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' Give Light and the Feople Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1942

DON’T CALL US ELDERLY!

HE president of the United States and the writer of this editorial, along with some 13,000,000 of their fellows in the 46-64 age bracket, registered today for selective service. We hope Mr. Roosevelt enjoyed it as much as we did. There was only one small fly in our ointment: A newspaper headline referring to us registrants as “elderly men.” Doggone it, we don’t feel elderly—not today. Why it was just a little while ago—surely not 25 years! —that we registered with other selective service boards, knowing it meant we might be in the army pretty soon. ‘There wasn’t quite that thrill of mixed pride and appreHension this morning. No call for us to shoulder arms this time, probably. But before long we’ll be getting quéstionnaires, and after we fill them out maybe the government will discover what able and sterling fellows we are, and call us to war jobs. : : Anyhow, we do not feel elderly. Why, this is the first day in months that we haven't felt a little old and useless as we thought of our sons and our neighbors’ sons in their uniforms.

HITLER DOUBLE-TALK

ITLER came home to Berlin to get more dictatorial powers from the reichstag to push German production, and to make another speech against the allies. All of which looks a little phoney. If more terror could produce more war materials, that would have been done long ago without waiting for any “legal” rubber-stamp. And if cussing the allies could win the war, it would have been over soon after it started. So our guess is that Adolf has more practical reasons for his Berlin appearance than meets the eye. Maybe he already has lost too much face on the Russian front. -Maybe he is getting ready for an attack on England. Maybe Laval can’t deliver France. Or maybe there is another surprise of the Hess variety a-cooking. Anyway, it is never what Hitler says that counts, but what he does. The allies know that, and are prepared.

OUR NEW PACIFIC BASE

UL S. ARMY occupation of New Caledonia is more important than the size of that small. French possession in the Pacific would indicate. For that step could not have been taken without prior decisions on major policy regarding strategy in the battle against Japan and American relations to Vichy-France. Vichy, even before the return to power of Laval, protested Washington's consular relations with certain Free French territories. Now Hitler's puppet finds American military association with the de Gaullist regime of New Caledonia: hard to take. But Laval's discomfort will not: change the state department's policy, which is “based upon maintenance of the integrity of France and of the French empire, and of the eventual restoration of the complete independence of all French territories.” Whether this stiffening allied attitude toward Vichy will involve occupation of Madagascar remains to be seen. Madagascar has the strategic position off the South African coast, to’ cut allied supply lines to the Middle and Far East—if in Japanese or other axis control. The move into New Caledonia is further proof—if any were needed—that Washington intends to treat the southwest Pacific as a major front. Only the axis and its puppets will be displeased with this latest American initiative.

“DINKY LITTLE GADGET”

THE wise founding fathers provided in the constitution that congress should have power “to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries.” That is the basis of our patent laws. And these laws for a century and a half, by giving inventors a profit incentive, have promoted the progress of science beyond any limits the founding fathers imagined. In 1934 a toolmaker named William Dzus invented and patented a metal clip or fastener—described as a “a dinky little gadget”—which is highly useful in the manufacture of airplanes. Came war, and the need for thousands upon thousands of military planes, and so for millions of Dzus fasteners. But, trust-buster Thurman Arnold charges before a senate committee, Mr. Dzus has refused to let other companies manufacture his fasteners while admitting that his own company could not make enough of them, As a result, says Mr. Arnold, production of war planes in several hig plants has been slowed or halted at times. » td 8 > 8 . ERE is a fine example of how restrictions on the supply of parts that seem insignificantly small at one factory can impede the building of giant weapons in many factories. ' Of course, if the facts are as Thurman Arnold states them, Mr. Dzus should immediately permit others to make

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his fasteners, or should be required by law to do so. Per-

haps-even, as Senator Lucas of Illinois has suggested, the patent laws should be amended so that they could never be used as an instrument of monopoly. We hope, however, that the incentive for inventors to go on inventing will never be destroyed, But the profit motive can’t be permitted to endanger the nation. These are times when the “right” to make or earn all the traffic will bear or the laws permit must be curbed in the interests of victory and public welfare, Business and industry, farmers and workers and union officials will have to find that out. Inventors are no exception.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

TUSCON, Ariz, April 27.— Speaking from the experience of one who has been a blue-eyed, fair-haired Aryan for almost 48 years, I would say that the one member of our breed or physical type of whom the decent members have cause to be most ashamed is the one who has set himself up as the defender of our whole kind. This was very presumptuous of him because we are by no means all of us Germans and are scattered widely over the world and nobody but himself ever nominated Adolf Hitler to protect us from the peoples whom he, personally, happened not to like. It was presumptuous because he understook to speak and act as the authorized representative of the entire lot of us. This essay of mine is not presumptuous because I speak only for myself, as a member othe

lodge, but not fof the lodge itself.

Not even the utterances and actions of Hitler, Goering, the incredibly brutal Himler and satanic Josef Goebbels, who has dark eyes and hair and a sallow skin, can condemn us in the world as a race, if that is what we are.

They have presumed to commit the most savage crueltjes in our name and have deliberately contrived the ghastliest war in all history, but attention is called to the fact that more of us are arrayed against them than for them,

Our Kind Would Be Condemned!

AS A BREED, if I may assume, for the purpose of discussion, that we .are a breed, we are neither as evil as Hitler's career would suggest nor anywhere near as Godlike as he has represented us to be. We are somewhere in between and rather more good than bad and I would emphasize the fact to our credit that most of us loathe Hitler and all Hitlerism and have repudiated him, and the Aryans, as he has called us, will earn a full share of the credit for his final obliteration. ; "If any people of one complexion or another could be held morally responsible for the misconduct of any individual or small group of the same type, then our kind should be condemned for ages yet to come, for it would be true to say thdt we had deliberately set out to destroy all civilization down to date.

But we do not apply any such responsibility to other groups for the conduct of individuals and I submit that we should be spared blame for Hitlerism:except as, individually, we have indorsed this awful thing.

And the Cowardly Klan—

HE DOES, HOWEVER, put us on the defensive in a way, for we cannot deny a sense of sname that this was done in our name, though without our authority, or that the civilization to which we contributed so much was suddenly, but we hope, only momentarily, set at naught by Hitler. : It is exasperating that we so often in the last 20 years have been set apart from the rest of the human family for purposes which would degrade us if we actually were a separate group and always by such evil, self-appointed representatives. The Ku-Klux Klan called us Nordics and represented us as an efficient cowardly lot who, despite numerical superiority and greater wealth and better opportunities, must resort to the lash, the tarpot, silent persecution and mass attacks by night on helpless individuals to hold our own in the world.

What a Humiliating Claim!

MISERABLE FRAUDS wanting money, luxury and power would have the world believe that for all our

-boast of superiority we still could not compete with a

smaller element on fair, honest terms. ~ Then Hitler made the humiliating claim that a half million non-Aryans, outnumbered 100 to 1 among 50,000,000 German supermen, were stealing the coun=try and contaminating them and attacked ecivilization, itself, because he believed the Aryan could not make good except as a barbarian. It is a good thing for us that we are not apart because if we really were a conscious group we would now risk some great punishment for the rest of mankind for generations to come.

What Rick Says

By Major Al Williams

CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER, America’s top ace of the last war, recently made a 15,000-mile tour of our army air corps training centers, lecturing on “The Psychology of Aerial Combat.” There Is no American airman better qualified to teach the business of fighting in the air. Courage plus brains is the best way to sum him up. I know Rick, and have studied him for years, not only as a friend, but as one airman for whom I entertain the greatest respect. The army air corps certainly used its head when it delegated Rick to visit its combat flight training schools and .teach young America the ideals of those who’ pioneered aerial fighting. Capt. Rickenbacker’s estimate of the length of this war—“minimum of five years, barring miracles, with a possibility of its lasting 10 years’—is an opinion no one can afford to ignore.

Needed: 300,000 Combat Pilots

HE CALLS FOR 300,000 first-class combat pilots; and that means at least 10 times as many trained men in ground crews—an air army of at least three million men for America, This country ignored Rick’s prediction that this would be a true air war, just as it ignored its greatest air leader, Gen. Billy- Mitchell. But we can't keep on ignoring those whose wits are sharp enough to deduce the trends of the future from the evidence at hand--not and continue to exist as a ruling nation in this world. Three hundred thousand aerial warriors mean that airmanship must immediately become the creed and the Holy Grail of American youth of America. Before

men can be taught to fight in the air they must be |.

taught to be at home in the air, to fly subconsciously. This word, “airmanship,” we have dinned into the eyes and ears of the country for many years in the effort to dislodge the silly word “stunts.” We will ride over the axis gang only when our fighting ranks, darkening the skies, have learned to be at home in the skies.

So They Say—

By taking part in a musical enterprise, no matter whether you huff or whether you puff, you are stimulating your fellow participant and doing something

for yourself.—Maj. Harold W. Kent, War Department

education officer. * * * We don't intend to paint any houses yellow, or put people behind barbed wire if they don't buy wax bonds.~—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Mongenthau Jr. . * . tae Li3 Sic sali ancisery atv navi ad, thay Justity Subs Smsancy, for they are symbols of the serious-

‘ness of Ya Smih~Jby Chulbers, Shido Misty

The Hoosier Forum

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

“NEW LEFT TURN RULE FOOLISH AND DANGEROUS” By Frank Weathers, Indianapolis That 19-year-old driver whose letter you printed a few days ago, wants to teach us oldsters how to drive a car. I bet he could, for I see his kind every day; going at 40 miles per hour; making left turns where they are forbidden; disregarding all advice regarding saving of tires; turning corners at excessive speed, etc., etc. It would pay the police department to station an officer at 34th and Meridian sts. in the morning to give tickets to the many young people making left turns. By the way, how many collisions will be needed to convince our traffic officials that the new leftturn rule is foolish and dangerous? The only way to solve the left-turn problem is to prohibit them altogether at least in the mile-square and on main streets. It is no hardship to anyone to drive an extra block and make only right turns. That would eliminate the congestions. What difference will it make whether a .left turn stops traffic going in your or the opposite direction? Only by making drivers go around the block in right turns can traffic be accelerated. ¥ # “THIS KIND OF PUBLICITY IS TERRIBLE STUFF!” By Fred Miller, Columbus, Ind. Just read your quoted Home Defense Bulletin, 4-24-42, First sentence is: “Can you picture an air raid on Indianapolis?” It seems to me that this kind of publicity is terrible. We are a nation of fearless people about five thousand miles from Germany and further than that from the nearest Jap outpost. Mechanically and geographically, there is a slim possible chance to bomb Indianapolis. But why let this very, very remote possibility affect us to the point where we take time from our offensive efforts to notice it? English rates of insurance for bomb damage are $1 per $100. 8o to protect your home and furniture up to $5000 costs $50 a year. That is the rate in London, England. For goodness sake, let us forget

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about local air raids and think about . working harder on the offensive end. Let us concentrate on problems of supplying our soldiers and sailors with planes, tanks, bullets, shells, food and transportation. Let us forget about bombs on our town for right now. o ” ”

“YOU SHOULD CONDEMN ALL

KINDS OF CROOKEDNESS” By George /W. Davis, Shelbyville To Mr. Reece, New Castle: If it were not for your accusation of maliciousness, I would not bother to answer your letter, You cannot see any constructive criticism in my article because you,do not want to see it. All that I can say to you, up to now, is that you are blindly loyal to your . . , labor leaders. If they intimidate, steal or murder, that

seems to be all right with you . . . BY

You seem to want to throw all wrongdoing on other labor unions other than yours and that yours is all perfume and roses. It just happens that all the violence and atrocities that I mentioned around Defroit and other cities happened to be pulled off by U. A. W. A, members, .under the leadership of the great Walter Reuther and his two ‘brothers, Roy and Victor. He received his training in dictatorship, mob warfare and compulsory closed shop technique in Russia and immediately put them into effect here . , . If you are right and patriotic, you will.condemn all crookedness in or out of labor unions, in industry, business and above all, our votesoliciting representatives at Washington in all branches. Why should the Reuthers and Bioffs and Bridges. be exgmpted from military duty or for that matter, any special privilege groups such as walking delegates, dues collectors, pickets, or any labor leader

Side Glances=—By Galbraith

whose claim to distinction is calling strikes, Hollywood glamour boys and labor relations men? , Civilian life has no place and no need for the extortionists who are right now sandbagging carpenters and laborers for these unlawful, unreasonable union initiation fees and dues before being allowed to work on army barracks. Billions are pouring into racketeers’ hands, untaxed, uncontrolled, that should be used for our fighting forces.

Your closed shop, your dictatorship and your methods of growthcompulsion will destroy you just as surely as Hitlerism will be destroyed. What do the other 120,000,000 American citizens think of the “deferment order?” What will they think when the long black boxes, draped with red, white and blue bunting, begin to trickle home? I see thousands leaving the army camp sites, carpenters and laborers, never to return because they will not pay tribute to the mob. They will give their all, their lives, for defense but tribute, never!

u » o “AS ONE R. W. WEBER TO ANOTHER R. W. WEBER”

R. W. Weber, 50 N. Audubon rd., - Indianapolis

Dear Namesake: Last week you criticized women for wearing slacks. Of course you have the right to express your opinion on any subject The Times will accept, but please, hereafter, include your phone number or street address. I have had five phone calls since your item appeared and I had to listen to some rather caustic stuff before I had a chance to explain that I am the good-looking, redhaired R. W. Weber and not the one who wrote the item. Incidentally, you object to women wearing slacks bepgause they waddle and they waggle. I do not agree with you. I like to see them in slacks just because they do waddle and waggle. I'll close by saying that I

than I do those who waddle. sn 8 “WHEN ARE THOBE OILING WAGONS COMING?"

By Jae. Louise Cavett, 2116 W, Minnesota

- the taxpayers ot W. Minnesota st., would love to know when the city street commission is going to get out its “oiling wagons?” We're hoping before fall sets in!" We can't open our doors or windows in this beautiful spring weather unless we go around with a dust cloth in our hands. At present, our home is quarantined for 28 days. Gee, how we envy people who can take a ride in the evenings for a breath of fresh air. Any board of health officers’ wives or themselves are invited to sit on my front porch for an hour. I'll serve them lemonade to wash the dust down, If they did, our street would be oiled the next day!

” ” » URGING SPRING DRIVE ON WESTERN FRONT

4 [By D. B. W., Inapls.

As a patriotic American who is

campaign in urging the opening of a Western | sid front at once, , . . If we hesitate af; this point Japan is almost certain to attack the So viet Union, thereby relieving Hitler of the necessity to divide his forces and spread the war even further,

DAILY THOUGHT Judge not according to the ap-

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More C On Tires:

By John W. Love

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CLEVELAND, April 27.—Four of the big rubber companies in Akron—Pirestone, General, Goodrich’ and Goodyear — are: now working on the more-or-less rub | Bub thelr work is shrouded not only in mystery but in fear—fear thist car owners will jump to the cohclusion that new tires will be reiidy when 61d ones wear out, and fear that the tires: that may be

“develop ed would require almost ad “much new plant

y would they age asks the apdkesnin for “if people assumed the discoveries e¢ made on order, and then found the materials or machinery could not be had, or the tire was cheese?” Counting Ford, at least five concerns in. this coline try are now seriously seeking a way of making tires of other than naturil op ‘synthetic Tubber, or wiih very small qu antities of either.

A Detroit report that Jord Motor was. eXbetitents

ing iy a tire containing only one-sixteenth the usual

amount of rubber was followed by Goodyear's ane nouncement that test cars were running on tires made without rubber.

They're All at Work

FIRESTONE PRESIDENT John W* Thomas then |_said some of his company's results were “encouraging® “but: it as too early judge their practical value. * Goodrich President John L. Collyer said “all come panies” were working on syatheiis substitutes, and i$ is understood in Akron that these include materials other than synthetic rubbers. Goodrich is not now expecting to make more announcements until the tire is ready for the market, provided the numerous. problems are solved. President William, O'Neil of General Tire says his, company is joining in the search. The need for a tire of something other than syne . thetic rubber emerged on the disclosures from Akron and Washington that, even if 700,000 tons of synthetig rubber capacity is ready by 1944, military and lende lease requirements will take it all

Don't Forget the Army

SEVERAL LEADS have ‘been opening up to the tire prospectors. i. y One is the use of | lrecliimed rubber, pulverized and stuck together with 4 cement, making a sort of flexible concrete. It would use less rubber than a. tire made directly of reclaimed rubber. Another, or a whole group of leads, is in the creat, complex and only partly explored field of. the plastics. Here the handicap s the exiensive plant likely to be needed. Diligent ‘inquiry in Akron | writs the sonclusion that no one is confident he knows the answer, but that hopes are widely held that somebody: will hit the jackpot some day. It is emphatically true that ‘nobody had an ides stuck back for this emergency, © The public has been let in 2 the search much earlier than ever before, and manufacturers gre afraid that wishful thinking will lead| only to disappointments. There is also the distinev possibility that the army will grab off anything the rubber chemists and physicists hit upon, due to the great military needs. The army is already taking tires good for only: 5000 miles for| vehicles gs iy will never run that far.

/oman 's. Viewpoint.

By rs. os Ferguson

4 | IT'S TOO EAT too early ~for parades. : Demonstrations of that kird are fitting before battles begin and after they are won, But right now the United States is in the midst of a fiightful an den war which, until very if ‘we have been losing. en, should anyone take ouf ‘to organize, or: partie watch a parade? 7 | They say the rhythm of marche ing feet starts a war-like response in the civilian blood. They say the sound of drums inspires men and women with determination and pourage and patriotie fervor. i | This may be true, but it does not altar the fact that in a| parade some people do all the work while others merely enjoy the show. And, as I see it, this is not the moment to pile any extra work on the men who have to win this war for us. The need for quick action on all fronts is most urgent. either working people nor soldiers ean afford to waste a minute. Therefore, and quite lites~ ally, we have no time for parades. ‘We Can't Afford Them Now FOR THEY MEAN that hundreds of thousands of soldiers must leave fheir g and their jobs to entertain thousands of civilians who, in turn, must leave their offices and factories to look on, The most enco ing sign of our war far has b the ut r absenqe of that sappy vior which, for t of a better name, we cal} g up patriotism.! The erican people don’ reed, and don’t want, that fore of flapdoodie. I They have set themselves | ‘as ‘grim, hard task, Their. chief desire is to get on with it and finish it as quickly as possible. Anything that diverts attene tion from the actual work of winning the war is ree garded by most of them as a handicap to the effort, No matter how niuch we love military spectacles, we cannot afford them now, It's a form of amuse« ment we had better postpons until we have defeated

our enem Let's feserve our Parades.ontl) We can celebrate our victories.

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. Q@—May men wha are callad for induction into the

armed f sell their new automobiles without ree strictions?

A—Yes. Dsssnger

When the sejcks finds buyer tor hi LI» sliayia apis 8 D. Iie Joual rationing ¢ here the car wir To Oh atc na i ra tranafer. 1010 odd yussents Dine haa pacity of not more Sngiiia having @ number of miles it Co fs wpiciivg of ue Jouse: We au cmon hig hap been dftven: less than ' a

Q—Do ont ever ocliur in any coler other : than blue? : A—Yes, they pivant almost every variety of color, | ' altho blue 5. 10e sha Juuliar, dep sues

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