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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1040 Gen. Johnson |Says—

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Our Foes Need NotBe Comforted If Americans Exercise Traditional Right to Howl This Election Year EW YORK, May 30,<Ap arantly we. are in for a period®of suspicion and bickering, with the Communists, Nazis and Fascists insisting on their

constitutional rights to pitch hay to the Trojan horse and with the New Deal casting suspicion on dissenters

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Recreating the Defense Council With Industrialists as "Advisers" Repeats Mistake Made’ in 1917 EW YORK, May 30.—Congress long ago foresaw’ N the great industrial problem that would be

raised in any new emergency of national defense— and provided for it. In a law prescribing part of the

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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940

PREPAREDNESS NOTE JE don’t know who is the author, but a good smartcrack is going the rounds: “We have three canals—one dug -and two on order.”

THATS TALKIN, HENRY

ENRY FORD ran a shoestring into the greatest manufacturing plant on the face of the globe. His plant once turned out 10,000 automobiles in a single day. He lost as mucha as $68,000,000 in one epreigion. year, and so far as we know he-never missed it. When a man like that says He can turn out a thousand military airplanes a day at his plant, he can’t be laughed off-—even though that means 313, 000 airplanes in a year of six-day weeks. | Another genius of mass L dhuchion, William S. Knudsen of General Motors, was asked if he believed’ Mr. Ford could do it. He replied: “Naturally, if he says so.” Now the fact is that our Army and Navy wouldn’t know what to do with 313,000 planes a year, or anything like that any, as of today. ° It takes time to train pilots. Each plane in service re- _ quires a minimum of 10 men on the ground to service and maintain-it. It takes time to train them. It takes time to lay out new airports, and build hangars, and so on. : We couldn’t use Mr. Ford's full claimed capacity today, or even tomorrow. But—we are glad to hear that there is at least one man in this country, and a man who speaks with the authority of experience and accomplishment, who is unwilling concede that this democracy cannot equal and surpass the mass-production marvels of Hitler's goosestep economy. 0. We hope that when Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Stettinius, and their colleagues on the President’s new advisory committee, run juio production bottlenecks that seem insuperable by ordinary standards, they will invite Henry Ford to do his stuff.

THE HATCH BILL LIVES. AGAIN

Once scuttled by a secret committee vote, the Hatch Bill has bounced back into the picture. Yesterday's 16 to 8 vote by which the House Judiciary Committee reported out the measure is in happy contrast to The furtive:l4 to 10 ballot tabling it a few weeks ago. * In some ways the bill has come out of the committee stronger than it went in. One improvement is the Vreeland Amendment to outlaw the political campaign book ‘racket, by ‘which corporations doing ‘business with the Gov‘ernment are needled into buying. *‘advertising” space and copies of the books, in avoidance of the Corrupt Practices Acti | |In some ways the bill is weaker—for example, the amendment specifying that a public employee caught in pernicious political activity cannot be fired except after a jury trial. That provision is based on the fallady that a person on a public payroll has a vested right to stay there. . . | But the important thing is that the bill itself, and all amendments, can now be cpnsidered in the open and voted on by the whole House membership. If puklic opinion makes itself felt we believe the measure will pass the House, .as it did the Senate, by better than 2 to 1. But we aren't over-optimistic, knowing what powerful forces are in opposition. | . Those political machines back home, to which so many congressmen are beholden, will not willingly relinquish the privilege of tapping Federal pay envelopes for their own selfish purposes. That corrupt prerogative will have to be wrested from them. It can be done only by rank-and-file citizens keeping close watch on the votes of their congressmen. : ' Meanwhile, | citizens who believe good public service deservés rewar ‘should remember that prime credit for revival of the Hatch Bill is due to the 150 Representatives vho had the courage to sign the Dempsey discharge peti‘tion and force | the :Judiciary- Committee to retrieve the _ measure from its pigeonhole. :

CHEATING AT SOLITAIRE ~~ -

VWHATS wrong with. our Army? Plenty, apparently. Maj. Gen. H. J. Brees, in a remarkably candid statement, exposes rank incompetence on the pari-of some of the leaders—u named—of the recent large-scale maneuvers in Louisia na. Those maneuvers costa great deal of money. They were supposed op provide training under warlike conditions. But the Army apparently is too soft, in spots, to play the game by the rules. Gen. Brees, in effect, accuses officers of cheating at solitaire. “Road block signs and bridge destruction signs were disregarded.” t's easier to wink at a sign than to revise a tactical plan. : roops showed a distaste for getting off their trucks and wei on foot. “There was a general striking disinclination to move across country.” “The lack of support by heavy weap ons was painfully evident.” “A decided lack of liaison.” In fact— : : “There were not a few cases where elements of the same and adjol: ning units fired on éach other.” The Army seems to be suffering from callouses, but not on its feet. “Because we have spent so much time on map maneuve rs,” says Gen. Brees, “and too little time on realistic euvers, we have lost sight to a large degree of the difficulties of terrain.” Taxpayers, confronted with new dangers and new burdens, will 3 ant some assurance that they are contribut-

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and critics as opponents of a unified effort to rearm the country. / : 4£t the same time the Republicans and assorted minor groups of anih-Adminisgation people will utter

shri'l protests against any attempt to regiment or coere opinion and to impair freedom of speech and |

of t“e press. Rather oddly the Republicans, in a campaign year which, by all that is right and traditional, is tr sir time to howl, will find themselves singing out \e same book with the Communists, Nazis, Fascists; /Semites and anti-Catholics. All of them, for us motives, will demand their right to sound off. ® - Fd

"TLER undoubtedly gave consideration to the fact that this was to be one of those years when the Americans go nuts, like animals in the full of the moon, when he selected the time for his war on the free peoples of the earth. This is the Republicans’ year to add up the mistakes and failures of the Roose~ velt rule, the temperamental faults of prominent New

Dealers, such as Harold Ickes and Tommy Corcoran, |

and the unemployment and Treasury figures and go befors the country with the familiar slogan “turs the rascels out!” Eitler's Embassy undoubtedly told him that this would be a year when. the Americans would be too busy scrapping among themselves and denouncing or defending their own, Government to be capable of a serious effort against an outside enemy. - I% is impossible lo conduct an American Presidential campaign in a low, reasonable voice, but if the Republicans really go to town in, the old-fashioned

‘way they will be spreading. disunion and undermining

confidence in their Government at a critical time, and if they don't they will be wasting their money and their opportunity and defaulting their solemn duty as the other party of the American system. ’ ’ i" on = =

T may be possible to co-operate with a man and fight him ‘at the same time, but we haven't found out how in this country up to now, and the President has made no acceptable suggestion. The Republicans will co-operate with him if he will surrender, and he is willing to co-operate with them if they will, but meanwhile time's a-wastin’, and meanwhile, too, the real disruptionists or disunioneers will be ranting around the land spreading hate against people with freckles or big noses and saying that what this country needs is a Hitler to put down dissension and create o strong, vital, unified U. 8S. A. Fowever, the case is not as hopeless as it sounds. It ir a new situation in the experienc: of a limber and resourceful people, and it is my belief that without impairing the Republicans’ right to fire away, publ ¢ opinion and perhaps Congress and certainly som( Governors here and there will hear down on poli. cal parachutists of one kind and another, beginy' ng with the Communists, who are hated most only pecause Americans have had more practice hating ther ; but including all foreign and foreignizedagityyors. : 1 .ie rea] problem is to k and; f some technical constitutional ri Amey cans are bruised in the process just ®nir wear and tear and no skin oft the real Americans,

the country American, ts of antithat will be the hide of

Inside Indianapolis

Hy running of the’ Speedway race a i; in a lot of folks’ minds the question of just how rich winning it is worth to the driver. There just-ca)’t be any set answer because it all depends on who tile driver is and who owns the ca If a‘driver owns his own car and fin ced himself and then won, the trick would be worth just about $50,000 to him. That would include the e¢apital prize of $20,090, accessory prizes worth just about the same amount and about $10,000 extra for advertising, etc., he’d pick up in the next few months. At the other extreme, are the |“kids’—the youngsters trying desperately to: break into the big league of auto racing. They take any kind of a car just to get into the 50U. If a youngster like that would win, he’d realize something above $10,000. The rest would be split up among the owners, etc. " In hetween those two poles, are most of the drive ers. Winning to them means something in the neighborhood of $20,000. ; ; Needless to say, many try, few :succeecl, 8 ” » THE RACE CARS THEMSELVES ar: expensive pieces of mac ainery. » Their worth probably ranges from $:500 to high as $12,000. . . . The reason they are torn dwn so much is not because they are out >) Kilter, -but because the mechanics are always- chocking to make sure. , The cars seem to get kettef every year, but the race gets harder: on the drivers. . Main reason is the terrific speed. . . Las’ year most | of the top finishers could hardly stand u> when they climbed out of their cars. . . Most people still don't realize that the Speedway track has beer almost completely resurfaced. . There probably won’t -be a'brick showing in a couple of years. , * Only on the main stretch do they show now: .”. All the Yost is ssphali, 2 BEST STO1'Y OF THE WEEK concerng the office of Hizzoner tle Mayor. Hizzoner’s sec tary, Russe]l Campbell, got a telephone call from a precinct committeeman pleading desperately for a Job for one of his “most important” constituents. When Mr. Campbell said thai all the City’s jobs werz gone and that it was ou of the question, the precinct committeeman said: “You wouldn't say that if you knew who this fellow was?” “Well, who is he?” atked Campbell. “The Mayor's nephew!” came the: impatient reply. “What's his name?” asked Campbell cautiously. “Sullivan!” said the precinct con mitteeman triumphantly, “The Mayor has two neplkiews,” said Campbell wear ly, “both named Hollett. Or» is an attorney. The other is a broker, Tell Sullitsn to find another uncle,’ will you?”

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] . A : Wr A Woman's View By Mrs. Welter Ferguson

ES OaMous military ‘machines prepar. the path for Germany’s marching army. But, - % would be foolish to believe that these furnish the nly power for the Nazi advance. Long before thors machines were made or dreamed of, revenge blaze: 4 the trail for Hitler's hordes. Like a fesiering sore, hatred of thos: who had crushed them in 1917 was uppermost in the German mind. The thought of “getting even” coilod, a qeadly cobra, in the (terman heart. And ‘how e sy it is to understand tha’! Revenge is ‘such a nat iral feeling in. individuals, Most men hold little gridges and scheme to pay back mean trick for mear trick. Few of us are gooc enough to understand tht revenge is not really as sweet as we have been tolc. One has to live a long ‘ime to find out that it eas away the heart that ha: ors it. When you multiply individual hatred by millions, however, you have the national state of mind that leads to war. Today Germany is out to “get even” with England. If she wins and writes as bad a peace as her enemies did 20 years ago, tomorrow England | and every otler defeated nation will be out to’ get éven with Germany. This large-scale scheming and brooding on past wrongs is inevitable, To any one who doesn’t expect miracles of nobility. from men, the situation in Europe offers endless opportunity for unceasing strife. The Unitec States of America made a mistake when it set foot int) that mass of hates in 1917, because by doing’ so we incurred the dislike of Germany ‘even though we d.d strive afterward to maze a decent

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peace. - It seems cbvious' that Europe will have to settle |

its basic quarrels without outside interference, or this getting even rocess will go on Indefinitely. and wars will ocour thi re-in the future as consist tly as the)

The Hoosier Forum

l wholiy disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your righ to say it.—Voltawre,

THINKS PLANES AND SUBS ADEQUATE FOR DEFENSE By Chas. ‘Norris All the powers in the world recognize that to attack America a force of 10 thousand ships would be required. America certainly does not need billions of dollars’ worth of blueprint warships unless it plans to carry on with its foreign entanglements and engage in an offensive war. ‘For national defense we need thousands of airplanes on our West Coast and thousands of airplanes’

.on our East Coast, hundreds of sub-'

marines on the Atlantic and an equal number on the Pacific. This equiprgent could withstand the combined navies of the world at one-half the cost of cumbersome warships. There is absolutely no use in this Government spending one dime on any national defense until all of these un-American - organizations are deported. ... - . fd » ® x5 = 1 SEES U. S. DANGER IN FALLING BIRTH RATE By Audrey VanDament. Bloomington The European conflict has taken on the menacing form ot an octopus shooting its growing arms into every conceivable corner. Where is this monster's vulnerable spot? ; We know that eventually his own

wickedness will consume the perpe-|

trator, but. in the meantime how are’ we going to keep out ot his reach? Our immediate attention must be given to bettering an insufficient naval, army and air force. . . If we increase these forces rapidly enough we may be able to maintain our present democratic state. But what about a few’ years trom | now? Is there any way in which we have been slipping lately, so that in time we will be forced to submit to the aggressor In spite of | being Armed to the teeth? I believe! there is. For years there has ‘been a tendency for those best fitted mentally and physically to have fewer and fewer children. This has been caused mainly by too many failures following man’s etiorts to .acguire security for himself. and his children, Today the group called the depression children is now in its

lites readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con. ~ troversies excluded. Make your letiars short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be ~ withheld on request.)

best productive period, whether the fleld 1s science, industry, law, the home, or any other field.: This year's census will in time help these Individuals.

Other organizations are studying the youth problem, but will the re-| sults of these surveys be known In

years the dictators have torced their populations to multiply. We would greatly object to being told to raise a certain ‘number of children, but something, shoulc be done so that those who want children may feel

them. , ,

” ” ” DISPUTES LINDBERGH = ON INVASION POSSIBILITY By Ella M. Goth ‘Col. Lindbergh in his May .19th address started br saying: “It is es|sential for our Jeople to have a clear understandiig of the elements | upon which our national safety depends.” There is no question about that, and in the matter of types of planes for specific tasks he does unquestionably speak with authority. But wien he ‘ries to prove the

impracticability of hostile air forces attacking us from Europe and Asia, ‘he makes an error of omission which should ‘discount his ability: as a strategist. Why did he ignore the possibility that a hostile force might find a springboard for attack in Siberia, or, with contol of the seas, in Greenland, or in the Caribbean? Also, in his analysis of causes he was most astonishing. He declared: “We are in danger of war today not

in Dutch and Belgians time to check the situation? For nosey and prying in the.

a certain degree of safety in having SUBVERSIVE GROUPS |

because European people have attempted to interfere with the internal affairs of America, but because American people have attempted ‘to interfere with the internal affairs of Europe.” | Did the Finns go snooping and | prying about in Moscow? Were the impudently ilhelmstrasse? What about! the activities of the Nazi bunds and. the Communist cells in the United| States? i | FAVORS LAW AIMED “AT

By A. K.

Let’s pass a national law with imprisonment penalties for any group that gathers for subversive activities against: the United States govctnment. Make the wearing of “military uniforms or the possession of guns by any foreign or subversive groups stictly illegal’ and swiftly punishable, Let's get after those who are flvoding [the nd with literature that spawns race hatred and overtnrow_of the government, and let's cancel tHe Communist Party from the American ballot.

New Books: at the Library

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IVING in Paris during the last 4 20 years—that is, during the | peripd between the two great World Wars—is most interestingly described . by Janet Flanner in “An American in Paris” (Simon and Schuster).

Miss Flanner is a former Indianapolis journalist who for the last few years has lived abroad, chiefly in the French capital. She calls her

Side Glances—By Galbraith

raids or an invasion, but the open-

latest book, “a profile between two wars.” She has listened and watched her Parisian neighbors and has deseribed their activities on the boulevards, in the mansions, on the Rue de la Paix, on the Left Bank, and in the dark sglleys of the underworld. She has written of famous artists and writers who have also made Paris their home and have made their names there: Isadora Duncan, Stravinsky, Edith Wharton, James Joyce and many others. .There are interesting sketches, also, of some of the famous French dress designers and perfume makers. One whole section of the book is given over to exciting accounts of crimes which stood Paris on end. Politics and the famous Stavisky swindle and scandal are described in detail. Here in fact, between covers, is a Paris whose greatest excitement wag not, as wet, the news of air

ing of a special art exhibit, or the publication of a startling new novel. Is is, without doubt, a brilliant and highly enlightening and enigriain. ing -book. IN MEMORIAM By MARY P. DENNY They live in light In God's great sight. In joy and life Above all strife The great they see In. glories free. (Heroes ‘of light . In radiance bright.Earth’s life work done The guerdon won. Heroes of light Upon Heaven's height. Heroes of light -In God's great sight.

DAILY THOUGHT

For whosoever will save his life shall -lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.—Luke 9:24. y

THEIR BLOOD is is shed in canfir-

mation of the noblest claim—the claim to fe immortal

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organization of the War Department, the Assistant Secretary of War is charged with the problems of planning procurement of military supplies. For years, study of that task has gone forward in both the war Industrial “College,

Very complete plans have been made. Preliminary Tatts with ey have been maintained. \ Now the emergency is upon us. Is any of this knowledge and experience used? Oh no. The President has announced that the subject. is “being studied” and that great industrial expert Mr. Morgenthau is conducting bewildered conferences with the

‘affected industries—starting from scratch and with

no experience, knowledge or fitness for the job.

Passing without more ccmment the fact that it is a deliberate violation of the law, jan equally if not more important fact is that it is reckless, bad judgment and organizational suicide. It is the duty of Congress and not the executive under the Constitu- - tion to raise and support armies, to provide and maintain a Navy and make rules and regulations for both. Here, on the basis of its war experience, Cort« gress has made a very reasonable rule and the Ade ministration has broken it—to no S900 purpose “and with no discernible reason Whalever: ” ” ”

HERE is a lot of ignorance. and misunderstand T ing about this business of “co-ordinating” in= dustry for defense. I think it is true that we do not yet need a War Industries Board under an economic dictator. But we do’ desperately: need industrial brains and training in “Government. They in turn do not need to replace anybody or to hold any formal office, but they need absolute authority to get the facts from any officer of Government. They need something else. They need the a8. sistance of some of the veterans ofthe 1918 mobiliza« tion of industry to keep them from making mistakes in the delicate and difficult problem of hitching together in double harness two somewhat recalcitrant

‘and very powerful giants—our gofernmental system

and our industrial system. We didn’t have them in 1917 and as a result the Biiivevs of industrial experts collected in the-coun-of national defense floundered [for almost a year in confusion daily worse confounded=-an annoyance to Tegular. officials and a reproach | to themselves. 8s -8 =

: T= recreation of the Council of National Deferise

and bringing in industrialists in an “advisory” capacity and without any - authority is. a Tepetision, of a proved mistake. It has been frequently vepeatad that there are only two members of the War Industries Board alive, Daniel Willard and B. M. Baruch. | That is not true, There are many younger men alsa. At the last ane nual War Industries Board reunion 156.0f them ale. tended. What pride or prejudice is it that induces the Government, in this dangerous hour to desert proved pathways to repeat proved blunders? Whatever it is, it is unforgivable.

Business By John T. Flynn ° @

U. S. Should Finance War Plants And Cancel Loans When Peril Ends

EW YORK, May 30.—The plight of the aviation industry now gives us a clue to one of the firsh difficulties into which war forces business. There are orders—orders by the billions of] dollark —waiting for the airplane factories. But they have not enough plants to handle them all= srefore, before they can take these orders and cas n pn them, they will have to build more plant a But to do this they have to have money—sales o stock, or bonds or vast loans from banks or so body. But right there the fellow who buys the on

bonds or lends the money asks himself: Suppos T

put all this money into -this company and then, all of a sudden, the war stops. Then what? = | ° All the ‘orders of the Allies will be cancelled, if they: lose, and there will be no one to pay for them.’ As for: America, the scare may be over, and the orders will: stop or pause. Then there will be no need for thi Is immense plant. | 9 That's what appeal” in the last war. New England, Remington Arms and Witche Connecticut—and scores of other companies— most mad with the prosperity. ' New plant built—building after building went up—millions w nt into them. fl x And then the war ended, the orders stopped, there were the plants.

profits had been great, but not enough to pay| for | cost of production plus the original investment. | We might as well face it as a war fact that priv

‘investment in war industries is going to be very dif-

ficult, and that if these industries are to be f the Government will have to do it and make up| ite: mind to the face the losses, if the loan is di a made good.

The Course of Wisdom

I do not mean that the Government should qwn. the factories. I mean it should make the necessary loans—only on essential war industries—and do so with the understanding that the loans shall e Write: ten off when the war or the war hysteria is over. | | That will be doubly beneficial to the country. First of all,|/it will make it possible to limit the profits: without endangering production. Second, and more important, [it will help avoid what, unfortunately, seems inevitable when this war is over. °f Private concerns with huge war machinery plants: on their hands and with their own money in the plants, will be driven to find work, and the only work. will be more war orders after the war is over. This: will lead to propaganda for keeping up’ preparation; against new and ever-present enemies. If, when the Gye over or the war effort at an:

end here, the Gpvérnment should be in position to say, “No more ‘orders; the need has passed. Now | put away your excessive gun and plane plants, and do not worry because you haven't amortized your investment. The money is due to me and I am prepared to call it off.” This may sound foolish—but, as surely as we live, it is the course of wisdom,

Watching Your Health.

By Jane Stafford

HE season for wild mushroom gathering is at: hand. These fungi have scant food value, but | their flavor adds appetite appeal to many. a more | nourishing dish. . City housewives generally get their mushrooms, fresh or canned, at the market, but in the country, the housewife may be able to gather a basketful from | nearby woodS., Before she starts out on her mush-

room hunt, however, she should be sure she can dis. |

tinguish between the poisenous varieties and the kinds | that are good to eat. - . Toadstools are often wrongly credited. with being while mushrooms are assumed .to be. safe , This is a false distinction. The. two words really mean thé same . They refer tothe. shape | of the fungus, not to its edibility. = 8 The most poisonous species of mushroom _ (or stool) are the Amanitas. Since the fungi ‘growing in the woods do not have convenient gardener’s tags o them, the mushroom gatherer must learn to recognize them by other signs, The deadly Amanita is a gilled! mushroom, with a loose ring or veil ar the stalk near the top and a cup at the base. Usually there are some loose flakes lying on the cap of the r

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