Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1942 — Page 17

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WASHINGTON, May 15—I'm coming back again to this neglected speech of Vice President Wallace's because I can’t help it.

I can’t help it because since it was delivered last ¥H Friiay I have read it over several times, and each time I have been more impressed with its depth, vision and what seems to me its inescapable truth. His remarkable spcech has been strangely neglected. I first read it before it was delivered and wrote a thumbnail piece underscoring some of its high spots for publication after delivery, with

the idea that it would have been-

printed in full in the meantime, Yet somehow it was lost in the shuffle on the news desks of the country, like Lincoln's: Gettysbre address was in the next morning’s newspapers. Washington newspaper readers saw the full text for the first time five days late and then because a business concern, the International Latex Corp. bought a full page in the Washington Post and as its advertisement printed the full text of the address as a public service. There isn’t any newspaper plot against Wallace and I'm not trying even slyly to intimate such a thing. I've ‘been in newspaper work all of my adult life and have missed plenty of stories that passed right by me and.so has every other newspaperman.

Said With Force and Eloquence

EVERY NEWSPAPER office and press association desk muffs a play now and then. Instead of there having been a plot to suppress this most significant address, I suspect that most newspapermen who handled it are kicking themselves for having missed the story. I don’t like to butcher this address by citing pieces of 1t- again because it deserves to be read as a whole.

By Raymond Clapper

No public man has said anything more important in our time, nor anything that so much needed saying. Wallace has said it with force and eloquence. One classic passage suggests what Wallace means

when he says we must fight for a complete peace as .

well as a ‘complete victory.

Myr. Roosevelt Must Take Lead

“I SAY THAT the century on which we are entering—the century which wilk come out of this war— can be and must be the century of the common man,” said Mr. Wallace. “Perhaps it will be America’s opportunity to suggest the freedoms and duties by which the common man must live. “Everywhere the common man must learn to build his own industries with his own hands in a practical fashion. Everywhere the common man must learn to increase his productivity so that he and his children can eventually pay to the world community all that they have received. “No nation will have the God-given right to exploit other nations. Older nations will have the privilege to help younger nations get started on the path to industrialization, but there must be neither military nor economic imperialism. The methods of ‘the nineteenth century will not work in the people’s century which is now about to begin. “India, China and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people’s century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble. Modern science, when devoted wholeheartedly to the general welfare, has in it potentialities of which we do not yet dream.” Can Hitler's conception stand againsi that conception? Waliace has outlined the purposes ror which the united nations must stand and our side will rest with a somewhat uneasy conscience until the leaders of the united nations make this their cause. They won't make it their cause unless President Roosevelt takes the lead .in seeing that this is done.

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Ernie Pyle, in poor health for some time, has been forced to take a rest. However, he is expected to resume his daily column within a short time.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

JIM STRICKLAND tells the story of the draft board chairman (Jim won't say which one or whether he’s local) who wanted tires or a new car and had been turned down by the local rationing board. He appealed to Mr. Strickland but couldn’t- prove that he was entitled to tires. A few days later, he called back and.explained a youth’ in his board who was about to be inducted had a set of tires with only a few hundred miles on them. Could he buy these tires? No, said Mr. Strickland. They aren't “used” tires until they have more than 1000 miles, The board chairman pondered a moment, then asked: “Well, if this youth should get deferred a few days and drive the tires until they had more than 1000 miles on them, would be that all right.” Mr. Strickland opined that it would. And it probably was, as that was the last he heard of the chairman.

Air Raid and Gas War

A HUGE DRAGON fly that for a time was mistaken for the radio's Green Hornet met a painless death when .it invaded the offices of Dr. Sidney Aronson in the Hume.Mansur yesterday. The terrifying insect—all of three inches long and with a double set of ‘wings—had the office in an uproar for a time with its flitting, It wouldn't stay still long enough to get swatted, so Dr. Aronson got a tube of anesthetic, sprayed some on the bug, and down it toppled, only to receive a tap on the head that it didn’t feel. ... The I. A. C. has assigned its permanent residents

to air raid stations and now is all set for come what !

may. They tried out their new bell alarm system the other afternoon and it was the consensus that no

Price Control OTTAWA, Ont, May 15—It is plain here that Canada’s methods of general price control are not the unqualified success some Americans have said they were, but it is also clear that once the plan was set, in motion it could not be given up. It could only be intensified. The United States system, now launched but yet to be fully fitted out, is patterned on Canada’s in many details. The lesson is that when shortcomings. develop in the States as they will, they must be overcome by main strength and awkwardness if subtler methods fail. The triumph of: the Canadian plan is revealed in the cost-of-living charts — the indexes had been rising last year alongside two " other upward-sloping lines, one of them the Canadian cost of living in the last war, the other the American cost of living in this war. The Canadian line has been horizontal] since Dec. 1, The parallel ended there. The awkwardnesses of the system are shown in several ways, but Canadians don’t see how they can be avoided, nor avoided in the states if Leon Henderson's underwriting of the cost of living is-t6 be met as rigorously as Donald Gordon's in this country.

Cost Increases Unavoidable

RISES IN COSTS are inescapable, and: to keep these from showing up as rises in prices the dominion government has to compensate for them by paying subsidies, or prevent them by forcing simplifications and standardizations. ‘ The Canadian government has paid out over $2,100,000 in subsidies and perhaps $4,000,000 more

My Day

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—From: the time I Buffalo, N. Y., yesterday at 1 o'clock until I left af 9:45, I had very little time to waste. I lunched with the ladies of the various unions, and then we started to look at the housing site. The Grand Island Homes Co-operative Association, Inc, is a co-operative organization which has bought a tract of land on ‘Grand Island and is going to build homes for workers. The sites will be about a half an acre each, so there will be plenty of room for a good garden. The down payment is reasonable and the monthly payments are well within the proper budgetary allowance for rents. Since a scheme, they have guarded against the “possibility of a man haying to move, by making it’ possible -for the co-operative to take back the site: and reimburse the individual for what he has put in.! ‘Phere is another insurance phase which interests me ly. Under this insurance arrangement, me paste death of the ‘wage earner, the widow reeives ‘which is the maximum amount put inte

it ‘is a co-operative

one could sleep through it. Two long rings signal a blackout; continuous ringing—an air raid, and a short and a long, a short and a long—all clear. Just like London.

Bound for the Navy

LYMAN 8S. AYRES, vice president of L. S. Ayres & Co., was to leave today for the South Boston Navy yards to report as a lieutenant (j. g.). His brother, Frederic M. Ayres Jr., also a vice president of the store, reported as an ensign late last month. , , , Also headed for the navy is Bon Dragstrem of the Power & Light engineering department. He has received a commission as lieutenant and is to leave for Washington Sunday. . . . Tom Ruckelshaus tells us his Red Cabs traveled 14,292,313 miles last year—the equivalent of more than 570 times around the world. The total will be a lot less this year. The company is trying to cut down its mileage a half million a month to conserve rubber. It missed last month—by 80,000 miles—but with additional parking stands, they may be able to beat the half million figure; says Tom.

Woops! Excuse It, Judge!

DURING THE primary campaign, a long string of candidates filed into the mayor's reception room, Most of them handed Chris Fisher, the mayor's messenger, some of their campaign cards. Chris used them for writing memos. Judge Joseph Markey called on the mayor and while he was in the private office, someone phoned a message for him. Chris wrote it on one of the cards and was about to hand the card to the judge when he suddenly excused himself and hurried out of the room, returning a moment later to give the message verbally, Judge Markey didn’t know it, but what froze Chris was the discovery the memo was written on the card of Jake Weiss—the judge’s opponent. ;

By John W. Love

have accrued. Finance Minister J. L. Ilsey is willing to spend $50,000,000 a year in this manner. Most of the money paid out so far has been for the extra costs of milk in winter, which have now been cut off. Another large chunk, $584,000, has gone for shoes, but the manufacturers are now required to make shoes more economically by cutting down the number of styles. There have been and will be unavoidable payments for imports of cotton, rice and American citrus fruits and juices. It is suggested here that trade between Canada and the States may now be regulated so as to avoid a net subsidy in either direction, but that the United States may find itself paying subsidies for certain imports from other countries, just as Canada subsi~ dizes imports of British porcelain,

The Frills Go Out

..CANADA IS ABOUT to pay subsidies for the extra freight costs of bringing goods by rail from gulf ports in the U. S., instead of through Montreal, and Canadians mention American subsidies on gasoline shipped by tank cars. Unsolved, so far, is the problem in a noticeable drift of Canadian goods to the higher-priced varieties and the practical disappearance of a few of the lowerpriced from retail counters. Consumers show a preference for better goods, now that they have more money to spend, but manufacturers and dealers also find they can make the same money with a diminishing supply of materials if they go over to higherpriced lines with wider profit margins. . Unsettled here also is the question whether goods containing substitutes can be priced at much less than the goods whose places they are intended to take. The prices board holds that anything which “degrades” a product must be offered at a lower price, but the degree of degradation is extremely hard to fix for pricing purposes.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

but it is certainly possible for it to do a great deal more ' than any one ‘individual. I shall watch the development of this particular undertaking with the greatest of interest. On our return to Buffalo, we attended the induction ceremony where boys were taken into all branches of the service—army, navy, marine corps, coast guard and flying cadets. Their families joined them in the recreation room which is provided by patriotic organizations for the use of men at the time of their induction. The WPA band played and the oath was administered to each group with due formality and solemnity. The mayor of Buffalo spoke and I was asked to say a few words.

I always find it difficult to face these young people so eager and willirfg to.give themselves. Before leaving in the evening, I had various meetings and ended with g dinner and a speech to the members of the various unions. I was fortunate enough to see the president of Peru again, who came to the dinner for a few minutes. It was most interesting to hear the impressions of his last few days’ trip. I told my husband this morning that President Prado was pleased with his reception everywhere and lek What Wherever 18 Lad sees our produstion efiort,

VICTORY RALLY PROGRAM READY

Over State Expected at

Cadle Tabernacle.

United Auto Workers of America members from all sections of Indiana are expected to attend the victory rally sponsored by the union at 2 p. m. Sunday in Cadle tabernacle.

Speakers are to include Paul V. McNutt, Governor Schricker, Philip Murray, R. J. Thomas and Richard T. Frankensteen,

Army Band to Play

probably willl be received. The army band will play for 30 minutes before the rally gets under way. The invocation will be delivered by E. Howard Cadle and there will be a mass choral prayer by the Cadle choir. The war workers present will offer pledges of unlimited war production to President Roosevelt, who will be represented by Col. A. Robert Ginsburgh, director of press relations for the U. S. army. Dance to Follow

The rally will be preceded by a U. A. W.-C. 1. O. educational conference tomorrow at the Hotel Lincoln. Speakers at this session will include Leo Goodman of the U. S; treasury department, Newman Jeffry of ‘the office of civilian defense, George F. Addes of U. A. W,, Mr. Frankensteen, Victor Reuther of C. I. O. and John Edelman of the office of price administration.

Theme of His aimlerons wil bei “Education for Victory.” | A dance

U. A. W.. Members From All

Greetings from President Roose-|: velt and Gen. Douglas MacArthur],

HOLD EVERYTHING

“I admire your work, Mister— how about giving me an autographed original?”

WATER PROJECTS AT KINGSBURY HALTED

LA PORTE, Ind., May 15 (U, P.). —Construction work on the $129,000 sewer and water works project at Kingsbury, Ind., a small town near

the Kingsbury ordnance plant, was

halted today by the federal works agency because they held no federal housing building contract. .J. H. Collins,, FWA construction engineer, said work had been discontinued because no federal housing projects had been started at Kingsbury. The presence of Kingsford - Heights, giant governmental housing project two miles south, virtually blanked Kingsbuty's chancés of getting their own housing project in-order to complete the utilities work. : ut | taken ttlemen

SCIENGE TALENT SEARCH STARTS

Forty Boys and Girls to Get Trip to Capital for Final Tests.

Twenty-seven science pupils from five Indianapolis schools are competing today in the science talent search now being conducted by the science clubs of America and sponsored ‘by the syndicate, Science Service, The purpose of the search is to discover scientific talent that will be of value to the nation in war and in peace. Forty boys and girls who lead nationally in the preliminary examinations will be given all-expense trips to Washington for the final tests. From these, two contestants, a

boy and a girl, will be selected to

receive Westinghouse science grand scholarships of $2400 covering a four-year period. ° Eighteen other entrants will receive Westinghouse Selanee scholarships of $200 for one

The Indianapolis schools participating are Cathedral high school, Park school, Manual high school, Crispus Attucks high school and Technical high school.

U. S. AIDS BUILDING OF RADIO STATION

WASHINGTON, May 15 (U. PJ. —The United States is helping the Free French establish a “worldcommanding” radio station in Brazzaville, French equatorial Africa, a well-informed diplomatic source said

"The United States will share the

1. This new photograph, one of the most recent taken of Gen, Douglas MacArthur, has just been received from Australia.

2. Hundreds of new United States troops reach an Australian. port, marching smartly with determination on every face. :

3. No rationing here—American and Australian soldiers refuel a huge U. S. flying fortress somewhere in the Australian interior. 4. A peaceful Australian farm becomes a city of tents as torontly arrived American troops put up their canvas homes.

5. These Australian soldiers, part of a convoy em route fo- Port Darwin, pause for food during the long overland trip. Hes

Weiter Tells of Starvation In Colony Under Jap Rule

Editor’s Notes—Isadore Epstein, former United Press correspondent, who once was reported killed by a shell fragment during the siege of Hong Kong, has escaped to free China. In this dispatch he tells of life in the Portuguese colony of Macao.

By ISADORE EPSTEIN Written for United Press

CHUNGKING, May 10 (Delayed). —Japan controls domestic life in the tiny, over-populated Portuguese colony of Macao with teasing pressure, which imposes severe hardships on its 400,000 residents. Macao's five square miles of area embrace the only territory along the Asiatic coastline not governed by a belligerent power. The crowded residents live, near starvation, along beautiful avenues in- crumbling buildings of 17th century Iberian architecture. Scores .Jof churches are scattered among prosperous dens of gambling: and vice. Japan Centrols Rice Japan . controls the rice supply and all communication and transportation channels from the colony. The Japanese keep constant pressure on harried Portuguese officials. Japanese ‘authorities win their demands commonly by withholding rice from Macao until the entire population grows hungry. Then they agree io provide rice in exchange for the colony's entire supply of some commodity, Portuguese officials have taken over all gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oil, metals, cotton and yarn. Scores. of emaciated corpses are buried daily. The Japanese have Banded the entire fuel: . supply of the British=~ a owned power plant and waterworks. They - demanded’ high-octane gasoline last month and asked how the two patrol ‘planes opetatell when

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board the Netherlands harbor works dredge in defiance of internstional

law. i Quinine Is Currency

Because of chaotic. currency cone - ditions, - commodities—mostly qui nine—have become the actual mee dium of exchange. Value of the colony’s currency and .Hong Kong notes fluctuate daily. J. P. Reeves, British consul, is the only representative of the united nations in Macao. - He faces diffie culties constantly in obtaining rae tion cards for British and American , residents. There are 30 Americans in the colony. Portuguese authorities doubt thas : Japan will take over the colony because such action might. invite allied occupation of Cape Verde and the Azores and would deprive Japanese leaders of a neutral refuge in East Asia if the war went against them,

CHILDREN GIVE UP

derson today returned the war 1 tion books of two Los. Angeles d dren who sent them to Pres Roosevelt with a note that* wished to save sugar for’ a effort. Henderson - praised “fine principles of Americs but wrote that that “there is sugar for all of us.” The children, 10-year-old Joan Mercer and her eighisy that they ‘did not eat © ings ‘stamps.