Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1940 — Page 5

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 8'(U. P.) Following is the text of resident Roosevelt's annual

Union: | To the Congress of the United States:

| As the Congress reassembles, the npact of wars abroad makes it atari to approach “The State of _ foreign affairs. | But it is important that those wh

ear and read this message should | |

no way confuse that approach ith any thought that our Governent is abandoning, or even over1 g, the great significance of its estic policies.

| The social and economic forces which have . been mismanaged broad until they have resvited in lution, ' dictatorship and war the same as those which we ere’ are struggling to adjust at home. | You are well aware that dictatorps—and the philosophy of force hich justifies and accompanies dictorshi; have originated in. al= ost every case in the necessity for astic action to improve internal conditions where democratic action for one reason or another has failed to respond to modern needs and modern demands.

FRAMERS FAR-SIGHTED

It was with far-sighted wisdom - that the framers of the Constitution brought together in one magnificent phrase three great concepts— “common defense,” “general welfare” “domestic tranquility.” ; ‘More than a century and a half later we still believe with them that our best defense is the promotion of our general welfare and domestic nquility.

{In previous messages to the Congress I have repeatedly warned that, whether we like it or not, the daily lives of American citizens will, of necessity, feel the shock of events on other continents. This is no longer mere theory for it has been definitely proved by the facts of yesterday and today. To say that the domestic welling of 130 million Americans is deeply affected by the well-being or the ill-being of the populations of other nations is only to recognize in “world affairs the truth we all accept in home affairs. If in any local unit—a city, county, state or region—low standards of living are permitted to continue, the level of the civilization of | the entire nation will be pulled downward.

ANSWERS WAR ‘WARNINGS’

<- |The identical principle extends to he rest of a civilized world. But ere are those who wishfully int, in innocence or ignorance or oth, that the United States of America as a self-contained unit can live happily and prosperously, its future secure, inside a high wall of isolation while, outside, the st of civilization and the comrce and culture of mankind ar ttered. :

I can understand the feelings f those who warn the nation that they will never again conTo to the sending of American "youth to fight on the soil of urope. But, as I remember, noy has asked them to consent for nobody expects such an ndertaking.

[The overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens do not abandon In the slightest their hope and expectation that the United States will not become involved in miliary participation in the war. I can also understand the wishfulness of those who oversimplify the whole situation by repeating that all we have to do is to mind our own business and keep the nation out of war. But there is a vast dif ference between keeping out of war and pretending that this war is none of our business. | RY

| *CAN ENCOURAGE PEACE’

| We do not have to go to war with other nations, but at least we can strive with’, other nations to encourage the kind of peace that will lighten the troubles of the world, and by so doing help our oR nation as well. {I ask that all of us everywhere think things through with the single aim of how best to serve the future of our own nation. I do not ean merely its future relationship with the outside world. I mean its domestic future as well—the work, the security, the prosperity, the appiness, the life of all the boys and girls of the United States, as they are inevitably affected by such world relationships. For it becomes clearer and clearer that the future orld will be a shabby and dangerous place to live in—even for Americans to live in—if it is ruled by force in the hands of a few. {Already the crash of swiftly movg events over the earth has made us all think with a longer view. rtunately, that thinking cannot be controlled 'by partisanship. The time is long past when any political rty or any particular group can curry and capture public favor by labeling itself the “peace party” or the “peace bloc.” That label belongs to the whole United States d to every right-thinking man, man and child within it. For out' of all the military and

two facts which stand out and hich the whole world acknowl-

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John N. Garner, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley and House Majority Leader Sam Raybfirn.

Legislative Leaders Cheerful After Talk With President

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the Government of the United States done so much as in our recent past to establish and maintain the policy of the good neighbor with its sister -nations.

WE HAVE CLEAN RECORD

The second is that in almost every nation in the world today there is a true public belief that the United States has been, and will continue to be, a potent and active factor in seeking the re-establishment of peace. In these recent years we have had a clean record of peace and goodwill. It is an open book that cannot be twisted or defamed. It is a record that must be continued and enlarged. ; So I hope that Americans everywhere will work out for themselves the several alternatives which lie before world civilization, which necessarily includes our own. We must look ahead and see the possibilities for our own children if the rest of the world comes to be dominated by - concentrated force alone—even though today we are a very great and a very powerful nation. J : We must look ahead and see the effect on our own future if all the small nations throughout the world have their independence snatched from them or become mere appendages to relatively vast and powerful military systems. We must look ahead and see the kind of lives our children would have to lead if a large part of the rest of the world were compelled to worship the god imposed by ja military ruler, or were forbidden to worship God at all; if the rest of [the world were forbidden to read and hear the facts —the daily news of their own and other nations—if they were deprived of the truth’ which makes men free. We must look ahead and see the

world trade is controlled by any nation or group of nations which sets up that control through military force,

ASKS FEWER ‘OSTRICHES’

It is, of course, true that the record of past centuries includes destruction of small nations, enslavement of peoples, and building of empires on the foundation of force. But wholly apart from the greater international = morality which we seek today, we recognize the practical fact that with modern weapons and modern conditions, modern man can no longer live a civilized life if we are to go back to the practice of wars and conquests of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. “Summing up this need of looking ahead, and in words of common-

sense and good American citizen-

ship, hope that we |will have fewer American ostriches in our midst. It is .not good for the ultimate health of ostriches to bury their heads in the sand. | Only an ostrich would look upon these wars through the eyes of cynicism or ridicule. |

Of course, the peoples of other nations have the right to choose their own form of government. But we in this nation still believe that such choice should be predicated on certain freedoms which we think are essential everywhere. We know that we ourselves will never be wholly safe at home unless other governments recognize such freedoms. |

Twenty-one American republics, expressing the will lof 250 million people to preserve peace and freedom in this hemisphere are displaying a unanimity of ideas and practical relationships which gives hope that what is being done here can be done on other continents. + We in all the Americas are coming to the realization that we can retain our respective nationalities without, at the same time, threatening the national existence of our neighbors. Such truly friendly relationships, for example, permit| us to follow our own domestic policies with reference to our agricultural products, while at the same time we have the privilege of trying to work out mutual assistance arrangements for a world distribution of world agricultural surpluses. And we have been able to apply the same principle to many manufactured products — surpluses of

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U. P.).—Here are some of the major issues facing the 3d session of the 76th Congress: 1. Whether to raise the national debt limit, now set at $45,000,000,000. 2. What, if anything, to do: _ about proposals for new taxes, such as the certificate plan—in | effect, processing tax—proposed by Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace. . 3. Extension of the Administration’s reciprocal trade treaty program, which expires next June. 4, Whether to reduce Federal spending through cuts in the annual supply bills appropriating Government funds. 5. Whether to revive or drop the $1,615,000,000 lending-spend= ing program, passed by the

11 Major Issues Face Congress at Its Opening

Senate but shelved by the House last session. 6. Whether to revive or drop the $800,000.000 housing program, also Senate-passed but House-shelved. 7. Whether to grant President Roosevelt's request for huge defense appropriations, expected to total about $2,300,000,000. 3 8. What to do about relief and WPA. Mr. Roosevelt is expected to recommend appropriation of approximately $1,000,000,000 for this. 9. Whether to amend the National Labor Relations or the Wage-Hour acts. 10. Whether to continue 'special House committee investigations of the Labor Board and un-American activities. 11. Whether to pass or kill the perennial anti-lynch bill.

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CITES TRADE BARRIERS

For many years after the World War blind economic selfishness in most countries, including our own, resulted in a destructive mine-field of trade restrictions which blocked the channels of commerce among nations. This policy was one of the contributing causes of existing wars. It damned up vast unsaleable surpluses, helping to bring about unemployment and suffering in the United States and everywhere else.

To point the way to break up the log-jam, our trade agreements act was passed—based upon a policy of equality of treatment among nations and of mutually profitable arrangements of trade.

It is not correct to infer that legislative powers have been transferred from the Congress to the Executive Branch of the Government. Everybody recognizes that general tariff legislation is a Congressional function, but we know that, because of the stupendous task involved in the fashioning and passing of a general law, it is advisable to provide at times of emergency some flexibility to make the general law adjustable to quickly changing conditions. We are in such a time today. Our present [trade agreement method provides ‘a temporary flexibility and is, therefore, practical in the best sense. It should be kept alive to serve our trade interests—agricultural and industrial—in many valuakle ways during the existing wars. : But what is more important, the trade agreements act should be extended as an indispensable part of the foundation of any stable and durable peace.

NOT ENTANGLING ALLIANCE

The old conditions of world trade made for no enduring peace; and when the time comes, the United States must use its influence to open up the trade channels of the world in order that no nation need feel compelled in later days to) seek by force of arms what it can well gain .by peaceful conference. For this purpose we need the trade agreement act even more than when it was passed.

‘I emphasize the leadership which|

this nation can take when the time comes for a renewal of world peace. Such an influence will be greatly weakened if this Government becomes a dog in the manger of trade selfishness. f The first President of the United States warned us against entangling foreign alliances. The present President of the United States subscribes to and follows that precept.

But trade co-operation with the rest of the world does not violate that precept in any way. - Even as through these trade agreements we prepare to co-op-erate in a world that wants peace, we must likewise be prepared to take care of ourselves if the world cannot attain peace.

For several years past we have been compelled to sirengthen our own national defense. That has created a very large portion of our Treasury deficits. This year, in the light of continuing world uncertdinty, I am asking the Congress for Army and Navy increases which are based not on panic but on common sense. They are not as great as enthusiastic alarmists seek. They are not as small as unrealistic persons claiming superior private information would demand. As will appear in the annual budget tomorrow, the only important increase in any part of the budget is the estimate for national defense. Practically all other important items show a reduction. Therefore,’in the hope that we can continue in these days of increasing economic prosperity to reduce the Federal deficit, I am asking the Congress to levy sufficient additional taxes to meet the emergency spending for national defense. .

NUMBER OF JOBLESS DOWN

. Behind the Army and Navy, of

course, lies our ultimate line of de-

fense—"the general welfare” of our people. We cannot report, despite all the progress we have made in our domestic problems—despite the fact that production is back to 1929 levels—that all our problems are solved. The fact of unemployment of millions of men and women remains a symptom of a number of difficulties in our economic system not yet adjusted. We refuse the European solution of using the unemployed to build up excessive armaments which eventually result in dictatorships. We encourage an American way—through an increase of national income which is the only way we can be sure will take up the slack. Much progress has been made; much remains to be done. We recognize that we must find an answer in terms of work and opportunity.

YOUTH PROBLEM STRESSED

‘The unemployment problem today has become very definitely a problem of youth as well as of age. As each year has gone by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls have come of working age. They now form an army of unused youth. They must be an especial concern of democratic government. We must continue, above all

“things to look for a solution of their special problem. For they, looking ahead to life, are entitled to action on our part and not merely to admonitions of optimism of lectures on economic laws. Some in our midst have sought to

instill a feeling of fear and defeatism in the minds of the American

| people about this problem.

To face the task of finding jobs faster than invention can take them away—is not defeatism. To warble easy platitudes that if we will only go back to ways that have failed, everything will be all right—is not courage. oid

‘We met a problem of real fear and real defeatism in 1933. We faced the facts—with action, not with words. The American people will reject the doctrine of fear, confident that in the ’'30’s we have been building soundly a new order of things different from the order of the ’20’s. In this dawn of the. decade of the '40’s, with our program of social improvement started, we must continue to carry on the processes of recovery so as to preserve our gains and provide jobs at living wages. There are, of course, many other items of great public interest which could be enumerated in this message—the continued conservation of our natural resources, the improvement of health and of education, the extension of social security to larger groups, the freeing of large areas from restricted transportation discriminations, the extension of the merit systém and many others.

' SEEKS NATIONAL UNITY

Our continued progress in the social and economic field is important not only for the significance of each part of it, but for the total effect which our program of domestic betterment has upon that most valuable asset of a nation in dangerous times—its national unity.

The permanent security of America in the present crisis does not lie in armed force alone. What we face is a set of world-wide

forces of disintegration—vicious,

ruthless, destructive of all moral, religiove and political standards which mankind, after centuries of sirussle, has come to cherish most.

In these moral values, in these forces which have made our nation great, we must actively and practically reassert our faith. : These words—“national unity”’— must -not be allowed to become merely a high sounding phrase, a vague generality, a pious hope, to which everyone can give: lip-service. They must be made to have real meaning in terms of the daily thoughts and acts of every man, woman and child in our.land during the coming year and the years that lie ahead. For national unity is, in a very real and deep sense, the fundamental safeguard of all democracy. Doctrines which set group against group, faith against faith, race against Trace, class against class, fanning the fires of hatred in men too despondent, too desperate to think for themselves, were used as rabble-rousing slogans on which

dictators could ride to power. And|

once in power they could saddle their tyrannies on whole nations, and on their weaker neighbors.

WARNS OF EUROPEAN TRICKS

This is the danger to which we| ‘in America must begin to be more

alert. For the apologists for foreign aggressors, and equally those selfish and partisan groups at home who wrap themselves in a false mantle of Americanism to promote their own economic, financial or political advantage, are now trying European tricks upon us, seeking to muddy the stream of our national thinking, weakening us in the face of danger, by trying to set our own people to fighting among themselves. Such tactics are what have helped to plunge Europe into war. We must

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plague, if American integrity and security are ‘to be preserved. We cannot afford to face the future as a disunited people. - We must as a united people keep

‘ablaze on this continent the flames

of human liberty, of reason, of democracy and of fair play as living things to be preserved for the better world that is to come. Overstatement, bitterness, vituperation, and the beating of drums, have contributed mightily to illfeeling and wars between nations.

{If these unnecessary and unpleas‘lant actions are harmful in the in.|ternational field, they are also

hurtful in the domestic scene. Peace among ourselves would seem to have some of the advantage of pzace

in the long run history amply demonstrates that angry contro-

|versy surely wins less than calm

on. ‘In spirit, therefore, of a greater unselfishness, recognizing that the world—including the United States of America—passes through perilous times, I am very hopeful that the closing session of the 76th Congress ‘will consider the needs of the nation and of humanity with calmness, tolerance and co-opera-tive wisdom. | : May the year 1940 be pointed to by our children as another period when democracy justified its existence as the best instrument of government yet devised by mankind. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT.

CASE WORKER ADDED BY JUVENILE COURT

Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw today announced appointment of Miss’ Marcelle Sadlier to the staff of probation workers in his court, - >

At the same time, Judge Bradshaw said he plans a minor reorganization of district assignments in the court probation department. Juvenile Court also started the year with an additional stenographer, provided for in the 1940 Juvenile Court budget.

Miss Sadlier came to Juvenile Court from the Marion County Department of Public Welfare. She received her professional training at the University of Michigan and the Indiana University School of Social Work. :

S. A. R’S PROGRAM WILL BE OUTLINED

Aims and achievements of the Indiana Society of the Sons of the American Revolution were to be outlined by Charles L. Barry and Cornelius FP. Posson at a meeting of past presidents at the SpinkArms Hotel today. Tribute was to be paid to William H. English, who was the first president of the society when it was organized in 1889. Approximately 15 past presidents were expected to attend the annual meeting. Charles A. Breece, president, was to be in charge.

DIES OF INJURIES SOUTH BEND, Ind. Jan. 3 (U. P.).—Mrs. Kathrina Seifert, 75, of South Bend, died yesterday from injuries suffered in an automobile accident Dec. 23. She was the first

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South Bend in 1940.

Junior ‘Senator Terms Hatch Bill “Silly,” Says “He'll Fight Extension.

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By DANIEL M. KIDNEY © Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Senators Sherman Minton and Frederick

VanNuys resumed their seats at the opening session of Congress to-

spective roles of New Dealer and conservative Democrats. . . Senator VanNuys failed to answer the opening roll call, but was expected to arrive from his Virginia farm for the President’s message Rep. John W. Boehne Jr., (D. Ind.), is driving through from Evansville and will not arrive until tonight, his office reported. Senator Minton and the 11 other Indiana Congressmen answered the opening roll call. < Only on the reciprocal trade agreements and national defense will Senator VanNuys join. with the Administration proposals 100 per cent, he indicated. a The senior Senator is not going to the $100-per-plate Jackson Day dinner next Monday night, either. Senator Minton will be there” and took the occasion of his going to rap the Hatch “No-Politics” Act.

Calls Hatch Bill ‘Silly’

“Certainly all Democratic ‘Senators should attend the dinner, since we are the only ones left who can fal ‘any politics,” Senator Minton said. = “I intend to vote against any extension into the states of that silly Hatch Act because I believe that the law already has gone too far, despite the fact that I voted for it.” Senator VanNuys took the exact opposite view. “Since I was slated for slaughter by a ruthless state machine, I certainly shall support extension of the Hatch Act provisions to all state agencies which receive Federal funds. I believe it will be passed,” he asserted.

‘Heartily Approves’ Act

“I heartily approve of the present act, which takes the Federal job holders out of active politics and thereby should increase their efficiency and give the taxpayers something for their money.” Speaking of tax money, Senator: VanNuys announced that he will not support any attempt “either directly or indirectly” to lift the 45-billion-dollar debt limitation. He will start committee action on his anti-lynching bill as soon as possible, he added. Senator Minton, member of the Military AJairs Committee, will take particular interest in the defense proposals. He toured all the Army posts by plane during the recess since the special session. : He found anti-aircraft weapons particularly needed, he said, but contended that the Administration program will be adequate when carried out so far as the Army is concerned.

Although both Indiana Senators

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. voted to lift the embargo and establish cash carry, Senator Minton has moved toward Senator VanNuys’ viewpoint in regard to staying out of war. He does not want the 'U. 8. to fight unless attacked, he declared, and wants extreme care exercised in putting an embargo on Japan or making loans to Finland,” so that the United States does not become involved to the point of participation in foreign war.” Commenting on his campaign for re-election this year, Senator Min-

day and slipped back into their re-|ton said he hoped Homer Capehart,

Washington, Ind. music magnate, would be his opponent. But he also predicted he could win against Raymond E. Willis,” Angola publisher, or anyone. ; Mary Ann Minton, the Senator's daughter, returned here today and joined her classmates at a private school. Mrs. Minton will arrive’ this week-end and the family will live at the Wardman-Park Hotel. This is. in the vicinity of the Shoreham Hotel, where Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt lives. Senator Minton said his tour convinced him that “Paul is the most popular Democratic candidate in the country, outside of President Roosevelt.”

6.0.P. CLUB TOHEAR GOVERNOR HOPEFULS

Three prospective candidates for Governor will speak at meetings of the Irvington Republican Club during the next two months. Gler R. Hillis, Kokomo, who an-

nounced his candidacy for the G. O. P. gubernatorial nomination recently, will address the club Monday night. State Senator William E. Jenner of Shoals, another gubernatorial ¢andidate for nomination, will speak Jan. 22 and Judge Janies A. Emmert of Shelbyville, also in the race for Governor, on Feb. 26. Maurice Robinson of Anderson will speak Feb. 12. ; Other speakers will be Carl Vandivier, Marion County G. O. P. chairman; Howard M. Meyer, Pliny H. Wolfard, Edward J. Hecker Sr. and Harvey B. Hartsock.

ANDERSON’S RELIEF " CASE UP TOMORROW

Dan R. Anderson, grocery store owner, will be arraigned in Criminal urt tomorrow on four indictments charging the filing of false claims and false pretense. Mr. Anderson is one of five persons under indictment as a result of the former Grand Jury's Center Township poor relief “investigation. All others have been arraigned. Arraignment of Mr. Anderson was postponed to permit him to file motions in his case. Two actions, one a motion to quash the indictments and another a plea in abatement, were overruled by . Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers.

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