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‘Service, and Audit Bu-

. HOWARD ; RALPH BURKHOLDER

8 week,

paper Alliance, NEA

Re WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942

MEDIATION IN INDIA?

aids. They did.

Tt is easy to blame Gandhi for. this desperate situation. When he had a choice of postdated Indian independence as an active ally of the ‘united nations, he scorned it in

favor of a rule-or-ruin policy. No

By striking at ‘Indian production and communications, by precipitating a form of civil war while the Japanese in- . vaders wait at the border, he has given more help to the

enemy than any direct fifth column.

: Americans, who have been critical of British ‘misrule in India in the past, will not now question Britain's use of

: dorce to put down this violence.

“Unless order and production are restored quickly, united nations forces will have little chance of preventing Jap invasion or of keeping open the all-important ‘supply

‘line to Ching.

BUT no sioant of self-righteousness nd no amount of force can solve this war problem. The only solution ~ isin vigorous co-operation by the Indian people to win the war. And that cannot be gained by suppression. ‘While using force with one hand to meet force, ‘the British government must extend its other hand in recon-

ciliation.

Blame, and pride, and face-saving, are luxuries which the united nations—fighting for their lives—eannot afford. Britain has said, and we have repeated, that no honor-

able price is too great to pay for victory. India is the ‘test today.

‘Lauchlin ' Currie, President Roosevelt's “special envoy ' to China, and Gen. Stilwell, U. S. commander in southeast Asia, have flown from conferences with Chiang Kai-shek to

meet the British viceroy in New Delhi.

Does this mean American-Chinese mediation? We

hope" so.

_ FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN

ELSIE PAPAJOHN probably never has seen her nafne in the newspapers before. She isn’t rich or social register. She isn’t especially beautiful or, so far as the record indicates, remarkably intellectual. ‘Neither has she attracted “attention by flouting even the minor laws of her community. + Elsie is just a first generation American. Her father, an artist, came here from Greece 45 years ago. Her brother ‘Walter is an army private, attending officers’ school. Three “cousins were Greek fliers. She firmly believes they still are fighting Hitler, though she hasn’t heard from them in a

year.

Why mention Elsie now? Well, by designation of the president, at her request, she has sponsored the minesweeper YMS 185, because “I feel that the prayers I have in my heart will help ‘bless it and help it to destroy that which brought death and destruction and hunger to my

parents’ people.” : Just a first generation American.

* IT WON'T BE LONG NOW

YUBLISHED pessimism. concerning the outlook for early "participation in the British air offensive against Germany has been rebutted by Maj. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, com- + mander of the U. S. army air forces in the European theater. It is apparently true that, to date, not one American | bomber crew: has taken part in any of the R. A. F.’s night 2 bombing expeditions. But, says Gen. Spaatz, preparations

are “ahead of actual schedule” and—

“Within the immediate future operations in accordance with the plans that have been in the making between the ! royal air force and the American air forces will commence. ~~ “Qur enemy at the appointed time will feel the might of a thoroughly co-ordinated British-American air force.” To those German cities that have seen what can be done by the R. A. F.’s bomber command itself, without American assistance, this news should be, to say the least,

Sisquisting.

tion.

Spaatz now promises that it is coming soon.

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r raids almost a routine.

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swallow ‘doesn’t make a summer. Neither doss one illustration prove a point. But if there is any question y sane, sound businessmen are considering the possibilis of ajr freight on a vast scale, consider the gxperience of

nt shipbuilder,

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2 Give won and the People wea Find Thotlr oun Way

EITHER Britain nor Gandhi is winning the violent struggle in India today. The axis is winning. - Gandhi has proved a poor prophet so far. He said his non-resistant followers would not use violence: They. did. He said the British would not dare arrest him and his

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: PEOPLE he have wondered why ‘the Pita-starred wings . of American bombers have not yet heen seen among the ‘night armadas over-Germany should bear in mind— THAT it has taken time to establish our bomber crews and ground forces and equipment on their own airdromes

® © THAT the most detailed sort of raining is necessary before our airmen. can have the instant familiarity with British terrain, British communications, and British tactics without which attempted collaboration would be foolhardy f not suicidal. “The trafficsmanaging of a 1000-bomber raid s not. the sort of thing that lends self to overnight im-

‘But the’ day of the army air force i is coming, and Gen.

_ If our bomber production can be kept up to the tregndous schedule. demanded of it, aud if other fronts do drain off too much. of this output, the A. A. F. and the Al F. should be able Within a few months to. make 1000-

A routine, however, of a sort to which the armament kers of Germany will not easily adjust themselves.

“By Wedbush Peale .

keeps himself in pretty good shape, replied with an editorial in which he called the congressman a liar and invited him to step outside. For the rest, the campaign is run-

| ning in a’ little journalistic queery published by

Marshall Field who, all of a sudden, & couple of years ago, came down with a mission. The party is getling pretty rough and possibly, before it is over, we shall have a repetition of some of those picturesque journalistic and personal brawls which enlivened the issues during the war between the states. ' That anyone could accuse Patterson of any sympathy with the enemies of his country is just proof

that somebody is losing his mental balance in the ex< citement of the war, because Patterson's, family is

strictly American from ‘way back.

The Odd Thing, About It All

HE WAS A COMBAT soldier in the other war for which he enlisted as a buck private, and for years

‘he kept up a monotonous din in his Monday morn-

ing editorials, pointing to the menace of Japan, ‘and

‘always winding up with the tegline “two ships for

one.” He also carried for years, as an item of his paper's platform, De&catur’s line about “My country right or wrong,” and he is no cheap and mouthy patrioteer who would do it for circulation, but a standup American who means it.

The odd thing is that all the way down the line’

from ‘32 to the third term, Patterson was a thick-and-thin New Dealer himself. His cousin, Bert McCormick, who runs the Chicago Tribune, had been fighting President Roosevelt's policies constantly, but

Patterson kept on supporting the administration and

the president personally. He showed his sincerity. by going New Del m his newspaper shop where he encouraged the Newspaper: Guild, even when its leadership and policies were consistent with the Communist party line, and gave the guild an agreement amounting to a closed shop.

He Stuck by the Rocsevells! "WAY BACK THERE, even before the New Deal,

_Patterson’s editorials clamored so loudly for weapons

and soldiery for this country’s defense that he was accused of being a jingo. : : It took gumption to advocate militarism then because, as you may remember, some of the same panty-waisted he-shrews of {Le present war party, the poets, philosophers and dilettantes, were sneering

| at patriotism, denouncing the other war as the work

of J. P. Morgan and insisting that an unarmed nation would shame the others into disarmament. _ He also advocated military training for the CCC and every once in a while he would let fly an editorial proposing additional West Points and Annayolises. He even defended Jimmy Roosevelt’s rank as a colonel of the marine corps reserve and his appaqintment to a job at $10,000 a year as the president’s secretary. Jomp (as they call him), said, ‘Hell, the rank meant nothing and Jimmy had to have enough of it to enable him to stand alongside his father at diplomatic. functions. He said it was all right for the president to put his own boy on the vay roll because the salary was only peanuts, anyway, .and 3 Sailer naturally would have total confidence in son

1's Hitler's Kind of Stuff

AS I UNDERSTAND it, Jomp got off the president on his pre-war policy. He seems to believe Mr.

Roosevelt could have kept out of war and that he: knew we were headed straight for war when, in

the last campaign, he was going around saying American boys would not be sent fo fight ‘on foreign soil. Buf, apart from being off the president, he has

been ‘all for the war since Pearl Harbor and has been’

one of those clamoring recently for a second front, which would be a strange attitude for a Nazi. Of course, he isn’t a Nazi or a pro-Nazi. He is a rugged 100 per center of the purest and most vigorous American patriotism, but when such a man with

‘such a record can be so accused you begin to look

for guys under the bed and behind doors. As a matter of fact, that kind of stuff is Hitlerism, for Hitler, himself, wrote that the way to get an opponent was to tell a big lic about him and keep on telling it.

Lighter-Than-Air

By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—Out of the mouth of the enemy comes an unsought but significant tribute to the U. S. navy blimps as anti - submarine’ weapons. Says Admiral Karl Doenitz, commander

“Operations in American waters are by no means an easy matter. ... .. The U. 8S. dwarf zeppelins unquestionably have a definite defense value.” The blimp, as you know, is the small type of lighter-than-air ship—non-rigid—dependent, upon interior mounted gas bags containing non-ihflammable helium gas for buoyancy. It is not fast, the cruising speed being about 60 miles an hour. Carrying bombs and machine guns, it is able to take up coastal patrol and remain on duty from long before daylight until long after dark. Because the blimp depends on helium for buoyancy

‘rather than forward speed, it can cut off its éngines

.and drift with the wind, or slow down its engines and hold its own against the wind, hovering over any given point for hours,

The Blimp's "Advantages—

‘THE DETECTION OF the sub in the open sea is | . a great deal more difficult. than. it: might appear to | the layman. It means first thht the air observer |

. NEW work Aug. 12 There Rima is’ quite a campaign. running | § | against Joseph Medill Patterson, | § ~~ i 7 the publisher of the New York | § Daily News. Some congressman | § got up the other day and said he | } was “a Hitlerite and Patterson, | § who is a big fellow and always |

of Germany’s submarine warfare:

The Hoosie Forum

1 wholly disagree with wh: defend to the death your rig} :

you say,

say it—Voligire.

but will

“LEGION ISN'T FAIR TO MR. CHAILLAUX, EITHER” By 8. E., Indianapolis. You are completely right in the attitude. you take that the American Legion ought to make clear whether it stands behind Homer Chaillaux, or not. I think Mr. Chaillaux has a part in this thing, too. The Legion is not being very fair ‘to him; either, in keeping quiet. a “PRIVATE CAPITALISM IS THE FORCE NOW AT WORK—" By Raymond H. Stene, 831 E. 56th st. There is going’ on in. America a revival. It is in statecraft. Irresponsible private capitalism cracked up between 1929 and "1930. The speaker of the house was the place where the rising tide of confusion

expressed itself. The attempt from

1930 to 1942 has been made to es-

tablish state capitalism. It has not | satisfied.

Once more the pivotal office is the speaker of the house,» where

the rising tide of disapproval seeks

to express itself. ‘Responsible pri-

‘vate capitalism is the force now at

work which seeks to replace state capitalism. ‘Such a society: of con-

tract with accepted social obligations challenges the current society

of status with its occasional philanthropy. ' sx 8 |“musICIANS SHOULD PLACE BLAME WHERE IT’ BELONGS”

By Ed Bayless, 4928 Guilford Ave.

1 So the musicians blame their unfemployment upon the public, the movies, the juke boxes, etc. What a laugh; they must be kidding. The musicians, themselves, are the real cause for this condition. As an example, let us take any big name

band.

You will note that this band has one or more commercial radio pro-

grams; they make several record-

ings every week; they secure thea-

ter booking practically every week;

they perform in feature motion pictures, and they play for dancing at

the largest hotels, ballrooms, ‘etc.

from coast to coast. Any one of

these activities provides them wi

(Times readers ire to express their these columns, rel gic troversies exclude d. your letters short, ‘so have. a chance,

invited ws in 's cone Make all can 5 must

that they want the wok other bands unemplo; So, you boys of iit union, place the blam¢ + longs. Force the biz © to stick to one type © ment, and, you will 5 gli

«POLICE IN YOUR ‘Ci PREY ON FELLOW By Chester Meagher, Otierin Concerning the eh called himself an. .um has. his work to do anc it in fear, in subser “er of some Indianapolis x I, too, am an Ame! ich

While whiting alon: others to be sworn i. and had a sandwicl. up to the navy of: | office building at thought tHe elevato: operation at that tie one had a sign on it . running.” I started 2 large ‘winding stair, w ; appearance. is public. Two policemen were

terest in me: the oth . out “Where are you at I said “To the navy

them stairs and go 0 vator. You got no busin stairs anyway.” I obeyed and said 'y a little more polite,’ to rankle him, He chit elevator after me anc know whethen you ar: . navy recruiting’ offce you're going.” You nu ‘was mad, but I only “You ‘could be a litte which made him fuo “Shut up: don’t get sn J If you're going to th2 good union wages But the fact|ing office, get arounc |

hog keeps

musicians iare:it beanizations sntertainve steady]

Y. ‘om 1, Ind." river who ican. He has to do e, because cemen. On July 8. navy. th several vent down ‘oing hack the postp. m, I sre not in »f day, as wying “not ing up the ich to all

anding by red. no insnapped ag there?” * ruling of- ¢ down off n the ele;3 on them

it could be

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zed in the] id “I don’t ying to the or where be sure I sald again re polite,” . He -said t with me. vy recruits] re,” charg-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

must have the fullest possible range of vision, unob- | | =

structed by wings, motors, fuselages, or floats. These advantages are possessed by the men’ who man the blimps as they ride in the: gondola suspended under the great cigar-shaped bag.

» Furthermore, while the blimp can hover at, will 13 and study shadows in ‘the water and’ differen tate ||.

between shadows and the shape of a submerged sub,

the airplane must be kept moving—and all too svitt- 1

ly for such detailed observation.

If we wouldn't listen soon enough’ to our own. ex-| ) perts on lighter-than-air craft, among whom Capt. | §

Charles Rosendahl is the leacier, perhaps a word from

the mouth of the enemy will swing the balance | ] toward more serious. gonsideration of lighter-than-air | 1 ships. .

So They Say— =

The fog was terrible. I flew in a navy patrol

bomber and couldn’t see the wing tips, hour after |

hour. —Col. Darryl F. Zanuck, back from the Aleu-

ing off the elevator and all the way down the long hall one step behind me to the navy office as though he was driving me in. “These bullies are more detestable than agis soldiers. Because they prey. on fellowmen, because they attack unarmed . citizens and because they are protected by the law. 1 /believe if I had made one more remark to that savage ‘he would

.| have clubbed me and taken me to

jail, charged with abusing him. And of course the law protects the law, just .or unjust. For if the city judges and officials did not uphold this practice, such cops would lose their jobs. . . . Indianapolis, are these the rights, the freedom and the. liberty we are | called on and expected to fight for?

"88 “GANDHI A MAN OF GOD— GIVE INDIA FREEDOM” By Margaret Stearns Reese, Indianapolis.

million in the United States to Jearn the exact type of freedom referred to in the _RooseveltChurchill Atlantic Charter. Does

‘that freedom mean freedom for

‘Britain and America or does it really mean world freedom? Three hundred ninety or 400 million people in India are awaiting that answer—politics and propagandists will do all they can to

8 as| cast reflections upon Mohandis K.

Gandhi. . . . Gandhi is a man of God. Can America, ‘an allegedly Christian nation, turn politician and persuade Gandhi to forsake his hope of freedom for India now? He has long pleaded with Britain for his eountry’s freedom. I do not question Mr. Roosevelt’s attifude but the prospects are certainly not trivial. If he decides in Gandhi's favor, John Bull would surely sulk, and if in Britain's favor, well, 400 million on the side of the axis isn’t peanuts.

same freedom India now seeks, turn our back on her, are we a democracy after all? Can India help the in allied nations fight for a freedom| she herself has been denied? India cannot expand while in bondage. Give her the freedom she asks and watch her grow. Don’t risk her swaying to the axis now at a time America needs help so badly. Let India blossom out in true freedom—give her our form of democracy and something to. fight for. Can We be choosers with the Japa‘nese in Burma? These are serious questions; but

“record consumption was in cigaret tobacco. The more ° “spending money people have, it seems, the more they 80 for ready-made

“Don't Argue Religion"

Jt will be interesting to the: 131

“keep our evangelistic urges under control and use our’

If we who fought England for the|

ne} ‘soil-building practices.

1€1p| by rubbing with moistened ro

of tobacco. New figures have just been released by the department of agricluture, and they show that * for 1941 the domestic consumption reached an all-time high of eight pounds per ‘person. ey ‘Previous Jaks, were were just over .. seven poun r in 1917 . ‘and 19290. About four and a. a Te penn in I

cigarets. Consumption of eh tobacco has been declining steadily since the = ning of the century. It was nearly three pounds per inhabitant in 1900, but in recent years ‘it has been _ less than a pound. Last year, however, chewing tobacco and snuft i consumption went up. Only way the economists can figure it out is that wgr industries created a lot of ..

jobs ‘where the fire hazard was great and smoking.

was prohibited.

Fly in Flying Boat Ointment

DECISION TO LET Henry J. Kaiser proceed with § Y the construction of 70-ton Mars type Martin flying boats for cargo carrying comes just at a time when *

-some naval aviation experts are ready to abandon the >

flying boat in favor of land planes, except for very - iE ited duty where no landing fields are available. Reason is that the losses of navy flying boats have n extremely high. Flying boats, in the water, can’t be camouflaged, can’t be hidden, can’t be protected, are slow on the takeoff, and for these reasons . a they stick out like decoy ducks before a blind, cay: picking for attacking dive bombers.

HANDBOOKS, GUIDEBOOKS, hooks of etiquette he 1 or whatever you want to call them are being prepared = : for American soldiers in every country where expedi-

tionary forces are being sent, to help the soldiers get }

along well with the native citizenry. = Details of the British edition have already been announced, but there are books in preparation for : Ireland, Australia and such places. Rule number one for the Irish edition is to be - “Don’t argue religion.” ' Jim

‘How Not to Economize x 5

THIS MAY NOT be typical, but to show how ° much of a “saving” is benig made by. liquidation of the civilian conservation corps, there is presented the case of two colored COC camps near Norfolk, Va., which had been working on a naval project. When the order to disband the camps was received, the navy promptly moved in and hired the entire personnel to complete the project. But instead of the: = navy paying the men at their old CCC rate of $30 a month—which figures out at 18 cents an hour—the .

navy had to pay the unskilled laborers 50 cents an | hour, semi-skilled 70 .cents. an hour, and tractor .

operators 95 cents an hour.

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—— Editor's Note: The views ern columnists In this . mewspaper are their own. They are not necessarily these of The Indianapolis Times, Whe : ;

A Woman's Viewpoint By. Mrs. Walter Ferguson el

REMARKABLE TALES of courage come out of the war, “None are more iuspiring than the . records of the Christian missionaries in Japan. The churches have reason to feel proud of * * their “soldiers” who in every ~’ epoch of history since the eruci fixion have justified that pride by spreading and practicing their

But considering present restilts ‘one wonders whether this missionary effort is worth the cost. According to many churchmen who are - now attempting to analyze the Japanese culture by™~ pinning a devil's tail on every Jap, it would seem that A we have wasted our dollars and our men. . 1f ‘the soul of Nippon is indeed unregenerate why! ‘send our missionaries into their land? Why not ’

money at home? *

The Heart Argues Otherwise

IN THE LIGHT of reason it has always soon nonsensical for churches to expend effort on preach‘ing the gospel in foreign lands while. so much crime .and wickedness flourish in our own. Until the U. 8S. A. has been Christianized we're Presumptuons in our ; attempts to reform the world. : 5 So speaks my head. - But. the heart argues otper- a wise, and probably: your will $00. - : For in spite of the mass movements: of humanity, | v in spite of wars and revolutions, the Christian must hold fast to the ideal that: ‘his efforts. deal’ with the. individual. His brothers are in the highways’ and’ byways of th. sah, an 2, regard of what. generals and, politicians may do, nom no coe as x maton his: leader, Jesus, to whom no color igi or: Bational boundaries existed. “3

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Q_How much will American farmers be i der the agricultural conservation program? + A ents will amount to approximately 000,000. t 45 per cent of this amount w sent Somer in esi vit oe

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will represent | payments in % crops like corn, cotton, wheat, rise, : and" potatoes. 5 ' @—What is double talk? A—Actually it is nothing but .

very rapid syllabies, spaced and i

real speech. Clifford Nazarro of Holly the fad. Everyone who tries it ¢ ently. Considerable practice ‘is res fectively, so that it confounds ;

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