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COMPIEGNE TF revenge is sweet, the little corporal who rode the light- ~ ning to avenge Versailles should be replete today. The . humble of 1918 are the mighty now. Will those who railed at the “injustices” and “broken _, promises” of the last peace prove the sincerity of their complaints? Or will they demand the pound of flesh? zi The terms of the armistice will not tell the story. With - soldiers still at grips, it is too much to expect less than a * demand for unccnditional capitulation. : : But when the time comes for a formal peace, will Hitler be guided by hatred and blind imperialism alone, or will he | Permit the sort of peace that by his own Jaton Ver~sailles should have been? On his record, the endless chain of wihiapt guarantees which has .been his bridge from Munich to. Compiegne, it “is too much to hope. : = pia

: FOR GREATER SAFETY | HE Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce has made a highly intelligent step in moving to consolidate all : of this city’s various safety organizations into one big .- permanent organization under a full-time traffic expert. In addition to the Governor's Safety Council, which is "a state-wide organization, there have been five major ~ groups functioning in ‘the interest of greater safety. The scores of men and women who have served so unselfishly in these various groups undoubtedly will be the first to see the wisdom of a merger into one organization. Indianapolis needs to take many strides before it can claim any laurels for its safety program. A single, hardhitting commission, on the job all the time, can produce real results. And by real results we mean the saving of lives.

JOHN L. AND THE G. O. P.

OT so strange as many people seem to think is the ap- - pearance of John L. Lewis as a prominent figure in the Philadelphia picture. But strange indeed is the enthusi_asms some Republicans are displaying over the tentative return of their wandering boy. It raises a question: Are Republicans suckers? Quite some time has passed since Mr. Lewis was a Republican. He deserted Herbert Hoover in 1932, and in 1936 he helped in Franklin D. Roosevelt's re-election to the tune

of some half-million dollars from the United Mine Soke?

treasury. The Republicans have spent most of the last seven years taunting the Democrats for catering and kowtowing to the man with the eyebrows. Of late, however, Mr. Lewis has grown restive. He “wasn’t getting all he wanted from the Democrats. A few weeks ago he was appealing to a Communistic N egro| organization, the very Red Youth Congress and the Townsendites to join him in a new political party. Now, having spoken a few kind words for Mr. Hoover, he shows up before the Republican Resolutions Committee to speak some most unkind words of Mr. Roosevelt. And the Republicans greet him with handshaking, - back-slapping, shouts and hurrahs.. We can understand why Mr. Lewis is once more snuggling up to the Republicans. But, unless it is that they're just too naive for this realistic world, we can’t understand - why some Republicans are now puckering their pe and asking to be kissed.

THE YEAR IS 1940 | SOME of the Republicans now issuing statements in Philadelphia need to be reminded that this is 1940—not 1924 -or 1908 or 1896. They are trying to stop Wendell Willkie by citing the very facts that started him as the most spectacular contender for the Presidential nomination. (His vote in the Gallup Poll hit 29 per cent yesterday. It was 3 per cent in early May, 10 per cent at the end of that month, 17 per cent a week ago.) “Why,” they say, “the man used to be a Democrat. He voted for Roosevelt in 1932. He registered as a Republican only last year.” | - That's all true, and what of it? These gentlemen don’t seem to realize that the Republican Party is no longer the majority party—that there aren’t enough dyed-in-the-wool Republicans to carry a national election—that they can’t win unless they can attract millions. of Democratic and independent voters—and that Willkie offers them their best chance to attract such voters. 3 | » a # # O with their other “Stop Willkie’ Wl hel | Willkie is a business man, not a politician. True. And _ was there ever a time when the country more needed busi"ness sense in the conduct of its affairs? Was there ever a _ time when average people had less interest i in thoes politics and orthodox politicians? He is a public-utility executive. { True. He is a utility executive who has made an outstanding success by initiat_ing and carrying out the policy which that industry, and all American industry, needs to follow—lower prices, more “sales, increased production. He has never been in government service. True, except for his two years as a soldier. But since 1983 no private citizen, has dealt more constantly with government, studied it more intelligently or won more respect for the breadth and accuracy of his knowledge of government meth Enthusiasm for Willkie has grown as the cou learned that there is one potential Republican who is not a hidebound partisan, a professional p olitician ora perennial office-seeker, but a man specially equipped for the job of getting industry and government, into a “high gear for national defense and national recove Enthusiasm for other aspirants—what there was of it—has “declined. | If the statement-issuers at Philadelphia stop Willkie they will kill their party’s best hope, and as it now popears only hope, for success in November,

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

of Frivolous Amusement May Be

EW YORK, June 22.—Glancing about for the causes of our confusion and lack of confidence at the moment, I wonder if there is any meaning in the fact that amusement is one of the greatest interests of Americans and the provision of amusement a major industry. I am tempted to say that we pay more attention to amusement than to work, but that is a tricky proposition, and I will just hedge. However, it is easy to say that we take more in-

terest in entertainment than in religion or civic duties and make the point. We spend

church or in pious works, and millions know the pedigrees and divorce records of moving picture actors who don’t know the names of their Congress. men.

ties, and -for years we have been giving an enormous spread of space in print to sports of entertainment, including the night club shows.

A USIC, tod, or those ghastly sounds ‘which we accept as music, is an important interest ‘of ours, so big, measured by its revenues, that we have ‘created a great musical trust. - If it were good music, well played or sung, that interest would be a benefit, but it is mostly horrible and made worse by strident and cynical instrumental work and by singers who can’t sing but moo and yowl. Since the first World War the amusement trade as a whole has become a giant in size and influence, as though frivolity and drinking were sturdy essentials of American existence. Even in rural districts the juke, or dump, has become & numerous institution. the country equivalent of the night club. The artificial ugliness which defiles the natural beauty of Saratoga and the surrounding country and of the Catskills has been duplicated in the lake and mountain areas almost everywhere—all in the name of amusement. Some of our colleges actually conduct courses, usually for more or less professional numskull athletes of the varsity, by which meaty giants are prepared for no other task than to teach other people to play, as though play were a trade or occupation of itself requiring tutored skill. We have gone mad about individual athletes and spert events in which from eight to a dozen men performed and from 50,000 to 100,000 other Americans sit by as mere spectators. That has become our-concept of sport. ” ” J

HE movies represent an investment and turnover which are, in the cinema’s own word, colossal, and we are so infatuated by the personalities of actresses, joke tellers and crooners that the mere trade of gossiping about them has raised several individuals in journalism and radio to lofty brackets in the income tax. Celebrity has been given to people merely for discussing celebrities. Americans always have been hard drinkers, and we now outdrink all other peoples by a still greater margin in quantity and alcoholic power, and hangover remedies are in such demand that some brands can afford to advertise widely in print and by air. Maybe we ain't been living right.

Inside Indianapolis

Roscoe Turner, Whose Uniform Means Thousands of Dollars to Him

cn of the week: Col. Roscoe Turner, whose Indianapolis training school for fliers may become one of the key points in the national defense program. After bouncing all over the United States, living out of trunks in one hotel after another, Roscoe ‘Turner has decided that when you get to be 44, you've got to settle down. To a city which has tied itself to aviation as one of its major industries, Col. Turner is a welcome addition. The Colonel—it’s a reserve commission—is 6 feet, 1 and weighs about 225. He has light blue eyes and a clear complexion unusual in a man. He has powerful hands and huge shoulders. Once he was asked point-blank about his perfectly pointed mustache. “I use wing dope on it,” he laughed. Wing dope, if you must know, is sticky stuff used to keep wing coverings ory the spars: A Col. Turner probably uses wax:

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HE DOESN'T TALK much about the uniform he wears almost all the time.. Truth is, it’s a tongue-in-the-cheek matter with him. It’s his trademark and means thousands of dollars a year. His uniforms are tailored—blue coat, faun slacks, brown shoes, faun cap with military insignia on the visor, gold wings on the coat. Turner was born in*Corinth, Miss., and started. riding the. world’s slowest transportation—a mule pulling a plow. Needless to say, he reached his peak riding the fastest, his Turner-Laird Special, which won him the Thompson Trophy. Incidentally, .nobody has ever flown that plane but Turner. You can see it every once in a while at the Municipal Airport, a shubby-winged ship that actually looks mean. It is. It has only a 24-foot wingspread with a 1300-horsepower motor. So powerful is the motor and so small the plane that Turner doesn’t dare use

“more than 60 per cent throttle at the takeoff.

» ” » ROSCOE TURNER'S LIFE is a machine-gun picture of hard knocks. It’s improbable that he ever went past elementary school. Once he had to sell an expensive racing plane so that he could get enough money to eat. Significant is the fact that he drive extremely careful in an automobile. He has two cars, a long phaeton and a station wagon. He used to play golf and tennis, but doesn't any more. He has been so busy the last few years that he has stopped all exercise and he has started adding weight. He flies to New York each week for his radio broadcast and he likes to take a group of his local pals in his tri-motored ship. Roscoe Turner likes to pretend that he’s the hardest-boiled man in the world. But the truth is that he isn’t. .And he wants to make his radio progrom go over not only because it’s a good spot, but because he is’ actually crazy about boys. In his own language, they're “the nuts.”

A Woman’ Ss Viewpoint

By Mes. Walter Ferguson

ASSoEAan MACLEISH puts his finger upon a sore spot in our democracy when he charges that the younger generation is distrustful of all moral Judgments and therefore ill equipped to meet enemies, whether they come in tanks or fifth columns. If the charge is true—and who can deny it?—the blame does not lie wholly within the realm of patriotic concepts, which is the point of view discussed

social scene, where the elders were too weak-kneed to practice the principles they preached. Although a large part of our population after the World War did not approve when serious things were ‘treated flippantly and unimportant matters regarded seriously, they fell under the spell of the word-weavers —writers, lecturers and Folfielans--Wio pointed the way to a new order. “What the hell?” became a national slogag. One breakdown followed another, with Mother and Dad hurrying to imitate rather than lead the Shilgsen. First the word “duty” went into the discard. bother about your old parents; let Uncle Sam Dani after them. You have the right to live your own life. Next divorce became ultra smart. What does it matter about the children? You owe it to yourself to be happy no matter whom you smash. Then teetotalers were regarded as a little queer

since drinking is so fashionable with the upper classes. Presently saving and simplicity were out of style.

WPA _and other political setups, enough to turn the stomach of honest men and women. ‘As we look back, is it strange that the younger gen-

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by Mr. MacLeish. It lies also in our domestic and.

in the head. The young must be taught how to drink, |

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DEFENDS UNEMPLOYED AS PROSPECTIVE JURORS By Guy D. Sallee

On June 16th Judge Wilson of Superior Court was quoted in the press as favoring employed men for jury service in preference to the unemployed. . He is credited with approving the acts of employers who have agreed to pay the difference in wages his employee receives and what is paid to a juror in his Court. He indicts the unemployed as having physical defects, even though he has not qualified as a medico. He claims the unemployed have a mental outlook on society which prevents them from being good jurors in his Court. He confounds society with courts, and leaves no distinction between them, whereas society is produeed by our wants, and it should unite our affections, and remain a patron. Courts restrain our vices, and create distinction as Judge Wilson's public statement shows. positively. Society in every state is a blessing, but when unemployed suffer, they are exposed to the same miseries by a government which would be expected in a country without a government, » » ”

THINKS BRITISH EMPIRE HAS OUTLIVED ‘USEFULNESS

| By Rose Gordon LeVan

At the risk of being dumped into the fifth column and having the FBI investigate me on a charge of being a spy, I'm taking advantage of my Constitutional right to speak my piece while it is still a reality. It is to say that politically I have no sympathy for the British and Frénch. We're all “het up” about helping them to the limit of our ability now, and some are even advocating that we send over an army, But we successfully resisted the impulse when it was the Poles, the Norwegians, the Czechoslovaks, and the Austrians who were in trouble. And most of our people here are descendants from natives of those countries. Why should we rush headlong into a war on the side of a2 nation which has comparatively few representatives here? So far as I'm concerned it’s all right with me if the British Empire, and French, too, passes into

history. © It has had its day of

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usefulness. England would probably have not gone into this war if not assured of help from this country. If it had not, the terrible slaughter would at least have been prevented. I think we made a mistake in lifting the arms embargo. The more the President shows his hand the more we are convinced that he must have made an agreement with the British ds did Wilson before World War I. The clearer it becomes also that he wants a third term to sit in the seat of power when it is over and accomplish what "Wilson failed to do. Personally, I have always resented the scorn, and contempt the British have expressed so freely for the “uncouth and barbarous” Americans—not only refusing to pay their just debts to us but holding us up to ridicule for asking that it be paid. And it isn’t increased now that through their own shortsightedness -they are faced with extinction and come appealing to us to save them again. The fact that we're doing it proves tnat “once a sap, always a sap.” It's the people who get my pity. they didn't ask for it, but how they must fight for their very homes which were risked earlier by stupid leaders. Help them through the Red Cross and such agencies, by all means, but not politically and most certainly not with the military. ” u ” ENDING FIFTH COLUMNS

SEEN AS FIRST DUTY

By Maurice G. Merriman The very foundation on which a nation stands is its home defenses. What good does any defense do, or how long can it stand when it is besieged from all sides. . Why should the U. S. A. be so foolish as to attempt to build up an army for defense without first tear-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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ing down the attackers in the rear? We boys can not fight a good fight if we are attacked in front, then have a knife stabbed in our backs by the “Fifth Columnist” thrives behind our lines. Our first step in a national defense should be to place all members of foreign bunds and isms in concentration camps. We should first establish a firing squad, and let it be active 24 hours & day for about a month. Then, when we start to build planes and expand our factories, there will be very little chance for sabotage. The enemy preaches and practices fear. Let us take the enemy's weapon and beat him at his war. I am a young man, just ripe for the ‘Army, and I believe I realize the seriousness of the conditions we are in. Also I believe very firmly that we must deal with this new threat to our civilization as harshly as| we possibly can. We must face the cold facts. That is: We must fight, fight and struggle for what we have and get in this cruel harsh world which is full of isms. It took blood to free America. It will take blood to keep it free. In our blood there is power and free-

‘dom, but first we must destroy the

enemy that will stab us in the back. # ” ” FEARS DEFEAT IF WE ENTER THE WAR NOW By Dellora L. Hancock

What suicidal folly it would be for us to enter the conflict! Unprepared as we are, shortly we would feel the heel of Hitler on our necks even as have Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium and now France. Is it not unwise for us to send so much of what armaments we do possess to tlre Allies before we get more to take its place? Much of what we have sent has already been taken by the ‘German Army. Can we not render a greater service to the Allies, to democracy,

tic system by following a hands-o policy which will keep our bodies minds and treasuries intact? Without body, mind, or money how can we a prosperous democratic nation,” able to lend our resources to downtrodden peoples for rebuilding their homes, their hospitals, their universities, and other centers of civilization and culture?

» ” » CRITICIZES STORE'S REASON FOR CLOSING By a Taxpayer Monday I passed by a furniture

3 not so. to the preservation of our rands-orl service.

store on E, Washington St. crying!

about taxes, etc. driving them out of business. Couldn’t it really be that they .have made enough money" to retire? It seems other furniture stores are doing all right, Maybe they should go to Europe | where they would have taxes to cry For my part if this company was practically giving furniture away, I would not step foot inside the store, but go to another store and buy and pay the price (tax included). I imagine a “Going out of business” sign would draw as large an amount of customers, and possibly more, and at much less expense than the unsightly signs now on the windows.

EXCEPTIONS By BEE HUGHES This is a wonderful world, For you'll find that most of the time, The majority of the people, Are usually very kind,

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We don’t hate anyhody, Altho’ it's very true, That sometimes we do detest Some of the things they do.

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But thou, O Lord, art a shield . for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. —Psalms 3:3.

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Knox and Stimson Faver War and Their Selection to Cabinet Indicates Roosevelt Intends to Involve Us

ASHINTON, June 22.—The selection of the Republicans, Mr. Knox and Mr, Stimson, as Secretaries of Navy and War respecti¥ely has a poisonous significance. They are both ardent tom-tom beaters for war. Mr. Stimson has been raising his voice

| for us to repeat the follies of 1917 and 1918 in a

steadily increasing clamor until his most recent blasts insisted on our convoying contraband of war to

not stopped he is going to take this country into war as soon_as possible whether it wants to go or not— about 85 per cent majority, it doesn't want to go. It is a-crazy course attempted in part as a clever little scheme to range the Republicans as a war party by selecting t d of the few Republicans who share that madness. | It is no coalition with Republice an leaders. It is a coalition of war-minded men. : | ® x = B® men are leading citizens with honorable and distinguished records. Mr. Stimson was at one time Secretary of War and at another, Secretary of State. In neither position did he leave any record that would recommend him as a great Cabinet minister. As Secretary of State he was ready to use force to oppose Japan in’ Manchukuo, a course which, however high-minded, would have been fatal to the American strategical position in the Far East. In an uneventful term as Secretary of War, he was a rather pompous nonentity. He is now 73. Both have served as volunteer temporary Army officers in time of war—Mr. Knox in two wars. There can be nothing but praise for that patriotic and high-minded performance. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Such temporary service in relatively subordinate commands sometimes—fortunately not frequently—leaves the “veteran” with the conviction that providence really intended him as =z later-day Napoleon—or at least .a master of strategy

logistics and tactics. 2 ; ” ” »

HAT is true in both these cases. In both, this conviction has persuaded these men that we should commence firing tomorrow—before we get guns to fire. That strategic folly is another danger of this blitzkrieg move: Surely the President doesn’t feel the need of any such expert amateur military and naval advice. He shares’ a similar conviction about his own powers in these fields.- It was obviously not with any idea to

| improve technical preparedness that this move was

made. It will have a reverse effect. It is too clearly a pure political gesture in an election year—the “goalition-cabinet” slickness that the White House has denied intending. Mr. Stimson won’t do the War Department any good. It will take months to educate him in the completely changed condition since he left—and his i fhe sort of inflexible mind which does not filter ‘fast. : This is a cruel blow to the fine work that has been done—especially recently—by Louis Johnson in the office of Assistant Secretary of War.

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Business By John T. Flynn

F. D. R. Favors War Despite Claim He Was Leader of Real Neutrality

EW YORK, June 22.—Behind all this hysterical drive to turn America into a military camp are factors and forces upon which the light of day has not yet been turned. It is a fact that responsible Americans in Europe, some of them high officials, have been predicting that America would be in this war within a month. Who are these men? What is their authority for the assurances they feel that this country is to be in this war? Where does this originate? There has been in Washington and in Europe the feeling in very high quarters that some sort of coms mitments have been given somewhere by someone, Who? What are they? It is a matter of deadly seri» ousness to the American people. "There is plenty of reason to believe that the people have not been dealt withk honestly. Take two mate trs—neutrality and militarism. In September the President denounced the supporters of the Neutrality Act, demanded its revision, declared he was the leader of those who were for true neutrality and that it was his determination to keep America cut of the ‘war. Now is it not clear that he was not for neutrality and that, when he said that, he was not revealing his mind to the people? He said he was going to keep us out of the war, But he must have known as well as anybody else that in the war just then beginning either the Gers

' mans or’ the English might lose. He said unequivos

cally he would keep us out. He did not say he would keep us out unless the English and French were losing. He did not reveal his whole intention, For now that France and England are losing he is intriguing, fighting to draw us in.

Always Favored Compulsory Service

Take the matter of compulsory military service. Mind, what the President is now. urging is not cons scription for this war but compulsory service—cone

-scription, the draft, as a continuing policy.

Perhaps you" think the President has been driven to this drastic step because of events. But this is He has always been for compulsory military He said so in 1920. He has never changed his mind. This is something he has dreamed of. But the people did not know this when they elected: him. In 1932 he did not come out and say: “I favor a permanent draft army for America.” That is the Prussian system of compulsory armies. He did not say it, because if he had he would have been defeated overwhelmingly. : Instead he said the direct opposite. Then the Hoover Administration was spending five or six hun dred millions a year on defense. Mr, Roosevelt des nounced Mr. Hoover for spending so much. Men and women might take a look at their young sons who will be ground up in this dreadful war . and ask themselves if it is not time to quit being hysterical.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford :

Ns the body for correct posture and propes use will help prevent arthritis, widespread disabling condition that;used to be known as rheumas= tism. In some cases, physical training may even rem« edy the condition. How and why body training can achieve this is explained by Dr. Joel E. Goldthwait of Boston in a report to the Journal of Health and . Physical Education. The person who habitually sits and stands cor= rectly is not putting any undue strain on his muscles and joints and can expect them and the organs of: his body to function normally, Dr. Goldthwait points out. “When the body is relaxed or drooped, the weight is thrown wrongly upon the feet and they gradually become flattened,” he explains. “The knees are sprung and gradually become relaxed; the spine becomes rounded, with the lumbar spine more hollowed than is normal; the shoulders droop or sag forward, and the head protrudes. ” : Under such conditions, strain of the feet, knees, lower back, shoulders and neck is inevitable. The sagging of the chest lowers the ribs, and this lowers the: diaphragm which is attached to the ribs, Since most: organs of the abdomen are attached to the diaphragm. and the heart and Junes rest on it, sagging of the diaphragm must lead .to sagging of the internal organs. : This condition of the internal may lead to faulty body chemistry, which, combined with joint weakness from poor posture sets the stage, Dr. Goldthwait says, for development of the chronic 8 disease; the most common being arthritis In Alyy Ensue of arthritis, he says, be arrested if the normal mechanism