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The Indianapolis Times PAGE 20 Friday, April 21, 1944

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ALLIED VICTORY IN RUSSIA T Sevastopol the Soviet armies are completing the- liberation of Southern Russia in the most remarkable military campaign of the war. In the number of troops: involved, territory reclaimed, and the steady 800-mile advance despite an entrenfiéd enemy, snow, ice, floods, mud and bad communication, this offensive is historic. By destroying so many Hitler divisions and so much equipment ; by depriving him ot Ukraine food, Donbas minerals and industries, North Caucasus oil, the Kiev-Kharkov networks and Black Sea ports; by threatening the Balkans, and by shattering the myth of Nazi military superiority, the Russian armies have opened the way to final allied victory. There is still much fight left in Germany but, barring miracles, she never can recover from this blow. American and British appreciation has been expressed by President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchilf and our military leaders. Fortunately that has not been limited to words, however heartfelt. It has been our privilege to phrticipate with direct and indirect aid. "\ Marshal Stalin has said Russia’s achievement would not have been possible without our help. While it. would be neither fitting nor fair to us to measure our munitions against the blood they have shed, the victory is all the finer for them and for us because it is shared. J F J ” ” ” o OUR CONTRIBUTION included: 8800 planes, 5200 tanks and tank destroyers, 190,000 trucks, 36,000 jeeps and 30,000 other vehicles, 850,000 miles of telephone wire and 275,000 field phones, 7,000,000 pairs of boots, 1,450,000 tons of steel, 2,600,000 tons of food. Our bombers from Italy have weakened Nazi armies . in Russia by blasting their Danubian communications and supply lines, including their precious Ploesti oil source. The continuous western air offensive has drawn about three-fourths of the Nazi fighter planes away from Russia, where they might have turned the battle. American air forces alone since November have cut Nazi fighter production by about 5000 planes, and since January have shot down 5200 planes, all of which Hitler might have thrown against Russia. In Western and Southern Europe, Russia's allies have tied down more than 40 per cent of Hitler's total divisions, many of them hastily withdrawn from the Russian to the Italian front or to the Western invasion coasts. To cite such American contributions is not to lessen Russia's paramount achievement, but to demonstrate anew that there are no separate fronts and no isolated battles in this global war. The only possible complete victory fs joint victory.

DR. ROY EWING VALE HONORED

HIS city will heartily second the action of the Indianapolis Presbytery in voting to present the name of Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, for consideration as moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the U. S. A. The office of moderator, highest honor in the gift of the church, will be filled at the general assembly in Chicago next month. Local Presbyterian leaders believe that Dr. Vale has an excellent chance of election. Dr. Vale has filled the pulpit at the Tabernacle church since March.1, 1940 and in that time has won high recognition in the community. Previously he had served 10 years as pastor of the big Woodward Avenue Presbyterian church in Detroit, nine years in the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church in Qak Park, Ill, had preached in the Second Presbyterian church, Knoxville, Tenn., and at Somerville and Lambertville, N. J. During world war I, he was an army Y. M. C. A. secretary. He has written extensively for religious publications, is-a-member of the judicial commission of his church and has served as a trustee of Washington college, Maryville college, Beaver College for Women and the Presbyterian College of Christian Education in Chicago. Deeply religious, scholarly, an excellent speaker and a statesman of his church, he combines the high qualities of leadership and ability that have distinguished the great Presbyterian moderators of the past.

THE CRUSADE AGAINST CANCER YURING the month of April, designated by an act of congress as national cancer control month, the Indiana Women's Field Army under the direction of Mrs. Ronald M. Hazen, state commander, is conducting its annual enlistment campaign. The ultimate goal of the organization is to enroll every woman in the state of Indiana in the fight against cancer, More than 2000 volunteer workers are in the field this month carrying on an educational program designed to bring to thousands of homes the facts about cancer treatment, prevention and control. The importance of this service is indicated by statistics showing that 100,000 of the 163,000 deaths from cancer last year might have been prevented by early diagnosis and prompt treatment. One of the most recent advances in the state-wide cancer control program was the inauguration on March 1 of a monthly cancer clinic at the St. John’s hospital in Anderson. Other diagnostic clinics have been sponsored at Linton and Greencastle and, through the co-operation of the medical profession, the Field Army hopes ultimately to see cancer clinics established in every county hospital in Indiana, in’ addition to the two large clinics now in operation in Indianapolis. : Co Cancer is the second largest cause of death in® the United States, with a fatality record exceeded only by heart disease. The battle against the silent destroyer goes on constantly on many fronts. Stientists in their laboratories, physicians in their consultingirooms, surgeons in the hospitals, technicians in the clinics all join in the fight. And 80, too, do the shock troops, the volunteer workers of the Women's Field Army. They, also, do their part, and to

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

* NEW YORK, April 21.—President Roosevelt recently endorsed an observance under mixed religious auspices, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, of home week or, if you like, family week. In doing 50, he ran over the list of familiar virtues of the home and of the family as the basic unit of civilization. It was one paper of his with which no opponent of his

slightest fault. It is-a pity, however, that this institution should be in need of propaganda and promotion for revival because until the war began to disrupt homes, ours was a country in which the home and the family enjoyed the most favorable conditions.

One Marriage in Six Ends in Divorce

THE SUBJECT is a touchy one for, at last reports, une marriage in six ended in divorce; but divorce means broken homes and those who study delinquency among children and examine the records of convicts in the prisons have found that a high percentage of their clients came from broken homes. They suspected that disruption of the home by divorce had been rather more, than less, responsible for the waywardness of the children. 1t is acknowledged ‘to be a tragedy when the father or mother of a family is removed from a home by death but, out of consideration for the feelings of the many parties to our many divorces by which children are denied the care and guidance of one parent, usually the father, .we read little considera=tion of these tragedies. The clergy touch up the subject now and again but that is the end of it; nor have I any helpful suggestion. . Yet the fact remains that the home has suffered terrible damage in the divorce courts, in many cases for frivolous reasons, and we have seen some states of the union devising laws so as to attract divorce trade for ‘the benefit of the ‘keepers of hotels and saloons, gambling houses and dress shops.

‘Home Ties Put to Much Greater Strain’

IN THIS time of war, the home ties are put to a much greater strain. Some youngsters marry in haste and under emotional influence, and many of them will not get along when the boys come back. In the case of a man who is taken from an established home for one, two or three years the danger would seem to be less, but still a home without a father is not wholly a home to the wife or children. Then, too, great numbers of civilian*fathers have left home to work in the war industries, and many mothers have made such arrangements as they could for the care of their children, to work in the plants, with the inevitable result that the home is neglected and the training and discipline of the youngsters seriously impaired. The dictator states can consistently draft their married men and women for war labor because, in their belief, the child exists for the state and the state is the parent with the right to raise the young ones. But when it is proposed in this country that women as well as men be drafted for war work and thus relieved of the conscientious problem of deciding what and how much to do for the country, clearly the American home is threatened with something like oblivion. Moreover, even without children, the home is no less the basis of civilization.

Character Can Conquer Poverty

THE ARGUMENT is familiar that poverty is an enemy of the home and the family, and so it is. But it does not follow that character cannot conquer poverty, for if that had been so 40 years ago and earlier in the United States, the home and the family would have gone to smash with very little salvage. The living standard, as to comforts, security and the family nest-egg was such as would be called poverty today, but families did hold together and divorce was so rare as to put humiliation on the children of parents who decided that they could not hit it off and therefore called it off. Nor does it follow that comfort, even riches, protect the home and bind the family closer, for the most scandalous casualness has been noted for many years among a few key families of seaboard society, many of whom today would have trouble deciding just who they are anyhow, or what their relation to their kinnery. For these reasons, a New York friend of mine calls Park ave. Tobacco Road, and its inmates rich white trash.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

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No Ordinary London Fog!

I wholly disagree with what you say,

The Hoosier Forum

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

but will

“THIS IS BEYOND ME” By Percy Vere, Indianapolis It is a pity Mr. Pegler can't stick to his role as a reporter where he

definitely excels instead of ascending to the cosmic where he definitely

(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

Soest... He says Pow that because| 4s Letters must be we haven't a “pure” democracy we : mo have no democracy at all This| 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 cor- ~ respondence regarding them.)

mythical “pure” democracy in which the majority enslaved or murdered the minority would be more properly a tyranny and would quickly descend to out and out anarchy. The Bill of Rights was placed in our constitution by a majority of our people and never since has there been a time when a majority could have been mustered to take it out again. It is not something abridging our democracy; it is part] of it. A certain standard of in-7the field of foreign policy and riditelligence and tolerance is required |cules the of the citizens of a democracy. One| Tehran.

role of our President at!as a taxpayer dole. It is known that Mr. is full of that type who are not sat- |

to agree with Mr. Polier in one important assertion. “But no amount of enforcement can do the job (succeed) unless the full force of public opinion and widespread voluntary compliance . . . is brought to bear.” From this point of agreement, I add

that the OPA has apparently devoted much time and effort to the task

of doing everything possible to dis-

and calculated uncertainties,

By Daniel M. Kidney

. WASHINGTON, April 21.—Rep. Louis Ludlow, Indianapolis Demo- © orat, wrote Secretary of War Stimson a pointed letter of inquiry to learn whether or not Negro soldiers are getting a fair break in , ; ; The Indiana congressman received a long letter of explahation in reply in which the secretary of war points out the difficul- . ties encountered with many drafted Negroes because of their lack of educational opportunity. That they will be given the ‘best possible assignments, actording to skill, just as are other soldiers was assured. : Here are the guestions Mr. Ludlow asked: “How many Negroes and how many whites are

position of high responsibility to see that such discrimination is not permitted to exist in the future?”

‘Will Be Given Every Opportunity’

HERE ARE some of the answers Secretary Stimson gave in his reply: “Large numbers of Negro troops are overseas or en route, and will be given every opportunity to win battle honors and demonstrate their worth in actual combat, The war department has every intention of continuing its past efforts to make the best possible use of its available manpower in the prosecution of the war without regard to race, religion, color or other

J unmilitary considerations. ., .

“The army is accepting and absorbing Negro personnel corresponding to the registration ratio (10.4 per cent) of its authorized male enlisted strength. At present approximately ® per cent of the total army

‘male enlisted strength is of the Negro race, but it is

anticipated that the 10.4 per cent ratio will be reached during the course of the current year. “Our plans contemplate that of our total enlisted personnel, 6,245,720 will be white, 700,280 Negro, and of the Negro personne! approximately 14 per cent are scheduled for assignment to combat organizations. , ,. “Of the total Negro strength of the army, approximately 50 per cent are now overseas or en route. Moreover, 32 per cent of the Negro contingent overseas are combat and combat support troops. . ..

'Negro Units Participating in Combat"

~ “NEGRO UNITS, like white ones, are being shipped to combat areas as rapidly as their state of training and transportation facilities permit and Negro units have participated and are participating in combat. “It may also be stated that additional Negro units will be utilized iri combat in the future, though, again for security reasons, it is not possible to reveal units, times or places.” Secretary Stimson cited statistics to show how lack of education has caused many Negroes to be handicapped as soldiers in modern mechanized warfare and pointed out that 90 per cent of these are being kept in the army and taught the basic education and skills needed. “In conclusion,” he wrote, “permit me to reiterate and emphasize that all our military personnel is distributed and employed solely in conformance with military considerations which, of course, are entirely unrelated to racial derivations.”

U.S. Must Lead

By William Philip Simms

in which the rights of minorities| Dewey is a stron

g advocate of an isfied only to govern the minutest

were forgotten would soon cease to! Anglo-American alliance. There are details of our private lives but un-

be worthy nor capable of maintain- | speak more plainly.

ing democracy. What purpose Mr.| Recently the Muncie Evening

er as suggesting that Russia seeks a separate peace and that America should be less concerned with Eu-

' line of reasoning is beyond me. » » 5 “DID NOT SIT WELL WITH G. O. P.” By Elmer Johnson, 401 Board of Trade) bldg. |

Or, there is the more forthright declaration of Rep. Earl Wilson, who proposed in essence that we break Americans can look forward con-|our alliance with Russia and Britfidentl the defeat of the Fascist! ain “to pull out of Europe and fight foe at ictory for our nation {our battle in the Pacific,” or the '| Jessie Summner- resolution supported

WIVES HAVE been Impressed with the fact that the kind of letters they write their service men will have a lot to do with the way their marriages weather a long period of separation. That is true, of course. marriage isn't a one-sided affair— and the kind of letters men write their wives back home is important, too. Here are a few rules a service man might keep in mind when he is writing a letter to his wife or to the girl he plans to marry at the war's end: Don’t fill your letters completely with the things you are doing right now, experiences she can’t share with you. Talk some of the experiences the two of you have shared in the past. Don't completely ignore the future. She'll feel more secure if in your letters you talk of your plans and your hopes for “after the war.” Don’t write about the swell time you had at a dance last night unless you want her to wonder if she is being a dope for substituting movies with the girls for the dates she could have.

Show Your Interest in Her Life

NEVER WRITE, “If I get through this all right” or “If I come back.” If she loves you those are phrases she won't let herself think. Don’t force them on her. Don't give the impression that you have shed the feeling of being married. That is easy to do, especially if you write only of yourself and your doings without stopping to express your interest and concern with her life. Occasionally when you speak of your newly-made friends, try to share them with her by such inclusive phrases as “I think you'd like Joe” or “ I wish you could hear Jim tell such-and-such a story.” Let her know what her letters mean to you and ask her to tell you more about some of the things she mentions casually. But more important than anything else—keep telling her that you love her. This is no time to play the strong, silent man role. The strong silent type has to be on hand to be effective.

To The Point

MEN soon will be finding out that nothing can feel better and look worse than last year's straw hat. $ * » *

NO NEW passenger cars until the collapse of either Germany or Japan, says the government. For the present we must be satisfled to ride the enemy. . . . THE will power of men would get a lot further if it weren't for the won't power of women. »- . . . IT would help a lot if there were as much working for the best. as there is hoping for it.

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| thanks to the wise policies of our | President, The Japanese and Ger-| by Congress Harness that called | man Fascists’ only hope lay in split- | for postponing the European invali } only hope thus pre. Sion. Perhaps this’ situation in the {ting the united nations, thus pre Republican party casts some addi- | venting full agreement in the cOn-| i,q) light on why Wendell Willkie {duct of the war and making pos- oo. 1, req upon with disfavor by

Tehran conference, attended by our| President, Stalin and Churchill, de- | Adjecaey. of Se rr Jia clared that the combined military mand. might of Britain and America in a 8 = concert with the blows of the Red|,, army would - bebrought—to—bear| DL. HONEST against the common enemy. The| WITH THE PUBLIC” Tehran conference further declared|y A.J. Schneider, 504 West dr., Woodruff that coalition of the united nations, Flace must continue into the post-war| I had. hoped to supplement or period. It was these decisions made| implement the recent letter of Mr. at the Tehran and Moscow confer-| T. Ernest Maholm on the subject ences that gave confidence and hope| of gasoline rationing and black to all true patriots who hate Fascist| markets. However, the column of tyranny and aspire for democracy Marshall McNeil quoting a Mr. the world over. Polier, director of OPA gasoline It is therefore most disturbing|enforcement, provides the food for to say the least when a leading con-| the points I would have added to tender for the office of President,| Mr. Maholm’s able criticism. Mr. Dewey, belittles achievements in| First, perniit me to go on record

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Pegler thinks he is serving by this Press reported Congressman Spring-|

rope and concentrate in the Pacific. |

But | Sible- a negotiated peace. But the, ...o pen nican bigwigs. Willkie's!

be one. Such people would neither others in the Republican party who, Sopstitutionally constitute themselves

as legislators, prosecutor, judge and jury in the so-called “laws” they themselves make and {change as they go along. No one, ‘not even themselves, knows the | rules from one day to the next. * Such a condition is not con- | ducive to hearty voluntary compliance, . . Rather than equitably ration gasoline, the OPA is a hotbed of ! political conniving and grim determination to make the public suffer as they are suffering in England, Russia, China and elsewhere, | whether there is necessity for it or not. This is amply proved by the crackdown on a handful of Hollywood characters who found a | method to circumvent gasoline rationing by installing equipment using a non-rationed gas. If this "practice were not squelched quickly, the adaption would beeome widespread and eliminate the OPA persecution. - So -the-OPA had to-get busy to protect their jobs. Throughout the state of Indiana there are hundreds of formerly producing oil wells, capped and now not producing, while the refineries are far below 100 per cent capacity production. This because the OPA and PAW refuse to relax certain restrictions, quotas, etc., lest the increased production make it possible to be less tough with the motoring public. Oil men whose bread and butter

ness factually, as contrasted with those receiving a taxpayer's dolé for kidding the public that they think they know, are almost unanimous in the view that the supply of low grade gasoline, such as motorists get and which is not usable in planes, could be substantially in creased if the OPA and PAW would relax the unnecessary restrictions and permit the flow of more crude. Indeed this would simultaneously increase the supply of aviation high-octane gas. ... In conclusion, to obtain that “widespread voluntary compliance” and a more healthy “public opinion,” which Mr. Polier speaks of, the OPA ‘will first have to be honest with the public. It will have to have a new survey of the gasoline situation by “recognized” authorities in whom the public has confidence, and then set up a new, continuing program not subject, to day to day changes and entirely amputate the fnreats and get-tough policies. It is surprising what a healthy public opinion and a willing public can do, even with such an unpopular business as gasoline ration= ing, when there is full confidence all around.

DAILY-THOUGHTS

Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be ‘ unpunished.—Proverbs 17:5.

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LONDON, April 21.—If the future influence and prestige of the United States are not to be dimmed it is necessary that our stand on the post-war situation be made clear beyond all misunderstanding. That is my outstanding impression after talking with con- « siderable cross section of Britain's foremost leaders during the past several weeks, : Secretary Hull has - already clarified present American foreign policy. His recent speech made a deep impression here. But Washington must go one step further. It must make plain the kind of peace it will not guarantee as well as the kind of peace it is fighting for.

Look to America to Take the Lead

THE UNITED NATIONS are looking to America -to take the lead in stabilizing the peace. Their chief hopes for a better world seem based on that. Soon the premiers of the British commonwealth will meet here to discuss post-war empire policy and it is already clear that that policy will depend to a lar extent on-American policy. _ Should America go isolationist again, Britain's policy and the policy of the dominions would be one thing. Should it on the other hand, in the words of Secretary Hull, join ‘‘some international agency which can by force if necessary keep peace among nations™ geipire policy would necessarily be something else enrely. Today the British and united nations statesmen generally are convinced that the United States this time will join some kind of new league of nations and “by force if necessary” help maintain international order. That is what the Atlantic Charter, the Moscow pacts, the Connally and Fulbright resolutions, state department and White House pronouncements and nation-wide polls all add up to, Nevertheless two of London’s leading editors say they are eonvinced that America after the war will tum. jsolationist-—that “she will do again exactly what she did in 1920,”

British Are Misreading the Signs

THEY SAID America was already showing isolationist signs and asked me whether I said no. In my opinion they are misreading the signs, Americans, I said, are overwhelmingly for post-war collaboration, but they are from Missouri. If Europe divided into spheres of interest or a balance of power, we probably would not underwrite the peace. ; If frontiers were drawn unilaterally, we would hot use force to perpetuate them. -If peace were made in violation of the principles of the Atlantic Charter and the Moscow pacts, we would hardly send our sons to die in defense of such a setup. But if a worthy peace were arrived at I was ¢onvinced that the American government and people would wholeheartedly support it. The senate and the house, Mr. Hull and others probably will bear in mind British apprehensions when they collaborate, as it is reported they will on peace plans.

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