Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1942 — Page 14

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the People Wai Pia Thow Own Wop

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1083

te SELACENT] MAYRIS CHANEY resigns for the good of the s

We like to think of. that as s perhaps: Bignalizing the

“end of an era.

The: 20s were an era—of Sondertul nonsense, with a Wall street label. The 80s turned into an era of wonderful nonsense, with a government label. The lamb of the 20s was the ulator. The lamb of the ’80s was the taxpayer. Is it too much to hope. that the Chaney affair may symbolize such a shift int the wind as followed the tickertape ade? i . We don’t mean to pick on Miss Clianeys-just because she has seen the light. We admire her for doing the right thing. e ava her well and hope she makes in her profession, ‘which is ‘dancing, not air-raid protection, much more than that $4600 a year she would have got from the ~ federal ayroll. hy can’t overlook the importance of her resignause we believe it may not only symbolize a shift nd, but may set an example. aney incident was needed to stir public sentiment hing the public could easily understand—that you can’t put out a fire bomb with 5 hoondoggle,

no intricate maze of fiscal Earn something tt hit John Q. Public where he lived, in his common sense. : Alias. ® su & has been much talk since Pearl Harbor abot c complacency. We think the complacency runs ie public but to the leadership—and that the Chaney just one straw in a wind that ; is rapidly swelling

Pe 1sions- for congressmen, special draft dispensations for labor leaders and movie actors, less than A-1-A rating r airplanes, p parity-plus for the farm lobby, excessive a for war contractors, time-and-a-half and double time f . goldiers, union limitations on apprentices in desperately needed war production, pork-barrel politics bottlenecking ital appropriations as that for the Soo canal, the die fire, cushy Jobs for sunshine-patriots, NYA as

speciali ts as usual, ‘consultants as usual, racial relations adviser and associate racial relations advisers as Jisual,

you go ahead and. finish the list. ; For you are the public—the allegedly ‘complacent public; ‘the public that is paying the taxes and sending its - sons to the camps or to parts unknown; the public that is buying bonds and knitting . socks and giving to the Red * Cross, | d closing down its rubber-tire businesses and its

- gas stations and its electric and refrigerator shops, and

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sales: branches, and not squawking about it, yet, sad just wondering and worrying in the gloom of fe news, from the sea, on the land, and in the air,

tif complacent once, before Dec. 7, not Somplaseqt

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we like the comment by Rep. Hatton Sumners of Texas, |

one of the real statesmen of our time, on the transformation that’s taking place: “When I looked upon this light, frivolous people, this people who seemed to want to be bottle-fed, and rocked to sleep in the arms of a great federal bureaucracy, I knew ~ stich a people could not win.” | But, he continues, “I have seen these audiences under challenge, of their own accord, thrust aside their soft, unfit personalities and stand forth the finest thing I have ever looked upon in my life—a nation reborn under the challenge of responsibility and of duty. | “The American people want to do this job. They have the stuff in them to do it if we (the leaders) will only do our part, tell them the truth, forget our political fortunes, cast away ambition . , . and substitute for it a deep yearning . . , that we may be fit, faithful servants of a great people, ‘governing in a great democracy, a no master save the god of their adoration.”

THE SON OF H - --

_ HJERR-GOEEBELS latest propaganda makes the pagan st ‘Wotan a first. cousin of the Jap sun god. Next og Step is to rechristen Adolf Hirohitler.

Ly 4 shipload- of Americas: supplies left for Vichy, | En , during the last week of January. 2 ‘British broadcast reports that “Vice Premier” Dar- £ France has agreed to sud two shiploads of supplies

nless a-fairly clear definition ism m erican policy. foward France since we ‘entered the war

r policy can scarcely be what it was before Dec. 7 are going to begin to wonder what's going on here. N France; maybe iomething that cannot even be used to substitute for

Maybe it’s all baby-food that is

wat beng ent Rommel. Maybe there is a good an-

j Out the American people to know what it ia? |

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The Auto Crisis

By ‘Peter Edson

the automobile

“location ‘of indus= | iy St any the‘ sip on Hi his davnw: Jreha ut Ameria L Bes of Jobs by 200000 or more Ji

automobile factory workers, while} the plants are retooling, 4s tem=|-

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“perhaps ‘better jobs in war plants:

The real blow comes below.the

level, hitting the 40,000 or wire ‘dealers with their- 500,000 employees, ‘establishments, the 96,000 other retail outlets—only a few of which will be able to keep going in & business run on & rationing basis. ee a mame

From this bomtha: otbies begin to sprog Nine out of 10 dealers and thelr employees may “have to find other work.

Their troubles are passed on fo the’ e - automobile

ese landlords ts must find

operators who hold the leases of déalers who ‘go out of business. must find new tenants. The te ways to terminate any long-term are included in this business, too

New Field May Open Up BANK OR INSURANCE companies holding any mortgages on the rented properties face a loss of interest while the premises are vacan Banks holding commercial paper from the 1 may have to look to their collateral for settlement if they avoid heavy losses. Finance companies which carried the car owner during the purchase period will collect their last installments and then have to look tlsevhery to invest their money. Ohe new field may open up Hote the finencing of used car purchases. There is a possibility of some turnover and some new business in the used car market, though what may happen here hasn’t developed clearly. Owners of old used cars may create a buyers’ demand for better used cars just to acquire better tires. If that happens, watch first for p ceilings for used cars as well as new, and watch next for rationing of used cars. Yes, it’s possible. may have to get permission to buy a second-hand jallopy. Youll’ have to prove you need it. So, until restrictions are put on the used car market, there is the possibility that the finance companies, which once scorned a loan for used car purchase, may get into the second-hand car business. :

it Means $250,000,000 Less Taxes

YOUR CHAIN OF consequences leads next into the fields of taxation. Last year, Congress Jasee 8 a ‘whole new flock- of automobile taxes, figuring this source of revenue would yleld another $245 million to help pay war costs. But all these taxes were calculated on normal car use. With production of motor vehicles channeled into war, these taxes are cut way down. Furthermore, state sn local automobile tax collections face a drop. The total of all automobile taxes, federal and local, has been estimated by the SE Automobile Association at $800 million a

y rhe net indicated loss of auto and gas taxes for next year is: about $250 million. This means that $250 million in war taxes will have to be raised some place else. : Drop in auto - taxation, drop in automobile use means also a decline in state funds for highway maintenance since most, of: the money. wa nl comes from ‘gasoline taxes and lcetise fees.

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the roads you are used to. (Mr. Pegler did not write # » golumn for today.)

e eo U. S. Aviation By Maj. Al Williams / I HAVE NEVER underestimited the Japs or any other accual or potential spponent. Beyond tuestion Japan has brave and capable soldiers, sailors and airmen. Needless to say, we have faith in our own American fighting blood—sound faith, based on its record in other wars and this one. Why, then, have the Allied forces lost so much ground? Because flesh and blood cannot stand up against overwhelming machine superiority. Reports that trickle through show that British, American and Dutch pilots are taking heavy toll of the Jap air forces—when the planes are of comparable performance. Man for man in the air, there is no doubt at all’ that American pilots are far superior to Jap airmen. Seasoned American pilots have been bringing us that story each week since the war in the Pacific began. The Jap.pilot is brave and skillful, but he just can’t hold a candle to the competently trained American air fighting man.

Licked by Our Own Planes .

. THE PHENOMENAL SWEEP of Japanese forces through the Philippines, Malaya and the Dutch East Indies is due to their numerical superiority. British army forces in Malaya were swept off that peninsula by the n rical superiority of the Jap air forces.

Japan's airpower dominated that combat zone.

Singapore's defenses were obsolete, with a lot of |

giant anti-warship guns pointing seaward—built for a type of war that never came. *We predicted that the British high command would never understand

the necessity for supplying’ adegaute ‘airpower for |.

Singapore’s’ defense.

- The-RAF at Singapore {ried to offset the full | power of the Jap air drive with obsolete planes—

some of them tagged obsolete six to eight years ago. The best RAF pilot, in an outmoded fighter or a training plane, can't successfully combat two or more Japs in modern heavy gunned fighters. That's

2 Loo save 8 ste savy gusied Sepinis, Tutte East.

The British were licked in Malaya, not by Jap

plans, but by the British planes that were kept ir Three hundred ‘Spitfires could have turned the |

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“MORE POWER 10 JENNINGS AND A ROPE FOR YOU” By Emma Thurman, Terre Haute About the issue being brought out by Mr. John K. Jennings on a church directory. You cast a critical eye toward that. Would it ever occur to you that in spite of all this new employment therg still remains a number of people who for different reasons can not go into private industry? What disposition would your newspaper people decide for them? Poor house, I sup«

Po power to Mr. Jennings and a rope for your neck. . Bo» no» “THIRD OF VOTERS DISTRUST BOTH DOMINANT PARTIES” By\W. H. Edwards, Spefcer

quite a different kind of story at his Lihcoln day address in Indianapolis, mixing some self-evident - tmuths with a whole lot of political fiction, as is usually done by political bigwigs. It is true that we, as a united

nation must support our war ef-

forts: without stint, for only in that way can we hope to maintain our form of independent government. Nor do we disagree with Kelland’s statement thab criticism of the administration should be free. But

tinuing the dominance of the two-|to party system. } Mr. Kelland and other bigwigs of both parties fail to recognize that about one-third of the voters have learned to distrust both. the dominant parties; that distrust has grown into disgust, because both are strictly under the control of what is usually known as Wall Street, . .. Neither Mr. Kelland nor any Republican speaker dares to quote .all of the homespun truths enunciated by Lincoln, because to do so would show how far the Republican party has drifted away from the precepts enunciated by that honest Abe. Lip service spoken in honor of Lincoln seems like sacrilege when we recall some of the truths spoken by such a man as Lincoln. Here is one of them quoted verbatim: : “As a result of war, corporations

we do disagree with ides of con-|littl

*fpburned up.” ‘The hypocrisy of patriotism at the very top of our government! Forty-six hundred dollars a year will do. far more good in contributing to the multitude of needs for our boys in service (and heaven knows (their sacrifice is indeed great) than for the child safe at home who can do myriads of other forms of exercise for recreation, for health building and for acquiring grace and poise. A large number of these are taught in the schools and within reach of each and every child, not only those of parents who can afford to give their own children dancing; to which group no doubt, Mrs. Roosevelt's protege will cater. I for one think this appointment, and other appointments as asinine, should be reconsidered, when at a time as this it is a, sacrifice for every ftrue-hearted American to RESCUER OF TWO BOYS |finance “the”. war, without £iBy Louise Weed, 2508 N. Alabama. st. | D8NCINg dancing instructors. I wish to call to the attention . "8 of the public a generous and mag-| CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VIEW nificent Whigh has been done|gN WAR IS CLARIFIED

0 ys drownit # in By ©. Ayres, Christain Scie C Frank OC. y cience ComFall Creek: upon the late afternoon mittee on Publication for the State of

of Feb. 14th were rescued by a Pass-| y.gians, Indianapolis tanga So wave then po” aria] SOs wrong impressions hae rothey had gone. down twice sulted from a recent item in your oy ‘* ** paper under the heading, “ChrisWe who saw it cannot well make tian Scientists Form Fellowship of e of it. . .. We all have need|pgesifists,” and need. correction. to be glad that such generosity still| que Christian Science denomination is not oppesed to participation in war or self-defense regardless of ces or. situations, and as & general rule Christian Scientists individually are not conscientious objectors or pacifists. If any few Christian Scientists have formed & Pasifist Fellowship, such organization would have no connection with the Christian Science Church. For a person to be exempt from combatant training and service, he must -be conscientiously opposed to, participation in war in any form} by reason of religious training and belief as distinguished from membership in a particular church or denomination. To state that his objection is based on his adherence to the Christian Science Church would be a misrepresentation, since: this Church does not

fim readers are invited express their views in . columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your. letters short, so all can . have a chance. Letters must

be signed.) have been enthroned and an (era of corruption in high places will follow; the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign until all wealth is concentrated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.” . .. Realism thou becomes a myth when faced with bitter political struggles for front place at the political ple counter! -

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in the face of danger to another, » » 8 “HYPOCRISY OF PATRIOTISM : AT THE VERY TOP!” By Mrs. 8. J. Burieh, B. B. 10, Box 125 About a week ago it was my privelege and duty to aid in soliciting funds for the Red Cross in the suburban districts. I was very deeply touched by the spirit of giving when I solicited three homes in my given section, where the mothers “robbed” the children’s banks to contribute. To me that was true sacrifice and the genuine spirit of giving for National Defense—then, when I read of Mrs. velt’s being instrumental in placing her dancer pv.

tege into a $4600 a year job, “I 8 is include in its tenets any statement

Side Glances=By Galbraith gS

~|on which such objection could be “| based. When Mary Baker Eddy, the dis-

a ship=builder, d portunity to see what that m the war. Too frequently it wi

it's a Pretty Loose Term

THE LATTER IS a pretty loose term. It would include a good many racketeering “labor leaders” like Willie Bioff, who is now behind the bars. Labor leade ership is generally supposed to be an elective office and in the great democracy of labér, there is no “top” man until you gel pretty well up toward the nae tional organization. If there are “top” men locally their conduct frequently would bear inspection. : The. number of ‘man-hours lost in war produce tion, many of them in “jurisdictional disputes” in which the employer is not even a party, is a positive disgrace. Could any “labor leader” engaged in one of these be regarcled as necessary in the successful prosecution of the war? " I am reliably informed that in Eeypt and China there are upward of 500 crated American planes that have been there for weeks bdt on account of a strike in a propellor plant, have no propellors and won't have any for many more weeks. It is common knowledge that many strikes, slow= ing up whole production lines, have been craftily pulled in some department, small in itself, but so placed in the line of production that iv ties up one and sometimes many great plants.

Only One Right Rule!

YOU MAY THINK that this is well over or on the wane. Remember how shortly after the joyous get-together meeting of A. F. of L.-and C. 1. O. leaders with the President, Phillip Murray came forth with his direction to all his unions to demand $l a day extra wage and other concessions not now generally granted. That means a big new struggle if if is pursued. Furthermore, if C. I. O. wins in that fight, A. F. of L. will have to take it up and be as successful or fade out.- Together they claim about 10,000,000 members or counting 250 working days, $2,500,000,000 a year. Is that, and what will go with it, aiding the successful prosecution of the war?” One wonders what MacArthur's men will think about such things when they hear of this new draft deferment order. One wonders what the country will think about them when those long black boxes draped in red, white and blue bunting at first just to trickle home, rising in an inc g flood to tens of thousands. There is one right rule: “Keep political and special interests away . from the machinery of the Selective Service.”

A Woman's Viewpoint:

| By Mes Walter Ferguson

I'M LOOKING AT the Far Bast ¢ situation, and it seems to me Con« kt gress should be occupied with more Ef iniporfant business than a bill to create a Woman's Auxiliary Army Corps. If women were really patriotic, I think they would forget that idea and get to work at something they already know how to do. This country is ving & to create a great fighting Army and Navy and to produce implements of war. in unlimited quantities. We have tremendous manpower, but mil. lions of our boys are still The importan the immediate task is to get em ready to t, an the | technique of modern fighting is not learned a If this conflict runs into years, as’ it may, we shall have to call, equip, and teach many oy Obviously, then, this is not the moment for women to barge in demanding military recognition. It smacks of showoff stuff, and Mrs, John ‘Whitehurst, president of the General 'Pederation, called the turn when she deplored this feminine tendency to meddle and boss,

They Behave Like Children

FIGHTING WITH ARMS is not the business of women. They add nothing to their value as citizens or as women by setting themselves into the military effort when such behavior can only retard its progress, To speak plainly, that seems to be what several groups now have in mind. They are eager to help, but they behave like children who annoy busy mothe ” Pi begging for household chores beyond their In a way, ¢very citizen is now a soldier, and a

V1 good soldier does the task allotted to him, If he has

| intelligent officers, that task will be one for which he is best fitted and trained. His job, whatever it may be, is important to the success of the whole war effort and he knows it. Why can’t we take the hint, remembering that we are women and that our feminine contribution to the country is exactly as important as any contribue tion made by men? There's been enough flirtation

between Congress and women’s groups. It should go

out along with boondoggling. . Editor's Note; The views expressed by newspaper are their own, They are not

columnists iri this necessarily those

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