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TIME TO TELL THE GERMANS
(GERMAN 1 morale is the growing question mark as the Red armies sweep on toward Berlin, as ‘Anglo-American
By Fred W.. Perkins
planes bomb the panicky capital and Eisenhower moves | through the Siegfried line. That morale must be much less | affected by propaganda and counter-propaganda than by the actual chaos and carnage which the German people see and feel. And yet propaganda does continue to play a part. At least Herr Goebbels, who has been more consistently | successful than Hitler or the generals, is shouting louder | than ever. He is harping on two sHiligs. One is German pride. He says: Remember how the Russians held out at Lenin- | grad and Moscow (Stalingrad is passed over as too painful | for reminders), how the Poles took it at Warsaw, how | Londoners refused to crack under the blitz and planneq to | fight on elsewhere if their capital fell. Then he asks: Will Germans, the superior race, weaken when inferior Russians, | Poles and Britons stood firm? That's a good line. It may | stiffen some sagging German spines. . * » . - = s GOEBBELS’ SECOND LINE is the appeal to German | fear of allied retaliation. He says: If Germany surrenders she will be destroyed. This also is potent. The Germans know the bestial record of their armies in conquered lands, they see the foreign slave labor which has been brought into Germany, they know they have earned the hatred and | revenge of the world, - Because there is much truth in the situation which Goebbels is now exploiting with an evil twist, it is not easy for the allies to counter hispropaganda. They cannot deny that there is hatred of Germans among those who have survived the barbarism of German occupation. Nor do the allies wish to sugar-coat the truth that the settlement terms will be hard, that everything necessary will be done by the victors to prevent another revival of German power of conquest. But we think the allies, within the realm of honesty | and reason, could be more effective in counter-propaganda. They can emphasize, more than they have done, the official statements of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin that unconditional “surrender means destruction of naziism.and German aggressive power, but not of the German people. The sooner there is a joint Big Three declaration of that kind the better. » » » J ” » » ’ MOREOVER, the Big Three ultimatum should stress that the danger of destruction of the German people would |
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| ing - institutions in the United States.
| Large Portion of Heckling
| visit was listening to George T. McCautry, president
Sounding Off
LONDON, Feb. 7—With the first mild weather here, the “meeting ground” in Hyde Park provides proof that after five and .8 ‘half. yeats of war this gallant city has not permitted the processes of democracy to -languish. On the “meeting grounds” the custom of free ‘public speaking has developed to a degree greater than anywhere else in the world. Here almost any day in good weather, especially on Sundays, come men and women of opinion. Some are crack pots, some of obviously high intelligence and oratorical ability.
Some Make Several Appearances
THEIR SUBJECTS include British and world politics, the way the war is being conducted, wartime
restrictions, the value of religion or the lack of it |
and others in great variety, Audiences are large or according to the subject and the speaker's
They climb four-legged ladders for platforms and may go on for hours. Some make several: appearances a day, taking time off occasionally for refreshments, British officialdom, bureaucracy .and regulations are frequently criticized as violently as correspond-
helmeted “bobby” about it, : “3h, we allow them an abundance of latitude, sir,” he answered. Anything short @f treasonable is | quite all right.” Treason, I gathered, is not involved in criticism of government actions or conduct of the war or even individual disapproval of war itself, Treason apparently would come in through extreme efforts to induce other Britons to refrain from duty to. their country.
THE LARGEST of a dozen audiences on my
of the London Free Trade club, whose views onlimination of international trading barriers were liberally sandwiched with observations of alleged errors of
I asked a |:
British officials, He got many a “Hear, Hear” and also a large portion of heckling and attempts at" correction. Mr. McCautry, a stocky Irishman with a flair for oratory, appeared to have ideas tending toward socialism for Great Britain, but when queried on just how far he would go, he answered:
“Compare capitalistic United” States with com- | munistic Russia, I prefer the individual freedom of J America. I objedt to any authority, even though it | claims to act in ‘behalf of the “great mass of the | people, in absoluté control of my actions. Mr. McCautry signalled the conclusion of his pres- | entation by putting on his hat and coat. After a few more questions he climbed down from his perch and | hurried away. He explained that his ahrupt de- | parture was intended to prevent arguments with individual listeners,
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ANOTHER POPULAR speaker was William Pues, | a Tuddy-faced prototype of John Bull, about 50, who works on week-days in an aircraft factory, Mr. Pues turned out to be a bit of & humorist, In fact, his | disquisition appeared to be a sly burlesque of the | more serious advocates on the “meeting grounds.” After a ponderous approach to his main theme, | Mr. Pues announced: “We are met here this afternoon to discuss he | subject of women—and in particular how Yanks are I taking them away from us British taxpayers.” Many ‘American soldiers were in Mr. Pues’ audi-
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The Hoosier Forum
1 .wholly disagree with what you SOU, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
“WHY SLUR THE . | MOTHERS” a | By B. B.- K.. Indianapolis
In answer ‘to. Mrs, War Worker's | letter, I would like to say this.| | When she speaks of being selfish. | {she had better look to herself. She | wrote as if she were the only war-| | working mother in Indianapoiis, | who is working and running a home | for her family. Why slur the expectant mother because-herschildren-are-with-her? Maybe the has no one to keep them and it's practftally impossible [to keep two children clean when youre riding busses and going {through town. I know why she | goes to town on Monday night. Lady, if you'll look at your Sunday paper you'll know. Everything that a woman needs to run a home are | brought out on Monday and by
not be created but removed by an armistice. They should | ence, and they roared. Mr. Pues went on with a full | Tuesday there’s none left for us. 1
be told that Hitler’s plan to continue the war means national | suicide, that German cities will be wiped out at a rate, hitherto undreamed, that millions upof millions of Germans will die needlessly. In sober truth Germany today is facing destruction—not because the allies will do it, but because the German people, who started the war under Nazi orders, go on making war under Nazi orders.
ERNIE WRITES AGAIN
THIS being the column where we air our opinions, we seldom write anything for this space with which we expect anywhere near all our readers to agree. But we doubt that a single reader will dissent when we say that we are glad Ernie Pyle is back in the paper. Something has been missing in the coverage of the war since Ernie had to come home for a rest. Other war correspondents have done noble work. They have written marvelous stories of the heroism, tragedy and suffering of the fighting fronts. But Ernie is the reporter who takes us along and lets us see and sense ind feel the war with him, His approach is in that opening sentence of his article yesterday, “Well, here we go again.”
In his first few articles Ernie is just nts up and
taking off. But he'll soon be in the middle of it, thousands of miles across the Pacific with some navy task force, ‘sharing the hopes and fears and homesickness and seasickness of the men on some warship in enemy waters. AS he said yesterday, Ernie didn’t want to go, but he felt he had to—that he had a job to finish, reporting what life is like with all those other Americans out. there who have a job to finish.
CLEAR THE WAY
JUST before congress adjourned in December it decided " that the time had come to study ways and means of making itself more efficient and created a special senatehouse committee to undertake that job. Many citizens probably suppose that, by mow, th'e’'committee is well started on its project. But no. Special committees don’t survive automat: ically from one session of congress to the next. Unless reconstituted by the new session, they die. The house voted last month to reconstitute the committee on improving congress, but the senate hasn’t acted. Chief reason for the delay there seems to be that a few powerful veteran senators want to limit the study's scope and forbid the committee even to suggest altering congressional rules, procedures, precedents and practices which these old-timers consider sacred. . Well, it may be idle to hope that modernization of congress can be accomplished at one leap. Perhaps it will have to be done step by step as opposition to change is overcome. committee is required to file its first report in less than | two months, and the senate ought to clear the way for it to get down to work. . For congress is going to have to make. itself more efficient if it expects to deal adequately with the increasingly complex problems ahead of it. We don't see Janyone can contend that congress is properly equipped not after observing the almost comical conmany members when they suddenly discovered extent of the financial powers which, without y they had Tormey? over ta Jesse Jones.
hour's performance of comedy. Afterwards he told me, “I do it as part of my war, | service to help keep their spirits up. It's merely my | hobby, for my own amusement and for those who | care fo listen.” i With that Mr, Pues departed for a pub. - Forty | minutes later he was back, climbing up on the plat--form for,a repeat performance.
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WORLD AFFAIRS—
Honor Bound By William Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7— Manila’s fall marks the beginning | of probably the most difficult—because it isthe most delicate— phase of our 46 years of association with the Philippine islands. Before leaving Washington to join Gen. MacArthur for the grand entree intq his capital, President
Sergio Osmena: told me something |gressman Halleck (R. Ind.) asserted |
As for the high school people, | many of them are holding down jobs after school and on Saturday and don’t have any other time to shop. As for myself, IT was a war worker. I worked 10 hours a day at a man-sized job of welding. Then I| came home and took care of my| home and two children. Now have three children and have given up my job in the plant for a more important one of raising my sons and daughter to be good Americans. If I shop on Monday nights it’s | because my husband is home to keep- the children or because I can! purchase the articles T néed, and] I feel I am just as entitled to them | as you. And I'm not going to gripe | about anyone up there or what they | buy. ” ” "
“OH, CONSISTENCY, THOU ART A JEWEL” By Evalyn Walton, 2049 N. Meridian. st.
Last night's issue United Press release in ‘which Con-
carried .a|
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cons troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsi bility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)
| be over and that the greater por-
tion of the next president's term |
{would be taken up with the domestic problems which face the nation, and that he, therefore, felt qualified. Now, in order that the readers of
“THIS CAUSES DELINQUENCY” By A. N, Noone, 213 N, State ave. . There is a school law which in part is not good for school children or teachers that teach the children. The present law in the state of
tion of his 16 years of age can leave his or her education. There are a few cases “where the parents need the child’s* support, but there are dozens of other-cases where the parents could, further the child's education but because of the consistent lack of co-operation of the child with the teachers and the parents with the teachers, the child is stumped in his education. We all know that 90 per cent of children don’t like school. ‘This fact. plus the child's own thought that he or she on becoming 16 years of age can quit school. This causes {delinquency in more cases than one. My opinion is that this law cam | be rectified by putting teeth in the | law by legislative authority. by which (1) children cannot quit their
your great and liberal newspaper {might Rear the true version-of the {inconsistency of this representative | {from our Hoosler state, I am going (to give you a typical illustration. Approximately two years ago sev{eral school principals and P.-T. A. | organizations “wrote Congressman | | Halleck and urged him to support |an' appropriation for school lunch {programs which would permit chil{dren to have either one-half pint of {milk or a hot lunch at a price | within reach of all. - And what was | Mr. Halleek's response to this sug- | gestion which would help to make a {healthier nation ‘and prepare our fighting youth? Nothing but an {emphatic refusal, The reason he |gave for opposing the appropriation {was that he felt it was time to economize even though it meant denying the school children a well- | balanced and nutritious lunch. This brings us up to the present |.
of the conditions in the archi- |that ‘Gr. 1. lives were sacrificed be- | writing, when we find the same
pelago.
{cause of political expediency and
| economy minded Halleck working
The plight of the Filipinos is | [that Roosevelt sponsors had led the | | diligently behind the scenes to pass
pitiful. The invaders treated them harshly, The | farmers were systematically robbed of almost everything they raised, leaving next to nothing which could be sold to the city dwellers.
Filipinos Need Almost Everything THIS MEANT gnawing . hunger if not actual |
| starvation in the towns, also the diseases which mal-
nutrition leads to. Dysentery is widely prevalent | because the population was forced to eat all kinds of unfit food. It was often that or nothing. Practically no medicine was available. As a result, the Filipinos generally are undernourished, plagued with all kinds of sickness, and pretty much in rags. They are in great need.of almost everything—food, clothing, drugs, hospital supplies and the commonest necessities. The United States now faces a tremendous psychological problem in the Philippines. The people have been treated so cruelly by the Japs for so long that the masses are looking to the Americans for immediate assistance of every description. ‘Adequate aid, of course, may be difficult, if not impossible, to provide —at least in the immediate future. Yet unless it is forthcoming the effect is bound to be bad. It is all right to say the people can't reasonably expect much help from the United States at this time. It is true“that America’s first job is to throw out the Japs and clean up the military situation,
Mere Liberation Is Not Enough
BUT EUROPEAN experience shows hat to expect. As, one by one, Europe's occupied countries were liberated, the inhabitants seemed to expect things to change for the better and at once. Overnight they hoped the things of which they had been deprived for so long would reappear. When they didn't, there was disillusionment, The sick and the starving are seldom reasonable, especially when encountered ‘en masse, Europe has shown that mere liberation is not enough. The hupgry want food. The ragged want clothes. The ailing. want medicine. The homeless want houses and the jobless and penniless want work
and security. There is feverish impatience and when |
relief isn't forthcoming there is national unrest.
The gist of all this is that while there is un- |
doubtedly a limit to what we can do in the Philippines, it is imperative that we do everything we possibly can, The Filipings are especially our wards. We are in honor hound to do our best by them—not only for their sake but for our own. For, half the population oI the globe, all the yellow and brown races scattered throughout Asia, have their eyes on us. our
{country to believe the war was about over. It is not at all surprising that | Halleck’s memory has failed him so soon but. fdr the sake of keeping the records-accurate, I ask that he,
| Mr. Halleck, refer back to Mr. Dewey
who kept plugging away telling. his |listenérs that the war would soon
| legislation which would increase his | yearly stipend from ten to fifteen thousand. dollars per year, to say nothing of the $6000 additional of~ fice expense. In closing, I ask is it any wonder that I have entitled this article “Oh Consistency Thou Art a Jewel”?
Side Glances— iy Galbraith
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GOPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. , uta 8. PAT. OFF,"
"Our new voluitteer orderly i is a bank vice president, but he iano me not totell the pafients because he doesn't want to be
prestige is still at stake.
sonirhuting loge irstoay of. backrubs!"
{educatiort until they have completed {their common and high school education, or -until -he or she has | 'reached 18 years of age, unless ex|cused from such duties by the {proper authority. (2) That a child lin common and public high school, if failing in his studies two years in succession—or failing to obtain sufficient credits in any two years,
class prescribed by the authority for directional ‘ and - educational purposes. (3) That a child absent from school more than 22 school days of the school term not due to sickness shall be examined by*the school physician and judged by school authorities as to what should be done for the child, with the full consent of parents or guardian. ; # 2 a “PROUD TO BE
CALLED HOOSIERS” By Hoosier by Adoption, Indianapolis
There will probably be other answers to the letter of Lt. R. R. McOrmond, in the hospital at Stout field. I wish to let him know that most of we “Hoosiers”"—whether by birth or “adoption—are proud of our nickname as he calls it. Tradition tells us that in the early history of Indiana, when settlers lived a distance from each other, and Indians were still stalking the hills and woods of this grand old state, visitors were scarce, and it became the custom for the occupants of cabins scattered here and there to say “Who's here?” when anyone came to their door. It was pronounced in such a way as to sound like “Whosyere” and was acknowledged as a form of welcome. Through the passing of time the word evolved into “the term “Hoosier”—now known all over the world as being applied to any person or article from the friendly state of Indiana, No, we were not chased here.-from Wisconsin (first. time I éver heard that) but the majority of the early scitlers came from such majestic states as Connecticut, Pennsylvania and othér Eastern states. They were men and women of vision and ambition, always looking for more fields to conquer and better land and soil to build their homes upon and raise their families. They found these conditions in this part of the new country, and as a result, there are still descendants of some of the “best” families of the East, citizens of this fair state—and proud to be called “Hoosiers’— which interpreted might be “Glad you're here!” ——————————————
DAILY THOUGHTS
Beloved, if God 50 loved us, we ought also to love one another. I John 4:11,
HOW pleasant is § is Saturday night, When I've tried all the week to be govd. : Not. spoken a word that is bad, And obliged every one ‘that I could.—Nancy Dennis Sproat.
Indiana is that a child on comple- |
shall be sent to a special school or |
Overplaying By Thomas L Stokes
the standpoint of pofitical strategy | . .and. technique those conducting |
Henry Wallace, including their volunteer helpers, are about -to overplay their hand, that is, if they are trying to tear down the *former vice president as a political factor, This, at least, is the view of some astute politicians who do not feel very deeply about him one
Southern Democrats, Senators Bailey (N., C.) and George (Ga), though Republicans were counted upon for the lion’ 's share of votes,
Republicans Are Taking the Lead BUT, IN THE HOUSE, Republicans are taking
commerce when it comes to a showdown, March 1,
they would add other restrictions, among them
department if Mr, Wallace is coifiried.
President would veto a bill repealing power, though he has assured congress he would
the commeyce department, o If Mr. Roosevelt vetoed the bill because of provie sions added by the house, then the lending agencies still would be left under the tommerce department, and consequently the senate then would reject’ Mr, Wallace,
Rankin Is Clever That Way
Representative Rankin "(D, Miss.), who climbed on
to what looked like a good thing and can bring | {some of his Southern bloc along with him. He can {furnish legislative know-how for the anti-Wallace
| plot. He is clever that way.
He gets a lot of credit, even if Republicans don's
| gain much by having him along. - What about Mr. Wallace in all this? | - Well, in the first. place, the former vice president
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.~Prom |
the current campaign against |
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way or the other, but who are intrigued by the | build-up he is getting. They wonder whether Repub~ | licans are ‘smarf- An lending such a helping hand, | In the senate the anti-Wallace crusade bore the | Democratic tag. The leadership was provided by two |}
the, lead in a maneuver to try to ‘force the senate i to’ defeat the former vice president as secretary of if
To the bill already passed by the senate to divorce | *|the lending agenciés from the commerce department,
repeal of President Roosevelt's war power to shuffle | bureaus and agencies about. Their argument is that this precaution is necessary to prevent the President from transferring other agencies to the commerce o
They figure — and. probably correctly — that the & this war it
sign a bill separating the federal loan agency from i
MIXED UP in this little plot is the persisten$ |
has achieved & big build-up fhrough the fight against
him,
It is possible that Republicans are unaware of tie wide following that Mr. Wallace has in the country,
But perhaps they are, and perhaps they are taking
{this means to try to kill him off for the 1948 Demo- | {cratic presidential nomination. Or maybe they are °
[trying to build him up for the Democrats, figuring {he will be easy to beat.
| Rejection Would Add to Prestige .
ANYHOW, HE IS being built up, as any senator's mail shows, and, from the reaction, it is one of the quickest build-ups a fellow ever got. Suppose he is rejected by the senate.
was dumped at Chicago. It is argued that out of public office he will nos have the opportunity and the forum to further his campaign. “But Wendell L. Willkie did very nicely
office. Purthermore, Henry Wallace has a larger nucleus of support, and perhaps an even more earnest sort of support, a good deal of it well organized | already, organized to such an extent that he should ['be in a position to veto the 1948 candidate if he can not win the nomination himself. Some think he would be better off if he were nog {connected with this administration.
| He is not going to be easy to get rid of, any way |
you look at it.
IN WASHINGTON—
Air Monopoly By Charles T. Lucey
WASHINGTON, Feb. T7.—A senate commerce subcommitiee studying post-war international aviation policy has submitted to three executive agencies a report favoring the “chosen instrument* or monopoly plan of a single big
overseas.
adopted finally, but is understood to . represent substantially sentiment of numerous subcommittee members—perhaps a majority. The senators will hear the proposal discussed in executive session tomorrow by Will Clayton, assistant secretary of state, TChairman-Welch-Pogue-of-the-civil aeronautics. board
merce, The report is of vital importance to the U, 8. aire line industry, which long has been embattled evey
represent this country in the potentially rich foreign
pétition.
Bears Directly on Hearings
COMPETITION, rather than the single. com munity company” state, war, navy and commerce departments, Fore mer Secretary of State Hull wrote the committee last fali in lengthy and detalled opposition to the monopoly plan. The senators’ tentative report bears directly on hearings which have been held on the question of granting overseas operating permits to numerous applicant airlines. The CAB has indicated it would be ready to make first reports on its recommendations
congress could deiay such decisions, a “minimum’™igf overseas airline operators, perhaps
ment regulation,
say, as the best way of meeting foreign competition, assuring commercial success and serving foreign
open the way to more companies, it is sald, and lead to many difficulties. .
No Single Interest Should Dominate
THE PROPOSED REPORT is said to specify that no single interest should dominate the ‘community company,” in which domestic airlines, railroads and
of compensation for present assets through stock allotrfients in the new company. Pan-American has
{report 1s understood to already holds in telegraph, telephone and other publie utility fields,
in-keeping himself before the public without a publi
Airline to represent this country. |
whether a single company or several companies should |
for such permits in March, but conceivably action in | The subcommittee report is understood to favor | Just ‘one, with this one to be subject to close govern. |
Concentration on a single system in overseas air: | | transport is desirable, the report is understood to | 8
This will only give him another wave of publicity to add to | his prestige with those who like him-—and they.ars 3 many—just as his build-up ‘really began when he J
The report has not been ||
the ||
and Williagn A. Burden, assistant secretary of come i
air commerce field. Most U. 8. airlines, except Pan | American and United Airlines, have favored full coms |
idea, also has been urged by the: }
policy. Having two or three companies in this field | {
steamship lines would be allowed to participate | through stock ownership, Companies now operating | overseas presumably would be put together on a basis |
been the largest company operating .in overseas alr |
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FT. HAR FOR
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HB 134—Pro of persons whe of state instit county from mitted, unless vided for. 90138—Am third class cit ted in each d at-large. 76-4 HB 123--Est mum for ly | 90-0.
HB 117—Per in group insur HB 204—Exte pay minimums HB 107—Pro ship assessors instead of fro HB 124—Aut ers. to make ce corporation m poor relief, ' 7 HB 174—Ral the amount d asylum inmate Iniates 80-0. SB 10--Allov mortgaged - in valuation ‘of r¢ have not filed SB 17—Auth acres of any si ment for estal pital thereon. SB 24—Allow county prosec “thon. 71:18 HJR 4—Limi ~~ line tex fund |
SB 20-—Rest Boyrs weekly, rants emplo; ang. P11 poy 8B ame: it vil to tr 68—Amer Pape officials ty commissions of 'deputy coun 8B Incre SouRLy eororne anngiatty for | ly for fhe tion for deputi 8B Place ‘superintendent Petersburg und 88 106--Com city engineers. trol. uittriess. yu. 1 : Inc rement anni Py
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