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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942

STILWELL’S VICTORY : ON the darkest front, Gen. Stilwell’'s Chinese forces have rescued a trapped British army and won the first major allied victory in the battle of Burma. After recapturing the oil center of Yenangyaung, they are now trying to trap -the Japanese trappers. : But the enemy still has the advantage in equipment and position. Even the brilliant strategy of the American commander and the superior fighting quality of his Chinese veterans, who are now on all three Burmese fronts, cannot hold the crossroads to India and China without much more support from New Delhi, London and Washington. If Stilwell can confine the Japs to the lowlands until the rainy season begins next month, the allies probably have an even chance of hanging on to Burma. But if the enemy takes the one remaining oil field and the Mandalay line, the position of China and India will be desperate. Difficult as the problems are, the Yenangyaung victory is a first hopeful sign that all is not lost in Burma. Apparently Chiang Kai-shek knew what he was doing when he borrowed Gen. Stilwell from the U. S. army.

MEN WHERE MEN ARE NEEDED

A JIGSAW puzzle of titanic proportions has been delivered to Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the new war manpower commission, with instructions from the president to fit the tens of millions of pieces together in proper order. Mr. McNutt is an administrator of experience and resource. And here he has by far his biggest opportunity to utilize those qualities. For the task is a whopper. What particular skills are too vital to war industry to permit their loss to the armed services? Shall whole groups of trained men be made automatically draft exempt, by statute? ; How is agriculture to be assured of sufficient hands to produce larger crops? How can skill-hungry war plants be induced to stop raiding their rivais for technicians? How are a million men and women a month to be recruited and trained for war industry? Must-workers eventually be forbidden to change jobs without the government’s permission ? Those are large questions. But in tackling them Mr. McNutt has one great advantage, in that he will find the people ready and willing to be told where they can best serve the war effort—whether in uniform or at the workbench or behind the plow. - There will be exceptions, naturally, but we hope not so many as to force a shift from the voluntary methods now contemplated to a system of compulsion—a draft of labor. Even a labor draft, unpleasant as the idea is, would be preferable by far to any slackening of war production for want of the right men in the right places.

VOLUNTARY BOND BUYING

F the American people will buy at least 20 billion dollars’ worth of war bonds this year, instead of spending the money for consumer goods, they will do themselves and

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

AJO, Ariz., April 22—On a little promontory overlooking the vast, infernal pit of the New Carnelia copper mine there is a small green plot marked by a bronze plate as the grave of Jack Greenway, who was a great Yaler in the heyday of the Ivy league when Yale, Harvard and Princeton monopolized the all-America footbail teams. Greenway played football along with Frank Hinkey and was a star catcher on the baseball team. He was a rough rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was a daring, patriotic and spectacular man, but the most sensational exploit in which he participated in a life of considerable action was one of the bitterest episodes in the history of labor relations in the United States. This was the Bisbee deportation of 1917 in which a posse of mine executives, foremen and the like rounded up 1140 communists, then operating as the I. W. W,, or Industrial Workers of the World, and known commonly as the Waobblies, and other workers; herded them into a train of boxears and shipped them over to Columbus, N. M. From there they dispersed and a strike was broken which was curtailing the output of copper necessary for the American army and the allies in the first World war,

It Lasted a Month

BISBEE WAS A tough, mixed town dominated by the companies. There were Turks, Armenians, Mexicans, Cornishmen, Welshmen, Irish and those middle Europeans commonly called bohunks or hunkies and a lot of native Americans. The Wobblies, like the Browder Communists up to the hour of Hitler's attack on Russia, were pro-Russian and anti-American and were trying to sabotage American war industry, knife the A. E. F. in the back and extend the Russian revolution to the whole world. The strike which the Wobs fomented lasted a month until such men as Greenway, who. were pretty tough babies, - themselves, put their heads together and simply decided to run the Wobbly leaders out of town. Men who took part in the deportation admit now they made a very bad mistake in failing to discriminate between Wobblies and others and they marvel that they got away with the deportation as planned instead of kicking up a first-class civil war. They made enemies of many good men who will not forgive a shoving around and they would have had a terrible problem on their hands if the men in the ball park had just sat tight and refused to budge.

"The Finest Woman in the World"

GREENWAY HAD A machine gun on a roof commanding the park and some of the other vigilantes were armed, but some relied only on their fists. The situation dissolved, however, when a boss singled out a big foreigner who seemed to be one of the leading Communists and roared at him to get going. The Wobbly obeyed and this set the procession in motion, but the bitterness which was engendered that day will not die until the last of the deportees is gone. When Greenway was called to Washington and Newton Baker bawled him out for his part in the outrage, he said he would be very glad to send out and bring all the men back if Mr. Baker so desired. But he added that if this was done Mr. Baker would have to go without copper from Bisbee. They were not brought back. Shortly thereafier, Greenway went back into the army to fight in his second war for the United States and went to France as a combat officer. He was hit twice and then came back to Arizona. Mrs. Greenway, known all over the state as Isabella, was in Congress a few years ago and you may recall that in the early days of the New Deal her close friendship with Mrs. Roosevelt was the subject of much mention. Mrs, Roosevelt had been her maid of honor or vice versa. I forget just which. She is now Mrs. King and one night I met a miner from Bisbee in a little sandwich joint 'way up in the mountains where the air is better who said Mrs. King had got him a steady job up there for his health when he developed T. B. And allowed that the widow of Jack Greenway was the finest woman in the world, bar none.

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“EARLY BIRDS AND HOGS

GET ALL THE SUGAR” By T. W. T.,, Indianapolis Sugar rationing is coming closer. Registration for cards is not many days off, and thereafter we shall have to drug the sweet tooth with a half pound a person each week. It is going to be a bother. But

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since there is a shortage, the indi-| ’ vidual rationing plan seems to us to| aay be the only sensible way of handling is 50 per cent and all the unions allocation. Surely it will be better SCréwy reasoning can not make it 10.

than the current haphazard con-| If “That Defense Worker” went trol. into some store and ordered five

With a ration card every person Units of something at $1 per unit gets his share, and no more. With-/and the profiteer would say, you out one, early birds and hogs get can have four for $4 but five will

everything, and the rest of us noth- cost you $5.50, “That Defense Worka g $ fer” wouldn't call it a 10 per cent

increase then. He would holler

(ay thief! robber! profiteer!

“IF A ROBS B, IS C

JUSTIFIED TO ROB B?” By James R. Meitzler, Attica | businessmen have to pay when we It is human nature to think our pay pay and one-half for overtime profits earned, the other fellow as private persons in the cost of “robber, racketeers, profiteers all.” living, or as taxpayers for the deThat is one smoke screen “That| fense of America. Defense Worker” throws up to] & & = justify the iniquitous privilege of | «QUTLAW ALL DRIVERS

pay and one-half for overtime. If|_ » A 106s By does thet Justify © joi OVER 1 YEARS OF AGE

{By a 19-Year-Older, Indianapolis

stealing from B? A 4 . a“ | wonder who this old fuddynother excuse “That Defense ;,4q4qy was, screaming about ’'teen-

Beginners start at 55 cents an hour, |

necessary for men than for women, and any intelligent person knows now that these houses of “vice” are a racket and a racket only, feeding on the funds from the slum of the city and the gullible, who are suckers enough to “fall” for the antiquated idea of “the need of them.” The, idea of a good American citizen is to stamp out vice, not encourage it, and the idea of a good parent is to raise their children clean and wholesome, to teach them and help to keep them that way, so that they, too, may lead a happy, healthy life, which is their birthright. If some of today’s soldiers ‘feel the need” of something like a “City Parent” suggests I am sure they will find some way to “overcome the

Worker” proffers is, we can't live] ; ’ l'article on “Same Old Taxicabs . » | age drivers. I'll bet almost anything | a! : without that 50 per cent profit. | iy + any ‘teen-age driver Y could Cruising Downtown.” I just wonder

obstacles,” but meanwhile, let our decent boys who want to stay de-

my opinion is shared by every wife, sister, mother and sweetheart. 2 2 2 “LIVE-LET-LIVE MEANS { TAXI DRIVERS, TOO” By Mrs. Arthur Gresham, 1228 Euclid ave. On Saturday, April 18, I read | with disgust “Sudden Pedesirian’s”|

| red center and gold wings. i recreation projects have been suspended for the war, | except at 700 war centers. .

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 22.—You will hear more and more about amphibious warfare as this thing goes on, but in this connection the Marine Corps’ official hose is a little bit harder than usual over ail the publicity that the British Commandos have heen receiving, and the suggestions that a Com= mando force be established in the United States. The way the Marines tell it, the Commandos are simply sea-soldiers trained‘in all the tricks of the British Royal Marines, the only difference being that these new sea-soldiers are cashing in on the tricky publicity of a new romantic name that has caught the public fancy. Furthermore, the Marines want the cockeyed world to appreciate that said Marines know all there is to know about this amphibious warfare, anyway. What it ‘amounts to is the landing of expeditionary forces and the development and holding of beachheads to prepare the way for regular soldiers.” Since our Marine Corps was established in 1798, it has been called on to make an average of more than two such landings every year. The basic principles of this type of amphibious warfare remain the same, say the Mas rines, only in this war there are new weapons, better planes, better tanks, parachute troops. What it amounts to is that amphibious warfare has become mechanized.

Don't Call 'Em Commandos!

THE JAPS HAVE shown they have mastered this art of amphibious warfare in their numerous landing operations on Pacific islands, but the Marines say the Japs have no really new tricks. Some information on the training of the Marines for the new amphibious warfare has been given, but most of the detail is still secret. Formerly, the Marine amphibs were known as the Fleet Mobile Force, or FMF. That name didn’t stick, so now there are two units, Atlantic Amphibious Corps and Pacific Amphibious Corps. But unless you want to start a fight, don’t call one of these amphibious Leathernecks a “Commando.”

This and That . ..

AUTO RATIONING is to be liberalized. .. . Of the 300,000 defense housing units, 46,000 will be prefabricated. . . . Alien students in the U. S. are not subject to the draft. . . . Army Air Corps has a new shoulder insignia—blue circular field, white star with WPA community

. It's against the law to export diphenylamine-chlorasine in wartime. It's a gas.

He Will Have, Though

GEN. MacARTHUR has no military decorations from Great Britain. . Six of every 100 workers in the United States changed jobs in January because of the shift from civilian to war production. . . . Residents of federal slum clearance projects who get pay increases must.pay higher rents. . . . Civil Air Patrol is having difficulties getting enough blue or brown cloth for uniforms, and may switch to army olive drab. . , . Gasoline rationing is still a couple months off.

'A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IN SPITE OF the international situation the Institute of Natione al Government for Secondary School Students held a successful session in Washington recently. Dr. Paul Douglas, president of the American university, was chief host and is one of the leaders of the movement which was promoted to achieve a more dynamic patriotism, to strengthen loyalties and to prepare young people for leadership in community and nation. All who were privileged to attend showed tremendous interest and, having had a chance to talk with several boys and girls from Tulsa, I now have a better idea of what the institute means and can mean to the young people of America.

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M 3 : teach him plenty of lessons about | if “Sudden Pedestrian” realizes that By David M. Nichol and workers are paid from 60 cents yy, proper i of an automo. the men that drive those cabs are to $1 an hour and with five hours |. real human beings. Many have] ny overtime the weekly wage is only = yu1.o every day we see cars creep-| Wives, children and homes they try 3 x $28 to $4750 and we are ill fed, A p y P ‘to support and maintain on their WASHINGTON, April 22.— 1) clothed, and ill housed on that. |

In the first place, they are given a close-up view of their government at work. As you can imagine, this may amaze and confuse them in the beginning, but they are quicker on the mental trigger than the average adult, and these reactions are short lived,

their country a great service. They will help to finance victory. They will acquire

protection against future want. They will go far to pre- ing down the streets piloted by

vent that skyrocketing of the cost of living which becomes an imminent danger when, 2s now, the national income is rapidly increasing and the supply of civilian goods is rapidly and necessarily dwindling. On May 1, the treasury will start a campaign to persuade Americans to invest, on the average, 10 per cent of their incomes in war bonds. We hope it will be a shining success.

of the entire national income would be little more than 10 billion dollars. And though efforts to sell the bonds have been greatly intensified since Pearl Harbor, actual sales have decreased steadily after the first patriotic rush to buy. In the first three months of 1942 sales were at the rate of only about $9,000,000,000 a year; in March hardly more than half a billion. And the great bulk of them have been bonds of $500 or $1000 or upward, obviously bought by people with idle capital to invest. Purchases of $25, $50 and $100 bonds-—the sort that would be made by small savers out of current income—have been only about one-fifth of the total.

= 2 = ® ” ” NLESS the treasury’s campaign produces much more from small savers, it will fail in its purpose. For families in the lower income brackets—from $4000 a year down—get most of the national income and have most of its buying power. That's simply because there are so many of them. The treasury has been urged to make bond buying compulsory, so that such families would have to save more, and to impose or increase taxes on the lower brackets. It is unwilling to do that, but if the voluntary bond-selling plan does fail, then compulsory savings and higher taxes on small incomes will be inevitable. > Meanwhile, of course, those in the higher income brackets also should buy more war bonds and fewer congumer goods. One reason why many of them hesitate to. commit themselves to invest 10 per cent of their incomes, or more, in bonds is that they don’t yet know what their income taxes will be next year. Congress ought to remove that uncertainty by action on the new tax bill.

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But even more than that is needed, for 10 per cent

One bomber—or one squadron— over Tokyo doesn’t make an offensive and no amount of public statements will set armies under motion, hut there is occurring here, at least, the psychological transformation that is a necessary forerunner. This thread runs more and more clearly through the pronouncements of the men whose job it is to organize and supply these armed forces. More aggressiveness is evident in the diplomatic field. The crowded conference schedules display the shift. The trend is inextricably linked with the slowly crystallizing focus of the united nations’ leadership in Washington. It does not mean the eclipse of London in the war councils, but a general realization that this war has now actually reached “global” proportions and that Washington is the logical center for its conduct.

Broad Hint of Early Offensive

TYPICAL OF THE shifting spirit was the statemen: by Secretary Hull in his first press conference since he returned from 2!2 months of vacation. “Our nation and all those who are with us,”

day and not tomorrow.”

Delay in striking decisive blows, he said, would in- |

volve “an incalculable and unnecessary increase in suffering and in losses.” > The statement carried one of the broadest hints of an early offensive that has come from any responsible statesman, but it does not stand alone. War Secretary Stimson told a press conference last week that the army was eager to move at the “earliest practical moment.” Donald Nelson told the American Society of Newspaper Editors last week that the united nations already have outstripped the axis in current production, but cautioned that they still must offset the accumulated axis reserves. Encouraging reports come from a variety of other sources. Often obscured by the hyper-critics is the fact that these conditions are being translated into aggressive action far more than was the case until very recently. Shipping is an admitted bottleneck, but the lend-lease report for March showed actual deliveries to Russia had increased 2!2 times over February. Authority has been given to requisition any private property necessary for speeding the building of additional vessels. And the list can be extended greatly.

So They Say—

It may be a good idea for students to wear shorts | as a cloth conservation measure. In fact, they may be glad to get shorts—Price Administrator Leon

Henderson. *® * *

During the Cleveland panic I first went to Worl $4 for a 56-hour week where many worked for $3 per week. And later like millions of Americans put in many a 10hour day for $1. And heard no

babies put up, who get more money for an hour's work than we did for 10. In the Hoover depression, when wheat was 30 cents a bushel, corn 10, oats 7, I, like millions of other farmers paid interest and taxes and pulled through. The whiners who can’t live on $28 to $47.50 per week? And the third smoke screen is pay and one-half is only a 10 per cent increase. I may be a retired this or that, but be what I may, that does not change the arithmetical fact that the half of the whole

such weeping as these union cry!

{drivers of the same vintage as the automobiles, and they are even ‘more of a traffic menace than any | youngster. : : | What we ought to do is outlaw ‘all drivers over 40 years of age. » » n “IDEA IS TO STAMP OUT VICE, NOT ENCOURAGE IT”

1 {By a Wife and a Good Citizen, Indianapolis

By way of reply to “A City Parent” whose views were aired in Friday night's Times, I want to say that his ideas are as antiquated as the methods of warfare of World War I, which he claims he was in. Anyone condoning and suggesting “legalized” vice for soldiers is not capable of being a “parent.” Modern science and doctors now agree that “vice” for men is no more

Side Glances==By Galbraith

he | said, “have only one watchword, ‘to move forward to- |

| meager earnings. | These drivers do not own these] cabs and I feel if the owners are considerate enough to let these] {drivers cruise and make a few more | [nickels they're pretty decent, real-| izing the scarcity of tires. There's an old, old adage, “Live-| and-let-live,” and it means taxi drivers too. I also wondered just how many times “Sudden Pedes-| trian” had called a taxi in the last year, if any, in return helping to contribute to the livelihood of taxi drivers. It's one thing to be patriotic and quite another to be narrow and inconsiderate of others.

4 ou 8 “WHAT UNPATRIOTIC, STUPID

AND TERRIFYING WASTE” By R. W. G., Indianapolis I notice in your Forum a letter complaining about cruising taxicabs and I wish to add my word of protest about this unpatriotic, stupid and terrifying waste. The government is urging everyont: to conserve rubber, and yet instead of standing still waiting for a call for service, these taxicabs Keep running all over the downtown section looking for fares and congesting traffic. But I suppose the cab companies have a priority on new rubber tires while the average motorist must do without. What a farce! » 2 2 “WHEN ARE OUR PEOPLE GOING TO LEARN” By a Nurse, Indianapolis That letter from Mrs. Hodge of Franklin certainly burned me up. It’s just like so many busy-bodies complaining about gpldiers smoking a cigaret or taking a drink. Now the complaint is that nurses in Australia have an occasional date with an officer. When are our people going to learn. , . . : It was this kind of attitude that brought on prohibition with all its attendant bootlegging and racketeering until the people of this country were forced to throw it out wholesale. It's just plain narrow-minded-ness.

DAILY THOUGHT The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us, that we have sinned !—Lamentations 5:16.

Their comprehension is keen and their grasp of the whole picture remarkably swift.

Making a Better Patriot WHO CAN ESTIMATE the value of visits to the

| historic spots of Washington, those shrines of our nae

tion? The impression upon the student from that experience is bound to be priceless in terms of pae triotism, For before those shrines all cynicism vanishes and the individual is filled with sensations of reverence, One cannot look at the Washington monument, the Lincoln memorial, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington or Mount Vernon without feeling that one is a little part of something enduring and glorious. Adults find it hard to remain unmoved before these memorials which honor our most noble ‘Americans of the past, and it is easy to understand their influe ence upon youngsters of high school age. Their wore ship is more intense and their awe more profound. . It seems a pity that any boy or girl should grow up without seeing these spots, before the grim busie ness of making a living begins and youth’s shining rapture is gone. Besides the awareness of belonging to a democracy, the child feels he is responsible for keeping alive that which was created by the sacrifice and suffering of his national heroes. For a brief moment he shares their hope and their glory—ang this is bound to make him a better person and a better patriot.

Editor's Note: The views expressed bv colummists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,

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Q—I was born in Indiana before birth records were kept. When a small -.child my parents moved to Illinois. Recently I tried to get a delayed regis tration of my birth from the State Department of Health in Indiana. I was informed that I had te live in the state one year before I could register my birth and get a certificate. What other proof of birth can I get. A—Practicaliy all other states have made it pose sible for persons born there to get a delayed regise. tration of birth, but the Indiana law makes it ims possible for persons who have left the state to get a birth certificate. Try to get affiadvits showing the date and place of your birth, parentage, etc., from the attending physician or midwife, public or church ofe ficials, or older relatives. Also get a census record.

Q--How many pupils are enrolled in public schools in the United States and what proportion are in elementary grades? : A—The estimated number of pupils for the school