Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 November 1943 — Page 22

©. Give LAght end the People Will Pind Their Own Woy HANKSGIVING day this year is hardly a happy one * for Americans in uniform who are stationed far from their parents, wives and sweethearts. For ! the rest of us, it is a day of gratitude less for the recent past than for what Providence may bring ‘in the future. 5 There are many things to-be thankful for, to be sure— big things, the successes of our forces and those of our allies, - “the quickening production lines, the diplomatic progress recorded in the Moscow conference, the lack of real hardship

But let us give thanks also for the inevitable victory, hard won though it will have to be, and for the fact. that Americans are fighting, not to impose their rule. or their

way of life on others, but in defense of their own liberty |

against such forces of darkness as never before ch “mankind, -

allenged

LEAN ON UNCLE—OR SELF-SUPPORT? FURTHER on the home front and home,rule subject, as ~ discussed by Congressman Hatton Sumners; chairman of the house judiciary committee, in a Boston speech: Sumners, emphasizing the danger of centralization in Washington, the lean-on-uncle or let-papa--fix theory of life, deals with the well-proven fact of bidlogy that things wither with disuse. The vermiform appendix is an example. Any“way, we quote more from Judge Sumners: «People learn.Lo goNerR by. SOYRINING.... CAPAGILY is Jost. by non-use. re Gi 3 “Difficulties of popular government, like all other difficulties, have been provided for the development of the people. Nature has no disposition to avoid difficulties. It creates them. = “No individual was ever greater than his difficulties. No victory was ever greater than the battle to win it, Being

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ability are recognized by others, he is not personally. ; « The majority of the officers of the are remarkably well-mannered and and gentlemen in the true meaning of reserves and the new officers who did the military academy are about as they were life, subject, however, to any improvement that have been wrought by the code of the regulars.

"Hard-Boiled Manner

officer who, all his life, both in the army and in his civilian career, affected a hard-boiled manner and ‘who was encouraged to excesses by his publicity which presented him as merely ruggéd when he was, in fact, so profane and vulgar that sensitive people sometimes gave him up. On one occasion he was rebuked by a civilian at a social gathering for using disgusting language which ‘he appazently thought was only picturesque.

mate at the military academy, once commented privately that he was sick and tired of hearing civilians

be regarded him as Just a dirty man and recalled that in their cadet days he was shunned by many of the corps for just that reason. : Howevet;.the man did have ability and great en--

magination, and so enjoyed a fairly success-

ful career, notwithstanding Worked Under Pershing

THOSE WHO have a chance-to associate with officers at West Point cannot fail to.be impressed by their gentlemanly manners and speech. I have sat through meals and spent hours at evening gatherings with groups of them and noted the absence of. expressions which mest civilians allow themselves Tor purposes of emphafis or to ‘attract .attention. This certainly “does not mean “that they are prigs, for if an occasion requires force and emphasis they usually hereplenty.ab thein.command. And. although. Pattons. bravery is as famous as his bullying ways, there are others just as brave “who also have the respect and the deep personal loyalty of their subordinates. Patton was with Gen. Pershing ‘in Mexico and went to France with him as a captain and may have thought he was using Pershing as a model, because Pershing could swear resoundingly when he was in a temper and he wasn't what anyone could have called a fatherly commander. But Pershing did have dignity and would not have encouraged the war correspondents

on top of the hill is not important in the scheme of nature. - Had it been so, we all would have been created on the top —of the hill. Climbing and gaining strength through climbing | © is what is important. - 7h le rit rn gral .. ” 2 CATR TR he

of strength. We have been getting mighty soft in America. We have wanted the easy way, the fast way. We have | ~ turned to Uncle Sam. .. “When some difficulties have come to our communi-| ties we have cried out for a super-government. Nature | takes from us the capacity which we fail to use. Let the greatest athlete go to bed and cease to use his muscles; the | strength will not remain: Let any self-government people | shift their responsibilities, the strength to govern departs. | “When a people yield to a great centralized government to think and plan and care for them from cradle to the grave, it is not far to the grave for everything which free men hold dear.” ; In Sumners we seem to have a philosopher to whom the tax-supported, security-peddling, rest-on-the-bogsom-of-Abraham delegation may well give heed. Or, to quote loosely another public figure, Tom Dewey, beware of the dream of full employment where nobody has to work. J} THE FARMERS’ INTEREST ETURNING soldiers and sailors and the millions of in- | dustrial ‘workers will have a vital interest in prompt reconversion of war industries to civilian production after the war. And so will farmers. . Secretary of Agriculture Wickard made that clear in his testimony before the senate’s committee on post-war economic policies. Reconversion delays, he said, would mean a sag in national employment and income. City- people would not be able to buy the food they need. He urged quick final settlements when war contracts are canceled, so that con- | tractors may know “just where they stand financially” and _ may be able to put people back to work, as well as definite | arrangements to handle such problems as the disposition of | ‘surplus military stocks and government-owned war plants. And he éontinued: ‘ a “Farmers want to be sure that men and women who | “eave the armed services or are no longer needed in making | munitions are given real jobs at real pay without undue | delay. Farmers have seen how much better city people can _ feed themselves when they are earning $200 a month than - when they are trying to live on $50-a-month relief jobs. They want city people to continue to be in position to eat | all they need and to pay prices that provide farmers good | incomes, too.”

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INDIAN FAMINE

FT HE impression deepens that something is horribly wrong |

i! in India, where thousands are dying of famine while plans go ahead to use that land as the base for a major “attack on the Japs. The news from India is censored and it is impossible Jearn the exact state of affairs. It is said that the Japaconquest of Burma cut off essential food supplies and no adequate steps were taken to make up the defiy- A controversy rages, seeking to place the responsibut this seems relatively unimportant. And this condition exists, not in a Nazi tre, but in united nation with food supplies. Why are these supplies not being sent? Or, if they Aare they not sent in time? Why is the American has always responded generously to pleas y, not Sow asked to do something for

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to call him old blood and guts, a title in which Patton

apparently gloried. ‘Marshall As President? FOR CONTRAST, there was another captain who

esOPIE 0 the Te guage of the gutter or the manners of a thug, That: would be Gen. George Marshall, who has outrun Patton all the way, and might be president of the United States some time after the war. The punishment imposed on Patton was absolutely unique and undoubtedly will curb him, for now he surely understands that he will be watched closely and that it he ever repeats the offense he will be relieved and probably court-martialed. “ It might even teach him to clean up his language for he must realize that he has overplayed his role in which he imposéd on men who couldn't talk or strike back ] All this being so, Gen. Eisenhower would seem to havé acted with wisdom as well as force and originality, for it-probably means that he keeps a strong, able officer and cures an evil condition which had to be challenged some time. : It Patton had been allowed to get away with this outrageous conducte, then every other officecr and noncom would have been justified in acting likewise:

We The People By Ruth’ Millett

A LETTER written by a 13-year-old girl to her probation officer is currently being pointed to as evidence that the boys and girls we are worrying about today are really pretty much all right. Here's the letter: “Dear Sir: I received your notice today .and am informing you that my mother and I cannot be present tomorrow at your office, as mother is working on defense on which she cannot lose a day, as that would slow up the war production, and I cannot leave the children. Our soldiers are sacrificing their lives for this country, so I'm willing to sacrifice my education so my mother can work and speed up production for the soldiers who are giving their lives for this country. I have two uncles and four cousins in the fighting zone right now, and I know what pro duction means to them and all the other boys who are fighting.”

Make Us Worry, More

FAR FROM setting our minds at rest about the younger generation I think that letter ought to make us worry more—for several reasons. Here's a 13-year-old girl writing to a probation officer “I am informing you that my mother and I cannot be present tomorrow at your office.” That is tossing her head at authority—even though she dces attempt to justify herself by dragging in the war, And wouldn't it be an easy step for a girl to take from justifying her defiarice of authority by saying “After all there is a war on” to justifying becoming victory girl by the same

Voome far since then Without ever fi

of patriotism—that a mother has willingly placed, or | for financial reasons has had to place, a 13-year-old | child in charge of the care and upbringing of, younger children? yo

that they are helping to fight a war by giving up

their chances at education?

To the Point—

ONE WAY to save inoney and be . > 1 ¥ des TO ALLAY hunger a jungle tribe chews of crude rubber. We call ‘em steaks.

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WHAT THE world needs is a thermometer

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WE HAD in our public life a few years ago a former |

remark that his old comradé was the salt of the earth, |

Pa A iE EN “ar Bis IS about the poor “service, and having

And isn’t it a shame—rather than a noble example |

And isn't it foolish for us to let Kids get the idea |

patriotic is to calls,

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1s willing to | |

Who had been his elise |

The Hoosier Forum

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

“TRIED TO HELP EVERYBODY, HELPED BUT A FEW”

By Frederick O. Rusher, Isirgrounds emdng Indianapolis

My article captioned “Supervision Necessary for Fairgrounds Crowd,” received far greater response than

“11 had anticipated, . . Fact of the matter is, it's amaz-

Instead of the usual

ing. pushing

to wait for cars, you witness the proper loading. A single file of passengers ' proceeds slowly; but eventually, to board each car: This is the way it should be, yet

plaints from passengers that it is too slow. Some say the line is too long. Others complain that they have to wait too long to board n car

{to get home, This.should speed up

the loading, instead of being a handicap. This should give the

If folks just want .to be herded like cattle, I will gladly apologize to the Indianapelis Street. Railways, and also our police department, for causing them the trouble of sacrificing their valuable time in serving people who complain about law and order. hen mifi I felt I was justified in trying to help John Q. Citizen to obtain better service. Myself and a few others are very grateful for the co-opera-tive service performed by both parties. My hope is that the present system continues, ; The Indianapolis Street Railways and the police department must have found it necessary, or we

{wouldn't find them stationed there,

Again, I express my sincere gratitude for their services in these critical times of manpower shortage.

‘| Think it over, complainers. It was

done for your safety and speedy home-going. One who tried to help everybody and helped but a few.

® » =» “SURPRISED BY STAND IN OPPOSING SUBSIDIES”

By Fred Mustard, social science instruwetor, Kokomo high school

I have been so surprised by the stand taken by The Indianapolis Times in opposing the administration's pfogram of subsidies that I am taking this opportunity to. voice my disappointment. It is difficult for. me to tunderstand just what motives cause the editors of great newspapers like The Times to oppose food subsidies. Why do editors publish editorials which give the impression that government food subsidies will add to the public debt, while an uncontrolled market will transfer. that debt to the public? Isn't it true that food prices will go up by leaps and bounds if a return to the laws

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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 sét forth here, are those of the writers, - “nd publication “in no” wy implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manu_scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

of supply and demand {s made during the war? = If food. prices go up another 20 or 30 per cent, then labor. costs will

schools, And of late they seem to be graduating in increasing’ numbers to become holdups and thugs. But what more can you expect) when for example they are told as one teacher told my boy's classroom mates, “Anyone is a fool to believe everything in the Bible.” When I went to school I was taught the Lord's prayer; 23d Psalm | and other truths along with the Holy word of God to me. We need to drive out the infidel teachers from our schools and colleges and replace them with God-fearing men and women and then our Sunday schools would get our children in-

“| stead of the penal institutions.

And if we parents would take our children to Sunday school and church where they could get the teaching of the lowly Nazarene implanted in their hearts, He would

keep them from getting into trouble. |

I believe almighty God can take better care of my children than any

andsthe war CEA v that it is. Won't that excra $20; 000,000,000 havé to be met by intreased taxation or by additional

in food subsidies will save us 20 billion, why. don't the editors of; |The Times say so? As I'understand the plan of food subsidies, payments are. not made to all producers, but only to those producers who can't make a fair| profit due to previous rises in pro-| duction costs. If such is the case, and the League of Women Voters says that are the facts, why aren't the newspapers of this country telling the public the truth? | How can dewnocracy possibly work effectively unless the people know the facts? -I am not writing this letter with any hope of influencing the editorial opinion of The Times; but I will have to admit that I am beginning to wonder whether - democracy can function efficiently in a crisis. If the people can't get the truth and are unable to take the timé to investigate the facts, how can they vote wisely? ; = = = “WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT OF CHILDREN?” ‘ | By Earl Fertig Sr., 1333 8. Sheffield st. | We are hearing so much about "our ‘youth problem of late. Some folks claim the church has failed ‘in its duty, that Christianity is a | failure, but you cannot claim something is a failure that has not been | tried. 5 | Statistics show that 90 per cent |of our people do not eyen attend a {church, 40 per cent do not even { have a Bible, only 2 per cent attend {church on Sunday night. i ~ Christian America? About 3 per

| cent have actually given Christian'ple to go to church; but children are compelled to spend a certain

amount of - their life in public

Side Glances~By-Golbra

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bond sales? If one billion dollars 5

ity a trial, You cannot.compel peo-|

about the foreign front, and it is’ terrible, but we have a more terrible catastrophe looming on the ‘home ront, primate WW “A PROUD HOMEMAKER AND A MOTHER” : By Mrs. Harold A. Wilson, 53i0.W. Wash‘ington st, ~.

An open letter to Ruth Millett,

c/o The Indianapolis Times, Indi-|-

anapolis: 2 Dear Ruth Millett: I am one of the stupid, docile and wholly dependent women of

whom you: have written in the Nov.| 20 issue of The Indianapolis Times. 2 Contrary to your belief, I am 9

voluntarily a proud homemaker and mother, ; After reading your article, I could not help but wonder if you realized the opportunity that you are passing by. You have a won-

.{derful chance to glorify your sex

and put glamour into the job of being a woman. Instead, you are ashamed of your sex and the opportunities presented to them. In this day of divorce and broken homes and child delinquency, as a diréet result of working and uneducated, careless mothers, there is

no greater job that can present itself as a direct challenge to a woman than to raise intelligent, good citizens, Instead of entering into the com-

job (few exceptionals excluded) at

“ia nominal salary on a production line; constituting their equal rights| poli then, with men who work for a

| tered all the way from Hawaii to Asia.

In Washington

They are our friends. They are not much given tc aggression, Therefore, with us in Alaska and the Aleutians; in Hawali and Wake and Midway; Guam, the Samoas and, eventually, in the mandated islands of Japan—plus bases which no doubt the Philippines will make available to us—-we shall be a strong position to safeguard the peace. The British, the Dutch and the French, of course will contribute to the Pacific's defense. But the mi burden logically will fall on’ the strongest power that quarter of the globe, the United States. To make it easier, there probably will be, K an understanding . whereby each of the powers will offer its facilities all the others. ; oe ... Japan must be pushed back from Pearl Harbor and] from the South Pacific. Today her islands are scat

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: Possession © these islands changed her strategy. With them, she said, she was impregnable. They were like a “flee of unsinkable aircraft carriers,” she hoasted, and with them she could destroy the strongest navy that could be sent against her—meaning that of the United States. From them, she launched her attack on Pear Harbor, and it has been obvious for years that, in event of war, she could cut us off from the Philippine

Nazis Bought Some

MOST .OF THE ISLANDS hereabouts were firs seen: by the Portuguese and Spanidrds: and: it was not until the. 10th century. that the great powers began scramble for their possession. Germany * bough many of them about 45 years ago at a knock-down sale by Spain after her defeat at Manila. Japan became Germany's principal heir at Ver sailles. Under the covenant of the League of Natio; however, she took over the islands in behalf of th backward natives. She was not to fortify them. Sh was to keep them open to the trade of other natio on a free and equal basis. She was to report annuall to the league council. All of which pledges she violated. : ! . After Nippon is beaten, some other nation will sue ceed to her mandate. Thé islands will certainly not revert to Germany and they can hardly be left to th ims of former owners, Moreover, ower is 10 bolice the Pacific, will nnd 1 wl bil to maintain bases therew Added up, this means duty of guardianship will deyolve upon thé United States. : : .

Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 There is material for some inter : speculation in the coy L~ political love-making now “«_on between the Rev. Gerald L. E Smith and the Hon, Robert R Reyhelds, senator from South Carolina: Smith would woo Reyn: olds into Funning for the presi dency on a third party ticket, p sumably strongly isolationist to platform, The nucleus of th eA party would be Smith's followe: and the subscribers to his magazine, “The Cross and the Flag,” now said to number more than two mi lion. Senator Reynolds has modestly admitted bein | honored by these advances, even though he has an nounced that he is too busy fo run for re-election the senate. * : Add to this the recent utterances of Senator E K. Wheeler of Montana and Senator Gerald P. Ny of North Dakota, concerning third party possibilitie: in 1944, and what do you have? Nye favors a third party if the two major parties lean towards ! with other powers that would in the least-wise jeopar dize American sovereignty. Wheeler is for a party that would prevent this country’s interests from being subordinated to the interests of any European and Asiatic power. Which is the same thing said th other way around. Reynolds says that -anything than an “American Pirst” foreign policy" from major parties will foster a third party."

Isolationism An Unknown Quantity

NOW YOU can dismiss all this as a lot of impoten but highly flavored mouth wash from a trio of pre Pearl Harbor isolationist soreheads whose views ha been proved wrong and whose thinking has b

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consideration without getting out on the end of an rotten limb of political prognostication. How much of the America First sentiment is still left in your bailiwick? Some of the W tical reporters who have been out in the province say it's still strorig and getting stronger, parti 3 in the Chicago-midwest area. Others minimize it. Is the election going to be fought on p

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policy, the post-war world, etcetera? Present indica th 4S to point more. towards a domestic . discontent over rationing, soreness of labor

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