Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1941 — Page 11

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ON NAVY

“We Have Cleared Our

Decks and Taken Our Battle Stations.’

polations made upon delivery: Col. Donovan, ladies and gentlemen: Five months ago tonight I pro-

med to the American people the bxistence of a state of unlimited

y ‘emergency.

"And since then much has hap-

" pened. Our Army and Navy are temporarily in Iceland in the de-|.

fense of the Western Hemisphere. Hitler has attacked shipping in areas close to the Americas, in the ‘North and South Atlantic.

Many American-owned merchant

ships have béen sunk on the high seas. One American destroyer was attacked on September 4. Another

destroyer was attacked and hit on|

Oct. 17. Eleven brave and loyal

OF ROOSEV

AND TOT.

8 HITLER'S OBJECT: “ , .

ian spirit. And today that spirit

and realism.”

is a menace. . ..

- Highlights of Address WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U. P.).— Highlights of President WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (U.| | Roosevelt's Navy and Total Defepse Day speech: fate P.) —Following is the text of| | ~*~ President Roosevelt's total de-

fense and Navy Day speech. It includes changes and inter-

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SHOOTING: “Many American-owned ships have been sunk on the high seas . . . eleven brave and loyal men of our Navy wére killed by the Nazis. We have wished to avoid shooting. But. the shooting has started . . . America has been attacked.” :

American people off the high seas—to force us to make a trembling treat. - This is not the first time that he has misjudged the Amer-

’ # » ” NEUTRALITY: “The House of Representatives has already voted to amend a part of the Neutrality Act of 1937, ‘today outmoded by force of violent circumstances. And the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has also recommended the elimination of other hamstringing provisions of that act. That is the course of honesty

» 8 ” - : DEFENSE PRODUCTION: ¢ ... cannot be hampered by the selfish obstruction of a small but dangerous minority of industrial managers . . . of a small but dangerous minority of labor leaders who are a menace—for labor as a whole knows that that small minority

. was to frighten—frighten the

is aroused.”

9 drial Nimitz Calls for,

Fulfilling Pledges to the

inland city—paid = x : U. 8. Navy yesterday. Day a reality by enlisting in ceremonies on the steps of the Soldiers

and Sailors’ Monument. :

: Hotel last night to hear Rear miral Chester W. Nimitz, Chief of|

the “Bureau of Navigation, declare that “our pledges to Great Britain, to: China, and our promise to send material aid to Russia require for their fulfillment some deprivation and an increased production effort.” “What nation ever has been asked to pay a smaller price for freedom?’ Admiral Nimitz asked. “And yet, unless we can maintain these outposts of democratic civilization, ‘we shall find ourselves a tiny island in a chaotic and vicious

| world; and he must be an optimist lindeed who believes that we would

not then be engulfed.”

weathered high "winds and falling temperatures to Witness a } from the War Memorial to the Monument.

‘Hoosier youths made Navy|:

Before the banquet, a large crowd | -

15 ISLAY | DOOMED TO I

lone a Woman, Berl _ Reports; Church Group i Sent to Prison.

8 ; ERLIN, Oct. 28 (U, P)~D

» : a 3 patches: Belgrade antiounced . |tenced to death 14 Jugoslav men and one for anti-Axis ace tivities. : Twenty-four members of the Greek Orthadox Church were sel. tenced to death at Travnik, in Bose nia, for sabotage, it was said, but 11 of them received commutations of sentence to five years in prison. The other 13 were executed. j At Sarajevo a court martial sene tenced a Jew and a 24-year-old woman student to death for “Come munist activities,” dispatches said,

THIS STRANGE WAR *

NEW YORK, Oct. 28 (U. P.).—A striker at the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. disclosed yesterday that the war has produced some peculiar repair demands. % “We have had some British mere chant ships come in with the bows blown right off,” he said. “We had a British tanker come in with a hole right through it—the torpedo went

Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, addressed 60 Navy recruits at

the Navy Day ceremonies on Monument Circle yesterday. right through witheut exploding.” .

en of our Navy were killed by the Nagis, Navy y .W. Carl Graham, State com-

THE U S. NAVY: “, .. is ready for action. Indeed, units of y mander of the American Legion,

We have wished to avoid shoot- it in the Atlantic patrol are in action.”

on)

AS Ne

ing. But the shooting has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot. In the long run, however, all that will matter is who fired the last shot. ;

“WE REJECT THAT INSULT”

America has been attacked. The U. 8. S. Kearny is not just a Navy ship. ‘She belongs to every man, woman and child in this nation. Illinois, Alabama, California, North Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arkansas, New York and Virginia — those are the home states of the honored dead and wounded of the Kearny. Hitler's torpedo was directed at every American, whether he lives on our sea coasts or in the innermost part of the nation, far from the seas and far from the guns and tanks of the marching

; hordes of would-be conquerors of

the world. The purpose of Hitler's attack was to frighten—frighten the American people off the high seas—to force us to make a trembling retreat. This is not the first time that he has misjudged the American spirit. And today that spirit is aroused. If our national policy were to be dominated by the fear of shooting, then all of our ships and those of our sister republics would have to be tied up in home harbors. Our Navy would have to remain respectfully — abjectly — behind any ling’ which Hitler might decree on any ocean as his own dictated version of his own war zone. Naturally we reject that absurd and insulting suggestion. We redect it because of our own self-in-terest, because of our own selfrespect and because most of all of our own good faith. Freedom of the seas is now, as it has always been, the fundamental policy of your Government and mine. Hitler has often protested that his .plans for conquest do not extend across the Atlantic Ocean. But his submarines and raiders prove otherwise. And so does the. entire design of his new world order. For example, I have in my pos-

' session a secret map made in Ger-

many by Hitler's government—by the planners of the new world order.

? It is a map of South America and

a, part of Central America, as Hitler proposes to reorganize it. Today in this area there are fourteen .separate countries. ' But the geographical experts of Berlin have ruthlessly obliterated all existing boundary lines; they have divided South America —into five vassal states, bringing the whole continent under their domination. And they have also so arranged it that the territory of one of these new puppet states includes the Republic of Panama and our great life-line—the Panama Canal. That is his plan. It will never go into effect. And that map makes clear the Nazi design not only against South America but against the United States itself.

SEES THREAT TO RELIGION

‘And your Government has in its|go0qs

possession another -document—a document made in Germany by Hitler’s. government. It is a nzfarious plan, which, for obvious reasons, the Nazis did not wish to publicize just yet, but which they are ready to impose a little later on a dominated world—if Hitler wins. It is a ‘plan to abolish all existing religions—Protestant, Catholic, Mohammiedan, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish alike. The property of all

forbidden. The clergy are to be forever liquidated, silenced under penof the concentration camps,

next few days, in an effort to convince the world that the majority of Americans are opposed to their duly chosen Government, and in reality are only waiting to jump on Hitler's band-wagon. when it comes this way. ot The motive of such . Americans is not the point at issue. The fact is that Nazi propaganda continues in desperation to seize upon’ such isolated statements as proof of American disunity. , The Nazis have made up their own list of modern American heroes. It is, fortunately, a short list. And I am glad that that list does not contain my name. And- so, all of us Americans, of all opinions, in the last analysis are faced with the choice between the kind of world we want to live in and the kind of. world which Hitler and his hordes would impose upon us. None of us wants to burrow under the ground and live in total darkness like a comfortable mole.

‘HITLERISM CAN BE STOPPED’

The forward march of Hitler and of Hitlerism can be stopped— and it will be stopped. ery simply and very bluntly— we are pledged to pull our own oar in the destruction of Hitlerism. And when we have helped to.end the curse of Hitlerism we shall help to establish a new peace which will give to decent people everywhere a better chance to live and prosper in security and in freedom and in faith. Every day that passes weé are producing and providing more and more arms for the men who are fighting on actual battlefronts. That is our primary task. And it is the nation’s will that these vital arms and supplies of all kinds shall neither be locked up in American harbors nor sent to the bottom of the sea. It is the nation’s will that America shall deliver the goods. In open defiance of that will, our ships have been sunk and our sailors have been killed. And I say that we do not propose to take this lying down. That determination of ours not to take it lying down has been expressed in the orders to the American navy to shoot on sight. And those orders stand.

URGES NEUTRALITY CHANGE

Furthermore, the House of Representatives has already voted to amend a part of the Neutrality Act of 1937, today outmoded by force of violent circumstances. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has also recommended elimination of other hamstringing pro-

course of honesty and realism. Our American merchant ships must be armed to defend themselves against the rattlesnakes of the sea. Our American merchant ships must be free to carry our American into the harbors of our friends. Our American merchant ships must be protected by our American Navy. In the light of a good many years of personal experience, I think it can be safely said that it can never be doubted that the goods will be delivered ‘by this nation, whose Navy believes in the tradition of “Damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead!” Yes, our nation must speak from every assembly line—yes, from every coal mine and in the all-inclusive whole of our vast industrial machine. Our factories and our shipyards are constantly ‘expanding.

ey Our output must be multiplied.

8H fio Eis.

‘NAVY IS READY’

visions in that Act. That is the|lif

For this—and all of this—is what we mean by total national defense. The first objective of that defense is to stop Hitler, he can be stopped and can be compelled to dig in. And that ‘will be the beginning of the end of his downfall,’ because dictatorship ‘of the Hitler:type can live: only .through ' continuous : vicfories—increasing conquests, = The facts of .the year 1918 are proof that a mighty German army and a tired German people can crumble rapidly and go to pieces when they are faced with successful resistance. :

RUSSIAN STAND PRAISED

Nobody who admires qualties of courage and endurance can fail to be stirred by the full-fledged resistance of the Russian people. The Russians are fighting for their own soil and their own homes. Russia needs all kinds of help—planes, and tanks, and guns, and medical supplies and other aids—toward the successful defense against the invaders. From the United States and from Britain, she is getting great quantities of those essential supplies. But the needs of her huge army will continue—and our help and ‘British help will ‘also continue! The other day the Secretary of State of the United States was asked by a Senator to justify our giving aid to Rusia. His reply was: “The answer to that, Senator depends on how anxious a person is to stop and destroy the march of Hitler in his conquest of the world. If he were anxious enough to defeat Hitler, he would not worry about who was helping to. defeat him.” Upon our American production falls the colossal task of equipping our own armed forces, and helping to supply the British, and the Russians and the Chinese. In the performance of that task we dare not fail. And we will not fail.

DENIES U. S. IS ‘FLABBY’

It has not been easy for us Americans to adjust ourselves to the

minity and common decency are being mowed down by the firing squads of the Gestapo. We have enjoyed many of God’s blessing. We have lived in a broad and abundant land, and by our industry and productivity we have made it flourish. There are those who say that our great good fortune has betrayed us—that we are now no match for the regimented masses who have been trained in the Spartan ways of ruthless brutality. They say that we have grown fat, and flabby, and lazy—and that we are doomed. * But those who say that know nothing of America or of American e

They do not know that this land is great because it is a land of endless challenge. Our country was first populated, and it has been steadily developed, by men and women in whom there burned the spirit of adventure and restlessness and individual independence which will not tolerate oppression.

for vigorous challenges which have been accepted and overcome—challenges of uncharted seas, of wild forests and desert .plains, of raging floods and withering drought, ‘of foreign tyrants and domestic strife, problems—social, and ; and we have come out of ‘them the most powerful nation—and the freest— in all of history. ad Today in the face of this newest and greatest challenge of them all, we Americans have cleared our decks and taken our battle stations. We stand ready in the defense of -our nation and in the faith of our

‘| fathers to do what God has given

us the power to see as our full duty.

It cannot be hampered by the obstruction of a small but

PLAN PURDUE DANCE A. A. Topp, 2034 N. Olney St., and F. 1. Jones, 2801 Sutherland Ave.

tee which is arranging plans for the annual military ball of ‘Purdue

shocking realities of a world in; which the principles of common hu-|

Ours has been a story—a story|

pledged to the 60 new recruits “the willing support and the backing of more than 38,000 men in the Legion in Indiana. .

TEACHERS MAP DEFENSE ROLE

Morgan Defines Democracy At Meeting Preceding Education Week.

“Make sure you teach the American form of democracy,” DeWitt S. Morgan, superintendent of Indianapolis public schools, told a meeting of his entire staff of 2000 teachers yesterday in Caleb Mills Hall. Mr. Morgan was the principal speaker at the meeting which was a preliminary to National Education Week, which begins Nov. 9. He reminded his audience that the United States is a democracy within a republic, and that wé are ruled by representatives of the people, and not by the people themselves, either in groups or individually. Also introduced at the meeting were Miss Sara C. Ewing, who last week was elected president. of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association; Howard Wood, president of the Federation of Public School Teachers; L. P. McGhehy, representing the

a teacher at Shortridge, and J. Dan

principal. Cites First Duty Mr. Morgan asserted that , the first duty of the teachers in connection with National Education Week was to agree on a definition of democracy. He called for a unification of terminology, so that everyone would understand just what is meant by democracy, .Reminding the teachers that they have a definite place in the defense picture, Mr, Morgan said—‘“Back of all defense efforts are developed and back of them are

‘National Education Week is being

12th District American Legion, together with the Indianapolis Church Federation; the Indianapolis Council of Women; -the Council of University Women; the Teachers’ Federation and State Teachers’ Association.

MACHINISTS’ LODGE URGES LABOR UNITY

Members of Libby Lodge No. 1452, International Association of Machinists (A. FP. of L.) today announced the adoption of a resolution pledging support to the President’s foreign policy and to labor unity to defense work. About 500 members of the lodge at Libby Division International Machine & Tool Corp. are engaged 1 Seferss work. The resolution read: “Knowing the unrest that is taking place throughout the world today, we, as patriotic citizens, believe in free speech, free press and the right of those who toil to enjoy to the full extent, the wealth created by their labor, and also the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones own conscience. We believe in the protection of these sacred rights that have been handed down to us by our forefathers. “Therefore in order to protect and perpetuate the principles set forth, we pledge ourselves to stand behind the President of these United States on his foreign policy, and to labor unity on defense work within our plant.”

have been appointed to the commit- | last

University, scheduled to be held Nov. | Boar 14 at the Purdue Memorial Build- unio

ILOCAL ORG a 7

tha Liming, 532 E, North St. =

American Legion; Paul Seehausen,| & Hull, Shortridge High School’s new|