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: | FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940

| THE N OMINATION OF WILLKIE

(Ly impossible happened last night in Philadelphia. ; A Republican National Convention listened to the people, overruled the political bosses, scrapped the immemorial : thimble-rigging methods, and nominated Wendell Willkie. Time and again, ‘during the brief weeks, of that re- : markable rise which carried him from political nowhere to : the nomination, Willkie said: : “I'm infront of a trend.” - ‘ ; It was true. ' The spontaneous growth of Willkie sentiment was due, in great part; to the personality of the man. But a multitude of people who "have never seen him, and : who a few months ago would not have recognized his name, ; were hoping last night for the miracle that came to pass. : The convention had disappointed - them, with its dreary oratory and its ‘straddling platform. What they wanted : was nothing like what the Republican Party has triéd, : vainly to provide them for the last eight years. What they ; : wanted ‘was something new—Ileadership with vigor and | courage, leadership with the strength and the will and the ; vision to go forward.

That was the trend. Willkie was in front of: it. "The :

: folks in the galleries at Philadelphia, were in front of it. { The folks back home were in front of it. And the delegates, ; : at first reluctant to believe what the country was telling ‘ them, finally decided to go along with it. “It ‘was the wisest decision they could have made. Willkie, from. now to November, will make a great : fight and a fair fight. President Roosevelt will meet an : . opponent worthy of his steel. This campai¥h will be somei thing to watch, and whatever its outcome, we believe it is : going to be good for the country. Willkie; will put vitality into the Republican Party, and | never. was that more needed. For, no ‘matter what lies ahead of America, we canhot afford to have one party | monopolizing vigor and political effectiveness. . . What happened in Philadelphia proves that this re- : mains a democracy, and the manner of its happening—the : response of the convention to the will of the people—proves : that the democracy is functioning.

: SCHRICKER’S NOMIN ATION TRUE to Indiana traditions, delegates to the Democratic State Convention yesterday turned a cold eye on big - city candidates for ‘Governor and mominated a ‘candidate - of the rural districts—Henry F. Schricker, If he is not the strongest candidate in the ged; he is one of the soundest, : He is unbossed. He owes no allegisnts to the State House gang that has been running affairs with a high hand. He was, in fact, solidly opposed by them. In the .event he is successful next November, he should ‘have, no “hesitancy in, carrying oui.a much-needed job of houseclean-

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TWO WORLDS IN A WEEK

most of us, the tremendous news of the current week —news out of a Europe torn by recent battles and bent on other ones, news out of the convention hall at Phila- * delphia, news out of Washington—has been watched from a * distance. :! To William Philip Simms, forvien editor of the Scripps- . Howard Newspapers, the news of the week from all those - places has been a first-hand thing. Within this single week : he has been in Europe, in the press arena at the Republican : Convention, and now we hear he is on his way to his map- : walled Washington office. Phil Simms has been traveling : over the world for many years, but even for him the span i of the last few days is something of a record. ‘ ‘ We commend to you his dispatch on Page 8 of this is- : su», written in Philadelphia, a dispatch that brings home | with unusual eloquence the contrast between an old world engulfed by a new and evil force and a new world where { democracy is still a going concern. A

NO DEFENSE PROFITEERING, PLEASE A CCORDING to reports in Washington, certain inside Administration groups identified with the national defense effort are laying plans to push through Congress a _ 4 bill setting aside anti-trust laws—presumably in no less : time and with no less debate than would be given to appro-

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| gent effort to enforce those Jaws on a.broad scale. As a : result many illegal conspiracies to restrain trafle have been’

broken dp, and any mote are on the way to being 'broken |

: up. The building construction industry is one field in which “anti-trust prosecutions have been vigorous, and among the benefits have been lower costs for housing, and more houses built.’ ‘The Government itself has saved several million dollars jon its projects. Why shouldn't it be possible for the Government to - provide itself with weapons under a system of competitive prices? Any setting aside of the anti-trust laws to permit . industries to bargain together to fix prices must inevitably ‘lead to a more expensive armament program and larger ' Government deficits. Inthe end it can be paid for only by] -a lowering of living standards, either through higher taxes “or by inflation. ~~ ®* The defense program should not be turned 0 a gravy train for price profiteers. :

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SUCH SUSPENSE! IG problem confronting the school hossd is how much ~~, more time they should give Adolf before ordering the new geography books for the fall term. bid

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Fair Enough”

By Westbrook Pegler

Willkie on Lofty Issues and ‘Avoid

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HILADELPHIA, June 28. —1¢ I. were handling the bucket in President Roosevelt's corner . in this campaign, assuming Mr. Roosevelt runs, I would lay off that propaganda about Willkie’s home address and his business address in New. York. and his being an apostate Hoosier. I would be afraid that Willkie would tear my man’s ears off in that kind of fighting, Willkie’s home address is 1010 Fifth Ave., which is "just 264 numbers to the south of that humble friend of the people Fiorello H. La Guardia, who lives on the same street. Willkie’s home address is a lot closer to the poverty of Harlem than the town address of Mr. Roosevelt, and, moreover, he pays his own rent and bought his own kettles and blankets,: whereas Mr. Roosevelt's home was given to him by his mother, completely furnished. His business address is 20 Pine 8t., down in the financial district, and 20 Pine is the Chase National Bank Buil I can’t make anything out of that but innuend6, meant to suggest that Willkie, somehow, was mixed up in the Chase National when Al Wiggin was running the bank.

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UT I wouldn’t monkey around with innuendo #f I were handling . Mr. Roosevelt’s bucket, because once you start, using that sort of material you: invite the other fellow to do it, and I couldn't want to expose my man to innuendo. Not my man, Mr. Big. Ordinarily a man accepting a job with a business his new boss who owns the building and refuse the opportunity it he doesn't like the landlord’s morals.. I wouldn't get fresh about the kind of corporations that Willkie has served as a lawyer and executive or his association with the cause of private capital and wealth, either.” Because Willkie might recall some of

was identified as a front man, his record as a lawyer —which certainly wasn’t hot—and the fact that my

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with a.-man of Willkie's type. I would redlize that this is no Alf Landon but a terrific body=puncher who likes to stand on the flat of his feet, sink his head against your wishbone and belt away until something breaks. : ® 8 = CERTAINLY wouldn't go cracking. about his Hooierism. In the first place, those Hoosiers never do get un-Hoosierized or de-Hoosierized, or whatever you would say. That is one thing I don’t like about them. They come down to New York and make a lot of dough, but they never get really naturalized, and whenever they get a little bit tight you hear them Yowling about the moonlight bright tonight along the “Wabash. Willkie is still a Hoosier all right, and, by raising that issues I would give him an opportunity to get homespun and point’ out that while my man was growing up with governesses and servants, going to private schools, traveling abroal and-sailing yachts .which» mama bought him, this Hoosier was slinging

“hash, following the harvest out West and teaching

school for the little money that it took a Hoosier to nickel his way through college. No, sir, if I were handling Mr. Roosevelt against Mr. Willkie I would not mess with that kind of controversy. I would keep my punches well up, use the ring all the time, avoid the clinches and try to box him fancy oni lofty issues of the day.

Inside Indianapolis

McNutt's Thoughts Turn to Willkie After ‘Keynoting Convention Here

AUL M'NUTT, as you know, made the keynote speech at the state Democtatic convention yesterday. Well, how do ‘you suppose he spent the rest of the noisy, boisterous day at the Fair Grpunds? First, he slipped over to the press box and asked: “Any news from Philadelphia?” A-telegraph man “tuned in” for the latest balloting. Results of the first ballot came in. McNutt looked long at the figures. He didn’t say much. “Let’s see . . . mm Maine, that means «+ mmmm , .. he picked up what Bridges dropped there... .” . J Yep, he was looking at the votes totaled for his fraternity brother and schoolmate, “Wen Willkie.” It might be added that the Security Administrator’s interest in the Fair Grounds proceedings waned somewhat after Schricker won the Governor's nomination. After all, the McNutt-McHale team did take a hung. ing. . 8 ” 2 INCIDENTALLY, the Indiana Republican delegation ean rest assured that most of the state heard how they squirmed and wiggled at Philadelphia last night. The Hoosiers at Philadelphia should know that there was a Hoosier counterpart at every radio to those Jn the Ealiery at Convention Hall shouting: “We Want Willkie : ee ” MRS. MARGARET FISHER slipped into Indianapolis yesterday. Her husband was the late Carl G. Fisher, the man who built Miami Beach, Fla., “the winter playground,” out of Mango swamps, and one of the builders of the Speedway. - Mrs. Fisher was here on a legal matter, having to do with her husband's estate. It has to do with a gift that the generous real estate pioneer made to an Indianapolis Bstiauon,

TONY HINKLE was geiiing ready to tee off at the district tournament the other day when he noticed a youth wearing a sweater with a huge “M” and four stripes. : “Mmmmm,” ‘Tony said, “four-letter man from Martinsville -probably. Maybe I should talk to him. . No, guess, not. . .'. He’d be too tall for our team.” o ” ” ONE MORE ON the political conventio We heard a taxicab driver moan that “politicians don’t ride taxicabs . . . ‘cause they don’t spend ‘money “vie they're looking for it.”

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

priating another billion dollars. of “ : We have had anti-trust laws for 50 years, but only in : the last couple of years has there, been a real and intelli-

HE promises of politicians are words writ in water.” Now, if ever, the truth of that statement is borne in upon us. With few exceptions, every Senator and Representative, and evén our President, made a pledge to the American people; and that pledge, openly expressed hundreds of times was this: The United States would never again send troops to fight on foreign soil. What were we to infer from that promise? If these candidates had béen quite honest, they might have +sald, “We pledge ourselves to keep eut ‘of Europe's war so long as the Allies are winfing; otherwise— we're not saying.” But when those tall promises were made, no such implication was apparent. There was always the possibility that Germany might conquer. We were to stay out no matter what happened; that, you will remember, was the solemn pledge. In 1936, I was able to follow closely only one campaign, that of Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma, who has now fallen into a frenzy of war hysteria. When

state speaking to members of the Ladies’ Aid Societies, to the women of the Federated Clubs and scores of gther feminine’ groups. . With hapd upon heyy, he swore by all he held sacred to fight the death against the spilling of American blood upon foreign soil. It was. admitted that the women of Oklahoma elected him to office.’ Josh Lee is. not the only man who has repudiated his promise to constituents. Every Representative at one time stood staunchly upon the peace plank and invited God to witness his: position. These men call themselves patriots, but a lingering doubt” remains that some of them at least are only. politicians. If they wish to be heeded, the people must continually “ride herd” on them. For this rea-

of us who. want no part in Europe's quarrels make our wishes vocal now. Write to your Congressman to-

day, or it may be forever too late,

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‘Mentioning Addresses and Such |

the goofy company promotions with which my Jan |

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The Hoosier Forum

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

SAYS EVENTS PROVE INDIVIDUALISM SOUND By Charles L. Blame

Feb. 25, 1935, in a letter to The Times, I took issue “with the editor when he said, “Rugged individualism must go. Séveral interesting letters of reply ensued. Now five years later my opinion has not changed. Individualism must stay. It is an integral part of Americanism. It is a keynote of American life,

I recall the issue because of : an interesting article entitled, “J Married a Nazi,” appearing in the Readers Digest of March, 1940. I quote a pertinent passage from the article and hope to hear from (1) Mr. Robert Keating and (2) Mr. M. L. Billings, who were quite vehement

tin their attack on individualism. ¢

Quoting: “But you cannot talk to my husband as a human being at all. He and niillions of his post-war generation are utterly segregated from the feminine, intellectually. The German | man closes. against you instantly if you make any personal intellectual demands for yourself or your children. Individualism terrifies him. And the core of his impregnability is—the Fuehrer. “We are paft of a race being reared in a splendidly equipped open-air nursery under the best possible conditions by a super father

‘|—Hitler. A nation guarded by @ per-

sonal god in brown uniform. Guarded by “do’s and don'ts” as clearly as rules and regulations in a home for.mental defectives.” Gentlemen, is the above that which you wanted for the citizens of ‘the United States in 1935? It is what your letters pointed to. There is no ideological compromise.

2 = = SEES U. S. AT PEACE HOPE OF WORLD By Ralph R. Canter, Jr.” ’

Although I have found myself in complete agreement with almost every one of your recent editorials, I cannot admit agreement with very many Forum contributors. Lately, a group of: letters proposing our entrance into the European scene has appeared, and the edition of June 20 carried one of the most foolish of all, I think. S. Lytle foresees the defeat of Christianity by Naziism and advocates our immediate entrance into the war. Mr, Lytle, apparenily, believes the United States could, by

(Times readers are invited io express their views in these columns, religious controversies “excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a. chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

simple - expediency, send a few troops to France and we wouldn't need to fear Naziism any longer. I advise him to examine your editorial of June 20 on the military condition of the United States which will reveal to him our great inability to meet any fraction of the German army. But there is a more basic reason than preparedness that makes that proposal of his foolhardy. First, this war has taken on much greater proportions than most people realize.” It is not merely a question ‘of governments falling; it has assumed the enormous possibility of ‘civilization falling, civilization based on Christian principles which we hold to be the most just. Now, somebody must hold up this civilization, keep it, preserye it, and Protect it. The only strong factor that I ¥now of to do this is. America! If we cast off\our ships for Europe, we might be casting off our form of Government never to regain it again!

—.. CLAIMS BRITAIN

IS OUR ENEMY By Clarence F. Lafferty To Mr. W. A. Benedict Jr.: Mr. Benedict, I am anti-British, and the name you have just read is' not anonymous. It was given to me on the 14th day of August, 1908, on a farm located in Section 9, Randolph Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Ever since the American Revolution Britain has been our potential enemy. In the War of 1812 Britain tried to take over again, and place us back under her reign. We lost our Capitol which was sacked and burned during that war. During the ‘Civil War: Britain tried to weaken this nation for her advantage by aiding the South in the Confederate attempt to overthrow the Union. Britain almost interfered in the Spanish-American

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ing Dewey's engagement with the Spanish fleet. Today the only thing that allies us with Britain is capital in this country and the aristocrats of Britain. Those two have a lot in common to protect from loss in their world-wide investments. I am not attempting to agitate any spread of my contention and theories, nor- am I a Communist, Fascist, or Nazi sympathizer. I am an American using his constitutional rights in expressing his opinion, and using the privilege of a free press to do so. And I have this opinion to add: The present war hysteria in this country is helping the spread of the false contention that Adolf’ ‘Hitler | will menace our shores in an attempt to conquer the world. That is absurd: © It is beyond common sense apprehension. This country will never be ruled by a dictator. American freedom is ready right now to act against the invasion of that kind of a Government,

8 =» = RESENTS LINDBERGH'S STAND ON DEFENS By Warren A. Benedict Jr.

Now that this man Lindbergh has popped off again, there are some questions about him that are due an answer,

In the first place, who asked®him for -his opinion, anyway? And for whom does he speak? What elective office does he hold? What war has he fought in, or military experience has he had, to justify him the rank of “Colonel”? What has he done that makes him an authority: on anything outside of flying? And haven't later aviators made records that makes him- look, like a secondrater? - Wasn't he ‘the ‘guy that thought so little of this country he went to England, and considered becoming a British subject? And why didn’t he stay there? And. didn’t he get some kind of a decoration from the Nazi government? Has he turned that back?

. Just what has he done for this country, anyway? We didn’t make such a fuss over Wiley Post, the aviator who made Lindy look like a third-rater,

a nN 2 THINKS NEUTRALITY ACT HAS WORKED SO FAR

By Reader. Who are the victims of war hysteria in this country— those who rush to a microphone at every new move of Hitler's to warn us frantically against succumbing to war hysteria, or those who calmly take it for granted that this country will not go to war—with Germany or anyone else—without definite and concrete reasons? We fought Germany once in defense of our rights on the seas, which Germany was flagrantly violating at the cost of American lives. England and France and democracy were merely incidental to that. « In recognition of this, we have passed the Neutrality A#, forbidding American ships, goods or citizens to ply the waters adjacent to: belligerent countries. As a consequence we have lost no ships ur citizens, and have had no cause tor war. True, an enormous majority of us are hoping the Allies win: but the same preponderance are as calmly determined as ever to avoid the folly of war. That fact is a true vindication of our foreign policy to

AS SUMMER COMES By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY Hot weather is going to be, On the whole, beneticial to me, For I'll be t@0 ocoupied with the heat - To be sad. with mourning over you, my sweet.

DAILY THOUGHT

He' that refuseth instruction de- : ~ spiseth his own soul; but he that : heareth reproof- getteth understanding. Proverbs 15:32.

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By Maj. Al Wikans

Alf” Attacks on Docks in Chi Cities Likely to Bring England to Her Knees By August, Is Claim

ERMANY apparently is determined to settle the. issue with England by early autumn. ,- The reasons for this are many. demonstrated that North Sea weather was. a dee termining factor in slowing up activities and as, soon as the weather became favorable for flying opera= tions, airpower took charge of the entire war. . Late autumn marks the prevalence of protracted fog which would enable British shipping to run into English harbors, relieved from attacks by the Ger~ man air patrol. It therefore seems. obvious that the German Air Force will attempt to destroy the wharf~ : age and shipping facilities of vital English harbors. London, for instance, depends for all sorts of vital. supplies upon the dockage facilities along the Thames River. These facilities, including the India Docks : and many others, extend for about 10 miles, The

great cranes and derricks appear as a veritable forest

when seen from the air. Destroy these shipping facilities (which are most vulnerable) and London falls. of its own weight. : #8 = i T= most Skpensive and least effective method, for using great airpower against England’s { d and supplies service would be to continue aerial pair and interception of shipping. On the other han the most effective tactics would be to destroy all the

harbor and docking facilities in the major harbors

of England, thus preventing the landing of cargoes 8

even if shipping eluded the air and submarivie pa= trol. With this accomplished. and England. isolated from foreign assistance, the invasion will move into the next phase. Germany now occupies about 700 miles of European coastline, along which major air bases will expedite rapid and diversified air ate tacks against England. This, from a strategical standpoint, offers an ideal opportunity for the: Aull, use 'of numerically superior air forces. 5 Since the Germans ‘possess greater numbers ots aircraft and an amazingly co-ordinated capacity for operations, they probably will launch widely scat tered air attacks from widely separated bases to cons ; verge upon objeetives known only to their aoe ers. The element of surprise outrivals anything in ine history of warfare. : FE Pe HE average distance in point of time from Gere “man air bases to all major industrial targets in England is about 53 minutes. will enable the Germans to stage false starts against targets, forcing concentrafion of the Royal Air, Force elements, while major attacking units. will slide through unchallenged.

‘England’s only hope is in the Royals Air Fares «

single-seaters, and it’s a slim hope because of ine ferior numerical strength. The invasion of England may indeed develop an air blitzkrieg, with troop invision attempted only after the air defeat. of the British Air Force is accomplished. Because of her politicians’ neglect to provide alr protection in the form of real airpower, England, I fear, will be conquered before the end of August. At any rate, the issue of victory or defeat for England will be decided within that time.

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Business By John T. Flynn Stronger Stand On Non-Involvement

Would Have Pleased Delegates

HILADELPHIA, June 28.—Aside from the move ment to stop Dewey and stop Willkie which raged furiously in the newspaper headlines, the only thing -

that ruffled the calm of ‘this Republican convention r. was the battle over the defense plank. And even

this went on so secretly and so unnoticed that -a lot of the delegates were not aware of it. Even the Reso lutions Committee ' members - will tell you that the argument was really only about phraseology. But that is a long way from the truth. The general feeling of this convention among the delegates, as far as one can sense it, was that the Republicans were getting a break from events and Roosevelt's course which brands him as a war ith They want to hold that advantage and they want to capitalize on the proposition that the Ree publican Party is the peace party. doors, carefully guarded Wayland Brooks, 0. P. candidate for Senator from Illinois; hh that | the platform label the Democrats as the party of “internationalism and war” and the Republican Party as the party of “Americanism and *Peace.” That formuta ‘would have suited the delegates. But there were certain large statured gentlemen on the Resolutions Committee who would consider themselves forever damned in the best Eastern social circles if they were once to be known as of: internationalists. Therefore the Resolutions “ mittee played with the idea of getting into the nae tional defense and foreign affairs plank something about “helping the Allies.” And on that point the foes of intervention balked.

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The phrase, they felt, has come to be one form of favoring intervention. Every member of the come mittee will tell you that he is a non-interventionist, But the forthright non-interventionists insist that there is little or no difference between the “aid to‘the Allies” bloc and the Roosevelt position. They

_felt {hat to include a clause favoring aid to the Allies

“not ‘in conflict with international or national law and not impairing our own national defense” would be completely to indorse the Roosevelt position. ‘And

been almost to throw away the election. Hoover's speech certai did not clarify this posie tion. He said we “shouidffciltat aid to the Allies” in getting “supplies of materials and munitions” provided that we do not violate the law .or “take- no action which would involve us in war.” But that

is another way of saying “short of war.”

The truth is that this committee and its leaders W

tried to pussyfoot on this issue. They tried to be : for peace without losing war votes and for ‘war without losing peace votes and found a collection of weasel words in which to express that shifty position,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford */ oy

ORE throats are not a frequent affliction’ nine : mer but they do sometimes. occur, Sudden

changes in weather, such as come in early and late

summer, may have something to do with the appeare ance of sore throats in this generally off season. = . _ Summer or winter, however, a sore throat is not a be taken lightly. Many times it is a symptom of only a minor disorder which clears up without leaving any damaging results. It may, however, be a warning

of a serious germ disease which is ‘dangerous to the community at large as well as to the sore sufferer, unless the condition is- diagnosed treated promptly. Just a simple sore: throat may lead to a

cesses. of Fo -the glands. of the neck, to infection of the middle ear,

the voice box, or even the bronchi and lungs. | , kidneys and joints may become involved from a sore throat that in itself did not seem severe. . One of the first signs: of scarlet fever is sore : throat. Another sore throat ailment closely related to scarlet fever is “septic sore throat.” [This is vl by germs of the. streptococcus family. . Early ment and early quarantine of the patient are portant in both ailments, to protect both the patie; and the community, % “Quinsy sore throat” sometimes results from inflammation of the tonsils. This is a very p variety and the infection causes so much iW that he patient cannot swallow and: often hk

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