Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1942 — Page 14
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1042
HAPPY NEW YEAR! ORE than a new year is ahead. It will be a new life for most. Few of our accustomed ways of living will escape untouched by the war. For the millions who are going into the armed services the break will be complete. Individualism and a thousand taken-for-granted freedoms will merge into the group dis¢cipline of a fighting unit. New surroundings, new tasks, new responsibilities, new associates, new challenges. And, over all, postponement or sacrifice of personal ambitions and affections for unselfish service to America in danger—wherever that leads, even to death. For every man who marches away there will be a broken home or loved ones who wait, torn between loneliness and hope, between fear and pride, between prayer and a fierce determination to carry-on. ® » = = s » FOR those who remain at home—the fathers and brothers, the mothers and sisters and wives and sweethearts—it will be a new life; too. Luxuries will go fast. Taxes and more taxes, of all kinds and on almost everything, will cut the family budget already reduced in some cases by the absence of the breadwinner. Rising prices will take away many things, and scarcity will eliminate more. 8 Our whole motorized civilization will throttle down until it is almost completely suspended for private and formal purposes. The new car and tire shortage will be followed by bans on batteries; gasoline will become scarce, as truck and tankecar facilities are diverted to defense distribution: and finally repair parts for old cars will not be available. Trolleys and bus lines will be unable to care for fiew crowds. Most of us will learn how to walk again. Radios and refrigerators, and most of the gadgets which have become necessities to modern living, will be hard to get and harder to service. In some areas there will be a shortage of power and electricity. \ = = = Ld = » OBBED of many of our conveniences and time-saving devices, with the entire tempo of personal life slowed down, we shall yet be called upon to move faster. We shall be like runners with only track shoes and trunks, suddenly given a dray-horse load and -told to break all previous speed records. Somehow, somewhere, each day we must make up the time lost with the disappearing private automobile and housekeeping devices; and then find vastly more time to do volunteer defense work, in addition to increasing our production in the office, the store, the field, the factory. For every man on the fighting front an estimated 19 workers are required on the home front to keep him suffigiently equipped and supplied for victory. Women will have to do men’s work, and men will have to do the work of two. "The truism that the war will be lost or won on the production front is truer now than ever for Americans. In 1041 it was for our friends, in 1942 our own liberties and lives are at stake. = 2 . = ” 2 XA/ITH that grim prospect, can we still say, happy New £ Year? We can. There is something worse than war—worse than its destruction, its terror, its sacrifice. "For Americans, liberty if need be is more precious than life. Sacrifice is better than slavery. "And waiting ie worse than action when the danger is present, the conflict inevitable. However terrible the fight, forced upon our beloved land of peace by barbarous might, there is sober happiness fh getting on with the job which has been given us to do. . May each of us be worthy of America in this year of Ber greatest peril, happy to give our little to her who has given us so much. Yes, happy New Year!
WAR MILLIONAIRES
FI REASURY and Congressional spokesmen keep repeating that there must be no war millionaires this time. Three defense tax bills have been passed in the last 18 months. Another, the heaviest of all, is in the making. But éhce more it appears that the experts drafting this legislation are not interested so much in taxing away war profits and raising revenue as they are in imposing finespun new $heories of taxation on the whole business structure. And #ne result which appears likely is that, while ordinary busifessmen who risk their money to produce goods and provide jobs may wind up without profits, there will nonetheless be 4 new crop of war millionaires in the tax accountants and fax lawyers clever enough to understand, and circumvent, the new Utopia the experts are driving toward.
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4NO ROOM FOR THE DILETTANTE..”
have to win that world for our children. We have to win it by our sacrifices. We have not won it yet. Whe crisis is upon us. The power of the enemy is immense. If we underrate the power and resources of that enemy, we ghould jeopardize our lives . . . and we all have. “We cannot, Sir, for a moment relax. On the contrary. “There is a place in this world war for everyone. Man and woman, old and young. .-. . There is no room for the dilettante, for the weakling, for the sluggard. . .. “The mines, the factories, the shipyards . . . the fields & till, the hospital, the pulpit, from the highest to the amblest . . . all have their part to play.” — (From Winston urchill’s address to the Canadian Parliament.)
VAJOS HAVE A NAME FOR HIM
CORRESPONDENT from New Mexico reports that the Navajo Indians’ name for Adolf Hitler, alias
Jickelgruber, is
“De Gha Yil Chi,” meaning “He Who
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
was plainly drawn by Some of them may who would subside but the in of the lief that they would seize sttoy factories and public and panic and transmit information to the
Native Born Have Rights, Too
THE GERMAN Gofernment’s attitude anti-American Bund was such and so that any person who joined it automatically indicated his allegiance to Adolf Hitler and United States. This organisation ted island of Nazi Germanism in a foolishly patient and tolerant republic. It was a semi-military body with uniformed storm troopers who used the Nazi salute and hailed Hitler. The camps were cells of Hitlerism in which the women and children breathed hatred of everything that Americanism is and the men sometimes held target practice on rifie ranges. The Italian Fascist organizations may have been less sincere in their hostile alienism, but that is no reason why the people of this country at war should take a chance on their disillusionment and their conversion to the Stars and Stripes. This, of course, is a delicate subject and such sentiments will draw blood from every pore of those who are obsessed with affection for the “foreign born” but that will be just too bad. The native born have rights, too, and their interests certainly come before those of any man or woman who, in cold deliberation, elecied to become a member of any organization which gave allegiance to Hitler or Mussolini.
There Are No Holds Barred
WE HAVE SUFFERED badly already from the treachery of the Japanese fifth column in Hawaii and in the Philippines, but the members of the Bund and the anti-American organizations fostered by Mussolini are equally capable of sabotage and military espionage. The rolls of these organizations must be available,
not only because they were very rash in their hatred | of the American people, but for the further reason | that they were infested with spies who obtained their |
secrets. Necessarily, informers would be used to identify the traitors and this always is an unpleasant method in a free country, but that freedom is now threatened and the sacrifice for safety is not too great. This is a dirty war, with no holds barred. The German, the Italian and the Jap have always been given the costly privilege of striking the first blow
- treacherously because the civilized peoples have been
unwilling to beat them to it. But the lesson should have been learned by now and all members of the Bund and the Fascist organizations which gave loyalty to Mussolini should be rounded up and locked away immediately and their . families with them, if circumstances require, until the war is over. Their inconvenience, as compared to their capacity for treachery and disaster, is not worth considering.
More Don'ts By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-—Tssu-ance of individual requests, orders and regulations restricting your usual peace-time liberties doesn't make much impression. You kiss a single privilege goodby and don’t miss it. But when you list and add up a number of these new orders, the sum total hits you with an impact which makes you realize the country is really at war. Here are just a few of the recent ukases from Washington: You shouldn’t buy new material for blackout curtains. Use old remnants because the country needs all the new cloth it can get. . . . If you get a new car, it will have only four new tires. The number of new cars will of course be limited, and they will have ne bright work. .. . Tin and lead foils will be banned for civilian use. , , . You must save waste paper, rags, metals, rubber. . . . You should not use surgical tape on windows as an air raid precaution against broken glass. . . . You should renew your flashlight. . +» » You should or shouldn't store four days’ emergency rations, depending on whether you're listening to Paul McNutt or Eleanor Roosevelt. . . . Hog bristles more than three inches long are reserved for the military. . . . Military industries should start working around the clock and throughout the calendar. . , . Production of juke boxes, refrigerators, and washing machines is curtailed.
'Pink Pants’ Facing Ban
THE ARMY may issue a ban against “pink” pants —the separate slack trousers which don’t match the tunics and which some officers and soldiers affect for semi-dress. . . . Commissions of new Army officers have to be signed personally and individually by Secretary of War Stimson, which accounts for some of the delays. . .. A jittery theater executive in Washington got so mad at the Japanese he tried to cancel billing of “The Mikado,” Gilbert and Sullivan opera. . + « Watch out for a run—and a resulting price control order—on black sateen, black cotton rep, and similar materials for making blackout curtains. . . . WPA, supplying clerical assistance for the national truck inventory, got some funny answers: “My truck is used for funerals,” one owner wrote. “The Government can use it any time it doesn’t interfere with funerals. Funerals constitute a local emergency.” + «+ "I used to haul junk in it” wrote an owner of a 1020 model, “but decided one day it was worse than some of the stuff I was hauling, so I just left it on the junk pile”
Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are thelr own. They are met necessarily these of The Indianapolis Times,
So They Say—
ALIENS will be divided only into two classes, aliens and bad aliens. The good
Another Marine Lands!
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The Hoosier Forum
disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire,
“§5-CENT HAIRCUTS UNJUST AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL”
By American Born, Indianapolis An article in the paper stating the Barber Board is going to fix the price of haircuts at 50 and 65 cents. It is unjust, unconstitutional and is not demfocracy to make the low paid and unemployed pay 50 cents for a haircut. Most any barber can cut a head of hair in 15 minutes which makes $2 and $2.60 an hour for the parber, forced on the public through groups dictating to the politician. Why should not the public have the say? As tHe men in the war zone said we would not mind it if some back home would just be reasonable.
= = s “LA GUARDIA HAS PROVED A ‘DUD’ FOR THE JOB” By Arther 8. Mellinger, 3500 W. 30th st.
A few days ago you carried an
| editorial abput the organization of
civilian defense. La Guardia has proved a “dud” for the job. Mrs. Roosevelt could better confine herself to her column. I want to add another “dud” is Mrs. Perkins, Secretary of Labor. I think the post should be filled by a man. It’s a man’s job. Certain elements enter into such a job that require certain traits that women do not possess. A great mass of information and personal contact acquired by men who have worked along the way up to such jobs. Theories and prearranged methods cannot® cope with such fast changing relationships.
We have much more complex and far-reaching problems concerning relationship of capital and labor than existed a few years ago. Too much leeway has been given labor. The general philosophy applied by the present Administration has been to make capital the “goat.”
Who are the capitalists? During the dark years of the early 30s the U. 8. Steel had a surplus on hand. They made a survey to find whether to give it as extra wages or addi-
tional defense in the face of this emergency. America is too broadminded, too progressive to make the same mistake that France did. France began to fight the Axis by first attacking the labor movement, the progressives and the Communists. This led to distrust, confusion and demoralization in the face of the Nazi attack, France fell but America must not. We must judge people net- by prejudice but by the all important question, “Are you for the defeat of Hitler and his Axis stooges”? My case was dismissed Monday on the prosecution’s motion that the procedure was unconstitutional and no law had been violated.
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FAVORS TRUCK BUSINESS GOING TO RAILROADS By H. J. Jones it has become necessary for the Government to ration rubber, and the purchase of auto tires, also steel products and many other materials used in the manufacture of autos and trucks.
The Government is purchasing large numbers of trucks for the use of the Army for national defense. One good way to save rubber and other materials used in the manufacture of trucks is for the Government to take over the best of these trucks and let this business divert to the railroads which have ample facilities to handle it.
I have observed large numbers of trucks at stockyards on stock sales day which handle a large portion of livestock being shipped to market. I have observed stock cars sitting on tracks at these stockyards for days not being used, simply because the truck rate is a little cheaper than the rates of the railroads which are authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission. I have observed trucks with heavy loads of hogshead tobacco being trucked to points that could be served by the railroads. I have observed trains waiting for hours after
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tional dividends. The facts showed that more people would benefit by declaring an extra dividend than if paid in wages, so the extra dividend was declared. The American Telephone & Telegraph is one of the largest of the corporations. The stockholders in this run into the hundreds of thousands; people with small amounts invested in this stock; incidentally it is one of the safest and best investments. The idea of making the rich pay is a foolish thing. There is not enough of them to make a drop in the bucket. So the war will have to be fought and financed by millions and millions of us “small fry.”
® = ® ‘FRANCE FELL BUT AMERICA MUST NOT’ i3y Donald L. Grant, West Lafayeite I was arrested Friday, Dec. 26, for distributing a statement of the Communist Party in answer to the attack of Japan on the United States. The inference was made that in some way this was subversive and that I was a draft dodger to boot. Not only did I have my draft registration card with me but that very afternoon I had tried for the second time within a week to volunteer. I distributed the leaflet because I believe that the most important thing that we Americans must realize is that this struggle is going to take the united strength of all 130 million of us. Everybody must unite for na-
Side Glances=By Galbraith
sales for shippers’ convenience leave with two or three cars and sometimes one car fulfilling their obligations to shippers to handle their
business. Rubber and the materials for trucks can be greatly reduced and go to national defense if this business is returned to the railroads who have the facilities to handle it.
AT A WINDOW
Give me hunger, O you gods that sit and give The world its orders. Give me hunger, pain and want; Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger,
But leave me a little love, A Yoies- io speak to. me in the day end, : A hand to touch me in the dark room Breaking the long loneliness. In the dusk of day-shapes Blurring the sunset, One little wandering, western star Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow. Let me go to the window, Watch there the day-shapes of dusk, And wait and know the coming Of a little love.
Carl §andburg (1878- )
DAILY THOUGHT
4 In your patience possess ye your ~souls—Luke 21:19.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1~This column has not commented on the speech of Mr. Churchill before our American legislature because there is so much to think 3 in the speech and its setting 4 hair-trigger emotion and enth siasm aroused by its masterful art might discharge the wrong gune barrel. . a As an oratorical effort it wi
superb. It had an even greates
quality. It was a frank, free exposure of the guiding
thoughts of an honest and able statesman. Those are
very rare qualities at the moment in a double-crosse ing world. 3
Perhaps, in view of all this, there is & kind of
curmudgeon quality in questioning it at all. But,
after all, we are Americans. Our national intereshp / |
is not completely adjourned. !
Mr. Churchill did not plainly say so, but hig speech slanted in the direction of some sort of nas | tional amalgamation of us with Britain after the war, Once, earlier, when asked the British aims, he said
something like this: “To smash Hitler, of other aims afterward.”
Our Job Was Done
We will talie:
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shattered remnants of what used to be until we have seen them? Ww Mr, Churchill said: “Five or six years ago i would have been easy without shedding a drop of blood for the United States and Great Britain to have insisted on the disarmament clauses of the treaty which Germany signed after the great war” This column has been saying something like thay during that whole six years—since its first issue—s more than six years ago. But there was this differs ence. That treaty put Germany under the absolute domination of England and France—not America. Our part had been done in 1918 by putting those two nations in that position through victory. Any
interference on our part in Europe in most of those
years would have been resented by England herself, Not the Whole Story
FINALLY, in answering why the Far East is not sufficiently equipped to resist Japan, Mr. Churchill points to a sufficient equipment to win British vice tories in North Africa and says they could not equip both places and had to choose. tu What Mr. Churchill is talking about is the pers fectly sound military policy against dispersion and in
favor of concentration of forces at critical points,
O. K. But isn’t there a point to be pledged in our own behalf when our whole Pacific defense system bes comes so seriously involved? :
As facts become clearer it begins to appear that
Pearl Harbor was one of the greatest single naval and aerial disasters in recent history. We have no dependable base to support our beleagured little force
in the Philippines and now it seems that our hope for
a secondary base at Singapore is far from secure, We rejoice with the British on Benghazi but,, if Mr, Churchill is right, we paid a perilous penalty in the: Pacific. We still have our own country to defend alsos
A Woman's Viewpoint |
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
I AM AN UNLUCKY person who does not possess “the green thumb,” but I'm fortunate in having many friends who do. For a Christmas greeting, one of them sent me a cunning little booklet written by L. Young Correthers—- . “These Blooming Friends.”
In it each blossom is endowed
with human personality and mane"
ners. And how easy it is to visue alize flowers as modest or &ITO=’
gant, timid or strutting, like mortals. This is a form of imaginary transpcsition our egotism encourages. Because I believe it is pleasant and profitable to think of flowers in these winter months, when the® woods are bare of leaves and the gardens of bloom, I pass on one or two of these jingles to friendly readers: The Black Eyed Susan doesn't care a To grow a garden bed; y She'd rather ramble through the wood Or by the road instead. , Her leaves are coarse, Her colors crude, Yet she is more than vain; I think that in her family There is a gyspy strain,
The Peony is a jolly flower— She’s nice to hold and touch, She always grows in bunches, For she likes herself so much, She sometimes looks untidy, And when dressed in red, looks hot. It’s because a peony always wears Every petticoat she's got.
Before the birds return in Spring, While yet the trees are bare, The snowdrop lifts her tiny face And sniffs the wintry air, She doesn't seem to mind the cold; She doesn’t fear the snow. Compared to other flowers She's a little Eskimo.
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Q—What is the oldest existing mention of De as the date for Christmas? A—According to Hastings’ “Dictionary of Bible,” it is in the fourth book of Daniel by polytus, early in the third century. Ei Q-—Are railroad workers covered by the Ol and Survivors Insurance program of the Soc curity Act? A—No; they are covered by the Railroad ment Act.
Q-—Are the orchestra leaders, Charlie Wingy Manone, white or colored? Which
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phone and Manone the trumpet.
Q-For what was Thomas H. Gallaudet not A—He was the pioneer teacher of the de United States. He was born in Phi 10, 1787. In 1816, after spending several Royal Institute for Deaf Mutes in
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in founding & school for the deaf in Wa D. C., which developed into Gallaudet Coll
~~ Q—For how long was Charles A. member of the U. 8. air service? A—He enrolled as a flying cadet in the Service Reserve, at Brooks Field, S8an March 19, 1924; later advanced to Reserves, and then to colonel. He
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