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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1940

OIL FOR DEFENSE R EADING an article in The Annalist, about how the Illi- ; nois oil boom has created problems of oversupply, we come upon this arresting pavagraph: “Illinois alone produces more oil than any country outside the United States except Russia and Venezuela, three times as much oil as Rumania, Poland and the rest | of Europe (excluding Russia) taken together.” Yet Illinois produces less oil than California, and only | a third as much as Texas produces. And there are several | other states which boast large oil production,

Oil is a prime requisite of modern war. Without it there could be no panzer divisions on land, or dreadnaughts on the seas, or bombers in the air. Possessing such great superiority in this fuel for the | nks of Mars, need this country fear the war ma- | of Hitler and Mussolini? The answer is: It needn't | It needs only leadership and the will to work, to perate-——in mobilizing manpower, industries to build defenses that are impregnable,

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BEST NEWS OF THE DAY I! would be hard to envision any better news than the | fact that 400,000 people returned to work in May, and | around 46,377,000 people are now working. True, the population has increased and we must do better than we have in the past. True, also much of the gain is probably due to war and prospect-of-war employment, [rue, again, when the world returns to sanity and peace, much of the problem may have to be faced all over | again. But the fact that nearly a half million men have gone back to work is welcome news at any time and under any circumstances.

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DUTY FOR THE SENATE A LMOST four weeks ago—on June 7—the Smith amendments to the National Labor Relations Act were adopt- | the House of Representatives, The vote was 258 | to 129, a large number of Democrats joining with Repub- | licans in support of the amendments. (On that same day—how remote it seems now '!—Gen. Wevgand went from Paris to the Somme front and ordered a withdrawal of Allied advance units before furious Ger- | France, still hoping against hope, was re- | ing her fatal weakness, her lack of weapons to resist | mechanized might.) All that has happened since that day has emphasized | the need for enacting the Smith amendments. We know, that we must prepare as France did not. We know that our Government, while protecting the rights of labor, | nust stop inciting ill will between workers and employers; must promote industrial peace in order that production may be unimpeded. Yet one motive behind the renewed Administration | rive for an early adjournment of Congress is a desire to prevent these labor act reforms from coming to a vote |

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in the Senate. The Smith amendments are aimed directly at that | spirit of zealotry which has controlled the present NLRB and brought the Labor Act into disrepute. They were drafted by a special House committee, after long and thorough investigation of the board's record of maladministration, bias and incompetence. We do not contend that the amendments, as passed by | the House, are perfect. We do contend that it is the Senate's | duty to get them out of the pigeonhole where the Senate Labor Committee is trying to keep them, to debate them fully, to improve them if need is shown, and to bring them promptly to a vote, And we repeat: Any member of Congress who votes to adjourn and go home, before this and other items of | important unfinished business are cleared, should be ordered ! by his constituents to stay home.

THE VOICE OF STALIN “HE Workers Alliance professes to be a union of WPA workers and relief recipients. It is recognized as such by the Administration at Washington. We not only concede, we defend, the right of citizens on relief, as of other citizens, to express their sentiments on all subjects. We wonder, however, whose sentiments the general executive board of the Workers Alliance is actually expressing in this statement it has just issued: “We are opposed to building up armaments for use in a war abroad. We are opposed to building up armaments, to the calling up of troops, for a war of aggression in Latin America, in the Dutch East Indies, or any other part of the world under any conditions. It is our considered opinion that no troops shall be sent to Latin America to defend the interests of American bankers or American industrialists, | or to shed the blood of American boys to garner markets for profiteers who see their opportunity to grab markets | from English, French and German industrialists.” Where have we seen those same sentiments, proclaimed | in those same words? Why, of course, in the speeches of Earl Browder, in the columns of the “Daily Worker,” in the | pronouncements of the Communist Party—a party which | no longer attempts to conceal the fact that its allegiance is to Soviet Russia. The conclusion is inescapable, the sentiments of Josef Stalin, whose American stooges, at- |

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tempting to sabotage the American national defense effort | by falsely denouncing it as a preparation for imperialistic conquest, are doing a job for Stalin's ally, Hitler. We do not believe the Workers Alliance officials who issued this statement are really concerned for the welfare of anything that is American,

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Why Fingerprint Only the Aliens When the Most Arrogant Enemies of the United States Are Citizens?

EW YORK, July 4--The practical reasons for fingerprinting the 3,500,000 aliens in the United States are not quite clear to me, but they were sufficient to persuade Congress in the debate on the law which now requires this large additional bloc of residents to leave this record with the Government. However, this is a half-measure, because the antiAmericans among the alien population are no more dangerous than naturalized but un-Americanized immigrants, of whom there are many at large, or native citizens who promote fascism, national socialism and communism, The most arrogant and impudent enemies of the nation in the anti-American bund, the various fascist groups, the Communist Party and those reptilian gangs which desecrate the Christian symbol and the Stars and Stripes by flaunting them over their evil ceremonies are citizens of the United States. The citizenship of naturalized enemy conspirators may be revoked under some conditions, but only after long and difficult litigation, and the citizenship of a native cannot be revoked at all. ” = ”

HE problem could be simplified by the fingerprinting of the whole population, and the objections te that are not as strong as they seem when it is remembered that every member of the armed forces and millions of the best Americans are fingerprinted already and permanently. There never has been any complaint that anvone’s civil liberties suffered from the existence of this

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millions of citizens of law-abiding

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The objection to fingerprinting arises almost entirely from the fact that the public associates this process with criminal identification exclusively. In Washington, however, the prints of eriminals held in the files of the FBI are kept separate from the military filles and the FBI's voluntary file. It is said that the FBI's voluntary, or clean, file is never consulted for identification when the prints of suspects are sent in by the police of various cities. This may be so, but as to that we have to trust the conscience of the FBI, and some matters have given rise to doubt concerning the sanctity of confidences intrusted to this glamorized bureau. But it is known that the military files are not readily accessible to the FRI, being shielded by law or regulation from inspection by the G-Men for purposes of criminal identification » HERE is no reason to continue this separation All prints should be available for criminal identiand it certainly is unjust to compel the armed forces to give their prints and carry dog tags

| and identification papers while millions of civilians,

including those who are capable of treason or other

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dangerous mischief, are excused on the ground that |

some obscure but beautiful right might be impaired. It comes to a question whether a potential spy, saboteur or conspirator against all the rights for which Army and Navy may be asked to fight should be given greater consideration than those who serve under arms or in various civil positions of Government.

Inside Indianapolis

Moral: Be Chary With the Police; And How '"Doc'' Got Those Pictures

FELLOW we know found a parking ticket on his car and got to brooding about it when he was advised by friends that a “fix” sible, Finally he decided to pay, and he put mind to it to invent a way that would hurt the City

more than it would hurt him. He happens to be a member of a club which has slot machines and he remembered that a large number of assorted slick dimes, bent pennies, Canadian quarters, and mutilated nickles are collected in them, There, he reasoned, was his revenge So he went to Police Headquarters with a pocketfull of them, and, fuming, counted them out, He argued vociferously as various coins were challenged. several times and had to do it over In fact. he made so much fuss that the Chief heard

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| about it and set up his own fuming.

Well, after he had the station in a turmoil, he thought he'd better get out, so he finished up by demanding that the lady at the paying cage personally

| sign the receipt

He left the station highly pleased at the suspicion that it was the hardest $2 the city ever collected, and started to drive home.

But before he got home he was arrested for

speeding.

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PEOPLE WHO WORRY about such things have

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long been mildly curious about when and with what | | ceremony

Dr. Herman B. Morgan acquired the pictures on the wall of his office.

They are quite imposing. Left to right they are

| Abraham Lincoln, the 1938 Supreme Court, and Presi- | dent Franklin D. Roosevelt.

So some one asked him the other day, expecting to hear at the very least, that some of his friends made the presentation as a token of warm friendship. But “Doc” rared back in his chair and laughed

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A LOCAL CIGARET salesman expects it will be week or so before cigaret prices, upped by the defense taxes, shake down to a common rate over the city. Retailers haven't got together yet, he said. Which fits in precisely with the experience of a young lady we know who put 26 cents on the counter of a store for two packs of cigarets. The clerk smiled and pushed back a penny. “What do you want to do,” he asked, “buy a battleship?”

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE feminine voice on the telephone proposed an organization of women to study and clarify war issues. . “The women will have to do it,” ran the too familiar refrain. “My husband says so. The men are too busy. He comes home at night dead tired, so worn out he can't think; we are the ones who must act.” More and more often we hear this explanation.

The men are so occupied making a living that they can’t attend to the business of citizenship. And who | are we to quarrel with the argument?

earning a livelihood nowadays can situation,

The responsibility of maintaining a home and sup-

to leave matters of government to the politicians, who work at the business every day and whom he pays to attend to them. We can’t blink the fact that the economic situation affects every phase of national defense—that, in essence, it is the very bulwark or the destroyer of democracy. Nor that it is getting men down. So we

| ind housewives studying the issues.

Hundreds of thousands of them are organized into groups; they read the newspapers thoroughly, they follow the contents of the magazines, they listen to the radio, they discuss international

It stands to reason, then, that the wife in many national and inter-

| national affairs than her husband, whose mind and

energies must be devoted to financial matters. In

| most cases he feels proud of her interest and ability.

It pleases him to dump the family political responsibility upon her willing shoulders. But does he listen to her after her studies are made? Nine times out of 10, no! Instead, he disregards her advice and takes that of some tinhorn politician he. happens to know. For husbands have one fault in common.

The Hoosier Forum

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

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Why I got those with a magazine sub- | | scription some fellow sold me a couple of years ago.”

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WILLKIE NOMINATION | By Harrison White { Herbert Hoover Americanized the coming campaign with a grand speech at Philadelphia, and the Re-| publicans showed they were not! “pin-headed” about a good Ameri-| {can Democrat by the name | Willkie who had linked into their] [chain; they cheered his every name; | [they cheered his every gain, until| they had cheered him to nomination, and to fame; now the people will do the same to elect him, for this is not a Republican campaign Herbert Hoover said “This is a fight | Americans must not lose.”

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# BELIEVES WILLKIE | CAN LICK DEPRESSION

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| Going to war is not going to help toward curing our American financial depression, especially if we go “over there” and make another mess las we did 20 vears ago. We had bet{ter stick to our own knittin’ and let others do likewise or we are going to come out at the small end of the horn If our “sit-down” of capital were forced: loose and started building houses for human habitation here we would have this depression of ours by the short hair in no time I would like to see Wen Willkie in the White House. He would be a (holy terror toward licking this de[pression and in my opinion would make things that Roosevelt has {done look like small fry. | He is the same caliber as Paul V. McNutt in speaking of brains but is much more practical. Willkie has more objectivity of character than McNutt, the latter being a politician and Willkie a hard-headed, common sense businessman. | n n ” | LOSES PATIENCE WITH { 'PRO-ALLY SENTIMENTS | By Albert IL. Kunz, Bloomington I am out of patience with this talk of our being strongly pro-Ally| so much and so much per cent. This tis just wishful Tory thinking. No lone knows the extent of the anti- | British sentiment, no one knows the jextent of the hatred of great | wealth; no one knows the per cent of pro-German feeling and the Irish {and the Italian feeling. What we do (know is that we are 100 per cent | American and nothing else. What we need to do is to get busy in-|

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stantaneously and arm ourselves, land, water and air; to save ourselves and not depend on Britain as Poland did and Norway and now Holland. Poor Finland is still waiting for help from us I am sick and tired of this propaganda, press and radio, that makes Britain humane and noble and all of the other great powers brutal and ignoble., It is simply not true. The international bankers and corporations who draw their

and center in London have caused!

As much desolation with their dollars as Hitler has with his guns. India smells to high heaven; China and South America are another British stench; much of our own poverty and desolation is traceable to foreclosures by big insurance companies, together with discharged workers from industry and our large factories, canneries and mines. These are the main springs in the mechanism that turns out “Grapes of Wrath” dereiicts and technological debris. Why does not the Department of Commerce publish the names of owners of bonds held by those 48 companies that were taken over in this coun-

try by Great Britain?

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Leopold was not neutral nor American. His speech before the PanAmerican Congress of Scientists fs special pleading with a strong Tory accent. There is certainly little of Benjamin Franklin in this Franklin, Let him Keep his fingers out of this European witches’ broth, at least until he has made America safe for us. Our Congress will vote any amount that he needs. He and his | Cabinet should attend to our affairs first—and last. Do not worry that we shall not be able to whip Hitler or Stalin when the time comes. We gave the Kaiser a trimming that was coming to him |after all of the rest had failed: and we crossed an ocean to do it. We have the best mechanics, the best airplane motors and high-test gasoline; and our people will not fail in courage if they are led by a real American President,

| Ed n » WHAT'S RECOVERY MEAN TO A TRAFFIC VICTIM? By Claude Braddick, Kokomo

| We average Americans would be ‘much more impressed with all this| talk of our need for “recovery” and | “someone to lead us back to pros- | perity” if we could ever cross a! street without waiting minutes for | a favorable opening between the |

streams of cars, or if we could ever, find a place to park within 14 squares of where we wanted to go. The national deficit and the unemployment figures are impressive enough in their way. But we don't| (have to dodge ’em at Sixth and Main.

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FLAG OF LIBERTY By MARY P. DENNY

Ensign of glory Beyond ancient story. Flag of the free From sea unto sea, Shining in light In radiance bright, Glory and power Through every hour, Upward you fly Unto the high sky. Ensign of liberty Unto all eternity. Freedom forever As all sing together, Song of the free From sea unto sea.

DAILY THOUGHT

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.—Psalms 17:6.

GOD DWELLS far off from us, but prayer brings him down tn our earth, and links his power with our

efforts.—Mad. de Gasparin,

Gen. Johnson Says

Outlook Today Is Rosy Compared With July 4, 1776, When Despotism Ruled, Liberty Was Unknown

ASHINGTON, July 4—Things look pretty blue on July 4, 1940. But they are a rosy paradise compared with the outlook on July 4, 1776, Now we fear the creeping advance of despotism in Europe and Asia. Then there was no question of its advance. It had already arrived and was thoroughly entrenched. Its bosses called themselves Czars, Kings,

Emperors and Sultans, Now we fear restrictions on the liberties of man in Europe. Then liberty in the sense we know and love it didn't exist anywhere, and herve we ourselves permitted human slavery. Now some of us are ready to risk war whenever a weak European nation falls to a stronger. Then also they were traded about like pawns and ravaged by whoever had the strength to do it. Because we were a colony we were drawn into every English dynastic or territorial conflict in Europe, To avoid that was a principal cause of our revolt. ,

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OW, we fear the encroachment of Europe on Latin America. Then every one of those Americas was a vassal of some European power and so was the bulk of what is now our own country. Now some of us talk about the dwindling of the distance from potential enemies by quicker and better means of transportation by sea and air. Then there was no distance at all. Europe was all around us, It pressed our borders from every landward direction. Now we are potentiaily the strongest nation on earth, Then we were among the weakest of nations, Now we fear some kind of invasion. Then we actually were invaded by an armed and trained enemy many times stronger than we at important strategic points. Now we fear fifth columns. Then a large percentage of our richest and most influential people were loyal-—not to their country but to the British Crown,

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ODAY is a fine day to look back at that strength, knowing how much more we have now than we had then; to inquire what, if anything, it is that we had then that made victory possible and perhaps do not have now—and if the lack of it endangers us First of all, our fathers were fighting for their own country and not another. Is that our trend today? We can rely on miracles from America for its own defense—but net in other nations’ wars, Our colonials were fighting for just one thing--liberty—freedom from galling and burdensome taxes and too much intrusion in their daily lives by topheavy or personalized governments. That resistance also produced military miracles. Is that our trend today? We must make these our trends and keep them so —not as a matter of political theory but as the most essential element of our national defense.

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Business

By John T. Flynn

Volunteer Training School Shops Would Supply U. S. Mechanics

EW YORK, July 4—At Philadelphia last week I asked Herbert Hoover what he thought of Presie dent Roosevelt's plan to conscript youth for induse trial training. This is a suggestion, in time of peace, to bring all boys and girls on reaching 18—save those drafted for military training—into compulsory indus= trial training camps. Mr. Hoover replied that there was certainly a very great shortage of mechanically trained men for our defense production, but that he feit there was a better way to provide them, He suggested that the training be committed to the American school system. It is organized, has the buildings, the staffs and much equipment. It could get the job under way more quickly than a new, hastily improvised organization that had to start from scratch, Furthermore, Mr. Hoover didn't like the idea of drafting men for this purpose. This proposal to conscript men for industrial work as a permanent institution in time of peace marks the peak on the fever chart of hysteria. Perhaps no device of the crumbling old world is more abhorrent, to Americans than compulsory military training. But compulsory labor service in peace times on top of that is further than even military-mad Europe went until the totalitarian dictators arrived. What is the object of compulsory industrial serv= ice? To provide the nation with an adequate supply of trained mechanics for our arms production,

Two Reasons for Inadequate Supply

Our supply is inadequate for two well-known rea= sons. First, the depression has cut the opportunities for training in our industrial plants. Second, organ=ized labor, even before the depression, has enforced a drastic limitation on apprenticeships in order to prevent an over-supply of skilled labor, If we do not have an abundance of skilled workers, it is because the opportunity has been denied them, What, then, shall we do about it? We need mechanics. Very well, let us set up training school shops for them, co-ordinated with the plants which will hire them. Let us not limit it to youths of 18. Let us invite in any able-bodied young man up to 30 or older. Let them come voluntarily, With our vast army of unemployed, does anyone suppose that men will not swarm to the training shops when jobs as apprentices are open to them with opportunity for employment as skilled mechanics later? Let us decide how many men are needed, and what; types of skills will be repuired, and how soon thers will be places open for them, and then let us choose the applicants who come with the proper aptitudes for those skills. If the necessary volunteers do not show up—volun= teers for jobs—then it will be time, if the crisis is sufficiently imperious, to turn to conscripts. What is in the minds of the proponents of this strangely un-American plan that inspires them to suggest conscription as the first resort?

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

EACEFUL and presumably safe celebrations of the Fourth of July with parades, athletic contests and the like are not entirely without danger, even if fireworks are out of the picture. If the day is hot, sunstroke and heat exhaustion should be guarded against, particularly in the case of elderly persons and those of all ages who are not used to strenuous physical exercise. Sunstroke and heat exhaustion require exactly opposite treat, so the first aider should he prepared to tell them apart and apply the right measures, if a physician cannot be summoned promptly. Symptoms of sunstroke are: Headache, red face, hot, dry skin with no sweating; strong and rapid pulse, very high temperature, usually unconsciousness, Symptoms of heat exhaustion are: Pale face, moist, cool skin with profuse sweating; weak pulse, low tem= perature. The patient often feels faint but seldom remains unconscious for more than a very few minutes. The patient with sunstroke should Me down with his head raised. He sheuld not have any stuaaulants, A cool bath or cloths wrung out in cold water or ice bags should be used to cool his body. The patient with heat exhaustion, on the other hand, should lie with his head lower than his body, He may need to be kept warm with blankets, hot water bottles or other means of applying heat. Care should be taken not to burn him. He should be given stimulants. For the patient who is conscious and can swallow, strong, hot black coffee is a good stimulant. So is aromatic spirits of amonia, onehalf teaspoonful in half a glass of water. If the patient is unconscious and cannot swallow, do not try to give him anything by mouth. For stimulants in such cases, smelling salts can be held under the nose, or aromatic spirits of ammonia sprinkled on a handkerchief can be used the same way. Hold under the

nose at intervals of about one minute apart.