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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1039

"EARNEST PLEAS FOR PEACE EALIZING the speed with which the tide of war is running, Pope Pius XII and President Roosevelt yesterday made hurried but earnest appeals for peace. “Nothing is lost for peace, and all can be lost with war,” said the Pope, in the name “of humanity which awaits the

- —_bread of liberty and not of steel.” His was a general plea

addressed to the “leaders of people” the-world over. Mr. Roosevelt's appeals were three—the first addressed formally to the King of Italy but intended more for the personal attention of Benito Mussolini, and the second two, y last night, direct to the heads of the governediately involved, to Poland's President Moszicki and Germany’s Reichschancellor Hitler. : The President’s messages contained eloquent and moving passages, similar to those in the Pontiff’s broadcast, based on the ground of high moral duty to humanity. But unfortunately nowadays such language, alone, seems to fall on deaf ears—at least in quarters where hearing and heeding make all the difference. We hope we will not be considered unduly cynical, therefore, when we express the opinion that the mightiest blows struck yesterday for peace were not these persuasive moral arguments, nor even the President’s specific suggestion that Poland and Germany refrain from acts of hostility and undertake to settle their differences either by direct negotiation, or by arbitration, or by conciliation. What little faith we have that war may yet be averted rests upon other actions and other language of the type which carries more conviction with believers in brute force. i » ”» ” 2 s 8 IRST of these was the action of the British Parliament in passing the emergency defense bill without a dissenting vote. This unprecedented action packs a punch because it means that the British Government, after formally warning Hitler that England and France stand shoulder to shoulder with each other and with Poland, and will fight if Poland i is attacked, has now been given dictatorial powers to carry on that war with every resource at its command. Second we list the strategy of the President in singling out for his first appeal the one man outside Germany who still has influence with Der Fuehrer. There are 45,000,000 Italians who must look forward with something less than

ecstacy to the prospect of fighting and dying to make a

new Napoleon out of Hitler. The Duce has little or nothing to gain, and much if not everything to lose by such a war. Italy, most likely, would be called upon to withstand a pretty heavy drubbing at the hands of France and Britain. Germany might hold France at a standstill along her Siegfried Line while she pounds away at Poland, but meantime France would be holding Germany at a standstill along her Maginot Line while she and Britain were doing something similar to Italy—by land, sea and air. : Out of such a conflict Germany might possibly emerge victorious, but not.-Italy. All this Mussolini must know. Which is why President Roosevelt chose the one man who has the greatest reason and the greatest opportunity to prevail upon Hitler to hold his fire. ® = = ® = = ; HIRD in its potential effect for peace, we rate the following stern paragraph in the President’s cable to Hitler: : . “The people of the United States are as one in their opposition to policies of military conquest and domination. They are as one in rejecting the thesis that any ruler, or any people, possess the right to achieve their ends or obJectives through the taking of action which will plunge countless millions of people into war and which will bring distress and suffering to every nation of the world, belligerent and neutral, when such ends and objectives, so far as they are just and reasonable, can be satisfied through, processes of peaceful negotiation or by resort to judicial arbitration.” : Unless Hitler feels cocksure that he can subjugate Europe by lightning strokes of his military power he can hardly fail to heed that stiff warning from the head of the one country whose great resources would likely prove decisive in any war of long duration.

WAGE-HOUR TEST GOES OVER {CONGRESS adjourned without amending the Wage-Hour Act, save for a minor bill exempting rural telephone operators. A vote on the Barden amendments, which would have amended the act almost to death with logrolled exemptions, was averted by Chairman Sabath’s refusal to call up the special order voted by the House Rules Committee for its consideration. Even if the House had been allowed to vote on the Barden Bill, and had adopted it, there would hardly have been time for Senate action. But passage by the House alone would have been enough to undermine the efforts of Administrator Andrews to enforce the act. Under those circumstances it is difficult to criticize Rep. Sabath’s sitdown strike. And yet, as we have said before, if a majority of the members of the House think two bits an hour for cannery workers and others will ruin the country, they ought to have a chance in the next session, at least, to go on record in a roll-call—and thereafter to explain to their constituents in the fall campaign. [= In the meantime the extra $1,200, 000 voted for enforcement of the act should begin to provide some real protection for law-abiding employers against illegal wage-cutting by competitors.

PEACE NEWS

HESE are days when peace news from any quarter je welcome, and one of the best items of domestic news we’ve seen lately is the following United Press dispatch from Washington:

of Labor's. building and construction trades division,

ah announced that the Commonwealth Edison Co., Chicago,

had agreed to proceed with a $15,000,000 expansion program after “being assured that there would be no jurisdictional

Mr. Coyne said the utility company had agreed this aon

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“John P. Coyne, president of the American Federation: ]

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Communists nd Fellow Travelers Over Here Only Ones Surprised - By Russian Pact With Germany.

EW YORK, Aug. 25 ~~ Several years 280, when

John O'Brien was interim Mayor of New York |

the reporters asked him whom he had selected for an important appointive job in the Administration. Tammany’s man paused a second, then answered: “I don’t know; they haven't told me yet.” The incident is recalled by the conduct of the Communist leaders and editors in New York in the embarrassing hours just after Hitler and Stalin finally acknowledged the fact repeatedly pointed out in these dispatches in the last two.years that there was no conflict between their respective types of dictatorship. The Communist’ paper ignored the story, and Stalin's representatives in the American Communist Party went under cover until they could get in touch with Moscow to learn what they were to say. What they finally did have to say was 1500 words of confused explanation, no part of which, however, altered the fact that the "two dictators finally had decided to abandon all pretense of ideological differences and

pool their interests, each, of course, with the mental |

reservations inherent in his treacherous nature. 8 8 8 HE Communists, like the leaders of the Nazis’ anti-American Bund, get their orders and interpretations from headquarters abroad, and, for e reason, probably a slip-up in Moscow, the American agents and editors didn’t get their “line” in time to meet the issue when it broke. The consolidation will now cdll for a great campaign of propaganda and curly reasoning, but the American Communists, nevertheless, will find themselves obliged to quit the party or themselves line up with Stalin in the very same course of conduct—to

wit, trafficking with Hitler, for which Stalin slaugh- |

tered so many of his associates. To Americans, however, the identity of communism ahd naziism became obvious a long time ago, and many American writers have been savagely attacked by the Communists here for predicting the working agreement between two dictators whose reason for being, up to now, had been their pretended mutual Qetestation. 8 2 » HE embarrassment of the Communists has just begun because communism here has, to a limited extent, been getting away with a pretehse of democracy, and labor groups under the domination of admitted or disguised Communists or fellow-travelers have adopted resolutions condemning naziism and fascism but pointedly omitting any condemnation of communism on the ground. that communism was twentieth century Americanism. Now, this democracy and twentieth century Americanism admits that it is entirely compatible—indeed, identical—with' Hitlerism, and that puts those ‘discriminating but, after all, gullible resolutioneers in the position of condemning Hitler but silently indorsing his partner in the war on the democratic peoples and their ideals. ~# In a very short time, as soon as they begin to regain consciousness, these American Communists, particularly the Jews among them, who hate naziism and hoped that Stalinism was somehow different, will begin to edge away from their affiliation. They will realize that the Stalin hypocrisy was no less evil than Hitler's and that the hatred of naziism in Russia, like Hitler's war on bolshevism, was just an act.

Business By John T. Flynn

Russia Looking Out for Herself, as England Did Last Year at Munich.

EW YORK, Aug. 25.—The American reader getting the news of Russia’s ‘“‘sell-out” to Germany finds himself stunned—in a state of utter puzzlement because he refuses to recognize the true nature of what is going on in Europe. Being himself a highly emotional and sentimental partisan of what is called the cause of the “democracies,” he very naturally divides the members of the cast of ‘characters in Europe into “goods” and ‘“bads.” All the people and nations who are for the democracies are the “goods”; all those for Germany are the “bads.” It is a world of heroes and villains—~ which always makes for confused thinking. To understand the Russian move we have to remember that by and large in Europe today the nations involved are not so much concerned \about their “democracy” as about their nationality. ch one of them is thinking in terms of their own erests. It may seem terrible to a partisan of France and England that Russia should be willing to let these two peoples go to pot, should be willing to sacrifice them to the interests of her worst enemy—Germany. But it is only a year ago that England took the same attitude toward Russia. At Munich Chamberlin literally called it a victory because he had headed the German march away from England and set it off in the direction of Russia.

Reversing the Tables

Russia may well take this same postion ow. It is an example of complete chauvinist selfishness. Each one in turn talks in terms of great human ideals. But the objective is national interest. Russia was talking about collective security against Fascist aggression. She appealed to the democratic spirit of Americans to draw America into that orbit. But now, on the very. eve of the conflict, she sees her interest in a different light. And she makes a non-aggression pact with Germany—a non-aggression pact which she will break tomorrow or next wesk or next year as soon as her interests change, just as Germany marches toward Poland with which she made a non-aggression pact a few years ago and into Slovakia whose independence she guaranteed only a month ago. What disturbs some is the possibility of Germany and Russia acting as a vast economic unit. It would be a formidable one, with Russia’s resources and. gold

-and German’s technological efficiency. But there is

no question of that. This is not an alliance. And Germany will get supplies from Russia, if at all, only in proportion to her ability to pay for them.

A Woman's Viewpoint 7 By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE has a world of friends.” The woman of whom those words were spoken is a popular person. She is always surrounded by clusters of admirers and never wants for companionship.” But she lacks variety in her friends, which seems to me almost as bad as if she suffered some diet deficiency. i She knows only the people who run in her social set. Her contacts are limited to the men and women who do what she does, have the same amount .of money to spend and enjoy like amusements: She is in the same fix, so to speak, as the. povertystricken soul who has but one dress to wear, or the rash being who tries to exist upon lettuce and tomato sandwiches, morning, noon and night. Women are apt to miss the point about friendship, and the point is this: It isn’t the number of friends you make that counts; its the variety you accumulate that proves your magnetism and popularity. Those of us whose lives are restricted to the domestic scene should put forth special effort to become well acquainted with working girls and Peolesstgna) women. And vice versa. Rich women should make it a po: oh to have several friends amohg the laboring class, and it’s a tragedy

for the poor woman never to understand that thou- |

sands of well-to-do. women have suffering hearts and

kindly instincts along with their wealth, City women,| are lacking in understanding, when they know noth- | f

ing about the farmer's wife. And the farmer's wife is equally blind when ‘she closes ‘her mind to the city woman’s problems. The person who possesses the secret of friendliness

is never content when associating only with indiviauala

whose lives naturally a Ir own.

|Imagine His Surprise! By Tamburt

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will - defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

HE WONDERS WHAT THEY'LL FIGHT ABOUT By Chester O. Teegarden, Bloomingfon

If there is a European war in the near future, what will they be fighting about?

» » ”» DISPUTES FLYNN'S : RECOVERY PLAN 8y H. L. 8. : John T. Flynn's “recovery” plan is a blue print that fit capitalism before the automobile age. Let us analyze it critically.

1. He would make war on all forms nf monopoly and private trade controls. That sounds like the dissolution figment as it applied to Stand: ard Oil. Monopolies of any kind should become public monopolies, owned and operated by government. That includes all the monopolies created by government under the fiction of utilities. Flynn would use the big stick of prosecution to unscramble the private monopoly eggs. There is also a charge on consumers for all tHe wasteful competition in production and distribution, which is|. evident in all lines of business now. We cannot afford that. 2. He would clean up the three great investmenf industries; Construction, railroads and utilities. The financial shock of this would

stagger existing debt and capital.

Price relationship of lower wages and costs would swamp the existing mortgage and bondholders. Eventually Government will have to take over the railroads and utilities. So what? 3. The Government spending proram can only go so far as it can be wupported by taxation. Deficit spending is inflation, it adds to the cost of future production prices and so reduces the buying power of money. 4. Tax conscious Americans would yell if they had to pay their gasoline taxes along with their Jconss plates over the tax counter, inste of the “hidden” gasoline tax at the filling station. . . . All taxes are unpopular. We are a great gimme club. 5. Revision of the Social Security Act will not assure the 11 million idle people of employment. Real social security can only come if we impose compulsory operation on industry to meet our needs. . 6. The fate of the dollar value is not determined by acts of Congress;

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con troversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have alchance. Letters must be. signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

it is determined by the rate of production of goods, and its stability is constantly changing as the relation between debt, earnings, and production are varied. . , .

7. War scares can only be ended when we as a nation as well as other nations: stop - seeking special advantages at the expense of our neighbors. . . . 8. Farm relief is only a stop gap dole to farmers, who. are relieved of their products by processors and speculators without having paid the relative value of their labor to al other labor. . .. Perhaps we need a ‘benevolent die‘ator to bring about a readjustmens of our economy. ‘ » tf J SEES NEED FOR

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING By Frank J. Critney, Edinburg

There seems to be quite a difference of opinion in regards to whether the ringing of the town’s church bells here in Edinburg each evening at 6 will benefit the town spiritually or is just a waste of time. Anything which tends to lead a community’s mind towards its spiritual betterment is sure to make it a safer, cleaner and better place to live. If only the Golden Rule was applied to each and every thing by everyone as it is to religion by a few

we wouldn’t have all the misery and privations-the world is suffering today. ; 2 = = WANTS PEGLER TO WRITE ON “GOOSIE” LEE CASE By Forum Fan ' I think it would be a good thing if’ the “Goosie” Lee case would catch the eye of Westbrqok Pegler

{and if he would take a notion quiet-

ly to drop in on us down here and snoop around a bit. My guess it that he could find me first rate material to write about regarding our local institutions that would prove mighty in-

teresting to his readers,

a #2 = CLAIMS GARNER BOOR, NOT A ‘BORE’ By Daniel Francis Clancy, Logansport To correct an error in the Aug. 15th Forum, it wasn’t a “bore” I suggested that John L. Lewis call

1 Garner—it was a boor.

® » ® FORMER SUPPORTER CRITICAL OF ROOSEVELT By K. K. It is a bit late to be hip-hip hooraying F. D. R.! With the others, I was as fooled and voted as big as the rest of them. But as Lincoln said: You can fool all the people some of the time, And some of the people all of the

time, : But you can’t fool all the people, | all the time. Too many of us have seen during his past term the plainly evident leanings toward Russia in “liberal” and “New Deal” legislation. And Russia has plainly shown its teeth to all during the last few days.

Gen. Johnsor. Says — oe

By Congress on Neutrality if War 'Happens' and Is Not Declared.

: in Europe will revive the debate on the Neus trality Act. The President may even reassemble Cone gress to get what he asked for as expressed in the Pittman bill. But ‘maybe not. Except for one’ thing in that act I believe he can have without any: legisla tion the essence of all that he wanted. If war just happens in ‘the modern fashion and is not declared, I believe he can have it all.

- The President wanted to permit the shipment of arms—deadly weapons—to belligerents. ‘His idea was "that the Axis powers couldn’t. buy arms here for two reasons, nothing to use for money and they do not command the seas. Britain and France are not so handicapped. The President wants to: help them, which he could do in this way and still remain tech nically neutral. He could say to both sides: “You can buy all the arms you tan pay for and carry away.” Although only one side could respond, that offer -is* equally open to both and that legally is neutrality.

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TT existing law automatically puts an embarge on arms to either side if war is formally declared. This would hamper England and France, which would help the Axis. If war is practiced but not declared, there is no embargo except as the President in his sole discretion ya all determine that a state of war exists. He didn’t make that “determination” in. the terrible war in China. He didn’t do it because he did not want to cut off China from our munitions industry. He|wouldn’t make it in an undeclared European war because he doesn’t want to help Hit and Muss and does want to help France and Britain. That is why, if war is not declared, but just happens, the President will not need. the Pittman bill to gain this point of] his policy. But there were other things he wanted. The Pittman bill made it a felony to travel or ship into areas ’ declared by the President to be danger zones. The idea there was that our effort to protect American lives and property in foreign wars has gotten us Smiseq up in two wars, ; ® 8 =

UT is that either necessary or wise? Blockade running has always been regarded as a great but legitimate risk. No neutral nation ever forbade it to its citizens or asserted the right to protect them or their property ventured and lost in an attempt to run an actual blockade of a belligerent ‘port. Modern air and naval weapons have made it possible in practice to blockade whole coasts and wide areas of the sea, Such attempts are called- “paper blockades” and neue tral nations have objected to them and tried tq protect the rights of their people on the high seas in such

War. That is why the Pittman bilk proposed to let the President declare such areas and make criminals out of our citizens who venture themselves or their property in them. That failed to pass. But the essence of that power is in the President anyway. He can still declare such zones and announce that it is not the policy of the United States to protect American life or property risked therein. This seems to me to gain the objective of “keeping us out of war” with far more logic and common sense than the Pittman bill, It permits adventurers to trade at their peril and gives the President the substance of what he wants without Jeconvenine a recalcitrant Congress, =

U.S. Roundup -

By Bruce Catton

~ Saltonstall Cuts Costs, but Gets Biggest Budget in State's Hise, (Ninth of a Series)

OSTON, Aug. 25 ~The tall, angulat figure of Gove ernor Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts casts a long shadow across the New England political .landscape. Governor Saltonstall came into office after two ex= tremely bad state administrations—these of ex-Gov= ernors James M. Curley and Charles F. Hurley. A serious minded, conservative chap who looks the part of a typical Yankee, Governor Saltonstall set himself

to put the state’s house in order. Today, however, the Governor has this melancholy fact to meditate on: Although he cut the state’s biennial budget more heavily than any Massachusetts

enacted, is the largest in the state’s history—$153,-

340,126 for two years. : “Our job,” remarks Covernor Saltonstall, “has been to cut people off their jobs. We had to drop

eliminated all new road-building for the two years except for roads constructed yin Federal help.”

Problem a National One

Then why is the budget the highest in the State’s history? Because of relief costs; because debts, ine curred earlier in the depression, have to be retired; bee cause the Massachusetts relief situation is, complicated by the utter insolvency of some of the State's cities

New Books at the Library

customary mold of fictional pioneers has been created by Clyde Brion Davis in Jack Macdougall, hero of his latest novel, “Nebraska

Coast” (Farrar). This cocksure fellow who turned his back on his im-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

poverished farm, his canal-boating

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OMETHING differént from the:

| ventures, and hostile neighbors in York State to make a fairly luxurius journey to Nebraska with his amily in 1861, is not the usual sternawed giant, wrestling with the orces of Nature and with bloodty Indians, | A giant, yes—and there is a grand fight, or the lusty threat of one, in every chapter, but Jack achieves success not by stern-jawed methods nor by his own sweat, but because the golden opportunities of the period dropped it into his big, careless hands, and because the elements of a certain greatness were within him. Swaggering, ribald, pugnacious, yet warm-hearted and perennial I

‘cheerful, he inspires liking as well

as laughter, This jocular saga is supposedly told by Jack’s admiring son, whose favorite expletive is “Jeepers” and who is in good-na-|S tured league with his father against the women of the family. The book's chief claim to serious-

‘ness is the portrayal of various

aspects of early transportation, particularly the failure of the steamwagon, and the inexorable advance of the railroad, and their effect upon the Macdougall fortunes. Excellent entertainment for anyone over 16 whose sense of humor is hearty enough to accept the audacities of the magnificent Nebraskan. =

DAY DREAMING " By MARY JANE

Over the hills and down memory Jane

1 |My thoughts are wont to stray

To each treasured spot, I must stop, Enjoying them to my utmost delight Until reality intervenes And shatters my imaginary dream.

DAILY THOUGHT

‘God forbid: for then how shall ge, Judge the world.~-Romans 3:

Warns aya

and towns. "As a sample, the Governor points to the plight of Millville. This was a one-industry city. Its factory migrated South and ‘left the city stranded, with an annual net income of $20,000 and an annual outgo of $80,000. Millville today is run by a State Cormission, ‘The Governor signs the checks that pay its costs. It is &. net liability to the State Treasury. Thus, as the Governor sees it, real economy in the state government depends on industrial recove which would create jobs, lighten the relief load, an increase the State’s income. And recovery, he believes, is a national problem which can be solved only by the national administration. «I think businessmen today have a feeling of un= certainty,” he says. “The individual doesn’t see the future far enough ahead to have Sonfidente

Watching Your. Health

By Jane Stafford

’ I you are sending a child to school this fall, Bave. you seen to it that he speaks easily and ‘clearly? B Dy talk may sound very “cute” to parental ears, bub ill make the child an object of ridicule among his ol He may learn to overcome this quickly, but more serious speech defects, such as stammering, are not likely to be outgrown, Unless: special steps are taken to correct them, they will handicap the child throughout his life, interfering with school progress and economic and social success. Speech is the most valuable of accomplishments, yet til recent years, the Federal Health Service points out, it has been the most neglected of all ham pe defects observed am controlled by certain centers in brain. In normal persons it is produced ‘by harmonious action of he breathing apparatus which forces air through the larynx or voice box, and vocal cords, the muscles of .

| the mouth and oe tongue, and the two sounding

boards, the oral and nasal cavities. The normal learns to talk ‘through imi a oe words by the time he is : months old. Deaf mutes are mutes or dumb because they have not heard speech, but they can be taught to speak by imitating the movements of. mouth and throat, and to understand speech by lip-reading. - Malformations, such as harelip, cleft palate, nasal obstruction, tongue-tie and very irregular teeth may cause speech defects, but the most usual - form of speech defect is stammering or stuttering. The underlying cause is emotional, and it is most frequently ‘found in so-called nervous, highly strung: children. Stammering is said to be more common among hoys than girls and to be more or less common in lefthanded children who are ‘taught to become. right~ handed . stems ha lini for correc Many sy Row ve ¢ cs tion of Spach eet and the e wise parent will:

Roosevelt May Not Need Action

ASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The critical situation

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