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8 i Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1940

“WE HOPE IT’S WILLKIE “WE believe the Republican National Convention should nominate Wendell Willkie. ‘We believe the man fits the times. Consider, first, the times. France has surrendered. % Britain is beleaguered. America is the only great free d nation still able to devote its full energy to developing the unity, the strength, the competence which alone can guar- % antee the preservation of its democracy—w! ich{"alone- can guarantee victory if war must come. And democracy must ‘be preserved and vitalized here if it is ever to be rejuvenated abroad. The American task, stripped to its essentials, is this: To marshal and direct our manpower, our inventive genius and our industrial talent to the end that our country, re‘maining free, can match the robot might of the totalitarian ‘nations.

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”n sn » £ ” ” ONSIDER, now, the man. Wendell Willkie is a successful business executive. He is proud to be called that, and he has a right to be proud. His formula for success in the public-utility business has been as simple as it is right—to build volume by selling more electricity at lower rates. He is a critic of the New Deal, perhaps the most effective of them all, because he is intelligent, articulate -and informed. He is no carper, no wailer for a return to ‘the good old days. He does not advocate the scrapping of New Deal reforms. these reforms fair and to make them work. Liberal convictions made him a Democrat in days when conservatism was on top. Liberal convictions have made him a Republican now, when he believes that the liberal ideal needs saving from the excesses of its misguided and over-zealous friends. » | ” E radiates self-confidence, and he inspires confidence. ‘He has strength and balance. He can fight hard without losing his head or swinging wild, and there is in him no sign of the hair-shirt complex. | In a few short weeks, without organization, campaign managers or other conventional trappings, Willkie has risen from political nowhere to become the most discussed figure in the Republican field. That has been called a political marvel, and so it is, yet we believe the explanation is obvious. The country wants. the Republican Party i nominate its ablest man. It wants the Republican Party to nominate a man 2 who, win or lose, can make a real campaign. It wants the Republican Party to nominate a man who, if he becomes President, can do the job that must be done—the job of getting the industrial machine ito high gear for national defense. ” ” » ” ITH all due respect to the other Republicans who have a chance, Willkie stands among them like an oak in a thicket. No other has any such record of executive achievement. No other has anything like his first-hand knowledge of American industry. : No other has displayed his promise of ability to meet that masterful campaigner, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on his own ground for a debate of the issues. In our opinion Willkie is the only candidate with whom the Republicans have a chance to win, as the prospect appears on the eve of their convention. The country will listen to him. It will listen to Roosevelt. It will have a choice between two strong men. If the Republican Party wants to provide real opposition—and that is its duty—it will nominate Willkie.

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MORE WORK FOR CONGRESS ONLY one day earlier President Roosevelt signed a hill authorizing an 11 per cent increase in our Navy, but yesterday the Chief of Naval Operations went before a Congressional committee and asked for an additional 70 | per cent increase. And the committee, without a dissent- - ing vote, promptly approved this measure committing our

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i Government to a new four-billion-dellar naval construction : program, | ; The Government's Ss mobilization of manpowdr for the emergency had been proceeding leisurely on a voluntary enlistment basis, but yesterday the President suddenly announced that plans were being formulated for compulsory Government service, both military and non-military, and perhaps for young women as well as young men. With such things happening at such speed in this changed world our nation faces, how is it possible for Administration leaders to keep on talking about Congress taking a long recess from its work in Washington? Any congressman who at such a Hime v votes to go hirhe - should be made to stay at home.

GETTIN G THERE OR the last two months at least one American—Paul Satko, formerly of Virginia—has been attending strictly to his own business. Mr. Satko’s business is not one we should care to enter. It is sailing a home-made, 40-foot boat, with his wife and seven children as passengers, from Tacoma, . Wash., to Cook Inlet, Alaska. Last April, when the Satko fark” had got as far as Seattle, waterfront experts were sure it could never survive such a voyage, and a court agreed with them and tried to stop the attempt. About that time, exciting things began to happen elsewhere, and . we lost track of the Satko family. 4% Well, they have now arrived at Ketchikan, Alaska— quite a distance from their destination, but «a far piece on - the way. The Seattle experts may still consider him crazy, but we're betting that Mr. Satko will reach Cook Inlet an) will Jud a homestead there ony which he can support

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Refugee By William Philip Simms

All France From U. S., Correspondent Learns From Thousands Fleeing Paris.

OMEWHERE IN FRANCE, June 19.—If anybody ever interviewed an entire nation, that person is myself. One of the last to leave Paris, I have been two days and nights on the road without shedding my clothes. It is no exaggeration to say that literally millions of people were moving southward at a mile or so per hour.

them, as the snail’s-pace traffic gave me ample time. And without exception, all of them were pathetically expecting America ‘to’ intervene and turn the tide of invasion.

column of troops moving toward the front. As soon as my identity had been established in the faint light of dawn, I was bombarded with questions. The soldiers had heard that the United States had declared war against Germany: Was it true? They were vastly disappointed when I had to tell them that to the best of my knowledge it was Ek true.

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UT America is sending us material, isn’t she?” they asked eagerly. I said that was unquestionably true, whereupon several cried “Vive I’Amerique!”—adding the French equivalent for “that’s all I want to know! We will beat them yet.” Main highways were jammed with refugees. Many

Some were carrying babies in their arms or pushing baby carriages. Others were on bicycles, tricycles, even tandem bikes. . One ancient threshingmachine tractor, its steam engine puffing like a locomotive, was pulling five vehicles, namely, two motor= less trucks, a farm wagon, an old surrey and a huge two-wheeled cart, all laden with what looked like the population of an entire village plus their ‘belongings. Although I virtually hitch-hiked from Paris I did so in style. After all my other exit plans had collapsed, I accidentally ran into young John Marjes, son of a partner in the Paris banking firm of Morgan, Marjes. He offered me a lift in a 12-cylinder American convertible.

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ESPITE this streamlined equipage, after the first eight hours of hard pressing we found ourselves exactly 24 miles from Paris. We had borrowed enough gas from the American embassy in Paris to get to the Chateau de Cande, now the American embassy No. 2, where we got more. Cande is where the Duke of Windsor married Wallis Simpson. I have just talked with Robert Montgomery, the movie star. He drove a truck from Paris to Tours, and thence proceeded by refugee train to Bordeaux, the trip requiring 17 hours. He was’ on his way to Lisbon, where he expects to catch a boat or Clipper. Like it or not, a tremendous responsibility is resting on Uncle Sam’s shoulders. All France, from statesmen down to -the last 10-year-old child with whom I talked along the roadside, is expecting salvation at his hands.

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Inside Indianapolis

How the Bund Goes After Members: Fishing Signs, Cameras and Berries

OU’Ve probably wondered from time to time how the German-American Bund, being as objectionable’ an organization as it is, manages to get members. Well, we've happened to find out one of the tricks they pull and we thought you'd be interested. The particular trick we heard about is getting lists of folks who still have relatives in| Germany. Then a Bund leader visits the chap here and asks him to join. When the American replies that he’s not interested in the Bund, that he’s interested only in America and such, the Bundster goes into action. ". The American is told in effect that he joins or else word goes back to the 8. S. boys in Germany to “fix up” the relatives. It’s a dirty weapon, but it has been ‘used in Indiana though not as much, of course, as it probably has in; the more populous ‘Bund sections: Eastward.

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‘SPEAKING OF THE BUND, it’s interesting to note that most Indianapolis stores have cleaned their showcases of German and Italian-made goods. .. . Too many complaints. , , . What with the fishing season here once more, the worm signs have popped up in full glory out on Massachusetts Ave. . . . The one that intrigues us most is the one reading: “1940 Fishing Worms.”, . . Weather Note: The man at the laundry said last week they washed more shirts than “in the history of the organization,” .. . Boy, what will it be in August?

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LAST WEEK-END, J. Bradley Haight, who has one of the longest official titles on record—Acting Assistant Director of the Unemployment Compensation Division In Charge of Field Office Operations— saw a chance for a fine photograph. He was sitting on his porch looking at the moon through the trees. He dashed into the house, got his camera and set it up on the porch for a 15-minute exposure. He remembered all about it next morning, when he came out to go to work. The camera was still standing there; shutter wide open.

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WE'VE JUST HAD IT EXPLAINED TO us how itinerant peddlers manage to sell strawberries for 10 cents a quart—or sometimes three quarts for a quarter. They pull a neat trick of the trade known as “pinching” the quarts. It involves pinching the corners of the boxes firmly together, resulting in the sides warping inward. In fiiling the boxes, they can stretch: a 24-quart crate into a 32-quart crate. The housewife always thinks she has a bargain. And the peddler has no complain either,

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

LMOST overnight, Time Magazine reports, letters to the editor took on a fighting tone. Pacifist, isolationist sentiment is dying. The drums sound over the land and away we go—marching off to war. | It is evident that pressure amounting to strong arm methods is thrusting us toward the “Glory Road.”

miracle saves us, and out we shall be spewed some day, shamed, repentant, broke, seeing all too clearly what we cannot see now—that our hand struck the death blow to democracy:

become involved in the ageless, hopeless conflict in Europe which has see-sawed back and forth for centuries. One hundred and thirty million Americans will deliberately walk into the slaughter house and what a headache we'll ‘have when the orgy ‘comes to an end—as all wars sometimes must. Then, once more, we shall hear the preachers proclaiming the pacifist creed, editors denouncing profiteers, politicians and war mongers, while taxpayers with pockets rifled and sons dead will swear, as they did in 1919, to fight no more on foreign soil. The program never changes. Nor ever will, I suppose, so long as our evangelistic spirit survives. “Do you think,” screams Dorothy Thompson, “that the Unifed States of America can stand aloof from the vicissitudes of the world?” Sure not! The vicissitudes, as well as the harebrained idiocies of the world, we make our main business. Our money went to Europe in a stream to rebuild cities that are now laid waste again after 20 years. According to Dr. Hans Zinsser, whose book, “As I Remember Him,” is just off the press, Herbert Hoover spent $50,000,000 in Russia right after the Romanofts fell to set up a health program which the

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; . ; ; The Hoosier Forum 01 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

THINKS HE KNOWS WHAT LUDLOW MEANT By Merle C. Whalen Concerning Louis Ludlow and the Wagner bill. A recent editorial in The Indianapolis Times states that

Louis Ludlow should make 1) his mind how he stands on the issue of the Wagner Act amendments. I read Ludlow’s statement concerning his stand from the pages of The Times and I think I understand what he meant. I believe Ludlow is in favor of some small amendment, and not in favor of writing a bill of amendments around the Wagner bill to stifle the honest purpose for which this bill was intended. Too many amendments on a bill make it worse than no bill at all, and if the Wagner Act is in need of so much amendment it should be repealed and thrown out. After all, it is the people who must live by the laws the same as those who write and amend them, and every precaution should be taken to “Give light and the people will find their own way.” ” ” E

URGES SENATORS BACK FULL DEFENSE PROGRAM By Robert S. Stempfel

This is a copy of an open letter I have sent to Senators VanNuys and Minton: “If it took Germany seven years to build a terrifying offensive weapon to its perfection while the English and French sat complacently by and only in the last few years recognized that this force might be used against them, can you, as a representative of the people, refuse to recognize the threat that lies before us? “The premise with which you seem to concern yourself is that we do not want war. What true American would take any other stand? But, let's be practical! If the next six months might increase our insecurity, then Senator, it is time you appraise our military situation.

(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.)

Reserves, and, third, the National Guard, which represents 75 per cent of our defensive force. At the head of these forces is the General Staff, headed by the Commander-in-Chief. : : “When President Roosevelt asked authority to call the National Guard to active training, you were shocked. At times like these one should be accustomed to shocks. From newspaper accounts of our military maneuvers, -our field army was woefully weak. It is, therefore, necessary, for purposes of national safety, that all our military branches be called for intensive training, not, as you stated, with the danger of preparing for war, but as a protection against war. Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium, one after the other, were attacked and overrun. “Why should we sit idly by and await developments before acting? You can’t afford to sit and weigh public opinion, Direct action on preparedness is necessary. No one knows what will happen, but we cannot speculate with our safety and security. “Therefore, I for one, beg you to review these problems with utmost diligence and back a full preparedness program, which, among other things, means immediate and effective troop training.”

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{sworn off writing to this Forum but First, we have the regular Army I must defend myself. The psycholoand Navy; second, the Organized gist rates me considerably above the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

COPR. n often, T. M. REG. U. S. PAT, OFF.

moron but not quite a Phi Beta or

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a cross-section of the populace. All I know about communism will be found by any interested person among the many books in the Indiana University Library and that is

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cept what I read in the newspapers. How can my ideas be alien? 1 got all of them right here. So far I have voted straight Republican because I knew the boys personally. Just now I am “all out” for Wen Willkie. I read the Constitution of the United States recently and hope that Article I of the Bill of Rights is never scratched out. Did you know Abe Lincoln was considered a dangerous radical? An old doctor told me: isn’t a radical before he is 20 there is something wrong with his heart and if he isn’t a conservative before he is 60 something is wrong with his head.” a ” FJ RESENTS PUBLICATION OF ANTI-BRITISH LETTERS By Warren A. Benedict Jr. : Most of your Forum letters are fairly interesting, but there are a few that are downright offensive. I refer to those of anti-British or anti-Allied seatiment. Right now, at least, people who express such sentiment must be classed as either (a) pro-Nazi or pro-Fascist, (b) communistic, or (c) piain cranks or crackpots. He who expresses himself against the democracies abroad fighting for their hives is also expressing himself against the welfare of this country. Make no mistake on that point! I am sure the overwhelming majority of your readers feel as I do. There is no room in your Forum for the perverted views of those unAmericans, who generally are so cowardly as to hide behind the anonymity of initials or “Reader.” ; » ” 2 DEMANDS CANDIDATES GIVE STAND ON WAR By E. F. Maddox Well we have come to the stage of fear and hysteria, where the “shouters” are demanding another plunge into Europe’s blood bath. If a sane person says he doesn’t want to see the United States drawn into foreign wars he is immediately marked as pro-Nazi. That is war mongering on a big scale. believe in peace and in using. cool common sense. I will not vote for any man or political party which: I believe is

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a European or Asiatic war. There are plenty of such men. Let our

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in the open and say plainly where they stand on the war issue. That

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JUNE SHINES

By MARY P. DENNY | June shines in dandelions of -gold That ~the smiling skies unfold. In shi colors of the rose That soft” in light unclose. In every tint of earth and sky Rising in glory to the heavens high. June shines in new mown grass Where little gray rabbits pass. And in the glowing heart of light That beams in calla lilies bri pte June shines in cardinals that And in the forest birds that oe June shines in every living thing In one great glow of summer light.

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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed ‘is in dtself, Jpot the earth:

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1940

Gen. Johnson

Says— Despite Proved Efficiency of the Selective Service System Tinkering With U. S. Recruiting . Continues. REENVILLE, S. C,, June 19.—Recruiting for the enlarged regular army is moving too slowly to succeed. Part of the War Department plans for a

major military effort’ is a whoopla recruiting drive for volunteers to “bridge the gap of time until the

system. for compulsory selective service can be created and started working.”

* Under the guidance of the governors and after an assignment of quotas to each county, committees ‘of leading citizens are to get busy on the boys and needle them into uniform. There is considerable insistence that a new law for selective service be ‘“‘care= fully studied, debated and. prépared now while the recruiting drive gets under way.” :' * All this is pretty awful. An hysterical <ballyhoo | campaign to drum up a war fever is exactly what we don’t want now—especially during an election on the third term tradition. Before we got through with it, every boy who preferred to wait for the scientific selective system would be “called a heel and every impulsive youngster who was “fifed, kettle-drummed and orated into signing up would be a hero. The process would put a shadow 6n the former class and not get the best material in the iatter.

/ ” » ” ODERN mechanized war requires careful selec tion. Just taking men at random was good enough when all a soldier had to da was march straight ahead and carry a rifle, An excellent, if extreme example, of the change

is the German parachute troops. Each man is dropped down strictly on his own behind enemy lines to be a little army in himself. Soldiers in mechanized troops have to be automotive and radio mechanics, expert gunners: and drivers and sometimes adept with explosives, gases and defenses against both. On top of this, they must know far more of the principles of military art than any non- commis sioned soldier even had to know before. You don’t get this kind of material in the run-of-mill products of. a voluntary recruiting office. The English are very proud of their process of universal selection to fit the square, round and assorted pegs into the square, round and assorted holes—and not otherwise. Well, they aren't teaching us anything, We invented and applied all that in 1918.

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HERE is much ‘misconception about the selective service system. If it is intelligently set up. there will be no “gap of time” to fill by volunteering. We set up the registration system in 10 days. We delayed registration another 10 days, but not for the sake of the system—merely to give ample time for notice of the day, June 5th. A curse of this country in war is our passion for We insist on changing everything whether it needs it or not. With so much in rearmament that does need revolutionary change, we ought to take a holiday on untried adventure—pay a little more attention to the voice of experience and a less to the spontaneous brain throbs of our earnest and well-meaning theorists.

Business By John T. Flynn

Forgotten Man Faces Heavy Tax as Hysteria Spurs Defense Spending.

& EW YORK, June 19.—Congress has passed a new tax hill and the Senate is about to O. K. it. It is one of those “minor details” of our war plans which the President has said do not interest him. To the people who pay ‘the bills it may be more than a minor detail. Readers may remember the wild Howls for economy some four or five months ago. The Senators and Representatives were having a grand time out of slashing appropriations because America Was on the road to ruin through extravagance. . This same Senate last week was debating some matter when a Senator arose and asked unanimous consent to get a vote on a bill. The unanimous consent was accorded, the vote taken, the bill passed. Then one Senator whispered to his neighbor: “What the devil was that bill we just passed?” The neighbor replied: “Oh, that was the billion dollar appro= priation bill we debated the other day.” This is the same Senate that was saving'the Re= public from extravagance a few months ago. But this minor detail—the tax bill—has some ine teresting features. First of all, it raises the Govern- ° ment’s borrowing power by four billion dollars. We are supposed to be in danger of war. We start off with 45 billions of our. credit consumed. This is a good deal like starting off with half our ammunition fired. The next point about this tax bill is that. it is going to put the great burden of meeting these war expenditures on the Government's beloved pai—the forgotten man. It lowers the base and exemptions for income tax payments, thus bringing in about two million more taxpayers among the lowest brackets. This, in itself, is proper. This writer, in common with men like Senator LaFollette, has urged lowering the income tax base for years, making men with small salaries pay income taxes. But the object of that plan was to relieve the smallest income groups of the burden of invisible taxes.

Windfall for the New Deal

But now this bill plasters an income tax on them, not in lieu of the hidden taxes, but in addition to them. And, worse than that, it increases the commodity and excise taxes which are all or almost all concealed. There ‘is a pretty little fiction in this bill. The Government will borrow four billions for war pure poses. It will then earmark certain of these takes for four years to pay off this debt a billion a year until it is paid. .This is just a temporary tax. But let no one be fooled. This tax will not come off ‘in our time. The war hysteria has been a wonderful windfall for this Administration on the eve of a campaign, The conservative groups which were. howling loudest against spending borrowed money on peace-time projects are now yelling loudest for spending even more borrowed money on war projects. The spend=-ing-borrowing program of the Administration gets a boost, from its bitterest critics, just as this issue was about to crush the Administration in the coming campaign.

By Jane Stafford

rr you were a shark or a rat or an elephant, you would not have to worry about going to the dentist to keep your teeth in good repair. The shark, you know, has an arrangement whereby when a tooth is damaged, it comes out and is replaced by another, Elephants also get new molars to replace the ones they wear out through their long life. The incisors of a rat, or of any other rodent such as a beaver or a squirrel, keep right on growing throughout life. In fact, the rodent’s problem is to keep his teeth worn down to useful proportions. Human teeth, however, are weak in powers of self-repair and lack capacity for self- replacement, One reason is that the solid body of the tooth is deficient in blood vessels and lymph channels for rapid circulation and exchange of chemical units of nutrition, as Dr. William G. Gies of New York has recently pointed out in a report to the American Dental As sociation. py A fully formed tooth, he shows, is so constituted that as an organ it is very hard and inelastic. Its main bulk is composed of inorganic materials. Its protective enamel is not a “vital tissue.” Because they are isolated from active /participation in the chemical exchanges going on in the rest of the body, the solid parts of the teeth undergo internal changes at a very slow rate and cannot effectively repair themafter injury, replace material that may be re- |B moved during use of the teeth, nor repel germ invasion, oh The isolation of the teeth, ftom the rest of the