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Give 14ght and the People Will Find Their Vwn Way

DAY, MARCH 22, 1940

DALADIER OUT IF French, they

are a funny race,” etc. War or no war, 50 million Frenchmen can’t be expected to agree with | ch’ of ther all the time. So, Daladier is out.: The German newspapers, inured to .an unchangeable ne-man leadership, are gloating at this revelation of ‘French disunity.” They seem to forget that on one matter those §0 million Frenchmen, leftists, rightists and centrists, are of one mind: Hitlerism must be crushed. The only issue that now appears to divide them is how ast they should go about that job.

“NO NEW TAXES’—OH, YEAH! i “HE House of Representatives has voted 10 appropriation bills, in the course of which it has sliced $42, 000, 000 off the President's budget estimates. | The Senate has acted on six of these bills, in the course of which it has erased $29,000, 000 of the House's paper savings. | | * Today the Senate probably will conclude action on the seventh appropriation ‘measure—the Agriculture Supply Bill-—to which it has already added $297,000,000. So even if the Senate adds no more to this bill, all of Le House “economies” will be wiped out and the tentative

hedule of Congressional appropriations will be running $5,000,000 above the President's | ‘estimates. This budgetary box score is brought up to date merely to shqw that Congress this year is following the sang’ pattern it ) ollowed last year, and the year before, and the year before. | Mr. Roosevelt laid down a budget.- He asked Congress to stay inside that budget. He. pointed out that even if it kept within the estimates, Congress would still hav e to rai $460,000,000 in new taxes, in order to keep the fd from exeeiling its legal debt limit. Congress idn’t a ito vote Tew taxes? for this is an election year—a d it didn] ‘want to raise the debt limit. So Congress started talkin about economies. Yes, said the loud-talkers, Congress would ‘|avoid the necessity of new taxes merely by ap ropriating /$460,000,000 less than the President asked. X " .Congress is still talking, but not so loud, 7 ) - . Meanwhile no work has been done on that tax bill.

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the finest speeches in the two weeks of Sonat atch bill was made by Senator George ons of space we can quote here only. . : + : ~ “The bill ily not invade states’ rights; and it is bt | intended to invade i rights. It is intended to protect

the states, it is intended to protect both the state gover: ents and the General Government, because it he intended

| £9 preserve freedom in elections; and without the free-eléc-tion there is no democratic process as we know it, whether the state or in the Federal Government. | k “Within the ast seven and a fraction years, under or party, there has been the most rapid concentration of power that has ‘taken place at any given period of time in our whole history. In.order to relieve many of the

conditions which we found in 1933 to be intolerable, in order] | knew should {

rsecure “the co-operation of printers, dealers and all

to relieve conditions which we as Democrats | be relieved, we found it necessary to appropriate the largest

“Government i in peacetimes. | “We found it necessary to create in the country vastest army of Federal officials that we have ever ad in peace or in war; and included in|that army are also thos state officials and employees who are really and |in truth - gaged in administering’ Federal funds. ... | . “We ate not going to discontinue that practice altogether. Some of us may desire to see it discontinued, but it will not be discontinued. . . . | “What does it mean? It means that the state m ist assent to the conditions under which if receives appropriations. What! does the bill propose to do? To give to the

| [Federal Government power to impose conditions upon the

states? Not at all. It is a simple and feeble attemp |

write one prohibition against further Federal imposition _ of power upon the states. We say that whatever the ederal Government | may do about funds that are goin to be sent into Virginia or into Georgia, funds shall not be sent down there ‘to be used for political purposes; that] 'we will not permit the political use of those funds in the states

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to Soren the election i in those states.”

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“ASK MR. FOSTER”

ARD GRENELLE FOSTER, who died the other day in Florida at the age of 80, built a fortune out of the obvious idea that people 'who" travel want someone Whe knows to answer | their questions. Fifty-two years ago he opened a little! bookshop i st! ~ Augustine. His stock included a simple guide to the historic city, but Florida tourists of that early day kept asking him for information not to be found in the book. So Mr. Foster began making personal visits to Florida hote Te sorts and places of interest and ara hotel o ners and merchants that they could make money by paying him to give accurate information free to the traveling public. From that beginning grew the Ask Mr. Foster Travel Service, Inc., which expanded until it had offices in 75 cities.

Et Millions of Americans have found more pleasure in their

journeying at home and Bbroad because iid “as Mr. ~ Foster. : |

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MICKEY MOUSE IN WALL STREET =~ |

WALT DISNEY i is about to offer the public some $4,000,000 in stock. Seems like pretty big talk for a 3 years old cartoonist whose chief assets are a non-existent mouse, an, imaginary duck, a young lady and seven little men who weren't really there, and a lad with an elongated nose. But

en there was nothing imaginary about that 3 6’ (i

Business Manager |

Price in Marion Coun- |

a heavy discount in these parts. | merican countries do not doubt|

| the sincerity and the ability of Uncle Sam to take|

struction of arms and accessories, military budgets,

HEY tell of arate visits by’ Japanese arms

tion of what we can do.

Latin America

By John Thompson |

To Defend Themselves Against Fate

(Second of a Series)

| smaller countries of Europe are being eliminated by | Guarantees of protection by larger powers are at ' While the Latin

care of any situation likely to arise in. the defense

| of the Western Hemisphere, the easy days of laissez j

faire in regard to their national defense are gone forever in Latin America. . ; Guns, ships, tanks, cannon and warplanes are the [ topic of cdnversation everywhere there. Every American nation is looking to its defenses in dead earnest. Conscription of manpower, the purchase and conmilitary missions and itary training are the order of the day. |

is also prevailing in the United States, it is much. more pronounced in the Latin American countries, which have to depend on outside sources for their arms supply. Uncle Sam is looked upon as the natural source for such equipment, although Japan is making some strenuous ێfforts Secreuy to be in the armament Picture.

#8 manufacturers. to the embassies and legations of Latin American countries in Tokio, as well-as of the efforts of’ Japanese salesmen touring Latin America. | However, the United States is depended upon as the chief source of war equipment because the plans for defending the Western Hemisphere call for coordination of equipment as well as of tactics and strategy. But they balk at the higher prices they must pay for American-made war material. ‘The United States has offered to sell certain equipment, at cost to the Latin American countries. In addition, we are ‘ready to sell a lot of surplus war equipment at nominal prices. The recent sale to Brazil of 90 cannons of 6-inch caliber is an indicaThese guns were built during the war but never used. While not the

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THER efforts on our part to, co-operate toward the defense .the Western - Hemisphere have been tie dispatching of military, naval and air missions to most of the Latin American countries— at their request. These officers help our neighbors to formulate their defenses in line with the larger strategical and tactical problems involved. Our military, naval and air schools take a certain number of Latin officers yearly for training.

made by the American countries are many: The United States is strengthening its Panama defenses and is creating in Puerto Rico a strong military, naval and air defense unit. Some 2500 men are working on the Puerto Rico base at Cape Borinquen. Chile is in the market for American planes and small warships. Brazil and Argentina are also said to be shopping for ships and planes. The entire air force of Colombia is being revamped with the help of American air officers. Uruguay is considering the conscription plan, while Argentina is toying: with the idea of making her conscripts’ serve two years instead of one and thus increasing the size of the standing army. The war alarm is ringing all over Latin America. on

: | (Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Inside Indianapolis ' This Thing of Return Addresses; And the Latest in the Dope Racket.

I you are one of those persons who writes return addresses on the back of your envelopes, you'd better be careful or youll. be cross-wise with the Third Assistant Postmaster General of the United States of America. . The Third Assistant PMG of the USA feels so { strongly about the subject that yesterday Postmaster Seidensticker got a bulletin from Washington calling attention to this terrifying practice. It necessitates “an unwarranted amount of time and labor in turning the mail over,” says the bulletin, Mr. Seidensticker was asked to do everything in his power to have the practice discontinued and to

others in the matter.” Gosh, we didn’t know we were violating the aw. We'll put it on the front in the future, you betcha. * #2 8

THE WARS IN EUROPE. AND ASIA are having one good effect around here, Elmer A. Crews is happy to announce, , . . Mr. Crews is ihe Federal Narcotic Bureau jagent here and he says that the problem of smuggled drugs has fallen to practically. nothing. . It's now a question of ‘checRing prescriptions and other illicit channels. . . ./Judge Bradshaw. is proudly showing off his new high backed, red leather chair. « « «» “The other one broke down after 30 years of service,” he says, “and I hope this -one does as well.”. . . The School 86 Committee is having its troubles with the School Board, which doesn’t approve of all the publi notice which has been given. the construction. of the new building. ” ” ”

THE PHONE RANG AND the voice at the other end wanted to know if we wanted a good story. The voice went on to say that a certain woman was competing in a contest (one of those connecttd with Presidential possibilities) and had been stumped by a ‘New, Hampshire Governor reference. Not knowing who the Governor, of New Hampshire was, said the voice, the woman called up Governor Townsend. And do you know, said our informant, the Governor of Indiana had to keep the woman waiting while he found out who was Governor of New Hampshire. We said thanks and the voice said: “This is .J— G—— at —~— high school and when I come asking for a job in 1942 I want you .to remember me.” We said /we’d try and he said: “Remember—dJ—. G 1942.” We can, hardly wait, J—.

A Woman’ s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson | PRIL 24th is the 50th birthday of the General long way we've come in ‘half a hundred years!

eyes from our goals. occasionally in’ order to look back and see how far we have progressed from starting points. When we feel discouraged in groups or as individuals, let’s consider that advice, for it is excellent. Maybe you're not at the top- yet, but if you" ve gone “a long piece” on the way isn't that something to be thankful for? And we women have indeed come “a long piece” from our beginnings in the United States. No wonder we wear our hats so jauntily and are learning to laugh at our minor setbacks. And while we share the thrills men must feel as they regard their own achievements—airplanes, motor cars, skyscrapers, brightly lighted cities—we experience even profounder emotion as we think about our own discovery. For we have found something more gleaming and precious than all their machinet— freedom. The past century has been marked by amazing

pregnant with significance to humankind, as the change in the status of wornen. From small obscure groups the club movement has flowered. From cour: namely, individual liberty. |

f it is good,

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Southern Nations Swiftly Arming

That Befell Small Nations of Europe. :

\ pen ‘March 22—The nations = ot ] tin America are alarmed at the way the| |

| the onslaughts of heavily armed. totalitarian powers.|

While a certain degree of this sort of sentiment ;

latest type, they are suitable for the defense off

Specific instances of the defense efforts being |

Federation of Women’s Clubs. And what a long Somebody once said that we should remove our |

our | .

changes for us all, but none.is more astounding, or so |

age born in the pioneer heart a sex has reached forth to take that which it fe its rightful ‘heritage-: :

‘And whatever its traducers tiny. say—the taste of .

it is sweet upon our tongues. ‘The. fee be,

and its results, whate ever they ms y of § ‘We’

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The Hoosier Forum

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

THINKS GERMANY NO ¢

LONGER THE AGGRESSOR By W. L. Ballard, Syracuse Finland, Norway and Sweden seem to be changing sides in the war. Changing sides is symptomatic. Unless we note that most countries have -about-faced recently, we cannot follow foreign affairs Trders standingly Less than two years ago Hitler,

Mussolini and Japan were aggressors in the familiar imperial sense. They each are now being punished for failure to go on being sc! They have each reversed their course and they, ‘with Russia, are now fighting impe-

'rialism and imperialists, temporal

and spiritual, who try to ihvolve the United States, believe it or not. The “hidden powers” behind Titler et al. have now become the visible fowers fighting them! Apparently, we must be ready to learn to love wha’ we once hated, etc., or else be prepared to lose touch with reality. 2 8 = CLAIMS CAPITALISM CANT LIVE WITHOUT LABOR By Shelby J. Franklin, New Castle Mr. James R. Meitzler’s view on capital and labor is as old-fashioned as the spinning wheel and the individually owned weaving leom. For,

in the.days when they were used |

there was a managerless class who could do nothing but work for someone‘else. No doubt today that class

still exists but it would not number 1 per cent of our industrial work-

The contention that the capitalist could live without labor failed to be verified in ’32 when men worth a 100 thousand dollars in real estate, couldn’t buy something to eat and Wall Street. bankers swapped securities for ready cash to buy bread. I think I recall Mr. Meitzler saying he was a farmer. A farmer is not a capitalist. “In speaking ofwage labor, what other kind of labor is. there but wage labor as long

-a§ thére is capital and labor?

Let’s illustrate it this way, Mr. Meitzler. There is a coal mine that existed in the mountain. No one has a claim on it. You have money. You need coal to keep you warm. You are sick, not able to work. You

(Ttmes readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Kake your letters short, so all can have a chance. ‘Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

have a half bushel of gold. You go pour that half bushel of gold at the mouth of that mine and I will assure you that you will get no coal. But I am that shiftless laborer and able to work. I do not have a dime. I go to that mine with my labor. I can.get coal. And so with capital and labor. A capitalist is Just a

smart man telling the real producers of wealth thaf, they have to have him. He is.as useless as horns on cattle. v s 8 = HOLDS DISARMAMENT ‘IS ONLY REAL ISSUE By E. R. Egan’ . From the capital made of the Russian-Finn settlement by Germany and Russia their naive populations are no doubt led to believe that the Allied Powers and the rest

of the world A Finland to!

win the war for them. As a mat=ter of fact Finland fought solely to defend her own independence. It will be recalled that in the World War Finland made a similar settlement, even asked a German prince to head the Government. When it became an assured fact the Allies had won the war Baron Mannerheim came to the fore and organized the republic. ' The settlement which gave Rus-

sia bases they have | no patticular use for is the significant thing about this phase of the war. : Germany plunging the world into war over the Danzig tariffs and annexing half of Pola: got the other half together with the policy of these nations, is the }al issue of the war. | - Outside the armament program which| they force upon the world; the- world has small concern with their internal politics except for its

{inevitable effect on commerce, upon | which modern society exists.

So we come to the real i §— reduction of armament ‘which’ must inevitably preclude aggr most stupidly rutile potion policy in the world, as witness the poverty of military regimes, both from an economic, taxation and waste and social, disintegration standpoinf,

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New Books at the Library

HEN Hiram Hogan Reynolds died im 1937, he was 108 years old.-In his “York State” boyhood he had known intimately men who had

\fought at Bunker Hill and Valley

Forge and in the war of 1812; the stories told by the “oldsters” in his family kept alive the happenings of “years ‘way long back.” Exciting stories, bright, gaudy patches in the piecework of American folk-lore: Pioneer fortitude; “Injun” kindness and cruelty; King George IIT and the 13 rebellious colonies; Tories and land-grants; redcoats and minute men. Tall tales already half a century old when Hiram Reynolds was born, treasured and retold on long winter nights in

Side Glances—By Galbraith

. | Humanity has walked

an era when parents still raised families in the isolation of lonely frontier cabins, and long dead figures of the Rev lutionary War emerged from the mists of time in the glow of their fabulous deeds— Washington, Maj. Andre, Benedict Arnold, Ethan Alle m, Gen. Simcoe, Burgoyne. . Mortunately, Mr. | neynoids; when in his hundreth year, narrated to Prentiss Mourninan, who had long been planning to write a panorama of erican pioneer life, his lusty, of asm reminiscences; chronciled in his own words and picturesque dialect, they present a colorful pattern fof life in “In Those Days” (Macmillan).. Herb remedies and soap making and. acorn bread; settlers moving westward; the homely rou-tine-of daily life spiced by the cour-

| | age, resourcefulness and endurance ! .|of the pioneering spirit, blending

stories true, absurd, heroic, incredible. | | The man who, .as a boy, rode in an ox-cart from New ‘York State to Indiana, a mile or two an hour, and rode in an airplane after he was ‘a century old, has enriched our national folk-lore with his vivid. mems+ ories of the United States in its turbulent, challenging years of struggle for. survival and conquest. Si —————————

’ GREATER LOVE By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

He ‘sacrificed Himself freely That we might live. :

| He suffered for His belief

And

died upon a Cross. Down =

through the centuries. ;

Upon His bleeding body -And found life better— Love grown stronger, There are the selfish 0 name Him Soul L en saying 0 “He suffered the tote

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while Russia |.

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| Gon: Johnson” Sever,

March 22g day, | G-Man

srs Hoover, who was about to swoop down on a gang, heard that Walter Winchell had all nis dope and was about to break it as a scoop. | He had never seen Winchell but he telephoned; and a him not to destroy wee Winchell, without!

| ti you release me.”. Hoover appreciated. ik They

became friends. | Some newspapermen. believe - that

Winchell has access to all the dynamite mn isn’t true. Nobody: has,” One day Winchell’s’ ‘broadcast reported t that, n famous Lepke case, police were ordered to take no chances. Almdst immediately scared Lepke, by telephone to Winchell, ‘offered to surrender on a guarine tee that Hoover's men wouldn't bump him off. Wine chell asked for time and got Hoover's in ant response that no G:Man had any more authority for

shooting than the-common law self-defense doctrine

of retreat to thé wall, : As a result, Lepke surrendered through ‘Winchell to Hoover, Naturally. newspapermen didn’t: ‘But I can’t see why that and a few other and similar incidents and Hoover’s occasional appearance at night | spots with his friend Winchell should rate tagging him as “the fly cop of the Stork Club.” Yet, just that has happened through the w ecracks of ‘| playfully ‘razzing commentators. But th "shear Hoover boys” are inaking good use of it. Frei # ss 'OOVER ought to stay . Furthermore, public officia ought not to get too | thick with newspapermen, or the other way round. It doesn’t make for good work ‘in either field, But to use this trifling tripe to deprive the public of! such a servant is sheer sabotage of good g0 This man has fone more for law eit by personal performance, by example, education, administration and organization than anyone in : or any ‘other country. His work has done something to ime prove every police department in the land. ' | | This attack on’ such a man and his work is noth. ing less than obscene. - Our- criminal and, subersive elements are gloating with joy. "It crumbles our national defense against thé greatest dangers to domestic peace and decency. “Sucker: commentators, and sucker politicians ‘who-liave allowed themselves to be duped into support of this sabotage: are’ uAwisingly| doing great harm,

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® a’ = PF the reward for such'victories’ over ¢ ~ruption—such improvements in poli everywhere—is a political smearing out fit life; then . why should any cop be capable;

efficient or honest? Women should give Es land: atantcn to this, 1 the jepidemig “of 1 ar

Those old enough Yo. Te

| under Hoover has “almost e

put a great danger on orgar ny They least of all will stand for seine those 'h fenses sapped. 3 Mr. Hoover more than once or twice.

ticular interest in him as an individual. But ike any’ other Sitioeh, I nave a vital inferest in Domeer. |

Sharecroppers

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By Bruce Catton

2 Left Wingers Have Fallin Out Over Drive to Aid Tenant Farmers.

ASHINGTON, March 22.Unhappy as the Pete of the : ecropper 1s, there. d hin be any way 46 keep his-friends from. ig" themselves <over who, is going 10 help od | The fight - centers between the: ‘Southerfi "Tenant Farmers’-Union, .on the one hand, and the C.1.0.s Unit; Cannery, -Agricultural, Packing Workers of America on the other. More tely, bd is between the rival left-wing. groups. wi or back “these two. organizations. . oe ned ‘up behind the Tenant Farmers” Union, Comm) ‘behind the UCAPAWA—although, of course, union also has many supporters afligled. wi Helter The: row .came out: in the oPaE ‘recently in “eon pection with, observance of National: ‘Shafecroppers ee | This annual appeal to ‘Northern liberals for funds | has ‘for three yehrs been the chief means by which | the Tenant Farmers’ Union filled its war oe The “week” usually gets quite a play; Joist year such national figures as Mrs. Roosevelt ‘and: La Guardia, gave it their active a

Rival Group Asks Funds

. Shortly before the “week” was to begin of the UCAPAWA organized ‘the N ain, = to Aid Agricultural Workers and opened ai ! ape for funds. . Since this union isia C.. Ek aftilia Allan Haywood, | organizational director oil: sent notice to C. I.:0O. unions: to lay-off Sharecroppers Week, xi Jackson of Labor's hina rh to local sponsors of the “week” asserting; Tenant Farmers’ Union is “a spoon fed 3 x alive by contributions from generous od of Northern cities” and charging that its, acti are a waste of time, energy and money, Jn So now the fight it on.. 8s 8 8 rT en Recent reports that Germany - ‘has been ‘getting a lot of war-useful materials from the United States via Soviet Russia don’t seem to: be borne out by the Commerce Department’s figur U. 8: exports to Russia have gone up’ since last eptember, but, apparently no. more than would be accounted for by Russia's inability to buy: from Tiasions now involved in the war,

Watch Your Health -

By Jane Stafford ~~ ”

HE 100 per cent health wardrobe you are) going te T assemble this spring need nof and should not be unstylish nor dowdy. The stylists advice Sha, youl clothes should express your personality and that new, becoming hat is a good spring. toric is ‘soun¢ health advice. Flat-heeled shoes are sensible for sporis wear and long walks, but you need not wear them to a dance Shoes that fit well, with heels that do not throw you! body out of balance, can good for Toot; health ang graceful in appearance. F ‘The psychological aspect of clothing’is extremel; important. One authority states that it is just as im, portant to mental health as the physioloj al aspect: of clothing: are to bodily Health. You tha much publicized pavice; given hy a New ork psychi atrist, to women sufle Tom Nervi breakdown starts with a preseription for a perma wave and The poise t comes to lo mah feels well dressed is a heal Fog? person who claims that clothes are un deliberately, dresses badly to use

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