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SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1042

"LAND OF THE FREE

EPENDENCE DAY means more to us this year. For many years we took our liberties for granted, and approached this anniversary as an unrestful holiday of forced oratory, gas fumes, traffic jams, ants in the picnic butter, and noise. Today none of us is so insensitive. Most of us will not be troubled by motor hazards, factories will make more

‘noise than fireworks, and we shall be more thankful for

bread and butter. We used to say our Forefathers guaranteed our freedom ~ for us. Now we know they could not. They won freedom. They passed it on to their children. They could do no more.

But that was not enough to preserve a free land from enemies foreign and domestic.

Each generation must win and hold" its own freedom. For us it has been easier because of the vision and courage and sacrifice of our Fathers. But perhaps just because it was easier, we were asleep when freedom was threatened, we were soft when the enemy struck. How much Americans have learned since last Fourth of July! Most of the interventionists and noninterventionists alike then boasted of our strength. If Hitler forced us into the war we could turn the tide of battle quickly; and as for the puny Japs, we could knock them out in a matter of weeks. : We know better now. We have learned the hard way that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. We are stronger now. Not only in .weapons and in trained men. We are stronger in things of the spirit— in humility, in consecration, in willingness to work and

fight and die that liberty may live. Americans have not]

yet recaptured the Spirit of 8, but they are coming closer to that high estate. Therefore we have more right to celebrate this ‘Independence Day. Our minds are clearer and our hearts are cleaner. Our marching men are worthy to win again the freedom our Fathers won.

THEY MADE IT IVE a good rousing salute to all the loyal men and ~ women who helped Marion county reach its June war bond quota of $3,347,200. ; They did a splendid job in the face of vacations, graduations, tax paying periods and other things that ad make June a bad fiscal month.

THE U-BOAT IS STILL MASTER : H=2oL1ves about the sinking .of merchantmen in the western Atlantic have long since grown disagreeably repetitious. In spite of the magic mushrooming of our

| shipbuilding industry, Admiral Vickery of the maritime

. seriously inadequate.

commission concedes that the losses of the united nations vessels continue to exceed the delivery of new ones. And at the same time the need for bottoms is growing daily, as American expeditionary forces fan out all over the globe. In short, the U-boat is still master. Here is a challenge that calls for a redoubling of all the efforts to date of the navy, the coast guard, the civil air patrol, the FBI and other agencies concerned in any way with beating the subs. The total shipping tonnage of the united nations, hampered by slow convoys and roundabout routes, is already Until that total reverses its decline,

| the end of this war will hardly come within hailing distance.

| STORAGE PROBLEM

BILL introduced in congress by Senator Tydings of Maryland is intended eventually to curb what the

§ senator calls the “uncontrolled flood” of publicity material

‘pouring from government departments and bureaus. Mr. Tydings heads a special senate committee which

3 reported recently that the output of government publicity

in a week would fill 875 newspaper columns, and that much of it “seems to assume that the entire population of the United States has a mental age level of about 10 years.” His bill would not restrict the activity of federal press agents for the next 12 months, but would require all agencies seeking future appropriations to report specifically

how much money they expected to spend on their informa-

tion services and on printing and distributing publicity material. .. And, in order that each member of congress “may see for himself the type of material that is being constantly | poured forth to the public, regardless of whether the public . has asked for it or not,” the bill further provides that, beginning July 1— . “Every dgency of the executive branch.of the government shall file with the congressional joint committee on | printing a copy of each book, pamphlet, magazine, booklet, ‘circular, periodical, release, script, speech, recommendation, report or other similar or analogous document or material ch such agency may disseminate, distribute or transmit in any manner whatsoever to the public.” . It's a sound idea. But one thing puzzles us. Where will the joint committee on printing find a warehouse big ‘enough for its collection if the Tydings bill becomes law?

[LITARY TRIBUN AL ‘HF president has acted wisely in setting up a special military commission to try the eight Nazi saboteurs ded in this country by submarines. They are prisoners war, caught on military mission, and should be promptly in accordance with the law of war—rather than by courts. : The Nazis are fond of ridiculing us as softies. When ‘mean we put our faith in a government of laws, instead p regime of terror, we are proud of that indictment. But when they mean that we are too blind, too dumb, soft to protect ourselves against their war spies and

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

MRS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, United Features Syndicate, New York. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: "You remarked iri your piece the other night that you had seen a film called “Native Land” and said it presented the worst side of the picture of our country and that I depict the worst side of the reverse. I will not dwell on the fact “that this film is Communist propsganda, but I think it deserves mention inasmuch as you have given the show a nice plug as “a beautiful piece of photography and most artistically produced. » The Germans and Italians have very good photographers and producers, too, and we may be sure that if they undertook to portray the failure of free gov~ ernment in the sisterhood of republics known as the United States of America, they, too, would turn out ‘some beautiful photography and an artistic effort. They would go to town to show as convincingly as they could that our form of government just can’t work. I wonder if you would care to express your position on the facts presented in my “worst side of the reverse,” as you call it, because it has always seemed to me that you were certainly tolerant of this side and might actually approve it. However, I have never known you to express yourself definitely on the subject and I am sure I am not the only person who wishes you would. I might have a wrong impression.

"Do You Know Real Union Men?"

BY “THE WORST SIDE of the reverse” I.suppose you refer to my writing in the subject of racketeering and graft and the violation of some of the most important principles of our kind of government by unions. Mrs. Roosevelt, do you ever meet any real union members? I don’t mean those horn-rimmed idealogists who are to be found around the so-called labor schools and social and political study-centers. I mean common, ordinary, walk-around American working men and women. I meet a lot of them, Mrs. Roosevelt, and get letters from many more and I tell you they are not happy in their unionism. That “not happy” is a deliberate under-statement. For example, and just an ordinary example, how would you like to talk with an honest union man who was lured into a hotel room in Albany a few years ago and slugged horribly with bottles and fists by that racketeer and thug, Joe Fay, of the so-called Operating Engineers’ union and several other low-lived goons of that which I believe you sometimes called “the. labor movement”?

"They Lie, Mrs. Roosevelt!"

I THINK I KNOW a man who could fix up an interview for you and from this start I might be able to lead you along to other interviews with other workers and union officials all over the country who have been ruled by terror and rcbbed of their earnings in the most brutal deflance of my concept of American freedom which, of course, may not be yours. I could present many honest union men who have been powerless under the rule of vicious upper bosses of the unions. Mrs. Roosevelt, the publications of the A. F. of L. have said, over and over that Browne, Bioff and Scalise were only three criminals turned up in the leadership or command of their unions. They are liars, Mrs. Roosevelt,’ They lie to cover up the betrayal of the workers and the American people as a whole by the so-called leaders of the A. F. of L. Hundreds of criminals have been turned up and convicted, Mrs. Roosevelt, and hundreds of other racketeers, such as this drunken underworld thug, Joe Fay, are still in full operation, dragging down more of the workers’ money than ever before by taking a top cut off the wages of the people in the war tasks. They get first chop of the people’s wages. They get there even before the United States treasury with its income tax and other tax collections. Really, Mrs. Roosevelt, the “worst side of the reverse” is much worse than I have depicted it. I am only a single-handed loner in this and I have a hundred leads for every one that I have the time, personally, to, investigate, verify and report din print. I am willing’ to believe that you don’t really know how bad it is, but would you be willing to listen to proof, or is that asking too much of your time? Yours very truly, WESTBROOK PEGLER.

Feeling Like God By Edward J. Meeman

MEMPHIS, July 4. — Louis Bromfield has written novels which were best sellers, but no work of creation with words could have given him the satisfaction he felt when he succeeded in recreating a part of the good earth which had gone bad. As he tells the story in “Country Life,” Bromfield and i : his partner, Max Drake, several years ago purchased 800 acres in Louis Bromfield the hilly section of Ohio which for generations had been washing away into the Gulf of Mexico via the yellow Ohio and muddy Mississippi until it had become fully-cut and drought-cursed. They made a contract with the U. S. Soil Conservation Service to follow certain recommended practices in return for aid from the government's men. They tore down the fences which had divided the land into square fields, for their straight rows had caused the soil to wash. Government engineers laid out new

‘lines which followed the contours of the land,

"And Then the Miracle Happened’

TERRACE DITCHES were built and water which had swept down the hillsides into Switzer’s creek, causing jagged gullies, was held back to spill off gently over gradual rises, sodded thickly. Hill tops

‘were made into permanent pastures of bluegrass and

white clover. A woodlot was fenced to keep cattle out, Fencerows everywhere were allowed to grow up in sassafras, blackberries and sumach as shelter and feed for game. Streams were dammed to make ponds. Then the miracle happened. Springs appeared where there had not been any for generations. Old springs which formerly had dried up during the summer ran clear and cold all year, furnishing water in abundance to herds of cattle. In the third summer, during a long drought, when the corn in the bottom fields of their neighbors stood burnt and shriveled in

the sun, the corn in their hillside fields stood sturdy

and strong and -dark green—the stored-up rainwater doing the job. Bass and blue gills and crappies appeared in the ponds—they had come up from Clear Fork, a famous bass stream, via Switzer's creck. The land which had gone to hell now looked like paradise. No wonder that Louis Bromfield, surveying this work of redemption, “felt a little like God.”

So They Say— So far as we have been able to ascertain, the average American retailer is making an honest effort to adjust his pricing practices to the demands of this | war economy--David Ginsburg, general counsel, OPA.

=F think we will never return to natural rubber, EE aunqan It Yay become. Dx. Willard Dow,

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“The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree ai th what you say, but will defend to the death vp wr right to say it.—Voltaire.

“WHY SHOULD THEY SELL JAP-MADE STUFF?” By Paul R. Jennings, Indianapolis. I am no editor nor writer, but have something I think the public would be interested in’ and should

be broadcast, since we are at war with the dirty Japs.

For your own good, just go to the dime store and look over the novelty counter. About every other thing there is inscribed “made in Japan,” laying there for the public to look at. Don’t you think they should do away with this merchandise?

8 =n ” “WE ARE NOT GOING TO QUIT—AND WE WON'T LOSE” By E. D. Williams

What do those commentators meant who say that if the Nazis should grab this territory or the Japs should grab that area, “we might lose the war?” This is not! a chess game or a football game or, hide-and-seek, which we can lose and go on living as a nation. It may be that some great strategic victory by the Axis would make our job infinitely harder and longer, but that would not mean that we should “lose the war.” We can only “lose” by giving in—just quitting—and accepting subjection to swaggering heels for the rest of our lives and for the lifetime of many generations to come. We are not going to quit and we are not going to lose the war, whether the Nazis get oil or not, and whether the Nazis and Japs meet and clasp bloody hands or not. ® 8 = ; “CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS ARE SERVING THE U. S.” By Alice Flower Davis

In time of war a conscientious objector, especially if it be a man, is held in ill regard by the public. Perhaps most of us have become so hardened as to believe that no one can possibly object that strongly to anything, They are, in our opinion, only draft dodgers. Little attention has been focused on the problem for this reason and offenders, of course, are sentenced to prison. This does not seem to be

quite a rightful solution in this land

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in which we are so proud of our freedom. |: Objectors :hould be given an opportunity to hrove themselves. Why could they hist be assigned to some such divisidp as the medical divii s | rivision does not carry arms and heiice does not violate the sixth comr:ndment, “Thou shalt not kill” | A man pr objector can: to the wo:

ofessing to be a sincere >ot very well refuse help vded. It is an act of {| does not in any ‘way yong the war. Ie are numerous ways could be of assistance, cual combat, at least to their fellov' men. There must be ways that iivolve just as much danger ‘which require just, as’ much courage. (swards could be weeded out from among sincere objectors and label¢: just what they are— cowards, Ww .

Editor’ 5 Aote: The writer of the above let is mistaken in believing that conscientious objectors are being isent to prison. They can . sei’: in noncombatant branches | of ‘the military service or go to| ipecial camps provided ii“ntious objectors. Lew Ayres is|# conspicuous example. The men, who are being sent to prison ai¢ persons who have violated “selective service regulations in various ways such as refusing to report “or induction. Hi #2 x = “THE YANKS ARE COMING GOOD E“OUGH FOR ME” By T. R. ; Indianapolis. Food vil win the war. Songs will win ‘he war. Airpower will win the = Slogans will win the war. Well, vy not? None of these alone, bu ‘all together. We do need

Side Glances—By Galbrait

COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T.M. REG. U.S PAY. OFF.

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pepping up. “Over There” and “Tipperary” helped a lot in 1918. So did “Let’s make the world safe for democracy.” No topnotch song has come yet in this war, but many good enough slogans are popping up. Contests in some 300 plants produced a few quotable industrial adjurations such, for example, as American Steel and Wire's “Speed the wheels to beat the heels”; or Western Electric’s “T. N. T.—Today, not tomorrow.” “Speed ’em for freedom,” advised Curtiss-Wright. ‘Next, can somebody coin an overall catchphrase that will have the punch of world war I's “The Yanks are coming”? Or how about just keeping the same one? = ” ” “WITNESSES’ DECISION MAY RISE TO PLAGUE US” By A Liberal. As the supreme court’s five-to-four division suggests, there were conflicting issues involved in the question whether communities have the right to impose a license fee upon the distribution of religious literature. Opelika, Ala., charged a $5 fee from transient book agents. Ft. Smith, Ark. voted a peddlers license of $2.50 a day, $10 a week or $25 a month. Casa Grande, Ariz, charged transient merchants $25 quarterly as a license fee. Jehovah’s Witnesses, a minority sect which has been a frequent source of strife throughout the country, distributed religious literature and asked contributions in return. The Witnesses were required to pay the peddlers’ fees. They went to court. Five justices ruled that the fees were constitutional, while four dissented strongly. The language of the majority opinion, written by Justice Reed, is startling in its apparent contravention of the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and of religion, which, the analysis holds, are not absolute but subject to abridgement. I doubt whether Justice Reed and his four associates meant what they appeared to mean. The unfortunate thing is that men so highly placed, presumed to be so meticulous in their selection of words, should have phrases capable of double meaning, which may arise for generations to plague both the court and democracy in general. Unquestionably communities have the right to license peddlers, just as they can tax merchants with stores. There can be no question of the localities’ right to control gatherings which impede the general citizenry in its normal activities, to forbid unsanitary and unsightly

|littering of the streets, to prevent

persons of one persuasion from forzing their opinions upon others who do not want to listen. The very basis of civilization rests upon the thesis that the privileges of any individual are subordinate to the rights of the community as a whole. Any other thesis would be anarchy. The community cannot tell an individual in what God he shall have faith, or what he shall believe

er the community could tax a seller of secular literature $25 a year and one of religious literature $25 a day. That would be using the power to

1 tax as a means of destroying proper

religious functions.

- DAILY THOUGHT ‘The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. ~II Samuel 22:47.

I FEAR no force with Thee at hand to bless; ills have no weight,

and tears no bitterness.—Henry

about that God. We doubt wheth-|

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WASHINGTON, July 4.—-Tos= day may be the day you celebrate ‘your independence, but this com= ing Monday and the Monday following are dates dedicated to the ‘Junk man. For on these days begin a triple-threat drive to win the war at home by salvaging millions of tons of things Ameri cans are accustomed to throwing away. This next Monday starts the drive for | (the fats and greases from the kitchen of city, village and farm. Then on the 13th opens the campaign in 38 principal municipal areas for the tin cans that were never considered’ good for anything but Hauling to the dump. And all \over this broad and beautiful land, every scrap of scrap—not only the rubber that’ hasn's been collected, but the metals and all the rags from every nook and corner. July 13 marks the beginning of a national clean-up campaign the like of which this nor any other country ever saw. From the greases will come explosives. From the: cans, tin and steel. From thet rags and old iron, from practically everything except bottles and bones and the few remaining items of waste which no one has found a use for yet, salvage for the insatiable maw of war,

Here's What It's All About

NO FOOLING, THE war could be lost withous this salvaging; of household fats. Germany found that out in 1937, and two years before the war began the Nazis started hoarding grease. They put grease traps in all the kitchen sinks. They. rebuilt sewage disposal plants to recover oils, they did without bute ter in the famous guns-not-butter drive, and they boiled up animal corpses of all kinds. The United States has always been the most fate wasteful country. The consumption of fats soared to 82 pounds a pemson per year, which is a third more than the fat consumption was 30 years ago. Two= thirds of this isi eaten in the form of meat, butter, shortenings. A fifth goes into soap. A twelfth goes into paints and fvarnishes and the remaining {wen tieth into industrial uses. : But the war has upset this balance. Last year the United States consumed 11 billion peunds of fats, This year it will ibe 12 billion pounds. Next year 1% may be 13 billion pounds. Normally, the United States would be’ importing up to 2.5 billion pounds of fat a year, about half of it from the area under Japanese control. This year, the U. S. will export up to 1.5 billion pounds for the use of the united: nations, and faces a shortage of 1.5 billion pounds a year.

Quota: 1/4 Pound a Week

TWO BILLION POUNDS of grease are wasted in kitchens every year. If one-fourth of that ean be sale vaged, the country can get by, for the farmers—raise ing more soy beans, harvesting more peanuts, ‘ginning more cottonseed, farrowing 105 million head of hogs this year—will produce the other billion pounds of needed fats. goonat will be donetwith the fat saved by the housewife The 500 million pounds of salvaged kitchen grease will go from the meat) markets to rendering plants to make 50 million poundls of glycerine. Glycerine floats the compass on a battleship, lubricates and cushioms the recoil mechanisms on hoists and big guns, .goes into the making. of explosives. Fifty million pounds of glycerine would make 1250 million anii-tank shells. The quota for every American family is to save a quarter of a pound .of grease a week, which will make enough glycerine: for one anti-tank shell. See the butcher tomorrow, for instructions, and as you pour that bacon grease into an empty one‘pound coffee can, which will hold two pounds of grease, just pretend youre pouring explosive into the

casing of a shell for your favorite soldier to -fire nt the Japs and Nazis,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE VETERANS OF FOR. EIGN WARS adopted a sensible resolutipn at their recent convene tion. When the next peace is written, ‘they ask that it be dice tated by military and naval lead-

ers of the allied countries instead of by the, politicians. I move we amend that to ine clude the pacifists of the allied countries... Today, of course, our peace groups are in disrepute. Se it always is in wartime, They are credited with une patriotic notions. The very word peace, though the little peoples of the earth yearn to acitieve it, is ale most a subversive term. \ Of late, however, two excellent. speeches, one by Vice President Wallace and the other by Sumnep Welles, have given the go-sihead signal. It is pere missible to talk and write about what may. happen after the war, since our leaders have opened the subject. So we now find newspapers, magazines and books discussing the question.

Why Should They Be in Coma?

MANY COMMUNITIES have peace groups which

functioned actively before Pearl Harbor and are now

in a state of coma. Why should they be? < Is not everyone convinced that winning the war in a military sense is but one step toward our goal? The second step is the achievement of a peace that will stick afterward—and certainly it is not wasted time, nor work in an unholy cause, for every man and woman to begin a study of how this important goal may be reached. When that fateful dey cames, and our leaders sig. down around the peace table, a place should be saved for the representatives of those groups ‘Which have: made a long study of the causes of war. It seems to me their thinking will be as valushie

as the thinking of Foliidal leaders or military scientists.

Editor’s Note: The views expressed by connie in thie newspaper are their own They! are not necessarily thse of The Indianapolis Times. o

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Q—Which metals are classified as especially im. portant in the national war effort? A—PFollowing is the list recently announced by Jesse Jones, secretary of commerce: Aluminum, mage nesium, copper, tin, tungsten, antimony, asbestos, beryllium, cadmium, chrome, cobalt, graphite, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, mica, molybdenite, nickel, speiss, platinum and its deriyatives, quartz crystals, rutile ore, tantalum, zinc and zircon. . .

Q—Are there any Polish military units n Canada? A—Yes, and the address of the headquarters of : fhe Poilsh atu. forces in Canada is Box 308, Windeos,