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"WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1943

SOFT ANSWERS

BEFORE the war, Navy Secretary Knox's public utterances were generally in a strident key, and he frequently tripped over his own tongue—for example, his announcement on Dec. 7, 1941, that our navy is ready for come-what-may, followed a few hours later by the attack on Pearl Harbor. : But the secretary is learning. is quite effective. A few weeks ago he put a nice touch on the Elk “Hills oil-lease controversy by admitting candidly, “I muffed it.” And yesterday he came up with a couple of understatements that will be hard to match— 1. When he said that all the Washington announcements about drafting pre-Pearl Harbor fathers had “gotten me sort of confused,” and 2. When he remarked that allied bombing of U-boat manufacturing centers. “has not been conducive to production.” .

And his new technique

~ SICILIAN BALAN CE SHEET

OW that Sicily i is in the bag it is possible to daw up a ) tentative balance sheet: Losses were incredibly small, gains incalculably large. At the top are psychological and political results. Military historians. will differ as to the turning point of the war, the so-called decisive battles—whether the battle of Britain, or Stalingrad, or El Alamein, or the battle of the "Atlantic, or Tunifla, or Orel, or Sicily. But psychologically: the victory of Sicily, in itself or accumulatively, had the largest repercussions. It was the political turning point. It cracked the axis and forced out Mussolini, This was accepted by most of Europe as ‘the sign of the disintegration of the Fascist-Nazi system. In Italy the anti-Fascist leaven began to work. In Germany, generals and junkers began plans to dump Hitler. Axis satellites, such as Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, looked for ways to desert the sinking ship. Finland began to question her German partnership. Fascist Spain flirted with the allies. Neutral Sweden discontinued her transit aid to Hitler, while neutral Turkey turned more openly pro-ally. In the occupied countries from Norway's north cape

ito the southern isles of Greece the spirit of revolt flamed |. .

‘anew. Over all was the certainty ‘of eventual yithary in the allied que: the fear of defeat in German} HT

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5 RUSSIAN victories and the allied air offensive over Ger-

many contributed much to this revolution in European attitude. But Sicily, and the fall of Mussolini, were the

For Sicily is part of the European continent, despite the two-mile channel between. < Psychologically and politically, at least, the invasion of Sicily was the invasion of Europe. : - On the. military gide, the Sicilian victory knocked out a considerable ‘portion of the Italian fighting strength and seriously crippled the rest, and cleared the Mediterranean —besidés- gaining | invasion and air bases for allied offensives Ikans and possibly France. Of these gains ‘the least important was the crippling of the Italian forees, which had been weakened before. We failed to eliminate the German forces, many of which apparently ‘escaped after -a remarkable delaying operation. Clearing the Mediterranean changed not only the local but also the global allied shipping picture, by shortening routeg to the Near East, Russia, and the Far East. For the first time it gave the allies enough ships for world

warfare.

BY! aver without these far-reaching * ssychological and political results, and these great strategic gains, Sicily

would rank as an outstanding American-British achieve-

ment becausé it was the successful invasion proving ground of the unified land-sea-air forces of the western allies under one commander in chief. It was the largest mass invasion in history across a sea against a well fortified and defended

coast. : ‘In the testimony of the best judges—German officers

who were on the receiving end and who, until that time,

held the record for invasion—the Sicilian operation exceeded anything they had imagined possible in the planning

. and execution of mass power concentration down to the

smallest detail. Eisenhower and his staffs and field commanders solved

unprecedented’ ‘problems of supply, of co-ordination, of strategy and tactics, and of teamwork on the ground, on

the water and'in the air. And they did it with men of many |.

nationalities, some in battle for the first time and fighting against superior numbers, As for the American soldiers, sailors and fliers, they proved to themselves and to the enemy that they are tops. We have not won the war. . German military strength is almost as great as ever, and we have uly a ay toehold

Fair Enough By: Westbrook Pegler gs

smear pamphleteers and word.

Wo Work as a patriotic service. My friend says that the way things there never was such a need, a crying aie ow. ay it (being quite a steady reader of the butchers’ pa; or bleeding-heart, press) for: boycotts and come out of retirement strictly in the in th : national morale. His clients this time are not groups, unions’ or racial or religious factions but his old ‘victims, -the big manufacturers and merchants, especially the chain stores. They knew his work in the old days and figured that if anyone could save

in the interest of national unit; the eff and sacrifice his hard-earnéd and Yar, efort They had tried everything to keep the customers away. They posted signs in their merchandise outlets saying “One to a customer; don’t be a hog,” “No butter today” and “The customer is never right” but it did ne good so, finally, one bright executive who used to fight my old union friend all over the country

and call him all kinds of a liar, which he is, called on

him to help. Wants 'Cost-Minus' Pay S MY FRIEND hesitated at first, partly from honest

penetrated he stuck.out his hand and said he .would put. forth his best efforts on a cost-minus: basis. Don’t you mean: cost-plus?” the executive asked. “No, I mean minus,” said my old union friend. “If I make another dollar, my taxes will run me into the red. If I can run up some expenses to deduct, I might barely get by. Don’t think I am being mercenary. After all, a man is entitled to ® modest living,

isn’t he?”

So then they sat down to plan a campaign, The executive, who sells nothing, said he would have to cut sales at least 60 per cent right away and my union friend, just speaking off the end of his tongue without: thinking, said, “I will have a picket line in front of

cover you from coast to coast in a week. It will be like old times.”

Pickets 'Essential' .

“PICKET LINE,” the executive yelled. “Fou are out of touch, oldtimer. You can't get pickets these days with this manpower shortage, McNutt would slap them all into the army and navy.” My old friend was loaded for that one, however, so he pulled out the new and augmented McNutt list of non-deferrable and non-essential occupations and handed it across the desk. ; . “Look. that over,” he said. “See if you see pickets listed there. Picketing is an essential occupation.” “Well, you are ‘out of touch just the same” the executive insisted, “A picket line would jam the: place with business. Things have changed. We have got to get a new approach.”

Used Radio Program

THE SOLUTION was a radio program. First they

| wanted to try newspaper ads, but the newspapers fold them they would have te stand in line on the

requirements by two-thirds. The advertising departments were pretty cold, anyway, wanting to know if their advertising was really essential and héw much space they bought last year so that they could figure their quota. : So, as I said, they went to the air with an advertising plug mooched into a new broadcast three times a ‘day, in which the announcer hammered away on the idea that these clothes were made entirely by union labor and sold by uniop clerks and the effect was miraculous. Sales went off 25 per cent in 24 hours and within a week the situation was thoroughly under confrol. They are keeping it up ‘as institutional advertising to hold sales down and, for the end of the war, my old friend is planning a campaign to revive and rebuild sales in which the announcers theme will be that these clothes are strictly scab, made in fink shops and sold only by rats. They figure that will bring the customers tearing back.

Helps Newspaper Too

FOR A GROCERY chain, my friend saved the day by spreading rumors that their butter was all blackmarket and mostly gear-greased, colored with house paint, their beef was certified laundry-horse and their crab meat all Japanese aud smuggled in by submarine. It worked wonders, too. -And for a newspaper publisher who wag swamped with advertising business, my friend started a rumor that the owner was a secret member of the Silver shirts, * It not only saved: him ‘but it ‘drove so much business over to. his competitor ‘that the competitor went too deep into his white paper allowance and may have to suspend for months, a My old friend likes it back in amass. ‘ways 8 marvel at thinking up dirty rumors ingenuity is blazing hing and he ses Bhd doing his bit to win the war,

We the People By Ruth Millett

of-mouth rumorists and gone batk ’ | 3

them he could and put it up to him to forget bygones |

confusion, because he couldn't immediately adjust his |. mind to the idea of a friendly boycott but once it |

your New York place this afternoon and I hope to |.

waiting list for about three weeks and cut their space {warning

WILL HELP WIN WAR”

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The Hoosier Forum disagree with what + say, but will = defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“IS THIS SABOTAGE . , . PARTIES AT 2 A. M.?” By & War Worker, Indisnapolis Is this sabotage or not? When drinking ‘parties start around 10 o'clock at night and last until 2 in the morning—radios turned on real loud—men and women screaming and laughing—running outside half dredsed. War workers who are tired and worn out tryihg to ‘sleep have to get up at 5:30" a. 'm: and get ready for work. Will you please print something in your paper them about parties and what time to quit having them. And who to call if they don’t. stop. : . » =». “EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL

By Jostph C. Bush, 1208 N. Senate ave. Mrs. Herbert Larson’s article set out to prove that equality is a thing to be earned. Mrs, Larson evidently does not agree with -Abraham Lincoln and other patriotic Americans who believe in his ‘words which say, in part, that this nation was conceived in liberty and

ch the nation has She denies that

ple have a right to freedoms.’ This despite

“| the fact that they have over 500,000 S men in the armed services and at

Times readers are “invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because - of the volume received, let-’ ters ‘must be’ limited to 250 words. Létters must ‘be signed.)

‘children geared to ‘winning the war

on the home front. i Clearly, we are fighting for the eradication of the master-<race theory. The aims of’ the ‘united nations as set forth in the Atlantic charter are to establish «democratic equality for all peoples. - - :

~}; This can be done; There are 172

different races in the Soviet union, yet they are one solid people. America for . Americans - of all races, creeds and colors! The grave for fascism, regardless’ of the race, creed or color of its proponents! It is most unfortunate that certain. sections: of the bourgeois and the “hate Roosevelt crowd” have, by the logic of their position, fallen

{into the camp .of the fai

Mrs. Larson's article roises the question of the so-called riots.” She places the blame upon the shoulders of those patriotic Americans who are currently ng that equal rights be granted to the Negro people. These demands are being put forward in the interest of winning the war and the peace

ito follow by President Roosevelt,

Vice President Wallace, Senator Claude Pepper, Congressman Marcaritonio, Mr: Wendell - Willkie and millions of white trade unionists. The C.1.0. conference held in

Greater. love hos rio man than 10 give up his - prelices for his

5 [least 12000000 men, women and|country.

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18 Side Glances-By Galbraith

“DON'T YOU THINK DEFENSE WORKER SHOULD SLEEP?” By Mrs. Mildred Coffee, 2118 N. DeQuiney

newer to Mr. Marshall's question, “Who Do These Defense Workers Think They Are?” Let's take night workers in general. As they go to bed, there's two strikes against them to start with. Few people can sleep in a light | room. To make. a room dark, you can't help but:shut out the air that |a person needs after being shut up| inside a factory or shop from eight to ‘14 hours:a-day. Secondly, | increase during daytime, Traffic, radios, whistles, children, popping motorcycles, garbage and trash collectors and more

home from work. When you need a policeman, fireman, utility repairman, etc., at night, he’s right there. Don’t you think he’s entitled to an unbroken sleep the next day? When a pupil excells in hig work, he’s awarded a scholarship; why not reward night workers with .at least enough sound sleep. You move out int othe country and you may have all the barking dogs and croving roosters you want, without disturbing night workers. I love dogs and have one, but she’s been trained not to bark unnecessarily. There's no sweeter sound than the voices of playing children. I have two, but even they must be quiet at times, respecting night workers. God inténded nighttime for sleeping, and it must be disappointing to ‘realize some of his peoples are so inconsiderate of others. These defense workers are the . people making home safe so you can sit around and gripe. y= .

“FRANCO'S ABOUT-FACE

barking dogs. I guess you never| : broke up a cat. fight at night, be-| cause you were able to sleep| | ‘through it, because you came right} :

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lack of fertilizer, it's lack of

| powders, too many kinds of Jap bee, bean.

cut worm, rust or leaf mold, ear wind, .drought or flood, and now - everyday chicken fed. Life for ble, every day, and no wonder it's ot ‘down’ you know where. Also, who 4 there was national economic significance in & lot:

| back alley chicken coops? But there is. “on

. So tight has the national stock feed and " supply become that the department of ptine vidio ff already stopped trying to induce people to ' raise chickens as a. means of relieving the meat: shortage and the egg shortage.

Livestock Increase

» STATISTICALLY, 1043-44 is about 11 per cent smaller than last year, with the supply of feed grains about 20 per cent smaller per animal unit because the number of mals has been increasing steadily over the past { years and is still going ‘up. The drain on f ‘supplies is therefore tremendous, and .made more acute by the greater demand for grains for industrial alcohol, corn syrups and sugars, flour and tHe like. That is the general, national picture, but this iss thing that can't be generalized about. Feed supply is a local situation all over the country, Farmers who are holding corn on their farms to feed to: pigs will have plenty to feed to barnyard flocks of chickens if they want to, Poultry raisers who can buy feed supplies in their-own localities can get by.

Call for Government Action NORTHEASTERN U. 8. dairymen and poultry men

have prepared an estimate for the war food J ad istration, however, reporting that they will be

nearly 2 millon tong of feed vhless tno government takes some action to promote the movement of grain from the corn belt into the deficit areas. There has been some consideration of allocations but nothing has yet jelled. The talk of an elaborate system of allocations, amounting almost to a rationing system "that would give pigs so much, beef so much, mutton so much and poultry so much-—possibly in re< turn for a blue stamp-—can be dismissed as “being absolutely unworkable. y foils But distribution can be forced into defictt. ; Commodity Credit Corp. ‘does this on a limited now. It buys corn at ceiling price in Chicago, pays the cost of transportation to the southeast, and s it at ceiling price.. I doesn't make any m ‘way, but it gets the grain around where it will most good. . Enlargement of this principle might. oe carried out to keep the animals from going 6 Bugg, this winter. 0

German Rone = By John W. love .

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CLEVELAND, Aug. 18—Cerman cities are being ruined.at a rate which must each month be adding years to the length of time it will take the Germans fo ree | store their production and trade— and even raising somewhere in the” gloom ahead a deadline beyond ‘ which.no recovery would be POs- ; sible for so large a population. i No system of reorganization, communistic or any ‘other, would be capable of saving such a country affer too much of its physical equipment had been destroyed. The German people must begin to realize that the progressive blotting out of their manufacturing plants and railroad shops could run to a point where it would ‘no longer be practical to produce and move enough goods after the war to trade for food.

Production Forced = THE TERRITORIES Germany oontrols can sup

is obtained must consist more and more of force,

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when the time comes that the force is inettective, there will be nothing to take its place. ; AS soon as 1t 1s feasible from Italian airfields 0

lation mainly by exporting metal ém. products and textiles, and though tne. ey resumed: after 1918 Germany never returned to ‘balaprce for any length of time, But by one anothér it was possible for her to carry on Nazis overran the neighboring countries.

Factories Demolished TODAY, EVEN the factories which enatlda’ t Germans to get along as well as they did after are being burned or blown up, and along with the great port of Hamburg, which used to more than a fifth of Germany's export and | ‘business. 4 The loss of this foremost port of Europe, the s ond in the world, is a distaster of the kind eruption, might fly have set in motion one of the oldtime panics which spresd over the glote. Hitler used to refer occasionally to the thirty war, in which Germany lost half or more of her |

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