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Wednesday, January 3, 1945

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ALL-OUT WAR PRODUCTION THERES a lot of good sense in the report just made to the President and congress by James F. Byrnes, director of war mobilization arid reconversion. : _» It calls'on the home front for. all-out War. production

until Germany i

until Japan also is beaten. believes, more mobilization than has yet been achieved and, for the time being, less reconversion than seemed ‘feasible a few months ago. preparations for orderly transition to post-war production and employment will not be neglected. » », » 2 o » » TO DATE, he says, our fighting forces are not short of ammunition and supplies as a result of any production

failures. The

do a better job. The commanders on the fighting fronts must be relieved from fear of future shortages, so they can spend freely the materiel they have instead of spendAnd, because of changing military conditions and difficulties, many munitions programs must be greatly increased, although others can be held at present levels

"ing lives.

or reduced.

This means urgent need for more manpower in some: war industries even while workers are being laid off by others. Demands for increased production of civilian goods, | - to provide jobs for displaced war workers, must be resisted, "Mr. Byrnes asserts. effort to direct released manpower into critical war programs and into industries and services needed to support The civilian economy, he observes, is not: likely to be starved, since the general standard of. living is now

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higher than it perity.

» - = = » 5 IN SHORT, Mr. Byrnes calls for all-out production. He recognizes that the big job, the only job, is to win the war. "Nothing else is important. - _ “The American people, we believe, 2 are in the ‘mood to accept that principle. ! sobering reverses on the western front are bringing homie

_ the realization

it must be, in the shortest possible time. ican boys are dying every hour to allow anything to delay final victory by 4 single unnecessary day. Mr. Byrnes is talking tough. And that is what the American people want.

of being given

are tired of fighting a Hollywood war. conflicting statements, of bureaucratic wrangling over whether the name of one agency or another will appear first in a particular order. confusion; of prima donnas ‘and bunglers, of deviousness and delay. They want action. They want to win the war, - .- and if it is going to take sacrifices—as most assuredly it

will—they are

“ The American people can take it. Given a program that makes sense, they will co-operate. will accept the Byrnes proposals. approve the spirit of this report. stance says—as most of the nation is now say ing: Let’s get on with the war.

AIR SUPERIORITY

(ORVILLE WRIGHT, co-inventor of the airplane; recently told an interviewer that he believed the enemy had made the greéatest single contribution to-aviation in 1944. Lt. Gen: Barton Yount of the army air forces has said, in the course of a speech, that “it is probable that no further (American) fighters with conventional gasoline engines will

be designed.” .

Mr. Wright evidently was referring to the German Vbombs. Gen. Yount obviously was paying a back-handed

compliment to ~fighter plane.

This is a war which, in part, is a race between opposing scientists and engineers to devise increasingly effective engines of destruction. bombs and planes in production, but Germany already has them in operation. All of which is no cause for despair. reason for respecting the enemy’s ability, and for showing

some restraint allies are comp

THE 79TH IFFICULT

opportunities await the 79th congress, which meets

today.

Momentous issues of war and, we hope, of peace will come before it i in the next two years. Its decisions are certsin to affect, for better or worse, the whole future course of American hse and of world

history.

Its actions, more than those of any of its predecessors

in 156 years,

~ itself is to be, as it was intended to be, the chief instrument

“of government of freedom."

For the members of the 79th we wish wisdom, courage, devotion to .duty and determination to do right, all of which they will need in fullest measure.

3 | SACRIFICE : OME on, you racing fans; send a postal card to your .’ congressman in defense: of

is defeated; and for continued mighty efforts There must be, Mr. Byrnes

However, he promises that

home front has done a good job: It must

Instead, there must be intensified

was in 1929, at the peak of peace-time pros-

The mounting casualty lists and the

that the war still is far from won.. And won Too many Amer-

They are tired of being coddled, only half-truths or no truths at all. They They are tired of

They are tired of politics and

ready to sacrifice to the hilt. And that is why they

That is why they will For Mr. Byrnes, in sub-

the efficiency of the German jet-propelled Both statements are sébering,

We now have both jet-propelled But it is another

in-our feeling of confident security that the lete ‘masters of the air.

problems, heavy responsibilities and great

seem likely to determine whether congress

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REFLECTIONS— malin Help for- Voy

By James Thrasher

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story as crime stories go. A man had dropped his wife at a New York theater and was on his way . to .park his car. At a halt in hy. traffic a gunman climbed in the car, forced thé ‘man to drive over to New. Jersey and give up his ‘money and the car.

the lobby, when the man arrived for-the- play -at-10:15.—. But the next day's story was not amusing. man was a former paratroop sergeant: who had fo through the New Guinea campaign. He had come home with a medical discharge, the Silver Star" and the Purple Heart, a shrapnel wound in his arm, He had killed 50 Japs.

He Should Have Been Happy

low-up

soft- bed, and enough money for'a young man _of 23

Eg 10 bé nothing in his -plesent’ environment to fend Ah crime, He was safe and he should” naan eR But app EGR Te oy so he started drinking. When his senSes returned he was in’ jail, charged with a catalog of crimes—kidnaping, robbery, larceny, carrying a concealed weapon. What will happen to him and a lot of other boys like him-—decent lads whose shocked nervous systems just can't take the quick transition from war's supercharged excitement of Killing and dodging death to the routine of civilian life? The boy of this story is a source of trouble .for himself and others. He is not a ‘criminal, but jail might make him one.. He is obviously ill, in need of

ment.

Difficult and-Important Questions

SHALL HE BE sent to a veterans’ hospital by

him. on the clinical history of one night of crime? Will the black mark of a police record stand beside his name for the rest of his life? "These are difficult and important questions. They will probably crop “uf; with *ariations, th¥oughout the country for a long time to come. How they are answered will be of supreme concern to the veterans involved, and of-great concern to all society. : No one who has not seen the savagery of this war

going through. But even an inadeguate imaginati should help us all, especially the families Df-veterafe, to realize how much patient help and understanding most of them will need. :

WORLD AFFARS— Allied Friction By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Congress is certain to take notice of the harsh remarks which the London Economist aimed at the United | "States over the holidays. Even the most cursory survey of" opinion on Capitol Hill, seat o! the treaty-ratification body, makes it clear that the bitter attitude of this -ordinarily-restrained periodical may have done lasting injury to Anglo-American relations and - to the whole cause of post-war collaboration.’ Jibes across the Atlantic—in both directions—are nothing new. A small mihority of Americans have always been professional twisters of the Lion’s tail just as similar circles in Britain have taken delight in pulling the feathers of the American eagle. As a rule, however, the vast majority on, both sidés have managed fo retain a semblance of fairness.

Belittled American War Effort

BUT THE BRITISH now seem to be losing their balance. What makes the explosion so serious is the fact that the Economist is one of ‘Minister of Information Brendan ‘Bracken’s newspapers and Mr. Bracken is very close to Prime Minister Churchill. In matters of this kind, the publication may be to Downing street pretty much &s Pravda or Izvestia is to the Kremlin. The Economist belittled the American war effort. It jibed at us for living so well- and for beiny “still without ‘a national service act” for labor. It indicated that in the foreign field our promises are worthless and suggested that, because of this, Britain should ignore the United States and tie up with the Soviet Union. Especially it seemed to resent American: criticism of British policy in Poland and elsewhere in Europe. “What makes the American criticisms so intolerable,” it shrilled, “is not merely tat they are unjust but that they come from a source that has done so little to earn the right to postures of superiority.” Nor is the- Economist alone in the attack. Some the most anglophile correspondents ‘in London have reported an increasing tone of condescention in :responsible British circles when speaking of things Amercan—even our combat troops.

3 Few Hére Feel Need to Apologize

or WOULD BE EASY to reply in kind. But few here feel any need to apologize for the American war effort. Although we certainly do have our shortcom= ings, as have the British, we have not done badly, on the whole, as the British should be the first to ddmit, Part of the empire is still neutral. Part still refuses to draft men for empire defenge outside its own territory. For more than two fears, however, Americans have been fighting and dying in every quarter of the globe. Both the British and ourselves must expect i criticism when fundamentals are involved, The partition of our mutual ally, Poland, is a case in point. American participation in the post-war security organization largely depends on whether or not the allies abide by the principles of the Atlantic Charter. The treatment of Poland is in .direct violation of those principles. ~ Not to say.so frankly, right now, would amount. to disloyalty not only to Britain but to all our associates of the united nations. ' The proposed British tie-up with Soviet Russia is their business. It should be obvious, however, that if Britain and Russia dispose of Europe to suit theme selves without consultation or agreement among’ the nations and. peoples concerned, America can hardly be expected to underwrite the settlement with the blood of her sons, But all this bickering is sickening. As our service

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| paper, the Stars and Stripes in London said on fa

previous occasion. “For the holy living Jove of God, let's listen to the dead!”

To The Point—

the recreation that is keep- |

ing you from ‘going nuts in, these froubled times. ... Why do we have to sacrifice our recreation, along with everything else that we are giving to the war?”

excerpts from a¥otter to the editor of a'New

“newspaper apent. the government, order closing race.

Warsaw, Lubin, Lidise wd Stalingrad |

Jonas

THE INSURANCE statistics indicating the human race is longer lived than formesly must not “have included Jap admirals, : Lo . GUNDEH HAGG, “Swedish track star, is engaged to a Californid gif ‘Guess he sn't the Funner he's. cracked up to be.

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WERE HEADING about a lot of leftists in Eu-

rope; Conine Mack ‘probably Wisiies he hada couple, J

of good ones.

SOMENOW the io . Tice Prank Sian nm a a SE TELE |

IT SEEMED a fairly amusing |

The irate wife was still pacing |

NOW HE HAD a war ‘Job, a quiét room with ‘a

further hospitalization and expert psychiatric treat- |

court order? Can the hospital be compelled to admit |

can appreciate the-ordeal that our servicemen are |

Futons mentee pT.

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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.

|“A PROGRAM

FOR 1945”

By John Alvah Dilworth, 8161 Broadway In my opinion ‘the Indiana economic council, a- state agency

should do the following in the shaping of a program which will make Indiana a still better place in which to live, do business and work. AGGRESSIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT: Make it mandatory that defendents must be prosecuted en charges carrying the heaviest penalties, No accepting guilty pleas on lesser charges. criminal, juvenile, municipal and ail other city, county or state courts. Also to justice of peace courts.

future.

BONDS FOR VISITING SPEEDERS, ETC.: Make it mandatory that out-of-town persons arrested for speeding be-brought or sent to police

-{headquarters by the arresting officer

or officers and placed under not less than $20 nor more than $5Q bond. If the person is charged with striking a person or other serious offense, to be placed under not less than $100 nor more than $500 bond. foregoing law is objectionable, they should make funds available for returning them from any distant point, COMMUTING SENTENCE OR PARDONED: Make it mandatory if a person has been criminally convicted and pardoned once that he should be made to serve out any future sentence in full. If there is a state law against such procedure, recodify the law.

DELINQUENCY FEES. Make it mandatory that all-appointed and elected officials turn over to their respective city, county or state general fund all delinquency fees such as taxes, ete., collected. DRIVER'S LICENSE: Stricter driver's license laws. Make it mandatory if a person knowingly falsifles statements on his. driver's license, a five-year imprisonment. sentence. If his driver's’ license is taken away from him upon Seven different occasions, no driver's license to be issued to him in the And no new license plates to be issued to him in the future, FALSE IMPRISONMENT: Appropriate $2000. per year for) every year an innocent pérson is imprisoned, not as a claim for damages, but solely out of humanitarian consideration for the wrong done —

created by the 1943 legislature,|

This to apply to{

If the.

(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 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those 6f.the writers, and publicafion in no ways implies ‘agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes ng. responsi "bility for ‘the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

$1000 to be paid in cash and the remainder in installments of $60 a month.

FUTURE HABITUAL CRIMIN-

ALS: Make it mandatory to try all|

persons with three previous criminal convictions, anywhere in the world, on habitual criminal “charge. Also make it mandatory that they must serve the full life sentence. If the state law does not permit such a law, re-codify the law.

FUTURE TRAFFIC PROBLEM: Consider the future traffic problem. Decide whether or not to impose a maximum speed limit for rural highways, where most of the fatal accidents occur. It is estimated that post-war automotive traffic will

be 38 per cent over the average]

from 1935 to 1939. All phases of the post-war situation call for a’reexamination of the State's traffic code.

INTERMEDIATE LAWS: Such laws as 1 to 14 or 2 to 21 years should be eliminated and a definite number of years, such as 8 years in the former case and 12 years in the latter, substituted. LEGAL TECHNICALITIES: Do something to end the growing use of legal technicalities in an effort to defeat. justice. MARRIAGE LICENSES: Make ft mandatory if the county clerk or any of his aids are found guilty of attempting to sell, or does sell, any person, unless personally requested to do so by the person or persons applying, for the marriage license, any other than the official marriage license, they shall both -be

fined not less than $1000 or 2

Side Glofces— By Galbraith

oon o ot bin I told you, but think Babb show {The gn i old ou bb an

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years’ imprisonment, or both, nor more than $5000 and 3 years’ imprisonment, or both. NURSING HOME PROBLEM: The nursing home problem will be one of the most important with which the 1945 general assembly will have to deal. The present nursing hgme problem throughout Indiana, especially in Marion county, is actually a disgrace. I trust we have elected the kind of men and wome ‘who will deal with I promptly an intelligently.

POLITICAL CONTROL: Remove: all vestige of political control from City hospital and health depart ment management,

PROPERTY RECOVERY| CLAUSE: That question should be taken up by the legislature and disposed of on its merit.

PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURE: License the operators responsible for sewage and water disposal plants in Indiana. Also checks and laboratory tests be made every day. Contemplate a state non-political licensing board that would create a list pf competent, trained operators, and the law should limit appointments to those Saline for such duties.

SPECIAL JUDGE EVIL: Laurich inquiries into peculiar rulings. Abolish a favorite technicality of defense attorneys, ‘Pave the way for a judicial reform’ which has been a crying need in Indiana for years. Make the defendant show that he might not receive a fajr trial at the hands of the duly elected court, The basic error lies in a defective Indiana law. which. permits a défense attorney, without presentatiom of one bit of evidence, to allege that the elected criminal court judge is unfair. The judge is automatically disqualified. Mend the Indiana law tg require proof of bias before a presiding judge may be removed, THIRD DEGREE: The United States supreme court ruled about last May 1 against using confessions obtained by. such measures as evidence against a defendent in court, Let the 1945 Indiana legislature pioneer in a move to bar the use of any confession obtained from a person unless a period of one week has elapsed since the third degree confession was obtained. UNEMPLOYMENT FUND: Extend to places where only one person works. ; » “ w “WE WILL BE BACK IN 1870”

IBy E. D. P., Indianapolis o

If. the fourth partition of Poland takes. place, and I am afraid it will because norfe in power dares; to protest strongly enough against it, I see a definite outline eof ‘the next war: England, allied with Germany

.|this time, will fight Russia (prob-

ably allied with France) for the re-

“| |integration of Poland.

England and Germany will win; Germany will get back East Prussla ang probably - Alsace-Lorraine. And biek we will be in 1870. ” » n TF FORGET

|THE BIRDS” 1 By Bird Lover, Indianapolis

I urge more people to feed the birds and put out fresh water for them every day. Some of our most useful and beautiful birds stay with us threughout the winter and suffer

|severely when their natural food

supply is covered with snow and the pools are frozen. Bread crumbs scattered on the snow, suet and table scraps are always a welcome

. Tod. And sunflower seeds, too,

~ DAILY THOUGHTS

And God shall wipe away all | tears from their eyes; and there

| | shall be no more death, neither

sorrow, nor crying, -neither shall ‘there be any more pain: for the

former. things u'e Passed aVAFet ;

‘Revelation 2:4

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; POLITICAL SCENE—

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By Thomas I Stokes

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. —An

. attempt by isolationists to exploit i

the recent series of political de= * velopments in Europe relating to Spheres -of . influence for Great . Britain and Russia-is seen in-the rénewed activity of Senator Wheels er (D. Mont.), timed with the cone vening of the new congress in - which. these matters will become " issues, ~The Montana senator, PT Harbor isolationist leader, is spone soring a resolution which, on its face, appears ine nocent enough. It states objectives and ideals with which all would agree—the creation of a united nae .

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an ecoriomics and social council to bring collabora= tion in economic and Social fields, plebiscites for the

ernment, a bill of rights to protect racial and res ligious minorities. But—ard- this must not be overlooked—it omits *

| any provision for.a permanent international organiza.

tion of nations such as was planned at Dumbarton

1 Oaks: Such—an-organization;

-empowered--to-prevent— | aggression, and An which the United States would be a ful} participating member, is the keystone of pro’ jected American’ policy. Senator Wheeler blithely sips around this main issue,

Isolation, and Not Partnership

INSTEAD, HIS RESOLUTION would put the sen ate on record with the pious hope that the European

nations would form a general federation “within which * |

disarmament and economic unification will- be coms bined with sovereign equality and cultural self-dee termination.” The ‘United States still would sit in isolation, and not in partnership, aside from the two united nations councils. proposed. The work of these councils would be somewhat similar to committees, set up by the . league of nations, in which the United States assisted, after we had refused to go into the main organization ° after the last war. Senator Wheeler is capitalizing upon a situation in which isolationists hope to be able to confuse ‘the main issue, and, in effect, to begin® now their fight to . beat an international organization. The American people should be warned in advance, for in the last election they gave congress & mandate to create an 3 international organization to -keep the peace, one in which the United States would participate fully. . The Montana senator said he drew up his resolu= * tion because he thought the senate ought to act ite * self, since President Roosevelt is “apparently doing nothing with reference to activities of Russia in take ing over the Baltics, Balkans and a big slice of Poland, contrary to the Atlantic Charter and everye thing the United States has stood for, and with Eng-

trol over Greece, Italy, Belgium and Holland.”

1 3 land seeking to grab off spheres of influerice and cone :

Administration Supporters Disturbed

THESE DEVELOPMENTS also have disturbed loyal administration supporters. They have been disape pointed because President Roosevelt has not spoken |

up. Some of them, too, have been considering a resos :

lution, or some expression from the senate, in pare : ticular the group of four senators, known &5 the B2H3 group—Senators Hatch (N. Mex.) and Hill (Ala), Democrats, ‘and Ball (Minn.) and Burton (Ohio), Res publicady =, ~~But their ‘motives are to assure United States pare ticipation in an international organisation, for whiels A\they pioneered months ago, through resolutions from Yhoth the house and the senate: favoring such an ore ganization,

IN WASHINGTON—

Home Front Parable By Charles T. Lucey

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sure Is used and there can't be maximum effect in putting ous the blaze, and maybe there's none ! at all to prévent the fire from spreading. So with munitions,” If & coms mander, has all the shells he can use and knows there's an inex- | haustible supply behind him, he { strikes at the enemy with terrifie ! force. If not, knowing he musk. keep a reserve for a possible enemy counter-attack, he fails te make his maximum, effective attack, Critical pro= duction today isn’t going 29 Je piles, says Mr, Byrnes—it is.going right in e Y We need, he says, more tanks, Superfortress bombe ers, heavy artillery ammunition, mortars, tents, trucks, communication’ wire and ship repairs than we can possibly provide in the, immediate future. Mr. Byrnes says, as have Lt. Gen. Brehon Somers vell of the army service forces and others, that there's no frontline shortage of ammunition and suppliss ‘because of production failures. But In his. annual « report, made yesterday, he warns: “They may be short a few weeks hence io we fall, If they are to use freely what they now have in order to save lives, they. must know that more, in abuns dance, is on the way.” .

It Still Isn't Enough

MR. BYRNES doesn’t criticize industry, He come mends it for producing 64 billion dollars worth of munitions a year—almost equal to ¢ombined outpu$ of the rest of the allies and the axis.nations. But this still isn’t enough. He says seriotis deficits - in schedules still exist, and that even meeting present schedules is not enough. Current requirements. in the so-called critical items, such as those named, are virtually unlimited. L Sometimes it 1s difficult to understand why there is so much pressure on parts of the war program when «other parts are tapering off, He explains: . “The maturity of the war pyogram is indicated by the schedules. No. longer are requirements for all types of weapons increasing. This is in decided cons" trast to 1942 and 1943 when the army and navy bad too little of everything. About 55 per cent of our War progyams are not rising; a few are decifiing, The net result is that the forecast for munitions pro= duction as a whole does not indicate any great increase in the first six months of 1945. ‘3

Urgent Demands Will Continue

“BUT A GOOD PART of that production—45 per cent of it in fact—is in the expanding, critical items; the items which are in direct demand. by troops: in the field, the items in which production bottlenecks

have developed, For that Treason we must ‘continue |

to press for production.” — These urgent demands will continue as long as the war lasts.’ “When fleld commanders learn light tanks are not powerful enough to blast through enemy lines,”

tists and inventors develop new, weapons, such as new types of radar or jet p we must trans late these developments into battlefield equipment. I 8 ull nt of wiring the war wore quekipeet | saving dives.”

That's’ why segraveskion is out the widow uni; I.

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