Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1942 — Page 12

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Wap

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1942

MR. BARUCH GETS A TITLE ERNARD M. BARUCH, who ran the show on the home production front in the first World War, now at last has a title in this world war. He has been named an official adviser to Maj. Gen. Campbell, the new chief of army ordnance. This rank probably will not change one bit the type of service Mr. Baruch has been giving his country. When our defense program started, long before our country entered the war. Mr. Baruch moved in quietly to give the ordnance office a hand. He not only counseled with Gen. Wesson, the retiring ordnance chief, but also “legged it” around from one district ordnance office to another, helping to unsnarl production tangles and speed the output of munitions. Through all the hullabaloo and ballyhoo of the war production program’s organization and re-organizations— from the NDAC to the OPM to the SPAB to the WPB— Mr. Baruch has remained in the background. He had been through all that before. And he knew that wars aren't won by headlines and big talk, but only by trained manpower on the battle lines and an increasing flow of superior weapons fiom the factories to the fronts. When “the tumult and the shouting dies,” maybe the story will be told of how Gens. Wesson and Campbell and their almost anonymous subordinate officers, with the help of men like citizen Baruch, went quietly about their chores getting the job done.

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COLOGNE AND CANTERBURY TITLER'S air raid on Canterbury, in reprisal for British | destruction of Cologne, is significant in more ways than one. The. British objective was the center of the largest war industries area and transport network in all Germany, and as such one of the best protected regions in that country. Hitler's objective was a poorly defended cathedral town of no military importance. The British used 1250 planes. 50. The British raid was the most successful in the history of air warfare——four times as many bombs were dropped as the Germans used in the record September raids on London. The London damage was bad enough, but that was small compared with destruction of three-fourths of the city of Cologne. While German losses in these early London raids were | go heavy that Hitler had to discontinue them, in the battle | above Cologne the defending fighter squadrons and 500 | anti-aircraft guns brought down less than four per cent of the British planes. | ”

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= = confident prediction of victories to come. ister Churchill, describing this was part of a master straegy instead of an isolated success, says it is only “a herald of | what Germany will receive, city by city, from now on.” Gen. Arnold, chief of the U. army air forces who is now in London, announces the conferences for use of American forces for “the maximum impact of our combined air strength” on Germany are ‘practically completed.” The consensus of British and American spokesmen is that the allies are now in the process of asserting air superiority over western Europe and Germany, which later will be followed by an all-out land invasion. But the public should not assume from this—as some “well-informed experts in London” would have us believe— that German defeat is in sight “by autumn.” =

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THAT would not be an unreasonable hope if the Cologne air battle were a complete test of the relative strength | of Germany and Britain. Of course it is not. Most of the | Nazi air force is on the Russian front. | Hitler's inability to defend Cologne is not a sign that he is helpless in the air, but that he may be unable to fight successfully on two major air fronts at the same time. If that is a fact or near prospect—as it seems to be— it is important enough and cheerful enough, without any exaggerated claims of final German defeat by bombings | this fall. Cologne and other air victories cannot end the war. But they can blast the way for eventual allied invasion of | Germany from west and east, and for ultimate defeat of | the vast Nazi armies,

DON'T ENVY THE WPB

HEN vou have to sit at home for lack of gas, and your coffee tastes bitter, and vou hear there may be a shortage of golf balls, and life seems hardly worth the | living, don’t envy the war production board. That group's latest undertaking is to standardize cosmetics. They propose to ban some as non-essential and curtail others. They talk of eliminating certain shades and colors. Ye gods! Think of the howl that will go up when | a thousand women who have doted each on her distinctive | perfume go to the store, and find—let us say—only two | dozen different odors to be had. We'd hate to be in the WPB’s division of industry operations on that terrible day.

PLUGGING A LOOPHOLE WERE glad to see Secretary Morgenthau and the tax | leaders in congress moving in on the tax-avoidance ' loophole of excessive salary honuses which some corporations are paying to key executives. Probably not many corporations are engaging in this | abuse. But however few or many they are, they should be stopped. Mr. Morgenthau spoke well when he said: “It is our responsibility to see that by no form of trick or chicanery is any one taxpayer to escape his just and thus to throw unjust burdens on FS.”

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK. June 2—This nonsense about the war aims of the United States is beginning to get out of control, so, before we become a lot of confirmed political hopheads walking around in a dream of international and interracial fellowship and love, it should be stated with such force as to snap us out of our daze that the fighters and people of the United States are at war for the sole purpose of defending this country from a combination of enemies who touched off the fight by a treacherous attack under cover of protestations of friendship. That is all there is to it. When the war is over the United States had better continue to exclude Asiatics, except under very careful restrictions, because experience has shown that they work harder and live on less than we can and tend to colonize, monopolize and drive native Americans out of our own American areas. We found that out a long time ago and we will get ourselves in a fix if we don’t have the courage to say that this is going to be a white man’s country with the sole exception in favor of the 13 million Negroes among us who are here because our ancestors brought their ancestors here. This was a very great wrong, as the leading Negroes agree, and we can only try to work out agreeable relations with the colored men who are all native Americans and, in all respects, belong.

‘Deny Public Office to Immigrants!’

EVEN IF THE Asiatics would let us. we just

| wouldn't migrate to their countries in any numbers,

whereas they would come here in overwhelming and highly prolific swarms. But we should be able to handle that during the emotional period by stopping all immigation, including the European which, incidentally, in the years since the other war, has been very bad because it brought over hordes of continental no-damn-goods who didn’t like anything at home but don’t like anything here either because we don't adopt their European ideas. ‘ The result is that this nation, which was founded as a new deal refuge for Europeans who were glad to put Europe behind them forever, has been infected with the very poisons which produced the present condition in Europe and has, unconsciously, turned back to Europe for advice and example. I am more firmly than ever convinced that full citizenship should not be granted to immigrants and that they should not be eligible for public office—a provision which we could adopt within our right and with apologies to nobody.

Russia Is a Good Example!

MANY EUROPEANS think they do things rather well in Russia, but the only reason they can't go to Russia is that Russia does things just so well that immigration and suggestions from outsiders as to how she should run her domestic affairs both are reJjectea. Russia will not be letting down the bars to immigration after the war and it takes no prophet to foresee that the new Chinese nation, strong and proud in victory and wise and hard in the ways of war, will put up with no more superior nonsense from the pink people. China will be China for the Chinese and their leaders are no such fools as to think that the United States has any intentiomr to act out this brotherhood scenario in our own country, so why should we kid ourselves? I notice that Russia is keeping a very level head about her objectives. Russia is fighting to kick the ears off 2 hated enemy who attacked her, and for no other reason, and yet we who also were attacked in the same treacherous way, drool on about freedoms and brotherhood, evervwhere in the world. as though we had to find some sentimental excuse to fight for our very lives,

Frankly Speaking

By Norman E. Isaacs

AT THIS POINT, the bickerings among the Re-

| publicans in Marion county seem to be on the verge

of childishness. There were two factions in the Republican primary early last month, one the regular organization group of which Joseph J. Daniels is the leader and for which James Bradford, as county chairman, is front man. The other faction was a dissident, anti-organiza-tion group, built around the candidacy of Gen. Robert H. Tyndall, and for which Charles Jewett served as chairman. : To all intents and purposes, the two groups broke even in the primary. Normally, you'd expect grown men to get together and iron out their problems but things have gone from worse to terrible and it's almost at the point where they can't speak to each other. The Tyndall group won't stand for Bradford as the major domo of the campaign and the Daniels organization won't back down for Jewett.

Mistakes? Get An Adding Machine!

BOTH FACTIONS have pulled enough bonehead plays that vou would think they'd consider conceding a little nere and a little there and making their peace. Jim Bradford has been a storm center ever since he became chairman and Joe Daniels has been strangely stubborn about permitting another man to take the job. Mr. Daniels is reaping the rewards of that stubborness. It is true that Jewett did a lot for little, but it is likewise true that he was content to risk Gen. Tyndall’'s eandidacy—and perhaps his reputation—-for the sake of having a complete ticket to buck up against Bradford. All this backbiting and clawing does precious little

good for the Republican party It’s really time they | sat down together and worked it all out—with some .

new faces in the cast.

It might do them good to remember that while all |

this is going on, the Democrats are healing up a lot

| of wounds and putting everything shipshape. Why, they even say that Dewey Myers and Mayor Sullivan |

have been having lunch together,

So They Say—

The plain people know what they want after the war. They want to be wanted; they want a chance to work and be useful. —Milo Perkins, executive secretary of board of economic warfare. *

The only time businessmen séém interested in elec-

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Evers, chairman of St. Louis city Republican committee, attempting to get business leaders to run for

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The only way to feed Europe is to get starvation

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| out of Europe. That starvation is spelled H-i-t-l-e-r. { —Dr. Daniel A. Poling, president of World's Christian Endeavor Union.

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The bombing of Tokyo was just an advance sample | of what all the air crews training in the United States

will be able to do.—Maj. Gen. Robert Olds, army air

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The Russian tactics are costing an enormous

amount of blood, but Russia has more blood than Germany. —Charles A. Wells, world traveler.

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

“YES, WE STILL HAVE OUR WESTBROOKS” By Carl Dawson Spencer, 57 E. Maple rd.

Westbrook now comes out against Hitler and Hirohito. He proceeds (in Times, Thursday, May 28) to advocate as fiendish a program of { frightfulness as ever was hatched in the morbid brain of a Von Tirpitz, or warmed the rat-heart of a Hashimoto. I quote: “If there is any weapon, however inhuman, that the United States could use to win this war today but isn’t using out of respect for the opinions of the Germans, the Japs, or posterity, whether the same be gas, fire, or any pestilence that could be confined to the enemy, we are victims of over-civilization.” These are Pegler's exact words.

But don’t worry, kind and gentle

readers, over the prospect of our

becoming “over-civilized '—just yet. We still have our Westbrooks—and our Westbrooks still have their devoted following.

” J ” “THANK KYLES IF WE WIN, NOT THE CECIL BROWNS” By Pat Hogan, Columbus Enna Thurman is tap dancing on

a fifth columnist,” and if Enna sanctions the Brown broadblast she is a fit subject for the alienists. Brown’s theories smack of the blatherskite from the hinterland and are akin to Chauvinism: indeed it is doubtful if a greater necessary noise was ever allowed on the air waves, and won for Brown the contempt of all thinking people. If we win this war we can thank the Kyles instead of the backseat drivers like Brown who shout from the housetops. I happen to know that Mr. Kyle is a millwright, a master mechanic, and has worked seven days a week, 10 to 14 hours a day for over a year, along with hundreds of others who are giving the last ounce of energy to keep the machines rolling. This is a matter of public record and I challenge Enna and Brown to produce a record to show that they are daing as much. If Brown and Enna wish to do a real public service, let them turn their batteries on the class described in an editorial in this paper recently which portrayed the shameful fact that some woman was overwhelmed with mental an-

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i {guish at the thought of limiting {incomes to $25,000 annually as this | was the meager salary she paid her cook. This grand dame undoubt{edly must have a few maids, a por{ter, housekeeper, gardener, chauf{feur, et al. Of course this is a free country, but what did this dame and the Browns contribute to this freedom. | Instead of rationing gas or tires 'let the government confiscate all | cars not engaged directly in the defense effort and the handling of | foods. and turn these care over to the boys who are keeping the machines rolling. ” = ”

| “LABOR DEGRADED BY VERY ‘PEOPLE WHO PRATE MOST”

to teach craftmanship, and pride in learning and doing a chosen work well. Are there any workmen left today who take pride in doing their work and like to do it? This angle is never mentioned by so-called ‘labor leaders,” or head thugs, who would laugh at the mention of such an idea. They have grown so far away from it that it would seem strange and laughable to them, whose babblings and threats are only of how to do the least work for the most money. They want to be able to say that this man or that man must be kept on the payroll, not because he is able, or skilled, or honest, or knows |and likes his job, but only because 'he carries a union card, no matter | what else he may or may not do! except that he must pay them dues. | Man was born to work and toil, | {so he should learn to take pride |and interest in doing his work well, | | instead of regarding it as an un-| | necessary evil, which he can do laway with by carrying a union card. He should, of course, expect iust compensation for his labor, but not for his affiliations. | Labor has been degraded by the {very people who prate the loudest]

In Washington

WASHINGTON, June 2. — If ever there was a guy born to trouble, it is’ the Hon. Rexford Guy Tugwell—yes, the one who was an original brain truster, the one who was going to remake the world—or was it just America? Anyway, Tugwell has branched out since he was exiled from the New Deal into the vice presidency of a molasses company, and is now governor of Puerto Rico, which job he got through the graces of his old pal Harold Ickes, boss of Puerto Rico by virtue of being secretary of the interior, administering U. S. territorial government. Currently, however, Gov. Tugwell has been sitting it out in a Washington hotel, trying to quiet a cat fight within his official staff. It really isn’t Tugwell’s fault. The trouble began in a row over civilian defense in Puerto Rico. OCD has its fan dancers, apparently, even there. At first it was just a personal matter between Mrs. Tugwell and the wife of the governor's naval aide, a typical comic opera palace feud. But the thing grew to such a point that newspapers in San Juan, the capital, began to print dispatches from Washington that the aide really had been sent to understudy Tugwell, who was reported on the way out.

Then the Dirt

THE AIDE WAS Lieut.-Comm. Tom C. Hennings of St. Louis, Mo., who had been elected to congress three times and had resigned to take a position as district attorney. About a year ago, however, he was called into active Service and assigned to the staff of Gov. Tugwell as it was important that the navy be well represented in as strategic a position as this island possession unquestionably is. The dirt in Washington is that when this story about Comm. Hennings’ rumored appointment to the governorship appeared, it was too much. A request was made to the navy that Comm. Hennings be transferred to some nice, quiet spot, say like Pearl Harbor. Here Mrs. Hennings went into action. She had been married to the commander only last August The assignment to Puerto Rico was in the nature of a belated honeymoon on a lovely island paradise. Mrs. Hennings, before her marriage, had been Josephine Halpin, a radio personality in 8t. Louis who knew what she wanted and how to go about getting it. When Mrs. Hennings learned her husband was to be given the bum’s rush to another station, she started writing letters. At least three congressmen, one lobbyist and the Puerto Rican resident commissioner in Washington, the Hon. Bolivar Pagan, got letters on the subject.

Just Plain Poison

NOW REX TUGWELL is still about as popular with some congressmen as poison gas, and that goes double for Commissioner Pagan. Whenever anything unfavorable to Tugwell has appeared in Puerto Rican newspapers, Pagan has seen to it that the document was reprinted in the Congressional Record. And several congressmen have vied with ‘each other and with Pagan in having reprinted any unfavorable comments on the subject of Tugwell. Consequently, when the Hennings case broke in the Puerto Rican newspaper El Mundo, bang, it went into the Congressional Record and the cat was thereby let out of the bag. All this storm broke when Governor Tugwell was in Jamaica, attending an important Caribbean conference. Leaving his conference cold, and also leaving his island legislature to stew in its own sweat, the governor hopped a plane for Washington, : Result: The Hennings have been sent to the west coast. There will be no belated honeymoon in Puerto Rico. At the navy department, the reply to questions on this subject is, “No comment!” At the department of the interior the reply is, “No comment!”

Editor's Note: newspaper are their own. of The Indianapolis Times.

The views expressed by columnists in this They are not necessarily those

the lid of a volcano when she says

By Mrs. R. P. Caldwell, S. Meridian st.|0f what they have done for the At the war production plant! laboring man, the “labor leaders.”

‘A Woman's Viewpoint

‘will soon be an NLRB election to determine which union the workers want, sp every day we are favored with pamphlets and leaf-

ilets from the two contending unions. |

Side Glances=By Galbraith

resent laboring, to think up a new { grievance every day, then they are their

"Mrs. Ryle is ignorant of faets OF where my husband works, there | If they teach their members to:

going against nature and | structure will fall in time. os ” 2

“IF ONLY WE HAD TRIED CUTTING INCONSEQUENTIALS” | By Mrs. Grace Newby, Indianapolis I should just like to express my approbation of Mrs. Ferguson's article of May 20th anent Mrs. Roosevelt’s comments on appropriation cuts for NYA and CCC. Without possibly knowing every phase of this matter, as to all the ‘pros and cons,” just a surface opinion would make me agree with her statement that “unless we cut out some of the little expenditures we shall not {be able to pay the big bills which | have to be met soon.” . . . | 1 also agree with her statement, “If we expect to be a major power (in the post war period) we shall have to breed people who don’t say ‘gimme,’ who expeet to support their {government instead of having it | support them.” Furthermore, as to her statement, that “in the ante-war period, we were being taught spendthrift habits and today are facing the grim necessity of drastic saving.”

lA perusal of these leaves me very |

|depressed, because they seem to in|dicate that the sole thought of the men producing our war materials is hatred of each other instead of the enemy. According to these publications, which intentionally stir up strife, hatreds and resentments, the only thing which the worker must think about is which union can wield the biggest stick. use the most force or threats, which union can “get” the most. THese printed insults grow worse daily, as the election date nears. How can thousands of men turn out efficient work on products needed so bady, when they are constantly urged, by printed matter and loud speakers, to be at each other's throats? Centuries ago there were workers’ organizations, but today’s labor unions would never recognize them. They were formed to promote skili,

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It is just another instance of getting the cart before the horse of | which we have been guilty in many | instances. | If we had cultivated the habit iof even moderate saving, or at least of sacrificing a lot of “inconsequentials” (things not absolutely necessary to a comfortable existence) our cart now would not have to be so heavily loaded with drastic savings and with the cutting out of many seemingly good projects or perhaps a better analogy would be “our horse would now be. better able to pull our cart.” ” ” ” APPROVES DRAFTING STUDENTS FOR FARMS By D. W., Indianapolis Why shouldn't students be drafted? Every American citizen should do his part, and if the student’s duty is farm labor that’s all right with us. We've seen our friends and even our fathers go into duty with a spirit that gave us confidence. And now if it's our turn to be drafted, we will show that we are good Americans by doing our duty. Our country needs farm labor and needs it badly and it's up to the students to aid it in the program.

DAILY THOUGHT

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.—Psalms 10:17.

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By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“THE RED CROSS nurses at Bataan shared all the hardships of war with the soldiers. Contrary to army tradition, which says women are a nuisance and must be evacuated at the first hint of trouble, they remained throughout the turmoil. Discarding their white uniforms in the jungle, they cared for the wounded and sick, wearing heavy, ugly overalls and heavy army shoes.” A friend, now doing Red Cross work in Washing-

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me of the above truths. She thinks, and I agree, that women and girls are best fitted to serve their country during war times in the nursing prefession, and both of us know many who are eager for more information about it. So here goes. She gives the facts; I merely pass them along: “There are only 100,000 U. S. women eligible to become officers in the regular army—trained graduate nurses hetween the ages of 21 and 40, who are unmarried. They may join the army or navy nurses’ corps and serve at the battle fronts. In the army they are commissioned as second lieutenants; in the navy they act as supervisors who train e¢orpsmen in navy hospitals and on the hospital ships.

They Serve Without Press Agents!

“BECAUSE 100,000 IS a large number to withdraw from any profession, the nurses have had to mobilize their resources. Although there are abeut 300,000 graduate nurses in the country, but many of. them are married and have long been inactive. “Now that calls for service away from home are coming, these inactive members of the profession are taking refreshening courses and will soon fill the places of the younger women who will leave for the war zones. The nurses’ professional organizations, in co-operation with the Red Cross, are putting on a

campaign to persuade 50,000 young girls to take up -

nursing as a career. They could help in the hospitals at once and thus relieve many better trained women for other work. “There are American, nurses in the Philippines, Alaska, Panama, Puerto Rico, Iceland, Newfoundland, Trinidad, Australia and also on all transport ships. No boat leaves a port without one or two nurses on board. These women, like most of our soldiers, serve without press agents.” All honor to their names!

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