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"WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942

'RUSSIA’S RETREAT

‘HE only consolation in the Russian retreat is that Nazis are paying heavily for their gains. Destruction is vaster - even than in last year’s campaign, and that was the largest in history. Russian troops hold on until they have taken the maximum toll, and until they are almost surrounded; only then do they fall back to escape capture. This strategy last year enabled the Russians to wound the Nazi army deeply without themselves taking a knockout blow. When the overextended enemy had raced too far and too fast to the gates of Moscow, the supposedly defeated Russians suddenly rallied for the most brilliant and deadly counter-offensive of the war. Only now, after seven months, has the invader sufficiently recovered for another major drive.

Such is the historic role of Russia at war—the slow

retreat which bleeds the pursuer more than the pursued,

which leaves only scorched earth and guerrillas behind, which trades territory for time, until the advancing enemy is swallowed in weary space and then cut up by the waiting Russians.

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UNFORTUNATELY, however, the vast distance which has so often saved Russia in the past is less effective now. The plane defies distance. And Russia’s modern army cannot fight without machines and oil. So the old military axiom, that Russia has plenty of land to lose, is now modified by the fact that she has only one Caucasus to lose. If that is lost, 85 per cent of her oil is gone—and her best industrial region is already gone.

That would not in itself defeat Russia. She could still ‘retreat to the Urals and her smaller supplies, and perhaps . hold out almost indefinitely. But she could no longer carry a major offensive against Germany.

This is the real danger in Hitler's bloody advance. Not that he will wipe out all Russia. But that he may—even ‘at tremendous cost to himself—desiroy Russian striking power. If that happens Hitler will have won the long gamble he took a year ago to secure his eastern flank, so that he can complete his conquest of Europe by an all-out blow against England. Let no American or Briton think that the Russian front is far away. Only that Russian front has saved us from the full fury of Nazi might, On this there can be no argument and is none—at any cost Britain and the United States must help Russia to keep fighting.

WISE RULIN G

A CONNECTICUT probate court has added to the legal protection thrown about the process of child adoption. It decided that when the secretary of a well-known columnist and her husband gave up their baby for adoption, the foster parents acquired substantially irrevocable rights. This was a wise ruling. It assures childless couples that when they take a baby into their homes and hearts, they need not fear having their happier homes disrupted

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parents. i Without such assurance the adoption system, which has given loving parents to thousands, ‘would be badly _ handicapped.

“THE EMPTY ROOM?

HAT is the caption of an sdvértisementimone of the most inspiring advertisements we have ever seen. The illustration shows a middle-aged man, standing alone and looking into a boy’s bedroom. The text has him saying: “This is my boy’s room, ] “This is where he slept. “This is where he dreamed a child’s dreams. “This is where he saw a man’s visions. “Here, in this empty room, are faded pictures of teammates and heroes . . :; books scribbled over with notes and exclamations . . . the gloves and spike shoes we hung up for good before he went to war . . . the silver cup he won at Sea Bright . . . bright pennants . . . and all the careless memoranda, the echoes. of his days. » "8 : » 8 s F fathers could only pour their hate through the hot barrels of smoking guns, and write the records of their grief with bayonet steel! y “They said I was too old to fight, though I'm only 50. “But, if I'm too old to’ sight and drop .a stick of ‘bombs, I'm not too old fo lay ‘my money on the line for War Savings Stamps and Bonds! ' “Maybe I am too stiff and slow to fly, but I've got control enough to keep my car speed under 40 , . , SO

". they can keep their fighting planes above 400!

“And if I can’t march 30 miles a day with a full pack, I can walk two miles to work and back to help save gas and rubber! “No, I'm not bitter any more because I won't win this war behind a gun or on a ship or in the sky. : “I've come around to thinking that here at home we've’ got the job of passing the ammunition along, of sacrificing little things, of giving up and going without, of looking ahead to ‘less’ instead of ‘more.’ Somebody’ s got to do the necessary, undramatic things , ,’, « and I : juss that’s what older men are for.” ” » » » » # the United States Rubber Co., which sponsors this advertisement, and to the artist and the writer who prepared it, our thanks. Through the door of an empty room they have. given a glimpse beyond the squabbling and striving for

| ‘advantage, the petty arguments and futile buck passing

sometimes seem to be the chief substance of our war

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, July 156—As a regular reader of the Internation- : al Teamster, I am pleased to observe that the higher leaders of the union, one of the largest in the. country, are adopting openly nowadays many of the views which, when expressed in these dispatches, have been denounced by professional unioneers as antilabor copy. The president of the union and editor of the magazine

utive council of the A. F. of L. The assistant editor, a professional journalist, is Lester M. Hunt. Last month Mr. Tobin ran an editorial under the startling head, “Go Through Those Picket Lines,” which finally acknowledged that the picket line often is a racket used to enrich common grafters or, as he plainly called them, “phony organizers who get 50 cents per héad for new members” while “the teamsters do their dirty work.” For illustration he cited a case where his men were asked to respect a picket line, thus violating four contracts of their own making, and victimizing themselves by loss of wages, at premises in which only four of the 25 persons employed were union members and those four union men for less than one month,

Mr. Tobin thus confirmed a contention, which offered doggedly in these dispatches for yeers, as a matter of principle, has been misrepresented as antilabor propaganda.

"NLRB Polluted With Prejudice”

THIS MONTH MR. TOBIN'S leading editorial is entitled “Enforce It Fairly or Repeal the Wagner Act.” Developing ‘this startling demand, the president of one of the strongest unions in the nation reports that the governing body of the teamsters recently decided that the NLRB was “polluted with prejudice against craft unionism” and would present a demand for its repeal at the next A. F. of L. convention “unless its methods are immediately changed.”

The gist of the complaint is that the act, as administered, compels workers to join unions not of their own choice. That criticism of the act and its administratibn and of union activity has been expressed in these pieces more than once in the last five years and invariably has been branded as anti-laborism., Mr. Tobin demands ‘that workers whose occupation puts them within the craft jurisdiction of the teamsters should not be forced to join C. I. O. unions by decree of the labor board. If they prefer not to belong to any union, however, they may cite him as being in favor of free choice and against all coercion.

"Not So Far Apart After All"

ANOTHER ARTICLE in the July issue denounces some of Mr. Tobin’s own men for walking out on the A&P bakery in Pittsburgh and picketing Ye plant in violation of their agreement. Describing the transportation of food as defense work, the article says the teamsters’ union has turned over the facts to “certain law enforcement agencies in Washington” and adds that men who refused to work when ordered should be suspended or expelled. As to the local officers, it says charges may be brought against them and that “once they are out they will never be permitted to return.” Mr. Hunt has an article entitled “Raise Immigration Barriers—Keep Foreign Labor Out,” which says, in short, that our great problem after the war will be “to absorb at fair wages the millions of demobilized soldiers, sailors and war workers.” There is also a farewell to a racketeer, denounced as an underworld character who used a teamsters’ union to shake down milk trucks in Yonkers and was given three years in prison. “By the time you read this,” Mr. Tobin writes, “he will be expelled. Such men are in the same position as one who betrays his tountry in time of war.” So apparently ve are not so far apart on the major issues after all.

The Doctor Crisis By David Dietz

NEW YORK, July 15—The army is hoping to recruit physicians at a rate exceeding 100 a day between now and next Jan. 1. Present plans call for the enrollment of an additional 20,000 docotors before the end of the year. The army has set up medical department officers’ recruiting boards in each state. These boards will interview physicians and arrange for commissions for qualifled applicants. Initial appointments as a rule are to grades of first lieutenant and captain, but older men may be given higher rank. Where the services of a doctor have been declared essential to the community, he must obtain a release from the procure-

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and veterinarians before he can enlist. This board was set up some months ago to see that no community was left without adequate medical aid. Its function is that of a -clearing house to allocate available medical men among the army, navy, other government agencies, industry, and the public. Lack of such an organization in World War I worked a hardship on a number of communities.

The Military Comes First

IT IS OBVIOUS, however, that the requirements of the armed forces must be put ahead of civilian needs. This was emphasized by Paul McNutt in an address before the Atlantic City meeting of the American: Medical association.

He made it plain that unless there was “an immediate and significant increase in the number of volunteers,” some other method of procurement would be required soon. It is estimated that when our army reaches 9,000,000 men it will require 33 per cent of all the physicians in America. This means two-thirds of all the physicians under 45. Regarding enlistments of physicians, Mr. McNutt ‘| said, “Some states are ahead of their reasonable and expected q Sloias Others are from hundreds to thousands ind their quotas. There is evidence that there are still some areas in America which have not yet fully discovered the war. “And remember this: The army and navy are not the whole story, .. . Let me underscore the need for doctors in industrial areas and in defense boom towns. The community that is growing, as some communities have, from a rambling rural village of a thousand people to a town of 30,000 and 40,000 must be taken care of. Doctors will have to be assigned to hose towns on a voluntary basis or on some other

So They Say—

We must go without things we can’t buy. We should go without things we do not need to buy.— Marriner S. Eccles, chairman federal reserve board. * i * * All of this nonsense about how many panties and girdles and brassieres and things the women in these auxiliaries are going to wear will cause us to lose our

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stifle private initiative and check voluntary co-oper-

ation.—Howard Ooonley, chairman Walworth Co.

is Daniél J. Tobin, who is also a member of the exec-

ment and assignment service of physicians, dentists:

odesty- ~—Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Caro-.

Democracy must avoid arbitrary controls that

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1 wholly disagice with what. you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“OIL STATION ATTENDANTS DESERVE SOME CREDIT” By Bob Bone, 1702 Southeastern ave. It might be wise. to inform Mr. J. R. that the little rubber hose that is stretched across numerous filling station driveways ‘in our country should be given a lot more credit than he thinks, not only is it taking the place of an erstwhile attéendant who is serving with the armed forces or working in a defense factory but it also got him started on his way faster after donating his rubber scraps, which very few people are doing. The {filling station attendants should be given a slight. amount of credit when they buy and sell something for the same price donating their labor, place of business, and trucks. This is in answer to Mr. J. R.s letter printed in. The Indianapolis Times on July 6,

# x =» “MUSICIANS ARE ENTITLED TO A BETTER BREAK”

By John E. Kruse, 611 N. Pennsylvania st., Apt. 17 May I use a few lines of your paper to call attention to an injustice that has come suddenly to a group of professiona! people? I'm referring to the very sudden and entirely unwarranted abandonment of the music project of the WPA in the state of Indiana. I speak with the authority of having worked on the project myself in the capacity of a player, a teacher and supervisor, I can testify to the good work done and also the high quality of the people who did it. I have always contended that the splendid teaching staff alone would have justified the continuance of the project. I'm sure that many school principals in Indianapolis will go on record to the worthwhile programs put on at the schools. The band played at the naval armory for the first reviews, even before they had a band of their own, numerous programs have been played at Ft.

Harrison and other recreation centers for the soldiers. ‘Certainly,

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this a: dds up to something in the way cf war effort, too. While the quality of the music may have not always been up to a high standard it was because the program in Indiana never was developet! as it should have been—and not because of the personnel—never did w¢ have complete instrumentation, never could we depend that necessary men would be on the job becavise of layoffs or delay, added to the feeling of the men themselves that they weren't wanted. Everyone knows the plight of musicians—they have to defend themselves against the encroachment of mechanism, radio, juke box and what hot. Every day into our local union office comes pleas to “donate” a bahd for this, that and the other and 2s often as can be, it’s done. Why then shouldn’t the musicians be given a better break? They're entitled to it. They have to live, pay faxes, go to the army same as everycne else, in addition—I say, with &very conviction, the program should be re-established and enlarged and at once. These men have a right to work at their profession, they contribute a great deal to the cultural life of our state and if they haven't the money, get it—it can be done, it should be done.

x = 2 “IF YOU CAN'T SAY GOOD THINGS, JUST SHUT UP!”

By Margaret Stearns Reese, R. R,

Boi 164 After reading the insulting bit -of slimy propaganda that made up the letter written in The Times, I was not at all surprised to find it sign:cl Don Quixote.* - It isn’t at all difficult for we who

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have put in long hard hours for the interest of civilian defense and tlie Don Quixotes to understand the real motive of the writer. - Had the writer's real desire been to secure a post in some branch cf civilian defense, he or she would have gone to headquarters in the World War Memorial and promptly have put it up this way, “Look, I'm registered, I don’t care how tough the job is, give it to me. I want to do my part.” Had his intentions been sincere, he would never, of all things, written an insulting letter to any newspaper. Civilian defense is a hard working volunteer organization—those whom you spend long hours of study in an effort tu protect later on still put in their off-hours going to show or taking pleasure trips while the weeds grow high in your own not so victorious victory garden because you're putting in your time for civilian defense. From the beginning this organization has had a pretty tough go of it, only the highest type of citizens has any business in the work. It is no place for slackers, those who were born tired, or those who

along with their request for a C. D. job. Civilian defense can use only loyal Americans who have a sincere desire to be beneficial and efficient to their fellowmen, if and when our mainland is ever bombed. If statistics are correct, and we do have one physician to every 2000 people, the 9 per cent that have studied civilian defense will sure have a sweet time taking care of the 91 per cent of the Don Quixotes in Indianapolis, » ” » “WHY NOT CHARGE RIGHT IN, DON QUIXOTE?” By An Air Raid Warden, Indianapolis

Answer to Don Quixote: If my fairy tales are correct, Don Quixote, with his lance and horse, rode to attack the windmill. Now, why don’t you do the same thing instead of waiting for the windmill to come to you? Jump on your horse, grab your lance, charge right in to the windmill like your namesake. You can find a dandy windmill on the corner of Vermont and Meridian sts., to be exact the southeast -corner. Charge right in there and bellow your war cry. I'll guarantee you, you will get results. It seems to me, if you wanted to do your bit very bad, ;you would have taken advantage of all the civilian defense bunk which has taken so much of the valuable newspaper space. ’ n ” ” “EVEN SPIES HAVE CONTEMPT FOR TRAITORS THEY USE” By A. R. T., Indianapolis We hope that all axis sympathiz-

. lers have read and noted carefully

the testimony of Nazi Air Oberleutnant ‘Hans Peter Krug .who was

Stephan, Detroit saloon keeper. Stephan, knowing that Krug was an escaped prisoner of war, provided the German with foed, money,

lodging, transportation, drinks and entertainment. Then Krug, recap-|

tured, testified against his benefactor. If decency and patriotism isn’t

‘|enough to prevent a man from help-

ing his country’s enemies, let dis-

. |eretion stop him.

Let him realize that soldiers, or even professional spies, have only contempt for the traitors they use.

DAILY THOUGHT

The way of transgressors is hard—Proverbs 13:1 13: 15.

SIN LET loose sose speaks punishment at hand ~—Cowper.

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In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 15.—Today the lesson is on the subject of “How to Build a Bonfire in Washington.” The laboratory demonstration for this sample bon-fire-making experiment will be the recent case of the Houdry Process Corp. which, out of a clear a just a few days ago, by appar ently spontaneous combustion, exploded in magnificent full-page ads captioned:

The ‘American Public Has a Right to Know the Truth About Synthetic Rubber,

In excellent industrial advertising taste, the aad stated that the Houdry Process Corp. had a system for producing butadiene in plants that could be built in less time, at less cost and using less critical materials than any process now - being considered by .the government in its synthetic rubber program. The ad held hope of tires or recaps even for civilians. On the same day the ad appeared, Eugene J. Houdry, president of the corporation and inventor of the catalytic process that bears his name, held a press conference in Washington. It was well attended, and as the wire services, the specials and the radio all went to town on Mr. Houdry's statements, it created quite a bonfire,

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| Just a Bunch of Dimwits!

"MR. HOUDRY IS no phony. He is a Frenchborn American citizen, he has been written up in Fortune, and his catalytic process is used by half a dozen or more big oil companies in the manufacture of 100 octane aviation gasoline. But at Mr, Houdry’s press conference, he made charges that although some of these leading oil companijes—notably Sun, Socony-Vacuum and Standard of California—had thoroughly investigated andy approved his process at the Marcus Hook, Pa., pilot plant, the government's Rubber Reserve Co., in charge of the synthetic rubber program, had merely sent one engineer up for a couple of hours’ superficial investigation, then written Mr. Houdry a letter saying that although they were not rejecting his process, they did not believe it sufficiently developed. The inferences were clearly that the government people were a bunch of dopes who didn’t know a good thing when they saw it.

But Behind the Scenes—

ALL THE FOREGOING was right out in the open, but there are several angles of toe story that have to be dug for. In the first place, two of the oil companies which Mr, Houdry said had approved his process for making butadiene, Sun Oil and Socony-Vacuum, each owns nearly a third interest in the Houdry corp. Arthur Pew Jr. of Philadelphia, is a vice president of both Sun and Houdry. Sun Oil thus far has neo part of the government's butadiene program, in which Standard of New Jersey is of course dominant from the oil standpoint. It is therefore natural and not in the least dis honorable that the gentlemen of Sun, Socony-Vacuum and Houdry might have figured that if this synthetie rubber industry is going to amount to something, they would be wanting a piece of it. The motives could be entirely patriotic, as Mr. Houdry said they were, but they could also be strictly business. Hence the bonfire.

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

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

NOTHING IN LIFE is so) strange as the destiny which die rects the careers of human beings, The story of Edith Warner proves it. On the way from Santa Fe to Frijoles canyon, where remnants of the most ancient of our cone tinental civilizations exist, there is a snug little house perched on the banks of the Rio Grande. It belongs to a transplanted New Englander who has met the challenges of life in alien surroundings and done a swell job of it. Fourteen years ago, Edith Warner, college gradu= ate, made a visit to New Mexico in quest of health, She’s lived there ever since—and when I say lived, I mean lived, for there’s a difference between staying somewhere because the climate suits you and becoming so much a part .of your surroundings that every man, woman and child in the community is your friend and feels proud of your achievement. Edith Warner built her home far from the main highways—yet today the world is beating a path to her door.

One Lesson You Can Learn

GUESS WHY? BECAUSE SHE has taught herself to be a first-class cook. She began the work to conquer boredom. She cooked for the fun of it. But, being inspired by the New England desire for perfection, her fame is now national—and for years all visitors to Frijoles have knocked on her door and asked to be fed. Well, she feeds them—and those who eat remain to marvel at the cleanliness of her place and its air of good breeding and charm. For you can make a low, tin-roofed house charme ing; you can keep it spotless, and you can retain your mental integrity while doing so. That, at least, is a lesson one learns from Edith Warner. Her chief aid is a nice, fat, old-fashioned wood range—and anybody who has ever cooked with wood knows that half the secret of culinary triumph derives from wood-burning fires, Just now the rubber situation has forced Miss Warner to close her dining room. There are few tours ' ists, yet she is even now experimenting with salt rising bread. What a heavenly fragrance! Although she lives alone, except for occasional help from girls of a nearby Indian pueblo, Edith Warner is the mdst “unalone” person I ever saw. She’s proud to be interesting, for she gets on so well with herself,

Questions and Answers

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~ Q—What is meant in “The Marine’s Hymn" w “the halls of Montezuma”?

A—In the Marine’s Hymn, “the halls of Montezuma” refers to the participation of U. S. marines He the march to Mexico City in the war with Mexico. Montezuma was king of the Aztecs in Mexico, and he died about 1464 A. D. Like Ramses II of Egypt he was a great builder, erecting the famous Astec Temple in what is now Mexico City, and ‘huge dams, ruins of which are still in existence. 2

Q—Which countries have presented medals to ct MacArthur?

A—-The United States, France, ‘Belgium, Yugoe

slavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Mexico and Ecuador,

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