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MONDAY, JULY 29, 1340

WELL DONE, MR. HULL N these times when good news is as scarce as butter in Germany, the week-end dispatches from Havana are a tonic. The program of Secretary Hull, for Pan-American cooperation to forestall a Nazi foot-in-the-door in this hemisphere by taking over certain territories if necessary, on a | a temporary basis, appears to have prevailed. Fears that Argentina would cleave to her classic role as an ohstructor of policies conceived in Washington were dissipated when the chief Argentinian delegate, Dr. Leopoldo Melo, announced that “American solidarity has triumphed.” While the formal Havana agreement remains to be completed, apparently it will deal not only with the problem of jointly administering the new world colonies of Ger-man-conquered nationg, but also, and properly, with restraining the abuse of diplomatic privileges hy Nazi propagandists and trojan-horsemen, There is also to be an economic agreement, only vagueIv outlined so far, but which appears to imply the use of large sums of this country’s money to stabilize South American commodity prices, in the hope of preventing the sort of price panic that might drive Latin America into economic bondage to Hitler. % Until the exact nature of the latter project is disclosed, comment would be premature. Rut in the matter of enlisting co-operation against any Nazi move to weeupy Dutch or French outposts in the Caribbean—possessions of enormous strategic value—Secretary Hull has been brilliantly successful. Common sense has dictated such an arrangement, but the personal respect and friendship which Mr. Hull has achieved among the statesmen to the south undoubtedly made its accomplishment easier.

2.T0-1 FOR COMPULSORY SERVICE HE “Selective Training and Service” Bill all men who have reached the age of 18 and not reached the age of 64 must place themselves on call for defense gervice—will be brought up in the Senate this week. It will he resisted bv Senators Norris, Wheeler, Taft and others, but the nrospects are that it will be enacted. This newspaper has already stated its conviction that the bill should become law, in view of the unfathomable dangers of the near future. Now we learn from the Gallup poll (Page Nine of this issue) that a cross-section of the American people is increasingly in favor of such legislation. The question put by Dr. Gallup's interviewers was based | on a vear's training for all able-bodied men of 20, rather than the broad scope of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, but the principle is roughly the same. When this question was asked of a cross-section in | December, 1938, oniy 37 per cent: were in favor. Last | October, after the war had started in Europe, 39 per cent were in favor. On June 2, after the Battle of Flanders, the percentage had risen to 50 per cent. After the surrender of France, it jumped to 64 per cent, and in the latest poll it stands at 67 per cent—a two-thirds majority. The people of this country want defense, and they mean no matter what the personal inconvenience or

| boot,

under which

to have it sacrifice,

FINE EXAMPLE HARLES EDISON, former Secretary of the Navy and now Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, has posted notices to emplovees of Thoniags A. Edison, Inc., in that state, afirmmg his belief that “two strong political | parties” are essential for the perpetuation of democracy. | “I desire to say that I do not want my position in this company to influence any of my associates into voting for my election. Moreover, I do not want the fact that I am a candidate in any wav to cause vou to hesitate about working actively and openly for any other candidate for any | public office.” | Mr. Edison’s attitude, we suspect, must be surprising to his chief political backer, Mavor Hague of Jersey City, and even to some of his former associates in the New Deal at Washington. It is, however, an attitude that a great many ordinary citizens will admire. And this forthright statement to those who might consider themselves econom- | ically dependent on Mr. Edison's good will, urging them not to let such a consideration influence their political views or activities, is a fine campaign-vear example for the heads of other industries—and for the heads of Government departments,

A action on one of the most important items of unfinished business before Congress—the Logan-Walter Rill proposing gafeguards against the abuse of bureaucratic power. | We believe the Senate, if it votes on this hill, will pass In the House it was favored hy 128 Democrats and | A larger proportion of Senate Demo- |

it. opposed hy only 95. crats may be amenable to Administration pressure, but events of the last two or three months must have impressed | many members of both parties with the increased necessity | for the three reforms proposed by the bill: 1. A uniform and safeguarded svstem for the exercise by Government administrative agencies of the quasi-legis-Jative power to make rules which have the effect of laws. 2. A uniform and prompter system for exercise of their quasi-judicial power to make decisions. 3. A uniform and simplified system of Federal Court yeview for their rules and decisions. It was clear to three-fourths of the House in April | that these reforms were needed to protect the rights of | citizens against the tendency of bureaucracy to abuse its authority. Since then, in the name of national defense. Congress has granted increased authority to agencies of the | Government. And each such grant provides an additional and urgent reason why the checks and balances proposed | be the Logan-Walter Bill should be enacted promptly into | We ‘ ‘

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By Westbrook Pegler

Italian Newspaper Tops Long List Of Insults Against the U. S. With Cruel Attack Against the A. E. F.

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EW YORK, July With an eagerness which it would be hypocritical to conceal, I await a

furious, patriotic burst in the half-American press

| through which a few Fascist publishers in the United

blackmail the great community of loyal American citizens who are of Italian blood. The Roman newspaper, II Tevere, published on Page One last Monday an editorial which said that the efforts of the American Army in 1917 and 1918

were farcical and disastrous, and, in the words of

| one dispatch from Rome, vilified the A. E. F. 11 Tevere, of course, speaks only with the permission of the

Italian Government, and this expression, therefore, 1s the considered opinion of the Italian Government. Several times in the last year 1 have called attention to the anti-American spirit of the press of Italy, and each reminder has been fiercely resented by the racket press published in the Italian language in this country I include in this press some publications eof the

| Sons of Italy, which pretends to be wholly loyal to | the U.

S. A, but whose own members know that certain mug-wumps or half-Americanized politicians have used it to promote their own powers and to obtain cheap decorftions from the Ttalian consuls and valuable commercial favors from the Fascist regime. nN O take the slightest exception to the most abusive expressions of Mussolini's papers regarding the American nation and her people was to reveal ''deand reminders of the historic Italian military disaster of Caporetto were consirued as insulting reflections on all those Americans who came from Italy or whose fathers came {rom there. This two-faced press has voiced no objections to the anti-American propaganda in Mussolini's paper, which seriously reflects on all Americans, including those of Italian blood, but the Duce's previous displays of nastiness toward the American people have had the tact to leave the A. E. F. out of the problem. But these angry outbursts on behalf of Fascist

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generacy”

| Ttaly in the mock-American publications have cited | many times the high percentage of American soldiers

who were of Italian blood, so the editorial in Il Tevere obviously comes under the head of new business, calling for an important decision. Will these publications at least find a point on which their professed lovaltv to the American nation and their special interest in Americans of Italian blood will compel them to take issue with Mussolini's press? Obviously Il Tevere's editorial is intended to voice a sneer at all members of the American forces, including the large element of Italians, 5 T is especially unkind to those Americans of Italian blood who were hastily shunted down to Italy to help the French and British turn around the terrified Italians of Italy in their flight toward the toe of the And if 1t is an act of ‘degeneracy’ to reter again to this painful episode, in which the Ttalian arms mamtained the inglorious traditions of Adowa and established the precedent for Guadalajara, the blame must lie with I1 Tevere for printing so bold a reminder of the events of 'i7 The not too subtle treachery to nation of those journaiistic and political padrones who prev upon the large and valuable element of Americans who are of Italian blood has been revealed repeatedly since the Italian press began its antiAmerican campaign three vears ago. The pieces of silver and the soiled and sordid little lapel ribbons which thev receive from the Italian consuls are the measure of that American patriotism which they profess in print alongside praise for the Duce and slv contempt for the democratic freedom which enabled them te accumulate money and power,

Inside Indianapolis

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Reserve Officers’ Plight, a On a Train and a Snoopy Pigeon

UT at Ft. Harrison, there's a bunch of young O Reserve Corps first lieutenants whose brows are wrinkled from worry. Theyre in a fine fix. Coming from all walks of life, they got orders several weeks ago to report, on short notice, at the Fort. Most of them had forgotten what they had learned about military training. Arriving at the Fort, they were placed in command of companies of seasoned regular troops. And they found they didn't have It seems there's a shortage of captains and first lirutenants in active service so the reserve lieutenants must act as captains Some of them who never before saw a tank or 50machine gun now command full companies with several of each. One, a Cleveland newspaper photographer, returned from his vacation to find in his mail hox orders to report for duty in four days About all any of us can do is try to look wise and let our troops train us,” he lamented. » ” »

A PROMINENT local attorney en route to Cali fornia on a tourist train writes us of a straw vote he took on the train. including the day coach passengers and the train crew. “The results,” he wrote, “were Willkie, 67; Roosevelt, 40. And the crowd included some Democrats returning from the Chicago convention.” » » » MERE MALES passing the millinery shop on the Hotel Lincoln corner the other day apprehensively decided the fair sex had gone back to the old bird-on-a-hat fashion. That is, they thought so until the store's feminine employees called in a hotel porter to shoo out the pigeon which had flown in the open door and settled among the hats in the display window. » » 2

WHILE JOHN K. JENNINGS, State WPA administrator, and Floyd I. McMurray, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, were inspecting the new WPA industrial defense training course at Washington High School last week, one of the trainees, unimpressed

the American |

Poll |

THE FOPYRNAOLIS RM Good Without Manpower

But Not Much

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MONDAY, JULY 29, 1940

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SELECTIVE, SERVICE TRAINING fF LOMMENDA

Gen. Johnson Says—

Chicago Paper Drops His Column And He Answers Publishers’ Charge Of Personal Grudge Against F. D. R.

ASHINGTON, July 20.-Some papers have dropped this column. More have picked it up, That is their right, Nobody ever heard a squawk or a gloat nut of me, The Chicago Times dropped it during the Democratic convention when, frankly, it got too hot over the blatant hypocrisy and trickery of the third term “draft.” Too hot in language, but not in truth and substance, according to all I heard from newspaper colleagues and what the gentler and New Dealer Raymond Clapper said in the same paper. I have no Kick at all, But Publisher Thomason, published a full page editorial “explaining” that it was his public “responsibility” under the “canons of journalism” as a *“‘consideration of public welfare” because (oh just and righteous God!) I have, “a personal grudge against President Roosevelt’ and also “we do not believe Gen, Johnson is an accurate, a fair and truthful reporter

and commentator.” »

O daily comment can he always completely accurate, I try to be, and my column has just received the annual Headliners Club award and medal for something like that quality. No factual accuracy here has ever been shown to me that I have not promptly corrected. Fairness is a matter ot opinion, But this column has been commended by so ardent a New Dealer as Harold Ickes for at least trying to be fair. Let's skip all that, but when one newspaperman attacks the only worthwhile stock-in-trade of another--his honesty-decency requires that he specify the charged dishonesty. The only specification here is that my “personal grudge” is because I had ‘urged several times” that my friend Bernard Baruch be appointed to the job in “national defense activities” that Messrs, Knudsen and Stettinius got and that, when they were appointed, I began a “personal vendetta upon jealousy and injured pride.” This is absolutely the only specification in this assault on my integrity-——which is my living,

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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. Voltaire,

FAILS TO UNDERSTAND SYMPATHY FOR BRITAIN By Guy Daugherty, Terre Hante, Ind. How tangled things are getting and how complicated to understand. I remember when I studied history of reading about Henn English -rule Five me liberty or give me death.” Now later, with the ernment, we read that England going to fight ‘till freedom for nurselves and others is secure.” If people under the English rule have freedom, just think of the blood shed in vam in the revolution Think of the vain suffering at Valley Forge. Think how deceived our forefathers were in wanting freedom when they already had it All sarcasm aside I can't for the

who said of

only a couple of centuries

| life of me see the advantags of tak- | Ing sides with today’s “champion of | liberty” | parasites called Lord so and so from

Just to keep a few lazy getting what they asked for they declared war on Hitler. ” ” » TIPS NOT PLENTIFUL, DRIVE-IN GIRL SAYS

when

a “Truthful Car Hop” Although you probably do not realize it, you have indirectly hurt the drive-in girls in Indianapolis because of your article in “The Times.” The only

information applies

vou received either one girl's opinion refers to onlv one drive-in. The location in which the drive-in iz, has a lot to do with the tips we girls make. The particular drive-in in which 1 happen to be working (which incidentally happens to be one of the oldest drive-ins in the city) has a certain class of people whom we call in a slang vernacular, “Jellies They are usually North Side girls

and bovs who have a certain amount

to spend every week, and can't afford to tip the girls, vet still persist in having the girls make several trips for their small cokes and

|cigarets.

You are entirely misinformed on

|the hours the drive-in girls work.

They work between 60 and 65 hours a week. There are no definite shifts as you stated in your article. Some days the girls work 14 and 15 hours a dav. Many of the girls are from out of town. They take these jobs because they have been unable to find other work. They usually are between the ages of 19 and 27 and many of them are married and

support families. Most of them are

through school and work in fac- I think of the struggles and hard- |

a certain Patrick |

same kind of gov- |

trying to |

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to express their views in

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your letters short, so all can

excluded. have a chance. Letiers must ba signed, but names will be

withheld on request.)

tories in the winter, praving that

some day they can find a decent, steadv job “Most evervbody tips you” is such prevaricating statement that it makes me shudder, For two weeks I've kept accurate account of cars and tips. The average of this In the afternoon is one out of 13 cars tip. In the evening one out of every seven. The average tip is five or fen cents, One out of 45 was over that. Mavhe you are saying to yourself “She's probably not attractive or isn't polite to her customers, or | neat and clean!” If so, you are [wrong because I am considered one | of the most polite well-groomed girls on the lot. I have worked at this drive-in three years and can take 10 orders at a time if neces= sary without the aid of pencii and paper. Most of us

have our own bov friends and do not meet and date hovs who are customers. We feel it is not good policy and not common sense to do so I also wish to state that the girls pay 25 cents for every clean uniform they wear which usually averages from &%1 to $1.50 per week. We aiso pay the same price for our food as the customers Please don't misunderstand me, I do not want sympathy from anyone. I am just writing thit as a plea for vou te retract manv of vour statements as to car haps’ lives being a hed of roses and a vouthful

ambition.

PLANS CLUB CALLED ‘LITTLE PIG BURNERY By Robert Pennington I wonder if you would be willing to help me in giving some publicity to a club I am going to form. You see, I'm.extremely anxious to help our dear, dear so lavishly spent our money to perpetuate himself and his colleagues in power, to a complete dictatorship success in the November election.

My heart beats with compatible sympathy for our President when

by rank, was heard to remark: “Wish those guys would |

quit posing for pictures and get out of here,

| got work to do.”

TIME FOR ACTION | NOTHER attempt will be made this week to get Senate |

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T has often been said that the best method of correcting faults is to acknowledge them. And what, ladies, is the outstanding fault of the American feminine mind? The answer, T believe, would be unanimous: Emotionalism. Both men and women of this country are addicted to altruistic movements which, because we fail to

| think them through beforehand, consume valuable

energy and come to nothing. It is appalling to contemplate the number of “re-

| lief committees” which have sprung into being all over the United States since the European war began. |

They are excellent in motive; they offer evidence of our kind hearts; they are nothing of which any pro-

moter need be ashamed. But some of them also prove |

that we are apt to act without thinking. Multitudes of good people are working frantically to help the helpless of the earth. Money is being collected from Uncle Sam's pocket in unbelievable sums. Racial groups here are promoting aid for their kind overseas, and religious sects do likewise. A good many citizens are now saying we should send American ships to rescue British children. There is a movement on foot to open our doors to all the war refugees of the earth nh the face of all this excitement the best proverh that comes to mind is, “Make haste slowly.” All these efforts to relieve human suffering do credit to our hearts, but some of them also prove that our heads arent screwed on straight. For hateful as ft is to say, our resources are not sufficient to provide security for everv homeless European. There is a limit to our power to help, that is if we also expect to take care of our own poor and jobless : Vital at Europe's fate may be to our interests it can't possibly be as important as the democracy at home, and to preserve as well as heart work, “

I've |

ann of | demas s ee "11" think we had better give mother a birthday party!”

Side Glances—By Galbraith

TW RES. ©

President who has

| quality. | this country

| was too far ahead of his time and |

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| As the song of summer rings. | Crickets chirp within the grass

A TEVER forget the day of judgalways in|

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ships he went through in purging his party and selecting of delegates with a ves-yes on their well controlled lips, to stop his renomination. We knew he wasn't a candidate because he said so—or did he

or can we believe anything he

says?

| savory

|can give him,

got

with a

certain that all the ‘lame-hrained” experiments have been tried that the New Deal is capable of thinking of and 1 feel | that outside assistance should be | given them in this time of world crisis. Please understand that it is only because, to quote “Frankie,” “In line of duty my conscience calls me to service.” My Club will be called LITTLE PIG BURNERS.” Wallace will be an honorary member because he had so much to do with the burning of the farmers’ pigs. We are going to have a very cute little button made with a lovely roast pig on it, vast fields of fertile idle soil, and a cross section of our unemployed and starving popujation. . . . We will not be “hoggish” about the display of our pretty little button. We aim to give prominence to the (Roosevelt-Wallace) button, camouflaged in the RED, WHITE and BLUE! We are not going to accept just anyone in our club. A prerequisite for entrance is: Each candidate will have to submit a list of six suggestions on how the New Deal can spend more of our tax money and swell the deficit. Any good suggestions will not be turned down, but they must be in line with the New Deal trend of thought. For example: A candidate might submit the idea of giving the WPA bosses several blank checks to cover the cost of fixing all Federal building elevators so that they will be stationary and the buildings go up and down The Chicago conventinn revealed the party was a one-horse unit and | a one-man show and the little man's stage is set with such undrops I'm afraid that he will have to have all the help we In view of all this please consider my request that you help me with my club.

I am quite

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> THINKS GEN. MITCHELL AHEAD OF HIS TIME By Curious Gen. Johnson: Gen. Billy Mitchell said more than a decade ago that this country and continent are the

| most self-contained, and are very ‘unique in that respect, of any in

the world. My geography says that we can tin and rubber both in this hemisphere; plenty of it and of good Gen. Mitchell said that could absolutely get along in fine shape without any foreign commerce at all. Of course it would hurt business put better hurt business than to lose control of the government to a foreign power. I am inclined to] agree with the late General about air power, ton. But of course he that would never set well with al conservative set-up like we have The conventionalities must be served first, regardless of the final results.

JULY BROADCAST By MARY P. DENNY

Through the living shining radio Of the earth and sky and sea Sounds the glory of the free. Song of blue bird in the dawn Strains of wild larks over lawn, Happy note of chickadee. Far away the robin sings From its seat in maple tree, All is happiness today Over shining country way

Where the summer zephyrs pass Joining the summer broadcast.

DAILY THOUGH

God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods Psalms 82:1,

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Keep it ery action and plan

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ONSISTENT readers of this column know that it began and continued to urge Mr. Knudsen for this work more than a year before it was suggested by anybody else, and nearly two years before his appointment. They also know that the entire Advisory Defense Commission was enthusiastically hailed and supported in this space, I have never suggested Mr. Baruch for that job. He couldn't and wouldn't undertake it. What I have urged for almost three years was that his repeated warning advice be [pllowed on Germany's alarmingly growing military strength, on the woeful weakness of England and France and on our own shameless defenselessness. If that had been done the whole world might have been spared this agony and our own country this awful threat and expense. That is the published and public record and, on every word of it it is clear that the only factual basis of thisevicious assault on my professional honor ie the reverse of truth. So what does that make out of Mr. Thomason and his paper in the precise disqualification he charges to this column-—inaceuracy, unfairness and untruth?

Business By John T. Flynn

Let's Act for Ourselves, and Not For England in Latin-American Talks

EW YORK, July 20.—One of the troubles with sconomic problems is that they seldom get considered as such but are all mixed up with political problems. At this moment and for many years to

come South America faces a grave economic problem. The United States—in the role of benevolent Big Brothers—undertakes to take up this economic problem, but the merest glance reveals that the Big Brother is all excited not so much about South America's economic problem, which he pretends to solve, as about certain problems of international politics. To make matters worse, it is the international politics of Europe that the United States Government is thinking about rather than South America’s economic illness. Brazil. Chile, the Argentine, other South American nations have goods to sell. They have to find buyers or go hungry. Unfortunately the only important buvers for their goods are the great dictatorship nations which lack what South America has to sell. But as it happens, England does not wish South America to sell to these dictator enemies of hers. It is a part of her economic blockade. And so the United States. acting in the role of economic aily of England. does all in her power to prevent Germany, Italy and Japan from getting goods in South America. For one thing. our State Department denounces the exchange of goods between South American countries and Germany. Jt brands barter as some form of international crime, although this country engages in barter with England. Then we cook up a scheme to establish a great cartel or international trust that will buy up South American exportable commodities. Apparently the object is to save South American from poverty by buying these surplus goods, but actually the object is to prevent Germany and Italy from getting t

hem.

Playing a Double Role

Thus we play two roles at once—economic ally of England and Big Brother of South America. But our conduct as a Big Brother is dictated by our desires as an economic ally. Thus America enters the great and fatal game of European power politics. How long can we do this without provoking deep resentment among our southern neighbors, who will soon show their indignation at being used as pawns by the United States in her European game? How long can we act as the open, avowed economic ally of Eng-

| Jand without having England’s enemies, with whom we

are at peace, say to us: “You are not at peace with us; you are at war. The fact that you do not declare” war means nothing any more, Therefore we shall treat you as an enemy.” We have a problem in South America. So has ngland. We should deal with our problem there, but we should make sure that it is our problem rather than England's. We are not dealing with our prob--jem. What we are doing is actually complicating and intensifying our problem. This can have only one end, namely the raising up of new enemies and more ill will for us in South America. and we will have no right te complain if in the end we pay a terrible price for what we are doing.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ANY children daydream about running away from home, going so far in their make-believe as even to start off from home, but generally changing their minds and returning before the day is over. Many a parent remembers with some amusement his own childhood attempts at running away. Much more serious, however, is the case of the surly, defiant youngster who actually does run away and stays away for days or months at a time, even going without food until he is exhausted. The lengths to which such a child goes in getting away and staying away from home suggest that he is striving to gratify urgent needs. These needs are love and security, Dr. Morris D. Riemer of the Brooklyn, N. Y., State Hospital, says in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Digging into the history of such children, one finds that they have been cruelly treated by alcoholic or mentally deranged parents, or have been terrified by constant fighting between the parents, or by poverty, starvation, death of one or both parents or separation of the’ parents. Parents of such children aimost never are. able to display spontaneous affection toward their

Instead of weeping and begging for help, the child adopts a sullen atitude which, Dr. Riemer is of defense that pro en him from