Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1942 — Page 12
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1942
CHURCHILL'S REPORT ’ EVER has Churchill been more effective than in his war progress report yesterday afternoon, which is saying a lot for the greatest orator of his generation. We liked particularly the characteristic British understatement, which carries such a wallop, and the personal confession of errors and shortcomings. : He managed to recount recent British victories in pride without being stiff-necked. He saved superlatives for his allies—Stalin and the gigantic Russian offensive, Roosevelt and the superbly organized North African occupation. Using the weapons of psychological, warfare, he hammered at the weakest part of the axis. He reminded the war-weary Italians how Mussolini dragged them into the conflict against their will, how they have lost their empire to become Hitler slaves, how their northern cities and ports have been blasted. All of which is but a taste of what is to come. When the allies complete the occupation of Tunisia, all Italy will be brought under continuous attack. But it is for the Italian people to say whether they want this—the hard-working, gifted, and once happy Italian people, who were the friends of Britain and America, as Churchill put it. >This won't help Il Duce with his serious morale problem. : > = » » » » » N perhaps the shrewdest part of his speech, the prime minister disposed of American and Chinese fears that Britain may pull out of the war once Hitler is defeated. If the war ends in Europe before victory in Asia and the Pacific, as it well may, Britain at once will throw all its - forces to the aid of America, China and the dominions to defeat Japan, he pledged. More important than anything else in this remarkable report on the war’s turning tide was Churchill's warning against over-confidence. We can lose the war if we relax our efforts instead of increasing them, or if we fall to arguing about the fruits of victory before they are won. : Anyone who finds himself getting cocky about the future should remember that: Hitler still holds virtually the whole of Europe, with its factories and: fields, and millions of men. We are still unable to engage Hitler's major forces. Between the United States and Europe— and our A. E. F. in Africa—is the U-boat menace, which probably will be worse before it is better. And, besides these Churchill reminders, the Japs still hold all of the largest and quickest conquest in Pacific's his‘tory, except for a few small outposts. So, in this month of hig victories on all fronts, let us face the sobering fact: {Nothing has happened yet which justifies the hope that |the war will not be long, or that bitter, bloody years do not lie ahead.” }
RATIONING FOR LEON J EON HENDERSON has taken a lot of abuse, much of it undeserved, and we can understand it if his temper somettmes gets ragged. But it was not smart of him to say, in a radio speech, that opponents of nation-wide gasoline rationing are “either ignorant or intentionally traitorous.” : ; ~ * It is not treason to exercise the constitutional right of petition or to question the necessity for an order by a government bureau. A great many people were not adequately informed about the necessity for gasoline rationing. If they had been—if they had realized that there was no other way to save the rubber that must be saved—we are sure they would have accepted it cheerfully. But Mr. Henderson might better criticize himself for failure to see that they were adequately informed. That’s part of his job. : : Fortunately, we believe, most of the objectors have been impressed by the calm assurances of President Roosevelt and Rubber Director Jeffers that rationing is essential. _ Mr. Henderson's sweeping indictment of motives may do no serious harm. But we suspect that the country would
be pleased if speeches by Leon Henderson were also rationed. NG
PAYROLL SAVINGS | THE Treasury department has launched a renewed drive through which, by New Year's, it hopes to have a full tenth of the nation’s payroll going into war bonds without ever reaching the workers’ pockets. i + In order to achieve that goal, it will be necessary to sign up eight million workers who at present are not buying bonds on the payroll allotment plan. Then it will be necessary to persuade another 22,000,000 workers to boost their bond deductions by an average of 25 per cent. “This statement of the situation, which comes from the Treasury department's war savings staff, can be rearranged a bit so as to give us a peep-hole view of how American workers on the whole have responded to the 0 per cent deduction appeal. Apparently one out of every four is not enrolled in the payroll plan at all. : One out of every four workmen isn’t helping at all, and
the other three aren’t averaging’ a 10 per cent deduction, but
- only 8 per cent. Obviously, there are workers who cannot possibly put "10 cents out of every dollar into war bonds, and support their families, and pay their taxes next year. But these are exceptions, and if everybody did what he was able to do, the ones who really cannot make the grade would be more than offset by those who voluntarily are doing more than _ their share. ge
DISABILITIES IN whatever organization of veterans arises after this war, there ought to be a special classification for Harvey A. Allard of Ballston Spa, N. Y., and Marvin Berry of Pahokee, Fla. They have been honorably discharged from the army, Private Allard because he has one more than the normal umber of ribs, ik Private Berry because he is hopelessly
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—All but a very small minority” of the . American people live in total ig‘norance of the conduct and character of the men who constitute the sub-government of their coun- - try which calls itself the labor movement and carries on its extortions under the patronage of the New Deal party. Efforts to spread enlightenment are denounced as labor baiting and disruptiveness, and papers which publish such information have been threatened with boycott and destruction through the box office. If this writer, for example, were to say that one of the main groups had plotted to. kill the president of another, that charge would be howled down as & vicious scandal and a crime against one of the social gains of the New Deal. . It is with a hope of relieving this ignorance among the American people and warning them in all solemnity of the dangerous character of this sub-govern-ment that these dispatches today discuss a speech by Phil Murray, the president of the C. I. O, to the hierarchy of the fifth constitutional convention of that organization in Boston on Thursday, Nov, 12.
"I+ Would Startle the Nation!"
IN THAT SPEECH, President Murray charged that John L. Lewis, ex-president of the C, I 0. and
dictator of the United Mine Workers, and his agents |
drove him, Murray, to a sick bed and that while he was seriously ill of heart trouble, one of Lewis’ subordinates told his followers in a meeting to Kill
Murray. This is the language that Mr. Murray used in a speech printed in the proceedings of the C. IL. O. convention, minus a few words which are eliminated in the interests of compactness, but without altering his meaning. “T told John L. Lewis that he would make me gO through my Garden of Gethsemane. I felt that he would, I believed that he would, I knew that he would. He and his agents drove me to a sick bed. «While I was lying on my sick bed his director of organizations of District 50 (of the United Mine Workers) told his followers in a meeting, in the presence of men who are in this hall, ‘You have got to keep after this fellow Murray until you kill him; he has got to be gotten out of the way.” I could tell a story to this convention that would startle the nation but I am not going to do it.”
"Just a Matter of Loot"
That is the order which the incumbent president of the C. I. O. attributes to a subordinate of his rival,
John L. Lewis, who, until a few years ago, was praised |!
to the very skies as a holy and consecrated man of the union movement anf furiously defended against the slightest doubt by the® very same men who now sat by in Boston and nodded amen to Murray's charge. They knew the character .of Lewis then as well as they know it now, but then they were running with Lewis and building their power on money which Lewis was wresting from the coal miners and their families to build himself a dictatorship over all labor in the United States. Through the application of this power he might have had a dictatorship over the national government. Was it any matter of high principle, of patriotism or labor's interest that caused this break between Lewis and his old cohorts? "Not at all. They broke over a matter of loot and rivalry for power!
. Editor's Note: The views expressed by columnists in this newspaper are their own. They are not necessarily those of The Indianapolis Times.
Frankly Speaking
By Norman E. Isaacs
THE KETTLE is still boiling merrily over who is going to be our new police chief. As 1 get it, Gen. Tyndall hasn’t said so much as “boo” about it, but the field is still pretty full of aspiring candidates. At the moment—to judge purely from the conversation in Republican circles—the four leading candidates are: 1. Clifford Beeker, the bailiff in Judge Niblack’s court; at present holding the rank of patrolman; an official in the Fraternal Order of Police; an official of the police credit union; highly popular with the policemen. (Note: He was listed in the G. O. P. county expense report as having contributed $650 to the campaign fund.)
And Here's the Rest of 'Em
2. CHARLES RUSSELL, the 48-year-old detective investigator assigned to Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's office; supported strongly by William Armitage and Henry Ostrom; originally supposed to have the “inside track.” (Note: He gave $100 to the G. O. P. campaign fund.) 3. George Winkler, the former sheriff of Marion county, working for the treasury department office here on leave from the police department, where he holds the rank of lieutenant in absentia; long active in Republican politics; a very active candidate for the post. 4, 5 and 6. Lieut. Donald Tooley, Inspector Jess McMurtrie, and Lieut. Roscoe Jordan, all at present. active officers in the police department, but none of them in a particularly favored position. ; :
The word is that the Ostrom-Armitage team still |
wants Russell. Me, that’s all I know,
The Camera's Field
By Stephen Ellis
THIS GENERATION of ours has seen the growth of a whole new field of literature, a field hitherto untapped and unexplored. That field has been through the camera’s eye and no publishing house in America has done more with this new weapon than Hastings House. : It is particular pertinent to mention it at this season because of Hastings’ long list of beautifully printed picture books. Two of the more recent are at hand today, “The Old Bay Paths” and “Santa Fe.” “The Old Bay Paths” is the story—exquisitely portraited by the camera—of the historic net of highways between Boston and Hartford. The story has been written by George Francis Marlowe and the photos taken by the celebrated Samuel Chamberlain. “Sante Fe” has no text with it. It is purely a pictoral study of ‘the historic New Mexico town and its countryside. The photographer is the skilled Ernest Knee. I can’t think of many books more adaptable for holiday use than this long series of Hastings publications. MATS a foe, Bamuel Chai !
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“NEW ARRANGEMENT MADE OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM’
By Mrs. Fred Huffman, Marion A few days ago a letter in your column said, “Someone should set new music to our national anthem, as it is not singable except for trained voices.” I would like that person to know that it is now singable and the tune is still the same. Sometime ago the war department felt that our national anthem was sung, with what Maj. Howard C. Bronson, music officer of the special services branch, termed ‘“general lack of interest.” Very few know more than the first verse. Maj. Bronson and Dr. George S. Howard of Penn State college, wrote a new arrangement in the key of A flat, which drops those high notes to where they can be reached by the average singer. Bands in army camps are supplied with the new version and the boys really sing it. However, until we get new song books to use at gatherings, we will have to sing it from the original key unless the accompanist is good at transposing. Surely we should always sing the last verse. » ” ” “MANY WON'T BELIEVE THOSE PICTURES BUT THEY'RE TRUE” By Mrs. Mary Harwell, 3546 E. Vermont st. Picking up the evening paper Tuesday, I was confronted with all too familiar pictures. For nearly seven years, I taught these girls and loved them, felt sorry for them and mothered them as my own. Winter after winter, we held craft classes in an old loom room, without heat, with coats on and struggled to make useful and beautiful things. Sometimes the temperature would be hovering around 30 degrees. Needless to tell you, I contracted pneumonia. All this for $65 a month. Did I get medical care, or paid while I was down ill? You can answer that.
When I first went to Clermont I was shocked and amazed at looking
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upon equipment such as you so vividly pictured /in your paper. It is all too true. \ Daily T meet these girls on the street and I marvel at their figeness, and their utter lack of bitterness toward the state, after having to work under such outmoded and antiquated equipment. A great deal of praise must go to the fine people that work with them daily. It surely can’t be because of their ‘“modern training.” I felt that I had to write this. I know there will be many Indiana citizens that won't believe those pictures. I know them to be so. More power to your paper.
» = 8 “WE NEED PENAL SYSTEM OF SCOPE AND UNDERSTANDING”
By T. McGuire, -1105 W. 28th st. Your article, the state's crazyquilt penal system, is such a timely article that in defense of grandma's patchwork quilt I cannot forbear to comment, Grandma, a Morgan of the Virginia Morgans, married a White of the Virginia Whites, Morrissees and Hansfords, then pioneered to Hoosierdom in the late 1840s or early 50s. Her one great specialty was her patchwork quilts. All of them were the result of tenacious and unified efforts to make good, comfortable and even beautiful coverings for the old frontier beds. Of course the quilt blocks needed strength, size and pattern and when the parts were already, neighbors all rallied to Aunt Sallie’s for the quilting bee. The results of these sewing bees were a splendid display of the spirit
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Side Glances— By Galbraith
“Guess war is a great leveler—soon as she grew up she said her feet were so delicate she couldn't wear re-soled shoes, buf
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that made this state and the United States what they are today. We all are willing and prompt enough to censure the state and not
_|to shoulder the responsibility of the
state, which is a government of our own selection, election and creation. To remedy such conditions a rehibilitation program of scope, understanding and brotherly effort is needed. And also the work must be substantial with responsible folks to back an experiment that needs qualities most of us do not possess, charity, humility, faith, hope and the firm belief that there is a better way of being our brother's keeper. There is a better way than robbing him of essential God-given rights and possessions. Freedom, sunlight, air and food. . .. When we are face to face with a threatened loss of all we hold dear, isn’t it time to take stock of our manhood, even though it be behind locked doors and ostracized by man. They also serve who long and wait. The primary principles of law are justice and mercy. ...
» » ” “IN ANSWER TO MESSRS. ADAIR AND HUFFMAN" By Mariam Williams, Plainfield I would like to answer both the letters of Mr. Adair and Mr. Huff man, . Let us take Mr. Adair's side first. Contraty to what he would have
you believe, we are not fhe only nation on earth that is making sacrifices. . . 1. Since 1939, all automobiles, excepting those used in government service by Great Britain have been ordered off the highways. 2. Beginning in the first part of 1940 England ordered the rationing of the following foodstuffs: Meat, milk, butter, eggs, Jams and jellies, fruits, cooking fats, bread. 3. That the English civilians lost not only their homes but their lives in the battle of Britain, 4, That by meeting successfully the far from minor problems which were the result of this conflict, England made the German propaganda machine find, or hunt, new lies to tell its people. We have only begun to make our sacrifices. Before this war is finished we shall undoubtedly be asked to make many more. The above items are only a few of the reasons why we are sacrificing so little. If Mr.
‘| Adair would like to find out some
more I suggest he read “London Pride.” As to Mr. Huffman, I have only
this to say.
tactics which served the purpose in the last war, or.take
we let this war become a stalemate
nearer to Josing it. If we are not farsighted enough to see that this gas rationing, as well as what else we may sacrifice is necessary, we are going to let our enemy get the upper hand, in more ways than one. It seems to me that each day we spend at home is another day nearer victory. Our government has always managed to take care of things and provide ways with which we can care for ourselves. If not, there is an old proverb that says, “If there is a will, there's a way,” and I think we ought to stick to if, don't you, Mr. Huffman?
DAILY THOUGHT
But as for them whose heart .walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way~upon their own heads, saith the Lord God. —Ezekiel 11:21.
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the same| amount of chances as we did. If}
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In Washington By Peter Edson
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. — There is only one known way to relieve a doctor shortage, and that is to find another doctor and move him into the area where the shortage exists. That sounds easy, but any time you try to shove doctors arotind you run into difficulties. ; . First you have to find a doctor. who is willing to be shoved. Maybe the community won't like the new doctor. Maybe, if the shift involves crossing a state line, the state into which the doctor would otherwise be willing to move won't grant him a license. That actually happens. It's the old bugaboo, the interstate trade barrier which also hampers the operation of truck drivers and milk salesmen and the dispensers of oleomargarine. Every doctor must pass a stiff examination to get his license to. practice medicine within that state, but no state will honor the licenses of other states, and a dtoctrg licensed in New York can't practice in New Jersey unless he first passes the New Jersey ecxami=nation. 8
The Big Yell Always Goes Up
ONE WAY to get around those restrictions would be to commission a doctor in the U. 8. public health
service. He would then be a federal officer and he could be moved into any part of the country. ‘ But as soon as any government planner even So. much as thinks about this, a big yell goes up from the spokesmen for the American Medical association, which fears this would be an entering wedge for the
20 years or more has been bothering the medical profession. : Private doctors hate and fear socialized medicine. What they are afraid of is that U. S. medical practice will go the way it has in New Zealand and a few other countries, where doctors become servants of the government, work for a government salary instead of
pays no doctor or hospital bills but instead pays health taxes to the government which uses the money to provide free health service.
The Last Resort Step
IF THE commission of civilian doctors in U, 8. public health service has to be resorted to as a device to permit physicians to be sent into any war production center without violating state laws, such an arrangement might be worked out. But it would be a last resort, and it will be for the duration only. There are approximately 400 war production coms, | munities. Public health service gets reports from. them every week. They pay particular attention: to | places where there are acute shortages of medical | help. Then, through a committee on medical assign- ! ment, a concentrated effort is made to get additional doctors into those areas. To date over 200 doctors have actually been relocated, and the job is just begirining.
Proper Balance By Major Al Williams
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.— Failure to balance the relation= ship between man and machine long produced headaches for econ=
management. Now the difficulty "of balancing men and machine in, land armies is ‘presenting world, military leaders with their No. 1, headache, and the first nation to hit the answer will have a vast ; military advantage. Until this war showed the dominance of merchanized forces, general staffs thought largely in terms of millions of men. Against Rommel, the English infantry mind at first talked hopefully of Britain's 500,000-man army in that area. In truth; what they needed and recently found out was highly mechanized forces and only enough infantry to hold what their tanks and planes could smash. : In previous campaigns, Rommel, with only a small. fraction of the Nazi total manpower, did have air and mechanized forces. After two lickings the English in. fantry mind put in the planes and tanks and licked Rommel. - :
The Crux of the Situation
THE RUSSIANS made the mistake in their early, stages of jamming massed infantry in their forefrong and overloading their inadequate supply lines. "As soon as the Nazis broke through the infantry masses the jam halted the Soviet mechanized forces. The Fbalance between man and machines wasn’t proper. Since then the Russians have learned a lot, and as they improved the balance, placing greater stress on machines, they have had increasing success. : We have three war fronts—the home front, the, produciion front and the combat front. On each front experts are engaged, and over all there must be & group of new minds—war executive minds, to cos ordinate the work of the experts by determining the right balance between men and machines: : How much and how many of each and when?
We the Women
By Ruth Millett
THERE'S ONE way in which wives have always held a whip , hand over their husbands. If things went wrong a wife could always threaten, and if nec= essary carry out the old challenge, “I don’t have to put up with your nasty disposition; I can go home to mother.” , bis ; i The men, having no place tq go, had to be content with ane nouncing, “I'm going for a walk" or “I'm going to the club,” and slamming the front door behind them. x ‘4 Well, the worm has turned. At least the Washe ington worm has turned. The men there have decided that they will have some place to go—a nice masculine place, which when used as a threat, will scare their wives and, when the threat has to be made good, -will -give them a plaesant retreat with agreeable male companions thrown in. : In short, a group of men in Washington—and their ranks are swelling fast—has formed a club called “The Run Out Husband's Club.” i
ANY MEMBERS who “run out” on their wives can count on other members for sympathy and companfonship and help in finding a temporary substitute home. : > 5 he hy | There isn't a clubhouse yet, but that's in the plans for the future, and when they have that, they’)]
to take them in. : It looks like the kind of idea that might catch on fast. So, ladies, if you would rather not see a “Run Out, Husband's Club” in your own town, there
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