Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1941 — Page 5
DREISER LAUDS SOVIET SYSTEM
Aerials. Best Bet. Is to] Back Russia, He Says In Interview.
Theodore Dreiser believes that America’s best bet in the present world crisis is to back Russia. Sitting in his room at the Columbia. Club : today, the veteran American © novelist expounded : at great length in an interview on the wonders of the Russian system and| the imperfections of the economic systems in all other countries, in| ; cluding our own. ’ He is in town to talk tonight in Caleb Mills Hall at Shortridge High School under the auspices of the Tuesday Night Club. He will talk on Russia as the ally of America
British Libyan | Offensive Is Blow to Weygand’s Ouster Injures Allied Position.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—The British offensive in Libya is regarded here ly the beginning of events leading to a showdown in the Mediterranean and the Near and Middle East vee nee the whole course of the war. Italy, this time, is the ultimate objective if the drive against Libya succeeds. Few believe that the Italians, con-
Nation
. WASHIN
onal a
N, Nov. 21 (U.. P.). — The United * States has offered Japan access to all the raw materials she needs if she don force as an instrument of na tional policy, it was learned today. Whether Japan will alter her eourse in er to parti ipate in the economic program which ‘reliable sources said the United States -one of the basic ques-
sumed by a scarcely concealed hatred of the Germans who have now all but taken their country over, would put up
more than a token resistance.
The Sicilians, according to reports received here, now openly flout the Axis. Brit-
ish sailors regularly land in Sicily. The people not only welcome them with. .open arms and conceal their presence from the Gestapo, but
keep them informed of Axis move-g
ments thereabouts. ‘Unless Hitler quickly comes to the rescue of his more than lukewarm allies in Libya, the Axis may soon be driven out of North Africa. This means that the British have at last opened up a second front which should prove of immense aid to the Soviet Union—far more than any suicl 1 attempt to land troops
- Franc the Low Countries, | en persistently de-
< The No African offensive. destroys any hope Hitler may have had for. a winter rest for his badly Basjercd troops. Not only will he be obliged to keep on throwing them: into frozen Russia in an effort to gain some sort of belated - decision there, but he will have to send fresh troops, if any, to save Libya even Italy herself.
S URN Hitler, therefore, is expected to
make a number of diplomatic moves to bolster his tired army. France, “Turkey, Spain and Portugal may have to declare themselves more ‘openly than in the past. Good Troops, Poorly Armed Already he has forced the Vichy Giovernment to oust Gen. Maxime Weygand from - his ‘North African ‘command. Again and again Hitler has. importuned Petain :for more “collaboration.” - He wants bases and other facilities in France's African colonies down to, and in‘cluding, Dakar, a base 1800 miles east of Brazil. But Petain has stubbornly .refused and Weygand has. backed him up. Weygand has had under him one of the best fighting forces in the world. Composed for the most part - of Senegalese, Moroccans, Algerians and other fighting tribesmen of the desert, they number approximately 350,000. They are not well armed. Hitler saw to that at the 1840 armistice. But they could still give an excellent account of themselves if Weygand gave the word —so much so that fear of them prevented Hitler from’ getting tough with Marshal Petain, at Vichy.
US. Holds Up Goods
“The ousting of ‘Weygand has alady led the United States to
Qertain regulated shipments foodstuffs and ‘other materalslike low-grade gasoline, oil, kerosene, etc.—have been going to North
change its attitude toward Rs
Africa for Weygand. These have now. been held up until fur r notice. * Gen. Weygand could still play havoc with - Hitler's African plans were he, like Gen. Charles de . Gaulle, to refuse to obey orders from Nazi-dominated Vichy. colonial ‘troops probably would f low him. Even the fleet might do -80. ~ But if Hitler now acquires still formidable French fleet, plus naval and air bases in French N and West Africa, it will be a powerful blow not only against Britain
and England. “The Russians,” he said, “have a system. that does something for a majority of the people
U. S. BREAK WITH
Washington Is “Angered Over Dismissal of Weygand in Africa.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U. PJ. —Diplomatic relations, between the United States and France were near collapse today as officials awaited official reports showing what sort of an alliance or “collaboration” the Vichy Government is undertaking with the German conqueror. Informed quarters insisted that the question of a break in diplomatic relations was not to be considered at this time. But the danger that France would open North and West Africa to the Axis made a quick reversal of this attitude possible. The apprehension over the role of France, under Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, was caused by Vichy’s- sacking of Gen. Maxime Weygand, pro-consul for French Africa, at the demand of Adolf Hitler. Gen. Weygand has refused to permit any foreign power to enter the French colonial empire. Because of a degree of confidence in Weygand’s integrity, this country sent vitally needed supplies to Prench Africa. Gen. Weygand persisted until, apparently, an ultimatum was handed him. Vichy yesterday announced what the world had known for more than 24 hours. Gen. Weygand has been dismissed. Diplomatic quarters . speculated that Germany may have threatened to occupy all of France, that she may have demanded; the French fleet or full French military collaboration. The United States made no secret of its apprehension. The State Department announced that trade with North Africa will be suspended and that Franco-American relations will be studied in the light of new developments.
FDR SIGNS HIGHWAY BILL WITH REGRET
—President Roosevelt today notifled Congress that he had signed
misgivings because the measure authorizes large sums for non-defense roads. The President, explaining. to a press conference identical letters sent to Senator Kenneth McKellar (D. Tenn.) and Rep. Wilburn Cartwright (D, Okla.) pointed out that he was signing the bill only because it contained some authorizations representing “immediate and genuine national defense needs.”
«| SNOW EXPECTED IN TIME FOR BIG GAME
The weather is apt to be offside
VICHY POSSIBLE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U. P.).
the defense highway bill, but with
Claims Scarcity Artificial “It is a democracy, despite what your newspapers say. They do more} over - there for the average man than this country ever dreamed of doing.” The novelist, ‘ne of the pioneers in the school of realism in American litergture and a native of Terre Haute, said .that Hitler had| simply modernized the old imperialistic system of having a governing class with all the rest of the people virtual slaves and that he must be stopped. “I do not want another A. E. F,, but if it is necessary to stop Hitler, it must be,” he said. In Russia, he went on, everyone works and everyone can do the kind of work they want to do. “The Russian people are happy. They .are happy because they are not smitten by the ‘money bug’ like we are here. I have never seen a lot of money do anything for people except make damned fools out “of them,” he said. “Over here, when a man gets $1, 000,000 he immediately becomes a genius.” He said he wanted the: American people. to “wake up” and realize that there was no such thing any more as a scarcity. The only Searcy is that created by monopolies which hold down quantity. in order to hold up prices, he added. “In California where I live I saw a mile of lettuce sprayed with
the market,” he declared. "4 'Not Party Member Mr. Dreiser said that he was not a member of the Communist Party and never had been, but that he admired the Russian system. “I don’t have enough technical knowledge to be a Communist,” he eclared. Talking so fast that his interviewers often had to stop him and ask him to repeat statements, Mr. Dreiser rambled on, jumping from one subject to another, but all of them pertaining to his belief that government should be for the good of the tommon man. He said he didn’t believe that the “crowd now running England is worth saving”; - that the English should be moving up through Iran to help Russia rather than attacking in Libya. “Indiana is a beautiful State— ‘bucolic’ is the word for it. It doesn’t make a lot of noise, but every once in -a while it produces a ‘ham’ like Willkie,” he said. . Jokes ‘About His Age “If there ever was a. poor fish; that’s Willkie,” he added. “He's everyone's friend. I don’t think he hds a sincere desire for general welfare. I don’t: know who runs him but I presume he gets his orders from the “big potatoes.’” “How old am I?” “Well, I'll be 162 at 3 p. m. next Wednesday.” (Who's ‘Who shows he is 70.)
In a letter sent to the Tuesday Evening Club which is sponsoring the address of Theodore Dreiser here tonight, Homer L. Chaillaux, Legion Amniericanism director; today cited 10 references to indicate the Communist sympathies -of the author.
Mr. Dreiser were based upon" the author’s writings in the New Masses and the Daily Worker, ’ “We know definitely that at the
alignment with Russia in an all out effort to defeat Hitler, the Communists in America have intensi-
kerosene to keep it from going to 3
Mr. Chaillaux’s charges against}
present time, because of America’s
Fremont. P.' Wirth of Nashville,
DeWit Morgan (left), superintendent of Indianapolis: schools, and
Tenn. president of : the - National -
‘Council for Social Studies, are interrupted by he Wholographer during a chat at the Council’s session here.
BARUCH RENEWS PRICE BILL PLEA]
Warns Rules: Committee of House Need for Law Is ‘Imperative.’
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (U. P.) — Bernard M. Baruch, Chairman of the World War Industries Board, today warned Congress that “unless we are careful” the time may come when it will be necessary “to goosestep the people with everybody hav-
ing and the same housing.” . Renewing his plea for drastic controls to check the rising tide of inflation, the 71-year-old industrialist told- the House Rules Committee that the need for price control legislation is “imperative” to meet an “acutely dangerous” situation.
tates is today “a nation in arms,” and declared that “we must fit ourselves to defend the country on all fronts instead merely of attempting to. put a fighting force on the sea and in the field.” Mr. Baruch suggested a five-point approach: 1, That Congress give immediate consideration to a price control bill. 2. That such a bill “guarantee a sufficiency at minimum price of the three necessities of lifg-shelier, food -and clothing.” 3. That controls be placed “on rent, on agricultural schedules, and on wages—on everything.” 4. That “all segments of society” be treated equally and profiteering eliminated. . 5. That price control “march along with a sound taxation program.” Speaker Sam Rayburn, meantime, said that House will take up the Price Control Bill Monday and start work on labor legislation “before long.” :
LOCAL HUNTER KILLED Buford Driver, an employee oT the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co., was wounded fatally yesterday afternoon while hunting near Sheridan. Mr. Driver was 36 and lived at 846 Roache St. Relatives said the gun he was, carrying was discharged accidentally.
|
ing the same food, the same cloth-|
He pointed out’that the United]
pote. than 1000 educators from all parts of the United States were told here today that they must teach pupils how to eliminate man’s social maladjustments. =~ “They were attending the 21st annual convention of the: National Council’ of Social Studies at the Claypool Hotel. Frement O. Wirth, president ‘of
Escapes Jail on ) ’ : Woman's Plea BECAUSE the wife of a State's witness made an impassioned plea in behalf of a drunk driver, Crim= indl Court Judge Dewey E. Myers today suspended a 30-day jail sentence for the prisoner. Harvey McAtee, convicted by Judge Myers of drunkenness, drunken driving and failure to stop after an accident, was fired $54 and was sentenced to 30 days. Mrs. Marty Oliver, 40 S. Colo-
rado St., wife of the State's vrit=nes approached the judge and sa
“Judge, I've just learned that this man has a wife and four children. I want him to be home with his wife’ and children for Christmas.’ Judge Myers suspended the sentence. No one was hurt in the accident and there was no property damage.
WITNESS IN MILEY
LEXINGTON, Ky. Nov. 21 (U. P.) —Pofice searched today for an assailant who stabbed a prosecution witness scheduled to testify in the trial of two men charged with the murder of Marion Miley, star woman golfer. The victim, Tom Lunsford, 28, suffered a minor abdominal wound when he was attacked on a dark street near his home. Authorities said his injury would not delay the trial, which begins Dec. 8. Lunsford told police: he was unable to identify his assailant.
: interested
CASE IS STABBED|
Two teachers who didn’t spend their Thanksgiving Tolidays by their own firesides are Miss. Ann Marsh (left) and Miss Hazel Widener, teachers respectively at Tolleston and Horace Mann High Schools in
Gary. They came here to learn: the latest’ about social studies. :
Pui ils et Be Foust Help Correct: ~~ Man's s Maladjustments, Teachers Told
the Council, who said social maladjustments must be controlled through education, declared that teachers in the future must adorn themselves with the title of “social scientists.” “They must teach their ‘pupils about price control, race relations, housing and poverty if education is to aid defense of a democracy and offer effective citizenship,” he said.| “Too many ts teachers of i history are] historians In citizens,” Mr. Wirth said. “Some teachers believe the lessons of the past cannot be utilized in understanding of the present for fear scholarship would suffer in the process. Our task is to bring sound research, scholarship and culture into the realm of the practical.” Mr. Wirth said it is not the task
lof the educator to present a solution to the many social and spir-y
itual problems “but to direct the of them so as to clarify the
Howard E. Wilson, of Harvard University, in an address before the convention yesterday, described education in most schools as a “queer
’
combination of inertia, shortsightedness and mad scramble to get cn one or another pedagogical band wagon.” “In the long run, the effectiveness of education. in ‘the United States depends upon . the clarity with which we perceive what ‘kind’ of citizens we want and the directness with which we focus our efforts on the development of the desired qualities of citizenship,” Mr. Wilson said. “One source ‘of strength of Nazis and Fascists is their perception of what it means to be a citizen within | sa: their systems and their complete focusing of influences and instruction on the making of envisioned servants of the State. “We teach history and civics day in and day out but we too rarely
sists of or in what ways these courses contribute to its, development.” A score of other nationally known educators were scheduled to speak at the convention before it closes tomorrow night.
| the United States is her
ask just what civic competence con-|
from Senator Elbert D. Thomas MD. Utah), a member of the Senate For-: eign Relations Committee and one
lof the Senate’s leading experts on
oriental affairs. He believes that the crux of Japan's difficulties vith wi Nazi Germany and sugges sted that agreement | between Japan and China to “freeze” military lines and arbitrate. territorial 5 Seamets, might solve the U. 8.-Japanese crisis. President Roosevelt was asked at his press conference: whether he had any cause for optimism from the current : conversations with Japan. He replied scornfully that the ‘question was like asking while you
|are beating your wife. Mr
.- Thomas proposed | that a ‘seven or -nind-man érican ‘commission undertake to arbitrate such a settlement., He emphasized that
on “its policy of aid to China or: make a settlement based gn China's yielding territory outright to Japan; nor could Japan, -he:. gonceded merely denounce - its ‘accord with Germany. | It would have to follow proper diplomatic procedure, he
said. The Hull-Kyrusu-Nom discus=: sions have been held daily since Monday, including an ‘hour’s con= ference yesterday at the: Siete, Des, partment, At i
TOKY , Nov. 21 (U. P.) Premier Gen. Hid ki Tojo said: today Wat the government, “backed 'by the unshakable determination of -the people,” is preparing to. redouble’ its efforts to cope with. the unpreeedented national orisis- -and”to push
to the ho. Japan's pi policy.
Speaker
v% Outer Circle Tuned
R. F. Circuit . % Television Type Tobe
'RADIORGAN “ee RADIO'S
) EXCLUSIVE LIST OF FEATURES
% 14-inch Concert Grand
% Rotor Wavemagnet—No : Aerial and No Ground
Built-in Short Wave Aeriol % Radiorgan Tone Mastery
GREATEST TONE DISCOVERY
Plus 3-Gang Condenser, Automatic Tuning, 5 Push-Pull Audio Amplification ;
1056069: Ten tubes including rectifier.
Receives American and foreign broadcasts. Lovely a walnut finish cabinet.
cose = Bg
NEW 1942 Super-Performer
Another HE estion came today -
this country ‘could, not back down
Sed their Sins pi) propaganlizs eir cause,” aillaux wro to Paul Harris, program chairman. w ; Peul Haris, program chairman, Pay | No Att ention to the REGULAR Price - Save $15 NO % 2 is being put forth to use the public ; 1 platforms ‘of this country to. pro- : : : ? : : oe mote the cause of communism,” he ’ ; ably change to snow tomorrow aft-|added. “Every indication is that ernoon and that temperatures will| Dreiser's appearance here is just range from 20 to 25 degrees. another step in that direction.”
7 OYLAND
but the United States. i - Similarly, Turkey may be p sured into permitting Axis FL to pass through her territory to get at the British-defended middle east, Suez and the eastern Mediterranian, while Spain and Portugal may soon. be “asked” to take a more active .part in the war on the side of the Axis."
asp
for the big football games tomorrow “lin Indiana, with rain or snow and much colder temperatures predicted by afternoon.
The Weather Bureau predictéd the rain will start tonight and prob-
Santa Claus Is Horo—ord He Has a GIFT for Every Child!
This includes various singll lots left ov dolls which were stored too near a heat e warehouse—certain Baby Dolls, Mama: ‘Dolls and Little Girl Dolls—a few Stuffed. Toys, Mechanical a ete. Also a lot of Samples.
“THE ORIGINAL AUTOMATIC" The New 1942 . Super- Performer