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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1942

INDIA CAN LOSE OUR WAR

MAYEE it's wishful thinking, but we believe efforts will

be ‘made to mediate the British-Indian conflict. The potentials for allied defeat in this dispute are so obvious that compromise diplomacy seems inevitable. “What worries us is that such statesmanship may be too little and too late. That would be even more costly than the tardy military effort which lost Burma, Malaya and the Indies. Past military blunders at least left the allies the bulk of Asia as a base. But if an Indian settlement comes

too late, the united natioris may lose not only that key.

country but China and Siberia as well. If that happened, our chance of defeating Japan would be much less. Japan would have a perfect setup for concentrating against us. No graver test of war leadership has been forced upon the united nations, particularly Prime Minister Churchill, President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. All of our necks are in it this time. Here is one battle we dare not lose by. too little and too late.

WHAT PROFITS, MR. MORGENTHAU? SECRETARY MORGENTHAU indulged in a bit of breast-beating-before the senate finance committee. : “There is no easier way,” he said, “to stir the righteous | ar anger of the American people than to let them hear constantly of excessive wartime Profits that are not being re- - covered by adequate taxation.” If the secretary has been reading the financial pages since the war started he must-know that the men of Wall Street who trade in corporate stocks with the hope of profit have been more anxious to sell than to buy. And if he has noticed the recent earnings reports of corporations, he must be impressed by the revelation that the speculators have been right in thinking that the profit pickings in this war ‘are going to be lean. Here, picked at random, are some of the corporate earnings reports for the first six months of 1942; compared to the first six months of 1941: American Water Works, 13 cents a share, compared to 55 cents last year; Timken Roller Bearing, $1.15 a share, ‘down from a $1.92 last year; Columbia Broadcasting, 96 cents, compared to $1.42 last year; Radio Corporation of America, 10 cents, down from 18 cents last year; U. S. Steel, $2.44, against $5.50 last year; National Steel, $2.46, down from $4. 42; Coca Cola, $2.76, down from $3.77. n td » - FF more statistios are needed to, indicate. what war ind taxation are doing to corporate profits, consider these, also gleaned from the National City Bank’s August bulletin: Textile and apparel companies, profits for the first half of 1942 declined 29 per cent; chemical and drug companies, profits off 28 per cent; petroleum products declined 39 per

~ . cent; stone, clay and glass companies, off 58 per cent; iron

and steel, off 40 per cent; electrical equipment, off 26 per cent ; automobile companies, off 58 per cent; public utilities, down 24 per cent. All this is written merely to set the record straight, and to note that for most American businesses, for the duration of this war, it doesn’t seem likely that the profits after taxes will be so excessive as to “stir righteous anger.”

PASSING OF THE PRESS AGENT | ACK in the ticker-tape ’20s a certain Broadway press agent puf one over on the New York newspapers. From

a big hotel came a tip that a mysterious foreigner regis-|.

tering as Mr. T. R. Zan had arrived, ordering a sumptuous suite, and that part of his baggage was a piano box. Furthermore, that when the piano box was opened, instead - of a musical instrument, a tiger appeared. The papers fell like a feight car full of cement. The story lasted a couple of days, and then the big idea was revealed. It all had to do with the forthcoming appearance in stage form of “Tarzan of the Apes.” : Many a journalistic face was red but the net effect of the affair was a good laugh on the newspapers, with no particular harm done and considerable glory for the press . agent in the eyesef his employers—plus more dough. Those - were carefree days. But vogues change. Prosperous peacetime is one thing and hard-scrabble wartime is another. Use of the journalistic banana peel by over-clever publicity engineers, as press agents some- ~ times in their more expansive moments call themselves, in- ~ volves serious consequences when human life and the public state of mind in a desperate conflict are at stake. So we are delighted to see the practical joke being eliminated from the grand strategy, and to. commend the - prompt action of the by no means soft-boiled Gen. Drum and the subsequent pulling of the chain on the press agents by War Secretary Stimson. ; ¥ The pointing-arrow, ‘No.-9-fertilizer-sack pipe dream brought to a head a situation which adds up to this—you can’t win the war in a walk-athon.

OMMANDER-IN-CHIEF VIAJORITY opinion appears to be that Gen. George D. Marshall, now chief of staff, may become commander- * In-chief of the united nations forces. On the basis of his record and known capabilities, probably Gen, Marshall rates he post. . There are those who believe that Douglas MacArthur earned it. Many, in and out of the army, consider Lieut. Walter: Krueger as our best field commander. But for man in the anti-axis army we need somebody whose ers ils and record will invite enthusiasm not only from

oldicrs and the American public, but also from the people |-

every united nation and neutral in the world. Marshall

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OFFENSE MEANT! | q E subject of a second front seems to inspire our best |

1'ing plenty ‘of what it takes to manufacture their | allotted gadgets, have run ahead of other plants | which were short of other materials nteded for | other parts destined to be fitted into the same gun,

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NEW YORK, Aug. 14—The bad news about war production has ‘ blown up into a storm since that first gust from the office of war , information last week and it becomes apparent that the govern- . ment, not the people, has been Tesponsible. - For the first time; the people are learning the rough outlines of this gigantic problem. We are learning that some factories, hav-

tank or ship. We are learning that some businessmen, being smarter and more forehanded than others and wanting to get on’ with the war, hustled around and laid in sppplies to the impoverishment of those others. : There was an inkling of this sort of trouble, last winter when a tough and ruthless industrialist who turned to the creation of airplanes was unofficially

accused of slowing down production for the purpose |

of running up his profits.

Just Use Your Eyes

IT WAS EXPLAINED that, on the’ contrary, he was facing a shortage of some parts from sub-manu-facturers a long way off, a shortage which would stall his own job, and therefore reduced speed rather than clean up everything on hand and disperse his staff. Having laid them off he then would have had to reassemble those who remained on the lot and recruit and fit into the prcduction sciieme new workers in place of those who surely would have strayed off down the road to new jobs. - Our people know nothing about such things and will be surprised, most of us, to learn that a slow- | down: may not be against the public interest under some conditions. The people know nothing abcut rates or problems of production on such a scale and the - information given out by the government has been in comparative but unknown quantities. . Moreover, bad as the news is on the basis of production compared to total need, it can’t be so terribly bad on the plain basis of achievement. The plants are visible to the naked eye. Moreover, the vehicles, planes and weapons and uniforms are visible to the naked eye which still retains a fading impression of a humiliating spectacle not more than 18 months ago’in which the soldiers of the first draft were playing with mock weapons and hypothetical tanks and we were told that we hadn't enough first-class planes to fight Guatemala.

"It Is OUR Government!"

* A YEAR AGO, be it remembered, our great problem was “tooling up” and we were not in a position to use more than a pinch of many raw materials of which we have now used up huge stocks, because most plants weren't ready to produce anything. That great job seems to have been rushed to completion in much less time than Germany used tor a similar task and now the cry is shortage or uneqyal distribution of materials and labor, which is a Job of national management or government and not any responsibility of the people, who couldn’t do anything about: it if they tried beyond ecoenpmizing as individ -, uals, and throwing into the piles their old tires, pots and pans and hot-water bottles. This task .of management is strictly up to the national government, and because government is human and the job colossal and urgent we can all understand how mistakes occurred and give credit for an enormous. score of accon:plishment so far. It is our government—the only government we got—and nobody will be disposed to sneer or cheer at failures. No other government in the world has done so much in so short a time and if our government can’t do enough in the long run, we lose the war and our country. Editor’s Note: The views expressed by columnists in this

newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

The Ai-Cooleds

By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Aug. 14—You all know that the Japs are using a. plane called the zero-zero, a singleseater fighter of superior performance. This plane was built by the Mitsubishi company in 1940. The tag double zero—"00"—is accounted for by the fact that the year 1940 is the Jap year 2600. The zero is powered by an air- ~ cooled engine—the cylinders in a circle around a crankcase and cooled by the air which sweeps over them. The front of the engine is blunt and thereby does not conform to aeronautical streamlining. The liquid-cooled engine, on the other hand, is of such narrow shape that it can be fitted into the streamlined nose of superspeed fighter aircraft. In other words, while the air-cooled and liquid-cooled engines may be of the same power, the aircraft engineer finds it much easier to build a streamlined aircraft around the latter. Of all the rows in the pioneering business of aviation, this one between the air-cooled and liquid cooled engine people has been the hottest.

Here's The Probable Answer

WE ALWAYS BELIEVED that even though the air-cooled-engine plane was not as fast as one motored with a streamlined, iiquid-cooled engine, there was a place for each in the multitude of aviation purposes. But as far as speed is concerned (and that’s a premium factor in single-seater fighters), the top straightaway world’s speed records have been held for the past 16 years by racing planes equipped with liquid-cooled, streamlined engines. Why did the Japs select an air-cooled, radial engine for their superspeed single-seater fighter, the zero? The answer is that the Japs either couldn't or didn’t build liquid-cooled, streamlined engines comparable to the‘ Rolls-Royce and Daimler-Benz engines in Brtish Spitfires and German Me-109F"s. Now the “experts are learnedly beginning to discuss a new German fighter possessed of speed comparable to that of the Spitfire and of greater maneuverability. This German fighter also has an aircooled, radial engine. Have the Germans, therefore, decided to scrap the liquid-cooled engine and turn 2 the air-cooled radial? The answer, to my thinking, is “No. ” One of the greatest and most progressive air. cooled-engine companies in the world is the GnomeRhone of Paris. company is now in German n, It- seems likely that.the Germans de-

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“WE CAN DO VERY WELL WITHOUT THE TAVERNS” By C. F. L., Indianapolis

As we observe the filthiness and

drunkenness in today’s taverns we feel like crying out: “Must there be taverns?” We don’t want prohibition, but we could do very well without the taverns. If net without the taverns, then the view should be diminished to the viewpoint of prohibiting women in taverns. At least scmething should be done to eliminate some of the rotten conditions of the tavern system. ‘The “doing away of taverns and the so-called night clubs where beer and liquors are served, and. only permit liquor stores to sell un-iced beer and liquors would be an improvement ‘in correcting the evil tavern conditions. . 8 8 “SOME PARKING RULES ARE BADLY NEEDED HERE” By Virginia E. Gordon, 611 E. St. Clair St.

I live on St. Clair street near the corner of Broadway. This is a factory district and many of the workers park their cars on both sides of the street, leaving room for the passage of a single car. I think there should be some regulation about parking, or a traffic officers stationed so that the cars could -be steered along the proper avenues. In the past mouth there have been two accidents in the same street. While I am writing you I am watching the crowds assembled around the cars. For the good of the city something should be done. Life has so little value in other gountries. Let's show conservatism and patriotism enough to preserve what we have here. 2 2 8 ) “IF. WOMEN DON’T LIKE IT, WALKING ISN'T CROWDED” By L. G. D., Indianapolis Let this settle the “jump up enA giye a seat” controversy. To have a duck dinner it is necessary to have the duck, and to give a seat to a lady you just simply have to have the — oh well, here is what I intended to say: ° Since women have .gone “hogwild” to mention drinking straight whisky, shooting craps, playing poker, kicking their kids out in the

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LOVERS TO GET TOG! ' By Mrs. R. C, Y., Indianapol I was down in Garfielc

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together and see that we anteed a program of sum throughout the summer, on sporadic Sundays. It is a shame that our symphony conductor, M Sevitzky, must be at Limi summer instead of right

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the thousands of sincere ers, ..: : I urge Indianapolis to j great movement NOW.. ” » ”

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CARS FOR, ANYWAY?" By D. T. D., Indianapolis. I came driving down N

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miles an hour exactly. cause I passed a police and I involuntarily gav: look at ‘my speedometer I was all right. Two seconds later, rig

flew: another automobile, :

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by the squad car, too, traveling at least 40 miles an hour if he was going one. Brother, he passed me up as if I were standing still. I looked behind in my rear vision mirror to see what the .squad car would do. Nothing! Absolutely nothing! This automobile just tore down Meridian st. as if the owner knew nothing could interfere and there wasn’t anything. . . What are. these squad cars for, anyway? ... ” ” » “WHAT DO I SEE BUT A BUNCH OF BUMS, BOO!” By A Former Indian Fan. Boo on’ that ball club! Yes, I mean the Indians, Night after night when. they've been home, .I've paid my dough and gone out to see them and what do I see but a bunch of bums. Boo! ..,. : 8 8 8 “SPEED IS NOT WHAT'S WRONG IN THIS BURG” By Stephen Helburn, 921 E. 52d st. Apropos driving; ‘B. R..D. C. inquires in your columns “What's the matter with the drivers in this burg?” I think he has put his

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birds traveling . . . certainly does not drive dawn the same streets that I do. I rarely

of them run under 30. whole, Indianapolis drivers are to be commended on their speed—it seems to me reasonable at all times. However, if B. R. D. C. really wants to know “what's the matter with the drivers in this burg,” may I suggest the following: (1) Traffic is a stream, and maximum flow is not promoted by filling the stream-bed with obstacles. (2) Slow drivers are such obstacles. 'A timid driver on a narrow street or behind a trolley car can (and does) hold up 10 or 20 cars trying to travel at a reasonable speed. (3) Road hogs perform the same

| function, In my experience in In-

"dianapolis, more people straddle the

if| lanes than stay in them, creating

another obstacle to the steady flow of traffic. .(4) Drivers who do not handsignal their turns or stops (and this includes about 95 per cent of Indianapolis drivers) also interfere with continuous traffic flow. They create a psychological hazard, since other drivers (quite properly) dare not pass on either side when they see the non-signaler weaving about

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(5) The traffic lights of Indi-

|'anapolis are regulated by neither

the “wave” nor “block” system, and this too inhibits the steady flow of traffic, not only because of the actual stops, but because of ‘the fear of stops which slows drivers down below reasonable speeds. Please note that I am not an advocate of fast driving. As a matter of fact, safe and reasonable Speeds in city driving (25 to 35 mph

| |in modern cars) will move ‘more

cars a greater distance than ex- - cessive speeds. " “What's wrong with the: drivers in this burg” is not excessive speed,

{but bad driving habits which ob- ‘| ‘| struct the steady, even, uninter-

rupted flow of the traffic stream. ‘The corrective that is needed fis

| not the arrest of a few conspicuous

speed merchants, but a consci+

| entious effort on the part of the I | police and’ the driving “public to] | eliminate the snags, bdttlenecks and ‘| pot-holes in the ‘stream of traffic, : and promote’ steady flow.

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sn s shall cover the multtsins.—1 Peter 4: 8

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see cars traveling over 30, and most # On thel|d

by Peter Edson gud

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—The shoe is on the other foot now, _The United States has become one of the “have not” nations. This has happened faster than most people have realized—faster than. even the experts thought it FE. could ever happen. It has happened in less than six months. And few people yet appreciate how serious a situation this is. You remember everything that was taught you on this subject in school. The United States ‘was. the richest nation on earth with plenty of everything for. all, even without ‘colonies. The United States was a definitely “have” nation. Great Britain was also a “have’’ nation, though it depended on its colonies for most of its raw materials. In the other category were the “have not” nations —Japan, Germany and Italy, for instance—which not only were far from self-sufficient iti their own econ omy but also did not have the colonies to give them

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‘the things they lacked. From the Hitlerian point of

view, that was one of the reasons for this present war,

You Can Understand This . . .

IT MAY HAVE BEEN hard for the United States to appreciate such a situation before the war began, but it shouldn’t be hard to understand now. The “have not” business extends right down to the Amer= ican family icebox and pantry shelf.

You have not sufficient sugar, sufficient coffee,

sufficient tea, sufficient rubber to ride on for at least the next two years. - In some areas are shortages of meat, gasoline, fuel oil. .Mammy’s got corn to burn, but Mammy ain’t got ’‘nuf rice, 'nuf cocoanut oil, by a long shot. In the larger fields of industry and manufacturing}. the “have not” list is longer than both your arms, stretched out. horizontally, from finger tip to finger tip. The United States has not sufficient, of even such basic stuff as iron and steel and copper and more than 500 other officially listed materials, including even junk. Within the last few days the WPB has issued a list of 500 commodities it had placed o emergency shipping priorities list. They are vital to - the nation’s wartime economy. They run from abrasives to zincerium. .] from all parts of the world.

New Reason Né. | for Fighting

THE FASTER YOU let that fact sink in your stream of consciousness, the faster you: will realize that all this talk about splendid isolation—the ability of this country to crawl in its shell and let the rest of the world go by—is utter and complete bunk. As a “have not” nation today, the United States is fighting for just simple subsistence. ‘The United States is fighting for its very existence. There is much more to this war than just ridding Europe of Hitler and Japan of its arrogant, doublecrossing military martinets. This is a fight for life, At the start of the war in Europe, it was assumed that the British had succeeded in blockading the Nazis, and that because Germany was a “have not” nation, it could be starved into defeat. But now the other shoe is pinching the other foot in that regard. Germany made herself self-sufficeint by sacrifices, synthetics and stockpiles and by submarines she has

-in effect established a counter-blockade which inter=

fered seriously with the goods brought into the United States. It is not at all out of order today for a neutral to ask, “Who is blockading whom?” Listing of the strategic materials we need is restricted, but it is permissible to say that the United States can conceivably lose this war for being a “have not” nation in just 37 items. That’s how important it is that this country get out and stay out of the “have not” category. * That is a new reason No. 1 for fighting and wine ning the war.

Watch Yourself!

By -S. Burton Heath

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CLEVELAND, Aug. 14.—More Americans will die this year, because of civilian accidents, than * were killed by the Germans in _ the first world war. More will be injured than were in the biggest army we ever raised, the world war I army, including front line fighters, serviee of supply workers, and those who never got further than preliminary : training camps ‘in. the United States. As many will be permanently incapacitated by injuries as the total of American soldiers wounded during the first world war. Individually, there is nothing sensational about most accidents. The victim suffers.’ So do his wife, his children and his other relatives. His friends are sorry. Perhaps the community helps care for his dependents. It’s too bad, we say, but he should have been more careful. In the aggregate, the time has passed when we can take this dispassionate approach .to accidents, The national safety council, with the expressed approval and support of President Roosevelt and Donald Nelson, is trying to reduce the accident trend as a war measure,

What It Means In Arms—

LAST YEAR 4,000,000 workers were injured, three fifths away from their jobs. Fifty thousand of them died. Another 170,000 were permanently disabled, The rest were kept from work for greater or lesser periods.. This year, with employm months’ experience forecasts deaths, 180,000 permanent injuries. From the war production standpoint this is mighty serious. It means, the national safety council computes, that we shall lose 500,000,000 man-days of labor, at a time when we are pressed to find enough ‘workers to eare for our military needs. Half gq billion man=days is equivalen: approxi mately fo 2,000,000 men working 50 40-hour weeks, - - Those 2,000,000 men are enough to provide the Jabor for building 71 ‘battleships, or 625 destroyers, or 24,000 flying fortresses, or 120,000 fighter planes, or 312,500 light tanks. In time of war we can’t evaluate lost labor in terms of man-days, or even in humanitarian terms, We have to think in terms of armament and muni tions—the tools with which civilization, as we have come to know it, isto be saved from the Huns. It is up to every worker, ‘and every worker

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