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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940

CALL THE ROLL

HIS country wants peace, but it also wants safety. ~The country will want to know the names of the men | and women in the House of Representatives who voted, | vesterday, to delay selective service. Many of these men and women plan to vote for the | Surke-Wadsworth Bill when it comes up for final passage, | and not tell their constituents that they first voted to cripple it. The safe anonymity of the teller vote—a count | without a record—permits them to do this. But the country will want to know. It is a fearful responsibility these men and women have It may make the difference between safety and danger. It may do this even if there is no invasion, simply hy turning loose in the country the hysteria of a great the very thing wiser, saner heads

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ational recruiting drive—

1ave tried to avoid. | No woman ought to be allowed to bear that responsibility secretly. If he dares face his constituents with it, all right. That is a decision every Congressman is free to make. But every voter has a right to know where | his representative in Congress stood to be counted. Call the roll. Rules of the House permit it. Majority | leaders should not hesitate for fear of emphasizing a defeat. | It not enough to record a final vote on an emasculated bill. Record the vote that counts,

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HEAD OFF THE HORSEMEN | AE said yesterday “we're straying toward wal. A vear ago all the emphasis was on how to avoid. Now it is on “when we get in.” There is a growing assumption that getting in is inevitable: a corresponding shrinkage, in public print and speech, of the supposition so dominant a vear ago that our job was to stay out, that our every effort should be pointed up to that one objective, God knows this country really doesn’t | Why the shift in public attitude? The | There are so

Dangerous! want to go to war. answer is something you can only grope for. many angles; so many intangibles; so many convergencies many events. One event by itself wouldn't count | much. Added up, they make that trend, unless the trend | can he turned we are in for misery—the worst ever; for another ghastly ride with the Four Horsemen. We seem | to be looking into the snake's eye; to be yielding to al hypnosis. How to explain it? Then how to quit it? The explanation can't be expressed in a headline. The nearest to a simplification is that a widespread war de- | velops a suction. Like a hurricane. A feel of something | awful impending fills the air—ominous, eerie, indefinable | Glandular, not mental, The weirds once

of so

| on the loose.

In such a psychological setting incidents like these! bring their cumulative impact: Pepper of Florida yammering

but inevitable.

Speech in the Senate for his seven-point program; demanding that the President ‘suspend all rules, regulations and |

be given power, now, to

statutes.”

Lee of Oklahoma, actually arguing that we must jet- | su,

tison our civil liberties, our freedom of expression, our right to know the truth; to junk those processes of democracy |

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in order that democracy may be saved; paying tribute to the “genius of Hitler” as a master of propaganda and crying that we must go and do likewise, » Do this and do that and step | Helter-skelter! |

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Legalize wiretapping! on it! Hurry, hurry! off simultaneously in all mind where! All haste and no speed. Forego sedatives. Take up stimulants. Call out Learn how to run the tanks, though the tanks are being sent to Canada.

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Mount and ride | directions! Get going, and don't the guard. Keep air full of dust. Make the engine race, On the other side, women dressed in mourning haunt the Capitol; kids picket the lawmakers; Father Divine takes a hand: hisses from the House Gallery greet the calm and restrained presentation of the selective-service hill by its author. Jitters and more jitters! Excitement rampant. And all contributing to the making of a war atmosphere — not to a reasoned dayv-hy-day study of how our acts may be joined together in one unified objective, to making ourselves strong that we may keep out of, not get into, war. Though all yearn to escape the whirlpool, though the nation's heart {hat mighty in its pull is drawing us; the same kind of force

1S one In desire, a concentric force that makes one in the open window of a high building grip the ledge till his knuckles turn white, Can the deadly charm be broken? It's an election year. That adds to the tensity and affects judgments which otherwise would be clearer. To that extent it's too bad. But out of it we devoutly hope there may come an answer which will rise above party selfishness and spell wisdom, We believe that both Roosevelt and Willkie hate war. Nothing is so important as a solemn consideration by hoth of them of this question—of stopping short the trend; of shattering the spreading sense of doom; of turning our defense program back to what it was originally intended to be, a program for the preservation of our peace,

TRY THIS ON YOUR ACCORDION WITNESS before the Senate Finance Committee described the excess-profits tax bill ag a “monumental specimen of statutory incomprehensibility.” At first blush that sounds like an overstatement, but—well here's a sample paragraph: “(g) DEPRECIATION DEDUCTION If the adjusted | hasis of the emergency facility computed without regard to subsection (f) of this section is in excess of the adjusted hasis computed under such subsection, the deduction provided by section 23 (1) shall, despite the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, be allowed with respect to such emergency facility as if its adjusted basis were an amount

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Congress Should Declare as Matter Of Public Policy That We Neo Longer Hold Marriage a Sacred Contract.

"EW YORK, Sept. 6A people who persist in honoring a tradition which they have found to be unsound and naive only handicap themselves, and, with this fact in mind. T urge that we dispel, by some positive act or declaration, preferably by Congress, the archaic superstition that marriage is a sacred contract, There may have been a time when this was so, but that time obviously is not now, when about one-sixth of these contracts are revoked-—and in some families the rate of repudiation runs as high as 60 per cent—all with the consent of the laws and popular opinion of the country. It is not enough that leading personalities flout the superstition, although, by their brave example, others are emboldened to challenge an outworn restraint. Deep in the character of the people there still exists a formless fear that a simple remedy for unpleasant conditions may be applied only at the cost of embarrassment and loss of reputation. The law or policy of the nation should not merely tolerate but should indorse this remedy, inasmuch as the law and custom already hold it to be permissible, » 5 PraVSNsnY is not enough, Divorce should be advised in view of the fact that laws are not advisory but obligatory, Probably the declaration on the subject should take the form of the Monroe Doctrine, which is not a law but certainly is a respected policy of the nation. As matters stand, the people are given to understand that they may avail themselves of right but that if they do they may be thought the less of. Such inhibitions cause nervousness, The fact should be recognized that in actual pracs tice the marriage contract is the least sacred of all the agreements that people live by except, perhaps, contracts or treaties between nations, As to the religious complication, T am too prudent fo speak at all, preferring to deal only with the facts, practice and the law, In practice we are much mote insistent on the observance of business contracts, and if the repudiation rate in business ran as high as 16 per. cent business would be demoralized,

” HE law takes a very serious view of contract violation in matters of trade, and the courts will protect the victim of repudiation, no matter what inconvenience, loss or unhappiness, the offender may

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plead in justification. The fact that the offended party called him a fool, read a newspaper while he

| was relating the gossip of the day or criticized his | relatives or friends is not

a Rood defense for a man who has contracted to deliver 2000 gross of something at a certain price and has tried to jump the price or just failed to make good. The defaulter will be put down in the confidential | books as a no-good, whereas the one who keeps his | word in business is respected, though he may have terminated two, three or half a dozen marriages hy | divorce,

Here T may seem to contradict myself by arguing |

| that we should go to the trouble of dispelling a preju- |

dice which does not exist. That sometimes happens, but in this case T am consistent, for the fact remains

remedy, a lot of people don't realize the fact. They need to be assured that they will not be thought the less of, and a superstition which could be extinguished | by the Government still is permitted to plague the | minds of honest citizens and deter them from having their rights. Marriage may be terminated for the most trivial | reasons, and it is dishonest and had for the morals of | the nation to pretend to believe that so casual a relationship is sacred.

Business By John T. Flynn

New Arms Industry to-Bring Boom, But Only if Financed by Borrowing.

| EW YORK, Sept. 6.—-No estimate of the probahle course of business during the coming few years can he made without taking inte account a brand new industry which is in process of creation. Business leaders have been saving for seven years o that what this country has needed i k was a new industry like the aute3 mobile industry te send us off on another flight of prosperity, as in | the "20s, No such industry has appeared. But now our Government is deliberately creating that industry—the arms industry. In the last week various writers have pointed with something like glee to the rise of this badly needed new field of production. But will it produce prosperity, as the automobile industry did? | That depends on how we work it, | Every industry, of course, must have customers. The automobile industry found its customers among the | millions of workers who were put to work. The arms industry will have only one customer--the Government And the Government can get its money in | only two days—by taxes or hy borrowing If the money 1s obtained by taxes there will he no great If the money iz obtained by borrowing ! the prosperity mav he very great | If the Governnient pavs the bills for its Army, its Navy, its shipbuilding and its building of planes, guns, | tanks and barracks with money taken away from the | taxpayers, the effect on general business will not he | very wholesome. In that case the taxes taken from the people to buy military material and service will he from the purchase of other things. The burden will be immense. And that burden will utterly | discourage any extension of private capital invest- |

ment, OF the other hand, if the Government borrows the money from the banks, the funds thus horrowed will constitute an addition te the funds in the hands of citizens from their employment. ‘The purchasing power of the nation will be enhanced by the extent of the borrowing and the increased velocity of circulation and we may actually see a great hoom, Now if we will look at this set of facts we may get a suspicion of why the new industry is created. Our great military preparations are desired by various groups. One is made up of the people who want us to go into this war and aid England. They are honest, even if mistaken, in this. Another is made up of the people whose imagination is fascinated by the vision of a great, powerful, imperial Anierica, asserting itself aggressively everywhere, challenging other empires for trade ahd possession, These people too are honest, even though their dream may end in our ruin, There is a third group—the politicians. The politicians have failed to produce recovery and now, at | their wits’ end, see a chance to do that by creating this immense war industry financed on credit-—-as we are doing. These are the politicians who have been pulling rabbits out of the hat. And they have now | pulled one more--a rabbit booted, sputred and hel- | meted-—the last and costliest rabbit of all.

Words of Gold

RINTING The Congressional Record costs the tax- | ~ payers about $50 a page. Many pages these days | are filled with political material having nothing to do with business before Congress. On Tuesday, Sept 3, the folowing members of Congress put into The Record the material described below, at a cost ap- | proximately as stated: Rep. Patman (D. Tex.), remarks by himself con- | tending that Thomas Jefferson favored long terms | for Congressmen and more than one term for Presi- | dents, $45, Rep. Seccombe (R. O.), newspaper editorial eriticizing Henry A. Wallace's aceptance speech, $52.50. Rep. Rankin (D, Miss), anti-Willkie speech by himself, $70.

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equal togthe amount of such excess.”

Total cosly to taxpayers, $167.50—enough to supply food stamps to 335 persons for one week,

[lieve a majority of would conscience and must obey its mansincerity

The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but aw: defend to the death your right to say it.=Voltaire.

MUST OBEY CONSCIENCE,

| BOEHNE SAYS OF DRAFT

By John W, Member of

Congress

Roehne Jr,

route to Washington 1 read

{ that, although divorce is a highly respectable legal [your editorial on conscription con-

cluding with these words: “Would

that love for their country would

rise above their love of office” My against conscription will be my most difficult since en-

tering the Congress because I be my constituents I still have a

vote

vote for it date, Can't you impart to me the same of conviction that TI give to vou? 1 fully realize the gravity this vote, TIT will prebably be maligned and ridiculed but T must live longer with my conscience than with any public office Criticism of public office holders must. be maintained but 1 cannot countenance your challenge with out replying that my love of coun

tioned for any price, » oy A CHEER FOR THE TOWN'S PROPOSED Z00O Ry

Appreciative I've just read the compelling “Inside Indianapolis” a 700 here, I want to take off It's to have a 700, we Keep up the good

ar gument hy for my hat and cheer.

that we ought really need one. work,

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” SUPPORTS WILLKIE'S DEMAND FOR ARMS DATA By Marold Negley Apparently 1. Davis Is somewhat behind in his reading and listening for statement that Willkie was sounding a fifth eolumn note, when he urged, "Mr. Roosevelt, should fell us how much armament 1s on hand and how much on order.” is contrary to recent articles bv men who are well informed and not politicians J. Edgar Hoover, who is in a position to know all spy operations which have been uncovered at all said in one of a series of articles, “Every major military seeret in the U. 8. is in the hands of foreigners.’ In that case Hitler knows more of

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our preparedness than you and and certainly we should not face a probable enemy who knows more of us than we ourselves do Let's be careful about accusations of un-Americanism even for political purposes! »

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WEST SIDER DEFENDS WILLKIE RESTAURANT VISIT

| By West Sider

Ted McCarthy's outburst of re

to Willkie eating South Side reads like a typical New Dealer tirade Ry his own line of reasoning people on the West Side could resent Willkie's use of the streets leaving the airport, and, when his party patronized a nearby gasoline station this would be the final gesture to swing the West Side. Since when did the South Side become so important as to be the determining factor in a national election?

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» WELL, WHO COULD HE HAVE IN MIND? By John M, Caylor What's My Name? York knew

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never what work was

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about your work and business than vou do, however As a bov 1 had nurses and a governess. During the war I received a cushie job as As sistant Secretary of the Navy, 1 then practiced law in Wall St 1 also joined two business ventures both of them proving 100 per cent loss to investors long before the collapse of 1920, 1 served four years as Governor of a great state and wrecked its finances, 1 served sight vears as President of the greatest nation in the world and now leave itt in the worst mess in history What's my name?

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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(CHARGES F. DD. R. TALKS RIGHT, ACTS WRONG By J.B. P What difference does it make It's what he He and acting wrong ever office,

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turned the country into a

out of the people who would work in order pay off to a flock slobs who voted right. He acted like country and the people orf He has deliberately one situation after another, evervthing and anything, right wrong. in order to perpetuate him«olf in office. Now he wents a third term-—something no other President aver had the guts to ask for, Once there was a guy who would rathe: he right than President, but not this Franklin D.

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[PREDICTS TOUR MORE YEARS OF ROOSEVELT By A. N. Griner

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(up the revolting mess that he inherited from the Harding, Coolidge And strange as it

Hoover regimes, that

{may seem the same people | plunged the country into that ecopean and

| namie morass have are now leading the hate-Roosevelt cri-

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got the Well he hasn't got it all cleaned up vet and that is just why the people are going to keep him four [more vears to finish the job. The Willkie glamour has greatly inflated Republican hopes, but when the froth and foam settles and the glamour fades and their pipe goes out what then? But Mi Willkie need not worry, the utilitio: will that he eats, Mr. Willkie has demonstrated one thing bevond doubt and that is a backslidden Democrat makes a good Republican

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LAMPS By MARY WARD Mv shining lamp reflects the light And cheers the damp of dusk and night. | You'd show surprise could vou but { know | Prom what small size became this glow. | More oil and new, a hroader wick | You | And where the dark around me | lay, | My lamp's clear spark is bright as day.

DAILY THOUGHT

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man -Ecclesiastes 12:13. “MAN owes ‘only his services,

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Acquiring of Bases Was O. K. but Method Used Is Further Example Of F. D. R's Hunger for Power

ASBHINGTON, Sept. 6. | criticize our getting those island naval and air | oases, This column has advocated that The only fair criticism is the inexcusable delay in do« ing it, the rather obscure description of Just rights and powers we are getting in leased land under British sove ereignty and, above all, the mansner of making the deal. Our fortification of those bases will be a great aid to us but an equally great aid for the defense of the British possessions in hemisphere especially Canada, There was no justifiable duty for us to add a slice of our own Nay If any price had to be paid, Eng« land owes us plenty on the old account of our aid to her in the last war, The difference between getting the bases and give | ing the destrovers is very great, Getting the bases is wholly defensive—and therefore highly popular, Give ing the destroyers was a distinet act of offensive ine volvement in overseas war and therefore unpopular and impossible to put over on its merits, That is tha reason why the President intimated that the two pros | posals would be presented separately-—at the very mos | ment he was negotiating them jointly,

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OMETHING the whole American people wanled very much was tacked on to something few west the Alleghenies wanted at all and the whole was jimmied through in secrecy, if not in guile It was done on the basis of one of the sleaziest opinions ti ever came from an American Attorney General, Thera may have been shrewd Yankee horse-trading, but tha sucker in such shrewdness wasn't England, It was the American poeple, The law said: “It shall be unlawful to send oul of the jurisdiction of the United States any vessel, built, armed or equipped as a vessel of war with any intent that such vessel shall be delivered to a helliger« ent ’

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nation What iz forbidden? Sending war vessel: When? When there is any intent to deliver them ta a belligerent, ‘That seems plain as a pike-staff, But this opinion says that the forbidden intent has noth ing to do with destination, It is only the intent th which the vessel was built that counts, Since thesa vessels were built 20 vears ago, there could have heen | no intent then that they would go into British service, Therefore, iL is 0. k. to send them, That simply doesn't make sense, If it is correct, the President can “sell” and send the whole American Navy into this wai far as any prohibition in this statute is concernad, was all built with noe such intent The job has been put over in customary Rooses veltian cunning cleverness and contempt for any deme ocratic restrictions on his personal powers, Standing by itself, its great good perhaps outweighs its cone | erete evils. But it does not stand by itself, Tt iz ane | other example of the ruthless push of this President perpetuate himself and increase his dictatorial [ powers to do that job by a constant dramatization of a threat of war,

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I reveals a constant venturing further and further in the direction of a national war psychology, If not panic. ‘The effect, if not the purpose of this, cul | minating at election time, must be to silence criticism, to obscure the great issues of the third term. them wreckage of his entire eight years of domestic policy and his terrifying incompetence in preparing reasons | able and adequate defense, There were too many high-pressure selling stunts in this deal to discuss here, One of the rawest was tha assurance that the British Navy will never be sunk, scuttled or surrendered. I hope and believe that is true But how much is this assurance worth? 17 Britain falls, tha Churchill Government will fall. If | the lives of the British people are then held hostages to destruction for the surrender of the fleet, what will | happen? What happened in France? In this hestially [ cruel, tortured, double-crossing world, we must depend | for defense on ourselves alone, with reliance on none

| “| and we must immediately get ready to do that.

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‘A Woman's Viewpoint ' By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

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Bp the future sometimes seem too dark to face? Are mentally confused and groping for something bring back your calm and courage? I am. Every woman who thinks a little must ha these days. And out of the experience and hearts | of other women come the philoss | ophies which can help us. Today I am quoting from a column writs ten by a friend, Mrs, Edith Guedry, Women's Editor of the Ft. Worth Press, because it expresses so well the emotions I feel: “It doesn’t pay to live in the past, but a little reminiscing may help you to face problems of the future, As you sit looking at events behind you, as vou would lnok at pictures through a stereapticon, you discover that vou can review them as impersonally as vou would the immediate probs lems and sorrows of another's life, | “Same of those troubles were of vour own making, were die (0 poor judgment, ignorance or cares But there were others, vou discover, aver which had neo eontro!, They were as inevitable as rain, heat or cold You had to accept them am vou do the changing seasons, © “And against the troubles, defeats and disappoint « ments, let us place a few bright pictures, There ars also unexpected joys that have come your way prises from friends, achievements you never thought possible, the love of some little child you watched grow like a lovely plant, As vou study more closely this pattern of darkness during the decade just past, you face the next 10 vears with more courage “What if war does rage? All wars come to an end some day Depressions do not go on forever, What if personal sorrows come? You have learned, ne look back that vou were given the courage to face everything. Remember that no problem in the past was so big it had no solution, “And finally, remember, too, that all the while in wars, depressions, in personal sorrows and defeats—there will be the sun and the moon and ths flowers of springtime. Day will burst forth with new delight each morning and the earth will renew itself each reason, “Knowing these things, vou should not march inta the future with such fear.”

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

ERE'S a bit of good news for the men of the family who get tired of being told it is their fault that dinner is cold. The announcement, “Dine ner's cold now,” may in the future merely mean that it is still frozen solid, according to a recent prediction | on the future of frozen foods. The day when whole meals will be cooked, kept frozen for months, maybe, in attractive marketing packages, and finally prepared by merely thawing and warming is foreseen by Dr. Mary E. Pennington, of New York City. Dr. Pennington, at one time chief of the U, 8. Department of Agriculture's food research laboratory, now has her own laboratory with a large consultation practice among handlers and processors of food. A pioneer in the field herself, she sees ope portunity in it for properly trained persons. The days when winter dinner tables carried a monotonous array of potatoes, beets, turnips and other root vegetables that could be kept in the cellar have passed, along with the day when the housewife had to get to market in summer as early in the morning as the farm wagons arrived to get peas and spinach and lettuce before they had wilted or spoiled, Tha result of the new order in food is not only more pe ing hut actually more healthful becaues modetn

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