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_. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942

WAKE UP—IT’S A LONG WAR!

OX LY the other day we felt so cheerful—but now we feel awful. For several weeks this country had been on a sort of optimistic jag, induced by the mixture of a few dashes of good news with several jiggers of hopeful forecasts. There'd be a second front in 1942—perhaps three or four. Coral sea and Midway had removed the threat to Hawaii and the Pacific coast. As for the Japs in the Aleutians—we’d knock ’em out when the fog lifted. Anyhow, Doolittle had bombed Tokyo. Thousand-plane raids on German cities were only forerunners of bigger raids to come—by two, three or even five thousand planes a night. This might break the German people—their morale showed signs of cracking—and unrest in conquered countries bordered on revoit. The Russians were holding and counter-attacking. The British had superiority of numbers and equipment in Libya. It looked like a short war after all. = = » x = ® OMEHOW, in that rosy glow, the stings and aches of Pearl Harbor and Guam, Malaya and Singapore, Manila and Bataan, Sumatra and Java, Burma and the Atlantic sinkings didn’t seem so painful. Those defeats had made us grim and united and hard —ready to sacrifice profits, give up strikes, observe rationing, buckle down in many unpleasant ways. They had awakened us, but the sedative of a little progress and much wishful thinking made us drowse again. Some of those with big spending money started to throw it around. Read the article in Life magazine which begins: “Last week as some’ Americans were gambling their lives to smash the Japs at Midway, other Americans were busy gambling millions of dollars at race-tracks. . .. Belmont’s greatest season . . . $27,773,297 for the mutuel machines in 24 racing days . . . $385,042 wagered on a single race.” Strikes loomed up again—mostly small and scattered, | but increasing. A wildcat strike in a steel mill; a slowdown in a shell plant; a “work holiday” here; a walkout

there; dues picketing. . .. Food rotting on tracks because truckers wouldn't take it through a picket line; disputes over higher wages and | overtime: demands for longer vacations; conciliators working desperately to avert a growing number of conflicts. Politics stirred into activity. Don’t settle the tax bill hefore the election. Don’t lower the draft age until after November. Damn Henderson—he won't let senators control his appointments. Pay a dollar an ounce for silver we can’t use when we can't get tin we must have. Don’t talk about withholding taxes or compulsory sav- | ings till the votes are counted. Discount the rubber | crisis—the folks back home don’t like rationing. Maybe the rubber shortage isn't so bad-—somebody will invent something. Drive ‘em while you've got ‘em.

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ND now, the morning after. Tobruk taken and the British driven from Libya. Egypt and the Suez menaced by Rommel’s armored forces and a great army of paratroops in Crete. Gallant men and women fighting, falling back, dying, | at Sevastopol. | The oil fields of the Caucasus and the Near East gravelv threatened. | Japanese encamped in the Aleutians. China's back to the wall. Gen. Emmons warning non-residents out of Hawaii because “the outcome of the battle of Midway has given | many people a false sense of security.” : Japan strengthening her outposts toward Australia and threatening Siberia. ' ’ Shells falling on Oregon soil. India seething with unrest nd potential revolt.

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¥ = s HINGS weren't as good as they seemed last week, and probably aren’t as bad as they look today. One big trouble is that we haven't had enough unvarnished news. Too few facts, too much speculation and prediction. That's not a healthful diet for a country which has | been used to more and freer news than any other in the! world. Naturally, out of the speculation and prediction, Amer- | icans become overly optimistic if those in high places—the | ones supposed to be “in the know” —emphasize the bright side, as happened so frequently in the last few weeks. | This country needs facts; it needs truth—no matter | how unpalatable. It needs the bad along with the good. | It needs to know that the war won't end this year; | that the future is still very dark: that the agonies and pri- | vations of war are only beginning. To know this finally—to steel ourselves against the | worst—to stop the psychological ups and downs—to dig in and quit our wasting, striking, politicking, profit-grasp-ing and griping: This is the basic training for victory onthe home front.

RED CROSS

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, June 25.—Recent talk about the kind of- peace which we would grant the defeated Germans seems to have been ill-timed. Perhaps much more appropriate to the news of the day is the contemplation of the kind of peace that Hitler and the Japanese would inflict on us. If the Germans wins this war, Japan will possess our Pacific : . coast and the American people there will become serfs of Japanese under a Japanese government enforced by the brutal title soldiers whose sense of inferiorify expresses itself in acts of unprovoked savagery toward the white man. and especially to Americans ard Britons. That is no exaggeration. They hate us, they delight to torture and kill Americans and Britons and they have already set forth the claim that the toil of Japanese farmers, fishermen and other workers during the development of the West Coast earned them a right to possess that area of our country.

Here's What We Can Expect . ..

HITLER HAS SHOWN us by his conduct in other conquered lands what we might expect from him. It would be ridiculous to try to take selfish, individual comfort, as some Americans might, from a belief that he would confine his fury to our Jews and Negroes. To be sure, he has decreed that they are subhuman and possess no more rights than beasts, but practice has shown that all other Americans of all other breeds and creeds would be reduced to the level of slavery in the service of Hitler's super race. It takes no stretch of the imagination to conjure repetitions here in many small American cross-road towns of the mass execution of all the men, the deportation of all the women and the “adoption” of all the children for “education” in the Nazi beliefs in blind revenge for the killing of some hoss hangman sent in from Berlin to enforce the Nazi terror, It is a literal truth that American high school boys would be shot against the wall in sight of their parents, their sisters and teachers for daring to sing the Star-Spangled Banner, and the only Americans whom he would suffer to exist in any physical comfort, and to circulate more or less freely, would be a few traitors of the Bund and a few mean and soulless native opportunists.

It Is a Struggle for Life

THE UNITED STATES would cease to exist and actual slaughter would sweep away countless Amerijcans here, in familiar streets in our own land. This is not fantasy, but a terrible threat whose fulfillment comes closer with each Tobruk and each step of the Japanese along the Aleutians and it is subject to no giscount, for the Germans have never made any pretense to the contrary in any of their dealings with beaten peoples. This is a struggle for life, not for abstractions and political visions. The Germans chose a fight to the death and they have plainly demonstrated that the penalty of defeat is death, so the total obliteration of the German nation can be the only guarantee that the same menace will not rise again as it has so often before out of the German obsession of a divine appointment to conquer and rule the world. We have nothing in common and everything in conflict with the German nation and if Germany wins the United States must perish utterly. _ Tt is with that practical understanding and-in the mood that this war should be faced from now on, Perhaps it will take some dead in our own streets to

| emphasize the point.

Frankly Speaking

By Norman E. Isaacs

WHATEVER ITS FAULTS, the school board, as it has been elected the last several years, is undoubtedly the most progressive educational move ever made tn this community. Take the present board, for example. It probably has been the most conscientious of all. All of the members, Evans Woollen Jr., Mrs. Carl Manthei, Harvey Hartsock, Roscoe Conkle and Theodore Locke, have shown a deep interest in the schools, they've spent their time visiting and inspecting buildings and they've done an all-around excellent job. But, in spite of all this, the board is undergoing some sniping from various labor groups. There are reports that all this criticism is merely the preliminary to the announcement of a labor slate to pppose the one to be selected by the citizens nonpartisan school committee.

Build on Top of What We Have!

IT IS TO BE HOPED that labor does not intend such a move. After all, labor has as vital a stake in the free public school system as any group. It

| is to labor's interest to keep the board staffed with

high-type, intelhigent, hard-working people. There is much more to be gained by working with

| what we have and building from there than in starting a family row, which might only end in the | destruction of all we have gained.

The school board is not perfect. It has not functioned perfectly. There is no governmental organization which has yet achieved that Utopian pinnacle. The school board, to repeat, for all its faults, is such a vast improvement over what we ever had that it is beyond all comparison. The job we have to do is to build on top of what

we have—not to tear down and start in on some new tack.

So They Say—

Our soldiers did their job at Valley Forge and

Yorktown, they did it at Chateau Thierry, they did |

it at Bataan, and they, are going to do it in Tokyo

| and Berlin.—Robert P. Patterson, undersecretary of | war. |

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For the first time in the history of the human | | race there can be enough of everything to go round. | Poverty is not inevitable any more.—Donald M. Nel- |

son, chairman war productign board.

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It will take more than statistics to erush Hitlerism.

We need all the efforts of the army and the navy and |

of civilians to win an unconditional surrender by the enemy.—James G. Blaine, chairman Greater New York civilian defense volunteer office.

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Whenever an American utters or prints a statement that is used successfully by the axis propa-

| gandists to promote the cause of our enemies, he is ! responsible for prolonging the war and shedding the

blood of American boys.—Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes. » - » You are constantly hearing about a great flood of synthetic rubber just around the corner—the same corner, 1 suspect, which hid prosperity for such a considergble period some years ago.—Robert W. Horton, OEM. director of information.

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If you have a car, you should regard your tires as

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“TAX ON FOODSTUFFS AN OUTRAGEOUS PROPOSAL”

By a Consumer, Indianapolis Placing a tax on groceries and foodstuffs will be an outrageous act. Groceries are high enough now without adding a tax on our grocery items. It will become more difficult for workers of the low-income groyp—especially those who make $25 a week and less, to meet the cost of living. , . .

® » 8 “CAN'T OWNERS BE COMPELLED TO DISPOSE OF JUNK?” By Chas. C. Dare, 5160 Central ave, While the Junior Chamber of Commerce is making a house to house canvass for junk iron, steel and rubber, wouldn't it be a good idea just to take all the trucks over on Senate ave. between the 500 and 1000 block and gather up several thousand tons of this junk which has been eyesore for years? Who owns this junk? Can’t the owners be compelled to dispose of this when our government is pleading for rubber and iron? Let's have some action and get these lots cleaned up. . % 9 “PERHAPS I'LL TURN HOSE ON THE SMART ALECKS” By Mrs. A. K. C,, N. Keystone ave. In sympathy with Mr. Thompson: Well, I guess we're not the only taxpayers the garbage and ash collectors have a grudge against. I've called them so many times I know the number by heart now. We have no alley so the garbage and ashes have to sit in front of the house. Besides looking like a small section of the city dump, it’s not the most sanitary condition in the world. I finally called the mayor’s office

and believe that got my anticipated | results. The next day a man came to my door and told me my refuse was three feet too far back from the curb. Now if that poor helpless little old man who collects this junk

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would have had the strength to walk up to my door and tell me my garbage was three feet too ¥ar back for him, I believe I'm robust enough to carry it 78 feet instead of 75. Perhaps more housewives should turn the hose on these so very cute little kids who collect our ashes and garbage. “If I do I get a whippin’ and I think I'm gonna dood it” if I have any more trouble with these “smart alecks.” ” » » “WE CAN RENT WITH PETS, BUT NOT CHILDREN”

By Mrs. 0. F. H,, Indianapolis I wholly agree with Mrs.'R. A. U. and the Silver Star Mother of Franklin in the June 17th and 22d Times. I am a mother of twb boys. I am having to move the second time since April because of the houses being sold and getting another place to live is a big problem. What are |we parents to do, we can’t just move into any neighborhood because we are trying to raise our children {right and in the neighborhoods that are good nine times out of 10 will ‘not rent to families with children. 'One man told us even we could rent from him with pets but no children. | We raise our boys up now to go {out and fight for our country while [those who have had no children sit lon their porches and enjoy their | free country. | It makes my blood boil to think {how much more they think of what (they own and never give a thought {how much blood was shed in order they can have what they have. . , .

' Side Glances=By Galbraith

“DIFFICULTIES NEVER STOP MEN OF IMAGINATION”

By A Curious One, Kokomo, So Westbrook Pegler is a ‘“realist” is he, and Clapper a mere “idealist”! “After this war,” observes a Forum contributor, “things will go on pretty much as before.” Encouraging, isn’t it? Well, it might be at that. For if this contributor were a student of history she would know that after a war on the scale of this one things do not “go on pretty much as before.” The affairs of men are profoundly affected—either for better or worse. Fortunately, a great many leaders in both poiitical parties disagree with her. These men and women possess imagination. They do not admit even now that recurrent wars are inevitable. They envision a world in which there is a more equitable distribution of goads, fewer trade barriers, more self-de-termination of peoples—and thus less incentive to war. True, it is only talk so far. Tremendous difficulties lie in the way of bringing these things to pass. But tremendous difficulties have never yet stopped men of imagination! Pegler, the realist, says success in these causes would end our exclusion of Asiatics, and Maddox contends it is nothing but communism. Neither explains how he arrives at these farfetched conclusions. I wish both would.

” » » “ONE BRAND OF GARLIC IN THE ONION FAMILY”

By Pat Hogan, Columbus Peter Edson, that combination of Philadelphia lawyer, blood hound, human X-ray, ferfet and star reporter paints a gloomy picture for small business; and although Pete knows his onions, there is a brand

of garlic which has muscled into the onion family that Pete might well investigate. Here is the Scrooge Bros. Inc. The elder Scrooge married a fortune and put it to work in a machine shop; then the brothers, who should have stayed on the farm to hoe potatoes, were brought into the company as factory managers.

Before NRA the company had

| factories in several small towns em-

ploying 400 to 500 young huskies lured from the farm and paid them 17% cents an hour to make gadgets. This gadget cost 49 cents to produce and sold on the market for $6. The president—an honorary officer—drew $18,000 annually; vice presidents and factory managers (brothers) drew $25,000, numerous sons, cousins, uncles and in-laws all in high positions have a fat finger in the pie. For the last dozen years the company has worked three months at 55 cents an hour and laid off three or four—that is the shop hands; the office works full time. Since the Social Security Act, it™is a ‘safe guess that they have bled the unemployment fund more than all other industry combined in Indiana. Aside from half a dozen toolmakers not a man in the entire organization could tell a blueprint from 'a Chinese cryptogram; and what is worse, these deluded employees have no opportunity to learn Or progress. Still this company is fighting to save what it calls business.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 25.—War

production officials assure there will be an adequate supply of rub ber sealing rings for home can= ning. . . . Restrictions have been lifted on fluorescent lighting fixtures consuming less than 30 watts. . . . Rubies, sapphires, emeralds, natural pearls and diamonds of more than one carat are exempt from price regulation. . Tire treads wear out twice as fast at 00 degrees as at 60 degrees. . . . Baby carriage manufacture is to be permitted at the usual rate, but with only a fifth as much metal as heretofore and the only metals to be used are iron, steel, gold and silver, , , . Price ceilings on synthetic rubber and 100-octane gasoline have been removed to encourage their production. , . . The brain and spinal column of animals slaughtered for food provide a new source of vitamins for poultry feed, substituting for fish livers. . . . U, S. school population is 26 million, two million of them being over 18.

It's a Select Group

ONLY FOUR Americans hold the “Golden C” awarded to glider pilots who have soared to 10,000 feet altitude and covered 200 miles in a single flight. . + + » Seven Canadian recruiting stations have been opened for Canadian citizens living in the U. S. . . , Use of elastic in surgical type corsets is now pers mitted for the benefit of expectant mothers. . , , Building construction for war plants is now running over $1 billion a month, . . . Gliders can now be picked up by tow planes traveling at 100 miles an hour,

Chore Boy for the Government

IN ADDITION to its regular chores, the federal trade commission now: has taken on a vig load of war work for other government agencies, and practically two-thirds of its examining and legal staff has been assigned to special jobs for war produce tion board, office of price administration, board of y economic warfare and others.

One job was to investigate the costs, prices and profits of 67 furniture making companies, to provide a basis for possible price regulation, . Another was to study the bakery industry, to see what uneconomic practices might be eliminated to save transportation facilities through combined delivery operations. his The biggest job for WPB was to check on the costs of producing iron and steel for defense industries and to check up on the allocation of steel to war production plants.

Diplomats to Get Tires

FOREIGN DIPLOMATS in U. 8S, will get tires, + + » To check inflation, farmers who have borrowed

money from government agencies are being urged to

pay it back now. . , , To relieve sugar shortages, the 5 million bee colonies in the U. S. are being crowded to produce all the honey they can—40 million pounds more than the 200 million produced in 1941. . . . The 4 per cent drop in retail store sales recorded in May was the first decline in 42 months. ¢ Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OLD BEN FRANKLIN'S picture has been removed from the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. So died a magazine personality. Fortunately Benjamin Franklin and Nis practical wisdom will not disappear entirely. perpetuates his memory with its Franklin Institute, whose members strive to spread greater knowledge of the ideas and ideals of a mah who has often been called “the greatest American.” These excerpts from his writings seem to me as wise and pertinent to our time as they were in 1776: “God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say, ‘This is my country.’ ”

'A Thing Terrible to Traitors’

“WITHOUT FREEDOM there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the rights of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know. Whoever would overthrow liberty in a nation must begin by subduing freedom of speech—a thing terrible to traitors.” » » ” “The eyes of Christendom are upon us and our honor as a people is become a matter of utmost cone sequence to be taken care of. If we give up our rights in this contest a century to come will not restore us to the opinions of the world. Present inconveniences’ therefore are to be borne with fortitude and better times expected.” » ” ” “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink & great ship!” ” » =

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

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Q—How many men are in a parachute battalion?

A—Officers and men, 501, with 17 medical corps officers attached.

Q-—Where should a transient apply for permise sion to buy gasoline when he enters a state in the rationed area? !

A—The local rationing board.

Q—When is the hottest part of the day? A—Usually it is around 2 o'clock in the aftere noon, but it varies according. to such conditions as the sun, clouds, etc. The earth is constantly losing heat but more is gained in the day than is lost, From sunrise until about 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, there is a gradual gain, and from that period nk i before sunrise, there is a continual loss: 5) .

Q—What books has A. S. W. Rosenbach, noted book collector of Philadelphia, written about book collecting

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A—“Books and Bidders,” 1927; “The Libraries of. the Presidents of the U. 8.” 1934; “A Book Hunter's | Holiday,” 1936. “2 Q—Which American vessel fired the first shot ag Pearl Harbor? 2 A—The destroyer Ward fired the first two shots

DAILY THOUGHT

For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.—Genesis 3:19.

blem. The bill, now in the house foreign affairs commit- To become complacent, to underestimate a cunEARTH TQ earth, ashes to ashes,

i Rr a ning, ruthless and resourceful enemy, would be to tee, would allow a vear for firms now commercializing the | relinquish a hard-earned advantage in the production name or emblem to change over and familiarize customers | Of military weapons at the very moment of achieving dust to dust, In sure and certain Of the Pacific war on Dec. 7, against a Japanese . he : : it—Philip D. Reed, chief, bureau of industry | 'Thi sa in re ¢ ' with a new namg and trade . This S prancnes, WEB. Drews OF Deus : : pe of the resurrection.—Book of) So user Susu Bwit: we