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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1943

a strange savage island under the equator, whose very _ name was recently unknown to Americans, our forces , fighting their first offensive. - Four bloody days and nights have witnéssed the surprise landing, the enemy’s quick and vigorous 'counterattack, and still the battle continues. Losses on both sides heavy. Matching its new offensive tater, the U. S. navy s initiated a policy of frankness with the public. Admiral King’s statement yesterday afternoon was 8 model. Instead of withholding information because it was incomplete or because it might shock the public—the previous short-sighted policy of. Washington—King apparently shared with the press all of his incomplete and inconclusive facts of the battle known to the enemy. “This in itself represents a major advance as important as winning a big battle—indeed it is a victory in the battle against sugar-coating of war news. Es 8 8 8 # 8 #2 HE King statement, following the remarkably frank * lowdown which Elmer Davis gave the country last week, ‘should sober such Americans as still believe this is a ‘quick war in which others will do most of the fighting. Instead of covering up our losses at Tulagi, the admiral

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

. Price in Marion Coun-| Wl

NEW YORK, ‘Aug. 11.—The re-

port of the office of war informa-.|

_ tion was a .good presentation of bad news but it didn't go far enough. Having said that this : nation is eniy ankle deep in war it - leaves ‘the people wondering

‘what they can do and in just}

© what way they have failed. . + For example the report says sw “production of small vessels for the anti-submarine campaign is lagging and, in June, was less than half of schedule.” Assuming that the people are eager to remedy this, how can the individual go abeut it? Where can le Aga a place to put his shoulder to the job and e

Again, it says production, “measured against what

we need to win, is not yet enough. In June, we fell

slightly helow ‘schedule in total military planes, in

total combat planes and most of the individual | |

types; we made more planes than any other country in the world but we did not raake as many as we sald we were going to make, The same is true of tanks, of most types of artillery and naval vessels— particularly: the small craft needed to fight submarines’

Speak Right Up, Mr. President

THERE ARE LITERALLY millions of Americans who are doing nothing at all beyond the little neighpborhood activities of civilian defense and the like, Among them'are many whose sons are in uniform at. home or overseas. These Americans would not let down their own men but, not being miners or; say, mechanics or farmers they try to pursue their regular occupations and are out of the war effort or, as the report says, only ankle deep in it. Is political disunity a serious trouble with us? It would seem so for there is great bitterness among us and it is our natural way to grow excited and use harsh language in election years. But couldn’t our president help soothe matters by indicating that those individuals and publications of his following who hurl at his political opponents such shocking epithets as quisling, fascist, pro-naz, traitor and

"sixth columnist are not speaking for the head of the

government.

4 speeches on matters pertaining to © the war. It is nice of the citizenry to want to hear the lowdown - about the war. effort, and it is. flattering to the officials - to be ¢ asked to come and make remarks. “2 But for a number. of reasons, :’ sins tm ne Be ©: War. ‘In the first place, there is a transportation shortage and the railroads and airlines shouldnt be. cluttered up by public speakers traveling from and: to Washington. Secondly, these officials really don’t

E | have time to make these speeches, if they are to do.

their administrative jobs right. Thirdly, the ghosts ‘who write the :speeches for the big name officials don’t have the time to write good speeches; being

| too busy writing publiotty handouts and. answering | questions. i : oo

+ Hitlerian Peanut BritHe 21?

TRUTH IS, SHIS 1s. shout What. You. can expect

: from one of these current war economy effusions:

“Gentlemen of the Peanut Brittle Industry: (Sub- - stitute glass beads, girdle and bra, horseshoe, grits 'and grease, or ‘other correct designation.) : “It gives ‘me ‘great pleasure to be here (tonjght, “this neon) to read this synthetic speech to you on behalf of co-ordinator (director, administrator, chairman) (fill in correct name of ‘whoever it . is from the ABC, DEF or GHI Purean, ranen, division or office). “If were here, I am sure he would tell you that (a) Long before Pearl Harbor the peanut brittle industry had lined up for all-out production of. peanut 5 brittle to win this war. Or (b) Today the peanut brittle industry faces a crisis. . “I want to remind you that (here, remind -them. of something). “But my purpose tonight is to tell you about the work of our division (bureau, branch or office) and . to show you how we are trying to make your problems our problems and our problems your problems. (Follow here with a long and involved explanation of

A little repudiation here would help, and it certainly could do no harm.

1 stressed them: ! “Tt appears we have had at least one cruiser | sunk “yand. two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport dam- Let ag aged. ” "And that is only an incomplete figure from the earlier

red tape organization, co-ordinatien and liaison.) “I do not need to remind you that this country as a whole faces a crisis. (At this point, discuss Ye : rubber situation, sugar, gas or fuel oil rationing, being sure to mention no fact that is not already known.) “What this all boils down to is that we are going be

et's Have Another Report

UP TO NOW, miracles have been performed, in the conversion and construction of plants and the housing and training of fighters. We were caught

The Hoosier

I wholly disagree with what yo defend to the death your right to s

forum

1y, but will

, stages of the battle. = ‘He then went out of his way to explain the obvious— ~ which we don’t like to think about—that ‘considerable

losses” are inherent in any offensive action, and particularly

in a “complicated and difficult” operation of this kind. ” » » 8 = 8 AT Tulagi the enemy had the advantage we had at Midway except that at Midway our scouts gave sufficient : warning to enable us to use that devastating advantage of "land-based planes, while at Tulagi the invaders surprised the defenders. But even with that handicap, the enemy’s land-based planes enabled him to inflict heavy damage on our ships. ~~ Thisis important for an understanding of the terribly * hard task before us. If we must pay such a heavy price even to land on the enemy’s most distant outpost, it is not going-to be easy recaptute ‘a’major Jap. base—or io win a western European offensive. We can win this war only by costly fighting, by taking necessary losses, by sacrificing anything and. everything for victory. ‘That is the spirit of our men who die today in Tulagi. And that must be the spirit Jf those of us here at home,

flat-footed when France fell and made a hesitant start even then because that was a campaign year and President Roosevelt couldn’i bear down too hard lest the people suspect that he was trying to drive them to war. The military scene in the south and southwest is startling and where two years ago men soldiered with broomsticks and stovepipes and laundry wagons were labeled “tank” there are now genuine weapons. It may be remembered, too, that less than a year ago we were still hearing more talk of tooling than ‘of production, but this report of the OWI is able to say, amid its gloomy truths, that the United States produced, in June, more planes than any other country in the world, but not enough and fewer than we had said we would make, But there is not enough information in the report. It should be followed by another one telling the people who aren’t in it more than ankle deep on ‘the home front how they ean help cure this shortage of materials and this deficiency of small vessels and ail.

Training Japs By David Dietz

i—=Voltaire.

“DON QUIXOTE DESERVES THE CHAMPIONSHIP!” By M. T. M., Indianapolis This Hoosier Forum can very easily be compared .to gn aquatic tournament. : Some of us drive in on a subject and make an unhappy landing, while others slip and have .to go

back and start all over again. But when one begifis and finishes as well as Don Quixote did with his

civilian defense subject, he. should

win the championship. He< had enough competition to deserve a medal I think, Didn’t know whether he would go under there at the last or not. He didn’t. And I must admit that his free-style way: ‘of “swimming” ' is. really graceful, too. 8 8 8 “MEN SHOULD REALIZE ALL WOMEN ARE NOT STRONG” By Mrs. W. A. Smith, Indianapolis Miss or Mrs. Woikin’ Gal didn’t say what kind of work she does.

troversies . excluded.

have a chance. be signed.)

(Times readers are im to express their view: these columns, religious

your letters short, so all Letters i

country and to God.” wake up too late?

omer. Chaillauxs. Let's the Amerie

By Celia Warren, Indianapolis

serve untarnished our loyalty tc

Are we going to be lulled to» & in the chair of indifferenc:

“ Let's remember we must 112 strong home front. We nee:

an way of life-by ia

“WHAT WOULD POLITICS I TO MAN LIKE MacARTHUR?

Sixty per cent of the pec:le of Australia voted MacArthur th: 1 s

cation they are driving not less than 80 when they get on the highways. I don’t understand this town. Only three weeks ago we had that terrible accident and everybody was going around shooting off his face about fixing 'the license law and now everybody's forgotten all about it and the ones who shot off the loudest are the very ones driving the. fastest. What's the matter with the cops in this burg? Don’t they want. to catch these guys? Something’s screwy here, because I can drive down any street in town, any day or night, and spot birds traveling not 30 or 40, bus

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o: 8. oR . “WE DARE NOT LOSE THIS WAR” By C. M., Indianapolis If we lose’ the war, the peace treaty forced upon us by a victorious Japan and Germany will be a most bitter pill to swallow.

to have peanut brittle made the American way, or the way Hitler tells us to make it. (Pause for applause.) : 4,

Listen, Chum, You Tell Us

. “IN THE WORDS of (insert here a statement . from George’ Washington, Roosevelt or Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Follow with references to Midway,

Coral sea, Bataan, Singapore, our gallant allies and speculate a littlé—but not too much—on the second front.) “We must face this. situation squarely. ‘The contribution of labor must not be ignored. The smoke from the factories is the smoke of battle. “In closing, let me make this final point. I know and your government in Washington knows, that # can count on. this industry never to let our boys get stuck for peanut brittle.” The foregoing is not funny, and it was not con" sciously intended to be funny. It is a slightly disguised but literal, composite condensation of fowm* speeches delivered by important people in junkets as

| far afield as New Orleans, Dallas; Detroit. and Atlantic

City. Now, really, is it worth while bureaucrats away from their desks in for such as this?

busy

Editor's Note: The views expressed by colamaisis ‘la this newspaper are their own. They ace st. toniidlly eds ot The Indissapells Times,

NEW YORK, Aug, 11.—How the Japanese. soldier got as tough as he is is told by Lieut. Col. Harold Doud of the army signal corps,

important man in Australia, 7 ‘h Our glorious flag: will. be hauled ‘may place him in some poi slldown from every public building in danger. However, our Mac..rt ir California, Oregon and, ‘perhaps, is equal to it, witness his re:l: ‘0 other. western states, to be re-,

Just because she said she sympathized with men who work in a factory is no sign she is a factory

| I whose sacrifice is so small compared with theirs.

PAY-AS-YOU-GQ TAXES IF! it is true, as reported, that the treasury is giving “‘seri- * ous consideration” to the Ruml pay-as-you-earn plan for the income tax, then indeed :some progress may be made foward modernizing our federal tax system.

For one thing, if true, it is the first time in recent years.

that the treasury has seriously considered any idea that i tied Sisewhere than in the hat of one of its own

ee outlined by Saardeley Ruml, chairman of the board ‘the New York Federal Reserve bank, the plan is this: Next year; you pay your tax on your ¥942 income as ual. At the end of the year, you ake a Teport oh your

ury gives you a ee or a credit—and you are even h, your: government. $ From then on, you and your government remain even | paying taxes on your: income as you earn it. 8 8 8 boos 8 8 # HE plan has several obvious advantages—

1. There would be no interruption in-.tax collections, |

the treasury would Tose no revenue. : _ 2. It would put the income-tax system on a cash basis. ~ 8. It would put an end to such human tragedies as rewhen a man dies and his family has to pay a tax he , many times with no money available for the purpose; hen a man goes into the army after a good year’s earnand has to pay a big tax out of a buck private’s $50nth wage; or when a man loses his job cr his business, h the tax >ollector his principal creditor. And the plan has one obvious disadvantage: _ Men who make good money in 1942, and don’t do as il in 1943, would get off with a lesser tax. But in extenuation of that, it should be pointed out in many such cases the government doesn’t collect full amount due anyway, for the Simple reason that ips ‘don’t bleed easily. =

, ABUSED ARGENTINA

GN MINISTER GUINAZU of the Argentine is enod because the United States, fighting for her na“existence, will not supply, armament to Argentina at any strings attached. 3 “strings,” says Guinazu, were a request that the republic convoy: shipping . part way toward the States. This the foreign minister resented as an

in wrong

and others, in a new book, “How "the Jap Army Fights.” In 1934-35 Lieut. Col. Doud, then a lieutenant of infantry, spent some months as a company officer with a Japanese infantry regiment. He had been a military observer in Japan Sa for two and a half years, and it was by mvilation that he served a turn as an officer in Japan's Seventh Infantry regiment, at Kanazawa. On his first day he learned something about the tempo of Japanese military g. The officers had an hour for lunchepn. He found that they spent five minutes eating, and 55 listening to a lecture on tactics. “At this time,” Lieut. Col. Doud writes, “the regiment was having its ‘dog days training.’ WAlthough it was intensely hot, training was purposely intensified in order to accustom the men to great exertion in extreme heat. During the hottest part of the day a strenuous and lengthy bayonet practice was -held. The officers. were not exempt; from 11 to 12 they fenced with the Japanese two-handed swo

A Brave Enemy—And a Tough Ole

«TO THE JAP soldier,” Doud writes, “a holiday is for additional sacrifice and effort in the service of his emperor.” : On. one occasion, the commanding officer of his |, company ordered the men, after a 25-mile hike, to “double time” it several times around the barracks. The officer explained, “I'm ‘just proving to my men that they still have lots of ‘go’ and -are not nearly as tired as they may think they are.”

“How the Jap Army Fights” is the work of several | ‘authors; including Doud, Lieut. Col. Paul W. Thomp-

son of the U. S. Engineers Corps, and Lieut. John Scofield, associate editor of The American Rifleman.

employee, Maybe she is a waitress or a clerk. I think these men who have expressed ‘their opinions so vehemently might have jumped at conclusions. . . . These men who hold their seats do rigt stop to realize that women are not as strong physically as they are nor that all women are alike. There .are a lot of us who _don’t drink or smoke or try to be the one who wears the pants in the family. Besides, what do most men do after they get home in the evening except to relax and read the evening paper? " 2 8 8

“CHAILLAUX 100 PER CENT AMERICAN, +» « WE NEED HIM”

By Atha M. Springer, Chaplain Speedway

Post No. 198, Speedway City.

“Lay on MacBeth” Homer Chaillaux can take it. Are we going to condemn | & man because he is 100 per cent American? - The very least we can do on the home front while our boys are on the fighting front is to “keep alight the fires of freedom, strive earnestly for the spirit of gemocracy; and pre-

william H. Hughes.

political prestige.”

could go them one better.

B. R. D. C., Indianapolis.

“YI do nt tend to sacrifice any Americ other allied troops as a gest ire

That one sentence has enc} a him to my heart more then victories or his gallant ‘defeats. need a man like that badly. 1» ; suppose we might hope that Le © [1 get the appointment of suore commander of allied forces? seems too much to expect, bu; ° still hoping. If the Aussies give him a 60 per cent vote of ¢ fidence it looks like his own ie

- However, if he doesn’t .g:t maybe it’s just as well. What 7¢ the powerful political machine the U. S.-do to an honest ct scientious man’ like MacArthu?

“I DON'T UNDERSTAND TE} DRIVERS IN THIS BURG!”

There has been a lot said shit driving not more than ‘40 miles hour on the highways, but if #! I see in Indianapolis is any tr.

Side: Glances—By Galbraith

Lieut. Col. Thompson quotes a French observer, |

Robert Leurquin, as saying that the Japanese soldier goes into battle keyed up to “a veritable war hysteria.”

M. Leurquin, Who watched the fighting in China| }

in 1937, was under no illusions about the toughness |.

of the Jap army. He found that 35-mile marches on

scanty rations were not out of the ordinary. In North | §

China the Japs fought and froze and made such g

marches on rations of rice and blackish potatoes. In action, M. Leurquin found, the Japanese sought hand-to-hand encounters with & complste disdain of death.

To this picture, Lieut. Col: Thompson adds a word : of warning, suggesting ‘that the Japanese may have|learned a lot about the wisdom of such fighting since |

19317. he says, “but not ona Jealish. one.”

So Se foo Saye

day official Somintmiues ale out. sootiing |

day the. people must illiam Motte, Josten ol

és ‘® 4 tes man's Sigh tp. cies His: goVeruaGit 35 right; must be guarded as closely in the practice as in possession —Archibald Waieish, librarian Of congress,

given their daily

* ® »

| When I refer to communism on the same plane

as naziism or fascism<I speak not against any country, but ut only against the Communist ideology, which has no country.—Dr. Minquel Culaciatti, Argentine. min-

7 iter of interier.

"Let us count on a brave eosin and» ough oe” 1h

inited Australian |

- placed by the dragon-splotched rag of Japan. On the “other hand a fiendish

| miter whuld most likely impose a

crushing indemnity on us so co|lossal that our own debt of three or

s | four hundred billion “dollars would

seem like small change in comparison, for all that lend-lease aid

, | we extended to England before we .| were officially at war. : And our America, as we have §

known it and as we know it today, will be gone forever, with all of us crushed lower than any vassals or slaves the world has ever {before known in its history. No one will ever again be able to own a car, have a radio, or to enjoy any of the many luxuries of civilization that we have been in the

| habit of looking upon as common-

place in our daily lives. We will have to work hard and get used to a diet’ of rice and water, together with a few grains of salt, in our forced effort to. pay the conquerors their pound of

=| flesh.

Yes, if we lose, the peace will

=| be_hell, worse than any Sherman “lever dreamed of about war, and

unless there is a general awaken-

ling and a. realization among: our

own people that we are now in a Je and death struggle for our very existence, we will lose. Let ‘us not lose this war. We

dare not: se»

|“GANDHI NOT ASKING

FREEDOM FOR INDIA®

{By J. RB. E., Indianapolis

Gandhi, Nehru and the other

Hindu political leaders are not ask-

ing for. freedom for India. What they are demanding is control - of India by the Hindus-a very different and dangerous thing. B The populatin of India numbers almost ‘400,000,000, of which 65 per cent are Hindus. The Moslems are about 23 per cent, the remainder is

made up of the various minor reli-

|38nee sent <= equal 10 our. own|

United = States - population under the rule of the Hindu po-

Jew? Yo little. The ins . probably be

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ;

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SEANY BOVEIOR High telidl age earn good money these days. Which makes another headache for mama and for papa, too, ‘he has the time to think about it. For young people with an exaggerated opinion of their earning capacity, and ‘with money to * throw around, are apt to give’ trouble to their parents and to their social order. We can be sure that a general” breakdown of morals will accompany the war. No ' matter where you live youll find night spots flourishing, and beer joints crammed, and too much drinking, smoking and petting going on. The “eat, drink and be merry”. attitude is more noticeable every- . where. What other job is more important than the preservation of public morals as well as public morale? | Actually one isn’t worth much without oe other.

A Lot of Talk, but No Action

OF COURSE, NO two people agree definition of; the word moral. But I ue us feel that a constant exaltation of the over the spiritual is an unwholesome atmosphere youth, and that the average American wants oo the intellectual and moral as well as the economic fabric of his society. Part of the home-front effort calls: for 8 cleanup of the bad spots which jeopardize the welfare not cnly of our soldiers but of those who are younger: and therefore more easily tempted. : _ We talk a lot, but too little action is taking place. Group effort will be necessary to overcome: some the evils that must be fought. Clubwomen and civio: - organizations should back up officers of the law, bes cause without civilian co-operation they are attempte ing the impossible. ¢ A stern community will is needed—the will of ail decent patriotic citizens banded together to stop the sale of liquor to minors, drug traffic, tion and a: general letdown uf Whois] Saas hate wae

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Questions and Answers

Q—Plesse name the two ment who were

e:| heroism in President Roosevelt's speech