Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 14 November 1941 — Page 4

POSTDEMOCRATFEIBAY NOVEMBER 14, 1941,

THE POST-DEMOCRAT 4 Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrat* of JUnncie, Delaware County ana the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

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The Writing On the Wall The San Francisco News, a newspaper which has always been a strong supporter of organized labor, recently said this: “We wish to see organized labor endure and continue to grow. But we know that organized labor cannot, endure if the things from which it derives its prosperity and security do not endure. If organized labor is to endure, the system of free enterprise must endure. Organized labor cannot flourish if business sickens and dies. Economic peace and security cannot be obtained by use of force which makes their existence impossible. “Organized labor has never had such power as it possesses. But by that same token, organized labor never has had such responsibility as it is charged with today . . . What happens to the labor movement, what happens to business and industry, what happens to the thousands and thousands of small wage earners who have no interest in the politics of the labor movement, will depend on whether labor leadership becomes statesmanlike, whether it recognizes and assumes its proper responsibilities, whether it wields its power with wisdom, or with recklessness and stupidity.” Organized labor should be solidly at the forefront of those who are today fighting the trend toward socialism—a trend, which if it continues, will mean the end of free enterprise, and the end of social and economic freedom for capital and labor alike. And organised labor, for its own selfish reasons alpne, should take the lead in preventing strikes in this time of emergency and danger, and should, like industry, submit its grievances to arbitration. The racketeers in the labor movement will destroy all gains made by labor. And the working man, not the fatsalaried labor leaders, will do the paying. Cannot labor see the writing on the Wall ?

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Home Accident Deaths Highest In Five Years

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Infections arising from cuts and scratches play major role on the home accident front. Above—The kitchen butcher knife is a poor whittling blade r especially when it is drawn toward the body. Right—Falls last year killed 16,000 Americans in their homes. Never use a chair or other furniture as an improvised ladder.

The Battle We Dare Not Lose

: • ' ' By Ruth Taylor Each' day the experts carefully scan the war bulletins fend : tell us of the meaning of this or that victory or defeat —of .why this victory ; is important—or that defeat not fatal. They Regularly remind us that the most important battle of any war is the last, that if we lose every battle but that, we will still win. • But there is one other battle we dare not lose—a long drawn out fight that goes on without cessation day in and day out-^the battle of ideas. ,. ; The greatest weapon of the enemy both without and within ds the spreading of false ideas. Sometimes these talke form of “realistic thinking”, or showing only the rhuddy, murky side of & condition, emphasizing the evil out of proportion to the facts, until the only impulse is to crush out the evil regardless of what good goes with it. This is how democratic institutions in other countries were overthrown. Duly the weaknesses were played up—never the good. / i; Sometimes it‘takes the form of “placing the blame.” k This is the old alibi dodge of seeking a scapegoat for misgovernment, negligence and plain indifference to conditions. Haman nature being what it is, it is altogether too easy to start men thinking that their misfortunes are not their own fault but part of an organized conspiracy against them by an unscrupulous group. The Klans, and masked secret societies, have- fed upon such theories for years. Sometimes it takes the form of “being sensible.” This generally means taking for granted the fight is lost, and that nothing can be done. Therefore it is sensible to agree with the conquering enemy and see how much profit can be made from such a coalition. Of course from the days of Aesop on, the fate of those who agreed with the tiger has been plain—but our “sensible” thinkers are always sure they can avoid being swallowed. Sometimes it takes the form of “wishful thinking.” If we don’t join in a fight, nothing will happen to us. No one has dropped bombs on us, so no one ever will. If we j ust stay a,t home and don’t annoy anyone, everything will be all right. Of course this demands believing in the pledges of those who have never kept a pledge—but our wishful thinkers—like the White Queen—believe at least three impossible things before breakfast every day. These are the ideas that must b fought—fought with truth unchallenged. This is the battle in which every one of us is a soldier. We must meet falsehood with truth and scotch each lie as it raises its ugly, vicious head. This is one battle we dare not lose—and now is the time to fight!

The Record Speaks for Itself Republican congressional leaders continue to belittle defense efforts in the United States and berate national administration officials for the country’s lack of adequate defense at the start of the present emergency. And yet— On April 21, 1938, Republican Senator Vandenberg said: “I oppose this super-super Navy bill. I do not believe it is justified by any conclusive demonstration of national necessity.” On March 11, 1940, Republican Senator Taft said: “I would cut national defense 25 per cent. I think the increase of $460 million in national defense is wholly unjustified.” On March 6, 1939, Republican Senator Frazier said: “I am opposed to the bill authorizing the addition of 6,000 planes. I do not believe we need them.” On March 12,1940, Republican Representative Fish said: “Just how we can use more than 2,000 airplanes in America, I do not understand.” During the years the Dictators have been arming to wipe out Democracy—and even since the war started—these statements by RepublicanJ^aders have echoed in the halls of Congress. Time has proven their position wrong, but their bitter attacks upon the defense activities of the national government continue. On their records, they stand convicted! — Missouri (Dem.) State Committee.

The Best Answer

An eleven billion dollar farm income is now forecast for 1942. That’s the best answer for the critic of the government’s farm activities. Farm programs that are failure don’t line the farmers’ pockets with the coin of the reaIm.TTMissouri Democratic State Committee.

Washington, D. C.—Carelessness is writing a new stanza to “Home Sweet

Home.”

According to the American Red Cross, home accidents last year accounted for their greatest fatality toll in five years. Some 33,000 persons lost their lives through falls, burns, poisoning and other hazards of everyday home life. Although less dramatic—consequently less apt to attract public interest—home accident fatalities ran a close second to death on the street and highway,

trailing by 1,500 deaths.

With carelessness playing the leading role, more than half of home accident deaths were attributed to falls—occurring on stairs, slippery floors, insecure rugs and use of chairs and other articles of furniture as improvised stepladders. Burns and accidental poisoning fol-

lowed in that order.

Injuries causing varying degrees of disability accounted for nearly 5,000,000 cases involving hospitalization or care of a physician, the

Red Cross pointed out.

To reduce accidents in the home and on the farm, the Red Cross is launching its annual accident prevention program the last week of October. Throughout the nation, in schools and through the Junior .Red Cross, some 10,000,000 "check lists” listing accident hazards will be distributed. • Householders will be urged to conduct a cellar-to-attic check-up to determine amd correct

hazards.

MOUNTIES’ RAIDS AROUSE INDIANS

Oyosoos, B. C. — The usually friendly relations between Canada’s Motmties and braves living on the peaceful little Chopaka Indian reserve near the American feorder here as somewhat strained. The cause of the breach #in relations are raids staged on homes In the reserve by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in search of goods imported from the United States without payment of duly and in violations of the foreign exchange board regulations. Chopaka is a little border postoffice about 160 miles northw'est of Wenatchee, Wash., and the Indian reserve is on the Canadian side of the border. For 34 years the Indian families have been getting their clothes, furniture and supplies through mail order houses in the United States. Canadian authorities had no objection to the trade in peacetime, but when war broke out and it became ^necessary to conserve ex : change, the practice was ordered stopped. The Indians,. however, continued to patronize the American / mail order houses, chiefly because-most convenient. Finally the Mounties aware of this practice, visited thereserve and carted off a large quantity of clothing,: firearms; tools and other goods allegedly imported, from the United States’ without payment of duty.

Peace and Freedom America’s Demand “We of America cannot— we shall not—seek a peace purchased at the sacrifice of the hopes, the ambitions, the freedom of others,” said Postmaster General Frank Walker, addressing the National Conference of Catholic Charities. Americans and Catholics, he asserted, could not say of the European War: “This is no affair of ours.” “True charity tells us it is not American, it is not Catholic,” Mr. Walker said. The Postmaster General did not suggest precisely what he felt Americans should do, but, speaking of “the conqueror,” he posed this rhetorical question: “Must we wait until he has conquered the remaining populations on earth before we comprehend our duty to our fellowunen?” Mr. Walker said “w-e cannot act the part of charity and refuse to see or hear the sufferings of those victims of a monster’s desire to uproot and forever destroy by force decent quality, ideal and belief throughout the world.” o Since the system of giving a physical examination to every NYA project worker was inaugurated last April, 2,855 young persons have been examined, approximately 460 a month. Many have had remediable defects taken care of, and are able to pass the examinations required for jobs in defense industries. ■ o A peat fire at' Dartmoor inn in England has burned constantly for 300 years.

Night Runners to Be Leashed 15 Days Before Season Opens Attention was called today by Hugli A. Barnhart, director of the Department of Conservation, to a provision in the Indiana fish and game laws which provides that all night-running dogs shall be kept up for a period of fifteen days prior to the opening of the trapping season. The law provides: “It shall be unlawful for any person for a period of fifteen days prior to the open season on raccoon to run or chase any racoon or any other fiirbearing animal protected by this act (Chapter 145, Acts 1941) w ith or by use of dogs or to permit his dog or dogs to chase or run any such furbearing animals between the hours of sunset and sunrise.” With the trapping season opening throughout Indiana on November 15, the ban on night-running dogs becomes effective October 31.

G. E. Barnbardt Gets State Post • Indianapolis, Nov, 14—Appointment of GdOrge E. Earnhardt of Brazil as personnel director of the State Highway Commission was announced by Samuel C. Hadden, chairman. Mr, Earnhardt, who is Democratic chairman of Clay county, will assume his new duties Monday. He succeeds Charles Skillen of Winamac, who recently was appointed secretary of the Democratic state committee and who now is patronage head of the party. Mr. Earnhardt is 47 years old, is married and has two daughters. He has been with the Brazil Clay Company 29 years and now has charge of the sample department.

LATIN AMERICA WILL CET ARM VIA LEND-LEASE

Share To Be 150 Million In Second Fund Bill Before Congress The sum of $150,000,000 in the new Lend-Lease appropriations of $5,985,000,000 asked by President Roosevelt and pending in Congress, is to be allocated to the Latin American countries for the acquisition of military and naval, armament and equipment. This amount is equivalent to only slightly more than 2 1-2 pei cent of the total appropriation. It cannot buy a large amount of armament as modern armament goes, but it is a step which may indicatev that the Latin American countries are to share in any future lend-lease appropriations enabling them to acquire the arms, planes and ships they consider essential to carry out an appreciable role in the scheme of hemisphere defense. It was disclosed that the U. S. army will allocate $100,000,000 of this sum for airplanes, ordinance and other materials, and that the balance of $50,000,000 will go for warships and naval material. The military arms and planes w>ll be allocated among 18 Latin American countries, the naval armament among 16 countries. Uruguay Agreed On Needs Gen. Julio A. Roletti, Uruguay’s minister of national defense, has announced that an arms purchasing commission had reached a decision as to the type and quantity of armament to be acquired with more than $17,000,000 of lend-lease funds, Uruguay is to obtain. According to reliable quarters in Montevideo, the armament will include more than 40 airplanes of three types, costing $65,000, $75 000 and $125,000 each; respectively and they will include some Doug las bombers. Uruguay also will ac quire field and anti-aircraft artillery, possibly some small arms, ammunition and radio equipment. The armament probably will be used largely to equip the newlyprojected air base at Punta del Este, which has a strategically commanding position on the Atlantic near the mouth of the River Plate.

Nixon Dismissed From State Post < Indianapolis, Nov. 14.—Dismissal of L. B. Nixon, chief clerk of the State Highway Commission, and appointment of Wilbur A. Fleenor of Crothersville as his successor were announced yesterday. Samuel C. Hadden, commission chairman, said Mr. Nixon’s dismissal had no Bolitical significance. It was understood that Mr. Nixon was relieved of his post because of frequent absences from duty. The dismissal will become effective Monday.

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FELLING THE FOG

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Flow of British Food Necessary Danville, Va., Nov. 14 — R. M. Evans, agricutral adjustment administrator, said Thursday unless the flow of American food to Great Britian continued and increased the British canid not con tinue “to resist axis aggression.” In an address prepared for delivery before an Armistice day audience Evans said milk, eggs and live stock products were ~items most vitally needed in England but cheered tobacco growers and manufacturers with the assurance that tobacco also would be moving acdoss the Atlantic in eVer-increas-ing quanities. o Three thousand young men and women are getting grease on their fingers and learning how to operate the most modern industrial machinery in 18 National Youth Administration defense workshops in the state. They are producing articles for use by the army, the navy, and other governmental units. Seventeen burrowing machines are being built in the NYA defense workshop in Muncie. The workers in this shop also are rebuilding 350 sheet metal lockers for vocational ' schools.

AIR CADETS WIN PILOTS' WINGS

Four States Are Represented In New Officer’s Class Forty-nine more Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia and Indiana youths today wear the gold bars and silver wings of second lieutenant-pilots in the Army Air Force Reserve. The 49, including 23 Ohioans, were among 250 Army Aviation Cadet graduates commissioned in exercises (Oct. 31) at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, 'the Army’s oldest flying school. Graduates included brother -cadets Hugh L. Turk, Jr., and James M. Turk, sons of H. L. Turk, Sr., 968 Virginia Ave., Follanshee, W. Va., and “Jimmy” Doolittle, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind., son of the'famed speed pilot, Major James H. Doolittle, who pinned on his son’s “Wings.” Principal speaker was Major General Frank P. Lahm, native of 'Mansfield, O., who, under the tutelage of Dayton, Ohio’s Wright Brothers, became the Army’s first airplane pilot. General Lahm recently assumed command of the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center. The new officers will be assigned as Air Corps instructors or as pilots with units of the Air Force Combat command.

The woodworking department of the NYA workshop in Indianapolis has received an order for three incubators to be used for premature infants. They will be placed in hospitals in Crown Point, Newcastle, and Brookville.

AIR TRANSPORT STRUGDLES ON IN WAR'S GRIP

Orange-Colored Planes Fly In Safety But Under Restrictions

Kansas City, Mo.—There isn’t much heard these days about Europe’s commercial air transportation through the shotting and bombinggoing on there. But planes -still are flying, despite dwindling fuel stores, war-curtailed routes, camouflaged air ports and restrictions in belligerent nations. Transport flying, however, is looking ahead to its greatest expansion when the shooting stops, according to Tore Nilert, official of the Swedish A.B. Aerotransport, “Among all the difficulties of this war, there is one which Was unknown in the war of 1914-1918,” he said. “That is the problem of civil air traffic. “The civil air traffic has proved itself during the long years oi peace to be a mighty and reliable helper, when ice or bad weather has stopped or made impossible other means of traveling. Therefore it was expected when war broke out in September, 1939, that air traffic would be continued to the highest possible extent and that all lines possible to operate would be running.” They have, insofar as possible, and so the civil air traffic became the problem child of the ’39 war. Camouflage Art Used War has given it such ingenious devices as the camouflaged airport which is uncovered when planes are ready to land. That was in the first Russo-Finish war. The Finns set fake houses and trees across the runway at Abo, then .built a decoy port nearby. When the transports wirelessed they were coming in, machine driven'winches pulled the houses and trees from the real airport and the planes landed safely in in the unscarred field. The war has crippled or amputated commercial airlines in Europe but they are rolling with the punches and flying around and through the shellfire with circumspect regularity, according to Nilert. A. B. A. for instance, has ceased its Stockholm-Moscow run, its flights to London, to Helsinki. But it operates from Malmo to Copenhagen and Berlin, from Stockholm to Abo. Flights abroad are made only in clear visibility, at stated altitudes, on instructed routes and schedules devised with cooperation of belligerents and with 200-pound coatings of orange paint on the planes which make them conspicuous as a red-coated bridge. — o———— In the NYA workshop in Anderson,, a first-aid trailer is being constructed which will serve as an instruction unit as well as a first-aid station. A police radio table is bebuilt for the Anderson police, as well as three sets of cabinets for the home economics department of the local schools.

Brazil has decreed that all foreigners must register by December 31.

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pering of the restrictions, as necessary for the insuring of delivery of the war goods. It is obvious that shiploads of planes or tanks at the bottom of the sea are no help to the democracies. Moreover, the sinking' of merchant ships, wherever the Nazi pirates find them, regardless of nationality, character of cargo or destination, demonstrates the brigand quality of the raiders. The attacks on our destroyers—one is gone and one is badly damaged, up to date—with ►the natural accompaniment of death of our sailors, tells that every method of protection is required. Everybody must concede the advisibility of modifying the neutrality act, if there is any consistency in the program enacted by Congress and put in force by the President. Everybody, in a position to gahge it, knows that the majorities in congress favor these modifications. The votes are there ready to enact into law the people’s will. Yet, though a month has elapsed since the President asked for the legislation, as this letter is 'written, the bill givsuch protection as is possible to merchant ships remains before Congress. Over and over, we are hearing the arguments and diatribes of isolationists, obstructionists, appeasers and political enemies of the administration holding up a vote, the outcome of which they know is set. This is a delay for which there is no excuse; it may be responsible for further destruction of precious, indispensable cargoes, and the loss of more lives. Possibly, before the publication of this article, the opposition may be forced to a showdown—possibly not. In either event, it ill becomes these people—and they are the loudest in their complaints of production delay—to talk about slowness in realizing the defense program.

ADVISES FARM FOLK TO SAVE

O’Neal Warns Difficult Days Bound To Come In Future Years Indianapolis, Nov. 14.— Edward A. O’Neal, president nf the American Farm Bureau Federation, last night advised farm folk *to “use the additional income they receive during these times to pay their debts and to buy saving bonds to hold against the difficult days that are bound to come.” O’Neal was principal speaker at the night session of the 23rd annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau which opener earlier today. Several thousand Hoosier farmers and their wives heard Hassil E. Schenck of Lebanon, state president, deliver his annual message and Governor Schricker outline the role of agriculture in the national emergency. In a speech prepared for delivery, O’Neal asserted that “all groups of the population should make up their minds to get along without some things for the duration of the emergency.” ■ “If people generally will reduce their purchases of goods voluntarily and save money instead of spending it, the savings thus accumulated will form a backlog of purchasing power necessary to keep our indsutrial plants going and our labor employed when peace comes again.” The national leader of the organizatioti asserted that the present “is no time to adopt hasty and illconsidered policies which are unfair to any group in the country” and exrpessed belief that “the time has not yet arrived” for the levying of a general sales tax or a manufacturers’ sales tax. “Sooner or later, all groups must

realize that all, in the long run, will be better off if they will get together on a program of building a greater America, instead of each group working selfishly in its own particular interest,” O’Ne-sl said.

Views Closed Shop Good for Employers But Poor for Union

Yellow Springs, O., Nov. 14.— Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, New York regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, says she believes: a closed shop is a good thing for employers but a poor thing for unions. ”11 I were an employer, I certain^ ly would have a closed shop,” she said in an address at Antioch College. '' ■■ Mrs. Herrick was graduated fronj Antioch in 1929. “I’d let my employees cvhoose their union and I wouldn’t sign a contract that didn’t have a closed shop clause in it,” she said, “because peace-rit.’s wonderful—and the only way an employer can get peace today is with ac losed shop. “But I think it is poor for the union. It makes the job of the union leader too soft. He doesn't have to keep members sold on the union emotionally and spiritually when they darned well have to belong to hold their jobs.” , , - • t

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