Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1942 — Page 14

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942

RICKENBACKER’S MESSAGE HE history, literature and legend of America’s wars are illuminated by many passages of the sort commonly and banally called “inspirational.” Today this lore of elo-"quence-in-action has been enriched by the moving utterance of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker. Millions who read or heard Capt. Rickenbacker’s remarks about Guadalcanal and New Guinea, and about the contrast here on the home front, must have searched their consciences and found themselves wanting. . Perhaps it was symbolic, for instance, that so many of us on newspaper desks decided almost automatically that the news about the gasoline “holiday” in the East should take precedence in the headlines over the news from the southwest Pacific and Tunisia and Burma. “From what I saw,” said this great hero of two wars, “T have come to the conclusion that if they could bring the combat troops back here and put titem in the factories we would have production doubled in 30 days’ time.” 8 » 2 8 2 8 FACTORY men may lift their eyebrows at that. But it is rash to challenge the judgment of this man who, though he was certainly entitled to a very long rest, cut short his convalescence to tour the battle areas and then sped back to Washington| to report to the secretary of war and to the American people. He spoke plain words about those among us who feel abused by the rationing ystem at a time when their countrymen are living and dying under unspeakable conditions, stripped of creature comit rts, in the jungles of Guadalcanal "and New Guinea. What he had to say He added strength from the way he said it—simply, without ‘magniloquence, but with the burning conviction of a man who has come back from hell. A proper gauge of rformance of -home-front duty _ might be the ability to Jook “Biek] in the eye without coloring. :

THE PEACE AFTER VICTORY HE country is indebted to Herbert Hoover and others for insisting on public discussion now of: the peace settlement which is to operate after complete allied victory. The slogan “Win the war first and discuss peace afterwards,” should not fool us again after our failure last time. Experience shows that to win battles without winning a just and durable’ ‘peace is to lose the war. The tjgp tasks need not conflict; they can be parts of the same @fort and purpose. A pre-peace agreement can hasten victory. ‘The price of both is allied unity. As _ Winston Churchill recently pointed out, allies under pres-| "sure of a great danger have more incentive to agree than former allies after that danger has been removed by mili: tary victory. To be sure, there are differences of opinion and conflicts of interest among’ the allies. . But these cannot be resolved by ignoring them. The longer 3 we postponesfacing them the worse they become. If this is to be a people’s peace—as we assert it is a people’s war—peace terms must be hammered out on the ; anvil of public debate. This is the point which Mr. Hoover stresses so effectively. 8 = 8 ® 8 8 R. HOOVER summarizes his-own plan as follows: “That we have no armistice, no general peace conference, such as Versailles—that we set’ the peacemaking in two stages. The first to be an instant ‘conditional peace’ that will turn the world toward political and economic and spiritual recovery without the delays of last time. And . then that the world“should take time to cool off, and work out one by one'and separately the solutions of fasting peace.” + He says terms of the “conditional peace” would have to be agreed upon by the allies in advance. He adds that even some of the more basic questions—such . as nationalism, imperialism, militarism and economic conflicts— ‘might be dealt with before the war ends.” We agree that relief and the restoration of economic lite, as well as enemy disarmament, should begin‘ immediately after hostilities cease; . otherwise Starvation, chaos d revolution may create new and insoluble problems. We gree that this “conditional peace” ‘must’ be. Imposed and [forced by fe allies. © ih vd » 2 S for the rEtaient settloments a veooling oft period” " may or may not be practicable. The Versailles ex-

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perience showed that President Wilson's bargaining power |i ~ for the 14 points waned with every passing week, that it-

was impossible in- ‘the later period to control the rampant

nationalisms and : vested - interests’ that had established |

' themselves the moment hostilities eased. That was when

‘and why American public support “cooled off”—after Wil-| son, despite his heroic fight, had been isolated and defeated | |i by the nationalistic and mperieliys authors ‘of he secret =

tected opportunity to vote on ‘whether they-want a federated : and united Europe, or political and economic divisions which. leave them potentially weaker than the Germans on one side and the Russians on the other. A ‘permanent settlement should be made before the American people are ‘driven by |" delays, and evaporation of the Atlantic Charter, to a cynical reaction, starting with international co-operation and ending’ ith hopeless isolation. Ji

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Enough By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—For seven days—this was back in 1917 —Joe Grigg of the New York Evening World had been asking questions in a strangely insinuating way about Russia at our afternoon meetings with Geoffrey

" Butler or Lord Robert Cecil at |

the British foreign office. - Butler, who had the job of to us most of the time,

was a scholar who couldn't serve |’ in France as he would have liked to because he had |

a_ lame foot. He had a twittering voice and used to

1 refer to these conferences as little chitty-chats. Usually he met us in the dark hall outside his cfiice.

so it would be easier to get rid of us. - Grigg was thorough and persistent. Butler would answer that “rilly y'know” there was absolutely nothing on Russia just now. Things seemed quite normal. Nothing of interest. Grigg got to be a pest to Butler and the rest of us wondered what he was up to because he wasn’t a man to heckle just to be neckling. Then, one day, Butler shewed us in to Lord :Robert Cecil, himself, which indicated that something

special was up.

Censorship Prevents a Stampede

LORD ROBERT CECIL was a tall, gaunt man with a forehead that ran up and over almost to the back of his neck. There would be several of the usual British red dispatch boxes on his desk and the tea things, and a grate fire of Welsh - coal spitting behind him. He would back up to the fire and teeter or hoist one long leg up, on his desk and scratch. This day, after the usual howja-do’s from Lord Robert Cecil, he reared ‘back ‘and let us have one that might have started one of those typical, roughhouse American journalistic stampedes for the phones if he hadn't first said there would be no need for haste in handling that which he was about to tell

us because the censor wouldn't clear anything uatil

10 o'clock that night. Then he told us that the czar of Russia had fallen, abdicated in a revolution, and that u regent had been appointed to represent the little czarevitch. Those facts and a few more he told us,

then shook hands around and nodded to Butler, who bowed us out.

We Felt Important . . . at First

WE WERE REELING. Here we had it, about 3 in the afternoon and nothing could be done with it until 10. There were very few phones and those few far apart in Whitehall in those days but there was no point in phoning the office anyway. It wasn't even necessary to take taxis, for speed, so we strolled through bird-cage walk and through Trafalgar square and the Strand to Fleet street. We tried to imagine the scene in New York when old Harry Gribbon, .the cable operator, in his deep, solemn voice yelled “Flash London revolution Petrograd Czar Abdicates.” They would knock over some typewriters and go crazy. A few days later, however, we were humiliated to learn that the story had been in New York long enough to be lukewarm, at best, if not celd, when our flashes arrived. Possibly some connection of Leon Trotsky’s in Russia had sént it through to him. Maybe it was the Germans. -

Ship Psychology By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.--Battle-ships are like dinosaufs—good only against’ other dinosaurs. That observation hit the bull’s-

eye in Admiral Bill Halsey’'s grand |

night victory in ~ Solomons. Against other battles or lighter warships, the battleship is still su‘preme. But after Halsey blasted the Jap warships to bits, Admiral Nimitz let the cat out of the bag when he told us that no Jap carriers were in that row. The American people don’t give a hang whether army, navy or air wins the war, as long as it is won. | No ‘sound-thinking airman advocates funking battleships.. Until the future beccmes much more clear, we see a place for the battleship in warfare. Where that place is, is none of our business. Battleship experts know about that, It's when they plunk big, heavy warships right under the noses of the air forces that we protest,

Japs Caught Without Air Forces

ADMIRAL -HALSEY JUGGLED his battleships, cruisers, destroyers and carriers, caught the Jap warship gang-on the end of a limb, and sawed off the limb. He caught them at night without their aircraft carriers and unescorted by air forces. But one night victory—in - which ‘the battleship scored—doesn’t justify raising the cry, “Battleships and more battleships!” Battleship psychology is dangerous. It is typical of the kind of thinking that set our feet on the firing line of this war committed to “backbones of fleets” and shy on what it takes to crack such backbones.

Nazis Repudiated By Paul Ghali

tide becomes more apparent, suspicion and hatred of the Nazi new

order comes to the surface even | in those small European states | |

which up to now have ned.

remain solidly attached to Hitler's war | |

machine. The latest news from

personalities there are now voiceing in no uncertain” words their

repudiation of the Nazi philosophy and its Political 3

consequences.

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one of the most. momentous stories in history, quietly and very briefly,

BERN, Dec. 21.—As the turning |

Hungary’ 1 reveals that a number ot leading “1

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Hoosier Forum. I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“IN WEST, STREETS ARE SAFE TO TRAVEL IN” By Carl Hagan, 4042 E. Washington st. _

This morning I saw three car collisions, all caused by icy pavements near street corners. Not a single one of these would have occurred if the proprietors of the nearby houses had thrown some cinders into the street. I am from out West where snows are snows and are regular in appearance. But when it snows out there the first thing every householder does is cinder the walk and the street in front of his house. As

‘la result the whole town ie safe. to

travel in. The next that happens. is that every newspaper will remind their readers what they owe to general safety—cinders on the walks and the street—and the radio does also its share to make 'the towns safe for driving. Ch Here East—nobody seems fo care how many neighbors break their necks and smash their cars. Maybe] co you get the point?

2 ”» ” * “A BOOZE-SOAKED NATION CAN'T WHIP ANY ONE” By Marshall Evans, 1821 Alton ave. In answer to a letter by a Mr. Friend of Greencastle, he wants to know if the WwW. C. T. U. ever won a war. Can't say, Friend, but I do know that the red-nosed, blearyéyed S. O. T. S. never did either. Whisky and other kinds of booze never did anything but send the

‘|souls of its users to hell, wreck Jhomes, break the hearts of mothers

and children, fill insane asylums and other kinds of hospitals, and we're told that it costs our government millions of dollars each year to combat it and its results. In tonight's Times a Mr. Paul Hollingsworth of Sunnyside Sanatorium gives a good description of it. I don’t know him, but I say more power to him, and you'll find out soon that there are millions like him in this country. JX don’t say take booze away from, the 18 and 19-year-olds, I say take

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men. We positively do not need it. When you fellows try to tell us that the bootleggers will run wild, it makes ‘me sick. Do you actually believe our country is so small that they can’t whip a few little lousy bootleggers? I believe that we, by the grace and help of God and a few men in the lead who are not afraid to stand up against any evil, we Americans can whip any nation or group of nations that come at us, regardless of who they are or from whence they come. But a booze-soaked nation can’t whip anyone. A drunkard can’t control even himself. . I don’t believe our enemies need any better kind of sabotage than

to get us drunk and keep up that|:

way. : » ” } » “CAN'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT FURLOUGHS”

By Mrs. Dorothy Reidy, 411 W. Norwood st, ”

. To whom is may concern, if anyone: as I wrote a letter to’ Mr. Roosevelt asking him to please let my brother come home for Christmas because he has been in the army six months and didn’t even get his 14 days off at the time of induction. Did he help me? No. He just informed me that he turned my letter over to the adjutant general. He might just as well have titown it out the window. I've read in the paper where he

‘has helped other mothers but I

don’t believe it. I think init all paper. talk. I received a letter from my. brothe er and he was told that they can-

not grant any more furloughs and|

at the same time he looks to be

it from everybody including service

transferred. Boy, what. a Christ-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

As in Norway and Germany. Hself; church leaders | | {N%)-

head these anti-axis demonstrations

Speaking in Budapest before the Catholic asso-| |. ciation, Hungary's primate, Cardinal Szredi, declared |: regarded freedom as one of the most | priceless’ Sighs of mankind. The cardinal violently | system, which the church em- | | phatically rejects, as it involves avenging - crimes oni}

that the church attacked the hostage

innocent persons. Words Find ‘Deep Echo’

RAISING HIS VOICE, the primate sdded. gi tof ; dom of individuals regardless of their race, birth and : ‘According

church did not recognize and protect merely property but also the freedom of states.

to Budapest dispatches, the cardinals words £ found, a 1 i public.

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|MEN LIKE PEGLER”

_| brook Pegler in rh day, Dec. 17. A During thesegdays when the ma-

sing to have, thanks to Roosevelt. My mother is sick from grieving about it. . I know boy: who have had three and four furloughs since. they've been in while others have had none. I also know hoys who have gone A. W. O, L. since they've been in the army anc those boys are the ones who got the .Christmas furloughs. I can’t understand it. How can Roosevelt expect us or our boys to keep plugging when they are so unfair? = - I feel sorry ‘or the boys and their mothers, for 1 know how downhearted they must be. . . . Mothers anc _sons alike have my sympathy for I know what my mother is going through. Everyone cannot put pa riotism above mother love. x ” » “A COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS NE:DED” By Haze Hurd, 8:0 S. Addison st. The mos} important task before | America at the presént moment is to win the wu. Most Americans will agree that winning the war also means winning the peace. ‘It is a big -ubject, but it is not too early to begin thinking about. methods of preventing another world war. Wo won a. war 25 years ago to make the world safe for democracy and we got a world bristling with dictatorship. Our post-wa: peace aims as stated by ;all our leaders and representative organizations say that security; justice and freedom must be assured fo all men everywhere by some Kind of world organization. This organiz:tion can be nothing less than a commonwealth of nations, each nation electing its representatives, not from a standpoint of wealth but from the number of people in a nation. Each nation according to {its population’ elect representatives to make ows for the government all nations, t! fcontrol of ar army sufficient to enforce its lavs and if any nation violates the ]-w, then all nations fight it till it comes to terms. No: pation maintain an armed force only for its security in the ‘| borders of its own territory, allow the citizens of each nation as a state free trade with dll the rest of the states

| world.

Then and then only an we have freedom from want and freedom from fear and freedom from depressions. ‘80 let’s have 4 commonwealth of all n: tions, so we all can hdve peace, pienty-and a fatherhood of God ard a brotherhood of all men. gS aw

“THANKFUL THERE ARE -

By Henry 8. Word, New Palestine

I want to express my apprecia-|

tion for the masterpiece by WestThe Times Thurs-

jority of columnists are selling their ‘birthright for a of pottage,

| and are nothing more than glorified

propagandists, we surely should

1 [thank our Creator that there are ] [arn wer, ot afraid of hell

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No. 2, meaning it will be good for more than two come modities. Books 4 and 5. may be still thicker. ,

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Sweat, Toil and Tears

THE ROUTINE FOR GETTING gation book No, 2 has been simplified as much as possible. All you will have to do is produce your ration book No. 1, now used for sugar and coffee, The data on the cover of book No. 1 will be copied off on book No. 2. You'll sign your name. {The ration board clerk will tear one

specified stamp out of book 1 as a receipt for having issued you book No. 2. The amount of: sweet, toil and tears that go into one of these rationing programs is almost unbelieva+ ble. There is considerable beefing now because rae

tioning of meat is not yet in effect, though the shorts ¢ .

age is actually here. But the only reason compulsory meat rationing is not yet in effect is that the OPA boys haven’t been able to figure out all the angles. Planning the meat rationing program has been in charge of John J. Madigan, & University of Colorado

‘| boy who learned the meat business the hard way.

That is, he went to work for Armour in Chicago after he had graduated from the Harvard school of business administration and done three years extrs research work which won him a doctor's degree in commercial science. But for the last eight or nine years he has been running slaughterhouses and stocke yards and meat distribution centers from St. Joseph, Mo., to New York, sé he knows his butchering.

Butchering Is Standardized -

MEAT RATIONING WAS FIRST officially mens tioned out. loud last Aug. 31 when the department of agriculture said it would be set up in about four months, That was an optimistic guess. It will take at lease five months to get everybody set, maybe longer. No one is mentioning any specific date as yet, Butchering technique has had to be standardized on what's known as the Chicago method, with 19 primal cuts for wholesalers. ‘This won't affect the cuts which the consumer buys, except that the armed serve ices, will get the best primal cuts. it

British Chrismes By Nat A Barrows

© LONDON, Dec. 21.—Christmas ‘shopping crowds in London are showing an unprecedented demand - for American history books and for Hitler's “Mein Kampf” as they wander in quest of the four T's— toys, turkeys, tobacco and texte ‘books.

‘As never before bookstalls are selling ‘out every possible kind of ‘book relating to enginéering and radio... England’s so-called “austerity Christmas” approaches with full accent upon war; country houses today are being taken over as billets for the land army girls and other farm work ers; the famous mineral water factories, Schweppes and Appolinari’s, are about to disappear with some 200 similar plants under the necessity to turn over their factories for making tank and airplane small

| parts; the comb-out regulation requiring move womse

en into the middle forties to leave non-essential jobs is hitting Mayfair beauty parlors, dress shops and department stores hard; glace fruits are about to dise appear for the conserving of Sugar; and sausages must lose their skins. ;

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We the Women

By Ruth Millett

“WILL DADDY have to go to

war?” is a question many a mother has to answer these days. And the answer has a “great many parents stumped. Should it be: “No, of course not. Your

is daddy, Soins tn aay ne |

with us.” Or should a mother say: “Per= ‘haps. If his country needs him to fight, hell £0, and we'll od - proud-of him” A great: many parents are’ tempted toglve the | first answer—to shield the child, to keep him from worrying over a problem that may never gctually confront him. 1 But that is a mistake, according to Anna W. M Wali, senior ‘staff member of the Child Study Assoe ciation. of America, wHo has just written “Our Children War”’- tical book that will help a lot of ered. paren Be,

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questions they ask about the war. Now that 18-year gids are -Demg drafted, rests advice. For’

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