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ROOSEVELT’S FOREIGN MEMO A STATEMENT of American foreign policy: on the eve of the Big Three meeting has been handed to Prime Minister Churchill and soon will be given to Marshal Stalin, according to American correspondents in Londqn. It is supposed to be an answer to British complaints that Wash- | ington policy is unclear. Although no text or official summary is available, the correspondents’ sources seem to agree on the main point. - That is the statement that the American government and people are prepared to go almost any length in support of a representative world organization to enforce peace, but that American co-operation in a balance-of-power system is impossible. . ? This is an accurate report of the American attitude, and we hope it has indeed been given to our allies for their guidance. In view of the Atlantic Charter, the United Nations declaration, the Hull-Moscow agreement, and many similar state department and White House pronouncements, | confirmation at this time carries no surprise; but it is important that the Big Three meeting start with this in mind.

» » » n " . WHETHER THE ROOSEVELT memorandum incorporates the Vandenberg proposal, which has received such widespread bi-partisan and non-partisan support in this

country, is not clear from the London reports. But we

REFLECTIONS== Flying Words By Harry Hansen AVIATION IS the great industry of our generation; it may also be called a profession and an art. It has brought into use thousands of terms that apply to the making of airplanes.” Thomas A. Dickinson, who edits “The Aeronautical Dictionary” (Crowell), says he has packed 6000 terms into his book. I haven't counted them. They are technical terms, applying to parts of the planes and to their manufacture; they are military terms and slang. Some of this slang has come into circulation with the war.

For instance, when you see the word deicer you are tempted to pronounce the first syllable as dice,

icer. The first removes ice from a plane; the sécond prevents the formation of ice. Of similar origin is denitrogenation, which comes from medicine and

| means a method. of preventing aeroembolism (another

specialized word) in high altitudes, Then there is such a simple term as lofting, which merely means “laying out full-sized drawings of airplane parts on a loft floor.” This word may very well be used also by sailmakers, for they do the very same thing, but although 1 have observed sailmaking I have never heard the term used there. The regular use of lofting means putting timbers overhead in a mine. i

How Words Are Changed

THERE ARE many sources of new words. Some are old words applied in a new way. Some are technical words, carefully developed out of Greek and Latin roots. Some are slang words, misapplied but accepted because they are novel. Some are mistakes in grammar and pronounciation. Scholarly men try to put them in order, recognizing some as respectable and others socially out of bounds. “But no matter how hard they work, ‘the language keeps tossing words around without regard for their scruples. Dozens of words are merely transferred to aviation from another source. Perhaps their meaning does not change. Aviation uses many meteorological words. Then words used in many forms of construction, such as riveting, countersunk riveting, etc., apply |

but this is de-icer. It is not to be confused with anti- |.

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POLITICAL SCENE—

Wallace's Views T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. Boiled down from his thousand of words of testimony before th senate commerce committee no digging into his nomination fo: secretary of commerce, here’ what Henry A. Wallace says h stands for: : There must be 60,000,000 pro ductive jobs in America and ar expanded private industry capabl of hiring millions more men; the job level falls below 57 millior the government should move in. It should hav big programs of useful public works ready, and the might be many big projects like the Tennessee Valle Authority, Public works could be carried on

-{-private firms under contract with the governmen

Government should help private enterprise finan expansion of the nation's industrial plant—just build ing factories and machinery necessary for the ex panding economy would mean five million jobs a yea he thinks. He would have the industrial plant pri vately owned, operated and financed, but with th government sharing with the private investor “un usual and abnormal” financial risks. >

Not Alarmed by Public Debt

UNDER QUESTIONING, Mr, Wallace seemed t¢ shy away from going so far as to say that the govern ment should go into small private businesses as buyer of common stock; he did say he though government could guarantee business financing 'loa obtained locally. Mr. Wallace does not alarm easily about mountin public debt; he read to the senators an essay b Lord McCauley deprecating its importance. Hi believes we can carry the interest on a 300-billion dollar debt at low interest rates if. there is f employment. The only unbalanced budget is men out of worl he holds. Damage to the federal treasury from unemployment and shrunken national income American labor should be assured there will b no wage cuts after the war; when hours are c back an attempt should be made to adjust wage upward. Wages should rise as industrial productivit increases. :

We should strive for a guaranteed annual wage.

Foreign trade—America cannot merely sell abro but must be a tremendous buyer of raw materials ang

| products from overseas, and the reciprocal trad agreements program should be steadily. enlarged Foreign trade can be trebled to provide 3,000,00

also to airplane making. Some ordinary words sud- | denly ‘change their meanings—for instance oil can. |} -This is “a metal container used in dispensing oils,”

assume that the President, if he has not already done so, will offer at the Big Three meeting that plan to break the

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- deadlock which has developed between American policy on the one side and British-Russian policy on the other. The Vandenberg proposal should have great appeal to London and Moscow. First, it accepts the good faith of Britain and Russia in making unilateral and bilateral arrangements and alliances; it recognizes that they are driven to these dangerous revivals of power politics through | fear that the United States will not help provide their | security through an effective world league. Second, it « offers them security through an American treaty of alliance to enforce axis demilitarization, provided they agree to submit all separate agreements and settlements to the world organization for approval or revision. "

THIS IS an exceedingly fair proposition for Britain and Russia. It offers a peacetime military alliance, which the

naturally. But when a man working on sheet metal discovers a bulge caused by improper spacing of rivets, the bulge moves up and down like the bottom of an oil can, so he calls it an oil can.

You Know What They Mean

WHEN A MECHANIC goes over an- airplane for loose nuts, wire, bolts, he uses the word that is In everybody's mind—he is “safetying” the plane. Not a good word, but you know that unless he does so the plane will not be safe. Men who fly planes originate their own terms. These gain circulation in short order. ~ All those picturesque words we often hear on the lips of fliers are usually labeled slang in this dictionary. They give it the gun, or cut the gun, get into dogfights, put on a Mae West, see a mare's tail in the clouds, let.the plane mush, scream downhill, spill-out, and in dozens of other words expand the language or substitute new words for old. ;

United States has never before been willing to give. It| asks nothing in return for America—nothing except that | they live up to their pledges of an effective international organization in place of the old domination by rival imperialisms. z We know of no better guarantee against the rise of some new Hitler, playing one big power against anotner and getting the support of some aggrieved small nations in the process. We know of no better, fairer or safer way of handling the difficult Polish, Yugoslav, Greek, Iralian and score of other developing problems. We know of no firmer basis for the allied unity essential to winning the

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VINEGAR JOE

EN. STILWELL, the scapegoat of Asiatic politics, has | been named commander of U. S. army ground forces. | We are glad, for he has earned any honor and responsibility that may come to him. No general in our army, or in any | other so far as we know, has a finer record of personal leadership under great difficulties. Certainly none in Asia’ has equalled His achievement.

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Vinegar Joe, whose 61 years did not prevent him from marching across the mountains and jungles of Burma on | foot, was busted as American commander in the China-Burma-India theater for reasons which were a credit to | him. One was his insistence that Burma could be reconquered and the Ledo-Burma roads opened by a group campaign, while the British and others said it could not be done —the job is now almost completed by those who carried out ‘the Stilwell plan. The other .reason was that he-insisted that Chiang Kai-shek increase Chinese army efficiency by

reorganization at the top—this also has been done, after |

the face-saving device of getting rid of the man who forced it. v But that is the way things are done in the Orient, and Stilwell as an old hand would be the last to show surprise or complain on persopal grounds. There are plenty of important posts elsewhere he can fill, such as the big training job to which he has just been assigned.

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Nevertheless, if it is going to take as long to lick the | Japs as the high command says, the American who knows !

the Asiatic terrain and soldier best may some day be called back to lead Chinese armies in the invasion of Japan.

NEW TALENT TO THE FORE

THE war manpower commission has announced that it will conduct an inventory of male ‘labor employed in the vending and amusement machine industry of Greater ; Cleveland, Ohio, with an eye toward putting the men to work at highly skilled jobs in armament plants. Anyone who ever watched one of these wizards set aright the highly ‘complicated innards of a cigaret machine or juke box will agree that they could assemble a bombsight with boxing gloves on, and that the WMC really has something. ; The possibilities are fascinating. Imagine a bombardier over Cologne pressing the button on a gadget turned out by one of these ex-coin machine mechanics. - Cai nt with the dropping of bombs, Kay Kyser would obal play “I'll Be Seeing You,” and then out would pop age of a leading brand. :

SPORTATION PROBLEM? iis ROOSEVELT is nominated to be a brigaust hope he-won't conclude that ship elephan

nts in army, planes. |

Many words ready to be applied are sidetracked in favor of new concoctions that seem more fitting to

| the man who hits on them. This accounts for the In the last war there were quite development of occupational dialects that are Greek |

t to the average man, but they certainly put pep into | the dictionary business. ;

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Chinese Issues By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Issues of vast importance to the United States and to the world at large are at stake in China as Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, out, ambassador at Chungking strives to bridge the chasm between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government and the Chinese Communists.

It is the view of a distinguished |

American with more than a dozen years experience in the Far East,

| that a great deal depends on just how the United {States goes about the conciliation,

We must not, he said, lend our prestige and authority to anything which might turn China into another Poland or | Yugoslavia. >

| China Faces Similar Situation

“* | WHEN ASKED to elucidate, he said the fate. of In both cases, |

those two countries speaks for itself. | he went on, Communists set themselves up against the

| ton more-or less switched sides,

The comparison could be pushed too far, but China | faces a situation not unlike that in Yugoslavia after | the appearance of Tito’s partisans. The Chinese | Communists hold approximately three provinces— Shensi, Kansu and Ningsia. Ningsia shares frontiers with Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang where the Soviet influence is already dominant. Together the three provinces form a wedge whose point penetrates the Yangtze valley near Chungking. Kagsu and Shensi

adjoin the province of Szechwan of which Chungking

| is the capital. External-pressure,»my American friend observed, could conceivably make Yugoslav history repeat in China. In Yugoslavia, he recilled, the King Peter-

Mihailovich regime was denied allied support whith, 4

| later on, was given in comparative abundance to the Communist-led partisans. dictator in Yugoslavia and Peter and Mihailovich are | on the way out. A

| Hurley Seeks to Patch Up Differences WHAT AMBASSADOR HURLEY is trying to do, of course, is to patch Chungking and the Chinese Reds. His aim 1s to get them to co-operate against the Japs instead of “main- | taining a sort of military “blockade” against each other.

Chiang, said the American—and he knows. the generalissimo well—would like nothing better. In fact, he is determined to compose the. Communist issue. But he insists that it be settled wjthin the framework of democratic procedure. - No nation, tor example, can permit whole sections to break away and set up autonomous regimes—not, at least, and live. The American civil war was fought over that very issue—to maintain the union. Nor can a nation allow political perties or factions to mantain their own armies under leaders who refuse to recognize the national authority; Admittedly, however, China eds more than an agreement between Chungking and the Chinese Ré#». Thit would help—indeed it may be a, necessary preliminary—but Far Eastern opinion seems

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‘the Americans must land on the China coast. Victory will take enormous quantities. of materiel and only a dribble can come in over the hump or over the Ledo-

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

disagree with what you say, but will

“IT WOULD BE A-WORTHY PROJECT” By L. P. Davis, 2524 N. Alabama st. In the Pacific, in Europe or elsewhere in this world, where the ot Li heing actively fought, and here | at home among the returned com- | |bat veterans there are many, and | the—number =will increase, cases | of psychiatristic disturbances. Infantry troops have a sizable | percentage of such cases, due to the | real discomforts of life which they | are subject to, as well as the] |din and roar of battle and the | nerve tension of attack or actual] | combat.

a number of such cases, and I hap-|

pened to be one of them. Therefore, speaking from experience, I fully appreciate that the U. S. Vet-|

erans’ Bureau did and. will again] do- all. they can to aid medically and otherwise ‘to rehabilitate these veterans. . Such persons are emotional and nervous, and the majority will! smoke considerable; In 1920 I visit-| ed the Public Library quite a num-! ber of times, expecting to spend some time reading and selecting {something to take out to read. | These visits were made short by the fact that smoking was prohibit- |

ed. Therefore, I suggest that smok- | ing rooms be established in- our libraries, thereby promoting and encouraging such clean and helpful relaxation, necessary das an aid in the improvements of the nervous condition of such persons.

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(Times readers are invited to express their in these columns, religious controversies excluded, Because of the volume received, let- - ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinigns_ set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way .implies agreement with those %pinions by The Times. The

Times assumes no responsi

“THE FORMULA 1S SIMPLE” is

By Edward F. Maddox, Indianapolis Being a working man myself I

naturally have some personal knowledge of the manpower problem and also wish to see the manpower problem solved in the gool old fash-

ioned American way—the way of free men, free speech and free enterprise. Yes, and I am certain it can be solved without any further regimentation of the American working people, First, the only requirement any person should have to meet in seeking employment should be to prove he, or she, is an American citizen. Next, that they want to work. Make it easy for people to get a job. Stop this demanding 2, [ive or ten-year i work reeord. The need is for what the worker can do not, not what | they have done. Second, the main cause of hard-

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bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

our own home state. 1 see where they have passed a bill, 80 to 7, to give governors! widows a three-

thousand dollar year pension, and now they are wanting to give rep[resentatives, $10 a day expense

ship cases is low wages paid by those employers—80, 65 or 70 cents an hour, and hard, dirty and heavy

money, which is more than many of| work, All critical labor shortages us have n week for a living. If they | in essential industry should be excannot live on what they are getting| ; mined on the. low-wage question why not quit ard let someone have ,,.: where that is the cause the the job that can live on it. I would| yo ces should be raised to at least like fo have a job at Washington for |g)" cents an hour, if it takes a gov-| five thousand. I believe I could 1ay|o ment subsidy to do it. It seems up a nice little nest egg at that, yo race that the hardier, dirtier rice. {and more unpleasant the work, the I am a Republican, but want 10 [jower the wages. There ought to be thank God there were seven men, | gn equalization of wages. These

even though they are Democrats,| | wages should be raised even if|,

that had judgment enough to yole | yy takes a slight reduction in the| against that three-thousand BOY top wage brackets. I am not talking | ernors’ widow pension, who NO | about peace-time wages, but war-| doubt many of them have money |i, wages in essential and critical! loaned out and a good bank ac-|y.. industries, where the hard labor count. If these men have so much | 14 low wages make it impossible |

| regimes recognized by most of the united nations |

| and when the show-down came London and Washing- |

(for such a room, it would be a money to give away, why not (worthy project for an organiza-| give it to these poor people whose {tion or groups of people, through pensions are so small they cannot | donation, to have adidtions con-|jjye on them. It seems to.me this | structed and dedicated for the is a poor time for men to be vote | cause, ling themselves big salaries, when thousands of poor people already have to borrow money to pay taxes. If they want to do something worth-while why not try to vote he Rev. W. F. Hole, Crawfordsville |g pj]] to reduce taxes instead of We the public are wondering what voting bills to raise taxes so as to kind of men we voted for in this last (give Shemselyes = ine larger nest |e or their basket. Men, we sure 3 yp in Washingion Shey od remember, that 80 that voted are trying to get a bill through 0! this bill, also the 7 that voted {raise the President's salary from|against it. If you Republicans want [$75,000 to $100,000, and congressmen [to kill your party for next election,

» n POOR TIME TO BE VOTING BIG SALARIES” by

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for these industries’ to produce their quotas because they cannot compete with higher wages in otner indus-| tries and can’t keep -workers. | The formula is simple; Less red| tape and more co-operation with the job hunter, a general raising of the too-low wage brackets to at least) 80c an hour in all critical and es-| sential industries where there is a critical labor shortage. Bettér have a slight wage adjustment than complete regimentation. . If “the work is hard, heavy and dirty the only way to attract and hold workers is to pay-an attractive price. A small raise in wages is a small

As a result, Tito is now |

up the differences between |

~overwhelmingly to the effect that to defeat the Japs |

{from $10,000 to $15,000. And here in'vote a few more bills like this one,

price to pay for freedom and better war production.

Side Glances —By Galbraith

"-n “WE ARE CALLED FOREIGNERS”

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he first time | ever waHed ina jon sho, n out of sympathy for {dragged in here!"

By V. E. Cali, Indianajolis I have lived here all my life. My | mother, brothers and sisters were | born here, too. My father, who was | born across, came to this country 52 years ago. He has worked for the same company for 48 years. I have two wonderful brothers in the service, one in the army, the other in the navy. Yet a person hal the gall to call us foreigners. On the street I live on there are three different nationalities, Pray tell me, isn't the majority of this grand country of ours made up of different nationalities? Their people may have come to this country 200 years ago but still they who have come on through the years have their descent, yet they are called Americans while we have it flung in our faces we are foreigners. By the way, I am of Italian descent, They say ignorance is bliss. Gosh, I wish 1 were from a one-horse town and acquired some of their ignorance so I could be excused when I made such a silly remark like this pergon.

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DAILY THOUGHTS

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.— Leviticus 24:21. .

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more jobs than it did before the war.” It would b desirable to be so prosperous that we could buy mor from abroad than we export, but that cannot overnight. .A great deal of money will have to b loaned abroad, and private lending should be in of this. :

More Aid for Small Business

SMALL BUSINESS—to get filll production vast more aid must be given small business, which h suffered because “character” loans went out with the tighter controls on bank lending that came with the federal reserve system, Prosperity will not com by helping only big business—by “throwing crumb to 20,000 business enterprises out of 3,000,000 strugglin small business.” Cartels and monopolies—down with them. Housing—we need 15,000,000 new housing uni to eliminate slums and substandard dwellings; should build 2,000,000 units a year. Medical care—federal and state governments hav as much responsibility for health of the people & for providing them with education and police and fire protection. Every person should have the righ to go to the doctor and hospital of his own choosing Health insurance should be a part of the socis security program, Tog Education—{federal aid to poor communities; prod vide technical and higher education for all qualified young. men and women without regard to financi means.

IN WASHINGTON—

Triple Teamwork By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-0 Wednesday, right after lunch, Bri Gen. Frederic H. Smith Jr., who only 36, but an assistant deput chief of air staff in spite of it holds a press conference in which he tells how good the army forces are. A few hours later, Secretary © the Navy James V. Forrestal hs a press conference in which h tells how good the navy is. Next morning Secretary of We Henry L. Stimson holds his weekl press conference in which he rounds up the whol war for the past week ands tells how. the “batt lines are being pushed forward on all fronts by th ground forces. : v All three are right. Each gives credit to th others. for the parts they play and there is n conscious effort to steal thunder or hog the glory But it takes analysis by experts in all three principal combat branches of the armed services to get thd real. picture of how much co-operation there mus be to achieve successes on distant battlefields, |

Strategy Unchanged for 2000 Years

THERE HAS BEEN no change in strategy for th past 2000 years, says young Gen, Smith at the start) Strategists merely take advantage of new weapon] and if the new weapons are revolutionary there ma; be some surprises. But basically, the strategy th worked for Hannibal works just as well for MacArthux The recapture of the Philippines began at Guadal canal two years ago and 2500 miles away. The Ja theory was that if she could build bastions at Truk Yap and similar islands, it would be impossible pass them: In this’ war, however, for the first time fn milf tary history, it has been possible to make non-opera tive any base by air isolation, converting these bas tions into death traps for shipping, sweeping them clear of aircraft and bombing their ground defense: to junk from bases up to 650 miles away. For ever longer strikes at enemy sources of supply there hav been ‘raids by B-29's, while on the supply lines them: selves the submarines have put in their silent blow

Drama of Sea, Land and Air .

.AS AIRFIELDS were established on Leyte, arm air forces could begin to take over from the nay the tasks of providing the army ground forces wi i alr cover and &f isolating the battlefields, shutting off supplies and reinforcements to, the enemy. | While the army was completing its occupation of Leyte, alr and naval forces were moving ahead their process of softening up the enemy on Luzon then ¥onvoying MacArthur's forces to that island and seeing them safely ashore. And as the gro forces fight their way towards Manila, the havy the form of Adm. Halsey's 3d fleet moves on still farther, striking at the Chinese coast, battleships cruisers, ers and destroyers. . . ER RY It is, as Secretary Forrestal sums it up, “a fr mendotus drama of sea, land and air , . . unfold ing on a stage almost too great for any single min

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