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T= pation needs to waken to the full gravity of the peril that confronts it.

: piwough the Near East, to join their armies and resources ‘in an almost unbeatable icombination. It needs to get a ay, once and for all, from the comforting feeling that while vs may lose at the start we are bound to win in the end. “ Only when fully aware of existing perils will the nited States do its utmost. Pray God that awareness will not come too late, as id did in France!

» 8 ” RODUCTION DIRECTOR DONALD “NELSON appeals for vastly increased industrial output on a 24-hour, en-day basis—168 hours a week. Maximum production, - Can we get it? ~~“ Not until we quit thinking in terms of less work for more money. % : Not while there is greater concern about overtime pay “than overtime production. | 5. Not while farmer politicians are more interested in higher prices than raising | more essentials. Not while an army of federal press agents clamors to “promote and perpetuate activities that have no present "need or value.

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a #0 carry on projects which it doesn’t have the men bo perform or the need for — Not while CCC and A stretch greedy hands for : funds to pamper young The) who ought to be in the armed ‘forces or the war plants. | . Not while the life-and-death need for uninterrupted ‘production i is used as a weapon to put over the closed shop. Not while fifth eol ists are pampered and enemy aliens move freely in defense areas. *i Not while the grim job of preparing “our home com‘munities against air raids and sabotage is gummed up with a lot of high-faluting, boon-doggling, social service

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will not get maximum production, in short, unless, first, we fully realize our awful peril; and, Second, get Bre: the gimmes. . . Gimme shorter hours, e higher wages, gimme Digger profits,” gimme ip overtime, gimme less work, gimme more pensions, me greater crop benefits, gimme more appropriations an aig gimme plants for my congressional district, fees and. dues to work for Uncle Sam, gimme h n dgas gimme share-the-wealth, gimme $30 every Th Y. | France had the es, too—had them till the Germans were close to Paris. Then everybody went frantically work—too late. % France has no gimmes y-—except gimme food for 1 ny baby, gimine a place to lay my head, gimme death. Will the United States wake up too late? NAVY'S GAIN | THE news that Paul D. (Tony) Hinkle has been taken by the navy to coach tball at Great Lakes seems to to be recognition of something we've known all along— t Paul Hinkle is one off the great athletic leaders of erica, ’ Paul Hinkle has not only'been Butler uhiversity’ 8 highly successful athletic director and coach. "He has been a good neighbor and a first-class citizen. For a good many years , he has had a wemendol s influence on the young men this community. And the navy is going to find out something else we ow, too. When it comes time fot, him to go home, they're going o miss him as we do now. |

) ONT KNOCK THE BRITISH T is all right to criticise ithe British war effort, as we criticise our own, in an effort to make it all out and ective. But no patriotic American will utter any remarks h breathe dislike or distrust of the British, just as no patriotic Briton will yield to fre temptation to dislike or disrust us. For neither the United States nor Britain has any fue except together. Neither of us is strong enough to go it done. Some Americans do not like this. Some Englishmen fon’t like it. But like it we must. ~ What is this war about except to widen the grea of ity? World organization after the war is needed—but what ce to succeed with such an undertaking unless we have ed to get along with our cousins and allies ? When an American cusses the British or vice versa, tler and Togo smile. |

and steel. So alive if, seems nality ; so graceful, that men use the pronoun “she.” cruiser of the battle fleet,

nize that personality, The U. S. S. Augusta,

now added to that tradition of personality by drawing

will, Naval vessels have bank accounts, representing ts from ‘operation of the ship's service facilities. ris from time to time for improvements and s to t he equipment. The Augusta now directs i in Der

Not while WPA, despite a shortage of labor, seeks

By George Weller

BANDOENG, March 5.—Dejected Java is: still looking to Great Britain and the United

States—for the aid which it had been promised would continue to

.anese invasion, & canvass of mili- . tary opinion behind the lines "revealed today. : The attitude I have encountered among the Dutch here is: “We are perfectly willing to sacrifice if we are

| certain that greater offensive aims are served else-

where. But we consider that the London and Wash-

the South Pacific, still do not fully comprehend what

Pictures of America’s fighting planes adorn Netherlands East Indies magazines and placards beseech-

funds for the defense of Britain strike a paradoxical

American fighter or Spitfire has yet to be seen in the Javanese skies.

What Losing Java Means

officers, too, reason out the results of Java's loss:

which, because of lack of harbors, exposure to aircraft and insufficient local means of feeding an expeditionary force, means a clogged, static position. Maintaining an American front ih northern Australia will be as awkward and expensive as is Britain's quandary in Egypt. 2. Losing Java means giving the Japs control of the naval base of Soerabaja, which is better than any other base nearby, except Jap-held Singapore, and far superior to Darwin, America’s next best.

opportunity for the safe recovery of the Sumatran and Borneo oilfields. 4. Losing Java means empowering Japan to attack

naval forces to block American aid from reaching bs Vladivostok. 5. Losing Java means the removal from the 26nation front of the last small country able to throw an effective rather than a token force into the field.

The Spirit of Retreat—

6. LOSING JAVA MEANS opening the door to the Japs’ Pan-Malayan movement already launched in the Straits settlements, whereby Japan hopes to weld 70,000,000 British and Dutch Malayans ,into a bottomless reserve of manpower for the already foreseen next war in which Japan intends to lead Asia's millions against the European and American hemispheres. 7. Losing Java means deepening in America and other countries that self-defensive spirit which, plus unpreparedness, damaged Britain's continental campaigns and which is seen here—perhaps erroneously— as the chief achievement of .Japan’s surprise attack against the United States. 8. Losing Java means transferring the chief theater of resistance to Burma and India, where the natives vary from apathetic to rebellious. 9. Losing Java means releasing Jap warships now needed for convoy work in the China and Javanese seas, not only for blockades of Rangoon and Vladivostok, but for interference with American convoys to Australia and agitational sinkings off the Pacific coast. 10. Losing Java means that the hard-working United States forces here are given an eventual choice between evacuating, which is unfair to the

" Dutch, and being lost with the island, without either

alernative having been noticeably exploited in other theaters of war,

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Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

“JAPAN MUST RE bombed to defeat.” Airmen, who have emphasized this repeatedly, are amazed that some radio and other commentators now call for it as if it were with what?

You've got to provide the means before the job can be done. war is actually a business -of world-wide scope, involving the entire resources of whole na and their peoples. We're not too late to prepare the only plan by which we can lick Japan. But it m full-out’ warfare on a greater scale than the aggressor nations have conceived. Is there any , political or otherwise, in either England or United States, capable of bringing the military naval groups in both countries to support so but most logical a war strategy? That is the question in the minds of the ordinary people of America and Britain. The deficiency of British and American airpower on all fronts is a devastating self-indictment of those who were charged with responsibility for planning to wage this war successfully.

Complete About Face Necessary

VICTORY DEPENDS ON a full swing around of all the hidebound war plans and the establishment of a spearhead aimed at the heart of Japan. That spearhead must be composed of American airpower, with the other forces of land and sea forming the shaft of the spear. There are vital, pressing questions about the way the war is being run, particularly whether we are going to fumble along with old men and old plans, or whether we shall win with young men and new plans ~—most important of those new plans being a full-out air war, with all other arms of land and sea brought up to date in type and the uses of types. The people aren't complacent about this. The politicians were so complacent about old weapons and the ways of old wars that they laid their chips on battleships and bayonets and minimized the development of airpower—and even now still insist on keeping airpower tied to the apronstrings of land and sea forces.

So They Say—

The persecution of aliens or foreign-born

on the production line and Off the picket line. Wil. liam H. Davis, war labor board chairman.

We are enjoying as large * ol sure of civil liberties as we deserve, and are still , even in wartime, to fight against their abridgement.—The Rev. John Haynes Holmes, American Civil Liberties union

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s| What Java Means

ington leaders, because of their unfamiliarity’ with | Java’s fall means in terms of Japan's future striking |-

ing Indonesian Dutchmen fo. contribute to Spitfire | note in the present situation when the first topflight |.

HERE IS HOW the Dutch, and many American | 1. Losing ‘Java means backing upon Australia-|

3. Losing Java means depriving the allies of an |

Russia where and when she desires and to divert |

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arrive unstintingly after the Jap- | EE.

- . ; The Hoosier Forum : I wholly disagree with what you say, but wil defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“APPEAL TO YOUNG PEOPLE FOR OUR SYMPHONY”

By Royce Stokes, Shortridge student This letter is an appeal to the young people who have enjoyed both in school auditoriums and the theater, the wonderful concerts of our symphony orchestra. We are about to lose that organization of which we are so proud. Boys and girls following us through school would miss something especially fine if they could not attend symphony concerts, We who have had these benefits can do something to save our orchestra. We can send the price of an amusement, or as little as the cost of a soft drink, and if every Indianapolis school boy and girl did that it would help a lot. : ” t J » b “SECURITY PAYMENTS TAKE THREE WEEKS”

By “Just an Old Timer,” Indianapolis A very interesting question is raised by Mrs. A. Spears, “Are older folks supposed to starve?” Oldsters are well taken care of only when they are not of the working class. As workers, the prevailing economic systems relegate them to the scrap heap as soon as their efficiency lags below the possibilities of the younger groups to produce ample: results in production on the assembly line of mass production. As an illustration, a man 65 years of age, above normal physical condition, displaced by a younger man. Application for unemployment compensation to carry him until he can ‘get social security compensation to which he is eligible or possibly- employment at a living wage. Procedures required by Indiana law make it impossible to get his first check until the third or fourth week of unemployment,

and drawing compensation has been lengthened due to the present emergency: So says Everett L. Gardner, employment security division director. It has been demonstrated that a normal healthy person can last from 40 to 45 days without food. But can this oldster last that long]. without food and shelter? If our workers as workers, or as soldiers, or as sailors and marines did not

This “lag” between losing his job

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troversies excluded.

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give more efficient service than Is granted the oldster ijlustrated by the U. 8S. employment service, how long would our American way of life continue to exist? : » 8 ” - “PITY POOR WORKING GIRL WITH MEN FOR BOSSES” By A Hoosier Working Girl Whe Knows, I have read in silence most of the criticism heaped upon the working girl by our notable Mr, Wilson down at Washington. I even go so far as to admit that much of it may be true, and that a great number of female office employees are not worth loafing room.

But I think it is time some one came to the defense of the honest working girl who is trying to do her part and is on the job. Don’t you think the many. girls who arise very early every day and put in from 45 to 60 minutes extra on proper makeup and office attire so they will be as presentable as our ever-critical employers wish us gi are worthy of a little praise? Do you know that most of the men employers of today expect their stengraphers to look like a cross ‘between a debutante and “what the well dressed business woman is wearing” on practically nothing? Working girls do not have housekeepers or laundresses or even personal maids, Most of them care for all their own laundry; and hair and nails and complexion are merely routine daily dozen, to say nothing of repairing hose and cleaning apartment, or room. Even the cosmetics we apply at the office are not free, and nowadays are taxed

highly, I would like to describe a few of these long suffering. employers who so ably criticize the working

girls’ habits, I see them drive up

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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"lit what Mr. Wilson described at

{ By Mrs; L. Holmes, Franklin

forum? I would like to say a few

Jin service is that they are little

‘ lwrong, therefore take their pleasure,

to the office six days a week in a warm car, and walk in at the early hour. of 10:30 to 11 o'clock. They haven't courtesy enough to say “good morning” but go into the|, “inner sanctum” and off with the wraps and up to the desk, hoist the feet to a comfortable desk level, open the morning paper and if the news is bad, which it usually is nowadays, they get crosser and crosser till when the female employee has to approach the inner sanctum for that first bit of business, it is next to getting her head bit off. Does this same employer come to work all neat and fresh and ready for the day's work? He does not. Usually he looks just like the “morning after the night before” only worse. Is he shaven and combed? He is not. He is all whiskered and frowsy and has yesterday’s soiled shirt on and his suit needs pressing and his shoes are not shined. Then between calls and notes and mail and questions, he marches back to the wash room and shaves, then he changes his shirt, and looks at

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his suit and tells Miss Jones to call his cleaner and see if they can’t send his blue suit back, and when| told that it isn’t there, he blows up! and explodes all over the place snd decides to go out and get some breakfast or lunch or a drink. Then by the time the boy gives him a shine and he gets fed and greets some of his cronies and maybe sits around his .club room for an hour, he is ready to rush back to the office and start some rapid-fire dictation and why isn’t this file up to date and where is that so and so contract and get me so and so on the phone and I'm not in to anybody and get me long distance, and oh, yes! ‘those letters must go out today, and this billing simply can’t wait—on and on till half-past three or four at which time he puts on his hat and out he goes. He has no idea how much work he hag left behind for Miss Jones to get done some way after he has gone. . . . And you all know the type of employer who hires his office help with his eyes on her figure, and wisecracks for the first few weeks, and then propositions for the next two, and then looks for a new girl tor the next. m just recalling a few of the ae of the average employer and

Washington has anything on this I want to know it. » » ”

“I WOULD ADVISE GEMMER TO VISIT FT. HARRISON”

Will you please let me on the}

lwords to: Mr. Robert Gemmer of Bloomington. His idea of the boys

boys who are doing something

cigarets and drink. If you please, they neither smoke

or drink very heavy or they could

we who have given our boys for the|

. WASHINGTON, March 5-— The reorganization of the war de= partment high command may not be perfect, but it should please this column, because it is, in many respects, exactly what has been recommended here. There . is nothing . very. - new . about it. The idea of having one’ ground commander for the United States and abolishing the offices of chiefs of infantry, cavalry and

artillery is a leaf taken out of the German book. | ‘The :

old organization made soldiers-and officers “branch conscious” and promoted jealousies and friction.’

Now a man, in whatever branch he serves, is a i

simple soldier of ‘the United States—net primarily a soldier of horse, foot or guns. He has nothing to gain in either pride or promotion in plugging for one branch at the expense of another. . It is “one for all and all for one”~—which is as it should be. Another thing: This change takes from the over= burdened shoulders of the chief of staff, the terrible task of dealing with literally dozens of subordinate commanders of tactical and territorial organizations— not to mention another dozen - supply department. heads and the divisions of the general staff.

Miles of Red Tape

HE HAS ONLY TO DEAL with the ©. O. of troops in the “zone of the interior,” (McNair); the C. O. of ‘the service of ‘supply, (Somervell), and the C. 0. of the army air corps (Arnold). He will still have a small general staff 0 work out particular problems, but nothing like the present hide-bound bureaucracy of T-crossers, I-dotters and comma enthusiasts. Our general staff had completely outlived its usefulness. This move will cut miles of red tape: To move. snaking: Gen: Somervell chief of the service of supply was even more important. We had something like nine separate purchasing bureaus, they bid against each other and competed for transportationi, materials, labor and factory facilities. It has been said that the nearest worldly approach I found that out. We tried something very much like the new domestic 8. O. S. plan in the United States in 1018. I had the unwelcome job of trying to consolidate the hydraheaded system of army purchase and supply. We bullied part of it through—for which I reaped the lasting ill will of several bureau chiefs. In the

main, the larger part of the program couldn't be put over.

Tough Man in a Tough Job

IN FRANCE IT was different. Gen. Pershing set up his own 8. O. 8, and, while it didn’t work at first, he was 3000’ miles away from Washington and bad single authority and responsibility. Gen. Somervell will have to be a tough guy to do a, job. He will also have to have the unwavering support of Secretary Stimson, Undersecretary Pate terson and the president. He is tough enough, and about the farthest removed from being a “yes man” of anybody in Washington. There remains the question of the support of his superiors. I think Gen. Somervell will get this supporf. ‘If he does, no greater forward step could be i i even in the consolidation of land comman . The centering of army air command on Gen. Arnold will not greatly change the existing situation, but such change as it brings is in the right direction. . There is still no new co-ordination of army and navy air forces. In fact nothing in this new. order would of itself have prevented Pear] Harbor. Yet it is all good and there are other changes in prospect equally good. The administration seems to have lost its fear of delegating authority, :

Editor's Note: The views expres by columnists tn this newspaper sre their own. They ip old are not necessarily those

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs, Walter Ferguson

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A LONDON DISPATCH, bringP ing information of a newly organized - men’s defense “league, makes queer reading! right now, However, since our countrymen yell for all the bad news we ‘may as well discuss this, . The organization views with alarm the growing power of women in England and has announced an ambitious program for: post-war fights against fi which its members describe as “a menace to men to fame ily life, and to the very existence ois, to fan rate power, more threatening than Hitlerism itself.” Well, ladies, how does that strike you? Sounds as if the men were really scared of sometliing besides male dictatorship. Or maybe their nerve strain has left them with a bad case of jitters.

From their point of view, there’s plenty to justify their fright. The first world war left Britain with women greatly in the majority. This one will ifte crease their numerical superiority, and as they are given more and more civil and military authority its harder to fancy all. of them going back to mesk domestic roles.

"Shabby and Subversive’

WHILE MULTITUDES WILL be ‘eagér and happy to do so, other multitudes, deprived by the fighting of fathers, husbands, sons and lovers, will become feme

All the same, the organization of the Men's Defense League at this time is a shabby and subversive trick,

out them its industry would languish and its morale decline, for wars are no longer won by men alone.

This is not world-shaking news, but it is 8 straw

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