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FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Witness, Friends, the Spectacle Of Idealists Ickes and Hopkins Joining Forces With Kelly and Hague HICAGO, July 19. — Political expediency makes

great demands on the tolerance and decency of the common citizen who makes his judgments accord-

| ing to rather primitive rules of right and wrong. But

when two such wet-eye professional bleeding-hearts of the New Deal as Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes make common cause with the two most notorious politicat machines remaining in the United States, the gang of Kelly and Arvey in Chicago, and the

| Frank Hague mob of Jersey, something dreadful hap-

U"ALLACE » TENRY WALLACE has tried hard to make his part of | the new Deal succeed. For more than seven years he | has grappled with the seemingly insoluble problem of agri- | culture—Dbalancing farm production and consumer purchas- | ing power, In underta Ways an open mind. um a standout among many other New Dealers is that he has been free in admitting his mistakes, in conceding to |

king his many experiments he has kept al- | One characteristic that has made |

his critics a sincerity equal to his own, He is a man of intellectual integrity, honesty, tolerance, and strong faith in the democratic system. He has roextraordinary power, but instead has tralize the administration confided to his department. He has preferred always to enlist the volunn oof farmers, rather than invoke compul-

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NOt 1'eal sought (ary ceo-operatis S101. In giving credit to Mr. Wallace for his performance member it would, of course, be too much to he free choice of a free convention. For wasn't free. The boos which punctuated ast night's were the only evidence in the whole! week of an effort to make it free. The boos didn’t count. And they were not personalized to Kindly, retiring and Iv Mr. Wallace. Rather they were merely the futile expression of a long pent-up independence in a convention |

as a Cabinet sav that he was t

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ROOSEVELT TO THE CONVENTION PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was at his best last night. | His oration was a superb job of self-justification in the course he has chosen—of rationalizing his indigpensability. Other great public figures have done it, back through the centuries, having first grown to believe that no one else would do. But it was to get away from that idea of indispensa- | bility, omniscience and omnipotence that such a thing as the third-term tradition developed in this nation, And so far as we are concerned—despite the critical situation in which our country now finds itself-—we prefer what Thomas Jefferson said to the eloquence from the oval room. Jefferson wrote, toward the end of his second term: “If the principle of rotation be a sound one, as 1 conscientiously believe it to be with respect to this office, no pretext should ever be permitted to dispense with it, because there never will be a time when real differences do not exist, and furnisn a plausible pretext of dispensation.” We choose to stand on that, rather than subscribe to the indispensability of any man, at any time.

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WORK WAITING FOR CONGRESS F by remaining in session, Congress had accomplished nothing more than the enactment of the new Hatch Bill, its stay in Washington would have been well worth while. | But, of course, there has been and there is plenty of other work for Congress to do. In early June, President Roosevelt was suggesting that the legislators adjourn in a couple of weeks. Considering the urgent defense appropriations Mr. Roosevelt has asked since then, considering | all the new problems that have come up, it's a mighty good thing that the people objected and that Congress did not follow the President's suggestion, And it's a mighty good thing that the present recess, for the Democratic National Convention, is a recess only—that C be back on the job Monday. There is more defense legislation urgently requiring attention—for instance, selective service to provide manpower, And there | are measures, pending like the Hatch Bill since before the defense excitement began, which are vitally important in connection with the defense effort. Specifically: The Smith Amendments to the National Labor Relations Act. ‘hey were adopted, 2 to 1, by the House on June 7, and are now buried in the unfriendly Senate Labor Committee. The Senate should demand that they be brought out for debate and a vote immediately after the recess. Their purpose is to put sense and justice into the Government's protection of labor's rights; to prevent biased labor board officials and employees from throwing sand on the bearings and monkey-wrenches into the cogs of Amer | ica’'s industrial machine, The Logan-Walter Bill. It was passed, 3 to 1, by the House on April 18. Adminstration forces in the Senate are trying to smother it. It, too, should be brought out for debate and a vote. Its purpose is to prevent abuse of bureaucratic power, Government agencies are assuming more power, and that is necessary to get the defense jobs dong, but ft makes more essential than ever the safeguards for the rights of citizens which the Logan-Walter Bill will provide,

ongress will

PRISON FOR RACKETEERS WENTY-THREE members of a New York teamsters’ | union have been sentenced to penitentiary terms ranging up to two years, under the Federal Anti-Racketeering Law. The union itself has been fined $10,000. These men and their union were convicted of stopping out-of-town trucks on the city’s border and levying fees of from $8.41 to $9.42 for each trip, regardless of whether | union members performed any actual work. That racket | exacted tribute estimated at nearly $1,000,000 a year. The sentences, said Federal Judge Hulbert, would have been more severe “if it were not for the fact that this | conviction is the first ever found under the Federal Anti | Racketeering Act.” We regret that numerous unions have violated Federal | laws, but we welcome the Government's vigorous enforce- | ment of its anti-trust and anti-racketeering laws, as an | essential service to labor and the public. For union officials | and members who prey on the public are enemies to their | own cauge of organized labor. :

{ responsibility of unpreparedness

| idealist | preacher stands against sin,

| Javwalkers

| endure themselves would be so aghast at their own brutality |

pens in the region of the neck. The citlzen who has tried to believe that Hopkins and Ickes were, at least, honest, although officious and unlovable, feels queasy

| and wants air and a cool towel for his brow.

To go back a comparatively short time, it was this Ickes, the snarling and highly suspicious house dick

| of the New Deal who was toying with a notion to

jump the Cabinet and run for Mayor of Chicago to save the city from the grip of an immoral coalition

| of gamblers and grafters.

The fact that he changed his mind, preferring to hold the job he had, has no gentling effect on his expressed abhorrence of everything that the Chicago mob signified to him. As an old Chicago politician who had always done business in the guise of an and reformer, he stood against it as a

* » ' CKES and Hopkins both represented virtue in politics as opposed to that cynical, sordid school which passed out contracts and jobs to the boys and fixed them up in court when they were caught and deviled the poor police in the honest performance of their duty Don't tell me that Mr. Ickes doesn't remember his opinion of the city government of Chicago, or that Mr. Hopkins has forgotten the sanctimontous fury of the entire new Deal against Frank Hague the time one of his hoodlums hit Norman Thomas with an egg and a whole mob of them chased bold Jerry O'Connell, the New Dealer from Montana, out of town for attempting to speak in defense of the Constitution I thought then. that there were frauds among the Bleeding-hearts, because Hague just then was special-

| jzing In suppression, and oppression, of the C. I. O,

because its raids on his side of the Water were insti gated and aggravated by the Communists, They could alwavs run a high moral temperature on short notice in any case in which Communists were the victims but there never was any noticeable concern among

| them on behalf of the civil liberties of the whole state { of Louisiana under Huey Long.

Hague was a menace, but Dong was just an amusing goat who meant no

harm.

UT I am gullible myself, and I have never thought to see the dav when these two pietistic fakers would have the effrontery to sit and take it without throwing a chair under such a revolting mockery as

| the speech of Ed Kelly, the Mayor of Chicago, on the opening day of this spectacle

The least they should have done was to take the stand and disown Kelly and Hague and all the dirty

| works of the evil organizations which they represent

I present you the spectacle of two hypocrites, who love the common man and loath gang politics in equal measure, running in the same mob with Kelly and Hague, and T throw in Sehator Claude Pepper of Florida, whose machine is the WPA, to make it more offensive And now you may prepare to learn that in gang politics the virtue-fakers of the New Deal have nothng to learn from Kelly or Hague or Pepper. But 1 think we are safer dealing with the Kellys and Hagues, You know what they are by the cut of their jib, and, in some circumstances, you can even trust them.

Inside Indianapolis

Boating on White River, a New

Wise-Cracking Officer and Speeders

TE maritime activity of the nation's largest inland ¢ity 1s looking up these days White River be classed as a non-navigable stream, but it happen to wander to Broad Ripple or Ravenswood, vou'll think otherwise On Sundays and holidays, the river looks like a couple of regattas locking horns. In fact, there are 50 many boats on the river that the fish don’t dare take a long breath for fear of being crushed between {wo hoats The river is dotted with evervthing from canoes and rowboats to outboard craft with motors almost heavy enough to swamp them. There even are a few classy looking 30-foot inboard launches of the type usually seen only at the deluxe summer resort lakes, and several craft with sleeping and housing facili ties These larger

may

vou out

erat, which by the way are the

| | mortal enemy of canoists because of their wake, find

navieation difficult during dry spells, when the river is Jow Then, they actually have to stay in the middle of the river channel!

almost exactly

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PATROLMAN FOREST ALLISON, the wise-crack-ing whistle-tooter at Washington & Meridian Sts, had better watch his laurels. The other dav there was a substitute patrolman at the intersection. giving the heek in the Allison manner and doing a good Job of it. Once, when a trio of women shoppers stopped in the middle of an intersection for a chinfest, the substitute chirped: “Get going, babdes.” Another who should watch his laurels is Nelson (He's Just Wonderful) Eddy. For several vears., Miss Georgia Ryan, a deputy in the Federal Court Clerk's office, has had an unswerving devotion for Mr. Eddy. But last week, Miss Ryan went to see a Charles Bover pieture, and now, to the amazement of all, has been shunted to second place in Miss Ryan's admiration.

IF YOU ARE TEMPTED to tromp on the ace celerator occasionally, just ponder over this news note a while . In the first 17 days this month,

Municipal Court Judge Charles J. Karabell relieved |

traffic violators of a toial of $3326, of which $3708 was for speeding. Isn't that fine?

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

| cers meeting charged the women of America with the |

OL. WILLIAM M ton his name implies, at a recent Reserve Offi-

He attributes sad condition to our pacifist’ sentiments and we have put too much stress upon peace. “It's a mighty pretty compliment, Colonel,

order to keep the record straight let us say and now that the minute the present world tragedy

ends, we shall redouble our efforts to bring amity and |

union to a ravaged earth,

The whole history of women has been one long | record of suffering at the hands of bloodthirsty men, |

interspersed with inspiring stories of their heroic efJoris to salvage what could be saved from the wasted ands, The great Red Cross is the child of a woman's

| dream—and I believe no one will deny it does more

credit to feminine intelligence than ali the grandiose schemes or achievements of male ambition. Virginia Woolf once wrote that if women refused

to nurse war wounded and maimed, leaving them to |

the tortures inflicted upon them, soldiers

they would cease to battle

Although the mind staggers away from the picture, |

I daresay she is right.

Unaappily, however, the world belongs to the mili- | In no single nation |

tarists. They rule and ruin it, is there an impressive number of women who possess real authority. Perhaps when such a thing happens we shall not only work for world peace, but we shall achieve it.

Nelson |

MUMM, who lacks the discre-

the | Says |

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Three on a Match!

FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940 |

GOSH ERANK= 4 HOPE THAT DOESN'T MEAN A LOT OF 0 7

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The Hoosier Forum

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

OFFERS SUGGESTION TO WILLKIE CRITIC

By A Times Reader

I would like to answer W. F. Poff |

hate for Mr in the

whose outburst of Wendell Willkie appeared Hoosier Forum of July 13. Mr. WF My

on a paving basis so that it could

operate and employ men at good N

wages and vou have fired your Times

boy just because you hate an educated man who can do things in a Dig way Well, Mr. Poff, instead of firing | why don't you have in your home

be doing Mr

vour Times boy, electnie power This will

your

feut out?

Poff, you seem to hate] Willkie because he took a brok- | en-down power company and put it!

| Willkie a dirty trick and I Know it

will just break his heart, 5 » TERMS F. D. R. DANGER TO OUR LIBERTIES By Sideline Sittin’ Lil When are the American going to wake up to the danger to their liberty and independence that

lurks in this sly, devious man in

the White House? Why can't they see that he has been sivly working to bring about a Fascist state in this county? Remember the NRA? This "Fascist Feature” was scotched bv the Suthen our “would be Benito” sought to nullify the independence of the judiciary by packing the Supreme Court! now, he is attempting to have comspulsory military training and industrial service, a truly Fascist state of affaurs! Never have we been treated to a more disgusting spectacle than his present strategy, whereby he is to {be nominated for a third term, riding roughshod over one of our most honored traditions, the other men in his party who might rightfully expect to be (candidates bow to his will and step aside, so that his ravenous craving for power may be satisfied! The man is Power Drunk! It is inconceivable how any American citizen can have any respect for him after this! If we don't bend all our energies toward his defeat, we are going to have our liberties plucked from us one by one, He really rates impeachment for some of the things he has done [ without the knowledge and consent

preme Court

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people |

[employing it would take all of the

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making employment is taking my opportu-|

By George O. Davis, R. R. 4, Brazil, Ind,

SAYS ROOSEVELT LETS PEOPLE MAKE CHOICE By Mary Ellen Tice, Centerville, Ind, I cannot refrain from writing you on your editorial of July 12th, “3048

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

to express views in

troversies excluded.

Letters must |judging FP. D. R. He is keepihg | silent and letting the people choose for themselves, Of course he has not been permitted to put his ideas into effect,

and has a burning desire to do so.

have a chance. be signed, but names will be

withheld on request.)

of Congress; such as declaring the

| moment, | could pervert all the delegates to a great convention,

| a great people.

Robots.” I feel sure you are mis- |

Navy to have a surplus of planes | (which it has not) and selling them to the Allies. One writer states this act puts us in the war right | now! { His favorite sport is trying to out- | wit someone. Has he already gone too far? If we don't see that this’ man’s

clever maneuvering of himself into | third term is defeated, this | country will join the long line to the Wailing Wall, with most of the other peoples of this unhappy earth! Voters, think well and long!

against him and much money has peraaps been wrongly spent, but through no fault of his, but through | the weakness or inability of those he trusted. As for Jim Farley he | would go the way of Al Smith, not | because of his inability, but because | of the Ku-Klux Klan's teachings | and why crucify him and lose all. F. D. R. has faults which he honestly admits, yet over and above all | there is not a man living his equal. | He 1s a world figure whose impor- | tance is not measured by ordinary | standards, for he towers like a colossus ahove the average statesman, not merely in ability, but sin- | cerity and honesty of purpose and in sympathy and human under-| | standing.

" # & URGES FIRING WOMEN TO INCREASE MARRIAGES

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Solve nemploy ake! Give unemploymien; and MARE! wANTS EXAMPLE MADE homes, If industry would discharge

OF FIFTH COLUMNISTS all the girls and women they are BY Mrs. George Rice, Thorntown, Ind. I think as the American public]

unemployed men to take their places | J xR which would cause more men to feel Co its high ume we people dropped this fifth column and all

able to support a home and be will- | ing to take a chance at it | other isms--only truly Americanism. | More women would be willing to And call all wR Just | marry and Keep a home if they plain traitors and treat them the couldn't work in public works. The Same, men would draw more wages be- | What is the use of having these cause firing the women would make long drawn trials, pay jurymen and | a demand for men. The results: In=| women for turning them loose on creased prosperity, less unemploy= | he taxpayers’ money, when we ail ment and more homes. I am & pnow they get treated and fed bet- | bachelor, I think, because women ter in our prisons than they do free ; : in their own fatherlands. nity to work and support a home, Look what happened. In New| I am an able-bodied ex-sailor with| oy ‘the foreman of the jury was| an honorable discharge. But em= |i plicated with that gang un there, plovers give the jobs to women in then they were freed. I pelisve in which a man could earn enough to iiine everyone on a boat and Support 2 home 0A thotsariis ; sending them back or perhaps makre Sands Ol ing an example of some of them | other bachelors in the nation the with the death penalty. Until we same as I, able-bodiea enough, but ? - a ” without sufficient dependable finan- So Dis there is no use maxing cial income to support a home. I| hin 8" don’t want to start something I| ; can’t do right and continue that CRITICIZES ELWOOD way. I will answer inquiries of OF WILLKIE'S BOYHOOD

dows Ss ph ny 1 widows, maids or anyone, ha, ha!lge James Dulin

Side Glances—By Galbraith

While you are hoosting Elwood, Ind, and showing all the high lights {of Elwood in pictures, why not get

Se, COPR, 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT, OFF. > ——

| |a picture and put it in your paper

[of the signs that were displayed in | Elwood when Willkie was a boy. Negro employees of the railroad

| were not allowed off the train in | Elwood when Willkie was a boy. | Negroes could not buy a meal or even a sandwich in Elwood when

Many of his own party have worked

Willkie was a boy. Those signs were

| to the attention of President the United States ever had-—Franklin D, Roosevelt.

JUNE TIME By ANNA E. YOUNG Restin’ in a shady nook Fishin' line all set Cork a bobbin’ right and left Think I'll get him yet.

Maybe—won't go home Camp out for the night Bacon sizzlin’, eggs a fryin’ Campin’s sure alright.

Beddin’ spread out on the ground Moon and stars all lit Crickets chirpin’, frogs in tune This out doors does fit.

Fish for breakfast, after we Go take our morning splash Another day to picnic in Then—gone— just, like a flash!

DAILY THOUGHT

Blessed are they that mourn:

"9 for they shall be comforted.—

"Junior asked me to buy a new comb and brush today—has he mentioned anything to you about girls?"

Matthew 5:4.

taken down and the other conai- | | tions remedied only when brought | the greatest]

EARTH HATH no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.—Moore.

Gen. Johnson Says—

Record Clearly Disproves Claim of F. D. R. That His Preference Was for Retirement After 2 Terms.

HICAGO, July 19.—This is the first Democratie convention I ever attended where my heart at least was not in there thumping for the “holy cause.” My father took me to my first one when I was 8. In the 1932 and 1936 campaigns they even gave me a tambourine to thump. I plugged as hard for the party and its President as anybody. Maybe that kind of background exaggerates my feeling, but this thing in Chicago seems to me enough to nauseate a large pack of cast-iron hyenas plus a couple of flights of copper-lined turkey. buzzards. The foundation of this heroic emetic is the blatant impudence of the “Draft Roosevelt” strategy—the President's own statement that every one who knew him knew that he did not desire and never had cde= sired this nomination. There is only one word to characterize that but it ought never to be applied to a statement by a President—nor deserve to be applied,

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VERYONE who knows the President well—and I used to—knows precisely the reverse of that, So, on all the facts, does the whole country. It wasn't at all necessary to secure the nomination. Its only purpose was for the campaign—to deceive the people on a, flagrant violation of the third term tradition and this Hitlerized nomination. Thus this conven= tion of the party to which my fervid loyalty always ran and my father's and my grandfather's, for over a hundred years. this convention starts that party off to the keynote of the most cynically barefaced lie in American political history. Perhaps the party should not be condemned for the sins of a few men, but its leaders by their conduct underwrote it. I saw men, great Democrats, friends of mine for years, literally in mental writhing against that lie and all the hateful things that went with it —the shamelessly hypocritical oratory—the surrender of party councils and controls to collectivist, socialist, unelected amateurs who have almost wrecked the countrv—the manufactured enthusiasm of politically subsidized claquers—the ruthless wholesale ditching of principles and loyalties, They were in agony of spirit but they Kissed the abomination they despised and made this welter of dishonesty their own, It was a pitiful political perversion, 4 8 2

AYBE it is possible to ride a lie to victory. Hitler says it is and seems to have proved it for the If political position, patronage and favor

perhaps it could pervert a majority of the voters of 1 don’t believe it. If gluttons for power have disclosed themselves as willing by deceit or the use of every instrument of the power they have thus far grabbed to bludgeon the supposedly democratic part of a democratic peo= ple into the pusillanimous subservience of a Hitler plebiscite, what would they do with the so-called war powers of the President, which it is no secret they seek? .

Business

By John T. Flynn

War Planks Stand on Views

Mean Little, Parties of Candidates

EW YORK, July 19.—~What the Democratic plat= form says about the war cannot possibly be of any consequence, It is entirely possible to put words

into a platform designed to place all manner of men— those who want America to go to war and those who want to keep her out. The Republicans at Philadelphia had a tough time pleasing the interventionists and the isolationists, as they were called. After endless debate and quarrels in the Resolutions Committee they pleased the isola= tionists by denouncing the Democrats as the war party and the interventionists by favoring aid to the Allies. The platform itself is meaningless. Whatever meaning it has will be derived from the candidate himself and we will know where the Republicans stand when he speaks. The same thing is true of the Democrats. Tha platform declaration on this subject 1s as meaningless. It was designed to please everybody and to fool everybody. But we know what the party's position will be if the policies of the Roosevelt Administration continue, The President's last statement seems to be final. He said that no A. E. F. would be sent to fight Europe's wars. The very careful wording of that statement in view of the statements made by him to many persons clears his stand. He has said to many callers that if we became involved in Europs it will not be necessary to send an army. He has had the notion that we could limit our aid by sending our Navy, or by joining our Navy with the English Navy in its strategy and by sending our weapons, our guns, munitions and our funds,

Gambling With War

There are many peopie who believed when the war started that we could do this. The Allies do not need men, they sald. What they need is planes,

| munitions and the aid of our Navy to supplement the

British navy, supplies, etc. They have therefore worked for a definite entry of America into the war without sending an army. Of course every man of the smallest intelligence who is at the same time not trying to fool himself knows that if America entered this war, sent supplies, cash, planes, but refused to send men, she would be the scorn of the world. The truth is that the President's pian is gambling with war. No matter what the platform says, the issue on the war will be joined between the position of two men—Willkie on one side, Roosevelt on the other. No one has to be told what Roosevelt's position is. And no number of words in a platform can change his attitude. The Democratic platform of 1932 said many things, which were promptly thrown into the waste-basket a few months after the election. It was not a case of failing to carry out pledges. It was a case of completely reversing the pledges. Old Alfalta Bill Murray is running for Congress in Oklahoma. And he is running on the Democratic platform of 1032, “Why not?" he is saying to voters. “The thing's brand new. It's never been used.”

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

NWIMMING is a fine hot weather sport or exercise, but those who go swimming should remember that man is not a fish or other aquatic animal and lacks certain mechanisms with which fish are equipped. Aquatic animals, for example, are able td close their nostrils involuntarily or at will. This protects the lining membranes from contact with the water, Aquatic animals can also close their ears to keep the water out, which man cannot do without artificial aids. Fish and other aquatic animals are equipped to withstand chilling by having layers of blubber bee neath their skin, or fur on top, or both. Considering these differences, Dr. H. Marshall Taylor, of Jacksonville, Fla, gives some advice to swimmers which can be summed up in the following three rules: 1. Breathe correctly, This means, according to Dr, Taylor,” inhaling or breathing in through the mouth while the head is above water, and exhaling, oe breathing out, through the nose while the head is under water. . 2. Plug your ears to keep out water. Ear stoppers may be made of either rubber or of oiled wool or cotton. 3. Don't get chilled. These rules will help against infections, from colds to sinusitis and even mastoid trouble, which often re sult from swimming. Chilling of the body surface, it is generally agreed, constricts the blood vessels which causes lowered resistance and favors infection. Lowered resistance, in Dr. Taylgr’s opinion, is of paramount importance as , a possible cause of the sinusitis following