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THE BRITISH CAN TAKE IT HE situation in the Middle East is bad enough without * making it worse by one of those sudden swings from

overconfidence to gloom. For many months we have known that this summer

"would bring the supreme test. Now that it has come we cannot be surprised, and we must not be caught short of

fortitude. On the black side, it is true that Nazi victories in the Crimea and, Egypt have given the enemy. an advantage in _ the Black sea and Mediterranean, thus endangering the entire Middle East. It is true that the British fleet based on Alexandria has been made almost impotent by land-based airpower, reducing that base to minor importance even if it is saved by miracle. It is true, as admitted officially by the British govern-

"ment, that many men and vast equipment and supplies have been lost, largely by tactical blunders.

Moreover, British loss of prestige in an area held more ' by prestige than by military might will encourage fifthcolumn revolt in all Arab lands. And it will weaken the anti-axis group in Turkey. But it is not true that the Middle East is yet lost. Nor is it true that the united nations are unable to recover from his blow. Russia is not cracking. Despite the British debacle in Lihya and Egypt, England itself still stands—far better prepared for defense against Nazi invasion ‘and for allied invasion of Europe than ever before. . 2 # 2 ! 2 #8 ITH all its importance as a strategic crossroads and oil producer, the Middle East cannot lose the war for the united nations or win the war for the axis. The axis cannot win the war in Europe and Asia, or isolate the United States, until it conquers Russia and China

Fair Enough:

that citizenship in our country be restricted to natives

"Monkeying With Witchcraft"

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, July 3—Discussion of the war aims of the United States has produced the interesting paradox that he who places this country above all others and is ardently nationalistic is un- | § American and, perhaps, unknowingly, a Nazi around the edges because the Germans under Hitler are nationalistic. Thus, in order not to be a Nazi an American must become an internationalist. Now we know that only a tiny fraction of all the | Russian people are Communists and that the over-- [ whelming majority are passionate nationalists whose inspiring fight against the Germans has been a fight, not for the world proletariat, but for their own beloved country. Their political leaders, or rulers, constitute a dictatorship of a minority over a vast people and it appears to be wonderfully efficient and courageous government. [Certainly this Russian government alone to date has been able to slug toe-to-toe with the Nazis, but it has done so with an army drawn from a nationalistic people who are fighting for their homeland and not, consciously, for Britain or the United States, although the incidental value of their fight to their allies in the war is beyond calculation and beyond any measure of gratitude. In the course of their great fight, however, they have not been bedeviled by any political missionaries, Their government sees to it that they are let alone and it is safe to assume that they are encouraged to believe that they are fighting for their own country

and not lectured on the unworthy selfishness of this devotion.

"There Is a Great Difference"

TRUE, THE GERMANS certainly are nationalists, too, but does it follow, because they are, that nationalism is Hitlerism and that Americans should renounce their country and embrace the whole world? It would seem as sound to argue that because the Nazis are great fighters, Americans should be careful not to fight well. One proposal of mits which has earned me no little scorn as a narrow ignoramus has been that after this war the United States put a stop to immigration and

only. It is angrily thrown at me that this country was built and peopled by immigrants and their sons and daughters which, of course, we all well'know, but which has nothing to do with the case.

The fact is that there has been a great difference between the bare-handed freedom-seeker who built the industries and cities of the United States before the Kaiser's world war and those who came in after that war. Those who came in after that war have been in large part political agitators or more or less intellectual types who were not at all pleased with the

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disugree with defend to the death your

vhat you say, but will ght to say it.—Voltaire.

form of government and the economy on which that form of government must be based and who tirelessly strove to conform our gountry to various interpretations of socialism which is as various as Christianity, itself, as expressed in the sects.

“CHANGE LAWS AFFECTING THE SALE OF BEER” By C. F. L., Keystone Ave., Indianapolis

I see by the newspapers that the Prohibition party is rallying members together for a political

s are invited to express their £

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views in

these columns; religious con-

its| troversies excluded. Make

on what you intend to do if you get in office. If half the energy you politicians spend on throwing mud was put on the war effort we could shorten this war quite a bit. If you boys would get together and see that the

In "Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 3.—See= etary of Agriculture Claude R. Wwickard, in spite of an announced . administration policy for controle ing wages and the cost of living - in wartime, is beating the drum for one of his long-standing per=sonal beliefs — higher wages for farm labor, It is the secretary's contention that higher pay for farm labor will make for g sounds= er aghiculture and in wartime will solve the problem of getting more. farm labor to offset shortages caused by the draft and greater ine dustrial employment. Wickard is- genuinely concerned about providing sufficient farm labor to take off all crops in critical areas. But he has small sympathy with farmers who complain of a labor shortage when they can’t get help at low pay. Last fall, for instance, there was a good bit of hollering from the South when cotton farmers could not hire cotton pickers for $1 a hundred pounds, equivalent to $2.50 or $3.00 a day. When the rate went up to $1.50 and in a few places $2 a hundredweight,

the labor appeared and the full crop was picked with= out loss.

“Only Control in Sugar Act

NATIONAL AVERAGE farm Wage rates now run from $43 a month with board to $53 a month without. board, and vary from an average of 94 cents a day with board in the South to $3.35 a day without board in the Pacific states. Only control which the government has over wages now is in the sugar control act of 1937, which requires the department of agriculture to hold public hearings and fix wage rates in each beet and cane , sugar producing area, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Sugar wages for 1942 were fixed at an average of 25 per cent higher than for 1941, The tendency is to let farm wages go up, whether . it’s inflationary or not, the agricultura] point of view being that price ceilings on processed farm products will prevent farm labor costs-from getting out of line,

Sponge Steel Story

INVESTIGATION OF the “sponge iron” Pout by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Cheyenne, Wyo., has steel men puzzled and they're asking who sold the senator that bill of goods. \ Far from costing $5 a ton less to produce, as \ O'Mahoney was told, it would probably cost a .good $10 a ton more than the usual blast furnace pig iron. Sweden has made sponge iron for years and shipped it to the United States for certain speciality uses. Some specialty sponge iron sells for as high-as $1 a pound and its tiny particles will be found in high-grade face powders.

The Tin Can Problem

SALVAGE OF TIN CANS in cities other than - the 28 designated metropolitan centers is not wanted now because of inadequate de-tinning facilities. . .

Tin can salvage will be extended to 104 smaller urban areas in September. .. . By May 1, 1943, de~ tinning plants will be able to handle 576,000 tons of cans a year. , , . Only 1 per cent of a tin can is tin, the rest being steel, which is also salvaged as scrap. . . . It takes 80 tin cans to keep a soldier going for a year, as against 40 for a civilian. , . . Salvage estimates run a ton of cans per month for each 1000 population. . . . There are 9000 pounds of tin in one submarine or the equivalent of the tin in more than 4,000,000 tin cans,

and successfully invades England. : The united nations can win the war as long as they continue to have more trained manpower and more “production. Good may come out of the costly experience of the last fortnight. It may force reorganization | in the British military system at the top to provide better leadership for the valiant troops. It may force an offensive policy against Germany, in place of the discredited and defeated policy of fighting on

your letters short, so all can have a chance. “be signed.)

WE HAVE BEEN turning back to Europe for changes in our way at a time when Europe has been slipping back into the dark ages. The suspension of imimigration, for a period or permanently, is not a new principle. For years we have regulated and limited immigration and have even discriminated, as reference to our laws and regulations will show, and to suspend immigration would be only to extend the degree of the same policy. If it is un-American to propose total suspension for a time, then it is equally un-American to limit immigration at all and thorough Americanism demands that this nation be made a free ground for all the peoples of the world without regard for their own: desire or our ability to accommodate them or their attitude to-

show at the coming elections. If that party stands for the issue of prohibition, as its name may imply, I am not for complete prohibition. But I do think some modified control should be made affecting the sale of beer. It is my recommendation that all taverns be closed—completely done away with, and allow the sale of un-iced beer through liquor stores along with the sales of wines and liquors; and to allow wholesalers to deliver the sale of cased beers tw homes.

death penalty be given to all spies that are found guilty, then you boys would be of a service to your country. If you can’t say something nice emy’s basket, anc. India and Egypt|about your opponents, keep your are likewise ripe for the plucking. |mouth shut. Contrast this with the Philippines, # 8 =» We “PEGLER NOT QUITE DRY BEHIND THE EARS!” By F. S. Hetrick, Fortville . . . Your anti-union columnist is not quite dry behind the ears. If he had been a laborer along in

Letters must

trained them for: self-defense and self-government, {nd the natives in turn trusted, the 1 ited States.. The Philippines wer ‘sot to be had for

‘Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times,

the defensive far from the decisive home front. It may stimulate the superb British determination and initiative which astounded the world in the darkness after

* “Dunkirk.

or

‘much damage as one started by Japs.

Meanwhile, Americans can look % their own weaknesses and faults. For we, too, have much to learn from

. the lessons of Libya and Egypt.

- IT'S FOR DEFENSE

JAMES M. LANDIS, director of OCD had a good idea when he asked his organization to help in the job of fighting and preventing forest fires. It is rightly feared that the Japs may drop incendiary bombs on our forests. But a forest fire started through the ignorance or carelessness of our own people can do as’ It is national defense to put out a forest fire however or wherever it may start. : The OCD will find that it has some public education to do. Farmers must be shown that it is never safe to bun fields to get rid of grass or weeds—plow them under, and the soil will be enriched by humus instead of being impoverished by fire. Cattle raisers must be shown that it

+ does not pay to burn the woods. Most hunters and campers

love the forests too much to leave their fires unquenched, but those who haye not learned this etiquet of the outdoors must be taught. Motorists must be told that it is unpatri-

otic to toss a cigaret out of a car window where the wind

can blow it into grass or leaves and start a fire—kill your cigaret inside the car. Everyone must be ready to help local fire fighters put out any forest fire, small or large.

~ THE GOOD OLD U.S. A.

| pra CASTRO, found guilty of hit-and-run driving at Salinas, Cal., got out of serving a 30-day jail term by

© donating a pint of blood to the country’s blood bank. . . .

The salvage committee at Pittsfield, Mass., has appealed

~ for volunteers with rubber boots to wade in the east branch

of the Housatonic river and hunt for scrap rubber thrown

' away there in past years. . ... Civilian Defense Director

John J. Walker of Philmont, N. Y., answering complaints

~ that many lights were visible during a blackout, explains . that they were caused by “fireflies in large and unusually

exceptional sizes.” ... And when the draft board at Santa Fe, N. M., suggested to a father of seven children that he

really ought to marry their mother, with whom he has |

lived for 15 years, he replied: “I’ve thought about that, but I don’t want anyone to think I got married just to avoid

the draft. 2

Su one of two metals eipilie of replacing copper "(the other, aluminum, itself is scarce) is worth 35 cents

on the market. The treasury is obligated by law to buy

ol domestic silver that is offered, at 71 cents an ounce,

bring about 15 cents an ounce (troy) on the market. Now Senator McCarran of Nevada proposes that the asury be required to pay a full dollar an ounce for all esti offerings, ® smeourage Production of

ward us or our institutions.

We have the word of John C. Knox, late senior Judge of the federal court of the southern district of New York, that “a very substantial portion of all applicants apply for citizenship for narrowly selfish “reside here for years, thoughtless of citizenship, and become good Americans only to ‘get on relief or to escape

or sordid reasons.” “Thousands,” he wrote,

military service in their native lands.”

For Americans, nationalism plainly is Americanism, and anyone who can convert that into un-American-

ism is Tonteying with witchcraft.

We're Too Nicel

‘By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, July 3—Among other reasons why the Germans and the Japanese are pushing us So hard is the fact that we're too nice. We think and try to

act like gentlemen. We refuse to recognize that war is a nasty, brutal business, which cannot be settled with one hand while we hold our fastidious nose with

the other.

We—meaning particularly the Anglo-Saxon peoples

a wu 2 “AMERICA’S NOT FIGHTING FOR IMPERIALISM!” By Nettie Keene, 1212 N. LaSalle st.

In an answer to Mr. Maddox's letter in your paper of June 30 I wish to say, first, that Mr. Maddox has the cart before the horse. Only the free can be strong. If he or anyone else wants this war fought for the purpose of extending any empire possessions or keeping any of . |them, let them go and fight it. The American people are not giving their life blood for any such purpose, but for the purpose of freeing humanity from exploitation. Has

under imperialism? I am not a Socialist, but I can comprehend a right idea when presented and Wallace, Welles, et al., have some very right ideas which the common people have been waiting for and they will be put into) practice in spite of all the cries of socialism, communism, etc., from the die-hard conservatives.

—are not irretrievably soft. We are as courageous as : 5.8 a

any—probably mare than most. We are as clever, as

scientific, as logical, as imaginative as our enemies. ° Yet we let them shove us around.

The time has come—Tobruk and Matruh are proof, if there were no others—for us to get tough, to forget Marquis of Queensbury rules, to inculcate ourselves

with the fighting code of the lumber camps.

The time has come for us to develop a good, ar-let’s-knock-their-dirty-blocks-off hate against any man who wears an axis uniform or has to do

dent, with the axis war effort.

Look at the Russians

“WASHINGTON WILL BE THE WORLD’S CAPITAL” Sy Claude Braddick, Kokomo To think of British “imperialism” and American “imperialism” as one and the same thing is a grievous error. The British Empire is falling apart quite as much from its own internal weaknesses as from any enemy pressure. Apathy or open hostility to British rule in Burma and Malaya have caused these provinces to fall like ripe apples into the en-

there ever been freedom of the seas|

the asking—they were purchased with enemy blood. -This is not to say that British imperialism has not been enlightened or liberal. It has. But it is based upon outworn traditions of race superiority, “the white man’s burden,” nineteenth and: century. In reading hisiiry one ‘cannot escape the concluson that nations, like individuals, lave their vigorous youth, their placid middle age and their declining s nility. After this war no one will fo oubt the strength or the determination of the United States. The whole worth, for centuries to come, will look to her for leadership. American ideals of government will be on the ascendancy everywhere. Washington, not Z.ondon, will be the capital of the world. And this will mark the first {ime in all history that such leader: hip has come to a nation who net}, er sought nor desired it. 5

it of the twentieth

“YOU POLITIC ANS OUGHT TO QUIT FIGHTIN EACH OTHER”

By Mrs. Donald B. Shumway, 717 Fifth st., Columbus

Well I see by ta paper the Demo’s and Republicans are at it again. Why can’t you nen forget the past (that for the De: 10%s) and the rest forget the presnt (this for thd|? Republicans)? [Don’t forget none of us are perfict. If you must throw slurs, why not throw them at the Japs and G4 rmans? So if you

EVERYTHING ELSE being equal, wars are won by those who are in there slugging every minute, taking the initiative, making the rules, barring no holds,

must have your “ampaigns, make it

Side Glances—By Galbraith

missing no bets.

Right now that is the Germans, the Russians, the Japs. The Russians are doing “the most creditable job, « on our side, because they are as tough and ruthless as : their enemies. They're no braver than the British and Americans. They're no cleverer. Theyre no better equipped. They're no beiter led. All they have that we lack, thus far, is the will to win at any cost. Every Russian fights with the feeling that upon him, individually, falls the entire burden of the war. They kick, they gouge, they bite, they claw. They recognize no foul zone. They fight the devil with fire, the axis with its own callous, rat-in-g-corner technique. . Before we shall win, we must forget that we are good sports. We must stop eyeing the net, preparatory to jumping across to congratulate the victor. We must get in and slug, resolved that in the end only the victor shall remain alive—and he shall be us. -

So They Say—

The U. S. A. would be doomed to an era of decadence if we do not take our front rank position in the inevitable world of the air—Hugh Fenwick, president of Vultee Aircraft, Inc.

A free India would ally herself. with those who would help her in defense. Japan and the group of powers with her represent a social philosophy that is exceedingly ‘wrong and ana dangerous ~—Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Nationalist leader

metal |

I doub i shall over again api to publi oes

lives.

the 70s and 80s he might by this time be able to see what has led up

unions. My line has been railroading since 1879 when section labor got as much as 90 cents and $1 per day, brakemen $40, telegraph operators $25 and $35 per month, working time 12 or more hours per day, 365 days per year. No Sundays or holidays and no such thing as overtime and if your boss took a dislike to you or had some other man in view he simply shunted you out and put in his man and what could you do

if you should join a union and was found out, you got fired. I have belonged to a union for 30 years. We never had. a closed shop contract and there were always a few shirks who persistently refused to join the union but participated in the benefits just the same. Pegler sounds to me like an individual who has contacted an exunion grafter who has been thrown overhogrd and is trying to get even by exposing his own. efforts to exploit. The union labor people know better than Pegler that they have been sold out. time and again but they are still trying to perfect their organizations and they welcome any exposure of grafters. He never utters a word about the abuses indulged in by capitalist combination organization or union whichever it might be called. He would probably condone or approve of the methods used to fight the eight hour day in Colorado where miners and mill men were rounded up. loaded in cattle cars, taken from their families and homes to the Kansas-Colorado state line and dumped out on the sage brush

‘| prairie and later when hired hood-

lums shot up peaceable strikers and murdered them in cold blood. Don’t tell me that it is not so for I know, having served a stretch in Governor Peabody’s bull pen for vocally oljeciing 35 sich procedure.

“THE SEA GIVES MANHOOD ITS CHANCE TO SHOW” By ». 8. N, One type of courage goes over the top, in the excitement of physical combat, against shells and machine gun bullets, tanks and flame throwers. Another type, and perhaps even greater, sits in an open boat and refuses rescue, in order that the would-be saviors themselves shall not become victims of a German submarine. The raw courage of the crew and passengers of an’ unnamed U-boat

| victim, who twice warned off Bra-

zilian craft offering assistance, was equaled by the Latinos’ deliberate willingness to take a chance to save

The sea still makes men or, better perhaps, gives manhood its oppor-

tunity to show.

DAILY THOUGHT He disappointeth the devices of

the crafty, so that their hands

cannot perform their enterprise. —Job 5:12,

to the present stand of the labor

about it and up to very recent times|

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

FOR THE WAR'S duration, at least, I wish it were possible to keep women’s legs under cover. If for no other reason, slacks get my vote. The contours beneath them are nearly always shockingly ugly, but the “too, too solid flesh” is out of sight, and that’s a relief, Not one woman in a million looks well in trousers, and most of the others have no idea what dreadful figures they present. One can explain the fad only by admitting that none of us ever sees herself as she is. We carry pres conceived notions of our appearance, and usually they are far too flattering. What’s more, we look into one or several mirrors in the narrow space of dressing room or bedroom, and under the soothing influence of our own ego, approve of the sight. It’s when we move around against the back drop of the great outside, with all our bulges and bones exposed, that we cut our worst figures.

Legs Never Pretty in Closeup

BUT, AS I SAY, the hideous hips garbed in slacks are not so bad as the prevalent yen for nudism which exposes to our gaze the fat thighs, the pimply calves, the knobby knees that make summer hideous.

Legs—even young feminine ones—aren’t pretty in a closeup. And since we've had closeups of every sort that Nature can turn out, I live in hope that some day soon magazine and newspaper editors will become so revolted at the “leg art” of this decade that they'll cease exploiting the anatomy of American woman= hood to sell their wares. The custom is especially repulsive in patriotie campaigns. In the present gigantic war effort, less emphasis on legs would add dignity and even Plstisls bility to the cause. Or do we want the boys to feel they are fighting to make the world safe for indecent exposure?

Questions and Answers

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Q—Why did the WPB limit the output of phono graph records and radio transcriptions? A—To conserve shellac used in making the discs, India is almost the sole source of shellac used in the U. S. and supplies are subject to shipping hazards.

The use of shellac for military requirements and in

certain essential civilian processes makes the eur tailment imperative.

. Q—How often should water be added to an autos mobile battery? A—Check the water level every two or three weeks th and somewhat oftener in hot weather, or on long ! * trips. Keep distilled water in the battery, to about one-half inch above the top of the plates. JE Q—What are the chief mineral products of Japan?

. A=~Among the major ones are coal, copper, gold; silver, iron, antimony, petroleum and sulphur. 4 Sek

‘Q—Name the seven wonders of the ancient worl A—The Pharos of Alexandria, the Colossus ; Rhodes, the Great Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the

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