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WEURSDAY; DECEMBER 17, 1043
OUR WELFARE ‘MUDDLE
HE citizens of. this, county have every right to be fed up with the. pathetic: mishandling of Marion county’s welfare operations for the last several years. Indeed, there is some question: that we have ever had a welfare depdrtment worthy of the name. For a long period, the department was -an outright political setup. We were the center of an outrageous scandal and, as a result, forfeited our right to run our welfare affairs as other counties do. And, more recently, the public has been pulled and twisted this way and that by this and that faction. Now, the federal government enters the picture with a flat order for Marion county to clean up. There has been entirely too much blame-fixing. The public isn’t interested in blame. The public wants it . cleaned up—NOW.
CONGRATULATIONS, DR. ROSS R. MAURICE O. ROSS today became Butler university’s president after serving as acting president since late in February, For three and a half years, Dr. Ross served as dean of the college of business administration at Butler and in
that time, Indianapolis came to know him as a man of
great character, integrity and high purpose. When the vacancy occurred last February, Butler's board of trustees virtually had no choice as to the acting president. The man the faculty, the students and the friends of Butler wanted was Maurice Ross. Today, the university voted its confidence and approval of Dr. Ross’ interim guidance. We congratulate Butler university on choosing a first-rate president. And we congratulate Dr. Ross on his elevation, We hope and believe he will take Butler university far.
THE NEW AIRPORT HEAD
AYOR-ELECT TYNDALL has made a particularly hap-.
py appointment in naming Maj. Walker Winslow the superintendent of the Municipal airport. Maj. Winslow has long been noted in this state for his aviation activities and he has done notable work as commander of the Indiana wing of the civil air patrol. This is a real merit appointment—a flier’s job to a flier.
STAGGER SYSTEM WE call Indianapolis’ attention to New Jersey's statewide staggered hours program for schools, stores and offices. It has accomplished wonders. Persons who used to fight for standing room in busses, trolleys and trains now actually get seats, part of the time. Travel time has been cut down in some instances as much as 5 to 20. minutes.
' Interesting—what?
WHAT? EVERYBODY SHUT UP?
WE present herewith and without comment an outburst |
from a definitely irate reader who thinks he has, and may have, a following: “Pegler says who is this guy Hopkins to warn, threaten and lecture the American people, and I say for that matter who gave Peg squatter rights on lecturing and scolding? “There’s too damned much lecturing and scolding going on by everybody. The president scolds congress, congress scolds the bureaucrats, the bureaucrats scold the _ people, and the newspapers scold everybody. : “As John Doe, citizen, I'm getting plenty fed up with it, and I think there are several million others like me. And we little people don’t: make any distinction between the scoldings of columnists, editorial writer, commentators and government officials. “It’s lecture, lecture, lecture—the Japs are tough, don’t get ‘proud about North Africa, smoke long-sized Dunbhills, don’t spend any money, buy bonds, who's this guy ‘Hopkins, who's this guy Pegler, don’t waste any fats, smoke Luckies, turn out the lights, save fuel, who's this guy Roosevelt, nobody can censor me, who's this guy Churchill, bleed for India, who's the British empire anyhow, don’t think the war’s over now, don’t underrate the Japs, Midway was just a defensive battle, bureaucrats are lousy, congressmen are lousy, labor is lousy, and so on—from morning to night. - “For God’s sake, you guys, all of you—Pegler, Boake Carter, Thomas, Tinney, Kaltenborn, Clapper, Williams, ~ Mrs. Ferguson, Major Eliot, Baldwin, Ziff, Seversky, Pearson, Willkie, Thompson, Luce, FDR, Senator Byrd, Henderson, Capt. Patterson, Col. MeCormick-..for sweet sake. quit lecturing and scolding. : “You tell everybody what to think, about everything, and no two of you tell us to think the same way, and we don’t want to think anyhow. We just want to get ourselves ~ together and fight the war, and win it as qiuck as we can.
«I think my friend Nat has the most practical sugges- {* . tion for getting on with the war. He says turn it oveér'to | ~ the fighting guys and everybody else shut up for one solid |’
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: APPROACHING THE GOAL THE mushroomed. American shipbuilding industry prom- ~ ®& ises to achieve the “fantastic” goal of 8,000,000 tons of "new shipping in 1942. To do this, 1,110,000 tons must be delivered this month—more than ever before. It looks as though that will be done. + Such an achievement would be remarkable under any circumstances. It approaches the miraculous, however, because first there were handicaps due to temporary material hortages; and now, in addition to turning out freighters like wild, the yards are diverting substantial capacity to pecial types of craft required because of the favorable turn 2 the ‘war and not gontemplated When the goal was set.
NEW a Dec. 17.—One|
scenario which I certainly would not fail to do; if I were in that line of work and the movie industry were not an agency of propaganda, would take shape under the working title of “The Ingrate” and would develop about as follows: A poor and obscure English music hall comedian comes to the United States along about 1908 and stutidles around a strange land, doing the best he can until the moving pictures emerge from the nickelodeons into little theaters and he suddenly clicks with a low-comedy makeup of baggy pants, big shoes, a derby hat, a bamboo stick and a little, dirty-lip 2 se. The Americans, those suckers, go crazy over him, but he doesn't care an awful lot about the United States and has a certain opinion of the people who
are throwing riches and .adulation at him in their:
land of opportunity.
If he had stayed in England, he undoubtedly |-
would have been sent to France between 1914 and 1918, for he was: well within their age brackets and they were taking them, big and little and this one’s health was very good.
Doesn't Care to Live in Europe *
WELL, OUR COMEDIAN soon finds himself rolling in American money, but he is no spendthrift and when he presently branches out as a producer there is plenty of frugality to be seen in his own movies,
but it is called artistic simplicity and glamoured over with reputation. While he is still a ham, throwing custard pies in
crude productions and introducing new and daring
notes of vulgarity to the population of the land of promise, ke finds himself taken up as a very artistic fellow, indeed. When he degrades the public taste by puckering his nose and looking at the sole of his shoe as some-
-| one lifts the lid off the limburger at table, that isn't
filth, but art and our subject is a subtle pantominist and one of the great men of the age, if not of the ages. He doesn’t care for Europe as a place of abode. The British income taxes are terrific and they are always having wars over there. And, if he should go to Russia, which he fancies as a very fine country
with a nice system of government for others, he |
would have to throw all his millions into the dictator’s pot and live in a fleabag with a lot of laborers, men, women and kids all jumbled together, There are whispers in Hollywood that he is slightly pink, but the American people are very fair and they ignore all this, so he doesn’t have to declare himself,
When War Ends, Hero Fades Out
AFTER A CAREER OF MORE than 30 years in the U. 8. A, however, he finds himself a has-been. Those who called him immortal were mistaken, His stuff was just tricks and his vogue a fad, but
he hates to believe this, so he makes a stab with a propaganda film, done with the usual frugality, which turns out to be a terrible turkey. : . Another guy, just a regular American comedian,
steals his own show from him, but even so it is just’
a skush, not a smash, notwithstanding great ballyhoo, Well, now he has nothing to lose and no reason to deceive the sucker Americans any longer, so ‘he joins out with the Russians, not as & soldier, of course, but to demand that American sons of those who made him rich be sent to make a second front. . “Let us eliminate anti-Communist propaganda to win the war,” says he. And, “after the war they say communism may spread over the world. So what?” But talk in favor of communism is the limit of his personal effort to win the war. Well, finally the war ends with the allies victorious and the American people re-establish their American form of government and our hero, who has never cared enough about the United States to become a citizen, is picked up and thrown back to his native England where his fortune is Promptly grabbed by taxation. The story fades out with our hero wearing his lowcomedy rags and funny shoes on the level and living
| in one room on a socialistic dole.
K Cellophane
By David Dietz
CLEVELAND, Dec. 17.~If you wonder what has happened to all the cellophane, ask the army. For the army's getting most of .it. Tons of cellophane are being used by the quartermaster corps for the protection of emergency rations, including the Jamous “K” ration. *“K” rations are now being used generally in training maneuvers and in many of the fighting areas. Experts of du Pont’s cellophane division are co-oper-ating with the quartermaster corps in developing packaging techniques,
Must Keep for a Year
AS IS WELL KNOWN, the American soldier is the best-fed soldier in the world. But it is one problem to feed troops in a training camp and another problem to feed them in a battle area. Hence the development of the cellophane-wrapped K rations. The packaging of the emergency ration must be such that it will keep for a year, whether subjected
to the heat of the tropics or the cold of the arctic circle, Cellophane was chosen, according to the du Pont officials, because it is moisture and vapor-proof, dustproof, and contamination-proof, and because it is light in weight and transparent,
Help to Chine. By A. T. Steele .
GHUNGKING, Dec. 17.—Foreign Minister T. V.| “Sootig has reaffirmed to your correspondent the be-
lief of many foreign and Chinese observers here that the most effective way for the united nations to strike at Japan is through China. Asked how the United States could best prove ‘of
help to China in face of the terrific transport prob- |
lem, Dr, Soong pointed out that America could assist both China and herself by continuing to strengthen her air power in this theater and so deal increasingly
heavy blows at the weakest point in Japan’s armor. |,
Overland Supply Investigated DESPITE THE CLOSURE of the Burma road,
Soong said that the overland supply problem was |’ by no means hopeless. He indicated that the pos-|
sibility of opening the flow of essential American materials to China over new, though devious, land routes was being carefully investigated and that the
outlook.» was more promising than generally supposed. As to the post-war world, Soong said: “China will go the limit in any operative intemational en-
| terprise for
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“COLOR THE MARGARINE AT THE SOURCE” By Mrs. E. W., Indianapolis In the Forum of Dec. 5, David Kennedy offered a very interesting and important suggestion which myself and many others that I have discussed the subject with, think
government at once, to wit: Margarine should be colored at the factory where it 1s made and sold, as he says, in prints for the
too expensive for most poor people and itis so scarce it is hard to get even for those who can afford to pay the price. And/the margarine is pure, also it is wholesome and many of the brands cannot be told from butter, It being white is what makes it not so appealing to the eye. Even butter that is made from milk that comes from cows fed with cotton seed is white, and it sure does not appeal to the eye. There are a great many people 8 \lwho are not poor that use mar-
have cattle but sell all their milk; So I say, color the margarine at the source where it is made; it is worth the price of it to go to the irouble of coloring it at home, f J ” 8 “530 GALLONS OF OIL TO KEEP FAMILY WARM” By Harold Franklin, 2117 N. Spencer st. The other day your paper told of a couple living in a big house, which must have been at least eight or 10 rooms, and has an oil heating system that last year used 6000
‘|gallons of oil, which is a tremen-
dous amount of oil to heat just a house, So, the ration board has ordered them to close off part of their house.
Now, two people can very nicely
do and the ration board gave them 2300 gallons of oil to heat those - Last ‘year I went to the expense of insulating my home in order to save- on my heating expense. 'I have a four-room house and by insulating was able to cut oil con~ sumption from 950 gallons of oil to 835 gallons. And 635 gallons of oil
should be given attention by the
duration of the war, for butter is
garine and especially farmers who{
live in four rooms which they may |
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is the smallest amount I can get by on. ‘Them with only two grown people in their house and 2300 gallons of oil and me with four rooms and four in my family, “myself, my wife and two small children. ‘And our lovely, fair ration board. gives me the large ‘sum -of 430. gallons of oil to keep my family warm. . +I would ¢hange to coal but:it will cost ‘me $350 and I'm just a poor man and it "takes all of mine to feed my family and give them a small ‘home to live in. Maybe that is the trouble; we poor people: just don’t ‘have: enough money. I: hope The ‘Times. will make an issue of this’ as they did the man’s side who received 2300 gallons, for him and his wife, it ‘seemed as though they were sorry for them.
“1X sympathy, ‘will help. keep my
family warm this winter, then I want some, too. Wouldn't you? Tell me what is fair. about a board
that will do that.
1 will say this in all sincerity, if
I. run out of oil, I'm moving my
family right in the ration board office, and if they think I'm kidding or.bluffing, just let me run out of that mere 435 gallons of oil. Coffee, tires, gas and the rest to come, I'll take without a word but I would like to see The Times, the only paper that has the nerve to pry into rotten things, really make a survey of the oil ration system, and see, for its readers, s 8» “RATIONING PRINCIPLE IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL” By Herbert Kaufman, secretary, Employment Service and Employment Security ‘Division Employees of Indiana, No. 506, Indianapolis. 'I'have been instructed, by a mo‘tion passed at a regular meeting, to communicate to your newspaper the
Side Glances—By Galbraith
but I'm cramped up over a
"You win this who's-too-tired-to-get-dinner argument every time—
views of our local union on the subs ject of rationing. Our local strongly disapproves of the attacks currently being made on gasoline and other forms of rationing by such organizations as motor clubs, by members of the congress such as Senator Willis and Rep. Ludlow, and by all other persons. We consider that such proposals as the one now current that the congress should illegalize the gasoline rationing program .are extremely harmful to national unity and" to the national war effort. While taking no position at the moment as to the particular form which rationing should take, or the best apparatus for administering it, our local feels that the prineiple of: rationing is absolutely essential, in order that available commodities may ‘be shared by all in a democratic manner, regardless of position: or income, and that the resources of the nation may be utilized most effectively. for producing.the.ordnance. and equipment needed by our: armed; forces.
gladly welcome the opportunity to make whatever sacrifice, and to undergo whatever personal Inconvenience, may be required for the welfare ‘of their country. We deplore attempts to present the American people as being unwilling to give up a few miles of private driving, & pound of coffee, or a small volume of their ordinary business in order to help the United States to defend its existence against the axis enemy. » ” 850 “LET AIR RAID WARDENS DO THE RATIONING” By L. BR. Doll, 3445 Madison ave, Looks like the OPA has the rationing bull by the tail and can't let go. If they do they will get hooked. ~The sugar rationing was a success |: because over 100, schoolbotises in Marion oyunty x were ured as: a Piacel:
places that are ration boards; The two black crows said, “White horses
eat more hay than black horses because there is more white horses.” Ditto ration boards. With sugar rationing when you came out you had your ration book. Now they tell you to come back in a few days or give you another form to fill out. Why not let the rair raid wardens do the rationing? They could go from house to house in their territory from 6 p. m. till 9 p. m. and have it all done in less than a week. The present boards could keep them in coupons books and forms. The printing bottleneck could be overcome by having the werk done | B
come from Washington, Another way to spread the work out would be to let the filling stations ration gasoline, grocers ration food and clothing stores ration
clothing. Each would ration the '| commoditiy he knows ‘the most
about. Rationing gasoline and fuel oil: |
desk all day while you're in
a nice air-conditioned w war plant with interesting
It is the belief of our suembers|, that all patriotic Americans” s will}
a mess ‘because tHe small timber-of | :
by local printers. Samples only to|
; sampling of opinion in diplomatic - circles here reveals surprisingly few who agree with Prime Mine ister Churchill's prediction that the making of the peace this time ® may be easier than after the first . world war. On the contrary, practically everyone with whom'I have talked takes an increasingly grave view of the difficulties. Rightly or
wrongly, many fear that the British prime minister ° is disinclined- to un¥ertake any very definite” pre !
‘armistice planning. Rightly or wrongly they think he prefers to rely for the present on the Atlantie
war bridges only when we come to them.
in the Pacific the hurricane rises to its full pitch.” Then he ‘went on to say that while the allies
| Problems Different Than Versailles
MR. CHURCHI"L, it must be said, rarely assumes the role of prophet. When he does, he seldom predicts for the allies an easy ‘road ahead. Most
filled with blood and sweat and tears.
most observers here believe will be one of the most trying jobs of all—the making of the peace. : At Versailles, most of the trouble arose ovep
cultural, political and ideological quarrels
Already, in the bitterness of.the fight for democracy, the allies are showing signs of losing sight of the very things they are struggling to preserve, namely the right of peoples everywhere to choose their own way of life.
Believe Plans Must Bé Made Now
RECENTLY WHEN A certain Frenchman crossed over to England and offered his services to Gen. De Gaulle, there was an outcry against accepting him because, it seems, he had not belonged to the right political group in France. When Mr. Churchill said that “one man alone” stood between the Italian people and peace, he was taken to task. When Admiral Darlan presented all North and West Africa to the allies on a silver platter, Gen. Eisenhower and Washington were hauled over the coals for accepting the gift. Some would have pres ferred paying 50,000 - American lives for the same thing or less. & Mr. Churchill clearly recognizes the need for action “if the fearful quarrels which shave rent European
disturbing the progress of the world.” All with whom I have discussed the matter here are in full agreement with him on that, but they add that the allies must not walt until Germany is defeated and we are havnig it out with Japan. They must begin at once to make plans. ;
War Dirigibles
By Major Al Williams .
- NEW YORK, Dec. 17.—The greatest advances come from using the lessons learned from mistakes, Take ‘the case of ‘coastal dee fense against submarines. We made the mistake of underestie mating the: necessity ‘for lighter ; than-air development—blimps and dirigibles—and as ‘soon as the . navy recognized it they pitched in and corrected the mistake by Here culean effort. Eleven months ago we ‘were caught flatfooted with enemy subs swarming our coasts and practically no defense of any kind. When Admiral Doenitz, who is responsible for the entire Nazi submarine effort, came out recently with his statement that the American blimp project is worthy of careful attention we knew first hand that our navy blimp lads had accomplished somee ‘thing real.
Dirigible: Aircraft Carriers?
: THE BLIMPS ARE SWARMING along our coasts ‘and more are coming. Now what? “The blimp is not the end of heavier-than-air de velopment. How about aircraft-carrier dirigibles? Suppose we had several squadrons of dirigible carriers basing about the same number of fighting and bombe ing aircrafts as are based on a surface carrier. Such a force would introduce novel and harassing factors for our enemies.
the transportation of munitions. Does anyone know of an air vehicle which can transport 30, 40 or 50 tons of cargo at a clip for five or six thousand miles
except a .dirigible? \.And the war dirigible would have predominant
valiie in a post-war transport world.
We the Women
By Ruth Millett
“NEXT YEAR IS A HECK of a long time off,” a 1-A bridegroom in Washington told".a questioner for the war production board who was trying to find out:what kind | of living arrangements brides and grooms - today are making, and what kind they speck 0 ‘make in
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — A"
Charter, Britain's understanding with the United 4 States, and her alliance with Russia—and cross’ poste
“It may well Be,” Mr. Churchill said on Nov. 29, * “that the war in Europe will come to an end before ' the war in Asia. The Atlantic may be calm while
concentrated against Japan, the British could be sitting with representatives of the United States and * Russia and the united nations, “shaping the inter- ' national instruments and national settlements which must be devised if the free life of Europe is ever to rise again, and if the fearful quarrels which have _ .| rent European ¢ivilization are to be preserved. from E | once more disturbing the progress of the world.”
often, he adheres to his original warning of a future !
This’ time, however, seems to be the exception, and strangely enough it was in connection with what
boundaries and associated problems. At the next péace conference there will be the same difficulties 4 plus the whole gamut of new ones, the exacerbated i racial, which may prove to be the most dangerous of all,’
civilization are to: be prevented from once more !
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