Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1942 — Page 17

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U. P. )—Text of President Roosevelt's address to the International Student Service

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w+ It may interest the ghonibers of this assembly of the international student service that, during the past week, the axis radio has given unusual comment to your sessions and to the speech which you are hearing at this moment. : Our listening stations have picked up an increasing volume of axis broadcasts, including controlled stations in|. France, Hungary, The Netherlands and elsewhere, referring to this meeting of the younger generation from all the * united nations in terms of growing hate and, of course, complete falsehood. Our listening stations report that they expect, that at this moment the air in all axis-dominated na-

tions will be thoroughly jammed — blacked out — in order that no sound of ‘what 1 " am saying, either in English or in translation, will be heard by any restless young people who are under Hitler's heel. The Nazi radio in Paris, for example, tells the youth of France that Roosevelt was solely responsible for the defeat of France; that

Y Roosevelt is not qualified to address a message to the youth of the world because America is a nation that has done nothing for youth.

Axis Offers Death

Berlin reports that four French youth organizations have protested in advance against this speech, since Roosevelt must be blamed for the death of more than 100,000 young Frenchmen. Incidentally, it would be interesting to know how many real Frenchmen there are in these so-called French youth organizations. A radio in Tokyo says that I am admitting to you at this moment that my people are decadent— weaklings—playboys—spoiled by jazz music and Hollywood pictures. Of course, this broadcast did not originate from any of the Japanese who bumped into our playboys in the southwest Pacific. The reason for this hysterically defensive attitude toward this gathering is not hard to find. For many years they have made their hypocritical appeal to youth—they have tried, with all their blatant publicity, to represent themselves as th: champions of youth. But now the world knows that the Nazis, the Fascists and the militarists of Japan have nothing to pie to youth—except death.

They Prefer Death

On the other hand, the cause of * the united nations is the cause .of youth itself. It is the hope of the new generation—and the generations that are to come—hope for a new life that can be lived in freedom, and justice, and decency. This fact is becoming clearer “ @very day to the young people of Europe, where the Nazis are trying to create youth organizations built on the Nazi pattern. It is not a pattern devised by youth for youth. It is a pattern devised by Hitler and imposed upon youth by a form of mental forcible feeding—a diet ' of false facts, distortions, and prohibitions—all backed up by the guns of the gestapo. If you have doubt as to what the decent youth of Europe think about the false promises the axis masters make to the young people of the - world, look to the brave young men of France and all the occupied countries who prefer to face the firing squads rather than a life-

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time of slavery and degradation under Hitler. In such unfortunate countries as Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ru-, mania and Italy, whose Boyer ments have found it submit to Hitler and do his bidding, the Quislings have organized youth movements too—but these are only movements of youth by the tens of thousands to the slaughter of the eastern front, where the Nazis neéd cannonfodder in their desperate attempts to shatter the stalwart:Russian army. In China, heroic youth has stood steadfast for more than five .years against all of Japan's attempts to seduce and disarm them with sich transparent lies as the promise of “Asia for the Asiatics.” For the Chinese know that this ony means “all of creation enslaved by the Japanese.” We exult in the “thought that it is the young, free men and women of the united nations, and not the, wound-up robots of the slave states, who will mold the shape of the new world.

Youths Bear Burden

The delegates to this International Student assembly represent the 29 united’ nations. They also represent, in spirit at least, ‘the younger generation of many other nations ‘who, though they are not now actively at war on our side, are with us heart and soul in aspiration for a secure and peaceful world.' Before the first world war, very few people in any country believed that youth had the right to speak for itself as a group or to participate in coundils of state. We have learned much since then. We know ‘that wisdom does not come necessarily with years; that old men may’ be foolish, and young men may be wise. But in every war, it is the younger generation which bears the burden of combat and inherits all the ill that war leaves in its wake. In the economic crises that followed the false prosperity after the first world war, mary young men and women suffered even more than did their elders. For they were denied the primary oportunities for education, for training, for work, or even for food enough to build up healthy bodies. As a result, they were tempted to seek some simple remedy not only for their own individual problems, but for all the problems that beset the world.

Hear Glib Answers

Some listened to alien, siren voices which offered glib answers to all the questions. “Democracy is dead,” said these voices. “Follow us, and we will teach you efficiency. We will lead you to world conquest. We will give you power over inferior races, and all that we ask you to give in return is—your freedom.” Other young people in the democracies listened to gospels of despair. They took refuge in cynicism and bitterness.

when all theory had to give way to fact—the terrible, tangible fact of dive bombers, panzer divisions, the actual threat to the security of every home and every family if every free country in the world. And when that fact became clear to our youth they answered the call to arms—many millions of them, and, today, they are determined to fight until the forces of aggression have

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in Central and South America, in ain and Ireland, on the coasts of in Russia, in‘India, in China, in Australia, in New Zealand, in many

those places—are our fighting men.

islands of the Pacific and on all the seas of the world. There—in all

and marines, not only within the | continental limits of the United| States, but in far distant points—|| the islands of the Atlantic, in Brit-|

Africa, in Egypt, in Iraq and Iran,|

Praises Fighting Men

commander-in-chief, and from the very hearts of their countrymen:

est traditions of our nation. * .-No pilgrims ‘who landed on the ‘luncharted New England coast, no pioneers who .forced their way through the trackless wilderness, showed greater fortitude, greater deto| termination, than you are showing now. Neither your own fathers, in 1918, nor. your fathers’ fathers, in 1863 or 1776, fought with greater gal-

duty and country than you are now

‘home. -And what is more, you Know Why you are fighting.. You know that

Solomon islands, or to the Red sea, or to the coast of France, is in fact an extension of Main" st., and that when you fight, anywhere along that

fense of your own homes, your own free schools, your own churches, your own ideals. We here at home are supremely conscious of our obligations to you,

not let you down. We know that in the minds of many of you are thoughts of interrupted education, interrupted careers, delayed opportunities for get ting a job. The solution of such problems cannot be left, as it was last time, to mere chance. This government has accepted the responsibility ‘for seeing to it that, wherever possible, work has -been provided for those who were willing and able, but who could not find

tinue after the war, and when you come home, we do not propose to

mestic economic mess of our own making. You are doing first things first— fighting to win this war. For you know that should this war be lost, all our plans for the peace to follow would be meaningless.

Face Future Task

Victory is essential; but victory is not enough for you—or for us. We must be sure that when you have won victory, you will not have to tell your children that you fought in vain—that you were betrayed. We must be sure that in yqur homes there will not be want—that in your schools only the living truth will be taught—that in your churches there may be preached without fear a faith in which men may deeply believe. The better world for whic you fight—and for which some of you give your lives—will not come merely because we shall have won the war. It will not. come merely because we wish very hard that it would come. It will be made possible only by bold vision, intelligent planning and hard work. - It cannot be brought about overnight; but only by years of effort and perservance and unfaltering faith. You young soldiers and sailors, farmers and factory workers, artists and scholars, who are fighting our way to victory now, all of you will have to take your part in shaping that world. You will earn it by what you do now; but you will not attain it if you leave the job for others to do alone. When you lay aside your gun at the end of the war, you cannot at the same time lay aside your duty to the fu-

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What I have said to our American soldiers and sailors applies to all the young men and women of the united nations who are facing] ca our common enemies. There is a complete unanimity of spirit among all the youth of all kinds and kindreds who fight to preserve or to regain their freedom. In Norway and Holland, Belgium and France, Czechcslovakia and Poland, Serbia ‘and Greece, there

Although disarmed, the unconquerable people still strike at their oppressors. Although forbidden to know the truth, they listen at the

mouth and by secret newspaper passed from one patriot to another, they still. spread the truth. When the time comes for these to

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stroyed by the hands of its own

displaying on battlefields far: from \

the road which has led you to the}

work. That responsibility will con-'

involve you, as last time, in a do-|}§

orders from headquarters on what to do with their goods.

despite the fact that armies march on their stomachs, and so it looks

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You young Americans today are ]

This is something that may have to stop—this jitterbugging ‘such

as Miss Madelaine Pugh of 3520 E. Zink of Schoen field, Ft. Harrison,

Center's Wabash St. post. It does look like fun, though, doesn’t it?

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road, you are fighting in the de-|#

now and in the future. We will|:

Don’t shuffle along like this tired reporter after a day's work. Pick up your feel,

. Pardon. the gloom, citizens, ‘but shoe leather.

shoes. “We're trying to shoe the world. It’s serious,” said H. M. Stitle, hide dealer at 226 Kentucky ave. Mr. Stitle said that on Sept. 28 men like him are going to get

Dancing Hard on Them Soldiers need the shoe leather,

as if now is the time to start

What steps the government might take to save the civilian shoe, of course, we don't: know. But it wouldn't surprise us if the government passed out another regulation telling dance bands to cut out the jitterbug stuff and stick to slower music such as waltzes. It would be a neat way to rid this country of the Jitterbug menace for the duration. More of the “Sleepy Lagoon” type is in order, not so much “Jersey Bounce.” Another thing which would help this situation materially is to silence all poor public orators, who cause people to shuffle their feet and wear out shoes. : Most of all though, keep what shoes you've got in good repair. Charlie Sobol, a man with years of shoe repairing, said that as of

ples are designed to form a world in which men, women and children can live in freedom and in equity, and, above all, without fear of the horrors of war. For no soldiers or

would so willingly endure the rigots

another 20 years their own sons would be fighting still another war

away jungles or skies.

The Shoe Pinch Is Coming And Jitterbugging May Go

By FREMONT POWER

As we get it from our Washington sources, some confirmed and some not, leather manufacturers have been ordered to save 15 per cent of their stuff for shoe repairmen instead of putting it into new

sailors, in any of our forces today; |:

on distant deserts or seas or in far-|

Fall Creek blvd. and Pvt. Frank J. demonstrate at the SBrvice Men’s

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And don’t do like Jimmy Karandos of 110 Dickson st. Kicking is strictly bad.

it looks as if they might restrict

yesterday, he’s got about enough leather to last him three months at his shop, 30 Kentucky ave. Charlie takes a highly optimistic view of the situation. He concluded. the interview by quoting some of his prices, but I told him I was well shod at present and thanks.

Follow This Advice

For the better care of your present shoes, it is suggested: 1. Don’t walk like you just got a whipping. Pick up. your feet,

smartly. 2. Don't stand in puddles. Keep your shoes dry. But if you do get them wet, don’t dry them before a fire. ® 3. Slow down to a walk when putting your shoes on in the morning. * Attempting to acquire them in a dead run for the streetcar is liable to twist them up badly, besides pitching you headlong: into

as a patriotic suggestion. 5. Don’t try to kick everything out of your path. This pertains to small boys. 6. Don't write a letter to your boy in the army, telling him how tough the shoe situation may become. He's got more Important: things to think about. 1. Get both feet on the ground,

shi. ridiol of our enemies We are deeply aware that we cannot achieve our godls easily. We cannot -attain the fullness of our ideals overnight. We know that this is to be a long and hard and bitter

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h | selective service be widened to form t |a pool from which men might be

American armed forces’ on various

Head; Urges Call of 18 to 21 Group.

fce system is “discriminatory and undemocratic,” declared’ Lynn U. Stambaugh of Fargo, N. D, national!

mander also charged that the gov-

. “The selective service is not na-tion-wide in its truest sense,” he said. “In some communities and states married men with dependents are called while in other states single men without dependents have

Mr. Stambaugh declared that “it is desirable to lower the draft age to 18,” contending that men in the 18-21 age group are more adaptable to the science of war, “It is discriminatory to force youths who are financially unable to go to college to be subject to the draft while those of financial means are permitted to continue their special trainings,” he said.

Urges Material Draft He suggested that the base of the

secured for all the armed forces, including the navy, marines and the coast guard in addition to the army. “Also when it becomes necessary to draft manpower for the armed service, it is only right and proper that there should be a draft of the material resources of the nation, including dollars, labor, material, property and all supplies.” The Legion commander, in discussing inflation and soaring wages of persons staying. at home, recalled that after the last war the soldiers came home and found that persons of previous financial obscurity had become millionaires from the war. He advocated enactment of legislation, freezing prices and giving the president power to make necessary adjustments for licensing dealers, importers and manufacturers.

LOCAL SUPPLIES T0 EQUIP YANKS

U. S. Reaches Agreements With Allied Nations Under Lend-Lease. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (U. P)— fighting fronts of the world will be

ment, munitions, food supplies and other facilities under the terms of a series of agreements signed today. The agreements, concluded with the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Fighting France, provide the opportunity for at least partial repayment of the lend-lease assistance which the United States has furnished for those fighting the axis. . . : They specify that the war production and war resources of the allies shall be pooled in the most effective way, and that assistance shall be given American forces by their allies in the various theaters of operation to conserve shipping and increase the efficiency of the allied war effort.

the third anniversary of the declarations of war by Great Britain and France. The agreements . broaden and formalize the lend-lease agreements, making them into more effective mutual assistance pacts. They provide that each party to the. agreement ‘shall provide: the maximum in reciprocal aid so that

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ernment is not taking adequate" steps to prevent inflation. :

of modern warfare. Although men

supplied locally with military equip-|

The agreements were signed on}

: Unimorae atic, Says Legion

Mr. Knox said steps have been taken to insure the availability of sufficient officers in the various . for. the navy's rapidly exne ph

ons of naval aviators will occur at earlier dates than regular

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