Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1942 — Page 12

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Fair Enough a Thomas L Stokes i

(By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Dec. 238.--West Point may have had a few football players who were a little | better than Red Cagle but he happened along in the era of wonderful nonsense when tae United States was game-crazy and no army player won greater re‘nown. Up to this time, the military | academy had been a remofe in- § stitution, as secretive as a priscn and a cadet on furlough in his gray uniform might be taken for a letter carrier, so little did the public know about the school and the corps. Then the war department decided that the' people should become acquainted with West Point and Phil Fleming, then a major of engineers, now a major general, was sent in {o manage athletic operations, |’ and Capt. Walter Wells. who had won his commission in action in France, was assigned to make publicity. Wells is now a colonel of infantry and probably somewhere overseas but not with a regiment because he is considered to be too old. Cagle was a slippery, nimble, mischieveous kid and one to write about and his reputation was helped | | along by the showmanship of Fleming, Wells and the wag department in sending the corps of cadets on tour with the team several times a season. They made a mighty show with the precision of their marching, the cocky music of their band and the antics of their mule, which was strictly a fake.

Harvard Exposes Trickery THE PEOPLE THOUGHT the mule was a West

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a definite and practical attitude on this country's post-war policy, Wendell L. Willkie, who bore the party's standard in 1940, has taken a positive and forthright stand for all-out co-operation by the United States in creation of a new world order in which imperialism would be outlawed. ~ He has taken a position alongside President Rooses velt; if not a bit in advance, the latter possible, of course, since he does not sit in the seat of esponsly bilit and deal with the realities. - Mr, Willkie is regarded as too visionary by most of the other Republican leaders. They have, however, confined themselves either to vitriolic diatribes againat him-—mostly in private=—or: to joshing ‘him ‘as a sort of Don Quixote, this also privately. - a

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1042

EMMONS AND OAHU

WE hope that the sane and moderate tone of Gen. Delos " Emmons’ statement on his return to Hawaii from Washington will calm down a dangerous issue that has been ‘raised regarding military versus civilian authority on shy —the island that houses Pearl Harbor.

Speaking as commander of the Hawaiia department, Gen. Emmons said:

“I am not only desirous, but anxious, to divest myself of many. civil responsibilities as I can, provided always that the security of the islands and the rapid development of Oahu as a base for offensive action are not jeopardized. ”

Hoover and Stassen in Picture

REPUBLICANS HAVE another figure, too, another titular leader from further back, the only living ex» president, Herbert Hoover, who has had some things to say, particularly about the methods of formulatin a peace, and Mr. Hoover speaks from practical expes rience. For he was at Versailles, and knows what mischief was made there, and how it was made. )

As a realist, thoroughly familiar with what can / happen in a post-war world from first-hand observa-

That sounds temperate and reasonable enough. certainly isn’t the utterance of a-man on horseback, ‘throwing his authority around for the fun of it. We can sympathize with any civilian irritations’ that arise naturally in any democracy under the necessities of military operation. our bastion—the rampart we should watch most keenly. Its importance cannot be overrated. It is a life-and-death spot for our whole nation. ‘

» NCE the Pearl Harbor attack, Oahu has lived a life of warfare to an extent that has befallen no place on our mainland, no matter how many the blackouts, the dimouts, and the other restrictions. ‘ | ‘The paradise of the Pacific has had to change in a * greater degree than any of us at home can fully visualize from the carefree manners of peacetime to the grim-visaged manners of war,

To paraphrase Shakespeare, its merry meting have been turned to stern alarms; its glorious summer to a winter of discontent.

So you can’t blame that happy people. for not calling

it pleasant.

But the beautiful isle is exposed. The strategy of its location can’t be exaggerated. It is in every sense the key to the Pacific, to the defense of the Panama Canal, to our ‘whole west coast and to our offensive action through all that vast area.

to Japan.

Therefore, what is involved is of necessity and primarily a military, not a civil, problem. } So we think Hawaii and the nation are ‘fortunate to “have in Gen. Emmons a man who doesn’t take the.roughshod “attitude but who on the contrary proposes to divest himself of as many civil responsibilities as he. can, commensurate with the tremendous military responsibility that is

his.

: HITLER BEGINS TO SQUIRM

S the Russians continue to roll forward in three winter offensives, and the allies press back the Germans in North Africa. Hitler is pinched into a momentous decision.

- Shall he risk his eastern line to concentrate in the south i —Tunisia, Italy, and if necessary attack. through Spain? = Or shall he withdraw from Africa and try to stop the Rus- ~ sian advance? Or shall he divide his strength and try to ‘hold in the East and South, at the risk of losing both? Or shall he attempt the fourth alternative, a separate peace to split the allies? Hitherto he has wavered. His first decision was to ‘knock out Russia, and to sacrifice his Afrika Korps if neces-1 sary. This apparently was in defiance of his military chiefs, who adviséd- against the costly attempt to take Stalingrad nd predicted Russian counter-offensives after the Nazi nvaders were bled weak. But when the American-British surprise occupation of iNorth Africa began, Hitler reversed his strategy by rushing “air forces and others from Russia to hold Tunisia. the Russians hit him with more offensives, in addition

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Hitler has betrayed so many agreements, he has ro : 80 many nations, he has earned a hatred so universal, now “he must fight a mighty alliance which at last is beginning

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IDLE TIRES

NCLE, SAM has received about eight million dirs that otherwise would have remained hoarded under the £ rationing-purchase plan. ition and can be resold to persons whose motoring contrib-

- An interesting if not important sidelight is the wide range in productivity among different sections of the country. Around Denver and Omaha, almost every car owner a spare tire. one in five had a sixth casing. In New York, where storage Repos is at ‘a premium, vnlysone Wn 14 had an extra tucked

4 OME of the men With Capt. Jddie Rickenbacker who took

~ took refuge in open boats when their plane was lost in : Pacific got badly sunburned. "But not Rick. :

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Point character, brought along in the baggage car, but in New Haven he was a local ash-wagon mule one year and elsewhere he was borrowed from the

| nearest army post. or rented from a horse dealer.

The deception was discovered at Harvard when the enlisted soldiers of the mule detail were strapping on the West Point blanket and one of them said -to the mule: “Growl, Degan! Growl!” Degan growled, and this performance interested some sport reporters. One asked how-come. “That is the name of our colonel,” one of the soldiers explained. “This here is - machine-gun mule and he growls like the old man.” There was no Col. Degan at West Point, so it came out that the soldiers and mule had been borrowed

duly shattered in the Sunday papers. “The teams Cagle really played on were not cham-. pions but good crews nevertheless and Maj. Fleming gave the public a show that glamoured over some fairly inferior football.

Secret Marriage Finally Revealed

IN THE AUTUMN OF 1929, word reached Paul Gallico of the New York Dally News, that Cagle had married his boyhood sweetheart during his Christmas furlough, in violation of the regulation providing that no cadet shall have a horse, dog, wife or mustache. Gallico was bound by confidence neither to print the story nor to tell’it to any officer who would have been honor-bound to cause the dismissal. of the captain and star of the team. The secret broke next spring just a little before Cagle would have been. commissioned and. he was asked for his resignation. He was a sad kid one beautiful day when he went back to visit old friends now busy with preparations for the beautiful ceremonies of June week. His class mates gave him a whooping welcome back but Red was no longer one of them and he looked seedy by -comparison in his civvies, sitting on a bunk with his friend, Buster Perry, a tackle, and trying to make light of things.

speakeasy where we knocked over several portions of applejack and Cagle insisted that it meant nothing to him not to. finish with his class. The hell it didn’t.

World Policing’

By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Most plans for policing the post-war world are of the “Model T” vintage, based on the use of garrisons, forts, naval bases, warships and maybe air fotces, and oblivious to the overhead cost or how we can hope to carry it. Such a set-up would eat its head off with no possibility of earning enough to pay for shoe polish. | _ Here is the airman’s business slant on post-war policing: Set up a complete network of international airways operating through bases located where commercial and military A considerations require. The economic importance of key, points is what usually determines their military iE anyway.

Air Cargoes Would Help Pay

SECURE THESE AIR BASES, not by Maginot lines or forts, but by minimum combat air forces. This means minimum overhead to hold the bases. Daily schedules of cargo-carrying air transports should flow through these -bases, carrying the types of goods which by their nature are truly air merchnadise. The revenue from this war cargo would help offset the cdst of the policing job. With a steady flow of air transportation through all nations, it would be impossible for any rough outfit to get very far in building military resistance against the police order without having the news get out immediately. That's only an outline sketch of the combihation function of international air transportation and military influence that can be exerted by a world network of airways in the post-war world. But I hope it’s enough to set folks thinking in terms of how to try to pay some of the overhead of an efficient post-

war policing job. ;

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The farm security administration’s first experiment in taking Ken

“I was more fortunate,” Rick reports. “I had an old | lea

hat that Mrs. Rickenbacker had wanted me to discard |

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from a local post and a beautiful public illusion, was

Toward dusk we went to the enlisted soldiers’ |

. » iit The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will dejond to i death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“HASN'T PRESIDENT ENOUGH TROUBLES?” . By Mrs. R. C. Hunter, 3120 N. Illinois st.

I read Mrs. D. Rs letter in the Dec. 21 paper and I want to ask her if she doesn’t think our president has. enough troubles without bothering about her brother's furlough? Any way the president of our country does not grant soldiers their furloughs, the company commander does that. My. husband is in the service and he did not get 14 days either and be has never crabbed about it either. I know. several boys who

“thave been in the service more than six months and have never had a

furlough . . . they are overseas. I wonder if Mrs. D. R. knows that service men have to stand a court-martial for being A. W. O. L.? I have a nephew who is in the air corps and is overseas and his mother is taking it with her chin up. She’s proud of her son and he has not been on a furlough since he entered the service 10 months ago. The people must realize that this country cannot win this war by the men being home on furlough. The boys overseas are going through a lot of hell for us back here: so try and adjust yourself to this fact,

. » ” “WE APPRECIATE THE WORK OF CAPT. HOUCK” By R. M., Indianapolis

Noted In reading your issue of The Indianapolis Times under date of Dec. 21 that Capt. Houck of the city police department was mentioned for a demotion, we are wondering why? Appreciate the fact that the incoming administration is ‘concentrating on building the organizations because of ability and efficiency; they have already established a reputation for their fairness regardless of a man's politics. ‘Those who remember. Capt. Houck, instructor and teacher of the auxiliary police schools, will not soon forget the genial smile that they were greeted with, and the fine

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and meeting the public as taught by Capt. Houck, Am writing this to the Hoosier Forum to indirectly call to their attention that I, for one, believe Capt. Houck as fine an officer as the city of Indianapolis could have. We appreciate the sincere effort and the long hours spent by Capt. Houck in educating the auxiliary po-

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2 = “GET MEN WHO KNOW THE LINE” By The Old Man, Indianapolis At last some of our officials at Washington have concluded to make a cleaning and get rid of the incompetents. The first thing to do is to get rid of the whole bunch such as Ickes, Perkins, Hopkins, also Eleanor, down the line. What experience has a man like

“| Ickes fit to fill his position and just

think of women to be at the head of the labor department. . , . And just to think that a president's wife would take part.in trying to run the government. For 79 years of my life no first lady of this country has been in the limelight as she. Why can’t she act like Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. McKinley, Cleveland, the first Mrs. Roosevelt? People are fed up. While I am a Republican, I have voted for a Democrat. My first vote for Cleveland which was a success, his second term not so hot. Every time this confusion and going to war is under thé Democrats so it shows they are not com-

lectures they received on police work

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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petent to run +. It is too bad they don't have tore men like Louis Ludlow, Ma hall, Garner — all square shoote:s. . . The men tv 10 are getting these big pay checls for labor, let me give you a t Save all you can

you are able to eat you wiil be lucky. Just to think to select a man to hand the meat line and other food roducts that don’t know .a steer a maiden heifer and try to te men with 50 years or more exper nce. There are men in our meat industry that know what it is all about and that goes in other lines. You can’t ex; derson to run a steel man to farm. Get me. It can be doe. wake up, you and insist on ington.

ect a man like Hena packing house or know how to run a

2 2 = «MOTHER LOVE WON'T END | WAR” By Mrs. Esther & : ley, 3054 N. Sherman dr. Perhaps Mis thinks her bron ice man who ~ouldn’t get home for Christmas. I “ave two boys in the navy who cou «(r't come home and I've not let it ct me down. ... Maybe she hinks mother love will end a war, Well, it won't and such people as or can break down more morale =:10ng the boys than a dozen unsc {sh, broadminded

mothers can bid up. I: idolize my »Hoys but never will I let them do . . . How about the mothers wi: haven’t seen their sons for more ~ in & year or perhaps even he: '« from them directly. . . . Sel » ty and idle hands and minds desi ny morale quicker than anything se. Dorothy, the Red Cross can sé you and your mother and s¢ “i'n many more patriotic organiza’ ns. . . ‘ ‘Here's hopin: ‘hat the boys .in the foreign la:.(: don’t see your, letter, for they sd-something better to read. »

» “PLEASE STO) 81.1 GING” By H. S., Indianar) is They are ou ere—fighting for us, suffering fo: us, dying for us— grumble because rough gas for the vould like to ..do.

we cannot gel joyriding we Shame! For months I 1.ve wanted to express this thowg! | wHen reading the

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the many critic: ~~ ho use your editorial page to vi | Roosevelt. What finally 2

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sed me to write from a woman i -erly because her brother in servic is not allowed to come home for ristmas. Wonder how --r mind works? Suppose all mer i: service were to

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tion, the ex-president has far more value as an adviser than probably will be recognized by his fellow

.| Republicans.

There is a younger man, too, who has had some pointed things to say about the country’s post-war Po ibilitass, Governor Harold E, Stassen of Min-

nesota, and a bold voice for a region strongly tinged ).

with isolationism at one time. He has been efloctive, g for his people re-elected him in November. : He leans toward the Roosevelt-Willkie philosophy. He represents, likewise, the viewpoint of many of the younger men and women in the Republican party, But these three men are not typical of the regular party leadership.

Strain of Isolationism Remains

A STRAIN OF ISOLATIONISM still runs through men who control the party leadership of the oritiodos, G. O. P. variety, Lip service: is given to the idea of international co-operation, though usually with the flippant addenda “but we don’t intend to have the United States run a WPA for the whole world.” Two developments are possible, One is a refusal to take any stand, to formulate any program, but to drift with the tide, and, if a sour reaction sets in after the war, to capitalize. that reaction politically as was done by the Republican party after the first world war, : The other is for the leaders to recognize the new world situation, to accept responsibility, and to formulate a practical, workable sprogram of co-operation on which the party could stand, and on which it could move forward Into the new world and not pull the - United States ‘clear back into the shéll as was done after the last war. None of the regular party leadership has yet sitempled to draft such a formula, ;

Post- War Bonds

By Walker Stone

. WASHINGTON, Dec, 28.—Save . ing just for the sake of saving is against the nature of a great ma- - jority of Americans. Most of us | now buy war bonds from patriotic motives or because of social prese sure, And the number of these bonds that are cashed in at poste office windows ' within a few months after they are purchased prove that, for many of us, our good intentions are of brief duration. Yet Americans can be persuaded to save for specific purposes—for things we really want—an auto mobile, a new home, a refrigerator, a fur coat. r . ‘When this war is over there will be a big demand for private airplanes. A score or more of factories will have the machinery and skilled workmeh to pro duce those planes, just as hundreds of other plants will be ready to turn out vacuum sweepers, radios, television sets, ete. All the factories will need to: start will {se customers.

Tend to Counteract Inflation

SO, WHY NOT GET going on Henry J Eatsers | idea of the government and industry teaming up now: to help finance the war, and to insure a prosperous. peace afterward by selling post-war trade bonds which can be exchanged for goods people want when the fighting stops? Selling such bonds now, by taking spending cash ; out of circulation, would tend to counteract inflation » during the war period. Exchanging the bonds for goods after the war would tend to counteract defla~ tion then. In other words, it is a plan not only to

help finance the war but to help keep the economy stable, :

We the Women By Ruth Millett |

dressings. = 1 Pu pln) ‘workers have th work long hours trying to do what large group of volunteers could

Only Thing Missed Would Be Bridge THEY COULD EVEN Have prizes, it the prise