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THURSDAY, JULY 25, 15640

SELECTIVE SERVICE HE writer of this particular editorial has a family, and is past 31, and therefore he would in all likelihood he among those exempted (in peacetime, anyway) from the one-year compulsory military training called for in the Burke-Wadsworth Bill now pending in Congress. So perhaps he is talking out of turn when he writes in support of such legislation. Even though he did squads right and bayonet practice in 1918, and even though he has a son who will be of military age in a very few years, he feels a certain timidity about urging a policy which would require hundreds of thousands of men other than himself to sacrifice a vear of freedom. But, with those apologies, consider these facts: 1. The American people have made it overwhelmingly clear that they want and demand preparedness. No matter how wide the Atlantic and Pacific, they know that the future is unpredictable, 2. They know that the planes and tanks and ships and guns now being fabricated would be useless without trained and disciplined men to operate them. 3. Some of them recall that in the World War we sent many green troops (and green officers) to France, with sometimes hideous results. 4. They realize that when large numbers of men are needed the volunteer system is irregular and inadequate; it yields too few men, and it does not provide the proper proportions of men with the needed skills and aptitudes. 5. They know that a selective draft, if efficiently conducted, can be accomplished with a minimum of dislocation to industry and society, and they know that it is a fundamentally fair and democratic process, There are honest critics of congeription—men who say

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Out of the Frying Pan—

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Head of Progressive Mine Workers Revealed as Owing Fines to U. S. On Old Bootlegging Convictions

EW YORK, July 25-—Last week while William Green was presenting to the statesmen of the Democratic Party at the Chicago convention his desires and demands as president of the American Federation of Labor, your correspondent was pursuing inquiries regarding certain activities of high officers of unions under his general jurisdiction. It may be remembered that these dispatches have twitted Mr. Green about the moral character of the leadership of labor, with a capital L, under the American Federation of Labor, and that Mr. Green, far from exerting himself to disinfect the house of labor, first pleaded that he had no authority to do so, and, during the first week of June, blindly indorsed the criminals who control the union of stagehands and movie employees. This approval was personally given at the Louisville convention, Therefore, it may be anticipated that Mr. Green will regard as another attack on labor, the revelation that the president, no less, of one of his international unions. to wit, Mr, Joseph Ozanic of the Progressive Mine Workers of America, owes an unpaid balance on two fines imposed in the United States District Court in 1024 and 1925 for the offense of bootlegging.

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NDEED, inasmuch as the two foremost criminals of the stagehands’ union racket are, respectively, a pander and a stick-up man, and bootlegging In 1095 was roguishly held to be as noble in purpose as the experiment which it ultimately defeated, Mr, Sreen might take the attitude that Mr, Ozanic's offense was a patriotic and humane service, Be that as it may, the fact nevertheless remains that in 1925 bootlegging was, hy law, an ignoble trade, and that Mr. Ozanic acquired a court record and a burden of debt to the United States Government which latter has not been discharged and is at present a subject of court proceedings brought by Howard Dovle, the United States District Attorney at Spring field, Ill. Mr. Doyle chanced to be in Chicago last week, and on the subject of the Ozanic case he sald (hat, of a certainty, Mr. Ozanic did owe a balance of 8550 on two fines of $500 and $300 assessed in 1924 and 1025, respectively, and that Mr, Ozanic sat out a term of thiee months in the city jail of Springfield

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R. DOYLE sald the offenses involved the operation of a still, and your correspondent would like to give Mr. Ozanic's version of the act charged, and of the present status of the case, but is prevented from doing so by Mr. Ozanic himself, who insisted that no part of his comment, given over the phone, should be used for publication,

He discussed the affair freely, but forbade him-

our fears are magnified beyond reason; men who still think | in terms of a nation springing to arms overnight in time of emergency; men who think a great armed force would be more apt to draw us into war than to keep us out, To them we cite the recent case histories of European powers that are no longer powers but only puppets, and the present plight of unprepared England, Perhaps, as the saying goes, it is later than we think. | Even though the selective draft would put the cream of American manhood into barracks for a year, a year that the draftees might prefer to spend in work and play, can we afford to take a chance? THE COUNTY G. O. P. “HE news that County Chairman James Bradford intends to make wholesale changes in ward leaders and other party officials has disturbed those Republicans who supported the Carl Vandivier faction, Certainly Mr. Bradford has every right to strengthen to plug weak spots and to make any other changes that will increase its efficiency, But he should | not include merely punitive action against Vandivier people, | There is new life in the Republican Party in Indiana today in spite of the Bradfords and the Old Guard. It is there because of a man named Wendell Willkie and his liberal point of view, Chairman Bradford, it seems to us, will do well to keep as many of the liberal Vandivier supporters around him as he can.

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“US HUMANITARIANYN” FEW months ago after John W. Hanes had completed a difficult and highly successful tour of duty as Undersecretary of the Treasury, he received a warm, complimentary letter from President Roosevelt, expressing ‘deep and | sincere gratitude for the conscientious, loyal and able serv- | ice vou have rendered to the Government.” The other day Mr. Hanes and another ex-New Dealer, former Budget Director Lew Douglas, declared their opposition to a third term and announced that they would undertake to organize Democrats to vote for Wendell Willkie. | Asked to commen. on this bolt, Mr. Roosevelt replied with | a shrug that Messrs. Hanes and Douglas were a couple of | amiable young mer whose slant of mind ran more to dollars than to humanity. However, there ore offsets to this backsliding from the | new moral climate. Those still-great humanitarians, Frank | Hague and Mayor Kelly, remain in the fold.

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SOMETHING DIFFERENT J FFORTS by unions to avoid responsibility under contracts, and by employers to inflict heavy penalties on contract-breaking unions, have been all too frequent in the history of American labor relations, Here's something different: Last February a union of milk truck drivers in New York City called a one-day strike against a big distributing company, contending that three of its members had been wrongfully discharged. The company, asserting that the strike had cost it $38,000 in lost business, spoiled milk and extra expense, demanded payment of that amount by the union. The milk industry in New York has an impartial chairman, Arthur S. Meyer. Both sides agreed to submit to Mr. Mever the question of whether the union had violated its contract by striking. Ie decided that it had. Both sides then agreed to let him assess the amount of the damages. He has just fixed that amount at $10,000, at the same time urging the company, in the interest of friendly relations with its workers, to accept $5000 in full settlement of its claim. This is said to be the first time in this country that an arbitrator has awarded an employer substantial damages against a union for violation of contract. Mr. Meyer, the union and the company, it seems to us, have all shown real wisdom. A controversy that might have caused great trouble and enormous loss has been settled with apparent fairness. Among the things this country greatly needs are more unions and more employers willing to submit all their controversies to impartial arbitration,

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serving 20 days in jail, but the Government apparently reserves a right to proceed against that person's wealth, if any, for the full amount, at any future time, Mr. Ozanic is not the only high officer of an international union of the American Federation of Labor acainst whose name there stands on the books of ths United States Government a record of an unpaid fine. Another case will be cited tomorrow,

Inside Indianapolis

The Circle Theater Clock and That North Side Propaganda Pole

F vou happen to glance at the giant clock over the Oircie Theater and notice it's 10 'til 7, don't get excited and reset vour watch, The clock isn't running, hasn't run, in fact, since the summer of 1037, And it may never run again Kenneth T. Collins,

manager of the Indiana and pinchhitting as manager of the Circle during Manager Arthur Baker's absence, savs it costs too much to keep the clock in running order. “We'd have to do business like the Roxy to

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8 A UTILITY pole at the corner of 45th ‘propa - ganda” in recent weeks than the Frankfurter Zeitung Each morning a new warning has given residents notice either that their children are “in danger,” or “the money must be in the can by 2 o'clock,” or that “Mary is crazy.” Most of the signs are scrawled and usually are signed by the “Black Hand,” but the most recent bears some semblance to the work of a draftsman, with the printed statement: “To H--— with Roosevelt." Ciee, it might be almost anybody on the North Side!

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"ow THE CENSUS BUREAU supposed to announce how many residences it finds in a county or

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how many persons there are in the average family, |

But-don't tell this to a soul--we have it on good authority that there are slightly more than 130,000 occupied dwellings in Marion County and about 5000 vacant ones. The average county family is just a

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” Ww Ww SPEAKING of the weather, it seems the common man likes his comfort, too The business manager of a local group of movie houses made a routine visit to one of the theaters one morning. He found only one person in the thew ater—-the porter, whistling as he swept the house He seemed very comfortable, Probably it was because he had the expensive air-conditioned plant going full blast, The business manager still is a little warm under the collar,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Se we are discouraged about the adult \J attitude toward youth and its problems. We heatedly advocate closer study of political and economic

measures to college students, and the minute they show signs of obedience we charge them with trattorous mtent For example, the American Youth Congress met recently at Lake Geneva, Wis. Tt expressed ftself as opposed to compulsory military training, Immediately an alarmed outcry was sounded from every side, “The rising generation cares nothing for its country. It refuses to sacrifice its pleasure for democracy. It expects coddling, Tt is under the influence of Communists or Nazis,” etc, ete, And such charges are made without considering that a good many adult groups are also opposed to compulsory military training, The argument runs, as usual: Because I favor it, and vou don't, you're an enemy. Which is no argument at all, One of the surest evidences that democracy is very alive in our land is offered hy these youngsters who dare to speak out what they think is the truth, All the pressure of their elders is not sufficient to silence them. Is this not the kind of democracy visioned by our fathers-—"“when free men can speak their minds"? While disagreeing with some of the findings of these groups, the public hastens to damn them and all their works, We do not say here that they may not deserve such damning. But we do and we sha™ forever insist that the attitude we take is not a sensible way to discipline the young. When we see children misled, we know it is our duty as parents, teachers or guardians to achieve a closer understanding with them and so re-direct their thinking. Therefore if we fear, as we claim, the influence of subversive groups upon youth organizations, why do we wash our hands of them and remain so steadfastly aloof? For this merely leaves the way clear for those

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disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say il.==Voltaire,

TAXI DRIVER URGES BETTER UNDERSTANDING

| By A Taxi Driver

An unexpected drive to put taxi drivers in jail for reckless driving is, in my opinion, a narrow minded idea of the Police Department of our so called ‘no mean city,” 1 do not uphold any taxi driver that does wrong, He should be punished, If any man through no fault of his own would be forced to drive | a taxi for a living, T am positive that he would have a more broadminded attitude toward taxi drivers, |

the down- | town business area. And so the! police think we are impeding traf fic How about those who drive five to seven miles per hour when they | have the green light? Many of us| drivers would work if given a chance, They will not give us re lef as long as we make 50 cents a dav, How are we going to give the | children something to eat, and pay rent, food and clothing on that? | As for reckless driving, if we had police. power we could arrest 50 people a day for going through stop signs, change signs, speeding, ete, | Most of us go 30 miles an hour when private cars go 30 and 40 right down the main streets of town, Those who think we want | to take your fender, don't forget | the insurance company threatens | our fob if we are involved in an ace | cident, Will anvbody come to oul rescue? I ask sincerely,

»" »” » WARNS 1. 8S. AGAINST LONG SUMMER'S NAP By Martin Washmuth

Now that the two major con-| ventions are over the nation can) settle down for a long summer's ow that the hearts and minds tl people have been aroused and awakened for a few davs wel can again relax and fall back into! that lethargy of nobody cares about what happens. Sleep on 'O' nation sleep on, Sleep on all of you demo cratians, Sleep on all of you capitalists, let only (hose of the fifth column be awake Iaet them guide our ship Yea, also, let evervone sleep but those in favor of a third term Who are the 1st, 2d, 3d and

Side Glances—By Galbraith

[columns and America need

[buggy or old tratl blazing day ideals

Let them guard our,

od, all “Democrats” will take a much belated walk, Al Smith with great foresight did this th 1038 and was greatly eriticized by many real Democrats, Now they know he made a noble patriotic gesture in true soldier style, Now is the time for all true Democrats and Republicans who love liberty to come to the defense of all that word implies, The New Deal is really a “third party” in disguise, This "greal leader who so humbly admits his faults,” if he had any, who 80 nobly hag kept “silent” letting “he "people choore,” this great "precedent bux. ter,” wants a third term, He surely | in a “world figure,” measured by the | figure ‘maaght,” indeed by actual res | sults, measured by good old Amer

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4th columns? Are they the home, the school, our Government, and our church? Have we been asleep at the home? Have we been loose

Government, municipal, Have we kept ves, don't fors-|

about our state and national? a vigil there? Oh! get, the church, It is looked upon

jean standards Surely the man Willkie was not to blame for conditions in Elwood when he was a boy, This is a fair example of New Dealer reasoning Too bad the greal Roosevelt, was nol on hand at that time, What he could | of done with his “purging!” And | “plow under” Wallace with the ples | he had killed and the corn that didn't grow he could of put up a ‘government’ restaurant and helped | the unfortunate Negroes, and the] taxpayers spend their earnings, who be it remembered are also unfortu- |

as doing so little in this day, bul we forget the great accomplishments of yesterday, Watch these four will have no for fear of fifth column

ix not for me to say that the present Administration has or has not been a fatlure, However, everys= one knows it has been a precedent breaking Administration, 1 do not contend that this nation should cling to all the old horse and

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On the other hand this nation should not forget some of the things our forefathers fought fo [nate as well as the goat,

Mr. Roosevelt is a politician He | " nw a ph gs WONDERS IF ¥. D. R. average J ool | ; " WILL, SEEK 4TH TERM

least 80 per cent of what he hears, | unless he records and refreshes his my ®, Howard Wudelson, Charks Hill memory from time to time, 8Some| 71 {x indeed refreshing to read in| of his Cabinet members have! (ye July 10, 1940, fssu2 of the Porum already stated that the American yu pure and simple letter from Marty | public 1s too dumb to recognize a lot | gijan Tica, Centerville, Ind, She of things, I do not think they are sald, “He is kesping silent and lets dumb, but they are in a deep dream (je the people choose for thems of sleep. Bo 1 say: “Sleep voter,| calves.” sleep, While Uncle watches his yas T am sure that sheep.” No need awaken everything is all right column die down articles order,

how, keap silent on his third term as. No Ath) rations for the last six months to

he did not | Even our patriotism should goo. avalize the Democratic Party so

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ON mut him, 1 believe it was just an oversight on P, D, R's part, She sated, "Of course Le has not been permitted to put his ideas into offect, and has a burning desire to do 80." May T suggest thal in the case that he should be re-elected and at | the end of 12 years he still has some | | “burning” desires or ideas to put | into effect--that the expensive iden | of a convention or a national alee tion be summarily dispensed with as he probably would be too busy

bh Ww % THINKS ALL DEMOCRATS SHOULD “TAKE A WALK" By Mrs, Mabel German, Morristown The New Dealers have stolen the Democrat “unbossed”’ convention for the third time, And, as was expect.

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to do much eampalgning., She said “ , , , there 1s not a man living his squal” 1 eer'tainly agree on that, no man living could say | the things he has sald and keep | his face straight,

COMPENSATION By ELEEZA HADIAN A house--Please, God, Let her have that! She would not mind to be alone In a little house of her own.

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A little house on a hilltop Where of a night the stars would drop In, to visit before they go To the valley, far, far below,

A little house on & hilltop At edge of sky and the last stop Hence the road goes, paved crysialline, Straight and smooth on to heaven!

«A house-Please, God, Let her have that! She would not mind to die alone In a little house of her own.

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DAILY THOUGHT

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selieth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away Hy among you.-Deuteronomy 4%,

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"And to think that my early ambition was to maks enough money so my family wouldn't hava to go around with their toes sticking out!”

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NATURAL LIBERTY is the gift of the beneficent Oreator of the

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— THURSDAY, JULY" 25, 1040, Gen. Johnson

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Attack on Bolters and Criticism Of Wallace Indicates That This Election Is to Ba No 'Pillow Fight'

ASHINGTON, July 25 This campaign will be no pillow fight, Ex-Senalor Reed was punishad by the President for taking a walk by being omfled a sweat-rhop. The President paddled Johhny Hanes and Lew Douglaz by saying they think mote of dollars than humanity, For “humanity” write "F, R" and vou get mora accurately the soft impsachment, Henry Wallace with hiz 3000 country agents and 30,000 county committesmen for the goose-stepping of farm production, has the best and most universal des centralized organization in our history, It determines just how much of his land each farmer must let lis fallow and that governs just how much the Pederal Treasury is going to pay him for not working. Henry sits at the center of controls of this far-flung web and he ix hot going to resign that job to run for Vices President, » # # CAN'T get excited about any of this, Jim Reed isn't a sweat=shop, An attractive lady In Kansan Jity named Nellie Donnelly got tha idea of applying automobile quantity production methods to the mani facture of women's dresses, Thizx made them at low cost and high excellence, Accordingly, she began to make so much money that a gang Kidnapped her, Jim was her lawyer, Thizx made him so mad that he swore to rescue her without a ransom and to jail hep abductors, This he duly did and his righteous wrath carried him over into romance, He married the gal But that doesn’t make Jim a sweat=shop, 1 studied that case personally in NRA, Wages and working conditions in Nellie's factories were hy so far the pest in thai industry that her code competitors’ principal complaint wax that she was setting standards too high for them to equal and remain in business, The only tow that later developed was over the question of a closed shop, CE EE

FW DOUGLAS and Johnny Hanes may care somes « thing about dollars, and who doesn’t, But naither of them has been nearly as successful in corralling dollars ax the President's own family--after, bul never before, his election in 1032. Lew Douglas’ only cons apicuois care for dollars was not for himself bul, as Director of the Budget, for reducing expenses of the regular establishments by 25 per cent for American taxpayers in exact fulfillment of the precise promise of the 1932 Democratic platform, Lew resigned and later became head of a liberal fresh-water collegs, which is about the poorest way I know to seek dollars al the expense of humanity, Thus, most of the fighting wisecracks on that side of the argument are unworthy twaddle, 86 also, I think, is the sgquawk on the other side about Henry Wallace not resigning, T0 18 true that his eounty-hws« county organization and its power to distribute pap and pul on pressure were factors in his dictated nomis nation, Mr, Wallace may be politically uninspiring bus, apart from that, he 18 a pretty niece parson, He Ia nok a ich man, He will be under heavy sxpenss and he needs the salary, 1 can't see much the matter with hig decision,

Business By John T. Flynn

Not Much We Can Do About Our Gold Except Not Buy Any More

EW YORK, July 25-A number of letters have come to me asking about our vast gold stors, much of it buried at Pt, Xnox, As interest th this subject seems to he on the yise-—doubtless due to the possibility of an early end of the war-I undertake here to answer, as far as 1 can, the more pertinent of these questions 1. Do you believe that, the gold stock hare tends ta invite inflation? No, Inflation ean come-ag ft did in Germany - with hardly any gold, Inflation with us will com# from national borrowing when it gets out af hand and the Government's eredit becomes involved, Should iL oceur it may be controlled by wise policies, but tha immense gold stock might well increase the difficulty of controlling it. 2. Should we--and can we--attempt to redistribute this gold when the war ends? I doubt very much that we will, Tt Is not easy ta do, 1 do not see how we can attempt it without maks ing foreign loans upon a vast scale—vaster than we are likely to engage in, considering all the efreums stances, Whatever and whoever 18 responsible foy this gold hoard, we have ii, we are, after a fashion, stuck with it, and we shall probably hold on to it, But we should certainly seek to avold any increass in it, 3. Can Germany bring about a new International monetary system in the rest of the world outside the United States which will render our gold valueless?

Making Best of Situation

There ix no doubt that it is possible Tor a large group of nations to form a currency union which would greatly reduce the necessity for gold, I am not sure, however, that they could completely eliminate it, though they might try, After all, gold 18 the only ins ternational currency that has yet been discovered, In its absence nations will have to perfect a currency union and also resort on a considerable scale to barter, Bul Germany cannot bring the whole world into such a union and this would still leave a.great nesd for gold, 4, What should we do ahout our gold? That ix a hard rut to crack, The time to deal with it Intalligently is past, We can merel’ make the best of a difMoult situation now, We should, however, do several things, We should end the gold purchase plan and substitute instead an exchange stabilization plan, We should have a fres market for gold, Wa should, when the war is ended, put an end to all the bad foreign government debts and resume on a moderate basis international lending (not, on the 1925 model, however), Wa should snd financing by Government loans, We should res examine our tariff policy to increase international trade somewhat, though we will not bring recovery that way, Tt seams a little too far off, but it would help the rest of the world, Thera isn't much else we can do,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

GoD news for poison ivy sufferers 18 the ane J rouncement of a new cream that protects against the poison of the plant, The cream was developed hy three scientists of the U, 8 Publin Health Service, Dr, Louis Schwartz, Dr, Leon H., Warren and Frederick MH. Goldman, There is no patent on the cream and any druggist can make il It consists of a vanishing cream with 10 per cent sodium perborate or 2 per cent potassium periodate, If you ask your druggist to make yon some, you might tell him that Dr, Schwartz says the erystals of perborate or periodate must be powdered and added to the vanishing cream after the latter has been made. The cream should be freshly pres pared at least once in two weeks to avoid deterioration, Directions for using the cream are to spreaa 1% thoroughly over face, hands, arms or any other pars of the body likely to come in contact with poison Ivy before going into the woods or fields, After four hours it should be washed off with soap and water, and more oream should then be put on il you ars going out into the fields or woods again, Dr, Schwartz and associates warn that this is important because by the end of four hours some of the cream 1s likely to have rubbed off or been wiped off and unless the skin 1 covered with the cream It will not be protected against poison ivy The cream was put through rigid tests at the laboratories of the National Institute of Health, After rubbing it on the skin of volunteers, among them poison ivy susceplibles, a poison ivy extract at least 30 times as powerful as any poison 1vy Jeal was rubbed over the skin, but no one got any vy poison. ing. Other tests wore made with the leaves and items of poison ivy plants.