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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1939

PEACE AND TRADE IN THE AMERICAS

HE Republic of Panama has tet it be known it is willing to invite other American republics to confer on Western Hemisphere problems arising from Europe's war. It is to be hoped that such a conference will be held. If ever there was a time when the peoples of the Americas should get together, count their mercies and consult their own interests, it is now. Whatever happens, this is not going to be a very comfortable globe to live on in the years that lie ahead. But “for us in this half of the world, it will be much less uncomfortable if we can keep from our shores the fires raging in Europe and Asia, In the United States and the republics to the south reside 220,000,000 people, at peace with each other and fervently desiring no part in the wars abroad. We possess the world’s greatest industrial system and finest agricultural and mineral resources. But our economic systems, to a considerable degree, are dependent upon trade overseas. The wars will play havoc with that. Right now we are lured by the prospect of tremendous and quick profits from sale of our surpluses to the belligerents. In the short run that is risky business—Dblockades, submarines, disregard for neutral rights. In the long run, as we know from experience, it is a losing business—when the wars subside most of our customers abroad will be bankrupt. To cushion our economic systems against the shocks of war and its aftermath, we of the Americas should take steps now to trade more and more among ourselves, to build up a commerce that will be less and less dependent upon customers overseas. Of course all that needs to be done cannot be accomplished at a single Pan-American conference on peace and neutrality. But a start can be made there, an understanding reached, which can be translated into achievement through real reciprocal trade treaties, extension of credits, and positive efforts of the Americas to prosper in peace.

THE CITIZENS’ COUNCIL

ORMAL organization of the Citizens Council of Indianapolis and Marion County, described as an organization to work for the “orderly improvement of local government,” is to be completed today. Its program embraces such worthwhile objectives as extension of the merit system, stimulation of greater interest in primary elections, insistence upon high standards for all candidates, and constant vigilance over the tax dollar. Taxpayer, city manager and other associations have | done work in these same fields. The time has now come when these activities should be co-ordinated and welded together for effective action. And that, in the main, is to be the function of the Citizens Council. It is a logical outgrowth of the pioneering efforts of the smaller groups to improve governmental services. The roster of members is a good one, embracing a variety of interests and groups. The Council comes into being during a trying and crucial period, with a host of problems crying for the attention of a vigorous and enlightened non-partisan body such as this promises to be. Indianapolis has waited a long time for such an organization.

HAPPY LANDING, ROSCOE

O Col. Roscoe Turner, the gay and colorful holder of American speed records, is coming to Indianapolis to establish a flying school! We're glad. We don’t know any more colorful figure in the flying game today. He has been polishing pylons in the air racing game far longer than any man of his advanced years (he's 44) has any right to be doing. And now that he has decided to retire from that hazardous business, we're happy that he is coming to Indianapolis to grow along with our other aviation enterprises.

HACKMAN’S HOLIDAY LONDON taxi driver, who has also a discriminating | eye for antiques, is visiting in New York, the guest of | a satisfied passenger. Edward A. Barnes is his name, and his appreciative host is William C. Fownes Jr., a Pittsburgh steel man, to . whom he pointed out certain bargains in the London antique shops. If appreciation in every case could only take such direct and generous form we can imagine this country’s streets as practically deserted while our taxi drivers disported themselves on tour to distant parts. American taxi drivers, as few would dispute, are among the most versatile and resourceful men on earth. They, too, include antiquarians and scholars, they'll show you the town, they'll act as midwives or tipsters on the races, they're the policeman’s best assistants and, without exception, they specialize in philosophy. If their services were rewarded fitly they'd get trips around the world. While Mr. Barnes is looking us over he shouldn't overlook his fellow artists of the steering wheel.

A BOY CAN DO IT

WO generations from horse-and-buggy to airplane! Grandfather was brought up to drive a “rig.” He knew how to hitch up the family mare in the buggy, and how to handle both. He learned to drive a car, later, but he was never really at home in it. Dad was brought up with autos. He has always been perfectly at home behind the wheel. But his experience with horses was sketchy, and he is still a little skittish about riding in, let alone flying, an airplane. : But son—he’s air-minded. Take, for example, Sammy Ginder, 9-year-old son of a naval flying officer. For four years he’s been begging for an airplane ride. The other day daddy took him up in a big twin-engined transport, and with a brief explanation of the controls, actually let Sammy fly it for a few minutes at 9000 feet and 200 miles an hour. A bit advanced, perhaps, but a foretaste of the manner in which the next generation will be just as much ‘at ease in a plane as granddaddy was in the family buggy.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Fritz Kuhn, Detested by Loyal German-Americans, Is Not Doing Fuehrer Any Good in This Country

EW YORK, Sept. T.__The best anti-Nazi propaganda in the United States is neither Jew nor Englishman but a more or less naturalized Aryan German intimate of Adolf Hitler himself. His name is Fritz Kuhn. He is fuehrer of the German-American Bund, and he has been fought no less angrily by leaders of the Steuben Society of America than by the B'nai Brith, the Czechs, the British and the Poles, Two years ago Theodore H. Hoffman, national chairman of the Steuben Society, denounced Kuhn as an interloper who would presume to tell the members what they might think, where they must buy, what they might read, for whom they must vote and what color of clothes they must wear. Mr. Heffman concluded by demanding, “Who annointed this Fritz with the sacred castor oil of divine dominion?” Mr. Kuhn, it should be emphasized in the interests of internal composure and tolerance, is a humiliation and a plague to the decent, patriotic American of German birth or extraction. é 4 HE purpose of his Bund is revealed in quotations from Nazi official documents proclaiming that all persons of German blood “belong to Hitler's state, no matter to which state they have sworn allegiance.” That includes many native and naturalized Americans who fiercely resent the aspersion. These quotations, published in book form under the title, “The German Reich and Americans of German Origin,” under the sponsorship of Nicholas Murray Butler, Samuel Seabury, Henry L. Stimson, Monsignor Ryan and others, expose the purpose of Fuehrer Kuhn, One says: “We reject the concept of a cosmopolitan German whose chief ambition is to assimilate with the people of the country in which he lives.” Another says: “In addition to the official German legation there are now established local groups of the Nazi party foreign organizations in 60 countries of the world.” Another, taken from an official speech by E. W. Bohle, Fuehrer of the Nazi department for the fomentation of treason in foreign countries, officially known as the foreign organization of the party, says: “The main accusation against the foreign organization and party comrades abroad is that we are causing unrest in the German colonies and destroying’ their unity. If fight means unrest, then we admit we created unrest.”

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loathe him. Kuhn promises to “throw out of office” the President of the United States, a threat which, uttered against Hitler in Germany by no matter whom, would qualify the speaker for an appointment at the chopping block. Some Americans, particularly some of German birth or blood, might wish to lock him up, beat him up or heave him out. But, on second thought, all who detest Hitlerism would prefer to let him stay, realizing that every time he opens his mouth he aggravates the decent hatred of everything he represents.

Business By John T. Flynn

Financial Condition Would Indicate Nazi's Can't Support a Long War

EW YORK, Sept. 7—The miltary experts will oplain what the relative resources of the warring powers in Europe are. But behind the soldiers are

the dollars; behind the armies, the economic resources of the countries involved. The first great question is —how will the warring nations finance the war? There are two ways to finance a war, One is to tax the people. The other is to borrow the money. The war must be fought on cash or credit. Of course, it will.be fought on bath. It must be remembered that war preparations have been going on for several years at fuil blast, and that the people in France, England, Germany, Italy are already taxed almost beyond endurance. Therefore, Europe will turn to borrowing. They can borrow directly from their people. Or they can borrow from the banks. Here again they will do both. How much can these governments borrow? When will this system break down? The answer involves two considerations. One is the type of government in each country. The other is their financial condition. Germans contend that, because their government is totalitarian, and that all powers reside in it, it can go on for a very much longer time on borrowed bank funds than the free countries. Assuming that the two groups—Germany on one side and Poland, France and Britain on the other— were to start off on an equal footing, this probably is true. The fly in the ointment is'that they do not start off on even terms. While all countries are burdened with debt, Germany is in very much worse shape than either France or England.

Financing of Imports

First of all, her resources to support debt are far less, and, secondly, she has already seriously exhausted her debt-making capacity. England and France, on the other hand, are rich in resources and rich in financial resources above all. The most important part of all this, however, is the question—how will the two groups finance what they require from other countries? They must pay for what they buy with gold, or with their exports, or with the credits they have abroad. England, France and Poland have incomparably more gold than Germany, whose reserve is seriously inadequate. Also, Britain and France have the ships and the foreign trade to use to exchange for goods abroad. But, equally as important, they have large investments abroad in liquid securities which can be used to pay for the things they need. For this reason, it is very difficult to see how Germany can support a long war,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HERE are two good reasons why household workers should be better paid. They need the money and the people who hire them need more capable servants.

However, this phase of our labor problem presents more complexities than the NLRB ever dreamed of. In dealing with it, we are dealing not with an economic theory, but with a condition of life. The housewife cannot be rated as an employer by any strict accounting, since she does not possess salary or wealth in her own right. Homemaking is still listed as a non-profitable enterprise; therefore, | formulas which apply to other businesses cannot justly | be applied to it. Millions of housewives would like to pay better wages if their budgets allowed it. “Very well,” vou say. “If they can’t afford to pay, let them do without help. Let them pitch in and ao their own work and stop squawking.”

This sounds fair, and fine, too, until we remember how many other women and girls there are in the country who are glad to work for little pay if they can have decent food and lodging with it. Another fact that militates against the ideal situation is this. A tremendous number of domestic workers are untrained. It’s sag but true that they do not earn the pittances they get. And, until there is some way established by which we can set the standard of pay according to the worth of the services rendered, the question will bristle with difficulties and dynamite. Add to this the strange nature of woman. Inherently she is a creature of common, rather than uncommon, sense. The American housewife expects to live within her budget, and does not subscribe to any economic system which makes the worker more important than the work to be done,

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LIKES OUR STAND ON NEUTRALITY By R. L. L. I heartily congratulate you on your stand—continued neutrality for the U. §, not a soldier to be sent across regardless of the outcome of the European situation. Please continue to preach this in your paper. There is too much of the bad kind of propaganda. ” ” 2 HE'S ALWAYS CONSISTENT, SAYS VOICE IN CROWD By Voice in the Crowd

I wish to say to “Old Timer” “slapped’’ anyone “in the face.” Some may not understand my viewpoint. | My writings have been consistent be- | cause they have all been in the nature of encouraging people to do more for themselves; to find new things to do and solve vital problems for themselves instead of looking to the politicians and the visionaries to| do their solving for them. The soul of liberty is in doing things for yourself. Depending too | much on others leads to slavery, I have consistently defended open and | equal opportunity. Our con-| stitutional form of government is the only system that can possibly assure equality of opportunity. There is nothing inconsistent about that. My entire interest is in seeing men re-employed and our American heritage passed on intact to those who follow us. I have never written anything in the Forum that did not reflect a viewpoint of my own experience. I speak of opportunity because I see its existence. In the depth of the depression I was a pauper. I saw something to do, I wanted to do it— not “prayerfuily,” but with a desire that was akin to the desire to eat

or to breathe. I have succeeded in

others to rise with me. I am alert to the masses: I am one of them. I want to see them lift themselves each for himself. I am not going to make them weak by telling them that America is through—that there is no hope for them—that they are downtrodden. To every man that I meet (and I

the way. I want to see people lift themselves. That is not inconsis-

: C >d injand highway bandits betiering. Inysell and in aiding | rom the 1850s to the Eighties; their

meet a lot of them) I try to point] “finish” was written to a colorful

tency—that is Americanism. I can see where “big business” has

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

increased “small business,” not ruined it. It is true that the oldtime grocer who would awake from his nap and mutter, “Something?”

that in my comments I have never |is gone, but many fine, clean, busi-

nesslike stores seem to prosper in

{competition with the “Chains.”

There isn’t a man living who can-

{not better himself if he really wants

to. I am not going to sob with those

who stubbornly will not, but I will

fight for the right of those that do 2 2 ” SEES ISOLATION AS WAY TO WAR By J. L. Naturally, in this world situation we are thinking what of America? What part will we play in the new war? Can we keep out of war? In these days when massed air-

plane flights span the oceans, and engineers are working on stratosphere planes to make the round trip to Europe in one day, the geographic factors in our defense are vanishing and tomorrow will be gone. Isolation is a myth, The way to prevent war is not to fall over backward in our haste to renounce all commercial and property rights of our citizens abroad. There is only one argument that the aggressor nations respect, and that is force. Just as soon as they become convinced that we are afraid to fight to protect our rights in America, we invite attack. It is very unsafe to play the coward today. As for Hitler, all I can say is that no man or nation can trample on the Christian conscience and expect to prosper in God's sight. I believe that as long as some of the nations have and preserve their faith in God there remains a hope that the world will have peace. ” ” ” TERMS HITLER “ANGEL OF THE DEVIL” By G. A. Stark

We can't legislate against the devil, and Hitler is an angel of the devil.

New Books at

the Library

" ENTLEMEN who took the road” was the romantic expression coined by one historian to describe the early professional robbers of California. The stagecoach flourished

exploits made sensational newspaper

headlines, and, although their wickedness was deplored, their audacity and misdirected courage were often admired by law-abiding citizens. Changing methods of transportation and increasingly stern laws eventually made theirs an unprofitable and unalluring business, and

chapter in the state's history. Of the hundreds of these swashbuckling outlaws, Joseph Henry Jackson se-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"| don't care how long we've been married, don't start calling

me mother,"

lects four for biographical narration in “Tintypes in Gold” (Macmillan). They constitute a bizarre quartet: Black Bart, most famous of all Cali-

fornia badmen; Rattlesnake Dick, Dick Fellows and Tom Bell. Twenseven times, between 1875 and 1883, Black Bart successfully robbed stage coaches with never a shot fired; his twenty-eighth attempt, against the Wells, Fargo Express Co. resulted in his capture. In private life Black Bart was a small, mild-mannered little man whose passion for verse writing interested Ambrose Bierce and William Randolph Hearst. Rattlesnake Dick was a lively youth froma Oregon who, falsely accused of stealing a mule, expressed his resentment against the law by becoming a ban-dit-leader. His career was brief but more spectacular than that of Dick Fellows, “the most unsuccessful bandit that ever roamed a highway,” because “horses played him false at every turn.” Tom Bell, one time physician, was the merciless Killer, prototype of the “Western thriller” villain. Black Bart vanished mysteriously after his release from prison; Rattlesnake Dick was shot to death; Tom Bell was hanged, and Dick Fellows, the comedian among big-time road agents, was retired to peaceful routine as teacher of Moral Instruction in Folsom Prison.

CONTENTMENT

By ALMA HORNER If the sun would shine each day And flowers could bloom all year, Our sad hearts would soon be gay And we could dry our tears.

But this old world is full of strife And peace and happiness too, Yet we must journey on this life Until our work is through.

May we walk by flowing streams O’er smooth and pleasant paths, And our departure be sweet dreams To wake in “Paradise” thou hath.

DAILY THOUGHT

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons o war perished !—II Samuel 1:25,

A is the duty of men to love even

those who injure them.—Marcus

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-_ THURSDAY, SEPT. 7, 1939

Gen. Johnson Says —

Truth Is First Casualty in War, So Let Us Insulate Ourselves Against All Types of Atrocity Yarns

ASHINGTON, Sept. 7—“Truth is the first casualty of any war.” We should keep that axiom pasted on our hat-bands. Of one thing we may be certain—war news from every fighting country is censored. It is edited for the purpose of influencing our emotion and opinion. Unless a fact is so big and conspicuous that it could no more be hidden or camouflaged than a bull in a china shop, we will get it only in such form as the various nations think will fool us in their favor. It is hard to take your eyes away from the extras and tickers or your ears from the radio, but it would be a swell idea to take out naturalization in Missouri—‘“‘show me’—believe nothing that can’t be proved. News service is now nearly instantaneous, but flash news is pretty apt to be partial, or inaccurate news and censored flash news is almost sure to be. We don't know yet exactly what happened to the Athenia, but, remembering the Lusitania, it seems incredible that the German Admiralty would sink such a ship unless it has gone stark raving mad. A crazy submarine skipper could have done it but no sane naval statesman could have ordered it. o n 8 T THE moment this is written, nobody seems to know what has happened to the Bremen. I left New York the day she sailed. News stories said there was giggling, smirking and winking by the American. officials who were delaying her. It was rumored that’ a British warship was waiting for her. War broke out before she could get home. It was asserted and then officially denied by the British that she had been seized and taken to England. Here was the basis for a first-class row. The earli« est report or rumors indicated a British-American cols lusion that knew war would be declared, and when, and jimmied around with sincere neutrality to use that knowledge. I don't believe that, but why should so large and so important a ship suddenly vanish in the gray murk of the North Atlantic? I don't know, but I doubt the earliest reports or the first impression of anything. : ” ” ” WH would German bombers fly around Warsaw and seek out and devote their attention, a valuable bomb-cargo and the risk of their lives to blow up the country castle of Tony Biddle? Does Hitler want to force us to enter the war? Not unless he is’ crazy. Is he gunning for Tony? Absurd. I have no doubt that bombs were dropped on Biddle’s villa, but I want to hear more ahout it before I begin to whistle Yankee Doodle. ' There is no limit to the fantasy of war propaganda stories. Their concoction is now a deliberate art. There are courses of instruction in it and books galore —how to lie for the fatherland. So far as we are

| concerned, the object of the whole British and French | artistry in the mass production of whoppers will be

to drag us into this war on their side. They did it once. Maybe we have learned. The German scientific output of untruth wili be—or ought to be—to keep us out. Our response should be a big Bronx cheer for both sides and an insistence of proof of any inflammatory story before we believe it.

U. S. Roundup

By Bruce Catton

Poland's Isolation, Soviet Defection, Give Allies Big Strategic Problem,

ASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — Great Britain and’ France face a strategic problem of tremendous difficulty, in the opinion of army experts here. Going to the aid of Poland, they are up against a situation in which it is almost impossible for them to supply that help swiftly or effectively, For the simple and inescapable fact is that Poland is tucked away where the English and French can't get at it. The biggest factor, as the army men here see it, is Hitler's non-aggression treaty with Russia. That isolates Poland, make’'s Hitler's eastern front safe, and tremendously increases the difficulty of applying a blockade. Yet a blockade, in the end, offers the best way— almost the only way—in which the British and French can hope to beat Hitler, it is believed. Meanwhile, Poland and Rumania are negotiating for reinforcement of the Polish-Rumanian treaty of mutual assistance upon which Poland counts to receive supplies and aid from Britain and France by way of the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Baltic at present is impassable. Italy—right now, anyway—is neutral. The only place where Germany can be attacked is along her western border, where the famous Siegfried line has been built. France has the best army in Europe—but breaking through the German line on the western front will be incredibly costly and will take months, on the most favorable estimate.

Hitler May Try to Call Halt :

What the rival powers plan to do with their air fleets is, of course, unknown here. American army men doubt that bombing of civilian centers will continue—if for no other reason, they say, simply because wars aren't won that way. It is suggested that French and British bombing fleets may make the Essen munitions works and the Skoda works in Praha their chief objectives. If they can destroy those plants, Germany will be seriously crippled. It is not believed that the German army will have much difficulty in forcing its way to the Vistula River, as that is the first strony defensive position met in an advance into Poland from the west. The supposition is that when, as, and if that objective is reached, Hitler will call a halt and will suggest a peace con~ ference. ’ If Britain and France reject any such overtures, it is believed that the blockade will have to be. their main reliance. Although this blockade will be leaky because of Russia's defection, it is still felt that in the long run it will be effective. :

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OME of the vague digestive disorders that afflict large numbers of persons may be due to a mild degree of vitamin lack, in the opinion of two Net York physicians, Drs. David Adlersberg and Michagl Weingarten. These doctors examined part of the digestive tract of patients complaining of poor appetite, nausea a few hours after meals, a feeling & heaviness and distention and vague pains in the upper part of the abdomen. They found changes resembling those seen in sprue and pellagra, two ailmenfy that may come from diets deficient in vitamins. * The changes may have been caused, they believe either as a result of not eating enough vitamins or because the vitamins that were eaten were not absorbef because infection or mechanical or chemical injury had impaired the absorptive powers of the digestive tract. Alcoholic excess, the roughage fad and irrational reducing diets are among the causes they bélieve produced the condition. % These patients may for years have been regardec as neurotics, or treated for peptic ulcer, gastritis. chronic appendicitis or spastic colitis, the two doctor: point out in a report to the American Medical Association. Proper treatment, which included large doses of vitamins either in food or as medicine, brought about improvement, strengthening the evidence for the theory that lack of vitamins was responsible for the symptoms. The treatment had to be continued for a long period, to avoid relapses. :

» If you suffer from any persistent digestive disordey

you should of course consult your physician who will be able to determine whether the trouble is with lack

of vitamins in your diet or whether there is some -

other cause requiring other treatment. But the lesson for healthy people is to eat plenty of vitamins, no just a sparse supply, in order to avoid mild as wi severe ailment of the kind doctors call -def¥ diseases.

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