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Give Light and the Feople Will Find Their Own Way

FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1942

GET HITLER’S ARSENALS! HE urgent, eveh desperate, need of a second front in Europe to relieve the terrific pressure on the Russians is plain to all. Equally plain are the tremendous difficulties and dangers inherent, under present circumstances, in any attempt to bridge the English channel with an expeditionary land force of major dimensions. Aside from the fact that Hitler has rimmed the continent with guns and garrisons, there is. the tremendous problem of shipping. The tonnage available to the united nations is inadequate for even its present tasks, and it is not growing. Sinkings still exceed the deliveries of new bottoms. Only the other day it was officially admitted that the U-boats, far from being curbed, actually scored their biggest record of sinkings in the week of July 12. » » » ” » o URTHER, it is no sure thing that an attempted land invasion now, no matter how bold, would result in important diversions of Nazi troops from the Rostov front. And it is no sure thing that the upshot might not be another Dunkirk—a terrible setback to the united nations, both materially and psychologically. All these considerations, it seems to us, support the proposition of a large-scale air offensive against German industrial centers, as expounded in the current series of dispatches from Thomas L. Stokes in this newspaper. Present British and American production of large bombers is definitely great enough now to make possible the opening of an aerial “second front” by fall or winter. The shipping crisis can’t interfere with such a project. Our bombers can reach English airdromes under their own power, - No new Dunkirk would be risked this way. “The war cannot be lost by such an air offensive. might be won that way.”

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NO “LITTLE PEOPLE” IN U. S. A.

OMETHING new has. been added to American life in wartime, and in our opinion it is no improvement. That is the use of the term “little people,” which had no place in the U. S. A. of yesterday, should not have today, and certainly not tomorrow. Where did this term “little people” come from, and who uses it? Well, it comes largely from politicos, radio

commentators and other such persons who think they are |,

big shots. In America nobody has ever had to feel “little.” In the darkest days of the depression the bankrupt migratory Okie never thought in such terms. He never was hesitant to sound off about any subject, and he felt just as big as the next fellow. All of which is part of the spirit which most Americans feel they are fighting to preserve. That “little people” stuff might be all right for visiting royalty, which is used to such terms. But to our own People.» who are talking such tripe we say it is out of place.

THE HULL DECLARATION

QECRETARY OF STATE HULL'S address on war aims was one of the greatest. Few have: equalled and none has surpassed it in honesty, in clarity, in nobility. It had the inspiration of integrity. Winning the war and winning the peace will be hard and long. The secretary offered no easy road. His sober words were without political pap; he did not pander to wishful thinkers: “We know the magnitude of the task before us. We know that its accomplishment will exact unlimited effort and unfaltering courage. . However long the road, we shall * press on to the final victory. Temporary reverses must not and will not be the occasion for weakness and discouragement.” The immediate ob, of course, is winning the war “de- . cisively.” After making this clear, most of his address dealt with the causes of the war, with the ruthless drive of the enemy for world conquest, and finally the kind of organized peace necessary to prevent more.chaos and wars. To neutral nations, and to hesitant peoples, he cited the bloody .record of the tyrants: “Never did a plainer duty to fight against its foes devolve upon all peoples who prize liberty and all who aspire to it.” 3 # 2. 8 ” ” » JJ ONESTLY, he stated our share of responsibility for ; world insecurity and disorganization after the last war. He described the general political suspicions and economic nationalisms, and the resultant world misery - which gave the international “looters and thugs” their opportunity. In this frank analysis of the past, Mr. Hull nailed the mistakes which we and our allies must avoid if we would _ prevent more wars. During the transitional period between war and peace, the united nations must help individual countries “in reestablishing public order, in providing swift relief, in meeting the manifold problems of readjustment.” They must aid national action in “the great construc. tive task of building human freedom.” To spiritual values, | to political freedom, and economic betterment, must be added social justice. - International co-operation and organization must in-

An international agency, “ which conssby force, if nec—keep the peace among nations,” and “an internaonal court of justice.” While the burden of armaments reduced to a minimum, “the united nations must exercise eiliance over aggressor nations until such time as the r demonstrate their willingness and ability. to live at 2 with other nations.” “The united nations could well commit themselves to

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Farr Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, July 24.—It may |

be impossible to reindict Joe Fay, "the racketeer of the union known as the Operating Engineers, for slugging one of his subordinates, but the circumstances in which the original indictment was dismissed are so smelly that an offense eyen more serious than assault is indicated. Last fall Fay beat up H. Or-

ville Warner, the local boss of his | |

Rochester union, so badly that Warner required considerable surgery. Fay was indicted under a charge which was good for five years in prison and, for the first time in his long career, as a underworld goon, was plainly scared, the more so because Warner was running around blowing the whistle as the boys say. Warner even threatened to dig up some details of the Redwood murder in Teaneck, N. J, in February, 1937, a case which is now reviving, thanks to a confession by a mildewed bum named James A. Boyd, in San Francisco, who says he was hired to do the job. Fay figured prominently, as the saying goes, in the original investigation.

Yes, Sir, the Heat Is On

FAY SURROUNDED HIMSELF with expensive lawyers after his indictment last fall and on the day of the trial Warner turned up missing. After a brief continuance, Fay got a dismissal on the representation of his counsel that this notorious racketeer’s services were essential to the prosecution of the war. Not long thereafter Warner reappeared in Rochester and got back his job in the union which he still holds. Fay is now safe from prosecution on the assault charge, unless it could be shown that Warner was induced to go into hiding, in which case, of course, the indictment could be revived or a new one could be voted by another grand jury on the same set of facts. Governor Lehman recently has been showing an interest, possibly political, in the racketeering by the Common Laborers’ union, which is closely allied with Fay’s mob, and Attorney General John Bennett, Jim Farley's candidate for governor, has been conducting an investigation which has all the marks of a serious effort and which is beginning to expand into the zone of Fay’'s influence. Moreover, two of Fay’'s local bosses in Albany have been indicted by the Department of Justice for operating a shakedown at the expense of workers on government jobs, so there is plenty of heat on Mr. Fay’s crowd.

It's Bad Beyond Gomprohendich THE DIFFICULTY OF presenting an understand-

able statement of the operations and character of the.

Fay mob is that it is bad beyond the comprehension of any but the most cynical citizen. In Chicago it is one of the most powerful underworld political influences that the city has known since prohibition and in Cleveland it is a violent and crooked mess, marked by shootings and bombings. Few of the names of the boss hoodlums are known to the general public even in their own localities, although Fay is an exception, having become notorious as a brazen terrorist and racketeer in Newark

years ago.

Fay once was kicked out of his union for working both sides of the street, which is to say that he was both a unioneer and a contractor and thus a racketeer. But he was reinstated after a time and today is again in the same racket, being not only. a vice president of the international] union but president of the International Excavating Co. of Newark. , He ‘has a fleet of about 70 trucks which may be seen dashing around New Jersey almost any time of the day or night. Inasmuch as the only big construction jobs these days are war jobs it follows that the trucks of the rich and versatile union leader must be engaged in the effort to spread to the ends of the earth the four freedoms which his subjects or Virtims in the Engineers’ union enjoy in such limited egree,

Get Together!

By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, July 24.—On the 27th day of June Capt. C. C. Poole, British army officer and M. P, was quoted by the Galves-

ton, Tex, News as saying that

enough supplies were lying idle on U. S. wharves, for lack of shipping space, to turn the tide of battle in the Middle East. : Capt. Poole was on a tour of shipyards under sponsorship of the national maritime commission. It is to be supposed that he spoke with authority. On the 6th day of July W. Averell Harriman, U. S. lease-lend &dministrator, was quoted in the Chicago Journal of Commerce as saying that “there is no lack of ships presently to supply our needs on all allied fronts.” Admiral Vickery of the maritime commission has said officially that the united nations, as a whole, still are losing ships faster than they are being replaced. Obviously somebody is wrong. Who is it? The preponderance of evidence is on the side of Capt. Poole and Admiral Vickery. Yet Mr. Harriman certainly occupies a position to know the truth, and there is no apparent reason for him to gloss over unpleasant facts. Is it any wonder that the public is bewildered by such completely different stories, suming from presumably reliable experts? :

Then Take the Rubber Business

WE HAVE A SIMILAR situation in connection with rubber. Elliot E. Simpson, counsel fo a congressional committee, claims vehemently there is no rubber shortage—that if not a pound of natural

rubber were imported and no pound of synthetic’

were manufactured, we could supply both military and civilian needs for five years from recapturable scrap. Government officials, subordinate experts, private: rubber interests agree almost 100 per cent that the rubber shortage is so serious that we might even lose] the war because of it, unless we act speedily and mercilessly against wastage. Simpson retorts that those who disagree with him are biased toward the big four companies of the rubber industry, who, he says, know there is no shortage

and are seeking to preserve a monopoly by frighten- :

ing the public. The rest of the rubber fraternity dismisses Simp son as a victim of his own fancies. Who is right? wrong. If we don’t, and he really is wrong, the penalty would be too great. But how can the public know? Why can’t the experts get together, agree on the truth, and tell it?

So They Say—

In measuring men, I don’t measure them so much by what they say—I measure them by When they say it.—Wendell Willkie.

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defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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“WHAT'S BECOME OF THAT NURSING HOME BUSINESS?” By C. T. Bradley, Indianapolis ‘What has become of the investigations and inspections of the socalled nursing homes in the city? About the only noticeable change in

any of them is overcrowding; some still operating not equal to or fit for dog pounds. The investigators did some investigating but sent word ahead of their intentions; I think their answer is “no authority or laws to govern” except in a few extreme cases. My interest is personal because of a relative and my opinion is a law should govern the number of patients under attention of each at1tendant and a limit to a segregated ‘space. I saw two helpless and bedfast old ladies. wanting drinking water for four hours while the attendant slept; this during the recent hot weather also many other complaints for correction.

» 2 2 “PUBLIC ENTITLED TO KNOW ABOUT RUBBER SITUATION’

By Edmond C. Foust, editor, The Hoosier Farmer

"In all the controversy regarding the making of synthetic rubber, there has been no question raised about the ability to produce. Science established that fact years ago, leaving politicians and business to fight over who shall make the rubber and from what raw materials. In the meantime, with fall elections already casting their far-reaching beams, the public witnesses the diminishing coating on the old tires. Of course had agriculture raised no objection to the petroleum interests’ well-planned and well-exe-cuted program to make all the synthetic rubber from petroleum, there would be little notice of the rubber controversy. Months ago these interests received the “go sign,” plenty of appropriations, priorities, and such; however, up-to-date, their program stretches about as much as a last year’s garter. On the other hand, grain is piling up in the hands of the government, rubber stocks are diminishing, and scientists say rubber can be produced in a very few months from these surplus grain stocks. : Little money is needed to finance

Side Glances=By Galbraith

no more difficulty in obtaining a |driver’s license than a person who is entirely qualified to drive... . The only logical and positive means of issuing driver's licenses is to give each applicant a thorough, rigid examination for hearing, vision, and other physical disabilities which make it dangerous for one to drive a car. In addition to this thorough physical examination a rigid driving test should be compulsory. This should include various tests of driving in crowded traffic, parking, and driving on the highway, knowledge of all traffic signs, et cetera. If such tests eliminate 25 or 35, or even 50 per cent, of the present drivers, certainly the nation would be a safer place in which to live. Public sentiment becomes aroused after such an accident but dies very quickly. Let's do more than talk this time, let’s act at once before another such tragedy occurs. Let Indianapolis enforce these rigid examinations. If we can prove by statistics that our death rate caused from automobile accidents has been greatly reduced, we will set an example for the state to follow and for the entire nation. . . . For the good of humanity let’s do all in our power to make it possible that such accidents shall be reduced to a minimum.

2 &® » “I KNOW THAT MR. BLUE IS NOT A SNOOPER” By R. L. Imhausen, 1732 N. Rochester ave.

Answer to a Curious Citizen: Mr. Citizen, after reading your letter in The Times, I see where you call our prosecutor a snooper. Have you ever had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Blue? If you haven't, you should go down and meet him. I have known him for a few years myself and I personally know that he doesn’t snoop. Mr. Blue is a man that you can go talk to and he will talk to you. I am quite sure you have been hearing things

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d to know why a lack of rubber siould exist. This is io time to sprout new crops for iibber when the whole nation is 5s vamped with wheat, a material wiich lends itself well to the new iaustry of synthetic rubber. 4 i j 2 2 “RIGID TESTS ONLY WAY TO INSU: SAFETY” By Arthur Kr: use, Indianapolis to be a witness to the cident at Meridian and sts. Monday afternoon. I passed ti: scene of the accident just three ix nutes prior to the accident which always makes it more impressive. Being | oti” one block from the scene, I reiirned to the.corner but had I known the sights I would witness, I: {would not have returned. . . Living it age, it is im accidents. || much can number of

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this fast, mechanized rossible to eliminate all “ut anyone knows that ie done to lower the automobile accidents. There are! many ways in which accidents coild be reduced, by more rigid traffic Jaws being enforced. But this | specific accident was caused by 8 pitiful laxness in the 2 {river's licenses. The Hi death car evidently had an epil2sy convulsion. . .. Yet he experienced no difficulty in obtaining a cl ver’s license. Thousands! of people who are practically .iione deaf, thousands who have iinpaired vision, thousands who ire addicted to excess drinking, thtiisands who have been arrested fcr serious accidents, thousands who st Ter with heart attacks and other &:rious ailments, have

in the county. Mr. Blue's investigators are all trained and selected men. And I am sure if you have any complaint to make, write or go and see him and he will take care of the matter. The way I read your letter, it seems that all you want to do is spread. a lot of gossip and don’t know where to start with it.-

2 2 = “PRECIOUS RUBBER IS WEARING AWAY”

.By L. J., Indianapolis ' Hesitation, procrastination, indecision and lack of foresight on the part of the united nations (excepting Russia) are the main reason for the disasters they have suffered. Take, for example, the “rubber situation.” After seven months of war and dajly reminders that 90 per cent of the rubber-producing territories have been occupied by the Japs, President Roosevelt told the nation frankly “that he did not know whether there was a shortage of that commodity or not.” .God forbid that I should prefer totalitarianism to our form of government but we must concede the fact that when it comes to war

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By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 24 Everything is going to be all right from here on in, and Hitler might as well call off his submarines. For two societies of women, one in New York and one in- New: Ore

leans, have submitted to the mari= }.

time commission a proposal that practically defeats the U-boat . menace. What these good ladies want, to do is to present to the skipper of every new Liberty ship put into commission a cute little kitten, which would grow up to become ship's cat. There would be a lovely ceremony, ¢ and you can just. picture the scene at every commissioning—big= bosomed club woman, wreathed in smiles and corsets, handing over to some bored and bewildered old sea dog a beribboned, bebowed and equally ‘bewildered kitty. While flashbulbs pop. Unofficial reaction at the maritime commission is that the ladies might substitute rabbits for kite tens, because there are going to be some 2500 come missionings in the next year and a half.

The Somervell-Nelson Feud

GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON keeps trying to stir up a feud between WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson - and Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, commanding general of the army services of supply. Nelson ain’ mad at anybody, ever, but there’s something about a general that makes him want to run things. Nelson’s recent realignment of the WPB organizae tion kept for WPB final control over priorities and war production. That was considered a licking for Somervell. He retired into his corner for a day, but came out fighting the next, and apparently -won’t be satisfied until the army is running the whole ware production show. Somervell’s choice WPB boss is supposed to be

Ferdinand Eberstadt, chairman of srmy-navy munis

tions board.

Of Ants—And Sailing Ships

‘CREDIT FOR THE idea of having Latin Amere

ican shipyards build 100 wooden sailing vessels of {i

less than 1000 tons each to carry a billion tons of cargo between Caribbean ports goes to Undersecretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, but the: source of his idea makes an amazing tale. He got his inspiration, of all places, in a modern clipper plane while flying to Brazil. Crossing the Caribbean, he noticed many sailing vessels in coastal . trade. Next day, over Brazil, he noticed the “moune tains,” built leaf and twig at a .time by the famed army ants of the pampas. “If ants can build towering stockpiles,”. reasoned . Mr. Taylor, “why couldn’t we build our. own stocks. piles by moving ton after ton in sailing ships. » . He sold the idea to Nelson Rockefeller, and Uncle Jesse Jones’s RFC kicked in ‘with $10 million, te. finance the operation.

An 'Enemy of Labor’

IMAGINE LEON HENDERSON'S surprise at bee ing: labeled “anti-labor” by the unions, because of his stand for wage control. In all his previous government jobs, in‘ NRA, in SEC, in temporary national economic committes, Henderson was considered labor’s pal. Now they’ve kicked him over. Henderson, by the - way, makes a great distinction between wage freezing ° and wage control. He’s against - freezing, but for control to the extent necessary to prevent price rises,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I HEARD AN interesting little

story the other day. It points, y some sort of a moral so, if you. don’t like stories with morals— skip this. A man who had been rather. free with criticism of certain gove ernment policies and some federal . agencies, received this. message through a friend: “Mr. So-ande So has heard of your remarks and says he'd like to lick the socks off you Jor your unpatriotic behavior.” Next day our critic proceeded to Mr. So-and-So’s office and was admitted at once. “L hear you want to whip me,” he told the startled. individual behind the desk. “Well, here I am.. Bus

first let me ask you one question. .Do you have &

boy in the service?” The swivel-chair patriot did not. “Well, I have,” said his visitor. “My son is. in Africa at the most dangerous job of soldiering—he’s a fighting bombardier. I'll be in luck if I ever see ‘him again. And, my dear sir, let me tell you this— one of the things he’s fighting for is my right te exercise the democratic principle ‘of free speech -a$ If you don't like it, come on, becatise I'm ready to fight for it too.”

Don't Fail Your Country!

THE ENDING WAS happy. Mr. So-and-Se apologized, as you may imagine, and I trust the incle dent made him a wiser, if not a happier, man. As the war progresses, watch out for slimy, two=. legged things crawling out of holes. They'll scurry to cover behind our flag. They’ll use every patriotie slogan and device to gain power for themselves and their gangs. They’ll use the emergency to intimidate . honest, - hard-working people who fear being classified as une American if they lift their voices in protest, even though they merely play the part of good Americans by taking an interest in the affairs of their governe ment and the progress of the war. Wise old Sam Johnson said, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” And the scoundrels are not all dead yet. You can be reasonably certain that some of them are spouting platitudes, waving the flag and climbing on band wagons for one purpose only—to promote selfish, political interests or their own fortunes.: Challenge them! If you don’t, you fail your country in its fight for freedom.

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists mn this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

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