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19% SEPTEMBER 11004 ; JIVE years ago at dawn Hitler struck Poland. Mostof 3 the world was drawn into the worst war in history. Today the once near-victor--first stopped at Moscow, ‘Stalingrad and El Alamein—has been driven from most of _ Italy -and France, from half of Poland ‘and part of the Balkans. His subs are sunk, his air force and panzers “riddled, | his oil reserves almost gone, communications strained, plants blasted, ‘and his Nazi-Junker command rotten with internal feuds. . ~~ Gen. Eisenhower predicts total victory ¢ over Germany | 3*™ before Christmas—provided there is all-out allied effort on the battlefronts and homefronts. Just as Poland—the first victim—became the symbol of German barbarism, now on the eve of Nazi defeat Poland is becoming the test of allied peace plans, Liberation of Warsaw is delayed while rival Polish factions in Moscow fail to agree on a provisional gov ent. Behind that is the struggle over whether there is to be a free, and perhaps federated, Europe, or puppet states divided between a Russian sphere of influence in the - East and a British sphere in the West, . : ¢ es! SECRETARY OF STATE HULL, after persuading Russia and Britain to sign the Moscow pact with the United "States, announced that there would be no more spheres of ‘influence, po more ‘balance of power. Since then the acts of Russia in Poland and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, and British policies have. pointed toward a British-Russian | balance of power in Europe. Prime Minister Churchill has ‘publicly underwritten Stalin's East European policy. And neither Poland nor any other small nation is represented on the London Big Three commission which is drawing the peace settlement, or at the Dumbarton Big Three conference which is drafting a new League of Nations to be controlled by a council dominated by the big powers. Still British and American officials’ depot ‘the pledges of a democratic and just peace in which small nations will share equally, and the Russians insist despite appearances that they want a strong free Poland.

» ” » # RUSSIA HAS a right to insist that no government: in Poland, or in any other Eastern European state, shall plot against her or be used as a puppet against her by another big power or by a future Germany. But Stalin has no right, under a democratic peace, to have a Russian . puppet regime in Warsaw. . The same, of course, applies to Britain in Western “Europe and elsewhere, and to the United States in this . hemisphere and the Far East.

+ More is involved than moral issues or allied Pledges. Big-power domination won't work. It enabled Germany and Japan to break the last “peace” by playing one power against another, It would invite repetition by the same easy process.

If the big powers, one or three, dictate the Polish . and other.gettlements, if they restore the vicious balanceof -power system, if they create a league which they control but which cannot control them, they will defy history and III. “That must not be,

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—court world war Iii.

FOR A SAFER CITY JNDIANAPOLIS CAN POINT with pride to. some outstanding recent accomplishments, but its record on traffic safety is one that should-eause concern to all citi_zens. From January, 1941,-to. June, 1944; for example, there were 602 accidents at the five most dangerous. inter- - sections in the city, with 50 pedestrians killed or injured. And for this year alone, this city’s traffic death rate. is one of the highest’ inthe Hition.

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Reflections By) John W. Hillman

1 the German armies were on the march: Poland had been invaded, the storm which had been gatherinig since the days ‘of Munich had “at last broken and the world® was at war. Today those German armies ‘are again fighting

five years ago. They are in name only; thé young

t hawks of the Luftwaffe are rag, they froze in the Rus-

yielding the territory they bought With their blood. falling back in another. retreat from Moscow, as costly and as disastrous as the one whieh broke Napoleon's dream 3f world mupire.

Conquered Poland in 35 Days : > 0k

FIVE YEARS ago, the men who since have died for Hitler had their hour of glory. In 35 days, they conquered Poland; their leader proclaimed ‘that Poland had ceased to exist and that he, Adolf Hitler,

thousand years. But other conquerors, before him, had made the same boasts; And Poland has never died; no nation that is worthy of the name ever dies. For the Poles’ fought on. Forced from their homeland, they fought the enemy wherever they could find him. First it was in France, where Gen. Sikorski formed an army of 80,000 to carry on the battle. When France fell, they re-

Narvik in the disastrous invasion of Norway. Another army was organized among released prisoners in Russia, and 80,000 of them are fighting today with the Red army. In the Middle East, 75,000 Poles fought through the Libyan campaign:and are now spearheading the advance in Italy. The Polish navy was at Dunkirk and Dieppe. Its small force joined in the attack on the Bismarck and has been conspicuous in Atlantic and Mediterranean operations. Its merchantmen have sailed all the seven seas in allied convoys.

Fliers Served in Battle of Britain

THE 12,000 MEN in the Polish air force have flown’ more than 7000 sorties, in which they destroyed or

| damaged more than 1000 enemy aircraft and dropped

8000 tons of bombs. They served heroically in the defense of Britain, these relentless avengers, and the little band of Polish fliers who asked only a chance to

of gietory in this deciding battle. But it was not only the ones who escaped from the debacle of five years ago who fought on. At home guerrilla units were welded into an underground army of 250,000 which battled the Nazis by stealth and now is fighting openly and effectively against the aggressor. Not all the resistance was underground; a year ago last April, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose and, in an epic of heroism, faced -their heavilyarmed oppressors for five weeks with light weapons and naked hands, The story of Poland's will to fight is told inthe figures which measure the cost. In five years, it has ‘lost almost one-fifth of its pre-war population—8,600,000. killed in “hy torture, privation and disease. “Burely here i8 a nation that has weathered the worst that could come, that has earned the right to

spiration that its courage and unvislote spirit have given to the allied cause.

Record Has Been Wiped Clean

PRE-WAR POLAND, to be sure, .was not without fault, nor was it by any definition an ideal democracy. Much of its wealth was concentrated in the hands of the landed aristocracy, and its short-sighted leaders joined hands with Hitler in the rape of Czechoslovakia. But the record has been wiped clean in the blood of heroes. Five years after that fateful first of September, They have been proved in the fires of beleaguered Warsaw, in the lost cause at Narvik and on the cruel heights of Italy. They have shown a determination that even the cunning and barbarism of the gestapo could not break. Through defeat, through disaster

“| after disaster, they held their heads high, unwavering

in the faith- that Poland had been and would again be free: Theirs, with the GEIR, of China, has been the fongest war of all, the costliest, but through it all they have preferred death to dishonor. The yoke was

—not—for- them, and there were few,-if any, Polish col=

laborators. The years have been long and bitter, but now at last the end is in sight. And if honor and gallantry meah anything in this world of men, Poland will have its nationhood, Poland will live again, proud .and free.

We The People

By Ruth Millett

Definitely, s something is wrong. Dr. R. N. Harti) chairman of the Chamber of Commerce safety committee, | advanced a plausible explanation when he said that.the | traffic police are “leisurely, ambling” and “not worth their | salt.” It is easy to blame the police for a bad accident record, and doubtless there is some basis for this charge. | The causes, however, go deeper than that alone, and it is significant that Dr. Harger also pointed the finger of respongibility at deputy prosecutors “and municipal judges by calling attention to the low percentage of convictions; particularly in drunken ‘driving cases. Shiu the police can hardly be expected to_be alert and aggressive in arresting traffic violators if they know that their cases ~ will, in all probability, be thrown out of court. i # nm @, on. THE ANSWER, THEN? We believe it- lies in the 12-point. program advocated by Municipal Judge'John L. Niblack. - In his court—where he has never shbwn an inclination to deal lightly with offenders—Judge Niblack has had an opportunity te learn ~ what is wrong with-traflic conditions in-Indianapolis, —We-| are particuiarly impressed by his suggestion that the laws be enforced steadily and consistently and not in intermittent “drives” and that the sticker “fix” which gives immunity to those with friends or influence be eliminated. Those points are basic. oo] The mechanics of enforcement would be improved by increasing the motorcycle patrol from 15 to 75; by the codification of the existing maze of ordinances, the es- ‘ tablishment of a separate traffic court and improvement: of the identification system and prosecution. methods for : drunken-driving and hit-audjrtfi cases, Supplemented by. ‘the other educational and peventive ‘steps Judge Niblack

ggests, this program would go a long way toward making |- streets of Indianapolis safe... And that’ goal stiould be |

concern of every citizen.

traffic accident is no, o respecte 0 of persons. You nexts :

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AMERICA SAW the need for a program whereby service wives expecting babies could--get medical ‘attention and set up a program providing for it. # Now, it- seems, many of them may be in need of another kind of attention, when their men a’ returned to them—psychiatric advice. : Isn't . there need of some plan ‘whereby service wives who face a difficult time helping their men get, readjusted to civilian life and Yamily, responsibilities can get advice from psychiatrists?

great deal of money—or if it isn't easily available, They won't have the money, and average, families ‘aren't used to consulting psychiatrists about family problems. Instead they muddle along as best they can alone—or with the haphazard advice of friends

at all.

{ Much Depends on the Wives

BUT IF psychiatric advice were made as easily available to service wives as medical care during

take advantage of it. The problem of readjusting service men fo civilian

and the co-operation of their wives, that will follow the war. Wouldn't it be wise to try and save as many marreadjust.fo marriage and civilian life without help?

that arise in family living have to.be solved by the wife—if they are going to be solved.

To The Point— |

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NOW. THAT the e girls are ving. taxis shouldn't Ww about death and

' FIVE YEARS AGO millions of ; Americans listened in tense silence || when, around midnight, the news || was flashed that at dawn on Sept. |

in. Poland, | ‘moving again toward the border

troops, the proud panzer |’

had charged the history of the “world forthe next-

formed on other fields. ‘They were the first men into |

fight to the death may well have been the thin edge:

: Its material contribution may have been, small, in the aggregate, but who can ‘assay the in-

the world knows the stuff that Poles. are. made of.

| were the only ones in America who

Most of them won't get expert advice if it costs a | }

and relatives, which is often worse than no help

pregnancy now is—many of them would undoubtedly

life will if many cases hinge on the understanding” We talk gloomily of the gredt wave of -divorges riages as possible, by seeing that servicemen's wives |’ don't have to meet the problem of helping their men

For- any realist knows that most of the problems |

-THE. SAN win coined the expression “dirt cheap” |

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

“SUNKEN GARDEN IS IDEAL LOCATION” By Dorothy D. Davis, 427 E. 22d st.

It has been suggested by Mrs. Sterling that a large memorial hall be built to commemorate our fight« ing men of world war II. There-} fore, I should further suggest that, with the sanction of the American Legion, the sunken garden is an ideal location for such a memorial, and that such a large hall be built, | both for commemoration of those living and dead who fought in world war II to establish a permanent peace and also to contribute to the cultural life of this greatest inland city. London, New York, Paris, Boston and other cities in our class have their fine memorial halls, and we also should have an edifice in keeping with the size and importance of our fair city. Since now is the time to submit such recommendations, I hereby humbly suggest that; at-the proper time a drive be put on to realize this ambition.

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honest one, then the one he made to the 1944 convention could not have been. The voters can take their choice of statements -tobelieve, but they can’t believe both of. them at the same.time—unless they are New Dealers who will believe their leader regardless of fact, Giving. him credit for having foresight, for that is his most recent claim, the question then pops up: Why were we caught with our down when the Japs raided Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, or after he and his "orssightery had been in power nine years? With nine long years to prepare for what he now declares to have begh inevitable all along, why gid he bull through a program where thousands of able-bodied men did nothing but Take leaves, 8nd build outhouses? If he knew so much, those men should have béen building warships and guns. If he and his party foresaw this war and its Kelly, Boss Hague, Boss Flynn, and results (food shortages, rubber the protege of Boss Pendergast to shortages, etc.), why did they foster get out the vote and thus frustrate, program. of scarcity, killing pigs him from doing that which he so and plowing under grains and payhonestly wants? Or is he being {hg subsidies for untilled soil? extra shrewd again, judgifig thal, where were the rubber stockpiles? if he aligns himself with the crook- By. . they foresaw this war, | edest elements in modern fpolitics, {they arg£llenjly admitting that the the people will be smart enpugh to programs they sponsored were savote for the other guy and thereby potage of the ‘worst degree. afford him his chance for that| very jittle has been said about cherished retirement? - He's a Very {his yet much should be. It is a sly duck, according to his wife andigood point for intelligent voters to other press agents. decide—that, if the indispensable Before he retires, however, I hope |leader and his party had such forehe clarifies a few matters now cone [sight why should they not be acfused in the records.. For example, in 1940, in a campaign speech, he promised the, voters that no American boy wotld have to fight on foreign soil. But in his speech toi the convention in July, “1044, he maintained that he and his party

“I NEED MUCH REASSURING” - By M. H. Rush, Anderson

The Democratic candidate for the presidency who, for the record, said he preferred retirement at * his sanctuary on the Hudson to an other four years of turmoil on the Potomac, has a bad memory and a charming habit of getting the | oF records mixed up. ¥or one who cannot forget what he reads, this.is bothersome, and this little piece is an attempt to keep the records straight. —In-the-first- place. our permane candidate is trying. to pull some-. body's leg. If he wished to. retire, would he have gone to all that trouble of enlisting his pals, Boss

the preparatory years? Of course, if they admit they” had no more foresight than anyone else, it is fust ‘a joke—to be laughed off at a newspaper conference. As a matter for the record, he also said there would be another President in 1945. Did he word this in such a way as to reassure the

had ‘the foresight to prepare for this terrible war. Now, those two utterances, taken together, do not|people that he'is not yet ready to jell. If had foresight, he could not assume. dictator status, that, when have made.the 1940 statement hon- | he- tires of one title, he will take esfly. If the 1040 statement was an the other? For me, his “actions

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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|speak louder than his words, and I

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“|the part’ expected of them in the

cused of crimina] negligence during

am no longer a believer. much reassuring. » » “ONLY ONE IDEA IN THE WHITE HOUSE" . By W. B. Pafil, 3551 Washington Blvd. \_It has been known for some time Sr has been permitting Engla to. mis-use our (good neighbor). Jend lease. England now insists on Mend lease after the German war {.over—to the extent of some three b ions _per - year. And théy will not be able to play

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Pacific war unless we bolster Britain’s domestic economy. . If we. fail to extend lend lease, Britain will have to: sell some of their foreign securities. Now, taxpayers and bond buyers, wouldn't that be too -bad! Foreign securi-

are repudiated-I. O. Us of England, France, Germany, Russia and the South American countries, and they have all refused to pay even the interest. This was all pre-war. England has been permitted to sell billions of dollars worth of lend lease foodstuffs, clothing, etc. and pocket the cash, which they used to pay for imports from their own colonies. Roosevelt has permitted them to sell large quantities of lend lease goods in the Middle East, Far East, Africa and Spain. The British charge U. S. officials, civil and military, full fare to ride in planes they received from us under| lend lease, while their own officials are being transferred all over the world ~~ by the Afr = Transport Command—{ree of charge. The British are determined to avoid going deeper into debt. As a result, including their pre-war debt to us of some six billions, their total debt will not exceed 75 billions. Our debt is near 300 billion. : Have you ever heard of Roosevelt attempting to . conserve our lassets? Only one idea prevails in| the White House—if you cannot spend it, give it away. Talk about selling apples—we * won't have money with which to buy apples if we continue Browder, Hillman and C. I. O. in power. ” TTTLN LN. “ISN'T IT JUST TOO APPALLING?”

| [tion yourself, Cato, -listen to the “American Forum of ‘tiie Air” .over

1 | out—but here's my two cents’ worth. heard some

| Miller a Republican, please accept my congratulations.

Great Leader—the one

By Mrs. L. P. H.. Indianapolis. Isn't it just too appalling there are so many illiterate voters in the U. 8.2 I've read a lot of insulting Republican letters, but- Cato’s ops them all. - What is he calling the Republicans that have voted .for Mr. Roosevelt? Surely he knows that many millions of them had to vote for Roosevelt to give him the big majority he.always had. Brother (or sister), just wait until us illiterates get -through==voting for Roosevelt in November—then you can add a few more despairing verses to your old Republican propaganda tune, Also, if you, want a little educa

WIBGC. on Tuesday at 8:30 p. m. You'll find the Democrats can always ‘give a good accounting of themselves on that program. * NTR “1 WOULDN'T BE ~~ TOO QUICK TO JUDGE”

By “8S. Basey,/ Indianapolis Not ig ‘read. Robert: Miller's

letter, niaybe I am sticking my neck 1 absolutely and truthfully have

tor, that we aren't well enough educited fo govern ourselves—so I wouldn't be too quick to judge Mr.

I am a Republican, Mr. Rural Route Subscriber, and nonetheless

You have just turned a neat bit of propaganda yourself, worthy of Our and onlv

ladispensaliie Man, DAILY THOUGHTS _

He judged the cause of the and needy; he Cush of tHe oes

ane was mot this to know me? |

saith She JLrdejereria n 16.

New Dealers say that + we, the American people, should be| regimented, that we ‘need a dicta-

capture the young first-line, N forces. Interviews With these ‘arrogant prisoners, ignorant of ew save Hitler's, emphasize the staggering job of de- and re-educating that must be done in Germany, There is an equally dificult task of the same sort ahead of us in Japan. “It is well that we know how sick the world has ‘been, and how contagious that sickness can Perhaps knowing will enable to help nurse

} world to real health this timé—even though the magnitude of the‘task leaves. no time or inclination.

for daneing Yi ho stteety next Atuistve day,

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Labor Confusion By Fred W. Perkins

PIT TSBURGH, Sept. Stn s

heavily industrial district such as 1t is easy to see results in

ties owned by ‘the United States]

n the number of government representatives who take

a hand in trying tb séttle union-management contro

versies. Sometimes they get in each other's way. There is no one boss for all the federal labor agencies, estimated variously at between 12 and 24, except

own hands,

Conflicts Blamed for Strikes

THE CONFLICTS and confusion between federal authorities gets some of the blame for the fact that the wartime no-strike pledge of the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. has been broken frequently by unruly elements defying the top leaders of their unions, Some attempts to discipline these trouble makers have been made by the C, I. O. United Steelworkers, and also by the ‘United Mine Workers, but this has not yet become a routine union policy. In the case of the steel workers, industrialists have!

expressed hope that the situation will be improved ’ | through the“decision of this union to assign an execu.

-tive; Clinton 8, Golden, to permanent duty in_the national headquarters here. : Mr, Golden is portrayed as a believer in strict union discipline and also in union responsibility in the matter of observance of contracts with employers. = The wildcat strikes, many for causes that appear trivial, have been so numerous that some observers have pointed out a danger of a-real breakdown of the foundation of collective Bargaining aieios observe

ance of contracts by both employers and workers, DIGS the Juitniul Wie of sashiue'y sat Up Tor ta

settlement of grievances.

Continual Argument Over Responsibility

THERE IS a continual argument between manages

ment and the important Unions as to the responsie bility for some of the strikes. In one case the management of a steel mill granted wage adjuste ments to one group of workers and refused the same

concession to other groups doing the same work, |

The management “appeared to be at fault. In another case, cited as typical of the triviale causé stoppages,-more than a, hundred men walked "out because the management g

or give up his job. In many of these. cases there was no evidence that any effort had been made by the men to use the grievance machinery, and this has resulted in

recommendations that unions could make a contr. bution to national stability and also to their own on the theory

futures by educating the rank and file of contract observance and use ‘of the established means for settling disputes peaceably, ' i.

So" They Say—

the enemy. —Toshio Shision, former Ja ambassad woltaly. - o- . ? ”

EVENTS ARE moving fast and peace may come

to destroy. Ee rons rau 1s gused hordes

| ple at. the Mberation: of their taplial.—~President

Roosevelt. : : «se . = IT 18 NOT ENOUGH:' that with the aid of dear and splendid allies we should drive the from our soll.. After what has to we will not be satisfled until « ‘as conquerors. day-~Gen, Charles

“nurtured cream of Hitler's

the President. Mr. Roosevelt has insisted on. | keeping all the strings on the labor situation in his

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NOTHING CAN ever undermine the Japanese b from believing that they will never be invaded by