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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1940

NORRIS ON THE SELECTIVE DRAFT JENATOR GEORGE NORRIS yesterday made one of his characteristically effective speeches, in opposition to the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. Challenging the necesity of applying the draft in peace time, he warned against the building up of a large standing armg which, he said, once established, would forever be a burden on the rest of the population and, by reason of its size, a self-perpetuating political “force which would then dominate the civil life of the nation. The argument is not new—and it was never more forcefully presented. It is worthy of consideration, along with all other factors entering into the crisis. But it does |! not answer the question of how, assuming the crisis to call | for action, shall we man the defense machine for which 14 billions of dollars have been appropirated as a safeguard against dictatorship run amuck. On that question, what the Senator said contained | little comfort for those who would rely on the volunteer system. As to the best way of raising an army—if and when needed—~Senator Norris had this to say of the selective service method: “I should like to have such an army, if needed, called out by the selective draft, for I am not fighting that method. | We did that in the World War, and I think it worked well. | 1 think it is fair; I think it is the fairest way to get an army. It divides the burdens up equally among all classes | of people who ought to be in the army. I am not opposing the selective draft method of raising an army.”

“STOP IT RIGHT NOW” HINGS look worse and worse for the Democratic Na- | tional Committee's campaign book racket. | Wendell Willkie announces that, if he becomes Presi- | dent, he will insist on relentless prosecution of all persons | connected with it. Attorney General Jackson blasts the neat scheme pro- | posed by the committee's treasurer, Oliver A. Quavle Jr., | to get around the Iiatch Act by having the books sold by | state or local organizations. And Senator Ilatch, hewing as usual to the line that honesty is above allagiance to party, tells the Senate that | he considers the Quayle plan as bad as the one recently | offered to the Republican National Committee by its counsel, | Henry P. Fletcher—that the thing the Democratic Com- | mittee should do about its campaign book is ‘stop it right now.” Senator Hatch is right. Attorney General Jackson is right. Yes, the Democratic campaign book is in a bad spot. | But the Democratic National Committee invited all this | trouble by engaging in a blackjack method of extorting | thinly disguised campaign contributions from corporations | which, in many cases, feared what a Democratic Adminis- | tration might do to them if they refused. The books can’t be sold, legally. And there's so much | reason to believe that the advertising was sold illegally | that corporations which have paid for it would be well | advised to demand their money back. A simpler way, of | course, would be for Mr. Quavle to follow Senator Hatch’s advice and stop hunting loopholes. And then refund all | money the committee has collected through this shabby | racket.

PENNY RECORD | HE Philadelphia Mint broke all records for coining pen- | nies last month, turning out 86,176,000. So great is | the present demand for one-cent pieces that the Mint is | unable to make enough copper blanks. A metal company at | Riverside, N. J., is producing these blanks, at the rate of | about 37 tons a week. The company’s plant is working 24 hours a day and employing 750 men to fill the order. It | 1ps the copper blanks to Philadelphia, where the Mint | stamps them and puts them into circulation. The demand for pennies is attributed to the new national defense taxes, and that suggests a thought. | Defense appropriations and other Government expend- | itures are now reckoned in multiple billions of dollars. Even one billion dollars is more money than the average mind can picture. We have learned to talk glibly of billions, but | few of us really understand what they are. And that is | true, not only of those who are taxed to provide part of the billions and of those in whose name the other part is borrowed by the Government, but also of those who do the | spending. But the Mint's penny record is a reminder that a large | share of the money is coming, and will continue to come, from ordinary people paying a few cents more here, and | a few cents more there, for things on which the Government has levied or increased taxes. . Perhaps it's an especially good reminder for those who | do the spending. The fact that many billions of dollars are available must tend to create a “rich” feeling—a feeling that | it’s not so important to be constantly on guard against waste or extravagance. This other fact, that poor people's | pennies as well as wealthy people's dollars make up the billions, ought to counteract that feeling and emphasize | the truth that waste and extravagance are public enemies.

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OMEN ILLIONS of 17-year locusts of the 1940 model have appeared on Cape Cod, their wings bearing markings that resemble the letter “W.” Many natives fear that this means war, though some enthusiastic Republicans insist it means | Willkie. . But we seem to recall that the 17-vear locusts of other seasons had the same markings, so we aren't impressed by the portent on Cape Cod. To those who are impressed, we suggest viewing the locusts from the other direction. Then the markings will resemble the letter “M,” which can be interpreted to mean merriment, money or much-ado-about-nothing. +

| much right as anyone else to express his opinions.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

WPA Has Fired the Communists But Private Employers Probably Still Violate Law for Doing the Same

EW YORK, Aug. 13—If I were a big employer engaged in interstate commerce I would have been slapped into the boob a long time ago because I would have made it my business to fire all Communists, to sound off my views in shop orations and pamphlets and to refuse even to discuss, much less to consent to, a closed shop in my plant. If my own Government finds that it can’t abide Communists on the WPA the same Government cer-

tainly looks funny telling me that I have no right to toss them out of my business. But I would have made the issue a long time before the Government came to this decision and for that, of course, I would have been convicted of coercion and intimidation in the first degree and ordered to reinstate the Communists. Nevertheless, I would have canned them for the same reason that the Government has now decided to fire them out of WPA, to-wit, that they are a lot of treacherous conspiraters, and not only useless as workers, but a menace to any business. which em-

ploys them. Ed

MAN shouldn't be compelled to support his enemies, even when they have declared their hostility and demonstrated it by destructive actions. However, employers have been compelled to keep Communists on their pay rolls because of the very fact that they were Communists, the idea being that dismissal for their political beliefs would constitute an mvasion of their rights. But I would have given the Labor Board a pretty good argument. I would have pointed out that communistic enterprises, mainly publications, rigidly exclude non-Communists from their employ and fire those who falter in their faith, and I would have said, “Boys, is my Government asking an American business man to conform to conditions which it is unwilling to impose on the Communist Party?” I would have bothered them silly, but they would have convicted me just the same, and I suppose that even today, after the Government itself has decided to fumigate the WPA, the board still insists that private enterprise has no right to do the same. In the matter of sounding off to the help, I would have taken the position that my views are patriotic, constructive and generally helpful, and would* have stood on the proposition that a businessman has as

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BY: I know that truth-telling would have been constructed as coercion and intimidation, too, and I would have received another sentence for that, prob-

ably to run consecutively. And then in my dealings with the bargaining agent I would have said, “There will be no closed shop here, because I have no right to force nonunion people into your union.” And you know what that would have led to. I would have been tried for refusing to bargain in good faith and convicted on another count, not for coercion and intimidation this time, however, but on the contrary, for refusing to coerce and intimidate. It seems silly that a law honestly intended to correct certain abuses should become the weapon for SO many others, but there we are and nobody denies these new abuses, but still nobody does anything about reforming the law itself.

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Inside Indianapolis

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Trip to Eiwood Isn't Politics As.

Far As Hizzoner Is Concerned IZZONER, The Mayor, has accepted an invitation to be one of Elwood's special guests on Saturday at the big Willkie doings. It started out to be pretty embarrassing what with wags slapping “On to Elwood” stickers on the Mayor's office and things like that.

Hizzoner handled the whole thing in dignified fashion. His letter of acceptance referred to his

| “well-known Democratic politics,” and while the let-

ter didn’t say so in so many words, it left the distinct impression that Reginald H. Sullivan was going

to Elwcod not to hear the Republican Presidential |

nominee but to honor one of Indiana's distinguished citizens.

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GEORGE A. SAAS

(whose initials identify the

company for which he works) has been having trou- | which waited until a fire broke out domestic affairs, but if we don't!

ble with his throat. . . . His doctor told him to stop smoking. . .

score down to 109. . , . Isn't science wonderful? . . .

Noticed on 1llinois St.: A woman news vendor seated | me and our neighbors from coast | at her stand at W. Market St. staring unseeing at |to coast. the traffic moving by, a smile on her lips as she |

slowly moved her right hand over the page of a |

Braille book. ”

THE GOCVERNOR'S Defense Commission

worked out all the details on what Indiana has to do!

if the Conscription Bill goes through Congress. The plans will be ammounced in all probability sometime | this week. In these plans is a clause which exempts |

any person employed in a key capacity in a key in- |

dustry. The man in diveet charge of the setup is | Col. Robinson Hitchcock, who stayed home from Army | maneuvers in Wisconsin so he could finish up his | work on just this thing. n ROY NIEHUS, escaping the heat, was napping on |

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the front porch of his home at 22 S. Euclid the other | | evening.

. Somebody invaded the porch without | awakening Mr. Niehus, made off with his wristwatch. | iN Gilbert Forbes, AS | hustling up to the studio the other morning for his | early hroadcast on the automatic elevator. . It |

jammed between floors and Mr. Forbes was a pris- [alarm sounded, and he spent the democracy is on trial before the the colored man down there from to It took a [rest of his life mostly in bed in |world, such scenes in the legisla- |voting. ...

oner for a full hour and a quarter. . . . mechanic an hour after they first discovered he was | stuck. . . . WFBM considered it a great joke. . . . Gilbert disagreed heartily.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

CCORDING to press reports, President Roosevelt is considering plans for conscripting the womanpower of the United States in what we now call the war emergency. He and Mrs. Roosevelt “have talked the matter over,” although so far their conclusions have not been made public. We can only surmise that they will be interesting and spectacular. M-Day plans of the War Department long also disclosed carefully worked out details regarding the patriotic duties of women when war starts. Thou-

| sands would serve as nurses, and the department

has on hand information which would make it possible to find the best qualified feminine workers for

| indusivial jobs when the men have to be replaced { quickly.

It may be presumed these women could consider themselves called to the colors, as their brothers do when summoned to training camp. While women have never failed their country in periods* of war, this is the first time conscription has been suggested for them. Until now they were volunteers. However, we prefer the former term to the pussyfooting phrases of the past. There is no sensible argument against drafting the woman-power of a nation along with its manpower, and since war itself is the supremest nonsense, we.may as well plunge headlong into its folly if we venture in at all. Nobody crosses a stream without using both feet, and, certainly, no country wins a war these days unless all the people do their utmost and are willing to co-operate, Probably the women would love being drafted, too. It would give them a feeling of equality and importance which the Equal Rights Amendment, if passed, could not bestow. Also if we may offer a suggestion to the President and the War Department, we feel sure they would work more happily in uniforms. Lord help us, while we're getting into the war business, let's go without reservations and make prep-

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throat still bothers him he cut 10 strokes off his wil

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TUESDAY, AUG. 18, 1940

Writer's Cram

TELLS ME IT ISN'T GOING: fi TO BRE A 3 ‘BEST, SELLER!

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say,

defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

but wil?

GREATER PUBLIC INTEREST IN SANATORIUM URGED

By One Interested in Tubercular Afflicted The papers recently have given much publicity and favorable comment to the new state tuberculosis sanatorium “Silvercrest’” at New Albany, which opened Aug. 1st. However, until the American Tuberculosis Association and the good citizens of Indiana become interested in these institutions, de-

(Times readers are invited

to express their views in these columns, religious conMake

your letters short, so all can

troversies excluded.

have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

are tragically serious. They lend plausibility to the criticisms leveled at the democratic process by Mussolini and the other dictators, and give every possible aid and comfort to the enemies of democracy, If these men actually voice the sentiments of their constituents democgacy is indeed in danger,

# nn CRITICIZES PEGLER’S ARTICLE ON FIRST LADY

mand capable parties at the head to from T. B. I can give you his name.

supervise, and a competent medical staff, physicians who have specialized in the treatment of the disease A the mililon dollar state institution will not prevent invalidism for years in many, many cases and will not save the taxpayers money.

speed in being sent across as a re placement, but it is typical of hurryup methods when a Government declares war first and then raises an

I loved the old peaceful not an

heavily. times when America was armed nation, when we weren't THIS IS TIME OF PEACE bothered with regimentation and ambitious Presidents who feel inBy John L. Niblack fallible and who want to defy the I note with some interest you are third-term tradition. But those getting letters against a selective | days are gone, no doubt forever. w to build up our armed| I believe we should recall Mr. One writer argues against|Roosevelt from Europe and the military service in Orient, and tend to our own knitWell, this is not ting. Let us build up our armed

5h & * FAVORS DRAFT, DENIES

forces. “compulsory times of peace.” a time of peace,

right, fair and necessary thing to!ent Chief Executive with a large have immediately. We must pre-|/ Army and Navy, either, any more pare to defend ourselves. A city than I like to have him running

to organize a police force would start now to use common sense we be in bad shape. | are inviting disaster, and anyhow, The United States of America is| MI. Roosevelt won't be President a community, composed of you and after the first of the year. “uo ; do is WH Was We SENATE DEBATES 1mve modern equipment for our AR? RT armed forces, and men to handle | PRAW REBURE the equipment. One hundred and |By W. C. S. thirty million people cannot do it. |

fair way to decide who should un- | the intemperate and ridiculous utdertake the common defense is to terances of Senator Pepper conhave a selective draft. | cerning Col. Lindbergh; . and the Wait until war breaks out, some petty puerile attempt of Senator say. Yeah, that would be a fine Guffey to smear Mr. Willkie on acthing. Then there would be a hurry | count of an alleged change of name, up draft, and untrained men would | 50 promptly and properly denounced be rushed out to meet the invader by Senator VanNuys; all these in and die like flies. In the other | ordinary times would be more or World War (in which I took part) [less occasions for amusement and there was a man who lived on the for the observation on the part of South Side here. One dav he was students of Government that the at his job as a plumber, and 90 direct election of Senators has sucdays later he was in the first line | ceeded in reducing the level of in-

the WFBM newscaster, was | trenches in France, so ill-trained he | telligence in the Senate far below | them out of Elwood. Democrats who

did not know how to get his gas that prevailing in the Hause mask on in time when the gas| In these times, however, when

Government hospitals, dying in 1921 | tive halls of its last great exponent, |

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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PY ell cpt—— COPR. 1923 BY NEA SERVICE.

"Let's see that one you're hiding in the middle of the pile—who

That was an exceptional case, such |

army. . 7 It is a shame we have to arm so|

It is my belief | forces and then we will not be both- | (that a selective draft law is the ered. I don’t like to trust the pres- | CLAIMS DEMOCRATS

[will go down in American history

By David Yaver

Pegler has apparently run dry of |intelligent journalistic material and ‘has resorted to the lowest form of character assassination in his un[warranted attack on Mrs. Roosevelt. | When a lady of such obvious and [recognized culture, refinement and [devotion is permitted to be slaughtered in such a repulsive fashion, merely to satisfy the political pre[ferment of his boss, then, any discussion of an improved civilization [is pure myth. Surely there are enough of the fother kind without attempting to | destroy a fine, pure and humane

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"RULED ELWQOD [By M. G. Merriman I have been reading in the Hoosier { Sentinel, Indiana's Indifferent | Weekly Newspaper, several of the editor's articles where he, in a very novice manner, tries to smear Mr. Willkie, and Elwood, the town in which Mr, Willkie was born. If this] ardent New Deal supporter would go to the history books and look up the history of Elwood, he would find |some surprising facts which apparently he doesn’t know about.

| The exchange of verbal garbage ks i . . | betwe Se MN i . million or million of the men. The R ween nators Holt and Minton;

| boys? | gard it as something to be unlearned. | thousand dollars to educate a pilot their way,

| In the history of Elwood I find (that during most of its time as al city it has been Democratic. W. A. DeHority, the first Mayor, elected in| 1891, was a Democrat, and on down the line. W. A. Faust, who he refers [to as an Old Timer, also is a Demoferat. Mr. (D. W) tells how the | colored man was kept out of Elwood | [until Mr. Willkie asked them to at(tend Aug. 17. | | Well if the Democrats were in| charge most of the time, it must Ihave been the Democrats who kept

belong to the same organization of the Southern Democrats, who keep

” ” » TERMS ROOSEVELT GREATEST EGOTIST By J. B. P., Who says Roosevelt isn't GREAT? He is the greatest egotist that ever] got into the White House. He has gotten together the greatest collection of politcial tricksters this country has ever seen. He has caused the passage of more freak laws, rules and regulations and pulled more colossal boners than any other President of the good old U. S. A. He

the says |

Roosevelt, Who

as Franklin D. GREAT MISTAKE. Roosevelt isn't GREAT?

QUEEN ANNE'S LACE By ANNA E. YOUNG Let me walk down a path, a cinder path By meadows—with hesitant pace Where clovers grow in a riotous

mass Dotted with—Queen Anne's Lace.

To my wee little house at the end of my lane Where the willows and elm you see There may I pause and see repose in all—tranquillity!

DAILY THOUGHT

And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.—Deuteronomy 6:25.

LET US PRAY GOD that he would root out of our hearts everything of our own planting and set out there, with his own hand, the tree of life bearing all manner of

aration and fighting unanimous.

are you saving that for?"

fruits—Fenelon,

Gen. Johnson Says—

Piloting a Plane Becoming a Complicated Profession Calling for Drastic Change in Training Methods

OLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Aug. 13.—Every time, after a year or two of impersonal, seemingly automatic flying in a passenger liner, I get a chance to sit alongside an expert modern pilot and see how this profession has advanced, I wonder where we are going to get the kind of pilots we shall need in any expanded air force. It is getting to be a profession almost as complex as medicine and certainly as difficult and requiring

as much training and experience as that of the master of a surface ship. It includes a thorough school= ing in the use of scientific flight control instruments, In all kinds of radio work, in meteorology and navigation—not to mention the old stuff of learning, by a complexity of experiences with everything that may happen to a ship in the air, to know how to get her down safely. When I look back at my own limited flying ex~ perience—as a passenger, not a pilot—and realize the risks I took, without even apprehension, simply from not knowing what was going on, I get goose pimples and my hair begins to rise. Real fliers have said the same thing to me. It is possible to learn enough about the mere physical controls to fly a ship in the sense of getting her off the ground and back down again after eight or 10 hours in the air, but the idea that a reasonably safe pilot can be made after, say, 30 hours of instruction is perfectly preposterous—and very dangerous,

NCONFIRMED stories about the Germans sende ing partly trained boys to attack in flights, relye ing on only one or two ships equipped with modern instruments and piloted by really trained leaders may be true. They also may explain the astonishing British claims of bringing down three or four German ships for every one they lose, That is too expensive a policy and we certainly do not want to risk cities, ships, convoys—not to mention young lives and costly planes—on that kind of training. The Civil Aeronautics Administration is exerting great efforts to get some interest and primary training into young men by subsidizing older pilots to train them—at so much a head—for eight hours with dual control. Then the kid goes up solo. After that he has 22 hours—altogether 30. He isn't supposed to be a pilot, but to have had his primary training— $325 worth,

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ILL the Army and Navy accept that spade work and entrust its expensive military ships to these Almost certainly no. They will probably reIt costs several

I don’t want to bear down too hard on the C. A. A. method, but, from what I have seen of it in various parts of the country, not enough care is taken in the choice, inspection and supervision of the instructor and his ships, not enough time is spent, even for this preliminary work. The idea is a good one. Some devoted work is being done, but if ever a training plan in a crisis needs a good going over, this is the one, The danger about a slipshod, half-baked program is that when and if pressure comes the cry will be “any port in a storm” and we shall be bum'’s rushed into risking lives and ships and victories on men who should never he forced to accept such responsibilities,

Business By John T. Flynn

Taxes or Borrowing tor Defense Is Big Problem Facing Congress

EW YORK, Aug. 13.—The controversy about war

taxes going on in Washington is the most ine evitable of all troubles,

One feature of war preparations must be borne in mind. Getting ready to fight and keeping up the fighting, in addition to being various other things, is also the biggest business in the country, once it gets under way. But when that industry begins to turn out its products it has only one customer—the Government. The Government has only two sources of money to pay the bills—taxes or borrowing. Now of course the production of the goods and the sale to the Government is very pleasant, very invigoraling to business. But if the bills are paid with tax money there will be little or no profit for anyone, In fact profits will have to be drained off hy taxes as fast as they are made. Which, of course, takes all the joy out of the war effort and out of the patriotic jag. And so, in order to avoid this unpleasant element, governments generally raise the money by borrowing, which tends to produce an inflationary prosperity such as America “enjoyed” during the last war. But in spite of the effort to pay for these immense outlays by borrowing, some sort of sense of decency and proportion forces the Government to tax as much as it can. And that is what it is now trying to do. But most of the patriots who are velling for more ships and shells and men are yelling with almost equal vigor against too much taxation,

War Industries Unstable

But there is the choice. We can pay for the defense effort with borrowed funds—on top of all our other debt burdens-—and deepen and intensify the economic crash after the defense effort is stopped.

| Or we can pay for it with taxes and see the heavy

taxes stall still longer the recovery of private ine vestment in private peace-time industries. For there will not be much investment in war industries. As far back as 1935 I called attention to the fact that, in the event of war or war preparedness, private capital would not invest in war industries. They are the most precarious, the most unstable, the most uncertain. Therefore I warned then that the Government must face the task of supplying the investment, That, of course, is what we now face, The people have to make up their minds on this choice. They have on their hands a badly erippled economic system. They can pipe down on this war hysteria and look out to make that system work, or they can cripple it still further with this war mad» ness. If we want this immense war program we have got to pay for it. We have got to pay for it in taxes, taxes and more taxes. And we have got to pay for it in other wavs—chiefly in the maladjustment, deforming and finally destroying of our whole democratic system of business.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

UN glasses have become such a popular fad with S the feminine population that the National Soci ety for the Prevention of Blindness has issued a statement warning against their misuse, The eye specialists in the medical profession agree that sun glasses should be worn only in the bright sun and many of these doctors—half of those ques= tioned by the Society—are of the opinion that they may be harmful if used otherwise. They should not be used for night driving as protection against the glare of oncoming headlights, because sun glasses lower visibility too much for safety at night, The idea of wearing sun glasses in colors to match or complement your skin tones or your costume is a pleasing one, but remember to get the glasses dark enough so they will really shut out the sun's glare, if you are going to wear them on the beach or on the water, The color of the sun glasses, experts at the National Bureau of Standards point out, is not so important as the amount of light they shut out, which you can tell somewhat by the darkness of the glass. A good way to be sure they will shut ou} glare is to have a preliminary fitting or trial on the street in daylight, instead of inside the shop where you buy them, Eye physicians say that sun glasses of ground and polished glass should be worn, and the Buresu of Standards experts warn that if you do not get ground glass ones you should at least make sure there are no streaks, bubbles or other imperfections in the glass,