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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1940
GET ON WITH IT
IGHT sessions of the Senate may be—as Senator! Adams of Colorado complained yvesterday—‘tiresome.” |
spectacle of the U. S. Senate apparently unable to bring | itself to the point of deciding this important issue is giving | aid and comfort to the enemies of democracy. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Willkie agrees that Congress | should act promptly to adopt selective service. We believe most of the American people are of the same opinion. We know that the Senate, even at the fearful cost of working after dark, ought to get through talking and start voting. Let's waste no more time trying to prove that the dictators are right when they say that indecision in the face of danger is the fatal weakness of democratic governments,
THE ALIEN REGISTRATION
HE nation-wide registration and fingerprinting of aliens which begins today is a measure for the protection of the United States. pointed out, a measure for the protection of the loyal aliens who are this country’s guests. Of the approximately 8,600,000 non-citizens who ave | required to register between now and Dec. 26, the great | majority are loyal to America. A comparative few are | here illegally or as a secret servants of foreign govern- | ments. It has become necessary for our Government to | learn who these few are. And our Government is going |
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Cautioning Petain on Prohibition, He Cites America's Experience; Heavy Drinking 'Patriotic’ Now.
EW YORK, Aug. 27.—Marshal Petain's government of France is making a bad mistake in attempting to impose a modified form of prohibition. We tried prohibition here, and we can tell the Marshal that things are much better since we learned our lesson and abandoned an experiment which, however noble in purpose, simply did not work. Since repeal our cities have blossomed with beautiful saloon signs which delight the eye, our bars are without question among the Joveliest features of the American scene, and the drunkest man or woman is the most patriotic, It has been noticed that unemployment has practically disappeared since the American people sensibly decided to drink their way out of the slough. Thousands of men and women are employed making saloon signs. and keeping them repaired and providing the electricity to run them. The production of bar furniture, with its gleaming metal and red imitation leather has given jobs to countless worthy citizens, and the manufacture of jook boxes and the service thereof have been a boon to cabinetmakers, electricians and musicians.
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But we hope Majority Leader Bagkley will stick to his plan | to insist upon night sessions until the selective service military training bill is brought to a vote. Even Senator Vandenberg, who opposes the bill, agrees with Mr. Barkley that the time has come to act on it, one way or the other. The long debate has ceased to produce anything but heat. It is most improbable that any senatorial mind will be changed by further discussion. And the |
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Falling Leaves
T has been so long since the American farmer was
relieved of all his woes and raised to a position of | - economic security by the demand for grains for liquor | ~ -°
{ and beer that we sometimes forget that back before
repeal he was one of the worst problems of the nation. |
The woodsmen who cut the hard wood, the coop- | $27
ers who make the barrels, the printers who produce | the beautiful labels, the glassworkers who turn out the bottles, the distillery workers and packers and shippers, the salesmen, bartenders, waiters and bussboys and the singers who pass among the tables bursting | with witty song all owe their employment to the re- | peal of prohibition. Marshal Petain could have learned that the ‘taxes | received from the liquor trafic
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abolished the debt of the country as every sane person | =s
promised they would. And the spiritual or patriotic | side he might be surprised to hear there has been a | great profit in the loyal effort of every citizen to |
drink as much as he or she can buy or consume so as | &
to provide employment and revenue. 2 4% ¢& FEW PUBLICATIONS have taken it on them- |
selves to refuse to handle liquor advertisements, | may interest Marshal Petain to know that | American public opinion does not praise them for this. | On the contrary, it is thought that they are refusing | to co-operate in a patriotic work and sabotage recov- | ery and are placed in the fifth column along with the | Communists and those who oppose, or favor, con- | scription. It is as though the same publications | should refuse to give publicity to a government bond | issue or anv other project for raising of necessary | revenue, and sanctimonious statements of principle | do not deceive the honest and loyal American. It is pathetic that the old Marshal. in his great should make this false move which not only condemns a fine industry but renounces without a |
about that task by methods that accord with the traditions fair trial a means by which France, like the United
of a country whose citizens are for the most part descendants, not many generations removed, of people who once were aliens. Aliens here will register at the Indianapolis postoftice, not at the police station, as in Europe. They will be helped by friendly emplovees of the Government, not ordered about by gruff and hostile officials. They will find
a sympathetic response to willingness to give the required They must register, and we hope they |
information freely. will do so voluntarily and promptly—that no recourse to penalties will be necessary. We hope, also, that citizens | will do all they ean to encourage their alien friends to com- | ply with this necessary law.
PASSING AROUND THE BLAME
HE defense program hasn't been moving as fast as most Americans would like to see it move, and the boys in Washington have started throwing “dead cats” at each | other. Senator Byrd declares that within the last 100 days— or since the time President Roosevelt first mentioned 50,000 planes as the nation’s defense objective—the Government
has actually let contracts for only 343 combat planes, of |
which nove will be delivered in this calendar year. The Defense Advisory Commission brings forward its
own statistics claiming that altogether there are contracts | The num-
outstanding for €747 Army and Navy planes. ber of course, includes contracts let more than 100 days
ago and based on appropriations provided before the speed- ©
up in preparations was ordered. The Commission also retorts that the blame for the glow down of the speed-up rests with Congress for not passing the latest five billion dollar appropriation, for not
clearing up tax uncertainties in regard to depreciation and |
amortization of new defense plants, and for changing the
Vingon-Tramme! Act profit limit rules in the middle of con- |
tract negotiations. » » » » = »
T° which reply is made that the Administration is at
fault, because Congress has approved, and in the order |
requested, every defense appropriation which the President asked, except the five-billion bill still pending; that Congress is not responsible if the Administration neglected
airplane needs in the earlier appropriation bills, and, move- | over, that it was the Administration which made delay on amortization inevitable when it insisted that this-ques- |
tion be tied up with the complicated excess profits tax.
for keeping from the Senate information concerning “coms- | mitments to Britain via Canada,” and says—what move and | more people are coming to believe—that we are not likely |
to achieve air supremacy until the vital air force is divorced ftom the Avimy and Navy.
So on and on, the blame goes “round and "round. Con: |
gress provides money for the Government to build armament plants of the type that private industry cannot afford to invest in. Then Congressmen ask why the plants aren't being built, and executive department officials ask how they could be expected to do that job when they have to waste their time listening to the demands of Congressmen and Chambers of Commerce who think the defense program is just another pork barrel. : What will be the outcome of this kilkenny fight? Only one thing ie certain. When November comes, a great many anxious voters are going to be interested in only one column of military statistics—and it won't be the column which tells how many planes, tanks and fighting meh are “on orden”
BOOM SAY what they might about New Deal policies affecting
pusiness, no Republican can say F. D. R. didn’t boom the wedding ring trade.
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| erop. Senator Vandenberg chimes in about the stove pipes | used for machine gurs and beer cans for shells in the Army | maneuvers in upper New York, takes the President to task |
States, might be saved. The truth is, of course, as | every one knows, that the French never gave liquor a chance. It cften used to be said that one rarely | saw a drunken Frenchman, and that, if you don't mind, was the secret of the failure. They were too stingy and too mindful of their personal comfort to | spend for liquor and put up with hangovers that Americans gladly endure as a patriotic sacrifice. The French were just too selfish. But look at the { Americans. | earth, rich, strong, plastered and roaring and offering to lick anv so-and-so in the world
Business By John T. Flynn |
| Latin America Has Many Problems; Loans Would Only Inerease Them
EW YORK, Aug. 27—The House having passed a bill to provide half a billion dollars for loans to South Ameriéa, we may how wonder what will be | done with the money ! After all, while South America is in difficulty, her troubles are not due to the war. They are accentuated by the war, And if we want to help South America, instead of just making her a pawn in the war game of Europe, we should proceed with a good deal more deliberation and study than we are doing. South America’s troubles are political, cultural and economic. First of all, the country has been the prey for many years of political and military dictators There has been very little real democracy. i For over a century these dictators have been the | old-fashioned type, mere adventurers. More recently | they have tended to the Faseist type, which is some-
| thing else again and grows out of the continents |
economic difficulties. One of the grave dangers in South America is that | Most of its countries will move over to tive Fascist made! the dominion of Hitler. Monarchist countries have fought each other as savagely as they have fought democracies and Fascist may fight Fascist. The Faseist threat in South America is an internal and indigenous one. Indeed, a sort of fascism had appeared there long before Hitler was heard of. The next difficulty in South America is cultural. There is little we ¢an do about that save to recognize | it. It grows out of racial and cultural roots and tol= | | erates a large mass of uneducated and poverty- | | stricken peasants at the base of the social pyramid.
The Economic Problem
The third and gravest menace is economic. These are commodity countries. Many of them are in the kind of trouble Kansas would have if it were an indenation and dependent wholly on its wheat
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What they need is diversification. And as part of this they need, not merely a variety of erops, but some form of industrialization, They have got to learn to create a larger part of their income within | their own borders, 50 that they will not be reduced te penury by shifts in foreign trade. \ All these together make up a collection of pro- | found social problems which call for statesmanship of a high order. But We rush in With searcely a | moment's thought, prepared to save South America | By lending her money to increase the surpluses which
| are already ruining hen and to increase the debt
which burdens hey. Of course Jesse Jones says this money will be
This does not mean that they will be under | them. i
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TUESDAY, AUG. 27, 1940
Gen. Johnson Says—
Power Given Local Boards Key to The Success of 1917 Draft and Must Be Included in Pending Bill
ASHINGTON, Aug. 27-~The strength of the World War selective service was that it followed the essential of the American system of local selfgovernment to the last letter. Gen, Enoch Crowder used to require of every officer detailed or assigned to the judge advocate general's department, a study of the errors of conscription that had made it a stench in the nostrils of Englishmen and Americans. The trouble had been the very errors of government that had brought the American revo. lution =="distant and almost tryannical bureaucracy invading the local affairs of an independent people with cast-iron rules for their conduct and with no regard for local problems. That was what made the drafts in the War Among the States in both the Federal and Confederate Government a fiasco, When Gen, Crowder detailed me to draw up a plan for the 1017 draft, his only instructions were “reverse every one of those errors.” The essence of that reversal will be found in Section 4 of the 1917 Selective Service Act. It took every power for the classification, taking or deferment of men for military service out of the hands of any centralized official or bureaucracy and lodged it solely, exclusively and finally in the local or district boards of neighbors of the registrants, except for a very limited right of appeal,
T 18 Impossible to over<emphasize the necessity and the healthy effect of that, The printer's ink was not dry on the paper of the law before every Congressman and political official in Washington was deluged with demands from constituents to do this or that for the son of Mrs, A, Mrs. B. and so on throughout the alphabet, I have enjoyed few opportunities (and neither, I was told, did any member of Congress br of the executive departments) in the preparation of a painstaking letter such as came in
#'| this one, explaining that there was no authority in
Washington or elsewhere, except in these neighbors hood committees, who had the slightest power to pre-
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Hoosier Forum
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disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.==Voltaire.
OPPOSES PUBLICATION OF DATA ON ARMS By Geo. T. Davis Willkie in his latest statement savs, “Mr. Roosevelt should tell us how much armament is on hand, and how much on order.” For whose | benefit, Adolf Hitler? Surely we | have enough fifth columnists in [Congress instead of electing one (to the Presidency.
| 5 & # FORECASTS TROUBLE IN LEASING BASES [By N. E. Mesis
| Who is so naive as to expect that
a century and a half shall stand as la deterrent to Roosevelt “when Ambition rides in Judginent’s seat.” | Having renounced the third-term | tradition he now renounces another | jong respected and observed essential policy enunciated by George Washington — that against entangling foreign alliances. However desirable air and naval bases along our Eastern Coast may be the plan | to lease, or rent them from Britain | is loaded with T. N. T. We are to | be merely lessees, or tenants, we| do not acquire sovereignty, which remains British We now have friendly, even egrel dial, relations with Britain. We do not know how long these may con= tinue. We have fought two wars with her and came very near to a third during our Civil War. We may have to fight another with her long before 99 years have elapsed, [however devoutly we now hope and | | believe we may not. . . { | Are we proposing to rent bases (already built and equipped? I do [not so understand the proposal. If] Inet, are we to spend some move | | “billions” (Roosevelt, it seems, does | {not deal in lesser amounts) to build and equip war bases under foreign | |sovereignty? The power to eon- | fiscate is a necessary concomitant of | [sovereignty and would be exercised {whenever Britain thought it served | {her needs. | | No doubt air and haval bases off | {our Bastern and Southern coasts ave | la desideratum, but complete sov-| [ereignty over them should be a eon= |dition precedent to establishing
3 4 # LINKS BUEHLER SUCCESS | TO THE NEW DEAL By Frank T. Carrithers, Terre Haute A couple of weeks ago your paper printed a feature with pictures about | [Louis ¢. Buehler of Indianapolis]
who, according to the story, was!
Side Glances—By Galbraith
Brisbane was about the only columnist of importance newspapers had great influence with their, “the people think.” "the taxpavers be= lieve,” etc comment but it is not trite now even though headline writers do a good job of coloring political columns
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broke seven years ago. He was in
the gear business. He opened up al J yr +f . little plant employing seven men FAVORS HIGHER PAY
Today he emplovs 120 men and FOR CONSCRIPTS
The greatest hard liquor drinkers on [a tradition or a policy practiced for according to the paper, is going to BY Ray F. Bavsinger, Brazil, Ind.
increase the number to more than| Whenever I think of the proposed 200 right away and build new Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill buildings. |I see red. Conscription is a nice Let's see: Seven years ago would word for stealing. In effect the be 1033, the year Roosevelt took conscription bill proposes that the office, | Government steal a year or more of After seven years of Roosevelt ‘a young man’s life without paying and the New Deal, My. Buehler has fairly for his services, Yet the Gov= prospered exceedingly. Of course ernment will pay the full price for Roosevelt and the New Deal do not the gunpowder it burns or the deserve all the credit. Undoubtedly, Weapons it uses. It will not steal
Mr. Buehler is energetic, able and vem: oe, ovement ing determined. (the full price for airplanes and
But your SIOrY went on to say that | tanke and all other war materials. Mr. Buehler stood for the principle “OF Will it steal these. of “free, American enterprise.” tsnt iment will pay the full price for Mi. Buehler's success under Roose. the service of commissioned officers velt and the New Deal proof that ==$183 minimum per month. he has had an opportunity to work! 1he worker who stays at home under the principle of “free, Ameri- and makes these war materials gets can enterprise?” [high wages—=the manufacturer gets
We would like to hear from huge profits. Business prospers. “Voice in the Crowd” about this, [Yet the “conscripted” young man a gets nothing but a little pocket " money and a year stolen from his HE'S LOSING FAITH life. Furthermore he is fully IN COLUMNISTS trained for future service at the By J N. ©. Terre RHante Same pay. One of the chief advocates for al 1f out Government can pay the . . : . : full price for gunpowder and all third term for Teddy Roosevelt Was other war equipment, then let it pay Mark Sullivan and he has also been the full price for the young men one of the present Roosevelt's most Who must use these war materials. bitter eritics presumably because And the full price is considerably unforeseen events made the Demo= cratie platform of 1832 50 per cent
more than $21 per month, In fact, if the Government would pay this impossible, Now Sullivan, befove the campaign gets really started
full price, the young men would get urges Willkie to ignore the Phila=
the war &pirit as quickly and as enthusiastically as our business lead delphia platform and adopt one of » his own. . .
ers, politicians and militarists, Why it a columnist anywhy? I WANTS WOMEN BARRED read six of them every day and I FROM PUBLIC CAFES know of others that do also, yet I . have to find the first person really y a influenced by what columnists write. | In spite of the response I have Before Yadio was universal and received to my first letter I still
[contend that the sale of beer and liquor sifould not be permitted to women in taverns, If the tavern is to sell drinks, let it be restricted
| used partly to help industrialize South America. But
| everybody knows that is just talk, that there are no | plans for it, and that not more than a handfui of | dollars will find their way to that objective. (Inside Indianapolis is on Page 11)
‘Words of Gold
RINTING the Congressional Record costs the taxpayers about $50 a page. Many pages, these days, are filled with purely political material having nothing to do with business before Congress, On | Ihutsday, Aug. 22, the following members of Con= gress put into the Record the material described below at a cost approximately as stated: Rep Crawford (R. Mich), a news reprint of | a magazine article, “The Negro Is Wise to the New Deal,” $102. | Senator Holt (D. W. Va), a wewspaper column | on Secretary Tekes' reply to Wendell Willkies ae- | ceptance speech, $28. Senator Wiley (R. Wis), an anti-third term ediig “a det (R. Ohio Willk hb Ph. Ben Rr. ), a pro- ie speech by nimselt, $38,
Total cost to taxpayers, $108—enough to pay a CCC Bay for six months and twe weeks.
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like the saloon was; keep women and minQrs out, Some women may contend that
but it is still regarded as being far from nice for women to drink. One little law barring women and | minors=including jcompanied by his father or relaspect and conditions of this country.
AUGUST RADIO BY MARY P. DENNY
August sounds a radio Through the orchard and the wood Where the robin and the thrush Sing afar that life is good. Through the forest and the brush Sound afar the songs of day | Ringing out through country way. | Far above the lightnings flash And in air the thunders crash. | Far along a line of fire On a vibrant living wire | Sounds the chimes of radio One great voice of land and air Sounding, sounding everywhere,
DAILY THOUGHT
And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.Deuteron= omy 7:15,
SERVING God with our little, is the way to make it more: and we must never think that wasted with which God is honored, or men are blest.—John Hall,
Many readers of newspapers ex-|
continual setting up of weoden men and then knocks | ing them down just don't elick. . . .
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they are respectable In such places, |
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Tens of thousands, of copies of that letter were reproduced at the request of harried Congressmen. It relieved them from the most hateful responsibility | that a legislator has—attempts by his constituents to | extract unjust special privileges in return for possible votes. I was told that the system would fail because the | local selective service boards with so much power would be even more subject to local influence. The | record in millions of cases will bear me out that no | such thing happened-or could happen. We avoided that by the device of the great Washington lottery | which established the “order numbers,”
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HE job was done in a gold fish bowl. If Mrs. Smith's son's name came up as next for service, the eyes of every other mother of a son with a later order number were on the selection board. 1f the first boy got off unjustly, their sons were that much nearer { to the gun. For that reason, our difficulty turned out to be not that the exemptions were too liberally or unfairly applied. They were applied too strictly in almost every one of more than 4000 local boards. The present legislation in Congress overlooks this absolutely vital point entirely, The jurisdiction and powers of the boards are not fixed by the statute, but left to a political discretion in Washington, It is an indication of the hasty way in which the bill was prepared=by a group of New York lawyers, without enough experience in the draft. The War Department had been studying the 1017 | selective service system for 23 years, hearing all vete eran criticism and advice and preserving all princi ples that had proved to be correct. The department bill was largely short-circuited, This is no trivial detail. It is a basic fault in the | Burke-Wadsworth Bill that must be remedied before it passes. ! |
‘A Woman's Viewpoint
| By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
WANT to tell you something more about the Colo | & rado ranch wife whose views on life are worth | passing on, She thinks real marriage is possible only in the | country, because there husband and wife share identf- : cal interests and work all day | am shoulder to shoulder “My father died just after I finished high school,” she coni fided as we rode tite mail route | id together, “I worked and went be to night school to get my business training. Then I landed a good job as a private secretary, never dreaming I'd ever give it up voluntarily. | “But I used to wonder a lot about some of the women who : came to consult my boss. I re- | member one especially who had | lost her husband. She came crying to him for help and, would you believe it, she had no idea whether she had been left with 10 cents or 10 thousand dollars, | “I felt sorry for her, .of course, but then and there I made up my mind I'd néver marry a man unless I could be a real wife to him, and certainly I wouldn't live with one who did not trust my intelligence enough to let me knpw something about his business. “1 should think a man with a grain of spunk would resent living with a woman who didn’t love him enough to want to be a part of him, to share his worries and to help him make a success of his job, whatever it was, “As I look back, I realize that a good deal of what we called married love in Denver doesn't spell love to me now. I suppose men and women living in eities can't help that sort of spiritual separation, | but I like the old-fashioned idea of marriage—two | people who are headed for the same goal and Who | want to make every step of the trip together.” { lan't that a grand definition of a grand old in | stitution? Anyway, it suite me to a T, and I think | it's a pity urban society is built so that very few couples can attain it, My vacation was a success in several ways this year. But meeting a hardy perennial of a woman, | after I had begun to suspect the tribe was degenerat- | ing into a bunch of powdered marshmallows, in- | oreased my sex pride—and goodness knows, I can use | more of that these days.
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
HE likelihood of a person developing high blood pressure can be told the first time a doctor measures his blood pressure, it appears from studies by Dr. Edgar A. Hines Jr. of the Mayo Clinic. The person whose ‘blood pressure gets up around the upper normal limits because he is nervous when the | reading is made is the person likely to develop high blood pressure, Dr. Hines believes. Persons whose blood pressures are not elevated, as a result of such nervous stress, above 140 millimeters of mercury systolic and 85 millimeters. diastolic are unlikely to develop high blood pressure in the future, If the blood pressure under such circumstances is less than 120 millimeters systolic and 70 millimeters diastolic, the patient is almost certain not to have high blood pressure in the future. On the other hand, even transient elevations of the systolic and diastolic blood pressure into the upper ranges of normal foretell probably high blood pressure in the future. These conclusions, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, were drawn from study of blood pressures of 1522 patients who returned to the Mayo Clinic 10 or 20 years after a first visit. The blood pressures of these patients at the first visit was compared with that at the visit 10 or 20 years later, At the first visit most of these patients had blood pressures within the commonly accepted normal limits, and had no ailments, such as kidney or thyroid Jeoubie, which might have led to high blood pressure. ter,
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