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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1940

GUNS SPEAK LOUDER NE of the greatest debates of the generation has been in progress in the United States Senate over the last | few days. Seldom has there been such searching of mind | and conscience, so much sober thought, such high purpose and resolution, as in this conflict of judgment over how best shall America prepare herself to survive in a savage | new world not of her making. Indeed the Senate oratory on the Burke-Wadsworth Military Training and Selective Service Bill has been a veritable “feast of reason and flow of the soul.” By and large, personalities have been subordinated, and the issues joined have cut across the old Republican-Democratic and liberal-conservative lines. But all of the eloquence of “the greatest deliberative body on earth” will not influence as many votes of undecided lawmakers, will not have as much impact on American public opinion, as will the news which comes hourly by cable and the ether from the Battle of Britain. Already the fine points of logic and argument can scarcely be heard for the drone of planes over Portsmouth, Dover, London. The Senate of the United States sits in an air-cooled chamber in Washington and takes its time in reaching a decision, after a leisurely habit of decades of feeling isolated and secure from potential enemies. Deliberative representative «government functioning, packed galleries

listening, news reporters flashing over the wires the argu- | ments that make headlines, headlines that grow smaller | to make way for the larger banners heralding the clash of warships in the English Channel and the fourth day of the Nazi aerial blitzkrieg, over Portsmouth, Weymouth, the Thames Estuary. Free debate, free press, freedom of worship and work, are blessings secured to us by representative government functioning behind what so few months ago seemed to be impregnable fortifications—the American Navy patrolling | the Pacific and a friendly British fleet commanding the Atlantic. * But in whose hands will the British men-of-war be after the Battle of Britain has passed? And at what many points of the compass, from the Aleutians to the Caribbean to the Skaggerak, will our own navy be called upon to stand guard? Ilow then shall we secure our liberties by depending upon those who will volunteer for a dollar a day? Or by saying that all who are able must serve, each according to his own ability, and whenever the Government calls. It is a great debate in the Senate. Britain speeds the roll call,

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FLYNN’S MILLSTONE OW a man gets by with his job depends in considerable measure on the way he starts. By that appraisal we can’t say much for Edward J. Flynn. It was a full fortnight ago that the boss of the Bronx stepped into the shoes of the great Farley. The assignment was tough, at best. Since that date about all we have heard from Flynn is a rearguard defense of that campaign book. He keeps pawing it over and over, though the Democratic author of the ban on the book and the New Deal Attorney General condemn the document and all its works. Not to mention a fellow named Willkie. Now it’s bad encugh to have to fight for a lost cause, even after you are well down the road of your endeavor. But deliberately to select one at the outset, and then to torture it to the exclusion of all other causes, is too much uphill for any man. So, animated as we are by a spirit of pure sportsmanship, we suggest, nay urge, that Mr. Flynn change his stance. Infact we go to that great publication, the Congressional Record. Says that good Democrat Senator Hatch: “Last week I said to the Republican National Committee, ‘obey the spirit as well as the letter of the law.” This week I say to the Democratic National Committee, ‘obey the spirit as well as the letter of the law.’ “There is but one thing to do about the convention

book. Regardless of what the cost may be or what effect it may have it should be discontinued at once.”

A GOOD FIGHT HE Department of Commerce is undertaking, through its field offices throughout the country, an educational and promotional campaign to get rid of interstate trade barriers. The campaign is highly important. Great evils will result if the states continue to maintain and erect tariff walls against each other. Interstate trade barriers, whatever their form, are in effect tariff walls—dividing the country, fostering destructive commercial rivalries, inviting reprisals, increasing the cost of living 4nd decreasing the volume of business. American businessmen will find it a policy of enlightened self-interest fo co-operate enthusiastically with the Department of Commerce and all other agencies which are fighting to tear down these barriers.

AMERICA BECOMES MUSIC CAPITAL MERICA is rapidly becoming the musical capital of the world. Driven from country after country, musicians have been gravitating to the United States in such numbers as to assure that the immediate future of music will be written here. Add together these names: Artur Schnabel, pianist; Igor Stravinski, Paul Hindemith, and Kurt Weill, composers; Lotte Lehmann and Kirsten Flagstad, singers, and Arturo Toscanini and Bruno Walter, conductors.. 1t is as bright a galaxy as may be seen in the world of music. All have come to the United States because of the impossible state of Europe. We hope they will stay, and that they will find such conditions in America as will produce a flowering of great music,

Aviation

By Maj. Al Williams

Is Our Defense Program Really For Defense? He Asks, Citing Sale Of Fighting Planes to Britain

HOSE who scream about the necessity for booming the defenses of the United States and at the same time ship airplanes, aerial machine guns and mosquito warships to Europe are not going to get by this column. The things now happening in this country are counterparts of things that have been put across on the people of Europe, in one form or another. Each time I check the progress of our national rearmanient program, I am infermed by manufacturers of planes, engines and munitions that they wonder whether we will be armed in time. “In time for what?” I ask. “Oh, for South America and the Japanese,” they say. Well, my answer is that if we are rearming to defend the United States against invasion or aggression (which we are not, in my opinion) then there is time to do a complete job—with the aid of a definite

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S proof that our “defense plan” is not for defense, I offer this evidence: First, the Administration smashed the 1939 Army Air Corps expansion program, whereby the Army was to have received about 3000 planes by June, 1841. Washington arbitrarily decided to shunt the production from that manufacturing program to the Allies. Those planes were flown from American soil, by hired civilian pilots (Americans), and were fully equipped with machine guns The Navy's standard dive bombers, the “SBC-4's,” were taken from the Navy and flown to Canada. These Army and Navy planes are worth their weight in gold to the air defense preparations of this country. But they were traded, sold or pawned to foreign nations that had been doing the same thing with their own air force pianes from 1935 to 1939. = = ”

J vane second line plane (and some of ours were not seconds) would have served for intermediate training of our young fighting pilots. We are woefully short of all types of military and naval planes, but the Army and Navy were stripped. Can you make that jibe with the hysteria about defense of America? Will we be able to get ready militarily? For defense—yes. We have the time, and we may be able to develop enough potential sock in our forces. But we can't build military, naval and air forces sufficient to keep pace with those who seem determined to get us into a foreign war, That would mean developing forces and arming them well enough to fight the Japanese in Asia, someone else in South America and still continuing to ship munitions to Europe. To manufacture weapons in those quantities we should have to discontinue all commercial business, scrap the career of every American man, woman and child and turn the United States into a vast arsenal.

(Westbrook Pegler’'s regular column will appear tomorrow.)

Inside Indianapolis

Those East Side Rabbits, Schricker And His Hobby; Our Peddling Law

HERE'S AN OLD cedar tree in the 4300 block on E. Washington St., that has become a fullfledged rabbit hotel. The rabbits-in-residence, however, have been quite circumspect so far. There is very little roistering and no drinking at all The folks who live in the Gladstone Apartments are enjoving the situation and helping keep the rabbits’ food budgets down. The first tenants moved in last year and raised a nice family, none of whom moved away except Father. Early this year one of the daughters leased an adjoining roct and reared another family, Just the other day another daughter took an apartment with western exposure and four more young people appeared. The colony forages some during the day when the heat hasn't got them snoozing in the shade but they have corn hors d'oeuvres and carrot dessert every evening, courtesy of the Gladstone residents. The youngest ones left the third floor back a couple of days ago by scooting up the elevator shaft when mama wasn't looking and now they're part of the outside evening scene, too. Carl Jackson, the apartment custodian, says “each of the little ones is about as big as a good-sized peach and twice as cute.” = ” 2 LIEUT. GOV. SCHRICKER is killing two birds with one stone when he goes about the state stumping for votes in his campaign for the Governorship. . + . Besides picking up votes (he hopes) here and there, he keeps adding to the stamp collection he's had since his youth. . . . Folks who have heard of his hobby greet him at campaign meetings with some choice specimens and he never returns home lately without a pocketful. , , . A tin ean flew off a careening junk truck the other day at 46th and Pennsylvania Sts, and took violent sides in the City's internal government. . . , It saved the Street Cleaning Dept. some work, but it probably added woe to the Sanitation Dept. by bouncing crazily a couple of times and then disappearing neatly down the sewer, hs &

SOME OF THE STATE'S smaller towns are sort of irritated with Indianapolis, It seems that. we have an ordinance here that everyone who sells poultry and eggs to dealers here must take out a City

license. Not long ago an out-of-town peddler was pinched for failure to have a license. The peddler, as we get it, was a city councilman in Martinsville. “Okay,” he said in effect. “If that's the way youTe going to treat us, we'll just pass an ordinance down at Martinsville and take care of your boys.”

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

Buses: Is not so good this year, says the landlady, which makes us wonder about justice, since certainly this particular landlady deserves better things of fate,

She goes all day at a dog trot, attending to the multitudinous tasks of her Western ranch, where city

people come and go on holiday pleasure. We ache with sympathy as we think of her poor legs, for durIng the few days of our residence here we've never seen her resting them. Winter and summer for 19 years she has lived and worked in this sweet, secluded vale, tucked down between two mountain ranges, with the rippling river singing its way beside her door. The long rambling ranch house which has seen better days, crouches beneath a row of slender aspens and willows, while all over the place guest cabins are scattered, some so well hidden in the pine forests that their presence might never be suspected except when a bedraggled tourist comes into the open. To us this is a perfect spot, a place of heavenly peace. Early, when the sun touches the highest peaks, the air is as heady as wine; later in the day a pleasant warmth enfolds us, and the humming birds come to drink at the wee improvised fountains, little red, yvellew and blue receptacles filled with sugar water, which hang in rows on the cabin verandas. The tiny darting things offer perpetual entertainment through the long, lazy afternoons, and at nightfall, when the sharp cold comes on, the crackling wood fires enhance our feeling of coziness. And so we all relax and play according to our several temperaments, some fishing, some loafing, others hiking or horseback riding as our little landlady— she’s only five feet in her stockings—trots about looking after our wants, Still mourning the death of her husband, one often surprises a scared, lost look in her eyes, but she seems to face what comes with courage. Wherever one goes, there may be found the same forlorn gallantry. The stout hearts of frightened women, left suddenly to battle life alo offer an encouraging sight to those who believe sex is softening into mushy incom-

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CLAIMS G. O. P. ALSO PULLED RABBIT TRICK By Echo in the Hills

Voice in the Crowd has forgotten about the rabbit pulled from a hat during the Republican Conventoin in Philadelphia. Wendell Willkie was the rabbit and Wall Street the magician. | When it happened many who voted | the Republican ticket in the past! heard the many boos and stinging remarks in protest to a Wall Street under his control will give him a candidate. | powerful weapon to enforce his auIf Wall Street is placed in a posi-|tocratic and dictatorial will when it tion to dictate the economic poli- is desired. It will deprive all states | cies of this nation of ours we invite of any organized force to resist an| greater chaos and more confusion! arbitrary assumption of dictatorial | between capital and labor. | powers if needed. | I choose to vote with the masses With a hand-picked Supreme and for Roosevelt who has done Court there is nothing left to premore for the common people than vent Roosevelt from declaring an any other man ever elected to the! emergency, if he sees the rapidly ris-| Presidency of anv nation on earth. ing opposition gaining formidable | : proportions, and assuming the right| and power to forbid an election. Just that was done by Paul McNutt in Indiana in reference to municipal elections, except that he had a supine Legislature pass a law postponing the election to give it the color of legality. Or, he might prefer to use the National Guard after it is under his control to control an election. Don’t forget that he has said “we” (for once using the plural pronoun) have forged instrumentalities which, in the hands of some might be used to enslave the people. It is entirely too risky to trust him with any additional power, “ » | FAVORS RETURN OF PROHIBITION By Mister X

The tavern, and the present conduct of the drinking public is hecoming disgusting, I am in favor of the return of prohibition in spite of the fact that its repeal created jobs for a lot of unemployed. On Friday evening of July 19th, a woman received a cut on her leg from a flying piece of glass of a broken whisky bottle which was hurled from a speeding car full of youths in the 500 block on Massachusetts Ave.

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” » OPPOSES ROOSEVELT CONTROL OVER GUARD

By Harry E. Royse

To my mind there is infinitely more dynamite in the measure to turn the National Guard over to the command of Roosevelt than there is in the much-debated conscription bill. If there is anything further needed than his Hugo Black-ened Supreme Court appointments and his record of repudiation, broken promises and advice to Congress to disregard constitutional inhibitions in the passage of laws to utterly destroy public confidence in his most solemn promises I cannot conceive of what it may be, His insatiable seeking and grasping of power and more power gives no token of having any limitation. His latest demonstration being the bludgeoning of his partisan satelites and sycophants at the so-called Democratic convention into ‘“‘drafting” him to violate the sacred tradition against a third term for any| President. Webster will now need to revise his definition of the word “draft.” There is much to lend credence to an opinion rapidly gaining adherents that Roosevelt has determined to hold on to the Presidency at all hazards regardless of law, Last summer I knew a couple Constitution, precedent or will of the, who were happily married with people. Having the National Guard' three children—a boy and a girl,

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and a small baby boy. Last winter the mother yielded to drink. This summer the family is separated and broken up, and she works in a tavern. Not long ago a young wife passed a tavern where she saw her hus-

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fully promised her that he would not touch another drop. When he went home late that night he found his clothes packed. His evening with the heer bottle cost him the loss of his wife, and his home. . . . There are numerous incidents that happen every day which could be related for the justification of the return of prohibition. Too numerous to mention here. If it

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return of prohibition, I will most certainly vote for it. Any man who takes his wife into a tavern should not be offended by a drunk who may come to his table and put his arm around the wife. That should be expected before he enters the tavern. Any young girl who goes unac- | companied by her husband, or gen-| tleman friend, or relative, is one who does not possess any good | credits to hold her nose high in the!

% # » FEARS CONSCRIPTION LEADS TO MILITARISM By Curious

John T. Flynn has written the! awful truth about a conscript army. | If we build a great army it will bel just like the old day and present day militaristic imperialism in Europe. Who ever is the commander in chief of the Army will be the one] and only ruler of the nation. He will be a dictatorial monarch, The proponents of this plan have no intention of ever demobilizing it. Once the nation builds its economic! structure on an arms economy, all talk of disarmament and peace h--come a childish dream. Any industry in this country that has five million men on its payroll will not be thrown out of gear and come to a dead stop by the | mere snap of the fingers. Conscrip- | tion of our youth for military traine ing is the first principles of totalitarianism,

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WON POPULAR MAJORITY By Claude Braddick

F. D. R. is a great fellow to break records and precedents. But before he can upset the third-term precedent there is one other long-stand-ing record that he has yet to tie— that of Grover Cleveland, who received a majority of the popular vote for President three times in succession, It is my guess that F. D. R. will find this one the toughest assignment of all. We may note too, in passing, that Grover Cleveland did this without the aid of widespread government bounty, his philosophy being that it is the duty of the people to support the Government and not that of the Government to support the people.

CHILD REFUGEE By MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL

Along a winding lane one noon A country lad hallooed.

Into the nearby town, We talked of fishing, work and school— Of weather hot and dry. He paused, and eyed the headline news, I'd bought. To my surprise he sadly sighed, Young eyes grown old and wise, To my unspoken question he replied— “This war is horrible!”

DAILY THOUGHT

Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.—Deuteronomy 27:10.

TO OBEY GOD in some things, and not in others, shows an unsound heart.—T, Watson,

Gen. Johnson Says—

There's No Doubt of Willies’ Ability to Make Friends but His Big Test Will Come on the Stump

OLORADO SPRINGS, Aug. 14—It puts a columnist on a spot to be invited by a Presidential candidate to give his (the columnist's) views on public questions to be taken or rejected as the candidate sees fit. It is a spot because a newspaperman's job is to take—not give—opinions, and to use what he can glean to inform the public. In this reversal of roles, I can’t be talking about Mr. Willkie's views, as disclosed in two long sessions here, because he has to be absolutely fair to the press, and that means no favorites or exclusive interviews. I can't for another reason, which is that he is my friend and talks in as complete confidence as a man would indulge in with his own brother, The net result from a newspaperman's viewpoint of a 3200-mile airplane hop to interview Mr. Willkie is just like taking a dish of spinach to a luxurious banquet, It’s a spot, but his Colorado Springs setting on the toenails of the Rockies at Pike's Peak is one of the most pleasant and beautiful spots on God's footstool, s0 I think I can survive the mental anguish, » ” ”

T is telling no tales to say, from observation here and elsewhere, that Mr, Willkie is surely continuing the process of selling himself on sight. There is no question of his appeal and political “it” in personal contacts, whether it is with single individuals or in crowds. He has all that it takes. What remains to be seen, is what he can do on the radio and the content of his speeches, The Republican platform was so indefinite that Mr. Willkie will have to chart the party course almost single-handed. It is some chore! The Republicans were leading at this stage of the 1936 campaign, but from the very day of Mr. Landon’s undistinguished opener at West Middlesex they started on a toboggan slide that left them {wo states, Mr, Landon’s theme was: The New Deal is perfect, but I can deal it better. That left no issue, save one of personalities, As between Mr, Roosevelt and Mr, Landon, that was just no contest, There will be a contest in that field this time. Some people say that in his engaging exterior Mr, Willkie is just another Roosevelt. Nothing could be further from the truth, The only point of similarity is that they are both pleasant gentlemen, Mr, Roosevelt's charm is that of a cultured actor, Mr. Willkie's is far more roughshod and homely. I believe that most people will regard it as more genuine, n on n UT he is going to need more than that, He will have to make issues far more clear than they are today and convince people that his is the right side. One handicap of Mr, Landon was that Col. Frank | Knox and Ogden Mills were speaking with him—but | not the same language. Theirs was Tory talk. The conflict first confused and then disgusted the customers. Mr. Willkie may have a similar problem. Mr, Hoover is going to make at least two speeches. He is a | thoughtful, experienced and respected American, but { Mr. Hoover's speeches represent Mr. Hoover's doctrine, They will be attempts not to sell Willkie, but to sell the present edition of Hooverism—which may be some- | thing as different as Knox and Mills from Alfred | Landon. | That would be one great handicap and there are many others. However, Mr. Willkie's life habit has been overcoming seemingly impossible handicaps, like getting a Democrat nominated on a Republican ticket, None of these new ones compares with that, Let's wait and see.

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‘Business

By John T. Flynn

| History's Plainest Lesson Is That Cartels to Control Trade Always Fail

EW YORK, Aug. 14 —In the mental turbulence of the war flurries in Washington, law, tradition and reason are not the only things that go into the waste-basket. History, too, follows them in, The human race has been living, experimenting, blundering—and making some advances—for thou=- | sands of years. Its blunders have cost it billions in

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values, millions in lives, oceans of blood and storms of agony. But having been endured, these blunders have become part of the wisdom of the world thereafter, But much of that wisdom is now being cast into the flames in Washington as if these old blunders had never been gommitted. One of the strangest refusals to listen to the voice of history is found in the vote of half a billion dollars to enable the South American countries to store their surplus commodities. * For perhaps no other experiment in history has been tried so many times as this one and there is no recorded instance of sucecess save in the case of very small commodities. But instead of being deterred, our experiments go on to bigger experiments than ever. Now we are going to save the commodities of a whole continent and, oddly, the continent—South America—where the experiment has been tried so many times and always failed, The Chilean Government has had several monopolies in sodium nitrate, Generally they resulted in sav ng the profits for producers for a brief period, the stimulation of competition in other countries and the quick collapse of the industry.

Only Failure Can Result

Brazil has had coffee cartel after cartel—valorization being the favorite plan, Always they failed and in at least one notable instance we furnished the money for the failure and lost it. The nearest to success perhaps has been the Japanese camphor monopoly, but that is a small product and in the end that monopoly resulted in the stimulation of the synthetic camphor industry. There has been the Franco-German potash monopoly, an example of an international cartel, There have been the several British rubber restriction plans in the Straits Settlements, which have pretty nearly succeeded in permanently destroying that industry. In the face of this long history of effort by Govern« ment through Government loans to hold commodities off the market, it is almost inconceivable that a government like ours will set about saving the producers of a whole continent outside our borders. For this project there will be, there can be but one result—utter failure—failure in its objectives to save the producers, to protect the industries; failure in its objective to keep South America from trading with Germany, Italy and other countries in that orbit; total loss of our half billion and perhaps several more half billions if we attempt to follow through, with the inevitable aftermath of growling and snarling ahout the bad loan,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OST parents are well aware that when Junior M and Sister reach the age for swimming and boating they need to be taught how to protect them selves against the danger of drowning. Not so well realized is the fact that the baby of the family, barely able to toddle about the house, is in equal or worse danger. Nor does his danger of drowning come particularly when he plays by himself on the sand while the older children and even parents are in the water, More 1-year-old children drown every year than persons of any other single year of age, statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have found. The 2-year-olds also contribute far out of proportion to their number to the toll of annual drownings, A relatively small number of these deaths of tod dlers are reported from beaches and other resorts. Most of the fatal drownings at the ages of 1 and 2 years occur in the children’s own backyards. About 400 youngsters 1 and 2 years old are drowned each year in the United States, and about two-thirds of the number are drowned on their own premises, Lily ponds and fish ponds in the backyard are the chief danger places for these tots, judging from the number drowned in such apparently innocuous waters. Cisterns, oesspools, irrigation ditches and small streams which cut through back yards have also been the scenes of many such tragic deaths,

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