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3 : _WASHINGTON, _ Dec. ‘ = * veloping in materials for defense 1s a shortage .in defense

80 fi : y the ordinary tasks of life § | many cla tions in the Army. The Wooden Leg With a Knothole SOMETIMES THE OTHER qualifications so fap outweigh ine purely physical ones that the ee eooias is grotesque. We once filled a requisition for pigeon= _eers (experts in handling carrier pi : as a joke than otherwise one Army jected one of these specialists, fot wooden leg, but because it had a knothole in it. By that time the principle of making common sense use of our military material had been so gen= erally 1 and approved that, when wooden legs didn’t interfere with the special duty desire, it didn’t interfere with acceptance. This whole subject is rapidly becoming a very serious one today. - The Navy which has not looked with faver upon conscription, and did not do so a} the beginning of the last war, is beginning to feel & pinch that will soon cause its acceptance although this will require some change in the law. The need for various types of skills, both in the Army and the Navy as well as in industry, will very soon require the use of women and girls in many such jobs as moulders and pattern makers where they fre« quently do better than men. :

it Can Release Thousands

IF CAREFULLY APPLIED this principle alone will release many thousands of highly skilled workmen. Too rigid physical requirements and application of the 28-year-rule may deprive the armed services of men that will become absolutely indispensible in this highly mechanized war. The changes made through what appeared to be expedient at the time when the revised plan was adopted are now appearing not to have looked far enough forward. These matters are too serious to permit pride in 8 hastily made decision to stand in the way of co: it. 5 To sum this whole matter up, the whole subject of classification for the purpose of making the maxi= mum use of available man-power is even more ime rtant than priorities and other very drastic action en to make the greatest available use of available

she can block that Hitler

Allies place on Ankara’s conindicated by the fact that |¢ greatest need for war mathe Turks. Britain has not

pledge will kick back in favor like Britain before, is unable

: a that he is a liar who takes , and will keep ron raising

tizenship mental reservations that are held by every Nazi and

y, but not to the point of for Allied unpreparedness. wv difficulties, the President offensive against Hitler with , military counter-offensive on h drive in the Libyan desert, , Hitler until recently was en-

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will

Snirasies of Jue defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

company. These murderers strength of Governor Olson's in somewhat under five years in prison they had

2 the Nazi African army, if

ca Rostov gateway, and iT the promised arms : Hitler in the coming those are still “ifs.”

fully expiated their cowardly murder of a man whose

life was forfeit because he would or flinch from the Cc

Encouraged by Judges

THE CALIFORNIA Communists campaigned for

‘MORE POWER TO ARCHBISHOP FOR MOVIE STAND’ By Mrs. W. M., 4436 Vandalia st.

I could not help taking note of the brave stand Archbishop Frances J. Spellman of New York City has

fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make

(Times readers oe invited

forcing each to bend over backwards trying to be straight? So far as our own trained experts are concerned, just as surely as we draw experts from other states,

“| those other states will have to draw

supplies. : We will soon find that we cannot afford to waste ¢ a single skilled man on an unskilled job or not ta ¢ utilize every person of either sex available for training for skilled jobs whether in uniform or not. The matter of using women can be carried to ex« tremes. They have no appropriate effectiveness im bearing arms or in the heavier tasks of truck.

ours, which will help to cleanse the atmosphere in another state. So don’t. unwittingly bottleneck the cleansing process—rather cheer it on.

your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

actually driving and the like. But there are plenty of places where the deftness, accuracy and speed of theip Sxguers, handy and minds ave sors Ussul Gus tog men. : «

their release on the fiat proposition that, guilly or |taken against a motion picture, a not of this murder, they should be freed, and Gov~ | yyigar picture no doubt. I am afraid ernor Olson subscribed to that for there was no con- |e church leaders see giants in tention in the parole order that they were innocent Hollywood and are afraid to cross The Communists who demanded the release of [%V* At not. Lae i the murderers had been encouraged by a San Fran- power to him. ... EE Ee a Soa edie #2 = Darcy, a jan perjurer, who A to run for the office of Governor of FARMERS, INDIANA POLITICS, California and swore that he had been born in {SHORTCOMINGS IN GENERAL 504 West Drive,

RULE taxes once imposed are never ons which prove this rule. instance, has just listed two been wiped out in the last off the statutes this year are: poll tax, New Mexico its oleo8 1 per cent emergency tax on X ding stamp tax, and the city

; ss 8 = the market just when the specula-| “JOHNSON TRYING TO PAINT. tor put out the increase bait. And HALO ABOUT LEWIS’ HEAD” that farmer is not grumbling. By W. HE. Edwards, Spencer

So long as I can remember, farm- recei ers have been grumbling and com- ray La plaining over imaginary abuses, the|jounson, who is kept on the remedy for which lies in their own pps-Howard payroll regardless control. It is almost time that theiss nis column's setting forth more! consuming public is relieved of this|naywired ideas than it seems possi-cry-baby stuff, and surely time foripyle for an educated man to give farmers to look into a mirror and|pirth to, is now trying to paint a study their own shortcomings. figurative halo around the head of Then Mr, MacCormack raises a|John L. Lewis. cry about our State Welfare De- naan ignores the Sao}, Gout) the Ing employ y a time when the prices of fermi Do anent Riring A (Laws, in his effort to gain comproducts were controlled by the| "oo. Cove up and insist thet|Plete control over all coal mining, farmers themselves. The agricul-|, =... ° en and women be given 3® the same tactics that were emtural price system has always been| i... we're going to wake up |Ploved by Al Capone and his mobcontrolled by a gang of speculators) ==. any to find that all the depart- sters to gain and hold complete dic-. whose main object is to buy low and t heads are residents of prac- tatorship over the bootleg industry sell high.” Amen during the prohibition era; tactics

5 : J ° ° A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson By A. J. Schneider, . Woodruff Plgce. . In today’s Forum, Mr. Russell Snapp, Greensburg, and Mr. J. P. MacCormack, Crawfordsville, have made some erroneous remarks which I should like to correct in the light of practical economics, just to keep the record straight. Mr. Snapp says “Never was there

MARY RAYMOND, newspapers. woman of Memphis, spoke recents ly before the Tennessee Authors’ Club, and pulled no punches t@ spare the menfolks. “War,” she said, “has always been a grim game that men have. played. They have fashioned their devices of destruction and gone. out and used them with prodigal disregard of human ‘hopes and lives. In this game they have ; played with the hearts of women, sacrificing sweethearts, husbands and sons. =e “Now, in modern war, theyre playing with the lives of women as well. Too long we have stood by, }

. difficulty of his guilt, the San Francisco to enjoy the same rights that patriotic, law- Americans deserve but often are unable to exercise because the Darcys and Krebs or Valting snd such men as the three liberated murderers have other ideas. Krebs or Valtin appears to be doing well financially the land of Uncle Sap for the saps are eager to of the perfidy which made him famous and brutality qualified him and, eventually, full citizenship.

s called their lobbying forces t for the announced purpose of any way restricting the right to

tives answered that challenge » 136, the strongest anti-strike before it. The vote has tre-

believe it reflects accurately the

are for labor, but dead against used to prevent production of ie nation’s very life may depend. insure production against inces-

have the law made too 1g of their constituents, voted

8 mith Bill, which now goes to all r or perfect in any hedt and haste, and no doubt many citizens will find it diffipose of most of its specific

stand stubbornly against all use of labor’s power. ; that labor must be the sole

s rights—that unions must ie Government but no legal

‘who are supposed to lead

This and That

By Peter Edson

CROSS is shipping trees to U. S. forces in Yceland, and if the Germans torPade Nat Sarg. they're old mean-

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tion of a new process to make aluminum from clay. . . . New typemanufactured

to electric current. . . . Farm reach $10.8 billion, just under . + « Financing of new au 000 cars in May to 60,000 in

How It Goes

IT 18 THE MORNING of Oct. § Conn., stationery sn

TVA announces perf

he record of 1929. dropped from

Now I ask Mr. Snapp whose faull is this? Is it the consumer’s fault? Or is it the fault of that gang of speculators trying to make a more or less honest living? My contention is that it is the fault of the farmer himself —and only the farmer. There is no law requiring him to sell to that wolf pack Mr. Snapp abhors, at anything short of a fair, cost-plus-profit price. Why then, does the farmer sell for less than cost-plus-profit? It is the same greed motive that establishes the gang of speculators in a lucrative business. Just the moment the speculators boost the prices a point or so, for bait, the greed motive starts to work and all the farmers rush in to the market at one time, flood the market and depress their own prospects. But the start farmer, who is really making money on his farm, pays no attention to the high prices—he starts moving his wares to the market while prices are in the trough, getting them into

year

for the year may |

actown. | Side Glances— By Galbraith ’ \

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tically every state in the union, except Indi po of ruthless force and murder. - Well, Mr. MacCormack, had you

falling into a pattern of conformity. Now we must step forward and work with ardor and zeal toward the objective of a world peace, a world kept at peace. For man has not learned to master himself. Wars won't end until crusading women have educated ths menfolks. ce eo Fi “Think what it would mean! A world of women at war against war, Of women standing guard. . For women, and especially we writing women, must stand behind the traditions that made this country great,

‘the eternal verities handed down by men of vision

and wisdom, the status quo with order, and with all. its imperfection, which can be improved under the Sule Srogess of Hud, nite Wa mE

Stirs Women to Revolt 5

I THINK MISS RAYMOND is so right she des serves prolonged applause. For isn’t it time the other half of the S Jopulationsthe - feminine half, who sacrifice and suffer and now die in wars—should never again be barred from those councils which promote them? ? : One stands aghast at the daring of the little groups of men who precipitate all bloody catastrophes, When war leaders in Germany went into a huddle— and everybody knows there were no women among hey set torch to tinder, and the flame if

inine spirit to rebellion. Condemned to take part ; an effort they hate, doomed to slave and starve and, worse yet, to look on while their children slave and starve, women are beginning to feel they have R’ shoved about long enough by tyrants. 33

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