Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1942 — Page 10

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1942

HOUR OF DECISION ITLER’S break-through into the Caucasus may be even more disastrous to Britain than to Russia unless it is stopped. That is the paradox of this crisis. And that doubtless explains the reported allied emergendy conference in Moscow. Russia’s suffering is great. She is almost dismembered. If the enemy reaches Stalingrad he will pinch off the rich Caucasus, separate the Soviet armies, and cut the major supply line of all Russia—the Volga. That would destroy most of Russia's offensive strength. But that would not knock Russia out of the war. She would still have defensive power behind interior lines, back of the Volga and the Urals. Despite loss of White Russia, the Ukraine granary, the Crimean naval bases, the Caucasian oil and metals, the Dnieper-Don industrial areas, and —the lower Volga itself, central Russia would remain.

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OST of her armies would sti® exist. They would still

have almost endless space in which to maneuver and:

retreat. They would still have supplies from the smaller industries and oil wells of the Urals, and beyond, for careful defensive strategy. | Even if the worst befell—a simultaneous Japanese attack from the East—the largely autonomous Soviet Siberian army. likewise could retreat slowly into the vast interior. At least Russia would have a fighting chance to exist. Many military experts doubt that Japan or Germany would risk pushing far into the heart of Russia between the Urals

Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 8—Howard Smith, congressman for the eighth district of Virginia, has been renominated and, in practical effect, re-elected over the candidate who was sent out to get him on behalf of the A. F. of L. and, less frankly, by the C. I. O. and the new deal. Smith is the congressman who has fought for laws to forbid intimidation of workers by unions and for other proposals to impose responsibilities on unions equal to their powers. He was opposed by Emmett C. Davison, secretarytreasurer of the International Machinists’ union of the A. F. of L. and former mayor of Alexandria, a suburb of Washington, which is the home of John L. Lewis, many new deal ideclogists and the dormitory of many government clerical workers and manual workers employed on Washington war jobs. Discussing the campain against Smith, Arthur Krock wrote last week in the New York Times that the C. I. O. had “found common cause with its rival (the A. F. of L.)” in the two cities of the eighth district, Alexandria and Charlottesville.

What Is Smith's Attitude?

“TO THE AID of the organized workers,” Krock added, “has come the phalanx of self-styled ‘liberal’ publications, and their assaults on Mr. Smith as an apostle of ‘disunity’ have been broadly and expensively circulated throughout the district. These journals contend that Mr. Smith promoted disunity by baiting and persecuting labor as a whole. . . . The farmers, tradespeople, workers and government employees who make up his constituency have been bombarded with leaflets from the New Republic, PM, the Union for Democratic Action, and others of like kidney.” In determining Smith's attitude and the probable meaning of the vote some recent correspondence between him and William Green may be helpful. I will have to abbreviate the exchange, but I will not tamper with the meaning. Green accused Smith of offering legislation designed to decrease production and efficiency and to take from labor social gains obtained by years of sacrifice and effort. He referred to the A. F. of L. pledge to refrain from strikes, a pledge which has been violated many times, and to the workers’ industrial war production and construction record. “You have never emphasized a single virtue of organized labor,” Green wrote, “but have constantly condemned and denounced it.”

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By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8— Freight locomotive runs have been stepped up from 150 to 400 miles or better before they are sent to roundhouses for servicing. . . . Corn briquettes are being used in Argentina as a substitute for coal. . Plastic film that used to go in auto safety glass construction now goes into raincoats for the army. . British navy has started an anti- submarine - school in India. « « « A million idle electric motors of one horse= power and above are being catalogued for possible mobilization to aid war production. . . , No more sales tax tokens can be made out of zinc after Sept. 1... . British war workers are to be given a week's vacation.

Army's Training Pigeons, Too! LEND-LEASE AID includes not only $1.4 billion worth of munitions, but also $841 millions of food, $818 millions of machinery and $596 million worth of service, another $1.6 billion miscellaneous for a total of over $5 billion up to June 30. . . . Winter service coats for air and ground force officers are to be of the same design, instead of different. , . . Army has established a pigeon - breeding center in Missouri. . . . A year’s experiments to find ways for use of silk in discarded stockings have proved suce | cessful, but no campaign to collect old stockings is ! planned.

8000 Parts in a Radial Engine

DRAFTED BRITISH subjects in America can transfer to the British army if they make application before being sworn into the U. S. army. .. . U. S. army purchased its first airplane 33 years ago and Columbus sailed from, Spain 450 years ago this month, . .. There are 8000 parts in a modern radial airplane engine. , . . Sixty per cent of the new army officers come from the ranks. . , . Army has 6000 personnel officers, whose job it is.to assign soldiers to duties

they can do best. . . . Vegetable production isup 9 »

per cent above last year... . Hard coal miners’ union, proud of their enlistments, have now been asked to produce more coal and are over 4000 miners short. . . +» Nearly 50,000 of the 184,000 U. S. manufacturing establishments now have war orders. oxy

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and Lake Baikal, for they would have little to gain and

everything to lose in defying such treacherous distances.| SMITH REPLIED THAT Green's persistent atiiSuch a precarious hold upon life would be a poor re-| tude in defending the bad as well as the good in

. ] y : i unions had done more to destroy the respect and supward for all the sacrifice and blood Russians have paid to port, of the American people for epitimate ionic defeat the axis. It would be hardly more than their cousins, than he could do in a lifetime of legislative effort. « us of Jugoslavia have won. “That racketeers and gangsters dominate and fat- | Mk MADDOX DOESN'T KNOW ten on many of your locals is a fact well known to | WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT”

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of an ounce or more must register so stocks wom'$ leak to Germany, which is short. . . Prices on corde wood are frozen if sold as firewood, but not if sold for processing into wood pulp. . . . Candy is food b and is exempt from price regulation. , . . Navy comi ; i i mands the army in all anti-submarine activities, > tance to Hitler and his 14 mil- . . Grates for furnaces cannot be obtained withe lion murderotis hesshs mean Nothing out priorities by home owners converting from oil

to Chaillaux? to coal. . . . The official name is Lend-Lease Admin-

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UT the English have no place to retreat. If Hitler is | demned any of them, I have never heard of it. On| Office. AAFTS, Madison, Wis. allowed to swing on England as he swung on Russia, England must stand or fall—she has no vast spaces, no Urals, to save her. If the Nazi hordes cross the Volga and remove th: threat of a Russian counter-offensive, Hitler is free for the first time to concentrate most of his strength against England. He has to do that to win. And all agree that his best chance—probably his only chance—is to strike soon. This, of course, is the reason Britain and the United States have been doing everything possible to help Russia hold; and this is why, having failed to prevent the German break-through, the allies are now meeting in Moscow to save a desperate situation.

= 2 = ” 2 » ONDON and Moscow dispatches hint that it is no longer a question of whether the allies will open a second air and land front, but when? Germany’s rapid advance in the south, and her iné¢reasing success in sinking allied supplies on the Murmansk route, force a decision by the allies “whether to move now instead of later, when they would be better prepared. The entire war may turn on this decision. It is a ter‘rible gamble either way. The British public, and apparently the American public, demand action. That is natural. But this is no choice for popular emotion and armchair wisdom. As for the United States, only the commander-in-chief can make that fateful choice. ¥ HUMANIZING THE INCOME TAX HE federal income tax hasn’t long been a formidable item in the American budget. Indeed, only a few years ago less than 5 per cent of the people paid any federal income tax. And on most of the incomes that were taxed the rate was so low. that it amounted to little'more than a token levy. So, until now, the lawmakers have not thought it important to make allowances for debts and other fixed oblgations. They have taken no account of unexpected doctor and hospital bills. They haven't even bothered to think much about the obvious injustice of stopping the exemption for dependent children at the age of 18, though that is the age the son or daughter usually goes off to college and starts becoming really expensive.

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HE rates approved by the house and now before the senate start at 19 per cent on the first dollar of taxable income (6 per cent normal and 13 per cent surtax) and run up to a maximum of 88 per cent (6 normal and 82 surtax). At these rates, and with lover exemptions bringing about half of America’s breadwinners under the income tax, debts and doctor bills and children in college are beginning to make a difference. When the rates were low, those things didn’t matter so much. Net income was a rough but satisfactory yardstick of ability to pay. But with the new high rates, the time has come to make allowances for the other elements. For obviously a man with nQ debts to pay, no children in college, no hospital bills to meet and no-cousins, aunts and in-laws living off him, has a much greater ability to pay than another man with the same income but burdened with all those fixed obligations. The individual income tax is {the fairest of all forms of taxation. But the stiffer rates call for more flexible application. It is a heartening sign that the members of the senate finance committee are giving some thought to the human problems involved—to fixed obligations, emergency family expenditures, and to ways and means of colJecting taxes while the money is being earned.

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, “ "WAGE RAISES :

EMPLOYERS have shown surprising little worry about . the war labor board’s decision that a 15 per cent wage - raise, above Jan. 1, 1941 level, is permissible. Why? Because the treasury will pay close to 90 cents out of every dollar of the raises, in the form of excess | profits taxes lost. The cost to the employer will be negligible.

the contrary, you have publicly abused those who have sought to preserve the respectability of unionism by eliminating such characters. You have blessed with equal fervor the bad and the good in unionism. “Public opinion will no longer tolerate boycotts, jurisdictional strikes and unconscionable initiation: fees which, as you know, are prevailing practices, protected and encouraged under present A. F. of L. policies. If the time ever comes when you are ready to purge from your organization the evils which are bringing it into public dispute I pledge you that you will have no more sincere advocate than myself.” On this record and right under the guns of political unionism’s strongest fortification, Smith beat a protessional unioneer, 4 to 1, on arday when Green and his executive council were holding solemn deliberations amid the stench of that notorious corruption which constitutes A. F. of L. unionism in Chicago,

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

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Army vs. Navy! By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—What a bitter pill it is for the people to have to wait until a dispute between the army and navy as to which outfit shall command in the Aleutians area has reached . the status of a near scandal, before it is compromised. It’s the old, old chafing again under the national collar, the old squabble between “army and navy on the overlapping of functions. The British have heen suffering while their admiralty and the territorial army and the R. A. F. have been conducting a disastrous row as to which shall control coastal work against the Nazis. What a grim chuckle these so-and-so’s must work up as they watch the petty jealousies of the three armed forces across the channel. And whether it is publicly understood or not, the fact is that our own army and navy organizations are fighting tooth and nail to grab control of the two air arms. The whole row revolves around whether the army or the navy is going to control our coast defenses. To my personal knowledge this bitter squabble has been in full swing for 25 years. High water or low water—or mean high tide? There's the pitiable nub of the whole shebang. Where does the navy leave off and where ddes the army take over. High-tide or low-tide mark? That's the mighty question of service prestige we must solve before we can present a solid and effective and efficiently, mobile front against any foreign enemy, &

A Shotgun Marriage!

THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR all this pitiable confusion and conflict is not solely that of admirals and generals. It’s not their function or within their power to settle it. Each outfit is getting more and more airplanes. Each is growing bigger in the air, and this will bring a still fiercer struggle between them to control America’s airpower. The settling of this deplorable mixup is the responsibility of congress. And sad to relate—each outfit has its backers in congress. I am by no means joining in the smearing of that body of men. But congress has been sorely cognizant of this army and navy struggle to grab off American airpower for years and has done nothing but fiddle and fuddle in avoidance of a decision. I say neither the army or navy is psychologically or administratively capable of handling the coming American airpower of 180,000 planes and the 1,800,000 men to fly them. The only efficient answer is to divorce the air forces from the army and effect a shotgun marriage between the air forces and the naval air service,

So They Say—

itself. The production we are getting is due to the teamwork of many able men.—Donald Nelson. 8 * »

The mayor does all the talking for his adminis-

ation —Jeroms Daly, secretary of the board of transportation of New York city.

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In answer to Edward F. Maddox, 959 W. 28th st., and his treatise on flirting and necking ruining our army. I would first like to ask Mr. Ma ¢- dox how old he is and if he hss ever been to a Service Men's organization or a U.S. O. dance? Now I would like to tell him something. Do you know, Mr. Maddox, soldi are disciplined all day long, drill, they do oh so many th that I don’t think it necessary enumerate even to you. You would then deprive men of going to a dance, me acquaintances of decent girls,

can you tell me why they shou'cn' be attractive girls.

what you are talking, you have 1 interpreted even what you 1! heard. Like thousands of © soldiers I have been to many of these dances and the girls are =.- ways well chaperoned and come from the best families of the respective cities. If it were not for these sponsorsd dances and parties service msn would have little to do in thei: spare hours, and would likely into far more trouble than tsl and dancing with attractive ge My suggestion to you, Mr. dox, is to elevate ycur oily donate a dollar or two to your ic cl U. S. O. or Service Men's club, these organizations and girls do far more toward building the morzis and morals of our army than n=:-row-minded misinformed such as yourself. ” # 8 “HE FALLS SHORT OF THE SIR WALTER MARK.” By Queen Elizabeth of 1942, Indianapc Why doesn’t the man who so im properly calls himself Sir Raleigh ¢f 1942 say he is one of the big fs: men holding seats in the streetcays and busses? He certainly gave the impression when he said thai {a}

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Why do not these great minds change their point of view and consider communism in the light of the last 25 years as simply an elementary or toddling step toward democracy. ) We in America are ages beyond the need for any part of communism, but should we forget our own and others early struggles. Truly ignorance and intolerance does rule in many high places. If I thought Chaillaux’s statement was the conviction of even a small part of the better than 1,600.000 members of the American Legion I would certainly withdraw. But I know 97 per cent of that membership are human and sound as a bullet. But you see Chagillaux thinks he must stay on the payroll and our people love to watch others fight windmills, else how would the politicians in .a brief 1112 years have put 5,600,000 political job holders on the taxpayers’ back (this does not include soldiers, sailors or marines), . ” 2 ” “POLITICS IS THE CURSE OF THE NATION.” By Pat Hogan, Columbus The Hoosier Forum is the best feature ever carried by any newspaper in America; indeed it might well be termed a melting pot. > Regardless of what idea you may hatch, bring it here under the white light of truth. If it is worthy we will boost it, and if it is a jinx it will be pounced upon like a belligerent terrier goes after a rat.... Politics—just for political reasons —is the curse of this nation. This is evidenced now in the trial of Pelley who said: “I have been a RepubTon all my life . . .” There are thousands cf otherwise intelligent people who are so biased that they cannot take an issue” apart and judge it on its true merit. In other words, there are people who would vote for Hitler if he was on their party ticket. Now that we should get down to business about this war we must adopt the attitude of the busy farmer's wife who was up to her

{elbows in the wash tub when an

insistent politician called and wanted to know her politics. She said, “I told you I am busy and have no time, but if you must know sir, I am a Republican, my husband is a Democrat, the dog is independent, the cow is dry and the baby is wet.” 2 » 2 “WHY ARE UNION BOOKS NOT OPEN TO PUBLIC?” By A. B. C., Indianapolis Is there any reason why the books of unions are not open to the public as are the books of any other organization? Unions are a necessity. Therefore, Congress should make a law requiring that all unions disclose the names of their*officers and their salaries, the amount of their initiation fees and dues, and, in detail, the amount and sources of their revenues and the ultimate destination of their disbursements.

D/dLY THOUGHT

Out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee; and upon earth He shewed thee His great fire; and thou heardest His words out of the midst of the fire.—Deuteronomy 4:36.

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

A FRIEND REMINDS me of. what the poet, Keats, once said on a popular subject, “Patriotism is the glory of making, by any means, a country happier.” And so, she adds, “I think we can all have a little part, at least, in patriotism.” : It’s a timely suggestion because a good many of us suffer from a sense of frustration these days. We feel the momentum with which the war production units move. We see unbelievable changes, swiftly accomplished. The gigantic, over=powering war machinery, geared in high, roars and rockets about us night and day. Yet most of us feel we are not doing enough. The people have a sort of madness in their blood. Rising anger and mounting fears grip them. The urge for haste, for action, for something big and vital for “Me” to do, beats at the consciousness of all.

The Art of Being Kind

. YET THE MAJORITY of men and women are obliged to stick to everyday jobs. There's nothing exciting about punching the same old time. clock, Planning meals and bathing children are not thrilling occupations. And doubt the average soldier is often bored by the monotony of his existence when he is not actually in battle. So perhaps we should struggle to attain the mood of Keats. If each of us tried to spread a little more joy on our daily rounds, we would behave with truest patriotism. Those who work actively to make others happy, or, if you want to express it with a popular phrase, to build morale, will soon find themselves enjoying the thrills they long for, because the art of being kind is the highest duty and the holiest joy of civilized men and women. .

Questions and Answers

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Q—Was Japan officially in World War I? A—Yes. On August 23, 1914, Japan declared wap against Germany. The Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, ey and Bulgaria) declared war against Japan August 27, 1914.

Q—How much gasoline does a four-motored flying fortress consume per hour? o A—Four hundred gallons. )

Q—How are postage stamps perforated? A—Approximately 95 per cent of the stamps manue factured in the bureau of engraving and printing are printed, gummed and wound into rolls of appropriafe sizes in one operation on web intaglio presses. Printed and gummed rolls are then placed in the electric-eys perforating machines where they are perforated bes tween the sides of the stamps, and ifnmediately fole lowing this operation, while still in the web form, they are perfgrated across the width of the sheet bee tween the top and bottom of the stamp and: then cut into sheets containing 400 subjects each in a cone tinuous operation.

Q—Was a book written about the first round-thee world flight? A—“The First World Plight” By Lowell Thomas, 1925, covered the story of the flight by Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, Lieut, Leigh Wade, and the others.

Q—What are some of the uses for waste sawdust? A—Because of its insulating, absorbent, and resilient properties, sawdust has several mechanical uses, Among these are heat and sound insulation in- walls, floor-sweeping compounds, packing for fragile articles, composition flooring, and wood flour. Although the uses are numerous, they are chiefly local, owing ‘to the bulkiness of the raw material; and together they account for a very small part of the sawdust produced in this country. One of the easiest and in many cases one of the most profitable uses of sawdust at present

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