Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1942 — Page 12
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Give LAGE and the Peopte Will Fina Their Oion Way
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942
WE WANT NO BUNDLES AJ E’VE said a lot about the “gimme” spirit which threatens our war efforts and the spending in non-defense
activities of millions needed to put men and weapons on the |
fighting fronts,
Meanwhile, in our own business—newspaper publishing |
—a new “gimme” drive has been developing.
Various newspapers, publishers’ associations and trade | publications are urging our government to follow the | British and Canadian example by using paid advertising |
to further the war efforts. They are heartened by a recent department of commerce publication telling how the British government is
today the biggest advertiser in the English press, account. | [ol "0 8 COs of outlying islands and promon- | |
| tories, manned by these young men.
ing for 17 per cent of its total advertising. “A similar proportion of last year's advertising in the United States would mean a fund of approximately $340,000,000 for advertising essential war needs,” said the government publication. Now, that isn’t chicken feed. It's mighty tempting to an advertising salesman who has seen much business killed | by the restriction or elimination of autos, gasoline, new houses, refrigerators, washing machines and | other once important advertising items, = » * * » NEVERTHELESS, we hope our government will resist | = thiz drive by some publishers, and that the news. | papers won't get themselves into the gimme group. This is a time to cut the vast overflow of checks to recipients of governmental bounty—not to increase it. If such ads are placed, we'll take them, because it isn’t an American business habit to turn down a dollar that some competitor will accept. Just the same, we hope they won't | be placed. For one thing, we don’t believe $340,000.000 would | cover the annual bill in a country with thousands of newspapers, big, little and medium, metropolitan, suburban, rural and community, daily, semi-weekly and weekly, And make sure of it, if the government goes into the | business of war advertising, it will have to take care of | the whole caboodle of them. No paper will willingly be | slighted—and no congressman will turn a deaf ear to any demand from his district. You'd soon have a new form of bounty and patronage —government ads in thousands of papers—and every alert salesman clamoring for more. Each bureau, observing some other bureau telling its story in paid space, would demand funds to do likewise. All to buy something the newspapers are now furnishing without cost as a service to their country and their readers—something as part of their traditional heritage, they should furnish.
» RITISH papers have been independent and often highly critical of their government, even though it is their | best customer. We believe most American papers would | maintain equal standards, But, in a country which has seen relief and WPA and crop benefits flagrantly exploited in politics, you can easily imagine what some congressmen and bureaucrats would try to do if they had vast sums to be spent in or withhold from the papers. Thig expenditure would create suspicion and distrust. Every newspaper demand for government economy would draw satirical references to advertising subsidies. We who kidded so freely about “Bundles for Congress” © In no position to ask bundles from congress. So far as we are concerned, we want no part in the appeal for government advertising.
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STRAIGHT TALK (GEORGE KUHN, president of the Chamber of Commerce, was not only speaking from the shoulder yesterday, he was telling Indianapolis citizens some truths they ought to listen to. And. having listened, prepare to act. Hig exposition of the sewer problem-—which is a disgraceful situation—deserves to be repeated: “I grant you that the building of a sewer does not offer much opportunity for engraving the names of members of a public board or engineer on stones, where all may read and marvel at the foresight and ability of those who had passed on before, Yet, if we fail, we may be the instrument of causing of names to be engraved on memorial stones before their
time™ Mr. Kuhn's condemnation of “horse-car government” | deserves the intelligent and intensive study of every citizen. | The chamber’s president attacked “such things as contin. uing antiquated township boundary lines . . . such things as costly street improvements that lead nowhere and do not fit into any master traffic plan . . | such things as keeping public offices overloaded with unnecessary employees to pay political debts.” It is straight talk—and heartening talk. If the execution of Mr. Kuhn's plan of attack for the | Chamber of Commerce is as good as the presentation, we may start moving toward the correction of all these evils.
ty, 3 cents a copy; deliv- | ed by carrier, 12 cents | =, sage still lingers in the minds of |
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| which arose
The Last Sentry
‘By George Weller | | Mareh 25-=—Java’s last faint mes-
those able, by luck or providence, to slip through the Japanese eordon of eruisers, submarines, de-
inter-island Dutch freighter earrying me and a naval demolition party which had destroyed Soerabaja. {t was the last vessel to escape from Java.
youths, westernized in dress and speech, whom the Dutch used to carry the burden of fighting fires after air raids, swecoring the wounded, sounding alarms, enforcing blackout restrictions, delivering messages and doing everything else which required quick, intelligent action and a self-sacrificing spivit, They were impressionable, ‘teen-age youths, eager to serve tong hours and rusthul that the British and Dutch leaders would protect them. Nany such Eurasian Andy Hardys had passed what | corresponds to American college entrance examina tions and in Java and Sumatra a liberal Dutch policy sent many such young men to Holland for | advanced study and, provided they had even a touch of Dutch blood, gave them full citizenship.
Faithful at Lonely Posts
JAVA, SUMATRA, Celebes and Borneo weie covs | ered by a network of air raid listening posts, mostly
PERTH, Western Australia, |
stroyvers and aireraft carriers which | surrounded the island. The mes- | sage was heard aboard the little |
The message Was sent by one of these Malayan |
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942
Bihoculars in hand, they would stand upon look. | § out, watching Jap planes from Kendari, Balikpapan, |
Macassay, Bandjermasin,
Palembang and Bali con |
centrate upon their home island. Mn scores of lonely |
peared, they transmitted the height, distance and direction of the fight, enabling American fighters to meet the attack.
| outposts, with only a little knapsack of foed beside | / | them, in camouflaged huts, they waited by their J | automatic radio. When Jap bombers and fighters ap-
the handful of HM
The dialogue which our freighters radio feebly |
| picked up was between one of the three chief Dutch | air-raid warning headquarters and a youth who was
sitting in a beach hut direetly at the point where the Japs were making one of their supplementary landings after the frst triple invasion.
'| Cannot Escape!’
HERE'S HOW the interchange went “I see enemy transports with troops getting into barges off shore. What shall I do?” “Remain at your post. Continue sending details.”
“Many barges are now approaching shore. I have |
no revolver. What shall I do?” “Remain at your post. Continue sending.” “The Japs have begun firing at my hut. I can
| not escape.”
The dialogue ended there. Whether the young
| man, who remained at hiz post like Herculaeneum’s | | famous sentry, until the end came, wag killed or | captured, was not revealed.
Force One of the Requirements
BUT THE QUERY is being raised here, what will happen to 5000000 such youths after the Japanese take over the responsibilities which the English and Dutch have been forced to surrender. Unless the
| United States can promptly begin political as well
as belligerent activity in the south Pacific, conse-
| quences far more serious than the present situation |
lie ahead America’s liberal policy in the Philippines, although plentiful in weaknesses, possesses the only political program suitable for supplementing, with armed protection, the liberal and moral principles which alone can match the “naw order.” Force must go hand in hand with deep-laid political revisions, Only a power able to renew the confidence shaken by the British and Dutch setbacks can challenge Japan great pan-Malayan program by offering equivalent security with greater freedom. Copyright hh The ARI net and The
India’s Formula By William Philip Simms
Westbrook Pegler is on Vacation
WASHINGTON, March 25. Great Britain may offer some kind of “immediate” seltf-govern-ment to India aiong the lines followed by the United granting independence Philippines Indian leaders are clamoring for immediate freedom from Britain as the price of their all-out aid against the axis. At the height of this erisis, Sir Stafford Cripps Delhi with an offer of some sort,
to the
has arrived in
While the nature of the offer remains a secret, both | ! he and the cabinet at London apparently hope and | | believe it will be accepted
To be acceptable to both the British and the In-
| diang, however, it will have to be different from any- { thing previous, and will require considerable give and |
take on both sides. Churchill has already pledged
| dominion status “after the war” a pledge the native | They say that Britain has
leaders refuse to accept
| been making the same kind of promise for a long | time. | some clear-cut, categorical action.
What they must have now, they conclude, is
Pointing Way to Compromise
THE SITUATION. between The U
therefore, is not the United States and
Philippines 8 had promised the Filipinos
independence as soon as they were ready for self |
government. Now, they said, they wére ready.
So congress voted them “immediate” independence. | That is, they were given the status of a self-govern- | ing commonwealth, For their own good, however, |
and with their full co-operation and consent, a 10-
| year period or transition was provided by the act to
cushion the inevitable economic shock following the cutting of all ties. But a definite date was set. On July 4, 1946, the Philippines would become a full-fledged republic. The parallel between India today and the Philippines then is widely remarked here. Thus the U. S.-Philippine formula would seem to
| point the way toward a possible compromise in India,
DIP
JELL, we read in a Cleveland paper to the extent of | about 400 words of a new dance step called the “Mac- | Arthur Dip." Our Lake Erie war correspondent informs us | that: “Although nearly as fundamentally simple as the Lambeth Walk, this new dance has a characteristic MacArthur dash and vigor. It is not hard to imagine that you are
pivoting, an amusing bit of business that used to be called the “Jazz step,’ followed by a gay game of ‘patty-cake’ on vour partner's hands, a spinning airplane hop on the right foot, and winding up with a brisk military salute.” Hold your fire, MacArthur, that noise isn't Jap plane It's just a bunch patent leather patriots
Pack nol reinforcing
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‘So They Say—
We may have to take a little drubbing when the |
battle of Australia starts, but we are not going to lose
h . . s A | this country.—Lieut. Gen. George H. Brett. nearing the beat of an airplane propeller. The three phases | ey
are highlighted by side two-steps, dips, some limber hip- |
The willingness to help meet the war cost now, and
raised on the government's credit, implies a clear understanding by the public of the fact that inflation would follow any other course. —Henry H. Heimann, executive mansger, National Association of Credit Men,
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ls This War?
By Thomas L. Stokes
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WASHINGTON, March For produciion of synthetic quie nine the United States finds iizelf in a dilemma, due to a patent monopoly involving German cons tracts, similar to that which held up production of synthetie nibs ber because of agreements be= tween Standard Oil of New Jersey and the same giant German dye trust, the I, G. Farben Industrie, ; This situation suddenly has become important, for the U. 8 got its quinine, like its rubber, from the Duteh East Indies, Japanese
| conquest has shut off shipments of both.
Quinine is essential in treatment of malaria, and s0 is a eritical war material. It now develops that there ix only one plant in this country for production of synthetic quinine, and that company refuses to permit use of its patents by others for development of an American synthetie quinine industry, though American pharmaceutical companies are ready to enter the business,
President Cannot Move In
THIS PLANT belongs to the Winthrop Chemiocal Co. of Delaware, a subsidiary of Sterling Products, Ine, which was forced by the justice department in a consent decree a few months ago to break cone tracts with the German dye trust. These contracts provided for restrictive use of patents, price-fixing and division of the world's markets. Experts in the justice department's anti-trust division, who had dug up the evidence and analyzed
| it, eriticized the consent decree at the time as not | sufficiently tight. ' be borne out by the control exereized over gyntheatig | quinine patents by Winthrop
Their contention now seems to
The president, through the alien preperty cuss
| todian, ean seize foreign-owned patents, but these
ostensibly belong te an American company, There
J | fore, at least thus far, the refusal of the company | to permit their use ig sticking.
{| Enter Tommy the Cork
THE JUSTICE department investigation of Steps
| ling Products disclosed that 50 per cent of Winthrop
Bd Stock wag owned by General Aniline and Film, a | holding company controlled by the German trust,
I wholly defend to
The Hoosier Forum
disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Veoltaire.
“WHY PUT UP WITH HITLER, LEWIS AND GREEN?” | [By Osear Jones, 2210 River ave | I read in your forum where labor | [is “squawking® again about hows! ete. 1 | I cannot understand why we have| to put up with Hitler, Lewis and| Green. Lewis and Green exact al fee for the right to work, make us! ‘attend meetings under penalty and! yet we Americans tolerate such taes ltics. Let's all get busy and defeat j Hitler and then start on the rest of the destroyers of our liberty » =. » SSTOP MEDDLING WITH MOTHER NATURE!" Ry The Thinker, Indianapolis Inflation, according to the fellows paid to know, is eaused by “an in crease of money in circulation, and the issuance of more credit.” That means that more people have more buying power, Therefore, the New Dealers figured that to raise the price of farm | products——stock, grain and dain {products -— during the depression, they would lower production of | those articles They killed thousands of little i pigs, while many thousands of peo ple were doing without meat; they restricted the growing eof grain, while thousands were hungry for just those healthful foods: they burned thousands of acres of cotton, while millions were illy clothed Okay, that was a good idea, but it 'aidnt’ work, Now we're past the de- | pression, so “they” say, and there is danger of an inflationary reacition. But does there need to be? Why not eliminate the AAA (sav ing the U. S. A. millions per year) and allow production of all the farm products that nature will allow? After all, the first type of merchandise that jumped in price was {that directly affected by the lack jof farm products—meat, cereals! {dairy products, canned vegetables, shoes, clothing, ete, | There is no chance of inflation in {the automotive field, the electrical appliance field, the utilities, fuel, living: that has been avoided by | “freezing” the sale of most every Huxury, and fixing ceilings on rent fuel and utilities So. why put a ceiling on farm
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| farmers in their greed will giut the market with their products, keeping
guards over them until theyre in| war zones; then tell them to do! their stuff? | Why can't some of the old men in ‘congress that are responsible for the salegx of scrap iron and oil shipped to the axis go over and get some of their own lead? I've always raised my boy to be a decent American oitizen, with no | marks against him in any American courts. He has to go over like all’ raise and the other clean American manhood to shed his blood so the peliticians can still be free to run loose and (graft the next generation. I have a husband in the service Why put a ceiling on wages? Let and also want my boy to de his the laborers buy all the food. eloth= share, For a country worth living ing and such luxuries as ave still in is worth fighting for, believe me available to them and their lack of But why can't there be liberty and balance in financial management justice for all and keep Lineoin's will pretty well hold prices to a words true? | steady level because they will al«! wavs be broke, anyway. “ONLY THE SOLDIERS In other words, stop meddling ARE GIVING THEIR ALL” with mother nature No one has
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Mother of Soldiers, Indianapeolie
Now the unions are wanting an investigation into the demand that congress do something about the! strangle-hold the union leaders have | over this country. That is a laugh | when everyone knows the lobbies and galleries are full of union men when legislation along labor lines is imminent. What is that but con= | certed action, and didn't Indiana C.1. 0. threaten congressmen who! might vote to relieve our country of the octopus bleeding it? Make the unions open their acccount books to government inspec-| tors and there will be shown the] believe that when there is not much oo con for all their agitation. . justice, If defense workers take a' 1 have two sons in this war, They | notion to strike, strike they do. ..6 not demanding $1 a day more, Then our uniong baby them WIth {joule time for holidays, six weeks’ the aid of the government so they ,.y after induction, from former can get higher wages. They have'yyoiovers and $100 defense bonds the freedom of their own fireside {oy vacations as the G. M.'s C.1.0, evenings, with large pay. unions are now demanding. But if a soldier deserts during war, And now it is suggested the men time he gets shot=-for $21 a month. | be coaxed to work by giving a well, we could hardly say $21. After|bonus. This is a war for life or he pays his insurance and laundry | death, but only the soldiers are bills and amusements. not much is giving their all, and somehow are left for one month. Boys who are| expected to by our government, but 20 and not old enough to know what! the men who have to give our boys it is all about now are being called. the where-with-all are petted along Why don’t they turn some of those and coaxed by rewards to do their gangsters who are pretty handy jobs. , |. with killings out of prisons with' $ 8 =n | “CIVIC-SPIRITED MOTHERS DESERVE THE PRAISE”
By Dr. Robert F. Buehl, 1508 S. Meridian st.
4 & # “WHY CAN'T WE HAVE LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALLY” 44 NN Pine st,
Mrs. Jean Cheek, s Indianapolis These great United States ocontine to honor one of our greatest statesmen and presidents, Abraham Lincoln. But somewhere along the line they have failed to live up to his ideals 1 remember a few lines he wrote “one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” How could we
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Side Glances=By Galbraith
« Sol raven 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, ING, T, M, REG, UB: PAT. OFF. 3-26
"But, madam, the street car is crowded because the Japs grabbed ‘lady who used to
1 want to thank you for your {| splendid co-operation in helping | | [to close the city dumps. I want to '| thank the board of works, Dr, Morgan and Dr. Ferree for their splendid co-operation in this matter, | The physicians of the south side have expressed to me their appre-| ciation and thanks for having had| such a health menace removed trom | the city. The civie spirited mothers who, banded together in forming the South Side Health and Improvement club deserve the greatest amount of credit, for without their spirit and persistance we would still have our dumps. I hope that this organization does not disband, for there are other improvements badly needed. The men's organization does not appear to make much! progress in the matter of further-| ance of track elevation, Perhaps| these persistant women know a method which will push this movement along. It seems they know ways of doing things that we men have forgotten about. More power and persistance to these good women! My thanks again to them for what they have done.
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DAILY THOUGHT
Enter ye in at the strait gate: | for wide is the gate, and broad is | the way, that leadeth to destruction —Matthew 7:13,
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A bill now before the senate patents committea
{ would authorize the president to take over patents
necessary in the war program with payment of a reasonable royalty, Public hearings on the bill will begin April 6 and will go into the various German tieups with American interests, as, well ag domestical« ly-owned patents to show how patent restrictions ara holding back development of strategie war materials, Sterling Products was represented in its negotiae tions before the justice department for a consent dee cree by Thomas G, Corcoran, former New Deal of ficial, who provoked resentment among subordinate justice department officials working on the ease by his high-pressuring of officials, ineluding® Attorney General Biddle. hig close friend. and Jesse Jones, secretary of commerce, in the interest of a quick settlement, His brother, David Qorcoran, is a vice president of Sterling International, the export corporation,
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
THE FURTHER we move inte war economy the easier it is to zee certain glaring flaws in some of the New Deal enterprises. Begun with genuine sincerity te help peo= ple help themselves during the des pression, they emerge in the light of bursting bombs as noble, but misguided projects to soften nas tional character, Cries about lack of unity ascended since Pearl Harbor, We should really be crying about lack of initiative. Our unity is O, K. But to do a right-about-face from programs of social reform, worthy as many of them were, to a practice of rigid economy and stern selfs sacrifice, takes grit——and sometimes more, It's going to take time, Less than two years ago the major aid of political leadership was the distribution of wealth. We took from the rich to give to the poor. Today our war
have
| effort makes it mandatory that all pocketbooks be | turned inside out,
Masses of people accustomed to the idea of WPA, AAA, NYA, ete, and schooled to believe the government would provide them with food, shelter, clothing and education, are now asked and will soon be commanded to get to work and
| divvy up their dough.
It's an Unpleasant Thought
THIS WAR IS going to cost a lot more than the common man has ever dreamed, but not more than he is willing to pay if, by paying, he can preserve his freedom. But we are incredibly naive if we think we can have our social uplifts and win a war at the same time, The thought is unpleasant, especially to women, As it {8 many of our people are not conditioned to work or sacrifice. Their morale is shaky because their character has been reduced to flabbiness by a process of government ald that, in some instances, strongly resembled political bribery or a dole, Regarding national strength isn't an Overs night job Uncle Sam was Santa Claus for eight years: now he's beginning to look something like Simon Legree, Maybe when this is over we'll have him again in his familiar old role—a tolerant, but hardfisted master, ready to encourage and reward thrift, industry and private enterprise. As Shakespeare said, “tis a cone summation devoutly to be wished.”
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Questions and Answers
(The Indianapolis Times Service Bureau will answer any question of fact or information, not invelving extensive ree searck Write vour question clearly, sign name and address, ' inelose a three-cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advice: cannot he given, Address The Times Washington Service’ Bureau. 1013 Thirteenth St. Washington D. ©.) Q-~Please give some information about the mide get, “Tom Thumb,” and his wife.
A~—Charles Sherwood Stratton, known as “Tom Thumb,” was born in Bridgeport, Conn., in 1838, and died in 1883, He was two feet tall, He is buried in Mountain Grove cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn., where a monument to his memory is a full-size statue. Lavinia Warren, “Mrs. Tom Thumb,” afterward Countess Ma=arf, was born in Middleboro, Mass, in 1841. She married Stratton on Feb, 10, 1863, and died July 15, 1883. She was slightly shorter than her husband. Her ancestors were French.
Q-Please give the dates and age groups for each of the draft registrations in the first World war, A—There were three registrations, one on June 5, 1917, which included men 21 to 31 years; the second on June 5, 1918, for those whose 21st birthday came after the first registration, and the third on Sept. 12, 1018, for men 18 to 46 years old, inclusive,
Q-—What was the vote in the house on the amend ment to strike out of the navy appropriation bill of 1040-41 the provision for building defenses on the Island of Guam? A—The amendment was carried by vote of 124 to 114. '
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