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WHAT'S THE HURRY? | WE can understand the desire of some Congressmen to "hurry through with the neutrality debate and get away from it all for a few weeks of rest. Come January they will have to start the grind of the regular session, which will end just in time for them to go into another ~ grind of campaigning for re-election. The life of a Congressman is not an easy one. But we get back to the fundamental proposition that he is hired by the year and that he asked for the job. And not for a long time has there been more work to be done by the law‘making, policy-determining branch of the Government. ~The President has proclaimed existence of a national emergency. He called it a limited emergency, which is something that hasn't been. defined but is. generally taken to mean a state of affairs which under certain circumstances would justify the President- in exercising extraordinary . powers. There hasn't even been an enumeration of those | powers. Senator Vandenberg tried to obtain one, by unani- | mous resolution of the Senate, but Attorney General Mur- . phy’s reply was a suggestion that Congress read up on the | Federal statutes and make its own interpretations. To . examine, list and analyze all the laws bearing on executive ~ authority, passed by all the Congresses that have sat since 1789, is a big order. But Congressmen might better serve the country by remaining in Washington the next two months and doing just that than by disbanding and going | their several ways to get away from it all. g Plenty of other duties call for staying on the job. The neutrality legislation, when completed, will represent the lawmakers’ collective judgment of the best that can be done, under prevailing circumstances, to keep our country out of war. But new circumstances will arise calling for newj collective action. : _ No single law will insure us against invelvement in war. A far stronger guarantee can be provided by building up our national defenses. The President has just announced that he will want $275,000,000 additional for defense and neutrality expenditures in this fiscal year. And Congress hasn't equipped itself to determine whether that amount, or more or less, is needed for this year, or how much for next fiscal year, or how it should be spent, or how the bills are to be paid. And that last point, incidentally, is vital to a Government that is more than $40,000,000,000 in debt and is going deeper in at i) rate of nearly $4,000,000,000 # a year. : There are these and many other reasons why members | .of Congress should spend Thanksgiving, Christmas and 4 New Year'siiiy Washington. Few times in‘history has theré been a greater need for all Government officials, of all three branches, to be at their posts and functioning.

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“BEAST OF BERLIN” JvoRiEs come flooding back as we read that an inde- ®°= pendently made Hollywood film entitled “Hitler—Beast of Berlin” has been banned by the New York state movie censors, and that the producers who have invested in it are protesting bitterly. * We don’t much like the idea of censors telling the American people what they may not see. But the idea that producers have a right to commercialize hatred—we don’t like that, either. The best way would be for producers to -avoid censorship of films like “Hitler—Beast of Berlin” by simply not making them. a For one of the things this country does not need, just now, is artificial stimulation of hate for anybody. As to hate for Hitler, he seems able, without help from the movies, to create more of that than it may be good for us to feel.

MODERN PIONEER

VER in California they have a “Ham and Eggs Plan.” Our next-door neighbor, Ohio, is now wrestling with - the “Bigelow Plan.” In addition, there are millions of other American citizens frying to find ways and means of getting out of the stream and resting on the bank. They don’t care what the plan is, just so they get paid and don’t have to work. ” So it is refreshing to find such a person as Miss Alice McFarland of Ridgeville. She is 68 and retired from school teaching. But Miss McFarland wants none of “Ham and Eggs” or “Bigelow” plans. : She has just passed the Indiana bar examinations and announces her intention of launching herself on a new career. She is confident that she will live to be 100 and she looks forward to 82 years of continued “service and growth in some form of useful work.”

“COTTON IS KING” : A SUBSIDY for not growing cotton. = A subsidy for cotton that is grown. : A subsidy for cotton that is stored in warehouses. : A subsidy for cotton that is sold in the home market for relief purposes. A subsidy for cotton that is exported. And now: The RFC is financing a cotton export corporation, the purpose of which is to guarantee shippers 2 against losses (up to 80 per cent) due to monetary exchange : restrictions or other “uninsurable risks.”

- WILLIAM WATZ THE death of William Watz at 57 has cost Indianapolis one of its most efficient smoke control experts. William Watz was a railroader’s railroader. As a locomotive engineer he had never been “called” for a smoke yiolafion. His record was such that his appointment as supervisor for the Railroad Smoke Control Board was rearded as a natural step. Ee Mr. Watz believed sincerely in the importance of his tk. There is no doubt but that his contribution to the ation of smoke was a great one. is place will be hard to fill. -

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N LR B Doomed? ;

By Ludwell Denny Abolition of Present Board at

Changes From Friend to Foe.

ASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-—With employer organizations and unions now reopening their campaign against ‘the National Labor Relations Board, the Smith investigating committee preparing to shoot next month, and Board Member Leiserson issuing more critical dissenting opinions, the Board's life grows increasingly uncertain. . On Capitol Hill they are betting that the next session will abolish this Board in favor of another as

proposed by the American Federation of Labor. But members of Congress are much less certain about the

law, which the National Association‘of Manufacturers and the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce are plugging. The Board is in much weaker condition now, despite various internal reforms, than during the last session of Congress. Then it succeeded during seven strenuous months in blocking all action. But then it had the help of the Senate and House Labor Come mittees and of the C. I. O. Now the regular Cone gressional committees are wobbling and the C. I. oO. is attacking instead of defehding it. : 8 8 ” HE Board’s reforms in regulations and personnel .have come from pressure of the Congressional hearings and of Mr. Leiserson, who was appointed by President Roosevelt as a trouble-shooter. But these reforms have failed to pa¢ify the old employer and A. F. of L. critics, while alienating the old C..I O. supporters. : Some hope exists in the Board that the new hostility of the C. I. O. will prove a blessing by canceling out the employer-A. F. of L.-Congressional charges that the Board is pro-C. I. O. This might be true theoretically, but in practice the power of pressue groups counts for more in Congress than briefed arguments. Now that it has no large pressure group fighting its Congressional battle, the Board is helpless. :

the President may save it. Undoubtedly he will fight for the Wagner law, but he is believed to be impatient with the Board’s troubles—hence his Leiserson appointment last June. And his recent action in firing his friends, Administrator Andrews and Deputy Ade ministrator Sifton of the Wage-Hour Division, is further indication of his mood. = f J 2 os YY ER just or unjust, the Administration’s disposition as it approaches the 1940 election hurdle seems to be to unload unpopular personnel.

ficulties and partly because it is caught between the rival A. F. of L. and C. I. O—is perhaps the most unpopular agency. Moreover, several Administration

| leaders in Congress feel they did their Boy Scout deed

for the Board last session and that enough is enough, especially in a campaign year. The tendency, therefore, is to compromise on personnel by creating a new Board and to make the real fight in defense of the Wagner law itself. In this connection the extreme conservative pressure and the extreme leftist pressure may tend: to cancel each other in saving the law, though not help the Board itself. The latest pressure is represented in the extreme Chamber of Commerce amendments submitted to the Smith House Committee and from the opposite side by the C. I. O. repeal threat just filed with the Senate labor committee.

(Westbrook Pegler’s regular column will appear ; tomorrow)

Business By John T. Flynn

Section; in Proposed = Anti-Trust . Law Aimed at Executives Praised.

‘YORK, Nov. l1—BSenator O'Mahoney has introduced a bill to get better compliance with our anti-trust laws. I have not seen the bill in full. But there is one feature of it which seems eminently wise. This is a provision which, upon conviction, will. restrain any officer or director found guilty of responsibility for the violation from receiving any compensation from the corporation involved for from 90 days to life. : . It is not possible to put a corporation in Jail for violating a statute. And when it comes to putting its managers and directors in jail, that is something which apparently cannot be done. Society seems to shy away from the awful act of putting into priscn a rich man who has broken the law. Bryan used to say that we will begin to get respect for our anti-trust laws when we put one big rich malefactor in jail for his violation. But we haven't gotten around to that yet and probably never will. You cannot jail the stockholders, of course. As a matter of fact, violations of the anti-trust laws are often as much of a crime against the stockholders as against the interests of the public. We must therefore have penalties which will be effective and which can be enforced.

Blame Put Where It Belongs

It is difficult to conceive of any penalty which will make a corporation executive think twice and thrice before violating a law in his management than the possibility of losing his job. The law provides, therefore, that he be suspended for as little as 80 days or for any length of time the court deterniines or he may be suspended permanently, which means his job is gone. It does not provide that he cannot work for the corporation while his salary is suspended, thus depriving the organization of his needed supervision. It merely takes away his pay. : When corporations violate the anti-trust laws it is the executives who actually violate the law. It is they who are responsible and it is they who should be penalized. It is they who must be punished if we want the law obeyed. This provision of Senator O’Mahoney’s bill, if enacted into law, would go a long way toward putting the reins on corporation executives when they set out to violate the law.. Certainly some such provjsion in connection with the anti-trust laws is sorely needed. : J

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HAT'S all right, Hon. In this business you have to learn to love the drunks and the snobs, too.” The tall red-haired girl put an arm protectingly

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datk eyes to force back tears, before both sped off to answer insisfent honks from motorists wanting cokes, pig sandwiches, hot dogs or sodas. It was the busiest hour of the evening. Beer guzzlers were raucous; high school pupils shouted messages back and forth, while more sober-minded citizens waited their turn patiently.

How well the red-haired waitress had sized She sailed about, her bright head

snobs.” up the situation!

a wisecrack for another, perfectly sure of herself because, I suppose, she had found out that beneath its bad manners h nature hides a lot of kindness, More important still, she knew what every working person discovers sooner or later, if he is to breast the tide of life; the drunks and especially the snobs are always with us. J 23 At any rate, the incident enhanced my admiration for the modern working girl. Curb service, an innovation of our time, calls for good looks, good grooming,

through school, and the nutbrown maid ings to support an invalid mother. nt Here, and in every, other city of the United States, such girls conduct themselves like heroines. For while they are accepting “the drunks and the snobs” are they not also, and with the same good

Next Session Held Possible as C. 1. O. |

so-called emasculating amendments/ to .the Wagner |

Another form of hope around the Board is that.

The Labor Board—partly because of inherent dif= |,

about the shoulders of the nutbrown maid who blinked | §

“You hive to learn to love the drunks and the |

flaming in the strong light, with a smile for one and |

hard work, poise and smiles, and from it thousands of | | ¢ = ‘™ very young women earn their bread. The red-haired | | “Sus 28 one, I found later, was helping put two brothers | { , uses her earn-

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

SAYS UNGRATEFUL CZECHS PREFER LIBERTY By A. B. C. Hitler is already having his troubles in Czechoslovakia. The

Czechs apparently don't appreciate being saved from the menace of liberty. : thoi 8 8 2 HOLDS U. S. HAS DUTY TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY By L. Victor I can’t help feeling that in making “keep out of war” the main issue in the arms embargo controversy, the press (with exceptions), statesmen, politicians and public are overlooking a point of much greater significance than that of whether repeal or retention of the present law will do this or that toward getting us into, or keeping us out, of war.... Despite the obvious fact that to intervene is to get caught in the dirtiest kind of diplomatic quagmire, I cannot help believing that “keep out of war” is beside the point and definitely not the major issue. . . . Some time ago our President denied having averred that “our borders are -on the Rhine.” Why he tlenied + authorship of such an honest-to-goodness near truth is more than I can understand. I pause here to explain that to me this is 3 “near truth” rather than a whole truth because I am unable to see, with commerce, transportation, communication, ete., as it is today, how ve can think we have any borders at all. Nazism, fascism, communism, socialism—isms of all kinds are our slose associates. Asia, the Orient, Europe, are our next door neighDOrS. . . . a _ The fact of the matter is that we like some of our neighbors better than others. We are conscious of their frailties and faults but our isms and their isms are in tune. Others of our neighbors are not very pleasant to live with. They are noisy; they steal; they sneak into our garden and plant the seeds of their isms therein; they have already pillaged our neighbor, Poland. Neighbors Britain and France have been provoked beyond endurance and unless these two friends of ours are able to do something about it, the job of cleaning up the

(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.)

neighborhood may soon be ours to 10 by ourselves. This, I may say with the utmost conservatism, will be quite a task. And so I say let us look at this thing squarely. Let us realize that it is more important to have victory on the side of the Allies than to stay out of war. We are as much (many say more) a part of democracy as Britain and France. If. Britain and France lose, democracy suffers a terrible blow—a blow that’ will jar us so thoroughly we shall probably never recover. We, therefore, are naturally and rightly partisan—so why kid ourselves? If

repeal of the arms embargg will

help our friends it will hélp us. And so we had better repeal. As a secondary thought, if we can stay out of war, let’s stay out. 8 8 = THINKS SOVIET MADE FOOL OUT OF HITLER By C. F. Lafferty There are medals for sharpshooting, and there are medals for bravery, and there should be medals for mistakes, That is what the present war in Europe seems to be—a

mistake. ‘The one who should be awarded the medal for that mistake is Hitler, The most befitting medal for him would be iin of mule ears to him. ; That is what he has maile of himself—a jackass and a fool. His cost in the conquest of Poland was greater than Russia’s, and Russia received the greater portion of Poland. Now Russia stands at better advantage to gain more in what Hitler has started than Hitler will ever gain. . 2 And to think that Russia could Have been on the Allies’ side, if it hadn't been for England's aristocratic Parliament resenting alliance with ‘a Communistic government —- another gross: mistake. Prejudice ‘seems to rule this old world and it seems that it always will. fa 8. CRITICIZES LINDBERGH'S ‘DEFENSIVE WEAPONS’ By Robert H. Tam : In regard to Col. Lindbergh’s address on arms embargo, a pair of pants, a bomb, a toothbrush or a bayonet becomes an offensive weapon when worn or used by an invader. It becomes a defensive weapon when worn or used by the

invaded. How will the: Colonel distinguish between them? , . . . He advocates something far more deadly for this nation than all the bombs and opium in.the world. It is indeed regrettable that such stupid prognostications, which are most, conflicting with our foreign policy, must be permitted. . .

New Books at the Library

ERE are chills, thrills and spills, from be g to end, starting with the little airplane’s forced landing on a bleak golf éourse, high in the Adirondacks. Peter Clancy's “skill” with locked doors admits him, his self-elected valet, and their amateur pilot to a deserted inn near by. The Sans Gene, cold and dark, and closed for the winter, provides its uninvited guests with an excel-

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

” So A SERVICE ING, P.M. REG. U.

Rabbits through the bare fleld : walk ,

hiding in the cellar; a vicious cat; a well-stocked larder—and finally the gruesome secret in Room B. Peter and Wiggar, master and servant in polite society, but efficient criminal investigators working the interest of justice, soon have the inn restored to light and warmth and humming with the a¢= tivity of witnesses, laborers, reporters, photographers—and conspirators! For here, apparently, is the very logical end of a case which gix months previously made sen-

country. The village ‘coroner seems unduly pleased to pronounce the death “due to natural causes” and turns a disapproving cold shoulder to Peter's plea for a more thorough investigation. Which all means that Pete thust work fast and faultlessly to prove only a vague suspicion that there was more to this tragedy than met the eye. : ° We have come to expect pluperfect entertainment from Lee Thayer, and his latest mystery novel is no disappointment. “Stark Murder” (Qodd) keeps the reader in a very pleasing state of suspense and excitement as the story moves at a breath-tal pace to its surprising and dramatic conclusion.

IN NOVEMBER MARY P. DENNY = (' Now November time is here Shining out in sunlight clear, 1 Autumn corn is in the stalk

Light and joy is everywhere Shining through the autumn air The world radio rings the chime Of the autumn glory time.

. DAILY THOUGHT ~ For, behold, the Lord will come

with fire, and his like a whirlwind, to render his

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sational headlines throughout the

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"Furor Over the Flint Inconsistent, “In View of Our Silence Despite the’ Seizure of 30 U. S. Ships by British,

ITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 1-—Apparently at least 30 American merchant ships have been hi. jacked on the high seas by the British Navy and taken to England—to see whether their cago shall

cause the information comes jumbled in the news and our State Department has given out no such’ detailed account as it gave on the City of Flint. : The latter ship was hi-jacked by the German Navy. The only apparent difference in the two classes of seizures was that the Flint was taken into’ a supposedly “neutral” port while the other American® merchantmen were taken by British captors straight’ to the British Downs. : : Lise It makes a big difference to Great Britain whether we protest the taking by her enemy of a gatzed American ship into a neutral port and permit without” protest any such seizure by & British warship if the prize is taken to a British port. But what difference’ does it make to the American owners of the ship” or cargo? What real difference does it make “to this country; the ship is probably gone and our long treasured doctrine of freedom of the seas lias been slapped in the face in either event. Why should’ there be so much pother about a seizure by ome. belligerent and so much silence about 30 times as’ many seizures by the other? Ses = THER ny NE of Woodrow Wilson's original 14 points was’ freedom of the seas—the right of a neutral to continue its legitimate commerce with at least some-. thing to say about unreasonable interference with it.. Somehow that point was dropped overboard in the voyage of the “George Washington” to the ‘Paris peace conference, The British didn’t like it. : There isn’t much left 2 ihe Dias. of freedom of the seas. That we have largely ab k it ourselves is proved by the Neutrality Bill, which doesn’t wait to have it taken away from us but : it up at the beginning. One of the ‘most naive of the arguments for it was that if it had been in effect the City of Flint incident wouldn't have happened. In other words, we would have taken her off" the ocean before the Germans did. That the 30 (9) British seizures were equally potent arguments wasn't: mentioned. She : : # 8 8 2% S writer has favored the Pittman Bill even: ) helped to invent part of it. The onlypoint of this plece is a plea for realism. If .we are going to get off the ocean to keep out of

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_ | a fght let's not get off for one belligerent and

refuse to get off for another. If we are going to: recognize the right of might in sea power to declare anything it pleases contraband of war—and I think: we must—let’s not beat the tom-tom when one bel: -ligerent does it and look the other way when it is. - done by another. Treat The original lists of “absolute” and “conditional” reasonable. floats will be called contraband. ; . In modern war the only rights a neutral has. ab gen are the rights it can and will maintain by force.: Every war among sea power produces for . neytralssuch incidents as that of the “Flint against all belligerents as regularly as a prize hen lays eggs. ‘Again, let’s keep on our shirts, !

lt Seems to Me By Heywood Broun : : Pope's Encyclical Offers Formula: For Neutrals to Insist on Peace:

YEW YORK, Nov. 1~—It seems to me that Pope: N Pius spoke eloquently to men and ‘women’ of:

but in terms of security for all the world. Decidedly.

in their own juice.” Nor did he cor broken pledges and treaties swept: aside by sudden force of arms. And yet the spiritual’ head of the Catholic Church was both forceful and: crystal clear in dashing the hope that ining § brotherhodd may be achieved through the ‘of arms, : : ao “To hope for a decisive change exclusively from the; shock of war is idle,” said the Pope, “as experience: shows. The hour of victory iS an~hour of -externaltriumph for the party to whom victory falls, but it is, in equal measure, the hour of temptation. In this hour the angel of justice strives with the demons of violence; the heart of the victor all too suddenly: is hardened; moderation and far-seeing wisdom ape pear to him weakness. . . . There is danger lest settle ments and decisions borne in such conditions be noth ing else than injustice under the cloak of justice.”

; : 3 Spoken as a Statesman LE as In all this the Pope speaks not only as a spiritual leader but as a wise statesman. When he says, “as, experience shows,” undoubtedly he means secular as well as religious experience. And I think there are. few who will deny

them stew the immorality of

ring nations precisely where they , and a the cost of bloody sacrifice. But there is of peace which fits within the formula laid down the Pope. I refer to the kind of peace which be won by the neutral nations if they insisted a settlement through conference. ~~ délay long in |

I hope that thé House will not the arms embargo, for if it fails to do so there distinct chance that the Fuehrer may choose ‘forward rather than listen to any voice of When the conference comes it must be broad ‘that we are not going bi the Old World, and that all the nations will r to re-enlist in the war of nerves. ~~ = = We shall want to know each other better yath than worse 3 we are to found a world of fre: for the body and soul of man. Labor, be preserved up to the highest scale and: and we must begin to trade freely with one It is a large order, but since the stake is life it surely is worth trying. pi

Waiching' Your. Heal By Jane Stafford ety

KIMMED or skim milk is being praised by 1 ists for its healthful qualities and there is eve movement under way to give it a good name by dried skim milk “dry milk solids not over 1% cent fat.” : - : Whole milk, of: course, is the id gdults should drink it if they p can. I cannot afford whole milk, do not scorn skim & is much better than no milk at all. 8 tains practically all the important now ents of whole milk except the fat soluble vitamins, A and D. Even Whole tunately, does not contain any too abunds of these vitamins, which is why 8 vitamins to their whole milk, and physi cod liver ofl for children. “While pasteurised or

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be confiscated—or released. I say “apparently” bes

contraband of both Germany and England look: if thé war continues everything that,

many faiths in his encyclical. ‘He spoke for peace, : he gave no aid and comfort to the philosophy, “Let 4 condone;

tional:

the tragic dangers of a victor's) peace. However, peace by stalemate leaves the war-

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