Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1943 — Page 12

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QUEBEC AND STALIN WISELY and utiwisely, the official publicity build-up for the allied conference created expectation of a historic “Declaration of Quebec.” Since that is not forthcoming, if it was ever planned, th are is now need for rousing Roosewelt and Churchill speeches to prevent public reaction and

a letdown. Perhaps the president was saving his inspiration for

today’s address at Ottawa, and the prime minister was:

waiting until his Saturday speech to cut loose with his customary challenge. Anyway the lift which both almost always get into their public utterances was lacking in their guarded statements ending the Quebec’ conference. On the military side of course it is. impossible for any real news to come out of such a conference. As the Roose-velt-Churchill joint statement explains: “It would not be helpful to the fighting troops: to make any announcements of the decisions which have been reached. These can only + emerge in action,” They repeated, however, the fréquently iterated forecast or-more action against Japan and of quick ‘developments | some place in Europe. “But it was on the political side that an important declaration was expected. That expectancy sprang from more than the elaborate official efforts to spotlight the conference. ® 8» See IT is a commonplace that rapid allied military progress has outrun political preparations, that this left the allies unable to take full ‘advantage of the fall of Mussolini and also is creating a messy situation in France and the Bal- . (kans. So_when Foreign Minister Eden was hastily summoned from London and Secretary of State Hull from Washington, and it was officially announced that the con- | ference was turning from military to political problems, there was hope that the missing political agreements could

be announced. We share the general feeling that lack of such weapons

~ . of political and psychological warfare—which helped the

allies to defeat Germany in the first world war—is the chief allied weakness now. That weakness is serious. But we are not ready to blame Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Churchill for this failure—historians may find them partly at fault. Meanwhile, we are most conscious that Russia, who claims and has earned a right to share in such allied decisions, refuses to attend these policy conferences or otherwise commit herself. ss = 8 Si * nn 8

HE painful effort to explain Russia's absence by saying Japan was discussed is only an expedient cover-up. Every effort has been made to get Stalin into a joint conference, but he is still holding out. While that continues, Stalin prevents formation of an allied political policy to hasten military victory and to prevent axis militarists winning the peace after their military defeat.

Apparently the only major political decision at Quebec was for some form of: recognition of the De Gaulle-Giraud French committee, which Stalin has been demanding all along. Even though limited.temporary recognition of that North African regime is necessary, pending a free choice by the French themselves after liberation, that is part of ‘a complicated larger "European problem and cannot be handled intelligently alone. Though the Quebec statement ~ refers vaguely to other political agreements ,they obviously cannot be the important ones, in all of which Russia is . involved. In our judgment, the need for a quick meeting with Stalin is so serious that it overshadows every other war and peace problem,’ We can only hope, with the president and prime minister, that it yet “may be possible to arrange.” As long as one partner plays a lone hand—no matter how : Sleverly-—we: are in danger of losing. -

FOR THE MEN OF BATAAN

has taken a tragically, long time to make arrangements : with Japan, but at last a cargo of relief supplies is to be delivered to American prisoners in the Philippines and elsewhere | in the Orient. The: supplies, paid for by the army, navy, Red Cross ad several organizations of the prisoners’ relatives, will be carried on -the diplomatic exchange: ship. Gripsholm, which is to take some Japanese citizens home from this country: and bring back ‘1500 Americans, Recently the first mail from Americans imprisoned by apan has been filtering through to relatives. It is expected at mail from America for the prisoners will be carried on the Gripsholm along with tie medicine, food, clothing, cigarets and other comforts that, this Samaritan-ship will

dy who’ Subenibers ‘Bataan and Wake and Yoat 8 the ah cargo reaches its ad-

iy thine bosders vio have created a bot$10, 000 bills. please disgorge. The treasury There re loss than 2200 | in circulation.

cs Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

NEW YORK, Aug. 25—Not for anything: would I pry into ‘the private business of our distinguished international stalcsman and confessed success, Mr. Joseph Davies, who, in his some-

admitted that he was a one-gallus boy who had made it the hard

just skip it. We of the subject classes have learned

that it is not for us to ask questions about the private

travels of our betters who have given, or anyway promised us, the mere sbundani ie in a Mave NEW wo : + But if it was a business flight, and the business concerned all of us, as many Americans were given to believe at the time, a brief report, or at least an inkling, would be appreciated, I am sure, by one and _all. For, after all, that was our ship Mr. Davies away and at our expense, met out of rising taxes, paid, as President Roosevelt o through the sweat of all of us who toil; and the that he used came off the top of our national before any of us civilians, in the seal could: buy a drop and at a time when os was worst and anyone who drove halfway to the village to see Mr. Davies’ patriotic movie and coasted the other half of the way, was a traitor doing Hitler's work. “It is interesting to us to realize,” President Roosevelt said in his latest speech, co us all to be

that bombed harbor installations from its base in North Africa, required 1110 gallons of gasoline for each single mission, and that this is equal to about 375 A ration tickets, enough to drive your car five times across this continent.”

How Much Gas Did Davies Use?

THIS ‘WAS a very impressive way of putting the matter up to us, but not nearly as impressive as an account. would -have been of the amount of gasoline consumed by. Mr. Davies on his mysterious errand. The flight from North Africa to Naples and back is

a short hop, apparently not more than 700 miles, and ‘Mr. Davies would seem to have flown about 30 times as far. I am not especially good at either mathematics or geography and I will discount that figure slightly under scientific challenge, but for the time being, it will do. Thus we may deduce that Mr. Davies used up 33,300 gallons of gasoline, most of it sent from here to Britain and Russia, and to the Alaskan outposts, each gallon at some risk if not loss of human life in the navy and merchant marine, and: each gallon at the cost of more dr less serious deprivation of his fellow citizens. That would be the equivalent of 11,250 A ration tickets and sufficient to drive the family car 150 times across the continent. If the mission was vital to the winning of the war, no patriot could object, but we already had an excellent ambassador in Moscow and the radio and mails were available and, moreover, if it was absolutely necessary to send the note by hand, there. were routine services plying the skies’ and the seas which could not have been seriously overloaded by the addition of one personal communication from the president to the dictator.

Doubts Suggest Phontshas

WE HAD in our midst some years ago a rather spectacular man who hired a messenger and sent him to Europe with a proposal of marriage, but everyone figured that here was just a cut-up showing off his romantic nature... ¥.am sure none of us would suspect any such’ frivolity in the Davies episode, but at this point, what with the rationing of gas and the timing of the journey, which occurred just when Mr. Davies’ film, “Mission to Moscow,” was receiving its initial ballyhoo, doubts do suggest themselves with impish persistency. - Mr. Willkie’'s trip, of course, is comparable but not identical, for his mission seems to have been openly political, and perhaps it will be agreed that rival candidates for the presidency all should have access. to the remote affairs in which the nation is involved and their chance to advertise their personalities and views to American fighting men in the far places, But as to Mr. Davies’ flight we know only that he went and came back, bearing an envelope which could have contained nothing more that a birthday greeting or a good one that Steve Early heard in the locker-room and the boss wished to pass along to Stalin. That much we know plus this, that Mr. Davies’ film, which has since laid an egg, was a propaganda project of the administration in need of advertissing in pure readting matter,

We the People

By Ruth Millett

AN IOWA mother, blind for years, recently had her sight restored by two operations and was confronted with the proud sight of her son, home on leave and in the uniform of an army major. The last time she had seen him he was just a school kid. It must have been a terrific shock to her. Yet the war has forced many a mother into the sudden realization that her boy was & man grown. To a degree, most mothers of young soldiers must feel the same sense of surprise, bewilderment and pride when they see their youngsters in uniform for the first time. Especially the mothers of '18-year-olds. One day they are school kids. The next they have asumed the gravest responsibility that ever comes to men. But war is a time of change and rapid develop-

of personal readjustments not all of which should

-be unpleasant, by any means.

Second Growing-up

MANY A WOMAN is undergoing a sort of second growing-up, right now. ' New responsibilities, more physical work, changed associations and a lot of plain

thinking probably are making her a nicer, more interesting—and likely a more attractive—person.

form are changing All of them—not just the youngsters. Personal horizons are broadening, individual | confidence is being built and bolstered, viewpoints are shifting, future plans are being made. A lot of friends. and families will have to get acquainted all over again when this war is done. But they'll probably like each other more when the adjustment has been made.

To the Point—.

ONLY ONE PER CENT of the navy personnel

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what biographical film, calmly

patient under rationing, “that every Flying Fortress:

ment for everybody and peace must bring a period

And. in the same way, of. course, the men in unl- |

wounded in the South Pacific have died, thanks in | J Bure Suu Seve dun, Foss Moputyse

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will : defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire. 2

“TEACHER . . . SHOULD HAVE SALARY LIKE FIREMEN”

By Henry W. Reger, 1909 N. Talbot ave.

In reading the papers recently one reads much of the salaries and raises which the policeman and fireman have coming up. They work for the paltry minimum salary of $2100 per year, and are obtaining raises of $350, which they claim are unjustly low. Compare the foregoing with teacher salaries and increases. The minimum salary for teachers in Indianapolis, which is the highest-paying system in the state, is $1500, and previous experience plus a college degree is required to even obtain a position. The increase in salary for teachers was from $50 to $100 per year, and the politicians thought they were being unusually generous in granting that increase.

Yet a fireman or policeman obtains $2100 to $2450 now with only a grammar school education required, or an intelligence eéxamination comparable to the army test. A passing grade is all that is required; the work simple, easy with little or no further training required: In addition to the raise, the policeman and fireman obtain a clothing allowance, while a teacher is supposed to live on $1400 or $1500 a year, dress respectably, maintain a high standard of living, plus work ing from 12 to 15 hours a day.

So many people think a teacher’s day starts at.classtime and ends with her final class, while actually her working day starts after she is at home. She has 100 to 120 papers to grade every evening, plus preparing herself for the next day's class, all of which requires from four to six hours. Any teacher taking less time is doing an injustice to her position. She must keep abreast of all current problems, domestic and foreign, and be familiar with all phases of culture and education, for which she receives the stupendous salary of $1500 a year, She must do graduate work from time to time. Is it any wonder thai the average teacher gets into private business or some other profession? What can

the result be but the lowering of

teaching standards and mediocre personnel? = After all—a laborer is worthy of his hire. That readily accounts for the poor account college freshmen gave for themselves in competition against the man of the streets of New York City, the average New Yorker readily surpassing the college freshman. It is a crime against posterity that teachers be asked to work for the salaries allotted to them, the average ditch digger earning a higher wage. Napoleon said that the first duty of a government was to educate its citizens. Education is our only solution in solving the problems of a chaotic

(Times readers are invited to express their views «in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume .received, letters should be limited to 250° words, Letters ‘must be "signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those “opinions by The Times.

world. ‘Teachers must be paid larger salaries if we are to "solve those problems. As it is now, township trustees and county superintendents of schools are not interested in obtaining the best teacher possible, but sign the individual who is willing to work for the least money, incompetency being the result. Our country can only be as great as its citizens, and the citizens only as good as the students, the teacher being the No. 1 person in our progress. She should have a salary comparable to the men who wait on fires and arrest people for smoking on the streetcars.

® 8 _ = “LET'S NOT MAKE POSSIBLE SHIELDING OF HITLER'S PALS” By E. G. Johnson, 1710 N. New Jersey st. Concerning the article of Raymond Clapper which advocates

shooting Hitler without a trial following a United Nations victory, I feel that there are a considerable number of Hitler's friends and associates in our country and in Britain working to undermine the war effort who certainly live in fear of such a trial. They surely don’t want to be smoked out into the open! A real trial of the fascist leaders could reveal to the people of the world that their power rests on the big monopolist and financial circles of the fascist countries. Fascism is nothing less than the open naked rule of the most reactionary imperialist circles of big capital. The Mussolinis and Hitlers can-be withdrawn and forced to “resign” according to the desires of this group. A real trial of the fascist leaders could help to uncover the sinister objectives of “the . appeasers, who were not motivated, as Clapper would have us believe, by a just desire for peace. No, the appeasement policies that led to Munich served to play in indispensable part in making it possible for the fascists to subjugate a considerable number of countries and thus prepare the way for plans of world conquest. The idea of shooting Hitler without a trial may express a healthy

'anti-fascist sentiment, but it does

Side Glances—=By Galbraith

not take into account exposing the

whole system of fascism. Let's not make possible the shielding of Hitler’s associates! fa 2 8 = “WHY SHED POLITICAL TEARS, MR. MEITZLER?” By Junius Bibbs, 2528 Blvd. pl.

Meitzler’s recent letter. It was so unnecessary to use the constructive discussion of the Negro problem to air private and personal enmity to-

| ward the New Deal. Why not tell the

Forum readers, Mr. Meitzler, that you are dissatisfied with the govern~ ment, $ts policies, taxes, war methods, etc., etc? Why use the very sincere and educational controversy of thinking people as a shoulder upon which to shed your political tears? The Negro is creating the interest of thinking American citizens in a problem. The problem demands an intelligent solution, and it is not so much the Negro demand for equality of opportunity as it is the urideniable proof that he is capable which makes the problem delicate. White men admit that capability only with reluctance. Our educational system teaches democracy as the utopian way of life, Each individual is a co-Opera-tive part of a democratic society according to his or her capacities. Democracy, like education is a growing process. Americans, to be truly democratic, to be sincerely fair, to be justified in fighting a war for a way of life, must define that way of life as ‘applying to mankind. Are the rights of a citizen of a democracy just applicable to groups, or to the whole citizenry? If that citizen, who by: process of law ‘is denied those privileges by custom,

what have you, then, the democracy becomes a relative thing, It exists in just such .proportion as it remains true to its definition. Obviously, it is not equality of opportunity the Negro makes his great objective. If he be recognized as an integral part of the democratic

must of necessity follow. Mrs. Rodney realizes the: problem. The heights of endeavor may be minimized by a condition of mind. Public opinion must be educated to accept the fact that all humans are- basically the same, and that any departure from that idea is decidedly undemocratic. The Negro is not asking that anyone give him -equality. He is equal. Justice is sacrificed for, fought for, died for, but never earned. God gives us our moral conceptions of justice. The Negro asks for: justices to which he, as a citizen is entitled. What scientific instrument would you use, Mr. Meitzler, to determine when a race of people had earned the right to justice? The Negro would like to know, too, when and how to earn just the rights of a

| citizen and no more, will -you. tell

them before the New Deal bankrupts you?

” » s «DEFENSE WORKERS JUST AFTER THE MONEY” By Mrs. C. V., Indianapolis - To whom it may concern: I think

« |you fellows have a lot. of crust

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I was somewhat surprised at Mr. |

tradition, superiority complexes, or [

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and other fancy war agencies took over the new building. Today, however, the bureau came through with ‘a pound and a quarter volume. showing that despite its removal from wartime

Washliigton: it really is “going to town.” This h

tofore drab bureau of the U. 8. department of

‘merce really is making statistics dramatic. oe

figures are all good, reliable 1040 pre-war stuff. Title of the tome is “Agriculture Handbook, Uses of ' Agriculture Census Statistics.” like wartime publications pouring out of Washington, ‘the census bureaucrats bravely point out that they, too, have a ‘mission. It is to bring these 1940 farm

statistics to the masses. This takes 245 pages with photographs, charts and drawings.

That there will be no: mystery’ about how it is done, the first half of the 9x12-inch book shows stch scenes ‘as the collators collating; sorting machines sorting; tabulators tabulating; a block-long room: of critical analysists doing critical analysis, and.

‘government girls taking punches at the punch

All of this is duly explained and illustrated. Chapter II entitled “Uses of Agriculture Census Statistics in Education” begins with the subject “Farm Census Sets Up Ideal of Service” and says:

‘Production: for Use’ Is Intriguing Slogan ji

r.. ‘PRODUCTION FOR USE’ is such an intriguing slogan that we want to borrow it and apply it to the gathering and distributing of census inf Many persons still think of the census volumes S huge tomes of thousands of pages of column upon

column of figures, difficult to obtain and still more

difficult to use. “With the help of educational aging: i and radio stations, we are trying to put this. vast store of knowledge into actual everyday use and to publish it in such way that everyone may get some good from it. Business, manufacturers, merchants, pdvertisers and bankers utilize the data in numerous ways, mostly to help earn or save dollars, but this’ 1s not sufficient. “The everyday citizen has a right to and a Tiesd for this census information, but he is han by unfamiliarity with statistics and appalled by lodg columns of figures.”

So the census. bureau | proposes to bring the: figures ,

in dramatic form to the attention of grade school children and let them grow right up with the fascie nating numbers, :

Mexico Has Done It 4

“THIS MAY sound like a utopian dream,” the volume acknowledges, “but our sister republic to the south—Mexico—has been using, in the elemen grade schools for several years, colored charts diagrams displaying in color essential and Interesting agricultural facts.” ; Chapter III contains some of the. facts done up in. colors and .a swell advertisement for Successful Farming, the farm paper which provided them. Jt says that the charts demonstrate “Successful Fa subscribers are the best farm families in their come munities , , . in the best farm region and in the nation.” ; The final chapter is “Visual Analysis.” It contains) intricate graphs showing the places where farm bought their groceries in ‘Morrow county, one, 1941, ete. Dther items culled at random are such as ° from the western region: “The state average per farm is 19 horses and the area average per farm is 18 horses. These figures have little significance because in recent years the farm tractor has come into the picture.” Table 20 gives the number of automobiles on farms “with year of latest model, by color and tenure of

farm operator, by divisions and by divisions and {

states.” This is as of “April 1, 1940,” and no fooling}

‘George Gershwin’ By Dan Gordon |

When George Gershwin died in

1937 a partially fulfilled promise

left American music. The promise of “Rhapsody in Blue,” the cone certo in F, “Porgy and Bess,” and even “The Man I Love,” had been

the sole key to ‘a new kind of x

music—jazz with dignity. David Ewen, the distinguished musical critic and biographer, has captured the spirit of Gershwin’'s music — and the promise — in his new biography, “The Story of George Gershwin.” He traces the rise of the young composer—Gershe. win was only 21 when he scored his first success on Broadway and 39 when he died—from a poverty stricken neighborhood in Brooklyn. to his dazling

conquest of the gay white way. ; I

And Ewen does. it with a tendemess and standing that is necessary to a correct. appraisal the man and his works. He is no detached biographer, to be sure, for he knew Gershwiy personally from the composer’s days as an unkhown to the time of his greatest successes. But he does a

reasonably complete job in his evaluation of Gershwin’s music and his life, .

considering the fact that the “Rhapsody” Los ‘not yet 20 years old. y LX ws

Details of His Writing Revealed

or tu um 1 compre Ho hosp a told in some detail, and always with an eye tow: critical musical ‘appraisal of the: compositions. once again we are made familiar with “Embraceable You,” Nuttin,” “I Got Rhythm,” “It Ain't Necessarily So,”

“Of Thee T Sing” “Oh, Lady, Be Good,” “Somebody Loves Me,” “Strike Up the Band," they outs Tula

“Fascinating Rhythm,” *I' Got Plenty of

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