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MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1542

GOOD WORK!

HE federal bureau of investigation did a fine job in rounding up eight Nazi saboteurs who had been landed from U-boats on the Atlantic coast. Some day, we hope, the story can be told in full. It's as challenging to the imagination as any Secret-service thriller of fiction. How did J. Edgar Hoover's men pick up the trails of the invaders? How were their buried caches of bombs located on the lonely Long Island and Florida beaches? How were they caught so quickly? How were their confessions obtained ? We don’t know the answers. But apparently, the FBI is very much on the alert. Indeed, there was already much negative evidence of that in the fact that nearly seven months of war have produced few if any instances of what could be considered largescale, organized sabotage. Certainly there are many axis sympathizers here who would do dirty work for Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini if they could, just as it now proved that there were some who went to Germany to be specially trained for the desperate invasion from submarines. Their lack of success thus far is a tribute to the vigilance of those charged with protecting American war industries and defense installations against enemy agents and plotters. ”

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, June 29. — The latest escapade of Harold Ross, the well-known editor and social outcast, is one which points up the hypocrisy of those who insist that to qualify as a good -American one must love crowds, noise and litter, Mr. Ross, who was expelled from the Stork club more than a year ago for editorial conduct offensive to the management, Toes recently was denounced as unAmerican and no Democrat because he wrote a shrill and frightened protest against a plan to build a public grounds and park adjacent to his more or less rural retreat on the Merritt parkway at Stamford, Conn. In panic he said this park would attract hordes of persons from the Bronx and Harlem who would shout and yell and leave their trash scattered about, and he was quite right on both counts, as nobody can deny. A park which does not attract crowds is a failure and all experience shows that crowds at play are noisy and have no conscience about their hard-boiled eggshells, waxed paper wrappings and all such debris. No one has challenged his assumptions, but Mr. Ross, nevertheless, has been fearlessly rebuked in print and on the air for abhorring such conditions, as though, to rate American citizenship, he should profess to enjoy them. Now, of course, the fact is well known that almost everyone who can, including even Communists, likes to get away from crowds, especially in summer, and at least pretend to enjoy the leafy quiet of the country. >

They Relax Mightily

ARTISTS AND WRITERS who, as a group, lean to the left and profess to love humanity in the mass, have established many country cells known as colonies and the history of such places is that when

the arty people, as distinguished from artists, and the |

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futilitarians, who don’t exactly write but always are | going to write some day, begin to move in, the orig- |

inal settlers turn their quaint little houses back to the mortgage holders and move on. One pecularity of city people in the mass when they go out to the country for peace and quiet is that

they will insist on bringing along with them amuse-

ments which decountrify the country. They demand horrible music far into the night, they want to dance, not on the green but in dumps which have achieved a degree of unsightliness the like of which the world has never known and, in pursuit of their own kind of

and hidden themselves successfully. : Mr. Hoover seems very sure that “we've got the whole | crowd”’—and we hope he’s right. But even the FBI might | slip some time, and everything possible should be done to prevent and discourage such attempts in the future. For one thing, increased navy and coast guard activity to keep submarines away from our coasts seems to be needed. For another, the German agents now under arrest should be punished with all the promptness and severity that the law permits, as a warning that other stealthy | enemies of the United States can expect no mercy.

THE LAST TWO DAYS

"J OMORROW night will end the period officially designated by President Roosevelt for the nation-wide roundup of scrap rubber. It should not, and will not, put a stop to efforts to col- | lect still more. The need for this suddenly precious mate- | rial is so great there must be a continuing campaign to get | into the reclaiming plants every ounce of it not serving an essential purpose where it is now. But after tomorrow night the rubber brought in by | the president's appeal will, as he said, “stand up and be | counted.” How many hundreds of thousands of tons will there be? Some days will be needed to answer that question. The | one certain prediction is this: There can’t be too much. And, unless the last few days of the drive are producing much more than the first couple of weeks did, there won't be enough to supply military needs and provide new tires or recaps for the ‘cars of war workers and other |

civilians in essential activities, let alone to supply tires for | §

millions of ordinary motorists. Chances are, a good many people have been putting off | their contributions to the roundup. If you're one of them, | wait no longer. | If you've already turned in some old rubber, take another look and see if you can't find a little more. And pass the hint on to your neighbors. Don’t be left with the feeling, after tomorrow night, that you failed to do everything vou could to make the collection a 100 per cent success.

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| happiness, they have no respect for the peace of such

as Mr. Ross and his numerous and offended kind.

I have in mind a lady, the wife of a famous Lin- | colnian lover of the great common people, Who 50 | fiercely loved her privacy on her hundred-odd acres, | that she once came charging out of her private swim- | ming lake, attired only in the spray which she kicked | up. to chase away a couple of town boys who had |

strayed onto her estate to pick wild flowers.

Case Dismissed FOR THAT MATTER, one of the severest critics

of Mr. Ross in this embarrassing affair is himself |

so touchy about his privacy and quiet in his own country estate that he has employed a patrol to keep the people at bay and has pleaded with his occasional biographers not to publish the location of his retreat. It is to be surmised, therefore, that a descent of, say, 1000 residents of the Bronx, Harlem, or Park avenue or Palm Beach, for that matter, Sunday or any other day, would put him into a panic and te flight, attended by his bodyguards and with his short wave screaming to Edgar Hoover to turn out the FBI. Polica experience proves that Mr. Ross correctly anticipated the probable conduct of the crowds which would have been attracted to the park close by his home. His particular reference to the people of the

| Bronx and Harlem was most tinwise, however, because

now he will be tagged an anti-Harlemite and an

| anti-Bronxonian, when he was only anti-crowd.

Mr. Ross was tactless, but showed the courage of | his opinions, knowing that he would be a sucker for any demagogue, and we haven't too much of that. Complaint dismissed.

Axis Atrocities

By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, June 29. —Rightlv. we think, Americans tend to be suspicious of atrocity stories in wartime. During World War I this countsy was deluged with -such tales, many of them sponsored by official allied propaganda speakers and writers. Afterward, we became convinced that most of them were false. Some, apparently, had no foundation at all. Others were The vast majority of verified incidents turned out to be individual acts of ‘excitement, sadism or lust. At best, war is brutal. It brings out the worst in the individual. Pillage, rape, torture, murder al-

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had a better reception here than in Britain, but in |

neither country has it aroused much ‘enthusiasm.

This is not the fault of its able and eloquent authors. | The military situation has passed beyond words—fighting ! Under the circumstances, the | president and prime minister showed good sense rather |

and victories count now.

than indulging in spread-eagle propaganda.

Afver all, the chief morale danger is not ‘despair; it | And the sober tone of the confer- |

is still over-confidence. ence sthtement—even though not as grim as that of Prime Minister Mackenzie King after returning to Cansda from Washington—will not encourage any let-down in the war effort of Americans and Britons.

English disappointment over its failure to pledge a |

“second-front invasion,” and fear that the promise to divert German strength from the attack on Russia” means merely a continuance of bombing raids, is rather unfair.

There has beén too much official talk already of ‘opening | The less advance publicity the better the |

a second front. chance of a successful surprise attack, and the fewer allied troops will die in the advance.

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HE only really discouraging aspect of the conference |

report was its inability to announce a unified command, the kind of single centralized organization at the top which so many ‘experts believe could have prevented the debacles of Burma and Libya. Perhaps that muchneeded reform is on the way. We hope so. By far the most significant part of the statement was that putting Russian and Chinese resistance on the same Jevel of importance, and stressing the fight against Japan sgqually with that against ‘Germany. In a global war it is a disastrous contradiction of strateey to think only of one enemy and underrate the pther—particularly when the latter has captured almost all

of the bases of the far Pacific and eastern Asia, and pierced |

the Mawar Midway Altisn ing at Atte and

| ways have been among the deplorable accompani- | ments of war.- Some soldiers yield to their basest

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passions, and Some officers condone or even en- | ‘courage and participate. Having these things in mind, nevertheless the record ‘makes it clear that in World War II ‘the two principal axis powers are ‘deliberately, officially | instigating and ‘enforcing & campaign ‘of savagery that must make the inquicitors of ‘old Spain twist enviously in their sepulchers.

Let Us Not Forget!

THESE ARE NOT ‘exaggerated rumors. They are evewitness stories told by ‘competent and ‘credible observers, sone of whom have been victims ‘and lived to escape. Some of the worst, indeed, like the martyrdom of Lidice, reach us ‘out of the moths ‘of ‘official Nazi spokeumen, and in too many instances have pioven | to Pe understatenmients ‘of what was ‘cone under | specific instructions from Berlin. Given a ‘choice, probably most ‘of us would prefer falling into German hands rather than Japanese. That is because we might hope to find individual Germans possessed ‘of normal huraan ‘décericy, whereas the Japariese 8s a THCe appear to glory in bestiality and to get a sensual pleasure ‘out ‘of human suffering. But for mass brutality, organized sadism, deliberate and considerdd inhumanity corideived and ordered | ‘And ‘exécuted as a national policy, ‘approved by the highest governmental agencies, the barbarous Japanese have not ‘even attempted to emulate the Nazis. : Because of what they have ‘done and are ‘doing, we have a right to hate the Nazis—rot 4s ‘our &dversaries in a ‘clash ‘of national ambitions, or even as ‘our ‘deadly ‘erfemies in & warfare ‘of ideologies, but as brutal beasts who cannot Be permitted to mingle aniong riormel human beings. The ‘sare ‘cen be said of the Japs, but of them it is ‘universally coriceded. Of the Germans, Tet us not forget.

So They Say

| We are ‘confronted with the miost crifel and brutal nations that have ever foirfed in warfare —P, H. BaGuardia, mayor of New York City.

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RIDES FOR SERVICE MEN | URGED BY READER | By Kermit C. Griest | Only recently I was told that our ‘boys in the service are not allowed (to hitch-hike on the highway. I ‘mentioned this to many of my friends and found that they were jalso ignorant of the fact. ( I know that many a service man has been passed up by motorists | that would be only too glad to give (them a lift if the boys had been able to give some indication they (wanted a ride. | These ads are allowed to accept a

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States be 13 horizontal stripes, altérnate réd and white; that the Union have 20 stars, white in a blue field.

‘ride if it is offered by the motorist| ‘Séction 2. And be it further en-

There is no sense in destroying the | power of our timber lands to grow more wood. | The timber we need to win the war, and all we need to win it, can | be and should be taken from our forests without ruining them. There is no sense in crippling their pro- | duction of wood for generations to come, | Wood it a orop. When a farmer harvests his crop he leaves the land in condition to grow mote crops. We | can do the samre with our forests. That is what forestry is for. | Instead of cutting our forests | under forestry so that they can

and I think the least we ‘can do is ‘help speed them on their way. |

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ADVICE ON HOW TO DISPLAY FLAG

By Dr. Harry H. Nagle, chairman, Irvington Post No. American Legion There still remains much work to be done before the flag is displayed uniformly throughout the country. The best method of displaying the flag of our country is from a staff.

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any position the starry field or union must always be at the end of the staff, the pole being upward or sutward.

When the flag is hung flat, either against a wall (inside or out) ‘or from the ‘edge of the porch, vertically ‘or horizontally, the blue union must go to the 1eft of the observer from the street. This position places the union to the flag’s own right, the point of honor. The above rule holds good regardless of the direction ‘of the street or the side of the street upon which the fiag is being displayed.

This rule springs from the one governing the hanging of a flag indoors and fiat against a wall, The flag should be hung horizontally wherever possible, as that makes the display compatible with the act legalizing the flag, passed by our national congress April 4, 1818, which is still in force. Under the heading “An act to ‘establish the flag ‘of the United States” it says: “Section 1. Be it ‘enacted, ‘ete.

July mext, the flag of the United

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be added to the Union of the fag; | Vent 5 , and that such addition shall take Wood. We are cutting as if we were

effect on the fourth of July next BOING to need no weod after the

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 2.~The F

treasury department wishes you wonld please break up all the chile dren’s china pigs and other devices for saving small change, so

change. The treasury line, if they issue a nouncement about it, will not be against saving such. Uncle Sam still wants you to save all you But instead of saving it in coins, buy savings stamps with it, 50 as to get the copper, nickel and silver into use. One thing that particularly worries the mint ple right now is the unconscious hoarding of coins being done by juke boxes, automatic vending vices, pay station telephones and slot machines. you just stop to contemplate the 20 or more nickels lying idle in the craw of every juke box of the country, it isn’t hard to conjure up an image of aA mountain of metal in the form of small change.

Trouble With the New Nickel

THIS NEW 5-CENT piece, to be half silver and half copper instead of three-fourths nickel and onew fourth copper, is still having its difficulties, and no date has as yet been set to start coining. It’s the electro-magnetic detector in coin machines, put there to reject counterfeit slugs, that causes all the trouble. These detectors simply won't swallow a nickel of silver and copper. Manganese seems tO be the best bet to introduce into the alloy to make it magnetic, but manganese is a critical material 100, Mint metallurgists are still experimenting.

And Speaking of Metals . . .

METALS USED by the mint in the last fiscal yeay were 1200 tons of silver, 4700 tons of copper, 434 tons of nickel, 137 tons of zine, 34 tons of tin. . . . It made 43 million halves, 111 million quarters, 263 million dimes, 300 million nickels and 1.1 billion pennies. . . . In circulation were 2.25 billion nickels. . . . Total money in circulation is $11 billion. . , . Which is $87 plus, per person, in case you want to know what your share is.

This, That and the Other Thing

SHOE REPAIR SHOPS may now use up their frozen stocks of heavy leather for half soles. .

. Eleven per cent of all drafted men have attended college and another 58 per cent have attended high | school. . . . Use of quinine and similar drugs is now

restricted to treatment of malaria. . . . Restaurants

| agd boarding houser may obtain increased sugar ale

lowances in proportion to increased number of meals served. . . . Plants co-operating in the war production drive now number over 800. . . . Army clothing former ly packed in boxes is now compression baled to save 35 per cent space. . . . The army has 700 bands. Editor's Note: The views expressed hy oolamnises in tls newspaper ars their swh They ave not necewsarily Vhom of The Indinapolis Times,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ONE DAY IN Washington 2 got inte a taxi and found the driver reading The Daily News, To make conversation=I've ale ways found taxi drivers interests ing and entertaining=I said, “I

Displayed by this method and from |

That from and after the fourth of |

succeeding admission.” It will be seen from this wet that the stripes in our flag consist of horizontal stripes, and not vertical or perpendicular stripes. Much of the misunderstanding over the proper display is due to an old method, little used today, of hanging the flag suspended over a |street from a rope attached to buildings, As the flag was to be observed from two directions, it can readily be seen that a uniform method was necessary. So, the rul[ing was made that the stars must | go to the top and north in east and west streets, and to the top and east in north and south streets. This gave rise to the popular “stars to the north and east.” Another question often asked, “What to do with the flag that has become too worn to use and needs replacing?” Tt should be respeetfully burned. Display the flag of the United [States with pride and honor it | justly as the “flag of destiny” Tor the entire world.

: % % “GOVERNMENT CAN STOP FOREST DESTRUCTION”

|'By Gifford Pitcher, Wilford, Pa. | To win this war we must have wood. We must have huge quantities of wood—huge even for the | prodigal United States. But that is no reason for killing | the goose that laid the golden ege.

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| war is over. | TICSS, «+ + & | | One-quarter of our timber lands are in state ‘and national forests. | They are safe. Threesquarters are [in private hands. Every acre of {these can be destroyed whenever | | the owner chooses. « « « | No forests in all the world are safe against destruction unless they | are under government control. Nel (one disputes that. Tn the most democratic nation in the world, ‘Bwitzetiand, ih Sweden, no private lowrer cah Cut his timber exeept unde. government control. Nor) [could he in prewar Norway and (France, If these nations ohn pro- | eet the prasent and the future £4 their people in this way, ¥ ¢an| we. | Our federal government ean stop | | this needless forest destruction, but it is Tot doing so. Our federal government can require private ‘owners te cut their timber lands |so as to keep them growing wood, but ‘our federal government Jets the destruction go on. . . . 1 ask every one of you who reads this fetter to get in touch at once | with your wenators and ¢ongress-| men in Washington ahd urge immediate passage of a bill which, | without interfering in any way with winning the war, will safeguat our forests and our future wood supply. I am a forester. I give you my word that what I suggest is possible and practical. As a former state governor 1 know that the states cannot take wetion in time. Only thie federal government ean. . .

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| PLEASURE, Now” By Mrs. BL. Thlmhapeie a We have a good start. Nothing | can stop uk TOM VIStory. Nothing but SurERIves. This is Yar, ang don't you god AMEHiears TIRE it for even a minute, We may be doing 200d how Hut a little too slow to prove how much we love our Country and the way of its lite. We must buy more honds so that the Government can buy all that loose serap that still lays around in serap yerds ang aute cemeteries. We must see that other don't hold us beck in any way. They that hold out in any form tant be good Americans and don't deserve ¢onsideration. things will come to us later ff we aie willing to fight for them now. Let's wot be Toole about it, thifking because we ate Americans they will treat uk better, They will teat

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see you read a good newspaper.” “Huh,” he responded gruffly, “I don't think it's so good. What makes you like it?” “Because I write for it. I sups pose I like it because I know the men who run it. They're swell fellows; they're my bosses and I am fond of them.” To my consternation he tufhed completely away from the wheel to state at me, There was astonishs ment in his voice, a8 if he had met some unbelievably strange creature. “Well, lady,” he said slowly, addressing his com= ment not so much to me ag to the universe, “you're the first person I've met ih a long time that had & g00d Word to say for the bows. Most despises 'om.”

How Can Unity Exist This Way?

WHEN I THINK OF the incident I seem to the bells toll for one high purpose that was here in the United States, and is passing perhaps ever. How oan unity exist in a nation where worker hates his boss and the boss distrusts worker? Dangerous as any foreigh enemy are the cleavages between various social groups ih our coune tty, and I'm afraid the deepest of them is between capital and labor. Any prolonged sessions with trade unionists, any careful 1eading of the pink periodionls now flooding the news stands, will convince you that a steady effort goes on to widen this chasm. Working people ate being steadily propagandized to despise their employers=—a feature of subversive aes tivity which the ¥. B. I. seems not to have touched,

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Volumes of hate-creating material pour out in am

effort to persuade the working man that he is mw posed upon by any person who hires him. All arguments follow the same pattern—ihe boss 8 a dishonest racenl, supported by a vicious press, while SVBrY laboring man is a noble, Virtuous and constiens tious martyr. The extremists on both sides of the wwe ame wrong; because they undertake to pikeonhole people inte two moulds. Tt's as unreasonable a8 the Diatks and-White morality of the Victorian era and a thous sand times more angeious to America.

Questions and Answers

(The ThEmwapoin Times Service Barska Wifi amvwer aap GHERtOR OF THE br (ATOTINRATION, WHOL TAVHIVING SETeRNIVE Tee WORFER. Write YOuY GHESIOR CTERELY, WIR tame and alnreRs, THETOWe a thrRevrent PoNYRES WeRID. METAL or Tepe] WEVISR Trhnot be Fiveh. Ad@vews The Times Wavhington Servis Buen, 1013 Thirtevnth Bt, Washington, D. 0) Q=To whom is the orohestia leader, Fred Waring, maitied, and how many childteh have they? A—His wife is Evelyn Nair, whom he mairied Wm 1988. They have a Gaughter and two sons, Waring was divorced fiom his fist wife, Dorothy MoAtess Q—Should sparkling wines be served ¢old? A=They should always be served at temperatures Tanging fiom 36 degi®es to 40 degieess F., and geners

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Q=How by the postoffice in 1041 compaie With the previous yeard 2 A=For the fisoal year ending Jume 30, 1041, the

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