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FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1042

2880 MILES OW old were you before you had ridden 2880 miles? There must be millions of living Americans; born in the horse-and-buggy days; who hadn't traveled that far when they reached voting age. Well, the revised gasoline rationing plan prepared for the eastern states, and likely to be made nation-wide; probably will let the average motorist drive about 2880 miles a year, and more if his car will do better than 15 miles to the gallon. Is that too great a sacrifice to be borne? Some businesses will suffer. Long pleasure trips will be out. It will mean many inconveniences, some real hardships, a great many adjustments in our way of living which has been geared to the distance-destroying automobile. But would Americans rather avoid these than submit to fair rules, made by their government, to conserve rubber in order that our men may not die for lack of it? = 2 2 = NE thing is sure. The new plan is vastly fairer and better than the hastily contrived system now used in the East, where gasoline shortage as well as rubber shortage made rationing imperative before the rest of the country was affected. No “X ecards,” no “honor system” loopholes for dishonorable people to get unlimited gas, no special arrangements for government officials and political pets. That's the promise. Each car owner will get an “A book” of 48 coupons; entitling him to buy 192 gallons in a year, good for 2880 miles if his car uses 15 miles to the gallon. That basic allotment will be increased to motorists who can prove need for more gas. But they will have to submit evidence that it will be used only for necessary driving; in connection with business, war work, authorized official duties or essential public and civilian services. : 2 a8 "TRUCKS and busses, now unrestricted, also will require coupons, not to keep them off the road when there is work for them to do, but to prevent their owhers from diverting gasoline. Dealers must tear out coupons when they sell gas and turn them in when buying new stocks—another check against bootlegging not provided by the present system. Nothing in that plan requires tires to rot in idleness, prevents reasonable use of any car, or even forbids all pleasure driving. It is desighed to permit driving in accordance with actual need, and to prevent waste of rubber by those who will not discipline themselves. Let the government convince the people that the rubber now being wasted is irreplaceable within the next thiee years, and we believe they will accept this plan willingly throughout the country.

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GAULEITER OF DEATH

HE gauleiter of death is dead. Czech patriots got him at last. And in all the world there is none to mourn Reinhard Heydrich. “The Hangman,” they called him. The name was too good for him. A hangman executes eriminals in the name of law. Heydrich was an arch-eriminal, who used other eriminals. He was Hitler's hatchet man. He carved a path of Nazi power with the gestapo, which tortured and killed tens of thousands of innocents. Those victims were not only Czechs, Poles, Norwegians, ‘Duteh, Belgians, Serbs, Greeks, Russiang, Frenchmen and the like, They were also Qermang, chiefly Germans—from the proseribed Jew, the Protestant parson, and Catholie priest and nun, to the union worker, the banker, the editor, the university professor, the general, all kinds and conditions of Germans who would not goose-step with naziism, The gestapo stalks on. Heydrich, dead, continues to kill—many innocents have been slaughtered in retaliation for his death, and the whole Czech nation hag been bound by the lawlessness of the gestapo’s “martial law.” But some day Czechoslovakia, and Germany, and the world will be rid of the gestapo and Hitler, If the Nazig had limited their terror to Germany, they might have gurvived a long time. But when they menaced all Europe and then the world, they took oh too much. Humanity, with all its weakness, will not succumb to the Nazi tyranny. Millions are ready to die, if necesgary, to prevent that. They shall prevent it.

HOME JAMES: OR. OUR CHAUFFEUR:DRIVEN AUBREY

F, ag is devoutly to be hoped, an appendectomy ig per formed for removal of the NYA, not merely will a $58, 000,0000 saving be made, included in the operation will be the elimination of a $1500 item which ig the last word in ugeless gpending and special privilege, Involved further are tires, gag, tear, repairs, depreciation and garage cost on a Packard—one of those increasing: ly conspicuous perquitites which characterize the expand ing business of bureaucracy. We refer to the automobile and the chauffeur who eols jaborate in earrying hither and yonder, to and fro, not to mention pro and con, and for no explainable reagton, Aubrey (Vete-to-Keep-Your-Friends-in-Power) Williams, Aubrey it head of the NYA, whose functicn rings today as always with the same dead sound as a counterfeit quarter. Yet Aubrey hag a chauffeur. A £1500 chauffeur. And a Packard, paid for by taxes. While thoge who put up for Aubrey and the NYA and the Packard and the chauffeur gwing and sway on straps, if they make the bus, or other

wise hoof it. A chauffeur and a Packard for Aubrey call

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, June 5—Léet the generals, the admirals and the statesmen say where the enemy is to be met and how that will be done, but any civilian can see that, from a dawdling starteq fall of 1040, the people of the United States, under a strong government, have made amazing progress toward the development of the mighty power of this peaceful nation to make war when provoked. . In areas of thousands of miles warplanes of all the land-based military types, from flivvers to enormous bombers, shar] across the sky. Military camps— so many that few of our own people ever heard of them all—have risen in remote places, and factories for the production of explosives, planes and shells suddenly are where nothing was before. All this is in addition to the driving development which has taken place in the old, established industrial centers. It is a picture of the United States turned to war almost as wholly as Germany, and as heartening as the quick creation of these soldier cities and aviation centers and the industrial plants to keep them armed and flying is the change in the appearance and bearing, the “morale” of these young men. They have the look of soldiers now and Hitler, himself, never saw, even in his personal corps so aptly named his black guards, the equal of the American cavalry soldiers in El Paso.

Ne Misunderstanding Anymore

EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, the American soldier was the subject of much maudlin mothering. His officers gentled him and neither he nor they understood why they were suddenly called away from eivil life; for few quite believed that their mission was merely to “train” for a year and then go home, and the international situation of the hour was such that their government couldn't admit the truth. They soldiered without rifles and used laundry wagons for tanks and gas pipes mounted on old buggy wheels for artillery with a shamefaced sergeant velling “wham” to simulate the sound of guns. They were not at war and they had nothing with which to fight a war, and when a filthy sulker at Ft. Bragg spat on the floor in the barracks ahd in the mess a young officer was denounced in congress for persecuting this “boy” with a court-martial. Since Pear! Harbor, anyway, if not since some time before, there has been np misunderstanding, ne underestimating of the reasons why the army is in the field and growing and, far from impairing the disposition of the soldier, the realization that he is a fighter has made a fighter of him, ;

Yes, We've Gone and Done It

MEANWHILE, HIS WEAPONS have been coming along and he sees the vehicles and planes on every hand which assure him that he is not a boy scout off camping and making fire by chafing sticks but as much a soldier as the faceless men of Adolf Hitler: Officers of the regular army who soldiered in France hold this army to be much superior to the A EF in many ways and inferior only in experience to the war-tested troops of that time. Many mistakes of those days have been avoided and the human relationships between officers and the ranks would scandalize old, retired colonels and brigadiers of a period when the man with a commission needed not only authority to enforce his commands but pomp, rudeness and ceremony to impress the soldier with his superiority. Moreover, this change has been wrought without the use of political eommissars or shooflies to spy on the soldiers and snitch to some secret bureau. No American army ever excelled this one in intélligence, fitness and spirit. Two years ago Hitler didn't think the United States could do it ahd even today most Americans have no idea how mistaken he was.

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Frankly Speaking

By Norman E. Isaacs

IF ANY PROOF was needed that a good many of the “bugey and bustle” Republicans of old are not yet out of the running in Indiana party eireles, you have it now. For one of the “feature attractions” of the G. O. P's state convention here on June 18th will be for= mer Senator James EB. Watson, the symbol of the era of rugged individualism, the Ku=-Klux Klan, the high tariff, vhe leave-the-forgotten-man-forgotten philogo= phy that went tumbling into the serap heap in ‘32, Contrast this with the Republican party of Min= nesota, where Governor Harold Stassen, a progress give Republican, currently is attracting nation-wide attention with his proposals for winning the peace that is to follow the war. Stassen has taken the lead among the thoughtful and farsighted statesmen of the day ih advocating something tangible and sound to come out of what we are fighting for.

Yes, He Gloried in Title of 'Humbug'

BUT HERE IN Indiana we are treated to the spee= tacle of the Republican party inviting Jim Watson to deliver an address. What does Jim Watson stand for? Why, he is the man who gloried in the title of “the lovable old humbug.” He ig the man who made a legislative career of log-tolling and back-seratehing. He is the wit who in the depths of the depression, commented blithely about ex-President Hoover: “How ean you stand behind a man with the 8b Vitus dance?” He has been the champion of all who opposed the rice of the Willkies, the Stassens, the Baldwins, the men whe saw a place and a future for the Republican party. Yes Jim Watson is to be the featured performer of the state convention. No wonder so many Demoerats look happy again!

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insipid and of poor flavor. Bananas are one of the

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The Hoosler Forum

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“GOOD NEWS! HOW COME YOU DID NOT PRINT IT?" By Lewis R. Doll, 3145 Madison avenue

The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey is building 34 plants to make synthetic rubber, They will be in operation in less than a year and will produce 573.000 tons of rubber a year, They say they can inerease this amount to 1,440,000 tons a year. This information was in The Chi= cago Journal of Commerce on June 1. This is good front page news, of interest to everyone who reads your paper. How come you did not sping it?

Editor's Note: The information was in that paper's leading editorial of June 1, and wag not res= ceived as a news dispateh by this paper. It still hag not been re= ceived. If factually accurate, it is indeed good news but would have been better news had those 34 synthetie plants been built earlier to prevent gasoline rationing.

# # # “LEADERS BORN, NOT PLUCKED FROM POLITICAL HATS"

By C. A. Williams, Plainfield

H Mr. Leon Henderson will cofs= rect some of his own mistakes, there would be no excuse for rationing gasoline in Indiana, Sighing up for eanning sugat in Hendricks county alone is eosting the public hundreds of dollars in gasoline, time, and wear on tires. When forced to drive to the county seat, and (when the trip is made) are sent back home for the sugar Stamp book before they ean register, this takes more gas. Furthermore, I ean't understand why the public is required to register in June for summer cans ning and again later for fall eans ning. Why ean’t this all be taken care of by one registration? This would save a lot of gas, tires, paper and time that our experts claim to be &6 vital. If the federal government would give ug less experts, and just a few more men with horse sense ibhat are

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interested in saving the publie ins stead of feathering their own nests, our army will survive, If the public dies, our army will die with it. Leaders are born and not plucked from political hats.

#8 # # “PHIS IR NO TIME FOR DRAWING COLOR LINE” Bh sis BAIR Director, teat The Indianapolis Negro Press club wishes to commend you for the most timely editorial, “Chief Fiil= mer's Error,” which appeared in Wednesday's edition. It was really a gem. It was the trith well spoken. We hope that My, Fulmer will see the errors of hig ways and bend to the wishes of the safety board, and appoint the three young Negroes who go successfully passed the merit exams ination for firemen. This is no time for drawing the color line. People of all races and creeds are uniting together every day for the protection of the things they held most dear. The least we in Indianapolis can do is to try and promote a true feeling of de= moeracy. Your newspaper has taken a step in the right direction. The ques= tion is: “Will Pharoah Heed?”

8 . . “fF WE RATION MILK TRUCKS, LET'S RATION BEER TRUCKS! BY ME Warren ©. Wardell, 3832 W. WashThe subject of tire saving, war

rationing, ete, ie the concern of every member of a democracy.

Many of us have kept silent, hoping

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that the various authorities were in a position to know better the conditions than we of the general publie:

But when glaring inconsistencies occur and no official effort is made to correct them and no publie dis= cussion oecurs on the subject it is time that they are pointed out to the authorities and the publie press requested to publicize these anoms alies, Just now the laundries and dary cleaners are having a difficult time instituting new regulations about collections and deliveries, The housewife, like the rest of the American publie has been pampered and spoiled by special services until a regimen of common sense service seems like an imposition, I have been one of those who have used special services every week but I am willing to do my share in being thoughtful « But in our town milk, a basic food, necessary for children and adults alike is to be delivered once in two days. It requires refrigera= tion and speeial handling to be de= livered sweet and clean. Yet the tire rationing boards have refused tires to any dairy. They have been informed that when present tires wear out there will be no more ravailable,

The other night 10 big distillery trucks, each with trailers, with a total of 10 tires to each truck=100 huge tires=passed a oar full of defense workers on U, 8, Highway 52 on the way to Chicago. In Marion county beer trucks receive priority— milk trucks de not,

When tire saving was first mens tioned the Indianapolis beer distributors rushed inte print with the regulation that beer deliveries would be made only twice each day on the regular runs and in no case would special deliveries be made after 8 Pp. m, Huge quantities of sugar are used in the manufacture of beer, hunger quantities are used in the distilling of whiskies and liquors. The same machinery whieh makes whisky can be used for the manufacture of aleohol for munitions by the same men, There is no economic necessity which ean possibly be used as an excuse for the continued manufacture of whisky and liquor. The sugar used in beer could be used by the manufacturers of bread foods and other food stuffs. . .. Never, I hope, will prohibition curse again the lives of young people but we have discussed the rationing of gasoline in the Midwest where there is plenty because our people are unwise in the use of gasoline and tires and must learn to conserve by denying themselves—even if it must be accomplished by executive order enforced by fines and prison terms. . . .

If we ration sugar, let us ration beer. Wise control by ration card might go far to show an overs indulged people the sensible, rational way of life. If we ration milk delivery, let us ration beer delivery. It takes no more rubber to deliver the one than the other, . . . “Ah, consistency? Thou art a Jewel of great price”—but in this case consistency is a jewel rarer than rubles. . . .

DAILY THOUGHT

Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.—Isaiah 26:4.

SO LET IT be in God's own might We: EAD Shiu WyAPO: By: Tins

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 5—C. B Randall of Chicago, vice president of Inland Steel and one of the most outspoken oritics of the “union maintenance” alias closed shop issue which the war labor board will get around to deciding one of these days, has revealed a formula for making liberals into bourbons. There isn't any pars ticular trick to it—just a matter of letting nature take its course after exposing under given conditions the individuals to be converted. In the case of Inland Steel, it has worked something like this: This company, like many others, tries to find bright young men and let them grow up in the industry. College graduating classes form one of the commonest recruiting grounds, and there young engineers, chemists, and students of economics and business administration are hired and given a chance to show what they've got. These youngsters come out of college full of ideals, sociology, liberalism and all the new thought about the rights of labor to organize, bargain cole lectively and assert their rights. So far so good, and harboring these ideas apparently doesn’t dise qualify a young graduate from being hired, even by Inland Steel,

Then Comes Dues-Picketing

THE BOY GOES to work and, being interested in such matters, he runs into union practices. First off is the grievance committee procedure. It is admite ted by a good many employers that three-fourths of the bellyaches which come up in daily, weekly of monthly grievance meetings are justified, particue larly in expansive times like these when men are shifted to new jobs, when the pressure is on for more and more production, when foremen and junior supervisory officials are inexperienced, and when all the tremendous trifles of big plant operation cone stantly have to be readjusted. ~ They're all to be expected and theyre taken, Thousands of one-man or one=-crew work stoppages, sit<downs or strikes come along, last for two minutes of two hours, are adjusted, and no one thinks anye thing about them. Then one day there comes a union dues picketing, A “committee” froin union headquarters will stand outside the plant gate, and as the men file by, the ones who haven't paid their dues, haven't joined the union and can't show a card are stopped, led over to a car or down the alley and persuaded, Those who don’t sigh up are not permitted to go to work, It is perhaps natural that arguments of this kind lead to scuffles, and scuffles lead to strong-arm tactics and strong-arm tactics lead to violence. In the war labor board hearings on the Inland Steel case, there are some pretty sad pages Of testi mony from workers who have been beaten up in dues picketing parties and the records of the come pany give evidence of how production has been stopped by not having sufficient crews to operate certain units on dues picketing days.

Bingo! You Have Bourbons!

BUT TO GET BACK to the young engineers, When these youngsters with all their theories go through just one dues picketing line, says Randall, it makes them bourbons overnight. And these are the men who, 10 or 20 years hence, will be the operating brains that run the company, Not enough has been told, thinks Randall, about this dues picketing business and it corollary, the after-work calls which the committee makes at the homes of the employees, who are called out on the porch and persuaded. These are the chapters of the open shop vs, the union shop argument that don't make pretty reading. There is of course the other side of the story, which Mr, Randall and the bourbon boys probably wouldn't agree to, but which in fairness should be stated nevertheless. A good many workmen like to ride on the coattails of a union, taking advantage of whatever benefits it secures in the way of ime proved wages and working conditions, without cone tributing anything toward organization support. All these organizations have their troubles in just keeping alive, That's why they want union maine tenance, which is simply smart press agentry and nomenclature for what used to be called the closed shop. And the unions don’t overlook a bet, either, in pointing out that if the union shop Dprintiple were adopted, dues picketing and their attendant evils would automatically be eliminated. That's just one side of the big issue which the war labor board is wrestling with now,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A LETTER FROM Dr. Henry L. Garland of the San Francisco Medical Society misinterprets one of my articles into a criticism of the American medical profession, One statement objected to waa that, “The average citizen hasn't been able to call a physician, except for serious illness, since the Lord knows when, on account of the expense.” Dr. Garland disagrees, pointing out that doctors have been most generous with their services, charging nothing to those unable to pay and scaling down their fees to fit slim pocketbooks. It was poor taste, he insists, for me to bring up the subject. . Maybe so—but it is a subject which should be more widely discussed, for it involves, not the medical pro fession alone, but the people of the nation. I hold no brief for those who assume that a physician should not be well paid for his invaluable work, Every good doctor is worthy of his hire. Doctors have been shamefully imposed upon already. Why should they contribute free services to a social system which gives fat rakeoffs to middlemen, fixers and cheap politicians?

They Are Only Proud

I DISLIKE QUARRELING with Dr. Garland, but the fact remains that a very large number of people don’t call in their doctors, or visit their offices, even though they may realize that they need medical at tention, Why is this? Are they merely perverse and obstinate? Not at all. They are only proud. They are the kind of people who dislike to accept charity, and still believe that they must do without what they can't pay for within a reasonable time. Unfortunately, because of some quirk in human nature, they do without medical and dental care while spend ing money for less important items, Bland dismissal of this question by praising the generosity of the doctors doesn't solve the problem, There's a dismal lack of intelligent study given to a subject which touches so closely the national health and the pride of the hard-working middle class Amerjean who prefers to pay a fair fee for what he gets in any kind of service.

So They Say—

No credo, no abundant store of good intentions, will serve us in this hour. This is a time for mastery.