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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1041

CHURCHILL REPORTING

) USSIA will fold and" Germany will turn her’ full fury’ on | Britain, unless’ ‘Britain and the United States send allout material aid to Russia. That is the net of Prime Min- | ister Churchill’s ‘report to Commons. And there is no : Feasen to doubt that. it is as accurate as it is fearful. ~~: In the words of that master of understatement: “I must say at once that in order to enable Russia to remain indefinitely in the field as a first-class warmaking Power, sacrifices of a most serious kind and a most extreme . affort will have to be made by the British people, and enor- ~ mous new installments or conversions from the existing plant will have to be set ‘up in the United States.” ‘ “If Britain dnd the United States do decide to rush all available ‘supplies and production to the Soviet front, can they make delivery? “It may be that transportation, father than willingness or ability to give, 3 will Prove in the end the limiting factor,” he adds. «-- But if Anglo-American supplies arrive. ‘in adequate quantity and in sufficient time, enabling the Russians to Hold, Hitler still will have enough strength for three other winter offensives if he desires—against the Nile, against Spain and West Africa, and against England, according to the Prime Minister. That sounds like a big order, even for Hitler.

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» 8 : 8 & E rAYBE the usually careful Churchill is resorting to "propaganda here to prevent over-confidence as a result of his: figures on the Battle of the Atlantic: British losses ii the.past three months cut to one-third of the preceding quarter, compared with a 150 per cent increase in German Tosses, . If, however, the Nazis have developed no shortages ~ except in the air, as Churchill reports, then their ability to fight on four fronts this winter may be a possibility. :“Even if this British estimate of Nazi strength is only Half true, it is enough to. prove the obvious—that the. Russians cannot go on: very long taking all: the blows - of: Nazi ~ concentrated strength without relief. Here is a solemn ‘ghallenge to the Government and indusiy and labor of Bimerica.

| GUNS VS. BUTTER—AND ECONOMY

FE you are a single man, fortunate enough to have an ~ income of $8000, it will be your privilege next March 15 0 pay a Federal income tax of $1031. And it should be a

+ Yet, you can’t be sure your money will be used for that purpose. It goes into one big pot in the Treasury, “and “from that pot money is drawn out for diverse expenditures. For instance, your whole tax payment might be 4 spent on thesauruses, and books of synonyms and antonyms ind words and phrases. The Government spent $1077 for uch volumes last year. . Here is a good example of the guns-vs.-butter issue— uns being represented by rations for soldiers, and butter ymbolized by the thesauruses and synonym-antonym books om which the Government press agents get their fancy gdjectives to use in handouts, ballyhoo and ghost-written’ jpeeches. And it’s a good place for the Goveinment to start its economizing.

nt eno d tions-for 2455: soldiers, | ve te ugh to provic ie a day’ S rations; fo 2 = st di “=| “certifi generous base and that Feller had clockers

0 JARADOX HE shrillness “of - Administration speechmakers, in the

= vein of “war ig at hand,” contrasts strangely with :the Var Department announcement that it will not complete

mtil March 3 the removal of over-age offiters from freon :

@mmands. : 14 this county ar "as variouk ‘Cabinet members ‘and others profess to elievé, it would - -appear-that no time should be lost in in-. : igorating the leadership of the. Army in the field. :

High officers of the Army have repeatedly stated their

issatisfaction with the commissioned personnel, much of thich consists of Reserve officers of varying degrees of pexperience. Only the other day Lieut. Gen. Leslie J. fcNair, chief of staff of Army General Headquarters, compented at the Louisiana maneuvers on the inadequacy of fficer leadership. Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear has charged that “our chain of. mmand” is so weak that if allowed to continue, “the chain, it its weak links, will break when an emergency imposes a avy load.” Last year Maj. Gen. H. J. Brees similarly repached the officers. A few months ago Lieut. Col. Thomas Phillips: warned that too many “conservatives and traitionalists” occupy posts in-the Army. The Army has a tough problem, to be sure.:: The great ixpansion of the past year has forced it to spread very thin he available number of really able officers. $ make shift with National Guard and Reserve officers, y of them hopelessly non-professional. ' That has not Been so hot for morale; the rank and file in the ‘Army are @sually quick toadiscover incompetence above. Certainly . is a dangerous situation if war comes. We are tempted to wonder whether the Army is doing € erytbing it can to speed up the promotion of likely junior cers, end of promising enlisted men and noncoms, to jplace aging and misfit leaders in the field.

AT HANGER CRISIS A NOTHER of the defense sacrifices that we face ‘without undue concern is an expected Shortage of those twisted e coat: ‘hangers. If all the wire coat fingers clattering the kote of ican homes could be collected, straightened out, and end to end, it would be a good idea. No doubt if the st-cluttering wirework could be assembled and remelted new steel it would: be. Sufficient to build 2 tanks, | 16

Fair Enough ROY W. HOWARD. RALPH BURKHOLDER - MARK FERREE | : - ‘Busfuess. os

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bargaining has never been established in professional baseball except on the side of the proprietors, traditionally known as the magnates, although two attempts have been made by the sullen serfs to unionize and destroy their exploiters.. The first uprising was that of the National Brotherhood of Professional Ball Players, just at the turn of the century, who organized their own Teague, subsidized, or, if you will, corrupted their own. stable of baseball journalists to ‘exaggerate

‘the established leagues or new ones who joined out with the magnates to fill the @iscarded uniforms of the strikers. :

Pittsburgh club, and the rebels included King Kelly

A. G. Spalding, to desert the brotherhood and sign a three-year contract.

Employers Solidly Organized

THE PLAYERS WANTED more money and an -end to the yellow-dog contract with its reserve clause, which remains the standard contract of the baseball industry to this day, binding a player to renew his agreements endlessly on the employer’s terms and forbidding him to shop around for a new job. On the other side of the bargaining table, the employers are , solidly organized and are forbidden by mutual agreement among themselves to negotiate with individual players under contract to their rivals, : In a few cases these conditions still work hardship -on individual players, but, in reality, the terms of employment are not as ignominious as they would seem. Baseball has a remarkable economic vitality and has continued -to prosper in very hard times, and the owners have maintained some luxurious and extravagant affectations at times when some of them have

-ship the hands on the training trips in the spring. Until about 15 years ago a ball fouled into the stands was pursued instantly by the ushers and retrieved even at the cost of open combat and a ball was kept in play until it acquired the shape of an -egg and feathers and fuzz which made it rustle in flight -like a six-inch shell. ‘Now, even the poorest’ ¢lubs buy their baseballs by ‘the gross, the rule of finders-keepers is strictly respécted in the stands and the umpire will throw out a ball which shows the faintest abrasion.

Landis Between Players and Bosses

are dignified and Judge Landis stands between the ‘player and the more unscrupulous instincts of the bosses. To be sure, Mr. Landis has been an employee of the bosses himself, but, nevertheless, he has made some decisions against them and in favor of the players which have cost certain of the employers ‘great anguish and money. Moreover, the old practice. of whispering-out a player who bruised the dignity of a magnate or came to be known as an agitator or troublemaker has been practically abolished. . A few men have been. whis-

| pered .out since Judge Landis was hired, but in those

cases there were unspoken and unprintable reasons to believe that the exiles were having traffic with crooked gamblers. During the ’20s the more or less social fraternity of théPplayers was organized with Babe Ruth among its members and for a few minutes one winter there was some vague talk of concerted actiton by players in their bargaining relations. But there was an obvious danger that scales would be adopted under which the minimum would become the maximum and the players shied off and the talk of union representation subsided. One of the Cleveland baseball journalists told me during the summer that Bob Feller had a trick contract by which his pay was reckoned on attendance on. the: days when he pitched, all in addition to a

checking attendance, a practice that formerly was commen in the prizefight and theatrical trades. If that is so, Feller is, I believe, the only player who ever commanded such terms, although there have been bonus arrangements for individuals for some years.

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

U. S. Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

‘THE AIRCRAFT TNDUSTRY - is just about where the automobile industry was 25 to 30 years ago. Our “air roads’ occupy just about the same relative position. Our conceptions of regulating air traffic, ditto, Right now, under the pressure of defense, we see powerful interests entering the aircraft manufacturing field. Prior to this present hubbub, wherein we: are : trying to overtake the past, the American aircraft industry was pretty. nearly a closed corporation affair, much the same as the British.

was quite agitated about who. the newcomers in the manufacturing field would be and what they would be like and what they would do to the sacred-cow methods of the aircraft market. - .. The parceling out of subcontracting jobs for items was the first line of defense. The second was the selling of manufacturing rights for a dollar a year or whatnot. After that the bars were broken down and the aircraft field was wide open to the entire automobile industry. And that’s where we are today.

Just Take a Look!

"THERE WERE THOSE who professed fo’ know more than all others, and who scoffed at what could

gines. for claiming that there was nothing mysterious about

making them said about it.

dustry is doing today, with moving assembly lines and facilities available for turning out aircraft like hot cakes, instead of making a veritable ceremony of building something with wings on it. Big business is in the aircraft industry, and be sure to count the automobile industry in. In addition to what the mator car outfit is doing right now, its leaders are open and frank with statements about projecting their mass aircraft production plans into the post-war period. Maybe the cheaper-to-operate and more suitable planes for commercial and private use, made available by the motor car industry, will avoid a flood of warplanes flying the land after Europe’s war. And at the rate private licensed pilots are now being turned out, we’ll have the men and women to fly these to-be-born-after-the- -war, motor-car-puilt - aircraft.

So They Say— When all of it is sifted one central fact remains —the civilization expressed by our American way of life has been arrogantly challenged by a hostile philosophy.—Dr. Harold S. Dodds, president, Princeton University. : * * * x Because the League of Nations was incapable of appreciating the motive that compelled our country to move into Manchuria, we withdrew from this organization: , Army. : 2 ; ‘ » . » X As long as crimes committed against other poaple seem to be profitable, the

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.—Collective |

| the attendance figures at their: games and, through. ; | this subsidy, were able to denounce as evil characters. dll" players who remained. with the old employers in

The loyalists included Billy Sunday, then with the.

who turned down a cash bonus of $10,000 offered by |

been very hard up for money to house and feed and

. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES __-

. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1, 1941

‘—His Bill Holds More Than His Bellic!”

WAGES ARE HIGHER, the working conditions

‘When emergencies started tumbling on us from: ‘all angles and altitudes, the aircraft industry proper

be done toward applying automobile mass production |! methods to the building of aircraft and aircraft en- : Henry Ford drew down ridicule upon his head making aircraft except what those who had been |

But just take a look at what the automobile in-

~Lieut. Gen. Eiki Tojo, Japanese |

~The Hoosier Forum

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

WANTS LEND-LEASE ACT REPEALED IMMEDIATELY By Young Democrat, Indianapolis Mr. Roy Wenazlick, president of Real Estate Analysis, Incorporated, sdid to be the nation’s foremost real estate economist, told the Indianapolis Real Estate Board a few

is going bankrupt at a tremendous rate.” There can be no doubt but that is so. And for what? Not for our own defense because we are not attacked, and are never likely to be attacked. Has not Lieut. Col. Thomas R. Phillips, of the U. S. Army General Staff, plainly shown that this country cannot be successfully invaded from abroad? All we need is ‘to keep a sufficiently strong air force at home, and we should not dissipate our strength by sending :our bombers abroad, where they may be captured. Then

for, and why. are we to be taxed

{into poverty?

Is it to save the British Empire? The British have never been our friend, the contrary is the truth. America became great in spite of the British. It was a monstrous falsehood to say that England’s war is our war, and it was a grievous mistake to have any participation with Britain or any European country in this war, A. noted English woman publicist, Miss Freda Utley, says “if Americans really want to save England let them help her make peace with Germany while it is still possible.” “As an Englishwoman,” she said, “I | hope the United States will not play the same role toward England that England played toward Poland and Norway, Jugosiavia and Greece, promising aid which she was not in ‘a position to give and bringing England, as France has been brought, into a position in which all is lost, when much might have been saved.” Now every patriotic American should rouse himself and his neighbors and save: our : country from complete ruin, Instead of repealing the Neutrality Act, Congress should repeal the Lease-Lend act without delay. If the President makes any more unconstitutional moves to in-

days ago that “the United States!

what is the country being ruinedf

(Times readers are invited “to express their these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

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volve us in war he should be impeached. g o ” » ‘REAL ESTATE RACKET DRAWS EDWARDS’ FIRE By W,. H. Edwards, Spencer There’s much grumbling and discontent among the people about the unreasonable: cost of living these days and the newspapers complain about the government's lack of courage to put a ceiling over prices of agricultural prices, labor, etc. There is one thing that the people and the newspavers must give more consideration to hefore there can be any effective control over the cost of living and the cost of labor that is what has become known as the real estate racket. Real estate, especially that in and around industrial centers, is a basic commodity, a prime one that has an enormous control over the cost of living. Powerful real estate and rental agencies have gained a dominant position in areas around industrial centers and are applying the screws to the workers who want to build and to the ones who are forced to rent because of their inability to buy. So unscrupulous have the real estate racketeers become that they are continually forcing up the cost of living through many channels, thereby causing labor.unrest which labor racketeers seize upon to stir up strikes. We had one experience with inflated real estate prices during World War I, and the misery that was heaped upon us by that wild spree seems to be forgotten. Unless Congress can summon up enough backbone to put over a rigid control of -all prices—food, clothing, shelter, labor, real estate and rentals around industrial centers—we may have to go through a more bitter experience

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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ere are so man

nor gather .into barns;

after this reign of terror is over than we had to go through with after the last world slaughter.

” ” ”, - : OUR EDITORIAL ‘WET, SAYS THIS GENTLEMAN By B. P., Indianapolis Thursday night, Sept. 25th, your editorial writer writes on “Mr. Nye’s New Logic.” Boy is your editorial wet? First letter of the Hoosier Forum by Ex-Gopher same day same page headed “Spots Gobbel’s Manner in Nye's Approach.” Yes your. editorial writer should change places with Ex-Gopher who knows what he is writing about. Sorry to have to criticize my favorite paper but, helpful criticism and all that you know. Harrison White who gives his address as 230 E. Ohio St. writes on the same page a letter in which he seems to have some special information on world affairs. Wonder what he is cloing on E. Ohio St.? He says that England will lose because she is even afraid to attack Germany on land. Wonder who told him? Also that “in my opinion it is impossible for England and the United States to help Russia.” Every man is en-

Gen. . Jofinson'!

NEW YORK, Oct. 1 is. Hoe frequently been remarked here, no independent columnist has any business allowing his nar to be used in any high pressurs coms mittee—especially one designed to ballyhno any particular war pol icy. The reason he hasn't 4s that ~he can control’ neither its membership, its policy nor- the public - utterances of -othet members -and yet, by reason -of ‘his' name on" its stationery, he is held: resperisible for all these things when it is his stock: in: trade, his daily business, to express and be ‘responsible for oly his own: opinions. C My own name is on the Yotterheads of the- Amir. ica First Committee. : When I permitted :that-use; its chairman was Lessing Rosenwald. - Its ‘purpose. -wag to insist on prompt efficient - preparedness of American

‘defense of the western hemisphere, - ons 110 involve-

ment in foreign wars, and in no aid to belligerents except such as comported with these purposes. That was about the gist of the platform of both political

| parties, and ‘the promises of both political candidates.

There were then other comnlittees such as :that to Defend America by Aid to Britain but as: ‘even: its chairman, William ‘Allen White, said - it had no- pure pose to entangle us in shooting war. -. He- said this slogan was: “The Yanks aren’t coming.’ All'-was innocent and comfortable enough: just then: but’ my was. before the debate got really -hot.- ¥

'l Know His Speech Was Ani-Semific'

LATER, EXTREMISTS on both ‘committees took charge. Fascist and politicos flocked to" “Aieriea First. Communists and hot-eyed war-minded ‘men took over Aid to Britain. Lessing Rosenwald resigned from chairmanship of America First and: William Allen White from Aid to Britain. id As emotions flared: higher, half a dozen’ war come mitiees grew. up in greater or less imitation “of ¢ the latter and some pacifist groups forivied to outedo America First. Col. Lindbergh, with whoni T fava repeatedly said I am not in agreement on strategic views: made:a speech in Des Moines that could: hardly be described as other than anti-Semitic and the -witch- finding Senate sub-committee began “investigating” ‘the movie industry. Immediately I began to be deluged with: pressure in my mail and in some papers to resign from America First. I have frequently stated my postion on that and criticized all these un-American, unfair and intolerant tactics. I have never participated in"-the councils of America First or ‘voted. on any of their principal policies for reasons stated: earlier in this column and have informed them of those reasons. I am no longer either polled or consulted: by them on policy or such matters as the recent: declaration that Lindbergh is not anti-Semitic. as to ‘that I don’t know, His speech was. fy A

‘1 Am Used to... Dead Cats’

"BUT 1 AM NOT going to be’ Dinstied A oy hostile criticism which takes no aecount of these things. One reason I joined America : First “with-a good deal of confidence was because with Mr. Rosen- : wald and his business associate, Gen. ‘R. E.. Wao¢ my boyhood friend and life- “long comrade; “at the head of it, I felt sure it was not going permanently haywire on any question of intdlerance. I still hope that in the end it won't. As: long: as it does I shall have nothing to. do ‘with. it." “But I am not going to resign at the first barrage -of ‘errors and dead cats. I am used to them, And I: am going to express an independent opinion. regardless of that of any committee or group. : This is not the only committee on which my name appears. ‘Among several others are the- Com mittees of Award of the American Hebrew, the Council Against ‘Intolerance in America and ‘Bundles. for Britain. They never tried to influence my. opinign and nobody ever asked me to resign from $hem, “It would produce. no result in either case, ©

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A Woman's oo By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WHILE THE MOVIE investi= gation goes on I wish we could

‘get- a statement from the newsreel producers about, anathér matter with which we are alt con cerned—a, matter; moreover, that touches our pockethook. : ‘Why can’t the variofis's » COMY= ‘ panies giving us news reels spread out a little and show at least haif as much originality as other nefrs dispensers who ‘try not. {o. Antitate

titled to his opinion, however most of us are smart enough to keep our opinions out of print unless we have some sure information. Wonder who told Mr. White? Then he says that Russia cannot cope with the “individualism of .the German soldier. 2 Boy that’s a hot one.

8 ” ” CHARGES LINDBERGH ‘HELPS THE ENEMY’ By S. H., Lawrenceburg, Ind. Which is the stronger, love or hate? I pondered this question over and could not reach a conclusion. The question came to my mind regarding Sen. Wheeler and Charles Lindbergh. Sen. Wheeler, a man of his caliber, his education, his intellect, to make common cause with a Lindbergh. Who is Lindbergh? A

daredevil who flew the Atlantic and made- it. And" Sen. Wheeler stoops to combine with: Lindbergh and all they have in common is hatred for President. Roosevelt, admiration and probably love for: Hitler. Mr. Lindbergh speaks publicly and slanders the President, harms in= nocent people. What gives him the

{right to do so? He is not elected

by anyone. He does not represent anyone, no. one asked him to do so. He likes to hear himself talk. In such a turmoil when everyone has a duty to help the administration, he, Lindbergh, helps the enemy.

MAGNA EST VERITAS

Here, in this little Bay Full of tumultuous life and great repose, Where, twice a day, The purposeless, glad ocean comes and goes, Under ‘high cliffs, and far from the huge town, I sit me down.

For want of me the world’s course

will not fail: When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;

| The truth is great, and shall pre-

vail. When none cares whether it prevail or not. —Coveniry Patmore (1823- 1896)

DAILY THOUGHT

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow hot, neither do they reap, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?— Matthew 35:26.

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All service is. ‘the s: same with Gods =

their competitors? Why :do.. we have the same events pietured at every firsi-run thae- ; ater'in town in thé same week? Of course, I am not familiar with the inside pr ings of the business. ‘There may be a very good réa= son for the habit.: But as'a fan and regular patron, it occurs to me ‘that, the customer is. SYPpeck: in- hiyls respect. 2

Don't They Like Surprises? o ne ie 5 ;

SUPPOSE, FOR EXAMPLE; you" ike. OE Ao

first-run pictures oftener than once: a. ‘Week—some

addicts get in three shows in seven days—ang you'll be looking at the same horse race, the same hall game and the same public. speaker -at every, theater uatil you're sick of the sight of them, haa

Surely, in this wide land, there are enough things going on to supply each news reel with an occasional surprise. Or don’t the makers like surprises? Pefhaps they think a change of menu might shock au= diences inured to the eternal routine of horse race, baseball or football ‘game according io season,” ahd public speaker according to headlines, =: -= We concede that an address by the President ‘or some other genuine notable should be- relayed from every source. . The public is willing to endure that form of. monotony without complaint, because: ; Lit knows what is good for it. But is there. an ‘exenss; for

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-other and constant duplications in the Rex's Tetish

It so, we'd like to hear it

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'Q—When was Yellowstone, ‘National pail lished? A—Feb. 28, 1871, by an act of Congress’: - Q-—Is paper money mote valuable to collectors: it it is in good condition? A—The condition is of utmost importance and many collectors prefer “paper money that is crisp and uncirculated. Q—When was vitamin D discovered? ‘What “are the symptoms of a deficiency of this vitamin? ? A—Discovered in 1918. this vitamin is peculiar since more of it is usually taken into the body through the skin than by mouth. A deficieney of vitamin D results in rickets. Fortified vitamin D milk. cod-liver and halibut liver oils are good sources of viiamin D. Q—WkLat is the insignia of the newly o:ganized American Armored. Force? A—The men in this division wear the insignia and the piping of the Service they were in when transferred to the Armored. Force. Men manning the light tanks, who are almost entirely rem the cavale ry, wear the cavalry yellow, and men Irom the artil= lery wear scarlet ‘piping, etc. Q—Are four-cycle, radial engines. ‘used for air-

wi

z planes made with an even number ‘of cylinders?

A—Four cycle, fixed radial engines are always made with an odd number of cylinders, except when double banked, to simplify the. timing and to give a continuous impulse on the singlé-tkrow crankshaft. By -using a double-throw crankshaft, as in the Curtiss Challenger, an eyen number of cylinders can be used. Q—1Is the United States flag ever flown upside down?