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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1942

. WELL DONE, GOVERNOR! {XOVERNOR SCHRICKER deserves ‘high praise for his = forthright indorsement of the Indiana merit system law. His statement should effectively silence the snipings of

1e Indianapolis Times ;

By Leland Stowe Soa

. ‘MOSCOW, Sept. 9.—How can we still manage to get them overseas in time, will our tremendous

* men necessarily be sufficient? Or

stronger than their arms? It seems to me that if any people involved in the war have earned the right and are qualified

to express opinions on these questions, it is the Rus- | So here are some observations from one of |. 'Russia’s most intelligent war correspondents, a man who has been with the Red army in almost every : front zone for nearly 15 months, now, and has seen |

sians,

plenty of what the German troops are like.

The Russian journalist's observations were pro-

yoked by an article in the London Daily Mail, about a British lieutenant who was awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism in the recent St. Nazaire raid, but

we hope to win the war?" Even if |

air fleet and millions of armed|

must our millions of armed men | * possess something. far deeper and |

By Peter deen

: 3 of WASHINGTON, Sept. 9—The picture generally painted is that if ‘the Nazi drive on the southern Russian front should succeed in crossing the Caucasus to the Cas ° pian sea, the Soviet would be done” “for. In more detail, the picture pre-. sents this prospect: The Soviet army divided and having to fight on two fronts; the Soviet's largest oil fields, first at Grozny, then at

Baku, in German hands; the Soviet’s industrial might,

already crippled by the loss of the Ukraine and Donets

basins north of the Black sea, further shattered by the loss of the Rostov and Stalingrad areas, and the

Volga river itself cut. That is a gloomy picture indeed, and a mere glance at it is enough to whet interest in the possi-

bility of a second front in western Europe to relieve the pressure against the Soviet armies in the east.

It can be stated authoritatively, meanwhile, that

the Soviet need not necessarily be knocked out or counted out of the war, even were her armies to suffer the loss of the entire Caucasus area. That loss would be a bitter blow, but not insurmountable, for the Soviet would still have the effective production of her two largest industrial areas, Moscow and Leningrad.

Details Are Still Secret

THERE IS ALSO the further report that behind the Ural mountains, dividing Russia proper from Siberia, there is a new industrial area of a size and productive capacity that would surprise the whole hopRussian world. The Soviet has apparently with good purpose Kept secret the development details of this Ural mountain industrial area. ; According to Ernest C. Ropes, head of the Rus-+ sian division in the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce and one of the few men in the United States who ‘has examined every bit of information which the Soviet government has allowed the outside world to learn about this area, it has been explored within the last 25 years and developed almost entirely within the three five-year plans that began in 1928.

200 New Plants in One Year!

‘UNDER THE FIRST five-year ‘plan a few of the resources were developed as concessions with foreign capital. But no outside aid was sought during the past 10 years for the developments, which have, of course, been accelerated by the war effort and the moving of some industrial plants from the Moscow and Leningrad areas to the safety of these mountains. All these developments of the last two years have been cloaked by military censorship. But, one official report before the Soviet entered the war against Germany is perhaps significant. It said: “Two hundred new plants were built in the Urals between 1939 and 1940.” Today, this new Ural industrial area has some 15 cities, of from 50,000 to 500,000 population, with names that have not appeared in the communiques thus far and which must be sought on the map. They ine clude: Sverdlovsk, Cheliabinsk, Molotov, Ufa, Nishni-

: : the petty politicians who would have us return to the old

" free-booting days of political plums for every polities, li ation 40 lined-u : This was no petty statement by the governor. t was Prisoners and ostentatiously congra e | k Mail ded the “gentlemanly behavior’ _ complete and unequivocal. He declared himself for the merit of the Nazi ee Boos Soviet war corprinciple, he found justifiable complaint with administrative | respondent's reply.

practices, but he made himself crystal clear with his flat | ,,\4/. | oo comment: “I am determined to improve the law, not to Without Hate . . . Wer Is Shameless! destroy it.” “IF THE GERMANS treat British war prisoners in a gentlemanly way,” he writes, “of course it is not Yes, when the politicians next try to undermine this |... qc. tne Ta are . gentlemen, but because progressive piece of legislation, they will find the people | Hitler has not yet given up hope of finding people solidly behind the governor in his determination to improve Be Lo be led if ‘Gorinan. umips are Torted the law, its administration and in the whole concep of | io eat offals. Captured French, Poles and Serbs are decency in government. turned into serfs by the Germans. I am sincerely Well done, governor!

was captured by the Nazis. A German officer read the order of the lieutenant’s citation to lined-up

glad that English prisoners do not share the torments suffered by other allied soldiers who have fallen into the claws of the Germans. . “But what interests me is not the Daily Mail writer's lack of tact, but the singular conception of war which he echoes. . . . It has been said time and again that treating war as if it were a sporting contest is harmful for the successful prosecution of hostilities. . . Without hatred, war is something shameless.”

"Born From the Blood of Russians"

“yesterday,” he went on, “I received a letter from a Ukrainian lieutenant, named Suprenerko, who writes: “‘I never knew before that one could hate so strongly. I am an artilleryman and feel sorry because I have no occasion for killing a German with a bayonet, or strangling one with my own hands.’ “This feeling is born from the blood of Russian women and children murdered by Germans. It is born out of the flames which have razed our towns. In Britain, children under 16 are not permitted in theaters where the film, ‘Defeat the Germans in Battle,’ is shown. “The sight of gallows erected by the Germans, and the bodies of persons tortured to death *by them

CONGRESS ISN'T TIED UST a year ago Bernard M. Baruch advised congress that to stop the price inflation then already gaining dangerous headway— . “You have first to put a ceiling over the whole price structure, including wages, rents, and farm prices up to the parity level—but no higher—and then to adjust separate price schedules upward, if Decessary, where justice or governmental policy so require.” Because congress ignored this advice inflation was not stopped in the United States. Canada followed this advice, and in Canada price inflation was stopped and is still held in check, although the dominion’s over-all controls are now seriously menaced by rising farm prices and rising wages on our side of the border. It is true that President Roosevelt also rejected the Baruch advice. It is true that the administration discour-

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

|“MY IDEA ON HOW TO STOP THESE STRIKES” By Wright Cash, 305 N. Chester st.

Just a few words about our labor rouble,

rest of what I have to say you will probably want to prepare the padded. cell for me. It is my belief that every single confirmed bachelor above the age of 26 years should be drafter un-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con-

troversies excluded. Make

aged any attempt by congress to put wages under a ceiling. It is true that the president, having been compelled by the logic of events to promise that he would control wages, has not controlled them. # 2

BUT all that does not excuse the failure of ORETESS to put real ceilings on farm prices. It does not excuse the failure of congress to act on wages. Congress did not, and still does not, have to wait for the president’s permission before it can legislate. Many members of congress are now indignant because the president has served an ultimatum on them. He has told them to take the rubber out of their elastic farm-price ceilings by Oct. 1 or he will do it himself. They say the president is threatening to usurp legislative powers and substitute one-man government for government by law. How can they be sure, they ask, that the president will keep his renewed promise to stabilize wages i they yield to his demand on farm prices? The answer is that they can’t be sure. #8 ” ” @ ” o Bvt this is certain: If congress will now muster enough gumption to order effective ceilings on both farm prices and wages—to do that by law—the president will have no reason to attempt to do it by executive decree. And then the president can no longer tell the country, as he did Mon- . day, that congressional inaction is responsible if the cost of living keeps going up. : The American people, in our opinion, do not want their government to cease to be a government by law, even tem_porarily during a war. But they certainly do not want | "their war effort nullified or their domestic economy wrecked "by weakness and failure in the branch of government that . is supposed to make the laws. - Let congress use its legislative powers. That is the

are regarded as immoral for adolescents to see. I know a 15-year-old Russian who has joined a guerrilla detachment—his mother murdered, his sister raped by the Germans.

"Only Hate Can Save Britain"

“SOME ENGLISHMEN and Americans regard descriptions of German atrocities in Russia as indecent. If that is so, then I think a report vn the bombing of Cologne or Essen indecent. . . . “It may be a sin to kill the classical Gretchen. “But it is no sin to kill the Gretchen who asks her sweetheart to send her, children’s or women’s clothes from Russia adding, ‘Never miud, if they are stained with blood —that can be washed off.’ “The English Channel may remain impassable for

Hitler's hordes, yet still permit the anger and hatred

of entire Europe to cross this narrow strip of water. Only Hve, salutary hatred may inspire the British and Americans to a genuine national war, “Only hatred can save Britain from the fate which befell France, Norway and the Ukraine.”

Westbrook Pegler Did Not Write a Column Today.

Frankly Speaking

By Norman E. Isaacs

“I sat by the Duchess at tea, More embarrassed I never could be. * For rumblings abdominal Were simply phenomenal, And everyone thought®it was me!”

THAT'S THE OLD limerick that Woodrow Wilson used to quote on occasion. And the thing that brings it to mind is the whole past week’s fuss and furore over Rowland Allen's very direct and very simple plea for the governor's indorsement of the Merts system principal.

For right in the middle of it up popped that de-

I think we should elect some senators and representatives that have guts enough to pass legislation that will stop all the strikes and then when they strike, take over the plant and then take the manager and all his employees and the union leaders and all the strikers in the army and give them. $50 a month and keep. I think that would keep down the strikes and give us full protection.

To Dale McFeatters:.

By M. H. Ledig, Indianapolis

Concerning your article on inadequate scrap iron— I was just thinking on a train the other day how much good scrap could be obtained from the foot rests on train coaches. They aren't used very much anyway and would be a big help if they were donated or sold for scrap. ‘Also, some of the excess light posts in the Indiana World War

Memorial. # 8 8

“WE NEED OUR LIBERTY . MORE THAN HUSBANDS’ CARE!” By Mrs. C. Chamberlin, 4116 E. 38th st. I'd like to say a few words to

[those of us women who “need” our

husbands at home. . I have three children; I am probably the worst of those who have thought, “There's other men who can fight. Men who are not needed so badly at home. Let some other woman's husband go to war. Not mine! I need his help to clothe and feed my children. Don’t take my husband. I need him to help keep a roof over our heads.”

your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

be signed.)

others who are “needed” at home, do not go, the finest roof in the world would not be sufficient protection against Hitler; that we would be without proper clothing and care, and the food in our mouths, if there was any, would be sawdust. The British, Russian and Chinese women are not asking that their husbands be spared. Why should we? No, let them go. All that our country needs., We need our way of life, our liberty, more than we need the comfort of our husbands’ care.

’ 2 a “HERE'S MY WAY OF CHANGING DRAFT SYSTEM”

By Wm. G. Koenig, 1215 S. Oxford st. Answer to Arthur J. Krause, 225 Buckingham dr. I agree with you on one count that the draft system should be changed, but not as you see it. Why should we exhaust our young manpower and future democratic American citizens as you would like it? Why take all our young blood and destroy it? ‘Why leave only the aged, middleaged, weak and children to cary on? What is. to ‘became ‘of 4 pation for a decade without young blood to propagate our Sountry? What is to become of the girls and women who won't have a chance to help make an American].

til that class is exhausted. Then the married man who had had ample time to raise a family and has failed to do so should be selected for service because he has failed to uphold the American standard of life. After these men have been drafted then we should go the socalled extreme. Now don’t worry. I fall in this class of married men and 1 have two sons in foreign service. Married men who are between 40 and 50 years of age should be taken and ‘so on: down ‘the line until we reach the age of 21. These men have raised their families and from an economical point of view will save the taxpayers a lot of money. The old and useless will have been removed and those who return wounded and maimed will be too old to live a long life of misery and a burden to the taxpayers. ‘This will also eliminate a lot of men who after reaching the age of Life Begins at Forty and who become power minded forget the Live and Let Live theory and enter their second childhood from becoming leaders of our government and from worsiiping the only God they

the government to raise and take care of legitimate children of fallen heroes than a lot of bastards as Hitler has.

J ‘a ® 8 “LET US ALL EXAMINE 3 OUR WORKING MOTIVES” By Tom Berling, 2823 N. Olney st. I quote from a letter I received from a soldier Aug. 19: “You certainly did a fine Job at — in completing your buildings

know, The Great American Dollar.| And wouldn't it be far better for

‘Tagil, Magnitogorsk, Orsk and Stalinsk.

Resources Tremendous

THE RESOURCES of the area are tremendous, even when propaganda is discounted. Most hopeful, from the point of view of supplying mechanized and air armies, was the discovery of oil in 1929 in Ural fields of such extent that the area is known as a “second Baku.” - = Baku and Grozny in the Caucasus have together been producing some 85 per cent of the Soviet’s pe= troleum products. Metals of the Ural area provide its richest re< and the mines, at the outhreak of the war, 30 per cent of its iron, 86 per cent of

its copper, plus aluminum, chrome, manganese, nickel.

Coal and electric power have also been developed

in the Ural area. With the removal of some manufacturing and processing plants from western Russ@, it has now supposedly been possible to integrate the entire Ural area into an industrial district that is toa large extent self-sufficient. .

Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own, They are not necessarily thosé . of The Indianapolis Times. ;

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

BITTER AND CRUEL as it is, ‘the war is a field day for women. The last one gave us the vote; . just what this one will bestow no one can guess. But the possibil-~ ities appear limitless, Certainly, if the girls heed op= / portunitys knock, they must une erstand t they are stepping into a golden feminine era. He

dates order them into industry. When democracy's

home and raise a family as we have done? : Will it be their fate to be placed

surest way to avoid whatever danger there may be of the president taking them over.

But after a while, I realized that he went, he'd be doing much more than that. He'd be putting

ahead of schedule. “They are still passing bouquets

arsenal finishes its production miracles, we shall see millions of women armed with experience and knowl edge their mothers never dreamed the sex could

lightful old political buccaneer, Senator Claude B. McBride, “representing Clark, Jefferson, Switzerland and Ohio counties.”

Senator McBride was outraged. His honest soul could stand it no longer, °

He roof of security not only over

in a camp and raise a family as Germany and Italy have done? God

around here to the contractors for

possess. They will be fortified with new power, and

| : HIGHER GO THE TAXES “I have always opposed,” he cut loose, “the abom- our heats, u . grandchildren {yoy oo BO er Sthadules le: Tope financial dependence may be a forgotten phrase from 3 HE senate finance committee yesterday took President | inal merit system. . . . I hope that the legislature of oth * -r the clothing mine and Every young American has the “It is uraging to hear last century's dictionary. 5 TT 1942 will have the courage and intestinal fortitude to | c cloak of lberty;|right to the life our forefathers| , = =, "ov “0cv : But—all this will end in another vast frustration Fy Roosevelt at his word and really got in a hurry on the | ;eneq) this abominal law. . . . I believe in the princi- that lasts much longer than silk or| tought for and died for. It is their| °F FeSults like this especially wuen| =. 5000 girls have a better conception of free< tax bill. ple of ‘To the victors belong the spoils.’ ® wool. He'd be feeding us all with heritage. all you hear on the radio is union | , 11.01 their mothers had. Our generation muffed 3 It voted down, 12 to 0, Secretary Morgenthau’s rabbit- : the food of triumph over tyranny, Now after this far you|Strikes. I know it is difficult dor| 0 pecause too many of us thought that oer ; *. ’ g Gone ls the Dish—And the Oder, Too sweeter than angel food. probably think I'm nuts. If you are|® Civilian to realize what an im- meant license.

I know now ‘that if he, and

portant effect these disputes have

still interested after you read the

Side Glances=By Galbraith

out-of-the-hat spending tax. Time being of the essence, the . senators could see no point in wasting more of it trying to simplify that complex scheme. i Deadlocking by a tie vote on a retail sales tax, the

on the soldiers’ morale, or it would # not happen. “No one wants to get up to the front ard then have his weapons and supplies stopped by some labor dispute, because it is then a matter of life or death. The settlements may be jus to the workers or unjust to the owners but either way the armed forces still will be bearing the brunt and taking all J the hard knocks. Our challenge to these small minorities who persist in their now almost seditious acts is ‘We are ready to fight, but are you?’ . “Had to do a little

Yes, Freedom Carries Duties—

WE FAILED IN a thousand ways bicauise we werd so busy enjoying our new-found independence we did not realize that freedom is a Siamese twin whose in. - separable brother is responsibility. Bd gy Somehow we got the notion that ndency meant having a gay time, our own latch key, the fr to vote and earn a living. So, on the side, we played bridge, went in for beauty, and waded Recksfeep in self-culture. Duty to family and to country was as outmoded as the handle-bar mustache or the an= timacassar, i

Except for small groups, feminine independence meant right to do as one pleased. Only for the few did it carry a sense of obligation. We gia nek use the vote intelligently and often we did not use i at all. The fact that men have behaved as 1 : does not exonerate us. ; I hope sincerely that today’s girls, who 3 ping into a new and strangely different ; | eS ave oucled wht tesiize that . is Seri ai vy Bal and mor

WELL, IN ALL candor that was all this row simmered down to anyway-—the fact that most of the old-line politicians shudder to the core every time they think about merit. Rowland Allen smoked them out with his letter and then the fun started. Before the governor could take a step, the Republicans were throwing their arms around Mr. Allen's | | neck, not because they worship merit but because they smelled an issue. It's the first time they had been able to detect a tantalizing odor in so. many months their tummies were rumbling with delighted | anticipation. But yesterday the governor removed the tempting morsel by publicly and completely indorsing the merit principal. Now you will hear the “rumblings abominal” from not only the McBrides but the Bobbitts as well. If only Wilson ‘were here to quote his famous limerick! :

' committee then tentatively approved, as a substitute, Sen- ~ ator George's 5 per cent gross-income tax, and ordered the 5 treasmy experts to report back the effect of merging that ~~ with the net-income tax. ~The experts’ reports is something to swat with interest. To a lay mind the effect would seem to_be terrific. ; . The 5 per cent gross-income tax is to be applied on all inA come above $12 a week—roughly, on all civilian income "in excess of an army buck private’s pay. ; For most taxpayers, that’s starting at a point below the lowest bracket in the net-income tax. And when you reach that so-called bottom bracket you have a 5 per cent| seh gross-income tax plus a 6 per cent net-income normal tax 1

plus a 13 per cent net-income surtax—an over-all rate of 24 — per cent. And it graduates up to a top-bracket over-all rate So They Say— Where is the United States Navy? It is where it

has al been. It is in there fighting. It is ii ways Ss ere t is carryIf, in addition, the treasury’ 85 per cent withholding t th d to hit 8. t

tax, approved by the house, is retained, the bottom bracket hee £ when ed 11 over-all rate will be 29 per cent and top-bracket rate 98 per again, w ver 3 and whenever we Franklin

nt. Or, at least so it seems to a layman. Maybe the exrts’ calculations will reveal that the actual effective rates be not quite that tough. Anyhow, the farther we go the more we realiza that sky is the limit in the costs of this global war, and only ceiling to taxation is just what the traffic will bear. ever diamned of butte Wil have is be Juposed Lb ‘even then revenues will be only a small | ex

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