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THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI. SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1941 ernment has appealed SUCKER BAIT LEGISLATORS Soviet Strikes First Blow The Enquirer At Vital Nazi Oil Supply Ally Missed, Writer Say i r- 'W" 1 9 4 rnkX 7 til I. BY KIRKK L. SIMPSON. UST how the six-day Nazi blitz against the Russians is going is uncertain, but as this is written it appears that the Nazis have pro ceeded no further than Soviet buf fer regions, except in one possi ble case.

Moscow admits that a pan- zer-edged thrust has spread north of the Frlpet marshes to the vicinity of Minsk in White Russia. It my however, that a mors deadly drive south of the marshes f.e Aft siMPso.N. toward Kiev still is stalled in Sovletlzed Poland. Elsewhere the only Nails in Russia proper are either prisoners or parachutists, so far as can be dis- cerned. If that is true, Hitler's I hitchhiking Rumanian allies are being held on the Bessarabian front, and apparently confirmed reports of Russian bombing of the Ploesti oil field in Rumania indicates it is true.

That is the first blow struck at that vital Nazi-Fascist war re source, for the protection of which Hitler risked both the Balkan and Russian wars. Britain missed a chance to do it from Greece. It is the jugular vein of Hitler's war ef fort, and British failure to hit at it before Greece and Crete fell has aroused sharp criticism in the Brit ish press. There is a veiled impli cation that British investments in Rumanian oil might have had something to do all along with re luctance to destroy wells and plants. URNING westward, to survey the battle of the Atlantic in relation to the Russo-Nazi war, a London claim now is made that Corvettes, the ugly ducklings Britain's navy, and American- built Catallna planes are winning a I TODAY TOMORROW By WALTER LIPPMANN.

TWENTY YEARS AGO IN CINCINNATI Eussian Policy And American Defense months ago. The firm attitude of the Netherlands Indies in negotiating with Japan reflects this radical improvement in the position. THIS relieves to a considerable degree the demands upon the American navy. For it is no longer the only force available to check Japanese expansion southward and Japanese closing of the road to free China. This has justified such transfers of American ships from the Pacific to the Atlantic as have been recently under way.

But while there can be no question of leaving the Pacific, other moves may now be possible which will give the fleet still greater freedom of action still greater freedom, that is to say, to go wherever it is most needed without surrendering anything of Importance in the Pacific. These possibilities arise from German's war against Russia. For now Russian Siberia is in a position where, unless there is a collapse throughout Russia, Siberia can no longer collaborate with the Axis. If regardless of what happens in European Russia, the Russian army, air force, and navy in the Far East do not fall under Axis control, then our whole position in the Far East, that of the American Navy, of the Chinese armies, of the British and Dutch, will be greatly improved. For with the Russians In Siberia, the new defenses in the South Pacific, the reinforcement of China, and the increased freedom of the American fleet, we shall have come a long way fcom the days when Mr.

Mat-suoka signed the triple Axis pact last September. When we asked ourselves what should be our Russian policy, we should not be children and fall into quarrels about words, ideologies, or vain schemes to intervene in the war in European Russia. Our Russian policy should be that of adult men asking to serve the vital interests of the United States, and that means that we should concentrate our Russian policy on Siberia: Firat, in order to prevent Siberia from falling under Axis control; second, as a means of stabilizing the Far East, and, above all, as a means of disrupting and dislocating the Triple Axis so that American seapower may no longer be immobilized. (Copyright, 1941, New York Tribune, Ine.) -By George Clark if United States for volunteer nicians. With the approval of this government a Civilian Tech nical Corps is being organized in the United States to serve in Britain.

Americans who enter this serv ice do so as civilians, not soldiers, and do not violate the Neutrality Act or any other American laws. They will be exempt from military discipline other than wearing a special uniform. They, will work in the British Isles only, unless they volunteer for work elsewhere. Although it may appear at first sight that the Civilian Technical Corps is competing with the needs of the United States armed forces or American industry, officials in Washington have realized that it is to benefit of the United States that her citizens will be trained in certain technical aspects of war under actual war conditions. Further, any American whose services are needed by this government will be released at once.

Because Britain needs these men desperately, and because their training will be of real benefit to this country as well, it is to be hoped that the new corps will be filled quickly. If it succeeds in its purposes, the destruction of British cities from the air will be curtailed progressively. If it fails, the murder of men, women and children from the air will continue, British war production and morale will be undermined, and, by so much, the threat that Nazism holds for American security will increase. "Be Alive On the Fifth." Independence Day, which should be an occasion of patriotic observance and recreation, too often has been a peak day for tragedy a day on which scores of persons are killed or injured by fireworks, in traffic' accidents, and in carelessness in play. To prevent the recurrence of such tragedies in the approaching holiday period, two principal steps must be taken.

The first is that local antifireworks laws and traffic regulations be enforced rigorously. The second is that each individual exercise an extra measure of care and moderation. To impress upon the public the necessity of these measures, a group of civic leaders and representatives of organizations interested in the promotion of safety met recently in the office of the City Manager. They adopted the slogan: "Take It Easy On the Fourth Be Alive and Well On the Fifth." To achieve this end, each person must go out of his way to celebrate safely, and to i urge his family and friends to do likewise. The most important things to remember are to refrain from the purchase of fireworks, which are prohibited; to use extraordinary care when driving and not to drive if you drink, and to take all precautions in swimming.

Because there is something in the American temperament which makes us all tend to forget our common sense when we celebrate, it is necessary to lecture one an other before our" holidays on the hazards of the season. We know that the lectures are a bit boring, but holiday deaths and injuries are the cruelest of tragedies. To End Discrimination. President Roosevelt deserves the support of every citizen for his memorandum to the Office of Production Management calling for both management and labor unions to eliminate employment discrimi nations against Negroes and other minority groups. It is obviously necessary to re move all barriers to the full participation of all groups in the de fense program.

Unless this is done, the full productive capacity of the nation cannot be utilized and no true national unltv can be attained. There could be no better grist for the Nazi propaganda mill than lack of understanding among vari ous groups in this country. The Hitler system thrives on this lack of understanding and cooperation within any nation it considers a foe. Unless the problem is tackled boldly, Nazi Germany will hold a potent weapon against us. The government's appeal, while it paves the way for more con-; crete action, is not enough.

It must be implemented by quick response from every individual and organization governmental, civic, business, religious, and social. Employment discriminations are not only undemocratic. If they are permitted to continue and if they are exploited by our as they are and constantly will be, they can become a potent antidemocratic force. That is why' they must be eliminated without1 delay. The chief effect of Italy having declared war upon Russia is that Virglnio Gayda will now proceed to decimate the Russian Army edi torially.

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The Terpetuation of Good Government. SATURDAY 28, 1941 DAILY THOUGHT Reading furnishes the mind only with material of knowledge; it it thinking makes u-hat ive read ours. John Locke. Obscuring the Issue. In a demagogic appeal to the deep American hatred of Communism certain groups are criticizing the administration for its encouragement of Russia in the Struggle against Germany.

They declare that there is no choice between these two totalitarian regimes, that to aid Russia is to betray democracy, and that a sane Policy is to hope that these two evil forces destroy each other. This is a dangerous shortsighted and utterly unrealistic attitude. It attempts to make an ideological issue out of what is primarily a military Issue. It substitutes hopes for actions-hopes that unfortunately, in all probability, will not be realized. In enunciating its support of Russian resistance against the Nazi attack, the administration made plain its abhorrence of Communism.

It made plain also that Britain and China have the first call on American aid, and that no aid to Russia will be forthcoming of a kind or to a degree that will hurt British efforts to defeat Hitler. What this government actually is doing is attempting to bolster Russian morale and resistance with no other motive than to strengthen the common front against Hitler. Our policy is not pro-Soviet. It is simply anti-Nazi. To say that it implies ideological support of Stalinism is to distort the obvious fact, and to confound American policy by dragging the old red herring across our proper path.

Nazi Germany, with its tremendous army, its advanced techniques, its modern equipment, its control of all the resources and industrial establishments of con tinental Europe, is our real enemy. Hitler is attacking Russia in order to get food and fuel for this war machine. Then, with his back protected and the larder full, he will turn all his might against Britain and her empire, the world's seas, and the Western Hemisphere. He has said it himself. Russia is no such threat.

Military opinion is virtually unanimous in asserting that the best the Russians can do is delay, and possibly cause the German advance to bog down. The chances are that Stalin cannot do this much. A sprawling, industrially backward nation, far behind the rest of the world in technical "progress, Russia is not a military threat to the free peoples of the world. It will constitute a threat only if it is overrun and organized by the Nazis, whose position then will be almost impregnable. American interest requires that Germany be thwarted in her latest Venture.

Britain Needs Technicians, There is a growing need in Britain for technicians of various kinds especially radio technicians competent to operate the constantly increasing number of "radiolocators" which have proved so valuable in combating night bombing. Because technical manpower in Great Britain, and in most parts of the empire, has been exhausted, the British Gov- View Daylight Saving As Vital Defense Measure, Introduce Legislation. Huge Savings In Both Power And Fuel Are Cited By Officials Favoring Measure. BY EDWIN W. GABLEMAN.

WASHINGTON Nation-wide daylight saving as a defense meai ure is being seriously advanced by members of Congress and of the executive departments. Four bills lor daylight saving have been irt- troduced in the House and are now before tho House Inter state and For eign Commerce Committee. The proposers these measures are Representa tives Edith Norse Rogers Massachu setts, J. Harold Flannery GABI.KMAN, Pennsylvania, Donald S. McLean of New Jersey, and Eugene J.

Keough of New York. All coma from states in which daylight saving is now in force by local action. Outstanding in favor of the proposal for national daylight saving is Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Mr.

Ickes, who has been intrusted with the job of conserving fuel and power in the present emergency, Insists that by making use of an extra hour of daylight it will be possible to save both fuel and power in large quantities. In his opinion, the plan should be extended to the entire country. There is no reason why it should be limited to the Eastern seaboard. Even before the present emergency arose, Mr. Ickes favored daylight saving, and by' executive order extended it to all workers here in the Interior Department.

They have gone to work an hour earlier In the department during the spring, summer, and early fall months. The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce so far has taken no action on the daylight saving bills. It has, however, asked for reports on the proposal for national daylight saving from the executive departments and from the Office of Production Management. As soon as those reports have been made the committee may take up the bills now before it. Their authors Intend to press for hearings and action on the measures.

the past opposition to daylight saving has come from Senators and Representatives of the agri cultural states and districts, based on the theory that the farmers would find their hours of work entirely out of kilter. The farmers, they contend, are up with the sun anyway and they are unable dur ing the summer to get to work in the field until the dew has burned off. So strong in the past has been this opposition from the agricultural areas that Congress has been unwilling to have the national capital, as a whole, adopt daylight saving, on the ground that if the plan were maintained in the capital, it might be considered a model for the rest of the country. During the last war, the capital did have daylight saving, along with other sections of the country. But as soon as the war was over, the pressure against its continuance was so strong that it was abandoned.

Ever since, there have been sporadic efforts to revive daylight saving for Washington, but they have gotten nowhere. In these days of suggestions or "gaslcss Sundays" and other proposals for cutting down the use of gasoline and fuel oil, not to men tion coal, in order to conserve fuel, the proposal for daylight saving on a national scale is particularly important. If by Its adoption the people will be enabled to keep their homes warm or warmer and the defense program can go forward more promptly, it is decidedly worth while. Farmers have adjusted themselves in the past to daylight saving, when necessary. They do it today in states like New York, Pennsylvania, jersey, and Massachusetts, where there are great areas of agricultural lands and a very large production of farm crops notwithstanding the fact they are regarded as industrial states.

f-AYLIGHT saving exists today I in some of the great cities oi the Middle West, but speaking bv and large, it does not hold in the states of the West and South, but is confined largely to the New England States and the Middle At lantic States. In England daylight saving has been in operation all during tne war, and more recently, the system was advanced so as to save not one hour, but two hours of sunlight. This enables the British not only to conserve fuel and power but makes the blackout at night, which blankets the country, more endurable. In some quarters it has been suggested that the President, by executive order, could bring about national daylight saving the saving of an hour of sunlight for all the people under the vast powers he has in a "national emergency." If the Federal Government can declare gasless Sundays in effect, it would appear that it would have the power to put the clock ahead an hour. But whether this is true or not, there is a feeling that Congress could well act in the matter as a measure of national defense.

Mrs. Roeers bill provides there shall be daylight saving from the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October. The other bills have somewhat similar provisions. If it is found essential, the period could be extended. slow-but-Bure victory.

Of itself that claim might mean little. It comes, nowever, close in me wake of a secret debate in Parliament on the Atlantic situation. If the claim, which is modest enough at best, ran contrary to what was confidentially revealed to Parliament, there would be a fus about it in England. The Churchill Ministry has enough outspoken critics to Insure that. Thus the more encouraging picture of progress being made in sea fighting and the prolonged lull in Luftwaffe hammering at British ports and shipyards are doubly sig nificant.

It seems reasonable to believe that Germany's failure to get the powerful new battleship Bismarck to sea and the immobili zation of other German heavy ship in French ports had much to do with throwing the Hitler sea-attrition campaign against English definitely off schedule. Perhaps that was one of the factors that prompted him to turn his attention to Russia. OREOVER, the collapse of the Vichy-French defense of Svrla flp-ninaf- the "Rritlqh nnrt rra vv, i. witt, 1' I 1114,11 4C3 4I111II1.11V via VIA drawal of French forces from Syria is in prospect. The circumstances under which they leave, whether for internment In Turkey, or to pass on to.

French Africa under duration-of-the-war parole, are apt to prove of less interest to London than the fact that they are leaving. With Syria and Lebanon under Free French control and stiffened with British troops and air forces, the east flank of British defenses in Egypt would be powerfully bol stered. Westward, in Libya, it is now clear that either an impending Axis attack was broken up by the recent British offensive, or that it is waiting on events of the Russo- German war. In any case, half a dozen days of that struggle sees British vital areas in better case than they appeared a week ago. Meanwhile German power and resources are being dangerously sapped in the Eastern Hitler's means of carrying the war to England effectively before winter ia being; used up.

produced, just as soon as the public demands them, and no sooner." To a chap up a tree, it would appear that he was more than half right. Miss Hampton had been making daily personal appearances at the Strand Theater, Walnut Street. Our boys still were languishing in seventh place, and but for the dogged consistency of the Philadelphia team, they were liable to slip in the cellar any fine day. "Hod" Eller made his first start of the season in the final game with the Cardinals at Sportsman's Park, but lasted just long enough to have two home runs crashed off his delivery "Bill" Doak pitched for the Hated Enemy, and allowed the Reds 10 hits. He also saw to it that many runners were left on base, and so-o-o the result was 7-3 in favor of St.

Louis. And, if those Little Orphan Annies of Crosley Field don't jest watcli out, the pennant of 1941 will not fly on said field. but down at St. Louis. in by many different denomina tions, that had met every Sunday afternoon for several months.

He stated that his requested resignation was in the hands of Governor Campbell. Rev. Robbins, after the service, was met by a large number of the regular attendants of the Armory Church, who proffered their sympathy in his hour of disappointment. While the very bricks In the city were perspiring, many whitecaps chased each other in the Ohio River all day as the Guiding Star, Mary Houston and the Missouri, bore down on Coney Island as the cool zephyrs flitted by. Arriving at the gates of Cincinnati's popular, upriver -pleasure resort, the thousands of pleasure-seekers strolled up through the great avenues of trees, flanked on either side by the countless amusement devices and concessions.

Lake Como offered boat rides, and the several dance platforms and clubhouse af-j forded shelter from the sun. UTILITY MAKES OFFER T0SELLWATERW0RKS Tiffin, Ohio, June 27 (AP) The Ohio Cities Water Company today offered to sell the Tiffin water system to the city for $1,400,000. The offer was made in response to a city request of City Council's Waterworks Committee, studying a municipal ownership plan. Eugene E. Mount, City Solicitor, said the price included $600,000 of first mortgage bonds callable at a $24,000 premium, $200,000 of preferred stock callable at a $6,000 premium and $570,000 for the common stock.

FIVE DIE IN TYPHOON. Manila, June 27 (AP) A heavy typhoon lashed Northern Luzon Island tonight, leaving five known dead and extensive property damage. The storm passed over Northern Isabella Province, traveling in a generally northwestward direction. Manila was pronounced defi- nitely out of danger. Four men were killed in a landslide caused by torrential rainfall and a fisherman drowned.

STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS. ArMvrd At lat. ACADIA, New York June 37 AMAPALA, New York June 27 CAYRU. New York Juna S7 KUNGSHOLM, N(r York Juna 2 MORMACREY. New York Juna 2 PLATA NO, New York June 27 SANTA ANA.

New York June 27 SANTA PAULA, New York June 27 Railing T-rom New York Saturday Acadia. Aconcagua. Ampala. Antigua. Cape San Martin.

Cnrlaso. Eastern Sword. president Harrison, aan Arriving At New York Sunday Veragua. (Copyright, 1941, New York Tribune, Inc.) navy in the world, our own greatest weapon, pinned down by the diplomacy of the Axis. It is of vital importance, to be sure, that the whole position in the Southwestern Pacific In China, Malaya, the Netherlands Indies, the Philippines, and Australia should be made invincible.

But though the American navy, as it is now placed, has protected that position, we must ask ourselves very carefully now whether what looks like the protection of the Pacific is not becoming a snare and a delusion. It would be just that if it turned out that we had allowed this powerful fleet to be immobilized at Hawaii, while the position in the Atlantic Was allowed to go from bad to worse. For in that event the fleet would have to be withdrawn from the Pacific to protect this hemisphere from direct attack. Thus the fleet which is wholly occupied in guarding the Pacific would no longer be able to guard the Pacific. A way must be found to guard the Pacific and at the same time to liberate American sea power for much freer action in both oceans.

The American navy, we must realize. i3 by the ingenuity of the Axis diplomacy, locked up so that at the crisis of this great struggle it may be able to do little harm to the Axis and no great good to us. Pinn6d down as it is in the Pacific, it is superior to Japan. J3ut it would be unable to fight Japan if Japan struck only if the British position in the Atlantic crumbled. Then if that happened, this great navv would have to give the Jap anese a free hand while most of it rushed off to save a desperate position in the Atlantic Ocean.

And with a free hand Japan would then be able to coerce us into dividing our fleet so as to get some protection in the Pacific. This problem the basic problem of American defense is not at all insoluble, and indeed immense progress has been made recently toward making it feasible to solve it decisively, A system of defense, based primarily upon air power and submarines, has been organized in the region from the Philippines to Singapore, and since Japan's great and irremediable weakness is her lack of air power, the position in the Southern Pacific is not nearly so vulnerable as it was a few THE NEIGHBORS. I IT WERE CERTAIN, if Indeed it were probable, that the Nazi and the Soviet armies will de stroy one another, it would still be dangerously unwise for the United States to sit back and relax. there would still be needed our utmost power and effort to restore some kind of order ancf sanity in our world. But in fact, the notion that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia will exhaust one another is wish ful thinking or uifMANN.

the most reckless sort. Our policy and out attitude must be based not upon the gambler's hope in the highly improbable, but upon a stern calculation that in European Russia the Germany army is much more powerful than the Russian. The measures we take now should be based on the assumption that Hitler's forces will be tied up in Russia only for a relatively short time, and that in this short time we must fortify and reinforce our position in both oceans. The American policy should be based not on wishes, emotions, or ideologies, but on the fundamental fact that we have to defend our vital interests in two oceans, and that we possess a one-ocean navy. The avowed strategy of our enemies as set forth in the Japanese- German-Italian pact of last September, is to render the American Navy impotent in the Atlantic by tying it up in the Pacific.

By this device, which has thus far been highly successful, the defense of the Western Hemisphere against the European Axis has come to depend almost entirely upon Great Britain, with no real support from our own sea power. The position is intolerably dangerous. For if the British resistance were broken for lack of reinforcements, the American naval position in the Atlantic would be desperate, and in the effort to save it, the America position in the Pacific would have to be sacrificed. Thus our fleet, now standing guard in the Pacific, would fail to hold what it is now guarding, and it would be confronted with the infinitely difficult task of policing defensively a whole hem isphere against surprise attacn in both oceans by superior forces striking from better situated stra tegic bases. SINCE we have to defend ourselves with the navy we possess, not with the navy we intend to have In 1946, and with what forces we can create in the near future, the fundamental object of our policy must be to unlock American sea power which is now almost completely lmmoDinzea In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, w.

cannot afford at this critical time to have the most powerful War 25 Years Ago JUNE, 28, 1916. Compiled by International Newa Service British Armle launched smashing assaults on entire fTont; German defenses suffered heavily. French reported progress east of the Meuse. Italians continued gaining on Trentano front, forcing the Austrlans stdlly back. JUNE 28, 1921.

Defense of the teaching systems Catholic educational institutions for their introduction of religious nstruction as a part of their regu lar academic curriculae was made by Archbishop Henry Moeller in an address at the opening session of the Catholic Educational Associa- tion at St. Peter's Cathedral. The Archbishop's address was followed by an address by Rev. Felix M. Kirsch, O.

Chaplain of the St. Fidells College, Herman, Pa. Hope Hampton, motion picture star of this area, was in Cincinnati, preparatory to leaving for a location near Dayton, Ohio. She was the guest of honor at a special meeting of the Cincinnati Better Motion Picture Council, held at the Hotel Sinton. She told of her new picture, "Star Dust." Following Miss Hampton's talk, Jules Brulatour, her manager, made a few remarks.

He said, "Better photoplays will be 50 YEARS AGO IN CINCINNATI JUNE 28. 1891. The third popular concert was given in Eden Park by the Cincin nati Orchestra, and It drew a large crowd to the popular city park. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and thousands of tired working men and their famines availed themselves of the opportunity to rest on the green sward. While the parents and guardians listened the music, the little ones played and down the grassy slopes around the bandstand.

Rev. G. B. Bobbins, Chaplain of the Freeman Avenue Armory, bade farewell to many who had gathered there for the weekly service. Rev.

Robbins had established this form worship at the armory, engaged I Shall Remember I shall remember in Ion? days to come, When I am old and life's hot fires burn low, The things I now find lovely and the sum Of all my yesterdays shall swiftly grow: The sound of rain upon the trees and grass, The glory of the stars on warm June nights A house I loved, and which I often pass To see again its contour; and the lights That glow afar, like fireflies at play; The morn's marital coming in August weather, A bird in flight to greet the day, And on its wing an iridescent feather; The warmth of blazing logs at night. The sobbing wind through twisted trees. The scent of flowers In the soft moonlicrht. And music that brings peace and ease. Oh, lovely world! that gives in simple ways The glories of the universe to me: And may down my avenue of days.

Still hold the wisdom, my soul may see! that -Doris R. Beck, in the Kansas City Star. i i i "Well, a marine is a lot like a soldier and a sailor, too but what man.