee, Ft. Harrison. There is too much talk by people about the “sacrifices” of the men going into the Army. You would think that the United States had conscripted an army of a million men who didn’t want to serve a lick, or gave a damn about whether Hitler won or lost. This is so untrue somebody ought to pin their ears back. If these people would serve a day in the Army, they might have a right to talk. All they do is gab and gab about the President and Army

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“morale” from the safety of their club armchairs. As far as I am concerned, I'm satisfied in the Army. I'm willing to serve my. year or two years. I want to see the Germans whipped, even if it means we've got to go over there and do it. And there are

thousands and thousands just like

me. We're the ones who tote the guns.

® a 8 CORNER LOT PARKING ANGERS THIS WRITER By S. E., Indianapolis. I have just passed the corner of Washington and Capitol Avenue, across from the Statehouse and was appalled by the brazen violation of the law by the parking lot there. Cars are parked on the sidewalk and over the curbs and presumably the people are paying this corner lot good money for parking. Here are these cars sitting on the sidewalk impeding pedestrian traffic and being a definite traffic hazard and the corner policeman pays no attention whatever. What kind of laws do we have? One kind. for the ordinary citizen and another for the privileged? 2 * 8 2 DEFENDS POLICE, SAYS THEY ARE DOING DUTY By R. E. S., Indianapolis. : I disagree violently with these persons who have written letters complaining about the police doipg their duty. - For years we have complained about the police letting motorists get away with anything and every-

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thing and now that they start to do their job and a few people have to pay the piper, there’s the dickens to pay. , 2 ® 8 SEES OLD TANKS AS SCRAP SOURCE

By Vincent G. Leix . A recent news photograph showed World War tanks gathering rust at Fort Meade, Md. To me it was not a news item, as it was meant to be, but a glaring example of the failure to use one’s head. We trust_the defense of our great

democracy in the hands of men who clamor for steel and more steel, and yet offer hundreds of tons of high grade scrap steel to “park officials for decorative purposes.” I am employed in one of our great steel mills and to me, as to thousands of others, a piece of useless machinery such as each of those tanks, represents tons upon tons of shining steel, steel for defense. I have read stories of real Americans, I patriots, gladly and proudly tearing up their historic and sentimentally famous iron fences and hitching posts to donate them to our Uncle Sam to help defend our liberty. But still, the army wants to give thousands of times that amount of steel away. To me that does not make sense.

2 8 8 TELLS WHY HE FAVORS INSPECTION OF AUTOS

By Robert M. Reed Why do people fight against this compulsory automobile inspection? Are they afraid they might find out what is wrong with their car? I read a letter in this column on

Wednesday, Sept. 17, in which the writer stated that the cost of inspection and the cost of repairs would financially cripple some workers who. are just getting on their feet. (These workers who® must drive back and forth to work in the cheapest cars they can get,) In my opinion anyone who is crippled financially in making repairs on his car can recover a whole lot sooner than a person hit by a car and possibly crippled physically for the rest of his life. It doesn’t matter if a man drives the cheapest car on the market or even the most expensive, if that car is a threat to the life and physical well being or even to the property of an innocent person that same car should be taken from the road until such time when it is no longer a hazard.

- GIFTS

Give a man a horse he can ride, Give a man a boat he can sail; And his rank and wealth, his strength and health, On sea nor shore shall fail.

Give a man a pipe a can smoke, Give a man a book he can read: And his home is bright with a calm daylight, .

Though the room be poor indeed.

Give a man a girl he can love, As I, O my love, love thee;

|And his heart is great with the] .

pulse of Fate, Aft home, on land, on sea. ~James Thomson (1834-1882).

DAILY THOUGHT

Receive thy sight; thy faith hath saved thee—Luke 18:42.

Deem not life a thing of conseFor look at the yawning

this isn’t a political war. ‘| convince us, on the other, that that is exactly what -

SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1041] Gen. Johnson Says—

country is going to be sold a gold brick thinly coated with banana oil, if Congress passes a price control bill that attempts to put no kind of ceiling over wages and rents and restricts ceilings over farm prices to 110% of “parity.” "Indeed it is going to be sold a gold brick if the bill doesn’t put a ceiling over all prices. “ Wages and food are the prin2 cipal elements of the cost of. all things. | Rising prices follow rising costs as night follows day. It should be apparent to a high-school sophomore that you cannot stop price advances, especially in the cost of living if you do not control the rise in the elements of cost. : : : The country understands the reasons for it and demands legislative action to prevent runaway prices. The opposition to stopping runaways in all prices

minister.” Yet the advocates of the bill want power to administer piecemeal practically all prices except rents, wages, and food. They want to do that separately in each field if, and only if, they decide to doit."

“It's a Ridiculous Impossibility”

THERE WILL BE MANY more cases to ad--minister, and it will affect 130,000,000 people just as :

ceiling .plan, and, as to difficuty of - administration, the two cases simply do not compare. On_the overall method you estdblish one general e for all

Both buyers and sellers know what that was. There * can’t be much dispute about facts. Then you have to deal only with the exception, where changed conditions or changed policies have created a special neces-. sity to change a particular price upward or downward.,.

separate cases. advance and all are elements of cost (and price) of

You must adjust again, continuously upward.

down a few with his paw, but 10 times as many stick in his mane and a million times as many soar over

a rathole with a brad-awl, or to pick fleas off a dog with boxing gloves on, .

Orders From Higher Up

FARM PARITY is not an inflexible price. : It goes up in direct ratio with prices the farmer has to pay. The principle of tying wage increases to increases in the cost of living is exactly the same htt of thing. If farmers and workers are assured of this they have no right to insist on more—certainly not to. an absolute freedom to them alone to increase prices.

over-all price control is devastating. Devastating, yes all but for one thing. The mid-

Henderson, as a very unconvincing advocate of piece=:

he is taking orders from higher-up. Some members

made it equally clear in their hearings that their . judgments are swayed by similar considerations. Tris weak-kneed complacency may go down in history as the “crime of 1941.” If inflation, meaning unconscionably high costs of living, is not controlled now, which is just about the last chance, no future. generations are going to arise to call these gentlemen blessed. 3 ‘We are told continucusly on the one hand that News dispatches must

it is. It is a Lell of a note.

versity of Oklahoma Press) is doubly welcome on my desk be-

Noel Kaho. Literary critics praise it highlyy and, as interest in Will Rogers . doesn’t seem to wane, it is certain’ to have a wide sale. This piece”

written for another reason. Often the story behind a book is more interesting than that inside its covers. Kaho deserves special mention, not because he has written something good, but because he is a brave :

Will Rogers country from whence he came. A large part of his mature life has been spent

take refuge in a retreat.

The challenge of humanity comes from #he struggles they show infinite fortitude of soul. have such a good excuse for doing nothing. Yet how The pages of history are filled with stories of men and women who turned personal disaster into victory. None is more arresting than that of our own Presi~ dent. come to our senses. tracks by personal catastrophe. The end of the world - the God-given spark within asserts itself.

failure becomes the mother of success.

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Q—Where largest public high school in the United States. = " A—The DeWitt Clinton High School in New York City, with more than 13,000 pupils, is the largest. Q—How long does hay fever season last? A—There are three seasonal varieties of hay fever The spring type begins about the end of March anc extends to the end of May and is due to the pollen o trees such as the oak, elm and birch; the summer typc Begins 81 ie end ot May a extends to the gd]. | of Ju ens of grasses and sorrel; the fall type begins in the middle of August anc continues until frost. The pollens of ragweed are To ee dis x Spani awards did the Cocker “My Own Brucie,” win last year? : a y : A—He was adjudged the best of all breeds at the Westminster Kennel Club’s annual exhibition at Madison Square atten, New Fails City. He was ce the ter during the year, gaining top honors at the Detroit Kennel Club exhibition and repeating his triumph at the Cocker Spaniel Breeders’ of New England specialty show in Boston. - . Q—How far do Jocomons ves hauling freight trains

| void of the future, and at that other

travel on one ton of coal be A—The average locomotive 3 Jona Seg train

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centers on an assertion that it “is too difficult to ad--

directly on the piecemeal plan as on the over-all .

prices—the level’ as of a certain date everywhere.:

But, under piecemeal price fixing of each price group severally, -you have to deal with millions of While you are dealing with each. regulated group,-the unregulated groups continue their. the regulated groups. It is a ridiculous impossibility. - .It is like a great lion opposing a swarm of locusts, : He roars at them, catches a few in kis mouth, bats -

his helpless head. It is like trying to poke smoke down

The case will simply not bear argument and that for, "

term congressional elections are approaching.’ Mr, meal price-fixing, has intimated in his testimony that

of the house banking and currency committee have -:

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson *

is not intended as a plug; it is. Noel person in his own right and is himself a credit to the = in - tubercular sanitoriums. .His body is too frail for its.

spirit, and in his eager search for information and his ': zeal for work he wears himself out and is forced to.

A Triumph of Spirit 3 IT ISN'T THE STRONG of earth who inspire: us. : of those whose flesh is weak, for, in many instances, Their achievements merit extra praise, since they :

many examples we have been set by such individuals!

Sometimes the gods slap us down so that we may-= We are brought up short in our

is upon us, we think. The skies darken. Tragedy is. our lot—when out of the depths of a soul's despair :-

comes back and life flows in another channel. our = My friend Noel Kaho is due a salute. His fine little book is a literary accomplishment, but it is much

more. It is also a triumph of spirit over flesh which = testifies to man’s right to claim kinship with divinity, -

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