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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1840

WILLKIE, HATCH, AND THE LAWYERS HE case had been settled, but the lawyers nevertheless wrestled with it. Lawyers are like that. Wendell Willkie settled it when he announced Saturday at Colorado Springs that all Republican national campaign expenditures would be-kept well under the $3,000,000 limitation set by the Hatch Act. \* Lawyers in the case were Henry P. Fletcher, counsel for the Republican National Cothmittee, and Robert Jackgon, Attorney General of these United States, an ardent worker for the New Deal. Mr. Willkie had made his declaration despite the fact that Lawyer Fletcher had arrived in town with a briefcase. Contained therein was as neat a job of legalistic hole-hunting as ever gladdened the heart of a Buzfuz. The opinion equipped the Hatch Act with a revolving door. By it, instead of a $3,000,000 limitation, the national campaign funds would be restricted only by such number of Willkie-for-President committees as might be organized independently of the Republican National Committee, each thereby to have a $3,000,000 leeway. Other devices were offered, having to do with state and local and individual activities. But the multiple-committee idea was the masterpiece. . Willkie however didn’t even read the opinion. He had decided that the Hatch Act meant what it said. Incidentally, we have a hunch that forthrightness of that sort will, come November, bear returns of many fold over what multimillions spent by legalistic loophole processes might produce. Anyway, the case was moot. But that didn’t stop Lawver Jackson from taking a whirl at it. On the day following publication of the Fletcher opinion, he varied the Justice Department's custom against advisory interpretation to warn that “no plan of this nature for avoiding the limitations of the Hatch Act is accepted or approved.” While, under the circumstances, the Jackson statement geems to classify as “arguing for practice” nevertheless we think the Attorney General's position is right. And furthermore, since he has broken the ice cn advisory interpretations, we hope he will see his way clear to handing down something about that Democratic campaign book which we understand is about to bloom forth despite the fact that the same Hatch Act specifically declares such a volume to be pernicious political activity.

DR. MARY WESTFALL HOSE who make the public health and welfare their profession cannot help but miss Mary Westfall who built an imposing reputation as “Doctor Mary,” friend of children. Although she prepared for private practice in children’s’ dentistry, her talents for organization soon led her into the wider field of public health dentistry. Almost immediately she made ner presence in that field a commanding one. She was a leader whenever public health and welfare officers gathered and she endeared herself to thousands of Hoosier children whom she met during her career, In recognition of her accomplishments, she was recruited in 1336 by the State Health Board and attached to the Bureau of Maternal and Child Welfare. There she was laboring in the public interest with ever-increasing effectiveness until her death Sunday.

DR. COOK'S DAY : HE long and troubled life of Dr. Frederick A. Cook has ended. The news carries memory back to that September day in 1909 when Dr. Cook emerged from the Arctic to announce that he had discovered the North Pole. It’s a little hard to realize now what a furore his claim created, or what heat was engendéred by the world-wide controversy that resulted when Admiral Robert E. Peary presented evidence that he, and not Dr. Cook, had reached the Pole. For 1909 seems very long ago. That was the year when the country was agitated lest the hobble-skirt destroy the health and morals of American womanhood. San Francisco was celebrating the feat of Edward Payson Weston, who had walked 3895 miles from New York in 105 days. A prohibition movement was making + great headway in Indiana. Many people were praising the new Lincoln penny, though some preferred the Indian-head cent which had been in use for 50 years. The recently inaugurated President Taft was being denounced for signing the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill. Theodore Roosevelt was hunting lions and elephants in Africa. A young Nebraska Congressman, George W. Norris, was organizing a battle to curb the power of Uncle Joe Cannon, Speaker and tsar of the House. The second American military occupation of Cuba had ended recently. A heroic wireless operator had made “SOS” famous by sending the distress signal from the steamship Columbia after her ramming by the steamship Florida in a fog off Nantucket. The perfection of wireless had: enabled a message to be sent from New York to Chicago. Orville Wright established a world record for an airplane with a passenger, remaining in the air for one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds near Ft. Myer, Va. A Frenchman named Bleriot aroused even greater enthusiasm, and no forebodings, by making history's first airplane flight across the English Channel. Those were exciting times into which Dr. Cook brought his startling announcement that he had attained the goal of centuries, the very top of the world. It was easy to believe that 1909 must be climactic—that no future year would be likely to see more events of such stirring interest and importance.

PROGRESS SYRACUSE, N. Y., girl is giving up the harp to take aviation. It used to be the other way around,

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Answering a Query, He Doubts Reform in Scalise's Union Due To Promotion Given Mobsters’ Pal.

EW YORK, Aug. 6.—A man’ who says he is a doorman employed at a ‘Hig building in New York has written to ask whether, in my opinion, his union, that of the Building Service Employees, has reformed since Tom Dewey indicted George Scalise, the criminal who had muscled into the presidency as the representative of the Capone or Nitti mob. After Scalise got out the union held a convention in Atlantic City in May im which William McPettridge

of Chicago was elected president and Thomas Burke, also of Chicago, was hiked up a couple of grades from third to first in _the list of vice presidents. Meanwhile, in Boston another of the vice presidents, with a long but cheap police record, was convicted of racketeering and quietly disappeared from the official list, and, with these two out, it might appear that the Building Service Employees’ International Union of the A. F. of L. was pow going forward in honor and righteousness. ” ” " UT I have my doubts, because I can’t reconcile even the retention much less the promotion, of this Burke with a reformation of the union. ,Burke has been racketeering in labor for years and has always run to the fires—as they say in the police business—with criminals of the Capone-Nitti type. He began as agent of the janitors’ .union in Chicago, which was the property of @ criminal named Louie Altieri, commonly krlown as Louie Artillery, and moved up when feri, or Artillery, was shot from ambush. He has had some petty police troubles of his own and apparently is strictly a minor leaguer, but his associations are sinister, as we shall see. A couple of months ago I reported that while Scalise was supposed to be going straight and rehabilitating the damage to his character caused by his conviction of white-slaving, he took a trip" from Miami to Cuba and back with Little Augie Pisano, a New York gorilla, Burke and one Charles Fischetti, I didn’t have much of a life on Fischetti then, but I can tell you now that he is a Class A member of the Chicago-New York-Miami criminal scum. In Capone's big days he was a bootlegger and the loca! prosecutors convicted him on a gun charge back in 1928 but lost him on a reversal by the Appellate Court, !

pecan was present the night that one of Capone’s brothers was killed in a fight with the police. He was shot at another time while riding in Capone’s car, and he was picked up with Capone's brother Ralp, a fairly handy criminal, and Ralph's wife, when the police were trying—how sincerely we do not know—to solve the assassination of William McSwiggin, the assistant prosecutor, who was shelled to death in April, 1926. The cops gathered up Fischetti, Ralph Capone and Ralph's wife, six pistols and a set of instructions for the operation of a sub-machine gun, but nothing was done about that, either. But all this goes to show what kind of people Mr, Burke trails with. Thereforé, to the question whether the Building Service Employees’ International Union has reformed I would say ‘that the promotion of Burke from third to first in the list of vice presidents is the answer. They knew what they were doing when they upped this little brother of the criminal scum from third to first, and it takes only one representative of the mob to do the mob’s business at the expense of

the poor stiffs who have to show down the feed—dues and assessments, .

Inside Indianapolis

That License Drive, Col. Turner's Brother and a Card From Honolulu.

Yas you go driving these days be sure you have your driver's license and certificate of title with you. Police these days are setting up blockades in various parts of town and stopping as many as 25 and 30 cars at a time, examining the drivers for their licenses, titles and regularity of license plates. State Police are doing the same thing. You never can tell when your turn is coming. We don’t suppose it's necessary to add that by no means get into a stolen car.

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ROBERT TURNER, a younger brother of Col. Roscoe, has come here from Oklahoma to become controller for the speed flier’s air school here. . . . One of seven brothers, Robert was a hotel manager in Muskogee. . . . Comes a pretty postcard from Honolulu showing a native dancer doing the island's traditional dance. . . . “It isn’t me that does the hula,’ writes Ferdinand Schaefer, the Symphony Orchestra's con-ductor-emeritus, on the back. . . . Friends of Jane Jordan, Times columnist, will regret to learn that she has suffered a collapse and Is now in the hospital. . . . Doctor's attribute her illness to shock and strain resulting from her husband's death recently.

THE INDIANA AVENUE situation is cooling off rapidly. . . . The word is out that if “the boys” keep in line for a while longer, everything will be all right. + + + You figure out what it means. . . . Somebody passing Traffic Officer Harvey Badgley’s corner yesterday handed him a canteloupe, . + The puzzled Badgley couldn't leave his corner and he finally sat the canteloupe between his legs. . . . A photographer showed up and Badgley pleaded his case eloquently. « + » “Listen,” he said, “I had my picture taken once with a pop bottle between my legs and you should have heard Mike. If he sees this, why—." . .. That's why there was no picture,

THE GROUND AROUND the Colseum at the Fairgrounds is being cemented and most of the roads in the grounds are being refinished. . . . It will make more parking space for the hockey crowds next winter and getting out will be a faster and less arduous job. . +. Recently, police raided a club and removed half 8 dozen slot machines, . . , One man was fined in court later. . . . Yesterday a truck pulled up in front of the club and, right out in the open, the workmen leisurely moved in half a dozen new slot machines.

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

CONFERENCE on marriage and family life has been held at the University of Colorado. The educators, concerned about the state of domestic tranquillity in the United States, are alarmed at many present trends, and it would be a good thing if their fears became contagious. As might have been expected, “glamour” got a drubbing. Dr. Paul Popenoe summed up the ease in the following words: “Too many present day marriages have been based solely on glamour, something American women have been greatly oversold by the movies and other sources from which they still get most of their education for marriage and family life.” This statement is damning and true. It indicts the intelligence of our women, but it even *more strongiy indicts the qducators who have not been able to teach the girl, to take their movies with a dash of doubt. As a matter of fact, the movies have done even greater harm; they have established quite firmly in the feminine mind the notion that life is a fairy tale and romance its chief end. Moving pictures and the sort of fiction found in most popular magazines are singularly devoid of realism. The heroine always gets her man, and, if she likes, can acquire those belonging to her best friends. Many of her feats are improbable and preposterous. According to the traditions of current fiction, ugly people are incapable of love; we find their hearv quivers inserted in the plots only as humorous episodes to relieve the heavy romanc® of the glamour boys and girls. For 20 years Hollywood has imposed its manners, fashions, ideals and morals upon the Americaf scene. The manufacture of synthetic glamour has been one of the biggest of all big businesses. Historians alone will be able to estimate the results upon the national

mind, because only history can .tell where we ure | going fromthere, .

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The Hoosier Forum

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CLAIMS CONSCRIPTION WOULD DISRUPT COUNTRY By Mrs. 0. M. VanCleave

As a subscriber to your paper for a number of years I want to ask a few questions. Why are vou upholding this conscription bill? Are you being paid, forced, or what? Surely you know it is a terrible thing and entirely unnecessary and would disrupt the whole country. You no doubt criticize Herr Hitler

and think him terrible yet you would make a Hitler of Mr. Roose-| velt. Would you prefer a dictator? You also said in your article last| evening that these people who had| written against the bill had been misinformed. No, you are mistaken, they are very much informed, and] the Gallup Poll you try to point out, is it being paid?

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papers could do so much good if)

they would only print the truth and not try to sway one way or another.| and rear their children in an at-|ones as that is not the U. S. way of Our patriotism is not in fighting) mosphere unpolluted with war, or| doing things.

wars (war profits nothing whatso-| ever) but in holding fast to our de-| mocracy, our heritage. We should| be big enough and honest enough! to do that, People are praying and| praying earnestly and God does an-| swer prayers. Right will win out. I would like] an answer if you will give me the truth, If not, don't answer.

® 9% = DOUBTS DANGER OF EARLY INVASION By Arthur 8S. Mellinger

There is so much propaganda on both sides of the European conflict that for us average Americans, the truth we get about this affair over there, adds up to about zero. Then, | the most important thing for us, is| to keep our nose in our own business. Be prepared? Most assuredly, we should be, prepared. But, do not expect an immediate invasion (as the alarmists will have us believe). In case the Axis wins, I should like to ask you a question. How long do you think Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini can get along together? Don’t you think any one of the three will be kept busy watching each other, and holding down the lid to keep the kettle from boiling over? From the past history of Europe, we learn that no one power, or set of powers, have succeeded in holding the lid down long. It would take a superman with an almost

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious cone troversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

endless number of followers to hold such things in control. . . . We have learned much during the Jast 25 years. I think the average American is in a much better position to judge the seriousness of the situation than a lot of the so-called “experts.” We do not want compulsory conscription. One of the main Kkey-

ing. Millions of our ancestors left the various European shores to live

its trappings. If danger arises, we defend our country, but we know that we were deliberately misled in the World War.

ss 2.» ASKS WHY WEALTH IS NOT CONSCRIPTED

By Perplexed Is it right to conscript men and not conscript wealth? Who are we afraid of, and why? Why all the promises that we will not send soldiers overseas, then a suspicious demand suddenly for conscription? Why do our Washington defense groups run arcund in purposeless circles till the people watching get dizzy-jointed? It has taken Hitler months on end to get ready to invade England 21 miles across the Channel. England has not lost the war. Hitler couldn't get ready to come over here in two years. Then under existing naval and air, and supply problems, such a feat is practically impossible. Hi''er won't live forever. Europe gets poorer and more under-nourished every day, as all the wealth goes up in smoke. . WhY do we try to reform and insult other nations, till we have few friends left, among nations? We try to pack the Supreme Court, license radio stations, control Federal Reserve Banks, try to censor news reporters and papers, now we want army concentration camps. If we are going in for

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"He says just to say it's your sailor friend."

Side Glances—By Galbraith :

totalitarianism, why not chum-up with Hitler and be done with it. This is too much for me! ...

” o o URGES FOES OF DRAFT WRITE CONGRESSMEN By “A Reader of The Times”

Every man and woman should write our law makers in Washington and tell them how they stand on this Burke-Wadsworth bill. I'm sure that will prove to our lawmakers that the majority is against compulsory military train{ing in times of peace. . .. Any ordinary housewife knows things are not as bad as Mr. Stim[son says. Why not believe Mr. | Woodring, the man who was forced to step out of office so Stimson could step in with his war hysteria, jand he is the kind our President

The people realize Mr. Roosevelt stones in our Republic is that we do wants as is plain to be seen. Boys wants war in some way. The news- | not have compulsory military train- |

who are forced into military train{ing in this “blitzkrieg” way will not ‘be willing soldiers but rebellious

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[would all to a man, do our bit to year term for volunteers, with at

{least $30 per month salary, no {doubt we will get all the men we need. Lots of unemployed will volunteer. To force any young man off a good job and pay him $21 per month unless we are actually at war is out of all sense and reason. We should stop worrying so much about Mr. Hitler across the ocean and start worrying about the folks in Washington who are copying after him. . . . ” »

DENIES OURS IS A CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENT By Claude Braddick

Very often—in these columns and elsewhere—someone refers to our government as a “Christian” government, This is not true. We are in fact a Christian nation, since most of our citizens and officeholders are members of that faith. But our government is a government of law and not of men; and the basic law expressly forbids discrimination, not only between one religion and another, but between religion and non-religion, or atheism. Moreover, our laws are not based upon Christian precepts or the codes of Moses. We have borrowed from them, of course. But the main body is firmly based on the codes of Pagan Rome. As a matter of fact, the only secular leader who is putting Christian precepts to practical use today (and with considerable success, too!) is Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu. Perhaps some of our Christian leaders may take an example from him! » ” ” SAYS HE NOTES CHANGE IN

| CONGRESSIONAL THINKING By Daniel Francis Clancy This will probably go down in our political history as the brief period in which Congress turned from thinking about grafting to thinking about drafting.

FAREWELL

By VERNE S. MOORE My dismal soul creeps cringing to the ledge— To the abyss of parting, Death is far easier than farewell To one you love. The hated hour tightening Like omnious fate snatches fond dreams away,

To part and live but never meet again Is worse than tasting death to me. What if new friends, new loves and hopes may come In recompense? They cannot fill the parted day As you have done.

DAILY THOUGHT

And I will make the land desolate, because. they have committed a tresspass, saith the Lord God. — Ezekiel. ” ” 8 :

PERSECUTION often does in this life, what the last great day will do

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TUESDAY, AUG. 6, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Passing Bill, but Stalling Draft

Until After Election as Rumored

Would Mock Principle of the Law.

INCINNATI, Aug. 6.—When I left Washington

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Saturday the dope was that the Selective Service »<

Bill would pass with a neat little safety catch—there are to be no actual selections until after election to “give the volunteer system” a chance to work. This is pretty awful, If it were only a question of filling up the regular Army, the recruiting stations, aided by a ballyhoo drive, could doubtless do it. But the job is much greater than that. It is to induct

into military service and train several hundred thousand men as soon as they can be equipped and accommodated. The idea of selection—as distinguished from volunteering—is not merely to get men. It is also to preserve civilian morale—to get those men.with the least possible interference with normal life, and preserving in the process the utmost possible dignity and self-respect both in those who are selected to march with the colors and those who are selected to take care of their families and serve in the activities behind the battle line.

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F there is anything to the principle of selection, volunteering has no place in the picture. Selection is scientific—not emotional. We can't afford any distinctions between those who volunteer and those who wait to be told what the nation wants them to do. We can't afford the recruiting slogan we had to silence in 1917—"Be a Went and Not a Sent.” It is a mistake to try volunteering and selection at the same time. A recruiting drive is a tom-tom drumming up of emotional enthusiasm. It requires some hysteria and with that some sneering disfavor of those who don't rush to sign up. If there is anything in the scientific principle of selection, no man should he permitted to volunteer until after the registration and classification. After any general classification of men between, for example, the ages of 18 and 50 there would be several millions in Class 1A—men who could go with no dis= turbance of domestic, economic or educational life. Under the 1917 system these men would have the order of their going determined by a great lottery in the beginning. That is the true “draft” or “conscription.” But if, after that classification, we use a method tried on a small scale in 1918, we could get all the supposed benefits of volunteering with all the virtues of selection.

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E would not let the “order numbers” work to ‘‘take” men unless not enough men in Class 1A volunteered for training to fill the national quota. What I am about to say is partly a guess, but it is a guess based on experience. 1 feel sure that we would never have to take a single man against his will, His Government, his neighbors and friends would have determined for every man whether or not he should decide to go in the vanguard, not go at all, or go only when there were not enough others in the same classification who preferred to go earlier, No one would suffer the stigma of being either a conscript or a slacker. If we must modify the selective service system, let's not do it on any political basis of waiting for the election or any fumblings fooling makeshift that impairs its principle.

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Business By John T. Flynn

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One - Year Enlistments Probably

Would Work But Won't Get Trial.

EW YORK, Aug. 6.—There is a phase of the Compulsory Military Training Bill of which the public has heard little. Many people, who favor military conscription in a time of crisis, do not like militarism, look upon huge armies as a necessary evil to be avoided if possible and think that they do not harmonize with the essential principles of democratic government. They are willing now to have conscription only because they feel that is the only way to get the army. needed.

But it must not be overlooked that there are many people who want conscription because they like the idea, because they like an immense military establishment, because they think great displays of marching men, arms, might, are desirable things in themselves, and further because they think army training makes the best kind of citizens. This is a very important distinction, in view of one proposal pressed in Congress. At first the army men insisted that only by conscription could the necessary men be obtained. But certain Senators have insisted that the men could be obtained by voluntary enlist ment. Men will not enlist now, these Senators say, because to do so one must sign up for three years. If the period of service were reduced to one year—which is all the drafted men would serve—it would be possible to get great numbers of young men who would like a short career of military service but do not want to give to it three years of their lives. Now who is prepared to say that the necessary men could not be obtained by enlistment on this oneyear basis? No one. The army generals had to admit to the Senate committee that they did not know, as it had never been tried. They also had to admit that, even on the three-year basis, enlistments had greatly increased and exceeded expectations, Why is the most drastic means of raising the army tried first?

Compulsion Method Preferred

The answer is interesting. It is because the military authorities—or whoever is controlling this effort —prefer the compulsory method. Gen. Marshall, Chief of Staff, said that “conscription would have a very beneficial effeet upon our young men.” He insisted it “would make for a more public-minded people.” Gen. William E. Shedd, Assistant Chief of Staff, told the committee that *“regardless of whether we can procure the men by voluntary enlistment or not, the principles of selective service are so fair, so democratic” that he preferred that method. This conforms with the oft-repeated views of the President himself. For 20 years at least he has believed in national compulsory military service. He has said that he believes it educates men to be better citizens. Of course these men want to raise an army but, even though they can get it by voluntary enlistment, they would prefer to take advantage of the so-called emergency to introduce into the country a brandnew, revolutionary military system, fraught with grave economic and social consequences, based upon

compulsion.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

N nd young mothers worry greatly over the danger of baby suffocating to death in his bed at night, or even during the daytime nap, by sliding down under the covers and being smothered by them. There is some danger of this, although the Journal of the American Medical Association recently pointed out that probably in many cases when the baby was supposed to have smothered to death, examination after death showed some other cause for the fatality. . Most important precaution against such a catastrophe as the smothering of an infant, says the same medical authority, is a firm, hard mattress for baby to sleep on. Such a mattiess, which does not sag, will keep the baby from slipping down into the middle of the bed under the covers. . Pillows should not be used. The covers should be wide enough so they can be tucked firmly and snugly under the mattress at the side. They should come only a little, if any, higher than the nipple line, Wide, snugly tucked covers will generally stay on infants, but slightly older babies and sometimes even quite young ones will kick their covers off during the night, ne matter how well tucked in they may be. For such babies, many mothers have found the modern sleeping bags a great aid. “Another trick with baby's covers is to fasten the upper corners with clips: to elastic attached to the

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