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SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1940

THE NATION MUST CALL

ALL out the National Guard for intensive training of from a year to 18 months. Pass a selective service law that will, by conseription, build up the Guard to 400,000 men and the regular army | to 335,000 men—and provide new recruits to be mustered in as soon ag the first complement has been trained. This proposal, which the U. S. Army’s Chief of Staff, Gen. Marshall, outlined yesterday before a Congressional Committee, and which the White House indicated soon will | begin to go into effect, will be a topic of serious discussion | in thousands of American homes, It spells out the gravity of the nation's defense problem far more clearly than all the news of billions which Congress has been appropriating | for tanks and guns and ships. Going, going, gone are the days when the National Guard was a sort of a community club, in which nothing more was required of its patriotic members than that they take part in a few hours of drill each week and a couple of weeks of camp life in the summer, This may not be in every detail the program which Congress will finally approve. But some program based on compulsion will be evolved, and quickly, for it has to be done. If the Army had plenty of time, said Gen. Marshall, it could build up the strength of both the regular force and of the guard, by the volunteer system, But if we are to make our nation strong and secure—and we must, for that way only lies safety and peace—we have not time to wait for volunteers.

“RESPECT FOR THE LAW" SENATOR SHERMAN MINTON'S reaction to the passage of the new Hatch Bill is revealing but not surprising in view of his record. “It won't make anv difference,” said Minton after the hill was passed. Referring to the clause barring campaign

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

He Wants to Know Just What Senator Wheeler Means by 'No Fighting on Foreign Fields'

EW YORK, July 13.—Senator Burt Wheeler holds that Americans should fight only in defense of their homeland, which is what they all say, including the Germans, and that a ‘foreign war,” meaning a war on foreign, soil, including the enemy's, is unthinkable. He is of that group who insist that no Americans shall fight abroad because necessarily they would help Great Britain The idea of another A. BE. F. to France or Britain never was seriously proposed. For one thing, the British and French were very cocky during tha phase which was called the bore war and couldn't find fighting room for the soldiers they had. The British had plenty of manpower at home in mufti and these men, having lived under the guns for some time, presumably were closer to military fit« ness than American civilians. For another reason, there were no American soldiers to send. And, for still another, it was foreseen that France might erack up and that an expeditionary force, caught friend less in a strange and hostile land, might be held for ransom, so to speak. » » OR is there today any proposal before the country that an American Army be sent to help the British or even to beat the Germans to a probe lematical punch in that direction. There is still no army to send But. as one of those who respect Senator Wheeler, 1 don't follow him. because he doesn't go anywhere. He just says "no fighting on foreign fields,” leaving his fellow citizens to conclude that if war must be the United States should give the party on her own home grounds. Those Germans are smart. They realize that all wars are foreign wars, and this time France, again, has given the party in collaboration with Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium and Britain. And again, with the exception of a few divets scuffed up in Germany by the British fliers, the nations which are merely defending their own soll have suffered all the damage « 4 @ N no heckling spirit, but in an earnest desire for elaboration, some questions may be asked Senator Wheeler: How close may the enemy come before his intense tions are considered to be hostile? Does the enemy take over the British and French naval and aviation outposts just off American shores before the defense takes place? Does the United States have to suffer all the civilian casualties and awful material wreck. age and the enemy none? How can the United States smash up his war industries without fighting on foreign soil? And do we give him our solemn promise that he needn't bother to protect his plants and may cone centrate on the destruction of ours? That sounds like the battle plan of Bat Nelson, who used to break their knuckles with his chin. He won some great fights that way. But vou ought to see Bat Nelson

contributions of more than $5000, Minton said: “Who's | going to pay any attention that? The Republicans | won't.” “The utilities will spend it,” he declaimed. crats haven't got any money anyway.” How about the Two Per Cent Club, Senator? And that “Christmas Savings Club” which Federal | investigators say has been accumulating campaign funds for vou?

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NO BIGOTRY ISSUE \ ITH racial and religious intolerance rampant over most | of the world, one happy feature of the coming political | campaign is that those issues can play no part in it, For Wendell Willkie and his probable opponent, Presi- | dent Roosevelt, occupy the same ground so far as tolerance | toward race, color and religion are concerned. Both of them were delegates to the 1924 Democratic | convention in Madison Square Garden in which raged the famous battle to condemn the Ku-Klux Klan by name. Both of them opposed William G. McAdoo, who had Klan support. Mr. Roosevelt nominated Al Smith and Delegate Willkie voted for him. Mr. Roosevelt was one of the solid New York delegation which voted in favor of condemning the Klan by name, and when the Ohio delegation was publicly polled Mr, Willkie cast his vote for the anti-Klan plank. The next year he participated actively in a fight to break Klan domination of the school board of Akron, where he then lived. “I have clearly asserted my position against race hatred, higotry and Hitlerism,” Mr. Willkie is quoted as saying in a New York paper. “1 did this long before 1 even thought of being a Presidential candidate.” President Roosevelt's record in behalt of tolerance is clearly established. While hate sweeps the world, America may be thankful for a Presidential campaign in which bigotry will play no part,

WAR IS HELL—EVEN ON A SCREEN [* all the tempests in a teapot that afflict Washington

O these davs, perhaps the silliest is the hubbub over the private showing to a group of Congressmen of an official German film recording the mechanized conquest of Holland and Belgium, Rep. Ross Colling (D. Miss.) had seen the film at the War Department, and had been impressed by the brutal efficiency of the Nazi machines of war. He thought that Congressmen might know better how to appropriate money for defense if they could have the benefit of this camera-eye view of the methods and horrors of mechanized war. So he arranged for a private showing. And immediately some persons who weren't invited started making silly charges of propaganda, This was not the first public service that Rosg Collins had performed in this line. For many years, as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, he has heen working in his quiet way to pry ossified generals out of their swivel chairs, relieve infantrymen from the foolish, timewasting parade ground exercises, and coax the cavalry down off their horses, Though opposed by the army traditionalists, he has Leen telling Congress year in and year out that modern war is neither a chess game played on a map, nor a romantic adventure of dashing steeds and flashing sabers, but a deadly and inhuman conflict of machines, in which the side with the mightiest machines and the best trained mechanics is bound to win. If by using a movie to impress those truths on his fellow Congressmen Mr. Collins has scored another point for realism in defense matters, that may influence Congress to see to it that the Army corrects its deficiency in planes and tanks and guns, instead of spending more for saddles and bridles—of which it has some $200,000,000 worth on

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Inside Indianapolis

Col. Richard Lieber, Who Keeps a Diary and Loves Music—and Stories

ROPFILE of the week: Col. Richard Lieber, recognized as the “father” of Indiana's public park

| system, the envy of other states.

Dick Lieber, now almost 71, was born in St. Johann-

Qaarbruecken, Germany, emigrated to England as a |

vouth and came to the United Slates a half century ago. The vears have failed to erase the pleasant and distinguishing accent he retains to this day Newspaper work and a business career brought him up to 1919 when he was named state conservation di« vector, retiring in 1933. For the last two years he has maintained an office in the Federal Building as a consultant of the National Park Service and member of its advisory board. In appearance, the colonel is dignified and rather rotund. He wears a mustache. His hair—what's left is white. He dresses conservatively except for his hats, which are the five-gallon variety. He got the idea on a visit to the Jackson Hole country in Wyoming, and now orders them regularly from Washington, » » » HE HAS GRACIOUS MANNERS and perfect health. A lover of good music, he plays the piano beautifully and once was a newspaper music eritic. Next to conservation of nature's treasures, books are his greatest inter The walls of his apartment at 3119 N. Meridian St. and his summer cottage in Brown County are lined with them, He is an ardent student of history, particularly that of the United States, and Indiana, He keeps a diary religiously, smokes lots of 5-cent cigars, and still uses the old-fashioned roll-top desk he had. for so many years at the State House. When he retired, he bought the desk.

minedly for the preservation of Indiana's scenic areas many vears before his efforts brought about the start of the present park system. As conservation director, he had another fight when he i(nagurated the 10-cent fee system for state parks in order to make them virtually self-supporting.

ONCE, WHEN A DELEGATION calléd on him and offered to give the state a small traci of scenic land if the state would acquire a lot more for a park, Mr, Lieber mused a moment, then replied, with a twinkle in his eye: “Gentlemen, you hand me a button and ask me to sew a pair of pants on {t.” Although generous with his friends, he Is ex-

He even saves string. In his files he has practically every letter of any consequence he ever received. Mr. Lieber has an extensive vocabulary and talks intelligently on any subject. He has an inexhaustible store of humorous stories. Fond of good food, he'll eat almost anything except chicken, and particularly likes fish and good cheese, He used to be in the brewery husiness, but he's an ardent advocate of moderation in drinking.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE greatest emotional conflicts occur when man's head argues with his heart Nowadays such conflicts are numerous and terrible. No person who is willing to face the present bravely can escape them Let's illustrate by lifting a few lines from an editorial discussion of an excess profits tax bill which ie planned to prevent business from benefiting by war itself “The first consideration is to get American industry geared to mass production of materials for the nation's defense. . . . ‘The Government, however, has no right to ask a private corporation to take unusual risks in making over its plants or to spend heavily from its capital to create special equipment for war materials with possible losses to be faced.” That last sentence expresses an opinion over which ou heart and our head are now snarling at each other “Why,” asks the heart, “doesn’t the Government have the right to demand such a sacrifice from cor porations when it assumes total authority over the individual, commanding him to quit his business, his home, his way of life, and to risk suffering and probable death for the national defense? Are we to believe that property is always more valuable than life?” “Yes,” answers the head, sadly. “In a world where war rages that is always the case, The individual is nothing; machines and material supplies are everything.” Bitter, indeed, is the thought to women with husbands or sons who may be called to give their lives for the country’s defense. But bitter as it is we shall have to face it. We must admit—no matter how grudgingly-that it IS necessary to save business from supreme risks because it is through and by busi-

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ONE GENTLEMAN WHO | DOESN'T LIKE WILLKIE Ry W. F. Pott

Would like to express my feeling

{Wonderful Willkie Hooey) It Power Mogul to we common peoDié. . . . Speaking of New Dealers you know I have a warm spot for that

(to help the common class of ow people ‘ [ Sorry to quit vour paper that kid that brings it to us every | evening. " ” | SUGGESTS DRIVING TEST AFTER EACH VIOLATION By A. J. Schneider Today a correspondent who sighs himself H. M. W, and who “advo-

cates a svstem to penalize old offenders.” has touched upon a sub: ject which is deserving of very wide-spread consideration, While there is no question in anyone's mind that something should be done about this condition, there is wide divergence of opinion as to just what should be done. The repeated offender, of course, wants leniency, while the safe driver and the pedestrian want more restric tions, And since the latter group are in the large majority, their wishes should be respected, In one respect, I differ with H. M. W. and to empliasibze my point (I would like to pose a question to lhim, Would he prefer, as a pe|destrian, to be hit by a first of{fender in a mental lapse—or would [he prefer to be hit by a repeated | offender? In other words, the dam(age done is not measured hy the {state of mind of the offender nor

Col. Lieber—he got the title as military secretary {ya number of | Americans shouldn't have a second ) mes - to Gov. Goodrich from 1017 to 1021--battled deter | of times he has of

fended. 1 believe T am about as tolerant of human weaknesses as any man, hut where lack of consideration for the other fellow enters into pieture in a way that might injure Itfe, limb or property, methods must be employed to force consideration My suggestion would be that drive ers’ licenses have space for sighature of arresting officer each time a motorist is given a ticket—the ticket can be fixed, but the signature would remain. When a second signfiture is necessary, authorize - (rather than make it mandatory that the arresting officer either confiscate [the driver's license pending court hearing, or hail the driver before an

toward your paper and this Willkie | is real funny to think you will sell this

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love. Personally, IT can say that | 1taly is my first love and I've never | seen the place. It all goes back to the man (guess who, Mr. Pegler) | who planted the Cross in the new | land and called it San Salvador in honor of Spain. Spain who pro-

| vided the means for our country’s | discovery, and vet in her most rejeent need, we stabbed her in the

| back. Couldn't see fit to help her.

1 understand it has been proved | that he, Columbus, was born at | Milan and not Genoe. Ib is quite | probable that he was great because (he was born in this great seat of fart and learning and that he be-| Mr. Marshall's story had no relacame so greatly good. Milan 1s|tjon to the prices quoted. | ahout forty miles from the border “now

of Switzerland, I like to think of his being born here, because here Wwe find the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, which contains Leonardo da Vinel's "Last Supper.” The greatest contribution in art to the world, What! the Italians did not contribute anything to America! Shame! Mr, Pegler, write something very nice now, Columbus has al- | ready been buried. Now let us praise (him and show appreciation to what immediate court. When a fifth sig- | should be your second love, dear nature is necessary, have that driv- | Old Sunny Italia. license permanently revoked "oN Any driver who violates the law five | Vole. pe RY tt [times within one year is not even ABOUT CURRENT FOOD remotely a safe risk on the high- PRICES IN INDIANAPOLIS Ro 1d \ te ul By Mrs, B.D. Aufderheide 1s could even be made stronger, " Va Los requiring a new driver's test each On the front page of Monday's time of violation. Many violations PRPer WAS An article by David Marare the cause of impaired vision or shall stating prices on certain foodheaping. ho do SOR mol Suk [stuffs in 1938 and 1940, I do not ne river took nis I's pst. Suen changes could thus be detected and | remember what we paid in 1938, but necessary action taken. . . . |1 do know we pay a great deal nore In all my driving career, T have for food now than Mr. Marshall had but! two tickets for traffic vio- gates, I pay cash and buy where lations: and in both instances I was | [fully aware that I had taken the and when I can do the best. law into my own hands and delib-| Saturday for a piece of beef next erately violated the law. And I the shoulder (a cheap cut for a (believe every other driver 1S Also |ygagt) I paid 28¢ a pound. Where aware when he violates the 1aW.[.an one buy a beef roast fit to eat | Mental lapses are a convenient alibi | to. 1809 oranges are 26¢ for small (=-but persons who have mental|,,q 300 for medium sized ones, He [lapses should be in mental hospitals | 1016s 7c. Bacon is 230 and not [Instead of automobiles, where thes, a pound. We drove out into the danger of hurting someone is not .,untry 21 miles to get tresh eggs | "sa on» for 20¢ 2 dozen, Joniers oan Soe > bo . rata uy Roo! as for Tec a can et | THINKS PEGLER FORGETFUL | {ye Ro 120 and 15¢ a head not 2 [ABOUT ITALY for 15¢, I paid 31c for poor butter By the Weaver's Daughter and 40c for good butter a 27c¢, | 1 don't think Westbrook Pegler | Flease have Mr. Marshall state I meant to be ungrateful UT he Where he can buy this material at {has been very forgetful, in saying the prices quoted and also state : what quality he refers to. I find the so-called “cheapest” grades of food are by far the most expensive. Is this the quality of food he buys? The housewives in our neighborhood are indignant over this article. Are we being held up by the city market, the chain stores and neighhorhood grocers or has Mr. Marshall made a mistake, or is there a misprint?

Editor's Note: Current week-end advertising by Indianapolis chain stores bear out every price listed in Mr. Marshall's story. Indeed, one system lists bacon at 14 cents a pound. The photograph used with

Side Glances—By Galbraith

ASKS PATIENCE IN JUDGING ACTIONS OF FRANCE By Liberty

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"I'm a little bit suspicious, Sue—your father brought these flowers homs for no apparent reason!" -

The present temper of France over the destruction of her fleet— part of the effort to liberate the Nation and restore her national entity, must be taken in the light of her present political plight. Field strategy is not open to discussion until the danger is past, 11 is more than likely France was obliged to agree to co-operation with her ancient enemy to prevent entire destruction, and Heaven only knows what that means, Patience, gentlemen!

BECAUSE By ANNA E. YOUNG Because, my friend, in doing things Folk find it very true That in the most intrinsic things You never think—of you!

And oftime ‘tis the smaller things That mount so high and tall The little acts of kindness May be greatest after all,

Because you think of some one else No thought in selfish trend That's why, my dear, you justly hold The titled role of —FRIEND!

DAILY THOUGHT

I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my Sed; in Him will I trust.—Psalms

WE TRUST as we love, and where« we love. —I1f we love Christ much, surely we shall trust Him Much.—T, Brooks.

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SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1840,

Gen. Johnson Says—

Trouble With Roosevelt's Defense Message |s That It Reveals Nothing But a Hint That There Is No Plan

ASHINGTON, D. ©, July 13.—The President was right in saying that the American people are prepared for any sacrifice for total defense, It should have begun long ago. But dancing a merry madrigal and tossing off billions like bay leaves isn't total defense, Mr. Roosevelt's futile solution for every problem from unemployment to defense, Is to ask Congress for blank checks for billions, On the very face of this mesasge, defense appropriations must have been wholly unplanned. 1t takes, or it should take, much time and study to blue-print and then undertake an industrial production program of even one billion dollars, But this is the President's own time table of what he has asked--and when: January, 1940 ...veviiririnnnnacees, $2,000,000,000 May 186, 1940 SARA BAANIR RNIN NNR, 1,182,000,000 May 31, 1940 SABA RRA ARRE RRA R RRR 1,277,741,170 July 10, 1040 SAAR AANA RRR 4.848,171,967

Total .e Sart RRR RRR $9,307,913,137

Nobody is going to complain about what defense cosets. But this roman candle jugglery with billions isn't going to fool anybody but the American peoples, o » »

= what is this money to be spent? For "Naval expansion,” for active and reserve equipment of a “land force” of 2,000,000 men and for 10000 air. planes—all “to repel aggression against the United States or the Western Hemisphere.” How about results from the billions already author ized? “Excellent progress ... every week, more and more is being delivered.” That sounds exactly like the guns and munitions we have “on hand or on order.” The trouble with every phrase of this message is that it reveals nothing except a hint that there is ne lan, y Is there any military or naval opinion that we can or should prepare to repel aggression anywhers on the Western Hemisphere? It is not on record. A realistic approach to our defense problem reveals that, while we can and must become supreme and impregnable about as far as the Equator with such strength as would be a serious threat to any ins cursions further South, we can't underwrite all the weak, undemocratic, unfriendly Latin nations bhe~ tween the Equator and Cape Horn, 8 4 8

HE strictly military problem does not require "Tron men and, if it did, it would be folly te provide facilities to equip them in short order, Wap changes equipment too fast. A promise not to send Americans abroad doesn’ mean anything if your policy invites foreign war, The American people should not he fooled inte thinking that rearmament is “excellent.” It is mot, It could not be, It would he a miracle if we began to get balanced equipment in eighteen months, This defense message has all the earmarks of & campaign document,

Business By John T. Flynn NRA, Compulsory Military,

Training Hint of Fascism

EW YORK, July 13.—There is nothing to excite N surprise in the announcement that France is about to adopt the fascist form of society. This writer wrote, when the war started, that the war itself had sealed France's doom on that front and that, whether she won or lost the war, she would probably go fascist, The trouble with American observers on this point is that they have a very confused idea of the precise’ character of the fascist state, They are familiar chiefly with those external promotional activities which the fascists have used to sell their rule to the people. They have paid too little attention to the essentials of fascism, The truth is that in every country in the world, including out own, the drift toward fascism is appalling. ® he chief elements of the fascist state are: (a) the corporative system, (bh) militarism, (c) the totalitarian state, The corporative system is its economie ingredient.’ It is based upon the proposition that organized society has a political life and an economic life. The economic life is entrusted to the corporatives. The corporative is nothing more nor less than a trade association on one hand and a lahor organization on the other. Each trade is divided into employers and employees. The employers are organized into a corporative trade association. The employees are organized into a State labor body. All the corporatives send representatives to a central body which in theory rules the economic life of the society, the Parliament or Congress ruling its political life.

» » » Parliament Squelched

In fact, however, as in Italy, two things happen, Gradually the economic rulers devour the parliamentary rulers and the Parliament becomes a mere shadow. We attempled something like this in the NRA--the code authority being very closely patterned on the corporative. President Roosevelt, therefore, without realizing what he was doing, attempted to introduce this feature of fascism into our country. It was blocked by the Supreme Court which held, and properly, that in doing this Congress had abdicated its powers, The fascist state is military—compulsory and ins dustrial service being essential to it. President Roosevelt is now trying to introduce this second ingredient of fascism into our society. The fascist state is totalitarian. That is, it em= braces within its functions unlimited power. Our democratic state is marked by important limitations upon the power of the Government, The citizen has rights which the Government cannot touch. It will be very difficult to break down. This will have to he done a little at a time. President Roosevelt made a beginning when he sought to abolish the independence of the judiciary by packing the Supreme Court,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OUNTLESS keys have been dropped dawn backs to stop nosebleed, but medical authorities state that this old-fashioned remedy does not help. Neither does stuffing cobwebs into the nose nor inhaling smoke, One method that is recommended is to pinch the nose, that is, to press the nostrils together firmly for four or five minutes. This is said to work when, as in most cases, the bleeding is from the middls partition just a short distance inside the nose. Cold wet compresses over the nose will also help to stop the bleeding. Generally the patient is advised to sit with his head thrown slightly back, or to lie down, to breathe through his mouth and to avoid blowing his nose, since this action will dislodge any clot that forms to stop the bleeding. Ordinary nosebleed does not really require any treatment, as it will stop by itself in a few minutes, 1f it does not stop in a fairly short time, a physician should be consulted, both to check the bleeding before too much blood is lost and to determine whether the cause of the nosebleed requires treatment. 1f the bleeding does not stop within a few minutes and a physician cannot be seen promptly, the nose can be packed temporarily. A narrow strip of clean sterile gauze or cotton should be used. This should be pushed gently back, not up, the nostril. The end should be left outside to make it easy to remove the : pack. A large match, toothpick or pencil can be used to“ push the gauze or cotton pack into the nostril, The pack should not be pushed in further than one and one-half inches. The gauze should be packed in - firmly, Alling the back part of the nostril first and’ prin working {

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