Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1941 — Page 10

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AN GER of warin the Pacific is not lessened by the de- 2

~~ cision of the new military government of Japan to continue conversations with the United States. Premier Gen.

Tojo is a warrior, picked as such,

He is not only a leader of the militarist faction, but |

definitely pro-Axis. And-he is the closest to a dictator that the Japanese system. of Emperor-dictation permits, because he heads the War and Home, Ministries in addition to holding the Premiership, Since Gen. Tojo was ioverwhelmed with a mingled feeling of austerity and joy” when Japan joined the Axis as an "avowed move against the United States, he naturally chooses a pro-Nazi, anti-Russian, Shigenori Togo, as Foreign Minister. The latter is a former Ambassador to Berlin and has a German wife. °° If Japan refrains from another war move it will not be for lack of a military dictatorship and mobilization. She is as ready for war as. she ever will be—Dbetter prepared, indeed, because the American-Anglo-Dutch embargo on war supplies is cutting her essential reserves for the future. . Tojo’s watchful waiting, like that of his predécessor, is due to the fact that Hitler is six weeks behind schedule in knocking out Russia. Unless all signs fail, the fate of the Red Army, rather than the stalling conversations with the United States, will determine Japan's next move.

GOOD FOR JOE

E observe that Joe Louis has successfully pasted his _ examination for the draft. This is very heartening. We were afraid he wouldnt make it.

FARM LOBBY NONSENSE gr!

A CHORUS of farm-lobby croakers, protests the new ‘United States-Argentine reciprocal trade agreement. Theirs is the familiar dirge that tariff concessions open the ‘way for foreign competition to destroy the American farmer. In this case their logic is even weaker than usual. They know that this agreement—the first with Argentina in almost a century—will do more than anything else to block Hitler penetration and to strengthen hemisphere solidarity by making anti-American Argentinians our friends. But these objectors insist on seeing the agreement only through “selfish eyes. That would not be so bad if only their selfiishness were intelligent. - In the first place, no Gomeossions were made on fresh ‘meats. So the average American cosumer will continue to go without beefsteak, because the United States product is too scarce and expensive, andebecause the farm: lobby con‘tinues to keep out Argentine steaks by prohibitive tariff and sanitary barriers, As for the canned-corn-beef concession, about which such a fuss is being made, there is little or no actual competition. Instead of being hurt by the agreement our agriculture is aided directly by concessions obtained from Argentina for our exports of apples, pears, grapes, raisins, prunes, tobacco and the like. The trouble with these farm lobbies—which do not always represent the dirt farmer—is that the more sub-| . sidies they get the more they want, With the price of farm products up 43 per cent in we years and going higher, and with the farmers’ cash income the highest in a decade and their direct subsidies the largest in history, the American housewife and taxpayer are not " going ‘to weep with the farm lobby over the imaginary destruction of American agriculture by the Argentine pact.

LAME DUCKS FOR THE AIR FORCES?

WHEN Senate hearings on the independent-air-force pror posals get under way, which is supposed to be soon, here is an item that ought to get a going-over: | Secretary of War Stimson, at a press conference the other day, announced that some 2000 captains and lieutenants of the National Guard who are being removed from troop commands because they are over age are to be assigned to the Army Air Forces, for ground duty. ' We do not undertake to pass judgment. Perhaps the “Air Forces asked for this extra desk help. Maybe this is a good thing. But at least the Senators ought to find out how ‘the airmen feel about it. To a layman's first glance, the thing looks queer. It looks as if the War Department regarded the Air Forces as a dumping ground for lama ducks. Which is in keeping ‘with what many advocates of an independent air force, free of control by infantrymen and mariners, have been

charging right along,

NOT SINCE THE REVOLUTION |

THE actual territory of the United States has been merci- '" fully free from the ravages of war, The Revolution swept up.and down the seaboard; the internal war of 1861. blanketed the: Bast; but many of our other wars, such |

he homeland. 22H me ti Hence it nen sin dt hs Yale versity is making plans t6 ‘safeguard its 8,000,000 volume library, against aerial bombardment. The last time ale made any such plans was during the Revolution, more than 150 years igo, Whe 16 tried. similarly to guard its library, then 3000 volumes, There is nothing po) or-quizotic about the plan.

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New: York for the sole knocking Bol ‘Wagner . creek on the issue of the Act, pp Bett place, he doesn’t go’ to which time, if something drastic hasn’t been done, the unions and

although my post office address is: Néw Canaan, Conn., because that is the nearest town. A lot of Wall Street men and prosperous communist writers and radio pundits actually live in Connecticut to save money on their New York state income tax, but I am a citizen of a very high type, so I never moved over, although the state line is only a drive and a pitch away. 80 far, O. K., but from that point on, there isn’t much snow on the slide.

"You Really Need 24,000 Names!"

" PFINKEL SAYS I WOULD have to get on the ballot by petition, because it would be futile to run in the Republican,’ Democratic or American Labor Party primary, and, of course, he is right. That means that I have got to get 12,000 ‘signatures; including at least 50 from each of the 62 eounties, and

this, Pinkel says, is bad. “You really need 24,000 signatures,” Pinkel ‘Says, “hecause at least half of your signers would be no good for any one of a dozen reasons that we experts know about. Now this is plenty bad. You have to send your canvassers touring .the sticks to get the names. What they'll do. to you on the swindle sheets only a reporter can know.” : Yes, I know. “Well,” Finkel says, “this is where they can knife you, They will take some county where you have a mere’ hundred names and visit thessigners. Pretty soon, they'll have 51 or more affidavits from those people claiming they were defrauded, coerced and/or despoiled by your brutal canvassers. -Th¢ first thing you know, you'll be ini Special Term, then the Appels late Division, then the Court of Appeals and then, maybe, in jail.”

And 4000 Moré Details, Too *

$ “ASSUMING THOUGH that righteousness pre-: vails, you're on the ballot. As for cards, buttons, etc., suit yourself,” says Finkel. “There’s.a lot more, such as not hiring more than three carriages to a city election district to transport workers to the polls. In the country you can use six to a district. “1 should remind you, too, to pick a good votegetting name as emblem for your party. You must elect one, because, otherwise, the Secretary of State picks a name and ‘emblem for you and that may be bad for your candidacy. There are 4000 other détails tab I could mention, but we can let them ride un! ‘n Yes, we can let them ride. Those are enough details’ for now, although I am not at Joss for a party name and emblem. I would just call it the Throw-Bob-Wagner-Out-of-There-Party and my em=blem would be a recognizable photograph of him with an upper-case X drawn across his features, meaning “cancelled.” Anyway, if a party with an ass for an emblem can elect a President three times, what ‘have I to fear from any device?

"It's Too Much Bother!’

BUT THIS IS all too much bothér. I thought it would be something like ‘this, /although, like most Americans who are really. very naive about government and. politics, I did have a haunting idea that .all you had to do was get the most votes.

Another thing that discourages me is that here I offer to give the people very superior service in the Senate and give up a much be Job to do it, and here I am a guy who hasn't any law-firm monkeying around with receiverships or union litigation, nor any relatives on any public payroll, and would think they were doing me a favor to elect me. And from the way they sniff around. your private life and dig up past utterances you would think they were hiring someone ‘to be God. Bo to hell with it. I will think up some other idea.

New Books _ By Stephen Ellis

‘BOOTH TARKINGTON books are always news in his home town, Yegardless of what other communities may think, The latest is “The Fighting Littles,” a collection of amusing sketches about a wild ‘and woolly household. _ Mr. Tarkington’s Little family “is a little like the ‘old Penrod . days. Indeed; Filmer Little pretty much a 1941 edition of Penrod and his 17-year-old sister, 2 Sosy; is a gh female Penrod. 3 you are a Tarkington fan— Mr. Tarkington and there are droves - Sm in Indianapolis—you'll enjoy this tremendous!

Random Notes

THIS AN THAT: The Book-of-the-month-Club ; is. putting out a double for November, John Gunther's: “Inside Latin America” and Tom Ybarra’s “Young Man of Caracas.” by Robert Nathan for Nov. 3. The title: “Tapiola’s Brave Regiment.” West's two-volunie work on and Grey Falcon.” ¢ my friends in Jugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved. . Extremely popular right now is Clifton Fadiman's ““Reading I've Liked,” which, incidentally, is nicely done, indeed. . . . And we shouldn’t wind up without a mention of “Great Short Novels,” a gener-

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“Wigher ripe in the Army don’t like ._pleces that say its morale isn’t * high. ‘Morale is. a tricky word. There is no Way to define it ac~ curately, y+. Maybe a little anecdote would help. When I took command of the bulk of the Eighth Division which. was. left in this country ‘in * September, 1918, I used to marvel ., at bayonet instruction in the old pre-war army, bayonet drill was a vone-two-three” Pr done by ranks of men to waltz time. : Due ‘to World War experience, it had

become one of» the most savage exhibitions I ever

‘SAW. The best bayonet instructor. we had was an exe actor. He would assemble a platoon in a circle

{ around him. . He would strip off his turiic and tear

open his tie: and undershirt revealing a hairy chest. He carried a little bamboo swagger-stick with a thfee-inch ring on the end of jt. The men crouched

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i FREEDOM MORE THAN

HITLER'S ‘DOLLARS’ By Mrs. Anna Holt, Thorntown An open letter to Mr. Clay: Well you ought to make a smart old man. You have begun to notice a few things already in the last nine or ‘ten years put I think you should be in the class with Wheeler and Lindy. Thank God for a man that is spending American dollars and not the slip money from Hitler's regime. The way some of our Americans act and talk darned if Hitler did know what he was talking about when he said that America was "money crazy they would sell out. Maybe some of us would rather have our freedom than Hitler's dollars: though. FEE a)

‘EVERY BRICK IN BREWERY MEANS A BROKEN HEART

By Mrs. Willard G. Gray, 302 N..State St. “Every brick in a brewery represents a broken heart.” Millions of our people are now suffering. from malnutrition while we have an abune dance of food in this country,

We have many people who do not make big salaries, but many of these people spend more for than they do for. food, therefofe they are undernourished. They make poor farmers, poor workers of any ‘kind and poor soldiers. It is said 40 per cent of the young men examined for military service are being rejected as being unfit. We are facing a war, and the nation that wins the war will be the “sober nation.” Statistics show. that there was more than five times as many arrests for drunkenness in 1940 than there was in 1932. It is estimated that $4,500,000,000 was spent for drink in this country in 1940. And as a result we have had more cases of rape, murders, robberies, automobile accidents, wrecked homes, children made orphans and many er offenses of this kind. Why not stop all this unnecessary

paying dear‘for all this crime, misery and vice, poverty and heartaches caused by this “Demon Rum.” The sponsors of repeal argued that to legalize liquor would promote temperance. Has it? They promised we would never have the return of the old saloon, ; Instead, we have the tavern, the

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gress will become without authority;

misery and want? The taxpayers are|:

Ti imes readers’ are invited "Yo “express their. views. in these columns, religious’ con- ~ troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a, chance. Letters must be signed.)

inn and the buffet and the bar maid and women and children frequenting these places. “No saloon,” but tell me what is the difference what you eall a polecat, Don’t it stink just the same? o “ 2 ECCLES’ VIEW IS ‘MOST SORDID’ TO MR. WHITE

By Harrison White: 1138 Broadway

riner 8. Eccles: called for a reduction of the standard of living “of all” to avoid “the terrible blight of inflation which will wipe out capitalism.” That statement coming from one in such high fiscal authority is the most sordid thing for me to contemplate; it embraces and is the vbjective of the New Deal and leaves us with the: undersianding that if we don’t shut off the eats we will be to blame for putting it over. It means the ‘end of our form of government; ‘the present Con-

all of our old form of government will vanish for the dictator and. if we have elections they will be dictator elections. There can be no such thing as free ‘enterprise nor reward . for effort for reward for effort is capitalism... .. In the face of this thing we can only at this time look to our deluded Congress of the United States, They should at ‘this time stop playing politics, for it is time for the American people to get serious. If America means to the .Congress of the United States what it means to me, they will not take one step towards war until this country is at

with that ‘is ‘necessiry to fix thing and save America from ar chance of revolution or war, It is my opinion that Congress should take the fiscal power back to Congress right now those gold certificates and .in thereof give government

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-| stop ‘the crash Mr. Eccles warns, of.

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It ‘would at least keep the American/ people from going ‘info. a ‘tailspin and help us to reinstate American ‘fundamentals. Congress, you have something to do right now.

8 # = ‘CRIME THE WAY TRAFFIC IS HANDLED HERE’ By Johnny Haley, 2246 Pierson St.

on the problem of driving in this city of ours. It is a crime the way the traffic is handled here. The

people driving have no regard for

they are the only ones an fhe road, and about: 50 per cent of them haven’t got their minds on driving. . This city is growing and growing fast-due to defense -work. I think that the time has come when our city officials should get, more modern, and ‘get out of the old fashion

I dont think that we should raise the speed laws, I think that they are as they should .be and shouid be enforced. . I have traveled 3000 miles the last two months and been through Chicago ‘four times while traveling. It

their trafic. And their speed laws are the same, as ours. They have a lane for people wanting to make a left turn; when the green arrow shows on the stop light they ‘can

that we should have at least two one-way streets leading north and south and two leading east and west. This would take care of a lot of the congested traffic which we have during the time people are driving to and from work. I am a believer in safety and go by the saying,

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next thing to it. Suddenly he would crack one man across the face with the stick. The kid would jump into the ring like a tiger. He had been thus elected to do his, stuff.

Brutal, Emotional Voodooism

THE, INSTRUCTOR, as lithe and agile as a fencer, would hold, that ring within inches of his

face, his heart, his groin and the soldier was invited

to lunge through it. In the meantime the crouched platoon became almost as excited as Haitian voodoo celebrants. The , growled and slavered—each anxious to be’ tapped’ next. The thing got too realistic—so realistic that some men wanted to go after each other with bare bayonets. Their sole ambition was to get to France. Then we went to Camp Mills—on our way fo France. We got on transports. The fake armistice came. We got off the ships. . We embarked. 6 The real armistice came. We disembarked. That Pacific Coast division had been in flu quarantine for weeks and were still confined. I expected dissolu= tion of discipline. I arranged to. address 42,000 troops in relays of 6000. I told the first bunch’ that an armistice was only: a truce and that we were going

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Utter silence. They no longer wanted to go to France. The war was over. I sent the rest of them back to their barracks. :

'Waltz Me Around Again, Willie' |

NEXT MORNING I WENT to bayonet instruction again. The change was incredible. We were back in the dreamy peaceful pre-war days. All that was needed was a few regimental bands playing sweetly “Waltz Me. Around Again Willie,” The heart wa gorle from the effort. : I don’t know whether this parable will make the point or not but I do know this. If this Government

: wants to build an army it has got to sell the war to

the army—and it ‘hasn’t done so. If it can’t sell it to the army how can. it be sold to the people? Many of these boys are bewildered—neither unpatriotic nor apathetic. But they don’t know what it is all about.” They haven't been :told frankly where, when and how they are going to fight. Or what they are going to use for weapons. Much stress has been “laid ‘upon modern mechanized armored and fully equipped troops and they have not been given these weapons in sufficient number for instruction or conviction. Many of their officers know little if any more about it than they do. It is common gossip that the Administration believes that a declaration of war will end all this overnight. But will it? I doubt it. If this . Administration wants effective war, 1b had better begin selling it with cold and brutal Af ness and not by glittering generalities such as ‘the en Atlantic charter and the evasions and ths we have been fed up to date. a. Editor's. Notes The views pened by wolamalits in this newspaper are their own.- They are. not necessarily those of The Indianapolis. Times, ;

A Woman's Viewpoint By 4 Mrs. Walter Ferguson

| fascinate me.-I spend hours poring _ overi-their gorgeous illustrations, - forgetting time, scales and the war jeir plans to renovate

sip covers. Occasionally responding to a mighty surge of desire—for we all love to do things hive decide to freshen up the place according to instructions; the people in Connecticut and C can take a run down barn or an old mill or a few used shingles and get such lovely looking buildings: at. such a wee

co hot mais Se ls oh the worst looking things fo show for it.

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