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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

_ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1942

WAR_POLITICS AND TIME E secured permission from the author to republish below a letter to a congressman. We think it eloquent‘ly speaks volumes in this. ‘perilous period, when time is so tragically precious and when so many vital things to be done are being left undone because they are being put off “until after Slection,” The letter follows:

ms letter i deinostacy at work. This letior represents ‘what we are fighting for. This letter is the first I have ever written to. you or to any government official. "For years I have sat back and watched selfish little individuals and pressure groups write, telegraph. or travel to Washington to ask for favors. For years I have wanted to write or to ask you for - just one favor—good, honest government for me and for all the people. * But I wondered what my one lone letter~-just like my “one lone vote—could do. So I didn’t write. I didn’t ask. Now at long last I am stirred up—the cause is so vital that I am writing my first letter—asking my first favor. It is this: : You don’t realize how ad more willing I am to make sacrifices to win this war’ than you think I am, and that goes for millions of Americans like me who have yet to

write their first letter. You underestimate us. : . 8 8

So gel us Aralaii Vote that $6,000,000,000 tax bill that doubles my income tax. : ee Withhold 5 per cent—10 per cent—of my savings next year. 5 | Make war savings bonds compulsory. (I am already investing 11 per cent of my salary). ‘ Put a ceiling on wages and all prices. Ration my gae-tale. my spare tire—take my car if you need it. Ration my. food—my clothes—my fuel. grandfather got along on what I waste. ~~ Help Leon Henderson—he’s got hold of a tiger by the tail. Help him hold ‘it or it will eat us all. | For once in your life, forget the folks back home. Vote a clear, firm “yes” if it will win the war. Let that be your only test. : Do this and you won't have to worry about re-election

My , great-

: for the duration.

3 This letter is democracy at work—a private citizen with no ax to grind—telling you not how to vote but telling you how he feels so that you may know better how to represent him. This letter is from a plain citizen with two children; a mother, a job, and a home, and a long-neglected right to express the way he’d like to be governed. There are 10,000,000 more like me in the U. S. We will decide the election this fall. Don’t underestimate us. You vote as courageously as we are willing to sacrifice and nothing in this world can stop us. With utter sincerity, WILLARD V. MERRIHUE, Scotia, N. Y.

THE B-17 PROVES ITSELF : ‘ I" IS still small-scale stuff, compared to the performance of the R. A. F., but the splendid record being built up over France by a handful of our B-17s—flying fortresses— isan encouraging token of things to come.

Four times now groups of the fortresses have made

daylight raids on transport and manufacturing centers across the channel—and four times every fortress has Teturned to base. “Only a dozen or so planes each trip, compared to the ‘hundreds marshaled by the R. A. F. bomber command in its great night raids. But that seems enough to set at rest . any lingering. suspicion that the B- 17 might not be air- . plane enough for the “big time.” ; J » » 8 » ” TOBODY can say how great a proportion of America’s bomber output is being earmarked for our forces in ‘the British Isles. And in any event it will take time to school our bomber crews in the operational techniques hich the R. A. F. has perfected through long and hard experience. But the prospect of mass daylight raids hy ‘the Americans to match the mass night raids by the slower nd lower-flying but heavier-laden British bombers may nceivably materialize before the year is out. $5 Unfortunately it is not possible to get, out of Germany, uch detailed reports on bomber damage as were available after the raids on Coventry, ‘Plymouth, and so on—raids that seemed then to be the last word in devastation, but which were actiially. small change compared to some of the ent British: ‘bombings over Germany. But we may rest assured that: great damage is being done, and that the

ency and volume, will weigh ‘heavily on the German war hine. 3 Whether heavily andugh to be a decisive factor in the d strategy ‘of the war, it is too early to say. But the > results to date, viewed in the light of rising producaot will permit increasingly heavy attacks, are to say

v ROES IN INDUSTRY . : unidentified war ‘worker submitted a proposal to speed production which cut an 80-hour job to ome ‘the war production board’s technical committee on idual awards has disclosed. That worker should not. remain unidentified. He and y, others like him are true heroes of the battle of tion. The committee is reviewing nearly 5000 sugsubmitted by Smployess of war industries, for

ty, 3 cents a copy; deliv- |.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—The socalled American Labor which has entered a third candidate in the New York guberna-

publicans, such as Fiorello la

Guardia and his little friend, Con- | Bi

gressman Vito Marcantonio, ‘who follows the Moscow party. line, It claims to have half a million votes, but has been running a bluff for a long time and its actual, showdown strength is not known, but probably will be determined this time. In effect, every vote it polls will be a vote for Thomas E. Dewey, because it is not

actually running a candidate for election but trying | to beat Jim Farley's candidate on the regular Demo-

cratic ticket, John Bennett, the present attorney general. The so-called party’s nominee is Dean Alfange, who is a lower-case local Alf Landon in the sense that he is very obscure and hasn’t a Chiraman’s

chance and knows it. The candidacy is so futile that | 3

the bosses had a hard time finding anyone to go through the motions and Alfange finally was selected by a process duplicating in miniature the scene in the smoke-filled room by which Warren G. Harding

was chosen in 1920. This process has been loftily |

condemned by all left-wingers ever since, even when they were using it themselves.

More Truth Than Poetry

THIS SO-CALLED PARTY is a mixture of Social Democrats and Communists and the two groups fight like cats and dogs all the time and damage their chances by telling many unpleasant: trutl’s and many lies about pne another. A few years ago Marcantonio, whose district contains a lot of Italians and Puerto Ricans and a high crime rate, put investigators on the trail of one of his rightwing opponents in an effort to get him, but the attempt apparently eame to nothing. His investigation was a form of labor spying such as Senator Bob La Follette probably would condemn as. unAmerican in the case of an average American employer. The keynote speech of Dr. George S. Counts to the meeting which ratified the selection of Alfange said the so-called party was “the last bastion of the New Deal in New York state,” and there was more truth than poetry in that, if you are careful of your definition of New Dealism.

Real Test Is Right at the Top

THE PARTY ORATORS and writers will try to make the New Deal mean honesty, democracy and social progress, but the New Dealism which actually was repudiated: by Jim Farley’s Democratic party was the attempt to make over the ‘American system of government into a confused and formless Socialism and to disguise ambition for power as pure idealism, . Farley had been fed up to the neck on New Dealism and its ethics and personalities for a long time and people who are close enough to Bennett to speak for him don’t mind saying that he is no New Dealer and never was one. But this American labor thing has never been a real party and while its indorsement has had some value, nobody really knows how much. Even in the present case, they lifted the rest of the Democratic, or Farley, ticket bodily, with one other exception, so that, as usual, or almost as usual, they will tag along as a me-too group using Democratic party names and prestige. But at the top of the ticket there will be a real

‘test this time and if Farley can lick them and Dewey,

that will mean the end of the New Deal in New York and the end of the American Labor party, too, and no fooling.

U. S. Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26—We Americans are in position to spring the greatest: war surprise since Genghis Khan put his entire army on shaggy, hardy horseback and ran the foot-soldier armies of ancient Europe off their feet. Our horses have wings, and our people are temperamentally and physically adapted to flying these winged horses. The analogy seems so complete that one often wone ders why everybody in the country isn't talking and thinking of America’s “air army.” Hardy, durable air mounts for America’s air army can be turned out like hot cakes. We've been driving

around behind 90 and 100-horsepower engines on wheels, and making a pretty good job of keeping

them. running day. in and day out. It's engines of this type I am talking about as the power plants for America’s air army—hardy, tough engines of not

more than 80 to 100-horsepower that need no clinical

experts to tinker and wet-nurse them into operation. ' If Genghis Khan had waited until his men had bred race horses and had all become super jockeys, he would have been a warrier of little fame. We have the men, and we can certainly build thousands of sturdy, simple little planes capable of carrying three or four men each.

Only One Step Farther

We scoffed at paratroops untit the Nazis used

them successfully. But the paratroop idea is only one step removed from an air army equipped with

thousands and thousands of small planes, flying

above the tree tops and jumping over enemy positions to positions of their own selection, 10 or 15 miles behind the enemy front. 2s . I believe that any sound, healthy young American can be taught to get off the ground and land again,

lin a Hen powered airplane, in about the same time

required to give an expert paratrooper thorough training.

One bes can hurt you. Ten bees can make you

RS | sick. But a hundred bees can kill you. mulative effect of such raids, as they increase in fre- y

So They Save

As long as we have surface navies the causes that

brought about the battleship will bring it back again. It may be a different type, but it will still be Admizal Arh: J. Hepbu, U. 8 navy.

s battleship—

We cams ght’ thiz we ‘itl onk eva DH the fig and the other on our pocketbooks.—Claude R. Wicks

ard, U. 8, secretary of agriculture.

British planes may be superior for British purposes, but American planes are unexcelled for American purposes, such as long range, accurate flying and high-level, precision, daylight bombing =-Glenn L.

Martin, U. S. plane builder.

so wie

We have done a poor selling fob, But 1 think|

there has also been much wishful thinking on the

| part o the public.—Joseph 3. Zastman, director office ; ense transportation. 5

ies tates was Saou oi

age residence tank holds only: 275 gallons, which | last only a couple of weeks. Third, the OPC

k didnt want the consumers fo gei a falso sense of

| security about the fuel oil supply by starting th out with a full tank at the beginning of winter, When they might get the idea that everything was going to be all right and therefore the furnace could be started early. Finally, and most important of all, the’ oll . bosses ‘didn’t want to get all these tanks filled up, then have some crisis arise where it would be necessary to supply the military with a lot of extra oil, which might have meant going back to the ultimate cone

* | sumer and asking, Please, could they suck the tank

. Saline The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“LET'S GIVE A LIFT TO OUR SERVICEMEN” By A L., Indianapolis. 1 feel that you should run a front page article in your paper asking all motorists driving in fown or on highways to give lifts to servicemen who are traveling home on leave or furlough.

As I understand it, boys in the service are not allowed to thumb rides. But anyone knows that any soldier or sailor walking along a country road is going somewhere. I think motorists should be courteous enough to help them out.

® = = “MANY MARRIED MEN ARE

UNFIT FOR ARMY DUTY” By A Mother, Columbus I am just wondering why, if we have 130 million, they are beginning to draft married men. Men who are no more fit for fighting than some women. When a man has entered his late 30s or 40 years of age and have been married ‘with families to worry: about, they are the ones who should hold the home front intact. I can’t believe we don’t have enough younger men who are fit. IT have a son who will in a few years be old enough to fight. And looking at him and at his father, I have decided it would be pure murder to send men who are not fit. And I know from some who have

amining doctors are and are going by instructions to pass. over some defects. Let's sift through out files again and I'm sure we have overlooked some young men and taken older ones who should be at home. Also there are some jobs a Woman cannot do. And if we take men out of the factories, we will wind up with broken women and the men at the front will have less to fight with. While at home they will have less to fight for as their homes of long standing will become just a house. | Their children orphans.

By An All American, Indianapolis To answer the letters in Saturday’s Times of those married couples who have no children, how sel-

been sent from here that the ex-|s

(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.)

fish we older ones are to shun responsibility of not offering our service in this war, instead of leav-

|ing it up to 18-20-year-old boys.

I am not saying this because it will take my boy. May God protect ‘lhim. He is now in & foreign country and 20 years old. - To the sick lady, did you ever hear a small child cry for its daddy? Surely not. or you couldn’t say you needed your husband worse than a mother and four children. In a small town just 10 miles away, a son must leave a very sick mother who needs him. This mother has raised six children and now when she needs money for doctor bills, there will be only one daughter left to

support a family of four as the oth-

er daughter must stay home and care for the aged mother while there is any number of married couples, both working, who are yet at home. I would suggest having both Democrat and a Republican on draft boards as fairness to both parties. Why are all taken out of some families while other families have no one in service? I would like some draff board member to write on this subject. » » » “I'D DONATE $50 FOR SIMON LAKES BIG SUBS” By Roy Helderman, 1606 Guilford ave. I heartily agree with Maj. Al williams after reading his article in The Times regarding cargo subs and carriers Saturday, Aug. 22. I think. we should. take up where Maj. Williams left off. Would suggest all newspapers reprint the major’s ‘article with a subscription blank so people could send in their names and the amount they would like to donate to Mr. Simon Lake's cargo subs and carriers. : I am a worker at the P. R. Mal-

lory Co. and would like to donate

Side Glances—By Galbraith

$50 and ‘I believe there is as many as a million workers in this country| who would do the same if given the chance. I believe every American worker would like to have a chance to donate, say anywhere from one to a thousand dollars. If this idea doesn’t conflict with any war elfort or laws, what say we give it a spin? If it fails, take my $30 to pay for printing. ” » ® “2D FRONT WILL BE

STARTED IN NEAR FUTURE” By M. P. S., Indianapolis. The second front in Europe will be . started in the near future— probably by an invasion of the coastal cities of. France ar - by sending an American and - British army direct to Russia. only President Roosevelt and Winston

Churchill and Josef Stalin know

the answer to the second front question. If a seeond front is started Hitler will soon find that the united nations ¢an use one of his military tricks that he used at the very start of this war—the pincer encirclement —and he will find no way of overcoming the might of the United States and Great Britain. There are dark clouds hanging low over Europe but there is a bright light held in the hand. of the statue of liberty that was given by the people of France as a token of love to the people of the United States. That light is burning for all of the conquered people of Europe who believe in the rights of mankind: the right to, worship God as they see fit, the ight to live. Poland, France, Greece, Holland, Norway, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Russia have not given their lives in vain for freedom for mankind. It is true they are facing the firing squads of the Gestapo every day in order that others may enjoy the rights of freedom.

uw » ”. UNIFORM PAY URGED . TO HALT STRIKES By A. P. J., Indianapolis. This letter is based on the subject of how to eliminate the man hours that are lost due to strikes and I believe it will strike up production. We of the U. 8 A. are confronted today with a war that must be wan and will be won. So as to secure our rights, liberty and freedom that we've always have been accustomed to and in doing so we

| must unite—not one but all.

‘I have read that about six to eight million man hours are lost due to strikes. Now where time is needed most this loss of time and production is getting’ more serious than the war itself. It could and must be eliminated and have the production soldiers stay on their jobs to strike up production and not strike it down. A plan should be adopted, based on the wages of these Gijon paren diers. I think they should be a es) trained for the same as the next person doing the same type of work, and this should take effect in every

SOUBLLY, is pian 1 would keep 2p

the morale of all defense workers 1 also it would give them cour-| | age to produce the equipment essential to their war, in which we

dry again? .

How the Wrong Idea Gets About IT’S ‘A QUAINT old state:department. custom that

: whenever employees get raises, they must stand treat to the other employees in their particular division,

of candy to the gals. It works all right among the state departmen people themselves, where the custom is understood,

ary

but sometimes a. visiting foreign embassy official or

secretary, making the rounds in the department, fails to realize that the world-wide custom of passing the

| cigars. doesn’t hecessarlly mean thas somebody Has ‘| had a baby.

It gets particularly funny when some of the me)

married ladies in the department have to stand tread

or pass the cigars for the boss.

A | Britain Rationing Candy

WPA WORKERS IN 33 states, assigned to salloots

ing junk in rural areas, have turned in 100,000 tons of scrap. .

. Candy is being rationed in Great Britain, two - ounces per week. , , . Net money income of farm families averaged 46 per cent more in 1941 than -1935-36. . Forty per cent of the rural families and 20 per cent of: the urban families had incomes below $500 a year. . . . Average family income for the couns, try is $1600 on farms, 8300. in cities. ’

A Woman's Nownith : By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

SOLDIERS IN WHITE '—the phrase keeps running through my head today, perhaps because a fine young doctor I know has beent ‘called to army service, leaving a’ wife and two children behind. He is only one of many. Global war calls’ for men of all trades and professions. None is more necessary than the. physician, Ls ay * 2.."Nobody ‘has ever tried to’ comé “pute ‘the ‘value of his services to

{ the nation. Nobody would dare to be so. presumptus-

ous. It is immeasurable; it cannot be counted, weighted or estimated by any known mathematical rule. It has always seemed to me that doctors make the § finest of all contributions to society, because .their work lies in both the physical and spiritual realms. They heal our bodies, cure our mental woes, soothe’ our fears. They bring courage and happiness and’ peace wherever they go. . Charles Morrow Wilson, author of “Ambassador in’ White,” (Henry Holt) sees them also as hare bingers of civilization and ‘ministers of international good-will. :

Our No. | Enemy in’ the South | : >

SAD TT NOT BEEN for our mela) LeioRmlE points out, neither soldiers nor merchants nor diplo= mats could have penetrated into South or Central America. The Panama Canal would today be only a dream of engineers and generals, if medical men had not first discovered, fought and destroyed the malarial mosquito. Mr. Wilson’s book is a social document, bringing us the flaming story of a glory above and beyond martial fame; the glory which comes to men who work to save human life—men such as Finlay of Cuba; Reed of Virginia; Georgas of Alabama; Deeks of Canada: Noguchi of Japan... If they could speak’ to us, I think, they would confirm Charles Morrow: Wilson’s words: “We who now want Latin American friendship and support will have to join in a declaration of war

against tropical disease. The current struggle for

health is the most significant of all American wars, Latin American is a sick man’s society and hemi sphere solidarity cannot be built on a sick many society.” . “Latin America’s enemy number one is neither, Nazi nor Nippohese. It is the insidious and ubiquit-/ ous column of disease. The operations of this: enemy are harder to check and will continue to be far more dangerous 19,9 of the Sort Win sayibile gu or Mein Kampf.” : : Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists . ‘this: newspaper are their own. They are not ‘necessarily those p of The Indianapolis Times, ;

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