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FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1840
HOW TO MUZZLE RUMOR
“JF somebody starts talking rumor take out an old envelope and start writing down what they're saying.” “Or—the cross-question method: ‘Did you actually see it? ‘No.’ ‘Then who did? ‘I don't know, somebody told me." ‘Who told vou? ‘I can't remember now.’ ” That from a London paper dealing with how to inspire the closed mouth as an aid to England's defense. Nothing could be more effective than those two gems of human psychology in toning down or silencing completely the teller of tall tales.
“FAVORED PARTS”
HE War Crv of London, the counterpart in England of the Salvation Army's familiar War Cry here, leads off its 1ssue of July 20 as follows: “Famine, that most dreadful of all scourges, is now freelv spoken of as a prospect for millions of Europeans. It is impossible for people in such favored parts of the world as the British Isles to imagine even faintly what it means.” Refer to Pollyanna if you wish. faith or stamina. In a state of siege, with a counter-block-ade in effect, with bombs dropping and a murderous invader glaring from across the Channel, still the War Cry speaks
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of “such favored parts of the worid as the British Isles.” |
It sounds encouraging to us. These people don't terrorize
easily.
NOT ILLEGAL—JUST BAD
ROY 0. WOODRUFF, a Republican Congressman from | Michigan, has sent us a leaflet on which is reprinted, | from the Congressional Record, a speech by himself en- | The | gist of the speech is that Mr. Woodruff thinks that Mr. |
titled, “Wendell Wilikie's Position on Foreign Trade.” Willkie should be elected President. In short, it's a campaign argument. The leaflet savs that it is “not printed at Government expense.” However, it came through the mail in an envelope without a stamp, under Mr. Woodruff's congressional “franking” privilege. So it was delivered to us at Government expense. the Congressional Record was at Government expense, costing the taxpayers about $50.
It should be said that many Democrats in Congress, | as well as many Republicans, frequently do what Mr. Wood- |
ruff has done here. They prepare campaign arguments. They get permission to have them printed in the ConThey buy reprints from the GovernAnd then they
oressional Record. ment Printing Office, at a nominal price.
mail them. in franked envelopes, to voters and editors. |
The total to the Government, in an election
must he something.
cost year, It is not an illegal practice. It's just a bad practice— a method of spreading political propaganda and making the taxpayers stand a large part of the expense. Whether it's done hv Democrats oi pose is to hoost Wendell Willkie or Franklin D. Roosevelt or any other candidate, we don’t like it.
THE DRAFT DEBATE
ODAY the Senate 1s taking up the bill for a selective, compulsory draft. We believe the enactment of this measure is not only desirable but necessary-—urgently necessary. We have heard and read a great many arguments against peacetime conscription. Some of them are sincere, some are demagogic, some are either ill-informed or mendacious, and some have the earmarks of a non-American party line. All the arguments, good, bad and .indifferent, are outweighed by the plain necessity for preparedness. Congress has already recognized this necessity by voting enormous sums for the machinery of war. But now
some of those who voted money for machines are refusing |
to do anything about men to run those machines. Call for volunteers, they say.
It
parades, four-
suggested that a great ballvhoo campaign—— minute speakers, movie shorts, radio time, posters, on produce the volunteers. We doubt it, and even if it did, vou can imagine the sort of war spirit that might be built up in the course of such a We don't want that.
suffice. Is
and so would
CITCUSs.
and underprivileged—instead of the truly democratic army that comes from a universal draft.
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It seems to us, also, that the Senate should restore the |!
original provision for registering all men from 18 to 64, instead of aecepting the bill's present plan for registering only those from 21 to 31. Few men in their 30s and 40s
would like to admit that they are too old and feeble to carry |
their part of the load. And the wider range will give the Government a maximum latitude in selecting men with the needed skills and aptitudes, with a minimum of interference with industry. After all, only a relative few of the registrants—and none with dependents—will be called up for a year’s training. The Army and the National Guard are not equipped now to train more than a few hundred thousand at a clip. But a start has got to be made. Don't be lulled by the fact that London is still intact. We don't know whether England will lose, or whether Hitler will try picking on us next if England falls. We do know that this country cannot afford to assume that England will win or that Hitler will not bother us. And we also know that we cannot move forward with adequate preparedness unless we get men, and the right men, in the quick and orderly manner that the draft bill
provides,
in Indiana, $3 & year; |
We'd rather call it |
And the original printing of the speech in |
Republicans, whether its pur- |
The leaders of the Army | have testified that the volunteer system simply will not |
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Since Property Ownership Only Is Permitted in Free Countries He Doubts U. S. Will Conscript Wealth
EW YORK, Aug. 9.—Excuse me, friends, but do I understand vou to say that if men are to be conscripted for military training or war, then wealth should be conscripted, too? Because, before I bet on that proposition I want to take another squint at my hand. Now, as I read the cards I observe that men are conscripted to defend the wealth of a country because the life and freedom of the people are based on the possession of that wealth. And, of course, it sounds handsome to say that the wealth of a nation should belong equally to all the people, but if you will take a look around vou will observe that freedom exists only in those countries in which the wealth, or most of it, is privately owned and shifted from one possessor te another in constant toil, trade, competition and
speculation. I don’t know why it works out that way, but it
does. In Russia, Germany and Italy the wealth belongs entirely to the state, or, in your way of speaking, to all the people, equally, and the result is that no individual, except the few bosses, has any wealth at all or any of the rights that Americans enjoy. " 8 ® HEY can't speak out of turn; they can be shot for reading forbidden material or listening to forbidden stations on the air; they have to work where they are put as many hours as they are told to. And thev have to serve in armies and fight in wars, too. even with no prospect of acquiring any wealth if they happen not to be killed. When the war is over, if they live, back they go to their tasks. The farmer is staked to his farm on & short tether, and, though he may think he owns it, that is only an illusion. Let him .fall behind the production figured out for him by the nation and they chase him down the road, and his family with him, and give the farm to someone else who will work harder and better and for a bare living. That is what has to happen in a country where vou conscript the wealth as well as the man. It has to happen, and it does happen, because when the government of a nation takes over the wealth it becomes the owner of all the farms and factories as well as the diamond bracelets and the stocks and
bonds. EALTH isn't just stock certificates and saw- \ bucks. It is the property, and when the government conscripts the property, then eventually the government becomes the only employer in the country, and its orders to the employees are not to be disregarded or argued, as in the free countries The government's orders as the employer and the
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happens when you disobey a law of the government, especially in time of national danger. They send for the secret police and give vou a quick trial, and you go to the clink if they don’t take a notion to shoot | you So. on reading my hand carefully, T have to bet
against your proposition that wealth should be con- |
| scripted along with men. If you are going to do that | there is no reason to conscript the men, because this country’s only reason for doing that is to fight off the very thing that would happen here the minute we decided to conscript wealth.
Inside Indianapolis
Every 192d Person Here a Lawyer;
VERY 192d person you pass on Washington St. E is a lawyer. That's a fact. There are 2005 bar- | risters here, enough to take care of every person in Indianapolis for two days worth of service every year. You'll probably be surprised to learn that there
| are just about the same number of teachers—2060. Doctors run quite a bit fewer—898, or one for every 420 persons We happened to he thinking about it and we jusi looked up the figures. We were shocked a little hit
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 1940
Unfinished Business!
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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.
CLASS STRUGGLE AND THE RACE STRUGGLE By Curious
To Claude Braddick: My cur-| iosity has caused me to read Karl Marx, the Constitution of the United States and Hitler's Mein Kampf recently and any American citizen who does that in these days cannot be classified as immature] in any of the political or economic | sciences of today. { Hitler is continually ranting about thing that happens being ordered race struggle while Karl Marx is| for the divine glory and the ultimate doing the same about “class strug-| good of His faithful servants. “We gle.” Now let me give you an ex- know that to them that love God all ample of class struggle that I have things work together unto good.” gotten out of The Times in the last The sufferings of this life, no matter week. The British can't find enough whence they come, bring home to
(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be
withheld on request.)
ships to send their children over us as nothing else can, the wretched- |
here (they should be sent to Can-| ness of our fallen state, the gravity
to learn we have only one minister for every 1191
persons
profession of all is beauty operating. The women | here have 2250 of them—one for every 171 persons | Take the men out and what have you got?
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| WE SPOTTED a Dilling Candy Co. truck with 2 | sign on it saying “Chocolate Ave’ We looked it sure enough, the Dilling Co. is located right
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up and | on that South Side street | a young lady very well known here by girls who at- | tended DePauw: It seems that a radio program the other night presented Mrs. Jessie Stadstad of Beech- | hurst, L. 1.. as heiress to $12,500 left by an 89-year-old Seattle aunt. . Within half an hour, Mrs. Stadstad’s daughter was on the telephone from No- | blesville. where she's working on a newspaper, to tell | her mother she's already received two marriage pro-
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ONE OF THE neatest jobs of flying you can see | hereabouts is when Maj. Jimmy Doolittle takes off lin his little P-36, one of the Army's crack mode's. . .. When Jimmy guns it at Stcut Field it i70ks as if he'd been catapulted into the air. . Talking
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But the pay-off iz that the most thickly populated
, And here's a story about | [1s a great editor, but also very much HELP FOR BRITAIN
|like the Valiant Templar, who
understand class struggle?
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men.” Admiral has well spoken ”
{ nouncer Max Emmery gives his “0-0-0-0-0--Kay” to
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
S we speed toward them I alweys feel the same delicious shock to see that the Rockies are just where we left them last year. During the intervening
" | busy months since we bade them goodby so many | Furthermore, the volunteer system would give us an |
army predominantly drawn from among the unemployed
things have happened, as things must Our friend may die or move away, our children | may grow up and marry. Indeed, everything con- | nected with daily existence shifts and changes so0 | quickly that there seems to he no stability in the | universe. Sometimes life itself hurries by se fast I feel as if 1 were the most unfamiliar person around.
myself and say, “Can this be I?"
changing, unchangeable. are, brooding with majestic indifference, unconscious of the pygmy mortals who come each summer to in- | vade their privacy and afflict their tranquility with finite pesterings. As we hurry west, their outlines are, first, a sweet dim blue upon the far horizon. Approaching nearer, they take on strange purple shapes until finally their hugeness dominates the earth and we are enclosed in its cloistered sanctuary, devotees entering into a vast, cool quiet temple. How good it is to leave the heat and turmoil and find upon the gracious earth these shrines where Nature lavishes her gifts in such profusion and where 1, too, may come and worship. The feeling of worship is paramount here in the Rockies. Perhaps this is the way the first man and woman felt when they knew no words to sav, but sensed that God was near. I rise on the first vacation morning, and go forth
to all this, which no phrases can describe and the |
| heart finds hard to bear because it is so beautiful and | sa silent and yet so murmurous with lovely forest sounds.
The sun, high priest of day, flings his golden gar- | ments about, the pine fragrance rises, a perpetual in-
cense upon the air, and under the quiet trees butterflies go softly to and fro. I stand quite still in order to feel once more the benediction of the mountains upon me and know for sure, as David did, that there is strength and faith eternal te be found among these everlasting hills. }
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If not, at least these are the same mountains, unHow proudly isolated they |
ada) but the only children who of sin, the worthlessness of earthly have a chance to come are wealthy. happiness, and so make us long for But now they put the ex-King on that better land “where the wicked an American ship in Portugal and Cease from troubling and the weary send a whole convoy trailing him. | 8re at res One ex-King is more important _ 1b is only along the Way of the
ana valuable to Britain than a mil- Cross that we can tread in our lion poor children and ll the sol- Master's footsteps and find Him in
: , . eternal joy. Through many tribuladiers in the empire. Now do you tions We must enter into the king{dom of God." | The last sentence explains why God hasn't given an immediate answer 10 our prayers
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LIKENS HITLER TO VALIANT TEMPLAR By Mrz Ellen Brunson 1 would not only say that Hitler
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ee yp ™ ‘IN By Sideline Sittin’ Lil e time of Peter, King of Arragon when the Spanish ral ow I intend to write my Congressde Luria, a templar, arrived at port man and Senator today, asking of them to do their utmost toward Marseilles, the Provencals taken by surprise, some of his men from World War I) to England at cried out ‘Now fall on.” *“God for-| once, and I hope that everyone who
bid,’ said he, “that I should attack reads this letter will feel the same | {them while
they sleep; let the yrge and follow through! trumpet sound and I shall wait till] Let's do something now, this Men shall not be week; I'm through being afraid we'll able to say that I attacked sleeping get in the war; we've done enough They all cried out. “The pow to make the Germans as mad at us as they w.ll ever get, so why So as it is with Hitler he spoke in not send these ships. advance and Britain time and again| I've never had much has said “Come on Adolf, we are England, but I'm pulling for that ready for you.” English Navy with all I've got! 1
God's providence rules and guides want to see it stay in the control |
all things. He has not flung this of the English and not fall into the world of ours into space to take its hands of the dirtiest fighter the chance; but all nature, from the world has ever seen. highest to the lowest forms in it. It is a frightening thing to sit 1s under His constant control, everv- on the sidelines and see our law-
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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being sending 50 of our destroyers (left |
love for |
| makers sit back on their haunches [and weigh all their actions, as to (how it is going to affect votes. | Let's write and tell 'em—plenty! |
| . FAVORS LOUD SIRENS {FOR POLICE CARS By Cecil A. Maddalena Let's forget war troubles for a while. We have troubles right here.
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| | I read “In Indianapolis” about a week ago where Capt. Leo Troutman | of the Police Department says that | most police cars do not have sirens | because they cost too much and that | the police may be tempted to do 60 or 70 m. p. h. I always thought the Police De- | partment had a good reason for not | having sirens because maybe they were afraid they would scare the crooks away. | As it 1s now, they never get to a] house on time. With ernoks and prowlers on the rampage as we have here now, each police car nught to have a bright red light and one of | the loudest sirens vou ever heard, | Better vou scare the crook away! before he does more damage or at least give the policeman a fighting chance to catch him. | The Fire Department has two red | lights and the loudest siren and they | know the fire is there waiting for | them to combat. The ambulance | (knows the sick or injured person | will be there waiting for him. But the Police Department, as The Times | says, only has a wheezy horn, and I | say a dim red light trying to answer | a call and yet stopping at stop lights and slowing down for preferential streets while the crook walks away from our houses with his loot. No, the Police Department can | get new cars every two or three vears but they can't afford a siren which will last a lifetime if taken care of. Police might be tempted | to go 60 or 70 m. p. h. Don’t forget | the Fire Deparment have governors |on their motors. The taxpayers of this city pay for | protection. So let's get some from ! this Police Department of ours.
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» " | THINKS CONSCRIPTION BACKERS FAR-SIGHTED By A Reader
I believe The Times is upholding | the conscription bill because that's | what they helieve is right, just as Mrs, C. M. VanCleave thinks it is Wrong The conscription believers are fai sighted enough to appreciate what can happen to a defenseless coun- | try. Is it necessary to review the destruction Hitler has done in this world ? | Isn't it enough that he has ruth-| lessly killed and destroyed every-| thing from Spain to Norway? Is it] necessary to reprint those pictures | | of children made legless by Hitler's | | hombers, or of the young women | killed in the French hospitals by the | German war aces Is it necessary! | to reprint those pictures of Nor- | wegians cutting up a dead horse] (for the day's meal? The conscription believers do not | want this country to meet the same fate as that of the conquered Euro- | pean countries, and they do not bes lieve praying will turn Hitler's guns the other way.
HIGHLAND SIMILE By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY
A woman's love is like a clan It makes a man Feel a leader. And as he walks alone Thoughts of her Are like the scream of pipes.
DAILY THOUGHT
And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and T will there talk with thee. — Ezekiel 3:22.
THE, FIRST LAW that ever God
{| under the act can be sold publicly there must
| useful, wise, wholly desirable, or harmless.
5 to man, was a law of obedience.
Gen. Johnson Says—
Pershing May Be Right in Saying We Won't Send Soldiers Abroad, But Wilson Also Felt That Way in 1917,
EW YORK, Aug. 9.—Gen. Pershing said that no matter what else we do to mix up in the European war, we shall never send an expeditionary force to Europe. On all the military probabilities he is right, as he usually is on such questions. But the werringly certain quality about strategic planning is its unerring uncertainty—its utter unpredictahility, Who would have dreamed in 1913, for example, that before November, 1918, we would have more
than 2,000,000 American soldiers in France—a larger combat force than Great Britain ever had there? I'll tell you some who didn't dream it—the President of the United States, and the general staffs of Germany, France, England, Austria, Italy, Belgium and the U. S. A. When the first selective draft started T wrote a memorandum, in July, 1917, suggesting that it be for 1,000,000 men—not to take them before they were ready, but to classify and warn those who would have to go. It came back ink-spattered by an angry pen-point that had punctured the paper and spurted indigation. It was initialed “W. W.” and said, in effect, that the American people would never stand for a draft of a million men, that our contribution was to be largely in money and supplies, that it was absurd to think of an offensive in any such terms— just as Gen. Pershing says today.
HAT was perfectly understandable. The Allies were then saying that all they advised was a “token” American force of a few divisions to “show the flag” and boost the French and British morale, that they needed our factories, our supplies, our money and the available shipping to keep business as usual much more than they would ever need our untrained levies. The enemy general staffs agreed, They did not count on Americans in mass until we actually began to send them, after the British debacle of March, 1918. We in the selective draft organization never agreed. As the system started, it was not geared to get 100,000 men a month. In December, 1917, I revised the entire machine to examine and classify the whole 10,000,000 pool of manpower. A result was that when the pressure came in 1918 and the Allies began to scream for “men in their undershirts,” it was enabled to step up the monthly taking from some 30 or 40,000 to 400.000 men a month-——without, a ripple. I shall always believe that this change did much to win the war, ”
NYWAY, it burned in on my mind the fact that no man is smart enough to foresee the course of war once the fateful decision is made to engage in it. We do a lot of talking about, “defensive” war and “defending” the Western Hemisphere, No country at war can completely decide its own policy. The enemy has something to sav ahout that. Germany is fighting this war as England always fought her wars—to win, Tf we get into it, that is
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| the way me must fight--with everything we have and anywhere on the surface of the globe where a power
ful blow mav bring victory. Let's make no mistake ahout that or he fooled into any action on the error that any war is a picnic or that either combatant can call his shots without regard to what the enemy may do.
Business
By John T. Flynn
Wall Street Asks End of Waiting Period on New Stock Issues.
EW YORK, Aug. 9.—Wall Street wants to “break the ice” in its drive against the Securities Act of 1933. This is the law sometimes known as the “Truth-in-Securities Act.” On the whole it is a good law and, along with the SEC act itself, about the best passed in that series of mixed blessings known as the New Deal. But Wall Street wants to whittle it down, If it ever succeeds, this will be accomplished a little at a time, The law provides that before securities registered be a waiting period of 20 days following the registration statement. The investment bankers want to get rid of that waiting period. They want to get 11d of many other things, but this change is designed to break the ice. An amendment has been offered that will give the SEC discretion to eliminate or shorten this period in any given case Of course “national defense” requires this, Unless this is changed Hitler might come over here and eat us up while we are waiting for the 20 days to expire As 8 matter of fact, however, there is some ground for according to certain issues some sort of preferential treatment. Stock or hond issues are of various types. One classification can be made according to the purposes for which the securities are issued. One group of stocks or bonds includes issues to be substituted for other existing issues. Bonds are issued to replace old bonds that have expired, or to replace high interest bonds with lower interest ones. Stocks are issued to take up outstanding bonds, etc, etc.
Distinction Should Be Made
In cases like these the securities to be issued do not represent any plant or business expansion. They do not bring in new money to finance new building or new machinery. They are merely substitutions or exchanges of new I. O. U.’s for old ones, They may be But they are never sc important that a 20-day waiting period
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Then there is another class of securities, They are stocks and bonds issued to be sold for cash, which cash is to be used to put up new plants, erect new buildings, install new machinery, equip railroads or utilities with new locomotives, cars, rails, dynamos, etc. This produces real economic investment-—ex-penditure of saving funds in industrial or economio expansion. This makes work, makes business. Without undertaking to say that the amendment ending the 20-day waiting period should or should not he changed, 1 suggest that if it is, it be limited strictly to issues of securities where the objects of the issue. clearly stated under oath in the registration statement, are for the purpose of using the funds derived from the issue in the building, extension or rehabilitation of plant or equipment,
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
HE child who is below par physically, does not n=ed to be put in a special class at school, but he does need special care both at home and at school, That suns up the new trend in ideas about the he= low=pai child, as reported in the Pennsylvania Med ical Journal. The special classes for below-par children, especially the open-air classes, were originally devised years ago because it was thought these would protect a child, especially an undernourished, anemic child, from developing tuberculosis. Now it is known that no matter how pale a thin child may be, he will not get tuberculosis without getting the tuberculosis germs into his body, and that the best way to prevent this is to see that there are no tuberculosis patients in the child’s home. The open-air and other special classes, however, undoubtedly did much to improve the health of. school children, particularly as they provided extra rest and food. The same reults, it is believed, can be achieved without segregating the child in a special class which “is detrimental to the child's education and social development.” The procedure suggested instead of special classes is as follows: The school physician in his physical examinations of the children selects the below-par group for intensive study. School physician, nurse and teach. er confer with the parents and visit the child's home, to gain better understanding of the reasons why the child is below-par. Whatever causes are discovered can be removed or mitigated to a large extent, it is suggested, by social or economic adjustments in the home. At school, arrangements can be made for rest, periods and a lightened program, but the child attends as many of the regular classes as he can without strain, :