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“ive, Lio ena the gm win Find Their Own Wey E SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1043

MO ORE than four months ago the Baruch committee found the rubber situation “so dangerous that unless corrective measures are taken imniediately this country will face both a military and a civilian collapse.” ‘ “qt recommended the “bulling through” of a gigantic synthetic rubber program, and drastic measures, including nation-wide. gasoline rationing, to conserve existing rubber supplies. ‘Rationing, though long delayed, was extended to the whole country in December. The synthetic program, however, has fallen at least a month behind the Baruch committee's schedule. - And now the army. and navy want that program curtailed so that equipment and materials may be released for production of escort vessels and aviation gasoline, The resulting controversy calls for a difficult decision. Nqf t knowing all the military and strategic considerations, 5 do not. presume to say whether the army-navy view should prevail or whether Rubber Administrator Jeffers ghould be given priorities for what it takes to “bull through” the synthetic program. : But the decision has been inexcusably postponed. The dispute should have been settled long ago by Donald Nelson, war production boss. But he finally dumped ‘the problem into the lap of Economic Director Byrnes, and, though two. weeks have since elapsed, there is still no decision. ‘If Mr. Byrnes can’t decide, then President Roosevelt should—

and at once. IF the pregident’s judgment is that the eantholie rubber " program must be revised downward in order to lick “he submarine menace and to keep allied warplanes flying, we are sure the country’ will accept it. But it is unfair and ‘dangerous to keep the country ignorant of what is to be ‘done. ' The need for more aviation gasoline, more escort vessels, is not new. It was known when the Baruch committee reported and the fact that it might conflict with the synthetic rubber. program should have been. known to the ad‘ministration... Yet the public was given to understand that ‘the Baruch proposals had been fully accepted and would “be carried out. That created a confidence which, it now develops, may ‘have been unfounded. There is no excuse for more of the : procrastinations, indecisions, conflicts of authority” which the committee found, last September, had been responsible “for a long, sad chapter of errors: in ‘handling the rubber 3 Li FAA Bae ;

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A {ARGENTINA STAND ALONE? F o! LE’S 12-month delay, after the Rio conference, in BE the pledge of hemisphere solfgiarity, should not e the importance of her break with the axis. esident Rio's patient democratic procedure has cut the ground from: ander the’ minority, which might other- _ wise have crippled the complete Chilean co-operation now apparently assured. Thus there is no.grudging restraint in the allied enthusi that welcomes Santiago’s action. All except Argentina, of course—the sole remaining

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“holdout. And even that government y will now find it increas- |

ingly difficult. to befriend the axis in defiance of majority Argentine press’ and public opinion, and in isolaton front every other Amercan country. When the Buenos Aires regime first played the axis for a winner, it seemed to some a smart way to advance ~ Argentine markets in Europe and Argentine ambitions for Latin American leadership. Now its problem is to find a way to get gracefully aboard the unifed nations bandwagon, Where Brazil already has a front seat. Chile's. action, apart from Strengthening friendly relations with the United States and others, should have immediate practical results, including”

: olumiste among the 32,000 German and Italian nationals

hat country. A larger and’ faster supply of strategic materials to the

ination’ of axis agents, and control of the fifth |

Closer: co-operation in hemisphere defense measures, partctiary on the Chilean islands in the Pacific.” >

‘MR. FLYNN AND MP. FLEGENHEIMER ip ™ 1925 Ed Flynn was sheriff of Bronx connty, New York. =" In that capacity he made one Arthur Flegenheimer a ag eputy sheriff. Mr. Flegenheimer drew no pay; he was a of ‘peacetime dollar-a-year man without the dollar. . Why did Mr. Flegenheimer want to be a deputy? - Well, ata guess, because a deputy would naturally find it easy to get a permit to carry a pistol. And why should Mr, Flegenheimer have wanted to carry a pistol? To protect his business inferests, and his person, of course. For Mr. Flegen- | heimer, as any sheriff in Arkansas or Florida or Wyoming | Could tell you, was none other than Mr.. Dutch Schultz, the distinguished beer baron. ~~ “.. ‘The question also arises: Why sheuld Shere Flynn ave wanted to make Mr. Flegenheimer-S ultz a deputy? i Mr. Flynn's answer is that he had no idea that Mr. Flegen- = Beira and Mr. Schilts walked on single 1 pair of legs:

$0 .us that a sheriff who thus

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| a terrible place indeed. Maybe it is.

Fair Enough

F § Seg Pegler

Communist who nowadays so war enemies of the United States

seems unthinkable, especially in’ view of the fact that Communists and fellow-travelers have been able to

| worm their way into many government bureaus, in- | cluding lately, the office of war information. -

The most effective testimony comes from backslid

'| Communists such as Benjamin Gitlow, who formerly

was 80 high in the anti-American conspiracy that in 1928 he ran for vice president of the United States on the party ticket. or

Blamed America for Poverty * GITLOW, BORN of poor Russian parents in Elizabethport, NJ J., blamed America for his early poverty and, unlike most young Americans in similar circumstances, became an agitator and an ‘anti-American, instead of working out his own prosperity. Gitlow later fell out with his comrades in one of those .numerous wrangles that are always splitting. the “| Communists into factions but not before he had become one of the leading conspirators, and, in 1940, he squealed on his former comrades in a book called

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Will you take the word of Gitlow as to that?

International” he says, “the Communist party acted as an agent of the Soviet government. He (the member) is compensated for his opposition to the United States government by being impressed with his importahce to the government of the Soviet Union.”

Admits Opposition to Government NOTE. THAT Gitlow admits that the Communist opposes the United States government. “Tha American Communist party has always argued that it had no connection with the Soviet government, .but the American Communist party is in the same relation to the Soviet government as the paid agents of Nazi Germany are in relation to the third Reich,” he says. > Gitlow explains how it 4s that Communists can cause so much trouble in proportion to their numbers. A party man, a member of a union, buys his Communist paper on the way to work and may arrive early to spread leaflets without being noticed. “At noon,” says Gitlow, “he will be engaged in some noon activity of the party or his unist union faction, After work, instead of going home, he will go to party headquarters to attend committee meetings.” What gives him the energy, the zeal for all this? Hatred of the United States, keeps him going, while American workers sleep.

'Few—Harbor Any lllusions' AND WOULD communism be easily and peacefully

viglence? “We can achieve it only through a violent revolution in which millions of our people would perish,” Gitlow wrote after he had backslid. “But what would be our gains? Few are they who

that pregails in Russia, It is virtually indistinguish-"

m ‘is-@nigersal conscription of labor. Communism is. force Japor;. Free labor cannot exist under communism any more than it can exist under ‘fascism. Neither regime recognizes the rights to life, liberty and the pursuitiof happiness.” This comes not from any Fascist agency but from a man who ran for vice eadent of the U, 8. A, on te -Comupunisg - Ragty Wek

In Washingion

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Another golden gloves tournament of official Washington feuds is being promoted these days, and for some little time to come you may ex- . pect to hear, much about some of the headline bouts on the card. Top-notch attraction is the army and navy vs. Nelson and + Jeffers on how much synthetic rubber should be produced. Nelsoh vs. Ickes is good for a few fast rounds, Ickes charging that the war production ‘board has: fallen down, on developing and producing ‘enough metals, =" ©. E. Wildon vs. Ferd Eberstadt for control of WPB scheduling and production looked like a good grudge fight for a time, but word from their training camps is that these boys are not so sore any more. ‘Leon Henderson is out because of eye trouble and a weak back, so his bout with scrapper Ickes over petroleum rationing will be scratched unless

Brown, puts on the gloves. To an outsider reading about all these dogfights in the official family, Washington must seem like

defense effort may be recorded 2s one long series of discords that leave the innocent bystander ‘vondering when the bureaucrats get their work done.

Quarrels Aren't Political - THESE ARENT political rows. They aren't fundamental economic rows like capital vs. labor, Leon Henderson vs. the farm bloc, or everybody vs. Paul McNutt ‘on manpower. ' They are internicene wars, bureaucrat against bureaucrat, and the wondering Joe Public is sometimes constrained to ask why ‘the president doesn’t step ‘in’ there and knock some of their heads together,

their course. On one recent occasion, the persident did openly admit that the dispute between Nelson and Somervell was something that concerned only the

and work it out themselves, whiclr they ultimately did. : The truth of the matter would seem to be that 8 1ot mere sfiention is pild to these feuds than | merit. i Sif

They're Like Rest of Us ;

naziism or fascism, and ask for| proof. ow do. they know. that the plausibly shouts his hatred of the| is also, himself, an enemy? It}

a the Communists anti-American then, you ask? | “In addition to being a branch of the Communist |

accomplished here? Or would it require force and

able: from . the ‘democracy! that is practiced in Nazi Germany ‘and 1

Henderson's second, new OPA Director Prentiss.

The whole

Te all outward appearances, the president is in= clined to ‘let #iese feuds in his official family run:

two of them, and that they'd have to get together | [ARN

: 1. Tim Reson sum dat ake ees Gn 1 | x the diplomatic ‘hot-corner for which he E makes oe publ ot seal public busi

FW “1 Cantess, ” from which the following testimony is| ~¢ " ;

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The Hoosier Forum

defend. to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

disagree: with what you say, but will

“AMERICA NEEDS SYSTEM : OF SELF-HELP” By T. L., R. R., Indianapolis: The president has asked congress to make provision to improve the low living, standard of the “one-

third.” With little hopes we'll wait for what happens.

help it must come off of others. wage raise will only start a gen-

eral raise. This all plainly shows that our boasted high living stand-

harbor any illusions eof the sort of ‘democracy’ |ard is almost wholly dependent on

low wage class, Nothing to be proud of. . ‘YT suggest gs a free American way

of self-help ‘that the government

open. a nation-wide land market, “a new West.” That was our salvation in 0 times where all low income persons could buy up to-10 acres of | good farm land where they want to live and at an honest value.

If a low wage class is necessary,

‘I supplement their income outside of

fixed economic rules. For example, it is silly to think a low wage workér could buy the least standardized home, Pa “I' SAW 1T

WITH MY OWN EYES” By Eugene B. Glick, 3560 Salem sf. Since I graduated from Indjana university and returned to my home in Indianapolis, I have. been astounded by the great changes which have taken place, especially in the field of transportation. I remember reading of women being trained to taken the place of men in this business, but I thought that it was just another one of those theories arrived 40 years too soon. I couldn't believe my eyes ‘the other day when I saw a- young

the Claypool hotel, grab some baggage, open the door politely for her fare, hop back in and drive away. This was hard for me to believe, but I saw it with my own eyes. The other evening after Yeaving Loew’s theater I walked over to the Circle to catch a bus. . When the North Meridian came swinging around the bend I reached in my

Unless there is a system of self-|

The pressure groups get theirs. A}

‘stretched before me was a “lily-

lady hop out of a cab in front of

say: “Because we have always used our cars as much as we wanted, so we shall continue.” With the wire services, we could say: “Because we have always used the telephone and - telegraph as much as we wanted, so why stop now?” With the scrap drive, we could y: “We have always thrown away our tins and scraps, so why should we not now?” Does Mrs. Roosevelt think be-

cause she'is a member of the presi-

dential family that:she can ignore the rulings and laws which the rest of us have to obey? I often admire Mrs. R. for her apparent courage, but, to date, “¥ have found little reason to eulogize her for rationality, and the above interview, as published by The Times, has not added any evidence to cause me to change my opinion. I want to thank her for easing my conscience, however, in the event that I do this summer what I have always done every summer for many years, tijat is; go fishing to the north woods. In case an irate policeman halts me on the road, demanding to know why I am going fishing, I can answer: “Because every summer I have gone fishing, and people ask me to.” i if they throw me in the jug, I can ask them to have Mrs. R. join me, I could then ask her a question I have long wanted to ask her, namely: “Mrs. R, .what is it that makes you. feel your presence an|is needed everywhere in this broad land of ours?”

(Times readers are invited fo express their views in . these columns, religious controveries excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must

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pocket,” fished out a dime and goby aboard.” Nothing unusual about this, hut when I went to place the dime in the driver's hand, instead of the usual calloused male paw, ‘outs

white” hand with carefully polished fingernails. The fellow in back of me had to give me a shove; ‘I just stood on the treadle and stared. The bus was crowded and most of the conversation centered around the “cute” driver. It was the consensus of -opinion that &he was doing okay, and T overheard several individuals compliment her as they left the bus. I'll have to give the girl credit because that ride up “| North Meridian was. as smooth as any I've ever taken, and believe me I've taken plenty. = When I leave for the army next week it will not surprise me at all to see a blond leaning out of the cab of an engine waiting to pull out of union station. If she is as good as her sisters taking over iif the city she will be darn good. ” ” E “WHAT IF EVERYBODY . ADOPTED THIS REASONING?” By M. H. Rush, Anderson Mrs. Roosevelt, when asked by an interviewer why she continued to travel as much as always when the| Her reply, no doubt, would be ingovernment insisted that - civilians Seresuing, as always. curtail their traveling ‘as’ much as gs sw possible, answered: * it is]. t something I have always -_ and GO AHEAD, nD IES! people ask, me. to.” : WEAR YOUR SLACKS” I think the question must have|By N. R., EB. R. 7, Box 428G : : 1 would like to answer Mr. Mc-

caught her off guard and’she answered honestly, without thinking Kinley regarding women wearing slacks, There seems to be a lot of

of exposing her behaviorism. people with his opinion. He quotes

How would it be if the rest of us, we -ordinary- citizens and civilians, you ladies some scripture to prove his point.

Sige Glances—By Galbraith

adopted the same line of reasoning? With gas rationing, we could T am sure that slicks are a part of feminine attire aad, if this is so,

liis quotation does 1.0f apply. And

if it is not so, then I will have lo go further in my explanation, It seems to me I'have read somewhere in the Bible that the “beards ‘of man shall not be rounded.” Boy! We don’t round them. We: shave them all off. And lo and behold to the man that doesn’t. . . .

i} | Moses on down. I would challenge anyone to show me where scripture has set thé styles for our generation, or generations to come. I don’t '1 ypcieve scripture made any such ons,

Fy are, downtown | that idea.

over some little lady wearing slacks.

pressure, while the

Styles and mode of dress have] changed yearly from the time of .

Loam. Sor She te of yao sea]

, §| No, Mr. Mexisley, I think God{ | is too big and. grand to be angered | **

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

"merous Hoosiers in <h \ here, but it fell to Rep. en Landis (R. Ind.) to learn that they Seem to prediminate in low ones Accompanied by his new office staff, including the lively and attravtive Miss Barbara Holden from Linton, Mr. Lanlis made the annual sight-seeing tour for congressmen through the FBI headquarters and museum. Arriving with the crowd at the office of Chiet G-man J. Edgar Hoover, Mr guide that he was a “congressman from “Indiana.” Without a smile the guide said: . 5 “Well, I am glad to meet you. We have ‘some interesting exhibits here from your state.” a

Sorry About the Whole Thing’

SO THROUGH the museum they went with the guide pointing out all the guns and other paraphernalia of high crimes captured by the G-men from John Dillinger and his gang of Jail-breakers, bank-robbers and murderers. Mn. Landis’ face became slightly flushed. “We have other exhibits from your state, too,”

the guide continued.

Then he .took the Landis party through another aisle filled with similar tools: captured from the rotorious Brady gang. By that time Mr. Landis seemed a little sorry that %e had mentioned the matter of being a “congressman from Indiana.” Miss Holden, however, kept urging the guide to explain more and more of the horrible details of the exploits of these Hoosier gunmen and how they were finally terminated by the G-men. It sounded like a broadcast of “Gang-Busters.”

And Then to Fingerprints

EMERGING AT LAST from this chamber of horrors, Mr. Landis felt relieved when they entered the fingerprint bureau. The guide ‘explained that here in the files were 50 million fingerprints. i Mr. Landis smiled with pleasure at the fact that here, at least, was a place where he would no longer be embarrassed. But what happened? Miss Holden told of this grand finale. “The guide,” she said, “announced that he would select one of the fingerprint cards at random and use it to illustrate to us the Bertillon system. He pulled out a drawer and plucked out a card. “It turned out to be the fingerprints of a pgaty-

crook from Evansville!” \: SiS

Cargo Planes

By Majof Al Williams

NEW YORK, Jan.23.—No matter what the future all-cargo plane may look lke, it is a safe bet that it will:be a tricycle landing gear job. - It’s hard ‘enough for passengers

to enter, reach their seats, and

. Landis informed the -

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reverse those operations in a cur<{_

rent . air-liner because of the tilt / of the fuselage. When it comes to loading and unloading air “freight, this. tilting, made .necessary by the orthodox two-wheel landing gear and tail wheel, presents a sizable handicap. Because of the tricycle landing gear’s other advanes, such as ease of letting the ship down to a landg in a neatly level flight position and ability to stop bruptly by heavy application of wheel brakes without tipping on the nose, it is already definitely in phie cards for cargo and passengers.

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. In level flight there is no difference between the

tricycle and the orthodox twin-wheeled plane. The orthodox ‘landing geared plane, while on the ground, holds its wings at such an angle that strong gusts and” high winds tend to make it unmanageable. In the tricycle plane, however, the wings are held level. In cross winds and gusty take-off conditions, it stands head and shoulders over its predecessor.

Plenty of Freight Waiting... -

ALL THESE ADVANTAGES-more comiolt for passengers, plus absolute necessity for a level fuselage for facility of loading and storage—~insure the development of the tricycle landing gear transport. While almost all the engineers, commercial] and military, agree on this, they don’t agree on the point of an all-out efficient transport for future commerce which will be a combination cargo and passenger plane. There is a strong tendency toward all-eargh planes and all-passenger jobs. There millions of tons of freight to on carried : by air at a profit if all the gadgets conducive to passenger comfort are eliminated. They all g and to succeed air cargo must approach, if nc rail rates. Seats, racks, insulation, tilat and Tavalory and food storage facilities can out of the all-cargo plane co av g! in weight and maintenance. the Ca For stratospheric’ flight, only the forward p of the cargo plane need be sealed and entire cabin of the be so equipped. The ultimate answers to this will result from trial and error, singe the best) option today is only an ‘estimate. aaah

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We the Women,

By Ruth Millett

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