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_ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1930 | !

Today is the first anniversary of the Munich copference.

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THE great battle on our Western (well, Midwestern)

Front .has resulted in a decisive victory for the Reds.

“Before long New York will be invaded and the bands in “~Cincinnati will be playing “The Yanks Are Coming.” - Men “in uniform will charge from their dugouts, the batteries will start firing and this country will be in the midst of a . war requiring neutrality of no American citizen and getting it from mighty few. ’ Somehow we feel more, cheerful, less inclined to con:clude that nothing is normal any more, now that the way has been cleared for another World Series, :

“WHY POLAND LIVES ON | AFTER 20 days of siege, ‘Warsaw has surrendered. The fight she waged was epic. Hopeless from the start, surrounded,. outnumbered, outgunned, their water supply ruptured, rations cut off, hospitals destroyed, the whole city a corpse-strewn shambles, the defenders fought on. - Yet all the while they knew they could not win. _ That is why Poland will live on. For nearly a century and a half her name was but a memory, erased from the map of Europe. Yet again and again her people rose and -fought the invaders, knowing full well when they did so that all they could hope was to keep alive their cause. ‘Today the feet of Russian and German invaders again tread Polish soil. After 25 years of freedom Poland has again been wiped from the map. But the spirit survives and ‘will continue to do so until liberation comes again. That, we hope, is the meaning of Warsaw.

‘WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN’ HE drafters of the American Bill of Rights, which became part of the Constitution 150 years ago this week, could hardly have imagined the scale upon which one of “the liberties there guaranteed would be used in 1939. . Citizens now flooding Congress with hundreds of thousands of letters and telegrams on the neutrality issue are - exercising their right of. petition. It’s an excellent right . to exercise. - But it may be used intelligently and effectively—or in the reverse way. And increasing numbers of people, in recent years, have used it in the reverse way.

Congressmen like to be informed about what- their |

constituents are thinking. But Congressmen, just as other people; dislike to be pressured by organized propaganda.

~The Senator or Representative upon whom a sudden ava-

lanche of mail descends when somé important question is up is apt to suspect the influence of propagandists. When he gets hundreds of practically identical letters, even “though the names. signed to them differ, his suspicion becomes overwhelming. | | | ~ “Write your Congressman,” by all means, if you feel strongly about any issue on which it is his duty to vote. But write in. your own words; don’t parrot what you have read somewhere or what you have heard some radio “orator tell you'to say. Make your letter individual; “form” letters and carbon copies aren’t likely to be read or to carry much weight if they are. Make your argument as strong as you can; but show that you have sought information on both sides of the question before forming your opinion. Give your Congressman credit for some intelligence of his own; that will impress him, whereas a threat to drive him from public. life if he doesn’t follow your orders may only make him mad. And remember, if it’s neu=trality you're writing about, that he probably is just as ‘concerned as you are to keep this country out of war.

‘WAR AND TAXES |

’ any Americans who may be inclined toward beHigi efency today—who may be saying to themselves that what is going on in Europe is our war and we ought to get in it—we recommend a pacifying study of Great Britain’s new taxes. | ” ~The Englishman knows that it is his war; he loves his country and he is willing to pay to defend it.’ And because of new taxes he is paying, higher prices for sugar and necessities, higher prices for luxuries—the equivalent of 18 cents for a bottle of beer, 28 cents for a package of 20 cigarets and $3.30 for a fifth-gallon bottle of whisky. Next year the taxes on estates will be from 10 to 20

per cent higher, and as one member of Parliament observed,

“There'll be plenty of deaths.” : . If there are still some: American businessmen foolish enough to think that profits can be made by getting into that war, they will find an antidote for greed in reflecting that British businesses are going to pay 60 per cent tax on excess profits—in addition to the so-called standard income tax which is being stepped up to 371% per cent.. But the biggest jolt of all is the taxes on the inrcomes of individuals. | Here are a few comparisons.

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{ -‘An-American married couple with no children and an i income of $1000 pay no Federal income tax. A correspond- { ing British family will pay $29 tax, $2000 income—Amer-

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| 1 ican couple, no tax; British couple, $246. $4000 income—

{ American couple, $44 tax; British couple, $871. $6000 in- : eome—American couple, $116; British couple, $1496. $8000 | income—American couple, $248; British couple, $2246. 312.000 income—American couple, $602; British couple, ' $4020. pli .. And so on. As the income goes highef, the margin | parrows. (You may recall we already have soak-the-rich faxes, part of the New Deal war on economic royalists.) In the top bracket, Britain's new tax is about the same as ours—taking about four-fifths of the income. | If any American, after reading the above tax schedules, still feels warlike, we prescribe one more immunizing dose. Read the remarks of Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the { Exchequer, to the effect that after the war is over the Government may move to conscript wealth by a capital levy. 1 Well, it can’t happen here— that is; it can’t if we:keep

on belieying that this is not our war. A & ; i Wi

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carrier, 12 cents

if he is correctly informed and quoted, firings will be done quietly, which is just the way the Bolos |:

- the cribs of our babies and

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler : Now That the Government Plans

"To Fire the Communists, Business|} & . Should Have the Same Privilege. | | NJEW YORK, Sept. 20.—In view of latest revela- | |

N tions before the Dies Committee and of the Nazi-

| Communist alliance in Europe ‘there is no longer any

excuse, much less a reason, for the retention of Communists: or fellow-travelers in the Federal Govern‘ment. yt Mr. Dies, in h asked the Department of Justice to eliminate 2850 Communists holding = Government jobs, and, while the purpose is laudable, the method is ag, Desauss, work in unions and Government projects. oY The correct way is to throw them out, and fo out their names so that the country can be sure that none Jemains and, more important, that it is not the Bolos ‘who are getting rid of the Americans instead.

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~ERTAINLY there is no justification now—not that there ever was—for the employment in Govern-

to the Communist Party or have declared a belief in the Soviet Government as.the greatest -experiment ever made for human betterment, whatever the party affiliations of the latter group may be. Anyone who does or did belong to the conspiracy, or who intentionally’ gave aid and comfort to the enemy, must have known that this was an anti-American movement directed by a foreign dictator. ’ Some fellow-travelers now profess to have been simple, sincere dopes. who didn’t know what it was all about, but they are more to be scorned than pitied by those who had to endure their vicious slanders and dirty little parliamentary plots conducted in the guise

they are just licked and whining. . Two heads of the Communist Party in America—

mittee that this Soviet agency of theirs counterfeited American passports, and they personally used such forgeries in their travels. And the ex-chief, Gitlow, confirmed, as an insider, the counterfeiting of American money by the Soviet Government. : 2 8 = A> if it be advisable to kick these individuals out of Government positions, it follows that private “employers, too, must be allowed to rid themselves of conspirators and saboteurs who, up to now, have

The Communists’ own projects in the United States, including’ Communistic publications, cannot consistently object to such a purge because they themselves insisted that all their employees shall be party members and reserve the right to fire, for political reasons,

anyone who falters in his loyalty to the Kremlin.

American business had come to be regarded as

something un-American, and it was un-American even to object to the presence in important Government positions of a. lot of lazy classroom nobodies Who had planted themselves away for: life in soft Jobs in colleges, but came a-whooping into Washing ton when the word went out that this was something equally soft but with the additional attraction of high life, free drinks, power and publicity. The Communists didn’t elect anybody, and if this 1s an American Government it is no favor that the New Deal does to boost the Bolos out. It is just a correction of a bad mistake. :

Business By John T. Flynn

Chicago ‘Business Good, but Saner View Is Being Taken of War Boom.

Cease, Sept. 20.—The price and prosperity hurrah which marked the first days of the war has begun to simmer out here in this grain, meat, steel and general manufacturing country. The excitement has cooled off. When Hitler crossed the Polish border, swarms of people in America said—well, it’s too bad, but how can we help. it if it makes business ‘here? So prices shot up and some businessmen sat down to watch the business intlex go up. . They are bginning to get a saner view of all this. There is plenty of activity in this region. It can be seen in the furious energy of the lake shipping. Old boats have been brought into commission. There are more boats chugging in and out of the lake ports than in many a day. Canada is buying American coal because she cannot buy from England. Also ore shipments have been heavy. Steel companies are putting their mills to work at mounting capacity. Some of it is war orders. More of it is orders from domestic users of steel who waht to get in ahead of any severe increases in price; a geod deal of it is from our own Government. But the grain markets have gotten rid of their hysterical joy. Wheat prices have begun to taper off. The packers. say there is plenty of meat available and prices have dropped from 5 to 30 per cent below the figure of the first days of the war, They are actually lower than they were a year ago. 3

Other Price Increases

~ But other, prices have risen. Makers of women’s hosiery have raised the price as much as 6 or 7 ‘cents a pair on moderate is true of wool goods and shoes. Prices have risen and -tend to go higher. This will still further reduce purchosing power. - : ere has been some increase in employment in mills. Some of it is seasonal due to ne of operations at this season, some of it is due to war orders, some of it is due to the rush to get goods before prices rise. s¥ iii o But on the While businessmen now see that whater bene usiness may get from the w quige Hod gs at first. IE ® For WL bs ut what is serious is hat the war ten dominate the thinking of businessmen. a them making comparisons of prices with 1914 prices instead of 1929 prices as they once did. They are permitting the war to get into their planning and the worst of this is that the war has them bewildered. They can’t make up their minds whether we are going to get in or not. This uncertainty tends to unsettle their plans and also tends, to cut off the sort of plans which run over a long period. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

“JJ UBRY. Anne! The President is on the his neutrality ‘speech.” “I simply can’t come now; Flo. Baby has his nap. You listen for me.” Women lives are like that. vast and important concerns go on, the baby always has to have his nap on schedule; older children must be off to school and dinner has to be. ready at nightfall, = + - S f° For, although men may maim and kill in other parts of the earth, women everywhere are ‘under a powerful compulsion to keep: at the blessed ageless affairs of nurturing and having human life, Today, when we are confused by the force and horror of outside occurence, when we vainly seek for peace where none is to be found, I am grateful that all over the world, under the roofs of little houses, women -go about their immemorial business oven hough some of them must do it to the sound For Anne, the mother, baby’s nap must ever be ot more importance than the speeches of Presidents r the pronouncements of kings. This | been true and it always will le, Ras |alvays And whatever happens about us, we can always slake our thirst for - decency, beautiful, blessed qualities of

air »with

to have

human existence, over

in the w small kitchens. - armth of our

-and ‘sunshine, the sanctuary of such temples of love. For without the: everyday routines of fife to which

we are so acclistomed, and which sustains our souls

like heavenly manna,

fact, says the Administration” Has

ment positions of men and women who either belong |.

of liferal movements. They are not harmless dopes;

one current, the other ex—admitted to the Dies Com- |

enjoyed the protection of the Labor Relations Board.

priced hose. And the same thing |

No. matter what |

purity and love-—~the | |

We need, ‘quite ‘as. much as we need fresh air

; ° , 3 : . : The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

SUPPORTS ROOSEVELT STAND ON NEUTRALITY

By An Army Veteran Discharged for Physical Disability ¢

No citizen of the United States

who listened to the message of President Roosevelt to the Congress on last Thursday can possibly misconstrue his statements unless he aldows his politics and partisanship

‘| to interfere with his common sense.

The President wants to keep us

out of war. He believes that it is possible for us to stay out of war, but he does not pretend to say that

the majority of our citizens decide that liberty depends upon the eradication of odious “isms” whether domestic or foreign. = - The -last ‘World War owes us..almost toa: dollar the amount of our depression debt. The cost of relief, unemployment and public works required to feed and clothe the unemployable over the past few years can be charged to amounts owed us by other nations who borrowed from us to attain their selfish aims and when the victory was won and their ends accomplished, forgot to repay us. ; Those of us who are eligible to the call to arms have little doubt that we will eventually sacrifice our lives in defense of idealistic democratic principles; these principles ‘will hide the age-old economic demands that bring about war. “But when we are called, there will be no man with the courage to tear away the camouflage, to expose the real causes. Those of us who will give our lives to make the world “sure for democracy” will sacrifice ourselves as vainly as those who now lie beneath the soil of France and who died to make the world “safe for democracy.” . . . EJ ” 2

FAVORS REFERENDUM ON NEUTRALITY ACT . By Donald Bennett Is a special session of Congress necessary for the revision of the Neutrality Act? Why not take a referendum of the people? Our leaders are neither theocratic nor

ple, capable and willing to solve this problem by a popular vote. We do not want a prosperity steeped in the blood of our fellowmen, and gained through the destruction of their nation. Maybe the speculators and international financiers do. If so, give them guns and

we are going to stay out of war if|

infallible. We are an educated peo- |

(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.) i

send them over there, We will beat |

the drums and bury them when they have given their “all” for the mighty dollar, We know that entering a war on

‘the economic front is but a curtain

call to the main event. They know it, too. So when the shows, begins, let them go over the top in the rain and crawl through the ud on their bellies. & i The only cash and carry basis they can formulate is to raise our cash, to induce us to kill and be killed so our sons may carry a heavier burden through their. generation,-while they and their sons reap the bloody harvest sown with our dead bodies. We still thrill to the rhythm of marching feet, but the song now is, and will always be, “The Yanks are staying, the Yanks are staying, over here, over here.”

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SEES BUREAUCRACY GAINING

AT DEMOCRACY’S EXPENSE By Hugh B. Howe The present Administration is making the United States safe for

bureaucracy instead of safe for democracy. ; 5

CLAIMS TELEGRAMS CAN'T BE SENT “WITHOUT EXPENSE” By Anns A. Pich odie s ¢« « « Mr, C. E. White’s Forum article of Sept. 4 . . . . claims that Toughlinites had been exhorted to deluge Congressmen with telegrams on various. occasions for various reasons and that “these telegrams could be sent without expense to the sender.” . : . . « + » Any adult wishing to be informed could contact his ‘local telegraph office where he would be informed that every telegram sent must be paid for by the sender and in every case the sender is held for such payment. How then does Mr. White explain his statement that the telegraph company would accept C. O. D. telegrams by “the hundreds of thousands?” _aWANTS LAW CHANGED TO HELP ALLIES ; By D. L. : ‘ I hope that our great’ Senators Borah and: the others—dp not want to help bloody Hitler and Stalin to win the war of conquest by refusing to repeal the: Neutrality law. Please help repeal this law and aid liberty and justice. Don’t wait until Zeppelins drop bombs in New York and Washington.

: oi ME FEARS BEING BETRAYED INTO EUROPE’S WAR By D. J. D. ; There is little chance of being

drawn into a war 3000 miles away, but we must beware of being be-

trayed into it. . 2

New Books at the Library

ITLED ironically “The Heroes” (Simon and Schuster) the new novel by Millen Brand, author of that beautifully original first novel, “The Outward Room,” tells a story which may linger even longer :in the memory of its readers. Heroes! Home! Satiric words! In his cell-like room George feels the past, those years before he came

to the soldiers’ home, creep up be-

hind his closed eyes, while the years to come, to his weary mind, stretch away to a limitless future. He struggles to be free, for although the institution to which he has been

And which sustal ouls | in 8 tempestuous world. i Fe unerly genius

“Hang the prizes, Ma! Just don _ thase rilsbon winners.or we'll ha

Side Glances—By Ga

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let your jeliss gst mixed up with

othing fit fo eat all winter," | >

admitted is not an unpleasant place, escape means not merely a personal freedom, but, more vital, an. economic liberty with all the. delights thereof: Work, four walls to hold a woman's love; children—normality. A moving story this, of the onearmed veteran and the purposeless existence which he shares with his

comrades of ‘the home, of life in the.

never empty recreation room, the desultory talk, the bare dining hall, the clean, busy laundry where the men can wash and press. A note of warmth creeps in through Mary, who, although heartbreakingly typical of the girl workers in the factories of today, brings to George the gleam of encouragement which lightens his future. i Breathing life into these simple, humble folk, the author presents a penetrating social study.with the

‘effect of a Benton mural or a Grant

Wood portrait. We see the little industrial town, its smoky chimneys

‘| spelling hope and prosperity, or ‘| tragically, their gauntness against

the blue and stainless sky spelling doom and despair. We feel the bare-

‘ness, the monotony of the home at

its borders, the waste of manpower, symbolic of its prototypes up and down the land. : gn Here are .simple and powerful writing, cleanness and siricerity of line, strength in color and shadow, all, a strong emotional implication. meticulousness in detail. :

‘ANGER’ By ROBERT O. LEVELL A raging temper fills the eye With mean and ugly stare, When silly anger up so high ' Is filled ‘with awful glare. -

| Showing the ignorarice ‘of a spell,

When temper on the rage, :

Has every mark of hate and hell

In all the old rampage. DAILY THOUGHT

. ‘Wherefore: comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.—I Thessalonians 5:11. | Ar

IT is a little thing to speak a phrase of common comfort,

{which by daily use has almost lost

its sense; and yet on the ear of him who thought to :dié un

mourned, it - will fall: like: ‘the st music—Talfourd,

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Proposal fo Bar AllUL'S, Shipping To Belligerents Hll-Considered and ‘ May Bring Ruin to Our Export: Trade.

((VHICAGO, ‘Sept. 20.~In the turmoil about the arms embargo, other “points” in .the “Neu trality” Bill are being swallowed with little study or consideration. What is being proposed is that American commerce politely get off the ocean, as far as .sale or shipments to belligérents is concérned. : . Considering the spread of the British Empire and the possibility that it will all come in, that France covers .a lot of the globe and that before long, many others of our customers may be mixed tip, any such cast-iron rule could bottle our commerc® up as tight .embargo acts of Jefferson's time.

‘as did the ill-fa To some districts of our country this could be,

ruinous—for example, cutting cotton shipments from

‘the South. It could also be very silly. The purpose

11s to be sure that we won't be ‘called upon to avenge

‘a sinking of an American ship. But suppose that ship ‘were sailing to Australia with no naval wa¥ in the Pacific. The risk to us would be almost noth ing, but the loss to us could be tremendous.: «= = Nia vs '» : : 8 the President pointed out in his message. tp ‘the joint session of the Congress, there are twy ways to do this job. One is an act, now proposed, making it a felony to ship to belligerents in American ships. The other is simply to say, “you may ship, sell or sail, but you are warned that you do so at your own. risk. This Government will not protect | you if you gamble and lose. "You can risk your owg, lives and dollars for private gain, but not the peace and the neutrality of the United States.” whe What's the matter with the latter? The only arguments against it are, first; that it is incompatible with the sovereignty and dignity of the United States to take such a position and, second, that regardless of this warning, if American lives and ships are los it will incite popular opinion to war. = ar As to the first argument, why is it any more incompatible with dignity to give up our rights ta shipping on the seas completely, as is apparently about to be done, than to give them up only partially on the “ship-at-your-own-risk” plan? As to tI second argument, if our people should want to go to war to avenge people who took a risk, ‘they.

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8 to both arguments, there is nothing of novelty in international law in the ship-at-your-owne risk doctrine. It is no more than an ‘extension of the doctrine of “actual blockade”—which, is as old as international law itself. When a belligerent maintains an actual blockading fleet across the entrance ‘fo an enemy’s harbor, it always has been the.law: that a neutral ship attempting to get through “runs? that blockade at its own absolute risk, ls That rule was laid down when ships’ guns ranged less than 1000 yards, when speed was slow, observation limited and communications. very diffiv cult. Actual blockade of a whole coast was impossible then. All this has been changed. completely by radio, aircraft, submarines, long-range guns and vastly ins. creased speed. i cian ig 08 Why ‘not recognize that. obvious fact, insist on freedom of the seas in the open ocean and let our “people ship at their own risk in actually blockaded, areas? The present (proposal is an ill-considered ‘blunder. We must come to this modification eventually. Why. not now? :

Latin. America = By Bruce Catton Bei

Considerable Cash Needed to Build Up Trade With- Good Neighbors: \\/ ASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—At its reguiar session *" 7" in Januaty, Congress probably will be called on to help the United States take advantage of its new export trade opportunity in South America Last year Germany sold 283 million dollars worth of goods in South America. Uncle Sam can have most ‘of that trade—and probably a share of British and French trade, too—if he can find a way to fihance it. ° Financing it is apt to ‘be tough. The Administra« tion has been studying the problem and has exams ined several suggestions. A high Government official suggests that Congress probably will be asked to do one of two things: : ‘ i Either make more ‘money available for financing the trade through existing machinery, or set up new machinery, with new financing, for handling it ih & new way. . ! ° The handiest bit of existing machinery is the Ex< port-Import Bank. It has loanable resources of 100 million dollars, but most of this is already committed and if it is to finance greatly increased trade with South America it will have to have mére money.

Corporation May Be Formed Tk If new machinery is to be created, an entirely new ‘method of handling the trade may be indicated. One plan which has been ‘considered is to ‘set up a Gove

-| ernment corporation to buy surplus: Sputh American

commodities—coffee, wheat and so on—in mucl the ; manner that surplus United States: commodities: ars now handled. Se Fie Fes i This scheme admittedly would be expensive, and has aroused strong opposition from: the Department of Commerce. alan LT Eas es A variant of this plan which has been suggested is to make direct loans to the leading South American countries, tdking stocks of their raw materials as. security. ; eh: Pras There is a good deal of feeling in some groups heré that none of these proposals would be wise; that the only sound way to handle the problem would be:to let the South American nations make the approaches and to let all trade be handled in, the normal way. . , It is pointed out that the regular buying power of South America probably will’ be somewhat increased since England and France may be expected to buy! more heavily of South American raw materials, thug making more dollar ‘exchange available; and that, in addition, world commodity prices are up so that the dollar volume of the South American trade will in crease. : dy

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford ~~

HE hiking season is on and according to one aus ‘A thority, more than 350,000 Americans Will*be &ns gaged in this activity which has actually b ean organized sport. The health advantages are obviots— exercise of the whole body at a pace that’cin’be ad strenuous or as gentle as you need, and plenty" of fresh country air and sunshine. Ga Fos 1212 . “Hiking is a form of massage that eases and relaxés

| muscles at, the same time that it strengthens them,”

‘Glen Yerk Williamson points. ut in Hygeia. K “Then, too,” he says, “it builds stamina’and endurance rather than cumbersome brute strength.” .. "= 7 7 0 10 If you are just taking up this sport, there are a number of points to watch in order to make sure you get the most benefit and enjoyment, from it. You prob- : ably won't make the mistake of starting off in high. heeled, tight shoes, but.don’t get your. hiking shoes too loose and. don’t. start with very low heels unless you ‘are accustomed to them. Otherwise you are in for aching, ‘paralyzed leg muscles before you have hiked many miles. © 7. tin. hotles wen Gosia - Wool hose are considered ideal because they cushion the feet against harmful jolts, absorb perspiration and act as & thermostat against unexpected changes ifi temperature. ; gv = il ' . The novice-will probably’ find himself tired any< way after even a short hike, but Mr. Williamson says enthusiasm increases in préportion ‘to the length each consecutive trip, Speed and mileage should considered, he suggests. ta * “A mile a day, while Infinitely better ah go walk ig at all, is not eno Hoya pel ii tion...’ Most persons who take up hiking - have tendency 16 overdo by walking too fast; they underdo