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FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940

MR. WALLACE ACCEPTS R COSEVELT was mentioned 28 times in the Wallace ac-

ceptance speech and Hitler 23. Wendell Willkie, who is running for President, wasn’t mentioned once. The Wallace address was an ardent reiteration of the doctrine of Rooseveltian indispensability. It took (or attempted to take) the 1940 campaign completely away from the home grounds and planted it squarely in Europe. Hitler was made the issue and Roosevelt, of all the 130 nillion of our population, the sole salvation. All opponents of Roosevelt were classified as nothing less than ‘reason for rejoicing in Berlin.” Only Roosevelt erstands what it's all about, what the rise of Hitler has All attacks on him have provided aid and comfort

und meant. to Adolf As for democracy, on that Roosevelt holds the patent rights. It is strongly hinted that though democracy is power, opposition in this particular case—opposition that dares raise its voice against Roosevelt—falls little short of treason. For, in the words of Wallace, “whatever the motive, the effect was the same—these attacks on Roosevelt | and his program played into the hands of Hitler.” Only Roosevelt has the knowledge, the experience and the wisdom to be President. He is indispensability personified—the one and only. Without him, Hitler would rejoice and we shall assuredly walk the “path of destruction and lost freedom.” That is the theme. Who is me! Accepted, there would be but one thing to do. Close the campaign now and elect by acclamation for a third term in one ringing shout—Franklin Delano Roosevelt. How many agree will be determined, however, on the

first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1940.

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

French Casting Around Now for a Scapegoat But the Fact Is Their Own Follies Contributed to Fall

EW YORK, Aug. 30—The instinct to kick a Jew for every broken shoelace or hair in the soup is now taking command of the French Government, and the turn prompts some recollections for the sake of honesty in the record. The Germans under Hitler were told that the Jew was the cause of their disaster, when the fact was that they had come apart politically, had quit cold in the field the minute the war finally turned against them and had been deserted by the most German German of them all, Kaiser Wilhelm, who ran away. Their trouble was mostly humiliation, and finally they took it out on their half-million Jews on Hitler's promise that once these people were totally eliminated from German life all would be well. The Jews were eliminated, but Hitler, nevertheless, led the Germans on to war, and for the war, which began with a German invasion of a Catholic country, he now blamed Jewish capitalism and the plutocratic countries. The French will have to work out their own problem, but they insult the facts and the intelligence of all who saw anything of France in the last 20 years if they attempt to ignore their own dishonesty and corruption among the causes of the fall.

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HIS dishonesty and corruption was a native French trait. There was no other nation on earth in which graft had become such a robust institution, although Americans, in gloomy moments, may think that our own country deserves at least a draw in the comparison. In France, roughly speaking, evervhedy grafted.

| Their journalism was a mixture of harlotry and trea- | son in the front office, and their reporters were we-

boys and moochers. Their servants received a graft— which was condoned, perforce—on every article of food that came into a Frenchman's house, and the concierge, or janitor, was a privileged brigand or racketeer and a stool-pigeon for the police. To do any business in a straightforward or honest manner was to be naive and a sucker, and every Frenchman who put his chalkmark on a deal on its way through the works felt that he was entitled to a commission or kickback, and usually got it. Even in their biggest and best hotels the traveler had to check his possessions against pilferage and examine the bill with care, lest the French multiply the items instead of adding them. Chiseling was a national custom. Paris during this time achieved a world-wide repu-

tation as one great honky-tonk or joint to which the people of other nations flocked to get drunk and |

otherwise misbehave, secure in the knowledge that, because the French were so broadminded, everything they did would be off the record. Americans far out-

numbered all the others during most of this period, | prohibition the trans- |

and in the boom years of Atlantic ferries wore grooves in the sea taking them

| over for the drinking and back for fresh money!

WALTER C. MARMON

HE death of Walter C. Marmon has taken from Indianone of its most distinguished and most useful citizens. Walter Marmon served both his country and his city in war and in peace with unflagging energy. More than two aecades ago when the United States | plunged into the first World War, the name of Marmon | as almost synonymous with Indianapolis. It was the | Marmon plant whicn was turning out the Liberty and Hall- | Scott airplane motors. The war over, Walter Marmon cave his time and his efforts to community work. Twice | he served as chairman of the Indianapolis Community Fund. | He was president of the Boy Scout Council. He served in | every worth-while civic project to which he could give the |

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America is pressing for defense machinery. And today Walter Marmon's piant—Marmon-Herrington—is turning out tanks as fast as it can. Marmon-Herrington has lost its board chairman. In-| dianapolis has lost an outstanding citizen.

THERE NEVER WAS A PERFECT TAX BILL

T° our desk the cther day came a routine Treasury De-

| little else certainly shares the blame

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{ up in the drunken yelp of the tourist:

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HE Americans certainly contributed nothing to the moral tone of Paris, and their conduct was

not endearing, but a nation which permits its capital |

city to become known abroad for licentiousness and Tt 1s impossible to imagine the people of this country permitting

| Washington to become so known to the world,

What were the wares that Paris offered the tourIst but night life, divorces, liquor, perfume and styles, and what opinion did the French expect to establish abroad, and what regard for their own capital at home by their obsession with frivolous and sordid Not only was good faith lacking in most of their dealings with suckers who soon would be poured on the boat trains and probably wouldn't return. but to the detriment of French life the people didn't mind seemed to think they were being quaintly French. It certainly is true that France has paid terribly for her carelessness and generosity in offering asylum to political refugees of all political hues who abused

her hospitality by promoting their selfish little con- |

spiracles and dumping their dead weight on a people with problems of their own. But the French themselves are chiefly to blame for the decay so thoughtlessly. but accurately summed

Paris! Where are the naked women?”

Business By John T. Flynn

“So this is |

— THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES °

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Hoosier Forum

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

FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 1940

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Roosevelt fenced Willkie {Europe and a complication scrambled international affairs. Third term criticism means noth | Some of our major industries

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ling. active life and the same thing ap- | plies {when the two major parties have the same ideas. » ”n ” CONTENDS OUR PERIL DUE TO | LACK OF NEUTRALITY By George H. Healey Most people have some time or

Of By A Roosevelt Democrat

ing to have to bring forth a much keep an able executive all of his stronger argument than any they have offered to date to convince us to our Government, especially |qe the Jower income classes that Mr.

our President Roosevelt,

expanding

amusement tax raised their prices from 15 to 20 cents immediately after Congress passed the law af-| fecting the higher-priced houses i The ticket sellers explained that the increase was due to the in-| creased tax. This statement is false. | The theater owners will, of course, | deny that the ticket sellers Knew | what they were talking about. Nevertheless, the fact that the prices were raised immediately after the law was passed is sufficient to {create a presumption of intent to violate the statute against obtaining money by pretense of tax increases

(Times readers are invited

to express their views in these columns, religious conMake

your letters short, so all can Letters must

troversies excluded. have a chance. be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

righteously be neutral there would be no cause for fear of attack.

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RESENTS EFFORTS ‘TO BUILD UP WILLKIE By (Lebanon H. G.

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FOR DESERTING F.D.R.

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the article of G. G. Miller of Shelburn, I wish to say that a great many people are very tired of so much glorify{ing of Willkie in your paper. After all, vou have a great many subscribers who might not now be tak{ing your paper if Roosevelt had not come along when he did to bring about the passage of beneficial and humane legislation to aid millions |

} K of people to live better; of course | } and then speaks of SaC-| 04 jheant more subscribers for rifice and economy to come, with VOR harder work for our men and more’

I believe the Republicans are go-

Willkie will do more for us than Mr. Willkie condemns F. D. R. for burdening the businessman with

taxes thereby discouraging him from

spite of vour efforts to build |

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Gen. Johnson Says—

He Again Appeals for Inclusion in Draft Bill of Section Giving Local Boards Sole Right of Selection

EW YORK, Aug. 30--In a matter in which vou have given your all, especially when vou were very young, you are likely to take vourself too serious ly. Maybe T am doing that about selective service But on that subject I feel sometimes the agony that

David Warfield made so clear to everybody in “The Return of Peter Grimm.” You remember that the gentls old florist had left some advice and directions te his children before he passed into the realms of infinite knowledge. There he learned the tragic error of those bequests. In the effort of his dis= embodied spirit to come back and avert disaster he suffered because,

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although he could mingle unseen

with his beloved, he couldn't get his message to their ears. 1 think two of the most poignant words I have ever heard on our stage are his unheard cry of anguish: “Hear me!” I feel a little that way about the Burke-Wads= worth Selective Service Bill. As I have written bee fore, it makes the classification, selection and de« ferment of men a matter of personalized executive discretion. but it is not an unimportant one heart of the democracy and public success in this effort

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HE bill as written, and even az amended Ib

Senate, does the exclusive

uncontrolled jurisdiction boards the absolute and final to which men shall taken for military service and which shall be selected for civilian service. That could cons vert the whole effort from a perfect use of our demos cratic institution of local self-government to a pos« sible hog-pen of favoritism, influence and perhaps of political patronage and pressure, This is no guess or conjecture on mv part. It a result of intense experience and furious effort experimenting, building and perfecting in 1917 and 1918. Now I know that this is the wish of neither the President, nor Mr, Willkie, nor any member of Congress or politician. One of the most Inspiring things about this legislation is the effort on all sides to take it out of politics, I know that Mr I know that, apart from the it. could ruin any

not. repose 1n

of the selective decision as

in in this system

affect directly every home and

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will, sooner

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HIS understandable oversight is a simple resulk

of the slap-dash fashion in which this bill was put together. There are other errors clearly revealed by experience. They can be corrected later great harm. This one can't. This effort must fairness efficiency as to capture public confidence from the beginning. I called this fatal oversight the attention of some Senators who seemed te sense its importance without argument So far as 1 have been able learn they have not amended the hill and an amend ment reported in the press from the House commit tee, at least as reported, does not cure the fault If, in the present rush for passage, nobody elss I hope the Presi dent himself will do so. I sometimes suspect that he does not altogether enthusiastically approve of soma of the issues in this column. On this particular subs=

without pass

of and

| Ject, however, T am sure that he concedes its informa « | tion, experience and his intense common purpose with

even this columnist, no matter how far he speaks, de profoundis from the official dog house, It i essential matter of national defense,

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A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HE “married woman's right to work for wage argument has come to a dead stop. After raucous debate the silence can almost be cut with a knife, “Letters to the Editor" columns bri with opinions on and legislators.

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There 1s something of a technicality here,’

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partment announcement that a certain corporation had | European affairs been overassessed for taxes in the amounts of $11,778.55 in 1917. and $234,513.82 in 1919. Refunds were ordered and suits pending in the U. S. Court of Claims were dis-

missed

careful management from up Willkie, these millions upon millions will remember that Precident Roosevelt kept his New Deal promise of seeing to it that no person in this nation shall starve for want of food nor freeze for lack of clothing and shelter. Many of my farm

other found themselves in discordt a s. Alb ™ [housewives of our country. We, the | ant environs ltercations occur ino. oan of the low and middle in- | fraternal, social business and come class. constitute the majority

church organizations. Calm is gen- of the housewives, and from us erally restored bv neutral elements comes the question: Does Mr. Will- | without recourse to drastic action.|kie propose to lower the tax from

having their hands full of other things, have dropped the working wife as if she were a hot potato Strictly speaking, that's exactly what she 1s. And that's what she will be when the war business

Military Hysteria Sure to Harm U. S. Whether or Not Hitler Comes.

EW YORK, Aug. 30.—There is no argument—or

very lost

The overassessments were on the last wartime excess | profits tax Yesterday the House of Representatives, after only

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complicated than that of the old war tax. Critics of the new bill call it the “tax lawyers’ delight.” But how could the bill be otherwise than complex? The industrial, commercial and financial system against which | it undertakes to lay a tax is itself an infinitely complex mechanism. The bill's objectives are as simple as they are laudable | -—to stimulate plant expansion and the production of armaments, and at the same time siphon off excessive profits to | the end that there shall be no new crop of “war millionaires” created by the nation’s huge defense program. The Ways and Means Committee tried to draft a simple | for amortization and a clear-cut profits tax schedule. | But the committee could find no easy formula. It had to | make exemptions and compromises and provide credits and alternative rates. And even after all the painstaking effort | to make the tax as fair and as equitable as possible, result- | ing in 104 pages of language which only tax lawyers understand. the bill admittedly will still lay an “excess profits tax” against some corporations whose profits will be less than before the defense program, while other corporations | making greater profits will escape additional levies. Yet the committee did the best it could. If there is anvone in the country smart enough to write a perfect tax bill in an imperfect world, Congress would like to hire him.

MAN OF MANY JOBS TESSE JONES, according to the latest White House plan, will hecome Secretary of Commerce and at the same time hold on to his present position as Administrator of the Federal Loan Agency. Mr. Jones will be responsible for the execution of countless laws and policies formulated by Congress since the beginning of the republic. He will remain the custodian of billions of dollars which the Government has borrowed from -nd then loaned back to its citizens. He will supervise the gctivities of 18 assorted Government bureaus and corporations, sit as a member of the President's Cabinet, and serve on eight sundry boards and commissions. In a land where many are unemployed, here is one man who has good steady work. And it must be said that Jesse Jones is one New Deal administrator who knows how to administer. He'll be able to handle all these jobs and handle them well. Where did the New Deal ever find such a man? Perish the recollection—it was Herbert Hoover who found

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hours debate, passed a new excess profits tax—a meas- | Ty ure comprising 104 pages of legislative language even more >

Jesse Jones and brought him gto the Government service!

little—between groups in Congress as to whether America should provide national defense The whole argument turns on whether the Government should rush off pell-mell in a terror and, changing its plans almost daily, hurl the nation into an orgv of militarism. The Government—which has been described as a war Govern-

ment—makes this argument: Hit- | ler will turn on America as soon |

as he disposes of England. Therefore the preparations must be swift, The opposition says that Hitler may come here but that, when this war is over, he will be confronted with the problem of a Europe torn by famine and disease, a vast : wintry ocean between a hostile Russia on Germany's frontier and appalling problems of finance and organization. Hitler may one day attack America but the time

| is distant-—certainly sufficiently distant to justify this

oun proceeding with calm and intelligent deliberaion. To this the Government makes this reply: Either you are right or we are right. If we are right and Hitler comes and we are unprepared the disaster will be terrible. If vou are right and he does not come, at least we will have done the wise thing and—in the end—no harm will have been done

: The fallacy of this argument lies in the assump- | | tion that we can turn this nation from its democratic |

traditions and its settled economic methods to a mili-

| tary economy “without doing any harm.”

» o uo § Bow are’ men who believe that, no matter what

we do, if Hitler comes here he will be doomed to |

defeat

it will take. (My own view is that the terror being spread that Hitler is coming is a preposterous fiction) But in any case he would be repelled. But if we should plunge the nation into the present plans (1) to saddle it with militarism, (2) to add another 15 billions or more to the debt, (3) to break

Government-supported armament industry, here or not—can save this nation from dropping swiftly into a Fascist economic system or some American pattern, with all that that implies. It is not true to say that we can carry out this program and that, if Hitler disappoints the terrorists and doesn't come, no harm will be done, On the contrary, the worst harm will be done—harm that we will bring upon ourselves,

Words of Gold

RINTING the Congressional Record costs the taxpavers about $50 a page. On most days, of late, many pages have been filled with purely political material having nothing to do with any business before Congress.

described below at a cost approximately as stated: Rep. Robsion (R. Ky.), a newspaper column against a third term, with two pages of introductory remarks by Mr. Robsion. Cost, taxpayers, $137.50—enough to pay Mr. Robsion’s salary for five days.

The better we are prepared the quicker he | will be repelled. The less we are prepared the longer |

On Saturday. Aug. 24, the following | member of Congress put into the Record the material

| Sensible persons identified with {these organizations maintain a | poised neutrality and point the wav | | to peace. These neutrals rarely get [into trouble. This is righteous neu- | trality. It would have been a great

| thing if America could have adopted doesn't say

[this policy. . . We have not been honestly neutral. . . . We have receded from the

| plished not because the great ma-| | jority of our people believed it to] [be right but because the Adminis[tration in Washington has commit- | ted itself far beyond the point made known to the American public. {

WARNS AGAINST PERIL |neutrality the last war proved so OF WAR INFLATION | necessary. And it has been accoms- By Ww. Scott Taylor

(great public service by exposing the edge and experience, regardless of ismall-time war profiteers who use what national defense taxes as a pretext

business and levy it on us, the la-| friends would certainly have borers? their farms and many of my homeMr. Willkie says he approves of owner friends would have lost their the terms that were enacted to help homes, had it not been for the us, but he proposes to do it with less Roosevelt program cost to the Government, but how, he| The New Deal program has resulted in increased income for farmers, greater earnings for business and safer and more profitable holdings for investors. Many of us | still feel that Roosevelt is the one | [ih whom the majority of our people trust and that we will continue The newspapers could perform a with his leadership, vision, knowl-

the millionaire press desires

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for grabbing unjustified profits, NOE War inflation should be headed|1FRMS VOTE

President Wilson repeatedly com- off the moment it raises its ugly| MENACE TO DEMOCRACY

mitted himself to a program of | “open diplomacy and covenants openly arrived at” but now we have (secret diplomacy and agreements (about which we know nothing. If over night we could retrace the! {acts of the last 12 months and

head. Otherwise it spreads by eéxam- By Forrest Morehart BR se RRpUISe Ww whe ii “G"” men have convinced most of An example of this has appeared Ne people that MA ye Gees in Indianapolis. Certain low-price NOt pav. Ii ve can fine Some tion motion picture theaters who were fit to prove that peity crime is un-| not affected bv the increased profitable democracy may still be saved, By petty crime I do not mean] drug store cowboy stuff . 1 Wm talking about this common petty | crime buving and selling votes and |

COPR. 1940 BY NEAS I~ E INC. TM. REG, us PAT. OFF, "Trouble with France was, the peoples gave too much thought tg comfort and leisure."

{not only the sordid kind of peddling | [for filthy jack, but also the more] | widespread variety of trading for a| | beer, a job, patronage, or just what | have you, except your country's wel-| | fare at heart | | The trouble is I cannot figure | | which is the biggest fool criminal, | [the buver or the seller, We would | | not care if they hurt no ona but | themselves, but when they start sniping at us innocent bystanders | by talking about buying votes with | farm loans and compulsory military training it is time for all Americans | to convince the world, and this includes politicians, that their vote is not for sale for either money, chalk, or marbles. . . .

DAILY PRAYER

By JAMES D. ROTH | Lord, give me bread today; And yes—the chance to win. Grant sufficient potion—aye Enough for kith and kin.

I ask Lord—give me strength To stem the tide today; Ah ves—through each day's length I've comfort on my way.

DAILY THOUGHT

Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.— Deuteronomy 1:21.

OBEDIENCE is not truly performed by the body, if the heart is dissatisfied. —Saadi.

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ployment of married women on a strictly “need basis

| would be disastrous.

wears itself out, onlv much hotter The Business and Professionak Women have made a noteworthy contribution to this still important sithject by investigations requiring several years to complete, Their findings are enlightening. If vou want them in detail, beg, borrow or steal a copy of the August issus of “The Independent Woman,” in which a report is given. This has not been a hit or miss matter, as so many investigations are. Instead, a careful study was made by a number of able women including Mary Beard,

| historian; Beulah Nienburg, Nvdia Case and Almeda

Perry Brown, with Dr. Ruth Shallcross as director, Dr. Shallcross is regarded everywhere as an authority on the subject, Briefly, she states that the unemployment problem will never be solved or remedied by putting the em= " the national every group,

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This will serve only to bring standard of living and, if applied would inevitably ruin our econom} It is generally conceded that the effect on purchasing power if wives were denied the right to work Every merchant and manufac» turer is fully aware of this; constant advertising ape peals to women buvers prove that the feminine conssumer, and therefore the feminine earner, is a powers ful figure in national life, Families must have more, rather than less, money to spend if prosperity is to turn the famous corner

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

AVE you ever noticed that at the end of the sum. mer your skin looks much better than it did in the spring? That is unless you unwisely got an over. dose of sunshine and became badly freckled or blise tered in consequence, If your skin does look better, the reason is probably to be found in the life you lead in summer-—-more exercise, more fruits and vegetables, more glasses of water each day, and more baths. Skin beauty is not just skin deep, the old adage notwithstanding. Tt depends on the health of other, deeper organs of the body. The skin gets its nourishment from the blood and lymph, Consequently if you are anemic or if your blood circulation is poor, your skin will not be well nourished and this will show in its appearance, The blood, however, not only brings nourishment te the skin but removes wastes. The blood does this all over the body. So poor blood circulation means not only lack of nourishment but insufficient drainage of waste products, which also shows in the appearanca of the skin. Pallor, greasiness, dryness, and greater liability to irritation and infection may all result from poor blood circulation to the skin. Diet is important for skin health and beauty. Certain diseases that come from lack of vitamins, sucn as pellagra and ariboflavinasis, show directly on the skin as well as in other wavs, Lack of any of the vitamins, however, because it will affect the general health, will affect the appearance of the skin Cleanliness, inside and out, is essential for skin beauty. Inside cleanliness is accomplished by proper diet, drinking plenty of water, and exercising to main. tain good blood circulation, Outside cleanliness is accomplished by daily soap and water bathing or washigg. A very few persons cannot stand soap and must use cold cream for cleansing.