Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1943 — Page 2

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BLAMES FLOOD ON NEW DEAL

Water Control Sidetracked, Claims

Congressman.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 25.—Failure of the federal government to push adequate program of flood control is a contributing cause of the present flood disasters in Indiana and elsewhere, Rep. Forest Harness (R. Ind) charged in a speech in the house today.

“Nature is beyond our power to]

predict and control, even though the frontier planners, who for 10 years have tried to order and regulate American agriculture, may not yet be ready to admit it,” the congressman from Kokomo declared. “Much more could have been done, however to minimize the losses. If the money which has been wasted by the administration for a thousand and one kinds of boondoggling social experimentations and planless planning had been used to forestall just this sort of disaster, countless lives and an inestimable amount of property and potential production could very well have been saved.

Bill Enacted

“I made persistent efforts during those wasteful years to promote flood control work in my district which has long been acknowledged as necessary and desirable. “I offered a bill, which was promptly enacted, authorizing urgently needed work on the Wabash river and its principal tributary in my district, the Mississinewa. Year after year these rivers and the small streams which feed them overflow that fertile valley. Even though the damage is usually localized, it is recurrent and it is| serious. In bad years such as this, | the devastation is widespread. “The shame is that the loss in ordinary years could be almost wholly prevented and the terrible damage in such extreme instances as this could be greatly reduced at such comparatively small expense. It is principally just an ordinary project of channel dredging and straightening at the outset, and a modest job of maintenance thereafter. Unlike so many projects undertaken in recent years, it is one which would have paid large annual dividends indefinitely. Red Tape

“My proposal, along with numerous other equally worthy flood projects, was approved long ago by congress but, unfortunately, it has been tied up in surveys and administrative red tape. “It may do little good now to criticize the ineptitude and short sightedness which squandered billions on all kinds of cloud walking schemes and neglected the practical, constructive work that cried to be done. I fervently hope, however that the lessons of this crisis will remain with us, and that we will keep high on the calendar of work which must be done a comprehensive program of flood control and protection which will make these terribly costly disasters impossible.”

REPORT GEN. GIRAUD CHOOSES NOMINEES

ALGIERS, May 25 (U. P.).—Authoritative ‘sources said today that Gen. Henri Honore Giraud has decided to appoint Ludovic Tron, his finance minister, and Rene Meyer,

head of the French railways in North Africa, as his representatives on the French central executive committee. Giraud’s probable nominees for the committee, which will govern French territory freed by the allies, were made known soon after word reached here that the Fighting French have agreed to join the committee to achieve French unity.

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TO GET PILOT TESTS

Preliminary examinations for enlistment in the navy pilot training program will be given 17-year-old high school seniors Thursday in the navy recruiting station. Applicants passing the tests will be sent to Chicago for final examinations, If qualified they will be sworn in and placed on inactive duty until their high school studies are completed.

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Projects,

New President

elected president of the Sons of Indiana, a society with headquarters in New York. Mr. Moffitt is a graduate of Indiana university | and is educational director of Devoe & Reynolds, Inc.

Other officers named were Jerry Brennan of Hammond, vice presi= dent: Don Herold of Bloomfield, treasurer; Forrest F. Davis of | Greensburg, secretary and Karl Helm of Vincennes, assistant secretary.

NEED TARZANS

Civilized Ways, Says Brig. Wingate.

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today. Reporting on his expedition that cut 200 miles behind Japanese] lines in the Burma wilds, Wingate said the type of fighting man he needs is being developed. “The average British and Indian soldier is too doctor-minded, too civilized,” Wingate, an expert in guerrilla warfare, said.

Job Can Be Done

“We're not skilled as individuals and our minds are dulled by the narrow troughs in which we live.

We never thought we'd have to imitate Tarzan of the apes and now we must turn into men beings for jungle fighting.” Wingate said the Burma expedition proved the job could be done by properly trained men who have more imagination than the Japanese. “The Japanese is not resourceful,” he said. “He will die fighting in a one-man pit but he can’t solve the problems which he never faced before.” Wingate said his city-bred British and mountain raised Gurkha troops, aided by a few sympathetic Burma fighters, all were from 28 to 35 years old. They trained seven months for the,

expedition. ;

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