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TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1940

A DE-MECHANIZED CONVENTION HE mechanized warfare of Europe has de-mechanized the Republican National Convention. In the face of danger from abroad, those gathered at Philadelphia are hearing from home. No matter who finally is nominated, this up to now is no true-to-form affair. It is something new that baffles candidates, managers, and those who would be boss. The grassroots are rooting. Never in our time have machine politics been so feeble and the public so vocal as on this, the second day of the Philadelphia gathering. That explains in part the remarkable prominence in the picture of Wendell Willkie, the man who came from polities) nowhere. Willkie’s individual part in all this is of course im“portant. But beyond that is a force which runs deeper than any individual; a force generated from the gations days in which we live. The people in this summernof 1940 are demanding their say about what’s going on. They are not waiting until November. They are not satisfied simply to let those who finance and organize and thimblerig conventions run this one. They are making themselves heard. And because Willkie typifies the unconventional, while also making a strong appeal in his own right, there has risen a spontaneous expression which today makes him a contender against whom the strategy of every other aspirant is being directed. . A revolt against the cut-and-dried is happening. A crisis—the most serious in our time—has brought forth a rebirth of public concern ‘about a fundamental process int our government. That rebirth is being expressed by the greatest flood of messages from home that ever poured in on a Republican National Convention.

THE KEYNOTE SPEECH (GOVERNOR STASSEN did a good job of keyholling for the Republicans last night. ‘His indictment of the New Deal was ternperate in language, calm in tone, and sound in its declaration that the opposition party serves this democracy well in a time of crisis by frank appraisal and fair criticism of the incumbent leadership.

Democrats would have found it easier to answer a shrill, violent attack—the type of attack upon which all too many Republicans, in the last seven years, have risked .apoplexy. Governor Stassen placed first Shs where it belongs, on national preparedness to meet any threat to American safety from “the black shadow of despotism.” It is true that millions wasted on Passamaquoddies and Florida ship canals might have been spent instead for defense. It is true that the President has been clever, rather than candid, in attempting’ to put his Administration’s defense record in the best light. It is true that he has fol- ~ lowed the people, instead of leading them, in ‘such moves as . have been made toward sacrifice and toward co-ordination of industry and labor for the production of defense necessities. And it is true, as the Republican keynoter said, that— “For too long a time our foreign policy has been one of a big noise and a little stick, and even that little stick ‘on - order.” We need again a calm, resolute voice and a big stick.” ® » 2 : » ” ” : OVERNOR STASSEN shrewdly challenged the Administration’s ability to lead in defense against fifth columns. ~ Many in the Administration have given comfort to those now recognized as enemies within. Many New Dealers have disregarded protests against subversive activities. They have “smiled ang reached over and patted the flanks of the , trojan orse.” Republican charges of New Deal failure in the field of domestic economic welfare are familiar, The keynoter i stated them ably—the extension of Governmental powers; +. the bureaucratic abuses; the refusal to recognize that Government’s role should be to aid private enterprise not to substitute for it; the extravagance; the punitive taxation; . the combining of functions, legislative, executive and judicial, which should be kept separate—through seven years, .at the end of which “jobs for the unemployed and parity for agriculture are not on hand but still ‘on order’.” The speech was a telling indictment, and one that the ‘Democrats must meet. But it is not enough for the Republicans to present a bill of complaint. They, have yet to convince the country that they can “succeed where the Democrats have failed. Their keynote has been sounded, but the more important task is ahead— to adopt a platform that meets the issues honestly and completely, and to nominaté a candidate in whom the people can recognize ability and determination to keep the plat-

form’s promises.

‘A TREND TO WATCH a Po a figures released by census authorities show that Marion County is growing at a slighty - more rapid rate than the City of Indianapolis. "The county’s population stands at 456,669, a gain of ~ 84,003, while the Indianapolis total of 386,170 represents i a gain of 22,009 in the last decade. That is approximately ~ a 6 per cent gain in the city and 8 per cent in the county. Fortunately, this differential is not as large as many - feared it would be, yet it represents a trend which will : be a source of steadily increasing anxiety as it increases. * There can be no question that smoke, congestion, higher ' tax rates and the like are sending more and more residents ' to outlying sections and even to smaller cities outside the : county. Obviously, if the trend continues, it cannot fail

© to result in serious repercussions in Indianapolis.

: The parent city, where most of these people work, ~ cannot continue to supply all manner of city services and _benefits for a large population that contributes little to the support of these services. We may yet have to take a look at some county-wide governmgntal plans,

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Hitler Is Not Actually Present at Convention, But—How G. O. P. Leaders Wish He'd Go Away!

tics entirely by ear it seems that the gatherings of the Republicans in Philadelphia for their second attempt to turn the rascals out is pervaded by a feeling that Adolf Hitler is watching them, and that he will have more influence in the affairs of the United States in the next four years than the next President, whatever his party. Was any American

political party so cruelly tricked out of a long-awaited,

unhampered turn at bat? For seven years and more the Republicans have taken their welts and, like the Germans under Versailles, have brooded on their wrongs and pined for the hour of revenge and triumph over President Roosevelt and Eleanor, Corcoran, Cohen, Ickes, Leon Henderson and a thousand of their obscure and me-

‘diocre but pestiferous little people would be dumped

out of their public quarters in Washington and, like the bums in the Midwestern tanks 20 years ago, given a certain number of hours fo get out of town. 2 » ” ; HEN at the very last hour this Europe and this foreigner, has intruded in the situation and their grievances against the New Deal become mere recrimination and destructive and purely partisan politics in the presence of a common enemy. There are a thousand orators in the lobbies and rooms of the Ritz, the Bellevue-Stratford and a couple of other Philadelphia hotels at the moment who could shake the plaster off the walls with the power and stridency of their bawling on any issue or none whatever, but all of them snorting and howling together into a thousand microphones with the power to enlarge .their noise a thousand-fold would produce only a whisper by comparison with the silent but ominous voice of Adolf Hitler over the U. S. A. -The German Fuehrer isn’t here, but oh, how they wish he’d go away and let the Republican Party reclaim for one sweet week the silly, shallow absurdity of those years when band music, red fire, red eye and sheer loudness constituted a national convention. ” 2 o

HEIR only appeal, whoever their candidate, must be a promise that if they are hired to run the country they will rearm better and faster than Roose-

| velt can, and that meanwhile they will eliminate the

likes of Biil Bullitt, speak softly, and by all the wiles

of diplomacy, humility and hypocrisy endeavor to keep out of war until the nation is musclefl for a struggle. This bespgaks appeasement of a sort and a presumption that Hitler is fool enough to hold still while the U. S. A. goes into training. They can’t promise not to fight, however, or even that they won’t fight off the home grounds, for Hitler will decide whether war shall be and where, and Hitler is the problem before the national convention of the Republican Party and other interests are mentioned only in a pathetic attempt to change the subject. In this situation the reunion of the morose and worried men and women of the party is recognizable by few of the old sounds and antics. Never half as rude and raucous as the Demacrats at their carnivals, the Republicans this year are almost mournful and are pulling against themselves in a juvenile resentment against the phenomenon cf Wendell Willkie, afraid they will nominate him, but more afraid of another licking if they nominate anyone else.

Inside Indianapolis

Mr. Stewart Donnelly and Slugs: 'The Voice' Again and About Hair-Dos

E are in receipt of a letter, as they say, from Mr. Stewart Donnelly, the internationally known confidence man. Last winter, there was published in most of the newspapers of the United States a story from Miami, Fla. to the effect that Mr. Donnelly had been arrested there for using slugs in a public telephone.

Mr. nelly resents this story ‘intensely. In his Roe, “It is a known fact that I have

spent hundreds of dollars~on local, long-distance, international, and rans Mii calls and have never in my whole life -stooped | to such a contemptible thing as to use @ slug in a \phone.” His letter asks that the story be corrected “in justice to my wife and family. » 2 #8 \# IT WAS ALL VERY confusing. The traffic lights were out of order yesterday morning between 11 a. m. and noon, but they were still burning, green on one side, red on the other. Traffic officers were rushed into action and they were busily keeping motor and pedestrian traffic going at a brisk pace. And then from the air came “The Voice,” the Police Department’s roving amplifier. : “Shouldn't jaywalk!” roared The Voice. cross against the green light!” | Even the traffic officers sort of drooped with despair.

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ANTON SCHERRER, who has an eye for such things, usually beats us to the punch on women’s fashions, but we're ahead of him on this one: The upswept hair-do is making a comback here . . . For as long as anyone can remember, the jury chairs in Criminal Court have a dark brown. . . . Yesterday, the chairs were washed. . And they turned out red. . . . The arrival of Russell Fortune III makes William IL. Fortune, local Red Cross chief, a great-grandfather. . . . Incidentally, Ira Haymaker, County Democratic Chairman, is a proud grandpa. . . The Ira Haymaker Juniors are the parents of a haby girl. , . A North Side woman lost her jeweled wristwatch recently and advertised for its return offering a reward. . .. The other day she got a telephone call, . . , “How much reward?” asked the man on the other end. .. . “Three dollars,” she replied. . . . “Nuts,” said the man, “I can get more than that at a pawnshop.”, . . He hung up, too,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Honor is always better than foresight. Remembering the truism, and in the light of recent events, it looks-as if the major mistake of modern history was made when the United States declared war against Germany in 1917. England, France and Italy were fighting with their backs to the wall. But Germany was also exhausting her strength. Without our intervention, a permanent peace might have been arranged among those hapless and harassed nations. Morzsover, compared to Hitler, the Kaiser was a kind and reasonable man, although to be sure we called him all the foul names we now sling at Adolf. He was also kin to many of the other crowned heads of Europe, and there was no fear that his soldiers would ever invade our shores. Therefore, if we had stayed home whete we belonged, it is probable that Old Germany would have gained some of her territorial demands in the peace settlement. Her people would never have felt themselves persecuted by the world nor welcomed such a man as Hitler. Is it, therefore, unreasonable to believe the major hatreds: of Europe could have been partially appeased? At least, reason instead of revenge might have the right of way. And while all might not have been well, all would certainly have been better than it is now. But, no! The crusading spirit took possession of the United States. Off we started on the maddest fool's errand ever attempted by sensible people. Because of our interventions, and perhaps only because of it, the arrogant attitude of the Allies was made pos= sible and that attitude forced upon the German people a harsh, cruel peace. The bitter seeds, whose harvest the world now reaps, were sown; and we helped sow them.

clear, yet many of our intellectual and political leaders now urge us to commit the same mistake again. Before we accept what they tell us, let us ‘weigh. the consequences for ourselves and our chil-

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FEARS WORSE SLUMP IF WE ENTER WAR By “Remain Calm,” Sandborn, Ind. I wish to express my disapproval of the views presented by S. F. Martin in Saturday’s Times. I wonder if he really knows what he is talk= ing about. We did not send a haifmillion men to France to “put down a devil incarnate,” as he puts it, but

to save the billions we had already spent on the Allies. That war is what put our nation in debt as:it is today. I wonder if he has ever seen the figures on the per capita national debt before the World War, as compared with today? Further, I dislike his expression, “Savage Huns.” I have known a few German people in my time, and I believe them to be preferable to either the British or French as friends or neighbors. My views on the present conflict is" that our country would be better off if we knew less about it. Men were killed, the aged forced to flee their homes, and civilian population bombed in the Spanish civil ‘war, the Italian-Ethiopian war, and the Japanese-Chinese war, but for some reason not clear to me, those events failed to stir up our citizenry. Is no war worth considering unless it involves the British and French? If our government is so foolish as to plunge us into this war with no provocation, we have never known such hard times and depression as will ensue,

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world dominated by force alone, or by smart modern cynicism, he may not always be offered his choice of giving his life or his blood-bought liberal government. He may have both wrest from him without a by-your-leave, as countless thousands of innocent non-combatants, who stood in the way of the arch-cynics of Europe, have learned to their SOITOW. 2 2 = CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM TERMED UNJUST

By L. B. Hetrick, Elwood

The very essence of the fiabillty, peace, comfort, and happiness, ;intellectual, physical and last but not least spiritual development of the human race depends upon the private ownership of property which the individual has by his intellectual and physical labor earned through the various useful trades, professions and callings. Yet standing before us continually is the stark fact that millions of people have no private property, not even an ordinary shack of a home because the system of con-

centration of wealth takes away from the masses their purchasing power so that only the beneficiaries of concentrated wealth can get a home and keep it. . . Universal co-operation instead of the competitive capitalist system would do away with the cause of war and crime inherent in the system. ” 2 ” WOUNDED EX-MARINE RAPS INTERVENTIONISTS By Byron Ww. Chase, Marion, Ind. Being an ex-Marine who left two ribs in France and accumulated| two ‘bullet holes in my shoulder I wish to answer an article written by ‘a Mr. Benedict. I don’t figure I am a Communist, pro-Fascist, pro-Nazi, but a full American and I also believe in what George Washington said, “Beware of foreign entanglements” as those countries have fought over there ever since history began and will continue to fight. Consider yourself Yack, Mr. Benedict, that you are in America and if you want to go over there I suppose you can join the Canadians but don’t drag any of the rest of us “cowards” over there with you. With our natural resources we too can build a machine to repel any invader and enforce the Mon-

roe Doctrine also but we can’t do it if we elect a gang of war mongers

this fall.

SEES CYNICISM WORST ENEMY FACING U. S. By Claude Braddick

If the letters of “Curious” and his |,

university colleagues are typical, then the most pernicious “ism” we have to combat today is cynicism. Our fathers’ idealism, it seems, was old-fashioned and corny, Cynicism is smart and modern. “Curious” offers the profound opinion that “no government is worth giving your life for,” forgetting that no man deliberately gives his life for his government; he only risks it. He does the same, to a lesser extent, when he enters a car or plang. Will “Curious” tell us that no automobile ride is worth giving your life for? Few good things in this world have ever been brought into being without the risk of some idealists’ lives.

New Books

EN Years in the Congo,” by W. E. Davis (Reynal & Hitchcock, New York) ought to be required reading for every young interne. To many who feel the great spiritual meaning of their healing it would bring new inspiration. To some it would bring humility as they followed Dr. Davis Shrough the steaming jungie. In the Congo there are no shadowless operating rooms. In Dr. Davis’ last year he performed 536 major operations with a two-inch board laid across two sawhorses. Only four of these patients died. That same year he had 65,000 patients and during a 10-year period

I must remind him, too, that in a

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he averaged 50,000 patients a year.

Galbraith

"I never get tired of that sermon—the parson makes hell-fire seem

‘Out on a prairie farm.

His overall average of deaths was about 2 per cent. Almost any major United States hospital has a mortality rate of about 5 per cent. And he did all that on a budget of $1000 a year—2 cents a patient. To anyone conversant with the cost of even the most common surgical supplies that record is astounding. Since the fees were set according to the Latient’s ability to pay, $2 was ithe highest price for a major operation. But this was a great deal to a native. It represented nearly two months’ wages for an able-bodied workman. The $2 not only included the cost of the operation, but also room and board for two weeks at the mission.

And those 50,000 patients had almost everything: Leprosy, tuberculosis, tropical ulcers, elephantiasis, tumors, goiters, broken bones, bad teeth, sleeping sickness, venerel disease. Strangly they didn’t’ have cancer, appendicitis, cholera or typoid fever. But although this volume was written by a doctor and since naturally’ many chapters focus primarily on medicine, Dr. Davis talks of many things in the Congo: The rivers, the jungle, planters, traders, agents, jungle education, the church, birth, marriage, death, witch doctors and customs, and the curious animal kingdom.—(By D. M.).

UNKNOWN By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

She wore a wistful look When hearing of the sea, Although she always lived

She gazed with hungry eyes Upon the endless miles of grain Where great tall wheat fields "waved Before the wind, and saw wide Oceans rolling toward The early morning sun.

DAILY THOUGHT

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have mags it a den of thieves.—Mark 1:17. :

SURELY THE CHURCH ‘is a place where one day’s truce ought

and Jothers inclined to be afraid their

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1940 .

Gen. Johnson Says—

Since Lessons from World War 1 Convince Him Mistakes Are Being Made He Will Continue 'Scoldings.'

ASHINGTON, June 25.—There is a grave danger of this country going completely haywire under the pressure of war. It is true that the grossest neglect of. defense in our history and the most

| reckless impairment of qur credit and industrial effi-

ciency have left us in a most defenseless posture. Although very weak, due to these deficiencies, we have roved the world like a lamb rampant slapping down the ears of every ferocious animal in the menagerie—lions and tigers as well as Jackals—until we haven't a friend on earth. Perhaps the most cock-eyed impertinence on record

‘is that the authors of all this incompetence and

danger insist that they must be perpetuated in a third term for Mr. Roosevelt. I am accused of constant scolding. I don’t want to be a scold. I examine myself about that “in the night session.” I can’t think that my kind of preachment is wrong in this crisis. If I can’t think it is wrong I ought not to stop it—scold or no scold. 2 " s

HY do I feel so confident? I sat at the center of both industrial and manpower mobilization in. the First World War. It is a strange result but the fact is that, although Scharnhorst and Stein in-

vented the German idea of the “nation in arms,” to overthrow Napoleon and change the face of war, and, although the Kaiser's was almost as gbmplets a dictatorship as Hitler’s, it was not German autocracy but American democracy that taught the world the terrible modern lessons of total war. This is no time for perfumed niceties. The cold fact is that without the full naval, military and economic strength of this country, mobilized and organized for war the first time in the modern sense, the Germans had total victory in the bag in early 1918. Then something happened. The M. P.’s didn’t win that war. American resources and organization —both economic and miltary—did it. But they were masterfully organized and used by efficient and experienced men who believed, almost as a religion, in both: our economic and political system. This administration is allergic to both that kind of man and belief, » t J ”

O should I shut up? If I do, I shall write myself down as gutless as a kippered herring and as simple as a snipe. There has been no move of this administration that to me seemed right that I have not rushed out to defend until my fan mail groaned with accusations of being a water-carrier on two shoulders. I have for years been insisting that it do what it is now making awkward attempts to do. This column began suggesting that it call Bill Knud~ sen two and a half years ago—but not in the capacity in which he is now being wasted.

Jusbuanow I think many of the directors in which we are going are wrong and dangerous. I would like to forget to say so and to break the too strident pace of this column by writing a piece about the “bees and the rabbits and their sweet engaging habits,” but solar systems and universes are being too rapidly reoriented. If not doing so is ‘scolding,” I intend to apologize—and do it some more.

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Business By John T. Flynn

In Case You've Lost Track: 12 Billion Is Total Voted So Far for Defense

EW YORK, June 25.—The American people, ap= parently, have completely lost track of what has been happening in Washington in the frantic compe= tition between the terrified patriots to defend America. Bill after bill has been introduced and passed with such disgraceful speed, without consideration or scrutiny, while other plans have been put forward before the ink is dry on the preceding ones. Thus it has been difficult even for those whose duty it is to follow these moves to keep the account straight.

However, T have carefully gone back over the hectic record and am horrified to find that the plans of the President to date, most of it already passed or approved by Congressional committees, calls for expenditures of 12 BILLION DOLLARS.

The first request this year—in January—was for $1,832,000,000 for national defense. On May 17 the President announced his new program for 50,000 airplanes and then called for $1,182,000,000. The inference that this was for planes was of course not true. Only a small part of it was for planes when the facts became known. But this brought the total to $3,014,000,000. However, he asked $272,000,000 to be addeg to the budget of this year which sent the total up to $3,286,000,000. Congress has passed these bills but with increased appropriations so that the total after bills were passed came to $3,559,000,000. Then the President decided for another $750,000,000 to mechanize the army but the very next day increased this to a billion (May 30, 1940). However by the time Congress got around to passing this bill if

“had grown to $1.706,000,000 and that is now law,

bringing the total up to $5,265,000,000. Then the Senate adds another $50,000,000 for war relief so that the total rose to $5,315,000,000.

All Approved by Congress

All this is slready approved by Congress. The next phase came a few days ago when Mr. Vinson, chairman of Mr.’ Roosevelt's House Committee on Naval Affairs, introduced a bill for another-billion for 84 new warships. That was referred to his committee and the same day the President changed his mind and expanded this to $4,000,000,000 and the House committee approved it and sent it to its bewildered colleagues sitting in their chamber waiting to yes. it. This put this total of requests of the President at $9,315,000,000, all of which has been passed by Con gress or approved by authorized committees. Then June 20 the latest demand came from the Army. This was for $3,000,000,000, sending the total up to $12,315,000,000. And remember, no provision has yet been made for those 50,000 airplanes or for that army of 2,000,000 boys who are to shoulder guns and shovels. Where is this to stop? Does Congress seriously intend to spend these fantastic sums? One of these days Americany will read with shame how they were carried off into an adolescent hysteria by a bunch of politicians who had run out of schemes to keep themselves in power,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford J

HE mother who sticks to a regular schedule for her baby will not only be doing a lot for her baby’s health but will be getting a good start on the discipline problem and will be saving herself much worry and mental distress. “The greatest effect of regularity is the peace that it brings to the parents’ minds and the discipline which it begins in the mind- and character of the child,” Dr. Clifford Sweet, Oakland, Cal, child spe~ cialist, declares. A regular schedule means feeding and bathing the baby at the same hours every, day. It means putting him to bed for daytime naps and at night at the same hours each day and evening. Deviating from the schedule is likely to result in a tired baby, or an extra hungry one, or one who is not ready to feed because the last meal came too recently All this is upsetting to the baby’s system, and if it does no other harm, is at least very likely to make him cross and fretful and given to crying. On that matter of crying, Dr. Sweet points out that every child cries more or less even though a regular schedule helps keep baby healthy and comfortable and so. less likely to cry. Some children cry more than others, however. If mothers keep this in mind BE will perhaps not worry so much over baby’s c A talk with the doctor and watching him during his careful examination of the new SX any is advised for infants are too

to be allowed to the dissensions