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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1940, T CHANCE ‘FOR THE 6. 0.P ye oD help the Republican Party unless it pominates a candidate who can rise above that platform. It started out to be a “postcard platform” and wound as a catalogue of pressure-group pfomises, coupled with nostalgic drone that might have been better expressed a the words— “We're against war; “We're against sin; “We're against keeping the Democrats in.” It is almost beyond belief—considering the opportunies and resp sibilities of the time, considering that the irresolute: resolutions committee had access to the intelligent report of Glenn Frank’s program committee—that such a document as this has been adopted as the platform of the ‘Republican Party in the year 1940. : Its framers not only ignored the bold and forwardlooking “Program For A Dynamic America” that had been sewn by months of thoughtful effort. They scorned the terary craftsmanship that a man such ase Mr. Frank could have contributed. They ought to be sent to school.

‘misquoted Abrahama Lincoln's Gettysburg

They even dress. | : * We wouldn’t insult Joe Grundy by accusing him of writing the tariff plank. Joe was always willing to permit few imports, 4 at least of raw materials which American ustries need, if only for the purpose of keeping the shipping lines alive, The convention—and the party—still have one last

chance.

> x = : 2 = =» HE nominee, whoever he may be, will be handicapped ~~ by the platform. There is one contender, and we be- | lieve there is only one, who displays the ability to carry _ that handicap and conduct a campaign to restore national faith i in the G. 0. P. He is Wendell Willkie, Todate, he has provided all the color, and practically all ‘the smart, retty drab. Last night the people in “the galleries at Philadelphia ‘gat on their ha rds during the traditional demonstrations on 16 floor after ther candidates were placed in nomination. . Not till illkie was named—and, by the way, the lech for him by Indiana’s Congressman CRarles A.-Hal-leck was a model of freshness, originality and punch in litical oratory—did the galleries come to life. It was a ong evening’s one display of genuinely spontaneous enysiasm. | To be sure, a few delegates booed. And, on the streets Philadelphia, hired men distributed anonymous circulars attacking Willkie—the work, apparently; of persons laboring under the delusion that the ideal Republican candi‘date would be one who has failed in business, spent a lifetime seeking public office, and been guilty of no original Pp litical thought since 1896. ; 8 # = oo» # ” TELL, Willkie won't suit such persons. He will continue *Y to think for himself, say what he thinks and “proceed on the theory that what this country wants is success. If the convention correctly senses the mood of the people—the revulsion against old-style politicians and weasel-worded promises, the longing for courageous, affirmative leadership—it will nomindte Willkie. ~~ That, we say; is the Republican Party’s one chance to ction Jom going by fear.

h ok fight, in a convention otherwise

EL IN A FARAWAY COUNTRY”

N Uruguay, ; smallest of the South American republics, the ‘Germans are presenting’ a preview of the imperialistic

The Uruguayans hive discovered a Nazi plot against ir government, and have arrested some of the plotters.

‘The er are tremulous. Their three principal :

tomers i in normal times are Great Britain, Germany and i “United Sta es. Suppose Uruguay alienates Germany ad then: Bri is beaten, or blockaded. Where will she ade? vi With us? In. 1938 we bought only a fraction as much m Uruguay as. did either Britain or Germany, One of our principal imports from Urugday is meat. uguayans likely remember last year’s angry shrieks from attle-state lawmakers in Washington against the purchase . South American corned beef for the Navy. That display ' picayunish st tesmanship is playing into Nazi hands to-

| t ‘with a thesis that may make hay fever a pleasure.

Dr. Buenaventura Jiminez of the University of Mich-

has come tg believe that there is a definite relationship |

een allergy : nd intelligence.” Ten years ago he thought pted an unusual number of high-honor students among ergy patients. He kept records. It. proved, out -mathically, believes Dr. Jiminez.

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| feeble as their voice may be in the counsels and deci-

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Due to Years. of Misrule, Seem to Have Sobering. Effect on Delegates.

paves, ‘June 27. ~ Regardless of the choice of this very sober and ‘apprehensive convention of the Republicans, regardless of their platform and man’s’ fate in the Presidential election, ‘the United States may come up with a moral and civic profit if the delegates and political foemen look abqut them, ‘study the ‘dilapidation of the eity and Tealize Who has been responsible for this decay. : They are meeting amid very disquieting proof that democracy can stand just so much : cynicism and incompetence but, at a ceftain point, like any of those fabulous iron: men’ of. to’ the smelling salts, . As. Republicans they ‘Should’ have: ‘thelr ‘noses rubbéd in the mess that has been made of a great American city, and made to. realize, so that they may | go home and tell the neighbors, that it was the gang politics of their party that reduced P| Hadelphia to her present state of apathy and resigna - 8. = HE condition of Philadelphia today is such that even the racketeers are poor, and no underworld mobs exist. In fact, one of the most prosperous gangsters of the era of wonderful nonsense is reduced to running a cheap little dance hall, and another, in still more desperate shape, turned square .and went into legitimate business in another eity. | It was not reform that eradicated the underworld but poverty. There was nothing left for them to steal, , + Of course; these delegates, like the rest: of us, will have heard from time to time that dishonest and inefficient government tends to weaken the cities and states and, cummulatively, the nation, but here they have spectacular proof. And, in a vague way, I sense that the individyals who sit at this convention,

sions of the party, will be personally shocked to learn, at last, that it is literally true that there can come a time when a community can take no more punishment and yield no more loot. In. the same vague, amateurish way I feel that the delegates in Philadelphia are conscious of a stir. of civic and patriotic responsibility, induced, perhaps, by alarm and shock. 2 #2 = OSSIBLY I exaggerate the civic decency of these Republicans. A little conscience is an awful lot to expect of a party delegate or leader, and the temptation of a job or.some petty’ easy money has | almost overpowered that little. But never in the lives of these people have delegates to a national conven--tion had as much reason to feel that they personally, as individual citizens, were making a decision affecting the safety of the nation and the preservation of their right to vote and oppose the party in power. I think that feeling is responsible for the fact that whatever practical politicians and political writers say out of their long experience and cynicism, Wendell Willkie outscores all the other candidates, as a—let us say—celebrity, if you will not agree that he is worth serious consideration as a possibility. They may not select him, but they certainly have been looking him over, and there are shocking symptoms of independence among a gathering of citizens who in normal circumstances would follow orders even if it meant nominating ‘another such Joe Nobody as Alf

Landon.

Inside Indianapolis

Wendell Willkie and the Democrats, Our Census and Those Passports

W J ENDELL WILLKIE seems to be the topic of almost all conversation this week and even the Democrats gathering here foday for their “state convention can’t seem to stay away from it.. Indeed, three of the most astute Democratic politicians in the state have made off-the-record predictions that if the G. O. P. nominates Willkie, it will take a “miracle” for the Democrats to carry Indiana. Incidentally, if David Lewis is nominated for the Governorship by the Democrats, it will have to go down as one of the most remarkable political campaigns in this state’s history—and we've had quite a few remarkable campaigns. \ Don’t forget that four weeks ago at least half of the delegates to the State convention had never heard of Mr. Lewis. And, while we're on the subject, if Mr. Lewis confes through youll have to credit the McNutt political machine with another victory.’ ” 3 8 IT WILL PROBABLY interest you, too, to learn that it took the Democratic convention to complete the Indianapolis Census. The job was going all pretty slowly, but at the same time everybody was -planning to go to the convention. A. W. Knight, the Census area manager, finally interpreted the Hatch Act to mean that nobody employed by the Census Bureau could go to the convention. It did the trick. By yesterday the. 12th District office closed up tight, its final report on the way to Washington, and the 11th District leaders were going like the dickens looking for 100 more families in Perry Township. Chances are they've found them by this time. “\» ” 8 : THE PASSPORT OFFICE at the Federal Building is all upset again. It seems. there was another radio announcement that you:have to have a passport if you want to go to either Canada or Mexico. The local office insists “tain’t. so.” All we can say is that somebody in Washington (or two somebodys) have got their wires all crossed up. It’ was announced in behalf of the State Department a few weeks ago that passports were needed. Then the local office triumphantly showed a letter from another office in the State artment saying they weren't. Well, now, somebody else has apparently issued a new announcement, Maybe they need another bureau to co-ordinate the coprdineting ‘bureau.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Férguson

BALANCED diet for the mind is quite as essential as a balanced diet for the body. And our minds these days are surfeited with too many horrors. The mail brings evidence of feminine reaction to such fare, proving that when fear comes in the window, common sense flies out the door. This way lies magness—madness, hysteria. and eventual mental chaos—and no cause is ever served through these things. I believer we women must steady ourselves for whatever shock the future: may hold by giving daily beauty treatments fo our souls as regularly as we give such treatments to our hair and skin.

arts—to painting, to music, to literature, in order to become reassured about the deep kinship of all races. Beyond warring, outside the confines of pelitical arenas, exists a fellowship of spirit which can never be broken, no matter what happens. Let. us seek and find proof of that fellowship. 1

books from our shelves—hooks through which wise men and women, long dead, speak to us in words of deathless truth.

satisfy every type of mind and every aching heart. Perhaps you have alist that you love. Here is mine. . Homer’s “Illiad’ and Odyssey,” of which excellent translations are to be had. “These are great and

suffering and fears are as old as the race. “Far Away and Long Ago,” by. W. H. Hudson. “The Sea and the Jungle,” by H. M. Tomliffson. Emerson’s Essays—especially te ¢ one on 3 Compena sation. “Precious Bane,” by Mdry Webb. “The Education of Henry Adams.” . “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.” “Lorna Doone,” by R. M. Blackmore. “Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark ‘Twain. ine * ‘by Felix Salten.

Evidences of Devay.in Philadelphia,]

Pals to respond;

And how does one do that? Well, one goes to the !,

know of ‘no better way than to take down certain old'|

There are so many of *hem; enough, in fact, to; ¥

soul-satisfying because they remind us that all our |

hakespeare, and Browning sud. because Ta oid | ed, Tenny And best book of | all—

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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.

UPHOLDS FULL EXERCISE OF CIVIL LIBERTIES By ‘Muriel K. Frodin The Mr. Maddox who so emphatically declares that our Government “foolishly” allows the in-

- | alienable rights of fyee religion, free

speech, free assembly, and free press to be granted to persons whom he chooses to regard as undesirable, is making, though possibly unintentionally as pure and simple a plea in behalf of fascism and its methods as the most ardent “fifth columnist.” It is precisely the fact that America traditionally has tolerated all creeds, all religions, and all beliefs that makes our. country a haven for the persecuted writer, the maligned scientist, and the liberal thinker of censor-ridden Europe. Perhaps Mr. Maddox is being more un-American than some of the aliens whom he, refers to in his desire to suppress all thought, speech, and aétion that does not coincide with his own in conte Let him consider that in a country without those rights which he would have the Government withhold, he could not express. in an editorial column the opinion that his Government was acting foolishly.

"2 2 YOUTH, 24, BALKS AT DYING IN FOREIGN WAR. By L. L. :

I was 24 years old June 16. Is there any reason that I and millions of other young men shouldn’t have a right to live rather than be shot down on foreign soil? In case of invasion I would be one of the first|, to volunteer, and I know that every American - would fight as long as there was a spark of ‘life. Last week, if you recall, 30 educators appealed to Mr Roosevelt | to declare war on Germany. These men are millionaires and the majority of them are too old to go: to war. They can sit back and make ‘untold millions and ‘tell our boys how to fight while we get shot down for $125 per day. This is a mcneyman’s war, not your fight or mine. In the war of 1914 the boys were supposed to be heroes when they came back. My friends, I ask you, were they heroes? I would venture to say that 50 per cent came back hopéless cripples and are now selling newspapers on the streets or do-

| have.

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ing any EoBEer job in order to exist,

The high officials who did not set foot on foreign soil are now drawing pensions of $200 a month. Is that showing gratitude to the boys who did the actual fighting? My sympathy is with the Allies, but I pray with all sincerity, and appeal to Congress to stay in session and keep us out of this European conflict. 2 = = SEES UNEQUAL WEALTH

.|HOLDING BACK PROSPERITY

By Curious The bottle neck of prosperity in this country is to be found in the ynequal distribution of national wealth. That is the most potent friend of the Fifith Column we

Our slogan as a nation should be

That will give us national unity and we will pull together, We should develop the habit of giving to the nation instead of seeing how much we can get from it but we must have a good reason to do that. If ‘we conclude that the most im-

‘portant thing in this hemisphere is

the American people and conserve and distribute our natural wealth and resources fairly we can easily support a population of one-half billion people. Our only aristocracy should be one of intellect and Strength: and- not one of dollars. 5 2 = REJOICES IN HITLER'S CONQUEST OF FRANCE By K. V. C. Hurrah for Hitler! He has conquered a government that sponsors and administers the most brutal penal system on earth. France is a disgrace to the civilized world with its prison colony,

Devil's Island. I hope Herr Hitler shows the world he is more humane than most Americans think by doing away with Devil's Island. If he does that he will have gone a long way toward proving his fight is for the good of

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America first and America only.

humanity.

New Books

HE Ordeal of Bridget Elia” is) the biography of Mary Lamb, co-author with her brother, Charles, of “Tales from Shakespeare.” Written by Ernest C. Ross, it was pub(lished by the University’ of Oklahoma Press. Its chief source material is letters written by the Lambs and their friends, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, - William’ Wordsworth, their publisher, William Godwin, and others. No dry text or critical essay, it pictures a living, dissatisfied Charles Lamb and a long-suffering sister who herself was not without worldly faults. Picture the ten Lamb working as a clerk in the East India counting khouse, no genius, who wrote to augment a poor income. Picture him

meeting the playwrights, essayists,

| Side Glances—By Galbraith

. the poor, ‘I tablished

poets and critics of the time, drawn to their circle as a neophyte, an “interesting fellow” and as a good “drinking companion.”

The book follows his’ growth as a writer. Possibly because of its dependence on current letters and

ness of . Ross’s scholarship, the reader never- thinks of either of the ‘Lambs as “great” writers.

in London, the area comparable to the mile square in Indianapolis,|. where the financial institutions, the courts and the life of Empire were centered. Neither was particularly well educated and both owed their literary popularity to their scholarly attitude and willingness to discuss. Possibly almost as much to a good table, a ready wine closet and their early habit of open house on Wednesday evenings. No attempt is made to hide the early tendency toward insanity evidenced by Mary. With no attempt to gloss over such facts, Charles’ rise to a final ‘clerkship at 740 pounds a year, his death following a fall while returning from a tavern, and Mary's death after possibly three years of constant in-

neither emphasized nor hidden. The book is well indexed and documented and should serve as a likely addition to any ‘collection of English literature ‘of the time, ffom 1785 to 1835, when Charles died. : (H. M)

TIS JUNE By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING Orange blossoms, billowy tra org For Lohengrin gale, ! Beldesimais dainty flower girls Banks of roses, perfume rare— Hush within the chéancelled walls, As a sacredness there falls: j

« Then they tothe altar glide,

Smiling groom and fairy ‘bride Bible white in dainty hand, Soon to wear the wedding: band ‘Then the services proclaim ° ' Blessings true in Jesus’ name = ; And the holy vows are read, + The loving, trusting pair is wed ‘ Like scenes we witness every year Then we know that June is Bere.

DAILY. THOUGHT

The king that faithfully judgeth his’ throne shall be &sforever.—Proverbs 2:4.

certainly because of the faithfull-|

Both Charles and Mary were born|

sanity are told matter-of-factly, |.

Gen. Johnson

|Says—

HILADELPHIA, June 27.—All Republicans know that nothing short of some kind of blitzkrieg can bring home their bacon. They have tried several’ sorts, Governor Stassen made a speech which reads well. It just didn’t click. | Neither did Joe Martin's. Finally, the broadcasting companies sacrificed about $55,000 worth of commercial time because ‘Mr. Hoover wanted two hours on the air, Probably, looking back at Cleveland, this was intended ta provide for about 30 minutes of “ap ause—I am always tempted to confuse that word ‘with _“applesauce.” However you spell it, it didn’t come. The merry-go-round broke down. The swan song of the great .engineer dug his

.| grave with his teeth, or at least with his vocal organs, {| It was pathetic because nobody denies . that Mr."

Hoover is a very able=leader who somehow got the short end of the stick in every break: since -1929, 3 = ®”, = yer the Republicans need is a spark-plug. They have thus far tried out everything in the old garage. Stassen—Martin—Hoover. No soap! What’s\the trouble? I'm just an amateur, but to

'| me it seems very plain. For the Republicans this sit

uation needs a landslider—an architect of avalanches, The whole town boils with the knowledge that he is right here—being bottled up—or attempted to be bot tled up—by all the old mechanical tricks in the outdated Republican professional political bag. It is like trying to suppress a cyclone with a palm leaf fan. If Wendell Willkie with no start, no organization, no political pap, patronage® or pull can| blitzkrieg a hand-picked, hand-packed Republican convention as he is doing to this one, what would he do to the country if they took off his wraps and let him run? He would go to town. He is the only Republican who could. » ” 2

HE worst thing that could happen to him has happened, the Morgan crowd has appeared with

| Willkie buttons. Taft headquarters is broadcasting

that, but not mentioning that the Senator has the support of Joe Pew. Mr, Pew is one of the most sincere and able of Americans, but he is a forthright clock-turner-back. In the world of today he is an echo of the past and his support is politically as poisonous as the Liberty League's. He and Joe Grundy haunt these halls like Count Dracula—the “dead-undead”—and theirs is the kiss of death. Morgan support of Willkie is something of the same nature, but his whole record shows that he is his own man whom Wall Street follows toward the new light—and not the' reverse. Hi§ campaign, ‘if nominated, would make that plain beyond Pera adventure.

| | Business By John T. Flynn

Keynote Hints &. O. P. Plans to Put F. D. R. on Defensive on Rearming

JHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Keynote not always sound the precise note pori which campaigns will be fought. The Republican conven tion of 1896 tried to keynote the tariff into first place as an issue and the Democrats tried to make the - 1900 - battle turn on imperialism.” In the first ‘case’ ‘the fight centered around the money question ‘and: in the second around the full dihner pail. But the keynote speech of Governor Stassen of Minnesota at the Republican convention, whatever else may be said of it, can be taken as an accurate syllabus ‘of the causes upon which the coming national campaign will turn. If this should prove true it will, for still another reason, be a most singular phenomenon in politics, For it.will- amount to this: That the publicans will take away fromthe President the issues which he himself has made. :

There is little doubt that ‘the President, who deals persistently with political values, saw in the European war an almost heaven-sent cloud behind “which to obscure the state of the nation at home. Up to.the time Germany entered Poland the President was seriously on the defensive. - But the war succeedéd in dimming somewhat the hopelessness of his position on the domestic front. And this he began to use with much skill—challenging the dictators, demanding large preparedness appro--priations, starting campaigns on spies, warning about fifth columnists and starting scares about German invasions of this country and South America. However, when he began to clamor for vast de= fense outlays because of fears he was generating of imminent invasien there was a sudden twist in the whole situation. Now the Republicans shave more or less taken the play. Preparedness—sure!"' That's always been down their alley. The Democrats have always denounced Republican armament’ itures : and in 1932 Roosevelt himself wrote a platform plank accusing them of spending too much. But now, say the Republicans, surely the situation is abi :

Turning. the Tables

And the very condition the President invoked to kill off opposition is used against him. The liberals | ‘had accused him of spending too much on arms. Now ‘the Republicans denounce him for spending so little and ask him what has become of all the billions appropriated.’ Moreover they say this is a big business job. It was bad enough to see the President fritter away bil= lions cn boondoggling and get so little for the country. But we can have no such trifling with the serious business of war. Preparedness is a joh for the practical-minded Republicans who believe in it, ‘not the Democrats who have always discouraged’ it. pi And the spies and fifth columns! The publicans z seize this. Sure there are fifth columnists, they say —the saboteurs who under Roosevelt have been dis: .rupting the national industrial machine. Therefore let us end the fifth columnists who have been harbored by Roosevelt. This as the keynote of the campaign the Republicans turn all of Roosevelt's new hysteria weapons against him! \ 1

Watching Your He

By Jane Stafford the case’

© ATEST vitamin to show itself in a d is vitamin B6. For example, there of the 78-year-old man who was practically bedridden because of the ailment called ps sgitans. Within half an hour after his first dose of this vitamin, he could rise from a chair withou difficulty, ‘the muscular rigidity characteristic of his otttion, became indiscernible, he could walk and B > climbed. stairs without . assistance. ’ : __ The case of this man and of four oth patients was reported by Dr. Norman Jolliffe of New w York to the American Neurological Association. ' Similar successful results in treatment of Parkinson's dise with vitamin B6 have -been reported by Dr. Tom D Spies of Birmingham, Ala. TAIN For treatment of patients, the synthet He vitamin, ‘produced just ® year ago by Dr. J. C. er | and associates of Merck & Company's oratories, was used. - Whether or net: a condition like Parkinse can be prevented by eating ‘a diet containin amounts of this vitamin has, so far as I kng yet been investigated. A Ferenly puniished of the amount of this vitamih in various that’ the whole §