Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1944 — Page 10

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Friday, July 14, 1944

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Give Light and the People Will Pind Their Own Way

GERMAN PEACE FEELERS ERMANY has put out peace feelers at least six times in the last four months, according to allied sources in Madrid. That is not surprising. Efforts by Germany to get a favorable peace have been reported ever since she overran Europe, and particularly since she began her long retreats from Stalingrad and El Alamein. Now that the allies have breached her Italian line, her Atlantic wall and her vast eastern hedgehog defenses, as well as her air cover, more peace feelers are expected. There is danger in this. For Americans and Britons may jump from the headlines, of allied advances on all fronts and German peace moves, to the conclusion that the enemy is close to surrender. Such is not the case. Germany's purpose in these diplomatic feelers is to prevent unconditional surrender. SHe still has the bargaining power of a huge army, almost as large and as formidable as ever. She knows—

the war. But she also knows that she can make allied victory terribly expensive; so expensive, she hopes, that we shall make 3 compromise deal rather than pay the price. Her best bet is that allied public opinion may soar in over-confidence now, and then crash in bitter war-weariness - as our casualty lists lengthen in .a possible military stalemate. That is why President Roosevelt, Gen. Eisenhower and all responsible allied spokesmen today are trying so hard to convince us that final victory is not in sight, that the biggest battles and the worst losses have not even begun. the classic reply of our commandant of marines to the idea that the war is all over: “All over—but the fighting.” . \ o » o 8 s 8 THE GERMAN Junkers—who plan to get a compromise peace by dumping Hitler, but saving themselves for another war—must count increasingly on present allied -over-confidence turning to. disappointment and to armistice demands. For the Junkers no longer can count so much on working their other tricks. First, they hoped to divide the allies and get a separate peace, but now the Russian-British-American victory alliance is firmer than ever. Then they hoped that Jap victories, and American fears for the Pacific, would prevent major American offensives in Europe; but Eisenhower answered that one on June 6.

mands for a compromise peace, instead of unconditional surrender, could be utilized at the proper time for their purpose. But since the Pope is no longer a virtual military prisoner of the Germans, and since Secretary of War Stimson and other American official visitors have talked in the Vatican, dispatches from Rome indicate that the Pope is more anxious not to be tricked by the German militarists. a In any event the only ultimate guarantee that Germany will not win the war by a compromise peace is allied Setermination to fight until total victory and unconditional * surrender, no matter what it costs or how long it takes. In the end that will be the cheapest and shortest way, ‘because anything less means another world war.

. TEDDY JUNIOR RIG. GEN.’ ROOSEVELT, Teddy Jr., the fighting son ; of fighting Teddy the first, is gone. He died in bed, of battle fatigue. But he was as certainly a war casualty as if a bomb or a bullet had got him, as he led his men, half his age, onto the Normandy beachhead. For all the days since D-day he had been building up the exhaustion which finally took him away. That he wasn't killed in action as, at the head of his doughboys, he directed reconnaissance in force on Cherbourg through enemy territory infested by machine gun nests and snipers —that is one of the many miracles of a charmed life which finally ended in repose. But the same miracle had hovered over him many times before—in two world wars. At Cantigny, Soissons, in the Argonne and at St. Mihiel in world war I, he was ‘young. Thirty years later he was 56. But, despite his age, in the Mediterranean and in Normandy he was what one of his men described him—*“the toughest little fighting man in this army.” Those years however finally took their toll; did what bombs and bullets couldn't. Though wounded twice in the first war and twice again

time -and the exhaustion that years and strain bring on— such strain as only a brave heart can bear, to the end. Few who have been in battles had been honored by more decorations than this soldier son of a soldier, and none deserved them more. “Rough Rider” was painted on the jeep he rode in Normandy and Teddy Jr. carried a .45. They didn’t have jeeps on San Juan Hill but they did have .45s, and who said there's nothing in heredity?

EDUCATION NOW : wk

HE University of Dagver has announced that it will open its doors on July 24 to as many eligible honorably discharged veterans of this war-as it can accommodate, re- - gardless of Whether government funds are available at the time. This is a Toresighted move which other colleges and | ; universities might well follow if they are financially able. The government's policy on veterans’ education has already been established, and the money will be forthcoming. . Meanwhile it is only right that men and women who have Sven a sizable slice of their time to’ their

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and khows that we know she knows—that she cannot win.

Always they have hoped that the Pope's repeated de-

in this, the enemy never could get him. That remained for |

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Reflections By John W. Hillman

IN CASE you haven't located a handy bomb shelter or a nice, cozy barricade, we thought we'd better warn you—don't look now, but the Indiana-Kentucky feud is raging again in the Hoosier Forum. Small sparks touch off big explosions, little incidents provoke big wars—and, in that respect, this renewal of the old interstate quarrel is no exception, Our Forum editor, whose fingers are singed from opening letters from indignant Kentuckians, has confided how it happened. One of his correspondents, writing under the pen-name of “Pedestrian,” sent a communication in which he chided Indianapolis for failing.to abide by the keep-to-the-right principle in crossing streets. He'd tried it, he said, and was decidedly in the minority—everyone else walked on the left-hand side of the cross walk. There must be a lot of southpaws in Indianapolis, he concluded.

'A Proud and Sensitive People’

TO THE Forum editor, Webster's dictionary, and probably to Pedestrian, the term “southpaw” means a left-handed person—and any reference to those who sprang from the left bank of the Ohio river is purely coincidental. But the Kentuckians, a proud and sensitive people who have come in considerable numbers to Indianapolis to do their bit for the war, didn’t like the sound of the word. And all the southern pa’s, and a number of the ma’s, took their pens and indelible pencils in hand to defend their state and kinfolk and to toss verbal grenades at the arrogant Hoosiers. Hoosiers have their pride, too, and any moment now you can expect a counter-barrage to come whistling in at point-blank range. The Forum editor,

- a small, seedy individual who sits off in a corner close

to the rear exit and cringes every time he sees anyone who looks like she might be Mrs. Haggerty, expects the worst. He's asked us to explain that it was all a mistake? ‘but we doubt if it will do any good. Those. insults, suh, will have to be ‘wiped out in ink: And when you say southpaw, suh, smile!

'We're All in the Boat Together’

THIS BUSINESS of state consciousness has its good points. It's nice to be proud of your home, and to know its history and take pride in its achievements. But the Good Book says something about loving your neighbor, and it's about time that the undeclared war

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treaty of perpetual friendship and amity. After all, where would Indiana be if it weren't for the Kentuckians—and where would the Kentuckians be if there were no Indiana? State rivalry is all right, but state antipathy—like class bitterness—has no place in these United States. We're all in the boat together. No man, nor no state, can live to itself alone. ' How true that is was set forth in an opinion of Justice Glenn Terrell of the Florida supreme couft. It’s surprisingly good reading which is more than can be said of most legal prose. Probably that's because it's a dissenting opinion, for there seems to be

.some strange affinity between literature and lost "causés—as witness the writing of Justice Holmes.

The opinion ‘was .written on.a Florida law pro-

viding that all public Printing should be done within

Such a law, writes Ju Terrell “has no place in a world committed to the good neighbor policy. It should under no circumstances be extended to doubtful cases. It is about as congenial to the good neighbor policy as a brace of tomcats would be to each other if thrown over the clothes line with their tails tied together.

the borders of the state. lol

Sound Effects From Missouri

“IN FACT, the Florida orange grower of the good neighbor era arises in the morning to the chant of Old Domineck who was imported from Missouri as a day old chick, he dons a shirt made in New Jersey, slips into a pair of overalls made in North Carolina of Alabama cotton, and a pair of shoes made in St. Louis from the hide of a Texas steer; he turns on his radio made in New York and listens to a Columbia announcer tell the world how his own boys are saluting Japs in Java with ‘machine guns and how his neighbor's boys are saluting the Fuehrer from Iceland with bombers, “If the price of oranges is looking up, his wife greets him at dinner with a Kansas City steak broiled in a Pittsburgh skillet, flanked with Georgia grits lubricated with ham gravy from an Iowa pig, tapered off with a cut of apple pie made of Virginia apples embroidered with Wisconsin cheese and a cup of coffee from Brazil, sweetened with Cuban sugar and stirred with a silver spoon from Nevada. He drives to work in an automobile made in Detroit, cultivates his grove with a Chicago plow, hauls his oranges in a Michigan truck empowered by Oklahoma gas, and hopes that people from everywhere, even California, will drink his orange juice. He sleeps on a Grand Rapids bed, sits on a High Point chair, cooks on a General Electric stove, and gets his religion and code of morals from the Bible that came from Egypt, Babylon, and Israel and is governed by the Common Law of England after being tinctured with the civil law from Rome; in fine, he patronizes the four points of the compass and is such an embodiment of the good neighbor philosophy that the cackle of his hens is about the only homespun product on the grove.” It's a small world, after all, isn't it?

(Westbrook Pegler did not write a colump today)

We The People

By Ruth Millett

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THE OTHER DAY Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines pointed out that though the figures aren't usually included in statistics on war production, women had since 1040 produced 5,000,000 new babies—a production equal to half the armed forces in number. Women have had to take plenty of criticism because they haven't responded in sufficient numbers to the recruiting drives of the WACS,

: WAVES, SPARS and marines, and

because they have been slow to fill jobs vacated by men,

Women May Wel Be Proud

80, IN JUSTICE to them, maybe it ought to be emphasized that they have made good records at home. There are those 5,000,000 extra babies they have produced. There - are all those extra jars of home-canned foods with which they have filled their cupboard

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they have taken on. ‘There are the millions of packages they have carried. There abe the ‘lonig extra hours they have put in at the job of housework because maids and cleaning women have gone to war. There is all the extra time and energy and thought the war wives have given their children, since they

ones. And with it all, of course, there are those endless hours they have spent working in Red Cross rooms, in hospitals as nurses aids, and in other volunteer activities, A440 he hours and ook the wrk fumed out by the nation’s housewives and

dmit they hie il ction. quota oF

shelves. There are all those added home washings |’

‘have had to be both mother and father to their young

We Can’ ¢ Wait to Hear T hat New Theme Song!

The Hoosier Forum

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

“HOOSIERS AREN'T

THE ONLY PEOPLE” By Ex-School Teacher, Indianapolis On behalf of the southern people living in Indianapolis, I'd like to thank the Hoosier Forum reader who wrote the article entitled: “Indiana Is Not the Only State,”

I first came to Indianapolis I was astonished at being openly referred to as “the low-browed Kentuckian.” I gradually have gotten used to such expressions which usually are expressed by people who have practically no knowledge of any other city or state other than their own. I became acquainted with a woman with whom I work and became very fond of her until I heard her making such remarks as: “Certain areas of the city should be restricted for the southern hicks, the child-a-year women and the backwoodsy hillbillies.” I had the opportunity to ask the lady if she had ever been in Kentucky or the south, Naturally, her answer was: “Why, no, I have never been out of Indiana.” : Yes, Mr. Pedestrian, it is true that we have poverty and some uneducated people in the South. These are the people who have not had some of your advantages; but even I have observed that Indiana has some of the same misfortunates. Yes, Mr. Pedestrian, I agree wholeheartedly with A Reader who was generous enough to answer your impolite article My husband and I are both southpaws of Kentucky. He is now overseas helping to preserve your freedom while you make a joke out of us southpaw people, I am here employed in defense work, trying to contribute my share in the war effort, but you have my promise that when my husband gets back -home again where he can again take up his commercial teaching, we will go back to our good old Kentucky and live. So you see, Mr. Pedestrian, the Hoosiers aren't the only people who have an eighth grade, high school or even college education. Yes, Kentucky and many other Southern states have many outstanding colleges and universities. | I have learned by observing that only such people who have never been out of their fair cities are the ones who make such blundering remarks. Thanks again to A Reader of ‘the Hoosier Forum.

Editor's note: From the text of the replies to Pedestrian, it is apparent that there is some confusion over the meaning of the term “solithpaw.” Here is the definition of this word

which was published July 6. When}

[Side Glances—By Galbraith

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. troversies 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 - resporisi= bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

in Webster's New International dictionary: “Southpaw, adj. Sports. Using the left hand in pitching or throwing of the like.—n. (a) Sports. A southpaw player; esp. a southpaw pitcher. (b) Hence (slang) a left-hand-ed person.” It seems clear from the context of his letter that Pedestrian was referring to persons who cross intersections on the left side of the cross-walk, rather than to citizens of Southern origin.

® = 8 “WILL NOT HAVE TO BUY VOTES” By Gene Engle, 4168 Otterbein ave, To argue with you or anyone who agrees with your viewpoints would

be ridiculous, Mrs. Haggerty, but to ignore them would be criminal negligence. I really believe that. From your numerous contributions to the Hoosier Forum, I have gathered the impression that you want an administrative branch of the government whose many years in office have dulled its {interpretation of the phrase, “for the general welfare of the people,” a man who has allowed, I feel like saying he has encouraged, racial hatred, social inequality, class misunderstanding, sectional jealousy and even broken promises, dis carded or neglected platform pledges to be the type of America my boy and girl and yours, too, are growing up in, a man whose super ego and satellite-inflated self-esteem have made him, in his own mind, an indispensable man. He thinks he is the only man alive in this coun=try who is capable of winning the war. He thinks he is the only one capable of shaping a new world peace. He thinks he can tell a man where

to work, where to live, how to live, what labor faction to become affiliated with, how much money he should earm, how much he should live on, how much he should have left. In fact, he wants to take away all incentive to work, to improve oneself and to progress. He wants to stifle ambition, initiative and self-confidence by telling everyone just what he is worth. He wants to perpetuate himself or his chosen successors by prescribing to

.jus our method of teaching, our type

of learning, in fact, by making us into a prototype of himself, God forbid the latter. He has not encouraged the application of his four freedoms; instead he has instilled in us four fears—{fear of insecurity in old age, fear of loss of freedom in religion, fear of loss of free speech and fear of loss of ambition. This is the man you want, the kind of government you want, This is the kind of government I want: First of all, I want a man in the house of representatives who respects the will of the majority of his constituents in his own district, not a man who through fear of insecurity is influenced by fear of loss of votes, fear of political purges; no, I want my representative to be free of every fear. Next, I want a man representing my state in the senate, a. man who will not be influenced by fear of righ pressure, lobbies, fear of quarrelsome labor organizations; no, I want my senator to have freedom of speech. And, above sll these, IT want a man in the White House who realizes that his place is a seat of honor. I want a man there who knows that he is there because he is a symbol of the will of the people to the rest of the world. That man should be above the fear of the loss of any of the four freedoms. He should be above petty personal ambitions for prolonging his occupancy in the White House. He should be above petty political squabblings. He should be above petty party politics. He should be abbve petty personal grudges. Such a man will not have to buy votes through patronage,| sem! through connivance with any man, woman or organization. That man will be a shining example to .the youth and people of the world, as well ‘as to the citizens of his own nation who placed him there and can keep him there, if it be the will of God and of the people. May God grant that Thomas E. Dewey is that man. . s 8 ” “HOPE YOU HAVE COOLED OFF NOW” By. Pedestrian, Indianapolis Well, Mr. A Reader, you certainly blew your top when you replied to my letter in regard to keeping to the right while crossing downtown streets. What a temper! Hope you have cooled off by now. I assure you I meant no personal offense to any fellow pedestrian or citizen. Keeping to the right is just plain common sense and shows consideration for other people. Those markers and rows are there for a purpose, placed there at taxpayers’ expense. Therefore, if IT am all the things you insist I am in your siz-

the members of our police department, board of safety, ete. 3 You Roald 50 Tort and protest your tax money being wasted in such a manner, I travel a bit now and then but not much during the war. As to my personal contacts, I mingle with all sorts of people, defense workers included, and hold no grudge against any person, yourself included. I do not consider whether or not a person walks to the right has anything to do with how bright he or she may be. We

Worth Studying

| country and the world on tip-toe, breathless

| Accused of Being Naive

zling letter of condemnation, so are|.

By Thomas L Stokes

Every now and then there appears in the shoddy arena of politics, without anybody's invitation, a sort of knight errant, a dreamer, who appreciates and expresses the hopes of the common man. He is dismissed generally as an impractical fellow, Some few call him “a man ahead of his time.” Such a figure in the day before yesterday was Woodrow Wilson, the scholar in politics,

Wilson Was Much Tougher

HENRY WALLACE, a philosopher in politics, occupies the role today. This is not to compare the two men. They are different in virtually every respect, except in that visionary quality, Woodrow Wilson was much tougher than Henry Wallace, and could play a realistic game of practical politics, as Henry Wallace cannot, though none of this saved Wilson in the end. Woodrow Wilson had the common people of this

anticipation, with the dream men blew nonchalantly off the table, like a figment of dust, when they sat down to their business, Henry Wallace seems to be the embodiment of the same sort of dreams today among the people. Ha voices their aspirations, in the midst of turmoil and tragedy, for a brighter world tomorrow. ‘The practical people, the practical politicians, can't fathom the fellow at all. That is natural. He is shy, He has none of the talents for good fellowship. He cannot slap backs nor exchange bantering small talk,

He has neither the instinct nor the aptitude for

politics.

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THE POLITICIANS could understand his predeces«

sor, Jack Garner of Texas. They gathered in hig *

quarters off the senate lobby of an afternoon, and the air was full of the earthy talk of men, good stories, lusty laughter, There has been nothing like that since Mr. Wallace has been vice president. He Is virtually ‘a recluse. He is accused of being naive, gullible, and there is evidence to bear this out. He is & man of tremendous intellectual curosity, He can be so practical as to devise a highly successful strain of corn. He helped work out practical measures of farm relief in the early days of the New Deal, as secretary of agriculture, after participating as a pioneer organizer in the movement which finally made Washington realize there was a farm problem. He has a grasp of troubling economic problem: and he is constantly inquiring to learn more, as he showed on his recent trip to Russia and China. He is a misfit among the politicians. Perhaps he

should never have taken up politics. He doesn't belong. Yet he has a meaning {in politics, and the politicians will find that out, whatever happens to him politically,

Job for De Gaulle

By William Philip Simms

LONDON, July 14.—-The outstanding impression which I brought back from Normandy is... not the need for the United States to recognize Gen. De Gaulle and his committee, as that Gen. De Gaulle should recognize the Unit< ed States. The general and his entourage should begin to “sell” America and Britian to the sorely puzzled French. A friend just out of Caen told me that while he encountered no bitterness among the population, people ask sometimes if we really meant to bomb them so terribly. For, they said, there weren't so many Germans in the town. There was, of course, compelling reason for what happened at Caen. Military necessity has required 81 and will continue to require heart-breaking measures if France is to be set free, measures which the allies are loath to take. The French committee admits that a certain amount of bitterness already exists in ocertain badly battered areas.’ But it should not be left to the British and Americans to do the explaining; this is a job for the French themselves, and especially for Gen. De Gaulle.

De Gaulle Should Sound Keynote ~

FOR THE past four years Berlin and Vichy have been doing all the selling. The French have béen fed daily on vicious lies designed to make them distrust their old friends and turn to -Hitler. Anglo. American motives have been twisted out of all semblance to the truth, It is high time that trusted Frenchmen should begin to undo this harm and the obvious man-to sound the keynote is the general himself. Thus far he bas not had much to say in America’s favor. Behind the impression mentioned at the outset are many contributing impressions. The sheer cour age of the Prench In the face of all that has hap= pened and is happening to them brings a lump in the throat. All the Four Horsemen are trampling upon them. It is hard to keep one's eyes from filling to see shabby men, women and little children standing cut In a cold drizzle in mudpuddles near heaps of rubble which used to be their houses, waving and smiling as our troops slog past. It twists the heart to hear them talk of the future without a single word of reproach about the present. For the moment, they are welcoming us on faith. Nazi lies don't seem to have turned them from us. But I sensed a sort of delicate balance—one which might be easily turned this way or that. If some of the anti-American feeling long reported rampant in Algiers should now find its way to France it could do a vast amount of harm.

A Good Time to Begin

TODAY 18 Bastille day, France's Fourth of July, In Normandy there will be mourning for tite FrenctP civilians who lost their lives when the allied war

for some outstanding French patriot the people 0f France just what is why. And the 4th of July birthday berty, equality and fraternity would seem begin.

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