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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1939

AT PANAMA CITY FFORTS for peace and co-operation seldom make big headlines. And in sensational times like these, news of what happens at the conference of American Republics at Panama City will be especially hard put to compete for reader attention. However, the purpose of this conference—to keep war from this hemisphere—lies close to the hearts of all Americans. There are many and difficult problems involved in formulating positive policies of peace for the Americas, of arranging ways and means of protecting our common rights as neutrals, of stimulating an interchange of commerce that will be helpful to all of our countries in withstanding the economic shocks of war abroad. Believing that the conference is of the utmost importance, the Scripps-lHloward Newspapers have sent their Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, Thomas L. Stokes, to Panama City. His first dispatch from there appears today | on another page. We commend it and all that follow to your attention. They will be one series of articles under a foreign dateline which will not be censored.

LET'S LOOK TO OUR DEFENSES OW that Congress is back on the job, and with sound reasons for remaining there, this would seem a good

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Irish Rebels Starting Bonfires During Blackout, Another Example of Odd Antics of Modern Humans. TEW YORK, Sept. 21.—The human race day by

day becomes more remindful of the wrestler who, in an enormous confusion of moist and slippery

meat, clamped a toe hold on a foot which happened into his grasp and, to the tune of his own agonized whinnies, continued to twist until he broke his own

ankle. Thus the Irish Echo of New York reports that on a recent evening in Belfast rebels against the “foul oppressor” in Buckingham Palace expressed their sympathy with the enemies of the British Empire by converting an air raid blackout into a fiasco of bonfires and rockets. The grievances of the Catholic, or Free State, Irish against the British Empire are famous the world over, and any attempt to outlaw them on the ground of antiquity can be destroyed by citations from the record of the Black and Tans, as brutal a crew as ever dragged a Jew from his family midst in Germany ang beat him to death with bats. s = = ET, in their efforts to sabotage the British war against Hitler, such Irish rebel spirits unavoidably, if reluctantly, place themselves on the side of another tyrant who is at least equally fiendish in his oppression of proud, honorable peoples who are, large co-religionists of the Irish. “is It were juvenile, indeed, to say that the British in this present war are fighting to avenge Hitler's crimes against the Catholic Bohemians and Poles, but at least they are fighting the man and the system.

size or bigger, and even though the disorders of the

the same admiration and benevolence that one gives to rebellious Czechs and Poles. Yet such is the sentiment of the American people, or at least of a government having a mandate from them, that the main and incidental war aims of the British are heartily approved and action hostile to them is not. Therein we find ourselves no more consistent than these Irish who lit up the blackout in Belfast to help the Nazi oppressors lick the British oppressors. “ 4

OT only these Irish, who seem to be an incorrigible minority, but a number of Americans. including many of Irish ancestry, find themselves

time to take stock of our national defenses. Many men who ought to know are saying that we are | not in very good shape. Maj. Gen. George White, com- |

currently engaged in anti-Semitism here. men is an import from Germany and is distinctly ersatz, or phony, but some of those efigaged in it, even members of the Catholic church, claim to be-

mander of the National Guard troops of five Northwest | lieve that the Jew is Christianity’s enemy.

states, is the latest Army man out with a statement—that our “nation’s entire military force is obsolete, not properly trained and not properly equipped for modern warfare,” "and that “we would be impotent to stop” a sudden invasion. Similar views were voiced earlier by Gens. Pershing and | Drum. Bernard M. Baruch, head of the War Industries Board | of the World War, declared the other day that the United | States was “seriously unprepared” in respect to both in- | dustrial mobilization and military power. And responsible | War Department officials agreed that what Mr. Baruch | said was all too true.

Well, then, why not do something about it? Staying |

In baiting their Jewish neighbors, however, they collaborated with Hitler, who then suddenly dropped anti-Semitism and joined a political, economic and military offensive alliance with Soviet Russia which Hitler once denounced as a Jewish-Bolshevik state but which, nevertheless, strangely, always refused to accept Jewish refugees from Germany. Now, those who still persecute Jews find themselves still committed to Hitler and frisking his literature for material against Jewish bolshevism while the Nazi and Soviet armies both mop up Catholic

| Poland in the most harmonious co-operation. And,

finally, although there are three million Jews in Poland, Stalin ignors them and puts in a claim for

| only the White Russians and Ukrainians.

Business

out of Europe's war is the special session's first order of | By John T. Flynn

business. The best insurance on keeping out is to make ourselves go strong that no belligerent will dare to drag us in. So, while the proposed changes in the Neutrality Law are | being debated in Congress, it would be well for the appropriate committees to take a new look at our defenses,

Real Neutrality Act Possible if Leaders Earnestly Desire

much difficulty about a Neutrality Act among

| men who honestly desire neutrality. The whole trou-

draft legislation to strengthen them and determine what | ple comes from the fact that a powerful group headed

new appropriations will be needed. In this connection, nothing is more vital to defense | and security than our national credit. that now confronts us, we can’t afford the luxury of un- | necessary Government expenditures and a rising public | debt. It is imperative, we think, that Congress start now, | comb through the whole budget, economize where econ- | omies are at all possible, spend where spending is indispensable to national security, and lay whatever taxes are needed to pay the hill. For our part we cannot believe that American citizens will shrink from paying the costs of an armed and effective | neutrality, They will be high, but not nearly so high as | the costs of war, And let the taxes be direct and just, on as broad a base | as possible, on the incomes of the people, from each accord- | ing to his ability to pay.

BETTER THAN MUSTARD GAS | PRESIDENT RALPH C. HUTCHINSON of Washington |

| sides—that

| land and France, | so openly, plainly. and they should present the argu- | ments they have for | dealing honestly.

y the President does not want neutrality. They want an act which will enable them to take sides, and

{ want to call such an act a neutrality act.

The President is reported to have told his Cabinet

In the situation | that the Government must be honest with the people

and that it must tell them the truth during this war. That is wise. But when men say they want some kind of a neutrality act and use that word and that demand as a cloak to get legislation to aid one of the belligerents, they are not honest with the people and they are not telling the truth. There are many men who believe we should take we should put our economic resources and oui munition resources at the disposal of EngVery well, then they should say that course. That would be # But to pass an act which is called a neutrality ect and do it for the purpose of ending neutrality is

| a course which will get those who pursue it into a

bad jam in history when the story of the deception is made clear. Neutrality means very plainly that we will not take sides. We propose to sell our goods to anyone who has the money to buy them. Also we will sell them to warring nations that have the ships to carry them away. This of course seems to favor England and France because they have the ships and money. But that is not our fault. We have to deal with a world as we find it and conditions as they are.

& Jefferson College has announced four courses this | Avoiding the Profit Motive

: : tes : year designed, according to a United Press dispatch, “to | ,

teach that European wars are the periodic result of Euro- | pean hatreds and jealousies of age-old duration and that | the United States can have no interest in outbreaks so purely local in nature and would suffer as a dupe if nation became involved.”

We demand cash and we insist the goods shall go n other ships than ours and that title shall vest in the foreign buyer. Friends of England and France say that is unfriendly to them. It will limit their purchases because it will deprive them of the benefits of credits and

this | of loans here. But that cannot be helped. We cannot

risk the peace of this nation by having our ships and

| our cargoes hombarded. We cannot take the chance

This seems to us a better way to learn this ancient | Of ou country getting too big a profit interest. Hence

we want cash and carry as to all goods outside of mu-

truth than lying on one's back afterward in a hospital for | nitions and arms.

days or months or years and coming to a recognition of the fact too late. Or having just a flash of recognition in the split second between the time the bullet strikes and oblivion. Congressional medals are not given for such sound sense as Dr. Hutchinson displays, but perhaps that would be a good thing. It is worth encouraging.

“ROUGH AND DISLOYAL” TALIN, dictator of Russia, slew the flower of the Russian army on the charge that they were too friendly with Germany and Japan. Now Stalin has made pacts with Germany and Japan. Stalin denounced the “fascism” of the Nazis as the chief enemy of Russian communism: yet he has made a

Munitions and arms we should not sell at all. This is said to be unfriendly to England and France. But that is not true. That will be the one provision which on no account can be called unneutral for it will apply to all.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

O paraphrase a famous saying, “Backward the course of Empire takes its way.” The lines came into mind the other night after the audience had roared at Claire Booths hilarious farce, “The Women.” And then, like a dash of icy water, came the news reels—“"London Evacuates Its Children.” For minutes the pictures raced before us—thousands upon thousands of youngsters herded like cattle into trains, leaving their homes and parents with gas

treaty with that fascism. He pretended that his Soviet

Union was against aggression; yet his treaty with Germany

was Hitler's green light for the invasion of Poland. And now Stalin is grabbing his share of prostrate Poland.

masks in their hands and one day's food ration in

| their knapsacks.

| H. G. Wells?

“Surely, surely,” I said to myself, “this can’t be | true. Am I alive in such a grotesque world? Must this not be some fantastic tale spun from the pen of Are adults actually fitting gas masks | to baby faces, and do those giant guns rear snake

William Henry Chamberlain, writing in the Christian | heads in any city park?

Science Monitor, recalls that Lenin, founder of Soviet Russia, recommended that Stalin be dismissed as general secretary of the Communist Party and characterized him as a “rough and disloyal man.” Lenin knew him then. The world knows him now.

LET THIS BE A LESSON

GOOD-LOOKING young woman who spent two days and nights helping bail out a lifeboat, with shoes for buckets, is quoted as saying she didn’t know how they made it. Let this be a stern lesson for all women on the danger of shoes without toes and heels. Vy there a policeman in the crowd ?

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Alas, these pictures are reflections of fact. Back— the course of Empire finally takes its way. The in-

evitable, the inexorable day has arrived, when the

results of a studied plan of nationalistic behavior begins to take shape—and what a horrible shape! Although we repeat fatuously that Hitler is making this war, in our hearts we know that is not really true. Something stronger and more ruthless and far more long-lived than the Fuehrer moves the helmeted marching men and drives those little children from their mothers. The proud Empire Builders—the insatiably greedy | nations that for centuries have tried to hog the earth | for themselves, and have sacrificed millions of lives | for another little slice of territory—they are the real war mongers. The trampling ambitious who, in forgetting the rights of the weak, have spelled their own unhappy doom. For upon the feet of those

| English children European civilization marches back-

ward toward Me old barbarisms,

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ____ Just Like the Communists Said—by Herblock

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But the opportune time to kick an oppressor is | when he is wholly engaged in fighting someone his own |

Irish rebels be unofficial, the perpetrators command |

This move- |

|ed agencies of our Government. (To

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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.*

SEE BRITISH BEATEN AT DIPLOMATIC GAME By L. S. Farmer, Anderson, Ind. British diplomats, the watchdogs for the British aristocracy of wealth, planned to involve fascism! and communism in a life and death | struggle which would so weaken | both that Britain and her Allies! could step in at the end, subdue |

both, rid the world of communism | and fascism, and re-map the world |

to suit the fancy of their own|

arisioctacies Of wealth, ity that will fight to the last ditch That plan was the ointment con- 4 bring us back to our original incocted by British diplomats to rid dependence, free from foreign finthe world of fascism and commu- ancjal entanglements, about which nism, but the fly of diplomatic trick- ,, early settlers and founders were

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ery, in the game of world politics, | ¢, careful to caution us. We didn't entered into that ointment and re-

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| N=% YORK. Sept. 21.—There ought not to be very |

(listen; we slumbered too long; now, again, we must pay the price. concocted it.

Communism can well afford tol 2 8 = make peace with both European pRUGLESS DEPARTMENT

ang Asiatic fascism While Stic IN HOSPITAL URGED UTOpeR!) enemes are een ng By a Licensed Drugless Physician

themselves white in a life and death | : . . There has been some criti-

struggle and while their Asiatic] enemy chokes itself to death trying |cism through the press of the negto swallow the Chinese Dragon. jo, to set aside two floors of the After which communism will prob- as ably be in a favorable position to [new addition of City Hospital for transform governments, operating Negro internes and nurses to care in the interest of national toiling | for Negro patients. masses organized within a United | «mo initiative is good as far as

States (Nations) of the World, wherein nations are given equal|medical treatment is concerned but

representation and power with one | nothing has ever been said about a another so that they may be in- | drugless department in City Hosduced to deal with one another |...) as well as all tax-supported upon a basis of equity to the mu- | alma . healing institutions in the state. ...

tual benefit of one another, . , . . There are many licensed drugless

” n ” s v physicians in this state but the FORESESS REACTION TO medical doctors do not allow them

“FASCIST BOARD” even to step inside a hospital much By an Ex-Soldier, or Am 1? less treat the sick. a One of the most brazen acts ever| Th (Bolen of taxpayers, vot put over on the American people clear-cut, just explanation from the took place a few days ago, and as Mayor as well as from the manyet has not received a rebuke from |28ement of the hospitals on this

Congress, press or the people. {= am speaking of the return to this|

country of an international financier and the immediate appointment of a Fascist Board to strip power from Congress and other duly elect-

acted against the diplomats who

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DICTATORSHIP HELD MORE HONEST THAN DEMOCRACY By A.B. C. The United States ought to wake up and quit prating about democracy. The great and sacred British-French democracy has done nothing these last 20 years but sell its friends “down the river.” This magnificent and idealistic form of government has pandered to the rich and starved the poor.

All Hitler and Mussolini have done is carry out what they said they would. Sure, some people have been hurt. But they were told in advance. England hurts ‘em while still telling ’'em they're their chums. And the British-French type of democracy seems to be that of the United States. If it is, I say take dictatorship. It's more honest.

” ” ” BLAMES RULERS FOR WORLD UNREST By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood, Ind.

We common people of America, as well as the whole civilized world, have had to stand for centuries the anguish of death on the battlefield, destruction and unbearable debts growing out of such management and economic control of the lives of millions by an invisible empire couched in almost every nation in the world, controlling the educational institutions and avenues of information essential to peace, prosperity, comfort and intellectual and moral development. ' . All on account of an abnormal ambition to rule the people, to get an unearned income so they could prey upon their economically controlled victims of an unjust system of exploitation made by themselves in their hidden institutions of injustice, manipulated by themselves, which has cursed the world so long. The end of those workers of iniquity is near at hand.

think, it had the sanction of our own President.) This master stroke proves conclusively that our Government is being run from an address that is However, this bold move made by men drunk with financial power will prove a boomerang. I predict will solidify most factions and nationalities in the country into one American major-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

LLERY QUEEN who has mastered a score of baffling “who-|done-its” makes his bow as Ellery (Queen, inc, with a partner who | holds the center of ‘he stage from Page 1 to Page 325. The story is “The Dragon's Teeth” (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) and it is one of the raciest yarns Mr. Queen has turned out. Cadmus

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Cole, retired munitions

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magnate, hires Queen for an unspecified investigation. He pays $15,000 in advance as a retainer. Six months later Cole dies at sea, and

is buried at sea and the crew dispersed. But precisely at that point Ellery’s veriform appendix goes into action and the partner in question, Mr. Beau Rummell, takes over as “Mr. Queen.” Mr. Rummell’s adventures are as highly entertaining in themselves as the unfolding of the mystery. Ellery Queen is merely the background for this thriller. Inspector Queen, father of the detective, and Sergt. Velie play minor roles to Beau and Kerrie Shawn, the young lady who is one of the two heirs to Cadmus Cole's millions and who plays havoc with Beau's heart. The story moves along at breakneck pace and reaches its climax with Kerrie in jail, Beau going mad with rage, and Ellery promising to produce the solution within 24 hours. He does it, but to find out how you'll have to read it yourself.

COMPREHENSION

By ANNA E. YOUNG

I would choose for myself the simpler things; The good from what I have had For contentment must be, and the peace that it brings, ‘The good, must outweigh the bad.

It is marvelous, yet, do all of us learn What it means—to understand. "Tis wonderful to find, and discern, The beauty of what is at hand.

DAILY THOUGHT

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in— Matthew 25:35.

E that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others’ good, is a poor, Baillie,

gozen churl.—~Joanna

. THURSDAY, SEPT. 21, 1939

Gen. Johnson : Says—

Peace Now, or Later, Should Make Reich and Soviet Stronger, but in Any Event It Is None of Our Concern,’

NDIANAPOLIS.—If a chance for peace in Europe appears, what should our attitude be? Suppose it should be no more than an armed peace. Suppose it proposes to restore the boundaries of Germany and Russia as they were before the World War and the Treaty of Versailles—and even the German colonies. We were not a party to that treaty. We refused to ratify it. We went into the World War asserting that we were against the armed conquest of territories and would take none. We took none. Our associates took all they could get. We were used, euchered and left out on a limb, They took what they wanted by force—and part of that force was ours, notwithstanding our protests against forcible annexations. If it is now restored. by force, in what position are we to resist? The. attitude of the victors at Versailles for 20 years makes. it very clear that what was there taken by force could have been restored by force—and in no other way in the world. ' I realize that this is Hitler's argument and we hate Hitler and Hitlerism. But I don’t care whose argue ment it is—the question is only of any modicum, or more, of merit there may be in it and of our own proper position in this matter—not the position of England, France, Russia or Germany, but only of: the U. S. A. ~ ” ” Dig and France are in no position to fight any kind of war except an interminable affair of siege, blockade and starvation. Do we want to encourage that? On the side of the ayes there is this to be said: . It would, in time, build up a munitions industry here and a temporary boom. It would give us a chance to grab German and perhaps Japanese trade. in Latin America. On the side of the Fourth New Deal ayes it would probably perpetuate the Janissarie at and insure a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. Now for the contrary argument. Any munitions or war boom would be bound to be artificial and ine flationary and would almost certainly bust in a new and worse depression with God-knows-what at the end. The longer war lasts the greater are our chances of involvement. These predictions are not hard to make. They are almost certainties in the face of all recent human experience. They boil down to Benjamin Franklin's axiom, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.”

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Tone is this further reflection: Suppose Russia - and Germany are restored to their boundaries as they existed before the World War. In what different * condition would that place us, as compared to our postion in 1913? There was then an equally powerful Germany and a powerful Russia—wobbly inside. They were both dictatorships—different from the present ones in little more than name and outward form. Then, as now, Germans were reaching for more power. Then, the British navy and the French army stood between them and us. If no peace is made now that might, in time, no longer be the case. Is this a cold-blooded, hard-boiled, cynical, ma« terialistic point of view? You're darned tootin’ it is It is the way other nations, whether ‘peace-loving or “aggressors,” look at their own problems—in their own interests. It is time to get a little tough on our own hook.

Japan and U.S.

By Bruce Catton

Tokyo Representatives Push Bid. For Understanding With America.

ASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The Japanese Gove ernment is trying to get back into America’s friendship again. Both formal and informal overtures are now being made, and the goal is an “under- . standing” which would permanently remove the : danger of war between the two countries. : So far, the Japanese idea is for an “understanding” on Japan's own terms, including acceptance by - the United States of Japan's conquest of China and - Manchukuo. Since this country’s official position - has been that it does not recognize territorial changes : made by force and in violation of treaties, that hope is perhaps somewhat remote. Nevertheless, the campaign for a settlement of Japanese-American difficulties is being pushed. 2 Publicly, it recently took the form of renewedconversations between Secretary of State Hull and. Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese Ambassador. The: Ambassador presented no proposals, but simply discussed various aspects of the two countries’ relations. - Unofficially, Japan's point of view has been pre-, sented here by the visit of Toshi Go, Japanese come

| missioner to the World's Fair in New York. A prie

vate citizen, Mr. Go is understood to have been acting informally to sound out sentiment and present his Government's point of view. During a week's visit he’ conferred with a number of Government officials, Representatives and Senators. Ye

The Pact With Russia

The general tenor of Mr. Go’s message can be summarized briefly, thus: Japan does not want to take over the Philippines * when America gives them up. Japan is willing to see American trade rights in China continued—for - selfish reasons, if for no other, since the full “de<’* velopment” of a pacified China will take many" generations and will be a job far beyond Japan's. unaided resources, Japan feels that it ought to be possible to come to agreement on spheres of ine fluence in the Pacific satisfactory to both countries. - Beyond that, Mr. Go represents the signing’ of the’ Russian-Japanese agreement as a development fave orable to Japanese-American harmony. The Japanese attitude on that goes like this: The sooner the war in China is wound up (by a Japanese victory, of course), the sooner can Japanese-American friend- ° ship be restored. The agreement with Russia will - help Japan win the war, and hence will bring & final understanding with America that much closer.

Watching Your Health:

By Jane Stafford

EW people, says the U. S. Public Health Service,realize the important part played by the nose in the preservation of good hearing. Most ear troubles, it is explained, develop not in the outer ear but in the middle ear and the eustachian tube which opens from '.

it. This tube serves as a drainage canal and helps. to’ maintain an equality of air pressure on both sides of the ear drum. When you are in a healthy condition this pressure is kept equalized because whenever youswallow or yawn air is admitted into the eustachian tube. : When the nasal passages become clogged, however, - the eustachian tube is frequently blocked. Persistent colds or catarrh may be the cause of such clogging. When the eustachian tube is blocked, the air pressure | is not equalized on both sides of the ear drum and the drum is sometimes pushed out of shape. Inflammation of the ear and other serious ear troubles may start in this way. ' If your nasal passages are clogged, be careful about ° trying to clear them by such measures as nasal douches or vigorous blowing. It frequently happens - that nasal douche is used with pressure which forces - water into the eustachian tube or into the middle ear, When this happens, trouble is sure to start. If you: use a nasal douche or spray, have your physician or ear specialist show you how to do it safely. Remember, too, that ear specialists advise blowing through both sides of the nose at once, and frown severely on the common custom of stopping one side with finger pres=sure while blowing vigorously through the other, Stoppage of the nose passages by colds, and ade noids that develop slowly and that enlarge the tone sillar tissue about the palate, are more often causes of deafness, according to the Federal health authorities, than any disease of the ear itself. :