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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1943.

ISTORY’S bloodiest battle entering its sixth week on the ‘Volga, Wendell Willkie fanning the fiery debate over a

. second front, the three-way fight between the president,

b! "Not being completely dependent.on shipping like the

congress and the farm lobby, and other spectacular news, buried ‘the -optimistic figures of shipping: gains announced yesterday. It was Victory fleet day, the first anniversary of the launching of the first Liberty ship.

British and Japs, we Americans are slower to understand _ what it means in a global war. Even the heavy: toll taken ; by Nazi subs in sight of our coasts resulted more in humiliation, and a sense of inconvenience from gasoline rationing, _ ‘than in awareness that allied defeat is inevitable if we lose ‘the battle of shipping. Tt is the crux of the whole problem of aid to Russia,

i whether by supplies or by opening a second front, as

Churchill reminded Stalin. The sea supply line to Murmansk is 4500 miles, to Melbourne 8000 miles, to Egypt 12,000 miles around the Cape.

And all those thousands of miles our ships carrying guns, “tanks and troops must escape enemy submarines, surface

raiders and planes. ‘A single ship can carry, in a year, all the wheat pro-

~ duced on 20,000 acres; a single tanker in a year can take

eonugh gasoline 4cross the Atlantic to run 20,000 army trucks 10,000 miles each, or launch 20,000 bombers against

Germany.

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; NO wonder that Churchill is extreme in his praise of the

American feat of completing nearly 500 large cargo

: ‘vessels of 5,300,000 tons in the first year of the building _ program: “Tt is a record beyond compare. It is an achieve-

. ment far beyond even the most optimistic hopes and ex- | pectations.” ; Better yet, the production figure is still rising. Instead of months, the building time is now days—a Kaiser yard has just launched one in 10 days and delivered it in less than 14 days. Our present production rate is three a day. In 1942 we shall launch 800, and double that next year.

This is despite the fact that we almost stopped building

ships for 15 years, and that in many yards this year 1 nine out of 10 men never built a ship before. x

' Happily, this anniversary of rising production coincides . with our best week since Pearl Harbor in the matter of losses. Though the enemy has sunk 477 allied merchant 3 ships, in the western Atlantic since then—28 in one ‘week

in June—last ‘week there were only five reported lost.

Not forgetting that the: submarine menace ‘may rise’

; el as it hag periodically in the past, we have a right to

“be encouraged by the present turn in the battle of shipping.

THE TWEEDLE. TWINS HE guessing in Washington this morning was that the administration had enough votes in the senate to put over its compromise substitute for the farm bloc’s amend"ment to the anti-inflation bill. . Pardon us if our cheers are subdued. We don’t believe it will make much difference, if any, in the course of price inflation. Our enthusiasm for the administration compromise was mild, even before we heard what Senator Reed of Kansas said about it yesterday. You will recall that President Roosevelt stated his “unalterable” opposition to any change in the farm parity formula. In spite of that, the. house voted a change rei uiring the cost of all farm labor, including wage allowances for farmers and their families, to be figured into the Mformula. That would make the new parity about 112 per t of the old parity, thus compelling more inflation. The f farm bloc then set out to get the same concession in the senate. The administration compromise, designed to balk at effort, ‘would command President Roosevelt to take account the cost of farm labor in imposing farm-price ngs. Senator Reed, though a Republican and a farm er, is one of the sponsors of the compromise. Yesterday Senator Vandenberg of Michigan asked what. ald be the practical difference between the results of the mpromise and the results of He farm scheme, Senator bed replied: “They're practically Twesdledum * and Tesdledee here's ‘a great face-saving contest under way.”

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AND that, we think, is the literal truth. “The farm bloc > will get just about what it walls: s without, a change in o parity formula. The .adminis . And congress, assuming oe A ‘compromise goes o the final legislation, can say that it has given the presi-

the problem of price control is his baby. -

‘But all this face saving will have done practically nth { a, ‘victory in the. war against inflation. Mr.

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him out of ball games. Mr. and friendly person that at one ceedings when some athlete’ cante up around second wagging his jaw at apparent rage over a close decision |

ject, namely his own temper. i Mr. Evers laughed and sald that yes, of he had had some wrangles in his time, but to say that after he had acquired his reputat “The Crab” he sometimes imposed on the customs just to make them howl. Pointing out to the pla who was. now stamping and jerking his arms at umpire ai second, Johnny said it was no sure thing that he was protesting at all, although the patrons

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Here's the Way It Went—

SOMETIMES, MR. EVERS said, the bag in a slide, knowing he was out from here to yonder and pop up‘ like a terrier and stick his chin out in Hank O’Day’s face and with sharp, jerkey motions of his head yell: - “Henry, you're dead right. I was out a mile.” > Mr. O'Day would turn his back in that majestic way of umpires, walk a few steps with: Johnny: pursuing him and then would whirl on him with a measuring gesture of his arms, and say, “Yes, John, he had you by that much.”

gesture of his arms, would yell in Henry's face: “Oh | more than that, Hank. At least twice that. ‘I didn’t have a chance.” By this time the crowd would be all over: Johnny for his very poor sportsmanship in ‘crabbing over :a decision which, even to the naked eye of the customers and from a distance, was obviously fair,

And More of the Same—

off and then whirl and walk back to Henry.

body well I hope.” “Pine, fine, couldn’t be better,” Henry would say, “Bverybody O. KX. with you?” “No complaint, no complaint, thank the good Lord,” Johnny ‘would say. John would start.away again, stop, pick up a little dirt from the baseline, wheel and, flinging the dirt to the ground, again would stick his chin into Hank's face and say, “Mighty glad your folks are well, Hank. Mighty glad to hear it.”

The Umps Had No Out

JOHNNY SAID it was very funny the way a crowd could be monkeyed with and touched off into rages without cause.. The customers, especially in New York, would want him thrown out of the game for crabbing, but Henry, .or ‘whoever the umpire was, couldn’t very. well heave a man for eeing on a decision. and inquiring after the family in the friend‘liest way. The umpire might turn his back and try to shrug him off, but a player must be allowed a little latitude on the field and the mere turning of the back wouldn’t stop Mr. Evers’ ‘courteous praises and inquiries. The alternative was to enter into the spirit of the thing and jaw back at him in the same cordial yein as thousands jeered. ‘My cnly excuse ‘for all this is that it is coming .into world series again and Johnny, as I read lately, is very sick at his’home in Albany and I don’t believe this: inner story of:some: of his scraps with the umpires which contributed to his reputation as a crab has ever been written before. I dor’’t believe it has any social significance, either. Does everything -have to have social significance?

Invincible Russia By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, : Sept. 20.— Soviet Russia is absolutely 'invincible, the famed Karl Radek told me in Moscow back in 1934. She is invincible, he said, because the masses are political-minded.

siah soldier better than ‘other soldiers, he contended, but it means that the entire population —men, women and even the boys and girls—are in a sense soldiers too. Where Radek is now I do not know. He was among the many liquidated in the famous trials of a few years ago. When I visited him in Moscow, however, he was a close friend of Premier Stalin and stood high:in the councils of his country.

as an example of what he meant. The subway was then. not quite completed and I had just inspectéd it, groping through its mud and murk far below: the level of the Moskva river. Of the 65,000 workers down there, 256 per cent were women and girls. They did exactly the same work as men. I talked with the foreman of the “shock brigade” which held the record. The foreman was a girl.

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IN WAR, RADEK told me, the Russian people would behave in exactly the same way. Being po-

tants would pitch in and help win the conflict.

vidualists first and: collectivés afterward. : They are collectives/first, last and all the time. We Sink Shings out-for Gurssives. . They, follow the party line. 1 "All of which has tremendous

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JOHNNY WOULD START away, dusting himself ||

“Hank,” he would say, “How’s the folks? Every- |

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iadek cited the building of the Moscow subway |

litically’ minded, he Said, and individually coneernéd | in the olléctive fate, the country’s 190,000,000 nap :

iificarice when it come fo this talk about a second front. Wer Willkie reports that wherever he went in Russia thie

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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“HAS ‘MRS. SOLDIER’ ANY | QUALIFICATIONS FOR TITLE?” By Mrs. Richard F. Green, 2215 Miller st.

One of the things that burn me up is reading in your paper of a certain pretty girl being given the title “Mrs. Soldier” recently. Not one qualification was given although maybe she had them but I would like to know if she: {a) Works in a defense plant? (b) Gave a pint of blood to save a life? (¢) Shares her car with defense workers? d. Does USO or Red Cross or any other kinds of donated time work? e. Is buying bonds? : f. Saves and donates scrap? g. Saves tin cans? Or does she go around in smart looking JLathing suits looking for the titles she can collect? I will be a navy wife soon and only hope that I can qualify in my own mind, a real “Mrs. Sailor” as thousands are Yualified real “Mrs. Soldiers.” 8 8 8 “I HATE PEGLER! . . . YET HIS BUMPER IDEA HAS MERIT!” By “Man in the Service”

I hate Pegler . . . He fights organized laber<-hitting below the belt. whenever possible, I am a union man. . .. His bet with Ernie Pyle that a certain soldier would gyp Ernie out of $10 was a smear at all service meén. . I am a, sailor. .‘He has fought the New Deal always.:- I am for it. He has besmirched the president's wife. I am a gentleman. . . - And yet—if the devil himself showed us something that was of the least value in winning the war I would be glad to hear from him. ‘This “Turn in the Bumpers” idea of Pegler’s has merit. Iwill guarantee right now to turn in two bright shiny car bumpers at the first Bumper collection station I find. Who else? ! # o “A FEW SUGGEST] YOUR NO MEAN

By C. R. Smith, 1519 Grand ave. Connersville

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The writer has been a frequent army Visitor to your no mean city and

(Times readers are invited to express their. views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed.)

would like to make a few suggestions which might help to improve ceitain situations which cause difficulty in handling traffic. First, why not return that very efficient policeman who ‘formerly directed traffic-at the corner of Meridian and Washington gts, to his old job there? Then why not paint a line: down the middle: of the sidewalk to: direct trafic among pedestrians the same as you do automobiles, viz: keep to the right? Also why not take advantage of the wonderful organization of boy scouts to help direct traffic on Saturday since there is a shortage of policemen and in this way they could learn quite a few lessons on good citizenship? ) tJ " 2 “WE HAVE TO CASH BONDS IN ORDER TO LIVE” By Mrs. D. R., Indianapolis To Mr. Cash, 305 N. Chester st.; It’s easy to think the government should quit cashing bonds, Perhaps you have enough money coming into your pocket to let you buy bonds and save them. How do you know that isn’t what we would all like to do? My nusband does not work in a defense plant and he does not make big money but he has to buy bonds which we can’t afford. We have three children and two of them are in school and have you noticed the prices of food, clothing and coal. Even you will have to admit that the OPA hasn’t changed the prices éndugh t6 notice it. We have to cash .in our bonds in order to live. ‘As far as waking us up to the horrors of war and the danger of the Nazis coming over

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one wants to help anymore than I to win and end this war. I know others who have to cash their bonds for the same reason. It isn’t because they don’t want to help either, After all it's these very children we mothers strive to keep fed and clothed who fight these Wars. So you live and let live, Mr. Cash.

WITH GIGANTIC LOTTERY” By W. H. Richsrds, 127 E. New York st. I have read that the tax bill that | bas been wrangled over for seven months has. at. last come from the senate committee with three billions corporation taxes reduced to one billion and heavier burdens laid upon the poor. There is a much better way in which the government could raise a large sum of money painlessly by running a gigantic lottery with tickets at one dollar each. Thousands

that - they cannot out of their meager income buy war bonds es-

many kinds to pay, would invest

a lottery, for they would have two incentives. First to help win the war and second in the hope of winning a prize in the drawing. I would suggest a first prize of $100,000; one prize of $50,000; five prizes of $25.000; 10 prizes of $10,000; 10 prizes of $5000; 10 prizes of $1000; 100 prizes of $100; 100 prizes of $10. This would total $446,000. Counting half a million for administration it would total less than a million dollars a month and I am of the opinion it would bring in $100,000,000 to the U. 8. treasury and probably more. Tickets could be on sale' at all post offices. Those who failed to win: a prize would cheerfully donate the small sym they had invested as a contribution to the winning of the war. Thus millions would be raised in a way that would be painless as no tax bill could ever be. Also, I think the president should call Wendell Willkie home before he opens his mouth and puts his foot in it. He is quite likely to involve our country in a worse mess by promising the impossible through excessive “campaign oratory.”

“MY LETTER MUST HAVE HURT ALCOHOLIC HEARTS” ‘|By That Times Reader, Indianapolis | No person can intelligently claim that drinking is a recredtion, whether it bo in a tavern, at home or

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hington By Peter Edson i

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.— lam M. Jeffers, new boss —— country’s

: hats plushy at that. Carpeted, upholstered, yes. But all in restrained g taste. They are plush only when compared ,to thé¥crowded tempos—temporary office

buildings—where desks are jammed against each other and where wires dangle from the ceilings to phones

whose numbers are constantly being changed.

Anyway, on plush row, the new rubber adminis rubber. Only he isn’t.

Synthetic Program Excluded

ALL THE TIME since his appointment, Jeffers has spent in Washington, wrestling with just one thing— the problem of rubber rationing. How to conserve the rubber that is already rolling and ration the recaps is Mr, Jeffers’ first bottleneck to break, and all. his attention has been centered on that one thing to the~exclusion of the synthetic program,’ butadyene, buna, butylene, glycol, polymerization, grain alcohol} v8. petroleum alcohol, and all the other intricaciey that had everyone going around in circles. As a result of this concentration of interest, the word went out that the first public statement to be heard from Mr. Jeffers would be announcement of his gasoline rationing program. His conferences so far have pracuieally all been with the government's rationing experts and ODT people who are supposed to know what has to be hauled in the nation’s 27 million passenger cars and five million trucks and buses. He acted as expected,

Working Early and Late °

AS FAR AS the Baruch committee report is core cerned, Mr. Jeffers apparently hasn't gotten beyond page two of the printed version, but he is working early and late. He's that kind. He has established residence at Washington's Maye flower hotel, but he goes there only to sleep. He left his family in the West, bringing with him only his secretary, a pleasant young man named Cunningham, who knows the Jeffers ways. All of 'WPB’s old rubber division men are still around, from former Co-ordinator Arthur 8, Newhall on down. 'But that is no assurance there won't be some changes made. Jeffers has been known to fire vice presidents on his railroad. Now that the ink is dry on the Baruch report, it has had a much more careful appraisal in Washinge« ton. The more the report is read, the more the cone viction grows that it is a pattern for any other such reports that may have to be made in the future, whether on. cargo planes, aluminum, steel, scrap metal, sugar, coffee, meat or what haven't you. The Baruch report text called for the appointment of an experienced rubber man as administrator. Mr, Jeffers is not. But maybe, from his suite on plush row, he doesn’t have to be. If he can just Keep in their proper places the Ickes oil faction, the Henderson rationers, the Jones financiers and rubber reservists, the Gillette grain alcohol enthusiasts gnd the East man Uansporiation defenders.

Editor's Note: newspaper are their own. They are noi necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson.

WHAT CAN I QO to spread & little cheer? I know a woman who asked herself the question and then did something “about it, - Through contact with a neighbor, a widower of 60, she became aware of the sharp loneliness of- older people and decided to make it her business to alleviate some of it, She began by inviting -sevéral unattached women, of appropriate age, to meet the man. One by one her unmarried friends were introduced té him, This provided social pleasure for a small group and also gave the man a chance to become acquainted with a number of different types of women. - If his object was matrimony he could suit his taste and not leap into a second marriage with the person who Bape pened to be handiest, as so many men do, No, he isn’t married yet, and maybe’ he won't be But he has found two or three new friénds who are near enough to his age so that their companionship gives him many pleasurable hours, We can suppose that the women concerned also derive an equal amount of satisfaction from his company.

Loneliness a Prevailing Misery:

AND THE MATCHMAKER-if you wit 30.61 or that; she says she is a friendship maker--gets a big kick out of this new task to which she has committed herself. Her social effort is not confined wholly to paying back hospitality—she has a definite and & worthy objective for some of her entertainment. Loneliness is a prevailing misery, often at its worst in crowded areas. To alleviate it is a delightful and inspiring job, ‘and it can be done su only as my friend is doing it, as a personal effort to bring people of congenial tastes together. Professional marriage bureaus are always to be distrusted because money influences their actions. Bug each of us who has a home, even if it is only a oneroom apartment, can see that it is shared with those Nop need home atmosphere most. And this includes Syeryene Whe who, for one reason op as! is stranded without close family tics.

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