Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1941 — Page 10
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WORDS WILL NEVER HURT THEM SECRETARY HULL calls it fiendish. Senator Wheeler calls it inhuman. Senator Norris calls it barbarism. Senator George calls it treachery. Senator Reynolds call it paganism. Rep. Rockefeller calls it sheer brutality, the
act of a mad dog. With which we can altogether agree, about the attacks on Manila. But we are inclined to think that the wisest thing ever said in this connection was by the late Webb Miller, United Press correspondent, who covered all the wars of our time: “There it no way of making war nice.” And wars can't be won with expletives. We are dealing with world-wide gangsters and we cannot afford any longer to maintain a Kellogg Pact state of mind. We have been naive, too much. We must get tougherminded than we have been; must realize that not only the double-cross but the double-double is the essence of the strategy of the enemies we are up against. The fine language of The Hague convention and of the many treaties that have been torn up must, unfortunately, be forgotten. That most eynical of all philosophies is being involved —that all is fair in war.
WE'VE PLENTY OF SHOE LEATHER
BEFORE it is all over, we may have to park the family car for the duration. All of us, may have to walk to work, or ride on common carriers, just as most of our fathers did. Our children may have to walk to school—just as we did. And all of us, instead of some of us, may have to carry the groceries home from the store. Most of our parents raised their own vegetables, fruits and meats, and stored them in the cellar and smokehouse for the winter. The Japanese are moving toward our sources of rubber. Our supplies are limited. What is available must be used first for military purposes. This is war, and if the worst that happens to our civilian population is retreat to horse-and-buggy ways of living, we'll be getting off easy.
WAR IS NOT A WPA PROJECT HEN the country started putting emphasis on defense, the various Government agencies began to think of thinge they could do in this field where the spending would be the heaviest. The Works Progress Administration, created during the depression to provide part-time and low-pay employment for men who couldn't get jobs in private industry, was among the first to proclaim its special fitness to handle defense construction jobs, train defense workers, ete. The WPA started building airports and doing any and everything it could turn a hand to which it thought might be classified as a defense activity. Some of the politicians running the WPA seem now to regard their agency less as a relief organization than as an arm of national defense, almost on a par with the Army and Navy. When it is suggested that the WPA budget be trimmed, these politicos point to the WPA defense works and claim immunity from the economy knife, » = = = = . (COMES now the joint committee on non-essential expenditures, recommending that all WPA defense projects, with the beginning of the next fiscal year, be turned over to the War and Navy Departments. That should be done. Any project which is important to the war is too important to be handled by an outfit like the WPA. Such projects can be undertaken more efficiently, with higher wages to workers and lower cost to the taxpayers, through the contract-letting processes of the War and Navy Departments. The WPA is a relief organization, created to fill a different need of a different day, and is wholly unfitted for any activity connected with the serious business of defense. This is a life-or-death war, and no part of it can be handled as a WPA project.
TOKENS OF U. S. INGENUITY Or IN Oklahoma, where they have metal sales tax tokens, aluminum ones representing a tenth of a cent, brass ones representing a half cent, tax authorities were puzzled because the state ran out of the tokens, though 87,000,000 of them were issued. And they found that plumbers used them for washers, roofers for nailing roofing material, poker players for chips, children for toys. In every case the tokens were so much cheaper than the regular article that nobody paid any attention to the fact that they were in a sense “money,” but used them in whatever way seemed most practical, What we as a people lack in automatic and unthinking respect for authority, we make up in initiative and ingenuity. No good German and no good Jap would ever think of using coins bearing the imprint of the state to nail down a roof.
SHARE YOUR BOOKS G° THROUGH your home library within the next few days and see what books you can share with a soldier or sailor. On Jan. 12 a national campaign will begin to provide books for the armed forces, sponsored by the Dmetieat Library Association, the Red Cross, and the 0. ‘Libraries and other places will serve as depositories in every town, and every good book that can be spared will be found useful. Don’t use this merely as an opportunity to be rid of trash, but dig up some books of the kind that i think you might like to read yourself if you were a
your spare books ean help win the ward
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
money on pay day. “5. Five attempts have been made in the last six weeks by Governor Neely, U. 8 Department of Labor and Labor Board to settle dispute, “6. C. I. O. has offered to arbitrate but company “7. C. I. O. welcomes an investigation by any State or Federal agency. “8. Richwood has been a Fascist town under a dietator for more than 12 years. “9. No real American should question the integrity of Governor Neely after 20 years of faithful public
service. “George J Titler, “International Representative, “United Mine Workers of America. “Charlestown, W, Va.”
Some Analysis and Comment
THUS WE HAVE HAD both sides, and I will now offer some analysis and comment. I note that Mr. Titler does not mention, much less deny, the principal statement in the earlier story that more than 100 rounds had been fired from 30-30 rifles into the offices of the company, into a public school and into the home of a company official and at the log trains. I take it, therefore, that he is willing to let that report stand as a confirmed fact. As to whether the Messrs. Thompson, the local editor, and Wilson, a company employee, are propagandists for the company, I cannot accept at face value the word of a man who has the effrontery to lay it down that “no real American should question
the integrity of Governor Neely.” They may be propa- |
gandists, but the C. I. O. and the Mihe Workers have many propagandists on their side, and, moreover, truth is powerful propaganda, the more so if it be true, as Mr. Titler seems to grant, that snipers are firing 30-30 rifles at American workmen employed on a defense job.
'Many Unions Are Fascist Unions'
I HAVE HEARD and read so many outrages and demonstrable lies in my experience and observation that I am able to maintain an open mind on the question whether this is a company union. Nor do I believe that less than 20 per cent of the people are working. I am a little more genercus toward the statement that hundreds of the men never draw any money on pay day. That has happened elsewhere and could happen in Richwood, but I know that thousands of men and women who are unionized against their will wind up with less money, net, on pay day than they drew before. The unions take so much that many people show a net loss even when their pay is raised. Mr. Titler doesn’t claim a majority for the C. I. O. He only says attempts have been made “to settle the dispute” and that the C. I. O. has offered to “arbitrate.” I think he would claim a majority if he had one and I am sure many C. I. O, politicians would claim a majority, anyway, but I point out that if the C. I. O. had a majority it would submit to an election
and wouldn't try to muddle the situation with offers | |anniversary of the Bill of Rights,
to “settle” and “arbitrate.” The captive coal mine case shows what happens to employers who agree to “gettle” or “arbitrate” with the C. I. O. Richwood may be a Fascist town, but many unions are Fascist unions and West Virginia is becoming a Fascist state under Governor Neely and the C. I. O,, which has been organizing the public employees and wants to collect a legalized loot or subsidy from the public treasury in the form of a dues checkoff from citizens employed by the state. Now you have both sides of the story, and I thank Mr. Titler ‘or his generous Melp.
War Council
By Edgar Ansel Mowrer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.— Whatever the intention in the beginning, the series of reverses in the Far East are rapidly urging the democracies and their allies toward forming a sort of supreme council as quickly as this can be managed. The Loss of Hongkong, Guam and Wake Islands, the possible loss of the habitable portions of the Philippines, Japanese landings in Borneo, Japanese pressure on Burma through the occupation of Thailand, and finally, the steady Japanese advance on Singapore—these are showing the British and the Americans and the Russians that further haphazard defense measures in the Pacific area can bring little but further disasters. As for the Chinese, they have always known it. * The fact that the Soviets are not at war with the Japanese is a complication and explains the fact that the military council just completed at Chungking grouped a Chinese, a Briton, an American and no Russian general. But this condition, as indicated
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The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire,
‘CAN A KOKOMO BAKER QUESTION WEST POINTERS? By Claude Braddick, Kekome If an Austrian paperhanger by the name of Schricklegruber can outmaneuver the graduates of Aldershot and St. Cyre, why can’t a Kokomo baker question the decisions of West Point graduates? Is it not better to know nothing at
all than to know too much that isn't so? And if not, why not?
A theory, to have any value, must be kept fluid; must reshape itself constantly to newly discovered truths. One that is fixed and casehardened may be worse than none at all, and its possessor, if placed in authority, is a potential walking time<bomb. » ” ”
| THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND
DRUGLESS PHYSICIANS
By Stephen Pencheff, 3356 W. 10th St. We, the citizens of our United States of America, celebrated the
which gives each and every lawabiding citizen the right of free speech and pursuit of happiness as well as serving the humanity useful and constructive deeds. However, I do not see any benefit from the Bill of Rights for the drugless physicians in Indiana as well as over our country. For the last year or so, I have been appealing to President Roosevelt, Mr. Paul V. McNutt and Governor Schricker to help us by creating a Department of Naturopathy in the U. 8S. Public Health Service in the national defense, but every one of my appeals was either not shown the courtesy of a reply or was referred to the Surgeon Generals’ Office for a reply or advised to write to the medical branches of our State and Federal Government, where my appeals find their grave in the wastebaskets. I wonder why our Federal and State Governments always ignore our constitutional rights We are asking the Government to give us a helping hand in our work so that we will be able to prove the efficiency of nature cure methods of treatment and care of our Army, Navy as well as the public in general. I, as a licensed drugless physician,
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¥ & =» ‘FINEST AND BRAVEST, HE SAYS OF PEGLER PIECE
By H. T., Indianapolis I have been a consistent admirer and hater of Westbrook Pegler for many years—way back to the beginning of his Chicago Tribune byline days. So I feel that I have a right to say that his piece in your Dec. 10 edition is one of the finest and bravest things that I have ever read. It is not an apology, neither a confession—nothing maudlin, but a straightforward s'atement: “I was wrong and the Presi dent was right.” It should be broadcast. The effect on me has been that I will admire even more Pegler’s many admirable columns and will be much more tolerant of his few irritating appearances for many years to come.
> & = ‘ALL GAMBLING AND RACKETS SHOULD BE STOPPED’
By Mrs, Willard G. Gray, 30% N. State ve.
Ralph Arney of Linton, Ind, wants to know what the people of Indiana think of gambling condi tions in our fair state. People who believe in law enforcement do not approve of gambling in any form. In the past couple of weeks I have had children of school age come to my door and ask me to
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buy chances on a Christmas ture key or a penny chance on a five dollar bill. I invariably informed them I did not gamble and selling such chances as they were offering was gambling. Yes, we have gambling and different kinds of rackets, and sorry to say some people who profess to be Christians will participate in such pastime. Mr. Arney suggests the Governor give the prosecutors law enforcement orders, this gambling could all be stopped. We know this could and should be done. But don't be disappointed, Mr, Arney, if such orders are never given. It will be a “good bet” such orders will never be issued.
d » =» ‘WE WILL HAVE TO BETTLE WITH REASON, WHY NOT NOW?’
By Mary F. Wright, 130 Miley Ave. « « + + I know when America says victory she is united in this for the world and knows that Herr Hitler's way is the wrong way to accomplish this. For the good will in man must come from love and justice, constructive deeds of help and production that provides that end.
If Herr Hitler really means his American listeners a Merry Christmas, it indicates he is willing to quit wars. I make a motion that we challenge this good will and begin a Havpy New Year through reason and justice and not kill and destroy the God given sustenance and all that man makes useful. Lte us go to a higher civilization instead of the dark ages.
I know all the soldiers in every nation would rejoice and make this a land of heaven within us instead of death, dread and despair. We will have to settle with reason and wisdom at the end of the war. Why not now? " » ® “FIGHTING THE AXIS IS
A DIRTY BUSINESS” By Claude Braddick, Kokomo
Will the democracies never learn that fighting the Axis is a “dirty business”? We have achieved unity; we posséss the will, the skill and the resources to oOutproduce the Axis; and the manpower to outfight it. When shall we learn the bitter truth that fire must be fought with fire; that appeals to humanity are but added fuel to Axis fury; that bullies from time immemorial have respected nothing but. force and the threat of force? : What result shall we expect from the gesture of declaring Manila an “open city,” other than the open gloating of Japah at this ¢onfession
‘|of weakness, and her singling out
of Manila as a special target of attack? Paris, it is true, was spared in this way. But the two cases are not parallel. The whole of France was then, as it is today,
Tongues there are that naught can say; j a Sa aa ure es ’ Tongues that set the world on-fire; Bad's the tongue that rules his
master; Such lead ever to disaster.
Gen. Johnson Says—
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 Without relaxing any determina=. tion or indulging any jitters a man would be a blind fool to ig= ' nore the fact that we have ree ceived some serious setbacks in the Pacific. It is not so much the loss of sea-power at Pearl Harbor, but the fact that the Japs would even dare such an effort and get away ! with it so well and that they would time that with an’ equally bold and successful stroke in Luzon. They out-planned and qutesn us.. As to the
Philippines 1t always used to be said by our:general at any time: they
staff: RY “They can take the Philippines ; really want to take them”—meaning, thereby, “Ya pay the price” Jk Yl Bf They haven't taken them yet but we mi; 11 y well make up our'minds to the facts that
of holding them is very remote. A It is time for us to stop going to sleep § thumbs in the mouth’s of any of these modern bigndit ° nations. The answer to both the Philippine aid Hae wallan flascos is that we didn't have enough sire power actively on duty far enough out at sea to pre vent the disasters and that our espionage or military information system is very bad.
What About the Canal?
THERE 18 SOME justification for this. You turn two white men loose in a brown man's country and they are as conspicuous as two white beans in a bag of brown ones. But a Jap can roam the Philippines, Hawaii or éven California and he is apt to excite little more comment than: “Oh, just another Jap.” You can’t over-emphasize this—as I know through experie ence to my sorrow. We aren't suspicious enough and while we are about. it, we might be suspicious of some parts of the Philippine population. They are far from being united and what the Japs have done there must have had interior help. Consider the audacious Japanese air flight over the Pacific coast. At San Francisco it split, one-half went out to sea but the other half went back south! The former was apparently based on a carrier, but how about the latter? There are parts of Lower California as- inaccese sible as the Sahara. Japanese fishermen have been coasting those waters for years. What goes on down there? It's time for us to find out. These things raise anew the standing danger te the Canal, Presumably we are doing all we can do but if past events speak truth, it isn’t enough. ]
We're in It to Eyebrows
THERE I8 MUCH TALK about our now forcing the main Japanese fleet to fight ours and the British in open water. Why should they do that? If their fleet is gone they are gone. Their game is to play hide-and-seek with the grand fleet and rely on ine genuity for the present anyway. : Their problem offsetting this is Singapore. Honge kong has fallen. If, as seems likely, the Philippines can't remain as a serious threat, they must dispose of Singapore. It will be some disposing. If the Allies can concentrate enough air-power there, it would be folly for the Japs to risk their fleet and probably as great a folly to attempt a concentration of mane power. ie Most of the signs point to our decision not to scat ter our forces no matter how pathetic the cases may become as with MacArthur in the Philippines. That takes nerve and national resolution and understand ing, but it does seem to me that we are acquiring both and that we are learning to fight a modern gangster war with gangsters just as our FBI had to learn every gangster trick in the book of rules before it became effective. For this strategy of conserving forces the Admine istration is going to need every ounce of strength that can be brought to its aid. It is a gory, heartless business—but so is war and we are in a war to our eyebrows.
A Woman's Viewpoint. , 4 By Mrs. Walter Ferguson i
THE GIRL WHO FAILS te take advantage of today's oppore tunity will live to regret her lazle
ness, in my opinion, for never again is she likely to have such another chance to become a useful, skilled and happy individual, Surely, it's a tragic period, sa bitter emergency. But smart peo= ple have always used such periods as stepping stones to success. Why + can’t you do the same? # I don’t mean that a girl should act selfishly, Fee garding a world catastrophe as something which hape pens so that she may advance herself. On the cone trary, I mean that many girls who are bored with their home environment, or tired of the narrow round of social activities, or throbbing with ambition, have only to move now in order to make some of their dreams come true. ; : Life is calling. There's work to be done. Get. out of your grooves, girls. Do something different. Be something different, :
Don't Ignore Challenge
I KNOW many of you who are simply sick of your daily routine and some who are slumping into spine sterhood. What will you do with this challenge? You can’t ignore it. Maybe you are already working, in a job which merely brings you daily bread. If so, this is your chance to get into something you like jer, Or maybe you are rich enough to be a lovel} loafer. What's ahead of you then? Dates when you can get them, or bridge foursomes, or piddling liftle charities which you've been doing years on end. W sister, now is the moment. Break loose from the to tackle something brand new and exciting. All girls—old or young, rich or poor, whoever you are, wherever you are, lift up your heads. Let the winds of the world blow across your faces. the
doors of your hearts and your minds, so that knowle
edge and experience and life may come in, = Dare to do something different and fine and use ful NOW, or it may be forever too late for you. .
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