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FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

HE nation has lost its leader. It ‘had honored him with its highest office beyond the tenure of any other President. He responded with the best that was in him, Through ‘depression and war the people looked to him. And in his | courage the nation found greater strength to surmount the crises that beset it. The finest tribute to the qualities of President’ Roosevelt—and to the American people-——was the national -unity achieved after the Jast-election.- As a fighter he had made enemies.» He had made mistakes, as all men, dee: There ‘Wis “bitterness in the campaign. oo west But when Amica had er die akgroseti § in the midst of war, the entire nation regardless of par ty rallied for victory behind the chosen leader. In that spirit all Americans grieve for him today. In every home, and on all the seas and in the foxholes of every |

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fighting front, his fellow citizens pay homage to their fallen | Commander-in-Chief. Di Their grief is personal.. Peoplé felt they knew him. As no other man of his generation, and few of any age, he inspired a highly individual regard. “My friends,” he would say. And somehow that commonplace address, infused with the warmth of his personality, carried over the air-and throtigh the printed word

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“REFLECTIONS —

Angry Man By Harry Hansen

his humor can be deadly. Witness what Ludwig Bemelmans, author of many amusing, quaint and sgper-

lords in his. latest little story, “The Blue Dasiype” There ‘are many ways of fighting an enemy. r. The fat gauleiter of Regensburg, in Bavaria, is a briitish lout; Mr. Bemelmans puts him at a disadvantage everywhere. Anton, the one outspoken antiNazi, is able to slap the gauleiter across the face in the public beer garden. Once—and then he must hide. And the bishop, too, manages to have his way despite the gauleiter. Against the brutish masters Mr. Bemelmans puts the townspeople... They are discreet or gringing. They talk in whispers. They don't stand up to gauleiters, But you get the impression that they will be held dowa only as-long as the gauleiter’s power lasts.

Entertaining and ‘Instructive ANTON HAS two friends—two old sisters wht, raise radishes on an island in the Danube and se them at the church doors by‘ permission of the bishop. The asses keeps the . island. watched through field glasses and knows what the old women are about. They pump water for the radishes and raige a pig that the gauleiter covets. Also they have as helper a comely maid. When they need more help. the bishop provides a French prisonér of war. The: prisoner is not anxious to-be’ free to work on the Tislatid. He prefers to live. behind the walls with his comrades But when "he learns about the girl oS am SARE bishop's request. He is a quiet, retiri who scrupulously observes tie" dO 30 now Mr. Bemelhans 1s” Teady to develop the tale—of how the simple, soft-spoken people defeat the gauleiter and make him and his ilk both ridicuJous

cilious tales, does to the Nazi over- |

Bemelmans' way is to make the enemy ridiculous. |

WHEN A PUNNY MAN gets mad, |

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and powerless. It won't do fog me. to reveal the I found it highly ente”.aining and instruc- | tive. For Mr. Bemelmans knows these Bavarian | townsmen better than we do. He recalls the undercurrents of discontent that passed among the Ger- | mans before they Were sealed off from the world. He doesn't touch any deep political - questions, but the deeper one of morality, that evil shall not triumph, seems to be pretty well explained. It costs $3 to read this little tale of about 40,000 words. Of course there are pictures in color by Bemelmans, but it does seem like a lot of money.

into the hearts of ordinary folks who felt that the President was just that—their friend. | There was a gay gallantry about him that none will | forget. In little things, the jaunty angle of his cigaretholder, the humorous turn of a phrase, the flashing smile. And in deeper things as well, for his poise and cheer had overcome long suffering and physical handicap. The public sensed this. It strengthened the human bond. History will rate him high. - He was not all things to all men, and no man could have been equal to all the burdens he carried. But this can be.said of him that, not once but twice, he led this nation through perils in which it Fight

have perished.

” » » »” WHEN HE took office in 1933 he brought lift to people in despair, he stopped panic, he set the wheels going again. Again when war came, he rose to that supreme emer- ~ =gency. Under our constitution, which so carefully counter- * balances the executive authority in peace time, he became the most powerful chief of state in all the world. Then in a unique sense he was our leader. As such his was the fearful responsibility for our record in this war—for the blunders and inadequacies and for the efficiency and the | successes, the bad and the good. The net is victory. That is the epitaph of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He lived to see that victory was certain: He. died at his work. And all the united nations of the world join’

his countrymen in “blessing the fruits of his labor. s &- 2 = =

TO OUR new President, America ‘will give loyal cooperation in the unfinished task. As Mr. Roosevelt 12 years ago received the prayerful best wishes of the nation, so | they go out to Mr. Truman in this emergency. Our enemies abroad will hope that this people in arms will fall out of step, if only for a little while during the | change in leadership. Those hopes are vain. The abiding strength of democracy is that in time of | need it produces men equal to the demand. Always in | ‘our history this has been so. More than once humble men have been lifted to our highest office, and served the best. There will be no change in military policy. That will to victory springs from®the souls of 135,000,000 Americans. |

” [ I : = = . THERE WILL be no change in foreign policy. The determination to make this a just peace, and the commitment to American participation in an international security organization have been confirmed by both parties | in a national election and by congress, There will be no change in the desire to make this a better country in which to live, especially for those who have risked their all to save it~ That policy is nation-wide. There will be no change in the sanity and decency and courage of the people, which brought forth this republic, | which sustained it through a century and a half, and which remain the promise of its futtre,

THEY DON'T LIKE TO LISTEN ENATE leaders are having a hard time kee ping a quorum on the floor. They find it difticult to do business, due | to the senatorial habit of wandering oft the premises. They are worried about the impression made upon visitors in the gallery who look down too often on the faniiliar scene .of one senator talking loud and long, or a half-dozen.sena-tors reading newspapers or scribbling notes and the remainder of the seats empty. Here's a problem, all right—one to.ch: illenge the in- | genuity of - parliamentarians and psychologists. * “The greatest deliberative body on earth” is also the greatest center of marathon oratory. Most senators are good talkers —owe their election largely to their gift of speech—but very few are good listeners. And a man has to be a patient listener to remain long stretches in the se nate chamber. » » » » $ A WISE legislator of long experience once remarked ‘that thé thost tiring thing in the world was to sit all day listening to the other fellow talk about something he wanted to talk about. - It must be especially exhausting to one who has spent a lifetime developing his larynx rather than his ears. The senate’s rule is that any member may talk on any subject he wishes and for as long as he wishes, The only limitation is the free-wheeling mobility of his tongue, the strength of his vocal chords and the endurance of his lungs: The senate doubtless will cling té that ancient preroga‘tive so long as the average senator's fondness for falang exceeds his impatience with listening. If the latter ever becomes paramount; there a be ost sibility of “abandonment of a rule’ which perhaps

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That Dickinson Feud A LAWSUIT over a strip of land that was to have been given to an editor for preparing the poems of Emily Dickinson for publication, stopped the isSue of those poems for nearly 50 years. -Millicent Todd Bingham, as the sole survivor of both parties to the suit, describes it in “Ancestors’ Brocades: The Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson.” (Harper, $3.75). The 650 poems see print for the first time in “Bolts of Memory,” in which Mrs. Bingham credits her mother, Mabel Loomis Todd, with the major work. If you need more Dickinson poems to sustain you, here they are, in the familiar subjective vein .and rhythm. (Harper, $3.) Lavinia, Emily's sister, found Emily's poems after her death; she, asked Mrs. Todd tovedit them for publication. Three books were pubfished. Then Lavinia started suit against Mrs. Todd for recovery of 53 -feet of land, presumably given for the work of editing. Mrs. Bingham says Lavinia was forced to misrepresent the issue by a dominating sister-in-law. Mrs. Todd lost in two courts. Thereupon she coldshouldered Lavinia and turned the key on the Dickinson’ poems—Iliterally, for they were in a camphorwood box, which played a tune when opened. It was not opehed betweén 1898 and 1929. Then Mrs. Bing- { ham and her mother again began work on the poems. Mrs. Todd died in 1932; .now, nearly 50 years after the poems were locked up, they appear. Dear, old New England, what a lot of fine feuds you have furnished for literary material! The story of the poet's “debut,” the editing, the feuding, etc., make “Ancestors’ Brocades” a source-book for liteFary historians.

“WORLD AFFAIRS—

J ps vs. Reds’

By Wm. Philip-Simms

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“WE NEED NO FUTURE MEMORIAL”

By Pfe. Emil near Bologna

My wife, residing at 15 S. Bolton ave. recently included in one of her lettérs to me the Hoosier Forum of | March 2. I read with a great deal of interest the ‘article entitled, “Let There Be No Memorials,” written by a’ marine somewhere in the Pacific. I fully agree with the marine and others who have raised their voices against the “memorial proposal.” Those of us who are fighting this war thousands of miles away from our homes and loved on®s need no future memorial to remind us of what is now so terrbly imbedded into our very being. All we need to do

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a large sum of money to create an “idol” upon which we can only look with hate and bittefnéss. Here in Italy, especially in Rome and the larger cities, there are hundreds of! statues and memorials emulating the right of might, hate and terror. {On the few occasions I have been| monument enough to last us for- |p Rome, I could only 166k upon this ever. We see the ruined cities of | form of monument and bitterly say, |

Italy, her shelled and bombed homes | “Damn you!" and factories. Let us not abuse those of us who!

We see the lifetime | {have gone before us. - Let us be] possessions, earned ‘by ‘hard labor | (realistic. We, over here, will thank! of the poor peasants, lying heaped | those of you at home for it. in a mass of stone and rubble” I| » can still see the poor peasant wom- | | “ESPRIT DE CORPS

ban as she. returned to what was | LIVES ON”

once joy, ‘life. ‘heme. and happiness. By Ist Sgt. Rebert G. Batson, T. 3d Gr. (saying that most of our uniform | f Nick Elias, | men dswnot see action—which I say

rthur Kraeger, T. 3d Gr. An, Evacuation hospital, somewhere in! the Philippines

About a week ago one of the ser-

{Her gaze upon that scene of de-| struction was one. of incredulity. | Bent and unashamed of the soldiers |

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“1 wholly disagree with what - you sqy, but will defendto the

your right to say it.” “GIVE THE FIGHTING MAN A BREAK” By Hanry W. Reger, Indianapolis I must fully agree that my Suggestion “that only combat soldiers” be admitted to the American Legion would in many instances be unfair and unjust. It is true that there are many soldiers who crave combat duty but who through no fault of their 6Wn never see action. In these instances it is true that to deny

"them Legion membership is unfdir.

Yet I will reiterate my original stand that only combat soldiers be given Legion membership. I still insist that my unfairness is more just than the injustice of granting all men in uniform Legion membership. We have a dozen five-glar generals on our army register, only two of whom are seeing combat

service. The remaining 0 are desk |

| generals. When you say that if my| proposal were to be put into ef-| fect, the remaining uniform men

{would organize a Legion of their

own which would dwarf the present Legion into insignificance, what is that- but an admission suggestion is true. You are plainly

is wrong. Why not spread the burden? Commissioned officers can had a dime a dozen. What

ibe | duties they -have I do not know.

{ might also remind the Atter-

tary attaches with years of service describe this scene, yet it shall re-ipaper by his wife, concerning the! | bury Soldier that Paul V. McNutt

in the Far East would not be surprised if Japan pulled a Pear] Harbor against the Soviet Union Thie, they explain, has nothing to do with Moscow's termination- of the Russo-Japanese pact of nonaggression, Such an attack, they declare, would be an act of despair, a gesture of hara-kari to save face for the militarists. From a military point of ‘view, it is said, Japan has much te lose and little to gain by attacking Rus- | sia. Although she might blitz Vladivostok, Khabarovsk | and other strategic centers along the Trans-Siberian | railway, such successes would not only be short-lived, but would quickly turn into deadly boomerangs,

' Could Cut Rail Line Near Border

UNDER WAR conditions, Vladivostok is of little |

{ value'to Russia. Destruction of the great railway bridge |

spanning the Amur river at Khabarovsk, and of the | military installments there, would be more serious. 80 would ' cutting the Trans-Siberian between. | Khabarovsk and Chita where for 1000 miles the rail- | way skirts the Manchurian frontier. : But for these blows to have more than temporary | t value, Japan would have to concentrate such military forces in that vast region that her other fronts would |

| be depleted.

A Japanese attack on-Russia, therefore, would in-

dicate a suicide stand in Manchuria and Korea such |

as the Nazis threatened to make in the mountains | around Berchtesgaden.

Terrain Offers Advantages to Japs THE ALLIED reaction, however, would be swift and | terrible. It is revealing no military secret to say that | tussia and the United States are aware of the possi- | bilities. and are fully prepared, ' I ‘have journeyed along every mile railway in Korea, Manchuria and Eastern Siberia. The terrain | offers many advantages to Japan if she ‘wishes to | | spring a surprise. She could probably score heavily | during the first few days but from therfon, the tide | would turn against her, The country north of Vladivostok, also to the east | and west of Chita, is ideal for air bases. Many have | already been constructed there. Even .if these were destroyed in a sneak attack, America® bulldozers and technicians could establish new ones in a matter of days. Together, Russians and Americans could soon clear the sky of Jap planes then carry the fight to Manchuria, Korea and Japan proper only a few hundred miles away. Vladivostok’s loss would not cripple Russia. But if Japan's nearby ports of ‘Yuki, Rashin, Seishin and Fusan were knocked out—which is what the allies would quickly do—her forces in Korea and Manchuria would virtually be cutoff fromi the homeland.

May Seek to Save Face

NIPPON MISSED the boat when she aled to attack Russia about the time of Stalingrad. Now her chance has gofie—like Hitler's because of his failure

of

in 1041. ; Néyertheless, Japan may yet strike, If the military group loses the war, it willbe forever disgraced and ‘from the Samuria way of looking at it, all will be lost, even honor. Thus something — anything — must be donb to save facé and avert the catastrophe. When - hopelessly beaten, Jap procedure is to shriek ,“‘banzai!” and rush to certain death at, the . hands of the Americans. Or they hug bombs to Meir,

oe when a congressional session. was of few | ion, but which has become a bit

stomachs and blow themselves up. Militarist Japan may sek the same

| American Legion sponsored bill, to

| Side Glances=By Galbraith

to land in England in 1940, and his attack on Russia |

main with me as long as I may live, .construction of a 300-bed general and I can only feel humble. Here in Europe, both we the | hospital in Néw Guinea. troops and the civilians need no me-| The story related the following morial to this hell that mankind im-|data which was rather amusing to poses on itsell. Surely, we need some of us enlisted men in this none at home. The sufferings, pain | |and agony and death we have seen evacuation hospital. come to our close companions, mankind can never repay by casting! pital, bronze and fashioning stones. (unit, a huge sprawling affair, Wouldn't it be much more satis-| factory to all concerned if that] : | dozen engineers, in six months. construct a $2,500,000 memorial in| The facts are: The 54th and the Indianapolis, would seek to use that|51st general hospitals each conmoney for the betterment of return- | structed their hospitals side by side, ling’ war veterans, or for the im- | and after the hospitals were about provement of our communities in|80 per cent completed, the 54th {some way? I could think of a num- | |absorbed_the area of the 51st, while |ber of ways it could be used, rather| the 51st moved up the road 25 milés {than to create an inanimate edifice/and took over the 134th general 'to- remind us of the horror we lived hospital. We—=the 134th—-built our |through. Surely, we are in need of | hospital in only eight’ weeks of the | mgre and better playgrounds,|same size and type construction as |schools and youth projects of all|the other two and had patients be-. { kinds. Certaifily it can only be naive, [fore the other two units knew what

so the story “goes, built the] by

The men of th® 54th general hos- k

themselves except for the help of a | {at least gets my vote.

{unrealistic thinking on the part of | was going on, [the government of the ctate of n-] The 134th ‘general hospital has diana to turn down a bonu$ bill for since been inactivated, but the esjie soldier, yet turn about and vote |prit de corps lives on.

land John W. Bricker both gained political favor through Legion mem- { bership, and neither tangled with a Hun in World War I. If you think the boys in the foxholes of Guadalcanal and elsewhere {will run the Legion after the war, {you are badly mistaken.’ It will ‘be run by a bunch of desk | generals, colonels, etc, who never saw combat duty. I believe in giving the fighting man a break, He

» » » “READ MY PREVIOUS LETTER AGAIN” By War Wife and Mother, Indianapolis I'm afraid Mrs. Harry C. Brown did not read my letter very thoroughly, I spoke of Good Friday church services, and not Easter services. For her information, I attend church Easter Sunday-in fact, I have not missed a single Sunday at church since I was a child. I did not mean to convey the impression that I frequented taverns while avoiding church. - Further, I still maintain that drinking a bottle of beer is an innocent pleasure. The fact that I like to have my daughter with me when I go out, and seem to be finding fewer and fewer places where we can go together, is what I was complaining about, I wouldn't leave my daughter locked alone in the house to go either to church or a tavern. But there are others that will. That's the point I want to make. Mrs. Brown, read my previous letter again—and read it slowly.

You seem to have missed the point “| altogether.

And don't worry about myxgoing to church, for I dare say I have-spent. as. much, if not more, time in church than you have. I fail to see what connection that has with this law that provides children may. not accompany their parents into a tavern. I formerly mentioned Good Friday services to

{show that it appeared to me that

nobody wanted children. I've heard it's eveéh difficult to rent a house, And I feel that these points will dis courage family life. . Read my letter again, Mrs. Brown, and let me hear from you again,

~ DAILY THOUGHTS

But without thy mind would 1 do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it ere of necesyi but willingly. Philemon 21:04. :

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BEHIND THE FRONT—=

Salvage By Thomas L. Stokes

‘ROME, Italy, April 13.—Col. William D. (Bill) Ela used to work in a bank but he has been in the quartermaster corps for 12 years. Soon after the landing in North Africa he was ordered to set up a salvage unit to save, repair and put back into service whatever was pos~ sible of all those things used by soldiers. “I didn't even have a clerk,” he said. “I had to start from scratch. It was trial and error, and no mistake.” This trial and error has developed today into a big business for Col. Ela. He is now operating the 220th salvage and repair company, and ‘the 818th sterilization company at: Leghorn, headquarters of the penin= ‘sular base section of the army service forces. He started in North Africa, then mdved with the |§ army into Naples and set up a salvage unit which St] operates there. ‘ {

Plans, Organizes and Sells i THE- SLIGHTLY built officer, who comes from | i Portland, Me, is one of those wiry, enthusiastic fel- § lows who can plan, organize, and sell his ideas and ‘his enthusiasm to others. 9 He showed me around his unit where hundreds of : women, were repairing clothes for soldiers; where Ji skilled Italians, working under enlisted men, were if repairing shoes, canteens and mess kits, field stoves | and ovens, typewriters, snowshoes, and all sorts” of} 1 other things for reissue to the front-line troops; where | others worked in machine shops making tools for | | their jobs. He insisted on showing me the big laundry at Pisa, 8 few. miles away, which Nandlss-£5,000,000 nougds-

1 of laundry for the 5th army Jat id Teas, a 35,000,000 | business:

It gives 48-Hours Ssiwive” Ssbsay os ront lines in the mountains. This ‘service, operated | at cost, is paid for by officers and men. There I talked with Lt. Frederick B. Youngblooal of Detroit who is the third generation in rod iCleaners and Dyers Co. He told of the education he { has got in helping to run this huge laundry; the new! practices he expects to take back home.

A Little Dizzy From It All

I SINGLED out Col. Ela's operation because it is} one of the latest I have seen and it is fresh in mind, § but it is just one of many in the armies in Burope, # He is just one of the enthusiastic men in this vast} business, and it is a vast business. ‘I have followed! hem through salvage uepols until I got dizzy wii iv a “It is very impressive for various reasons:

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a very undramatic piece of the war. They want to} show you everything, explain everything. They are’ proud of the new methods they have devised, of whats they have actomplished in savings. They run into § many millions of dollars. The office at Florence of Brig. Gen. Joseph P| Sullivan, quartermaster for the 5th drmy, has come piled figures of salvage operations at its big Flore nce} depot showing savings of over $35,000,000 from Nos f vember, 1043, to February of this year.

A New Idea—Taking Initiative

INCIDENTALLY, this salvage operation, which is’ separate from that of the peninsula base section, has? developed a new idea—a salvage unit connected di«} rectly with the army, independent of the supply § organization, It sends out mobile units to collect stuff dor repair, taking the initiative. Comparable savings are being made in other salvage operstions with the various: armies on all fronts. i War is a costly Business, but it perhaps is good news to the taxpayers that the army is doing its par ; to cut down this cost by fitting for reuse whatever it can, which in turn is passed back, requiring . fewer | of many things, saving space on ships, railways and | trucks and the costs connected with them. American business too might learn from some of | the things the army is doing in this direction,

IN WASHING TON—

By Peter Edson WASHINGTON, April 13. — increase in the number of a in congress is shown by an occupational survey of the 96 senators and 435 representatives sitting on Capitol Hill today. There were 60 lawyers in the senate at the start of the war in 1941, but there are 70 lawyers in the senate of the 79th congress today, There were 230 lawyers in the House four years ago, 239 today. This preponderance of legal minds—approximately 73 per cent of the senate and 53 per cent of the house—has been frequently mentioned as one of the things that's wrong with congress. This criticism raises the point that if you ‘want to hire somebody to write you a law you'd look first for a lawyer. Nevertheless, the big idea of representative governs ment is that it is supposed to pick a good cross sec tion of the population to do the governing and con< gress as it is now set up gives only a good geograph« ical cross section, picking one congressman fof every 260,000 odd souls.

Side Interests Highly Varied

IT'S A NICE IDEA to fool around with, but a further examination of the previous or side-line occu pations of the present members of congress shows that it is about as variegated a lot of jacks-of-alle trades as you could ask for. Even in the Senate, top-heavy as it is with law« yers, a lot of them list other interests and occupations on the side, such as banking or farming. That makes occupational classification a little difficult, but picking them by their principal avocations, the 26 non-lawyer senators divide up as 10 newspapermen and publishe« ers, seven businessmen, three farmers and stockmen, four professional officeholders who can best be classi« fied only as politicians, one educator and one shows man and radio entertainer who can probably speak for the crooners and swooners. Note that the newspapermen and publishers rank second only to the lawyers as throwers around of weight. The businessmen run the gamut. O'Daniel of Texas is a flour salesman, Gurney of South Dakota runs a seed and nursery business in addition td a radio station, Maybank of South Carolina is a cotton exporter, and Wherry of Nebraska is an auto and furniture dealer and embalmer, _ It's the non-lawyer members of the.house, though, that show up the real variety of American life. In the present congress are 78 businessmen, 27 educators, 26 newspapermen and publishers, 25 dirt farmers who don't claim any other occupation, 15 life-time politicians and professional officeholders, a veteri« narian, six: doctors, two dentists, three engineers, two stage stars (Helen Gahagan Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas) and two pharmacists (Durham of North Carolina and Tibbott of Pennsylvania).

Businessmen of All Sorts IT'S AMONG the 78 businessmen that you gob real diversification of interest. Nineteen afe real estate and insurance men, which is understandable when you think how they get around and ey people. Aside from that concentration it’s a hodge ‘podge. Seven builders and contractors, six bankers, four lumbermen, two ‘accountants, auto dealers, oill and gas men, ad men, manufacturers, and one shipbuilder, clothier, adhesive maker, miller, mine opeps' ator, grocer, architect, 1 merchant, gold mine, ce —-

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“Over 20 per cent are vetergns—17 in the senate

"121 in the house.. Fourteen served in the navy. Eight

have served in the present war, four in the Spanish American war, one in the Boer war (Senator Robe ‘son of yong). . Eleven 51, the

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