Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1945 — Page 14

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THERE .IS the lire of great adventure about submarine warfare, when it's your side that is doing the stalking. Submarine fighting is like ‘commando fighting—done

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stealthily, often in the dark, far from bases and in the ports where the enemy rules, It is always exciting, often dangerous and breeds a sense of solidarity among the -officers and men engaged in it and a loyalty to their tin fish that siiggests how much they value its protection. One of the best submarine stories deals with a famous sub—the Seraph of the Royal British navy, and its master, Lt. N. L. A. Jewell, who has, besides the Legion of Merit of the United States, given him at the instance of President Roose-

; ord THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE RESIDENT TRUMAN spoke world yesterday straight from his heart. He showed his grief—and his hope. His humility— | and his strength. : Of his fellow citizens he asked unity and co-operation. Df the enemy he demanded unconditional surrender. To our allies and the peoples of the world he pledged American leadership for a just peace after complete mili- | tary victory, and an international security organizatien under law. ge As one congressman described it: A message of democracy without dramatics. We can do without platform | dramatics, hen the real drama is on the fighting fronts.

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the President revealed that the grand strategy for victory already has been determined. | It has proved successful. There will be no change. The| game chiefs of staff will continue their brilliant direction: Adm. Leahy, Gen. Marshall, Adm. King and Gen. Arnold. Gen. Eisenhower, Adm. Nimitz and Gen. MacArthur carry on. He added that their direction of the war will hampered. That is to say, the White House will not interfere with the technical side of military operations. and . will not permit public pressure, if it should arise, to hamper " the experts. . = Hitler and his henchmen hardly could have been surprised by the Truman:emphasis on unc onditional surrender. | The Nazis must know by this time that they cannot split | the allies by political ¥use ‘to prevent their annihilation. | But there was a cold finalify to the warning they heard | yesterday: “Nothing shall shake our determination. to] punish the war criminals, even though we must pursue | them to the ends of the earth.”’ |

- ” = = 2 E 4 THE JAPS, however, may have been-stupid enough to seek some hole in the new President's statement of policy. "At least Tokyo comments for foreign consumption over the week-end had been almost fawning in their conciliatory "tone. But this message carries the sound. of doom to them: | “America will never become a party to any plan for partial victory. To settle for merely another temporary would surely jeopardize the future security of all the world.” President Truman in his discussion of the coming San | Francisco conference and a world peace organization used some significant old-fashioned phrases, which have been missing in diplomati¢ documents of recent months. He talked .about protecting “the rights of man.” lle stressed the necessity of “justice”—a word which does not appear in the Dumbarton draft and a spirit lacking in some of the temporary (we hope) European settlements. He put it on a very practical basis: “Past experience surely indicates that, without justice, an enduring peace becomes impossible.”

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F THIS ‘WILL be the main issue at San Francisco, “building a world organization, and at the later peace con- | ference. * It involves reconciling the big powers’ might and | _ ambitions with the smaller nations’ rights and equalities: There can be neither enduring peace %nor justice ¥intil- that | | basic political conflict is resolved, President Truman stated | it fairly but bluntly: - “Nothing is more essential to the future peac e of the! world than continued co-operation of the nations which had to muster the force necessary to defeat the conspiracy of | the Fascist powers to dominate the world.’ “While these great states have a special responsibility to enforce the peace, their responsibility is based upon the obligations resting upon all states, large and small, not to "use force in international relations except in the defense of law. »? “The responsibility of the great states not dominate the peoples of the world.”

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THE END OF KRUPP ~ ULVERIZED” was the word used to describe the condition in which the 9th armyv found the Kru tions works when it entered Essen. But the description applies to more than a group of factories; For a name and an institution and an empire have also been blasted to dust. For more than a century Krupp was the arm and sinew | of German militarism. - Its guns had ringed besi: in the Franco-Prussian war. Its “Big Bertha” V-bomb of world War 1, firing at targets ible distance of 70 miles and more.. Krupp had been a name to be feared, a man might. And then the ancient symbol was att: a weapon which had grown from a flimsy skimming the Carolina sands little n before, Again and again the bombers flew pregnable arsenal of an impregnable co the troops come to Essen they found onl to remind them of a fearsome greatness, a memorable and equally symbolical of air power in a changing

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USELESS USE TAX YEEKING, none ‘too “t revenue, Congress a years ted a tax” of $5 a year on automobiles: - This is the tax you | pay when you buy the little colored windshield sticker at ! the postoffice around July 1, each year. . It isn’t a tax on © your auto. It is just a fee for permission to use your auto, Very shortly after it went into effect the government | closely restricted thee use of automobiles, as a war measure, ‘but the tax remained. It has not been a useful tax. It returns a relatively insignificant amount of revenue™o the : government, it is a nuisance to collect-and it is a nuisance to pay it. Since there is no federal enforcement machinery, this job falls on local and state police, usually, On current A card rations, it amounts to five cents a gallon—or maybe ~ one-fourth of a cent a mile—for car owners. Lhatiy isn'ta very heavy burden to most motor ists, it is just that much more added to the already heavily: x right of an individual ph drive a car,

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vell. Lt. Jewell's story, rt Mission Submarine,” was prepared by Cecil Carnes and reads like a thrill ing mystery tale, By the yery nature of its task, the Seraph had to be mysterious. It was highly efficient, too, and Lt. Jewell often patted the ‘hull of his craft when

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THE MOST thrilling of the Seraph’s missions took place in October, 1942, when Lt. Jewell was called to Gibraltar to meet a group of high officers that inMaj. Gen. Mark W. Clark, now lieutenant general. Lt. Jewell anid the Seraph had been chosen

to carry Gen. Clark and his associates to a place on the coast hear Oran, 90 miles west of Algiers.

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nearly spoiled by French gendarmes, but the details of the ‘trip in the sub and the return—during which Gen. Lemnitzer lost several thousand dollars the scuttling of a damaged boat and Gen. his pants—here becomes an exciting ad-

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fatefu ferriec Giraud’ from France fo North Africa. Having he submat to call for him, the officers and men prended American: thinking the general knew no English. During the cruise they learned that he spoke English well, Patroling in the Mediterranean, attacking hostile ships, dodging attacks and taking part in the inva-

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other adventures that kept Lt. Jewell busy. His is a eorking varn and suggests what a lot of good stories from submarine captains in the future. $2.)

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Man in a Quandary IT IS RARE that an author tackles a theme as difficult that Harty Sylvester for himself | when he wrote his novel, “Dayspring” (Appleton- | Century, $2.75). the author has been unable to make a convincing | story out of his invention. He went to the Southwest for his scefie and placed an American anthropologist amid the Penitentes sect in a fashion that is highly original, though a failure. : The anthropologist, Spencer Bain, was studying Unable to remain objective, he

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| recognized “the deep earthiness of the people and

the association of their elemental Must with their in worship. When Spencer Bain became

saw the contrast in the suppressions and He had a personal

colony he s problem, too, loved. Here the author endeavors to analyze the feelings of Bain and the other characters as if he had a Freudian aim to explain them in terms of complexes. Unfortunately. this is where the story falls down. There seems insufficient reason why Bain should join the church without deep faith or why he should take part in the Penitente ceremony. A scientist at heart,

vengeance at the end. Mr. Sylvester is known chiefly | as a writer of stories of action—and very good ones. | The complications of inner tensions in his characters do not seewyeasy.for his pen. We credit him with an honest, though unskillful effort. :

WORLD’ AFFAIRS—

Left Turn

By Ernie Hill

RIO DE JANEIRO, April 17. President Getulio Vargas’ swerve | toward libéfalism is turning Brazilian politics upside down. Many of his old friends of the extreme reactionary-<ategory are condemning him. Leftwing enemies of long standing now are praising him With the announcement of a presidential election | ted around May 1, Brazilian political groups roughly reshuffling and realigning themselves. To date, Vargas has given no indication of changng his mind about extending his 16-year tenure, ther at the polls or otherwise. The upside-down aspects of politics here are best by the actions of two prominent political of opposite extremist groups.

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Communist Leader Praises Vargas BRAZIL'S - COMMUNIST - leader, Luiz Carlos Prestes, has spent the last nine years in a special escape-proof jail cell in'the detention house in downtown Rio as a result of his political activities. From his cell Prestes has writtén a long ‘statement congratulating Vargas on renewing Brazil's relations with the Boviet union, and praising his liberdl reforms, including the lifting of the censorship. Prestes, who is running for president from jail, proposed to Dr. Vargas the possibility of combining forces in a “Prestes-Vargas coalition,” creating a stir bot h ameng intellectual leftists and among Vargas’ Brazil hdd scarcely recovered from this when anther thing happened. Gen, Goes Monteiro, longtime friend of Vargas, Brazil's inter-American defense representative at Mostienidery stormed into Rio with a statement: “I ive come from Montevideo to put an end to the estado novo (new state).” He said that Vargas had been in office too long and that Brazil needed a new president,

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MONTEIRO WAS decorated with Nazi medals in 1940 for military leadership. He has been associated with the extremely reactionary element in the Vargas

government. In his statement Monteiro proclaimed enmity for

Nazi-Fascist types of government and said- that Os-’

waldo." Aranha, until recently foreign minister, had advised him to keep-his German medals. when he was

| ahott to give them back. E Monteiro’s blast, together with Prestes' change ot . heart regarding Vargas, were indicative of the rapidly | °

shifting political lineup. Possibility of Vargas and the Communists getting | together is a frequent topic of political conversation, regardless of how fantastic the idea seems. Relaxation of censorship took place at Recife

“where the Diario de Pernambuco, of the Assis Cha-

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“WE MUST EXPECT HIGH TAXES" By Edward W. Kellogg, In communication published April 12, inspired by your articles on year-around pay, I. suggested

{that we should look upon | project of providing jobs for all who |need them as a social good,

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if necessary, that I read, there is unwarranted

Some factors which have contributed to this optimism are: 1. Abundance of jobs at good pay in wartime. But the government cannot continue such spending. 2. There have been high pay rolls in - peacetime during business booms. But these have been times {when individuals (instead of government) were nning up debts and we have not found out how to make the condition permanent Moderate “pump-priming” during

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to be willing to face some sacrifice | Judging from much |

optimism about how readily this job! abundance can be brought about. |

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| (Times readers: are invited to express their views in | these.columns, religious ¢ontroversies 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 responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.) 1] - I crans and others we must expect high taxes and be patient about our own advances and to put it on a "long-term basis Uncle Sam will have ito do his part on a pay-as-you-go basis. : ~ “F. D. R. MAY ‘BE MIGHTIER IN DEATH” | By Henry W. Reger, 1909 N In the passing of Franklin Delano

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“BE KIND. TO ANIMALS WEEK" | By Smiley Fowler,

The 31st annual observance of |“Be Kind to Animals Week” has [been dated April 15-21. It has befcome a significant movement in the | United States and seems particuaxl appropriate now ‘because of | the achievements oY the K-9 corps j= the world's fight against cruelty. Largely dogs have superseded the | horse in war service, although many [thousands of horses still are used. The dogs of this unique corps have {displayed almost incredible intelli-

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By Thomas L. Stokes

ALONG THE ITALIAN FRONT, April 17—The road that leads up to the American front is literally | carved out of the side of precipices. It leads round and round, now sharply down, now almost straight up, but always

higher and higher.

It is like a roller coaster only not so smooth and slick. You look down an incline of 45 degrees or more and wonder how the jeep will ever make it, jamming your feet against the floor boards and holding your breath. But the jeep makes it somehow, You look up another incline and you know that nothing on wheels could ever make that, but the jeep does, while 1 rocks bounce away and go clattering down the s at the side. And so you wind round and d, always higher,

America's Secret Weapon THERE ARE inclines in these mountains up to where American soldiers are stationed however that not even a jeep can travel. Those grades bring into action America's “secret weapon"—the one thing that. can go where a jeep cannot—the Missouri‘mule. There are thousands upon thousands of them here. We passed camp after camp, small isolated army units. Some are ammunition depots, some are batteries of big guns that blaze away at the Germans across the valley. " Some are observation posts perched on the “peak tops” ‘as they call them, watching the German batteries, reporting their positions, always themselves in danger of being wiped out suddenly if they become too much of a nuisance, Living is primitive. The men are housed in tents, mostly, There is no amusement except what you can make for. yourself. Mostly you sit and watch the Germans, Eventually we came to the place where an artillery battle was going on across the mountains. Our jeeps stopped and the drivers put down the windshields and covered them with tar paling to prevent a reflection. that might attract the attention of the German artillery spotters.

To the Accompaniment of Artillery FARTHER ON we rode to the accompaniment of artillery. It becomes an accustomed background in p time. Finally, we reached the observation paint that was our goal. We got out of the jeeps and climbed up the rest of the way. It was straight up. It was for young men, I learned, as we climbed, pausing oc= casionally for breath, The observation point was an- old house that had been shattered somewhat. We climbed up a dark -stairway to the second floor, There we met Sgt. Vernon Jansen of Minneapolls who. was in charge of the detail. Young Jansen who is 26, is tired of these mountains. He’s been overseas 39 months, He is a watchmaker by trade and he hopes to open up a business for himself when the war is over. He's tired of inaction, He wishes something would happen. Plenty was.happening to satisfy his sight-seeing visitors. We watched Mee windows. There was a German strong pont on\a hill not more than half a milesaway. There had been a church there. You could see one piece of wall still standing. The American artillery had blasted it nearly to the ground, but the Germans were still there,

Tanks Are Used for Artillery . DOWN TO our left, parked on a road wis an

{gence and bravery under the most savage conditions .of man’s war on man. | Humane organizations seek to be the spokesmen for all creatures that cannot speak for themselves and, despite the disheartening setbacks |

{ |due to human selfishness and care- | lessness, they can see each succeed-| are not like those on the maps.

ing year some gain in the spread of |

“kindness to all living creatures. "

| This special week is intended, of | course, to promote that spirit] throughout the year and to embrace |

| domestic animals and wildlife.

3. The argument that pay in-|grace our land. F. D. R. delighted. “Hunt with a camera instead of a| American barrage.

American tank that was sending shells regularly t toward that point. Tanks are used for artillery | these mountains. | The Germans too were sending shells over, You { could hear them whiz at the American lines, We | watched them fall around one concealed gun thas barked every so often. When you get to the front you find that the lines They zig and zag, and it's hard to get. it all clear. The banging went | on regularly all that quiet Sunday afternoon. Watching it from the safety of our observation point it seemed like a game. i But the time comes when the artillery hammers

| 1933-37 (even on borrowed money) Roosevelt the nation has lost the | ot merely dogs and cats, but alll the front with every gun as it had for a few min-

{ utes the night before when there was a terrific THen suddenly the troops spring

creases, *by increasing - purchasing |in breaking precedents. He by no lgun” is a genuinely human slogan. out of their holes in the hills and start up another

| power, will promote full employment means was oug most able executive, | {is wishful thinking. If you will rec-| {but no one can deny that he fought! for human rights and equal’ privi- |

|ogriize that increased production |

Wartime's food shortage has] made new problems for owners of | pets. Anodther difficulty, the vast

costs, sooner or-later, mean °corre-|leges for all. He came to the head), ber of unwanted dogs-and cals.

sponding price increases, I—think you will agree that the benefit is] largely local, leaving the without jobs worse off than before. Moreover, high labor costs put

people |

Of our country at a timely moment | to lead our country through.panic and -ehaos. ” | . There are many {with "his- philosophy

who disagreed and policies.

{can be remedied if people will use care in preventing their own animals from running at large. Birth | control is desirable—fewer should | be permitted to be born. It is better

pressure on management to increase | Yet no’ one can take exception to that. the newborn. should be hu-

the use of .labor-saving “devices. 4. There has been much said about an “expanding economy” with

our consumption goods limited-enly! {by our productive capacity.

We all hope it’s possible, but it hasn't been,

{nor has anyone told us just how to|dream

get” it going. Probably purchasing power will have to be much more; widely distributed to support high production. : There has been continuous effort, and rightly, to raise the living

|standards of our workers who have | { jobs, but creating enough jobs to go |

{around .is still more urgent. What | I fear is that if there is heavy pressure for pay increases at the same {time that the nation is tryjng to find or create millions of new jolf®,

thwarted. New businesses will not profit and sometimes it is hard sledding for a good while. To ‘do our best for returning vet-

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all of the efforts of government and | business in this direction may be!

start unless there is prospect of |

the ideals he strove for and died to perpetuate. He | weaknesses common to us all, even those weaknesses leaned virtue's side. He, like Wilson and | Lincoln, did not live to see his come true, but let us be] philosophical and believe with Lin- | coln, “The judgments of God are righteous and just altogether.” It {may be that in his death permanent peace has a better chance.of being nurtured than if he had lived. F. D. R. may be mightier in death than in life at the coming peace] conierence, FP. D. R, I always thought, was greatly concerned about what future | historians would say of him. His {fondest wish is realized in death. Historians must place him high on the list of outstanding individuals. Future school boys will memorize his speeches as the present school boy memorizes Lincoln's. F, D. R.’s | spirit will remain with us and guide jus to the dawn of a new day.

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{IDEAS CARRY ON” By T. B. Ferguson, 3753 N. Meridian st. Franklin Roosevelt is dead. Not only our nation, but the entire world is shocked. This man, who has given hope to the peoples of all lands, is gone. In Mr. Roosevelt there was combined the simple, sin[cere and courageous determination lof Abraham Lincoln, the idealism, courage and self-discipline of George Washington. Mr. Roosevelt has personified America. He has also made the oppressed and suffering peoples everywhere believe that for them, too, there is hope. The true greatness of this'man lies not in his rise, but in''his work for humanity, The great tribute that has been paid to this miracle of a ‘maf by men from all walks of life, regardless of race, creed or. color, exemplifies the feeling that exists generally for this man who, although physically handicapped, has borne the crushing weight of depression and war through the most critical period of our nation. May his progressive and liberal ideas carry on and'may the common man benefit by his ideal that justice overshadow privilege and -power. i I

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“GETTING BY

PRETTY EASY” By Mrs, 5.1 Gleason, Indianapolis Something should be done’ about the rooming house situation in Indianapolis, especially on the South side. ‘In setting .price ceilings on rent, I believe the OPA specifies that the landlady is to furnish certain things which the roomer must have. My particular complaint is that my husband and I must ask for hot water several hours before we need it and then if we are lucky, we “might get it. The ‘OPA form plainly reads “running hot water” as one of the items included with our apartment. It seems to me the people who run these establishments are getting by pretty easy [because people are so desperately in need of rooms and therefore are afraid to make any complaints,

DAILY THOUGHT And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay; so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and par. broken—Daniel 2:43.

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Parallel By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, April 17. Eighty years, lacking only three days after the death of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died Immediately after the death of Lincoln there was sworn -in as his successor Vice President Andrew Johnson. Immediately after the death of Roosevelt there was sworn in as his successor Harry S. Truman, Lincoln died after the Civil war was over. Roosevelt died just as victory was assured in world war II.. 5 Andrew Johnson of Raleigh, N. C, had been a compromise candidate for the vice presidency to appease the South. Truman, of Independence, Mo, had been a compromise candidate from a border state to please the South and still satisfy the ine dustrial North. Johnson faced four years of recon= struction as difficult as any the nation will ever face. Truman comes to the presidency facing another four years or more of reconstruction, but there it is siricerely hoped the parallel ceases. In the four years of Andrew Johnson's presidency there was hardly a speéch made in congress, hardly an editorial written in the newspapers, hardly an argument started on street corners, that did not reek of ill-

from Gettysburg to Vicksburg and Savannah.

Danger Signs Along the Way HARRY TRUMAN doesn’t assume the presidency with his country physically despoiled, but there have ‘been danger signs along the way that the end of the war could find the country so divided in its ideas that the bitterest kind of e¢lass hates might follow. The problem of the returning veteran is far from solved. Wage and labor relations policies for the post-war period need much clarification. The whole scope of readjustments to peacetime living and “working conditions holds many uncertainties. All these issues would have seriously tasked the abilities of Roosevelt at his prime. There are many historians who believe that Lincoln died at precisely the right moment to have his fame assured. Had he been forced to weather the storm that Andrew Johnson faced, Lincoln's greatness might not be what it is today. The same thing can be said for Franklin Roosevelt. He, too, may have died at the very peak of his greatness. The commander-in-chief of the victorious armies, the leader of his people in a war effort so great it dwarfs all previous comparables, a world statesman in his planning for ‘peace. No one can deny ‘or belittle Roosevelt's stature .today, but what it would have been if he had lived until 1949 is a great imponderable.

What Chance Has Harry Truman? IN THIS LIGHT what nce has Harry Truman to be a greater man than tHe President he succeeds? Only in the last few years have ‘the students begun to reappraise the record of Andrew Johnson and his times—admittedly one of the most clouded periods In American history. “If one looks at Johnson impartially, withe out prejudice,” writes W. E. Woodward in his new American history, “he is seen as an honest, sincerg and fearless patriot.” . That could be Truman, too. “He never aiquired e's sugvity that comes from breeding and culture,” rd continues. “The shy humility of Lin= oud was noticeably absent in hif make-up, and he funny stories to charm those who came in His temper had a low. boiling Point” ;

temper, narrow-mindedness, internal strife and dis-" gension. The country itself was physically wrecked