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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940

WE'RE STRAYING TOWARD WAR

E think a dangerous thing is happening. It is hard to | define because it falls within that all-inclusive area called national psychology. It is a matter more of omission | than of commission; something more sensed than seen; hard | to pin down. We'll try to describe it this way: As we read the newspapers and the magazines, listen | to public speeches and radio commentators, and talk with | people, we find peace mentioned less and less and war more and more; what-shall-we-do-if-we-get-in taking precedence ‘over what-shall-we-do-to-keep-out. A vear ago this month, when the President made his fireside speech and a few days later his address to the extraordinary session of Congress, all emphasis was on how | to avoid being drawn in. That emphasis—that tone— | characterized practically every written or spoken word in those days. It was as nearly unanimous as anything could | be in a nation of 130 million people.

ou = un » We had got into one war. Our fingers had been terribly burnt. We wouldn't let that happen again. The main job was to prevent. Every effort should be pointed up to |

that single purpose.

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Gradually, subtly, not deliberately but, rather, sub- | consciously, an inevitability school began to develop. The | emphasis started to shift. “We'll have to get in if this | lasts very long” began to be heard, here, there and yonder. As the Hitlerian conquest spread, particularly when the low countries were invaded and when France fell, this new | tempo stepped up. The inevitability scheol gained enroll- | As the realization grew that we were in danger greater than we had dreamed, that it must be billions for | protection, and conscription to man the equipment those billions would buy, the emphasis shifted still more and with reasing momentum. The problem grew to look more like a war problem and less like one of merely staying out. | National expression moved as if on quicksand from negative | to positive. So, as the months sped on the national effort | lost its unanimity, ceased to point to a single purpose. Still more joined the inevitability school. Either by silence they gave consent, or in what they did say they talked or wrote of war, not avoidance of war. All this without Lusitanias, without our ships being driven off the sea, without those innumerable “overt acts which whipped up the war spirit back in 1914 to '17. :

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n = " n We say this is a dangerous state of mind. “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.” What to do? We believe right now is the time to back up for a reppraisal of our national attitude; to take a new look at our |

and; to re-acquire a perspective we had once and then lost. |

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a h As for this newspaper, we are for the billions, we are | for the selective draft, we are for the island bases, we are | for everything it takes, but all to get ourselves strong for defense—to keep out. Not to get in. All to ward off, not to repeal, the loss of life, the 126,000 dead, the 234,000 | wounded, the billions spent, the ingratitude, the Uncle Shy- | lock stuff, the double-cross and the hangover we got out of | the last one.

If vou think the same as we do mavbe it would be well | for all of us to visit some of the veteran hospitals, to call |] on some of the sick and the crippled and the insane, and | then rededicate ourselves to the proposition we saw so clearly one year ago this month.

THE CAPITALS BOOM 'ENSUS returns reveal that many industrial cities have | lost population in the last 10 years. Contrast that with the showing of the governmental cities.

Washington, D. C., acquired 176,000 new residents, a | gain of 36 per cent. Forty-six of the state capitals also had gains. (We were about to say “healthy gains,” but we're not so sure of that). Boston, Mass., and Frankfort, Kv., were the oniy exceptions.

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Much has been said about how the Federal Government | has taken over the functions and responsibilities of state governments. The Federal civil pay roll is now, for the first time in history, distributed to more than a million emplovees, and Was" ington's share of them accounts for | most of the national capital's growth. But the state pay- | rolls, apparently, also are continuing to expand. The last decade was considered one of bad business—but it certainly wasn’t bad for the booming business of government.

DEFENSE AND RELIEF

JA PMINISTRATION economists predict that the national defense program will create jobs, directly and indirect- | ly, for more than 3,000,000 men in the next 10 months. | Selective military service, they figure, will take a million | more men off the job market, and instead of 9,000,000 unemployed persons the country will have only about half that many. It’s fine to see men going back to work, even though it is necessary to remember that employment based on an armament program does not represent the healthy, sustained recovery this country needs. But with Government defense spending responsible for such gains, actual and anticipated, what about Government relief spending? Well, on its present schedule, WPA will spend its £975,000,000 in eight months. It has about 1,700,000 persons on its payroll now, plans to increase that to about 1,800,000 in October, and to around 2,000,000 in November. Is it fair to ask whether, with private employment much higher and geining steadily, WPA really needs to spend at approximately the same rate as a year ago? That is what dt¢is doing. ’

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Once a Hoosier Always a Hoosier! (You Can Tell 'Em by Their Neckties) Which Explains Willkie and Elwood

N=¥ YORK, Sept. 5.—To understand the Hoosterism of Wendell Willkie or any other Ausland Hoosier vou have to rub out all preconceived notions and start over. Hoosiers are an entirely distinct breed of cats, and Hoosiery is comparable, in a harmless way, to the Germanism of the chosen people of the master race. They migrate freely, far and wide, few of them ever go back to Indiana except to strut their city clothes, in which they still look like Hoosiers, and they guard their racial purity, as it were, by avoiding marriage with the citizens of other states. A buck Hoosier who leaves Indiana may arch his neck and make passes at the local girls, but when it comes time for him to mate he goes back to Gosport or Union City or wherever and pairs

| off with some little number whose books he used to | carry to school.

They are dead against race defilement. A Hoosier has Hoosier written all over him, but if other signs fail you can always tell him by the way he ties his necktie. The most expensive tie in the world looks like a two-bits necktie on a Hoosier. The reason is that they never can learn how to tie a four-in-hand. They get the clerk to knot it for them and after that they just slip the knot

dgarndest looking things after about three wearings, and, inasmuch as they keep on wearing the same tie until the stuffing breaks through the knot, you can't miss if you look for this identification mark. un HEY may take out citizenship, so to speak, in other states and vote in local elections, as Willkie has done in New York, but, again like the Ausland Germans, they never become assimilated or naturalized. There are some exceptions, of course, but they are regarded as renegades. The race-true Ausland Hoosier usually sends his young back to Indiana to be educated

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{ and to look over the current Hoosier crop for Hoosier

mates. Afier they are educated in Bloomington, Lafayette or Greencastle they return to the homes

{ of their parents, and even though they never see

Indiana again except from the window of a train or plane they remain Hoosiers always. he parents maintain the Hoosier traditions and culture in their homes, and any Sunday gathering in such a home is sure to be predominantly Hoosier,

{ although they are hospitable people and live on very | friendly terms with (he neighbors. the breeds of the communities in | they make their living or foriunes, and they | always have a feeling that some day they are gong | of them |

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back to Indiana, although, as 1 say, few

| ever do.

» N°€ other American breed clings to its culture and traditions as tenaciously as the Hoosier, The Virginians have their racial peculiarities, but they are mostly affectations put on to impress the people

| of other regions in which thev find themselves.

But Hoosiery is not affectation at all. It is something in the blood and bone and spirit of the breed. They speak of people as “folks,” and. they remain strangers long anywhere because a Hoosier in a hotel lobby or on a train will speak right up to the next man, calling him “brother,” probably, and in five minutes will know all about his family, his business and what he thinks of the war and the election. In five minutes more he will have a crowd around him singing the “Banks of the Wabash.” So Mr. Willkie's return to Indiana was entirely natural. You don't de-Hoosierize a Hoosier hy setting him down in Wall Street. More likely he will Hoosilerize the street,

Business By John T. Flynn

Lack of Skilled Defense Workers Directly Due to the Depression

EW YORK Sept. 5.—There is a considerable pother under way about hottlenecks in business in connection with battlefields in Europe. There the bottlenecks. And there is ho doubt that many of them are artificially produced. But the whole subject is not disposad of bv calling these bhottlenecks artificial and the product of bad industrial policies. The truth is that two baffling factors are more responsible than anything else. The first is the depression itself. For 10 years private investment in the United States has been slowly drying up. Whatever the cause, that is the fact. Because investors do not or will not invest, the expansion and rehabilitation of business does not take place. And when

| this happens mechanics in the tool industries and

the heavy goods industries are out of work. When hundreds of thousands of mechanics are

out of work nobody is interested in training new ones |

and adding to the multitude who are skilled and unemployed. The depression, the collapse of private investment which causes the depression, and those forces which produce the collapse of private investment are, therefore, responsible for the thinning out of the ranks of skilled men. n

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HE second factor lies in a different dircction, We have suddenly decided to go militaristic—

for good or bad reasons. It happens that modern

| military preparation calls for mechanical skills on | a scale never before imagined.

We have never before dreamed of providing men

| ta make 50,000 planes in a vear, thousands of tanks, | great

numbers of war vessels. The special skills required in this work are something we have had but small demand for in the past. We must simply face that fact. If we now decide we want this great

| army of mechanics, we must set about training them

and recognize that it takes time. After we have trained them. however, what is to of them? We will put them in the tool mills, the plane and gun factories, the shipvards. And when the war is over we will have to face the question whether we want to demobilize them or keep them at work. The only way to keep them at work will be to keep the arms industry alive as a permanent institution.

Words of Gold

RINTING The Congressional Record costs the taxpavers about $50 a page. Many pages these

| days are filled with purely political material having | nothing to do with business before Congress.

On Friday, Aug. 30, the following members of Congress put into The Record the material described below, at a cost approximately as stated: Senator Barkley (D. Ky.),

speech by Henry A.

| Wallace accepting the Democratic Vice-Presidential

nomination, $85. Rep. Brooks (D. La), speech by himself on “My Record in Congress,” $65, Senator Pepper (D. Fla.), a pro-New Deal newspaper editorial, $28. Senator Minton (D. Ind), speeches by Senator Truman (D. Mo), Senator Barkley, Senator Gufley (D. Pa.), Secretary Robert of the Democratic National Committee, William J. Thompkins, Robert I, Miller and himself to the National Colored Democratic Assn., 271. y "Senator Minton, again, an anti-Willkie newspaper editorial, $23. Rep. Sandager (R. R. 1), letter from a constituent on “Failure of the New Deal,” $13. ;

Rep. Van Zandt (R. Pa.), speech by himself on |

“World War Veteran Wendell L. Willkie,” $48,

Rep. Jacobsen (D. Towa), speeches at the Wallace | including the same Wallace |

notification ceremony, speech inserted by Senator Barkley, $115.

Rep. Shanley (D. Conn.), speech by Paul V. Mec- | Nutt to the Connecticut Democratic State Convention, |

$112.50. Total cost to taxpayers, $760.50-—more than a sailor at $30 a month gets for serving two years and one month in the Navy.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES The Face on the Barroom Floor!

THURSDAY, SEPT. 5, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

1940 Issues as Great as Any in Our History and it Is New Deal

Cheek and Impertinence to Deny It ASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—It is the cleverest kind

of fourth New Deal electioneering to say there is no issue in this campaign—that Mr, Willkie has

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

| VETERAN COMPLAINS OF LACK OF JOBS

| By a Veteran Sailor I wonder what 1s the matter with | the young men of today. All they | talk about is the draft which only | means one year of military training. | During the World War Uncle Sam said he wanted the young men and he didn’t say for one, two br three years, but until everything was over lover there. | That was all right I guess for us. When we came back we were all {supposed to get good jobs but now the biggest part of the WPA is vets. Why? Because the insurance companies say we are too oid to work in the factories. When we asked for the bonus the biggest part of the people velped and ran us out of Washington. They say we don't need a pension. | If we don’t, give us a job so that we ican give our children the things {they like best. I am talking for my‘self, two brothers, three brothers-in-(law, three cousins and all the rest {of my buddies in the Vets Hospital | and out. » » ~

'MINTON “FEARLESS” STATESMAN, IS REPORT

| By C. M. Barrett, Bloomfield. Ind. | “W. L. D.” calls Minton a misfit {In his first term as United States | Senator, Shay Minton so capably demonstrated his ability he was named Democratic “Whip” of the

Senate. Sherman Minton is recog[nized by his colleagues as an honlest, conscientious and fearless | statesman, Surely, Hoosiers would not even [think of replacing a Senator of the stature of Shay Minton by the 2x4 Ray Willis from Angola. The |tors from Indiana were Jim Watson and Artie Robinson. Watson was known as a “lovable, old hum!bug” while Robinson was “Little | Arthur of the Ku Klux Klan.” If wobbly, dumpy Ray Willis {should happen to be elected U. S. Senator from Indiana, he will quickly win the nickname of “Zero.” n u n ‘PURE SLAVERY, HIS | TERM FOR CONSCRIPTION | By John Samulowite

Having served both the Amv and { the Navy and in the front line

last two Republican Sena- |

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trenches in France during the World War. . . . I have always been for an army of 500,000 men and two navies, but not by compulsion. I believe in making the Army and Navy attractive so our youth will land want to join. | Same as our Postoffice Service; I can remember the day when ou Postoffice Depariment could hardly get men. The Government made [that department attractive and today there is a waiting list. . . 1 have served my country in nine foreign countries. I have seen compulsory military training in action and it is pitiful what is reduces its citizens to . It is pure slavery Our forefathers in 1860 to 1865 fought not only to free the colored ‘men from slavery, but te free all men from all types of slavery Why should a man join the Army for $21 per month when CCC boys get $30 and PWA men get $60 per month? , | Hitler can no more invade our country than our monument can do a flip-flop. Then the great cry about the loss of the British Navy. l. . . If the British Navy is lost, we [would have the largest in the world. Hitler has no navy and we can build as fast as he can. . ..

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‘WELCOMES CHANCE TO DEBATE DRAFT

By Edward F. Maddox

| As an advocate of strong national defense, an opponent of conscrip[tion—except in case of civil war jor invasion—I am glad that we have had an opportunity to freely debate the issue. Now, if Congress passes a conscription bill we still have all the problems of inadequate equipment, France had the Maginot Line and plenty of trained men, but she ‘lacked modern .equipment and the

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| proper spirit, Patriotism, faith In {national ideals and a desire to preserve protect and defend their way of life had been undermined by the | poisonous propaganda sown by a {horde of revolutionary Socialists, | Communists and Fascists. France Iwas corrupted and divided by the same termites that are undermining American patriotism. Too long we nave tolerated, coddled and given aid and comfort to the evil forces {which ruined France. . .. To dilly-dally any longer in the face of such a situation is intoler - able. , +.

» ” CLAIMS WALLACE STRESSED DANGER IN ROOSEVELT Ind, acceptance

+ Hudson, Edinburg, Mr. Wallace in speech only proved more than ever of electing Roosevelt He surely gave truth by comparing the power” of Hitler and Roosevelt which sum is exactly equal according 10 his theory, onlv called different Roosevelt calls his Democracy-Hitler being truthful calls his dictatorship

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MEANT LINCOLN, NOT HOOVER, §

VY. 1. C. POINTS OUT Br Vaiece in the Crowd In elaborating on my Elwood comments in The Times Aug 20th, The Times made a slight error hy setting my words “80 years” as “8 vears.,” The error doeg not

mean much but IT wish to lower the blood pressure of vou folks who would rail me about Hoover, whereas my own thoughts were of Lincolin.

| ” » CLAIM EX-KLANSMEN [RUN LOCAL G. 0. P.

1 | By Interested

| I left the Republican party in the |

20s because of its domination by the Kua Klux Klan. Being a Catholic, I could not in good conscience support a that denied me the rights of citizenship, This year, 1 am going to support Willkie because I believe he 1s our oniyv hope to pre-

party

serve our American theory of gov |

ernment, 1 had

| Republican ets but for

intended supporting the State and County tickthe same reasons I left the party IT guess I will have to stay out of it locally. Despite the evils of the McHale-McNutt machine they have never curried favor of the un-American Klan, But it's the same old gang in the organization, organization . .. Look at the list of so-called supervisors; most of them were active leaders in the Klan, I personally know of Catholics who during the past vears have actively supported the Republicans, Now that the old gang thinks they have a chance for victory they are completely ignored. Why? TO A FRIEND By VELMA M, FRAME He ga've me a pat, a kindly word, A smile when my heart was so perturbed, | The counsel of God to way | A moral push forward one dark

light my

lonely day.

If T had my choice of this world’s i richest things: | Clothes, jewels and mansions fitted for Kings, urn them all down and take in their place A word and a smile from a true friendly face,

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DAILY THOUGHT

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. ~Psalms 123.3.

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ONE BUT the contemptible a apprehensive of econtempt.—

indorsed all of Mr. Roosevelt's principal policies, and | that the only remaining question is who can deal the New Deal better—the original Champagne Charlies of the Keeno box or some amateur horner-inner, Part of this play is the President's insistence that he is too busy to talk polities in a political year, The innocent bystander can only gaze in a sort of woozy wonder at the cool, crass gall, cheek and impertinence of this gratuitous aftronts to what is supposed to pass for the intelligence of the American people. There is first and foremost the issue of whether in direct defiance of one of the oldest and most respected of American traditions one man can use the taxing and spending and borrowing powers of this republic first to expand those powers out of all recognizable semblance to themselves and then to perpetuate himself as President. Out of the sole excuse given for that grows the greatest issue. The excuse is that Mr. Roosevelt must hecome perpetual President because his great abilities and performances make him the one and only in=dispensable American in the eritical hour The questions at issue are “What abilities? What performances?” Mr. Roosevelt's principal duties and policies lie in the fields of agriculture, labor, industry, American finances, foreign relations and more recently, national defense. His performance in each field is a heap of complete and utter wreckage, d » » ILLIONS have been spent on the farm problem The basic situation as to surplus, price and ine come and except as to refinanced farm debt is much worse than it was even under Hoover, Unemployment of labor has not materially declined and while it will do so because of conscription and rearmament, Mr. Roosevelt will certainly want to claim no credit for a threatening war situation, Industrial recovery has come to only a few large industrial corporations. The condition of the bulk of little businessmen is worse than ever, Federal finances are the worst mess of all, Our foreign relations have been so blundered that, except for Great Britain, we have not a friend on earth and those with Britain are being pushed as rapidly as the New Deal dares into an alliance and participation In an overseas war The utter neglect of adequate defense until 1b was too late to make anything but a hodge-podge slap-dash panicky mush at the effort which is at this moment hopelessly bogged down,

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HESE are a few of the issues. They are as great as any ever presented to the. American people Out of them grows one greater than any of these separately. It is: "How can we continue an Administration with a record of such invariable tragic and dangerous failure?” The “indispensable man” is also making the greatest issue of all just as fast as, in the face of public opinion, he dares to go. He went most of the distance when he “sold” part of our Navy. He is making the awful issue of peace and war, No issues? It is true that this impudent sloganeering has gone so far as to cause Henry Wallace to intimate that if you state these real issues you are “giving aid and comfort to Hitler.” If Hitler is an enemy, these are the constitutional words describing | treason. We have surely departed far from our democracy already if people will stand for this Kind of campaign.

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/ . * A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson IKE wildfire in brushwood, new fads sweep over

1. the country. crackling noisily as they go. A current idea is that we can educate the young to be good husbands and wives Marriage clinics have sprung up in a number of cities; magazines and newspapers carry first class advice on the subject. Every possible domestic difficulty is covered by an expert. Naturally, we point with pride to our advancement. Praise be, we say, we're getting away from Puritanical notions and Victorian prudery. Soon we shall be thor. oughly educated on all matrimons jal matters and the future will be serene, 1 agree that it's something to crow about, although, at this writing, I'm still skeptical that the results will be as happy as we anticipate. You see, I remember so vividly the class of small boys and girls who used to sit in the little country church memorizing the Ten Commandments Every so often somebody would get a gold star, | and at the end of the term shiny New Testaments | were given as rewards of merit, There we were-— perfectly educated specimens, Each of us knew the Ten Commandments but not one had the strength of character required to observe them all, I'm afraid that's what will happen to our mare riage commandments It's a slick proposition for smait voung people to learn the rules. But how many of them have had enough character training to put their knowledge to practical use? In this matter, as in so many others that touch education, we begin at the wrong end of the problem. We've worked out all these wonderful precepts, and vet we are failing entirely to teach the self-control necessary to make them succeed, The most important regulation for happy mar riage 1s self-discipline, and that has to he learned in kindergarten, if not earlier. Without building character, how can we build homes? To conquer self js the first commandment of all, and it's futile to tet up rules unless we have the gond sense to train children to be obedient and unselfish

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Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ITH the rush to speed production of war ma= terials for national defense, there Is danger of slowing down the program unless care is taken to protect the health of all engaged in defense industries, from the presidents behind their mahogany desks to the men and women on the assembly lines. Illness that takes skilled men and women from their jobs is now a national as well as a personal catastrophe. When new buildings are erected or old ones en= larged to take care of the extra production demands, health protection should be built into them, Exhaust equipment to remove dangerous fumes or dusts must not be forgotten, Those already installed in old buildings should be checked to see whether they can carry the additional load of increased production, New. unforeseen dangers to the health of workers may come from introduction of new materials in munitions manufacture, These dangers can be averted if time is taken to test the new materials for possible danger and to find safe substitutes or safe methods of handling them. Some of the old materials, safe in normal times, may become a danger when there is extra exposure to them due to longer working hours or increased amounts of material being handled. In the rush to speed production, records of sick absences should not be neglected, one health authority points out. Any sudden increase in absences may be a sign of some defect in working conditions calling for investigation and correction. Overtime work is not the way to speed production for defense. This was shown in the World War, Except for short periods, extending the usual hours of work does not increase output proportionately. On the contrary, it causes a rapid fall in output. This applies not only to workers in shops and factories

but to their bosses, Ae foremen up. i These

themselves.

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