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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1940 A
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THE WAY OF ALL FRANCE?
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Spelvin's Sen, Dummy, Thinks Me Knows the Antwers te What Ails U. §,, but the Old Man Is Skeptical
EW YORK, Sept. 10 —Ceorge Spelvin, American, finds it more and more difficult to understand his oldest son, the one they call Dummy, who has very positive ideas, most of them in conflict with the old man’s. Last night, for example, Dummy said the whole trouble with the world was the greedy rich.
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TUESDAY, SEPT. 10, 1940
Whatta They Mean, ‘Anything’?
JUST WHAT
Gen. Johnson Says—
Nichols Amendment Basing Quotas On Population Is a Blunder Tried And Discarded in 1917-18 Draft
10 ~The Nichols amendment to the Selective Service Bill was tacked on in the House with the Fish amendment. The latter was cheap political monkey-business. Part of it— the 60 days delay—is unimportant, The rest of it—a
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“All they think about,” he said, “is their profits and having | a good time.” ,’ the old man said, “and what do you think about?” “Well,” the Dummy said, “I|
PUSILLANIMOUS politics ruined France. It may ruin us. What happens to that 60-day-delay clause in the Selective-Service Bill may be the test of how much of the French poison we've got in our system, With time the most precious element, with “London | bridges falling down,” with a clear call to defense as our | No. 1 problem, two months are torn out of the calendar | for reasong crudely political. Why? Because the first | Tuesday after the first Monday in November is election day: because there's political heat in the conscription issue; because, by stalling, that heat can be avoided. There- | fore, though duty is plain, though selective service is actually approved, a lapse of 60 days ig inserted because there
is a chance th: me candidates’ hides might be scorched.
al [0 In France they ave already taking up the cases of some their nation flat. It might
hat some similar retribution
of those politicians who left not be too fanciful to ponder t might be in the offing for a few of our own Daladiers on this side of the water. We can respect entirely those who as a matter of prin. ciple fight all the way against conscription. But we have | only contempt for the ones who vote for conscription and in the same breath vote to hold off until the campaign IS over. So we say, what happens in the Hougse-Senate conference to that 60-day clause may indicate the amount of virus we have in the veins of our own body politie, ” » » The 60-day-delay vote is just another sign, though especially conspicuous--a two-by-four in the wind, so to speak—that we as a nation are taking on weight, Nations go that way. First they are virile, tough. | pioneer, accustomed to the hard way, effective, finally successful, Then comes the steam-heat era, as it were—'‘in fair round belly with good capon lined.” And later, if the ation does not watch out, does not realize that it's a trend threading through all history, comes the time which Shakespeare described as the age of the lean and slipper'd pantathe shrunk shank, and the manly voice turned to childish treble.
loon, = » 1f one clearer than all in the world’s past it is that when nations get fat they become k soup for the conqueror. We are plenty fat—despite our debts. And where our treasure ig, there Hitler's heart is also. He hones for what we have in Ft. Knox. And that's what this defense thing is all about. We read today, in the flaming skies of England, history
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can repeating. Our job is to get strong. To do it calmly, svstemat- | ically, not hysterically. The essence of the selective-draft idea is calmness and system. The essence of the recruiting method is whoopla and frenzy. The purpose of the selective draft, plus the billions appropriated for mechanization, 1s to get so strong nobody will dare attack us: not to get strong to go to war, but to keep out. That which slows up the orderly process of our defense program—such stuff as stalling till after election— is the thing which may bring us to that “seventh age of man’ '—sans teeth, sans eves, sans taste, sans everything, |
MADE-WORK FOR THE ROBOT WITNESS told the Senate Finance Committee about one corporation which had tried to compute what its excess-profits tax would be under the new 104-page tax bill. The company’s bookkeepers, he said, had to make 187.000 separate computations to arrive at a final figure. The new bill, even if it doesn't raise much revenue. ought to provide plenty of made-work for accountants. But wait, here's news from the science front! Scient- | ists in the Bell Telephone Laboratories, after the expendi- | ture of several thousands of dollars, have developed a | speedy, foolproof electrical computing robot. Science Sery- ! ice explains how it works: “The new electrical calculating machine is set up to handle a mixture of a real and an imaginary number, each of eight digits. For instance, give the machine this prob- | lem: Plus .56785432 minus i .12564532 multiplied by plus 45632450 plus 1 45367899. In about 40 seconds after the operator types the problem into the keyboard, the answer starts to roll out: Plus 0.31612847 plus i 0.20028853. | If you do not believe the answer is correct, work it out | yourself.” Let's see, now, how much time would it take the calculating robot to work out the 187,000 computations neces- | sary to figure the tax tor the corporation referred to above? The machine works at the lightning speed of one com- | putation every 40 seconds: I87,000 computations would require 7,480,000 seconds, which would be 124.666 minutes, | which would be 2077 hours, which would be 259 eight-hour days, which would be 51 4-5 five-day weeks—and in a year of 52 weeks that would give the robot one day when it would have nothing to do but rest. It is a labor-saving machine, so let it rest on Labor Day.
A WELL PRICED BOOK HUMBING through the “Democratic Book” of 1940 | makes us feel the same way we felt once on a ship at sea when a heavy swell began doing tricks with said ship and our innards. Advertisements from contractors, from airplane manufacturers, from architects, from automobile builders, from state and city governments, from a labor union, from beer and whisky firms. Ads for chewing gum and peanuts and yeast and cigarets. Ads for hotels and ship lines and rubber tires. A quarter million dollars’ worth of advertising. That g, the advertisers are paying that much. What it's worth s another matter, In our opinion the most honest thing about this book is the three black lings drawn through the words ‘Price
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| stimulating effect on business will be great { with a prolonged war and a huge spending program
Te war spending will produce its effects slowly,
| masses of billions we are pouring out.
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| simple—not an investor's market.
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don’t think about profits because | I am not an exploiter, but if you mean I like to tear around a lit tie and lap up a saucer of toddy, why, what of it? After all, I am V a human and you don't live but | is only once.” | “How long hag it been since you had a job?” the | old man asked. “About a year)” Dummy said, “and that is just the trouble. The dirty rich are so greedy that {hey won't give you a job, and I am a member of the lost gen eration without any market for my talents.” “What are your talents?” the old man asked.
ALESMAN,” aid Dummy. “But nobody has any money to spend because the rich aren't putting $0 1 can’t make a quarter “Dummy,” the old man said. that the more goods they sell the more get, why id they want and cut off all those wages?” "But you take my case, for instance,” Dummy said “IT they would pay me a decent salary I would spend the dough for a car and probably get married and even buy a house. As long as they pay me a good salary © will keep on sending it in, because. paw, you
out ‘You ought to knew profits
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thing you know we will have prosperity again.” “But you said the whole trouble is that the rich are so crazy about profits,” the old man said, “and now you say nobody has any dough to spend, so it is a cinch the rich can’t make any profits not selling
anything. Why don't you pull yourself together?” “The rich put their money into tax-exempt bonds,” | faid Dummy, Don’t you ever listen to the radio? | They buy Government bonds and elose up their busi« | ness and live on the fat of the land without paying | taxes.” ” » ” ] “YF vou had a thousand bucks.” the old man asked, "and there was no chance to make any profits | on it in some Kind of business and you might even lose the thousand bueks, what would vou de with the dough? Would you invest it in a business or buy
| Government bonds and be sure of your money and a | little interest?”
"I wouldn't do either one if I had a thousand bucks,” Dummy said. “I would throw a party like I bet you never saw before. like I said. you only live onee and it is here today and gone tomorrow. But I can understand why some common people woulg buy Government bonds just to play safe, but T am think | ing of the rich. They wouldn't be allowed to stick it | away in Government honds.” “Why not?” Mr. Spelvin demanded. “If the Gov. | ernment don't want the rich dough why do they borrow Do you ever hear of them refusing toe
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200,000 little guys, instead?” sald dummy, “you ean argue yourself crazy ling vou the day is coming.” : What day the old man demanded. | “The day is coming,” Dummy said, “when the (iove. ernment will trick those rich bums. The Govern ment will tax the ears off their factories and stocks so they will lend it all to the Government instead. And then the Government will refuse to pay them back and they will be out of luck and guys like me will all iohs with I we go
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the Government, and boy, will to town! "Out of the Spelvin, American
Business By John T. Flynn |
Stock Market Perks Up as England Stands Up Under Nazi Battering
EW YORK, Sept. 10.—At lagt—at long last--some-thing has happened to bring a smile to the cold | and rigid lips of those unhappy bovs down in Wall | Just after the middle of August the market | began to wriggle a little—as if the vital spark were being blown to a little heat by some gland specialist. Then in the last week it began to move a little faster and then spring suddenly to | what looks like life. Of course the | explanation quite simple—it's | the war, the good old war. { Nothing is so deleterious to | business and the speculative markets as a short war. And it began to look a month ago as if the war would be short, That meant the | collapse of whatever war business there was in this country. It was | a pretty dark outlook. And then the idea began to get about that Hitler wasn't going to crack up England after all—at least not this fall { and winter. I do not know whether this is true or not but certainly that notion has spread around in | Wall Street. | If it is true it means that England will be better prepared by spring and that Germany may well begin because of her economic difficulties, Anv- | Altogether the future as they | view it from Wall Street seems to hold a good deal | of war vet Along with that is the now obvious effect that the | Government's war spending-——successor to the WPA | and PWA-—is having on business. There cannot be | the slightest doubt that if the billions heing voted | are spent with the hoped-for facility and speed the Hence
mouths of dummies,” said George
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i i These are huge And, since there is to be no really confiscatory tax program and a reliance on borrowing, the widespread energizing of the system is inevitable. Stocks are not the only things that have gone up price. Building materials, commodities, processed goods—all sorts of things rise. Today I found some building materials selling to the dealer wholesale at
but is kept up.
surely,
It is only fair that the investor should understand that this is a speculator's market, pure and And it is a market
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The Hoosier Forum
I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.
[people who read Mrs. Roosevelt's article every day and enjoy it who {will not agree with him. Won't {somebody hasten to assure Mr. Pegler that her patriotism is probably as pure and undefiled as his own? It might also be well to suggest to him that mavbe Mrs. Roosevelt writes for the love of writing and not from a mercenary motive altogether, as some writers do, Mr. Peg-
ler, for instance,
(Times readers are invited TRIBUTE, HOOSIER SAYS “Wasted Time" Now I am a Hoosier and glad of | it. I don't know whether Mr. Pegler's article was meant for a knock or not, but I am so dumb I took it for a tribute, I liked most of hig article pretty Ct i well, but the necktie stuff made me withheia on request sore, | Now I'll bet Pegler when he had! that picture taken was running to catch an Indiana bus tying his tie and it got wrapped around a pole and tore the end of it off . He says Hoosiers can't tie a tie Now a clerk didn't teach me to tie | my tie When a fellow goes to as much trouble as 1 did to learn to tie his | tie around a corn cob I don't think it's very nice of Mr. Pegler to-—oh well what's the use,
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| tering to one of the common herd URGES WILLKIE USE {ike myself, and read and heard AAA CHECK IN CAMPAIGN hundreds of things hat would Indicate that the impostant thing ™ (lo him is re-election, even if it takes war to do it I don't count, I'm
The Sage of Main Street Gen. Hugh Johnson is atraid Mr Willkie will lack sufficient campaign funds, due to his “self-im-Who am I? posed limitations.” Well, there's [that $3500 farm-relief check. He y should be able to plow under quite DOUBTS CONVERSATION a few Roosevelt supporters with |BY NAZI OFFICERS that!
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TERMS PEGLER'S COLUMN ‘DISGRACE’ By
By Homer Waltman, Ind,
I have before me a letter published In your Forum containing a quotation from a book by a German A. N. Gerth, Columbus, Ind, [author in which, at the dinner table | Along with enough other people | high Nazi officers are supposed to I voted for F. D. Roosevelt in 1932 [Speak depreciatively of American The first few years of the New World War, Of Deal pleased almost evervone. and | Course no such conversation ever
naturally it pleased me, so I voted | !00k place and it is indeed amazfor him again. INR that anv one with ordinary in-
3 X 3 '0 ve credence lo Now, I have read heard tellitence would gi creder
many things about our President, | these propaganda fairy tales. : ATH TERM FOR F. D. R.? About wanting to be
a dictator, 8 o Vat a ITY Tp A HE his family, his dealings with Hitler's DEFENDS FIRST LADY Siok BTS M'NUTT CHANCES chum Stalin, with whom this coun- A taro SPOR | BY try still is very friendly. 1 have | AGAINST PEGLER read or heard about him asking |By “m" for 50,000 airplanes in one vear, and What is the matter with West= a lot of billions of dollars for other!, . o . nr . things, all at a profit for those brook Pegler? His brow is knotted in anger and his nose is tilted to a
from whom they are to be secured, . About him even scaring Con-|dangerous angle. He seems all “het” up. «No doubt he froths at the |
gress with submarine stories to get certain legislation passed, but still mouth some, too. All because, it saving he doesn't influence them seems, Mrs. Roosevelt writes a colwhen he was put on the spot about umn for publication in the newsa certain bill. About him telling | papers. She does not shine by her us there was only one chance in own light, he says, but by a reflect-| The Democratic hundred of sending our men ed light from the President. In fact [vice President has told the very she would not shine at all if she acceptance speech, that time he was threatening leaders of were not the President's wife. . . . Wav we. can. saccesshaliv: combat foreign countries, calling them He says journalism is not her Hitler i te re-elect Mr Roosevelt names, and in general placing this proper occupation. As to that I am He S50. wointed. oat that only Mr country in the position of either not so sure it is Mr, Pegler's either. Rog wart: Jead Hits Sountry having to whip Hitler or back down He savs the prestige she enjoys, \hroweh all phases " of Any like cowards. . . . as the wife of the President is her CIIEvRErLY. Mr a . In fact IT have heard hundreds of sole qualification as a writer, Of of Te the seople in the United things that would not even be flat- course, he will find a great many States: fs Ae of finding and working out solutions to our na-
Side Glances—By Galbraith tional problems
Disregarding the political aspects
» RECOUNTS THINGS HEARD ABOUT ROOSEVELT
A Reader,
In your paper of last Thursday there was an article written by Westbrook Pegler which I think is a disgrace to be published. I am surprised at you, an Indianapolis paper, would publish such an article. Who is this foreigner?
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Why all this fuss about the availlability of McNutt for President in 1944? Does anybody seriously believe that if Mr. Roosevelt is elected to a third term he will not draft himself for a fourth? n uo TERMS WALLACE SPEECH CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY BE. H
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fof Mr. Wallace's speech, isn't it a challenge to any democracy to be told that there is only one person capable of administering its Government? Such a statement is 1 direct contradiction not only to the philosophy and views of the founders of our country, but also to the very term democracy itself. We should keenly analyze the motives of any person or group who would in any way prevent this democracy of ours from remaining a government of, by, and for the people, a people who still enjoy the rights of freedom.
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professional It is built entirely on the | war and the American war program. It is therefore at the mercy of vast forces that no one can control or predict. who have the knowledge and—what is more and | rarer—the talent for getting out at the right time.
for the
So They Say=—
I AM, AS MY grandmother used to say, as happy as a clam at high tide —Senator Hiram Johnson, California, on being renominated.
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I AM OPPOSED to conscription of industry in peace time because I found it unnecessary to conscript industry in war time—Col. Frank A. Scott, World War chairman, Munitions Standards Board.
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IN OUR LIFETIME Germany will never recover from these victories —Roy Helton in Harper's Maga- |
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IT GIVE MAW a fair old turn, it did.—Elderly Briton, describing the effect of a German bomb. »* * »
THE TRAGEDY of my Norway was that we were the freest people on earth. We took our democracy
for granted. —Sigrid Undset, Norwegiah novelist, now a refugee,
SEPTEMBER SHINES
By MARY P. DENNY September shines in red and gold In colors that in light unfold. A pastel of the autumn day A glory of the country way. Beside the road the golden rod Arises far above the sod. Blue asters bloom by cottage wall. And in the woods the great trees tall Reach out in glory to the sky Sentinels of color shining high. And far away the wild birds fly To rest at last beneath the star In glory of the southland far, Winging in light to golden day.
DAILY THOUGHT
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him | with the whole heart.—Psalms t 119:3. Jer0
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FAITH 1S TO believe, on the word of God, what we do not see, and its reward is to see and enjoy what we believe.—Augustine,
4 COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF,
"The baby is collecting watches again—try and remember the gentleman we were sitting next to on the streetcar!"
for in his the only
Roosevelt, alone
| recruiting ballyhoo drawing a hateful distinction be-
tween “volunteers” and “conseripts’'—endangers the whole effort, The Nichols amendment doesn't do that and didn't seem to be politically inspired. It is Just a bonehead blunder. We made it in the 1917 draft and had to rush to Congress to correct it, The Nichols amendment requires that quotas be assessed to each state and local board area in proportion to population and that each locality be given credit on its quota for all its men who shall have already volunteered The part about quota credits was already in the law, | The big honer is the assignment of quotas in proportion to population, That is the way we started out in the World War Immediately panicky protests appeared in many dis- | tricts, We found local board areas in this country where not 10 per cent of the population were citizens or men who had declared their intention to become citizens | I'he rule of assessing quotas according to popula | tion threatened to depopulate whole areas of ablebodied male Americans,
(YOME of these districts, like those in the hig bend S country of Texas, were along the Mexican border, where as a result of Pershing's punitive expedition the feeling between Mexicans and Americans was none | too friendly. For that and many other reasons, the application of such a rule couldn't be defended, One of these other reasons was that in localities where the number of men liable to military service is unusually low relative to its population, to get their quotas, the boards have to apply the rules governing | exemptions much more harshly than where the sup- { ply of men is normal, That produces exactly the re- | sult we do not want if we are to convince the people, as we did in 1917, of the absolute fairness justice and equality of this method of raising an army, The | “population” rule makes for radical differences in [ applying this sacrificial law—differences and inequali- | ties dependent on the mere accident of locality. If | | |
this selection can't be kept above the shadow of | suspicion of maneuvering and unjust | and unequal application as are found the Fish ‘volunteering” political hokum and the blundering | Nichols Amendment, it is apt to fail. The only fair basis for assigning quotas to each district is the ratio of the number of men available for service in that district to the number of men available for service in the whole United States.
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true that this can't be determined until after the classification, but tentative quotas can be assigned on estimates to be promptly corrected as soon as classification 1s complete, That correction mace hoth by credits for errors in the estimates and credits for men already in service The assignment of quotas by population is an estimate at the beginning and remains so to the end. After the men are actually numbered and classified, the assignment of quotas on the basis of availability 1s statistically accurate, There is no guesswork about any statement in this column, The system here suggested was proved to be correct by trial and error, The system of the Nichols amendment was proved by that method to be incorrect and impossible. There was not one single complaint of the 1918 quota system that was not { promptly corrected to the satisfaction of everybody. Don't we ever learn anything by experience?
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
DON'T know why so many of us feel a sense of I shock because the Duchess of Windsor maintains a determination to he well-dressed and coiffured even though her husband's world is falling into ruins She is purely a product of her time, and her time, at least in feminine trends, has been an era of glorified glamour But “as the twig is bent, the tree inclines.” For a decade every little feminine twig has been heavily burdened with beauty commands. A good many small girls have had their first permaa nents hetween the ages of 2 and " Wa 4 Also, according to our better class fashions magazines. college is still given over to cocktails, football and the wearing of smart clothes, The more swanky publications, i such as “Vogue” and “Harper's Bazaar,” skillfully skirt around the notion that a war may be going on, or that women about to die might allow their thoughts to slip away from style trends. Perhaps the Duchess of Windsor is the Marie Antoinette of our age. Every period produces such | women. Yet their example only serves to point to the contrast between their kind and others of a sterner breed who are brave enough to fold their play togs away when playtime is over The great ladies of our own Old South, who wore | homespun as proudly as they once had worn silks and satin, adorn our country's annals, and we can be sure that most of the women of England, France, Bel. gium and Holland will siinilarly adorn those which will be read by Tomorrow's children. For they are wrestling with more fearful problems than a choice of cosmetics or a change of hair stvle. As a matter of fact, regimes are ended by women like the Duchess of Windsor: they are begun by women like Victoria. The world is remade by the Saint Teresas and the Florence Nightingales, after the DuBarrys have helped to destroy it. So, to paraphrase a remark of Thomas Mann— “Probably the Duchess is only a comma on the page ot today's history.” Its great feminine passages will he inscribed by the behavior of women of another kind.
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
INUS disease sufferers may soon he given miniature submarine trips to clear out their stuffy congested sinuses. The trips will be taken right in the doctor's office, not in an actual submarine but in a pressure chamber, This idea for treatment of sinus disease, and for | diagnosing it, too, has been proposed by Lieut. Albert R. Behnke, U. 8. Navy Surgeon, who has spent many years investigating * health problems of the submarine service and deep sea divers. After 10 vears he has concluded that the pressure chamber idea is practical. So far, it has not been used for treating sinus sufferers, but the Navy uses the pressure chamber in a diagnostic way for determining physicdl fitness. Under three to five pounds more pressure than normal atmospheric pressure, a person with congested nose or sinuses will develop pain. even if he did not previously have any. If he can take this change in alr pressure rapidly, it is a sign that his sinuses are wide open. If the sinuses or nose are not wide open, air cannot get in fast enough and pain will result. For treatment, Lieut. Behnke recommends building up positive pressure in the sinuses by putting the patient in a chamber under 10 pounds of positive pressure. Then the pressure is decreased. This would provide effective ventilation of the stuffy nose and sinuses, and drainage, with minimum injury to the lining membranes. Some doctors use negative pressure, by means of suction tubes, to open and drain clogged sinuses, | Lieut. Behnke thinks this is a mistake because in obstructed sinuses usually the pressure is already negative. The air in such sinuses has been absorbed, leaving a vacuum. Efforts to drain the sinuses by making the pressure still more negative have done much harm, he believes. The value of drainage in sinus trouble has been over-emphasized, he thinks,