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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1940
WHILE ROME BURNS
HE selective drart bill has suddenly run into delays in| back- |
Washington. Congressmen are getting the home jitters—in spite of the Gallup Poll's report that a cross-section is 2 to | for the draft. Constituents are writing in, and most of them are against the bill—although many of these appear to be badly misinformed about its contents. Accordingly the Senate Military Affairs Committee laid aside the draft bill, which it had planned to report out vesterday, and instead took up and reported favorably the day-old bill for calling out the National Guard. Various Senators are talking about major amendments | to the bill—such as limiting the registration to those under 31, or under 45, instead of registering everybody from 18 | to 64.
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Merrily (?) They Roll Along!
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Seems as if Our Expatriates Used Unseemingly Haste in Leaving Their Beloved France and England
EW YORK, July 31.—The passenger lists of the Clippers and boats these last few months, and especially since the Nazis broke through, have shown the true character of many rich Americans who loved the French and English so when peace was on and, in those days, came back to the U. S. A. only to bury their dead, see their lawyers and confirm their conviction that their native land wasn't fit for the likes of them to live in. The perils and privations of war have driven back many who suddenly discovered, after decades of expatriate life, an overwhelming love for the land which, to them, was just a source of income and whose people were fit only to be despised as vulgar tourists. They “understood” the French and English, who, likewise, appreciated them not least because they were receiving money from the toil of American workers. They were a curious, stateless monstrosity without loyalty for their own country and, the truth to tell, without the respect of those whose approval they tried to buy.
» » n TOW, however, when the French and English would seem to stand most in need of that understanding friendship which they professed, swarms of them have been struggling home, drawn by a sudden and irresistible nostalgia for a crude country where the Nazis are not yet and the sirens shriek at night means only that Engine 6 is rolling
| down to douse a burning cigaret on an awning up | the street.
It is, indeed, odd that the Riviera has suddenly lost its charm. Odd, too, it is that dear Paris and those quaint fishing villages have somehow ceased to
Other Senators have other ideas. Senator Vandenberg | thinks the volunteer system should be given a better trial; | so do some churchmen. Senator Wheeler of Montana is reported to be rolling | up his sleeves to filibuster any kind of draft legislation, ap- | parently on the theory that “God's in his Heaven, all's | right with the world.” And President Roosevelt, although he is on record for the principle of conscription, declines to say what he thinks cf the Burke-Wadsworth Bill (which is sponsored by a Republican and an anti-Roosevelt Democrat). This newspaper is convinced that the stable door of preparedness ought to be locked while the horse thieves are busy elsewhere. By the testimony of our No. 1 soldier, Gen. George C. Marshall, “the security of this country depends on our having trained, seasoned men” and “there is no way to obtain them except by some form of selective service.” To parents who have a natural reluctance to see their sons put into barracks for a year, the question might be
put: “If the doctor savs vour son’s appendix must come out now to save him from a fatal infection later, what would your answer be?” And—by the same token: “If your country is in danger, would you rather have
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your son learn the skills of war in peacetime, or let him |
run the risk of being rushed into war later on, green, untrained ?”
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Conscription is an ugly word. But these are ugly days. | As the headlines on the cable news suggest, and as Gen. |
Marshall puts it, “time grows late.”
enchant the soul of the permangnt absentee, This would seem to be the very time to prove that deep friendship for the people of France and England
| by sharing their sufferings and dangers, but the fact
is. as the French and English always knew, this type of American lacked loyalty and lived only for vanity and pleasure, This war, if it does no other good, will not have been entirely in vain if, as seems probable, it results in the final extinction of an ugly little group of offAmericans who began to settle in Europe in the first decade of this century and, naturally, found their kindred among the prideless moochers of the busted aristocracy.
"= @® MONG the suddenly patriotic Americans who have shoved French cripples, children
would stand by and help them suffer. In the early days of the war there were no more clamorous and petulant naggers at the steamship offices and consulates than ex-patriate Americans whose only decent service to their native land in all their lives had been to leave it. The war surely will liquidate this colony, most of whom are now too old to make themselves offensive around the gaudy ginmills of New York. They will limp off on gouty legs to end their days in bicarb and liver shots in the weather-beaten grandeur of New-
port or making themselves hateful to the maids and
bellhops in hotels. It is not in the cards that any new generation of expatriates will arise and replace them, The French and British won't forget that kindled love of their despised homeland yanked them
away in a tumbling hurry when trouble came and | | won't be wanting a duplicate order.
Inside Indianapolis
Nobody is going to pick a fight with the United States |
But we are not ready. And until we do the neces-
once we are ready to fight. a long way from being ready.
sary—which includes the draft—we are not safe in the
kind of world this has turned out to be.
SHOOTING FROM THE HIP
We are |
NO borrow a phrase from Tom Stokes’ description of the |
New Deal political machine, City Hospital's handling of its Negro employee problem has been “in the back-firing, cylinder-missing manner of a 1906 jalopy.” Certain members of the Negro community charge the Hospital's superintendent, Dr. Charles W. Myers, with deliberately trying to keep Negro internes out of the hospital and to keep other Negro employees in the poorly paid ranks. We are unwilling to believe this. But we do feel com-
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pelled to point out to Dr. Myers that he has handled a | | being called into the cooler—oops! Beg pardon !—Chief | Morrissey’s office. laboratory orderly was the result of a “report” that the |
delicate situation with little finesse. His dismissal of a orderly had been attempting to organize hospital workers for a possible strike, Perhaps the report was true. But does it behoove the superintendent of the City Hospital to start firing on the basis of a “report?”
STILL AT IT THREE judges of the U. 8S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York have just held that supplying money to criminals who are hiding from justice is not a violation of Federal laws against harboring or concealing fugitives. The decision frees five persons who were proved to have sent $500 a week to Louis (Lepke) Buchalter and Jacob (Gurrah) Shapiro when those notorious industrial racketeers were evading arrest on the charges that later sent them to Federal prison. The Circuit Court relied largely on an opinion by one of its former members, Martin T. Manton, that— “... To pay money to a fugitive so that he may shelter, feed or hide himself is not within the accepted meaning of to ‘harbor or conceal’ him.” Ex-Judge Manton, himself, is now in a Federal prisen for obstructing justice. Apparently, however, an opinion he wrote while on the bench is still considered respectable and binding, even though it splits an almost invisible hair. Many a layman will be tempted to conclude that Manton, behind the bars, continues in at least this case to obstruct justice.
DIPLOMACY OF SPORT N this day when the United States is making an intensive effort to build up good social and political relations with its Latin American neighbor states, a natural query arises —Why not try sports? Most Americans know little of their South American neighbors and the language barrier makes the job of understanding difficult. Iere is where sport, like music, has an advantage. Music is a ‘“‘common language.” In sports, it is deeds, not words, that count. The wars in Europe and the Orient have sounded the knell of virtually every international sporting event this year. The Olympic Games, the Davis Cup matches in tennis, the Walker Cup events in golf, international polo, all have been displaced by a “less friendly” form of competition. When they will be revived, if ever, no one knows. It seems to us that sports offer the nations of the North, South and Central Americas a rich field for cultivating good will and understanding based upon a wide popular interest and inspired by a nationalistic feeling
that means trophies instead of ruins. i
Our Army Moves Up, That Airport Ambulance and Press Club's Opera
NE of The Times’ photographers assigned to get O a picture of Ft. Harrison troops en route to Wisconsin for the Army’s maneuvers ran into difficulties yesterday. The trucks and cars were So
scattered out and moving across 59th St. so fast that
he couldn't get a clear shot. After several tries, he shrugged his shoulders and trudged up to one of the Army's M. P.’s stationed at an intersection. He asked the M. P, to slow down some of the transports so he could get a photo. The M. P. stared back in disdain, “Sorry, buddy,” he replied curtly, “this ain't no moom pitcher army.”
o ” ” OUR MUNICIPAL AIRPORT may be more than up-to-date in many respects, but unless they've changed it in the last day or so, its somewhat dilapidated airport ambulance still bears 1939 license plates. . Incidentally, there seems to be a little less reluctance on the part of Indianapolis policemen over
_. It seems the Chief has just installed a room refrigerating outfit. . , . To make the
atmosphere unanimous, we take it.
n ” ” THE PRESS CLUB is getting ready, you may have
“Carmen.” Well, the boys have been hitting things no mail orders for tickets. They started to get worried, but kept giving themselves another few days and so on, Yesterday, they went on an investigation. They found that when Vincent Burke, English's manager, left for Wisconsin, he told the Postoffice to send all English's mail to him up in the woods. The Press Club's worries are now solved—it hopes.
un " on YOU'VE PROBABLY NOTICED the new traffic system at certain hours downtown. . . . The policemen stand on the curbs in the shade, cut of the way. ... It speeds up traffic flow. . We always thought rabbits confined themselves to dry land methods of transportation, but from scme White River boating enthusias‘s, we hear that Monday night they saw something moving through the water. They claim that close inspection proved it to be a rabbit. . + + All we know is what we hear.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
PERFECT example of “wishful thinking” comes from the particular faction which professes to believe we can, in this nation, build a great defense program upon a foundation of social and economic reforms, and carry it through by democratic methods. If we can, we shall be the most remarkable people who ever lived upon the earth, We shall be capable of performing miracles. For the spirit and even the flesh of democracy is sacrificed when a country turns its major attention to war making, when its biggest industry becomes the manufacture of armaments and its chief enterprise the promotion of military concepts. A great many people—and because most of them are honest and sincere we must listen to them-—say that universal military conscription and a gigantic arms program are necessary for the physical preservation of America. Maybe they are right. But if so, we shall certainly bog down in mass confusion by refusing to face the cold hard fact of the case before we begin to act upon their suggestions. And the cold hard fact is this: No country can be entirely militaristic and entirely democratic at the same time. We shall have to choose one way or the other. A democracy hedged about by totalitarian states, which deliberately remains defenseless, invites disaster. But it is equally true that a democracy which imitates totalitarian methods for a time also invites disaster in another way. And so today the honest American citizen finds himself between the devil and the deep sea. Which ever way he turns, he sees his freedom vanishing. The decision he must make as a voter is a momentous one, and will require the most serious and prayerful consideration. If in this crisis, the United States lets go its belief in the power of right thinking, if her citizens abandon those ideals and beliefs which have carried her through so many tight places, any military victories won will be worthless and bitter, To fight effectively in any direction we must strengthen our faith in the ultimate triumph of decency and democracy or we are
lost already,
and | women off the roads in their flight by auto for the | exit ports have been individuals who, had come only as an unpleasant necessity and who certainly gave the | French every reason to believe that, in a crisis, they |
a re- |
CAN LSE THESE SPARE
WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1940
MEBBE
WE SHOULD HAVE TURNED IT IN BACK THERE
IN CHICAGO!
The Hoosier Forum
1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
| LAUDS ATTITUDE OF |P. S. OFFICIALS By Harry E. Royse. Too often public officials, elective
or appointive, seem to regard publie office as a private snap and dis- | urge their duties in a perfunctory
(manner with little consideration for [the public welfare and less for {the individuals required to de{pend upon their services. It is quite a pleasant privilege therefore to take special notice of a marked {departure from this attitude. In representing patrons of the Lexington Ave. (Toonerville Trolley) car line in the recent hearing before Mr. Gilbert, Examiner for the Public Service Commission, 1
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found him not only willing but de- |
sirous of rendering all possible servive both before and during the (hearing. I found him always ac'commodating and full and explicit in explanation of ways and means
for the proper presentation of the people that the | dangering our democracy.
patrons’ case. In conducting (hearing he was at all times fair, [impartial and patient and “red | tape” was conspicuous hy its ab- | sence, Mr. Sturgis, Assistant | Counsellor, was cordial and always (ready and willing to respond to fany suggestion that might prove | helpful. He seemed to take his
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not the President but the people of the United States who furnish the money by which the needy have heen clothed, and the hungry fed, his education has taught him nothing about. the processes of democratic government,
It is the money of the people which has been applied to the things for which he gives personal thanks to the President, It is this confusion in drawing distinctions between Administrations and the is most seriously enUnless, of course, the President has actually, out of his personal means, furnished the money with which the
[ hungry have been fed and the needy
People’s | clothed.
In that case, I take it all back.
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| work seriously and there was no| TOWARD MILITARISM
perfunctory attitude in discharging (it. He came into the case late on account of illness in the family of
| People’s Counsellor Hanna but came | (raining.
{into the hearing well prepared and
rd the hearing in a manner (ward all that concerns me in life—
satisfactory to the many patrons {of the line attending it. » ” ” | SAYS PEOPLE, NOT F. D. R,, | FURNISHED BENEFITS By W. C. S.
In “The Hoosier Forum” of Fri- |
day, July 26, 1940, Hershell
| that because we had a President
| cation and he says further:
! J. | heard, for an opera show it's going to give soon, | Bryant of Anderson, Ind. writes
up at a pretty good pace, but they have been receiving | who {hinks of everyone he has been {ly being drugged with a able to finish his high school edu-| propaganda “To! feel an obligation to become as bel-
By Wesley Romine, |
I am against compulsory military
Though I feel a deep devotion toand most deeply toward our rights] as individuals, I know that there is no material thing, no creed righteous ideal that is of such worth! that it must be gained or main-/ tained by taking even one life, War. | to me, is wholesale murder! Not even national prestige is worth the wanton cost of lives and grief of war, I am concerned that we are slowmilitary | making us|
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which is
| our President then, I owe every- | ligerent as soon as we dare.
| thing, as do thousands and even gling people. istered to the sick. What else can President?”
One would expect to find letters in a German or
they give thanks.
such | create a lust for another's blood or| Ttalian | to disregard paper where the people have the does through military indoctriniza-|
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idea that the dictator has actually tion, is guilty of the greatest of ali| given them the things for which civic crimes.
If Mr. Bryant's public school edu- { which we bestow upon them as pro- | cation has not taught him that it is|tectors of our general welfare. No
Military conscription is the quick- |
To subscribe to military canons is,
we, as true Americans, ask of any |to be criminally ambitious.
Any person who takes measures to|
he
suffering—which |
These persons are not | of the trust]
honorably capable
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.
"You're looking a little pale today, Doc—Ilet me have a look at your tonguel
| amusing evening
” | PREDICTS ROO | WILL BE RE-ELECTED
By Clarence F. Lafferty
| Mr, | also, for Roosevelt is ace-high in
man, nor group of men can sanction
the despotic abyss of militarism nor |
the ruthless vindictiveness that is war. We should not he harassed into this conscription project, for militarism is the force behind naziism. We embrace Hitler's own methods by passing such a law, Militarism is the most bigoted of man's designs! u INDEPENDENT TELLS WHY HE'LL SUPPORT WILLKIE By Jas. W. Reilly,
A word by an independent voter in support of Wendell Willkie, I guess Adolf Hitler had an listening to democracy at its worst the night they forced the Hon. Mr, Wallace on the people. It sounded much like a totalitarian plebiscite. But thank God our people have a choice to be decided in November. Mr. Roosevelt deserves credit for much that he has accomplished, but he has served his country eight years, now give another man a chance. This much can be said for Willkie, he has raised himself while many of the candidates of late have been raised at taxpayers’ expense since they were little boys. The
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Tafts, Roosevelts and others too nu-
merous to mention, n ” oy FEELS COMPULSORY ARMY TRAINING IS UNFAIR By Boh. I also fall in the group which will be first drafted for compulsory military training ’ How Harry Morrison just happened to interview the select few
NOT | that are in favor of one vear of]
compulsory military training is a great mystery to me. In my department at Kingan & Co. there are at least 60 young men who would be drafted. Their greatest concern is the draft. I have yet to hear one man say that he would willingly go. It may be that we aren't good
patriots, but nevertheless, we all feel |
that compulsory military training would be unfair and unjust to us, n ” ”
{millions of other poor and strug-|est step toward the regimentation CLAIMS G. O. P. TRYING He has clothed the|and totalitarianism which its advo-| needy, fed the hungry, and admin-| cates would have us fight.
TO IMITATE DEMOCRATS By Wm. Lemon The Republicans have copied about all the Democrats have trying to sneak in the back door of the White House from a platform to a Presidential candidate handpicked hy Wall Street, Whether labor and (he farmer will swallow this delicious looking bait built on false promises will remain to be seen, Organized capital classifies the average voter as an imbecile while our humanitarian President thinks we are all human, and the battle
lit now capital versus labor with
John Public as judge. on n SEVELT
If you hold two deuces, two aces,
| and Roosevelt's picture, you would
still hold a full house poker hand, Gasper, and a winning hand
my estimation, There are thousands who veel the same way about Roosevelt as you
land I do, and those thousands are
the ones who will go to the polls
| this fall to give Roosevelt the ban-
ner to lead us through another four years. Out of the way, you Willkie guys! Hang on, fellow Democrats! We're going places! “Full speed ahead!”
TIME By ANNA E. YOUNG How do we use our leisure time So priceless in this day Time-—so abused by most of us We scarce have time—we say.
Yet somehow we do find the time For things—we want to do But do I use my leisure time As God—would want—do you?
DAILY THOUGHT
The righteous shall never be removed; but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.—Proverbs 10:30.
HERE is no future pang can deal that justice on the selfcondemned, that he deals on his own soul.—Byron.
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Gen. Johnson Says—
Replying to Doubters, He Quotes Some Passages to Prove Idea of Conscription Is of Biblical Origin.
ASHINGTON, July 31.—My repeated statement that compulsory selective service is also of biblical origin has been challenged, Well, the draft consists of three steps. First comes registration of the whole adult male population and classification as to availability for military service In Numbers 26, 1 and 2, “The Lord spake unto | Moses . . . saying take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel from 20 years old and upward throughout their father’s houses, all that are able to go to war in Israel.” The ensuing first “registration report” showed 601,730 registrants. The next step 1s the assignment of quotas, Numbers 31-3 “Moses spake . , ., arm some of yoursselves unto the war of every tribe a thousand . shall ye send to the war.” They were drafted and inducted. Some men are “exempted” according to regulations For rules of exemption in the Mosaic draft, see Deuteronomy 20; 5-9. Briefly, they exempted men who were providing homes and had not “dedicated them, newly married men, men who were growing vineyards not yet mature and, curiously enough, selfconfessed cowards. In Deuteronomy 24-5, the married man” exemption was confined to one year, » n u FITHE theory of this selective service is found in Numbers 32-6 “And Moses said unto the children of Gad and the children of Reuben” (who wanted to call it a day in the conquest of Canaan) “Shall your brethren go to war and shall ye sit here?” Then he recalled an earlier evasion of military service by the children at Kadesh-Barnea and reminded them that “The Lord's anger was kindled against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness tor 4 years.” The entire tribes of Reuben and Gad marched, “every man armed to battle.” Maybe all that was not a faithful forerunner of our selective service system of 1917 and the BurkeWadsworth bill of today, but it seems so to me, It is interesting but unimportant, because there is no respectable argument in law, morals or ethics against the universal obligation to military service when it { 1s necessary to the safety of a people. It is inherent in the social compact. These be four-dollar words, but I imagine something like this happened. ” » n G and Ug and some other cavemen got tired of losing hides, cattle and women every time some great Neanderthaler snaggletooth in the next valley decided to raid off the reservation. Singly he could bash in the brains of any. They held a conference | and Ub-glubbed a gang-up on him. The next time he came they sent him howling home. That Kept the peace. Some kind of society became possible and that tribe was formed and on its way to better | things and the more abundant life. Fine. But could | Og or Ug, or whoever live under the protection of | that pact for months or years, when old Snaggletooth threatened again—as Moses said-—sit there while their { brethren went to war? It is an inescapable duty of | every single man who has enjoyed the collective protection of any nation, The objections won't stand up. you can't fight if you're not trained, If there is an obligation to fight there is an obiigation to train, Any man who knows he may have to fight is a fool not to train. His country's life and safety depends on | it—and so does his own
in modern way
Business
By John T. Flynn
Nazis Will Trade With Us as Unit, | But Won't Control All Commerce.
EW YORK, July 31.—Dr, Walther Funk, German | Minister of Economics, is quoted as saving | America will have to trade with Germany on Germany's terms. This brings up the question: What will happen to American foreign trade if Germany can define the terms under which it is conducted Obviously, of course, Germany can define the terms on which American foreign trade is carried on with her. But she cannot control the terms on which trade is carried on with the rest of the world-—Italy, Russia, all of Asia and Africa. And it is not at all cvident that she can or even intends to dictate the | terms on which we will trade with France or even the | Balkan countries. She can fix the conditions of trade within that region over which she rules. That is not new-—it has always been so. We on our part establish the conditions on which we trade with other countries, we have tariffs, quotas, embargoes, etc. And | other countries do the same thing. { What we have to be concerned about is that Germany will trade not as a collection of individual ex- | porters and importers but as a unit—precisely as Russia does now, She will do this because she will want to have the deciding voice on what things Germany will import. She will not leave this to the choice of individual traders. She will do this for another reason, She has little or no gold. She will [ probably have less when the war is over, Therefore her ability to buy abroad will be limited by her ability to sell abroad. She must maintain a rigid balance of exports and imports. Also her whole foreign trading | ability will be limited. Therefore to make the most of her foreign credits she will be compelled to enforce a rigid supervision over them.
Germany Needs Our Goods
The whole drift of foreign trade since the last war has béen in this direction, We permit certain cartels for foreign selling and we will probably go further, The rise of universally applied tariffs, quotas, central exchange control, maldistribution of gold, all drive the vvorld in tie direction of collectivist foreign trade. When Germany says we must trade with her on her terms this means no more than that we shall have to submit to trading with a collectivist foreign trade state, There is nothing we can do about that. We trade that way with Russia now. To dc it successfully we may be driven to some kind of semi-collec= tivist supervision of our own foreign trade with Germany. But there is another side to it, After all Germany is more in need of our products than we are of hers. Germany will not want to buy here because she loves us, but because she needs our goods, In a sense she will be driven to trade with us on our terms. What will happen will probably be a compromise of some sort in which both nations will attempt to make trade possible,
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
OT weather which makes the family demand crisp, cool salads, iced drinks, frozen desserts and the like 1s apt to put heavy demands on the refrigerator, The careful housewife, however, will remember that the chief value of the refrigerator is to keeps foods from spoiling and will take care that the refrigerator does this job efficiently. It is important to remember that food can be spoiled enough to make a person sick without looking or tasting spoiled, and that certain kinds of food spoil more easily than others. If there is any doubt about whether or not food has spoiled, the only safe thing to do is to throw it away (burning it if you live in the country, so animals will not get it). Milk and cream and butter, of course, must be kept cold ahd should be covered and put into the coldest part of the refrigerator as soon as possible after they are delivered. Milk desserts, and milk in left-over dishes such as cream soups, sauces and creamed vegetables must be given the same care, because these foods are perfect places for bacteria, or germs, to grow, It is the bacteria that spoil food, and the poisons they produce in the food is what makes people sick with what used to be called ptomaine poisoning. Meats, fish and poultry should also be kept in the coldest part of the refrigerator, Uncooked fish should be kept only a very short time. Wrapping jt in paraffin paper protects other foods from the fish odor, Both refrigerator and all containers used in it must be kept clean, to protect foods from spoilage,
A weekly washing is advised