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MONDAY, JULY 1, 1940

PAYING THE COST YOULL find yourself paying from 1 cent to 3 cents more for theater tickets. Gasoline’s likely to rise a half cent or 50. Cigarets may be ‘costing you a cent more for each two packs. Ygur beer glass may contain a swallow or two Jess—or by tHe bottle, you may pay an extra cent. Toilet articles, radios, mechanical’ refrigerators, playing cards and matches may cost a little more. That's how the first iristallment on the defense bill is going to be paid, beginning with July. Of course in March the income tax will be higher, and” will.scoop lower to catch single men earning as little as $800. When Congress was bravely appropriating all those billions, this is what it meant to you, and you, and you. But if we get the defense strength we asked Congress . to ‘provide, nobody’s going to kick on paying over those extra nickels and pennies.” The fact that so many are paying is the best guarantee that they will want to see to it that they get something for their money.

CONGRESS, HIRED BY THE YEAR A “QENATE drive seeks early adjournment,” is the headline which greeted politigians on their return to the nation’s capital from the Philadelphia convention. : : Rim nistration Senators, it seems, are leading the drive! : “There is. no real reason to stay Here.” “Our job is done,” says Senator Ellender, Speaking for the Administration.” “We thought the adjournment issue had been settled, by agreement on recesses for the two conventi 8. sf it's in again. ‘Why? . There is something to cause not only suspicion Ew fear in this recurrent push to get rid of the legislative branch; sometihng much deeper than homeésickness and heat. The desire of the executive department to take over in the crisis has long been obvious; to make all the decisions, to sidetrack that part of our supposedly equal and co-ordinate government—the part to which under our Constitution is delegated the sole responsibility for declaring war.

The public already has registered on this, in no uncer--It looks as if it will have to be done all over

. tain tones. E again, : » » 8 8 ~~ ” 8 » HERE is plenty of unfinished business to keep, Congress "in Washington.

not yet completed, includes—

1. The Hatch Bill, to give to state employees paid by |

Federal furids thé same protection which the present Hatch Law: gives to regular Federal employees—protecting their right to vote as they choose, free from the coercion of bosses, and their right to keep the money they earn, free from the checkoff of political machines. This measure, incidentally, has been approved by both President Roosevelt and the Republican nominee, Wendell Willkie. 2. The Logan-Walter Bill, to put a check-rein on the tendency of bureaucrats to assume arbitrary lawmaking powers. ° 3. The Smith Amendments to the Labor Relations : Act, also pending in" the Senate after 2-to-1 approval by the House. ~ The amendments would get rid of the present * Labor Board, which has made a flop of the Wagner Act, would separate the functions of prosecutor, judge and jury, and at the same time protect labor’s right of olleciive bargaining, ~ 4, The bill authorizing a 75 per lott increase in our Navy. » ® » 8 2 8 HERE are other measures, not yet on the. calendar of either house, which need to be deliberated in the light of changed World conditions. They include— 1. Some plan for selective military service and train“inig, to make sure that we have efficient manpower to handle the new weapons we are producing, should the time ever ' come when events beyond our control force us to protect vital national interests. 2. A hill curbing fifth-column activities, outlawing sach _treasonable organizations as the Communist Party and the ~ German-American Bunds, which stem from and are financed by foreign governments. . . 8. A pdlicy looking toward acquisition by the United States and other American republics of all European pos-

sessions in this hemisphere, to implement American de-

fenses and help keep foreign wars from crossing the ocean. Living in a world of violence and change, we must pperate on a day-by-day basis, meeting each new need as it arises: Congress should stay on the job to fulfill its constitutional responsibility. Any Senator or Representative Nii at such a time ~ votes to go home should be made to stay home.

“BUT HE’S STILL ‘CANDIDATE BROWDER?’! EJECTING the plea of “political persecution” and all technical points raised by the defense, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has unanimously upheld the conviction, the four-year prison sentence and the $2500 fine in the case of Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party, found guilty last Janu“ary of having twice violated the Federal statute forbidding use of a passport fraudulently obtained. If his appeal to the United States Supreme Court fails, Browder will forfeit his civil rights, including the right to hold public office. «In the meantime, however, we have the spectacle of a convicted felon—affirmed to be such by the Federal Court next to the highest—using his civil rights to run for no less an office than that of President, as the candidate of the

it Party avowedly devoted to the ultimate Mos- |

eow design of Sovietizing America! Who says civil rights in this country are: not still and generous—even to the point. of Protecting to

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in ignorance of the facts.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

: Withholding of Facts by Guild Reporter Typical of Journalism That Might Come With Closed Shop

EW YORK, July 1.—I would like to reveal the character of the journalism that must be expected if the American Newspaper Guild under Communist domination, as at present, should ever establish absolute authority over the American press through the closed shop, the goal of the Guild. The Guild Reporter is the official organ of this

©. I. O. union and, naturally, is a partisan publica-

tion. However, it complains of lies and half-truths

in writings critical of the Guild, and on that basis assumes an obligation to refrain, itself, from deception of its members and non-me bers ‘through misrepresentation. In fact, as the official organ of a group professing to represent the best American journalism it should present the whole known ‘truth on: every question which it-discusses. Failing to do this, it gives warning that, under Guild control, the whole journalism of the United States would be no better than that preserited in the Reporter. . . A typical issue, that of June 15, provides some items for discussion from this approach. :

NE item, headed “A. F. of L. Memory Short, > reports that the C. I. O. executive board appropriated $500 to the widow of Sam Gompers and would arrange to get her a job. She was “saved from starvation” by the C. I. O. after the A. F. of L. had “repeatedly refused her pleas for a job or assistance.” That story is incomplete. The A. F. of L. has another version of the case which relieves the A. F.of L. of the charge of ingratitude to Sam Gompers through apparent neglect of his widow. I will just state

flatly that the Guild Reporter has suppressed that :

part of the story in order to smear the A. F. of L. This issue of the Reporter also prints complaint that documents exposing the Communist control of the Guild were placed in the hands of newspaper workers in. a shop where a vote was in progress on Guild_affiliation. .The revelations are dismissed" as “the usual bilge” and “anti-union” propaganda, but, nevertheless, the workers having studied them, voted not to join-the Guild. That ‘means only that the workers exercised their informed intelligence and asserted their right not to join. Nevertheless, there is a distinct note of complaint, as though these people should have been kept

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N this connection the Guild Reporter neyer has mentioned the «fact that the Communist element

‘circulated the Communist Daily Worker jamong the

employees in a Guild strike in Brooklyn. It was all right to shower those American workers with antiAmerican Communist propaganda, but it was “antiunion” to place in the hands of another group information exposing thé Communist control of the Guild. Another item reports that a woman member, who

was elected president of her Guild unit, was trans- |!

ferred from her job as secretary to routine ‘duties where she would not occupy a confidential position. The Guild has demanded her reinstatement.in the secretarial job, but the Reporter does not explain that in such a case the employer's confidences would be exposed to a person in opposition to his interests.

The Guild itself holds that the interests of the worker:

and the employer are in conflict. These instances, which could be multiplied many times from the files of the Guild Reporter, are typical of the journalism which the United States could expect under a universal Guild closed shop.

Inside Indianapolis

Legislation already in the mill, but. p

Indiana's : National Guard Already Is Put In Tip-Top Shape

HERE has been so much publicity about how illequipped our armed forces are, that most people get the impression the National Guard. nothing more than pea shooters. , An ‘inspection ‘trip through any of the Guard armories throughout the state would surprise the public. While all the talk has been going on, the Guard has been receiving carloads of the newest weapons, bought by the first defense appropriations passed early in the Congressional session, but forgotten. Did you know that the 38th Division, with headquarters in Indianapolis, has just received a complete replacement in brand new machine guns. That's not all. New heavy weapons, right off the production lines, are rolling into the guard armories throughout the state every day. Guns aren't all the Guard is getting. New uniforms, leggings, mess kits, blankets, trucks, gun toters, reconnaisance cars, etc. As a matter of fact, while Congress was passing its latest defense - bills, the Guard had already been placed in the best equipped position in its history. If you don’t believe it, drop over to 711 N. Pennsylvania St. at the Indianapolis Armory July 10 at 8 p. m. The 151st Infantry is going to have a heavy weapons” display. 2 ” -

. AMONG THE METHODIST MINISTERS here there is almost as much interest in who will be the next Indianapolis district superintendent after September as there is among the Willkie fans as to who it’s going to be it on Nov. 4. Dr. C. A. McPheeters of the North Church is most frequently mentioned as the successor to Dr. William

C. Hartinger, who has been chief of Methodist ac-'

tivities here for eight years, the maximum administration ‘allowed for one man. Others mentioned are Dr. Guy O. Carpenter of Central Avenue Church and Dr. Ezra L. Hutchens of the Irvington Church. ; 8 8 =

HOOSIER POLITICOS CAN take a rest for a while after cleaning up their state conventions. There will be more rest for the G. O. P.’s than the Democrats who will have to sit and worry about Paul McNutt’s uncertain position at the National Democratic Convention in Chicago July 15. The Security Administrator is moving; his headquarters from the Claypool to the Stevens at Chicago.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ISCUSSION of compulsory military walning is bringing out some sloppy sentiments. Let me

quote something from the typewriter of a news-

paper editor who has a safe berth for life. “Recently,” his column states, “I have heard some talk of a guarantee of jobs for the men who return

| from the next war,.if ahd when. That attitude seems

to me to say, ‘I'm for my country and American freedom but won’t join up unless by job is ‘protected.’ ‘Do. you suppose any Englishman today is worrying about his job? National unity and effort in an emergency gives everything to preserve a nation.” Such sentiments would sound a great deal more convincing if they came from young men earning $50 a week, let us say. We could at least consider them sincere, but when they emanate from a man past the half century mark, who stands to lose nothing but money from any war in which America engages, they fail to carry conviction. The young man who did not worry about his job would be a fool. And certainly we can imagine he would fight more willingly and couraggpusly, when need arose, if he felt he was fighting for his own financial, 8) gecurity as well as for national unity. To be in a realistic mood. No man ever fights a ‘good

“battle without the knowledge that he is fighting for

his own future security or the security of those he loves. And in our time, we must remember, the

young are not as sentimental as their parents were. |

No amount of beating around the bush .can change this fact. It is m uh better to face it than to try to camouflage it with fine words. Present martial fever runs true to- form. Old men are whipping up war for young ones to fight. I refuse to believe that millions of draft age men in the United States lack the courage or ‘the desire to protect their country from an invading enemy, but being often wiser fhe their eld

flectively waged, war must be approached |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Which Will Be Turned Back?

The Hoosier Forum "I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire. >

AGREES PROFIT MOTIVE IS CAUSE OF WARS By C. W.

I would like to congratulate Jean Woolsey - (with whom I wholeheartedly agree) for his splendid letter in the Hoosier Forum, The profit motive is. the: basic cause for all wars. The few men who have sincerely tried to take the

battle with the few who profit therefrom, as witness the exclusion of the La Folletter and Connally’ excess profits tax from the billion dollar emergency tax bill. Thus the thieves who grow enormously rich from human suffering have made sure of not losing a penny of the harvest to be gathered from: this latest wave of mass hysteria, which has resulted in the spending-of billions for defense. . Someone once said, “Truth is the first casualty in any war.” We should remember that today.

” ”® 2 FEARS F. D. R. LEADING U. S. TOWARD FASCISM By R. G. Levan 1

A Forum writer, Warren A. Benedict Jr., seems to confuse an antiBritish sentiment with anti-Amer-icanism and writes in a vein that leaves little doubt about what would happen to our civil liberties if he were permitted the final word. The tragedy of it is that such as he are already in the majority.

Along ‘with John T. Flynn, I too want to know how we got into this hysterical mood to “save democracy” again. First I'd like to know how that 165-million-dollar propaganda fund provided by the British for influencing this country is being spent. Who is getting it, and just what is the technique? Secondly, -I'd like to know just why the President is so hell-bent to help the British. Before the Neutrality Act was revised last year the isolationists charged that the President had, or must have made a secret agreement with the British to help them in the war they were then ‘planning. Is this pact the

tionist moves and speeches? Or does he perhaps have British Empire investments which are now in danger? This cry of “defense,” like a cry of fire; is preventing any calm thinking until we have adequate defenses. But it is becoming daily more apparent that the President’s reason for raising an emergency was not to protect ourselves but un-

profit from war have fought a losing |"

reason underlying all his interven- |

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der. cover of it. to send military aid |

to Britain. Just how far is he going? His very hatred of Hitlerism and fascism is backing this country into fascism. F. D. R. has already assumed the authority of a dictator in some things, and: indicates an un-

‘séemly willingness. to assume the

rest, When we start thinking calmly again, we'll no doubt be chagrined at our frenzied fear of a bogey that I am sure is not there right now. Perhaps later on, but not for five years anyway, if ever. Our share in this .makes us look ridiculous, I think. Here go F. D. R. and Hull writing notes, giving warnings and making , “back-stabbing” speeches instead of paying attention to our own affairs. Reminds me of a neighbor we once had. She had quite a few children and they were always dirty and ill-kempt. Her housekeeping was a disgrace and her yard was a rubbish pile. Yet she belonged to every “uplift” movement in town, helped the heathen, went’ around collecting for “sweet charity,” and all such things “to make this world a ‘better place to live in.” Never seemed to occur to her that she might best start. with her own corner of it. Well, that's F.D.R.toa“t> I've voted Democratic since the first time out, but if the Republicans get themselves a half-way decent candidate, I'm voting F. . R. out of office. ? ” » ” BLAMES BOTH PARTIES FOR PRESENT CONDITIONS

By P. E. Dice Any individual who sabotages materials, interferes with production or delivery, or willfully permits others to interfere, or will not co-operate to the fullest extent for the defense and security of the United States may properly be defined as a “fifth columnist.” Conversely, a good citizen is primarily interested in the United States and its people, promotes na-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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tional efficiency, utmost conservation, real economy, adequate defense, and a government that will merit the respects of its own chi, zens. ~All good citizens are interested in the social welfare and advancement’ of their country, so let us examine the records of the four columns preceding the “fifth column.” 1. The Democrats are now paying (for the cur! fiment of farm pro-

‘ed-T0r loyment ih producistered “Tof employment permitted needless suffering, have tied the destruction of agricultural p! ucts, have failed to provide adequa oy. defense, ‘and have consistently spent | more money than received. 2: The- Republicans have CONGUrred with most of the conditions enumerated above. The Hoover Administration advocated the plowing under of every third row of cotton, permitted extreme suffering and tolerated unbalanced budgets. 3. The Communists advocate the overthrow of our Government, and are accused of trying. to head this greatest peace time déstructive program in all history. 4, The Nazi-Bunds are operating in silence, waiting for the opportune time to thrust their dominance on the American people. The records show the Democrats and Republicans to be guilty of sabotage as well as inefficiency. Their programs of interference and destruction are so openly brazen they are not considered subversive. The Communists and Nazi-Bunds— bad as they are—have been outdistanced by the two columns in control. The “fifth column” certainly must be a group of super Martian warriors. 8 8 ” : SEES WAR HAVING NO EFFECT ‘ON FARM PROBLEM By Ruralist Es ~ Farmers find it hard to forget the World War and $2 wheat. . At the beginning of the present struggle in Europe warnings were sounded by the clear-sighted that the present course would be different. Each warring country had vast food stocks laid by. Rationing began at once. Civilian consumption dropped. Export to country after country has been completely cut off. There is no reason to expect improvement in these restrictions on exports until the war {is over. Whether an exhausted Europe will then be facing starvation, and call in anguish for American food, as has been predicted, we do not know. But we do know that this war has brought no boom to American farmers and will not. This means that the farm problem will still be with us in mtch the same form we have known it for 20 years, no matter what Administration is returned to Washington. The world outlook being what it is, methods of increasing domestic consumption of our own food may be

| the ‘best “out.”

‘” 2 ® FINDS 5TH COLUMNI HAVING DIFFICULT By Frank Lee Biggest complaint Fifth Colum-

nists have against America is that Uncle Sam Just won't listen to trea-

THE MEASURE By RUTH KISSEL Heights, distances, expanse of space; From feet to miles we go, Measuring man’s dominion In units that we know. But your love of God, And man’s love for his ‘brother Are not measured by a : stick, But by good done for each other.

DAILY THOUGHT

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth L pot; charity

vaunteth not itself, is up-~1 Corinthians. 18. 13:

cause it does not fake

MONDAY, JULY 1 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Simple Honesty and His Corega . Along With Fact He Likes Everybody,

Reasons for. Willkie's Popularity

HILADELPHIA, Pa, July 1— “The tumult and the shouting dies, "The captains and the kings depart; - “© Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite hea: . It is exactly in this humble spifit of Kipling's Res cessional that Wendell Willkie is going home. His humility in triumph is remarked by everybody. No: personality in our history, ever in so short a time, has

80 captured the affection, faith and confidence of so many people.

same humble book, but so many distinguished pube

’| lisists are emulating Little Jack Horner who “stuck in +

his thumb and pulled out a plum and said what & great boy am I,” that I can’t resist repeating a quota= tion in the Philadelphia Inquirer from a writer I do not know—explaining a reason for Mr. Willkie’ charm: “Genf Hugh Johnson, who can take the credit for the sudden and almost unaccountable boom which sky-rocketed Willkie to the heights. in a matter of months, put his finger on the thing that makes the exclusively masculine charm which marks the mang. Willkie likes everybody. idk A iW. F course, nobody but Mr. Willkie could put Mr, * Willkie across and" nobody is responsible for his boom but Mr. Willkie, In the line rapidly forming to the right—claimants . in: the ancient and honorable order of “I saw him ! first”’—I respectively submit the credentials of this column. This writer not only first insisted on the availability of Mr. Willkie, but did it oftenest and most consistently—here, in magazines, in speeches and on the air, The only reason more columnar colleagues didn’s appreciate Mr. Willkie earlier, was that so few of them had met him earlier. His is a charter that sells - on sight. It is true that a part of the reason is the one mentioned in the Inquirer, but another, and I think more important part, is the utter simple honesty and straightforward courage of the smiling Hooser,

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OME time before the convention, he was waited upon by a small group of really the richest indus trialists. He isn’t one himself. They were tentatively considering financial support of his campaign. - Hers is how one of them—not Mr. , Willkie—reported ‘the conversation: “Let’s - have no misunderstanding. about this Doubtless the party will need money. But so as T am concerned, if I can't take office without a pletige or obligation—express or implied—to any one; ‘I don’t * want office. Especially and particularly, no fat cat is going to be appointed ambassador anywhere—contri= bution or no contribution. » Did they resent that? They ate it up. The Republicans couldn’t have run their party through. a sieve and found a stronger pair for this campaign than Willkie and McNary. Besides being a statesman and a good senatorial man, Mr, McNary is, and for a generation has been, the patron saint of agriculture. We are in for a real campaign.

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Business

‘By John T. Flynn

HILADELPHIA, July 1.—In some respects this “the most unusual Republican convention in Fears. Much has been said about its lack of bosses, But the reason for this is the interesting feature. The depression, apparently, has burned out all of the old leaders of the party. A few of them were:

found here, but they seem as extinct as those who did not come.

All the important figures, for instance, were young men and new men. The temporary chairman, Gove ernor Stassen, is only 33. The permanent chairman is under 50. The chairman of the Resolutions Come, mittee, Herbert Hyde, is under 40. The candidates—with one exception—were all’ freshman candidates, none having appeared in that Ele before. Dewey is only 38. Taft is 50, Willkie is was the oldest of the lot—around 56. Gannett, Mc= Nazy, James, the veterans, were not considered serfs ously. What this may mean for this conservative party, of course, is not easy to predict. Young men somes times can be quite as conservative as their fat But they are better geared to orienting themselves. to new conditions, bringing their conservatism um to-date, It is another interesting fact that the chief energy for a strong war: or even interventionist policy waged by the grayheads, some of thém ready for pension lists. = It ‘was the younger men—Hyde | Oklahoma, Brooks of Illinois, Lodge of Re yde fis

| —who- put the pressure on their elders for the. antly: :

interventionist plank and won. For, But Not Run By Business

.Another thing is that, while this was an olde” fashoined Republican convention in temper, its Seles gates displayed a sitfgular inhespitality to any dict tion from anything resembling big business. It for business, as you would expect a Republican Com vention to be—business 100 per cent. Looking out. ‘among the delegates one could see the lawyers for ceir= tain great corporations. And around the lobbies 2 than one big business leader was present for whi ever good he could do. But as far as the convent was concerned they were far from controlling it. The subject that dominated the minds here was fear—fear not so much of invasion as of disaster that might overtake the system of. prop profit and private business. That makes them: hot for arming without knowing quite how arms save them. Also they feel the Government must somehow pass into the hands of men who are 100 per cent for business. Sha I found a singular lack of interest in discussing remedies. Herbert Hoover came nearest to the mental attitude of the convention. He said a man may not kno wwhat is the solution of the reigns , ing confusions. He may not even know how to find them.- What is- essential is that be shall hold fast to certain fundamental principles of Governmen morals. That's what the convent felt. ;

Watching Your He alth - By Jane Stafford ; s

ORE than ever this year Americans are look: forward to celebration of Independence iv. the Fourth of July. The shocking news of death & disaster abroad will undoubtedly inspire all of us | the United States to find safe, peaceful ways of ¢ brating our independence so that there will be casualty lists to publish on July fifth, In Indians seven other states which have laws against the vate use of fireworks the objective should be e to attain. Thirteen persons Jost their lives last year as rect result of celebrating the Fourth of July wi works and other explosives. The casualty list lished by the American Medical ‘Association shos that 7233 persons were burned or wounded; 21 v blinded in one or both eyes; 198 suffered other fs j to the eyes; 47 were crippled by loss of a ha: or finger; 45 suffered internal injuries, or other serious

accidents. The lst is ‘a moamplgte. an « foo

which failed to por or to the A, M. A. nor sicians’ offices. = : So-called Min ana sine freworks cause of serious injury w arents | against. The sparkler. is an Sate

.But others can help and did, *

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