Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1941 — Page 19
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* route, « + » Dr. Frank Hugh Sparks’ (Butler: os 88,
the new prexy of Wabash College, will come here}:
with Mrs. Sparks tomorrow for the Wabash-Butler
And grid clash. And, for the first-time, he'll be Yooting
come, too. « x « By the way, that defense © 7-4. machinery exchange bulletin instituted by the Chambey’s Industrial Commissioner Myron Green is making it possible for one of our substantial manufacturers, already on defense work, to bid on another machine capacity for the new contract, he Aerie to the Chamber. hey looked in the bulletin, directed him to a firm in Ohio . that had such machinery and no jobs, and now he’s all set. « . . «. Employees of the Indianapolis Water Co, will ‘have a Halloween fonight at the Athenaeum. We'll bet some of , are trying. to figure out how to. ‘masquerade as Man yer.” + .. Now that the teachers and ) men are out of the way, the hot stove politicians are shuffling back to the Claypool Tun for numerous weighty problems, including what in, the primar
‘next spring. t Like the Marines =
MEAD: THE LEGION and see the world is the ts for .the natio; commandership. n's Sinner for the =e other night that the new der, Lynn U. ay not’ get: around gas: much as his use me She War Susuon. The retiring
about ‘six times: in offs. It's mighty” Eon the commanders vel s0 much, but it’ a ‘a’ lot in keeping up le ‘of the various te “Departm
bt soldier boys from’ dnion Station to the “Club, back of the Traction Terminal. Quite A of. the boys have stopovers here between trains ere’s, nothing for them to do, at the station.
“always ‘work. The society may solve it by ngs; Toute Sighs to every utility pole en
against his ‘alma mater,
Willis to Washington
JAMES D. ADAMS, retiring chairman of the State
Highway operation of ‘his newspaper, bank, woolen mills, the-
ater and 800 acres of farmland after today’s farewell
celebration. Instead of the usual retirement git of
!'a- traveling bag, cigaret lighter, etc. they're. ‘giving
him a. silver loving cup. Reason: “He can afford to buy ‘anything ‘else he wants.” . . . Senator Willis, largely recovered from his recent. illness, will leave for Washington Sunday. Secretary Jim Carr; back in town, says the Senator is determined’ to -be back in Washington in time for the neutrality vote. Big>name' Democrats here this week for ‘the Flynn meeting had no comment “on the record” but ‘off the recoxd” they. were pretty bitter about Senator VanNuys’ reference to President Roosevelt's recent speech as “silly.” .
Business: Is Business
REX: ‘SCHEPP; as one ‘of the’ best banjo players in the country— played : with: Nat: Shilkret’s "orchestra and others— but for some reason or other he no longer plays publicly, The other day he was about to sign a sponsor to a contract for a program but the deal was balked when the advertiser demanded that Rex dust off ‘his banjo ‘and strum it on the program. said Rex. “Then the sprogram’s off,” replied the advertiser.. This went on. for some time. Then they compromised, and now Rex is going to play one number—just one. number—on, one program, He's practicing up for Sunday. Business is business. . ... Heiny Mueller, the Center Township trustee, has been displaying under the’glass top on his desk an unpaid overtime parking. sticker, He’s a little peeved over getting it. Now he’s. just waiting until he ‘gets to be sheriff. .. . . Memory feat of the week: Wallace O.
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§ . Lee’s . introduction : of nearly 5 businessmen and giving them ‘directions how to reach the club |
industrialists as they passed by at. yesterday's British War Relief 1 got stuck on two,
guest _of honor icheon.. He only
‘ Ernie Pyle i is on leave of abseiiee because of the illness of his wife.
Jashington
i WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—~The Roosevelt Adminton probably would be in a stronger position to th defense "labor difficulties if it laid down : ion in | as was done under the Wilson ! the labor: disputes handled thus far by the National Defense Mediation Board have related to organizational troubles, such as “union recognition and the closed shop, as distinct from wages and ~~ hours ‘disputes, according to Wil- ; liam Hi Davis, chairman of the board. : | : « ‘These organizational disputes are the most troublesome . ones. The captive coal mine strike had
nothing’ to’ do* with wages and
hours. The only issue was the closed shop. The question was the steel companies which own the mines be. compelled to hire only members of the Mine Workers and discharge miners not: in nding with the union. Practically all of the already belong to the U. M. W, Lewis ‘also was insisting upon the dompulsory , under which ‘the employer would deduct es from the pay envelope and thus assist the ‘collecting dues. The companies have: ‘used ntary check-off—that ‘is Seducting dues of ‘who requested it. 5
ARE MEASURES designed to increase the Tt the union. Their effect is to: tighten the of the .labor organization. They are part of X But ‘organized labor less need now than ever before to ‘be_concerned it its security. Under this Administration collec- : g is given Federal protection. In many “ways labor has been protected, : going to lose any ground by Aus susd of a drive for additional security e emergency. In fact by over-reaching itdirection labor is much mere apt to damstanding than to strengthen it.’ Defense pro-
PALA, British Protectorate of Uganda, st Africa, Oct. 31—Round .and round the unrome, like toys in a pre-Christmas shop go scores of big trucks belonging to: the ized arm of Great Britain's Bast African - forces. Clouds of reddish dust billow out behind these’ scarred and battered vehicles, some of which have seen servicé on the hairpin turns of the Ethiopian hill lands and still bear snipers’ holes. Then, when the powdery red dust is so thick the drivers can no longer see, they force their vekicles up nearby hills, ever
stiff grades and around blind-
‘curves concealed
by elephant;
Here it 18 on the roller coaster,
in the last war. More than half of |
duction is so urgent that a good many
By Raymond Clapper
people think there should be an armistice until “after the emergency is over.
In the last war, Woodrow Wilson set: up the Na-|-
tional War Labor Board. It laid down principles and policies. to. govern relations between. employers and labor and was accepted by all Government agencies as the basis of dealing with labor disputes. These policies asserted-the right of collective bar-: gaining which now is Federal law, But on the other hand, unions were not to coerce workers to join. Furthermore the. unions were not to use the emergency asa means of extending the principle of the closed shop. : During the war open shops were to remain open and closed shops were to remain closed shops.
An Effective Labor Contribution
IF LABOR IS TO RECOGNIZE, as all other elements of the population have to recognize, that the defense program creates an abnormal and urgent condition which requires the suspension of many normal practices. then such a truce in the war over
‘ the closed shops seems only fair.
+» putes
highlands of Uganda that fledgling. Afrioan
eet a test almost as severe as would be had mountain driving. And it is this ‘dusty, ‘ampala Airdrome which provides the classthose hundreds of volunteer African: drivers,
Four Schools
AME ALA SCHOOL is one of “four now ein Britain's Southeast npr bined they : produce. duates at the
i are American-made. | drives.
insuring - uninterrupted production.
In the last war there were fewer jurisdictional disputes because there was no C. I. O., and the only controversies arose within the A. P. of L. itself. But the existence now "of. two: large labor organizations, bitterly at war; mesii# #iany more jurisdictional disThese and fights to get a closed shop are Sausing much of the interruption of defense produc-
Public sentiment probably would support the Government in a move to:bring Tabor and management into an agreement suspending dustrial warfare over organizational disputes. ‘Leaders of organized “labor could make an’ effective: contribution by ‘participating in‘ a-defense truce with: management. It would benefit ‘the: nation by It. would rob enemies .of organized labor of their strongest argument. It would put labor in a much better position
for: the struggle which will come after the emergency. |
{ 'The chances are thafya large portion of the public’ would support the government in insisting upon such #4 defense truce.
By George Weller
shout c one. owes driving daily. At the end of three months he is expected to be able to drive the most difficult ways without accident, to maintain the engine, simple troubles like carbon knocks, clean spark plugs and find gas leaks. Engine theory and ignition come the hardest to the African. The officers find that the use of symbols in teaching’ the ignition theory often. leads their pupils astray. When current is likened to a stream flowing, the African, being literal minded, is apt to test its rate with his finger rather than the voltmeter.
100-Mile Tour for Graduation *
*NEW DRIVERS, 60 per cent of whom are members of the intelligent Uganda tribe, are able when graduated to fix even the mechanical’ brakes of ‘the pachyderms of the rodds but are not allowed to tamper with the more ticklish hydraulic brakes. Graduation eXercises at Kampala include a 100mile cross-country tour. ‘Most of the. driving is done in the 12-hour exact interval provided by the equally divided equatorial day. The average speed is 15 miles an’ hour including ‘periods for rest and repair but this is by no means the limit of the dolumn’s speed. - Nine of the 11 trucks used at the Kampala school But they all have left-hand The Britisl: colonies continue to follow the mother country’s example, insisting upon left-hand
steering wheels
Distracted American auto producers, engaged in
¥ | making ears for war need, are inclined to curse softly
BE a It
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{ as they witness the creation of hundreds of new Afri"can ‘drivers who believe that the left-hand drive is part of God's intentions for the universe.
Aaprrutth "hua, Times and ns
By Eleanor Roosevelt
3 oolock, we reached the Veterans’ Hospital,
‘memorable experience, for it is not often : ds a a vo oe tre | Tier own life aiid to do hie things list
Commission, will confine himself largely to]
‘manager of WIRE, used to be rated |
“No, »)-
_ BERLIN, June 26, De Ras from Paris. Ap
proaching the German border toward sundown, we
avoided the Maastricht-Aachen road: ‘because the German Embassy in Brussels had told our ‘Germans that the Reich customs people there would be very strict with us; and our two cars were loaded down with ‘booty purchased with marks forced on the “French at the ‘thievish rate of 20 francs to one mark. The German officers and: officials had. 3
aided. Paris.
We drove around for hours ying to find a lonely 5 customs post. An officer of the High: -Command—one of
the. most decent Germans’'I know-—kept pointing out to
‘me how: embarrassing it would be for him, in uniform, to ..
‘be caught red-handed bringing; in so much booty. He said his fellow officers had been abusing their opportunities 80
scandalously that Hitler © x himself a few days before had issued a blunt, order to
the customs guards to seize i fight, and didn’t.
everything found on returning officers or men. ~
Finally: we arrived ‘at the Ger- &
man border. Our chauffeur, a
private, who had certainly boughs ay : a : came to retreat. ' It was this con-
his share’of the booty in came so nervous he almost ran down and killed the customs offiBut our High Command
afioer spoke convincingly. and °
fast, and we got through with our plunder. ” » 8
France Folded Up
BERLIN, June 27.—To sum up. From what I've seen in Belgium and France and from talks I've had with Germans and French:in both countries, and with French, Belgian, and British prisoners along the roads. it seems fairly ‘clear to me that: France did not fight. 4 If she did, there is little evi= dence of it, Not only I, but sev - eral of my friends have driven
1 from'the German border to Paris
‘and back, along all the main
roads, None of us saw any evi- .
dence of serious fighting. . The ‘fields of France are undis-: turbed. There was no fighting on any sustained line. roads there is little sign that the French did any more than harry their cnemy. Roads make ideal targets for artillery. And yet I have not seen one yard of road in
northern France which shows the *
effects of artillery fire. . The French blew up many bridges. But they also left many .Strategic ones standing, especially over the Meuse. -
At no point in France and at only two or three in Belgium did I see a road properly mined, or, for that matter, mined at all.
D. B. in Paris, having seen the
war from the.other side, concludes that there was treachery in the French army from top to m —the Fascists at the top, the Communists at the bottom. And from
Maj; Eliot Says: Winter W
- man
Even on the °
Gehman. pa French sources alike 3
I heard many. stories of how the
Communists had received their orders from their party Roh to
lie ” ”
Aways in Retreat
MANY FRENCH PRISONERS say they never saw a battle, When seemed it t, orders
stant order to retreat before a
battle had been joined, or at least
before it had been fought: out,’ Vat | broke the Belgian resistance.
Germans themselves say ° that in one tank battle they: were - attacked by a large fleet of.
French . tanks after they had themselves. run out df ammunition. The German commander. ordered a retreat. After the Gertanks had retired some distance to the rear, with the French
- following them only very cautioysly, the Germans received or-
ders to turn about and simulate
+ .an attack, firing automatic pistols .
or anything. they had ouf of their tanks, and executing complicated maneuvers. This they did, snd the French, seeing an armada © tanks descend upon them, da of these were without ammunition,
‘turned and fled.
Another mystery: After the Germans broke through the Frdanco-Belgian border from Maubeuge to Sedan, they. tell that they continued right on across northern France to the sea hardly firing a shot. ' When they got to the sea, Boulogne and Calais were
‘defended "mostly by the British. Be pened e the least action, the slightest counterthrust.
True, the Germans had air superiority. True, the British didn’t provide the air power they could and should have provided. Yet even that ‘does not explain the
+ French debacle,
In the first place the French, as though drugged, had no will 2 fight, even when their soil was invaded by their most hated
was either treachery or criminal
y MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT Coorg 1041, by LS Judianspolis Times. at and the
articles, will not brin
k Tribune,
military in Russia. Dr ras tt them both in time and distance.
_ Maj. Eliot port, ba
as traversed by armored troops and motor deep snow is a barrier to movement
o engineering geni high speeds impossible,
impede the operation of aircraft. vantage of thé defense.
These conditions inure to the ad-
The armored oa vehicle, the aircraft,
“Many French prisoners say they never saw a battle.”
Ng negligence in the High ‘mand and among the high Con: cers in the field.
Two other. considerations: quality, of the Allied
to the French . generals we have
seen. The latter strike you as ailing old men who stopped think-
ing new thoughts. 20 years ago.’
Thé German generals are a Com-
plete contrast. They have the !
characteristics : of youth — dash, daring, imagination, initiative + and physical prowess. =
H » » Nazi Generals Daring
ALL THE BIG GERMAN tank attacks were led in person by commanding generals.. They did
not sit in the safety of a dug- ~
out 10 miles behind the lines and «direct by radio. They sat in their tanks in the thick of the fray and directed by radio and sig-
nalling from where they. could . see how .the battle was: going. And as was to be expected from -
youth, these young generals did not hesitate at times to tn the unorthodox thing, take chances.
The, great trouble with the Al fied ep sSpe the
thinking this war would be fought on the same general lilies as the last war, It wasn’t that these tired
old men Sad 9 sdapk, hemseives
flow of motor are all essential fo the strongly at ene Russian con the rapid and steady. ow ransport, | na a ve te. ity of Son aa
modern attack. Good infantry and artillery, properly dug in-on a well selected: position and provided with ample ammunition, are not easily or cheaply dislodged by ordinary means. The loss of velocity is a loss of striking power which the German tacticians will sorely miss. Perhaps the greatest effect of winter on ng Bers PL. of military move-
persal of troops which tactically disastrous.
. | GERTRUDE ATHERTON STILL WRITING AT 84
SAN FRANCISO0, Oct, 31 (U.P). | —Ash-blond, vivacious Gertrude [Atherton celebrated her 84th birth-
day yesterday by turning out her|
daily stint of 1000 words on a new novel.
"She attribited her unusual vigor
such as the pre-fabricated canton-
ments which the Germans have been reported as building,
laboring under oe
Nould rm
difficulties. ‘been As for the Russians, the pre-
in’; Suldlers,
toa sevoluionary kind of warfare overnight. One of the mysteries
of the campaign in the west is "= that the Allied command seems -
never to have bothered to learn
the lesson of : the Polish cam< paign.. For in ‘Poland the Ger-’ man. Army revealed the tactics it ® would use in the lowlands. and
France, The, second consideration 1s the fantastically good ‘morale of the German Army. I remember my
‘surprise: at Kiel last Christmas
to find an ‘entirely ‘new esprit’ in
the ‘German Navy. : This’ esprit.
was: based. on: a: camaraderie . be=
_tween officers and men. The same
is true .of the German ‘Army.
I felt it from the first day I
With the Army ° “at the front. The German: offi=
came in contact’
cer no longer represents—or at least is conscious of representing —a class or caste. And the men in the ranks feel this. They feel like members of one great fam-
One reason for the excellent
‘morale of the troops is their re- " alization that they and not the
civilians back home are receiving the best treatment the nation can afford. They get the pick of
promise,
ee tro rv pt to ork under he ors of Goes
"Holiday: y Sot Rules’ y i
‘BERLIN, July 15.—The German press today. -infrmed Xs readers.
mands nok koe
that. Hitler
jnsists. BERLIN, L 28 er the first tage, vi Sing through § a vic the heii nce. today. Stores ‘and’ factories .closed; ‘by
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order; and the ‘whole { town: turned
‘out to cheer.
+1 mingled Auong the crow 1 the a ruled completely. about the mass of Non They were just out people a no time. Looking at them, I wone
dered if any of them understood |
what was going on in Europe, if they had an inkling that their joy, that this victorious parade of the goose-steppers, was based on
a great tragedy for millions of others whom these troops and the
leaders of these people had ene. thousand
slaved. Not one ina
. aifi—or an offer of peace,
(Copyright, 1940. 1941, ‘by ili Syndicate, Ine)
Wow, but Not Halt, Russian War.