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CHIANG W ARNS S BRITAIN AND INDIA HIANG KAI-SHEK has intervened in the British-Indian negotiations. He insists that the disputants get to. gether. And who is this Chiang that essays the right to butt into the would-be family row at New Delhi? He is more than the representative of China's millions, He is more even than the general who has held back the Japanese longest with the least modern equipment. Chiang has done more for Asian nationalism and antiimperialism than any man alive. He is an old and proved friend of Indian freedom. Particularly, he friend of the All-India congress party leader, Nehru, chief Indian negotiator. Moreover, he happens to be an old

friend and admirer of the British negotiator, Sir Stafford |

Cripps. He speaks as the generalissimo and representative in southeast Asia of all the united nations.

est, the duty jeopardizes the entire Pacific war effort. If Japan takes India, while the British and nationalists there are fighting among themselves, China will be isolated. The American supply line to Asia will be cut. The China bases for bombing Formosa and Tokyo, the bases for sep-

arating the invaders of the Philippines and Dutch Indies | | drive a truck, for example, and refusing to join the | teamsters’ union, would be a slacker and a candidate warn-

from Japan, will be lost or useless. If the British and Indians do not heed Chiang's ing, it will be Japan's greatest—and cheapest-—victory.

POLITICIANS’ HEAVEN

is a close |

Fair Enough

‘By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, April &-—BEvery now and again Mrs. Roosevelt flies a kite to test the wind or get us ready for something new. A few weeks ago the dropped a hint in her column which has been on my mind ever since. “We had some very interesting discussions Sunday afternoon in the White House on the subject of what the general attitude of the people should be during this war period,” Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, “I've come to one very clear decision, namely, that all of us, men and women in the services and men and women at home, should be drafted and told what is the job we are to do. The only way I can see to get the maximum service out of our citizens is to draft us all and to tell us where we can be most useful and where our work is needed.” Now surely this is not mere irresponsible babble like that of a child who drinks in the dinner chat of the family and then goes next door to blab to the neighbors what mama and papa said about them. So I take this to be a preliminary presentation of a serious proposal. .

Will We Have to Join a Union?

ASSUMING THAT such conscription of civilians does come, will each of us so drafted be compelled to join one or more of the unions and, in the jurisdiction

of the A. F\ of L, pay initiation fees of from $19 to $3000 for the privilege of serving under compulsion,

. | profit As commander of

the united forces of many nations—respensible for the larg- | : 5 . bo 2 | most active and nearest front to Japan—Chiang has | to warn Britain and India that their division |

F YOU are not registered by midnight Monday vou will

have been disfranchised for the primary election on May |

6. In other words, your citizenship will have been wasted. | According to the latest reports, there are 50,000 who | have not vet registered. You can rest assured that all the! regular members of the machine organizations are already safely registered. A skimpy primary vote is always a politician's heaven. Besides the main office, Room 34 of the courthouse, here is where you can still register: TODAY

Warne township school, Mars Hill school, hall, Speedway City scheol, Washington township sch Warren township school. TOMORROW AND MONDAY Rhodius park community house, Brookside park house, and the fire stations at: 1134 Prospect, 636 E Shelby, 512 Maple road and 2101 English.

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One of these places is near your home. Register right now.

SCORE FOR DIES Fj HE reason why Vice President Wallace and ocher ponents of the Dies committee will never put it out of business by the methods they are using is that every once in a while the Dies committee turns up someone like | C. Hartley Grattan. Mr. Grattan resigned yesterday as a specialist on Aus- | tralian affairs for Mr. Wallace's board of economic warfare. The Dies committee had accused him of Communist affiliation. Mr. Wallace had defended him and denounced Congressman Dies. But then it came out that: Mr. Grattan, less than two years ago, wrote the foreword to the Nazi white paper which attempted to blame American ofiicials for Hitler's invasion of Poland. And though Mr. Grattan denies ever sympathizing with the Nazis, he certainly expressed what was then the Communist viewpoipt, Stalin then being in cahoots with Hitler. The Dies committee has made pienty of mistakes. has unjustly injured some innocent people. Rep. Dies has serious faults. But just so long as the government insists on putting C. Hartley Grattans into positions of influence and trust, just that long will the American people insist on having ies committee to expose them and chase them out. :

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| ignorant, cruel men and women,

plus special assessments, dues and other fees? There is no reason to think otherwise because the government for which Mrs. Roosevelt speaks with the feed-box authority of one who sells for personal “very interesting discussions” which take place in the privacy of the national palace, has bitterly

fought those elected representatives of the people who | have tried to adopt laws to protect the people from

the bosses of the unions. Now, I realize that the president has made a mess of union relations and that an abrupt reform which took the form of a hostile repudiation of his leadership in this field would harm us all and hearten the enemy. But, obviously, we cannot drift into total conscription without adopting guarantees that such. conscripts would be subject to no authority but that of our lawful government. In the lack of such guarantees, a man drafted to

for a concentration camp or prison.

British Unioneers Incredulous

THE NEED OF such reforms was great before the | But the whole people were not aware of | Now, however, they know and Mrs. | Roosevelt had better realize that they will never ac- |

war began. the situation.

cept conscription for work as a patriotic duty, subject to the intrusion of union bosses, into their private affairs. I. too. am inclining to the idea that this will be a very long war, that it will be necessary to draft, or anyway, to compel labor eventually, and that it were better to anticipate this situation than to be too late. Way back in January, New Zealand, ordinarily a

+ very free country. authorized drafting any person for i work in defense industries and our danger is no less | | than hers, although hers is closer geographically.

But I doubt that in New Zealand the government permits racketeers and political padrones to bully and

{ rob the workers of millions of dollars and throw their into the political funds of candidates whom |

money the individuals may oppose. Unioneers from the British countries who visit the United States are amazed and incredulous when they read and hear of the corruption of the union racket here but Mrs. Roosevelt's government ig responsible for that cor-

{| ruption and the political exploitation of captive work- {| ers because it has fought every reform and the re-

formers, too.

New Books By Stephen Ellis

FOR 18 YEARS, Elliot Paul lived in the rue de la Huchette, a quiet street ‘in Paris. this little street, 300 yards stream of France. Mr. Paul describes it for us in “The Last Time { Saw Paris,” reminiscences of the Paris and the France that to be. Foreign correspondent, novelist

and musician, Elliot Paul writes |

the history of France between two wars. His people are hotel keepers, shopkeepers, politicians, businessmen, students, priests, radicals, conservatives, Frenchmen and foreigners. His novel is a microcosmic section of a nation descending to oblivion. He talks of the France that fell into the decay and decadence of appeasement and treason He talks of a Paris where the trains are always late, telephones uncertain, the subway and a hathtub a luxury. ple of the street struggle against slow defeat and divide themselves against each other. The franc collapsed and improverished them. The world changed and bewildered them. Their futile government finally betrayed them und faicist, democrat and communist alike went into Nazi bondage.

A Great, Human Record

SEA 01 i ull OMM. HAMILTON BRYAN, an inventor, has been almost breaking his heart in Washington, trying to | get a fair trial for his idea, the Sea Otter. The Sea Otter is planned as a cargo ship—a small ship, low in the water and light of draft so that U-boats would find it hard to hit, powered by 16 ordinary automobile engines. Comm. Bryan believes it could be built fast, in great numbers, by mass-production methods, and so cheaply that one successful completed voyage by a Sea Otter would pay for its cost. President Roosevelt ordered the navy to try building a Sea Otter. But Comm. Bryan was not allowed to supervise the construction, and there is much evidence that the ship, when completed, was damaged by improper launch-

tunity to repair the vessel and further develop his idea.

for remedying that shortage deserves a fairer, fuller test than the Sea Otter has had. And we hope that President Roosevelt won't let 1942model brass hats and orthodox shipbuilders, whose interest is in doing things by established methods, prevent a thorough trial of an idea which might just turn out to be an answer to one of our toughest war problems.

WAR OR NO WAR time for spring cleaning. Put on the suit that you

{ by Random House, New York.

THE STORY is told with insight and humor. Mr.

| Paul is an accomplished novelist, the author of “Life | | and Death of a Spanish Town” and ‘The Stars and

Stripes Forever’ He served overseas with the A. EB. F. After the armistice, he waived return passage at government expense and stayed on in Paris. Outside of a year in Spain and several trips to his native Massachusetts, he lived as a citizen of the rue de la Hutchetts. As one of its people, he is able to write of Paris as an insider. His characters are not simple “foreigners” or Frenchmen, tragic setting. “The Last Time I Saw Paris” It is a great, human record of a dying nation.

‘THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS,"

2 Elliot Paul. 421 p $2.75.

‘So They Say—

ing. The president thinks the inventor should have oppor- |

We who stay at home have our duties to perform—

: " ‘ | duties owed in many parts to you. You will be sup- | We're not expert on this subject. But we do know that | y :

the cause of America and the united nations is suffering for |

lack of shipping. We know that any reasonable suggestion | 4°F °" 2 foreign front.

ported by the whole force and power of the nation. —President Roosevelt, in letter to every American sol-

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The simple fact is that today we are losing the battle against inflation. Prices are going up all along the line and at a dangerously accelerated pace.— Dexter M. Keezer, assistant administrator of office of price control. * = » I think it is about time we quit fighting among ourselves and go to fighting Hitler a little. —Senator Alben W. Barkley, Kentucky Democrat, senate majority leader.

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There is no more important reserve of labor than women, and the next two years will bring not two smilien, but pronably three or gLour million women

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

| ‘MUSICIANS MORE OF ASSET | THAN LOAD OF LEECHES" [By Willlam Murphy, 1088 W. Morris st.

I am very much in accord with | Clarence Brown of 418 N. Senate] fave. but I could only take in a cer-

[tain scope of the controversy. I heartily agree with him that the| {musicians are far more of an asset | (to the program and to the well

(being of the community than the,

load of leeches that they have at]

the top of the heap. | The whole outfit {dumped out

ought to be in the street where Ley belong. If there was ever a bunch of first-class panhandlers land chiselers they are it.

8 & 4 | “THERE OUGHT TO BE A | LAW CONCERNING DOGS!” Br 8S. D. Davison, Falmouth A short time ago we had quite a

crusade on the page, both for and against the dog.

| $100 on any female dog.

(Times readers are invited their religious conMake

your letters short, so all can

to express views in

these columns,

troversies excluded.

have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

And anyone found owning a pup to be fined $500. That would be no hardship on anyone having and keeping an old faithful dog, but woe unto the younger crop. I am not a dog hater. On the contrary, when any dog comes toward me with tail wagging and that lovable kind, friendly look in his eyes, I cannot resist a kind word and a friendly pat on his head. But there are too many, too expensive,

| too dangerous.

I read in The Times of 3-30-42

two items, one of a baby's caused by the bite of a dog.

{ other item, same issue, two women |

| bitten by stray dogs. It's a true fact that it's not always, but seldom I think, that it's the stray | dogs that bite. More apt to be | some one's pampered, darling doggie. Not only Indianapolis is full of dogs. I'd just like to see one { town either large or small that does not have {oo many dogs, most | of them worthless. It seems that almost every family has one dog and if too poor to own one dog, they have two or more. | Some one please tell me of what {use anyone may have for owning a dog in a town. I can think of no reason at all. Now at this time (we are urged to plant and raise and conserve all the food possible. i How much food will it take to feed thousands, millions of dogs? And

‘then town gardens are usually made | overcrowded |

Mr. Paul watched the peo- |

dog picnic grounds—also lawns. So many being bitten by dogs— too much needless danger. Yes, there ought to be a law. I'd like to make it. I'd require all owners to have a tax tag on his pet and immediately raise the tax another

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death “HOW DO YOU LINK THE AD-| v0 TOGETHER?"

By D. J. Danforth, 1157 Eugene st. I would like to reply to Mr. R. J. Jones in regards to myself not having any sons in the service, for my stand for organized labor. No, I have only been blessed with one son

and he is married and has a family. But God was good to us. He blessed us with sons-in-law—we have five girls living. My grandfather and four uncles shed their blood that men might be free, I served my little bit for my country and have a little chunk of bronze hanging to a little piece of red and blue ribbon to show that I have laid and slept in the mud. My brother has served in the armed service for 34 years. I have a grandson at Pearl Harbor, a son-in-law who is a captain in the navy somewhere over there and a nephew who is training to be a flier. Oh yes, let me say, brother. we received 13 bucks a month plus 10 per cent for foreign service. They used to call us regulars. That was our business—io fight any time

Side Glances=By Galbraith

“Mom, don't you think it would

any place. No heroes, we were just common soldiers.

No, Mr. Jones, I just can't quite comprehend how you link my stand for organized labor to that of not having any sons in the armed forces . ...

gS & a “RACKETEERS WILL TRY TO FORCE ARNOLD OUT”

By Warren A. Benedict Jr. Son ave, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold deserves a lot of praise. He has had the courage to blast, full force, at the racketeers and profiteers in both labor and industry. He probably hasn't a chance, but if he did he could save the government and the people millions of dollars in excessive prices they are paying. It is to be noted that Arnold is attacking neither legitimate business or trade unions. He is opposed to monopolies that deny or restrict the needs of the people on the one hand, and the labor racketeers that benefit a chosen few at the expense of the many on the other hand.

It is safe to say determined efforts will be made to force him from public life. The racketeers (not the honest men) in labor and big business together wield a tremendous influence. Probably the great majority of the people acquainted with his efforts heartily applaud, but they are unorganized. Arnold will eventually be forced out, and we will reap the full benefits of rising prices and eventual inflation. It is to be hoped more newspapers will come to his defense, and acquaint the American public what he is attempting to do for them.

2019 Madi-

” ” ” “NEEDLESS AND INEXCUSABLE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS” “Man in the Service,” Indianapolis Amidst all the blah blah of the arm-chair strategists and the newspare debates about labor unions, race questions, economic depredations, e*c., I wonder if you can find space for something of a different nature.

Every day I drive about 60 miles on state highways. There is hardly a day that I do not see trucks

speeding along at 40 miles an hour | or more with poor dumb horses fac-'

ing the front. This is a needless and inexcusable cruelty to animals. To anyone who disagrees, I recommend that he try such a ride himself. A horse can stand a lot of wind—if he can turn his rump to it and face away from the cold blasts as instinct teaches him to do. Truckers should be required by law to load horses that way or else provide adequate wind breakers.

Or if there is such a law, why

‘|don’t state police bear down and

eliminate this form of cruelty?

” o fd “LEAVE THESE GLAMOR GIRLS OUT OF IT” By Mrs. William Brant, Indianapolis. Hurrah for “Disgusted Woman.” If all our so-called weaker sex would just stick to the fireside instead of the army camps, we wouldn't have

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1942 Nazi Methods

By David M. Nichol

WASHINGTON, April 4—Poe land's government-in-exile has

provided the world, in a new “white book,” with a case history in occupation as it is practiced by the Nazis. The new white book's biggest contribution con« sists of translations of excerpts from the official decrees which form the “legal” basis for the incredible project of exterminating a nation. The stories of what has been done in ex= ecuting Hitler's orders in Poland have been told often to a world whose understanding has failed to grasp their full horror and significance. Atrocity tales? A month after the fall of Warsaw, Police Chief Weberstaedt in Torun (Thorn) issues a decree: “The streets belong to the victors and not to the vanquished. , . . Male Polish inhabitants must uncover their heads in the presence of all higher officials of the state, the party and the German army. . . . Polish women who speak to volksdeutsche (persons of German extraction) or insult them shall be sent to houses of prostitution.”

"Very Scientific—And Very Shocking"

RESTRICTIONS ON food for Poles? The voluble Dr. Robert Ley, head of the Nazis’ labor front and Germany's leading “socialist,” wrote an explanation in the National Zeitung of Essen, Hermann Goering's paper. “An inferior race,” said Dr. Ley, “needs less food and less culture than a superior race. Never can the German man live in the same way as the Pole or the Jew.” Extermination? “In 10 years there will not be a single plot of land that is not German, nor a single farm in the posses= sion of anyone but our own colonists,” Gauleiter Arthur Greiser of the Warthegau, told a group of Nazi colonists in Kalisz. Forced migrations? The documents are there, but I wish you could have stood with me that chill spring day almost exactly a year ago in a crossroads village near Poznan and heard the S. 8. major tell how “scientifically” it was all being done. A census, a roundup of the Poles, confiscation of their farms and stock, and then a crowded train-ride into the ugly limbo of the govern« ment general. Very dcientific and very shocking.

The Aims of the Nazis

THE GENERAL ECONOMIC aims of the Nazis in exploiting Poland are outlined in a confidential memo from Goering in his capacity as head of the fouryear plan. Goering said that the government general must order its affairs to “produce results in the shortest possible time” along these lines: 1. Increased agricultural production and systee matic requisitioning of the output. 2. “Maximum” exploitation of the forests witho regard for the problem of replanting, calling for an nual reports to the Reich of 2,600,000 cubic meters of wood, an increase of more than 60 per cent above Poland's total exports in 1938 and eight times Poland's trade with Germany that year. 3. Increased production of all raw materials, par ticularly mineral ores, oils, nitrates and phosphates; conversion of Poland's industry solely to war orders; demolition of ‘all undertakings not engaged on war work,” and the “assembling and transportation to the Reich” of 1,000,000 laborers, including 750,000 for farm work, half of whom were to be women,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LET US NOW take stock of our courage. You and I are only little men and women; our roles are not dramatic. We are tiny dots upon the world scene. Yet our composite self—the sum total of the behavior and thinking of all the little men and women— may spell the difference between victory and defeat for freedom’s cause. These are not just words spelled out on a typewriter. They represent truth as I see it. For this is the common people’s war, even though they did nothing to cause it. Upon its issue their fate depends. War itself is evil and wicked. Nations cannot lay claim to civilization until they have learned to aholish it. But now that it is upon us, we can meet it sube limely. And that is possible because to every decent being God has given his own peculiar kind of courage, Today MacArthur stands forth as a figure of great fortitude. How we wish we were made of the same stuff! Well, perhaps we are, although our roles call for less dramatic performances.

We Must Believe in Each Other

TO SOME OF us will come orders to march and fight. Others must tear up their roots also and move to strange places where new work awaits them. But for many more the test of fortitude will lie in familiar surroundings. Thousands of common people must Just creep on from day to day, doing faithfully their usual tasks. And sometimes that routire calls for profoundest heroism.

In the immediate future we shall have to draw upon every latent reserve of physical strength, but most of all, our moral valor will be challenged. Do we possess the tolerance to hear our cherished cone victions criticized without losing trust in the good intention of our critics, who are our fellow Amer~ icans? Can we meet the disappointments which are always a part of war? How will we respond to the request for self-sacrifice?

How about enduring the inevitable bungling which accompanies the movements of a democracy? Will we be patient enough to keep silent and give other men our trust? While we do the best we can, are we ready to believe our neighbor does the same? To win we must believe in ourselves: and what's more important, we must believe in each other.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaner are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,

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