Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1945 — Page 20

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_ LORD CAMROSE'S STATEMENT :

ORD CAMROSE'S appeal for Anglo-American unity and support of the Vandenberg plan to enforce axis demilitarization represents the best of British tholght. Unlike some other English and Americar "publishers; he is not létting the passing disagreements distract him from the basic necessity of close co-operation. Though you may have read his full statement published in this newspaper yesterday, we wish to stress his point that 4 “With .the growing success of our arms, a tendency has become noticeable in Britain and America for each to suspect the other of jockeying for economic and political advantages to be enjoyed after victory. In the resulting atmosphere there has, I think, developed a certain irritability of temper which has enabled the purveyors of mischief to gain a hearing. They could not flourish if each side were more ready to adopt thé healthy discipline of selfcriticism and less prone to impute motives to the other.” The cure is not silence, or denial that problems exist. On the contrary, as he says with complete realism: “Honest differences will inevitably arise about the details of policy os or the application of agreed principles,” as in Poland or 8 over international airways, and “frank and responsible discussion of such differences is indeed necessary.”

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THERE ARE no Anglo-American disputes, however, which cannot be dealt with justly and constructively if we keep our tempers and remember that overall unity is vastly more important to both parties than the selfish advantage of either on this detail or that. This is why Lord Camrose acclaims so enthusiastically Vandenberg’s pronouncement. The senator proposed last week that the United States join the major powers now in a treaty to prevent future axis aggression, so that they will not seek safety in separate alliances and unilateral settlements except as subject to “final revision” by the post-war league, We must attain on the political level the unity already achieved in the military field. As Lord Camrose puts it: “The spirit that should bind our two countries is that spirit of high devotion to a common purpose which has welded’ the men of our fighting services into the single, intimate, invincible comradeship in arms'we have seen in action under the supreme direction of Gen. Eisenhower.”

STICKERS AT BARGAIN PRICES

HRIFT has always been among the prime virtues and if anyone has time enough to study the evolution of epigrams he probably will find most of them concerned with the moral that economy is a sure road to success. For instance, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” . I that had been written in Indianapolis today it could have read: “A traffic sticker saved is $2 earned.” At least if you save the sticker long enough. Witness the recent threat of a police crackdown against holders of traffic stickers who “forgot” to appear in cafeteria court. So we have had a sorry exhibition of traffic violators who have accumulated a hatful or so settling their tickets for around 50 cents on the dollar. Particularly, the case of the lawyer serving as judge pro tem in one of the municipal courts stepping into another municipal court the next day and paying $40 to get rid of 41 two-dollar stickers.

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WE HAD HEARD with some skepticism the story of the fellow who found it cheaper to park his car on the street and pay an occasional fine rather than rental in a parking lot or garage. Now we're beginning to think he had something. So if you are among the law-abiding motorists who get one or two stickers a year and pay them, well, you're

be a law. There is a law. What we need is an end to bargain prices for habitual traffic violators. And we don’t mean pro tem. V

CONGRATULATIONS ;

NDIANAPOLIS has grown greatly in the last 80 years. And the Merchants National Bank which today starts its 81st year has shared in that growth. Moreover, in the tradition of forward-looking banking institutions, it has done much to shape and encourage the sound development of the city. Eighty years ago the new bank helped Indianapolis through a difficult post-war period. Today the Merchants National Bank, many times larger and stronger, faces the future with the same faith in Indianapolis, the same willingness to do its part in bringing to reality the vision of a greater and more prosperous city. To it, we extend congratulations on its achievements

in the past, best wishes for even greater success -in the years to come,

10 SHOW WE MEAN BUSINESS

a HENRY IL. HARRIMAN, former president of the U. S. 1 Chamber of Commerce and now chairman of a youth problems committee of the American Council on Education, saya: If the United States should adopt at this tie a “policy ak universal military training, would it not be considered a note to all the world that this nation does not think an . enduring peace can be established?” The answer, it seems to us, is that adoption of univ ersal military training at ‘this time would serve notice on all the world that the United States is determined: to remain

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REFLECTIONS —

Cowboy Talk -

By Harry Hansen i

. THE WISE OLD OWLS who “choose books for the armed service editions so that our boys abroad may have good reading in a light, portable form, were arguing whether to include Plato’s Republic. 4n ace of Aristotle's Poetles wHen the chairman stopped. the debate to read a letter, “Gentlemen,” said he, “I have word from Washington that the boys are yelling for westerns and the sooner we supply them the better.”

Luzon and pinching the Nazis in their Ardennes trap want some good, lively yarns about cowhands shooting up a town in the fairy-tale West that never dies for American lads. I don’t get much chance to review westerns Here because most of them are printed in pulp magazines, but now and then a good one comes my way and then I, too, get thrilled by the way the law cperates west of the Pecos. But “Western Words,” by Ramon F. Adams, is a new kind of western: It 8 a dictionary of terms used on the. range, in the cow camp and on the trail. It is high-toned, for it comes from the University of Oklahoma Press and costs. $3,. But the words are all there and I should think a young bachelor of arts from Columbia, starting out on a career as a writer of westerns, would find this book good company. It would keep his editor from getting complaints about his use of western words, -

A Man With a Yocdbulory

HERE ARE WORDS used by cowboys. . “A cowboy is a man with guts and a hoss.” He is also a man

Yes sirree, the lads who are trailing the Japs in |.

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with a vocabulary. Take the word bucking. The | author says that bucking, in its various forms, is referred to also a§ crawfish, come apart, cat-back, circle | buck, crow-hop, double shuffle, fence corner, -foat, hop for mama, jack knifing, kettle, rainbowin, slattin’ his sails, stuck his bill in the ground, sunfishing, | swallowed his head, tryin’ to chin the moon, turn a wildcat, waltz with a lady, watchin’ the opra, wind- | milling, and some more. Some other westerns: Bull's manse—the home of | the big boss. Buttermilk—a motherless calf. Cabin fever—when two men in the same cabin get hostile to each other. Catalog woman—wife obtained through | a matrimonial agency. Mail order catalog on foot— a tenderfoot in exaggerated clothes. Pecos Bill—a | liar, Maggots—sheep, Leather slapping—drawing a | gun and shooting. And so on. Many of the terms are explained in | anecdotes. Some térms, like cattle chuck and cowboys have dozens of synonyms.

Sailing Ship Words Come Ashore

‘IF YOU WANT to write sea stories and keep -the respect of Joanna Carver ‘Colcord, who. was born at sea and knows all about sailing ships, you had better pone up on her book, “Sea Language Comes Ashore.” (Cornell Maritime Press, $2.25.) You will have to know where forward is and that it-is pronounced forrard, and how “foo paw” became the whaler's term for bungling the job of killing a whale, from the French faux pas; that when mast paint is served in the mess it means pea soup and that nobody but a landlubber would talk about

You will learn that slumgullion means a meat stew, but it is a vulgar term, for originally it meant the entrails of a whale. And talk about boogiewoogie, here's a term the sailors have: soojie-moojie. Miss Colcord says it means washing soda or any cleaning compound and that sailors probably picked up the word from the Japs. When a sailing man wears full-dress uniform he is said to be square-rigged; when an object is firstrate it is called first-chop.. The word comes from Chinese, Miss Colcord properly expressed “her irritation at landlubbers who misuse sea terms. Perhaps all of us have spoken of sailing ships as windjammers without knowing that this was a disparaging name invented by steamship men. Says Miss Colcord: “Shore people often use it to demonstrate their familiarity with sea terms, without realizing how it grates on the ear of a man brought up in sail. The sailing man’s retorts to windjammer were humbug and derricks, kettle and coffee mill and smoke box. To these the Banks fisherfolk added silent death, from the way steamers rampage out of the fog to cut down anchored fishermen.”

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Vital Conference By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, ‘Jan, 18, — There is some complaint and regret in congress over the report that Secretary of State Stettinius will not attend the ‘forthcoming meeting of the Big Three. The regret is all the greater because, ive President Roosevelt is e ted to see Gen. De Gaulle and perhaps have rextended conversations with Prime Minister Churchill. © Under ordinary circumstances his secretary of state should go along for talks with the French and British foreign ministers. It is still not known whether this will be possible. Certainly Mr. Stettinius cannot be in two places at the same time. He is booked to head the U. 8. delegation to Mexico City where a conference of American foreign ministers is scheduled Feb. 15, although it may be-postponed a week or so. Assistant Secretary of State Nelson A. Rockefeller—charged with LatinAmerican aflairs—will be the secretary's alternate and, of course, he could fill in. The question, however, is whether this would be advisable,

Not a Routine Affair

THE MEXICO CITY conference will not be a routine affair. It may develop into one of the most important parleys in the history of Pan-American

relations. United States interests, present and future, will be discussed and as other foreign ministers will be on hand, the absence of Secretary Stettinius would be more than remarked. It is true that there are grave divergencies between the United States, Great: Britain and Russia which must be ironed out. But it is equally true that a serjous schism exists between some of the leading nations of the western hemisphere which, in the long run, might prove quite as disastrous unless patched up. ’ Pan-American unity made it possible for the United States to go all out against Germany and Japan after Pearl Harbor. There was no danger of being stabbed in the back, That unity is now threatened. Argentina, always a little jealous of the United States, has kickéll over the traces. With a Fascist-type regime in the saddle, she has withdrawn from tlie Pan-American union. She has not resigned but until her sister republics see things her way she says she will not be represented at any meetings.

more or less side with Argentina. Some have | come out in th® open, as in Bolivia, ker areas. . In the post-wa¥ period,” “political, nelal ard economic, [Strains into Argentina's hands. pay piay 80 if it ls true that Secretary Stetiinius will not. ‘Accompany President Roosevelt abroad, the

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The

Hoosier Forum

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

“SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS GRIPE” By a Navy Wife, Indianapelis, It seems, while reading over the Hoosier Forum, that some people always gripe. My husband is overseas in the navy, and has been in

|the South Pacific for nine months.

I'm left with two children to take care of, bring “in groceries, go to town and everything you need to do to take care of a decent home. I don't have any outside help and

couldn't afford a girl to watch the :

children if I could find one on $100. I know there are lots of mothers left just like myself. . People left here coining big money and griping don't care for anyone but themselves. These kind always gripe because children are on streetcars, in shows or what better pleasure they can afford out of life with their daddy gone. I've had to take my children to town with me and I grant you it is a pleasure to take them always. They get tired and cross, but I ask you, what else is there to do? I believe, if those who gripe, like Mrs. E. 8. did, had to fill seme of the army and navy wives places, she couldn't take it. Let her try to live on $100 a month, it’s no joke, I tell you, Especially with one” in .school and asking for things that others whose daddys are here can furnish them. No joke. I grant you, it is hard on everyone, but try to bring up children in a decent home without their father, while others seem to enjoy everything because of big money rolling in now, I hope lots of army and navy wives express their viewpoints too. It isn’t just me, lots of us girls have exchanged viewpoints among each other, E J w “DON'T YoU AGREE, TEEN-AGERS?” By Virginia Gephart, Indianapolis, These happy, full of energy teenage boys and girls, these jive-crazed youngsters who are causing so much concern to their parents and communities—don’t they care about anything? That is a question so many people are asking. But as a teen-ager, I'm here to answer that question. We care about work, work under the right conditions can give us a feeling of sharing the war effort. It can afford a release for high spirits and pent-up energy. By its discipline, work can make us into thoughtful adults, ready to assume harder tasks ahead of. us. We care about play, a chance to bé with friends in leisure time.

life,

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious gontroversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set torth here are those of the writers, and publication in no ways implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility tor the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

Recreation is a necessary balance to the demands of a job or change in the same. But we have found home is still the best place for recreation since recreational facilities have been curtailed.

We care about our family, the home circle that provides life and security among new hazards. We need our parents to feel safe and| family worship help take on new importance in time “of stress,

So you see we do care. We care so much that we refuse the same old life while our mothers,

we've a war. Our clothes and jitterbugging are only symbols of desire for attention. We only want? to be part of what's going on. But will you older people, the ones who don’t like our way of doings, if you| will, look back on your -teen-aged didn’t you. .want attention? Well, we do too.

But when our gang finds oursélves in real trouble, it's then you! should realize we also have a serious side of life.

Those teen agers who have gone

all, they may be the ones that| come from areas of the under-priv-|

Jected. So those of you who feel secure have to take part of the blame for what they do. But remember this, right now we teenagers may feel neglected because of the war. Why don't you parents take a look at your homes and family life. Why don’t you find something for us “trouble makers” to do. We aren't content to spend our time by ourselves while our parents have fun or work. Isn't there some way you can make life happier than by just letting us get ourselves in trouble. I should think there are a lot of people who read this that ought to think about what I have written. Don't you agree, fellow teen-

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“THE GIRLS LET ME DOWN” By Shanty Irish, Camp Atterbury. Goodbye—Sinatra! My feathers must have curled | like those of a Sebastopol goose | when I first heard that Lawrence Tibbet was going to replace “The Voice” on Lucky Strike's Hit Pa-| rade. i “No, it can’t be,” I said to friend | T. 5th Gr. Frank Trella, “Look what will happen to America’s bobbysockers—can’t you imagine? Why they will. think that life isn't worth living any more. I tell you, Frank, I think that Lucky Strike has acted like an ostrich. They've ‘got their head in the sand—but if I'm not mistaken they will soon ‘have their legs blown off.” “What do you mean?” asked. I replied, “Man, it's obvious! A suicide wave will hit the country. Picture all of those girls who have screamed. torne their hair, ruined {their mascara with tears and | sprained their ankles and bruised |their anatomies otherwise swooning tover this stick of a man with the (drawn-out musical notes, Why, \enen they learn that this healthy { Tibbett has replaced their anaemic angel - they'll drown themselves— shoot themselves—I tell you, Frank, |a major catastrophe is about to oc[our in this country. Mark my words, many sad words will fill the para|graphs of our newspapers begin{ning tomorrow. And when that happens, Lucky Strike is ruined—their {sraokes will he boycotted by the par- | |ents throughout the land.” | ,JThat was sometime ago, and I!

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down. They didn’t commit suicide. | | And superfluous to state, I'm very glad I was wrong. I had thought {Frank Sinatra was an institution—

{enough to be an institution. It | takes a Bing Crosby or a Lawrence | Tibbett—someone with meat on their bones, to become an institution hére in America. You've got .to have weight to make a point—or a note of music stick in this land. No stamina has Sinatra. They had to take the padding out of the shoulders in his suit coats—because the weight was giving him flat feet. Sing on—Tibbett! 5 » . “THE EVIDENCE IS

IN YOUR ARTICLE” By Ray Burns, Indianapolis, . You ask if compulsory military training was necessary and ask for evidence that it was worth while. Well, the evidence is in your own article. You say “Europe tried it for 15 years” and failed. They were not well trained and besides they were small. They were definitely unprepared. But what about Ger-many-there is your evidence. Could any other nation in the world have done what she has and still be ‘in the running against such odds? Well, I think we could if we had been as well prepared and well trained as Germany, And as for our troops being trained 14 months, I don't believe our soldiers averaged six months training. And that army you mentioned of less than one million—you talk as though that were a goodsized army. Well, now we have | 1,500,000 besides i English arniy | and Russian army hting Germany, and it's no oo stu Why? Because they were well tramed and well prepared. I have two small bdys and I hope and pray that they neyer have to go to war, But there ij one thing I do know, military trajning will not do them any harm.} In fact, it makes them into healthy men. And in case of war, I wi my boys to have all the training {hey can possibly get.

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POLITICAL SCENE—

Cl. Oo. Brushoff

By Thorhas L Stokes

¥ WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.-To those who got so wrought up in the recent presidential campaign about the influence of: the C.I1.0. upon President Roosevelt and the Democratic party — conservative Democrats as well as Republicans ~some of the campaign stump talk must seem now in like what the late Wendell I Willkie once called “merely campaign oratory.” Developments since the election. do not seem to indicate that the 0.1.0. has taken over the Democratic party, as some speakers So boldly asserted, Nothing since seems to have been “cleared with Sidney"—referring, if memory needs prodding, to Sidney Hillman, political general issimo of C.1.0. and its busy and, in some quarters,

One day's happenings here are illustrative. Almost simultaneously Philip Murray, C. 1. O. president, was registering the ©.1.0.s opposition

‘President Roosevelt, at. the White House, was instructing chairmen of the senate and house military affairs committee to go ahead promptly

message to congress,

C. I. O.'s Wishes Bluntly Brushed Aside

LATER, IN THE President's press conference, & reporter told about Mr. Murray's testimony and asked. the President what he thought about the C.I.O. head's argument that voluntary manpower controls would be sufficient, Mr, Roosévelt said that this would not bring results. That was that, It was not the first time since the election that the C.I.0.s wishes have been bluntly brushed aside, The C. I O. didn't like at all the President's appointments to the state department undersecreThe organization's leaders were not consulted. After the nominations were sent to the senate Mr. Murray criticized them in a statement to the senate foreign relations committee and C.¥-0, representatives helped to stir up the unsuccessful fight in the senate to defeat them. President Roosévelt and his aides are taking the position that what they regard as necessary to win ‘the war will be pushed, whatever the C.1.0. may feel or say. War Mobilization Director Byrnes, who Is no favorite with the C.I.0O. has been given his head in prescribing “such policies as he believes necessary.

'‘Pay-Off' on Post-War Measures

WHEN IT COMES to peace and the post-war measures necessary to provide jobs, the C.I. O. probably will find itself influential with President Roosevelt. He sees more nearly eye-to-eye with the C.1.O on a post-war program. That will be what the politicians know as “the pay-off.” The ‘recent indifference to the C.I.0. makes it clearer that retiring Vice President Henry Wallace,

| who is their outstanding champion in the admin-

istration, will be given some place in the-administra-tion, probably a job-providing role, to appease the C.1.O. and pay off the election obligation. Democratic leaders, in analyzing their political situation, still feel very comfortable abdut C.1.0.s continued support. They see no evidence that-~the Republican party will be able to break into the bulk of their labor support, and they are encouraged particularly by such things as the continuing coalition In congress between Republicans and southern Democrats which wins no converts for the Republican party. i From a practical political standpoint there is] concern about the C.1.O. and its P.A.C. among professional politicians which is shared by Democrats in this category as well as by Republicans. Local ] Democratic leaders, seeing the determination of P.A.C. to continue and build itself up as a vote-§ organizing ‘agency, are fearful of being “taken over” | by P.A.C. in a manner which was manifest in some | areas during the last campign. ]

IN WASHINGTON—

Kind Word for AF 5

By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 — friendly word for 4-F's came -

ter to ninth district constituents, § Mr, Wilson had this to say under the title “4-Fs and the Draft”: “A great deal of publicity, most of it unfair, has been given to the problem of wartime use of men holding 4-F classifications. Too many remarks of a reflecting 8

nature have been made about these men and their |

contributions to the war effort. In all fairness, I believe certain impressions should be altered or changed | altogether.

“In the first place, men holding a 4-FF classification

in the draft are not unpatriotic. They have been considered for military assignment by their local boards, and for one reason or another (all of them physical), men so classified are’ not considered to be adjustable to strict military regimentation.

'Government Has Left Them at Home'

“THESE MEN have not remained im your community at their own will, Their government has left them at home, and the decisions passed on their eases are just as official and arbitrary as are the draft papers received by men in 1-A. “It is a strange human trait that no one offers criticism of arly man in uniform who tries to get consideration for as good an assignment as possible in the army or navy. But for some reason public feeling is quick to turn against a man on the home front who wants as good a Job as possible and asks for it. “Too often we forget how we would feel if we were in their shoes. In these times we should continually practice putting ourselves in the other fellow’s place. It often increases our understanding and tolerance

100 per cent. “The military aff: committee is now congldering the so-called “4-F “Bill” and while it is certainly unnecessary to pass new legislation in order to use

these men in any way the government sees fit, the

President as usual, {s desirous of placing my blame or unpopular reaction, on the shoulders of the congress,

“Therefore, he nas asked for a bill which merely rewords the powers he already holds.

‘Hardship on Many Small Businesses’

“IT 18 MY considered opinion that both houses of congress will approve it and the President will sign it with the usual flourish. “This rigid control of men holding deferfed classi.

day from Rep. Earl Wilson. (R. i Ind), former Huron schoolmaster. | Writing his weekly public let- 4

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