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TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1940

A PLEA FOR REALISM Ce] ULL-PAGE newspaper advertisements ib in

many cities yesterday blazoned the line “Stop Hitler

Now.” They were signed by the “Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies,” president of which is William Allen White of Emporia, Kas., great editor and great citizen. | The appeal, like the prohibition experiment, was “noble mittee, for whose personnel and high purpose we have th greatest respect, might better be called the “Committee| America Into the War by the Back Door.” . | Some ‘Americans with every right to an opinion honestly believe that we should now be in the war in Europe. This is not to debate that point. It is rather aj plea for realism instead of emotion, and for nani of, the fact that all the armed democracies of Europe combined have not been able to stop Hitler's mechanized military might even with equipment’ 10 years ahead of. anything we possess in quantity. “Stop Hitler Now”—what with? Our bare hands and the bared breasts of our youth? » on 2 = =

Though the fact is not yet generally realized, Hitler has

already determined the broad lines of our national life for

at least another generation. Even with an ocean intervening, European totalitarianism has made obsolete our American way of life, temporarily at least; permanently unless we modernize our thinking and our national planning. Our country at present is not as Mr. White's committee states “still the most pqwerful nation on earth.” To continue to think in terms which ignore the realities is to

invite the disaste r which has befallen European democracy.

Werdo not hares; but we respect the right of opinion of those who believe that we should be fighting with the European democracies today. Time may alter the situation, but today it seems inescapable that the surest way to help our irionas in the European democracies is first to demonstrate to the dictators that we can help ourselves. Our present job|is production for war, not participation in it. We must Rather meddle nor muddle. Safety for, and service to democracy, like charity must begin at home. Mobilization of our national resources, our genius for mass production and our manpower, to insure a safe haven for democracy in America, will be the surest means of Bie

anteeing its ultimate revival in Europe.

8 88 8 x 8 Our immediate task is to show that our democracy can profit by the mistakes of others, and that the fire of liberty will be kept burning here. Our job today is not to stop Hitler. Our job is to stark thinking. Thinking in terms of service to our country rather than service from it. Thinking in

terms of defense and self-protection rather than of comfort

and personal privilege; thinking in terms of increased pro-

duction rather than decreased working hours; thinking in

" terms of the sacrifice that democracy is worth in dollars of

. eversmust go in, we will be prepared to finish ‘it.

capital and man-hours of labor; thinking of two related sentences in Premier Reynaud’s remarkable interview with William Philip Simms in which he said: “In recent years especially, France has tended to speed social advances to the neglect of her national defenses.” And, “the spirit which

‘makes a people seek social progress in times of peace, also

makes crusaders of them and their soldiers in times like these.”

Let's have a truce on bluff and bluster. Let's avoid.

‘being edged, via the back door, into any fight until, if we

ie 3 s = 2 | And the foregoing expresses our sentiments about the - ‘belligerent tone that characterized the President, s address last night at Charlottesville, Va. =~ This is no time to speak loudly while carrying a feather duster,

CLOSING THE GAP HE last territory of the United States which was with"out regular scheduled airline communication is now ' bound by that link. It was Alaska, and a Seattlé-Juneau line has now been authorized under Pacific-Alaska Airways, a subsidiary of Pan. American Airways., Some 20 trial flights have already been completed, and regular service should begin soon. This is a definite gain, not only confmercially, but for . national defense. It is likely that many people would have © gone to Alaska in the past who were prevented by the long time required by the journey. Such a scheduled airway

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shipment of important commercial goods, and in general a closer link binding the territory to the parent country. | - Both Alaska and the United States should profit by this line, and all may feel more secure with the forging “of every dink that makes the American continents a unity.

| —ABOUT ‘MY OPERATION! | CIENCE is wonderful. It is also just,a little disconcerting at times. Latest scientific achievements is to take color photographs of those parts of a person’s innards which have . gotten out of kilter. They just drop a tube down your throat and shoot—it’s all done with mirrors. No privacy any mare, not even in the depths of the gizzard. | But that isn ’t the worst. Color movies are next. And then the person ‘who today insists on telling" you “all about my. operation” will be able to pinion you in a chair in his living room and ‘show both disease and operation in full

Come now, spience, is nothing sacred?

| TRIPLE EXPOSURE 5] CALLING that the Fuehrer has more stand-ins than ‘a movie star, we wonder if this is Hitler at the front we see on the picture pages, or merely one of his five or six ‘reasonably accurate facsimiles. Tod

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By Westbrook Pegler

Heavy Withdrawals Expected If Guild Fails to Purge ely - Leaders at Convention in July

EW YORK, June 11 ~The American members of the Newspaper Guild, as distinguished from the Communists and fellow-travelers who now control’ the organization, are organizing for a scrap at the convention in Memphis in July. They hope to capture the key positions and control ef the policies, and thus break off the unwritten but very effective relationship between the Guild and the ‘Communist Party. The - Communists deny they control | thie Guild; and deny that they are Communists, but they do: and they are, and that is all there is to that. If the influence that established the Moscow relationship emerges from the convention still in control a mass withdrawal of ‘the American element probably will occur.

The Communist control, centered in ‘New York, |‘

is exercised hy conspirators who either never have been newspapermen and women in the common un- | derstanding of the terms or who were mediocrities and became embittered by their own failure. . .: Fd 8 ”- HE most spectacular villains of the publishing business are loyal friends of the American rank and tile by comparison with ‘the Communists in control of the Guild, which began with five purposes, but went haywire almost immediately. It hds made some.material gains for +a few employees, but most of these gains the employers in question yielded voluntarily. The leadership, however, has made a pretense of furious struggie on behalf of these few beneficiaries, provoking quarrels with the owners in order to make it appear that they are fighting heroically for the rank and file. + The hidden possibilities of the Guild have revealed themselves in the actions and omissions of the controlling group. The American newspapermen and women naturally thought that this was to be a union of newspaper people only, meaning regular employees of the standard American daily newspapers. However, any cell of the Communist Party can bring out a little weekly, in a foreign language if they prefer, with a circulation of a few hundred copies. The publication office may consist only of a name on the door, and there may be no physical properties: whatever, neither presses nor a typewriter. Nevertheless such a sham publication may certify seven members and the vote of these seven will be equal to the votes of 25 American employees in the newspaper business in Des Moines or St. Joe. ” ” ”

HE Communists have tried in many ways to destroy the American daily press. One of their demands would forbid a publisher to let out Guild members for reasons of economy. This would mean that a losing paper would have to go deeper and deeper into debt with no chance to recover. Bankruptcy and the death of the paper with consequent

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loss of jobs to all concerned is the Communist objective. The Communist control favors Communist or party-line publications by waiving the conditions of wages, hours and non-discrimination which are angrily insisted upon in dealings with the American publishers. The only hope of the Americans is to destroy the Communist control or quit the Guild in such numbers that it will lose even a pretense of representa- J tive character.

Inside Indianapolis McNutt for Governor, Signs, Tanks,

And About the Marvel of Politics.

“HERE maye be a good deal more to the Paul 1 McNutt-for-Governor gossip .than most of us realize. The income tax weapon and Europe’s war have hurt McNutt’s chances in the national picture very - badly.. As we pointed out. last week, Pauls statement about a third term could easily be interpreted as a bid for the Vice-Presidency. Now it appears that Paul and F. D. R. are going to sit down for a heart-to-heart talk Some day this week. If F. D. R. doesn’t want Paul for VicePresident or for a Cabinet. spot, then there are chances that the McNutt forces will take over the Governorship—probably on the theory that he who fights and runs away will live to fight another day. Specifically, another day in 1944.

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PRINTED IN LARGE, gaudy letters on the window of a downtown furniture store is this: “We have lost money every year under the New Deal. y “Too many taxes. % “Too mahy chain stores. “Too much unemployment. “Too much Santa Claus. “Too much money buried under the ground. “We are quitting!”

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YOU HEAR AND READ a lot about how badly folks drive and about how little ' courtesy drivers show each other. Well, yesterday morning a chap was stuck in a N. Meridian St. driveway near 34th St., while cars kept streaming past. All except one. Thé (driver noticed the car in the driveway. calmly drew to a stop and waved the other’ fellow on.

and Capitol just in time to see another driver halt and wave to two pedestrians, who were caught in traffic, to pass in front of his car. It’s the sort of thing that makes days like these a little brighter.

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THOSE TWO SMALL TANKS in the lot near the Broad Ripple Legion building are attracting a good deal of attention these days was cruising around the Circle the other morning booming instructions to pedestrians and motorists. . . . Two ladies started to cross from the outside to the Monument. . . . “Look both ways, ladies!” boomed the Voice. . . . He probably forgot that on the Circle you don’t look both ways. . . . Cars come from only one direction. . Saturday morning Reps. Larrabee and Ludlow “never heard” of Progecutor. David Lewis. . . , Twenty-four hours later they indorsed him for ‘Governor. Politics is wonderful, isn't it? A

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LOOD and death! Death and blood! The evil tale goes on. Out of the tragedy enacted: before our horror-struck eyes swim the faces of women—old faeces, middle aged faces and faces young and rosy as the dawn. It is the young faces which haunt us most. Old women have lived their lives; middle aged mothers have had their husbands and sons for a few years. But in Europe, within less than one month, millions of girls have lost their future husbands. Probably ‘the girls themselves do not realize the fact. But some of the tears that fall from old eyes are shed because not only men but dreams are dead— irrevocably dead. The bereft maidens will have children perhaps, by fitful loves. We can “be perfectly sure many will be illegitimate, for war looses a shocking state of morals as its sinister aftermath, But only a few can count upon a normal, happy future, which includes the sweet, love-wrapped home life which means heaven on earth to most women. Greedy men, unrighteous diplomats, tricky politicians bring many disasters upon us, but no one suffers more from their machinations than girls whose sweethearts and young husbands are ordered out to die Aapon some battlefield.

Blessed are the dead in a world like this! Thé

soldier escapes, soul blasted from body, by our devilish |

instruments of - war; ‘but the soldier’s mother, wife,

daughter or sweetheart lives on. if she is outside the |

bombing areas. Her job is to pick. up the pieces after the destruction is‘done, to rebuild the ruined homes

THINKS NATURAL ENEMY By Mrs. Johnson

resources side of the ocean in case we should be attacked. If we send them over there we tack and selves with.

land. Allies, to|foot the bills, give our resources while shi to weaken our nation, then give us

depleted That's ‘why we must be prepared.

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

DOUBTS SHORTAGE OF SKILLED MECHANICS By Doubtful : In the past few weeks columnists and other writers seem to have developed a mania to tell the world the U. S. is short of first-class machinists. That is erroneous, there

|is no acute shortage.

I am considered a first-class man

with more than 20 years’ experience

in a diversified line of work and qualified [in every respect. At the shop where I am at present .em-

ployed, due to dullness in trade, I only get part time. have written to numerous shops giving my qualifications and asking for work, some have answered my application are not hiring anyone at present,” others completely ignore my letter.

Recently I

with the stock phrase, “we

To me, this shortage scare just

doesn’t make sense.

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I agr with Lindbergh. We

should have a big air fleet, an adequate Navy and Army. Americans will agree to that. it should ready to We should keep our fingers out of foreign messes. we keep

All real But stay in our own country, defend us and our country.

Only that way can our peace: We should also keep our money, and manpower on. this

lay ourselves open for atnothing to defend our-

I think| our natural enemy is EngShe wants us to join the

nd supply our manpower “holds hers in reserve,”

the grand ha! ha! like she did 20

years ago.

Then while we- again struggle to

bring our country to par she'll strike ina she knows we are

and can’t strike back.

Germany has her hands full to

keep up| with the countries she is fighting (over there. take us And if it were true that she has a

She couldn’t on also. We are safe there.

new weapon and could cross over

here to fight, why invite an attack,

for if we join in the fight against

‘no cause for war.

{ONLY SUITABLE as

|the class that expects labor to do

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

her could you blame them then for fighting back? I am for America only! I want peace for America. Let those foreign countries 'fight their own bat-| tles. , Whichever one loses or whichever one wins, it’s none of our business. It’s too bad and my heart bleeds for the poor down-trodden people that have to suffer, that is the common people of England, France, Russia, Germany and any of those. countries over there and hope I won’t have to be sorry for those over here again. It would be far worse than it was 20 years ago. I agree with Lindbergh. We have|

Also I do not favor a third term. 2 8 =» SEES ROOSEVELT AS

By Wm. ‘Lemen

~The class that condemned President Roosevelt as a war monger is

the actual fighting in case of a war and fights labor in times of peace, and condemns all other Government agencies that try to eliminate poverty. As for a third term he is all the Democrats have and all the Republicans have is a few obsolete blanks and as far as dictatorship is concerned that is only another Repub-

1 lican cornfield like the old ancient full dinner pail and a chicken in every pot propaganda. Now that Hitler's success is gels ting too close to be comfortable and we are caught as usual unprepared, maybe they will remember a passage in the Bible, “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.” Every candidate from the village squire to the highest office says he or she are for reduced taxes to secure votes, but that old ‘alibi is shopworn with the average voter. It will take money to protect qur “Life,” Liberty and Happiness,” or else goosestep to a Hitler tune and the only knawn method to secure ‘that money is through taxation and the only course left to maintain our liberty is by being the best: armed and equipped nation in this bloodthirsty world. ” » ” CLAIMS STREET BADLY

IN NEED OF OIL By Mrs. Eva Carter . I live at the eorner of McCarly and Chase St., have lived here six years. These streets are unpaved and full of holes and dust is so heavy, it is unbearable for us to sit on our front porches as there are big ‘trucks coming and going to a veneer mill which is on the opposite side of ‘street from my home, How about the Board of, Works oiling these streets? I am a taxpayer. Mrs. Mae Leaman is right about the north and south part of city. This is McCarty and Chase St. » 2® 2 JUST A CASE OF HELPING THEMSELVES! By Frank Lee

America, with a filling station on every corner, has its attractions as

lican scarecrow planted in a Repub-

the scene of a mechanized invasion.

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PAGEANT OF JUNE By MARY P. DENNY

There is a pageant of June Shining bright at noon. Of gold and purple spun In glory of the summer sun. Soft webs of violet and rose And tapestries of flowering moss All to the June day unclose. Long wreaths of daisies bright All wrought in shining light. Color of cardinal and thrush Flashing fr blackberry brush All shaged snd lights of June Blend one pageant at noon. All summer life in tune.

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for ye know not when the Master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or in the morning,—M —Mark 13:35.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Indirect Sale of Surplus Material To Allies Is an Act of War and Short Circuits Power of Congress.

ASHINGTON, June 11.—The impression is; being given that the sale of airplanes, cannon and small arms to the Allies is, as Senator Pittman called it, “perfectly legal.” Since the Hague convention of 11907, the U. S. Neutrality Act, 1918, and the British Foreign Enlistment Act, 1870, it is illegal for a nation not at war to “furnish” any belligerent with “troops, ships, munitions of war, money or with commodities of direct or indirect use in war.” A private individual

can do it at his own risk. So we “sell” them to an individual—or do we? Press reports have said that the Attorney General’ office has approved this as legal at international law. What the Solicitor General really said was that it w. lawful to sell surplus war materials to an individua or corporation, He couldn't have honestly said tha it is lawful for our Government to “furnish” its mili tary equipment to a belligerent. ” ” »

HAT is this “clever little scheme.” It is, ex plains Senator Pittman, like trading in an ol automobile to a manufacturer for credit on some fu ture purchase of a new one. Then, says Senato Pittman, “we don’t know what the manufacturers wil do with the stuff we trade in and it’s hone of our business.” What do you think of that for frankness and hone esty by a mouthpiece of our great and honorable Government? We know exactly what the “manufacturers” will do with the stuff. e procured them to do it, made it our business, and are party to the deal. In' other words, the statement is false and this action is’ a subterfuge to conceal something which under our own law and international law is an act of war, Congress has under advisement the sale of this material in this way. A committee of the Senate overwhelmingly rejected it as a violation of international law and an act of war. It is the duty of Congress alone. to authorize war. This is no action “short of war.” It is war. In defiance of Congress and the Con= stitution, the President by a slick| trick has. circum vented the war-making powers and arrogated a right to commit this country to an act of Jose n ” ”

T will be interesting to see what will happen to the Senator’s automobile “trade-in” theory |when it comes to shipping our “surplus” 75 mm. canhon. We did not buy them from .any American company. We bought them from France. Is France now going to furnish us any “trade-in” cannons? They| are not surplus in any true sense. They are the only reserve artillery we have. Gen. Marshall testified that, instead of getting the new 101 mm. guns: we need, our ‘general staff had decided to recondition these old 75's because the new guns would cost too much and take too long to get. Much the same thing is/true of our reserve supply or rifles. We will get new semi-automatic rifles only two years hence and then only for a fraction of the force we should need in war. We are not making any other shoulder rifles. What we' are getting ready to send abroad is a necessity for home defense, If it is the will of this country to commit this act of war, let’s do it. But let's do it without any small cheating and let's do it as the Constitution intends, as an act of the direct representatives of the American people, who alone are charged with this responsibility.

Business By John T. Flynn

Rivals, As Well As Government, Harmed by Wealthy Tax Evader

EW YORK, ‘June 11.—It is hard to discover whether Mr. Moe L. Annenberg is being more pitied, condemned or admired beeause a Federal court has forced him to pay $9,000,000 in income taxes and penalties. ; . Having evaded his income taxes to such enormous amounts, he now pays them plus the penalties—and. |

virtuously submits that he has done enough, and shouid not be punished further. In other words he has done what almost all honest citizens do in the first place—paid the tax he owes—and this he feels is quite enough. + There4s a phase of this matter of Income tax ene forcement which business men are apt to overlook. There is not the slightest doubt that taxes, however they are imposed, are a burden on business. But the Government must be supported and the income tax is the wisest method that has yet been devised for this purpose. While it is a burden on business enterprise, the fact remains that the burden falls equally upon all. As long as every business man must pay. on the same basis there can be no complaint. But if the Government imposes a heavy tax on one man and a very slight one on his competitor it will not be long before the latter will have all of his rival's business. When, therefore, a business man defrauds the Government of the taxes due, he does not merely. « commit an offense against the Government but he commits a grevious injustice against those businesse men who have to compete with him and who honestly pay their taxes.

Jail Sentences the Cure

In the case of Moe Annenberg, those who come peted with him—not merely in his illegal enterprises: in the horse-race information field, but in every other,’ including the magazine and newspaper field—felt the pressure of his ruthless competition. The man who held a million dollars a year out of his taxes could well afford to [spend that million or a large part of it to cripple his competitor and put him out of business. This is one of the reasons why income taxes upon business should be collected with scrupulous severity. from reluctant taxpayers. Not to do so is to .co= operate with the tax evader in making wan upon his competitors who play the role of good citizens. There is no point in merely tagging the evader when he is found out, forcing him | to pay with interest and penalties after he has had the use of the money for half a dozen years. Many a taxpayer will take a chance on this basis. Nothingiwill put an end to this practice so swiftly as the kind of punishment which the tax evader is most fearful of—a jail sentence. If the Government were the only one involved, it might elect to be lenient. But too many people are injured by this sort of thing in business. If is a prace tice- which ought not to be tolerated for an instant.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford -

ou may save the life of someone in your familyif you make your home fall-proof. More people lose their lives through falls than through any other accident except those involving automobiles, the U. S,

| Census Bureau human bookkeeping figures show.

‘The books have just been closed on the 1938 accie dent figures—it takes a long time for all the reports from states and cities to reach the Bureau in Washington and there to be tabulated and analyzed—and the audit shows that 25454 persons lost their lives through falls in that year. This is more than one fourth the total number of accidental deaths. In - four big states, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and, ‘Massachusetts; deaths from falls even exceeded auto. mobile deaths in 1938. Older persons are more ‘likely to be killed by falls. than younger ones. The greatest number of fall fatalities in 1938 were in the age group 80 to 84 years, ne years 5 to 29 were the safest from deaths: through

Ln fatal falls occurred in the home. This presents a challenge to the housewife and to the man of the house, too, to make their home fall-proof. Small rugs on slippery floors are danger spots. Non-skid pads for rugs eliniinate this danger. Torn places in or stair cqrpets, loose stair treads and loose boards in. floors’ or stairs are other hazards which should be removed. Cords from lamps and electric ‘appliances should

-| be ‘run around the sides of rooms and tacked down

will not trip someone into a bad fall,

| BE sTILL PREPARED for death; d death all thereby b