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PAGE 16 Thursday,’ May 10, 1945

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“ON 10 TOKYO”

plete victory over Japan. President Truman has called upon all of us to work for that end. Prime Minister Churchill in his V-E message made a similar appeal to the British peoples. Presumably Marshal Stalin is making

plans. In a military sense that victory is assured alread

agen.

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HE first thought of every American now must be coni- |

REFLECTIONS — ———

Looking Forward | By Howard Vincent O'Brien. :

RILEY 5551 |

SAN FRANCISCO May i. How would you feel if vou were a lousewile, and.) man ¢ame home one night with a regimént of unexpected guests, and [you find to park. the Kids with ne ghbors, while you nted y red pon ! \ : who kebt- thé most i incest hours »a1d no signs of ever going 1 Home? * » I'hat's the ‘wav ‘the Palace hotel must feel about me and my coll But in all my travels. I have never enjoyec er service n is mine now. Everything 1 ball bearings; aud I have yet to | see a scowl fa . That goes for the whole of what the French delegates call St 3 se if 1. stayed here

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1 far into the night, the swarm i which has d on this fair es its thin ‘fodder « of fact, The observers » and argue ‘al iterview one an- { yr 4

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did, there is no evidence that it: would influence them in the least. . The Jap military masters, unlike their Nazi a might put love of country above their own lust for dictatorship by unconditional surrender before final defeat. But ~ that is highly improbable. It is counter to Jap psychology

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quest holy, and victory inevitable. Whether we must fight: until every Jap is dead or disarmed, or whether somewhere along the line they will give up, the faster we push the war the sooner we shi ul force unconditional surrender and peace. In the words Gen. Macarthur: “On to Tokyo!”.

"HERR HOUDREMONT Hn 2 ENRY J. TAYLOR'S interview the ot ther day with Ed-

armament works at Essen, spoke whole dismal volumes concerning the German state of mind. Listen to Herr Houdremont: + “This war is very sad for us hrere'at Krupp's. . . . Mr. Krupp did not want to make armaments. We were never your enemies. . . . Krupp's made only what the German

government ordered, no more, no less, and how can the “aMies ‘expect a peaceful Europe after they have hombed such great plants out of existence? . . . Perhaps we will : need loans from America to build up Krupp's again,

Yon would be surprised how quickly we could get this place

going again.” - ” » u » ‘ AND SO ON. Crocodile tears for the 50,000 wo jobless, sow that the Essen works are a mass of twisted steel and shattered concrete. Promises that with Ameri help Krupp’s will rebuild immediately and this time produc * the pleasure automobiles and farm machinery which—to hear Herr Houdremont tell it—his company has alway yearned to make if only the German government kept ordering implements of war, But no ‘sense of guilt or shame for the ‘crimes of a yegime that rose to power with the acquiescence and sup - port of great German industrialists, No word of repentanc No glimmer of respect.for the jntelli in America and other countries who twice years have had fo save the world from ruthless might.

igence of ire

» » » 5 u » GERMAN INDUSTRIALISTS such as Herr 1 mont have learned nothing from two ruinous world wa

As in 1918, they flame everyone hut themselves * calamities they have helped. to bring upon their .co They take the position that it is the duty of those again whom they sinned to rescue them from the con

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and set them up in business once more., And ft is far too prevalent among the Gérman people, their eagerness to disclaim responsibility for

camp horrors. - This time Americans shrink ing Germany to rebuild her industries and rehabilitats people. For that reluctance the Herr thank their own arrogant stupidity.

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"WATCH FOR BILL F you should happén to besaround a ship soon, lee peeled for Bill Clark, who is reported mi a, thought that he may have shipped as an able-bodied. se: or perhaps as a ship's carpenter, : Bill is five feet six-and-a-half inches tall. has sparse hair and a small mustache; is hale and hearty false teeth nor spectacles. When last seen he wore a blu uniform with white metal buttons, He won't refuse a dri if you offer ene. er ; ‘ If you should find more than one answering th scription, Bill will be the one who seems most at homg © ship. He ought to. He has sailed the seas for n > ~yhalf a century. If cornered, he may confess to | years.

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I for the No. 1 hole. Legs apart, feet just right, a FOO on the driver—zing! Look at that ball go!

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Japan is cut off from most-of her raw material resources. “ Neither Peace . Nor Paradile Hear navy hasbeen ‘reduced in size to a fraction of our own. | 50 ME. the ston : pe ! She is unable to rebuild her air force as fast as we are | houtly billeting fron ‘ iY Es wold ‘destroying it. She has lost and we have taken her bases. | ke 1 npc miking a treaty In all ways she grows weaker, while we grow stronger, It is pi rely relic to daft a oe But the speed of our victory is not asst red. The y of man. This will requir and small controcould easily drag out for many years. It will, unless we | VoosF: And ae WOH merge will probe concentrate our energies and push on until the job is done. ry, Sigpiri Of Japan's capacity to keep fighting for a long time, a Te “unless we increase and speed our efforts, there,¢an be no ¢ come i prodoubt. Despite her loss of raw el ships and bases, : Rule—can be | « -ghe still has advantages. She has stoc kpile materials, short thn’ clear find interior supply lines, a- vast. army wh ich we_have barely 3 ,m. I ama thors touched, and plenty morg reserves. Above all she has a] ye uc i Th With pining regimented home population of idolatrous loyalty to the | 1 ygain for for meditation, mpéror, and a spirit of military fanaticism among her: « Locking v , What has been troops which chooses de eath rather than surrender even = : Lk Dow. Hii wien | after Gefeats w A guy oT | A R t along with PRESIDENT TRUMAN in his appeal for unconditional y there i Be Jap surrender, accurately pointed out to them that this is| oe ; grid, 0. e joan i get" along with | the only way they can save themselves from de struct jon. | tual el > Ta {il prevent an evenBut his statement will never: reach the Jap peo ple.” If it! Nature. of i Has Not’ Altered

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Hoosier’ Forum

death your: right to say it.” “THE BIGGEST [Times readers are invited |“ONE OF HIS GOOD LOT OF SUCKERS” of «| to express their views in |AND TRUE FRIENDS” [By Z. B. Cutler, Cg these .columns, religious con- [By Mrs. Naney C. Short, 2164 N. Olney st. | “Amefficans the biggest lot of| ‘troversies excluded. Because This may be late but I've been

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_hy The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

suckers on tife fice of the earth,” an ‘Englishman’said to me. { At .the rip€ age of 80, I can look ack at fib of fairly capable obs servason over nearly all these USA ¥ith a deep public concern, and honestly say the Englishman is right. | These remarks are aroused by {Vincent O'Brien's comment om that. { farcical school boy affair at San Francisco, | Herein is "another exhibit of the | total lack of comprehension of | Washington leaders of what they works of art, silks and diapers in |are getting into. Not so much’ big! exchange for food and machinery. | mouth shouting as shaking the raft- The machinery in particular because

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gotten,

|ceum oratory, banquets ‘and wings thys putting our robber tariff barons "Ve" forget him.

and wacks entertainment, just like! out of business with imports of another cheap moying picture show. peon-labor products, and of cofirse| It is certain the Wisemen of other getting ready for another war as) countries and races feel the sel we build up the great foreign in-| contempt for Washington. dustries and have their captains of Incidentally, President Trumag inqustry' on- our side—incidentally | and congress declare: for selective nutting British empire out of busi- | drafting” of farm workers. Disre-'yess and all under labor union garding the fact that farmers now pocces, are short of help and a distinct evi- | » on dence of shortage .in many food “wHICH IS MORE products, intelligence can but won-! san der what the heck the great com- IMPORTANT?

{you all right?

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the

trying -to find words to express my grief for the tragedy that hap-|.an pened to our friend Ernie Pyle. For nine years I've been reading and clipping his columns from The Indianapodlis Times. every one of his columns he wrote back on this last mission to the I have each one dated the month, the day and year. have thousands of others .of his columns.” Thege will be a great his tory of a great man in days to come. I think he too should be written down in history. . Nevertheless, he will be long remembered for a good, true friend who isn’t easily forMillions of our G. Is will

I have his book, and also his autograph. 1 gratefully | appreciate them. For his Dad and Aunt Mary and his wife, I have the { deepest sympathy. miss him the most. April 28, was the day I read and] clipped his last column from The Indianapolis Times, and my heart | was saddened beyond words to ex- | press in his last words on earth, are | He thought of his | | brothers in war more than of him- |

Today I have

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“Brave Men,’

For they will Last Saturday, !

mandoes want of any mores men, By Mrs. Chester A. Brown, 1537 E. South- | | self. But I'm so proud that one of|

ern ave.

: Marshall began by drafting a trivia] Can anyone in the Forum family

10,500,000, when by no possibility, | no more than 1,000,000 could be Clear nie up on this Issue: transported with all aids and equip- | ments, for the obvious reason that | there were not enosgh transport ships available in all the world to] dor more: and this is proved by the fonths it took to do the job and millions of idle men stili left to roam cities when not “stunting.” And subsequently 4,000,000 more added, still killing time when not in|

Which is going to protect our future | mentator.

and keep ‘us secure in our righ laid down in the Constitution? The | youngsters growing up now on the | {limited diet “which rationing now | {allows the civilian, or, the precious { Nazi prisoners of war whom we [eed | the few daily hours of athletic-war-|S0 carefully og a balanced diet? training. And now again calling for | They, who brdught on this" world | 4,000,000 more taken -from useful | the greatest catastrophe of all time, | work. {must be -returned to Germany in| | To be sure, the great New Deal | perfect health so that my 1l1-year-iworld saviors, after shooting] old son, who cannot have both democracy” into the world, propose oleomargarine and meat in his diet, tan drmy"6f 10,000,000 police to make (Can grow up with the bright pros'it behave in accord with the great, | pect of these same Nazis, which we New Deal doctrinaries and labor | are feeding. so carefully, repeating But what the heck] | their past crimes just to satisfy {becomes of the rest of us? their insatiable Just for human Incidental to this vast'army, the blood. big WE propose to create’ a} Now if meat and fats are so scarce stabilization_fund” and an inter-|in this country that the points must

done,

| his columns,

<u, “WHEW, WHAT AN EFFORT”

peace, °

the world impoverished, no chance both, who should do without — the

to pay for anything, WE propose children of America or the prisoners to “lend” them the money, or take of war?

Side Glances=By. Galbraith

Heart at a picnic.)

than one audi our - city’s cult

ts | | yesterday, May 1. {will walk in the same spirit and mind as Ernie, as men have so often Tm asking the editor ‘ to print this in regard to ‘all. of Mr, Ernie Pyle’s friends and Dad and | {Aunt Mary and ‘that girl"—his| | wife—he has so often mentioned in| So now we all can hope and pray that God will bless { him in a better land. A

By Wimilis Nemo, Indisnupolis;

I have in the past read the varlous outpourings .of Mrs. Haggerty, and by exercise of myself control been able to keep my

Her latest inane prophecy and attempt to cover. up when proven wrong, arouses me to a point where my will-power ceases to control. wonder if the many boys who have been killed since April 20, and who will be killed or wounded in the future, will concur with her halfbaked statement that. the war is really over after all? they will be eligible for the Purple since they were

If after making such a foolish, wholly unasked, for prophecy, and then being shown how asinine the statement was, she should at least have the good grace to keep quiet. I realize that the quotation at the head -of this column should be ap-

1 lof school No. 69 has indorsed the | ewrrent movement of the Indianapolis district of the Indiana Federation’ of Music clubs for a civic ‘land music center featuring, more jum. We feel that ral which we mothers are interested, need such facilities and we believe [that a municipal building belonging to the people of Indianapolis would serve these interests to better advantage than a state building.

DAILY THOUGHT If ye then be not able to do

| his good and true friends has taken | over that left-hand corner of The| | Indianapolis Times in which I've Which is more important to these | | turned to first for so’long. I ie) grand and glorious United States? | Mr. Lee Miller will be a great com- | T read his first column |

And I think he |

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{ore Hope

By Thornas L. Stokes,

hs BS nt whereby « dependent

tually become independent nations, free and sells governing.

United Nations conference, sate

cluded in the third category, India, Indo-China, and other similarly situated areag

under a United Nations trusteeship, open their way for eventual emergence to independ« ence, avithout the authority ‘control.

States. explained, would place those related to security and defense under the security cduncil the world security. organization dominated Big Five, and the ethers under the general assembly, §

'| Interest because the payment was

‘Legion cause it Mitopaived the, néed for some

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. i 3 that, some people hoped some out of this war was an

‘and colonial territories might. evens

Tt was ‘hoped some. way might he found at nis

Apparently that is not to be the case, 18 Machinery is available here which might be used |

for that purpose in the so-called. trusteeship® system, But it is discovered ‘that such use of the trusteeship’ system was barred by another ong of those agreements at Yalta among the Big Three—the late Presis dent Roosevelt, Prime. Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin—which this Sonterence has inherited. !

a refinement,

The trusteeship syst in some § a

particulars, on the ii by ply of the last world war. Under it the United Nations would set-up joint ‘trusteeships for various types of tetritories, both of - J| security and for improving the lot of Fraples, whi Oo live there, : rn

Three

& ogories Established © YALTA agreement specified trustees hips for types of territories—those under mandate from last war, those captured from’ the enemy in this

"'}war, and those voluntarily placed under the gystem i by states responsible for their administration, |

Present colonies and dependencies would be ins such as, for example, n Asia and Africa. But these could not be placed which might

of the nafion now in '§ ” /

Presumably this means not at all. ‘i * For nobody here expects Great Britain and France,

for jnstance, to yield up any colonies dr depefidencies voluntarily to a trusteeship, judging from the attitude exhibited here. paper reporter barked out ironically ference at which this arrangement was

Or, as one impertinent newss at a press cone explained:

“There's not going to be any bieaking up of ¢m=

pires here!”

U. S. Champions_Right to Petition

from the United it may be

‘THERE 18 one hope—and it comes: Our proposal for trustéeships,

“the top body of by the

| i in which all nations are represented with a trustee- H ship council directly under authority of the general i assembly. ’ Our proposal specifies further—which js import H ant—that the ‘general assembly, which is the really democratic body, could accept reports and petitions relating to conditions in territories under -trusteeship, could initiate investigation and “take other ac tion within their competence ‘%s defined by the trusteeship arrangement.” . us there would at least be the right to petition to investigate and from that to publicize, so that moral pressure might be brought to bear to alleviate z conditions in territories under trusteeship as well as ‘n colonies and dependencies, for the petitioning and investigating authority proposed by the uni ted States

is broad. Buckin Up Against Britain CMDR. HAROLD STASSEN, American delegate

who is representing the United States on the trustees ship committee along with Rep. Sol Bloom (D, N.Y), is very insistent on the right of petition as fundamental and is geing to make a strong fight for it. On this issue the United States. 15 bucking up against Great Britain. The British proposal does not even permit the right of petition and generally subordinates the whole trusteeship matter to a secondary role by placing its proposed trusteeship bee : low the economic and social cotncil in the security : organization set-up. France seems to side with Great Britain. There is to be no tampering g, in the slightest way, with their empires Russia seems to be Inclined toward our position { and makes a very strong plea for “ seif-determina=

| tion” of natiohs, paradoxical as that might seem in

view of her overlordship of smaller’ countries in Eastern Europe. This trusteeship sity lation is developing into an= other example here of “empire business” as usual, 1t is discouraging and disappointing to anyone who hoped that a new atmosphere would be created here, that a new spirit might manifest itself,

IN WASHING TON—

Bonus Fight

By Ned Brooks

WASHINGTON, May 10.—Vigor- & ous opposition was developing ol among veterans’ organizations to the $1040-per-man bonus bill introduced this week by Chairman John Rankin (D. Miss) of the house veterans cotamittes, Officials of old-line organizations said they would oppose passage of the measure because it makes no allowance for variations among veterans in the length and type of their service, “we don’t want a flat sum handout but a bill which. has some gements of merit and justice,” sald Omar B: Ketchum, national legislative officer—of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The V. F. W., Disabled American Veterans, Mili : tary Order of the Purple Heart, Army and Navy 3 Union and Regular Veterans Associ: ation have joined in support of bills offered earlier this year by Reps, John Lesinski (D. Mich.), and Ed V, Izac (D. Cal) | for adjusted compensation patterned after the world / war I payments, ‘

Places Maximums on Compensation "THE LESINSKI-IZAC measure , provides extra compensation at the rate of §3 a day for home serve ice, $4 a day for overseas duty. It places a maximum of $3500' on extra pay for home service ahd $4500 for . men who saw foreign service and provided an atdi= tional $500 for those wounded in action, . Mr. Ketchum said the V, ¥. W. regards the bill as “the most equitable’ and éscientific effort toward adjusted compensation yet offereds congress.” i “The $3 and $4 per day compares with $1 and $1.25. provided in the world war I bonus. The lalter, hows ever, was boosted by 25 per cent plus compounded to be withheld

20 years. The Lesinski-Izac bill would make the payhients in bonds maturing in 10 years, with veterans given ‘the ‘option’ of cashing in at. the rate of one-fifth of the face value per year for five years. Veterans who held their bonds béyond five years would get additional interest compounded annually. The measure’s cost is estimated at between $18,« 000,000,000 and $25,000,000,000. as against about $3,500, 000,000 for the world war I bonus. : The Rankin bill provides for payments to every honorably discharged veteran of 90 \days er more service at the rate of $20 a week for one year, res. gardless of the length or place of his service, The measure would cost ‘around , $11,000,000,000 or $12,» 000,000,000.

Legion Has Taken No Formal Position. F REP. RANKIN gets his committee's. ~approval of his bill and brings it fo the floor, as he now plans, |i suppotters of the other measdre will seek to have 18 | substituted, Mr. Ketchum said. * The American Legion has taken no formal’ posts | tion on either bill but a spokesman explained that the ‘organization’ feels that any measures should | make some allowance for length and type of service “The ploncered tha G.I, Bill of Rights bes for

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men to come out