Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1942 — Page 9

SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1942

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Washington

WASHINGTON, July 4.—Outspoken criticism of the government in England and the constant criticism of the government here indicate that even under

the pressure of war the fundamental instincts of self-

government that are so deeply rooted in these two countries stili find their outlet. You hear people say that we shall lose our democracy as a result of the war. Ever since President Roosevelt has been in office there has been fear that. this country would be transformed into a totalitarian state. Do nations so radically change their characteristics, any more than an individual does? I have been reading a very wise bs book, “Democratic Ideals and : Reality,” by H. J. Mackinder, noted British geographer from whom Haushofer drew his theory of the Heartland for his German school of Geopolitik. Mackinder, a member of Parliament, in 1919, was writing while the Paris peace conference was going on, Mackinder, writing during the 1919 peace conference, said: “No doubt it may be urged that Geiman mentality will be altered by the German defeat. He

would be a sanguine man, however, who would trust the future peace ofi the world to a change in the mentality of any nation. Look back to old Froissard or to Shakespeare, and you will find your Englishman, Scotsman, Welshman, and Frenchman with all their essential characteristics already fixed. The Prussian is a definite type of humanity with his good and his bad points, and we shall be wise if we act on the assumption that his kind will breed true to its type. «+. The end of the present disorder may only be a

. new ruthless organization, and ruthless organizers do

not stop when they have attained the objects which they at first set before them.” : ’

By Raymond Clapper

We, Too; Breed to Type

THAT THOUGHT, SO prophetic in 1919, might well be noted by the next peacemakers. . But I quoted this profound passage for another reason. What Mackinder says about Germany breeding true to type must apply also to those nations which have always made self-government and individual freedom their primary rule. If Mackinder’s generalization is true, men who have always had freedom are going to breed true to type also.

. America was born out of the instinct for individual |

freedom, and self-government. You see that instinct burning in the men coming over on the Mayflower. ‘When they drew up the Mayflower Compact, they said they were binding themselves together to take such action as would be thought best for “the general good of the colony.” You see this instinct in the. early patriots. James Otis writing on the rights of the colonies. Samuel Adams attacking the Stamp Act and laying down the principle of no taxation without representation, and in his resolutions to the Massachusetts house of representatives on resistance to tyranny, with the challenging call that “no people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery but when they deserved it.”

A Light That Is Not Dimmed

OUT OF THOSE roots grew the Declaration of Independence, dedicated to the principle that the people had certain inalienable rights, among them the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. _ Those ideals live deep in the bones of America. They have been defended by struggle time and again. Crisses have made it necessary to ignore them temporarily but they are always alive, always demanding expression with the persistence of the deepest human instincts. They give a light that is not dimmed, even in these dark days.

Ernie Pyle is in Ireland. His stories from our army camps there will start on or about July 13.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

PROFILE OF THE WEEK: Marshall Tilton Levey, printer accomplished actor, avid gardener, collector of elephants and cactus, and for more than 40 years one of the state’s most active Scottish Rite masons. Son and grandson of master printers, he can do any job in the plant of the Thornton-Levey Co., which he heads. At 66 he still arrives at his desk promptly at 8 and closes shop with his employees at 5, the hours he’s kept since he started in his business 50 years ago. By 5:30 he is home,” in his work clothes and pottering around the garden. He took his first vacation four years ago. : When he decides to do something, it’s the best he knows how. That's how he became bowling champion of the country 35 years

Mr. Levey

: ago and when business cut into his practice and the

first world war came along, he gave it up. Same way with the garden. Six years ago when the Leveys were house hunting, he made up his mind ‘to devote his spare time to gardening. After a long search, he saw an ad for a house on a wooded lot. He looked it over and returned to Mrs, Levey with a glowing report of the trees or shrubbery. Mrs. Levey was skeptical and asked him about the house. Marshall hadn't noticed it particularly, but he was sure there was cne there.

One of the Top Kidders!

IT'S NOT A conventional garden he’s planted. It's a garden of green, such as would grow naturally in a wgoded glen?! He's covered it with evergreens and shrubbery of all description and with just a splash of ‘flowers, He built a winding pool and a miniature waterfall. In one section is his cactus bed. He has nearly every kind of cactus that will grow in this

FM climate. In the winter the Leveys move over so the

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cactus can move in. _ _ Marshall Levey is around 5 feet 8. He weighs about 180 and what hair he has is still dark. His eyes are blue and his good nature. breaks out in a little giggle now and then. : He's careful about his clothes and ties, sticking to

British Guts

WASHINGTON, July 4.—Reports from down under indicate that thare is a tendency among the Australians to belittle the fighting qualities of the British soldier now facing Marshal Rommel in Egypt. * , The Australian man-in-the-street recalls that when the Anzacs formed the backbone of Gen. Wavell's army in Egypt and Libya, a numerically superior Italian force was smashed to bits. Now, when the British predominate, the whole situation is reversed. This is not an unnatural reaction.

Nor is it unnatural that the Australian officers who took part in Gen, Wavell’s rout of the Italians in 1940-41 should be the first to spring to the defense of their old comrades-at-arms. Expressing amazement “at the tendency to ignore or belittle .» . the part played by the British in the Middle East,” they praise British courage in the highest terms. And Australians know what courage is. I would like to add my own faint voice to theirs. I did not witness Wavell’s victory of 1941 nor the British defeat of 1942, But I was with the British expeditionary force in France from 1916 to 1918. As an gye witness, therefore, I can testify along with the Australians that the army doesn’t exist which has more guts than the British.

Yes, Read Your History

I HAVE SEEN British units, when ordered to hold certain positions at any cost, hold those positions until they were literally exterminated. I have seen

My Day

NEW YORK, July 4—On this Fourth of July we are fighting again for our liberty in just the way that we were fighting when the Declaration of Indepenednce was signed. We are a great nation today. We were a small nation then, but the forces against us today are a hundred times greater because of the rapidity of both communication and transportation. We do not know whether from | some fertile brain, over here or in Europe, will come some new invention at any minute which will mean death to thousands of people. in the countries throughout the world. Whoever makes tie invention will profit, and the others will suffer until they find some way of meet- ; ing the new invention with one still newer. The problem before us, therefore, is just as great and requires of us the same qualities that

our freedom and that of the world,

dark greys and blues. rapidly. He has lunch every day except Tuesday at the Scottish Rite, sitting at the “harmony table” open only to the organization’s best kidders. You have to be able to take it to last long at the harmony table. ¢

The Elephant Collector

HE BECAME A MEMBER of Scottish Rite in 1899 and attained the 33d degree in 1927. He was com-mander-in-chief of the Indiana Consistory for three years and is now orator of the Consistory. The Rite has furnished him an outlet for his love and talent for dramatics and he has taken a leading role in most of the plays sponsored by the members. They still talk about his accurate portrayal of Benjamin Franklin and King Lear. Years ago someone gave him a couple of bronze elephants. He put them on a shelf. Then he saw a couple of china elephants at a souvenir stand and bought them. Year after year he’s added more until two large shelves are filled with them. None are expensive.

And a Grand Sport, to Boot

TUESDAYS HE GOES to Rotary meetings and he is an active member of the American Legion, His career in the armed. forces during the first war is characteristic of his ability to get ahead. He rose

He walks slowly and talks

‘from buck private in the national guard to the rank ‘of major in charge of purchasing Supplies for the

army in seven states. But his efforts for success have always been tempered by soft-hearted compassion for his fellows. Take that bowling championship. It was at the American Bowling Congress in St. Louis. At the end of the competition he was tied for the singles title with a man from Minneapolis. They were called back to St. Louis for the roll-off and Marshall's friends trooped along to form a rooting section. The Minneapolis man was there alone. It was a close match and Marshall’s friends whooped it up. The competitor was a good sport but you could tell he ‘was heart-broken when he lost. It took all the fun out of winning: for Marshall Levey. That's the kind of fellow he is.

By Wm. Philip Simms

individuals volunteer for undertakings when they knew very well that their only possible reward might be a posthumous Victoria Cross. Whatever may be the matter with the British in Egypt, it is not lack of fighting spirit. More likely it’s lack of leadership—or a zealous but uninspired leadership. The charge of the Light Brigade 90 years ago, at Balaklava—just outside the freshly famed Sevastopol—was * no isolated incident in British history.

The American Colonials could not get the British

‘to conceal themselves behind trees when fighting the

Indians. They preferred to stand in the open, in closed ranks, and die fighting as they had been taught to fight, rather than keep alive by slithering around on their bellies under the bushes.

They Do What They're. Told

IN HIS MEMOIRS, Field Marshal Von Hindenburg

never at. any time had a word to say against the fighting qualities of the British troops. He did say, however, that their leaders lacked initiative and imagination. Even Sir Douglas Haig just slogged away, day in and day out, telegraphing his punches ahead by artillery preparations and the other usual devices. : But throughout all this fighting, which I witnessed, there was nothing laggard about the British Tommy. He did what he was told, or died trying, The Nazi storm trooper of today probably has more brute strength than some of the English boys he goes up against. . i But he does not’ surpass the Britisher in courage.

When things go badly for him I doubt if he has anywhere near as much.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

were required to win our original war and then build a nation when it was over. Now we must sacrifice and work and go without things that we have long been accustomed to having, to retain the freedom which we achieved at the end of the Revolutionary War. And when we ‘have retained it, we must set about building not a nation, but a new world. ! There will probably be very few fireworks this year. I hope few children will be allowed to think of this Fourth of July only as a time for awakening their elders at dawn with firecrackers under their windows, without any realization of the significance of the day. The younger generation over many years will have to dedicate this day and every day in the year to a better understanding of their responsibiliteis as citizens in a democracy. : From us our children nfust learn integrity, and the determination to work for the things in which we ‘believe. If we succeed in passing on these conceptions to them, the Fourth of July will always record

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As We Fight F

SECOND SECTION

Life, Libe rty And Happin es :

Scenes on the war fronts:

1. A portion of the Suez canal, fast-moving axis columns of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. 2. United States troops at an embarkation point for “somewhere

on a battle front.”

3. As the early morning mist rises, an American crew at an allied air base “somewhere in New Guinea” prepares a bomber for a raid

on Jap-occupied territory.

4. Russian soldiers clear a village of Germans after driving the | to advance to the rich oil fields of

enemy - back from their attempt the Caucasus.

one of the main objectives of the

5. A workman repairs damage to St. Mary-Le-Bow church in 5 London after an air raid. St. Paul's cathedral, which withstood the 1% Nazi plane devastation, is shown behind in the background.

NAZI MORALE REMAINS LOW

Germans still Remember Horror of Last Winter On Russian Front.

BERN, July 4.—General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s victories have not yet obliterated the memories of last winter, according to ali reports from Germany. 2 The German people know now that a victory on the eastern front does not mean the automatic collapse of the Russian giant. Apparently, they have also learned by now thrat reverses do not defeat the allies but fire them to greater effort.

List Casualties

«That the Nazi leaders realize that German morale still requires bracing is indicated by their communique announcing casualties for the last year. French official figures, a diplomatic source pointed out, for a three weeks’ battle in 1940, were 120,000 killed and missing. German figures for one year of the fiercest battles are less than three times this number, Plan Electrification Official axis reactions on Egypt are plentiful and enlightening, In Berlin and Rome military and political experts are quietly confident, while the press amuses itself by counting unhatched chickens, A recent Berlin dispatch spoke, of the German intention to utilize Aswan dam for the electrification of Egypt

to undertake, Axis propaganda is in full swing to help fifth column activities in Egypt, although “fifth column” is a mild expression for the 90,000 Italians living in this country, of which only a small number were interned at the beginning of the war by the

| benevolent British authorities,

—a plan the British always failed|

ARMY KITCHEN |

COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC). S. PAT. OFF,

“It’s those sappers, (:ntain— probably after coolis!”

AUDITOR ANNO['NGES TAX DISTRIE ITION

Distribution of $9,645.) in tax collections to the various goveynmental units in Marion ci unty was announced today by Cour’ Auditor Glenn B. Ralston. ; Of the total collections, :11 representing tax payments mag: in May, $2,653,000 was turned over to city schools; $2,138,000 to the city government; $685,700 to tli= county general fund, and $546,670 to the state. The remainder of the fund was distributed to the town:hip and town governments. ih

JOIN IN OBSERVA CE CARACAS, Venezuela, ily 4 (U. P.) —President and Mrs. dina Angarita attended a © stival at the national Hippodrome oday, at which the 1500 membe:i: of the American colony were oi

NAZI PLANE HAS

NOSE HEAD LAMP

New Fighter Shot Down By Rear-Gunner During Big Bremen Raid.

1942. by The Indiananolis

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LONDON, July 4—The Nazis are now using night fighters equipped with nose searchlights, the authoritative journal, Aeroplane, reports. The first recorded appearance of this device in fighting -over the Reich apparently was unimpressive.

.| The new fighter was shot down by

a Stirling’s rear-gunner while coming home from the 1000-plane raid on Bremen, June 25. . The journal suggests: that this may indicate a change in the Germans’ previous practice when searchlights often were used for the direct = protection of targets, by blinding pilots and aerial ‘gunners. It “says the R. A. Fs attacks on the north Fresian island of Sylt, early in the war, frequently met a slanting light “wall” through which it was difficult to distinguish targets. . More" recently, the raid on the Leuna works near Leipzig encountered light “cones” attempting to interfere with’ the bombardiers’ aim. Similar tactics have been used: against low-flying fighter attacks on Nazi airfields in France. Aeroplane concludes, “the only fighter searchlight which could possibly be. .valuable is one ‘of such ‘power that gunners could not train guns in the face of its glare. Any-

thing -else is simply a bull’s-eye.”

Th . FIDELITY REVIEW TO MEET Fidelity review 140, W. B. A., will have a .covered dish luncheon at 12:30 p. m. Wednesday in Castle ‘hall. A card party will follow at 2:15 p. m. Mrs. Laura Ashton is chairman for the luncheon and Mrs.

g| Mildred Parsons is card party chair-|

$50 a Month for Soldiers = Boon to Crooked Gamblers

NEW YORK, July 4 (U. P).— Michael MacDougall, the card detective who exposes crooked gamblers and their methods, estimated today that the new $50-a-month base pay for service men will mean a $1,500,000 daily take for dice

Jhustlers and card sharpers in and

about army camps and naval stations. ! “Some of the smartest crooked dice and card workers in the racket enlisted very early in the war because they figured soldiers and sailors would be the easiest pickings they could find,” he explained. “They weren't working for the $21 a month the government paid them. They wanted the $21 of their buddies. Now the clippety-clip is $50.” Mr. MacDougall has entertained, and enlightened, service men at 30 or 40 camps in the United States and Canada with demonstrations of crooked gambling techniques. After every lecture he has listened

to tales from servicer men who

MEN ASKED TO JOIN

STATE GUARD UNITS|

learned for the first time how they had been cheated. . Tia At poker, Mickey can deal you any : hand you ask for and, if it, isn’t & royal flush, top you with the hand he deals himself. =

Rolls Any Point

~ With fair dice he can “Greek roll® any point he needs or “padroll” to prevent an unwanted combination from turning up. But most crooks, he pointed out, are too greedy bother learning to control fair di or cards. They can buy the loa or otherwise doctored variety almost any city. : Mr. MacDougall strolled the street from his Broadway to a Times square shop which « in “magic” equipmeng, 1 The proprietor greeted him dially, and, on request, di some of his wares.” There were ace flats,” imperceptibly on every die face except and the “one.” ad . With such dice the player: craps constantly with acs

‘An appeal for men between the| =... ages of 18 and 55 to join the state|{

guard was made today by Adjt. Gen. Elmer F. Straub.

New recruits to fill places left va-| cant by guardsmen being inducted| into the army, are needed every|

‘week, he said. in “To be a guardsman is a splendid opportunity for those who may be inducted: into'the army to secure

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. Information on. details : of. enlist-|

ing in the guard as a protection to| |

home territory if it should be'raid-