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MONDAY, JULY 12, 1943
PATTERN OF VICTORY
HE Sicilian invasion is a blow of doom to the axis. It was foreseen but could not be prevented. It is the prelude of more to come. This is the real thing because little luck is involved, few tricks, no long chances. It is the application of superior force, so overwhelming that the final result is inevitable if sustained. The question is no longer “how,” but “when” and “at what cost.” The road may be short or long, it may be more bloody or less, but at last we are on the way. Never was there more advance notice of military strategy. Everybody assumed it. So the advantage of syrprise was lacking. That made it the hardest of all military jobs —a combined sea-air-land invasion against heavily defended positions.
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
NEW YORK, July 12.—This is nothing on the order of a beef, you understand, but just an innocent, wholesale explanation or speculation having to do with our lack of cruising radius here in these Eastern states where they measure out the gas with an eyedropper and people, when they do venture on the road, go turtling along at 25 miles an hour and cut her off entirely and coast on the hills to stretch their mileage. People aren't sore about this, but they are slowly going nuts, not because of the inconvenience of limited and cramped transportation for necessary travel, but from a surpressed longing to sling the old lady and the kids, if any, into that moping old buggy, so mournful and silent there in the shed, and just go for a summer night's drive. I imagine that our feelings along the Eastern seaboard are something like those of the undergrads in Sing Sing when they see the night boats chugging past in the Hudson, turning cool white feathers off their bows cr hear the stylish, fast trains growling through the tunnel.
Going Stable-Crazy
THERE SHE sets, in the garage, the old Buick or the Ford or the Chrysler, still pretty good in the treads but going stable-crazy like a barned-up steed for lack of a pleasant, regardless run to nowhere in particular in the cool of the evening, a sweet refreshing tankful of Ethyl at one of those high-toned filling stations, now going to rust and weeds, a breather in the parking space while the family takes on a few scoops of beer with cheese-on-rye and so home
Nor was the initial success due to luck. While there | was no accidental interception, such as occurred in the | Dieppe raid, weather and sea conditions turned unfavorable. | The enemy's delay in getting reinforcements to the beaches, which enabled our landing parties to consolidate positions with light losses, was not happy chance—it was the result of advance destruction of enemy communications by allied plane, glider and parachute forces. » = = =» » » OW then explain the extraordinary, almost “bewilderingly,” successful first 48 hours-—the most critical period in any overseas invasion—since it was neither surprise, strategy nor luck? Obviously the initial success was due to organization. The massing of every type of armed power, transported at first over thousands of miles of hostile seas from America and England, trained and co-ordinated as a fighting team, and launched in a single offensive operation from scores of ports and fields, with upward of half a million men of many nations moving over hundreds of miles of sea, air and land with split-hair precision to the master touch of commander-in-chief Eisenhower! Meanwhile, the beginning of the battle of Europe on the Sicilian beaches puts new demands on the home front —vastly larger requirements of all kinds. Can we keep up with our fighters? That's what should be worrying us now at home.
POLICE AND POLITICS
HE cause of law and order around here is not going to be helped any by a political squabble over the police department—and there is nothing in the current situation | that a little tolerant co-operation cannot cure without one. | It is common knowledge that part—though certainly not all—the clamor against the police comes from gambling
and back to the stall. We may not have realized as much but almost all of us had become addicts of motion for its own sake in the years since the other war as the roads grew smoother and the engines and the tires almost infallible. Riding in the car was one of our simple, necessary relaxations and, as this second summer of rationing drage along on much smaller allowances and with driving for pleasure strictly verboten under penalty of gossip, scandal, embarrassment and possible revocation of the ticket, our people are beginning te chew bits of paper and gaze off into space.
Enforcement Jitters
THE ENFORCEMENT may have something to do with this nervousness. If you have a ticket you may
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take a vacation trip if you can convince your neighbors on the board that no train or bus can take you where vou want to go, provided you can get the gas. | Or, going to the store to lay in a slab of gin, a loaf of bread and some cigarets, some stranger may up and ask you whither away and you feel compelled to tell him that's your business and what is this, anyway, the gestapo, and all this adds up to something on the order of a cark. But I still don’t think that is our main trouble now. Our trouble is that it has been so long since we could step on thal starter, back her out, whip her around and head her away just following the reads for maybe
40 or 50 miles on no business whatever, but just to be moving and going and with no explanations or lies to anybodv. Nobody around these parts has done | anything like that for a year, and I have noticed that | some public officials who have legitimate errands of | more than 10 miles nowadays pack the loved ones along to let them review old scenes and breathe some of that country air and scmehow look more like Sanger's circus or Gypsy John Mitchell and family than dignitaries or state.
Gas Going to War
WE HERE may not realize it and the people in the
interests on which the police have cracked down. That much of it can, and should, be completely discounted. Crim- | inals always dislike a vigorous police department. Another part of the pressure is beyond doubt purely partisan or factional politics, and that, too, can be dismissed without serious attention. Unfortunately that is not all of the story. Some police practices have laid the department open to legitimate criticism. If gamblers and politicians now see a chance to garner support from citizens whose only interest in the police force is for its welfare and success it may be that police policies themselves have opened that opportunity.
Middle West, the West and South just can't get the idea, not having been through the experience, but |
i after a while, like those boys in Sing Sing you begin |
to pine for a glimpse of an ordinary crossroads over the ridge or the bouquet of Joe's lunch on the post road, 30 miles away, a hamburger joint and a dump of the purest ray, to be sure, but as dear to your heart as the scenes of your childhood. Fond recollection still presents them to view, but the film isn't distinct, and moreover the trip over and back was very important. 1 think the people of the East have been very game and sportsmanlike about it all. although some neces-
sary mystery is made of the reason why, there is general acceptance of the proposition that the gas that
NE such is the apparent tendency of the police to by-
pass the legal formalities of warrants for searches and | ..,} nice, of course, but nobody has shown that it
arrests. To a policeman honestly convinced that the law is being broken right under his nose it may very well seem
taining warrants before he acts is only a nuisance and an obstacle to the performance of his duty. Actually that law
is the most fundamental guarantee of the liberties of Amer- |
We the People
nors or presidents may think of it, it cannot be changed |
By Ruth Millett
ican people, their basic protection against arrogant injustice—and no matter what policemen, or mayors or gover-
and it is not going to be changed. Prosecutor Sherwood Blue's charge this week that 700 arrests have been made illegally in six months cites a fantastic performance if Mr. Blue's figures are correct—and they come direct from court records. Arrests without warrants repeatedly seem to have led to arguments and physical resistance and out of these affairs have grown numerous charges of police violence and brutality. Yet every police officer should know that a policeman who does not show a warrant has no more right nor authority in your home or mine than any other intruder might have.
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[© A poor and friendless man can be arrested in his own |
home without a warrant—then the same thing could happen to you, in your own home. If a tough little 15-year-old hoy can be held in jail two days and nights—as one was last woek—and then turned loose without any charge ever hav-
ing been placed against him—why the same thing could | | nice “things” as the Joneses.
Some couples will have to cut all the aimless, un- |
happen to your boy. There is nothing to be gained from a defense that attributes criticism of such proceedings wholly to political enemies of the Tyndall administration. Such incidents merely build a case for those enemies which its friends cannot combat. Nor is there any gain from heeding the advice of tricky legalistic minds which counsel slick ways of evading those basic laws for the protection of individual rights. The only justifiable defense against such criticism is to stop such tactics, whether they arise from too zealous efforts by policemen, or from lack of knowledge of correct procedure, or from inadequate discipline. That we believe Mayor Tyndall, Safety Board President Remy and Chief Beeker are entirely capable of doing. There is no reason to believe such a definite policy would not have overwhelming support from the policemen under their command. And there is ne good reason why the issue should become a political football in these days when the complete and efficient co-operation of all law enforcement
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we don't get is going to Europe and Africa. If there
and Indiana, to raise our allowance, that would be
can be done and, in the absence of proof that it can, There is, no reason why Harold
pluralities around here. It isn't anger or annovance that is getting us down We are just going stir-crazy that's all. |
“I THINK when this war is over many of the couples who have had their marriages interrupted by the war will be ahead of the ‘lucky couples’ who haven't been separated”—one war wife believes, The reason she thinks so is this: She says that in talking to husbands and wives who have been separated by the war she has discovered that they have nearly all
reached one important decision—to slow down their | | tempo of living when they are back together again | so that they have more time for each other and for | their children.
To do it, some husbands will have to quit think-
| ing of making money as the one important thing in
life. Some wives will have to stop trying to have as
necessary activities that cluttered up their lives. But whatever it was that kept them from fully enjoying life in the past, couples who have had time to examine their marriages objectively have decided to cut it out in the future. ‘
Empty Pattern
THAT IS something young folks don't often get around to figuring out. The man is often so absorbed in getting ahead in business or professionally, and the wife so intent on doing the “right things” socially that they fall into a pattern of living that doesn’t give much real happiness and satisfaction. But the couples who are now separated because of the war are waking up to the fact that life is hurrying by, and that they have wasted enough of it.
The men and women whose marriages haven't been touched by the war aren't nearly so likely to learn that lesson. They may never feel the need of looking at their lives closely enough to find out what is wrong with them. They may never be jarred out of their complacency to see whether or not they are
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disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“POOR SHOWING ON SMOKING ARRESTS” By Disgusted, In re Patrolman Alexander Dunwoody and his , . . arrests of street- | car smokers. The Times, July 7, 1943, states: | “Officer Dunwoody is the only of- | ficer who has made an arrest for| violation of the anti-smoking ordi- | nance.” |
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What is wrong? It looks as if we don't need the ordinance, and, if so, we don’t need Dunwoody. He | seems proud of himself, but I con- | sider it a poor showing of a city officer, paid from the taxpayers’ | purse. He needs a real job.
¥ # # “CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST” By F. W. U,, Indianapolis Chickens always come home to roost so it is now with the allabsorbing question of the condition !
of our home front. If at our en-| trance into the war, if congress had been foresighted encugh, and | the handwriting was plainly to be seen by many then, the conditions prevailing now would not be here. | No one had the courage to pro- | pose that the wage and prices on | everything be stabilized as .of a] certain year. (Say 1940 for ex-| ample) If congress had decreed that the whole economy of 1943 and for the duration be used as of | 1940, it would have solved the whole situation. Farmers, business men and workers would have had | to be satisfied with the levels of
Without guidance from our congress, the situation is now out of hand. The farmers are getting the highest prices in history and the same may be said of the majority of businessmen and workers, yet neither are satisfied. Instead of cooperation by all, we have the sorry spectacle of greed and graft, ignorance and stupidity, and the all- | prevailing thought—I'll get mine while the getting is good. The knowledge as to where this
thought will eventually precipitate
this country, few seem to care or realize. If not checked, it will
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bring the United States back into the orbit of the British Empire by joining that empire in establishing with armed force longtime control over the lives and the domestic affairs of ancient peoples inhabiting the countries with which we are now at war, if and when we compel them: to unconditional surrender in battle. There is just one way this proposed betrayal of our country can be prevented. That way is by the election, next year, of a president eventually act as a boomerang and|and a congress pledged to win the come back not only to haunt those | war and to bring our armies back opposed to sane operations but to| home as speedily as possible, so the aged and small income groups,|that our boys may help defend, it will be a calamity. | here at home, the government, the We elect congress believing in| flag and the free institutions for their wisdom to solve all problems which they have fought in foreign of our peopie, but the Solomon of | lands. congress has not appeared. If our| Since the New Dealers, now apcongress cannot cope with the small | parently in control of the Demoquestion of our home economy,|cratic party, seem certain to what then can we hope for in the renominate President Roosevelt greater question of a world -econ- | for a fourth term—in effect for life—real Americans who wish to keep our national independence, and to prevent the gradual confiscation of all private property, will have to help elect the Republican party's nominees for
It is too late to prevent the|Ppresident, vice president and con- | gress in 1944,
Roosevelt New Deal administra- : . : : | It is possible the American eletion from saddling the American ment in the Democratic party people with a vast, unpayable, per-| may defeat Mr. Roosevelt's remanent, interest-bearing national nomination next year; may give debt. us Democratic nominees known Interest on this debt will be paid.| to be loyal to our own country and Buyers of war bonds will have| our own flag. There are such something to show for their share! men in the old Democratic party, of the national debt, Taxes levied men fiercely loyal to the tradito pay the interest on this debt] tions of Washington, Jefferson, will be collected from every man,| Jackson and Cleveland, and to the and child, directly or in-| constitution of the United States directly, These taxes will sharply of America. reduce the American standard of| If, however, the Democratic party | in national convention next year It is not too late to prevent the continues to be a one-man party, Roosevelt New Deal administra- dominated by alien inter-nation-tion from executing the second] alists, then loyalty to the party part of its program, deliberately name in next year's elections will to revolutionize life in| be treason to the republic. this country. The second part] # # = aims to nationalize all income- | “PROHIBITION WOULD
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BE A BLESSING” By Mrs. H. M. W,, Indianapolis To Mr. N. R. L.: Prohibition under any flag would be a blessing to the world. The inebriates that kill and cripple so many thousands a year aren't a small percentage. I can give you FBI reports on the dirty, rotten conditions of these times, and figures that certainly are not small. Take a little tour to some of the taverns outside the mile square, and sit and watch for a few hours | and see what a heart-sickening| deplorable picture it is. Our moth-/| ers of small children, sitting there | unashamed, drunk, and not caring how they talk or what they do. Making dates with married men, cursing and talking nasty. If that | isn't ignorance, what is? And unless a drunk murders someone, he is free to go on his way annoying whomever he pleases, and nothing is done about it. And that is what legal liquor causes. But you need not worry. The liquor business is powerful, and like a forest fire, it will go on and on for a long, long time destroying everything in its path, the good as well as the bad. Killing the cat to get the flea would keep thousands more from accumulating, if you got the flea. And do you think it isn’t penalizing the good citizens to have to watch, day after day, the things that take place right uhder their noses?
DAILY THOUGHTS
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.—Luke 6:29.
"Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to
Nazi Air Force |!
By Maj. Al Williams
NEW YORK, July 12.—Although there are no ironclad rules, the wise strategist always assumes the most disadvantageous conditions and devises his tactics from that base. Unless there is a shortage of fuel, which I doubt, we must assume that there still is a large German air force and that it will make at least one all-out effort before the Nazis fold up. We know that the Ruhr has been smashed. We know that more bombers working on other sections of Germany can produce similar conditions. We know that against these air attacks the Nazis depend on fighter planes and anti-aircraft guns. What we do not know is what the Germans have done with their bombers or that the production of bombers in Germany has ceased. Over and beyond the air forces employed by the Nazis in defense work, the question, “Where is the Nazi air force?” is still pertinent.
Where Is Nazi Force?
IF THE Nazis did not fear an allied invasion of the continent, I believe they would already have cut loose a final blow at the Russians, or possibly .an all-out air attack against England with a holdidg operation behind the eastern wall, \ But still, “Where is the Nazi air force?” Fighters and anti-aircraft guns are only elements in any air force—~bombers are the real striking arm, No matter what form the crackup of Germany assumes, we are going to hear from those Nazi bombers before the show ends. x There's an interesting angle on the full-out use of allied bombers and the full-out use of Nazi fighters in the current stage of the air war, The attrition factor must be reckoned on both sides. The allies are losing bombers and the Nazis are losijig fighters. What the losses are we do not know but probably they are considerable. Hence the end of this stage will find the Nazis with their bombers in their original strength and the allies with thei? fighters in full strength. In that situation, I cannot go along with the overconfidence which is flooding the land and I am daily waiting to hear the answer to thas question: “Where is the Nazi air force?”
In Washington
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By Peter Edson WASHINGTON, July 12.—Nok every war contractor fights gove ernment renegotiation of his war contract to determine how his costs can be reduced, his excess profits cut down. Some of them beat the govern« ment to the punch and adopt a policy of turning back excegs profits voluntarily, General Mow tors did that in March of 1942, when its directors decided to limit profit before taxes to half of what the company had made on civilian business before the war. And, as war department experience has shown, at least 37 per cent of the contracts investigated thus far have shown that there were not excessive profits, Opposition to the renegotiation act of April 28, 1942, in the campaigns of publicity that have been conducted in an effort to have the law modified or repealed have shown a wide variety of arguments, some of which border on the naive.
Contractors Get Even Break
IF ANYTHING, the government renegotiators have probably leaned a good bit toward the side of the contractors, who are told to put in every cost that seems reasonable, even though it may not be allowed. Privately, the government renegotiators, who were mostly businessmen themselves in private life, joke to each other about “when they go to Atlanta, after the war.” They don’t know what they're going for, specifically, but they feel they're on their way. Still—some of the war contractors leading the parade against renegotiation try to make cases for themselves which army and navy men find hard to accept as a sacrifice or risk. Building contractors have come up with an argument running something like this: Yes, they admit, some profits on some building contracts have been high. But disregard those. Average out all the profits of all the contractors and you will see that there has been no excessive profiteering. The argument of textile mill executives ran about as follows: Cotton mills should be exempt from re negotiation of contracts because they are an old-time industry, using old-time machines. Their costs were known. If the men who made the government cone tracts had been any good, it would have been impogh sible for the industry to get a contract that would allow exces profits.
Where Excess Profits Lie
WHAT THEY would have the government overlook in this case is the fact that when volume of produe~ tion is increased from two to five times or more, the costs of operation come down amazingly, and there is where the excess profits lie. The manufacturer of a device used in trainin aircraft personnel came up with the argument ths since the war demands had resulted in the production of all these devices that would be needed for the next 20 years, the government should allow profits that would guarantee the company’s dividend rate for the next 20 years. Some machine toolmakers have a similar argu ment, which runs that since the war demands haws caused the manufacture of machine tools up to the saturation point, there will be little post-war demand, Therefore, it is reasoned that machine toolmakers should have profits assuring maintenance of dividend rate till there is a new demand. There is on record, however, one machine tooly maker which had a net worth of $5 million in 1938 and which, in the four years since then, has not only paid out $5 million in dividends—100 per cent dividends, or 25 per cent per year—but has increased its net worth three times to boot. That's why there is this thing called renegotiation,
To the Point—
EVEN WITH everybody working there's far more said than done when all is said and done. A * - “POULTRY RAISER Pays $300 for a Hen"—Head« line. With eggs what they are, my what a bargain » * * " A SCHOOL teacher says all schools should teach the art of talking pleasahtly. She believes that a cheery “hello” is a good buy. * . * KEEP A smile on your face and you always can find pleasant reflections in the mirror. : . * * > AN ARTICLE in a youth magazine tells how to start an amateur glee club. The real need is yn artcile telling how to stop some of them. * . * : ONE THING that keeps the divorce rate high is the clinging vines before marriage that become ramblers afterwards. *
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