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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12,.1940

THEY VOTE TO GO HOME, OTE TO KEEP THEM THERE

ITHIN a few days Congress may be called upon to cast the most important vote of 20 years. That will happen if Administration leaders persist in their effort to force an adjournment. Any Congressman. who does vote to adjourn and go home should be commanded by his constituents to remain at{home. Any elected Representative of the people who is so insensible of his Constitutional obligations that he would voluntarily abandon his post at a time like this is, we believe, unfit for the responsibility of service in Congress. The terrible conflict in Europe goes rapidly from bad to worse. * Any day may bring the need for fateful deci-sions-involving our nation’s peace and security. Borrowed billions have been laid on the line for rearmament. But to turn dollars into weapons in the quantities needed, old industries will have to be invigorated and new ones created, Only Congress can do what is necessary to mobilize idle ca ital and manpower for this supreme task. | Overnight it may become, not a matter for academic ate, but an imperative necessity to order compulsory itary training and conscript men for defense duty. Conss alone has that power and responsibility.

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Our Government has operated in the red through 111

yy ars of apparent peace and security. Confronted now with need for gigantic new defense expenditures, nothing substantial has been done to weed out old wastes, and the only tax proposal yet made won't even balance the nonilitary outgo. Congress is the nation’s fiscal guardian. Yet it is suggested that Congress pack up and go home. It is sugg sted that, if an “emergency” should arise, the President ill summon Congress back to a special session—a pro-. -C dure. which requires several days in a period where there ay be no day to spare. We repeat that any who voted to go home at a e like this ought to be made to stay there—and very probably will be.

GOOD EXAMPLE HE Indianapolis chapter of. the Red Cross announced » yesterday that it had received a $12 donation from two orth Side children who had staged a backyard circus for the relief of the war suffering. The $6. gate receipts. were matched by the children’s grandmother. This is the sort of example we can point to with pride. = children of Indianapolis want to help the children abroad—and they do. So can we. Give what you can to the

ed Cross.

ADDLES AND BRIDLES OLLOWING up our remarks of yesterday—about how talking loudly while carrying a feather duster is-hardly prudent in these tough times—we observe that our socalled first army of 100,000 men will go through maneuvers this summer in northern New York without a single comb t plane, and with only a handful of worn-out tanks. For further comment we yield the floor to Ross Collins . Miss.) who for the last dozen years has probably deted more time and intelligent attention to Army appropriations than any other member of Congress: - “Goodness knows what we can do with World War leftovers ih a war like the one now going on in Europe. The 00,000,000. worth of saddles and bridles that the War epartment had left over are still in our midst and can nly be used in a wild west show or a Ft. Myer society circus not in a modern war. .. | | © “All that could be done with large numbers of mobilized en (at this time) would be to arm a fey of them with ut-of-date rifles. © “The cream of the crop of manpower would be called p and enlisted at the outbreak of the struggle and they ould be the ones who would go into battles equipped the orst. It is an admitted fact that there exists a distinct lack of modern tanks, combat cars, and modern mechanized eapons. “And after the flower of our youth had laid down their

lives and if the war lasted long enough, we might ultimately

get around to equipping our a med forces with something like what a sensible bandit wou d use if he were only going to rob a filling station...” | | “Further, I can’t imagine anything more tragic than nicely trained marching men in front of machine gun fire, much less 60-ton armored tanks, flame-throwing land battleships and diving airpldnes. “China, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium were some of the nations that prepared for war ac-

cording to the obsolete 1914 pla 8.”

HOME OWNERS PAY

A ‘LITTLE better than 22 per cent of the money advanced by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to help people save their homes from fo losure has been paid back. Of a little better than three billions paid out, the corporation has) got ten back about $733,000,000. Only about 70,000 loans have been repaid in full. ‘ What the final balance sheet on this experiment will show, it is too early to tell. | ; : But this interesting an significant postscript was added to the most recent re rt by the government corporation: “The greatest number of loans repaid in full have been

lin the lower brackets.” I 2 |

SAGA OF THE WILLKIES youre Philip Willkie, son of Wendell, should not be ‘blamed too much for flunkjng his history course at Princeton. Afterall, it’s nc cine ‘keeping up with a father who is making history, Sl a

Aorica Firsl

By Maj. Al Williams bi

Helping the Allies Is O. K, but Those Planes Now Going Abroad ~ Are Needed to Train U. S. Pilots

HE Administration is helping ie Allies by selling our reserve airplanes back to: the manufacturers, who will sell them to. Britain and France. Helping the Allies is one thing, and all right..- But. I cannot think of the Allies first and the Uni ol 1 States second. Our reserve air system is one of the weakest links of what should be America’s Sttongest chain—airpower. Our Army and Navy reserve aviation groups have never been -much more thai a pitiful joke.

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‘| Shortage of planes has been the chief deficiency, with

red tape and obsolete flight reinit of reserve pilot personnel close behind. We should have paused pefore saying, “Let’s help the Allies— let’s give them our airplanes. especially our second and third-line planes.” We cannot afford to rob ourselves of a single military or naval airplane at this time. * American airpower is negligible th the point of being non-existent.. We have two air services—one. with the Army, the other with the Na Germany, England, Italy and France rate far| above American strength in the air. Our air gel nse is deplorably weak. ; 2 2 on T= Administration insists -we need thousands (50,000) of warplanes, and apparently refuses to heed the warnings of Army and Nayy air experts and civilian airmen that we must train pilots to fly those planes. The mass production capacity | of American industry to build aircraft is unsurpassed—provided we work according to sound plan. But where, and how, and with what shall we turn out pilots overnight or anywhere near as fast as we build “planes? Pilot training takes time—TIME. Don’t be misled by the recent estimate of the Civil Aeronautics Authority that it: can turn out 45, 000 pilots in a year. It may train 45,000 pilots to fly little commercial

planes (40 to 250-horsepower jobs) in a given time.

But modern first-line warplanes never use less than 1000-horsepower engines and have landing speeds of 60 or more miles an- hour. What are you going fo train | your small plane pilot in, after he gets his license to fly the little job? His air education must progress by stages. “He cannot jump from a 75-horsepowes Je to handling a 1000- horsepower airplane. ; 2-8:

E need every high-powered plane we now have, and thousands more, to train our young air fighters to handle real fighting ships—when and if we ever get them. If we had 50,000 superlative fighting planes or our airports today, we would be the laughing stock of the world—because those planes would be obsolete before we could train enough pilots to handle them. We would have to build about 15,000. advanced training planes to cover the educational gap between the small commercial planes and the first-line fighters. Every military plane—old or new—is worth its weight in gold to us right now as an advanced trainer. I Jear neither the people nor the Government will heed “this warning, any more than either heeded my warning of two years ago about what airpower would do in this war. What will happen this time will be terrible, because it will happen to us. .

(Westbrook Pegler did not write a column for today.) .

Inside Indianapolis The 'Merit' System, Farmers, Our New

Citizens and About the Technocrats.

T turns out that. the list. of merit-frained playground workers: announced by the Park Board wasn’t the full and complete list’ of summer work= ers. A little birdie has just told us of several playground workers being appointed on the say-so of precinct committeemen. These-names were not on the official list, but they're going to get paid just the same. i # 8 = Ge } THERE IS A POSSIBILITY that the Police Department may eliminate the word “farmer” from the official vocabulary. It seems that Safety Board President Leroy J. Keach was cruising around the Circle pondering the problems of safety and related /subjects when he was startled by a- shout. A policeman was waving at him and shouting: “All. right; farmer, all right. Keep moving!”

” 2 # IN PREPARATION FOR the semi-annual naturalization ceremonies before Federal Judge Baltzell tomorrow and Friday, posters have been placed in the Naturalization office picturing the American flag ahd bearing the words: “Gee, it’s great to be an American.” W. A. Kiefer, assistant district director of naturalization, explains the signs this way: “The first sign an immigrant is being naturalized: iss when he begins to use slang.” The second, he added, was an’ interest in baseball. 2 8 8 .A DETECTIVE-SERGEANT went to a meeting of Technocracy, Inc, one night last month at the invitation of its officers who wanted to be investigated. - The D-S mdde out a two-page single-spaced report which is super-confidential, seronding. to the Safety Board. ‘Anyway, the report said the meeting was at-

tended by “intelligent and nicely dressed people who" -looked like school teachers, engineers, ete.”

Among other things some were dressed ‘in. gray, doublebreested suits with gray chirts and solid blue ties. These suits, said the D-S, were purchased for $22 and couldn’t be duplicated for $60. The report says the movement promises Technocracy by 1942. - Everybody will live in houses made

of steel and glass (easier to keep clean) and autos:

will speed along four-lane super highways at 115 per in “perfect safety.” The detective wasn’t clear on how the group stood on the subjegt of private property, but apparently there is to be communal education from infancy to 25; after that everybody works four days 'a week. until 40, when ‘everybody retires to a‘ life of ease, featured by longevity. The Safety Board says it Just can’t release the fesost.

| A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

AKING us by, and large, we women have piled up a pretty silly record since we® seized the reins” of power,” proclaims a public commentator on current feminine affairs. Thai's a good one! What reins of power have we seized? Where does our political or economic authority lie?

about’ a thimbleful. Our main “rein of power,” so

far, is the franchise, and it’s proving a weak one. .

The machinery of politics remains where it has al-

‘ways been— in the hands of ‘men. of dollars in a million loans |

. Since women have had the vote the masculine hold has tightened on that machinery. You can count on the fingers of two hands the members of otir sex who hold positions of real authority in state or national government, and upon the fingers of one those who have any voice in the making of international policies. It is true that a woman is occasionally named: to serve on some important committee; that’s largely to brighten up the scenery and fool us into believing She Seminine voice will be listened to. How seldom And where women have the “reins of power” let’s not forget that legislators in nearly two-thirds of the states have introduced bills forbidding wives to work at certain jobs—notably teaching and statecraft. Very little is heard about the same wage scale for both sexes. To my notion, the most dangerous aspect of our time lies in the fact that men steadfastly refuse to consider women as citizens. They think of us only as wives, sweethearts, dependents or competitors. Yet how *can the United States reach her high destiny until the sexes learn to. co-operate, and: Join |

+ forces for the common good?

‘for some years.

How much equality do we have? . Just |.

"THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | Little Caesar!

- WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1946 |

The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what yon say, but will’ defend to the death your right to say it.—VYoltaire. i |

PROTESTS OUR EDITORIAL

‘PLEA FOR REALISM’

By Donald A. McGavran

I have been a reader of The Times I protest your “Plea for Realism.”. That kind of editoriat is the most dangerous and treacherous kind. of talk that the United States today Knows. It is dangerous because it isn’t plausible. It is treacherous because it is exactly what Hitler wants the democracies to do. It- is his purpose to. isolate the democracies and. then to kill them off one by. one. Please note: Czechoslovakia, .Poland, . Denmark, Holland, Norway, Belgium and within a month it will be France and the danger is within two months it will be England also. Then, Mr. . Editor, Iceland = and Greenland will be seized, the British and -French West Indies will be seized and shall we be iii position to protest then? : I am a veteran of the great war, I am a citizen of Indiana. I am a Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University. I do not want to fight

fon American soil’ against hopeless|

odds. I prefer to fight on French sail while the French Army and the British Navy and Briiish Army are still intact. Your position might have been tenable a year ago. It is absolutely untenable today. 2 2 8 CLAIMS TIME LIMIT IGNORED BY PARKERS

By Arthur S. Mellinger The police are king. 3 ‘a drastic

town.. I would like to know why they don’t start. at the curb and enforce that other ordinance on time ‘limit. If all the “Big Shots” can park as long as they want to, then where is.one to find a place to park while he does his errands? If there were parking meters then anyone whose time ‘is worth anything would be glad.to give 5 cents for 15 minutes. If we are going to have rules to go by then let everyone have the

effort to stop double parking down- |

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

same right. I think the police have started out. in the street too far

with their spasmodic law enforce-

ment. ” ” 8

THINKS CIVILIZATION i IS GOING BACKWARDS | By Chas. A, Hubbard, Martinsville

If Hitler “gets us,” Government bonds. will be the .first thing to become worthless. The owners of these bonds pay nothing to support an Army and Navy to defend the Government, and preserve the value of their own property. In. the feudal days of. England, the Barons (land owners) sent the young farm boys, fully equipped, to fight for the King. When the war

-was over, the farm boys who re-

turned were no worse off financially than before. Today our Government sells nontaxable bonds to pay for arms and ammunitions. Our young men fight

las before. Those who return must| ‘join a “Chain Gang” for the rest

of their lives to pay. for the war

+} fought to .preserve the value of

Government bonds and other property. Does this make sense? Have we not gone backward? Hitler Kills and robs the. Jews; our war mongers propose to kill our young soldiers, and confiscate the earnings of any survivors ‘to pay for’ the murder of their own comrades. Does this make sense? Are we any better than Hitler?" War mongers wan' more. billions of non-taxable bonds for war—every dollar so spent reduces the American standard of living. War mongers

propose to tax. American business

and send the proceeds to :Francé

and England. We fought the Amer-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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ican Revolution to avoid such taxes. Why should we repudiate the action of the “Founding Fathers’? Because Europe is war drunk is no reason why America Should g0 on a “jag. ” AE : : CLAIMS OLD ARGUMENTS USED AGAINST ALLIES. :: By Mrs. G. B. Adams, Brookville

To Mr. Albert Kunz. Yes, all the arguments are old; even yours. We heard the same cry against the Allies in 1914-1918: they are greedy “world-wide investors” who are interested solely in money,. etc. We heard it from a few honest Americans and from a flock of pro-Ger-mans, just as we are hearing: it now. No man is perfect, no people is perfect, no nation is perfect; but it. would take a pro-Nazi, a potential Quisling, to prefer the German way of life ta the English, knowing both, as Mr. Kunz seems to think he does. Yes . . . . “only the last time it was the Kaiser instead of Hitler;” the German people are still gullible geese (if one wishes to be sweet) or “a horde ‘of cutthroats,” “barbarians,” (if one wishes to be slightly more realistic). Periodically they prove themselves. If is naive to assume that Hitler is driving his unwilling subjects into this savage war to rule, first Europe, then the world. My name is neither Churchill nor Kunz. I am an American and am only pro-English when I am faced with the alternative of being proNazi, “I demand (and itis no more than every honest American citizen should demand) that every individual who has a place in a large corporation and who is urging us to help the Allies state in black and white his investments in the British Empire .* Agreed! And further; let all ‘the "Albert Kunzes -state. in black and . white where their allegiance lies, and why. Then we shall better be able to judge the sincerity of their “special pleading. ”» : » # 5 » CLAIMS: CAPITALISM CORRUPTS POLITICS

By "R. Sprunger

This is the time to debate the case of socialism against the decay-: ing capitalistic system. - Capitalism has corrupted politics, hence the political “blunders” com-

.pounded-to hide the truth and keep

the. people confused so that capi-: talism may stay in power- a while longer. : Some time ago: Voice n the Crowd told us capitalism was humane and now he tells us it is & vicious system while at the same time he attempts to defend it. The feat of a contortionist in economics is on display. Capitalism contains within itself the elements that will bring about its own dissolution. . ——————— SONG AT SUNRISE Sing me a song at sunrise ’ When the world is half asleep, A quaint old song at sunrise ‘When hearts their vigil: keep.

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; Sing me a song at Santis

And love will be its theme, A true blue song at sunrise To weave into my dream.

‘Sweet memories come at sunrise Like roses in the rain,

‘For long ago at sunrise

I thrilled to your refrain.

DAILY THOUGHT

The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him, “and all he upright in heart shall - glory ~—Psglms 64:1 64:10.

LET A MAN try faithfully, man?

‘ment, labor and industries pulling together in 2 Patil

'| Questio

‘| of ; any organic . disease of the brain. But, they .ac

T= Pa OI - tully to be right, Tent are 4

Gen. Johnson

Sayer

With F. D. R. Playing Lone: Haed, "Congress. Will Shirk ‘Its Duty if

ny Fails to Remain in} Session

ASHINGTON, Junie 12.—The House has passed the amendments to the Labor Act ‘and’ ‘the Logazi-Walter Bill by thumping majorities. Many serious defense measures remain unfinished. The Hatch Bill has majority support if only" it could ‘bp voted upon. ‘But the. President wants the Congress to leave all this in the air .and go home. : _.- 7 We are not at war. This country doesn't win

any one-man dictator government until it becommed

necessary. It is not recessary now: The. Sout ‘wants to know what is going on. .euchered’ into war and, while it ; 9 the President intends because he has ori intent, it does know what. Congress is about. and ths it can have some effect on the outcome: by stat! its own. opinions—unless Congress abdicates its wa function, deserts its war duty and goes home when every vital interest of the nation demands" Li fk Congress stay at its post and do that suv 5:

“= 38 # 8 5 oF ib “' HE legislative program is being stymied in hh Senate and it is being stymied at: the- suggestion

of the President. These necessary demogzatic. meass

ures have popular support and, therefore, they woul ‘be passed by Congress, if the will of one man were

not set against the popular demand and. the Congressional majorities. That is not democracy. It is the reverse and betrayal of democracy. The Hatch Bill is needed. before this election bes cause its purpose is to ‘prevent a purchase of the election by the use of public meney appropriated for the sacred purposes, among others, of national de= fenise. and relief of human suffering. How can the country stand for seeing this protection straight= armed to sleep—by one-man control? Our defensa problem is, in this stage, altogether a problem of industrial production and prevention of industrial sabotage. Our greatest necessity is to get Govern

otic enthusiasm, >

y #2 “E President’s recent by-passing of - the Cons gressional war power by committing an act of war at international law by furnishing’ Belligefents U. S. Army and Navy arms and-munitions, when the

same subject was under -Congressional consideration? indicates that he wants: to do the whole job himself by some means of escaping the constitutional man date that he do it in co-operation with Congress. 3 Those counselors are in error who say ‘that thi country west of the Alleghenies is already complacent or resigned to the idea of our getting into th fight in Europe. I have just been out there. I id find ho such sentiment, but only an angry and sentful denial of it. . cy Everybody, everywhere, is determined on de i They will ‘support every move in that girecfion—neg matter at what cost or sacrifice; But nobody thap : could find believes that it does anything but wea our already wholly inadequate defense" to' send the few futile weapons: that we have 3000 miles away,

Business | By John T. Flynn Lal

‘War Orders Offset Loss? Rogelan. ~ Trade and” Have: Checked Slump:

EW YORK, June 12 21 is difficult: to find reliable figures as to the possible rise of whaf everyon has been looking forthe war boom; Aside fro: naval building and equipment, the chief customers for} war materials in. America have been the Allied Em pires. Such figures as are available would seem to indid cate that the Allies have ordered about a billion “dol=’ lars in planes, and .about a billion. dollars in- sthert things—chiefly raw materials. That is a great deal of money. And it. would have a profound effect upon our economic life if it con stituted a downright addition: to our fereign trades But it does not, because we have suffered great losses: in foreign trade in other quarters and other industries’ because of blockades, embargoes, changes of national control. Futhermore, all, of this business has not b any means made itself visible in factories. vel, A good deal of it is still orders. But it does constitute an important | general scheme of things, not in produei¥ 1g the ex pected war boom but in preventing a’ severe slump In other words, if; we had lost.the. trade. of Foormany, Holland, Belgium, Scandinavia and now Italy and other countries, without ‘the compensating effect of these war orders, we would be in a bad way on for} eign trade. As it is, we have had an ‘actual increase in exports thus far—not, as great an increase as if this war busi; ness were added fo normal business, yet perhaps 50; per cent more than in the same time last year.

Further Expansion Possible

It is not easy to gay yet mE the incense will be in the next: six months. Beyohdfa orders ale’ ready placed and orders materializing now for planes will expand that business: Whether & ‘expansio: will care for American needs or most foreign needs will make no difference . 50 far as the. expansion concerned. One type of war business. whith: has not assum boom proportions is in shells, bombs, powder—outrigh munitions. There are several reasons. .One important one is: that the missions of France and England doin the buying here have been proceeding with great Caley

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‘tion not to rush a boom and make themselves th

victims of a runaway price structure. The capacity of American plants and the bottle 3 necks are being watched closely. and orders are being placed scientifically. - However, there has been heav, and hurried buying in raw materials such as copper, lumber, leather and chemicals, and that buying i already expressed itself in: the prices. Thus we see that, while war business has added top our total, and and. saved us from a slump because of loss? of trade in war zones, it has not yet produced: th

oor, It is, however, on the upgrade aw... 3

Watching Your Heal \ By Jane Stafford

AV eminent psychiatrist to whom Tx "as. “talk the other day pulled out of his pocket a.sma glass prism. He was taking i home, he ‘told me as a souvenir to his 7-year-old son. Holding it u vo light to examine it, the boy would see rain

new Pete in. the world he liyes in. . ; Next time the psychiatrist returns from a journey

‘he will take the boy another souvenir—not a’ pris

but | perhaps a curiously colored’ stone or. rec ‘his father or his te:

in the stone—How did it get colored? Is it

he will begin to learn about the formation of th

earth he lives on. These measures and any ers that ingenou parents and’ teachers can devise for: Anterestin children in the world they live in constitute. a 8 of vaccination against the ills of the mind: | = Thousands of persons today are dragging out

| wretched existence in hospitals for the mentally. si they have lost touch with the; world. off

because ty. These particular people, who make up pa hat we call the insane, are not suffering ‘fr

strangely. ‘and talk "strangely, if they talk at’: They see. visions and hear voices that do: not: exist) They fail to see, or to. see clearly, he real hing in the world ground them. ; One way to prevent such tragadies, otis, the psych Atria; who is

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