Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1941 — Page 20

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PrInside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

WHERE TO BUY a picture of President Frankfin Delano Roosevelt is the problem William Harvey Cox, 617 N. Illinois St. poses for us. “I have a small place of business and wanted to display the picture of our President, F. D. R.” writes Mr..Cox. He adds that he visited the picture de- \ partment of four leading dewntown stores and “couldn't find a picture for love or money.” We checked one of the stores he named and, after a half hour search, they phoned us that all they had was a picture of F. D. R. as a young man. How about trying Democratic headquarters, Mr, Cox? . . Yesterday we told you that some of his friends were kidding Jap Jones, State Highway Commission, member, about his first name Now they're suggesting he change it to “Chink” We are told his real name is Jasper. but he's been called Jap since

“. he was an 8-year-old. By the way, Jap and his

rother, Iliff, celebrate their birthdays on the ame date—Oect. 12

State House Goings On

R. LOWELL M'DANIEL, the State Motor Vehicle License Bureau commissioner, left for Florida yesterday to spend the holidays with Mrs. MeDaniel, who's been there several weeks. Before he left, employees of the bureau got together for an early Christmas party. They made Lowell get on a desk while Secretary of State Jim Tucker made a flowery presentation speech. Then they handed the boss a package. He could see from the shape that it must be just what he wanted most of all—a shotgun. Well, he fumbled with scads of wrapping paper and string and finally uncovered—a rusty old air gun. He blushed and stammered out his “appreciation.” Then the boys and girls did right by him and brought out a real double-barrel shotgun. It was & dandy, too.

Mayor Housecleaning

THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, for the first time in seve ral years is getting a thorough and badly needed

housecleaning. The walls, ceiling and , We mean—not the help. . . . Twelve-year-old

G. Wilson Jr. anxiously is awaiting & Canada so he can prove his hun and his father, secretary-treasurer Indiana Equipment Co, went about 800 miles up into Canada recertly and Junior bagged a& 10-point buck the first thing. ‘They left the head there to be mounted. . . . The slaughter of birds must have been terrific at the I. A. C. over the week-end, during their national badminton tourney. Two gross of the birdies (the things you bat around in badminton) were on hand when the 80 plavers started, and there were only a few left at the end. They cost the association $5 a dozen, too.

Messrs. Curtis, Wright

JOB APPLICANTS were crowded inté the personnel office at the Curtiss-Wright plant, waiting to be called for interviews. In charge was Harry Alumbaugh, receptionist. When it came time to call the first two applicants, Mr. Alumbaugh mechanically glanced at his list and called out: “Curtis, Wright." Some of the applicants shickered. Mr. Alumbaugh

blinked, and took another look. enough, that's what it was. Heading the list was H. EB. Curtis. And, next was W. C. Wright. Out at Curtiss-Wright they swear its true.

Show Your Toofins

TIRED OF HIS friends’ jibes because his 10-month-old son still was toothless, an Indianapolis

dentist (ygme on request) got busy and made he).

voungster a full upper denture. Now when the friends inquire about the infant's teeth, Doe startles them with: “Oh, hes got a full set of uppers.” . . . Radio Station WFBM received a letter from Pvt. Marion Douthitt, Battery B, Schofield Barracks, Honolulu. Private Douthitt asks the station to play on its Barly

Bird program from 6 to 7 a. m. tomorrow a certain recording. He explained it was for his girl friend, in Manila—Ind. The selection he asked was “Yours.”

Ernie Pyle will be back on the job tomorrow,

Washington

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 —Within a few days the military conduct of the war probably will be centraliged in an Inter-Allied War Council. 1 hope and believe this is the beginning of a much broader move. I hope and believe the nations on our side will join in a compact of freedom, first, to fight the war jointly; second, to carry their joint control through the armistice; and third, to manage the post-war world so that never again can butcher regimes grow dangerously strong and force war on nations which want only © live their own lives in peace. Most urgent, and therefore properly first in order, is the joint military command.

On our side it must be one for all and all for one. Defeat of any gingle nation fighting on our side would cripple the others with a desperate wound. Imagine the United States trying to finish a two-ocean war with Britain knocked out. Imagine the United States and Britain with Russia knocked out. How much longer and harder our battle would be if Singapore should fall, or China, *

Seeking the Right Answers

DANGER AT ANY point is danger at every point. The war must be waged as a whole. If our side has only enough planes and submarines to defend either the Philippines or Singapore but not enough to have both—and I do not assume such is the case and only invest the supposition—the decision as to which shall be saved must rest upon whith is more necessary “to the winning of the wan In this grim business military decisions must be made to win and for that one purpose alone. Hard, cruel answers may sometimes be necessary. But if ey are the right answers, they cannot be as hard

Hawaii — France

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 If the American people want to know precisely what happened to France 18 months ago, they have only to read Navy Secretary Knox's report on what happened to Hawaii 11 days ago. It is beginning to be recognized here that, fundamentally, the causes were very much the same. The important difference is that the United States, by the grace of God, has a chance to remedy its mistakes whereas France had not. Whether the United States follows Frances example further depends upon thether the people in general, as well as those in authority. have what it takes to profit by the plain and ample warning of Pearl Harbor. Even after Hitler's panzers had rolled across the Low Countries, I heard French people say: “Just wait until the Boche comes up against the Maginot Line. That will stop him. He can’t get past that. Even if he could. wed lick him again just as we did in 1918 We have the best and fastest planes, the best tanks, the best guns and the world’s finest soldiers. The Boche can't lick us.” I have never seen greater complacency than I saw in France even in May, 1940.

Similarity at Hawai

SECRETARY KNOX has revealed that a similar gtate of affairs existed in Hawaii no less than in the continental United States, up to Sunday, Dee. T. “The United States services” he reported. “were fot on the alert. . . . Most of the Army planes were gestroved on the ground.” There was a dawn patrol, but it never spotted anything. An adequate patrol, he said. would have taken about 300 planes, “and Wwe didn’t have anything like that number” Yet

My Day

WASHINGTON, Wednesday —I started this day with a committee meeting at 9 o'clock, at which all the Government agencies met to find ways in which

could co-operate. bag + there, I went to a meeting of the District

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By Raymond Clapper

and cruel as the catastrophe that the wrong answers would bring upon us. : The point is to defeat the Axis and save all, not to save this ocean or that ocean, this base or that base, and lose all in the end hy losing the war. These are military decisions. We on the outside must accept them from those who have the full information. Kibitzing from the sidelines can serve no helpful purpose. Beyond the military operations is the broader question of complete pooling of resources and energies on our side. All of the shipping on our side must be used as one great carrying fleet. Raw materials and manufacturing capacity of any one nation must go into the common pool, serving where it is most needed.

Winning the Peace

ALL NATIONS on our side must bind themselves to such merging of strength. They must bind themselves not to make a separate peace. They must agree to go through the armistice together. A fatal mistake after the last war was that the joint allied controls were allowed to fall apart after the fighting ended. Nations benefitting from each others resources now must stay with it and win the peace if we expect to prevent another world war. A compact of freedom to these ends could and should be made now. ‘The sooner the better. The two closest powers, having great military strength, resources, sea power and similarity of political ideas are the United States and Britain. A compact between them, growing out of the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter, is the most solid foundation for a group of free nations. Russia, China, American republics and the exile governments should be affiliated. There must be organization to carry out the purposes if such a compact is to be a living, effective thing. Details will be worked out as we go along. But I believe something of this kind is coming because it must come.

By Wm. Philip Simms

Hawaii, the pivot of our Pacific defenses was known to be in imminent danger of attack. At least two two-man submarines entered Pearl Harbor. This meant that the Jap mother ship had to come within 150 miles of the Hawaiian coast before sending them on their mission. The Jap bomb« ers were also brought within striking distance by aircraft carriers and yet, it appears, these U-boat and plane carriers got away scot free. Apparently the Japs had destroyed most of our planes, like birds sitting on the ground. and not enough were left to prevent the enemy from escaping. Congress is now madder than ever over the whole Pearl Harbor episode. It is thrilled by the cou exploits of individual soldiers and sailors and ces. But, as in France it was the higher-ups who fell down on the job, and Congress wants to make certain that it does not happen again.

Too Much Complacency

IF THE UNITED STATES was spared France's fate, many feel, it was largely because of geographical reasons rather than wise military and naval precautions. We were lucky and France was not. I saw the collapse of France and what happened beforehand. I knew most of the high Government officials, also many of her Army and Navy officers. In my judgment.these leaders were as loyal as the corresponding officials in America are loyal But—just as we underestimated the Japs—the did not take the Nazis seriously enough. As in Hawaii, fifth column activity contributed to France's disaster, but the basic trouble was national complacency; un-

derestimation of the enemy: overconfidence in the J

national defense machine: politicians who put politics and “social gains” before arms production; military and naval top-notchers who, for one reason or another, failed to needle the politicians on the one hand and their subordinates on the other into making the national defense bomb-proof. These were the things that laid France low.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

Now it is understood at last, that real defende begins in every home. The insecure home is a menace to the security of the community.

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Runt Complex’ Stirs Japs To

Borrowed Ideas From

America, but Turned on ‘Teacher’ Like Bad Boys

This ix the second of six articles in which a veteran Far Eastern t

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By REGINALD SWEETLAND Copyright, 1841, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Ine.

CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Japan is a nation of unspanked boy babies. For years Japan has suffered from a “runt’s

complex.” She has always feared

the world would not under-

stand her, that she has grown up, and that we Americans

would not take her seriously.

An inferiority complex and a superiority complex, 1 strongly suspect, are one and the same malady. Japanese have bragged because they felt inferior. A young Japanese high school kid will go to the cheapest dante hall he can find off the Tokyo Ginza—or

the Great White Way-—get uproariously drunk on a bottle of thin beer und will then strut on the dance floor trying to

act out his own version of what a drunken American sailor

looks like.

Sad as it sounds, this is true. I have seen it hundreds of times. A drunken American gob is not his idea of manliness, but acting like one gives release to his pent up

inhibitions and makes him feel like somebody tough and dangerous.

T.' V. Soong, China's financial wizard, a few days ago said, “You Americans who have so long underestimated the Japanese now seem to have gone to the other extreme and you are over estimating them.” The Japanese are not hard to understand, but I doubt if very many of us have any conception df how deep lie the springs of their hatred of Americans.

Contempt for Teacher

THE JAPANESE have learned a lot from us. We are the prime missionaries of Western civilisa« tion in its most modern, stream lined version

We have taught them how to build railroads and run trains on time. We have taught them how to put in electric plants, using the tremendous amount of water power that is so characteristic of the country. We have taught them the mechanical arts and metallurgy, how to operate telephone and radio systems.

ANGER SEETHES AT FAIRMOONT

Several Senior Boys Join |

Navy and Others Will Follow Soon.

Times Special FAIRMOUNT, Ind, Dec. 18. “Navy” fever is sweeping this small Grant County ferming community. Since Pearl Harbor, two of the 353 boys in the Fairmount High School senior class have enlisted in the Navy and 10 others have told their teachers and parents that they will wait only until graduation “to get into it too.” These youths—over one-third of the male element of the Fairmount senior class—say, almost to a man, that they want to join the Navy “to get at the Japs.” They were deeply stirred last week when it was announced that the first Hoosier casualty in the new war was another Grant County uth, Robert Gerald Allen, 21, of

Three Turned Down

The two Fairmount seniors who have already joined the Navy are Charlés Draper and Herman Spahr, both 17. They obtained their parents’ consent and were inducted Saturday. Three other seniors, also all 17, went with young Draper and Spahr to enlist but they were turned down because they did not have written permission from their parents. The say they will" enlist

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The 10 who plan to enlist upon graduation are Jack Gift, Homer Dale, Samuel Leer, Robert Winan

Rhoades, all 18. the seniors now 17 will

(be 18 either by graduation or soon thereafter

e \ Mrs. Myrtle Gilbreath, the h school the childhood, said today that she naturally hated to see them go.

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We have taught them how to build airplanes, from passenges clippers to heavy transport ane bombing planes. We have imposed this form of culture upon them and they gladly learned its ways. But with all their Western mechanics and devices, they still clung to their own social system that was feudal. Because we taught them-— and we don't claim they did not learn equally from the British, the Germans, and the French they now hold their teacher in contempt. Americans visiting Japan for the first time are amazed at the lessons these people have learned from the Westerners. They arrive at Yokohama and overflow with sickening praise when they see the marvelous network of fast electric trains speeding between Yokohama and Tokyo. Trains run to a second. I once asked a Japanese porter if the train to Kobe didn’t leave at 10:41 and he replied decisively: “No, sir. 10:31 and one-<half."— and it did.

Thinks U. S. Decadent

VISIBLY AND VOLUBLY ime pressed, tourists turn to the near

“Japan is a nation of

est Japanese and give vent to their feeling: “Why, how wonderful. We didn't know you knew how to run trains.” Others say, “Sure, we taught you how to run them. There is nothing here you haven't learned from us.” The Japanese squirms and recedes into his hard shell where he stews. He does not want it continually flung into his teeth that he lacks originality, that he is not worldlywise, intelligent and sophisticated. The Japanese has taken from us what he conceives to be of most value and even though he feels frustrated when we constantly improve the devices—precision instruments, gun and bomb sights—<he is being talked into accepting the idea that from this point on Western civilization is decadent. It is decadent, he thinks, because it nourishes the ideas of

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unspanked boy babies.” democracy, of respect for women, of equality of franchise, of freedom of speech and hence the right to criticize the ruling caste.

Yosuke Matsuoka, one of their most powerful leaders, educated in the United States, learned here his contempt for the West and is able to say with the fullest conviction: “. . . We cannot afford to copy Western civiliza« tion which is about to perish.”

Molding Young Minds

THROUGHOUT JAPAN, in Japanese schools, in her colonies, in Manchukuo and Korea, the children, be they Chinese, Korean or Japanese, are taught this. I have heard them told, “The West is decaying. Japan has taken from the West all that it had to offer. We Japanese have directed Western culture into the

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proper channels. Such of the West you need to learn about you will learn from us, your Japanese masters.” It was because of this they drove American businessmen and missionaries out of every land they have conquered, and those they had not succeeded in driving out before this present war began were kept under constant surveillance and had to put up with daily annoyances. These were designed for but one end—to drive them out of the country and to humiliate them before their Asiatic friends. “We have now learmed what you have to offer,” the Japanese said in effect, “we have taken what we think we need. Now get out of here as fast as ship or plane will take you.” They also thought they learned our weakness, our lack of unity because we believe in freedom of discussion and freedom of choice, and rather than permit the Japanese public to become infected with these “radical” ideas, they would dispense with our services.

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Heard Wrong People

THERE HAVE been some Americans who have toadied to them and flattered them. These men they have accepted, listened to their views, and thought they were learning about the American people. In this respect they have underestimated us. One of the heads of the Japanese secret police once told me: “You Americans will never fight. You are Pacifists. You are decadent and soft. You devote ‘your lives to pleasure.” ' I

replied that neither he nor any other Japanese knew anything about us; that they got their information about us from paid agents, many of them Americans, and from their embassies and consulates, and that few of these men were capable of interpreting us, much less our national morale, once the first blow had heen struck in a war with Japan. As I went into details, his face fell, a grayish-green pall covered his sticky features and he began to sweat profusely. I. rose and suggested the meeting break up, but he still sat there, deep in horrible thought. At the end of 10 minutes, he raised his head, a sick man, and said: “Why has nobody ever dared to tell me things like this before?” I told him he had been listening to the wrong people—and sometimes I wonder if we, too, haven't been listening to the wrong people and have been permitting' our imaginations to color our conception of the folk who live in cherry blossom land.

Forty and Eight To Stage Party

will be held tomorrow night at the Chateau, 119 E. Ohio St. Not forgetting men in the service now, the war veterans will collect a goodwill offer ing for the Army, Navy ana WN Marine Service Club's Christ Mr. Snyder Mas parties. Robert Snyder is chairman of the entertainment committee. Joseph Gagnon will accept the gift for the Service Men's Club.

JAPANESE DIPPING INTO OIL RESERVES

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (U, P). —Japan apparently already has begun dipping into her gasoline and oil reserves without immediate prospect for replenishment, experts said today. Japan has been dependent on the United States, the Netherlands East Indies and British Borneo for the greatest por of her petroleum requirements. e war in the Pacific and previous economic moves cut off these sources and Japan has been able to get very little production from Manchukuoan wells. There is a lack of accurate information here on the size of Japan's gasoline and oil stocks because she Suthenatd publication of statistics in 1937. But it is common knowledge that her imports in the past few years far exceed demand.

THE ANNUAL Legion Forty | and Eight Club Christmas party |

COMMITTEE ON RENTS ACTIVE

Owners Are Co-operating, ' Says Dr. Wicks Telling Of Adjustments.

The Indianapolis Fair Rent Committee, appointed by Mayor Sullivan more than a month ago to stabilize rents here, is doing a quiet business at City Halli, Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks, chairman, said that both tenants and landlords have co-operated with the committee in working out rent adjustments. Fears of some coms plainants that eviction would result if a tenant complained about rent have been ‘found groundless, Dr Wicks said. In one case, where the landlord ‘raised the rent on each of 11 | houses $56 a month, the Committee, after investigating the properties, {ruled the increase excessive. Mem{bers agreed, however, that some (increase was justified. The land{lord and his tenants compromised on a $250 monthly raise. In another case, the landlord increased rent on a house $550 a month. The Committee found that the landlord had charged his tenant an exceptionally low rent in the past because of the tenant's circumstances. A compromise on this rent increase was worked out. Both the landlord and tenant said they were satisfied. . In several instances, Dr. Wicks reported, landlords have cancelled proposed rent increases when the Committee ruled the present rent fair.

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Urges Caution in Holiday Traffic

POINTING OUT that the holiday season usually brings a sharp increase in the number of traffic

accidents; Governor Schricker today asked Hoosier motorists “to exercise unusual care so that the Christmas season should not be touched with grief by careiess acts of our own.” . ’ He said that the United States entrance into the war requires the fullest measure of work and support from every American and that the thousands of defense workers “must be kept on the job in this hour of need.”

BUTLER STUDENTS TO AID SERVICE MEN

Students and faculty members of Butler University today were urged to promote the University's “all-out” program to aid the nation’s war effort. President Daniel S. Robinson told a Special, “alléschool convocation that a student war emergency committee was being formed to co-ordi-nate and originate preparedness activities, such as aiding men in the service. A Red Cross chapter has been organized and classes are expected to begin immediately, President Robinson said. In addition, Butler students are aiding the City’s needy through gift drives. “The time for talking is past,” President Robinson said. “Now, we must act; putting every effort into high gear.”

New officers of the Sociology Club at Butler University are Max Norris, president; Doris ‘Fricke, vice-presi-dent, and Thomas Luck, secretarytreasurer. . Betty Krueger, Jean 'Lindstaedt, Jeanne Jackson, and Martha Lee Brenner make up the program committee.

PARLIAMENT CUTS CHRISTMAS RECESS

LONDON, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—The House of Commons agreed unanimously today to cut Parliament's Christmas recess in half because of the “deep anxiety” regarding the Far East situation. Emmanuel Shinwell, Laborite; in moving that Commons recess for 12

said that the situation demanded the closest contact between members of Parliament and the government. Mr. Shinwell criticized the government for what he termed inSAGAS "preparations in the Far

FT. WAYNE MAN PUT ON LIBRARY BOARD

Louis A. Warren, Ft. Wayne, was named a member of the Indiana Library and Historical Board fora four-year term today by Governor Schricker.

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LOCAL SAILORS, MARINES SAFE

‘Everything Okay,” Brothers Write Parents; Others Send Word.

Mr, and Mrs. Charles E. Lawson, 1518 Sturm Ave., have received word that their two sons, Frank, 22, and Carl, 20, are safe. They are privates in the Marine Corps and were stationed at Hawaii. The youths who enlisted together Jan. 3, 1940, advised their parents to “be patient . .. everything is okay.” Both are graduates of Technical High School, Frank in ’'38 and Carl in "39. They have remained together in the service since they enlisted.

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Reported Safe

Mrs. Lillie Kerr, 250 Koehne St., received word that her son, 19-year-old Alfred Eugene Kerr, is safe. He is stationed on a destroyer which was in Pearl Harbor at the time of the bombing, The young seaman has been in the Navy since last January. He was a junior in Washington High School at the time of his enlistment.

Another Safe

William P. Matthews Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Parker Matthews, 1241 Lawton Ave, is safe at Pearl Harbor. In the Navy since 1937, he informed his parents yesterday. He attended School 72 and Manual High School.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1-—-The United States Government does or does not have a monopoly on postal business in this counry? 2—In what book of the Bible is the | story of Jephthah's daughter? 3—Who composed the famous concerto from which the currentlypopular songs, “Tonight We . Love” and “Concerto for Two,” were adapted? 4—-Who was the first President to live in the White House? 5—For what sort of writing is Edgar A. Guest noted? 6—Jenny Lind was a famous war nurse, singer or novelist?

Answers

1—Does. 2—The Book of Judges. 3—Tschaikowsky. 4-—-John Adams. 5-—Poetry. 6—Singer.

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