Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1942 — Page 10

he Indianapolis Times ROY Ww. HOWARD RALPH BURKHOLDER MARK FERREE Broslqent , ; . Editor: ~~ Business Manager % a SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) (except Sunday) b; 1 pris a Coun pt Sun : , 8 ts 5 Te Indianapolis ny a Co, 21%, wo a week. | Member o Ont Pres ps - Howard News states, 73 cents a month; others, $1 monthly.

Pp» RILEY 5551

Give ldght and the People Wilk Find Their Own Way

Service, and Audit Buzeau of Circulations."

SATURDAY. AUGUST 22, 1942

; EE Indiana ave. situation in this community is seri- ~~ ous enough without having politics all wrapped up with it. ; May we suggest that our public officials forget their party interests for the moment and try to handle this probJem without capitalizing on the fears and unrest of our | - Negro citizens?

INVASION COMES DEAR : EYE witness dispatches from war correspondents—who risked their own lives—make it plain that the raid on Dieppe was magnificently brave, but they cast certain ‘doubts on the claimed success of the operation. The cost in men and equipment was terribly heavy. Losses appear to have occurred at a much higher rate than any army could sustain in a continuing operation without cracking. Only in the air were the allies decisively superior. True, the allied casualties might have been far fewer, and the raiders might have inflicted much wider damage, except for the discovery of one of the commando convoys by a Nazi E-boat patrol, which turned in the alarm. But it is too much to expect that the German coastal defenses can be caught Baphing. #® os GAVAGE as the Canadian and- othr sees at Dlepps were, they may in the long run he more than justified as a demonstration of the difficulties inherent in any attempt to open a land front in western Europe. Perhaps such a front could be opened, but the sacrifice of men would be on a colossal scale. By contrast, allied superiority in the air speaks well for the alternative method. of attacking Germany—with _airpower. The success of American flying fortresses in high- level bombing at Rouen, Abbeville and Amiens—witheut loss of plane or man—marks the beginning of American collabora: tion in the British effort to pulverize the enemy’s industrial and transportation centers from the air. It is a relatively modest beginning, but we can hope that enough of Amer-

: ica’s bomber production is destined for the British front to |

put the army air forces soon on even terms with their veteran comrades of the R. A. F. J

. WHY JIM FARLEY WON / YT is to be expected that Germany’s propagandists will misinterpret what happened at the New York state Demoeratic convention. «In:a.country where a head comes off any “time der Fuehrer turns a thumb down, they are not kely to understand the actions of a people who reject the “purge as a political institution. But all Americans know that the president's foreign policies and war effort were in no way an issue among the delegates who gave their loyalty to Jim Farley. On foreign policies and the war, the president has no stronger supporters than Mr. Farley and his gubernatorisl candidate, John J. Bennett. Some of the New Deal's domestic policies were involved fn the convention contest. But the biggest issue was the most ancient of all democratic principles, the right of home ‘rule and the right of every American to vote according to his conscience—a principle to which we in this country cling ‘in war as well as in peace.

= os ” 8 2 # R. ROOSEVELT makes few political mistakes. But, in trying at the last minute to bend the New York delegates to his will, he repeated a blunder he had made several times before. In our nation’s history there have been other presidents who attempted to throw their weight around in what were essentially local political contests. But probably no other stuck singed fingers into the fire as many times as Mr. Roosevelt has.- The so-called purge cam_paigns of 1938 would have been experience enough for a less venturesome political leader. "But the only way in which it might possibly be said that foreign policy and the ‘war effort were involved in what :appened in New York is this: The convention delegates, in common with most, Americans, may have thought that ander-in-chief should give all his time to the one big ob, and not distract himself with the er affairs.

people’ 8 own and

FOR FUTURE REFEREN CE HREATS are usually futile in war. It isn’t what you say you are going to do to your opponent, but what you o, that counts. +Nevertheless, President Roosevelt's warnne to the axis regarding atrocities against civilians is one

se in which the threat is needed for the record—even “it may not immediately reduce enemy “terrorism. |

Terrible as these crimes have been in past months, they seem to be increasing. In appealing to the presiat to issue his warning, the representatives of the nine eC mpled European countries said that “these acts of opsssion’ and terror have taken proportions and forms givn y rise to the fear that, as the defeat of the enemy coun-

“approaches, the barbaric and unrelenting character of occupational regime will become more marked and may

ead to the extermination of certain populations.” That is to say, a rat is apt to be even more dangerous n ‘cornered. ‘Qbviously the only way to liberate the opulations from the Nazi terror is to win the war | f and decisively as possible. : Meanwhile, however, the morale of the victim countries be strengthened by the knowledge

united nations arg keeping such detailed rec-|

eventual trial of the criminals at the place: the a

ered by carrier, 18. Solin

Mall rates in Indiana, | | $4 a year; adjoining|

that their id “will be punished in the end—not only. the axis gov-| “but the terrorists personally. It is some consothe occupied populations to know that the govern- |

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 22—The nomination of Jim Farley's man, John Bennett," means, among ~ other things, that there will now be a reaction against New Dealism in domestic affairs in New York state, for Bennett is not a New Dealer and, of course, Tom Dewey, who is almost certain to carry the banner, or target, for ® the Republicans, is an out-and- ‘ out anti. It is not easy to define New Deal, but if you were to say that it is personifled by Mrs. Roosevelt and expressed by her activities you would not be far wrong. Bennett has not declared himself against the New Deal in so many words, but he and Farley licked President Roosevelt’s candidate, Jim Mead, and he and Jim Farley have also, in very plain effect, given the so-called American Labor party the back of their hand. ting by as a threat and a nuisance but has not had to stand apart to be measured alone. It has always tagged along with the New Deal and thus has been

[it is quite a factor. Inasmuch as the so-called party, composed, of a majority of Social-Democrats and a loud minority of red-hot Communists, has threatened to put a third candidate into the field, if Bennett is nominated, a showdown seems certain this time. But the greater the so-called party's strength, in that case, the greater its contribution will be to Dewey's election.

Look at It as a State Fight

FARLEY WILL IGNORE it and appeal strictly to Democrats in the old-fashioned political way. It took nerve on Farley's part to brush off this group, for it has a noisy and dirty press, including not only the filthies of the regular Communist line but the recent litter of newspaper wood-pussies. i It has been argued that this victory of Jim’s over the president puts him in a position to head off Mr. Roosevelt in the national campaign of 1944 gnd pre-

of his successor, but that is looking pretty far ahead. If Mr. Roosevelt is winning the war in 1944, the

then tired from 12 years of work at a terrific job, accept his pick for the remaining period of the war and the negotiation of the peace. . Looked at as a state fight and nothing else, this campaign presents a contest between two men who accept the war as a fact and may be expected to do all that a patriotic American governor of a big state could do to help win it. There is no need for either one to concern himself with a foreign policy, because that is national business.

It All Seems to Add Up

THE GREATEST domestic problem is the control of the unions, and Dewey's attitude toward crooks in unions has been demonstrated in many prosecutions of scoundrels who enjoyed powers derived from Senator Bob Wagner's law and the administration’s political policy toward unioneers.

Bennett lately has been moving against the great shakedown racket operated by the so-called common laborers’ union under Joe Moreschi and the leads developed in this inquiry might result in other investigations, prosecutions and prison sentences, if he should be elected. Dewey knows how vulnerable the racketeers are to investigation and able prosecution and within a year or so he would show the American people things in court about the political power and perfidy of the boss unioneer which up to now have been seen only in glimpses and general descriptions. Bennett, once in office, might tackle the same job. Anyway, this is the start of the big reaction against the New Deal's domestic program and the more the extreme New Dealers react against Bennett, the more they help elect Tom Dewey, who would send a lot of their miscalled labor leaders to prison ¢ » where they. belong.

Cargo Subs By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Aug. 22—With all the eagerness of the American people to back anyone or anything that promises to start winning this war, why wouldn't it be a fine idea to gather a few typical, hardheaded guys, comission them to list all the things that “can’t be done”—and start doing those things? Here is an eminent, creative engineer, Simon Lake, who specializes in submarines. Before a Washington committee recently, he wanted to get busy building a sample cargo.submarine. Why isn’t he given a few dollars and permitted to get on with his job? Even if one of his cargo-carrying submarines turned out to be a flop, we'd have valuable information about how a submarine cargo-carrier should NOT be built, which is far more definite data than we have today. If Mr. Lake demonstrates that sub cargo vessels are practicable, perhaps he would be eager to try building ‘a sub aircraft carrier. The sub cargo carrier and the sub aircraft carrier are directly in line with the tempo of this war—with the motto, “Hit and run, ‘and if you can’t run, hide!”

What Have We to Lose?

THE AGE OF BUILDING great big anythings, capable of withstanding bombs, is gone forever. For years on end battleship designers have been loading more and more steel plating on battleships. Each load slowed down the wallowing Goliaths a few more knots and reduced their maneuverability. As matters stand today, the modern fast destroyer is worth several battleships, because the destroyer is

small target. The modern submarine is another example of the machinery designed for hit-and-run-or-hide war, fare. A submarines hull plates are paper-thin compared to those of a battleship. It’s safety is in hiding, not in withstanding blows. The aircraft carrier never should have been regarded as more than a stop-gap until the aircraft of the world would have enough range to cover all | oceans. The end of the carrier's day is very near. Let’s recognize this by building at least one submarine aircraft carrier and some sort of engineless, invulnerable type of floating airfield. = What have we to lose? | We have plenty to gain. Editor's Note: The views creed by olmainte t,o ‘are their own. They are not necessarily those

This party, or club, has been get- |

able to claim, without being called on to prove, that |

vent his nomination for a fourth term or his selection |

people may want to renew his contract or, if he is by |

fast, highly maneuverable and. presents a relatively

eT ir rr

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the deat) your right to say it Voltaire,

SOME MORE FOR MR. FOX TO PONDER OVER . . . By Mrs. H. M. W., Indianapolis To James Fox, Advance, Ind.: Why would it be fair to put all married men (without children) in the army? Did it ever occur to you that there are thousands of child-

it that way, but because it can't be otherwise? I am 41 years old and I've always wanted children, but God or fate or something figured it different. My life has been very incomplete because of that. And another thing, I am in poor health and have no one to care for me but my husband, and I need him a whole lot more than some women with four children. .“e Now just tell me who's in the worst spot—you fathers, or childless women who aren't able to take care of themselves? ... . You sound as if you wanted to hide behind: your children. You know the government will support them and their mother will care for them, so I don’t think you have so much to worry about.

By M. L. Neison, Indianapolis

Now isn’t it a pity that so many women are too lazy to have children? They should at least have four so their husbands would have a good excuse not to join the army. Maybe James Fox of Advance never owned a house and rented it

to anyone with children. I have seen for myself people who rented houses and let their children drive nails in the floors and walls, mark up the walls, fill the basement drain with coal dust, break windows just to hear them crash and countless other damages. He never had to stand the expense of repairing such destruction after they moved out and more before it can be rented again to someone with children, just to have it all to do over again. I don’t blame the kids—it is the way they are taught. They place no value on something

less homes, not because they want}

[Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can “have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

that belongs to someone eise. “Go ahead, tear it up. It doesn’t belong to us—we just rent!” Then the owners.are called hard-hearted. I for one would not rent my home to anyone with children. I do not have any kids as an excuse 10 keep my husband home, nor do I work. Pardon me, I. mean I am not one of ‘the thousands of women who are just wasting the company’s time in these defense factories and offices. Those women should be ashamed to hold up production in these places. Shame on you lazy hussies. > : *

By Another. Irvington American, Indianapolis

An open letter to Mr. Fox, at Adance, Ind.

Let me explain to you publicly |

why I am married with no children

to enable me to receive ai exemption. I have been married for 14 years, and we were told that my wife's life depended upon “no children.” You can’t have tuberculosis and babies. We wanted children, but we have had to forego that happiness. How do I know you wanted four? Your tirade reminds me very much of someone who is completely sore at the world in general and your family in particular. I read the Forum daily and some of the letters contain constructive criticism and some are too silly to pay any attention to whatever, but your absurd diairibe makes me so mad that for the first time in my life I can't keep still. : The Times should refuse to publish such things for the sake of the efforts put forth by hundreds

of childless couples engaged today

Side Glances=By Galbraith

- .

in an all-out effort to win a war. If there .is something wrong with all of this particular class then there is something wrong with all your kind—tax exemption and draft evasion. Spend your energy, Mr. Fox, in some other manner, something helpful, and let the rest of us attend to our own affairs and to the job of production and ending this terrible war. I am plenty mad at the guys who insist on belittling our womanhood also, but I have not time enough to .tell them what I think: Thanks to my mother, no woman has ever had to stand on a car when I am theres least one gets a seat. 2 8 8 “TELL PEOPLE HOW TO ADDRESS THEIR MAIL” By Harry Anderson, Brevort Hotel “I'm a postoffice clerk. I'd like to make a suggestion to you, not just merely to help me in my work, not to make it easier on the postoffice, but principally to aid the parents, friends and relatives of the boys and girls in the service. I spent some time in the post-

coming out of the hospital to try

to get some of the misdirected mail to its rightful owners. It really was

pitiful to see the way some of the|

mail was addressed. Why don’t you as a newspaper carry ‘a space in your paper every day? There are numerous days you

run news that is no special benefit to anyone. Why not devote this space to the boys and girls in service. I'm sure it would be appreciated, and you might ask all papers to do likewise. It would be a real service. : First, I'd ask all correspondents to usé ink or typewriter instead of pencil, as penciled addresses wear |- out after having seen a little service so that it cannot be distinguished. Second, ask everyone to be sure to place their return address on every piece of mail sent out. Third, I'd ask everyone to be sure as possible that they have the complete address. Fourth, I'd ask everyone to be sure to state whether a private, corporal, sergeant or whatever rank the soldier has. These are four very essential mat-

ters ‘in handling and delivering]

mail properly, and if followed, there would be very little undeliverable mail. The public has no idea of how much of this mail goes to. the dead letter office. The writer wonders why the soldier never acknowledges the receipt of the letter and

office department in France after|"

Pacific Northwest manpower bert bécoming womanpower so fast you can almost see it happen; War industry, sometimes wits 5 good grace, sometimes with poor, is opening its gates’ to women. There are practically no more men to be had. / : Boeing Afrcraft, led the way in { Seattle. Four months ago it began to call’ for women factory workers, In one month it hired more than 1700" women, In one day it hired 300. Today 20% of all its employees in the Seattle plant are women. In some departments nearly 50% are women, And the

‘end 1s not in sight. When Boeing can get the ma- | terials, it excepts. to increase its present production

by two-thirds. Most of its new workers, from this point on, will have to be women. Women are being hired also in such unlikely spots as sawmills, The Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. has 185 women working in its Longview plant. The St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. which doesn’t like the idea at all, has concluded it won't be able to operate unless it takes in women. Its manager has surveyed the mill and found some 60 jobs he thinks women can fill. They're going in among the heavy logs, the power saws, the tricky conveyor belts. 1

How Good Are the Women?

- SERVICE INDUSTRIES are feeling the pinch. Waitresses and beauty-shop operators are leaving these jobs for the better-paying war plants. - But. they aren’t leaving fast enough. Enrollment at vocational aircraft-training classes in the state of Washington has dropped 44%, just as demand is curving up fast. A call for voluntary registration of women willing to take war jobs produced only a few thousand possibilities. : Seattle almost has to get the new workers it needs from this community, because there is no place left for newcomers to live, and no chance of building new homes for them. Some government officials are predicting that before long every woman who can work —even housewives with small children—will have to be asked to take a factory job. Plant executives so far haven't quite made up

are mixed in with comments about the problems: raised by women workers. .

Private Problems Are Taboo

BOEING FINDS THAT the absent rate of women workers is no higher than that of men, but the quit rate is higher. Girls take the training, start to work, but don’t like it—they're bothered by the noise, or find the work too hard. It's hard to impress safety regulations on them, hard to get them to bind up their long bobs, and leave off jewelry. And they cause “disturbance” in the plant, officials say. Eventually, Boeing hopes to solve this last problem by concentrating most of the women on sub-as-sembly work, which in its plant is done a floor above other operations. ; Seattle has scarcely made a start at solving the problems this latest industrial revolution is raising. Women with children have to find relatives or friends with which to leave them—nursery schools are few and inadequate. Women on the day shift—and most of them are—have no time to shop. Retail stores have tried to solve this by keeping open one night a week, till 9. Domestic help is almost A, to get—most of the workers have to cook a meal at the end of the day. Women are being admitted into labor unions, but have no real part so far in running them. Employers are asking no questions about the private problems of their women workers. “We're building airplanes, not doing social work,” one of them said.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WITH FEELINGS of profound discouragement I put down the slim little book by Dorothy Nye,

Although it is filled with excellent material on bodily vigor, energy and efficiency, it will only settle me deeper into my comfortable rocking chair, where I usually do my daily dozen in imagination. In the firsi place. & tos mé to read. all. thess gymnastic rules, and the lovely creatures in the illustrations, to whom the contortions look ‘SO easy, fill me with envy and anger. : Of course, this is just another .of the pep books for women which pour from our presses. They emphasize physical fitness. “You are a woman at war,” cries Miss Nye. (If you have said goodby to a son in the last few months you already know that one) “Your most effective weapon is good health. Unless you are armed with physical strength you can’t win the war.” 2 This is followed by the customary dissertations on diet, exercise, massage, posture, relaxation and the folly of worry.

How About Mental Fitness?:

THAT SORT OF THING does put me into a war- N like spirit, I'll admit. 3 walt 1 go OU aid do baie f with the prevailing notion that the American wom hasn’t enough native intelligence to. look —— health, appearance or morale without the assistance of government experts and other men and women who get rich selling her advice. Any goon knows that physical fitness is the chief requisite of happy womanhood—but maybe we don’t realize that it takes something else to win wars. The amount of time women have wasted on things of the body has already lessened our mental powers. It has diverted our attention from citizenship duties . —a major need in any well functioning democracy. = "To be explicit snd rude, feminine development has been retarded and many groups have failed to reach . full maturity because we've been persuaded fo look - and behave like perennial 16-year-olds. Bodily fitness can be attained by any energetic moron. The: $hing we BUSH, WOIEY SHG: ROW 18 Gur sueRtal ani emotional fitness.

Questions ~~ An

(The tadinsagols Times Service Sassen: wid answes ass