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WEDNBSDAY, ‘OCTOBER 7, 1942

CON QUEROR'S INDIGESTION WHATEVER other maladies Hitler may be suffering from," gestion, ’ : - Ever sirice he forged himself on Europe his pains have been growing. It is not too much to. hope that this internal occupational disease. will prove fatal in the end, particularly with certain external applications which the allies’; are now preparing for his demise. . : : These digestive pains are not only reported Bom the conquered countries, but: most of them are now admitted by Berlin. - So there cannot be much doubt about the condition. In Norway. large-scale sabotage of Nazi supply systems has forced Berlin to proclaim martial law, and to rush rein-

#4 forcements to the strategic Trondheim area.

In Denmark the refusal to co-operate with Nazi absorption plans has resulted in recall to. Berlin of Nazi chiefs, preparatory: to more repression, In Holland, Belgium and occupied France mounting sabotage. of the Nazi military, and aid to allied agents, are reflected in a heavier toll by German firing squads, : In Czechoslovakia occupation troubles are such that the puppet ‘Slovak authorities have been summoned to Berlin. In Jugoslavia a nationalist army has won back so much territory, captured so much axis war material and killed 0 many axis troops that Berlin has an acute reinforcement problem: Even in northern Slovenia, where there is some Germanic tradition, and blood, there is unrest because of attempted Nazi conscription. w # ” # » » FAX partners are causing trouble, too. In Italy the Mussolini regime is a puppet of Nazi agents, who are unable to cope with Italian hatred of Germany and war weariness, Hungary and Rumania, traditional enemies, are more

interested in fighting each other than:in providing additional |

troops demanded by Hitler for the carnage in Russia. In Bulgaria the pro-Russian peasants hate and harry the Nazis. In Finland hunger and fear of the consequences of any German victory prevent all-out co-operation with the Nazis. In unoccupied France the people block Vichy’ s effort to recruit workers for German factories; the Petain-Laval ‘regime ‘survives by force. AE eth Fascist Spain, no longer certain of xis vidtory, . beginning to flirt a little with the allies. ~~. Among the many causes of the stiffening attitude _ against Germany in occupied and unoccupied Europe, probably the most potent is the Russian proof that Hitler is not invincible. When ‘the American-British forces of liberation can Strike directly, there wilt ‘be no doubt of ‘Europe's response.

“JUST A BROOM FOR THE TIDE? USTICE JAMES F. BYRNES gave up his $20,000-a-year lifetime job on the supreme court because he thought he could bettet serve his country in this wartime crisis as economic. abilizs tion director. Hig appointment was a stroke of: genius on the part of

tite president. Mr. Roosevelt could have’ searched the coun- ||

try over and not have found a man better ‘equipped for this difficult: responsibility. Justice Byrnes’ knowledge of and sympathy. for the problems of workers, farmers and businessmen, the confidence he enjoys of all these groups, and of congress, and his understanding of the workings of our democratic government, especially fit’ him for this arduous r.. Roosevelt summed! it. all up. when: “he, said that yrnes could be trusted to be fair’ to ‘everyone.” Bit ‘Mr. Byrnes finds his authority challenged even before he starts his job—by Secretary Morgenthau’s announcement of a new tax program obviously formulated without any consultation with Mr. Byrnes. And if Mr.

Byrnes doesn’t move in on this situation he is whipped.

before he starts, and he might as well’ quit,

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stated, and in round figures, here is the cutlook: Budgeted expenditures this fiscal year, 75 billions;

anticipated revenues, even after passage of the pending tax |. “bill, 25 billions: to be borrowed, .50 billions, of which, by the: most ‘optimistic estimates under Mr. Morgenthau’s bond‘buying ‘plans, not-more than 12 billions will be raised by public sales of war bonds, and 4 billions by sales to insurance

companies and other savings. institutions, the remaining

84 billions to be created out of thin air ‘through. induced sales’

into the commercial banking system.

That's just like planting 34 billion tons of potential dynamite under the nation’s price structure. Nor is that all. The 25 billions which Mr. Morgenthau’ S revenue program | .

would raise are primarily cream- -skimming taxes designed for purposes, of politics and not * draining off the swollen : ee power of our w “prosperity.” 2 na duces wa he: wants six bil-

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler NEW YORK, Oct. 7—The proposal to throw onto the scrap pile

all the automobile bumpers in the country, a tonnage of pretty good

steel that would come to some- |

thing between 300,000 and 500,000, has raised considerable enthusiasm but, as yet, not an awful lot of . metal. The hitch is lack of or- - ganization, although some people insist that it just ain’t safe to n drive without regulation bumpers

‘and, furthermore, that the insurance companies and,

in some places, the law, might object. All these objections could be satisfied with wooden bumpers, however, because any ‘crash of sufficient force to break up a 2x6 board would smash the vitals of any car. : This answer would seem sufficient also to quiet the fears of those who point out that some types of

“jacks operate on the bumpers and that a driver hav-

ing a flat on a lonely road and having no bumper by | 4

which to hoist the old car would be in an awful fix.

Don't Be Deceived, Folks

YOU MAY OBSERVE that I have toned down my opinion of the quality of this bumper steel for salvage purposes. The reason is that Edwin C. Barringer, president and executive secretary of the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel, in Washington, which would seem to be ‘the chamber of commerce of the scrap industry, writes that although the basic material of the bumper’is good carbon steel, the nickel and chrome plating are deleterious elements which impart hardness and impair welding. But he says there should be some form of steel in which ‘such scrap would be useful and, furthermore, the auto salvage division of the WPB has stated that these bumpers are urgently needed right now. Barringer also urges that people be not deceived by the sight of large stocks in local yards, because we had only 700,000 tons in the hands of scrap dealers on June 30, as against 900,000 tons a year ago and 1,800,000 tons two years ago. He explains something that few of us would realize when he says that this 700,000 represents a dangerously low average of two scrap automobiles in the hands of each dealer.

Down With the Juke Boxes!

“THIS,” HE SAYS, “is an extreme minimum, owing to the fact that the dealers must accumulate scrap by the carload and there are 75 separate grades which must be kept distinct. Dealers have reached the maximum tonnage they can gat from normal sources.” Franklin Girard, state forester, wires from Boise, Ida. that he has adopted wooden bumpers and O. P. Andres wires from Ft. Wayne a suggestion that the 285,000 slot machines, or one-armed bandits in the country, are outlawed in most states and contain a lot of good metal including brass. The statistic is his. Dr. W. A. Moore, a chiropractor of Sterling, Colo., writes that he has in mind another useless article which should yield a good supply of materials, being the juke box, now to be seen and, much worse, heard in most restaurants of our fair and smiling land.

And Some More Suggestions, Too

G. V. SANDERS, editor of the Jacksonville, Fla., Journal, suggests melting down millions of man-hole covers and substituting wood, which, off-hand, would seem risky, and several others have thought that millions of metal highway signs and urban traffic signs on steel standards and countless parking meters, also on metal standards and presumably containing copper and brass in their works, now have little to do and would be more heplful serving as irritants in thé vitals of the Germans and the Japs. E. S. Friend of New Albany, Ind. proposes that the newspapers’ delivery boxes of rural subscribers, of which there must be x million around the country,

each weighing around five pounds, be melted down.

and replaced with wooden boxes, and an automobile dealer reminds us that the government, itself, has frozen some hundreds of thousands of 1942 cars in

dealers’ hands which are wearing a lot of idle metal |

in their bumpers. Al Lewis of New York wires that there are five metal radiator covers in his modest apartment and estimates that there must be millions of them in New York alone. He ‘says if his landlord would throw

them on the pile he would ask no reduction in rent.

Japan's Liberals By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Little is said about it, lest it be mis‘understood, but Washington con=sistently makes a distinction between the military clique now in the saddle in Japan and the em= peror and his subjects. There ‘is + a sound reason behind this. Elmer Davis: touched upon it when explaining t h e administration’s policy taward enemy countries. “Japan,” he said, “must be defeated. But we hope there are Japanese with whom we. can deal. We know there were once friendly ele-

.ments in Japan and hope there still are.”

Until the “Manchurian incident” of 11 years ago, there was a powerful liberal element in Nippon. In fact, the Minseito, or liberal party, held 251 seats in the national diet as against 215 for all’ the other parties combined—including the conservative Seiyukai

|with 171. ‘However, there was a third group which IN this. vastly dangerous and complex home-front war on inflation, the weakest link in our national defense is the

fiscal. program forged by Secretary Morgenthau. « Briefly: the

was to prove itself stronger than all the others put . This was the war party and its brothers of ‘the Black Dragon society, a secret outfit which did ‘the dirty work for Japanese expansionists all over

Face Is Everything i in Orient

libéralism is dead. Or that Emperor Hirohito is any

‘more of a convinced Fascist than King Victor Eman“uel of Italy. The emperor is not a ruler.but—to the | | Japanese—a | divine symbol, He is used by the party In power.

Rightly or wrongly, opinion here before the War

| was that the emperor was at heart a liberal and op‘posed to war. Certainly his best-known advisers | seemed inclined that way. If this is true, Hirohito is ||

THERE. 1S 'NO REASON to believe that Japanese

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

“DICTATORSHIP UPON US! WHAT WILL WE DO?” By Thomas D. McGee, 3749 Central ave.

Dictatorship—the thing that we have feared—is upon us. So says that well informed and plain speaking columnist, Raymond Clapper. Dictatorship by blocs is more to be feared perhaps than the individual tyrant. Bloc dictatorship is more difficult to combat and less readily perceived, but is none the less oppressive, subversive and tyrannical. What are the people of the United States going to\do about it? Does congress need to be overhauled? "How can the rest of us protect ourselves from the domination and ultimate ensuing ruin of arrogant and subversive groups and minorities? This is the predominant issue of the hour. ® = = “I WANT SOME INFORMATION” « + « AND HERE 17 1S— By Mrs. Kenneth Clarkson, 1323 Polk st. I am, like millions of other folks in this land of ours, trying to do everything I can to help win this war. My husband belongs to the 10 per cent club and is air raid warden, besides saving tin cans, papers aud even took the trouble tol strain my excess grease that I have and put it in’ a tin coifee can. Imagine my astonishment when I took my can of grease to my meat market , . . and upon asking the manager if he took the strained meat fryings that the government was asking us to save, he replied “Yes, I'll take them and dump them in the garbige can for you.” Upon my remonstrating with him he said) those was the orders he had had on the matter,

When I asked him why on nearly every radio station they made announcements as to how to take care of such grease and its disposal, he said he didn’t know only that that was for rural districts where they had no garbage disposal system. . I would appreciate: some official information on the matter.

By Ruth Ginsberg, 1934 N. Keystone ave. Well, I hear over the raido every day how important it -is to save drippings.

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it in a large top container and then take it to your meat dealer. As I have a son, several nephews and numerous friends’ sons serving, of course I try to do all the things we're asked to do. of I took my can of grease but my meat dealer knows nothing of it and his clerk says, “You're suppos to put it in your garbage, that they have ways of separating itr I called a radio station and they referred us to someone in the federal building. This man informed me that he wished he knew. - Then I called The Times and they said set the container out beside the garbage pail. Of course that’s easy enough to do but why don’t we get together on these things?

Editor’s Note: . The Indianapolis city adminjstration repeats that there is no need for housewives here to save waste fats and that these wastes should be put in the garbage as always. One of four cities in the country with such facilities, the city separates the grease from the garbage at the city sanitation plant and sells it to the agencies that would get it through a collection campaign. The mayor’s office points out that the grease thus gets to the ‘places ~ where the government wants ft—and that the city gets ii $125,000 annually from its 2 8 =» “I DESIRE ‘TO TAKE ISSUE WITH WESTBROOK PEGLER”

.| By Arthur W. Smith, 505 N. Delaware st. The writer, whose age is past the three score and ten mark and is ‘proud of holding 50 years continuus membership in a trade union, without ever holding a salaried office, although not a carpenter, but

How to strain it, place!

professing ‘to know & good deal

Side Glances —By Galbraith

Tow 8 sort of prisoner in the hands of his war lords, | |. ats

as some .of his ancestors were in. the hands of _* In the Orient, face is everything: ‘Its success In Manchuria. gave the war party its first’ bit Later successes in China Jape av gave it Another. Pearl Harbor, Manila, Hongkong, Singapore, the East Indies and Burma lifted its prestige to the skies. By the same token, defeats will just as quickly

for Japan’s generals and admirals, and a ‘power gt. Tako lor thos Who Warmed ihe sgainst Sones:

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about the United Brotherhood, desires to take issue with Westbrook Pegler’s parrot-like repetition that the United Brotherhood is exorting vast sums of money from would-be members. It is a well-known fact that the journeyman - graduates from apprenticeship. Any apprentice upon terminating his four years of service is eligible to membership in the United Brotherhood in any part of the United States or Canada at an initiation fee of 10 dollars, after which his dues to the international amounts to 75 cents per month, for which he becomes entitled to death and disability benefits up to the amount of $400, a pension (over 10,000 members are drawing this

ed benefit), or may spend his declining

years in the wonderful brotherhood home for the aged, where for years past, hundreds of members have been and are enjoying their last years in comfort, free from all worry. ; Let us suppose two-young men, 22 years of age, have just completed their term of apprenticeship. One elects to cast his lot with the union and at the age of.40 will have paid into the treasury the sum of $172. The second man decides to pursue a course free of union entanglements and minus the necessity of paying union dues... Around the age of 40 this man finds it hard without assistance to meet the struggle for livelihood in competition with young men who have adopted the same. course. He

then finds it necessary to seek|®

shelter in the union, where he will be protected against age discrimination and also have the benefits arising from the fact that his union

will be ever on the lookout for jobs|

to which he may be sent, relieving him of traveling weary. miles - in search of employment. It is true the carpenters’ union possesses around $1,000,000 wo:th of property in Indianapolis, a home, recreation grounds, and citrus fruit groves, with a mile of frontage on beautiful Lake Gibson in Lakeland, Fla., further the organization has, as charged by Mr. Pegler, some millions of dollars in its cash reserves, all of which has been accumulated out of the small monthly payment of 75 cents—surely a tribute to William IL. Hutcheson, who also happens to be first vice president of the A. F. of L, and his brother officers who have guided the destinies of the organization for nearly 30 years. The writer cannot see the slight-

time they become journeymen tol,

participate in support of these

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7k

addition te this mixup over the president's trip, other recent cases of confusion over news policy have served to illustrate how diffi-

cult is the job of Elmer Davis \

office of war information in trying

to co-ordinate the government's

policy on the war story given to the public. One of these is the. case of Rear Admiral Ben Moreell, who popped off in a speech before the building trades department of the A. F, of L. convention in Toronto to the effect that, although people can't live without labor, they can live without labor unions as people are living without them In Germany, Japan and Italy, Admiral Moreell, being chief of the bureau. of yards and docks, is responsible for the navy’s entire construction program, And it may be that in his official capacity he has had so.much grief with the building trades of the A. F. of L, that he was justified in giving them a piece of his mind in salty, blue air, sea dog style, But it so happens that the navy has been unger such criticism from the labor organizations themselves that the navy has been gradually overhauling its policies on dealing with the unions.

How Could He Do It?

REAR ADMIRAL C. H. Woodward was put in charge of a special office to improve lahor relations and Edwin A. Lahey, a free-swinging labor reporter from Col. Knox's Chicago Daily News, was brought in as adviser, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard announced establishment of personnel divisions in shore establishments to handle all questions of industrial relations. Just as beneficial reSults were being noted from these various moves, along comes Admiral Moreell’s speech, in marked. ‘conflict with every announced administration labor policy. Leaving aside questions of the tactfulness and the rightness or wrongness of the Moreell threat, there is raised the point of how the admiral could make this speech and get away with It. In the OWI there is set up what might be known } as the Office of Oratory Control, It is headed by John R. Fleming, an ex-newspaperman whose job it is to scrutinize the manuscript on all speeches to be delivered by cabinet officers and the heads of gove ernment agencies to make sure that the ideas therein expressed are in the groove, and in close harmony with administration policies.

Loopholes Being Used

BUT MR. FLEMING'S authority is limited to the top men only. In the navy department, Fleming can review the text of Secretary Knox, Undersecretary Forrestal and assistant secretaries Bard and Gates, but he can’t touch the speeches of a single admiral or lesser officer. In the order creating the OWI, among other things OWI was charged specifically to “co-ordinate the war informational activities of all federal dee partments and agencies for the purpose of assuring an accurate and consistent flow of war information to the public.” But the way this works out is that while OWI has authority to pass on all the press releases and pre-

‘pared statements to see that a consistent story is

told, OWI has no -conrol over what may be said orally. And as in the case of Admiral Moreell, it has neo control over the public statements of officials below cabinet and Sub-cabinet rank. From these examples it can be seen that owt doesn’t have the control over war information that was perhaps intended. There are loopholes and dodges which the various government departments can and do use to put out ideas which may not be exactly orthodox.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

THE PROBLEM OF loneliness stands out starkly on the feminine horizon. In the recent past happy women with their families around them were often unaware of the suffering endured: by spinsters, di -vorcees and widows who either never knew or had lost such joy,

This, I think, is as it should be,

Happy. people not be too cone scious of the ppy, lest their own content be jeopardized. There is a time. for all things, as the Bible reminds us; into most lives come periods of rich fulfillment and of deep bereavement. No person is exempt from the common woes of humankind. And during the years when a woman is building a home or creating a life, years crammed with interest and work and love, a woman would be a failure who allowed herself to be diverted from the high experiences of existence in order to brood upon prophecies or sorrow. gr

Helping Our Souls to Grow

BUT NOW-—this very day—those prophecies are everywhere. Millions of young women face the same sort of aloneness which was known only: to their elders in the past. Upon them have been thrust prematurely the troubles of middle and old age.

They have youth to help them through. They have a resilience which is the hope of the race. Their physical stamina, their sane minds, their fearless hearts, will never let them down. And perhaps, out of this particular sort of heartache, will come a desire to alleviate that of others. With everybody hard at work, we have less time to worry about personal woes—but there is such a thing as a communion of sorrow and, through it, we learn , fo think more of others. It helps our souls to grow. Scales of selfishness fall from our eyes; we develop a new spiritual aware= ness and undertsand at last the meaning of the word “love.”

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