Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 September 1942 — Page 9

_ Hoosier ‘Vagabond

LONDON, Sept. 21.—Soldiers will be soldiers. One of the participants has just told me this story: When a new convoy arrives from America, some of the troops go first to a replacement center, where they stay: for 3 few days waiting to be assigned to permanent stations. In this center each _ barracks has a sergeant in charge who is responsible for gesting the men up. Well, in our special story somebody forgot to appoint anybody in charge of one barracks, so the boys simply didn’t get up of a morning. They weren't assigned to companies or anything, so there was nobody to check up on them ar to miss them at reveille. That went on the whole time they were there. They did have “to miss breakfast, for if they showed up for breakfast, they'd get caught. Two of the guys wanted breakfast but the others wouldn't let them out. And 80 it went. While everybody else in camp scrambled out at dawn and labored all forenoon, these smart boys just lay snugly in bed till 11 o'clock in the morning. For 10 whole lays!

One Way to Get Rich

i ¥ . I'VE FOUND A wonderful new way to make an easy living. Just set yourself up in business as a London hotelkeeper and cash travelers’ checks for ignorant Americans. The other day I paid my hotel bill with a $100 travelers’ check. The cashier figured out my $100 at 23 pounds, six shillings and eightpence. Later I cashed another $100 check at a bank, and to my astonishment they gave me 24 pounds, 14 shillings and tuppence.

‘By Ernie Pyle

“To translate that difference into American; the hotel ‘had charged me $5.50 . just to cash that $100 check.’ I have inquired around and found that by law a

hotel actually does have a right to make that fantastic| :

charge. I do wish, though, that they would at least blush when they do It.

Right-on-the-Spot Pyle

IN' ONE AMERICAN camp the other day I was introduced to Lieut. Irvine F. Belsér Jr. from Columbia, 8. C. He immediately got out a letter from his wife in New York and Showed me the following sentence: “If you ever run onto thet Ernie Pyle tell him to write somethihg about the field artillery.” With all .of the thousands of American soldiers over here the fact of my ever meeting Lieut. Belser at all was an amazing coincidence, but to top’it off I arrived at his camp less than an hour after he got that letter. Now he thinks I am undoubtedly the most prompt newspaperman in the British Isles.

Well, Who Wouldn't Chuckle? MAYBE THE FOLLOWING story has already got

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to America, but everybody over here is still laughing

about it so-I will tell it anyhow. The British have sent a whole newspaper staff to

Russia and are now publishing a British paper in the]:

Russian language at Kuibyshev. Its name is Britanski’ Soyuznik (British Ally). In its second edition it published a picture of a British Tommy in Egypt looking at a photo of his new baby, and the caption read “Private Thompson, 18 months in the Middle East, admires a photo of his newly born son, just received from Britain.” They say the Russians got an awfull wallop out of the boner.

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

THIS HAS BEEN a mighty long summer for Vincent Burke, manager of English’s and dean of theater men in Indianapolis. For 30 years or more he’s been going up to Manitowish, Wis, for the summer and doing nothing but fishing. That's what he loves doing more than anything else. This summer, for various reasons, he couldn’t get up there. So now, he’s making plans for next summer, meanwhile meditating on all the big ones that got away. . . . Jim Northam’s new daughter has been named Katharine Chandler Northam. The middle name is a

feminine family name that goes back unbroken for six generations. . + Mrs. Joseph Lynch, manager of the Methodist hospital guest department several years, has been succeeded by Mrs. Mary Carson, her assists ant. Mrs. Lynch, who has .three sons in the navy, has moved to California with her husband and six other children. They're at Long Beach,

Straws? Why Not?

ANTON ‘SCHERRER, whose delightful column— Our Town—used to occupy this very space, can’t be

bothered with ‘any foolish convention barring the wearing of straw hats after Sept. 15. He goes ahead j Wearing his straw--and probably will continue doing so until the weather cools off. . . . Remember two months ago we told you about the town’s greatest optimist, and how he'd bought and started breaking in a pair of Tita shoes because he was so sure he'd get a commissi “Reémiember? Well, we didn't name him then, but: we will now. : He's First Lieut. Al Lynch, former investigator in the prosecutor's office, now with OPA. He's just been commissioned and

‘Washington

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—No need, for legislation to control manpower is seen at this time by members -0f the special Tolan committee of the house, which has been questioning - administrative officials for several days. Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the manpower commission, told the committee that voluntary efforts to place manpower: where it was most needed in the war effort had been unsuccessful. He said stronger measures were essential and inevitable. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard said that if patriotic appeals to men to stay on the farms would not work then . other measures would be necessary. Committee members were unimpressed and have indicated they ’ do not favor action at this time. : Difficulties already have been experienced in nu- _ merous sections. : The congressmen are well aware that enormous numbers of men are being taken by the draft and that this will increase—with the prospect of doubling ,the present size of the army in another year. They ‘know that production is still to go up, using still more ‘employees than at present. Yet they are brushing their hands of the unpleasant problem, and want to wait a while until the ; Jsouvie is acute before considering action.

Another Chapter of Delay

18. THIS GOING. to be another chapter of delay ch a8 we have had with regard to conversion of the AD 18 Andustry, rubber, steel production; inflapn and adequate taxation? In each of these un t. tasks we: stalled, stared out the window, moked a clgaret; went: downstairs to get a cake, and ‘in every other way ducked facing the job until dead- * line. tine: arrived. ©: 0% :iBlvery newspaperman does. that. You sit at ‘your Pew + and’ never get om. to real work until he clock “drives you to if. Democracy seems to be ‘that way even undef the’ gun ir in: “wartime, The vest ge that it 1s usually ate. SON LR

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wasEINGTON, Sur Bavenhein, asked. to; u run. on 325.500 a year, shows that the individual who| it has no ide; of how. the White. Fou wm)

Bow, fe White House would be.

ual. ‘It belongs to the people of the United States and those who live in it are there only temporarily. Such hospitality ‘as. is ‘dispensed there, is the hospitality of a great nation, Therefore, it is impossible to discuss adjusting life in the White House as oné would adjust life in one’s own home," If the questiion had been asked me in this’ manner—how are you f going to adjust your life to an in- ~ come of $25,000 a year in your.own : home?—T could have answered it (Jay homie yan saghy be fun on ha)

50 arranged tha 1 cannot. live a

that I can live 1 have lived ite:

“Of: course, ‘the’qliestion is. : §. White House ‘is not ithe. Congres

his orders are to report-at Miami Beach Sept. 30. ies P. S, The shoes are ‘almost worn out by now.

No Priority Needed

IT LOOKS LIKE the county commissioners are going to have to do something about getting new ‘fire escapes for the Children’s Guardian home in Irvington, regardless of the scarcity of steel. Some time back, Inspector Pat Hyland of the fire marshal’s office ordered the escapes installed, but commissioners just yawned and explained--no priorities. Now Inspector Hyland has sent them another letter, telling just where they can get the metal—priority free, .. . Tom Grinslade and Forest Knight, the realtors, are down at San Antonio visiting the latter's son, Mead Knight, a flying cadet. . -. . R. E. Peckham, president of the realty hoard, was in Washington over the weekend con business. The trip forced him to miss the . opening of the. board’s annual bowling’ season at the Fox-Hunt alleys Friday night,

Got Any Old Keys?

AUDLEY DUNHAM, the locksmith, has received his first shipment of the new materials being used for keys. It's a white metal, “light as a feather,” containing some magnesium, but no nickel silver. The salvage committee is putting on a drive to’ collect all our old, ‘unused “yale” type keys because they're practically pure. nickel silver; which is badly needed in the war effort. Some parts of old “yale type locks are pure ‘nickel, so they shouldn’t be thrown away, either. . . . There's a drive on now to “sell” omen of the aes that it's stylish to carry a basket market and their getables home unwr. The idea is to: Save. oh @ paper and whi the clerk's time in wrapping it. ‘A ‘basketful of unwrapped vegetables ¢loes: have an appetizing appear= ance. The very YROUEhY, of it makes ‘us hungry,

By Raymond Clapper

Every other country has béen driven. to organizing its industrial manpower, as it has had to organize its military manpower. The two are linked together in total war, which is industrial war. . The sooner we move into that stage ‘the ‘sooner we become adjusted to it by degrees. The element of compulsion was used but little in England. + The very fact that ‘the government thas the power serves to impress everyone with the necessity of staying on the job.

We Have No Choice

MORE THAN A. ‘MONTH ago the Tolan ¢ committee, which still shies away from facing the problem, issued an interim report which stated that our production thinking continuéd to be hedged about with _considerations wholly incompatible ‘with total war ‘and which, if allowed to ‘dominate, could result: iouly in the gravest of consequences. The committee recognized in ‘its report that heavy demands from the armed forces were beginning to tighten the labor market and to confront the nation for the first time with the fact that we were headed for labor shortages. : At that time the corhmittee recommended training programs for workers, shutting down ‘on nonessential industries ‘to release labor, and blanket occupational ‘deferments in the draft. "Considering the amount of men needed’ for the draft there could be few blanket occupational deferments. Training and the shutting down of nonessential plant are needed anyway. But they will not ‘be sufficient to keep men from leaving the farms for high-paid city work, or from leaving the mines to go into the better-paying shipyards. = If you have plenty of labor it doesn’t matter. The point is that there is no longer plenty-of “labor, ‘It would be. more pleasant not to have to do anything about this. It also “would he more pleasant mot. to have any war at all. But we don't have many choices—just ‘about two: The choice of. doing every- ~ thing necessary to win the’ war, ‘and the choice of Avcking hard Problems and losing the ‘war. . .

"By Eleanor Roosevelt

+80, thle qutetontae Row the. While; Bouse 42°4p. bs

plogees. Egor nt The. president must

pay for all the"food eaten Ine ET in the White |

‘house except on official occasions, and that is sometimes a pretty expensive bill, Since he is required to pay for the people who are

not there for his personal comfort, and since his|

whole life in the White House is not a personal life, but a public one, I do. not think a a ceiling which’ could quite rightly be applied to all of us lives could be applied at all to the actual | in the White House, or to the t's 1 anywhere. The conditions id lve ‘understood by the people, beca A tifely different situations to be th, bigot ny No one I know, the president

lived

faced the simple problem of : 0 below this pe Selling required

of inc e, > good of the coun

‘readjusting their

. William B. Ziff

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Hoosier, Fellow Ai rmen Go Hunti ng

These men are members of a U, S to their medium bomber to take off on a mission of destruction against an axis base. Lieut. A. H. Thompson, bombardier of Vida, Ala.;

. bomber crew somewhere in the Middle East. They are racing

Left to right:

Lieut. N, L, Harms, co-pilot, Madison, Mis.; Lieut. S.

Dykhouse, pilot," Grand Rapids, Mich.; Lieut. M. J. Ellet, navigator, Huntington, Ind., and Star Sergt.

J. H. Dragschitz, gunner, St. Louis, Mo.

Middle East.

The coming BATTLERF Gorman

INSTALLMENT VII—-THE AXIS. PLAN OF STRATEGY

THE SITUATION of the united nations in this conflict, if it is to be determined -by the horn-beok of military

convention, is not good.:

The allies are forced’to operate aléiig the circumference of two enormous circles and are thus forced into a dissipation: of their available resources. The initiative of action, as well as choice of position, resides ‘with the axis

powers, who may © strike - quickly and:with crushing strength in any direction, along a network of, securely held lines. gi The military policy of the axis has been dominated -progressive~ ly since the passage of the lease~

lend act by the vast’ industrial pojen tials in

; American “fac-

facilities

E rein in the production of guns,

munitions and’

war - making .machines, the ultimate mar-~ gin of superiority would be so overwhelming that any unconquered area, China, Persia, India, or Portugal, could serve as a stepping-off place

for a specially designed | Ameri- ;

can variety of blitz attack.

The strategy of the, axis’ in

consequence - of = ‘these . factors! moves irresistibly in one direction —not the immediate conquest of America but its isolation from the rest of the world. :

ited expansion of their military forces. : Experience has proved that the conquered are as often governed by: expediency as they are by heroism. Just. as Thailand lent herself to the designs of the Japanese, and Vichy France flung herself into the arms of the truculent’ Naki, ‘the voice. of. oppor=tunism “would speak to the mil-

"lions of China and India. To In-

dia in particular it would mean a little. more than a. change. in overlords, and the presence of a self-evident fait accompli could be relied on to bring the realistic

. Chinese finally in line.

35 un Aas. Collapse of England With’ the liquidation of resistance ‘in .Asia, the Russian giant would find himself squeezed on all sides and would be given the choice of coming into the axis: or of being squashed in a huge envelopment. What the po-

litical hierarchy. which controls the Soviet Union would do under these circumstances is anybody's guess, but the final result would add to the same total and would be inevitable. If this great plan can be made

Their scheme is to immobilize £00d.:the collapse of England and

us by forcing us on the defensive;

to cut our supply lines to China,

Russia, and Britain; and ‘to place us on an ersatz basis in reference to cértain essential’ raw materials which are: either not produced ‘on our continent or ‘not sufficiently abundant, thus hampering our productive capacities. A primary consideration ‘in the minds of the axis leaders is. the need, for guaranteed access to the: earth’s basic resources. “The first

leg of the journey was success- + “fully. ‘undertaken by Japanese: conquest of the -Dut¢h ‘East Ins; :

dies, giving control of an almost.

inexhaustible supply ‘of oil,” rub- | i

. Ireland: are foregone conclusions, thus, depriving us of the dagger

- pointed : straight at the heart of +. Hitler, which is now at our dis-

posal. The ‘axis scheme of battle would be. then to place’ our entire continent under a state: of siege with

* THIS CURIOUS.WORLD

ber, tin, and other basic materials.” | BW}

When the entire chain of ‘attion |

is complete, the axis will not only.

have broken the united nations’ ; blockade but will actually- ‘have’ : placed England and the Americas 3 under a counter-blookade of its x

or anybody else, Ti . would hesitate for a moment if they wer ti

(IE 00 SCTE of

More and more Americans are joining the British in the

the major tactics those of attrition. Peace would be offered on the basis of the status quo to allow Germany and Japan a period of quiet in which to digest their gains and adjust their military economies to the rich and virtually exhaustless assets at their disposal. At the same time the ravaging tactics of psychological assault will be resumed, aided by external pressure on our commercial and industrial economies so as to soften us up and make us amenable to an axis offer.

If we refused the proffered bait the barbarian horde would attempt to obtain a foothold on the big bulge in Brazil from which to begin a land campaign. If we were to take over Latin America bodily as a necessary measure of defense, the axis would concentrate the massed resources of three continents on the most enormous sea and air strength they could construct, feinting and striking in all directions, and. content to wait a generation if necessary to bring us to heel

Control of Riches

ECONOMISTS of the old

‘school, and ather learned authori-

ties, have pointed out tirelessly that Germany and Japan were ill-equipped to fight a long war —that they were impoverished, had neither resources nor purchasing power, and must in the long run collapse through sheer hunger and a leaching of their physical assets.

This concept of the world we live in is a blunder which can

have the most disastrous conse-

quences. The new economic strategy makes it possible simply to absorb the resources of the state, or those of conquered areas, without reference to the fine legalities: of purchase. The key to this economy is the enslavement of vanquished populations and the looting on a grand scale of their resources.

—By William Ferguson

. Also Far From Home

A U. 8S. tank crew and their desert battle wagon are pictured’ in the Egyptian desert, Left to right, bottom row—Corp. Frank ' R. Parker of Lebanon, O.; Ed Julian of New Hayen, Ky.; Sergt. William Kouba of Prospect Park, Pa. and Ralph H. Mathias of DuBois, Ind. At top—Benjamin Folsom Jr. of Boston and Sergh, - George W. Gassett of Winchendon, Mass,

x William B. 2iff

The adie instead of growing weary with further conquest, is like a giant anaconda which waxes fatter and stronger with each “victim ingested. And‘ by this series of forced marches the axis is rapidly usurping control of critical meterials whose lack may be expected seriously to cripple our own industrial war machine. The wealthy are always loath to believe that they can ever be poor. The Russians of the tsar did not know that their power had disappeared until the ground had actually crumbled beneath their feet. ‘The ‘French aristocrats danced disdainful of the glowering mob, though the sources of their pomp and position had already been eroded past all recognition. The control exercised by the united powers over the native resources and riches of the earth

is fading into pale theory. Only ’

a specious legality makes it true today before the established fact of axis possession. If the axis powers can succeed in their appointed task to quarantine America from the rest of the world, long enough to enable them to establish control over the great Eurasion African Oceanic land mass, - our dream of outbuilding them on land, sea or air will become a fantasy. Even under the hypothesis that we had taken control of Central and South America and were able to exploit their manpower and. resources with the same thoroughness and authority which the axis would employ over its subjects, we would have under our control’ a population of 274,110,000. This would compare with that under axis domination of 1,370,770,000. This endless mass of regimented humans would be promptly put to work at tasks which serve the continuously mushrooming axis military’ machine. In industrial capacity, ds well as in vital raw materials, we should soon find ourselves outstripped in‘ every direction. ‘We would then be on the defensive—not because we willed it so—but because there would be. no help for =" : 2 =» ” Invasion of America ~ THE - FINAL ACT in this gruesome. drama would be a spectacular invasion by air and sea against - South ‘America, Native fascists : and axis agents would

prepare the ground and attempt the coups d’etat which would

wreck resistance in advance and

render the vast domain’ easy: prey. ‘From here an effort would be made . to outflank “the Panama canal and ‘our - own southeastern

Another wpe of envelopment,

directed at Lower California. Be-

hind this screen the real assault |

- would be delivered against Alaska. If Alaska could . be taken by the

cursion would seek to tear away.

the West coast in a great slash: of shark’s teeth, Once the coastal fringe had been acquired, the Rocky Mountains with the great desert and wilderness areas lying to their rear, form a perfect cushion against counter-attack. Synchronizing itself as the ope posite wing of this huge envelop= ment, the wehrmacht ‘Would conie in, also on wings, in a monster air-borne procession following along two major tracks. One would reach up from the roof of the South American bulge, hope

Caribbean. The other would leap from Britain to Iceland to Green= . land, from‘ there spreading in two secondary prongs to our East Coast and Middle West. This is the great megalomaniac project which is implicit in the axis blueprint. It must be taken seriously. In the carefully worked out designs of Prof. Haushofer’s Geo-political Institute in Berlin, and in the ponderous mass of: military and technical literature of Germany and Japan, this am«"

bitious plan is written. The fans,

tastic ‘concepts which wrap this vision in a maze of improbability do not’ rob it of its ever-present dangers.

1 sn (Copyright, 1942, by Willlam B. Ziff; published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce} distributed by United Feature Syndicate,

TOMORROW—Our Assets and Liabilities.

SPECIAL SERVICES MARK YOM KIPPUR

Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, ‘the

day of utopement, is being observed ; ecial synagogue serve

today with ices throughout the city. 7 Ushered in by Rosh Ha-Shanah, the Jowigh new year, today is the

tion said that because .of spec arrangements with the milit services many Jewish service mem

serve the day of fasting and p!

DIES IN CYCLE CRASH -

BRETZVILLE, Sept. 21. (U.P) A motorcycle crash yesterday sulted in the death of Catherine

‘Cassidy, 21, of Huntingburg. She

and - her brother Earl, driver, riding tandem. Earl was inj

slightly.

HOLD EVERYTHING

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