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Give Light end the People Will Find Their Own Way

' THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1943

| HINDU HARA-KIRI

MERICA’S sympathies are with India in her desire for 7+" freedom. America’s sympathies are with Britain when i Indian Nationalist leaders blackmail ‘her with threats of a general strike in the midst of war. China’s attitude is essentially the same as ours. Gandhi should be sobered by the fact that the two foreign nations with the longest record of friendship for the aspirations of a free India—the United States and China— expect her to earn freedom by fighting with fhem against the common aggressor, Japan. . Instead, Gandhi has reached the depths of absurdity in suggesting that he would “negotiate” with the Japs to be hice to India and China. By that suggestion, which Nehru removed frem “the Congress party ultimatum, Gandhi sacrificed in the eyes of the united nations any claim to practical leadership. However sincere and courageous this saint of the Nationalism aplen Lim) may be, today he is endangering the “peace, the security, and the post-war freedom .of India. He is knifing the China he claims as an ally. He i is siging the axis aggressoLs he professes to abhor. 8 HATEVER fie intentions, Gandhi rot escape the test of results—“by their fruits shall ye know them.” hy the fruits of the Gandhi plan, if he goes ahead with it, are the very violence, sabotage and fifth-column betrayal which he disavows. : That would be Hindu hara-kiri. If Gandhi succeeds, a general strike bot ‘mass disobedience will cripple the war production, transport and communications of a nation in battle. The Anglo-Indian government will do just what the United States government would do to Americans guilty of such acts in ‘his country—it will put down revolt at any cost.

. Of course A Gandhi knows that. He even boasts that sich suppression wilf feed the fires of rebellion. The only apparent hope now is that the more realistic and younger Nehru may recapture the Congress party from Gandhi. ® Secretary of State Hull, in the latest official statement of American policy, obviously had India in mind when he said we would continue “to support attainment of freedom, by all peoples who, by their acts, show themselves Worthy of it and ready for it.” Tobe free India must fight the aggressor at her gates.

‘THE LEGION SHOULD ACT,

or our Hoosier Forum today «appears a letter from a Legionnaire which seems to us to speak for itself. It was .a week ago today that the newspapers of this community carried the information that Homer Chaillaux, the Americanism director of the Legion, had attacked fhe entire United War Fund of Indianapolis; because it included Russian war relief. Twenty-four hours later, the nationat*adjutant dis‘claimed as “Legion policy” any statement by Mr. Chaillaux in connection with Russian relief. What the national ‘adjutant did not make clear, however, was the very simple issue of whether a national executive of the Legion can make public speeches without representing the Legion. Surely, the American Legion does not condone failure to give to the U. S. 0.7? Or to give to the service clubs? Or to the so many valuable community agencies of this city? Or to stricken China? Or in helping our tortured allies, the Russians, because one man in the Legion has a phobia against communism ? .e Thousands of loyal Legionnaires want their ‘great veterans organization to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies. It is not the Legion way to run out on a comrade. It is up to the Legion to restore this state’s faith in our United War Fund—now!

TOO MUCH—EVEN—FOR FIORELLO

Price in Marion Coun- |

_ Mail rates in Indiana,

| the idea being that he is, the

“WE VE heard all these youngsters, and they just don’t 4 know,” said Mayor LaGuardia, testifying on the tax bill before the senate finance committee. ; ' Maybe the Little Flower has dropped a petal on a point. For the experts on the treasury staff appearing as advisers to the comniittee are almost invariably young— very young. There seems to be a veritable youth administration in the department. | Sitting at the raised desks above and around the experts are the elder statesmen, the graying: Connallys and Vandenbergs, Georges “Tafts, et al. The visitor gets the impression however that the older men are not (actually running the ii or at least only in part. The senators don’t have all the answers. hot off the hip, like the youngsters—that Lisi characteristic both of age and of youth. ’ . » The cocksureness of many of the replies on as complicated questions as-ever faced lawmakers gives occasional - ghivers to the’ citizen and ghow. For the taxpayer i the guinea pig in this high- | ceilinged, bepaneled, expensive and air-conditioned labora- | tory. It seems a cinch that none of Morgenthau’ s scouts has ever seen, let alone met, a pay roll. While we've nothing against youth as such, a bit of weaning and of seasoning is called for when it comes i raising and handling billions of taxpayer money. : . Anyway, when it gets too much for the Flaming F orello it must be somet ing.

'PELLEY CASE . gin 4 M DUDLEY PELLEY has finally been given his ust deserts. His conviction by a federal court jury hing ditious material is obviously the y verdict which could: have been returned. It is not to our credit that this contemptible Silver sr should have felt it safer to operate in Indiana than where else. Pelley and t he people who followed him so dly are not represents tive of Indiana. :

taxpayer who listens to the

Fair Enough By Wasbiosk Pept 1

NEW YO! A 6: —With the.

5 possible exception of the time that | Big. Bill Thompson appealed to the |

: “voters of Chicago with a promise to ‘punch King George on the

* ‘belittled

American ¢ mmunity.

pressed isolationist sentiments b h, unworthy of the presidént’s support. \ Of course, it was the president, himself, who introduced this issue when he indicated that anyone qualifying for his support must have upheld his war program before Pearl Harbor. Mr, Farley insists that his candidate for the Democratic nomination, John Bennett, answers the description. Tom Dewey, who probably will be the Republican nominee, does not, and doesn’t pretend to. But all three of these men are loyal Americans and it would be fantastic to suggest that any of them, if elected governor, would do anything to obstruct the president's direction and management of the national effort to win the war, or would withhold any co-. operation.

Well, Nobody Wanted War

WHAT THEY THOUGHT about the war before Pearl Harbor is water over the dam. The only question really before the voters is which one would make" the best governor. The truth is that the American people did not want war and. they hoped blindly, wishfully disbelieving the evidence daily revealed in Europe and Asia, that this country might somehow manage to keep out of the fight. But when the Japs struck and Hitler declared war, the whole people, with a few miserable exceptions, accepted the situation and the president has had practically unanimous support

‘against the enemy ever since.

In the state elections, thesctns gfe war is not an issue at-all. Any man who appealed to the voters today with a promise that he would oppose the president in the prosecution of the war would need a military guard to protect his life, and, in New York, Dewey is as good a patriot as either of the candidates or the president himself.

It's Just All Out of Line THE AGGRAVATION OF this question.is a dan-{~

gerous business ‘because it happens that the president's political following includes many clamorous individuals who pretend to speak for the :administra-~ tion and heap insults on all who disagree with him or them on domestic issues. : Under our system it is entirely correct to conduct a political opposition to the party in power and such opposition cannot decently be described as traitorism. The fact that the country is at war does not altar the. case unless there is a proposition before the people to suspend the system and adopt one something like Hitler's for the duration of the war against Hitlerism, Mead has no qualifications for the job as governor,

months ago, when there was still hope of escaping war, is to accept President Roosevelt's own prescribed test of eligibility. Bennett is said to have made some remarks, himself, back in the days of peace which might be interpreted as condonation of the dictatorships of Europe, but the question now is not one of international affairs. Anyone who suggests that Mead, Bennett or Dewey is unsafe as governor is suggesting, without saying so, that this man would help the enemy and that is ‘just too outragequs for consideration. ‘

Holland's Problem

By Wm. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.— Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, doyenne of the world’s reigning monarchs, is coming to the White . House to discuss, among othér things, the futue of Netherlands India and her 70,000,000 subjects there. The queen has every reason to feel perturbed. It is openly stated here and in other capitals that the world is not going back to the pre-war status quo; that colonial peoples and subject races are going to be set free. The Atlantic Charter, the original statement of allied . war aims, specifically pledges the 28 members of the united nations to “respect the rights of peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live.” Speaking for the United States, Sumner Welles, who helped draft the charter, clarified the formula still further. “If this war is in fact a war for the liberation of peoples,” he said, “it must assure the sovereignty of peoples throughout the world . . . our victory must bring in its train the liberation of all peoples . . . the age of imperialism is dead.”

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The Philippines Formula?

PATENTLY, THEN, the British, French, Dutch and other empires—at least as we have known them— are things of the past. What, therefore, is to become of Queen Wilhelmina’s “realm of dream .islands,” as the Dutch East Indies are known? To her this is a vital question. In fact it means well nigh everything, for without Netherlands India very little would be left -either to her or taf Holland. Is Wilhelmina to be shorn of these islands? There is reason to believe that she will not. The chances are that after the Japanese are driven out, the united nations will give Holland something like a mandate over them pending the time when the natives will be competent to rule themselves. Holland may be commissioned to follow what might be called the Philippine formula in the islands and Holland might undertake to perform a similar task for Netherlands India. - These are some of the things Wilhelmina will want to talk over with President Roosevelt. In private life host and guest are not supposed to talk business.

round.

So They Soy—

If after this war we do not succeed in causing Germany to pass through an internal change and revolution of the profoundest nature which will purify the German people from all the filth and evil into which Germany has been dragged not only by ‘Nazism but also by its whole national political edu-

cation of the last 60 even since Frederick the Great, then we shall have a third world war in another 20 years or so.’—

» . 0» power which ‘enabled us to protect a landing of ‘our

invasion. The war is then all but over William: Ziff, publisher of "Flying” magazine.

jing of ever]

snoot, the issue which, up to now, has been paramount: in the New| ‘. York campaign for the governor-. x ship is the silliest that has ever : he intelligence of an}

When ruler visits ruler, however, it's the other way

r 70 years since 1870, and

Edward Benes, former president of Czechoshovakia, :

If we possessed the crushing superiority in air i}

military forces, we need no longer think in terms of |

The axis sowed the wind with’ air power: srihrongh — air power they AFG non Sesuming is soap 8 Whitl i

Jim Farley is accusing Senator | * 3 Jim Mead, the New Deal’ candidate, of having ex-| in February, 1941,

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“I'M DEPENDING ON. THE LEGION COMING THROUGH”

‘An open letter to Mr. Frank Samuel, national adjutant of the Amerjcan Legion: Late last week TI found in the mail a letter from my post asking ‘me to pay my $5 dues for 1943 now in honor of the incoming state commander so that we can have 15,000 paid up ($75,000 worth) when we have the state convention next week. ‘I am writing. this directly at you because your name is signed og the back of my bill.

Legion, Mr. Samuel. I went over there in ’17, I came back and I've had to scratch for a living ever since. Five bucks means something to me and my family, but I've always felt that the Legion was worth my five bucks any. year.

of my bill very carefully. It say that “the first thought of the Legionnaire today should be for the safety and welfare of his country” and: that “the Legion. stands on guard whether the menace be foes from without or fifth columnists from within.”Well, Mr. Samuel, I was shocked last week when I read in the papers that Homer Chaillaux, the Americanism director, was hollering about the United War Fund and saying he wasn’t going to give it a dime and also it said that he said that the Communists were behind the second front business. Next day, I see where you said that Chaillaux said it, not ‘the Legion. I've heard Chaillaux talk and I always thought he was talking for the Legion. I liked that Times editorial which wanted to | know whether he did speak for the Legfon or he didn’t. ‘The way I:look at it, Mr. Samuel, you just ducked. Down in our end of the country we call it just plain weaseling.- ; I was talking to some of the boys from the Post and they told me that Chaillaux is gefting more than six thousand bucks a year, plus two

By: y 2] but to attack him because of what he said almost 18 ig Loyal Fellow Legionnnire, Indlanap

(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance.

be signed.)

troversies

Letters must

thousand more traveling expenses. That means, Mr. Samuel, that it takes sixteen hundred family men

speeches that sound more like stuff Hitler wants to hear than ws guys in the Legion do... . I'm willing to pay my five bucks. Don’t get me wrong. I joined up because it was a swell outfit.. It .|meant a lot to me. We went through *

1 read what you on the bod hell together and 1 figured we ought

to stick together. The way I figure \it is that we are the fellows on the line who pay all the salaries for these big guys up at 777. I'm trying to say that Homer Chaillaux works for us. But he doesn’t say what we think. Look, my next door neighbor has a swell kid in service. He got a ietier the other day marked “sans origine.” You know what that means, Mr. Samuel. So far that kid can write home because those Russians are dying in his place. From what I read, those birds over there have gone through hell, fire and high water and we're sitting pretty- because they've been doing the catching. And then a guy like Chaillaux comes along to pitch a lot of baloney . about communism and how he isn’t going to give a dime to the war fund. Who the hell gives a damn about communism just now? The thing that scares my pants off is Hitler. I'm paying my five bucks, Mr. Samuel. I'm depending on you to help kick this guy where he belongs. That place is a three-letter word: OUT. . I'm not signing this letter because

the boys tell me he’s tried to get

Side Glances—By Galbraith

furlough to Hollywood

like me forking out $5 a year just! I am not a new member of sthe| for him to go around making

| scramble.

‘lalong just as well as those who do

|and she should reward him with a

Amazons, they will at times still

| die. -In being specially courteous to 1 represents the home side, the beauty

1 honor. »

fellows’ jobs who've bucked him and I've got to eat. I don’t like to pull

tons.

In Washington

; By Peter ‘Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—You

never !iow what youll find till

you start to look for it, and that .

applies ‘particularly to the collse tion of junk in wartime. Take * the experience of Wright W. Gary. fob instance. . tor of refining in Harold Ickes fancy-named office’ of the petroleum co-ordinator for war, known, for short ass OPC. Mr. Gary has just returned to Washington from a month’s tour of U. S. oil refineries, and he has found, of all things, existing, idle refinery equipment which can be assembled in some 30 different refinery areas and by the end of the year be put to producing: 200,000 tons of butadiene a year. Now this is important news. Butadiene, you'll recall, is the essential raw material that goes into synthetic rubber. Mix approximately 80 per cent butadiene with 20 per cent styrene, let em polymerize, which is the fancy chemical name for “build up” and Buna S synthetic rubber comes out here. The govern-

| ment’s synthetic rubber program calls for the manu-

facture of Buna S synthetic rubber at the rate of 700,000 tons, a year, 480,000 tons of it to be made from petroleum roducts.

t's An Impottant Discovery

TO PRODUCE THE butadiene going ‘into this Buna S rubber, the Rubber Reserve Co. has let contracts for the construction and operation of some 24 butadiene .plants, producing an average of 27,000 tons of butadiene each, or a total of some 648,000

each building one: butadiene plant. Standard of Louisiana, Neches Butane and Rubber Synthetics are building two apiece, and Carbide and Carbon Chemical are building 10. First of the plants will start producing in September of this year, and the last in August, 1943. The building of these plants requires a lot of critical materials, particularly copper and steel. In fact, a big part of the drawback in ‘expanding the synthetic rubber program has been the Searcy ‘of critical materials for the plants, Wright Gary’s - discoveries of “suitable butadiene

| refinery equipment” already in existence are impor- { tant, therefore, because they show that about 30 - per cent of this 638,000-ton productive capacity may .

not have to be built, or that butadiene can: be produced sooner than had been hoped, or that the butadiene and synthetic rubber programs can be expanded, or that 30° per cent of ‘the critical materials scheduled to go into the butadiene plants can be diverted to something else. 7

There's a Moral in It, Too:

GARY'S REPORT MAKES it clear that this old

equipment is not 100 per cent complete for use as is. But he estimates that it is 90 per cent complete, and will require only 10 per cent more critical materials to put it into operation. Putting this equipment. into operation ‘simply: requires that the refineries which now have the idle units swap among themselves or pool spare parts in

a stunt like this. And it doesn’t|such a way that complete plants can be assembled,

sound very much like No. 4 in what you wrote about “liberty as a nation- of free people” »

Editor's note: "The writer of this letter misquotes Mr. Chaillaux. He did not say he would “not give a dime to the war fund.” Mr. Chaillaux said he dollar.” ” ” ” THAT “WOIKIN’ GAL” MUST HAVE EXPECTED THIS

By A Working Man, Indianapolis A “Woikin’ Gal” complains in this

Forum that men do not get up and give women their seats in the street‘cars and busses, What contradictory creatures women are!

- Evidently they want to be as much like’ men as possible; dress like men, smoke like men, drink like men, in the army like men—O. K.— still they expect special quarters on the grounds that they are {frail women. Women have driven out chivalry. They can’t eat their cake and have it too!

a seat; sometimes I don’t,

By Sir Raleigh 1942, Indianapolis I appreciate Miss “Woikin’ Gal's” work for the good of the nation, and her patriotism in riding street cars, unfortunately in the stand-| ing position. * I don’t. appreciate her selfishness over. such trivial matters as “fat men” refusing her a seat in order that she may rest her tired anatomy... (If anything, . fat men should have seat priorities.) My suggestion for a solution of her calamity ‘in this unchivalrous but practical age is to wait for}: the rush hour to pass or take the car further back on the line. As forme who am a tried man, I'll surrender my seat only to the aged, the crippled, the mother with. child, or my lady.

By Mrs. M. Mina, Indianapolis After hearing a Woikin’ Gal's complaint about big, fat men in streetcars and busses not giving seals to women, I ‘should like very much to quote from Esther Boyd's “Hints on Etiquette.” 2 “Many persons act as if the rules of good breeding were suspended on entering a streetcar. 1t is unpleasant *o stand, but better to lose a seat than engage in an unseemly One: who regards the rights of others will usually get not, and if he doesn’t he. still has| his self-respect. A man lifts his hat in offering a seat tora woman]

smile and a cordial word of thanks. “We are told that the age of chivalry is past, and that the reason is because women now have political rights, but unless women become

need the help of a stronger arm. While this is true, chivalry cannot

women, & man is honoring the sex of maternity—of his mother. Woman is still the half of humanity that

side of life, and as such, every man worthy to bear “the grand old name | of gentleman,” will still give her

DAILY THOUGHT | | The Lord lift up His counte-

. nance upon thee, and give thee peace.—Numbers 6: 26.

| | ten 2 tow Te a nant to 's royal, In ang fo anit on bo Yokohama 6 or SonS }

“would not give al.

I ride the busses| and take a chance; sometimes I get

The moral of this virtual finding of 200,000 tons annual butadiene productive capacity is exactly the point that Henry J. Kaiser makes when he says he can tool up his shipyard for the manufacture of cargo planes by improvising, by picking up idle machines from all over the country and putting them to work.

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

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson:

THIS MONTH hordes of movie fans: are od mal out with goose pimples and suff¢ring choking sensations as they watch the incomparable Greer Garson doing “Mrs. Miniver” in MGM’s picture of the same name. The country rings with praise of the film. But since press agents have used up all our first-class: descriptive words on tripe and trash, there are none left to extol a really good picture. Everybody will like the screen. version for another reason. It presents us with an intimate view of traditional English men and women, whom we have been

"educated to look up ta.as the noblest of the earth.

All the characters in “Mrs. Miniver” behave exactly as. we feel storybook heroes and heroines should behave, but seldom do. No doubt those who see the picture will Jong ‘also to go forth and conduct themselves as valiantly. “If

I only had the chance to show what stuff I'm made

of,” we say to ourselves. “When the test comes I will be as brave, as nonchalant under fire, as patient

through discomfort, and as admirable in sorrow as

these people are,”

Many Brands of Fortitude

. IP THE TEST comes—ah, there's the catch! the test is here for each of us. Not in the spectacular

‘sequence of a movie film, but in Vie drab monotone

of every working day. In. our time the air. raid seems to call for man’s greatest courage, yet isn't it true that most of us rise to rare and dangerous occasions? Sometimes the most obscure’ and timid man will startle the community by some yesh deed because the moment calls for rashness., So while we’ re taking: an inventory of courage, let” us not ,overlook the kind that endures the slow torture of ‘many a lowly existence—nor forget the duller achings of a tired heart. There are many brands of fortitude, all of them needed to win, wars and to triumph over life. It may very well be that the little woman who sat next to you in the theater the day you saw “Mrs, Miniver” will get an accolade from Saint Peter when the final ‘story of mortal courage is made clear,

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