Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1941 — Page 21

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1941

BRITAIN STRIKES

MPORE than a desert, and more than diversion relief for

their hard-pressed Russian ally, is at stake in Britain's * Libyan offensive. If Britain cannot win this campaign, she has little chance of defeating Hitler in Europe. Because

: :, the British and the Germans and the enslaved peoples

know this, the basic. proplein of morale in 1 every country

is: ‘involved. , “For the. first. tire a superior » British frie better dried and better: supplied, meets a weaker Nazi army. Always

before in this war—including ‘the initially successful cam-

paign in Libya last winter—the British have been at a disadvantage.

But now they have pieked their own battlefield and

their own hour. They have waited many months beyond the time when their allies and their own public demanded a Libyan offensive, in order that they might be doubly prepared. " ” » 4 8 : » » HEY have concentrated the bulk of American tank and ‘plane shipments during all these months on the Libyan line. They have used the time given them by Russia's engagement of the enemy to perfect a plan without interruption—five months of grace such as is rarely granted by fate to any belligerent and is never repeated. In addition to the obvious advantage of American supplies.on the spot, and the fact that most of the German ~ army and air force are held in Russia, the stronger British ground and air forces have the help of a fleet, which can shell 'most ‘of the enemy strongholds. And that British fleet, which has sunk or driven to cover most of the secondrate Italian sea force, can cut the enemy's only supply lines. If Britain retakes Libya, she will have a relatively easy springboard for invasion of Italy, the invitingly weak point in the Axis. But if Britain loses, Hitler not only will be able to hold Italy but also to march on Suez. : if Britain wins this campaign, she will be’ ‘in position to consolidate North and. West Africa; but if: she does not, Hitler with the help of Vichy and Spain will. That involves Dakar and the area which President Roosevelt considers a threat to Western Hemisphere defense. : : So Americans will watch this Libyan campaign with even more than the usual sympathy for those who are ; Fighting Hitler. : je

EXPENSIVE RACKET ~~ Nk OUNTY authorities and the State Police have arrested two persons and have charged them with conducting 4 telephone solicitation racket for a mythical “State HouseCourt House Directory.” The Better Business Bureau says Indianapolis businessmen gave up some $6000 on promises of “friendship” from public officials, traffic sticker fixing and so| forth. ; ~The Petter Business Bureau makes the apt observance that the best way to put an end to all this type of solicitation is for [businessmen to realize that offers of public favors : Just can’t be delivered. ) We might add that they couldn’t be delivered even if a Sivectory. were published.

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THE WAY IS STILL OPEN [NROM the President, patience and logic. From John L. Lewis, defiance and bombast. From the President, a renewed attempt to dow the miners’ union a safe and honorable way out of its dreadful dilemma. From John L. Lewis, a brusque reply that, so far as he is concerned, that way will not be taken. Yet the way is there, and it will remain open at least until tomorrow morning when the union’s policy committee meets again in Washington. If it is, indeed, a “policy” committee, and not a Lewis rubber stamp, its members will ponder deeply before they act. They and the miners in whose name they meet would lose nothing and gain greatly by doing what the President asks, calling off the suié¢idal strike against national defense, and agreeing either to postpone. their fight for a closed shop in the steel companies’ coal mines until the national emergency ends or to let the issue be settled by arbitration. fis thr lghgr een oul 2 #8 » "THE President has demolished the Lewis contention that the union cannot sign a contract with the steel-owned mines unless the closed shop i is included. He has made it plain that the sole purpose of the strike is to force the Government to force these mines to force a small minority of their workers—about one man in 20—+to join the union. ie has asserted that the Government will not yield to force. . A contract with the captive mines, omitting the closed : shop for the duration of the emergency, would insure their

miners precisely the same wages, hours and working condi- |

tions enjoyed by miners in the, commercial mines which are under the closed shop. : Not a single miner, as Mr. Roosevelt: points out, would lose any benefit or advantage he now has. Where the closed shop already exists, it would remain. And the captive-mine : operators wollld be bound by the Wagner Act, as well as by 1eir promises, not to stand in the way of any miner who chooses voluntarily to join the union. ; There remains the Lewis claim that the union’s , officers

: eo ur the President does not ask abandonment of this objective. He asks only that the union wait—all its

¢ hts meanwhile being amply safeguarded—until the ob-

je an be-sought without peril to the nation. “The policy comunitie 1 must t decide, We hope it will

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Nazis Look: Like Tiring. Arif! Hl. | ONE GETS THE IMPRESSION hb thie Gernian p

The Russians By AT. Steele

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KUIBYSHEY, Nov, 21. =A Russian Army unbroken in fighting spirit is defending the nerve centers of this harried country. situation in general is-more heart-

ening than it has been at any

time since the beginning of the

German offensive against Mos-. :

cow, Oct.

For pli weeks the Red Atay’ has: ‘blocked or repulsed every

major break-through attempt by. the Germans “along the mam | fronts of Moseow, Leningrad and Rostov. Except for |

the Crimea, where the Russians apparently are han‘dicepped by a deficiency of mobile: armor, the only

important German gain in that period was a drive | ‘northward toward Tickvin, 100 miles east of Lenin- |

‘grad, in what undoubtedly was an attempt to effect & junction with German-Finnish troops pressing down Irom the Karelian Ithmus and so- complete the ring around Leningrad.

|: Even - that dangerous wedge was blunted and pushed some kilometers back, according to the Russian claims. Leningrad ‘still has its corridor to the: east, but the High Command makes no secret of the. necessity for a supreme effort to prevent the closing

of these pincers: on Leningrad’s rear.

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armies may -be losing some of their offensive zeal. ‘At ‘least the army-which ‘for: nearly. Seven ‘weeks has been

battering at the gates of Moscow, behaves like a fir-

ing army. It drives wedges, but oftener than before, these wedges fail to reach their objectives or age chewed off by Soviet counter. action.

foreover, the Soviet defenses are more concen-- L trated and there are fewer weak points for German |

tank columns to feel out and strike at. | Carrying out their policy of active defense, the Russians are frequently counter-attacking for small gains at dangerous salients of the front. However, the Russians expect new and bigger German efforts. Communiques cohstantly wafn of continued German reinforcement and repeatedly emphasize the. numerical superiority of German tanks and planes.

Winter Is the Theme Now

THE DOMINANT RUSSIAN hope is that if the

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Soviets can hold the Germans at arm’s length from | fee

the two greatest cities for a few weeks more, the front’ may be frozen into stability.

The Russian aim is to force the Germans to |

stabilize the front along a line west of Moscow, obliging the Nazis to sit out the winter in icebound trenches instead of in the Kremlin. ‘Whatever the basis for these hopes, we now find the Soviet comnmuniques and newspapers full of references to the frosty weather and the assistance it is already giving the Russian cause. We read of prisoners being taken with frozen ears, hands and feet. We read in a dispatch from Tula | (a city 120 miles south of Moscow) how & detachment of advancing Russians found 12 German ,soldiers “huddled together and turned into stone.” We read stories also of captured Germans wearing looted items of ‘women’s clothing to give them additional warmth. And there are frequent derogatory references to the allegedly inferior quality of the ersatz materials used in Nazi uniforms.

This and That -

By Peter Edson

-. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Recent weeks have seen some of the most extensive moving operations the captial has ever experienced. . » + As space became more and more in demand and as defense agencies grew, néw quarters and larger quarters were constantly sought, with this net result: The Henderson Price Administration and Civilian ‘Supply unit moved ; from an old residence to a new apartment. Then its name was changed to OPA and it moved into a new temporary building at 4th and Independence. Mayor La Guardia’s Office of Civilian Defense, "ocD, moved from the Federal Reserve Building to the 2000 Massachusetts avenue residence vacated by OPACS, and from there into the Du Pont apartments. . . . The: new Economic Defense Board has taken over the new apartment building at 25th and Q, vacated by OPA. . . « And the Export Control Board, which used to be

in the Department of Commerce Building, has moved

into the first three floors of the 25th and Q apartment under its new parent organization, EDB. . . . Federal Works Agency now runs a bus line from various offices scattered in downtown Washington. . . . Office space, but not residences, are being prepared for 35,000 additional Government workers expected to arrive in Washington in the next year,

World Wars | and |i

FIFTEEN MEMBERS OF the present House of’

Representatives were congressmen when war was declared on Germany in April, 1917. . . . On the same

day that the Senate passed the bill freezing District

of Columbia rents, an increase in Washington's low taxi fares was announced. . . . Eight-two out of every

hundred farmers who have borrowed money from.

Federal Land banks are current on their loans and some of the farmers are now making advance pay-

‘ments to hedge against a day when the going may get . People living in urban communities now

tougher. .. make: up 56.5 per cent of the population. . . . La Guardia’s OCD is planning to make something special out of Bill of Rights Day.

Neatest Straddle of Week

PUBLIC BUILDINGS Administration's drive to collect old scrap metals in postoffices has brought to light such interesting items as 62 feet of iron hitching rack from Marshfielli, Wis. . . . Neatest straddle of the week comes from Comm. Richard 8S. Field, director of Marine Inspection, who told a conference, “We are at peace and we are at war.” . . . Shoe production in

the past 12 months has beén 472 million pairs, over |”

three arid a half pairs for every man, woman and child in the country, in case you're interested in knowing your quota. . . . Department of Commerce says the country now has 8000 trade -associations, a fourth of them national in scope.

Ontario is trying to grow Turkish tobacco. oo + Con-

gress is considering a bill to freeze Washington rents | . Goods all ready to

‘at the levels of last Jan. 1. ship to Russia are valued at 48 ‘million dollars, but no one will specify what they are.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those

of The Infisnsyors Timm,

So They Say—

Sooner or later all groups must realize that all

in the long run, will be better off if they will get to- | | gether on a program of building a greater Amerie, ;

instead of each group working selfishly in its

particular interest—Edward A. O'Neal, “president, 1

American Farm Bureau. *« # ‘$ £

The downfall of democracy is money worship, bé- :

cause democracy was founded on If you don’t feed them, they die.—Janet the New Jersey Education Association:

It 4s the country’s productivity in terms of olen

machines of warfare that will decide the outcome

of what is going neg; T Keller, president, Duryder i

a . .

one point to remember is that when ngs

: ; « + « More than 75,000 people now come to Washington every day. .. {|

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disugree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it mV oltaire.

‘TIME *SOMEBODY QUESTIONED CHAILLAUX’S PATRIOTISM’ By P. X. H,, Cumberland For years Homer L. Chaillaux has

been running around with his own peculiar little : yardstick measuring

has been a disgusting exhibitioh many considered it unimportant,

nored. However, most loyal Hoosiers will, I believe, resent his attack on one of Indiana’s famous sons, Theodore Dreiser. They'll also resent his call to follow Dreiser's talk “with ten

" |speeches on the glories of America.”

Are the glories: of America so unrecognizable that we need 10-speak--ers to call them: to our attention?{ Or does the modest Mr. Chaillaux: want to make the 10 speeches? All patriotic, Americans will resent, too, his attack on Soviet Rus

of America values Russian friendship at one billion dollars. Our government has decided that Germany

reason therefore that Russia is our best friend because she is doing more than anyone else to destroy Hitlerian Germany. Mr. Chaillaux has always felt free to question the patrietism of the other fellow so it is about time some one questioned his patriotism. To. a lot of people Mr. Chaillaux’s name. and attitude identify him as & Vichy-Frenchman, a little local Quisling masquerading behind the American Legion. ’ » 2 8 ‘ALL GERMANS WANT IS A PIPE ORGAN’ By S. R. H., Indianapolis. I noticed that Jan Masaryk, the Czech Government-in-exile’s foreign minister, says that after the war the small European nations must be reconstituted and play a role in the Européan concert even though they play only piccolos “and never the

All right, I'll grant Masaryk’s point but it seems to me that every orchestra must have a conductor or leader if there is to be any harmony. As far as I can see, the Germans never think of any orchestra. , , .

other people’s patriotism. While it|’

something to be smiled at and ig-

‘|everybody wants to pitch right in

sia at this time. The United States}

Y.[By E. R. M., Bloomington. is our worst enemy. It stands ta y SOM yn

(Times' readers are inwited fo express their views in ‘these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

All they want is a big pipe organ played by Schickelgruber, the house painter. Sure, you've got to have a concert. Biit you can’t have a concert. without agreeing on the music. The last time we picked on the League of Nations and then nobody wanted to follow. The result was just plain horrible boogie-woogie. I can’t se& that anybody has come forward with a tune so popular that

and start playing. ... 8.8» ‘WE'RE SAVING BRITISH FOR ANOTHER WAR!’

T've been following Rasmond Clapper very closely recently and I think he is advancing. the most magnificent viewpoint we have in America and yet we seem to be doing nothing about it. Clapper points out beautifully the leck of logic in our present position. All we're doing is saving the British and Dutch empires for what? For ajother war! Obviously, Mr. Clapper is absolutely right that this is what we are doing and this only. . . , I've already written Senator VanNuys that the Clapper program of trade treaties now is something Congress will have to do if the President won't. , . . » td - i ; ‘SAFETY BOARD IS MADE UP OF. POLITICIANS’ *

By ‘¥: D.' Jr., Indianapolis. ° - I heartily agree’ with. your editorial concerning the ‘Roscoe MecKinney ruling by: the Safety Board. What applied. to Chief Kennedy ought to apply to MeKinney.: Nobody accused Kennedy of doing anything other than’ what McKinney did. Then ! why the’ discrimination? bo The Ingianapalis Safety Board is

| pied Glances —By Galbraith %

{He |The poetry of earth is ceasing

made up. of politicians pure and simple. And these are the men in

lives—are entrusted! What a farce! : ? 88 8 ‘POLITICIANS SHOULD HEED WISHES OF WORKERS’

By Raymond Myers, 636 Marion Ave. As everyone knows, the strike is the principal weapon that labor holds over the manufacturer, for after negotiations have reached a deadlock it is the only thing left; yet I have read in the papers every night for months where a group of politicans, who are supposed to be the servants -of the people, are demanding a law to be passed outlawing strikes. These politicans claim that the people want this law passed; yet there are round 40 million workers in this country who would be vitally affected and who do not want to see

their rights taken: from them. So

who are these people? ' Every plant regardless nf how large or small would manage to secure some defense orders, thereby claiming to be defense plants; and regardless. of how poorly the workers were being treated, they could not protest or. if

management could just sit back and say no. 2 2 ” ‘TOME, PEGLER STANDS OUT AS A HERO’ By Jack Helvey, 1114 Newman St. Last week I wrote telling what I thought of Westbrook Pegler. Now,’ I see where someone thinks Pegler does not need praising. Here's my reply to that! If it weren’t for men such as Pegler, who would start the ball rolling and cleaning up these men that some people think are on the up-and-up? . , . Maybe the union that ‘this chap belongs to is an up-and-up union and maybe that’s the reason he doesn’t think Pegler needs praising. But there are so many unions that are not on the up-and-up and that’s what Pegler is fighting for... There is nothing said when the unions are run straight, because there is nothing to say against them. But when they start on the crooked path, that is the time to say something, I'm for the unions 100 per cent when they are run right, but otherwise, that's when I and everyone else should start say-

'|ing something about it. . . . To me

Pegler stands out as a hero for what he is doing. I still say his

|| reporting should be framed and

hung where everyone could see it.

ON THE GRASSHOPPER - -.. AND CRICKET

| |The poetry of earth is never dead;

When-all the birds are faint with

1: the hot sun, .| And” hide ‘in cooling: trees, a voice

: “will run iF From hedge to hedge

a it the new-mown mead; - That is the grasshoppers he takes the lead . In Summer luxury—he has never

+ out with fun rests pleasant ‘weed.

4 + never: . On.a: lone winter evening, when the

stove there shrills The cricket's song, in warmth increasmg ever, And sees to one in drowsiness. half The" grasshoppers grassy hills. —John Keats (1795-1821). —_—— DAILY THOUGHT

among some

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It is the ‘| bursting | ‘| ‘can easily

1a tew

: ANC Tis I. A. R. Wylie’s “Strangers Are Coming.” i "this: is ‘a ‘thoroughly delightful fantasy, . .

whose hands the public safety—our|-

‘Random House, New York. $2.50.

they did, it would do no good as the|

at ease beneath some)

Has wrought a silence, from the|

ROBERT . GREEN200 rs pi ished “Mr. Bunt Nap it took land by storm. It was the story of a typical British family, done perhaps with an eye on Galsworthy’s thes, but done expertly and ‘with consider “able talent. Then, amid. bombing raids, Mr, = Greenwood went fo | ' Bunting femily during the wer, 4 “The resulv is the complete werx, Ad d “Mr. Bunting in Peace and V/ar,” a ‘viovel you are going to hear a great deal about as $ roll by. e a mistake: This is not, a horror story. ory of a family, A story. ‘that not even bs can make horrible, Reading it you understand why all England fell in love with: the story, For it is the story of the typical Englishman, Hitler ought to 189g it, : (Th might. give, ‘him ghtful minutes, 4

‘Strangers Are Coming cin

BOOK SET in the background of war To. me,

‘Don’t n

* Johnny-David Fenwick, heir to the. Fenwick - mile

1 .lions, comés home from Europe withthe strangest | ‘collection. you ever heard of: Papa Sigismund, his wife

Maria, the orphan baby, Jan, the waiter Stanislas,

; .and the: ‘beautiful young Princess.

Troytown (the typical American Torytown) is ape

} palled, to:understate the case. But what happens 0

;Troytown is. highly entertaining fiction. "And nobody dares pass over Iylie’s gift of | writing. Some of her phrasing in his book is masters ful... I'm sure you'll agree with that Wher you've read it.

Music As a Hobby"

FRED B. BARTON has made a Hobby of writing books about hobbies. His latest is “Music as a Hobby” And this book is typical of Fred Barton's : thoroughness. He covers everything coricerning music from harmonicas to the radio and: phonograph. In between, he discusses the various. instruments, how to. organize. a neighborhood, orehesa: how to lise

any interest in music—from the layman wi to switch on the radio to the prof who wants to find ways of extend

‘Last Best Hope of Earth’

T DON'T KNOW WHETHER youve heatd about Harry Scherman’s latest little book or:not, but you should read it. Truth is, it aught, to he: must reading for anyone who is interested in the ] d of world e’re heading into Ve Th The. nese called “The Last Best | ope of Earth” from the Abraham Lincoln message the Congress in ’62. It is a philosophy. jor the war-roughly : some +6000 words long. That's all 1 said it the first time Must: reading.

by Robert Greens $2.50. 312 pages.

BUNTING IN ‘PEACE AND WAR, | Bobs-Merrill Co. Indianapolis, Wylie.

‘MR. wood. 480 pages. STRANGERS ARE COMING, by I. A. A

157 pages, include

MUSIC AS A HOBBY, by Fred B. Barto Brothers, New

ing lists of publications and index, Harper York. $2. THE LAST. BEST HOPE oF EARTH, by. 43 pages. Random House, New York, 15 ce!

was the atuminim 1 dur old pots "and pans, and what it will be to‘morrow only Mr. Ickes or Mr. Lae “Guardia Knows. Of course I'm 100 per cent in , favor of saving. The driblets of * waste one sees everywhere are enough to turn the frugal sick. But I'm just as sick of hearing it said that housewives should do=- : nate their old love letters for the U. S. A. while such colossal destruction |rages all around us and the expense of defense enterprise a Id be if people with as much thrift as an intelligent house=‘wife has were in charge of things. We've gof to co-operate in defense efforts. We are in agreement about that, but everyone isn’t at ease about the way big mqney is tossed off while the individual citizen is conditioned for penury. . .

Committing Mass Suicide Lora

WHEN ONE READS that in a raid o r Berlin, Britain lost 230 trained flyers and $5,000,000 worth of planes and equipment, it takes all the satisf tion out of our penny pinching. What horrible ddstruction we ‘observe as we look around the globe! Leaving out the cost .of lives, forgetting human suffering, the actual loss of basic materials represented Hy planes

race may be destined to disappear, and ‘giv

other forms of life upon our earth, I can’ ‘out a single tear. For the human race, with i

tive genius,” its scientific knowledge and i codes, is. laying waste its home and committ suicide. The rules for war are so insane that nations Kila off their young and healthy and preserve their old and useless, and chance for humanity’s-survival does look slim.. When one considers the earth—a tiny | all revolving in a universe of illimitable Time and bou de less Space—it’s easy to believe that mankind may be doomed. What will be the end of all our wast orgies for the good souls who are saving paper?

Questions and Answel

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A—No, he is an Episcopalian. = = + Q—Who was the composer of the “Serenade; #

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A—Franz Schubert.

Q—What is done with the at Yellowstone National Par

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Ing Yellowstone, are t

Service, for use in maintaining the. Q—Are insects classed as anima A—They are invertebrate anim

Insecta is by far the largest class o

Q--When- is the best time to grub. bushes? :

* A—In the spring, of after Tong periods

when the ground is wet. During dry periods,

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