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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1043

BG LITTLE BATTLE OF ATTU It is only a midget island of iced rock, jutting up through ‘treacherous currents into the Bering fog. Only a handful of the enemy had managed to quarter there, and the American forces sent to retake that lonely outpost were small i in numbers. | | But don’t let the size of Attu or the size of the battle fool you. The victory is one of the most important of this war. | The short route between Japan and the United States ~.the only short route—is along the Aleutians. Attu is the nearest American base to Tokyo; 1700 nautical miles, compared with Midway’s 2200 and Port Moresby’s 2900. Fo Attu is only 630 nautical miles from the main northern J ip base of Paramushiru. The Japs built a bomber runway on Attu. It is also a submarine base. Even more important, it is the key weather station of the north, where

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ships and planes are at the mercy of weather reporters. + In Jap‘hands it was a continual threat of enemy offengives against us. In American hands it is a threat of an air offensive against Japanese bases now, and of an/amPhibious invasion later. Whether our high command chooses first to squash the enetny out of our neighboring island of Kiska, or to starve that now isolated base until the bombing of Paramushiru gets under way, the initiative is with the combined American land-gea-air forces which won this battle.

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PIONEERIN G FOREIGN NEWS

AMERICANS know the value of a free press. They know, as the fathers of the constitution knew, that democracy cannot function if the 8 is controlled by ‘govern ment through subsidized agencies or monopoly. | Though Americans were never more appreciative of the full and fair news coverage in wartime which their foreign correspondents are risking life to provide, few of us realize that this is the fruit of a long fight against foreign monopolies. Forty years ago world news outside this country wis controlled by a few big European agencies, either sub- | sitlized by their governments or receiving preferential treatment. The American people had to get most of their foreign news through those foreign agencies, and the world got most of its news of this country from those same European agencies. ] | # n » » tJ » “HE story of how the ‘United Press led in correcting that ' evil and in pioneering independent news coverage over. ‘the world—while its chief rival was bound by restrictive agreements with foreign agencies—has been told by Joseph { La Jones, U. P. vice president and general foreign manager. Inlan address at Springfield, Mo., he described how the n of ‘his organization began more than 80 years ago to break foreign on || “The United Press put its own correspondents in foreign capitals. It fought for the right to tell the American people what was going on by going directly to the sources of news everywhere. It entered into competition with the world-wide system of interlocking news monopolies. Its men combined with like-minded independent newsmen in every country; they attended world conferences and persuaded statesmen to respect the rights of the American peoples to the news. They were a perpetual nuisance to anybody who wanted to control the news. . .. The United Press went into South America in 1916—years ahead of any other American service—and in 1989 free competition in news came to the Jast country on that continent, Venezuela. ll “In Europe, in Malaya, in Egypt, from the Arctic to the Straits of Magellan, this American enterprise has sold straight factual news to the press of 40 countries which wanted information from an independent source. Other Ameri¢an. concerns have followed, once free competition ‘was established. There i$ no copyright on this form of ‘peaceful pioneering.” | That story is in keeping with the ‘best traditions of he free press of America. 3 d

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POST-WAR. may be a long time off. But the time will be none too long to prepare for the domestic problems that will follow the fall of Berlin and Tokyo. And the chief ‘of these problems is the danger of unemployment. “The urgent question is: Will industry itself lay plans “for providing peacetime employment to the tens ¢f millions now making and manning the tools of war—or will the goyernment be handed that task, by default? | Paul G. Hoffman, president of Studebaker and chairman + lof the committee for economic development, said in an "address at New York recently that to have “a reasonably ‘satisfactory situation” after the war, gainful employment will have to be ‘available for something like 58,000,000 persons—that being 12,000,000 above the level of 1940, our last full peacetime year. | And, as Mr. Hoffman says, “Too much unemployment, tool much government. € loyment, either or’ both spell death to a free society.” lence his challenge: “I have no confidence whatever in the ability of any

agency—public ‘or private—to. make over-all plans for our |

economic system, or for our business program. But I do | the highest confidence in the ability of individual nessmen to plan for the future of their own businesses. That’ s why 1 say individual enterprises “must do this plani for themselves—and 1 mean all three million of them. “Only a small part of the necessary job can be done ] by the approximately 500 large employers. The real shock ops of this campaign of bold and intelligent planning vi usl enterprise are the smaller businesses and the

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, June 1 Marion county citizens, as well as many throughout the state, cofistantly call on Rep. Louis Jogisnapelis Democrat, for aid in handling all sorts of Washington matter. : None have ever said that Mr. Ludlow let them down by not try= ing. The result is that he works early and laté and still the ree quests pile up. Since he first became a congressman on March 4, 1929, he has been aided in this work by one of the outstanding experts on capitol hill—Estheéer Rupple. Miss Rupple, whose married nameé is Mrs, Herbert Pillen, was taken ill last Feb. 3, however, and for weeks was confined in Garfield hospital here. Five operations and nine blood transfusions caused the doctors{attending to hold out little hope at times.

Lauds Comintern Dissolution

SHE RECOVERED, however, and last week returned to Mr. Ludlow’s office. The Indianapolis congressman now is one of the happiest: men on the hill. 86 happy, in fact, that he even had some kind words to say for our demi-ally, Josef Stalin. Asked for some comment on the dissolution of the comintern by Rep. Jed Johnson (D. Okla), Mr. Lud-

low offered the following:

“I have often heard the opinion éxpressed that Josef Stalin dissolved the comintern with his fingers “crossed. I do not believe so. I am willing to credit him with good faith, and I certainly commend his practical wisdom in doing so. “It is my opinion that the comintern is dead beyond resufrection. Thosé who stréss an alleged ulterior motive on his part entirely miss the main point of significance of the act, which is its effect on the prosecution of the common cause.

Gets Wheelbarrows for City

“THE COMINTERN was a standing barrier to a complete unification of the powers that are fighting to rescue the world from totalitarianism and repress sion. Its dissolution can havé but one effect and that is to draw them closer together and to hasten the day of victory for the united nations.” One of the first jobs Mr. Ludlow did for his constituents after Miss Rupple returned was to try and rescue 750 wheelbarrows parked by the disbanded WPA on a South side lot in Indianapolis. * Learning that Clifton E. Mack, director of procure ment of the treasury department, had jurisdiction in the mattér he called him direct and enlisted his personal aid. The wheelbarrows will be turned over to the city for whatever use can be made of them Mr. Ludlow said.

(Westbrook Pegler did not write a column today.) . ®

Inflation Threat By Fred W. Perkins

WASHINGTON, June 1.—Fred M. Vinson, the new director of economic stabilization, takes office as spokesman for two widely differing schools of thought agree that inflation is practically here but ascribe different causes and cures. George Meany, secretary-treas-urer of the American Federation of Labor, places the blame on “utter failure of our government” to control the cost of living, and advocates American adoption of the British policy of widespread subsidies plus rigid control of prices, . Senator Harry PF. Byrd (D. Va.) declares that “the only hope” remaining lies in adoption of the Bernard Baruch formula for rigid control of wages and prices. The subsidy plan in England, he asserts, will not work here because “England normally imports most of her food. The government can buy this food as it is imported and resell it at a lower price. . . . The subsidy system of England was linked with a rigid control af wages and prices, which we eo not have in this country.”

Lewis Another Factor

ANOTHER LABOR figure in the inflation picture is John L. Lewis, who four months ago took the leadership among union leaders in declaring that stabilization policies had broken down, and in starting out to get for his half million mine workers a wage raise far outside the policies of the national war labor board. "After being abundantly denounced for his defiance of federal authority, Mr. Lewis is still at his for-mula-breaking task, has assured the mine workers of at least half of his objective, and is battling for the rest of it. “It is obvious,” said Senator Byrd, “that. while the pill will be sugar coated, a partial surrender to John L. Lewis has already been made, and gradually, when public indignation subsides, a full surrender will likely follow. “It ‘appears apparent, 100,” he sald, “that the Little Steel fcrmula of wage control has already been discarded or soon will be by the war labor board. Once again the administrative agencies of the government have failed by their lack of cour age and firmness to control the basic cause of ins flation.”

Artificial and Unsound

THE BUTTER SUBSIDY plan just announced by the office of price administration, with the financial help of Jesse Jones’ Defense Supplies Corp. ,and under authority of the price control act of January, 1942, is only a partial answer to the plea of the A. PF, of L. official, but it draws from Senator Byrd the warning, “Subsidy payments to a large part of our population cannot be turned on and off like a spigot. It is inevitable that these subsidy payments, once entrenched in our economic system, will continue long after the present emergency. “As wage increases are made, subsidy payments must be increased. The result will be that the economic system thus created will become increasingly artificial and unsound.”

We the People By Ruth Millett =

- IF YOU want to be popular in - wartime, be a time-saver. Nearly everybody is busy and over-worked these days, yet it is surprising how many people go right on wasting _other people’s time. ~' There is the man who stops for a personal conversation with a.clerk while others stand in line to be waited on. There is the woman who still has to look in every store in town before she makes a small purchase. There is the woman who uses the telephone. for frequent “nice long talks” with busy friends. There is the long-winded talker who can’t make the simplest business transaction without telling some over-worked, hurried person all about himself. = They are all time-Wpsters, asd the sad part of 1 is hat it it i jime Belong to Other people that they

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“AMERICA TOO LIBERAL WITH § RAGE” By Janies g. Meitzler, Attica With the nation in deadly peril and the necessity for survival calling for united efforts from everyone, congress fritters away its time creating disunity by bringing up the poll tax issue in a demagogic bid for votes. The poll tax as a prerequisite for voting exists only in seven southern states, It was designed to keep ignorant and illiterate persons from voting. . . . no person who lacks the ability or the willingness to support

the government which protects his

person and property by paying a small tax has the intelligence to cast a ballot. His vote is a menace to good government. , .. Instead of abolishing the poll tax it should be extended to all the states. America is too liberal . , . with suffrage. 3 8 #2 = “DID TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA MAKE LYONS BITTER?”

By Ralph Vines, 26 W. Fourth st., Anderson.

Eugene, Lyons, in the May 25th issue of The Times, discussed six “random” episodes from the movie, “Mission to Moseow.” He questions their realism. ~~ That Mr. Lyons expects realism from Hollywood -is startling. Let’s discuss his piece (the second

- lof a series) point by point.

1. Food. “There is a lot of contagion in food, Mr. Davies records . J". Look, Lyons, any doctor could tell you that native-born residents of a country possess immunities not readily acquired by newcomers. Are Russians to be blamed if some of their foods don’t “set” just right with us? Then, too, you are displeased that “nowhere is there any illusion to food difficulties or to the herqQic measures Mrs. Davies took to stock her larder with imported edibles.” . What American housewife, upon seeing Mrs. Davies toting around 21-point canned peaches wouldn't yell, “Hoarder!!” or worse? . .. 2.-Dates: - A litle bitterly you say, “But what's a little chronology to scenario writers?” This was in connection with" three characters who appeared in & screen-scene at a time they couldn’t have done so. True, Lyons, true. Buf where was your voice when Alexander Graham Ameche scintillated through the land with a chin as bare as . Come . .-let us not take this opportunity to belabor a single picture for faults that

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every “historical” picture owns. Instead let us consider — 3. The Mission, “It was more of a political payoff than a mission.” That, you say, was revealed in “the press at the time.” Eugene, you genius, remember when the press revealed that the Maginot line was a revelation of impregnability, and, later, that the Nazis would “crush” Russia before fall? Get away from that crystal ball. , . .. 4. The Treason Trials. Mr. Davies writes time and again of his conviction that the defendants were guilty as charged. It is quite fitting therefore that the movie should reflect this conviction. Even his “sense of horror” could not blind this experienced lawyer to their obvious guilt. ,.. 5. Conscription Debate. You say that the opposition to the draft was Russian _ inspired. Don’t look now, but . . . Taft wants you to lower your voice. . . , 6. Russian-Japanese Relations. I

:[couldn’t believe my eyes when I read

this. “The most significant single fact about Russia’s role in this war is that it is strictly neutral in the Pacific theater - of conflict.” You really said that. Holy smoke, I suppose the fact that Russia is occu-

.pying the night and ‘day attentions

of 200 Nazi divisions is an insignifi cant fact. Remember? Remeniber Germany? Yeah, they're in the war, too. To say the least, I do not believe for ohe instant your statement that the oe Tia armed peace has the blessings of Berlin. Nothing could please Hitler more than the outbreak of open war between them. Remember those Siberian troops that arrived just in time at the Stalingrad that Hitler promised to his Germany? ... Clearly, it isn’t the battering .. . that some inconsequential facts may suffer which worries you. It’s the old { familiar bogeyman—the Red menace. Read what . . . Wendell Willkie has to say about post-war Russia and America relations. “No, we do not need to fear Russia. We néed to learn to work with her against our common enemy, Hitler. We

need to learn to work with her in

Side Glances—By Galbraith.

the world after the war. For Russia is a dynamic country, a vital new society, a force that cannot be bypassed in any future world.” Now come clean, Mr. Lyons, you've written two books about Russia—or, at least two .books about your opinion about Russia. When, in the film, the president tells Davies to find “the truth about Russia’— that’s what made you bitter. Wasn't it? Could it be that the president thought you didn't know the truth about Russia? Or didn't tell the truth? Could be. ; ~ ys = “WHO'S PICKING ON THE BABIES?” By Mrs. Winifred Werta, 1816 Norfolk st. To Mrs, Stickles: Who's picking on the babies? A baby certainly has the right to the necessities and some luxuries of life, but if you had a baby, would you try feeding it a whole orange or apple a couple weeks after it was horn?

That would be just as sensible as giving it meat. If the baby got full benefit of the points issued to him, I would have nothing to say now. But, the child's parents get an extra share while other people, maybe more deserving, do without. You talk of your dad eating beans

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and corn bread. Doctors will cell]:

you that beans do have a high protein content, but they have two drawbacks. Some people's digestive system won't take a steady diet of beans. The second reason should be obvious to you. Beans are rationed and must, be seasoned with some kind of meat before they taste like anything. To get down to te:hfifcalities, corn bread requiies shortening which is also rationed. Another thing, Mrs. Stickles, you live in or near a country town where it is easy to obtain fresh eggs, chicken, etc, and many city people can’t always buy these. The next time you yell, be sure you are hurt. And incidentally, did your father have to work seven days a week for anywhere from three to 10 weeks or more at a stretch? ” ” tJ

“LET'S KEEP FACTS STRAIGHT” By Forum Reader, Indianapolis

Re the letter from Bert Wilhelm in Priday’s Hoosier Forum. Wasn't it Col. Robert McCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and not a New Deal professor, who suggested taking the various British commonwealths into the union “just lke Texas?” The proposal, apparently put out as a joke, wasn’t a bit funny to a lot of British subjects, particularly in Canada. And wasn’t it this program that led Tokyo radio to call Col. McCormick a “charming character,” in a propaganda broadcast Let's at least keep the facts straight. ” o ” “LET PEOPLE SPEAK ON FOURTH TERM” By H. E., Indianapolis.

I hear a lot of talk going around about limiting the president's stay in the White House to so many years. Why not let things be kept as they are and let the people speak? We are the voice that should control ‘this case, namely, the voters of the United States. If he is not the man for the position he will soon be voted out, as has been the case of many former presidents. Let our president finish what he has started and it will take another term to do that, He is showing himself to be a good leader at home and abroad.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the. day of the Lord is at hand: for fhe ‘Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.—Zéph-

TT [Congress vs. FDR... By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, June 1 Stock-taking after five monthg of - the so-called “coalition congress” discloses some interesting trends, the full significance of which is pérhaps obscured by the war. Most important is the tendency to régain the check to which cone . gress is entitled through control of apptropriations—both in order to curb the president's powers in strictly domestic matters, and to restrict the operations of special government agencies which have been proceeding rather-freely. a In numerous directions congress has adted to restrain the discretion of the president—as in thwarting the power he assumed to limit salaries to a net

| $25,000, and in a broad prohibition yoted last week

by the sénate against his use of spécial funds to keep pet projects alive without specific certification by congress. Appropriation bills in this cohgress are speckled with such limitations. Some of the more conservative are saying that there are officials in ome agencies who would seize the war emergency to advance socialization by bureaus cratic mandate. di

Plants Suffer with Weeds

SOME PROGRESSIVE leaders, both in and out of congress, are fearful, on the other hand, that the - reaction now apparent in congress may wipe out some - very worth-while reforms, generally acceptable to the people, by starving them out of existence under the MN guise of economy and under cover of war. This, indeed, is the purpose of some “economy” promoters who capitalize the sincere desire of many others in congress to cut down the excesses of bureaus cracy, the unnecessary and frequently illegal spending, but who do not want Yo kill the plants along with the weeds. Typical of the “plant killing” in the eyes of pro- | gressives was the practical abolition by the house of the farm security administration, recognizéd genere

| ally as a basic reform in improving the lot, and as- | suring the independence, of erstwhile farm ténantg

and share-croppers, particularly in the South. Big

| farmers, represented by the farm bureau federation,

promoted this starving operation through the coalition . of Republicans and conservative southern Democrats, One of the most heated fights thus far was over . the national resources planning board, which both | branches of congress are agreed should be severely limited, leaving post-war planning largely to congress instead. The house voted to kill it, and the senate to continue it on a $200,000 appropriation, compared ° with more than a million dollars that the administrae tion sought. Whether it will survive is now up t@ + the decision of a conference committee,

Fortune Poll Cited

WHILE CHECKING more carefully on domestic expenditures, this congress gives the president every : thing he asks for the war, setting a record never approached by any government in the world. Still in a minority are those in congress who would check war expenditures more closely, to see if the governe ment is getting the most out of the fabulous outlays, More careful checking may come, and by public. dee - mand, as taxes go higher. : This no-questions-asked policy on war spending, contrasted with the check on domestic expenditures, particularly for reform agencies, is a paradox which may find some sort of explanation in a current. Fortune magazine poll. If the war goes on, the poll shows, President Roosevelt would be overwhelmingly re-elected. If it is over before the election, he would be badly defeated, In short, the people, according Yo the poll, are for: President Roosevelt as a war leadérpbut are skeptical of his leadership in peacetime. A

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, June 1.—Réale istic and free - from - flights = of « fancy appraisal of post-war come mercial aviation and commercial * planes has just been made by Edward Warner, vice chairman of the civil aeronautics board, in the . form of a three-day lecture delive ered before the Royal Aeronautical. ’ society in London. Much of the text of the lec : tures, as released in Washington, : is too deep dish for anyone but an airplane designer to understand. But in between the complex engineer= ing formula there are whole pages of good flying ° horse sense which anyone can understand, and these simply stated conclusions, backed up by practical flying experience and mathematics, perform the. . timely and useful service of bringing back to earth all this uinformed, theoretical and fantastic discuse sion of post-war flying. Primarily, it strips down a lot of this tnitastia talk of 1000-passenger giant skyliners skyrocketing through the stratosphere at 1000 miles an hour, with the dizzy passenger taking cocktails ir! Calcutta, nightcap in Cairo, and pick-me-up in Chisago next morning. 4 Mr. Warner first puts this matter of aireratt size in its proper perspective. Most passengers, if given a free, choice, would prefer 100-passenger planes to 25-passenger planes. But the greater the size, the - less flexible the sérvice.

Merits of Small Aircraft:

hs THERE IS a place for the highly flexible, fives .” passenger family car, and small aircraft will definitely have their places, too. Four 25-passenger planes can give 100 passerigérs non-stop service to four points, whereas one 100 passenger plane is reduced to being a four-stop local, Projecting these findings into the ‘post-war period, Mr. Warner foresees as a typical traffic demand, the departure from New York of some 80 planes in an evening rush hour, flying to 40 different cities. Fifteen of these departures might be 40-passenger aircraft, the remainder being some 10-passenger planes, but largely 20-passenger planes of the size in common commercial use today. If this conclusion is correct, I it spikes the idea that planes like the Douglas DC-3 7 and 3 are obsolete. Popular misconceptions about future lengths of flight and speeds are also put in their true economies light by Mr. Warner. . The longer the non-stop flight, the greater the cost. A 600-mile flight can be made at an operating cost of 22 cents per ton mile, whereas a 2000-mile - flight costs 30 cents per ton mile and a 3500flight costs 75 cents per ton mile, largely because the extra fuel load that must be carried. ‘

Speed, Altitude Moderate

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