Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1942 — Page 10

Mall rates in

B 1 states. 75 cents » month; others, $1 monthly,

oa RILEY 5551

Give Light ond the People win Pind holy: own wor Eero

Alliance, NEA vice, and Audit Buu of Circulation.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER , 48

7 vs Fr iA

ol HEADLESS ALLIES

LLIED disputes are growing, latest:

: London criticizes American. efforts in the Pacific, in~ ‘misting that we concentrate in. England. American, Australian and Chinese officials complain of the opposite, that the United States under British pressure has Reglacted the - Pacific.

The president's official representative, Mr. Willkie,: 2 oins the Russians in demanding public pressure for: a, “second front in Europe. To which Churchill replies in commons: “I welcome this opportunity of again empha«sizing the undesirability of public statements or speculation”. on this subject.

According to New Delhi dispiatolies; the British governfhent resents our government’s diplomatic pressure for mediation of the Indian deadlock. With China's survival at’ take, Chiang Kai-shek is demanding that Churchill accept compromise settlement to get the Indians to fight Japan

Here are some of the

Now it oid be nice if we could deny these conflicts : away; nice if the axis did not know about them and benefit from them; nice if merely an emotional appeal for unity were enough. Obviously it is not.

The existence of these and similar disagreements among the united nations is not in itself alarming. Such differences are inevitable in an ‘alliance of such varied countries fighting a global war. Indeed, if properly handled, this very variety of opinion and interest might become a source of strength instead of Weakness, of global intelligence instead of insular astigmatism.

. The danger is not the disagreements but the lack of facilities for ironing them out. Without ‘such machinery there can be no joint agreement. Without joint agreement there can be no united action. Without united action there can be no united nations in all ‘that countsi—a unified strategy for victory.

» ® 88

S long as Russia sees the 1 war as a Russian front, as long as Britain sees the war as the defense of England, as long as the United States is pulled in all directions at once, the united nations will continue to fight 3. series of separated, losing wars, instead of a victorious global war.

Whether Stalingrad and the Caucasus should be defended regardless of cost, whether a second front should be opened in Europe, whether an Egyptian offensive should be undertaken, whether Dakar should be attacked, whether too much or too little effort is being expended in the South Pacific, whether the Aleutians and China should be neglected any longer, and whether India can be used to save Asia, are completely interrelated questions which can be decided victoriously only by a supreme war council and its unified allied command. Today there is no-such council, no such command. Intead we have the humiliating, insidious, and critical conflicts producing open disunity, when unified policy and unified action are the price of victory.

‘WHAT’S YOUR HURRY, SIR? HE same Henry J. Kaiser who has just launched a cargo ship an incredible 10 days after the keel-laying is in need of help for his West coast shipyards. So he has gone to a center of considerable unemployment, New York city, to hire workmen for those yards, been terrific.

So terrific, in fact, the U. S. employment service, which inspecting all applicants for Kaiser jobs lest New York

ar industries or draft boards lose needed men, has had to| call off the hiring for a week or so while it catches up.on |’ ; Which development; | ™ ile perhaps necessary; is suggestive of the bureaucracy’s | Mor nuity at devising ways and means to get in the hair of | ,

1 questioning ‘of the. Jobseekers.

s man who gets things done.

If Mr. Kaiser had been give s a free. hand by- Washington 0 go hunt his own aluminum and chromium and copper. and |

at-else-do-you-need for building cargo airplanes, we susthat he would have gond and dug it up, and built his nes, by the hundreds and thousands. But no—he Fad be content with an experimental order for three fiying.

Bureaucrats, by their natube; do things by rote, Once rocedure is adopted, it must be followed, If 18 copies of certain form have always been filled out before, your

re aticrat must continue to get ‘his 18 copies, regardless of : water or global war. If the Kaiser shipyards slow i

ant of manpower, that’s. too bad; but the records

fhe U. 8. employment office will be in Srder, down 0 gn

; ad -

i

a

-

10N ony '

=| put on his. show, which was loud and vulgar, in| a | fold ‘and, .in whole effect, revive religious feeling:

1 out of town a lot of money, some of which could other-

.of the old Tampa Bay on Sunday's selfishness and

‘in Chicago a few years ago, I did some extensive

And the response has

ge

among ‘the- ‘people. Some Protestant clergymen held, however, that he only excited them and that spon after he left town they would backslide. He also took

‘wise ‘be regarded as probable income for the local churches. under ‘normal. conditions. The Catholic clergy ignored him. The newspapers of those days were pretty yellow at best and even the good ones would thump the tub for Su ‘ture writers to cover his meati homely, or in the word of the of Bill and Ma.

The Horses Got out of Hand

"AND EVEN SOME of the reporters, who were supposed: to be cynical, would go nuts toward the end of the assignment and hit ‘the sawdust trail, with Bill howling - out their names and putting on the old hallelujah. In Philadelphia, a great’ oldtime reporter who liked to-drink a little went up the pole for the dura-

and publicize the ay, folky, simplicity

Won't Run Over Me,” with wild piety, and Bill and .Ma were thinking they ‘had him saved for good until closing night, when he reeled all over the stage bawling, “The Brewer's Big Horses Done Run Over Me.” In Tampa, along toward the énd of his career, a headwaitress ih the old Tampa Bay hotel said Bill was the cheapest tipper she had ever seen and she

high score in this respect.

"The Bums. Room Together"

MY FRIEND, Broadway Johnny Cox, an honest but practical Hell's Kitchen boy who had fought and been hit in France, happened into Tampa during the Sunday revival with his meal ticket, a Hoosjer named Farmer Joe Cooper, to fight some friend for $750. Fighters used to fight their frie often on their country tours and it was well understood that in-some of these contests they did not put forth what - old William Muldoon would call their - best efforts. Instead, they would discourse what they called “10 rounds of spirited boxing. » After all, why kill each other? Sunday, however, always tried to knock off all competition and he got Mr. Cox's fight rubbed out on grounds of impiety, with an additional insinuation that it was to be a fake. This offended Mr. Cox, so he got bottled and held forth in the big lobby

insincerity. “I been seeing him in a dozen towns all over the country,” Mr. Cox yelled, “and he has always got that trained devil of his in his trunk. Talk about fakes! He wins the first fall, the devil wins the second and Sunday always takes the third, and the bums room together, the pair of them.”

That Night in Chicago— “WELL, ONE NIGHT after one of those Cubs series

sitting up with our sports editor after The Tribune went to bed and as we neared home out north we thought it might be politic to buy some flowers for his wife. So we stopped in a little neighborhood shop, which had living quarters in ‘the rear, and a woman in a ragged old sweater jacket came out to take care of us, She said she was Ma Sunday and they were staying with relatives who owned the flower store and Bill was sick of a heart attack in a back room and couldn't even listen to the world series on the radio. . Soon afterward Bill Sunday died, pretty well forgotten by then and, if appearances meant anything, not a rich man in the end, nothwithstanding his enormous income in his heyday as a preacher of the

A

5

Frankly Speaking

By Norman E. Isaacs

THERE HAS BEEN a good deal of unfortunate railing about _ Police Chief =Mike = Morrissey’s draft status. Wails of anguish

ment the safety board announced ait would seek a deferment for him. To the uninitiated, Mike Morrissey” was put in’ the position of heing a draft-dodger. Nothing is further from the SS - Everybody . who knows as Kors, PT i t he’s been g : get into the army, the that would take a 44-

gE

ii

ay, assign their best news reporters and fea- |

tion-of the meeting and would yell Homer” Rode- | . _heaver’s beautiful hymn, The Brewer's Big Horses

had waited on many ball clubs, which don’t run a |.

and outrage were heard the mo- {some

The Hoot. Fort

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

“ALL SCRAP MUST GO TO YARDS FOR PROCESSING” By An Indianapolis Junk Dealer In reply to H. 8. R. The people do not know that all scrap must: reach a junkyard and be processed before it can be used for remelting purposes.

bumpers, but we are interested to tell the general public that junk dealers do not hoard scrap and that they do not even make a fair profit on their investments. All this ballyhoo scrap and so on must eventually reach a junk dealer for grading and processing before it has anysvalue whatsoever to any mill, : : ® 8 8 “NO CHILD IS REALLY BAD SO BE KIND TO THEM” By Carrell Collins, 1402 E, New York si. A controversy in the papers brought out the fact that landlords and even intelligent people discriminate against children, . Overhead the other night were planes, their lights sparkling like stars, the pilots were once boys, probably naughty boys, for their energy was too great for the confined space in which they lived. Towns where several houses stand on one small lot, Neurotic women who can’t stand the laughter or noise of |™

‘|nealthy children. So, now, those

same ‘children have their energy harnessed to the four winds and the thought that their ancestors bought - American freedom with their energy. Then ga passage from the story of “Northern Nurse” came to mind and ‘I quote: “ . . Though I have aftended hundreds of births, there is always thing strange about the: labor days. The color and feel of the day changes, the day is momentous and a little grim, yet strong and terribly alive because a great event is tak-

|ing place. I feel, maybe, somewhat

as the mother feels. And one of the joys is there is ne turning back. It's tremendous and sublime, labor day is, And sometimes it's too big for us, but it has’ this, it's a peak

We are not interested in the

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

of days and no woman’s life is complete without one.” Each mother sending & son into the fray has felt the pangs-of labor days, she went down into the valley of the shadow of death and brought | forth a son to fly our planes and man our guns, and those sons. will see the sun rise on the stars and stripes in every nation where the iron heel is on their necks. Let those who want their Mar-

1garet Sangers have them but re-

member the thrill of that baby in your arms after the great struggle with nature and can any woman deny that God is also a physician when the soul crys out? If all womsen had followed her advice where would America ‘be today? : America is in her labor days but soon she will bring forth freedom to all the people. Rémember the little boy next door is now keeping the heathen from our shores, No child is really bad so be kind to them for that kindness will be paid a hundredfold, ss =» = “I HATE TO. GRIPE BUT IT MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL! .. .?” By Richard A. Thompson, 905 N. Grant st. I hate to be continually griping but the actions of the trolley operators of the Indianapolis Railways I recall a letter written in this columii about a week or 10 days ago extolling the wonderful qualities of ‘the operators. From the sound of. it, it surely must have been written by an eniployee of the railways. i’ I dread the day when I have to store my. car when my tires wear out and ride these trolleys to work. I ride them occasionally now and

whenever I am ina hurry to get downtown Jhey stem seem to set an all-

|Side Glances—By Galbraith a

time record for slowness until they| - .-

reach the downtown section and then they really make ‘up for lost time. : I wish somebody will tell me why they pull out from the curb into a

line of traffic and make everybody stop quick behind them. I have had several narrow escapes by a trolley pulling out with no warning whatsoever. Just recently I was behind: one ‘and had fo slide rubber to keep from hitting him and in stopping quick my 3-year-old daughter fell over and got a nasty bump .on her head. That really made me mad. - And- why. do they have to stop

in the middle of the street when ||

they have plenty of room to pull to the curb to let .off or take on passengers? What's the matter with these birds anyway? I think the railways must hire the most reckless, smart alecky drivers they can find. They boast about their noble safety record— had it ever occurred. to them that that record was made because they run all the motorists off the street. After all a passenger car hasn't much chance. against those big lumbering . brutes.” These trolley operators are the most flagrant traffic violators 'in ‘the city==they run preferential streets, stop lights. speeding and’ reckless driving. What I can’t’ understand “is how the police department lets them get away with it. If I tried it I ‘would be yanked down to traffic court. Nobody can tell me they don’t do those things I have accused them of because I have seen them «do it day after day. Why don’t the railways company do something about it instead of sitting back and resting on their laurels? ' (What laurels?) .

n 8 ” “THERE ARE: NO TWO SIDES TO RALPH BARD'S SPEECH” By Kennett L. PoRard, sa 2 Noble st, I would ike to voice myself as an American citizen, today. and as a gob in the U. 8S: navy ‘the 30th of September, 1942, It takes two to make fight so there is two sides to| every story. . But I read one in The Times that

hi order placing caffeine and thedbromine under complete allocation control Oct. 1 is expected to seriously affect the beverage business, Partculasly the manufacturers of “cola” drinks.

The Brass Hat Brigade

ARMY AIR FORCE has 83 generals, 23 major generals, 55 brigadiers. , . . Competing petroleum refiners are now permitted to exchange technical information which will increase production. . . . Copper mining in July was off 5000 tons because 30 per

cent of the miners had been drafted. « + Texas mohair (goat hair) industry, wrecked by stoppage of auto fabric manufacture, is being helped by exemption from restrictions on hew wool.

$5,000,000 a Day for Food!‘

THE U. S. department of agriculture ‘marketing service now ouys fooa for lend-lease aid at the rate of over five million dollars a day-—enough to fill a solid freight train reaching from Washington to Salt Lake City. . . . Biggest item on the list of 300 foods is gE ind dairy products 350 million dollars’ worth. otal food purchases for united nations in the last 18 months runs to nearly two hillion. . , . U. 8, dried egg production is being stepped up from a pre-war capacity of 10 million pounds a year to 118 plants turning out 400 million pounds a year. . . . United nations armies will consume 60 per cent of all U. 8. cheese, 70 per cen: of the whole milk powder; 15 per cent of the butter, 17 per cent of the eggs.

This Makes It 35 Per Cont

SALE OF blackout lighting fixtures which do not conform to government specifications is prohibited. . Varieties of axes have been reduced from 382 to 147; ‘hatchets from 62 to 38; hammers from 180 to'113. . + » Food for which the average family paid $1 in 1939 costs $1.35 today. . . . In peacetimgs;, domestic consumers wasted 25 million tons of coal a year, . . . 30,000 WPA women are to. patch the pafits worn out by the army. . Washington now has 26 embassies rating ambassadors, 26 embassies rating ministers. Army's Oldest decoration, the Purple Heart, is to be awarded next of kin to all men killed in action, Editor's Note: The views @xpressed by columnists in this newspaper sre their own, They are not necessarily those

of The Indianapolis Times. .

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

SCRAP PILES are growing. People everywhere are throwing away accumulated rubbish which is needed to win the war, While we're” about. it, wouldn't - "it be ‘= good idea to scrap a lot of other trash which ‘has littered up our lives, There's many a bit of junk in the cellars and attics of our minds that ought to be{ tossed away with the odds and ends of old metal we're giving to Uncle Sam. To name one—the notion which has-been coddled too long that any sort of honest work is de-. grading. When hoity-toity ladies find themselves cleaning up their kitchens and emptying the garbage pails, perhaps they will realise that there is nothing ignorable about housework. Let's hope the war will destroy our. silly reluctance to do manual labor at home, e ven though we are willing to slave over typewriters a busiriess office. That's the sort of false thinking 4 has prevailed and which ought to be scrapped, not only for the duration, but forever.

Let's Simplify Everything =~ i i. TE eee ae ivi simplifying our usehold ‘routines t oh, Joy! ' It weuld bring a welcome from Emily Post stuffiness Which has kept so:many in social strait jackets, and prevented & vast of whilesome pleasure, ; ow bois ed ting 13 abandon the Bab “buying” all our fun instead of creating some of it. a Elion was Tage. aad tna t girls are less intelligen die incapable of business or. poli authority: Then there's race prejudice, Pi on the heap, too, We're in this war because we believe tha the people of Sve) ace and : gelmoFtacy With us, hd. we rn

vsertion. of fast on InfommaNian, mek tuveiving sxieasive search. Write your question clearly, inclose s three-cent postage sismp. ee cannot be given. Address The Times {Washi Buta. UATE Want 3 |