Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1941 — Page 10

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1841

CHURCHILL IN CANADA R. CHURCHILL, speaking to a special assembly of the Canadian Parliament, swung boldly into the two most delicate political issues of that country. One is the attitude toward France, which is the mother country to many Canadians. Using the French language in part, he attacked the men of Vichy, he praised the Free French movement which represents “nine out of every 10 Frenchmen”—and received cheers for both sentiments, The other Canadian issue is conscription. Compulsory service is limited to Canada and does not cover overseas duty. Although there has been increasing pressure on the Ottawa government to change this, Prime Minister MacKenzie King has taken the position that the policy was determined at a national election and can be changed only by popular mandate. Mr. Churchill urged the government to place no restrictions on the use of Canadian forces anywhere in the world. He went further, declaring that the war would not end until Canadian and troops of all other Allies fought the Germans again as they did at the Somme and Vimy Ridge. # = = » = » HERE was enthusiatic Canadian response to the Churchill references to Russia and the United States. Cheers for Russia’s success in turning back the Nazis were spontaneous and prolonged. And there was no mistaking the applause for the major part our country will take in the “final extirpation of the Hitler tyranny, the Japanese villainy and the Mussolini flop.” But, with his usual frankness, most of the Prime Minister’s emphasis was on the long road and the hard road between us and victory. Before the final war phase of Allied invasion of Germany and Japan, before the middle phase of liberating conquered peoples with the aid of internal revolt, is the long phase of Allied ‘“‘consolidation” which is just beginning. “Events of hopeful import have taken place in Libya and Russia. But more important, the United States has entered the conflict and entered it in a manner that shows there can be no withdrawal except by death or victory.”

IT WILL START T THE very heart and center of the “New Order” which Hitler claims he is trying to build, lies a festering mass of hatred and contempt for the Nazis out of which nothing constructive can possibly be built. A book of Norwegian cartoons “He Who Laughs— LASTS” just issued by Hans Olav and Tor Myklebost, Norway's press representatives in the U. S,, tells in a fine cartoon by Johan Bull and its accompanying anecdote, a profound truth. Two Norwegian youths were arrested by the Gestapo for hitting a German soldier. The first explained that the soldier had stepped on his sore toe, and exhibited the toe to prove it. Then they asked the other why he joined in. “I thought it had started!” he replied. Some day it will start. Some day the opportunity will come. And then God help the men who believed they could overrun the whole world and make the world like it.

EFFRONTERY BEARS ITS EVIL FRUIT

PROBABLY when we look back to these days and survey the motives and the acts of men in power, the thing that will stand out will be the impudent effrontery of the Nazi mind. Mark this: There have been wars of conquest before and peoples forced beneath the yoke of conquering armies. “Woe to the vanquished” was an old slogan when Brennus tossed his sword contemptuously into a Roman scale. But did any conqueror before have the effrontery to assume that millions of free people, being conquered, would then forget =o quickly their lost liberties that a quick dose of propaganda, the buying (with money or with place, it makes no difference) of a few “leaders,” and a short, sharp economic squeeze, would turn free peoples into docile partisans of a “world order” operated solely for the benefit of the conqueror? The Nazis really thought they could do it. Their success among their own people led them to believe they could succeed in any land. The Germans failed to learn from the Russians, who also thought they had a universal formula. The Bolsheviks thought that a formula which worked in feudal, war-shattered, oriental Russia must also work in other lands. But it didn’t, and the World Revolution never came. Instead, it bred the World Counter-Revo-lution, called Fascism. Now that, too, is demonstrating its failure, Months after all Europe had been conquered, what do the Nazi leaders find? ‘Bighty thousand Serbs fighting a bitter guerilla war. Nazi soldiers shot in the back in the streets of Paris and Amsterdam. Belgian veterans of World War I “conspiring” against their conquerors.. Heads falling in Norway and rows of graves in Poland and Greece. Why? Because the Nazis were stupidly, arrogantly wrong.

CHAMELEOLINI AT THE time when Mussolini was handing the Italian people over to the German overlords by hitching onto the Axis, it was loudly proclaimed in Latin Italy that the Italian people were Aryans all the time, thus making them blood kin to that pure Nordic racial strain which is characteristically “as blond at Hitler, as slender as Goering, and as tall as Goebbels.” Now that Mussolini has linked his people with the fate of Japan, we presume that the next step will be to prove iy devious ethnological processes, that the Italians are 8 iy Orientals after all. : You smile. Absurd? No more absurd than the whole

ape!

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Adolf Hitler has expressed in many ways his bitter contempt for the softness of the civilized nations, but his people undoubtedly will appeal to this same weakness again when war is over, as they did in 918. This weakness of the civie lized peoples is Germany's hope that inferno which

, as before, because, obviously, Josef Stalin will be very powerful at the peace conference, if there is a peace confer ence. There might be no such conference, for Stalin is unpredictable and a man of no such delicacy as President Wilson and thus might recognize no sbrrender but push right on into Germany waging a war of obliteration, $ In that case, the United States and Britain, in the name of humanity, might protest for the record, but it seems improbable that Stalin would be deterred from such a purpose by mere words and equally unlikely that American and British forces would go to the rescue of the Germans. In that situation, moreover, Stalin would have the vigorous personal co-operation of millions of bitter men and women of all the nations which have suffered under the Nazi scourge.

Some Pages Out of the Book

THE APPLICATION to the Germans of the exact method which they have used in their treatment of their victims would inflict horrors far worse than the terms of the Treaty of Versailles which Hitler so long denounced as an infamous document. Even those methods might be supplemented by some Russian refinements, for Stalin is no less practical than Hitler in the application of power. Early in the invasion, of course, all Nazi party members would be rounded up, all Nazi symbols and pagan shrines publicly fouled and all Germans required to wear a badge, probably yellow, inscribed with the swastika. Germans, of course, would have no human rights and would be dispossessed of their farms and homes and all other property and there would be considerable distress from the impromptu executions of local officials and young students accused of resistance, nonco-operation, an incorrect attitude or of singing patriotic German airs. This would be consistent with German conduct in all conquered countries, particularly in Poland, and, of course, no Nazi could claim any moral right to protest, although non-Nazis might try their luck.

They Have the Knack—and the Mood

THE DEPORTATIONS would be the big event, however. The Prussians, in particular, are fond of the proposition that in the urgent arrangement of\a great new historic pattern the immediate distress of

individuals and hordes of people is of little moment.

According to this, they might be herded into ships or cars or driven on foot for resettlement in far and God-forsaken places as they dispersed the Jews wherever they found them, and with no regard for the preservation of family units or the keeping of records. The German nation has established all the necessary precedents for a horrible future for the German people, all written in the German laws and the conduct of the German political war machine, this ‘time and the last. The Russians, too, have had some experience in the business of deportations and the dehumanization of masses of people and so recently that it may be said that they have lost neither the knack nor the mood. The future is long and foggy, but the Russians seem sure to be the jailers of the Germans and the arbiters of their fate when this war is done and they are not as fastidious or moralistic as the civilized free races whose restraints the Fuehrer mistook for weakness.

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Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

THE SUBJECT of transportation brings up certain factors long since considered by military and naval students concerning war in the Far East. Operating, as we and the British are, against an enemy in the enemy's own back yard, the major problem is to supe ply new combat teams—manpower reinforcements — and munitions. Running the gauntlet between our West Coast cities and Singapore will prove hazardous because of the Jap-held islands west of Wake Island, from which the enemy will operate subs and aircraft. This explains the recent news that cargo carriers are clearing from England and the United States for the Far East around the Cape of Good Hope. By that route munitions can enter Singapore and the British-held combat zones through the back door of the Indian Ocean. It involves an additional sailing distance of about 4300 miles, but it is the practicable way to get the needed supplies where they can do

the most good.

Analyzing the Early Fighting

IT IS WELL to remember—without continuing the dangerous error of underestimating the fighting capacity of the Japs—that their early successes against British or American troops in the Far Bast are due to their ability to throw in one new team after another, while our original first team has to play right through. Before long, I think, American strategists will have evolved tactics quite like those of our fore-

a pure hit-and-run affair. The pioneers who adopted “Injun” tactics and improved on them, won decisively. But each attempt to use rule-book strategy and tactics against the Indians resulted in trouble. Successful management of this war in the Pacific calls for daringly modernized tactics, using our air and naval weapons in much the same fashion as the American pioneers beat the Indians at their own game. And remember that our forefathers enjoyed the same vast advantage over their enemies, in the

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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire,

‘CITY HALL NEEDS A GOOD CLEANING OUT By W. H., Indianapolis In reply to the streetcar rider, Dec. 20, I have lived 50 years and more in Indianapolis at Fountain Square. I will say the same, why are the safety zones taken out of Maryland St.? Why are the safety zones taken away at Fountain Square? And at Illinois and Market Sts.?

At Fountain Square on Saturday night you cannot cross the street for the old machines of farmers. Where are the police? I blame the Board of Safety and Chief of Police.

The City Hall needs a good cleaning out with a big broom. Just wait, next spring and fall at the election, a good sound man, a South Side man, an honest man will do that cleaning. ” ” s

“GREATEST STRAIN ON AUTO DRIVERS IS THE PEDESTRIAN

By Clarence Ginn, 2063 N. Tacoma Ave.

I have read in the Forum so often complaints of pedestrians but never have J. seen the motorist defended.

I have been driving as much as 30 thousand miles a year for the past five years, all in downtown Indianapolis and the greatest strain on my nerves has been the defiant pedestrian, the one who demands his rightaway by stepping out in front of moving traffic. It is known that traffic fatalities are mostly thoughtless or defiant pedestrians. There are a few rules, that if observed by all, pedestrian casualty should appreciably decrease. A pedestrian should, upon approaching an intersection, stand well back from the curb until the light is green. He should then step cautiously into the street, after traffic has stopped. The crossing should be made in a brisk walk. A person who is unable to walk rapidly should never attempt crossing except in the first few seconds of the green light. This would give him time for the crossing and would not expose him to the heedless motorist. On approaching a crowded intersection one should never shove or

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attempt to crowd through as he might cause someone to step out into moving traffic. Watch at all alleys and intermediate streets. Never step in front of a vehicle after it has indicated it wants to turn in: or out. Pedestrians should never walk in alleys where there is no walk. Some alleys are hardly wide enough to accommodate a truck. That covers most of the perils of legal pedestrian traffic. Jaywalking should be abolished and offenders should be treated the same as reckless drivers. ® » =» “PEOPLE OF U.S. INA’ STUPOR ALL THESE YEARS”

By Fred J. Harrison, B. R. 9, Box {7h In 1930-34 Indianapolis was petitioned to pass a city ordinance to keep the soldiers from Ft. Benjamin Harrison from coming into Indianapolis. If these people had been trying as much as were the officers of the U. 8. Army to build a fighting force that would have been invincible we the people wouldn't have been invaded. The War Department was given just enough money to get by on. Yet they knew that the Army would be needed some time. There even was a movement, a peace movement, to disarm completely. I remember not over six years ago some lady at the polls was trying to get signers for this petition. And about this time the Nagzis were arming at full blast. Talk about the officers being asleep at Pearl Harbor, the people of the United States have been in a stupor all these years. Now to get out of this fix, we the people of the United States must,

just must, save paper, iron, brass,

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aluminum, copper and other war essentials to win this war. We will win, we must win this war, but we will have to sacrifice. » » n SERVICE MEN'S CLUB EXTENDS ITS THANKS By The Men's Governing Committees of the Army, Navy and Marine Service Men's Club, Indianapolis To the citizens of Indianapolis: The Men's Governing Committee of the Army, Navy and Marine Service Men's Club, speaking for the many enlisted men who have been and are stationed in your city, wish to take this opportunity to thank you. We have felt at home in Indianapolis. You have made us welcome, not only in your theaters, clubs and skating rinks, but. in your homes and churches. You have given us a downtown club of which we are very proud. We come into its cheery rooms sure of a welcome by all who work for us there. May we thank you everyone and wish you a fine and successful New Year. ® a2 “RESPECT FOR JUSTICE IS NOT ENHANCED” By W. L. B,, Indianapolis

Respect for impartial administration of justice is not likely to be strengthened in the mind of the public by the dismissal of indictments against a local banker and other prominent citizens. When evidence in a case is of such nature as to cause a U. S. District Attorney to utterly refuse to go along with the dismissal, then the public cannot be blamed for viewing the matter with an “I told you so” attitude. There is an old saying, “You can’t put a million dollars in jail.” This may be a little far fetched but it certainly seems to hold true in most instances. . . . Power, wealth and influential friends should have no bearing on any case, especially in Federal Court in which the people have heretofore had unlimited confidence. ® 2 =» “HOW CAN STATE DICTATE PRICES I MUST CHARGE?” By Roger F. Taylor, Salem

I pride myself upon being a true American and I will fight for my

{country any time I am needed. Why

is America fighting now if not to keep this country free? I own and operate my own barber shop, but there is one thing I would like to know: How can they legislate a law in Indiana to have a board of a few men sbt the prices and the hours for barbers and still call this a free country? Why should I not have the right to charge what I feel is a reasonable charge for my work and why can I not keep my shop open such hours as I choose? As a freedomloving citizen I feel that I have the right to do this. Why should these few men on the State board dictate to me what I shall charge and what hours I can keep my own shop open?

Let it be something for my song, If it is sometimes swift and strong. Anna Wickam (1883)

DAILY THOUGHT

If a man think himself to be nothing, he

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Northern Luzon. It hat derous sound. So pon * deed that today I heard say: . “It must be that faced old Gen. Blurb that & have in the funnies with his J gin’s on the wrong side” Since our two chiefs in mand in ‘Luzon—MacArthur Wainwright—may go down on the records a the most heroic of American commanders, there are few other facts that can be freely | about the damnable situation in the Philip occurred to me that a column on Wainwrigl be worthwhile. Columns and newscasts on MacArthur have thoroughly done, if net overdone, but W formidable colonial name plus the lack of t licity about him indicates a real service be done.

Just Skip the Name

IN THE FIRST PLACE, we can skip It is one that has been for generations m with botn the Army and the Navy, As I Wainwright is concerned, from the day h West Point, nobody ever called him or him by any other hame than Skinny. formal address nobody thinks otherwise still. He was in my company of cadets. The not altogether derive from his stature, It wa earliest days of Briggs’ or Webster's “Oh Come over,” and Wainwright was pure nickname was a natural. From first - plebes and later on from generals to private I never saw a man who didn’t like Wainwrij After leaving West Point, we joined father’s regiment, the old First Cavalry. served side by side with him for many years. { dentally, part of that service was over the very ground where he is fighting now. He knows it better than most Americans. Wainwright was still slender but eve physical attribute of the “Skinny” nickname ws. nf proof of which he was made first captain, which {| at West Point is an honor that rarely goes to less | than soldierly physical perfection. oa £

He's 100 Per Cent Soldier

WAINWRIGHT, ALL HIS LIFE, has been 100 per cent soldier. He worked, dreamed and played at it, and put everything he had into being oute standing. Even MacArthur has nothing near record and his experience, and considering his years, no officer has. iar en He has gone with honor through every which the Army has in which to teach the sion of arms, including the highest position of

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of the best horsemen, riflemen and pistol | the Army. He does not know what fear feels like, Children, especially little boys, simply promptly accept Skinny as one of their own age, call him by that name, and take as much of his time a8 can wangle. My own boy is his godson, He has the clearest and bluest of eyes and, exce

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in periods of slow and righteous anger or deep co cern, I never saw them lacking the twinkle th I think bas carried him so far into the hearts of associates. ie The name Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright will on the rolls of honor but it will be “Skinny Wain<l' wright who put it there. In no Army are there two | better men than MacArthur and Wainwright. y Whaat a shame it would be to this coustry if, regardless of excuse, they are abandoned a commands through want of re-enforcement and equips Henk after having been pushed so carelessly ; a trap!

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

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MAYBE I'M JUST a fem a sentimental jag, but not make my heart do flip-f the sight of a group of 8 dressed up and washed be ears. The sainted role natural for mischievious 1 that one is inclined to laughter, yet aren't they appealing as angels, especially when they sing? Listening to carols brought on this attack. group of girls over here, a large group of k there, their voices lifting together in the. hymns. . A Certainly, no mother can sit through that sort of entertainment without a hurting in her chest and & lump in her throat. In imagination I could see similar groups all over the country—all over the world —groups doing something in unison. Here, thank God, they are still singing! But yonder they suffer as no children should ever suffer, or ever would if men and women cared enough about them to work to prevent it, x REE

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TODAY THE WORLD is aflame with not a fit place for children. And because tha what are we women here in the United Stat to do to make it a better place when th over? In that job we shall have a tremendous sibility, Never again will we dare to responsibility, for the burden of maternity ;

imperative that we create an earth habital

youth and cheerfulness and peace and lov country we've had the ballot for 21 ye of age. We're supposed to be educated. we are capable of self-support, self-goverr self-discipline, Well, then, some part of the gigantic f is up to us. If we are capable of helping war we are capable of helping to dictate And, unless we want to let all these child we should resolve here and now to have all national and world planning,

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Q—How' much salary does Price Leon Henderson receive? ; A—As Price Administrator he does n and Exchange in pacity he receives $10,000 a year. Q—During the crisis in the Far East,

to war, I have seen little mention in news afi of Manchoukuo. Is there any change in t

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