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2 AN A. E. F. FOR EUROPE? 5 EN. MARSHALL'S arrival in London, and his statement : that “we want to expand to Europe,” have revived reports of an early mass A. E. F. for invasion of the continent. : These exaggerated hopes are unfortunate. They can lead to more misunderstandings and disappointments at home and abroad. For most Britons and too many Ameri- . cans already are demanding the impossible. And a mass . invasion of Europe is certainly an impossibility. If the war goes on long enough, unquestionably many Americans will get their wish to fight Hitler on his ground. * But that time is not now, and it is not near. : We lack the mass army. We lack the mass equipment. We lack the ships to transport and supply such an A, E. F. To raise and train such an army will require at least £ another year. To equip such an army will require more than a year. : To build enough ships to carry and support a large American force in Europe will take even longer, unless © we can work miracles in shipbuilding and in licking the submarine menace. . O8 & 3 5 45 UT Britain may be able to open a new front in Norway, or elsewhere, this year. And if that hope develops, there is every reason to believe that some of the American token and technical troops now in Iceland, northern Ireland and England will participate. Gen. Marshall and Harry Hopking, who is accompanying him, are the president's closest advisers. At this moment when so many fateful decisions are in the balance decisions regarding spring offensives and counter-offensives in Europe, regarding the Pacific, regarding India_—Roosevelt and Churchill need to be together. Since Churchill recently came here and since Roosevelt cannot now go to London, the best alternative was to send Marshall and Hopking for what are officially deseribed as - “highly confidential” discussions. While it is silly to suppose that this means an early mass American invasion of Europe, it should result in eloger unity and more vigorous allied action in the spring campaigns.
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WHO SAID EASY? “W. E shall have synthetic rubber and substitutes for tin. These are easy. But there is no substitute for free men and women.”—Paul V. McNutt, in a speech at Pittsburgh. 0. K. on that no-substitutes-for-free-people idea, Paul, but you ought to consult Jess Jones, Donald Nelson and a few hundred harassed engineers and planners, to say nothing of a few million worried motorists, before you tell us © how “easy” it is to turn out ersatz rubber and tin. Incidentally, the greatest benefactor of American eivil-
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EB vents some kind of tire on which the wheels of commerce & ean roll, after existing rubber wears out and before the £ new synthetic rubber is available for private use, which : is a long time off. No uge expecting anything as good as rubber. The “most we ean hope for is some kind of tire on which wheels r can keep rolling.
~ CONQUERED? so TVO years ago this month Hitler conquered Norway. Many tides have risen in the fjords since that cold dawn when the Nazis and Quislings drove their already bloody dagger into the backs of the Norwegians who had * escaped World War 1 and somehow believed they'd miss this ~ one too. Quisling and Hitler thought it was easy. The British and French thought they might do something about it, got ta handful of troops there in time to start getting them out . again, Well, two years have gone by, and how easy does it look to you today, Vidkun Quisling? : Even with Hitler's best horror merchants backing you = up, you have only 32,000 members in your party—just 1 per cent of Norway's population. ps The rest of them seek your life. The day Hitler falls
e you die. Perhaps sooner. Your treason wasn’t even smart.
E . e * * e . WO years after their tiny army was beaten, the bravery of these tough Norwegians shines like the northern - lights, flashing a signal around the world that Hitler can E never win, 3 Conquered? Why the Norwegians have just begun to
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THE WAR THAT NEVER ENDS N° OFFICIAL communique was issued. Headline writers p almost passed it up. But America has scored an impor- & tant victory against a hated enemy. ; The good news comes from Dr. E. C. Rosenow, Mayo E foundation bacteriologist who reports that 25 years of re k gearch on the cause of infantile paralysis has been rewarded E with the scientific proof that the minute, visible strepto- | goceus germs, hot an invisible virug, as commonly accepted, are the causative organism, = The doctor now proposes to use an antiserum, already + perfected, and possible skin tests to detect the disease in its | earliest stages. He has practical proof in the use of the anticerum on 2000 human patients, with marked mortality reduction. This major victory, yet to be fully confirmed by subsequent practice, should not go unsung.
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By Westbrook Pegler
TUCSON, Ariz, April 8—Our civilians have been yery outspokén about inefficiency and waste on the part of our government and its remote agents and so busy with their indignation that a few little faults of the civilian element—and not unions, either, but common, oe yary George Spelvins—have r= looked. To me the most angrifying waste that is to be seen every day is the burning up ‘of precious, irreplaceable rubber on the highways, many miles of which, in this region, are coarse-grained strips which probably set up a hotter friction than concrete reads. An authority on tires employed by one of the big rubber companies, a soulless but apparently patriotic and conscientious corporation, informs me that at 50 miles an hour the attrition of rubber ig thrice that which occurs at 25 miles and his company has spent good money on a program described as “institutional relations” to urge our people to hold down their speed and avail themselves of special services intended to equalize and minimize wear and tear and, incidentally, to yield a few dollars of pay to a group of small businesmen who face eventual obliteration.
Take the Motor Freighters
THE SCARCITY OF rubber and the gravity of the transport problem which all of us will face when our present tires are worn out have been thoroughly advertised and no man or woman has any excuse for wasting a single ounce of a commodity which is a national treasure and even now is more truly the property of us all than of the many individuals who own or drive the cars. In this region much of the freight is hauled in
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in view of the strain en the railroads, which are short-handed as well as congested, these vehicles may be regarded as auxiliaries rather than as rivals of the railroads. They tear over mountin and desert at high speed, even when they are dead-heading back to their bases from points which provide no return load. « At the present rates of speed these motor freighters will be retired long before they need be and then the burden will be placed entirely on the railroads which, at times, even now, are hauling capacity. Of course, there must be some loads which must be got there at high speed, but nobody will believe that there is any economy in the present consumption of rubber by tricks running home light to pick up loads of no particular urgency for nc other reason than to keep the vehicles in action and earning for their owners with a minimum of dead time.
There Is No Class Group
BUT MANY ORDINARY civilian drivers in their own passenger cars are equally reckless of the future and unpatriotic in their waste of a national, military asset. While it is very apparent in the sedate speeds of many civilians who patiently hold themselves to 35 miles or less that conscience is at work among the people, there are almost as many otherts who can’t be bothered to do their part. There is no class group on either side, the economical of the cynical and wasteful. Shiny jobs of the last vintage and wretched jaloppies of the okie type roll along well under the speed at which waste sets in and all kinds of passenger cars whip past them at 50 and 60 miles and more an hour, bearing undoubtedly many of those very critical civilians who have been running a high political fever over the waste of nails and scrap wood in the cantonments and the payment of, at most, a few hundred thousand dollars a vear to Mrs. Roosevelt's mewing pets in the civilian defense.
I am sorry to have to report that George Spelvin, himself, the average American, hag been a passenger in many a ear which has wastefully and selfishly burned up transportation for the lack of which one day, his son in the army may not be able to get to some vital place on time,
New Books By Stephen Ellis
ONE OF THE mo¢t important contributions to the comprehension of Negro music in recent literature is a new coliection of slave songs of the Georgia Sea Islands by Lydia Parrish. For the first time, Afro-American songs, unspoiled in their original, natural rhythms, have been collected as actually sung by the descendants of Georgia slaves, In his introduction te this noteworthy book, Olin Downes, the New York musie analyist, finds proof in Mrs. Parrish’s collection that the Negro spiritual is exclusively a Negro artform, however, it may be transposed by white musicians, Mrs. Parrish studied the origins and development of these slave songs for more than 20 years. 8he has compiled them simply by having the old Negroes sing them to her. She has found a vast and unexplored musical treasury which may explain something about infiu<
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Beok Is Excellently Illustrated
HERE ARE SONGS so difficult that few white ears ever have heard their like. In one song, “Kneebone, I Call You, Knee-bone, Bend,” she author finds tones that baffle transeription. This is a song sung | by a chorus and the leader frequently drops a whole
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Mrs. Parrish has collected about 100 songs which illustrate the original music of the Afro-American Negro. The rhythms of these songs appear to Mrs. Parrish to have their roots in Africa, but the words
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| Maxfield Parrish. i Her book is illustrated with excellent photographs of the sea-island Negroes and interspersed with anecdotes of her experiences making the compilation, Without her painstaking research, there is little doubt that most of these songs would have dis appeared. ‘The Negfoes today are reluctant to sing them, for the songs have become “old fashioned.”
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We know it is worth giving our lives to help defeat the Nagis. We know what have doneSurviving crew member of a torpedoed tanker,
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“CLERGY NOT GOING TO SAVE US FROM HITLER” By Mrs. Norris, 1360 W. 28th st Today I listened to a program called “Hi, Sailor” during which the commentator said the clergy of a southern town had eriticized the use of Sunday as navy rally day. He rebuked them mildly by saying “Should a battle stop Saturday at midnight?” In my opinion . . . . church is swell but the clergy is not going to save us from Hitler, Go to church, pray, be sincere always but remems= ber religion, church and some of these fault-finding clergymen who seem to place patrictism on some day besides Sunday all depend on a successful termination of this war by our sailors, soldiers and matines.
#8 = #8 “PEGLER A NEW LOW IN JOURNALISTIC DEGREDATION” By Carl D. Spencer, 47 8, Meridian st. In today’s (Monday's) article by Westbrook Pegler, you have reached a new low in journalistic degredation, which is something, even for The Times. Who the hell do you think we are fighting just now? Hitler or Mre. Roosevelt—and which side are you on? Also, please advise who writes the Pegler insults to all decent Americanism, Pegler or Goebbels? #® 8 # “WILL SOMEBODY TELL US
JURT WHO 18 WHO?” BY arin ne st. property owners,
This letter is being written by the property owners of the 1200, 1300, 1400 and 1500 blocks on 8. Harding st. to inquire of Mayor Sullivan, the board of publié works and sanitation, the department of city engineering and the department of street commissioners as to whom is the responsibility of the upkeep of the berms located in the above mentioned blocks. These berms are in a terrible and deplorable condi tion and are in need of immediate attention. Five or six months ago a petition was presented to the board of publie works pointing out the condition of these berms. The works board passed on the petition and sent it to the depart ment of city engineering, from where it went to the department
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)
of street commissioners. Up to date there has been no action taken as each department claims they have nothing to do with berms on city streets. Surely some department of the civil city of Indianapolis is respongible for this upkeep as the property owners can't expect the city admin= istration of Cincinnati or some other city administration to haul their equipment here for our own repairs and the property owners along this street can't be expected to hire graders and buy materials and hire men to do this city work for them. A grader is very much in need on this job as there are holes large enough to throw a car in. Will Mayor Sullivan or Mr Brandt, Mr, Johnson or Mr. Winship step forward and tell us who is the man or department for us to see or will we have to wait for the city of Cheiago or Detroit to come here and make our city repairs? ® 8 @ “WHY NOT GIVE THESE VIOLATORS A WRITE-UP” By E. A. Means, Indianapolis. To Charles T, Lucey, E. A. Evans and Fremont Power: I noticed your articles in The Times relative to saving rubber and economizing on tire uses. I agree with all you say, and wish to call your attention to the most flagrant violators of tire economy. I travel and sell merchandise to production plants making war essentials (s6 I am qualified to use my car). May I ask that you make a test to prove my assertions to follow? Leave Indianapolis some week day morning, travel east on No. 40, south on 52 or 29, north on 67 or 29, ete, for a distance of 20 miles at a 40« mile rate of speed. Tabulate the number and Kind of trucks and busses that pass you when traveling at the speed suggested for tire economy, When you have checked, you wiil
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notice every conceivable kind of trucks and busses have passed you at speeds from 50 to 656 miles per hour, You will also notice that 95 per cent of those tabulated are privileged to buy new tires. Why not give these violators a writeup in your paper, calling to their attention Indiana speed laws on passenger busses? The state police may note same, ” ” ” “ARE WE BLIND TO OUR SHORTCOMINGS?” By Mrs. J. M.,, Lafayette, Are we blind to our shortcomings? Will we see the truth or will we go blithely and blindly on? Every state in our nation has representatives who are working as hard as ever for the “gimme” folks. This, for example, is just one as quoted from a press release from the office of Senator Chavez (D. N. MJ): “Construction of a $32,809 student union building at New Mexico State college, Las Cruces, and a $30,662 municipal golf course at Raton are included in three WPA projects just given presidential approval, Senator Dennis Chavez said today.” .... Let nothing distract us from demanding some action from our representatives and senators. If they would legislate some much needed labor laws, regulate unions, take all of the profit out of war manufacturing, and cut out all appropria= tions that do not apply to winning
this war but merely increase our stupendous war debt, such as ship |canals, St. Lawrence project, NYA, CCC and a hundred other boondoggling agencies , . . this war would not last the year out, 2 8 . “AMERICANS DON'T FALL
FOR THE GIMME CLUBS” By I, B, 8S, Indianapolis In answer to B, L., Indianapolis, if the Americans of tomorrow are to come by way of the NYA, God pity America, The stuff our ancestors were made of didn't need any kind of charity or handouts, If one needs help to be an honest to goodness American, it is a safe bet that the family stock has run out. Americans to be worth while dont’ fall for the gimme clubs the New Deal hatched up to keep themselves in power,
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“IF A TEACHER EVER TOUCHES MY CHILDREN , , By Fred Keller, R. R. 1, Box 175,
I read in April 5th Times where Mr. and Mr. Asthur Leslie were fined $200 and cost and 30 days in jail for whipping a teacher in Lafayette. This is a combined total of 480 days in prison for the man and wife, I believe this is one of the dirtiest pieces of justice I've ever heard of, . . I'll tell everyone here and now if a teacher ever lays a hand on either of my two children, she will be lucky to get out of it with eight or 10 licks with a canvas belt. , ... 8 ” o “FITTING NAME WOULD BE: JEALOUS WOMAN” By Emerson Neal, 3301 Graceland ave. How about letting a voice of the masculine sex enter in this onesided “Disgusted Women’ epidemic? I think a much more fitting name for this yipping group of feminine humanity would be “Jealous Women.” I think no more need be said.
DAILY THOUGHT Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face~Psalms 5:8,
In Washington
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, April 9.—~You can't buy a new automobile for the duration of the war, but noe body can pass a law to stop you
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you'll buy when the war is over. It may be a year after the end of the war before the firms that used to make autos will have any to sell you, and don't forget that, Their assembly lines are all torn down and it will take just as long to convert back from planes and tanks and guns to passenger cars as it did the other way round,
In a way, that's good. It permits the auto makers to start from scratch and give you something ene tirely different, taking advantage of whatever they learn from war technology. For instance, they may introduce smaller engines, burning high octane aviae tion gas, of which there will be super-abundant proe ductive capacity. With smaller engines, the power unit can be moved under the back seat. Air-cooled aviation type engines might be introduced. Also Diesels. These are some of the lines auto designers are studying today.
Gone But Not Forgotten
OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE has quietly killed its youth division, one of the Eleanor Roosevelt creations. Gilbert Harrison, one of the co-ordinators, is headed for the army. June Seaver, the other co-director, is getting a job with price administration. The staff has scattered. Youth pamphlets are still being mailed out by OCD’s information section while the supply lasts. Otherwise, the net saving is about $32,000 a year,
Safety for Poolers
QUESTIONS of legal liability for car owners who drive their neighbors to work in pooling agreements to save rubber, are gradually being worked out, Where industrial plants are arranging the pools, they require the driver to take out liability and property damage insurance. Most states have made arrangements to waive regulations which would require vehicle owners collecting fares for transportation to register as common carriers. And federal anti-trust laws which might have interfered with pooling arrangements for joint deliveries of dompetitors will in general be suspended under an agreement between the department of justice and the office of defense transportation.
Those Alien Diplomats
JAPANESE AND GERMAN diplomats ensconsed in swank Blue Ridge resort hotels, while waiting ex« change with American diplomats in axis countries, are permitted one daily newspaper. But there is nothing to prevent the Yoreign diplomats from clipping those newspapers and taking them out of the country when they go. They would have the last-minute report on what the United States knows and thinks about the war. The hotels, by the way, have apologized to their old customers for not being able to take care of their usual Easter holiday trade.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
WOMEN TRAINED and experienced in business usually make the best wives, and marriage generally produces the most capable business women. This is the gist of a report sent out from the Uni versity of Chicago after an extene sive survey of the question. And so, thanks be, a heated controversy is officially settled. There was a time when statise tics showed that college women were not interested in marriage—at any rate, too many showed up without husbands. But that time has long since gone by. It was merely a passing phase of feminism, and now most sensible college girls consider a husband and a career of some sort the two necessary halves of a complete life, Bvery day sees more of them demonstrating that it's possible to have both, The stay-at-home wife is as old-fashioned as the corset cover. Whether she has a paying Job or not, she is expected to do civie work and to participate in some of the activities of her community. The woman who refuses to do so justly deserves the criticism she gets.
It Takes Planning
THE MOTHER WHO prepares her children for life must know a good deal about living by following currents of modern thought. The wife who really helps her husband has to realize what his problems are, and the person who is unwilling to do her part in creating a good society must not expect the hape piness of living in one. Of course, each is obliged to decide for herself what the important task of the moment is. Obviously, during the period when there are small children in the family, maternal duties are paramount. We do not want to build a civilization in which the home as a unit does not exist. However, children grow up quickly, husbands work most of the day, and house keeping grows increasingly simpler and easier. Thus in the prime of her life the housewife is released from detailed domestic duties. Every girl should look that far ahead in her thoughts, It takes planning to achieve a family and a career,
Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily these of The Indianapolis Times,
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Q—Please publish a brief biography of Kate Smith? A—She was born in Greenville, Va,, May 1, 1909, and her childhood was spent in Washington, D. C. To please her family, she entered a nursing school after completing her high school course, but a year later decided that she wanted tc sing. She played with Eddie Dowling in “Honeymoon Lene” and after a two-year run, joined the cast of “Flyin’ High.” 8he started broadcasting over a coast-to-coast network in April, 1931,
Q-—Please quote the nursery rhyme, “Ring around the roses.” A—“Ring around the roses, Pocket full of posies; Hush! hush! hush! hush! We're all tumbled down.” The third line is variously given.
Q—Has the fire in the coal deposits at New Straitsville, O., been extinguished? A~No. It has been burning for many years, but the area has been completely surrounded by an impervious barrier, which, it is hoped, will confine the fire. The success of this project will not be known for a long time.
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