Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1942 — Page 9

LONDON, Sept. 14, —Some people have done a Tot of ‘worrying about ‘how the Americans and the Brit-

- ish would get along together. I can say in all sincerity

that on the whole they're getting along all right. There seems to be a difference in the way Amerx © jean troops feel toward the British. in England and in Northern Ireland. The ‘Americans like the ‘British much better on this side of the Irish sea.

my own experience. It would seem to prove that the Englishman is at his best when he is at home. Maybe everybody is, for all I know. At any rate, I never did .* like: Englishmen in their colonies, But when I first came to England 1 discovered something 1 never

LR kriew existed before—the bulk of the English people. « They're nothing at all like stage Englishmen. I liked them and I still like them.

Of course it takes a little tithe to get used to each other's ways. [I've noticed that the longer an Amer-

‘That Famous Booklet

THE U. 8, AS YOU have doubtless read, furnishes each soldier bound for England with an explanatory

: booklet telling ‘him about England and the British

“his conduct.

people, and advising him with “do's” and “don’t” on Britain did the same with her R. A. F, cadets who went to train in America, ‘Some of the London papers and magazines have

ed doubted the wisdom of this, feeling that it makes

contacts artificial and slide-rulish, and that it would

* be better just to let both sides find out for themselves.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum|

‘But most of the people I know think the idea

BE CAREFUL when you cross Illinois st. while driving on Westfield blvd. Westfield is a through street, and you're required to stop ‘before crossing it,

" but you'd be surprised how many motorists don’t.

‘One of our agents was. waiting there for a bus the other evening a little before dusk, and decided to keep track. Within 15 minutes, he reports, 35 cars crossed the boulevard on Illinois, and 21 of these didn’t even. slow down enough to shift gears They just scooted on across. .. . Another of our agents (and he’s not in the junk business, either) has had his eye recently on that fine iron fence that completely surrounds Crown Hill. He thinks that since there is a scrap metal short-

age, the iron part of the fence.

could very well be contributed to the war effort along with the Plaza cannons. He estimated that it’s equal to about 50 blocks in length and ought to provide enough scrap metal for 20 or:so tanks.

Controversy Department : - THIS BUSINESS of glamorizing factory jobs so

the ladies—God bless "em~-will take ‘them instead of

seeking nicé clean “office jobs; 1s’ still going on. We

thought we settled ‘it the other.day when a woman

%rote us that the big problem was in getting*accepted

for such jobs. Defense courses, she said, are mostly full three or four months in advance. ‘Now, R. Edward Hays, of the U. §. employment otiIi- NAVE To be sold on taxiHg’ must be convinced that it's necessary to undergo the inconveniences of training for those jobs.

“There are plenty of openings in these training classes, “he says—providing the applicants aren’t too.

choosy about the hours. Incidentally, he says, it's

~ estimated that by the end of 1943, local war plants : wil: ‘need B10 mae ‘workers than hey now have,

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) | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 ~Published statements make it clear that we are planning to raise an army of eight to 10 million men by the end of next year, Suiging by those statements we,must be about half-

way there now, Three main problems are now faced by selective

One is the lowering of the ‘age to 18 years. Another is the - suspension of recruiting, and the! third is maintenance of working forces in war production plants. Within a few days the house military affairs commitfee will he‘gin. hearings on proposed legisla- . tion. to lower the draft age to 18. ‘This was introduced by Rep. Wadsworth in the house and by Senator Gumey In the senate. There ‘has been hesitation in congress about taking such action now. The administration officially has made no request for action. Mr. Roosevelt said last week he did not think it would be necessary to draft 18 and 19-year youths until the first of the year. War department and selective service officials are generally’ in favor of legislation, and increasingly so as the draft reaches into married ranks.

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‘service, tells us that women! not : Yictory jobs=—they also

‘has come: from the navy. /- service. ‘and manpower Sificlalte

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that whoever wrote the American booklet did a Sve Ga ;

o. 1—Why Be Vulgar ;

Ne ar a writing the booklet, for I could give them a couple

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‘country,

No. 1. The other ruing in a big London hotel,

an American army major arrived for t carrying a big American grapefruit under each. arm, i He sat down, cut them in half, pulled: a sack of] granulated sugar out of ‘his pocket, and proceeded to| smother his grapefruit with ‘sugar, abundantly and carelessly, spilling .enough around the table to equal a day’s sugar rations in England. : The waiters and the English people in the hotel are still talking about it. And the point is—they don’t so much resent the American officer being able to get grapefruit and sugar, as they are Aontempthous | of his vulgarity in flaunting it. - x

The Upper Claw-ses

NO. 2. THE OTHER day an American friend of mine met and got into conversation with a veddy, veddy British lady of long years and high tones. He told her mot to be shocked at the outspokenness of Americans, as it was just a trait that indicated friendliness. “Quite,” said the grand lady. all colonials are friendly?” She hadn't yet got: around ‘to recognizing 1776. To her we were still subjects, instead of allies. There are people like that. tive “upper classes” wouldn’t hurt anything. Us punks can get along together all right.

and at the same:time the military services will have drained them of another 31,000 they have now. That means, he says, more than 35,000 women not now employed will have to be added to the labor force, along with men currently unemployed, young folks just reaching working age, and persons laid off in non-essential industries.

Around the Town

HAROLD B. THARP, president of the Community Fund, is vacationing on a farm for the next two weeks, he says, to get in shape for the eoming C-F and war fund drive starting next month. He says his personal

guards,.-we hear, are tough looking but they have a velvety way of turning you down if you haven't any business inghe plant . .-. Herman C. Wolff was heard complaining to Judge John Niblack that his tomato} plants out in Golden Hill were shriveling up. He ought to see Fremont Power for advice. . .- . Daily, the women take over more and: more of the "jobs that used to belong to us men exclusively. Now we: find

' they’ve invaded the shoestring—pencil—adhesive tape

—razopr blade—etc, field. That's one we thought was safe for us males.

A’ Souvenir Worth Keeping

DIGGING THROUGH some of his old papers, the Rev. Robert F. Laycock, 1156 W. 30th st, ran across a souvenir of his Spanish-American war ‘soldiering

-that he treasures highly. It is a military pass issued

by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's father. . . . The dif-

ficulty in getting help is causing. school hoard em-=| ployees . .some ; “Yeteran “office )

rrible- hardships. Since the board's

all the mail is put in an “incoming” basket in the lobby, .and everyone has to dig through and find his own letters. , . . Our Frayed Flag department sends us a note about the one the W. Washington st. Vonnegut ‘hardware branch uses. They raise and lower

it ‘every day; all right, but it’s getting pretty’ badly

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taking many industrial employees previously deferred. Suspension of recruiting is under consideration, Mr. Roosevelt says. Selective service officials strongly advocate an end of recruiting, some in the manpower commission: advocate it. The main opposition | The issue is Xeing forced to a head now. One important reason advanced among selective service officials for ending recruiting is that until this} is done, control of industrial manpower will’ be impossible.

We Face Job-Freezing, Too SELECTIVE SERVICE officials are ®tharged with

handling hundreds of thousand of men, with drawing

them into armed service with a minimum of disruption to war production. They are trying to weigh where a man is most needed, in the army or at his job. Recruiting causes dislocation, and the demands on the country’s manpower are now at the point where it must be used carefully to best advantage. The third problem, maintenance of wor force| in war production plants, is heading to the point where the government may have to direct men to stay on. the job and not shift to’ sther employment. amiss are; fasing the fact that 1s may Rave to as it did in England. They are less certain as

: ate In any event, they feel no such step would ‘be effective unless recruiting was stopped, for many|

men, restricted against changing to better-paying

tive service problems believe many are overestimating™ jobs, would go into the services.

the number of men that can be obtained by lowering

the draft age. Usual estimates are that 2,500,000 men

would be brought in. Officials point out that many of these youngsters

already ‘have enlisted. Others would be rejected for:

.Teasons. They can only guess but some of

physical _ those best qualified to judge believe we ought not ~_éount on more than 1,000,000 sure. In other words, although Jowering thé draft age will help, i Will mot of the nation with as much justice and consideration ye SEoVe the. Besessity of taking Married en Yor of,

Those are some of the questions uppermost now in the business of raising a mass army in record time. They are difficult, involve sometimes a choice of the lesser evil, ‘and at best are bound to work hardships. "Yet officials, and especially Gen. Hershey, director ‘of selective service, seeing the ‘enormous calls for men and knowing that there is a definite ceiling on available manpower, are trying to serve the best interests

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lentlessly to, the following conclusions: ~~ One: Sitting back waiting for an accumulation of ‘strength can only”. end in the. deterioration of our war effort and our eventual defeat. We must learn to

and equipment at our disposal now in a continuing, hard-hitting offensive. It is unsound to believe that we can take our time, fighting a delaying action and slowly retreating over the globe while we translate our huge industrial potential into an immense, suffocating force which can win by sheer weight of

numbers alone. . Two: We must recognize that the only agencies capable of having any direct effect upon the

1 outcome of this struggle are the

army, navy and air force. The intrusion of political officials and ‘civilian bureaus can only effect the conduct of the war adversely.

Urges Unification

WE SHOULD have a unification of: all fighting elements, army, navy and air force; under - the sole command of some powerful strategist and: tactician, who in turn will be accountable only to the president and the - -Songress of the United States.

An undisputable unity ‘of command should also exist in refer-. ence to the forces of the 28 united nations.” The armed strength and economic power of all should be welded together under a single leadership.« The commission form of operation is useless. It fixes neither . responsibility nor authority, and is deadly to initiate ‘and enterprise. >

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sgree’ the enormous changes which have. Toon’ ‘brought. about in the science of war by.

new weapons must be given the whole importance due them, .ir<- | respective of how much hell $his:

strategy. sind tactics. : Foremost among these latterday instruments is air power. Whatever the cost, ve. must seize

BRITISH PUSH ON

‘Little or No. Opposition’ Met by South Column,

London Says.

LONDON, Sept. 14 (U, P.).—Brit-| ish troops. in. Madagascar occupied |

from Majunga' to Tananarive, the capital, “early yesterday morning,”

from the southernmost landing at Morondava is “continuing . successfully, meeting little or no opposi-

commuaique today. Maevatanana is almost 100 miles

to the Madagascar £apital of Tana narive. :

‘Thig indicated that the forces might be fanning out to cut off the northern section of the island, inasmuch| as Andreba does not lie on the road

with the capital.

utilize the materiel, troops -

| modern industry and invention. * The full lethal quality of these

raises with classical: ‘notions. of

Maevatanana on the main road}

while the column moving inland}

tion,” the war office anhiounced in a

Betlloks Fiver on the Di0-nmlle Tosa a

From Maevatanana, ‘the com a munique said, British “leading ele-|: on ments are moving on Andreba.”|

{to 'Pananarive, but is 60 miles inland} from the Bast coast on the only ~~ | road connecting northern poms Nf J

Threaten Capital on Three Sides Once in ‘Andreba, British forces| I 3 could move on Tananarive from the .L. tortheast while troops landed: 1 w Ho Wald] SScItery OF he appeared | west] 10 ‘have Tepeived ithe Demoeratie,

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‘and hold command of the air, with * special * reference to the heaviest bombers it is posible for our aeronautical engineers ’ to bung. : i #08 = ’

: Destroy Germany WITH THESE terrible instru-

ments of death in our possession, . the full force of the attack should

be directed at the very heart of our principal enemies. We should understand that any action which takes place: on non-German or non-Japanese teryitory is indecisive and remains in every real sense of the definition a defensive - action, No true offensive action can ‘take place anywhere except directly upon or over the territory _ of our chief enemy, Germany, or” our ‘secondary enemy, ‘Japan. Our first priority mission is to. destroy the Third Reich by a vertical investment of her cities while she is still securely locked if a death struggle on the Russian prairies. Our second is to proceed overland to the shores of the Yel

+ low sea, rolling up the flanks of

‘the Japanese and en. annihilat< ing their islands. 3 : ‘Four: What eannot. be at‘tained by an attack in force should be secured by splitting the enemy’s morale; «by rotting his strength from the inside, systematically “sapping his belief in his leaders and the power’ ‘of his’ arms, pro-

moting fear, hysteria, bewilder-

“ment, and revolution,” This reas new adjunct to our armed |

psychological warfare, should be

considered as one of the primary elements; in our: oftensite strength.

By BRIG. GEN. Ww. Bo GILLMORE U. S. Army Air Corps. (Retired) “William B. Ziff, noted civilian "| authority on aviation, has at last put down for the permanent and - ‘public record the things he has ‘been ‘telling the experts,. both military and civilian, during all these extraordinary and worldshaking months of ‘world: war IL ‘None of the experts will agree _one ‘hundred per cent with what ‘Ziff has to say; ‘but at the same time I doubt. that. any reader, expert or layman,. army, navy or marine officer or. average reader of the daily headlines, will be able to put this aside once he starts reading it. It is dynamite, and by that I mean that it is

Dad of the war in the ‘air that will lead, as he hopes, to

<John L. Dempsey, former assistant

| against the

winning the coming date of

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| ALBUQUERQUE, Sept. 14 (U. pol]

Five: We should determine first

‘and last, with unshakeable resoly-

tion, never to leave off until we “have achieved the unconditional

surrender of Germany and Japan. —

We must, in particular, guard

which will bé attempted by Adolf ‘Hitler or those who would replace

him. . Such a peace could only be

an armed ‘truce; with a renewed attack on \us as certain as the dawn, Our resolution, strength, and powers will finally be put to the acid test in one of two. struggles— the coming Battle of ‘America or the coming - battle of Germany. Either would be the crucial battle of 5000 years of written history. If we fight the Battle of Germany now, the Baitle of America will never be, : 8

Power of Airplanes

UNTIL THE advent’ of . world war II the science of war had changed but little. It was essen= tially a tuscle between individual people armed with individual guns, massed together to obtain

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the greatest. possible firepower. Where only armed masses counted in the past, a new factor has : now been introduced; the masses

are today not in the front lines, but in the industrial machines behind the lines. For purposes of concentrated attack the mechanical monster has taken the place of massed bayonets and cumulatively gained firepower. Da Gaulle points out, in The Army of the Future, that the identical results = which great

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continents. But Ziff is not a new man in aviation. ‘Those who have fol-

lowed his career from the days of the last world war know that he. comes by his interest in and:

knowledge of aeronautics honestly. He has through all the intervening years been an interpreter of aeronautical matters

- and’ affiliated developments,

. He. was editor of the famous old Aeronautics Magazine in

‘which the late Brig. Gen. “Billy” ‘Mitchell made some of his most

flaming statéments. Although it was brought up to

date at the last minute this book: was completely written and ready for the printer before the RAF

carried out its terrific bombardof the Germdn cities of Essen and Cologne. The technic of these bombardments

was outlinea in detail by Ziff long before they were undertaken in © fact, ie ~ He projects on a clear-cut ; ; screen a picture of the entire new

strategy ‘of inter-continental air

‘attack. - Ttis done with solid fact

and logic. Ziff backs up his statements with an’ apparently, inogn.

~The range of united nations airpower.

“peace offensiyes”

masses of soldiers achieved with difficulty a century ago, are’ now speedily accomplished by a few perfected machines. A single airplane can do a better reconnaissance job in 15 minutes than all of Stonewall Jackson’s cavalry in a day of recon- . noitering. Philippe Barres describes the

. conversation he had with His su-

perior officer at military headquarters in mid-May, 1940, who “lamented: “The entire French army has been disrupted by 5000 ‘enemy tanks and 2000 airplanes to such a point where we are in no position to launch a serious counter-offensive. These German tanks: ‘and planes are led and manned by roughly 100,000 troops and opposed to them we have. 5,000,000 practically helpless Prenchmen.: Not only Fy there a tremendous increase in massed firepower and the mobility which gives it infinitely greater striking force, but the vast complexity of industrial

organization makes all targets in-

finitely more vulnerable. j. It is not necessary to claw an opponent apart piecemeal, as in. the days of the saber-toothed tiger. If you can strike at his ‘key: industrial: eenters or pfincipal’ transport: ‘and “communica-

tions systems in sufficient force,

“your opponent will be mortally wounded, Out of this war is engine the fact that mo nation may seal in its vitals by a wall of protection.

\ The “rear” has virtually ceased *

to exist and the “front” is where-

ever an attacking airplane is.

‘Two-dimensional wayfare has re-

trovertible piashaling of “reasons why” and then the “how's” in complete detail. ‘The “reasons why” are sober, gloomy; - almost terrifying. The author shows how we can lose the -| war not at some future date but now by not taking the proper strategic steps: and by not utilizing swiftly ‘and correctly the means we already have on hand. If the warning note is not heeded, there is'a considerable chance

bee lors and made avail || able or a great reading public | hungry

for an ‘Sil-American Plan;

VARIOUS UNITED NAY IONS" BASES.

BOMBERS STA - Americans, Says Retired Gen. Gillmore|

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ceded before a new deve —that of cubic warfare. . = “The airplane has already be-. come the principal instrument of 4 battle, of defense as well as tack, It is the single weapon which control over vast may. be established and | 5 tained. While all other nstru-. ments of war have more or less reached their peak in efficie 3 the airplane is in the very in ning of its development. ; ; 8 8 = Realities Hidden = UNDER CONDITIONS sueh those which . face the United States today, it is the sole instrument of power, the only -instru= ment that can have any major effect in any decisive ee = ‘operations. The nat h rapidly emerging = realities and the character of the alii md opportunities they present to us, are far from sufficiently realized. They are hidden in the glare and din of three years of violent mili tary struggle. : In this turmeil of kaleidoscopic action, emotion, fact and fancy, = it is sometimes difficult to dis-

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