Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1944 — Page 10

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“THE NET TIGHTENS : ; HE air war, no sideshow to the invasion of France and the amphibious operations in the Pacific, has come back ‘inte the foreground with a vengeance- that promises no good for our enemies, No square mile of axis territory, anywhere in the world, is now safe from the warplanes which Am is continiing to build at the rate of 100,000 a year, Miter turning owt 175,000 in three years. ; in the Orient, two developments have placed every past of Japan and her newly won possessions under the threat of American bombs—the unveiling of the B-29 Super Fortresses with the raid on the Yawata Steel Works, and thé announcement that the navy’s new task force 58 was “the most powerful and destructive naval unit in the history of sea warfare.” } ro ? Over Hurope, once impregnable in the claims of Nati ; propagandists, shuttle bombing between Italy and Russia has now been supplemented with shuttle bombing between England and Russia. Nazi industries carefully planted in eastern Europe are no longer out of reach. a 88 #8 8 8 THESE AREN'T promises, or threats or things to come. They are actualities. Yawata's steel industries were severely damaged, Task force 58 has been Ting whe

Pacific, aiding in operation after operation, ®{riking af\the séa approaches to Japan itself. Romania's oil refineries no longer produce for the Nazi war machine, Other refineries in Central and Eastern Europe have been bombed out. This massive development of air warfare by the armed forces and their supporting aircraft industries is bringing the day of final victory closer.

DOUBLING IN DIPLOMACY WO London newgpfhpers, The Times and Lord Beaverbrook's Express, have been moved to editorials of enthusiastic and‘rather rémarkable praise by the Ainérican capture of ‘Chéthourg.' The cautious: and: conservative Times quite bubbles over, while the Express hastens to refute any Suggestion that the American part in the inva sion has been played up unduly, - : ~ “Suggestions have been made,” the Express editorial "says, “that American armies are getting more than their due crefiit-dft this war. Nothing more ungenerous could be said or whitten. Americans have proved themselves to be a race of great fighters in the very front rank of men at

Says the Times, “While every section of the allied force made its contribution, the most immediate credit is due the gallant American troops who have driven a path up to some - of the most formidable prepared positions in Europe and smashed their way into Cherbourg with unsurpassable dash and vigor.”

«0 3 os os =; THESE WELL-DESERVED appreciations undoubtedly reflect the popular sentiment. They sound spontaneous as well as sincere, in contrast to official statements which.

sometimes seem to spring from a sensé of diplomatic eti_quette as well a8 from the heart. The American GI isn’t alone in the successful accomplishment of this added task. The average Englishman's admiration of him is reciprocated over here by our high regard for the British soldier. Relations among the governments of the fighting allies, “while good, haven't always been a honeymoon. Plain Main Street citizens of all these countries, too, have been confused and disappointed at times by the policies of Washington, Downing Street, the Kremlin or Chungking. Rut they just can't be distrustful or jealous of the heroes of Guadalcanal and Stalingrad and Alamein. > The men who do the fighting, one suspects, are doing more than all the diplomats and heads of governments to weld the spirit of allied peoples into a common bond of purpose, understanding and trust. And up to now, they seem to be doing as well as the diplomats in solving the touchy problem of French friendship and co-operation,

Gan Ho ERA SR

CRYING OVER SPILT MILK

HE Christian Science Monitor, which is no calamity howler, complains that in and around Boston milk is being poured down drains, because of government regulations, while eager consumers are short on milk, cream and ice cream, . The Monitor says that the government order, limiting milk dealers from selling more than a prescribed percentage * of the June, 1943, sales, leaves them with. a surplus now that green pasturage has increased production. . They can't legally sell the surplus. They. could give it away, but that would involve unbearable outlays for pas-

r terization, bottling and distribution. So they have to throw it away.~ . ’

The creation of planned economies, on paper, looks easy. Their administration can be pretty difficult.

MAIL CENSORSHIP | obtained in the process of censorship. Such material ‘has been uséd as evidence in prosecuting rationing offenses

las have been filed with government agencies.: ~~ This has a familiar ring. Details differ, but irformation taken by American censors out of our letters has been used for purposes which have no slightest connection with

our contention that censorship can legitimately do gs: First, prevent militarily harmful material ‘and second, extract information bearing upon

AUSTRALIA is disturbed ‘about misuse of information | S Th q THE SUPREME phase of the war nto which we have eritered, once again entails for France the

greatest sacrifices of all, without her always meeting HN with full and complete understand

and in checking tax avoidances; and secret business formu.

Fair Enou

By Westbrook Pegler

1 was

over a grie teacher would laugh it off,

says the struck plants are the of the tapered roller bearings man

steel al plants

world of the future, in which the

themselves.

of tapered bearings for war uses,

feeblement of . the German the sea.

from the war. .

was all,

Source of 90 Per Cent of Bearings

WILLIAM UMSTATTD, the preside: of 90 per.

\factured in

lay off are

laid ave

y had id to use the same plan ~—aguinst Am industry affer the war to create the effect of ‘8 generhl strike within this country. sh

bey, slightly mistaken here in that I did not realize that a practice strike, testing out this plan, | was under way in the Timken Roller Bearing Works in Canton, O, Whee between $000 and | _ 10,000 men and women, many of them landlocked | native Americans from Kentucky, West Virginix Tennessee, with the average quota of brothers away fighting in the war, aré out evante so childish that &

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gountry, These bearings are vital to all - fornis of roller equipment including jeeps, trucks, tanks, amphibious vehicles, motorized guts, aifplang motors and the engines and other machinery used in ships of the navy and merchant mariné, Stop the production of such bearings and you stop the production of { eatisé idleriess in practically all the steel | use the motor and vehicle factories have no use for steel. You also stop coal and iron mining because the steel plants have no need for eoal iron, You lay up ships and trains and ctews. The motor and vehicle workers too, for lack of materials. And, in that :

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'Roosevelt, for Once, Kept a Promise’

IN THIS prastice strike at Tifken in Onnton, the unjon concerned 4s the steel workers’ union, the home organisation of Philip Murray, president of the C. 1. O, Who, ‘personally, gave, on behalf of that organization the rotori6us pledge to refrain from strikes in war industries. In fettrn for this pledge,

which has been violated thousands of fimes by unions of both the ©. I. O. and the A. F. of Ls, Mr. Roosevelt undertook to maintain, unimpaired by law, the powers and privileges of the Communists and the racketeers of unionism. Mz. Roosevelt for once at least has kept a-promise and by virtue of that proinise, Murray's steeleworkers have been able to choke off production

‘Grievance Concerned Seniority’

NOW. THE same plan is being tested in the United States for future use against the internal peace of the country and the economic recovery of the people

By Ruth Millett

legwear. Tam.”

sary for their purchase.

‘the war effort? For instance,

pest production and attendance if, they get leaves?

of nurses’ aid?

Better Than a Piece of Bronze

WHY DIDN'T the wise old gentleman—who, if he doesn’t, should know women by now—take over { their precious stockings and award them like medals to women who are turning in top performances in

records?

Gen. Charles de Gaulle, :

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d consoeuhip be uiied.

4 AY A 4 A

joke, however

** A PARTICULARLY satisfying ing has beay the fine performance

is to enjoy to the full the power which Mr, Roosevelt has placed in his hands, the discharged Soldier can’t get a job and consequently can’t buy, furniture or civilian c¢lothés or homes or anything else, With so great a portion of heavy industry shut down by the strike of not more than 15,000 workérs in & key industry, money ceases to eiréulate, people get confused and fall to fighting, troops refuse to fire | on civilians rioting with or against the Communists and finally, in the Communist plan, comes chaos and the long-desired revolution of the Americans against

Gen. Spaatz attacked the German bearings plants as a heroic measure. The United States lost 60 big ships inthe first aerial bombardment of Schweinfurt, our greatest single loss up to that time. The canipaign continued nevertheless. There, and at othef ceniters where the vital bearings were manufagtiired, thousands of young American fliers were lost but the results were observed in the absence of fighter opposition in France, in the presence of horse-drawn military vehicles oh the German side, in the disappearance of Gérman bombing fleets, ahd in the énstrength on and undeér

The grievance in Canton concerned -the seniotity of a woman worker Who had taken 30 days off for her honeymoon. On her return there was a misunderstanding as to whether she should retain her seniority or be regarded as a new employee, and whether she should return to the same machine that she had operated before, or“ be assighed to another exactly like it in a different location in the same plant. That

~The regional director of the union is I. W. Abel, who enjoys a deferment in the’ draft a8 an essential war worker becatisé of Mis. union activities, granted by the presidential board of appeals.

We The People |

“Ipoint, “Biel héifnet™ Tas been a ‘THOUSANDS of women stood for hours in a blazing summer sun here today as the government sold 4800 pairs of nylon hose, but only a small part of the throng succeeded in buying any of the precious

“The would-be purchasers formed & line three blocks long and four abreast when U.8. Marshal Edney Ridge placed the stockings on sale at 10 a.m. | Some of the women had been in line since before

So said a recent news item from Greensboro, N.C. It looks as though Uncle Sam missed a bet when he | handed over those nylons to any woman with the endurance to stand in line for them and cash neces-

why couldn't a. pair have been given to the women workers in war plants with the

Why

couldh’t some of them be shipped to the nurses over- |. seas who have worked under fire—but who are still |-|f feminine créatures who like t0 look pretty when, and

Why couldn't & few pairs hive gone to the women who have given blood numerous times? And to the women who have put in the most hours at the job

What could be more suitable in the form of an | | award for feminine achievement than a shimmering |} . pair of‘ nylon. stockings. Most any woman would | rather have them than a piece of bronze. *

ing of others.

WHETHER IT (victory) be this year or next, the || British and American peoples will never falter or “withdraw their hand from the task they have under= taken=—Prime Minister Winston Churchill, :

feature of the fight- | battle for

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“EXT BEST THING TO THE FUNNIES”

1 wholly defend. to

The Hoosier Forum

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By Charles RB: Geiger, Indianapolis it has been amusing to read the verbal briekBhts as thrown at one another by several of your readers. The Forum is thé next best thing to the funfied in your paper. Ins. eidently those two things are the only ofies I read. Most all the stuff in the papers is just plain hooey, I would, howeyer, just like to ask one question and maybe one of those wise guys like Westbrook Pégler oan ahswyer it. Is there a ‘law ih America Which prohibits all the 130 million ocitigens with the exception of & few to become milliohaires? Is there a law which grafts this privilege to only a few? Are the Morgans, the Du Ponts, the Fords the only onés who have a right to- be millionaires? Do we, by law, have a caste system which automatically prohibit the coms= mon maf to use whatever means he has at hand to sell the work of his hands for the highest dol lar and at the same time allows the privileged few to use whatever high pressure methods they deem advisable to get the highest dollar for their goods? According to the calamity howls ers, it would be just too bad if every Tom, Dick and Harry became millionaires. That, according to

and Harry all Communists. Or would it? will someone kindly inform me since £ am just one of the dumb common men, a = 9 “DELIBERATELY SLURRED OUR ARMED FORCES” ’ By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, B. K. 6, Boz 404 For you who style yourself Steve, Hon. Judge Niblack deserves no apologies; for, by his remarks, I think he has deliberately slurred our armed forces when he spoke of them as being “steel-helmeted soldiers” and owes them an apology. Whether. or not our armed forces wear steel helmets is beside the

term applied to the gestapo since the beginning of the war. Look into the sedition trial in Washington. Those Nazis have held the highest court in the land at bay for months, proudly flaunting their constitutional rights at Uncle Sam as if to say “You can't do anything about it, for you can't get a jury.” Do you think they are deserving? The Declaration of In-

the stooges, would make Tom, Dick

(Times readers are invited fo express théir views in theses columns, religious cone troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let: . ters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed, Opinions set forth. * hers are those of the writers, and publication” in ho way. implies agreement with those opinlons by The Timéd. The Times assumes no responsi--bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them)

July 4 reads: “All ‘men’ are cres ated with certain inalienable rights.” It didn't say rats, It is not our wish that one drop of young American blood be spilled to save them and there will be rapid changes to correct this. We will trust the leadership we have. It has never failed. 80, Mr. Steve, why should one “crawl” hack to their Constittition who in their own mind and with a clear consgience as myself, can truly sing “Onward, Christian Soldiers” with the same spirit sung by the British in the thought that I have dotie my level best? Do you think those Nazis are worthy of constitutional rights? If, instead of Germany, our country were ine vaded, would you be waving your Bilt of Rights: or trying to find a place to hide to save your own skin? ‘There is only one thing that lies nearest my heart. That is the in~ terest of. our soldiers who are coming home to start life anew. The great majority believe with all sins cerity that they will be given a better chance by & leader who has never failed them yet and promised them nothing he hasn't made good. The Republican convention patted themselves on the back for having bought so many bonds, but care fully evaded the tax question except for criticism, Can they show us another way that doesn't cost anything? I was under the impression that we pay for what we get, If we have a million-dollar government, it is worth it. What about the taxes? Is-it “anti” taxes? Americans had a dose of Republican leadership and it left a bad taste, but were I the only one concerned, for those who are asking for it, it would be worth taking my dose to see them

dependence which we celebrated

make a face.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

“GIVE MRS. HAGGERTY THE BLUE:-RIBBON” By James Meitrled, Allien

paper. Mr. Charles R. Cutter wrote

Orowd seem to think because Mrs.

‘Haggerty's personal feelings do not

coincide with theirs, she should not volcé them.” Mr. Cutter produced no evidence to prove his statement. He produced none because there was none. Neither “Voice in the Crowd” nor myself ever wrote anys thing that could be construed as a desire to gag afiyone. I am hot

{only willing but happy to have all désiring to exhibit their foolishhess| _| and make a show of themselves by writing silly letters be given every’ Germany's supply.

opportunity, And, with all to the lady, I would give Mrs. - gerty thé blue ribbon. . ; 2 = = “DOING VERY WELL SINCE NEW DEAL” By James VanZandt, 195 N. Bast st. The Forum writers have been having quite & sérap in their own back yard, ing if not funny for a while, but now it is getting very monotonous. I would suggest they go out in front and see what is going oni. There is a helliva sight better scrap going on out in front. It is wonderful to live in a country where you can voice your opinion, and we have 10,000,000 men under arms that will

voice your opinion; but there is a guy with a funny little mustache and a little yellow guy with satanic eyes out there in front that are try-

stop our freedom of voice. ' We've got a gent with whiskers keeping them off there and brothers and sisters, he is doing a swell job; but he needs you and your dollars, so let's get busy—there is a bond drive on now.

some preity bad hands for awhile, but on the last New Deal 1 got a full house and I was betting against a straight. I won ‘and have been doing very well since the New Deal. ‘ ® wn “WE'RE PIAYING FOR KEEPS” By Harry J. Gasper, 9038 E. 11th st. Well, the Republican sideshow 1s now over, ‘a show that the stage was being set for months ago when the moneybags of the Republican party, swelled by a few Victories at the polls, decided to out loose from their 1040 vote getter, “Willkie,” whom they knew they could not dictate to, and started 8 build up a puppet whom they knew they could dangle on the end. of a string, & perfect Hodver stooge. Just imagine, folks, Dewey, whose. chief claim to fame is knocking off a few bawdy houses in New York's red light district, sitting in 4t the peace table with men like Churéhill and Bfalin. Oh, brother, that wolld: be: General Motors having the

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Unnecessary Occupations Cut hes GERMAN LABOR deérees have already, sqteesed

That being the case, it is the role of eodfiomis wire fare to contribute anything it can to make the dere man manpower situation still tougher. Bombing ‘German industrial eenters, for instance, has put an

| estimated six million workers out of their Homes, The

1abor needed for rehousing these surviving vietimis of : Germany's

ve production of synthetis petroleum as another example, Cermany wis ible 10 begin the war With. out sufficient natural petroleum resources of her ‘the |

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Roméhia.. Bombing of the fineries was not aimed solely at destroying of supply; however, for these taids had the effect of forcing the Germans to produce hore

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Robot Bombers By Maj. Al Williams ~*~

“DORE know Huth about the New bed Deal, have played poker some, got|

Trend. of Unimaginable Import TO DISMISS the “robot” bombing as of minor importance is ridiculous because this employment of winged war machinery is comparable to the most radical development of war mechanism recorded in the pages bf “history. It establishes a trend of une imaginable import as to what is coming, It is the

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