Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1942 — Page 10

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TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1842

GOOD PRECEDENT

NEW YORK state officials have decided, in a move to save gasoline and rubber, to take 963 state-owned automobiles out of service on Aug. 1, and 514 more on Dec. 1. Hereafter, they said, state cars must not be used to shuttle officials between home and office, and trips on state business should be made by rail and bus where feasible. This, we submit, is a good example for other state and local governments—and by all means the federal government—to follow.

TOO MUCH OFFICIAL FOG

FTER almost six weeks of enemy occupation we have failed to drive the Japs out of the western Aleutians. Is it because Washington considers this of “no real importance”? That is hard to believe, despite the admiral who made that irresponsible crack when the Japs first appeared at Attu and Kiska. On the contrary, there is good reason to believe that responsible military and civilian authorities involved are much disturbed. Is it because our forces on that front are not as good fighters as the Japs? Every scrap of evidence we have from this and other Pacific battles indicates the superiority of the American fighter, man for man, and of American weapons, ship for ship and plane for plane. Is it because we lack enough men, ships, planes to protect the Aleutians; or because we lack a necessary supply line? Obviously not. The supply line to the Aleutians is the shortest and least obstructed to any fighting front. ~ Then why is it the Japs have not been ousted from our backyard? ' 8 # 8 * #8 =

HE only official explanation to come out of Washington is worse than none—‘“bad weather.” The weather is the same for both sides. The Aleutians have mist and fog and rain an average of 280 days a year. If the enemy can operate in such weather and our forces cannot, the Japs have an excellent chance of taking and holding the Aleutians. But we don’t accept that explanation; American forces can operate in any weather Japs can fight in. Before blaming American forces for inferiority to the enemy in bad weather, the American pubic will want to know— WHY no task force large enough to lick the Japs has been sent to reoccupy those bases? WHY is there no unified command over army and navy on the Alaskan front, like that forced at Hawaii and Panama and elsewhere by the Pearl Harbor fiasco? WHY are no correspondents allowed on the Alaskan front, when they are permitted on other fronts? WHY is Director Elmer Davis of the office of war information prevented from stating the facts about the Aleutians—whatever the facts are? ~~ If the British, Russians and Chinese can have daily reports on their battles—and even the Germans, Italians and Japs—why can’t Americans have daily reports on the battle of the Aleutians? We think they can and should. ‘The worst fog over the Aleutians is official.

NOT FOR US

UT of mysterious India comes the strange story of a Yogi—a mere novice in the-art of mental discipline of the body—who lived *for six months in a state of suspended animation, without food or drink, having been walled up behind bricks and mortar. The idea has attractive aspects. Six months in a nice cool pit, shut off from the turmoil of a warring world, might not be so bad just now. The Yogi, according to the veracious United Press, didn’t even need to shave. By exercise of his will he stopped the growth of his beard. But, reading further, we learn that when he was . removed from his retreat his body was covered with white ants, which had eaten most of his clothing. After mature deliberation, therefore, we have decided not to become a Yogi—not to attempt a similar feat. » We'd probably emerge only to find the same old arguments still dragging on—about why the rubber problem hasn’t been solved, why the cost of living hasn’t been stabilized, why congressmen shouldn’t be criticized, ete., ete. ’ And we certainly don’t need any more ants in our pants.

ONE MAN’S EYES ERHAPS never has a surgeon’s scalpel carried responsibility greater than will rest upon that of the opthalmolo- _ gist who, very soon, will operate upon the eyes of President Roberto M. Ortiz of Argentina. : Because of his eyes Ortiz has had to permit his vice president to govern one of the great Latin-American republics. Ortiz is pro-American and anti-axis. His acting substitute is, charitably speaking, isolationist. In Ortiz’ absence, Argentina has declined to co-operate in Pan-Amer-ican unity against Hitler. If Ortiz’ eyes can be restored, we'may expect full support from Argentina when he re-

4 sures active office.

T= Christian Science Monitor is disturbed because “money and man-power efficiency” needed for the war

sts that if the number of hours and days when liquor n be sold were to be reduced, “the public would loyally spond.” It continues:

Why not, for instance, begin by halting all liquor sales

outside of Indiana, 75,

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

* NEW YORK, July 14.—Yesterday morning I took a train to New York and sat beside a gentleman who was reading the 1937 report of the international recording secretary of the World Home Economics and -Children’s Aptitude and Recreation Founda-

tion of which my very good friend, |

Dr. Mary McTwaddle, formerly of Vassar, is the American delegate. This .aroused my interest and I

ventured to remark that I had once had the pleas-

ure of entertaining a group of young people who were deeply concerned with the neglected problem of the unmarried father. It turned out that the gentleman himself was an unmarried father so we had a very interesting chat until he got off at Metuchen. In the afternoon a group of young people came in for tea and we had a discussion of the effect of early environment on the efficiency of war workers. I am afraid environment is more important than many of us think and I have asked the department of agriculture to make a survey. Of course, some people have more than others but then, I am afraid, very often the reverse is true and that is something that one cannot dismiss lightly these days.

"| Shall Think About It Seon" ;

LATER IN THE DAY we took a train up the river where a group of young people were waiting to have a discussion of the psychology: of youth in the post-war .world. It is very stimulating to observe the eager interest of such young people, some of them no more than 35, in the serious problems of the world. They seem to me to face problems much more candidly than some of us seem to think they do and it is very encouraging to see this for I believe they will have a great influence for good in the future.

I left them after a time and went over to the big house and had a discussion with my very good friend, Dr. Fusty, formerly of Smith college. He had written an article for the world mothers’ planning council of which he is the honorary international research adviser, emeritus, and one paragraph in particular seemed to me so profound that I obtained his permission to quote it for my readers. It says: “Students will not fail to value the institutions and privileges of the tradition they inherit if they

resist the temptation not to keep vividly aware that |’

their duty to society is perennial, in the larger, rather than the narrower sense of the word.” This seemed particularly thought-provoking to me. I shall think about it one day soon.

"| Prefer the Democratic Way"

RETURNING. TO THE little house I mounted my bicycle and rode 12 miles up and down the path to save gasoline. TI have figured that if I ride 10 or 12 miles up and down the path every day that will be at least 60 miles a week and I shall save about four gallons a week.

Another group of young people had arrived at the little house and we plunged at once into a very interesting discussion of the duty of the citizen not only toward his country but toward himself and his fellow man in relation to the past and the critical days ahead. One gentleman had rather strong ideas on the subject of nail biting and while, of course, I realize that there are two sides to the question, I am afraid capital punishment for nail biters is rather severe. I prefer what means to me the more democratic way and proposed to approach it as a world problem as nail-biting is not a matter of race or creed.

"Squat-Tag on the Lawn"

AFTER A VERY SPIRITED discussion we formed an organization which we are calling the Provisional World Extension Congress Against Nail Biting or P.W. E. C. A. N. B. Six of the young people pledged themselves to establish local committees immediately in their home cities. After all, the eradication of this deplorable vice is in the hands of the future mothers of the world. After dinner several old retainers came over to the big house and together with Dr. Fusty and the young people we had a very enjoyable game of squattag on the lawn. This was followed by a brisk round of spin the plate and after bobbing for apples we retired at 9:45. In bed I read Ludwig Donnervetter’s “All Is Everything.” .It is very beautiful and brings out powerfully the struggle of the young people to organize their world through student, collaboration and discussion. I sometimes think we seem to miss many opportunities for better understanding because peoples are set apart by differences in language.

Frankly Seah

By Norman E. Isaacs

THE NAME OF Carl Mote is again in the news, this time in connection with his being called to testify before the federal grand jury in Chicago, which is probing into sedition and which has been looking over one (or several) of his published brochures. Carl Mote is now 58 years old. He is,a former lawyer, since ’21 has been connected with the utilities industry and now is president and general manager of the Northern Indiana Telephone Co. and the Commonwealth Telephone Corp. He was born in Randolph county, he attended Indiana, DePauw and the Indiana Law school, serve ing in the meantime as-a teacher. Later, he was a high school principal ‘in Union City, went into the newspaper business, became secretary of the Public Service Commission in ’'17 and then became interested in the whole general utilities field. For a great many years around here he was a highly popular individual. He had as many friends as any man in town. He was considerate, loyal and tolerant. He opposed the Klan bitterly.

The Transformation of a Man

BUT SEVERAL YEARS ago, he went through a painful domestic experience and came out of it an embittered individual. From a good-natured realist, he became a thorough-going rugged individualist, ready to fight what he believed leftist thinking at the drop of a hat. At any rate, he wrote violent anti-New Deal material and along with it, somehow accepted the philos-

ophy of peddling hate. Some persons who have known |

him well doubt that he himself subscribes wholeheartedly to the hate theme, but they are at a loss to explain it properly.

Apparently, he has never been able to accept the

Roosevelt philosophy of government and the Willkie

influence on the Republican party has infuriated him. | This more recent antagonism resulted in a pamphlet

called “The G. O. P. Meets the Fleshpots,” and it is this publication which is now being investigated.

Even Carl Mote's best friends just shake their |

heads in perplexity over the transformation in his point of view.

So They Say—

Anyone who is constantly snipating, creating dissension and constantly criticizing the government— you must keep an eye on that guy. He's not with us. —Mayor LaGuardia of: New York.

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| i what you say, but will i right to say it.—Voltaire.

“HOW .TO SAVE FACE WITHOUT LOSING PANTS” By Claude Braddick, Kokomo What Germany needs is a good book entitled “How to Make Friends

and Influence People, Without Killing Them.” Japan could use “How to Save Face Without Losing Pants,” and the crying need in Italy no doubt is for “What to Do Until the Doctor Comes.”

t 3 2s .- 8 “ID WELCOME A VISIT FROM YOU, MR. PEGLER” By Tom Berling, 2823 N. Olney st. Attention Mr. Pegler: I am building for the army and would welcome a visit from you and have you point out any loafers and racketeers you might see. We are using union labor. Also Mr. Pegler, when I am through, maybe I can

lead in them, business or labor. 3 2 8 = “BUILD CHARACTER RATHER THAN DESTROY LIVES” By Mabel Taylor, 4437 Kingsley drive ' In response to G. M. Lakins who

l advocates death as the only penalty

for Nazi saboteurs.

I will agree they deserve to be executed before a firing squad, which perhaps would be the surest protection America and other countries would have against such destructive persons. But, if America inflicted this as the only penalty, it would smack too much of Naziism, especially the Gestapo method of holding mass executions for the punishment of people contrary to their laws. We cannot resort to Nazi tactics, such as not giving fair trial, etc., and still consider ourselves more civilized after having experienced the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness afforded by our own constitution of the United States. Nar can we rightfully deny our Christian principles and ideals which we hdve guarded down through the years, only to sacrifice

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“RACE DI: 30 fIMTNATION NOW

APPEARS

By Ross Mai Service, M¢

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trated under barbed wire and under armed guard 112,000 :JapaneseAmericans, about, 70,000 are Ameri-can-citizen—a minority of approximately one-tenth of 1 per cent of our population. Since we are at war with Japan the phrase “military necessity” ap-

| parently is sufficient justification.

But, Hawaii is also at war with Japan. The island fortress. is exposed to attack from all directions, and is 2500 miles closer to the enemy than our own shores. Yet the 150,-

000 Hawaiians of Japanese descent are 35 per cent of their population and in an area 100 times smaller than the Pacific coast defense area and they continue to enjoy their freedom and liberty. There have been no reported acts of sabotage by Japanese in either Hawaii or in the U. S. The Ha-waiian-Japanese remain free and active with the FBI confident it can handle the situation. The FBI also believed it could control the matter on our West coast and high army officials doubted the “military necessity” thesis. The reason for evacuation considered most valid by many people is that of “protective custody’—the Japanese must be taken into camps and guarded for their own protection! But what a break-down of our conception of justice in a democracy such thinking betokens! The very words “protective custody” (Schutzhaft) were “made in Germany” not here. Race discrimination has always been Hitler's crime, now it appears to be ours too! If people who accept the Christian doctrine, theoretically at least, “I am my brother’s keeper,” allow this to occur without vigorous and continued protest, will our record be any more admirable than that of the Germans who submitted to Hitler's persecution of the Jews? Hitler never drew. the blood-line closer than we who have sent children with only one-eighth Japanese ancestry into these internment camps. I respectfully urge all readers to exercise their right of petition by requesting their congressmen and the attorney general’s office to have the government set up, at once, tribunals to test the loyalty of individual Japanese and to release those found to be above suspicion.

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| “THIS DEMOCRAT SHOULD

RESIGN AIR WARDEN POST” By Guy D. Sallee, 5801 Woodside drive As Iam credited with being eagleeyed on political activities. in the civilian defense organizations by believing that laws are enacted ‘to regulate our conduct, I cite you this

- |case: In district 19 we will find an ac-| tive air raid warden with a fine} personnel of 70 page oie ! and instructed by Joe 1 Center|

who is also a candidate for Cen township justice of the peace on Democratic ticket. Mr. McLaff polled a large vote in the and received the nomination fi contest of three aspiran The justice of the peace is Judi-

|cial and constitutional office,

fore, he should voluntarily

* |evidence, that the Democratic

candidates stand So

- Heaven and earth shall ? away, ‘but my words shall pass away.—Matthew 24:38.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 14, == ‘Stand by to be impressed. ; If you go out to where Wash= ington’s old Hoover airport and the department of Agriculture ex= periment station used to be, youll see a lot of building activity cove ering some 320 acres. Some time about mid-November, the war de= partment will move out there, into the biggest office building on . earth. The building isn’t in

\Washington proper, but across the Potomac river .in

Arlington, Va. Right now the building is over one= fifth completed: and 9000 people are working there al= ready. 5 There is no fooling about it being the biggest office

building on earth. Empire State building in New

York may be taller, Merchandise Mart in Chicago may

‘| look bigger, these and others may have cost more bee

cause of site and trim. But this new Pentagon build= ing in Arlington tops them both for floor space; though | it is only four stories. high. x Why Pentagon? Because it’s five sided. Why five sided? Because it can be approached from five dif< ferent directions, and each approach will give a “full

.faced view of the building.

Stretching this penta-nomenclature a little; the building is really five buildings in one—four builds ings nested within one outer building in an ingenious, space-saving design that gives a maximum of light, ; air and convenience. ;

How This Big Baby Is Built

TO GET SOME IDEA of its size, start with the Yale bowl or some comparable six-acre stadium. That's about equal in size and proportions to the courtyard of this building. Now, build a regular pentagonal building around, that, 360 feet on a side, 50 feet wide, four stories highs Leave an areaway for light and air outside that inner

building, then build another 50-foot-wide building

outside the first one. Repeat this process. Now, outside the third builde. ing, construct a two-lane, 40-foot highway just for convenience in servicing. Now build a fourth building outside the service way. structure by a fifth, five-sided building encompassing the four buildings inside and you have'a rough idea of the simplicity and design of the big baby,

Just to Give You an Idea . . .

THE TWO PARKING lots of this Pentagon will accommodate 8000 cars. The system of roadways, underpasses and clover leafs necessary to get the traffic away from this build ing and moving off without congestion at rush hours necessitates the building of 21 bridges. There will be six cafeterias—world’s largest, of course—capable of serving anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 meals a day and getting the people Back to - work in a normal lunch hour. Supplementing these main eateries will be’ six snack bars. The building will be completely air-conditioned,

with its own sewage plant, its own powerhouse gene -

erating heat and power and light and everything - needed to keep it going except its water system, which" will be tied in with the Washington system. ~ ° 2

The Cost? $35,00,000

‘COST OF THE Pentagon building will be around $35 million, but it will save the government $4 a mil« lion a year now being paid for rent in 17 or more Washington buildings. . . . The building foundations are some 40,000 piles. . . . At peak employment, ‘13,000 workmen were on the job. . . . Three construetion firms shared the contract for building. . . . The floor

space will be over four million square feet, 2.6 million 3

of it for office space, the rest accessories. . .. U.S." Corps of Engineers is bossing the job. . . . To gét earth for fills in landscaping, Potomac river was widened 150 feet in front of the building, so that George Washington or Walter Johnson wouldn't be able to sling a dollar across it now.

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

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson:

FEARFUL AND DISGUSTING. . news pours out of Washington these days. Newspaper and radio commentators tell the people they should not expect action from the

administration or congress on cere k

tain issues vital to winning the . war, because elections are coming, ° “If,” wrote Raymond Clapper’ recently, “the administration and congress were certain that “the

public would back them up in

whatever measures they felt were necessary you would see a big difference in Washington.” The same thing ~ is said by almost all those who write from the capital. In plain words, then, we are to believe that the President and the legislators put. the safeguarding of their political positions first and the winning of the war second. If that is true, doesn’t it make you mad through and through? And if it isn’t true, why should so many men and women be offering alibigt: for this lack of action? 8

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"To Hell With the Election"

OF COURSE ANYONE can see what a spot these v

individuals are on. But is that spot any worse’ them: that upon which a soldier stands?

- Is it worse than the spot in which many a man > ‘a

finds himself when he realizes that, in order to fight ~

the war successfully, he must give up something’ ir: -

has taken years of hard work and careful Planning to

build—his private business? w

Is it worse than the position of the woman Whit says goodby to an only son goin: off to war? : ge In short, is the situation of the politician, high or low, any more dangerous to his future welfare than » that upon which every decent American stands? And - when a politician sees sacrifice ahead for himself, does he have any more right to sidestep it than the man.

Who carTies a gun in defense of his couney? I think

not. So this is what I believe the people iis mosis 1 to grind would like to hear from every member of the « tion and of congress:

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