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"THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1040

AIRPLANES FOR THE ALLIES ~ . J oGIC is on the side of the decision to let the Allies bu “late model American warplanes—even to the point’ of diverting overseas hundreds of planes now being built at the order of our own Army and Navy. : The Army and Navy, as a result, will get still later and possibly get them cheaper. The plant capacity erican aireraft builders will be expanded—without our own Government. Our armed services will benem such refinements in’ design as may be suggested by the combat experience of the exported ships. In case of erican emergency, the Government could commandeer fthe Allies’ contracts and take for its own use the ‘planes being built for them. | / It can also be argued that in the long view the Allies are fighting our fight, and that this is the paramount reason for letting them buy the best planes we can turn out. | t this point we run into a problem: If they are fight‘ing our fight, why do we then withhold our secret bomb sights 4nd superchargers and other whispered devices too | secret evén to name? ] | t, lone ‘may suspect, will come next—when and if

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| [f that happens—if the Allied purchasing agents plead “ltos pathetic ears in Washington for those treasured military secrets—at least we now have a precedent whereby Congress will be consulted. Yesterday Secretary of War Woodring expounded and defended before a Congressional committee the new airplane export policy. He gave assur- . ances that no secrets were being sold. Obviously, after that pledge, no sift in policy can be undertaken unless ~ Congress is consulted. \ And certainly that should be done on so important a | question. No one man, nor handful of men, should be able to release our military secrets without consulting the elected representatives of the people.

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f : | | j= "THE EMPIRE HOLDS FAS | (CANADA has voted to keep the Liberal Party and its | bachelor Premier, W. L. Mackenzie King, in office. The chief eritic of the King regime and of its handling of Canada’s war effort—Dr. Robert J. Manion, leader of the Conservative Party—has been retired from Parliament by his "constituents. The Liberal majority is the greatest in history. Thus Canada is free now to give politics a holiday and concentrate on helping win the war. From India, meanwhile, ~ comes word that*under Gandhi's leadership-the threats-of trouble for England in that area have been eased. -And the

[Australia to carry more Anzac troops to Europe or the Near f East. | : : Lr ok] It looks as if the Empire were holding fast to its moorings. :

LEARNING THE HARD WAY Too many of us have to learn things the hard way. Safety, for instance. (We've got to be jolted good and hard before we really understand that accidents are pretty horrible. i Tr We read about tragedies such as that of the 27 fruit pickers who were killed when a train smashed their truck near McAllen, Tex. We nod sagely over sound advice. We study statistics. But, too often, all these things arent enough. We've got to see cars run together, heads cracked open, blood spilling before we're convinced. : "Alot of catastrophe could be avoided if we just took the safety people's word for it that auto accidents are not pleasant. If everyone remembered the rules and tossed in a little extra common sense, there wouldn't be a thing for any motorist to worry about. |

“OIE SANE EFFORT” | ERE is a statement which could with profit ik 18 every other page of the Congressional Record throfghout the Senate debate on extension of the Hull trade program. | | hoped It is a manifesto signed by 600 prominent American citizens—educators, economists, ‘industrialists and farm, - labor and religious leaders—who have banded together in an organization known as the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts: } : “We, the undersigned, beljev there is at hand at least

one practical way ‘in which the United States can contribute |

to the removal of the economic causes of war and can keep open the channels of international trade against the day when the war will be over and the-gigantie problems of economic reconstruction will be before us. | “That way lies through continuance of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements program. ? - 9) “Amid all the international economic insanity of the past years, the Trade Agreements have marked one sane effort to keep open that flow of international trade so es- ~ sential to peace. - They have been a rallying point for all those who realize that economic disarmament and political . disarmament are two aspects of the same problem.. For the United States now to repudiate the outstanding ‘effort it has made in the direction of peaceful and orderly economic relations would be one more victory for the dark . forces of violence and greed. is - rt] “Even more important today is the fact that the longer the war lasts the greater will be the economic exhaustion of the participants, the greater will be/the need of sound economic foundations upon which to build a new world of _ law and order. To continue the Trade Agreements program ‘will improve the claances for a peace that will not carry with it the seeds of fresh trade rivalries and -antagonisms. The choice before us, is whether we shall turn back to the old

exclusiveness of economic nationalism or shall lead in show-4 ing the way to that economic freedom, without which

freedom is impossible.” §

Indianapolis Times

| but alse ot

this is a war for democracy, and that any peace with "ground here, but more because of bad luck than bad

counted speech, frightened Americans, |

| British efforts to freeze us out of

-drive to get several thousand persons providing .necessary financial backing, rather than just & cou-

| Mauretania clears the Panama Canal, apparently bound for | 715,07 Qundred or 50.

where near footing the bill. Even with a capacity

‘center green light is burning, you can hail it. . . . If

A Woman's Viewpoint

1-the ambition of each of its members.

scores of other groups about us.

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Peace Fears

By Ludwell Denny

Britain Worried U. Ss. May. Join Stop the War' Movement, Thus Falling in With Stand of Nazis.

ASHINGTON, March 28—With the London press complaining that the Allies are losing the ‘war on the propaganda front, there are increasing indications fRat British propaganda is not faring so well in this country either. | i. be ' Here, of course, it is not a/case of effective German propaganda, as in some European neutral countries and in England itself. Hitler could hardly Be

more unpopular in the United States. It is rather a matter of growing cynicism regarding the idea that the Allies are fighting for democracy, and a popular determination to keep America out of war. | Paradoxically, the first real test of British propaganda is not whether the United Sta shall join the Allies on the battlefield but whether. : is to join-them in blocking the “stop-the-war” movement. The British Government is not trying fo draw us into the war, yet; we are more valuable at the moment as unofficia] ally, supplying airplanes and other war essentials, But the British Gov 1 t is trying to use us as a diplomatic ally ag st Germany’s move for an early peace. dN | 2 8. =

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influenc armed forces.” | i | With the stop-the-war movement thus growing on the continent and on the English home front, and with the shitty Mussolini swinging back to co-opera= tion with Hitler, any decision by. President Roosevelt to encourage eariy peace would be a more serious blow to the Allies than the loss of many battles. "British Government fears that the Sumner Welles, mission might be used for that purpose of hastening peace were, of course, unfounded so far as President Roosevelt was concerned. Hence Mr. Welles’ denial, before sailing back to the United States, that peace was afoot. And hence similar denials by the White House and State Department. . vq But the rub is that the President may be unable to smother this stop-the-war talk once it begins to spread in the United States. Even an attempt to do so is risky business in a campaign year, when the Republicans already are hammering the President’s pro-ally policy. > ; Los 8 8 | To: the problem of British propagandists and of the President is to sell America the idea that

an undefeated Germany would eventually imperil the United States. But, since Mr. Roosevelt is not in a political position to advance this crusade publicly, results depend chiefly on the Allies. {os At! the moment the Allies are losing propaganda

planning. Just as Lord Lothian, the British Ambassador, and others successfully lull American fears of being dragged into the war, along comes American Minister Cromwell with-a war-mongering speech. The English and Canadian cheers, more than the dis-

More important in offsetting pro-British sentiment here are the bickering issues which constantly bob up British interference with American mails and ships, British cuts in purchases of American farm products, the Latin American market, and the like.

(Westbrook Pegler is on vacation)

Inside Indianapolis The Symphony Orchestra Campaign: And How to Influence the City Hall.

HERE is nothing ‘very mysterious about the _ Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s present campaign fund. It is simply what it pretends to be—a] the

It costs money to put on a concert, whether it's in Indianapolis or Minneapolis or Detroit or any place else. The price of tickets doesn’t come any-

house; the money coming in from ticket sales is less than half what the eoncert actually costs, rentals, salaries, utilities, programs, etc. ‘etc, being what they are. gy ’ That leaves an inevitable deficit. Well, in Indianapolis that deficit has been shouldered by about 275 people. The concerts haven't been played for these 275 people. Instead, about 60,000 persons a year attend the concerts. The orchestra has finally gone to the public. But, even so, not openly as yet. The current campaign is a private solicitation. What they're hoping is that a lot of music lovers who aren't approached will feel the urge to help. In other words, a selicitation by indirection. : z

; 2 ® =n > THEY'RE HAVING A MOCK CAMPAIGN over al City Hall with a young newspaperman running for the 'Hall’s precinct eommitteeman. . . He's promised a 50% boost in salaries, a 50% slash in taxes and regular weekly garbage collections. . . . He's got every vote in the Hall, probably because of his garbage collection promise. . . . Just in ease you've wondered, these little red and green lights on top of our taxicabs indicate whether or net the cab is in-use. . If the two red lights are on, the cab is hired... . If the

one of the red lights is burning, the meter is on “nonrecording.” . . . If none are burning, the driver ought to get them fixed.

\ fi | 8 ONCE. AGAIN A LOT OF FOLKS are chasing around trying to buy tickets to the high school basketball finals. You can’t buy any because all the 15,000-0dq tickets have gone to high schools. But if things go as they always have, there will be hundreds and hundreds of tickets for the night session available as soon as the. two afternoon games are over. Folks whose team gets beat usually walk out of the Fieldhouse, trying te sell their. tickets to the first person they see. There is practically no*scalping ‘to speak of because people arent interested enough anymore to pay a cent more than the ticket is ‘worth. Lo |

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

N alarming sign of our time is the manner in ' which women’s groups segregate themselves, On one side we have the housewives al] belonging to the same clubs, on the other the business and professional women smug in their own tight little circle, and over yonder the schoolteachers, almost entirely “eut off from contact with the other two. fr It seems to me we would serve ourselves and the world better if we could draw closer together sometimes, and communicate with each other on matters that affect our general welfare, If you use your powers of observation, it is possible to detect any woman’s club affiliation, , Nebody ean mistake the dominating type which prevails in the D. A. R. It is not hard to select the prominent worker in the General Federation, or g devotee of the P.-T. A, er the more didactic A. A. U. W. sister. Membership in an organization over a long period of years stamps the individual with the hallmark of her club. Gradually, but surely, we develop into one little part of the whole, and the ambition of the group becomes

lis a pity we cannot move more often from one ‘clan to another. The suggestion will be heresy to

many women, for within the feminine heart elub| | 7

loyalty burns like an unquenchable flame. Yet, because of this, most of us go on working with the same groups, associating with the same types, hearing the same opinions, never realizing how alien we are from \. The fact is responsible for a great deal of smu ess and bigotry that often mark organizations nes

high ideals. If women reajly hope to do valuable work|

in the future, they must co-operate, and the only way to co-operate is to get acquainted. Can't we start “Fruit Basket” on a big scale? You remember that

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Mail these Nazi | , especially the broadcasts in English, “are| not only the civilian population of Britain|

game when all the players changed seats signal? It woyld help wo men 10 8 new aad ing and put fresh, life into their clubs.

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SAYS GOVERNMENTS | SHOULD NOT BORROW By Times Reader. col Mr. John T. Flynn on March 22 asks how many cracks on the head does a people fond of advertising its great practical ability have to take to awake to reality; he said it in time for Americans to open their eyes, sweep away the cobwebs and look at grim realities. He points to a 32-billion dollar depression debt of government with no visible fundamental change in our economic condition. Yet some invisible force or energy holds "us back from using our resources of finance and materials to make. us prosperous. Private investment has broken down, stalled. Why? Are we discarding the capitalistic system? Are our capitalists ditching it? If so, what shall take its place? There is no concert of effort made to make the system work. All we do is carp and pile up more Government debt, If we had any sense we would never have created Government debt. No: sovereign government should ever borrow money. The creation of money is solely a government function.” But we have made our Government a subsidiary of the private credit money power. That is why we cannot and de not marshal resources for national prosperity. 3 g = = CLAIMS LAW BARS BALLOT TO COMMUNISTS By Edward F. ‘Maddox Ey I want to inform the Communis who signed “Pro-Freedom” to the letter complaining because a women's club is “bent on denying the Communist Party a place on the Indiana ballet,” that in my opinion

. -| there is a law on the books barring

the Communist Party from the ballot in this state. * If that is the case, does the Gom-

munist Party intend to to obey the|

law or do they mtend to run true to form and flout the law? If that law is still en the beoks this women’s elub, and others who object to legalizing and condoning the subversive activities of the Communist Party, should see that the Governor and election officials abide by that law. * We, the American people, have

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

been toe wishy-washy about dealing with the menace of alien-isms. We have been swamped with Red propaganda saying that we should give free speech, free press, the bal-

lot and every other right granted

to true-blue American citizens to every subversive alien politieal movement under the sun which wants to organize, agitate, corrupt the political and moral principles of our people, by false doctrines, the= ories and treachery and destroy our whole political, moral, ethical and economic system. Are we saps or are we Americans? We know, by experience, and the history of communism in Russia and ether natiens what they are, what they do and what they work for. They can't fool us any longer. They do not work for peace—but civil war. They do not work for economie reegvery but for confusion and destruction. They don't want business to recover and the unemployed to get good jobs and fair wages—they want to bring about the collapse of our financial and business system and have a Red dietator take over all property and enslave

These are the facts. | ; freedom for Communists. As soon as they ‘get contrel of any nation free speech, free press and free political action are denied to everybody except the Communist rulers. 2 » 8 AYS LABOR DEPENDS APITAL FOR TOOLS By dames RB. Meitaler, Attica.

talist? (When Shelby J, Franklin's

he ain't. | ! He pictures §.sick man with a bushel of gold at a coak mine helpless until some wage laborer: digs

he was not helpless, Did the wage

and where? No, he dug in the mine capital had opened with the capitalists’ machines. With his bare

man with a bushel of rags.

for bread in 1932: No one denies that men can lose their capital and become as helpless as a wage laborer without some espitalist to provide him g job. He says farmers are not capitalists. If their land, buildings, livestock and implements are not capital, what are they? -

which is saved and is available for, or employed in future prodquetien.” Why, even a popcorn vender is a capitalist. >

| In com tween the two, the Army

the people of these United States.

| Communists are fighting only for

When is a capitalist not a capi-

modern streamlined fantasies sez

some. Imagine that,‘ If the geld| was worthless the man was not a| capitalist. If it had exchange value

laborer dig coal with his bare hands

hands jon top of the ground he would have been as useless as a siek

. Mr. Franklin tells of capitalists but does not name them, begging

“Capital; ‘that part of wealth

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Gen. Jo Says— | Archaic Appropriation System a

- Big Handicap to the Army in Getting Funds fer Modernization.

| SHINaTON, March 28—Congress is going to

* give us the Navy we need but the prospects of

| getting an equally necessary modern Army is fading, | Congress now threatens to take all of its “economy”

out of the plan to modernize our Army and to give “the savings” to the farmers in this election year. This is in part due to the miserable system of Army appropriations which makes a harder case than the the Navy's and one much more difficult to present. For example, when the Navy seeks an increase or replacement, it asks for so many craft of such and such classes. That covers a group of complete tactical units with all their living quarters, messgear, guns and armament-—all in one lump—maybe 40 or 50 million dollars atj a crack. It dumps that request on the Congressional table—and that's that. It may not get the battleships but it does not have | to call in a host of witnesses to justify every item

| of technical armament from cutlasses and pillow cases *

to great guns. | : e Army has to argue every principal ‘item separately. No one man can possibly have the detailed knewledge to do that. In comparison with the clearcut showings by Navy expe before Congressional committees, the Army boys have rough sledding— especially since many Congressmen have had war service and, on the basis that, ride. the Army experts but can only blink at the Navy's technical essays. | :

8 | 8 3 A S a relic of old India# wars, the Army is cut up into small segments each occupying a local garrison. This literally multiplies expense and divides efficiency. It is an impossible condition for a modern to change it and see what you get— gnashings of teeth and an ed howls in every afe fected Congressional delegation. Thé Navy is cone | centrated in more or less complete fleets just as the Army should be concentrated In corps and divisions. ns of mass efficien¢y and economy bee simply doesn’t rate. Finally when the Navy maneuvers, it travels on - its own ships through air and water and both are free. The qnly extra cost is increased oil and gasoline. Concentration and ihapsiver by the Army is very expensive—tiravel, camp- , duplication of living quarters and facilities, plus rentals or damages for nearly every acre of ground ‘touched or crossed. gs & 8 : : the Navy asks for hundreds of millions, it is all Navy, but the Army’s requests include all ds of eivil works from dredging Skunk Creek to operating the Panama Canal. Finally, the Army gets its money item by specified item. If a dollar has been appropriated for roads and . { walks it is a erime to spend it on -barracks and quarters, even though a whole Army post: burns | down. Economie administration under that handicap is impossible. i 3 . {-" It must be admitted that, as a result of all this and more, our Army is an expensive one and if case is difficult to present. That is the fault of Congress, not the Army. If it would permit deeentralization and eoncentration and much wider discretion in lump sum appropriations such as the Navy has, the modernizing of our Army could be much speeded, bettered and reduced in cost. : ; But that isn't the point of this piece. Cheaply or expensively and whether the case for each item |is made clearly or awkwardly, we have got to replace our bow-and-arrow Army with a modern sae. | There isn’t a day to spare.

By John T. Flynn

. Detroit. Anti-Trust Cases Likely To Spike 'Labor Persecution’ Charge,

| . 3 ~HICAGO, March 28.—The charges of “persecution” 4 and “interference with the rights of labor” ‘against Thurman Arnold by the disgruntled A. F. of L. * leaders will have hard-sledding in the face of new indictments just brought by the grand jury in Detroit as a fesult of investigations by the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice. It will be very difficult for any fair-minded man to see what right of labor has been interfered with in | this situation. ; : | \_In Detroit the Government eharges that a group of ‘electrical contracting concerns formed themselves into an association called the Detroit Electrical Contractors Association. Then they made agreements among themselves as to how contracts for electrical work in building in Detroit should be allocated, collaborated on bids for all work of this kind and generally sewed ‘up the business for themselves and on their 6wn terms. These contractors seemed obviously operating in violation of the anti-trust laws. Then two other gentlemen in Detroit business ‘agents of Local 58 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the A. F. of L. union comprising the electrical wi rkers in Detroit—got together with the Contractors’ Asseeiation.- Apparently their job was ta see that any contractor whe was not in

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‘O dear! what can the matter be?

Johnny's so long at the fair!

TO wonder he lingered. There was gingerbread te be eaten, cut into the shape of hobby-horses; then he must wander again along the street ‘lined with shops of toymakers, goldsmiths, pewterers; and —most exciting of all—he simply had to have another leok at the rope dancer. That, of course, would be an English fair.

Side Glances—By Galbraith .

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CAll the young men are ¢

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| Maren is on the telephene!-

Fairs go back to the very begipnings of trade. Aneient China knew them; the Phoenicians had them, and Tyre there was tin from and cinnamon from Ceylon,

i England In these days trade was confined

to the best and costliest wares. At fairs in classic Greece there were choicest perfumes, ineense, rare

Persia. | In this most entertaining “Book of Fairs” (Harcourt) all phases ef the ancient social institution are discussed. Warring nations observed “the peace of the fair,” and even now, 3s in times past, peopla are on their best behavior at a fair. They ‘are ready to be pleased and amused—the world is still 3 wonderful place. It was so in Antwerp in the 15th century, and at the Great Exhibition of London in 1851; it was true at San Francisco ‘where the crowds deserted every‘thing else to watch the China Clip-

- | pers start on their long flight.

| Perhaps, in the world of day after | tomorrow, says Helen Augur, the nations may again trade peacefully, observing the truee of the fair.

MARCH ON THE 'PHONE | By MARY P. DENNY Listen, March is on the telephone!

{ Bending messages of cheer, |Joy and pemee to far and near. | Send’ the word aleng the line || Through the shining hours of time, : | Flowers are "blooming in the woed || Bveryt | Waters

g shines bright and ‘good. arkle in the lake,

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spiees, and the fabulous carpets of}

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attempted to carry on work in Detroit on different terras than those agreed upo. by the association did not get any labor. :

‘Labor Rights Not Invelved

In other words, the union workmen would not install electrical equipment for a contractor outside the association. In effeet, the business agents of the union were thus acting as a sort of enfoyeement body for the Contractors’ Assoeiation. Sal This aetion of the union officials had nothing whatever to do with collective bargaining, with hours of laber or rates of pay. It appears, as ‘the grand jury found, a violation of the anti-trust laws. And such violation, whether carried on by the contracters or the labor union er both, in the end is harmful not only to these short-sighted men themselves, but te. the whole economie system upon which they must depend for their living. 3 J It will be interesting now te see if this indictment has the same’ benefieial effeet in the building industry in Detroit as similar ones have had in Pittsburgh. | : x ‘As for labor itself, the sooner it forces its leaders to realize that the breaking up of these combinations ‘will jnsure more jobs for labor, the better off labor

will be. Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford > 1

HIS time of year is the measles season, as ‘1 parents who have children in ‘school are likely te have discovered. As summer spproaches, the number of cases will drop te a low ebb, staying there during the fall, and starting to rise again in the | winter and spring. arin | The virus that causes measles is always present in’ |the community, so uveryene sooner or later is to it and very few persons fail” to have an attack sometime in the course of 4 lifetime. In grandmother's time people thought that since a ‘person seemed bound to get measles sooner or later, it. might as well be ner and so ne attempt was made to keep children away from measles patients. That is now considered very bad practice. The 0 disease is especially dangerous fo children under years and to persons who are just getting over some other sickness, or are under per from some other cause. It is also dangerous “The aim of every parent and physician,” says Dr. Sassi) Frar , Sector of Mew TOE City's ‘Bureau of preven diseases, “sho to postpone the inevitable Attack of Measles: tg] a, Ume ‘when the child is’ best prepafcd to combat 6.” | |

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