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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1940

WHO'S HOLDING WHOM? |

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PUT on the spot pefore the Senate Finance Committee, = Secretary Morgénthau admitted that this is a very good time to undertake a complete revision of the Federal tax structure. Moreover, he said, his Treasury Department tax experts are prepared to start work. with Congress at

once.

Well, then, who's holding whom? Congressmen are hired by the year. And so are the

‘Treasury experts.

We repeat: Any Senator or Representative who votes to adjourn and go home at a time like this’should be told by his constituents to stay home.

BROPHECY?

Fenced by your careful fathers, ringed by your leaden seas, Long did ye wake in quiet and long lie down at your ease. . . But ye say, “It will mar our comfort.” Ye say, “will minish

our trade.”

Do ye wait for the spattered shrapnel ere ye learn how a

gun 1s laid?

For the low, red glare to the southward when the raided

coast towns burn?

(Light ye shall have on that lesson, but little time to learn.)

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~ This was not written five years ago, or five months - ago, but in 1902, by an Englishman who more than any

other typified England.

i The Empire honored him, but did not listen to him, and his words were embalmed in anthologies. It may be too late for England to listen to the voice of Rudyard Kipling. But it should not be too late for us.

TNT—THE MONROE DOCTRINE TODAY

MONG Latin American nations. Brazil has long been : regarded as the most friendly to the United States. Over the years her foreign policy has frequently been

‘deliberately aligned with our own.

Hence the shock re-

sulting from Tuesday’s pro-Fascist speech at Rio of her Dictator-President Getulio Vargas. - Defending “vigorous peoples,” Vargas attacked the

“sterile demagogy of political democracy.”

Since this may

mean us it again becomes necessary that we take another look at our political hand. Once more it looks as though loose talk in Washington may have gotten us‘into a tight

spot abroad.

. A few days ago a Congressional resolution dramatized the Monroe Doctrine as a war issue in these words: “The United States would not recognize any transfer _and would not acquiesce in any attempt to transfer, any

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aphic region of the Western Hemisphere from one

non-American power to another non-American power.” : The resolution’s threat, pointed at Germany, is substantially what Monroe said in different words back in 1823 when the target was France, Spain and the Holy

Alliance.

“Not acquiesce in” are fighting words.

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sidering the amount of armament we have “on order” and the amount we have “on hand,” fighting words do not appeal to us as much as preparedness actions,

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TRANKLY, we think the whole subject of the Monroe “= Doctrine is loaded with political TNT; that it is a littleknown but widely misunderstood document that may very easily involve us in trouble more quickly than some of the more obvious threats. It is our baby. Latin America has never adopted it, seldom liked it, and has generally hated

it.

There are many scars.

Dollar diplomacy, 30 invasions

by us into the internal affairs of nine supposedly sovereign and 4ndependent Latin American nations, the story of how we got the Panama Canal, the activities of our marines in Central America and the Caribbean—a long and often sordid tale of the build-up over a cen#ry of distrust and

suspicion of “Yankee imperialismy”

President Roosevelt, by his good neighbor policy, has

made a commendable effort to heal old wounds.

But he

was dealing with a Latin psychology and Latin suspicions. The best that has eventuated from conferences at Buenos Aires, Lima and Panama—conferences designed to make the Monroe Doctrine a real Pan-American doctrine—has been an agreement to confer when danger threatens anywhere in this hemisphere—as would be the case in any attempt, for instance, to transfer the Dutch West Indies from a conquered Holland to a conquering Germany.

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PR UT there is a tremendous gap between agreeing to con-

fer and agreeing to act.

Since by the Congressional

resolution we are committed to action, we may have assistance or we may have only conferees. As a result of talking first, Congress has saddled us with a responsibility that stretches from pole to pole, from ocean to ocean, and from hell to breakfast—without any assurance that President Vargas, or any of his fellow Latin-American dictators and presidents, includes us in his group of “vigorous peoples.” ; : Question: Why should we be the I'll-Help-Youse - Happy Hooligan of the Americas? If the Monroe Doctrine jdea—when the showdown comes—can’t be turned into an iron-clad, mutually respected military alliance, then why should we stick our neck out way down south of the

‘equator? : Suggestion:

Cut out the conversation and the reso-

luting. Call a conference, or page every nation in Latin America, and find how far, if at all, each of them is willing to go in a move for the joint protection of the Western

Hemisphere—a move which would be the common task of |

all, not the self-imposed but deeply resented task of Uncle

Sam.

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E SHRINERS RETURN SALUTE to the Indianapolis Convention Bureau for its successful campaign to bring the national Shrine onvention here in 1941. It is a tribute to the work of the Bureau”that this _ gonvention, annually one of the most widely sought in the gountry, isecoming back again. It's a good start for

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Argument That the Constitution Protects Those Who Would Tear It Down Just Doesn't Make Sense

EW YORK, June 13.—This is the day I kick the stuffings out of the fine, fastidious interpretation of the United States Constitution which holds that it guarantees to enemies of the liberties written into that document itself the same protection that it offers to loyal Americans. : : T This paradox is presented in a protest of the Civil Liberties Union against an order of the U. S. Civil Service Commission which bars anyone “established as a niember of the Communist Party, the German Bund or any communistic or Nazi organization.” The union resents this action on behalf of all the civil liberties of all of us as “a discrimination against citizens because of their political views or connections.” In reply to that I will ask one myself: Why not discriminate, not only in the civil service but in every other area of American affairs and in every possible way, against people whose political beliefs and associations commit them to a program of hostility against the American nation and its liberties? * ” EJ ”n

HIS wet-eyed, tremulous, mister-chairman type of argument has heretofore compelled those who love the Constitution most to grant immunity and license to those who hate it most and are openly or furtively fighting to destroy it. In easier times all Americans have been more tolerant of these enemies in line with the now exploded Hyde Park “let-them-yap-their-heads-off” theory of the English Gaoverns= ment. But it isn’t merely what they say that makes these enemies of the Constitution dangerous; it is what they do under protection of the very document which they would tear up, and what they do or intend to do may be calculated with fair accuracy from what they say and from their associations, The Constitution never was intended to protect its enemies. It was intended to protect the- liberties of

1 the loyal people of the United States, and if it seems

a little ambiguous that is only because.its meaning has been fogged up by discussion in the debating schools. The founding fathers had neither the intention nor the wisdom to devise a writing that would simultaneously take its own part and rebuke and restrain its defenders. That just can’t be done. 2 ” ” T was the simple intention of the founding fathers, as it has always been the faithful purpose of genuine Americans—many of whom, incidentally, were born road—to prevent officious interference with the freedom of Americans, Had they meant to forbid the defense of Americanism they would have said so. They did not foresee that Communists, Nazis and Fascists would organize conspiracies here to embarrass the people, to assist Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini in a war on freedom and to sabotage the effort of this nation to defend itself. The question is, shall the Constitution be invoked to facilitate its own destruction? And: the answer to that, in ‘a word, is “No.” It still remains to be admitted that some individuals will be falsely accused. Nobody will indorse that, and the blame falls on the Communists, Nazis and Fascists. But let’s have it understood.that the American Constitution is not now and never was intended to stand guard over those who conspire against the freedom which it guarantees.

Inside Indianapolis Our Ball Club, Our Indiana Boys, House Numbering And Typewriters.

HERE is a lot of talk around town about trouble within the ranks of the Indianapolis baseball club. President Leo Miller has announced he may shakeup the roster and this has brought forth a set of new rumors. : All we can find é6ut is that there has been some stormy sessions among the executives of the club. What these sessions have been about we don't know. Nothing apparently has been said about Manager Wes Griffin. He ‘is well-liked both by the players and the management and he seems to be in a good spot. On the players’ side, the press box delegation seems of the opinion that the boys just aren't as good as the leaders in the league, The players have been complaining about having to practice mornings, but we suppose that’s to be expected during a slump period. Anyway, the Indians are having their troubles. Just what will come of it remains to be seen. ” ” ” ODDLY ENOUGH, Wendell Willkie’s candidacy for the G. O. P. nomination hurts Paul McNutt on the Democratic side. If Mr. Willkie gets the Presidential or Vice Presidential nod from the Republicans, you can count Mr. McNutt out simply on the basis that both are from Indiana. It just happens to be that way in politics. Don’t ask’ us why because we don’t know. ” ” ” WHEN THE Agricultural Adjustment Administration moved from West Lafayette to the Big Four Building here they boxed up everything in sight. When the typewriters were unpacked yesterday, however there were two typewriter bases more than there were typewriters—and there were no type‘writers missing. ” ” ” HOUSE NUMBERS, you know, run 1, 2, 3, 4, etc, depending on the direction you're going. . . . Well, it so happens that 5019 Boulevard Place is south (yes, that’s right) of 4973 Boulevard. . Only the City Plan Commission knows why apparently. . . . We know of a little 5-year-old girl on the East Side who caught a toad a week ago and made a pet of it. . . was naturally heart-broken. . . . She recovered in a few hours, however, and went to her mother, saying: “Well, I guess he wasn’t a very practical

' pet anyway, Mom.”

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

“This is wisdom’s last conclusion Only he deserves liberty and life . Who earns them in the daily strife.”

ITH these lines from Faust, Oscar Ameringer, a great. American, ends the story of his life which is published by Henry Holt under the title “If You Don’t Weaken.” Fi, Reviewers call it a humorous book. That it contains the best type of American humor there can be no doubt, but its eSsence is tragedy—the tragedy of mortal life. These human sagas, whether they recite the achievements of the proud or the meek, are nearly always the same. The individual must bear defeat in order that ideas may survive. Oscar Ameringer—Adam Coaldigger, in his paper “The American Guardian” was one of the many German emigrants who came to the New World about the time of the HaymarKet riots in Chicago. Like thousands of his sort, he believed that a Utopia could be built here; here men could be freed from the errors, fears and conflicts of decaying civilizations. No one had more faith in the United States than those dreamers from ancient lands; and so perhaps none have endured more cruel disappointments. For 50 years Oscar Ameringer has pounded away, preaching the rights of man, the evils of monopoly, the crimes of the rich and powerful who exploit the poor

and a long series of failures. But he has never weakened. ‘He has never failed to laugh. And he has never ceased believing that men are inherently good—and this, it seems to me, is the true test of any person’s greatness. ¥ $ The end of day is almost here for the gallant Ameringer, and as he explains, his gigantic efforts cease on the roar of the same guns he hoped would never sound again. As they boomed at his birth in the Danube Valley, so they boom now to re-echo around the world. Yet, in his own words, “Let us not despair.” And we shall not. Men pass away, but ideas remain, and the ideas of men like Oscar Ameringer, the sweet of heart, who preach justice, compassion, sanity and understanding, will ‘never be wholly: destroyed, no matter what forces are

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

SAYS U. S. HAS DUTY TO DEFEND DECENCY By S. M. Durham > ; : If your editorial of Tuesday on the President’s speech is representative of American thought, then I doubt if America is worth defending. When the time comes, as you seem to think it has, that America is too cowardly to speak and act in defense of decency in the world, then I will believe the gangster dictators were right when they were proclaiming the moral decadence of democracy. This issue has nothing to do with politics. It is simply whether we will take our stand for decent relations between the peoples of the world. Inasmuch as we profess to believe in this way of life, then it is certainly up to us to speak and act in support of the people who are giving their lives for this cause. : Any other course would be lower than the one chosen hy Mussolini.

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SEES U. S. ISOLATION POLICY A MISTAKE By Warren A. Benedict Jr.

Maybe it’s rather late getting around to it, but how about discussing some of those political statesmen who went out to make the world safe for democracy, and then fell down on the job? We thought, quite rightly, that the Huns were the enemy of civilization. We piled up war debts of billions, and lost thousands of our men, ‘but won the war. Then we turned around, and like the prize saps ‘of history, proceeded to gradually make the world unsafe for civilization again. : Instead of insisting that the Kaiser and his war lords were given a fair trial and then hanged, we let them go. We fell to arguing the Versailles Treaty was too harsh, instead of too mild. We decided the affairs of Europe were none of our business. We even argued ‘that France and England were equally to blame with Germany for the first World War. ~Our merchants imported shiploads of Germanmade goods that threw Americans out of work. We showed we didn’t care a hoot about democracy. For the last 20 years or more men high in the ranks of education, commerce, - industry and both our

(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.)

major political parties have been guilty of what we now term Fifth Column ,activities. Are we frank enough to admit it, and proceed to rectify our past mistakes?

” ” ” WANT ALLIES HELPED BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE By Everett W. Cox . Of all the sad words of tongue cr pen, the saddest are these, “It

might have been.” France is holding the front line of civilization while all the forces

of darkness and oppression are beating against it. Oh, America, let us act before it is too late! We don’t have to send soldiers abroad to win this- war. Let us without any formality, doing away with all red tape, commence immediately sending an increasing stream of airplanes and. war material to the Allies. If we don’t you fathers and mothers will repent in sackcloth and ashes. You can’t sit on the fence. There is no neutral ground, You are either for them or against. Shake off this torpor and act before it is too late. If you do not you will awaken to find your liberties and happiness floating in a sea of despotism. “Then, if you have tears to shed, prepare to shed them,” for these

into your lives and rob them of all their liberties and all their happiness.

Write or telegraph your Senator |

and Representative at once, and beseech them in the name of their God and their America to see that an abundance of war material is sent at once to the Allies.

» 8 ” TERMS CONTRIBUTIONS BY CURIOUS ‘TRASH’ By an Appreciative American For many months past I have read with great disgust the trash sent to this column by a crackbrain from Bloomington who signs himself “Curious.” This clever (?) boob is one of several pseudo Communists writing their alien ideals in a disguised and

nauseating form. . They think the real Americans are so dumb they do not recognize the communistic bunk slipped into this literary hokum attacking American ideals and upholding the lofty, noble teachings and accomplishments of Joe Stalin and his fellow cutthroats of humanity and all that signifies human decency in any form. I wish to deny your claims and insinuation when you take it upon yourself to say that “most of us young men” would not fight for American democragy—the kind he is evidently too stépid and radical to understand and appreciate. Yes, I am a young American of fighting age and I will not only fight whenever Uncle Sam needs me, but I would relish the opportunity of fighting these half-bakea would-be traitors such as “Curious” until every last one of them were in the dictator mecca of their own selection. And that’s how 991; per cent of the young Americans feel.

despots with their. dirty, filthy, bloody hands will reach deep down

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‘Brother Barnabas reveals himself as a “fat little layman,” a former newspaperman and the son of a cleric. His dominating passion is the love of country and this he hopes to implant in everyone’s consciousness by the founding of a “National Laboratory” with a 10 milliondollar bequest from his friend Jasper, a tycoon whose days are Lumbered by cancer. Brother Barpabas believes that his method for developing love of country can be formulated only through undisturbed meditation and he seeks the quiet of the poorhouse cf which his old friend, Doctor Angelicus is superintendent. There his ideas slowly take shape, mterrupted occasionally by explosive events at the poorhouse. When his plan is finally evolved, Brother Barnabas writes the wealthy Jasper for the money. His answer is a charge of extortion and a trip to Federal: Court. | In his book Brother Barnabas alternates his politico-economic daydreaming with the quarrels, fights and comedy of the poorhouse. Many readers will enjoy half the chapters, cthers will enjoy the other half. Many will like all the bobk.—By Roger Budrow. TRIUMPH By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

One of my greatest moments of | pride Was when an enemy, Wagging his head, After I answered . Sneer with quip, said: “You certainly take it all in your | stride!” ;

DAILY THOUGHT He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which

he made.—Psalms 7:15. a | ei R IBUTION .is-one of the grand. princi in the divine aduman aff:

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- serious threat to the peace of Europe.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Selective System Based On 1917 Law and Not "Universal" Military Training Is What Country Needs

'ASHINGTON, June 13.—As an illustration of snap judgments in the. highest places on mat“ters of great moment stands the President’s approval

| after having read “only the firs} paragraph” of a

: 1 sald: “The time has come when, in the interest of | elf -protection, the American people should at once| adopt a national system of universal compulsory military training,” Later on the editorial said: “We believe that it should be.so drafted as to provide training not only for young men but for older men as well.” So do I, but let's see what “compulsory universal military training” would mean. In 1918, we had registered for, or actually in military service 25,348,000 men between the ages of 18 and 45.7 Since then our population has increased 30 per cent. Presumably we now have at least 33,000,000 in that class. “Uni= versal” would include them all. Setting out to train 33,000,000 men would be absurd and preposterous, Of course, many of these would be exempted by reason of physical disability, or dependency of others, or by reason of industrial necessity. re a nu HE number is impassible to compute until we know the liberality or strictness of the exemption rules. But, assume that we apply the 1918 exemption rule which, as to Class 1, were about as liberal as, fairness and reason could ever justify. Exactly 16.25 per cent were physically disqualified. That would leave 27,637,500 men under the very liberal

‘| rules for Class 1. Roughly 30 per cent were selected,

That means that in its most restricted sense, “unie versal compulsory military training” would require us to begin training 7,291,500 men. If we decided to train all the classes that were in 1918 classified as fit and eventually liable to military service, but temporarily deferred in Classes 2,3 and 4, the total would be more than 10,000,000. Obviously, the writer of that editorial did not mean “universal compulsory military training.” It would be destructive, impracticable and unwise. Per= haps he meant a modification of the 1918 “selective” service, such as this column hds recently suggested,

i” ” ” | HAT we should do is to |determine the maximum that we can train in any single period and the trained reserve we need. Then we should set up the local selection boards.as in 1917, register all men between 18 and 45 and then require them to submit to the 1917 type of classification questionnaire to give the boards most of the necessary information, Then, having determined by lot, the order.in which men shall be called and the number of recruits needed either for training, or for the National Guard, or for the Regular Army, or any other purposes, and the quota of that number for each separate board, the board keeps on calling, examining and hearing cases until it has that number of selected and acceptable men who can go with the least hardship and disloca= tion for all concerned. boi "This avoids the injustice of just taking young kids, spreads the burden over all available men, favors nobody, prejudices nobody, costs very little and would solve our manpower and training problem no matter what it turns out to be.

Business rr] By John T. Flynn Mit | Framing a Plank on Foreign Policy Likely To Be Big G. O. P. Problem

EW YORK, June 13.—It begins to look as if— aside from selecting a candidate—the most seri~ ous difficulty in the Republican Convention will center around its platform declaration on foreign policy and the war. : : When the Republicans gathered in 1932 to name Mr. Hoover, their only subject of real disunion was the repeal plank and the discarding of Charles Curtis to succeed himself as Vice President. On all else President Hoover dictated the platform. : The party declared for entry into the World Court; a course of caution with reference to the Sino-Japa= nese war which had begun with the attack on Shanghai: disarmament to increase national security and cut the burdens of defense. However, the platform declared for maintaining our Navy on a parity with that of any nation.

vention which nominated Governor Roosevelt, declared “for a Navy and an Army for national defense based on a survey of all the facts, that the people in time of peace may not be burdened by an expenditure fast approaching” $1,000,000,000 annually.” This was a

- veiled criticism of Mr, Hoover for spending too much

on national defense. But by 1936 the war clouds in Europe had gath= ered more ominously. Again the Republicans took a stand, while favoring disarmament and arbitration, for “an Army and Navy, including the air forces, ade= quate for the national defense.” The Democrats, while saying they favored being prepared to resist aggression against ourselves, put emphasis on “true neutrality in the disputes of others,” “taking the profits out of war,” and guarding “against being drawn by political commitments, international banking or private trading into any war which may. develop

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Face Difficult Task

This of course envisaged a European war such as is now raging, for Hitler by this time had become a Thus. the Democratic position has emphasized staying out of other people’s wars and holding down national armaments, while the Republican position has put its chief emphasis on national defense, ~Now the Republicans, as they approach another platform job, are far from a unit. They are going to have difficulty drawing their platform plank to please everybody. Apparently aid to the Allies will have overwhelm= ing support, since even Senator Vandenberg has coma out for that. But what aid, when and how much are not easily defined. Besides, events in Europe are moving fast and the scene may have changed greatly, before the convention meets in Philadelphia on June 24, Generally the Republican drift is (1) toward denouncing Mr. Roosevelt for not preparing patelligently and enough; (2) criticizing him for meddling in Eyrope without providing America with a means 0 backing up that meddling. J :

Watching’ th : atching Your Health: # *1 By Jane Stafford h ERTAIN signs of cancer have been so widely pubC licized that most persons now know these danger signals: Usual bleeding, the sore that does ngt hed, persistent indigestion, the lump in the breast, the m h that has become irritated. ; Another but not so well-known early symptom of cancer is cough. This is a symptom of cancer of the lung. Statistical studies show that 10 per cent of ail carcinomas are found in the bronchial system. Not so many years ago cancer in this part of the body was considered hopeless. :

lung. A patient on whom this operation was perthe operation was suceessful, is still living. > From Stanford University in California comes -

lung, with recovery resulting in four cases. In neither of the two fatal cases, however, was death due fo operative shock, the patients having survived the operations by 11 and 24 days respectively. Similar reports of successful removal of the lung in cases of lung cancer have been reported from Baltimore and St. Louis: - ‘ | : : In this condition, as in all cancers, an early diagnosis must be made. if a cure is to be expected, the California physicians emphasize in their recent report. Cough, they u many patients unfortunately disregard,’

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