Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 March 1944 — Page 10
The Indianapolis Ti PAGE 10 Tuesday, March 21, 1944 _
WALTER LECKRONE MARK FERRER Editor. Business Manager
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Give Light and the People Will Pind Ther Own Way
AVIATION EMPHASIS WEEK JDIANAPOLIS will have an opportunity to inspect some of the tremendous accomplishments of American air power during aviation emphasis week which opens Friday. And several hundred leaders of the American aviation industry will have a chance to see what Indianapolis has to offer as a strategic site for post-war aircraft manufacturing when they come here Tuesday night to attend the dinner at which Municipal airport will be formally rededicated as Weir Cook airport. Both phases of aviation week would have pleased the man whom it honors. Col. H. Weir Cook, world war I ace who was killed while serving in the Southwest Pacific a year ago, spent much of his life bringing the gospel of aviation to the people of this city and-stressing to his fellow aviators the advantages of Indianapolis as a future air center. From Friday to Tuesday, the Weir Cook airport dedication committee, in co-operation with the army air forces materiel command, will exhibit several million dollars worth of aircraft and equipment on the World War Memorial plaza. Included will be three complete fighter planes which are playing big parts on the global fighting fronts—Republic’s P-47 Thunderbolt, Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning and Cur-tiss-Wright’s P-40 Warhawk. At the dinner in the Scottish Rite cathedral Tuesday night, 2000 local citizens, military leaders and aviation notables frem all parts of the country will pay honor to Col. Cook and his contribution to the air age. It shouid be a fitting, and deserved, tribute to an outstanding citizen and a hero of two wars.
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THEY'RE DOING ALL RIGHT
AMERICAN youngsters have never been regimented. In fact, the majority of parents have probably let their children give full rein to their normal taste for foolishness. And sometimes they have been pretty foolish. They have spent too much money, driven their cars too fast, swallowed goldfish, worn zoot suits, gone wild over swing and jitterbugging. : When the war came along, a lot of older people clucked their tongues and wondered. Our youth was soft, they said, spoiled by luxury, irresponsible and comfort loving. How could they stand up against the German and Japanese youth, who had been put through a fanatical, toughening process in preparation for war? The answer is pretty obvious by now. 4° What started this train of thought was a picture put out by the marine corps. It shows a lean, tough, de-termined-looking fighter slogging through the ankle-deep mud of New Britain with a bazooka slung over his shoulder. » os » = - o THE PICTURE'S caption says that this marine used to manage Bob Crosby’s orchestra. He lived in the frantic world of swing and hepcats. Probably he stayed up too
In Wash
ing fo any conclusions. Committee Is Moving Ahead
ury presentation.
They Can't Police Themselves
ONE FACTOR bringing the liquor. investigation to | stration. ; a head is that members of the industry have never been able to agree on trade practices. Efforts ever soning and excuse for this reducsince pre-prohibition to name a “Kenesaw M. Landis- tion of the gasoline rationing that of-liquor” have always fallen through. Today there the whole system of rationing: is an is no agreement on what wartime practices should be. {absolute failure and in substance Proposals to ration available stocks on a nation-wide say: We just have to cut you anbasis—the logical answer for distributing every other other gallon in order to supply the commodity of which there is a shortage—get no place. | black market with more gasoline on Pricing, new brand policies are subjects of dispute. |account of the super-abundance of This lack of agreement has contributed materially counterfeit ration stamps. to confusion and cut-throat competition, bringing panic buying, hoarding, short supply, black market, enough gasoline to supply the quanbootlegging, hijacking. Distillers are generally given credit for having done a tremendous war job in producing industrial alcohol, tion stamps, and it is just impospenicillin’and numerous other war materials in quan- {sible to supply honest citizens with tities believed impossible.
Far from persecuting the industry,
senate investigation might be its salvation.
(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation.
late, slept too little, didn’t eat his meals at the proper hours, and made more money than is supposed to be good for kids. Now.he's one of the combat engineers who helped blast the Japs out of Cape Gloucester.
Maj. James Stewart, late of that fantastic lotus land called Hollywood, commanded a big flight of four-engine bombers on a raid over Brunswick the other day. It was his 10th combat mission. Lt. Cmdr. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. won a silver star at Salerno. Alfred and George Vanderbilt, of the wealthy, horseracing Vanderbilts, are in the thick of the South Pacific fighting. ’ There used to be a good bit of criticism of the Roosevelt boys. They didn’t conduct themselves, some folks said, with the dignity befitting their father's position. One of the boys ‘was an outstanding commander in the Pacific campaign. Another has been wounded. You can fill out the list—boys who have been in the public eye, boys from your neighborhood, boys who have been called wild and reckless and what not. They're the boys who are winning the war,
A LANDSLIDE!
IT is a downright pleasure to observe the latest bandwagon movement in Washington—by which we mean the tax-simplification crusade. The thing is practically a stampede, }
First the house wa
of
ae i ys and, means committee emerges from its studies with a very“promising program for simplification. Then the éhfirman, Mr. Doughton, says the committee may go even further. Then Chairman George of the corresponding senate committee reveals a desire for going a step or two beyond the house committee, Al of which adds up to the most welcome landslide within the memory of living taxpayers. : —
STILL NO RELIEF
(ONCE again the British government has refused to lift the European blockade and let an attempt be made to take food and supplies to occupied Europe’s sick and
hungry people. Reason, fear flat the Germa tain the benefit. ns would ob-
; The United States senate has passed a resolution favoring this attempt. American opinion undoubtedly supports the senate stand. European neutrals have agreed to transport and distribute the supplies, The Nazi government has assured them that it will not interfere. [n support of this is the fact that neutral distribution of food in: Greece has _been almost entirely unmolested.
As former President Hodver has pointed out, we have a practical as well as a moral responsibility to do whatever we can for these real or potential friends who’are victims of Nazi cruelty, Failure will surelpbe remembered," * =
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Some wives work at
her wifehood.
For as her beauty fades, her dumbness and inefficiency become less tolerable. Certainly that is
preciation.
So maybe the taxpayer wasn't far wrong. Maybe he thought he. deserved some income tax -reduction
r his wife's depreciation.
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I HAVE pot the slightest doubt that if the battlefront and home front really get down to it this year, we can get the thing almost finished—held so tightly that next year-we will just topple it over.—Gen, Sir Bernard L. Montgomery.
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3 IS altogether too much warping, restraining and stereotyping of the young to make them fit exactly into the pattern. of the parent or some respected adult.—Dr. C, W. Wyckoff, Cleveland pediatrician. )
I DON'T give-a damn about all this. After the war I want to travel—in the United States. If 1 ever get back there they'll never get me ‘out again.—Sgt. Charles E. Kelly after receiving Congressional of Honor in Italy, :
EXPERIENCE HAS taught us that our country when least hampered by government control—Senate Truman committee report.” fo
ington : By-Peter Edson ernst
WASHINGTON, All-out investigation of the liquor industry is now being shaped up by the reorganized senate judicidry subcommittee under Pat McCarran of Nevada. It will take the form of not only turning over to local district attorneys and the department of justice any evidence considered grounds for prosecution, but also providing background for reform legislation. . The committee is not interested in prohibition, pro or con, but as a side issue it is interesting itself in the present liquor shortage. Under -the late Senator Frederick VanNuys of “Indiana the committee did a certain amount of inquiring around “on the liquor shortages last December without com-
will be resumed when he returns.)
We The People
By Ruth Millett
“CAN I'TAKE a $1200 depreciation on my wife again this year?” a taxpayer innocently asked an official in Indiana. And the official had a good laugh over the
instead of “exemption.” But actually, maybe the man
A wife either becomes more valuable to her husband every year—or she becomes less. never stays the same.
hey Say
THE LEADERS in education will be confronted with the most challenging demand in their history The average young man or woman who has only finished high school cannot be expected to return fo school for four long yé&rs.—Col. John N. Andrews. selective service post-war activities director.
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NOW, WITH an enlarged committee staff under J. G. Sourwine and with George M. Moore of the congressional joint committee on non-essential federal expenditures slated to become chief investigator, Sentaor McCarran’s committee is moving ahead. Distillers have been asked to prepare data for the committee, . and so have executive agencies of the government dealing,with alcohol matters, The industrial alcohol division of the war production board, which has already announced 1944 production requirements of 632 million gallons, as agaihst productive capacity of 593 million gallons, is being asked to review its data, looking toward partial resumption of civilian supply. Under present WPB orders all distillers must now work full capacity on industrial alcohol for synthetic rubber, explosives and lend-lease requirements. There wil] be no chance to build up beverage stocks.
Justice Department Asked for Data
SIMILARLY, the alcohol tax unit of the bureau of internal revenue has been asked for data on distillery stocks and sales, the securities and exchange
commission has been asked for data on corporate ownership of distilleries, and the anti-trust division of the department of justice has been asked to turn over ddta on alleged domination of the industry by the big four—National Distillers, Schenley, Seagram and Hiram Walker, On this last phase of the investigation, the MecCarran committee will be running somewhat in competition with the department of justice. Last December the anti-trust division subpenaed records of the big four. In January it called for records of 85 more distillers and vintners. Deadline for filing records was extended several times, the last extension being to March 15. All this : information is now being processed for federal grand |crevices of memory’s plate you
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“depreciation”
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the job of becoming more judicial authority antognistic and more valuable to their husbands. Such a wife studies her husband's likes and dislikes so that the longer she lives with him the better she knows how to keep him happy, contented, and sure that he |rationing of gasoline and trust the married the only woman in the world for him.
Wife Has Own Interests
SHE BECOMES more efficient as a housekeeper, and easier to live with. And she studies her husband’s business and profession to find some way of which she can be of help to him in his work. In addition to that, she pursues some worthwhile interests of her own, so that her husband finds her a stimulating companion. Such a wife certainly increases in value. But the dumb little girl who had nothing but the prettiness of youth ‘to recommend her as a wife, and who thinks she can coast along on that prettiness all her life, certainly depreciates in value every year
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1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“REMOVE RATIONING OF GASOLINE” By T. Ernest Maholm, 205 Indiana Trust Bldg.
would search in vain for a more
The McCarran ‘committee, anxious to do a job |ridiculous, absurd and inexcusable for itself, wants this information.
excuse or reason for the reduction of the ration of gasoline by the braintwisters in Washington and puppets of this New Deal admini-
They admit by their gem of rea-
In - other words, we have not tity of gasoline required to fulfill the demands of the counterfeit ra-
this necessary fuel for- driving in their patriotic defense endeavors. Would we have these counterfeiters and black markets if we had no rationing? What incentive would there be for ration stamps to be counterfeited? What value weuld they then have? None whatsoever. The brain twisters admit by their flimsy excuse that gasoline by reason of the rationing is now flowing in as great a quantity as though we had no rationing and honest, patriotic citizens are being encouraged to violate the law. Yet, instead of removing that incentive by abolishing this entire ration set-up and thereby making the counterfeit ration stamp worthless and the black | market but a memory, they now cut the amount of gasoline an honest, patriotic citizen may have and increase the value of the counterfeit ration stamp. If the brain twisters in Washington with their unlimited authority, arbitrary power and exercising to American ideals would ‘make coun-|
abolishing this un-American idea of
proven honest patriotic citizen to use gasoline sparingly, there would be no question of sufficient gasoline to meet the needs of this wartime era. Why, recently in our city a Standard Oil official, and one who would be presumed to know, said we have enough oil in this country to make gasoline sufficient to meet all needs for the next 2000 years.
‘If you could search in all the
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tioning of gasoline here in Indiana and you will close all of the gasoline black markets. You Will put out of business the counterfeiter of gasoline ration stamps and once more place the halo of confidence in the citizens of our grand old Hoosier state. Give her patriots who are working day and night in our defense plants and. all other citizens who are giving all they have in backing the attack, once and for all, a break, ~
= “ITS UP TO YOU PEOPLE"
By Betty Carroll, 1313 Broadway. The people who vote are the ones who decide the fate of our country. I am only 17 years of age, but I do think I have the right to voice my opinion on our political state of affairs. The way our politicians handle our government will always come back to us kids who are just realizing how important our democracy is. Some do not even know what the Bill of Rights is. We are just learning the vital importance of those rights. We kids are dreaming of our ideals and hopes. We desire to have our hopes and dreams come true. The most important desire we have, of course, is to have the war end
terfeit ration stamps worthless by jas soon us possible, to make the, °f our traditional freedoms.
world better to live in and for the right leaders to guide our country through the finish of the war, the dangerous post-war era, and to give democracy and education their full chance. We want our leaders to be independent, to be free from petty jealousy and to be human. Such are the dreams and hopes of the kids who are growing up. We hope that the chance will be given to us to co-operate and try to help
My solution is: Remove the ra-
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ability. It's up to you people who are voting to give you, us kids and those who come after us the chance to make good.
* = “TIME TO GET BACK TO REASON”
By A. J. Schneider, 504 W. Drive, Woodruff Place '
Several days ago your editorial page carried a “filler” quoting
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sier Republicans now are claiming it by from 100,000 to 300,000 votes, But the Madden theory, which sounds slightly mad, is : “The Republican | i set to stop Mr. Willkie from getting the pr ntia nomination again. If the Dewey and Bricker forces are stalemated, they will nominate Senator Taft. Then Mr. Willkie will bolt the ticket and fake. the stump in Indiana for President Roosevelt and a fourth term. If he does that the Democrats will win.” Republicans here feel, however, that if Mr. Willkie doesn’t get the nomination he will be con t with ; : LO P. platform and then might be appointed sectetary of state if the Republican candidate wins.
Browder Suggests Roosevelt-Willkie Ticket
COMMUNIST EARL BROWDER first ‘advanced
the idea that the two great parties get together with a Roosevelt-Willkie ticket and call off the contest during wartime,
possibility of President Roosevelt dropping Vice President Wallace and taking Mr. Willkie for second place on the Democrat ticket, if the Republicans fail to renominate him, Partisans differ on the possible outcome of such a ticket against the G. O. P. Some think it would make the voters hopping mad and they would step out and, as one Republican senator put it, “kill both those birds with a single ballot The thing would be considered completely absurd except for the political daring displayed by both the President and Mr. Willkie. “They might get together,” some otherwise cone servatives say.
Rankin Terms Willkie "Secret Weapon"
REP. JOHN RANKIN (D, Miss.) taunts the Ree publican congressmen by constantly referring to Mr, Willkie as “our secret weapon.” *
He tells them that Mr. Willkie will weight them down in any race from now on,
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth is credited with first referring tq Mr, Willkie as “Wall Street's William Jennings Bryan.” ne But there are plenty of people here who think that a Roosevelt-Willkie ticket would be unbeatable, And Mr. Madden insists that if Mr. Willkie campaigns for the Democrats they will carry Indiana, which seenis so hopeless at this point, : Of course Mr. Madden concludes his speculations with “whatever happens Lake county will still go Democratic.” » Like all the other Indiana
Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in which he decried the growing prejudice against the use of the word “planning.” " While we can all heartily sympathize with the simple virtues Mr. Ruml often expounds, no one knows better than Mr. Ruml that the giddy whirl of nonsense and inanity originating in Washington has taken established values from words even as it has from everything else. The learned lexicographers who ‘compiled our recognized brochures of word meanings were ignorant’ and uninformed in the light of the mauling words receive at -the hands of the Know-It-Alls. Since “we planned it that way” has become the slogan of Roosevelt and his bootlickers, always resulting in failure, is it any surprise that the words plan and planning have become to be synonymous with failure? The words in themselves are innocent enough and in the | past represented an important and [necessary activity connected with {every . worthwhile undertaking. | Unquestionably regimentation and {loss of freedom arise after planning {has failed. But, what have we got {today? Does Mr. Rumi or anyone |else dare to assert that we have [the freedom guaranteed by the | Constitution? Would Mr. Ruml [have us believe our economy as | devoid of regimentation equal to |any fascist or communistic econ-
{omy? Therefore it is natural for
{the masses to associate planning [with more and better regimentation ‘and more and greater deprivation First it is necessary to get rid of the causes for the prejudices against the use of innocent words before it can be hoped to have the masses accept words at their known values. I submit it is time to get back to reason, and a simple beginning could be made with words. # » » MRS. ROOSEVELT IS IN SAME CATEGORY” By J. 8. Hadgerth Columbus. We are told the black market is depriving honest Americans of thousands of gallons of gasoline. So far, however, nothing seems to have been said about the thousands and thousands of gallons of gasoline of which Mrs. Roosevelt is depriving these same honest Amer-
line for her own use in making her continuous flying trips around over the globe—trips that serve no purpose whatever in the interests of Americans or of America. Yet, In the matter of depriving honest Americans of gasoline, Mrs. Roosevelt is in the same category as the black market, the only difference being that there is a law against the black market. ’
! . =» “GROWNUPS WERE NOISY CHILDREN ONCE” By Karl Huebner, Indianapolis
I would like to shake every person by the hand who rebels against the housing conditions in this city. .. .
congressmen, Mr, Madden is running again.
Alas, Poor Dobbin
By James Thrasher
WASHINGTON, March 21. — The Willys-Overland people have * found time, in the midst of turne ing out jeeps for the armed forces, to sound out a representative. group of American farmers on an important post-war question, How ‘did they feel, the jeep makers. wanted to know, about this wartime product as a peacetime farme ing aid? The result of the poll was an overwhelming vote of confidence for the blitz buggy. More than that, it developed that our farmers consider the jeep the greatest oneshot cure-all since Chief Thunderbird’s Wizard Snake Oil for Man and Beast. They are looking to a rosy future when this sturdy, snubnosed vehicle will supply the motive power for plowing, seeding, cultivating and harvesting; for running silo fillers, buzz saws, threshing and milking machines; for doing stump pulling, tree spraying, haying and a dozen other agricultura] jobs Some of the more fanciful envisioned it as a serviceable companion on hunting and fishing trips,
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That's the Farmer's Business
WELL, THE farmer certainly knows his needs and his business. If he wants to kiss the horse goodby (and the mule along with it) it's probably none of our affair. Yet the thought fills some of the more sentintental among us with an understandable melancholy, and with a certain foreboding that might as well be expressed here, The farmer understands, we hope, that with the horse's departure he is going to be left with his mechanical monsters, to master them or be mastered by them. There will be none of the warm intimacy— and warmer exasperation—that exists between a man and his draft animal. ‘The farmer will get no calm and dignified gratitude from his jeep when he feeds it a tankful of gas. There will not be that intimate sense of working together, At the end of a hot summer day the farmer will not have the feeling that a servant and co-worker, tired as he and much more patient, knows that it's supper time, too, and will give the job a little extra something to finish it quickly. In the day of the jeep and the new agro-economy, it’s going to be just man against the weeds, the bugs and the elements—man with one more tool added to his kit, but with one less helper. It's going to be awfully efficient. But we bet that there will be times when the farmer will feel a little bit lonely.
Wireless Power By Maj. Al Williams
NEW YORK, March 21.— Shortly before his death some years ago, Marconi, the great Italian scientist, predicted that within 20 years the wireless transmission of electric power would be accomplished. When it is possible to transmit . electric power as we transmit radio today we will see the beginning of the most astounding transportation era the world has ever seen. In many respects, the
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only available preview we have of the transmission of eléctric energy is found in the radio-loaded beam
The child that are running] channels. of the Federal Airways. These airways
through our homes today playing and making a little noise will be the same ones which will fight for their freedom as the older boys are
like to remind the grownups that they were noisy little children once themselves,
DAILY THOUGHTS
O Lord, open Thow my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth Thy . praise.~Psalm 51:15,
verted into electric power impulses to drive a motor.
power. he will remove the shields- which hold the aire
‘beams” are well defined channels loaded with radio
energy.
“On,” or more properly “in,” such a beam the
earphones indicate a steady, unending buzz. Straying off to one side or the other, the earphones indicate a (right ordleft of the beam).
broken signal of either dit-da (A) or da-dit (N)
Imagine what would happen if, instead of a radioloaded channel, these radio signals should be cone sufficiently strong
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feeding in the grass roots. During Ma} to pupa and beetle which ¢ to feed on | fruit. After riod egg layil female lays 3t ably in sunn vored plants. to be damage:
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MEAT—Red D8, E8 and F8 points each thi and J8 become pire June 18.
CANNED G As, BS, C8, D good for 10 May 20, Stam KB become go June 20.
SUGAR—8U good indefint ‘Stamp 40 in pounds of can in Book 4 t pounds April
SHOES-—-Sta pires April 3 stamp in Boo Another shoe May L
GASOLINEfor 3 gallc B-1 and C-1 g each; B-2, Cfor 5 gallons
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