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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1943

“THE TIME IS NOW NEAR” EN. Washington's shivering and shoeless army in the winter encampment beside the Schuylkill, at Valley Forge, numbered 11,000 men. That is fewer than the daily inductions called for this year by the armed forces of the United States, as Gen. Hershey has pointed out. So George Washington, you can see, was small potatoes among the great captains of the past and present. His army, even by European standards of his time, was a motly rabble, held together more by persuasion than discipline, and provisioned so erratically as to drive a modern quartermaster to suicide, But Washington and his army, weathering that wretched winter of 1777-78 with a sacrificial valor that finds is counterparts today in Tunisia and the Solomons, won their war.. And Washington himself went on to “win the peace,” as we say nowadays, by founding the constitutional government under which so many generations have flourished and increased. n » n » # » "THOSE. were dark days at Valley Forge. The colonies abounded with fifth columnists, collaborationists, appeasers, quislings—though known then by other names. The enemy was often skilful and resolute, and well equipped. The path of our history to Yorktown was long and hard. : r Our path today stretches long and hard again. But our inspiration is as impelling as that voiced by Washington to his troops: “The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves. . . « Let us, therefore, animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a freeman contending for liberty . « . is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. y

PEACE—IT’LL BE WONDERFUL

OLITICALLY, the end of the war will bequeath to the world problems so numerous and complex that many people despair of any sensible or lasting solution. Physically, however, it is as sure as sunrise that peace will be the trigger to release an unprecedented array of new comforts and luxuries, new ways of better living, from the shops and laboratories of industry. In these days when our comforts are diminishing so fast, the series of articles by David Dietz on “forging the future” makes stimulating reading. If we can’t go touring in the family sedan, we can at least dream of the super-efficient, air-conditioned, trans-parent-topped car of tomorrow. And of airplanes for all— whether for personal piloting or for fast public conveyance of passengers and cargo. : ® = = ; ss x = PRIORITY rules won’t let us build a new house now, or fix the old one the way we'd like it. But wait until we can take advantage of the magical new plastics, alloys and lighting devices that are now serving grimmer purposes. No nylon stockings now to glamorize the ladies’ calves —but tomorrow there will be nylon aplenty, and.in a hundred forms, for everything from upholstery fabrics to window screens. ied And so on through many fields of indittey. For an antidote to the blues, on days when the war news and the ration news and the latest Washington muddles oppress you, it'll do no harm to reflect on the future with Mr. Dietz, and day-dream about the wonderful gadgets that will be ready, when fighting ends. Industry is meeting the test of war and under war's pressure it is preparing for a richer life when peace shall come.

THE SOLDIER—AND PAY-AS-YOU-GO HE army is inducting about 12,000 men a day. Since the pool of unmarried men is nearly exhausted, soon most of the new inductees will be married men. . To the wives these men leave behind, the government pays $50 a month where they are ¢hildless, a little more where there are children. To make up that monthly remittance, the government kicks in $28, and deducts $22 from the soldier's pay—leaving the soldier $28 a month to blow on movies, cigarets, soft drinks and what not. Among ‘that what-nots making a demand on his purse is the tax due on his 1942 income. If he is a married man

without children, and his 1942 income was $2000, he owes |.

‘a tax of $103,220; if his income was $2500, his tax debt is $186; if $3000 income, $268.80 tax debt; if $5000 income, $639 tax debt; if $7000 income, tax debt $1068.20; if $10,000 income, tax debt $1826. : Of course all soldiers won’t have to pay their tax debts out of that $28 a month. For those who can prove inability to pay the government will postpone collections until the war is over. And when the last gun ceases firing, and the men start civilian life anew looking for jobs, one of the first fellows to come knocking on their doors will be the tax | collector. What a home-coming? "Yet the treasury experts and some congressional‘leaders refuse to grant the logic of the Ruml pay-as-you-go

plan—a plan based on the simple truth that a man’s ability

this year depends not upon how much money t year, but upon how much income he realizes

to pay he made this year.

GLASS HOUSES GLASS i in fibrous form plays a great part i in construction

of barracks for our big army, according to a Maj.

iser of the war department’s services of supply. We ime that the house in glase Aegiosn soldiers, mindful

ered by carrier, 18 ‘cents

Fair Enough [

By Westbrook Pegler

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—There is something mysterious and sinjster in the case of Walter Winchell, a notorious professional scandal monger, who holds a reserve commission -as a lieutenant commander in the navy but has now been placed on the inactive list and set on the beach, so to speak, but apparently, only under pressure from the naval affairs y committee of the house of tepresentatives. This man seems not to have the slightest appreciation of the distinction between gossip and information. This makes him a dangerous man in the role of informant or investigator for naval intelligence or any other similar service. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told the naval affairs committee that he had no intention to call Winchell back to active duty. That would put a satisfactory end to an episode which. has been detrimental to the prestige of the officers’ stripes in the navy if Knox's promise had not been followed by mysterious insinuations from Winchell himself that he will continue to function in his own peculiar way.

"News'' Not to Be Ignored

THIS WOULD SEEM to mean that he will be sending reports on individuals, a considerable proportion of them unfounded, to naval intelligence and | . to the FBI with which he has been more or less |:% intimate by way of a personal friendship with J. Edgar Hoover. Editors and reputable writers have a feeling that to discuss Winchell is to advertise him and inflate |’ a vanity which often has expressed itself in over- | flowing tributes to himself.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES “The Point "in Point-Rationing _

Unruly Democrats - a By Thomas L. Stokes

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 22—The Democratic party in congress isin a state of discord and disunion, its once proud flags drooping in the dust, its leadership. bedeviled ang: uncertain. This is most noticeable in. the. Y house, perhaps, because the senate” thus far his tackled little * ‘major. business. en ' Everybody knew that Solin” Sam Rayburn was in for troublots: times when his Demoeratic majority was whittled” down to a thin edge in the November elections, but Ww has quickly turned out even worse than some’ press dicted. The speaker is at the mercy of a coalition. of dis gruntled and unruly Democrats—most of them

| from his own South and basically conservative—and a

well-disciplined Republican host. ' They ‘make up a

8! consistent anti-administration majority time after”

: | time on New Deal issues.

The newspaper business has been responsible for him and the degradation of journalistic ethics which has occurred in his time for he has been used widely in papers which would not think of permitting &ny local reporter to publish comparable intimacies about local people and which would fire any local reporter who had a similar record. But he becomes news and is no more to be

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

ignored than any other unpleasant topic when it

appears that, notwithstanding his relegation to the |“ALL OF US LEARNING

(Times readers are invited. Japs? Read Rose Wright's letter,

inactive list, he will continue to investigate what he |NEwW WAY OF LIFE”

calls the “under-cover menace” and, presumably, to

pass on tips to the navy.

Knox's Position Not Clear

By Myra Carey Morgan, 6668 Cornell st. In the various newspaper articles we read a lot of words that criticize many things and people as well

THIS SUGGESTS that the real operatives, or |How fine it would be to start read-

detectives of the intelligence service, to snooping into the lives of innocent victims.

will be set ing kind things about the people

in Washington and how grand it

Mr. Knox's position in this case is not clear. As would be if everyone took kindly to an editor and publisher he has expressed a low |the rationing.

professional opinion of Winchell’s trustworthiness as a reporter and of his ethics.

It is not hard to accept the many things in these days if we pray and

Knox has said that he would not have him on |have faith in God and in people.

his papef, the Chicago Daily News, but nevertheless,

Take the people in Washington,

he has used Winchell for official, noncombatant duties, |they have a big job, we can help the nature of which has not been disclosed but |g)] of them do the job better by which, from Winchell’'s own remarks, would appear |cutting out words and thoughts

to have consisted of confidential investigation.

that criticize and put in their place

Inasmuch as he would not trust this man’s word |thoughts of faith and trust.

about individuals in print it is inconsistent that he

Prayer can do a lot if you give it

trust him as an informant or investigator for he |4 chance. If we first look within navy if Winchell is telling the truth about his navy |qyurselves and pray for wisdom and

duties.

"Outlet for Propaganda"

FT IS NOT speculation to observe that Winchell, since he took up patrioteering, has become an outlet

for propaganda against opponents of the New Deal

unselfishness and love for our fellowmen, and when we find it keep

happiness is ours to unlock the kingdom of good, and as we are blessed others will be blessed whether they be our loved one’s

it, the key to our daily joy and

to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because | of the volume received, letters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be

signed.)

‘Feb. 10th Times. She knows what it’s all about. Taxes? You haven't seen anything yet. The Japs sold us a longtime, high-priced total war in 1941; and it’s all going to be paid for with ‘| taxes. : Why imitate England? Well, why not adopt proved methods, British,

they carried out their platform

promises.

better ideas. Why reduce our living standard? Japan and der fuehrer are doing

I am speaking as one who spent| that for us,

almost 10 years in the registration department. And I might say here| 5:0 fighting for?

Why lose our freedoms the boys Just what free-

and now the registration law is &| goms? To burn up oil needed by

good law.

But in order to get aWay| the armed forces, to wear out fast from all the political bickering and| our limited rubber, to grab sugar :

charges of fraud, the registration|s, the other fellow can have none? department should be put under a|Qur freedom to howl about every merit law and that way both sides| war inconvenience has not been

been robbed.”

every election cannot yell, “We'vetabridged; and The Times editor is

still free to publish our complaints

So if the Republicans are really | if they're worth the space.

in favor of a nonpartisan registra-

How tell a real air.alarm from a

tion law, let them write and pass a| phoney? We can soon find out, if real one. It's in their platform and | curious, by noting bomb explosions,

they have the necessary majority in | wrecked

both houses to put it over.

building8, killed and maimed—which might include some

German or Abyssinian? Got any |

party, which officials of the government would prefer not to utter themselves. X Harold Ross, editor of the New Yorker magazine, When demonstrated disqualification of Winchell for any enough, rank in any armed’ service in a series of articles

matically.

friends, neighbors or strangers, we ‘build our faith big and our prayers strong enough, there will be no room in which cited chapter and verse and rated him mathe- | OUf thoughts to criticize or hate. In these days all of us are learning Within one year there appéared in print and were |the new way of life. It is teaching heard on the air three separate insinuations ‘that [US all about faith, love and God, and

Please don’t accept this as sour | of those who think “it can’t happen grapes. I would, “from a political| here.” standpoint, like to see the law as it| We're back in the horse and is because it will give us Democrats | buggy days—what are we going to our chance to yell next year, “We've | do about it? Just keep ‘the horse been robbed.” And if you think: going until the war's over. If the that doesn't help—well, the Repub- | axis wins, they’ll take the horse and licans sold themselves on that kind | buggy. If we win, we'll give Ger-

Mr. and Mrs. Ross were having demestic troubles, |Our relation to our fellowmen;. as all of them lies by a man whom the navy never- |time goes on we will learn more theless, for some reason, has willingly or perforce, [truth about the real way of life, employed on mysterious duties with the rank of lieu- [that way is along the path of faith

tenant commander.

and prayer.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross are still happily married and % = =

have never been separated.

“WE NEED A VOTERS

This essay is no part of any feud, unless it can | REGISTRATION MERIT LAW”

be said that a broom has a feud with dirt.

In Washington

{By Peter Edson

«

By Harry J. Gasper, 903 E, 11th st.

Headline: “S. B. 3 Was Theirs But G. O. P. Will Regret It.” Now will they? I have not read this new bill but if it is anything like it is written up in the papers, then the Republicans must have been asleep, or they are trying to pull a fast one on the public. If they will read Sec. 6 of the original registration law passed in

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22. —After [1933 they will find what it passed

Eddie Rickenbacker was rescued, major rubber companies had their |of these years. Washington representatives sitting |in the ointment.

in S. B. 3 has been on the books all But here is the fly Instead of ap-

on the doorsteps of ‘the war de- |pointing registration clerks, the partment, digesting their finger- |county clerk by authority of his ofnails into synthetic plastic scrap |fice can appoint each deputy in his

to see which factory had made the | eoistration department a deput rubber raft in which Rickenbacker Topiy as is Bras done now a

had been kept afloat and alive The competition been done in the pash was terrific. First Firestone thought the boat could be identified from. the photographs as

after the crash.

one of theirs.

But the war department wouldn't let the company break out in advertising till it checked up and made In the end, it turned out to be‘a Goodyear

sure. boat. Specifications for all the boats, including those

made by Goodyear are exactly the same, but industrial competition of this sort is considered a good

morale builder for the workers.

There was similar competition among the manufacturers of jeeps, to determine which auto company had made the job President Roosevelt rode in at Casa-

blanca. It turned out to be a Willys.

/

Tea-Time in Africa

TEA PROPAGANDA is one of the latest nifties

So that much of the law is not worth Snys thing and they know it. Let us as Democrats not be 00 jubilant over this bill. You know the Republicans had a’ nonpartisan voters registration plank in their platform and this bill is just a sop to the public to make them think

of stuff. Remember the old charges; many the horse to eat, and build a —no more $5 marriage certificates, |lot of shiny new cars—three or four no $3 birth certificates and so on | for each garage.

and so on. Yet the same things still prevail under this Republican ad-

ministration,

n= “INDIVIDUALISM CARRIES

Yours for a real voters registra- | SELFISH IDEALS”

tion merit law. ” » 2 “IF AXIS WINS, THEY'LL TAKE HORSE AND BUGGY”

By W. H. Edwards, Spencer ' For years we have read glowing praises of rugged individualism in our papers; now we have an ex-

By Mrs. H. W. Barnes, R. R. 16, Box 356 emplification of how that much

Mrs.

Allen wishes answers to|lauded individualism carries a na-

questions concerning the miseries tion to selfish ideals of black mar-

our civilians are undergoing. Here's the dope, in brief: How to make 35 cups coffee from one pound? Use small cups. Why have to drink adulterated coffee? We don’t. Greay grandmother, an Indiana pioneer, got along without any coffee at all for quite some lime, However, she only lived to be 92. With Rept blicans in, why haven’t we two -cars per garage? Because our motor car manufacturers now insist on building tanks, planes,

hy is this the only country to consider use of horse meat? It

isn’t. Horse meat has been eaten in France and other countries for years. Try it some time—it isn’t bad. Why give jobs to American-born

Side Glances—By Galbraith

. tongue, though they look more like a pattern of tea-

thought up by the office of war information for overseas consumption. It seems that the water supply of the North African eountries never has been any too pure, so the natives brew a strong green tea, boiling the water to kill the germs, and flavoring with a big gob of sweetening that produces a syrup-like tea mixture which is part of the basic diet. Trouble is, North Africa’s green tea imports have been cut off. So the OWI people have been getting | | green tea from somewhere, and putting it up in fancy red, white and blue containers. Stars and Stripes and Union Jack are crossed on one side of the cardboard box, and on the top is the red, white and blue star and circle which identifies American aircraft. On two other faces of the box are Arabic characters which presumably spell out “T-E-A” in the native

grounds. On ‘the fourth side is a Spanish label, “Te Deliciosa . . .” and a transcription which, translated, says, “From Your Friends ‘the United Nations. ”

Quick Change of Climate

AVIATORS AND planes in the African desert campaigiis have to withstand the greatest and the most rapid changes in temperatures in the world. A pilot bundles up in furs and takes off with the thermometer at 120 degrees above. A few minutes later, pilot and plane will be 35,000 feet in the air, where the tempera- | ture registers 50 degrees below zero—170 degrees change quicker than you can sgy “Eisenhower.” ; These extremes ‘have made necessafy research and

kets, regardless of .the welfare of those brave young men of ours who are, on the various battle lines, fighting for the welfare of all of us. including the selfish .individualists. We older people remember well how members of the meat packing trust contracted with our government in 1898 to ship chilled beef to the soldiers in southern camps but found it much cheaper to chemicalize that beef than to ice it, with the result that thousands of soldiers suffered and died from eating that “embalmed heef.” John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and other gangsters were rugged individualists; they enforced their individualism with death - dealing guns. Other individualists choose a more civilized way to take care of their individual wants, and to h—1 with any and all who would rather seek the golder rule way. A glamorous member of congress would have us seek the way of national individualism, the selfish way that has in the past and now been more responsible than anything else in breeding wars. Oh, yes, glamour wants to be in the limelight, but glamour and co-operative nationalism are not akin. ; ® x 8 “GARBAGE PLANT DETERIORATION IS INEXCUSABLE” By Charles M. Snyder, 2251 Garfield dr. Sitting idly by and making no provisions to combat the deterioration of our garbage reduction plant

peace—it is the height of business

| . | inefficiency.

To neglect the replacement of deteriorated equipment during a national emergency, however, is nothing, short of a flagrant disregard for our national safety, the successful prosecution of a war and the full protection of the lives that we are transporting across the seas. 3 » o 5 i» % The ‘responsibility . . . must be fully assumed by the former members of “the board = of ~ public works. . : ;

pa THOUGHT

The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.—Numbers 6:24.

is jnexcusable during times of|

a > ey

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Republicans Stay in Seats : WHEN A VOTE is at hand, Republicans are

"| there in their seats, accounted for, The other side or “| the aisle is generally thinly populated. ©

Frantically the whips try to round ‘them up. But always some are missing, willing to let the particular” issue go by default. Some who are present are there” to vote against the administration, This is the story almost daily. Sam Rayburn does not seem to know what to do’ about it. Maybe there is nothing he could do about it. One solution, however, is being offered by some: members for part of the trouble. r 1t relates to the issue the Republicans have seised | and are capitalizing. : This is “economy”—with the bureaucracy as “the goat. It is an old issue. But it always goes over with the harassed taxpayer, and it is going big just now. The bureaucrat is an ideal whipping boy, gers] and aloof.

View Bureaucrats as Meddlers

DEMOCRATIC RANKS, likewise, are pervatelt with resentment at the downtown bureaucrats. With" them it is a more personal matter. Tiley look upon the bureaucrats as meddlers in affairs that belong to: congress, as ruling by fiat, and doing things that annoy the public and bring blame upon congress.”: *¢ . For few constituents know a bureaucrat to blame. : They only know their congressmen. If the issue is good—and the public seems to be excited about it—then some Democrats ask why can-. not the Democrats take hold of it, take it away from: the Republicans, and offer a sotind program of econ<" omy that would not cut into essential government functions, but would whack away large chunks Shes penditures for useless furictions. That, instead of seeing the Republicans riding high and getting the credit, and perhaps in the process crippling some administration function that, is useful, and necessary.

Many Places for Economy

TO WATCH the house these days from the gallery,. one would think the leader on the floor was the. broad-shoulered Everett Dirksen (R. Ill), with his heavy mop of hair that waves like a torch as he offers amendments cutting down appropriations and slicing off agencies. j A member of the appropriations committee, he is a student of fiscal problems, and he is an able debater. He sets the elders of the committee back on . their haunches in chagrin, as he breaks [inte their 4. progrant. But the Democrats on the committee never seem to get down to a sound program of economy. And there

are many avenues for economy in:the multifold gov-

ernment establishments, particularly those relating to purely peacetime affairs. A sort of logrolling process that goes on’ in’ the appropriations committee is perhaps to blame, The. ’ committee is divided into subcommittees, and these year after year handle the same departments or, agencies, so that there grows up a close association. which seems to militate against harsh treatment. Then the subcommittee, sitting together as the whole committee ratify each other's schedules with little question. .

We the Women

By Ruth. Millett

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HASN'T THERE been ‘eriough stuff and nonsense written about’ how fine and wonderful ands patriotic it is for girls to spend: their evenings dancing with sol: diers at U. S. O. parties? . ta It sometimes sounds as though the girl who spends her evenings; dancing with men’ in uniform isdoing as’ much as they are to win, ‘ the war. A Actually, the . girls: are having the time of their'lives. It is heaven for any girl to go. to a dance where the men outnumber the women. five to one. And especially now, when there aren't many. single Ks civilian men for a girl to date, it is pure luck to be. able to meet a lot of soldiers. . : So the girls are having fun. There is nothing. wrong with that of course. It's nice that there are, some gay evenings for them; . with plenty. of. men. around to make them feel glamorous. :

Just Plain Lacky 5 6

BUT WHY TRY to make heroines of them? Why build up dancing with men to the point where. it seems as though if she goes to a couple of U. 8. O.

dances each week, a girl is Seing her part to help

win -the war?

The build-up is silly. And it certainly isn’t nee. essary, because girls don’t hive to be sold on oar taining soldiers. Uniforms sell themselves, These girls, who - are: fortunate enough to ‘go to ‘dances where there ate plenty of handsome men in uniform, have been described as “unselfish, patriotie, and deserving of high . se. ”» Forget it. The truth: is they're just plain lucky, as: any lonely girl who doesn’ live near an army camp will tell you:

3 on To the Poinf— : bod * HERE'S HOPING we all have the sort. of. od oy with our victory.gardens that “will let us oy: our. can openers away, ; . . ce x PEOPLE WHO really love, the red, white and ite; do not patronize the Diack ‘market. NO WONDER moray a 50 coossatil in the chine shop, after years of experience with all Fo

kitchen gadgets, 5 » Pe He dx

. JUNIOR WANTS to help the war oftort hie says, 50 : many people need food, he’s: willing b give wp his; : spinach for the duration. to “% a * * STATISTICS SHOW three-fourths of our agel- EA dents are unnecessary. We can’t imagine a res ie

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