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E> RIEY 551

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1939

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BETTER LAW, BUT NO PANACEA PPLYING the only test that should be applied—the best interest of the United States—what about the Neutrality Bill as it now comes before the House? We believe it better law than the existing one. Because of its cash-and-carry provisions, and those for keeping - American shipping out of danger zones, it eliminates two -* great hazards now being so strikingly evidenced in the case ~ of the City of Flint. >

But we have no illusion that the act is a panacea which

will function automatically against our participation. Nor do we fail to realize that, intherent in the sale of arms, there are certain elements which tend to stir up emotions, at "home and abroad—more at home, we think, than abroad. Also we believe the worst thing that could happen’ in America would be for our people either to assume a “well, that’s that” attitude, with the neutrality legislation out of the way, or to get worked up into a high heat in the closing days of the House debate. The first would be false security; the second, a dangerous substitution of feeling for thinking. Let's continue to rely on our heads rather than on our glands. : ; Be Whether we stay out of Europe’s war will be determined by no law. It will depend on whether we continue to maintain that same unanimous resolve which was so spontaneously expressed by our people when the conflict started, - which was reiterated in the President’s address opening Congress and in all the debate in the Senate, where, though opinions as to methods differed widely, there was no differ- _ ence as to objective. It would be well for us at this important stage to rededicate ourselves to the proposition that this is not our war, and to review these governing facts: That we went into the last war because we stirred ourselves into a frenzy of what we thought was idealism. That, thus inspired, we mixed into a contest of cross-and-double-cross which had ‘been going on for centuries; "a contest we didn’t start and didn’t know how to finish. ‘That we were cruelly disillusioned. That we didn’t save the world for democracy. Instead, that we acquired only the bitter fruit of tragedy and bad - debts. That we got not even gratitude. : "That our only possible dividend was experience, and :-- that unless we now can benefit from the experience, it’s nobody’s fault but our own. - That some time we may render a service—and a great one—but only by keeping out; by keeping fit and adequately _ defended, against the time when this latest fever of power politics has run its course and we then may offer aid as convalescencersets in. on : hy Final passage of a Neutrality Bill should neither lull us to sleep nor stir us to anger. For, it’s not our war. £

FINE JOB HATS off for one of the finest jobs the Community Fund " has done in many a long campaign. The margin by which it fell short of the $683,710 goal was so narrow that subscriptions yet to come in may erase the difference. The actual amount reported at the final meeting was nevertheless $23,000 greater than the amount raised last year. For this improved showing full credit should go to Perry W. Lesh, the general chairman, to the 3000 volunteers who were most generous in the time'and effort they devoted to making the campaign a success, and to the thousands whose willing contributions make another year of fund services possible. ’ ae

NOT “CRICKET,” WHEREVER FOUND

HE Dies Committee’s action in making public the whole membership list of the American League for Peace and Democracy was, in the opinion of President Roosevelt, a “sordid procedure.” Maybe “sordid” is too emotional. But at least we think it was not “cricket.” : And while he is about it, the President might very well include.other punitive expeditions which have tended to multiply under his Administration. Mr. Roosevelt's criticism today would carry a lot more weight if he had waxed equally indignant about certain other episodes designed to ‘get somebody” by the dragnet process. Literally, Government is supreme. The citizen smeared, no matter how great the injustice, can’t even sue, unless the sovereign deigns, to lét him. Therefore, the power should be exercised with the greatest of restraint. But, unfortunately, restraint is not always present. So now we have one more instance of “overplaying the hand.” The Dies Committee had done some excellent service. But then it decided to go the whole route and “indict a whole nation.” That never works. Therefore we hope the President, resenting this as he properly does, will keep his eye out for all similar forays in the future, and express likewise his disapproval, ho matter whether friends or foes are the targets.

IN THE CAUSE OF SAFETY

JNDIANAPOLIS once again has reason to be proud of its modernized street railway system. The Indianapolis Railways has just been awarded the . Anthony N. Brady Safety Metal for the “best accomplishment in accident prevention by urban transit organizations in the United States and Canada during 1938.”

Only a few years ago this city was served by a decrepit :

line. Equipment was obsolete, noisy, slow and inefficient. Under Charles W. Chase, the Indianapolis Railways was ~ reorganized and rebuilt. We have attracted nation-wide attention with the speed _ with which we have introduced the latest in street railway equipment. Service has been speeded up, efficiency is apparent in almost every move and with it has come safet education. : : The Indianapolis Railways has proved that safety education pays. The award made by the American Museum of Safety and the American Transit Association proves it.

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By Westbrook Pegler

Nevada Helping ‘Oppressed’ Avoid Income Taxes of Other States by | Free and Easy Residence Law. |

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ENO, Nev., Oct. 30.—Nevada is appealing to the oppressed to come here and relax in safety, |

meaning, however, those who possess fortunes and find themselves oppressed by state income and inheritance taxes. To qualify for these immunities it is necessary that the subject establish residence in Nevada but it is not necessary that he live here continuously through the probationary period of six months and after citizenship has been established he need not actually live in Nevada at all. Fite He, or she, hereinafter known as he, is advised to return occasionally and vote, keep a mail address “here, 'be seen on the streets or play a round of golf, | but he may live in California, New York or wherever. There is a distinction between living and residing. © For persons who are employed on salary in other states, the immunity is less lovely. States having income taxes usually tax the salaries of non-residents earned within their borders at a higher rate than. the salaries of residents. But persons with other kinds of income may enjoy exemption as to that if they reside in Nevada even though they actually live and conduct their affairs in income-tax states. Re. 2 EVADA is not the only state having no income tax. Many New Yorkers have taken refuge in Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, for example; where their dividends, royalties and commissions are exempt from the New York tax. However, Connecticut, Jersey and Pennsylvania have other |: taxes, some of them very high, which tend to compensate the saving Nevada professes, and, indeed appears to have no trick or trap taxes. = - At the present writing, Nevada's. immunities are being flaunted at Californians who have, not: necessarily, fortunes, but some wealth, in shape to be tossed into a suitcase or transferred by other means. California is about to vote on the “Ham and Eggs” or $30 every Thursday proposal which is really not an old-age pension at all, except in a very dishonest pretense which would soon be” dropped, bit a scheme to establish an absolute dictatorship. : - A few Californians have been sneaking over the borders in the dark of the moon these last several years to escape the state income and other taxes by establishing technical residence in Nevada. There is no great rush of refugees at present because, although the thing seems to be close, they just don’t

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believe “Ham and Eggs” can happen. ; 2 8 8 / OWEVER, if “Ham and Eggs” goes through there will be a stampede to’ Nevada, which from a simple and casual start as a refuge, hay) come to the point of advertising and ballyhooing her immunities and developing tax evasion into a principal industry. Incidentally, a booklet entitled “One Sound State,” published by the First National Bank in Reno, con=-

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

tains a chapter entitled “A State Without Radicals” which says in part that “radical theory and unAmerican movements find no foothold” here. This chapter says further that Nevada has no political movement of ever: a slightly pinkish hue. Nevada's intentions are pleasant and mischievous at worst rather than unfriendly to her sisters in the union. Her spirit is that of playful reproof. It may be said on her behalf that the insincerity of her program is no worse than that of the laws and regulations adopted by other states for the definition, computation and collection of taxes. The method by which Nevada would: enfold them are no worse than those by which other states are driving many substantial, respectable and successful Americans

away.

Business By John T. Flynn . Fighting Rages on Economic Front; Lack of Cash Hampers Germany.

EW ‘YORK, Oct. 30.-~While &veryone understood that this war would have two fronts—a military and an economic one—few realized that most of the war would be fought in. its early stages on the econorhic front. Indeed, there is very little war anys where else. : This being so, the economic front becomes a war zone on which we must keep our eye. While the armies along the French frontier live in comparative security in their steam-heated fortress dormitories, deep under the ground, air-conditioned and supplied with hot and ‘cold water, recreation rooms, elevator service and every modern convenience, doing very little shooting and issuing communiques proclaiming all quiet on the Western Front, the economic front is busy 24 hours a day. Germany, for one, is having trouble buying from Rumania all the oil she needs because of her ins ability to pay quickly and on the nail in cash for what she buys. She does not have sufficient trade balances and gold to do this. As far as we have been told there has not been much trade yet between Russia and Germany. Beyond doubt that inveterate realist, Mr. Stalin, will want cash or its equivalent from Germany—and Germany hasn’t much cash, and the equivalent which Stalin needs, heavy machinery, is one thing Germany cannot afford to export now.. 5

Nazi Chances Hopeless?

Prob®ms of finance—the gigantic problem of financing this war without ruining their economie systems—has got all of the finance ministers in a state of deep-disturbance. While military men are attempting to assay the results,on the military side, there seems little reason to doubt that the Allies are having all the best of it on the economic front. Germany is closed off from trade with most countries. And even with those she can reach she is hampered by her inability to handle unfavorable balances. Perhaps the most important victory of the war to date has been won by Russia over Germany—in the absorption of the Baltic states and the complete—or almost complete—domination of the road over which Germany gets so large a part of her low grade iron ore. If the opening scenes of the war are an index to what is to follow, Germany cannot be considered as having any chance whatever in the war if it is protracted a year. : :

WAGE REDUCTION FOR CITY EMPLOYEES URGED By Citizen Mayor LaGuardia of New York City has recently secured a 5 per cent reduction in salaries of all City employees. Here is a suggestion for

Indianapolis. Let our Mayor procure a 5 per cent reduction in all

month. . : Part of this saving can be used to raise salaries of recreation leaders now getting $65 to $85 a month. let the remainder of the savings be given to the poor relief fund.) Thus the City will be proving its honest desire for economy and also such a move may help some of our unlucky. politicians crawl out of the “dog house.”

FEARS EFFECT OF PROPAGANDA ON U. 8. By a Worried Mother

. «+. I have a clipping from The Times which states that Senator Nye had brought before the Senate a very frank analysis by a British ‘writer of possible methods of enlisting the United States on England's side in “the next war.” The propaganda technique for the United States is part of a book “Propaganda in the Next War.” In discussing the book, Senater Nye explained that jt was published last fall but its circulation was stopped. It singles out the “main plank” of British propaganda, “the old democratic one.” Among other methods, it recommends that “leading literary lights” be sent to this country to circulate the English viewpoint across the dinner table. It also recommends that easy access to the front be arranged for American newspaper correspondents and news reel cameramen so that they can get “horror” scenes published; that American sympathy, for the oppressed be capitalized;- that Japan be drawn into the war to arouse American hostility and that medals be distributed lavishly to Americans serving in forces of the British or the Allies. The book, Senator Nye said, “staggers the imagination” “It amazes me that men could be so brazen in laying down the plans which are to entrap us, publish them and give them to the world” The book explains that American people are still under the influence of much of the Great War propaganda. Americans are more susceptible than most people to mass suggestion. They have been brought up on it—and

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AY editorial in the Christian Science Monitor calls attention to a fact usually overlooked when we contemplate sadly the state of the modern world. . It is this: The enlightened citizens of the Allied countries—France, Great Britain, Italy and the United ‘States—deplored the making of the Versailles Treaty in 1919. A cursory. glance through newspapers, magazines and books of the period tells the story of the defiant disagreement of men and women-of vision as | they witnessed the sowing of the seeds whose harvest |’ is today’s war. i : Unhappily, thinking -people were in the minority. | - In several countries most of them had been killed by the war, and. in others they had lang since abdicated their places of power in the political world in favor of demagogs and shysters. They were so busy being intellectual ‘that they gratefully cast all govern. ment matters into the hands of the stupid. . Thomas Mann, a great scholar of our time, banished by Hitler and now living in the United States, has declared that much of the misery of -his troubled homeland due to the abdication by people of his sort, who allowed themselves to become iso detached | from their government they soon found it resting | entirely in the hands of hoodlums. 2B Democracy ‘is always lost at the polls. ‘When intelligent men and women refuse to share in the responsibilities of a free country they do not appre- | | ciate its privileges, and may very shortly find themselves without them. It may be to serve on juries or school boards or to keep informed about give only lip |

vice to Freedom if we fail so to do.

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since 1918- we have shut ourselves off from reality and at this moment are the battleground of active propaganda of labels. So let us wake up and not be snared again as in 1917, . . . We want no cash and carry, or 90 days’ credit with any warring nations. We want. nothing to do with blood money. Let no embargo on arms be lifted. We want no foreign entanglements.

ss = 8 KNOWS RELIEF CLIENT WHO BOUGHT NEW CAR : By Poor, Broken-backed, Tax Santa Claus I saw in Saturday’s Times where a Poor Boy is asking if he could not be allowed to drive his car while the Trustee gave him his food and took care of him. Well, we have a few poor boys in our neighborhood, too, and they are driving their cars and even buying new cars—and one has Had a good job for about two months now—while the Trustee still helps them. I think the Trustee should take away the plates of the one with the job. He rode to and from work in his old car until he made enough to pay for another car, while the Trustee fed his family of five and his father also. ” ; If we taxpayers get another raise

in our taxes maybe the Trustee can buy gasoline for our poor boys so they won't have to walk or even worry. . Women with children-get rid of their husbands in order to get pensions; old people who never saved a dime get pensions; men who drank up a lifetime’s money get pensions— our taxes keep them' in drinks in their old days. ; There should be a jury investigation of these people, too. ; # 8c THINKS U.-S. POLICY AIDS COMMUNISM By Times Reader “The Dies Committee’s investigation of Communist propaganda makes good: copy for home consumption. What needs investigation is the promotion of communism by the Government itself. The effort to aid England and France gvho are well able to take care of themselves can only mean that the Administration is determined to aid in crushing capitalism. in Germany. When that is accomplished, England, France and America will see communism extending to the Rhine and very likely find suitable soil at home to grow on. Propaganda about Naziism will not restore Germany as a factor in the world capitalist states or economy. . Naziism is the outgrowth of a quarter century of effort to stop Germans from competing with other capitalist states. This effort is sure to drive Hitler into communism and thus insure its spread to Western and Central Europe. America's aid to the Allies will be a large factor in accomplishing the destruction of a large part of the capitalist world

economy. It needs investigation now.

New Books at the Library

ICK to the soul of persecution, of uncertainty, and of homelessness

on the face of the earth, many

Jews, yearning instinctively towar home after 2000 years of wandering, are turning their eyes toward Palestine. Sholom Asch, eminent Yiddish author, whose work since early manhood had been devoted to the cause of his people, presents an idyl of a colonizing experiment in which a group of intellectuals come with the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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swampy, malarial valley which hundreds of years before had bloomed under the hands of their ancestors. Souls, minds, and bodies, of these people were in their project, for in them all, despite the : unspeakable experiences of their immediate pasts; burned a fierce idealism. Herculean labor must drain the swamps, giving the pure spring release to flow down the valley between designated banks. Shelters must be built, stock raised and crops planted in order that the children which they would bring into the world might eat. : Hostile Arabs were to be placated

colony might be safe and- free to follow the ancient customs as laid down in the Law. The working out

of the Valley” (Putnam). The quality of this simple tale is elusive. Ludwig Lewishon, in analyzing the genius of Asch, declares that his prophetic emotion is a quality which dissolves like salt in the wide waters of his tales. Thus this quiet, almost starkly elemental story, its characters typical and sharply delineated, assumes under the play of the author's sympathy the heroic ‘character of an epic.

MUSIC IN'MY HEART By RB. CONOWAY BROWN A melody is playing In the chambers of my heart,

And the words the voice is singing Tells that we should never part.

In the distance bells are ringing, Softly—like a vesper prayer,

Won't you listen now my dear?

Lest the discords make us part, For I want to keep you always With the music in my heart.

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Forums Again Popular in us but Are of Little Value Unless Both Sides of a Question Are Debated.

ITTSBURGH, Oet. 30.—The President in closing ; the Herald-Tribune Forum said he approves of forums. He is everlastingly right. So does the coun try—so long as a forum is a place for debate. In all this war confusion even the wisest and best

| informed of people are baffled. Leaders hotly take

extreme positions. News is fragmentary. People have been so well warned about propaganda that they don’t like to take any single word for anything. They want to hear the other side. g .That is one reason for the remarkable growth in - populdrity of all contests of this kind--and there are several varieties... .. . = Newspapers carrying columns representing both sides of public questions are among the best. Some few don't have columnists whose general trends of opinion differ much from each other or from the editorial policy of the paper—like the New York Times and Herald-Tribune, the Chicago News and Tribune Even that is all right if they are in competition with hewspapers which do the-same thing on the other side,

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HAT isn’t the usual case. The newspaper carry ing conflicting columns seems to be the better answer. Even that could be improved, I think, so that a particular question could be discussed from opposing

-| sides in a particular issue—instead of the present

rather haphazard opposition of views. For there is a second reason why opposing arguments at a time like this have thrown the forum principle into great popus< larity. It is the inbred American love of a contest. 2 Radio forums like “Town Hall of the Air” or even entertaining intellectual contests like “Information Please” have forged to the very front in listener ate tendance for this reason. The platform lecture fol lowed by a really free-for-all forum with the audience is packing in crowds. The fight’s the thing. Face-to-face debate—from such contests as the classic between Lincoln and Douglas to the single sim«

| ple form of old Saturday night entertainment in every * | rural school district—used to be the principal form of |

education on public questions. It was for long a lost art. It seems now to be in robust revival, :

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conflict of opinion—adversary argument. In the

brilliant speakers and writers in this country. But they all talked one tongue, no matter what the sube i ject. The topic of nearly all argument was naturally - the Wet in Europe and how it affects us. wh The principal theme, without substantial challenge,

1! was that Britain and France are fighting our battles—

to make our own world safe for our ideas of gevernHej proves perhaps such incursions on us a: ave been made in Poland—to stay t we ‘bo & shevism. fio y he SVP rh All this may be true—and it Ci jority doesn’t believe it. ; It is a “forum” where about the most brillian sible array of talent is assembled unopposed on a side. Though unintended, it could have the eff propaganda of repetition in its most powerful dangerous form.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

° Both Sides Believing Cove Just, Neutrels Should Insist on Parley.

EW YORK, Oct. 30.—The other fellow’s stuff is always called propaganda. Such opinion or factual narrative as your side puts out is ‘useful educational material. And this is one of the gaps which must be bridged before there can be a world of peace and security. In the ancient anecdote an Englishman remarked, “The French are very curious. You know they call ham jambon.” “But,” his. friend protested, “you know a Frenchman might say that we English were peculiar in calling jambos ham.” | “Don’t be sillys’ replied the first Englishmen: “you know as well as I do that it really is ham.” If there were a universal language’ international understanding might be easier, but none of the -artificial creations, such as Esperanto, seems to+have made much progress, and no nation will surrender its own tongue save at the point of the sword. Nevertheless, it is now possible for a very cone Siderable number of persons im many lands to hear the voice of the neutral by means of radio. Against that isthe fact that in totalitarian lands any mes« sages from the outside worid are promptly made cone traband and shut out. : The tragic thing about conflict is that when two nations are engaged in hostilities against each other they are not fighting the same war, even though the ., blood of both sides mingles in a common stream upo the battlefield. The people of Germany fight today a defensive war which began when Poland, at the insti gation of England, undertook to invade and destroy the Reich. They are carrying on the conflict because England is still intent on destroying Germany and en< slaving its citizens. The English, on the other hand, _ are seeking only peace and security against the aggres« sion of a dictator who has constantly reached out for And the hearth)

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additional territory in spite of pledges. French, likewise, are fighting to preserve the and home, i ; : -A Common: Enemy | » All along the front, on the earth, in the sky and. .«& in the waters, under the earth men are prepared to give their lives for the purpose of defense. When the versions of both sides are so diametrically opposed it cannot be that both positions are correct. And so I keep on insisting .that America should make here and now a move to draw all nations into conference. This appeal should come from all the neutrals. Whether the spokesman be the Pope, someone from Norway, Belgium, Holland of the President of the United States, I think he should go on the air and cry out to the far corners of the earth: “Drop your weapons! The dignity of humankind demands that all of us come together for discussion. Death is: our common. enemy. Let us make common cause against slaughter and destruction.” : @ .

Watching Your Health -§ By Jane Stafford

OBSTERS, like other shellfish, sometimes make ’ L people sick with what used to be called ptomaine | poisoning. Scientists know now that these and other cases of food poisoning are due to toxins or poisons produced by germs in the food. In the case of the shellfish, the germs get into the fish if the latter feed in contaminated water. ; Large lobsters, weighing around two pounds, need at least 45 minutes of cooking in boiling water, to« make sure that any germs in the lobster are killed, an English ship’s doctor, H. M. Royds - Jones, has found. The usual cooking time is 25 or 30 minutes, chefs and wholesale fish dealers told him. Dr. Royds Jones cooked batches of lobs various times and then examined their “innerds” for germs. He also took their temperatures, to find how hot the lobsters get under their thick shells, He found that it takes about 45 minutes in bo water before

would be killed.

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you are eating lobster some place where you EE Te to odiace whee you} Dr. Royds Jones advises in his report. to the Englistt

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temperature in the center of the larger lobsters gets in i the neighborhood of the boiling poin at which germs .