Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1944 — Page 10

The Indianapolis Times “PAGE 10/ Monday, November 13, 1944

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BIG JOB AHEAD HIS is just to remind you that the nation-wide Sixth War Loan drive, with a goal of 14 billion dollars, has

opened its campaign in Indiana. It will be a big undertaking, especially if the treasury’s quota of five billion dollars in bond sales to individuals is over-subscribed as far as it should be. But the American people ought to be in the mood for big achievements just now. Buying bonds will be a fine way to display that spirit of unity, that determination to win the war quickly, about which we've all been talking since the election. It will also be a fine way to fight inflation, and to store up purchasing power for the time after victory when savings will mean security and jobs. ' So we hope you'll plan to put all you think you can into the Sixth War Loan—and then to put in something exira for good American measure. :

OUR NOT-S0-DUMB FRIENDS

THE strange behavior of human beings has occupied so much of our attention of late that, with the exception of our zoo-conscious Lowell Nussbaum, we may have neglected the so-called lower animals. However, we are able to tell you today about: The claim of Johnny Cayton of Dallas, Tex., that one of his chinclfilla rabbits, menaced by an 80-pound dog, bit the dog on the neck and chased him down the street. The four-point buck that broke into a movie theater at Lansdale, Pa., and wrecked the console organ before being shot by a deputy game protector. The rockchucks in Wyoming's Big Horn mountains that are eating reflector posts along the state highways because they like the chemicals used to preserve the wood. = The English racehorse, Zaimis, which escaped from his box stall in a violent storm during a voyage to Australia and walked about the decks of a pitching, rolling ship on sea legs as steady as those of any sailor. The flies which are still baffling English scientists who have been trying to discover the secret of how they alight upside down on a ceiling. There's also that wildcat which is reported roaming the bottoms along Eagle creek. And the mysterious beast whose mournful howling of nights sends cold chills down the spines of residents in the Manchester-Reisterchurch neighborhood near Westminister, Md. (Perhaps, however, that one is only a Republican.)

THE JUNIOR RED CROSS HIS is everybody's war. You are neither too young

nor too old to do your part. For those who are too old for active duty, there are many ways to help out in the war effort—by giving blood, buying bonds, serving the U. 8. O., contributing to the various war agencies, nl Those who are too young have worked faithfully in the paper and scrap drives, But most wish they could do more. ! . And there is a way they can. They may join the Junior Red Cross during its current drive for members in the schools of the city." Members of thé Junior Red Cross are small but mighty. There are now 1814 million young Americans enrolled in the organization. They are a large and effective army. Their efforts have built nursery homes for the homeless waifs of the British blitz; they have provided medical supplies for the children of China, school supplies for the small refugees of Poland and Yugoslavia and shoes for Russian orphans. Like the parent organization, the Junior Red Cross carries good-will and mercy to the ends of the earth. And in addition, they have done their bit for the men on the battle fronts. The games, comfort articles and furniture they have produced for the armed forces are numbered in the millions. Too young to fight, they also serve.

JUDGES LEAD A HARD LIFE

: UR common pleas judges at Pittsburgh are pondering , this question: Can a man be a common scold? It seems that a man was indicted on that charge after an argument with. a woman about dog. His lawyer cited dictionary definitions which say that the term is “rarely applied to men,” and also dug up an 1866 finding of an England court that “a common scold can be only a woman.” > Bo the four judges went into a huddle to decide whether the indictment should be quashed. : Now, being both married and cautious, we want no part in this affair. But we await with breathless interest the momentous opinion of the Pittsburgh jurists. We want to know: (a) What they decide, and (b) how soon they'll dare

to go home unless they overrule the dictionaries and reverse that English court.

A GOOD MAN QUITS -

OHN R. STEELMAN'S resignation as director of concilia- ~~ tion in the labor department is a definite loss. When he took over the conciliation service 10 years ago it was little more than a featherbed for labor politicians. But Mr. Steelman brought into the service men who had both talent ond desire io make peace on the industrial front. An recent years we have read a lot in the newspapers about the strikes that came off. But, because it. was less dramatic, we haven't read as much about the employeremployee disputes which were settled without strikes. And \ of those peaceful meetings-of-mind which kept lustrial Wheels turning were made possible throygh the nding intervention of Mr. Steelman’ nakers,

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The Master

By James Thrasher

Race

IF RECENT reports from within Germany are to be credited, the Nazis themselves have accommodatingly, started the difs ficult task of de-educating and re-educating their followers. This Is being done not through books, but through impressive demonstrations in their own city streets. It.seems that their dwindling manpower reserve has forced the 3 Nazis to impress prisoners from Asiatic Russia into service, and thus knock the racial supremacy theory for a loop. For today the Germans see about them a conglomerate collection of men in German uniforms whose

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“inferior,” according to the master-race diet which Hitler fed his people for 10 years. That rpust be quite a jolt. And particularly since many of these foreigners wear the 88 uniform. The SS used to be the cream of the Nazi crop. Its fanatic members were intent proving, by blood and slaughter, that the *“Nordics” living inside certain artificial political boundaries were ordained by nature's laws to enslave and rule their neighbors,

Baffling Task to Try to Explain

TODAY THOUSANDS of those ardent di.ciples of the New Order lie buried in distant lands. So many are’ gone that the Nazi leaders must now force members of the destined slave race, on pain of death, to defend the master race against inevitable defeat by the conquering “inferior” armies, "It would be a baffling task to try to explain such an anomaly, Here are prisoners compelled to take up arms in defense of a philosophy which mwould enslave them but which, by defending, they also destroy. The significance behind the sight of a Mongoloid face above an 88 uniform can hardly be lost upon the most obtuse German, And yet it may be wondered how lasting an impression the lesson will make, Super-racism isn't a Nazi invention. It has flourished in Germany for more than a century, in such things as Hegel's theory of the dominance

vision of a superman-and a “daring and ruler race” triumphing over slave types paralyzed by JewishChristian morality; Wagner's grandiose Teutonic myths; Treitschke’s anti-Soclalist, anti-Catholic, antiPolish and anti-Jewish writings, Hitler's circlé weren't the first small men to pervert philosophic thought to despicable practice.

Bigotry Spread to Other Nations

GERMANY WAS also the cradle of modern antisemitism. In the last quarter of the 19th century this bigotry spread to Russia, Hungary, Romania and France, climaxed there by the infamous Dreyfus persecution. Directly after the last war anti-semitism teappeared in Germany, and it took but little encouragement for Hitler to fan it into ¥lame. Racism is a congenital German aberration. Its eradication will be a hard, perplexing problem for Germany's conquerors. But a practical example of its inconsistent folly, presented unwillingly by German authorities, may be as hopeful a beginning as could be asked for,

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Hull's Place By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Dip-lomatic circles here are in dismay over reports, current for some time, that Secretary of State Cordell Hull plans to leave the cabinet on Jan. 20 for reasons of health, ; Reports of resignations are always a dime a dozen following presidential elections. But these particular rumors have found credence because everybody knows that the gallant Tennesseean has always worked harder probably than any other member of the official family. Since the first of October, when Mr. Hull con. tracted a severe cold, he has been under medical attention. For the past fortnight he has been at the navy hospital hear here where he went for a physical checkup. Now, it is said, he is on the mend but it will take time to get his strength back. He is 73.

Knows Foreign Psychology Well

MR. HULL has been secretary of state almost four years longer than any of his predecessors. Never having done anything by halves, he has not only worked hard at his job but has niade a systematic study of the background of the problems which foreign envoys in a steady stream lay before him, Having seen practically every embassy and legation in Washington filled and refilled he has accumulated one of the widest international friendships of any living American. Through knowing so many of their top drawer diplomats, he has come to know foreign psychology extraordinarily well. That is one reason why the diplomatic corps is ‘so perturbed by reports concerning Mr, Hull's possible retirement. If President Roosevelt must find a worthy suc cessor to the distinguished gentleman who is now his first minister, it will be no easy job. The qualifications of an American secretary of state are wholly different than they were when one of them would sit with callers and sample a Georgia watermelon. Thirty years ago America’s problems were mostly domestic. All that ended, however, on that day in 1914 when a Balkan schoolboy fired the bullets which killed the Archduke Ferdinand and his consort at Serajevo. :

Most Diligent Search Required

TODAY, A SHOT fired in the remotest corner the globe can set off a string of events which suck us into a new world war: And it is modern American secretary of state to things in time, if possible, to prevent th headway. It is his job nowadays to know people tick, all over the world and, kn contribute to the world's peace and progress. Cordell Hull is such a f minister, worn himself down working at it, find a man capable of ste; insists on taking things ‘to do—will require the It is no job for a to somebody by way of politics should not enter petence, skill and experience. House, the state department is in the United States. For while domestic tion undoubtedy is vital, it won't have a ch unless there is world peace. y

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The Hoosier Forum

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

“WHY WERE THESE BOYS RELEASED?” By L..M. Cunningham, R. M. Cramer, B, A. Wickliff, Franklin township. On Oct. 28 a house at 5038 E. 14th st. was burglarized and vandalized by a gang of four boys, between the ages of 11 to 14. The eldest was held from two. to three days and was then released, another escaped from court the day of the trial, and the other two boys were released on Nov. 8th and 9th. These releases were granted after their confession of three burglaries. The question we are presenting to the public is, “Why were these boys released without the punishment they so justly deserve?” The owner of the burglarized home has received no compensation for the damages which have been estimated at $1200, including keepsakes which can never be replaced. We are teen-age girls who have been taught to respect the property of others. We are of the opinion that these “Junior Commandos” should in some way be made to understand the difference between right and wrong. Is this the way our courts are protecting our servicemen's wives? » » » “IS THIS JUSTICE?” By Mrs. Marysue Gray, 5036 'E. 14th st. My house was burglarized and vandalized on Oct. 28 by boys from the ages of 11 to 14. I am the wife of an overseas serviceman, and I am trying to maintain a home for his return. There are several points which I wish to bring to your attention. First of all, I want to praise the members of the Indianapolis police department and also the chief of detectives and his men. They have been very co-operative int this mat ter by giving prompt, courteous, ars accurate attention, It was not long after the police made an investigation of the crime that the detectives had arrested the culprits. However, after all the work the police and detectives gave to" the job, and after the boys had confessed to two additional burglaries, the court released three of the boys. On’ the morning of the trial, one

before the juvenile court several times, ped from the juvenile

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‘hour had passed, the juvenile authorities returned to the court without the escaped boy. They had set out “on foot” to find a boy who had a list of past records in the court— they had not notified the police. A detective who was a witness to the case, as soon as he learned the police had not been notified, immediately called it in to the police himself, The damage inflicted to the house could not be replaced entirely by money for many antiques and keepsakes were either stolen or broken. The interior of the home must be refinished, and the furniture which the boys ruined by shooting through it cannot be repaired. The damage is estimated at $1200. The three boys have been released —three confessed burglaries by two of them—they were released to society. - Is this justice? Are those boys being helped, or will aid’ their tendencies to have no respect for property or the rights -of “others? How much longer are juvenile delinquents to be coddled?

. =» “WHAT IS A BRITISH ARMY?” By 8. 0. J., Indianapolis Will some one kindly explain just

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they were identified they were Americans, Canadians and Poles. They probably had a British commander. Why try to give England honor that other nations earn? England

war like a good soldier, “but give praise where praise is due. We have bent over backward to all other countries, trying to please, long enough. We are like the man, the boy and the donkey. After it's all over, we won't have the donkey. I cannot help but wonder if the natives of British territory had stood up for England like the Filipinos did for the United States, would we have, lost them so soon? Maybe I have a one-track mind and it just leads in this direction. Those in the know explain please. 3d » n “THEY NEED THEM MORE THAN WE” By Mrs. B. B., Indianapolis I got a letter from my husband and he says he can't get cigarets. It is time for the Red Cross and that great big War Chest to show their true colors and see that they help our boys overseas to get cigar-

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y 8 8 “THE PERFECT TRIBUTE” By Henry Reger, 1000 N. Talbot ave, -

There have been many “glowing tributes extended to Wendell Willkie since his death, Many of which were deeply sincere, others had a tinge of political subterfuge, while others were plain hypocritical. It is, however, surprising tliat 50 many Americans revered the Hoosier statesman. Of the many tributes paid Willkie,

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New Figures By Thomas L. Stokes =

eral state gnd congressional elections. Aside from whacking down outstanding isolationists, a development previously discussed here, they projected into . important

men who may play important parts in politics of the future. A new and engaging Democrat emerged in the Middle West in Frank J. Lausche, mayor of Cleveland, who was elected governor in the always politically-. propitious state of’ Ohio. ‘He exhibited on a state wide scale the vote-getting abilities he has twice shown in Cleveland. He came through despite the “Republican tide which carried the state for Governor Dewey and for Senator Taft. : Frank Lausche is an unorthodox sort of gentleman, just as unorthodox in politics—as Cleveland has learned and liked—as in his golf stance. And he is an excelient golfer. He is a big, strapping fellow, a semi-pro baseball player as a young man, He is an attractive speaker and quite a campaigner. Despite its preference for Republicans otherwise, Ohio picked him as governor rather than turn the state over to the old G. O. P. machine bossed by Ed A, Schorr, state chairman, who barely got his candidate, Mayor James Garfield Stewart of Cincinnati, through the primaries. This was a gain for progres sive government, and a tribute to the voters.

Saltonstall Goes a Step Higher

IN CONTRAST with this bustling middle westerner, a second gereration Slovene, is another interésting figure from Massachusetts in the ancient line and of the ancient tradition of public service, who went a step higher politically. ; Governor Leverett Saltonstall, a Republican, was elected easily to the senate, weathering a contrary trend in his state which cartled it for President Roosevelt and for a Democratic governor to succeed him, He is bound to be a valuable addition to the senate. The tall, spare New Englander who cracks his outward austerity with a dry sense of humor has won immense popularity in Massachusetts. He will be among those mentioned as the 1948 Republican presidential candidate when people get around to that subject. He served three terms as governor. He was honored by other governors as chairman of the national governors conference, retiring this past spring.

Classed in the Progressive Wing

MR. SALTONSTALL will be a help in the senate in the battle to come for a post-war world organization. He was a supporter of the late Wendell Willkie and is classed in the progressive wing of the party on both domestic and international matters, He was indorsed by the C. I. O. His ‘election. strengthens the party nationally and his influence will be effective in shaping the party's course to the times. ¢ Another man of standing and character who was added to Republican ranks in the senate is H. Alexander Smith, who reversed the Democratic trend in New Jersey which put it in the Roosevelt column, and defeated Boss Frank Hague's hand-picked candidate, Rep. Elmer Wene. - Former Republican state chairman, Mr. Smith is of the internationalist wing of the Republican party and will be helpful in the fight for an effective post-war international organization, He was an ally of former Democratic Governor Chazles Edison of New Jersey in the crusade against aguism. :

|IN WASHINGTON.

The Hatch Law By Charles T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. — United ‘States Civil Sérvice Commission officials reported today that, measured by the number and character of complaints ve ceived, the Hatch “clean politics” law has been an effective deterrent in keeping {federal jobholders and federally paid state workers from participation in political campaigns. i These officials said that only a handful — perhaps 25 --comreceived in the election campaign

plaints have been

ercion of employees to vote a certain way. This is only a fraction of the cases placed before the commission in the national election. four years ago. A consciousness of what the law stands for and the penalty involved in violation—usually dismissal from the service—is said by commission officials to be the reason that relatively few employees are straying from the reservation. :

Half-Million Posters Sent Out

BEFORE THE ELECTION, more than a halfmillion posters were sent out through the federal service warning against political activity, and notices to the same effect go to employees when they enter the service, it was explained. Opponents of the Hatch act who have sought to repeal it have claimed that it has not been observed, citing the relatively few violations which are reported. But Senator Hatch (D. N. M.), author of the law, has contended that its value is measured not in the number of violations, but in. its effect in forestalling violations. A lot of politicians would like to see the statute wiped out; they have complained that once protected

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