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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1042
CHURCHILL SPEAKS
EVER has Churchill made a greater speech than his report yesterday to Commons. It had the ingpirational appeal of his historic blood-toil-tears-and-sweat oration, plus the force of a vast array of achievements and some mistakes, frankly confessed. Only a very honest man and a very great leader has the courage and the strength to answer his critics in such words as these: “Why should I be called upon to drive away loyal and trusted colleagues and friends to appease the clamor of a certain section of the British and Australian press? If we have not got large and modern air forces in Malaya and Burma no one is more accountable than 1.” What can the British do with such a daring leader as that, except to follow him with confidence? Particularly when he is so quick to make good on his mistakes. For the biggest news in the Churchill report is that the policy of treating the Pacific as secondary has been changed to all-out reinforcement: “It (the Malay battle) will be fought to the last inch.... “Our duty (in the southwest Pacific), upon which we have been consistently engaged for some time, is to press reinforcements of every kind, especially air, into the new war zone from every quarter and by every means and with the utmost speed.” To which the prime minister added this unforgettable picture of his recent visit with the President: “When we parted he wrung my hand, saying ‘we will fight this through to the bitter end, whatever the cost may be.”
NO SHORTAGE THERE HE American businessman already has a lot of Government questionnaires to fill out, and will have a lot move by the end of next vear. More than 7000 different forms are now being used by Federal agencies which ask information from business and the public. And the Division of Statistical Standards, according to a Congressional committee, expects to review about 2800 new forms in 1943. One wonders how business can produce all the informa-
tion demanded by the Government and find time to produce |
enough weapons to win the war. But maybe we can smother Hitler, Hirohito & Co. in statistics.
GONE SOFT? ASK TOGO!
comment editorially on the newspaper accounts of
American battle efficiency and heroism in the Pacific is to risk gilding the lily. Res ipsa loguitur—the thing |
speaks for itself. And how!
| At Pearl Harbor, innumerable episodes of personal |
doggedness and valor were a silver lining to the dark cloud of unpreparedness. At Wake, our handful of Marines
knocked out seven Jap warships before being overwhelmed |
by weight of men and metal. The exploit of Colin Kelly, in destroying a Jap capital ship with aerial bombs, is assured of immortality. In Subic Bay, our motor torpedo boats have struck with
an accuracy and a defiance of death that are breathtaking. | The almost fabulous mastery exhibited over Burma by | the American volunteer pilots out of Chungking is a source |
of pride to every American,
The stunning finesse of Admiral Hert's light naval | units and our flying fortresses in deciminating or worse, | the great Jap convoy in the Strait of Macassar is oft the |
same bolt.
And the sacrificial feats of Gen. MacArthur and his | devoted band, both American and Filipino, are too numerous |
to catalog here.
A lot of people were wagging their heads a few months | And it |
ago and moaning that this country had gone soft. is true that a lot of us civilians are still a long way below
par, physically and otherwise, for meeting the challenge |
of the home front. But at least we know now—and it is being underlined every day in the communiques—that American soldiers and sailors and Marines are well worthy of the noble traditions
of their arms.
DOING A JOB
wg ticker, this bn ut hopefully revealing | RON She ns tikes; this brief but hp : 2 Lord Randolph Churchill, himself one of Britain's |
note:
“Nelson delegated his powers to requisition, to compel | acceptance of war orders and to issue priorities orders and | regulations to J. S. Knowlson, director of industry opera- |
tions. At the same time Nelson gave the division director
permission to further delegate his powers to officials of |
his division or to other Government officials, including contracting and procurement officers of the War and Navy Departments. “The powers conferred on Knowlson are those given to Nelson under the executive order abolishing OPM and setting up the War Production Board.” Here is executive action, administrative efficiency. Donald Nelson, war production boss, knows he has a job too big for one man. But he knows what to do about it —and does it. He picks a division chief, gives him authority to act, and further authorizes him to delegate that authority to sub-chiefs. Thus, the men who are responsible for getting the job done are given power to make decisions and carry them into effect. Under this system where responsibility and authority go hand in hand, the job will be done. It was not that way in OPM, where nobody had authority, and everybody was encouraged to pass the buck.
IS THIS NEEDED FOR VICTORY? THE National Archives is budgeted for $1,146,725 next year—an increase of $68,508.
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, Jan 28 — All right, you southern-tier Senators and Representatives, you Hoosiers and Hawkeyes and you boys from Illinois and New England and the West Coast! What excuse are you going to give them back home, come election time, for permitting the Communists and fellow-travel-ers to filter into the national Government in Washington and in jobs out through the country in the first place and to come crowding in in force now, in time of war? How many Communists have you got in your home country? Did the Communists send vou to Washington or was it the Americans who elected you to represent them? Don't tell me, don't try to tell your home folks, that you were unaware of this infiltration in the earlier years or of the present descent in force. You boys are pretty smart. You get around in Washington and you know that, even though Martin Dies has made a few mistakes, those mistakes have been exploited and exaggerated and that the bulk of his findings are true.
You Can't Look Us in the Eye
THE FACT THAT RUSBIA is our ally is no excuse. We are Russia's ally, too, and before this thing is over we figure to do as much for Russia's incidental bene fit as Russia has been doing incidentally for ours. But you don’t hear of any true believers in the U. 8S, Constitution and the republican form of government boring into the Russian Government, You know what Stalin would do to any true believers in Americanism who tried that. Just Ivan-call-the-guard and rooty-toot-toot and shovel them | under and get on with the war. They don't let anyane mess with their form of government or their established system of economy, but you boys can't look your people in the eye and say vou have been honestly diligent to prevent the Communists and travelers from messing with ours. You boys have ducked this question for fear of being called Redbaiters—sat by and let it happen.
Turn Around Is Fair Play
HOW DOES A fellow identify a Communist if the Communist denies it? I will answer that by asking another. How do the New Deal bureaucrats who are always so broad-minded to fellow-travelers | tify Hitlerites and fascists, Quislings and appeasers? You know the answer. bureaucrats, who ever ran with the Bund or America First is either an unforgivable Hitlerite, fascist, Quisling or appeaser, himself, or so deeply suspected of traitorous sentiments that he might as well be guilty. They recognize no shades or distinctions on that side of the question in Washington, but a man or woman
| spoke their language. did their work and advocated the total abolition of private property, gets a big break. He, or she, and there are plenty of females | of the species holding Government jobs now, is tagged | as just a liberal and a believer in something called | democracy which adds up to Communism. {
| You're the Guilty Ones
RECENTLY THEY BROUGHT in a guy they call a poet and gave him an $8000 job in the so-called Office of Facts and Figures, although he once served | on a committee which worked for the election of Wil- | liam Z. Foster, the Communist candidate for Presi- | dent. He says he isn't a Communist and you just take his word for that. But if someone had worked with | Fritz Kuhn, of the anti-American Bund, would you | take his word that he wasn't a Nazi? Are you telling the people that in all the United States it was im- | postible to find a man for this job, which, of course, is an artificial job, anyway, whose record on Communism was absolutely clean? Well, do it your way, but if this country does get captured from within and your people back home and everywhere come under the terror that Communism ! inflicted on Russia, you will be the guilty ones who | had the right, the power and the duty to bar the
| for lack of patriotism didn't.
Editor's Note: The views expressed be columnists in this newspaper are their own, They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,
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OUT THIS WEEK {is “Mr. Churchill,” a full-scale biography by the distinguished Philip Guedalla, and an excellent one considering that fact that the little bulldog is still very much around making more history. Mr. Guedalla, however, is not very much handicapped when one
, . : has already packed into 67 years Mr. Churchill what would suffice any three ordinary men. He has fought in India, in the Sudan,
in South Africa, in France, served as First Lord of |
the Admiralty, and in between serving in the House of Commans and writing, has held practically every Cabinet post available.
But He Left a Son
MR. GUEDALLA has been meticulously careful to give the proper perspective to his story. He lays the skillful groundwork for Winston Churchill’s entire career—the career of his father,
| most brilliant politicians, the enfant terrible of the Conservative Party. He died at 46. “To Lord Roseberry it seemed that ‘he left behind him no great
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So They Say—
The heritage of liberalism is the most priceless possession of the American people, and the liberal | arts college should regard itseif as the shrine of that heritage for all time—Dr. Eugene G. Bewkes, Colgate University. * * The inborn obedience of the German people, their will for sacrifice, their lack of any revolutionary spirit, and the fear of a new Versailles keep them fighting —Emil Ludwig, German biographer.
Conserve your tires as if they were gold. You may not get any rubber until the war is ended.—Leon Henderson, price administrator. LJ * * ' Unibnism i& harmed if its members are hushed by threats of intimidation or fear, if fair and reasonable criticism is suppressed.—Justice W. T. Collins, New York. Bag 2
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| “YOU HAVEN'T GOT IT IN | YOU TO FIGHT FOR JOB” [By Mrs. Delia Stuart, 2018 Shelby St. Just a word to Patrick C. An|drews, 410 Terrace Ave, in his barber {speech of Jan. 23d. You may have fought for de'mocracy in the last war but you {haven't got it in you to fight for {your own job and wages now so | that you might have a few cents left over and above your bills with which to buy defense stamps to help finance this war we are having now to make it safe for democracy in our own U. S. A, I am not a barber, just a widow and an owner of a barber shop trying to give a barber a job who is willing to hold up for organized labor. 2 2 2 “QUIT RAVING ON SPENDING WE DON'T APPROVE OF” By F. C. McKee, 525 N. Parker Ave. What constitutes our Govern- | ment? It isn't our many fine build|ings as they are only stone, brick, wood or metal, It isn't the titles
of the offices for they have no life, | Our Government is the duly ' elected officials and their appointees who fill these offices. I think we have most wonderful men in charge of affairs of our Government just now and that they are doing a wonderful job of it. When a man maligns his superior officers because they spend some money that doesn’t meet with his approval, I say he isn't a patriot. Mr. A. J. Schneider in the Hoosier Forum on date of Jan. 24th, says, “And I submit that our officials are little better than fifth columnists or saboteurs if they neglect to break off this practice, cause refunds to the Treasury and punish | the offenders.” | Again I quote Mr. A. J. Schneider, (“Most of the defense bond and] stamp purchases by Mr. Averageman will not contribute one bit to(ward the all-out campaign to de-| | feat the Axis powers.” What is this man trying to do? | Trying to discourage the sale of stamps and bonds? Isn't this sabo-
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2 8 ” FAVORS NAMING CAMP TO HONOR CAROLE By Richard Woods, Crawfordsville
In consideration of our entire nation's admiration for Miss Carole Lombard, I sincerely indorse the previously offered suggestions that Indiana's new Army camp near Columbus be named in her memory. Perhaps some form of public movement in this direction could be started through the use of our various state-wide daily publications. Appeals to individual communities through use of their respective local papers should bring forth worthy response. May we hear more suggestions?
» o 8 “LESS TALK—MORE ACTION; FEWER WORDS; BULLETS!” By W. T., Indianapolis We may not have enough planes, tanks or ships, but there's one thing we've plenty of ba-a-aby, and that's talk. Shortage of tin, shortage of rubber, shortage of scrap, but a temendous surplus of words, words, words! Within 48 hours, Chairman Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Secretary of the Navy Knox sounded off in speeches and statements which caused misunderstandings and ill feeling abroad. In neither case, as far as I can see, was comment required. If Secretary Knox will give us a victorious Navy, the country will be eternally grateful to him. It is
{ tage? Or what is it? .... In times like this I think if a man can't say anything good of this country and Government, he had better button his lip. I think the main thing to consider at this time is saving our country from the Axis and not rave
quite enough of a job for a man’s full time. And Senator Connally {will learn, perhaps is learning now, [that foreign relations are not well conducted by offhand nifties {whipped up to please casual inter- | viewers. It is true that we need to be in-
Side Glances=By Galbraith
formed of the purposes, and as far as military necessity permits, of the plans and activities of their government. It is true that discussion and criticism are proper. But the national morale does not depend on a continual stream of talk like a boiler with a stoker underneath. Confidence in officials and in the government will be at least as great if it is known that they are working hard and silently at their jobs as it will if they are making speeghes and issuing statements, It goes right down to the most ordinary of us. The job is here to do. We know what it is and what it means. It won't be speeded up and it may be retarded by continually talking about it. Less talk; more action. words; more bullets.
” ” ” “MAYBE RADIO JUNK CAUSED SOME OF OUR ILLS” By Arthur 8S. Mellinger, 3500 W, 30th St. Many folks will think I am queer for saying that ban on the weather report may be a good thing. In the first place man is as helpless as an ant under your foot in the presence of natural forces, I believe we place too much trust in charts, files, statistics, reports, etc, and our
ability to do things regardless of an Infinite Wisdom. Maybe some of the ills that will
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befall us in the near future were caused by the incessant radio junk
churning the air above us. . . . Back in the old days a lot of the junk you hear on the radio would have been rotten-egged off the stage. They would not dare to say and sing such silly gibberish as you are compelled to listen to on the radio. Let us have some good, wholesome entertainment, produced by real brains, who can put into the background of his mind how much money he is going to get. Men are fighting and dying to make America free and safe so it looks like a lot of good could be done by some selfdisciplining among a lot of so-called radio artists. : ” 8 8 “PENSIONS FOR CONGRESS
DISHONEST, WICKED”
By M. P., Indianapolis Congress is now acting upon a bill that would grant pensions to “retired Congressmen” up to $4000 per vear. As a citizen I feel as do many others that such a gratuity is immoral, dishonest and wicked. It is a recognized fact that many Congressmen and Senators are not even worth their active pay, much less a pension legislated with the view of creating an army of loafers and parasites on the public purse. Therefore, the decent people of America pray for an executive veto when and if this odorous bill comes to his desk. 8 2 8 NEWS FROM RUSSIA
CHANGES IN SIX MONTHS
By P. K.. Indianapolis Six months ago Berlin reported the destruction of the Russian air force and declared that “organized resistance by the enemy has ceased!” In fact, Goebbels stated that it was all over but the triumphal entry into Moscow. Now they are “retreating according to plan.” But the Russians are executing the “plan.”
DUTY When Duty comes a-knocking at your gate, Welcome him in; for if you bid him wait, He will depart only to come once more And bring seven other duties to your door. Edwin Markham
DAILY THOUGHT
Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. —Ephesians 5:6.
| "He says no, he won't even play he's a Jap—he's afraid we smight forget!"
GIVE ALL to love; obey thy h : Waldo Emerson.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 1942
Gen. Johnson Says—
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—0One of the most encouraging things about the Pearl Harbor disaster is the calm, fair and judicial nature of the Roberts report. It contrasts most favorably with Secretary Knox's too generalized havoc-crying that our Army and Navy defenses there were asleep at the switch. It was nowhere near as bad as that, grievous as were the resuts. A careful reading of it discloses that there is no reason for the American people to lose confidence in their land and naval forces. The weight of blame almost exclusively is placed on the military and naval commanders—Admiral Kim= mel and Gen, Short. The Washington headquarters of each service is pretty thoroughly absolved—as is the State Department.
That doesn’t seem to be altogether justified. The only timely information relayed from the intelligence bureaus of those three departments was that a Japanese raiding force was headed south through the China Sea with Guam as a possible objective.
Japs Knew All Groundwork
THE FAULT AT HONOLULU itself was apparently Army and Navy routine during a training period, Scouting patrols have not been sent out on Sunday. The Japanese knew that, as they apparently knew everything they needed to know to do what they did, Even after the raid, and by means of a false report, they managed to give the impression that a Jap airplane carrier had been seen headed southward with a result that what little pursuit that was possible was shunted in the wrong direction. They could not have possibly steamed in to the surprise attack in mass as they did without being almost absolutely assured that there would be no northward patrol that Sunday morning. After all the excuses that can be made have heen given, the fact remains that a commander of any guard at the gates is personally responsible for heing taken by surprise, Especially is he inexcusable unless he can show that he has taken every precaution
| against surprise.
Keep Witch-Hunt Within Bounds
OF COURSE, three great outcries will arise. One will be for a single air-arm department independent of the Army and Navy. Another will be for a sacrie ficial witch-hunt to punish everybody who had any shadowy connection with this disaster, and a third will demand that in every separate joint Army-Navy air problem there he one supreme commander, as Gen. Wavell is in the Indies and Chiang Kai-shek in China.
The latter seems unanswerable and this Hawaiian fiasco goes far to prove it. Single authortiy, coupled with single responsibility, is a military principle as old as war itself. The argument for a single air-force seems to be neither strengthened nor weakened. Such a reorganization in the midst of action is a complex if not an impossible job. It is to be hoped that we can keep our witch-hunts within bounds and that nothing be needlessly done to disturb public confidence in the essential soundness of our armed forces. Some such initial disaster has attended every sude den entry of a hastily-prepared and peaceful nation into major war—ever since history began.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
SO MANY WEIRD things are going on that Wendell Willkie's plea for “The Spartan Life,” broadcast from a banquet table, hardly registered on our sense of humor. However, since we'll soon be forced to meet the club luncheon issue with something more formidable than forks, maybe we'd better talk about it. From years of observation I know that a very large part of the time women spend at club work is given over to planning menus, decorating tables and collecting from delinquents afterward. Banquets, lunchecns, teas; coffees, picnics, church suppers. Every charity, every cause, every cule tural program, must drag along a culinary commite tee. For, although most of them are forever talking about their diets, how the ladies can eat!
Use Funds for Defense Bonds
IT'S EVEN BEEN whispered that you can’t get women to do anything unless you offer them food as a reward for attendance. That is slander. Many serious-minded groups get much done without putting on the nose bag. However, there is enough truth in the charge to make most of us uncome fortable. Certain club functions call for “refreshments,” but in these busy times it looks as if sensible women would be willing to reliefe hostesses, committees and members of these dribbles of energy and expense, We could pool our luncheon money and buy Des fense Bonds for our pet organization.
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duct of another.
Q—What is the lifting power of helium gas? A—The lifting power of one gas in another depends upon the difference in their densities, or the difference in the weights of respective equal volumes under like conditions of temperature and pressure. For instance, at 60 degrees F., and under the average pressure of air at sea level of 14.7 pounds per square inch, 1000 cubic feet of air weighs 76.36 pounds and the same volume of helium weighs 10.54 pounds. Under these conditions of temperature and pressure, 1000 cubic feet of pure helium has a lift in air of 76.36 minus 10.54, or 65.82; that is, each cubic foot has a lift of 0.06582 pound.
Q—What is meant by the term “Old Line Repub licans?” A—The term is used to designate the least pro gressive, that is to say the most conservative meme bers of tlie Republican Party. It is a carry-over from the days when the Whigs were the political conservatives and the most conservative Whigs were called “Old Line Whigs.”
Q—How did Friday, the sixth day of the week, get its name and why is it considered unlucky? A—Friday is named for Freya, the goddess whom Thrym wished to marry. In Anglo-Saxon the day was called Frigedaeg. The Norsemen regarded Friday as the luckiest day of the week, but among Christians it has been regarded as unlucky, as it was the day on which Jesus was crucified. But the belief that Friday is an unlucky day is older than, Christianity, for the ancient Romans and Buddhists' regarded it as a day of bad omen. .
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