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"TUESDAY, DEC. 16, 1941 |
Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum
A LETTER FROM HAWAII reached us yesterday. From the Hawaii Tourist Bureau, at Honolulu, it opened with: “Heaha ka mea hou?” which in plain English means “What's new?” “All this,” the letter continues, “is merely a cordial introduction to a few notes about Hawaii, and we can assure you that it is far from ‘nothing new’ here. Actually there is lots of news, to-wit: “1. We're carrying on a strong promotional campaign. 2. We can lend you some grand color movies. 3. Tourists keep coming to Hawaii in numbers. 4. There is still plenty of room in our hotels. 5. Travel between the islands is heavy. 6. Air services to Hawaii and between the islands has been greatly increased.” The letter was postmarked Dec. 4—three days before the tourists started shooting as they arrived.
Your Wedding
MARJORIE WOODS, formerly fashion writer for The Times, has written a book which has been ac-'’
cepted by Bobbs-Merrill for publication in March. It deals with instructions to women on what to buy, wear, etc, when getting ready for a wedding. It’s done in a light vein. Tentatively chasen as its title is: “Your Wedding—How to Plan and Enjoy It.” ... Lowell H. Patterson Jr., son of the Republican member of the State Alcoholic Beverages Commission, has enlisted in the Army. . . . Asked what would be the function of his newly appointed Civilian Defense Council, Mayor Sullivan replied: “I don’t know. Let's not map out everything too many years in advance.”
Best Wishes
LILOYD CARTER, the Hercules A. C. matchmaker, received a card yesterday from Kaimon Kudo, the Japanese wrestler who on several appearances here has packed ‘em in. The card, mailed from Honolulu
Dec. 4, extends best wishes for a Merry Christmas. ... George E. Irwin, 2009 Carrollton Ave. has received a message from his son, George E. Irwin, aboard the U. S. S. St. Louis, saying he’s safe. The last Mr. Irwin had heard m previously was from n Hitcheock, the Selective Service director, is back on the job after a minor eye operation last week at Billings General Hospital, Ft Harrison,
When the Rope Broke
FIREMEN FOUND a new use for those new aerial ladder trucks late yesterday afternoon. The rope broke as the flag was being lowered from the flagpole at Station 13—opposite The Times. So firemen*rotted out the $19,000, half-block long No. 13 aerial ladder truck, ignored traffic, sent the ladder to the top of the pole and a fireman went up and put on a new rope. Pretty handy, eh? . . . Juke box operators report their business fell off like everything last week; people too busy with the war news to drop a nickel in the slot . . . slot machine operators also were wearing long faces.
USA Not in the U. S. A.
ONE OF OUR READERS calls to remind us that not all Japanese goods are stamped “Made in Japan.” Some are marked “Made in USA.” Some time back when Japan’s aggression made her goods unpopular, someone over there had the bright idea of naming a city “USA,” to sound like the U. S. A. Darned clever, these Japanese! . . . The Indiana Labor Division, we hear, is scheduled to inherit the State House office space now occupied by the State Alcoholic Beverages Commission as soon as the latter moves into its new quarters in the Illinois Building. The Labor Division now is on the top floor. . . . The State Tax Board is planning to consolidate the field men in its four divisions for greater efficiency. At present, field men in the chain store and inheritance tax divisions may be rushed to death in certain seasons while those in the intangibles and the property assessment divisions are not busy.
Ernie Pyle is on leave of absence because of the illness of his wife.
Washington
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—We can have calm faith in victory because everything has been given to us with which to win. No other country has been so blessed. We have two resolute, fighting allies of great : strength. Russia is the only country aside from ourselves having adequate materials for a war of machines. She has lost much of her industry by invasion, but so vast is the country and so determined are the Russian people that they are giving the German war machine a fight for its life. England, although obliged to
import all of her materials except coal, has enormous fighting ability and far-reaching sea power. To-
gether we control the ocean highways still and can haul the materials needed for war. The combined industrial output of the United States, Russia and Great Britain and the raw materials under their control make it certain that Allied strength can better stand a long war. Germany, Italy and Japan are poor countries. They are able to obtain materials only with extreme difficulty. The Axis powers, including occupied areas and pro-Axis neutrals, control 36 per cent of the iron ore, 29 per cent of the coal and 3 per cent of the oil in the world. They have great difficulty in i the numerous hardening metals such as chrome and tungsten. They must get oil soon.
All We Have to Do Is Keep Going
THEIR PEOPLE ARE TIRED, having been fighting, or suffering war restrictions, for years. The long struggles which promised victories have only brought upon them new and stronger enemies. Six months pgo it was powerful Russia. Now it is the United States, fresh, angry and well started on the greatest war production ever undertaken. We are lucky because we have such large resources and because we began some time ago putting them
Rationing
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Rationing of the retail customer is about to start in this country with rubber tire sales, but it is expected to be a long time in getting around to anything else. Despite the runs of shoppers in many cities for sugar, soap, tea and other products with Far Eastern origins, the only controls likely to be applied will be at the importers’ and manufacturers’ levels. Sugar deliveries to wholesalers
have been frozen at 1940 quantities
Washington that housewives’ panics will make it necessary to apply the complex and expensive rationing systems of European countries. We have more of everything than the women have money to buy up quickly. These buy-
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By Raymond Clapper
to war use. Shortly we will pass Germany in war production. The longer she fights the more certain she is to be outdone. All we have to do is to keep the war going. Our weight, when added to that of our allies, will make defeat as sure as the sunrise. | We are lucky also because our ehemies are the] kind of nations they are. It is easy to fight them. | It is hard to fight decent nations. But the long Axis| record of treachery, of brutal conquest, leaves us with no inhibitions, They are plague regimes which we have always hoped would be exterminated. We are lucky, too, in the way war has come to us, by the sudden stab in the back. First, it was the kind of attack that stirred us as a whole, united | nation to -fight- back. Second, we took a beating which awakened us to the size of the job. On the very first day we had our Dunkirk psychologically. We may suffer worse blows during the war but Pearl Harbor eliminated the “phony war” period at the outset. We know now that Germany may attack in the Atlantic. That no longer seems as fantastic as it did 10 days ago. After Pearl Harbor we are awake for anything. :
It Is the Tide That Counts
"PEARL HARBOR must be in the thoughts of every fighting man now. It must have been in the thoughts of those Marines on Wake Island and behind every bomb and torpedo that has been sent
The Japanese have made it certain that every death at Pearl Harbor wiil be avenged. We wiil have no qualms about burning Tokyo now. If we keep this war going and fight it with the spirit of the Marines on Wake Island, victory is certain. Bad news may make us sad. But it will not discourage us, because we know what overpowering strength is gathering under the Stars and Stripes. : have on our side the right, which gives us will to win. ’ = une We have the resources, which give us the might to win. Day-by-day ups and downs in the war news are like the ocean waves. It is the tide that counts, and the tide is running against the Axis.
By John W. Love
fo mention their owners. This was brought home to Washington authorities when they were considering rationing of gasoline during the talk of shortage last September. ! Two methods of rationing tires are being studied and one of them will be adopted, perhaps both. In one plan, certain types of customers would be given preference certificates—like doctors and milk men, maybe even newspaper photographers. In the other plan, the customer would have to bring in a worn tire in order to get a new one. ; More. serious in their effects on the national economy, but nothing the retail consumer can do much
Pacific trade has been interrupted. These will continue to be studied by half a dozen agencies, with the certainty that a stream of freezing and requisitions will follow all this week.
Changes Still Needed
Former Navy Secretary Warns Nation Against Rash, Hysterical Criticism:
The United States is at war. For awhile, ignorance and the fear of a few spawned imaginary disaster for this great nation. The article below calls a halt to that sort of thing. It was written by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy under World War President Woodrow Wilson. His voice sounds a rallying cry for all Americans to “pick
themselves up, dust themselves off—and start punching.”
in the back the policeman on the large beat is not suspended or discharged or put in disgrace.
The United States did not lose its head in the Wilson days when the Lusitania was sunk. It was recognized as one of the hazards of a war waged by ruthless assassins. The people then recognized that those who used the stiletto and practiced submarine piracy could guickly deal death and destruction. It must be recognized now that the early advantage is with the pirates who employ the blitzkrieg.
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 16.—There is no basis for the near panic or the hysterical talk of court-martialing naval officers because of the sudden sneak sinking of an American dreadnaught at Pearl Harbor, or the destruction of the Prince of Wales, the British flagship in Asiatic waters. When a man rushes out of the dark and stabs a pedestrian
'‘Chief' to F. D.R.
Josephus Daniels, whom President Roosevelt addresses as “Chief,” easily qualifies as America’s leading elder statesman. Agile of body and vital in mind, he has just retired as Ambassador to Mexico after performing what has been described as “the toughest assign« ment” ever given an American statesman. Mexican citizens attempted to stone him when he reached their capital. They wept when he left. He resigned because of
‘No Backseat Drivers Wanted’
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Even Greeley Forgot
AS A LIFE-LONG editor, may I remind my brethren of the press that even the great and patriotic Greeley lost his wisdom in forgetting that he was not a tactician and strategist and undertook to be a back-seat driver in the early days of the war of the ’Sixties? In the South also some editors assumed to know more about waging war than the immortal Lee. Like the great Lincoln, the great southerner never - lost his poise, even under great provocation. When criticism of his actions appeared in newspapers, whose editors thought they knew more about winning victory than the chosen leader, General Lee, in a letter to his wife, said: “I am sorry, as you say, that the movements of the armies cannot keep pace with the expectations of editors of papers. I knéw they can regulate matters satisfactorily to . themselves -on paper. I wish they could do so in the field.”
Lee Had Right Slogan
THAT STATEMENT of General Lee in 1861 applies today to editors and radio commentators and’ congressmen and all the con=versational strategists and critics on street corners—in the capitol and elsewhere. “We have just begun to fight” should also be our slogan. And no back-seat driving. President Roosevelt has given assurance that the people shall be kept informed of the bad news as well as the good news when such information will not give
the illness of Mrs. Daniels and knowledge that will aid the 2" his keen desire to return to his enemy. Need Common Sense post as the publisher of one of The American people have
THE NEED of this tragic hour is the exercise of plain, old-fash-ioned, common sense. If people in and out of Congress are nervewracked—and all of us are under severe tension—they at least ought not to air imaginary charges against brave men, going down to the sea in ships as they place their lives in peril, or against like brave men in the Army who are standing guard and suffering, and some dying in the farflung battle line on sea and land and air. The sinking of the Bismarck did not create a panic in Germany and the destruction of the Prince of Wales in the Orient has created none in England. No more should the first heavy blow at American naval forces in Hawaii or other losses cause the people of America to lose their nerve or poise of consecration to a cause dearer to them than life. The pendulum swings from one extreme to another. Two weeks ago I heard some of the very people who are now looking for a victim crying out: “Why doesn’t the Government quit talking with two-faced Japanese envoys and
HEALTH BOARD ELECTION NEAR
And Nominate Secretary For $5400 Post.
A highly important job in the state government, that of Secretary
of the State Board of Health, is to be filled this week. The board, recently brought up to its full strength of four men by Governor Schricker, will meet here Thursday to elect officers and nominate a secretary. It is expected that the board will recommend to Governor Schricker that he appoint Dr. John W. Ferree of Marion. Dr. Ferree succeeded Dr. Verne K. Harvey as Health Board secretary when the latter resigned a year ago. Former Governor M. Clifford Townsend appointed Dr. Ferree after consulting with Governorelect Schricker.
any active part in politics. His position pays $5400 a year. Members of the Health Board are Dr. Ernest Rupel, Indianapolis; Dr. E. M. Van Buskirk, Ft. Wayne; Dr Henry C. Metcalf, Connersville, and
Choose Officers Thursday
the south’s great newspapers, the Raleigh, N. C., News and Observer,
smash the miserable little Japs before breakfast?” ” ”
Lack Knowledge
THEY SPOKE from ignorance then as they are speaking now out of lack of knowledge when they seek to make culprits of men who are ready to give their lives to prevent the destruction of free governments on the earth. Those who were clamoring for a before breakfast annihilation of the Japanese forces and the Japanese Empire and the bombing of Tokyo, as if it were something that was easy, knew nothing of either how Japanese covet death for country, or how for a score of years all the Japanese have been regimented to the one business of making ready to destroy alk who did not acquiesce in the old order of imperialistic government with which they beguiled their innocent people by calling it “a new order.” No man acquainted with what
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Josephus Daniels: “There is but one call to all of us in this high hour.”
the Japanese Navy did in the Russo-Japanese War, or with their preparedness for this stab in the dark, talked of cleaning them up as if it was an easy and quick job to be soon over and done with.
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Recalls Lincoln Remark
AS I READ the excited demands for courtsmartial and dishonor to men who are ready to die, I am reminded of what Lincoln said in a dark hour for the Washington government in the war of the ’Sixties when hysterical people were demanding that he smash Richmond in 1861 without benefit of clergy. Lincoln illustrated their attitude by a reference to the feat of Blondin who was the first to walk on a tight rope across Niagara
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U. S. Never Will Surrender Bill of Rights, F. D. R. Vows
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U, P) .— The “political and moral tigers” in control of Axis governments stood indicted by President Roosevelt today of attempting to overthrow the Bill of Rights, the “mother charter” of all human liberty. Addressing the nation by radio last night oh the 150th anniversary of adoption of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, the President said the United States
would not, in the face of any danger, surrender the guarantees in the Bill of Rights. “We hold with all the passion of our hearts and minds to those com-
mitments of the human spirit,” he
said. “We are solemnly determined that no power or combination of powers shall shake our hold upon them.” Mr. Roosevelt pledged that the United States, having as a last recourse taken up arms to defend its liberty, would not quit fighting before liberty again was secure, He
barism, of seeking to impose the doctrines of absolute obedience, dictatorial rule and suppression of truth “What we face,” he said, “is noth-
resolution and the sacrifices of their ancestors liberated them.” The small clique of “ambitious and unscrupulous politicians” who ascended into power with Adolf Hitler in Germany in 1933 brought on the issue of war, Mr. Roosevelt said. In Germany, he said, the church is a “monstrosity to be rlestroyed,” and the freedoms of speech and press “most hateful and inost desperately to be feared.” Attorney General Francis Biddle said in another radio program that the protection of the Bill of Rights must be extended to “all human beings who live on American soil.” Senator Hiram Johnson (R. Cal.) warned that to forget the Bill of
Wights in the days to come would
mean that the war would have been fought in vain. Senator C. Wayland Brooks (R. Ill.) said that citizens of the United States were prepared to fight unto death to defend the civilization they have established. Chairman Sol Bloom (D. N. Y.) of
nates a world in darkness.”
Manila Using
Falls. Tired of uninformed criticism, the patient but unperturbed Lineoln made a statement something like this: “Suppose you and other volunteer critics had been standing on the ground looking up at Blondin in his dangerous adventure, and one would cry out to him, ‘Blondin! Go a little farther to the left or you will lose your balance!’ And another would scream, ‘Move five inches to the right or you'll fall to the ground and be dashed to pieces!” And others equally excited were making different suggestions to the man on the tight wire in the air. Do you suppose if he listened to them they were giving him aid? Rather were they not guilty of imperiling his success?”
RILEY HOSPITAL FUNDS SOUGHT
Memorial Group Hopes for More Endowments; 4 Added to Board.
The James Whitcomb' Riley Memorial Association, finanacial sponsor for Riley Hospital for Children, prepared today to seek additional endowments for research and for maintenance of the hospital. At a reorganization meeting yesterday at the Columbia Club, the association named officers and added four directors to its board.
Hugh McK. Landon was re-elected president; Herman B Wells, president of Indiana University, and Dr. Carleton B. McCullech were reelected vice presidents; James W. Carr was re-elected executive secretary, and Arthur V. Brown, treasurer. Naomi B. Cook was appointed assistant secretary and Alfred F. Gauding, assistant treasurer.
New Board Members
Wells, Peter C. Reilly, Dr, William Lowe Bryan, Dr. McCulloch, Joseph J. Daniels, Perry W. Lesh and Arthur R. Baxter, Added to the board were George
learned that in every way they can trust their President. Their faith in him is based on his frankness and wisdom in the anxious days behind us. They know he will not fail them in the critical days we face — critical days, surely, but days that will end in an assured victory.
One Call to All
THERE IS BUT one call to all of us in this high hour. It is to consecrate everything we have, and are, and hope to be, fashioning the weapons that will bring success, and in the full use of every ounce of brain and brawn in factory and in field and on the seas and in the air. Our country has the men and the skill and the money to make our war effort invincible. Let us give allegiance and full faith to the men at the helm. They may be depended upon to weed out any who are unfit or ineffective, if such there be, and plan and execute everything that will bring victory.”
of research, and to aid in maintaine ing the hospital staff and equip ment at the high level established through the generosity of the people of this state. The associa= tion has received more than $2,000,000 from donors and 60,000 children have been treated.”
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Who composed the “Melody in my 2—The number of the biblical Wise Men has been generally accepted as 3, 6 or 12? 3—Name the Vice Presidents during each of Franklin D. Roose= velt’s three administrations. 4—-The earth's surface receives its heat almost entirely from the sun; true or false? 5—Which country besides the United States of America has the initials U. S. A.? 6—What does the abbreviation “i, e.” (Id est) mean? T—Canvasback is the name of a kind of sheep, cattle, or fresh water duck?
n imilar regulation ; elations Coma a, be "worked out this a and sien, an The Secretary 1s. Jegisieres accused the Axis, particularly Ger- boric Babe “Noe rn Re-elected members of the board Answers week, but there is no fear in tirely or in part from the countries with which the Ccmocrat, but has never taken many, of attempting to revive bar-| ine “great light that now illumi-|of governors were Mr. Landon, Mr.| 1—Rubinstein.
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3—John Nance Garner, first and second; Henry A. Wallace, third. 4—True. 5—Union of South Africa.
ing more or less than an attempt to 4 * A. Ball, Carl F. Ev h - br 2 ing sprees are expected to end the same way the rush Dr. Herman M. Baker, Evansville. | overthrow and to cancel out the Dayl Iq ht Ti me |i hy y ; Taki) Se Me d 6—“That is. for silk stockings did. AMONG THE ARMED services the feeling is grow- ew * | gpeat upsurge of human liberty of Ward G. Biddle. T—Fresh water duck. In one Washington department store yesterday the ing that not only must production authority be AMERICAN WAR HERO which the American Bill of Rights SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 168 (U. Mr. Eveleigh is assistant treas- hw gd Er Ie Noahs Silk soc & reained is a Jearee no reorganization has yet ac-| SINGAPORE, Dec. 16 (U. P).—|is the fundamental document; t0| p, paviight saving time has |urer of Eli Lilly X Co. Mr. Mc- ~ » , uu away. but across the aisle one of Shar pete a on. p at it must be headed by a man|Lieut. E. C. Pomeroy, an American, |forne the peoples of the earth and been instituted in Manila as a | Murtrie anda Mr. Peterson are trus- ASK THE TIMES
ters was entirely out of hand soap. Its stock had been exhausted Saturday. Customers were fearful of the effects of the war on the supplies of coconut and palm oils.
Two Plans Under Study
THE GREAT SIZE and variety of America’s dis-
with enough drive, personality and unimpeded authority that deliveries will roll even faster than they have been doing. No production is ever fast enough to suit the military in war, of course, but the hindrances of swift movement on the civilian side are still evident in the number of independent agencies which have to be called into the numerous daily conferences.
is serving with an Indian frontier force which has distinguished its2If in fighting around Kota Bharuy, it was disclosed today.
among them the peoples of this continent, to accept again the absolute authority and despotic rule from which the courage and the
HOLD EVERYTHING
war measure, Columbia Broadcasting System’s correspondent reported today in a broadcast from Manila. President Manuel Qu-zon ordered clocks advanced one hour to give the thousands of Manila
tees of Indiana University, and Mr. Biddle is controller of the university.
Landon’s Statement In a statement on the associa-
tion’s plans, Mr. Landon said: “We shall devote more of our
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