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The Indianapolis Times

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ht and the People Will Fond Their Own Way

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1040 ‘RE “IN FRONT OF A TREND" T importance of the “plant or facility” seizure issue ! ized except when viewed as a tern. Taken only by itself 1t can merely the exercise of the right of a phase of a word

the democracy we all

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addenly mjected at the eleventh hour ivesservice debate, and passed by a weary the power to commandedr deem NOCOSIArY ~the facility, & term

dlzure to occur without

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he second time the sue Was mrected under mysCUMILANCES IN & Previous irawn when the “fast one” the challenge now last June in ‘or the conventions, in itself is & potent For this particular

nereased executive power 1s just another,

nt, occurring

nost vivid, aspect of a force that has rising abroad and at “the state;” toward centralIn Russia, Germany, In this country it is the bounds of democratic procedure, { the same cloth, and the momentum

upendous,

teadily strength, toward tne executive,

1D,

undisg

used,

» N ~ 1s oversimplification, and strong leadership. Back 1g was crashing, when the banks were closed faced economic prostration, there was a or

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1an

all for

Some then even said “we need a dictator.” a In those davs willingly, lavishly, and >w faint That when the the President calling a stenographer to ‘take a y swell joke, and nothing more, in the minds of Yet the time fitted perfectly into the the Reichstag, and all

was Roosevelt, and what man! . v powers were handed out

voices protested, was

peaple,

rhe

——l ALN

Iw ye NPN anqic ation

voacquired the emergency habit. and Thomas Corcoran, ‘calling The Congress

The only discords

ack] thrived te House,” came into his own, the baton of the executive, the court ~ Nn »N he packing bill, the farn its original conception, the Black-Connery Bill, the May war-powers hill, ong list of acts all in harmony with

bills, the |

toward “let papa fix.” trend was receding when Congress adjourned in 1939, Then came the war, and all that it " rejuvenated emergency, hat wind which blows toward centrahzation force even greater than that which roared [hirties our problem. The proposed seizure of facilities 1eans anvthing and evervthing if the one with the power to commandeer decrees—just happens to be the most dramatic of all.

pieture. It's a world movement, not just

If its force 1s sufficient it will take ug into the

That's the totalitarian whirlpool. About all we can contribute is to repeat a warning buried e schoolbooks during the earlier and calmer years of our | ation—"eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

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A TVA YARDSTICK FOR LABOR RELATIONS JPEAKING at Chickamauga, President Roosevelt proudly told how all the TVA dams had been built without a substantial interruption, and paid tribute to the fine new coliective-bargaining TVA and the A. F. of L. council of construtcion and metal workers. The agreement provides facihties for the mediation of | dis It is patterned after the Railway Labor Act, under which managemany resembles also the Minnesota |

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hetween

agreement

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M nd forbids strikes during mediation 1t and workers have carried on peaceably a major strike. It “count which has made pavrolls more constant that state's industries. This new TVA-A F, of L. contract, the President noted, |! ‘The public interest in an under- |

mer years without ten’ law

begins with the words: {aking such as the TVA always being paramount . . . There are other undertakings wherein the public in- | terest is likewise paramount—notably the manufacture of weapons for national defense. Why couldn't a similar mediation procedure be extended to all lines of defense produc- | tion—indeed, why not extend it to industries in which a stoppage of work would seriously interfere with the flow of commerce?

WE HOPE IT'S TRUE FTER all Hitler's bluster about “secret weapons” that were going to mow England down, the latest squawk from Germany is amusing. Nazi air force officials, say a Berlin dispatch passed | by the German censorship, complain that the British are using a secret type of varnish which makes their bombing | planes invisible in the full glare of searchlights. Maybe its only an alibi for bad marksmanship by Nazi anti-aircraft gunners, British authorities say the story is nonsense, though some American experts contend that | it might be true. We don't know whether the English air force has developed a secret varnish that gives its bombers an advantage over the Nazis. We only hope so. |

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| There will always

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| Washington

| hook, line

| statement by Joseph Leib, $15.

| on the previous day.)

Fifth Columns

By Maj. Al Williams Fear of Traitors Ameng Us Must Not Blind America to the Need Of Building Modern War Machines

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

between the old and the A modam types of war machinery m the pressnt | European war ii; beclouded by “Fifth Columnism.” | Of course (heret Fifth Columniam in every land be traitors. But attempt: to cons fuse our peopla with the idea that the collapse of France waz due | solely to Fifth Columnizsm deli | erately avoid engineering and | technical Issues or aim {or sensas tional attention, The morale of the Frenche Army was rotten, as obsarvers Knew long before the shooting bes gan. The notse=Mmaking bombs of the Garmans were disturbing to the French, But don't for a minute assume (that the Frenchman IR NOt & brave fighting man, or that he tmrmed craven at a few Modern war machinery and modem France

definition

effects aes whipped reason why French lacked Machinery m the form thousands of tanks and planes was meontrovertibly confirmed by the recent of Marshal Petam, retiring most of the French Army keaders=180 them, to be explicit, who were past the age of 62. These men were not Fifth Cole MISE, NOT wore they wraitors to France because extended thar active duty m the amv to such It was the svstem which charged old men measting the military and

the Lilt

comparable

they Pe Ages with the responsibilities of technical demands of a new age of warfare. That was the weak spot whieh showed up in the moment of test These were the old men who scoffed at airs power, » » »

Ww Col. Rene Foncek, noted French an

lamented the woefully deficient { nas obliged to meet the Ger plans and personnel 1 World leamed that France was MN warfare only after the frightful test Military observers Knew, long before | ired, that France was doomed the Germans received from Ivenci and evidently it was plentyve-ii still | that smashed the poorly It wax tanks bv the houthe break=through by Gers

oe other da man, publich

squapmaent,

DL 11108 MCN Forces $ { consolidated man anmpower our fea} We have

Sands that

Fifth Columnists must be reasonable irsteclass Federal Bureau of Investigation rents, faithful and high in morale, America’s real first line of national defense Support and remand mindful that our job to get fAhting forces together in modern fashion,

Ale

N HE 180 old Al] planes of 1918,

ons of

retired by Petain had world to build French were thinking in terms holes I the ground and mils armed with rifles and bavonets, If the French monev wasted on the Maginot Line had been properly apportioned, in preparation for the mechanized then in the making-—if that money had planes and tanks=-the French would never have been beaten I'he answer ik a matte aircraft mausiry was shot to French tax money our aireratt vain hone obtaining the warplanes to plan are from learn sometl , lessons toa explamed by first things firs

Business By John T. Flynn

F. D. R. Forcing U. S. Close to War: Businessmen Mave Fallen Into Trap

the chances Im tanks, but

reted

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been spent

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The French France voured mausty in the they had fatled which we should quickly ignored or statesmen who refuse

record

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to do

YEW YORK, Sept. 3.—A l declared m amend passed

come in ka

Vear ago, Europe, a movement started Neutrality Act hat act had upon theory that, should might be drawn in if we put selves mm the way of money out If our zones, 1! England traveled in the

when war was here been wal ours

making

to ol

orign the

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OF it ships hankel and:

went mto wail loaned money ance, if our on belligerent we put ours way of being an one of the wars might then rea. expect the other to take at us and thus. bv a provocations, get mto

om Io eutrals DIPS, if selves In econemie ally POWers

ort

Of rime ne sonably pot shots ries of us wal he President demanded certain that these

they

and his Cone amendments to amendments would would make us truly ed they told the safe from mvolve«

They the And American people that we were now ment in Eu Wal Since that time none of the European powers ha committea agamst us any act of war. Not one of 1as done to us anything to which we can take exception, None of them has insulted us or crossed way that we have drifted, week by week to war, We have done this, not been provoked, but because our persistently created provocation

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Yet in spite of closer and because we Government

closer have has provocation » » n T= freat pomt to remember is that none of this has come as a result of those affronts which were offered Germany in the last war Every step that leading us into war has originated in this country Aud it has originated not in Wall Street, not with (he bankers, not in industry, but in It has originated in the White House and 1t begins to look as if we would-it White House job in the Senate will

(6 us PY

If we go In will be a

The

strictly

debates give husinessmen

| who have been falling into the President's political |

trap reasons for pause. That trap 18 based and expensively fostered, that attack up That scare 1s a fraud But conservatives have fallen for it. | sinker. They support the draft. They | support billions for planes, ships, arms upon a hasty, unintelligent pelimell program Now they begin to see that there are lots of by- | products of all this. They are taxes, taxes and more taxes: debt, debt and more debt—debt to the point | of run Confiscation of their plants. Confiscation of their newspapers, their radio stations, Dictator- | ship They have helped to create and build up this mess

They will live to rue it

Words of Gold 1g

RINTING the Congressional Record costs the tax- | payers about $50 a page. Many pages these days | are filled with purely political material having noth- | ing to do with business before Congress. On Wednesday, Aug. 28, the following members of Congress put into The Record the material described below at a cost approximately as stated: Senator Bridges (R. N.

upon a | Hitler | ~pure

scare. carefully is going to and simple and

and

| | H), an anti-third term | {

Senator Guffey (D. Pa.), an anti-Willkie newspaper column, $27 Senator Lee (D. Okla), a letter by the Democratic assistant attorney general of Oklahoma, challenging the accuracy of the Gallup Presidential poll. $32.50 Rep. Angell (R. Ore), the speech of Senator MeNary (R. Ore), accepting the Republican Vice Presidential nomination, $123 Rep. Alexander (R. Minn), a newspaper editorial on “Willkie and Real Americanism,” 3821 (Mr. |

Alexander had put the same editorial into The Record |

Rep. Kitchens (D. Ark), a speech by mses, | “Willkie and McNary Run Full Speed in Opposite Directions,” $35. Total cost to taxpavers, $253 50-—enough to buy gasoline for 110 hours of flying by an Army training | plane,

protest of this part of

have tickets and holding public contests unde: calling this by the name of (when it's nothing more than trains (Ing in card gambling for the voung sters they allow to take part in these gAMeEs group halls and shows,

Wherever

Out Where the Tall Tales Grow!

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oosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what yon say

but will

defend to the death your ight to say it.==Voltaire,

BUNKO GAMES IN (Times readers ars invited

CITY DRAW PROTEST

Ry Rainhalt

writing ARAINSt

Harry

I am thiz to register my customs of people the city | vaur of this community practice of selling gambling name of charity Bunko

arters Public leaders

made it a ARCs,

have a «

ba sianed, but names

the

withnala on reque

perhaps 1 can give it to him Whatever he has Willkie got right down to Dbrasss-tacks and worked and earned ithe didn’t sponge ol an indulgent, wealthy

aent and following their example furthermore this the same that attacks taverns, dance

ina

Is oO ofl mothe} And making name You heen would now the dude KING,

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Isnt man»

reason 1s: He of a dead

another capital

hadn't nevel And be

there there Frank want

see, Mike, if AN "Teddy have been any seems

By Volce in the Crowd

I do not Know why rithers should want on the feature Steel,” recently Times However, 1, article with interest I have never written anvihing in these columns that did not proclaim that men econld build a future if they were willing to work and sacrifice to do 1t I have contended, and I am sure that Buehler would Agree with me, that sur national frend from that possibility Most businessmen seem to that trend Wherever trol or reform Hetang willing

Frank Ca me to comment article, “"Tatlored published in The too, read that

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» » " CONSIDERS WILLKIE ADEQUATE ENOUGH Fdwardsport take which lacked

‘OOMPH'

By M. Gi. French Ind

Allow me to issue wit

dated the

recent editorial in vou that Wendell Wilikie

quired oomph to put his acceptances

I'e

18 AWAY speech Aver sense I listened to almost every of his speech and while diction was impeded by electrice! conditions at times. his elocution was Kind to the Lstening ear. His address contained few explosive adjectives usually emitted by the mine rune of politiclans Outside of vourself, Clapper and Hugh Johnson, the listeners rule acclaimed his efforts, Mi tor, oomph is all right in Hollywood but it takes a knowledge of human nature and horse sense to get there and back in public life We need more business and oomph in Government, This is one election in whieh the voters should not try to decide important issues through lung power in political ral-

lies

word

people clamor for they find the to oblige them this has taken place the people have lost their mdividuality and must live, work and behave as they are told ’ The liberty of Europe been lost, perhaps for the next 100 vears They wanted reform and vou can see “for yourself where it has led them. No labor unions, no right to change jobs, to quit or to strike, no favorable conditions for the individual, all have been vielded to power politics of the state Nothing has happened in Europe that cannot happen here if we do not change our trend. and we have gone farther than you think. . .,. ” »

cone. poli-

has Edi-

les

» » ” " FEARS “SIREN” VOICE SOME REASONS MAY TRIP WILLKIE FOR PICKING WILLKIE By Claude Braddick By J. B. P, | Recent Gallup Polls give If Mike Mattingly wants one rea-/takable evidence that the son why Willkie should be Presi-i Presidential race is following the

GIVES

nnmiscuinent

ces—By Galbraith

Side Glances—B

AEE . T. M. REG. U, 8. PAT, OFF,

§._COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE.

"Hurry down to the store and aet some cigarets— here comes grandma!’

as a |

| | |

| | | 1

{and | splendid salary and normal way of

laid down by the one foun VeAars ago, and that only a colorful and vigorous campaign on the part of Willkie can prevent its ending as that ane didn Mr. Roosevelt's re election Mi

rated

corse

received and too much nis own now 1 INCerease

Willkie has reams of publicity 160 early, In fact, pest, interest His problem to hold his precarious lead it if possible, | , Soon over the ether, from dam and bridge dedication, wherever oo casion offers, will come the calm assured voice of the Siren And in that benign influence, unless it | ably eounteracted, the dire implica tons of the public debt, the sinister approach of socialism. the threat the ol liberty, the fears and of the people will all melt like frost in a June sunrise

and [or

Of |O8S doubts away

ww PRESCRIBES READING FOR DRAFT BILL FOES

By Fdna Vonnegut

Those who oppose selective come

pulsory service in ‘peacetime’ might

the “Al the Dinner Table,” in Rausechning's The Voice of Destruction Goebbels said, » The America loday will never again be a danto us." It 15 a mistake to as It was a danger to us in the last wal Hitler remarked crossh Compared with the British and French, the Americans behaved like clumsy boys They ran straight into the line of fire, like voung rah bits. The American is no soldier The inferiority and decadence of this allegedly new world 1s evident in its military inefficiency

do well to read chapter,

of Rel ume that

J » ~ CONTENDS NO SACRIFICE FACES DRAFT BACKERS By a Reader Smug in the security of highly paid jobs the advocates of the drafi bill are about to deprive millions of men of all that life means to them without giving voluntary service a chance How many me favoring

[this bill will be personally touched

involves? How radio speakof patriotism to give up a

sacrifice ft columnists and are prating expect

hy the many who sacrifice,

ors

check No! “ime

life for a $21 a month pay and life in a training camp? We are informed that the

[portant man” is to be exempted--a { vital purpose of the selective service [being to get only unimportant men

in the argument i= that by “immeant ‘“promi-

Too evident drafting men really

for portant” nent Defense must eome, But why not drop the superiority attitude of the legislative, executive, and other safe mfluential men, divert the millions that flow into pomp and ceremony in the capital, share the secrifice and give a living salary to those who are being prepared for a call from all self-interests: Home, dear ones and the pursuit of or preparation for their life-work,

FAREWELL By VERNE S. MOORE comes too soon, the swift handclasp pledge Of friendship—all imparting. It is not hard to say farewell As the grasp of admiration tightening Speaks more than any useless words may say. What, if perchance we never meet again? True friendship cannot cease to be But O, what might that friendship have become time? A last fleet seems all to betray And you are gone,

Now warm,

In smile that

DAILY THOUGHT For I have Kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly

departed from my God.—Psalms 18:21.

DOING THE WILL of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans.—G, McDonald,

[ extemporansonsly

| channels,

TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Political General Staffs in a Dither With Flynn New to National Scene And Joe Martin Busy in Congress

VY ASHINOTON Sept. 3 ~The high command of both the political armies appears reasonably confident and tranquil, but the great general staff of BACH 12 11 A dith#™ For the Democrats, the 1osa of Jim Farley on the ave of the battle of the third term WAR AOMme catastrophe as would be the loss of Hitler to the Nazia bes fore a decision in the Battle of Britain, Mr. Flynn, make no mias take about it, is a very able man with a better basic brain, 1 think, than his great predecessor But Mr. Flynn's field command has been restricied to the battle of the Bronx and this great Amers ican terrain 8 a very different matter, Even on his own ground, Mr, Flynn will have to wait until the great bosz=buster, Tom Dewey gets through with him, It 18 whispered in the squad rooms that the earlier temporary collapse of his health WAS due to a few veiled public hints of Mr, Dewey's, In the approaching battle of the century there will be no holds barred.” Mr. Flynn's Bronx empire was just a little imitas Hon, competition Tammany, I don't know what hones Are buried in that realm=-but mavhe Mr. Dewey does, Mr. Flynn ix rather sleazilv talking about the uns limited money behind the Willkie campaign and his own poverty, Mr, Willkie has, most unwisely, I think, linderestimated the legitimate and proper cost of a Presidential campaign and will live to suffer from his sell imposed limitations, bul when Mr, Flynn sugeests that My. Willkie will fudge, he either doesn't know Nis man, or he is playing dirty pool,

ie especially unclean bacause whatever Mr, ¥lonn's organization may be able to shake down in old tims political coniributions and regardless of all Hateh acts on the hooks, this Administration 18 authorized to spend 10 billion dollars, If vou can't beat four billion, how can you beat 102 It is an almost impossible handicap to Mr, Willkie herve 15 another thought Through eight vears, Jim Farley, Mr. Wallace, Mi Hopkins, social security and other decentralized and supposedly non=politieal hodies have heen building up the greatest, decentrale zed organization of pap and patronage dispensers and consumers that the world has ever seen Tat mae« chine has never really heen tested, Buf {ft is going fo he tested now While seeming (a be looking the othe As he did on the third term -Mr. Roosnvolt 1s plaving the national defense angle [or polities with all his boundless skill, cleverness and ambition, Niue Mr, Flynn's handicaps are not worth cons saerma,

Wan

N the Republican side, Campaign Manager Jos Martin AS Active ax a night prowling tom-cat on a tin roof dodging missiles and talking back, but that is in Congress not the campaign he purely political general staff is, therefore leaderiess and cordingly disorganized, There {sn't even a Aprec) = actor There no strategy board of elder menor rather, seasoned politicians, Mr. Willkie (a8« cinates evervhody who sees him hears him talk on a chair or platform, but (hers 130 million people in this country and he can's see them all or even enough of them to remain to the country much more than a flower (hat 14 hom to blush unseen and waste its sw aetness on the desert air There 18 the radio, but he is not coached to click there and In spite of the walling of several such Speech experts as Haines Falconer that 1s has a na‘e ural equipment with whieh he could promptly be macdm the greatest radio orator of our time A combination of diffidence and rugged mdividualism prevent at. A great opportunity seems to be trembling he balance

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A Woman's Viewpoint

| By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

HAD a letter this morning from a New organization called Friends of Children. Inc One the great opportunities for service today lies in RIVIng protection to the evacuated children of Great Britain,” read the opening paragraph I am asked, along with ofl American women, to co operate FAlsing money and clothing alleviate the cold, hunger and misery abroad, “Don't let thi Op portunity for service pass vou by,” 18 the inal admonition I shall not, It's a worthy cause. But at the same time I ean't let pass the oOPPOrtunity to point out that some of the things I read about American children make me shudder We can overlook the fact that a good manv are undernourished | clothed Refore me, as 1 write, is a I'ennesses paper carrving news of the deaths of two

York City of

in LO

noble and

and poorly

| children whose parents were unable to persuade a

aoctor to visit them. TI presume the poverty of the parents had something to do with the tragic incident, And in our town a judge lately pronounced sene tence of guilt upon a group of highly respected peo ple who, it is alleged, had given written permission to . their minor children to frequent beer taverns, Indeed, a little study of police records in every city Will be enough to prove that we could use a “Friends of Children, Ine.” right here at home. There's the matter of innumerable cheap dancing resorts. for example, and the constant temptation to the in the form of obscene magazines, dee rading shows, and, more sinister still, the sight of decent every community who seem delibere ately to shut their eyes to (he evils. Yet there no sensible reason why every town and city should not maintain decent places of amuse= ment for young people who can't afford country clubs which aren't always such moral high spots either and which could be managed and chaperoned hy adults While we are gathering up old clothes for British children can’t we scrape up a few old morals to use in shielding our own?

young people

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

F vou have sver seen a person with swollen ankles that obviously were not the result of a broken hone or a sprain, vou may have wondered what caused the condition, Sometimes vou hear it called a sign of heart disease or of kidney trouble The condition, which goes by the medical name of edema, has many causes. The condition itself is one of increased fluid in the tissues of the body, Sometimes it is so generalized over the whole body that all parts are involved, even to free fluid in the peritoneal cavity in the abdomen and the pleural cavity in the chest, Some causes of edema are mechanical. Any part of the body that is dependent for a long time may become swollen or edematous. Motormen's legs free quently are swollen for this reason, causes of edema are things which interfere with circulation, especially obstruction of the flow of blood in the veins or the flow of lymph. Constricting bands, such as tight round garters worn above the knees may be one of these causes of edema, Others are varicose veins, phlebitis, lymph-edema, .and tumors pressing on veins in the pelvis or elsewhere. A third mechanical cause of edema is failure of the general circulation, not just that in the veins and lymph as in heart failure, One kind of edema is hereditary, This is the strange condition called Miiroy's disease in which tha

swelling of toes or feet or leg may be only on one side

of the body. Doctors recognize a which 1s hysterical, Edema also occurs in some cases of allergy. The hives that some people get from eating shellfish or

form of edema

strawberries, for example, may be small or they may | be large swellings, regular giant hives. . If the amount of pro- : teins or chlorides in the blood is low, edema may { result,

There are also chemical causes of edema.

Other mechanical