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HOW DOES HE KNOW? 8 ENATOR WHEELER Montana, who opposes the | ~ Selective Service Bill, told the Senate yesterday that it was not because he was “afraid of Mr. Mussolini attacking us” that he voted for the bills appropri- | ating billions of doilars for national defense. Statements thac Hitler will turn to the United States and the Wesern Hemisphere after conquering England are | “nonsense,” the Senator said. | Would it be fair to ask Senator Wheeler to explain fully | why he did vote for the defense appropriations, if he has no | fear that this country will be attacked? And how he knows | that Hitler has no designs on the United States and the Western Hemisphere? We don’t like the spending of billions on defense. We don't like the idea of a hig army, raised by any method. But we hate the though! of this country having # try to defend tselt being prepared and without adequately trained manpower. So, as what seem to us the lesser evils, we favor preparedness and compulsory training. If Senator Wheeler knows that this country will not have to defend itself, that Hitler and Mussolini have no plans against us, that we can remain secure though England falls, information concerning the basis of this knowledge would be of tremendous value. But if the Senator only | elieves these things, however sincerely, that is different.
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\ great many people in other countries were almost as | certain as the Senator appears, in the case of the United States, that they would not be attacked and that going all the wav to prepare for defense was unnecessary. And look at those countries now.
THE THOMPSON ART COLLECTION THE Ball State Teachers’ College art museum today be- | came one of the most important art centers in this {ate with the outright donation of the collection owned hy | and Mrs. William 1. Thompson of Indianapolis. The Thompsons collection has long been recognized the finest private collections in the Midwest. It
ides two priceless portraits by Andrea del Sarto and
Of yw Titian. In making the gift, the Thompsons have specified that lection 18 to be forever open to the publie without adion charge it is a handsome gift, handsomely given.
LET THE BUYER BEWARE ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND copies of “The Democratic " Book of 1940” have been printed for sale by the Demo- | cratic National Committee. According to Charles Michelson, the committee's press | this book contains advertising in an amount “more than usual.” Much of the advertising was sold to corporaions. at £2500 to $8500 a page. A Federal law, the Corrupt ractices Act, has long made it a crime for corporations to contribute money directly to a national political campaign. therefore, a device to extort imnd contributions from corporations in avoidance of the Corrupt Practices Act. But pass that, for the moment. [here is a newer Federal law, the Hatch Act of 1940. penalties up to £5000 and five for any person or any corporation to buy
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law rears in prison in such a publication as “The Democratic Rook 1940” or to buv copies of the book. Its purpose is to top this form of avoidance of the Corrupt Practices Act. \ll right. You mav wonder how, despite the Hatch of 1940, the Democratic National Committee could advertising to corporations. Well, it can and does argue that the advertising was sold and paid for before President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act of 1940 last month. But how about the sale of books?
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Well, it seems that there is a loophole in the Hatch Act. The penalties apply only to those who buy advertising space and books. They do not apply to those who sell. So the Democratic National Committee assumes no risk. And, maybe, the buyers of books will assume no great risk. For | the Attorney General of the Uinted States, Robert Il. Jackson, savs that juries probably would not convict the | buvers so long as the sellers—those “who systematically plan such devices and bring pressure on buyers to subscribe” | could not be prosecuted. Mr. Jackson, to his credit, has urged Congress to plug loophole. We hope Congress will do that. But Mr. Jackson has gone on record against the use of loopholes, even when unplugged. He was quick, the other day, to warn that the Department of Justice would not sanction the ce nf apparent Hatch Act loopholes pointed out to the Republican National Committee hy itz general counsel, Henry P. Fletcher. He stated that he 1s "unwilling to approve any plan which defeats the “spirit” of the law. | We think it is in order for Mr. Jackson to tell the | Democratic National Committee: That by retaining money it has collected for advertising in its eampaign book it is defeating the spirit of the Corrupt Practices Act and the Hatch Act. That by offering the book for sale it will be asking prospective buyers to violate the Hatch Act and exposing them to the risk of heavy penalties, whether that risk is great or small. : That its only honorable course is to refund the money received for advertising, refuse to sell any copy of the hook, and charge off its expense in printing the book to bad judgment.
(CLEAR AS A BELL | A DISPATCH from Washington the other day indicated that officers of the Two Per Cent Club were convinced it would be perfectly legal to continue collections from State émployees if they were “on a voluntary basis.” We understand perfectly what you mean, boys.
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| the closed | from all departments of journalism all those individu-
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American citizens.
| those dynamos
| and acts lots younger. | and he's known as a great “kidder.”
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| apt to be a little careless about his figure. | their prompting he keeps pretty much in trim.
| thrilled Izaak Walton
| eved things! eating when properly cooked, fishing merely for the | | fun of it is the lowest form of recreation, as I un-
— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ‘Pike's Peak or Bust!
Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Mrs. Roosevelt Not Eligible and Her Presence in Guild May Harm Those Fighting Communist Control.
EW YORK, Aug. 10.—To return to the subject of Mrs. Roosevelt's decision to remain a memes
| her of the Newspaper Guild, I would like to call
attention to her attitude in presuming to vote and
| exert an influence in affairs which are none of her
business, but which are terribly important to legiti-
mate journalists, Journalism is not Mrs. Roosevelt's occupation; she is not properly eligible for membership in the guild. and her resolve to remain a member, notwithstanding the fact that it has become a Soviet outpost, is in contrast to her hasty and sensational resignation from the D. A. R, which, whatever its faults, has never been accused of adherence to the
| Communist Party or the Nazi or Fascist movement,
The guild recently held a convention in Memphis,
| in which: the Muscovite control was confirmed by a
typical Communist political trick. The non-Com-munists had organized a rebellion, and the Com-
| munists thereupon split into two factions for a mock
fight.
They set up a phony rebel faction of their own, which took the play away from the legidimate, antiCommunist group, and the two Communist groups then closed in from both sides to prevent ‘‘redbaiting” and re-elect the Bolo control. s & 4 CALLED the turn on this before the convention met, exposing then the fake character of the fight between the two Communist groups. The scheme was so good that it was just too good; for it revesled at last to many editorial workers the smooth, efficient political cunning of the Communists 1m control The Communist Party is now in absolute control of the American Newspaper Guild, and any emplover who signs a closed-shop contract with this tranSmission belt, whereby non-Guild employees would be compelled to join or be fired, is literally driving these pagple into the power of the Communist Party. That Mrs. Roosevelt is not aware of the Communist control of the guild I will not admit. And her intention ta remain a member for the purpose of fighiing the Communists will be considered in the light of her attitude toward the Communists In control of the American Youth Congress. In that organization her activity has seemed more like cooperation or conciliation than opposition. » »
HE Communists in the guild are now deliberately trying to drive out the legitimate newspapermen and women, so thgt they can hold over them the penalty of expulsion. Thus when they have achieved shop they would permanently exclude
als who have the principle and the courage to reject Soviet leadership. They have now come into the open, after several
| years of evasion, with a frank declaration that anvone
who resigns from the guild may be permanently exmembership and thus made ineligible
The prestige of the Presidency of the United States, is Mrs. Roosevelt's sole qualification here, should not be added to the subversive organization is attacking of
the rights
Inside Indianapolis
Edward W. Harris, Human Dynamo; Likes Candy, Bridge and Long Trips.
ROFILE of the week: Edward Wesley Harris, who is one of the best cigar ahd candy customers of his own wholesale tobacco firm Ed Harris is one of who is never happy unless he is snowed under with things to do Although he has a big job running the HamiltonHarris Co, he has always made time for civic jobs,
| not as a matter of duty but because he enjoys it.
He's 635 now and his hair is white, but he looks He has a sunny disposition He's of medium height, weighs about 160 pounds. His favorite hobby is bridge. Ten years ago his family couldn't get him to look at a deck of cavds, but now he'll give up almost anything to take a hand in a friendly bridge game. He is devoted to his family of five children and 10 grandchildren and wouldn't
think of spending a holiday without the whole bunch |
around him.
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WHENEVER HE'S TIRED OR worried, he likes to in his car and take a trip. Driving never tires Last summer he and Mrs. Harris took a three-7000-mile trip to California. He drove all the wav, often as much as 600 miles a day For many vears he was an ardent stamp collector He iz still an enthusiastic amateur photographer, a hobby he hegan in bovhood. He owns quite a collection of cameras. For the last several vears he has been interested in auto racing and has sponsored ears in the 500-mile race As a bov hz played the viohn the cello and until 15 or 20 vears ago in the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church church's treasurer for nearly 20 vears trustee After church on Sundays, rounds of his friends, especially
get him
Later he tok up he was cellist He was the now is 2 he likes to make the those who are ill
AND. ALTHOUGH IT ISN'T known generally, he is an able amateur poet. No member of his famfly over got a stock birthday or Christmas card from Ed Harris. Instead they receive a clever verse, in lighthearted vein, penned specially for them. In between running his company (a job he's been
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| doing for almost 40 years), he's found time to serve
as a City Councilman, School Board member, Boy Scout official for quarter of a century, Tuberculosis Association President, Community Fund leader and Republican Party “spade” worker. In his family's eyes he has only one failing. But under He does it by exercise, though—not dieting. He's too fond of food—and particularly candy—
for that.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson Gla
mav he seen whipping the stream in their struggles te outwit the trout
REEDE, Colo, i: advertised at Paradise”
too. for at every river bend anglers
Now and then thev even throw the big ones back. which iz something entirely new in my piscatorial experience. although that would never have In my opinion, the fish is the most overrated of creatures. Nasty, slimy, coldAnd although some make delectable
derstand that word. Yet, hereabouts men, and women, too, go siithering over rocks, wade waist deep in cold water, ride horses for miles, and sleep on the ground all night for the pleasure of hooking a few mountain trout. They seem to get powerful exhilaration from the sport, so I can oniy believe there is something wrong with me, for surely all these people can’t be deluded. Men from cities, freed from office routine, dash in daily, eager to cast a fly into the clear, cold Rio Grande. They load themselves down with trout baskets, rods and reels, wading boots, khaki jackets and queer looking hats. In fact, when one of these skilful anglers is fully equipped for his exercise, with all sorts of objects sticking out all over him, he looks like the White Knight in Wonderland, and might seare a nervous trout to death. Any number of the local experts, who are either tired of trout or never relished them as a dinner delicacy, say they like to pull them in just for the thrill of the conquest. I am obliged to take them
| at their word. of course. although 1 shall never be
able to understand what it is about fooling a fish that makes men feel virile and persuades so many women they are good sports,
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
The Fisherman's | It must be at least half as good as |
SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1940
Gen. Johnson Says—
Opposition to Registration Slight, But This Is Only the First and Least Important Step in Draft.
EW YORK, Aug. 10.—As the debate on conseription gets started, the issues are clearing a little, It seems that there is almost no resistance to “regis tration,” Backs only begin to arch at the idea of
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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.—Vollaire,
SAYS TRUE AMERICANS WILL MEET AT ELLWOOD
By Voice in the Crowd
Wendell Willkie's notification gathering amuse Mrs. Dorothy Crawford. it seems that it would be educational to the readers of the Forum if the {lady would give her views on the
[late Democraiic Convention at Chi-!
{cago | It is true that there mav be .no new ideas at Elwood, there will be no rabbits pulled out of any hats You will ind there on Willkie Day a gathering of Americans who believe in and wish to perpetuate the {American principles. You will find in Elwood a gathering that will not admit that the "Indispensable Man” {has arrived in America. You will find a gathering that does not ackhowledge that Americanism has failed and who know that our establishment will long endure if we place all our faith in our foundation rather than in one man who at the end of his seventh term may fail in health and leave us with greater problems If there is anything amusing in our very serious political situation then the Democratic Convention should take all of the prizes for the Qreatest comedy of the year. The only reason that they cannot have the prizes is because it is not comedy to play politics with the lives of people, especially poor people those who are here and those who follow us
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WANTS FAMILIES OF GUARDSMEN PROTECTED Re A Mi the traming political : lobby Perhaps the Guards are not up to Hitlers regulars but they have been training voluntarily for years Way not start compulsory training for men who are single and train them up to the standard of the present National Guards first? Calling out the National Guards as a whole for a year’s training will cause its members to suffer, unless proper measures are taken to support the Guardsman’s family while he is away if he is the sole support and protect the private affairs of those members who operate their own businesses or are in debt when
Guardaman Roosevelt's idea of calling out Gard for a year's certainly looks like a big move to satisfy the labor
National
If the preparations at Elwood for
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called. This could not he accomplished from a basic pay of &1 per day unless special arrangements are made Inasmuch as the Guardsman volunteered to protect his state and country against all enemies, it is only fair that he and his family chould he given the same protection If his debts are paid by the Government when he is called for the vear's training, his family provided for and arrangements made so that he can see his wife and children regularly, the Guard is ready to go anvtime. But family men and men with responsibilities who would lose their shirts if their patriotism leads them and theirs into the horrors of Upton Sinclair’ “Jungle,” shudder at the thought of being bl thely called ont for training while babies need milk and doctor bills pile np with the handsome sum of a dollar per to fix it up. Many Guardsmen live hand to mouth and are not able to close up and go without outside help
» DPEPLORES LACK OF ACTUAL STUDY By Procinr E. Dies Opinions are expressions of belief bv confident, but not positive,
individuals. They may or may not be true Few people realize that anything to be true or to betome true must be in accordance with natural laws. To believe is to admit one does nt know, an admisgion of ignorance; to know is to understand the physical factors involved . The less one knows, the more regard {or opinions; the more one knows, the less regard for opinions. When others sanction one's belief, it begets confidence but it is still in the realm of uncertainty. To acquire knowledge one must observe and study natural phenomena over a period of time. Only a few people devote any time to actual study; the
| duction and
PALO, 8-10
"In the penthouse it was airplanes—in the country it was cows and chickens——and now we move next door to a Boy Scout!’
land
[it a law if you cut the hours you i must pay the same wages?
ma jority conjure ‘states of mind” in consequence have a multi- | tude of varving opinions. Knowledge can best be gained by scientific research than by any trial and error method in a haphazard manner. Opinions are gathered not to obtain knowledge but to ascer-| tain the “states of mind” of the] people concerning the issue in question. People may express their preferences. register approval or dis-| gust, hut they have only relieved! their “minds” temporarilv——nothing fundamentally having been solved. | Confidence must he maintained to continue anvthing fictitious or doubtful Competence—the result of knowl edge and training—is indispensable in the physical world With more competence we will need less con-
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EXPLAINS WHY HE'LL VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT
Elwood,
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Jesse 1. Hanshew, Ind. I'll vote for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, because he is one of American Presidents. He's Christian—a humanitarian who understands the decaving of the present capitalistic system and acts accordingly. He has laid the foundation and cornerstone for the future welfare | of all American people He has selected directing boards for estabs lishing government control and ownership of the means of prodistribution; a free right to work and all vou produce, less running expenses, depreciation | of machinery and cost of ma-/ terial, old age pension. in-| surance against unemployment; | initiative and referendum and the
Right of Recall He's a pure democracy President,
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» ” ” CLAIMS SOME FACTORIES IGNORE WAGE-HOUR LAW Br A Forelady I am a forelady in a factory. We pay our girls the required 32's cents per hour for a 42-hour week. We laid off girls last fall who were at that time working 44 hours a week for 30 cents per hour. This |
| spring when we re-employed them |
we raised them to 32': cents per | hour for a 42-hour week, the same | as our other girls. I understand | a ‘great man$ factories only pay | their re-employed help 30 cents an hour for the new 42-hour week. Isn't that the same as a cut? Isn't
Why doesn't the wage-hour law
[enforcement make the factories all |
pay the 32'; cents per hour when they work the 42-Hour week to all | re-employed help? If any help| worked for 30 cents per hour for 44 hours, when re-employed the 42-hour week thev ought to be made to pay 32's cents per hour to | make up the difference between | the 44 and the 42-hour week When one firm tries to do what is right
why can't others do the same?
INTERROGATION
By JAMES F. MAUK Is it enough to accept this present symbol, . To take it for a lasting thing, Knowing by nature it must crumble, |
| Disintegrate into a dust,
Be scattered by wind, transformed by rain?
Or must the heart keep for its armor Delusion born of unfulfilled desire, Search endlessly for the endurable image; Live alone in desolation, Be consumed in its own fire?
DAILY THOUGHT
And I will execute great vengeance upon: them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when 1 shall lay my vengeance upon them.--Ezekiel 25-17.
IF YOU HAVE committed in- | \quity, vou must expect to suffer; | for vengeance with its sacred light | shines upon you.-Sophocles.
| deferment was claimed, the questionnaire had to re-
has shown that a sufficient number of men won't volunteer, As proof that a sufficient number will 1s cited in the recent rise in volunteering enIt is also said that 1,300,000 volunteered in
all services during the World War, The latter is a misleading figure. It includes all men who were in the Army and Navy on long-term enlistment at the beginning of the war, It includes also men who were drafted into Federal service in solid blocks. In the World War there was a great boost in voluntary enlistment as soon as it became clear that the draft was going into effect. There was also a rise in enlistments in the Civil War after President Line coln decided on the draft. In neither case, however, was the draft-induced rise enough to meet the nation's demand for men, In my opinion it will not do
so today.
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HIS lag in enlistment is no indication of slacker-ism-—especially in a nation apparently committed to the principle, at least, of selective service, which holds that each man shall serve in that place in which it shall best serve the common good for his country to call him, Under such a principle, there is substantial ground for saying that a good citizen ought to wait until the Government itself tells him its wishes Those who, for the present, oppose “selection” hut approve “registration” ought to define their terms more accurately, Registration is a necessary first step but, standing alone, it is of no value, It is just a census of bulk raw resource in manpower, ‘The essen tial step is the second one, It is called “classification.” That process decides who should be deferred,
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EFERMENT from liability to immediate service should not, I think, be made at the request of the registrant. No man should be put in the position of asking to be relieved of the first duty of citizenship, except perhaps in the single case of pre-established conscientious objection to combat service, If the ground be the dependency of others, the dependents ought to make the claim. If it be essential to an industrial or agricultural enterprise, the Government or the employer ought to make it. If it be educational or professional engagement, the Government
| or the affected institution ought to make it.
This “classification” or “selection” process is done by local boards of neighbors, serving at sacrifice, act
I ing with exclusive jurisdiction except for a limited
right of appeal to “district boards” and a far more
| limited right of appeal to the President.
This is a ticklish point. In the World War, if a veal every pertinent fact advanced to support it. If none was claimed, nobody had to answer any inquisitorial question. That principle should be preserved, One of the most cogent objections to selective service is the possible invasion of privacy.
Business By John,T. Flynn
Little by Little We Forge Weapons Which May Deprive Us of Liberty.
EW YORK, Aug 10.—Little by little and one at a time we forge the weapons—the social and
| economic weapons—which will be all ready in the
arsenal when some would-be dictator decides to make a try for our democratic liberties, One of these weapons is propaganda. The weapons of propaganda are, of course, here as a result of our
| great scientific development—the amazing perfections
of the printing press and the even more amazing
| achievements of the radio.
Now Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war until Mr. Stimson put in his own man, makes a most amazing call upon the broadcasters of America. Remember, every broadcaster operates his station by favor of the United States Government—that is, the Communications Commission named by the President, Its license must be renewed for a year. It can be revoked also without reason at the end of the year, Now Mr. Johnson addresses the broadcasters: “You broadcasters of America,” he told them, “who are expert phrase and slogan-makers, I urge to coin a national motto to keep constantly before the American people as a reminder, every day, in every way, of the necessity of teamwork. In your hulletins, in vour advertising seript, when vou open your program and when vou sign off, let there come forfh an urgent. and effective appeal to all Americans for national unity.” National unity! National unity about what? Whera is there any lack of national unity in this country? There are great differences of opinion about economic and social and political questions, There have always been and always will be,
| What Will Be the Effect?
Of course the idea of ‘national unity’ which theze gentlemen want to put over is “national unity” behind President Roosevelt, Consider the matter as it stands even now Mil. lions of people—women in their homes, truckmen on their trucks, men in their little shops and stores— turn the radio on in the morning and let it run around the clock. News from Europe-—and well-colored at that-
| bearing a powerful bias; then the broadcaster from
Britain; then the Honorable Mr. That and General Whoosis and Colonel Whatshisname telling us of the perils that hang over us—the English navy is in dan= ger: then Hitler will be here; he will land in Newe foundland or the Bahamas or Brazil and take off from there. What is the effect of all this on the minds of these millions of simple, honest people? Now the broadcasters are told by Mr. Johnson to speed up the alarms—to open every program, to close every pro-
| gram, fo work into the script, into the radio dramas
and the plugs the“story of America's dire need, sums-
| moning all to “national unity.”
If Mr. Roosevelt can do this, so ean Mr. Blank, the still unnamed gentleman who will come behind him and point to the precedent of Roosevelt to begin the work of reducing the American mind to a single pattern, We play with fire,
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
OU know that it is important for your health that vou select your food each day according to scientific principles of nutrition, being sure to include fresh fruits and vegetables and dairy products along
| with meat, potatoes and bread and sweets.
Now a new angle on diet selection has been diseov-
| ered, one that promises to be impertant for the many | persons suffering from toxic goiter and for still more
persons in a pre-goiter state who may have been labeled hypochondriacs, neurasthenics and the like, The discovery is simply that goiter patients uniformly select a diet that has less than the normal amount of protein. Protein comes from such foods as meat, eggs, fish, milk and cheese and to some extent from certain vegetables and from grains. Diet studies have shown that normal persons always eat from 13 to 17 protein calories per 100 calories of foad. Patients with toxic goiter uniformly select a diet with less than 13 protein calories per 100 calories of food, Dr. H. M. Jones of Chicago has discovered. Toxic goiter ig.the kind in which besides the enlarged thyroid gland in the neck the patient has such symptoms as protruding eyes, extreme nervousness and
| thinness. Some of these patients, even after operation
on the thyroid gland, continue to prefer a low protein diet and in these cases results of the operation are usually not entirely satisfactory. Patients in the pre-goiter stage,
physically de-
| pressed with easily upset feelings, show the same | preference for a low protein diet. Dr
Jones found. He suggests that the diet may give a clue for diagnosing the goiter in such cases in which other goiter symptoms have not vet developed to the point where a diagnosis can be made.
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