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Give Light and the People Will Find MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1940

SIXTY DAYS TOO MANY HE draft bill, as passed by the Senate, calls for selective service to start as soon as the Government can get going. As passed by the House, however, the bill would postpone the calling up of men during a 60-day experimental call for one-year volunteers. The House adopted this provision by a seven-vote margin. The Senate had rejected it by two votes. A handful of House and Senate conferees must now make a recommendation one way or the other. » » = As we see it, here is the problem of the conferees: 1. They know that even during the World War, with martial fervor at its height, the greatest number of recruits obtained in any one month was 43,736. 2. They can be certain, consequently, that nothing like 400,000 volunteers are going to be signed up in any 60 days—and hence that the Fish amendment can only postpone, and cannot prevent, the draft. 3. They know that the survival of England is by no means assured, and from common sense they must know that they cannot rely on pledges, however solemn and sincere, that the British Navy will never be yielded up even. in defeat. 4. Therefore, as reasonable men and students of recent events, they must conclude that American preparedness is no matter for “manana” but an urgent, crying, possibly even desperate, necessity. 5. All, or most, of them will surely agree that selective service is both more efficient and more democratic than the volunteer system. The risk falls on rich and poor alike; the Army gets its pick of the best physiques and | brains, and can assign each man to the duties for which he is best fitted. 6. They realize, certainly, the danger that a recruiting campaign such as the Fish amendment envisages, with ballyhoo, bombast and brass bands, is a loaded gun. Its | potential effect on a public opinion that is already emotional, 1s something for opponents of war to think about. 7. Republicans among the conferees might well bear mind the possibility that President Roosevelt, as the No. recruiting agent, could not avoid—even with the best inmaking political hay out of the necessary patri-

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By Westbrook Pegler

Warship Deal Dishonest, but Just The Sort of Thing We Have Been Accustomed to Under the New Deal

EW YORK, Sept. 9.—The effects of the trade of destroyers with Britain and of the military protectorate over Canada may be desirable, but the manner of putting across these deals was so shysteresque that only a nation already reconciled to cunning and mocking dishonesty would accept them without protest. There will be no protest worth President Roosevelt's notice, because the people long ago wearily abandoned principle and surrendered to the what-the-hell philosophy, which holds that any crookedness short of downright criminality is all right if it is clever and if it produces results. This attitude of resignation is the result of constant attacks on the morals of the country—first iss on one front, then on another— ranging in magnitude from a ‘petty but scandalous deal in faked philatelic rarities to the advantage of a few individuals to a plain, defiant violation of law and the Constitution in which the Attorney General of the United States delivered a leering insult to truth. It will be noticed that most of the comment on the destroyer trade recognizes the dishonesty of the transaction but accepts the results and justifies it on the ground of necessity. The spirit of the trade was the spirit of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin and, incidentally, of the New Deal, and worse luck, the prevailing spirit of the citizens of the United States. = = = ENDELL WILLKIE'S puny protests will be laughed off by a people who have lost their respect for honest dealing and all but repudiated Congress as a branch of the Government. It is pathetic that the candidate of the only party of opposition can be brushed off with a raucous taunt about his street address and that his little plea for the Constitution should be derided as the whine of a confused and outclassed challenger, but that is how it is. The crookedness to which the American character has adjusted itself in the years since 1932 has been exemplified no more shockingly than in the Chicago convention of the Social Democrats, in which the Kelly and Hague mobs of civic corruptioneers collaborated with the sanctimonious fakers detailed by the President to run the debauch. This alliance showed up the cynicism of the New Deal bosses and was thoroughly exposed at the time, but the people took it with a grin and went looking for reasons to suspect Willkie. = ” T= acceptance marks a great change since 1932 and 1933, when popular indignation ran high, as the lynching stories used to say, against the cheats and burglars of finance. Up to that time the Americans still had the will and the morale to resent crookedness, but steady pressure since then has reduced them to a state of acquiescence. The appointment of a member of a gang of masked, night-riding terrorists to the Supreme Court was an important test in the campaign to corrupt the people, and since then the going has been fairly easy. It used to be said that the Constitution was whatever the Supreme Court said it was, but if that ever was true it isn't any more. Today the Constitution is what the Attorney General says it is, and the President will tell him what to say. The dealings of Jimmy and Elliott Roosevelt, the exploitation of office for financial gain, the amazingly bold program of petty larcency nepotism in Washington, the corruption of the ballot by bribery with taxes and borrowed money, all have combined to soften up the American people for the knockout.

Business By John T. Flynn

some districts members of Congress seeking re-election will have less trouble from draft opponents if the draft has | not actually gone into effect on election day. | If this is the ruling consideration in Congress, then | democracy has come to a pretty pass indeed. If the conferees search their conscience and their intelligence, we are confident that they will call upon the

House to reverse itself and abandon this dilatory, futile,

demagogic provision and get going on defense.

ANOTHER RECORD

HE 1940 Indiana State Fair is over, another new attendance record set and plans already being made for next year's show. We in Indiana have every right to be proud | of a Fair which can attract more than 435,000 persons in | a week. Indiana’s Fair is one of the fimest in the nation, a tribute to our ranking as one of the country’s outstanding agricultural states. Let's make it 500,000 in 1941.

GOOD RESIGNATION WwW E tip our journalistic hat to a fellow editor, Lawrence W. Hager of the Owensboro (Ky.) Messenger and Inquirer, who has resigned as postmaster of his city with the explanation that— “I would not long be able to endure the restraints put upon me in the exercise of a free will in public affairs by the rules of Civil Service and the Hatch Act.” Mr. Hager says he sympathizes with the motives of these rules, but that freedom of action is more important to him than the postmastership. His stand, we think, is admirable. He can now devote as much time as he pleases to political activity, and nobody can accuse him of neglecting public business or using an official position to influence votes. And someone else who will be willing—we hope—to refrain from political activity can devote his time to running the Owensboro postoffice.

MAKE OURS MEDIUM, WITH MUSHROOMS

E suggest that a prize for understatements be given to Dr. Leopoldo Melo of Argentina for admitting that possibly he was “indiscreet” in disclosing that President Roosevelt had told him it would be unseasonable to press the Argentine-beef 13sue during the election campaign while Western Senators have their minds on the ballot boxes back home. As Dr. Melo remembers the conversation, the President held out hope that after the election something might be done to permit the beef imports. As the White House recalls tite conversation, the President did no such thing. Anyhow, Dr. Meio’s boner, has kicked up a political fuss. Several years ago the cattle Senators put over a law which, in effect, says that because the hoof-and-mouth disease is prevalent in some parts of Argentina, there shall be no beef imports from any part of Argentina. Now if Argentina or any other foreign country should forbid the imports of any American cotton because of the prevalence of boll-weevil in Oklahoma, the cotton growers in our non-infested states would be very angry, wouldn't they? Well, cattle raisers in many parts of Argentina feel aggrieved because of our embargo against their perfectly sound beef. So long as we continue our unfair embargo, all our good-nefghbor talk will be just! so much mockery to the

Lack of Skilled Tool Makers Is Big | Reason We're Net Ready for War |

EW YORK, Sept. 9.—Facts begin to come to hand \ about America’s capacity to produce war materials. There has been a good deal of surmising and estimating, but little more. Americans call their country the greatest of mechanical nations, and that is true. But mechanical nations have a way of becoming specialists. And one of the most important specialties in a nation of machines is the business of making the machines with which these mechanical Americans work. And so it comes as a surprise to Americans to learn that there are very decided limits to their present capacity to make machines. The American Society of Tool Engineers has just made a survey of our needs and our capacity to produce tools. Before the 1941 automobiles can be manufactured it is necessary to make the machines and the tools that will produce them. The machinery that made the 1940 cars is not usable. And it takes so highly and magnificently organized an industry as the automobile industry a long time to make the tools with which to make cars. It is also necessary to employ tool engineers and mechanics to make machines to produce planes and guns before we can put the plane and gun mechanics to work on them. The society finds that there is an immediate ‘need for 32,570 tool engineers and 127,750 tool and die makers. You cannot just put an ad in the paper and get these men. It takes training, skill subjected to long education, to make them. In addition to that, there is a need of 408,816 skilled mechanics. A couple of years are needed to make one of them, though it might be done more quickly. un ” ” OW why is this and what can be done about it? Well, for one thing, highly mechanized as we are, we have produced only as many engineers and die makers and mechanics as there has been a need for in our peace-time economy. We have never been a war-programmed nation. If we want to adopt that form of economic life, we have to prepare for it. But it takes time. If we have any plans for war we will do well to form them with these facts in mind. The point is that if Hitler is really planning to land an army of a million men on our shores—and if he really can do it—we really are in a terrible fix. The whole hysteria is based on the idea sold swiftly to the American peopie that Hitler can land an army here and is planning to do it. Our safety lies in the fact that Hitler cannot land an army here, and knows as well as anyone that the attempt to do it would be so fantastic and so fatal that, whatever happened, he and his high command could not survive the fiasco sure to follow such a crazy adventure.

Words of Gold

RINTING The Congressional Record costs the taxpayers about $50 a page. Many pages these days are filled with political material having nothing to do with business before Congress. On Thurse day, Sept. 5, the following members of Congress put into The Record the material described below at a cost approximately as stated: Senator Guffey (D. Pa.), letter to a newspaper by Secretary Ickes, taking exception to an editorial criticism of his anti-Willkie speech, $45. Senator Truman (D. Mo.), anti-Willkie newspaper editorial, $12.50. Senator Smathers (D. N. J.), anti-Willkie editorials, $40. Rep. Keefe (R. Wis\), anti-New Deal remarks by himself, $54. Rep. Angell (R. Ore), editorial praising Vice Presidential Candidate McNary, $36. Rep. Sweeney (D. O.), remarks on “The Country Needs John J. O'Connor (ex-Representative from New York) Back in Congress,” $49. Rep. Kunkel (R. Pa), anti-Roosevelt editorial, $57.50. Rep. Flaherty (D. Mass), anti-Willkie editorial,

$33. Rep. Tinkham (R. Mass), anti-Roosevelt newspaper coluthn; $30. Total cost to taxpayers, $357—seven months

people of Patagonia.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MONDAY, SEPT. 9, 1940

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BACKS DRAFT, CLAIMS TRAINING CUTS DEATHS By C. A, Williams, Ex-Soldier of 1918.

It seems to me that everybody has expressed views on the draft, except the, so here is mine. I am for it, and here is why: I served with the 52d Infantry in the other war, and I know that a lot of boys are pushing daisies in France because they lacked training, officers as well as privates.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

One soldier well trained and properly equipped is worth a hundred the wood on Mr. and Mrs. Franklin | untrained men, with guns on their D. I admit a few hallucinations, | shoulders. I urge every mother but Robert must be broke out with | that has a son of draft age to see/them. . . . that he gets this training, volun-| When Robert gets through cut- | teer or draft. It is for his own good ting his political eye teeth, he will] and protection. You would give no doubt find out that politics is everything to put him through politics. He will find out that school in order that he may go out Presidents can propose to do this into the world for himself, so give/and do that, but the ultimate of him this chance, if the worst comes, Such proposals, rest squarely in the

he will have an even chance to laps of Congress... . iindhieoy : ove 53 With the national debt accrued

from the Hoover Administration fortified by the spending of the Roosevelt Administration and our present spending for total defense Benj. A. Trout all coupled up with carrying charges : : and running expenses, the next decThere has appeared in The Times | , je will probably show a budget

tJ 5 o RESENTS CRITICISM OF WALLACE SPEECH By

recently two editorials in which you that will make the present one criticized Secretary Wallace very|jook like a Sunday school picnic. | severely. In one of these you had| Cheer up, Robert, the worst is the audacity to insinuate that Vou yet to come and here's hoping we doubted very much that he, Mr.!all live through it. Wallace. wrote the speech he made | 0»

at Des Moines, Ia. HOPES WAR BRINGS

You also in one of these edito- : rials insinuated that any one that NEW ORDER TO WORLD By Liberty.

believed in the Roosevelt policies The “new order” so glibly an-

and the New Deal was a beadynounced by dictators incorporated

eved zealot. I think you, Mr. Editor, went just a little too far in : is destined not to be so all inclusive as they hope for. ...

your accusation, and that you will find after the election in November If out of this madness comes the knowledge of the futility of, wars,

that there were enough beady-eved then indeed may come a new

on

zealots in the U. S. A. that believed in Roosevelt policies and the New Deal to inform your angel child|: + *

that he and they are just as or more beady-eyed in what they believe in than those that believe in the New Deal. And it might be well for you to remember, Mr. Editor, before you call people beady-eyed zealots because they believe in the New Deal that if you lost all of your readers of The Times that believe in the New Deal you would probably close up shop.

CHEER UP, WORST YET TO COME, IS FORECAST By M. G.

I noted Robert Pennington’s reference to my recent letter. Speaking in the vernacular, he sure laid

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Mr. Willkie and all of his followers]

order based upon the assurance that industrial enterprise will not be’ disrupted every couple of decades | or the length of time it takes to grow a new army. Then can the age-old dream of man for freedom, {peace and plenty be realized. It will not come by utilizing iron and steel in shot and shell as fagainst the refinements and com|forts of life. Militarism and com[fort are not synonymous and this is the promise upon which any adherence to the system is founded.

It is bound to crumble of its own inadequacy when the thrill of ado-| lescent destructiveness has waned— but the cost to humanity of this] interlude in nominal normal prog-| ress may become incalculable. Think it over, gentlemen.

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MINTON “MISGUIDED” ON DRAFT, READER SAYS By D. D. Fertig, Franklin, Ind. In your comment “None So Blind,” you say Senator Minton had the “courage to support conscription.” I would say he had some ‘“misguided urge” to {force our young men to leave their homes in time of peace, and enter army camps where they will suffer cold and exposure which will result in flu and

pneumonia. All this because some would-be dictator wants to continue in office. I have not forgotten the rows of coffins in the Union Station during the last great mistake. What did it get us? What will happen to the America we once knew if we support un-American laws of this type? God save America from home-grown dictators. ” ” ” DOUBTS WILLKIE IS “HOPE OF COUNTRY” By M. J. Healey Your paper too carries Wendell Willkie as the hope of our country. But where was the “hope of our

country” when,

Girdler was condemning the New Deal for protecting the rights of workers to organize.

When Gannett was going around |

upholding those courts that were being used to destroy the laws that were helping the workers and farmers of this country. When the big utilities were trying to wreck the New Deal for bringing lights to thousands of poor folks in the Tennessee Valley. Where was he? We workers have not forgot. . . . ” td ” OFFERS SUGGESTION FOR INCREASING U. 8S. INCOME ByS. L Expenses of our Government keep mounting, and considering our defense program our Government needs a much larger income than it can ever derive through taxation. The following 1s an idea that would help the Government raise a great deal more. Congress should enact a law whereby the Government would have the privilege of buying about one-third of the industries of our nation. The Government should invest billions of dollars in business, real estate, manufacturing and in every other way it can produce more income, If our Government would do this, the income of our Government would be sufficient to take care of, and employ several more million people. And that would make things better for the rich and poor alike. Of course I mean that our Government should buy business places, factories and real estate only from people who care to sell of their own accord.

CADENCE OF THE CORN By VERNE 8S. MOORE Flashing ears thick and constant fly From busy peg to top of bangboard high Of wagons heavy laden, that moving

slow, Catch up the golden harvest as they go Creaking, creaking rustling field Of sturdy stalks that multiply the yield.

through the

A cadence other than of singing men Moves the countryside with pulsing din: A throbbing of the flying golden ears On the bangboard as the wagon nears, Sends through the first cold, frosty harvest morn The palpitating cadence of the corn.

DAILY THOUGHT

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.—Proverbs 19:20.

THE WISE MAN endeavors to shine in himself; the fool to out-

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.ishine others.—Addison.

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Gen. Johnson Says—

Regardless of Fish Amendment, At Least 60 Days Would Be Needed Before Actual Draft Could Start

ASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The Fish amendment to the Selective Service Act has been erroneously reported as a measure to postpone effectiveness of the Selective Service Law by 60 days. It has other gross

faults, but it does not do that. As soon as the law passes, the Government can set up the machinery for registration and classi= fication of manpower. It can pro=ceed, when ready to register them and, as rapidly as possible, to classify them in the order of their relative availability for military service, You can’t have any actual taking of men into the Army under our system until the registration is complete to the last man. You can’t have it until the classification has proceeded at least to the point of filling the quotas of each locality. “Filling the quotas” means the actual taking of men for whom the great lottery in Washington has determined that their turn has come and of whom committees of their neighbors have decided that there is less reason for them to remain in the civil occupations than exists for other men. : 2 % =n

TARTING from scratch, this machinery could not possibly be set up, oiled and put in efficient operation to produce 400,000 or even 100,000 men in less

than 60 days. All that the Fish amendment provides is that while the machinery may be created as quickly as possible, it can't actually take a single man for 60 days. Thus, on the cold hard facts, there will be no real delay on this score, Cold hard facts aside, however, the amendment is a mouthful of mush—npolitical mush. The “60 days’ delay” is designed to let valiant legisla= tors stand for election before any men have actually been drafted—which will be true but unimportant. It has another aspect that is important—importantly dangerous. It is worked into the law as a period dur= ing which the President may call for 400,000 volun= teers and then, actually select only 400,000 men less the number that have volunteered within the 60 days. That is provided so that the fearless statesmen can say in their campaigns that they refused to conscript a single man until no more men would voluntger. I regret to say that in a somewhat cynical attempt to get this bill passed quickly without one day's delay in effective action, this column suggested this 60-day delay in induction, pointing out that it didn’t mean much of anything but might ease the fears of poli= ticians up for election. ” ” ”

HAT column also suggested that if, after men had been selected for Class 1 (immediately available for military service), they were not required to wait their turn in the list of lottery numbers but permitted to volunteer to go at once, the quotas could be filled by that kind of volunteer in practically every locality in the nation—filled with men selected as available for military service and no others. That is a very different proposal from this Fish amendment. When men have been notified by their Government that its best interest requires that they either go or stay at home, their duty is clearly deter= mined without either pressure, stigma or emotion, But if unregulated volunteering is to be glorified by patrioteering tom-tom beating, then all selected men are going to be brought into contempt as unwilling conscripts. If that happens, the brightest and strong= est single feature of selective service goes down and the whole project may fail. You can't have selective and let men select themselves. Conscription and volunteering won't work together and volunteering won't work at all. ¢

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

T= day gets off to a bad start when the postman brings this kind of an unsigned letter from Denver: “I hope you were proud of the women who wens to the Capitol and hanged Senator Pepper in effigy. Those were your disciples. Those are the women you have helped to create. I hope you are proud of your crusade and fits results. You have appealed to the lowest in womankind. This is the sort of thing that makes many of us ashamed of our sex. And they were not always like this. They have been ‘educated’ by unbalanced thinkers. Thanks to you and your kind.” Down plummet my spirits! Waves of evil thoughts trail through the air. How frightening it is to see the miasma of hate enveloping the atmosphere of free America! But the inevitable reaction balloons within yours truly. At any rate, it is flattering to be classified as an educator. Senator Pepper needs no defenders. He handled the murderous mothers who strung him up in effigy with admirable gallantry. And, as is so often the case, the hanged one got in the last word— although often that last word is only an echo down time's corridors. The deplorable episode injured the women far more than it did the victim. Yet suddenly I find myself wishing that all our hangings could be done as gently, and with as few bad results, as that accorded to a little figure fashioned to resemble a U. S. Senator. The spirit which prompts anonymous letters reek« ing with irrational hate is a spirit which has often incited to other kinds of hangings in this wide land— the spirit that sneaks behind anonymity to spill its venom and commit its crimes. If there were any apologies to be made for my sex, they would be offered for my nameless correspondent rather than for Senator Pepper's persecutors. Their opinions, at least, were openly expressed, This incident offers the opportunity to say once again that I am proud of modern women and their great achievements, and to reiterate my faith in the fundamental decency of my kind.

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

AYFEVER sufferers are just beginning to breathe happily again because the season of their plague is about over. The time of year, however, that brings them relief ushers in a period of nose misery for that vast army that suffers from colds and sinus disease all winter. That all too prevalent sinus pain is due in some cases to a vacuum. The sinuses, you know, are holes or pockets in the bones of the face and skull. They are like hollow outshoots of the nasal cavity, and are connected with the latter by small openings. They are lined with much the same kind of tissue, called mucous membrane, that lines the inside of the nose. Some of the sinuses (there are a number of them) only start forming after birth, and usually none of them is completely formed until about the age of maturity. Sinus trouble usually occurs in either the frontal sinuses, in the bones over each eye, or in the ones called the antra (plural of antrum), which are large sinuses in the cheekbones. Behind each nasal cavity, deep in the base of the skull, are the sphenoid sinuses, which also sometimes become diseased. The honeycomb-like mass of cells at the tops of the two nasal cavities are called the ethmoid sinus, All or part of these ethmoid sinuses are very come monly diseased and are responsible for the condition sometimes called nasal catarrh. Because the sinuses are connected with the nasal cavity, germs that get into the nose may find their way into the sinuses. Inflammation of the lining membrane of the nasal cavity may swell the membranes about the small mouth of a sinus, thus causing more or less temporary closure of the opening into the sinus from the nasal cavity. Fortunately, most cases of sinus trouble last only while the mouth of the sinus is closed by inflamma-

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