Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1943 — Page 10

‘Editor, in - U., 8. Service WALTER LECKRONE Editor

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

, and Audit Buof Circulations,

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1043

BRITAIN and the United States are paying a price for re- : fusal to create a united nations in which others may have a voice. - ; The morale of smaller governments is suffering.’ Fear growing among them that Washington and London will dominate the peace settlement as well as the war strategy; and that, between the Anglo-American partnership and a powerful Russia playing a lone hand, smaller nations will be denied elementary rights. - We think this fear is exaggerated. Nevertheless, exusion of our smaller allies from the effective war councils and peace planning can become as dangerous as it is inefficient. The natural reaction will be for them to combine i in a series of blocs within the grand alliance. Instead ‘of the united nations, there would be in fact disunited nations. That would be disastrous to all concerned. + Dissatisfaction has spread from the small nations to the two intermediate powers—China and the Netherlands. Chungking and its representatives in thfs country, includ“ing Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, resented the omission of China from the powers listed by Prime Minister Churchill last ‘Sunday. And now even the Dutch, whose relationship to Britain has been so close in the past, are objecting. This week there was the strange spectacle of Foreign Minister Van Kleffens of the Netherlands carrying to the British press—presumably because he could not get satisfaction from officials—this protest against “the strong tendency” of Britain and the United States to dominate decisions, Just because the United States and Brjtain are strong . powers, and as such inevitably have a major voice, it is more necessary that our other allies receive rightful recogmition as members of a united nations council now. This is a matter not only of justice but of safety.

THEY SAY “PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE SAVED”

ent against the Ruml pay-as-you-go income tax plan—when you pare it down to the bone, all you get is: . 1. The people should have saved enough out of their * last-year’s incomes to pay the taxes on those incomes which ~ fall due this year, and— ~ © 2. Having saved enough out of 1942 incomes to pay - 1942 taxes now, the people should be able at the same time to pay their taxes on 1943 incomes—as-they-earn—in other " words, pay two years’ taxes in one year. The troubles with this argument are: Ls 1. Even if you grant that the people “should have . saved,” the fact is they didn’t, and— « “. 2. It’s hard to see how they could have saved, because (a) they had to use part of their 1942 incomes to pay the 1941 tax—just as they have paid taxes one year late for » the 30 years the income tax law has been on the books— and (b) because they didn’t know and couldn't know how much 1942 income tax they would owe until late in October, when the 1942 revenue act was passed. The evil of the present income tax system is not that

e peole have been skipping a year in paying the tax, but at congress has been skipping a year in laying the tax.

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. WE STILL NEED A WAR CABINET

IN naming Chester C. Davis as the new food administrator the president has chosen a frst-clags man for a most. difficult job. But whether he succeeds on this new assignment dends upon much more than Mr, Davis’ special talents as an administrator. It depends upon whether he can formulate and execute his policies in line with an over-all national program. His predecessor, Mr. Wickard, was unable to do that, and the failure was not all Mr. Wickard's fault. Mr. Davis will be confronted with the same difficulties that harassed Mr. Wickard. On paper, he will be charged ) “full responsibility for and control over the nation’s

yector Hershey. ; .Food production will depend upon the machinery and fertilizer which farmers can get—and War Production d Chief Nelson has the last say there. Food production depend upon prices paid for farm products—and Price dministrator Brown has the power over that. . Of course, Mr. McNutt, Gen. Hershey, Mr. Nelson and . Brown will try to co-operate with Mr. Davis, just as ey tried to co-operate with Mr. Wickard. But each must ider other needs—for instance, the conflicting requireents of the armed services and the war industries. So, highly as we regard Mr. Davis, we doubt. that he will have any more success as food administrator than Mr. ickard did—unless and until there is a better organization ‘the war effort at the top, and unless and until President Roosevelt organizes his chief administrators into a war net, meets regularly with that cabinet, considers .the flicts as they arise, and gives clear-cut decisions” which administrators can follow in carrying out the over-a program, eh

EM EAT CAVIAR KRYTHING nowadays has to be lass ainpledinhin; ing a tax bill, it’s the syme the wide world over; it’s poor that gits the blyme; it's the rich that gits the pleas’t it a bloomin’ shame? Jut here's a new one, with a real proletarian slant. calls for less points than steak, bacon, liver or dried the new meat rationing. However, lest we become alarmed that this is a new of Bolshevist infiltration—a sort of internationale via ; ‘us note that while caviar. calls for. only

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| By Daniel | M Kidney

turning from a two weeks’ tour of the Midwest where I talked to farmers, I found business as usual among the Hoosiers here. That is, the Hoosier Repub licans on Capitol Hill still are engaged in cussing out the Indiane {fans who are working for the ad-

fices. Rep. Forest A. Harness (R. Ind) was decrying alleged deceptions perpetrated

A. Halleck (R. Ind.), was displaying letters from Secretary of Agriculture Wickard to prove that a price ceiling was put on corn in contravention of an act of congress. : ‘The matter with which Mr. Harness was dealing was the number of draft-age nen still working for OWI. He claimed the figures furnished by Mr, Davis were outmoded and that constituted a form of deception. The Davis letter to the house military affairs committee, of which Mr. Harness is a memsber, showed 746 men 18 ‘to 37 working for OWI and deferred by their local draft boards; 222 not deferred and assumed to be awaiting call to service, and 82 deferred at the specific request of OWI.

Is Any Man Indispensable?

MR. HARNESS maintained that he had learned the list was months old and th-refore' might cone stitute misinformation to the congress, “It is indeed a sorry condition if soverniental agencies are to be permitted to make official statements or issue information to congress one .day which they may deny on the next if there is need to save face,” Mr. Harness said.

“indispensable man” theory, he maintained. “I cannot imagine an instance of a man under 30 whose service to the government is indispensable,” he concluded. “I would go much further than that and say that there is simply no such thing as the indispensable man, in government or out.” In talking for the restoration of parity corn prices, without deduction of AAA payments, Mr. - Halleck read the Wickard letter and made the point that “there is no effort that F can find in the letter to justify that executive order;” viz, ‘establishing corn price ceilings through OPA.

Lashes ‘Government by Decree’

AS A MEMBER of the important house rules committee, the second district congressman lashed out against the current practice of government by decree.

“Since the 78th congress convened we have been

required to spend a great deal of our time undoing executive and administrative acts which were outside and clearly beyond the scope of the authority contained in many measures enacted by congresses preceding this one,” Mr. Halleck said. “Many of those acts have been in direct contravention of the statutes. The action which is required here today is necessary because of an executive order which I say flies right straight in the face of the mandate and will and the intention of the congress.” . 8.8 : Westbrook Pegler is on vacation.

In Washington.

By Peter Edson 7g

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WASHINGTON, March 27— : Four out of 25 photographers were killed in action during the filming of “Desert Victory,” the British army movie of the 80-day, 1200mile’ advance in pursuit of Rommel from Egypt, across Africa to Tunisia. That is perhaps the most forceful press notice and advance billing that can be given this picture which Prime Minister Churchill previewed, then ordered sent to President Roosevelt by plane. It is being subtitled “the best picture of the war” and from the point of view of giving the most realistic conception of an entire military campaign, it lives up to the description. Photographers who made it were in many instances up in front of the advancing army, so they could shoot into the faces of their own troops, and that accounts for the casualties of one man out of every six in the photographic crew. One cameraman was killed during the opening barrage. The other three, out ahead of their own sappers and mine defectors, stepped on mines planted by fetreating Germans and were blown to bits. “Desert Victory,” after its’ Washington "preview, will be given national distribution through 20th Cen-tury-Fox. The film runs an hour, having been cut to some 5000 feet from an original 20,000 exposed. In a concentrated dose, it will give any civilian who has never been under fire, the feel of war.

The Man Who Made It

THE MAN WHO supervised the making of the film, Lieut.-Col. David MacDonald, is head of the British army’ film unit, and the man who brought the film to Washington. He is an unassuming little Scotsman, somewhat nervous and inclined to walk about wtih his arms clasped in ofront of him. He learned movie-making in Hollywood during an eightyear stopover on his wanderings all over the world.

‘| He was everything from sn extra to an assistant ‘di-

rector, and he returned to London in 1937 with an. American wife to become one of the top directors in the British Isles. Perhaps the most spectacular of the shots made by Col. MacDonald's men in the advance of Gen. Montgomery’s eighth army across Africa are of the night barrage which opened the attack on Rommel’s positions in western Egypt. There were no trick lights, no studio props. Only flashes of guns in desert night. Half of Col. MacDonald’s photographic unit in the chase of Rommel was made up of still cameramen, working beside movie photographers, and prints. of

the campaign as the movie version.

It's All There BRITISH POSITIONS at the start of the cam-

treat, British training for attack, desert sandstorms, flies, sores, endless waiting in the few short mo-

tanks, injured, dead. Prisoners by the thousand. Churchill’s surprise visit to the front. Gen. Mont-

mel across North Africa, with its laconic: last sentence, “I await your further orders.” ‘weeks of desert victory in an hour’s Not all of Col. MacDonald's filming of battles. He recalls as his most vivid remem-

afflicted with desert sores, who tried to fill his gasoline-burning stove with fuel.

WASHINGTON, March 37—Re- |

ministration in the downtown of- |

by Director Elmer Davis of OWI, while Rep. Charles |

. Specific deferment is but another facet of the

their negatives give as vivid a documentary record of

paign in November, Rommel’s initial thrust and re- |

ments before the command to fire. Endless explo- (i # sions, dive bomber attacks, crashing planes, burning’|} §%

gomery’s message to the prime minister when he had ] completed his directive from Churchill to drive Roms | § ° Ivs all there—eight || were the ¥

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i "The ‘Hoosier Forum

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

“PUNISH THE PEOPLE, NOT THE DOGS” By Mrs. H. M. W., Indianapolis. Dogs are undoubtedly man’s best friend, and as a whole, the best loved animal in the world. I say if anyone doesn’t care enough for his dog to keep it off the streets they (the owners) should be fined and given a stiff jail sentence instead of picking up the poor innocent dog. Then, if they don’t keep it in they shouldn't be allowed to have a dog. Any dog I have ever owned has

‘| been taught to obey. I have no

fences but my dog has never left the yard and I've had it eight and one-half years. It's cruel to allow dogs to multiply just to be killed. The people should be punished, not the dogs. Something will have to be done because the Streets are full of dogs at all times. In this neighborhood they run and bark all day and night and their owners never try to stop them. The law has a right to stop all this—why don’t they? No ane could possibly love a dog more than

I do, but I don’t believe in letting

them run wild.

Si ® ” ” “FOREVER BANISH WAR FROM FACE OF EARTH” By Haze Hurd, 830 S. Addison st. I have read this so often, I just wonder if it is true. “I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” (Voltaire) I just wonder if you will permit me to repeat my views in the Hoosier Forum. I will certainly have to see this one before I believe you will allow me the privilege of seeing this view in print. So here goes. We hear so much wrangling and tangling and political messingaround about our post-war problems

and how to avoid another war. I

wish to say just a few words on that subject. That man you have heard so much about, and people as a rule know so little about, by the name of Mohammed, of Arabia, gave to the world a code where no nation could go to war with another -nation. None of the nations accepted it and the result has been one war after another for 1300 years. That code he ‘gave to the world

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let ters must be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed.)

over the radio. . . . All it needs is a sympathetic administration. The senator had three such administrations after the “last war, and what happened? Two years after the armistice came the collapse of the farmers’ wartime prosperity. The post-war, building boom ended up about the

is so plain and simple a little child can understand it, and if a grown man would put selfishness and self(gain out of his heart, he can learn to have it as I do, and it will forever banish war from the face of the earth so people cah learn to

live in peace right here on earth. : ® = = : “SHERIFF WHIPPED BEFORE HE STARTS” By J. F. 8. Indianapolis “Fad raids"—

cellent cleanup of the rotten gam-

bling rackets in ‘Indianapolis: by Chief Beeker, as reported in The Times. Then Sheriff Petit practically issues an invitation to the criminal scum to operate in his territory by declaring “I believe in

a live and let live policy.”

This is exactly the policy that brought our city to the rotten, sorry state it was in when Mayoy The people

Tyndall took over. elected this administration because they were disgusted with political tie-up with crime, and their faith in Mayor Tyndall has been justified. Crime has decreased, the pampering of ‘teen aged thugs has been stopped and a working man now has e chance to get

getting it.

And then Otto Petit, a public servant, sworn to enforce the law “Why anybody knows gambling can’t be This explains why he

issues this noble statement:

stopped.” has taken no part in the vice drive.

He is whipped before he starts. Let| us hope none of our army generals

feels that way about the War. 2 8 8 “MR. WILLKIE HAS DIFFERENT IDEAS” .

By = Sout Taylor, 156 Middle dr. Wood-

io enterprise needs ‘no government help to supply jobs for all

after the war, said Senator Taft

Side Glances—By Galbraith

brante the aificulties of che of his dtivers, 8 mani,

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this is Sheriff Otto Petit's sneering reference to the ex-

home with his money without the gamblers

same time.

‘ Nine years later came the Hoover bread lines. .. . . On street corners selling apples were jobless veterans for whom the four freedooms are too good, or too bad. Anyway, the senator says they should be traded off for four Old Dealers like Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and Andrew Mellon. In due time, the senator will come face to face with the eternal truth

*|which js the "essence of Old Deal philosophy—that the bigger the war, |.

the bigger the profits, the bigger the depression and the bigger the armies that will return to demand that their bill of rights include the right to a job. : History will repeat itself, because Old Dealers never change. Modern production may become a world system dependent upon the universal exchange of goods and capital. "Nevertheless, the next Hoover will rebuild trade barriers. The next Harding will ‘scuttle our warships in exchange for scraps of paper to" save taxes.

his thumbs ‘while Wall Street gambles with’ the nation’s wealth. The next: Mellon will shift the cost ‘of thé war from the rich to the poor. And all ‘four will let the losers ‘police the victory to save taxes. “America for Americans”: will be their slogan. It means “America against the world” without its business and . without its powerful cooperation in peace and war. Mr. Willkie has different ideas. 2 2 ” “WE MUST STAND OR FALL TOGETHER” Sp By W. G. Green, 402 N. Meridian st. |

Upholding Dr. Frank S. C. Wicks. Taking issue with Mr. “George| Maxwell, ; To Mr. Maxwell and all others | who mouth the axis-coined phrase, “British Imperialism.” Why do you do it? Why in.Heaven's: namé ‘are

‘a time like this?

Wicks’ letter to the Forum, but I know Mr. ‘Wicks and I know that he is not friendly toward our enemies, and anything he has to say

I will approve of without reading. To Mr. Maxwell and all of his

§ |kind I would like to point out that #1 |all three.of our enemies have gone

to gredt effort to foment trouble

%1 lin India and are still hard at it, ¢| land a three-year-old child should “Ibe .able- to- understand that Indian

freedom at this time would be greatly to our enemies’ advantage’

i and. to our own disadvantage. . | t it through your

Can't you .

Indian freedom.

The next Coolidge will twiddle |

you unfriendly toward our ally at)

I am sorry I have not seen Mr.|

regarding our enemies or our allies|.

1 om lle, Mr. Maxwell? 2 TO enw whieh side’ Mr. Wicks : . He's on ‘our side—and Im

1 one or two re winds. of meat

but more than 30, and no division ¢ AMA! like to go into action without. a full: 3 them. E Not just tanks, but: Nght and wait kn variety plus 75-mm, gun motor carriages, howitzer motor cafriages, scout cars, armored cars, half-tracks (half auto, half tractor), personnel carriers, and, if he’s strictly up-to-date, self-propelled 155-mm. guns which can haul off and murder an enemy. battery half a county away. You see it all here at the Chester tank depot, which is a sort of polishing and packaging depart= ment for the armored side of the U. S. army—and a8 Africa demonstrates, that’s a very big side. Here they take 30-ton tanks and tailor them ale most to individual order, get them set for delivery to the fighting fronts with everything but red ribbon bows and “don’t open {ill Christmas.”

| A Situation to Your Liking

HERE OFFICERS escort you to a small tower, . wave an arm out over acres of .olive-drab armored vehicles with guns bristling, remark that there = 400 land battlewagons there, and ask proudly; “How do you like it?” You like it immensely. The tailoring, or modification, job varies from.

adding sand guards for tracks of Africa-bound Gen. -

Sherman tanks to seeing to it that there’s anti-freeze in similar tanks headed for Russia. Here they add’ counterbalances to the turrets of the giant M-10 tank - destroyers, found necessary only after field trials. Here also they add the smaller guns, and one or two of some 22 types of radio and communication sets. They weld on flare holders, cartridge holders, spare parts. They provide tool kits, which on the larger tanks may include close to 2000 items. Fixing a Gen. Sherman tank out in a desert isn't

a sparkplug replacement on the old model-T.

Tank modification work, necessary because these: fighting giants must be used in many different fronts . and by different allies, can’t be done in the big tank arsenals where they come off the original production lines. It is fine specification work which must be done to order. There are idiosyncracies among tank drivers, t00, of course. Tanks going to the British must have their little cookstove-and-tea outfits. The British can be particular, the Russians more so, say the Fe tank artisans. ;

Proud of Tank Destroyer

MEN HERE LIVE in a world of Jetteroasig-nstmber symbols. Some one reels off things like “8CR210™ and someone else goes to a shelf and gets just the right communications set for an armored car. : They're proud of many things here, but. perhaps proudest of the tank destroyer. That's the one that: has done much to batter Rommel in Tunisia. “What military men think of it was voiced the other day: to Chester tank men by a: Soviet officer: “When we get two of them the war will be over.” The tank depot makes up gigantic sets of spare parts for every 100 tanks, then: breaks them down; for shipping purposes, to sections for servicing 25 tanks.

Tank 2; ina bani campaign, Ha) stars. to go out after several hundred miles, and: overhaul becomes mandatory. Replacement may begin in armored-force communications after 18 hours. There are thousands of parts. to be replaced, and the job of the Chester depot isto ~have ‘each where it = needed at the right time.

Department Stores: Noto. i

THE TASK OF packaging tanks and parts is one that would make your department-store wrapping counter gasp. Vehicles weighing tons are picked up by cranes and fitted ints big boxes as neatly as a pair of shoes. Gen. Sherman tanks go off under giant Jarpauling the .big M-10 tanks.under wooden box hc 5 Ths. tank depot uses 210,000 feet of Jumbise a. in 4 packaging job—more, officers say, than any plant in the country. SLY. oi tepoh 5. olirof out operated by Wf. army, and it is the: largest. It’s something like & newspaper office where new deadlines are met constantly; from England or Africa or somewhere else . there is a call for a certain number of tanks at's certain time, and the tank depot works day and night to get them out. It almost never misses. There’s much inside the depot, run by the Ford Motor Co., which can’t be discussed—secret, weapons to blast Hitler. The attitude of most people here is: . “Wait till Eisenhower gets this stuff.”

We the Women " By Ruth Millett

ing, once , they se : ‘mobiles as much as i Will they be less prone to speed now that they have learned can get where they are ab 35 miles an hour? Will aT thriftier spenders? Will they be less dependent in the past on gadgets and luxuries? In short, will they hang onto some of the er wl ey ng OR EO the kind of lives they led before the war—if are given a chance? : : "Well, it seems as though that question #

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