Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1943 — Page 8

. TOPE part of ih Jest hopter of Mr. Pyte's book, “Here Is Your War.”

THE V WORLD RELIEF AGENCY first post-war international organization has passed “from blueprint to action stage and is now meeting in| Atlantic City. This united nations relief and rehabilitation ‘administration, under the director-generalship of former . Governor Lenman of New York, is the test of whether the . governments can work together. If this body cannot achieve the unity and efficiency essential to success, the general international political organization now v_pianned is not apt-to amount to much.

"UNRRA faces the biggest job of social and economic reconstruction in history. Its field will be. the liberated areas of Europe and Asia, where an estimated 200,000,000 victims of Nazi and Jap barbarism will require quick relief. They will need not only food, clothing and medicine, but shelter, tools, implements, seed, livestock, raw materials, machinery and supplies of many other kinds.

_.Because of the acute world shortage in virtually all|

cof the needed supplies, and in the ‘transport facilities to _ gather and distribute them, even' the richest and most powerful international body could not do the job without - some form of world rationing and full co-operation by both supplying and receiving nations. The 44 united and associated governments have pledged that support. _» 2 =» o

THE HUMANITARIAN aspect of this giant Projet "is obvious. But it also has the practical purpose of helping to win the war and the peace-knowledge that relief is wait“ing for them will give hope and daring ta the enslaved populations. Prompt action by UNRRA as the areas are liberated will free our advancing armies of extra. supply |

On CANO BROWER Hat FORTRESS

health, a, and hich our own Fiprospatity

«”_Among the ea there. e pushing for favored position, and e sus. ; he Power of the big four. UNRRA must not. support political factions, but must permit the liberated peoples to choose their own governments. “And Uncle Sam: t not play the role of a perpetual Santa Clans. ‘ “The one cardinal principle, as stated by Director Leh- ~ man, should be to help our {friends the axis victims help- _ themselves.

PRESIDENT QUEZON CARRIES ON YONGRESS has acted wisely in extending for the dura-

tion the terms of President Quezon and Vice President ~ Osmena of the Philippines, Their government-in-exile rep- * resents the fighting Filipinos now in Jap bondage. It also “has the full confidence of the United States. The closer that continuing Philippine-American partnership, the sooner . the invader can be driven out of the islands and freedom established. ~The legal right of the United States government to take this emergency action—under our own and the Philippine ; constitutions and laws—eannot be questioned. The only

artis its gal power might seem to be dictating,

~ Happily that possible embarrassment was eliminated |

When President Quezon and Vice President. Osmena request.

by their cabinet—as to their patriotic duty.

The effect is to set aside one Philippine constitutional

provision, under which Mr. Osmena would have succeeded

* Mr. Quezon next Monday, until the Jap obstruction to full |;

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~ constitutional government can be removed. Since Mr. © Quezon and Mr. Osmena are the two highest elected Filipino entatives, and since Mr. Osmena, who would profit ‘the change in presidency, has requested its postponept, the action is as genuinely democratic as possible the circumstances, : a result, the Filipinos in their darkest hour will not official leadership of their most experienced and beloved statesman, President Quezon. Rarely in hisa political official proved so completely unselfish as Ina in giving up the presidency now.

UAL BY A SENATOR current discussions about the post-war world it to universally agreed that the primary objec0 arrange our domestic economy that tiers shall

at good wages for all who are able and Without that there can be no Possibility

is now Purchasing with deficit dollars d ink—50 per cent of all the goods and

When Uncle Sam stops |

pep ati provide a substitute

received a phonié call from Mr. Russell Birdwell, | press-agent or public relations man, in fine, a propa-

interview which has now taken place. Mr. Birdwell spoke earnestly for an hour and left

my clientele as a statesman, not a su playboy, the author of many fine social and politi-

ple of his old kingdom in the role

preferably with headquarters in the v. 8

Out of My Line

FOR A NUMBER of reasons, — the fact that royal intrigue and international political propaganda are out of my line, I am unable to assist Mr. Birdwell in his mission, but I think you might be interested in hearing how such operations are conducted: - ’

register with the department of justice as an agent of a foreign principal, and the copies of the propa~ ganda releases which he left with me contain a declaration that the same have been filed there, too. They are very complimentary to Carol, presenting him in a new light to a public which has read of

dom with him when he left home for Spain, where

then Mexico City.

Less Than a Million

ON THE CONTRARY, Mr. Birdwell writes, the king got away with less than a million, lives in a

hut no closets, thus. having to store his baggage 0pthe porch; has one maid servant, has not. ost enormously at poker nor ever played er any ‘whatever and did not buy an interest in-a night club in Mexico City, gg On the truth or relevancy of any of these mate ters I cannot pass re I do get the irony of a situation in wi European King resorts to the same softening that in the past has been employed by su “lesser dignitaries as Consul the Monk, ra, and the French industrial speed-up figineer. whose name for the moment I can't ember, who should. Traditionally, the United States has: waived all ordinary formalities at the immigration and customs stations for visiting European monarchs, including a number of current guests and one, the Duke of Windsor, who, like Carol, is ex. *

Merry Days in Paris rls

his _requests for permission to come aboard and so with the knowledge of our government- he hires an American press-agent to discover his virtues with the purpose that public opinion here will press our department of state to let him in and give him the status of a government in exile and an lohorable ‘member. of the visiting. company..of anti=Nasis. . Is it then, that he is undesirable because he was a rounder, even if you insist a bounder, in his merry days in Paris? Is it that he drank intoxicants in public and sassed his maw? If those were formidable objections, our refugee sét would be scarcely a squad; not that army that it is. But if it is ‘that Russia seems about to capture Rumania and has intentions into which Carol does not fit, that could be under--stood to explain why the U.-8. A, not wishing tooffend a. loyal ally, has kept him scuffing his soles on the doormat all this time, Time was when Mr, Birdwell, doing fires, killings, and all such city-wide chores on New York papers might have been sent around to the tradesmen’s door when calling on the least of Europe's kings. Now a king pays his way to and from Mexico City and a dollar or two beside to tell the people of the U. 8. A: that. he is more than a ttle bit of all right, though royal. |

We the ok By Ruth Millett

UNCLE SAM isn’t Hikely 4 % get: As many women into ais war plants as he needs so long as nobody bothers to explode the old myth that keeping house for one

Job,

* ploded then a lot of young child less housewives will have to face the Jupleasans truth that they are slackers: in wartime. And make no mistake about it a fairly simple matter for a wife decent hours and still not slight

Every Hour Must Count -

' AND THERE is no time for puttering, for doing housework in a haphazard: fashion. Every hour in

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gandist, with a Hollywood background who desired an | -

cal reforms. during his second term of: J0-years on sr 1 the throne, =w=lover of tresdomiand-justiot 208 tit

To comply with our laws, Mr. Birdwell had to

him only as a hell-raising, royal rake, and they deny | - . reports. which, incidentally, 1 never saw, that he took | 1 40_million dollars ard the art treasures of the king- |

he was detained six months, en n route to Havana and |

gp ~Zacu ew.

rented dwelling with three bedrooms, and two baths

~ man and no children is a full-time

-——When-that-myth-is- finally ex~-

* The Hoosier Forum

d- wholly disagree with what you- say, but will -. defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“GERMANS WON'T HAVE TO FACE RUSSIAN COLD” By N. L., Indianapolis. Call it treason, if you will, but 1 am very glad that it now looks quite definitely as if the German army will not have to face a long, cold winter on Russian soil this year, ? ee. “POLISH PEOPLE CAN BE DEPENDED ON”

.|By KK, Indianapolis,

~ Commentators. and “news. items} lead us to: believe that the PoljshSoviet: problem is png of heundaries: This is far from the truth. -36-has|-to do with the future constitution and personnel of the: future Polish state. The Soviets want a friendly Poland. The present reactionary government-in-exile is anything but a democracy, It “does not even ‘Irender lip service to: democracy. Those who have stiidied the problem, know that there is a great difference between the Polish underground as formulated in the 1939 “Manifesto of Freedom,” and the complexion of the present government. ‘The Czechoslovakian government will have none of it. It is even charged by the underground, known as ‘the Center of Civil Resistance, that they have been urged to keep active military work against the Nazis at a minimum, the purpose being to keep the weapons for a future use. Many guerrilla ‘bands have-been-asked to disband. ‘Whether this be true or false, we do know that the Polish govern-

—tment-in-exile is composed of all the

pre-war parties except a group of right wing Pilsudskiites on the one hand, and the Communists on the other. It cannot get along with the Soviets. In its cabinet it has such

“janti-Semites as Dr. Marian Seyda {who is to prepare for the peace con-

ference, Prof. Waclaw Komarnicki, minister of justice; Mgr. Zygmunt. Kacanskl, minister of education, The new- minister is a nonentity. The minister of information, Stanislaw Kot, was formerly engaged in SpiageE These men are held together by fear and late of the Soviet Union. The “Polish Socialists are about of the same brood, it is said. The death of Gen. Sikorski: was a serious blow to friendly relations. That part of Poland occupled by the Soviets in 1939, is a mixture of Poles, White Russians, Russians, |tha Jews and Ukrainians, and even some

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smaller groups “and nationalities. Finding a frontier is. difficult, i the the Poles ~ predominate inh the ‘whife- the surrounding country is largely non-Pqlish. The so-called Polish “Republic” before the war, was in fact, a Fascist dictatorship of former Socialists, Colonels and landowners. The people had little to say, and now it seems that they want a republic in fact as well as in name, It will be difficult, but the Polish people can be depended upon if given half a chance, to make a wise choice.

uw » » “SUPERVISION NECESSARY FOR FAIRGROUNDS CROWD” By F. 0. Rusher, Fairgrounds Employee In regards to the Indianapolis Street Raflways: Will the party who has charge of the assignment of Illinois cars

to explain why some evenings as many as four and five cars arrive at this particular spot for Fairgrounds workers? This part is very liberal. Indeed it: is very gratifying. ese Everybody is anxious to get home in winter weather, Now here is the point, One lone car swings around the bend from

“the opposite intersection. The other three or four remain lined behind

each other at the opposite intersection. What is the result? A general stampede of tired laborers, clamoring about the door, pushing the ladies and almost knocking them down. Is this the way a lady should

t question. The guard patrol has a guard

wooing | Side Glances—By Galbraith

“opinions by The Times. “The

(marked Fairgrounds) be so kind as

stationed at this point and he tries in vain-to do his duty. This is no. one-man job, Could it be possible, or am I asking too much, for the Indianapolis Street Railways to provide one of your supervisors and also a city traffic officer to handle vs crowd from 4:30 p. m. until § pYour operators kn ne capacity ‘of the car in which they are operating, but the stampede is too much for them. Both men and women operators are unable to check the crowd, averaging about four. or five ‘hundred passengers. : If you -can assign a “supervisor and tiriake Ais Sinidtidh plain de air pr lice department, you will not only save someone (and. especially, the’ women folks) a broken: member of their body, but you will be doing a

workers. Eve employed at will get a break and at TOWNS; {aq gt have reasonable standing room. “The present system of loading at

I repeat, a city policeman and a supervisor should: assist our Fairgrounds guard stationed at this point, for at least 30 minutes each day, 4:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. I believe I have made this situation cledr enough.

at least while the war is on, and save some. boy's mother, sister, or sweetheart an injured member of their body. I am not razsing you; these suggestions only mean" the proper loading of: passengers for bet-) ter service. ; : 8

“CONTRACTION CRUCIFIES

ENGLISH LANGUAGE" By ¥. W. U., Indianapolis. How can we reconcile a current, insidious transition from pure “King’s” English to what is obviously and flagrantly a-new language! in these United Stu="Anpriuns | ese”? Basically, this represents a deplorable departure from pure, clear, distinctly pronounced English words to a hodge-podge of contraction which if allowed ‘to expand its influence on

American preclude any further claim we may have enjoyed as disciples of English literature and diction. Whacha have—I believe in “Americanese” this means “what do you

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portant factor in their commands. They've brought back experience from combat

“| zones where night operations have called for new

training methods, Training of paratroopers was gene erally restricted to daylight until combat spelled out .a need for night paratroopers—an extremely exacting field of troop training. - A greater awareness of land mines afd booby fraps ia being. stressed iu training now a4 the result of les sons learned in combat. . :

Use. Junior Officers

“THE ARMY BRINGS back junior officers to “> scribe to troops in training just what happened around them in combat, and keeps a steady flow of observers in and. out of combat areas. Maj Alvan Gillem Jr., who succeeded: Maj. Gen. Jacob I. Devers as armored force commander at Pt Knox, went ‘into North Africa and Sicily to observe the action and bring back training lessons, : In addition fo sharpéning up training; the rotation and observation policy means a constant check on ie _performance of equipment, whether divisions “certain areas Be nes oT guns and not enough of another, whether officers have been properly instructed, and how communications facilities are working. Study of the effectiveness of enemy weapons in alle other field in which combat experience and observas tion can find lessons important in training. While revisions are going on constantly there is. conviction among returned officers that, basically, army training has stood up well in the severest coms bat tests. =

In Washingon Bye Peter: Edson. :

WASHINGTON, Nav. 13m Maybe what thé guv'ment needs after all is another one of them

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words.” President Roosevelt took 10,000 words in the lorigest- message ever -| sent to congress to spell out the ? wartime food problem, but when vo have Swallwed chewed the cud over and digested those 10,000 words, they milk out into the pail as nothing more than the need for one little word. What's wanted is a substitute and synonym for the word “subsidy.” - The president says the only 1 way t0-keep down the | cost of living is through subsidies. Congress. in its present frame of mind, doesn’t’ want anything to do with a subsidy, which it consid [ers & naughty oo The solution is to find some other sweeter name | lor she thing ang cul) uw a Or find some orange | juice to make. congress swallow the castor oil of subs sidies, and like it.

Wasn't Always Naughty Word "CONGRESS HAS not always been opposed to sub-

opposed to subsidies: Subsidies are admittedly nice ‘things to have when prices are~down. A “soil cone - servation: payment’: #8 acceptable, even though. it js. & “i subsidy: An -acreage allotment “benefit payment” is :

—citizens will ultimately | acce