Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1943 — Page 22

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the liberty and the greatness " hose principles live today as they lived 156 years “ ago-when the men who had-won- the right to-do so-com--mitted them to writing. Their meaning has not changed. So plainly that no honest man can misinterpret, they ~ guarantee the right of every American to live his own life as he himself sees fit, and they create safeguards to mainThere is much talk, today, seven freedoms or 11 freedoms, that should be our goal— freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from danger of bankruptcy. + + + Those are no goals for Americans. Every pauper in the county poorhouse has them all. Every convict in the state prison has them. Free men want more than that. Free Americans always have had more than that," Dictators, great and small, can only promise ‘Come, be my slave, and I will feed you, and clothe you and protect

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alone that pushed civilization westward across this continent, and built great cities where only a generation ago ~ were desolate prairies. It was this kind of freedom that created the giant industrial machine, and made possible - the mighty armies to which the whole world lcoks today for deliverance from brutal tyranny and political slavery. Let dreamers of alien dreams pretend if they will that times have changed, that the old principles no longer apply, that our bill of rights must now be modified to conform to the “industrial democracy” of other lands. America is America because those priaciples were true— and they are as true today as théy were when this nation | was first conceived in liberty. While we cherish them our nation will remain great—if we lose them we will have

constitution of the™ ~ “freedom, nor even by. implication any such security. “As clearly as words could do it, the suthors of the con-. stitution pledged to every American a society in which oppor tunity should be open equally to all, in which industry and tarift would oppression, and from control by government of the actions of the individual—so long as these actions did nct infringe upon the rights of others.

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THE BATTLE OF SALERNO SUDDENLY some of the popular Pollyanna notions of knocking out Germany before Christmas turned to gloom. People stopped you on the street with shocked and indignant questions: What's gone wrong in Italy? Why Lhe heavy losses and retreat in the battle of Salerno? Why is it taking so long to move in there? Why did we let the German raiders take Mussolini away from us? The answers should be obvious. As for Mussolini, certainly it is most unfortunate if he is free and working with the Germans again, as they claim. But the story that he was recaptured from the allies, which would mean gress carelessness of cowardice or both on the part of some high allied officers, is Nazi propaganda. President Ronsevelt says we never had our

hands on him.

Where Mussolini is—if living—and how he got there, and why the allies could not get hold of him from Badoglio - and the king, are questions of an entirély different nature. Allied authorities themselves may not yel have the full

answers.

Regarding the early reverses at Salerno, officials : have done everything possibie to prepare the public for ~ this and worse. in But what about our much touted air superiority ; why didn’t our planes wipe out the larger enemy land forces and artillery? Because most of the planes covering ground . forces must operate from nearby fields, which the Germans had and which we lacked at first. As we are able to utilize more of the newly acquired fields in ths TarantoBari heel area, our they apparently have prevented allied evacuation and now the allies are taking the offensive.

Bu f 8 2» 1 ILS, the only chance of an. easy landing in : area was German flight without fighting. The ‘allies knew in advance that the Germanz had | ‘Several reasons, including: XL 2 keep open an escape route for Nazi forces to

; Es To keep the allies as long as possible out of the reat port of Naples, which they must have : large forces, y : gf 3 supply. To delay allied seizure of the Foggia network of

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gravings of fur-bearing doctors of the same general mien as the New England pefs, our people emerged into a period of tolerable health which lasted until the discovery of the package-goods vitamin, at which point the public health rate appears to have gone OVE 8 A rR SEA Now I am not certain that I know what vitamins are, but, like many, many others, I have yielded from time to time to insistent urgings that I consume & few and ‘1 will ‘give my own estimony that, contrary to the wheedlings of many earnest high-pitch men, operating from the radio tallboard, they have never made the slightest difference in my energy pep, as they sometimes call it, ~~ They make me feel no worse but certainly no: better and, as for injection of vitamins into flour and the tion thereby of an article of commerce known fortified bread, my first report is that this is the vesty on the staff of life that ever was mock man’s honest hunger. And my second t if the millers would refrain from murdering the life of flour it wouldn't be necessary to attempt to revive it,

Chewing Gum, Ete, YET, 80 clamorous are these exhortations and so couched that the unoffending citizen is made to feel accused of slackerism if he refused to consume their vitamins either whole or disguised in bread, chewing gum or certain milk formulas on the ground that “whether he knows it or not, he is run down, below par and unable to give his best in the common effort to beat the axis. ~- People must be buying them in enormous quantities and in their various guisés or the promoters would" not have the money to maintain the propaganda, but I think you will agree that there has been no perceptible reinvigoration of the whole public and I dare say that we should not be perceptibly worse off for | their total repudiation except under the doctor's

These Little Miracles

THERE 18 also an insistent appeal to all of us to dope ourselves with certain cures for the headache which is not an illness of itself but a symptom, usually to be endured briefly and cured by natural processes or, otherwise, to be investigated by a physician. One of these little miracles, 50 cheap and prepared in the handy package, contains an ingredient which is dangerous to cardiacs and damn near killed one of my acquaintances, and I make so bold as to state that the announcer who urges it on us between blurts of actorish war bulletins in which Boulogne is various pronounced Boolonyah and Bouloan, knows no more about medicine than Charley MeCarthy and much less than any farmer, faced with occasional medical emergencies in pigs, horses and dairy stock. Nor do I respect any more highly the scfentific quali | fication of those who recommended hangover-cure disguised as something for acid indigestion. Nothing but remorse and woe cures hangover and in gastric trouble of the virtuous sort, the judgment of a doctor, not an elocutionist is preferable, But we, and the British, are suckers ever for two-bit miracles in convenient sizes and we spend, in the course of a year on frauds and knockout pills enough to pay our noble corps of doctors all the dead-bills on their books and for formal consultations, advice and treatment :n case of legitimate need,

We the People By Ruth Millett

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SIT AT HOME” By “Get the Facts,” Indianapolis As we read the public comments and criticisms in the Hoosier Forum regarding Chief Beeker of the Indianapolis police force and his subordinate officers, I think a man of his sterling qualities has the thoughts that Abe Lincoln expressed on a sign he had hanging in his shop. I quote, “If I was to read, much more listen, to all the things that were said against this shop, it may as well be closed. I am doing the very best that I. can and the best that I know how, and, if in the end I am proven wrong then 10 angels swearing I was right will make no difference.” When our honorable mayor and good chief of police undertook to restrain the elements who lived wholly by a means of vice, I don’t think they were kidding. The records at the police station will show the many arrests and charges against these elements in spite of

who, . Blue, It is’ gratifying to note that our police ‘are grinding all’ the evidence through the mill and eliminating everything except the real evidence, while the little parlor hawkshaws sit at home and write how best to solve this murder.

» » “IT IS FAR PAST THE FUNNY STAGE” By Jane D. Smyth, Frankfort I saw too much suffering during the depression days not to be filled with an exultant hope when Mr. Roosevelt came into office. Many people, regardless of political faith, felt as I did. I worked in politics. T helped organize “Eleanor Roosevelt” ¢lubs of Democratic workers, for I felt then that Mrs. Roosevelt was an asset to the president. Later my enthuslasm for the lady waned somewhat. Still, I was amused to read what a wealthy woman with plenty of time on her hands and a double love of the limelight would do. Later, - disgust followed amusement. Her pink leanings, her dancer friends, her insistence on

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I am very grateful for the letter of Lt. Marshall R. Brinker printed in The Times inthe column, “Letters from the Fighting ' Fronts.” Letters like this touch our hearts and make us realize what fighting

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not enforce our. desires upon our allies, But the pec ple of this country can fix the limits of our co-opera This is not just an excerpt from a Fourth of Jul speech. It is a matter of hard practicality. 4 The power of the to make their desires ef

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|Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney

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