Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1945 — Page 12

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Tuesday, April 10, 1945

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE JAPS ARE NOT LICKED Goop news follows fast on the heels of good news from the Pacific. A fourth of Japan's reduced navy is sunk, and her land and sea air forces are seriously ctippled. U. S. bombers hammer away at her homeland .war industries. Russia denounces the Jap -neutrality treaty. The American invasion of Okinawa, at small cost, gives us a base for assaulting the China coast of Japan proper. The Tokyo cabinet falls, a more “moderate” premier publicly admits that Japan’s plight is desperate; and there are hints of enemy feelers for a compromise “peace.” All of which is heady wine for us. The turn in the Far East is all the more welcome because of the long period "of frustration. we suffered, when most of .our energy: had to go to Europee New that Germany's defeat is near, we are naturally impatient to finish off Japan quakly. And the Pacific news of the past week seems to justify those hopes of fast victory. :

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» S DANGER ia this reaction. It is a thankless task to remind ourselves in this flush of current successes that peace is not near. - But that is necessary. For if we allow our optimism to get out of perspective, we shall neglect the Red Cross blood donor service, the purchase of war bonds, the increased production in war plants and ship yards; we shall begin to grumble because most of our troops, instead of being demobilized, must be sent to the Pacific. Our. government officials, our generals and admirals, are pointing out that any letdown now on the home front could prolong the war indefinitely. . This is not propaganda.” It is the sober truth—as all of us can figure out for ourselves by steadily facing the facts. : Although it is a fact that Japan has lost most of her navy and much of her air force, the latter can be replaced and nine-tenths of her huge army is still intact. For all our military advances, we still have not reached the main battle-fields of China and Japan..The Okinawa mass suicides were further proof, if any were rieeded, of the fanatical character of the enemy.

» ” ” ' » » ” HERE ARE A FEW: of the facts from one who has earned the right to speak, Gen. Stilwell: “We are shifting from a 3000-mile haul across the Atlantic to a 7000-mile haul across the Pacific. The jumpoff, instead of being from our east coast with its wealth of port facilities, is from the west coast where they are few. The Philippine islands with one good port, must take the place of England with many, and ‘600 miles -of .open sea must still be crossed to reach the mainland, instéad of the 26 across the English channel. i “We need all the superiority of men and material that is possible to concentrate against a savage and determined foe, who has proved that he will fight to the bitter end.”

PLEASE! NOT SO THICK! = . WE are for the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the united nations conference and a strong interhatibnal organization—and therefore, with a friendly voice, we plead against spreading on the propaganda so thick that it sickens even their friends. ; At a movie house recently we saw what are called newsreels. There was a complete feature on Dumbarton Oaks —s0 obviously a propaganda film that it made the stomach revolt. Two fellows on a streetcar were discussing the prospects for world peace, and a third passenger gave them an illustrated lecture on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. If you were to believe that lecture, Dumbarton Oaks is the acme of world perfection, the international Utopia, the Golden Rule in action and the millenium come without a single flaw. Pollyanna in her most joyous hour was never so glad as this. Then, in addition, we saw Secretary of State Stettinius explaining the glorious promise of Dumbarton Oaks. Then, also in a newsreel, we saw a-graph of the Dum-

barton Oaks plan—you know, one of those drawings that

shows the top executive in a box with lines leading to other little y. boxes representing the departments functioning under it. Four pieces of Dumbarton Oaks propaganda in a single movie. ; - And when we got home and turned inorie of our fayorite radio programs, we heard one of those governmentinspired announcements explaipning—you guessed it—Dumbarton Oaks,

” » » ~ » ~ AS A WELL-WISHER who wants to see Dumbarton Oaks become something more than idle talk, we plead with those responsible not to lay on the propaganda so thick. It satiates the appetite and offends the intelligence.

KEEP THOSE WAR BONDS | the fourth quarter of 1941, Amerieans bought $1,000,000,000 worth of war bonds and in -the fourth quarter of 1944 we bought $4,100,000,000. That increase looks as if we were doing a satisfactory Job of helping finance the wartime government, of laying aside individual nest eggs and of combating inflation. Less heartening, however, is another phase of our - common effort—the side that has to do with cashing instead of saving war bonds. | The rate of redemption runs like this: 4.1 per cent . In the fourth quatter of 1941; 5.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 1942; 15.5 per cent in, the fourth quarter of 1943; 28 per cent in the fourth quarter.of 1944; and 34.6 _.per cent in the first two months of 1945. ;

; 2» .» LW. .. REDEMPTION, of course, defeats the purposes of war bond issues. Cash taken prematurely from war bonds goes against limited supplies of materials, making for higher prices, or inflation. Redemption automatically destroys individual nest eggs. And, what is probably most important of all right now, our victory effort derives no benefit at all “from money put. into bonds and then taken right out again, Indeed, it impairs governmental efficiency, because .it only eeping eSpenses,

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Peace Meal By Anton Scherrer

OCCASIONALLY I run across some one whose lot touches my sympathy more than beggars. This time it's the ‘restaurant operators of San Francisco. They're in. a helluva fix. With united nations ‘conference about to begin, they now discover that they haven't enough red points to provide the delegates with decent dinners. The restaurateurs have made their position crystal clear. “Peace in our time¥ they say, “can well depend upon whether we soothe or “Insult the gastronomic tastes of our guests.” And for fear that this may sound too transcendental for general consumption, they go on to explain that “a good dinner will put any man in a conciliatory frame of mind,” the corollary of which is, of course, that a bad dinner will make him quarrelsome and contentious. There's no telling how all this will end, but from the looks of things I fear the worst. My fear is based on the discovery that the restaurateurs’ problem has now been referred to Washington, Which is to say that it has been dumped into the laps of men least likely to understand that the difference between a good and a bad dinner is all that stands between us and another war, wv

Moral

I HAVE BEEN TRYING to extract a moral from the fact that an Indianapolis burlesque theater has closed its doors “until further notice.”

Do you suppose it means that burlesque people suffer the present plight of “small business” men who, too, are waiting for figures to ‘take a turn for the better? : ig?

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Evidence A THOROUGH COMBING of the Indiana Historical Society's latest publication (Vol. II, No. 5) reveals a surprising number of artifacts, the result of Archaeologist Glenn Black's exploration of Angel Site Mound down ‘in Vanderburgh county. “Spherical balls of pottery without perforation are

placed in the gaming category.” This, no doubt, is Mr. Black's cautious and scientific way of saying that Indian kids played the game of marbles. I have filed this item under “Behavior,” a bulging envelope containing information along the same line: The news, for instance, that nursing bottles have been dug up by archaeologists at Carthage, teething rings in an Etruscan tomb, rattles at Kish and metal safety pins in the lava of Pompeii. The evidence is piling up. Indeed, there is almost enough right now to vindicate Keith Preston, a ‘mad hatter who, once upon a time (1925), ventured the opinion that the ancients had babies, same as we do. » » » Eliana IF CHARLES LAMB were alive today you wouldn't find him roaming the countryside. And, certainly, he wouldn't be pestering editors with rhapsodies of the first frog quaver or of the range and charm of the wind-flower (anemone quinque folia). No, indeed. Mr. Lamb would be capturing the sweetness of this spring right down in Washington st, exploring every show window in his path. And, Lord, what an aromatic essay. he would turn out! He might even stoop to say that the prints the girls are going to wear this spring don’t look like the typographical errors of last year.

“' WORLD AFFAIRS—

World Court

By Wm. Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, April 10. — United nations jurists are meeting here to begin work on a new world court in line with the Dumbarton Oaks proposal ¢alling for “an international court of justice.” Thig time it is well nigh certain that the United States will accept membership. If so, it will mark the end of a long and bitter battie in and out of the U, 8. senate tolkeep this country aloof... , = : | The jurists in session here will pass their recommendations on to the conference at San Francisco. Both the Canadian and American bar associations favor continuance of the”old court, instead of trying’ to fabricate a new one. Judge Manley O. Hudson, American member of the’ existing court, declared, after a four-month survey, that a “great preponderance” of legal opinion in this country and Canad prefers that procedure. : The United States has long favored a world court, Republican and Democratic administrations alike have taken the lead in such matters. American delegates helped frame the Hague convention for the Pacific settlement of international disputes. in 1899 which gave rise to the permanent court of arbitration, They also participated in the second Hague confer-

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court after the last war,

Senate Stubbornly Refused Sanction

BUT" WHILE SOME of America’s most brilliant | Jurists felt honored to sit as jurors in the world court |

bership. Even President Harding—elected, some contend, as a result of party opposition to the League of Nations—wanted to join. In 1923, he recommended membership with four mild reservations. But the senate blocked his efforts by. adding a fifth, plus a couple of “understandings” to which other court members objected. — What they objected to principally was the senate stipulation that the court.should not, over an objection by the United States, entertain any request for an advisory opinion touching any dispute or ques tion in which the United States has or claims an interest.” Clearly this reservation was so sweeping that the court would not hand down any advisory opinion save by the leave of the United States. All that was needed was to claim an interest. Whether the claim was valid was immaterial.

Jurisdiction May Be Tightened Up

ANOTHER SURPRISING senatorial amendment | was that no dispute between the United States and another nation could be submitted to the court save by a two-thirds vote of the senate. Both President Hoover, in -December, 1930, and President Roosevelt, in 1935, tried to get court membership-past the senate, but this failed. The new court's jurisdiction will likely be tightened up. Of 48 members of the old court, 40 accepted compulsory jurisdiction—subject to minor reservations— in four classes of disputes: (1) treaty interpretation; (2) any quéstion of international law: (3) the existence of any fact which, if established, would econstitute a breach of international obligation, and (4) the nature or extent of reparation for the breach of an international obligation. Britain's reservations, cepted (A) disputes in which the parties thereto agreed on some other method of settlement; (B) disputes with other members of.the British commonwealth, and (C) disputes, which by international law, fell exclusively within the ‘jurisdiction of the United

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By G. D. D., Beech Grove Regardless of how important a man Governor Gates is, there is a question in my mind of his immediate need for a new home. Indiana is as much in the war as any other state and the $72,500 for his new home, plus the amount for the upkeep, would much better _be invested in war bonds. Mr. Indiana Citizen, consider what could be done with that money after the war if not at present. There are still countless people in need of food’ and clothes, and in another month many will be needing ice. There are countless other public “WE HAVE NOT ONE needs which should not be over- FRIEND AMONG THEM” looked, such as homes and hos- | Tosper Dovglis pital care for the aged, and the| 4 motorist will agree the streets are|; sadly in need of repdir, the latter might well be done immediately since our cars must last for the duration. There are many ways in which | this money, and if I might add the | resources money being considered for the new ty] are war memorial, might better be invested. I am not questioning the Governor's worthiness to have a ‘Hew home, but since he and all other elected officers are supposed to be public servants, they should look out for Mr. Citizeh before themselves.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions 2 The Times. The Times assumes no responsibilify for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

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- » “JUST NO PLA FOR A CHILD”

By Mrs. McL., Indianapolis I read an article written by a war | wife complaining about not being able to take her child to a tavern. I, too, am a war wife and mother, but for. goodness sakes, a woman with self-respect for herself and naked truth, which is a rarity to child will not be seen in a tavern seein print in these days when the

a lie. Our boys are dying to help England hold on to the countries she has conquered and our fighting forces and civilians as well are being bled to pay the cost. . . .

alone. If women feel they must country is being ruled by the small| land of plenty.” have beer, why not get it at the [group for profits and our liberties |

grocery and- take it home? If you are being taken away from us. enjoy your child, you certainly won't |

mind sitting at home drinking your | tional surrender” is simply for pro-| —Charles Evans Hughes, John Bassett Moore, Frank |°¢¢f While the child has its milk {longing the war and the profits. If |!0 Canada if you can't get enough B. Kellogg and Manley O. Hudson—the senate has °F Orange. As for the church ask-|our rulers really «wanted to end the | 10 eat In the dear old United States stubbornly refused to sanction United States mem. |\N8 NOt to bring children, there are| war, they wouf issue terms on I 52Y 80. And they also raise rice

plenty of churches which welcome | which surrender would be accepted little ones and have regular baby and make them fair and reasonable. | Threats of what will be done. to People don't feel children a dis-| Germany only help Hitler to keep grace. They feel a tavern is just|his men in the field and fight like no place for a child and are just|demons. griped at the adult for not having| In spite of all we are doing for better sense. forty countries, we have rot one T'don’t know how most servicemen | friend among them today, If Eng= feel on this subject of his wite land has ever been a friend of this in a tavern and without him. * But | country, history has not recorded it. to my point of view, I doubt if there | They are laughing.at us and calling are many who like it. us fools.

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By A Reader of the Times, Indianapolis | Sincg 1 am a returned veteran I| decided to speak to show Mrs. Jay Zee of Crawfordsville where she is

talking about. First of all, Mrs. Zee, do you, realize through lend -lease -that| Russia agrees to bases for United No, you are in the dark] of the whole picture. , . Our representatives are doing al sweet job with what they had to do| with. Maybe you prefer to live |

In the Forum of April 5, Mrs. A ay Zee of Crawfordsville has ™ voiced the opinion of 95 per cent |

and millions of tons of our national |

areund the. world while .our ‘own; people: are unable to get the meat | and other necessifies -to sustain life.

In ruling Americans he is Ratd- | licans in congress réfused him on

We are ‘told that we are fighting | American. But you just don't know for freedom of all nations. It is What the picture contains.

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The firm stand for “uncondi-!|things would be a lot easier.

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{through another Hoover adminis{tration—well, I don't. In those days, {I'll agree with you about high taxes, [but the only reason we didn't have! {high taxes was because we couldn't get hold of a dollar to pay them | th. . Now #¥ut Canada having plenty of meat and things. While IT was in service, I saw the timé when Canada didn't have: cream for their| cereals. Maybe you are hungry in| the 1nd of plenty; well . get out | ‘and raise yourself a victory gar-| den. x

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| Let Great Britain have six votes in the San Francisco conference. Do. you realize that if the United States did not pitch in with Great Britain, and if the Germans had

have been a perfect base from which | the Germans could have bombed the-

If people like you would only keep their mouths shut during war, |

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in Japan. » J “COMPLAINTS ARE UNJUSTIFIED” By L. P. Davis, 2524 N. Alabama st. Recently Congressman Raymond Springer requested a congressional investiga®on of* the veterans hospital here at Indianapolis, alleging mistreatment of patients. I feel that such an investigation will prove that complaints which the congressman has received are unjustified. . . Possibly recently, because 8f the employment situation, some of the minor employees are not up to previous standard, but the manager and medical supervisor have been fortunate in keeping many who | have served the hospital faithfully and well for years and are now doing so at a- financial sacrifice, As an example, the chief surgeon, who is praised by many others as well as I for efficiency and humane treatment, does probably more than 300 major operations each year and many minor operations, No private surgeon would attempt as many— and if he did he would receive $30,000 or more for his work, while the veterans’ surgeon probably receives $7500 a year. I think ‘this fact applies to the rest of the personnel from top to

than received in private hospitals. The food is ample, nourishing, clean and of best grade. . , . I speak as an observer who has frequently visited this hospital and has been a patient twice, , . . At specified hours the public is welcome so anyone interested ca see for themselves. wr :

DAILY THOUGHTS

The’ blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and th¢ poor have the gospel preached to them Matthew 11:5, =

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BEHIND THE FRONT—

Heroic Port By Thomas L. Stokes

ANTWERP, Belgium, April 10.— There is a lot of difference in work« ing at this great port which brings in such a tremendous load of pe: i lies for the. allied armies and in ie back home in any of our great production centers—Detrojt, Pittsburgh and the like—or at any of our ports. Ey conditions are different in more Ways than one. : ad Thousands of Belgian civilians and large numbers of American supply troops work here along the miles . and miles of docks which have been a daily.target for V-bombs, both kinds, the V-1 which makes & noise and the V-2 which doesn't. The V-1 bombs have been raining in here from Holland for four months, ever sirice the port was put into operation after its capture by the British, « It 18 operated under joint control, about 70 per cent American, 30 per cent British.

Damage, Loss of Life Have Been High IN THE FOUR MONTHS there was only one day when no V-bombs hit here. The loss of life and the damage have been high. Coming from a country where nothing like this ever happens—fresh from the United States—it is hard to understand how they live and work under it, just as it is hard to understand, * 100, about London, which also gets them. The target in this city is more concentrated than in London. The chances of survival seem less. It is a nerve-wracking experience to visit Antwerp. I confess it frankly and so do othér Americans who come here.” You learn, too, that it is trying for thosé ho live and work here, though they go about their usiness normally, to all outward appearances. : - Everybody tells you about Antwerp before you come here, which induces a nice case of jitters as you begin to get rear the place. We went in by car, Hardly had be entered the city before we saw a crowd of people standing around a yawning hole in the street where a V-bomb fell the night before and knocked out part of a building.

‘If You Hear It You're All Right'

NOT LONG afterward we passed another big hole. You try to take your mind off of it. But it always comes back to the gruesome thought that perhaps the next minute you won't be here; for the V-32 makes no noise. It just strikes—and you are in eternity. It is diabolical 'and fiendish, this Nazi invention. Everybody recites the common: saying until you wish they would hush: “If you hear it you're. all right.” As you drive through the city, and particularly about the docks, you-begin to calculate your chances, Now, you say to yourself, perhaps by turning down this street, as. we did, instead of turning down that, or inspecting this particular -dock works instead of that, as we first had intended to do, we are going to step right into one. Those things run through your mind. You can’t stop them, Americans who live here in Antwerp take special - delight, too, in pointing out where the bombs have hit. They also show you pictures. Only three came in during the four hours we were in the city, They were far off, a dull sound. We heard them. Yet the dock workers and the supply troops go right ahead about their business. When a V-bomb hits, they pitch right in and help to clear awaythe bodies, and the damage. The Belgians regard this

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this great port, which is a municipal enterprise of which they are justly proud.

Pay Is Known as ‘Shiver Money’ THEY GET the equivalent of $4 a day for a seven-hour shift. The pay is known as “shiyer money.” They also get a lunch of soup and sande wiches in the middie of the day. Some of them come as far as 15 to_20 miles to their jobs, riding bicycles. For those who go to work at 6 a. m. on tite first of the two shifts, it means getting up at 2:30, - »This port operation here is magnificent. Antwerp was the third port in the world, after New York and London. It is living up to its reputatich now in getting supplies through to the armies, as the records show. They come through here in a flood, and go out, day by day, on railroads, on barges in the Albert .canal which feeds into this whole area, and by truck. The great business goes on in a .space of 30 miles of docks. ee Te aa . It is thrilling to see the Belgians, the British and the Americans doing this job under such handicaps. It makes complaints heard at home seem, trivial,

IN WASHINGTON—

Jottings By Peter Edson

. WASHINGTON, April 10.—The Business Advisory committee of the department of commerce is planning a testimonial dinner, but not for Henry Wallace. The guest of honor will be Jesse Jones, ; » » » - SECRETARY OF COMMERCE and Mrs. Wallace sent out Easter greetings to their many friends and followers in Washington. They took the form of little boxes about two by two by three inches; and: in each box was perhaps 50 grains of corn. The accompanying card wished the recipient a Happy Easter and said that the corn was Hybrid Golden Bantam. The card didn't say whether it came from Wallace's hybrid seed corn establishment in Iowa. » ” ” FRESHMAN SENATOR Wayne Morse of Oregon and family have finally found a house, which is news. They've been looking ever since the new congress convened last January. Washington housing sitiiation is that tight.

For the Boys in Service THE VERY DEEP DISH senate commerce coms= mittee hearings on the McCarran chosen instrument international aviation bill were under way when three curious G. 1's wandered in. All the visitors’ chairs were taken, so the soldiers stood around listening to the testimony, until the chairman, Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina, stopped proceedings. “1 see we have members of the armed forces as guests,” he said, “and it isn't right that they should stand. We would be glad to have them sit with the committee.” So the three soldiers got big padded chairs at the long green table and had Yo sit there for two hours, not being able to get out. » ” » WHAT TO DO with the 2000 Japanese prisoners of war now held in the United States may prove one of the more puzzling jobs after the war is over, They can’t stay in the United States. But at home, because they have been captured, they have been ‘declared dead and their funeral, services have been held by their families.

Prisoner Rumors Tracked Down ARMY PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL'S office tries to run down most of the gossip stories about How German prisoners of war are mollycoddled in this country, and its flle of debunked rumors is a dandy. : A story that had Philadelphia on its ear was a radiomonger’s report that 200,000 pairs of pajamas had been ordered by the quartermaster depot for German PM's. One thing wrong with the story was that the pajamas were ordered for American prisoners held captive in Germany. ? EE EE » ‘ANOTHER RUMOR had it that German prisoners were allowed to eat their lunches on the porch of the Arizona Biltmore hotel, outside Phoenix. The whole story is that the hotel was then closed and the prisoners were assigned as contract labor on the. grounds. wt wie ee ~ Report that army was buying $60 hearing aids for deaf German prisoners grew out of a story that International Red Cross had a fund to buy such

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