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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SATURDAY, MAY, 1, 1943

STILWELL AND CHENNAULT

HE appearance of generals Stilwell and Chennault in

is going to be done about the neglected Chinese front. least, we like to think so.

Price in Marion Coun-

ered by carrier, 18 cents

By Westbrook Pegler

PHOENIX, Ariz, May 1—This was the night of Easter Sunday and a lot of soldiers were in from the flying fields and the camps way down in the desert and this one soldier was sitting alone at the bar on a high stool with a bottle of beer in front of him, He was an old guy with a world war ribbon on his shirt and - glasses straddling his long nose and hooked over his big ears, which stood out from his clipped scalp like flippers. In a corner about five yards away there was a juke box into which other soldiers and girls Were pouring nickels, dimes and quarters, It kept up a horrible racket with only brief rests while one record was slid off and the next one dropped into place. The old soldier would slide off his stool every now and again as a record neared its end and tack toward the juke with an nickel in his hand. He was

> . . : : | ; in his beer and the going was Washington is a good sign that something at long last | Pretty well along in his beer going

At] { buttons and send her off again.

heavy, so by the time he got there someone else would beat him to the coin slot, push a bunch of

Stilwell, as commander of American forces in India, | ' Veteran Becomes Desperate

Burma and China and as Chiang Kai-shek's chief military adviser, and Chennault, as commander of the U. S. 14th

air force, presumably would not have been summoned unless | they were to be given a hearing. And, obviously, no two |

men are better to give the president and the combined | | the soldier a decisive brush-off. So they sat on,

Stilwell, though he was | called in much too late and given too little support, prevented

chiefs of staff the lowdown Both have brilliant records.

the British retreat from Burma from being a complete dis-

aster. Chennault’s leadership of the famous Flying Tigers,

. . . EN RGA} and more recently of the 14th, is the outstanding air achieve- | to be desperate.

ment of the war to date. Fortunately, they arrive at a time when America is stirred by revelations of the murder by Japan of pilots of the Doolittle Tokyo raid. The mood of America is bitter. The demand is for action. If we are to carry the air war to Japan, as promised, we must retake and use the nearby Chinese bases. China

has the manpower, the will, the leadership—everything ex- |

cept the weapons and the planes. On no other front can a relatively small number of planes and small amount of equipment accomplish so much. We hope Stilwell and Chennault will get the support they deserve to strike Japan hard.

SECRECY COVERS SINKINGS ARN OTHER apparently optimistic prediction on control of the submarine menace has come out of the navy department. This time the spokesman is Adm. King, commander in chief of the fleet. better based than some of the others have been. so far is that the worse off we are. The Truman navy department's alleged delays in producing anti-sub-marine craft and its hush-hush policy regarding sinkings, has not strengthened public confidence. Secretary Knox now admits, following the Truman prodding, that the united nations in 1942 loss of nearly 1,000,000 gross tons of merchant that that figure was “the difference between all allied losses and allied construction on which statistics are available.” Prime Minister Churchill and American officials had | given just the opposite impression—that allied construction | was larger than shipping losses.

The record

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= HIS raises the question whether the purpose in refusing

from the enemy or to cover up allied failures. tion of shipping losses could reveal anything new to an

marine commanders. The vicious results of secrecy regarding the crucial Battle of the Atlantic are obvious. It destroys public faith, and makes our people suckers for Nazi propaganda claims. It invites and disguises inefficiency. It withholds grim facts, which should be known to many civilians who waste, loaf, strike, and otherwise act in ignorance of our peril. In fairness to our navy department, it should be said that this miralty and that many American cfficials are opposed to it.

They think our navy has done an excellent job under the | difficult circumstances, and resent the hush-hush implica- |

tion that our navy has anything to cover up. = » = » DM. KING'S statement that the submarine will “be under control within four to six months” carefully qualified. He explains:

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control.” Six months would bring us to the late fall season when sinkings naturally decline, so the King pre means that we may control the menace by next year. He listed five methods to combat U-boats:

bases where they are assembled, bombing their refueling

bases, dealing with them in the Bay of Biscay, and sinking |

them on the convoy routes. Others have told us that our bombers, our carriers, our destroyers and escort ships, duced at an accelerated speed for this work. Anyway, all can agree with Adm. King that “There is no cheap way to win the war”—and that goes double for the Battle of the Atlantic.

GOVERNMENT PAYROLLS

OVERNMENT now is paying more in wages and salaries

than all American industry was paying in 1939. This |

includes the armed forces, and also state and local governmental units. The federal government alone is employing as many civilians as are engaged in making planes, ships and other transportation equipment, including those employed in the automotive industries. There are about 13,500,000 persons on governmental payrolls. Their yearly remuneration totals about $13,500,000,000. These figures come from the national industrial conference hoard. Probably they don’t prove anything. But Uncle Sam is a big boy now, isn’t he?

It is to be hoped that his optimism is |

senate committee report, criticizing the | | thanks and crossed the room and almost climbed into He grabbed hold of both sides, lowered | | his head and closed his eyes for the fulfillment, after | | hours of frustration, during which he had had to

{ the juke box.

suffered a net |

shipping; | | bonnet, | serenity

| ful. to publish tonnage losses is to withhold information | No allied | official has yet been able to explain how the later publica- |

In Washington

enemy who already has full reports of them from his sub- |

‘By Peter Edson

secrecy policy originated with the British ad- |

menace | | bought by the federal government.

| this federal buying is sawed off sharply after the

3ombi { Jombing | the war and that the armed" forces after the war

the factories and yards where they are built, bombing the | { be jobs to find for the eight million discharged soldiers

HE TRIED to promote some conversation with a marine corporal on the next stool but the marine was a morose individual who probably was fed up on Chateau-Thierry, Cantigny and Soissons and all such places as the old dugouts talk about, so he gave

side by side, but socially apart. Time after time, the old guy eased himself down

off his perch and squared away toward that box | in his eye, | lieutenant

with a gleam of anticipation and joy but always some crazy dame or some would be there first.

| It was beginning to be late and he was beginning | They close at midnight and the | waiters and the bartenders were passing the word |

to the customers to order up before the deadline.

The oldtimer got down, looked around swimmingly |

and set a course for a table for six.

Cadet Goes to His Rescue

“EXCUSE ME,” he began, “for butting in but I am a little tight and probably I am a pest, but I was at Chateau-Thierry and I can pull up my pants and

show you shrapnel in both legs, but this here is |

Easter Sunday and practically all night I have been sitting around here trying to play a particular record on that damn thing over there and the record I

want to play is Easter Parade, because I am 43 years |

old and not young like these kids, and I am sentimental about Easter and I love Easter Parade. It is

my favorite song and I wonder if you would be so |

kind to see if you can shove in there quick the next | : : : : 9 { Coal miners that I know say it will

i i take five years for them to earn!

time it stops and get Easter Parade for me.” A young flying cadet, whose father is a retired | four-striper of the navy. had noticed the old soldier's | ribbon and in a tone of sympathy and respect said | he would be glad to horn in and get Easter Parade

{ for him the next time around if he had to knock

somebody down. Sp with precise timing he was right there as the thing died. dropped his money. punched the right button and said “There you are, old soldier.

; Ae g | Help yourself.” more we boast of licking the U-boats the

| At Last! Hears 'Easter Parade’

THE OLD SOLDIER hauled himself up muttering

listen to the strident horrors of hot trumpets and the melancholy mooing of love-lorn tenors. Now the record ceased to hiss and Irving Berlin's lovely music came, sweet and true: “In your Easter with all the frills upon it” A smile of spread over the tanned face of the old | soldier and he clasped his hands behind him and began to sway softly. As it ended, he dropped onto a bench at a table | littered with dead drinks and dead cigarets and put | his face in his hands. When he looked up his eyes

| were red.

“Thank you, soldier,” he said.

All night I wanted Easter Parade for Easter, I am so dam’ lonesome!”

WASHINGTON, May 1. —A first look at some of the problems involved in maintaining full employment after the war has just been made by the national economics unit of the department of commerce in a study called “Markets After the War.” As the title indicates, this approach to the problem is from a new angle—the viewpoint of sell- | ing the goods and not the usual

i idea of keeping production going—any kind of pro-

duction—just so it provides employment. Today, half the nation’s goods and services are But when all

war, this half of the country’s productive capacity

“If we can reduce them so that the spread between | 22d employment can’t possibly be kept on public

- . . . » i sinkings and construction of new merchant ships continues | on the upgrade, we can say that we have them under |

works.

Can't Rely on Public Works

THE SHELF of public works projects new being assembled by various federal, state and municipal

3s ips | planning commissions won't begin to absorb all th diction really | 2 2

| ning of the problem.

people now on war work. And that's only the begin-

Assuming there will be 1,000,000 casualties in

will have to be kept at around 2,000,000, there will

ana sailors, The normal population growth of the country will,

| from 1940 to 1946, have increased the civilian labor | force by 2,500,000 potential wage-earners for whom 7 : | work will have to be found. i our helicopters, are being pro- |

The job ahead is to confine unemployment to the unemployables, who should number not more than 2,000,000.

May Need 10,000,000 Jobs

IT IS assumed that most of the women and other war workers who were not gainfully employed before the war will go back to washing dishes, minding babies and sitting in rocking chairs. But even so, if all these increases in the labor force are added up, by 1946 there will be 10,000,000 more potential workers to be employed than in 1940. Project on top of this the advances in technology which will permit the production of more goods per man-hour of labor, and, says this survey, “assuming that people will want to work about the same hours as in 1940, the potential capacity of the available manpower in 1946 is almost 50 per cent greater than the total output in 1840.” It is made clear by the department of commerce that this is not a forecast of what the volume of postwar business will be. It is merely a measure of what this post-war business can be—of what can be produced. There is an accumulated buyer demand being built up by war shortages. There are accumulated war savings. For a time they may keep production of peacetime consumers’ goods at an accelerated rate. But it will be difficult to maintain,

| I say let's have

{recalling the saying of Civil

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SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1943

The Hoosier Forum

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

“LET'S HAVE AS FEW OF THESE SCENES AS POSSIBLE By P. J G., I hope all thinking Americans will | keep their newspapers of the past {few days to read just before going

Indianapolis

|i2 the polls to vote in the next | presidential election. I don’t believe they could vote again for a president who would al-

more than a half-hour in these days. Who are the strikes benefiting anyway except a few labor lords?

| from their raise what they lose by | striking, What would happen to you or me

lif we held up transportation for just!

{ five minutes? We'd be tried on a charge of sabotage. That is as it i should be, but why is John L. Lewis | lieve the strikes would be stopped and the leaders punished were not | Mr, Roosevelt already running again | for president. | pres with me so heartily on the things I've said just one question? Have you ever been with a mother ‘and a father at the time they re-

(killed in action? I have and “too little, too late” which went to Aus- | tralia in January, 1942, just as few

| this war over with now,

tno election, John IL. Lewis or

| Lewis (preferably no Lewis). “That was beauti- | { “GEN.

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MORGAN PASSED BY ON THIS ROAD” By Walter C. Reese,

War, while it has gained many modern means of gaining the objective, has not changed. Not long ago I watched what was said to be a release of the war information board of moving picures of actual combat pictures taken in North Africa. As shown, speed of operations had become an added factor in victory, war character, “Get there first with the mostest men,” War is a very old occupation and every generation has tried to im-

Sr., Shelbyville

{prove it, but after all in the whole

it remains much the same.

During the last war, world war TI,

(I was stationed at Wes stpoint, Ky., land while off duty I studied what | {history of the Civil war I could |

find in the vicinity. lhe Union| troops had buili a fort on what | might be said to be a small mountain.

and bend of the Ohio river could! be commanded with the s

guns. An oid iesident toid me that!

; 1 i i t for! a low a coal mine strike to last f Tit was expected that Gen.

not tried on the same charge? I be-

May I ask those of you who dis-|

| gained by

is still good tacties.!

| columns I will tell. you this:

You could not but have admira- | tion for those engineers; every road |

weep of its

(Times readers are invited to express their views ‘in | these columns, religious con- | troversies excluded. Because | of the volume received, ters must be limited to 250 | words. Letters must be | {

signed.)

| Morgan would cross the river at this point, | but that he crossed 10 miles up the river as he invaded Indiana. I was curious to know just what route Morgan had taken as he invaded oul state, and a few years afterward I was in Old Vernon,| Ind., which has a courthouse which would enhance any moving picture, |

and in the recorder’s office 1 found, | readable papers giving the account

of Gen. Morgan's invasion. He had camped just a few hundred feet away on a small bluff and had threatened to shell the!

' town, having in his command some | i id

3000 soldiers. He and his Lt. Brazil Duke had to do as some modern generals do,| take to the railroad tracks toward! Osgood, Ind., and in the courthouse yard at Versailles, Ind. may be seen| a tablet saying Gen. Morgan passed by on this road going north, |

”n ” 8 “AMERICANISM A BUILDUP OF MANY THINGS” |

| By Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis

of those scenes as possible and get | election or! no;

four busses.

Daacke, you never had anyone on a limb in your life, not even in your crusade to allow smoking in| was no purpose to be further discussion of unionism with you. I contend that the]

There

| comparative plenty and comfort in

America has been the result of] individual initiative for the incen- | tive that the system of free enter- . : { prise has to offer. Unionism did not] bring those benefits. profited and only a very small percentage belonged to the union prior | to the Wagner act. And even now for that matter. The results of present day high-| powered high pressure unionism] will, of course, be history at a fu-| ture date. If you believe, that a superimposed government that is not elected by the people | and not even elected by the rank | and file, yet can defy the highest | authority in our national capital is going to help society, I contend | that you are wrong. Now if you will read the Vol-|

Everyone has|

however, |

| describe it differently, I then de- | scribed my version of it as I have

| peace and contentment and fair | success

{ agree with me, but it was entirely

| to define it in 20 words, but he

{and the Roberts { church

{of April 26.

lived it and loved it. I have found

in the ideals that I described. I believe that most people

my version. Now if I did not describe the

Americanism of Mr. Cramer and |

yourself, that is of no concern to| me. You have a right to think as| | ing old molds. not |

you please. Americanism, however, is just one thing as Mr. Cramer claims; it is a buildup of many. Mr. Cramer breaks the record

could describe a cake with one word if he left out a description of the ingredients. ou n “ENJOYS READING MY DAY”

By Pfe. Ralps Ww. T-1627, M.

Jetelish, Co. G, Brks. S., FL. Harrison

| sade.

When I — ot article this evening entitled “Whoever Reads] Day’?” I felt like answering] ; then later I noticed it was written by a Ft. Harrison soldier, and decided that I would answer it. I'm not prejudiced and I had already read “My Day” though I'm not a Democrat nor a New Dealer.

I enjoy Mrs. Roosevelt's articles and I'm sure many others “besides a handful of envious women” do too. I'm in school here and don't

have a lot of time to read. I spend

Saturday nights and Sundays in

Indianapolis. I've found the people here very friendly, the U. 8. O.’s| Park Methodist | S. M. C. nice places tol spend my time. I've also attended services in two different churches. ! n ”n n “RUN LEGAL BUSINESS, PROUD OF IT”

By Mildred Browning, York st.

In answer to HAL M. W.'s letter

1145 W. New

We believe we are the ones who|

| have the tavern under your nose.!

legal business and are! We keep order in it]

{ We run a | proud of it.

{so it is fit for a man and wife to!

spend an enjoyable evening after | a hard day's work. Also we have! five children whom I enjoy hearing

| making noise and am thankful we | live in the good old U, S. A. where | | they are free to do so.

We have too much work to do to! | gripe about things that don’t con-| cern us . , , Did you ever try to] see the good things around you in-| | stead of the bad? Try it some time |

| and you will find you might have |

Sam Jones

‘By Thomas L. Stokes

NEW IBERIA, La, May l= “We'll get nowhere by going hat in hand.” Sam Houston Jones, of Louisiana, is speaking. He balances his 180 pounds slightly forward and rocks on his toes, like a ‘prize fighter, as he pours out his story of the South's grievances—which he has made a national story now. He calls for bold action, not humility. . And he spits out his words with the relente less continuity of a machine gun, I followed him through the flat Evangeline county, the kingdom of sugar cane, where the shimmering horizon is broken mercifully by cool oases of giant live-oaks bearded with long gray moss, the land of the Cajuns where most of the people still speak the native French of their luckless forebears in Nova Scotia, He was campaigning for war bonds, and it was a grim picture he drew of America in crisis. But he always came around to a South crucified, a lovely land treated as “a conquered province,” a “colonial posses« sion,” by distant Washington. From stands billowing with bunting in vacant lots broiling in the sun, he talks to the plain people—men in shirfsleeves fraved at the cuff, women in cotton dresses bleached with over-much washing, children and babies tepid with perspiration.

Would Educate the People

DAY IN and day out he hammers at his crusade. He carries the force of a governor who cleaned up the state, chucked out the sticky-fingered Long satellites, cut down the state payroll, and put through a model

governor

| civil-service law,

He thinks he is getting somewhere with his erie He tells these people so. He recites the proof.

He recalls how on the very day that southern

governors met at Tallahassee a month ago to raise

hell about discriminatory freight rates and other grievances, the TVA put out its report bearing out the South's contention that it is penalized by the freight rates on finished goods, so that it is continually held back from developing industrially, Just 10 days after the Saturday Evening Post came out with his article listing the South’s bill of complaints, he goes on, approval was granted for an air line from New Orleans to South America which had been sought for two and a half years. Sam Jones has talked of a third party in the South to champion its demands. But he is a practical fellow, He thinks the first thing is to educate the people, to stir them up, to build a foundation. He has no illusions about the timidity of politicians in break«

Respects Power of New Deal

HE STUCK his neck out. Other Southern leaders patted him on the back. But many are holding back, He is ready to shoulder the burden, conscious always of President Roosevelt's power to chip away, state by state, to try to break up a united front, through all the inducements at his command, Something may happeen, he believes, if the people wake up. He is not pleased ahout the support of reactionaries, die-hard anti-New Dealers, Roosevelt “haters,” who have rallied to his side. For he is sympathetic with the basic principles of the New Deal. But the New Deal, in his opinion, has not lifted the common people out of their rut. “You can’t say that the New Deal has done what it should when there were 500,000 destitute people in this state when I became governor three years ago,” he added. In his view, the New Deal has made people too de pendent. He thinks the people should be given an opportunity to help themselves. He tells how he got private industry to put up de= hydration plants for eggs in Louisiana, which opened a market here. Three years ago, he says, Louisiana imported 90 per cent of its poultry products, chickens and eggs. Now it produces 90 per cent. This is the sort of opportunity of which he speaks, the opportunity, in this case, of a market.

Has Eyes on the Senate

“BUT I had te go to Chicago to get ‘a man to finance it,” he said, grimly. “Our people here who have money have got to invest it in our country.” He is resentful, as the people here, over the racial agitation which he blames on the New Dealers. This is a problem he thinks the South had better handle itself, without interference. Sam Jones burst into the national spotlight, by

{ his defeat of the Long crowd, rather suddenly, Four

vears ago he was virtually unknown in Louisiana politics. He had a successful law practice among the secondary grade of corporations. Before that he had served nine years as assistant prosecutor at Lake Charles, his home baliwick in the western part of the state, close to the Texas border. This was his only previous political office. He was born in a two-room cabin with a lean-to attached. He waited on table at Louisiana State uni« versity. He left college in 1917, and was Pvt. Sam

| Jones at Camp Beauregard for 17 months in the

first world war. He has been state commander of the American Legion. He will be 46 in July. Under the state constitution he is not eligible te stand for re-election. Already the old Long gang is plotting to get back into power, aided by Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, a well-entrenched

| taire quotation at the top of these |? feW friends in the neighborhood, | Political power.

Mr. | Cramer asked the readers of the | Forum to define Americanism. 1! took it on myself to give my defi-| nition.

I stated that many men would]

Side Glances—By Galbraith

u.s. PAT. ofr. 5-0

LING. TM.

|the age of 18, who seem to think that all of Brightwood's places off |

$ 4 “IT'S ABOUT TIME FOR PARENTS TO WAKE UP” By Mr. L., Indianapolis

dren of all ages, up to and including

amusement are places for them to go to be destructive and a disturbance to adults. One establishment had to close its doors to the general public.

However, when some parents allow | their children to run “hog-wild,” offer them no constructive background or try to impress proper behavior upon their minds and teach them to have consideration for others, nothing else can be expected of them. If parents aren't aware of the causes for the present juvenile delinquency, it’s about time they should be awakened by stricter methods of the juvenile courts in enforcing proper conduct. The railroad that runs through Brightwood is not a dividing line of the two different elements— punks come from both sides of the track.

DAILY THOUGHT

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethern, be pitiful, be | courteous.—I. Peter 3:8.

THERE IS no more sure tie be-| tween friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes, |

—Cicero,

It) 3 conducts its business now by open- | ; ing its doors to groups and parties. | §

Sam Jones is said to be looking longingly toward the senate. If he gets there, they'll know that he's around,

We the Women

‘By Ruth Millett

| i

THE WOMAN who lives in one of the better suburbs of New York decided to raise chickens in her back yard, so that she and her family would have something to eat in case of a more serious meat shortage. The neighbors objected and the case went to court. A supreme court justice granted an injunce tion restraining the woman from maintaining a chicken farm in the back yard of her home. His explanation was: “We are all in favor of helping the war effort, but raising chickens in Forest Hills, Queens, is carrying patriotism a bit too far.” Aren't we being a bit too snooty, considering the times, when we decide that a person hasn't a right to keep chickens simply because he lives in a good neighborhood? The families who live in fine houses have to eat —just like anyone else. And money isn't enough to guarantee that they will have all they want to eat,

Maybe Judge Is Right

HAVEN'T THEY a right to look out for themselves to the extent of raising chickens in their backyards? The victory garden has been accepted—even in the neighborhoods that until now grew flowers instead of sweet corn. Isn't it about time we also accepted chickens in even the best neighborhoods—not, perhaps, as honored

| guests, but as a wartime necessity?

Or maybe the judge is right—and the time hasn't yet come when food is more important than keeping up appearances, and trying to maintain pre-war con cepts of suitability.