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Give Light and the People Willi Find Thetr Own Wap

TUESDAY, MARCH 24 1942

| SCRIPPS = NOWARD |

MR. NELSON SAID IT

O those who have any lingering hope that this war can |

profit or | continued their harassing tactics throughout the dif-

be used to promote certain social, political, selfish gains for one group-—we com- | mend serious consideration of the courageous speech by Donald Nelson yesterday before a conference of C. I. O. officials. It represented a program for an offensive on the home | front just as important as any campaign which Gen. MacArthur or the army and navy staffs can draft for the fight- | ing fronts. “I am interested these days in just one thing—getting | the most war production we can possibly get, and getting | it in the shortest space of time,” Mr. Nelson said. TT" further this single life-and-death offensive, he warned: | ‘We are setting up these joint committees of man- | agement and labor to get more and faster production—and | for no other purpose. | “Those committees aren't being set up to put labor into management or to put management into labor; they aren't there to foster company unions, and they aren't there to help anv union's organizing campaign, either. They had one job and only one—to make sure that everything that | can be done to get 100 per cent war production is done now.” | If Mr. Nelson means what he says—and we believe he does: and if we will carry out what he sayvs—and he has the authority to do so—his words should put a stop to the pulling and hauling, the bitterness and suspicions, which have hampered war production.

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ABOR has been suspicious that management wants to | ® use the war to take away some of its gains and weaken | its organization. “Now I know that are people in this country,” says Mr. Nelson, “who would like to use this war situation to whittle down labor's rights and privileges. “As long as I have anvthing to do with it, the war production job is not going to be used that way. ... [ will | not be a part of any attempt to use our need for increased production as a cloak to put anything over on labor.” That's plain talk which ought to allay union fears, “We're going to see to it that nobody pushes you around,” Mr. Nelson continued, “but we're going to see to it that labor doesn’t push anyone around, either. “Our job is to win this war as fast as we can, without held up either by a few selfish employers who are | over-anxious about protecting their profits or position, or by a few blind labor leaders who put personal, partisan | ambitions above the common good and preach a false isolationism.” “We're all in this war together,” Mr. “If any of us lose our freedom. all of us Upon that strategy and program, campaign on the home front.

there

being

Nelson concluded. lose it.” America can win | its « |

ALLIED BICKERING

HE growing dispute between England and Australia over the Pacific war effort has been allowed to drift too far. No American with any sense would want his government to get mixed up in such a family disagreement. But, unfortunately, the United State aught in the middle. The dispute is over direct Australian representation on a southwestern Pacific war council in Washington, to which England objects, and over the apportionment of American supplies to competing allied fronts. While Mr. Churchill has also refused to set up an imperial war cabinet with dominion representation, like that of the last war, he has appointed Mr. Casey, the Australian minister in Washington, as the Cairo member of the United Kingdom war cabinet. Mr. Curtin objects to this as a runaround, and because it weakens his Washington representation. The dispute is so serious that Mr. Curtin has rushed the Australian minister for external affairs. Dr. Evatt, to Washington to insist that President Roosevelt create an allied southwestern Pacific war council with Australia “on an equal footing.” And Gen. MacArthur, who was made supreme commander at Australia’s request, now must negotiate with London to determine whether that crucial area shall have “a really unified command,” according to press dispatches. Surely it is not too much to hope for an immediate end of this bickering.

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NYA RECRUITING

HE more we hear about the National Youth Administration, the more positively we feel that it ought to be abolished. Not cut down, or reformed. or given a new name or new boss. Abolished. A Pittsburgh dispatch reports that NYA, in its zeal to corral boys and girls for its earn-while-vou-learn classes in defense training, has sent high-pressure sales letters to midyear graduates of the high schools, including sons of the very well-to-do. It appears that NYA doesn’t care whether a boy already has a job, or whether he is rich or poor. Its interest | seems to be primarily in signing them up, and the fewer questions asked the better. The same training that NYA offers is available in the regular vocational schools—although, to be sure, without | the attraction of pay checks from Washington. And there | is much evidence that these schools do a better job of in- | struction than NYA. NYA is a relic of the era of unemployment. Our present emergency is a horse of a different color. And there is no proper place in the war effort for an agency

employed nor needy.

| slavia and split it up between Italy, Germany,

{ of Germany's most important

i and to

| solution for the Italians,

move against Kragivevac, | viteh's territory | according to the accounts, were executed

1 200.000 persons,

i once wrote in admiration of the Chetniks,

March Slav!

By David M. Nichol

WASHINGTON, March 24 Somewhere in the mountain fast nesses of Yugoslavia a weakly powered portable transmitter whispered an appeal that said: “In the name of God, send us the help we so urgently need.” It came from the headquarters of one of the little-known heroes of the war, a colonel when the Nazis smashed into his country a vear ago, a former professor and diplomat, Draja Mikhailovitch, who never stopped fighting and has built a shadowy army that now actually controls large sections of his country in the face of German, Italian and Bulgarian occupy - ing forces, Only the most tenuous connections can be maine tained with the armies that fight on in the Serbian mountains, but from reports received here they have

it seems, by the guns and ammu-

The Chetnik folklore includes the saying that “when the forest turns green there'll be many more to join.” Suggestions of a “spring offensive” are not limited to Hitler but extend to this “third front”

i in the Balkans.

One of the Costliest Errors

THE NAZIS’ forces that hammered into Hungary, two “independent” kingdoms and a Serbian “general-government,” apparently underestimated the | importance of mopping up what was left of the Yugoslav army after its leaders had capitulated. It has proved a costly error. Mikhailovitech obtained the permission of Premier Dusan Simovitch to reorganize these remnants and carry on. For more than two months very little was heard of his activities, It was a period of “consolidation” uncovering the caches of guns and ammunition and oil in the West Moravia river district in the heart of Serbia, where his control had never

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| been questioned

By mid-summer the forays began. The railroad, one links with Sofia and with the Greek port of Salonika, was repeatedly broken. German garrisons were wiped out, their stores destroyed.

In Bosnia and Herzogovina, where the Ustacht carried their bloodthirstiest massacres of Serbs and Jews to their awfullest limits, the swiftly striking armies of Gen. Mikhailovitch began to appear. Not long ago there was action in the vicinity of Brod, almost to the Hungarian border.

'They Are Accustomed to Die’

A TRICKLE OF SUPPLIES was reaching the Chetniks along the Dalmation coast, so the Italians found it necessary to take away the occupation of | this area from their newly created Croatian allies | take over themselves the islands and the | valley behind the Dinaric alps. It was not a happy | They have felt the Shing | slashing forces regularly ever since,

of the general's

| until their occupation of Montenegro is confined to |

a few principal cities like Cetinje. The axis’ unavailing efforts to stamp out the guerrilla army have included terrible reprisals. Delayed |, reports reaching here only last week told of a Nazi in the heart of Mikhailo- | last November, when 4000 persons, In all Yugoslavia the death toll has now exceeded | Yugoslavian sources say. But Gen. Mikhailovitch and his little-known army have extended their operations rather than restricted them. “rhey are accustomed to die,” a Croatian poet |

“And when the forests turn green—"

Copvright, 1842. bv The Indianapoll a gmes and The Chicago Daily News In

Westbrook Pegler is on Vacation

The Tired Men

By Gen. Hugh S. Johnson

WASHINGTON, March 24-— One reason for some of the confusion, caterwauling and mutual heel-biting at Washington is becoming very apparent Some of the big shots have wearied and worried their nerves into frayed ends. Part of this is because there have been so many lightning changes in responsibilities and authority without warning and with more changes threatened every minute. Part of it is due to faulty organization, uncertainty of authority and poor selection of subordinates Most of all this boils down to a single cause-—men attempting to do too much in too few hours with too little competent assistance These ambitious gents have run themselves ragged. They are breaking down physically and nervously. Between fits of exaltation and dips into despair, they Just aren't normal Mr. B. M. Baruch recalled to my mind something that I had forgotten. With a couple of brilliant exceptions, the men of the 1918 war industries board were all well under 50 years of age. Mr. Baruch was 45. The present writer was 33.

How Mr. Roosevelt Does It

THE PRECEDING year of trial and error and ‘ery brilliant ones—

IN cut-and-try,

. had been forced by medical advice to give up and g0 i home.

The exceptions were organizational experts with unusual qualities of endurance who knew how to

| divest themselves of detail

Today the president is an example of another Kind of gifted character who can stand the gaff. He once said to me: “During my waking, working hours, I give the best I have in me and neglect as little as possible. When time comes for rest and sleep, I can reflect that I could not have done better if I had it all to do over again, except for hindsight which simply does not come at the same time as the problem nothing left for me but to close my eyes and I do it and am asleep. I have no time for worry.” His mother once confirmed this to me in similar words. It is a rare quality. Not one man in 10,000 has it. These are the reasons why so many men in important jobs in the emergency war organization are fretful,

very

| irritable. don't get their work done and also why there |

1s so much back-biting and lack of co-operation.

The views expressed by columnists in this They are not necessarily those

Editer’s Note: newspaper are their own. of The Indianapolis Times.

So They Say—

Rubber has become a symbol of the struggle in the Far East. There is no Justification for using the sit-

, uation in the Pacific as an opportunity to make un- , warranted profits.—Leon Henderson. which so blatantly seeks to justify an unjustifiable exist- | fa 4

ence by pressing its bounties on boys who are neither un- |

The primary purpose of is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and I

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RTS SA RA

TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1942

“Thunder-Stealer!’

i Day,”

|and Ernie Pvle's

There is |

my coming to Australia |

I wholly disagree with what you say

The Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

, but will

"MRS. ROOSEVELT'S MY DAY IS WONDERFUL”

By Mrs,

(Times readers are invited

to express their views in

Ruth Uland, Mrs. Roosevelt, your rescue, I sincerely wish that W. E. Rosen, V. B. Paul, C. W. Wainwright will ie notice, I think Mrs. Roosevelt's “My Day” column is swell. I never miss it. C. W. Wainwright calls it “‘dis-| |graceful boondogele.” Where do you| think vou get off, bud? After all| We can all profit greatly by heeding! iots of people read The Times and| before it is too late. are very much interested in “My| We Americans especially the women a of all my friends like it, in fact it|sold out by a ncble mancolumn are my Wanted peace and fought for it, bus { favorites of the paper Slovakia fell to the Nazis and And just a word to Mrs Rr Neville Chamberlain died, a broken Strance of Coal City 1 oid man. a martyr to the cause of

1343 Lexington ave.

here I come to these columns, religious con-

troversies excluded. Make

| your letters short, so all can

have a chance. Letters must

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cannot go the

wav one who

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{girls in camp to entertain the boys| the peace he tried to preserve and

went | could not were! Think of Joan de vou! France, the Maginot line, think they should ever have their|nable—bosh! It was all so far away minds on anything but war? Let! from Indianapolis. But here in the them dance and have fun while! heart of the Hoosier state we're in they may. {war to the hilt and still we won't | believe it when we read it in the papers!

is wonderful. After all they out with girls when they

home, didn't they? Don't impreg-

® » “PROFIT BY HEEDING BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE" ks AErRS By Margaret Stearns Reese, Thompson rd “TH ST. EAST OF POST RD. Thank you, sir, for the splendid |IN DEPLORABLE STATE" editorials; print them on your front! By E. D, page more often. | I have heard a lot of talk about | If all America could halt in this the return to the good old horse | mad rush just long enough to! jand buggy days, but I didn’t think | realize how late it that there [the Marion county commissioners 1S no more time to lose in idle would take it so seriously just vet. wandering around. Realize, fellow! However, one Only has to take a! Americans, what this war means look at some of the county roads not if we win—but if we should {, gee just how seriously they have lose! taken it. The condition of 25th st, There are those among us who east of Post road is in such a deactually bray in public places that 'plorable state of mud that only =a they, or their husbands, are! horse has a chance of getting] hauling down” the fattest payv-!through. Poeple have ruined cars checks they've ever made. Read and tires in a desperate effort to these editorials—try to realize that get to work. Some of us have been | fine boys are making the supreme forced to move to town for sacrifice every hour of the day and’ duration of the mud. ‘night somewhere for the cause of, The puny excuses given peace and aemocracy-—yet some of commissioners for failure

Ind'anapolis

is,

us think in terms of bridge and something will hardly satisfy the!

matched silver foxes. Such editorials are highiy criticized as and rightly, we can thank God for our jobs on Monday. one editor with enough intestinal Children are forced to wade to! fortitude to realize how critical this Post road to meet the school bus| situation is for the allied nations.| which, before the mud, came down

people forced to endure such congoing to be ditions. After the rain and snow inflammatory,

Side Glances=By Galbraith

1942 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REQ. U. 8. 3-24

"His wife would never let him out at night until he got to be an

flesh—-the Czechs were!

Arc and of!

the |

Sunday many of us failed to get to]

[25th st. Our mail service is tem[porarily halted. | { Since most of us are not cowboys, | we hope that the commissioners | (will take the hint and fix 25th st. and all others like it. » ” on "THESE BABUSHKAS! |8 THAT WHAT WE FIGHT FOR?"

By Comrade Triple X, Indianapolis I rise to protest! Hear me! O ye jmen! Give heed to a lone prole- | tariat! A protest to vox populi or! the wastebasket! Did I come into this world to be | assailed on every glance with the! (sight of these babushkas? Am I a vassal or a seal that my gaze shall be cluttered up with the sight of these exotic colored scarves to distract my attention and dis-' Jturb my equanimity? Is this what we are fighting for? A world filled with babushkas? Did

our forefathers fight for this broad!

land to be littered up with scarves) s0 that we look like the peasants of | the Soviet Union? No I say! Our forefathers used the bandana and the handkerchief |for the nose and properly folded for baby's trousers or pants. But this-—and more to come. I say arise ve men! keeps up, let us wear our shirts outside cur trousers and our belts on [the outside. If necessary let us get caps like Uncle Joe Stalin and (finally, if desperate, let us quit {Shaving

Let us rise in amger and suppress |

this thing before it overwhelms us! Ld ” » “BOND MONEY WILL HELP PAUL'S FOLLIES OF '42”

And if this|

By Complacent, Indianapolis In your editorial in yesterday's!

| Times, “It's Still Hay” you wonder |

how the are going to fare any better ordinators of Rosie,” “Drop | “Post Office.” ferred to Mr. | from the OCD. | Well, Paul is a native Hoosier and | we Hoosiers are going to have a! Bond Sunday shortly when hun-| dreds of thousands of dollars will | be subscribed. No doubt a nice | [slice of this money we patriotically | subscribe will go to pay for Paul's | new troop putting on the Follies! of Forty-two. They should get it while the getiting is good because ‘sometime, somewhere, some editor lor commentator will arouse the | people to the extent that they will! | demand that the money subscribed | { for defense shall be used for that | | purpose oy

taxpayers now that the co- | Ring Around the the Handkerchief,” | etc. have been trans- | McNutt's agency

no doubt |

“YOUR EDITORIAL EXAMPLE {OF PLAIN HEARSAY” | By Mrs. Miller, 633 F. 10th st. My opinion of the WPA is brief. | {T highly praise it and what it stands | for. | A member of my family who has! been working with the educational! {department of the WPA for five | | years is a cripple and was unable to {obtain a job elsewhere. She has an | |A. B. degree and has taught in sev-| eral states, but no one wants a crip- | ple, you see. She, like many others, is most grateful for Roosevelt's WPA and the people who degrade it are! ones who don't know one solitary | fact about the good it does. It is too bad we have people who | repeat hearsay and don't abide by their own ears and eyes, mainly. Your highly commended editorial, | “Wake Up, It's Late,” is an example | of what I mean by hearsay. |

DAILY THOUGHT

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how | frail I am.—Psalms 39:4,

AMID TWO seas, on one small point of land, wearied, uncertain,

‘gir raid warden."

and amazed we stand —Prior.

| learned now

Russian Rubber

By A. T. Steele

MOSCOW, March 24 —A Ruse sian breed of the humble dandelion is helping the Soviet Union solve its problem of rubber supply. Rubber obtained from this source is making a very important contri. bution to the wartime economy of the U. 8, 8S. R. Most of Russia's rubber is produced synthetically, but the dane delion is the second biggest source. With practically all outside sources of rubber cut off by the war in the Pacific, the agricultural program for 1942 envisages a 250 per cent increase in the area sown to this industrial crop in the interior districts of Russia. There is scarcely a region of the Soviet Union which will not produce some quantity of dandelion rubber this year. This rubber-bearing variety of dandelion has been known to the world of science for only 10 vears. It was found by a Russian, developed in Russia and its production is a virtual Russian monopoly. It goes by the formidable scientific name of “taraxacum koke saghys rodin,” but everywhere in the Soviet Union it is called simply “koksaghys.” Though modest in yield, it has the immense virtue—not possessed by other rubber-producing plants—of being able to withe stand’ severe climates,

Discovered Plant in '32

IN 1932 A collective farmer, Sprivachenko. and a young companion, Bukanevitch, set out in a search of central Asia for some plant which would reduce or remove Russia's dependence upon outside sources for its rubber supply. On the slopes of Tienshan, that snow-crested mountain rampart which cuts across the frontier of Russian Turkestan and China, they discovered a type of dandelion with a thick root sate urated with a sticky, rubberlike fluid They brought it to Moscow where botanist, Rodin, pronounced their find a completely new member of the dandelion family, with a rubber content vastly higher than any of its relatives. The plant now bears Rodin’'s name. Soviet specialists immediately began experimenting with koksaghys. They improved it, worked out methods for cultivating it on a larger scale and devised equipment for extracting its rubber content. It was not until 1937 that the planting of koke saghys assumed a wide scope. Since then the gova ernment has given maximum encouragement and financial help to cultivating the largest possible acre age with rubber-bearing dandelions,

Lives at 40 Below Zero IN OUTWARD APPEARANCE koksaghys 1s very

the Soviet

| similar to the dandelion that grows wild in the vacant | lots of American cities.

It has the same yellow flow. ers, the same fluffy seed custers, and a leaf which differs only slightly. Rubber is found in the skin and pulp of the root. The root is dried in the sun and the

| rubber then extracted by a chemical process.

According to Georgi Pavlov, anization and agro-technical administration. of the Soviet commissariat of agriculture, cultivated koksaghys roots, after drying, contain 7 to 9 per cent rubber, As the dandelion is a perennial, its roots are usually not harvested until the second year when the rubber yield is 30 to 40 per cent higher than if harvested the first year. Pavlov said that a yield of 200 | bounds of rubber extract from one acre of koksaghys is considered a good crop. The dandelion rubber, he declared, tropical rubber in quality, but synthetic product. Koksaghys can be grown in any climate other varieties of dandelion thrive and can stand temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero. This means that it can be cultivated in almost all regions of the Soviet Union. When I inquired whether quantities of Russian seed could be made available for experimental purs poses in the United States, Pavlov said that he thought so. Copyright,

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1842 bv The Indianapolis mes and The Chicago Daily News, In

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

FOR MEN IT is ro longer business and politics as usual; and for women, glamour-as-usual is equally outmoded. Perhaps it's just as well for the women, as for the country, Our growing reliance on the artie fices of beauty had caused a noticeable neglect of its basic ege sentials. Before the war a good many women thought too much about their looks and too little about their liberties. They were occupied almost exclusively with things of the body and the intellect, and not at all with the things of the heart and the

| spirit.

Words in the feminine vocabulary had acquired strange new meanings. ‘Permanent,’ for Instance, as applied to one’s hair-do, soon seemed quite as apt when applied to one's marriage. A six-months exe periment with the same husband was enough to set a woman up as an authority on matrimonial bliss or woe, while the wastrels and drabs of both sexes got the cream of newspaper and radio publicity.

Diet Fads on Way Out

THEN ALONG CAME Colin Kelly and everything was changed. The bridge table and the cocktail lounge are no longer a feminine universe. The days

| allotted us are precious and not to be used for the | sole purpose of indulging our whims and desires. The

word sacrifice signifies something more than sticking to a diet.

In fact, diet fads are on the way out. Women with empty stomachs and emaciated frames aren't any help to Uncle Sam and I doubt not that worke scarred hands will shortly be considered more heale tiful than white ones with painted nails.

In the coming months we shall have less time and, I hope, less inclination for nonessentials, Perhaps when the end of the war period is here we will have much satisfaction ean be had in come | plete forgetfulness of self while working for others, Maybe we'll discover a fundamental truth—that sace rifice is neither hardship nor tragedy, but a short cut to happiness. I have never thought American women were .s0fte ies, although at timés our behavior has been dise | couraging and we nave showed a sad lack of common sense and vision. But in emergencies we can always be depended on to do our part. The daughters of the republic are as patriotic as its sons.

‘Questions and Answers

(The Indianapolis Times Service Bureau will answer any question of fact or information, not involving extensive ree search. Write your question clearly. sign name and address, inclose a three-cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice cannot be given. Address The Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth St.. Washington D. C.)

Q—When did the United States purchase Alaska from Russia and what was paid?

A—It was purchased in 1867 for $7,200,000; less

| than 2 cents an acre.

Q—Compared to a new tire how much rubber is used to retread a tire? A—About fourteen pounds of rubber is used in a new tire and retreading takes about five pounds, the major part .of which is reclaimed rubber. ;