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I AGE FOUR THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS AND TIMES: THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, MAI Ziit Turlington Jfree JDress Mismatched Team Daily Except Sunday, Free Press Association Publishers Issues of the Day By DAVID LAWRENCE The Steel Shortage WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Some idea of what the breakdown at Washington on the production front means and what caused it Founded June. 1827 As I See It By RAYMOND CLAPPER No Easy Road to Victory WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.

Our trouble, said one army officer to me, is that as a people we are looking for a Entered PostoSie Burlington, as Second-Class Mall SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivery by carrier-merchant, 20 cents a week. S10.40 per year throughout northern Vermont. Subject to change at any time. Subscription orders limited to two years at these rates. By mail prepaid In Vermont, 75 cents a month: three months i2.10; six months eight months one year $7.00.

By mall prepaid outside of Vermont, $1.50 per month; $15.00 per year; six cents per copy. All back issues, at counter five cents per copy; postpaid six cents per copy, prepaid. can be derived from taking steel and studying the way it has been handled. Japan has only about 8,000,000 tons and Hitler has only 40,000,000 tons of steel-making capacity to draw from whereas America alone has close to 90,000,000 tons and before the end of 1942 this will have been increased by perhaps another 5,000,000 tons. cure-all to win the war some easy way.

That observation, made not in any spirit of complaint but in the course of a matter of fact appraisal of where we stand, struck me as having a good deal of point 'ni (J I a J5Lj ADVERTISING RATES Furnished at home oSlce. Burlington, Vt. Furnished on request bv Small, Brewer Kent, 250 Parle New York city; 80 Boylston Boston, Mass 307 N. Michigan Chicago, 111. MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of al! news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news of spontaneous origin published herein.

All rights of republication of ail other matter herein also are reserved. AUGUST 6, 1942 WAR BONDS The "Stovepipe," as the 60-millimeter trench mortar is commonly known, is used by our infantry for close-in fighting. It fires a 2.4-pound r'ell at the rate of about 35 a just now. Our instinct tells us and you may be sure that the information in Washington supports it that we have a much harder fight on our hands than we thought some time ago. Naturally we look for some trick way that will spare us the agony of winning the hard way.

Flying Freight Cars For instance, the cargo plane is an essential of modern war. Manufacture has been going on for some time. In fact, its usefulness is so obvious that in our eager search for a short cut we begin to dream of enormous fleets of cargo planes carrying as much as freight cars, taking the place of surface ships. There are proposals to shift from shipbuilding to cargo plane even to shift from bomber production to cargo planes. If ycu allow yourself to dream a you can see all of our supply problems overcome by using thousands of flying freight cars.

Such dreams begin with a practical idea, but inflate it until it assumes grotesque shape that loses all touch with reality. Although the agitation of such plans serves a stimulating purpose, the actual extent to which they can be developed may depend upon many factors of materials, possible plant capacity, and time, that are beyond the knowledge of most of us. Many people are impatient that the 1000-plane raids over Germany have not been maintained. Yet the enormous tankloads of gasoline consumed, the losses of crews and planes which drain replacements, create many difficulties of which the bystander is unaware. In flying to India and China last spring, I had several opportunities to observe the enormous ef minute.

Xv; 1 mm --in tirvtiie am SAZrrrt XT' vv 1 still resting on the bed of the Slovens branch, a hindrance to rapid run-off of water in flood time. No doubt there is a great accumulation of other materials if it could be uncovered from the mud. The ticles for a great many years. Sometimes an iron bridge has been washed off its foundations and been carried a short distance by the water, as was done to the Granite street bridge in the flood of 1927. At last reports that ironwork was Verse and Editorial Opinion of Others Mother oftJesus "The mother of Jesus was there" At Cana in old Galilee; ricase turn to page 5, col.

The mortar fixes its projectile in a U-shaped arc and for this reason 'may be successfully camouflaged behind obstruction. It costs about $500. You and your neighbors, joining together, can buy many cf these effective weapons for use of our army. Investing at least ten percent of your income in War Bonds every 3ayday will do the job. Get on the firing line on the home front join the "Ten Percent Club." V.

S. Treasury Department Now it is a well known fact that our military requirements do not approach anywhere near 90,000,000 tons and it has been variously estimated that even 40,000,000 tons used for military and lend-and-lease purposes would be a reasonably adequate amount. What then has happened to our steel? Why is there a shortage of raw material in this basic commodity and why are plants that make war weapons curtailing production because of lack of steel? Not Properly Directed There's no mystery about it. Donald Nelson conceded before a senate committee recently that raw materials had not been directed into the right channel of uses. One would think this would have been prevented originally by a system of priorities.

But it wasn't because all kinds of priority certificates were issued and it was a good deal like issuing more tickets for a performance than there aTe seats in the theatre. Then came the system of "allocations" and it was decided to allocate materials to certain plants which needed them. But the army and navy had a system of allocations or priorities which they wanted satisfied and the civilian demands which rise up through all sorts of channels such as congressional influence and other forms of pressure developed another series of priorities. Ony 11,000 tons less steel flowed into construction in the first six months of 1942 than in the first six months of 1941. Substitutes evidently weren't used where they could have been.

If everybody in the family can reach into the cash drawer and take out what he pleases there comes a time when some overdrawing occurs and there isn't enough for a basic necessity. The Working of Lend-Lease Just how the lend-and-lease system works is not a matter of public knowledge. It is suspected that Harry Hopkins at the president's side had a powerful influence in that respect and if the representatives of foreign governments were sufficiently eloquent or persuasive they got a "directive" issued which was of more importance than a simple priority. Was there any thorough check by American officials to determine if foreign producers could use substitutes? In the confusion of "directives" and "priorities" and "allocations" the whole production schedule has bogged down and now there is a 'maldistribution" of steel. The army and navy saw this coming and began several weeks ago to plead for a new setup in which our military requirements would come first, or at least for a civilian overall council in which the army and navy would have a voice along with lend-and-lease and civilian demands.

Such a mechanism has been set up together with an industrial committee of steel men to handle the flow of orders within the industry so as to get maximum efficiency. Thus, after many months of delay we are putting steel men in charge of steel and this, thereafter, will be the arrangement with respect to other industries unless the labor politicians uspet it again with their influence on Capitol Hill and at the White House. Why were experienced steel men driven out? If one looks back at the sniping which occurred against the OPM personnel and likewise at the constant efforts of so-called labor leaders to mix labor politics with production management it will be observed why little progress has been made toward the main objective getting enough steel into military channels to make the needed weapons of war. The president, of course, has been too busy with other things to see these production weaknesses and if he had time he could not possibly become familiar with the steel business and do anything else. Hitler lets each industry's executives have a voice.

He copies America's own industrial mobilization plan for war which had been widely known before 1939 after our best military and industrial minds had put it on paper. But President Roosevelt discarded it almost in the first few weeks of the war. The country has paid dearly for that mistake in judgment, but if Mr. Roosevelt now will back up the new council which gives the military men the voice they should long ago have had there will be a different story to tell in another six months. Reproduction Rights Reserved making sacrifices in order to send their children to college will, in many cases, find it impossible to continue to pay college expenses if deductions are not allowed.

That will mean greatly decreased college enroll-ments or further public aid to college students. It may mean that some colleges will have to close unless government subsidies keep them going. There is reason also in the proposals for allowing credits on life insurance premiums, payments on debts already incurred, and purchase of government bonds. These would have to be limited to specific exemptions of a definite amount or percentage of income, c' course, or there would be a tendency to put more and more money into life insurance or war bonds in order to avoid taxation. But up to a certain point, it would be to the advantage of the government to have taxpayers buy more war bonds, as that would provide immediate funds for the war program.

It isn't an easy matter to determine what is the best procedure in this tax program, but these proposals of senators and others for tax deductions probably will be given due consideration. Catholic Charities Beginning next Sunday and continuing for a week, the annual drive of the Vermont Catholic Charities will take place throughout the state. The Vermont Catholic Laymen's League, organized last year by Bishop Matthew F. Brady, has set up the organization for the drive in each parish in the state, so that the campaign is ready to proceed on schedule. Since Bishop Brady came to Vermont, he has laid particular emphasis upon the need of carrying on social welfare work among the families of the Diocese.

As a result of his efforts, and the cooperation of clergy and laity, this work has been expanded considerably. Rev. William J. Cain of Shel-burne, director of Vermont Catholic Charlies, has taken active leadership in this program. During the year 1941, nearly $55,000 was expended throughout the Diocese in the charity program.

The major part of this was spent for the children. The active case load on January. 1, 1942, was 255 cases. This represents services in varying degrees to some 600 individuals. The opening of the new $100,000 wing at St.

Joseph's child center, with a modern nursery and three nurses in regular attendance since last October, has made it possible to give better care to more children. Although limited by financial resources, the program of the Catholic Charities covers an ever-widening field. It is 'in the main a child welfare program including child placing according to need in an institution or foster home. Confinement and after-care is supplied Catholic unmarried mothers. Children of unmarried mothers may be placed for adoption, if desired.

Other children are boarded and supervised while suitable plans are formulated for them. In conjunction with the Knights of Columbus, a protective program for boys is carried on. Case work is provided with a limited number of families and adolescent girls. Placements of the aged are made in the Loretto Home in Rutland and St. Joseph's Home in Newport.

Assistance is given in securing old age grants and in a few cases medical and hospital needs have been supplemented. Dental and medical clinics are held for children under supervision. In special situations medical facilities have been provided for persons who are medically indigent. The financial statement of the Vermont Catholic Charities shows that 67 per cent of the expenditures are for board of children, 12 per cent for service to children, nine per cent for the aged, eight per cent for health and four per cent for administration. Without going into detail, this indicates in general the type of work done by the organization.

Undoubtedly it filling a real need in Vermont. There is evidence that the program is under able direction and that the money is being spent prudently and efficiently. It is evident that the war is creating unusual problems which will increase the need for this work in the next year or two. Any program of this nature, dealing largely with the lives of children, cannot be judged adequately on the basis of one or two years. The fruits of such labor may be long in coming.

There will be many obstacles to overcome. Inevitably there will be failures as well as successes We believe anyone who studies the program of the Vermont Catholic Charities with an open mind will reach the conclusion that it is an important factor in the general social welfare program in Vermont and deserves liberal support in its efforts. Gandhi's Theories Nationalist Leader Mohandas K. Gandhi of India is represented as favoring negotiations with Japan for the independence of India, if Britain refuses to grant such independence now. And even if Britain did grant Indian independence, Gandhi admits that he would negotiate with Japan to see what terms could be made without fighting.

Gandhi is credited with the following: If India became an independent nation tomorrow I would certainly plead with the provisional government to send me, old as I am. to Japan and I would plead with her as the first instance to free China, her great neighbor, from the menace Japan has become and to tell her if she doesn't do this elementary justice, she shall have to count on the stubborn resistance of millions who would at long last find themselves in the possession of the thing which the nation prizes before everything else. Either Gandhi is childlike in his faith in humanity, or he has developed a martyr complex and wants to go down in history as a man who gave his life in a vain attempt to save India by practicing nonviolence. Surely he must know, with his education and background, that such a plea for China would receive nothing but contempt from the men who are in control of Japan today. These men know no other law than force.

They would laugh at the idea that the practice of non-cooperation by the people of India would deter them from working their will on India. Hitler non-cooperation in You have a rationing problem of your own TT'S up to you to find ways of dividing your income so that it will do the best job of providing for your present and future and at the same time meeting the country's wartime needs. It may seem almost impossible to keep up regular bank deposits in the face of other heavy demands, such as War Bonds and Taxes, yet you must for your own protection and your family's. Perhaps the only way out is to give up things that you once thought indispensable. No one else can do it for you, the decision is up to you.

A presence of blessing and help For all at the wedding was she. And there by the Cross of her Sonj She stood while a sword pierc-j ed her heart. In the joys and the sorrows of all She was there ever taking her part. Every woman who's doing the will Of the Father in Heaven above Is the mother of Jesus our Lord. The same blessed presence of; love.

In the pleasures of people today, In the troubles, afflictions of men Let the mother of Jesus be there To help and to comfort again. A. M. WATTS Jamaica, Vt. i Vermonters Save Things Randolph Herald News Vermont led all states east of the Mississippi in the rubber salvage drive.

Vermonters seldom destroy anything likely to be of value ever. And we have plenty of storage room almost too much, it sometimes appears, as one surveys the great outdoors, with its not always harmonious embellishments. Salvaging Scrap From Riers Barre Times The need of the U. S. government for scrap materials offers a large number of communities an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

That is, those communities can clean up accumulations of scrap materials in the streams running through their communities and thereby free the channels for the better run-off of the water in flood times. The plan is about to be tried in the town of Tilton, N. H. where the Winnepesaukee river has; been a catch-all for many years, probably ever since the white man settled on the banks of the stream. Residents of Tilton say they know of at least two old boilers which have been dumped into the river and which, presumably, are still fort required to keep in the air even the pitifully small force of planes there.

Simon Lake, the pioneer submarine designer, proposes cargo submarines, large enough also to transport 2500 troops. If you can build a small submarine you can build a large one. But how long would it take? That always is a question in this war. These are not crackpot ideas in principle. But the physical task of production imposes stern limits.

Archimedes said that if he had a lever long enough and a fulcrum strong enough he could lift the earth. His principle was sound. But he was up against a production problem. Much Hard Flugging Ahead I may seem to belittle imagination and boldness but that is not the purpose. We are up against bold and imaginative enemies.

We shall need every ounce of 'hose qualities ourselves. We have been slow in some respects, slow to develop airpower. slow to Dreak away from the battleship. Our army was indifferent to gliders until ith'e Germans used them. We need to outdo our enemies in imagination.

But we can learn something else from them, the thing that I suppose my military friend had in mind. It is that with all the tricks that can be employed, there still remains a lot of hard pedestrian plugging to do. Hitler used the blitz, heavy the dive bomber, air troop ci iers, gliders and parachutists. Bt he depended on no one of these alone. He still had to go through hard, gruelling campaigns as the Japanese troops have had to do.

To win thus far they1 have used everything. They tried short cuts but they did not win the war. Very likely we shall have the same experience. We are not likely to find a simple formula or simple device for victory any more than Hitler has found one." With all of his advar.red i military technique he is finding the road hard and paved with the mangled bodies of his own men. No miraculous short cut has worked for him, and we will save ourselves bitter disappointment if we cease expecting a miracle on our side.

Burlington Savings Bank 1847 Ninety-Five Years of Stability 1942 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Strength for the Day By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D.D. Nothing Pays But Good Will When the Spanish commander, Cervera. made his hopeless dash out of the harbor of Santiago, Cuba, with four, armored cruisers there, while other accumulations of metals would run the total into scores of tons.

All of this reclamation would help the United States government greatly and at the same time would clear the channel of the river from obstructions. The work is to be done during low water caused by the opening of dams. Probably the reclamation work is to be a community effort with Building Cargo Planes Several senators in Washington have expressed themselves during the past few days as anxious to have the construction of cargo planes begin at once and continue in volume. They maintain that this is the enly way to defeat the submarine menace, also that it is impossible to open and maintain a second front on the continent of Europe unless we have fast freight planes to keep the supply lines open from the United States to Europe. If this is the case the hope of opening a second front in Europe this year is just about non-existent.

For it is out of the question to build enough cargo planes before the end of this year to have any appreciable effect on the trans-Atlantic supply line inside of a year. These big planes take months to build, as they are in the category of ships rather than planes. While they might be produced on an assembly line once a company was prepared to do the-job, it would take some little time to prepare. Henry J. Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder, has proposed construction of 5,000 of these big cargo planes in shipyards.

He did not say how long it would take to do the job, but judging by the time it required to build one of the huge B-19 bombers and also the big Glenn Martin flying boat we have been hearing so much about, it would take years rather than months to build 5.000 freighter planes of sufficient size to meet trans-Atlantic needs. Also, the War Production Board must decide whether materials can be spared for such planes along with the present program for big bombers. We understand some cargo planes have been built already, and probably more will be, but it would be a mistake to give the impression that we must wait until we have a big fleet of such planes before we can take the offensive in Europe. We have had considerable success in conveying ships across the Atlantic, and we have also sent large amounts of material across in the bombers which have been flying the ocean. We must depend upon this type of transportation for this year and most of next year.

Tax Deductions When the national house of representatives pased the buck to the senate" on the new tax bill, the senators started in to rewrite it. Suggestions for changes are coming in by the dozen and it looks as though it would take some weeks to sift them out. Several suggestions have been made for allowing deductions from income. The National Association of Life Underwriters has proposed that credits be allowed to individuals for life insurance premiums. From several sources has come the suggestion that a deduction be allowed for payments on old debts.

It has been proposed frequently that credit be given for purchase of government bonds. Senator Brown of Michigan has suggested that deduction be allowed for support of children attending college, as well as for other extraordinary expenses. This is in line with the action taken by the Vermont legislature at the 1941 session giving the regular $250 exemption for support of children in college even though they had reached the age of 18 years. Senator Brown's proposal calls for a $400 deduction from income for each child being supported by the parent while in college. With the prospect of taxes doubled in the coming year, those parents who are already The Time To Act and two destroyers on July 3, 1898, Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, commanding one little pursued the Admiral's flagship and finally forced it ashore in flames.

Thereupon Wainwright and his sailors began immediately rescuing the Spainards from their burning ship. Admiral Cervera was dragged from the water dripping and despondent, and as he came over The perfect time to put your estate plans in order is the present. scores or hundreds of people volunteering for the effort. The same plan is recommended to hundreds of other communities in New England. The plan might be tried in Barre if sufficient public interest could be aroused.

The jail branch and the Stevens branch, which run through the city of Barre. have been a repository for unwanted ar Conditions and values are ever-changing. It is only through periodic review of your will that you can expect to keep its provisions in harmony with your desires. We urge that you regularly review your will with the assistance of your cttorney. the side of Wainwright's little craft, the gallant American commander met him at the gangway with a cordial handshake and warmly congratulated him on his valor in a venture which never had the least chance of success.

It was said that Cervera was overcome with emotion at this generous tribute from an enemy. The way to get rid of our enemies, defeat them, and forever exterminate them is to transform them into friends. George Washington feted Lord Cornwallis after the surrender of Yorktown, and years later when Cornwallis was governor general of India, he sent a cordial and friendly message to his erstwhile enemy who had overwhelmed him years before. Haters only destroy themselves. The fire which they hurl at others rolls back at last and consume their own lives.

Nothing pays in the end but unfailing good will. All Rights Reserved Babson Newspaper Syndicate The American Idea By PHILIP G. H. BENZENBERG Too Little and Too Late From the war's most fateful battlefieldthe Middle East Edgar Snow a few weeks ago sent the following message: "As for American aid in this aea, up till now it has been everywhere the same story too little, too late. Near miracles must, be performed during the next three months to bring in sufficient troops and supplies to affect the battle for India, which has now begun, and guarantee the security of Iran." That sounds a little different from the smooth reassurances of our leaders and change-with-the-wind experts who have told us now we have been "pouring" aid to our allies but who have not told us that the "pouring" is only a dribble compared to the need.

We have lately had a few more official admissions of difficult time ahead. But these infrequent, vaguely-put admissions fail to stick in the public mind. Far more horsepower has been put behind talk of ending the war in 1943 or 1944, of our unmatchable aircraft, of our super-secret weapons, of the inevitable drowning of the Axis by our mounting tide of production. Our morale has not been raised by remembering that army and navy officials told us that the Aleutian invasion was only a token, "face-saving" expedition to offset the Midway defeat. Now the tune has changed with the wind and we are left with the bitter knowledge that we have again been too little and too late.

How far must we go toward final defeat before this record is changed? The few authorities almost all record aTe lost in the babel of fatuous prophets. Who is telling us thot China can bt strangled: Russia smashed into impotency; Britain invaded: Dakar taken; South America invaded; India lost to the United Nations; the entire United Nation war effort dependent upon our oil; our war aims warped out of existence? And who is telling us insistently just what we Americans must do to forestall such consequences? E. Weston Catlin of Burlington, Vermont, has sent this column the following poem w-hich well expresses the increasing concern which Americans are felling about our record to date. The Dutch in Java fought and bled. They looked to us for rain of lead, For bombs and ships and planes but said, "These came too little and too late." An arsenal we bragged we'd be.

We'd cause all enemies to flee! A few we battered two or three But were too little 'and too late. Shall we let profits outweigh "men? Shall strikes and lockouts stop work, when We need the to fight again? Are we too little and too late? Shall we, like some, in shame go down? Like others, simply act the clown? Watch merchant seamen sink and drown? Our epitaph, "Too little and too late?" We invite you to discuss with us, in confidence, the factors attending a well-planned estate. TRUST DEPARTMENT i The Howard National Bank andTrust Company Departmentized for Complete Banking Service Commercial Trust Savings Time Sales Safe Deposit Investment Research Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Czecho-slovakia, in Poland, in Greece, in Yugoslavia, in the Netherlands and in Belgium. But apparently this did not seriously impede him from working his will on these countries. It may be that Hitler has not conquered the spirits of the people and that, in the long run they will rise again and overthrow his control.

But for the present they are under his iron heel and thousands of them will die before freedom comes again to their lands. Nor are they likely to regain that freedom without the use of force. Gandhi has a better chance to get freedom for India through working with Britain than by appeasing Japan. outside the government who pic-ture the grim consequences of this 4 I.