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SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1943

T= MOST DANGEROUS SHORTAGE IME is the thing America can least afford to waste. Necessary decisions delayed, inevitable actions postned, mean a longer, bloodier war—may, conceivably, sean the difference between victory and defeat. Yet necessary decisions are being delayed, inevitable actions are being postponed, because an election day is pproaching. . For the fact that they can exercise their voting priviJege as usual, in this war ‘year, Americans are thankful. ‘But our enemies must give thanks for the paralysis that political timidity had brought upon the capacity of our ernment to act and to decide. =. American voters should be sick and tired of hearing from Washington— ‘That the army draft bill be extended to youths of 18 and 19—but not until after the third of November. ® That a tax bill heavier than has yet been proposed is necessary and will be passed—but maybe not until after the ird of November. That gasoline rationing will be made nation-wide, to “conserve rubber tires—but not until after the third of No-

vember. That rationing of meat and numerous other commodi-

es will be started—but not until after the third of Noember,

We believe that American voters are sick and tired of |.

hearing such things. We believe that the great majority of American Voters are more patriotic, more intelligent, ore willing to make the sacrifices necessary. to win the 'war, than the administration and gongress give them credit or being. Our most dangerous shortage is not of men, or mate‘rials’ or money. “It is the shortage at Washington of faith in the people

of the United States.

E ALL OUR PLANES RETURNED SAFELY” UR B-17s—those huge, handsome, high-flying, manygunned flying fortresses of the army air forces—have Bow made half a dozen bombing expeditions over occupied ance and the Netherlands. In addition, they have fought ff a swarm of Germany's crack Focke-Wulff “190” fighters over the North sea, destroying some of the enemy planes.

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& In none of these actions has a single fortress been lost. All returned to Britain, although occasionally with casualties and damage. This record is the more remarkable in view of the re‘peated British observation that bombew losses are proportionately heaviest when the number of bombers in a given raid is relatively small. For the American raids have all apparently been made by mere handfuls of aircraft, compared to the hundreds sent over in typical R. A. F. raids. , The explanation appears to lie in the fact that the B-17 can fly much higher than Britain's great Lancasters, etc. ‘and that the B-1T is fast enough, and well enough armed ‘and armored, to fend off single-seater interception. The erican bombsight also plays a vital part, in permitting precision bombing from altitudes above five miles. ~The day-will surely come when these great warships ‘the air will do their raiding by the hundred instead of by he dozen—and the sooner this day arrives the closer we be b a second front in Europe.

HOPEFUL STEP

IT: is a war labor board policy to reward unions ot promis“ing not to strike during the war. . The board’s employer members, like many other people, have been troubled about this policy. One of them, Roger . Lapham, has stated his blunt ‘opinion that it is “bunk with a capital B” for labdr leaders to “demand privileges nd favors because they have given up the right to strike.” For, asked Mr. Lapham, “what citizen has a right to strike a war for his country’s existence?” The worst thing about this policy, as applied in many es, by board members appointed to represent organized abor and the public, is that it has operated strictly one ay. Only now, for the first time, have they conceded that a union which breaks the promise should be penalized. ven the labor members joined in a unanimous decision ] is week denying maintenance of union membership and other concessions demanded by an A. F. of L. chemical orkers’ local which violated its no-strike pledge by calling t 700 employees of two war plants at Everett, Wash, for e dass last month. - ‘ a 2 8 » ” » HE decision, written by Public Member Wayne L. Morse, stresses .the necessity for “good faith” in use of the vernment machinery for peaceful settlement of labor isputes. This is the same Mr. Morse who had just written majority opinion, in the Big Steel case, that a union not bound by its written contract with an employer. pwever, it is -encouraging to find him and the entire d emphasizing the importance of good faith, at least phe matter of no-strike promises. And we're glad that administration agency finally takes official notice of s of power by a union and refuses.to give it greater rer until it develops a keener sense of responsibility. By the WLB’s own figures, there were 222 strikes in industries i in July. There have been many such strikes h month since Pearl Harbor. Labor leaders have disresponsibility for most of them. The governnly apparent way of stopping them, if appeals to patriotism failed, has been to seize the plants “which punished only the employers. Mr. Roose- |

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the damage they were doing and ac-|

exaggerating the situation. In short, and ‘obtain ben fits in return for, a

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 29—Some of our people seem fo need re‘minding’ that human nature has not been repealed and .that it is

still legal in the United States to |

hold and express racial and religious prejudices and that if you try to suppress such feelings by force, whether through government action or boycott, you will almost certainly run into difficulties. I am not arguing in favor of such prejudice, or in favor of discrimina-

tion, for I believe I am almost innocent of such |

meanness and envy the man, if such there breathes, who is absoltuely so. But you can’t stamp it out by compulsion and any attempt to do so is itself a resort to coercion of the mind and bad business any way you look at it. It is a police myasion ¢ of the realm of conscience. Although intolerance is a bitter thing and often has been played as a racket, those who try to suppress it are usually very intolerant themselves and many of them also make a racket of their opposition. Discrimination is very bad against some elements of our people, but it exists everywhere in some degree and is practiced and upheld by some of the very people who yell loudest against it.

Take the Communist Sheets ian

FOR INSTANCE, the Communist papers can howl vis bloody murder against a publisher of a standard

American newspaper. who refuses to hire a reporter because he objects to the reporter’s politics, especially if the reporter is a Communist. They can even set the law and the labor relations board on him for that if he’ admits the discrimination. But the Communist paper wouldn't think of hir-, ing a reporter who wasn’t a cardholder in the party | and would can him on the spot for writing anything off the line. There you have discriminators ready to raise the devil with others who practice discrimination. It is discrimination when a. Methodist refuses to patronize a rabbi or when a ®atholic walks. past half a dozen Protestant churches to take his news born child to his own church, usually built on hill, to be baptized.

You're Inviting Trouble

IF YOU GO IN for proportional employment as a means of defeating discrimination you invite several kinds of trouble. In view of the fact that there are so few Communists among us, under the proportional system, the Communist paper would have to employ non-Communists at the rate of say, maybe, 20 to 1. If you were to go down the line through all phases of employment, you would have to classify and segregate our groups more rigidly than ever in order to make sure that each group got its fair share of work. When you do that, you set them firmly and distinctly apart and stop all progress | toward natural understanding and nondiscrimination. You start by saying that a man must not be rejected on racial or religious or political grounds and very soon you find he must be accepted because of his racial or religious or political distinction regardless of his general qualifications and inevitably to the injury of some other individual who has more ability but doesn’t happen to be the re: next in line.

Remember the Hitler Method

IT SHOULD BE remembered that when Hitler was just coming along and pretending to be just a little bit anti-Jewish he restricted the Jews to a proportionate rate of opportunity in the professions and in the schools and that this rule was condemned instantly and vociferously by those very liberals who are now beginning to experiment with proportionate employment in this country. Later on, of course, Hitler went in for his cold pogrom, but the discrimination was first established in the proportionate system. To any group which suffers from discrimination this system will have initial attractions, but a. look a little way ahead will show that it leads straight to complications of a kind which are included among the evils that this war is being fought against.

Russia's 2d Front

By Ludwell Denny.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—The Red offensive on the central front is a partial answer to the constant question during recent weeks of southern retreat, “Where are the Russian reserves?” It also answers in part the current question as to the optimism Churchill brought away from his visit with Stalin, : It is no secret that Stalin has * been holding his reserves. until they could do the most good, until their counter-offensive could be timed with an allied second front. The Russians have talked freely and openly about the necessity of such a second front, which the allies have publicly promised them. For that reason the Rzhev drive, while revealing that large Red reserves have been waiting on the central front, at the same time deepens the mystery regarding an allied offensive. If Stalin sacrifices his reserves now he will not have them later, ° ; Has he given up hope of an allied second front this summer, and is he thus forced ab any: cost to push the enemy hack from the Moscow area before Nazi victory in the south permits enemy concentration on the central front? Or is the Rzhev action merely: a feint for co-ordinated Russian-allied. offensives elsewhere?

The Situation Is Dspeiete’.

WE DO NOT KNOW which it is. We do not know

whether the allies even yet have the weapons and

position to fight the front Which has been talked so

long and so eloquently. But we do know that the

heroic raid on Dieppe and recent British experience |

in Egypt prove that no allied offensive, either in

western Europe or. the Near East, is going to be a |

pushover. .

Meanwhile the Russian situation continties desperate. Mr. Churchill’s optimism is encouraging, and the Rzhev counter-offensive is evidence that Stalin has not yet exhausted his reserves, but neither removes the peril in south Russia. Loss of Stalingrad and the Caucasus would ‘be the most costly allied defeat since ‘the fall of France. Chere is no reason to suppose that Russia will collapse completely like France. But there is every

reason to believe that Russia cannot longer engage ||

most of Hitler's forces, unless her. allies strike quidEly Somewhere ‘and samehow. doe

So They Say—

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“WHAT KIND OF SETUP DOES THIS CITY HAVE?". By Pvt. L. P., Indianapolis,

What kind of a setup do you have here in this city? I.am a soldier at Ft. Harrison. Recently I went to the county clerk’s office here to get a marriage license. They charged me $3 and wanted $5 for some sort of a little container. I recently had a blood test when inducted in the army but they made me get another and suggested the doctor to go to. They also gave me a pastor to go to but I did not follow this advice. Seems that a soldier should get a little better break from public offcials. Don’t you think so?

» 8 ® “WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THAT OLD PIONEER SPIRIT?” By Mrs. Arthur Gresham, 1228 Euclid Ave.

! Having read the pros and cons on the “Who should be drafted question,” I'd like to express my opinion Some of the articles contained sound reasoning but the majority written by women seemed selfish and indifferent. What has happened to that old pioneer spirit of our grandmothers? So many people seem to ignore or forget we're in a war and we had better win this war or we will all be in the same boat as the mothers and wives of Poland and the many other conquered countries. ] What do their homes amount to whether there are two or six children or none? Of course we want to retain our homes but again, we're in a war and women should wake up. There are many housewives who have never. earned a dollar in: their lives and feel they'd starve sure if their husbands were taken in the service but ‘they wouldn't at. all. They'd learn some gainful occupation as thousands of women in Eng-| said land have had to do. : Our government has passed the

and children in mind because Uncle Sam needs our “man power” and he’s the boss in saying who he wants, so come on, real erican women, square your shoulders and grit your teeth and say you can take it, come what may. I happen to have a neighbor who

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Letters must

has six—yes, six—sons in Uncle Sam’s fighting forces. She has a beautiful spirit and still smiles. ; _This alone should make the majority of pampered wives ashamed so I say, “show some of that pioneer spirit. ” We must win this war. If a country is good enough to live in it is good enough to defend. ® ” 2 “ATTITUDE OF SOME WAR

‘| WORKERS HAS ME STUMPED”

‘By R. L. C., Indianapolis.

One thing that has me stumiped is the atitude of numerous war workers all over the country.. In the Aug. 24 Time magazine, page 17, the situation in a Ford plant in Detroit is described. In one instance of the lack of cooperation there, T quote, “the men easily turned out their daily quota of vehicles two hours ahead of time, started to play: first they threw water, then buckets of water, then the buckets. When the army security officer at the plant asked them to return to work the reply was: the quota was made, that’s all there was to it.” To me that attitude stinks. I am a union member and have been for years but have yet to see anything like that in Indianapolis. usiiyine these acts, one werker , “A lot of these companies de-

serve to be treated miserable. They

treated us that .way during the

I've had it tough, too, during the depression, but don't believe the war should be used as an opportunity to get even. We are all in the same boat, workers and management alike—if the boat sinks, we, us well ‘as the ‘employers, will gu

dependency allowance bill with wives| d

down.

Side Glances—By Galbraith.

of a grinning cat pasted up

| not possess that quality 3) _|carry the genuine smile—of two evils| —I would prefer to place my. ¢ i 3 fAdence for sympathy in the

“HOW COULD ANYONE DOUBT I NEED MY HUSBAND?” By H. M. W., Indianapolis.

To An All American and The Defender: I'm an all-American too. 1 wholeheartedly agree that it is ‘sad for a child to cry for its daddy, but at least it has its life before it and a pretty good chance of a healthy, happy childhood regardless. The process of growing up is in itself an adventure. Children also have a good chance of a career and a

| family of their own after they are

grown. No part of my body has escaped the dagger sharp pain of arthritis since I was 10 old. I've been bedfast for as. long 20.13 weeks at a time. - Although there no visible signs, I'm in constant pain. It settled in my hands three years ago and at times I can’t even dress myself nor pull the cover over me

lin bed. My hands are that weak

and sore.

The aged mother has her daugh- |

ter to care for her. I have no one but my husband.

And “Defender,” keep your sym-{

pathy. God and I know the depths

of my sorrow from being childless. |.

As many times that I've been struck helpless I would be very foolish to adopt children. I've always recovered to the extent of not being left crippled, but the ever grinding, nerve-wracking pain is still there. How could anyone doubt how terribly I need my husband. £2 "nn “BECOMING A NATION OF MAD PLEASURE-SEEKERS” By a Times Reader, Indianapolis. We have been becoming more and more a nation of mad pleasure’ seekers and the lighter side of life (just as Rome did before its fall) and the tendency to designate anyone who thinks a little seriously a so-called “sourpuss, * (a term I recently read in a letter) because serious thinking does naturally leave its stamp on the countenance to a degree. It would seem to me if ever there were a

time when we should be doing some.

serious thinking it is now, even if in so doing we mar somewhat the happy-go-liicky “morale” of some people who demand such. ; Maybe we should have a picture in the school rooms and factories to assist these folks. If the poor mothers

can stand the loss of their sons

and the people in the war-torn countries can stand what they are

|enduring, surely we in our favored

life here can stand to give up for the . time being ‘our demand for so much fun and the “perfectly” pleasant atmosphere: and show we at least sympathize with these war victims. . ‘Of course we may possess a “Christian fortitude” which may

enable us to smile (not grin) in| [trouble or to at least not carry.a|

long ‘face but if one can‘enough: to

A wig

|By Peter Edson

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.

ing plied including "shorts and posters to tack on ti —in an effort to persuade ‘lum : men to stay on the jobs in ‘logging camps and sawmills, stead of quitting to take Jobs: shipyards. : : The problem is part acute in the northwest, which produces 45 per ce of the nation’s lumber in big, spectacular 3. Patriotic “ lumbermen have felt. they would b doing their country more good in the shipyards

‘the unpatriotic ones feel that they stand a better

chance of dodging the draft if they work on ships. Local selective service boards have added some to this confusion by refusing to grant occupational

.| deferment to lumberjacks. - Educating the lum

and the draft boards is the job Which army and W production board face now. Fact they wish to ems Dliasjae is this, without lumber, there- won't be- any pS.

Your Extra Spare Tire—

NEXT CAMPAIGN idea being worked on is the proposal that all car owners sell to the government. all their auto tires over five. Average car carrying only the one spar: would not be touched, but all the fancy jobs carrying two spares would have to surrender one, plus all Spare or worn casings held in the garage for emergency. :

Anent Junius B. Chucklehead—

is still plugging the character of Junius B. Chuckle= head, conceived back in the office of ‘emergency mane agement public relations days as the mythical ems bodiment of the unpatriotic boneheaded American who 2 won't save rubber, won't collect scrap, does spread false rumors. Latest effort is to get W. C. Fields w play the character in a series of Tovie a shorts. 0

The WAVES' Uniforms!

NAVY INSISTS there is no significance to be ate tached to the fact that one of the companies being

lady-sailor. WAVES is a leading manufacturer of bathing suits.

The Health Front—

A NUMBER OF states have petitioned the civilian | conservation corps, now being liquidated, for transfer to one or more camps to use as hospitals for women infeeted with venereal disease. Thif idea has received little publicity except in localities where such segres gation centers have been established. But so succesSe ful have the first camps been that ‘other ‘states wang to {follow the pattern.

And : Manpower—

DETROIT WILL probably get the second of the war manpower commission’s war production area joint labor-management committees to handle labor supply problems. First of these local committees. was ‘set up in Baltimore Aug. 1, as a trial balloon. Tela Experience gained in Baltimore will be passed = to the Detroit office, which should. get going before Sept. 1. After that, watch for a number of other

solve manpower supply and demand problems by vole untazy agreements among employers and labor unions,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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I INVITE SUGG from readers, for I believe a of valuable -scrap intelligence lying around loose which can | to win the war and build a bet= ter world afterwards. People outside the newspaper. profession who are not : government jobs and who fore represent a real but un part of America, vag to heard. ‘I plan to give. pace to their comments. Today Mrs. C. A ; of Oklahoma is our visitor. ' She off ‘the resolution for home-town club m 2 “Let us resolve: : “To make our ‘city a good place for youth making our ‘homes pleasant places for ment. (Most of them are too elegantly fu

| After they -cease to look like gift shops,

and high school crowds won't make mother so 1 ous. Even husbands may like them better and to invite their cronies in.) | “To join in creating a real USO center, collecting money or preparing cakes, pies. refreshments. (But let's not have Taney soldiers hate fuss.) -

...and to’ Practice D Democracy’

“ro DEMAND instruction in social dan high schools; to insist upon "the suthuity broad-minded patrons, because the I mingrity has run things long enough." auditoriums are splendid for parties. are willing t6 help plan and run them safest piaces for you entertainme “To encourage ‘sex education which religicus as well as physical. aspects. of venereal disease should be told. find 3 of every 10 club women have not:the ct explain sex to their own children). Rg “To give thought to the fact that war

ations ta pun church nurseries or more when some one comes into the home for her children. The risks are great. and is made to cost her too much. Usually mothers are not suitable guides for ‘sometimes they are responsible for b into the home. A church’‘nursery would a 1 maker for the church ‘and Me fnaitanoe

OFFICE OF WAR Information has taken over and §

considered for the contract to make uniforms for the ]