Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 October 1941 — Page 10

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ATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1941

HITLER'S SPEECH 80 hard it “never again will rise up.” the Russians don’t seem to know it. Hitler said e} sean “we are putting the whole con- _ tinent into our service.” Maybe so, but judging from the busy gullotines and firing squads, much of that continental energy has been consecrated to sabotage and guerrilla - warfare. 2 . The Fuehrer boasted, further, that Germany can “beat

The trouble is,

. all possible enemies” no matter “how many billions they |

are going to spend.” Americans, accepting this as a reference to themselves, will be skeptical. a 4 We may well take note, however, of Hitler's remark that Germans “do not talk of capital but of the strength of labor.” For with all our appropriating of tens of billions, we have delivered : comparative little to the firing lines. True, the conversion of our economy from a/peacetime basis to a defense basis has been commenced. But as Donald M. Nelson said in an interview with John W. Love, “ours is a job of fantastic size, the most fantastic any nation "ever faced, and the public does not yet understand it.” If we are to succeed at that job, if Hitler's boasts are to be gainsaid by a Niagara of American supplies to his : enemies, then we shall have to raise our sights and quicken

our step. i

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EC WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY GOES * TF you are married and have an income of around $2000 your, Federal income tax will be about $106. The Government might use your money to buy more than two dozen pairs of shoes for soldiers, at $4 a pair. : ent might spend it for a 9x12 American oriental rug—Procurement Divisions list price, $106.30— to adorn some office|in Washington. nt your wife would probably think that the country would have been just as well off it you had kept the tax and bought a new rug for your own front room.

- ALASKAN MYSTERY ONE of the mysteries in preparedness is the endless delay in the Alaska international highway project. Long desirable for the commerce and development of America’s richest untapped territory, it has become an emergency defense need because of the threat of Pacific war. : Both the Washington and Ottawa Governments appear to be enthusiastically in favor of constructing this link, connecting the United States and Alaska across western Canada. There have been numerous official joint commissions, conferences, surveys, recommendationg. Much red tape has been wound and unwound. Everything is ready for the final survey and quick ~ ‘construction, with action expected daily—but nothing happens. So it has been for many months. rE Of course if Alaska were not the vulnerable side in our Pacific defense triangle, completing the lines from Panama and Hawaii, the delay would be understandable. But belatedly the U. S. Army and Navy are now arming Alaska. The Navy, after pouring its millions into Hawaii, now discovers that Japan's flanking route to the United States _ via Alaskan etue is 1400 miles shorter. Japan's great

Paramushiru base is only 750 miles from the American Aleutians. If Japan attacks Russia, as threatened, and gets the Kamandorsky Island base, she will be only 260 miles from our territory. The Bering Strait stepping stones of the Siberian and Alaskan Diomede Islands are less than three miles apart. | No Wousled the Army and Navy are getting excited at last. | There is apparently no major engineering or technical barrier, | It is estimated that a 1200-mile, 24-foot graveled all-year road could be built in 24 months, or under pressure in,12 months, for $25,000,000. As the ship shortage and the lack of transport planes increase, the need for a military highway becomes more . acute. Such a highway would be cheap insurance against possible aggression, for the present isolation of Alaska is an invitation to any enemy of the United States.

ER NOR FOOLISH 'EFANSSON spent a lifetime prowling e spaces of the Arctic. Lots of people just shrugged and said it was a queer way to spend a life- - time, and forgot all about it. Admiral Byrd made airplane explorations of both Polar regions, and. twice spent entire winters in the Antarctic. Lots of people said it was a capri- _ cious and foolish way for a man to put in his time. A couple of hundred thousand American soldiers are ~ going to benefit from what they learned of life in the cold - regions of the earth. : ; > With announcement that several more bases are to be established in the North Atlantic, it becomes clearer that the permanent mili establishment in the outlying bases is going to be considerably larger. Peculiar health problems are involved. It is necessary that the right kind of clothing and food be prevtien that the limits of what man can do d cannot do in those rigorous climates be defined. ‘What Stefansson and Byrd have found out in regard to

those matters is available to the U.S. Army, and it may save’

thousands of lives. What Byrd learned about airplanes and

i ion Polar flights may be very serviceable’

indeed to the Army, Navy: and Coast Guard fliers in these : J ys. { - T : . . . 3 Great peoples always owe a debt to the few individuals mong them who see farther ahead than the general t of vision, and who are willing to work unrecognized and

Tebifed against the time when the rest catch up with.

Business Manager |

DOLF HITLER said yesterday that Russia had been hit |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler |

NEW YORK, Oct. 4—To all the American workers, men and women, who have been compelled to give up various sums of money to the licensed extortioners of the

unions as the price of jobs on

cantonments, factories and other

works in the national defense or war program, greetings. If you have not already lost or thrown away the receipts which were given you by the stick-up men at the gates of these projects, don’t. Take good care of your receipts because there is a bare chance that these extortioners will be forced to refund your money by Congressional action and, anyway, even if it proves impossible to mecover, you

may be able to break up the racket and send some ;

of these crooks to’ jail. Of course, many of these receipts are mere scribbles on little printed slips of paper, but save them anyway, because once a mass of them are placed in the hands of an honest committee they may add up to something like a case. I have seen a few myself which looked like bookmakers’ slips with signatures that seemed to have been scrawled with the definite purpose of defying interpretation. In such cases it is possible that the racketeer was grafting for himself alone and holding out on the local which he was supposed to represent.

Oh, Boy, What Gravy!

THAT IS AN INVITING POSSIBILITY which is not likely to have been overlooked by the type of baboon who would rob a poor pick and shovel stiff of $25 or $50 that might have bought things for the amily. Then, too, it is an established fact that some of these miserable rackets calling themselves unions pay the business agents or stick-up men a cash commission of $10 to $15 on each sucker delivered to the rolls and we want to be able to show the identical signatures of a lot of receipts by way of showing what a sweet racket this-has been for those fragrant friends of the working man. Some of these business ‘agents or organizers have concessions the like of which no independent swindler ever heard or dreamed of. The U. 8. Government grants the union a license to rob the stiffs and they have to pay or the Government will turn them down at the jobs. And after they have paid, the Government protects the grafter by refusing even to ask him what he did with the money. The Government doesn’t even ask whether he turned it over to the so-called union. That is a

matter to be fought out between him and the other |.

grafters who hold the charter.

Not Off the Hook, Yet

NOBODY HAS ANY IDEA how much these rodents have extorted from you workers and the total probably never will be known, but it certainly is ‘way up in the millions and it all came out of the taxpayers because the money for the war jobs comes out of the Treasury. The taxpayers wouldn't mind if the money went to you, but when this system begins to break up and it is shown that they have been sacrificing for the clear benefit of these grafters operating under Government license they are going to mind plenty. Another thing to make note of is the dates. Check back and set down the dates when you were hired and the dates on which you finished paying - your initiation fees and were fired. Many of you Were canned as soon as your shake-down payments were completed so that the crooks eould initiate new suckers and rob them in turn and your receipts and memoranda will prove that. This is going to be good once the reaction starts. These evil gyps, protected by the Government and the great tradition of the labor movement, aren't off the hook yet. They think things have quieted down, but Congress is going to come alive on this thing yet and when that happens your receipts and testimony will be needed. : } Save your receipts. You might get your money

Rich on Way Out?

By William H. Stoneman

LONDON, . Oct. 4—On the theory that “rich old men” are not going to be “either popular or numerous” in post-war England, the Conservative Party has taker ano her slight step toward reducing the number of such gentlemen who represent, it in Parliament.

At day-before-yesterday’s meeting of the Central Council of the National Union of Conservative i and Unionist Associations, it was : decided that candidates for Parliament adopted by local divisional associations might be refused the approval of the central party machine “should unreasonable financial conditions debar suitable candidates from consideration.” In other words, the standing advisory committee of the party may blackball a candidate chosen by the local committee if it discovers that he has been chosen Just because of his willingness and ability to finance the local party machine. : If they take the present decision seriously, a great many Conservative M, P.s must be shivering in their boots. By far the greater majority of the 400-odd Conservative M, P.’s now serving are men of wealth and it would be admitted by any objective political observer that the great majority of them are nothing but party wheelhorses. ' . During the period of crisis preceding the present war not more than 40 Conservative M. P.’s ever revolted openly against the machine and, according to the best estimates, not more than 75 even threatened to do soon any one occasion. ’

Must Wait Until Truce Ends

INTERESTING FACTS about the financial situation of the average Conservative M. P, and the contributions he was forced to make to the party have

| been revealed on many occasions and without result.

In a book entitled, “Tory M, P.,” published in 1939, it was pointed out that 775 company directorships were held by Conservative M. P.’s and that 181 individual M. P.’s held such directorships. This, 44 per cent of all Conservative M. P.’s were company directors while only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the entire population held similar directorships. It was concluded that hardly anybody without a private income of 2000 pounds a year ($8000) had any chance of becoming a Conservative M, P. Any real housecleaning in the parliamentary Conservative Party will have to await the end of the present political truce and the holding of a general elec tion. Death alone can rob an M, P. of his seat under present conditions. On those occasions when seats have been vacated the Conservative Party machine has shown little inclination to fill them with wide-awake people capable of representing the interests and feelings of their constituents in a su or way.

! 1941, In a (Copyright, by he go dianapolis Times nd The Chicago

So. They Say—

Time can be placed under priority—but in this emergency, time is so precious and priceless that it cannot ‘be price-controlled.—Leon ' Henderson, price trator, OPM. ® .

The country cannot have ess as usual, but neither can the Government e political pap as usual. —Dr. Henry M. Wriston, president, Brown University. * *

Just as the Maginot Line concept of how this war

would be fought proved fallacious, the pattern of |

financial consequence may differ greatly from the last war.—Donald B. Woodward, research Mutual Life Insurance Co.

Make it a world of lovers c

never will they have

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~~ The Hoosier Forum

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

A WORD IN BEHALF OF THE WINDSORS By Mrs. E. E. Clark, 24 W. 18th St.

Now comes.a young man presums=ably from Madison Ave. in Indianapolis trying to heap some stigma on the Windsors after they squared all accounts. A man and wife of middle age. What is it, some Nazi propaganda stuff (trying to pry the British people and Americans apart)? United we stand. Divided we will fall—and that’s what Hitler wants. . ...

* = = EDITOR OF HOOSIER FARMER ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS

By Edmond ©. Foust, Editor, The Hoosier Farmer

Seated comfortably in an Eastern office, members of the Brookings Institute and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau apparently have the solution of inflationary tendencies by deflating agriculture in the first moments that it has shown a general profit for ten years. The proposition proposed by these prophets reminds one of the fellow who chopped down the tree so - the cherries could be picked easier. During the past ten years American agriculture furnished food and fiber to the consuming public at 17 billions of dollars below a price level equal to that enjoyed by others for their labor. The public benefited.

There is no shortage of food in the nation and certainly no person believes farmers are becoming wealthy on $1 wheat. Bread price increases would justify a 60-cent per bushel advance on wheat. Turning more wheat loose probably would not lower bread prices. Cotton prices are higher, but an annual income to cotton farmers of less than $200 makes them no “plutocrats.”

When the Federal goverment takes a tax of $1.08 per pound on cigaret tobacco and the grower gets but 16 to 17 cents per pound for investment and labor, little hope remains for tobacco fortunes on the farm. To sum up the situation, in the cry for cheaper food, to keep down industrial wages; to check rising commodity prices, and consequently to head- off inflation, let the leadership not forget that should farm

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people include a wage or return for their skill and investment comparable to that recognized for industry and labor, the greatest calamity of history would befall the nation. Agriculture can carry only its own load, not the burdens of the entire nation. 8 #8 = DEFENDS HIS PRAISE OF GERMAN SOLDIERS By Harrison White, 230 E. Ohio St.

For the person who designates himself as B. P., may I for his benefit enlarge upon the individualism of the German soldier? Up to and including the period of the World War, all the soldiers of all countries of Europe, were trained to move on command only; so if the command were ‘lost. the company became as a flock of geese that had lost its leader; then came the Yanks with their natural individualism; they could lose their command and any one of them could and would assume the command; they were better soldiers because of their individualism, The German people always make the most out of their every experience, so ever since the World War Germany has taught every young man individualism in their military training; that is, how to deploy themselves and to use their own initiative in every conceivable situation a soldier might encounter in case of war. Those who show the greater initiative are sent to a special military school and those who prove to be most apt in school are made corporals in the army; these German soldiers are better trained for actual war and for all practical purposes as a soldier than any other soldier in the world; so the German army is never without a leader. Under Communist Russia the soldier surrenders when the com-

Side Glances=By Galbraith

mand is gone; here is an example, “When the Communist command left the city of Kiev in the recent battle there the Army surrendered,” so again P say if it were possible for us to send to Soviet Russia all that we have, there is not enough genius under communism to begin to use it against the ingenuity and individualism of the German soldier.

8 8 =» TENANTS GET THEIR SHARE OF THE CRITICISM By A. S.: Mellinger, 3500 W. 30th St. There have been several letters, pro and con, on the landlord and tenant question. I have been on both sides of the fence, owner and

|renter, too, in my time. For every

question it has been said there are two sides, but there are three now, your side, my side, and the truth. In this I am taking the third side. I have worked in general maintenance work for 15 years so I should know a little truth. Not one tenant in 100 will turn his finger over to do anything to keep up the property. If a board is loose, they will be more likely to pull it off then to nail it on. If the least thing is wrong, squawk at the landlord. I had a case of my own.\A porch leaked; I fixed it; the tenant claimed it still leaked. I could not see how it could. I moved in this house myself and found this tenant was just lying. If there was money. in owning property, why are all the organizations selling their property as fast as they can? I can name two that do not have any now to rent at all. If the present trend continues .you won’t be. able to rent a-house in 10 years. So, Mr. Renter, who is to blame? : » » # “ISOLATION BE DAMNED,” YOUNG DEMOCRAT TOLD

By F. D. Helm, Indianapolis So the good ole United States is going to go bankrupt, says the young Democrat who wants repeal of the Lend-Lease Act. (The Hoosier Forum, Oct. 1, 1941) ° I say this to him: Our céuntry is in great peril. We can be attacked and we probably will be. True, we are dissipating our defensive war strength to a degree. True we are taxing our people and resources to an ever increasing degree. But be this, The United States of America could not ever exist as a free nation of free peoples if England falls with Russia and all Europe is dominated with Nazi ideals and creeds, way of life, Do you, sir, defend their deeds, their sense of justice, honesty, brutalistic efficiency, and , atheistic creeds based upon force and might? I don’t. I believe my duty, now, not later, is to help with what power I command those who are fighting to uphold the precepts and ways of a free people. Yes, I mean England. When we help England now we

|| strengthen ourselves. ; . .

Isolationism be damned. The United States is too big, too Christian, too brave, too proud to lock her

‘destiny within her shores.

I know we the people of the U. S. A. are paying and will continue to sacrifice, willingly, to have peace.

to freedom through Nazi defeat.

MADRIGAL

Take, O take those lips away That so sweetly were forsworn, And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn:

{| But my kisses bring again, | Seals

Bring again— of love, but seal'd in vain, ~Seal’d in vain! . | 'W. Shakespeare (1564-1616).

DAILY THOUGHT

| The things

which - impossible men are possible with

Gen. Johnson

Ours is no road to bankruptcy, hut|

God—|

SATURDAY, OCT. 4, 1941)

Says—

NEW YORK, Oct. 4—Here Is a letter written by a man of promeinence in one field of American endeavor to a man of prominence in quite a different field. I may say that it received a sympathetic —not to say enthusiastic-—response, Note that the letter was written two days before the Nova fight: “Greenwood Lake, N. Y. Sept. 27, 1941: “Dear Mr. Baruch: “I have been reclassified by the Selective Draft Board, and I expect to be called into the service of my country. This may cause me to retire from the ring. . ’ : “But before I retire, I want to put up one more fight—the best of my career—to help my people, “The hardest fight I ever had was against prejue dice and intolerance. My people know what I mean, They are all fighting their way up, and I want to open the door of opportunity a little wider for them. The fight I propose to make will not be staged in an ¢ arena against one particular opponent, but out in the open across the counfry. If I could get a ‘gate’. as big as I've ever seen in the Yankee Stadium and: turn it over to the Department of Race Relations of. the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in

America for the splendid work that department ‘ig. -

doing on behalf of the Negro people and better rela=tions with their white neighbors, I'd feel like a real. champion. ! : * Pa “I propose to start the ‘gate’ with my own cone! tribution, and I want you to subscribe for a box:

a ringside seat or other reservation. This is one.

purse which does not have to be shared with promot«" ers or managers. Every cent will'be used to better the: condition of my people and in creating better human" relations in America. “Will you co-operate by sending your cheque or money order, in any amount, payable to Frank H, Mann, treasurer, and mail it today? If you help me win this time, I'll feel that I've won the greate est fight of my life. Thank you. Sincerely yours, | (Signed) “JOE LOUIS.” |

He Is an American Asset

I HAVE NO DOUBT from its context that this same letter went to many people and that Joe didn’ actually compose the very appealing missive To me that doesn’t make any difference. Joe’s conduct over the years in the most -difficuls kind of tests of courage, fortitude, sportsmanship and plain Americanism that could be given any man has made that letter possible and true. The very able phrasing wouldn't mean a thing without that and ‘couldn’t be made to mean a thing. . 3 Joe Louis never squawked,' boasted, lied, faked, dodged a fight nor tried to milk his popularity to his personal advantage. He lifted a sport that in the hands of some of his white brethren had threatened to become a racket into a cleaner and more respectable atmosphere. In other words, he is not merely an oute standing credit to “his people,” as he, calls them. He is an American asset. Nothing emphasizes that more than his eagerness to surrender his fabulous income and prospects and get into uniform as a private soldier.

It Deserves Wide Support

BY EXAMPLE, HE HAS done something more in the hard way than could ever be done in years of . preachment. : He has taken race-prejudice, as far as he is cone cerned at least, out of the fight game. Considering the emotional nature of that field, this seems ine credible. ¥ ! But sitting in at his Nova battle it seemed to me that most sympathies were with the champion and this was strange, not merely because there is a natural wolf-pack tendency to wish to see the leader downed, buf also because Lou Nova himself is far above the average type of white contender, I don’t know just what Joe plans as his “last fight and ‘the best” but I hope and believe that it will have the widest possible support.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“A LITTLE HEALTHY hate 19 needed right now to offset so much maudlin sentiment.” - Those words, from a magazine article, are taking on a familiar ring. The other day I sat in a large lecture hall and heard a man calling upon the audience to cultivate hate. : “We must work. up some good strong hatreds,” he said. “We must know how to hate as well as love. There's nothing wrong about that, for hates necessary to life. And I tell you this country has got to have more of it before we can lick that scourge of the world, Adolf Hitler.” ‘I hope men and womeén of intelligence and good will, whatever be their creeds, will refuse to accept this doctrine, which seems to me pernicious and degrading. . t We must lick Hitler-—-yes. But aren’t you just a little tired of hearing it said that one fights fire with" fire. One doesn't, really. One fights fire effectively only with water, and, to continue the figure of speech, when nothing but fire is used everything finally dise appears, consumed by the flames,

'We Do Not Need More Hate'

IF, IN ORDER TO rid the earth of Hitler, we must clothe ourselves in his attributes, then there is no sensible reason for the turmoil and effort. We consider ourselves to be a decent and humane people, Therefore the worst defeat we could, suffer would to let our souls become so polluted with hatred that we could not make a good peace after the war is over. For that task tolerance, pity; mercy and love will be necessary, and only through them .can it be ace - complished. : ‘ Above all else, we must hold fast to those things in which we have believed, because it is for them we spend and fight and may perhaps die. To abandon . our faith now, to heed the cry of the tyrants, to hate in the land and to cultivate it in our hearts would be fatal for this country and perhaps for the very future of civilization. . > "Indeed we do not need more hate. These are days when we should ask God to bestow upon us deeper capacity for understanding and love, else the things we battle to preserve may be lost to earth: for too long a while.

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