Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1942 — Page 10
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1042
PPHE Indianapolis symphony orchestra has lost a con-, siderable source of revenue by being forced to cancel 4ts eastern tour because of the transportation problem. But out of what seemed a gloomy outlook has come a ray of light. Pa 5 * The P. R. Mallory Co. has purchased outright a com‘plete concert for its employees.- Not the residents of any eastern city, but people who live right here in Indianapolis ‘will get to hear and appreciate this fine body of musicians. We compliment Mallory’s on their vision. We hope a ‘good many Indianspolis industrial organizations will follow their example.
COFFEE RATIONING
OFFEE will be for sale again—rationed by coupon—in Indianapolis stores on Monday. ; Grocers, wholesalers, and the federal government join 4n urging that you do not use your ration coupon right away if you have any cof’ee at all left at home. There is a sound © reason for this, and it is urged for your benefit. If everyone eligible to buy coffee turns up at the grocery Monday morning with ration coupons there will be no coffee left for sale hy Monday night in many stores, and we will be back to th: same coffee shortage we faced before rationing was ordered. On the other hand, if those who _ have enough left for a few days will wait as long as they can before buying, until supplies can be delivered to stores, the danger of a shortage will quickly disappear. Coffee rationing will work as well as sugar rationing has worked—but not if we all demand our full allotted sup- ~ ply the first day. : Give your grocer a chance. . actually need it.
Don’t buy coffee until you
this low type of sabotage.
MAKE IT PERFECT
ia TS encouraging news, from the war labor board, that
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
~NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—This letter comes from Philadelphia and gives some more reasons why it is not yet necessary to draft civilians, either men or women, for war work under compulsion: “Here is one for the people and the army to know. Last night I came to work with three of my men missing so we tried to get a gang of five together to run the portable riveting machines. ‘We finally got five men. There are five extra crane operators in the third shift that are absolutely not needed no how and also three riggers. They have nothing to de other than sleep the whole night, and the riggers and also one of the crane operators. We call them walking delegates. Take long walks through the shop for their health. Never do we See them work. If they work it's no more than half an hour some time. Anyway we got two crane operators after killing over an’hour trying to get this gang together. machine operatar are in to work.
"Got to Do What the Union Says" “SO WE GOT a reamer to be the holder-on and
one man to run the crane. The two crane men were willing to work so we just got started wher’ the crane foreman comes up and makes the rivet sticker who is a steady crane man go up on his job to run the crane and the other guy got off the crane and goes on another crane and goes to sleep. “So we are short a man again while the four crane men go to sleep and the four riggers, the walking delegates, go off for a walk and the whole cause of this is thanks to our union steward 0 wouldn’t let the men work off their jobs. “He don’t care if no tanks go out of this shop. You got to do what the union says. I wonder if anyone has told them that these tanks are to lick the axis with. They are wanted in a hurry and plenty of them. Well, we finally got started, but the night assistant foreman had to Stick the rivets while the riggers and crane operators were in a circle having their halfhour's chat across from where we were working and then went on a tour of the plant as usual.
we get one man’ off the crane to stick rivets and |
"This Place of Sabotage"
“THIS PLANT is a joke. The management can't | run it and the union is running it to suit themselves. A few more places like this one and we are a second France. Why don't the army take interest in this | place of sabotage, that’s what I call it? | “The men are willing to work, but look at who stops you. The union, and some bosses that cater to They don’t have brains enough to see that they are hurting the company, but the government and the men that are fighting. That's plain murder while our men are fighting to protect unions and these same unions won't stand by the men that are fighting to save them from Hitler and Togo. : “If the boss had been busy I would have to loaf the whole night just because the union said so.” I have received about five pounds of such mail from individual workers in various parts of the United States in the last year, the whole effect of
fewer man days were lost to war production because of strikes in October than in any previous month this year.
~~ The figures: Strikes in progress, 115; workers involved "in strikes, 42,320; man days lost, 167,865. - But with .all the machinery provided by government for prompt and peaceable settlement of controversies, usu- © ally on terms most favorable to labor, there is no justifica-
tion for strikes in war industries. Government officials f
; say so. The national leaders of organized labor say so. . * There's still room for improvement. : p The figures for December, Pearl Harbor anniversary month, ought to be: Strikes in progress, none; workers : ‘involved in strikes, none; man days lost, none.
. . FRANCE’S VICTORY IN DEFEAT POLITICAL results of the battle of Toulon, in which the French naval remnant rallied in suicidal defiance of the Nazis, are more far-reaching than the military results. Gone is the curse of collaboration, by which the senile ~ Petain hoped to salvage a sliver of French freedom in an | axis world. Collaboration profited only Hitler—not least by ~ lulling juto semi-submission a portion of the defeated de-
_ moralized French people.
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‘When he marched into unoccupied France on Nov. 11
; only the Toulon naval base was left “free.” Now Nazi rule
+ ‘is complete and open.
_ Petain is so helpless that Hitler no longer troubles to
: ; ‘lie about the status of the “French government.” He mere“ly notifies Petain that “Marshal Von Rundstedt -will be in
"charge of all measures deemed necessary, and will make all | decisions in French territory.” So today every Frenchman | knows where he stands—he is a Nazi slave until death or . allied victory. ©. The significance of Toulon is that the French fought. | Mhose who were betrayed by false leaders into the 1940 , armistice, and who lacked even the powers of demonstration ! when Hitler broke that armistice 16 days ago, themselves _ yenewed the war against Germany at Toulon. When Nazi bombers prevented escape of the- French | fleet, the French forces fought in the streets, scuttled the 1 fleet, destroyed oil reservoirs, harbor installations and coastal batteries.
: : . = 8 * x = BY that act of warfare, wresting the prize from the con- : queror’s grasp, enslaved France rejoined in spirit its . countrymen in Africa who are fighting as members of the | victorious allies. : However divided otherwise, Frenchmen once more are united in their determination to destroy the invader. And the day will come when those in continental France, no less than those in Africs, will get the guns and tanks and planes to fight again. : - As to the immediate military consequence of the battle of Toulon, of course it would have been splendid to add those 60-odd naval vessels to the allied Mediterranean fleet. But there had been no real chance of that for several weeks, certainly not since Nov. 11, Though nominally free, the French ships had long
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could have prevented the escape of those able to sail. The battle of Toulon was a great allied victory, because it destroyed the fleet and base so desperately needed by ~ Hitler and because it revived the-spirit of a free France.
LIAM FOX, ex-movie mogul, must serve a term in a ¥ federal penitentiary for bribing the now retired CirCourt Judge J. Warren Davis. But Davis, for corpting whose high office Fox must suffer, goes free after
which is a conviction that there is no manpower shortage in the United States that could not be re-
ability and equipment.
Cheer the Blimps By Major Al Williams
dirigibles. The lesser, non-rigid
engines.
tion.” derogatory names. the courage and vision of Capt. Charles Rosendahl
fits it right into the anti-submarine patrol. more efficient in this vital work than the airplane which has to keep speeding or fall.
More Than Paying Their Way
CAPT. ROSENDAHL, Comm. “Tex” Settle and their little group of pioneers were able to hold only a few blimps in operation in past years, but now their vision is a rich legacy to the nation in the form of hundreds of blimps. ;
From May 14 to July 14—two months—over a thousand cargo ships were moved along our east and west coasts and only two were sunk by enemy shells or torpedos. Since then, sinkings along our coasts have decreased so consistently that marine insurance underwriters have reduced their rates twice within a month, Every day—all day and all night—the little blimps are out there patrolling and escorting convoys. As convoy escorts they are superb because, while faster than surface ships, they can idle their motors and drift along, and they can operate nicely in low ceilings when the airplane is “out.” Bad winter flying conditions may enable our coastal patrol blimps to run up a higher score than they set this summer. It is likely that Nazi subs will appear in force within the next few months along our coasts,-and it’s my bet that we’ll find our growing herds of navy blimps sinking many of them.
Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are noi necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.
A War Album
By Stephen Ellis
| WELL, THE first of the war: albums is out. It's The New Yorker War Album, a handsomely printed collection of that magazine's best cartoons of the last year. It will probably make many a service man & nice holiday gift so you might as well take a look at it the next time: you get downtown. The customary list of New Yorker favorites is amply represented. There's Peter Arno, Robert Day, Gluyas Williams, Carl Rose, William Steig, Garrett Price, Otto Soglow, Helen Hokinson, Alan Dunn and a score of others. . A good many of these illustrations aren't worth more than a .passing glance, but there are several youll laugh at time and time again. 3 Personally, I still think Alan Dunn’s the prize of the whole year, in or out of any album. It’s that one of the miles and miles of tanks and heavy artillery and motorized infantry all standing waiting, while the crotchety general turns glumly to an aid to demand:
The Big Noise in Italy
Only the rivet heater and also me the | =
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“DON’T MISINFORM READERS WHEN YOU CAN AVOID IT”
BT John H. Gilbert, Quarters 4A,
TC, Ft. Harrison 1 presume that one reason f
(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious conMake
to express views in
or
troveries excluded.
lieved By honest and conscientious use of energy,
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—One of the grandest and least publicized American war performances is that of the navy lighter-than-air outfit. The great rigid airships are dignified by the name of
type is known as the “blimp.” The blimps are comparatively small, with underslung gondolas and two These little airships are living up to the finest traditions of the navy. A little band of lighter-than-air pioneers has been struggling bravely along for years in the navy. Their greatest hazard, until the war forced the use of all available instruments for suppressing the Nazi U-boat menace, was “appropriation starvaThey were called “rubber cows” and other But the pioneers held on, led by
The blimp can stand still in the air. This ability It is
vour editorial on federal support of schools was your belief in the importance of education. The subject should, -therefore, be handled with care. Your statement that each state can support its own education imiplies an ignorance of the material in a fundamental discussion of the topic—the brochure “Education in the 48 States” published by the U. S. department of education. Skim it! It is clear and enlightening. It discusses only facts—not ethics. The latter, I admit, is a moot point. But don’t misinform your readers on fact, when you can avoid it.
” ” fF J “OIL INTERESTS LOBBYING TO KEEP RATIONING AWAY” By Richard O. Wilson, 2035 Beecher st.
OPA Administrator Leon Henderson explains in part to our. Rep. Ludlow the need for immediate gasoline rationing: “Obviously, if a strict system of rationing does rot attain the goal set by the Baruch committee, voluntary measures could hardly be expected to do so.”
With due respect to Mr. Ludlow, Governor Schricker, Mr. Stoops and those others petitioning against this victory measure, one wonders where bribing, lobbying, industrially selfish oil interests come in, and if patriotism isn’t sold out for big money. I worked for one of the leading .|oil companies of this city and I have in my possession a letter from the company, dated a few months , | back, in which all of we employees were told to systematically “sell” our customers on not conserving tires, driving all they pleased, ete. The reason—so gasoline sales would
your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must
be signed)
national security, our fighting men!
another 500 million to the public in taxes to enforce it. . . :
did not explain either to me or the public. Why did the New Deal refuse to let Henry Ford make synthetic rubber either for the armed forces, the public or to recap his employees’ tires, and why is he removing his synthetic plant to Rus-
‘Kittie Lee, there is one thing you|-
sia? The same applies to the Dow
who hold the synthetic formula. We have won our past wars with
Chemical and other large companies !
We will lobby; we will bribe; we will propagandize by radio, by press, by salesmen, by congressmen, by motor |
clubs, and by every wedge we can', drive to uphold “voluntary ration-| ing” and to fight “dictatorial government.” And, we the public are the dupes that will get all up in arms against; duly constituted authority, wiil
democracy and not dictatorship, and there is no reason to begin now.
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GAS RATIONING PROTESTS | GRADE-A SELFISHNESS”
By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville
I must say Indiana is putting on
a show in opposing gasoline ration-
The actions of some of our
petition our congressmen to post-
pone our national security, will sign grievance cards—and all to make a
few extra billions for the billionaires. » » ” “DEMOCRACY WON OUR PAST WARS, NOT DICTATORSHIP” By David 1. Haynes, 3836 Rockville ave.
In answer to Kittie Lee who tried to explain in a garbled way the reason for the cover-up on the rationing system. ... I believe if you would refer to my statement in this column on Nov. 20, it may clear up a few things. First, as far as the waste of metal, this record was made from'a crosscountry tour from McAllen, Tex., to Traverse City, Mich., on just one of the main highways alone and you can figure from this what may be found in the rest of the United States. . . You will find this estimate low as there were many places that a report was not available
As far as the rubber shortage, I
ing. citizens In their opposition doesn’c merit any credit in the eyes of other states that have been on short rations for months. The idea of all our congressmen and senators from Indiana pleading with Washington officials to lift the ban on Indiana because we have plenty of it! To my mind that is selfishness in the highest degree. If we have plenty of gasoline, why not ration it so the surplus can be used wherever it is needed to carry on the essential business of the country. If we are going to conserve rubber tires, the best way is to limit the gasoline. To propose a voluntary system to accomplish the same thing—to me that doesn’t make sense. If it is true that there is yo shertage of gasoline in Indiana and to ration it would seriously cripp'e business and that is the reason we are protesting, what incentive would there be for people to ration themselves when such action would raean
did not say several hundred but! crippling the business of the state
(not drop.
Again: A friend of mine is wi another
company has spent millions dollars in high places . . . to preve
is to keep their profits as usual.
leading nation-wide oil company. He informs me that his
gasoline rationing. The reason again So it seems to me that the gaso-
line and oil business at heart thinks to hell with the Baruch report, our
th
of
nt | public, Why let them spoil?
The real reason for rationing is for the tire inspection which will cost you..036 cents extra per gallon on your gas bill, besides for the pos litical runarounds which will add
Side Glances—By
ah
Galbraith
from 500 to 65,000 tires The major-|besides the curtailment of their own ity being in the neighborhood from|pleasures and conveniences. 10,000 to 30,000 tires These tires will dry rot, and will not be of any use either to the armed forces or to the
2 2 =n “LET’S SEE NEW FACES IN WASHINGTON IN 7944”
By H. Wilson, 2630 Southeastern ave. Come on, voters, let's keep the home front free for our boys in service. Now that we have sugar rationing and are going to have coffee, meat, butter, eggs, etc. and it looks like gasoline rationing, each carrying with it some hundred thousands of jobs for good Democratic voters to hide behird and evade the draft, now that we have all this, that is all but Democrat jcbholders, let's get behind this war and win it quickly. Then let's go to the polls, all you motorists, all you who have been put out of business by these things,
oil business, and all loyal citizens, and save our liberties and freedom while we still have the ballot. Let's don’t let our boys down. Let's fight for them at home while they fight for us. ton in 1944. Po An American for America. _
i ae : “WHO SAID THE ARMY GOT A RAISE IN PAY?”
all of you who have lost employ-| ment by stoppage of industry in the|
" Let's see new faces in Washing-| them
In Washington
By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—In all the screaming about doctor shortages here and there since the war got going, a lot of the hypochondriacs who threw tantrums and tears into their telephones if the doc didn’t dash right over have completely forgotten what the medical situation in the country was in peacetimes.
In the dear, dim days beyond recall, when depression stalked the ~ land, the continental United States had in active practice one doctor for every 1000 inhabitants, on the average. It varied all the way from one doctor for every 598 inhabitants in the District of Columbia and one doctor for every 636 in New York state to one doctor for every 2020 in Alabama and Mississippi. . The national average was one doctor to every 1000 men, women and children, more than in any other country in the world.
Top Number Is 179,000 Doctors
NOW TAKE A census of the doctors. Top estimates place the number at 179,000. Thirteen thousand of them have to be checked off as whereabouts unknown or retired from practice, but the remaining 166,000 are registered with procurement and assignment service of the war manpower commission, which has taken cn the job of trying to recruit doctors for the army, navy and public health services, and is just now getting organized on the job of allocating doctors to war production areas where there are apparent shortages. Of the 166,000, some 18,000 are considered too old for practice—physicians over 65. By age groups, they will divide like this:
Under 35 years. .....eeee...42,000 Between 35 and 44............42,000 Between 45 and 54............32,000 Between 55 and 65...... Srainia 32,000
Not So Bad as You Think
FOR ACTIVE DUTY, the army and navy want the doctors under 35. But 42,000 won't fill the quota for the services, so they must reach into the second age group to get the most active men who are under 45
By the end of this year, the armed services will have commissioned 45,000 doctors, including 3000 internes right out of the hospitals who have never practiced privately a day in their lives. Knock this 55,000 off of the 148,000 available and
you have left 93,000 doctors who must take care of
| man
the civilian population. Deduct the physicians who the faculties of the 77 medical schools, the institutions, the men in industrial medical service, the public health service people and other essential doctors who can't be moved and you will have left a minimum of 80,000 doctors to care for an estimated 120 million people. It figures out at one doctor for every 1500 civilians. How does that compare with the pre-war figures? It means that every doctor in civilian practice will have to take care of 150 patients for every 100 he was taking care of in peacetimes. Is that a burden? Well, there were 14 states in the union where the doctors were spread that thin in peacetimes, and they got along.
Russia's Advance By Ludwell Denny
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. —. Russia's success in driving from the Volga deep inside the Don pend, and in turning back -the Nazis in the Caucasus has had a good many Americans throwing their hats in the air and pontificating it’s all over but the shouting. The real fighting is just beginning. . There is no time for anything but more fighting and , more work, as the German seizure Toulon reminds us. The Russians have demonstrated that they hit the Nazis and hit hard, when given half g chance. But we already had adequate proof of that, : The Russians have not yet demonstrated—and they are the first to admit it—that they are strong enough to win a general and sustained counteroffensive. Several times they have tried and failed. The enemy had too many tanks and planes when the showdown came.
"But There Is No Proof . . ."
MAYBE THE RUSSIANS will have better luck this winter. Indeed, the sudden falling off in the Nazi tank and plane strength on the Stalingrad front is the chief explanation of the Red army’s rapid advances during the past several days. Of course, it is easy to conclude from this that
“Hitler, in his desperate effort to harden the soft un-
derbelly of the Axis against Eisenhower's thrust, weskened his Russian front seriously. We are encouraged in this wishful thinking by: the fact that there has been some transfer of Nazis forces from east to south. But there is no proof that Hitler is preparing for a general retreat in the east. There is still, a chance that Hitler has sufficient reserves in Russia to spare some for the new Méditerranean front and still have enough to hold an eastern winter line not far back of his present advanced positions.
We the Women
By Ruth Millett | :
JOB HUNTING for girls who have finished school is a snap. About the only trouble they are having is deciding which job to take. a The welcome mat is out. for women in almost every business, industry and profession. Even the army has decided that it can make use of women— so there is the WAAC to relieve a Fa .. soldier of some non-combatant duty. Everywhere women are welcome. Never before have girl graduates found doors opened so wide to
ought to girls who will
"There is one thing they