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The Knoxville News-Sentinel Fifty-Sixth Year of Publication A Scr 1 pps-Howa rd Newspape LOVE MILLER Editor CHAMBERS: Busin cm Manager Editorial Rooms and Business Office: SOS West Church Avenue Telephone 3-3131 Entered at Knoxville Post Office as Second-Class Mail Matter Full Reports of the United Press Associated Press Scrippa-Howard Newspaper Alliance Chicago Daily News Foreign Service Acme Telephoto and NEA Service Inc By Carrier 25c Week By Mail Daily 3500 Year Daily and Sunday 31000 per Year Give Light and the People WtU Find Their Own Waif THURSDAY APRIL 16 1942 Farmer John SOME plastics ire made of coal Other plastics are made of milk Therefore according to John Lewis the nation's daily farmers should be members of his coal union That idea has its humorous aspects Mr Lewis'has come to be feared and hated by many of his former associates in the CIO But their strongest feelings toward him are mild when compared to the fear and hatred felt by innumerable farmers to whom the bushy-browed John personifies labor leadership at its most ruthless extreme hardto avoid a smile at the reasoning by which he now presents himself as gave Mr Lewis the closed shop he had demanded? Dairy farmers in many milksheds have long complained against unjust treat ment They and often with that there Is too great a spread between the prices they get and the prices consumers pay for milk products But whether their lot would be improved under the Lewis type of leadership is certainly something else again For the belief is growing in this country and much evidence supports it that John Lewis sees the emergency primarily as an opportunity to increase his own power He is not a man In our opinion whom the American people are willing to trust with greater power His sudden concern for the milk producers seems to us so probably part of a design to gain control over an important part of the country's food supply as well as of its coal supply and to use that control for his own ends that if we were in the dairy fanning business we should hesitate long before hooking up with him the dairy farmers' champion Farm organizations however aren't amused by the campaign of the United Mine Workers District 50 to enroll milk producers Officials of the Farm Bureau Federation the Grange and the Council of Fanner Co-Operatives meeting in Washington express serious concern Agricultural groups In New York New Jersey Pennsylvania and Vermont have formed a coalition to oppose the Lewis drive and to protect their members against bam-buming cow-poisoning and other vandalism by union agents Union organizers reply that they have no Intention of using terroristic methods and base their appeal to dairymen on a promise to get for them benefits the farm organizations have not been able to obtain And undeniably Mr Lewis gets results when he goes after them Remember how just before Pearl Harbor he efied the Government in the captive mine strike? And how President Roosevelt after asserting that the Government would never force men to join the union appointed an arbitrator who Clipper in Egypt: Tide Is Rising Over East for New Deal for Asia's Millions By RAYMOND CLAPPER ri A1RO April Prior to the failure of the Cripps mission in India a high Chinese authority told 'me at Chungking that the weakness of the British proposal for India was that it did not provide a sharp and dramatic break with the 'past and therefore would not tir up enthusiasm among the Indians His suggestion was that there should be an Indian premier and that the British viceroy should become a governor-general or something of the kind in order to dramatize the fact that a new day had arrived for India The failure of Sir Stafford Cripps would seem to make a new effort all the more urgent not alone for India but for all Asia in order to remove a suspicion among the populations of Asiatic Mr Clapper countries that the Allies are at war merely for the purpose of saving the old imperialism which the Asiatics are determined to remove Undoubtedly one practical immediate step could be taken by the United Nations in renouncing extraterritoriality and other forms of outside control over China Admiral Harry Yarnell of the United States recently urged such a step The Chinese are determined that such foreign influences shall go when the war is over It would be better if the United Nations made the move now Opposed to Status Quo MY feeling after a month east of Suez is that throughout Asia new forces are rising that will insist on control of their own destinies The rise of Russia in one generation encourages these aspirations Also it is plain to all now that one nation in Asia Japan is able to defeat western powers These factors accentuate a long-developing ferment I have found many Americans in the Orient who are convinced that no victory can check this trend They feel that we must 'prepare for a new deal in the Far East regardless of the outcome of the war and that ao long as the United Nations appear to the Asiatics to be merely fighting to restore the status quo thry will be denied the help of millions who are either indifferent aa to who their masters are or think they can use Japan to throw oft one yoke without getting caught under a new and heavier one Even Americans In some Instances wonder what purpose will be served if there is only to be a return to the status quo when the victory comes Those factors affect morale end therefore become Important along with military force in determining the outcome of the war in th East Axis Plays on Doubts TPURTHERMORE America itself is gradually assuming the to eastern of fighting for imperialism No matter how unjustified such feelings may be the fact that they exist is-the important thing needing attention They do exist and they are having a deteriorating effect on the Allied cause Insofar ar America is assuming the responsibility for smashing the Japanese conquest it properly becomes a matter for American concern that the victory hall be used to advance freedom self-government collective security and equitable economic policies instead of restoring conditions which could only spur Asia to new efforts to throw off western domiaation This war may have to be won in western Europe and by an assault against the Japanese mainland but revolutionary forces ar loosening in Asia independent of who wins end there will be no end of trouble for the victors unless these forces are channeled into an effort by the United Nations as a group to bring about a new deal In this part of the world The Japanese and the Germans are not neglecting these questions Instead they are capitalizing them as mighty reinforcements to their arms This matter seems in the judgment of many in the East to rate as a part of the major war effort which cannot safely be ignored What Peoplt Say: ALBERT 8 GOSS master of the Ns-tional Grange: "Waiting for the other fellow to do it won't win this war" GEN GEORGE MARSHALL Army chief of staff upon arrival In London: "Our armed forces now in Ireland want to expand to THE REV EDWARD FLANAGAN founder of Borstown who fail to rear their children to become useful citizens are very helpful to the SIMMS SAYS: Pcglar Says: Unions Blame Bosses for Malnutritition but Fees Are No Help By WESTBROOK FEGLER rpUCSON Ariz April 16 A note of -L pathos has marred the current light and jovial banter over proposals to banish racketera from the unions and guarantee the free right to work at lawful toil subject to the licensing and taxing power of no private organization Some of the union publications which taken as a group are conducted in the financial and political interest of the boss unioneers at the expense of the workers have wept over the physical reporti of the medical examiners of the draft boards It appears that a considerable proportion of all the eligible are rejected for physical unfitness and it is argued that all this ia due to malnutrition The malnutrition in turn is charged to the rapacity of the employers and the conclusion Is that for the sake of their children's health American toilers should be required to pay from 525 to 5300 or even as much as 53000 out of their starvation poverty for passports through the factory gates That this money might be better spent for milk and groceries for the young than on yachts limousine jobs racing stables and week-end air excursions to luxurious suites in Florida for prosperous unioneers during the wintering time of the criminal scum is a thought which might occur to many objective thinkers But waiving that point I think we may be of fairly good cheer anyway because not all physical imperfection is chargeable to malnutrition Flat feet for example is the cause of a grefct many rejections and asthma which ia entirely free of snobbery afflicting alike the sons of suburban merchants and factory toller is the cause of others Many of Allies Went Hungry 1UE HAVE also many cardiacs whose TV troubles may be traced to a number of causes other than malnutrition and I have personal knowledge of two young men who never lacked wholesome food at home who were turned back for hay fever and trick knee respectively The hay fever subject was an applicant in aviation and may be found fit for one of the ground or sea forces but the trick knee case ia a young giant rising six feet tiro and still the doctors would not have him for the Army although he walks with no limp and plays a fair game of tennis Then we have to count in young men suffering from certain impairments subsequent to venereal infection and others who have hereditary physical faults traceable to ancestral ills of the same type And finally we will have to subtract some at least whose malnutrition was not due to poverty but to Improper cuisine at home So altogether I suggest that the case for malnutrition due to poverty due to boss-rapacity due to non-unionism must be considerably less tragic than the kept press of' the unioneers would have us think- But one naturally thinks now of the soldiers of China and Japan whose diet from childhood ia considerably below the American standard and of the poor but hardy Greek who wheeled on the invincible legions of the Duce and would have chased them into the sea but for the intervention of the mechanized robots of Der Fuehrer whose bitterest complaint against the civilized world was the starvation In childhood of these same faceless men of his Many of the present fighting generation of British males also lived on short and ill-balanced rations when they were very young Billion Would Be a Help THE Spaniards tough and brave on both sides of their civil war were bom and raised poor and our Russian allies of fighting age were conceived in famine and grew to stalwart manhood through a succession of famines Even the French were not well fed by our standards ns French children never are what with their coffee and wine but their failure In war was due more to politics than to physical weakness of the individual soldier Hammered no worse than the British they fell away in confusion reminiscent of their national parliament which waa the source of their fatal weakness One might like to know If malnutrition of the young la an important factor in this rate of rejection what proportion of the earnings of the parents was spent on tobacco for example and whisky and movies three very popular and very expensive nonessentials which adorn our standard of living and what on fuel rubber end mechanical wear and tear for frivolous mileage in their automobiles This leads only into conjecture but if it la truth we seek to cure our ills we thwart ourselves in blaming boss-greed beyond the right degree Added to the net family Income of the toller the bil-lion-and more a year of earnings that comes off the top for union fees ana dues might buy a distinct Improvement in the diet of the young of those who pay the toll France Still May Confess Her War Guilt to World and 'Clear' Hitler so far to form his Southwest Pacific Allied Command and it is understood that problems affecting the entire matter of Allied grand strategy are the cause of the delay which the Australians regard as dangerous The spokesman says the General four weeks after his arrival in Australia has not received from Washington necessary decisions and instruc-tions and as a result he is as yet commander only for American forces in the Far East and Australia" Obviously something ia wrong somewhere Such a dangerous misunderstanding cannot be cleared up too quickly bring out the guilt" which Hitler wanted Thus instead of the trials resuming on Tuesday as expected Pierre Laval returned to power and the court was ordered to recess still further pending "reorganization" What happens now will bear watching here in the United States For more than ever Riom will have world-wide significance The Nazi controlled press of Berlin and Paris long bitterly assailed the trial for taking the wrong direction Intead of accepting the German peace offered to them by the magnanimous Hitler It charged French statesmen deliberately plunged the country into war The guilt of these men not France's unprepared-ness was what the court waa supposed to establish So insisted Hitler's spokesmen Seek Blood NOW the court has been directed to proceed along those lines First however a decree published yesterday ordered th investigation "with a view to aeeking out and Judging all responsibilities" of leaders high and low especial attention being paid to "acta that contributed to the passage from a state of peace to a state of Additional defendants may be haled before the bar Dr Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda minister has had a finger In the pie If Vichy can be made to shoot some of' France's war leaders he will have just the' dramatic material he has been seeking's long time for use at home and in the not always happy stooge-countries Hitler his gathered about him Trance will have confessed her war guilt before the to the satisfaction at least of Hitler Specific? And How! rpHAT old useful and anonymous friend of the President has been writing to him again about non-defense economies Sometimes he writes as a business man but this time he's a well-known economist And as usual Mr Roosevelt has squelched him with a challenge to point out exactly where cuts could be made In the Federal Budget Furthermore the President tells his press conference the trouble with all critics of nondefense spending They aren't specific Well let's see The Brookings Institution has recommended specific cuts in the Federal Budget to save 52000000000 Rep Wesley Disney of Oklahoma has recommended specific cute to save 51" 800000000 The National Economy League has recommended specific cuts to save 51" 600000000 Senator Byrd's Joint congressional committee on nonessential expenditures has recommended specific cuts to save 31301075000 Specific cuts mind you in all cases Abolition of such depression agencies as NYA and CCC and drastic reduction if not abolition of WPA Reduction of farm subsidies reduction of public-works and highway programs and pork-barrel items not essential to winning the war and not justified under these war-boom conditions But when the specific recommendation for abolishing NYA is mentioned to the President he objects Why NYA is training 400000 boys and girls year for war industries 1 CURE The NYA bureaucrats and countless other bureaucrats' have been alloWed to work themselves in under the defense tent and become "indispensable" to the war effort Other agencies can do and are doing a far better job of industrial training than NYA does Evidence of that is overwhelming But NYA must go on and a patriotic- educator who dares argue to the contrary finds himself browbeaten and ameared by the Fresident'a aupport-ers in Congress The trouble Is lack of specific recommendations for non-defense economies The trouble is that a busy President ia listening not to overburdened taxpayers who protest waste of their money but to entrenched tax spenders who are against economy An Old Soldier Paisei f)LD soldier that he was and man of action Gen Hugh Johnson would not have chosen to meet death in a sickbed to spend his final hours breathing feebly under an oxygen tent Not at a time when the nation he loved is in a desperate war for survival and his own contemporaries in the Army are at the head of troops in the field But Hugh life was rich and varied full of accomplishments public service and recognition such as comes to few men Soldier statesman lawyer business man orator newspaper columnist a potent Influence in public affairs through the first world war and into the second The nickname Old Iron Panta fitted well this robust and leathery ex-cavalry officer who always swung hard and never 'pulled his punches But those who knew him well know that Inside hla hard-boiled exterior were tenderness and sensitivity He probably will be longest remem-' bered as the man who led the great offensive against depression and unemployment the administrator of NRA who fired the imagination and spirits of a people who had been long without hope In this still greater struggle our country could use men of General type men who can command the confidence allegiance and co-operation of all classes of citizens By WILLIAM PHILIF SIMMS terlppa-Haward Bonita Editor ASHINGTON April If Hitler has his unimpeded way at and the indications are he the heads of former Premiers Edouard Da-ladier and Leon Blum and of other former French leaders may yet roll in the sand The now fain Rlom trials have beven ordered "expanded" to give them more the character of treason or hearings political angles will be tressed rather Mr Simms unprep (redness if found guilty the distinguished defendants are liable to be shot This is what Hitler aimed at from the beginning Like other megalomaniacs of history he wanted the records fixed so his name would be cleared of all blame for starting the conflagration The Riom trials would be just the thing If French judge found French leaden guilty of conspiring with foreign powers notably Great Britain to bring on the war every act from the invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia down to the present moment would he fell seem based on lofty motives Historically he would be vindicated Nans Not Supermen "DUT the trials took an unprec-D edented turn The supreme court exhibited enough backbone to listen to testimony bearing on preparations for war and found them pitifully lacking Witness after witness made it plain that France was not defeated because of any superman qualities on the part of the Nazis but because she was so frightfully week "We were outnumbered (In tanks) two to one" remarked Gen Francois Keller just before the trials recessed for Easter on April 2 "That Is why EDOUARD DALADIER By Galbraith SIDE GLANCES we were beaten" not pay so much attention to the aide that waa beaten" snapped former Premier Deledier "The next time the result may be different" America Should Watch AT was the spirit of Rlom The court failed utterly to A Country 'Calendar By LUCY CURTIS TEMPLETON Heed the Coal Warning Now! TT IS NOT often that an editorial is devoted to urging the people of a community to purchase a commodity In this instance however the warning is mesnt not only to prevent regret on the part of the public a few months from now but also to publicize a message that is in keeping with the wishes of the President The present warning to buy coal now and store it against the day when lack of shipping facilities may cause a shortage of fuel ig not a scheme of coal dealers to sell more coal It is a warning that has come from the President and from officials charged with responsibility for the war effort It Is a word to everybody to avoid distress when the transportation facilities of the country will be taxed in a few months with the increasing load of war goods and cars will not be available for shipment of the fuel Coal prices are quite reasonable at present Delivery facilities ere available There arc still tires on the trucks The coal yards are well supplied The Government is urging everybody to put way a supply of coal now during the next two months and through the summer We believe that your favorite coal dealer will ro-operate with you to the utmost to accomplish this storing up of fuel We cannot urge everybody too etrong-ly to anticipate coal needs now and act without dilay MacArthur Makes News OOD news that MacArthur's bombers from Australia have successfully raided Jap bases in the Philippines blankets the bad news that the General is dissatisfied with his status Both dispatches came from MacArthur's headquarters on the same day and both passed the same censor The report of the daring air raid is the sort that puts new pride and new fighting spirit into all Americans When 13 Yankee bombers can fly thousands of miles destroy enemy shipping docks sir fields and aircraft over a wide area and return with the loss of only one plane and no men the promised offensive seems nearer But MacArthur according to his official spokesman is uncertain over his status authority and plans President Roosevelt and Piime Minister Curtin of Australia issued statements reaffirming that MacArthur is in supreme command of United Rations forces of all kinds in the Southwest Pacific But the General'! headquarters comes right back with this: Army spokesman today revealed that General MacArthur has been unable bepi Small but Mighty (Bf at tonal OoorroyUa lacMr) Corregidor long called by neighboring Filipinos the "home of the big guns" is a green-dad rock covering an area of only about twf square miles Its prewar population reported vastly swollen ince the fall of Manila was estimated at about 8000 people including many civilian workers Lying off center in the 11-mile-wide gateway to Manila Ray the island is much nearer Bataan Peninsula a little over two miles to the north than to the Cavite coast on the south Tadpole shaped with its broad rounded head facing the China the island rises in the western portion to a height of nearly 600 feet From the lower-lying tail-like strip of land narrowing toward the bay a reef curves almost within touching distance of Caballo another high end fortified but smaller island in the mouth of Manila Bay About four miles southeast of Caballo is El Fraile a second gun-studded outpost of United States forces This island one of the most picturesque posts of military assignment is known as the "stone battleship" because of its striking resemblance through carved masts and turrets to a real seagoing man-of-war they feed However an exceptional season every now and then catches the wisest of birds off base Although often called a swallow because of similarity in habits of flight and feeding this bird structurally is related to the hummingbird rather than to the passerine swallow In perching they cling to the side of the chimney Using the sharp-pointed tail for a prop just as the woodpeckers do Originally these birds made their nests and roosted in hollow trees 'With the coming of the white man they transferred their habitats to chimneys Reference to the need of rain deserves more extended com-menl although as Mr Samuel Clemens remarked hobody will do anything about it Drouth in the spring however is so distressing that I cannot but complain It does so much more harm now than at any other season of the year I always have the superstitious hope that if I speak of the drouth that It will rain before my plaint can get into print PH1MNEY swifts returned to our house on April 15 Members of our household and a guest were In the little sitting room when we heard them drumming In the chimney There is something that is rather touching I think and very marvelous that they shouid return every year thousands of miles over land and sea to one particular spot Of course I dashed outside immediately to see them but they were not visible at that particular time 1 did not see them until in the evening when I was eating my dinner There were five of them circling over the garden apparently having a grand time To my regret they were flying quite high up which is said to mean fair weather And we need rein ao badly It is often said that the return of the chimney sweeps means settled warm weather Instinct end habit would lead them not to return until warm weather had hatched out the myriads of insects on which "If like my wife you carry about five pounds of junk in your so I know you can't be aeriouv coming OM IIOMB IM oat a aa litMA a i 1 1 I 1 in here in time war and asking me to deliver half a pound of 4 i TV.