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“SCARED OF A BLITZFRIEDEN 5 REAT events bring new words, and one currently to the > fore-is the coined German word “blitzkrieg” —lightning ' “war—the full meaning of which only the Poles know so far. «A new word is needed also, it seems to us, for the un.dulating fever in the American securities and commodities ~markets over the last several days. So we suggest another “of German coinage, “Blitzfrieden”—lightning peace—the fear of which has caused many a commodities speculator to “hedge on his holdings of wheat and rubber and wool, and .gmany a Wall Street trifler to sell “war brides” short. “" This symptomatic uneasiness is even noted in Administration circles. Observe the caution of the latest fiscal dope story ¢ut of Washington—that the “war and business “upswing” will make this year’s defieit “a little less than the /$3,426,343,200” estimated last January. "All of which is a commentary on how far we have gone in trying to hitch our economy onto the kite of Mars— in making plans to cut ourselves in on the business end of a | ~war that is not ours, in believing that this one will be like | the last one and that we are going on another prosperity drunk, though “God, how we dread it.” Fortunately some American leaders are just bull- ' headed enough to insist that it is not imperative that our country let itself in for another economic hangover. Among | these. are industrialists who saw their big profits of the last war gulped up by war taxes and post-war loss of cus- ' “tomers. E.T. Weir, to mention one, as rugged an economic | royalist as ever sold goods for a profit, is now emphatically “insisting that the Government do nothing to convert his steel mills into munitions plants. o. In the field of statecraft, Mr. Weir’s political opposite, Progressive Senator Bob La Follette of Wisconsin, thinks “not of profits but of humanity and democracy. | Senator La Follette has served notice that he will propose an amendment to the so-called Neutrality Bill, pro“viding strict limits for all wartime exports—to the end that our economy be not taken on another balloon ascension without a parachute. . The idea of preventing war booms by keeping wartime exports within peacetime levels was first suggested by Secretary of State Cordell Hull some three or four years ago. But for some reason unknown the Administration hasn't said much about it lately. We're glad Senator La Follette has brought that sound idea again to the front.

THE GREAT DEBATE : ATEST phase in the great Washington debate is the proposal by Senator Lundeen, Farmer-Laborite, that ‘we take this occasion to seize the British West Indies to apply on the British war debt. Lundeen says. that, since Britain is pretty busy elsewhere, now would be the time "to get away with it. Quite obviously that would not be, as the English say, cricket, and the suggestion of armed seizure no doubt will be “heard no more, its reception by Lundeen’s associates being chilly indeed. But while such a grab would be merely some more of the Baltic technique now being employed by Stalin, a business we pray we never will get into, nevertheless we | don’t believe some milder reminder of the existence of the debt would be out of order. After all, the debt is owed.

‘AS FOR FINLAND'S DEBTS— : (From The Baltimore Evening Sun) | ANY Americans know very little about Finland except that Finland has paid $5,579,619 on her war debt to the United States of about $9,000,000. It is often ex“plained that this is due not solely to commercial integrity : but to the fact that Finland has a favorable export balance “and finds its easy to get exchange for payments abroad, which has not been true of our other debtors. " Still, with the shadow of the Kremlin producing biackouts in Helsinki, it becomes pertinent to ask whether Mr. ' ‘Stalin intends to permit Finland to go on paying for the .gnext 49 years as required by the debt settlement. Obviously ¥a country whose population is fleeing from its towns and | Hicities is not in the best position to continue to pay its debts. = . It will be interesting to see—if Soviet Russia really gets “control of Finland—whether Stalin intends to impose, along with the other blessings of Communism, the Soviet «conception of debt-paying.

| CONGRATULATIONS IT is a pleasure to turn aside from news of war, relief 7" scandals, week-end traffic accidents and the like to con“.gratulate Indiana, Purdue and Notre Dame on their fine "football last Saturday. And we're not forgetting: the good “show put on by our own Butler University against George '# Washington. Co 2° Hoosiers can be proud of the showing of these teams.

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La “SHUN CENSORS! | ‘EAN CARL ‘ACKERMAN of the Columbia School of : Journalism makes a timely and vigorous protest : against any and all attempts “to limit or curtail the free flow of information to the United States. from any source : “whatsoever within or outside of the United States.” a." In‘this protest we heartily concur. We agree with him “when he says: ; « “The people of this country are not boobs. They have Z sound common sense and are ready to reach honest AmerFican: conclusions after they have listened to or read news | = dispatches and comments, considered facts and applied dis- | i eriminating judgment to the facts and opinions as pre- .* sented by the different sides in this European war.” 2 All the more so since these same Americans have seen - what can happen to conclusions in nations where facts are

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7 with’ the pap or poison of propaganda. “- °_Jefferson’s assurance that “errdr of opinion may be erated where reason is left free to combat it” is still ound doctrine for a United States at peace. © Perish the thought that Americans should ever come «a pass where they have to have printed truth and reason ied on them from the sky by airplanes soaring above the

Fair Enough v BES By Westbrook Pegler

Hitler's Demand Through Press Chief ~_ That Roosevelt Intercede in War - "Tops Nazi Record for Viciousness.

EW YORK, Oct. 16.—In all the Nazi record noth- - Ving quite equals the vicious announcement ‘of Hitle~’s press chief, Otto Dietrich, that the United States will be responsible for “the most gruesome blood bath in history” unless President A Roosevelt somenow persuades the British to surrender at cuce. This declaration amounts to: a demand that the United States completely abandon neutrality and join Germany and Russia with measures short of war but

sufficient to win for Hitler. Claiming sufficient strength to “annihilate” the British and voicing an intention to do so unless they surrender immediately, the Germans obviously would expect to dictate the peace in the negotiations which this country is called upon to initiate under a threat. The terms would be a complete victory for everything

nevertheless, failure to comply would place the war guilt on the United States. Hitler, it is noted, claims that the war has not really started as yet and will not start until the Presi-

i dent indicates that it is not this country’s business to

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T follows that if the American people do not comply

venience, to which he would be forced in annihilating his enemies in the field. He would naturally intend to inflict some punishment on the erring sisterhood of democratic states across the water, and, although he hasn’t yet decided what the penalty would be, it may be taken for granted that it wouldn’t be trivial. The proposal naturally starts American thought back-tracking along the road which led to this war, and among the landmarks on the path are reminders that the American people not only fed the Germans sumptuously when they were starving after the Kaiser's World War but poured millions of dollars

provements which then were calmly stolen through repudiation. The record of the United States in such works and in official relations was one of generosity and encouragement to the Germans until, under Hitler, they again began to rattle the sword and marched to crush weak people striving toward freedom and selfrespect in feeble democracies along her borders.

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THE American conscience is in very good shape but it is against the American way of reasoning to admit that they are war-guilty in declining, as they doubtless will, to win bloodless conquests for Hitler. He could as well have said that the blood of Poland was on American hands because this nation neglected the opportunity to proceed against him with some measures short of war. By this process the United States would become Hitler's stooge whenever he chose to strike down a victim, obliged to force a surrender or assume the guilt for something which is awful enough by is own name of war, but which in the German phrase, “blood bath,” is even more hideous. . Hitler is a man of little patience and terribly vengeful nature, and his press chief has put this country on warning that the question whether Americans will be drawn into the war is not theirs to decide but his.

Business By John T. Flynn

War Factor Unknown, but There Is No Doubt of Recent Business Gain.

EW YORK, Oct. 16.—Precisely what the war has done to business is difficult to tell yet. Reliable business statistics come in slowly and the figures which truthfully reflect September business are seldom available until October is over and, in many fields, until the middle of November. It is for this reason that many so-called business index curves printed in daily newspapers are far from. satisfactory. The proper figures Hot being

.available, the statisticians use whatever they can

get, with the result that highly unreliable indices are made the basis of opinion. ‘ However, we are beginning to get some facts, more or less general reports, lacking in accuracy but fairly reliable. Certainly there has been a marked increase in certain lines, whether it is due to the war or not. Orders for freight cars last month were greater than the total number of cars delivered in the preceding 12 months. There are reports of good orders being placed by utility companies, railroads, manufacturers for heavy equipment. It is not possible to say just what this volume is but it is better by far than last year. Of course the swift rise in steel production is the chief sensation in the present situation. And the steel people insist this is not due to foreign war orders. It is due to domestic war orders and to advance buying to get in ahead of expected price rises. Reports from department stores, which still constitute the chief barometer of retail sales, show a very marked rise over last year in almost every Federal Reserve district.

Peace Would Be a Blessing

It will be illuminating when we have enough data to separate the war business and the war-stimulated business from our own natural, normal domestic busi=ness. There are industries which have been sharply aided by war business. Machine tool makers are working at exceedingly busy schedules. Apparently much of this is connected with our own domestic military and naval ‘preparations. On the other hand there are industries which have been sharply injured by the war. And there are others which have felt its impact for good or bad but slightly. On the whole the balance of business activity is up and in a marked degree. Its upward ascent would be very gravely checked by a peace in Europe. Peace would certainly send us backward for a little while. But, for all that, peace would be a blessing to American business now. It would save it from the war boom toward which it is very slowly but fatally heading. C -

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

DARESAY the milliners will want to lynch me for the suggestion, but I think they could add greatly to feminine comfort and mental alertness by making some sort of a fashion rule which would force women to put on their hats when outdoors and to take them off when they go inside. . The only time I really envy men—and then I am filled with a deep, furious wicked malice toward them —is when I see them snatching off their hats as they come into a room. Even the extra effort of removing their head gear in elevators, about which they are forever ccmplaining, ought to be partially eased by -the comfort. they must feel with their heads uncovered. : No wonder their heads seem bulging with brains, like that of the Scarecrow after his visit to the famous Wizard of Oz.. At such moments they look as wise as owls and as sleek as pussy cats. | I wonder whether they realize how lucky they are about -this hat question. In the first place they have no curls to keep in place, they can let their ears flap if they are made that way, and the backs of their necks are never cluttered with knots of hair or snoods or wimples or dangling ribbons or, ringlets.

suffer from softening of the brain. The junk we put on our heads is énough to smash the hardest skull. And if, by chance, the brims turn up so we can see

veils or bunches of flowers or imitation garden truck. We've never had canned fruit yet but I'm expecting it any day now. : ge!

in church, at formal luncheons and -during most public meetings.

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that Nazi-communism is and Americanism is not, but, |

Hitler will hold them to blame for any incon- |°

to eradicate German slums and build great public im-

A Woman's Viewpoint

As for women,’ it’s strange that more of us do not | out. from under our binders, fashion invariably says |

Worst of all, custom compels us to wear our hats | It’s enough to give us“ cramps in |

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"The Hoosier Forum ‘1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

LAW REGULATING HAY RIDES URGED

By Josephine Duke Motley *

Certainly some link is missing in the chain of human education when a group of people ‘banded together for purposes of culture will sanction, permit or condone an outmoded pastime which, partaken of in this day and age of speed and high-powered motor cars, can be only hazardous to the lives of the participants. : In other words, wha} does it profi a man to build up great castles of learning in his mind and submit his body for no purpose at all save that of pleasure to roadside multilation? When warning signs declaring the peril of parking on paved highways flank these asphalt ribbons from one end of the country to the other, what mind even in the eighth grade can fail to understand the danger of a snail-like, low-speed vehicle with an oldtime lantern for its only warning signal struggling for existence with its high-powered brothers of the machine age? The terrible price paid in last Saturday night’s wholesale blunder in tragedy should stand as a warning signal . to Indianapolis youths. . . It is time that the city or state government should take up the question and once and for all forbid hayrides over motortraveled highways. Con 2 028 SEES EUROPE’'S WARS AS INEVITABLE By L. G. C. *. .. From the beginning of time as we know it, there has been almost constant war in Europz. Can it be otherwise, where so many nations are crowded into so small a space; each one speaking a different language, having different ideals and each fighting for life and power? First. one country proves its superior strength by winning in war and then instead of being magnanimous, binds the vanquished down and takes her possessions and everything is rearranged to suit the victor. The vanquished is not considered. The history of Europe proves that there are no exceptions; each nation has at some time been hard, cruel, and unjust; not generous and unselfish as they would like to have the rest of the world believe. So it goes on and will go on until the end of time. The history of Europe is simply a repetition of wars, hatreds and “grabbing.” . . . It is not our game. Let us mind

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our own business and stay out of it. Then at the end there will. not be thousands of our fine young men doomed to spend the rest of their lives in veterans’ hospitals and the bodies of other thousands lying in foreign lands. Sie. $4. FB J3 = ‘® 2 = POGROMS CALLED HITLER'S GREATEST MISTAKE : By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind. How many will agree I do not know, but-it seems to me that Hitler’s greatest mistake was his senseless pogroms against the Jews. There are anti-Semites, of course, in every country, even among educated people; but even they must have been: appalled at Hitler's methods. 24% Boycotts and similar discriminations we might have stomached; but the spectacle of uniformed mobs in darkened streets, shattering plateglass windows, destroying property, heaping indignities upon helpless

an indelible impression which no subsequent act or word of Adolf Hitler’'s can ever quite eradicate, and which, more than anything else, has set the face of the civilized world irrevocably against him. It smacks too much of the Dark Ages. It is something we had thought the civilized world had long since outgrown, along with cannibalism. 1It-shoeks the modern intellect exactly as much as if suddenly we abandoned trial by jury in favor of trial by torture, or as if Salem, Massachusetts, suddenly reverted to the practice of burning witches.

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: SECRET. ‘TREATIES ©

By Times Reader - Are there 1939 secret treaties? The history of events since the signing of the. British-American trade agreement, produces a very

agreement was paralleled by a secret bilateral defense agreement. The post-Munich period developed industrial mobilization in England and a war psychology in America. The train of events since King George’s visit to Roosevelt indicates a suspicion that they had a meeting of minds as to what is now happening over there and here. ‘ It looks like the state: visits of the English and French in the Czar’s

Palace just befére the 1914 World ar.

fellow humans, has left in our minds|W.

New Books at the Library

is EZBA was the head of a large

Navajo household. She was medium in height, stocky in build. The high cheek bones gave her face an appearance of strength which

was ‘further emphasized by the creases that time had worn into the once coppery skin. Even when her face became momentarily stern, lips, eyes and wrinkles indicated that firmness was accompanied by humor and that the mind was fair. Although. Dezba was over 60 the gray hairs were, few enough te be counted.” : i This is Gladys A. Reichard’s portrait of a Navajo wife, mother, and grandmother, the leading lady in her recent book about the Navajo

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Indians of the Southwest, “Dezba, Woman of the Desert” (Augustin). The author, an anthropologist

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lived for many years among the Navajo people as their neighbor and friend. This book is a crystallization of her experiences. As the matriarch of the Tribe, Dezba superintended the sheep dipping and directed her children and grandchildren in the busy life of their hogan. She was the mother-con-fessor and adviser, . and her word was law to all members of the household and the tribe itself. The author shows the transition from the old life to the new, the occasional failure of Dezba and her tribesmen to understand the strange government rules, and the conflict when the children return home fronv the boarding school so engrossed with the new life that they have lost touch with the old scheme of living. : These character sketches are further enhanced by the photographs of the Indians and of their homes and herds in the dramatic ‘desert countryside. This book is the second in a series about the Indians; the first one, “First Penthouse Dwelwas concerned with the lives of the Pueblo Indians.

OCTOBER

By ROBERT O. LEVELL October sky is heavy and gray A warning winter is on the way, When the birds fly high up in the

sky : And the leaves: turn brown, sunburnt and dry.

are clear and so bright : - : With leaves of the trees filled with delight, : ; When the scenes of Fall -shine bright and so fair,

And there’s joy in the breeze of : .. the # 5,

DAILY THOUGHT And they spake unto him, say-

1 ing, If thou wilt be a servant un-

‘to this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then will be thy servants for ‘ever. ~I Kings 12:7. Bd

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Taking a ‘Cue From the Lait War ‘We Should Concern Ourselves With Prices Before They Get Out of Hand.

ASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—<Fear of a rapid price in crease due to war buying is expressed by both governmental and private economists. If the cone ditions that existed here between the beginning of the World War and the time we got into it, return and nothing is done about it, runaway prices are-possible. Between July 1914 and April 1917, and due to European buying, the all-commodity price index increased by 70 per cent, price indices for grains ine creased by 143 per cent, iron and steel by 185 per cent, non-ferrous metals (copper, aluminum, etc.) by 144 per cent, chemicals by 110 per cent and bitume inous coal by 171 per cent. : : aE al After we entered the war and vastly multiplied the tremendous purchasing demand, the general index increased only 32 per cent more, the price index for grains deelined 16 per cent, iron and steel declined 33 per cent, bituminous coal declined by 36. per cent. In view of the great shortage ang insistant. dee

* | mand after our own unprecedented war-time purchase

ing program got under way, this is a magic record | —unless you recall what happened to causé both results. It didn’t happen anywhere else “in the world, “Inflations” in other countries; as measured by the increased costs due to price increases. as compared | with our increases were as follows: Associated Powers, excluding U. S... Central powers .............. . U. S. (due largely to inflation before 1917 : veee...217 per cent

. 369 per cent

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HY and wherefore? Before we entered the war | our markets were a madhouse of frantic come petitive Allied bidding. Every nation wanted everye | | thing “right now.” . The only way to get it was to | outbid the other fellow. The vicious ‘“costs-plus” cone tract relieved the producer of ail care about where costs might go. : | | After we got in our own varied purchasing bureaus | | (and we had 10 of them) started out to do exactly the same thing—frantically competing with each other for the same poss, Uncle Sam. It was squeezing the purse of our civilian population dry—especially those on fixed incomes. J | How was it stopped so effectively after we got into | the war? By arbitrary pricé control? Only in a very ‘minor degree. It was stopped principally by funneling | purchases through a sort of governmentally regulated cartel. : : : 2 yw :

“FT HE Allies were persuaded to leave their purchases |

to an Allied purchasing commission, the chaire man of which was an American responsible to this Government—instead of using competing interna» tional bankers. The requirements of our-own governs" mental purchasing agents were required fo be submitted to a central authority—the War Industries Board—and purchases of the same articles for Gove ernment was forbidden to more than one agency which co-operated with the Allied purchasing agency.

stopped crazy excesses in competition. gh There is no such frantic export war demand— ‘as yet. It is possible that there never will be, But if we neglect the lesson started here and permit any such runaway price-soaring as happened from | 1914 to 1917, we deserve what will happen to us,

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun

Recalls Proud Moment in 1917 When

Sentry Took Him for British Officer. TEW YORK, Oct. 16—A short dispatch in the NE ons the other day said the American correspondents: were going up to the British front along the West Wall. The story said that under army regulations ‘the reporters would wear uniforms like those of officers, but that they would have the dis- - tinguishing identification of a green brassard: with a red C on the left arm. : This had a ‘nostalgic note for me. My first trip up to the line. last time was with the British. This was early in the summer of 1917. My credentials came only a day or so before and the job of making myself look like an officer on short notice was difficult. I went to a French store, called Galeries Lafayette, and explained. to a young lady that I wanted to look like an officer, im a hurry. Although her English was flawless, she still seemed puzzled. Finally, with the help of everybody in the store, a burnt sienna tunic not unlike a smock was dragged out from the back of a shelf. The girl said it would look better under a Sam Browne belt. a Next they brought out riding pants and puttees made of some composition approximating leather. Unfortunately, I forgot a hat to top the combina« tion, and I wandered out into the streets of Paris —~ wearing a rakish gray felt called the Sophomore,

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which was a big seller glong Broadway at the time.

On account of the hat, I guess, no fewer than five

‘military policemen challenged me and asked for my ~

credentials before I reached the hotel.

A Moment of Triumph

But my moment of triumph was to come. The headquarters where I was instructed to report was in Amiens. There was only one other newspaperman present, and the English officers were cordial, "How= ever, my fellow correspondent seemed iH at ease, ale though he himself was all done up in handmade whip= cord. I found after dinner that he was blushing on

my account. Bo “Try and look like an officer,” he implored. “You

‘don’t want to make America seem foolish. - Your

puttees are on the wrong side, too.” But early next morning wher I wandered out alone I ran smack into a sentry who gave me the awe-inspiring salute of -the British Army, which seems to be made -up of three ‘nip-ups and a swan dive. He stood rigidly at attention waiting to see what I would do. We both were petrified. = : 5 Seog In addition to neglecting to get a proper hat I had also failed to equip myself with any sert of salute in the Galeries Lafayette... And so I smiled broadly: and

"said, “Nice morning, sir,” and went upon my way. It ‘seemed to me that it would be

wrong to deceive him. I wasn’t really an officer. : a

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

7 ia war plans with nine battle , lines marked on them appear in a new book on ¥ pneumonia by one of the anti-pneumonia war chiefs, Dr. Roderick Heffron, medical associate of the Come | monwealth Fund and former director of the Massa chusetts Department of Public Health pneumonia

«The disease continues to rank high among the common causes of death in this and ny other countries,” Dr. Heffron states, although he points out the progress made in the fight against it, especial= ly during the last 20 or 30 years. ele Sulfapyridine and other new chemical remedies have been used successfully in treating many eases of pneumonia, but more intensive study of these chemical remedies and of enzymes for pn treatment is needed. Hope of finding an outstanding chemical remedy for this ailment is greater than ever before, but the battle on this front must be fought to a finish, it is suggested. ' Gores i | Production of still better serums for “treatment, standarization of serum, and standardization of typing serums: are three points in Dr. Heffron’s war plans,

‘because serum’ treatment has not yet been entirely

replaced by chemical remedies. | Chemical remedies may become completely effec

‘tive treatment for the disease, but none so far affects

resistance to thé invasion of pneumonia germs. A vaccine to do this appears to be at hand.: Results from its use on many thousands of men in C. C. C. cam) show that it is worth trying on a selected group civilians. This is another battle line for the futu N : learning ‘more about the. enemy—the .na

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