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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943

To the Filipinos in Jap bondage President Roosevelt sends iberation. The occasion is the 45th , occupation of the islands. In

the name of America he speaks to the Filipinos not as underlings but as equals, who have won that proud status in the heroic comradeship of arms for the peace and free-

dom of the Pacific. Qur association with them for two generations has not been without fault. We have made mistakes, sometimes selfishly and sometimes idealistically. But the net achievement has been high, perhaps the best record in that type of relationship in any time anywhere. That applies not only to material progress, to higher living standards and public health and education. Nor alone to democratic institutions, All these are vastly important, a tribute at once to American enlightenment and Filipino capacity for development. : But the real test of the American-Philippine relationghip is whether, in bestowing material benefits and forms, it robbed them of their pride and self-respect as a people; whether they think it is worth fighting for, worth the willing sacrifice of Filipino lives that Filipinos to come may enjoy these opportunities. On Bataan and Corregidor the Filipinos answered that question for themselves—and for the invader. : 2 8 = » x -AS this so remarkable? It was the only case in all the

: Southwest Pacific where an Oriental people as a whole found its association with an Occidental power worth fighting for. The subjects of Britain in Malaya and Burma, the natives of the Dutch East Indies, did not rise generally against the Jap invader; many indeed welcomed the Jap. That fact—which was the inner strength of the Philip-

pines and the weakness of those other lands-~influences the future as it did the past. The Philippines will be easier to liberate, and the Japs will be harder to drive out of those ~~ other lands, because of this. And the future of the Southwest Pacific, after Japan's defeat, is uncertain because of it. "As President Roosevelt says, and as President Quezon

nized member of the united nations already has the “attributes to complete and respected nationhood,” to which will be added formal independence when the Jap invader is kicked out. : FEHSPRR EF | If that is before July, 4, 1946, the independence date fixed by congress, as Mr. Roosevelt implies in his use of ‘the word “soon,” formal establishment of the Philippine fepublic will be advanced—presumably by congressional amendment, though the president in his pledge does not specify.

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» » a. s » . TOUT that is not all. Besides helping the Filipinos to redeem their country from the enemy and to establish independence, President Roosevelt reports his pledge of Dec. 28, 1941, that their independence will be “protected.” ‘And “the entire resources in men and materials of the United States are behind that pledge.” . | Independence is a snare and delusion, ss so many ~ pmall nations have discovered, without the means to pro- _ tect it. Therefore, the Filipinos are interested in the reality as well as the forms of freedom, and they naturally trust to continued co-operation with the United States for that security. i Perhaps the Philippine republic, as an example in the

development of self-government and in co-operation for Pacific peace, can supply the constructive leadership of the peoples of the Southwest Pacific hitherto lacking.

FUELING ARMY AIRPLANES ; IT is considered all right for the newspapers to report individual accidents to service airplanes, but the war epartment discourages “roundups” of these accidents. It doesn’t want us to add up the number of: erashes or | Still, the public must have noted that a great many ‘planes are cracking up in this country, all too frequently with fatal results to the occupants. Whether the system. of gassing up army planes at airis has anything to do with any of these accidents, we not know.. But we should like to know, and we think

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e country is entitled to know. What suggests these remarks is a dispatch by Thomas Stokes revealing that a congressional committee has been

estigating the firm that supplies fueling systems to rmy airfields. He says this company’s equipment, wherein ter pressure is used to force gasoline into airplane tanks, been found “inadequate” by the U. S. bureau of standrds, but that the company continues to get the army’s siness, while competitors with better devices get the cold This whole business deservesithorough inquiry not onl congress but by the war department. we

A'TTER OF TASTE ' FE, distillers want to start making whisky again, ‘Some their opponents argue thatiour grain supply is needed urposes, particularly for feed. ~~ us of Zeke in the old atucky courthous:

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Second Front By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—One thing at least is known about the coming Churchill-Roosevelt econference, They will discuss the when and wherefor of an allied invasion of western Europe.

Elmer Davis, OWI chief, on his return from Europe says the knockout blow cannot be delivered from the air lone. Whether right or wrong, this is the judgment of Vv the joint high command. Therefore, the timing of an invasion of western Europe and Germany is the key question in allied - European strategy. Th This question breaks down into two others: One, whether Germany is yet weak enough. The other, whether the allies are now strong enough. As to conditions in Germany, the Churchill-Roose-velt conference will receive evidence of civilian demoralization. Neutral observers, recently returned from Germany to Sweden and Switzerland, report war weariness and disillusionment. Military defeats in Africa and Sicily and retreats in Russia have shaken civilian morale. And the bombing of German cities has created a creeping paralysis of fear.

Still Fighting Fiercely

NEVERTHELESS, according to these reports, this internal weakness has not yet led to anything approaching collapse. Partly because of ingrained habits of discipline and the potent terrorism of-the gestapo. Parily also because Germans fear that defeat will be the signal for revenge pogroms against Germans by the liberated survivors in the occupied countries. So, in the absence of any allied appeal or promise of the Woodrow Wilson variety, the hopeless Germans have not yet reached the point of wholesale sabotage or revolt. Though civilian morale is weakened, German military morale is not, according to these reports. The best test of course is on the fighting fronts. Accord-

.ing to the Russians, the Germans during the last

month have fought savagely. According to American and British troops, the Germans in Sicily have fought better than in Africa. The net of this seems to be that the German army has not yet cracked and that an allied force from England would find no pushover. Invasion now would be very costly.

It's Not All Up to Us

AS TO WHETHER the allies are strong enough, the answer is that they are much stronger than before but not so strong as they will be later. If that were all, the question would answer itself. The western allies would wait for many months until bombers had destroyed most of German production and transportation and civilian nerves, and until allied invasions of southern Europe and the Balkans and perhaps Norway had isolated Germany, and then march in on g falling Germany. That British policy of cautious delay has been followed up to now. But Russia says no. Russia demands an immediate western offensive, And it is not so easy to refuse her as in the past. : . If Russia, by a near-miracle, should drive into Germany before an allied invasion from the west, Russia alone could virtually dictate the peace of east-

ern Europe and of Germany, if not of Europe.

America also wants more speed than Britain, because of the Pacific. Until Germany is defeated the United States cannot concentrate for all-out blows against Japan, which many of our military men urge and which the American electorate in the ¢ampaign year of 1944 will want. Out of this complex of conflicting military, diplomatic and political pressures the Rooseveli-Churchill conference must reach a decision. It is now a choice.

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

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appeal from ome of the greatest American patriots. Among those on the committee are several of the’ most powerful Hollywood magnates.

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Terror By Teamsters Described

ON OCT. 12, 1938, Ralph L. Moody, assistant attorney general of Oregon, submitted a report to Gov= ernor H. Martin, describing a reign of terror and corruption extending throughout the state under the auspices of the teamsters’ union of the A. F. of L. The controlling power over the terroristic’ unions was Dave Beck, the personal appointee and representative of President Roosevelt's friend and political cohort, Daniel J. Tobin. _ Mr, Tobin has since served a term in the White House as the president’s trusted adviser on labor and visited England as the -president’s special emissary to British labor, along with Joseph Padway, the attorney for some of the foulest racketeers in the whole evil record of unionism under the New Deal. In his réport to Governor Martin, Mr, Moody disclosed that among the files seized in the office of Al Rosser, the chief terrorist under Beck, he found a letter from Forbes Morgan, an uncle of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who was treasurer of the Democratic national committe, in the 1932 campaign, acknowledging $300 from Rosser's terrorists which had been turned over to Morgan by Tobin. :

Rosser Gets 12 Years in Prison

“THE CONTRIBUTION comes at an opportune time,” Morgan wrote Rosser, “and it means: a great deal. I wish to thank you and the members of your union for the splendid support given President Roosevelt and the Democratic cause.” - ‘Rosser got ;12 years in prison for arson in the teamsters’ state-wide reign of terror, Tobin and Beck, under whom he carried ‘on his dirty work, were honored by the New Deal, and Mrs, Roosevelt's uncle, as a gesture of gratitude from the liquor interests for the repeal of prohibition, got a sinecure with the whisky industry which paid him $100,000 a year until he died. : He would have been overpaid at $10,000 a year. ; : :

To the Point— "OPA HAS allowed the wholesale ceiling price of sausage to go up! And now it's the little pig who jumps over the moon.

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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.

“INDUSTRY SITS IN JUDGMENT ON JOB SEEKERS” By A Times keader, Indianapolis Mrs. A. M. Henry: I believe that instead of a housecleaning at the U. S. employment office: what you réally want is for someone to convince you that outward appearances are deceiving. I believe you are a patriotic erican woman who perhaps has never worked in industry before but who answered the frantic appeals for help thinking you could further the war effort. It is evident that you were handled rather abruptly. You were hurt by what, to you, seemed to be a lack of appreciation. Someone failed to give you a kindly explanation when such an explanation might have prevented this misunderstanding. I had the same experience excepting that someone got hold of me before I left the office and set me right. He told me that jobs come and go. Today they may have an order. Tomorrow - it may be filled. Yet the applicant feels that on the particular day and hour that he applies for a job there ought to be one wait-

between right and wrong, but a gamble—one among [ing for him.

No one in the employment office sits in high and mighty judgment on you, but industry does sit in judgment on you. It is they who tell the employment office how tall; how heavy, how young, how experi« enced an applicant they want. The smployment office saves you carfare by referring you only on those jobs

_| which you have a chance of getting.

Mind you, I don’t argue one way or the other about whether industry should change their qualifications. I simply say they are the ones who set them =ad the employment office tries to follow them. If there is no labor shortage, then what we are having amounts to the same thing. If you only knew it, it is an extremely difficult job trying to match the. applicants’ desires about a. job with the various jobs on hand. The jobs with too low pay have to be filled; so do the jobs with too long hours; likewise the dusty job, the hot job, the heavy job, the job in the bad part of town or the job with the poor transportation.

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“TELL ME JUST WHO BANNER AVE. BELONGS TO”

By A Times Reader, Indianapolis In answer to the Hoosier Forum by F. K. in Thursday's paper, Aug. 5, “Prepare Your Cans or Keep Rubbish.” I'd like to have my say. Just how oiten are the can collectors supposed to pick up the cans? On Banner ave, tin cans haven't been collected since the tin salvage started, and there's plenty there, don't take my word, go see for yourself. I'm just as patriotic as anyone, and do just as much to help win this awful war as anyone, so F. K,, please know what you're saying before you have your say. And I'd also like to add this. Would someone tell me just who Banner ave. belongs to—the city or county? Neither want to claim it— too many repairs to be made, I guess, and don’t have time, and maybe that's the reason for cans not being collected. If s0, someone had better make up their minds and get out there and get those cans and rubbish, and I'm sure people won't throw any away. And, F. K., who’s going to report cans in garbage if there's no colleciors? Someone had better report that there’s nc collector. And everyone try to help win this war. » ” ” “WORLD-WIDE WPA WOULD MAKE SAP OF U.S.” By, Voice in the Crowd, Indianapolis Alma Bender in her denunciation of s permanent military force’ in ‘America is only partially. correct. 1t is true that the maintenance of a large protective force has an effect on the standard of living, So does a $300,000,000,000 debt, and bonuses for wartime service, Noth. ing would affect our standard of living so much ‘as the Washingtonconsidered, world-wide WPA that would make a big sap out of Uncle Sam. : ) If the United States could have building up a military machine that was spent raking leaves: and wearing out the earth's surfacé by shoveling it around, it is very doubtful that there would have been a world

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States;-along with the weakness of England and France. Where the enemy missed his guess was in the length of time in which the Americans could convert, and in the strength of Russia. Without the ability, however, of our free industrial institutions to produce, it is very likely that the enemy’s guessing would have led them to world-wide victory. It is too much of a chance to take again, and we never again should depend on another nation’s navy as being supplemental to our own. Had England fallen, we would have been in a row boat on the high seas. Does anyone doubt that England could readily have fallen if the paperhanger had not blundered into Russia? We cannot stand another $300,000,000,000 war, but we can stand the spread-out cost of being prepared to prevent another war, and it does not make so much difference whether or not our living standard allows us to have a radio. The cost of this war will not be complete until the last bonus and pension has been paid by the grandsons of our grandchildren, fie The world may be getting small, but it should never shrink to the point - where ‘the United States should give up its sovereignty,

¥ ” » “CRITICISM OF PRESIDENT IN WARTIME IS UNWISE” By Mariam Williams, Plainfield I would like to answer the article written by Mr. Maddox which appeared in Saturday's Times, I think that it all stands to rea-

under another administration, you would be marking off the days in a federal prison. I should think that you should know by this time that criticism of the president or his doings in wartime is unwise to say the least. Those who begin to chime “socialist dictatorship” every time they are asked to give up some minor pleasure or commodity certainly ought to be made to pack their belongings and go elsewhere, because any American so easily discouraged is in all evidence incapable of carrying the title “American” with honor. The integrity of each American’s searched as never before.

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By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—In spite of the shortages of all . of paper and the limitations Va paper products, it isn't likely ' there will be another nation-wide wastepaper collection campaign ° * like the one organized back in those first fine days of all-out enthusiasm at the beginning of the war. You may, however, hear + : . Sood bi picks about local and . 8! 8 d wastepaper collection drives to get out scrap of a particular Pr he the vicinity of some paper mill concentrating on : manufacture of a certain type of paper and eding only one kind of scrap. iho This specialized type of wastepaper collection is becoming known as the Wilmette plan of serap collec 3 tion because the technique was perfected by the Civilian Defense Council in Wilmette, Ill, whese the drives have been successful, ; : The Wilmette plan was originally the conception. : of Norman Altman of the Butler Brothers Paper Corp. of Chicago. A thousand civilian defense volinteer workers were lined up to handle the collections ° on a monthly basis, To date, a million and a half pounds of salvage have been collected. : rh

Advance Sorting

WHEN WASTEPAPER is called for, the townfolk are asked to separate and put out only the types of scrap in demand-newspapers, magazines, : brown wrapping paper, bags, corrugated board or box board. Oollections are thus sorted and packed in advance eliminating unnecessary handling, cutting down om warehouse requirements, saving transportation, saving ¥ manpower. The original nation-wide wastepaper collection bogged down completely because it jammed the warehouses, stockpiled papers that weren't needed, | put extra demands on manpower and transportat A Commercial and job printers will soon eiriatidin campaign to conserve paper, basing their drive on the slogan, “Stretch the Paper,” which is an old-gag in ’ every job shop. Every time a new boy was hired, the old hands would send the apprentice over to the competitor’s shop to “borrow the paper stretcher.” Paper being unstretchable and there being no such thing in existence as a paper stretcher, this ws always * Sbusidarey funny, It isn’t funny any more; it’s dead *

ANPA's Efforts

THE AMERICAN Newspaper Publishers’ association has been moving in every direction to stretch » .available supplies of newsprint, curtailing editions, limiting circulation, allocating tonnage, encouraging § the cutting of more U. 8. pulpwood to relieve the de- ™ Fils On Canadian production. ; n Canada, which supplies 70 per cen U.S.’ pulpwood, woodcutting and ky a the us considered essential industries, so the problem of inCreasing Canadian production to meet the increased U. 8S. demand is fundamentally lack of manpower. : Transportation shortages also enter into the picture. The paper industry as a whole is trying to cut ® horizontally so that all users are cut by

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and without determination of how the | used. That can’t go on forever, A a and V-boxes for war materials are essential and, to meet those demands, paper bags and wrapping paper may have to go. For printing papers, the problem is one .of avoiding imposition of priorities, making the user - file a lot of applications and prove that his intended use is essential, That would ruin numerous

printers, cause a lot of confusion a at difficult to administer, nd be extremely",

Three congressional committeé have bee g . } . ha n probin, the paper shortage situation—the Truman rr : contract committee, the Murray small business com y mittee, and the Boren interstate commerce sub: ol mittee of the house. There will be a number of paper= . n 8 when congress reco : 3 Kirdled 3s _reconvenes in mid

We the People

By Ruth Millett

A NAVY officer’s wife who has followed her husband frem ccast to coast, spending periods of seve eral months at inland navy schools, ' says she ‘is getting kind’ of tired of being treated like an unwelcome * transient by the “good women” of the small towns in which she must Make her Sp home; a e thinks that even though * ihe usually isn't long in one pe : er neighbors cou r, She doesn’t even think oy would a Sal on Tek, { if they invited her to some of their parties, ' *@ *

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