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MONDAY, AUGUST 35, 1940
THE CHILD REFUGEE MOTIONAL elements are intense in that problem of | refugee English children. And, somewhat in ratio to the intensity of the emotion, criticism is being heard of anvthing which resembles red tape in the handling of the problem. The impulse is to say, “get the children out before the blitzkrieg starts—and damn the formalities.” But some second thought is called for. Without it, only chaos and homesickness and heartache would be the final | result of tearing thousands upon thousands of children from the home nest.
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MARK FERREE
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Willkie Is Urged to Promise That Neither He Nor His Family Will Exploit Office for Private Gain.
EW YORK, Aug. 51 dont know why I am always giving away, free, the marvelous thoughts which grow in such profusion in my wonderful brain, but suppose we just put it down to my generous Nature and proceed to this day's love-gift which is offered to Wendell Willkie, a man I have met but once—and that time only barely. In view of the insinuations which have been tossed around concerning Mr. Willkie's service on the side of wealth and the suggestion that he must, therefore, himself be a money lover, I propose that right now
Mr. Wilkie draw up a schedule of every dollar's worth of property and every cent of money that he owns,
| down to the rustiest curly-handled mashie in his golf
bag and the change in his pants and require every member of his family to do the same, and file these documents in some pubdlic record or tack them on the courthouse door of his old home town. I that he promise that if elected he will require every member of his cabinet to do the same and that he state publicly that he and every member of his family over whom he has any control and the
| Cabinet members and their families will not exploit
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So what may seem to be red tape is merely required | precaution to assure kindly and understanding treatment | of those who can be brought to America; to safeguard not only the children themselves but to reduce to a minimum the anguish of the parents from whom the children are separated. The U. & Children’s Bureau is supervising the transi tion. And nobody has ever accused that Bureau of being hard-hearted. We feel safe therefore in saymmg to our readers that only the very smallest amount of formality necessary is being applied, or will be. The Children’s Bureau realizes that more good intention on the part of the foster parents is not enough; that desire to help is not always related to ability to provide: that each case must be followed up; that misplacements must be re-handled; that full records must be Kept, in consideration for the parents back in England as well as for the future of the children themselves, It unfortunate that anv formalities are required. Rut since thev are, it is well that they have fallen into the an agency noted for its sympathy and under-
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T being a lawyer, I will just skip the and ors and the legalistic bullet-proofing and concentrate on the igtent of this proposal, which is that Mr. WillKie should throw everything on the blanket for a
public counting before election and guarantee to do | the same again at the end of his term. if any. and |
| promise that | ‘more
he will not quit office with a dollar than he had when he went in, except such amounts as he can prove to have been saved out of his salam No writing for magazines or syndicates, for high prices by relatives as yet untouched by literary genius, no saies indorsements or radio performances for pay, VO insurance business between members of his family
| and Interests which are subject to whimsical inter- | pretations of Jaws or codes by Government bureaus
and ne hundred-thousand-dollar mock jobs for any cousins or aunts with any liquor, movie or shipping interests, under penalty of public repudiation of such cousins or aunts which would destroy the anly possible motive for their employment in such jobs.
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R. WILLKIE, being & lawver, can dress up this ea so that it can stand inspection and expand it to include other members of the National Administration, even to the degree of precluding the employment of Ne'er-do-well brothers-in-law of important officials in $4800-36000 jobs counting paper clips or keeping scrapbooks. He should cover it with a statement of the general principle that public officials have a moral to enrich themselves on the side or
{ permit relatives over whom they have control to ex- | piolt their relationship for profit
UNSAFE COMPROMISE (COMPROMISE on the Compulsory Military Service Bill is now being talked in Congress. A specific proposal is being drafted by Senator Maloney of Connecticut. It would oo ahead with immediate registration, but defer the actual draft until the Army had tried to raise all the manpower needs by a drive for one-vear volunteers, with the basic Army pay scale raised from $21 a month to $30. On the House side, Rep. Edmiston on West Virginia miributes the sug2estion that the recruiting drive should clude “bands, parades, rallies, patriotic speakers, demonrations of what Army life can do for a voung fellow, and 1 kinds of help from patriotic societies and service organ-
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Does this country want that? We think not. Oh, the great drive could be staged, all right. The ands, the parades, the rallies, the speakers could whip up a fine display of martial spirit. The patriotic societies could distribute white feathers and otherwise direct scorn at voung men who refused to enlist. A good many could be shamed into the Army to escape being called “siackers.” Who would be the recruits obtained by. this method? Many would be men who should stay at home to work in defense industries or support independents. Many would be poor men, But would it raise all the manpower needed? There | is every reason to believe that it would not. The volunteer system never has provided sufficient manpower in a major crisis of actual war. Adoption of the Maloney compromise would mean, we think, only delay in adequately manning the defenses we are building to preserve peace. After a few months—a few months that might prove fatal—the draft would have to go into operation after all. The brave, the forthright, the safe course is to put it into operation now. It will insure adequate manning of our defenses. And the principle of selective service will bring into training only the men the Army needs, not those | who are essential at home and not those who can be goaded | into volunteering or whose poverty makes $30 a month | an attractive wage. |
BIG DAY FOR DRAMA N Saturday, Aug. 17, according to prevailing schedules: Wendell L. Willkie will formally accept the Republican nation for President of the United States. James A. Farley will retire as chairman of the DemoNational Committee and be succeeded by Edward J.
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ratic lynn, “Tobacco Road” will say farewell to Broadway. “Jeeter Lester” and the other caricatures of Georgia | in the play made from Erskine Caldwell's ook will have appeared continuously in New York for six ears, eight months and some days. In upward of 2850 rformances there, and we don't know how many more 1 other cities, this play will have spread many nasty mismceptions concerning the poor people of the South, as well s some disagreeable truths. Its longevity is difficult to ccount for, but “Tobacco Road” isn't dead yet, for on Sept. 5 the Broadway company will open a road tour away out vest in Buffalo. Jim Farley will have been treading the boards in the Democratic theater, as national chairman, for eight vears, | one month and 14 days. He has supported the New Deal company’s leading man in two highly successful election performances, and will be dismissed from the cast of the third. Mr. Farley is widely acclaimed as a good actor. His successor, while promising to do his best, modestly disclaims ability to equal Big Jim's record, and the Republican critics are hoping that Mr. Flynn is righter than he realizes about that. Wendell Willkie's curtain will rise before homefolks and guests at Elwood, Ind. His managers confidently predict an eight-year run for their dashing young star, but Demo- | crats, who intend to stay away from the opening performance in droves, say that his audiences will dwindle rapidly and that his show will fold up on or hefore Nov. 5. Apvhow, it's all drama, and each scene represents a | certain clash and freedom of action and opinion hardly pos- | sible‘anywhere else in this world today.
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To be sure, this would be in the nature of a dig at the Roosevelt family. but, afier all they have been asking for it—all except young Franklin and Johnnv —but it would also honk a noble note addressed 10 such pablic servants as Bd Kelly and Frank Hague and. in a wider sense, to the morals of all the people Ideas like this may sound easy, but you have ‘no idea of the strain : :
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Inside Indianapolis
The Fishing Worm Problem, Patriotic Truck Company and the Drought.
ANY Hoosier happened,
2 fisherman wondenng suddenly. to the supply of horse Up until a few days ago. all one had to plenty for fishing was to cut the weeds and there were the worms For the last few davs. however, the Fish and Game Department has been stormed by calls from fishermen demanding t© know “how come” and heres the Answer Although absolutely xX rest The horse weed worms have become moths. which they started out to be in theyfirst place, and they are fiving around preparing to lav more eggs. which will {furnish more worms for future fishing
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the Department of Conservation certain exactly what a horse weed worm it knows the probable family and can guess the
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» » STRAW IN THE WIND: One Indianapolis truckIng company has announced that plans are under way to pay the difference between army pay and present pay to all employees who may be conscripted for national defense service.
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EVEN THE WEATHER news has a baseball conto the rabid fan. On the streetcar this morning the conversation about the hot American League race lulled just a moment and a serious note crept In about the current drought here. “What I can’t understand.” said one of the men.” is why it has to be so dry here when other places are getting rain. Why look at the games that have been rained out other places. It's a cinch it's raining some place.” » THE NEWS is just beginning to leak out in some neighborhoods in Indianapolis that there's a defense tax on cigarets. A woman in a North Side drug store the other day ordered two packages and offered 8 quarter. Only after a strong protest did she pay the additional penny “I think it's just a pleut to raise prices,” she said. War profiteering.”
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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.
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WILLKIE BACKER CHARGES POLICE PERSECUTION
By Justice
| I would like to draw vour atten-!
tion to a little bit of police persecution in this city. I am paying a fine of $2 for double parking. I admit I did. But here comes the question. When I came I found the officer putting the tag on my machine. At that very moment there were a car and a truck parked exactly as I was. When I drew the officer's attention to the other cars, he said he was not working that way and he could not see them although several people including the passengers in my car could I said, “You must be blind not to see them,” and the repiy I got was that if 1 did not “shut my mouth”
up he would call the wagon, and for’
me to get the h——— out of there But I did not until I secured the number of the truck and the car But I had a Willkie for President sigh on the front of my car and that explains why I alone got the ticket
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SAYS OUR INTERESTS LIE WITH BRITAIN Br 8. E I have been noticing in recent 1scups where some correspondents voice an anti-British feeling, which is all right with me. But I feel that I would like to have the privilege {of replving to Mr. Guy Daugherty of Terre Haute, whose letter seems to reflect the views of other correspondents, chiefly Mr. Lafferty and | some others whose names I cannot recall just now. Mr. Daugherty does not see how the British can be fighting for liberty “till freedom for ourselves and others are secured,” and writes of the anguish at Valley Forge. Mr. Daugherty states, “I can't for the life of me see the advantages of taking sides with today’s champion of liberty just to Keep a {ew lazy parasites from getting what they asked for when they. declared war on Hitler.” The British Government is totallv different from what it was 150 years ago. In those days only the wealthy were the lawmakers and | the Lords were all-powerful. Britaln was the first country
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have representative government by the people in some form which was instituted some time in the 1200 A. D. and the British were first to have trial by jury. Is England friendly to the U S? Not a soldier or a barricade along 3000 miles of Canadian border, and there never will be, If our friend Mr Daugherty wishes to go back 150 years to find an argument about the British Government at Valley Forge, what do vou suppose the feelings of the American Indian were toward the BY 8. Government when they, the | Indians, were driven from the land their ancestors held and lived upon | for uncounted centuries Or go back further; why shouldn't this country be given to Italy. It is an historical fact that this country
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ISOLATIONIST FAVORS
| HELP FOR BRITAIN
, foreigners, and I don't
was first discovered by Christopher!
Columbus, an Italian by birth, who was financed by Queen Isabella of Spain. ‘ The trend toward the overthrow of the democracies is too plain not to be understood by the most casual observer. China, a republic
only a few years, is the victim of an! fundeclared and devastating war be-
cause she would not with Japan! Finland.
“co-operate” having no
quarrel with any nation suffers a|
similar fate. Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Albania, Slovakia, Ethiopia who did not ask for war, and were going about their business, are now under the rule of dictators. | France, one of the oldest republics, is no more. Closer to home is Mexico which almost since becoming a republic has been in a turmoil engendered and encouraged hy outside sources. \ In conclusion let us bear in mind that nothing is gained by quarreling about what happened before our day and in which we had no hand.
A Woman's Viewpoint Side Glances—By Galbraith
| By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
OR the first time, while at peace, the people of the United States are confronted with a Compulsory Military Training Bill which, if they please, will
be enacted into law and become a future policy of
their Government The text of the bill is liberal and without alarming implications the men who hewed a civilization out of wilderness came to this land from Europe to escape the tyranny of compulsory military service, The emergency may be grave enough ito justify a departure from their principles and our beliefs, but it would be tragic if the people permitted such a law to be foisted upon them by an emotional tidal wave,
a spasm of fear, or without serious study of its far |
reaching consequences Those who doubt its wisdom are already being named Fifth Columnists, which makes us wonder whether the common people are to be allowed to pass upon the merits of the measure . We are told by Mr. Walter Lippmann that the bill must not be regarded as a mere device for putting one out of every 25 men into uniform. “It must be regarded,” he writes, “as a method for mobilizing the men of the country for the larger and more complicated task of industrial preparedness.” Although Mr. Lippmann did not elucidate, we take that industrial preparedness in this instance, as alWAYS, means a great deal more than the manufacture of war machinery. Ths least infarmed citizen is now aware of the vast importance of economic power, and in this country, we could certainly do with a better managed economy
The thing to fear, however, is not the draft bill it- !
sell, but the possibility that once we have got it we shall not be able to get rid of it. Laws have a way
of remaining upon the baoks long after the emergen- | cles which called them into being have passed. |
Is our democracy, therefore, strong enough to with-
stand military autocraey within, as it prepares to repel |
its enemies without? When America speaks, the Let us not give
that answer without a careful study of the question.
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By “A Worried Isolationist”
I'm an isolationist. I don't like
think we | to get mixed up politically | with Europe. Sit down with those | boys at a. table and they'll take | your shirt, is what I've always said. | Rut I've been to high school and | I read the newspapers. I know you can't stay isolated from people politically unless they'll stay isolated from you. Norway found that out, | I've also read a book of history. That showed me that we were only able to be isolated because Europe was never able to un-isolate us. The British had the say about the Atlantic with their navy, and they naturally didn't want Europe to get planted on both sides of them. So they Kept Europe away from our] Siae. That's what worries me now. If the Bretish Navy gets sunk or surrendered, Hitler is going to be, able to bust our isolation. And you| don't know your Hitler if you think] he isn't going to do it, We'll be in| a continuous political free-for-all! with him, his Charlie McCarthy, | Mussolini, and the Japs. They'll take our shirt, and they'll take it| over here, probably in South| America, That's why I'd go the limit now | to help the British win this war,| so that they can continue to keep | Europe away from us. I know darn | well that isolation is gone forever unless they do. » » ”
DOUBTS SMITH BOLT WILL HURT F. D. R. By I
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“Still a Democrat”
see our old friend Al Smith has decided to go for another “stroll.” He's the same guy who “took a’ walk” and supported Landon in 1936, and everyone now knows the results achieved by that “sole ¢nd heel” marathon. , Roosevelt polled about six million more votes then than he did in "32. Outside their families and =a handful of friends all the votes | these “bolters” sway their way you | could put in your hat.
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“Sickened Out of Party”
For any person who thinks or| reads and 1s a citizen of these United States to refer to our pres- | ent executive as the greatest this | country has ever produced is about the most sickening thing I know of. | To even compare him with some | of our really great Presidents (and | we have had many from both | political parties) is indeed pitiful obnoxious, even nauseating.
AUGUST SINGS By MARY P. DENNY
August sings a roundelay On the shining harp of day. Tones of blue bird and of lark Singing where the robins hark. Lovely tones of wren and thrush Singing in the forest hush. Tread of rabbit in the brush. Soft deep tones of honey bee Where the flowers of August shine Glory through the earth divine. On the harp of August rings One great note of summer time, All the land in glory sings,
DAILY THOUGHT
Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evil-doers, — Jeremiah 20:13.
PRAISE OF THE wise and good! It is a meed for which I would long years of toil endure; which many a peril, many a grief would] cure, —Brydges. |
Gen. Johnson Says—
It Becomes Clearer Every Day That Draft Bill Is Not a Step Toward War But a Way of Keeping Us Out,
ASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Without apology, this column is becoming again a harp with one string—selective military service—or to put it more bluntly, conscription. There are three reasons for this. It is the most vital immediate question before Congress and the country. I happen to know more ahout this subject than any “other. It is despicably being made a political football. Except for the President and the lame duck Senator Burke, no leading Democrat has come out plainly for the principle of selective service. On the contrary, get a load of this from Democratic Senator Burt Wheeler to candidate Willkie: “It is stated that some of the leading financial institutions in New York supporting your candidacy will refuse to support you if you oppose this legislation. This would be a good time to let the people know on which side you are going to stand.” The Senator added that the sentiment of the people as expressed through farm organizations, church groups, labor unions, peace groups and organized and unorganized youth is overwhelmingly against the Burke-Wadsworth Bill, that only Eastern metropolitan newspapers are supporting it and that the President is in accord with the principles of the bill, » 4 =
HERE is nothing but pure politics in that blurb from Burt—nothing about the meriis of necessity for selective service—a great and vital question of American security. That bill was badly drawn with little study of our past experience and little knowledge of the subject. It was badly presented without sufficient warning to the public or effort to inform it. The President wisely hasn't committed himself to its terms and Mr. Willkie would be foolish to do so. But the President has indorsed the principle. If Mr. Willkie did that also, it would leave the Senator's political trick all dressed with no place to go. The antics, posturing and political monkey-business in the Senate on this subject make one wonder whether Hitler is right about the unfitness of the democracies to defend themselves. » " =
ONGRESS, acting under public pressure, certainly didn’t appropriate billions for defense on any idea that the people were fools enough to think that weapons could defend America without men to wieid them. As a Westerner, I deny that Westerners are bigger fools than Easterners. The only difference 1 can see is that very few of us Westerners will stand for our getting into this war and some Easterners will. It is no wonder that people in the groups named
| by Senator Wheeler are confused by the issue. in its
present unfortunate form. His and other similar action will confuse them further. But the question of service by selection is not a group issue—labor, farmers, youth or whatnot. It is not a financial issue, nor an East vs. West issue. It is simply a question, or whether or not we are going to get adequate defense against overseas attack and get it quickly enough to keep wars away from these shores. We won't get it if we don’t get selective service and get it promptly. If politicians of Senator Wheeler's persuasion have their way, we won't get it at all. It is not a step toward getting us into war, It is becoming clearer every day that it is an absolutely necessary step in keeping us out. Where does
| Senator Wheeler stand on that issue?
Business
By John T. Flynn
Calm View Urged on Post-War Trade; Dictators May Not Hold Upper Hand.
EW YORK, Aug. 5—~What America shall do about her trade when the war is over is another one of those subjects that comes in for a good deal of hysterical planning. Because Europe is rapidly becoming a totalitarian continent it is supposed that we must adopt totalitarian methods in our trade dealings with her and in the markets of the world. The President wisely rejects this idea, and we will be well advised if we think our way through these post-war trade problems with more realism than we are applying to our military course. : The external economic problems that will have to be met after the war embrace a group of subjects, There is the matter of selling to the totalitarian countries themselves. There is the matter of compet« ing with them in other countries. There is the ques tion of our existing foreign investments and our future foreign investments. Then there are the problems of currency and of exchange, In the most prosperous years of the 1920s our foreign exports seldom rose above five billion dollars, This is an immense amount of business, to be sure. They have not come within two billion of that for 10 vears. However, we want to hold this trade. It is important economically to us. It is important to the world. which needs the goods we have and which wants to sell us goods we need. It is important as a solvent of cultural and political problems between nations. But we must not lose sight of the fact that there are other values, We must do what we can to pro=tect this trade, but we must put a limit on the price we are willing to pay for it. We must not adopt policies which will get us into war. We must not do things to save it which will endanger values far more priceless—democracy, for instance. Our trade is a business proposition, We must treat it as such,
Our Position Will Be Strong
As to trade with the totalitarian countries—Russia, Germany, Italy and their newly adopted or kidnapped children—it is not a simple matter to see precisely what economic conditions will confront them and us. No one should assume that Germany will escape the drastic consequences of her immense war effort. There is as yet no certainty that these countries will he in a position to assume an arrogant and dictatorial role in the markets of the world, Germany will be in need of immense replacements, which will mean the need for raw materials. It will take some time for her to develop peace-time production with which to buy these materials when the fighting stops. She mav well he forced to adopt a very conciliatory tone in her relations with the rest of the world. We will move more wisely in these uncertain waters if we will stop searing ourselves. Remember that in the world market we have a strength that none of
| these countries have; we have the goods, the gold, the
credit that all will need: we will he far less weakened by the war than they will be and, strongest of all, we can do what they cannot do—we can trade or leave it alone,
‘Watching Your Health
| By Jane Stafford
N the days when sending a hoy or girl to college . was an exceptional rather than a customary thing for parents to do, one used to hear relatives prophesying darkly that John or Mary would have a nervous breakdown or go crazy from studying so hard. Nowa days one hears the college students themselves speaks ing glibly of neuroses and psychoses. The facts of the matter, according to Dr. Dudley B. Reed, director of student health service, and Dr, Charles B. Congden, health service psychiatrist of the University of Chicago, are that: 1. A large percentage of college students show decidedly neurotic symptoms at some time during their life at college; 2. Only a small percentage develop serious mental illness; 3, Higher education, in itself, has not been shown to pro duce either neurosis or psychosis (mental disease). The Chicago ddctors listed three things which cone tribute to a college student's mental breakdown, if he has one. These are: “1. The inevitable difficulties attending the first taste of independence from home. “2, Advice from amateur psychoanalysts who usue ally cause more harm than good. “3. Family pressure toward scholastic or other goals, either to compensate for what the ‘parents did not get, or fo equal parents’ performances in school,”