Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1942 — Page 15

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‘Erigland, Sept. 24.—All but one of the:

Pov. aly vacation hotels in Dover have been wrecked by fhentre or bombs. , Some of them are tumbled down ‘in rubble, some still stand dark and empty, stripped _fnside by fire: The one that stood, right in the middle of dama little Hotel Shalimar, It is run by a pleasant lady named Elizabeth rR pay :

“Is this the only hotel left in

Dover?” I asked her. “The only proper one,” she said. “And do you know, we've never been closed a ‘minute, nor had a single night without every room- being taken, since the war ‘ started?” ' The Shalimar has been shaken hi around quite a bit, and some of ’ ‘the windows still have holes in them, and there ‘are ‘eracks in the walls from the concussion of exploding Bombs, but ‘the hotel carries on and is a real haven. Miss: Scanlan’s sister—a tall, schelarly lookifig Woman ‘who wears glasses—lives at the |hotel too and helps out with the work. Her na is Winifred Mary, and she is a supervisor at the Dover Telephone You'd never know it: from her, but she has been Gecorated for bravery: during the blitz,

The Little Things in Dover—

A FEW LITTLE THINGS in Dover stand out to ‘the eye of a stranger. For one thing, I've never seen 80 mahiy black cats in my life: Apparently all Dover cats are black. It must disprove’ the old Supersti. tion, for Dover has not fared so badly.

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By Ernie Pyle|

And then there is a‘ church, with a tablet: in the| Pi

cornerstone ‘saying; “Built in 1911, bombed in 1917, rebuilt in 1921.” After this war ‘theyll have to add| "another ‘line saying (at least as of today),

“Struck, but not demolished by bombs in 1941.” And painted on the ends of Nissen huts in which the British ack-ack gunners sleep are signs saying, “Books, old or new, gratefully. received. We read

anything!” And you see the RAP speedy channel Rescue boats

tied to the dock, completely padded outside with sand-|

bags, for the Germans do machine-gun rescue boats.

[And the sailors on one playing darts on the after-

deck of a quiet Sunday afternoon.

—And Rusty Barbed Wire

{ AND THE BLACK STRIP of oil from sunken ships that helps disfigure the beach, back just out

‘of tide’s reach. And the two air-raid wardens in|

either end of Dover, each insisting his is the nearest

ARP post to the enemy. Sometimes you shock yourself with your inability to change to a war perspective. For instance we were walking along inside a barbed-wire entanglement. Today, after three years, the wire has become very rusty. And one of us said: “They ought to take that down and put up new wire. ”: - That does seem logical, in an ordered world. But barbed-wire entanglements are no part of an ordered world anyhow, and in a disordered world rusty wire is even more deadly than nice clean wire, Ever stop to think of that?

Inside Indianapolis By Lowell Nussbaum

1+ MRS. GEORGE C. GOSS, 3401 College ave., is one Housewife who has a kind word for the city’s garbale collection department, The. department is more accustomed fo kicks than kudos, you know. On a recent collection day she found one of her very best sterling spoons on the floor of her car, which was parked in front of the house, -She guessed how it got _ there and went to the trouble of ~ watching for the garbage wagon the next collection .day in order to thank the collector personally. He was Arthur Gilbert. Bet he was surprised to get-a word of praise, for a change. . . . Sonja Henie probably will be coming here within the next few weeks to train for this winter's ice show. : The local coliseum is one of the few rinks in the country that has ice in October. Her ‘show is due here in December. A: second ice show is planned for later in the season, Manager Dick Miller says, and, if the war interferes with the hockey season, - there'll probably be a third show,

Bread and Butter Dog?

~~ ONE OF OUR AGENTS reports what he thinks must be a new racket. He tells us a man, poorly dressed, stood in front of Ayres’ store the other day. At his feet lay his dog, which he sadly explained to passersby was “sick and I haven't any money to take him. to a vet.” Several .sympathetic passersby showered coins, Then, after donations ceased, the man whistled and the dog jumped up and followed him. It.seemed well enough by then, too. . . . And then there’s the fellow. who went to. the Hotel English, learned the: name of a woman resident, introduced ‘Thiinself to her and said he had “just come from someone very dear to you.” - “Oh,” the woman; “do yi mean my brother in Seattle?” That was right, he sa! One thing led to i with “the woman un-

Washington

- WASHINGTON, Sept. 24—If there seems to be

* * an unusual amount of criticism in‘ what I have writ-

ten recently, it is not’ becausé I am in a carping mood. Nobody can watch the progress of our war effort : ‘Without feeling deep pride in its spectacular growth, Criticisms which I make are for the most part those which come from résponsible officials themselves, from men who are working as hard-as they can and, .who ‘become. impatient at delays and confusion which slow down the show. In most cases they feel

consciously asking leading questions that gave him the needed tips, until he got down to brass tacks. He'd lost his wallet, he said, and. could she loan him enough to get back to Seattle? Fortunately, she couldn't; and he sidled out;

Our Face Gets Red, Too /

“THE OTHER DAY we told you the yarn about the applicant for an officer’s commission who listed “18 years military experience,” which turned out to be experience with the Sahara Grotto drill team. Well, it looKs like we weren't so funny, after all. H. Verle Wilson, secretary of the Grotto, writes that Mr. Wilson doesn’t know who the applicant was, but that if he has been a member of the drill team a number of years, “he was justified in saying he was an experienced person in infantry drilling.” The team, he says, was formed in 1922 with former service men as its instructors. The team, down through the years, has won many prizes and trophies in competitive drill, including the manual of arms, straight drilling and infantry maneuvers. Today, says Mr. Wilson, many former members of the team are in the army as commissioned and non-commissioned officers. :

The Key to Victory - THE COLLECTION of old keys for the salvage campaign ought to be a success, if the experience of Miss Dorothy Brannan, advertising manager of Charles Mayer & Co., is a sample, Miss Brannan obtained one of the key collection boxes and put it on a counter at the store. The second day afterward she phoned for help. The box was full. That was just a week ago and the box has been full twice by now. «+ « A motorist liked the way a traffic policeman was handling the kids crossing Meridian at 33d st. Tuesday morning. He seemed to know all the children, and shook hands with each as he or she crossed .the

: street At, police headquarters, they say he js Patrol-

man Ed Samuels.

‘By Raymond Clapper

or to the manpower commission in such matters. Hershey said that was “something that had not been entirely figured out. He said co-operation had worked. successfully so far. But Hershey said that if

‘the time came when he could not carry out the .directives of the manpower commission and at the

same time provide the armed forces with the men they called for, he did not know what the answer would be. McNutt gave the same reply in substance. He said he did not know the answer to the question that baffled Hershey. In other words, for months Washington has seen

that public discussion of suchg the needs of the armed forces and of war production

criticisms, if carried on in a constructive spirit; will ‘be helpful. That certainly is the only spirit in which they can be made without v doing harm. As a specific case, take the question of manpower and the draft. The thing which disturbs many here and- which I have written about a number of times shows up sharply 4n testimony before the Tolan committee of the house, Key officials—Gen. Hershey, . director of selective service, and: Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the manpower commission—both testified that no final authority exists to allocate manpower as between the armed services and industry. tance one government official, charged with

For ins Ein production of indispensable war material,

has been notified that the selective service is going t0 move in soon and take large numbers of men from the essential industry under his direction.

Neither Knows the: Answer

+ GEN. HERSHEY has his orders to produce a certain number of men for the army. The other official has his orders to produce a certain quantity of his war equipment. © Who is. to. ‘decide whether several thousand men working in these plants are to be held on the job or be taken into the army? Nobody has : ‘suthority to decide now.

. Hershey was asked by the Tolan committee. army. still too much of an every-byreaucrat-for-himselt war.

‘Whether selective service was answerable to the army

My Day

' NEW YORK CITY, Wednesday. — Yesterday, ‘in ‘Washington, was a fairly quiet day. I_ held a press \Gonference 45 the MeHg ad Jind She 6 1WO Visitors In the oon. phi: 1 caught the night train: to New York city. So gn far, the day. las: Beau! Sales up

: cials, and sometimes at the expe

coming closer and closer to a collision. N8ither the administration nor congress has taken action.

Stall Every Bureau for Itself

YOU HEAR much discussion about the Proposed size of the army, questions raised as to how many men can be taken without cutting into war production, and questions as to whether men will be piled up far beyond the ability to transport them. You hear

questions as to the need for better balancing of the various programs—instead of ships, guns, planes and other supplies competing for materials, each pushed without much regard to the needs of the other. These are mostly questions ‘that have to be answered at the top or very near the top. There is no compact group hand in glove with the president to ‘bring strategy and all manpower and production needs into close relations with each other. Some branches are overorde , in the judgment of production offiof other urgent parts of the program. There are: too many watertight comparents. We are running short, so that eventually the president will have to sit down with a top group and dovetail the whole program into a unified and balanced whole. Some here who are struggling with these difficulties feel it is urgent that this be done very soon and that it should have been done before now. It is

By Eleanor Roosevelt

“The most wonderful time any of us ever had was on our first visit to Xansas City, when seven of us spent a week in the Jenkins home. There we were surrounded by: delightful music of all kinds (since it

is Mrs. Jenkins’ hobby), table tennis, a bridge game|

VAN PAASSEN ON PROGRAM

Margaret - Bourke - White Will Discuss ‘Lenses

Behind News.’

Margaret Bourke-White, the internationally known photographer, is included on the panel of speakers for thé 1942-43 Open Forum Series at Kirshbaum center, sponsored by the Jewish Community Center association, Seven other well-known Americans in the fields of literature, science and education were selected for the 17th annual series by a committee acting upon suggestions obtained through a questionnaire distributed to the public. Pierre Van Paassen, foreign cor--respondent and author, will speak Nov. 1 on “The Conqgeust of the

“Days of Our Years.”

Psychiatrist on Program Dr. Harry Strack Sullivan, psychiatrist of the William Alan White Psychiatric Foundation at Wasnington and former consultant on psychiatry. to the director of the selective service system, is scheduled for Nov. 29. “A Formula for the Peace of Mind” will be his topic. On Jan. 10, the University of Chicago Round Table will discuss “Is the Free Enterprise System Doomed?” Around the table will be Louis Wirth, sociology professor and a member of the national resources planning committee; Henry Simon Bloch, political analyst and financial expert who lectures at thel. university's Institute of Military Studies, and Neil H. Jacoby, professor of finance, university secretary and a member of the staff of the National Bureau of’ Economic Research. yn, Miss Bourke White, who is the wife of Erskine Caldwell, has just returned ‘from. Russia and written “Shooting the Russian War.” Her subject, on Feb. 7, will be “Lenses Behind the News.” Peace Schuman’s Topie “Can We Win the Peace?” will be discussed by Frederick L. Schuman, who appears frequently on the Chicago Round Table and the Town Meeting nf the Air, on March 7. He is holder of the Woodrow Wilson professorship of government at Williams college. In announcing the series, Mrs. David Lurvey, forum chairman, said the committee had selected speakers who would “stimulate our thinking about winning the war, the objectives of the war and the peace to follow.” The forum is a civic, non-profit institution which charges a fee for the lectures, open to the public, to cover the cost of the forum. operation. Members of the executive committee of the Open Forum managing committee, in addition to Mrs. Lurvey, are Theodore R. Dann, president of the association; Melville 8S. Cohn, J. J. Kiser, and Allan Bloom, general secretary. Other officers ‘are Charles S. Rauh, vice president; Marjorie F. Kahn, secretary, and ‘Dr. Phillip Falender, treasurer.

NOVENA ARRANGED AT LI OWER

The Church of e Flower, 14th st. and Bosart ave., will begin its annual novena tomorrow. Services will be held at 8 p.m. every night through Oct. 3. They will be conducted by the Rev. Fr. Cornelius Ford, S. J, a native of Chicago, who attended Loyola university law school, then entered the Society of Jesuits and taught at St. Francis Xavier college, Cincinnati. The services will include the recitation of the rosary, the -

SHRINE NO. 6 TO HOLD.

20th Century.” Among his books is!i

4} to area.

RECEPTION FOR CLARK] ic%u

. Dr. Henry Strack Sullivan. Frederick L. Schuman, \

The coming BATTLE

‘INSTALLMENT X—DEFENSE THROUGH AIR POWER

IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE, if circumstances forced us to this point, for America to adopt a strategy of total de-

fense.

By such a policy we might be able to resist in-

definitely, until the menace directed against us had abated

by reason of natural causes.

‘The only force which could possibly assume the responsibilities for this critical task is air power.

- As long as we could hold our far-flung battle stations:

in both the Atlantic and the Pacific the advantage of both

defense and attack would remain with us. No enemy could bypass these barricades with impunity.

The mustering of enemy offen=-

sive power against us would be entirely limited by space, since the ability of aircraft to develop full striking force decreases in proportion to the distance of their bases from the site of operations. With all outposts in our hands, the importance of this factor can - hardly be - exaggerated, fi No matter : what axis reji sources may be i eventually, pro- } ductive facilities at the moment, as they relate to air power, overWilliam 'B. Zit whelmingly favor us. Were we to take complete advantage of this fact, we could make ‘our continent virtually in-vasion-proof. This would call for a radical readjustment of our entire concept .of the nature of armed forces. Our thinking would be in terms of an unlimited air force. No basic material, power plant or floor space which could be useful in the manufacture of aircraft would then be devoted to any - other purpose, except for those which related directly to the maintenance of the air fleet. Instead of constricting the air transport industry as we are now doing, we would have to follow an opposite course, vastly expanding it and making 'its use mandatory for all long-distance travel, mail, perishables, and ' even ‘certain heayy cargo. \ The transportation bottleneck whith now burdens our war effort

work of Interlocking airlune systems, allowing us to move ma-

unforeseen catastrophe, suddenly Vdisappeared, a squadron of troopships attempting to cross the wilderness of ocean would find itself under devastating fire by swarms of big bombers and torpedo carriers before it was halfway to its target. Fixed defenses of any kind would km, of little actual value. It would be a waste of money and effort to construct them, since they could be easily taken by a .vertical envelopment or bypassed and out-flanked. ‘Heavy expenditures in the way of anti-aircraft guns would be also, to a certain degree, open to question. We should not be misled by the ample curtain of protection anti-aircraft has given such places as Malta and Tobruk. The protection of a small natural stronghold against bombard-

‘ment presents an entirely different problem than a large-scale

effort to guard an extensive area. The latter can never hope to achieve the concentrated volume of protective fire given a strategic pinpoint of intrinsic fortress quality. By far the best protection against an irruption of hostile raiders is opposing airplanes. The reckless expenditures in ammunition and man-hours involved in the usual type af anti-aircraft work, makes the cost prohibitive in relation to the expected results.

Need Heavier Attacks

THE EXISTENCE of: highaltitude bombers compels the creation of heavier anti-aircraft guns, greatly increasing the problems of defense. The Germans now using :130 millimeter antiaircraft guns with an effective range estimated to 'bé almost 35,000 feet, and are said to have succeeded in hooking up ultra-short-wave radio-locators to antiaircraft batteries so that the locators continuously and auto-

terials and men swiftly from’ area. - matically direct the fire.

Value of way

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ploits of the R. A. F',, none of this has been of any great value. “To shoot at a bomber 20,000 feet high,” comments the English exert, Pemberton-Billing, “is little

_ more than a waste of time when

it can be seen. When it is quite invisible the task loses all connection with logic or reason.” Modern aircraft are tough and have again and again proven their ability to fly after being riddled with bullets, unless both pilot and second pilot are knocked out, the engines gone, or some essential portion of the craft literally blastedoff.. © = On the subject of balloon barrages Pemberton-Billing observes caustically: “No ‘definite figures have been given on this subject, but . . . if they were available and could be divided into the total cost of putting up the barrage every night for all these months, we would find that each bomber has probably cost many millions of pounds to bring down.” In his view, searchlights, too, have little value. They eannot be focused on more than one raider. Moreover, they assist the enemy in locating the target, since the big lights will necessarily be around the most important and exposed positions. . He considers that blackouts are equally useless, that they make hysteria, destroy normal existence and hinder the use by defending pilots of airfields and other facilities. : Moreover, this stratagem does not stop the enemy—it only stops the defending pursuits, who are unable to see the marauders clearly. The incoming raider requires light, and actually drops parachute flares in order to orient himself.

Blind the invaders

THE GERMANS have been experimenting with a ‘method - of light-camouflage. At a signal of the alert a great blanket of light is thrown over the endangered area by thousands of beams flashing upward in a series of great cones. This unique method is said to produce- a blinding effect, completely blotting out the ground to the enemy pilot. As far as critical installations such as aircraft factories are concerned, the protection given by retaliatory ground fire is altogether insufficient, To place a fundamental reliance -on - this method, ignoring all other applying conditions, would be a piece

of folly unequaled - this genera-.

tion. Without exception; all fof .our principal aircraft. production centers stand in an exposed position. Long-cruising submarines equipped

‘with 16-inch guns could actually | shell our West Coast plants. One , me.)

can stand on the beach and almost look : into’ the windows of these On. the Bast, Goss. the beautiful Martin factory, whose loss would be coequal to a severe on the fleld of battle, sits

6. Louls Wirth. 7. Margaret Bourke-White.

and sound detector systems by’ which marauders can be intercepted and broken before reach. ing their objectives. A ” ” 8 x Factories Dispersed y AN IMPORTANT auxiliary method. found useful abroad is the dispersal system, by which factory units are broken down into widely separated manufac-

William B. 2iff

turing- and ‘assembly points. All:

belligerents except ourselves are applying: these methods as & prine+ cipal safeguard. + The newer strategic plants could be moved far inland and . situated in wooded districts or other places of natural concealment. In any case, they should be expertly ‘hidden from all casual view. The European war has devel oped camouflage and methods for penetrating it, into major arts. Camouflage rarely deceives com=. pletely and may be detected by practiced eyes or by various lenses and photographic devices; but it does make identification diffi. cult, thus materially hampering the attackers. The British have lately taken to building ' their factories under= ground. Here they are safe from! detection as well .as from bombs and bullets of enemy planes. If we-are to retire behind our own barricades and base our plans entirely on a studied strategy of ‘defense, it ‘would mean that we must abandon. the rest of the world to the axis, who would un=_ questionably occupy it and ine’ corporate it in its new order. | Our continental mass © would become a gigantic fortress under: an indefinitely protracted siege, a fantastic double envelopment .involving whole continents, which’ * would threaten to close in on us from every direction at once, and which would wait" with the pa-. tience of a.cat at a rat~hole for the moment of internal or strate<' gic weakness when an enormous. ‘battering-ram ' thrust for Victory: could be successful. 3 A second and more tolerable view is that we recognize the world as one and indivisible, risking our resources in-a great all= out offensive beginning now, in

* a’bold effort to tear out by its,

roots this cancerous . growthe which ‘has spread its -Yentacles & over our globe. + Such a’ course as. this’ requ great risk, unyielding ‘will, and : a capacity for intensive organization. Here, too, ying wi wv : ' depend upon. our igh Sveoun) tion of air power as the single weapon by which dominating may be” achieved. t, iT,

) Duel 3 Sis BE, inl

: d bie, : NEXT—AL-Out Air Offensive.

MISSING REPORTER ~ SAFE IN HOSPIT

GEN, MacARTHUR'S HEA QUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 34 PJ)-~ eyes sHauglan, A