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Give Light and the People Will Find: Thelr Own Way

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1942

SCRAP metal is in the national spotlight. This country, which never fully realized its importance to peacetime life and progress, must now learn to think of it as a basic, indispensable raw material in war. : Our war industries desperately need all kinds of scrap metals—aluminum, cooper, bronze, lead, tin, zinc. But above all, right now, they need scrap iron and steel. In the next two months millions of tons of it must be collected from the cities and towns and farms of America, sorted and _ graded by dealers who know how to do that job, and shipped to the steel furnace and the iron foundries— Or winter will see production of ships and tanks and ~ guns and shells and machine tools perilously, if not fatally, slowed down. : This is a steel war. The chief ingredients of new steel are pig iron and ' scrap—old steel and iron. Pig iron, alone, could be used, but the addition of scrap makes stronger, cheaper steel, and makes it quicker. The use of scrap has other advantages, vastly important just now. It makes unnecessary the pro‘duction and transportation of millions of tons of iron ore, limestone and coke for the blast furnaces which supply pig iron. 8 8 8 ; 8 8 = IN recent peace years the steel furnaces, operating far below their capacity, depended about half on pig iron and half on scrap. The scrap supplies were plentiful. There was no need then to build more blast furnaces—the ones that make the pig iron—and the country has neither time nor materials to build any more of them now. So the steel furnaces, now called on for maximum production, must depend increasingly on scrap. They are using it at such a rate that their stock piles are dangerously low. The scrap industry is doing a good job, sending more scrap to the steel mills than ever before in history—but still not enough. Here and there steel furnaces are having to close down, and others are threatened. Production is "hundreds of thousands of tons a month below capacity. And cold weather is coming, when over much of the country snow and ice will make scrap collections almost impossible. The stock piles must be built up by millions of tons before

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Here is a job for everybody. If you've been waking to know what you can do to help win the war, this is it. Get into the battle for scrap, as a contributor, a collector, an organizer. There's a lot of room for improvement. There's been a lot of confusion about this whole subject of scrap. “All that must be straightened out quickly, and will be. Do your part to see that your home, your neighborhood, your community starts every available ounce of scrap off to war in the next two months. »

HARD-BOILED DOES IT

OBERT E. HARVEY, Denver's liaison agent with the : growing Colorado military establishment, recently gave a little demonstration of one way to handle a slowdown. Some 49 truck drivers employed on a new runway at Lowry field, the air force's important technical school, became disgruntled and started driving at from two to five miles an hour. (There wasn’t a strike) Mr. Harvey demanded that all automobile tires issued to the slowdowners be recalled, on the ground that they had been obtained for war production purposes only, and that the men’s names be removed from all lists for future war jobs. The slowdown ended—fast.

MR. WILLKIE GOES SIGHTSEEING

HE first fruit of Wendell Willkie’s sightseeing tour of |

: the eastern battlefronts is sour. On the El Alamein front in Egypt he comes out as a combined military expert and soothsayer. : “I think the Boche has been stopped on this front,” “he says. “What has taken place here in the past two or three days is significant, and perhaps constitutes the turning point of the war.” What has taken place is that the allies have held their own during a week of jockeying for position. There has ‘been no decisive battle. Relatively small forces have been “employed. There have been minor advances and retreats, with the net about what it was when Marshal Rommel started his feelers last week. Nobody knows yet whether Rommel is going to attempt a general offensive at this time. Although Rommel’s strength, and original positions, and supply lines, remain the same, and although the allies have not yet been able to start the desperately needed unter-offensive for which they have prepared so long, Mr. Willkje pontificates that the outpost fighting of the past few days may turn the entire war. oo” # 8 FJ 8 8 PPARENTLY our No. 1 tourist has forgotten that not ~ even the allied conquest of Libya beyond Benghazi, th the capture of most of the axis forces, a turning pint. Apparently he does not know that the continued ence of the axis army in Egypt is such a grave menace

at more allied help is being routed there instead of to

a, or China, or Alaska, or to MacArthur. Either the competent military authorities in Cairo misjudging the situation, or their uninvited civilian is talking nonsense—and dangerous nonsense at t can be very costly to make the American people they are winning a war, when they have not even

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By Westbrook Pegler

: \ NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—But you haven't heard the half of it because in addition to Charlie Dissenat he lets his ever-loving dream girl set on the bench and run the team that year but I haven't told

you about his friend, Prof. Weeney. |

One day he comes in with a liddy-biddy, dark-complected guy

while we are dressing for work |

and he says to me, “Dr. Dunno, I want to introduce you to my old friend, Prof. Weeney, from Harvard.” . “Pleased to meet you, “I said. “But I didn’t catch the name. You mean Weeney, like a hot dog?” And that was just what his name was, Weeney, : “Professor Weeney is an old friend of mine from

where I went to college when I was a boy,” the boss |.

said, “and I have got him a job umpiring for us. He is going to umpire exclusively for us ‘and not for nobody else in the league because he understands how the rule bqok is a living thing and not just the dead hand of the past and he is in sympathy with what we are trying to do and he is going to help us to make baseball work.”

So In Come the Harvards

WELL, SURE ENOUGH, the professor puts on his umpire suit right there in our dressing room and then he gives us a pep talk how he is going to help us win because he believes like we do that first afternoon you never saw anything like it. The way he calls them. For instance, along about the third, Artie Shooden, he dribbled one down the first base line and didn't even run and Weéeney yells, “The batter is safe.” Well, Stengel he come up screaming and Weeney gave him such a line of double-talk he gets dizzy and comes over and sets down on our bench the rest of the afternoon. Inside of a week Weeney he brings in five new guys to play on our club because they studied under him at Harvard and they never had no baseball experience but our club pays an average of about $9000 a year so hé figures it will be good to umpire for players who understand him and Charlie Dissenat and his ever-loving war department. The regular players we don’t understand any of them at all and the public doesn’t know what they are

. driving at, neither, but our club is always good for

a lot of laughs and anyway you can't lose your following when you are giving away a .present of $1.25 with every 50-cent bleacher ticket, like we done. And furthermore, the old lady she, has now decided to wrap up every hot dog in a dollar bill for a napkin and make the peanut sacks out of folding money out of the club treasury.

Borrowing Runs From 1988, Too

CHARLIE PUT THE new men into the lineup right away and the way they done why you could be arrested in the old days for doing like that. Weeney would walk over to our bench and say to Dissenat, “Charlie,” he would say, “congratulations, because my old Hapvard protege, Tommy Chiselle, he just hit a home run with three on.” I swear Tommy Chiselle wasn't even at bat but he was just sitting there with the other Harvards. But sure enough eight runs, not four, go up on the board. And the Bulgarian economist that the old lady brought he would explain the other four are borrowed from next year. Every time we need some runs we borrow enough from 1952 or 1988 or somewhere but the way Weeney umpires we don’t really have to borrow. We can just declare six or eight runs or 50 if necessary. If you could get used to it I guess it would be all right but if you were raised up the old way it was hard to understand and I still think it was better when you had to run them out and everybody knew where they stood in the averages.

The Air Army

By Maj. Al Williams

NEW YORK, Sept. 7—Air-.

power, as airmen see it, must have the autonomy given ‘the specialzed department of a great successful corporation. That autonomy, that authority to work . out its own destiny, enables the specialized department to coordinate with the other departments in a solid, efficient sales front. Present-day airmen are only dim reflections of the great and creative visionaries d old boss of mine, the late Admiral William A. Moffett. There are those among us who have persongl aims and ambitions, and they hurt the cause of American airpower and delay its development. Airmen who seek nothing except to see American airpower placed wings over anything that flies to war anywhere in the world, are the men who are actually aviation’s blood and breath. They are the men who see not one Coventry, one Essen, one Cologne, one Bremen, but the systematic application of mass air bombardment on. wide scales covering every enemy mass-production center,

It's Up to Congress

THE LEVELING OF the enemy Pittsburghs and Detroits, the dislocation of facilities which turn out the enemies’ weapons, are what they visualize as the true war use of airpower. These men do not want the array and navy stripped of whatever planes they need for their surface warfare. They want the army and the navy given all the planes they can use and set at their ‘work, with American airpower organized and equipped either to co-ordinate with them or to wage war on its own, without their assistance, as the military factors of the occasion and theater of warfare demand. The older services can’t co-ordinate their surface operations without overlapping How, then, can they co-ordinate their air arms—with both seeking to control the American airpower they both see coming? ' The responsibility for the impasse between the army and navy is not that of either service or both. Neither is empowered by law to settle the contest, one way or another. Neither, nor both, could settle it, even if one side backed down entirely and capitulated to the other. They have no place in the argu. ment.

The only agency which can settle the row. is con- ||

gress. And congress is the agency charged by law

with responsibility for settling and defining the func- ||

tions of the Tespective defense forces of this country.

So They Say—

. In one small limestone ¢ave we killed 17 Japs. who | 3 manned their machine guns until the last man, Snip- {|

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“FORGOTTEN PEOPLE HOPE SOMEBODY LISTENS TO PEG” By Nat I. Brown, 5224 Manker st. “Wes” Pegler and a small group of courageous souls cry out in the wilderness of political confusion, against the drag of privilege for the few, on the war effort and for the rights of the many to help those they love on the firing line of war with all they have. Careful study discloses that about 15 per cent of labor, business and the, farmer, who are both well organized and big enough to exert political influence and deliver votes, profiteer at the expense of the rest of us who have nothing to fight with and, in the light of current history, not much as individuals to

fight for.

Let we “forgotten people” pray that in some way, perhaps by a miracle, our servants in Washington will listen to “Peg” and his colleagues. Anyway thanks to The Times for trying.

Se “WAY TO BEAT JAPS IS TO GO AFTER JAPAN ITSELF” By “The Armchair General” Washington has not seen fit, thus far, to give full details regarding the Solomon islands offensive. Presumably the action still is in a phase such that the public cannot be informed without aiding the Japs. One may, however, express belief that the strategists have not fallen into the error of trying to recapture, island by island, what the Nipponese have seized. That would be a waste of time and lives. The way to beat Japan is to go after Japan itself. : The present success of the Chinese and the renewed threat of a Japanese attack against Russia apparently bring closer the day when there will be available bases from which can be launched. the final, all-out air attacks that will crush Tokyo. When that is done the far-

flung tentacles will not have to be cut off one at a time. They will die with the body— Japan proper. 2 8 “WHY AM I UNABLE TO GET A TEACHING POST?” By “Unemployed,” Bloomington “Teachers needed!” Schools close because of teacher shortage!” What and where are these vacancies, and what qualifications must one have in order-to get a position? And why are women (many of them coming back into teaching after years of absence from the profession) used to fill positions badly needed by men? I am 44, a veteran of World War I (volunteered at 18), married and in class 3-A. I am the sole support of my wife, who will be a mother in two jqnonths, and also help to care for my mother who is almost blind. Both my training and experience are above the average for high school teachers. I hold a B. S. and an M. A. degree, and have done more than three years of additional graduate work. I am a candidate for the Ph. D., have completed all course require-

.|ments, have nearly finished my dis-

sertation, and have passed the preliminary examination. I have had 15 years of teaching experience, eight in Indiana high schools, seven in colleges, technical schools, and state universities in the south and middle west. * I hold a first grade life license (Indiana) in English, Latin, and history. In English, my major subject, I have 80 semester hours of credit (50 of them in graduate courses); in Latin, a minor, 38 semester hours (20 of them in graduate courses); in history, 20 semester hours. * My published work includes one book and some 20 articles in eight different scholarly journals, two in Europe and one in South America. I am an honorary member of the Eugene Field Society of Authors and Journalists, and belong to several other professional and learned societies. Why, with these qualifications,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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ers were everywhere—in the trees, in caves, behind || $i

3 _rocks.—Col. Merritt A. Edson, ‘U. 8. marines. to fight, and when the enemy holds the Dresems},

8. they went through our houses any time they felt like

it and they took whatever they wanted.—Miss Marion 1.

Bla, Ui, navy Syste, Sagéiied at Glam.

{The Japanese officers wore duitly COuFteous, put {]

1 ports that would be needed to serv={ice thousands of 70- or even 200-

am I unable to get a high school teaching position in my native state, a state which professedly needs teachers? Although I am a member of teachers’ agencies and have written countless applications on my own, I have been unemployed since 1941. Some school officials merely tell me that I am better trained for university teaching than for teaching in the public school system. This is perfectly obvious, of course, and I admit that I prefer the} former, but do these gentlemen realize that, owing to the draft and to the high wages paid by war industry, university enrollment is decreasing and that there is a corresponding decrease in the number of instructors needed? On the other hand, enrcllment in the public schools remains, and will continue to remain, fairly constant. Many superintendents will not hire a teacher whose qualifications are bettter than theirs, fearing for their own positions. Others, without regard to any improving of the

teaching staff, hire women when-|3 because the latter}

ever possible, can usually be hired for a lower salary and are not likely to be called into military service. No one denies that’ women have a right to teach in the public schools, and no doubt they feel just now that they are performing a patriotic duty when they fill these vacancies. However, men with dependents should have first chance. If, after having accepted positions, they are called into military service, then let the woman take the positions. Despite all this ballyhoo about the deplorable lack of teachers, it looks as though I'm going to have to join the army in order to support my family. I don’t mind that, but I do resent having to fight to “make America safe” for some girl or woman who is filling a position to which I am entitled by virtue of superior training and longer experience. 2 2 2 4 “SEAPLANES FIRST, PERHAPS, |’ BUT WHAT OF LANDPLANES?” By an Aviator, Indianapolis. Most discussion about an aerial freight car fleet centers upon fying boats. There has been little known consideration of landplanes, although the Boeing B-19, as large as the Mars flying boat, would seem to provide a prototype. The explanation given is the gi-|' gantic program of oversized air-

ton landplanes. ‘But harbors for seaplanes exist in abundance. This is impressive but not wholly convincing. Landplanes are faster, more efficient and more econ than seaplanes. They can land in weather such that no seaplane could safely touch in water, and take off

| under conditions that would ground |

seaplanes. They could pi¢k up their

cargoes directly from inland fac-| tories and. carry them to inland)

battle lines.

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ig By Peter Edson.

the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. con = ferees sit down some time toward the end of September in their third effort to establish labor unity and labor peace there is perhaps qnly one formula they can follow to bring results. That is to agree to organic unity immediately, then: work out thelr differences afterward. , : If the conferees decide to nego- o Mate, ab Hoy have 1h to Rot trying to find the precise answer for every question that faces them, the only prospect which some of the smarter labor poli- 2 ticlans in Washington can see is another long-drawne 4

‘out series of tiring meetings, ending in a stalemate or

a complete washout. The differences of opinion, the internal battles and bickerings of ‘both the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. organi= zations are so bitter that any thought of organic unity : of the two big groups must take into consideration _ the fact that these feuds will most certainly continue, :

Just a Hint of the Problem—

JURISDICTIONAL STRIKES between unions withe * in the A.'F. of L. are probably just as numerous as jurisdictional strikes between A. F. of L. and C. 1.0, unions, and any theoretical peace between the parent organizations will not solve Shose local Jurisdictional : battles.

AF. of L., the older of the two groups, has had these jurisdictional scraps for years and has never been able to do anything about them. How, then, can peace with the C. I. O. heal these sores unless A. F. of L. is willing to give up its ideas

‘of craft unions? Expecting A. F. of L. to give up that _

is like asking the moon to go into eclipse every Wednesday at midnight. It can’t be done.

A Real Labor Party Looming?

THE A. F, OF L. now claims‘about 5.6 million members, the C. I. O,, 5.5 million. Outside of these two *

major organizations are the million or more members

of the railroad brotherhoods and the million or more members of the independent unions such as the tele= phone and communications unions and the Mechanics Educational Society of America. If you are going to talk about a unified labor move : ment you must take into consideration all these groups. : But suppose by some miracle all these elements could be brought together and a united labor front ° of some 13 million members, representing approxi= ° mately a fourth of all the working people. of the country, could be wrapped up in a neat package. If any such amalgamation were achieved, a lot of people who are now hollering for labor peace and “why don’t they quit fightin’ each other and get together!” e would be screaming against it.

Yes, It Could Happen Here

FOR LABOR UNITY in the United States mean the formation of a real labor party that en conceivably dominate the American political scene. The last few weeks have seen the demands of organized labor for a larger voice in management of the war effort repeated with aggravating vehemence, A. F of L. and C. IL O. want as much voice in controlling the American war effort as British labor | has in the control ofsthe British war effort. The reason British labor has such a loud voice is - that in Great Britain there is a Labor party whic elects members to parliament and has its ministe in the cabinet. It could happen here,

A ‘Woman’ s Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Yarguion.

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THE DUKE OF KENT is dead. . A member of the British royal . house is’ oten 3s 5 Var anally, , History will inscribe his name on’ England's honor roll and genera~ , tions yet unborn will revere him asa hero of his country. Hearts everywhere ache msympathy for his family’s sorrow, . . The sharp edge of grief cuts kings and ‘commoners alike. To the Queen Mother he must have seemed as close and dear as your son is to you, or mine to me. No doubt his stilled heart silences life's ‘ song for his wife, and his children are no less * orphaned because they are royal heirs. 2 Yet in some ways it may be as well for the war effort that the great, even as the-humble; should’ day down their lives in this world struggle. ;

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Not an Unfitting Case 3 A DUKE’'S STAKE in Britain’s futiire is win far than that of many a commoner who will perish t in the same cause. England has conferred a thous. sand more favors upon the House of Windsor were enjoyed by millions of its impoverished people. + eum ae great and the neaf gre escape in a war which is being ce for the freedom of the world. As it. is, ‘too many Napoleons have been allowed to postal ana ioe many Sass me ied 0 8

‘ripe old age in comfort and security, after thelt

ambitions sent multitudes of common People to

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""Upon \history’s long scrolls it is recorded that me ntuimbered millions ‘of humble men have died for kings. In J1942, therefore, it is not unfitting that brother of a king should die for democracy, the oaung] of humble men.

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