Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1943 — Page 3
er novelist Booth Tarkington
te | an article on “One Major Ideal Is Liberty.” It will appear in the tab-
which is being published by the Constitution Day.
his heart and he will find that
* he knows the truth of it. He will * know the meaning of the word
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and the meaning of our constitution: quality under the law and
One hundred and fifty-six years ago tomorrow America’s founding fathers drew up and signed. this country's greatest document — the constitution — which set forth the principles of freedom, equality and democracy being defended on to-
day's battlefields. Because they felt that unless the
constitution is preserved, the war
lost, Hoosier leaders of schools, churches, American Legion posts |“
**_{ patriofic societies, labors organisa:
to the constitution and see to it sharply that not one of them infringes by a hair upon the Hardwon blessing of liberty. More
twisted into partisan. and tricky used to designate its very oppo- hairs may make an inch and an
meanings and sometimes even
site; but let any man look into
= DUGE'S FORMER = CHEF A ‘SUICIDE
Radio Broadcasts "Death Report of Gen. Ugo Cavallero.
committee that it would be set Cavallero, former commander of the | “Aside to cool if it ever were sent Italian armed forces and chief of | over to the senate for considera-|the Italian general staff unitler Bention. The senate is jealous of its ito Mussolini, had sommitted suiconstitutional prerogatives to ad-!cide. _ vise and consent with the exeeu-| Cavallero was believed. antong the tive in effecting certain foreign! Italian military leaders active durling the Mussolini regime who were Chairman Tom Connally (D.|arrested when Marshal Pietro BaTex. of the, senate foreign rela-|doglio took over the premiership. tions committee also is chairman He was released when German of the subcommittee named to con-|troops occupied Rome, the broadsider—or “to hold in abeyance—the|cast said, and killed himself because Narious: Post-war Policy resclutionsihe was “unable to bear the shame. which have been offered in the {ful treason of his country”’—appar senate so far. He told press con- ently a reference to Italy's surrenference questioners that he expects/der to the allies, to offer his own post-war policy! Cavallero, 63, was educated at the |: resolutfon “as soon as committee military college at Modena, served ~ sentiment crystalizes.” But he was as chief of operations at Italian unable to say whether that would general headquarters during the
- lerno beachhead. That gun first
SUCCESS CLAIMED
Nazi Field Gun Deadly in Italy’
WASHINGTON, Sept, 18’ (U, P) ~The Germans have been using their 88 mm. gun with deadly effectiveness on the Sa-
game into use during the battle of Libya and proved costly to allied troops in North Africa. Phang today the Americans have more than one weapon equal or superior tothe German’ gun un« der proper circumstances, including the 75 mm. gun in the new M-R medium tank, the M-7 105 mm. self-propelled howitzer, the M-10 self-propelled three-inch tank destroyer, and the 90 mm. anti-aircraft gun. At Salerno, the Germans “had the advantage ing’ concealed with their guns in hills overlooking the allied positions on the beachés, and were able to subject them to deadly and accurate fire,
BY SLAV INSURGENTS
CAIRO, Sept. 16 (U. P.).—Jugo-
inch may lengthén to an eel. Liberty smoothly lost is roughly regained—if it is regained at all. To win a war and become one great welded sword we have abandoned our personal liberty. That has been necessity, and not to have ylelded to it cheerfully— nay, with ardor—would have been self-destructive folly; but the yielding must be temporary if we are to once again be the free men that we were, There is much talk of “not going back”: voices cry that it is not only undesirable but impossible for us to return to our old fr ms, They ‘even shout with _scorn_of liberty, claiming it is a dull selfishness. Let us not listen to that ery; for, disguise the voice by what name you will, it is the voice of fascism. We must become free men again or there is no freedom,
» . » The founders of our country call 40 us dnd we hear them in the constitution they gave us: Preserve your liberties! Who trades his freedom for a mess of pottage betrays the spirit of that noblest human document. Only if a man have his own freedom can he choose what he will do and what he will be. Without it he is so much machinery. Let us be careful, thrice careful, how we touch the constitution or alter by a
tions and Industries are joining in a state-wide observance of Constitution day tomorrow. All radio stations In Indiana will broadcast the dramatization, “We, the People of the United States,” In whieh the governor is a participant. WISH and WIRE will carry the program at 11 a. m., WIBC at 12.45 p. m, and WFBM at 2:30 p. m,
Distribute Paper
Featuring an article by Hoosier Novelist: Booth Tarkington, more than 120000 copies of a tabloid newspaper, “We, the People.” will be distributed to industrial workers, school children, businessmen, teachers, ministers—in fact, any Hoosier who wants one, . Indiana leaders from all walks of life have contributed articles to the publication. Significance of the constitution in the life of each and every in. dividual will be the theme of special programs in several Indianapolis industrial plants, A mass meeting of employees of the Packard Manufacturing - Co will be held in the assembly room f the plant from 2:30 to 3 gp. m. ‘when the shifts change for the diy. Albert. Stump, aPorney, will speak. At the conclusion of their day's work, employees of the Bemis Bros. Bag Co. will attend a dinner in the plant dining room followed by a Constitution day program. To reach shifts, programs will be given over the public address systems at R.C.A. and Curtiss-Wright, while the American United Life Insurance Co. will give a program for its workers at 2 p. m. ir its auditorium, Coples of “We, the People” .and a letter from Harry Reid, president, are being mailed to the 1300 employees of the Indianapolis railways. James F. Carroll, president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. has mailed a ‘statement on the state-wide observance to his- employees, Constitution day posters are on display throughout the two plants of Link.Beit Co. and Chevrolet commercial body division of General Motors is
All employees on all]
7 My ei tories . ‘WASHINGTON, Sept, 16—The of
| shore of the Gulf of Salerno, where
American-British forces met the Germans, is a flat stretch for 30 miles. The city is at the northern end of the gulf. The Italian mountains are further back from the coast in this area than elsewhere on the shore from the toe north to Mt, Vesuvius, The coastal plain extends in a triangular shape to the east. The apex of the triangle is about 15 miles inland near the city of Eboll. Located at thé opening of a pass through the coastal range of the Apennines Throiigh the pass roads lead to the
ADMIRAL VICKERY IN LONDON LONDON, Sept. 18 (U,P.) Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, vice chairman of the U. 8 maritime commission, arrived today to con. fer with British shipping author. ities.
inerrant the et 0 te
“t{aces unavoidable destruction un-
many.
ae, southern end of the 30-mile flat shore is near the town of 'Agropoll, Southward from there to (the toe, about 200 miles, the coastal ‘plains are narrow. Mt. Vesuvius ‘lies about 15 miles north of Salerno,” and Naples another 1» mites beyond.
SEVER WITH NAZIS, BULGARIA WARNED
MOSCOW, Sept. 18 (U, P).Georgl Dimitrov, former secretarygeneral of the disbanded Comintern, warned Bulgaria today that she
less she severs ties with Nazi Ger-
Dimitrov, in an article in the communist newspaper Pravda, urged the Bulgarians to take advantage of Germany's defeats on the Russian front. and Italy's capitulation to re-
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bel against Adolf Hitler,
county welfare [ot ‘wa for 1944, made by the county cotmetl
Inst ‘week, has been accepted by the welfare board, |
When the counell. reduced the.
welfare budget from $3,266,000 $3,050,000, it was hinted that welfare board might appeal the tion to the state tax board. 2 ever, further scrutiny of the budget resulted in approval,
The budget reduction brought the
welfare-tax- rate down from: “I to 11% cents,
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an airplane in 17 states of the Union. :
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Revolution, will address assemblips in. three. hishand Jess C. Moore at Crispus Attucks, Committees of the state society appointed by the Rev. J, H. V. Somes, president, have stratged constitution day programs in high schools of other Indiana cities, Libraries Display Coples In,an article in the Indiana Historical society bulletin, the organization urges everyone {0 memorize the constitution’s preamble and’ secure a copy of the _docuihent for his home. The State and central libraries) will display copies of the constitution in the lobbles, and the city library” exhibit will include photographs of the signers of the con< stitution, Tn his proclamation for the cay
| Governor Schricker termed the
historic paper “the greatest political document ever penned by human hands,” and continued:
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“Our constitution has endured As the bulwark of American national life for more than a century and a half, guaranteeing the right to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of hap-
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