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SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1940
TRUE TO FORM
dritain proposed to
EUROPE— N indizzoluble union:
June 16 France a declaration of that longer be two nations, but one; that every citizen of France should immediately enjoy citizenship of Great Britain, and
that British immediately become a
France.
every subject should
citizen of On July 3 Britain engaged in intensive sea battle wish a major part of the French fleet at Oran, Algeria. On July 5 France broke off diplomatic relations with Britain. All in 20 days. And all in the European mode. Nations aligned this way now, that way yonder; on one side in one war, on another in the next. It's a long, story which ranges from Alexander to Caesar, magne, ‘to Napoleon, Wellington, Bismarck, on up to now, and dotted with innumerable lesser figures along the way. Pawer politics seething and bubbling and boiling over through the No matter
centuries.
feelings may be as to the causes, transformations, this latest in an unending list.
remember that it was to get away from such
what our
past and present, of such strange let's
realize that is just another
And let's oss that our nation was founded.
a Nn ral
Furthermore let's drop the delusion, which has been late, that this war one in which we should take our | et to oul
forefathers
growing rapidly of is different, and part, as
ourselves own self-interest,
Lhe
's rededicate
oul dedicated mselves when they decided
to quit Europe for good. WAR AT OUR DOORSTEP
France
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THE THE now to bring the European war to our own doorstep. British cruisers are reported on the prowl off Martique, a French islet in the West Indies. Presumably their mission is to destroy or immobilize French submarines staand to bottle up a number of American-built at Martinique for
break between England and 18 threatening
tioned there, war planes said the French Government. Thus the stage is set for this hemisphere like that of the battle of the Plata, in which Spee was driven to suicide by
to have been delivered
another war-lhike incident in
Germany's pocketship Graf British Worse vet, what if the exigencies of war required her to seize and occupy this this hemisphere? Pittman-Bloom
salvoes. hard-pressed England decided that and other French possessions in The 1d resolution warning
the recent attempt
Doctrine, ai against tory in this hemisphere from one non-American power to England as to the totah-
Monroe
any to transfer terri-
another, apply quite az much to tarians. Months ago we suggested the advisability of purchasthese European-owned outposts in the Caribbean— possibly a joint purchase by the United States and some the Latin-American countries—as an insurance policy against unpredictable complications. The trend of such transaction 1s underlined by the news from Martinique.
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PRIVATE ARMIES ARE OUT
, are glad to see the statement of helly,
the
Raymond that “private army.”
national commander, denving the stor American Legion is planning to raise a Whether it be the Legion o other
any private group,
we subscribe to the idea of "One people, one government, one army.’ Bund adherents drilling * kind of “police duty’ —that's squads for “riot work” —that'’s ganizing “Jewish Legions for U. S.
out.
for their own Communists drilling Jewish war veterans or-
Jorder defense’ —that's
private troops” out. out.
Such defense forces as the country may need, for strictly military and even for home defense, will be organized by the proper government agencies. Anything the Legion does in that direction, Commander Kelly properly pointed out, will be done only in full co-operation with the proper authorities. Any other efforts to form anything remotely an army, no matter Only confusion can come from it.
1'e-
sembling how well meant, must be dis-
couraged,
IMPERTINENCE THE German-American Bundamen who chose the Fourth of July as thie occasion for a rally at their New Jersey camp were guilty of gross impertinence, if nothing else. Trying to mix Nazi philosophy with the creed of the Declaration of Independence like mixing oil and water. It won't work.
Three of the Bund leaders were arrested under a New |
Jersey law which forbids the inciting of racial and religious hatred. It is reported that their lawyer will challenge the constitutionality of this law, and possibly he wiil win, for the Constitution's freedom-of-speech guarantee 13 properly a sweeping one which protects the despised as the respected. But certainty th within the Constitution, and Communists who draw ship and even financial help from totalitarian governments across the sea A few days
well that can be done, put a ieash on these bundists not only
re are some things
ago the House of Representatives passed
a bill to subject such Berlin and Moscow-dominated outfits |
to registration and to the close scrutiny of the Justice Department. needed, without compromising the basic civil liberties which protect even rogues and traitors from abuse.
MORATORIUM ON MOB LAW
T a time when there is so much evidence of mankind's backward slip to savagery, chalk up one score for progress: Six months have passed without a single lynching in
the United States.
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Rritain and France should no, | atreraft
long | to Charle-
! including
inspiration but leader-
Such a measure would shed light where light is |
By Maj. Al Williams
a Seventh-Rate Power Mobilized Manpower and Equipment—Why Talk of Surplus?
America In
Y of mobilized and trained equipment, the United States { Army power, a fifth- | second-rate seapower. There's a chance to change all this, but not under | the present Administration's policies. The Chief of Army staff, General Marshall, told Congress that | we could put only 75,000 men in the field right now. That is a drop in the bucket for a modern war. | If vou .aink we have something to worry about | in our deficiency of airpower, consider the following:
manpower and a seventh-rate sixth-rate airpower and a
point is
or
our
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Appropriations have been passed for 317 S0-millimeter anti-aircraft guns. On May 1, 1940, of this vital type of gun we had "on hand” —'"none’ On the same dav we had 15 3i-millimeter anti. guns for uze against low-flying aircraft On order” we have 1423 This 13 the gun which is effective againat the dive bombers that upset | and following campaigns 1. 1940 the United States 137-mjJlimeter), and we must need at ieast 1388, because we have that many on order On Mav 1, 1940. the Army had 83 machine guns (30caliber—pack) with our program calling for 962 guns of this type. On hand. May 1, i000 pounds). The proved ordering 49.435. tured?
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most ihe Flanders On May tank guns
had 228 anti- |
1940, we had 16,264 bombs (600Administration has just apWhen can they be manufac-!
2 » » E have about 400,000 gas masks and need about one and one-quarter million (so ordered). Of 37-milhmeter anti-aircraft gun ammunition we have cn hand about 46.000 rounds, and we need at least two! and one-half to three million right now. - The total story of what we have and what we ap- | parently need as minimums on order is appalling For instance, the Army has 28 light and medium tanks, while the immediate need is for 928 Wonl cloth for uniforms on hand-—none Needed--five and one-half million vards. The Army has only 35.000 semi-automatic rifles and needsd 240.559 For field artillery, the Army has 141 T5-millimeter guns and needs 1423. As for guiihs, Gen, Marshall told Congress: “We have not manufactured a big gun for many and it would | take two and one-half vears to manufacture a 16-inch gun
modernized real big
Vears
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N 111 warplane production
of the delicate i= 300 a mont July. | 1941, that will be boosted to about 300 a month (6000 | a vear) In 1938, when 1 was in Europe. Germans was building 600 planes a month, with one single | eight-hour shift of factorv workmen. Present Ger-| man production is about 33.000 planes a veat In the last eight vears Congress has approved within 1 per cent—all Army recommendations for | appropriations forwarded to it bv the Budget Bureau | he next time we are urged to ship our ‘surplus’ | materials to Europe, let's talk turkey about this surplus hoax It's easy to estimate what likely itn happen. if and when one of the warrior nations should bappen to “call” the dangerous and loud threats of our W vashington tom-tom beaters,
Inside ndiananuhis
Luther L. Dickerson, Who Likes to Prop His Feet on Top of His Desk
Pec E OF THE WEEK [.. L. Dickerson, lndianapolis librarian, who probably will be annoyed mentioning that the L. L. stands for Luther
pile evasions, our present |
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War is
at Lester M1
our
friends eall him Dick, 1s 1n his middle fifties, stands about 5 feet 10, weighs about 165, has gray hair and a constant twinkie in his sparkling blue eves As might be expected of a librarian, erate reader He delights in history novels, but hasn't much use for a lot which do a big business at his library The two desks and three tables in his private office usually are littered with books—so many there's hardly room on them for his feet. Visitors entering unexpectedly find him leaning back perilously in a swivel chair. The feet are carefully extricated from the desk and he rises politely, but he resumes his comfortable position as soon as he is alone again. He's free with praise of his employees for good work, but, as a capable executive, expects his sugges-tions--he never “orders’'—to be carried out exactly. When aren't, he sometimes hits the ceiling.
Dickerson, whose close personal
an invethistorical the books
he and ol
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they
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ENOUGH for a librarian, he spent [armer. cow puncher and newsback in Kansas and Oklahoma, college and library training. He Ka the Army sent him to Europe to A. E. F. University in France Occupation in Germany Eight to Washington as a the Armv libraries 1924 to join the American tudy of adult educaA. LL. A.in 1828 Ib
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STRANGELY his early days as a paperman. That was before he started his was hor 1 Atchison, In 1019
eat 1blish
in fanuanry hibraries Arm
months later he
for the and the nf wa recalled
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specialist tn ze all He resi Library As tional possibilit become Indianapolis He has a sun feelings. and has
reorgant
ned this post In staff for a He left the librarian disposition, is careful ready, infectious laugh. His two principal hobbies are fishing and gardening. His bungalow at 409 E. 44th St. is surrounded with carefully tended flowers of every description.
ciation ies ny of others’
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DICKERSON,
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HE AND MRS. three and a half years ago after a bachelor, spend all winter reading and planning the next summer's garden. flowers are delphiniums. Mr. Dickerson plans to take time off for a fishing trip in northern Wisconsin muskies and small mouth bass He likes simple meals. with Kippered herring as his Sunday morning favorite, fond of steaks hroiled stove in his hackvard garden. He loves good music but detests swing He has a lively kidding others. but also the following Not long most comfortable and well-worn rolling his lawn A woman. not asked how much he would charge lawn Before he could find words, she recognized him and departed, but he still enjoys a chuckle over the! incident.
whom he married half century as a flower catalogs His favorite
this month He prefers
and 1s on an nutdom sense of and delights 10ke himself agn. wearing his clothing, he was recognizing him, to work on her
humor In
AN INVES 3 nn
A Woman's Viewpoint
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Because of what goes on in Europe, a new way of life in the United States. Those who are in a position to standards of living will go down, training wil become compulsory will take precedence over othe every hian and wortan can sacrifices upon democracy’s altar This may very well be true. But if it is true. let us hope the new way of life will not lead to undemo- | erative wavs of thought, imply While we copy Hitler's method for physical defense, may we never permit his mental attitudes to overwhelm us, or that which we fight for will not be worth preserving. For we shall fail eventually
we face
judge tell us our universal military armament-making manufacturing, and expect to offer daily
if we ever forget
that our nation was built upon the principle of in- | risked their all
dividual freedom. Our forefathers because they felt sure that right always conquers | might in the end, and that the will of free men is | invincible. We must believe that men who have known liberty will never be slaves for long. To submit meekly to the notion that our world will be divided into two armed groups, each struggling and toiling to defeat! tae other, is to Invite conquest. Although we now prepare to defend our life with guns, 1t cannot be guarded by The rea challenge iz to our belief We must stand firm In our trust that the spirit mightier than the sword: | always perishes under its own iren heel.
way of
of
man 1s
as some of its outward forms |
gunz alone. | in Americanism. |
and that tyranny |
Hang On, Brother!
The Hoosier Forum
/ wilh defend to the death your right to
who'ly disagree what you say,
say it
t.— Voltaire.
but will
SUPPORTS KANSAS DOCTOR IN ROOSEVELT CRITICISM
By Gilhert K. Smith
I wish to add the
Mid
my voice
prowing here in the dle West
voice to by
sentiment which a Kansas when he castigated
was recently City, Mo., and thoroughly
of
given doc-
tor 50 ably
wild-man ant No. 1 War Monger, Franklin D Roosevelt, and his international banker-controlled Administration. I cannot conceive of any red-blooded American upholding the hand of a man so un-American as to turn the whole country—lock. stock and barrel—over to a bunch of crack-pot Communists and Communist fellow travelers, permitting them to sabotage our great industrial system for seven long years while knowing full well the situation in Europe
the ics
our
sion of companions. 1{ per has
ares Adolf Hitler and his
there ever was a
100 need
need for
Americanism, that at present come to the fore. In the name of heaven it certainly is not Americanism to rejoice at the downfall of France as I have seen and heard those in the guise of American citizens rejoice. Instead I call for the impeachment of ©f gladness every true American's Roosevelt and I hope every truly heart should be saddened at the loval American will back me up in defeat of France for not only has this. dictatorship conquered a great fel- ” low democracy but the verv thing DEPLORES REJOICINGS all those American boys fought hy eR YE REI (PR pre - died for in 1918 has come to naught. OVER HITLER'S VICTORIES It. is therefore, in our opinion a Josh traitorous act toward the American It condition democracy to celebrate triumphs of 15 lodzed in the minds of the aggressive force: ple have Might makes right themselves
cent
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By Hyman and John Kafoure
15 a sorrowful
that Ome peo- which is who the audacity to call tne very idea that democracy is not based on 1s the foundation of the Hitler's Nazi regime and the idea of these moronic admirers of Hitler, the beast of civilization Fellow citizens, it is the duty of everyone who is an American in the true sense of the word, to combat thece enemies of democratic government not by useless argument, but by remaining loyal to the democratic way of life and remaining an enem of aggression. "n BELIEVES PEOPLE ‘STRAIGHTENING
By
Americans same time their hearts ana mouths speak a tyranny entirely contrary to American ideals : I speak not of the Fifth Column for whom the Federal Government Is now on the al.rt I speak of even a greater menace tu American democracy. 1 speak of those who would aid the totalitarian state after the work of the contemptible and cowardly Fifth Column has been cempleted. Unfortunately there are a many of these intolerant. and undemocratic own city. It 1s hard to believe that any person who 1s a citizen of the United States can gloat over every inch of ground gained in Europe hy the destructive mili aristir
Side Glances—By Galbraith
when at the
” SHOULD DO our’
”
great unpatriotic
persons in our
Another Reader
Mr. Francis T. Haag column expresses the view that il Wendell Willkie is elected things are 2oing to be str aightened nut I
in this
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COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M, REG || 8 PAT ofr,
"If an angry looking woman drives up and asks for me—you haven't seen me in a couple of years!"
Vicons
hope Le is right but cannot see how he or any other one man can accomplish the job. I have no political preferences whatever and would vote for Mr. Willkie just as quickly as I would for the next man provided he could read and write, which would be about the chief qualification for any of them. I'his straightening out is the duty of the American peonle anyhow, not the pelitician, who after all is only the hired man of the people and subject to their orders (if we could only get smart enough to give a few instead of wasting our time fighting each other), .. . Politicians are merely the tools that we have to manage our Government with and if we make no use of these tools it someone else will and for our benefit. " SEES RUSSIA'S ROLE IN EUROPE BECOMING CLEAR By L. ¥ Evidently, the role of Soviet Russia in the European conflict gradually pushes its way forward. No capitalist state can exist without a cold ieserve. The imperial pa.tern ol economics followed by the major powers 1n developing smaller nations may be simply defined: Export raw materials from the smaller nations to the larger Manufacture said raw into products for the market, and then export these products back where they came from as raw material. Thus doubling the nrice on, these commodities, that is, the price the smaller nation received for it: raw materials. Such a process is a tant drain on the gold reserves a nation. When the goid reserves are drained from a nation, capitalist competition is done. Soviet Russia needs no gold for reconstruction and just moves in with its army, feeds a famine infested people while ieadel introduce the Soviet way of reconstructing a dead sociai structure. Hitler cannot stop this process, for in his quest for gold his tactics are creating a situation that ultimately shall tighten around his own throat. There are rumors and predictions of famine seeping from Germany at present which brings to light Stalin's statement when German Communists appealed to him for aid] during the Nazi revolution. Stalin answered, “Keep your socks on, boys. When the time comes, I'll] give you aid, and plenty.” One may gamble safely, where Russia moves in the future there is famine.
It won't be
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MY DAILY PRAYER By EDNA JETT CROSLEY Oh give me wisdom, love and strength A perfect understanding too. And give my light an endless length Wherebv mankind may gather strength And find a solace true.
blot out each trace ‘twas well
Forgive my sins, | Then on my slate write done That when I meet Thee face to face My grace shall fill the holy place Eo the unity of Thy Son.
| Teach me the kindest words to say | Dear Father every now and then That every cloud may pass away And thoughts and deeds build a | great highway
[So all may enter home! Amen.
DAILY THOUGHT
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.— John 8:47. \ LOVE GOD and He will dwell with you. Obey God, and He will
| Our | that.
's a dead cinch.
| and | the cause of your worries or nervousness
reveal to you the truth of his deepes teachings.—Robertson.
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1940
Gen. Johnson Say
France Made Her Mistake and Our Greatest Need Is Competent Leadership—Before It Is Too Late
ASHINGTON, July 6.—Most of the lessons of
the war are too obscure to learn, The fall of France can't be explained. Gossip filtering back in=dicates a stench to Heaven. We are already officially blamed for not doing something that we were somehow supposed to be obliged to do. Who obligated us?
Mr. Bullitt did say openly that we wouldn't be 1n it at the beginning put would be in the end. The end came too soon for France. If she relied on Mr. Bullitt, she missed the bus. I'he lesson from France is not clear enough to learn but there is one lesson from the whole bloody mess that simply shrieks. No nation can rely on any other and certainly not we on the British Navy. Latin America, or on anything but our own strength France created the “Cordon Sanitaire”—the ring of little nations like Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania to keep Germany captive, She relied on them and they on her. She relied on the British Navy, Britain relied on the French Army. When Hitler began to show strength, France wanted to stop him, Britain wouldn't play. When Mussolini hi-jacked Ethiopia, Britain wanted to stop him. France wouldn't play. Both let Hitler and Mussolini build up the strength to ravage the French and British reliance on little nations in the “Cordon Sanitaire” and the
reliances on Britain and France. n " a by one they fell. Britain and France were helpless or unwilling to stop it. France, under British pressure, joined in declaring war wnen Hitler marched. It was one of the greatest and most stupid blunders in history—if not the very greatest. It forced Hitler to turn to the West. The result already has been the destruction of six small neutral nations—and the French Empire. It terribly threatens the British Empire. It threatens us, Recriminations have already begun. The facts aren't clear, But the blunders are. They shout their lesson to us. Don’t start anything you can't finish, Get fully ready before you start slapping down ears. Don't rely on anybody but yourself. this of Hitler to our di-
un n un I blundering diversion rection when he might have gone Westward tn wear himself out in battle with the bear of Russia, we are not blameless. We supported and encouraged it normally, Part of the argument to .bring France in was that only if she were in war could she be suf ficiently unified and mobilized for war, and that if she did get in she would have time to get ready after ward. Exactly that is being said to us in this country today. There is another way to say it. It is “get a dictator.” Step by muddled step we have followed blundering European ‘war policies. We are still following them, two new War Cahinet members helieve in doing That is why they were chosen. Our greatest is new and competent leadership—before
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Business By John T. Flynn
Amateur Admirals and Generals On Parade for Defense Program.
N= YORK, July 6.—~A Senator recently told ma . he was becoming fed up on his colleagues. They are becoming, he said, amateur military commanders. There is just a little danger that American defense and American life may suffer from the amateur strategist and the professional patriot. One of the vagaries of the moment is the clamor for compulsory universal military and industrial service. People perhaps suspect the military leaders are back of this. It will he well not to blame the generals too quickly for all the war plans now ahatching. The amateur chiefs of staff are the guilty ones. The President himself is an amateur admiral and general combined. The professional admirals and generals learn among other things how to say “ves” when the political commander-in-chief talks. However, the grand conception of an army of a million or two has been a little too much for military reticence. Maj. Eliot, military writer, is firm against the compulsory service plan. An Associated Press dispatch informs us that Gen. Marshall, chief of staff, has discouraged expansion of the Army beyond the 400.000-man force already voted by the House. About two weeks ago the proposal for universal military training was offered. A few days later this was expanded by the President to include industrial training or shovel and monkey-wrench brigades. And a few moments later he enlarged this to include the girls. No sooner said than done. In hot haste the whole idea is dumped upon the people's mind.
Social Problems Major Factor There are problems in this other than organization problems. What about the social problems, the individual human problems of the boys who are to be taken from their pursuits at 18—for remember, this is not a mere war measure but a scheme for a permanent. military establishment based on universal service. What of the 18-year-old boy of small means who wants to go to college? A fifth vear in the Army is to be added to the difficult stretch of four in college. The trip to college is to be interrupted for a year in camp. We may be well assured half these boys will never make that trip to college. What of the 18-year-oid who has struggled through high school and is now ready to take his share in the family bread-winning? The Government will reach into that home and take him away for a year, What of the boy who has to leave high school to aid the family of small income? He will be whisked away, too, for his year of goose-stepping. What of the boys on the farms whose services are needed at 18 to aid the small farm family? And, if one may mention so slight an idea, what of the personal aspirations and desires of all these boys which, in that America these gentlemen want to save. they have been {ree to pursue unmolested by the drill sergeant? This 15 a plan conceived in haste, to raise an army twice as large as the generals ask, at a cost which no one has computed. on top of all our other burdens: in a manner which involves a complete break with the most cherished traditions of American life. Would it not be well to take a little time out for reflection?
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
“
XERCISE and physical work will often steady nervous persons and make them feel well,” Dr,
| Walter Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic declared at a re=- | cent meeting of physicians.
That is a good point to remember in these trying days when even ordinarily calm persons are worried and nervous and upset. You may have discovered for vourself that a brisk walk or a round of golf or some energetic housecleaning will steady your nervea make vou feel better, even if it ¢annot banish There 1s sound physiology back of this idea Scientists have discovered that there is a mechanism which automatically prepares the body for defense,
| eitlier by fighting or by flight, wiien danger threatens,
At such times, digestive activities stop, and the heart | beats faster. and the blood supply to the stomach and | intestines is decreased, while a greater volume is sent to the heart, brain: and muscles More sugar, effective fuel for muscular activity, goes into the blood. Primitive man needed this mechanism to save his life. His fear or rage was aroused by an immediate danger or a direct physical attack from an enemy, Modern man has the same feelings of rage and fear, though his fears are more apt to be called worry or the jitters. He has been taught to control his anger, and he usually cannot run away from the things he fears. Yet his body, under the stimulus of anger or fear, prepares for a physical struggle though it may never come off. This state of affairs may have such serious results as disordered heart action or emotional dyspepsia, Since the body is prepared for physical action. scientists believe the sensible thing to do at such times is to engage in vigerous exercise, and practical Experience seéms to bear this out.