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MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1942
ONE WEEK TO GO THE nation-wide collection of used rubber has passed the half-way mark. It's too early for an accurate estimate of the amount that has been turned in, but two things are certain: There isn't yet enough for military needs and essential civilian uses, and there can’t be too much. If
vou've been putting off your contribution to the drive, don't |
wait any longer. Take every scrap of rubber vou can spare to the nearest filling station todav.
BAD NEWS HE fall of Tobruk and Bardia completes the Nazis’ rapid reconquest of Libya. They are now at the gates of Egypt, within easy bombing range of Alexandria and <Q
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uez. Thus, within three weeks, Hitler has changed the world military situation—for the African front relates not only to the Middle East and Russian areas, but also to allied | ability to open a second front in western Europe, to supply | China and Australia, and prepare a north Pacific | offensive against Japan. This does not mean that the Rommel victory is decisive | in terms of this summer's global campaigns. But it does | mean that the allies must accept the disadvantage of more months on the defensive, or attempt their offensives at | ch greater risk than existed before the loss of Libya, |
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. VEN if Rommel is unable to follow up his Libyan victory by conquest of Egypt and invasion of the Levant from | the south, as the lower prong of a Hitler pincers movement through the Caucasus, he can immobilize allied reinforce- | ments and supplies desperately needed elsewhere. 3v opening a second front and winning on it, Hitler | as cut Britain's capacity to open a second front. Before | the unexpected fall of Tobruk, Churchill was reported unready to risk an allied invasion of Europe. Now he may be more convinced than ever that the Middle East comes | first.
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due to the fact that their government until very recently claiming Libyan successes, boasting of airpower and of cutting the Nazis’ sea supply lines. Now Churchill's position 1s weakened.
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WHAT the United States can do to help repair the military and political damage for President Roosevelt to decide—and the prime minister is here to find out. We must await their word. But, besides military help, there is something else we | can give. That is confidence. The British people need our faith now more than ever. ! Not the blind faith of the propagandists whose distortion of Libyan facts was their undoing. But the long which the allies growing stronger In manpower and machine power and thus in 2 | fighting power, despite temporary blunders and
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view, sees victorious defeats. Now is the time to show the British how proud we are,
and fortunate, to have allies of their courage, of their ability |
to take it.
LEON HENDERSON TODAY \ JE have found ourselves often in disagreement with | the policies of Leon Henderson. On his latest— | wholesale federal subsidies to keep prices down—it looks as if the cure would be worse than the disease. But we ! want to say this about him—apart from the question of | his wisdom or lack thereof as an economist trving to navigate an uncharted sea: He was handed a job to rival that of the kid who built e pyramid; in fact to rival the undertakings of Hercules, the one-armed paperhanger with the St. Vitus’ dance, King Canute. Joshua or Moses at the Red sea. Like Kipling’s banjo in the “Song of the Banjo,” it fell to his lot to become the “prophet of the utterly absurd. of the patently impossible and vain.” In net, his task has been to-repeal the law of supply and demand, than which law there is no whicher.
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He was promised seven weapons and has been given three. But € swinging. It was in the nature of things that he stepped on more toes than an elephant in a centipede convention. Now he calls himself a runner-up for the title of the most unpopular | man In America, and says he will stay in or get out—according to what the boss wants.
So we just desire here to pay this as a tribute to his | energy, his loyalty and his stamina, his capacity for hard | work, his genius for dealing with infinite detail, his ability
to “take it” and keep smiling.
Still apart from what one may think of the Hender-
son policies, and reserving the right of disagreement as to them, it is fortitude such as his that wins wars.
DEFINITION ASHINGTON is developing a great wartime output of | directives. It's a dull day for a bureaucrat when he | doesn’t get a directive from somebody higher up or issue one to somebody lower down. As nearly as we can deter-
mine, after exhaustive investigation, a directive is an order |
which will later require the appointment of a co-ordinator | who will receive a directive to find out why it hasn't been obeyed. .
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In England there was bitter reaction over the Libyan | debacle even before Tobruk. This increasing bitterness is |
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, June 22—Most opinionarians of the union press I can brush off with the back oi my hand when I bother to notice them at all for most of those who are not just cheap press agents, singing for their supper in praise of any thief, are men who know nothing about writing and couldn’t present a convincing or even a readable argument if : they had all the facts in their favor. But I have to say that Victor Olander, an old-time labor skate, gave me a robust bouncing around in the April issue of the monthly journal of the Plumbers and Steamfitters union, in reply to my own rather gloomy thought that, come total crisis in our war industries, it would be necesstry to draft labor. . I figured that it is no worse to compel a man to stay at a certain job in the war industries, including agriculture, at rates of pay fixed by the government, than it is to take a young fellow off his job or out of college and send him off to Bataan or Australia at much smalier pay, with the understanding that in all probability he will be shot at.
It's a Good Argument
MR. OLANDER SAID I discussed the idea as one who thinks of himself as among the “favored few.” éspecially in the urge for the accumulation of great wealth, overlooking the obvious certainty that if our government ever resorted to such compulsion I would be taken, early, because our free press would become a subsidized government press and would have no place for an honest oppositionist. As to the matter of the accumulation of wealth, IT think I might sometime take the trouble to show that I get far less than some of Mr. Olander’s professional colleagues of the union business and hardly more than half of what I might earn if I were willing to do books and magazine things and go around shooting off my face for $1000 a night in lecture halls I never was a money-lover, So Mr. Olander has got me wrong there but he argues well when he says “Information and argument —Mr. Pegler's own trade—are to be supplanted by force and fear. Why go to the trouble of endeavoring to convince a worker regarding his duty as a free citizen when it seems so much easier to simply throw him in jail if he hesitates. . . . I agree,
| of course, that Mr. Pegler’s suggestion of compulsory
labor has the virtue of straightforwardness. He states it bluntly, in language which all may understand. | That is good because it will doubtless take the lid |
the difference between the relative consequences of
| compulsory labor ana voluntary service.”
What About Eleanor, Mr. O.?
BUT WHAT T can’t understand is why Mr. O. is so cross and so rude about my earnings when Mrs. Roosevelt, whose income must be three times mine, proposed the same idea with a White House background about the same lime. and he says nothing about her, although her family always have been among the “favored few” and all of nine always have worked. On March 10, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote: “We had some very interesting discussion Sunday afternoon
: di : er | at the White House on the subject of what the general The political kickback may be worse than the military. | Coming on the first anniversary of the Nazi invasion of | ’ 2 : . ,_ | that all of us—men in the services, and men and it may dampen the hopes raised by Molotov’s |
on the Anglo- |
attitude of the people should be during this war pericd. I've come to one very clear decision, namely,
women at home-—should be drafted and told what is the job we are to do. . . . The only way I can see to get the maximum service out of our citizens is to
{ draft us all and tell us all where we can be most . . . T would be
useful and where our work is needed. relieved beyond measure, and so would people throughout the nation, if an authority greater than
L | our own personal decision told us where we could superior |
be most useful.” Why pick on me?
Frankly Speaking
By Norman E. Isaacs
WONDER HOW MANY more years we are going
, to have to suffer with the Indiana system of picking | | 6 | counts and that they are the men for a so-called traffic violation in | something
senators, governors and other high state officials—including judges—by the convention system, instead of the direct primary. The convention system is packed with dynamite to
start with and in Indiana, both the Democrats and | countries to bits and then went back Seems
| A frank discussion of the nature of | | forced labor is what is badly needed just now. If we | gel a good start on the subject we will ‘soon learn
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| “MARCH INTO GERMANY AND
| few ‘overlords are drilled to the idea |
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The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—- Voltaire.
“GIVE WATSON CREDIT FOR SINCEREST OF MOTIVES” By A Literate, Bloomington TI am quite certain that you are] correct in your assumption that | the rank and file Republican does |
not coincide in the viewpoints ex- | pressed at the state convention in
to express 1 these columns,
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However, I do not agree with you Watson so bit-!. roti terly. I grant him credit for el 5, Frerytime th sincerest of motives. It is true that| oontlemen. study of the economic trends have shown the fallacy of his viewpoints on the tariff, but that does not justify attacking him as a humbug. Mr. Watson, as I understood it,!
is embittered and Let's give ’em h
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Good ! | people don’t realize that the world | BY A Silver Star Mother, Franklin.
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e bleeding hearts treat them like heavens, these
disgusted. ell!
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expressed his viewpoint to the con- “FRANKLIN TRAFFIC TRAP
vention. The platform expressed GETTING DEFE the view of the party. Please give
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the party credit for its good wooks, BY A Defense Worker, Indianapolis , During these trying times when question asked was, “Do you have
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LEAVE IT A SHAMBLES”
By D. A. C.,, Indianapolis i o ’ | wake up. I don't agree with all . these| squeamish folks around who wince | every time somebody mentions]
Germans. The Prussians have been bringing war to this world every years. These arrogant, brutal)
counts,
their cars in order to save tires and gas) to work at Camp Atterbury,| e
especially with defense workers, the Frank- And if they did have, “I'm sorry, lin, Ind, traffic department should cannot rent to parties with fam-|
{hours of traffic in the morning and {afternoon (the same as Indianapolis does) at certain street crossings, {and assist and direct traffic instead of hiding behind a parked car waiting for a victim. | The 1940 state legislature made! speed traps and traffic traps unJawful and I believe this so-called traffic cop is ignoring and violating this law.
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| | “FEW CAN RAISE FAMILY, BUY HOME AT SAME TIME"
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| I agree with Mrs. R. A. U. in| 'June 17 Times. I personally know lof a family who rented and val)
[their rent in one house seven years. |
SE WORKERS” This place was sold and when they,
‘began looking for a place the first |
children and how old are they?” |
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ily,” and today these ‘parents have
A worker who lives in Indian- a boy age 20 years fighting PCTOSS| apolis and drives back and forth the water for these same people! ‘tkicking the daylights out of the | with three other workers (who also{who would not have children of
have cars, but take turns in using [their own nor give shelter to an- ik | | organizations are provided with birth control informa-
{other child. e | Our problem of rich and poor is| ry serious in America and our)
that war is the only thing that Was given a ticket and fined $6.30 government would be wise to do
to rule the world. la night court in Every recent war, the Germans |
have started the thing, torn other as
though
Franklin, Ind.
the
about it. | Our president has tried to help,
put what happened—the money be-|
In regards to this violation oan fighting him. Don’t you think Franklin {American organizations have enough!
Republicans have made a mockery of the whole |t0 their own Germany, an untouched [traffic department has speeded up to do here at home to start clean
process. The respective state chairmen always mouth | Germany, and then renege on their a certain traffic signal at the en-| some pretty phrases about “this convention being | just payment of the bill for their trance to Franklin on road 31. This. wide open,” but that’s just about as truthful as Adolf | crimes.
Hitler pledging himself to the sanctity of a treaty. In the Republican convention last week, there were a few candidates unpopular with the rank-and-file delegates. ~ They'd gladly have voted for Tom Thumb if he had opposed these men, but the powers-that-be turned thumbs down on any additional nominations, so that was that. The Democrats will do a repeat performance later this month.
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' You Pay—But You Don't Pick
THE CONVENTION SYSTEM is as close ta bed-
| rock democracy as is the Reichstag. Heaven knows,
the primary has its faults, but nothing te compare with the party convention.
The way to cure these swine is
signal changes so fast from green |
ling house here to make it secure "before worrying their heads about! | foreign affairs? "i Now you clubwomen want some-|
‘to march in there and leave part(s Ted that one is “caught” before thing to do. Get busy on this one,
of their country a shambles, like he gan cross the
deadline or
| '17. Give these Czechs, Poles and ‘cop steps out from behind a parked | others a chance to be the army of auto and nabs his sé-called vio-
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The delegates are chosen in the primaries, true |
enough, but evervone surely knows that the average voter doesnt know beans about the delegate candiIf he votes for them at all, he just marks those whose names look familiar. These, then, are the men who meet solemnly to select the men who are to run for the high office of
| the United States senate, or for the governorship of
Indiana—highest executive post in the state. Look back over our list of senators and governors for the past 20 years and you’ll realize what iniquities are perpetrated in the name of democracy.
Yes, occasionally we're fortunate in getting a high- |
type man like Henry Schricker. Or even a Paul McNutt, for all his faults. But those are merely the exceptions. as apt to wind up with a Happy Hooligan.
So They Say=
Under the convention system, you're just
If Russia can hold Hitler through the summer with |
what she has this year, Hitler will certainly be
crushed by what Russia will get next year.—Charles |
F. Kettering, chairman General Motors Corp.
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We shall not be satisfied until the ships under our | flag handle at least one-half of the maritime traffic | affecting our nation. —Admiral Emory S. Land, chair- |
man U. S. maritime commission.
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The age of imperialism is ended. The principles
world as a whole—in all oceans and in all continents. —Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state.
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| of the Atlantic Charter must be guaranteed to the |
Tt was our provincial insularity that helped let loose the assassins who are destroying the elementary |
decencies and the cultural barriers which separate men
| of good will from beasts of the field. —Maurice Sim-
mons, past commander, United Spanish War Veterans. |
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To carry on the war in a spirit of hatred or revenge toward any race or people is to weaken the | moral force of our struggle —Rev, John Gillespie |
Magee, rector St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, | ‘Sure, | ll help you to get a
occupation and let ’em give the jator. Huns a taste of their own medicine. |
street, | they did France in °14, ’15, °16 and and just as fast a so-called traffic
for there are very few who can| raise a family and buy a home at the same time. ” » ®
“I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A
I believe it would help the de- BRUNCH OF SMART ALECKS” Tet some Prussian look cross-eved |fense workers to get to and from | at a Pole and let the Pole take Camp Atterbury and save time and ® things in his own ‘hands, to remind money to buy defense bonds and!
y Richard A. Thompson, 905 N. Grant st. | This concerns the ash collection’
these Germans of what happened [stamps instead of being trapped and {department of our “fair” city. I've lin "41 and "42 in his own country compelled to appear in a night court! ver seen such a lousy bunch of
at the hands of these murderous and pay a fine. dogs.
te contend with it much more .
: If the Franklin | Make them realize what war is|there is one at Franklin) or the the department a h like and we probably won't have | town council want te help defense, to find the reason . ./let them have this so-called traffic and
traffic chief Gf
These people don’t know what it/officer station himself during busy
Side Glances=By Galbraith
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Gotten those fat
'smart alecks in my life. I've called alf dozen times, why my ashes trash aren't collected. I've! |been waiting six weeks now and they won't do a thing about it. Why ? Perhaps the collectors think they) might strain their little bitty muscles if they lift anything over| 10 pounds. I called about it and, the man who answered got smart with me and told me if I didn’t like lit to go to - - - -. T thought they were the servants of the people, not vice versa. Furthermore, they seem to be awful particular about what they collect. They throw the cans around the alley and if anything falls off the wagon they won't stop to pick it up. I've had to go out in the alley and pick up stuff that dropped off the wagon before I could back] my car out of the garage, so I; wouldn't get a flat or maybe ruin a [tire. I had 18 bushels of trash in| baskets to be collected for the last six weeks and it’s still there. A two-year-old child could run] that ash collection office better than that bunch that’s in there now. I want some action. If those birds would think more of the people they serve instead of their own selfish] selves once in a while the public wouldn't gripe at them so much.
DAILY THOUGHT
As thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, s¢ let my life be much set by in the eyes of the Lord, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation. —I Samuel 26:24.
TO TAKE away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common. to give it belongs to, god and k
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Russia & Japan
By A. T. Steele
NEW DELHI, June 22.—The Russians hate Jap militarists and react with delight at every blow the American navy and air force delivers the mikado’s musclemen. The Soviet government will do nothing, however, to invite the war with Japan so long as the struggle with Germany involves all Russia's strength. Nobody is asleep in Russia te the danger that the Jap generals may any day let the appetite for conquest lead them into a Siberian adventure. The opinion prevails that the Japs are not likely to attack this summer, But if they do, the Nips will find the Soviet Far Eastern army strong enough to give a good account of itself despite such withdrawals of equipment as may be necessitated to bolster the European front. Russia's immaculate neutrality in the Far East puzzles some foreign observers who think the Russians should donate a few of their bases for American bombings of Japan, or at least permit passage of American supplies through Russia for China. But~ to the Russians their policy seems to be so obviously sound and so reahistically sensible that it does nos require explanation.
Little Hope of Compromise
WHETHER THE FALL of Burma, which leaves Russia as the only practical overland supply channel to China, will modify the Soviet attitude remains to be seen.
The firmly neutral position the Russians have taken toward the Pacific conflict so far does not offer much hope of a satisfactory arrangement. Even Russian help to China has declined to a trickle for the simple reason that the Soviet Union has nothing to spare. The Russians are well aware that there is a fanatical faction in the Jap #rmy which continuously is seeking to precipitate its country into war with Russia. The Russians do not wish to provide fuel for provocative propaganda for the Jap home front
The Far Eastern Defenses SOVIET STRENGTH in the Far Bast and the capacity of the Soviet Far Eastern army to resist a Jap onslaught is guesswork of the purest ray serene,
No phase of Soviet activity is shrouded in greater secrecy. Even travelers on the Trans-Siberian rail-
‘ way rarely see anything of real significance. Foreign
residents in Vladivostok are allowed freedom of movement only in a limited area of the town and have
| almost no contact with the Russian population.
It is supposed that some part of the Soviet Far Eastern air strength and armored forces have been transferred. to Europe. But in view of all-out, countrywide mobilization it is also reasonable te suppose that there are more Soviet foot soldiers on the Far Eastern frontier today than ever before. The elaborate defenses constructed around the Manchurian frontier during the last 10 years are still there and these must have been considerably improved since the outbreak of the war with Germany. * All this adds up to probably that, while the Soviet’s striking power in the Far East is less than before the war, its defensive position, remains fairly
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
MRS. MARGARET SANGER, who heads the Planned Parenthood Society of America, has dashed right in where colonels, politicans and lady warriors feared to tread by suggesting scientific contracep= tive information for our WAACS, who, according to a ruling, will be discharged from the army if they become prospective mothers, Mrs. Sanger asserts that wome en who serve in English military
tion. Certainly common sense demands that our own soldierettes be equally well protected. To quote Mrs. Sanger: “This should not be made It is a health measure. If army heads have allowed themselves te get into this posi« tion without thinking it through the whole way; the dishonor is on their side and not on the woman's. In my estimation, child bearing is never a dishonorable function.” May we add that army heads and. politicians would have shown more intelligence if they had barred mothers of young children from WAAC service. In= stead, plans were patterned after those of the British, a habit of ours these days even when conditions in the countries are essentially different and should eal
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"Are We Going Nuts?"
ENGLAND HAS ABOUT 44 million people: we have 131 million, which gives us a big edge in man power and in the numbers of single women and widows avaliable for army and defense service. Canada, wiser than we, has ruled that mothers cannot join her women's army. Some of the silliest current talk has to do with suggestions for federal appropriations te pay women te take care of the babies of other women who are doing war work. Are we going nuts? Provided she has her wits, no person is so well fitted to care for a baby as its own mother. When we recall what happens to the chil during its first six years of life, we can only wonder whether some of our didoes are not subversive rather than patriotie, True, human beings hanker for change and excites ment. and mothers are no exception. But political leaders ang army men would have defended the country better by restricting army ens listments to childless women. The soldier who gives his life for his country thinks of that country as a nation of homes. And te remind vou of a trite but eternal truth—— What x home without a mother?” Editar's Nate: newspaper are their awn of The Indianapolis Times.
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Q—-What is the origin of the word “mess” foe army meals? A—Tt is derived from the old French word ‘mes * “Mig” is derived from the Latin “missus,” meaning a course of a meal, : Q—Have state revenues beguit to reflect a decline in the tax receipts from gasoline sales? A—Yes; in addition to the states where gasoline deliveries have been reduced, the non-rationed states
have begun to report gas-tax revenue decreases.
Q—Is it true that the average set of four autos mobile tires contains 70 pounds of crude rubber? A—Yes. and the rubber in the engine mount, in the fan belt, in window channeling. «nd other parts 50 additional
of the automobile, conthinz about