Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1940 — Page 14
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ROY W. HOWARD MARK FERREE Dadar "President pang merece By Westbrook Pegler
- Gen. Johnson Says—
a of Treachery Not Proved, But Surely ¥ "Soft Spots In French Command Must Account for Sudden Collapse.
NHICAGO, June 26.—“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’”—and now perhaps, in France.
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Our Conventions Are Queer Things: They Tear a Candidate Apart and Then Offer Him As Hope of Nation. HILADELPHIA, June 26.—That section of the’
American people who call themselves the Re- | publicans are now deeply involved in the incoherent
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: rites known as their quadrennial national convention, RILEY 5551 | from whose atmosphere of suspicion and ill-faith they will presently send forth a man, already condemned by many of their number, as their candidate
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1940
The Americans have quaint ways. They search the professional, personal and domestic lives of all
WILLKIE—AND THE FUTURE
who have the courage to submit their ambitions to the party conventions, and each party tears to tatters the reputation of every man who comes under its
OSTALGIA raised its hand in Philadelphia yesterday | consideration.
If he takes a drink he is a drunkard Who might
= rand tried to stop Willkie. The tariff was dusted off by get plastered some night in the little round office at
for the Presidency in a time of emergency and periol. |
Not enough facts have come out of that stricken country to get even a shadowy opinion of what it is. But, regardless, of the undoubted superiority of the German strength in guns and equipment and giving due regard to the crushing power of the new mech anized and motorized equipment, the collapse of all “French resistance in so short a time simply can't be explained except by soft spots in the French come
and. : ‘ n The territory over which this headlong rout took place is unlike many areas of campaign. It has been a path of conquest and a battle gound since the be--ginning of recorded history. Every hill and fold. of ground is known. Its military strength or weakness
ive i rs and dream of a return to | the White House and send the Navy to attack Japan. those who live in the yesieryears a %a ¥ If he comes to the convention well advertised after
political power designed on the model of Fordney and Mec- |, long preliminary campaign in a private car he is
Cumber, Grundy, Hawley and Smoot. This despite the | presumed to have bought his delegates at so much | : on the hoof and to have hidden connections with ‘Wall | oY prench Army, except in the air and as to
fact that in a world whose trade has been blown to bits | gi cet and obligations to enslave the farmer and’ “uns Freneh At, cute 1a fs dr iM us io
. the tariff is about as important an issue iow "as how-0ld- | wags-samnen # a = A SE YN % : . A : complement of highly trained professional soldiers, is-Ann, x 4 many with war experience, it was much stronger than
|. F he seems to be a spontaneous candidate without fo § — ; | any Ee But the tariff seemed the only handle the Old Guard- a palsies] machire be, Jos, iid Inder 2 Ssple- ; a BE - Zi : a INGE - * i tators say i i ’ rb. js | 190; Soon made ibio 4 solid convietion, that he ; Te | TERR ] 53 ME of our amateur military commentators sters could think of. So they grabbed on. The effort is | gi: Stooge of sinister forces, and the more dangerous OMS EE EY A symbolic of the whole unprecedented situation at Phila- | because he has been elever enough to conceal cash :
tribut f fabul , liance on the fixed fortifications of the Maginot Line . bets . . s stributi ize. delphia, a futile past aligned against promise for the future. | ©; or rons oF, Jai ous siz
roved over. and over again, its features mapped in Prats detail, not only on paper, but in the minds of every competent officer in France.
y m and that the campaign proves such lines worthless It is inconceivable to the politician that any man
: : ) That is wrong. There was no assault here until that ; jllisie ¢ ee Ie ores coe line was outflanked and taken from the rear. The very force that made Willkie the figure he is today RG : irator in the sory.
is a sickeni i There then is an added lesson for us. In this is a sickening .among the people at warmed-over dishes. | ice of the Vatican, if a Jew he is both a Communist double-crossing, treaty-breaking, lying world, no naIf the delegates assembled are able to delude themselves | 279,30 International banker With a gnanissmte in tion can risk its existence on anything but the strength a Victory ior 0. ltler, an e 18 a 'CcoN~-
of its own right arm and the courage, unity, loyalty into believing that such a diet is what the voters want | scientious Protestant he is a prohibitionist in human
0 3 ps 2 and devotion of its own peuple, Li soli clin . 3 . . : -{ fornr and probably a dangerous bigot. But, even with a at said, we are left s they will have won a victory in June and accomplished a If he ever took a retainer from a soulless corpora- eC defeat in November.
groping for the cause of this complete collapse. For tion that, of course, makes him a crook who will rep- one thing, it shows the weakness of any democracy Ye 3 . resent his old client in the White House, and if he The spontaneous upsurge of Willkie sentiment—mighty ever said a good word for union labor and civil libthough unorganized and unmanaged—is the expression of | erties the man is a dangerous Red. :
not based on a two-party system. There were more a revulsion against the old order of Republican leadership. # 0p.
There were several in France—and in came Hitler through another .and bloodier door. That is a lesson ; ] a through this inspection, ‘amounting in all to 8 p 2 ger * | groups. the campaign of 1940 holds little likelihood beyond a mere | scandal-mongering with the slanders written in the Bo i : Ze = on.
than 20 parties in the Reichstag—and in came Hitler, i ct, for us. We still retain two parties, but one of them : . dip bs HERE are few—in fact, no—men who can come i i If taken as a warning it can mean rebirth. If ignored, then } h has degenerated into a group of gimme pressure going through the motions. sky. So the upshot is that the party nominee must HE principal cause of French weakness is bee
be either a bloodless nonentity with no convictions or
Willkie himself put into words yesterday the thing |2 normal successful product of the American way
that has enabled him to chall
hope of millions—
“Old positions are obsolete. . ... Any man who aspires
of life whose total unfitness already has been well ad-
enge the imagination and the | vertised by the very people who will now support
him with passionate faith as the one American qualified to save the nation. : The Americans ‘also go in for carnival effects in their political conventions, but do them so badly that
to leadership must think wholly in the present and its future they depress rather thap inspire ther Countuymen
and let the dead past bury its dead.”
MASS PRODUCTION
(From the Pittsburgh Press)
N air fleet of 50,000 planes. Five billions for ships, planes, guns and men.
and ‘hake them feel that; after all, if band music and parades are a legitimate part of patriotic rallies Hitler and Mussolini do such things better. The Americans seek not the virtues but the faults of their countrymen who run for the Presidentcy, and make such an ordeal of the process that only the brave or foolhardy dare face it. They then drag them through the queer native rite called the party convention, in which all the important, discussions and decisions take place in mysterious huddles in hotel rooms and, finally, wonder why the people seem not
A Pan-American trading cartel to offset Hitler's eco- | entirely confident of the wisdom and motives of their
nomic machine.
Four billions more for a two-ocean navy. : Universal training for youth—under Sidney Hillman, Harry Hopkins and Aubrey (Vote to Keep Your Friends in
Power) Williams.
Warnings to Hitler and Mussolini. A super-Army to match the Navy's expansion program.
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Daily they roll off the production line in the President's
hat and on to paper.
chief executive and in the stability of the nation under his hand. The Americans are indeed a funny race.
Inside Indianapolis
The First State Roque Tourney,
Beauty Parlors and Police Calls
peotatarions are ‘under way here for one of this city's most unusual sports events—the first State roque tournament, It ought to be a gala event, what with 20 cities represented, and twp former
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The world’s greatest military establishment—on paper. | national champions in the lists. gr .
It’s an amazing output.
Roque—you ought to know this—is a combination of billiards and croquet. It’s played on a sanded,
The hat may be big enough to continue it—but isn’t | concrete-bounded court with wickets that are just
there danger of a paper shortage?
THOUGHT FOR BENITO Los OMEHOW, we can’t help wondering whether Mussolini has found time to read Hitler's “Mein Kampf.” For | Grant Dazey and George Atkinson—are the favor-
instance, this:
an eighth of an inch wider than the heavy composition balls. The local club, which has 16 members, plans to make its game even tougher by installing narrower wickets on the two courts at Fall Creek and 30th St. The players use heavy mallets to whack the balls around, The state tournament will be held Aug. 31 through Sept. 2 and the two national champions—
ites to win. Most of the 20 clubs in the state own their own courts. - The local courts are owned by
: ’ : Socal. “It must never be forgotten that nothing really great | the city, however, and maintained by the club.
in the world has been achieved by coalitions; it has always been accomplished by a single victor.
Joint successes by | under lights,
They started playing here this year on March 31 and they're on.the courts every night playing On Sunday they keep going all day.
their very origin bear within them the seeds of future at-| In the winter, if yotf must know, they spend their
time sitting around talking about what they're go-
trition, indeed of loss of what is already achieved. Great | ing to do all summer. intellectual revolutions that really overthrow the world are £4
thinkable and possible at all only as titanic struggles of individual units, never as enterprises of coalition.”
OVER AT CITY HALL, in the City Building Commission office, there is a telephone list right next to the phone. It contains the names and
A thought, that, for the man who waited until he | numbers of all building unions and supply houses, etc.
thought it safe to engage in an enterprise of coalition With | pemocratic County Headquarters.
the ho
to satisfy two victors.
'A' CHALLENGE. TO SAFETY
And right on the list, too, is the number of the We can under-
that a joint success would provide spoils enough | stand that one, but what we can’t figure out is why
they also have to list a beauty parlor. #2 8 = :
THE POLICE IN. INDIANAPOLIS have a hard time what with the Chief interested in their work, but also the big boss, the Mayor. It seems that Hizzoner and the Chief like to g0
THE Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and | out and put in a call for a squad car just to time Technicians is one of the white-collar C. I. O. unions | it. Well, the other night, they went out to E. Wash-
ington and Hawthorne and Mr. Morrissey figured
which is widely recognized as extremely left-wingish, and | that they ought to get a car in twa minutes, no
which has been repeatedly charged
domination.
-communistic | more, no less. He called Headquarters and the dispatcher or-
dered a car “to meet a man.” Hizzoner and Mike had to wait three minutes and five seconds. “What
It is therefore of great interest that its fifth national held you up?” Mike wanted to know. “We were convention seized upon America’s rearmament program as | held up by a stop-and-go sign,” apologized the of-
a means of increasing its power. position in the nation’s defense plans, repfesentatives of 2000 professional men in this militant organization who are
Occupying a strategic
ficers. Probably afraid of that dawn patrol, Mike!
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The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
SAYS FARMERS HAVE NO REASON TO COMPLAIN By Reader :
The Farm Federation is watching the Welfare budget to see if gy few
dollars may be cut from the old
people’s - allowance—they who have labored to make these farms and farmers what they are. ; Of all the people that are howling about high tax the farmer should be the last to complain; it takes a lot of gall to question the propriety of giving a few dollars per month to these old people by a group that has been. so lavishly favored as the farmer. These people, ‘if we call them farmers, are employed in about every job in the country except on their farm. In many cases the whole family works in town or doesn’t work at all; then hire their farm work done for a dollar a day of 15 hours. It would take too much space to enumerate the public favors they get, still they want more. They're so blinded by greed they can’t see how fortunate they are. The old hard-working and respected farmer is well on the way out. In his place we have a clamorous aggregation of land owners, : A dose of adversity applied rightly would do them more real good than an additional Government handout. In fact a little chastisement would do the whole country more good than more profits. 2 on ”n DENIES DISCRIMINATION
IN WPA MUSIC PROJECT By Thomas Poggiani
_ Having read the various letters appearing in the daily newspapers charging discrimination by the WPA Music Project against Negro musicians, I feel it to be only fair that a clearer and more detailed picture of the actual situation be given the public. Mr. Brown states that the Audition Committee was created for the purpose of disqualifying the Negro musician. When I was asked to be a member of this committee, it was with the understanding that such a committee was required of the project, which understanding was verified by subsequent reading of the general operating procedures of the Music Project, which originated in Washington. As for his implication that the committee functioned for the disqualification of the Negro musician,
- (Times readers: are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so ail can. have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
five were recommended by the com-
mittee, Mr. Brown being among the five. Three white musicians were heard, none of whom was recommended. I believe these facts are sufficient answer to Mr. Brown's
conception of the purpose and fairness of the committee. Due to my membership on the committee, I was naturally interested in the validity of other state-
ments made. Inquiry showed that no assignments are being made at present to any projects because of the necessity of reducing the WPA rolls in Indiana, a condition outside the control. of the Music Project.
I also learned that the 30-day layoff is a completely impersonal affair,
a provision inserted into the Relief
Act by Congress, and not in any way subject to the “skillful manipulations” of the Projegt. As I previously stated, I am in-
terested, out of a sense of fairness,
that these facts be presented to the public which up to now has had no opportunity to know the situation
in its correct light. ag » ” »
WANTS MEN PLACED IN BETTER JOBS By “Men for the Better Jobs”
I would like to say a word about
the married women who are holding down our “choice” positions. to-
day, positions with an income that would keep a family and home very nicely. Why don’t we give these
choice jobs to our men? I am a
working wife myself, but together my husband and I make one good salary. Should I have to leave work we would no doubt lose our home. What we in this country should do is to put our men in the highsalaried jobs. Mrs. Roosevelt says that all women should be allowed to work, but there aren’t enough jobs to go around! If my husband made a decent salary I would much prefer keeping house, but how could a man buy a home and keep up a
family on $20 a week? ‘I know of a woman who is as-
Side Glances—By Galbraith
sistant principal in an Indianapolis high school, and her husband has an equally good position. They own their home, have no children, and her fingers are “covered with diamonds.” Then I know of another case where a middle-aged woman makes $50 a week.and her husband has an equally good position, and they have no children. Why we hard-working‘ people sit back and let married women hold down these fine positions is more than I can understand! Let's give our better positions to the men!
» td » ASKS WHY WEALTH IS NOT CONSCRIPTED By Jean Woolsey . I hope that I can have my right to say that the conscription of men for military duty is not compatible with democracy so long as private wealth feeds its vulturous appetite
on human slaughter. Where are all the liberals who, only a few years ago, were demanding the conscription of wealth as a war emergency measure? Why don’t the World War veterans who advocated that plan raise their voices now? Why this fear of asking that men be matched with dollars? The soldier cannot profit by his noblest efforts, but the industrialists and financiers can and will profit. Just’ what kind of a- partnership in defense of democracy is. that? If the Government will tell Mr. J. P. Morgan that his banks are Government property for the duration of this crisis — tell Mr. Ford he will have to supervise the operation of his factory during the crisis for a nominal salary of 30 to 40 dollars a week — and carry that policy on down the line to the shopkeepers, then I will be one of the first to volunteer my body and soul in defense of democracy. Until that happens, I shall contend that the conscription of men for military duty is a crime, and that the cry to “save democracy” represents a fraud and a swindle. : . 2 8 8 THINKS HYSTERIA GOOD FOR COUNTRY" By Earl G. Cline, Albany, Ind.
Mr. Edito¥, may some high power have mercy upon that democracy which is calm and incapable of hysteria, .Demecracies cannot arm or properly defend themselves unless under the pressure of hysteria. ~ e only substitute for hysteria is an absolute, crushing dictatorship. - Today the most false a ' treasonable words in the English language are, “Be calm.” Every capital in ravaged Europe, without doubt, reeks with fifth columnists who have yrged their countrymen to be calpx”\If the democracies had had
ginning to seem to be its half-and-half division in both its Army and its legislature between men with Communist and men with Fascist leanings. There is as yet no news of outright treachery, but it is hard to explain the mushiness of French defense on any other basis. There is a third and false conclusion for us that is being ‘preached and it is pure poison. It is that - this war proves that democracies won't work in war, with an implication that we should forget this elec tion, give autocratic authority to the power-seeking group of incompetents in Washington and perpetuate Hopkins, Morgenthau, Perkins and Ickes to stumble, fumble and blunder us into war and they to run it for us. * . We proved in 1918. that our democracy could out= Hitler any German in war efficiency, but you've got to have competent leaders to do it.
Business By John T. Flynn
G. O. P. Talking Only of War and Thus Co-Operates With Roosevelt
5 HILADELPHIA, June 26.—Here among the milling resolutors of the Republican convention one fails to hear anything about the 10,000,000 unemployed, the debt billions, the “strangulation of business.” The plank makers seemed lo talk only of the war. In short, everybody is co-operating perfectly with President Roosevelt to keep domestic issues and his wobbly domestic’ program out of people's minds. One gets the impression that the sub-committee - struggling with a war plank would like to say it favors helping the Allies “short of war” without actually using that Rooseveltian phrase. It seems to be eager to give.a kind word for intervention without losing any peace votes or of coming out for peace without losing any war votes. v3 * There are some uncompromising advocates of an outright peace plank like Herbert Hyde of Oklahoma, vigorous young temporary chairman of the Resolutions Committee, and Hamilton Fish of New York. There are insistent clamorers for the Rooseveltian war stand like William Allen White. There are too many in between among the leaders who want to help the Allies and remain strictly isolationist at the same time. What the delegates think nobody knows. A poll was made by a professional market analyst. It was hired for the job by an interventionist committee. The questions were rigged to produce the desired ree sult. - But I have been unable to find many run-ofe the-mill delegates who want any pussyfooting about keeping out of war.
All Set for a Kidnapping!
This is a convention like the Chicago Democratic convention of 1896 in a way. There the delegates were overwhelmingly for free silver. But the gold bugs
had all the eloquent speakers. The silverites were .
tragically inarticulate. Then suddenly out of the pit of the convention leaped a handsome and gallant figure of 36—William J. Bryan—and gave an. eloquent tongue to the thoughts that were in all the delegates’ minds. The next day the obscure Bryan was the party’s nominee. LL This convention is wide open for such a performs ance. It is a set-up for another great oratorical kide. napping. But the kidnapper is not in sight. It is not only an unbossed convention. It is leade erless. It is full of pussyfooting; men who like to speak softly and carry a little stick. There is no great passion for its candidates, such as supporters gave to T. R., Bryan, Blaine, Smith. Most of the delegates lined up for various candidates seem as ready to abandon them as the youth is to leave the girl he married after the dance. But one interesting fact emerges. One man tells you what is the matter with Dewey, another tells
you why he would not be for Willkie or Vanden
berg. But few express any dissatisfaction with Taft. He seems one of those safe, unobjectionable persons who have a way of walking off with nominations, From this something may emerge.
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» ’ o : ° employed in designing and preparing plans for warships A Woman S Viewpoint
met in-New York to launch a campaign to organize all gov-
ernment technical employees. : : The d ds of th per ti include (1) i amcalLy the factories grind. Men sweat and : 8 demands Of the organization meude Yocogn- toil to replace captured and destroyed armaments. |
tion of the union as collective bargaining agency for all | News reels are horrible these days with records of hu-
: : . , manity’s gigantic effort t A » skilled personnel in the Navy yards, (2) pay-and-a-half for | partys Sante effort to eS ute od
all work over 40 hours, (3) giving civilian technicians—that vaiuily 0 Jestrdy itself: : : 2 BIT . : ron, steel, tanks, guns, bombs, bullets, , is, union members—more responsibility over the design of | ye vast paraprematic which mos Cull Se
warships, (4) setting up of a board to handle grievances | horror of war—their creation is civilized man’s chief with equal representation from the Navy Department and | PUsiness.
x among heir forces only one hun- . By Mrs. Walter Ferguson dred thousand picked, fanatical, Watching Your crusading, hot-headed fightihg men ; who could not keep calm, then Hitler instead of Marshal Petain would| By Jane Stafford
be begging for peace.
Health .
- PPETITE is sometimes a fleeting affair, but even. TO ERIC though a person may lose his appetite, his hunger for food goes on so long as he lives. - : By VELMA M. FRAME R Pangs of hunger may SHE §nine-lggs od pind ; ae ecords have been made o em in infants o is Se ize key with uny age who have not yet been fed, Prof. Anton J. Carlson, Big blue eyes that echo each| of the University of Chicago, reports. The stomach ~
e union, (5) adjustment—upward—of salaries, and (6) guarantees that there will be no speedup. These demands are reminiscent of the French Popular
We know that the Germans, too, labor ceaselessly at the same grim task. In fact, war is now upon us because they have prepared for such a long time for the slaughter, And in the world panic which the sight of these monsters of our own invention brings, there is ap-.
Front, which “won” so much that French workmen have | palling shock. For, at last, we look upon our handi-
now died in droves in a desperate effort to preserve both | Work—and see that it is not good. We their liberties and their lives against a conquering power ‘which was able to construct a terrifying military machine
gin, in fact, to fear it may destroy us as well as our e emies. Amid our panic, we forget the human element. “We do not need men,” comes the report from the Allies. Maybe they do not need men now, but it is
‘without the restrictions and disloyalty that were inflicted { every day more apparent that they needed them des*on France. Tragically late, French labor has awakened to | Perately in the recent past and that they will need
the fact that it has lost all it won. We do not want to see legitimate union gains taken
needed men before 1914; they needed men immedi-
They needed men while they were rebuilding national
away in a wave of war hysteria. Neither do we want to | boundaries and making peace terms. How well then
the intelligence of those who were dead might have
see unionism—and Americanism—lost through the activ-| cofied them
ities of left-wingers.
Hasty grasping of a chance to turn America’s danger
few short years, but it takes 18 long years to create a full grown soldier in any man’s army. What will
this union’s own profit challenges the nation. America| the Europe of tomorrow be, when this generation’s
‘them .even more desperately in the future. They
ately after the guns of the last war ceased pounding?
Tanks and ships and planes may be built in a |
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adorable grin, ; Crown of dusky silken hair, skin of cream and rose, * He’s a bit of heaven from-head to tiny toes! :
I hope our God implanted within his heart a song, : z Cupped within his hands the might to right a wrong, : I hope he’ll be a leader along God's : own pathway— God's light of love to guide him forever as today.
DAILY THOUGHT
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.—Matthew 19:24,
OF ALL THE riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we
PAT. OFF.
contractions which produce the sensation of hunger appear even in unborn babies. gy . 5 Hunger pangs may also occur in man when the stomach still contains traces of food. Scientists no longer consider appetite as a mild form of hunger, Appetite is a pleasant sensation which' may occur
without the presence of hunger, whereas hunger is -
unpleasant, painful and more or less intermittent, “Appetite is caused either by the immediate taste and smell of palatable food or induced by the meme ory processes of such taste and smell sensations,” Dr, Carlson said. “Hunger, on the other ‘hand, is essentially ‘a gastric sensation.”
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Civilization has complicated the question of ap . °
feute almost beyond scientists’ ability to clarify it, e said. ; ; “Experiments on rats have shown tlfat, when given a choice of several diets, the rodents will choose the foods containing the best balanced vitamin content,” Dr. Carlson said. “Contrasted with this are the Chinese ¥and Japanese, who eat polished rice until they develop beri-beri. iT : “To say that the rat's appetite is instinctive identifiles the problem, but does not explain it. We do not yet know why the lower animals have retained this
"Remember! If you come home late for supper again I'm going |ecan carry no more out of this world | sense, while man himself completely to have
must not suffer what happened to France. to whale the tar out of both of you!” than oui of a dream—Bonnell, ‘lost fh” | :
supply of Youth is under the sod, sleeping beside those slaughtered, milliors af 1914? i
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