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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1940

3048 ROBOTS (ORDINARILY they would feel important—those 3048— “as they take oft tor Chicago. There would be a smile

when he asked, “What's papa going to do?”

MARK FERREE |

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Contending That the Government Must Erect Certain Protections

For the Man Who Joins a Union|

Nev YORK, July 12.—The amendments 1 Wagner Act now pending in Congress leave me cold, because none of them gets at the worst detects in a law which was hastily and emotionally miscalled Labor's Magna Charta. I contend that if my Government compels me to join a union, which is a private organization, it must undertake to protect my rights as an American citizen within that organization. Therefore, it must be

understood that I designate the union to represent me only in collective bargaining with my employer. It has no right to commit me on anything else. It has no right to indorse any political ticket, platform

or candidate, or the WPA, or contribute one cent of the | of pride on Mamma’s tace and a ready reply for little Willie +m

oney I am compelled to pay as dues, assessments and fees for any purpose to which I am opposed. Having made it necessary for me to join a union

For in the 3048 would have been reposed the high re-| in order to enjoy the privilege of working at my law-

ponsibility of selecting a candidate for President of the United States. But mot so this trip, and the only answer for little Willie 1s that Papa doesn’t know, | The 3048 are the delegates and their alternates. They | are just waiting to be told. Meekly waiting while the | Democratic Party witnesses something new as it cools its heels in the outer oifice of the sphinx. I'he scene is a sharp contrast to the one in Philadelphia where the Republican delegates, of all persons, were dele- | oates in fact and actually so free from being told that they had a chance to listen to the people. A strange contrast; a wierd transformation indeed. Ior this is the same Democratic Party which in times past has been wont to cook | up a burning issue irom what went on in machine-laden

and smoke-filled rooms. | |

{ ful | the union eiections and prosecute those who commit

| election frauds. | pure, and that elections are held exactly as provided | by the union constitution.

| dalism, | right to herd me into an organization which commits criminal acts. Otherwise my Government drives me | into a life of crime.

pewer of my union.

occupation, my Government must suparintend

It must see that the ballot is kept

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Y union must be made to refrain from mob violence or unlawful harassment, coercion or van-

because, obviously, my Government has no

Similarly, my Government must compel my union

to observe its contracts, because personally

only a question of conscience but a question of legal lability is invelved here

My Government has got to abolish the taxing

into a private organization which taxes me.

Today the room isn’t of Republican registry and it | my Government has the right to tax me.

It's air-conditioned—and the air is not | air of democracy. ]

isn’t smoke-fillea.

the multi-cylinderec All in all, it’s not a pretty situation for a delegate, nor to massage his self-respect. What with its third | term aspect and its totalitarian technique, there seems to | be a terrible waste of railway fare and hotel bills,

free, fresh Nor is the machine |

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| be spent

My Government must provide guarantees that the

| money which I do pay into the union treasury will

honestly and fully accounted for, just as public funds are supposed to be spent and accounted

{ for, and must prosecute grafters in the union for my | protection,

” Y Government must protect me from suspension or expulsion for any other cause than an offense against the public laws of the state or nation. It

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In fact about the only comfort the travelers can squeeze | cannot permit the union to throw me out for eriti-

from their predicament is that this is an era of spend to

save. Otherwise, being a robot is no bed of roses.

Indeed there is more potency than ever before in that | and constitution of my anh | same rights must be guaranteed as to this minor

| citizenship in the union.

question so familiar at convention time—"for what purpose does the delegate arise?”

“WHOLLY ADEQUATE DEFENSE” “HE present session of Congress will have appropriated | authorized nearly defense, | These will not be volunteer dollars. They will be drafted dollars, taxed from all Americans of this generation and ol No ci around that he considers the defense program unnecessary, that kes some of its details, or that he fears this rogram, which has grown so rapidly on paper, is not being planned and co-ordinated as wisely as it should be. Most citizens will pay their shares willingly. The vast | agrees with President Roosevelt that there are | nereasing dangers which America must meet “with wholly | But to pay or not to pay cannot be a matter of individual choice.

future generations. |

tizen may refuse to pay his full share on the Ol he dishi jorit

quate defense.”

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cizing its officers, methods or constitution.

state and nation,

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to the |

Comedie Francais

I am | {| very conscientious about contracts and will not be a

| party to repudiation or violation of a contract. Not |

That is absolutely must, because, | | obviously, mv Government has no right to force me Only |

As a | citizen I am allowed to criticize the officers, methods and the |

All this, I am afraid, bespeaks rather close super- |

vision of the unions by the Government, something very like a Nazi labor front or the Russian system. But they can’t have the privileges which the act confers without assuming appropriate responsibilities, and. being private organizations, capable of great

more than I trust the unions, William Green's indorsement of criminals tions of power over the rank and file.

in posi-

Inside Indianapolis

Gardens, | And then, on top of that— “The!

About Two Vegetable Women's

OR three vears now, Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist, and Tom Rush, elevator operator in Building have compared notes on

F their vegetable gardens

When the weather was hot and dry, they con-

We know that volunteer dollars would not provide soled each other about their tomato plants.

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olly adequate defense. We know that dollars must be drafted. And we understand that the drafting of dollars, from each citizen in proportion to his ability to pay, is | thoroughly in accord with our democratic traditions. But all the planes and tanks and guns and ships these dollars will buy will not defend this country unless, as the President says, they are “placed in the hands of troops trained, seasoned and ready.” Therefore, Mr. Roosevelt indor the principle of compulsory training as a part of | the defense program.

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T° this some good citizens object. They insist that all the men the program calls for must be volunteer men. * Many of them acknowledge that selective service was necesin the World War, but they contend that its adoption | in a time of peace would be undemocratic. “a time of peace.” It is only a time when it at war—a time when we hope by supreme effort Ke our country so strong that we will not have to 0 | so strong that none will dare to attack us. We ap- | | the President's pledge that men will not be sent to take part in European wars. But soon there may be no European War to which we could send men. Our problem is how to raise men to make certain that Europe or Asia | will not send war to us. Not |

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v depending on volunteers. That system never | ed sufficient manpower for a major war. It will ovide enough—we being not at war—for the defense ! rogram on which we are spending billions. But to lot it program fail of its purpose for lack of manpower | would be criminal folly, It would invite attack. And to, wait until after we have been attacked before adopting | ective service would mean sending hastily drafted, par- | tially trained men to be butchered by veteran troops. The time to adopt that principle, proved by World | War experience to be the fairest and most efficient method { raising manpower, 1s now. Out of the measures before t Congress should evolve and enact a thoroughly considered | selective service law, adapted to the present need. That is a duty fully as urgent as the voting of billions. Until that duty is done we cannot hope for wholly adequate And for the Government to select and require e services of those needed to make defense wholly adeuate is thoroughly in accord with our democratic traditions.

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KITCHEN ARSENAL |

MOPERN version of beating plowshares into swords: Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, sends out an appeal, and immediately thousands of British come forward carrying market bags and suit- | cases, loaded with pans, kettles, shoetrees, coffee pots, door handles, cigaret cases and thimbles—to a total of 100 tons of aluminum.

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THAT GAS HOLDER "THE city is to get a new 12-million cubic foot gas storage holder, we note by the headlines. Humf-f. Not near big enough for the political cam- |

paign that’s coming on. 3 v

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14 billion dollars for national | abuses, they must place themselves within reach of | the law | My Government has its faults, but still I trust it [today’s (July 9) Times reports that

especially in view of [many Indiana Republican leaders

Hats — and Politicians! «0 far as to recommend formally

the size of their potato plants, Mr. Wallace invariably |

{ winning by a quarter of an inch or so.

If there was a bug infestation, Mr. Rush would Wallace out to see what could be done

about his plants, but Mr. Wallace would prescribe

without the visit. |

This still goes on in a desultory fashion, in spite ot the fact that Mr. Wallace has no vegetable garden and never did have any part of one. Moreover he never will have one P. S. Neither has, nor will, Mr. Rush. = AS AN AUTOMOBILE was burning on the North Side the other night. a young woman who had been riding in it a short time previously made an attempt to dash it She was restrained by firemen. “But,” she wailed, “I've got to get my hat.” “You can get another one later, lady,” the firemen

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| said calmingly.

“Yes,” she wailed, “but I'll never get another like as well.”

n AS HE WAS LEAVING mittee meeting the other Wally Middlesworth

“= 8 the Citizens Safety Comday, Recreation Director

saw an elderly man prowling in

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to rescue some of her belongings. |

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the Middlesworth car. With the help of Judge Charles J. Karabell, Capt. Leo Troutman and Sergt. A. C.

Magenheimer, the prowler was captured. “I just down to cool my bunions—they hurt something awful,” he explained. Asked to explain search of the glove compartment, he became truculent “You know who I am?” he demanded. ficials didn't

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The of-

“1 do important work for the Democratic County |

Committee,” he explained. pressions of awe

Deciding the man was harmless, the officials let |

him go so he could continue his important work for the party

‘A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

motherhood, which after

tiresome subject.

enjoyed by working people, which the rich—or, we wrongly call them, the fortunate class—often lack. We can claim Cleopatra by the fellow who said, stale her infinite variety.”

Yet, when it comes to variety, a baby of any kind To | be sure, this is not always true of children in the mass. | The other woman's baby may be, and often is, dull, |

has Cleopatra beat without the faintest effort.

unattractive and naughty. case with our own precious. “Oh,

But such is never the

Ss the foolish young mother. One

afford to hire a nurse

of parenthood

From the day when the first flicker of intelligence his erumply little face, until the moment he | | 1S off to college,

lighten: a mother who has to work for and

with her child has a blessed privilege and a profound joy

The wavering infant smile; the occasion when he |

discovers his hands; the budding recognition in his

eyes; the wide grin which, one day, is no longer tooth- | which love |

less; the first steps; the monosyliables

| interprets as words—but what's the use?

Tending a baby is an experience which cannot be described by those who have enjoved it, and is never understood smyway by those who haven't.

for babies the virtue attributed to | “Custom cannot |

if we could cniy afford a nurse for baby,” almost never | | wants a nurse for baby if one is sensible and appre- | ciliates miracles. { And its right here that the not-too-poor mother | has the advantage over her rich neighbor, who can | Being foolish, too, she nearly | always does, thereby missing the deepest satisfaction

1 wholly disagree with what you say

The Hoosier Forum

defend, to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

, but will

CONTENDING THAT STATE'S G. 0. P, WANTS TOO MUCH By Daniel Francis Claney

A Noble Reed political story in

(Times readers are invited their these columns, religious controversies Make your letters short, so all can Letters

to express views in

excluded.

that have a chance. ust

have

“thought should

an Indiana been given the (National Republican Chairman) to withhe! add a little more Hoosier flavor to! ___ the nominee's campaign.” Gad! | What do they think Willkie’s running for—President of Indiana?

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horses which went to the factory in 1874, We people who invested in property along Madison Ave. (U. S. 31) would be greatly interested in what real estate options were taken on the proposed rew location prior to the announcement of the planned

relocation,

State Republican Committee went the appointment of Homer E. Capehart, wealthy Indiana manufactur- | er, for the post.” This—well, this floors me. Who exactly do they! thing Capey is? He may be a neolected statesman and a mighty power to the Hoosier G. O. P.—but he's just another bustling smalltime “Fat Cat” to the nation’s Re-| publicans.

nn = CALLS MAJ. AL WILLIAMS RABIDLY PREJUDICED’ By T. The best thing that has happened to the Marine Corps in years was { the resignation recently of Maj. Al { Williams. As an expert on military which he evidently pro-

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' i = ” = | ATTACKS PLAN TO BUILD NEW ROAD NO. 31 By Noble B. Watson The article and picture in The Times showing the State Highway Commission cutting away Elder's] Hill is quite interesting. It would | any jmportant position under any be even more interesting to know

. of them why they plan a relocation of high- | 1tw d 6 "rabble 1 th way 31 south to Greenwood, we had more “rabble rousers

= | ing it 1'> miles longer and not i | like Al, we would be having someing the people along the present thing as bad as sit down strikes in route which will remain inadequate | our defense set-up which needs all for the traffic which will continue. of the harmony and unselfish supThe claim of the Highway Com- | port that it can get, mission that the traction line will! According to Al the British Fleet not allow widening of the present was going to be sunk last October route is a rather weak excuse. The ji its own waters by the Nazi war traction company has petitioned | planes, Where was the German the Federal Commissions for ap-| Air Force at Dunkirk—at Norway? proval lo Sandon WLS lng semaine Al said recently that our Navy is continue ‘operation of this line this tSecond: rale." A hurried ww VV x howe. > through Jane's Fighting Ships year. The owners of the traction) would show it to be the best armed right of way have been compen-| [0° DES " : - A 1d sated amply for this property and an the Jest arvaored in the Worl, though they made a 999-year lease | 15 Sunnery records would make any with the operating company against potential invader think tWice as our the public interest, why should the funuery in all branches is public pay the bill? celled. It seems to me that Al is In a ruling of a Federal court in Misinformed on many subjects or Philadelphia, last year a similar | possibly blinded by wishful thinking. 999-year lease was invalidated, in| “Why should we have an indethe reorganization of The Phila- pendent Air Force, which Al pleads delphia Rapid Transit Co. It came ior, when the German blitzkrieg showed itself to be nothing more

out in the trial that the public was still paying on a valuation of | than the close co-operation between

| science, fesses to be, Al Williams is a total | failure. Any military man who is as rabidly prejudiced against all branches of this country's defense system but his own is unfit to hold

The officials assumed ex- | Side Glances—By Galbraith

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COPR. 1040 BY NEA SEQVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. &. PAT

"Attention, men! We're to keep the crowds back at the parade— but don tdandle them too roughly!"

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war planes and all land fighting units? Such success would be impossible under a bickering separately commanded Army and Air Force. | The Air Force is an arm of the | body in which is the Army and | Navy. Should we weaken both by cutting this arm off?

” n td | CONDEMNS FAILURE TO HALT | BASEBALL TICKET SALE | By A Hungry Mother

Why don't you stop the open sale | of baseball tickets to young hoys | in the pool rooms? , . . Anyone can | buy them—police with their police | cars standing in front—young boys | from high school—poorly paid | | clerks from the stores in the neigh- | | borhood —sons of women who work lin order to get a little food to| | keep them alive, The men who sell the tickets | drive big automobiles and live in fine homes. Their wives play bridge and go on trips. My husband and | give these crooks the money | have to buy food. We | do not have clothes nor shoes. | That is out of the question. All| we want is a little food, but we are hungry because these crooks sell gambling tickets on brseball} scores. { My neighbors are the same. All |of their money goes to samen, | ! These gamblers are getting | rich on the money they get from| my son and my husband and thousands more like them. And the police must share in the profits or why would it run? Are the other city | officials sharing the blood money | that my poor neighbors and I} should have for food? . . . | Where are the newspapers? Why ldon’t they fight for poor hungry | women who have weak sons and] husbands who gamble up their] wages? . . The fault lies at your door because you could end it by exposing these gambling dens which | |eet the poor women's money every | week, When you sit down to your good food think that others are hungry because you will not expose | gambling in your newspapers, so | | weak men and boys will not be able | to buy gambling tickets.

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WANTS BRITAIN TO KNOW WE'RE NOT COMING By A Common Taxpaying Citizen

| { Dear Britishers: Wake up and get busy and stop your enemy quick. Don’t wait for us—we're not coming. { Hints that you want our help won't | help. | These air battle reports are just | plain silly—each side claiming that | {they are the chasers; but we can | read between lines at last; some of us are intelligent enough to know | propaganda. We'll wait a long time, long time before we help any country that [don't pay its debts. That's why| | France is where it is—her credit was | no good. Yours is no better. As a + taxpayer, I'm protesting because we | really need the money. Our tax rate {is high because you didn't pay back | | what you borrowed.

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LOCUST BLOOMS By VERNE S. MOORE

| Locust blooms and Orioles | Memories of my youth, For many years life's folios I've filled with joy and truth.

Thirty years I've treasured long Locust blooms and bird, And sometimes I've framed a song My ears have never heard.

| It’s breaking now my fixed parole For all the world to see Locust bloom and Oriole Sing from the heart of me.

DAILY THOUGHT

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about: yet thou dost destroy me. —Jobh 10:8.

LET THE CHAIN of second causes be ever so long, the first link i ars in God's hand.—Laving-

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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

The Likelihood of Incompatibility Between Refugee Children and Foster Parents Must Be Reckoned.

| 7ASHINGTON, July 12.—If there are any effective legal restrictions preventing child refugees from England coming to homes offered them in America, they ought to be removed. I don’t know whether there are or not. The President says there are none which have kept us from receiving the small numbers yet in prospect. Mrs. Roosevelt says there are. It seems to be a matter of interpretation

of the quota law. If these children are temporary visitors, we apparently can receive as many as are offered. If they are immigrant, there is a quota limit

| but it is very generous for people of English birth.

The real problem is down another alley. At present, these children come where there is a willing host financially ready and able to give them a home - either with or without aid from relatives in England, This kind of rule is apt to work in favor of children of the most prosperous English classes. That does not necessarily condemn it, but some plan of more general application would taste better. There is a more cogent question. Some institi« tions for the care of homeless children have experienced a marked seasonal rise in applications for adoption around the Christmas season when the warmth of peace and good-will is at its all-year high. 8 8 » T varying later periods there is a rise in the re= turned goods department. The little darlings don't seem so desirable as they did in the shop when the emotion and novelty wear off and the expense and downright hard work and care of bringing them up begins to be felt. This creates a sad and sometimes tragic drama, A legal obligation may have been assumed, but that does not cure the tortured situation of an unwanted child in the home of people who are not its parents. On this ground, usually, the institution that gave the child, will take it back, but what is going to happen in a similar situation with these piteous fugitives? Heaven knows we have such a terrific burden in taking care of the millions of our own destitute that we are not making a very good job of it, and few if any of their children are being guaranteed a home, But the plight of little children under bombing oper ations is more than persuasive—it is compelling. " n n ANY good and responsible people are offering to assume the financial and personal burden of receiving these kids into their homes. The possible future disappointment discussed in this column will perhaps happen only in a small percentage of cases, but doesn’t confidence in the whole scheme require provision now for that possibility? It could be either a residual obligation against some privately endowed financial reserve, a bonding of the now-willing-hosts to provide an allowance in case of later incompatibil= ity—or an outright Governmental guarantee. A plan for dealing with the future lives of littla children is about the heaviest human responsibility. It should have no apparent or predictable loophole,

Business

By John T. Flynn

Compulsory Military Un-American; Look at the History of Europe

EW YORK, July 12—One of the most terrifying aspects of our present turmoil is the doom-like manner in which a great, intelligent republic moves slowly in obedience to great pressures. It does not choose its way. It permits these pressures to push it along the lines of least resistance, The most startling example of this is the movement for compulsory military service. For years this has been looked upon as one of the most baneful of Furope’s militaristic institutions, And always our superficial social observers have regarded it as merely militaristic phenomenon—and example of Furope's love of war, or at least her meek surrender to the ways of military leaders. Those who believe this have not read very closely the history of Europe. The plague of unemployment is an old one. And puzzled statesmen discovered many years ago that a half million youths drained off into the army every year supplied an excellent device for managing the problem of depression and unemployment, Not only did the compulsory draft take a vast indigestible mass of men out of the ranks of labor but it created another industry—the industry of supplying them with barracks, uniforms, equipment, guns, munitions, etc. But unfortunately it created other things. It meant immense taxes—a great public burden. And it brought to the top military leaders who became numerous and powerful. And in order to keep taxoppressed people satisfied with the burden, it was necessary to keep them in a state of perpetual jitters about war,

It’s Armament Economics

This is armament economics. It is well-known and became deeply hated by every liberal thinker and statesman of Europe. Now we see these strange proceedings duplicated here. A long depression, millions unemployed, our economic system further bedeviled by the reckless borrowing of leaders who do not know in what di= rection to turn—and now, proposals to seize our une employed young men for the Army, I am led to write this by two pieces in a morning paper. One is an address by a minister of Christ, painting in horrific colors our helplessness, the dangers of invasion, and calling young men to arms, In the other column is a glowing account by a director of the National Youth Commission of what

| national defense will do for youth—=850,000 jobs in the

army, 550,000 in industrial training, 300,000 working as cooks, mechanics, truck drivers in the CCC, and another 200,000 in private jobs. No one, seemingly, is interested in examining all the consequences which will go with this utterly unAmerican institution. We plunge in without thought, recklessly, as we have into so many other weird adventures. We surrender like children to a pressure of which no one seems to be aware, despite all that history tells us.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

BEAUTIFUL skin glowing with health is generally considered an important factor in personality make-up. American women spend huge sums of money each year on cosmetic preparations in the hope of enhancing their personalities by beautifying their skins. There is a reverse side to this picture. The kind of personality you have, your nervous and mental make up, seems to play a part in determining whether or not you will be afflicted with certain skin troubles. Dr. John H. Stokes, Philadelphia skin specialist, says

| there are nine different mechanisms in which nervous

and mental conditions intermingle with purely physical factors to produce irritations of the skin. Personality is not the only factor, he emphasized, and psychotherapy, or treatment of nervous and mental conditions, ,will not by itself cure a patient of skin trouble. Personality plays enough of a part, however, so that it should be taken into consideration, For example, there is what Dr. Stokes calls the eczema-asthma-hayfever personality or temperament. This personality, which may be accompanied by eczema, hayfever or asthma, develops in persons of nervously intense and highstrung allergic stock who have higher than average intelligence, and who know no compromise approaches to problems, They have an urging drive to dominate which conflicts with their need for dependence because of their feeling of inferiority and insecurity. The person with this temperament has difficulty His first problem, Dr. Stokes says, i= to learn self-acceptance; his second that of impersonalization and depersonalization of life. Next he must learn to discharge his enemy without getting into trouble. : Parents and teachers should realize that for chilthe best teacher is social pres

dren of ri - type

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