Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1942 — Page 5

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1 U, ACQURES LINCOLN BOOKS

Valued Oakleaf Collection Contains 8000 Volumes, Many Photographs.

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 12— Purchase of the Oakleaf Collection of Lincolniana was announced today by the University of Indiana.

The collection, started in 1887 by Judge Joseph B. Oakleaf of Moline, Ind, includes 8000 volumes and many photographs, etchings and busts. A special curator will be placed in charge of the collection and it is estimated by W. A. Alexander, university librarian, that two vears will be required to organize and cataiog the material in the collection. Judge Oakleaf died in 1930 and the collection has been sold by his heirs. Three Make Gift Possible Acquisition of the Oakleaf collection was made possible through gifts to the University Foundation by George A. Ball of Muncie, William G. Irwin of Columbus, Ind. and Frank IL. Jones, an alumnus living in New York. Indiana thus becomes the home of two of the five outstanding Lincoln libraries in the nation. The Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. has one of those collections at Ft. Wayne. The other three are those of the Illinois State Historical Society at Springfield, Brown University at Providence, R. I., and the Huntington Library at Pasadena, Cal. Book of Official Tributes

Perhaps the most valuable item in the Oakleaf collection is a volume entitled “Tributes to the Memory of Abraham Lincoln,” published in 1885 under the direction of the State Department. It contains the official tributes paid by foreign nations to Lincoin’s memory at the time of his death. Only five copies of this volume are known to be in existence.

By RICHARD LEWIS

A defense worker got the first 1942 automobile released in Indianapolis this year as the distribution of new models purchased but not delivered before the Government freeze order Jan. 1 began today. He was Oakley Ogg, 1421 Park Ave, who had ordered a sedan Dec. 16. The first car released in Marion County by the Ration Board this morning went to H. Roy Hersey, Red Cross Field Director, at Ft. Harrison. He had ordered the car last July. New car buyers, armed with evidence of their purchases prior to the Jan. 1 deadline, filed into the spacious World War Memorial office of the Ration Board, with their dealers close behind them. Some purchasers had forgotten to bring evidence of their purchase and had to go home for it. One man complained that he had ordered a car early last December over the telephone. He customarily bought a new car every year from a dealer with whom his credit was ace high.

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But he had no proof to show and gave it up with the comment that this was one instance where a good credit rating had been a distinct disadvantage. Mr. Ogg, who works on the night shift as machine shop foreman at the Klieber Engineering Co., said he needed a car for transportation to and from work.

Must Show Evidence

Any other person who can show evidence of a new car purchase before Jan. 1 may apply for a certificate at the Ration Board. When the certificate is issued, the applicant must then present it to his dealer who will release the car to him. The only counties in the State where the new cars will not be released immediately are those beyond the limits of overnight mail deliverjes, Mr. Strickland said.

2 Members Added

Two new members took up their duties with the Marion County Ration Board today. They are Otto J. Feucht, liquidating trustee of the Fletcher American National Bank and the Marmon Motor Car Co., and Alex L. Taggart, Colonial Baking Co. executive. The appointment of the new members by Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall brings the board’s personnel to six. The members will operate in groups of threes, three members present being necessary to do business.

HINT PROSECUTION IN PRIORITY VIOLATIONS

Action on priorities violation cases was expected today following the appearance of 17 witnesses before a special Federal Grand Jury. B. Howard Caughran, U. S. District Attorney, convened the jury a month in advance of the regular spring session. He said a study of

priorities cases was urgent because the Government should strive to prevent future violations. Mr. Caughran indicated that none of the cases presented to the jury

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saying that Germany, Japan and Italy all operate under one party. “Therefore it is essential,” he added, “that every American, rich, poor, Democrat or Republican, male or female shall distinguish between unity under a flag and under an ideal, and unity under a symbol printed at the head of a column on a ballot. “The hope of the world is in the ballot boxes of America.”

Common Citizen Has Duty

“Just as we have conscripted our sons for the grim battle at the front, so must we conscript all those who remain at home—men, women, Republicans, Democrats— for the equally grim battle of the ballot box,” he said. Mr. Kelland explained that “I do not mean venial politics, or cheap, job-seeking partisan politics, but that brand of politics which is the sole means by which the common man can express his patriotism and his vital interest in the welfare of his country. “In a republic, the only way a common citizen can take part in the government of his country is by politics. Politics is the only device by which a comman man can express his citizenship. Politics is the machinery through which the common man may see to it he is properly governed. Politics is the voice by which he may express his will. Politics is the shield and buckler of free men. . :

Politics Held Necessary

“Without politics, this form of government of ours could not exist, and without politics all that mankind has striven and fought and suffered and bled for down the centuries would cease to he. “After a free election, we can and must unite behind the successful candidates. But we cannot have national unity until we have first exercised the inalienable right of the citizen to engage in political disunity.” Americans are fighting a national war, not a party war, the speaker, who is also a distinguished author, declared with emphasis. “When our country went to war, the Republican Party went to war with it exactly as the Republican Party went to war,” he said. The G. O. P. was pledged by its spokesman to do the following for the duration of the conflict: 1. To support vigorously all measures intended to bring “complete, utter conclusive military victory.” 2. To accept nothing short of the military destruction of Germany, Italy and Japan, so that “Nagziism, Fascism and the Japanese brand of militarism will be “eradicated from the face of the earth, utterly and finally.” Gives Reason for War

3. To be alert to denounce any person—Republican or Democrat— who raises a voice in appeasement or for a negotiated peace. 4. To oppose “with every ounce of its intelligence and strength” any action which might spare the Axis powers from “the only sort of defeat that they can comprehend; which is decisive, utter, complete, humiliating defeat in the air, upon the sea and upon the battlefield.” “Why is our country at war?” Mr. Kelland asked. “The answer is simple. The proposition was stated for us by Abraham Lincoln in words which need no correction nor amendment. Neither passage of time nor alterations in the affairs of men make it necessary to change one syllable or letter of his declaration. “We are at war because we are

CHARGES SINGAPORE WAS NOT PREPARED

NEW YORI, Feb. 12 (U. P).— The fall of Singapore and the defeat of its garrison, was foredoomed by the lack of adequate preparations for defense, Cecil Brown, radio reporter declared last night in a broadcast from Sydney, Australia. Mr. Brown's broadcasts from Singapore were banned several weeks ago by the British because they were so critical of alleged laxity and indifference that the authorities deemed them detrimental to civilian morale. Mr. Brown, reporting for Columbia Broadcasting System, was permitted to air his criticism of the Singapore prepara= tions by the Australian censors.

a —————— SEEKS NEWSPAPER'S SALE PORTLAND, Feb. 12 (U. P).~— Fred Jackson of Portland, in a suit filed against the Portland Publishing Co., today sought a receiver's sale of the property and division of money claims against the newspaper enterprise, which he charged was operating at a daily loss.

NEW MAPS PREPARED New 1942 Indiana highway maps will be available for public distribution about March 15, Samuel S. Hadden, Highway Commission chairman, announced today.

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highly resolved that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth.

‘Let’s Not Falter Now’

“Let us look for the meaning of this proposition to which we are dedicated. Let us see’ what it includes. Let us scrutinize it to see if its defense be worth the suffering, the sacrifice, the treasure and the blood that we are expending to defend and preserve it. Let us see if we are justified in sacrificing our sons upon this altar. “We are justified. If we were to falter now, if we were to take our hands from the plow and leave this field until it is furrowed to its remotest corner, then the countless generations which are to follow us; the countless generations of which We are presently the trustees would remember us with loathing and shame. For we would have betrayed them.

“We would have stood in idle cowardice while robbers stole .their precious heritage and left them impoverished of all that makes life worth while for human beings upon this planet.”

What Defense Includes

Mr. Kelland said the proposition that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth, includes the defense of the following: 1. The very fabric of the Ameri-

can republic, the form of government under which citizens can be happy, prosperous serene. 2. The dignity of free men, so that they may be assured freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from the tyranny of despotic government—abroad or at home. 3. The right of private property and “the decent rights of free, private enterprise, without which there can be neither happiness, serenity, prosperity nor that individual initiative which has made the United States of American the model and the envy of the world. 4. The right of opportunity, “which to our youth is the most important of all rights.” 5. The right of every American to live as his father and his grandfather and great-grandfather lived —in peace of mind and comfort of body, “unmolested in his home and in his place of business without improper meddling or coercion or threat from any government abroad or at home.”

Ballot Box Stands Guard

“These are the things that move us to accept gladly a weight of grinding taxes, the temporary regimentation of our lives, the conscription of our sons,” Mr. Kelland said. “For these things we are willing to die. “We can preserve them from the attack of foreign enemies in the trenches; we can preserve them on the home front only in the ballot box.

GOP Constructively Criticize War Effort, Kelland Says:

Declares Hope of World Is in Ballot Boxes of Americans

“We, at home, are the trustees of our sons at the front. When they went out from us to defend us against the onslaught of fascism and naziism, they left behind them in our hands for safe-keeping the Ark of the Covenant of Human Liberties. “It remains for us to preserve it intact and to return it in all its perfection to such of them as come home to us again. So that they may pass it on to their sons, and

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