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TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1940

IN CHARACTER at “To VER since the morning of Sept. 1, when Hitler invaded

- 2%“ Poland, Parisians had been expecting it.

Yesterday it came—wave after wave of Nazi bombers, flying high and dumping explosives on a target too wide to * miss. Schools, apartments, homes, boulevards—wherever _ in a city of five million these random missiles chanced to fall. 1] But such a great military feat will add little to the . anger many already feel against the butcher of Berchtesgaden. He showed long ago the stuff he was made

v of. Remember his blood purge, the point-blank murder of

* his own colleagues? Remember how he sent a pocket battleship to rake the defenseless Spanish city of Almeria with . shellfire? Remember the unspeakable | reprisals against German Jews for the mad misstep of one Jewish boy? Remember the systematic demolition of Poland, and the ex-

ultant exhibition of a film portraying his own ruthlessness?

There is nothing new under Hitler's sun. (It is always the same old story of a little man whose lust for power . grows as he grabs, and whose share of human decency has long since been drowned in the blood of his victims,

JOB FOR THE SENATE : ~ FPHIS, as we have said before, is a time for Congress to stay on the job, doing its full part in the expanding national defense program and attending to important items

N of unfinished business.

One such item is the Hatch bill, long ago passed by the Senate and now at last nearing the stage of House debate. Another is the Walter-Logan bill,” passed nearly 3 to 1 by the House last month, which the Senate Judiciary Com-

i : | ‘mittee has been vainly trying to get before the Senate.

Opponents of the Walter-Logan bill contend that it

‘would impair the effectiveness of Federal administrative: agencies. And, as Majority Leader Barkley says, urgent’

defense measures demand priority. We believe the bill . would not hamper any proper activity of the Federal agencies, but would provide essential safeguards for the rights of citizens against abuse of bureaucratic power. If that is true, it is needed more than ever, now that - the defense effort promises to give the agencies more work to do. Since the military establishments are specifically ‘exempted from its provisions, it could not impair their effectiveness. nl

OUR GOVERN MENT IS TOO FAT ! : PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT starts work with his budget director on an informal program: to slice 10 per cent off non-military appropriations—and make the savings avail‘able for defense purposes. ; : »

There will be some squawks from pressure groups ~ which lobbied pet appropriations through Congress. But "those squawks won’t be as effective as usual. For a far more powerful pressure| group is mobilizing—the rank and . file of American citizens, who are demanding that Govern‘ment trim down on non-essentials and political luxuries and concentrate all resources pd energies on the task of the hour. In ordinary times these citizens ask little of “Government except that it maintain order and leave thm alone. Since most of the money is taken from them in invisible taxes anyway, they pay too little attention to how politicians spend it. But confronted by a crisis, the slow- ' moving, tolerant mass of Americans rise up and take over direction of their Government, They are rising today, ~.and they are not going to tolerate any playing of politics when the nation’s security is at stake. The people know that mgre than 10 per cent of the accumulated fat of Government can be trimmed off without touching the sinews of any essential service. They will support the President in his effort. Moreover they will not like it if Congress goes home and Jeaves the economizing to the President. Congress appropriated the money. Con:::gress should stay on the job:and undo its vote-buying ex::travagances. This is one year when such votes are not ‘i:going to stay bought. i The action of the House Republican caucus yesterday, ::in resolving that Congress ro remain in session “as “long as the interest of the country requires,” indicates that ‘at least some of our lawmakers have begun to sense the Dew temper of the people. je | If the Republicans want to establish a real record for .::yesponsible leadership they will go farther—and not only “move to recall unnecessary appropriations, but also sponsor al forthright tax program. The people are not fooled by ‘ the inadequate hodge-podge which the Democratic leaders have offered. : ‘ Worth repeating here are the remarks yesterday of Senator Tydings of Maryland, a Democrat, and Rep. Barton ~ of New York, a Republican.. Both advocated broadening the income-tax base as a courageous solution to our fiscal problem. |... lL] sid : Tydings: “We are in more danger of financial collapse - than we are of being attacked by a foreign power. . .. The fighting men of our country have a right to expect our

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“civilians to be good soldiers, too, and not let them return

fron? a possible war to a country whose finances have been .. dissipated.” 5 : = - Barton: “Our people today are in a mood for selfsacrifice. The desire to do something; to give something, ids well-nigh universal., The Administration far under-

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| TIME TO THINK THIS OVER N/E cannot preserve ourselves as a free people, bottle-fed ~~ and rocked to sleep in the arms of a Government.— - Rep. Hatton Sumners (D. Tex.). Bil Lda J op

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Louisville Convention of Movie

EW YORK, June 4—The International Union

American workers, opened its convention in Louisville yesterday. This union is contro by elements ‘of ‘the new Capone mob of Chicago criminals. It is a disgrace to the labor movemen a The president of this racket is George E. Browne

| of Chicago, whose voting: power gives him important

‘influence in the American Federation of Labor and a place on the executive council of that organization. ‘Browne gets $20,000 a year and allowances. He is an associate of criminals of the most vicious type and appoints them to positions of great power. * ; Helpless under this power, the rank and file are

crafts to a 10 per cent income tax on their gross earnings, heavy assessments and: flnes. Officers of sub-unions or locals have established private rackets which they have compelled owners of movie theters to buy equipment and services from companies in vhich they were financially interested. E 2 8 = r\FFICERS of sub-unions also have established a licensing system. whereby ostensibly free Amersan workmen have been compelled to pay heavily or work permits, but have still been excluded from nion membership. ; \ ! ‘ First vice president under Browne is John P. Nick, racketeer whose oppression and extortion provoked ' rank and file rebellion in a St. Louis local and ve rise to the celebrated Post-Dispatch contempt case.. Like Browne, he runs with thugs. | Browne announced last Thursday that no action las contemplated by the union against Willie Bioff, 1s personal appointee to the post of international representative, a non-elective office of tremendous wer, who is now in jail in Chicago belatedly serving ‘old sentence for sharing the earnings of a prosti- - tute. 4 | “The only interest I have in Bioff is how ably le serves the union,” Browne said. | The actual reason why Browne contemplates no action against Bioff is that Bioff, a common Chicago gorilla, is the real boss of the union, with power of death over Browne.

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NCIDENTALLY, Browne knew Bioff’s character | when he appointed him dictator over the Hollywood studio trades and the theater projectionists. If he should deny that he knew it, then, however, that t would be immaterial, for he does know it now. As to the question of how ably Bioff serves the union, the fact is that Bioff accepted $100,000 from Joseph Schenck, who represented the Hollywood employers in labor negotiations. Schenck admits that he conveyed the money to Bioff, but says the fransaction was a forced loan and insists Bioff returned the $100,000. The Government has indicted Bioff for failure to declare the $100,000 as income and pay the tax on it. The Louisville convention is a conspicuous challenge to the national leadership of the A. F. of L. to drive out some of the rats who have invaded the labor movement and whose sponsor has the effrontery to say that he “contemplates no action” against the

vilest of them.

Inside Indianapolis “The Fight for Tourists, Business In General and About World War Il.

7OU’'VE probably been aware of a great- deal of activity lately in ‘behalf of our State bureau to attract tourists. . . . The budget calls for a $25,000 a year appropriation to aid in getting the travelers and new industries into the state. . . . Yesterday, we saw a photograph of the Governor and Mrs. Townsend fishing up in Minnesota. . . . We're not aiming to poke fun, but we thought we'd let you in on a little newspaper secret. . . . The picture came from “The Minnesota Tourist Bureau.”. . . Chief Mike Morrissey confided to the Safety Board the other day that he’s afraid that the 12-year-old bullet-proof vests owned by the Police Department are getting rusty. . . . The Chief sent away for a new catalog which- shows some of the newer models and he hopes the Safety Board is as interested in the pictures as he is. 8 8s 2 FOR THE SECOND consecutive year there will be no contest for offices at the Indianapolis Board of Trade’s annual election on June 10th. . . . And in that old and powerful organization where there have been so many spirited and colorful “independent” fights, that’s news. .. . William H. Howard, board secretary, says the reason probably is the quality of the ticket and war and business occupying everybody's :mind so much. . . . Talking about business reminds us of the new firm just organized here named “Why Bother, Inc.”. . . The company operates on a 24-hour schedule and says it will “Open and close the house, answer telephone calls, care for the garden, prepare speeches, meet trains and planes, sit with the baby and be standers-in-line.”. . . . Business 'will certainly be good if another “Gone With .The

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DR. ALAN SPARKS, the nose and throat man, has turned on his short wave radio several times recently to hear the voice of his brother, James V. Sparks, from Paris. . . . James served in the U. 8S. Army during War I and, aside from a brief visit, has been there ever since. . . . He organized the American ambulance corps in France and now is its commander. . . . His broadcasts have told about bomb-

didn't learn of them until he was called by several friends. . . . And, mentioning the war, we want to tell you a story about a young friend of ours just to illustrate what war ‘does to all of us, 4000 miles .away. . . . This chap dreamed he was in France fighting the Nazis. . . . Suddenly he was seized with a wave of weakness and realized that. this was a new secret paralyzing gas.\, . . Just as suddenly he recognized the gas and having studied chemistry recognized the formula and the antidote. . . . He says he saw the formula quite clearly but he awakened with a start, unable.to remember it. . . . It’s been bothering him ever since.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson -

URIOUS how old sayings stick in the memory! When I was a little girl in a country doctor’s household, I often heard it said that So-and-So,was “out of his head.” High fever caused irrational talk, and irrational talk was so described. : As remedies for “saving democracy” pour forth, I am reminded of that provincial diagnosis. It seems to be our silly talk season. Feverish politicians become hysterical over the unpreparedness of the little neutral countries. “They were unarmed,” so the clamo goes, “and look at them now!” ’ , Well, we're all looking and the more we look the more we believe that until those small countries unite and fight together, when they must, there’s not much (use for them to arm. What chance has a Denmark ” a Norway against any one of the big nations? None at all. vi Yet, during their short intervals of peace what remarkable strides in culture they have madz, Is there any reasonable doubt that this.progress was possible because they did not keep up expensive standing armies? : For we ought to know by this time that armies and navies cost a great deal of money, although it’s a thought we take care to avoid. Even our President— God bless him—indulged in some balmy philosophy during his last Fireside Chat. After explaining our defenses and his plans for their tremendous increase, he soothed us by saying that we might count upon a continuation ot Secial Security expenditures. What wonderful day-dreams these are! We Americans are surely “out of our heads” if we believe it will be possible, to stretch tlie national income to such lengths, All of us feel the need for extra defense, but are we childish enough to think it can be paid for

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THINKS POSTERS NEVER COULD MOBILIZE U. : By Daniel Francis Clancy One difference between Europe and the United States is that Americans could never be mobilized with posters—it would be weeks before anyone noticed that they weren't cigaret ads. . » » 2 | DISPUTES M’NUTT ON MEANING OF DEMOCRACY

By H-~;rison Mite Paul McNutt, speaking in one of our Southwestern states recently, said “There are more businessmen in the ranks of democracy than the Republicans have.” That statement was a most radical play upon words, for democracy to the life of our .form of government is like air to a person, who must have more than just air for his ex-. istence; democracy in our form of goyernment is a static thing that individualizes ' every person in our Government and cannot be enlarged upon - according to the Constitution of the United States; we are democratic, of course, in that all the people as individuals have a voice in the selection of the personnel of our Government and also that all as individuals are equal|in the application of its laws; this nation in fact and according to the Constitution of the United States is not a democracy. | It is a nation of individual liberty; democracy Vow Dex as is the

purport of the “New Deal” can deal only with the mass; the mass cannot think, therefore to extend the line of democracy in our Government, one mind must dictate to the and there s only one way you can go with it ‘nd that is away from our form of Government, down the first step to socialism, the second step communism, the third step anarchy, the fourth step animal, the fifth step chaos; after the first step is taken the others would follow quickly. Here is an example: nce I heard Paul. McNutt speak of “production for consumption only.” Let him take the first step then he would have to say “production for consumption only and without profit.” It is impossible for democracy to go up to individualism with reward for effort which in primal sense is capitalism, leading" to |aristocracy, the opposite of democracy, the natural desire of every person who

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lives; - we hyve no right to hypothecate the inheritance of our posterity to the blessings of liberty. i

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| PLEADS FOR UNITY IN | TIME OF DANGER

By Edward Barker ; oh The following comment is prompted as a result of my attend-

ance at a meeting of the “Indiana Committee for National Defense’ held at the Claypool Hotel, Tuesday evening, April 28. The purpose of this organization is to support our National Government in every possible way for defense to save ourselves from the fate of those proudly neutral and unpreared nations, now smoldering in ruins. With the world of international relations in such chaotic condition, and our own nation’s partisan political temper in danger of getting out of control, it behooves all loyal - citizens to refrain from narrow partisanship, to the end that we may unitedly plan to produce an efficient national fire department to combat the possible holocaust now raging in Europe, and which may endanger our own. peace and freedom.. : Ngutral isolation in other coun-

tries has proved to be a broken reg: on which to ‘depend - for security

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U.S. Can Lea Something From War Abroad But Some New Ideas - Will Be of No Use in Our Defenses

rASHINGTON, June 4.—1t is natural for military thinking to channel itself into grobves sé: by precedents and examples. Soldiers don’t fight all the time. In periods of peace, industrial progress and invention go on but military. science comes to a full stop. The results of any test of it in war are so deadly that soldiers, in peace, try to “keep up

frantically. But there are only two directions in which

| they can tvok—backward. to the lessons of the past—

sidewise to what 1s going on in other countries. Lessons {rom both directions must be taken with

alike. We learned some things in late 1918: that should . help us now, particularly - in industrial mobilization. But: we also learned some things it would behoove us now to forget, “particularly that equipment we can somehow pick out of the air. = op ! NA cL ee rae is much also to be learned from fhe astonhishing, almost miraculous, German teamwork as between fifth columns, air, armored and mechanized land batteries and close following masses of oldfashioned: infantry. But to swallow that Whole for nse would be as stupid as to return to the

The war in. Europe has been between densely ~ populated. nations within a few hours flying distance of each other, and only a few more hours for motorized blitzkrieg machines. Industrial and railroati centers in each small country practically are the vital organs controlling the whole of it and paralyzing the punches.in any such solar-plexes nearly told the

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Neither condition prevails here. Without nearby naval air bases, no enemy on either coast is going to threaten us or even this hemisphere—at least to the bulge of South America. This country’s life centers on no great ‘city. Our primary problem is naval and air bases for ourselves and highly mobile and efficient naval, air and land forces; sufficient to serve them and from them to prevent enemy lodgements—plus air-raid defenses of our cities. f : i #2 x =» UR second great problem is in the higher skills— expert: officers, aviators and mechanics in hath

| field and factory. For example, a competent tank

officer, in addition to: all the professional requirements of an infantry subaltern, must be a skilled radio, motor and military engineer. With all the gadgets on a modern fighting plane, especially. a bomber, .an air fighter must be as good an engineer as he is a pilot, I - 2h Last, but by he. means least, our problem is industrial production. There has been a lot of parade ‘about starting it. We havent: even begun to start. We ‘haven't even begun to appropriate. We haven't | even begun to organize, ° - A start has been made im reviving a proved |

from: the aggressor. In preparing our defense, any dissension in ranks at this time is a form of trea-

"{son which cannot be tolerated.

Our most dangerous fifth column are the men who proclaim their hate of our President as exceeding that of their hate for Hitler—whose loyalfy to their country is negatived by their extreme partisan speech. We may soon have - the opportunity to prove the vitality and superiority of our democracy, and the

4) ” ” 2 DEFENDS ROOSEVELT’S RECORD ON DEFENSE By. William Lemon Two years ago in his Chicago speech President Roosevelt stressed the fact of our unpreparedness in case of a European war. He was criticized by the Economic Royalists ‘as a war inonger, but: today with Hitler on the loose in his cam-

look different. : Gen. Johnson criticizes Roosevelt for our unpreparedness and calls it timid fumbling, but what right has the man of “Blue Eagle” fame to criticize a man who has tried but had Wall Street and capitalism against him? Furthermore the Republicans destroyed our Navy on a 5-5-3 basis in their phony ideal of peace, and now the taxpayers must suffer for a false ‘Republican error, a party made up of misfits and errors, a party for false economy at the price of a Nation's safety, and maybe a future loss of liberty and de-

mocracy.

New Books at the Library

ITH the Old World and its ¥ treasures apparently on the brink of temporary eclipse if not total destruction, it is comforting to be reminded that bits of this Old

World can be found transplanted and firmly rooted in the New, : Willis MN. Bugbee in his book “Drifting ‘Down the St. Lawrence” (Revell) brings to our immediate attention peoples and places which are separated from the United States by nothing more formidable than the imaginury boundary line

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which divides this country from the Dominion of Canada, but which are essentially Old World in atmo-

sphere. : He refers, of course, to those parts of the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec which have retained the habits, appearances, and ways of livirg of their English and Prench ancestors. : As the title of the book indicates, the author and his wife choose to travel the length of the St. Lawrence River from its sourde at Kingston, where Lake Ontario narrows to form the river itself, to the Gaspe Peninsula. Those who have made the trip will recall with nostalgic pleasure such spots as the Richelieu Lake region, St. Anne de Beaupre, Trois Rivieres, Murray Bay, Chicoutimi on the Saguenay

| River, Metis, known as the English

Oasis, and of course such cities as Ottawa on the river of the same name, Montreal, and Quebec.Familiar scenes will also be called to mind by the photographs of the brick outdoor baking ovens, the greal crosses along the highways, the narrow streets of Quebec, the Habitant homes, and the dog-carts. To others, this fountry, not yet seen, will come alive through the author's vivid and enthusiastic descriptions and personal anecdotes interspersed - with folk-lore indigenous to this new country as well as

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HIDDEN GEMS By .ANNA E. YOUNG I wonder if each of us see in a day

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‘inadequacy of 1916—the Council of National Detense— | so far so good, but it is a start with an apparently complete failure to understand what the situation | requires in quantity, cost, speed or money. Shall we, like England, dally along with a bunch of Chamberlains until it is too late for any Churchill to do his stuff? : ™

Business By John T. Flynn

Tendency to Curb Competition Is Greater Peril Than Foreign Isms

ANTEW YORK, June 4.—One suits of Thurman Arnb Various trades have been haled to court and charged with price-fixing practices. is is but one of the forms of trade control found in these unlawful combinations. - But there is another, quite as general and infinitely more injurious to our economic system. In so many of the eso etme between dealers,

phase of the anti-trust id is generally ignored.

or between manufacturers or between producers and labor. unions, there is one device or another designed to keep newcomers out of the |industry. ‘The average businessman is always lamenting the troubles which | arise because there are too many people in his trade. So we find all sorts of :schemes by. which the entry of newcomers is’ made difficult. It is possible for dealers to get together and enforce rules among

For instance, in the a state can blacklist | an unauthorized deal-

ness without their consent. ‘lumber business the dealers i any manufacturer who sells er. This is but one of many. : So Now the gravity of this practice does not arise merely out of the personal injustice done to an-in-dividual who is ambitious to go into business for himself and is thus balked, It arises out of a very much more serious considerations a

Investment Keeps Us BR

Businessmen have come to| understand these last few years that private invest in -the capitalist system. W stops, the whole syséem bogs down. Therefore the attempt of dealers, manufacturers, ‘enterprisers of every kind to set up devices to prevent wther men from starting in business or from expanding their businesses is the most fatal blow that can be struck at the system. : fo i It is the ambitions of countless hundreds of thousands of men every year to open stores, filling stations, restaurants, tailor shops, manufacturing plants of various sorts, new bus lines, new services, that bring back into the svstem hundreds of millions of dollars frozen in savings. Fon i JOf ‘course businessmen are embarrassed, annoyed, sometimes even ruined, by -t much competition. Bute bad as that is, it is not ds bad as ruining the whole society by making it impossible for those new competitors to enter trade. The greatest peril to the present economic system

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the fifth columns and our external enemies—if we have any. It comes from ourselves, from our mistaken efforts to protect our own special industries at the expense of ‘the whole system. : Free enterprise, which everyone now extols : gi highly, means at least one thing—the right of. eve. citizen to-.use his savings to set up in business if wishes. Kill that and you kill this system.

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford | |

IRST thing to do if you are called on to give first . aid to an injured person| is tq make a rapid preliminary survey to see what his injuries are, looking especially for serious bleeding, stoppage of breathing, and -poisoning, which includes gas poisoning. These conditions take precedence, in the order named, Over everything else, demanding immediate treatment, 2 Aaa Next, survey the surroundings rapidly to see how . quickly you can get additional help and whether the patient must be moved. If the patient is in a room filled with gas or in danger of further injury from falling objects in case of an explosion, he needs to.be moved. If there is no immediate danger from the ‘surroundings he should be left where of trafic accidents, in which broken backs and necks are fairly frequent, do not move the patient any more than necessary to straighten his body so he is lying flat. The traffic can be stopped or detoured until you have improvised a stretcher for safely moving the person with an injured back. ~1f a doctor can be brought to the scene quickly, the first aider need not do anything except make: the patient comfortable while awaiting the doctor; unless breathing has stopped, or there is dangerous bleeding,

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or the patient has been poisoned - Tight collars or belts should patient's face is pale, keep his head lowered. If face 1s flushed, raise his head on a folded ‘coat, blanket or other suitable material Do not:

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