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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1939
THE WAR—AND AFTER
(COL LINDBERGH did his country a great service last night. Never have we heard a clearer statement than | his of the reasons why it is not only to our interest but is our duty to stay out of Europe's war. Another Charles A. Lindbergh—a Congressman from Minnesota—was driven from public life for telling the American people much the same things 22 years ago. It is singularly appropriate that his son should say those things now, and fortunate that the people should hear them in a very different mood. But they need to be said again and again. Americans did not cause and have no part in the fierce national hates that have made Europe a battleground for centuries. The shifting alliances that make a nation’s allies in one war its enemies in another, the boundaries that are “fixed” by one “victory” only to be altered by the next— these do not make sense to us. We didn’t start this conflict.
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Most Americans Vague on Monroe Doctrine Which Commits Them To Defend Canada Against Attack.
EW YORK, Sept. 16.—Now that the Americans know what the Monroe Doctrine lets them in for, they may want to affirm, trim or revoke it. Hitherto, to the present citizenship of the country, the doctrine has been pretty much of a wall motto, but in the clutch created by Hitler's world war it comes to mean that the United States guarantees Canada’s territorial integrity against not only Hitler
sense, the aggressor. If President Roosevelt correctly interprets the doctrine in saying that the United States would not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened, the United States, without being actively aware of the fact, has a commitment, not to Canada but to herself, to go to war on Canada's behalf in certain easily conceivable conditions. The doctrine has been interpreted in the past to permit foreign powers to attack and defeat American nations and dependencies of other foreign nations on this hemisphere. The catch is that such foreign powers, having attacked and chastised an American land in redress of real or imaginary wrongs, must not extend its sovereignty or system of government. & HE Monroe Doctrine, therefore obviously, is an important problem in the general question of neutrality, and, inasmuch as it has never been formally adopted by Congress or approved by the people except in a passive way, it calls for definite understanding and positive decision now. It is an enactment but a tradition, but the tradition is backed by numerous applications in specific cases and will be appliea in the case of Canada or any other British possessions in these parts unless the
God forbid that we should be so dumb as to dash in and try to stop it. There may come a time when the United States will be | justified in using its Navy and Army for other purposes than the direct protection of this hemisphere. That will be only when Europe and the rest of the world are ready permanently to pool their economic interests and their arms | to uphold peace and enforce international justice. But that time is not now. True, Britain and France | are fighting with the announced purpose only of putting down unprovoked aggression. ' But those same nations seemed just as sincere in 1917 when we joined them in a “war to end war” and to “make the world safe for democracy.” Our participation helped them to win an overwhelming | victory. How did Britain and France use that victory? For a peace that would end war? No. Fear, hate and selfishness swept over those nations. Their governments and their peoples demanded a peace of revenge. The cynical | and cruel outcome produced not democracies but dictatorships; not peace but more wars. So our efforts were in | vain. Our blood and our treasure were wasted. We are! still paying. What assurance have we now that if we should be tempted by our idealism to enter this one we would not | find the same bitter disillusionment? None whatever. No | one can guarantee that the French and British, after this is over, will not be swept by the same unreasoning emotions to which they succumbed in 1918, The United States proved in 1918 that we want nothing | from war but peace. Britain and France did not.so prove. | We must not be tricked by our emotions into union for war | —war from which this country might not recover in our | lives or our children’s lives. For, as Col. Lindbergh said: | “The German genius for science and organization, the English genius for government and commerce, the French | genius for living and the understanding of life—they must not go down here as well as on the other side. The gift of civilized life must still be carried on. It is more important than the sympathies, the friendships, the desires, of any single generation. This is the challenge—to carry on Western civilization.”
THE CITY HOSPITAL DISPUTE
T is embarrassing to learn that the Public Works Admin- |
This is the test before America now. |
istration has demanded a showdown with the City Ad- | ministration on the fulfillment of this City’s promise concerning Negro doctors and nurses at City Hospital. The record of the case seems clear. In applying for | Federal grants to build the new wing to City Hospital, the | City pledged: 1. To set aside the third and fourth floors of the new | wing for Negro patients. 2. To provide quarters on the fifth floor for Negro | internes and nurses who would care for these Negro patients. | The first pledge was carried out. The second has not. Moreover, it now develops that the PWA has been pressing | the City for months to make good on its word. Failing to | get any satisfactory response from our City authorities, it | has finally made public the facts in the case. They do not reflect credit on the City. It ought to make good on its | word promptly, or it will stand accused of playing the cheap- | est and most tawdry kind of politics. |
WELL, LOOKY HERE E really don’t know whether it has anything to do with | current temperatures. But it is an undeniable fact | that the fortunes of the Indianapoiis Indians have risen in direct ratio with the intensity of the heat wave. The Indians were rattling comfortably around in third place when September temperatures began to go haywire. Then the heat got our Indians. And the first thing we knew they had defeated the champion Kansas City Blues three successive games in the American Association playoffs. Now they come home to continue the series at Perry Stadium. And if either the Indians or the heat wave holds | out—whichever is responsible—and they win one more game from Kansas City, the Hoosiers move into the final round against the winner of the Louisville-Minneapolis series, with a swell chance tc get into the Little World Series. That would be no more odd, certainly, than the weather.
MICE AND MEN YOUNG scientist from France, working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, has discovered in the earth’s topsoil “the most powerful germicide in the world.” A pint of this dusty substance, made from an unidentified species of earth bacteria, is said to be enough to protect five trillion mice from pneumonia. We marvel at the discovery, regretting only that all the wise men have not yet been able to find in the soil of our good earth, or above it or beneath it, any antidote that will protect two billion human beings from the infection of war.
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people now ask Congress to get off the limb. It does seem doubtful that the meaning of the doctrine in relation to Canada's war with Hitler ever was fully anticipated, and while the idea of an attack on Canada by Hitler may seem fantastic, the commitment is there, nevertheless. Moreover, an attack by Hitler on the least coral speck owned by Britain or France in the proscribed zone would call for the same action. The neutrality fight arrays the pro-Ally element against the isolationists. There is no pro-German
but Hitlerism, even though Canada is, in a legalistic
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sentiment at all, and the efforts of the anti-American |
Bund only inflame the pro-Ally feeling but fail to |
impress the isolationists one way or another.
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HE pro-Ally group argues that their kind of neu- | trality is the true neutrality, but they not only |
| detest Hitler and want him licked but fear that if |
Britain were to fall this country would be next on the | list and would be pushed around and finally drawn | into a war, anyway. The other neutrality, the existing kind, if affirmed,
| would be a terrible blow to the morale and the mate-
rial resources of the Allies and might beat them.
These people think the United States could get in |
shape to stand off any threat from a victorious Hitler
| and protect her interests in the Pacific and Latin
America without any assistance from Europa. So we just can't be neutral in fact.
| choice we make we help one side or the other, and
whatever Congress may do about it the Monroe Doctrine, as it stands, will still oblige the Americans to
come a-running the instant Hitler makes a pass at
anything British or French anywhere on the Amer-
Aviation
By Maj. Al Williams
Flying Money at Last Becomes Major Factor in Plane Industry. ASHINGTON, Sept.
16.—During the last 10
years any fairly close observer of aviation has |
been conscious not only of its rapid advances, its in-
| filtration into our daily routines, but also of the in- { creasing volume of flying money.
This upward surge
of financial investments in aviation cannot be over- |
looked. Ten years ago aviation was really pioneering its
| way into the attention of business, the man-in-the-
street, and the military strategists. From the vivid lessons of the World War, military strategists were
| forced to fear it, or set new values upon it.
The astonishing growth of airline commerce awak-
| ened the financial struggle for expansion and control
of air trade routes. Like every new and promising business, aviation has known an unwillingness to be-
| lieve, a failure to dream constructively, and finally a | wild outpouring of dollars to make up lost ground.
The pioneering atmosphere which once prevailed,
| to the exclusion of financial considerations bevond the
needs for existence, has been replaced bv aviation money research, money designing and money piloting.
Some Strange Changes
The deluge of flying money has worked some
| strange changes in the psychological atmosphere in
every department of the flying business. Our attitude, for instance, of “viewing with alarm’—that the United States exported only 68 million dollars worth of aircraft last vear, while England, France,
| Germany and Italy, all together, rolled up a joint | total of a terrifying 66 million—is almost amusing. I don’t see why we permit those fellows to export
any aircraft at all. Against our 68 million export total,
| I wonder how the British feel about their individual
share of 26 million for 1938? The French dictatorship has jumped this money angle of aviation contracts with the French Government. The Government has ciamped aestructive taxes on profits derived from miliary aviation contracts. It is reported that, on profits of 4 per cent, the Government takes 25 per cent in tax; where profits run between 4 and 6 per cent, the tax is 50 per cent; on profits between 6 and 10 per cent, the Government take is 75 per cent, with a 100 per cent tax (confiscation) on all profits over 10 per cent. This is cne of the many reasons why France
is buying aircraft and engines all over the world, and | in the |
also why the French aircraft industry is
doldrums.
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HESE are trying days for everyone.
news pours in. Hysteria spreads. Men watch the rising market reports with ill-disguised glee.
Certainly now, if ever, is the time for American | women to come to the aid of their country. We must | | keep our heads at all costs. We must resolve to hunt | | for the truth in the mass of information we shall be
given, for only the truth can keep us from being drawn into the deadly whirlpool. One famous columnist has written: “Adolf Hitler is a madman, a liar, a double-crosser, whose word
cannot be depegded upon.” Right! We all know that. But for us the truth goes farther. It's no battle for democracy that has begun in Europe. Else why was Abyssinia sacrificed? Why was Czechoslovakia doomed? (Call it by whatever name you wish, but the struggle over there is the same old fight of Imperialist against Imperialist. It is doubtless true that the cause of England and France is our cause and that their victory would benefit us, but for the sake of our souls let us never delude ourselves or others into believing that this is the Holy War. A heavy burden of responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the American housewife and mother. The question 1s this: Shall we permit another crop of our boys to be slaughtered in a struggle which has been futilely waged between the same European powers for more than a thousand years? No! For if we truly value our homes and the principles of democracy, we will stay out of the frightful business. We can do that only by calling things by their right names. :
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The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
Whatever |
It is sickening to watch the mounting excitement as war |
URGES ACTION ON | SMOKE NUISANCE By Bill Greene { I see in the paper where the City {will make a door-to-door drive on | smoke. | Now since all the smoke inspec{tors have had their pictures in the | papers, and the police and fire departments, Mayor, Chief of Police jand Safety Board members and whatnots have had their say, let them cut out the grand-standing and do something. Send one or all of the smoke inspectors down on the South Side near the Belt Railroad east of Shelby St. and watch the trains go by. See the great clouds of black smoke belched up by the engines. After {a train passes you can't see for 10 minutes. The foggiest day in Lon{don is like a clear, bright September day compared to the fog caused by the smoke of the Belt Railroad. . . If the city fathers, grandfathers, letc., are in any way serious about {this smoke abatement business, {then, by dern, quit stalling and | grandstanding and get busy. | a & W | CRITICIZES FLYNN {ON EMBARGO ISSUE By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind. John T. Flynn and many other {so-called isolationists present an exceedingly flimsy and illogical argument when they prate about the Neutrality Act and oppose lifting
the embargo clause. If we were the only nation in
| the world outside the warring pow-|
lers it would be different, but Rus{sia has given Hitler much needed aid, and the people of the United | States are 10 to 1 in favor of aiding [the powers to crush Hitlerism. But |we are muzzled with the greatest mistake that ever was written into law.
” ” 2 DEFENDS DAY-TIME [MILK DELIVERIES {By Mrs. J. C. Fitzpatrick
The Forum article of W. C. Gulick on milk delivery is typical of the selfish public in general today. | I'm not in any way associated with or related to a milkman. Nevertheless I couldn’t help being impressed with Mr. Gulick's article—especially the last paragraph: ‘Perhaps milk{men prefer to deliver during the day. A night watchman no doubt
would prefer to watch during the |
day.” To me that sounds silly. Most people have automatic refrigerators but even ice boxes keep milk sweet two days. Why not try
to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must | be signed, but names will be
| withheld on request.)
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| (Times readers are invited
buying milk the day before? I sug|gest he get a milk route just to see {which he'd prefer. If a great many persons would be more tolerant this world would be |a better place in which to live.
| ” » ® FAVORS DATE CHANGE FOR LABOR DAY By Fred L. Titsworth In changing the date on which | Thanksgiving will be observed this year, the President indicates, cor-
rectly, I think, that in so far as pos|sible holidays should be observed when they serve the best purpose. Consider Labor Day! Whether the weather is good or bad, Labor Day marks the end of the summer vacation season. Travel is reduced, lake (resorts close, schools open and often | (as yesterday) must be closed and |children sent home because of the heat. | I think records will show that the first half of September gives us ideal vacation weather. Why not make Labor Day the third Monday in | September and add two weeks to our vacation period? This would make Labor Day fall between the 15th and 21st of September, coinciding with the begin-
ning of fall. It would mean more business for lake resorts, a longer season for those depending upon travel for their business.
” = 2 FEARS NEUTRALITY CHANGE WILL LEAD TO WAR By James J. Cullings I am mailing to both of Indiana’s Senators and Mr. Louis Ludlow in Washington letters opposing any
change or repeal of the present neutrality law. If this law is repealed or changed to allow any nation to buy war materials here, regardless of whether it is cash and carry or not, we open the door to war. Germany could not buy war materials here for her ships could not get here to buy them. Therefore Germany would say we were aiding her enemies and use ruthless attacks and soon the war mongers, the munition-makers and the capitalist class would demand we go to war after several of our ships were sunk. By keeping the Neutrality Law as it is we are safe. The road Roosevelt wants is the road to war. .. . He is playing right into the hands of war and he knows it. I am one American citizen who agrees that any foreign nation should sink any American vessel that carries war munitions to any country at war and who believes that every ship, regardless of the country to which it belongs, carrying war materials from the United States, should be sunk. . . . If Mr. Roosevelt wants to do something worthwhile, let him call A special session of Congress to end the unemployment question.
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Gen. Johnson Says—
F. D. R. to Have Way on Changes In Neutrality Act and Full Support On Efforts to Keep Us at Peace.
ASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—When Congress meets, it is almost certain to amend the Neutrality Act as the Administration wishes. With few exceptions. I think it should. Any nation can then buy anything we have to sell including tanks, warplanes, weapons and ammunition. No credits will be extended to nations at war. For what they buy here they will" have to pay cash on the barrel-head and carry it. away in non-American ships.
Americans will be forbidden to travel on ships of a warring nation or to go into danger zones. Amer-
the President to be dangerous. . Most of these measures will have little to do with neutrality. They are designed to reduce happenings abroad that might make us want to fight. Neutrality means taking no part in a foreign war directly or indirectly. It would be neutral to sell to all nations. It would be equally neutral to sell to none. The original demand that we not sell arms came neither from the desire to be neutral nor the insistence that we keep out of war. It came from reluctance to make and deal in the instruments of mass murder.
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HE restrictions on American travel and trade are’ designed to avoid any obligation to protect our rights on the seas by giving them up where it would be dangerous to defend them. That is almost all there is to the question, but the country won't think so when the debate begins, Some leaders say that not selling arms is getting in on the side of Germany. Others say that selling anms is getting in on the side of England and France. Technically both are wrong—if we treat both sides alike we are “neutral.” Practically France and England to buy some weapons here— especially airplanes. But the extent of “help” hag been vastly exaggerated. Their main reliance on us will be for raw materials. These they can buy under the law without change.
picion, not that this Administration wants war, but that its sympathies are so strongly with England and France that it wants to be in a position to do things that would be a dangerous gamble on war.
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” the other hand, Administration sympathizers
Europe.” In this odorous atmosphere the debate maw wax hot. The Administration doesn’t want to see created, by any such acrimony, an impression ‘abroad of disunity at home. We all agree on part of that. blameless. Both sides should pipe down to a reasoned discussion of disputed points. But anybody Who suspects that there is any disunity at home on that principal point here hasn’t been around this country much. On that point there is almost complete unity— as this debate, whether hot or reasoned will show. Thet point is that we don’t want to get into this war It is impossible to doubt our passionate unity on that issue. We don’t want to get in directly and we don’t want to get in indirectly—by any “clever little schemes.” This country will support the President to the limit and with complete unity on any policy to keep us out. It won't support him at all on any
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Labor Ample By Bruce Catton 7
Industrial Pickup Hasn't (Caused Shortage of Skilled Workers Yet.
ASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—If European war is bringing a boom to American indyastry, the boom has not yet generated a shortage {of skilled labor—not, at least, as far as anyone here knows. There have been occasional reports of skilled labor shortages, and it is admitted here that suc)y isolated shortages may appear in certain lines in y individual cities; but if any general shortage is imminent for the country as a whole, no sign of it is| visible in Washington. At the headquarters of the American | Federation of Labor, it is said that any such showage would
probably be visible first in the metal trades group, which includes skilled machinists in vamious lines— including airpiane factories. For the United States as a whole, ajbout 15 per cent of all metal trades workers are now unemployed,
New Books at the Library
ILLIAM H. CLARK, in his “Railroads and Rivers” (Page) first pictures America as a land {withcut wheels. But commercial rivalries developed among the grow|ing colonies, and when the Revolu- | tionary War opened up the magnificent opportunities for wealth in the Northwest Territory, the measures taken to gain access to it took |two forms: The development ot existing waterways and the build|ing of new roads to accommodate wheeled traffic. Literate Americans are more or (less familiar with the drama of raft and flatboat and river steamer, {of stage coach and Conestoga | wagon, but perhaps not so familiar
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with the strange first experiments with wheels on tracks.
These Mr. Clark portrays vividly and often amusingly, as well as the courage of the men who straddled the Alleghanies without the aid of steam shovels, and later the continent, a gun in one hand and pick and shovel in the other. The book gives brief histories of the great railroads of today, and of the men who financed them, but does not shirk the account of corruption and general skullduggery attending building and management, and the consequent arousing of public opinion, which is only just now being replaced by a growing respect. Federal mismanagement during the World War proved, the author says, that roads can be best operated by private enterprise, but he devotes a chapter to the growth and necessities of Federal regulation. Tribute is paid to the marvels of modern equipment and the dependability and the power of today's locomotive. Several clearly-drawn maps and numerous tables of statistics help make this book a meritorious study. Workmanlike, it possesses a spicy narrative quality which will make it interesting to the general reader.
TOPS
By JAMES D. ROTH
There is always room at the top, For those who in efforts are true. If the bases are full, don’t stop; Some runners will fall from view.
To the tireless the garlands belong. To the ones who have striven with vim To cross their goal's tape, as the
gong Sounds victory’s answer — “you win.”
Yes, some may strike out at the plate. : Let not this your spirits subdue. Keep your mind on that entrance gate— To the top: It's awaiting you.
DAILY THOUGHT
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. —Psalms 34:11.
is the mother of foresight. En bo : :
according to A. F. of L. statistics. This is about twice the percentage of unemployment normal in good mes. It is not spread uniformly over the country, howe ever. In certain industrial centers there fs practically no unemployment in the metal trades. Shortages might develop in those cities. but the A. F. of L. statisticians say they would be only temporary; their best guess is that even 1a man-sized industrial boom would not cut metal ti-ades uneme ployment down te normal before the end of the year. At C. I. O. headquarters even mone skepticism about any skilled labor shortage is expnessed.
Cc. lo. Figures Agree J
In the electrical and radio mamjfacturing industries, C. 1. O. statisticians say, thiere are 50,000 skilled men unemployed, with an equal holding unskiiled production line jobs. The C. 1. O.
least 10,000 skilled machinists who ares willing to “go anywhere” to take jobs in the airplame factories if they are needed. : Since aircraft production is largely concentrated on the West Coast, it is admitted thet there might be a temporary shortage while men were getting te the scene.
improved production processes have Acaused an increasing displacement of skilled workers during the last seven or eight years.
By Jane Stafford |
every time you had a cold. He (could make you
the cold and do much to prevent complications, such as pneumonia, and ear, mastoid and) sinus infections. Also, he could tell better than yom whether what seems to be a cold is the beginnirg of some other ailment, such as measles, scarlet |fever, whooping
cough, diphtheria, influenza, and sa on. Few people, however, are able/ and willing to consult a physician every {ime they get a cold. Some even refuse to treat themselves, taking pride in refusing to “give in” to a cold. Wheiher you are one of these die-hards or whether yoy go in for self treatment of colds, there are certain danger signals which according to one authority styould prompt you to consult a physician. : These are: 1, Feeling really sick: 2, a rise in temperature; 3, an increase in symptoms of the cold —that is, when it seems to get worse instead of better; 4, pain or soreness in throat wor chest; 5, cough; 6, pain in the ears; 7, swollen glands; 8, a rash. You may have learned for yomrself that before the sneezing, nose-running stage wf a cold sets in, you can detect its approach by a rough, scratchy or raw feeling in nose or throat. Th'l is said to be the time to try to check the cold. Brisk: exercise outdoors if the weather is good; sunning yourself; going to bed early; drinking over-heating and chilling; and eaiing wisely are advised as measures that may ward: off the cold. The diet should include fru#t, vegetables and milk, and should exclude rich foods. Your physician may have given you gargles, nose drops or sprays or
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