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VEN after Finland and Denmark and Norway, President

“77 Rdosevelt felt we could be secure with the budgeted

$2,200,000,000 defense program. Then came the invasion of the Low Countries, and ae raised the price to $3,300,000,000. i I fow, two weeks later, after the Belgian Army’s surrender, he announces a plan to push it up to $4,400,000,000. ithin another fortnight the President may very well ‘see reasons why we should go on to a five-billion program, ‘and two weeks later to six billions. With the British in retreat across the Channel, who would say this cannot happen? |, ; t the start of the new defense spending, the Adminis-

‘tration and Congressional leaders could see no need for extra

taxes or a higher debt limit. Those “incidental” matters But the emergency rapidly

raise |the debt limit by three billions, and to levy $700,000,000 in new taxes. Already it is apparent that’ this slapdash proposal is ludicrously inadequate, afd that the situation calls for a stern revision of the whole tax structure. Jongress is the taxing branch of Government. Is this any time for Congressmen to talk about abdicating ?

ANOTHER FOR WILBUR SHAW

NDIANAPOLIS must certainly feel a touch of pride to- |

day in Wilbur Shaw's victory in the 500-mile race, the third time that this talented Hoosier race driver-sportsman-businessman has turned the trick. ~ True, rains made the track tricky and dangerous anc the drivers were slowed down. But to-win the 50C-mile race takes superb skill under any type of conditions. Wilbur Shaw has that skill; he has proved it in boiling hot weather, in wet weather, over a track rimmed with wrecks, and with‘out relief of any sort. "|The race yesterday was more than just the higgest sports eventin America. It was something that permitted thousands of persons to get their minds off the war and gave them a healthy outlet for relaxation . to

AMERICANS TOGETHER

J VENTS in Norway, Holland and Belgium show that J

Nazis had the effective aid of agents and sympathizers hose invaded countries. There must be such agents le United States, and Americans are rightly determined nd them out. To do that is important. i It is equally important that in this roundup Americans shall not become unfairly suspicious of their neighbors. ' |Let us remember that a man is not necessarily a bad American because he holds views contrary to ours, It is the very essence of Americanism that every man can think as he pleases and propose any change in our form of Government that he pleases, in the hope of winning a majority of the-voters tb his views. If a man holds views more radical or conservative than our own, that is his privilege. ‘What we cannot tolerate is allegiance to a foreign power—whether that power be Russia, Germany or Italy.

NO BLANKET IMMUNITY

(ORGANIZED labor has no blanket immunity to prosecution under the Federal Anti-Trust Laws, and the Justice Department is on firm ground in its drive against _cost-increasing restraints on the building industry. That is clear from Monday’s Supreme Court ‘decision in the Apex Hosiery Co. case. : ) The case came up from Philadelphia where, in 937, sit-down strikers, members of a C. I. O. union, occupied the Apex plant. for seven weeks, wrecking machinery and smashing furniture. The company later sued the unio1. for triple damages under the Sherman Act, and won .a $712,000 jury verdict, Last November a U. S. Circuit Cour: of Appeals set the verdict aside, and the Supreme Court has ‘now agreed with the Circuit Court. M Six members of the Supreme Court, through an odinion by Justice Stone, held there was no proof that "he Apex strike was intended to have, or did have, the eft ct of raising prices of goods in interstate commerce. As jie Circuit Court had pointed out, the strike’s object was l¢>al and legitimate—to unionize the plant—and any effect -n interstate ‘commerce was “merely indirect, incidental gd remote.” The strikers did Tegal things, but the compan; ’s

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‘remedy is under state laws, not Federal Anti-Trust Lays.

But Justice Stone made it clear that the majorijy was not upholding the contention of William Green a‘d

others that under no circumstances can the anti-trust lass

be invoked against unions and their members. And Chisf Justice Hughes, for the three-member minority, assertod

| that, since labor disputes have been held to affect inter_state commerce in the National Labor Relations Act, the

-Sherman Act should now be construed to cover restraints by unions -as well as by employers.

The entire present court seems to stand on the prin-’

ciple to which the supreme Court has held since 1908 — ng mely, that organized labor can be prosecuted under the . Anti-Trust Laws for engaging in’ conspiracies whose object

“and effect is to attain mongpolies, control prices or discrirainate between would-be. purchasers.

'HERE.IS NOTHING NEW | “HE Egyptian Government, preparing to meet a var - emergency, has ordered a nightly blackout of the while country. This, it might be thought, is a new thing in an cient land. But no. See the Tenth Chapter of Exod is: “And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out th ne ‘hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And oses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Roosevelt Urges Campaign Against Fifth Column, Yet First Lady and Ickes Consort With Anti-Americans

EW YORK, May 31.—About the same time, that President Roosevelt was on the air last Sunday

foreign agents two other members of the New Deal family delivered public addresses. , In New York Mrs. Roosevelt attended a meeting of the New York Youth Congress, a subsidiary of the American Youth Congress, which is a transmission belt of the Communist Party. Harold Ickes made a

speech. in Cleveland. Mrs. Roosevelt's hosts adopted a resolution con-

“| sistent with the Moscow party line, condemning re-

armament by the United States. They also opposed action against the Communist Party. a Mrs. Roosevelt, who often. attends ‘meetings of transmission belt or “Trojan Horse” organizations of the Communist Party, did not see eye to eye with the Youth Congress, insisting that failure to rearm might result in the needless sacrifice of many American lives. The identity of Mr. Ickes’ hosts I do not know, but the account which I read said that he “urged a vigorous campaign against Fifth Column activities. Just here I would point out—not that it seems nec‘essary—that both Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Ickes have been consistently guilty of consorting with the Fifth Column of the Communist anti-American conspiracy. ’ ” n ” 7

RS. ROOSEVELT has attended meetings of the } National and World Youth Congresses, both controlled by’ vicious adult conspirators in Moscow. Those organizations are no more innocent than 'the antiAmerican Bund of the Nazi Government or the Sons of Italy, which maintains “cordial relations with and promotes devotion to the Fascist, anti-democratic, anti-American Governmeng of Italy among Americans of Italian blood. There is no more justification for the appearance of an officer of the American Government or a member of the President’s personal and political family at occasions organized by the Moscow Fifth Column than for the appearance of the same persons at rallies of the Bund or the Fascist order. Mr. Ickes showed his preference or tolerance for the Communist breed when he made an ostentatious" political appearance under the auspices of the National Lawyers’ Guild. This guild was organized as a liberal rival to the American Bar Association. Soon, it fell under the partial control of Fifth Column lawyers—who are most numerous, incidentally, in the Washington chapter, where many of them are or were ‘employed in the Government, ” ” s N another occasion Mr. Ickes selected for his platform the New York Newspaper Guild, which has been notoriously communistic in policy and is now ‘recognized by the American membership and by a

.| larger number of non-members as a faithful old Dob-

bin of the “Trojan” stables. He sat with under-cover Communists and ill-disguised fellow-travelers whose “clever schemes” then, as now, were . designed to sabotage recovery and who today have abandoned the New Deal, because the President denounced Moscow's assault on Finland and because the New Deal is attempting to arm against Stalin and his ally, Adolf Hitler. Mrs. Roosevelt is her own boss, and Mr. Ickes, having an official position and official responsibility, is only slightly less free. If they must run with the Communists, that is all right, but their conduct tends to confuse the meaning of the President’s warnings against the Fifth Column.

Inside Indianapolis

: The Paul McNutt Announcement; Right-Hand Drive Cars—And Spies.

S Paul McNutt bidding for~the Vice-Presidency: now? That's what a good many believe is behind Paul's sudden announcement that he favors a third term for the President. | The McNutt announcement is regarded an astute political move and cannot help but win him many friends among the ruling New Deal administration in— Washington. A little of that kind of help can go a long way in a political convention, ” ” ” . MIDWEEK SPEEDWAY CROWDS leave quickly. . « « You have positive proof of that today with most of fhe out-of-state licenses gone and traffic pretty nearly normal. . . . One unusual automobile which attracted a good deal of attention downtown yesterday was a right-hand drive Chrysler which had Michigan license plates on. . . . Our curiosity got the best of us and we found out that the owner was a South African vesident, that he'd just purchased it in Michigan, and was motoring to a seaport from where he intended to embark with his right-hand car. . . . In South Africa, you see, it would be just as much of a’ novelty to see a lefthand drive auto.

2 8 = THREE MONTHS AGO a well-groomed, clean-cut

and went about his business quietly. Although he spent money lavishly and was seen to be carrying large sums of money, he was discreet in selecting his friends. Somehow, he managed to choose a newspaperman as one of this group. He bought. two new automobiles, housed them in a downtown garage. Finally, he let it be known to the newspapermans— completely off-the-record, of course—that he wus a high ranking Navy officer here on a military mission. Prodding Brought forth the story that he was ere’ to “take delivery” on a secret Navy plane equipped ‘with a new-type Allison engine, - It sounded almost too good to be true and the newspaperman: faithfully checked his officer every day or so. But always there was some delay. One day he camldn’t reach him. His officer had checked out! A little expeditious investigation. disclosed that the gentleman had driven to a distant Indiana town, hunted up a certain street, stopped and walked up an alley. He returned shortly with two brief cases which he placed in the back of the car—and| then shoved a 45 service automatic into a shoulder holster. . : ‘I He hasn't been seen since—that is unless the G-Men know a lot more than they're saying, You see, there is a pretty firm feeling now that the chap was no more, no less than a spy.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson |

OE of the most curious sights of these strange times is the hectic chase of women after husbands—followed almost.at once by their equally -eager rush to the divorce courts. It.often looks as if our girls want only to experience marriage, not to choose it as a way of life. If only half the determination which goes into the hunt for mates could be used in keeping them once they were caught, does any one doubt that benefits and calm would follow? | Modern girls have so many opportunities for happiness; so many doorséare open to them. Truly, they are blessed with a multitude of joys. And the most important, I think, is the respectability of spinsterhood. No one snickers at old maids any more. Modern women have grown up. They have attained the dignity of being individuals. They can, if they wish, live wholly by and for themselves, as men have always done, when it pleased them to do so. This is definite evidence of feminine progress. ‘ The divorce rate, however, 1s not. For what we have gainéd with one hand we have tossed away with the other. The widespread prevalence of divorce marks: the degeneration of feminine wit. It belies all other forms of advancement, because it proves conclusively that women are not actually interested in their own welfare or that of their kind. Built up through centuries to safeguard mothers and children marriage is an institution whose destruction will put women back inte paganism. Men fare delightfully as barriers to license are re‘moved. Their responsibility ends when the civil in“stitution of marriage is abandoned, and when it loses its sacred meanings. ; On the contraty, wofnen who bear the children

Nature herselt has. put upon them.

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FEARS ULTIMATE CLASH WITH NAZIS By a Reader

Last night I saw an editorial in your paper commenting on the fatal delay of some foreign nations in preparing for war in times of peace and were caught napping when the hurricane struck, and you warned our nation to beware and prepare while there is (time, but I think there is very little margin of time for our country to prepare. Germany will very quickly recover from this war if she whips England and France and this is what she -is almost sure to do unless a miracle happens. And with all these vast resources of the conquered countries to draw from it will be but a matter of a few months or a year at the most until demands and concessions will be made on the United States and we will be unprepared and fall a victim as has England, France, Belgium and all the other smaller countries. Germany will find a way and world dominion is her aim. ... tJ EJ ”

URGES REFORM NOT END OF CAPITALISM By W. H. Edwards, Spencer I

As a constant reader of the Forum, I see that there is a wide divergence of opinion among the various writers, with .Voice in the Crowd holding that the cai system, as it is, is all right, with Curious of Bloomington contending that Communism is the only solution to our troubles, with the writer from Attica claiming that there is no excusable poverty in the land and other writers contending that there is no hope for us unless we subscribe to their own pet theories. Even the paid columnist§ have their own pet theories. It is easy to explain the anti-Administration fulminations of Hugh Johnson. He is sore because he and his millionaire sponsor are no longer connected at a high salary with the present Administration, thus curtailing their speculating activities in the national food markets. | To recognize the shortcomings and glaring evils of our capitalist system does not warrant us in accepting the Communist system. To do so would be for us to jump from a faltering system into one still worse. What we need is tolchange the capitalist system from being master of the economic life of the people to its proper place as the servant of all the people. | In ‘correcting the evils within the capitalist system we should use our endeavors to avoid any further congestion of population in our metro-

be a grave hindrance to the suc-

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politan cities, encourage the decentralization of industry, placing small industries in what are now economniic deserts. where workers could lead as normal life away from the gangster breeding cities. . 2 = =

URGES DISCRETION IN FIFTH COLUMN FIGHT By Realist : If developments of the past few days continue we soon.shall need in this country a “seventh column” to save us from the “sixth column” which is being organized to fight “fifth column” activities here. It probably is true that there is a

substantial fifth column element in America. Such a movement would

cessful prosecution of any war in which we may engage. Therefore, the fight against this fifth column menace appears to be one that should be conducted by the trained military and intelligence forces of the nation, and not by a

“sixth column” of amateur sports-

men, hysterical Legionnaires who see a Communist in every member of a labor ugjon, and ward heeler politicians who rush to enact ordinances against aliens.

#2 8 = FEARS FIFTH COLUMN

USED AS SMOKE SCREEN By R. Sprunger : The Tory friend pleads for a definition of Americanism and a fight on “fifth. columns.” We have a majority class of people in want amidst plenty and deprived of the right to vote in some states and a minority class ‘rolling” in wealth that do nothing to “earn” At but claim ownership to natural resources and the tools of production, It is a system of social and economic injustice. 7 When one speaks out for social and economic justice the Tories brand them as Communists. So what is Americanism and who is going to define it? The Tories or the people to whom this country and its institutions rightfully belong to but are swindled. out of that right .by the plutocrats. ; I also notice many aliens here make better American citizens than a good many of native born pseudo “patriots.” ’ : ‘Anyway if we had a system of economic ‘justice with special ptivilege to none we wouldn't be facing confusion and chaos that capitalism has produced. ”

New Books a! the Library

O rescue Jenny Lind from the shadowy figures of the past, recreate her, and make her a hu-

man being, is the somewhat difficult task successfully accomplished by Laura Benet in her colorful yet authentic - biography “Enchanting Jenny Lind” (Dodd). From the time when Jenny, as a child of four, first consciously heard the song of a bird in the country near Stockholm and tried to imitate it, the author follows the stream of events of Jenny's highly dramatic life and career. Singing to her cat one day, she was overheard by the servant of a dancer of the Royal Opera, given an audition by the head of the theater, who was impressed by the purity and strength of her voite,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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"Can you think of something that will amuse your child?”

and was sent to the Royal Theater School. = There, at the Government’s expense, she was educated and taught to sing until, at 17, she began her first official engagement. Aware of the flaws in her voice and of her need for further training, she went to Paris to. study with the great Manuel Garcia and succeeded in overcoming the effects of badly straining her voice, achiev= ing renewed power and flexibility and rich, full, bell-like tones. From then on, her career was a series of spectacular opera and concert triumphs, and her life was spent perpetually on tour, first through Europe and then America. - These travels brought her increasing fame and admiration and, what meant more to her, the friendships which she valued so highly, particularly with Mendelssohn, Hans Christian Andersen, Chopin, and Robert and™ Clara Schumann—and her happiest and most: successful love affair with her gifted pianist, Otto Goldschmidt. Mrs. Benet describes Jenny Lind as a generous, sincere, and completely unspoiled artist, graceful, attractive, and truly “a child of the North, compounded .of candor, honesty, seriousness. Winter pine woods under a moon, exuberant spring, brilliant summer nights, all the poetry of her melancholy yet passionate land had entered into her being.” )

REBUKE By ELEEZA HADIAN

Even a creature Like the oyster Could learn better, And in hours Of silence Strive to encase ‘The pain in luster, To form the pearl Of such rare grace, That prying eyes can see None of the hurt, None of the anguish But only The beauty Born of distress.

DAILY THOUGHT

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.— Matthew 19:6.

ONE SHOULD believe in marriage

as in the immortality of the soul.— Balzac. | :

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1910 | no Gen. Johnson Says— of

Fears That President's So-Called

Council of National Défense Is Just A Gesture "Not Intended to Work"

"EW YORK CITY, May 31.—The Knudsen-Stet-tinius-Etcetera Board is not a Council of Natiommal defense. It is an. advisory commission to the statutory council which is composed of Secretari s) Woodring, Edison, Ickes, Wallace, Hopkins and Perkins. Only these New Dealers have authority. They, added to the New Dealers on the commission—Leon Henderson, Sidney Hilman, Chester Davis, William McReynolds and perhaps Harriet Elliott—make a total of 10 or 11 New Dealers. There are only three non-New Dealers, Knudsen, Stettinius and Budd and only the New Dealers have any power, Yet the set-up is being widely represented as “non-political.” I fear the thing is ‘just a gesture which won't work and perhaps wasn’t intended to work. It starts just where we started in 1916 before we knew how and began two years blundering before we learned how. It includes not one single veteran of that effort. Yet it must in fairness be said that the selections are excellent. If World War experience is any indi-. cation and these men should be given any authority, the metal people may howl at having their industries headed by the head of U. S. Steel and the

other automobile companies may not care to be rounded up by the head of General Motors. The

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New Dealers who like to scream: “Wall Street! Du ,,

Pont! Morgan!” /at every patriotic effort by a businessman, will find material for all three cries of anguish. In view of the splendid personalities here none,of these objections is valid. : | &, » ” ”

UBJECT to these qualifications, these selections are so good that it will be a pleasure to find at least something to support in the defense effort which has been So fumbling and inefficient to date. Sometimes men can be so good that they can make even a bad plan and organization work. A war psychology is growing in which much can be done by the three industrialists by. mere suggestions and agreements among businessmen. Stettinius, Knudsen and

Budd can do that as well as any three Americans

alive—if Thurman Arnold will let them do it. Because of the rift in the ranks of labor, there was no other possible choice but Sidney Hillman, He is brilliant, patriotic, ¢o-operative and has the confidence of labor. . ® brought Leon Henderson into this Government from obscurity to an Ymportant post.: I believe that he is toe biased and pinkly partisan for his job in S. E. C. 2k with the monopoly committee, but he will be, I think, ideal for this job. Of course, Henry Wallace isn’t going to let Ches ter Davis do anything in agriculture, | | : #8 u's ; DON'T know the lady who is going to protect the consumers. It is a tough and almost impossible jon. I do know all the rest of these selections, most

are the cream of the current crop. { Whether we think this curious and .llogical or‘ganizational contraption, which failed so danger= ously in 1917, will work or not, it is at [least a faltering step in the right direction. :

cof them intimately and well. From my experience from i under high pressure they

Business

By John T. Flynn

Defense Used as Excuse to Push ‘Projects Spurned in CTalmer: Days

EW YORK, May 31.—Everybody with a pet scheme may now be expected to hook it on to national defense because “the nation is in danger” from something or other. It is now possible to pass Senator Sorghum'’s bill and Congressmarr Hokum's bill and to do this and that which has been agitated for by all sorts of people for years.

The plan for reorganization of a utility holding ‘|:

compaky, now pending before the SEC, may or may not be a good one. I haven't examined it. But right away, while the hysteria 1s on, the representatives of the company declare that ‘in view of the war menace the plan “fits in with the national defense program” and should be Half a dozen promotion plans to build industries of one sort or another inthis or that location have already taken on new life, either because the industries are mecessary for America’s “national defense” or because the national defense program will bring business to the industries, Communities all over the United States are storming the War and Navy Departments to locate factories, laboratories, | training fields in their areas. 2 The Government was in| a hot spot because of the limitation of 45 billion dollars on national borrowing. Congress and the President declared we must not go beyond it, but the Administration had to borrow more or go on the rocks politically. So what to do? Well—national defense! National defense demands that we borrow more, go deeper into the red. So plans are afoot to raise the borrowing limit. Co-ordinating Our Resources There ds ‘the minimum wage law. Now, with “Hitler around the corner,’ it is necessary to relax that law or get rid of it. |All the.people who were against it"for other reasons are now against it for “national defense.” Then there is the matter of credit to [the warring nations. When the war started, with our. eyes open and our reason in command, we decided we would make no loans. or_credits to the belligerents. Most people still feel thi way. But now the war has hit the farmers. Surpluses pile up. Therefore, because “the time to squelch Hitler is now,” America must “for our own national defense” grant credits to the Empires—so they can buy the farmers’ strpluses. Now: ‘America must ‘“co-ordinate” her resources. That means we must act as a unit. Acling as a unit means that businessmen must be permitted to “get together.” That means that the Federal Trade Commission andy.Mr. Thurman Arnold must stop enforcing the anti-trust laws so the patriots can get together—for “national defense.” Every little city hall and court house machine—and big ones, too, with Chicago leading the pack—now hitch the court house and the city hall to the national program; Cities must stop their foolish quarrels about city affairs—little things like rackets. and racketeering, wasting city taxes and mounting gity debts and disintegrating city properties—and stand behind Mayor Whoosis who is standing behind President Roosevelt— for “national defense”! : J f /

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford |

¥7EEPING “one’s mental health and balance is a —, difficult problem and one for which, unfortunately, ‘there are few rules. Following the general rules of healthful living, such as those for diet, adequate amounts of: sleep, and regular outdoor exercise, will help. It should also be rémemhered that mental ill health is sickness requiring a doctor's care just as

much as appendicitis or influenza. This is true not

only of such severe mental illness as are popularly

.termed insanity, but also of mental ailments that the

layman may not recognize as such. Mental depression is perhaps one of these maladies about which the layman may be confused. Its chief characteristic is a slowing up of mental and physical energy. Many people suffer from it, and to

generally seems not worth the living. Depressed”

spirits, feelings of inadequacy, inability to concentrate

and to sleep, and a feeling of exhaustion are symptoms of the condition. The person suffering: such symptoms is sick, and not just inadequate and. inferior. The outlook for his recovery is good, but he cannot be helped by well-meant advice to cheer up and get a good night's sleep. He needs the help of a physician - experienced -in treating such ailments. From the standpoint of prevention, psychiatrists advise considering ever-present e haustion as a warning signal. The person who- himself getting tired at the least exertion, or always feeling all tired out, especially if he is ‘given to alternating moods of high spirits and low feelings, should take himself in hand and ®eek a doctor’s help. ; Exhaustion in itself is not considered a direct cause of insanits but anxiety and worry together with exhaustion may lead to severe mental depression,

adopted to protect America. |

them life