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TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1943

HENRY VERSUS JESSE—SECOND ROUND

OR a few days Washington had an unexpected cool spell —that is, temperature dropped into the 80s and humidity into the 40's. That good break in the weather came just in time—for Vice President Henry Wallace had just called Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones a “bureaucratic hamstringer and backdoor complainer,” and tempers were boiling with the temperature. For a few days—too few days—the atmospheric relief brought comparative calm and serenity to life along the Potomac. Yesterday, however, the capital city’s thermometers and hygrometers started up again. It wasn’t necessary to consult the weather bureau records to find out about the relapse in the climate. For headlines over the country | heralded the return of heat and mugginess to Pennsylvania and Constitution aves., by chronicling Mr. Jones’ reply, | accusing Mr. Wallace of “malice, innuendo, half-truths and no truths at all.”

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(ONSIDERING Mr. Wallace's many and specific charges | that the RFC had impeded the war effort—and consid- | ering the weather—it is at least understandable that Mr. | Jones should reply in kind, that Mr. Wallace’s BEW is an incompetent, hysterical, noisy and money-squandering oi ganization which hasn’t done the job it was organized to do. | The vice president’s indictment of the RFC for not having done a good job of stockpiling critical war materials, and Mr. Jones’ equally detailed charges that the BEW | itself has contributed to delay, confusion and waste in the stockpiling program, are serious matters. They call for a thorough-going congressional investigation. Mr. Jones has asked for it, and presumably Mr. Wallace would wel- | come it. |

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In the past congress has conducted exhaustive | inquiries into charges of much less moment. But—again getting back to the weather and the shorttempers—one rub in the idea of a congressional investigation is the question of where to find a committee of representatives or senators equal to such a task at this time. The lawmakers’ nerves are frazzled, too. Congress has | been in almost continuous session since that three-month | recess it enjoyed in 1939. Many times in the past we have argued that congress is hired by the year and should work by the year, but we're beginning to modify our views on | that point. The hectic performances of recent months | have demonstrated that we can’t get good work out of | congressmen who stay too long in Washington and out of | touch with the people they were elected to represent. That | recess to talk with the home folks again, should have a | much-needed and sobering influence. = ET it should be possible to find five or seven senators, who don’t have to stand for re-election next year and who would be willing to spend the recess weeks in an airconditioned committee room asking Mr. Jones and Mr. Wallace to put all their evidence on the line. The men who are fighting this war in the Mediterranean, on the Aleutians, and down in the South Pacific, are getting no recess—and if failure to supply them with the weapons they need has been due to any negligence on the part of the RFC or the BEW, the blame should be fixed and the mess cleaned up at once. The taxpayers, whose money the RFC and BEW spend, are getting no recess, and they are entitled to know if their money is being properly spent,

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SIKORSKI AND A UNITED EUROPE ENERAL SIKORSKI'S death is used by Nazis trying to split the united nations. Their fantastic tale is that the plane crash off Gibraltar, which killed the Polish premier and his party, was a case of murder by British or Russian agents. This is the kind of enemy propaganda to be expected. But Polish statements in London, that Sikorski had been | warned by his own underground not to make his Middle Eastern trip, do more damage. Naturally, the Polish commander was as willing to take flying risks as the generals of other armies, and as Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt. His London friends, who now talk of advance warnings, are unintentionally playing into the hands of enemy propagandists. That is poor service to a brave and able leader, lost in the iine of duty. Polish patriots are particularly sensitive on this matter | of letting the Nazis split the allies because Hitler made such good use of the break between Poland and Russia. That was the situation where both sides fell into a trap ot their own emotions, which could have been avoided by reasonable restraint. It is unthinkable that the costly mistakes of the past shall be repeated now. »

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TKORSKI, only two days before his death, reaffirmed his desire for a resumption of Polish-Russian relations. If

| safer by air than by sea. | sinking that 22-ship Japanese convoy while con-

‘We Attack

RALPH BURKHOLDER |

‘By Thomas M. Johnson

WASHINGTON, July 8. Whether our new attack in the South Pacific is aimed only at immediate objectives such as the Japanese base at Munda, or at the very important, but remote and formidable Rabaul, the salient fact is that we can and do attack. It proves how decisive is the metamorphosis that Time, the great scene shifter, has wrought in this theater since last summer's fighting season opened. Then the Japanese seemed invincible. From the Solomons they threatened Australia and our last bases’ and lines of communication in that area. Today we have turned the tide, cleared the southern Solomons and Papau, shown superiority by land, sea and air, and—most important—have gained the initiative. By their constant reconnaissance in all three elements, the Japs showed they anticipated the attack which official Washington broadly intimated we were preparing. That we can move so freely in waters which a year ago were almost Japanese lakes is due to two factors vital in coming operations: First, our Pacific sea-power has recovered from Pearl Harbor and has passed Japan's—especially in key vessels of task-force warfare; carriers, cruisers and destroyers. Of all three classes, Japan has launched fewer than we, while our battleship launchings are probably greater. Also we can count upon reinforcement from Britain once the Italian navy is out of the war. That may force Japanese naval power back into home waters aided bv land-based air-power, and plenty of that because of the second

| factor.

Air Power Growing

OUR AIR-POWER in the Pacific, already better

| than the Japs’ qualitatively, is becoming stronger in

numbers. The recent great air victories culminating in the 94-to-8 truimph—are not only spectacular but significant. So is the debut of considerable elements of the excellent New Zealand alr force which has shared recent allied victories. Our air warfare is passing from the stage of holding the Japs to getting a hold on them—a stranglehold that must precede any real success in “island hopping.” Given planes enough, troop movement may be We demonstrated this by

quering New Guinea by flying in troops, ammunition, food, guns, jeeps and tractors. This was only a

| rehearsal for things to come, and so were recent | secret air-borne maneuvers in Tennessee.

The final struggie for air domination now starts in the South Pacific,

Rabaul Important

THERE, IN the three regions where we might | have attacked, the Japs were most alert. They knew | that for greater freedom in operations offensive or |

defensive, we should oust them from outposts such

as Lae and Salamaua, which we are now Riatvine

| by our bolckade of bombs. And presently we must

neutralize or capture Rabaul, the key to everything |

south of the equator, Our new attack, from both New Guinea and the

| Solomons, afford a chance to whipsaw the enemy. | Such amphibious operations are both difficult and

costly, but they will be worth the price if they free our Australian bases from all danger and clear the enemy from the South Pacific. The second region is the Central Pacific, where we are bombing Jap-held islets like Nauru with a pertinacity that seems prophetic. For an attack from Hawaii and Midway upon Wake, Guam and the Marsnall islands would, if successful, oust the Japanese from valuable holds and bring us nearer to Japan itself,

Kiska First Job

BUT IN the third region, the North Pacific, possibilities are most dramatic. On Attu, we are already within 700 miles bomber range from the Jap naval base of Paramushiru, which in turn is within bomber range of northern Japan. The 1250 miles from Paramushiru to Tokyo are a long stretch for 1943

bombers and transports, but will be shorter for 1944 |

models, Not only air but sea Invasion may be possible from the Kuriles if American troops conquer that stern coast and its fiendish weather. But first we must take Kiska, and that is Attu 10 times over.

We the People

By Ruth Millett

A WAR WIFE who has lived alone for more than a year says she has devised a yardstick for measuring those she used to consider her friends. They aren't friends, cides, if: They stopped having her to their parties after her husband left, simply because she would make an odd number, being a lone woman. They never remembered to ask about her husband. They didn't make it clear that if she ever got into a jam she was to come to them. They didn’t bother to help her through the “bad times,” like the period when she went for six weeks without hearing a word from her husband. They treated her in an obviously “We must be nice to Dorothy manner’—making it clear that when they invited her over they checked it off as their good deed for the day.

Try Checking Yourself

THAT, SAYS one war wife, is her yardstick for measuring friendship. She says this period in her life is the first time she has had to depend on her friends, and that it has surprised her to see how many of them seemed to drift away, once she really needed their companionship, their friendship, and their understanding. She is probably being a little bit rigid in her judgment of people and demanding too much of friends. But it wouldn't hurt any woman with a war

she de-

be had lived he probably would have succeeded in that aim. Whatever mistakes Sikorski may have made, we believe history will approve his major effort for a regional | European federation. He had the intelligence to see that the smaller states cannot be secure against a large aggressor if each stands alone. Unfortuntely, Stalin has not yet agreed. He fears a federation might be turned against Russia. Obviously such a federation could be misused, as any power can be misused, but that is hardly sufficient reason to damn it. If divided Europe cannot find economic health and political security through some form of union, it is apt to be the future prey of its own weakness and of some other Hitler. The only way Russia or Britain or the United States really can help Europe is to help her help herself. Sikorski, a great Polish nationalist, knew that nationalism was not enough. He knew that his country to survive must be part of Europe able to help herself. We hope Sikorski’s suceessgr will have the same prae-

wife friend to check up on herself and see how she | measures up.

To the Point—

WHY DO people take summer clothes out of moth balls and then enter a crowded hermetically sealed streetcar?

“ 4% # RIDING ALONE to work is an awful waste of help to the war effort. ® = = DISTANT RELATIVES are people who are glad you haven't enough gas to visit them. $$. 4 &

NEW TIES are worn out at a speed of one knot

a day. - .

WITH FREEZING, folks who try to branch out from one job to another are liable to get caught on a limb.

AT ONE-time golf

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“WHY CAN'T H. C. K. GO FISHING?” By L. A. Schmid, Indianapolis. Why can't H. C. K. go fishing? When a railroader on the next street can get a B card to go to

miles round trip, just to get his dinner and a few eggs—now if that is not pleasure driving, what is?

He drives his car to work which is less than 50 miles a week when he can ride a streetcar and only walk six blocks round trip. I do just to save gas, so H. C. K, all you have to do is work for the railroad. They will not only get you gas but will give you a pass to ride on the train if you don't] feel like driving. You only want two | weeks of pleasure where he gets 52 days a year. Come on, you fishermen, see why we can't go fishing.

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“ ou “WASHINGTON WASTE SETS FINE EXAMPLE”

By Citizen, Indianapolis In your good paper recently was found a very interesting article on the front page entitled “New Deal Develops Giant Bureauracy—Byrd Charges.” This article covers the tremendous waste in Washington's bureaucratic expense and the tremendous growth of personnel. And this is only one segment of the waste and compounding expense of the New Deal's history, as those who follow the astounding growth of our national indebtedness can testify. My point is this: What incentive is there for, especially the white collar class, to economize to the bone, and dig into their deflated purses to continually buy war bonds. Playing politics and wasting unnecessary millions by the Washington bureaucrats discounts all interest—right or wrong

the country every week, which is 50!

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—in many people that I talk with, for buying more war bonds. The Washington waste sets a fine example for the country.

“U. 8. FACING AN | INTOLERABLE SITUATION” | By Lillian Dinehart, Indianapolis We, the people of America,

faced with an intolerable situation,

unique in our history; we are being governed, or rather regimented by a small clique of appointees under the blessing of the president. If we don't do something, and quickly, we are sunk; am not sure but what we are now and don't know it,

You, Mr. Reader, and you, Ms. | Reader—Ilet’s create a battering ram of letters to our congressmen and senators demanding that they put up a fight to return this country to a representative form of government, and apply the boot to those half-baked incompetents who have fastened themselves upon us and, through the chaos they are creating, may even bring us to defeat, With the whole world looking to us for food and implements, we find ouselves involved in petty political quarrels and grudge fights, our best brains relegated to the sidelines while the crackpots and theorists hold the reins. Let's start tonight a continuous flow of emphatic letters to congress. Public opinion is a mighty force, let's organize it and put it to work,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“BETTER IF THEY STOP RATIONING STUFF” By L. M., Spencer I see that Mrs. Bernice Harris Is wanting to know why whisky is not rationed. I would say that is because it is not necessary and, in fact, the brewers pay a large license and there is a heavy tax on the whisky that goes to help pay the expense of the government, and in fact I think that it would be better if they would stop this rationing stuff. If anyone does not get enough to drink, I think that there are some good-hearted people that take a drink that would divide up with

* them, and in fact those that are

working in those breweries are doing more to help the war than those that are on ... boards at ex- | pense of the people and trying to tell the people what they can buy and when, As it is . . . they have one on the government payroll for every two and one-half that they have in the army, » » »

“WHY NOT BE CONSISTENT

|ON SUBSIDIES?”

By Foster C. Shirley, Indianapolis Your editorial, “Pay Up, Soldier,” does not refer to the most absurd and unjust aspect of the butter subsidy. “They are going to help you pay for the pound of butter you bought this morning.” What about the millions of low income persons who buy oleo because they cannot afford butter at any price? There might be some shadow of reason for subsidizing necessities. But what possible excuse can there be for compelling the person who eats no butter because he cannot afford it to help pay for the butter the other fellow eats? If the butter subsidy is to continue, why not be consistent and also subsidize cigarets, beer and whisky? » » » “TOIL NOT, NEITHER DO THEY SPIN” By F. W. V,, Indianapolis

I'll tell you why the union leaders with untold millions of dollars at | their command will not enter the | fields now occupied by private manufacturers and businessmen—they know too well that they possess neither the brains nor managerial ability to successfully conduct these enterprises. And even if they had, why should they be bothered with such mental tasks? They keep these two producing groups at odds with each other and like any other parasitic growths in nature's setup they “toil not. neither do they spin”; just siphon off thg real profits of all workers’ endeavor. John Lewis has all the finances necessary to own and operate coal mines in accordance with his laws laid down for private owners. He could quickly prove the damfoolish« ness of these laws, but will he? Nix . . . he's too smart . . . that is until some returning soldiers take him apart.

DAILY THOUGHTS

Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.—Proverbs 27:1.

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TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1943

Helicopters By Major Al Williams

NEW YORK, July 6—When the Igor Sikorsky helicopter wis demonstrated in Washington re= cently, officialdom began to buzz about the potential war missions of slow-flying aircraft. Much confusion resulted from getting the helicopter mixed with the autogyro. The two types are dife ferent in principle and operation. The autogryo is virtually an orthodox airplane, with its motor and prop mounted in the nose of the fuselage, and rotating wings (the rotor vanes are long thin wings which develop lift). The helicopter, on the other hand, has its moto mounted in the fuselage, directly geared to the over= head rotor, no prop in front of the fuselage, and a small prop mounted at the tail end of the craft.

How to Fly It

TO ASCEND (and the helicopter can ascend vertically without a single foot of ground run), the pilot opens his throttle until the counter dial reads about 275 revolutions per minute, with the rotor blades set at minimum pitch angle. He then ine creases the pitch angle, which permits the blades to take deeper bites, thus creating more lift, and the craft mounts into the air. When he has attained the desired altitude, he tilts the rotor in the direction he wishes the craft to travel. The little rotor on the tail end of the helicopter serves as a rudder, and offsets the tendency of the cratt to revolve in the direction opposite to that in which the main rotor is turning. I saw the Focke-Wulf helicopter built and flow by the Nazis in 1937-38. Sikorsky's job is much neater, far simpler, and undoubtedly far more effi cient. In 1938, the Nazis were working on a larger model of their experimental job which was sup= posed to carry six or eight passengers and asceh vertically to about 3000 feet without progressing forward more than a few hundred yards.

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Factory Roofs as Airports

THE SIKORSKY helicopter, powered with a small engine, gives bright promise of being able to exceed any performance yet demonstrated by the Nazi machine. In view of the present stage of aeronautical knowledge, it is estimated that its present speed will range from zero miles per hour (and that's a new thought) to about 85 miles per hour, with an estie mated future development to about 150 m. p. h, The helicopter will not revolutionize or junk other types of heavier-than-air craft. But it will fill many a gap that other aircraft cannot bridge. It requires no airport, and can land and take off from any spaca in which its 28-foot rotor blades can turn. In fact, when Sikorsky begins to turn out his helicopters in

| quantity, it is likely the finished jobs will take off | from the factory roof.

It's up to the helicopter people now to demone strate the load-carrying capacity of this new craft, If the helicopter can carry a couple of bombs de= structive enough to wreck the hull of a sub, these

| machines can be assigned the job of coastal anti= | submarine patrol, operating from any spot selected

along the sandy coasts, requiring nothing but a few barrels of fuel and lubricant, and food and equip= ment for the pilot.

In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 6. — Add “rationale” to your list of Washe ington wonder words. It's smarter, fancier, newer than ‘“directive” or “co-ordinator” or any fancy come bination of the alphabet to desige nate some new agency. “Rationale” was thought up by the lawyers in the rationing die vision of the office of price admin istration, though it has nothing to do with rationing as such, so it is not just a bad pun. Other divisions of OPA still call a “rationale” a “statement of considerations," which is at least English. The dictionary defines “rationale” as “an explanae tion or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon or the like. Now rare.” In other words, a rationale in the OPA sense is an afterthought to an amendment to an interpretation to an order which maybe couldn't be understood in the first place. The rationale rationalizes it, you

hope,

The First Rationale

THE FIRST rationale which came to the atten tion of this department was the following: (Document No, 17184) Part 1404—Rationing of Footwear (RO-17 Amdt. 24) SHOES “A rationale, accompanying this amendment, issued simultaneously herewith, has been filed with the division of the federal register, “Section 1.7b is added to read as follows: “Sec. 1.7Tb—Operators of recreational facilities may obtain athletic shoes for rental. (a) Any person Ope erating a bowling alley open to the general public or operated primarily for use by members of the armed services may obtain sufficient certificates: to enable him to have in stock, for loan or rental to his patrons, 10 pairs of bowling shoes per alley for the first four alleys and seven pairs of shoes per alley for every alley above four.”

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The national labor relations board recently moved out of the space it had been occupying in the Shoreham building, one of Washington's larger downtown office structures in the heart of the financial district. The Saturday afternoon that saw the departure of the last NLRB fiing cabinet, mysterious typewritten | notices began to appear in the offices of all the other tenants, inviting them to a party “to celebrate an event we have all been looking forward to.” It turned out to be quite a celebration and went on for hours, Nobody from NLRB was there,

Tension Brings Poetry

WHEN AFFAIRS in Washington get really ine volved, some wag can always be counted on to break out in poetry to relieve the tension. Here's one that recently appeared in mimeographed form-—nobody knows quite where from—and it made the rounds of all the war agencies. The reference to ‘nine-three= two-eight” is to the president's executive order of that number. Here's the verse:

Dear Mr. Zilch, we are writing to you Because we have nothing else better to do. Our skill and experience the president spurns, Instead, he relies on a fellow named Byrnes, Our noblest efforts, we're sad to relate, Have been basely subverted by nine-three-two-eight, Please be advised that your wage application Has been painlessly put to death for the duration. Your personal fate is now in the power Of a genius who lives in an ivory tower. So great is the strength of this man in a crisis That he now {as control of all wages and prices. | He dwells in a room full of technical tracts, Hermetically sealed from all practical facts. And there he will sometimes go into a trance And perform his exotic “Inequities Dance.” And then, with Ben Cohen as his sole recorder, He'll shout out some wild new executive order, And so, Mr. Zilch, you can see where we're af,

| The war labor board is now hors de combat.