Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1943 — Page 8

M CHURCHILL'S illness holds public attention more than all the battles raging, This is true not only in and allied countries but even in Germany, where laring the news within a few minutes _ after the British announcement to a hushed house of commons. All of which is high tribute to the unique powers of the greatest Briton of the century, for he is recognized as such by friend and foe alike. It is not that he is a man without blemish—few leaders aave had faults more numerous and obvious. It is, rather, that his stubbornness, his rashness, and his sometimes . narrow loyalty to empire, were transmuted by the fires of war into a spirit invincible. He-became the living symbol of England which refused to admit defeat that seemed inevitable, of the England that turned back the blitz with willpower and little else. So this man of many critics at some united every party and every faction, in a land of individualists, as perhaps no democracy has ever been united before. Though tenacity is mighty in defense, it alone is not sufficient for victory. To a great heart must be added a great mind to produce the genius of leadership—the imagination to dream dreams, the knowledge to temper them with fact, the wisdom to make them real. Such are Mr. Churchill's positive virtues, which are so largely responsible for allied strategy global in scope and for post-war plans _ that embrace the world.

. » - » » » AS THE SURVIVAL of England was the supreme * defense test in this war, so the forging of the big three powers into a single mighty sword is the achievement making possible complete victory. And he, who did most to save England, is the same man who conceived the grand alliance againgh-the-a 5 rian inn grin f Churchill leadership. - He, who once jised' Mussolifiowas yet the first to warn his” country against the ca “axis war and against’ the official ap- . peasement policy. So it was Churchill, the oldest and most violent anti-Communist crusader, who was first to offer the hand of friendship to Stalin when Russia was attacked. He did not wait, like so many, until Russia’s superb defense had convinced doubting allied generals as it confounded the Nazi militarists. At once he saw that Hitler had committed the fatal blunder. At once he took advantage of that opening; by offering Russia an alliance. His success in hastening and strengthening the war pnity of Britain and the United States is more obvi After all, he is half American. “We like to think he r _ bines the virtues of both strains—British balance with American drive. However that may be, his popularity in this country is as great as in his own. Here, as there, it is respect and affection for a great leader which transcends the differences in judgment that occasionally divide us. Americans pray for his quick and complete recovery. : “There'll always be an England”—as long as she produces Winston Churchills.

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"Just Somewhat American Blackshirts'

I ANTICIPATE that this last remark will evoke many passionate letters and telegrams accusing me of trying to sully'the memory -of many brave young Americans whose names have vowel endings but the fact remains that the Mafla and the Camorra were neither Scandinavian por Hibernian but Italian and that Mussolini, when he started to town in 1922, just adopted their old, traditional terroristic methods. The Ghibonnes were, and are, just somewhat American Blackshirts and I call your attention to the fact that Limpus and Leyson in their biography of La Guardia were not trying to louse him up, as the saying goes, but were sprinkling him over with new-mown rose

Guardia, himself, co-operated with them to the extent that they were given access to his personal files. It certainly was one of the dumbest jobs I have ever seen, however, for even while they are bawling from their high pitch about this great wise and

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freedom-loving friend of the people they cross up themselves, and their hero, by dressing him up in Mussolini's clothes and placing him at the head of an oath-bound society of political terrorists, attached to La Guardia by a pledge of personal allegiance,

Ghibonnes Still Doing Business

MY FRIEND, the cop, being Irish and the Ghibonnes being, as Limpus and Leyson wrote, Italian and a secret fraternity known to very few New Yorkers, it is understandable that he did not remember them by that name. But another authority, who has been very active in Tammany politics in La Guardia's district for a long time, did know them as the Ghibonnes and says they are still doing business but that now they are more immediately attached or beholden to La Guardia’s old protege, law partner and friend, Vito Marcantonio, the incumbent congressman, who; in every single issue from the copscription bill down ta this hour has voted consistently with the changing policies of the Communist front, — Tammany informant says the Ghibonnes make any Irish political mob look like little boys and tells me that theif play now is to enroll in sufficient numbers, according to orders, in the Republican, Democratic and so-called American Labor parties so that La Guardia and Marcantonio can control indorsements by all three.

'Head Man of Communist Wing'

1 TOLD you yesterday, but here I think you may want to be reminded, that in their description of the. Ghibonnes, Limpus and Leyson, spoke of them ‘as “jdealistic hero-worshippers; led by the brilliant Marcantonio.” They trace Marcantonio’s development and political rise under La Guardia's patronage and sen ab age: “Assuming an alpaternal attitude, he carefully supervised Marcantonio’s legal training and worked him into the well-oiled little political machine which was gradually evolving in Harlem. Afterward he founded a law firm, admitting his protege to partnership and seven years later he had the satisfaction of seeing Marcantonio take the seat he had occupied in the house.” Marcantonio is now the head man of the left, or Communist wing of the so-called Labor party and La Guardia plays both ends against the middle. And these little chips of information and some things that I have told you in the past about Dave Dubinsky and Matt Levy, who recently was licked for the supreme court by another friend of gangsters, and some that I presently will tell you about La Guardia, Sidney Hillman, and a prominent wholesale murderer, will build a fire to keep the so-called American Labor party very warm if it does not burn this rat's nest down.

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few hours after the issuance of a strong warning by the senate's Truman committee. And there have been other ~ bad wrecks this yeéar, especially that of the Congressional - Limited on Labor day, taking 80 lives. Accordingly the committee urged that we “either reduce the burdens upon our transportation” (which would mean civilian hardships) “or provide new equipment, or adopt a combination of both.” ~The railroads, the airlines and the truck and bus systems have done a magnificent job under.great difficulties. The Truman committee's judgment that they. can't be expected to keep on passing ‘miracles forever seems reasonable. . It looks as if the government must either go in for rationing the civilian use of transport, both freight and. ~ passenger, or else provide the railroads and the other systems with priorities for needed equipment—or both.

LOCAL BOYS MAKE GOOD

[JUR Mr. Nussbaum’s Inside Indianapolis column recently carried the torch in a crusade to persuade the N. W. er & Son directory of publications to reconsider its identipn of Indianapolis as a city “on White river, 109 miles est of Cincinnati.” : 4 Nussbaum, his public and the Indianapolis ChamCommerce quite rightly felt that the use of the 788 a fixed point of reference carried the inference polis is a suburb of Cincinnati, whereas everythat it's vice versa. er second thought, ‘N. W. Ayer decided that to read 8 While River, near the geographi na.” everybody knows where Indiana further support of Mr. Nussbaum’s th is now in the process of selecting a

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LITTLE MRS, SMITH, whose husband is overseas, lives alone with her two small children. She is ‘getting along fine, but L there is one fear that haunts her, {What would she do if she and the | children all became {ll at once, so that she couldn't care for them? There is a scarcity of trained nurses in her town and no household help to be had for love nor ki money. So it's no wonder she ree Worries. = ‘Multiply the Smith family by the thousands who have only one strong adult capable of taking care of the sick within the family, and the personal worry becomes a national problem. 3 The recruitmant committee for practical nurses in New York thinks the answer to the problem is the training of thousands of women for the job of prac tical nursing. :

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“AN INSULT TO PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY” By a Soldier, Ft. Harrison

I am sending you an article clipped from page 14 of your second section of Dec. 15. (The clipping was the editorial entitled “Pre-Pearl Harbor Fathers."—Ed.) 1 don’t know who wrote this or who passed it but I think it is more than an insult to the people of Kentucky. I hope the writer isn't representing the state of Indiana. I wonder if he thinks this article will gain him glory from intelligent people? 1 have soldered with boys from all the neighboring states of Indiana and a Jot more. I have yet to hear anyone from any state make a crack like this one about any state. I have heard a lot of them say that the worst women and easy prey young girls that they ever met resided in this city. From your own paper the situation of juvenile delinquency and other reports show that you are going down hill, and I believe that a lot of the ones this writer represents.;are against marriage. This article looks like one side of a debate between two children in their first year of school. ¥ I was born and raised in Illinois of which I am proud. I have lived in Indiana and Kentucky. I don’t think there are any more marriages under 15 years of age in Kentucky than there is in any of the rest. I don't care whether the readers see this or not. I just want the writer to stop and think. In conclusion I just want to say that I am sorry that the writer and all that agree with him cannot buy an island and move away from the 48 states that are united. To the paper: I say this isn’t the first of this kind of reports. I am glad that the leading papers of Kentucky are not full of such junk. There is always room for. the criminal acts of Kentucky in your paper but nothing else. Ti . "” “GOD SPEED OUR VICTORY” 4 By Frederick O. Rusher, Indianapolis Here are two pictures. Which do we choose? fH © Today is Sunday, Dec. 12, 1943. 1 am sitting in my favorite chair. I have just finished smoking a pipeful of my favorite tobacco. Sickness jall around me. Some of it my own relation. a: Suddenly these two thoughts come to me. One week from next Saturday is Christmas. 12 short days.

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Church bells have been ringing. All denominations, all faiths, all creeds. Downtown the Mile-O-Dimes continued to give the less fortunate a cheerful Christmas. The Salvation Army bell is ringing its annual plea to spread Christmas cheer to hundreds of unfortunate families. Comes the dawn of Christmas day. Housetops, streets and highways covered with snow. Church bells ring today but it isn't Sunday. No my friends, this is the day of days. Our Saviour’s birthday. Peace on earth, good will toward men. Christmas carolers parade the streets singing Christmas songs. In every home we see the symbol of Bethlehem. Children play about the floor. Mother, dad, sister, brother and all others-‘exchange presents in the name of Santa Claus. Perhaps dad, brother or sister who are in uniform are lucky enough to be present. What a grand and glorious feeling it is when especially all can be present. All these things are because this is America. Freedom of worship, freedom of speech (but careful in time of war), freedom of society, freedom of recreation, in fact, freedom of everything in a free democracy. . As I think of all these things, the words to this song come to my mind “God Bless ‘America ..."” I am 45 years old. ‘My. draft classification is 4-F, physically disqualified. I am employed by the war department under civil service. I feel highly honored to serve my country in my designated capacity. Millions of men have taken my place on every battlefront on all

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given their lives. Others returned disabled. Still the fight goes on, and will go until the world is liberated from all foes of freedom. Christmas for those in the services will be a different Christmas than we at home are enjoying. . . . Thousands of miles from home. The smell of powder, A buddy dying from wounds. A plane lost in action, No sleep for hours for fear

All he or she has is perhaps a small photograph of a loved one, a small pocketpiece for remembrance, or maybe a pack of cigarets. How lucky we are and how thankful we should be. Everything our hearts desire in a land of plenty and freedom. . Again I remind you it's 12 short days till Christmas. Christmas. in America. We are at home with mother, dad and perhaps brother and maybe sister, We can still join hands, bow our heads in peaceful prayer for victory and home coming of our loved ones. God speed our vickory and may Christmas of 1944 find all our loved ones around our Christmas trees. # . . “CLEAR THINKING IS REQUIRED” By One of America’s Youth, Indianapolis The youth of today seem to be a distressing topic to everyone and they are certainly causing their share of gray hairs to appear among the youth leaders and other civic organizations. It seems odd to me that people merely sit aside and talk about the degeneration of youth and their low morals without tak ing steps for the correction of such. I am among this group and it is extremely discouraging to hear the accusations marked against us. Practically every case brought before the juvenile court can be traced directly back to the home environment and to the attitude the parent displayed toward the child. If only the parents were investigated as thoroughly as the youth himself then the source of trouble could be rapidly located. It is well to remember that the youth of today

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Reflections By John W. Hillman

food production programs. er Instead, however, President Edward A, O'Neal of the American Farm Bureau Federation is one of the leading anti-administration men fighting against subsidies and he has the backing of Hassil E. Schenck, Indianapolis, president of the Indiana organization and a life-long Republican, These things make Governor Townsend sad, so he isn't looking too: longingly at the proposition that he become a Democratic candidate for congress in the fifth district next year.

Not Running for Anything

REP. FOREST A. HARNESS, Republican congress. man from Kokomo whe>will be up for re-election there, can expect little support from C. I. O. and other union leaders since he is a co-author of the Smith-Connally-Harness anti-wartime strike bill, But union labor is not a great factor in the district, outside of the war industries at Anderson and some . manufacturing establishments at Kokomo and Marion. Whether the farmers in the district might go for Governor Townsend seems doubtful, according to recent vote trends in the Midwest farm belt, Governor Townsend knows all this, so he

EDUCATION USED to be 8 matter of Four R's—readin’, ritin’,

- Basic History course in which the memorizing of long list of dates will become as obsolete as McGuffey’s First Reader. Instead it recom mends that the requirements for high school students

finger computation ‘before he can be sure that 6 times 8 is 42. Or is it 48? ’

What to Learn, and When

THE OLD SYSTEM was to drill into students’ heads a long list of dates that were useful only for the course or answering the $64 question on some future quiz program. The new theory is to avoid cluttering up the youngsters’ minds with schol’ astic ‘bric a brac, leaving them free to concentrate on such cosmic problems as world peace and the probable finalists in the state basketball tournament. ~~ °

one on which the Pilgrims established head at Plymouth, would be ed, it is hoped, during grammar school. Seventh and students would gét chummy with such dates as of the constitutional ‘convention, the invention of the cotton gin, the war of 1812—a the Missourl Compromise—you remember that one, fede, : oo. °C i lon Senior high school students, ready to drink deep from the Pierian spring, would top off their education with the dates of the Dred Scott decision, the New Deal, the Stamp Act, the establishment of the Commission—always a handy to know—and the 19th amendment which,

thing just to make it confusing, happens to be 1920.

You Can't Lear Everything

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