Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1944 — Page 18

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PREVIEW OF INVASION

TARTING from scratch, the United States has built up the most powerful air force in the world. No chapter in the history of America’s participation in this global war is brighter than the one now being written by the U. S. Army Air Forces. That branch of the service is just beginning to swing into full action on all fronts, but when the invasion of Europe opens its devastating power will be felt. Much of this power is due to the weapons developed by the USAAF materiel command. These weapons range from mighty bombers to tiny gadgets, but all are the product of American ingenuity and American industry. Some are almost unbelievable. Most of us have seen little of this side of the war. We watch the planes fly over, we read the communiques which tell what our fliers have done, we read articles about the equipment that made it possible. But we have not had the opportunity to see these weapons for ourselves, close up, and most of us want to. » ” » o » 8 THAT IS WHY the Aviation Emphasis Week exhibit which opens tonight on the War Memorial Plaza should be something that everyone in Indianapolis will want to visit. Sponsored jointly by the AAF materiel command and the Weir Cook airport dedication committee, this exhibit will include more than $7,000,000 worth of aviation equipment.

Four of the army’s most modern and most formidable fighter planes, the P-38 Lockheed Lightning, the P-39 Airacobra, the P-41 Warhawk and the P-47 Thunderbolt, will be parked on the plaza. An elaborate equipment display from the air forces great laboratory at Wright field will be supplemented by exhibits of manufacturers, many of them located in Indiana, who are supplying our fliers with the weapons of war. : This exhibit will show how America fights. It will give Indianapolis a preview of invasion. It will show the tools of victory. Don’t miss it.

POST-WAR TRACK ELEVATION

OST South Side residents will agree with J. Ed Burk, veteran Civic club leader, whose letter on the city engineer's post-war track elevation proposal apfRars in the Ioosier Forum today. . As Mr. Burk points out, track elevation has been deferred so-long that many. have “become wearied or just plain disgusted with unfulfilled promises and expectations.” With Mr. Burk, we-hope that it will be different this time. Grade crossings have too long delayed traffic to and retarded development of the South Side, and its residents quite rightly feel that they have not had a “fair shake” with other sections in the distribution of municipal improvements. . Unquestionably a considerable program of public works will be needed to take up the slack in employment during the post-war reconversion period. And we can think of no project more constructive or more deserving than the elimination of the grade crossings that for. years have been a bane and a nuisance-to South Siders. The $27,000,000 proposed for the track elevation program would be money well spent. It should be a “must” in the post-war plans of Indianapolis.

THREE-WAY JURY

HE secretary of labor said recently that all the members of the war labor board—four representing labor, four management, four the public—act in the public interest. Let us see. An article by Fred W. Perkins reports that in the recent dispute among the board members over proposals to consider breaching the Little Steel formula, “the management members have been consulting after each session with representatives of industry, averse to higher wages. Also, after each session the A. F. L. members have been reporting to their superiors; the C. I. 0. members, likewise.” Imagine a trial of a damage suit in which four jurors consulted with the plaintiff every evening and four with the defendant! Ordinarily, when the labor and management members of the WLB are opposed to each other on an issue, the public members side with one group or the other and swing the decision. But this time, because a feud between the two A. F. L. members and the two from the C. L 0., the public members had the devil's own time producing a plan that could command the support of a majority of the membership and at the same time not precipitate a wave of labor troubles. The root of the WLB'’s difficulty is the tripartite makeup of the board. In our opinion the great problems that are constantly engaging the WLB would be better handled by a full complement of public members, with labor and management appearing enly as witnesses and pleaders rather than as pressure groups within the board itself. The idea that representatives of special interests can or will act judicially, without reference to those interests has been thoroughly repudiated by the record.

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"EARLY TRAINING.

A DELAWARE sergeant is given credit for bringing a ; battered Flying Foitress back from Germany by patching up the shattered rudder control cables with bits of cord from his flying suit, : We don’t know the early history of this young man but it’s probably a safe;bet that he was one of ay of American youngsters who learned practical mechanics in his high school days by maintaining a jaloppy on a shoestring budget, with the help of a few pieces of cord, some che , @nd the native

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Agency That Really Regulates

RADIO INDUSTRY representatives who have business before the FCC rate Fly an abler ci most other members and they give him being 50 times as energetic as them all. heading a government regulating agency regulates, whether you like its regulations Next to his energy, the attribute wi Chairman Fly at the top of the heap is fact that he thinks like Roosevelt. He has credit for running his agency closer to the way boss wants it run than any, man in Washington. this be praise, it can also be condemnation, Ever FCC was created it has been suspect, and that has been particularly true in the five years that Fly has been chairman. Through all this turmoil Fly has emerged the winner—up to now. He has been able to get White House backing to stop army, navy and FBI officials from testifying on the grounds that to do so. would give military information to the enemy.

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BUT IN this stalemate a lot of things which should be known about FCC have not come out: : Why did not Chairman Fly give the FBI full access, in its own identification division, to fingerprint records of oceanic radio operators suspected of being Communists and known to be aliens? Did labor union officials force him to keep those records in FCC head-

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quarters, so FBI men would have trouble in processing them? os Were FBI and military and naval intelligence officers denied access to copies of cables from Honolulu to Japan? And what did that have to do with Pearl Harbor? Did the FCC foreign broadcast intelligence service send the navy on a wild goose chase after a phantom Japanese fleet and into a trap? Thus far Chairman Fly has been able to out-talk: the secretaries of war and navy, admirals, generals, heads of other government departments, congressmen and the six other members of his own commission, It is no mean accomplishment for a 46-year-old boy from Seagoville, Tex., even if he is a graduate of Annapolis and Harvard law with government experience as counsel in the anti-trust division-of the

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His Neck's Out Too Far, They Say

IN SPITE of his success thus far, there are those in the radio industry who are now beginning to feel that Chairman Fly has stuck his neck out too far. Congressional investigations of FCC have been notoriously inept and futile and have been tangled in their own private scandals, but the senate has just set the chairman back on. his heels with a terrific slash at his budget for 1945. Fly has a host of enemies in governmeént and private business who would like to see him drawn and quartered... But he also has strong supporters within the radio industry and is said to “dominate” the National Association of Broadcasters, having forced out one presigent of NAB who could not get along with him and dictated election of his successor. Things like this are what makes him FCC’s principal issue. What his enemies hope for most is the election of a Republican congress in 1944, to tear him apart. (Westbook Pegler is on vacation. His column will be resumed when he returns.)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

THE CDVO, starting a drive to

“TRACK ELEVATION PROGRAM IS TIMELY” By J. Ed Burk, 1150 Linden st.

The announcement by our city engineer, Mr. Arthur B. Henry, of plans for an elaborate track elevation program to be studied as a post-war item entailing the expenditure of approximately 27 million dollars is timely; and Messrs. Henry, J. T. Hallett and Harvey Cassady, as well as Mayor Tyndall, are to be commended for their interest in this project. The subject of track eleva~ tion, however, has been “on the griddle” for so long that many of us old-time Civic club workers have become wearied or just plain disgusted with unfulfilled promises and expectations. In addition to Dr. Hemphill, I recall several others who displayed an active interest in the matter, Sot: John F. White, Harry D. Dynes, Edward H. Wischmeyer, John C. Kirch, Al J. Voight, Nicholas Noe, T. E. Barker, Edward Eckstein, E. E. Heller, Jacob Federle, and the late Rob~ ert B. Sloan, the Rev. Peter Killian, Edward F. Dux and John C. Rockstroh. .° Let us hope that the project as developed by the City Engineer and his committee during this post planning period will not be forgotten or pigeon-holed when the post-war world becomes an actuality. ‘s tJ 8 “BONDS PURCHASE NECESSARY SUPPLIES” By Harold J. Apple, Ph. M. 2-¢, Corpus Christi, Tex.

This happens to be my second letter to you during my enlistment time in the U. 8S. navy. This particular letter is for the same purpose as was the one in April of 1943. T am attached to the dispensary at Ward island, naval air technical training center, Corpus

end the kind of loose talk that could be used by the enemy, is going to try to keep women from putting out such talk while they sit in beauty shops getting a _ hair-do or a manicure. If the CDVO can do that, maybe there is a chance that such an educational program could be carried a step further, and women could be taught not only to keep still on military affairs while getting beautified—but just to keep still. Women probably are guilty of more boring, stupid talk while they are getting their hair done than at any other time.

Discuss Faces, Feature by Feature

THEY DISCUSS their faces, feature by feature— and wonder aloud how they would look with their hair flat on top instead of in a pompadour. And, if they are the kind who like to brag a little, they get in some of that to impress the operator with how important they are or how much money they have. And they complain about how tired they are from

and then go into a lengthy discussion of how they hate to sit under the dryer—though they may have been sitting under one once a week for 15 years, and will continue to do so as long as they have the strength to get to a beauty parlor. And all the while, the poor girl who is trying to make them look better, than nature intended has to smile and nod and agree and sympathize, Here's betting that if the CDVO puts some of those “button your lip” posters in beauty salons, the girls who work in them will be in favor of leaving them up along after the war is over. i

To The Point—

MONEY CAN be lost in more ways than won. Put yours in war bonds where it's absolutely safe. * - . PRICES are down it will be much easier to feather love nests. * . .

a great. job of living up to victory through sacrifice. Are you? The Red Cross offers a fine opportunity! * * Le

WHEN A beggar was arrested in Cleveland, police found he had $30,000. After Mr. Morgenthau gets through with him, he'll have something to beg about. . . . : THE TOKYO radio calls Americans yellow. After a few more experiences with our fleet, the Japs will be blue, . ~ ®. . * . . THE HONEYMOON is over when he starts correcting her age by five years in public. § Ls a » »

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| Christi, Tex. My experience with

the men in the hospital and dispensary is one that shall never be forgotten — tales of incidents in Guadalcanal, -the Solomons and Casablanca—as I treated the patients assigned to me. These fellows admire all the medical corps; they feel no sorrow for having to serve their country. These are our American wounded men. War bond. selling seems to be routine to most folks nowadays. I can easily understand why. But, when you see what the money is going for, it creates the desire to help more. It is war bonds, your investments, that purchase the necessary supplies to coinplete the aim of the navy medical corps “to keep as many men at as many guns as many days as possible.” The fellows in my outfit are buy-

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ing bonds, aiding the men. on beds] of illness and still we feel there is more we could do, more to compare with the ones who have given their lives. My time on shore stations is about up, but I look forward to doing my best on the fighting .front. If you can publish parts of this letter it would be fine. Perhaps from the heart of a service fellow these hints cr pleas for the folks back home to buy more bonds would help us save more lives. Firstly, however, we need the prayers of the folks back home.

s 8 =» “GENERATION WILLING TO QUIT TRYING” By Voice In The Crowd, Indianapolis

Forum Fan, there was no hate in my denunciation of the New Deal. I stated clearly that the future would condemn mostly a generation that was willing to quit trying. I do not believe that plain facts “jeopardize a Republican victory,” and I.do not believe that a Republican or any other party victory makes any difference unless we get back to the Constitution. What we | must do this election is to elect a iman of any party that has guts enough to put the country back to a government by law and not by crackpot. Both parties have men who could do it. I am ready to vote for a man of any party who can demonstrate that he can administer ably and justly and lead us to the salvation of the greatest heritage that man ever had. A man can be poor with greater grace than to be a slave to the only end to which the; New Deal can lead us. If you believe that the New Deal has given us anything, let me remind you that the bill is still unpaid and we will have to pay it plus interest and carrying charges. I do remember the soup lines of the early ‘thirties, and I recall

Side Glances—By Galbraith

By R. A, Indianapolis “Be yourself and be it wholly, not piecemeal or half way,” was a motto of Ibsen .. . and Irvin Cobb stood just for that. He was himself, honest, sincere and, above all, not a hypocrite. He had a full life serving humanity. : Now all this religious goose-step-ping makes me sick when'it is used as a cloak to win the good graces of our neighbors or holding down a job. That's real humbug. Let's leave all this goose-stepping to Adolf; he is such an expert at it. _ Christianity ‘comes from within + + « “Do the right thing by others even though they wrong you” Of course, it makes the other fellow feel good when you do him a good turn, but it works miracles on you yourself, One becomes happy and glad to be alive. , ..

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ELSEWHERE, UNDER the head of “Trivia” bh squire notes: “If the stork had been on the beam in stead of flying around .the country like Eleanc Roosevelt, he would have come three days later and the squire would have become a grandfather on hi 50th birthday. Anyway he’s glad he became a grant father before he was 50... . . Being a grandfathe isn't so bad—it's being married to a grandmother worries the squire.” a 3 While calling the roll of the family—two sons and a son-in-law in service—the Scratches reports,

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(History repeats. Augusta, Georgia, 1s the very spc where the squire fought in world war I)"

The Swiss ascend the Jungfrau's peak And yodel for their sweeties, While other nations snarl and hiss, And threat of conflict, freezes, ‘The marrow in our bohes, the Swiss Go right on making cheeses,

"Spring Is Just Around the Corner’

Now who on earth could that

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the same opinion about life as Cobb, | :. but are too timid to express it;| J therefore their whole existence is! i! enslaved. But your message to the) :

world will bear fruit, Irvin Cobb, and take deep roots just like your beloved dogwood tree will because it has fertile soil and its branches will’ sprout and bear great fragrance because of your faith and beHef in the good things of life— truth, honesty and sincerity.

® = = “STOP STRIKES AND GIVE US A HAND"

By Cpl. A. Cottey, Army of the United States, Italy I am writing in regard to all the strikes that are taking place at home now, and please put this in your column. I am one of the boys who is doing battle in Italy, and like the rest of the boys it would be much better at home with our families, I am married and the father of three children, but I gave them up, for Uncle. Sam needed me; and when I read of a guy striking for 2 more cents on the hour, it makes me feel that the folks back home don’t realize what we are going through. It slows up the things we need so badly to get this thing over with in a hurry; and after all, you guys are making three times our pay and don’t look death in the face day and night. " So, let's get right on the home front. Stop strikes and give us a hand! A LJ » » “LETTER 18 . REFRESHING” By A Readér, Indianapolis I want to express my approval of Mr. Quill’s letter in the Forum of

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Congress Heard, and Heeded

A GREAT CRY went up throughout the g Congress heard, and heeded, For 30 years the in come tax regulations had been complex. But in two mont} and means committee confusion. Probably the job even more quickly, for the ‘basic law have not been changed. Many But if the pill is still bitter, the thicker, At least the privilege of doing it the eas) way is more extended to persons making up to $5000 a year, And the suggested exemption schedule of $500 pe! person may have far-reaching effects that the ways and means committee didn’t think of. For it make: childlessness, or even parenthood of a single offsp an expensive luxury for income tax purposes. Under the present schedule, a couple gets $1200 exemption, and $350 for each minor child. But with exemptions of $500 apiece, a childless couple would be out $200 exemption, and $50 loser with only one. Not until there are two youngsters does the family start cashing in, with $2000 exemption‘as against $1900 at present. And the prolific parents of 10 would save $1300 on the return. It may be that, with a stroke of the pen, the ways and means committee has banished all fears of a declining birth rate.

Sales Tax Gains in Favor

Plenty of people in Washington have found plenty of reasons against a sales tax. Pressure groups of one another have helped them in the search.

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