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THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1942
A PATTERN FOR VICTORY
THE fact that American and British production of bombers is now adequate for mounting a night-after-night thousand-plane offensive against Germany’s key industrial cities, a¢ reported by Thomas L. Stokes today in the first of a series of dispatches, is enormously heartening. Here is a potential pattern for victory. Here is an opportunity for the united nations to seize the initiative—and if it is not soon seized, the war will be tragically prolonged. Here is a formula for utilizing airpower, not as an - auxiliary arm, but as a decisive striking force constituting in itself a second front. » » ERHAPS airpower alone cannot force Hitler to strike his hooked-cross flag. England survived a terrible mauling by the luftwaffe. But what the luftwaffe had to offer England is dwarfed
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by the magnitude of the Anglo-American air attack which
is now possible. It is hard to see how the Nazi war machine could survive indefinitely such a continuing series of Colognes as is envisaged in the Stokes report. Nightly mass raids would cost the lives of many fine young Britons and Americans. But the loss of life and of equipment would be small compared to the losses inevitably involved in any ground offensive. Whether the high strategists are actually planning along the lines explored by Mr. Stokes, we naturally do not know. But we do know, now, that the means are at hand. Here at last, after all the disappointments, all the too-little-and-too-late enterprises, all the futile fragmentation of allied forces around the hardening periphery of the enemy—here is one outline for possible victory, and one that involves a minimum of risk. . 2 ” ” [J HE war cannot be lost by such an air offensive. It might be won that way.” And if it should be thus won, the credit might well be traceable to an order issued by President Roosevelt 14 months ago. That order commanded a concentration on the production of heavy bombers. It contemplated a large-bomber production of 500 a month—a goal which many people at that time believed fantastic, but which already has become an actuality. If 500 bombers a month added to British production can and do knock out Hitler's arsenals of aggression, a victorious peace in the Occident will be brought within sight, and a victorious peace in the Orient will become inevitable.
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LEON ON A LIMB
EON HENDERSON is doing as well on a tough job as anyone we know in Washington. He tries to work
with the inadequate tools that are provided him. And:
though his assignment is to keep down living costs, he has no control whatever over farm prices and wages, the two most important factors in the national price structure.
One way Mr. Henderson has sought to control wages.
indirectly is by claiming power to review army and navy contracts. His purpose is to see to it that the prices the . government pays for planes, tanks, etc., are so low that the
contractors will find it impossible to grant wage increases |
which in his opinion are not justifiable. Such procedure obviously impedes the war effort, in that it makes it impossible for the army and navy procurement officers to negotiate contracts with finality, it being necessary for a contractor to wait and see "whether Mr. Henderson will give the contract his blessing. The army and navy are responsible for getting the weapons needed, in the shortest possible time. They have ample power to protect the government from excessive prices. And congress is writing a law to recapture any profits that are out of line. Mr. Henderson would do better to let the armed services run their affairs—and devote his energies to prevailing on congress to give him direct authority to impose wage ceilings.
SPEAKING OF CZARS
HEN the conversation turns to dictators and their scorn for public rights, how about Jimmy Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians? Mr. Petrillo has announced that his 140,000 union musiciaus will not be permitted, after July 31, to make records or electrical transcriptions. The instrumentalists will lose $3,000,000 a year in royalties, but Optimistic Jimmy thinks they will pick up $100,000,000 from minor radio stations and juke box joints which will be forced to hire live musicians instead of buying canned tunes. We believe Mr. Petrillo is very wrong. Most of the smaller broadcasters would not have opened and could not survive if they had to pay orchestras. Most of the juke box places never did have live musicians and never will. All that Mr. Petrillo will accomplish is to cost his followers three millions a year and deprive homes of the pleasure of good music (and bad) from records.
"ECONOMY TRIUMPHANT
CLIPSHEET from the U. S. department of agriculture brings the news that $500,000 a year is being saved by marking federally inspected meats with an indelible purple fluid instead of with gelatin labels. This hopeful economy became effective, the announcement says, shortly after June 30, 1907. Credit for it, there- * fore, would seem to belong to the administration of Theo- . dore Roosevelt. We wait with eager interest to learn whither the department of agriculture has thought up any other way of saving §oney in the since then,
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, July 23.—~Any way you figure it, it would appear that New Dealism and the White House influence over the government of New York state wili be checked this year if Jim Farley is able to nominate his man, John Bennett, for governor on ‘the Democratic ticket. Farley is confident that he can do this notwithstanding President Roosevelt's attempts to dictate the nomination of Seénator James Mead. Of course, Bennett is not emphasizing the fact, but it is a fact nevertheless that he is not a New Dealer and is of much the same mind on the New Deal as Farley, who finally got choked up on the policies and personalities of the administration. Thus, if Farley nominates Bennett and if Tom Dewey is the Republican nominee, as he probably will be, there wiil be a reaction against the socialistic and communistic influences in the state and, probably. also, a reaction against the arrogance of the bosses of some of the labor unions.
Defying the ‘Labor’ Party’
ONE OF THE most influential Democratic politicians in the state, a man who is fighting hard for Bennett, has said that Bennett’s crowd does not give a damn what the so-called American Labor party decides to do. This group has a presumptuous label but is not a labor party at all. It is a Social-Democratic party on the right wing and straight Communistic on the left wing. It calls itself the labor party in a pretense that it speaks for the workers, as though all workers were either Socialists or Communists. ° It is in a large measure a foreign group and like all such elements deviled by ismatic fights within its ranks, for the Socialists and Communists hate each other. - Bennett and Farley, of course, are strictly antiCommunist and Farley is one first-rank political leader in the Democratic party who is never to be found among those present at any of the Communist rallies on any of the war pretexts which are now being used to draw non-Communist dignitaries to gatherings where they may be photographed smiling under the hammer and sickle.
A Move That Would Help Dewey
THE SO-CALLED American Labdr party, recognizing the fact that Bennett is not a New Dealer and might fairly be called an anti-New Dealer, has threatened to nominate its own candidate if Farley puts him over for the Democratic nomination. This would be a nice help to Dewey and the state would be assured a period of reaction under a governor who would delight to tear into the New Deal machine and the crooked unioneers. As a good politician and loyal party man, Farley has kept a still tongue in his head about his break with President Roosevelt but they did break and, moreover, Farley has remained in politics, refusing to withdraw in deference to the president.
Jim ls Standing His Ground
HE NEVER WAS very happy in the company of the political queeries with whom he found himself thrown into association during his years in Washington but his spirits have revived markedly since he got out, and in the present contest with the president he is politely but very firmly standing his ground for Bennett. He never shows the slightest disrespect for the president's office or for Mr. Roosevelt personally but in this political matter the president has sought a fight and Farley, who didn’t seek one, is standing by his man. So, if the rivals in this election are Dewey and Bennett, the “ism” vote may be subtracted from Bennett’s total and thus may put Dewey across but, whoever wins, the new governor will not be a member of the New Deal machine but a strong independent man in his own right.
/ Grandma's Boy By Ralph Millett
MEMPHIS, July 23.—How come Donald Nelson, a country boy from Hannibal, Mo., can work his way up to a $70,000 job with Sears, Roebuck—and then be lease-lent to the government for a mere $15,000? What makes Nelson tick? Nelson’s mother died when he was three and he was moved across the creek to a more democratic section of the town to be reared by his grandmother. Aha! Here's the tick. Nelson
Mr. Nelson
is grandma's boy! Statistics are not available to prove the fact, but it has been remarked that boys and girls reared by grandmothers often turn out exceptionally well, Why? In the first place a grandmother is an experienced mother. She has brought up children of her own. She has what you can’t get from books, magazines or lectures, on child rearing. She has experience, And there is no substitute for experience.
'To Much Easy Living'
SHE ALSO TAKES MORE pains with a grandchild—if such a thing is possible. She realizes he is embarked on life with the greatest handicap a child can have—the loss of his mother, and she will move heaven and earth to make up for it.’ She understands a grandchild better than his own mother does because she-knows more about the men and women back of him. But in my opinion the main reason is this:
She is one generation nearer to the pioneers who
built this country—built it with industry, with courage and with a determination to overcome each and every obstacle thrown in the way. As a nation we have suffered from too much easy living. We need to get back to the homespun philosophy of grandma's time. This doesn’t mean coal-o0il lamps. It doesn’t mean drawing water out of a well with a bucket. But it does mean a deep faith in religion and the practice of its principles, a recognition. of the responsibilities of life, straight thinking, plain living, and a horror of waste in home, business, of government. Grandma was a good housekeeper. And a man reared by grandma ought to do a good housekeeping job in Washington.
So They Say—
By the end of this year it will be difficult for citizens of the United States to purchase any luxury goods or, for that matter, anything beyond the essentials of living.—Claude R. Wickard, secretary of agriculture. * * . . Despite all the eloquent lip service and the rapid succession of defunct programs on the part of the government, the average business man confronts a desperate situation.—Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin, : ¥ . - . : My campaign will be based on the issue: “What is wrong with congress and what can be done to improve it.”—Raymond L. Buell, Republican candidate for congress, First District, Massachusetts » * * Cog placebay is our Norse eneny.—Herbert v. Evatt,
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“PLEASE WRITE TO THE MEN IN THE SERVICE” By R. Sprunger, AS USN, Co. 547, Camp Dewey, USNTS, Great Lakes, Ill. This is just a plea to those who have been “putting off until tomorrow” to write to their friends and loved ones'in the armed forces to 'get busy and write those letters. - Hearing from “home” is very much appreciated by most men in the services. If you could see the look of disappointment appear on the faces of the men when day after day passes and no sign of a letter you would understand what a word of cheer means, ”n 2 EJ “U-BOAT CAMPAIGN OUR GREATEST MENACE”
By Claude Braddick, Kokomo The greatest menace to us in this war is not the German army or the Jap navy, formidable as they are, but the German U-boat campaign. It is this alone that is delaying our second front — perilously—hampering our magnificent effort as the “arsenal of democracy.” And it is this ‘alone, just as it was in the last war, that threatens us with defeat. The solution is known to everyone, Only its method and timing can possibly be controversial. The householder who finds ants in his sugar bowl does not pick them out and then issue a communique saying, “The ant stiuation is now well in hand.” He knows that the ants will be there again tomorrow unless he seeks out their nest and destroys it. Nor will he be diverted by arguments that this procedure is “impractical” or too costly. He knows that however costly or difficult, it is the only satisfactory solution. When the U-boat nests are in allied hands, then will the U-boat problem be solved. : It is perilous, of course, “to undertake offensive action insufficiently prepared. It is even more perilous to delay such action too long. I have no patience with those
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'< must recapture the uests island by island. other with these only tones to Japan itself. are there, she will re- , together with any2 may dictate. Nor | diverted by talk that it vulnerable,” the disat, or something. The greater one way than such things never ve nations. For the ais war, we, too must Only thus can our nplete and decisive, i ” » A PROPER LAW IG LICENSES” ather, Indianapolis in our rules for obver’s license was cerin a most dastardly ow afternoon at. the fhe Great Crossroads for a little child 3 an elderly lady , . away . . . all for #eap 50-cent driver’s license ‘that ‘anyone 21 years old can get by iiing. Perjury I believe is the werd: . . John Lee [why couldn't you be honest with yourself by knowing that you hii no business driving a car? I s¢i this terrible, bloody, pitiful sight [right after the crash and it was! 7 horrible thing that
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Side Glances=By Galbraith
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could of been avoided IF we had the proper law for driver's license. The proper law, in my estimation, would be the requirement that every applicant, with or without political pull, or inside friends, be required to produce a signed and sworn statement from the family physician that the applicant was in fit condition and had all the faculties to drive a vehicle on the public highways, I have seen people get out of cars downtown that after parking their car, had to get out and walk with the aid of cane or crutches. This, ladies and gentlemen, fathers and mothers, is not a pipe dream but a reality, I have actually seen such incidents. Possibly under normal conditions these folks might
{handle a car but when the squeeze
comes, what happens? The same thing that happened to John William Lee. Why wasn’t his driver's license suspended in June, 1942, when he was treated at City hospital? . . . Because our lawmakers are too busy taking care of things where a little side ante can be made instead of a few common-sense laws. For the sake of 50 cents to the jackpot at the state house, a terrible tragedy happened at “The Crossroads of America.” , , . I hope someone at the state house has enough brains or manhood to try to get a law through making it compulsory that rich, poor, work-
‘ling man or politician boss must
have a legitimate certificate from not just any doctor, but their family doctor, certifying the fact that they are not partially blind, deaf, crippled or affected with attacks, regardless if only once every few years. For the safety of the applicant as well as of a lot of innocent people. 2 2 ” “HE DID NOT MEAN STRIKE FOR $1 A DAY, EITHER” By J. W. V. “We will strike regardless of consequences.” Those were the words spoken by the squadron leader of 15 Amercian bombers as they left Midway island to intercept the Japanese task force en route to the island where they anticipated another “surprise attack.” When squadron commander Pierce told his superior officer, “We will strike” he did not mean “we will strike for $1 a day wage increase” or for the privilege to plant another acre in cotton or for a few votes.
| He meant: “We will strike the Japs
regardless of what happens.” He knew his squadron was doomed,
‘but he knew, also, that he and his
men would cripple the Japs. He probably knew, also, that by crippling the Jap fleet his and his men’s supreme sacrifice would enable us to carry on our racketeering and trashy politicking back home. You who take undue advantages of the present. crisis to force higher wages; you who drive your damned Jalopies excessively, disregarding requests by your government to conserve gas and rubber; this is for you: You are not worthy of the sacrifice made by squadron commander Pierce and his men.
DAILY THOUGHT
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. —Acts-
3:81,
My God, my Father, and my ‘Friend, Do not forsake me in the. end.
|By Peter Edson
In Washington >
WASHINGTON, July 23. = Henry J. Kaiser's proposal to build 5000 tremendous 200 or 500-ton flying boats in shipyards has set more Washington aviation “ex= perts” to doodling figures on ta blecloths than any proposition since the president’s original wisecrack about building 50,000 airplanes back in—when was that? —1939 or ’40. That was a crazy idea, too, at that time—but look what happened. The country is building 60,000 airplanes this year and hopes to double it next. They don’t laugh when Mr, Kaiser sits down at a drafting board, for he has done so many ime possible things that he can’t be kissed off as ane other crackpot and anyhow the jump from build= ing ships to building airplanes is no greater than the jump from bulding dams to building ships. After all, the three devices of dam, ship and flying boat have one great factor in common—it takes water to run em, and Kaiser has built both ships and dams faster than anyone in either business before,
Washington's Picking Flaws
THIS IDEA OF A shipyard building flying boats isn’t as silly as its sounds, either. Before the war, the German shipyard that built the luxury liners Europa and the Bremen did some experimenting with aircraft, and came out with four Diesel-powered 19-ton experimental transoceanic craft that landed in mid-ocean, taxied up to a floating mat towed by the Schwabenland, were hoisted aboard for refuel ing and then catapulted back into the air. But Washington aviation experts can pick more flaws in the Kaiser flying boat proposals than there are flaws in a Nazi's moral character, and they’ re doing it. One Liberty ship can haul 10,000 tons of cargo. Even if Kaiser can build a 200-ton flying boat— three times bigger than the 70-ton Martin “Mars” which is the biggest flying boat ever built and which can haul only 14 tons of cargo—it would take 700 of these Mars boats or over 200 of the Kaiser-on-paper 200-ton boats to haul as much cargo. as one lousy y) Liberty ship. And we’ re building 2300 Liberty ships,
Material Shortage Big Handicap
MOST PERTINENT OBJECTION to the Kaiser proposal is that there isn’t enough material available to build the planes already designed, tested and on order as fast as they could be built in existing aircraft factories. The sad fact is that the aircraft plants already built have been forced to shut down from time to time for lack of materials. Mostly fabricated parts like engines and propellers, or semimanufactured parts like castings and shapes. Glenn L. Martin, for one, has stated publicly that his Baltimore plant could build eight times as many aircraft as it is now building if it could just get the materials. ' Very pertinently, therefore, it can be asked where the materials are to come from to build planes in nine shipyards to be converted into aircraft factories, as Kaiser proposes.
Don't Say He Can't Do It!
KAISER HAS STATED that the planes on his drawing board are beyond anything Jules Verne could have imagined, and experienced aircraft dee signers admit they must be. The jump from the 70-ton Mars and the 82-ton B-19, which have wingspreads of over 200 feet, to aircraft of 200 tons—Ilet alone the 500-ton planes that Kaiser also mentioned—is a deevilopment so greas that most aircraft designers can’t figure it in one step. Henry J. Kaiser has made his reputation bp doing things that couldn’t be done. The verdict today is that he’ll have to perform s miracle ‘to build his 200-ton airplane, but unless you want to get caught out on the end of a limb, don’t say that he won't do it.
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
FOR 15 YEARS OR SO young people have been cautioned against living with their relatives, Advocates of the Salesmanshipfor Success school, such as Dale Carnegie and Margery Wilson, the charm lady, all preached the need for getting along with everybody, except your own family, That was considered quite impossible. It has been hooted down by press and radio, and. a total stranger to the American way of life might even: have supposed that it wasn’t cricket to dwell in harmony with one’s in-laws. The idea, itself, was regarded as_sentie mental and naive. Probably the theory ‘behind ‘such reasoning rested upon the notion:that your in-laws had nothing to buy from you and could not promote you—so why worry with them? Then along came the war—and what a backe tracking we've seen What books have been eaten by some of our wordiest people! For how all such advice must be thrown out of the window.
Even Mama-in-Law a Friend?
MAMA'S AND PAPA’S house has become a Mecca for young wives and their children. Thousands of brides plan to stay right on at home after the wed ding ceremony. Babies are going to be subjected to . grandma’s influence whether the psychologists ape prove or not. Personally, I am glad to see a lot of crackpot theories about family relationships ditched. It seems utterly absurd to teach a generation that it must know how to live amicably with its schoolmates, neighbors, business associates and friends, and at the same time, tell it there's no sense in trying to get along with a mother-in-law. And that, precisely, is the doctrine which has been drilled into the youngsters now fighting our war. The poor young things will have to unlearn a good deal of silly stuff which was crammed into their heads by professional promoters of good will and sundry super-salesman. For the day is here when . the parental roof will become a haven of refuge for many a soldier’s family, and when even the scorned mother-in-law may come in handy as a friend.
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