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WEDNESDAY, MAY 185, 1940

SWAP A GITATION has begun for changes in the Johnson Act and the Neutrality Act, in order to permit loans to the Allies. If we learned anything from the last time it is that | we must never again lend to nations at war, unless we are | reconciled to defaults and to such recriminations as have poisoned American-European relations for two decades. Yet, if Germany's air power does not win this war within a few weeks or months; if this is to become a war of exhaustion—the only kind of war the Allies can hope to win—then it is inevitable that the United States and other American republics will come to grips with the issue of Allied financing. Right now the embattled democracies are paying cash for American supplies. But some day they will scrape the bottom of their barrel, What should we do then? If we made outright gifts of money or war supplies, we would be on the thin ice of belligerent partisanship, which might involve another A. E. F\ If we lent the money, the same thing might happen; and, human nature being what it is, we would once again become the maligned and embittered creditor in post-war vears. “Loan oft loses both itself and friend.” Would the only alternative be to choke off supplies, even if German victory were thereby guaranteed? No, we think the Allies have a better ‘ole, And we think the Americans have a happier choice than to sit idle while the dictators overrun the nations of western Europe, nations whose defeat would intimately involve the geography and politics of this hemisphere because of their numerous colonial outposts in our waters. When a private individual is out of money and unable to borrow, he cashes in some of hig assets to meet the smergency.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

The Italian People May Be "Nice" But What About All That Bitter Criticism of U. S. in Fascist Press?

EW YORK, May 15.—I get tired of the proposition advanced by a good many half-American« ized immigrants and by some American-born progeny of immigrants, that it is absolutely jake, or, anyway, a matter of no importance, that the Italian Governe ment, through its press, constantly reviles and abuses American people, but that it is wrong to take any notice of this nasty, persistent hostility because the Italian people are so nice. This conflict has been going on for a long time in a one-sided way. That is to say, the press operated by the rotten conspiracy which passes for a governs ment in Italy has been slashing ‘away .at the Ameri cans, their civilization, their form of government and everything which they cherish or are touchy about for years. The Italian press never speaks out of turn, being absolutely controlied by the band of terrorists who constitute the Fascist Party and government, and its expressions must be regarded as the true sentiments of the Italian nation toward this country. a 4 4 HOSE sentiments are hostile, but the American Government and the press, on the whole, have ignored the situation because, in a fine, technical way, it can be held that the official communications between the two governments are all that count. But, practically, Italy is unfriendly to the United States, and, moreover, is not only a member of the big team which has undertaken to exterminate the American kind of civilization but the home of the nationalistic brand of bolshevism, known also as fascism and nagziism. It seems to be forgotten that it was Mussolini who started all this trouble by pulling away from his old Communist friends after they had staked him to board and room and creating a terror of his own in Italy on the general lines of the Russian atroeity. ® ® 0» HERE are a number of half-Americanized brie gands operating under the free press privilege of this patient republic whose editorial policies should be studied and given wide publicity by the patriotic American-language press, so that the American people may know what goes on. Far be it from me to propose that editorial expression should be limited any more narrowly than it is by existing laws, but I know the American people would be surprised to learn what goes on under cover of a foreign language, and would discover in their midst anti-Americans whom they never before suspected. The favorite method of the anti-American publisher is to tell Americans of Italian blood that an attack on the Italian people is an attack on them,

is an attack on them.

the hyphenated class, but any mention of Colisimo, Al Capone and Frank Nitti as the dirtiest and most vicious gangsters in the history of the

There ig no reason why nations shouldn't do the same. If the Allies get hard pressed they can relinquish sovereignty over their Western Hemisphere holdings—at a fair | price—and use the proceeds for the planes and other equip- | ment they need. And it would be only enlightened self-interest for the | American republics to pay that fair price—even a good price, as friendly buyers—and run up a Pan-American flag | over the British, French and Dutch possessions in and around the Caribbean, We suggest this as a project to be undertaken by all | interested American republics—the islands and possessions to be governed under a Pan-American mandate, » » » . * The United States itself has no imperial ambitions, It is not looking for more real estate. “Manifest destiny” is a dead phrase here, But in common with our sister republics we do have | a vital stake in securing the defense of this hemisphere. And therein lies the tremendous value to us of these strategie holdings. The British Bermudas, 580 miles off North Carolina; the British Bahamas, east of Florida; British Jamaica, south of Cuba; the Windward and Leeward | Islands of the Lesser Antilles (principally owned by Britain | and France), which form a circle protecting the northern coast of South America and the Panama Canal; the Dutch islands of Curacao and Aruba, closer still to the Canal; the British, French and Dutch Guianag, on the South American mainland; British Honduras, north of the Canal. These possessions have no military value to Britain, France and Holland, who contemplate no aggression in this hemisphere. But to the Americas, to the United States in particular, their intrinsic worth would be greatly augmented by their strategic value in the naval and aerial defense of the Panama Canal. » » » » » LJ The best definition we ever heard of trade was this— “the process by which two men get what each wants, both | parting with what neither needs, both profiting by what | neither loses.” The trade here proposed-—where the Allies would get | what they must have to defend themselves, and where the | Americas would secure these defensive outposts against | the possibility of a Nazi claim—would be just such a deal. |

IT'S GETTING LATE M SMBERS of the House Judiciary Committee keep telling their colleagues they will send the Hatch Bill to the floor. (Cross our hearts and hope to die, we promise to let you vote on this bill—just as soon as we get through per_fecting it.) Already 144 members, seven from Indiana, have signed the discharge petition. To the others who have announced their intention to sign if necessary to get action before adjournment, we suggest that the deadline is near. The committee met yesterday, added a few inconsequential amendments, then adjourned. It will meet again tomorrow.

ONE POSSIBLE ECONOMY PEAKING of the need for the greater economies and ‘efficiency possible under a city manager form of government, John W. Esterline, long a supporter of the plan, made this significant comment yesterday to members of the Indianapolis Rotary Club: “There was a time within the memory of us all when all government required for its operation less than 5 per cent of our annual earnings. It may not have been so necessary then that we be alert, but this year it is estimated that 26 per cent of our total national income will be taken and spent by government agencies. . . . With government demanding this greatly increased percentage of a much larger national income, are we going to sit back and remain as disinterested as we were in the days when our government required one-twentieth, instead of one-fourth our earnings?”

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| Italian people

Inside Indianapolis

The U. S. Army and Your Fitness;

E don't suppose Indianapolis is much different from most American towns today. The main topic of conversation is the war. You see ordinarily cheerful folks reading their newspapers glumly. Even the mail reflects the same tone. The closer we come toward being drawn into the maw of the war, the more articles flow in like the one which we got from the magazine, Your Life, According to that article, one out of every three men was turned down for active service in the danger ones of the last World War because of physical unfitness, “Today,” it says, “the rejection ratio is even higher, which means that at least 7,000,000 out of the 20,000,000 Americans of military age are doing a lot of unnecessary worrying about lives they'll never sacrifice in battle, “What are some of the chief causes for Army rejection in wartime? “Hay fever is one. . . . Flat feet aren't popular in any branch of the Army. . . . If the candidate hasn't 12 good teeth he won't stand a chance of passing an Army examinations. . . “Ruptures are an important reason for rejection, . Chronie appendicitis, heart disease, high blood

| pressure are other reasons for disqualifying recruits, | Defective vision was responsible for 5 per cent of { World War outcasts, , , . Even pimples, bowlegs, overs

weight, underweight, stuttering and sleep walking took their toll, . For it appears, in war only the fittest survive to be the first to die!” . » . SUMMER IS APPARENTLY A GOOD time to hold conventions. . , . In the winter months it was the usual practice to continue afternoon sessions right up to the 5 o'clock mark. . . . Two conventions this week already have adjourned at noon one day for the “annual golf tournament.” You've probably read about the marbles tournament that is just get ting under way in various sectionals around here. A . Well, day before yesterday, The Times' marble editor stopped in at Brookside to see how things were coming along. . . “If vou're the marbles editor” piped up one pert voungster, “let's just see how , The marbles editor guiped hard, it being some 13 years since he's knuekled down, but he manfully took hold. . . To his astonishment, he shot, knocked out one agate, rolled another to the edge . He got to his feet confidently, the rebellion successfully crushed. 8 o& 4

HAHN'S MARKET HAS SEVERAL trucks running around town, numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, ete, but for one of those little baby autos, they use the number “3'p" . There is a movement afoot in town to merge all our current safety organizations into one big, strong outfit, . . . But, like anything else, you always run into personalities and jealousies and grievances: . + . The movement, though, has gotten a good start and it ought to be all headed up pretty soon.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

" HEY like it. It pays.” So goes the invariable reply to any criticism of inane radio programs, the millrun “happy ending” movie, or trashy writing which encourages “the escape from life” idea or other moronic tendencies, Anything that pays goes in our country. Not only Is it tolerated; it is praised and regarded as virtuous, which is one reason why men and women who are concerned about what we so feelingly call “The Amerlean Way" had better examine some of the habits that particular American way fosters. Does dishing out the trash really pay? Certainly it rewards with money those who promote and sell it, but does it pay society which is eventually called upon to foot all the bills? I think not. Such cheap intellectual fare actually contributes to social discontent, Worse, it adds to the public ineptitude and witlessness, because it promotes wishful thinking which is the easiest way of leatning not to think at all. . Perpetual agitation goes on about subversive forces at work in our institutions of learning, Individuals such as Mr. Bertrand Russell are cursed far and wide because of their ideas on sex and morality, “What a HEHACEL" we cry. “What horrible influences upon you Mig X But, in the meantime, we allow the most vicious rot to be peddled to our children, the silliest twaddle, the most sentimental mush, as well as pornographic filth, Everything the schools attempt to do in the way of building character and sanity and decency is torn down by cheap movies and radio fare that should

The answer daily is becoming more obvious.

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make every American blush for the intelligence of his nation,

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Waiting for That

but they never remind the same public that an attack on the American people in the Italian press also |

The Italian press of Italy constanly refers to the | United States as a nation of gangsters, and is never | rebuked for that by the publishers and orators of | Jim |

| entirely dren or relatives for their living.

Conventions, Marbles And Trucks. |

policy and if you have a little shack CRICITIZES ACTIONS you call home they take that too! op TRAFFIC OFFICER

[to it. This county has two welfare Policeman w

| tional, governmental, religious and seen entertaining another one for |

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1940

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say,

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

but will

URGES TAX EXEMPTION ON OLD COUPLES’ HOMES

Ry John A. Thomas, Madison If you are going to give the old people pensions why not exempt them for a thousand dollars for their home as I understand the idea is to keep the old ones from being dependent on their chil]

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

The way the present law is they| withheld on request.)

even take your 10-cent insurance)

Do away with these welfare boards, | One man or woman could investi- By E EW. gate all cases in a county, Among many others I had the

If they are in need, give it 10/404 that the business of a trafic them without so many strings tied as to direct trafic es=

pecially at a busy corner but after watching the acts of one of them I have come to the conclusion that I was wrong. He seems to be an Today n of “flappers.”

boards and one of them is costing the taxpayers plenty.

FORESEES NEW ORDER Today noon a cab driver stopped

WHEN WAR 1S ENDED bout two minutes to get a tele By RL [phone call and was given a ticket There is no use getting us excited |by this officer, Later a flapper about the second World War, That! parked double on Market Street and war is just an incident in the de-|this officer spent 45 minutes calling velopment of a new world order her down, They both must have enthat will supplant all our present joyed the calling down by the way day commercial, financial, educa- they acted. Later in the day he was

social institutions with an order of some time, Traffic just took care of

life based on the universal realities itself, of life. | It seems that a stop of a minute

There will be no battleships but or two made by a cab driver is a friendships that tie together the

serious offense but for a traffic officer to stand out in the middle of the street for three-quarters of an hour while he entertains a girl is another matter. An inbound interurban could not pass until the officer and the girl got through visiting. This officer should have the job of professional entertainer, Quite a few persons noticed this incident and wondered how he got by with this way of directing trafic,

» » » HERE'S A POLITICIAN WHO HELPS OPPOSITION By Daniel Francis Clancy I love politics so much that when there's nothing to be done for my party I pitch in and help the opposition. A prevalent little white lie during campaign time is the old one told to the candidate by the voter who heartily exclaims, “You'll certainly get my vote!” And then there was the smalltown politician who ran into a crowd of young people on their way to a masquerade party and was invited to come along, “But,” hesitated the politician, “I haven't any costume.” “Oh, that's all right,” he was merrily told, “you're fine the way you are—you can go as a statesman!”

world's people, There will be no dominions or mandate to rule other | peoples. Trade will be free in all parts of the world. No trade pacts will be proposed or necessary, Im-|

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plements of ar will be totally ob-| solete, People will recognize the) ri a . brotherhood of man under the PF THE year 1814 there came a fatherhood of the Divine Creator. | curious company up the WaThe cosmic forces are shaping the | bash River. On the banks of this form of this new world order in river, in southern Indiana, this spite of the noise of battle and the Rroup of people, headed by Father hysteria of man to “defend” areas George Rapp, founded the co-op-that all peoples of the earth are erative settlement “Harmonie.” The entitled to as sources of supply. [ history of this settlement and the The worst thing Americans can|history of the later settlement, do is to waste their substance on “New Harmony,” founded by Robcreating war materials, Our own ert Owen in 1824, are told by Ross domination of other parts of the|F. Lockridge in “The Old Fauntlewor'd will be destroyed in the new [roy Home" (New Harmony Memoworld order. Imperialism has come rial Commission). to its end. It is destroying itself. We| What was the essence of these will live to see a World Federation Utopian settlements on the Waof States because no other course bash? The principles of the Rap= is open to the peoples of the world | pite faith were four: “Community if peace, prosperity and plenty are living, uniform religious devotion, to be established. celibacy, unremitting toil and self-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

denial,” It was the first of these principles that Robert Owen, after his purchase of the Rappite buildings in 1824, stressed, His ideal was “to introduce a new state of society; to change it from an ignorant, selfish system to an enlightened social system which shall gradually unite all interests into one.” Curiously enough, the Rappite community succeeded from the financial standpoint, That of Robert Owen failed, However, the spirit of Robert Owen's ideal attracted scientists, educators and artists to New Harmony. These people played their roles, and important ones, It is perhaps because of the situation in the world today that one begins to read this book with curious apathy. During the course of its unfolding, one gets slightly entangled in the geneological tracings. But one finishes with a solid spark of enthusiasm. For the book quietly flings a potent challenge: Why shouldn't we believe possible, if not probable, a like co-operation, a like dream?

MAY FANTASY

By MARY P. DENNY

A glow of apple blossom flower And glory of lilac blooms that

tower, Sweet Willam flowers beside the

roo Blue violets in wayside nook. Blossoms of beauty and of fragrance rare Shining in light and color everywhere, Light out of winter bleak and

dark Where the shining wild birds hark, . Glad songs of May sunrise Out of the bright, tinted skies. Fantasy of the glad spring days of May In shades of blue and amber and

gold, Dandelions that soft in light’ unfold To

meet the shining colors of the SKy All of May life one wonder high. DAILY THOUGHT

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.~I Corinthians 13:4,

LOVING KINDNESS is greater than laws} and the" charities of life monies, =

“Are you sure your dad wasn't kidding about being a star pitcher n college? The 've batted in 20 hs y this inning!"

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Parable of the Neglected Teeth And Uncle Sam's Failure to Put His National Defense in Order,

EW YORK, May 15.—This is a parable. It is being written within the hour that I had two teeth yanked. They were fine perfect teeth, All mine are, It runs in the family. 1 have a complete physical check-up—all too infrequently, For several years experts have been lecturing me on what I ought to do to keep my teeth, What they recommended was a slight nuisance and a constant chore. I didn't feel anything. 1 didn%

see anything—so.I didn't do anything, This year I was told by the chief of the dental surgery section at Walter Reed Hospital: “These two teeth have to go if you don't want to lose half a dozen.” I was angry. Even his X-ray showed their perfection. I raged up to New York to consult my favorite experts. Now my two teeth are gone and, as the anes thetic wears off, it hurts, By the protective action, advised by experts less than two years ago, I could have saved them. I felt nothing, so I didn’t do what my experts advised, » » # NGLAND understands this sort of thing now and s0 do France and Holland and Belgium. We are beginning to understand it in a panicky sort of way. Three years ago B. M. Baruch, told the President what was going on there, what wasn't going on here at all, and not going on fast enough in England and France, He said that what was needed was an expen survey of our shorteemings in defense and he was told to make it, after a new look at Europe where he was then headed. What he saw abroad impelled him to report by telephone and to hurry home. Here he was told that, for political reasons, he couldn't have the veterans in experience in this field he thought he needed to make that survey. As an alternative, the Stettinius board was appointed—and repudiated. It had to be repudiated. It was very unwisely chosen but nothing was appointed to take its place, So we rocked along—exactly as I did with my teeth, Now that we see what ingenious fiendishness in the hell of modern war looks like, every drowsy editorial page, column of comment and panicky legis= lator begins to demand “billions for defense.” 0. K, but it isn't enough. We can't meet this danger simply by “passing a law.” We have got to get the goods, the right kind of goods. We have got to get them exactly when, as and ‘where they are needed.

gi answer to three questions is absolutely ime perative, (1) What are we to defend? That is an answer to be made by the President and the State Department, (2) What do we need to defend it? That is an answer to be made by the Army and Navy. (3) How can we best and most quickly and economically get what we need? That is for the leaders of industry. We are not doing a thing to get those answers. Our first job, as yearlings say to bewildered West Point plebes, is to “make a collection of ourselves” bee fore we begin to pour any more panicky billions into rat holes. Let's show just a fraction of Hitler's intelligence and preserve not only our skin but the teeth we are going to need so badly,

Business By John T. Flynn

Corn Surplus Drugs Market and So Foolish Export Subsidy Is Proposed.

EW YORK, May 15.—This is a good year to get the price of corn up if it can be done. We have & carry-over of about 675,000,000 bushels. This cannot be sold, because we will probably have a crop of 2,500,000,000 bushels this fall which will be more than we can sell, And this is an election year, Therefore the United States Government has decided to subsidize the sale abroad of some 20 or 30 million bushels, One of the oldest schemes in the world is for governments to buy up farm crops from farmers in order to take off the market the surplus that they cannot sell, and thus get the price of what is left up where the farmers will like it. It has been done for crops, for mine products, and, in Japan two cen=tures ago, for fish, We have been doing that, and some folks have been hailing it as something quite new worked out by ingenious men in Washington. The Government has been lending 57 cents a bushel on corn to farmers who did not want to sell it for less. It now has a huge amount of such corn as security for the loans. But that vast carry-over of corn hangs over the market and helps to ruin the coming crop. This is the way it always acts. Having saved the farmer from one crop the difficulty’ of saving him from the next one is even greater and finally the sur= plus gets so big that there just seems no way out. Getting the price up makes it difficult or even impossible for nations abroad to buy our crops. Hence the surplus is enhanced not only by the amount that the Government lends on but by the amount which foreign buyers do not take.

Election Adds Complications

We ruin the industry by creating a destructive surplus and we ruin our foreign markets besides. Now an election is here. The very price of our crops makes buying them difficult for foreign gove ernments whose buying power is crippled by the de= cline of their own currencies. So what is the next step? The next step is the one now contemplated by the Government—to pay subsidies to exporters to sell our crcps abroad at lower prices. This is the thing we denounced the Germans for doing in South America, They had goods they wanted to sell. They could not do so very well, so they paid export subsidies to their producers to sell at lower prices in South America. When they did that our State Department went into a spasm of indignation, Germany, it said, was attempting economic penetration of South America. There seemed to be something shockingly immoral in selling goods that way. But now we do the same thing ourselves. There is no reason why we should do this for corn since we have done it for cotton and no reason why we should do it for wheat or any other product. All we have to do to bankrupt ourselves is to follow the policy to its logical conclusion,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

UIET, a regular schedule with plenty of time between feedings for sleep, and gentle handling are the salient features of advice on treatment of colicky babies given by Dr, Frank C. Neff, University of Kansas School of Medicine baby specialist, in a special report to the American Medical Association. Colic, strictly speaking, means paroxysmal pain in the colon or abdomen. The colic which makes newborn babies scream and cry during their first weeks of life has been assumed to be due to abdominal pain, although Dr. Neff suggests that there is probably no proof that the baby is actually in pain. He believes that the screaming or crying, which is so distressing to young mothers and other relatives of the baby, is an outgrowth of the startle reflex, or a physiologic reaction comparable to it. This startle reflex has also been called the “embrace reaction.” It is seen if the sides of the crib or mattress close to the infant's head are sharply struck, The baby promptly spreads his arms, then brings them together with a bowing or arching movement, sometimes with an accompanying vibration of the forearms. The baby usually cries at the same time, and the whole phenomenon is believed due to fright. After about a month, the reflex movement of the arms disappears, but Dr, Neff thinks the crying may persist for several months as “a method Nick the infant has for meeting situations which startle.” This being the case, it follows that the “colicky” baby should not be “jiggled, rocked or shaken.” Abe ultie quiet Bapora Sg Po should be Jundied as e as e, an . suggests t necessary handling d be gentle and slow, like the slow