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Give Licht and the People Will Find Thew Own Way
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1940
JONES, LOANS, AND HOPKINS
ERTAINLY there could be no nearer a perfect selection | for the Secretaryship of Commerce than Jesse Jones. |
But we hope he doesn’t take the job (he is reported
as still having the matter under advisement) unless he has |
been assured that his successor as head of the RFC will
be competent to do as well as has Mr. Jones in the ad- |
ministration of the greatest loan agency in all world history. A billion is a lot of money, and RFC deals in billions, and billions are still to be repaid. Mr. Jones takes proper pride in saying that loans up to date have not only been collected but have shown a profit—an evil word to some. But many of those billions “ain't home yet.”
bailing out the taxpayers. But some Big-Hearted Otis—some spend-to-save boy —running the RFC might easily bankrupt the Government. »
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n » I Jesse Jones does accept the Cabinet post it will be a relief to see somebody, after all these years, as Secretary of Commerce who knows something about commerce. Harry Hopkins, hard-working and loyal New Dealer, trained only in social work, which means spending, succeeded Daniel Roper, politician, whose inexperience in commerce was rivaled only by that of Mr. Hopkins himself, Both had lived their lives on payrolls, not payrolls—and there is a difference vast as space.
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Mr. Jones came up the hard way and with his bare |
hands. He learned early what a debt means—that assets shrink; debts never; that business isn't just a profit system but a profit-and-loss svstem. ceeded and became big. lated into public service, explains why all those billions haven't just been thrown to the birdies.
WILLKIE AND AIR POWER
ENDELL WILLKIE has done an important service |
to national defense by his strong declaration for a unified air force, independent of the Army and the Navy. His position is contrary to that of President Roosevelt —and to that of most generals and most admirals—but we think logic is on Mr. Willkie's side. The President and the generals and the admirals, it seems to us, are ignoring the outstanding military lesson of the war in Europe. Air power has dominated that war. Germany's preparations began with, and have adhered to, the principle that men who believe in air power and understand its uses should be free to develop it. France and Britain were forced to come to that princinle, but belatedly. The United States, alone among major powers, still clings to the traditional practice that keeps air power divided into two branches, one subordinate to the Army and the other subordinate to the Navy. Admirals have been trained to think first of battleships. Generals have been ‘rained to think first of land armies. Both are necessary. But this country also needs men who will think first of planes and pilots, and whose authority in
their field will equal that of the admirals and the generals And then, above them all, it needs a higher | authority to balance the development of the three arms of |
in theirs.
national defense and to co-ordinate them if war comes. This is what Mr. Willkie advocates. lle would begin immediately with the creation of a new Cabinet post—a Secretary of the Air Force, with authority equal to that of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy. His ultimate objective would be a single Cabinet officer in charge of defense, with undersecretaries for the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Until there is such an arrangement, American air |
power will continue to be the stepchild of the older services. Mr. Willkie has taken a bold stand on an issue about which much more should be heard in the Presidential campaign. It is an issue vital to the safety of the country.
SAVING ON SPEECHES
HE Republican National Committee is econuiu..ing—a |
distasteful task, perhaps, but one made necessry by Candidate Willkie's insistence that expenditures on his campaign must be held within the Hatch Act limits. For one
thing, the speakers’ bureau is to have only three members, |
whereas in 1936 there were 36 members whose expenses, and in some cases, fees, were paid from committee funds.
We suspect that three professional speakers will do | the party's cause as much good as 36, or 360, and possibly | If ever there were days when the voters had | : : : | Tom Powell did, and what's more, she prefers ranch { any burning desire to hear from paid spokesmen for the |
In this campaign, cer- |
more good.
candidates, those davs are gone. tainly, the voters do want to hear from the candidates
themselves.
Roosevelt's preoccupation with affairs of state, we suspect that come September and October his voice also will be heard on topics not unconnected with the election.
A WARNING TO UNIONS
N example of what may happen to unions which fail to | clear their ranks of racketeers and criminals is being |
furnished in Chicago, where a secret “public enemy” squad seized four leaders of a restaurant employees’ union for investigation. Police say that all four have criminal records. Police Captain John I. Howe announced that the arrests marked the start of a drive “to clean hoodlums and racketeers out of Chicago labor unions.” “If we can’t have law-abiding citizens running unions we won't have unions.” Every union man—and particularly every union leader —should ponder that sentence. For, as sure as anything we know, it is true. The future of collective bargaining is definitely menaced unless honest union men, interested in the legitimate objectives of organized labor, drive out the minority of crooks who have muscled their way into power in certain unions.
Price in Marion Coun-
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Mr. Jones, by his superb record to date, | gives all evidence of getting them home and thereby of |
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meeting |
i “ri » : | she came into Mr. Willkie is eager to oblige them and, despite Mr. | | rainy season was on, and the girls were water-hound.
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By Westbrook Pegler
Claim That You Can't Conscript Wealth Without Killing Liberty Shocks Many But Is Unrefuted
EW YORK, Aug. 26.—As I expected, a lot of people have been shocked by the apparent brutality of my proposition that while it is not undemocratic to conscript human beings for military service, nevertheless, democracy must die if and when mere bloods less wealth is conscripted, too. The objections seem to me to be emotional protests against an exasperating reality which is no invention of mine, for no man can get around, over or under the fact that in every country where wealth has been conscripted the people have lost evervthing which Americans would defend. A man who has no material wealth of his own worth counting is almost certain to resent the sugges- | tion that in case of war his life may be placed at risk by command of the Government while the wealth of Henry Ford, for example, must be respected and pro- | tected. That certainly is a mean state of affairs, but, still, if the nation should take Ford's property, then it | should take the property of every other man. The Government thus would become the only em- | ployer in the country and the boss and ruler of all | labor. All our eminent unioneers, except the Com- | munists and Nazi-Fascists, agree that total govern- | ment control of labor, enforced by law, is fatal to bi amounting, as it does, to conscription of labor,
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F, by conscription, you have in mind the idea that the Government should “take over” certain essential works for the duration of the emergency, we might be able to work out a rough understanding. In that case the owners and the unioneers both would have to play ball with the Government. The owners | would have to be content with a little return on their money and the unions would have to rock along and compromise some points of dispute and vield on others, But that wouldn't be real conscription, Real conscription of wealth would require the conscription of labor to work the properties, because when a man is given to understand that he is not entitled to | keep for his own benefit what he earns by his work, which is to say his wealth, he just says to heck with it and won't work a lick, So at that point we look
or conscript men to work—or else—at occupations assigned to them by the Government. That has been the way in Russia, Italy and Germany, and there has been no mention of any special condition arising from | the soil of the United States which would enable us to find some better solution, on
OVERNMENT bonds and postal savifigs are wealth the conscription or confiscation of which
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would amount to a flat repudiation of the Govern- | ment's debts, and that fact, embarrassing as it is to | { those who think liberty can live where wealth in con- |
As the vears went on he suc- | scripted, will not be vanquished by mere indignation |
Attainment of that success, trans- |
or scorn. We have heard so much about the creation of so-and-so many thousand millionaires in the last war that T would like to know also how many of those fortunes still exist intact, either in the hands of original possessors or in the hands of their heirs. I suspect that many of them were only table-cloth or, at best, temporary millionaires, whose money soon got away, as quickly as easy money usually does This is not a proposition of lives versus dollars. | Lives are not opposed to dollars or vice versa.
Inside Indianapolis
Willkie Clubs, WPA and the Hatch Act and That Dolly in the Fountain
HERE 1s quite a to-do on about whether the Indiana Willkie Club violated the Hatch Act by mailing our cards to, among others. WPA workers | soliciting $1 apiece for the campaign. John K Jennings, the State WPA Administrator, considers it not only a violation of the Hatch Act but of the 1941 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act as well. What the Indiana Willkie Club did was to obtain a mailing list from a concern specializing in that | sort of thing. The list was purchased 2s being one of automobile owners, the theory of the Willkie boosters being that here was the best place to start. Mr. Jennings has issued two press releases on the | affair and some of the Willkie backers are getting | belligerent. “You'd think the first thing he'd do would be to investigate to see how many of his WPA workers own automobiles,” one ardent Republican grumbled. Mr. Jennings’ answer has been simply to send all | the complaints to Mr. Nolan, the District Attorney.
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A GADGET in the window of Wiegand's Flower Shop at 16th and Illinois is giving pedestrians quite a laugh these days. . . . In the center of the window is a fountain used as a centerpiece for flower displays and over the fountain hangs a doll on springs. . . . The fountain spurts intermittently, giving the doll both a bounce and a bath. ... Whole groups of people have been gathering there, watching and chuckling with every ducking the dolly gets. . . . We hear that were to get a new downtown restaurant in a few days . Quite the last word in appointments, too, we hear » o a
THE RT. REV. MSGR. HENRY PF. DUGAN, Chancellor of the Indianapolis diocese, has been in St. Vincent's Hospital for more than a month. . . . His | illness is reported serious Residents at 42d and | Cornelius are going to do something about their streat signs one of these days, but just what they haven't figured out. . . At 42d St. but on Cornelius is a sign in white letters inlaid in blue tile saying very plainly “43d St.” . . . it’s all very confusing. . . . You can go to the Broad Ripple dam most any day if you want to see tricky spills. . | fishermen walk across the dam on their way to favorite fishing spots. . . . Hardly any of them go 10 fest without taking a dandy spill, some right into the water.
A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
{ | OW many private secretaries do you know who | would make good as ranchers’ wives? Mrs. life. Eleven years ago she was set for life, she thought, | in a fine Denver office, taking dictation from a boss |
and thinking about clothes and fun and vacations |
| and beaus, just as most secretaries do, I suppose.
Thea Destiny took a hand. With a girl friend | the mountains for a vacation, little guessing that romance was waiting for her. The with their lives endangered by the floods. came in the person of Tom Powell steeped in rural traditions. To meke a long story short—you can fill in the romantic interludes to suit vour own fancy—Josephine Powell soon settled down to country life and | here sne’s been ever since and you couldn't pry her | up with a derrick, according to her own words. If you think you're pretty busy these days, Mrs. City Housewife you should follow the ranchers lady through one day's routine. Mrs. Powell takes care of her house and chickens, and five tourist cabins besides. With the help of her husband and brother-in-law she runs a neighborhood store, serves three meals a day to a few regular boarders and what transients may happen along, and occasionally conducts her patrons on pack trips into the mountains for overnight picnics. Three days a week she carries the mail over a rural route out of Creede, making a 60-mile trip each time, and on intervening days she washes, for the tourist cabin business means a lot of dirty linen. Regular as the day comes she goes to church on Sunday. These are summer chores only.
A rescuer | rancher, a man |
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day and dig the snow from walks and stables. | gether she and her husband build a new cabin. If can he set up and the interior work may be finished without discomfort in the coldest weather. Who said the Pioneer Woman was extinet? If so, her gpirit lives on in many places and I'm sure he wa never be ashamed of daughter Josephine well,
vacationists gone, she helps feed the cattle twice a | To- |
| the logs are up and the roof is on by fall, a stove |
MONDAY, AUG. 26, 1940
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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,
CLAIMS NEW DEAL AIDED FARMERS AND LABORERS
By William Lemon
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ev did four vears ago. Of course!
Although I am a New Deal Demo-!
SEES F. D. R. WORKING |FOR WORKING PEOPLE {By Margaret Ross I would like to answer Ralph R. [Canter's letter. I guess Mr. Canter | would prefer to see people standing {in soup lines, and sleeping on park benches, losing their bank accounts, [insurance policies, ete. | People like that should not be al[lowed to vote. President Roosevelt has worked hard during the last |eight years . ., for the working peo{ple. Their savings are now safe. We {have no soup lines, no one sleeps on (park benches | Don’t people realize that the first
they fall like kids buying lemonade crat I am also willing to admit the thing Willkie will do is to turn the at a circus but always wake up in Republicans did some good at El- 1VA over ta some wealthy utility
time to realize the true situation.
BELIEVES DEMOCRATS HOLD BETTER HAND
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(wood. Their hot air created an atmospheric condition which helped [to bring rain. The result was as |good as Sluggo’s rain-making machine of The Times’ Nancy comic strip on the comic page, | Willkie may have been an Elwood lad until he was 11 years old, but since then he has risen into the world to the position of a man with capital on Wall Street in New York City, He was a Democrat until 1932, and then turned Republican. From Wall Street he has turned to the people for their votes. I look upon the man as an uncertain individual who may be apt to return to Wall
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In 1932, we were dealt our five
rds. According to the rules, we uld either draw new cards or keep ose we had. I might add, that 1932, we were in the hooks, havg¢ had a very raw deal on the
In this hand, the Democrats dealt a full hand. Of course we stood
As history proves, we won, the people's economic life,
I am very much in favor of the New Deal's rules and regulations over business and industry. I say that they are necessary. As a working man who has been benefited by the Wagner Labor Relations Act, and the Wage and Hour Law
sily. In 1936. again we were dealt that me full house. We again stood Mr. Maine and Mr. Vermont the only ones that staved
ainst us. This time we won the
In this year, 1940, by our good ck, we are again handed this same 11 hand. Of course we realize that will take a darn good hand to And giving all due respect Mr. Willkie, “an ace for his bheg a good farmer, and an ace for s being a good businessman,’ we
is the choice which I will support at the fall election.
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SAYS REFERENCE IN EDITORIAL WAS VAGUE By Your Best Friend
The following |editorial is vague: portant—tremendously in the campaign of this year our lord’ 1940.” The year A. D. when written out has the word lord spelled with a Capital. The quesI tion is, to whom were you referring, was it Roosevelt or Him?
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
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"Guess we're about the only people left that can sit on the lawn with a glass of lemonade and enjoy a sight like this,"
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the New Deal is my choice, and it]
man? . ,. | ” % 8 THINKS LITTLE OF WILLKIE —AND OF US, TOO By M. R. Thanks for so cleverly explaining what Willkie meant in his acceptance speech. are already so muddled trying to figure out what various and sundry
politicians mean with their ambiguously worded speeches and plat
forms that we appreciate an in- |
terpreter who at least allows us to have something we can sink our [teeth into. However, vour interpretation was much too clever. It looks, on the surface, as if The Times had give an interpretation that would again make Mr. Willkie into the white-haired boy. After all your ballyhoo about his genius and greatness vou had save your own face, didn’t you? Yes, we appreciate your explana-
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tion, but in the future, please con-| honest |
| fine yourselves to an (diagnosis of things actually done land said, and won't continue put[ting words in the mouths of babes [If Willkie is fit to be President, he [certainly should be able to say {what he means without the aid of The Indianapolis Times editorial staff. . .. | ”
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| WICKARD SELECTION
CALLED GOOD POLITICS ‘By Curious | An English friend and corre- | spondent wrote to me: “I think Roosevelt is one of the most astute
politicians the world has ever seen. | His
| political maneuver. The inclusion of | the two Republicans in the U. 8. Cabinet meant just one thing—it stopped the Republican attacks “on the Democrats against their will. In other words, the Republicans were bought off and are in the position of not knowing it. . . . ” And I will add, now F. D. R. has pushed an able Hoosier upstairs in his Cabinet te replace Secretary | Wallace. All Purdue farmers know | that Claude Wickard is an able | man and Purdue has a strong in-
| fluence in Indiana in spite of and
| as well as our Willkie, tics, I calls it.
BECAUSE By ANNA E. YOUNG | Because, my friend, in doing things Folk find it very true
That in the most intrinsic things You never think of-—you!
Clever poli-
And ofttimes ‘tis the smaller things That mount so high and tall The little acts of kindness May be greatest after all.
Because-—~you think of some one © else No thought in selfish trend That's why, my dear, you justly hold The titled role of—friend!
DAILY THOUGHT
Blessed are the pure In heart; for they shall see God.—Matthew 5:8.
1 PRAY thee, O God, that I
may be beautiful TE while jis body is wet.
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handling of the Democratic | convention was a masterpiece of |
Gen. Johnson Says-—
Day-to-Day Changes in Policy of What We Expect to Defend Put General Staff in Unfair Position
ASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—A month-by-month ree counting of War Department testimony before Congressional committees as to our military require ments would make a ludicrous showing—and it would be most unfair, It started with preparation for an army of about 400,000 and it has now reached a projection of 4,000,000. In comparison with the cold precision of Nazi military planning, it makes our General Staff look like a bunch of bush-leaguers. The answer to that 1s this, it is not the business of a general staff to plan policy. When these estimates were first made, our Government was giving no atten tion to “hemisphere defense” and the great “safety belt” around the Americas or the Conventions of Panama and Havana, Step by step in the rapidly expanding policy of intervention everywhere, our General Staff has been confronted with new and lightning-like changes in policy. There is this difference between the harnessing of Nazi foreign policy with Nazi military preparation that Hitler planned nothing on foreign policy that his General Staff hadn't been told to prepare in military strength and wasn't given time to prepare. » " »
N our case, the whole surprising brain-storm shifts in a constantly increasing foreign policy of threat and aggression, has proceeded with no regard whatever of our military preparation to make it good and with no sufficient allowance of time and money to do so. Gen, Marshall's talk about an army of three to four million men was wholly based on new diplomatio theory that we are to police every American country from the North Pole to Cape Horn. That theory 18 utterly fantastic and impossible, We can't afford it, couldn't do it and have no business indulging in any such popular deceits and ludicrous international pose turing. It is about time that this Government settled down and decided exactly what its foreign policy 1s going to be and, more precisely, as controlling that, exactly what policy it can enforce, without absurdity and possible disaster, within the realistic and reasonable limits of its present and immediately potential strength on land, sea and in the air, n ” N that connection, the immediate controlling nubbin is naval and political policy in the Pacific. As between our necessary defensive policy of remaining dominant on both American coasts as far as Natal in Brazil and in addition to that of maintaining a threatening attitude in Asia, Indo-China and the | East Indies, there is a difference of unestimated | billions of dollars of expensive and of comparative safety as contrasted with sprawling all over the map and constantly risking not only our prestige but our | peace and even our existence. This is a question that has been scarcely even | debated. For what stake, reason or obligation are we insecure in the Atlantic because the bulk of our fleet is in the Pacific that Mr. Bullitt can tell our people that we are in as grave a danger of invasion as was France a year ago?
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Business
| y John T. Flynn
B | Despite Millions Lost in 20's, More | Loans Are Urged for Latin America
ASHINGTON, Aug. 26.--~There seems to be a kind of theory here in Washington that {f thera is something wrong something must be done about it right away, even if you do not know what to do. The House has the plan to lend half a billion dole lars to South America through the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and this seems to be a product of that theory There is plenty wrong with ‘South America, There is plenty wrong between South America and ourselves. These had relations and difficult economic adjustments have been rocking along for years, ‘But suddenly we get ourselves mixed up in a war -not our war, but Europe's war, And suddenly we decide (hat something must be done about South | America. And of course we proceed to do it. We use our standard, sovereign remedy for every thing, our cure for every disease of man or beast. The remedy is a billion dollars— or maybe two or three, In this case we start with half a billion. But if we keep it up it will be many billion before we get | through. The RFC is to be authorized to make loans in South America, and we are told that this will buy good will and will increase our exports. We have made loans in South America before. In 1026 we loaned $£215,000,000, and we got a trade increase of $25,000.00. And then we lost the $215,000000 loan, In 1927 we loaned South Americans $242,000,000, and we got increased exports of $11,000,000. Then | we lose most of the $242,000,000. Next year—1928— we made loans of $346,000,000, got a trade Increase | of $6,500 000, and lost the $346,000,000, There was { not much profit in that,
' The End Not in Sight But in these cases the loans were made by private | investors and they took the losses. We are now preparing to inflict the loss of most of another half billion dollars on the public. Be cause we will certainly lose it. We made loans of $1,600,000,000 to South America in the last decade or 50 before 1930, and $1,200,000,000 of it is in default, If it is good will we are trying to buy, this is not a very good way to do it. You get a small quantity of good will while you are handing out the money, After that nrief moment, in which you are a generous lender, vou become a creditor, And no one loves his creditor. Certainly most of the hatred which has been showered on America has come from nations which owed us money. | After all, perhaps we ought to ask Congress to | remember that half a billion dollars is a lot of | money in spite of the fact that we have become numb because we have been throwing billions around so wildly. This is not merely a half-billion-dollar | mustard plaster. It is the beginning of many more if we persist in the policy.
Watching Your Health
| By Jane Stafford
ITH the approach of fall, many families are starting to look for new homes, and those who will not move are making plans for refurnishing the old home. Health, as well as appearance and comfort, should guide you in these plans. . Six points to consider from the health angle are listed in an exhibit on housing at the Medicine and Public Health Building of the New York World's Fair, These six points are: Safety, noise control, sanitation, light, sunshine, and heating and ventilating. More than 30,000 people are killed in homes every year, showing the importance of watching for danger | spots in the home. Especially terrifying to most | householders is the thought of fire. Fire resistive construction will help minimize this danger. Homes as well as theaters and public buildings should have adequate exits as part of their fire protection. There should be provision for prompt disposal of or adequate storage of inflammable material. Gas poisoning is another home danger that you need to guard against. Before the furnace or other heating plant is started for the winter it should be gone over and flues tightened. Check the gas used in the refrigerator to see that it is non-poisonous or has an odor that will warn of its escape. Safety cocks on gas cooking stoves are advised for further salen Falls are a frequent cause of deaths in the home, Adequate lighting, hand rails on stairways, non-skid rugs and good order will help to prevent these. To avoid burns and electric shocks, remember to keep the children away from the stove, Fliminate long extension cords and amateur wiring on electrical equipment. Shockproof switches and outlets are advised. Switches and outlets, furthermore, should be placed beyond arm’s reach of plumbing fixtures to avoid the danger of electrocution through touching
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