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MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1842

SUN FO'S WARNING

HINA'S threat to stop fighting if the alleged AngloAmerican policy of “finishing off Hitler first” continues, is even more disturbing than the Japanese advance on Singapore. The Allies have a chance of holding the Japs even without Singapore, but not without China.

Sun Fo, head of the Chinese Parliament and son of |

the father of the republic, has issued this warning: “If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan a free rein in the Far East while they are finishing oft Hitler, as seemg to have been indicated in recent speeches by Alexander and Knox (the British and American naval secretaries), there is grave doubt in Chungking as to the

wisdom of China's continuing to fight as she now is doing |

so successfully.” Two weeks ago there was reason for fears among the Chinese. Dutch and Australians regarding the old Churchill

policy of concentrating on the European and African fronts

at the expense of the Far East, Now. however, there are hopeful signs that under the Roosevelt-Churchill agreement the battle against Japan will be treated as of equal importance with that against Hitler. Here are some of those signs: The Australian Prime Minister, most outspoken eritic

of the old policy, says he is satisfied with the new agree-

ment, Air reinforcements are beginning to arrive in the Far East from the Middle East and the United States. England is taking another cut in foed rations, which will free some North Atlantic ships and convoys for Pacific service. Public pressure in the United States to avenge Pearl

Harbor. Wake and Manila by an offensive against Japan is |

growing and probably will not permit future neglect of

the Far Eastern front. the President, the Army and Navy chiefs, and Congress,

share this public feeling.

WHAT KIND OF LABOR PEACE? OHN L. LEWIS has struck many an unpopular note in the last few vears. We think he has hit a popular one with his appeal for renewed negotiations toward peace in organized labor. Certainly the rank-and-file members of the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. are for reuniting the labor movement. The Administration has urged it repeatedly. The public is sick and tired of the squabble that has gone on for the last six years, So we believe that peace negotiations probably will get somewhere this tinte, We hope they will produce precisely what Mr. Lewis says they should produce—coherency in labor. Under unified and competent leadership, with results of great advantage to the workers, to the public interest, and td the defense of American liberties and institutions. But “peace” is a general term. tion is, what kind of peace? A mere coalition of the two organizations, retaining the worst features of each, would be no gain at all. And unity based only on the idea that some five million A. F. of L. members plus some five million C. I. 0. members would

form a political pressure group of ten million—that could | | \§

be positively detrimental.

HE C. I. O. knows all about what's wrong with the A. F.

of L. and the A. F. of L. knows all about what's wrong | Each organization, for years, has been |

with the C. I. O. free and frank with criticism of the other. It is not too much to ask that, in getting together, each shall insist that the other agree to many long-needed reforms.

In this connection, we commend the unusually candid

annual report just submitted by Secretary of Labor Frances | | the dawn of Christianity.™

Perkins. Unions, Miss Perkins asserts, will bring government regulation upon themselves, just as many other institutions have, unless they adopt “sound, intelligent economic, social, political and moral practices.” The public, according to Miss Perkins, expects labor to live up to the letter and spirit of collective bargaining contracts: to account scrupulously for all funds; to select officers, who should be American citizens, in the fairest, most open and democratic way; to re-examine the policy of closed unions with the closed shop and high dues. The public expects unions to abandon excessive meth-

ods of picketing and demonstration, raiding of other union's |

memberships, stoppages of work in jurisdictional disputes, boycotting of goods produced by the labor of other unions, and the secondary boycott. We agree. The public does expect such things of labor, whether or not the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. unite. And

if the public does not get what it expects, it will renew and | insist upon the demand that such things be required by law. |

BETTER BUY BULLETS

HE President's budget recommends $100,000,000 of nondefense money for the CCC and NYA for the next fiscal year. The Congressional Committee on Non-Essential Expenditures, which probably has given more study than the President has had time to give, recommended that both of these agencies be abolished, and their bureaucracies dismantled. ; With the Army, Navy and Marines calling young men to the colors, with farmers complaining that they can't get workers to help with the crops, with war-boom industries looking everywhere for laber, this is one period in our history when we ought to get along awhile without Government youth-aid agencies spending meney which the Treasury hasn't got. :

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 The seven million who will become income«tax payers on March 16, as well ag the veterans who have enjoyed this delight of citizenship before, surely will be pleased and startled to learn that Senator Joe Guffey of Pennsylvania, for many

the ship of state, has finally picked up a tab for a little matter of $4000 that rested on the deadhook at the Bureau of Internal Revenue since many fighters in the present war were just toddling little boys. Yes, friends, word comes from Pittsburgh that that sterling statesman finally remembered to pay off, after many reminders from certain less admirable

There is no reason to doubt that |

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elements of the press, including your correspondent. He stood it off for nigh onto 20 years, and, by a quirk of the law or the regulations which the common citizen might not understand, this honest debt of $4000 had been outlawed. How this august Senator and great and altruistic New Dealer could get a pass in the matter of the interest of his old debt iz something else that had better not be explained, lest other citizens who fa in arrears demand the same favor, .

What About Interest, Senator?

INTEREST RUNS UP fast at the rate of 6 per cent, compound, and the interest alone would have been about $4800 by the time the Senator remembered to take his name down off the board. Your correspondents actuary is a strict union man on a five-day week and isn't on hand at this writing to compute the compound interest, but, of course, it would have been much more and. moreover, back in the early days of this long stand-off, interest ran at the rate of 1 per cent a month compound. So, the interest, if Senator Guffey had not been excused

| the interest, would have been a very tasty contribu-

tion to the cost of the guns and other gear of war for which the common man is now assessed an income tax on earnings as little as $800 a year. But the Treasury never expected to get the $4000, so let us not be nasty. The Senator often got cross when reminded of his debt to the people, denouncing these reminders as

destructive criticism, and once. in a greater anger over | | some mention in these dispatches, he called in Mr.

Fred Perkins, the Washington correspondent of the

| Pittsburgh Press, and warned him that if this ever happened again he would make a speech on the Senate floor against your correspondents cherished

employer,

Suggesting an Explanation

THAT PUT YOUR correspondent on a spot, as he did not wish to bring down the Senator's personal revenge on his cherished employer in the guise of official business of the United States Senate.

But one day your correspondent decided that his chiished employer would have to take it as a human

| sacrifice to journalistic integrity and gave Senator

Guffey a good poke with the needle and, sure enough, he spraddled all over our helpless employer who had nothing to do with the needling. The Senator couldn't intimidate us

In the last campaign in Pittsburgh the opposition |

had little contribution boxes on the street corners labeled “Guffey income tax collection: drop donations here.” And in the collector's office citizens coming in to pay their incomes taxes would say, “All right, here's mine: now go and get Guffey's.” These manifesta tions may have stimulated the Senator's patriotism,

because he is running for Governor next vear and, |

with all the low-bracket people paying income tax now, that old matter of $4000 might have been a serious embarrassment.

It might, even so, although another check far, say, $8000 more, to take care of the compound interest, might take off some of the heat.

This and That

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 —The Bureau of Census had to help half a million people prove they were born, for war industry checkups . Planp tuners and orchestra leaders get the pitch of A above middle C from Bureau of Standards 24-hour broadcasts on 440 cycles. . . . Add NPJA to your list of initials. It stands for National Parachute Jumpers’ AssoNN ciation. . . . A drive is on to enroll 500.000 girls in nursing schools . . . Stop burning paper. . . . Watch for the draft boards to put a larger percentage of the new registrants in 1-A . . . Red Cross has been unable to learn the names of the mysterious “100 Americans held prisoner in France." + « A copper company has announeed discovery of a substitute for tin as a metal hardener in alloys. . +. The 56 billion dollar budget makes even the Department of Commerce statisticians sit up, for one of their releases announces that “36 billion represents $3205 per hour for all the time that has elapsed since

New Army School Opened

FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION tested 944 sanfples of cosmetics during the last vear. . . . Blue light is more easily observed from the air than red. . .. An old Army post, Ft. Washington, across the river from Mt. Vernon, has been reopened as an adjutant general's school. . . . Soldiers have been ordered to quit thumbing for rides. . . . Soldiers who break their glasses now get free replacements. + + « Salvage for Victory.

Washington Civil Service headquarters started a

put ‘em all to work. . . . Mayor La Guardir advocates payment of all overtime and all profits in defense stamps and bends cashable only at the end of the war. . . . La Guardia gagline—“Blackout of a big place like New York or Washington does no good. I could find New York or Washington and I was the worst flier in the A. E. F."

So They Say—

THIS NATION must never forget what it is fighting for, a better break for the little fellow, a chance for his sons and daughters to live a better life. —Senator Robert F. Wagner, New York. x» » - BASE ALL calculations on the theory that the worst will happen. If it doesn't, we'll be that much ahead —Wilbur W. White, dean, Graduate School, Western Reserve University. * * WE FREELY concede to industry the right to function in the managerial sphere in accordance with its best judgment and in accordance with the policies of the Government. — President William Green, A. F of L. )

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WHAT is needed is a searching examination of conscience by every person who has any authority at all over the use of resources in the United States.

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

ONE VIEW OF WHY FDR DOESN'T NEED WILLKIE | By Fred Wellman, 33 Fall Creek Blvd.

Raymond Clapper asks why President Roosevelt does not make more

‘extensive use of the talents of Wen-|

dell Willkie. | Mr. Willkie answer himself during his address at Madison Square Garden, prelim|inary to the Louis-Baer fight. First he mispronounced the name of champion Joe Louis, calling him “Louie,” next he introduced Buddy {Baer as “Max,” and finally he informed a stunned audience that the United States was in the war to “rule the world.” | And to think that this combination of incredible ignorance and recklessness might have been President of these United States!

i L 4 L 4 8 | ‘HONEST MAN ALWAYS WELCOMES CRITICISM’ By Jasper Douglas, Indianapolis An honest man always welcomes constructive criticism, and the letter by W. H. Edwards in The Times

: ‘his supplied conclusive |

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| operated as suggested by giving em- | ployment to every man and woman | who wants a job at a decent living | wage, then selling to the consumi ers the goods they have produced at | cost, with all private profits there‘by eliminated, profiteering would | become a crime and punishable by | a prison sentence. . Mr. Edwards agrees with me in that the taxes paid by the industries are all handed down to the ultimate consumer, but with the plan of public ownership there need never be any taxes as we know ithem, for all needs of Government including defense could be taken jcare of in fixing the prices of prod[ucts as well as laying aside enough

Congressman Tolan's committee investigating war- | tinte labor migration has hung a new label on Mrs. | Eleanor Roosevelt—The Nations Migrant No. 1. . . . |

school for new government stenvgraphers, tut OPM | | grabbed the entire student body the first day and

of Tuesday in which he ANSWETS profits from each industry to meet mine of the 7th is a straightforward [the annual payments for the origstatement of his agreement with me inal purchase. The consuming pub{in part. But he presents the objec- |lic, who pay all taxes anyway would tion to my proposition that the not have to pay the taxes of private Government buy out the large in- | profiteers, for there would be no | dustries and operate them for "use such animal. |of the people would open the way! In the same issue Mr. E. F. Madfor move graft and crooked busi-|dox takes a crack at me, calling my { ness on the part of politicians. He | proposition “designed to create con- | says “with Government in control fusion and demoralize our defense {of business we would witness 10 effort.” His vituperative bombast | times the playing of party politics is not fair criticism. As for creatthan in past years.” |ing confusion, God knows there is I would not dispute that asser- confusion enough under the present tion, but let us view the matter system and the one-third underfed, | from another angle. At the present |underclothed and underhoused and | time these big corporations have | bearing the burden while their | grown rich by buying labor at the | “betters” are living in the unlimited lowest price the poor may be com- | Juxury made possible by having appelled to take in wages below a|propriated to themselves the lion's decency standard of living, and share of what the aforesaid workthen, by the power of monopoly |ers have produced. . . . crowding out the individual small ¥ &F businesses, hike the prices of com- |, : modities as high as the traffic will LET US ALL KEEP OUR BODIES FIT"

stand. This is perfectly legal, but is rob- | By Mrs. Bessie Adams, 2802 N. Dearborn St. When I read N. R's article of

bery legalized. If these industries were owned by the people through|Jan. 8 “Why Not Quit Making their representative Government | Whisky and Cigarets,” I was inter-

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COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.

"Yes, and I'll deadlock this jury two more days before I'll give that blond any breach of promise damages! | heard all about .

ested in his view of sacrificing for Uncle Sam. Those are things that pave no food value, neither are hey a necessity as gas, oil and tires that are being limited. Although it is realized cigarets and liquor to some will be a real sacrifice, it is a worthy act for a all go to tHe battle’s front or wear the Red Cross uniform, our daily walk can have the military step and our voices the military ring. . Let us all keep our bodies fit with nowishing food and fresh air and leave out of our bodies that which tends to injure as do cigarets and liquor. They should not be put in the body but in the category with narcotics. The cost of advertising plus the money spent in making such will play a large part in helping Uncle Sam, not saying anything about broken homes, crime, juvenile delinquency and cost of upkeep of institutions to house law breakers both mentally and physically caused by cigarets and liquor... ,

8 o 2 ROAD TO HELL PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS By Charles L. Blume, 2442 Coyner Ave.

I wish to express my opinion for the teenth time on a matter I think is important to our system of government “of the pecple, by the people, and for the people.” This Adniinistration and the military are in the wrong when they draft or accept the services of men elected to office, no matter what that office is. A Representative is a servant of the people. It is his duty to express;and see that their wishes are enacted into law and carried out. It occurs to me that if the military is permitted to reacn out and take the people's representation from them, a dangerous situation is invited. Oh, no doubt the military's intentions are good, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I believe it would further the course of unity if these representatives were returned to the people and the services of any other offered the military be turned down until their terms of office are completed. After all, these positions of trust are not just jobs that can be tossed around at will. We have a Republic. Let's not weaken it by overlooking important points under duress.

¥ 8 # MARVELS AT BUDDY’S RECUPERATIVE POWERS

By W. L Wolfe, Indianapolis It seems to me Buddy Baer's recuperative powers from such devastating blows as he was supposed to have absorbed the other night are extraordinary. I think if he had not been so quick to say “he would explain the whole thing on Fred Allen's show” he would have been more convincing. On the other side of the picture, had Louis laid his title on the line against a potential champion such as Billy Conn, and still emerged victorious, more glory would be his! Or does Billy get that precautionary two-year run-around?

ARDOR

Others make verses of grace. Mine are all muscle and sinew. Others can picture your face. But I all the tumult within you.

Others can give you delight, And delight I confess is worth giving. But my songs must tickle and bite And burn with the ardor of living. Gamaliel Bradford (1861- ).

DAILY THOUGHT

The just shall live by faith.— Romans 1:17.

LABOR TO KEEP alive in your breast that little spark of celestial

fire called conscience —Washingtont :

U. S. Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Daydreaming cost us the Pearl Harbor disaster and the current Philippine mess. It's time to quit sentimentality and nonsense and do some cold Yankee thinking. The big balancing factor in this entire war is the aircraft production facilities and their output here in the United Stau's. Ew. dence that others than thi{ writer are aware of the cold cal:ulatiort in war strategy is found in Australia’'s warning to England that the war in the Pacific is not a sideshow, and that Australia will not tolerate such a conception of the Pacific struggle. Said the Prime Minister of Australia on this point: “We refuse to accept she dictum that the Pacific struggle is a subordinate segment of .the genéral cone flict.” The English and the Reds must have all the American aircraft gnd aircraft engines they can. get to match and overmatch the Nazi air strength. On the other hand, our own struggle in the Pacific is a major fighting war business for us as well as for the Australians. To America and Australia, Japanese dome inance or victory in the Pacific is a life-and-death matter,

Cavite Base Already Lost

For instance, figure from the worst that could pose sibly happen. We have already lost our most advanced naval base at Cavite. That bases our Pacific fleet on Pearl Harbor, about 5400 statute miles east of the Philippines, with the network of .Jap-fortified islands squarely across the sea lines. Now consider the troubles of the British in Ma laya. I have long suspected that the true lowdown on Japan's strategy in China has been muffed and fumbled. I have talked with men who have studied the Sino-Japanese war on the spot. They agree that the Japs seldom, if ever, had more than 100,000 men on the Chinese front at any one time, and that the 100,000 was changed time and again. In short, the Japs used the Chinese war in much the same fashion as European nations used the Span ish civil war—as a proving and training ground for equipment and men. Meanwhile, the Japs were slowly acquiring additional bases down the coast of Asia, ever reaching nearer to Malaya, Singapore and the rich East Indies.

Japs Can Keep Men Flowing

With bases closely tied together, from Japan all the way down the coast of Asia, the Japs are in position to keep a steady flow of men, planes and munitions flowing toward the Malaya combat zone. This is a vital factor when one stops to consider that, accorde ing to the British and Nazis, about 80 per cent ree placements of aircraft must be supplied to a full-out air war operation each month. British plane replacements must come more than 7500 miles from the United States, and airpower in the Pacific is just as vital a factor as in the European struggle. Therefore, the question is, to which war—the European or the Pacific—shall the bulk of our Amerie can aircraft production be sent? The fact that Ause tralia’s Prime Minister selected this time to demand full’ consideration for the Pacific war indicates he feared the bulk of our planes would not go to the Pacific.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those

of The Indianapolis Times,

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A Woman's Viewpoini By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“WHAT ABOUT THE WOMEN?” I heard the same question asked many times during an afternoon with Mabel Bacon Happer of San Francisco, whose long res idence in Japan and China has made her familiar with the Orient. Wherever she goes, she says, women are curious about other women. And, according to Mrs. Happer,

now visiting several of our Garden Club groups, Americans have much to learn from their Oriental sisters, even the hated Japanese.

“Honestly,” she confided, “I'm often rather ashamed of our own women. Many of those who come to the East seem to be interested only in cards and cocktails. The conversation is concerned largely with their servant problems. There is a sharp cone trast between them and the average English resident, who is always alert to the real issues of the world.” Although she didn't think so highly of English men, Mrs. Happer was extravagant in her praise of their wives, sisters and daughters. They are active, hardened by physical exercise, sensible, poised and realistic.

Lauds Thrift of Orient

PERHAPS HER SEX prejudices her, but she finds the women of the Orient praiseworthy because of their thrift, their industry and their concern with the basic matters of human existence. Somehow that phrase sticks in my thinking. For is not the time here when we women of the United States must become concerned about the basic mate ters of human existence? It is no longer possible for us to remain in our wishful thinking worlds. Bayonets have pricked our glamour bubbles. Fashions and popularity, charm and romance, will not take a final bow, but for the time being they must retire to the background while we pick up the work our grandmothers laid down— the work of making much out of little, the work of keeping the home fires bright, the work of spreading cheer and comfort and love wherever we happen to stand. No matter how big our other jobs may be, these are the basic tasks—and they must not be neglected,

Questions and Answers

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Q—How many vessels does the U. 8, Navy have already built or on order? A—As of Oct. 1, 1941, the U. S. Navy was come posed of the following major combat ships: On hand, battleships, 17; aircraft carriers, 6; cruisers, 37; destroyers, 171; submarines, 113. Number building; Battleships, 15; aircraft carriers, 12; Crjiisers, 54; destroyers, 193, submarines, 73. |

Q—How many employed pexsons in the ¥nited States are members of organized labor? A—The Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, reported as of September, 1941, approximately 10 to 11 million. Q—How did the Bren gun get its name? A—The name is formed from the first two letters of Brno, Czechoslovakia, where the gun was developed, and Enfield, England, where it was manue factured. Q—What is meant by “peppercorn” in transactions? ¥ A—A trivial amount of money. Peppercorn, dried berries of the black pepper, were formerly used as

business

money, pepper coming from the “Spice Islands” and

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