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SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1042
WE'LL KEEP THE FAITH
HIS is Memorial day. For the 75th consecutive year we have set aside the 30th of May in memorial to those Americans who offered their lives, in one war after another, to establish and maintain in this world a sanctuary for democracy. Up to Pearl Harbor, more than seven million men had fought in American uniforms, first in order to form a more perfect union and later to secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity. Almost another million went through hell in the Confederate butternut, fighting for what seemed to them the essence of true democracy. They lost, but out of their sacrifices the integrity, the sincerity and the vigor of our | federal union were strengthened. Now another two to three millions are in uniform. Three times as many more may yet be called from their homes and sent on to the world’s battlefields. * = - » 2 ” LL that we have today, and all that we are as Americans, we owe to the millions who, from 1775 through 1918, held liberty dearer than life or creature comforts. Our industrial, commercial and material supremacy, which have made even our poor seem prosperous by other nations’ standards, did not spring full blown from the magic soil of America. The abundance which we achieved was a product of democracy, of a way of life which gave to every man privileges and opportunities and incentives which long have been the world’s envy. We say this not to boast, but rather to emphasize that our democracy was bought with blood, guarded with blood, and preserved with blood down through the generations. To the millions of soldier heroes of past wars whose graves we decorate today, and to those other millions who still survive to march to the cemeteries where their comrades lie, let us offer vocally a pledge that they should not and do not really need: We, too, are ready to keep the faith of our fathers, whatever the cost.
SPEAKING OF GAS, RUBBER & TAXES—NO. 2
“THE civil aeronautics board has 17 automobiles. The cost of operating them fror the full year was $3210.17, and they traveled 220,332 miles. The board has one fulltime chauffeur. “The commerce department has 312 automobiles, costing to operate $70,247.38 during the last year, and traveling 3,904,311 miles. The department has five full-time chauffeurs. “The co-ordinator of information has six automobiles, and the cost of operating the automobiles for the fiscal year beginning July 1, of last year, to Feb. 28, 1942, was S801. For these six automobiles there were 17 chauffeurs. “The board of economic welfare has three automobiles.”— (Senator Byrd of Virginia, from the Congressional Record.)
SPEAK A KIND WORD FOR CONGRESS (GUSSING congress is sort of a habit with Americans, but just the same we feel better in this troubled world | when our elected representatives are on the job. The proof is in the record. Not for four years have the people let congress take a real vacation. It is primarily the people who have kept congress in almost continuous session since the war clouds turned dark, for there were times when executive officials tried to hustle the legislators out of Washington, to leave everything in executive hands. In carefree days long ago, congress used to count on winding up its long session by June or July and taking the rest of the year off. And, before the lame-duck amendment, there was a short session every other year, when the gavel fell for adjournment on March 3. But the last six-month vacation was in 1938. In 1939 there was a six-week layoff. Since then there have been only occasional three-day recesses.
The men and women on Capitol hill are weary. They've stayed so long in Washington, reading criticisms in the |
press and angry letters from home, that they've begun to believe their constituents don’t love them any more. (News-
papers and voters seldom take trouble to praise a congress- |
man when praise is due, but they usually raise hell when he does something wrong.) » » » ® s ”
THE lawmakers yearn for a nice, long recess—a chance to go home, get close to the people, defend their records, mend their political fences and get re-elected. But there isn’t a chance. There's too much work to be done. For one thing, they have to lay heavy taxes on the very people whose votes they are soliciting. As Rep. Disney of Oklahoma puts it, they not only must close tax loopholes, but also plug “appropriation ratholes.” —a dirty chore in which they get no help from the executive department. Leon Henderson proclaimed the price ceiling, but congress has to vote the money to administer it. If the army insists it is necessary to victory, congress may have to broaden the draft to include the 18 and 19-year-old sons of its constituents and its own members. Meanwhile, opponents are working day and night to defeat incumbent congressmen. We're not turning soft and sorry for the members of congress. They asked for the jobs, and they are hired by
the year. 1 But let's admit that they have to hoe a tough row,
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, May 30.—It seems safe to say that no other community in the United States has yet made as great a sacrifice as Oarlsbad, N. M, population about 13,000, whose local national guard unit went to the Philippines as F battery of the 200th coast artillery. The 200th was an antiaircraft regiment and most of the 1600 soldiers were New Mexico i young men and boys, and, most of them workers. The guard was called up in the first mobilization and soon went to the far outpost in the Orient which all military men but MacArthur, and he only with reservations that never were met, regarded as a point of inevitable but worthwhile military sacrifice in the event of war with Japan, Of the 100 or so Carlsbad soldiers on Bataan only three or four were reported to have got away to Corregidor to prolong the struggle and their families all are without word as to casualties among them. They were the more lively and patriotic youth of town and their parents and other kin are encountered in any ordinary walk on a Carlsbad street and in any local gathering. The war struck Carlsbad not merely with premonitory anxiety and dread and the wrench of parting but quickly with the bullet and bomb and God only knows when, if ever, any of the boys so suddenly absent from their homes in the fascinating vastness of the Southwest will be seen again.
And Then Back Home . . .
NOW IT HAS BEEN said many times that once American soldiers came to grips with the enemy, all squabbles for advantage at home would be forgotten but, in Carlsbad there have been within one month two union walkouts at the mines and refinery of the United States Potash Co. producing a little less than half of the local output of potash which is the greatest individual source of the whole world’s supply at present available to the united nations. This is a vital product used mainly as fertilizer in the growing of food but also, largely, in war chemical processes and in recognition of its importance Carlsbad has been designated a defense housing area. Nevertheless, two unions of the A. F. of L, the machinests and potash workers, went out for a 10 per cent increase in wages, won their point, signed a contract and then on May 17, again laid off in such numbers that it was necessary to shut down the mine and refinery for five days more. The second stoppage was caused by the refusal of men who went out the first time to work with men who didn't voluntarily join them, another variation of the demand for closed shop which has been rejected and finally waived in the first settlement. Ten 24-hour days were lost and production of x-thousand tons.
You Puzzle It Out
IT MAY BE NOTED that the word strike has not been used here. The unions say they didn’t strike. Instead, a special session of the union membership was called under & rule which forbids members to work during a session, and this session was recessed and continued around the clock from day to day, a device which might be called in President Roosevelt's memorable phrase, “a clever little scheme.” Nevertheless those who did not attend the sessions but were unable to work notwithstanding their willingness to carry on, were called “scabs” which is the common term employed by unioneers for strikebreakers, Why these men were called “scabs” when there was no strike for them to break is something that you may wish to puzzle out in the long summer evenings. There were among the local strength of F battery, perhaps 15 or 20 who, themselves, worked in the potash industry and were union men, thus the contention of the professional unioneer that he is merely preserving their standard of living and their social gains against the day of their return might be said to have their approval, wherever they are, if they Still live. As to that they are unable to express themselves under the processes of the clever little scheme of the union session, the great master union, the A. F. of L., has been spared a violation of its promise to forego all strikes in war industries and so goes the altruistic struggle to provide a world fit for heroes to return to in the very homes of some of the first fighters on Bataan.
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Frankly Speaking
By Norman E. Isaacs
RIGHT NOW, the Citizens Nonpartisan School committee is exuding all kinds of energy, getting ready
for the fall campaign. This is one nonpartisan organization which actually has done a magnificent job for the city. It cleaned up one of the worst messes we ever had and for the last several years we have been blessed with high-type conscientious citizens working in the interest of a better and better school system. This year we keep hearing rumblings of discontent and there are reports that a counter-ticket will be introduced, backed perhaps by labor groups and some minority organizations. What the actual complaints are nobody seems to know yet, but it is reasonable to assume that scme of the politicians would be tickled to help out any opposition movement, figuring that anything to get rid of a nonpolitical setup is progress.
Where There's Smoke There's Fire BUT IT IS QUITE possible that the Citizens
| School committee's tickets are not entirely without There have been occasions when even the school | board's best friends have winced at the high-handed- |
sin,
ness of the board. For instance, one of the things that irritates us
is the continuation of the old star-chamber sessions, |
which the school board clings to. First, you see, they meet privately downstairs and thrash out all their problems, tete-a-tete. That done, they troop upstairs and proceed to conduct a very doleful, very boring, sometimes aggravating public session. Delegations come to discuss some problem are confronted with a board which already has made up its mind and is simply there to provide the window-
dressing that is supposed to go with demoeratic opera-
tions. Wonder what Superintendent Morgan really thinks when he makes one of those “democracy-in-the-schools” speeches?
So They Say—
It would be a shame if we won the war against the Japs and lost it to the Japanese beetles.—Senator Harold Burton of Ohio, arguing for a beetle-control
appropriation. - * *
This also is a war of microscopes, drafting rooms '
and test tubes.—Dr. C. 8. Marsh, vice president of
American Council on Education, urging draft defer-
ment for science students. * *
and that they are protecting our representative form of |
| “DRASTIC CHANGES NEEDED
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“I UNDERSTAND NOW WHAT SHOCKED CECIL BROWN" By Enna Thurman, Terre Haute After reading the article by Mrs. Harold Kyle of Columbus in the issue of May 27 I can understand more clearly than ever before why such men as Mr. Brown come to Indiana and take to the air waves with shouts that the Middle West and especially Indiana doesn't know there is a war on. As yet I have not read of any protests from the defense workers about rubber rationing but the women are afraid they will be forced to stay at home and that has been against their better judgment for the past number of years. Either Mrs. Kyle is totally ig-| norant of facts and figures or she! is a fifth columnist, ” o o
IN THE FRONT OFFICE” By Frank South, 320 Coffey st. The baseball situation in Indianapolis is again critical. According to pre-season dope, the Indians were slated to sweep the league to the championship. The fact that they are now dwelling in the cellar is no news to me. The Indians have at their helm perhaps one of the most capable managers in the American association and one wonders why they don’t make a better showing. However, when the situation is analyzed from all angles, it becomes apparent that their last place standing is not due to any inadequacy on the part of Gabby Hartnett, but principally to the miserable incompetence of the so-called officials of the club. I have nothing but the utmost respect for Ownie Bush, but the group of rank amateurs he has surrounded himself with garners no admiration from me. They have as much right to be officials of a baseball club as Hedy LaMarr has in the ring with Joe Louis. Baseball has no place for petty politicians, and if the Indians ever expect to make any showing at all they must rid themselves of these fugitives from the courthouse.
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the dubious privilege of seeing this club in action but I have made a firm resolution never again to enter Victory park until some drastic changes have been made in the front office. . » ” ” “GET OUT, MR. WHITE, AND TAKE A NICE, LONG WALK”
By R. M., Indianapolis My dear Mr. Harrison White: After reading your article, it is gratifying to know that the AAA, CCC, WPA and the NYA were born
under a democratic form of government. In spite of your suspicions of their ultimate goal, they are fathered and championed by demo-cratic-minded people. If you were a farmer, you would understand the AAA; were you a young boy between 16 and 20 during the depression of 1932-1938, you would appreciate the CCC; were you a member of a destitute family, you would thank God for the existence of the WPA; and, were you not a petrified isolationist, you would understand the WAAC and other legislation that is being passed under the regime of the New Deal. Your assumptions that WAAC is the heart of communism and that us poor men should not permit it behooves me. We are using women in industry, for nurses, doctors, lawyers, politicians—oh, yes, and housewives, and I, for one, would not call the women of the United States Communists. : Your remarks of alleged enslavement by the “planners” and our eventual compulsion of obeying a dictator's wand and the sinister plans of forcing us into communism are stupendous. You must have spent too much time in your beer cellar; get out some Sunday afternoon and take a
Side Glances=By Galbraith
nice long walk; this really is a grand country; breathe deeply of a free air. In spite of your fears, your great grandchildren will be able to breathe the same free air as we are keeping it that way. Suggest you buy war bonds freely and vote in all elections. ” » Ed “CECIL BROWN SHOULD KNOW WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT” By C. M. H., Edinburg I am glad that an American of such reputation as Cecil Brown had the courage and knowledge to come to our state and tell the world the exact attitude of our people in general, and I do mean general attitude. Of course the heads of various patriotic boards have full knowledge [of America’s plight, but buying 'bonds and giving old pans and ket|tles does not show the exact attitude of our people in general. Hoosiers and Americans, in ordinary life, excepting those parents who have boys in service, do not have any worries apparently, except those caused by tire shortage, sugar or other government rationing. Wake up, Hoosiers and Americans, it takes more to win a war than being a congressman, representative, chairman of any patriotic drive, motion picture, politician or cub reporter. Cecil Brown should know what it's all about. He has been where war is going on.
wy w=» “PROUD OF MEN BUT PROUDER OF WOMEN” By D. E. A, Indianapolis
I'm no “man-hater,” but when I read a certain article by A. J. L. from Columbus concerning his opinion of the women of today, I felt like slugging. The women of today have to do a lot of things that they never dreamed of doing five years ago. I'm afraid the government rationings and economies have affected the women most seriously of all. What if they do paint their legs? Believe me, if you had to buy three pairs of hose in two weeks at $1.65 per, you would be darn glad some “man” had invented a substitute. You’ can’t tell the difference if you aren't always looking for painted
_. lees.
Women are called upon to serve thelr government and short hair is heaven sent to busy women, besides
| [saving hair pins. As for shorter skirts, it is the government that is
saving cloth, not the women. It's! a tough world to buck in the best | of times. Would you have us fold up like flower petals, act helpless as a clinging vine or go to seed until it is all passed? I'm proud of our American men, who are loyally fighting to protect their ideals. But I'm prouder of the women who have to bear the blunt end of the economies to give our fighting men necessities. Women aren’t always out to “attract” the masculine sex. "The egotistical male animal would naturally think so. I believe you have been exposed to the wrong type of modern woman. Better get around more and youll find the women of today are only trying to make the best of a bad situation. So save your sarcasm, we can take it on the chin. Don’t worry about the future generation either. They will be a courageous lot and plenty proud of their fighting fathers and economic mothers.
DAILY THOUGHT
The wrath of man -worketh not | the righteousness of God.—James | 1:20.
GIVE NOT reins to your inflamed
U-Boat Warfare
By Carroll Binder
CHICAGO, May 30. — Germany’s war lords have never fore gotten that unrestricted submarine warfare brought Germany within a hair's breadth of victory, over Great Britain and its allies in the spring of 1917. The Germans and their Italian and Japanese allies are employing the submarine and the airplane with equal ruthlessness in the present war in the hope of sinking so much allied shipping that American military aid will not reach British, Russian and Chinese forces in time to prevent their crushing defeat by the axis. In the first war, German submarines sank 5408 ships with a total tonnage of 11,189,000 gross tons. Surface craft and mines accounted for 600 additional vessels so that over 15,000,000 tons of allied and neutral shipping were destroyed by the Germans in their attempt to bring Britain to her knees—an ate tempt which Lord Jellicoe admitted in 1917 had almost succeeded.
Materiel Piling Up On Docks
WE DO NOT KNOW how much allied and neutral shipping has been sunk to date. We know, however, that the losses have been much greater than we can afford and that united nations shipbuilding has not yet attained such volume as to offset the sinkings to say nothing of accommodating the unprecedentedly heavy demands created by such distant fronts as Russia, the Middle East, India and Australia. Our manufacturing facilities have so outstripped our shipping facilities that war materiais are piling up in both Atlantic and Pacific ports. In some cases they are piling up at the point of manufacture. It was to overcome this maladjustment that the govern ment recently ordered suspension of projects for new plant construction and concentration of labor and materials on the all-important task of shipbuilding, But to win the war we must keep our ships on the surface as well as load and dispatch them. Gere man and Italian submarines in recent months have found our Atlantic coastal waters such attractive hunting grounds that they have largely concentrated there.
Several Official Explanations
NOT FOR MANY months has shipping off the British isles been troubled by axis submarines. Nor have many submarines dared attack convoys of mere chant ships. The convoys usually have been too well guarded. It is the unconvoyed isolated vessel thas has suffered most of the sub attacks and the aggregate loss of tonnage must be very large. There are several official explanations for axis submarine successes in the western Atlantic. In the first place our navy has devoted most of its strength to protecting the large convoys carrying war materials along the major sea lanes. In the second place it takes considerable time to train crews for effective anti-submarine warfare. In the third place the area to be patrolled—all the way from Labrador to Brazil—is so vast that a skillful submarine captain has many opportunities to escape detection.
U. S. Adopting Similar Methods
THE BRITISH attribute their comparative freedom from submarine attacks in coastal waters to extensive use of small vessels and airplane spotters to detect the presence of submarines and to certain devices which they have perfected in the course of their 32 months anti-submarine warfare. On Wednesday Chairman Walsh of the senate naval affairs committee and Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commander of the eastern sea frontier, said that similar plans are being put into operation in Atlantic coastal waters. Walsh said “one of the plans that ought to be helpful is placing the army air force under the command of the eastern sea frontier.” It is to be hoped that this marks a turn in the submarine warfare. Already there is an apparent decline in the number of sinkings reported off the coast of United States mainland. Axis submarines have been heard of more frequently to the north or to the south of our shores,
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
THE WAR DEPARTMENT says our need for manpower is so grea that women must be used for non=combatant service both by the army and the navy. Civilians can only accept the verdict, but a good many of us are a bit sick over the current reports that, among the first to enlist in the WAAC, are mothers of young and adolescent children. This comes under the head of their own personal business, of course, and mothers ought not to be deprived of their right to help lick the enemy. But since the public pays these bills, another question arises: What way of life are we fighting for—the American way or the Russian way? The communistic ideal puts the state before every thing else. The family unit is subservient to it, and home atmosphere and parental care are not regarded as necessary to the rearing of children. The infang belongs to the state instead of the parents. Is this the sort of New Order toward which we are tending? The casual manner in which we treat our parental responsibility almost convinces me thag it is.
Why Fight for Home, Then?
UNTIL THE LAST possible moment the draft board rejects the man with children to support. He may volunteer, of course, but the soldier who goes out to die, leaving his helpless family for relatives or the government to support, is doing no great patriotic deed unless his country’s manpower is exhausted. On the same principle, mothers of small children should be rejected for the new army and navy auxe iliary activity. Since it can be completely and probe ably as effectively served by childless women, childe less women only should be permitted to enlist. Why fight so hard in defense of the American home when women aren’t willing to stay in and look after it? I submit this thought for your consideras= tion. The future of the U. S. A, depends more upon the women who wear aprons than upon those who wear uniforms.
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