Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1940 — Page 18

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FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1940

THE KNOX-STIMSON APPOINTMENT DESPITE the high character of the two men, we believe ‘the appointment of Frank Knox and Henry Stimson to the secretaryships of Navy and War will hot be good

for: the country. 3 It isn’t a question of character or capability but runs much deeper—to the very fundamentals of our democratic processes. : - The nation is in a war crisis. What shall be our war

policy overshadows all other issues. A national election |

is coming on. A clear-cut verdict from the people on war policy should be written through the normal functioning of our two-party system. Never has it been more vital that such an expression be recorded. - In the face of that two Republicans are named to the jobs having most to do with war. That muddies the water. That makes it possible for the Administration in power to claim that, whatever the war policy, it bears the indorsement of men high both in the Administration and the councils of the opposition. That short-circuits the processes of democracy at a time when they should operate most freely. It tends toward confusion when clarity is so greatly needed. . £3 The appointments evidence too much of political strat‘egy when a nation in grave danger is entitled to frankness. 3 2 ” ” » ” ” MESSRS. KNOX AND STIMSON do not typify a coalition ‘in the true sense of the word. They would not represent the composite view of the Republican Party toward the war problem. Both are of the same school of belligerence that was expressed by Mr. Roosevelt in his Charlottesville speech and other utterances. - : - Mr. Roosevelt would be their boss and we fear that - the tendency of the three would be more and more warlike despite our admitted unpreparedness. ; ‘In so far as that would be their trend—and in so far as the trend could be claimed to represent solidarity of national sentiment—a false picture would be presented. What we need, at this time of all times, is anything but a strange and confusing form of leadership at the top. No ‘doubt should be raised in the voter's mind as to the party of his choice when he goes to the booth in November.

NX : = THE PEOPLE SPOKE |

“HE drive to adjourn Congress has been stopped. The prospect now is for two one-week recesses—during the Republican and Democratic conventions—with power in Congress to reconvene if necessary in either of those weeks. Congress has abandoned the idea of going home, at a time when any day may bring need for quick and fateful decisions in which Congress should participate, because it has heard from the people. Democracy is staggering else“where in the world, but this is evidence that democracy is functioning here.

CITY HOSPITAL EXPANSION y TS 1939 report shows City Hospital continuing to do a

good job in the face of handicaps conceded to be con-

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Asks How ltalian-Americans Can Admire the New Italy in View of

Her Cowardly Attack on France EW YORK, June 21.—Let us take up the propo-

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sition that Americans wha came from Italy or |

who were born of Italian parents should feel pride in the achievements of Italy under Mussolini. The Italian consuls have been agitating this idea among the colonies of immigrants and sons of immigrants. They have been receiving assistance from a few halfAmericanized publishers: of Italian-language newspapers whose journalism is not a profession but a

treacherous racket preying on the very people whom they exhort. : One the other hand, there are American papers in the Italian language which preach patriotism to this country and constantly denounce Mussolini and Fascist Italy as a disgrace to the Italian character. But, as these publishers reject the graft that Mussolini throws in the way of the un-Ameri¢anized publishers, their newspaper product is less polished in the material and mechanical way. They run more to intellectual copy and have a hard time of it.

- It is my contention that any American of Italian |

birth or descent who has any feelings at all on the subject will writhe with shame and remorse.

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HE greatest stroke of the new Italy, of which these Americans are asked to speak with pride, was the most spectacular and wanton act of cowardice that has fouled the character of any nation in civilized times. At an Hour when the people of France were gasping for breath in a horrible struggle, when their women and children were stumbling over country roads and dying of wounds and exhaustion in dirty ditches, when the men and boys of France were using ordinary shoulder guns and bayonets ' against clanking monsters and bombing planes, the proud, valiant Italy of Mussolini, whose indomitable legions had run away at Guadelajara, still held the stiletto poised on the southern frontier, afraid to risk a bruise from a victim who was down. but not yet out. The Italians will never be allowed to forget that the brave Duce. withheld the deadly stab until he was absolutely certain that the French people were so weak from loss of blood that they could not even twitch. That is a damned. spot that will not out. It will be remembered long after Mussolini and Hitler are gone, and even the German$ mn’ ti to come, will taunt them and despise Italians for the cowardice of ‘their nation under the Duce.

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F Mussolini had gone into the war at once or had -moved in while the Battle of France was still developing, thus risking a small blow in behalf of the new Italy’s aspirations, he might have saved some shred of respectability. But the man who for many years had exhorted Italians to die like lions rather than live like sheep, disgraced the Italian nation and its people eternally. Military experts, of course, may say that he acted wisely and achieved great results at trifling cost. But human beings will not consider the strict military facts of the case. The human face will only remember that the Duce, who boasted of his ferocity and courage, was afraid to attack a dying man until he heard the blood gurgling in the victim’s throat. This is the new Italy in which Americans of Italian birth or blood are asked to take racial pride and which low and shameless ingrates who have prospered in the United States have the: effrontery to commend to decent Americans of Italian stock.

Inside Indianapolis

About Our New Aberdeen-Angus, Defense Preparations and Mr. Willkie

NE thing the census people haven't got is that Indianapolis now has the best bull in the whole state. It's an Aberdeen-Angus named “Envious Burgess B 6th” and it has just been purchased by William L. Fortune for the farm he operates with his son, Russell Fortune Jr. “Envious Burgess, etc.” comes from Iowa, where his sire was the international grand champion of 1939 and sold for $10,000. Meaning, of course, that “Burgess” is worth some cash himself. y Oh, yes, Burgess’ papa’s name. was “Envious Blackcap B 6th.” | .We don’t know why they're named that way. You'll have to write Purdue, we guess.

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ADD WAR REVERBERATIONS in Indianapolis: One large store is training some: of its girls to do the work now done by the male employees who are

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If Congressmen Go Home

The Hoosier Forum

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

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QUOTES LIVY TO SHOW HISTORY DOES REPEAT By F. 8, W. History sometimes does repeat itself. I have just read in Livy's history - that Hannibal's “admirable qualities were matched by as remarkable faults; + an inhuman cruelty, a more than Punic perfidy; no truth, no reverence, no fear of the gods, no respect for an oath, no scruple of religion.”

» » 2 SAYS THOSE WHO PROVIDE JOBS ALSO LABOR By Voice in the Crowd

In an Agricultural Age, when men wrested their living from the soil and some land owners owned unpaid slaves, Lincoln must have said that labor preceded capital and labor should have preference. The slaves of Lincoln’s day do not exist today. Men can change jobs or strike or loaf or better themselves, or do very much as they please.

If Lincoln lived today he would no doubt have a different meaning for capital and labor. He would not think in terms of common labor or skilled ‘labor, but all labor. The men who discover new jobs for labor, men in the laboratories, the heads of plants, men of the type of Ford, Knudsen, Stettenius, Sloan, men in all walks of life who take an active daily part in the production and distribution of goods would

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managed by production men instead of politicians who are “tanglefooted” in politics and red tape. In our National emergency we are about to go into a Socialistic era. We are going to have authority over us that will demand respect and be

obeyed. That era will be long or

short, depending on the individual strength of our people. Perhaps

even the Socialists will pray for its

ending long before it is over,

# ” ” GRATEFUL FOR OCEAN . PROTECTING AMERICA - By Francis T. Haag, Greenfield Well, the powder keg has at last exploded throwing the flames of war over most of Furope. Thank heavens there is a lot of water around our shores to quench the sparks before they land on this nation, The basic cause of war is hate and

Jealousy. This goes back to nearly

prehistoric times; when a man

standard of living is the highest of any country. Our freedom of sbeech, our personal liberty, as well as religious freedom have never been curtailed in any way. . It is the duty of every American to see that these privileges are safeguarded. I agree with you that it will be difficult to do but if we keep cur heads, our courage, and our faith, this menace will be whipped. The war in Europe cannot be settled by America. We have tried this before and failed, so all of our efforts should be centered in keep11:g America from war and the taint uf war—and make America for Americans, ® 2 8 TERMS PLANTING OF FEARS UN-AMERICAN By Marcelline Brucker 5 The planting of hysterical fears of the invasion of the United States in the minds of us American people is a monstrous act of un-American-ism. It is true that “it is not befitting to the people who built this nation.” The meddling in affairs abroad is useless because inevitable adjustments are taking place over which the United States can not possibly have any control. America’s help to the Allies in the first World War did. not solve any European problems. The Treaty of Versailles fathered the present war. The lust and hatred of Nazi lead-

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F. D. R. Fritters Away Precious Time | ling Proposals While

Essential hings Are | Neglected

VV AsHvaToN, June 21.—Sometimes the sheer ¥V. juggling skill "of the President | in keeping a flock of bright colored glass balls dancing in the air on one side of the stage, with an effect of diverting public attention away from some terrible flop in his act on the other side, is so dazzling that one can only gape at it In a sort of woozy wondes. Within the space of only three days, three sete pieces of fireworks of almost volcanic proportions and brilliance have heen touched off. (1) A vast PanAmerican cartel through which this nation would pool the export selling efforts of all the Americas. (2) A two-ocean navy to cost four billions and take five years. (3) Universal compulsory Federal training not “military” except in “the broadest sense” and including (“may, angels and ministers of grace defend us!”) not merely young men but also women. It is a marvel of the ages how one brain could in so short a time so suddenly conjure up so many sky swallowing projects, costing so many countless billions, reversing a whole prior course of conduct and toss

them off so lightly and with such machine-gun rapidity, : 2

2 2 =» T= three magnificent visions are bewildering— but the cold hard facts remain that, in spite of all the appropriations, the dangers, the. start and progress of which our Government helped or at least encouraged, creep menacingly closer. Due also - to

-| our Government's blunders or attention elsewhere, we

are not even partially equipped on land and in the air to repulse them.

What is the use of talking about becoming business agent at the risk of billions for 20-odd Latin-Amer= ican republics, when we haven't got from them any co-operation or the naval and air bases we need for their protection and our own? What aptitude or

| skill has this crowd shown for handling the economic

affairs of 20 countries? hash of our own.

A two-ocean navy we may need, but when this Administration got that advice from a distinguished and war-experienced veteran two years ago, its sneerit was our point on what we desperately need and could get in 12 months’ time and not on something with sa delivery date five years away. wi

It has made nothing but

“nuts.” . It is never too late to mend, but

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A= for this universal compulsory “youth moves ment”—not for strict military training but for vague general uplift, it is just a Hopkins universal boondoggling project on an astronomical scale—in= competent, irrelevant, immaterial—not ‘to mention unconstitutional, .-

It could have a slight by-product of military worth, but. it is adapted to everything else before military necessity and is as full of holes a$ a fish net—pree posterous, extravagant nonsense, If we can’t stop this magnificent monkey business and promptly get effective and realistic or, to put it bluntly, “hardboiled,” Herr Hitler is going to do our boiling for us—and maybe before snow flies,

Business By John T. Flynn

European Nations Facing Famine, a Factor Which May Win for British

3 EW YORK, June 21.—Tt is necessary now to make another examination of the economic factors ine volved in this war. It was predicted—and the writer Was among those who held this view—that, Germany could not survive more than a year of a war of action, And everything that we know now tends to confirm that view. : = But the Germany that confronts the world now is not the Germany which began the war, Hitler Has enormously extended the lands from ‘Which he can draw resources of all sorts. He has added Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Poland and now France to the dominions which, for the moment, can be made to supply him with coal, iron, oil, butter, meat, cheese, grain and many other products. In fact, already we read of plans to expand the ration cards of Gere mans on several substances. : Just what Is the measure of the added supplies Hitler has obtained for a long pull is not yet clear. First of “all, not only France and the Low Countries and Poland, but Germany herself, have suffered vast |

wanted something;%thie didn’t bother to barter for it, but rather went ‘ahead and took it: by force. This fame thing will happen again and again until such a time the people of Europe can be united under a common cause. I earnestly believe that the time is not far when all the countries in the eastern hemisphere will be bound together under a8 semblance of the system of our great nation, but until that time

ers are but a result of the famine and chaos of a defeated Germany. They could a second time build a war machine and arouse the spirit of revenge and aggression. We have bitter proof of the futility of trying to squelch any uprising that might not “make the world safe for democracy.” Let’s declare our independence of Allied propaganda and keep our|thinking clear. We must not send

losses in potential food ‘supplies for the coming year, Countries like Denmark, Belgium, Holland, northern France and Norway have much that Germany needs, But these countries are very far from being self-sufe ficient in the matter of food. ! 3 Where will Denmark and Holland and Belgium and northern France get the foods they require for theme selves in addition to those limited commodities they ‘produce? © It is difficult to escape the conviction that all these

countries face an appalling famine in the ¢

easily come under the meaning of labor .to Lincoln. Perhaps Lincoln would exclude only those who profit only as others lose, from his description of labor, The swindlers and the racketeers.

Practically all Americans labor. It is true that some managers are dishonest in their treatment and their pay. Not the most of them, but by far the least of them. It is

siderable able-bodied--and might be singled out by the Army

for defense service. . , . One of the State’s promiMore beds are needed in the contagious ward, much nent physicians tells us there is a big increase in paequipment is approaching obsolescence, buildings are de- louis suteiing fom Soman LS fo, osiy teriorating, the 30-year-old elevators are nearing the hazard | Methodist Hospital used to have two swastika-shaped classification and the water supply is “definitely unsatisfac- | hedges as part of the landscaping on the south side tory,” according to Superintendent Charles W. Myers. A modern psychopathic unit is of especial pressing

of the hospital. , . . Some of the hedge was ripped out this spring .and now there are just squares with gladioli in the center. ‘need, Dr. Myers points out in his report. The lack of ade- aa quate facilities in this branch has made it necessary to keep such patients in County Jail, a practice that ought to be abandoned as rapidly as possible. : When the time comes. for City officials to consider the manifold demands that will be made on them at budget time, the needs of the hospital should be high on the preferred list.

STALIN'S COMEUPPANCE?

| HE most hopeful sign on an otherwise gloomy horizon appears on the Lithuanian border. ‘German troops are lining up as a counter to Stalin's seizure of new Baltic territory, placing a half million Red troops close to Germany. Stockholm interpreters venture ‘the ‘opinion that Stalin feels his turn is next, “only the ‘&bell of the Russo-German: pact being left.” " | Such interpretation can’t be all wishful thinking, since it accords with the original Hitler program. - .Threading through “Mein Kampf” is the idea of a con‘quered France in order that Germany might turn eastward. | “Hitler had written, “the present rulers of Russia do not at all think of entering an alliance or of keeping one.” After ‘referring to them as “common bloodstained criminals,” the “scum of humanity,” liars, beats, and bloody oppressors, the Fuehrer said: “One does not conclude a treaty with someone ~ whose sole interest is the destruction of his partner.” | ‘But a treaty was concluded. And we have a hunch that Stalin has re-read that Mein Kampf line many -a time in recent months. Te : |

~The most accepted theory at the time of the Russo- ~ German alliance was that Stalin thought the war between | Germany and the Allies would be a long one on which he ‘would cash in when both had bled themselves white. Hitler’s strength and the blitzkriegs were underestimated. Now

with France no longer at Hitler's back, Stalin may under--

standably be wondering how soon his turn will come. | ~ Certain it is that there is plenty of lebensraum to the ast, no ocean and not even a Polish Corridor De he . natural and agricultural resources galore; and a people | whose record for fighting is not so hot. What the con Jueror ; the mighty armies of France would do to the Bolshics had such a hard time subduing little Finland would be thing fearful and wonderful to behold. firis Stalin, whom Leon Trotsky now calls the cheated er, may be headed for his comeuppance, |

WE'VE BEEN MEANING to tell you about the whispering ‘campaign going on here about Wendell Willkie. The story is to the effect that when Willkie was in Indianapolis he made an off-the-record talk to the press saying in effect that if it were up to him, he’d go to war in a minute. The latest chap who repeated the yarn said a “newspaper friend” had told him. He said it was what he didn’t like about Willkie—saying one thing for the record and believing something else. Truth is that Willkie’s off-the-record talk was no more, no less than what he says on the record—on the war or on any other subject.

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ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW tight the guard is at the Allison plant is the story about the representative of a local contracting company who got stuck out there. He took some plans out for inspection but failed to have them stamped and was stopped at the door by a guard who refused to let him pass. . ! “But I just brought them with me,” protested the agent. “Can’t help it,” replied the guard, getting out with them.” The result was a telephone call to the boss who had to go out to the plant to rescue him and the plans. 5

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ACATION time is here.and we may expect some - blitzkriegs of our own. They go on, in fact, most of the year, and outside of talk we seem to do very little to stop them. Motorists zoom down streets and highways with all the reckless speed of bombing planes. Yet the most potent influence: we possess to stop such dangerous driving—advertising—is still used largely to encourage speed. “Power to pass” seems to be the general idea behind gasoline salesmanship. For that reason, it’s heartening to see that one gasoline maker, Champlin of Enid, Okla. has started a new line. His latest billboard suggestions contain the sensible words: “Honestly, Now, What's Your Hurry?” The average driver is beguiled by the gentle jibe, Human nature being what it is, the reminder, ¢ontaining a suggestion of kidding, will do more good than a thousand:“Caution” or “Danger” signals. -We ‘are so. crazily constituted that the idea of danger ahead gives an added fillip to any trip. The young, especially, snap their fingers at the word “caution.” Like failure, it is not included in: their lexicon. : But their sense of humor is challenged by the phrase, “What's your hurry?” Usually there isn't ahyes are off to the nearest drug store for a coke, or out to spend the evening with the girl friend. Half an hour after their mad dash, you will probably find them cluttering up traffic. With one arm around the girl and the other managing the wheel, they think nothing of creeping down Main Street at 10 miles an hour. : For sheer childishness the average motorist takes the cake. Behind the wheel he seems impervious to reason. Maybe if he can see how funny he is, hurrying nowhere, we can prevail upon him to slow down.

true also, and perhaps in the same percentage, there are laborers who do not do an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.

Capital has a different meaning

today than it had in Lincoln's day. Perhaps Lincoln would tell you that capital is labor, that it is the savings from work that has been done. Capital is preserved labor, it is the

result of careful management and it-

is the seed from which labor’s jobs grow. Men should encourage and not frighten against the use of that seed. Men of understanding are going to be thankful for our large capital investments that can now be turned to the production of National needs,

there will always be bickering and petty grievances.

We've all been through this, or

I should say our forefathers have. iv was due to their foresightedness that this grand country of ours was

fcunded—to escape from the hate

and jealousy that ran so rampant even then. Our duties lie not by

sending our troops to Europe but

in keeping them here to defend America. ike -teeth nation on earth will attempt to attack us. Even at this time the influence of America is felt throughout the civilized world. We have 1ast few years become the ¢ srt, culture and business,

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126,000 of our American boys to be killed and 224,000 to be wounded, nor waste the 45 billions of dollars that the last war cost us. To destroy our happiness and security, to jeopardize our present, black-out our successful futures with a repetition of what followed our participation in the last war would be the worst barbaric monstrosity that ever happened in the history of America. ” ” ” LAUDS HEMMER’S RECORD AS STATE FARM CHIEF By William Lemon I notice where the Democrats have mentioned Supt. Hemmer as a possible candidate for Lieutenant Governor. : J : When he was appointed superintendent of the State Penal Farm it

[| was known as “Indiana’s own Hell

Hole” and was exposed by the ever alert “Times.” : : Supt. Hemmer abolished corporial punishment, the “chain gang,” the prison food distributing system instituting a “steam table method” for serving meals, issued State tobacco, allowed the men to smoke cigarets, has a library and moving picture shows, and made and saved money for the State. Using President Roosevelt’s humanitarian system of kindness he has the best disciplined penal institution in the U. S. A. and to the old timers now it’s the “Patch,” not the “Hell Hole.”

WILD ROSES By VERNE S. MOORE Have you ever walked among the wild rose blooms in June Where the pink cascades are sprawling, Where the graceful vines are crawling, : % And the vesper sparrow calling? Come let us walk among the wild rose blooms: in June.

DAILY THOUGHT

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of ‘your fingers.— Luke 11:46. :

LAWYERS on opposite sides of .& case are like the two parts of shears; they cut what comes between them, but not each other. —D, Webster, Lei :

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year. We may assume that when this comes Germans will be the last to feel it. But they cannot escape,

Cattle Losses Staggering

First, Germany herself has not planted enough crops for the coming year. She has had to slaughter Poultry and other stock which must live upon foods which - humans must share with them. Losses of cattle in the Low Countries are said to be terrifying, The rulers of this new German empire may find themselves the rulers of a population which is sullen from hunger and disease. They may not revolt—for revolt requires the tools of revolt, which they do not have. But that population may have but little will to fight. . All this is in the domain of speculation. Certainly we can say that Germany’s problem of food and steel and coal is selved for the moment, first by access to large supplies, and second, by her ability to get those supplies without having to face exchange problems, The question is how much time do these accessions add:to Germany's battle tenure. . This is the issue upon which Britain gambles now, There ‘remains one great ally—the ally which has conquered more empires than the soldiers have laid low—famine and disease. These alone can win for England now. And they are not entirely unavailable,

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

YTTaMy E, discovered almost 20 years ago, has recently begun to steal some of the spotlight from other, more recently discovered vitamins and is at present giving scientists a new puzzle, or series of them, to solve. This vitamin is the anti-sterility vitamin so called because female rats cannot bear young when their diet lacks this vitamin. Degeneration of the Treproductive cells in male rats is also produced by.lack of this vitamin. The vitamin is found in a number of natural vegetable oils, such as those of wheat germs, rice germs, cotton seed, andsin lettuce. The vitam itself has been isolated from wheat germ oil and has been christened by its discoverer, Prof. Herbert M. Evans, of the University of California, with the Greek name tocopherol, signifying “alcohol promoting child birth.” If has also been synthesized. Tafa Since its discovery, this vitamin has been given to women who wanted to become mothers but whose unborn babies always died in the earliest stages of pre-birth development. It has also been given to mothers who could not nurse their babies. Good results have been reported in such cases, but critical scientists still hesitate to ascribe the results to the vitamin treatment. There is no proof, they contend, that the mothers who had babies after the vitamin treatment would not have had them anyway. The chances are good that they would, even if they had lost one, two or three babies previously. = Vitamin E, however, has unexpectedly shown itself useful in treatment of quite a number of other - different conditions. Among these are diseases of

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wasting, weakened muscles and of nerve degeneration