Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1942 — Page 18

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" FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1043

: MOTES, BEAMS, GAS AND BUREAUCRATS jo “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the mote out of thine eye, and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou sée clearly to cast out the mote out of thy broth-

“ -CARD" congressmen shouldn't have to take all the

heat in this gasoline rationing business, though plenty of heat is coming to those who galumphed in, regardless of need, At least, however, the congressmen pay for their

cars and their gas. .

But what of the bureaucrats to whom cars and gas, and chauffeurs, too, are furnished by the taxpayers? Let's not overlook them. And there are a lot of them, not only in the nation’s capital, but throughout the whole country to which gas rationing may soon be extended,

beam that is in his own eye.

and yon.

‘the band wagon go by.” A fine example, this.

Former Congressman Jack Dempsey of New Mexico, now a bureaucrat himself, being undersecretary of the interior, saw the point quickly, and quickly considered the

Mr. Dempsey could if he wished whistle up a long and shiny Packard in whieh, with driver, to go hither

But, he says, “I will not use the official car that has been assigned to me. For my own car I will ask for the gasoline card which corresponds with the actual need for its use. If there are to be sacrifices we federal officials must be on the band wagon, not on the sidewalk watching

But we have yet to hear from others who roll on rubber at taxpayer expense.

” ” ” ” . . : THIS whole thing will shake down, we think, to a situation in which all of us, public officials and private citizens, had better look into the mirror and ask ourselves— are we shooting square, or are we chiseling? The big idea is not only to save gas and oil on the eastern seaboard, but to save rubber—that most precious

of all our materials—by not indulging in needless motoring. That being the case, any one who takes advantage of any special privilege will end up with a white feather on his lapel. If the official journey he takes—whether he be “president, cabinet member, congressman, general,. admiral ~ or private—justifies itself “in fact,” he will be in the clear, in terms of public sentiment. Same for citizen and house-

wife.

But if he is caught sucking eggs, he will be cursed.

For-one of the strongest traits in America is its sporting spirit. Witness a prize fight, when there is a blow beneath

the belt.

80, in the observance of rationing, in all its forms, we commend the quotation from the good book which precedes

this editorial.

BROWDER’S HELP ISN'T NEEDED THE people who sign those “Free Earl Browder” adver- " tisements ought to copy-read them. It doesn’t sit well

with most Americans to be told that: “Browder’s release would give us the services of a man

the all-out war effort.

«with Stalin held. E Europe.

erites would shut up.

who has proved his ability to fight fascism.” Undoubtedly, if President Roosevelt turns him loose, Browder will join the other Communists in whooping for That's the current party line. : But only a year ago Browder's party was helping fascism to the best of its ability—denouncing the “imperialist war,” calling Mr. Roosevelt a “war monger,” fomenting strikes in American defense plants, trying to stop lendlease, diligently serving Hitler so long as Hitler's pact

And nobody can convince us that Browder meant well to the United States when he lied to get a passport to visit

; This country wants to help Russia. it would help more enthusiastically, with fewer misgivings, if the Browd-

This country doesn’t need the services of any man whose loyglty to America can be switched on and off by - orders from a foreign government.

GOOD FOR THE LEGION! THE American Legion will set a good example for other

organizations by substituting for its usua! annual convention a comparatively small business meeting, with

a limited number of delegates and officials conferring for three days here in Indianapolis next September. "There'll be no big parade, no drum corps contests, no fun-and-frolic events such as drew 225,000 Legionnaires and other visitors to Chicago last year. The railroads and bus lines, already overburdened with war traffic, won't have to carry huge convention crowds. . : The Légion members and their guests can spend their money for War Bonds, instead of travel, and their energy "on efforts more important just now, if much less amusing, " than the antics that have come to be so much a part of

annual conventions.

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AR JERKER

HIS will bring tears to many eyes. Down in Bermuda a bumper crop of fine onions is just lying around, all wn up and no place to go. Siti ‘England would like to have every one of them, for to t beleaguered island they are as priceless as pearls. But ipping space apparently is reserved for other things. Shipping space is also a problem for the U. 8. and Cana-

markets. And

in Canada the price is controlled; little

‘chief national interest, your correspondent was known

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, May 15.—If anyone, such as the Communists or old Upton Sinelair, would like to engage the services of a party who is sure peison te the cor

poration stocks of the capitalistic it

system, as a means of destroying same, 8 letter te the author ef these dispatches is advised. Your correspondent’s weight for age, so to speak, probably never has had i an equal, as a destroyer of stock values.

Regard for example, what yeur correspondent did. te A, T. & T. This stock was retailing at 176 when your eorrespondent first hit it a little lick te see What would happen. The deal invelved only 10 shares, but within a week A. T. & T. was down te 167 and many millions of investors’ money was rubbed out, Later there was another deal for 10 more and A: T, & T. went to 157 and another purchase ef five shares

drove it te 116, That was the last time your corres- |

pendent had the courage to look at A. T. & T., but, remember, he knocked off 61 points with three piker purchases amounting to enly 85 shares. At the present time a purchase of a thousand shares by a party possessing the withering touch, meaning your correspondent, weuld just about drive A. T. &'T, off the board. :

He Discovered It In ‘29

BACK THERE IN 1020 was when this gift was discovered. All through the era of wenderful nonesense, when the office boys areund the shop were forming $60 pools to buy stocks en margin and the hackmen kept their radies running se thsy eould calculate their winnings, your author strictly refrained from all such, deeming these operations to be somehow unsound. Therefore when the panic broke he was glad to have saved a little each week during the boom years. Thus when the John D. Rockefellers, father and son, publicly allowed that the market had hit bottem and was about to bounce, your correspondent went down to a Wall street broker's offige and said: “I would like to buy $5000 worth of your best invest ment stocks.” “What kind?” the eustomers’ man inquired. “Assorted.” : So, very much like a very much younger investor spending & nickel at a candy counter and choosing some of these and those and them, your correspondent bought a variety of securities and, according to the broker's instructions, put them away and forgot about them. That is, he fergot about them until they became so gamy that the department of health con-

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IT MAY Loox BiG TO YOU BUT

fiscated them as a menace to public hygiene and sent them off to the incinerater. ;

Do the Commies Have $100,000?

BACK IN THOSE boom years, when touring Florida with the ball players and fighters, who were our

to his colleagues as a great sucker for the one-armed bandits, He would be sitting in some place having, a quiet sandwich and a house-paint julep first thing you knew he would be dancing down before a battery of these plum-and-lemon chines and, sometimes would lose as much as $25 in a single evening. One of the great financiers of of the richest Americans said one : a shame to see anyone throw away money that way. He said a man ought to invest in sound stocks, not squander his money on a device which was rigged against him. Sin Little did he know that he was spesking to a man with & magic way with stocks. If the Communist party would like to put up a stake of, say, $100,000 your correspondent; - just for the fun of it, would undertake to attack U. 8, Steel and General Motors and start something that would utterly destroy capitalism without loss of blood.

Malta Mystery

By Ludwell Denny

more raids even than Chungking, {prob

which is in a state of almost continuous destruction and rebuilding. or But the importance of Malta, which is traditional, has unexpectedly increased in the last month. This was recognized by London in the dispatch of & new commander and large air reinforcements at & time when allied planes are in desperate demand elsewhere, particularly in Burma, And Prime Minister ‘CHurchill in his recent public report singled out Malta for comiment.

It Merits Watching

THE MYSTERY I8 why Hitler finds Malta so much more important now. than when he was pressing his two big Libyan offensives.. Of course that British base is a threat to axis supply lines to Africa, but rather less now than when axis traffic was heavier—and the hot season presumably is too far advanced now to prepare a new Libyan drive. The sudden value Hitler places on Malta is indicated by his willingness to withhold hundreds of Nazi planes needed on the Russian front and to use them against this island. In four days he lost 128 planes, destroyed or damaged, and on coming. From which it is assumed that Hitler is ready to pay almost any price to capture Malta. Explanations of the mystery vary widely. Some military experts think it is a forerunner of a Nazi offensive against the Levant and Middle East, as part of a pincers movement already begun in South Russia toward the Caucasus. Others think Hitler fears an allied offensive from Malta against the most vulnerable axis point--Italy. Still others think Hitler considers Malta the ace in the gamble for axis control of the Prench fleet and North African emBut whatever the reason, as long as both Hitler and Churchill put such a high price on this little island it will merit as much watching as some bigger ‘fronts. ’

So They Say—

Americans on the home front must do the hard job, the dirty job, the long job and the job left vacant by the departure of the stronger and more skilled. ~Jonathan Daniels, assistant civilian defense di- * : * \ Appeasement, like a dreaded plague brought by Munich-minded men, must be forever quarantined

from America. —Director J. Edgar Hoover of the F. B. 1. : » » * : The civilian population of Germany can escape the severities of our bombers by abandoning work, going into the fields and watching the home fires burn.— | Winston Churchill. ! ”

“VISIT NEARBY STATES AND

MEET SOME HOSPITALITY” By Kentucky Wer Worker's Wife, Indian-

apolis The type of letter you write, “West Indianapolis Hoosier,” is just too disgusting to even think about, but evidently you want an answer so I won't disappoint you. Yeu meet a couple of people from a certain state and by the way they live you judge others from the state as being the same type of people, Well, thank goodness, I am broadminded enough noi to judge all Hoosiers by a certain few, Perhaps it would do you good to leave your smug little world and visit neighboring states and find out what real hospitality is. And by the way, there is a war

going on that has to be won so I

sincerely believe we could use our time to better advantage than bickering about our own American next door neighbors. : rN “STILL ONE THING 1

JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND” By Mariam Williams, Piginfleid I realize that our nation is at war, & combat that will mean the hie of, or the death of our way of e. I have been reading some articles written by various people dealing with the employees—their wages, thelr hours, and the continuous lem of housing them all—but there is still one thing which I cannot understand about the employee and his paycheck and the relations of the same with the government. I thought a man who sweated nine hours on the railroad and then into all hours of the night making out a bunch of routine reports that should be made out in the division engineers office in the first place, was entitled to his pay check, or rather what is left of :it after the company got through with it. In using a railroad employee as my model, I don’t mean just railway employees but everyone who does hard labor. After certain deductions are made—company insur-

The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will : defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their .views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can “have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

ance, old age pension (which incidentally you ean’t draw out in full until you are 65 unless you can’t crawl to work) there's barely enough to go aroupd to meet the common necessary bills, especially with food, utility prices what they are now. . .. My question is this: How can the government expect people who sren’t permitted to have enough money to feed, clothe and house their dependents, buy their bonds and save for a rainy day? If the government is going to ration gasoline to defense workers

| (who incidentally aren't to be found

at home unless they have to work). how can they expect a section forein an amergency to go out in | sorts of weather in order to get the place of the accident, or colet his men in order that he may the damage in order that someelse's neck (and perhaps s sentor's or congressman's at that) might be saved. hh I can't understand it, can you? “ nu =» “WESTSIDER DOES NOT

SPEAK FOR ALL HOOSIERS”

By Mrs. B. E. A, Indiana polis 1.just finished reading the letter by “A Westside Indianapolis Hoosier,” in regards to the Kentuckigns, and thank heavens he or

she does not speak for all the Hoo-

siers. My parents are both Kentuckians and their parents before them, etc. As for myself I' claim the honor, too, although I have lived in Indianapolis almost ail of my 26 years. \£ Knowing Kentuckians, I can say this westsider definitely doés not know them. My mother is a won-

derful housekeeper and she knows

Side Glances=By Galbraith

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what a breom is for, that is why she never knew whether her neighbors ever swept their houses. I guess you would call me an eastsider but I call myself only a human being. . . . Anyone good enough for Uncle Sammy ‘is good enough for me. Someone has to work in the defense places and just because one should come from Kentueky shouldn't mean he must go back to Kentucky for his meals and bed. Something more, the fact that anyone presents a& Kentueky birth eertificate to guarantee a job sounds dumb to me, as anyene knows you have to pass on several scores before you can get a job anywhere. If we didn’t have any defense workers we might end up living next door to worse people than corncrackers. I know that Ken-

this westsider’'s letter even though I know she is broadminded (we all are) but we also have pride; in other words she probably can give out some pointers’ on housecleaning (not necessarily in the house). I love this Hoosierland of ours very much and I know the averege Hoesier is not “stuck up,” “conceited” or “ignorant.” I just hope that impression won't sét too deeply on any of our war workers regardless of which state they are from.

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“WHY MUST OUR MEN BE KILLED HERE AT HOME’? By Mrs. W. M. Bullock, 4440 Marey Lane, No. 188. Would someone please set me straight? A short while ago, a leader of a political party was quoted as saying that two-thirds of our manpower in the present conflict would be needed in the air corps. Where are all these men coming from, and what good are they going to be in our fight against the Japs and the other members of the axis? Yes, I know our strength lies in our air force, but what good are our men doing? I don’t mean the men who finally got to Ausiralig, ahd other arenas of fighting, I mean the men training here in the United States, I say this, because there has not been 3 day since Dec..T, and a very few days in the last two years prior to that date, that I have not picked up the paper and read in headlines, “Six men killed in army bomber,” “Army plane crashes killing al! occupants,” “Missing plane

with seven members of crew found i ldead,” etc., ete, etc,

Statistics on automobile accidents

.|versus commercial plane accidents

show that airplanes are safer, but has anything been. proved about

{ [these army planes? Why should | jour men be killed five miles from their training bese, or two miles ; {from their ultimate destination? | {Why can’t they have their chance

at the Japs, the Germans, ete?

it carelessness? What is it? , . .

What if the number of men killed in army air accidents in the United States is small compared to the whole number trained? Isn't it a fact that it takes 8 good six months to a year to train a pilot? Why doesn’t somebody do something

- |about protecting them on the home

‘DAILY THOUGHT

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock,

tueky wife was hurt very mueh by|

audi stall. be pened gio you. :

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, May 15.—

Field representatives of OEM—the *

Office for Emergency Management, - top administrative “holding company” of the war agencies—were given a smart assignment a short time ago when they were tald to go find what was worrying the American people the most. What things about the war pregram SE were misunderstogd? What things ; jst had to be explained te them mere fully in erder to get whelehearted support for all the ojsitions and changes being impesed en "life us us! ab . : The list of werries, if you want te call it the was rather amaging, for it 'shewed that in spite of all the high-powered Publicity, the efforts of the press, the radie and the ether media of communieation in this free speeeh countyy had net yet trickled down te the bettom. - : This is impertant because if this war is to be won at heme in the manner best suited te a demecraey, it behooves everyone whe dees understand these reasons te make himself inte a one-man prepaganda agency to explain what the war effort is all about to the people who don’t understand it.

Still Think Sugar Is Phony!

THINGS THAT HAVE to be explained range all the way from trivialities like why you have trouble buying a speel ef silk thread, up thpeugh eeonemic theories en price fixing er the relation of wages to the cost of living. People are willing to make sacrifices,, the investigators diseovered, but people still want to knew why. It's the why that needs to be emphasized. : Io There is a shortage of bettle e , for instance, because cork is needed for life preservers, for gaskets | in tank and plane meters, for the under-deeking of mesquite torpedo. beats. There is national daylight savings because there is a power shertage. That is known in a general way, but the average family can't understand hew getting up by eleetric light saves current. What hasn't been explained is that getting up by electric light distributes the load on the power plant, enabling the family at home to eat supper by daylight, when the second shift in the war plants is placing additional burden on generators. : ; The need for feod rationing was found te be woefully misunderstood. The loss of the Philippines

has net been interpreted adequately in terms of loss °

of a million tons of sugar supply. The’ defense of Pearl Harbor has net been spelled out in terms of a 50 per cent cut in the sugar supply from Hawaii. Tee many people still think the sugar shortage is phony.

It Must Be Better Sold

THE EVILS OF hoarding are sadly underestimate ‘ed. There is still too much of the “Well, I'm gonna get mine, anyway!” spirit and not ensugh appresiation of the need for sperifice at home, : The rubber shortage was found to be the best understoed, but there is still too much belief that this is going te be solved, somehow. There has heen too much over-reliance on statements that inventors will crash through with some gadget io take the place of tires, and toe much belief that geuyuie or synthetic rubber produetion, will be developed overnight. i a The basic fact that there is not one pound of rube bor for new civilian tires in 1043 has not been driven

The result of this round-up ef worries is going A

to mean that the war at home must be better sold, and sold ‘with more emphasis en the whys and wherefores of every ordered variation from the ‘life as usual” pattern. : oI

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I WAS TALKING to a woman whose son is “semewhere with eyr fighting forces.” + “That word ‘somewhere’ frightens me,” she ‘said. “The world is so big. I read the news and it comes from everywhere. I can’t understand the half ef it. “I do not fear death for my bey or fer myself, but sometimes 1 am terribly afraid when I hear it said that we must give ‘our all’ for victory. If it means enly materia] things, I don’t care, but am I a poor patriot beeause I can’t part with a belief in the power of love or refuse to teach myself to hate?” What do you think, Dear Reader? Aren't you be« wildered by the question, too? It seems to me there are certain things we dare not part with, even to win a war. Although every item on our list of material possessions may be saori~ ficed, our spiritual belongings should be held.

War Just a Cosmic Activity

‘THE WORLD 18 too big and complex for us little people to comprehend. Many of its problems are bee yond our mental grasp. To fortify our souls, however, each must chart a egurse of daily mction for herself, In our talks together this ether bewildered ‘mother and I came to certain resolutions by whieh we hope te stand, whatever happens. : : We resolve not tp give up our dreams of a better world or our hopes for a peaceful race of men. We refuse to part with our belief in the essential decency of some people in all countries. We will not lef hate replace love in our hearts. And we resolve to deal

justly with everyone around us, whatever their color, ¢

race or religion. - For, as we see it, this war has become a cosmia activity; yet as individuals we oceupy, each of us, an infinitesimal world. Therefore, we have decided to try to fill our own little worlds with love, for we are convinced that big wars grow out of an accumulation of small injustices, and unless the individual deals righteously with those in his own ecircie there can be no lasting righteousness on earth. spd

—— . Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this

newspaper are their own. They sre nof necessarily those. of The Indianapolis Times. or 3 ’

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cannot be given, Address The Times Washingion Service Boreas, 1013 Thirteenth Si, Weshington, B, 0) gi Q—Where was Andrew Jackson born?’ : A—His actus] birthplace is in doubt. It has been generally believed that he was born in Union eount; N. C., although he always believed that hig | was just over the line in South Caroling. =

© Q—What percentage of homes in the United States owners? eo :

are occupied by their Le A~The first census of housing ever taken in t United States shows that as of April 1, 1040, nea 44 per cant of all homes were owner-occupied. = Q—When did the British system of ¢ military training for this war go into. A—Ab-the end of April, 1000. y

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