Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1943 — Page 10

*gerated accounts of victories, while minimizing or delaying

. incident, shows how little the government has learnéd

*. marine losses at Tarawa is an exception.

on the home front, there is a as-usual psychology, with strikes and es. This unbelievable blindness to our our duty on the eve of the greatest Pacific offensives, when the lives of millions ag inen depend. on supplies; its belated and frantic effort to a jo this crisis, Washington is now turning off its official all's-well line and turhing on its scare spigot. But, to the surprise of the propagandists, the scare predictions instead of convincing the public merely confuse it. Amerbir and resent such government attempts to “make” pliblic opinion. . Propaganda is discounted. ~The tragedy in this case is that the propaganda is a. ® »

THIS NEWSPAPER and others have been pointing out, since the war began, that the only way to get full public tion is to tell the people the truth. But the |

government, not trusting the people, has put out exag-

ken the public

conditions were pretty bad for ma sands were up

or suppressing defeats snd blunders. The recent army attmpt to suppress “another Pearl Harbor” disgrace at Bari, Italy, following thie long hush-hush of the Gen. Patton about The full, prompt reporting of heavy

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public relati Our enemies and our allies have learned. The Germans | man finally hopped on his chair and told now are reporting ‘their defeats before the Russians announce gains, and they quickly admitted loss of the battle’ ship Scharnhorst. Several times recently the Japs have admitted American victories in the South Pacific. before we

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, which obviously has little or no control over government « policy. Palmer Hoyt, retiring director of OWI's domestic * branch, said:

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INDIANA'S gas rationing authorities have aroused a good

* standing OPA requirement that motorists write the license

5 4 the very beginning of gasoline restrictions. The first regulation required the license number to be written across

+ One of the best statements on: the futility of propaganda, and the necessity of facts to awaken and strengthens

the home front, comes from the office of war information— | | buying power of the worker's dollar.

it with the sinew necessary to endure what may come.”

strangers the country and felt footloose, irresponsible vidually unimportant in the great whole eff t and ornery anti felt independently rich with a little folding money

the-line program. has been intended to maintain the

Profiteering Charge Is No Answer

en : IT 18 rio answer to point out incompetence or to “In two years of warfare we should have learned that | charge HoRteuring on the part of the management. evidence, not prophecy, makes public opinion and endows | Jneom petite Ji ALAR, 8 ho Jhare intentional task. Sometimes it is tardily discovered and tardily

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days when England and ‘Greece stood alone against the Nazis of a meeting of machinists and shipbuilders who seeftied hell-bent for a strike at which one of who was off somewhere fighting, appealed to ers who had sons or brothers in the same Woh the day. That many have happened in some ‘similar minute case in the United States but, on the whole, the workers who have been involved in strikes |,

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That is precisely what Chief Censor Price, OWI Direc- | corrected but, generally speaking, that is just hard

tor Davis and the combined press of the country have been trying to tell the President, without results.

NEEDLESS RED TAPE

can possibly get rich out of this war, light and information of these subjects by persuading the people that they are

number of their car, in ink, on each of their allotted gas Sxpiaited iy men Wi Use the

ration coupons. ve - i : : : themselves who have right = The regulation was not made by Indiana officials. It feel that way, that by God. no,

has beén a pet idea of the Washington bureaucrats from | in any war industry,

deal of resentment by their decision to enforce the long-

| luck for our side. : The strike, howeter. i Intentional and deliberate and can be prevented all its con- adi sequences, by the will of the workers themselves. As By. Mp. 0. 0. K., apolis to profits, they are recoverable to the treasury by : high taxes and reducible by the renegotiation of cons juvenile crime wave that's been ragtracts; and. the personal incomes of profiteers are so limiffed that it is difficult to see how any individual A little more

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the back of each coupon. Filling station men then pasted WwW Th n P¢ : the coupons on a card, back down, and there is ng, record e e eop e that any OPA investigator ever steamed off these millions By Ruth Mill of tiny coupons to examine the writing; if any, underneath. | PY wut Millett ~The new ration sheets carried specific instructions to hold~| — ” ih write their license numbers on the face of the stamps. | + abl FOR THE cords, she 1 Just and that regulation still is supposed to be in effect. another woman w $aloh mig «= It never has been widely observed. Motorists, who are ed Ay pe ) in general as bright as any other group of citizens, could i £0, she is another feminine failure. ite bo Yeason for it; filling station attendants rarely re- Bg) 3 en i quested i 2 ht statistics Fea . don't show, rt! It was supposed, in some vague way; to offer some “I worked in a defense plant. _ Protection against the theft of ration books. I loved my Job And every one con-

Now it is to be invoked in an effort to stamp out a ~ ar AD a Ae anh his rted “black market” in gasoline. Just how it may com |. grandmother so 1 could work. The

bat black markets is not clear. Every motorist has an A | Srandmother became il, so we had to bring the baby

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every coupon turned in could be examined and checked Triumph for American Home lf | Bgainst the car number for which it was issued this might THAT MAY be another failure for women " ne show, in some, but not all, cases whether a given motorist | dustry—but it is a triumph for the American home. jsom had used more than eight A stamps in the allotted period, | For it means & woman has gone back to her first Job, | them

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their parents to someone Then when they are | a black market, especially among the relatively : :

As brought home again, they i * . They wit be of drivers who still are not convinced that gasoline | parents will be strangers made necessary by any genuine shortage of

ty lists from the hard fighting of the past| pesinning to come in, and the mation has| Ty the! P : Xpect very heavy losses in the next hun- Oo e : £0 : ‘| AN OLD qistiiery now is turning out ely that the year ahead will bring the war | Which probably. won't make any difference to most every family, through the loss of | OU Te8®. > ine 3 friend. In such cases, words of sym-| LANDLORDS PROFIT by the mistake i say little; the only true comfort|'™ not belngone . =. : © A KANSAS woman asked divores be lighter for those who can | husband fed her. . “Tired of suck in death of | Pusiness. .

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