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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1939

~ ANTICIPATING AN ATROCITY - NJOW that Nazi planes have bombed the Shetland Is-

Y lands we demand the severest penalty of the law for the first humorist who cracks that “It’s a pony war.”

THE BUZZARD GLOATS

~ TD USSIAN newspapers—which mean Stalin—are gloating

over the idea that Finland can’t stand the expense of a

‘long mobilization and therefore will soon go broke and

give in. . Says the dispatch: “The majority opinion appeared to be that the Soviet

i ‘would continue merely to mass troops on Finland's borders,

hoping the economic strain would bring the little country to terms in a few months.” : Russia’s population is some 180 millions and Finland's some. three and a half millions; in terms of territory, Finland has 134,000 square miles against Russia’s 8,000,000. In other. words, because Russia is very big and Finland tiny, rape is easy. And that’s regarded as clever by the nation which so loves to preach against the wickedness of

it __ capitalism.

The worst underselling by a large competitor to put a

small one out of business—the rawest work of Jay Gould

or a Daniel Drew in the palmiest days of lassiez faire—never matched in cynicism or cruelty this expression which now

"comes from the international buzzard.

25 YEARS OF SERVICE

TOMORROW the Marion County Tuberculosis Association will mark its 25th birthday. And typically enough,

* the organization plans no great fanfare, no gala banquet.

It has merely announced its “25th -annual meeting at 12 o'clock, the Lincoln Hotel. Address by Paul A. Teschner, M. D., Bureau of Health Education, American Medical As-

sociation.”

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. that country under present circumstances.

That’s how the Marion County Tuberculosis Association plans its birthday celebration. Trying to learn more about fighting disease. In 1914, when the organization was formed, the death

= * rate in Marion County from tuberculosis was 224.7 per ~~ 100,000 population. In 1938 the death rate was 62.9.

Marion County owes much to the resourceful and energetic persons who have worked so hard for the Tuberculosis There has been no thought of personal gain or personal achievement. It has been 2§ years of community effort for community service.

We salute the Tuberculosis Association. We hope:

_sincerely that the next 25 years are even more successful

than the first.

A LARGE STRAW IN THE WIND

os ITH the question of eventual American credits really,

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as reported last week, overshadowing the immediate advantages of cash and carry, confidence is felt in economic and political circles this week that once cash and carry provisions are legislated, credits will not lag far behind. “ . . There is still enough cash available to enable

: Britain and France to make enormous purchases of Amer-

ican armaments on a purely cash and carry basis for, at any rate, a short time. =a “ .. It would be possible to effect a rapid and consid-

erable expansion of American productive capacity .. ..

“Such expansion can certainly reach a point at which

a any sudden collapse of demand or buying power would have

—and would be seen in advance to threaten—serious repercussions on American industry. “At any moment such drying up of buying power might

i be threatened as a result of a real or fictitious shortage of

cash. The consequences, it is claimed, could be averted only by the extension of credits—short term at first, long term later. ; “Whether these calculations are correct or not, they are certainly proving influential in convincing expert British

‘and French opinion that’ American legislation will not be

able to withstand the pressure of the demand for the ex-

% tension of credits when it comes. And this is an exceedingly

important factor in all calculations of British and French policy.” : —From “The Week,” (London), Nov. 1, 1939.

HE WOULDN'T HAVE MINDED

| WE refuse: to get mad about the story from Sweden that

the German conquerors of Poland have destroyed Gutzon Borglum’s statue of Woodrow Wilson in Poznan. Even if the real idea of the Nazis was to express contempt for the American President who had so much to do with liberating Poland, we think Mr. Wilson would have been well content not to have his statue stand in And we wouldn't care to debate their reported contention that the

“statue was “an artistic eyesore.”

It portrayed Mr. Wilson, about thrice life size, in a

~ Prince Albert coat—a garment worn by many statesmen

but one that even a greater sculptor than Gutzon Borglum, even if his model were Paul McNutt, would find it difficult to make appear anything but grotesque in monumental

bronze. And Woodrow Wilson néver pretended to be a

handsome man. Whatever his faults, the vanity of looks was not among them. We recall his famous limerick: For beauty I am not a star; There are others more handsome by far. But my face, I don’t mind it, For 1am behind it— : It’s the folks out in front that I jar.

CONGRATULATIONS, SHORTRIDGE HORTRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL has again won the City high school football championship. The North Side tear defeated Technical on Monday in a typically hardght game, 7 to 6. These intra-city games are marked by fine play and

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kept filled from factory job lots. The only difference | is that the man doesn’t pay extra for his alterations

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler :

The Great | Am Better Get Home! New Prophet From Moscow, Idaho, Is Working His Territory by Mail. 0S ANGELES, Nov. 15.—There appeared in Los

1200 words by Dr. Frank B. | Idaho, who claimed that he has falked with God and, for a price, is willing to reveal the secret of a new religion which he calls Psychiana, In Cleveland, where I.saw him lately, the Great I Am, also of Los Angeles, had four new expensive cars for himself and staff, time on the air and dn archepiscopal suite ‘at the best hotel in town. The Great I Am was just out calling on the trade, for Los Angeles is his seat and the California mountains are the scene of his occasional conferences with the sacred Three Times Three, the great ascended spirits and a militant, gaseous god-force identified as K-17. . - As I recall his route the Great I. Am, known in private life as G. W. Ballard, would still be on the road, so I didn’t bother to call but did mention him to Mr. Buron Fitts, the District Attorney, and was surprised to learn that this well-informed local official, never had heard of his eminent fellow-citizen. “The Great I Am?” Mr. Fitts said. Make a note of him, Klein. He may be someone we

would like to know.” : » ® » #

“He has access to a lake of gold on Mt. Shasta, and this friend of his, the Sacred Three Times Three,

hither bound, with a sword of purple flame.” “I never heard of the guy,” Mr, Fitts said. not & big shot.” 4 “He can’t be a big shot,” Mr. Klein nodded. Mr. Fitts and Mr. Klein are blase about such men. Occasionally they have to bust up a flock for the sake of the lambs, but that’s the way it goes. Masters of the I Am religion can make themselves invisible, a knack to tempt burglars and varsity backs, and there is said to be no limit to the material gifts which they command, including money. But Dr. Robinson gets his without recourse to sorcery. » » » .

BOXCAR stray, his writing says he was, 8 beggar, who worked only when forced to and that

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‘seldom, until one day he struck up a conversation

with God. Today he owns the largest office building in Moscow, Idaho, has a beautiful home with a magnificent pipe organ and drives a Cadillac limousine, while his wife drives a new Buick and his son a Ford V-8. His little girl isn’t old enough to drive her own, but just you wait. Dr. Robinson doesn’t mention his degree but speaks of a little drug store which he had to abandon owing to- the press of: religious husiness, and country druggists commonly are called “doc.” For all his wealth he doesn’t want money from his converts. beyond enough to pay expenses—and grow. For growth he requires an unspecified proportion of the grow, but he extends a money-back offer to those who try psychiana and don’t get rich like him, with cars for all hands ‘round, a pipe organ and all like that. This seems a very attractive offer, and here he is working the prophet Ballard’s beat by mail while the Great I Am drags around the East where the skeptics roost high. The prophet better git for home. Somebody is messin’ around his chicken coop.

Business By John T. Flynn

End Must Come to Continued Deficit Financing or Our System May Fail."

EW YORK, Nov. 15.—Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, is getting around again to worrying about thie debt limit. Someone at some time arrived at the notion that the debt limit of the Federal Government should not exceed 45 billion’ dollars. Doubtless that figure was set as representing some fantastic outside limit which in the course of human events the Government would never reach. But now we are so close to it that we will probably exceed it next year. The Government debt is now 41 billion dollars and the Treasury is already making preparations to ask for another half billion dollars of new money. / But before Congress considers increasing the borrowing power it will do well to know what the Government is going to do with the borrowed funds. There is every evidence that the Government is now about to take the fatal step of creating an armament indus try with borrowed money. : At first the Government went into borrowing to prime the pump. Then it settled down to borrowing money to keep the economic system afloat regardless of whether the pump was primed or not. The borrowed funds were used for peace-time projects. But now the Government is talking about billions for national defense. : Obviously the President cannot be thinking of raising this enormous sum: by taxation. It is twice the present national-defense figure. This defense program cannot be carried on save with borrowed money and Congress has now got to face the bald decision whether it is going to imitate Germany and Italy and attempt to produce recovery by creating an armament industry in America with borrowed funds.

Close to Catastrophe

It has, of course, altogether aside from this, to decide whether the Federal Government is going to settle down to a policy of permanent never-ending deficits. With the exception of England, there is not a country in Europe which hasn’t been living on deficits for a decade. There is not a countiy in Europe that has any prospect of doing anything else. This Government has been living on deficits for 10 years and it looks very much. as if next year will show its biggest deficit of all. : : . Can it be that we have slipped into such a state of mind that we will go on doing this as a matter of course until we stand face to face with catastrophe? We are close to that now. And here is another warning. ‘Now we must decide whether we will continue borrowing or not, but if we continue to do so for a few more years we will have to make‘an even more important decision. We will have. to decide whether we will change our economic system or not. This one cannot possibly continue to exist under this strain.

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

I HAVE low moments when the sheeplike traits of women fill me with doubt about feminine progress. Such a moment occurred the other day in a favorite shop where I had gone for a corset fit pardon me, for a foundation-garment fitting (what prudes we moderns be!). During the unpl t process I glanced at a placard on the wall which announced that alteration charges, “as follows,” had been agreed upon by all city stores. The list began with & trifling 25 cents for a shoulder-strap adjust-

fications. : ; So, I hissed to myself, the plague spreads. It permeates all our business life, yet women accept it without a quiver of rebellion. Why? Because they are so used to accepting injustices to which men would never submit. ' This alteration item is a sore point with me, even

tudes of women who earn their living at it. When a man buys a suit he doesn't consider the sale -com-

enough fo demand that every article he purchases shall be delivered to him ready for immediate use. Nor does he ask for made-to-order raiment any oftener than his wife. With few exceptions, Mr. and buy their clothes from racks which are

and the woman does. Yet everyone concedes

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BU: surely you know the Great I Am!” I wheedled. |

recently destroyed a number of hostile submarines, |

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ment and ended with several dollars for major modi- |-

though I see clearly the benefits it brings to multi- | |

plete’ nor does he put down a thin dime until the | garment fits. The dumbest male shopper is smart |

THERE AINT GONNA BE ANYTRING PHONY ABOUT TRIS war!

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

CITES HISTORY TO SHOW

PEOPLE MAY FAVOR WAR By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.

Since the outbreak of war in Europe, well-meaning people have flooded the President and Congress with telegrams reading as follows: “Please- keep us out!” It would seem to be more to the point, in the cold light of history, if Congress and the President bombarded the people, with telegrams reading as follows: “Please don’t push us in!” # » 8

HOPES BROTHER'S DEATH

MAY SAVE OTHERS By Helen Evans, Bedford, Ind. "The writer .is a sister of Roscoe Evans, who died on Nov. 5th as a result of a skull fracture suffered over a week previous to that date. As you remémber, my brother was confined in the Marion County Jail for over a week with this injury, and without any medical attention whatsoever. : : In your paper bf Nav. 7, 1939, you carried an editorial concerning the incident, remarking that a medical examiner should be kept at the jail to examine prisoners so that such an .incident would not be repeated. . Since that time the officials of Marion County and -of the City of

length to explain this incident—but not once have they answered the most important question of all; that is, why wasn’t ‘my brother given

plained that there were two physicians in the jail each day—yet not once did either of them examine my brother. ‘They have also explained that a “hospital room” is maintained at the jail, yet they did not even take my brother to that room. In the third paragraph of your article written on this date, and found on page 5 of your paper, it is stated that my brother. made no complaint that he was ill. Only yesterday two prisoners at the jail informed members of my family and myself thet my brother had complained of ‘a head injury— rather, of severe headaches. They also stated my brother had a cut on his lip and a black eye when he was admitted to the jail. The officers at the Marion County Jail verified all of that information also —yet with those injuries that were so noticeable, they did not once have him examined by a physician. "My brother is gone—and nothing

Indianapolis have gone to great|°

medical attention? They have ex-

(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.)

can possibly bring him back to us. My only hope is that his case might in some way open the officials’ eyes, so they will not let such an incident occur again. , If my brother could talk today. I'm positive he would say, “Feliows, don’t let anyone else go like you did me—don’t let anyone else’s mother suffer the heartaches that my mother is suffering now.” » » » AGREES WITH JOHNSON ON FATE OF GERMANY By S. H. he Even Gen. Johnson fears that Germany may: be lost to the capitalist block of nations as a resuit of the starvation of the civilian population by the Allied blockade. He says there must be some other way

ut. Wah Regardless of the blockade, -the damage: has : already been done.

‘With Mussolini standing on the side

lines Hitler was defeated before he started. His only hope was in the direction of Russia. Any help from Russia would be based on primary Russian interest. Russia is a missionary. of proletarian economy. - Germany may retain its form of government and its capitalist economic structure . providing it en-

larges the volume of available goods for consumption in Russia and Ger-

‘|many. The mere fact that Germany

has been driven into the Russian economic -orbit as an alternative to a position in capitalist world economy is a defeat for the Allies regardless of the outcome of the war. The Allies and America presume to represent Christianity as a way of life; and capitalism as well as Christianity are. internationsl in scope. In fact Christianity if practiced is more revolutionary in its teaching and consequent effect than Communism. War is not the product of real Christianity. War is a pagan religion. - : England is spreading Communism.

How can the Allies restore Germany |.

to the capitalist countries with war as a policy of state? 3 2 x » RECALLS MARK TWAIN'S ' PRAYER ON WAR By C. W. % This, in my opinion, is ‘an appropriate time to bring to mind Mark Twain’s War Prayer: “O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to shreds with our

shells; help us to cover their smil-

ing fields with the pale forms of their patriotic dead; help us to drown the thunder of guns with the shrieks of the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their

humble homes with a hurricane of,

fire; . .. help us to turn them out roofless with their.children to wander unfriended through wastes of their desolated land—four our sakes who adore Thee. Lord, blast their hopes, protract their bitter pilgrimages, making heavy their steps, water their way with their tears,

stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet.”

New Books at the library

“ T heart I am a nomad, I was . born with an insatiable desire to see all the world, and this urge to discover new lands and strange peoples has given me no peace. . . . Story-book Lapland, with its hyperboreal winter, unearthly Northern Lights and unsetting summer sun, beckoned. I did not resist.” Equipped with a flashlight, a toothbrush, and. an eider-down sleeping bag, Neill James sailed from New

| the frozen

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mess—I1 Samuel 3:39.

York on a journey to the Land of the Midnight Sun. In “Petticoat Vagabond” (Scribner) she relives her six months of vagabonding in the Polar Circle. Arriving in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, in the winter time, she proceeded by train to the end of the railway ‘at Rovaniemi, traveling from there by bus over ithe only Arctic ‘highway in the world up to the very shores of the Arctic Ocean. With no set itinerary to hinder her she went where she pleased and often retraced her steps in order to see something new and interesting

'|in the Scandinavian countries. Upon one occasion she rode in a. pulka

drawn by. reindeer—ofter with one leg thrown over the side of the pulka to balance it as they slid over lakes, or sometime dragged along on her stomach when the pulka upset and spilled her—to witness a reindeer round-up. On her journey. she saw the world’s largest

1 | nickle mines at Salmijarvi, the iron

mines at Kiruna; she missed nothing that was of interest. That she fell. in love with. the

- | Arctic countries and their people}:

is apparent. “My Lapland- sojourn was not an ‘exploration.’ It was merely another trip of the Petticoat Vagabond in search of fresh adventure.” And as she left the crisp cold of the Arctic, she says, “even before I arrived at the Polar Circle to cross it for the last time, I had a feeling of homesickness for a place I had not yet left.”

PHILOSOPHY By VINIA BERRY . Don’t reach for stars, Or strive for.gold, But share the beauty You see unfold. The stars wers made There, real gold Hes! oy DAILY THOUGHT

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: : Pro-Arerican-and. Anti-War Should Be Our Attitude if It Is Our Desire To Have a Policy of Strict Neutrality

7 ASHINGTON, Nov. 15—1I¢ is héginning to ‘be

Y'V_ unpopular to argue for “keeping out of war.” The charge is that it’s like killing a dead horse—that nobody wants to get irc anyway. J But if increasingly taking sides is tending to get in, that at least ought stills to be worth talking about and especially to call attention to every official act

‘that tends that way. ‘Try to do that and see what

you get. Bit Ci As long as what you say is favorable to the Allies, you.don’t. get much. But. if you criticize the or our own action that seems to be unneutral—as un-

necessarily unfavorable to Germany or as unduly.

favorable to her enemies you are a Nazi sympathizer, or anti-British, or anti-Semitic or almost anything. but the one thing we all ought to be trying to be which is anti-war and pro-American. They come pretty close to being the same thing. Ga

One complaint T get—that this column seems to be

sympathetic with Hitler—is incredible to me. If Hitler: ever took important action which. this column sup-

, I can’t recall it. Others may. have criticized

‘the Nazis as consistently, but I don’t know who.

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UT, if we are to maintain a strict official neutrality : to keep us out of this war, that doesn’t mean that we should keep silence about everything that Britain ‘does—even if printed American criticism of Britain is sometimes garbled and misquoted in German papers. Like almost every other American, my feeling is for Fhgland and against the Nazis. ‘But I have another ‘feeling many times stronger than either of those opposing ones—it is for our country: : I think one-sided comment on this situation is, of itself, dangerous. To whatever extent any comment has effect, it seems to me that that kind of dishonesty ‘builds up emotion for one side of a foreign quarrel and intensifies it against another. Lopsided emotion alone can get us into this war. Reason never will, Exactly that is the sole purpose of the organized foreign propaganda against which we are so indignant;

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If we won't stand for it from publicists of ‘warring

powers, how can we stomach it among our own? nigh vis HIS column said recently that the British had hi-jacked. some 30 of our ships to the German's one—the Flint—and that our State Department began at once to give press handouts on the Flint and

_.| scarcely mentioned the other. This drew a blast that

it wasn’t “hijacking.” it was legal in international law and not true as to English seizures. The last statement is incorrect. seizures occurred. Hijacking is grabbing somebody elsé’s goods in transit by force. Whether hijacking a

‘neutral vessel at sea is legal depends on whether, upon | visit and search at ¢ea, it is found destined to a

blockaded port, or guilty of unneutral conduct, or car ries contraband. Regardless of this rule; most of these ships were Seized, taken to Britain and determined— days later—-to be entirely innocent. It was a British violation of American’ rights but we suffered it in silence. Is it pro-Nazi to say so? ‘Our State Depart. _ment’s neglect to say so -about similar British seizures ‘was one reason why we got into the World War, |

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Army Should Be More Democratic; Fault Lies in Rigid Military Education.

EW YORK, Nov. 15.—The game between rd and the Army was: just a thrilling contest if one happened to be emotionally slanted toward the Crime son. But after it was over I had certain misgivings, It seemed to me that here again was a team from the United States Military Academy which was more dis tinguished in its physical prowess than in any deep~

seated gift of strategy. And that is a pity. Such &

condition, if it exists, must perturb the patriots. The future generals must be more than beautiful and slow upon. the uptake. - ai In all fairness consideration must be taken of the fact that the curriculum, both at West Point and in

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Annapolis, is far more severe than the course of study

set anywhere within the Ivy League.. One may loaf his way through the cloisters along the ‘Charles, buf not in the barracks which stand above the Hudson, The Military Academy tops the bluffs. - ; At West Point each young man must be not only & ‘mathematician but first-aid mechanic for all the guns and gadgets which make up a modern army. And yet I think there is a danger in mechanizing personnel as well as equipment. Man is not yet ready to give all

the ground to the machine in either war or peace. ‘A Robert E. Lee can furnish inspifation which

cannot come from any robot.. And so I think that at both the national academies there ought to be.a greater admixture of the arts. Science should be supin general culture. The military mind tends to tightness. Liberal lieutenants are few and far between, and all the captains are conservative. - : re,

Medieval Viewpoint Must Go

Whether it is a good practice or not admiralg and generals are sure to pop up ab ‘banquets and make speeches, and the reputation of America is hurt by-the fact that practically all these addresses are medieval in their point of view about politics and economics. Accordingly, I think that we should: broaden the base of ay education in this country. In spite of the fact that appointments go chiefly by Congres+ sional districts the Academy does not constitute the

fullest possible cross-section of American life. ‘Men.

om the ranks may win both education and comisisoe later, but the cadets and midshipmen come quite largely from upper middle-class groups. The fundamental seructure Ques not oe the best ‘possible dation for a wholly democratic army.. fous think it would be a good-move to offer to the best and brightest of the COC men an opporfunity to study for West Point and. Annapolis examinations. In the preservation of democracy it is just as important: that our y should be thoroughly representative as: it is for our national legislature to contain all kinds and

By Jane Stafford :

Me" people have a great horror of cancer, even though they may never have seen a cancer

patient and have carefully shunned hearing or learne

ing anything about the re these, summon up your courage and learn some of the helpful things about cancer. Fear, you know, will not protect you, but if you learn - cancer’s danger

disease. If you are ome of -

signals and what to do about them you have the

defending yourself against this killer, "No way ig known as yet for preventing cancer. But many patients have been saved from death and are living out their normal lives because their cancer was recognized and treated early. X-rays, radium

best armor-for

‘| and surgical operations have been the means of sav-

ing these patients. These anti-cancer weapons will probably save still more patients in the future. For

one reason, there will be more doctors trained in

diagnosis and treatment of cancer and there will be ‘more and better equipped cancer clinics. The Federal Government, through the National Advisory Cancer Council and the National Cancer Institute, is helping to train more doctors for cancer fighting and

the patients into a state hibernation kill the cancer cells, it is believed. - The new treatment not Joi been, available many patients,

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