Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1943 — Page 12
THE fall of Taganrog and retreat from
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‘. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1048
FOUR YEARS
periling 800,000 Nazi troops, are anniversary reminders
‘to Hitler at the close of the fourth year of war that his
biggest military blunder was invasion of Russia. Neither the experience of Napoleon nor the warning of Von Clause--witz, father of German military science—much less the
protest of his own high command—could prevent Hitler - from following his greedy “intuition” across the tempting | steppes. Sane
But the Russian army stopped him—that and the vast distances, which swallowed up his victories and left him weaker than before. For Hitler to risk his armies in Russia
would have been dangerous at any time, but to open an
‘eastern front when he was already engaged in the west and
« south was military insanity—even if he had taken Moscow
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and Stalingrad, Russia reached on beyond the Urals to the Pacific, :
Russia was not his only military blunder. At this
anniversary time he must be cursing himself for failure "to follow through at Dunkirk with an all-out invasion of
England, which might have been successful.
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. =» HS third mistake in strategy was in failing to support the Italians adequately when Africa and the Middle East were within his grasp—instead he attacked the Bal-
kans, which would have fallen anyway had he taken Suez.
And his fourth military stupidity was failure to count on
the axis forcing the United States into the war. . While these military mistakes were important, they were secondary to Hitler's lack of moral sense. He didn’t know that the conquered peoples would refuse to stay con--quered, that Britons and Russians would fight on even when they had few arms and seemed to be defeated, that America and most of the world would rally to defend the civilization which he thought decadent and powerless. Only one who was ‘spiritually blind’ could think the world would accept his barbarism and tyranny. Even if Hitler had not made his military mistakes and had achieved temporary mastery, ‘millions would have held out against the criminal until his eventual defeat—no matter how long. i We hope those Germans. who shared his blindness will come to understand that. .
“FOUR-F CHARLIE” THIS war hasn't seen as much nosey officiousness among red-hot super-patriots as the last one. But there is some of it. There was that story the other day from Quincy, Mass., where three coast guardsmen got into court. It seems they started a brawl by addressing as “Four-F Charlie”
_ . one Harry Crozier, who happened to be a veteran of the
Canadian commandos, discharged for wounds received at Dieppe but still handy with his fists. Lr Then there is the case of the state of Maryland and its “work-or-fight” law. Stanley Day, 19 years old and a bona-fide 4-F, was sentenced’to the road-gang for quitting a $2-a-day farm job. He has been turned loose now, but the incident remains a blot on the traditions of a commonwealth that proudly calls itself the “Free State of Maryland.” And there is something not . altogether reassuring _ about Gen. Richardson's refusal in Hawaii to honor a writ of habeas corpus involving a pair of citizens who have been held incommunicado’ since Pearl Harbor. :
The fortunate thing about these scattered episodes is |
that they are infrequent enough to be news. In the last war,
‘and after it, infringements, both informal and official, on
personal rights were tragically commonplace.
. HARDLY WORTH MENTIONING 5 AYBE we'd better stop picking on the office of war)
* information. Ouf remarks use up white paper, which | scarcer. So why devote this space.
is scarce and getting
to such a picayune matter as the waste of $516.20?
: You probably saw the story in the news pages anyway | —how the OWI printed a 48-page propaganda pamphlet | (“Food Fights for Freedom”), with the following note on { ‘the cover: “Prepared by the office of program co-ordina-
tion, office of war information, and office of price
gration, in co-operation with the ‘war food administration.” |
This, somebody discovered, was a shocking breach of |
bureaucratic etiquette. The note should have read: “Prepared by the office of program co-ordination, office of war
ormation, and the war food administration, in co-opera- |.
with the office of price administration.
What to do? Why, it was simple enough
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But what's that in these times? Cost in scarce maa half-ton dent in that dwindling paper Supply. | sa paper on futile discussions of the weird way in which | ington works, its wonders to perform, £5
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. Give \Aght and the. People Will Find Their Own Woy + |
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| By Ruth Millett
‘Any at All Is Good
the debate out of the feature position and the chinks between the goiters and electric ‘we say in our business, Lorimer wrote: “O from our point of view, an author himself lucky to be in the Ladies Home all, and any position is good position.” And he isn't kidding, either. Most of
great honor to publish your copy and they are aln all strictly sweat-shop in their methods and more work and obedience for their dough than A friend of mine who is a swell novelist with a big name made a deal. to deliver a novel for an agreed price, spent more than a year on the job and had to
‘write it three times and finally got it back because
the editor had cooled out on the idea. By then it was so badly mauled that even the author didn’t know what it was all-about and all the time and work had been thrown away on a strictly speculative proposition. Principles at a Price, Too
ONE TIME I made a deal to do a magazine piece about lotteries, a subject on which’ I have a lot of information and a very strong opinion, and when I turned it in the editor tossed it back and wanted me to reverse myself and argue in favor of lotteries, They think their money can buy not only your experience, work, time, ability and reputation, but your principles as well. 5 53 Lorimer probably gets his ideas, from his old man who used to run the Saturday Evening Post. Old George was so finickey and arbitrary that he even tried to regulate the private lives of his stable of writers to the extent that they were supposed to avoid personal scandal under penalty of banishment. Some years ago a dame got mixed up with another woman's husband and went all to pieces because she was afraid it would ruin her with old man Lorimer, who had been buying a lot of her stuff. Or if you were one of his seals you couldn't write for other magazines although he would not put you on a regular payroll and reserved the right to reject anything that didn’t suit his particular taste,
Do Pay Pretty Well
THEY GET that way Because they do pay pretty well for the pieces that happen to suit their precious and fastidious fancy and thousands of writers all over the country constantly shooting stuff at them on speculation. This relieves them of the:necessity fo make binding commitments even. to the regular contributors and the result is they have to be buttered and yessed and cultivated and, after a few years of this, get to thinking this means that they are wonder men when the fact is that their magazines are written no better than newspapers and, generally speaking, aren't edited nearly as well. They also play. up the publicity or reputation value of magazine publication to a writer as though you ought to take part of your pay in prestige as many
‘writers, especially young or obscyre ones, do. The
New Yorker, for example, pays peanuts and that Ross will jerk your copy every which way and throw it back and back for redoing according to his peculiar personal tastes and by the time you get it’ across and get your modest check, you haven't even got good day wages for you time. A fellow can do about as well, on yearly earning, covering night police in Ogden, Utah, and if you send a. whole bale of those New Yorker by-lines around to the landlord the most he will allow will be their market value as slick waste paper. : Just got a call from Carey's dfessing room. He is still out cold and hasn't even twitched, I guess I didn’t .know my strength. I wonder if they could hold me for manslaughter,
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“YOU CAN'T SLEEP DAY OR, NIGHT” By Mrs. H. M. W., Indianapolis To Mrs: C. V., Indianapolis: I believe your letter might “concern” quite a few people. It sounds either \like envy to me—or you are guilty of some of the things said in the letters written.’ Workers in defense, or non-defense, are workers; and be it night or day, they need their rest. Maybe you are one very unusual person who can .get by on a little sleep, but remember there are others who’ couldn’t do justice to their jobs without proper rest. And I wouldn't call them: gripers. In our community you can't sleep day or night for drunks arguing and fighting, dogs. barking, horns blowing, . children yelling, radios blaring, I. can see the defense worker’s side of it and I sympa-
-{thize with him completely.
1, for one, hope to see our antinoise laws enforced and also a good many more. What good are laws if they aren't enforced? » ” » “REPUBLICANS HAVE NO USE FOR WILLKIE” By E. 8. Thompson, 3151 Boulevard pl Being a
Republican, I disagree with Editor Earl Richert in his column, “Politics,” under date of August 26th. As a manufacturer's agent it is necessary for me to travel over the entire state of Indiana, so if he thinks the organization leaders know of what they speak in stating that Willkie will carry this state, I invite you to travel with me for one week and talk to the real voter and he will learn that the Republicans have no use for Willkie and want no part of him, regardless of all these front porch meetings being held in Rushville. ; wh In the past two months I have made if a point to talk to plumbers, sheet’ metal workers, stove repair men, truck drivers; clerks in hardware and furniture stores, many farmers who come into these stores and the ownei's themselves. There is no Willkie sentiment expressed
say he is just a twin of. a New Deal cast-off, have a belly full of his New Deal policies. And Republicans want no part. can return back to the New go to Russia or Satan's palace. few Democrats I talked to want
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a vote for Willkie would be no better that what they have now. = Mr. Richert, you figure this one out! Who started sending the tele-
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(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,
Willkie? This had to have sponsors, it was pre-arranged by a class of people now running the New Deal, with headquarters in New York.
‘Now, I ask you this question: “Who
owns the movie industry?” In the near fiiture.you will see the book,
we don’t have to guess 1 yote for and it will
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his confidence in its ability to eliminate these organisations unaided,
{for it has recently intensified its
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campaign to enlist the co-operation and help of each and every individual citizen in coping with the un-
| American menace. Conspicuous public posters to this effect are com-| again
monplace all over the country, Mr. Daacke dug up an instance in which, earlier in the war, some members of Jehovah's Witness sect were imprisoned for refusing to actively participate in our common fight for survival, and although they were soon released by a supreme court decision in their favor, he insists ‘that the ‘whole affair ‘amounts to suppression of freedom of religion in America. To my judgment, the fact that these peo‘ple could run to the supreme court for protection—and get it, is only further proof of the sincerity and good faith upon which. our government’ was founded, and on which, for the most part, it continues operate. As for Mr. Daacke’s accusations of ‘graft, politics, war profiteering, etc. ‘True Americans are not afraid to look these conditions squarely in the face and freely admit that they exist—all too frequently. But intelligent: Americans do not pick out
{this or that defect or: fault in our
government and exaggerate it all portance. Rather they look at
America as a whole, take all aspects r|-into -consideration, and naturally :| dome’ to the ’ inevitable conclusion 80-| that the most serious fault of this
country is the failure of so many of its people to appreciate it.
” t J “HAS TAMMANY HALL-ISM MOVED IN ON US?”
.|By W. L Taxpayer, Indianapolis
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Aetican Snetiedtion of government which, effects and consequences, would add : “gtate-lsm” as destructive to untials racy as
trade places with him.. ° dt Form of Liquidation = / "THIS IS a healthy form of “liquidation” in it the essence of ‘American “oppartunity” not the motive or the'objective in this type struggle which should, cause concern, method—the growing ‘tendency toward ec of the house on the hill, or the factory, through the medium of pressure groups gressive and articulate mino , ins the process of superior ability and indi ‘The danger in this process of realizing r is that it is accomplished within the fr mewor ‘law, and by the use of arbitrary powers of governr That sort.of thing is not radicalism, it 18 react ‘aryism—and of all the “isms” the one mos abhorred in this country. = Ea Reactionaryism is defeatism. . It is fear; of faith in the individual. It is loss of co our investiveness and resourcefulness; it is nished fidelity to a belief in.the flexibility and toughness our democracy. It is moral bankruptey. Responsibility is p ly. the heaviest of dens, but it is the ‘thing above all else which to the soul for the superlative ordeal and privi being a free man. Though heavy,.the burt
a flight to ‘““security”; trust in the power of government id fined to the “lttle people, "eter
become the slaves of:government. TOMORROW:. New Deal “Radicalism.”
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