Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1942 — Page 22

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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1042

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FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1942

WANTED: TWO OFFENSIVES IF army planes can fly 4000 miles to bomb the Philippines, why can’t the navy bomb Tokyo? This is the typical question heard on the street. There are others: With Japan leaving her home flanks unprotected, while sending major fleets into the Indian ocean and assaulting the Philippines, why is not the American Pacific fleet taking advantage of that opportunity to attack? The British admiralty, apparently, is anxious for us to act. The British censors have passed the following London dispatch: “Only a bold, successful blow by the main United States fleet in the western Pacific is likely to save the desperate situation in the Indian ocean, where vital shipping lines are at the mercy of Japanese sea forces, according to naval experts in London. “The blow would have to be struck, they said, somewhere in the western Pacific, with the object of compelling Japan to recall at least part of her raiders from the south to cover whatever weakness might be exposed by the Amer-

ican attack.” tJ ¥

= L J » = UT this is not the only offensive demanded. There is also that repeatedly delayed British land offensive against Hitler's European flank. Russia is insisting on it, and the British public is shouting for it. Hitler is preparing to meet it by reinforcing his garrisons from Norway to France, by shifting his ace field commander, Marshal Von Rundstedt, from Russia to the west, and by moving Laval into Vichy. Why is it, then, that this obviously needed European offensive is delayed—just as the western Pacific opportunity goes begging? The fact that there are two needs, instead of one, is a large part of the answer. If we were fighting either an Atlantic war or a Pacific war, it would be relatively simple.

But it is very hard for the U. S. navy to launch a sue- |

cessful offensive in the far Pacific and at the same time

cover the supply lines and the rear of a British offensive |

in Europe—in addition to its present round-the-world convoy job,

in Indiana, $4 a year

current light and jovial banter over proposals to banish racketeers which, taken as a group, are conducted in the financial and po-

litical interest of the boss unioneers, have wept over the physical reports of the medical examiners of the draft boards. It appears that a considerable proportion of ali X the eligibles are rejected for physical unfitness and it is argued that all this is due to malnutrition. The malnutrition, in turn, is charged to the rapacity of the employers and the conclusion is that, for the sake of their children’s health, American toilers should be required to pay from $25 to $300 or even as much as $3000 out of their starvation poverty for passports through the factory gates. That this money might be better spent for milk and groceries for the young than on yachts, limousine jobs, racing stables and week-end -air excursions to luxurious suites in Florida for prosperous unioneers, is a thought which might occur to many.

Well, Let's Get Into This . . .

BUT, WAIVING THAT point, IT think not all physical imperfection is chargeable to malnutrition. Flat feet, for example, is the cause of a great many rejections, and asthma, which is entirely free of snobbery, is the cause of others. We also have many cardiacs whose trouble may be traced to a number of causes other than mainutrition and I have personal knowledge of two young men who never lacked wholesome food at home who were turned back for hay fever and trick knee, respectively. Then we have to count in young men suffering from certain impairments subsequent to venereal infection and others who have hereditary physical faults traceable to ancestral ills of the same type. And, finally, we will have to subtract some at least whose malnutrition was not due to poverty but to improper cuisine at home. So, altogether, I suggest that the case for malnutrition because of poverty, due to bossrapacity and non-unionism, must be considerably less tragic than the kept press of the unioneers would have us think,

We Thwart Ourselves

ONE NATURALLY thinks now of the soldiers of China and Japan whose diet from childhood is considerably below the American standard, and of the poor but hardy Greek who wheeled on the invincible legions of the Duce and would have chased them into the sea but for the intervention of the mechanzied robots of der Fuehrer, whose bitterest complaint

against the civilized world was the starvation in childhood of these same faceless men of his.

| males also lived on short and ill balanced rations | {| when they were very young. |

Many of the present fighting generation of British |

All this, of course, leads only into conjecture but, | If it is truth we seek to cure our ills, we thwart our- |

The Hoosier Forum

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

selves in blaming boss-greed beyond the right degree.

Added to the net family income of the toiler. the “NOTHING BUT A BOMB billion-and-more a year of earnings that comes off the WILL WAKE US up»

top for union fees and dues might buy a distinct improvement in the diet of the young of those who pay

| to express their views in By Mrs, Albert Middieton, 2018 Caroline ave,

(Times readers are invited [same issue, who feels that “Indus-

[trial heads—and stupid congress-| men-—-are waging war again on our

these columns, religious con- nation’s workers,” this sounds like]

great country had the opportunity to grow up like Thomas A. Edison, invent an electric light or a talking machine, take out a patent and sit back to live off the royalties for 17 years, retiring gracefully into immortality and the his tory books after death. And every genius or crackpot with an inventive frame of mind was supposed to add a little P. S. to his “Now-I-lay-me’s” at night, giving thanks to the Founding Fathers who, in their infinite wisdom, provided right in the constitution that con gress be given the power “to promote the progress of science and the useful arts . . . by securing for limited times to . . , inventors the exclusive right to their respective . . . discoveries.” Amen.

But in these times of all-out, 100 per cent two hemisphere global war for survival, it seems that this old stuff is all wrong The patent law is presented as a curse, for certain wicked parties, particularly corporations, have conspired to do inventors out of their just rewards and, far worse, to deprive the public of the benefits they might be enjoying if those patents were not held as a monopoly,

It's All Sensational

STILL WORSE, many of these patents are held under hidden German control in such a way that the American war production effort is handicapped be« cause the U, S. government cannot now legally obtain munitions manufactured under these patented processes. That—in brief and oversimplified statement—ig what's behind the current series of disclosures being unfolded before the senate committee on patents, Today, this senate committee is revealing the most sensational stories in Washington. The little committee room, on the first floor of the senate office building is overcrowded to S. R. O. as one lawyer after another from the department of justice unfolds almost unbelievable stories on moe nopoly controls of patents on processes for increasing the production of machine tools, magnesium, aluminum, zine, plastics, munitions—basic materials which the United States must have to win this war,

You'll Hear the Outcries

THE PURPOSE of all these disclosures is to build up a case for revision of the patent law and permit the United States*to secure full and unrestricted bene fits from these monopoly-held patents. The assump= tion is that the country now has an oxcart patent law for an airplane civilization. To remedy what's wrong, there is proposed a new bill introduced by Senators O'Mahoney, LaFollette

| and Bone, In its present form, what this bill would | do is briefly:

Suppose the government wanted to use a patented,

| monopoly-held process for the manufacture of mag-

nesium, The president would declare the need of this Material, issue a license to anyone to produce mags nesium by this patented process on payment of desig

| nated royalties, for specified times. Patent owners

would be permitted to bring suit for payment of royale ties, but not for injunction preventing use of the pate ented process during the emergency.

In the case of patents held in such a way that

stuff from the Communist Daily | alien ownership cannot be established, the govern‘Worker, When it comes to waging, Ment would still be able to take the patents by cone

{war, the unioneers proved in 1037) demnation proceedings.

Very hard, but not impossible, we hope. Because that the toll | +... William O. Norris hit the is precisely what the navy has to do, and the navy knows it. | hail right on the head, so to speak,

. . : . ‘In his letter, “The Price of Glory : : i Meanwhile, the public must be patient, knowing that ke 5 : ’ Wer ters in this art. All this is pretty drastic medicine in the eyes of . Is Hard Work,” published Tuesday. have a chance. Letters must Jie they were masters '| old-line patent attorneys. But it is a war Measure

the navy will take the offensive as soon as it can—whether HH J H t Every word was true. Nothing but be si and their war was not only against! > - ¥ | ed. we From m arte m in one week or in many weeks. O WW Oa S Oo a bomb or two dropped over here| oO ) |industry, but against their fellow| Some usriase, YOWEWE, there may be: heard

will make us snap out of our present | {workers who did not want to be| charges that it is the first step toward socialization By Major Al Williams

troversies. excluded. Make your letters short, so all can

3 | : ; . . the seizure of priv i attitude and scare us into putting not an attack upon either art or [clubbed into joining some union. | Re a oF aS private property or franchise for our shoulders to the wheel and all artistry. The entrepreneurs of pub-| He states further, “The labor] pulling together. It isn't that we lic disrobing were given a great deal unions are the American working |

FACING (SOME) FACTS

AYS an official spokesman for the American Federation of Labor, writing in its weekly publication: “The workers of America must now condition themselves to a new way of thinking. . . . They must expect not | to make more, but to make less from their daily toil. . . . Instead of encouraging industry-wide demands for a $1-a-day wage increases, as some have done, the unions should foster discipline, self-restraint and forbearance. Workers

|are unpatriotic but just that we are of good rope. With it they hanged man. They are a vast majority of | ’ . all desperately trying to hang on to| themselves and their business. the American public. They are the A WwW m V WwW t our cake and eat it, too. A danger-| What killed burlesque in New pen in the army.” What are the oman S Ie Poin ous and difficult job, especially York was the ever greater depths facts® The editor should give them.

of unadulterated smut, unrelieved | r¢ is well known that union mem- By Mrs. Walter Ferguson by even an attempt at genuinelpe. constitute only a small minor-| humor, to which it sank. ity of the 125 million people. As to Encouraged by New York's action, | () qr being “the men in the army,” and fortified by the New York de- | this is plain bunk. . . .

cision, other cities probably will fol-

PITTSBURGH, April 17 — In the last six months of the first war, Germany sent six subs to how America. These U-boats sank Wek io vo about 100 vessels, including the “I FAVOR LEGALIZED cruiser San Diego, and one laid a 'v % mine which damaged the battle- | ICE DISTRICT HERE ship Minnesota. The U-151 worked BY a City Parent, Indianapolis, three days cutting international = I for one, am very much in favor’ the metropolis’ example, . . . : : cables within view of the night ©f 2 legalized and medically pro- °T. ein be p serious DD who are earning a fair wage must be made to understand lights of New York. In all, they tected vice district in this city. { : : | stock market which has been de- | —if they don’t already realize it—that this is not the time killed 435 persons. And this was Sach a district has become a 8. ATEN mn i ee Yeas ik a down : 1s Oi ro i ni i i y i Pe | 5 ; he depression levels to ask for more. . . . If prices and profits can be stabilized, the work of only six submarines! The subs of that sosesity Since so many soldiers are “CORRECT FALSE 8 i la ee. Th : . is by period were capable of staying out for three months (Stationed near here at Camp At-| IN THE PROPAGANDA” (caused by the sit-down strikes. € the urgency for higher wages will not arise. | at a time. This allowed them, because of their rei- | terbury, Ft. Harrison and at the fair| b. yy Washingtonian, Indianapolis [tax collectors will see to it that Congratulations to the A. F. of L. on that forthright | atively slow cruising speed, only about thres weeks | grounds, Sonos I" It seems that lately there is a industry won't get rich, but up is statement of truth. This newspaper has been denounced | in our coastal waters. The rest of the time was | I also favor such districts in all campaign by union leaders to use a Subject unfamiliar to unions, w

| needed to get here and return. cities near any military camp. |

{ | i iv on A > . : : { your readers’ column for free ad- | collect a 1000 million dollars yearly by the labor press for saying exactly the same things in They had to run the gantlet of the heavily-mineq | I 2M making this appeal for the | vertising. Why not charge adver- “ Pay no taxes on it. Pretty soft|

WESTBROOK PEGLER, who ‘can hardly be called a gentle soul, has, nevertheless, launched a onemah" crusade in favor of shotgun reprisals by husbands who suffer the mental torture of hearing a 800d wife's virture maligned.

This is very noble, of course, and since Mr. Pegler started defending Mrs. Harold Ickes against the dirty insinuations of a certain publication, and since Mr, Ickes is 2 perennial pain in the neek for Knight Pegler, we

As to the worry about industry | making fortunes, just look at the]

the past. Forget that. We're glad that at last the A. F. | ana submarine netted English channel and the mine Soeur: Yo, ‘or I was a soldier in| yjsing rates and label the articles or union leadexs also being exS FO war. . .

Nobody ean say that such districts are not necessary, for they are. .

of L. is facing facts. But not yet all the facts. The spokesman insists that

—but don’t freeze wages. Compulsion for business and | . b : > | 22 knots on the surface. industry—but no compulsion of any kind for unions. Work- |

i : | knots on the surface (a knot is approximately 1.15 wage control must be voluntary. Freeze prices and profits |

barrage from Scapa Flow clear across the North Sea | to Norway. As I recall it, they made only about 13 '

statute miles). The modern submarine is reported

+ [to give comments correcting false WARE NURSES ONLY TO

| accordingly? Otherwise, it would tmpted from the draft, seem to be the duty of the editor | bE ® »

and misleading statements in the | ENTERTAIN OFFICERS”

are once more reassured. Even our fightingest men have their soft spots. It is interesting also to see this moss-grown hand-me-down from medieval days dragged forth upon the ° modern scene, where it looks bedraggled and pitiful,

to make about 12 knots submerged and as high as

The Airplane Is the Weapon

$ & "WHAT KILLED BURLESQUE

IN NEW YORK WAS...”

Br C. A. B, Indianapolis There used to be 14 theaters in|

propaganda, ° William Martin, recording secre- By Mrs. Hodge, Franklin tary of lodge 1452 of I. A. of M.| Your paper recently published (whatever that is) makes out a case under the line, “Gen. MacArthur's

Certainly the act of dragging it out proves the patness of Mr. Pegler's name for our period, which he has called “The Era of Wonderful Nonsense.”

ers Must be left free to demand higher wages “if price and New York cat to d for patriotism; they “buy bonds” Headquarters, Australia,” nurses| 4 \uct Hel he Male E y iL { New York catering t vot of | for patriotism; ey “buy i ) ‘a, profit controls fail. | PRESUMABLY THE modern subs are still good (he strip-tease, Ere: Tete are Porn seven days a week, every (landed in Australia, all ranging in t Must Help the Male Ego ® » =n = =a for at least three months’ cruising time, while far | there were only four, Now these | hour of each day.” Why not? The ages 23 to 30 years, dating officers EVIDENTLY MOST men find dramatic appeal in UT price controls are certain to fail unless labor costs— faster than Then 1918 yes. The old-type eye (have been closed, and the city’s ban|bonds are excellent investments. |and how very ice We Riny Stents the ancient chivalric idea. Perhaps it's a form of ( ¥ . " . | Scope was a rather crude affair, leaving a wide tell- ‘has been upheld by the court. |cost $75, get back $100; and a good | were to take them out for dinners nostalgia. Anyway they like to imagine outraged wages—are controlled. And we see no hope that w AZ€S tale wake. The modern periscope is about the thick- | There wil be Sopees: but in all bonus for time over 40 hours. Who [and that sort of thin. Is that the| males gunning for those who make cracks about. i can be controlled by purely voluntary methods. ness of a school ruler and streamlined. probability the next time we visit| wouldn't “do this gladly for our|duties of nurses—to keep officers of women of the family. It’s cavemen stuff de luxe, Unwise union officers and their labor press have spent | Listening devices of the modern sub are far more the big town we will not be able, |country?” We all should be willing | the army entertained? I thought and must do something for the masculine ego. Beii Er . : accurate than the old types, so accurate, in fact, [for a fraction of a dollar, to see!to buy bonds at no interest because they were trained to care for sick| sides it gives them a different and better excuse for too much effort in educating” workers to believe things | that it is believed a sub can lie hidden and plot the | five or six shapely young ladies dis-| some are giving up their lives at|and wounded. killing each other. that aren't so—that they are the oppressed and underpaid | course of a passing ship accurately enough to fire robe under the spotlight. $21 per, and we all will have to pay| Also it stated nurses not allowed However, let us suppose the argument in favor victims of “unequal sacrifice.”. | and hit the target with a torpedo. What has happened in New York heavy taxes for generations to re-|to go out with enlisted men. NOW| of the custom were carried to its legical conclusion. : N . Against this axis machinery for under-sea warfare and what may happen soon in the deem the bonds and interest. what is wrong with the enlisted! 5 man’s honor and a woman's virtue are synonymMore workers are employed, more steadily, at higher | we have greatly improved aircraft and thoroughly few other citadels of burlesque was! In reply to E. P. Harakas, inimen?... ous. Therefore, in an age of equality of the sexes,

wages than ever before. The cost of living in industrial

government has established machinery which in most cases gives unions all they could get by striking, and often more. The giving up by some unions of premium pay for Sunday and holiday work within a 40-hour week is organized labor's chief war “sacrifice” thus far. = = ® EJ »

® HE government is preparing a ceiling for all prices. |

A ceiling for wages, leaving room to raise those which are clearly sub-standard, would give the vast majority of

union members a continuing advantage over the millions !

So They Say—

whose incomes have not outrun the cost of living. But their union leaders have not told them that, and now could hardly hope to be believed if they did. After so long encouraging the spirit of suspicion, discontent and slowdown, how can they expect to turn about and successfully foster “discipline, self-restraint and forbearance?” After a meeting with President Roosevelt yesterday, William Green asserted the A. F. of L.-C. I. 0. labor cabinet’s “determined and uncompromising opposition to the stabilization or freezing of wages.” The president can overcome that opposition by telling the facts to labor's rank and file. Unless wages are stabilized prices cannot be stabilized, and union members along with all other Americans will face the disaster of uncontrolled inflation.

SAME AS EVER OT so many people are driving to work, but just as many

cities is up 14 per cent since war began in Europe. But | Water in about 33 seconds in an emergency dive.

the average weekly wage of factory labor is up 43 per cent. |

The right to strike has been surrendered. But the | | But there is a little band of heroic men of whom | the public hears too little—the sturdy beach guards

| airplane and the non-rigid airship.

| tions while another harbors its forces for possibie | operations at some indefinite time in the future.— | Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinov.

reliable bombs. But the modern sub cen duck under

The old subs took far jonger.

real adventure than any author ever dreamed of.

Very interesting, isn't it?

¢ 4 = “TAKING PC TSHOT AT ONLY | CANDIDATE RUNNING .,.”

Out there on the coastal patrol is more thrilling Side Glances=By Galbraith

of the coast guard. Day after day they launch their

| boats through all kinds of surf and in fragile little

craft rescue the crews of sinking ships and pick up

| the lifeboats of those whose vessals have been sunk.

The airman has nothing to fear from the U-boat,

| but the sub-sea men respect and dread the whistling

dark wings that spell destruction. In this war the most effective weapons against submarines are the

Vast quantities of the things we need could be brought to light by a concerted spring housecleaning on the part of everybody.—Lessing J. Rosenwald, chief of war production board’s bureau of industrial con- : servation. * - * It’s going to be awfully hard to put women of all shapes into clothes of the same shape. —Mrs. Paul V. | McNutt. * * ® War is never cheap, but it is a million times cheaper to win than to lose —Emil Schram, president of New York Stock Exchange. . * . . | Victory may be long in coming if one state has | to exhaust its major forces in today's military opera-

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You build them and we'll ily them. Between us |

| By Freud Egg

| Psychology teaches us that when | one person makes a disparaging re-| ‘mark about another that the de- | [tractor is exhibiting “fear trans-| | ference”; fear that he will be found guilty of the offense he accuses the] other fellow. Now this person who signs himself O. R. W, demonstrates a pro‘found psychological premise; O. R. W. seeks to impugn the motives of | candidate Otto Ray's platform in| the hope that people will think Ray | will be guilty if elected) of the! questionable practices O. R, w. | himself would commit if given the) opportunity. | It would seem to me, also, that after Otto Ray's . . . expose, during] the 1940 campaign, of all salaries, ! | commissions, earnings and revenues paid to the sheriff's office that O. R. W. must be either extremely poorly read, a bad judge of character or . . . is taking a political potshot at the only candidate thus far running on either party ticket to offer to do a for his country bui grab the boodie-bag , . .

DAILY THOUGHT

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.—Isaiah 40:8.

"Twas he that ranged the words

# Bureau. 1013 Thirteenth St, Washington. D, 0.)

if a husband is justified in shooting the guy who questions his wife's virtue, the woman should be justified in taking similar revenge on the enemy who maligns the honor of her spouse. Consider what shooting matches that would bring on! Alas, Westbrook, the Age of Chivalry is ever. Our women are getting ready for the military draft, which makes the Launcelot code look screamingly funny. Or maybe pathetic is the right word.

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Q-—What part of the guayule plant is harvested for rubber? A~The entire shrub, practically all of the rubber being found in the cells in the cortex underlying the bark of the roots, stem and large branches. The pro= cess of separating the rubber from the woody tissues is carried on by a continuous disintegration and fiota« tion method requiring a minimum of hand labor. Q—How does the lowest recorded temperature in Alaska compare with the lowest in the United States? : A-In Alaska, —78 degrees _F. at Fort Yukon, Jan. 14, 1034; in United States, —66 degrees F. ag Riverside Ranger Station, Wyo., in Yellowstone Park, Feb. 0, 1933.

: Q-Did the term “thking French leave” originate in

| we can't be beaten.—Lisut Svan & om. bs |

es. the war has brought back wholesome parlor dates, but | see pearls and them Sable to plane, factory here that pretty soon we won't be al " | Bigpal,

have to be driven. able to buy

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