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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1942

IT’S UP TO THE LEGION

OMER CHAILLAUX, Americanism director of the American Legion, has placed that great organization of war veterans in a position it can hardly relish. Mr. Chaillaux hates Communism—hates it so intensely that our military alliance with the Soviet Union has apparently caused him great personal pain. This newspaper has no love for Communism, either. But we have a deep and sincere respect for these fighting Russian allies of ours who have shed so much blood in our great common cause. Together, we are fighting a common enemy, the enemy of all freedoms.

But Homer Chaillaux quite clearly disagrees. His speech before the Indianapolis. Junior Chamber of Commerce has undoubtedly shocked thousands of loyal Legionnaires. He attacked the United War Fund of Indianapolis because it includes Russian War Relief, Inc. He said he would not give a single dollar to the War Fund because

Russian Relief is dominated by Communists.

» # s 8 ” » HIS in the face of the fact that Russian War Relief, Inc., is an agency given the full blessing of the federal government and which is being supported by such men as Norman H. Davis, Alfred E. Smith, Wendell L. Willkie, Owen D. Young, Myron C. Taylor, William Green and Philip Murray. And that standing behind it locally are such wellknown civic leaders as Arthur R. Baxter, W. C. Griffith, C. E. Whitehill, Fermor Cannon and Virgil Martin. And, then, he proceeded to attack the pleas for a second front on the basis that these requests, too, were Commu-nist-inspired. Homer Chaillaux was invited to speak as the Americanism director of the Legion. In this capacity, he appeared as the spokesman for the Legion. It is grossly unfair to the thousands of loyal Legionnaires who see these issues clearly to permit them to be so misrepresented. Either Homer Chaillaux speaks for the Legion or he doesn’t.

It is up to the Legion to say once and for all.

IT’S STILL NECESSARY

S Chief Justice Stone apparently does not feel that ry undertake the task, we hope President Roosevelt will persuade some other citizen of comparable standing to conduct an independent inquiry into the rubber situation. There seems to be no other way of clearing up quickly the unfortunate confusion which surrounds this subject. It isn’t fair to put all the blame for the confusion on government agencies. A great many people have contributed to it. Rubber has become a hot political issue, involving many interests and affecting pretty directly almost

. wverybody in the country. As always with such an issue,

there’s a lot of opinionated talk not backed by accurate information and a tendency to attack the motives of those who advance different opinions. Yet there will be public co-operation in any rubber policy if only the public is confident that it is getting the facts. That's why a fact-finding inquiry by someone as free as Chief Justice Stone would be from any connection with the controversies, and as firmly entrenched in public tonfidence, has become urgently necessary.

MODESTLY BUT PROUDLY—

~ (ORDINARILY we believe that the public service rendered by newspapers speaks for itself, and requires little horn

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We do call attention, though, to the London Daily - Mail's successful attempt to keep the British government from spilling a vital wat secret all over the world to the benefit of Germany and Japan. “A new, powerful anti-aircraft device” has been perfected. The war office planned to make public a story about

the machine, which is described as so simple that, with

the details and closeup photographs planned, it could be copied.

The Daily Mail asked the war office to change its mind

and ban the story. The generals acceded. The newspaper lost a good story, but the Germans and Japs lost the benefit . of five years of British experimentation, so important that it had been done on a tropical isle for secrecy.

~ We think the Daily Mail deserves the Victoria Cross.

We can’t think just what the absent-minded war office

deserves.

ZOOLOGICAL NOTES

GOOD many animals also seem to going haywire. =" William Eldringhoff’s calf, frightened by an electrical storm, climbed to the ridgepole of a high barn near Minpolis, Kas. : Mrs. S. K. Clark’s cow fell into an abandoned well at

enton, N. C,, and had to be rescued by an automobile er truck.

A 314-foot blacksnake was s found coiled, around the teband of a parked car at Champaign, Ill. Mrs, W. J. Squire has complained to city council at s City, Mo., that squirrels, protected by city ordiB, have dug up all her flowers, eaten all the fruit on trees, chewed holes in her shingled roof, invaded her 1e and torn up a set of marquisette curtains. By way of reassuring contrast, E. Krzystofik’s patriotic sow, Daisy, has contributed 35.piglets to her country ht months, 18 of them born last November and 17

ered by carrier, 15 cents |"

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, July 31—TIt is -about time to cut out the non-

sense about ‘the heroes of ‘the : shipyard and assembly line and |

face the fact that anyone with a good job in the war industries at home has a. pretty soft touch by

comparison with the lot of the |

~ soldier or sailor overseas or in the .camps or stations in the U. 8. A. There may be some call for heroism on the home front, which is to say among - civilians, if and when. the Germans bomb our cities, or the Japs come ashore out West, but up to now, no. In time, most of us probably will have to get along without many things which have been regarded as necessities, but so far we have been pinched very little and we have yowled like babies over those minor inconveniences and deprivations. There are some inspiring patriots on the assembly lines, but they would be the last to claim that their service is in any way heroic. ‘I saw some in a south-

ern city, putting airplanes together. In a stockroom | 2

a fine-looking young woman was "in charge of the records, doing her bit at home while her husband, a captain in a combat outfit, was overseas. But this girl’s sacrifice and heroism were not represented by

her work in a factory. This wasn’t particularly hard | &

work and she was paid well enough for it. Her bravery and his were shown in their parting, the breakup of the home of two young Americans in afiswer to the call of patriotism each knowing that they might never meet again.

It's a Pathetic Situation

THERE WERE MANY other women, some young, in the same factory, whose husbands and brothers were off to the war, and the guide who showed me around said they were fine workers and wouldn't listen too politely to anyone who might ask or order them to slow down. It is hard to guess who would call for a slow-down nowadays, but we do have slow-downs, nevertheless. The Communists wouldnt be likely to do this now,

although the slow-down was their invention and was imported by them.

There are not enough Nazis or pro-Nazis among

us to cause a slow-do much lagging and stalling as there is, and or mor than plenty of it,

must be the doing of Amefican workers who are Just:

sulky, selfish and lazy. It is pathetic that it should be necessary or thought necessary to organize and pay for professional bally= hoo and hoop-la to stimulate the morale of the workers in any of the war trades. They are getting boomtime wages with half-again for overtime beyond 40 hours; they get a break over other civilians on rationed things; they aren’t getting shot at or bombed, and I will make a little bet with you that few of them are paying any attention to the new .income tax schedule which went into effect last winter and which would, if enforced, require them to drop a little something on the drum.

Heroes of the Assembly Line!

SOME EMPLOYERS ARE awful fools and pigs, too. Some employers don’t know the first thing about plain honesty or getting along .with human beings and impose on the workers with chiseling practices and gyp contracts so shamelessly that the workers have to gyp back to break even, although their country, alone, suffers in the long run. ‘But, on the whole, the workers on the home front are doing nothing heroic and. are aping considerably less work than might be done with good will and patriotism. I get word from all sorts of war works of stalling, of shifts knocking off or slacking off before their time is up and of two men doing the work of one. " In a big airplane plant the manager sent for a man_to install some light bulbs in the sockets of his office which had no windows, this being a blackout plant. Three big loafers responded and took an hour to screw in the bulbs. : One was a laborer. He set up and took down, moved and set up the ladder. Another was a metal worker. He unscrewed the metal frames holding the glass panes which diffused the light and screwed them back after the third artist, the electrician, who was the star of the cast, performed his triumph of screwing the bulbs into the sockets. And McNutt talks about a labor shortage and conscription for work is suggested!

Ersatz Soap By David Dietz

NEW YORK, July 31.—Ersatz soap may become familiar in America as the war goes on, for chemists are expecting a soap shortage when the present supply of vegetable and animal imports is exhausted.

Coconut oil from the Philippines, used in practically all household soaps, is foremost on the list of oils no longer available. In 1941 the United States imported 600,000,000 pounds of coconut oil from the Philippines and 500,000,000 pounds of this went into the soap industry. However, small boys who might be inclined to cheer about a soap shortage are doomed disappointment, for there seems to be no reason to expect any shortage of ersatz. Petroleum—that grab-bag which supplies the raw materials for such widely divergent substances as TNT and synthetic rubber— appears to be the answer. Cleansing agents are known technically as detergents. “These new synthetic detergents developed from petroleum will work under any and all conditions.” says Dr. Lawrence Flett of Allied Chemical & Dye. “They wash in acid as well as in alkaline solutions; they clean cold and they clean hot. They wash better in hard water than in distilled water. They wash in sea water.”

And Here's Some of the Uses

SPEAKING OF THE many uses to which these new detergents will soon be put, Dr. Flett says: “Weak solutions are used to wash insects and insect fragments from vegetables such as broccoli, spinach and lettuce. “Their quick action is very desirable in washing woolens where prolonged washing changes a soft, fluffy material to a stiff felt-like fabric. Wool blankets washed in a tub of almost cold water with a cup or less of one of these synthetics for three to five minutes and hung up to dry are soft, beantitully cleaned and obnoxious to moths. “They are used in dentifrices. Many special uses are made of the new agents because of their powerful antiseptic action, They can be used in laundry

work and dish washing where it is desired to reduce |

bacteria counts. “Many people allergic to soap can find relief with these new cleaners. They can be used to wash diapers

to avold diaper rash which often is an allergic re-

action to lime soap. “And because they emulsify odoriferous oils, they are valuable for washing dogs. Since the washing solutions are neutral they do not hurt the dog’s eyes, but because: they are insecticidal they devastate the

The Hoosier Forum

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

“PJHO IS THIS MAN WHO SEEMS ON AXIS LINE?” By A. G., Indianapolis.

Who is this man that for years has abetted the work of Elizabeth Dilling, now under federal indictment for subversive activities? Who is this man that was reprimanded by his own associates for his interest in the notorious Winrod of Kansas, also under federal indictment for subversive activities? . .. He seems to follow the-axis line too closely. Where does he stand?

® 2 2 “TELL HOMER WHICH ALLY IS DOING THE FIGHTING!”

By 8. E. H,, Indianapolis.

Next to his victories in Russia, the best news that came to Hitler's headquarters yesterday must have been Homer Chaillaux’s blast at the United War Fund because it includes Russian War Relief, Inc. Somebody had better tell Homer whom we are fighting—and which of the united nations is doing most of the fighting just now.

# » 2 “THEY’D SURELY GO PLACES IF THEY ORGANIZED” By John Whitcomb, New Castle. It sure begins to look as if we are doomed to endure the horrors of inflation. The workers in indus-

try can’t seem to be at all content with living wages. must have more than others. . Bennie Fairless ‘of U. S. Steel eked out an existence in 1941 on $156,010. He must have had to skimp a right smart bit because it took $275,000 for Tommy Girdler of Republic and $537,724 for ‘Gene Grace of Bethlehem. In the field of entertainment, where possibly it does cost more to get along, Jouie Mayer of Loew’s, Inc. got $704,425. . "And, bear in mind, not one of pthese boys was backed up by either

Some of them|;,

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to express “heir views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance.

be signed.) |

Letters must

the C. I. O. or the A. F. of L. They could surely go places if they'd organize. But the heck of it is, if they tried to. crgonize they'd have

|Wes Pegler and 1B. F. Maddox to

contend with. o 2 2 Lo “SPIES USING US AS A BUNCH OF SAFS!” By A World War Veteran. I'm mad. Why, do we permit these treacherous spies to use our country as a bunch of saps. The idea of letting them just holler for the Supreme cour’ and then they all rush back to Washington as if it were the most important thing in

the world! ; It’s terrible to think about what's

> happening. These birds should have

been lined up anc shot right away without all this arguing about secret military trials. Instead, we give them lawyers and a lot of generals sit around sucking on their thumbs and just as soon as one of’ these traitorous spies opens up his yap the Supreme Court; comes a-jump-

g. If the Supreme Court tries any monkey business now I'm all for getting rid of them, too. ® | ¥ o2 “THANKS FOR THAT SERIES BY TOM STOKES” By R. T, D., Indianapolis, My compliments fo The Times for that magnificent series of articles by Thomas Stokes! Might I be perniitted to say that you have added considerably to my education this wedk. I have been

Side Glances=By Galbraith

one of those “armchair generals” giving the U. S. and Britain hell for failing to open a second front while the Russians keep falling back into more and more difficulties. . Mr. Stokes has made the picture very clear. We're not ready by a long shot for a land invasion. But we are getting ready for an air invasion. An invasion that’s going to knock the spots off Adolf. Or rather just about knock Germany off the map. Thanks a million.

2 8 = “DON QUIXOTE PROBABLY IN WRONG SOCIAL STRATUM”

By Cervantes, Indianapolis.

Probably the trouble with Don Quixote, when the local OCD filed and forgot him, was that he didn’t belong to the right social stratum, Ordinary people aren't welcome in the bluestocking coterie. It is carefully explained to the questioners that working people “just don’t have the necessary time.” Apparently the fact that some of the “little people” volunteer is put down

to ignorance of the: real job at hand. Over the nation working men and representatives of their organizations and unions are serving on

civilian defense organizations. But

not here. On the women’s OCD policy committee here, including the heads of all the defense work done by women, there is only one woman who doesn’t have a maid at home. That's almost a prerequisite. ® 8 = “MODERNIZING A FAMOUS FRANKLIN PARABLE . . .” By 8. B. H., Indianapelis. Benjamin Franklin had a way of saying homely things so they stuck in the memory. If the sage of Philadelphia were alive today, we can imagine that he might modernize one of his more famous parables something like this: For want of a tire workmen were

kabsent; for want of their labor 'a plane was delayed; for want of that

‘|| plane a ship was sunk, being way-

laid and torpedoed by a submarine,

of a tire worn out in pleasure riding. ” ® #

HERE'S A SUGGESTION FOR SCRAP DRIVE By W. D. W., Indianapolis Here is a suggestion for the scrap drive to put arms in the hands of the fighting men. I doubt if there is a lawyer's office ‘in Indianapolis that hasn't

' |anywhere from one to perhaps 15

‘lor 20 corporate seals that are no longer necessary. These seals are of the finest steel and weigh from three to five pounds each. Lawyers, like newspapermen, are generally too lazy to do things for themselves. If the Boy Scouts will call at lawyers’ offices, ask for these seals und turn them over to the WPB, I believe they will be of great service in obtaining more of the metal that is necessary for victory.

DAILY THOUGHT

But the Lord your God ye shall fear; and He shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies II Bre: 17 139.

and 60 lives were lost; all for want]:

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 8l.— Army has a new “baby bomber,” a training ship of 52-foot winge spread which carries six men and the navigating and bombing equipment of a big bomber. . . YX Trade associations are circularizing their members to help out on the salvage programs. . . . Unpeeled logs sold for mine timbers are not subject to price regulations, : but peeled ones are. . . . Aparte - ment hotels in defense "areas can choose whether to abide by the hotel or the rooming house rent ceilings, . « « Price ceilings on fats and oils have been revised to prevent an increase in the price of soap, . . . Dee partment of labor says 34 per cent of the war ine dustry workers earn less than $30 a week, another 34 _ per cent earn between $30 and $40, the Tenshi

A third over $40.

Puerto Rican Rum Evernpt

U. S. ARMY WILL need 446,000 typewriters—mae chines, not ‘stenographers—which figures out at one typewriters for every 10 soldiers on the basis of & four million man army. . . . Puerto Rican rum is exe empt from price ceiling regulation if sold in the U. S. but not if sold in Puerto Rico. . .. In 1000 war - production plants employing two million workers, 38 * per cent are C. I. O. and 12 per cent A. F. of Li. . . « Three-fourths of the million tons of steel now proe duced each month goes to army, navy, maritime commission. . . . An average of nearly 15 companies a day get a total of over $2 million a day in loans to aid them in financing war production. ... When a tire “wears out” only one-sixth of its rubber is destroyed, most of the other five-sixths can be ree claimed. A million more people are employed; by government than by all the transportation an public utilities in the country.

What the East Will Be Told

IF FUEL OIL rationing is put into effect in the eastern states during the coming winter, here are

‘| some: of the things people may be told to do to ¥

conserve fuel: Keep temperature of house at 66 or~ 68 degrees Fahrenheit instead of 70 or 72. . .. Shut off part of the house which is used infrequently so ag to save up to 25 per cent of fuel. . . . Install storm * doors and windows. . . . Burn wood or coal in fires places to lighten the load on the furnace. .. . Have your house insulated. . . . Wear more clothes. . . , Go to bed earlier,

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

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

INTRODUCING A SOLDIER'S wife, who broadcasts today in this space: “Well, as I was saying, here I am living at home with mom and dad, and plenty grateful theyre so crazy about the baby. Jim's been gone over two months. Bee ing back in the home town is grand because I can get out with the gang now and then—or what’s left of it. r “Our old bunch is scattered to the four winds, Only a few left. Naturally, I love to see them. Buck—you remember that tow-headed brat—comes home on leave a couple of weeks ago. He calls up and says, ‘Say, Kid, how about you and me stepping out tonight? There’s a pal of mine with me and he’s got a date with an out-of-town dame who's coming in on the 8 o’clock bus. Let's go dancing at the Skyline club.’ “Being fed. up with domestic life, I accept and the three of us—Buck, his pal, a handsome second lieue tenant with a brand-new commission, and I—pile inte Buck’s car and head for the bus station. The lieue tenant is in the back seat with me and, first thing I know, he’s making the usual passes.

"No Need to Be a Prude!"

“TO PUT HIM RIGHT I says, ‘Maybe Buck didn’t tell you that I'm a married woman with a year-old ‘baby and a husband in the service. Petting’s ous : with me for the duration.” « “‘Atta, girl!’ says the lieutenant, ‘but even 80, no need .to be a prude. The . friend I'm meeting is

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‘married, too—to a fellow in the navy—and she’s so

‘lonesome and low it’s a pity. I wired her to come on draft boards, rationing boards and|

tonight because she certainly needs cheering up.’ “Well, the bus finally arrives and out of it steps '. the slickest-looking girl I ever saw. She’s a knocke out and the four of us had a large evening and, really, the kid looks like she is enjoying herself ne end. “But get a load of this—on the way home I was blushing to the eyes over the way she and the lieu-

tenant carried on in the back seat of that car. And

gosh, if I didn’t decide right them and there - that I AM a prude. I couldn’t take it. ; “I guess I disgraced Buck and myself forever, bud when I started in telling that wench what I thought * of her I couldn’t stop talking. The words just rolled '

‘out. So I'm at home nights after this. I can’t stand

to watch these low-down, no-account wives who feel so lonesome they have to pet with half the army and

‘navy while their husbands are out fighting to defend .

them and the rest of us. i “You can put me down as a wall flower and a web

"hen, but ¥m looking after my own home fires from

now on.”

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Q—How much sugar did people in the United States consume per capita during World War 1?’ i A—In 1918, the last year of World War I, the | per capita consumption of sugar in the United States : was 80.8 pounds. These figures include both- sugar consumed in the home, at public eating places, and ' sugar employed in manufacturing processes. 2

Q—What has been the oil prodiction of India | Bo and Burma, and in which parts of these countries are | the oil fields located? i A—About 90 per cent of the combinéd: production came from high in the inland mountains of Burma, and much of'it was piped down to port docks ag Rangoon. Assam and. Punjab in India produce. the | i remainder. Approximately 1, 116,000 barrels ‘were pos | Ay duced in Burma in 1940. = ’ Q—Please explain the duties of the Chemical Ware | fare Service. A—Research in chemieal warfare developmend, procurement and supply of chemical warfare mate rial, training in offensive and defensive procedure and the organization and operation of “Special gas § troops.

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Q—Where sd when, was James Gigmey atm and | is he married?

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