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Give Light and the Peapls Will Find Their Own Way
MONDAY, JULY 15, 1940
HULL CAN'T BE SPARED
HE delegates at Chicago understand perfectly that they
are expected to renominate Mr.
Roosevelt—and they
assume he will accept the “draft.” But they are still wait-
ing for Mr. Roosevelt to suggest some There are some 17 candidates for
one for second place. the Vice Presidency.
does not choose any of these, but instead seeks as his run- |
ning mate a man who dogsn’t want t of State Cordell Hull.
he honor—Secretary |
That Mr. Hull would add strength to the ticket will |
hardly be disputed. He is one Adminis most Democrats love and all respect. tegrity and high-mindedness. Mr. Hull's is one division of the ( is generally agreed has been well run
been easy. From the start he has beer
» . . | tration official whom He symbolizes in-
rovernment which it . And that has not 1 surrounded hy men
who seemed to have better access than he to the IPresi-
dential ear. That was true the first )
rear, when Raymond
Molev was sent over to torpedo the London Economic Conference on which Mr. ITull had worked with high hopes. It was true a few days ago when White House Secretary Stephen Early disclosed an interpretation of the Monroe
Doctrine at variance with Mr. Hull's.
Everv time Mr. Roosevelt has tried through some lieutenant to deviate from Mr. Hull's policies on foreign affairs
or trade, he has in the end been forced
back to the program
hewn patiently by his Secretary of State. Yes, it is obvious why the President should want on the ticket a man who has heen consistently right, and one whose stature and popularity have grown steadily through
the New Deal's ups and downs, " But of all the eligible Democrats, who inh these times should not be cas
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MN Mr. Hull is the one t as Throttlehottom.
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Now, as never before, we need for Secretary of State
a tough-minded, practical man of coura Cordell Hull is such a man.
ge and high purpose.
His cherished reciprocal-trade-
agreements program has gone a glimmering, through no
fault of his. The dictators are well « outmoding the civilized rules of com Hull program is based. But it will § us to trade. Our prosperity depends sumption of commerce.
mn their way toward merce on which the till be necessary for upon a vigorous re-
And of all the Democrats to trust
with that task, Mr. Hull, by the record, is the one.
Currently some of the New Deal's are peddling a cartel scheme to buy
economic dilettantes up (with borrowed
Government funds, of course) all the surpluses of the Western Hemisphere, at whatever price has to be paid to outbid
the totalitarians, and sell the same at
whatever price can
he obtained, even to the point of spreading the food-stamp
plan all over Latin America.
Mr. Hull rejects such bootstrap economics.
design to put our Good Neighbor Polic dole, these particular New Dealers woul shunted into the Vice Presidency. T help their *‘ticket.’ But 1t best thing for the country.
WHY HE RESIGNED
N article on Page 2 in today's pap liams, writer on aviation for the Sq papers, resigned as major in the U, 8, M
What it reveals is. in effect, that t
definitely would not
In their v on the level of the d like to see Mr. Hull hat would the
no doubt he
| Prance, and the people of that republic, like us of the | | United States, had adjusted themselves to a belief
| dishonesty.
Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
America Should Take Warning | From France, Where Political | Graft Was Allowed to Flourish |
EW YORK. July 15.—Even in the best of times corruption was a leading trait of government in |
that graft was inevitable in the politics and administration of popular government. 'n what extent this cynical condonation of graft or resighation to it was responsible for the Hisaster it would be futile to argue. But certainly this disease
wasted some of the vitality of their government, and equal hurt was done by the popular indifference to The malady communicated itself to the people, who finally came to believe that perfidy was not so bad. However, it was not popular government that was at fault. The fault there, as here, was that the peéo- | ple did not keep it clean. Having permitted its defilement, they told themselves that, after all, the world | wasn't perfect, and that Human nature contained a
The delegates hear & persistent report that the President | certain amount of larceny, Every housemaid and
janitor had certain well-defined grafting privileges which had the status of rightful perquisites,
HE meeting of the Democrats ih Chicago this | week will be held amid scenes and fumes which | should warn Americans that we have been stumbling | along the same squalid street, In Philadelphia the Republicans met amid melan- | choly reminders that the American form of governs ment cannot hold together under just any load of | oraft that may be piled upon it. It probably was my | imagination which told me that the Republican delegates, as citizens, felt uneasy sensations in the presence of the damage to a great American city which had heen wrought by politicians, mainly of their own party. over a course of many heedless years, After all, T did not search their souls, so I cannot certify that any of them suddenly realized the conse- | quences of {reachery, incompetence and public indifference and bewilderment. More likely they didn't | make any connection between the plight of Philadel- | phia and the sort of government which had ruled the city for generations. { And, probably, neither will the Democrats in Chicago be aware of any other emotions than their conventional gamut, namely, partisanship, greed for jobs and contracts, hunger, thirst and hangover,
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UT perhaps the people at large, including the residents of Chicago, will give a thought to the defiant rottenness of the city and county government under a machine which is run by and for pseudorespectable but actually bad public men and the underworld of crime and vice. This machine is an important unit of the national Democratic organization, but it is no worse, really, than corrupt Republican gangs which have robbed the same city in their turn and together with the Democrats, have shaken the people's faith in popular government. In recent vears those Chicago people who could afford to live beyond the city limits have gone to the suburbs to escape the stench and sights of a repulsive thing. Chicago people speak of “The Syndicate.” a band of vicious underworld criminals, as their local government. They know it is their local government, and they are too far gone in corruption even to care Well, there was France
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Inside Indianapolis
How Not to Catch the Fish, Lightning Storms and Black Eyes
R. GUTERMUTH of the State Conservation De- . partment is the champion non-fish catcher in these parts, according to some of his fishing pals. Fred Eley tells the story better than anyone else and will gladly oblige at the drop of a sinker, It seems, according to Mr. Eley, that Mr. Gutermuth once caught a huge bullfrog on his line, He had all but lived that down when Mr, Gutermuth, Mr. Eley and Harold Mosebaugh, another Indianapolis employee of the Conservation Department, climbed in a boat and went fishing in Fawn River the other day. Mr. Gulermuth threw a fly under a little foot bridge and a fish struck. It threshed around indignantly and a hullaballoo attracted the attention of a hog rooting around on the bank. The hog walked onto the bridge to get a better
| look at the goings on and stood there watching as Mi
er tells why Al Wil ripps-Howard News. [arine Corps Reserve, he Navy Department
gave Ma). Williams the choice between resigning and heing
muzzled. Holcomb, Commandant of the Marine
He was told, in a letter from Maj. Gen. Thomas
Corps, that “further
destructive criticism’ of naval service administration would
be considered cause for a mission be revoked.
recommendation that his com-
The major chose to resign because he considered it his
duty to continue to express “freely opinions concerning what he believes
defense. The decision does him credit
and vigorously” his essential to national
That Al Williams is a vigorous critic of naval admin- |
istration 1s certain.
our opinion, simply not true. We
That he is a destructive critic is. believe he
in doas this
country a great constructive service by pounding away on
the need for more effective air power air service and for an end to internal practices on the Navy,
, for an independent politics and hideous
The attempt that was made to silence him strengthens our impression that there must be a great deal of truth in
the charges he has heen making
The collapse of France, due in large degree to the fact that the French people were kept ignorant of the deficiencies |
in their national defense, proves tha needs is more authorities who have t aut as Al Williams does, and less hu hats.
DISHONEST—AND DANGERO
t what this country he courage to speak
sh-hushing by brass |
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REPORTS persist in some cities that some merchants are telling customers that increased prices of certain
goods are due to the new defense
ol Is amount of the tax is in fact less than the amount of the | the weather fs always important
| Hitler would sound like a very nice fellow, compared
price increase. That practice is not honest and
taxes, although the |
it is not safe. The |
Bureau of Internal Revenue at Washington has just warned |
that—
Penalties of one year in jail and $1000 fine may be
levied if merchants ascribe any part
of the price of an |
article to Federal taxes “knowing that such a statement |
is false or that the tax is not so gre such price ascribed to such tax.”
BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE — EWS item from New York: “Lady Ribblesdale, the former M
at as the portion of
| tip-top. Such Ilushness!
| | Country!
Gutermuth removed his fish and cast again The hook--this 1s still Mr. Elev's story-—snhagged the hog's silky ear. The startled porker turned on his squealer and hightatled for the woods, nearly jerking Mr. Gutermuth out af the hoat "You know,” Mr. Eley adds, “it's lucky he caught the hog's ear. Tf he'd hooked a tough part of the hog. the hook wouldn't have pulled loose and the boat, with us in it, might have been pulled up the bank and into the woods ny »
BATHING IN A BATHTUB, shower or even a swimming pool is decidedly unhealthy if there's an electrical storm going on, Fire Chief Fred Kennedy advises. It's better in such a case to sacrifice cleanliness to safety While he was at it, the chief compiled a few other lightning “don'ts.” Tor instance, piano players are poor insurance risks, if they insist on making music during a lightning storm. Lightning seems to enjoy playing hide and seek among piano wires. Also a poor risk is the golfer who takes shelter under a large tree or hangs onto steel golf clubs. An open field is the safest, if not the dryest, refuge. And for housewives, the chief advises giving the | sewing machine and other electrical devices a rest when it's storming. Shocking advice,
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isn't it? ” n » "TTS RUMORED ALL is not quite so well in the ranks of the State Democratic Party th spite of harmony claims, Party leaders privately admit they are having some difficulties getting the state machine hack in running order after the shock some of the forces received at the State Convention, Most of the old machine boys opposed Lieut, ¢iov, | Henry FF. Schricker, the nominee, during the convention and the political hlackeyves are not all forgotten
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
HEELS rolling, rolling. On millions of ;ubber tires, Mr, and Mrs. America glide over their | magnificent highways. And what sights there are to see in this, Our | Going north, we stopped at Leon, lowa, | before a wayside’ inn—the sort of place where one | gets the lowdown on what the common man is think- | ng. And it was wonderful to hear him holding forth on an old, old topic, the weather, Through Missouri, Towa and lower Minnesota, Sometimes even
to the weatherman who is forever preparing blitzkriegs against the farmers, endangering their crops with floods, grasshoppers, black rust or drought. The freakishness of the seasons has a profound and passionate interest for the agriculturists, and it's a ilberal education for city people to realize the fact and to recognize their own detachment from those labors which are the basis of all existence, We are aliens from the land, which is rather too bad for us. This vear, in the heart of America, the crops are Such vivid greens! Such enormous barns and well-kept houses and fat cattle Added up. thev recall the sweet, familiar words—
| prosperity and peace,
Here they are tno be found, ihdeed, those blessings "
| which mest people in our time will think of soon
|, John Jacob Astor,
long a leader of London society, renounced her British title |
today and was repatriated as an Am
plain ‘Mrs. Ava Ribblesdale' in a Federal Court ceremony,”
erican. She became
mind refuses to admit that mortal man could lay
with nostalgic longing and vain regret. possible that people somewhere are busy wrecking an equally beautiful countryside? We know it is true, and vet, as we drive over miles and miles and miles of our lovely land, the |
waste this, his Qounteous earth,
[ wooden guns, do you?
| enormous figures might [you some idea why certain Ameri-
Can it be |
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
MONDAY, JULY 15, 1940
MONROH (TO DOCTRINE
They Don’t Quite Seem to Get It
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MONRIBBENTROP
The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, bul will defend to the death your right to say it.—\Voltaire,
WANTS WEEDS CUT AT MUNICIPAL ATRPORT
By CM
should clean their own vard instead of others. Take for Municipal Airport, how about the weeds? They need cutting. The walk in front of parked cars is not safe to walk on after dark. Empty beer cans, whisky bottles all along the fence. Then, too, spend a little gas tax money on some oil for those dusty roads ” TAKES ISSUE WITH OGLE LETTER ON KELLEMS By RB Disabled A. KE. Veteran It is seldom TI am moved to express my opinions through the press, but Mr. Kenneth Ogle's let ter in today's issue is a direct challenge to all American citizens who believe in a free press,
His being disconcerted over the United Press featuring Miss Kellems’ opinions is amusing, to say the least and as a chairman of National Defense Committee he displays some very profound ignorance of historical facet, when he states the issue “Will America's vital inferests be affected if the British win, if the Nazis win?"
If 1 remember my only time America evel for Britain (and 1 =a: it) the only thing ever received in payment was some worthless 1. O U's and slurs from the English people As an ex-sergeant of feld artillery who spent two years fighting for Britain, I want to go on record as saving Miss Kellems' opinions will coincide with those of the majority of the fellows who came in contact with our beloved cousins during their former troubles Now Mr. Ogle, permit me to offer some advice—and this is not lifted from Goebbel's book. I never even heard of it Why don't you quit trying to mold public opinion and spend your time on defense and I mean American defense. You boys surely do not want to send another American army to Europe with And in closing permit me to offer a few names and dates that coupled with some give even
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Vickrey, P.
history, the won a war we did win
can citizens are not pro-British or pro-anything else outside this, the only free country on earth Lexington -— Bunker Hill Valley
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Forge—1812—our war in 60's with a British incited insurrection in Mexico And last but not least 100.000 good American men dead and billions of dollars squandered 1917 and ’'18. They called Uncle Shylock in 1918 and they are after the money now as Miss Kellems stated. Our first line is ow boundaries and as a member of the National Defense Committee youn duty is to make immediate provision to defend them against all comers
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depends
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the of our .civilization
te a major Upon out come of this major crisis the future of North America whether its trend will be upward with science and technology or downward with ignorance and stupidity. The critical situation on the North American continent to day is not a result of international involvements, but is a condition generated out of a great social ¢onflict upon the home soil Where all other civilizations to day are struggling with constricted economies of Scarcity, America is struggling with an abundant production and promoting legislation to thwart distribution of this abundance. Europe and Asia are in conflict with themselves and with each other, but their future should be theirs to settle as they will America’s method of producing physical wealth has changed but not distribution. Yet to preserve some outmoded traditions political leaders prefer to involve us ith more European entanglements Until America solves its own problem it has no right to meddle in foreign affairs. If America does solve its own problem, both in distribution and defense, there is no need to meddle in European or Asiatic af fairs Technocracy i= an American or ganization interested in America
CUIsIS
es—By Galbraith
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"| have to hurry and straighten things up before the girl gets hege to clean,"
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rand Americans, ‘Techhocracy is for efficient production and distribution of an abundance to all
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CALLS DEMOCRATIC PARLEY A SORRY SPECTACLE
By An American
Is this a democracy? What has happened to one of our great political parties that one man may smirk and e¢huckle and by his silence cause all initiative, all independent thought and action to be suspended. The supposed leaders of a large part of our population are s0 fearful for their pork and patronage, 20 apprehensive of a political purge and reprisals (fine Nazi methods) that they dare not ¢ome out openly and freely as American citizens should and announce their candidacy for office, Moreover they dare not candidate of their own choice, Because a man whom they put into power might take affront! Under our party system the party is responsible for candidates and platforms (supposedly) but this tan tells not only his ‘party, but the whole nation that it is none of their business whether he shall run for a third term, that he will tell them when he 1s ready to tell them and not before; and the political jellyfish to which he has reduced his whole party tolerate such impertinence because they are afraid, at Roosevelt's frown every Demos cratic politician shakes ih his shoes Thix is a sorry spectacle 1h a free country. Are not the rank and file of the party disgusted? Are they not ashamed to have their party made ridiculous? . . . Mr. Roosevelt may go ahead and draft himself if he wants to, we don't care cians may suffer, We have Wendell Willkie. He will be elected for two terms. He will not draft himself for a third,
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favor
we dont care.
Liberty
The anamoly of J, L. Lewis , indorsing the candidacy of the jackrabbit policies of Senator Wheeler to, as he avers, wreck the dictatorship of President Roosevelt, iv rather funny, all things esnsidered. The entire C. 1. O, organization is estimated around three million members, at least half of whom would undoubtedly be glad to vote against him, ih any event the organization ax such is no menace to any candidacy and as for Lewis getting rid of a dictator, it sounds like der Fuehrer If President Roosevelt eomex out for a defense of the rights of democracy, the Monroe Doctrine ane a repeal of the Neutrality Act in tate the chief business in hand outsifle of the Administration settled policies he would receive a greater majority thah he has had before There ig something ih what we eall Americanism democracy when the occasion arises rallies to the event third term bugaboos to the contrary notwithstanding. Let us hope the Democratic Convention takes eoungel of its majority pledged delegates |
TWO LITTLE BOYS By VERNE S, MOORE
[Oh little boys with dancing eyes, Why do vou laugh, and play, and sing As now across my lawn you fling? Two little boys with dancing eyes. | “Oh we have drunk the wine of | health And youth, and so must dance and play Because our hearts are young and |
gay, Por we have drink the wine of health."
DAILY THOUGHT
Moreover ve shall take no satis faction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death, and he shall be surely put to death, Numbers 35:31,
| DARE NOT tisurp thy maker's | place by giving way to wrath wrath | that goes forth ih vengeance, ‘van |
geance ix mine, I will repay, ith, the Juord,"—0, Simmons, |
| similar emergency
| the kind
| age groups | age groups 21 | or
a |
The Democratic politisd
| trol
Gen. Johnson
Says=
Object of Military Training Program Should Be to Teach Many Men as Fast as Possible
i D. C, July The requirement of any law for compulaory gelece tive service or training is that {t =hall be as flexible
15 principal
| as possible.
Por example, there should he no room for debata
| over the time necessary for training-—nine, 15, or 18 | months-—because it should be for two years and an
long and as often thereafter as this or any futura lasts, with an option ih tha
President to return the woldier to the reserve ax xoon as he shall be certified by the War or Navy Department as qualified, Some “experts” say that, although we turned out excellent soldiers after six months intensive training in the World War, it can’t be done in the mechanized, motorized war of today. That is certainly true of men who serve in armored and mechanized divisions, or as parachute human torpedoes, but surely all our troops are not going to be of that class,
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OTORIZED infantry is simply infantry that rides instead of marching. It is true that infantry uses a vastly greater variety of weapons than fors merly. But that needs no such specialization ax will be required of the armored corps we are now forming or of enlisted men in the air corps, Our object must be to get as many men trained as quickly as possible and there ix limit to our skilled instructors. Men should be classified according ta their skills and aptitudes and held for whatever period of mtenrive (raining is necessary to qualify them for of service they are to render, and then returned to the reserve The disposition in the current debate in Congress arbitrarily to limit the training or service, to a few is aio all wet. Why should men in to 25 alone be privileged to train serve? The real question ix of physical condition lar skill and availability without unnecessary tion of domestic and economic relations,
particis disrups
h- 5% % NSPRECIALLY in the mechanical and technical cialization of modern war, it is dumb to confine the draft to agex (hat are least likely to have acquired necessary xkills in civil life. Furthermore, it ix rotten human engineering and economy cream of our youth to the slaughter pens, mature men have a right th defend their country and any well-balanced military unit should contain at least, a sprinkling of them Our decielon to =ubstitute compulsory service for volunteering is absolutley necessary and unavoidable, hut it is a momentous move which may affect every home in America, directly or indirectly, The plan should be prepared carefully and debated fully. Although We once put into effect, the mosh successful selective draft in history and hundreds now
(fH
to rend only tha
Finally,
relectiva
| Hving had intense experience in that effort, 1 know
of none of that working force that has even heen consulted hy the Congressional committees considering this bill.
Business
By John T. Flynn
Collaboration of Rights and Lefts Can Occur in U. S. as in Europa
EW YORK, July 15-One phenomenon which must puzzle the reader of news is the ease with which men of the extreme right and men of the exs treme left can meet in agreement in the construction of fascism Hitler, angry rocialist malcontent, and Thyssen, Ruhr baron, can collaborate fn making the German Farcist rtate, Socialist Editor Mussolini and tha bankers and iron masters of Milan can come together to form Fascist Italy, This is no mere chance, no mere product of roma terrifying crisis, Tt ariges out of a fact of profound importance to Americans who wish to preserve their iiberties, For the same kind of collaboration hetween rights and lefts can take place here with the =ama result, just zs it happens now in France when rights wing Marshal Petain and left-wing Jean Mistlér can agree upon a Pascist constitution Thux =trange alliance arizex oul of the widespread adhesion of both left and right wing groups to the principle of syndicalism The svndicalizt Socialist broke from the orthodox, classical Socialists who believed that the instruments of production belonged to the people who would cons trol these instruments through the state, The svndicalist denounced this as another form of economic tyranny, substituting the ztate for the private capitalist, He advocated the organization of gociety into producers’ groups, Men would he Ars ranged by crafts and these organized worker groups would own their instruments of production and their product,
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Companion Doctrine Grows Up Mere
Now since the late Sixties there har grown up in
| this country a companion doctrine, held by business | men, bated on the same principle, hamely that pros=
ducing groups should be allowed to organize to cons the economic factor in their privately owned industries Little by litte syndicalist labor leaders came to recognize something in this-—~the right of the ems ployers to organize into producer groups and of tha employees to form into union groups. The employers might regulate all the factors outside labor condis tions in the trade; the labor unions would regulats all the labor factors, Slowly this dual xvndicalism grew in favor. T% grows in favor everywhere, And in Europe, when times became critical, it became easy for the xvndicalist radical labor man and the xvndicalizt ems ployer to nite ih the corporative movement the ors ganization of xoclety into producing nits This i= what has happened in France, We hava mace some great strides {hh thix direction 1h America, There ix one flaw fn it for te: Tt cannot work in either a democratic society or fh a private profit society There mizt he a dictator ta eampel rithless come pliance. And there can Be no profit inh the end, for the regulatory character of the plan will kill all private ihvestment
Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford
HIS is the season when the green apples or dther green fruit hanging oh the trees proves altost
| irresistible to the boys of the neighborhood, aithough [most of then have been warned repeatedly of tha
unpleasant results likely to follow indulgence in uns ripe fruit, The colic which sometimes comes from eating tins ripe fruits may be caused by the excess acid in tha uit which causes irritation, Another reason why aus thorities advise waiting for apples to ripen befora
| eating thet is that when unripe they contain a good
deal of starch which is gradually changed to sugar ih the ripening process, The sane is true of bananas, and while few Amers
| {ean lads have a chance at green banahas oh a tres,
many persons fh this country prefer bananas in tha hard, not vet ripe stage ih which they are often sold, Buying them while slightly green to fhsiure hatte
| Keeping ix all right, but most authorities advise wait.
fhe to eat then until the skin {x entirely yellow and well flaked with brown spots, Blightly underripe fruit may be digestible hy ennking, The fibrous material fh the fruit i= softensd by the eonking, which makes it more edible Belf-treatment of these upsets with a laxative oy purgative fs hwite, Parents should remember that when Junior wakes up ih the middle of the night with a bre stomach anche {tt may be due to appendicitis intend o Bees hi ann should be enllad, becatise t is appendicitis, , Or treatment ‘with Iaxntives, may prove fatal,