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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

“FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1042

_ WTATION-WIDE gasoline rationing is scheduled to

start Tuesday, and from what Rubber Director Jeffers says, we take it there will be no further postponement. We believe: : 1. That it is absolutely necessary—not to save gasoline, except in the Eastern states where rationing has been in effect for many months, but to conserve rubber tires. 2. That it won’t be nearly as bad as many people have ‘been led to fear. In the East it has caused many inconveniences, perhaps even some hardships, but it has not been ruinous. Life goes on surprisingly well. : To be sure, the-Midwest, the West and the South have

. special conditions—long distances, far-flung farming opera-

tions, lack of other means of transportation. These ought to be given special consideration. Mr. Jeffers says they will be. We think he can be trusted to see that they are.

-”» ” ” o td ” BLL JEFFERS is no bureaucrat, ho impractical theorist. He's a Westerner himself, a railroad man with oil and farming interests of his own, and, just now, with a vital wartime job to do for the country. That job is to get new synthetic-rubber plants into operation, and meanwhile to see that everything that needs to roll on rubber—war machines, farm and industrial trucks, passenger busses and private cars—keeps rolling. . If all goes well, he says, there will be a “comfortable”

i supply of synthetics by the middle of 1944. But all may

not go well. And, at the present rate of driving, the tires on millions of passenger cars will be worn out kefore 1944. Hence the need to cut the present rate to an average of 5000

"miles per car per year—some cars more than that and

others less. » » 8

BUT why ration gasoline in areas where it is plentiful?

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Price in Marion Coun-

Behind the Red Ball

By S. Burton Heath

CLEVELAND, Nov. 27.—As was to be expected, the RooseveltByrnes pay limitation ukase is being denounced as communistic in spirit and in trend. That is not fair—to the reds. They have long since progressed beyond the experimental stage marked by this executive law. It has been criticized on the ground, among others, that it discriminates against earners as contrasted with inheritors—because a man is not permitted to receive more than $25,000 a year net for the sweat of his brow, but can have much more for which he has given nothing in return. That criticism is fair and pertinent, It should be noted, however, that this effect was not the choice of the president or of the left-wing union which gave him the idea. The United Automobile Workers and the president wanted a $25,000 limitation upon net income from all sources, and took this discriminatory halfpint because congress, with the apparent approval of the people, refused flatly to go along on the broader program. Perhaps the president hopes that, to eliminate the discrimination, congress now will consent to do what he asked in the first place, and make the limitation apply to all income from whatever source.

Russians Like the Profit Motive!

ORIGINALLY communism had the idea of spreading the wealth and equalizing income in hope of keeping it spread. That, obviously, is what the $25,000 limitation would tend to do here. i But as soon as Russia began trying to capitalize on her natural wealth and to industrialize, she found that communism of the economic variety wouldn’t work. Gradually, with a minimum of publicity, the Soviet discarded that angle of communism, Russia has been marvelously successful in the emergency building of industry. As we discover that fact, we learn also that the profit motive—now under specific attack in the $25,000 salary limitation fiat—is highly regarded by the Russians, and is encouraged to the extent that the differential among workmen on the same job far exceeds that which is condoned by the most reactionary opinion in this country.

"Let's Get Out From There!"

SO NOW, 25 years after the leveling of wealth and income was tried in Russia to correct evils this nation never knew, we start backing into what the Communists discovered could not be made to work even under dictatorship. Congress has abdicated too many legislative powers to the executive. There are times when it seems as though even the best ¢ongress .couldn’t do very much in wartime. But here is congress’ opportunity to prove that this viewpoint is over pessimistic. We now are behind the Russian red ball. Let's get out from there,

‘THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Spreading Yourself a Little, Aren't

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FRIDAY, NOV. 27, 1942

In" Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — A congressman from New Jersey recently called up the headquarters of the government agency charged with recruiting doctors for the armed services, moaning that a lot { of the people in a town of his district were protesting that one of the doctors of this community was about to. be commissioned in the navy medical corps. . The congressman's constituents wanted something done about it. They wanted their doctor released from having to go in the navy. If something wasn’t done about it, the town was proposing to organize a delegation of 40 people to come down to Washington and get action. War or no war, these people weren't going to let the navy take their doctor away from them. War or no war, 40 people were going to put a further strain on the eastern railroads’ transportation jam by traveling to Washington.

The Facts Behind All This: *

A check-up revealed these facts: The doctor in question was and had been for some time a commissioned officer in the naval reserve medical corps. He was not only willing but anxious to get into service. He was not the community's only physician. And though this doctor couldn't exactly protest to his patients because of their devotion to him, his medical career in service was about to be ruined by the selfishness of a group of silly people who didn’t want any other doctor. In the end, the delegation was persuaded not to come to Washington, and it looks as though the doctor will go into service. This situation is dealt with in this detail because it is typical of a lot of the squawks that come into the headquarters of the procurement and assignment service of the war manpower commission, which has the job of mobilizing the country’s medical ‘strength for war. . A It is really amazing how much hell one neurotic Nellie ‘can raise when she starts out to make a nuisance of herself, but the fact is that when a lot of the doctor-shortage scares are investigated, they can be traced down to the individual head and bellyaches of people who think there is only one doctor in the world for their case. . +

It Will Have to Be Stretched Out

ALL THIS IS not set down to minimize the fact that there are genuine shortages of doctors in some

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ith what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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areas. You can't slap 50,000 or 150,000 workers into a new war production area that two years ago was a great open space and expect them to get along with- | out doctors. But the answer is that civilian medical practice will have to be stretched farther. Specialists will have to give up their exclusive fields and become just

plain old-fashioned family doctors. And patients will

“WE MOTHERS NEED SOME TRAFFIC ACTION ON THIS!”

By Mrs. E. B. Shannessy, 1038 E. Washington .st. y

(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious con-

to express views. in

place for their cars was a haif-

walk.

mile from ‘the job. Too good to

In Indianapolis 5000 union men

have to learn to adjust their illnesses. Quit getting the doctor out in the middle of the night. You call at his office instead of making him call at your bed of pain. There are so many sides to this question of the

Why not ration’ driving? Or let people take the conse- 2 on war construction jobs refused| doctor shortage, however, that this subject will have

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~ precious national stockpile.

quences if they're foolish enough to wear out. their tires before replacements are available? Or why doesn’t the government ask people to turn in all tires if it needs them? Well, it’s no secret that President Roosevelt hoped to avoid national gas rationing. The Baruch committee tried, but could find no other way to save enough rubber. And if there were any other practicable way it would cut down

the use of gas just the same. The government does not

need to ask any car owner to turn’in all tires now, and Mr. Jeffers believes it never will. But every tire is part of a

» » » . $ E believe it’s the part of good citizenship to accept ra-

tioning with good grace, observe it in good faith, and

= {. complain only if it actually prevents essential driving. For

‘we think Mr. Jeffers tells the truth when he says that the whole purpose is to make sure that there's enough rubber for war needs, that farmers can continue to produce, that war workers can continue to ride to their jobs, that highway transportation is maintained, and that every car owner

"can drive when it is really necessary.

WILL SPAIN HELP HITLER?

" TA VERY day Hitler holds off the allies in Tunisia and Tripo-

#~ Jlitania increases the danger of an axis counter-offensive through Spain to flank Eisenhower. .

Yesterday the Fascist Dictator Franco extended his mobilization order to include four more classes of Spanish

_ troops, following his reinstatement of Foreign Minister Ser-

“yano Suner, a Hitler puppet. Whether Franco will help or hinder Hitler is the question. The allies are unable to do anything about this at the moment because of Franco's assurances that he is acting to protect Spain's neutrality, and not to help his axis friends. ‘As evidence that his mobilization is aimed at the Nazis instead of us, he says all his troop concentrations are along the French frontier recently occupied by Germany. He also says he has called off maneuvers of his excellent army in Spanish Morocco, which flanks the A. E. F. in French Moroeco and Algeria. ‘British authorit es, who have played along with Franco,

_ are inclined to accept his promises. From Washington it

is more a case of hope than certainty. #” ”

» # JOP that Franco will double-cross his former partners, Hitler and Mussolini, is based chiefly on the fact that Spain has not recovered from its civil war, that transport is

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disorganized, the people hungry and in no mood to help the hated Nazis. That, plus the fact that the apparent turn _ in the war may encourage Franco to play safe, if not actually

do a flipflop. None of this, however, makes Spain any less desirable as a strategic corridor for Hitler's counter-offe sive against the A. E. F. Hitler would not be rushing troops up to the Spanish border, presumably, unless he still ad, hopes of using them for a southern drive—lafter ineffective Spanish resistance of the token variety to cover: actual Franco connivance. : os ” J 2 ” ” CPAIN'’S value to Hitler has been greatly increased by current Soviet success in the Don bend and the Caucasus. While a week ago Hitler had the alternative of two lines of flank attack to save the Mediterranean, one through Spain ‘and the other through Turkey, the latter becomes more risky with Nazi retreats in southern Russia. So Hitler needs Spain more than ever : : _ Doubtless the African battles of the coming week will fluence Franco. If Rommel fails to stand at El Agheila fore the pursuing Montgomery, and’if Eisenhower can win the delayed batt'e for Bizerte-Tunis, Franco may be afraid to play Hitler's game. Or if he were foolish enough help the axis, the allies would be in a position to take n and Spanish Morocco. itler can “i

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Real Airpower By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—An article in a foreign magazine argues against the usefulness and the future of the dive bomber. Close on the heels of this irritation comes a wise crack from some airplane pilots who wonder whether I have turned renegade because I defend the lighter-than-air balloons, blimps and airships. How long is it going to be before we can get vast numbers of people to understand just what the term AIRPOWER means? It doesn’t mean fighters, bombers or any one type of craft, any more than landpower means just infantrymen with bayonets, gas masks and machine guns, or than seapower means just battleships and cruisers. An army is not millions of soldiers and bayorfets and ‘artillery. An army means all the special and general weapons developed for modern warfare on land, and it means men trained to use all these weapons.

"It Is Just Common Sense"

THE SAME FOR airpower. It is, in addition to the obvious manpower, long and short-range planes, long-range scouts and reconnaissance planes, dive bombers, long and short-range bombers and lighter-than-aireraft, such as blimps and airships and balloon barrages and also the airfleet supply “train,” now belatedly in the building. : The only practical type of aircraft that can shut off its engines and sit still in the air is the blimp and airship. The nearest heavier-than-air type that can really hover is Ivan Sikorsky’s helicopter, but even the helicopter can't stay aloft with its engine stopped. We must have all the tools of airpower. lighter-than-air as well as heavier-than-air, all under the control of men who believe in it—airmen.

Etiquette, 1942

By Rosemary Redding

WHAT THIS country has needed for a long time has been an up-to-date book of etiquette. There is no quarreling that Emily Post’s books cover the subject in detail, but they do lack a bit of interpretation in the light of the changing times. It appears that we have the ‘answer in a new book by Mrs. hii Oliver Harriman, an internationMrs. Harriman a)1y known social leader. Greenberg, the publisher, says it is their most ambitious project in their 18 years of publishing. And it may well be. Five years went into its preparation. It isn’t as detailed as the Post book, but it covers all types of social form. Its greatest contribution is in the emphasis it places on the modern—and not so staid—point of view. Many of the features are timely. Mrs. Harriman discusses army, navy and state etiquette, living graciously WITHOUT servants

and the proper dress for both men and women in |

wartime.

Helpful lllustrations Are Included

ALTHOUGH MRS. HARRIMAN speaks as something of a sage, her ¢ ling is saved from dullness by some sparkling writing which is pretty hard to introduce in an etiquette book. Part of this

“dressing up” obviously should be credited to Helen , Worden, special feature writer for The Indianapolis |-

Times and a member of the New York World-Tele-gram staff, who helped in the book’s preparation. Hundreds ‘of topics are covered:

formal, the art of conversation, traveling, correct dress and myriad others. Genuinely helpful illus-

| trations are included.

It's a MODERN guide to the best social form and a good : TT

Births, gradua- I tions, engagements, weddings, parties, formal and in- |:

In regard to city children riding streetcars to and from school, I think the city did the wrong thing by letting the automobiles take possession of either side of the safety zones. ; My little girl rides to school and she is 20 to.25 minutes trying to get out of the safety zone at Cruse and Washington streets. . .. Rural children have the benefit of city children—the autos are forced to stop while the bus is loading and unloading. : I really think we mothers need atcion on the traffic department about this. ” ” ”

“THE BOSSES NEED SOME RULES TO LIVE BY, TOO!” By Mary Studebaker, 22 E. 22d st. We are always being told what the bosses expect of good employees— always hearing about what the employee is supposed to do... .I think it may be wise to stop a moment and think about what the employees may require of the bosses. First of all there is the bad habit some bosses have of holding the weapon of dismissal over your head. If you have the kind of boss who threatens to fire you, you may as well resign. For anyone who stoops to use a weapon like that, is one who cannot be pleased. Continuing to work for him will only increase your misery Then there is the habit many bosses have to search extra hard for a flaw in .a newcomer who is better than average. When such bosses get somebody good they are not pleased with what they got. If you find your boss makes an extra effort to find something wrong in’ your work, you may as well resign. For trying any harder to please him only increases his efforts to oust you. 0 0» Also there is the kind of boss who urges you to accept the job by giving you the promise of a raise efiective at the end of you fourth week, but fails to keep the promise. Now

Make your letters short, so all can

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when this happens, hard though it may be to do, you may as well resign that day before any hard feeling occurs. For if you do stick it out, kidding yourself that he was genuine in his intent, you will only find. that at the end of your 114th week the situation is still the same. Thus the parade of bosses moves oh through the lives of the workers. What is needed is some rules for the bosses to play the game by— some rules as to what is “out of bounds.” ” ” ” “THE EXCESS PROFITS THE

LABOR LEADERS TALK ABOUT”

By James R. Meitzler, Attica. According to the New Deal’s department of commerce’s survey Of current business, interest and dividends increased about one billion dollars from 1939 to 1942. These are the excessive profits labor unions rave about and use as an excuse for their demands for more and more money.

Farm income estimated fo have increased for the same period twe billion dollars. This is the increase which the president and the unions point to as the cause of inflation and the rise in the cost of living, and a justification for more wages. The department also _estimated wages and salaries during the same time increased approximately 16 billion dollars. More than the total of interest and dividends. More than the farmers’ entire income. Yet in spite of this enormous increase in wages, in spite of their promise not to strike, these 40-‘hours-a-week workers quit work all over the country on any trifling pretext. In Washington, 100 sheet metal workers on the Octagon building struck because the parking

Side Glances—By Galbraith

“I wish | could lay hands

that architect who sold: me on the

Jd | furnished two sons.

to work on Armistice day because they would not be paid time and

to run into twoamore columns.

one-half wages. .. . | On this same Armistice day while: these union labor patriots were do- | nating 40,000 hours to Hitler, the greedy farmers of the corn belt, including yours truly, were picking corn. According to union standards of patriotism, farmers should receive parity-and-one-half-parity price for corn shucked on a holiday. Farm parity price for corn is 97 cents a bushel. Parity-and-one-half $145. What the local elevators are actually paying for new corn is 65 cents.

The GOP's Hopes

By Thomas L. Stokes

x \ 4 WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Republican: leaders again are discussing privately an ‘old familiar project revived by the recent election —the possibility of breaking into

sn a “COCKROACHES WILL OPEN DOORS AT CENTRAL STATE”

By Mrs. D. G., Indianapolis

Nov. 21. ‘

opened in case of fire.

doors. least 50 cockroaches.

plorable condition? attendants.

No, not

to patients as well as visitors.

Yes, I'm for them 100 per cent.

combination—Bibles roaches.

and

should be a “heaven on earth” instead of a “cockroach haven.” Keep up your good work, Mr. Isaacs. Many know about our great army of boys, but few know of our Central State army of cockroaches behind 1000 locked doors. Will a state politician keep you

facts? ... \ 2 2

“ARE OUR CONGRESSMEN JUST FOOLING THE PEOPLE?” By John A, Bonsett, 317 N. Riley st. I often wonder if I am dumb or just patriotic. I buy war bonds, turn in my belongings for scrap, also nly extra tires, figure how I can save a few miles on gas, also I do without. Soon it will be butter and next gas,

saying anything about taxes. which are so many I just forget about them till I get a notice. - Then whatever else comes along 1 join in to help win the war, or at least I think I'm right. But what worries me is if congressmen and our representatives are doing their part or just fooling the people.’

DAILY THOUGHT The small and great are there;

Z and the servant is free from his

master. —Job 3:19.

So all we know of what they do

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The following is the answer to the article bearing the title, “1000 Doors—4 to OPEN Them in Case of Fire,» which appeared in The Times

Having visited ‘at Central State hospital several times during the last two years, I feel qualified to tell you how those doors will be All each patient will have to do is to grab a chair and slam it to the floor. The cockroach stampede will open If seeing is believing, visit Ward 50. Each chair houses at

Who is responsible for this dethe In spite of poor pay, and rotten living conditions, they are kind, considerate and courteous Just four to unlock 1000 doors? Well, I'll bet each would sacrifice all for those unfortunates in case of fire.

Some of our sane state politicians could learn a few things from our insane folks at Central. They know the meaning of brotherly love and many read the Bible daily. What & cock

Some of our state politicians had better dust off their Bibles (if they

have one) and get busy. Central State, and all such institutions,

from printing the rest of the

which means I walk to work, not,

the solid south through some sort of ' coalition with anti-New Deal Democrats. This topic probably will come up Dec, 7 at the St. Louis national committee meeting. G. O. P. hopes of breaking into ? the south, periodically refreshed, spring now partly from the recent surprise in Oklahoma, when Ed Moore, former Democrat who bolted to Willkie in 1940, ran on the Republican ticket and defeated the dyed-in-the-wool New Dealer, Josh Le€e. The Republican label is still frowned upon instinctively in the south, and must be sugar-coated as in Oklahoma, for old Civil war and reconstruction animosities persist. But Republicans Wik they see a formul in the Oklahoma example, i

And to Willkie Goes the Credit

IT MIGHT BE thought strange, but some responsible Republican leaders have recently suggested, and seriously, that the party might change its name to get away from the old associations—to something like the American party, or the National party. That might open the way, they think, to formation of a coalition with anti-New Deal Democrats. To Mr. Willkie, distasteful as he is to mos oldsline G. O. P. leaders, must go credit: for creating a situation which the party believes it might capitalize. In most southern states responsible Democrats created Willkie organizations in 1940, helped along by the fact that Willkie had been a Democrat, and a Democrat of the type they preferred to the New Dealers. The nuclei of such organizations still remain amon conservative Democrats in the south, particularly among businessmen, small and large, who have bey come more and more alienated from the New Deal. x Anyway, anti-New Dealism has made great headway in the south, and Republicans believe that, given” the right formula, they might get a movement under way that would bear fruit in '44, :

We the Women

By Ruth Millett

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YOU DON'T NEED to feel apologetic, Mts. America, because you wuren't at work in a war plant, if you are doing your own house work and taking care of your children. You are probably doing more in- “man hours” to help win the war than if you went out tomorrow and got yourself a job ina munitions factory. : i The British have found that when children are put into day nurseries it takes one full-time employee to take care of only four or five children. ok By staying at home a woman cannot only 1 after her family, but do the housework which she would have to hire done, and do the cooking and the washing. : ; ~

Look at Britain's Experience! ot WHEN MOTHERS of families go into war factories to work, nurseries, restaurants, and laundries have fo hire more help. : : Bo Lady Kathleen Simon, active in day nursery work ( in London, is advising American mothers of young children not to consider taking full-time jobs ‘outside the home. - : i It has already been proved in Great Britain, she says, that “work of the housewife” is the most economical form of labor invented.” . > fn

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