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ERE MAC ARTHUR BE NGS { 7ENDELL WILLKIE thinks we should bring Gen. Mac|Arthur home and put. him in supreme command of y, Navy and air. ! ~ But—if the impending shake-up in British organization occurs—why not Gen. MacArthur for supreme command where the actual, and most critical, fighting is g0i ing n? e, of course, don’t know whether Gen, Wavel! is on the shake-up list. But if so, and {if Gen. MacArthur is available, he might be the genius who could turn the tide in the southwest Pacific. This war has arrived at a stage where high strategy and oratory in Washington and London definitely: are not providing “what it takes.” F8rthermore, we don’t believe ‘Gen. MacArthur would willingly pull out of Bataan for any administrative post. He is a natural-born fighter—the soldier son of a soldier.

# # » GFX. . MAC ARTHUR is of the until-hell-freeze-over breed. e wouldn't leave his men and fellow-officers in the Philippines unless the new assignment was as dangerous as. the one he now pursues—and more important, e has proved himself to be the greatest underdog fighter of this, the toughest of all'wars. If put in Wavell’s place he might accomplish the impossible, attain the thing that ” ‘can’t be done.” And if you need further proof that’ this is one of the rare soldiers of all history, just cast your eyes (over the record of the Rainbow Division which he commanded in World War 1. The situation in the Dutch East Indies is of the same desperate nature today as that in Bataan.—only, now, of larger size. If ‘this master warrior is to be used elsewhere than in the Philippines he should be placed where his inspiring > leadership will count most. And that’s where there is shot and = not blueprints and carbon copies,

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BOUQUET FOR DRAFT MACHINE

N that the new draft sign-up is over; and a lot of us | re carrying neat new registration cards, maybe it’s time for a word of praise. e mean for the unpaid volunteers who wisde the registration process so efficient. The job of the draft and their many registration-day assistants is neither ~ soft nor exciting. ‘The work is mostly drudgery. But with very | oF: exceptions it has been performed: in a businesslike gs way. owes 5 vote of thanks to these citizens

RNIA—AN OTHER PEARL HARBOR? '‘O hell with habeas corpus until the danger is past,” writes Westbrook Pegler, about what he sees as a Pearl Harbor peril today on the Pacific Coast. He refers particularly tp an investigation made by Walter Lippmann that vues the possibility of an uprising of Japs within California, timed toa Japanese attack by sea and air, ““To hell with habeas corpus” is strong language, even in wartime, in a’ country fighting to preserve just that sort of thing. ~~ But we don’t think Pegler has gone Hysterical. On the contrary we believe that habeas corpus and.the rest of the Bill of Rights can be preserved only by taking adequate military steps to guard against a Pearl Harbor repeti- ~ tion on the Pacific mainland. e think that danger should be turned over to the ry, just as the military took charge in 1906 after the quake hit San Francisco.

earth : # » g » » 8 THE Pacific Coast is on edge. Warnings pour in, from "the Mexican border to Alaska 1t’s a time for taking no . chances. I We believe that decla¥ing the southern part of Cali- . fornip, if not the whole coast, a “zone of military operations” woul nt be going too far. But it’s a job for the military, ~ not for the chambers of commerce. uch a coup, from within and without, as Sispiann egler think possible could mean the capture or destruction of the oil for our whole Pacific fleet, of supplies ‘fom Hawaii and beyond, “of the vast airplane plants, the -aqueducts, the water reservoirs, the pipe lines—all the intricate fabric on which not only the coast depends, but our whole Pacific position, erefore, we urge—play safe. If martial law is the price, so be it. We aren't playing ping pong. . Let what is necegsary be done in order that it not be, for all time, “to hell with habeas corpus,” but that habeas corpus and our Siher civil liberties may finally be preserved.

KA’S BURMA ROAD | | 0 is holding up the international Alaskan highway, which is 80 essential to defense of our exposed st? ; verybody is for it, but nothing happens. Even the War Department, which blocked it for years with red tape and indifference, at last wants action. Gov. Gruening, Alaskan Delegate Dimond, and the State Department have been pressing for it. The international joint commission, after ‘making many surveys and amassing much data for four years, hss recommended it. The President is in favor, But the whole project is tied up in ‘a cabinet committee. Just what Secretaries kes, Knox and Stimson to investigate about a plan that I already been pro ‘almost to death, is hard to ey are busy with other matters,

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Fair Enoug By Westbrook Pegler

CHICAGO, Feb, 17.—~The rivalries of The Chicago Tribune on one hand and The Chicago Daily News and Marshall Field's new

mayor, . the state's attorney, or

activities inevitably create obligations which newspapers are freer without: > The Tribune, under R. R. McCormick, has been fiercely anti-New Deal.ever. since the NRA, and was

is still anti-New Deal, but has accepted the war with grace and vigor but without shirking its duty to criticize incompetence, venality, mistakes or Misreprosentations by officials of the Government. :

You Can't Embarrass R. R.

McCormick is not embarrassed or deterred. He is a

of anyone and, although he has actually Been accused of treason by his opponents, it is ridiculous to think that a man so independent and self-sufficient could be tempted to sabotage the American war in a hope that out of defeat he might arise like a Quisling, a Darlan or a Petain. He is a very patriotic man and he held the view that this country should arm mightily and not scatter its weapons as fast as they were made along the battle lines of Britain and Russia. ° Frank Knox, who operates The Daily News, an evening paper, is a Chicagoan by adoption and his

Harbor or not long before. But on the subject of war, he shared President Roosevelt's view of inevitability and so left his paper, where his inyestment is, to join up as Secretary of the Navy, So naturally during the America First campaign, the party got very rough and McCormick was called an appeaser and Knox and his co-believers were called warmongers.

‘It Is the Darndest Town' :

MARSHALL FIELD HAD bad luck. He is a kiver-to-kiver New Dealer but a new personality and without much force. When he started his Sun he had a beautiful issue, for he was invading The Tribune’s monopoly of the morning field as a supporter of the President’s war policy, or, as The Tribune called it, interventionism. Then, the Japanese blasted his issue out of existence, for McCormick immediately bowed to the fact of war and there was no question of isolationism vs. interventionism any: more.

up a full-size, first-class paper with character, out of ingredients. He followed the standard American pattern, which calls off a certain number of comics, columns and so forth but newspapers develop character, good or bad, by growth, as people do and here was The Sun, attempting to be adult the day it was born. As g straight New Deal paper, The Sun probably will get some political favors from the Administration and it obviously is trying to needle McCormick into recognizing it as a rival or critic. But McCor-~

olities, mistakes and some of the policies of the Government and The Sun keeps yelling “Hey, I called you a louse, Why don’t you call me something?” This fuss is altogether too noisy and nasty and the people might some day tell themselves that after

lathers and dissension just because they are competing for business. But it has always been that way in Chicago. It is the darndest town.

U.S. Aviation

By Mai. Al Williams

AIRMEN WHO KNOW how the Army and Navy work predicted emphatically, and correctly, that Col. Muhlenberg—the Air

Harbor (in part) by; “You can’t ship your airplanés abroad and have them at Pearl Harbor, too” ~would not be roughly handled by the pseudo court martial investigating his statement, i # He might have crashed a lot of political and military careers if he had been prodded into talking. Likewise, there will be no further disciplinary action against Admiral Kimmel and Gen. Short, who were the commandants at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th, Both of these officers have refused public comment. Goad them into defending themselves against further punishment and they might say Plenty—and political heads would roll in Washington. The usual political strategy in such cases 1s to fix the blame publicly—and then let the matter sift ous of sight in the sands of time. The services object to “washing service linen in public,” ‘and the poli-

forget.

The Normandie Incident—

THERE'S GOING TO be a row about the destruction of the Normandie at her New York dock. This disaster has already been tagged “the Pearl Harbor of New York.” The Normandie's loss amounts to many times that of a straight, out-and-out cargo or troop-earrying vessel of equal tonnage. She could

might have swung the scales of victory.

dicated by the fact that two to four such deadly roosts for Jap airpower accounted for all the damage done ab rl Harbor.

property as the Normandie is to appoint a board of

that there was carelessness and failure to take elementary precautions against fire, or that unauthorized persons could enter the big ship as she lay at the pier undergoing conversion to war uses. Someone—perhaps a good many Someonss~—should be punished.

So They Say

In times of peace, lawyers are officers of the court,

but in times of war they yrAleImey ‘General Francis

New York, * 5. Bill nay saneiey. oy Sen. vi pommit Sutike Tuptey and ruin so long 8s men, materials, snd energy are available. Men frst,” or second .—8taart Qhase, eSpopiial, in 3. aiuy wink

“They always try to control the

sorts of public spectacles and their political and other | extra-curricular

just as angrily isolationist down to Pearl Harbor. He |.

THIS IS A very difficult situation to be in, but | strong, obdurate man, who takes very little counsel

paper, too, was vigorously anti-New Deal until Pearl |

Silliman Evans, a Texas politician and reporter. who opportunized himself into some very good spots under the New Deal, was given the task of whipping:

mick just ignores it and keeps blasting away at friv-:

all newspapers are for news and have no right to make ! ‘or break governments or whip them unnecessarily into

Corps officer who explained Pearl

ticians try to forget in the hope that the public will”

have been converted into an aircraft carrier which

The value of an aircraft carrier these days is in-

e Navy routine in the case of such loss of Navy | inquiry to fix the blame. There is no possible doubt |

e officers of the Bats i

We can't have Stivoione women coming in with Lady Bountiful attitudes, or sob sisters who do ‘nothing but feel sorry for the patients.—Mrs. Edmond |" - Butler, director of volunteers, i. Vincent's Hospital,

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend? to the death your right to say #.—Voltaire.

‘NUTS! NUTS! NUTS! TO DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE!” By. Ed Bayless Jr. 428 Guilford Ave. Let us all take: time to pay fribute to our Department of Agriculture for the important contribution that they have made toward National Defense. We read in The Times of Feb. 12 that as a result of the Department’s tireless labor in measuring 4,698 women, they arrived at

the astounding conclusion that the

chassis of the average American fe-

‘male is “dumpy.”

My, how we gheuld admire the fortitude, initiative and perserverance of the individuals who compiled this report. In spite of war, rationing problems, rising prices, defense, heck and high water, these people visualized the necessity for accomplishing’ this task and they rolled up their sleeves and did it. So, fellow Americans, let us all shout three cheers for the Department of Agriculture to express our appreciation for their inspirational report. “Nuts, Nuts, Nuts.” # » 8.

|“PRESENT CHAOS EVIDENCE

OF MANAGERS’ FAILURE” | By H. W. Daacke, 736 8. Noble Si. A century or more ago when the machine was just breaking through its shell, ownership and management of business largely coincided. Even: labor often fused with these two. But prbsint day technology and the coming of large scale enterprise introduced an enormous complexity into that simple relation and it ‘became essential to obtain capital from large numbers of investors, distribution had to be arranged through various channels, so, in order to bring these elements together, professional management was born. During normal times and conditions this relation sufficed, but ‘when the stress of 1929 entered into the picture, in spite of all these socalled rare managerial abilities, described by one writer as amounting to. genjus, the mantle fell and the present, chaos .and uncertainty are positive. evidence of complete Milure of this group. And we, in spite of all this evi-

ers, which reaches far beyond the

(T imes readers are invited - to. express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters. short, so all can have a chance, Letters must be signed.)

dence, the gentleman from Attica still maintains that one good manager is worth more than a million wage workers. Laboring, as he is under the assumption that when I said labor I was merely referring to & small segment-of that group, wage workers. I am wondering which would be the greatest castastrophe to our nation, if 50 millions of workers or only 50 professional managerf, should pass on to the happy hunting grounds. Assuming, of course, that all the 50 managers are good managers. If the gentleman from Attica will refer to Abraham Lincoln’s biography, especially his opinions on the relationship of capital and labor, he will soon find his error when he refers to it as “merely a variation of an ancient Socialist gag.” As further proof of the failure of present day management comes a new bid for power, not by the rank and file, but by the so-called lead-

sphere of labor relations and into that of management. "~~ Philip Murray, speaking on his plans of Industry «Councils, before a recent convention made this promise to his followers: “It gives labor forthright administrative responsibility on each board from. the bottom right up to the top.” So I presume you will say, just another variation, etc. What will stop it? We as a nation have just about solved the problem of production but the unjust system of distribution of the products of labor, the system you so loudly proclaim, is responsible for this chaos and insecurity. Twenty-four million labor days lost through Sikes, whieh is only

Side Glances —By Galbraith.

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10 per cent of similar days lost through accidents and only five per cent lost through. sickness. : CW “LET OUR BOYS REST: IN PEACE OVER THERE” By Rith Wellman, 1022 Charles St. Why don’t people stop capitalizing on the slogan, “Remember Pearl Harbor?” It's the graveyard of thousands of our sailors, but there are pins, emblems, stickers, etc. on the market that aré making money from the. tragedy. Those of us who lost loved ones in Pearl Harbor will remember it always in. our hearts, and the true American does not have to be goaded into buying defense bonds and stamps. Let's remember the important thing is to win this war, so let our boys rest in peace over there.

2 8&8 =» “DOES FARMER COME AND DEMAND HALF YOUR DINNER?”

By Voice In The Crowd, Indianapolis I wish to assure Mr, Daacke that I did not ask him to think, I also did not argue with him. I merely pointed out to those who may have read his article that there

amount of wealth produced annually and the national income as stated im dollars that have turned several times, partly in nonproductive directions, Now so far as the higher professions being productive is concernid, I maintain that a high percentage of them perform valuable service to mankind, but I have never seen an educator, a lawyer, doctor, srtist, musician or politician ever produce anything that the socialists crave to divide. Their choice is to serve and not produce. ; Of those who ‘produce, .there is only one who can carry the produietion process to completion from the toil .and the soil to a commodity sold to a consumer. That is the farmer. He cannot keep all that he produces because he has to pay

made by others. If he has to pay high prices in an unbalanced economy he has a shrinkage in his real income. If the farmer cannot “keep all,” how can any one else expect to do it? There is one thing that can be said of the American farmer. After he has sold to you the com-

brawn, he dces not come to your table and demand half of your dinner claiming that he by his labor produced it. 16 is sbourd to the: limit to ask what would happen if all “labor” “mental and physical would quit work flat.” Five thousand yeurs ago man knew that he must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. When we cease to know that basic

weakest of body and mind woul

the fallacy of idealism. : One-third of our populatis works. That leaves some of t women, the children and the aged Tho doy, 50 3 Ak you wi. ae the most important links in an OY rare Wy Ie by Ev each other,

DAILY THOUGHT

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy deor, pray to thy Father whieh is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall re-

ward thee openly.—Matthew 6.0.

is a vast difference between the|

fact, we will all start to starve. The| .

MA) bt 1s was inthe Jate-Gothie styl, and

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Ww dell Willkie wants to bring = TA > bring Doug ; /in sole command of our whole _ armed forces, under the President, The trouble with that is that

no msn ever walked on two legs La

who was big enough for that job, | Our greatest misfortune now is |

that the President tried it too long, = As Mr. Willkie suggests, war = means the nation in arms—every vy human occupation mobilized for the “single purpose | | of victory.” That alone. in a great industrial country | | Is a task 50 huge as to be almost deyond the limits |

of human vision. Yet it is increasingly the greatest |

| essential to victory.

A supreme military commander is dependent upon | it, but it is also a civilian function and no man is big enough to undertake both. It meshes in closely with military operations which have themselves grown so great that a single commander for Arm¥; Navy and Air Corps operating clear round the globe cannot undertake intelligently to difeet them.

The 19.18 Formula and 1942

CUTTING THIS FIELD forces alone based on this from New Zealand to iis omens ak. you territory for less than a supe We learned all these Siperan in 1918, and disreSarde Shela in I. Fel it is: (strange how the foree 0 cumstance owly taking us stra the old model. i ight i basknea For the mobilization of industry we had a Wap Industries Hoard composed of about an equal number of soldiers and civilian experts. Mr. Nelson's WPB is not quite that yet, but it has moved miles toward it and is moving closer. » For the fighting forces in the field, the so-called “zone” of orlerations, we had one supreme commander, Gen, Pershing, reporting to the President. That surely a big enough job for one man to tackle, , while it did not work out to perfection always, there is little to criticize about the general result.

We Have the Right Men THAT 18} THE KIND of job for a a man like Mace

to the military » but operating "have too much

- Arthur—{freed from the aggravating, time-consuming

of two other jobs, equally without precedent in size and responsibility, In between the great American base and arsenal and the troops on the firing line was the great serve ice of supply, commanded by Gen. Harbord. That was another load off Pershing’s back. All he had to do was to plan and to fight. Finally, there was the great assembling ground of the armies at home, place of training, procurement of troops, their organization and transport, the rela tionships between the War Industries Board, the military anc other services and all the work-a-day routine and excellent housekeeping, needed to create; munition and transport, the rapidly. forming new divisions. This “zorie of the interior” was the job of Gen, Peyton C. March. That, to. one who has been through the mill at least, seems to be the ideal organization for our task ahead. It is not the job of a kibitzer to be suggesting personnel but we have a good start—Marshall and Nelson where they are, MacArthur for supreme field command and Somervell for “zone of the interior.” Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this

newspaper arp their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indiavapolis Times,

This and That

By Pefér Edson

A : . ! - WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Civil © aeronautics administration student pilots have flown six million miles

for each fatality, causing reduc- 87 tion of their insurance rates from

$35 to $4.90 for a $3000 policy. . Democratic party women are being , given a study ‘program on “wine hing the peace.” . .. Five billion "cigars are produced in the United States annually, as against 122 billion cigarets, but cigar industry, with 50,000 wage earners, provides nearly twice as many jobs as cigaret industry. . .. One: Vashington teachers’ college has started a course on ‘fo entér-

tain childreri in an air raid shelter, . . , To relieve

Washington's traffic congestion, a proposal has been made to prevent any auto carrying fewer than three passengers from entering the downtown areas. . , . One swank hotel in Washington has started a private bus line to haul its patrons to the capitol and other government buildings.

A Few Farming Notes

FIVE MAIN FACTORS are tending to reduce available farm labor supply; the drain by war ine dustries, Army enlistments and selective service, higher wages of urban employment, undirected movement of migrant farm ‘labor, ‘and the greater labor demard of the expanded national agricultural program, . . . To overcome those factors, many une tapped labor supply areas such as the mounjsin areas will have to be invaded by additional farm eme ployment ofiices, ., . . High school and college students, women by the thousands, may have to be rounded up at harvest time to help take off the crops. . . . Farm. ers are being asked by U. 8S. t Service to list their labor requirements early and give dated so migrant labor forces can be moved on to later crops. . No real farm laber shortage is indicated yet, but

farm owners may have to compete. with increased industrial wage levels, modity produced by his brain and| $

. + « Every effort will be made to meet farm labor requirements without importing

‘labor gangs from Mexico as was dae in the Tost war.

ages

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