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WILLKIE'S RUNN ING MATE HE Republicans could hardly have found a Detter man than Oregon’s Senator Charles McNary to place on the - ticket with Wendell Willkie. The latter is a newcomer to public life; the former has devoted most of his adult years toit. =~ = A veteran of many campaigns and parliamentary bat-' tles, Charlie McNary knows the highways and byways of the national government as well as any man in Washington. If the Willkie-McNary ticket wins, the head of it will not want for sage counsel on how to get things done in that ‘strange labyrinth of Federal bureaucracy, or how to gain _ the co-operation of all factions in the two houses of Congress. Co-operation has been a McNary specialty through the years of the New Deal. President Roosevelt had his support on practically all of the New Deal's most fundamental reforms. The NRA, the AAA, the TVA, Social Security, ‘the Stock Market Control Law, the Utilities Holding Company Law, the Labor Relations Act—on all of these and other measures, Senator McNary refused the obstructionist role followed by some of his die-hard Old Guard colleagues. As a lifelong progressive, he believed the New Deal should have its chance. It failed on some of its reforms because of stumble-bum administration, but it can never be said that the Senate’d minority leader gave less than the full measure of support in drafting and enacting those measures which the Roosevelt Administration had promised and the voters had approved. If one were to seek a division between that part of the New Deal which has been sound liberalism and that which belongs to the category of crackpot, he could well take Senator McNary’s voting record as the dividing line. Somewhat the same thing could be said of the record of Joe Martin, minority leader of the House. And, incidentally, should the Republicans win, Mr. Martin doubtless would become Speaker of the House. His qualities as a presiding officer have just been amply demonstrated in his skilful, impartial and confidence-inspiring conduct of the spirited Philadelphia convention. Willkie, McNary, Martin —a strong trio. ® » 2 »

[J WILLKIE AND THE HATCH BILL N his first press conference after the nomination, Willkie expressed his hope that Congress will enact the new Hatch Bill. In any event, he said, the treasurer of the Republican National ‘Committee will be instructed to accept no campaign contribution in excess of the $5000 limit proposed by the bill. Here is additional evidence that the Republican Party has a Presidential candidate of a brand new type. President Roosevelt has indorsed the Hatch Bill. Mr. Willkie has indorsed it. The Senate has passed it, by a 2 to 1 vote. The first business of the House, when it meets ‘next week after the recess, should be to complete Congressional action on this measure, which will extend to state employees paid wholly or in part from the Federal Treasury the same protection against political exploitation which the original Hatch Act gives to Federal employees and people on relief.

THE SPEED- UPIN RUSSIA ORKERS in Soviet Russia now submit to the Spends up and the stretch-out—or else. - The" five-day, 35-hour work week is gone, and in its place is the six-day, 48-hour week. Leaving a job to take another is prohibited. Quitting a job means a jail sentence. Shirkers will be punished with “correctional labor” and docked pay. This, as the All-Union Central Council of ~ Trade Unions proclaims, in order that production of machine tools, guns, planes and tanks may be increased to meet a growing danger of war. When Comrade Joe Stalin entered that Commu-Nazi pact last August, he ‘expected to plunge the other great powers of Europe into long war and eventual general collapse. It hasn’t worked out that way. Victorious German legions may soon be blitzkrieging eastward, and the Red Army’s miserable performance in Finland proved that it would be nothing to rely on against a real opponent. The successful intimidation of weak Rumania has not rebutted that evidence. Communists egged on the French workers to demand shorter hours, shorter’ work-weeks and ever-expanding social reforms, at the time when France should have been putting her full energy into preparations for defense. France is gone. Scared Communists, in the homeland of communism, now use their autocratic power to make the workers produce. It is in America that Communists continue to exhort the workers to hate their employers and withhold their support from the program of national defense. American workers, seeing what is happening in Russia, will not fall for that brand of treachery.

DON’T OVERLOOK THE ELDERS RESOLUTION adopted in Ohio by the regional conference of the Metal Polishers Union (A. F. of L.) deserves -the consideration of industry and the Government. It urges that there be no discrimination on account of age in the employment of mechanics on the national defense program. A good deal of the expanded. training program this far discussed by the Government is concerned solely with young generally inexperienced men. It is equally important the Government to concern itself with the re-training of older men who, having had some experience, may have lost part of their skill or may be unfamiliar with new techniques developed since they last held jobs in machine shops. : There may be great difficulty, ‘starting from scratch, in ~ training enough young men fast enough. It would be a sad mistake to overlook the fact that many elders, already ~ at least partially equipped with experience of the type ~ needed, are ready and eager to prepare for jobs requiring : Special skill and fully Sapable of doing such jobs well. :

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Fair Enough a By, Westbrook Pegler ot

After All America’ Has ‘Come of

Age and Why Not More Dignity in Naming - Candidates: for President?

ELPHIA, June 20.—This was not the| " noisiest conventicn of the. Republicans, who are

by nature less raucous than the ‘Democrats, but, even so, the clatter of mechanized oratory, followed by

‘mechanized eruptions of passionate enthusiasm for

impersonal names of absent persons, degraded rather than adorned the occasion. ‘Most of the speeches and practically all of the outbursts. of joy and loyal spirit were ,crudely arti-

ficial, and the purposes of the occasion would have

been better achieved if the P:aders and managers had realized that the United States ‘is no longer a rawboned nation which chews tobacco in bed. Such antics were natural when the country was younger, but they are forced and phony now, and they interfere with the business of the meeting. The delegates are swamped by the spectators, and there is absolutely no preténse- that the men and women with the badges who actually constitute the convention in the formal sense have the slightest voice in the real business of an event which, after all, has some important Sutjes:

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ECAUSE tradition. says it is customary for dele- :

gates to act the clown in the aisles and struggle around the floor, yowling and sprinkling sweat over their fellows in a tawdry imitation of .a football snake dance in certain circumstances, the delegates continue to do it. Always there are among them a few country cuties who are proud of their legs and willing to be boosted to the shoulders of the county attorney and peel their teeth in ersatz Hollywood grins in the hope than photographers will be about. Invariably a few male baboons will get into fist fights for possession of their state standards, knowing the cops will break it up ere they get hurt. But these disorders are entirely unnecessary, and the whole deportment of the national party convention in both camps is antiquated and stupid under present conditions. It is safe to say that there is not a single human being inside or out of the asylums from San Diego to Eastport who could sincerely: bounce out of his chair hollering: “Yow!” or “Yippee!” at mere mention of the name of Frank Gannett, Robert Taft or Tom

Dewey. Not more than 10 could so respond to the|

name of Wendell Willkie, and they would be deluded aristocrats who think he wants to reduce their taxes. : # 8 = FET these conventions must be reduced to humiliating farce—the more embarrassing under the eyes of the Germans who are watching to note whether we are showing signs of sense merely because long ago Americans bawled and misbehaved by way of showing that they were free. A few speeches contain some meaning, but nominating addresses almost invariably are noisy—meant

i only to cue off the faithful into silly disorders which

confuse and delay the proceedings and give the Unjted States bad publicity ‘abroad. The legitimate

business of a convention to nominate a man for|

President could be accomplished in less than half time ordinarily devoted to it and should ‘be so conducted that delegates at least appear to know what goes on. As it is, the platform of the party is arranged in private by a few individuals whom the delegates don’t know even by name, and the candidates trade blocks of delegates in dealings far from the hall, and that

-is called a convention,

Inside Indianapolis C.D. Alexander, Who Developed The C. of C.'s 'Staff of Honor'

ROFILE of the week: C. D. Alexander, general manager of the Indianapolis plant of Bemis Bag, former president of the Chamber of Commerce and the man who developed that organization's “Staff of Honor” program. Corum Alexander is now just past the 50 mark, a well put-up. gentleman of about 5 feet 7 inches, weighing about 150 pounds. Although he has been in Indianapolis only about 10 years, he has become more bf a native than men who have been here five times that long. He is one man who actually considers Indianapolis his home town. A native of North Caroliha and a graduate of Duke University, he still retains a trace of his Southern accent. And while he has the background of the traditional Southern Democrat, he’s an antiNew Dealer. ' ” 2 8 FORTHRIGHT IN HIS manner of speech and in

.| the expression of his convictions, he sometimes gives

the impression of being curt and sharp. Actually, however, he is an intensely human and sympathetic person with a great sense of humor. He has an incisive wit that is the admiration of his friends and colleagues. The Algxanders (including 6-year-old Sally, of course) live on a farm northeast’ of town and just south and west of Allisonville. Mr. Alexander’s hobby is his apiary which he takes care of himself. He likes to boast about his wheat and corn raising, but that happens to be pretty much bragadoccio because he actually is a “gentleman farmer.” “Alex” spends a great deal of fime outdcors with his bees and his horses, mostly in Sally’s company. He is extremely trim in dress. He wears dark blue and oxford gray suits almost exclusively. He always wears black (or dark)) four-in-hands with handkerchiefs to match and he is joshed by his friends for wearing spats during the winter months. ” 8 2 MRS. ALEXANDER IS NOTED as one of the most striking of all Indianapolis women and it is perhaps even more so because Mr. Alexander actually picks out many of her clothes. Women describe his purchases as ultra-smart. His choices are always in extreme good taste. If he happens to be passing a store and notices a hat or dress he likes particularly, the chances are he will go in and order it. One of his hobbies, if it can be called such, is entertaining several boxes of friends each May 30th at the Speedway. This last race he was reported to have spent $625 for tickets for his friends. He was a capfain in the World War. He is a strong champion of business’ place in American life and an effective debater on the subject. He ranks easily as one of the town’s top business executives. -

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HILE buying fuel for our cars it's a pity we can’t get ourselves supplied with some of the

brand of politeness that comes free with every gallon. |

We could certainly use anti-knock drivers with our anti-knock gasoline. As America’s Gentleman No. 1, I ‘nominate the filling station attendant. When it comes to gallantry he has any prince bested. In finesse he excels the best trained butler and, what's more, he can outcharm any charm expert now doing business. . : Perhaps this is not’ so unusual, except for one act. him constantly such an example of fine manners, would gradually acquire a few himself, if only from watching these gasoline-dispensing‘Galahads. Servet as he is with unfailing courtesy, it’s strange how

little he dishes out. When politeness is evident he |

wants to be always on the receiving-end. He expects, and gets, service with a smile. He is given free air for his tires, free water for himself and his engine and the use of rest rooms. His wind-

shield and his lights are cleaned, road maps are |

donated and, what’s more, every free accommodation is bestowed upon him with as bright % smile as the gas and oil he pays for. What, then, does Mr. Average Driver do? Shucks?

You know. He proceeds to behave like a first-class ]

boor. "Instead of smiles, he scatters scowls and curses on his swift way. He edges other cars off the road,

You might think the motorist, having before |

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

TELLS WHY BONDS CANT BE CONVERTED INTO CASH By Voice in the Crowd = * Mr. Davis of Brazil must be joking when he states that the Administration should “convert all public bonds into cash, prohibit any

+ |more bonds being issued and finance

operations with cash from the treasury.” The Government bonds are not

Government assets. They are Government debts. The Government cannqgt turn its debts into cash any more than a person can turn ‘a mortgage or any other sign of debt into cash. You get the cash or its equivalent when you make the debt, after that all that can be done is to pay. The Government much more §0 than an individual must pay its debts. If it does not pay lionestly it must pay in more painful ways. If it repudiates its debt or inflates to pay with cheap money ft ruins its source of income—the

‘taxpayers, and stops the flow of

taxpayers’ cash that normally supports .the Government. The Government, just the same as an individual, gets into debt by living beyond its income. Our Fedefal Government's income ‘is a

| pretty fair one, perhaps 6 or 7 bil-

lion dollars annually. But if the “Nudeel” stays in another four years people will learn that you cannot support a 10 billion dollar Government by paying 7 billion dollars in Federal taxes. The only remedy for public debt {3 to insist on a 6 ,billion dollar Government expense and then collecting 8 billion dollars in taxes and start paying off the debt. It must be paid either in sweat, or in human misery, but it must be paid. . If you ever again hear the fine radio voice of Mr. Roosevelt say, “We don't have to worry about the|’ debt, we owe it to ourselves,” check | © up a gross error for Mr. Roosevelt. We owe the Federal debt to the insurance policyholders, to the bank depositors and the savings accounts of the nation, to say nothing of the thrifty folks who buy the $750 “baby bonds” in good faith that

‘|some day they can get their money

back with a little interest to boot. Destroy that credit and the last stronghold of men who have faith in God and in each other will have

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

vanished from the earth, perhaps lorever. 2 8 =

WANTS PRODUCTION OF PLANES SPEEDED

By Liberty With Henry Ford ready to turn out planes upen order from the War Department, it would be interesting to know who is holding up the order. “Mussolini ‘entered the war with the statement Italy had entered the war as one century against another. He made one significant error. It was on his part medievalism against the progressive twentieth century. A thousand planes today is

them whatever the outcome of this battle. With 75 per cent of the popula=tion clamoring for action against the unmistakable challenge to democracy, what we get is oratory as though education and persuasion were necessities.

Political common sense, gentle-

men! ss 8 = COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING OPPOSED

By ‘0 F. Maddox We still have free ‘speech. but liberty is ‘lost. the minute compulsory miilitary service is saddled on our people. The move to force our youth into compulsory service looks strangely -like Prestonia Mann Martin’s “Winning Plan” to communize American youth. -Are we being hoodwinked by. war hysteria into another mighty effort to euchre us into a revolutionary trap? 2 8 = SAYS BRITAIN LOSES FAITH IN UMBRELLA

By A. B. C. England now is convinced the um-

worth 50,000 any other time, and it is a certainty the nation will need

brella is adequate defense only against rain. :

New Books

HE climb of philately from a hobby engaged in by a few “pests” to its present position as the chief hobby of mankind is told in a fast moving book, “Paper Chase,” by Alvin F. Harlow (Henry Holt & Co., Inc., New York). “Paper Chase” may well interest persons other than those devoted to the hobby of stamp collecting. Mr. Harlow. details the beginning of the use of the postage stamp in England and its spread throughout the world in a fiction-like manner that makes ‘it exceptionally readable. Mr. Harlow treats his subject comprehensively. He tells. howl millions of dollars are spent on the hobby annually, with the cash value of many of the rare stamps fully equal to that of all but the largest of diamonds. He describes Nassau St.. in downtown New York, the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

shrills his horn for the right of way, slices the peeling i ?

from pedestrians and generally conducts himselt like Be noe = biiahksies. idea to require ay a good every applicant for a driver's license to serve an Aapprentice~ ship Raider a reliable Alling. station attendant.

For Pe peaceful quietude. I feel and

“Wall Street” of stamp collecting, and details the growth of the various great stamp collecting firms of the nation. - One of the most interesting portions of the book is that devoted to tales of the “finds” by various collectors. For instance there is the story of a little old lady in London who found herself without funds. to

she thought of the stamps which her late husband—the ‘silly boy” —had collected and which she had stowed away. She took them to a dealer who sold them for her at an auction, netting her $25,000. Mr. Harlow also presents other sides of philately with equal efiectiveness. He tells stories of the rare and famous stamps of the world, details the devious maneuvers by which governments racketeer at the expense of the “paper chasers” ‘and describes the famous and sometimes: fantastic collectors tof the past and present. He offers suggestions for the beginning collector and an analysis of the hobby from the standpoint of the person who is interested in it as an investment. It’s,.a book for every type of stamp collector. (E. R.). :

THIS PEACE By MARY JOSEPHINE CAREY

I thank God for an apple hanging in my tree, And for the sunshine flicking through the bough;

Aly pray it may be ever thus as now. I thank Him tor the sougbiris unThis tranquil day 4n June, may it _ be long— For the little children, their playing undisturbed

By. any. bombs or shells or battle throng.

Bush o contrast fills my heart with I 1 ask our Father to stretch out. His

ds, and bring tls peace fo al hel | : again.

world

DAILY THOUGHT

"In thee, O Lord, do I put.my y trust; let me never be ashamed:

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pay the rent or to buy food. Finally |-.

deliver me in thy Fightieousngs = 5

Joe Martin i Entitled to Credit for an Unbossed Conven Which Produced a Great Candi HILADELPHIA, June 20.—One clear {mpressi the Republican convention is that it was

and orderly—perhaps too orderly. Maybe the ot bands had something to do with this, buf

_appearéd to be less enthusiasm than is veal

national conventions. | I don't know much about convention | b methods, but there was.less apparent evidence than in any convention I. have attended. I sa of the inside baseball that saved the nominatic Mr. Roosevelt in Chicago iin 1932. That was done through remote control from San Simeon in California over. long nce telephone “by Hearst, Nothing whatever of that kind wen ere I think this convention took its even temper x high tone from Joe Martin, .its chairman. 1 most chairmen that I have seen, he did not office to favor anybody and there was so:much fidence in his fairness that there was an almost plete absence of soreheads and sullen-resentment sometimes create party wounds that are slow to 5 8 = XCEPT for some dirty pool played in Mr. W direction by attempted anonymous smear Ci paigtis and the jealously of life-long professionals | the astonishing success of this amateur, the walked out of here in reasonable harmony. It was an unbossed convention-—even in the delegations. The shadows:across the world here. Most of the delegates felt their rSeponsiy and acted in deadly earnest. They at-least s to be doing their thinking for themselves. The platform was a typical old time political sloppy and two-faced and, in most clauses, ind enough to mean anything and hence to let any didate write his own platform by interpretation. course ahead of us is too cloudy to chart. Any dent of the United States for the next four y bretty likely to have to operate on a weekly or a daily basis, . Lalu 8 2.8 HAT meant to most delegates that the se of a man is more important than the sel of words and phrases. This fact was largely sible for the unexpected popularity of Wendell In every quality except old time political slickness in every circumstance except his lack of an old

.political floor team, Mr. Willkie stood. head

shoulders above his rivals. od It was so hard to argue intelligently to the.¢ trary that if Mr. Willkie had the kind of tion that either Senator Taft or Tom Dewey seemed certain that he would have been nominaf on the second ballot instead of the sixth. . : Whether he wins or loses in the election, both ‘Mr. Willkie and the American people can congratulate themselves. His nomination, at least,

‘that, in this dangerous world, democratic.

are working even more freely than they do in: sal) times.

Business

By John T. Flynn

' Help for Industry Is Key Point. 04

In Republican Recovery Plank

HILADELPHIA, June 20.—Behind the many planks 6 3 of the Republican Party is this ancient or organ< ization’s approach to that problem which the New Deal tackled seven years ago. Seven years ago yo was vast unemployment, suspension of private Toveste ment, paralysis on farms, in industfy. =

~~ After seven years, whaiever credit may be ivi ‘the President for trying, his meastires have signall; failed. Obviously some other approach must be. ‘It ‘will be interesting to see the proposals of the ocrats in Chicago next month, At the moment | would ‘seem that party has no new plans but J .instead, on utilizing the war, first to obscure its idl) ures, and second to provide a vast new war industfy. on which to spend money and create employ, ne;

The Republican plan is more or less set out: in | platform. Behind that plan is the theory: +. 1. That business prosperity is dependent.on Soniifance and persistent expansion of private’ # ustry 2. "That this can be. accomplished only by the tot of private capital into new productive enterprise and that therefore; 3. The whole problem of recovery is the problem of breaking down whatever barriers exist to this flow of capital into private industry. The platform makes it clear that Republican nomists believe these barriers are: 1..Punitive taxes. 2. Excessive regulation of business. i 3. Labor difficulties fostered by Government sae cies. 4, Uncertainties - of Government mo lie 5. The loss of the farmer's heey i fo.

The Proposed Corrections

They propese to correct these by: { i 1. Repealing punitive taxes and adopting stead’ taxes for revenue dnly save where incentive taxes ’ be adopted. 2. Continuing the Truth-in-Securities Act and SEC, but: shifting to wider self-rule of the and commodity markets. arz a = Amendment of the National Labor c Bl 4, Repeal of the Thomas amendment ‘whil: 01 the President to control the dollar, of the silver 'p chase act; and the reintroduction of free gold into market. ag 5. Increase of the fatihers domestic market viving industrial business which provides his cm tomers and /the management of accumulated pluses by finding markets for them. : Farm subsidies will: be provided through soil’ servation payments and incentive payments | crease production where possible. It favors farm operatives, refinancing of farm debts and a land program. It urges not an end of the policy of 1 procity but of what it calls “one-man” tariff-m Apparently it would end PWA, WPA and ail ot Government spending plans save appropriations : relief to be administered entirely by the States,

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| Watching Your Hea

By Jane Stafford

I= minerals, phosphorus and calcium,’ of you know, are raw materials from w. body builds bones. These must be present i amounts and proportion to each.other. In

“two other’ ‘chemicals are needed, One’ of: ‘Vitamin D and the other is a substance prod

the four tiny parathyroid glands in the neck, A good many Persons aparently do fot get

of the two minerals through their f “third (30 per cent) of all paces have. Mi

normal amount of ph

“(85 per cent): of he ee Who get. rok

have less than the |

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