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MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1942

REMEMBER TOKYO

F we can do it once, we can do it again—and again. That is the reaction of millions of Americans, cheering the biggest and best news of the war. For whatever the reported air raid did to Japan's three largest industrial areas, in this country it crashed through months of accumulated gloom to liberate a new will to vietory. This is a symbol—just as Pearl Harbor was a symbol. More was lost on Dec. 7 than ships, planes and men; the power of offensive slipped from us. It was a symbol not only of enemy infamy, but also of our unpreparedness to meet such treachery and ruthlessness. We knew then in our hearts that many months of defeat were ahead before we could be ready to strike back. That time has come. Our fliers have carried the war to the heart of the enemy. For the first time in more than 2500 years the Japanese homeland is a battieground. The first time, but not the last. What American planes can do in April, they can multiply in May. = ® HAT is why this raid is even a grimmer portent to Japan than Pearl Harbor was to us. The surprise of Pearl Harbor can never be repeated; the enemy can attack again, but the chief weapon will be lacking. Meanwhile the strength of our air arm, which has finally reached all the way to Tokyo, will grow with every week. We had no warning when Japan struck us. But Japan has known and dreaded for 19 weeks the certainty that Yankee bombers would come. She cannot stop them. Some will fall. But they will keep coming. We have sweat and bled. Now it is her turn. Perhaps she will pull back from the South China sea, the southwest Pacific, and the Indian ocean, some of her fleets and air squadrons to protect her ‘home bases and war industries. But that will weaken her more than it will save her, When she loses the offensive, she probably never can regain it.

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» 5 - = = = N° AMERICAN will be foolish enough to suppose that Japan has lost the offensive, or that we have taken it by this daring raid. She still has more aircraft carriers than we have—perhaps twice as many; more planes in the Pacific, and most of the major bases. She has all the ad-

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By Westbrook Pegler

about 7 per cent of the total of our war production of copper. The desert is the ghastliest waste of volcanic peaks and spurs and scrubby vegetation that your imagination could conceive on your most lugubrious day and its hostile mien instinctively compels a tribute of the new beholder to the bravery of the prospectors who first came down from the north or up from Mexico, only 30 miles away, to find the deposit. There is nothing here but the mine and its works, which include a shaft pushed to an underground lake about 680 feet below whose temperature is 108 degrees and which yields five or six million gallons a day for the job and the people. At a level of 640 feet there is a great chamber filled with pumps which boost the warm water to the top and seven miles across the

- desert to the plant and the town. In the old days

water was packed in barrels 40 milies from Gila Bend.

Company Runs Entire Town

THE PHELPS DODGE CORP. is the biggest single creature in the state of Arizona, next to Harold Ickes and the interior department. The company pays about 17 per cent of the state's totai revenues and holds a rather large individual portion of the total of freehold land which is only 12 per cent of the whole area. The company runs the entire town, which now has a population of six or seven thousand of all races within limits and clustered close outside, and owns most of it. The exceptions are some small, shabby dwellings to which private individuals stiil hold title. The company houses, however, are neat, attractive cottages of three to five rooms, many of them adorned with beautiful dooryard flower gardens now in full bloom. The abodes beyond the limits are the usual desert and boom-town shacks, and how the Indians, Mexicans and Nordics, or Caucasians, can raise children beyond the creeping stage in such penetrable quarters,

what with the constant presence of rattlers, scorpions |

and spiders, is something I struggle to understand. Troops on the Prowl

THE COMPANY ALSO runs a pretentious depart- |

ment store on the co-operative plan, which is to say that the profits are kicked back to the workers after the company has deducted 6 per cent, out of which it pays taxes and some other costs. I cannot comment on the retail prices, but will dare to say that to the naked eye this store is first-class and that there is nothing in the demeanor of either staff or customers reminiscent of the take-it-or-leave-it brutality of the company store of the southern mill and iron and lumber districts of days past. The Mexican line is less a worry than it might be,

ant these days. Nevertheless the proximity of this mine and the mines and works at Bisbee and Douglas, where an absoluately vital portion of our copper gets made, naturally calls for watchfulness. The gas-line which comes overland from El Paso is vital, too. and, as the governor of Arizona observed in his address to the special session of the legislature the other day, this area is in the logical path of an invasion to pinch off the coast, if the enemy should ever establish a force in Mexico.

vantages of position and shorter communication lines. She | is fighting one war, we are fighting two-in-one. | Far from winning the war, we have just begun to fight. | But we have begun. That is a lot. | Until now we have had the will to fight, but not the weapons. Now for the first time we are getting the weapons—enough to share with our allies, and a growing margin for taking the battle to Tokyo. That is the meaning of the raid. And it is as clear in Tokyo, Rome and Berlin as in Washington: as heartening in Britain, Russia and China as in America.

TIRES WITHOUT RUBBER

THE Ford Motor Co. reveals that it has developed an autothobile tire, made largely of specially treated fabric, which requires only one-sixteenth of the usual amount of | rubber. The Goodyear company is running test cars on | tires made without rubber. | Don’t assume too much from these announcements. The new tires, in both cases, are still experimental—a long, long way from mass production, if, indeed, it is found that they can ever reach that stage. And one-sixteenth the usual amount of rubber is a lot more than will be available, by any present prospect, for new tires on the vast majority of civilian cars in the next three years at least. Your only safe course, if vou want to keep on driving your car, is to nurse your present tires with constant care; to do all you can to speed up the lagging collection of scrap rubber for retreads; to insist, as a citizen, that the government’s promise at capacity to produce 700,000 tons of artificial rubber in 1944 must be kept and if possible exceeded. Even that probably will be no more than enough for military needs. Don’t depend on miracles. But be glad that the researchers of Ford and Goodyear and other companies are trying to do the impossible—that industrial scientists and inventors are working to save us from the disastrous consequences of rubber famine. American ingenuity has solved problems as great as this. It deserves all encouragement from the government and from the people.

DON’T. WASTE THEIR TIME

HIS time, as we've said before, the investigations are being conducted along with the war. That's as it should be. The work of congressional committees can expose misfakes and stop profiteering and other abuses. But, after all, the most important task is to win the war. And officials charged with that responsibility are being required to take too much time off to testify before committees. Production Boss Donald M. Nelson tells Rep. McCormack of Massachusetts, for instance, that officials of

OPM and WPRB appeared before investigating committees |

101 times between January, 1941, and the end of last month,

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In most cases these were key officials. Mr, Nelson himself |

testified 14 times; William S. Knudsen. 13 times; W. L. | Batt, director of materials supply, 12 times.

their efforts, correct the system under which two or more different congressional groups are investigating essentialy the same matters. All the information collected won't do us much good unless key men in the war program are allowed time to do their jobs. :

| your A | them.—S. G. Staff, New York foot specialist, expectTestimony takes time, and preparation for it more time |

—and time is our most precious commodity. The commit- | tees ought to plan their work most carefully, co-ordinate |

This obviously has occurred to Washington, for

| there are troops on the prowl constantly along our

side of the line.

The Pacific Charter

By Wm. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, April 20—A movement as wide and as deep and as hard to stop as the Pacific ocean is under way among the billion people of Asia. Its object is to end forever the rule of the Orient by the Oeccident. The movement has nothing whatever to do with the “New Order in Asia” which Japan is trying to carve out with a sword. The Japanese scheme is the crudest imperialism—the most objectionable form of the very thing about which the rest of the Asiatics are complaining. What I refer to is the rising demand on the part of the Chinese, Indians and others for a “Pacific charter” to take its plage alongside the Atlantic charter promulgated by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Endorsing the idea of a Pacific charter, Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarmell thinks the United States should take the lead at once by bringing about the abolition of extraterritoriality in China. In the east, observed the Ta Kung Pao, one of Chungking’s leading newspapers, the spirit of the proposed charter should aim at the liberation of Korea, the Liuchu’ islands and Formosa from Japanese domination, and the freedom from allied cone trol of India, the Du'ch East Indies, Malaya, Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. China. it added, “is certainly not helping one imperialism fight against another imperialism.”

It's Not Enough

THE INCLUSION of the Philippines, Australian and New Zealand in the line-up, of ceurse, is not particularly impressive. The British deminions have the right to secede if and when they like and the Philippines already had been given their independ. ence to take effect July 4, 1946. Nevertheless, everywhere in the Orient today the yellow and brown races are saying pretty much what the Ta Kung Pao said. They are “net helping one imperialism fight against another imperialism.” Oddly enough, however, both Germany and Japan are capitalizing on the situation. Their agents have been telling the Indians, Burmans, Arabs and others that the axis will set them free. The united nations may soon have to clarify the situation. Article 2 of the Atlantic charter calls for self-determination of peoples. Article 3 says the subscribing nations (now 20-odd in number) “respeet the right of all peoples to choose the form of govern ment under which they will live.” But this, apparently, is net enough.

So They Say—

Tell the boss you arent loafing when you prop feet on the desk. It's a swell way to rest

ing more walking and more foot trouble. The whole affair was a field day and lor two days we had something like a pienic.—Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce, leader of daring U. S. air raid op Japanese bases. . . . In the magnificent exploit of Brig. Royce and his gallant American comrades tide of war turnir Japan.

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“WHAT ABOUT RIVER AVE. OR DIVISION ST?” By Clarence Williams, R. R. 1, Box 238 C

I saw in The Times about chuckholes on Lexington and on Harding st. but take a ride down River ave. or Division st. There are cars parked on both sides of the street

hit a chuckhole and bounce into a parked car. There are parking sighs up but no one pays any attention to them. We parked on Meridian st. one minute overtime and got a sticker. How come the police don’t get busy on things like this? They park on River ave. and Morris st. 24 hours a day and no stickers are ever put out to them. If the city is not going according to parking signs, pull them up and use them for scrap iron for defense work.

* » =» “THE GERMANS HAVE HAD TOO MUCH FREEDOM” |

By James R. Meitzler, Attica |

When Jesse M. Evans said the job which was left unfinished in World War I should be completed this time he said a mouthful. Defeated! Germany, untouched by invading armies, defaulted on reparation payments, and in spite of the much advertised economic strangulation outbuilt the war machines of the world. | The four freedoms are good | enough for window dressing but too| good for Germany and Japan. They | have had too much freedom as it was. Freedom to gather material for war all over the world. Freedom to build up the greatest fighting! machines ever seen. This time make them take their own medicine, Treat their people as they treated those they invaded. Treat their cities as they treated Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, Belgrade, Shanghai, Chungking and the rest. Strip their country of livestock and foodstuff as they stripped the countries they robbed, return it to their victims. Make them rebuild what they have destroyed, or has been de-

| their hands, not by reparations to

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be paid in money but by actual forced labor as they have forced their victims to labor if it keeps them in slavery for generations. Never allow them to have arms or the materials to make arms and most of all never let them build airplanes again. Knock them down and keep them down. f This is not revenge, only common! sense. Stock men don't let the dangerous bull run loose. They pen him up. » 2 2

“LET US KEEP LABOR LEGISLATION WE HAVE” By Ralph J. Altmeyer, 122 Elm st. An open letter to our congress-

The local press has been reporting that you have been receiving a large number of petitions and individual letters, appealing to you to vote for the repeal of the 40-hour week. I cannot but feel that these communications represent but a small part of the people of the state of Indiana. Labor is willing to sacrifice part of its time and money for the successful prosecution of the war. Labor asks only that the results of! this effort really get to our na-| tional government in Washington, instead of going to swell the salaries of topheavy office and supervisory personnel, some of whom have no real duties and are unnecessary to the war effort and instead of going for unnecessary expansion and for purchase of unneeded supplies and equipment which at some future date may be of some use to the management, but are paid for now, with money

which otherwise would go to our! national government in the form of excess tax. Management has made no real!

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effort’ to economize and will not do so until Washington “eracks down on this needless waste of the people’s money. A thorough investigation of this abuse would disclose some startling facts. Why isn't it made? Our dollars and dimes would buy many more tanks, planes and guns if this waste were eliminated. This is their war as well as ours. We have hundreds of men in our shops and. factories who are enlisting or being called to the colors daily. They are a part of labor. Many of these men spent years working for enactment of present labor legislation, of which the 40hour week is a part. We will work our hearts out to give them the finest equipment in the world and we also want to preserve for them the legislation for which they worked so hard. If the money paid in overtime wages were the real issue, which the general press and some congressmen would have you believe, why haven't they proposed a withholding tax on all overtime wages? If this were done the profits of our overtime efforts would go direct to our national government. Labor would know that its sacrifices would reach the destination for which they were made. If management would then make a similar sacrifice a great deal would have been done to reduce the over-all cost of the war and in checking threatened inflation. The real purpose of management is to have congress, if possible, repeal labor legislation during our present emergency. They know that at any other time it would be an impossible task. There are those who tell us that repeal of labor legislation would be for the duration of the war only, but we of labor know better. . . . The men in our armed forces, wherever they may be, are fighting for our American way of life, our labor legisiation is a vital part of that life. Let's keep it. o zn ” “I WISH THEY'D GO BACK TO SKIRTS!” Py R. W. Weber, Indianapolis Lately I have noticed that women —of all ages, sizes and shapes— have taken to wearing slacks. I chject to the practice on purely aesthetic grounds. Not one in a hundred is structurally designed to wear slacks. They bulge—fore and aft. And they waddle and they waggle in extremely unprepossessing fashion. : In short, I wish they would go back to the skirts that the wisdom of the ages has ordained is more fitting for them. ” ” ” HE WOULD CALL IT “ROOSEVELT’S WAR” By Historian Was President Roosevelt just being coy, I wonder, when he asked for suggestions for naming the Second World War. Is it not fairly obvious, now that Churchill has so modestly withdrawn to second place, that the

{present global conflicts should he ‘J known in history as the Roosevelt-

ian wars, as earlier conflicts were

|named after their military leaders, such as Caesar's Wars, Napoleonic

Wars and the like? The only logical alternative wouid

.|be to call the present crusade to

establish the Four Freedoms for Everybody Everywhere, the Hitler Wars and that would be unthinkable.

DAILY THOUGHT

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoeso hreaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. — Ecclesiastes 10:8.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 20— Headaches over the moving of some 115,000 Japanese from their no-longer happy homes in Pacific coast states are just beginning, as the final report from the Tolan committee investigating national defense migration will show when it is issued in a week or so. All these Japanese will be moved by the end of May—not to their final wartime abodes, but out of the strategic areas into temporary reception centers. That doesn’t solve the problem. In the wake of this mass migration are whirlpools and eddies that may not be quieted for months.

About 75,600 of these Japanese are U. 8, citizens, with all the rights and privileges of any other citizen, So far, the Jap citizens have been good. Too good. They have recognized they're on the spot and they have moved out of their former homes without making any fuss or starting any lawsuits,

But without getting soft or sentimental about these Jap-Americans, they are unquestionably taking pretty much of a beating and the potentialities for claims against the government out. of real or imaginary damages to their persons and property can be rather sizable.

The Army Steps In

IN SIMPLEST ANALYSIS, the problem has been that it’s impossible to tell a good Jap from a had Jap. In the hours and days immediately following the Pearl Harbor sneak attack, FBI and the military authorities took into custody some 5000 Japs on whom the finger of suspicion had already fallen. They're safely tucked away in concentration camps today and are no problem.

There remained the danger that any one of the more than 100,000 Japs still at large might commit sabotage, howevet, so at this point the army took over. Even the 6000 young men of Japanese extraction who were in the U. 8, military service had to be demobilized into the reserves. The 5000 suspicious characters put into concene tration camps included most of the leading citizens, the exporters and importers, the bankers, the big merchants and hotel-keepers. They could hire law=vers and agents to look after private interests, keep business going. But the mass of Japanese left included the poorer elements, the fruit and vegetable growers and vendors, the fishermen, the people who took in each others’ washing.

Some of the Headaches

THERE IS NO provision yet for safeguarding the property interests of these U, S. citizens of Jap extraction, as the alien property custodianship takes care of non-residents only. Consequently the JapAmericans’ cars, houses, furniture and farms are now threatened with serious deprection or destruction, laying the basis for many claims against the government later. The army now is footing the bill for preliminary transfers of the Japanese population from defense areas to temporary reception centers on race tracks, parks and similar semi-public places where ample shelter and adequate public utilities are quickly avail= able. One permanent relocation center has been selected, an Indian reservation in New Mexico. Others are being considered, but one problem here is that no state wants these colonies. But the luckless Japs have to go somewhere, and once on these permanent reservations the problems multiply. Shall they be paid? If so, what? Should it be more than the soldiers’ wage? Shall they be put to developing areas which will be theirs after the war? Or shall they build homes and break ground for others? Shall they be forced labor or free labor? Those are just a few of the headaches ahead.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

EFFECTIVE WORK for vietory is being done by women’s - groups and we may expect a bet= - " ter showing in the future. How= ever, any organization treads upon dangerous ground when it decides to set up investigation departments within itself or urges its members to run down subversive activities in their home territory. This can easily turn inte fascism at its worst—as it did in 1917, when our fanaticism outstripped common sense. At all costs we should avoid a repetition of those monstrous errors, for many stupid crimes against decent Americans were committed at that time in the name of patriotism. Rogues wrapped themselves in our flag while preaching their vicious doctrines. All efforts to declare ourselves FBI agents should be nipped in the bud, for that way persecution lies. Mr. Hoover's organization is capable of handling the situation. It proceeds according to the rules of law and order, avoiding the mob spirit which is a dane gerous by-product of snooping citizenery.

Look for Actions—Not Words

NO DOUBT THERE are certain elements around whose behavior is questionable, and we don't like that. But we can be sure they will be taken care of by the proper authorities when the time is ripe. I think we must also resolve to be wary of the person who talks too much about his love of country, For, like love of God, such loyalty is proved by actions rather than words. The genuine patriot finds it hard to make his feelings vocal. Most of us are inarticulate about those emotions which move us strongly. Everybody avoids and despises the pious hypocrite who uses the church té cover up his sins, yet he is no worse than another sort of hypocrite who diverts ate tention from his misdeeds by flag waving. Taking care of her own patriotism is a full-time job for every woman. The fact cannot be over eme phasized in these times.

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