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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1942

HAMBURG

got it. Essen got it. So did Emden, and And now Germany's No. 2 city, Hamburg,

. ANOTHER OBJ ECT LESSON:

Cowen E Bremen.

has taken a terrific pasting from “a very strong force” of

Jw

. ‘British bombers, some of them dropping two-ton “block

Tv . busters” (i. e., one bomb dropped, one whole city block

gone). That is the medicine this sick world needs. more frequent, and heavier, doses. There can be little question of the devastating effect of Sunday night's offensive against Hamburg, with its great U-boat works and many other war industries. The Germans, while conceding “fairly heavy civilian casualties,” imply as usual that most of the bombs fell on

But in

- homes rather than factories, but on the past record we may

assume that the Nazi war machine was hit where it hurt. Just why the Hamburg raid should have been the first of such magnitude in several weeks is not explained. It may be that even the powerful British bomber command, fighting alone, is unable to stand a constant repetition of such losses as Sunday night's, minor as these were in comparison to the presumed destruction in Hamburg. (Out of

- perhaps 600 planes, 29 admittedly did not come back).

But here is where America, with its mushrooming out-

put of bombers and bomber crews, can fit into the picture.

As Mr. Stokes points out today in the fourth of his series of articles, “The steady, night-by-night pounding of a concentrated joint offensive is required. Such steady pounding is for the first time made possible by the genius of American mass production.” The sooner that genius can be translated into the devastation of German munitions works, the shorter the war,

NOT THE HARD WAY

MES. ROOSEVELT’S easy mastery of the obvious came:

to full flower in her recent visit to her pet summer youth administration project at cool Campobello—near Passamaquoddy—where youths foregather annually at no

little expense to knit brows, contemplate the cosmos, and,

as Sam Goldwyn put it, solve the solution. As a balm for tired minds in a tense world, we think this gem among platitudes is worth repeating: “They are an aleift and questioning group, and I only hope that in the short time we spent together that 1 was

‘ able to contribute something to their summer’s experience. Perhaps the greatest thing one can do for these young people today is to give them a realization of what a tre-

mendous challenge living in this period is to all of us. “It should make us ask ourselves daily whether we are contributing all that we possibly can to the war effort. The war is our war, and many of the people we love must give their lives to this crusade, and there must be some contribution which we can make which taxes the best that is in

"us. That is our ever-present challenge.”

In other words, relax and sun yourself in Campobello, and learn that we are at war. Several million youths are learning it a much harder way. They couldn’t help learning if they tried. They are in uniform.

READY TO CRACK DOWN

HE war labor board is finally showing signs of getting tough about strikes. ‘ “As we go farther into this war it becomes clearer that we cannot permit any stoppage of work,” declared Wayne L. Morse, dean of the University of Oregon law school and one of the public members of the board, and added: “You are going to find that drastic action will be taken against anyone in any labor organization who tries to bring about a stoppage of work over jurisdictional disputes, even to the application of the laws of treason, if necessary.” “The laws of treason’ those are tough words. But not too tough at a time like this. The war labor board is not aiming at union leaders alone. It is making clear that it will also erack down on employers who try to take advantage of the war emergency ‘and the no-strike pledge to bear down unfairly on their employees. If the union is unfair it will suffer; if the ettylovar is to blame, his chances of a settlement favorable to him will be reduced. ‘ Which is just. as it should be.

“WE ARE THE FIGHTERS!”

is not often that this newspaper feels compelled to call a motion picture to your earnest attention. But that is

"precisely what we are doing in connection with the opening

cf “Mrs. Miniver” here tomorrow.

Here is one of the most gripping and sincere pictures of the war. It is the story of a middle-class British

# ; family, of how it meets the war—of what ‘war is like to

“This is the people’s war!

people like us here in Indianapolis. ies “Mrs. Miniver” has a story to tell. In the vicar’s words:

It is our war! We are the fighters! Fight it then! Fight it with all that is in you!

| And may God defend the right!”

WHO SAID “YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH"?

ALL the easy money isn’t being picked up by contractwanglers in Washington. A dispatch to The New York Times from Australia reports that one American soldier, Suck; » at cards and dice," has been sending Bome 300 ' than

states, 78 cents a month; |

Fair Enough \ =

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, July 28. — We

looked like a cinch that spring, |

balanced all around, plenty of | &

power, speed and wonderful pitching and then Mike dies on us

Charlie Dissenat and he brought in some new ideas, and from then on we had a lot of confusion, Usually, as a rule, I generally never cared for wives around a club because the pitcher’s old lady she ties into the shortstop’s old lady if the pay-ball

gets past him and they form clicks and all like that |-

but Dissenat he said he had different ideas so ‘his wife she showed up at the camp and I have to admit

| the crowd liked her real good at first, she was so

democratic and how’s-the-baby and let's-play riddles around the hotel lobby at night. She kind of warmed everybody up like one big happy family at first.

But pretty soon, after we got home and the season gets going, well one day she decides she is going to come down in the dugout and ride the plank with us and this was against the rules but the boss he laughed and said a lot of old-time rules were just superstitious and anyway she knew as much ball as the rest of us so she stuck, ; /

Everybody Up for Beanbag)

SHE WOULD TELL the old man who to pitch and when to hit and one day when we were playing Brooklyn and we had been hitting like a lot of murderers she said she thought it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher hit last all the time so in a democracy

we ought to turn the order upside down and ‘lead off |

with the pitcher. Well, believe is or not, by some crazy miracle we win anyway so that makes her a genius so the hoss left her have her head and we lost the next eight in a row. So she comes in one day with a little old guy with whiskers and she says he used to coach the beanbag team at Smith's college where the students are all girls and he is an expert on morale.

He turns everybody out for the morning practice every day but instead of playing ball we practice bean-bag and then he rigs up a post with a lot of ropes on it and bigod if it isn’t a maypole like they have at the girls’ college and he runs us ragged doing roadwork around this maypole. -

She Told Us, Didn't She?

THEN SHE BRINGS in a young squirt from some night school in New York and he never had a stick in his hand before but she has hired him for our side, she called it, and when Otto asked her what is this new guy going to play she says this is an age of specialists and he is the batter. He isn’t going to do nothing but bat and we should all be kind to him and not jockey the mugg because he is very nervous. Well, the boss talked her out of that but still he had to let the mugg take a turn and he is so scared he shuts his eyes and ducked and the ball hit the’ bat and believe it or not is goes for two bases. So she says see she told us and the mugg is so winded we got to put a runner:in for him because he isn't a runner anyway but a batter specialist by trade. So we had to use him about 50 more times that season and he never got so much as a foul and this makes him sore and he starts bringing youth books with him and he tells us we are all slaves and what about joining the union. She says everybody ought to belong to a union and a few days later a guy comes up from the government and calls an election but meanwhile there is a picket line outside the park and she won't go through out and the crowds stay away because if they go through the line their union will can them and the front office says all right, we will all have to join this union to take the heat off. And this mugg, our batter, he counts the ballots and what do, you know, he is the chairman and everybody has got to pay him $500 initiation for the union,

Yes, Sir, Dissenat Was a Game Guy

ONE DAY she says it is nothing but race prejudice

‘never having no dames on a ball club so she brings

in a big, scrawny dame with a hide like an alligator bag and owl glasses and this is going to be our new first baseman only now it is third base. And the boss’ wife she decides she has got the hang of things herself pretty good by now so she is going to pitch, and that was. the day the first inning ran until dark and we ran out of balls and the score was 296 to 0, Giants, with nobody out yet. I don’t know, I don't want to blame anybody, because she certainly was nice to talk to and never mean or anything and always doing good for some poor punk, but maybe I am old-fashioned because it just seems to me the wives they ought to let the old man do his work at his business and sort of not mix up in things but I must say Charlie Dissenat he certainly was game because he never bawled her out or said aye, yes or—and just let her have her way to the end, although if it was my old lady I would have burned her down.

Saving Money By Walker Stone

WASHINGTON, July 28.—The fight for economy has not been in vain, as the latest report of the Byrd committee shows. By way of summary, the joint committee on reduction of nonessential federal expenditures points out that the committee recommended specific savings aggregating $1,301,075,000, but that congress has actually achieved economies totaling $1,313,983,208. It is an impressive start, including such items as: Abolition of CCC, $238,960,000—$8,000,000 less than the committee recommended, this amount being alloted to liquidate the agency. Eliminating NYA non-defense activities, $83,767,000 —again $8,000,000 less than the committee proposed, this amount being voted to continue subsidizing college students. Reduction in WPA, $540,000,000—~a saving of $140,000,000 greater than the committee hoped to achieve, because at-the time the committee studied the problem it made greater allowances for unemployment due to peace-to-war industrial conversion. Curtailment of non-defense expenditures of agriculture department, $195,731,208; deferment of nondefense public building and highway projects, $83,448000; .defermen’ of interior department public works, $56,985,000, and of river and harbor projects, $43,358,000.

Surface ‘No More Than Scratched’

BUT, AS THE committee's report says, “the possibilities for economies have heen no more than scratched.” - And it. is encouraging to “have the committee’s promise that it intends to examine further “practices and conditions in purchasing, classification, salaries, transportation, publicity and other overhead items.” Also, that the committee is at last going to get around to a scrutiny of the high, wide and handsome spending of the war agencies. It will find many “war” expenditures that have nothing to do with winning the war. “With the national debt standing today at approximately $80,000,000,000,” says the committee, “ . . . and with unexpended war balances totaling $160,000,000,000, there is in prospect a national debt of at least $200,000,000,000.

and the front office brought. in|

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I wholly

The Hoosier Forum

with what you say, but will defend to the denth Jour right to say it.—Voltaire.

disagree

“WHY PRINT SUCH UTTER PIFFLE AS “MY DAY”? By Mrs. F. M., Indianapolis Why do the newspapers allow space and print such utter piffie

as “My Day”? It is an insult to the intelligence of the majority of newspaper readers and an injustice

to someone capable of writing read-

able and interesting material. One born to the purple is not often endowed with literary ability. They should use their talents in smaller circles. 8 8 = : “WOODEN LEGS FAR SAFER THAN WOODEN HEADS” By H. C., Indianapolis

+ + « Mr. Devoted Father, in his letter of July 23d, steps hard on the cripples to which I take exceptions. Mr, Devoted Father, it might have been me you saw get out of my car and walk with the aid of crutches, for I have been crippled all my life, having been injured in the mines when a boy. Now I agree with you on that there should be a proper license law and why not enforce the laws we already have and put teeth in them and use the teeth to bite. Just how many accidents, sir, can you lay to cripples? Maybe one in every 500, while the drunks cause them every dgy. Yet I don’t believe you even mentioned booze as the cause of accidents in your article. Now 1 have been driving cars nearly as long as there have been cars and -have my first time to be arrested or even warned. I have taken tests in New York and Ohio and at present hold a New York driver's license and I would like to see you or anyone get a license there without a road test with a state trooper in your car with you and I mean they really put you through. Especially if you have any defects they wish to bring out. Also an eye test. I have passed this three times and I have held license here ‘ever since they came

. wooden legs

(Times. readers are ed

to exprhss their views in these (columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letters short, so all can

Letters must

troversies

have a ance.

be signe!)

out. This list year I took another examination and I have never falsifled my aplication. I have ston cars loaded with young peopl: buy a coup: of bottles and start for a real pe: ty. Whisky and gasoline won't iis and we already have laws to tha; -flect but they are not enforced | properly. Now please, Mr. Devoted Father, lay off the cripples. |W: have it hard enough without such as you stepping on our necks. | Just show me where es sre causing the great- | 1bf ‘accidents and I'll quit driving.| No, you can't. But I cen prove to you that are far safer than wooden heacs, | le oo @ “ASHAMED OF THIS STATE AND ITS Ni V-FOUND RUBBER!” By ‘Fredrick [Viossen, 704 Devon st.

Well, for {lis past month or more we have beer: asked by nearly every one from the president down to the humble filling station attendants to give all our scrap rubber to the rubper drive which ended July 10th. We were tolc. how patriotic it was to give all we had free or we could ask 1 cent ier pound. But who could call hiniself an American and charge our fhuntry for something they needed 0 help us all? . , . Imagine my surprise when I read The Times July 24th and saw where our beloved :'ate of Indiana has 4000 pounds ' scrap rubber tubes which they #1 going to sell for 6% cents per pout d.

Of course x am sure they didn’t

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"You! re two weeks overdue for your hair cut seeing that the

drive up to a tavern,|

have this on hand when our country was crying for rubber. Oh, but they're sure going to fix it up so the junk dealers get a fair break on bidding on this blood rubber. Fair to the profits, but not so fair to the land they profess to love. As long as things like this go on how can we win a war? I am sure the people of this great state are as ashamed of this case of profits before country as I am. It should be brought to the attention of the governor and ask him to give this scrap to our country just like everybody else did. .. . » = » “ANOTHER PEGLER AND ELEANOR IN THE MAKING?” By Mabel Taylor, 4437 Kingsley dn

No corrections for Claude Braddick’s reference to us amateur writers, but I have an addition to make. No doubt the editor and the staff of The Times and readers of the Hoosier Forum really enjoy the letters sent in by all the publicspirited citizens. What American doesn’t enjoy the freedom of speech and realize the value of a free press as well as appreciate the opportunity to exchange views and opinions of ‘interest and importance to everyone? But, who can predict the future of an amateur writer? Tomorrow may introduce these same persons as professionals in the writing field. For instance, Claude Braddick may be. another Westbrook Pegler . while I may be another Eleanor Roosevelt with a column similar to “Mvy Day.” ... * » «8 “WE CAN'T LICK JAPS WITH THIS NONSENSE!”

By Edward F. Maddox, 955 W. 28th st. If the American people expect to win this war we Have got to get tough. . . . Our soldiers are not put in uniforms to provide thrills and roman for women, but to be soldiers, mance for women, but to be soldiers, not sheiks. Most of the soldiers we see look like and act like civilians in uniform — round, humped shoulders, no military bearing, nothing to mark them as fighting men except: the uniform. The armed forces and the people of this nation must snap out of this silly attitude that this is a playboy war. Soldiers’ morale can easily be wrecked by silly, romantie, foolish females. The American people, in uniform and out, male and female,

had better realize now that war is ‘| a desperate business, sober up, come

out of this trance and get down

to the business of winning this

worst of all our wars. . , . We can’t lick the Japs and Germans with this nonsense. 2 t J 2 “OPPONENTS OF PUBLICITY DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH” By J. C. D., Indianapolis. My sincere congratulations to the agile Don Quixote who took on those two critics so successfully in the Hoosier Forum. : I, too, am opposed to these people who see something fiendish in a person’s action in writing what they think, These individuals who protest so vehemently about “publicity” given to situations “doth protest too much.” I always get the idea, as Mr. Quixote seemed to get, that there

| is something odd about their pro-

testations.

DAILY THOUGHT

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.—Proverbs 9:8.

LIFE is g long lesson in humility.

> In ‘Washington

By Peter Edson.

WASHINGTON, July 38 —There will be no dollar-a-year men run= ning the new Smaller War Plants Corp., and that is perhaps the first, victory for the frequently ex= pressed opinion of the Truman ine vestigating committee, that thers * should be no dollar-a-year men ingovernment. The congressional theory is that executives should sever all business connections when they come to work for the government, and ake salaries at the government rate, which is usually a $10,000 per year tops. : But the SWPC ban does not mean that the WPB. is shifting away from the dollar-a-year theory. Latest

i check showed nearly 600 dollar-a-year men in the

WPB, as against nearly 900 former businessmen new drawing $5600 a year or better in the way of - gov ernment salary. Severance of private business ties a ‘acceptance of a regular government salary seld removes the objection which applies to dollar-a-year men, howe ever, for in many cases the executive's company pays the difference between the government salary and the old private business salary. Ralph K. Davies, for instance, gets $10,000 a year from the government as deputy petroleum co-ordinator, but Standard Oil of California still pays him $20,000 a year to make up his: regular $30,000-a-year pay envelope.

24 Synthetic Rubber Plants

THE SYNTHETIC RUBBER program involves the building of 24 plants to make butadiene, 12 to make. styrene and 36 to make the synthetic rubber itself, . + . Building permits for June were 57 per cent under. a year ago. . . . Farm products, 3 per cent under price. control in April, advanced 71 per cent in price in the preceeding two years. . . . U. 8. wine industry ish: being set up to produce 10 "million pounds of cream of tartar from residue in wine tanks. . . . City fame. ilies, says the department of agriculture, should put up 41 jars of food, rural non-farm families 184, and farm families 243.

What's What in Capital

DEFENSE SUPPLIES CORP. is now sole buyer of rubber yarn and elastic thread and stores all produc= tion in three warehouses. . . . OPA will crack down on food and drink places that overcharge soldiers. . The pajama simplification order has been called. off for winter merchandise, but will be made effective for next summer’s goods. . Regulations have been. issued to govern maximum prices on Thanksgiving and Christmas fruit cakes. . . . Hog scraper (beater) paddles have been restricted further as to rubber. content. , . , Merry-go-round and magie lantern proe duction is out for the duration.

Recaps for Service Men

WLB TURNED DOWN C. I. O.s offer for $1 a day increase payable in war bonds. , . . A. PF. of L. has’ come out for wage increases payable in war bonds cashable after the war. . , . Army and navy personnel are eligible for recapped tires on private cars used in connection with war work, , . . Skip-stopping for busses is being encouraged to save rubber. . . . House: to-house tea selling is being discouraged to save rubs: ber. . A $2 million advertising campaign will help put over the scrap metal salvage drive. . ,. Army is giving - glider pilots four weeks’ preliminary training in power planes.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A NEW BOOK reminds me that it was a woman who made the first successful solo crossing of the north Atlantic from east to west by airplane. ‘ . “West With the Wind,” "by Beryl Markham—and fame is sg fleeting that you may have for gotten her name—is a strange story to be authored by a woman, Miss Markham writes with fluency and precision. Her descriptive passages about flying are as beautiful as any I have ever read. But when I turned the last page, the peculiar male quality of the ‘book haunted me; Only in our time could such a story have been written by a ‘woman, for only in our century could a womay ‘have had such experiences. The “author, whose existence reached its crashing crescendo in 1936 when she made her famous ocean flight, and whose childhood was spent in the mos§ fascinating and mysterious of countries—Africa—may

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‘have felt all’ the ancient longings of the normal, Oldv :| fashioned women.

This 20th Century Woman!

IF SO, THIS BOOK does not speak of them. I$ is, in reality, a man’s book since it deals with sube< jects dear to the masculine heart—pioneering, elé« phant hunting, horse training, commercial aviation and stunt flying.

Yes, indeed, it’s a far journey. from Jane Austin to Beryl Markham. In the intervening years what transformations have taken place in feminine naturel Women have put on more and more of the attributesy of men. It often looks as if a studied effort had been made to produce our outstanding phenomenon, that strange, sexless creature, the husbandless, childless, efficieii$ hard-hitting, realistic. accomplisher of almost anye thing you can mention—the 20th Century Woman. Illuminated by the facts of Miss Markham's story, backward glances are thrilling, but also a little dise concerting. For feminine pace has been so rapid, feminine achievements so remarkable and feminine horizons so tremendously expanded, that there’s no telling what men can expect of their daughters in another hundred years. I'm sorry I shan't.be here to meet the girls of tomorrow.

Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists m this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those

of The Indianapolis Times. ;

Questions and Answers

(The Indianapolis Times Service Bureau will answer any question of fact or information, mot invelving extensive re= search. Write your question clearly, sign name and address, inclose a three.cent postage stamp. Medical or legal advices . cannot be given. Address The Times Washington Service Bureau, 1013 Thirteenth 8t., Washington, D, C.)

Q—What is the soldier's oath? A—The oath which every soldier must take when he is inducted into the army is: “I do solemnly swear that I will bear true faith and’ allegiance to the United States of America, that I will serve them. honorably and faithfully against: all their enemies whomsoever, and that I will obey the orders of the president of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me according’ to the rules and articles of war.”

Q—Does the tin found in canned or natural food stuff’s have any harmful effect upon the human body? "A—Apparently not. Tin has been noted in Mann of the human tissues; it seems to be concentrated nF the suprarenal glands and occurs in considerabls abundance in the liver, brain, spleen, and thyroid gland. Ome investigator found - relatively large

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amounts of tin in the mucous membrane of the