Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1944 — Page 10

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Indianapolis conscious of it. air development. The dinner rededicating Municipal airport in the name of Col. Weir Cook, world war 1 ace who was killed inthe service of his country in the Southwest Pacific a year ago, brings to Indianapolis tonight most of the key men in the aviation industry, as well as a large number of army, navy and air forces leaders, headed by eight generals. The dinner in the Scottish Rite cathedral will be the tribute of Col. Cook’s home city and his friends throughout the nation to a man who played a great part in the advancement of American airpower. The present stature of this industry, which he helped to foster, has been shown by the air forces materiel command exhibit on the War Memorial Plaza the last five days.

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Give 14ght and the People Will Pind Their Own Way

A GREAT DAY FOR INDIANAPOLIS

WO EVENTS today center the attention of the aviation world on Indianapolis. Both events, also, will make s heritage and bright future in

TODAY, ALSO, ceremonies will mark the

of the 50,000th liquid-cooled aircraft engine manufactured in Indianapolis by the Allison Division of the General Motors Corporation. The No. 1 Allison engine will be flown here from the air forces laboratory at Wright Field and presented to company officials in exchange for engine No. 50,000, which will come off the assembly line today.

Fifty thousand Allison engines have made

dous contribution to United Nations airpower. It may well be said that they represent the difference between defeat - and ultimate victory. This city takes pride in what the men and women of Allison have done and it is confident of continued accomplishment in the days and years to come. This is a great day for aviation in Indianapolis. And even greater days lie ahead. :

THE SMEAR AGAINST CONGRESS ABOUT the time Congressman Martin Dies was on the

radio Sunday evening charging a plot to

discredit the congress of the United States, Dr. Max Lerner was on an Indianapolis platform doing his best to prove that Mr. Dies’ charge was true.

Dr. Lerner, an editorial writer for the left

How?

By their refusal to accept without question and without debate, the proposals of the President regarding votes for soldiers and subsidies for butter, by disagreeing with the President on taxation, and by discussing and examining his operation of manpower control and rationing. Whether or not, as Mr. Dies says, there is a “plot” to discredit congress, this diatribe of Dr. Lerner’s is a very familiar story—one that has been repeated again and again with minor variations by a little group of self-styled “liberals” who have convinced themselves that it is somehow un-democratic, and even Fascist, for congress to disagree with the President or to refuse to obey his orders without question. Quite the opposite is true, of course. If congress behaved as Dr. Lerner advocates, then, indeed, we would be well on the way to fascism in America. We are grateful .to the Indianapolis Open Forum— which has offered a platform this winter to very widely varied opinion—for providing this unusually apt example of the open criticismyand free speech of which Dr. Lerner so earnestly disapproves. And we are partly in agreement with one of Dr. Lerner’s own statements, to wit: “Pearl Harbor did not destroy the semi-Fascists in this country—they simply went underground for the | duration.” Not all of them went underground, Doctor. them are still making speeches on public forums.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT?

IT IS hard to see why Marion county commissioners and | Auditor Ralph Moore should be disturbed, as they were

reported to be in a news story yesterday, over

tion adopted by the county council turning over to the -tate treasury some $300,000 in Marion county school funds.

On the face of it, the council's action seems to be sound | and business-like. The county is required by law to pay the state 4 per cent interest on this money unless it is turned in to the state treasury. There is now some $1,700,000 in the Marion county fund, of whiéh approximately

Price in Marion County, 4 cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 18 cents

-wing New York newspaper PM, sometimes described as ‘‘the uptown edition of the Daily Worker,” by very direct inference accused a majority of congress of treason. They are, he said, aiding the axis nations, prolonging the war and killing thousands of young soldiers.

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In Washington By Peter Edson on © WASHINGTON, March 28— tory may have been changed one

day back in 1942, when Dr. dore P. Dykstra set out Washington with 156 of

potatoes and 20 pounds of corn. The story is a classic. :

wanted to eat the corn and ‘taters en route to China. They were his most precious pieces of ° 4 When he got on the train at Washington, he wanted to take his groceries right into the Pullman with him, and he almost had a fight about it with the porter. Finally the seven sacks of potatoes and corn were shoved into the upper berth with him, as a compromise.

All Grand Champion Spuds

GOING AROUND South Africa. the ship was wrecked. Somehow Dr. Dykstra hung onto his baggage, and it was rescued with him. Thereafter, Dr. Dykstra and the potatoes and the corn were flown across Africa, across the Middle East, across India and over the hump to China. : By the time the potatoes and corn got to Chungking, they were probably the most expensive potatoes and corn in the whole world. The 155 pounds of potatoes represented the grand champion potatoes of 54 different varieties raised in the United States, and the 20 pounds of corn were the best hybrid seed corn that had been grown in the middlewest that year. Dr. Dykstra, who was a U. 8. department of agriculture specialist at the Beltsville, Md., experiment station, had taken this seed stock to China at the request of the Chinese government to the United States government for the loan of an expert who could give them advice on how to increase their food supply.

Perfect Example of Inexpensive Goodwill

DR. DYKSTRA had brought his best advice with him and he planted his advice. He harvested two crops, watching them carefully, noting how each variety grew, which resisted disease best, which thrived and gave the greatest yield. Then he cabled the United States for 100 pounds of four varities of seed. He'll plant them this spring. It may take 50 or 100 years before the end of this story can be written, when the seed has multiplied by the Nth degree and an effective famine relief crop is available for China’s 400 million people. But the story is begun now as the perfect example of how for very little money the relationships between China and the United States can be improved through an extension of what is now called the good-neighbor policy, to other than Latin American countries. Financed by grants totaling $1,384,000 from the President's emergency funds, this good neighbor aid to China has been extended ever since the United States was forced into the war. Pearl Harbor stranded some 1500 Chinese students in this country. Chinese government contributions aided 200, U. S. government money aided 300 more. These students will be the “seed” who will take back to China the ideas from which she has been cut off for the last five years,

We've Sent 30 Technical Experts

THAT WAS more or less of a beginning. Six professors of Chinese universities have been brought to the United States to spend a year in this country writing books, studying U. S. post-war planning and similar subjects. They will be succeeded by six others, this June. But China has wanted technical assistance and has asked for 30 experts. So far, 21 have been sent—seven agricultural experts, a long distance telephone engineer, three professors of engineering, two serum and vaccine manufacturers, a steel producer, a machine shop expert, two managers of small town industrial co-ops to aid China’s 2000 village industries, four information specialists to teach factual reporting. Among the. agricultural men there have been a veterinarian, a range forage man and a stock breeder, to improve the strain and performance of pack-ani-mals, including 25,000 camels on the Chinese-Turke-stan trade route to Central Asia. It al comes under the heading of improving cultural relations by applying the good neighbor policy to the rést™of the world.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation. His column

will be resumed when he returns.)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

AT A MEETING in Washington where the problem of juvenile delinquency was discussed, Miss Charlotte Carr of the war manpower commission brought up the subject of the young war workers whose - “educational opportunities are being sacrificed to the war production program.” “The country has an obligation to these boys and girls,” she said. “The nation should be just as concerned with plans for their readjustment to school life and their occupational retraining as it is with the retraining of veterans.” In another city a judge, after passing sentence on a young war worker who got mixed up with a. gang of juvenile delinquents, lectured the boy's father for

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letting him buy an automobile out of his high wages—

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Judge Has Realistic Attitude

IT LOOKS as though the judge has a more realistic attitude toward the problem of young war workers than the woman who said, “The country has an obligation to these boys and girls.” Isn't it rather, as the judge pointed out, the parents who have an obligation to the kids who quit school to earn high wages which they aren't likely to be able to duplicate in peace time? If they see that the kids put a good part of what they earn into an educational fund for the future, the

$1,400,000 has been invested in real estate mortgages. |

These mortgages will not be affected by the resolution.

The average bank, in these times, cannot afford to pay

4 per cent interest on the money it reinvests.

cult to believe that the county can operate any more profit- |

ably than an efficient commercial institution. the money is reinvested, it represents a loss to At present interest rates, the county can borrow it needs at a rate of 73 of 1 per cent without

side Indianapolis; it need not pay 4 per cent for the

privilege.

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, nation won't have such a big obligation to these boys land girls. They, with their parents’ guidance, will

have taken care of their own futures. And in the meantime they'll be far better off living

| on a fraction of what they earn, and planning for the

future, than if they had spent everything they earned on cars and good times. We talk glibly today about what the country owes this group and that group. But it is usually better for human beings to be made to feel they owe something to their country and to themselves.

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wo. CRYING in the movies seems foolish.

J ~ + : ight get ing hat. Addison J. Parry, president of the council, believes The Suub lente 41 110k: Might g80's ney soving |

that the county should get out of the banki estate business. We agree with him, and w an excellent time to start doing it.

ng and real ! e believe this is

The objections raised by County Attorney Victor R. Jose Jr. seem to be largely technical—a few appraisal fees

of $6 already paid in, able adjustments could be made on the fees

some 20 applications pending. Suitand if the ap-

plications are dropped, the prospective borrowers—if they

are sound risks—can readily obtain their loan

vate institutions, where such loans belong.

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Unless there is somethirig about this fund that has not

vet been brought into the open, we cannot should be opposition to the council's action. s wrong with it?., . . 7 .

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ONE SURE sign of spring is when a clerk looks

up as if he wonders who let a customer in.

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UTOPIA: Where the police run down speeders as fast as speeders run down pedestrians, * * * AN OHIO judge suggests longer courtships. Longer marriages wouldn't be a bad idea, either, . . » * WITH SKIRTS as short as they are, the overhead expense of Easter bonnets might be considered almost useless. - es . * . J ‘YANKS on Los Negros island head for Salami plantation. Sounds like it might be cut and dried. '

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

“PECULIAR REASONING IN MAHOLM’'S LETTER" By H. 8., Indianapolis There is some peculiar reasoning in Mr. Maholm'’s letter in Tuesday's Times. Remove the rationing of gasoline and, presto, the people who now patronize the black market will become law-abiding. It seems that they buy unrationed gasoline only because they do not like restrictions; it is a matter of principle, as the burglar does his burgling only because he does not like the law against it. One could laugh such arguments off if behind them were not the tendency to embarrass the administration for political reasons. » » : 2 “THAT'S.ALL LABOR ASKS” By T. A. Casey, 2832 E. New York st. Just a few lines in regards to an article I read in the Union News.... I only hope J. Q. Public will bear with me, not as a man with means, or.a man with a college degree, as I have neither, just an ordinary workingman, who still speaks and understands the English language. This article reported a speech

{delivered by Mr. H. W. Prentis Jr. jof the Armstrong Cork Co. and

the former head of the National Association of Manufacturers. I, a workingman, cannot agree on any of this man’s policies. Who is this man, Mr. Prentis, to demand such drastic changes against the workers of this nation? . For close to a century the yoke of slavery was around the neck of our American people in the way of cqnditions and wages they were being paid. Yes, Mr, Prentis, I'll agree with you, labor has come of age, but remember labor was an orphan child for many years. This you cannot deny. Until they got the opportunity to

of their own choosing. Thanks to the man that made it possible, the very able and distinguished man by name, F. D. Roosevelt. It might pay you to meet him, he may help you out on your program. Big business is starting early to blast him up one side and down the other, but he takes it with a smile. The years of 1932-1936-1940 have proven it. You may say this is your year! Church isn't out until they're through- singing! Yes, they may change a good donkey for a jackass! Who knows, anything can and may happen. It is very evident this man, Mr. Prentis Jr., didn’t learn his business the hard way; it was handed to

speak, through their representatives

(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 set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

him on a silver platter. -I came to that conclusion after reading his article, it is pretty hard to take. He even wants all the good labor legislation abolished and go back to old slave conditions. Those conditions are out and out to stay. 1f this man had his way, God -help the poor working people of this country. Allow me to ask this question, where does wealth come from if it isn't from the mills, {mines, and the production lines {throughout this nation, and the 'workers who make it possible for !big business to make large profits? {Don’t you think that labor isn't | justified in making an honest living for themselves and their families? That's al] they ask! In closing, I don't think big business or the people will find they are being crucified just because they won't do your bidding. The American people pulled out of tough conditions before and they are smart enough to do it again. - ” . “TEACHERS PLACED AT DISADVANTAGE"

M. Dale Williams, President Classroom Teachers Association At 4:15 p. m., Tuesday, March 28th, myself and other representatives of the Classroom Teachers’ As-

sociation will meet with the Indianapolis board of school commissioners to present our salary request and recommendations for the school year of 1944-45. Although your comments in the editorial “Salaries in the Public Schools” referred to a rival organization and to requests and recommendations that we cannot approve, all teachers of Indianapolis are grateful for your editorial of the 123d in which you spoke in favor

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of salary adjustments for teachers. As president of our organisation I wish to speak our grateful thanks, Because the board seems to desire a system under which no commitments are made for more than a year, it becomes necessary each year for teachers’ organizations to submit plans for the subsequent year’s salaries. This places teachers at a disadvantage inasmuch as the newspaper publicity relating to adjustments has been misleading to the public; first it has tended to give the impression that teachers are never satisfied with their salaries, and, second, that salary adjustments have never been munificient, This is, of course, no fault of the press, but is a natural result of the manner -in which teachers’ salaries are handled by the board. After it became necessary to control an otherwise unlimited inflation and while living costs were on the gradual incline, the board suddenly adopted a plan of determining the salary on a calendar year basis to take effect on the January following the official action of the previous spring. The salaries to be determined by the board this spring are not effective until January of 1945, and no assurance is given that they will be effective for more than six months because next spring the board, could revert to their former plan of adopting salaries from September to June, which is the actual school year. From 1927 through the school year of 1930-31 an automatic salary schedule was in effect that automatically made adjustments for increased experience and training, thus making it unnecessary for teachers to make their annual “begging” missions to the board. Due to the. depression, the board

schedule which is theoretically still effective and annually they “recognized. that an emergency existed” and suspended the schedule for a single additional year. Indianapolis teachers have seen one kind of an emergency replaced by the opposite kind, yet I predict that prior to May 1st the board will again observe that “an emergency exists” and suspend the schedule for the fourteenth consecutive time, Our ‘organization cannot hope to see teachers compensated in any way for the suffering that is past, but our request on Tuesday will be an effort to put their current earnings on the level where they would have been {f-they had been properly restored to pre-depression levels before a war emergency and inflationary prices began, Our request will insist upon a return to the determination of salaries upon a school year basis from September to June and abrogation of the present policy of determining salaries for only a six-month period and that being done more than eight months in advance. H One of the points of our program will ask for a more fair treatment of veterans of past and present Wars. . tJ » “ASK OUR BOYS IN THE FOXHOLES” By Disgusted, Indianapolis What do we think of you, Disillusioned of Tipton? Ask our in the foxholes. Ask parents who skimped and used their last ounce of credit to bring their children through the depression without any federal aid to lose them in war. Ask laborers who stuck to their lowpay Jobs and are still working for 50- cents an hour or less. -How do you plan to get your money after you refuse to work? If cases like yours were properly settled we would have one big step toward correcting juvenile delinquency. Youth might pity you and adopt your selfish attitude. :

DAILY THOUGHTS

Behold, how great sa matter a little fire kindleth!—James 3:3.

“recognized that an emergency | existed” and suspended that sched-| : fms. ule. Through the years of recovery | “Sm the board failed to repeal the|: P

i and consultant to the state p division, has put it on a scientific basis .

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current school year, = : In this survey, Dr. Fay uses a system of stabilized statistics. Being personally neither stable nor statistical, we're a little vague about the operation, but it is supposed to be very scientific and accurate. It goes something like this: Dr, Fay has his students

“| listen to all the conversations about them—they love

it—and keep a record of the topics discussed. The

§ | results gathered in each little eavesdropper’s notebook

are averaged every day and this continues until the group average reaches a constant figure,

Students Don't Seem to Change Much.

THIS SOUNDS like a lot of trouble to go to in order to find out what people are talking about—it’s much simpler to live on a party line. But Dr. Fay thinks it's worth the bother—what his students think lair included in the report—and we'll take his word or . The current results parallel closely those for the eight previous years, so it must be a fairly accurate index. Proving, also, that students don't change much from year to year, which is what we'd suspected all along. | : The results are assembled in two tables, one for men and one for women, and each contains ten subse Ject classifications and a miscellaneous catch-all, which doesn't rate very high. The subjects are myself, yourself, individuals of the opposite sex, ine dividuals of the same sex, organized amusements, college studies, campus affairs, war news, news (none war and non-campus), cultural subjects and good o miscellaneous, ,

Pretty Fascinating Subject

AS MIGHT have been suspected without benefit of statistics, the average student finds himself pretty fascinating and devotes 20 per cent of his conversa« tion to that subject, That figure applies both to men and women (shattering a fond superstition) and probe ably would have gone higher if listeners didn't show a tendency to drift away or interrupt if you talk about yourself more than one-fifth of the time. Second subject listed is “You.” And alas for what we've always heard about the “you wonderful you” technique of women, the figure, 11 per cent, is the same for both sexes. Or maybe the college girls just haven't learned yet. vier If “I” is the most interesting subject, the individuals of the opposite sex are a close second, at least when you are in college. This classification scored 19 per cent for each sex. At DePauw, the boys are just as interested in the girls as the girls are ih the boys, a happy state of affairs which doubtless accounts for the number of happy marriages that get their start on the Greencastle campus. Individuals of the same sex—there’s no mystery there—account for 9 per cent of the campus chit-chat (more, probably, during rush season) of both men and women. The same figure applies to campus affairs.

Girls More Interested in Studies

GETTING AWAY from personalities and sex (reluctantly), it appears that the girls are more inter ested in their studies, or at least they talk about them more; their figure on this classification is 13 per cent against 0 per cent for the men. They also hold the edge on cultural topics, with 2 per cent against 1 per cent for the men, . On the other hand, men are more in the mood to be amused and are more concerned about the war— after all, women aren't being drafted yet—for the result on organized amusements is 7 per cent for the | men, 5 per cent for the women; on war news, 5 per cent for the men, 3 per cent for the women. Obviously the war doesn't encroach greatly on the traditional campus interests, despite the fact that most of the men are, or soon will be, in the armed services, News of a non-war and non-campus nature ace counts for 3 pet cent of the talk of each sex, miscellaneous 2 per cent. All of which is very interesting, Dr. Fay. But don't students ever talk about the weather?

On the Hour’

By James Thrasher

WASHINGTON, March 28— Every hour on the hour, and frequently in between, the German radio now broadcasts reports of progress of allied bombers over Nazi territory. Secrecy is gone and with it efforts to prevent the bombers from riding the domestic radio beams. Bombings have become a part of daily life, like the weather. And the broadcasts, like weather reports, give warning of the storm of retribution that surges day and night across the land of the master race. ' Americans who recently came from Germany on a prisoner exchange tell us that the first six months of their internment allied bombings strengthened, rather than weakened, Nazi civilian morale. They were speaking of morale in Baden-Baden, not Berlin or Hamburg. But even if this bulwarked morale does prevail throughout Germany, it is unlikely that Germans can continue to accept bombings as casually as they do the weather.

Confusion Must Be Mounting

THERE MUST be tremendous confusion in the wake of these bombings, in addition to destruction. The confusion must mount with every raid, however high the morale. A reading of excerpts from Swedish and smuggle German newspapers, collected by OWI, indicates that.

government and relocations that follow reported bombings. There is inference of a smoldering undercurrent of unrest in the accounts of new regulations and increasing arrests. There is a card system for those who must stay in bombed cities and work, another for those permitted to leave. If an evacuee’s house or apartment remains intact it is requisitioned to shelter the homeless. And the evacuee is not always-welcome elsewhere. y

German People Know the Cure BERLINERS extra fations because of

} RECEIVED bOyS| the bombings, since “Berlin is the heart of Germany

and of the New Europe of the future.” But that isn’t must comfort to the people of Frankfurt who have also been bombed. : : These are only a few. samples of a few stories from inside Germany. We don’t .gloat over -them. But we can be glad, even for the civilian Germans’ sake, that life under Hitler grows more intolerable. The German people know the cure. Until they affect it, they can expect the bombs and the dis-

So They Say—

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