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Give Lioht and the People Will Find Their Own Wap
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1942
MARSHAL ADOLF'S FIRST MONTH
ND so ends the first month of the supreme military command of the all high Adolf. The Nazi armies are on the run from the Arctic to the Black Sea, not to mention | Libya. Of course they had been running before. That was why Hitler announced on Dec. 21 that he had taken over command personally from Marshal Von Brauchitsch two davs before. The combined military genius of the German staff, which had turned in the most astonishing row of uninterrupted victories in modern history, was suffering its first reverse. So Hitler had his stroke of intuition, which told him to go stop the retreat. At the time, that appeared a most extraordinary step. It looked so crazy for him to stick his neck out in this way, risking personal failure, that most observers assumed there was a trick concealed. Their theory was that Von Brauchitsch and other | generals had prepared a new winter line, brought up reserves, and prepared a new offensive which would turn back the Red tide or at least stop it; that Hitler would step forward and take the glory. x ® ” 2
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WHETHER the Fuehrer tried to pull this fast one, or merely gambled in desperation, probably will not | be known definitely until after the war. But at least some of the results, to date, seem clear: Commander Hitler has lost more men, materials and | territory than were lost before he assumed direct respon- | sibility. Commander Hitler continues to lose more of the gen- | erals who conquered Europe for him. Marshal Von Reichenau, his one-time pet and con- | queror of the Ukraine, has been removed by death—natural or otherwise—following the earlier mysterious death of his greatest air expert, Gen. Udet. And unconfirmed reports include all the key commanders on the eastern front in the purge: Von Leeb, Von Bock, Von Rundstedt, and the ace of tank warfare, Guderian. We are not among those wishful thinkers who believe | Hitler is almost washed up. Not being soothsayers, we are | not even predicting a continued Nazi retreat. We are merely congratulating Hitler on his month's record as Field Marshal Uber Alles, and wishing him more failures in this next freezing month.
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REPUDIATION BY FORD NYONE who attempts to divide America by stirring up anti-Semitism or antagonism against any racial or | religious group, does so without the benediction of Henry | Ford. We have Ford's word for that, in a letter to the B'nai B'rith, prominent Jewish organization, in which he disavows any such activities and concludes, as many others have already concluded, that “the hate-mongering prevalent for some time in this country against the Jew is of distinct disservice to our country, and to the peace and welfare of humanity.” : If Ford is sincere in this, and there is no reason to | doubt it, he completely repudiates anyone who drags out |
and recirculates the ill-advised matter put out by the Dear- | |
born Independent in the 20's. Let those who have from time to time done this emulate Ford, and they will also help foil those who would divide the American People and thus weaken their united struggle for freedom,
SAVE TO SPEND “TAX dollars must be rationed, too!” That's the headline on a page advertisement circulated in many cities throughout the nation bv the Citizens Emergency Committee, whose chairman is Henry M. Wriston, president | of Brown University. So effective is the presentation for non-defense gpending that we desire herewith to quote from the advertisement. It says: “Sure, we'll give up tires. We'll give up automobiles— and luxuries—and non-essentials—even sons—and brothers —and fathers—and husbands—and lives! “America will give up any and everything necessary to win the war, “America victory. “But let's be consistent. At a time when we're ration- | ing vital needse—spending must be rationed, too. We want to see every unessential, unnecessary governmental expense | cut to the very bone. ‘Government as usual’ has no more | place in this eritical ricture than the rejected philosophy | of ‘business as usual.’ “Just as we must conserve and ration every pound, even every ounce of materials essential to military needs, so must every tax dollar be rationed to finance a long, hard war. This means not only sacrifice for the individual, but unmistakably a temporary curtailment of Government agencies not vital in war time. “We've got to spend to win. But we've got to save to spend. . . . There is no place now for dollar wasting. Uncle Sam can’t afford any ‘fifth wheels’ this year. are at war!”
will make all sacrifices needed for final
PEDALING PASTORS PD°oWN in Durham, N. C, ministers have agreed to make all their shorter pastoral calls on bieycles,
| represents nothing hut political generosity and waste | at the expense of the income,taxpayer and those |
| $6000 or $10000 a year is no mere nickel.
| the long panic. | dustry merely because they are politically right.
| who gladly shower down, say $25, with the under-
{ as an “analyst of defense information” at $8000 a
| those $25-a-year taxpayers,
This and That
| 1942 barging the coal down the now navigable Ten-
| more than half sell livestock, poultry and field crops.
| same factory may have to be repealed to get enough | ethyl alcohol for powder mills, . | now
| the bootleg miners to shipyards and war industries on | the seaboard. . . . Employment in shipyards must be
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It isn’t silly, and it isn't a grandstand play. Every gallon of gasoline, every ounce of rubber saved, is just that much more for shortening the war.
over again, and in doing go they are going to find pleasure and benefit in something of which they've robbed themselves i§ this motor age, : \
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| fied is disobving duly enacted laws merely because he | - does hot agree with them or because he does not like | | the legislators.—Msgr. Johh A. Ryan, National Cath-
In fact, lots of people are going to learn to walk all | ie Weiule Tel.
Fair Encugh
By Westbrook Pegler
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Now that the income tax has become
a democratic institution, affecting some seven million new subjects in income brackets as low as $800 a year, the Treasury seriously hopes to banish from the public mind the concept of the taxpayer created by Will Johnstone, the cartoonist, who pictures him as a scrawny little man wearing nothing but a barrel held up by suspenders and always in a hot fury over the waste of his tax money by public officers. Our friends at the Treasury believe the new members of the lodge will be eager to pay their bit not only to buy the tools of war but to stand off inflation. This is the first time the Treasury has seemed to care what the income taxpayer thought about anything. Always hitherto he was treated as a rich man who probably had stolen or inherited his money and the bureaucrats of the New Deal laughed raucously at his futile complaints. I remember an encounter with an ex-newspaperman whe had been drafted into the long and extravagant war on poverty as an aid to Jim Farley for duties mostly political who said mockingly: “Why don’t you pay your income tax and quit squawking?”
Some Reason to Squawk, Too
I HAD PAID my income tax and I was squawking because $6000 a year of the taxes paid by me and others was being paid to a relative of a prominent idealist for decorating embassies abroad; $6000 & vear had been paid to Theodore (the man) Bilbo, a stranded Mississippi politician, to clip and paste newspaper items in scrapbooks, and to keep him off the neck of Pat Harrison; $10,000 was being paid to Jimmy Roosevelt to act as one of his father’s secretaries and keep out of mischief and countless other high salaries were being paid to other personal and political friends and relatives of high personages as a sort of deluxe dole or handout or, not to fumble for a word, gravy. Everyone in Washington has personal knowledge of many such ill-disguised gifts of large salaries to individuals whose duties are only theoretical, nominal or unnecessary and the same generosity has now spread out over the country.
$8000 a Year—For What?
LOOK IN THE local phone book of any fairly large city under the heading “U. S. Government” and observe the growth of Government, part of which has been legitimate and natural but much of which
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who had paid other taxes all along.
thick money. | The Treasury people are correct in their belief | that the new income taxpayers will be quite willing | to pay the tax for war purposes. has the same spirit and, with very few exceptions, | has been willing all along to pay legitimate costs of Government including the expense of new departments honestly intended to ease the nation over
But neither group will be happy to continue to, support innumerable political press agents on better salaries than thev ever were worth in private in-
And nobody will be more sensitive to waste or graft than those new taxpayers, hitherto exempt,
standing that they are paying for a war and then read that Malcolm Cowley, identified as a poet and long identified with the Communist front, has suddenly been deemed indispensable to the war effort
vear which represents the entire income of 320 of
By Peter Edson
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Gen. Johnson Says—
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Mr. Nelson's job is to convert the productive machinery of the United States from the uses of peace almost 100 per cent to the uses of War. It is to reorganize our tens of thousands of individual competing manufacturing establishments into a single vast machine for production in which these formerly independent units are independent
| no longer, but become interlocking cogs devoted to the
| single purpose of war.
It is a “demand and supply” problem. To solve if;
| effectively, Mr. Nelson must have a very wide discre-
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
IN CAROLE’'S MEMORY”
By Margaret Stearns Reese, Thompson Road.
We Hoosiers could make no more fitting tribute to Carole Lombard, Indiana’s number one heroine, than to launch a real bond drive to her memory, She loved Indiana, she loved the Four Freedoms and she loved our way of life. She came ‘back home’ to participate in our bond rally. We can say no words to ease the hurt but we can write her name in our Hoosier pages of history for all time to come with bonds and still more bonds. We can do as she had expressed so appropriately, “Let's make it known in Tokyo” for Carole Lombard, for she gave her own life that Indiana would buy bonds for defense and that very defense may mean the preservation of our own homes and loved ones in the future.
8 & 4% “PUT A CENSOR'S CLAMP ON SELF-ANOINTED EXPERTS”
Uncle Sam now has 85,000 stenographers on his knees and payroll, but still needs thousands more. Ask your postmaster. C. I. O statisticians figure that strikes cost more than 21 million | man days lost labor, which was 10 | per cent of the workers’ time lost | through accidents and 5 per cent | of time lost through illness. . TVA’s steam power plants will use “80,000 tons of Tennessee coal in
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nessee River. . ., Automobiles will contribute an estimated 2.4 billion dollars to the national tax Kitty in 1941. . . . U. S. salaries and ‘wages paid in 1941 will be about 80 billion dollars, or 12 billion more than in 1940. . . . Production of whiskey may be curtailed through an order giving gunpowder plants priorities on ethyl alcohol.
Our Farm Problems . . . OF THE SIX million farms in the United States,
. More than 25 million sell dairy products. . . . Truck farms and fruit farms number more than half a million each. . . . Forest products are sold by only a quarter million farms. . . . Tin can containers for pipe | tobacco will be eliminated. . . . New private house construction which had the foundations in place by Oct 9 will be completed. . . . State laws restricting the manufacture of industrial alcohol and booze in the
. . South America is producing much of the country’s vermouth, which uses some 40 herbs, roots and seeds for flavoring. . . . The bootleg mine problem of Pennsylvania's hard coal area is finally being solved—by migration of
doubled to a total of 734,000 between now and November, 1942.
So They Say—
Colleges in wartime must not be pleasant retreats where men and women shirk the larger responsibilities and sacrifices of life while they acquire educational advantages over others for their own selfish ends. —Prof. Francis Raymond Iredell, Pomona Col-
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We are at a loss for ourselves. We have become a people, not individuals. We have become diluted, losing strength and color. —Prof. Mary Ellen Chase, Smith College. - * . Full production is the answer to the monopoly problem. We must not permit our vastly increased production to be Riper by industrial agreements to cut down after the war—Thurman Arnold, assist ant attorney general. . -
No Christian, Catholic or non-Catholie, is justi-
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By I. Y., Indianapolis It was with utter disgust that I listened to a radio broadcast by a certain commentator (self-appointed dispenser of public opinion) Sunday afternoon, in which he belittled the fact that the newspapers in general gave so much space to Miss Carole Lombard in the terrible accident last week in Nevada, and so little to the several Army officers who were on this plane. This narrow-minded individual seems to forget the fact that Miss Lombard was on a special mission to help the United States put across the biggest bond donation that the country has had so far, and also the fact that she was a big asse! to the Government in this way to help pay the big bill the citizens of this country will have to assume before this war is won for freedom. . . . Miss Lombard was loved by millions of American citizens for her honest straightforward way and her unselfish contribution to people she came in contact with. As we have a censor now for the
ing these three for a nickel cigars.
posed smoke abatement survey they should find how much of our smogs are caused by smokers.
sulting from smokers’ carelessness. This is another sabotage to our national defense.
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radio as well as the press, it might be a good idea for him to put a clamp on the above mentioned individuals who do more harm than they do good. ” ” o “SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT TOBACCO FIENDS” By “Non Smoker,” Indianapolis I think something should be done about the cigaret and cigar fiends who ride our street cars. There are a lot of people who don’t care for smoking and don't get a big kick out of taking a “drag” off someone else’s cigar smoke. But these smokers don't seem to regard tne feelings of other people, or maybe
don’t see the sign on the street car, | “No smoking, as a courtesy to other passengers.”
Or maybe you boys could quit buy-
While they are making this pro-
Also there is the danger of fire re-
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“THERE ARE A LOT OF SLACKERS IN OUR MIDST"
|“We do not have them but will
they were trying to avoid facing the | facts. Every place we look we see so much to do. The newspapers |and the radio tell us about the work | for all of us Americans. Every day little children are showing us how to face the facts. I thrill when.I see their smiling faces as they go about selling defense stamps. We find no slackers among the children. When we make a mental note of this fact, how we will wake up. This is a broad statement but it's true—yet, there are a lot of slackers in our midst. They try to get] around the fact, it's our duty to buy stamps and bonds. Some say “1 can't afford to spend the money now | for bonds or stamps—maybe later,” but these same people pay to attend two shows each week. o ” ”
“BUY BONDS! YES, BUT TRY AND DO IT!”
By E. R,, Indianapolis In answering Mrs. William K. | Strader, I'd like to tell her of my experience with bonds. My husband land I started out to buy bonds-—-[four $100 ones. We went to our neighborhood bank. The teller said,
order them for you.” We said no, we were going to town, we would purchase them there. We went to the largest bank in this city, told what we wanted. They said we can not sell you $100 bonds. We don’t have any but we can sell you a $500 bond. We then went to another and could not get any there. My husband was disgusted by this time, but I persuaded him to try one more bank. The girl had the same story, no $100 bonds, but tried to sell us
By Myra Carey Morgan, 6668 Bellefon-
taine St ‘ 4 All of us here in America are|
aware of the fact there is a big take them.” She said, “No, I couldn’t
we all facing the facts? I was almost knocked off my feet the other|
| day when a friend said, “I would be| fine if I had more to do to Kill
| | time.” How could anyone make a state-| ment like that, and mean it, unless
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was disgusted, too. I said, “Well they say buy bonds, that’s all you hear, then they won't sell them to you.” We finally ended up at our local post office where they had plenty of them. Can you solve the puzzle? ” 4 ” “YOU'RE RIGHT ... LAY OFF WORLD WAR VETERANS” By Mrs. Marie E. Patton, Bloomington In reply to Chas. E. Remy: You sure need a pat on the back for your letter in answer to H. A, Wilson's letter. You are just what Uncle Sam needs. You said to lay off World War veterans and you're right. My husband fought in the last war. He had to serve one year in Germany after the war was over, and as you say their eyes and hearts are not what they used to be. I'll say they're not and if all the young men of today were all like you we could get this job done in a short while. If my husband was not too eld he would have already been gone to help settle this once and for all.
THE SECRET
O little bird, you sing As if all months were June; Pray tell me ere you go The secret of your tune?
“I have no hidden word To tell, nor mystic art; In only know I sing The song within my heart!” Arthur Wallace Peach (1886)
DAILY THOUGHT
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, | because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they | that have not seen, and yet have | believed. —John 20:29. |
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IT 1S BELIEVABLE because un-| College of the City of New York, New York City ¢ : and the University of California at Berkeley, Cal.
tion over both war demand and war supply. War “demand” is the requirements of the various war-making services—Army, Navy, Maritime Commis~ sion and Allies. War “supply” is the output of the re« sources and facilities of the United States—saw ma« terials, manufacturing and transportation.
We Need Industry Committees YOU CAN'T DO this as you would herd cattle.
| Both supply and demand must be so organized that | each understands the problems, capabilities and limi« | tations of the other.
They must be brought together at the same table, through their representatives on their own committees—industry by industry and come modity by commodity. There, under the direction of Mr. Nelson's chosen representatives from his war production board, who must have the last and deciding word on every ques=« tion, they must work together as partners in the com= mon cause of maximum production. This requires that there be organized for each industry or commodity group, a representative “industry committee” which can speak for all its members: Al« though this absolute necessity has been preached for many years and OPM gave it lip-recognition, nothing effective was done. Only recently has the automobile industry had such a committee and there are few others. But that is only half of the task of organizing as a team and bringing together and marrying “war de« mand” and “war supply.” “War demand” has been almost as confused as “war supply.” To begin with, many more or less independent Government organ« izations, each with tremendous supply programs, have been competing with each other with little Govern= ment supervision.
Most of Fumbling Is Over
EACH OF THE great service “demand” depart ments should he required to iron out all conflicts be= tween its own demand sub-bureaus before it comes to Mr. Nelson. Mr. Nelson must have absolute authority to iron out conflicts among them and get a complete demand program. This he should break down into its sep« arate industrial and commodity groups, call his “ine dustry committees” to meet with him and committees from these four great demand organizations and make his decisions which must be final, There is nothing academic or theoretical about this. It is the condensed experience of ourselves and other combatants in World War I and largely this war. From a hasty reading of his executive order, and from what I can learn otherwise, I think Mr. Nelson understands exactly this set-up--at least in principle, It is a little too early to chirp, but, if these con« jectures prove true, I think the worst of Washington fumbling is over and we will really be going to town.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
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MANY AN old maid has made good. I've just read a book about one of the most famous of them— “Clara Barton, Daughter of Destiny,” by Blanche Colton Wil« liams. And it's a honey of a book, for out of a long dead and almost forgotten past it brings a great woman to life. You are aware of her human qualities, and of the bitter strug= gle that must be endured by one who, having a dream, is willing to move heaven and earth to make it come true. Although she never had a child, Clara Barton was a Great Mother. It is fitting that the organization she founded, the Red Cross, should have those words for its slogan. Every maternal virtue was hers—tenderness, self sac= rifice, understanding, and love in abundance. In her youth she was literally too busy taking care of people, sick and well, to find time for court= ship or marriage. In the days when she ministered to the wounded of the Civil War, she acquired a passion for helping which kept her serving others day and night through most of her long life.
She Wrought Miracles
AFTER the battles she tended the men, without sleep or proper food or any care whatever for her own physical wants. Dauntless and indefatigible, she wrought miracles only a little less astounding than that of the loaves and fishes, for she fed thousands of hungry men with soup and porridge when there seemed not enough for a score. Alone and single handed, she saved lives by nurs« ing, prevented death by starvation, cheered and com« forted countless lonely soldiers. To those moderns who believe great things can be accomplished over= night and with little effort, the striking fact of her remarkable career is that it took her 40 long hard years to get the Red Cross started. She was 60 years old by that time, battered by life, disillusioned by many disappointments, sick with the shenanigans of politicians. After she died a world mourned and honored her, but she is still without a national monument in her native land.
Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists In this newspaper are their own, They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,
Questions and Answers
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Q—Why is the exterior of a cannon tapered?
A—To reduce the weight of the gun. When the powder charge is first detonated the pressure is great, and the gun must be thick at the base to withstand it. This thickness is not needed at the mouth and the guns are tapered according to pressures.
Q—Should a retailer charge a customer the manue facturers’ tax on luggage that he had in stock before Oct. 1, 1941, when the tax became effective? A—It is illegal for him to charge it as a tam, because he paid no tax on the goods.
Q—When was the Leaning Tower of Pisa built
A—It was begun by the architect Bonnano of Pisa in 1174 and the work was continued by Tommaso Pisano and William of Innsbruck until it was finally
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Q—Which three universities in the United States have the largest enrollment?
A-—~New York University, New York City; the
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