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J' PAGE EIGHT TAMPA MORNING TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1942 TAMPA MORNING TRIBUNE GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty AS TRIBUNE READERS SEE IT Entered in the Postoffice at Tampa, Florida, as Second Class Matter 'if S. E. THOMASON, Publisher E. Lambritrht R.

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Vindi.T only Vhii.v and Sunday Oaily only the Mne 10.00 5.00 2.50 .85 .20 1 year 6 mo. 3 mm, 1 mo. 1 week Subscriptions Payable in Advance Member ot Audit Bureau of Circulation RECKLESS EXPENDITURES MOUNT DORA. I notice your comments as well some others in regard to taxes and expenditures of public funds. I wonder how long the masses are goir.g to allow themselves to be pushed around by a well organized minority.

So far most of those that have the nerve to even protest have been bumped off into oblivion, as regards public affairs. Is it ever going to be possible to make the people believe and realize that we are all in the- same boat? We must not deceive ourselves this is an all out war and it will be an all out peace. Is there no remedy for this reckless expenditure? W. E. LACKEY.

I 1 I I lilt I I I L-N. i mi -1 BIBLE THOUGHT (From Press-Radio Bible Service, Cincinnati, CALL NO MAN MASTER, ONLY GOD: He that opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is calltd God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God sittetn in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 2 Thts. 2:4. PEGLER HITS NAIL RUSKIN.

In view of conditions at present existing in World War affairs, Westbrook Pegler certainly has "hit the nail on the head" in his article of June 25 in The Tribune "If We Lose." Such writings are needed. Telling about what will be done after Germany -and Japan have been conquered is but idle talk. We are a long way from victory and we are a long way from being "the land of the free and the home of the brave. When we have really attained that condition in its full meaning, the people of all nations will be far happier than now. EDWARD P.

BANCROFT. SINK A "SUPER SIB" BARTOW. We note in an editorial, under "Mum Is The Word." Remember, for the duration, mum is the word." Then, under "Super Subs:" "It is hoped we'll soon be hearing such reports (sighted sub, sank same) from nearer home." Japan knows we get intense satisfaction ouf ol satisfactory news, but "we'll" live over it if such is withheld until the "spilling" would no longer enlighten, or console, or shed glory on the enemy. Even a late announcement that a super sub" had been sunk would give the Hun some hint that even super subs must be improved We will long remember the "homey" feeling members of The Tribune staff conveyed to us during our brief but. delightful visit to the editorial rooms, especially will we remember this sign: "If you have nothing to do, don't do it here!" EDWARD J.

ELLIS. A PROHIBITIONIST PARRISH. I certalnlv agree with L. D. Lewis.

Ocala. in regard to the saloons, only he did not extend the "should be closed time" Jong enough. So my extension of time is "until the end of time," A place la prepared for the pitiful drinkers, the sellers, the onea giving the licenses, and those who' voted the "wet ticket, even though they do not drink themselves, but voted it to ruin some mother's boy, some mother's girl or somebody's friend. I can truthfully say I have never yet helped to fill a drunkard's grave. Ask yourself the question: Have How awful when we look back and see others who have followed our footsteps into paths sin, and when we meet the "King of all Kings" what will our answers be? MRS.

EDNA GTT.T.ETT. QSlI V. r.i on ah CHICKEN-SCARING PLANES FORT MYERS. My, our Uncle Samuel is treating those people mean who stay home, taking the men'i shirt tails and all the pretty "fixins' from their pants. And now his naughty airplanes are scaring a Tampa woman's chickens.

That is awful! But you just write Uncle Sam to send his old, scary planes down here, as the chickens in this neck of the woods just cocs their weather eye and seem to say, "I dare you." PEARL L. MOON. NOISY DAYS TAMPA. Several letters in this column have complained about noisy, ill-mannered children. Cannot something be done about the incessant barking and howling of noisy dogs? We are annoyed by this nuisance, especially in the Sulphur Springs section, for hours at a time and half into the night, thus having our rest disturbed after a strenuous day.

These dogs roam the streets during the day, sometimes five and six in a bunch, some homes having two and three dogs. I am not alone sorry for my family but also for sick people and nervous invalids who must suffer this annoyance. LESS NOISE. "Now for two-weeks' honeymoon I certoinly outwitted the boss when he ruled no vacations this summer!" 3he Galf Gleam CRITICIZING CONGRESS BRADENTON. Ickes, haw, what's he trying to do, make us laugh? We shouldn't criticize Congress, he sajs.

Haw, haw! Well, we'll continue to criticize Congress, you bet, and if any of those fellows are too thin-skinned to take it, let them pack up and go home and we'll put others in tieir place. And as for Ickes, he should stay on his own beat. He is hired and paid to do a certain job, and as long as he does it his pay won't stopped. We have to criticize Congress to stay it from continually and perpetually working for self-agrandize ment, you know, "staking" themselves to pensions, X-cards, etc. WIRT DOYLE TERVIN.

BOONDOGGLERS TAMPA. Do we need laws to cut off some of the political boondogglers? Fifty years ago, I remember, when a man asked for a job, he did the work required himself or paid others to-do it. Today a man must pay to get the office job, to hire people, to do the worK at the state's expense. J. F.

FRED. Egypt was afflicted with the frogs and the flies and the locusts and other plagues, and now the naziwop rats. EGYPT 'Hail! mighty Phtha! spirit which animates the world, Hail! Hail! Hear as we call on thee!" "MOST LAWLESS PEOPLE" BRADENTON. Our country's population has at one time been to school. As you remember when we got new teachers we proceeded to try 'em out in many sly ways to see how strict they were going to be as to enforcing orders which had previously been read to the whole school.

As people, we have been carrying out the same game and the shysters we sent to Washington and our state and county officers, who were hired and paid by the public same as our law makers, took advantage of any and all laws purposely made with loopholes to and for evasion of same until we became the most lawless people on the globe. J. G. FORBES. THE ONLY HEAVEN VALRICO.

To "Cheerful Outlook" by Harold Ewing: Scientist, in all humility I place a lamp on your path. May it direct you to the real universe, the unseea realm. There awaits the great adventure. The discovery that each one of us controls his own solar sun. Sees and find the flame and fan it into new fire and go cn your way rejoicing, lighting the way of others lost in the darkness.

So you will find the only heaven there the renewal of youth, unlimited. FRANKLIN WHEELER. IF LOVE WERE DEAD If my love were only daad Then I could lay it in a tomb; Make one little prayer And leave a lilac bloom. If love were dead Bat my love is only lost And I must bear the pain Of hoping through eternity To find it once again, EDNA FLOYD. Men meet anon upon the mead by the mere to mull and moot what meed is meet to mete out to the man on the moor.

TO MY DEAR Taps just blew and I'm thinking of you, Missing you too, my dear. Having known you, then losing you Makes each moment a year When we were together The weather was bright But now that we're parted Each day is a night. Some day in the future When Justice has won And peace again shall appear I'll come to you As I want to do COMMENT And that, my dear kith, is good Eng. in words of one syl. Let the wolf on the wold howl to the dog in the dell.

And we'll be together again, my dear. JOHNNY. Japs Carry On in a High Handed Manner Conditions in Manchuria Said to Be Growing Worse. Tribune headline of May 30, 1920. same purpose after the Armistice in 1913.

Because USO represents one way we can all get behind the men behind the guns. Because "you help someone you know, when you give to the USO." Bringing the cause directly home to us in Tampa and vicinity, the USO is operating here, through four clubhouses and six agencies, to give its benefits to the men stationed in Tampa and neighboring posts and camps. You have seen from day to day in The Tribune stories and pictures showing the work the USO is doing here. You have, perhaps, visited one or more of the clubs and witnessed with your own eyes how the USO is providing the "home atmosphere," healthful and helpful recreation, convenient and free facilities, for the men in the armed forces. One of these, the largest, the YMCA clubhouse, North Boulevard, is now serving an average of more than 1000 men a day.

This is another "Because" for Tampans to consider when they are asked to contribute to the USO national fund. A considerable part of, the money raised will be spent here, carrying on this service in the local clubs. President Roosevelt stated the USO case in a few words when he said: Not by machines alone will we win this war. Unitedly, unstintingly, and without interruption or delay, we have solemnly promised to give our men a mounting tide of guns, tanks, planes and ships. We shall keep that promise, and one promise more that we shall preserve lor them wheitver they may be, and without regard to race, creed or color, the moral and spiritual values of the democratic ideals and freedoms for which they are now fighting.

Because the USO is unitedly dedicated to that high purpose, and because that high purpose is a vital part of the job of winning this war, the USO should be supported by everybody cheerfully, generously, and now. We are confident that Tampa will not fail in full response to the call of this "vital part of the job of winning this war." Army Takes Hotels A wartime development of major importance to the wrhole West Coast area as well as St. Petersburg comes with the announcement that the Army has taken over many of the hotels in our sister city for use in connection writh an Air Corps Technical Training Command. St. Petersburg's flavor McCutcheon expressed the feelings of most persons in this section when he said, "It is the best news for St.

Petersburg in years and years." The project puts the city right in the center of Army work. Some 8000 officers and men are expected to occupy the hotels almost immediately, with the prospect of even more men in the not too distant future. It means the year-around operation of the tourist hotels and a sizable payroll to be spread throughout the community. Gaining the Army center is a striking example of what powerful and unselfish civic spirit can accomplish. St.

Petersburg officials and civic leaders worked hard throughout the negotiations. They showed what can be done in every community these days when all work together for the common good. For A Fighting Navy In approving the $8,500,000,000 naval expansion bill, which is a highly significant measure since it does not authorize the construction of a single new battleship, Congress has acted wisely and in the interest of national security. If the history of the war so far has taught us anything, it is the extreme vulnerability of the battleship. Time and time again battleships, those mighty monarchs of the sea, have gone down as victims of dive bombers and torpedo planes.

Built principally to fight against other battleships, they have been at the mercy of air attacks. From now on, our Navy is going to depend more on aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers, a number of which can be constructed for the same outlay required for one battleship. Emphasis on aircraft carriers means that we have learned the lesson about the importance of control of the air. The more than 500 combat ships which are included in the new bill will give us a fighting, attacking Navy with an abundance of craft capable of protecting the air as well as the sea. It is the best kind of a Navy to assure us victory.

When the top, spinning to the right, falls over, it rolls around to the leftbut at the same time it is still slowly turning on its axis to the right. Watch a spot on the side of the top The boys have been studying another problem lately. They say if you pull the plug out of an open drain, one without a screen, the water in the tub or bowl, running down, will begin swirling around and will always swirl in the same direction. Why is that? Rocky Sink correspondence in Live Oak Democrat: Rocky Sink folks are busy barn-ing their tobacco." So smokers later will be busy burning their tobacco. After garaging their cars "and housing selves.

Nozirats Nabbed UNSTINTED praise is given the Federal Bureau of Investigation by the American public and government and throughout the United Nations for its remarkable work in rounding up a group of nazi spies and saboteurs landed on our coast by enemy submarines. Thus the FBI nipped a well-laid plan hatched in Germany's gestapo, to put -specially trained men into this country to do damage to our war production and to gain information valuable to our foes. The eight men caught were well equipped for their job. They were provided with all manner of material for their nefarious work, and with ample funds (in United States currency) to finance their operations. They had been carefully schooled in a training center near Berlin, tutored by experts in sabotage.

They were expected to operate unmolested for at least two years. They were personally acquainted with the "lay of the land," they spdke our language, all of them had lived in the United States, and their tutors and masters confidently believed that they could carry on here without detection. The objectives of their sabotage had been definitely selected. In this, the usually thorough nazi plans went wrong thanks to Edgar Hoover and the FBI. The complete story of how these nazi-rats were discovered, identified and captured, how the FBI got the "tip" which led to their apprehension, will not be known for some time, if ever.

We do know that it was a quick, clever and successful job, and testifies, to the value of Mr. Hoover's superb organization in protecting the nation from surreptitious attacks. The incident also reveals the practically unrestricted approach of enemy submarines to our eastern coastline. U-boats landed these men at Ponte Vedra, and Amagansett, Long Island, creeping close to shore in each instance. But so thorough was the FBI scrutiny that it knew just when and where the group left Europe, just when and where they arrived here; also their personal record from the time they joined the nazi gang until they were dispatched on their secret mission.

The story of Herbert Haupt, American citizen, is typical of the process of converting these young fellows into German spies. Herbie Haupt was born in Germany, but is a citizen of the United States, having derived his citizenship through his father, who was naturalized on Jan 7, 1930. The Haupt family came to the United States approximately 20 years ago and settled in 111., where Herbert attended a public high school, in which he was an active member of the ROTC. While living in Chicago, Herbert was employed as an apprentice optical worker but on June 14, 1941, he resigned his position and traveling through the midwest he entered Mexico at Nuevo Laredo, thereafter proceeding to Mexico City. While in Mexico City, Herbert Haupt was in constant contact with the German authorities.

From Mexico City, Haupt proceeded to Japan via a small Japanese freighter and from Japan he proceeded to Bordeaux, France, on board a German blockade breaker. Upon his arrival in Germany, he was recruited as a member of the German sabotage group, and was given training in sabotage work by the German high command. Here was a youth who was given every advantage of American education and opportunity, and who deliberately turned against his country to serve its enemies. For him particularly, there can be no ishment too severe. We know and they know what would have been done to them if they had been American saboteurs similarly caught in Germany.

Can we afford to do less? The job so well done by the FBI should be finished by firing squad or hangman. "A Vital Part Of The Job" THIS is USO Week in the United States of America therefore in Tampa. This week the people of the United States are being asked to give $32,000,000, and the people of Tampa $49,462, to the fund to continue and maintain USO service to our soldiers and sailors Because we can't win this war "by machines alone." Because it takes a high-spirited, fighting Army to do the job. Because boredom and monotony for our armed forces are dangerous enemies in themselves. Because the spirit USO helps maintain is a real contribution toward victory.

Because USO is a little bit of home we can send with our fighting men. Because we owe each of the 4,000,000 men we will have in uniform the services-costing only 66 cents a month which USO will provide. Because $32,000,000 is less than one-fifth of what the American public gave for the An exchange tells about a prisoner being "insurably" ill. Guess that's a new kind of policy. We never heard of it before.

Palmetto News. Maybe being insurably ill is when you have the kind of illness you take insulin for. Dr. Carver (Jacksonville Times-Union) Dr. George Washington Carver of Tuskegee Institute richly deserves the honor, "Man of the bestowed upon him by The Progressive Farmer, Southern agricultural publication.

Readers of these columns should be fairly familiar with the achievements of this distinguished colored man, for we frequently have given reports of the outstanding discoveries made by him in his laboratories at Tuskegee. But it is not amiss to repeat the statement ol The Progressive Farmer that "this 78-year-oid, stoop-shouldered plant wizard" of Alabama's famous educational institution "is considered by many the greatest living scientist and agricultural chemist of his race." "Gifted in various ways," he is also a mystic, philosopher, painter, needlework artist, and pianist. Devoutly religious, he intersperses his talks with Biblical references, a favorite quotation being, I will lift up mine eyes unto the nills from whence cometh my Each morning, weather and health permitting, he walks through the nearby woods for study and meditation: gather specimens and listen to what God has to say to me. After I have had my morning's talk with God I go to my laboratory and begin to carry out His wishes for the day'." Dr. Carver could have commanded from private industry a salary many times that which he received at Tuskegee, but for more than 40 years, he has preferred to devote himself to tasks that required the best of his great talents: trying, to help the Southern farmer, knowing that if he succeeded in that he would help everybody.

Some idea of what he has achieved is revealed in the fact that from the peanut alone he has developed mors than 300 useful products, including rubber, paper, ink and even oils now used in the treatment of infantile paralysis. Products derived from the sweet potato are well over the 100 mark, including flour, starch and lard. He has made insulation board from okra and cotton stalks, peanut hulls, waste paper, and broomsedge. Always his aim has been to get the most out of farm crops and natural growth, and his scientific discoveriea will help the South and especially Southern farmers for generations to come. Mankind can ill-afford to lose scientists of his great ability, yet he now lies critically ill, and The Progressive Farmer is announcing its honor to him six months earlier than usual with the "Man of the Year" award in order that Dr.

Carver may have this additional testimonial of appreciation by both whites and blacks of what he has done toward improving man's lot on earth. CAT NIPPED This cat tale was given us by an eyewitness; she had another witness for confirmation The white cat, Buzzie, was lunching; Lunch was served in a saucer. Lunch meat. Tea or coffee? No, just a bowl of water for beverage, set beside the saucer of lunch meat. Buzzie is a pedigreed white Persian.

Some alley cats are smarter than some aristo-cats, but no smarter than he. Buzzie was lunching outdoors, sort of a picnic lunch, the kind that attracts ants. An ant or two crawled on the cat's right front paw, and stung. What did the cat do about ants on his paw? The cat stopped lunching picked up his paw deliberately dipped his paw in the fingerbowJ of water withdrew paw and licked paw with tongue. For that burning sensation of the bite of an aat, water is an TIME If you lay hold of time And keep a moment in your hand, It lays hold of you Like trembling burning sand.

Instead of working time away Or letting it flit on, You burn your life light out And thus your soul you pawn. LYNN SMITH. LIDICE (From the Office of Facts and Figures) Ten miles west of Prague, the great capital, lay Lidice, a modest Czech village of hardworking mrners, woodworkers and farmers and their families perhaps 525 in all. The good people of Lidice had suffered much, for they were patriotic Czechs, and for three years they had been ground under the nazi heel. There was Josef Bartunek, the tailor, Vaclav Karnik, the wheelmaker, Jan Sid, the shoemaker, Vaclav Cermak.

the farmer, Frantisek Kotmel, the blacksmith, Ladislav Liska, the owner of the mill. These were typical of the respectable citizens who lived and worked and raised their families in Lidice. About a hundred cottages, a few shops, three inns surrounded by some rather poor farms that was the village. Over it soared the beautiful spires of the Catholic church of St. Margaret, built in 1736.

On the evening of June 10 Lidice was quietly settling down for the night. There was a curfew, and no man, woman or child dared be out after dark for fear of being shot. Suddenly the evening quiet was filled with tumult. The village was full of soldiers nazis. They invaded every cottage, dragged out the men over 17 years oi age, herded them together and shot them.

Not all the names are 'known, but about 2O0 all the men of Lidice were shot. 'Then the nazi soldiers separated the mothers ana children. The women, numbering perhaps 120, wert led off to concentration camps. The children ol Lidice, so said the official announcement, were taken to "education centers" in Germany there to be taught the beauties of the system which had made them orphans. Lidice was empty except for the nazi "investigators" who remained behind to search the houses.

Lidice was silent, except for the lowing of the cattle which were later rounded up and driven to the farms of neighboring Germans. Next morning the nazis came back, armed witn fire. They burned the empty village systematically until it was only a charred ruin. One thing remained to be done so thought the nazis to wipe Lidice forever from the face of the, earth and from the rolls of history. The name of the village was erased from all local municipal records births, deaths, marriage, tithe records all carefully erased.

German thoroughness. On June 9 it would have been hard to find anyone in the world who had heard of Lidice. It was just one of millions of obscure villages of 500 souls. It wasn't on the main highway. It wasn't on any map in any guidebook.

Perhaps half a dozen people outside the tiny municipality had heard the name. Two Czech fliers in England knew Lidice; their families lived there. Jan Masaryk knew the village; as a boy he had ridden through the village with his father the great Liberator who knew most of his people. Perhaps if Anton Cermak, the late Mayor of Chicago, were alive he would tell us that Vaclav Cermak, the farmer of Lidice, was his distant cousin. Perhaps a miner in Scran ton, can trace a relationship to Josef Bartunek, the dead tailor of Lidice.

But before June 9 few people knew Lidice. On June 10 Lidice was "dead" by nazi decree. But on that day its name was on the lips of thousands of men and women for the first time. The nazis had chosen to honor this obscure village with immortality. According to an official announcement of the German radio, "the investigation pf the murder committed on Deputy Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia.

S. S. Upper Group Leader Reinhard Heydrich, revealed beyond doubt that the population of the township of Lidice near Kladno gave shelter and assistance to the murderers." In a suburb of Prague, only a few miles from Lidice Reinhard, the "Hangman" Heydrich was shot on May 27 as he was driving in his car. This was an act of vengeance on a man who, as Hitler's "Protector of Bohemia-Moravia," had shot, tortured and terrorized tht Czech people for eight months. The shooting of Heydrich and the escape of his ''assassins" was the signal for martial law accompanied by a new wave of terror and repression by the Gestapo.

After Heydrich died June 4 the reprisals were stepped up, and by June 12 the nazis had by their own admission executed 326 Czechs "in connection with the killing of Heydrich." Not including the 200 men of Lidice. The Czech people were prepared to go on resisting ana dying. They were not prepared to tell the names of the men who had shot Heydrich. I'd like to lie On a chaise longue If I could buy One for a song. From the Gleam, Nov.

18, 1940: "Berlin, needing help, claims Moscow has joined the gang. But it may be just as easy and quick to unjoin." P. 15. B. PRIVATE LIVES By Edwin Cox i 1 fiFCESS A VASMAG7QA POB SOME ITS TEA.

FOR OTHERS iT'S A NAP. BUT THE BREAK IM Joseph B. Eastman's i2-hour DAV COMES VllTM THE HARD 6AME OF HANDBALL THAT THE DEFENSE TRAMSPORTATION HEAD PLAYS EVERY AFTERNOON AT FIVE Bitting (Radford Mobley in Miami Herald.) Man of the Week is Clarence Bitting, head of the U. S. Sugar Corporation, who has offered to operate farm products processing for rubber and other commodities for the government without a personal profit for the duration, but, at the same time, doesn't consider himself a Santa Claus.

This Florida sugar company head for 12 years would rather regard himself as a good business man. He knows he would stand a good chance to get first opportunity to buy these-plants for plastics factories after the war is over. Bitting, whose corporation is frequently attacked by Senator Pepper, brought the business he obtained more than a decade ago from bankruptcy to one of the state's juiciest enterprises. Asked the secret, he says: "Research." He says he spent $30,000 of his own money making pilot test runs on root starches from sweet potatoes, a defense aid which he now offers the government. His proposal is to add 100,000 acres in planting la Florida.

Hair of this would be farmed by independents in the Lake Okeechobee region. The undertaking would be the first major scale bid of south Florida for crop diversification, the prime insurance policy of any agricultural economy. Bitting constantly fights for increased sugar production in south Florida. He and Senator Pepper tangle over who will control the increased production, Bitting' corporation or independent farmers. If these two men could get together, along with Representative Pat Cannon and State Senator Ernest Graham, a new sugar program for Florida could be worked out.

Now it languishes because of lack of co-operation. Bitting is a Philadelphian, but maintain's a residence in Florida. He contends that Florida sugar growers pay the highest comparative wages of any area. Mrs. Roosevelt has had a kind word to say about livint conditions in the sugar areas of Florida.

SENTENCE SERMONS By Roy L. Smith KJO MEW CLOTH gS POB Queen Elizabeth THIS YEAR UK OTHER W6L1SH vOMEM CONSERVING CLOTH 8Y UE(2 CAREFULLY TURNED" AMD MADE OVER THE MAN WHO CANNOT Forgive will never know the spirit of peace. Overlook will always be busy with his suspicions. Laugh at himself will hear other people doing it. Discipline himself will find others doing so.

TALEAT DPT. (SUESS WHAT DAMCER PAUL DRAPER GAVE HIS UIFE ON HER BIRTHDAY? A CAKE HE'D BAKED HIMSELF MAY STILL BE FREE The Greeks of Tarpon Springs gave a dance recently that raised $1,080.55 and made an outright gift of the total proceeds to the United States for the prosecution of the war. They came from an island In the Aegean Sea; were at one time under Italian rule and know from actual experience the difference between tyranny and freedom. Winter Haven Herald. Respect himself will look the world over in vain for joy.

Face the facts will have to face something else..