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‘MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1940

EMPTY GUNS AND ADJECTIVES

OL. LINDBERGH warns of | jour drift toward war and Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ansWers under the title “Col. Lindbergh’ S Misconception of Our Foreign Policy.” While there are many arguable phases in our foreign “policy, one stark reality stands out, about which there can be no misconception. It is, that we are not now—or for a long time to come—prepared to enter a war. Not even a fourth-class war, as Rep. Bruce Barton put it, speaking on the same day as’ Lindbergh. Facts about our military inadequacy, brought out in recent days from the heads of our own armed agencies, give eloquent testimony that a declaration of war now means nothing less than national suicide. It is well, therefore, and timely, that the week-end brought forth such sharp warnings as those which came from Lindbergh and Barton. Both are for unstinted defense preparation. But both are realists as to our present predicament. And both being | the sort that the public listens to, they have contributed much to a cooling off of the hotheads who of late have been velling for war, regardless. “Our present danger results from making gestures with an Sogpyn says Lindbergh. “This,” ®ays Barton, “is a time when words are useless. - Only deeds count. If words could win, then the

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Far From Canceling the Election, War Emergency Puts Extra Duty On

G. O. P. to Fight for Presidency

EW YORK, June 17.—It is taken for granted that President Roosevelt will be the Democratic nomie nee for a third term, and I think it will have to be as=sumed that if he is elected he will be a war President—if, indeed, the country doesn't enter the war during the present Administration, In this terrible situation .there is a popular dis= position to reduce the Republican campaign to a mere

gesture and to regard legitimate criticism of the New |

Deal Government as aid and comfort to the enemy, This may be, as most Americans feel, no time for politics of the sordid sort. But neither is this a time to permit Adolf Hitler to select the next President of the United States, as, for

a long time before the war, he dictated the selection.

or exclusion of certain prominent men in England whose availability for office was determined less by their merits than By a hope of placating him and avoiding the fight. The Republicans, having picked their man, should make their campaign without restraint, although preferably with a patriotic and intelligent appeal to the people’s judgment as to whether their man can rearm and if necessary, fight a war as efficiently as the Roosevelt Administration. = ” : ” N presenting their arguments they naturally will advertise the character and achievements of their

nominee—who probably will be, and certainly should

be, Wendell Willkie—but they should not be asked to whisper ‘when they come to discussion of the policies, the achievements and failures and the attitude toward

“business of the Administration which invites respon-

sibility for entering and waging a war. The Germans and Italians have nothing to learn on these topics from the campaign speeches of Re-

publican orators, for they probably have a better ob-

jective estimate of us than we have ourselves. And if it is to be considered seditious and disruptive to conduct a Presidential campaign with full vigor and thorough sincerity, then we will admit that the American system of politics is, as they have contended all along, a fatal handicap to the very liberties which it is intended to preserve. Unfortunately, there probably will be no direct showdown between a war party and an anti-war party in this campaign, because even Burt Wheeler, if he were to seek the Presidency, could not promise that in no conceivable circumstances that might arise in case of the defeat of thé Allies would the United States go to war. ’ ” ” ”

HERE is no disagreement, however, on the fact

vituperation of Secretary Ickes poured out on Hitler last year would have blown him to pieces. If calling names did | any good, then Mussolini would: have crawled into his hole | | and died of shame after hearing the President’s Charlottes- | ville speech. “Our present job is not denunciation but production. | The less Hitler hears from our politicians, and the more he hears from our factories, the better. Weapons are the only language he can understand.” > We trust that those who are whooping it up to “Stop Hitler Now” will give heed to that hard commonsense and wake up .to the fact that you can’t smash a tank with an adjective.

NO TIME FOR HOLIDAY |

LL in the:same grist of news come the crumpling of the Maginot Line, the fall of France, and the anfiouncement of Senate Leader Barkley that Congress ought to wind up its business ‘and get out of Washington this week. " What a commentary on our political leadership at a time when every dispatch brings fresh proof of our exposed and weakened position i in this world of force. Peoples that lived a hundred years at)peace have ‘been subjugated. A" nation ‘which. boasted “impregnable de- . fenses” and “the finest army in the world” is crushed. The seat of the greatest of empires.faces the imminent threat of the first invasion in nine centuries. Yet, scanning this horizon, the political leadership*in Washington concludes that after voting a few more billion dollars the Government hasn’t got, and passing a makeshift tax bill which won't even balance ‘“normal” expenditures, Congress should then hurry home for a summer vacation. Why this bum’s-rush act’at such a time? Who is so anxious to get the elected representatives of the people out of the way where they can’t participate in what may be life-or-death ‘decisions? Anyway, one thing is certain. They can’t be forced to depart. Congress will abandon its responsibilities only if a majority of the members so vote. Again we say: Any Senator or Representative who ‘votes to leave his post of duty and. go home should be

made to stay home. INONE OF OUR BUSINESS \ BUDAPEST dispatch says that the Harmen Nazi newspaper, ‘“Magyarsag,” which had predicted that President Roosevelt would be elected to a third term because “Americans have the minds of children,” has been suspended for a week by the Hungarian government, following representations to the Foreign Office by the American Legation. We hope it is not true that the Awieriean Legation took any step to have this Hungarian newspaper disciplined. It is no part of the business of any American diplomatic representative to censor the press of the country to. which he is sent. Diplomatic representatives of Germany and other countries have protested against things said about Hitler and Mussolini by American newspapers, and our State Department has properly ignored such protests. - We Americans claim the right to speak and write our opinions of other peoples and their rulers. We can dish it out, and we should take what is dished out to us. Opinion’ is still free in the United States, but that will be hard for the rest of the world to believe if our representatives seek to punish free expression of opinion, no matter how distasteful to us, in Hungary or any other foreign land.

POLITICAL PARACHUTIST

INDING .it difficult to attract political audiences these days, Walter Scott McNutt, college professor, World War aviator and now candidate for Governor of Arkansas, has borrowed an idea. He announces that he will descend via parachute to "make speeches at Magnolia, El Dorado and Russellville. = | Prof. McNutt commends his idea to other office seexers, but we suspect that few will adopt it. After all, what most candidates want is to get SleStad gy to get. shot at by

performances. They should stand boldly for the capitalistic System and defend the proposition that money, like people, must have income, and accuse the New Deal of hampering industry by heavy taxation and vindictive restrictions and for that reason, of partial blame at

| least, for difficulty of rearming now.

If Mr. Willkie, assuming that he will be the Republican nominee, can convince the people that he would release money and unshackle industry for a great national effort under the capitalistic system and free government, that is his duty, and the Presidency, even in time of war, should not be regarded as a job for which this country cai produce only one obvious man and not a single rival with sufficient merit to deserve a full, public hearing.

Inside Indianapolis The Story of “a Lost Painting; Progress In Milk—And War News!

OMEBODY in Indianapolis has a painting on their hands and wondering perhaps who it be-

“longs to. We can tell em.

That painting—one of Gen. Anthony Wayne astride a white horse—belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution. About 14 or 15 months ago, the S. A. R. decided to hang it on the mezzanine of the Columbia Club. "A lot of folks noticed it and adriiired it and so whenn L. S. Ayres had an exhibition they borrowed it and then returned it. Then there was another exhibit some place else. and it went out again. On one of these later trips it got lost and both the Columbia. Club and the S. A. R. have been wondering about it. Only thing they can figure. out is that somebody who didn't know where it eame from has it and is wondering himself what he ought to do with it. He knows now. » o ” ' WE JUST GOT a call from a young matron who said she had a “brilliant” idea for the milk companies around town. It seems that she often has two unopened bottles of milk in her refrigerator and is always in a dither about which one is today’s and which yesterday’s (or vice versa).

So she got to wondering about it and asked her--

self why couldn't the milk companies just simply overprint on their cover tags “Mon,” “Tues,” “Wed,*® etc. She said it would only take seven tags and the milk companies ought to be glad to do if. She told us she didn’t want any royalties for it either. Neither do we. All for progress, that’s us. » 4 2 wl CONSERVATION MEN HAVE! noticed, since they have been artificially hatching quail and pheasant and thus could keep tab on such things, that about once in every 60,000. quail there is a pure white one. These are mot albinos, however, because there is pigmentation in the eyes. . .. The Conservation people haven't been able to expiain it and can only guess that for some queer reason the pigmenting function of the body of these rare birds is sharply curtailed. . One of our wiity bachelors about town claims that he was listening to a war broadcast the other night and that all of a sudden his left foot went flat. . . . “Yes, sir,” he said, “that old arch just let go—like that!”

A Woman’ s Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

FEY sounds are pleasanter than those of hammer and saw. The droning buzz and lively staccato intermingling mean that something splendid is afoot. Close .by men are building stores or offices or maybe homes. In the last few years swarms of carpenters have put up hundreds of thousands of little houses. Row on row they stand in our cities while others much like them dot the country towns.

Trim, neat, resplendent in new paint, windows shining, each wears an expectant air as if it hopes:

sone one very nice will soon move in. One day a bold “Sold” sign appears on the door. Later the moving van appears, and next time you pass the little house is transfigured. It has become a Home. Fires have been lighted within, fires of wood or gas, and better still, fires of love. By night the windows gleam, bravely shining, and by day lines of drying clothes—true symbol of American domesticity —flaunt their colors in the back yard. Before very long a change comes over the house. The newness is gone; it takes on the look of used things—of things dearly loved. Joy and sorrow, smiles and tears, birth and death—we know that all houses experience them before they become humanized, and can merge into the vast pattern of life. : Carpentry must be a soul satisfying trade. Jesus, who was a carpenter, surely blessed those who came after Him. Long ago He too smelt the fragrance of new lumber, and fitted clean planks together and saw many a finished product, precise and perfect, take shape under his skillful hands. Althought we ‘have no record of the fact, he may have built little homes for humble people to live in. Greater structures engage the imagination of men, but most of them come to nothing. America’s real treasure is guarded behind the walls of her little homes. And th children are more important to. ‘America’s d n

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

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URGES CALM VIEW TOWARD WAR PERIL ‘By W. H. Edwards, Spencer There is an inclination to hysteria fast rising in this country over the war situation in Europe. Hysteria ‘may lead to panic, in which we_as a people may allow our natural sym-

pathies for the Allies to overcome our reasoning abilities to such an extent that we may plunge headlong into ill-advised action. Let's keep our reasoning shirts on. An army or a nation which becomes panicky weakens its resistance to an enemy. A cool-headed army cr a cool-headed nation is dangerous to face. If we put and keep our own house in order by getting the millions of unemployed people back! at work—in the production of weapons of national defense if necessary, we will be in a better position to face a foreign foe. Our Nation has faced critical situations many times since it was established, situations which tried the very fiber of the people, and it has overcome those adverse situations of the past. We have not baen attacked and we may not be, yet it is well that we prepare fully for all or any eventualities,

” a 4 FEARS F. D. R. LEADING U. S. TOWARD WAR By G. L.

The President has pulled another fast one. His leaders—or stooges, according to your lights—in Congress ordered a three-day recess of the Senate despite the fact that several national defense bills were 1eady to be acted upon, in order that F. D. R. could place all our available weapons at the disposal of the British, Hey. wait a minute, Mr. President. You're not a dictator yet! The rearmament program, I am convinced, has been planned for a long time. The President was stimply waiting for the right moment to spring it on us. With the emotional fog we're in about “detense,” which seems effectively to prevent any clear thinking on the subject, he hits three birds with cne stone: The bolstering of our failing economy with war orders, helping the Allies by putting all our resources at their disposal, and maintaining political power. And then consider our ambassadors. Both ‘Kennedy and Bullitt are burning up telephone cables to Washington to press frantically for a speed-up of planes and ammuni-

By Jean Woolsey

(Times readers are invited to express their 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.)

views in

tion to the Allies. anyway? They're acting like Allied officials. We're still supposed to be neutral or is that only for home consumption? What if our ambassador to Japan should demand that we aid Japan? It would be ‘as logical. All of which leads me to think that what I hear is right—that the President will by hook or crook get us into war and will wifid up as the first American dictator. We have a Monroe Doctrine to keep transcontinental nations out of this hemisphere. If we only had some doctrine to keep- us out of transcontinental hationy}

®. . “8G UNWILLING. TO" AcoRér MILITARY TRAINING

What is this

When the first World" War etfied, I was just beginning high school. | It was pretty hard for a kid to concentrgje on studies in those days, what with the patriotic fervor still at high pitch, and the razzle-dazzle of the golden boom days starting. Half way through high school I quit, because it was necessary that I help support the family. I went irom job to job, from year to year, always hoping that somehow we'd

go to eatlose, for ‘I wanted desperately to train my mind for the grand pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. But raat that hope faded, &nd came the day when I suddenly realized 1 was a grown man with an an It wasn’t the kind of education I had wanted. It was | harder, and it made me harder. Maybe it| was better training than

pered with a certain amount of l:umanitarian idealism. At any rate, it “made me what I am today.” Now, twenty years after I quit high school, the Government plans on training the youths and men of the nation in how to make guns and drop bombs. That training is not being offered on a silver platter— it’s at the point of a bayonet. I don’t think I'll accept the offer. 'I did my (innocent bit to “save the world for democracy” 20 years: ago, and since that time I have seen America (become ‘3a shambles of gluttony, |hyprocrisy, pt Dresty: and futility. The stronghold: of? civilization is ‘not in the word: “demoocracy.” It| is in the hearts of courageous men and women everys where, |

PRAISES| POLICY OF HOME DEFENSE By Floyd Grigsby, Bloomington. I want| to ‘congratulate you on your will [to stick to the principle of home defense which you expressed in Tuesday’s Times. Not only are we being pushed into the war by war mongers but pushed into it without any excuse, only the same old propaganda that led us

get a break, and that I'd be free to

into the other war.

New Books at the Library

HE American twins who gained prominence two years ago by] publishing the book “We Married an Englishman,” in which they tell

how one of them married an English | |which ha

engineer and how they both went | to live with him in Iraq, have written another book about their lively adventures. In this second work, “Our Arabian Nights” (Carrick) they tell of a winter spent in Baghdad and of a summer in the desert encampment of a sheikh. The twins have a great deal of

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{fun in Baghdad. They meet a number of ‘notable people, including | His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince of | Iran: (Persia). They continue thei hobby of -pet-collecting, given ‘them a menagerie with an unusualassortment totaling 27 pets and including a boar, two baby storks, a peacock, and a gazelle. | After an. exciting winter the twins leave the Englishman behind while they go out to the desert to live with the ‘three wives of the great" Sheikh Fulan. They are probably the only Americans ever to live in a harem. They report that the major requirements for successful harem life are a cheerful disregard for germs, an inherent. capacity to sit around and do nothing and enjoy it, and tolerance for all forms of animal life. (During these summer months they grow sufficiently hardened that they think nothing of it when. an inquisitive animal pokes its head inside the tent.) The best part of the book is that which deals with their life in the desert, where they share both the excitement and the monotony of tribal life. As the twins have a great deal of curiosity which leads them from adventure to adventure, this book offers. good, amusing reading.

THE BABY By ANNA E. YOUNG Just a ‘wee bit 0’ man Cuddled up on a pillow

So tiny to look at — But a ‘precious dear fellow.

Mother smiles as she gazes

. On God’s gift so divine And happy is she With. that wee son o’ mine.

Angels kissed his tiny lips In Babyland above Watched and guarded—oh so close This precious bit o’ love!

DAILY THOUGHT

For who is God, save the Lord? and who is a rock, save our God? ~I1 Samuel 22: 132.

college. It was hard knocks, tem-|

: confpulsory military service.

Jove of militarism

Dive Bombing By Maj. Al Williams

More Accurate Than Level Flight Use of Bombsights, It Has Wrought Havoc as Substitute for Artillery

DD bombing has replaced the old-time artillery barrage and upset the old-time military experts, Bombing from altitudes with a ship in level flight calls for a first class bombsight, to compensate for altitude and wind, and a lot of personnel training, Used by an expert, the modern bombsight turns in a neat job of accuracy. Used by a rookie, hastily trained in wartime, its accuracy drops swiftly. Naval and military leaders are all too ready to ignore this

factor. The quick answer to the problem is dive bombing, in which the ship is stood squarely on its nose, aimed at the target, and the bomb released near the bottom In level flight bombing with bombsights, German marksmanship was faulty in the early days of this war. So the Germans switched to dive bombing. The British level flight bombing also bigs been poor. . » ” ” AM the ship and you have aimed the ds that’s the fundamental principle of dive bombing. Our Navy has been experimenting with this operation, as has our Army, and as have the forces of other nations. But none of them has gone in for it on the same scale or with the same purpose as the Germans, wha use it as a devastating substitute for the old barrage. Greatest accuracy is obtained by standing a ship straight down on its nose, with- the flight path at ¢) degrees to the earth, and continuing the dive as far as possible toward the ground. The steepness of the dive is limited by the flying ability of the pilot. Regular service “pilots can get away with | this straight-down , bombing and the pull-out at the bottom, without colliding with other members of the

formation. Newly trained and only fair pilots: would

come to grief. Even long-term service pilots usually compromise on dive angles of 65 to 70 degrees. and hew long the pull-out can be postponed is determined by the strength of the anti-aircraft batteries below,

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T'S pretty rough riding .on an absolutely straightdown dive in a fast ship .not equipped with: air brakes. (Such brakes—“flaps”—hold the German Stukas to around 250 miles an hour.) My Grumman single-seater streaks at about 350 miles .an hour after 5000 feet of plunging straight down, and getting her out of that dive without “squashing” on ‘the pullout is a no-fooling job. The ship may be hauled back on level flight, but

| if the pull-out has been made quickly at very high | speed, | That is “squashing.”

it will continue to sink toward the earth.

The dive bomber pilot uses a simple form of bomb-

sight, but only as a check on his downward course. | Dive bombing is like shooting a revolver. from the i hip—mostly a matter of “feel” of ship and eye Judg-\

ment of distance and direction. The dive bomber is a comparatively small, usually single-engined plane,

i and not tco fast, but rather maneuverable and a tough

target for anti-aircraft, gunners. The pilot dives and climbs, moving and turning all the time, and the large AA guns can’t swing fast enough to “bead’ ‘him. Small machine guns firing solid projectiles are ineffective against the dive bomber, unless the fics. is hit. are the answer. These shells, exploding on contact, smash wings and fuselages, while solid shots mereiy pass through the metal without actually damaging the airplane. The Allies, not anticipating mass dive bombing, hadn’t provided themselves with adequate numbers of machine gun cannons.

Business By John T. Flynn

Compulsory Service Drive Hints Tendency Toward Military Nation

EW YORK, June 17.—The precise significance of , what is happening in this country is a little obscured under the hot gasses of propaganda and hysteria. . Theretis an immense .pother about rushing arma ments ta protect us a st the coming of the dictatdks. But behind all that there is a movement which - is far more serious for ul than’ the dictators. Because

‘the;dictators are not coking here and this movement * * 1 speak’ of the ‘movement for com-

| : Si _pulsory military service. | 2% = of

is already here.

“Nothing has been so repugnant to free Cpeople. ‘as - A little natiogi like the Swiss have had to have it because that ¢otntry—a mere speck—finds itself caught between thé mash, Warlike nations in. Europe—German, Italy and; France, But, short of the most desperate compulsion, 1$5H thing that has already been abhorrent to free men. x It is abhorrent first. because it is a seizure of a’ man’s body, time and service. tends to organize a country into military units. Third, because it cannot be kepf alive without an immense propaganda to infuse the military spirit into the peo-" ple. And fourth, this means the rise of military leaders. Fifth, it involves huge yearly outlays to keep the great army equipped and paid. Sixth, this cannot ‘be extracted from the people without rendering them willing to submit to the burden. And this can be done only by sowing among them the seeds of fear and - hatred of neighbors and exploiting the glamours and rewards of imperial enterprise. It leads to the worst ‘forms of nationalism and chauvinism,

Why All the Haste? |

There are men ‘in countries like Holland and Switzerland who hate all these things, yet submit to them out of dire necessity. But there are also men

"who love these things, who think them desirable in

themselves. Such men we have in America. A lover of the military life and way has said that he believes such training is the best training for American citizen= ship. ; But also there are men who see the need of a new industry in the United States. The war industry is just the thing needed to absorb the unemployed. So fine a citizen as Morris L. Cooke—a great friend of the President—has said that armament is probably the only solution of the long- range unemployment prob=lem.

And so for a p of reasons—fear in some places, :

others, a desire to create an: armament economy for recovery—there is a powerful movement to turn this country into a militaristic re- . public-empire. . This would be a terrible change in the whole course of our way of life. It certainly ought not to be done hurriedly, in panic, without grave thought. Yet the . President and the worst of the reactionary leaders at: his back are ying to rush the nation into this course,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford 7 wx sulfanilamide and related chemicals were

discovered as valiant weapons against the streptococcus, the meningococcus, tiie pneumococcus and other germs that cause killing diseases, hopes were high that one of these chemicals might prove a sure weapon against the great white plague, tuberculosis. Medical scientists as well as laymen held such hopes, and in more than one scientific laboratory, in-

. vestigations of sulfanilamide’s power against the tu

bercle bacillus were started. So far, the hope of find~ ing a tuberculosis remedy in this chemical has been only a hope and the latest report on the subject is discouraging. Sulfanilamide not only does not help cure tuber= culosis but may actually harm the body, Dr. H. J. Corper, director of the National Jewish Hospital, Denver, recently reported to fellow scientists. «Since the drug in large amounts can injure body cells to such an extent that they cannot react to the tubercle bacilli, and since the reaction is tuberculosis itself, ‘what might appear to be a retardation of the tuberculosis as a result of treatment may be in reality the result of injury to the body produced by the drug,” he warned. Dr. Corper, however, s not take a completely: hopeless view of the possibility of curing, hon by a chemical remedy - that. attacks : and destroys

tuberculosis germ in the body. 2.» No:

Machine gun cannons, using exposive shells, .

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