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ETOWNSEND’S RESPONSIBILITY THE bitter campaign is over and M. Clifford Townsend has been elected. t= He must be Governor, not of the Democrats, but of all the people of Indiana. He was not elected by a partisan vote but by citizens of all parties and all classes. : It will be his task to stand above factionalism and > selfishness within his party in the interest of more efficient 3 state government. We believe the Governor-elect will have the best wishes of the vast majority of his fellow citizens—regardless of CO ——— he undertakes the heavy responsibilities of his new office.

. ROOSEVELT’S RE-ELECTION Franklin Roosevelt now comes the opportunity of - making for himself one of the few permanent places Tin history. From now on it is a case of to have and to + hold—but to hold doesn’t mean being static. It means con- = * Solidation of gains, and other gains to come. E Today he is sitting on top of the world. When you sit & . there you can't sit any higher. The only direction in which = you can move is down. So there is one thing on which we + may count—the strain of holding will be the.severest sort = 5 = of test of the tensile strength of Roosevelt greatness dur- . © ing the next four years. And those years, under the tradi- = tion of our government, will be his last in the presidency. He will go out either in a blaze of glory that will illumine + the sky of future centuries, or he will go dim some time ~ between nowy and 1940, be recorded for a few decades as = another who almost made it, and then be known no more.

In this connection it should be remembered that Amerjea has a sort of sadistic streak. She not only likes to build Cup her idols, but also gets a joy out of seeing them topple = if they fail to sustain themselves. As Bob Fitzsimmons put a + it, “the bigger they are the harder they fall.” Or, as Mr. : & Dooley said about Dewey, “When ye build yer triumphal = arch to yer conquerin’ hero, Hinnissey, build it out of bricks 80 the people will have something convanient to throw at him as he passes through.”

FJ ” n t 4 » 2 S for size, Roosevelt's problems from here on are as big and as trying as time ever produced. They encompass not only the most important nation on the globe in a transition period of vast moment, but also a whole world = in ferment, a world with which our contacts by reason of a E & tremendous speeding up of communications are batorming . more intimate at an amazing rate. ¥ : Whether he lives up to the magnitude of his Canes, as ; = he has in his first four years, will be determined, we believe, i “ina very large degree by whether he has within him that = rare capacity to rise above those perfectly human impulses which prevent most great men from attaining the full measi ure of their opportunity. He enters his second term in no such happy and harmonious environment as characterized his first. When he ® first took office the country was with him unanimously. His S could then be only the state of mind of unstinted appreciation for the support he was receiving from all the people. And for more than two years after that—until the midsummer of 1935—though a certain amount of purely party opposition appeared, there was no attack upon him petsonally. ‘ Then the pent-up humiliation of the supermen he had saved began to give voice, first timidly, then with rising inflection, until his victory today has been accomplished only under the lash of one of the most virulent assaults ever directed at a man in high position. His patriotism and = even his sanity have been challenged with a crescendo of hate such as has never before been heard in our time. And now he stands, the victor, with whip in hand, if he wants to use it. Will he? Or will he throw it down? i 2 = =» = = = ; FEV have ever failed to respond to such a bid for venge- £ = ance against the ingratitude that is sharper than the Serpent's tooth. And those who have are the ones who are “of the ages—Lincoln, who would “treat them as if they had E never been away,” and He who said “Love your enemies, _ = bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, ® and pray for them that despitefully use you.” There was a strong punitive note in his Madison Square i Garden speech—the part about welcoming the hatreds, and bout being the master from now on. As human beings iwe can understand. But as citizens we were glad to hear e calmer and the tempered tone of his telegram to 'Lanon from the quieter surroundings of his Hyde Park home, h his words about “all of us Americans will now pull

ther for the common good.”

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For that is the point. There is so much to be done; so

many things of so infinitely greater importance than the spanking of a lot of pot-bellied Bourbons who lost their ance. In terms of statesmanship and a statesman’s tasks, is too short for that. "The hatreds soon will be gone with the wind of a lusts y campaign, now dead. But the job will remain. He rill need all the help he can get. He should not increase he resistance, but rather do all in his power to diminish §. He has been indorsed by his people. Backed by that indorsement he will not find it difficult to convince even many if those who were the bitterest in their hate that his objecves in this democracy of ours are “in the interest of the fare of the United States of America.” | He should not weaken. But he should gather together Bhim all of the strength and al the. unity that the 8 of those objectives can muster. ss with which we |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Says Good Word for Satan Who Provides More Employment Than Henry Ford and WPA Combined.

EW YORK, Nov. 4.—I never thought 1 would have a good word to say for Satan, who is a thoroughly bad character, and does not live right, but, all of a sudden, it comes over me that he provides more employment than Henry Ford and the WPA, combined, and gets nothing but abuse for his reward. Going back to my earliest acquaintance with

Satan, I recall being told by our school teacher that Satan was the inventor of the cigaret. The cigaret was comparatively rare in our part of the country in those days, but many earnest ladies and pious gentlemen made a fair living going from school to school warning the kiddies that if- they smoked cigar-: ets they might meet a fate which {hittiking, worse than dea

That was athe than 30 years ago and since then, what with the war, the emancipation of woman and. all, the cigaret production in our country alone has run up into the hundreds of billions. The habit has spread all over the world. Today, actually, millions of people are employed in the production of cigarets. If you were to abolish the cigaret abruptly, you would create a situation almost as as world war combined with a famine. Great areas of our own country would be stricken as if by some terrible wrath. Planters, pickers, packers, machine hands, mechanics, printers, boxmakers, tinfoil and cellophane workers, shipping hands, warehouse people, retail personnel and advertising men would be tossed into the streets by the thousands. - You would have to include all other tobacco products along with the cigarets, because the doctors say tobacco is as bad in one.’form as in another, jobs dependent on the tobacco industry. The suf-

Mr. Pegler

fering would be awful in the advertising field because-

the big cigaret firms spend so much that a man I know quite well is rich on the commission from just one account. ” ” 2 ~ HAT old devil Satan took a lot of us off the street when he developed the tobacco industry with particular preference to the cigaret division, and his invention of alcotolic beverages helped at least as much, We must thank Satan in the name of the legal profession too, because if all men were honest and deaf to the larcenous promptings and vengeful miitterings of old Mr. Satan, there would be very little work for lawyers, In fact, if Satan were not on the job, there would be very few men of the legal temperament and, of course, the cops and G-men would all be on the town, as we say. Our journalism would be a dull and stuffy institution without any news of divorce or crime inspired by Satan.

TRICTLY speaking, we must give Satan credit for

the employment of millions of men in the

soldiering ‘business throughout the world because for

every soldier enrolled under the banners of the right there is an enemy in Satan’s service. We about this in the war to end war. We know that if Satan’s soldiers would disperse, the soldiers of right-

and that would mean the end of all .

hd ¢ : : ‘The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with whut you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

ELWOOD CITIZEN ADVISES AGAINST GAS PROJECT By Joe A. Tolan, Elwood Up here in the old gas belt we wonder about the excitement in Indianapolis over natural gas from Texas and ‘Oklahoma. We used io have lots of gas, according to the geologists, and we wasted it, in a small market. Texas and Oklahoma have lots of gas, more than we thought we had, and they are wasting it, with a market 10 or 20 times as. big as ours was. Our gas is gone long ago. We wonder about the new field's. Not many people around here would recommend hitching an $8,000,000 investment onto “on agin, off agin, gone agin, Finnegan” natural gas supplies.

5 3 - " in ” PUBLIC OWNERSHIP ADVOCATE SPEAKS By F. H. Falimann, Newcastle +» « » Critics would crucify the public ownership movement to the fullest extent. If it were not for “public ownership,” the majority of their kind would be pushing a wheelbarrow instead of a pencil, for nearly all of them got their education in a public owned institution, “the public school.” Without which we would be a nation of illiterates; and there would * not be enough readers to keep a score of daily papers alive. Then we have our postal system, good road system, police and fire departments, and. no one dares to advocate the establishment of private companies to replace them. The institutions enumerated have been a godsend to our citizens, and yet these modern Judases keep biting the hand that fed them ins

8 ” 2 LIVE ‘LIVES FROM WITHIN, READER SAYS By Daus John Summers . “At a time like this when 80 many

are suffering’ from nervous break-

downs, inferiority complexes and crippling inhibitions, may I bring a message of encouragement? To those sufferers I say that you don't have to wait until your material surroundings are - better to find happiness; you can have happiness ‘today. Fight to better yourself—yes —but be happy in. the conflict. We live our lives largely from within, = Although our surroundings have a certain physical reality, it is our thoughts that. give the meaning and our emotions that give the mood. Happiness comes from within, not from without. : Most people want material wealth

eousness would gladly disband; too, but the devil's !them

soldiers never disarm.

But for Satan, there would ve very little employ-

ment for clergymen to save our souls and, taking one consideration with another, 1 sin incines 4 give the devil his due.

through simpler and surer path of

shorter, sim intellectual and Spiritual wealth? An’

General Hugh Johnson. Says—

Smith Doesn't Need to Fret About What Happens to Demberatic (ge ar ry: Ha Hes pty to Conder 'n Wak Sing fo Happen tp Him

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unhappy face is the insigne of failure; and a rich man or woman who is miserable is the worst failure of all. Any one who is unhappy doés not need sympathy; he needs a slap in the face to stiffen up his spine. No matter how difficult your problem is; there is a solution. Find it! No matter how much you are suffering, there are many who have suffered worse and have learned to. smile even on beds of pain. No matter how poor you are, there is always some way out. ‘you Ts go down, go down fghting

, 2 = 4 URGES CONSUMERS TO CO-OPERATE By Member of a Co-operafive Should consumers co-operate?

executive vice president of the American ' Bituminous Retail Coal Merchants Association, in an. address before the Associated Retailers of Indiana, they should not, and he weeps about this being “another ‘ism’ which is identical with socialism.” In other words, proper for the retailers of Indiana to co-operate, and ‘for the coal merchants to co-operate, but we consumers should ‘know our place and stay there. The inconsistency of the situation in which these co-

“HAPPINESS |

BY MARY R. WHITE

A ‘cottage .on a. pleasant street. A little cottage, humble, sweet. A stately tree with arms outspread— A sense of real protection shed.

1x cottage. L world call: miv.owns A little yard walled in with stone. A ‘little garden-in the sun— A sweet retreat when day. is done.

More of life I would not ask— But in my simple blessings bask. I'd ask not gold to save, to hoard— Just peace around my humble board.

Let my hands hold naught of gain~ | through a er's pain. An humble lot yet clean my h h Is life the way. Hh God . hath: planned. .

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DAILY THOUGHT :

‘For to be carnally minded is death; byt to be spiritually minded is life and peace.—Romans 8:6.

~ VERY personal consideration | that we allow ourselves, costs us heavenly state. We sell the thrones of angels for a short and Subuient, pleasure-—Bmerson, :

‘the |

it is perfectly | Is : tion last February were “good men.”

{ But since that election these groups

biglogical -

operative groups are condemning another co-operative group is so amusing that it should be called to the attention of people who have not yet begun to take an interest in “the co-operative = movemen among consumers. ‘Come along, workers and consumers, and learn how to co-operate in the same effective way that the retail merchants and manufacturers have been co-operating for so many years. Eventually, Mr. Roberts may have to give ‘up his position and go to work, but you and I will have more money in our pockets as a result of the effort.

” » ® ‘COMPARES GOODNESS eX AND GREATNESS By W. L. Ballard, Syracuse, Ind, The Spanish episode has shown

of all ages have

noted” WitBOY explaining, namely:

That “goodness” (in the sense of.

strong emotional power) and “greatness” (in the sense of strong mental power) are seldom found combined

: in orie man or group of men. Also, According to Kline L.. Roberts,

that groups that have ‘goodness’ enough to bring about a reform

seldom have sufficient group “great- |. . ness” to make permanent that re-

form. This law greatly retards hu-

‘man. progress, makes progress ap‘pear impossible. .

‘At least some groups in the Spanish popular front who won the elec-

have lain side by side, as uncom-

prehending ‘as so many cobble-{

stones in a pavement, contented to

allow the trafic of world events to |

flow over them—conduct that only “goodness” divorced from “greatness” could produce. . .. “Greatness” in a- public servant who is devoid of “goodness” will be as disastrous to things truly human as will “goodness” standing alone. Hitler is an example of a man t” in this’ sense, but possibly he is devoid of ‘“goodness.” Our American: forefathers are a fine example of “ * married to

“greatness” as individuals and as a |.

group. They imparted permanency to their handiwork which we, and the world, yet enjoy. They helped God create! That such impassable ° gulfs should separate men and groups

| argues for a biological cause, It]

marks the character of man as juvenile still. It verifies the definition that “the increase of knowl-

edge” is a “process of simplification.”

The best attempt to explain this separation of “greatness” and “goodness” is found in the acig axiom that “like father, like ‘but with this twist: = That the. truly. great are the sons of matured fathers, in whom a is either absent or controlled. Would it not follow, that

thi “simply good® dre he sons; of

she younger patents?

The ‘Washington Merry-Go- Round

The Liberal View

By Harry Elmer Barnes

(Batting for Heywood Broun)

Spanish Situation May ‘Cadse Factors Threatening World War to ‘Come to ‘Head Prematurely

EW YORK, Nov. Tt is conceded by most observers. that fascism ahd the armament race in. Europe, together with conflicting imperialistic ambitions, gravely threaten another world war. But-it has

been believed that the conflict will not be likely to break out for another year or so at the earliest. There is a grave danger, however, that the Spanish situation may bring: matters to a head dee

cisivelv and prematurely. Intervention for or against reve _ olution is no new thing in modern European. history, and such inter vention has brought war more than once. The long and blogdy wars of the French Revolution ahd the Napoleonic period were started as a result of the attempt of fte~ actionary powers to :interfere: in the domestic affairs of France. ; . ~~ In August, 1791, the King of Prussia and the Holy Roman Emperor joined in the Declaration of Pillnitz, stating that the restora= Barn tion of monarchy in France was a or. ” matter of common interest to all the sovereigns of Europe. From then until Waterloo in 1815, Europe was bathed in blood, with only brief intermissions. After the defeat of Napoleon, the reactionary powers, led by Prince Metternich of Austria, banded together in the Quadruple Alliance to crush out any revived revolutionary activity. Their policy was chale lenged in 1820 by revolutions in Naples and Spain. The Austrian army was sent into Naples and crusiieq the revolution. 3 s 8% ; VI ERNICH and ‘the reactionaries did not have such clear sailing in. dealing with the Spanishrevolt, for Great’ Britain objected fo intervention, But the ‘Czar and the King of France agreed with Metternich; the French army crushed the uprising in 1823 and restored the Bourbon regime, 0

When it came to putting down the ‘revolution: in the Spanish colonies in Latin America it was another

‘story. Great Britain was determined to prevent the

restoration of Spanish, sule in America, lest she lose commercial advantages in trade with the Latine:' American states. So she instigated the policy led to our Monroe Doctrine. 5 But Metternich preserved autocracy in Europ 2: for decades after this. In 1830 the states of central Italy tried to throw off the yoke, and Mi rushed in Austrian troops to suppress the liberal ine surrection. » ”» EJ GAIN in 1848 the Austrians crushed Italian reo volts, and Russia also appeared on the 20en818 the service of reaction. In 1859 the Austrians made their last eftiry to stifle liberalism and independence, but finally they were rebuffed. Napoleon III, Emperor of France, sent the French army to aid the Italians, and they defeated the Austrians in two bloody battles. wot The last notable effort to crush a revolution was

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