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Give Light and the People Willi Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1942

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ho BLANK CHECK! EMERGING from a White House conference costdrday, Speaker Rayburn ‘announced that he favors passage by congress of a brief resolution giving President Roosevelt “full authority to stabilize all prices and wages, nothwithstanding. any provision of existing law.” ~. That would be the easiest way, the quickest ‘way—and worst way—for congress to answer the president's ultimatum. : What Mr. Rayburn: proposes, and what it may be assumed the president has asked his congressional leaders to seek, is a blank check. It would be an act of abdication, not an act of legislation. It would mean congress. proclaiming its own impotence .to protect the country against in‘ternal disaster; congress sliding out from under its own responsibility, And it offers no assurance of the even-handed treatment for agriculture and labor which must be assured if the menacing advance of price infistion is to be stopped. * » . 8 ® * HY does the cost ‘of living continte to rise in spite of : Leon Henderson's price ceilings? Because, says Mr. Roosevelt, congress has shown favorftism to agriculture and has refused to put tight ceilings on farm prices. That is only half the story. Mr. Roosevelt has shown favoritism to organized labor. Congress, yielding to his wishes, has refused to put any ceilings at all on wages and salaries, leaving control of wages up to the ~ president. Wages have not been controlled. Therefore agriculture objects, with reason, to giving up the special protection provided by congress for farm prices. : It’s a shameful runaround. But the fair way to break 4t up is not, as Mr. Rayburn proposes, through a blanket grant of power to the president. to abolish agriculture’s special protection and then ‘do what he pleases about wages. {That might mean that wages would be firmly controlled, but again—judging by all that has happened—it very well ~ might not. ; # 8 8 \ . 8 8 : (CONGRESS can- insure that both wages and farm prices will be firmly controlled by writing the rules, itself, and felling the president to enforce them. You'll hear it objected that congress hasn't time to do that under Mr. Roosevelt's Oct. 1 deadline. It’s the bunk. * Since last winter the house has had before it the Gore ~ bill, introduced by a courageous young Tennessee Democrat

- and embodying Bernard M. Baruch’s sound principle that |.

all prices, wages and salaries must be placed under ceilings §f inflation is to be prevented. There have been extended committee hearings on that bill, though administration opposition smothered it last winter. Senator Brown, a Michigan Democrat who also seems to have a backbone of his own, has proposed a bill for control of wages and farm prices, on which senate committee hearings can start next week. Congress Has plenty of legislative rgteris) Yearly ‘0 work on. And, if the members .of congress are really as eager as they say to prove that they know their duty, they ‘can get down to work in a hurry. But their duty i% to write a law—not to sign a blank check.

THE LIVING FRANCE : “IT is impossible for liberty to die in the country of its birth, from here it spread all over the world. This is the voice ‘of the imprisoned but. still living French republic, speaking through the parliament which. the Petain-Laval dictatorship has been unable to kill.

“Edouard Herriot and Jean Jeanneney, heads of the

French senate and chamber which Hitler's Vichy regime prevents from meeting, have warned it’ that the people will revolt if it tries ‘to make war on.the allies, and: + “If, despite your solemn engagements, you intend to deprive the nation of of the right to decide freely for itself

its definite regime, or if without authorization of parlia-|

‘ment you try to draw France into war against our allies— which you yourself ‘declared honor forbids—we, by this ette ” protest in advarice in the name of national sovernty ++» > “Do ‘not. make the foolish ailstalie of believing that ou can win France's spirit and heart, without which you ican accomplish nothing durable. . . . The great and imminent danger is that liberty cannot be reconquered without those convulsions which, in truth, it is your duty to avoid.” a # # » CH defiance of Nazi alliance and puppet dictatorship is the will of the French people. That is proved by their _ continuous: and growing sabotage of the Nazi regime in pccupied France and of the Vichy regime in unoccupied France. The problem of French patriots is not to stir revolt

We hope the French people, in their hour of suffering and waiting, know that America has never lost faith in them and in their final deliverance. Between the republic of ance and this republic are ancient and hallowed bonds, hich neither Nazi conquerors nor French traitors can stroy. . ‘ When Hitler and his Vichymen are only an evil memory, France of liberty will live on. :

PEN LETTER

EAR LEON HENDERSON: We. are in oink of OPA ;

; Release 476 from the Office of War Information, on the os of rubber heel prices, consisting of six and one-third on an excellent grade of white 8: paper.

ered by carrier, 15 cents

down to earth, just what is the International Students” Assembly

livered his message to the youth of the world last week, how did it come into being, who organized it

unquestionably? : : The president spoke sharply of those who regard this war strictly as a fight for the life of the United States when he

and sneer at the Four Freedoms and the Atlante Charter. They are few in number but they hav the financial power to give our enemies the false impression that they have a large following among our * citizens. ' They play petty politics in a world crisis.” Now there has been no noticeable: mocking and

been considerable dissent from the proposition that it is the duty and the mission of the American people to establish them “everywhere in the world” and that

to war. Those who hold this view, a narrow view i you will, believe that this is a simple, primitive

erous attack on American soil,

"It's Not a Required Belief"

THEY ARE NOT, as he said, few in number nor have they any organized financial power nor any desire to discredit their government in the eyes of foe or friend. And it is every citizen's right to engage in politics in this election year just as Mr. Roosevelt himself has been doing “in a world crisis.” : The doctrine of the Four Freedoms ‘everywhere in the world” is not a required beltef nor is the socalled Atlantic Charter holy writ. They are propositions made by the president and Winston Churchill and that is all they are. Americans obligate themselves only to uphold the constitution of the Tepublic and defend her against her foes. Now, abruptly, comes the International Students’ Assembly in Washington under the auspices of an organization called the International Students’ Service, described as a fathering of 350 youths of 53 countries. It may be all right but any American has a right to look into its background.

Oh, Yes, Mr. Joe Lash—

EVERYONE WHO READS Mrs. Raosevelt's column knows that she has been promoting the International’ Students’ Service for a long time. Last year her friend and protege, Joe Lash, formerly active in youth organizations of the Communist front in this country, was very prominenf among those who were putting themselves forward as candidates Jor student. and youth leadership at an “institute” ” which she entertained at Campobello island. Lash not only has a political background which would impair his pretensions to leadership of American youth but he is, moreover, no youth. He is a man rising 30 years who has been active in the youth leadership game as a vocation for more than a decade. The International Students’ Service was once an organization devoted to the assistance of students who were victims of persecution in their European homelands, principally Germany, Italy and Spain. It now seems to be developing into a world. political union of youth under Mrs. Roosevelt's patronage and will continue to oppose Nazi-Fascism but is lavishly cordial to Communist youth.

It Has a Rush-Act Tinge

EVERYONE KNOWS that Communism and NaziFascism are alike in their attitude on the Four Freedoms and that religion is not free in Russia. Then how can the youth of the anti-axis nations get together on a post-war program or anything else? "Naturally, the president and the American peop would be polite to the Russian delegates. Communists though they are, because they are certified as military heroes of a great and brave ally in the war against

Hitler and Japan. But the youth of Christianity can

find no common ground with Communist youth, and the most obvious field in which to start establishing the Four Freedoms after the war would be Russia. It was really a lofty speech that President Roosevelt made but there was something on the order of a rush-act in this sudden ballyhoo for one of Mrs. Roosevelt's pet projects and ‘the suggestion that those who do not wholly indorse the plan to estgblish’the Four Freedoms “everywhere in the world” in collaboration with a mighty Communist state wy not as goad Americans as they might be. Up to now Americans have always believed that their own’ country was the only one to which they owed an obligation.

Air-Cooled Tanks!

By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—"“About 80 degrees of temperature was the key to the rapidity with which Tobruk was captured.” Well, I'd better tell you the story as it was told to me, letting you draw your ‘own deductions—and believe 5 or not. The Libyan desert is hot and sandy, daytime full sunlight tem peraturé ranging up to 120 degrees and sometimes higher. Imagine yourself driving a car across that desert with alh the windows closed tight. Then imagine yourself encased in the folds of heavy plate steel which are the bullet-proof walls of an army tank. Ventilation is limited, because where air could penetrate so could projectiles. The steel walls and rcof soak in heat until they are so hot that you can’t hold your hand against them. The inside of the ordinary war tank in the Libyan desert was too much for human endurance, and op-

daily 24 hours when the sun was not getting in his hottest licks. All kinds of tricks were tried to shield the tanks during periods of maximum heat so that they would be liveable when the time came for operations. The best of these schemes didn't help much.

Yes, It Cah Be Done”

The result was fluid-drive tanks—air-conditioned. I'm ‘told that, while the temperature within ordinary tanks sometimes ran up to about 180 degrees, this air-

it possible to operate the tanks at any time of day. Whether this story is true or not, the man who told it to me was running a high temperature of his

"The greater part of the energy in a gallon of petroleum fuel is dumped overboard through the exhaust pipes. ‘When I first saw a refrigerator being cooled by a gas flame, my mind flew '{ craft engine, ot ioe Mies.

NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—To get |

at which President Roosevelt de- | and is it something that all of us, |

suddenly, are required to respect |

said, “There is still, however, a handful of men and | | women in the United States and elsewhere who mock

sneering at the Four Freedoms as such but there has |

gle to destroy an enemy who started it with a tach

erations were of necessity limited to periods in the |

THEM THE GERMANS got busy and began fixing ; things over drafting boards and in their laboratories.

own because, he said bitterly, he had tried to sell this| | same idea to the allies, but without encouragement. |

back to the air- |

this is the purpose for which the United States went |

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

“WRITE GOOD THINGS OR NOT WRITE AT ALL” By Mrs. E. ©. Cooper, 231 Fulton st.

Why not let us all do more about helping do things to help end this terrible wa» in place of writing letters that find fault with what other people do and quit trying to tell the government how to run the drafting and put our shoulder to the great cause and try to do more to help win the war in place of back biting in the paper? : It would do less to upset. the people in general, for there are so many people in this old world and Leach one has a different opinion of everything and we could go on and on expressing our opinion on each subject and it would get us nowhere at all.

‘So why not stop it all and do something else like saving tin cans, scrap iron or go to the Red Cross and give .a pint of blood to save our boys’ lives who go to protect us all, and it would do so much more good than a lot of harsh words which are so meaningless at a time when the world is so torn up with hate. . , . - Write some of the good things of life or not write at all.

: # o ” “PEACE THAT WE SEEK MUST BEGIN WITHIN OURSELVES”

By John G. Coulter, ma b » Indi - (Br rn for Victory, Indiana ngiana Com

Prepare for what? Prepare now|

tor the titanic tasks with which we

will be confronted when the war is over. We were not prepared for war. That is costing us dear. If we fail to prepare for peace, that may cost us even more, It may mean that our boys shall have died in vain. They are dying now because we failed during the last war adequately to prepare for peace. We failed then ‘to “keep faith” fallen dead. -Shall we fail again? What does'it mean to prepare for peace? ‘The may be simpli fled by indicating first what it does not mean. It does not mean. the drawing up of any blueprint. Very

with our|

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definitely it does not mean that. All who “belittle efforts to prepare for peace, ‘saying: that those who do so are impractical dreamers, and that

‘we had better -not think about the

peace until we have won the war— such people. endanger victory in the war as well as in the peace. Hitler likes: that short-sighted kind = of people. He has counted upon their abundance in America and upon the success of their demagogery. No one may forecast with exactitude the situation which will exist when the firing ceases. But that provides no excuse whatsoever for failure to prepare to face that situation. Certain features of it are definitely predictable now, and, unless we prepare now to face courageously those things which are certain, tragedy as dark as war itself would make a mockery of’ the peace.

One thing already clear is that unless the United States assumes leadership in bringing order out of chaos, chaos will continue; a chaos and anarchy into which we too shall be drawn just as inevitably ‘as we have been drawn into this war. We can save ourselves only by helping others to save themselves. That handwriting is plain now upon a wall from which too many of us prefer to avert our eyes. It is understanding ‘that lacks. The facts with which we are confronted require that the limitations which an intensive nationalism have placed upon our thought must be broken through,—if we are to be saved.

They require that many an old

iateiutioe shall be overcome.

They require that there shall be acceptance of some scheme outside oury previous national experience if the recurrence of war is to be avoided. They require that there shall be

| a. readiness to accept such modifica-

tion of national sovereignty as may be essential to international cooperation to prevent the recurrence of war. They require that our former

tenable in the modern world, shall be definitely renounced. They require that we shall apply the principles of democracy to our dealings with other nations as well as with ourselves. They require that, if we, ourselves, are to be saved, we shall in truth become “our brother's keeper.” This calls for litble less than a revolution in the American way of thinking about our relations to the rest of the world, It calls for

intelligent interpretation of evidence. It is a hard assignment, but therein lies the only path to a dependable peace. The peace that we sek must begin within ourselves. 8 » » “WHY NOT A PEOPLE'S ARMY BEHIND KAISER?” By Nat L. Brown, 5224 Manker st. In the matter of this Henry J.

things done. Why not raise. a “People’s: Fund,” hire a good lawyer and seek an indictment against the person, or group in Washington who

and do business in time of war. It seems to me Kaiser deserves a medal for: delivering a lot of ships with an administration shooting at him through the “Black Market,” labor racketeering, befuddled tax laws, a maze of strange letter bureaus, committee monarchs, and favored New Deal children to nurse and bother with before he

Side Glances—By Galbraith

conditioning brought it down to about 100. and made | |

_ [take up arms

could launch the ships that carry arms and beans to the boys and girls on the firing line. Maybe Kaiser is an ‘‘old devil,”

~ |but history says U. S. Grant was|

too, anyway he won the Civil War and our greatest president, Abe Lincoln, liked him. ©

‘ade w + “WE'RE PROUD! THEY DIDN'T LET AMERICA DOWN!” By Jean Fisher, Sheridan

large group of: seniors graduating

seniors had at one time’ the vision

of the service. jello; lay asige lisp divlomma aud

policy of ‘isolation, proved: to be un-|

growth in character as well as for|

Kaiser who is the man who gets}

allowed a “Black Market” to exist

Not so long. ago there were al ‘agine the stunning reaction I get when I step into

from school. All : our high Of those] 0 find it infested with girls who spit and cuss,

of college. Now a large group of} 4 | those. seniors are in some branch

"It hurt. to see all those: young, it hurt to] : thee!

whose story of “Admiral Sims snd ‘the a

ian Navy” appeared today.

“It was Sims who first insisted that the sirplans

| carrier was the battleship of the future; that. mer-

chant ships would have to be convoyed in fleets} that we were unable fo defend the Philippines but would

: have to retake them, from sland to island. ‘Also many

other theorems that are now axioms. Sims was in the 30s before he learned. the facts. of life about his own navy. As a young officer, like other good Americans, he had been told, and he believed,

| that one of our ships could lick any: two other ships afloat. That we-could -outfight, outeall, outshoot any | other navy in che World. -

‘A Naval Alley-Catl.,

THEN HE WAS transferred to the USS Charleston, bound for the Orient. He was to find put that she was a seagoing mongrel, and no match for ships of her class anywhere. The Charleston was supposed to be an exact copy of the Japanese cruiser Naniwa-Kan, An American officer in England had been ordered by cable to look around British shipyards and pick up some: ‘plans which might fit ‘the general specifications. ‘And he

‘had bought the Naniwa-Kan blueprints from the

Armstrongs, in Newcastle. But other details ‘were* copied from the Italian cruisers Etna and: Giovanni Bausan, and the Chilean cruiser Esmeralda. Just & naval alley-cat! Another awakening came when Sims was suddenly appointed intelligence officer of the Charleston. This was while he was at Chemulpo, the Korean port, in the middle of the Sino-Japanese war of 1895. He protested that he knew absolutely nothing about the work; his skipper replied: “That's all right; Rebogy else does either.”

The Truth About the Old Navy!

BUT THE YOUNG officer went to work. In the ‘harbor were the warships of several nations and Sims made it his business to learn all he could about every one of them. And the more he’ learned, the more alarmed he became—not only about his own ship but about his whole navy. From that time on, Sims became a humsn gadfly. ‘He sought out facts and he wrote and he wrote, often stingingly. His reports filled volumes. He was sent to Paris as naval attache. There he kept on delving and reporting. ‘He exposed weakness after weakness, We had no real system for target practice. : He revealed construction faults—in our ships, our gyns and even in our management from top to bottom. He scored mere “time-servers’” in the navy, and the “puddin’ heads” (his name for stuffed shirts), and managed to get himselt disliked in a number.of places.

"Whom Are We Fooling?"

HIS REPORTS ATTRACTED more and mare attention—especially as he not only told what was wrong but pointed out how to correct it. And when at last a young enthusiast named Theodore Roosevelt went to Washington, Sims’ recommendations began to be translated into.steel and:lron. ~~ . ‘Every American should read this book. 1t teaches a powerful lesson. Certainly Washington. should read it, particularly Capitol Hill and the agencies engaged.

in war production. . When we win this war, we are |

going to have to remain armed better than we have ever been before, and our armament will have to: have quality. It is common knowledge that we began this war somewhat “Charleston”-minded.- To some extent it - may be that we still are. ‘For instance, Maj. De Seve ersky says our aviation is still not what it should be. However we have improved. He cites some of our current boasts that “our pilots fly faster higher, fly farther,” and denies that this is true. = “Whom are we Tooling? he asks.

Peter Edson Is On Vacation.

havior. “There must ‘be somats ; from the norm. While it i¥ ttue that or wear trousers and some eastern men 20 out in at few times in history have women attempted to come mere imitations of the male to ihe extent noticeable today. “Do the girls who tog themselves up in slacks o uniforms feel that they thus ‘make themselves more alluring? . Surely: not. hr

"What Are We Fighting For?" i

“IS IT NOT preposterous to suppose that women prefer feminine types of men? Why, then, do they reason that modern males prefer masculine women?

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