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IF THE SHOE WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT

AT our distance from Germany it isn’t easy to visualize the effects, material and human, of the British bomber command’s recently stepped-up operations on German industrial communities. But suppose— THAT Canada had been sbiquered by an ending of ours. THAT this enemy was posseésséd of a great aif force based on numerous well-protected Canadian airdromes.THAT the enemy began to send bomber fleets across the Great Lakes, and the long land borders, almost-every night.

of incendiaries and explosives over, say, Cleveland, with its ihnumerable war industries.

THAT on the next night 600 or 700 bombers would strike at Pittsburgh’s steel and ordnance mills. And repeat the dose the next night.

THAT other swarms of bombers, on other nights, would rain destruction on the Niagara Falls power plants and their nearby industrial clusters. And on the Soo locks, the potential bottleneck between the iron ranges and the blast furnaces. i THAT they bee-lined out of the Ontario peninsula to potince on Detroit—on the vast new Willow Run bomber plant, on Chrysler's tank plant, on all that vast agglomeration of war industry. And on across thé southern countries of Michigan to smear Chicago or Indianapolis.

THAT on another night they rose from dispersal points around Montréal and droned down Lake Champlain and the Hudson to New York itsélf, and even to Washington. Or down the valley of the Connecticut river to Springfield's and Hartford's firearms factories, and on over to the submarine yards of New London. Or, in the West, that they block-bombed the great new Portland shipyasds, or the vital copper mines and mills of Butte. 8 8 8 8 8 WELL, Toi would know then what bombing meant. If they could keep it up, night after night, without respite—could our industry maintain its wartime pace? Could our armies be supplied ? Well, that is what the R. A. F. is doing, or at least beginning to do, to Germany. . And if the R. A. F. is joined by cotiritless squadrons of American-manned flying fortresses and Liberators and B-25 “Doolittles” and B-26S, it seems a certainty that the Nazi Wi aggression must begin crumbling too fast for even Hitler's hordes of slave labor to repair.

GOEBBELS. EXPLAINS

THE Russidhs. lack courage, Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbéls has explained to the German péople. They have to be pushed into battle by conimissars with revolvers. They find 4 million Germans in front less terrifying than a few thousand commissars in the rear. ‘ This intriguing thesis might serve as the basis for any fimber of speculations. For instancée-what he-mén those commissars must be, that each is more conipélling from beHind than a few hundred thousand of Weden’s most aryan sons in front! Perhaps it will suffice to paraphrase Abroham Lincoln’s remark about JU. S. Grant and his whisky drinking. Let's ~ find what Stalin gives his cowards, to make them fight as. they do, and send cases of the same to all the antias armies. ;

SILVER POLITICS AS USUAL | AR industries need silver to use in gore places as a substitute for tin, copper and nickel. They need it 88 4 brazing alloy in planes, tanks, trucks, anti-aircraft guns and the like. So the government, through the war production board, {8 seeing to it that imported silver is rationed for those

war uses.

Civilian silver manufacturers, hitherto dependent on

that imported raw material—the makers of tableware, |.

plate; jewelry, ete.~are going out of business, because they can’t get the metal. . Their employees are losing their jobs. Fruit and vegetable crops are being wasted, because ~ fhere is a Scarcity of tin-plating for cans. Silver-plating * twould be a satisfactory substitute, but silver is too “dear”

can

" or such mundane uses as preserving food.

s 2 8 8 s 2 : us condition is not caused by any scarcity of domestic silver. America’s’ silver mines are flourishing~— and every ounce they produce is bought by the treasury at a fixed price of 71 cents, at least twicé as much as it is 4 As fast as it i8 bought it is ded up to West Point and placed in a monetary stockpile now aggregating about 18,000 tons of the “precious” stuff. |" About a dozen U. 8. senators are calling the tune on this silver policy. They are telling Secretary Morgenthau, nald Nelson, the war ’ industries and the army and navy

And President ‘Roosevelt, and the other members of congress, are letting this small group of selfish politicians get away with it. : The silver racket is predicated on the absurd theory that the value of our folding money is somehow stabilized by the amount of white metal bullion behind it. That might true if the stuff, priced high by statute, had much intrin-

worth, Bot us trae tatanent was over winds than tha of

rotested and specifically in the labor cominittee of : That is a prety large and uafoy. thought so 1 will]

THAT on one night 1000 bombers would spill 3000 tons

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use on the radio and in the jooks

tor of the so-called musicians’ union, when Mr, Jimmy is placed in his hands by the New Deal, confirmed by deéisions of

the New Deal's i couft and against 20 New impairment

bréak it up. Mr. Jimmy is & Chicago politician of the party of

in the newsboys’ band of the many years agd. He is erroneously

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peruse allowaneéés and other valuable considerations income is nigh onto $80,000, To 16 hot a titel one he is pretty much of a loner in the union racket, having little truck with the bosses of the other big coms binations. Under the terms of his union’s constitii.tion he can maintain himself in office until he dies for he has the right to suspend any part or all of the constitution at will and this means he can call off elections and fire out of thé uniori dny rival officer who gets ambitious.

None of Elmer's Business, Anyway

good union and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt pointedly honored this union last, winter -by refusing to cross a picket line which it had placed in front of a theater where no labor controversy existed. * The New York local was trying to operate 4 racket against the managémeént and Mrs. Roosevelt, refusing to exantine the merits of the case, refused to atténd. the show with the explanation that she could not cross a picket line “fair or'unfair.” Mr. Fly, of the New Deal communications commission, is upset over Mr. Jimmy's verboten cn the canned music because it seems certain to silence many radio stations and is looking around for some law ‘under which Mr. Jimmy can be made to be nice. Elmer Davis, the director of war information, appealed to Mr. Jimmy to be a good fellow but was refused. - It was really none of Mr. Davis’ official business anyway and Mr. Fly will not succeed because Mr. Jimmy is fully protected By the laws, the policies and the decisions of the New Deal.

He Hasn't Got a Chance

law he will be licked before he starts by the Frankfurter dictum in the so-called carpenters’ case which . holds that a union may intervene with interstate commerce if it does so in its own interest. If Mr. Fly elects to proceed under the anti-rackeét-eering act he will be wasting his time bécause the opinion written by Justice Byrnes in the so-called teamsters’ case legalizes extortion and bows béenignly at the stand-by principle which holds that unioneers

they do not perfornt. And if he should ask congress to give him a 16 permitting him to procéed, the White House, which has stopped other attempts to pass such legislation, will do it again, ' Moreover, all the big and noisy politicians of the

he is" a labor-baiting stooge of Adolf Hitler which is their way of disérediting anyone who tries to break the powers of their gigantic racket. Yet loyal New Dealers all over the country, who would not think of criticizing the administration now denounce Jimmy Petrillo for exercising the powers thus given him.

U.S. Generalissimo? By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—When there is an allied commander-in-chief will he be an American? This question is being hotly debated in England. In this coun- * try it is not so often discussed as assumed in the affirmative. According to The London Daily _- Mirror, Britons in génerdl are opposed to the idea of an American commander, and such an. appoint.mént would be damned as political. How strange that The Mirror should react with such hostility to the suggestion of an American in command of Europe, when British generals have commanded the troops of so many other nations on so many fronts! The Mirror must have thought the American navy quite quaint in its willingness to serve under Gen. Wavell in the southwest Pacific. © American forces are under Wavell in India, and under Auchinleck in the Middle East—and nobody questions that... The an American commander. in the south Pacific, and the Canadians in the north Pacific.

The Mirror's Out of Focus

I THINK THE London Mirror is just a quarter of a century behind the times: The British government and people after long debate settled the principle,

foreigher named Ferdinand Foch as allied. generalis--8imo of victory over Germany. The test now, as then, must be ability—not nationality. Fortunately The Daily Telegraph, a much more

Mirror adequately: “Appointment of an Aimerican seneral, after full consideration of the qualifications and abilities of all possible leaders, would be welcome both officially and unofficially in this country, where the only desire is 6 seé the best man at the head of the allied forces, whatever his nationality may be. . . . It is an insult to the British artny to suggest that it: leading men youd be small enough to to resent appointment on me ” Significantly, The Telegraph is very close to Prime Minister Churchill and the British service chiefs. 8

Editor's Note: eo views expressed by columnists in this néwspapér are th own. They are mnof aecesally those of The Indianapolis Tinies,

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So They Say—

What is a tank? I can see it, but it can’t see me. My rifle is small and hard to hit, but a tatik is big. Al Jou need to do is aim at it. I get a redl kick out hitting it on the side~Sergeant Shapovalov, 86« A Ni so : * . * } Its all the same to me whom we fight. It is war itself that satisfies me.—Lieut. Joachim uous, German officer captured by Russians. ® # * Isn't it politics and polities alone that stands in the way of a sales tax at this time—~Rep Bugens L. Oat, ‘Depioaat, Geangia, ; ® ¢ Life ‘in wartime * Confusing. ~Leon Henderson, federal price administrator.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 4-1 16 i - afiuging that all the indignation) over the forbiddance of further| 55% manufacture of canned music for|

15 directed at Jimmy Petrillo, the dicta : merely exercising powers which were| | cohgress .genate? |

humanity under the léadership of Ed Kelly; dnd is a} musician only to the extent that he played a trumpet Chicago

reported to get| $46,000 a year when the fact is that, what with ex-|

UNDER THE NEW DEAL’S labor policy, that is &|

IF HE ATTACKS Mr. Jimmy under. the anti-trust

may compel employers to pay them for work which,

now challenged by The Mirror, when they accepted a |

influential London newspaper, has answered The |

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will dejont to the qeath your right to uy Hom Voli 70

“EVERY CONGRESSMAN ovo TO READ THAT COLUMN” By H. J. Hibben, 110 S. Merilian st. I wish to commend Mrs. Walter Ferguson’s splendid article appearing in your paper of July 29th regarding the draft of 18-year-old

national union movement will rush boys. ; up shouting that I wish it could be set up in large|

type, covering a full page, and sent to every senator and congressman in (or out of) Washington. There is cold ‘logic and justice in her viewpoint. - And there is already “resentment and bitterness” over the everlasting political skullduggery that goes on in Washington that so handicaps most everything the people are askéd to do in this war, Mrs. Ferguson is exactly right! 2 & 2 “VICTORY CAN'T BE WON WITHOUT THE HOUSEWIFE” By A. H. R., 2815 N. Meridian st. To insure victory every American housewife must consider it her duty to aid in the war effort. Buying bonds is after all little more than a wise investment in a great government at a generous interest. But less spectacular and just as necessary .is the need for saving tin and grease and paper. And equally important is the need for giving our blood to the Red Cross. When we open up that second front, will there be enough plasma to save the lives of all our wounded? The axis is still winning. The tide of victory cannot be turned without the full support of the American housewife. Wake up, neighbors, this is our war, too. ree “LET MOORESVILLE DO ITS OWN ROOF-RAISING” By Mrs. Ray Greenwood, 438 N. East st. Upon reading an. article in your paper a féw nights ago, I would like |e make a few notations. In the

first place, people in glass houses

should not throw stones., If the people of Mooresville, these socalled law abiding citizens, would

It imes readers aré ited to. | express < their views in these columns, religious eon trovarsiés excluded: Make. your léfters short, so all can have a chance. be signed.)

“Letters must

stay in Mooresville to do their rais-ing-the-roof maybé the people of Indianapolis would possibly do likewise. It seems to me that the ones who make ‘thé most of things are those who are the deepest involved. ~ Don't get me wrohg. I'm not upholding these disturbances in any way. | But there is a verse that fits in at this point real well. “There is a destiny that makes us brothers, none goes his way alone, and all that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own. In the end if the people of Mooresville would stay in Mooresville, Indianapoélis will do likewise. « #8 : “DON (QUIXOTE DID NOT QUOTE ME CORRECTLY” By Margaret Steafns Reese, Thompson rd. There is little comment to make

as to the verbal lambasting I re-

ceived irom Don Quixote, however,|

and true’ to form his special clique seldom quotes the truth about any situation, In my reply in this column I did not say anything at all about any “decent person” having dared to write & letter to a newspaper. .'. .

{What I did say as The Times will

bear me out, was: “Had his intentions been sincere, he would never, of all things, written an insulting lets ter to any newspaper.” Yes, vou are right, Don Quixote, I don’t sound like a 100 per cent American. I claim to BE one. . . . Creed doesn’t matter, Don Quixote, just. as long as he loves America

Side Glances—By Galbraith

énough to defend her principles instead of trying to create dissension dnd laék of tinity &s you. are now doing by libéling civilian defense, the vefy organization wé may have to depend on in the not too distant future to Keep the kniown enemy oft our shores. The unknown enemies within our borders—thé Dudley Pélleys and the Don Quixotes—can bé

_ | well chaperoned by our FBI.

Instead of being so bitter and working up such a perfectly grand hate for civilian defénse, why don't you go. about really learning something about the organization? You and those who have the mistaken idea that it is a blue. book affair run only by socialites, no assertion could be more unfair as people from all walks of life partake in the

training and hold posts all over| j

the city and state. ; We all kriow the OCD: got. off to a bad start. None of us were to

blame, nor could we help it. I still} say civilian defense has kept Hitler |-

out of Britain and it’s good enough for me. Instead of giving CD a ‘public thashing, Don Quixote, go in and help it get on a smooth-running basis and earn yourself’ an arm band—or if you're just plain mad at everybody, go up and join the navy. : 2 8 8. “NAME CANDIDATE WHO RAN TWELFTH ON TICKET” Hy D. R. Hicks, 1788 N, Meridian st. It is bing authoritatively told that petitions are being circulated among Republican precinct officials requesting the Republican county committee to designate Mrs. Frank Downing as the candidate for the legislature to take the place on the ticket made vacant by Frank Downing’s enlistitient in the navy. Naming Mrs. Downing as the candidate is inherently and emphatically wrong. Custom, precedent and fair play dictate the naming of the candidate who received the next highest number of votes following the 11 successful eandidates. The 12th highest candidate received 38 votes fewer than the 11th candidate and should: be named for the vacancy. | It the purpose is an appesl 40 women voters, then it should be remembered that the Republican ticket now hds three women candidates for the legislature and if las

bor is to be wooed, then we now|

have four active members of of ganized labor on the legislative ticket. 2 8 8 “100 MANY ELEANORS AND JUST ENOUGH PEGLERS”

‘| | By Claude Braddick, Kokomo.

Mabél Taylor, though she doesn’t say so, is evidently a very young

|1ady, probably a school girl. If “Isher were older she would Enow

there are already too many Eleanor Roosevelts and just exactly enough

1 Westbrook Peglers,

Perbaps, we shall get farther, just being ourselves.

‘Mabel, 1 From the little I know of you I'm | sure most people will find your per-

sonality and viewpoint Selighuully

| fresh and altogether charming, and

will like you. better as you are than as an imitator of Mrs. Roosevelt. And just as some prefer “Turkey

in The Straw” to Rachmaninoff’s he

“Prelude in C-Sharp Minor,” €0 some tay even like me better than

- | | Westbrook Pegler. There's fio ac1 counting for tastes. - :

DAILY THOUGHT

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—The' . great feud between WPB Chair " an Donald M. Nelson and Lieut.

Gen. Brehon Somervell, come A

mander of the service of supptb, was over almost bhéfore it g startéd. Main bone of contention, _ Was who was to allocate raw ma= terials. For about & week, tHe status of their relations was large-: ly one of the senleral wanting to ; tell that ex-Sears clerk where to head in, and Mr. Nelson wa g to tell the soldier he would have t6 make up his 1 whether 5 he just wanted to run things, of whether he ‘wafited to win the war. In the end, the two got together at lunch. Nelsoh issued the invitation, but it was held in the generals office and the menu was all of Nelson's favorite’ dishes, even t6 fruit salad with lots of Russian dress ing. The official word today is that all ‘differences of opinion have been smoothed over. WPB, meaning Nelson, Has veto power over the Joint army-navy: munitions board, instead of the other, way around, which is the way the general wanted it at first. Seo. there is unity on the war produetion effort, and’ Nelson is running the show—at least until the army gets on its high horse again.

Fuel for the Fire

JUST AFTER GASOLINE rationing program wert. into effect, the staff 6f the ratiohirig division in the. OPA had an informal dinner to relax from the strain of organizing one of the toughest administrative, problems any government bureau ever tackled. Feature of the dinner was an impromptu, satirioa

i speech by one of the top men. He reviewed, in

seriotisness, the requirements for getting extra ga .line rations—organization of car , sharing rides with thrée other péople living and Working in the, same vicinities; et¢. Then came the gag lines: 3 “Next,” said the speaker, in effect, “will be fuel, oil rationing. How can a home owner get extra Ta=; tions of fuel ofl? The answer, my friends, i8 edsy, Can the applicant for an X of Bor © fuel ofl card y prove hé has formed a pool? Is he sha ; his bed with at least three other people? And i four people are not sléeping ifi his bed, cafi he justify his right 6 sleep alone?” :

That Bomb Sight of Ours

U. 8. BOMBERS HAVE been shot down over both Japanese and German-held territory, but the army air force still doubts that the axis has its famed and secret bomb sight. For one thihg, when a plans crashes, this bomb sight is so shattéred that it would. be impossible to put it together again. Also, thers: is the oath which évery bombardier must take before he is even pérmittéd. to look at this weapon: - 4 “In the présénce of the Almighty God I do solemnly 2 swear and affirm that I wil accept the sacred placed ih me by.‘ my commander-in-chief, the pres dent, by those diréction I have been chosen far: bombardier training. 1 plédge myself to live and: act according to thé code of the bombardiers of the army air force. .I solemnly swear I will keep violate the secrecy of any and all confidential infoi mation revealéd to me, and in the full knowledge I am & guardian of one of my government's most priceless military assets, do further swear to protect the secrecy of the American bomb sight, if needs bé; with life itself.”

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A Woman's Viewpgint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson oJ

FAREWELL, TO OUR old sweet slogan, “The customér is always right.”- Nowadays, with service everywhere disrupted by lack help, the customer is lucky if she - gets noticed at all. © Ang it’s interesting to see How well she behaves undér the hewdispensation. After much pamper ing we might hdve expected tantrums, yet as a rule spoiled wofiien shoppers react fiobly to the situation. A private poll among salespeople brings the report that Mrs. America battles her way through crowded stores witHout fussing, smiles When hel corns are trampled, and exercises sublime patience over frustrations. This is all thé more remarkable

because she has been trained to regard good service | as a kind of divihe right.

It's a Salutary Change

YOU CAN'T BEAT the female when’ it comes to making adjustments, as a trip to any shopping center proves. There also we realize the enormity of the changes which have come upon us, and may observe with delight the development of virtue which has beén lacking in the American character—the virtue of patience. People stand in line for something else besides movie tickets these days: lohg queues of women wait for sugar rations for canning, or take their slow turn at grocery counters, or laugh over. the discomfort of standing in a erowded bus. . ‘These evidences of tolerance and long suffering, mark a salutary change. For wars are not “Wor: without patience. Perhaps if we feel less fretted over small -things we can bear with bettér grace. the larger irritations which “often: overwhelm us at: what seems to be the Slowness of ihe war emi , and the “foolery” of polsadans; :

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Q—Please give ‘me. some: informa size and cost of the new: Liberty ships. A~In designing these vessels, thought to minimum cost, 'rapicity ‘of construction plicity of operation. In order to get. Liberties in the numbers needed, & J of propulsion machinery is used. pansion engine of 2500 horsepower the ship at 11 knots. Extensive use ing to save time and steel, and speeded up by a thodification of fak A Liberty ship carries a and men and costs APWaLdS ¢ draft is 27 feet, 8 inches; ve beam, 57 feet, and displacement, Q--HMas the volume of retail se States been estimated for 19439 A—Present estimates place 1042 at between 50 and 85 - Q—How much did the United for the PNilippine Islands,

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