Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1939 — Page 12
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Bhs WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1939
WHAT GOES UP COMES DOWN
TODAYS most disturbing story, from the country’s longrange economic point of view, is that the men who run the steel industry are talking about higher prices for the fourth quarter. That is more disturbing than the recent news of rising prices for wheat and cotton and corn and hogs, for those prices have been abnormally low and their rise is immediately transplanted into greater purchasing power for American farmers and will be a help to business—if they | don’t go too high. Ek On price policies, steel is a sort of a pace-setter among | American industries, and if it starts grabbing off all the traffic will bear, that can be taken as the signal that we are gone again on another. war boom—and bust. It will] mean that we have forgotten the lessons of the last time. Higher prices, higher wages, higher production costs, higher | taxes—and then the cliff, when war wears out into peace | and industries are caught with contracts for high-priced | raw materials and no customers for finished goods. American business went on a grand binge in 1917, ’18 and '19. pagne and beer. and 21. Another war boom is starting. An expanding volume ! of business is inevitable—and reasonable profits can be made | from that volume without mixing in synthetic prices. | Our farmers will be better off if they don’t have any | more abnormal prices like $2 wheat and 30-cent cotton. They might come out of it still owning their farms. Our workers can better do without 3$20-a-day jobs during the war period—and still have employment when peace returns. Our businesses will end up with more in their tills if they don’t make excessive war profits now and have some customers left when it is all over.
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Higher prices and expanding volume, like cham- | And a terrible headache followed in 1920
THE CHURCH MERGERS
HE outstanding trend of Protestant Christianity this | year 1s toward denominational mergers and in this movement Indianapolis is playing a larger part than might have been expected. Today there is to be concluded here a conference winding up the affairs of the Reformed Synod of the Midwest consequent to its merger with the Evangelical Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church. | Also today there begins a conference that will complete the unification of Indiana Methodist Episcopal churches and Methodist Protestant churches in the united Methodist Church. Next month there will be a similar meeting here, in- | spired by Bishop H. H. Fout and the Rev. R. H. Mueller, seeking to smooth the way for a union of the Evangelical | Association and the United Brethren in Christ. In January, after a large interdenominational mis- | sionary conference here, the Evangelical Synod’s missions board will meet here to finish up its work for the same Evangelical and Reformed merger that the Reformed Synod | here today was perfecting. Indianapolis is happy to be the meeting ground for such significant and important church movements.
CANADA BEGINS TO PAY |
WO days after entering the new war the people of | Canada begin to feel its effects in drastically higher | taxes. } A 20 per cent surtax on all incomes added to present | rates. Increased corporation taxes. Higher excise levies | on liquor and wine, on cigarets and other tobacco products. | Five to 10 cents a pound more on tea and 10 cents more on coffee. All these are decreed, subject to approval by the | Canadian House of Commons, in what the Minister of Na- | tional Revenue says is to be, so far as possible, a “pay as | you go policy” of financing the Dominion’s war effort. The policy can’t be complete if the war is a long one As the Minister says, “there is a limit to the taxes that can | be imposed without producing inefficiency, lack of enter- | prise and serious discontent.” But to the extent that Canada can pay as she goes, the policy is a wise one, hard as it will be on the people. The alternative would be to fight on borrowed money. That would mean a temporary, inflationary war boom, followed almost inevitably by collapse and disastrous depression. Canada’s new war taxes are bad news for us. Our Canadian neighbors will have less money to spend for peacetime products of the United States. But what is happening next door should help us to remember a hard lesson we began to learn 20 years ago: There is no easy way of paying for a war.
TRAVEL IN 1940
HROUGH a formal proclamation President Roosevelt has invited foreign nations to continue their participation in the New York World's Fair another year. We're glad of that. As the proclamation says, “especially at the present time, it is fitting and proper that the idea of peaceful intercourse be firmly maintained as offering the only ultimate hope toward progress and peace.” There is another reason to hope that the New York fair—and, if possible, the San Francisco fair, too—will continue in 1940. Few Americans are likely to travel abroad next year. It will be wise, then, to encourage travel at home. The two great fairs can help to make 1940 the year when more Americans than ever before will journey from Coast to Coast, seeing the beauties and wonders of their own country.
REVERSING A SLOGAN (From The American Guardian) LA Sie, ¥ Here We Are and Here We Mean to Stay” = Your Uncle St
| cent Czechs, pointed out to them by | agents | citizenship to destroy the country.
| don't bother | their own country, so it is idle to think that they
| or opvressing Nazi-Poles before the | young Poles will be, slaughtered in masses for their | revenge and for the glory of Adolf Hitler.
| ing has been by men and women who have been | ing cash for
| or not buying stocks now
| a good
business. | felt. | unless the war is a long one.
| mediately
| of a long war.
| which will come from that disaster over there.
| own economic life should not go on wisely, . | during the war.
| ported by healthy economic conditions and
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Anti-American Bund in U. S. an Offshoot of Same Organizations Which Betrayed Poles and Czechs.
EW YORK, Sept. 13.—The fate of the Austrians, Czechs and Poles, betrayed by Nazi conspirators in their midst, proves that the anti-American Bund, operating flagrantly in the United States under the protection of American laws and the tolerant feelings of a free people, is no longer a joke or a mild irritant. This Bund is a dangerous conspiracy which one
day might result in internal disorders, sabotage, the dynamiting of bridges and reservoirs and the betrayal of decent Americans to firing squads of Nazi agents.
Already this Nazi organization has been connected with the theft of American miljiaay secrets, and on all sides there is evidence of its campaign to create hatred between elements of American people who lived in harmony until that time, about three years ago, when one of Hitler's controlled newspapers threatened to take an interest in our internal affairs which would not be pleasant. Since that time the anti-American Bund has boldly | moved into American domestic politics, and its leaders arise in meetings to insult not only the President, personally, but the office which he holds and the nation which elected him.
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HE anti-American Bund professes to be an American organization, and its Fuehrer holds naturalization papers, but that camouflage is the same that vas used in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Czechoslovakia contained an element of people of German blood who, under a leader appointed by Hitler, began a campaign of terrorism against their Czech neighbors. They took every advantage of their Czech citizenship, demanded representation in the Government, and at the same time marched under the Nazi swastika, and openly advocated the conquest { of their country by the Nazis. Many of them were agents of the German Gestapo and cleared through to Berlin information regarding the attitude of individual patriotic Czechs. When | the Nazis swept in the secret police rounded up dethe undercover who used the liberties of their technical Czech
Last Saturday it was revealed that civilian Poles,
| most of them patriotic young fellows similar to the
average young American, were being rounded up in batches and led off to face Nazi firing squads in their own country under the escort of armed agents of the German police. These polish patriots had been pointed out by Nazi German-Poles who lived among them as neighbors.
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HE Nazi secret police were not bothering with elaborate trials of these patriotic Poles. They
to conduct fair trials of their own in
might be any less savage with members of a breed which they hold to be inferior.
This is payday for the Nazi conspirators in Poland.
Every Nazi living in Poland who violated Polish laws for the safety of the state and was punished for it will now file information with the Gestapo, accusing his enemies of sniping German soldiers and civilians | “liberation,”
The anti-American Bund is an offshoot of the
| same kind of organization.
Business ‘By John T. Flynn
Belief War Will Make Stocks Good Investment Termed 'Foolhardy.'|
EW YORK, Sept. 13.—Wall Street brokers report | that curiously most of the buving which sent |
| the price of shares up has been for investment rather |
than speculation Brokers come to this conclusion because the paytheir purchases. This is a strange phenomenon. This means a lot of people are willing to put their money into stocks because they believe that the war in Europe will bring real prosperity to the United States. This writer expresses no opinion about whether | Is a good speculation. It unload them before they back. But that the war will make stocks investment, as distinguished from a specula-! as foolhardy a notion as can enter the brain |
that
can be bounce
if buyers can
tion, is of man. The war in Europe may well give a brief spurt to | It will take time before the profits are! And the spurt wilk not be a very extensive one If it is a long one it will ruin Europe. And anyone who supposes that | prosperity can be built in this country on a ruined | Europe is very much mistaken. If it is a short war the first effect of the war will be a general collapse in Europe and severe monetary disturbances everywhere. The business of Europe now is being sustained entirely on war industries. ! When the war ends the war industries will be imand drastically curtailed. When thev are curtailed there will be an economic collapse in Europe.
Economie Disaster Threatens
and |
| nations with
| military equipment.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Watchful W aiting !—By Talburt
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| You took that position yourself. | gation upon us. | your own juice.” | closely
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1939
Gen. Johnson Says —
: Under the Monroe Doctrine, Entry Of Canada Into the War Brings Us Miles Closer to Involvement.
ASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—The President's admirable policy to keep America out of war and also to keep the war out of the Americas has received its first rude shock. War has already come to the Americas. Canada is at war with Germany. This is not by reason of anything that Germany
| has done to Canada which, as a sovereign state, has | no legal earlier standard she is now an “aggressor nation.” | is easy to say that her action is none of our business. | So might it be if it were not for the Monroe Doctrine.
On any known It
“casus belli”"—cause for war.
“That is no alliance. It imposes no obliIt is unilateral—one-sided. Stew in Mebbeso. But our destiny is more concerned with Canada than with Europe— and so is her's with ours. “No entangling alliances” is our policy. Can we be euchred into a position that amounts to an alliance
Canada can--but won't—say:
| with England in America because of our policy toward European conquest here?
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HAVE lived through dangerous days when the Germans could have taken the channel ports in France, Had they done so, they could have starved out British, French and American resistance on land almost immediately. To our fears for the mighty British fleet, our general staff was told that if worse came to worst, it would change its base to Canada. Wouldn't it do so’ again? Isn't the war now next door to us? The Canadian war declaration is for us a matter of first magnitude. Through the Monroe Doctrine it moves us miles closer to involvement. Considering all known facts, it is utterly inconceivable that it was
| made without consultation with our Government and | without objection.
This business of sympathetic neutrality toward the
| anti-Axis powers is the bunk. You are either neutral
| are in it,
or you are in it, and by ‘sympathetic neutrality” you From now on, we are in a position of guar-
anteeing the eventual territorial integrity of a
| belligerent
| of what might be called “preparatory propaganda.’ is
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
| UNITED FRONT FOR PREPAREDNESS URGED By E. R. Egan
If anyone harbors any illusions]
about the German military machine, |
| of | | |
the sinking
unprecedented devilment
the west-bound liner |
| Athenia, bearing no contraband of |
war, only home-bound tourists of | all nationalities, should be most | illuminating. |
If this outrageous affront to the] civilized world . . . brings forth any more squawks about a united front | for peace at any price, not one of the signatories to it will have a na-| tion worth saving. Peace-loving a sense of responsi-| bility either of people or leaders should be working overtime strengthening their defenses, and
Military despotisms have no regard for any nation that cannot) match force with force, and peace movements at this time are simply playing their game which they play for all there is in it. Experience with militarism shows | they stop where they are stopped | and let no one be so naive as to believe their pious proclamations until they sue for peace. In the mean-| time a united front for prepared-| ness and defense is the only policy. | Germany should be given a warn-| | ing by this country that another incident will bring reprisals and | eventually will be paid for in the] coin of their realm. This country] can do no less than send cruisers] to see the citizens of this country | or any other safely out of the war| zone. The sinking of the passenger |
| boat Athenia is a clarion call to the |
[ world.
What we have to look forward to so far Europe 1s concerned is economic disorder. even | collapse at the end of a short war or at the end;
The one hope of the American protecting our economic life from
investor the
lies in dislocations | \ This is the supreme job of our statesmen. There is no reason why the development of our! vigorously And no reason why investors should not venture their funds in American industries. But! they should be guided by considerations affecting | the long term prospect for healthy industries supnot by
unhealthy transient economic conditions such
and
| as war,
may make money out of the war. But the amateurs
Experts, widely informed in economics and anansed will lose.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
F we could forget its tragic aspects. the situation in| Europe would be preposterous. To men and women who can remember the first World War, it is ineredi- | ble that a second should be under way. The mind simply refuses to accept this evidence of mankind's colossal stupidity Faced with facts, confronted with the sight of men and nations moving toward self-destruction, we can only stand mute with unbelief as we regard earth's] only reasoning animal, man, actuated by such i
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reason. It will be said, with tiresome repetition, that bie gigantic battle for the preservation of the democratic | ideal is to be fought all over again. Theoretically this| may be true, although, when one looks at the question | realistically, he must see that dictatorship takes the | helm in every land the minute war begins. The idealist who exclaimed, “I am the Master of | my Fate. I am the Captain of my Soul!” evidently | did not consider the plight of the individual in a mili-| tary regime. Certainly no person in Germany, or in| modern Europe today, is master of his destiny, Every decent, peace-loving being is like a characte: in a Greek tragedy—moved inexorably toward a fate he neither wills nor wants. Yet, a mortal combat for human liberty is beginning—but make no mistake about its locale. It will be fought upon the soil of the | United States, the only major country today which is! in a position to maintain or preserve freedom of thought and speech. Europe has already signed democracy’s death warrant. In America we are choosing sides for and against it. The preservation of human liberty and freedom may very well depend upon how grave you and I are. If we possess the moral courage to withstand the propaganda to get us in—we shall have saved democracy. If not—we shall be its destroyer,
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¥ = # DOUBTS CAPITALISM CAN
| BRING RECOVERY
By R. Sprunger
Voice in the Crowd is correct
| when he says depending too much
on others leads to slavery. The]
masses have depended too much on| the capitalist oligarchy and are] slaves, subject to command when to! work and when not to work and to| bear arms one against the other as we now can see. It is inconsistent and visionary to,
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views in
lwish to see all men employed and defend capitalism, the cause of un-
employment, big “I” by “rugged individualists” going to solve the present economic crisis.
people to solve it.
As long as thinking is done in the | Allied Powers. terms of how much profit can be! | erushed—and it will be crusihed—|
| Hitlerism. And I think that in justice to the |
| =which is much closer to gunfire than our own.
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HE most dangerous palaver going on in this country today is the constantly repeated assertion that, while we will de all we can to keep out it, our getting into it is “inevitable.” That is It literally a leaf out of Hitler's book that any official lie, often enough repeated, becomes a public truth We might also take a leaf out of Stalin's book It at least seems to be—'let the anti-Bolo nations tear themselves to pieces. When they have done that | we will take Eurcpe for communism.” If there were no other reason it would be good judgment for us to keep out, become strong’ and remain the last word in the world for the decencies of democracy—at least on the Western Hemisphere. But we may well doubt if that is our policy. This
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| Canadian business may have been heyond our control
writer Simms in his lucid style shows why the Nazi Army has no “soul.” Bruce Catton also explains the forces boring from within. And
I see still another factor that will
aid in destroying Hitlerism Please consider the Czechs, Memelites, et al, not to mention the Jews. All these groups will dash hero‘.ally to arms at the first opportunity and these boys certainly have the “soul”
German people the press in other
No amount of gab of | countries should refrain from term- | is| ing Hitler's outfit the German Army, |
and should not give it publicity by jeven calling it a Nazi Army. It
It is going to take the or- should be labeled Hitler's Army and ganized democratic action of the Hitler's War.
the | When Hitlerism is|
Still another suggestion for
gained at the expense of others we! Germany should be erased from the wiil continue as we are with condi-| map. That territory should be divid-
tions getting worse as we go along
ed by the victors and the German
Food for thought for rugged indi: id- people given a democratic form of
ualists:
as the other.
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| FORECASTS DOWNFALL
OF HITLERISM By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind.
An auto ifh't worth a hoot |8overnment which all true Germans |without fuel—one is as important Will greatly appreciate.
Then ihe] whole world wili profit mutually and |have everlasting peace. . . . n ” = ASKS WHERE LEAGUE IS IN PRESENT CRISIS
As point:d out by Times commen-|'*y B. G.
| tators, chance to win his war.
Hitler hasn't a ghost of al
Where is the League of Nations
The able | hiding out in this crisis?
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New Books at the Library
HEN the news of the assassi-
Thus it was that King Cregory’ s|
nation of King Gregory of death completely disrupted Jerry s|
Belgovenia was flashed over wires, it found Peter Strake, supernewspaperman, on the verge of | matrimony. | Mannering, marriage meant a quiet | home with a well domesticated husband who would be more excited over a punctual dinner than over {the most startling political upheaval {in Europe. To Peter, love and marriage were of secondary importance. When a sensational story broke he forgot all other loves except his paper and dashed like a fire-horse to his post jof duty.
Side Glances—By
Galbraith
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the |
| Leonard Ross—the same Leonard Q. | Ross who charmed his public with the |story of H-Y-M-A-N K-A-P-L-A-N,
announcement party. Peter bade the! guests an agitated farewell and rushed off to the news front, leav-
To his fiancee, Jerry|ing them all convinced that Jerry |
was “engaged to a cyclone.” Paula Flanton, not only pretty but also a most determined and ruthless newspaperwoman, had been storm- | ing Peter's office for weeks trying! to persuade him to give her a job. The crisis in Belgovenia gave her! just the opening she needed, and Peter found himself headed for the! center of the storm with a most attractive and capable assistant. As for Jerry, when she came later to join the fun, she realized for the first time that life with Peter might! be too full of thrills for her—that he should marry a woman with printer's ink in her veins. In “Dateline: Europe” (Harcourt),
and the Leo Calvin Rosten of more serious books, has written a fastmoving action story full of fun and| excitemen:,
WINGED MERCY
By ELEEZA HADIAN I barred my door with lock and | « chain,
{Firmly drew close the white curtain | |And sat alone to nurse my pain.
At my window, she whirled the lace Then breezed right in and filled the place— Took me over without preface, Laid cool fingers upon my face.
To each lonely, imprisoned soul, Blind with torment, God sends a breeze That has gone through the orange trees For all-healing, magic heart ease; Has scooped the bowl Of each pearled bloom . And gathered song, gathered per-| fume.
DAILY THOUGHT |
The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.—Psalms 7:8.
AN is unjust but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.—
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but the constant, complacent action of our Government toward the embroglio in Europe is not. To keep out of it let us have nobody, in or out of Government, insisting that we have to get into it. Let us be complacent to no action which makes our getting into it “inevitable.”
Censorship
By Bruce Catton
President Could Control Radio, if. He So Desired—but Not the Press.
ASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—When President Roose=velt—who has proclaimed a state of limited na=tional emergency—remarked that he had no inten-
| tion of trying to censor the American press or radio
“at the present time,” he set this reporter wondering. Suppose the President did have such an intention -under existing laws, just what could he accomplish along the line of censorship? There are two answers, as follows: As far as the press is concerned, he could do practically nothing. As far as radio is concerned, he could do practically
| everything.
Under the Federal Communications act of 1934, the
| President may at his discretion use almost any means | of | even take over stations or networks to be run by the
regulating or controlling broadcasting. He may Government. The legislation under which broadcasters are now
licensed specifies that the President is empowered to
| take such rigorous action in time of war, in time of
threat or peril to this country—or “to preserve the | neutrality of the United States.” : The likelihood that any such powers would be invoked is very slight, however, according to the Federal” Communications Commission. “Broadcasters are doing a remarkable job of censoring their own stuff,” says a spokesman for the commission.
Adopted Voluntary Control
FCC officials point out that radio is tackling its new role of war-coverage without precedents to fall Officials of networks, as well as of individual
with the commission. Beyond making suggestions—which might or might | not be acted on—there isn't much of anything the Administration could do to control the press as long as the country is neutral. It ought to be added, probably, that no one 1n Government. is worried by this fact. During the last war—after the United States got in, that is—the Postoffice Department did try to get through a bill which would have put stringent restricof the mails. Congress refused to pass the bill, however; as it turned out, the newspapers themseives established a central bureau of censorship for the handling of Government information.
Watching Your Health:
By Jane Stafford
REAT progress has been made in protecting the eyes and eyesight of industrial workers, but much remains to be done. “The blind population of the country is being needlessly increased each year as a result of injuries to eves,” Dr. Louis Resnick of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, says, pointing out that “employers and employees of American Industry are | losing $50,000,000 a year as the result of preventable eye injuries.” Provision and use of goggles, headmasks and other protective devices are among the most urgent of Dr. Resnick's recommendations for further reducing the toll of needlessly sacrificed eyes. Every worker, supervisor and visitor, anywhere in the plant, should be required to wear these protective devices. be declares. This is not an unattainable ideal, as shown by the example of the Pullman Company, which enforces this rule so effectively that Dr. Resnick says it has a record of 100 per cent eye protection. If a worker objects to wearing goggles because of their weight, Harry Guilbert, director of safety and compensation for the Pullman Company, points out that spectacle type goggles are only about twice as heavy, by actual weight, as a man’s necktie. A pair of the spectacle type goggles weighs 50 grams (there A man’s tie weighs 22 grams. Goggles with side screen weigh 53.7 grams, and the heaviest type of protective goggles, listed by Mr. Guilbert, the cut type, weigh 70.7 grams. Bind
the
| three or four neckties around your eyes and walk | around the room a bit and you can compare the
weight of the goggles with the effect of the total
| blindness that might result from not wearing goggles.
Some helpful hints from Mr. Guilbert: Fogging of’ the goggles can be remedied by rubbing a small amount of Ivory soap on both sides of the lenses and polishing with a dry cloth. If the goggles hurt your eyes, Forumer need an eye test.
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