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MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1939

UNITY, THROUGH DEBATE NE week of the big debate has presented a itained and reassuring tone; a tone of restraint. Apparently experience and burned fingers do count. ; There has been none of the flag-waving and the jingoism which characterized the arguments leading up to April 6, 1917. Despite differences over methods, the theme has been the same—complete unity in behalf of safety first and - keeping out. May that tome never go sour.

TOO GOOD HE New York Yankees are good. No one, especially no one in Cincinnati, is likely to argue to the contrary today. ‘The trouble is, they're too good. Big league baseball is a great institution, but we're a trifle tired of seeing it made a Yankee monopoly. We long for the good old days when a World Series was a contest, not an annual “blitzkreig.” ix

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RUSSIA AND FINLAND :

USSIA now leers on spotless Finland to the west; shiny, self-respecting, self-supporting, debt-paying Finland. And Russia may get away with another Baltic conquest;

"because she is big and Finland little.

Finland was asked to send her Foreign Minister to Moscow, as Estonia and Latvia were “asked.” But, unlike the others, Finland has declined the “invitation,” has placed 140,000 troops on her borders, and has served notice she will treat with Russia only as an “equal party.” But, because she is small, Finland has had to couch her

firm refusal in diplomatic language. - While declining to send "go to war civil liberties would be suspended and that, |

her Foreign Minister to Moscow, she has offered tb send another envoy—one without power to trade off her sovereignty. And the Moscow radio has warned that Russia’ reserves the right to “act as it saw fit if Finland refused to enter into negotiations.” If what that threat implies should come to pass, it would be one of the major tragedies in all the sordid history of conquest. :

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AND WE PAUSE FOR REPLIES Te

HE London Times says: “Any action taken by an American navy to enforce prohibitions contained in the (Panama City) declaration would have no sanction in international law and such action would amount to an act of war and nothing else.” The delegates to the Panama Conference ‘must have | known that one of the hazards they were facing was the risk of not obtaining even the tacit consent of The London Times, that, of course, being a sort of sine qua non of any project to gain “sanction in international law.” Since that great and dignified journal of British Tory opinion knows most of the answers, we'd like to pose a few questions: Would it be cricket to suggest that the British Empire divest itself of colonies and outposts lying within the Western Hemisphere “security zone,” by granting independence to the subject peoples. who inhabit those tero tories, or by ceding the same to the United States as a © part payment on that old war debt (we're not advocating, we're just asking)—or is there in international law some kind of a statute of limitations which has run against that debt? : By what process did Britain obtain “sanction in international law” for her threat to confiscate the goods of certain “blacklisted” export and import firms in South America, not merely goods destined for enemy ports, but also goods consigned to United States’ ports? And does a nation which is neutral have a right to suggest amendments to what is known as international law, or is international lawmaking the exclusive prerogative of the British Empire at war, by and with the advice and consent 6f The London Times?

“THE HOPE OF THE RACE” NLY ‘five of Germany’s 20 universities will open for the winter semester, says a Berlin dispatch. The other 15, including . Heidelberg and Bonn, will remain closed indefi-

nitely. ‘The news may be less sad than it seems. The great

universities of Germany are no longer what they were, and

perhaps it were better that all of them should be closed

than that they should pervert learning to the uses of the Nazi scheme. But we may be thankful that America’s universities and colleges have opened as usual, and thankful, too, for such wise words as President Harold W.: Dodds spoke to his student body the other day at: the beginning of Princeton’s 193d academic year. - «While I have been speaking,”:said Dr. Dodds, “you. may have been thinking that only in -tranquil, cloistered

“walls, remote from realities, would one dare to talk at this

moment about trivialities such as education. It is no time, you may. say, for one to be tranquil, for if anyone enjoys tranquillity under present circumstances he must at .the same time feel a sense of guilt. “No, the danger facing you today is not excessive tranquillity but surrender to a gospel of futility on the one hand and unthinking emotion on the other. There still is

no reason to doubt that the way to inereased self-mastery,

which is the hope of the race, is by the difficult road of in-

_ creased knowledge, and you are here to gain both.

~~ “Among the wonders of the modern world are the new techniques of propaganda, common in Europe but still in their infancy here, to which you will be exposed in expanding measure. You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. For the hundreds of thousands of young Americans now beginning or resuming college careers there can be no better advice than this, that they make the most of their opportunity to achieve that mental preparedness which they will need for the kind of world in. which they : destined to live,

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Capitalism May Be Doomed, but if So Freedom Will Die With It as Germany and Russia Have Proved.

| YORK, Oct. 9.~In all the debate on the| = Hitler-Stalin ‘revival of the World War nobody | ©

has vet pointed out that complete ‘freedom of speech, ‘religion and the press, and civilization; are preserved, in peacetime at least, only in capitalistic countries.

It does mot follow’ that they are preserved even | in ‘peacetime in all capitalistic ‘countries, but it is. an | important fact that in peace’ of war they are pre-

served with the worst ferocity in those countries which: ‘have gone bolo in. one guise or another.

Nevertheless, the Americans sometimes are asked |

to believe that the world would have nothing to lese but their chains in overthrowing eapitalism’ ‘when the

obvious fact is ‘that they would lose every, arinary :

babitual Tight. a 8 # LE this. war the Hitler-Stalin propagatiia Has it that Germany and Russia are ‘fighting against British and ‘French imperialism, as though imperialism and

capitalism were identical or twin evils and as though |

bolshevism, whether red or brown, cannot be imperialistic. But the only nations in the war which have revealed territorial ambitions are Germany and Russia, and Italy, sitting on the bench, already has made two conquests and advertised an intention to go out for more. It is foolish to argue that American capitalists wafit war or that. people who are not consciously capitalistic but just go through life exercising the liberities permitted only under capitalism could improve their

‘condition by overthrowing capitalism. The capitalists saw what Happened to the capitalists of Italy and German

y. That is why the American capitalists have ‘been s0 apprehensive about the New Deal. They saw in some phases of it ‘a resemblance to the method by which Hitler and Mussolini "built up local, strong-arm bureaus to make and administer law by ear and the creation of a class of wards or dependents of the central goyernment. ” ” 2

Oo democratic capitalistic nation has made war in these years since the rise of bolshevism—red, brown, black and yellow. The wars all have been made by the dictatorships and the Russians, who

orice ‘denounced -poor. old Chamberlain because he

‘didn’t fight in defense of human rights ‘in Czechoslovakia, next denounced him because he did go to. Poland's - aid in defense of the ‘same rights. ~ Not) only “that, but imperialistic Russia, which has acknowledged Poland’s rights as a nation and dickered for the chance to invade Poland disguised as a friend,

| seized the opportunity to stab Poland in the back,

“capture about a third of the country and just about extinguished the feeble independence of the Baltics. Everybody must realize that if this country should

win or lose; the cost would be so great that capitalism would be unable to pay off and therefore would perish. When capitalism dies, according to the precedents of Russia, Germany and Italy, freedom dies, too. Capitalism may be doomed, anyway, as some of the New Deal appointees have thought, but if so that is to be lamented, because only under capitalism, with all its faults, have the people rights which to Americans are as natural as breathing.

Business

By John T. Flynn

Vigil Urged in Emergency Against Further Centralization of Power.

EW YORK, Oct. 9.—There was a good deal of speculation as to what the emergency was in this country when the President, on the outbreak of the war in Europe, proclaimed one. Why was it proclaimed? What powers did it give the President and what use would he make of them?

Whether there is an emergency or not is a point on which the President himself, apparently, is not quite clear. At his press conference last week he was asked if he would in the future bring the National Resources ‘Board together again. He would, he said, if an emergency should arise. What, then, has become of the emergency which he proclaimed recently and which officially. still exists?

The “emergency,” however, will soon justify itself. It will be used as the excuse for doing by decree or pushing through Congress or by the simple act of omission all those things which thé Administration has wanted to do but has been Prevented from doing so by Congress.

For instance, the President tried to get, in his

ill-fated lending plan at the last session of Congress, a half billion dollar appropriation to enable the Export-Import’ Bank to engage in foreign financing. That was almost the first thing stricken out by Congress. . But now it is revived and we are told he must have this sum to enable America to rush into South America and gather up the abandoned German trade.

NRA Revival Hinted

Then there were the trust laws—the poor old trust, or- rather anti-trust, laws. They have been buffeted about the last six years as never before. They were suspended in 1933, restored to life over the President's prostrate form by the Supreme Court and given a blow again through such things as the

Guffey. Coal Act, the milk control powers in the

AAA, etc. ‘Now one hears in many quarters that | the time for reviving the NRA is at hand. The war creates an emergency. The Government must have more control. Keep your eye on that, as a product of the “emergency.”

The last war delivered the greatest blow to competition that it had ever received. ‘ After the war the anti-frust laws were permitted to languish while the system of codes was developed to a high degree of perfection. The NRA was merely the logical and final development of this. The next war we get into will end competition altogether. But we may not have a war. Therefore it may be necessary to deliver the coup de grace to thesé controls in an “emergency.” We can at least have a war emergency with all that implies. © This is why it’ is so necessary for Congress to remain in continuous session.

A Woman’ Ss Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OMETIMES my heart is torn by the sight of small: boys and girls at the movies. This is especially 50 now, when Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse are between news reel releases of war. ‘Some of the sights sicken the hardened adult. What, then; must be their reaction upon the child, hardly yet released from his dreams of ‘fairyland and prepared to find the earth as magical and beau~ tiful a place as it ought to be? - Such a" child—he couldn't have ‘been more than eight—sat next to me the other day and, mistaking me: often for his mother who was on his other: side, clutched my hand frantically every time the big guns went off ‘during a showing of Uncle Sam's Navy maneuvers. He gnawed: his fingernails, his. thin little body squirmed, and I could feel the tenseness of his nerves, while the parade of horrors went on.

—but the guns and torpedoes looked just as realistic as the bombs we saw a few minutes later falling on Warsaw. And all the while the soft music played on. At the momenf Donald Duck: was on more fantastic than the Germans marching into Poland. They were all part of the evening’s entertainment. ;

The real met and mingled with the absurd and ]

unreal, and there was no way of separating them, because the mind, unable to accept the truth, simply.

repelled it and subconsciously labeled the whole thing fantasy.

At least, I felt that way, and how must the little 1

boy beside me have felt? Was his soul

against, such shocks to his nerves? I.don’t know, but

I do question the good sense of

showing a tures to either adults or children, unless in 8 pro- | releases. And. 1 :

gram devoted entirely to news the children should be kept \b

and certain other luxuries of

The Navy was || ‘only playing a war game—so.the commentator said |

to do

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Mistrust of Hitler Undatetendable, But Allies Should Explore All

’ Possibilities for Achieving Peace. NEW YORE. Oct. 9.—To be on the line and up to

the minute this place ought to come to some conclusion about Hitler's peace gesture, It isn’t going t because there hasn't been: enough time to study it, think about it and check up on some uncertain factual elements. This situation “offers only one suggestion. If a common columnar Kibitzer needs a

‘moment to catch his breath, ‘men whose decision could x kill 10 million men and perhaps ruin what is left of

Western civilization should be expected to stop. look 7

.| and listen.

HITLER'S - SPEECH

“The Hoosier Forum

| 1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will | defend to the death your right to say it =Voltaire,

CITES a: OF. CHEAPER COKE | By Mrs. Thurby Eldridge I read an item ln your paper stating that if coke were cheaper it would probably be possible for the poorer class of people to get coke to burn. . . . Ofir city would not have half the colds. or pneumonia. , .. I would buy coke all the time if it were, say $7....1If it were possible I believe every citizen would use coke or a better grade of coal because Indiana coal is terrible to burn. I like coke’ but cannot “afford to pay the price at present. We would have a cleaner city. I remember they had a drive a couple of years back concerning smoke. I say lower the price of coke and make it possible for: everyone to get it. ° If the bigger man higher up wants tol favor the poor man a little and let him have something cheaper and better to use, there would be happier homes and cleaner ones and hundreds of children now breathing soot and smoke would . be getting Food fresh air. THs a ’ CRITICIZE ARGUMENTS OF EMBARGO OPPONENTS By Edward F. Maddox It seems to me the position of advocates of repeal of the ban on ship-

ments of war materials—guns, bombs and bhombers—is untenable. Their contention that repealing the embargo is “the best way to keep out of war” is insupportable. Let them present facts to prove how and why selling guns, bombs and plahes to nations at war will keep us out of war. Let them set their arguments down in black and white so we can. study the thing out. We cannot swallow the mere statement unsupported by any sensible facts. Beside the plain truth that it is taking sides in a war to sell guns and bombs, the fact must stare ‘the advocates of repeal in the face that

|if and when we repeal the arms

embargo, Japan (against whom the embargo was specifically aimed) can and probably will resume purchase of war materials in’ this country to conquer China, And Russia can buy bombs, guns and bombers to complete the sub-

~ (Times readers are invited 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.)

jugation’ of Poland or of Rumania. Besides all that, Italy can stock up on war material now and join in the war with Germany later. Did the embargo repealers ever think of these facts? : If the idea is to liberate Poland, remember that Russia will also have to be driven out by force. If we encourage England and France to spend their strength on a lost cause —for Russia’s invasion of Poland has created a hopeless situation there— we as well as they are not wise. Strict’ neutrality, no sale of arms, and intervention for peace is the best for us, as well as for England and France. = 2 ® POINTS TO PERIL IN OUR PRICE SYSTEMS By S. L. Are we about to sober up financially? If the Government must support the market price of its bonds as they slide downward by buying

large quantities of its debts, we are

headed for an internal crisis of no small proportions. The large scale unbalanced budget and staggering public debt are due to an unbalanced price structure. We have two economic systems operating here. One is the competitive price system; the other is the monopoly price system. They cannot live together long. Monopoly prices destroy the com-

petitive industries because they syphon off too large an amount of profit out of the whole production. We must have either all monopoly prices or all competitive prices, . Farm subsidies are futile so long

as farmers sell competitively and]:

buy largely .on monopoly prices. No wonder one-third of all farmers earn less than a $500 total yearly income and another one-third earns less than $1000 including food consumed from the farm. Farm income will

not support ‘any building or im- |:

provements on the farm; no amortization of -debt is possible if new buildings are included in the financial set-up. War abroad will only temporarily distraet our attention from our own serious problems.

” 8 # HOPES LOVE WILL SOON GUIDE MEN’S DESTINIES By Reader. May God speed the day when love, and not hate, shall guide and

shape the, destinies of men, and of nations.

New Books at the Library

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N Feb. 10, 1939, Eugene Cardinal

Pacelli, having been appointed camerlengo, or ruler of the Church during that period between ‘he hour of the Pope’s death and the election of a new. Pontiff, stepped to the deathbed of Pius XI and, after tapping the forehead three’ times with a tiny mallet, announced in a voice filled with grief the passing of his best friend. Thus automatically was set in motion the ancient and traditional machinery whereby a Pope is chosen. The man who spoke those fateful words, the Papal Secretary of

Side Glances—By Galbraith,

State, a tall, esthetic Roman, a librarian, a diplomat, who had been born and reared in the shadow of the Vatican, was destined to wear the robes of the church’s highest dignitavy. He was to be called, ironically,

“The “Pope of Peace”; for on March 2, Cardinal Pacalli, emerging from the sacred conclave’ as Pope Pius XII, looked upon a fearful world which even then stood at the brink of the hostilities’ now threatening

to involve’ all nations.

Joseph F. Dinneen’s “Plus XII, Pope of Peace” (McBride), is a readable, straightforward, layman’s account of life behind the scenes in

1 {the Vatican. Records of the policies

of the Church, of the organization of the Papal valuable diplomatic and religious training of the man who came from| a family which had served the Church for generations, vie in interest with the color and solemn drama of the Papal election. Frem this book emerges the portrait of Pius XII, a man of great personal

{charm, of deep scholarship, widely

traveled, of wise and ‘tolerant judgment. The’ /331,500,000 Catholics of the world, as well as a great host of Protestants, are looking anxiously to him, and “joining with the ‘Pope of Peace’ in his supplications for peace.”

BEGINNING 0 LIVE.

Vncatnane ib tive 1s. whem: you Jive

‘Doing the thing you like to do; The happy way. the world can give A pleasure here so real and true.

LB Bringing 4 Joy. when you ind the

unhappily it may -affect- us.

mission.

with the mostest men.” City, of the severe and |

The ‘element ‘of face saving among {he big shots of -

so-called statecraft can be a terrible. thing. It ‘is a.

kind of poker game in which the strategy of bluff may

‘be: “I'llsee your destruction of three great cities from

the air and raise you the lives of half a million boys—

‘the happiness ‘and security of 400,000 homes.” It ig"

hateful and hideous almost beyond human imagination, The most beffling and discouraging thing about

| the present tense moment ‘is that if Hitler’s offer were.

made by anybody but Hitler, there would be no ques-. tion at all about’ considering it. But, on the face of the record; Hitler is the most Wncorkotnaiie, lar in. the records of the ‘human race. j : 8 8. 8 : I EVER in all the annals were the values of ethics, * religion and the homely virtues more Sainfully dramatized—that the happiness of the wh world" has come to depend on a single man’s "honesty and honor and nobody can trust them. Swallowing that" conclusion at one gulp, we might hopelessly conclude’ that there is no way to peace. But is it true that" the resourcefulness -of the race can’t invent some measures or take some hostages to warrant at, least a discussion? ~ | I don’t know. Much. depends on whether an als mistice would work to the advatage of one side or the other in the time element before hostilities are re-

‘sumed. - That is the thing to think about.. On snap‘

Judgment, I would suppose that, in a military sense, felay would work for the Allies and against Hitler. , that is true, discussion ought to be considered or it there is any way qut, most of us believe that at least the Allies’ good faith for peace is to be trusted’

—in other words, that a truce would not with them |,

be merely a subterfuge for a more deadly war, | ” # ”

Ir that is not true and the. proposed “truce of the. bear” is merely a move. to strengthen some new: Nazi attack or backroom gangster alliances, the only” answer is “no” and the sooner it is made the better. - Happily it is not our decision,” no - matter howWhen we think ‘of ‘the awful thing facing Europe, it is ungrateful to res: member that we have any troubles at all. In my debate with Secretary Ickes Friday, he aptly quoted

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Thomas Jefferson saying, in an exactly similar situas’

tion, that, in comparison with what was going. on

| abroad, our hardships were the pleasures of Paradise,

That is as true now as it was a century and a quarter ago*—or 22 yeams ago. If we had been hers" for comparison it probably would have -been as trus: on an average of ut twice a century since the beginning of recorded time. It has gone from thebeginning and probably will continue to the end," We pity it, but we can't help it by Sailing ja it.

Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

Likens Aircraft to Peck's Bad Bare International Law Is Set Aside. ASHINGTON, Oct. 9~Without being = called

upon for much work yet in the present ale :

alfpower might well be'likened to Peck’s Bad Boy. It already "has prevented a couple of wars’ hy: just blustering and bluffing; it fussed around in a> couple others without working .up a sweat; and now - it is making the current war pretty annoying for the:

‘admirals and generals—and international law experts.

Of course, there is just no such. thing ‘as, inters national law effectively to govern activities of nations at war. The last war proved that each one mékes 1s

own laws to suit convenience and needs. a Border control, as in the case of Holland, was - a’ pretty strictly managed affair, however: Holland was” ringed with high tension electric wires to keep out” foot soldiers. The sea also was tightly controlled. Today finds aircraft darting through the skies ale most at random, without respect for neutral nations, Sud abi ability to enforce such respect is just-about none existent. - The boys in warplanes. are measuring their flight : lines in gallons of fuel, with usual respect for the fact: that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.

An Unsettling Influence Tm

Even in peacetime, the airplane upset the why maxim of real property law. that a man who owned a piece of land in fee simple owned as far down ay’ he could go end as high up as he could see. : When planes began to fly over his property, well within his sight, he started to fuss about it and the. . law was obliged to desert him and recognize the: community of public interest in' the airwdys. x

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One dramatic incident, demonstrating the cares .

free disregard of aircraft operators for boundary ine vasion, was when the German four-enginer Fockes’ Wulf transport flew from Berlin. to New York. The . British didn’t know, until’ it’ was all done, that the : ship had flown the Great Circle course right overs Scotland. As a war weapon, it. appears that this capacity’ of a group of planes to go anywhere after taking off from the ground is the most unsettling influence ever introduced into warfare. 'A'little touch on the rudder - bar can turn a flock of big bombers from a training . flight into a dreadfully effective bombardment:

Tt looks as if Airpower comes closest to ex the magic plan of the 5 Gein “cavalry who explained his success as Aa

By Jane Stafford

OHNNY and Susie have had cll itis J no doubt—Ilong before they started ‘to school. they should, by the time they reach school a some of the Measures that are useful ful in 1 the spread of co. a of the things they should kno! is to sneeze and cough into a handl good neighbor policy that can pay the person who gets a ‘cold from spread 46 Someme sis and {hid : may come back to “The used for a cold: should b that can

keep the germs fe Eh oe This helps to kee] other people and also helps to keep from reinfecting himself with his own