Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1944 — Page 16

[he Indianapolis Times PAGE 16 Thubsday, March 30, 104 ROY W. HOWARD President Editor. (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

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‘Member of United Press,

THERE IS NO OTHER WAY AY-BY-DAY attrition among our foot-soldiers, and the possibility of fearfully larger casualty lists in the more ambitious campaigns to come, have confronted the army with the necessity for bearing down harder on young men previously deferred as necessary to vital war industry. That this decision will work hardships, on industry as well as on individuals, there is no doubt. The hardships must be accepted. There is no other way. This, as any veteran of Tarawa or Salerno or Cassino can tell you, is not a war that can be fought comfortably. The ugly though glorious facts of the campaigns fought to date are almost certain to be magnified many times when the big push against the continent begins. The gravity with which the high command regards the recent failure of the draft to meet its quotas, and the dangerous rise in the average age of our troops, is underlined by the recent drastic decision to divert some 36,000 trainees from the air forces to the ground forces. Our air personnel, it develops, has kept not only abreast but ahead of the demands on it, in spite of severe losses, while the need of infantrymen with spring in their legs and keenness in their eyes has been mounting. : In eight extra-crucial war industries, deferments for scientists and others of 26 and under who are provably unspareable will still be permitted, if not actually encouraged. Other industries, aside from urgent exceptions that may be allowed here and there, must make shift, even if the result is a falling off in production of some war items. The farms, too, will certainly have to find ways and means of getting’ along without many of the thousands of field-hardened young men under 26 who have been deferred heretofore. In the next few moriths America must come closer to a realization of the meaning of total war.

MAJOR AUSTIN'S RESOLUTION -

“I'LL never be a smug Vermonter again,” Maj. Edward L. Austin wrote to his father, the senior senator from

Vermont. Maj. Austin made this resolution after seeing the tankdestroyer battalion which he commands in action on the American beachhead in Italy. There were real cowboys and real Indians in the outfit. There were also boys from the . Bronx, State-of-Mainers, Pennsylvania factory workers, and lads from Midwestern farms. In its first action against enemy tanks, the battalion took a heavy toll of Tigers and Mark IV’s. This played.a major part in stopping the big Nazi counter-attack of midFebruary. It seems likely that there are thousands of American soldiers who, consciously or otherwise, have taken a vow similar to Maj. Austin’s. Most of us have a bit of the “smug Vermonter” in us, no matter what part of the country we hail from. The average American (like the average person of any nationality) sticks pretty close to home and his own kind in his thinking, however much he may have traveled. Generally speaking, the southerner still distrusts the damyankee, the Brooklyn native looks down his nose at the farm boy. The army affords a wonderful opportunity to get over such insular attitudes. Dodging the same bullets, sharing the same ditch, facing the same flak in a bomber teaches tolerance. When men live the same life and face the same dangers, they begin to judge edch other according to char-

of their civilian salaries. There are many, of course, whose ingrained prejudices will not be touched by any of the factors. small minority of service men bring out of military life less

rejoicing.

ing our peacetime readjustment.

strifes.

toward the common good.

AS EXPECTED

HE Democrats won in the second congressional distric

days would have been: “The Dutch have taken Holland.”

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of soldiers who keep finding their way into the news. They

to Cap Bon. Almost all

ugh three years of heat, cold, sand, mud.

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acter, rather than accent, religion, education, or the size

But if only a

prejudice than they took into it, there can still be cause for

WE ARE going to need tolerance and unselfishness durThe common purpose of war has not stilled our economic and religious and racial

The returning veterans are going to be a great force in our civilian life. Their solidarity can work great good or great harm, depending upon how it is organized and directed. It does not seem too much to hope that there may be enough men like Maj. Austin who have lost that ‘smug Vermonter” attitude to influence the veterans and the country to work less toward selfish and sectional aims, and more

in Oklahoma. An-appropriate remark in pre-Hitlerian

FP HERE is a relatively small .force of New Zealanders with the allied armies in Italy, but they are the kind

fought the Germans.at Cassino in bitter, hand-to-hand “fighting, They and the Indians flanked the Mareth Liné

when Rommel momentarily stalled Montgomery in his drive toward Tunisia. They fought all the way from El Alamein

; the original members of this New Zealand outfit have become casualties. But there must still be some of them who fought the rearguard action in the h retreat from Greege, and battled the Nazi parapers on Crete. Except for two or three months in 3 after Crete, they have been fighting ever since,

Reflections By John W. Hillman

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assailed Vice President Garner as a “poker-playing, whisky-drink-ing, evil old man” has there been

among the Knights of the Bob Tailed Flush and the - Amalga~ mated Poker Players of America. - “In the words of the crapshooters,. things have come to a ‘ pretty pass,” said one leading - member of the poker fraternity. - “Our cards are on the table,

‘| the chips are down; and we're going to play, er, I| mean demand, a showdown. They can't do this fo)

us!” said another. “We're in this to a finish, and

draw to an inside straight—if that’s possible.” The cause of these outbursts, which were re-

echoed wherever in this city free men (and some | *

married ones, as well) sit in their shirt-sleeves and hope to catch another ace, was the raid Tuesday night on the room in which John K. Jennings, state director of the: war manpower commission, was éntertaining six friends at a friendly game of poker— if, indeed, poker ever can be said to be friendly.

All Studying Applied Mathematics

IT WAS a full house, for around the table studying the mathematical probabilities of drawing to a three-card flush were the state labor commissioner and his assistant, the president of the state federation of labor, an official of the C. I. O, a triple-A man (and the “A” doesn’t stand for aces) and another—, all upright citizens, This game has been going on at odd moments during the seven years that Mr. Jennings has lived in room 602 at the Claypool. It never has bothered anyone, except possibly a few wives who have wondered why those labor and manpower conferences lasted so late. And that it was a friendly game is attested by .the fact that the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O., like the lion and the lamb, could sit down together and by the even more significant fact that the host was losing. In short it was just the same kind of a social evening that goes on in thousands of homes and several clubs that we could name, but won't—we might want to go back some time—on Saturday night and other evenings when good fellows get together, after explaining to their wives that the Fall Creek Sand & Gravel association is having an important board meeting. Or perhaps some good Democrats gathering for a new deal,

Started Out as a Quiet Evening

BUT WHAT started out as a quiet evening of 25-cent limit poker ended up in more excitement than there has been in the Claypool since the WAC murder—by the way, Chief Beeker, has anyone solved that yet?—or since the night one of the boys held a nine-high straight flush against three aces, a kingjack full house, a club flush and a hopeful straight— with nothing wild but the losers, The excitement was caused by the arrival of four local gendarmes armed with a warrant for the arrest of one Stewart Donnelly, hereinafter to be referred to as “the little man who wasn’t there.” The warrant was based on an affidavit made out by Patrolman Ray Peak, one of the raiders, In the affidavit, it is stated that on March 21— where were YOU on the night of March 21, 1944?— Patrolman Peak lived up to his name by mounting a stepladder and peering through the transom of room 602. The warrant further states that the transom Peaker saw several men playing cards and that he saw and heard bets made and saw money won and lost.

Martyr for Embattled Poker Players

IN THE words of Mr. Jennings, the police arrived accompanied by sound effects: “The first thing we heard was the crashing blow of a 20-pound sledge hammer on the door which was smashed open. The officers came in so fast and scooped up the cards and money that we didn’t have a chance to get out of our chairs.” The seven poker players were hustled to the station, where Mr. Jennings was charged with “keeping a gambling house”—in view of the report on his financial standing in the game, that’s apparently all he was keeping. Asked to post a cash bond, he refused (“I'll play these”) and proclaimed his willing ness to become a martyr for the world's embattled poker players. Mr. Jennings also took a stand on constitutional grounds. Of room 602, he says: “That's my home and has been for seven years and under fhe constitution it is my castle, inviolate. I'll see if a man hasn't a right to have a card game in his own home without the police breaking in.” You're called, Chief Beeker. And, in poker-playing circles, you'd be surprised at what you're being called.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation. His column

will be resumed when he returns.)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

Holyoke college. His prediction

school is “uneducated.” the war will never go back to school. and went to college during the war years. The army teaches him discipline, with.

He'll See a Lot of the World :

t nically while he is in the service.

knowing what war means.

get jobs and marry.

them,

got thé schooling.

So They Say—

air forces convalescent training ‘chief.

NOT... SINCE John L. Lewis

f - 5 much wrath and indignation |

we're going to make the ‘world safe for those ‘who ;

“WE ARE liable to have a generation of uneducated ‘men and educated women in the post-war world,” recently declared Dr. Roswell Gray Ham, president of Mt.

is probably sound, if he means to imply that the girl who has four years of college credit is “educated” and the young man who went into the army as soon as he finished high . For a lot of young men who had their education interrupted by

But, perhaps the young man, in reality, will be better educated than the girl who stayed at home

And he has to learn to get along with whatever outfit he is put Instead, the college girl can choose friends.

AND, THE young man, if he is intelligent to begin with, stands a good chance of learning a lot tech.

‘He'll probably get to see a lot of the world, too, while in service—and see it from a more realistic viewpoint than he would through the eyes of a tourist. Also, we can't forget that the young man in |* service is in on the biggest event of his lifetime, He's part of it—while the girl who is spending those same years on a college campus really has no way of

So, the young men who come back at the war's end may not be an “uneducated” generation—even it they don't continye-their schooling, but instead

College girls should be impressed now with the fact that there are all kinds of ways of becoming educated—and that going to college is just one of

If not, we are going to have some unhappy mar-

riages when the “educated” girls marry “uneducated” boys—and never let the boys forget who it was that:

THE' DEBT of disability should be paid in the currency of opportunity. —Lt.-Col, Howard A. Rusk,

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. : : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

“PARKING METERS CAN BENEFIT CITY” By Leigh Winters, Distributor for M. H. Rhodes, Ine.

Your paper of March 20 carried an article relative to “parking meters” and my presentation of same, to the cities of Indianapolis and Louisville. I now request that you will allow me space for certain details that were omitted and correct impressions that might have resulted from the article. , In August, I spent several days in Indianapolis, surveying and checking the abnormal traffic and parking conditions, same resulting from your, rapidly increasing population, © I returned several times, checking and rechecking and two months later, requested that I be allowed to meet with the council and give them a report on my survey. I appeared and the members listened to my report and then at that meeting Mr. R C. Dauss was delegated to make further inquiries, especially for information from comparable cities having parking meters. Letters were sent to several cities -and I understand that most favorable reports were received, ’ 1, at this meeting, stated to the council that I was also working in Louisville, that the number of meters available was limited and that it was a case of “first come, first served.” a I have made the same statement to the board of aldermen in Louisville, and will state that parking meters are receiving very serious consideration in that city. I had never met Mr. Dauss until the meeting and have never met ‘|him excepting at later council meetings in your city hall, I have phoned him and hoped that the sub-

cal football.

ject would be decided one way or the other, but I have and intend, regardless of results, to try and keep parking meters from being a politi-

Indianapolis can be greatly benefited by parking meters, both as to parking conditions and taxpayers. The reports received from such cities as Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Newark, N. J., Denver, Seattle, Memphis and the many other cities having defense plants and army posts, and thousands of foreign cars using the streets, taking up parking spaces for hours at a

(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.)

to the streets’ maintenance or city

be given serious consideration, especially when parking meters can be installed on a trial period, without one cent cost to the city treasury. sn #” “MANY REALLY GOOD MOVIES”

By a Terre Haute Father, Terre Haute,

policing, etc, all of these most] favorable reports should certainly]

doesn’t that seem a little funny when after all some of the best fights we have seen were back in our school days? I don't recall any being caused by a movie. Smoking, that's rather silly, too, since we surely see more of it on the streets than in any motion pictures. Now about the nude, in what picture or theater, did you see a nude? Are you ‘sure you didn't see it at an art gallery or in a magazine? . My mother raised a large family of boys and taught us right and wrong at home. She didn't ask anyone to rack their brains in seeing that we were raised right, as you say you are doing. Our mother didn't send us to clubs and the movies to get rid of us, so we wouldn't interfere with her social life. None of us appeared in court saying we received crime ideas from the movies. I have my doubts, Mrs, South, if you know of a single case {yourself where a crime record was caused by a picture show, As a rule, you say, you don't go to shows. Why don't you read The Times movie reviews and then when one of the good ones plays your neighborhood theater, relax from your social duties and go see it? Don't forget to take your children, if you have any, as I am sure it

In the March 21st Form column, Mrs. South of Terre Haute decided she has found the answer to child delinquency. No, it couldn't be caused in the home, by lack of good parent training. She discovered it is the movies that are the “root of evil.” : Since she said it would be impossible to do away with the movies,

pictures.

babies are fed the right foods.

drinking, smoking and the nude.

time and not contributing one cent

she wants them to show educational As I understand it, there are a large number of educational films available to schools and most schools that want them make good use of the service. Maybe she would also like for the grocery to do away with selling meat: and potatoes and just handle baby foods. That way the mothers would be sure their

I will admit that there are some poor pictures, but also there are many really good ones. But, Mrs. South, you don't go to see any of the better types; you pick the blood and thunder ones in which you see murders, wars, fightirig, gambling,

Just how do you intend to keep the first two from your children when they reall the front pages of our daily papers? As for fighting,

(will be a treat for them to have an {evening of entertainment. That is {the main object of the theaters, and {let us educate our children at home and in the schools. . w . “EXPLOSIONS AREN'T VERY CONSTRUCTIVE” By Mrs. H. W,, Indianapolis You sure are & brave person, Hugh M. Quill. All these thousands of miles between you and falling bombs. I wonder if you remember that when this war started, our soldiers had to train with wooden guns and sticks and even house down-spouts for machine guns?

kind of equipment?

to put. a patch.

Side Glances—By Galbraith -

I can see the logic of

» are_soldiers for whom we can all be thankful,

THE TRUTH 18 we dare n ; have depression

the end of war. Explosions like

human beings? s = 8» “EDITORIAL SERVED ‘A GREAT NEED” i By Arthur G. Shull, 3111 E. 48th st.

your paper of March 23, 1044.

adjustments in Indianapolis- school teachers.

appears in our local papers.

stating the true facts.

. DAILY THOUGHTS

How excellent is Thy loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings: ~Psalm 36:7.

Our Hoosiers By Daniel M. Kidney -

Just how long could we have held off an attack of bombs with that

England has been taking the bombings for years, that, but for the grace of God and our President's strategy (or in simpler terms just plain bluffing) our own beautiful country, would have been torn up, and you probably would not even have a pair of pants on which

the decision about Eire, and-it no doubt will save a lot of lives and ‘hasten

yours aren't very constructive, even if it did make you feel better Don't you think England's people would appreciate a good night's sleep without fear of having their homes blown up, or is your hatred so strong that you can't feel for other

I read your editorial on “The Salaries in the Public Schools” in

I wish to express my personal appreciation for your open and frank statements concerning the need for

salaries for our It

isn’t often that such an. editorial

You may be sure that it served a great need, and that the 2000 teach~ ers in Indianapolis appreciate your

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WASHINGTON, March 30-= Although he builds up a case for the defeat of nt for a fourth term, Rep, Earl Wile ° son (R. Ind) is not so that will happen he says in his Washington news letter this week, He is certain, however, that © P.D. R. has lost his grip on the “present congress and that it will be further weakened in the next. congress, whether he is re-elected to the presidency or not.

“More than a possibility exists that F. D. R. may.

be re-elected for a fourth term,” Mr. Wilson wrote his constituents, “and as sure as doom he will have trons

, which will not give him the unquéstioned power he demands for himself. “If that happens, America may not have seen her darkest days. ‘

Describes Congressional Revolt

“BEHAVIOR HERE indicates that more and more members, if they hope to keep their seats in congress, will have to lean away from trying to please the President and toward trying to make the people's voice heard. , “It has taken a long time but every worm, like every road, has its turning.”

to oppose the Roosevelt machine. “A little later an, the people spoke by sending to Washington men who campaigned on s platform of

opposition to presidential dictatorial orders. A small climix came last week when a continuation bill approved by the military affairs committee of the house had a string attached which took.out of the President's hands any post-war settlement of our lend-lease program.

‘Far Cry From Blank-Check Days’

“THIS IS a far cry from the days when on every other bill or two the President added a $25,000,000 ‘blank-check’ fund to be spent in any way he deemed wise, and with no checkups or accounting to be tolerated, . » . “We had trusted the President because of the won« derful things he sald, and the inspiring way he said them, but his record of deeds checked against his record of saids left him sadly short of an honest ; Ee “Hewever, no one looked at the record until our young men began to disappear from our American drug stores and out of our American schools and off our American farms. ‘ “Then we looked around to find that all is not a ham sandwich that squeals like a pig."

In Washington

By Peter Edson

pee WASHINGTON, March 30. N The U. 8. department of state proe gram of cultural rela=

. ping really got its start in the 19368 meeting of foreign ministers in Buenos Aires, when & convention for promoting inter-American cultural relations was adopted and later ratified by 16 of the governments, “Culture” isn't quite the right name for the commodities dealt in, but so far no one has thought up a better one. ; amounted to at first was exchange of students and professors. The government which nominated the student paid for his travel; the government which received the student paid for his tuition and living expenses. On exchange of professors, the government nominating pays all expenses.

$370,000 in 1940, $4,500,000 Now

IN 1039 congress enacted legislation to permit agencies of the United States government to assist Latin-American countries. Some agencies lent tech nicians to ‘other countries to train their nationals, Other agencies brought technicians from LatinAmerica to the United States for training in such divers subjects as weather forecasting, soil conserva~ tion, aeronautics, tidal surveys. All agencies participating in this exchange were organized into an inter-departmental committee head= ed up in the department of state. The first full year of these operations, 1040, the a was $370,000. This year's appropriation is $4,500,000 and the same amount has been requested for next year. Much of the administration of this is handled by private organizations such the Institute of International Education in New York, which has appointed committees to pick the students for U. 8 scholarships. Professors and distinguished visitors to be invited to the U. S. are generally recommended by cultural relations attaches in American embassies abroad. There are now 23 of these cultural relations officers; there have been 250 official visitors in the last two years,

Teaching English Is Important TEACHING ENGLISH in other countries is an

American republics have now made English a required course in secondary and higher schools. American cultural centers in Latin-American countries provide another outlet for teaching English to adults, Before the war there were eight of these centers. Now there are 22. Many of the activities are in part self-sustaining, particularly in the Ameriean cultural centers in which there are auditoriums for showing U. 8. documentary films, playing recorded American music, holding art exhibitions, conducting classes. In the past year $153,000 has been collected locally to support these centers, and in more than half the local contribution has been greater than the contribution from the U. S. government. Why hasn't all this cultural stuff paid better dividends in Argentina and Bolivia? The answer given is that in all the other 18 Latin-Amerisan republics it has paid dividends and that even among the people of the Argentine and Bolivia most favor the united nations cause. ¢ What's wrong in those two countries is said to be a military dictatorship, a hangover from German domination. . : :

To The Point—

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os ee ® TIN WIPING out Italian towns, Mt, Vesuvius is giving allied bombers keen competition. v . . . AN INDIANA man sued for divorce because his wife made him do the family laundry.” It all came out in the wash. . | . . . § WOMEN FAINTED in a rush to buy alarm clocks in Chicago. Without one of the clocks, we can tell

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