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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1842

LESSON OF THE LEXINGTON

HE Lexington's death was a glorious one, as eloquently related by the only correspondent aboard her, Stanley Johnston of the Chicago Tribune. But death it was. Her loss was a spectacular example of the vulnerability of weapons that float when attacked by weapons that fly. It was at 11:161% a. m. on May 8, according to Mr. Johnston’s notes, when the Lexington’s lookouts reported, “Here they come. Enemy torpede planes coming in pert beam.” At 11:32—just 15'¢ minutes later—the last of the enemy dive bombers passed over. In that quarter-hour of furious, deafening combat

19 of the 102 Jap planes involved in the action were shot | down—30 of them by our own defending aircraft, against only 19 by the guns of the Lexington and her cruiser-and-destroyer screen. But when it was done. the great carrier—33,000 tons; than many our battleships—was mor- | For that the Jap losses were hardly a

was, bigger of tally wounded. high price. Refore this, of course, the task force of which the Lexington was a part had done tremendous damage to the enemy—including the virtual annihilation of a good-sized jap flotilla at Tulagl, the destruction of the new carrier | Ryukaku (“scratch one flat top!”), and the severe mauling | of the carrier Syokaku. The Lexington and her personnel deserve their nation’s gratitude.

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» BY T it would be unwise to overlook, in our admiration. this further lesson in the helplessness of a big warship | ren attacked by airpower. We e have other Eaftiels afloat and on the ways.

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We certain cruisers under construction have been redesigned as Plus ali that, congress is about to vete for construction of 500.000 tons more of carriers. But there is a limit to our facilities and materials, I we can't build everyihing we might wish. Those in authority should make absolutely certain that this tremendous carrier schedule will not get in the way of the biggest and fastest possible program for the construction of big, long-range, land-based bombers. These hard-hitting aircraft are aimost daily demonstrating their effectiveness against seapower—most lately in the battle of the Mediterranean convovs, where our 1's four-motored Liberators scored 35 direct hits on two tleships without the loss of a plane. All honor to the Lexington and to our other carriers in m in the Pacific and elsewhere. But the heavy bomber, in swarms over distances that constantly lengthen. a punch that the smaller ship-borne planes cannot strikes us as the weapon that will decid»

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INDIAN INTRIGUE

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battles raging on the seven seas and almost all | continents, distant conferences make no headlines. | But two conferences on India may have bigger results in| the long run than some battles. One is an axis meeting at | Bangkok. The other is a gathering of the Indian congress | party's big three—Gandhi, Nehru and Azad—at the mahat- | na's sun-baked village of Wardha. The Japs, after destructive preliminary bombing of | stern India, have been holding off for a month. Appartly they are waiting for anti-British sentiment to dupli- | cate the Burmese fitth-column activities before attempting est of the nearby industrial Calcutta area. At the Bangkok conference, Jap, German and Italian cents are reported telling India that a beneficent axis is

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interested only in winping independence for her. dispatch Indian national army formed to co-operate with the Japs. This would sound fantastic if it were not for the | Burma experience—one British general estimated that 0 | ent of the Burmese turned against the British—and | f it were not for Gandhi's statements this week. If Britain rejects his demand for immediate fence, Gandhi saves he will make “a move which felt by the whole world.” That he is powerful enough to eripple the weak war effort of British India, nobody doubts. Indeed, if Gandhi | had not recaptured control of the congress party from | Nehru during the sabotaged British negotiations, Nehru and Cripps might have obtained a tentative working agree-

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Despite Nehru's recent comments, the only hope of saving the dangerous Indian situation is that their mutual friend, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, may yet bring | Cripps and Nehru together on a compromise. Otherwise China will lose her supply route, and the ited States will lose the only good Asiatic hases for | g Japan—iot

to mention what will happen to India. |

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CANADA'S

ANY Canadians are said to be worrying lest the close economie ties welded by the war may lead, eventually, to annexation of the Dominion by the United States. \We believe we speak for the overwhelming majority of | Americans in suggesting that if ever Canada is joined te | the United States, it will be by free choice of the Dominion’s | On such a probably most United States | jrang would welcome Canadian Americans into a | cous North American nation. We like them, we admire and respect them. We go no further.

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, June 18. — I should like to challenge one of the premises on which the Negro press of our country operates and from which it addresses its appeal to the Negro people. That is the premise that the white newspapers of our daily press are unfair to the Negro in their treatment of news stories, if not actually hostile e colored man. Fs 1 say the white papers are not anti-Negro but, on the contrary, are scrupulously fair and sympathetic and even sometimes play down news for fear that by the slightest overemphasis they may provide some Communist group or some reckless hotheads of either race with an oppertunity te touch off a tragedy. | Our white editors feel a grave responsibility and, | while it may be, strictly speaking, a mistake to play down news beneath its due degree of emphasis, it is, if so. a mistake made in a good cause and out of motives. In the last few months there have & n two disturbances in the eastern in which crowds of Negro civilians broke into public » disorder. In both cases I watched carefully the dling of the news in the white papers and dl “that they hed been guided by a strong desire not to be responsible for any aggravation of situations which were potentially troublesome.

Colored Leaders Badly Puzzled

IN ANOTHER CASE there was a row and some shooting at a military camp involving American soldiers. both white and colored. and here, again, the white press trod with the most patriotic and conscientious care. passing no judgment as to guilt or responsibility but leaving that to the army. It is true that it is the custom of some newspapers to identifv a Negro in the news as a Negro, or a Chinese or an Indian as sych, and that is a point of much complaint by Negro political leaders and publicists who insist that it is enough to say that the |

| man or woman concerned is 2 man or woman.

But they are inconsistent when they then appeal | to the supreme court to set aside verdicts in criminal | cases on the ground that there were no Negroes on the jury lists. Moreover, there is never any objection to pointed mention of the fact that Marian Anderson | or Joe Louis is a Negro. I think the colcred leaders are as badly puzzled

| and as inconsistent as the white journalist for cer-

tainly they do plead on racial grounds in the case of

| the all-white jury trying a Negro defendant just as

vehemently as they object to the distinction between white and colored in the news of some small crime.

"It Is Not Good Journalism"

BUT. ALLOWING FOR the fact that the Negro press exists in the interest of the Negro people and | waiving for the moment the fact that they con- | stantly tend to maintain his segregation, these papers bear their responsibility with much less skill and care than the average white paper. Our white papers do not carry on agitation against Negroes. On the contrary, our handling of the news in which the color question arises is done with the | greatest delicacy. whereas the Negro editors constantly make sharp distinctions between white and colored men in cases of friction and take the side of the colored personz involved. often with injustice to the white man and the truth. and to the damage of

| inter-racial understanding.

It is not right. it is not good journalism and it is not good Americanism to print a deliberate deception, thus arousing in the colored reader a feeling that a racial brother has been wronged, if the racial brother. in fact. was in the wrong.

Total War

By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND June 18 It is possible to say with little exagceration that Oliver Lyttelton’s | accounting of the British war effort is a nonfiction. 1942 “What Price Glory” or “Farewell to Arms.” | We, on this side of the Atlan- | tic, have heard and read soulsearing accounts of the horrors of | war where bombs are bursting, machine guns spraying, incendi- | aries firing, bayonets splitting human bodies. Piecemeal, bit by bit, we have been told some-

| thing of the sccial and economic effects of total war i in

a democracy and of its even more scarifying effects in the totalitarian countries. But Lyttelton. the Donald Nelson of Great Britain, | has given us frankly, factually and without adorn- | ment, a picture of the complete readjustment that such war means to civilians, Every man and woman is subject to draft to work They cannot take jobs at will and move on when they please. They are frozen at their machines. Women work long hours—up to 55 a week—often

0 - i at tasks that every man hates to think of having | ne prop- |

wemen do. i Boys and girls from 14 years up are almost uni-

| versally engaged in war work on farms or in factories |

—not pin money. occasional tasks, but day-by-day | drudgery that frees men for fighting and for even | more onerous labors.

Then Think About Our Protests

NOT ONLY HAS preduction of civilian goods been cut to the bone, but manufacturers have had to see the patronage thev had laboriously acquired turned | over to rivals. so their own factories might be used for war goods. Food is rationed. Money doesn't count. Cabinet ministers and factory workers, millionaires and suhsistence level laborers, each is entitled to the same amount. Clothing is rationed. The rich ean have better quality, to be sure, but for each woman, whatever her | income or bank balance, there is one coal, one dress, one pair of shoes, one nightgown, one set of under- | garments, two pairs of hose and four handkerchiefs | for this year. After July 1 the ordinary civilian will get no gaso- | line at all. | Income taxes start at the $450-a-yvear level,

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| elimb fast to the almost completely confiseatory rate |

of 87: cents on the dollar. This is the barest skeleton of what Mr. Lyttelton | means even after the | danger of death or maiming has been discounted. i We. too, are a party in this total war against | Hitlerism. What are we civilians suffering that can be mentioned in the same breath as John Bull's

| troubles?

So They Say—

| As I see it, we will win in the fall of 1944 It will |

| take at least a year for the effect of our tremendous

production efforts to be felt—Charles F. Kettering, chairman, General Mators corporation. If gasoline rationing will contribute rubber to the war efiort and a reasonable explanation is given to aur |

| people, they themselves will enforce it.—Senater Josh

fee of Oklahoma. | 3 . * : Today we find American soldiers throughout the Pacific, in Burma, India and China. Recently they | struck at Tokyo. ey have wintered in Greenland |

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VICTIM OF A SPEEDER! old “Fair Enough”

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By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 18 —Press |

idential signature on the Murray« Patman bill, known as the small business act, makes this measure a law and sets up a fund of 150 million dollars to be administered

by a smaller war plants corpora-

tion that will assist small manufacturers who can efficiently produce war or essential eivilian materials. But don’t think this solves all the problems of small business, The Murray-Patman bill is just a step in the right direction, and the most conservative guess as to the sum required to really save small business is another 200 million dollars a year. It works out something like this: The country has some 184,000 manufacturing plants. The National Small Business conference of Chicago, a strictly private trade association, estimates that of this number, only about 45,000 can be con= verted to war production. Pessimistically, therefore, the conference predicts that eventually 139,000 plants face the possibility of complete wartime shutdown.

The Reasons Are Clear

THE BUREAU of Industry Branches in the WPB says this estimate is far too gloomy. The WPB guess is that of those 184,000 manufacturers, all but perhaps 24,000 can keep going during this war production era, The prospect of 24,000 small businesses being shut down—and by Oct. 1, 1942—is nothing to cheer over,

| but it's brighter than the outlook of 138,000 plants

| being forced to the wall.

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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“PEGLER IS REALIST BUT CLAPPER'S AN IDEALIST”

By Mattie Withers, 1325 N. Arsenal ave. | Westbrook Pegler won the Pulitzer prize for his essays exposing the | rottenness of the union racket and | to my way of thinking it was richly | deserved. I hope he wins it again. | Keep up the good work, Mr. Pegler. And while I am on the subject of | Mr. Pegler’s writings, I would like! to add a word of approval of his something will be done, too late! estimate on post-war conditions. | You probably will say keep your Mr. Pegler is a realist and he judges animals chained up, but you can't | things as they are and not as We chain children. So I am pleading would like them to be. Everything |with every American to drive slowly supports Mr. Pegier’'s contention pat only for rubber but for pets and that conditions after the war will ghildren as well.

(Times readers are invited their religious conMake your ietters short, so all can Letters

to express views in

these celumns, troversies excluded. have a chance. must

be signed.)

: fread this letter and regret that you, Raymond Clapper, the idol of didn't even stop to apologize. some of your contributors and an]

” 2 appealing writer, is nevertheless an |, LE<B AINED idealist, if not a visionary, and it PEGLER RATT E-BR

‘has been ehundantiy proved thai ON HIS BREAD SQUAWK that kind of stuff just won't work By A. L. Sanders, 818 S. Taft st. Today's edition of The marks the first time I have read {your paper in months and for once Pegler was harpArlington ave. ing on something other than the My dog was just killed; she was labor unions. Rattle brain as this helpless. She was struck by a crazy column is though, it probably will driver going too fast. She never branch off thereon before it's over. knew what hit her. She was ex- It is indeed a relief from his belly- | pecting puppies in a few months |aching to have him think up someThe person that hit her never thing else to rant about but the American pepple I presume are The drivers go entirely top {ast pretty well satisfied with their presby our house: they fly past here ent breadstuffs and will pay about like they are going to a fire. My as much attention to his squawking neighborhod is crowded with as they have his labor views. children as helpless as my dog; Having put in a few years making some day one of them is going to be 8 living selling bakery goods house

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By Lorraine Wern, 2000

the helpless victim of a devil be- to house, I take my hat off to no

l hind a wheel. man when it comes to selling more

Mr. Sheriff. ¥ wish {place a speed limit on

you Arlington | I worked.

{These crazy drivers don't seem to their bread stuffs. (realize that there is a war going | The kind of a loaf of hread that ‘on and that rubber is scarce and /sold for me was one that was uni

there are children running around form from day to day as near as is what the

not knowing the danger that the possible. And that

‘road holds for them. Some day a American home wants. Of course

child will be murdered here; might there are certain parts of our coun-|

it murder, and then try Where you run agnto an inferiar

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would bread than I did on the territories I know something about

(ave. from Brookville rd. to Troy ave. | What the American home wants in |

|load of bread that is being sold, but [that is like everything else. . . . | Select a good rich loaf of bread | from a reliable concern and stick to lit. Those bakeries are nob going lta chisel their quality one hit. I thave seen those who tried it and lit was the old story. It just dop'i | work. I truly am glad to have read just) one of his columns though where he was on someone else's neck other | than labor's,

” 2 y “LET'S GET ON Wer THE NEXT CASE. ,.

By 0. B. Beck, 332 BE. Morris st. 1 realize that the discussion hetween Mr. Sallee and I cannot go [an indefinitely but 1 would like to poffer one more thought fer consideration. I agree with Mr. Sallee that one law violation does not justify another. As to your suggestion for me te contact Mr. Blue, I have in my files a copy of a letter to Mr. Blue, dated Aug. 11th, 1941, and at this writing I still have not been grant- | ed the courtesy of a reply. Mr.| Blue's power of office is comparable] to a ball player, if he strikes at] | the ball, when he is told ta bunt, | lhe will be traded off for another. The judge of any court weighs | land considers the evidence before demanding punishment or disinissal. Let the people be judge of hist issue: Gen, Tyndall, the defend- | rant in your case, has been schooled | in one of the best institutions in| existence, the United States army.! his “men in uniform” were fight= ing for a cause, nat collecting for racketeers. Gen, Tyndail is still] serving his country as a chosen | worker in civilian defense, and in | offering himself further as a public servant certainly should not be classed as a cause for eriticism, I move for dismissal, so we can get fon with the next case, “Tha People versus Gamblers and Racketeers,” charged with sabotage of American money that should be in war bonds and stamps. . | , #2 # 8 “MR. SALLEE SHOULD HAVE READ THE PAPERS” | By Hatrison White, 21§ E. St. Joseph st. Some time ago a Mr. Sallee attempted to smear Gen, Tyndall through your eolumns, under the heading “Wh Should Gen. Tyndall Violate the ..aw.” It was for a purported vio.ation of the law in conjunction with civilian defense ard being in polities. If Mr. Sallee had af read the papers, he would of known that Mr. Tyndall made a publie statement that he would resign from the affice as head of civilian defense before entering upon his campaign for mayor and that he would serve only until the governor appainted his suecessor. Suppose Mr. Tyndall had resigned forthwith, leaving the office of civilian defense without any head in Masion county? Well, Gen. Tyndall is not that kind of a soldier; besides the law does not contemplate that a person give up his rights of citizenship, but its intent is to the effect that the head of civilian defense must not try te manipulate the support of civilan defense te any political parties. .

DAILY THOUGHT

Far every one that doeth avil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be repraved.John 3:30,

LIFE 18 not the supreme good, but the supreme evil is to realise

Whatever the number eventually put out of busi ness, the reasons for their shutdown are clear. The WPB, to conserve critical materials and to release machinery for the making of war supplies, has had to prohibit completely the manufacture of thousands of items made for civilians in times of peace.

No Help for Many of Them

THESE STOP orders are one of the mast serious aspects of the war. Like bombing raids, they are unavoidable, but they are just as deadly as though bombs actually were dropped on some 24,000 or more small factories scattered over the country. Statistics on these businesses-~what firms they are

| and how many employees they have—are unavailable,

If you count only the smallest 24,000 manufactories, they represent a four billion dollar a year productive capacity. The Murray-Patman bill will save a number of these firms, but it must be borne in mind that the Smaller War Plants Corp. will be restricted by law to helping war production, The purpose of the bill is not to save small business as such, but to help finance plants that can be converted to manufacturing war

| supplies or the minimum requirements of civilian | economy.

There is still no help in sight for the little fellows who can't convert and can't be given materials for non-essential production.

Park Visitors Cut in Half

VISITORS TO national parks have been cut down by half. , . , To salve railway freight transportation problems, manufacturers are heing asked to make monthly estimates of their carloadings. « + The vitamin business now amounts to 100 million dollars a year. . . . War production workers who think up ideas to increase output will get decorated with diplomas in three degrees, est, “certificate.” ar “citation.” . G&G M. Cailicz, a Filipino, runs Washington's newest transportation company, "The Bataan Taxicab Service.”

‘A Woman's Viewpoint ‘By Mrs. Walter Fergusen

WHILE T FAVOR a marked decrease in the number of organ= izations, one recently brought to my attention has basic aims which sound desirable, It began with a woman-always a fillip to curiosity «who wishes to remain anonymous. After listening for several years to harangues, political promises, slogans and conversations, she de- : cided that the American people as a whole had almost lost sight of the fundamental principles of their own form of government. As a

| result “American Principles, Inc.” was founded with

headquarters in San Francisco. Its chief objective, I gather, is to persuade people to study their government and to become better acquainted with the Constitution. Now don’t start yelling that this is sure to cement us into ancient grooves and that nobody wants to bother with such a dull document. On the contrary, such study could mean fresh interpretations of old truths, And, while the idea of delving into the origins of government may sound stodgy, it means essentially that we would become better acquainted with the history of man's struggle for liberty—and what could possibly be more thrilling?

Yes, Drastic Changes Are Coming

TO DATE, THAT struggle has reached its peak in our own nation. We the peaple and our way of life are the results of long ages of bitter conflicts. The slow churnings of revolutions and the steady march of evalutien have brought us a long way on this path to freedom.

Yet every day we seem to be retracing some of those steps. In fighting fascism we move closer ta collectivism. Many economists contend that a callective society is the natural result of industrial and technological developments such as those which orig inated in this country.

Some who shouted loudest against Anne Linde bergh's “Wave of the Future” theory now say the same sort of thing she did, and in less clear language. They cantend we shall be forced to accept drastia changes in our social order after the war is over and who doubts it? Yet we can and must insist uypan the right of the individual American te a certain amount of personal and economic freedom. It seems as evil for the minority to be oppressed by the mae jority as it does to submit to any other form of dics tatorship. Editor's Note: The views expressed hy columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those af The Indianapolis Times, .

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