Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 February 1945 — Page 10

The Indianapolis Times "PAGE 10 Wednesday, February 21, 1945

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HALSEY’S WARNING

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REFLECTIONS—

Claques and Clefs

By Harry Hansen ‘

MUSICIANS WHO PLAY on ocean liners have a great chance to g0 places without seeing things. It all depends on the musician hime . self. I have talked with some who never moved from their ships; they were quite content to fiddle for luncheon, dinner and dancing, eat regular meals and bounce around on the ocean. Ihave heard of others -who dashed madly off the ship wherever it docked, to be welcomed by smiling dames. They went in for international relations. Joseph Wechsberg, who began his career as a violinist in Prague and is now in the United Statés army, is possibly the first ships’ musician to tell all. From the smile on his face and the amusement he

THE battle of Iwo island will be very tough, but not as bad as Tarawa because we have learned a lot since then. That is the judgment of Adm. Halsey, just back in| Washington after his spectacular series of victories In the | Far Pacific. Few, if any, can speak with.greater authority | in that field. In addition to his comment on the big battle now raging over the key air bases within 750 miles of Tokyo, the naval hero had a great deal to say about the Pacific war in general | and the nature of the Japs in particular. Apart from the swearing, name-calling fireworks with which he decorates his interviews—a blustering technique unlike the sober | effectiveness with which he fights and wins his battle—he has much wisdom to give us. :

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ACCORDING TO Halsey, the Japs are going to attempt peace feelers to save themselves this time and prepare for | another war. They will try to undermine our determina- | tion for complete victory and unconditional surrender. That will be the point of greatest danger. This is how he | figures it: “The industrialists in Japan undoubtedly see that their | empire, which has taken them a great many years 16 build | up, is rapidly getting in position where it is going to erum- | ble absolutely. When they can get the upper hand ... they _ will take over, and begin to put out very attractive peace | feelers . . . they will appeal to mothers of men who are out there now. Naturally, the mother wants her son saved, and may not think that by doing that she is sending her | grandson and his grandson to death. If we negotiate peace and don’t demand unconditional surrender, we will be committing the greatest crime in our history.” He added that “we had better keep our fleet after victory.” The peace feelers, predicted by the admiral, already have begun. Only last week Tokyo said the foreign min- | ister would not “reject any hand offering peace.” So far there is no disposition in this country to fall “into a negotiated peace trap. But Halsey’s warning won't hurt us. We cannof be too alert in a war for survival.

‘GARBAGE COLLECTION .

EFUSAL of 130 or so municipal employees to continue ‘work pending legal clearance of the pay increase voted | by the city council has throqwn a new burden on the already overloaded city refuse collection system. There may be many overflowing garbage cans and ash baskets around | town before the dispute is finally settled. This may cause inconvenience, but it appears to hold | no real reason for alarm, at least not yet. The city administration, well aware of the health menace of uncollected | “garbage, has promised to use every means available to keep | collections moving, perhaps on a reduced scale, during the | emergency. And the health danger, obviously, is not so | great in winter as it would be in summer. oo Even with a partial collection, Indianapolis will be | faring better than some neighboring cities, which have | had to abandon all collections of ashes, refuse and garbage, | some of them months ago, because of the war-created help | shortage. . ‘Meanwhile the pay increase granted by the city awaits final decision as to its legality—and presumably if it is{ found to be legal, full-scale collections can be resumed | shortly. Mayor Tyndall and his aids appear to be doing the | best they can with a difficult situation which they have | had no power to avoid. The best thing the rest of us can | do is to keep calm, if not collected, and furnish such underntanding and co-operation as may be asked from us.

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NO THROTTLEBOTTOM

VICE PRESIDENT TRUMAN has publicly advised President Roosevelt to go before congress and report everything about the Yalta conference except military secrets, as Prime Minister Churchill does in parliament. | Memory doesn’t serve us any other recent instance of | a vice president publicly giving advice to a President. But why not? The constitution imposes no gag on the vice president. | He should take an active part in the government, and | when he thinks something should be done by the President or others he should say so. Too many. vice prefidents have | been content to be silent partners. The American people should be glad Mr. Truman is not content to hide his light undér a bushel. If its beam is helpful, fine; if not, then hg has at least performed the serv- | ice of revealing what sort of official he is in advance of possible succession to the presidency.

DUDLEY A. SMITH

20 those who knew him as a working newspaper man and as an able and conscientious public servant, the!

news of the death of Dudley A. Smith brings a sense of |

deep loss. In many ways, he represented the best quali ties of both professions. And over and above his brilliant gifts and his personal integrity, Dudley Smith had a rare talent for human contacts. He had humor and understanding, his loyalties were strong and enduring—he was a man you could depend on. : There are too few in this troubled world with Dudley nith’s bright spirit. When we say that he will be missed, not only for ourselves but for all those who knew measure of the man. He leaves his mark not only in the has done but in the hearts of a host of friends. -

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| Asia, it must have been fun. { “Looking for a Bluebird” | $2.50), wherein he describes his meeting with various

| slightest pretext and eventually wore his pajamas to

| feud with the band and lost; a Balkan soloist who

| —that he makes me weep tears for ever criticizing

| liked a singer he even applauded for nothing. But if | a singer or a conductor ignored him, he had ways of |

| even hailing her at the stage door and in front of her

| rival outfit are an interesting sidelight on parasitism

| to’ exploit a risque situation or to make every char-

| WORLD AFFAIRS—

| coolies; | wildfire throughout the Far East.

| the must humiliating circumstances.

got out of experiences in ports of Europe, America and It's fun, too, to read (Houghton, Mifflin Co.

zanies. ’ . Here are a Spanish pianist who fell asleep at the

work; a bull fiddle player who carried his bow around town like a riding crop and passed himself off as the nephew of Brahms; a French purser who carried on a

made the Russians cry into their vodka; a resourceful ‘cellist who had a dummy ‘cello in which he carried liquor off the boat in prohibition days . .. a choice gang, altogether,

Good Hearts and Big Hands

ONE OF JOSEPH'S real achievements is to write so sympathetically about the claque at the Vienna opera—of which he was a member in the early 1920's

the boys with the big mitts who break your eardrums at the Metropolitan. : Mr. Wechsberg describes the men of the claque as devoted to their profession, fine lads with good hearts who work for a pass, a sandwich and a beer, and who are a social necessity, because they have to wake up the audience to good singing. The Vienna claque was directed by a man named Schostal, who “never took money from singers who were not good ‘enough for special applause.” If he

breaking him. “Richard Strauss considered the claque a necessary evil, like the ladies of the chorus, the |

ticket- jobbers outside the opera and the cockroaches |

under the plush seats of the kaiserloge.” meee Built-Up Keipura and Lehman . SCHOSTAL'S CLAQUE did a good job for Jeritza,

house, where she was. instructed to toss bouquets from the window. He built up Jan Kiepura and Lotte Lehmann, says Mr. Wechsherg. Some of the adventures of the claque with the police and with a

in the theater. : Most of Joseph's baffling experiences took place on board ships of the Prench line and the Messageyies Maritimes, although he also served as a legislators secretary in Prague and fought the Sudeten Nazis there, and as croupier in the gambling casino- at Nice. . The style of his anecdotes suggests that he has |! beerr impressed by- the writings of Ludwig Bemel- | mans, and indeed several of these papers have ap- | peared in Bemelman's favorite journal, the New | Yorker. But Wechsberg lacks Bemelmans’ ability |

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Japan's ‘Face’

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Although the Big Three at Yalta did not work out .specific terms for the surrender of Japan in line with those for Germany, such plans are ifi the making here. | There is reason to believe that | the formula for Japan will differ | from the terms imposed on the Reich. Those familiar with the ways of the East warn that no matter how hard we make things for the Hitlerites, certain special | touches must be added in the case of the Japanese. | That is-because of the stupendous difference be- | tween the Jap mind and the European mind. Take the question of national prestige, or “face.” In the | Occident, loss of prestige is a most serious matter, | whether fora nation-or-an-individual.. But, in the | Orient, it usually is fatal.” | Japan's whole foreign policy is based on that fact. Long before the outbreak of the war, she deliberately set about rubbing the white’ man’s “face” in’ the mud.

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| Systematically she sought, in every way possible, to |

heap shame -on the British, the French, the Dutch | and the Americans, -Her gesign was to make us | objects of scorn among the billion people of Asia and, | by the same token, build up her own stock as Asia's master race.

British Humiliated in Tientsin

THE SINKING of the U. 8. gunboat Panay, in 1037, was such a move. So was the machine-gunning of the British ambassador as he drove along in his |

| clearly identified automobile.

In Tientsin, the Japs blockaded the British concession and subjected Occidentals to” the most degrading treatment whenever they had to pass the wire entanglements. Women- as well as men sometimes were stripped naked before gaping mobs of The Japs knew the news would spread like

In Peiping, sentries in front of the Jap embassy

| slapped and ‘kicked British and American women | ‘who happened to walk -past or shoved them into the

street with the butts of their guns. In Shanghai similar scenes Were enacted. In fact, all over East Asia Europeans were subjected to de: liberate Jap terror, revolting and bestial. The Prench were ousted from Indo-China under The Japs knew they couldn't help themselves, .

Open Door Slammed in Our Face

THE OPEN DOOR, first énunciated by our Secre- | tary of. state, John Hay, nearly half a century ago, | was slammed in ouy face. “British, American and | other foreign interests were kicked out of Manchuria | and East China, Brazenly Jap spokesmen warned American and European peoples “to recognize Nippon's paramount position in East Asia,” and added that “her racial pride and her trethendous achievements made recognition of the position imperative.” » For a full decade before Pearl Harbor—th crowning blow at our “face”—the Japanese left nothing undone to humiliate us before the Asiatics. As a result, white prestige sank until it 4lmost reached the ‘vanishing point. :

future status. Once and for all, they insist, she must’ be. deprived of every liberately treading on our “face.” .

ing hundreds of harmless hungry

(would. Who is to help these people land what other country has been so of fresh vegetables and fruit, meat,

| blessed, but the good- ole U. 8. A.? fish, cereals and chickens, Sure, Tete. All of the present members of | No one is going hungry or cold either ynoy you can't have nice thick

These, say United Nations officials who know Asia | well, are just some of the special circumstances which (4 must be born in mind when we come to settle Japan's | |

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“HAVE MORE FAITH IN YOUR COUNTRY” By C. M. Johnson, McCordsville I would like to answer H. J. Wilson with these words. Maybe my answer will. not sound’ sensible to him, but neither does his letter sound sensible to me. . : Pirst these words came into my mind, “Strong convictions may degenerate into stubborn opinions.” So H. J. Wilson take a look as someone else views things: I believe when our boys return home they will still think this is the grandest country in the world. After living in fox holes, enduring hardships, meeting death every day, see-

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. 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 cor-

! respondence regarding them.) people, everything they owned gone,

families separated—some never to be united again—to come home to find | folks complaining about a few| things they had to do without, will | no doubt seem very small and petty td them: Where is your faith in your government? to live under any other flag in the world? -T honestly don’t believe you|

“QUIT YOUR COMPLAINING", .

By Mrs. Walter Bauer, R. R. 3, Indianapolis

unless it is the certain helpless class, | and we will always have those kind : of people. Sure, some things are | Wha

steaks, ham and tenderloins.

all prayed a little more and shared | a little more, things wouldn't look so gloomy, H. J. Wilson.

emergency, there are modes

Maybe you won't read this, H. J.| Would you exchange it| wilson, but I will get it off my chest. | What have you got to really gripe about? If it's food, there afe plenty

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t? You can live without them. {hard to get, but these hardships As for gasoline, it's a shame you {can’t compare to our neighborsican't have all you want—but walk- | across the waters. I am sure if We ing is really healthy and in an

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| transportation. Everyone has hard

Trains and buses are still running |times in war. Help lick the short-

if we have to go to other com- | goes and you won't have time to

munities — maybe a little crowded |

’ You want meat. and not as nice as our auto, but

gripe.

they will get you there. | You read abouf Elliott's dog and] such things. Do you stop to realize so many things we réad in newspa-| pers can't be judged correctly unless we know both sides of the situation. Two days ago was the birthday of a great man. No President was) ever more criticized and hated bythe a group of unthinking people.

fun. You want vegetables,

Fuel?

Well, raise, person who receives $40, there is |chitkens. I do, and they're lots of Someone recqfving $6 a month, or . Raise | 20 cents a day. For a $35 recipient, a victory garden. It’s healthy work. We ran out so we cut up a tree we just hated and burned that! for two weeks. We were warm and felt better for the work and were too tired to care about coal. As for black market—go ahead and buy But! from it, because you see you are

today his words and deeds still live| not hungry, cold or anything but

—~truly he was a great man. 1 end my letter, H. J. Wilson, do a little more than your part in! country.

a ‘way. i help win the war.

Side Glances —By Galbraith

| just plain selfish. If you don’t like you | your government go to some other As for our soldiers, they | these trying times, have more faith are dying for a lot less than you lin your God and country and where have. And they don’t gripe about [there is a will, God always makes it. So quit your complaining and

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“WHY NOT ENLARGE THE PAYMENTS?”

Br L. W. Heagy, Indianapolis The biennial pussy footing of qur | state legislature, relative to old-age pensions is now in full stride. For 12 years and now in the seventh legislative session, this.subject has been mis-handled. The hunfan angle is at the bottom, whereas the political angle; may 1 say “racket,” has always prevailed, at least a prominent member of the house just recently said it was a racket, As a matter of fact the 1943 session dug deep enough into the sordid mess, to justify the appoint. ment of a commission backed by a $10,000 expense account, to plumb the depths of the welfare “racket.” A .report with legislative recommendations has been submitted. One of these asked for reinstatement of the lien law, which is bitterly resented by many people of all ages and sfations in life. . Why not place a lien law on all state and national pensions? Why not enlarge the payments to the aged citizens, on account of war prices, just the same per cent as now being done for other groups —school teachers, public servants,

the legislature are the recepients of a $5 per diem granted in 1943 for wartime expenses. And justly 80. : The present welfare law states: “To provide such” persons with a reasonable subsistance compatible with decency and health, not to exceed $40 during any one month.” The state average of monthly payments being: about $23, when ‘broken .down, that means for each

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{he ts balanced by an $11 man who | may try awhile to live on 36% cents a day. For the $30 person, his.corecepient is upped to the munifi- | cent sum of 53's cents a day, being a total of $16 a month, Gentlemen of the legislature, some of you may recall a statement made by Tom Reed, that] rugged New Englander who, when the national budget reached $500,000,000, said: “This* is a billion doilar country.” : Without stint, we must take care of millions of injured people, casualties of the war. Billions of dollars already spent all over the globe, to help starving humanity, will be followed by untold shiploads of more sustenance. Now, then, will Indiana continue its inhuman treatment of a large body of its citizens? Will it continue its dole of 20 cents, 36% cents or 53% cents.a day to needy citizens? Are not these people worthy of at least as much as stray dogs that are fed at the Indianapolis dog

POLITICAL SCENE—

The Real Test: |

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\ WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. fight for United States particip tion in the League of Nations quarter of a century ago was los because a majority of the peop! were in that disillusioned sta which is the natural reaction from , war, apathetic, ready to forge »about Washington and what wen on here, for Washington drama Jon the war they wanted to for ge . v . § ' The general elation that fol

By Thomas L.

owed the. recent Crimea conference seems to indica clearly that the people this time are preponderantl in favor of the United States joining in an interna tional security organization.

Other circumstaces are thore- favorabie, Defini

plans for the security organization are well along al ready, ready to bear fruit in the bright sunshine o appfoaching victory, before the frosts of war dis illusionment . have come. through President Roosevelt, and how essential such leadership was demonstrated that other tim when Woodrow Wilson was stricken down just he was beginning to carry the fight t8 the people.

Leadership is at han

Responsibility of the People THE MISSING ingredient in that other campaig

‘the enlightment of the great rank and file of o

democracy—is to be provided this time on a scal

perhaps unequalled in our history. But that is no enough: people to inform themselves—and a real test of de

Beyond that, it is the responsibility of thi

mocracy it will be. Nor should it “be forgotten that for: internatio co-operation on a democratic basis, freedom to trad among other things, will be a necessary corollary. It was a Texas: congressman, Rep. George E

Mahon, who the other day emphasized the need

the American people to inform. themselves about Dumbarton Oaks pattern of international securi organization, and he included members of congres too. He was very pessimistic about the knowledg of the people today, and he may be right. As starter he had the Dumbarton Oaks proposals printel in the Congressional Record.

Information Campaign Being Organized IT WILL be the fault of the people if they are nd

| informed.

~The Hoosier Forum |

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

For preparations are being made to inform any body who can hear or read or look at moving pid tures. The state department has recognized its pos sibility and Archibald MacLeish, assistant secretal in charge of cultural relations, is organizing to sup ply information through all sorts of media, includi speeches, moving pictures and newspapers. J Charles W. Tilletts, vice chairman of the Democrat national committee, is organizing meetings of wome all over the country inaugurated by a meeting he which will be addressed by Mrs. Roosevelt and Se retary of State Stettinius among others. This utilization of political organization is n new among the women, - The aim is to make the meetings informative rather than partisan, for jssue transcends party lipes, as is generally There is a model here for democracy in action—d mocracy with the small ‘d.” _Labet-organizations adopting it very successfully, and this is a great ad vance over the system of 25 years ago. Democracy has a chance to prove itself on issue. ; It's up to the people.

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IN WASHINGTON—

Canol Again By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Feb. 31. Canol Project — remember? — ‘headed for the news again, Sei ate’s Mead investigating comn tee has let the matter ride for year, since the Truman commit issued its report blasting army's Alaskan pipeline dream a great waste of public fund Mead committee’s new request be brought up to date on the pro ect will. reveal facts just about they were before. Cost of developing the new oilfield in northw Canada, building pipeline and refinery will be 1 million dollars instead of the estimated 35 millid dollars, The pipeline works, though many scoffers sald never would, and the refinery started producing gas line last spring. But the cost of producing the gas the far north is over a dollar a gajlon and one tankg operating three-fourths of the time, could deliv more gasoline to Alaska and at less cost than tH refinery will ever be able to do. Refusing to a mistake, army will probably stick to‘Canol as a mil tary sound project. ‘ -

Back at the Old Stand

IT WAS “justa like Chicag” for scores of depor ex-counterteiters when U. 8. army moved into Sic and Italy with bales of freshly-printed military ¢ rency. Many of the queer money makers came ori) inally>from these parts, emigrated to the U. 8. to p their trade until caught and sent back home as wi desirable citizens. With a lot of the new and ul familiar invasion currency flooding Italy and healthy black market making almost any Kind money desizable, some of ‘the former counterfeite again tried to take up their art. But the old tou( was gone, and the reproductions were bad. They p vided quite a headache for civil affairs officers oy ou until the M. P.'s rounded them up and put them o of business.

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» » . IT HAS BEEN going on for some time but fd people realize that the United States is now fightix nine wars. China, India-Burma, the Philippines, tl air and naval war against Japan ptoper, the nav war in the Atlantic ‘against submarines, in Fran

pound? Will Indiana ‘longer stand this| political racket? Gentlemen of the legislature, the| eyes of Indiana are fixed upon you. | w. 2 on n “BILL WOULD BE A STEP BACKWARD”

By Catherine L. Bowdin, Indianupolis 1°am a regular reader ‘of The Times and admire your stand on most public questions. I was especially pleased with your position in the welfare question, I do hope you will take a bold stand against this Senate Bill 239, I believe the passage of this bill would be a step backward,

DAILY THOUGHTS

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should eem to come short of it. ‘~ He-

against Germany, in Italy and the Mediterranes against the Germans, in the Middle East maintaini the supply line to Soviet Russia, and in the Indi ocean. U. 8. forces are not on the Russian front, course, and have only a minor part in the large British operations in the Indian ocean. ‘But there a sizable U. 8. garrisons on the inactive fronts in Alask Hawail, Panama and the Caribbean, which raises ti count to 12 areas of operation. bo |

Ultra-Confusing Alphabet Hash

IF YOU think Washington designations of alphs betical agencies are confusing, you should get next¥ some of the naval and military alphabet hash. Ge: Eisenhower's SHAEF is now pretty well known, bu here are a few others: CINCPOA—Commander in Chief, Pacific Opera tions Area. . ‘ ' * SEAC—Southeast Asia Command. (Also known & Supreme Example of Allied Colifusion.). iia MAAF--Mediterranean Area Air Forces. sie! USTAF-U. 8. Tactical Air Forces, - ‘ i «

SOLOC—Southern Lines of Communication, troops say the O. C. stands for “Of Course.) pl sn» AR A WITH the top generals and admirals raised t watch for the

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