Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1942 — Page 20

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admirals and generals will be surprised that the eursad i gro fares to Gant it out-for the south

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nsives But Admiral Nimitz and others keep repeating a , the Japs are wily, desperate warriors, with excellent

ipment, who ean. give and. take punishment every. inch |

the way. ; The enemy ‘proves this again in the current and larg‘est of the several battles for Guadalcanal, with its air ‘base which dominates that entire area. An ordinary enem % ‘after thé severe drubbing in the first phase of this battle, ‘would have withdrawn. But the Japs came back stronger ‘than ever, and with considerable success. = It is easy to nnderstand how the enemy. fleet could get through the defending screen, and land troops on distant points of the island, It is not so clear how a large fleet

could enter and stay within shelling distance of the Amer- see

{can base itself, and how at least one large flight of bombers | could attack the airfield without being intercepted by Amer- || ican planes, We hope that destruction of our field and base is not the explanation. In any event, the American Marines-—a the sailors and soldiers supporting them in the air, on land and on sea~have the absolute confidence of those at home for hom they are fighting, They have earned it. From the day of their daring capture of the Guadelcanahspres ‘through the treacherous weeks they have defended heroism has matched the highest in Spi Sghting

HE INCLOSED a release for last Monday's papers from the OPA, which most of us probably missed, ‘announcing that, effective Oct. 15, uncut bumpers would ‘be classified 8s No, 3 heavy melting * steel and explained that this means that the dealers may now ship them whole to the mills without in half, It seems that at their full 1 couldn’t be handled and that .it was both hard Japarions. to cut them in half,

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Half a Million Tons Plus

THE YONKERS (N, Y.) HERALD-STATESMAN is, as far as I know, the first outfit to run a real demonstration to stimulate: this collection. This paper ballyhooed a show Monday and the day's loot was 4660 polinds, all free and ready to ship, and the inter-

18 pounds each, which would mean -that the tetal than half 8 million tons.

The Herald-Statesman had mechanics on hand to remove the bumpers and said the operation, in some

cases, -took as little as one minute; The donors got-

CAN ; he Ho way ws getting eh the recent deci-

+ | stickers for their cars reading “Careful! B

> umpers In Scrap!” and wooden bumpers could -be hought at cost on the spet and installed at nearby garages.

Information Please, remarked the other day st a luncheon-and-speaking held for the purpose of pro-

1h oting the bumper collection, the rament th sion of the supreme court,” said Federal Judge Barnes pin er to come and get all the va any re

of Chicago. And so he threw out of court the government's attempt to prevent. James Cassar Petrillo and his S F. of L. musicians’ union from enforcing their ban on “the making of records and. electrical transcriptions for ‘broadcasting and other commercial use. No use getting mad at Judge Barnes. He merely bowed the supreme court’s ruling that congress intends unions to be exempt from prosecution under the anti-trust laws for anything they do in connection with labor disputes. ~~ No use getting mad at Mr. Petrillo, He's operating under a license which, according to the supreme court,

, of i ‘ootirse, the Petrillo ban | is an CE aonis abuse of power. tis, as Assistant Attorney General Arnold has charged, organized coercion to compel employers to hire ‘unnecessary and useless labor. As Elmer Davis, director of | ar information, has told a senate committee; it will force the closing: of many small radio stations which are the war effort, and it endangers national and military |

entertainment.

For many months. congress ‘has had before it bills which, while reaffirming protection of organized labor's Rogitimate ‘activities, would outlaw ‘business-killing, conbleeding, victory-delaying union abuses, The Petrillo gmph at Chicago challenges congress to get busy and tt one ori those bills.

' fhe conservation divi‘has done 8 notably poor Job. - Mr. Hopwood, an eneretic industrialist, had started to do's notably good. one. activity had, for the time, raised the steel industry's

And, as Chairman Fly of the federal com- | pre 3 commission has said, it demands legislative id

mie his wo ar roving thei 1 vouArly are only jumping the: gun. 2 Editor! » s Notes The views expresséd by columnists in this HR thelr rk ™ are mot pd

An Indian. Truce? By William: Philip Sins congress has given him and PVser pales bosses to maintain | i} aba .

“"fagt" that ‘the ‘president’s globe-

deliberately flew all round that vital

| Was not; from chaice bug from necessity. | “Now

Uitjesay t to send him | sor is Sirdar J, J. , president of ‘of America ‘an iin ih wir obrbng 6s : Gandhi's party. gelion ia shia?

If the Japapese do attack, the fight the invaders with ene internal sabotage with the other. That might end in disaster for Britain, for India and for the united na~

A Truce for the Duration

of getting an adequate supply of the heavy scrap | Dotive

which ‘it most needs. But that activity has been halted, VMI has been confined to “check-signing” functions, and Ba a ED be Sie” Sasson, 4d | to help him have withdrawn, We hove, of course, that. the WPB conservation divic shake inertia and red tape and begin two government. agen-

‘esting discovery was made that the bumpers weigh | yield, if all bumpers were turned in, would he more:

Well, as Jofinny Kieran, the noted know-itsall of |=

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disagree with what you say, but will

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| en his chest for doing obvious jobs. Alle | interviews in South America op North -He wants no credit.

| The Final Touch to It

“THE McNUTT DRAFT _- CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL” By Thomas D. MoGee, 3740 Central ave.

gent drive for scrap brought to light a great medley of antiquated, for»

constitution. . I dusted it off and idly it. I yead the 13th| amendment, which provides as fol-

lows: “Neither slavery nor involuntary

servitude exeept as a punishment for crime whereof $he party shall

Daggers: to suggest any limitation

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They say any tool c can farm, but the farmers who leave the fields and barns to accept the excessive pay the war labor board orders are no fools. -Since the passage of the anti-in-flation bill the WLB directed all wage increases approved: ‘before Det. 8 be put into effect; but ‘nowhere any wage cut ordered. ‘A glance at the grain market shows declines. Local corn price down from the top Man says, ox won't pray and take|80 cents to 73 cents. And local parity

God into consideration,” and he dies price is 97 eents. | spiritually. Senator Bankhead (Dem. Ala)

We don't“ break God's law, we said recently, ‘a comparison of farm

break’ ourselves over God's law. prices during the first world war I think of the song “God Bless{With farm prices at tiis time shows

(Times o raadirs are invited to express their views In these columns, religious cone troveries excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

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other nation on earth and then we|time, ‘Whereas wages are twiod-as #God ‘Bless America.” Why high now as they were then.” can't. we with an heritage as ours| In a recent mesage to congress and with everything and worth |the president said wage and salary

» | while to live for sing “America Bless |increases amounted to over a billion “1 God.”

dollars a month. Leon Henderson

Hitler says, “God is with us”|a Norfolk, Va. said the increases

about “Am I vith goap farm prices down is the deliberate + | policy of this administration, the ex-

“DON'T BLAME THE FARMER— |cuse to prevent inflation, If farmers

BLAME THE MINISTRATION” sell their herds and Jeave their AD farms, if they abandon deflated

prices for inflated wages, if the result is food shortages and ratiching, : the ee tat a rath t rater * fe pit 8 1 starvation than inflation.

e as if no prunes| . [I they would be “PHIS SHOWS JUST WHO ARE ot. . J choirs nick of time WORGEP EATS FAVORITES” _-— Joseph Kauffman, 3337 College ave. i bed buckets and headed for the our editorials and Pegler's article Batata so soot the prune GroP {os gent. 19 about treasury depart- : * {ment ment Suniel OF SPAR 8s 10 in» ve very e nefarious farm bloc’s pci] ‘although ‘I doubt that anythat farm prices must be| hing’ can he done where we have the farmer on the|, ,,eaucracy that no longer is rement no longer “by 10400 Kansas yng people, and for a bia grow up in| gomeone showed me a copy of while their onetime operators pysiness Week of: Feb. 21, 1943, page | are drawing down the bloated Wages |79 gbout Morgenthsu's Detrolé acpaid factory workers? Shout tivities, where he “gets 8 bang out

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Amazon without ever making a headline, This “general” in question is a twinkling-eyed ruddy~-faced little dynamo Re Bovslas All He worked In Secretary of War Newton D office in the last war, but for the past 16 has been d business ' in the Amagon coun! and so, when campaign was launched, he was a natural selection to head up the operations end.

And He Wants No Credit

HE HAS A slight limp and walks with a eane, aside from that he is an inconspicuous figure and he likes to work in an inconspicuous manner, quietly and

' | behind the scenes. Not that he doesn't get around.

He has seven-league boots for that and he covers this vast Amazon valley—an area bigger than the whole United States—with amazing facility, nego-

| | tinting treaties and deals, working with the South American governments and businessmen to organize

a rubber bank, reorganizing river transportation, arranging for the migration of 100,000 or more workers and their families, advancing colonization. For all this work Douglas Allen does not deserve

| the full eredit, and he doesn't want it. Unlike a good

many generals, he doesn’t want any medals pinned doesn’t give erica either,

PERHAPS THE FINAL touch in the. whole fantastic program is the organization of airlines to supplement the water transportation. In two days, Washington approval was given for a $5,000,000 contract witli Pan American Airlines to operate a “rubber express” air route from Miami to" Mangaos. Sikorsky S-48 flying boats will maintain a daily 19-hour schedule on this hop. From the Amazon rubber capital of Mansos, 1000 miles up the Amagon, South American airlines will these shipments to remote jungle camps, above falls which river boats cannot navigate, ul on the return trips theyll bring out this precious rubber,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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“AND IN THAT DAY, seven saying, ‘We will eat our own bread women shall take hold of one man and wear our own apparel, only let us be called by thy name to take away our réproach.’” These are the words of the ‘ Prophet Isaiah, which seem just

about to be fulfilled in our own

time. The Bible teaches many

this, woes of hen are eveiamingy the tame, 4nd. soma from the same causes. : B80 today the words addressed- to the daughters of Israel have terrible : meaning for moderns,. The feminine heart must shudder away from thoughts of the future, because all gver the werld young men. Ax dying. War takes its tell of all but after every ous men are fewer and women more numerous, and ent of .that situation evils untold and misery UnImaginable comes. Certain churchmen, of England have been wan for years that a second great Ai probably would up polygamy in Christian lands,

Degradation Always Follows J wHBN WE READ NOW that the women of eon-

| quered nations are being brought inte Germany for

breeding puipoten Sly, sud tha soldiers ‘un legve

of propagation, we wish there might be another salah

to thunder to man what woes he creates for bis own ;

This war will present problems for women which they have never dr they would meet outside of ancient books. Thos in the United Biates never expected to meet them certainly, for we lived in &

land’ where men have always heen in the majority.

A Victorian code of morals was possible because in the period of continental expansion women were premium. ‘Even the worst rascals of the

men must die and women take up maseuline Also, morals ss we have understood them endangered, for when ' “seven women take hold on one WAR" WS have ta Sell Tio Which lo Shosse—mly Spiritus] degradation and

gemy or prostitution physical degredation always follow a pia on the

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