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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940
CATASTROPHE IN JERSEY
HE explosion at the Hercules plant in Kenvil, N. J., may | have been accidental. Or it may have been deliberate. | In any event, the inevitable suspicion that this dread- | ful occurrence was no accident is a reminder that we can't | eat our cake and have it: We can't help England without running into the danger of German and Italian sabotage in our munition plants and shipyards. Even while the nation pays its respects to the men who | risked their lives at the business of powder-making, and lost, it must check and recheck its defenses against that | skulking half-caste of war, the arsonist,
‘ TEN \ SEO 9 GASOLINE OR MOLASSES’ AT Detroit, the American Chemical Society is told by Dr. - I Berl of Carnegie Tech that he has worked out | method for making gasoline out of grass or cot-
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or cornstalks—almost any growing thing—or even out
of molasses. v Hitler should be interested in this. The Germans of | course are already making great quantities of gasoline out of coal, by the hydrogenation process, but this is expensive, And besides, Hitler might reason, if the bullheaded | Englishmen persist over a long period in refusing to know hen they're licked, and the naval blockade of the conti- | ent begins to have a cumulative effect, maybe the Berl formula could be reversed. A machine for turning gasoline into molasses for a | y people would be a handy little gadget.
LA GUARDIA’'S BEDFELLOWS
T )M HEFLIN of Alabama once observed that the hardest job of any pelitician was to answer himself. He referred to the distressing habit of former statements and | alignments rising to plague and embarrass the man |
in politics. We thought about old Tom's sage observation today ve read Mayor La Guardia's speech urging the re- | of President Roosevelt. Fiorello La Guardia, as | vou know, is a hard-hitting, rampaging, progres- | reform mavor of New York City, the only man who took Tammany Hall to a cleaning at two elections in | ession. He made himself great and famous through his ense hatred of corrupt political machines and through s success in driving from power the machine that for | vears had looted and misgoverned the largest city in our
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But last night Mr. La Guardia spoke over the radio on time paid for by the Democratic National Committee and under arrangements made by Edward Flynn, chairman "that committee. We wonder if His Honor remembers he said about this same Ed Flynn not so long ago. | Oct. 2, 1933, in his campaign for Mayor, Mr. La |
what On Guardia said: “Municipal corruption is like all other sordid erimes— | ly unoriginal. There is little originality in the offi- | cial misconduct of our city government. 1 see very little difference in the New York of Tweed and that of John F.
Curry of Manhattan cr Edward Flynn of the Bronx.”
range
5 5 nN » n 5 And on Oct. 23, 1933, Mr. L.a Guardia said: “Ed Flynn of the Bronx is as low and as vicious as Croker or as Tweed, and he couldn't find another person who was low enough to be his candidate.” (He was referring to “Holy Joe” McKee, then Boss Flynn's candidate for Mavor.) And though we know that Mr. La Guardia’s motives supporting Mr. Roosevelt are lofty, we can’t help wonnow this rugged foe of corruption feels about some of the company he is keeping. He must rub his eyes in amazement at times to find himself standing shoulder to shoulder with Boss Flynn of the Bronx. And does he at times stop and hold his nose when he reflects that he has joined in a great national political crusade and is working side by side with the KellyNash crowd of Chicago and Boss Hague's machine of JerCity? The other day when he awarded a soft $26,000-a-yvear swivel-chair job to Tammany’s idol, Jimmy Walker, we wonder did the Little Flower pause to pinch himself and ask whether he could be the same Fiorello La Guardia | who a few years ago was so indignantly denouncing the | misdeeds of playboy Jimmy. We don’t know where we could look for a more competent or a more honest public official than Mr. La Guardia. | But we can’t help thinking what strange bedfellows the | new moral climate makes.
HUMAN, ALL TOO HUMAN (From the Baltimore Evening Sun) A MILDLY pathetic little news dispatch from Nebraska 4 T , . vs fia ( Neb., records the fact that seven National Guardsmen, just back from strenuous maneuvers and fac- |
fol
dering
CLs
Se)
| a commercial
ity,
ing a possible call to active duty, have tried to enlist in | the Navy. [ere a trait of human nature is revealed buck, stark There's always better fishin’ on yon side the crick. . . . The grass is always greener, etc. And so, for the benefit of those seven dulty, footsore National Guardsmen (and all others who care to listen), we're going to relate at this time a little Navy story. It seems that there was a gob who had served his time in the Navy, and after getting his discharge and saying farewell to the sea he made the following speech: “Now, I'm going to start walking inland, carrying an | oar on my shoulder. At first, people will say, ‘There goes a sailor carrying an oar,’ and I'll keep walking. After a long ways, somebody will say, ‘There goes a fellow carrying a paddle’—Dbut I don’: stop, 1 keep going. Finally, though, 1 get so far inland hat I can hear the kids asking their old
naked.
man, Paw, what's that thing the guy’s carrying?’, and |
their old man answers, ‘I ain't got no idea what it is’— and when 1 hear that, right there's where I'm going to stop and settle down for life.”
| our | not practice and would hate as fiercely as they do,
{ RIVINE WS | they | ignorant.
[ tempted to practice democracy, | trend [ democracy except as a catch-word and in the knowl- | edee that the people never have paused to examine
| by-passing | complex issues to the voters is a menace to the very
| what superior intelligence
| sumer
| covery of the ‘capital goods”
| goods”
| is money they have no mtention of spending.
| do { other
| ings.
Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
We Are Not a Democracy and for That We Can Thank the Framers Who Knew the Meaning of the Term
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Since that time, about a year ago, when the citizens of California went to the polls to vote down mob confiscation of private property and a further proposal to repeal the American form of government and elect a dictator I have intended to comb both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence for any mention of the words “democracy” or “demo= cratic.” Procrastination is no mere hobby but more nearly an occupation with me, so this task has not been accomplished until today, when I am able to report that the founding fathers, in their conservative wisdom, had no intention to found a democracy. On the contrary, they distinctly SA affirmed their determination to “guarantee to every state a republican form of government.” Nowhere in either document will you find any reference to democracy, and the experiences of the Californians who, twice in three years, had to whip themselves into a sweat to save their subrepublic from destruction by the democratic process vindicate the judgment of those early patriots.
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NLIKE us who thoughtlessly permitted ourselves pausing
to glorify democracy in the days of 1917-18, not to examine whereof we prattled, and who
| have continued ever since to praise the name of a
system which would be fatal to our freedom, the
founders of the nation pointedly rejected it. not a representative form of goveon reflection, the reasons become {he Nazis and Fascists ridicule us for in extolling a system which we do
Democracy is ernment, and, apparent why ignorance
try. When we say “democracy” we don't we are talking about, but they do, and, credit for more sense than we possess, we must be crazy, when we are only
should we know what
think
We have confused ourselves and fallen victims to the ballyhoo of the party which was in power during the first World. War and which used its own misnomer ideal and tocsin. That party never has ate and, even now, in its dare advocate
as
an
to national socialism would not
its meaning. We live under a superstition that democracy is the guarantee of the republican liberties which exist nowhere else in the world but in the republic. The Communists, naturally, have urged us toward democratic follies. knowing that it is unworkable in a land as vast and having so large a population as this one. n on on >= initiative and referendum was looked upon as years ago, and certainly in practice the business of referring
a sound reform 25 was good But the Legislature and
intent
right to vote The American system intends that the people shall elect representatives who—God help us—are presumed to be men of conscience, patriotism and somewill have the time, the character to consider vy measures proposed in the proper place and make the laws with due regard for the liberties of those whom they represent. The fact that they have heen guilty of many failures and much neglect is no veason for believing that the mass of voters would do well On the contrary, as the founding fathers
these elected agents equipment and the
that mental wisely
as
| knew, the voters have other things to think of and, { not to flatter them, need protection from their
own
emotions and cupidity and the deceptions of per-
suasive but leering liars.
Business
By John.T. Flynn
Heavy Industry Spurt Due to Arms Spending, Not Private Investment
13.-—-News and trade notes in“heavy industries” are now boom, instead of the con the incessant prayer of the
economists has heen for the recovery of the “heavy” industries, this news is heralded as evidence that recovery is on its way at last The ceaseless discussion of the economic importance of what are called heavy industries leads to all sorts of confusion. It is widely supposed that the key to recovery in a capitalist economic system is the stimulation of heavy industries. Sometimes this is varied and we are told recovery depends on the “durable goods’ industries. And then we are told by others that it rests upon reindustries. But the terms are un-
EW YORK, Sept form that the enjoying something of a industries. Since
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All mean the same thing fortunate, since they lead to misconceptions. Thus automobiles are classed as heavy goods, and hence when the automobile industry booms it is called a recovery in a heavy industry. The phrase “durable leads to the same error. A watch is durable goods—lasting a lifetime. An automobile is called “durable goods.” None of these terms describes accurately the true economic value which economists have in mind when they talk about the ecssentials of recovery. The term that comes nearest to the truth is “capital goods.” But the most accurate term is “investment goods.”
un n n EOPLE'S incomes are used by them in two ways Part of the income is spent—that is, it is paid out for current necessities or luxuries or consumption goods, goods which they buy to use themselves and from which they do not expect to get any return. Part of these incomes is set aside for savings. This They in a tin box, or behind the clock, or in bank or a savings bank. When they
this the savings are not spent-—do not get into hands for spending on consumption goods--until the saver or his bank “invests” the money. That is, until the saver or his agent puts the money into a business—a shop, store, utility or some sort of building—or lends it to someone to invest. Investment, therefore, becomes a force which
may put 1t
| draws money out of idle savings into employed sav=
Therefore investment is absolutely essential to the stimulation of life in the capitalist money economy. The “goods” therefore that are important in effecting this return of savings to the stream of spending are called investment goods. They are frequently “heavy” goods—building materials, machinery, railroad equipment, etc. While investment goods may be and usually are heavy goods, all heavy goods are far from being investment goods. And the automobile industry, for this reason, produces “investment” goods only to the extent that it produces the equipment of business enterprises. Many heavy industries are now being stimulated, but not by investment and above all not by private investment, but merely by Government, spending on war materials.
Golden Silence
RINTING The Congressional Record costs the taxpayers about $50 a page Recently many pages have been filled with political material having nothing to do with business before Congress, and The
of Congress who put such material into The Record. | and the approximate expense thus incurred. On Monday, Sept. 9, no purely political speeches, articles or editorials weé¥e printed in The Record at the taxpayers’ expense,
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES | The Teamsters Look Over a ‘Draft’ Horse!
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 1940
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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.
long and |
DISPUTES GALLUP "POLL ON DRAFT
By Jasper Douglas \ To : these columns, religious con { It will be the beginning of the| . 3 end democracy the U. 8. A.| troversies when our misrepresentatives pass | (the bill for forceful registration for | the selective draft for war. It is the belief of the writer that the Gallup Poll is as crooked as a lambs hind] leg. The vote is taken, by Gallup's | own acknowledgment of a careful selected group and when he pro-! claims that a large majority of the people are for the selective draft it is very plain that his selected group is composed of those he wanted to select From my own talks with many old and voung voters, IT am convinced that 80 per cent are opposed to such Hitlerization of oul beloved land of liberty. ...
(Times readers are invited
to express their views in
wel Nal of in excluded. Make
your letters short, so all can
have a chance. Letters must
be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)
refreshhis political
that Wendell Willkie's is the Keystone and his chief
mit mg courage popularity asset Willkie's off the to be President
Of
and hat
statement, both on that he didn’t but shat he did have to keep his beliefs straight, recall an historical precedent. Henry Clay lonece said in the Senate: “I would {rather be right than President, land it is my guess that Henry Clay [for that simple, direct statement alone, will live in the memories of the people long after some of ow t00 presidents are but names in dusty the | arehives.
record,
” ” ” WILLKIE CAMPAIGN TOO PICTURESQUE, IS CLAIM {By E, | There is just something picturesque, too, too good in [sight Wendell Willkie presents: An "y Ww Ww erstwhile utilities magnate of Wall ASSAILS THOUGHT OF
Street, squats in the backyard of his p ARNCy Bed wg mother-in-law's Indiana home. Why AN AMERICAN EMPIRE XK. B
didn’t he conduct his eampaign from 1is New York apartment? There all | W ave ee C 1g TONY | would h been nothing wrong in begins to clear out of the secrecy of Mr. Roosevelt and his
that. What has he got to hide? It's all too, too sentimental for words WS greeting card ron Wore helpers, If we are prepared by the 3 SH "time this war ends we can steal the victory! Become the mistress of
trying to build up around himself, Float our flag on lands that
| While the epic poetry of Roosevelt {goes marching on! | . |" No, I'm not on the WPA, and I'm Britain owned! Tn other words be a not a Government worker. Just one | Great Empire. Is that what the of your thousands of readers whose British spokesmen meant when they : said, “Our affairs will be fixed up from now on,” “a common citizen
| opinion vou don't reflect. ship” with the British in future?
Germany will be flat and couldn't prevent it no matter what the war's (outcome. I don't
Gant
By F What about
the fuss and furor i=
|seas!
yy WB Ww PAYS TRIBUTE TO WILLKIE'S COURAGE
| By ‘Creole Braadicy want to see the blood of
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for M
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vote
” ” ” STILL DOUBTFUL, ABOUT CLEVELAND'S MAJORITIES By Still Doubtful Braddick Cleveland
Claude that {he
anda
Sometime ago
made the statement
majority of populal
1884, 1888 1892 1 tioned the accuracy of his stateand he replied that any good refer hook would show that his tatement was correct. I would like Braddick to kindly furnish official information that he wa In ‘his statement My hook gives Cleveland 48.9 pet in 1884, 48.7 per cent in 1888 and 46 per cent in 1892,
received a in que
ment
once
the correct reference
cent
¥ % % RESENTS CRITICISM OF ELECTED OFFICIALS
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| to us
| | communities,
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By A Reader It ha American slush
papers but the rest as well
been my
reac
privilege as the not only in you
to all
political and criticism everyone fs
It seems as though
teriticizing the Government and still
seems
the majority of the people have gone to the polls on election day to pul these men at the head of our Government Therefore, why not let these men run the Government to the best of their ability, without ail this eriticism until the next election then if we are all dissatisfied shall have {he opportunity of doing something about, it. The job at hand is selective servfor the United States Army, Ar long as that is the job, why not let 1s do it and be done: then when our objective is to totalitarian then only,
day;
wie
ice
be the annihilation of government—then, ani will we as a poeple be
| Most candidates for office are 50 lone human life spent to make the able to do something constructive
[schooled in the tactics of evasion,|U. 8. a Great Empire. And I bevacillation, and general political lieve the people west of the Al{ecowardice, that they entirely over-|leghanies feel the same way, “Live [100k the vote-getting value of sheeriand let live.” has been our I political courage. In the Fifth Dis=-|Let's stick by it! (trict, for instance, both congres- 1 admire the attitude of Mr. John [sional candidates are so disgustingly | W. Boehne Jr. Mr. Minton has (steeped in such tactics that it) never been anything but a robot, scarcely seems worth while to sup-| Push the button and what a tongue port or oppose either. Yet I sub-|lashing! What would make a better
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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COPR. 1940 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC. U. 8
"We should have tipped™hat new man off that this is the boss’ day to take a crack at everybody in the office!"
motto. |
about the economic situation. . , ” ” ” WARNS OF PERIL IN BITTER PARTISANSHIP By W. H Edwards, Spencer, Ind,
According to what we read, many people fail to recognize the Hitler propaganda in the papers,
| that writers in the Forum or in the [letter columns of various newspaper:
lagainst [ country
| polities
know that they are spreading a carefully prepared propaganda orig inating in Germany when they rail selective training in this mn
Bitter partisan politics was 1 doubtedly one of the weakening influences in France. Partisan politics should have no place in national defense, vet we find man: members of our Congress in both houses so intent on purely partisan that they would seriously hamper national defense in order to put Roosevelt in the hole. Tt is m; opinion that many Congressmen who are playing party politics with
national defense are going to be re-| tired by the electorate in Novem-
ber.
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THE RICH BOY By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING
His news sack on his back, And near behind him was dog At close range on his track, Although the rain came down in sheets And clouds were dull and gray, He minded not the weather But whistled loud and gay. Only pennies in his purse And very poorly elad— Yet in his health and happiness This lad a kingdom had,
his
DAILY THOUGHT Watch ve and pray, lest ve enter into temptation. The spirit truly fs ready, but the flesh is weak. Mark 14:38
HUMAN LIFE is a constant want, #nd ought to be a constant prayer. —8. Osgood.
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I thnoueht
accomplished and that]
Gen. Johnson Says=
Excess Profits Tax ls So Drawn It May Destroy Small Firms Just Beginning to Get on Their Feet
ASHINGTON, Sept. 13-The Federal excess profits tax as it mw likely to pass, is a monstrosity. Tt might well be entitled “a bill to prevent new enterprise and destroy small businesses.” I know a company that was organized in 1028 with a capital of about $3.000000 just, in time to get the full effeet, of the 1029 avalanche and what eame after, It was to make a completely new product, ‘The long, lean years ate much of its capital away 1ts stockholders have never had a cent out of it, But they stuck and it struggled miraculously and lived, Two vears ago it began to click as a result of a long hopeless struggle for sales and improvement of product Under this tax bill it will be taxed up to 40 per cent on ifs excess earnings for ifs fiscal vear 1940 over the average of the preceding four vears, during which its earnings were slight or minus, plus a normal tax of approximately 20 per cent. That will take easily 33% per cent of its earnings. ” ” oy HIS company's business will gain nothing by the armament program. On will be hurt by that. Such a large from its meager quick assets will seriously embarrass
the contrary, it yearly eash outlay its operations and prevent any normal expansion of Its only chanee to recoup its years of perfect the original it was planned, and provide reasonable marsNow that chance
Its business losses, factory equipment on which gins of safety was out of earnings. will be impaired, if not destroyed. It gains nothing by its permissible alternative of choosing a basis of graduated tax on the ratio of earnings to invested eapital, because that capital haw heen so whittled away by its vears of losses that this ratio is necessarily high Stockholders whose investment has been sterils and declining for most of 12 vears and who had just begun to hope for some recovery, will have to abandon their hope and may begin to fear for the company’s survival This is just another case among thousands of similar ones that could be cited, Another class is that of recently organized service companies with small capital and no record of earning: This tax law will be a practical barrier to any progress or prospect. of success for them, HB BW LARGE and heavy capitalized company that haw good last, four years will be affected to no such murderous degrees deed, in view of this terrific load in new or small competing industry, such a company could well afford both price and profit. to keep its earnings helow “excess” at all and thus destroy and monopolize the business of all its small competitors, This tendency in this legislation is so blatant and 0 marked thal one is tempted to question whether it. is not, a deliberate attempt to Nazify all business driving it into great units and there by regulation other encroachment eonvert, it to Hitler's nasocialism or Mussolini's corporative state, No small business and the great middle class almost 100 per cent, against, this Administration Wha! this New Deal doesn't seem to understand is that strength for war depends upon a far stronger more efficient industry than we have ever had can't be accomplished if the first step is a taxation policy that practically destroys (he motive,
had reasonably returns for the
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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
T= horror of sudden death that mangles the tender bodies of the young is always brought homes in our own Such tragedies seem especially poighant when they touch those we know. Unhappily our minds too often are moved only hy events which affeet our own lives or those of persons in our immediate circle, Perhaps this is a wise provision of nature, If our imaginations were able to take in the tragedy of every stranger, and to feel his grief, we could not endure our emotions, Life would become unbearable, At the news that death has struck once more with swift and terrible suddenness, we are moved primarily by the waste of young lives sacrificed to speed and carelessness, And, as always, wa ourselves to do something about it, The of other fathers and mothers, our friends it standing over the caskets of their children, watching their life's hope being lowered into tos parly graves, reminds us that we may be the next ones ealled upon to bear the unbearable, And fathers and mothers, we seem to takes quite calmly to the notion that we should be alert about the business of war, We accept, as compatible with our ideals, the manufacture and sale of instriu« ments of destruction, even though we know they will
when automobile accidents occur
promise
may be
still, as
| pe used to mangle the bodies of other people's chil-
| dren
| traffic
1 doubt |
| of
| niques, I saw him trudging down the street,
Yet automobile smash-ups are not comparable in sheer awfulness to the wounds made by shrapnel or the disfigurements wrought by bombs, Surely we will be asked to answer to God for this Surely we cannot hope to escape the wrath, if not of Divinity, then of cold, hard logic, when we,
| weening for our own slain ehi'dren, lend our aid and
encouragement to the siaughter of other innocents For, it seems to me, quite the most dreadful thing ahout war is not that it kills the bodies of our hovs but that it teaches them to kill and to accept murder as a part of their design for living,
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
T= Romans gave us ancient Greeks had
for 1, but sinus diseage, Coertalp ac counts written by Hippocrates, the Greek physician the Yifth B.C, known as tha Father of Medicine, show pretty clearly, according te one modern medical authority, that some of his Greek
the word the
Century who is
patients had sinus trouble, The early Romans probably had it, too. They ara not likely to have called it sinus trouble, however, in spite of the fact that the word sinus comes from the Latin word for “cavity.” The trouble did not acquire its modern name until seientists had developed techsuch as X-rays, for examining the sinuses and discovering a diseased condition in them. Our ancestors, recent and remote, probably ealled their sinus trouble by such general names as heuralgio colds, eatarrh, abscess, and migrane, Just as the chronic sinus sufferer longs for the discovery of a quick, sure cure for his ailment, se those of us who have not had the affliction, or who have recovered from an acute bout of sinus trouble, long for a sure means of preventing it, To prevent an attack of sinus trouble, the first thing to do is to avoid its common cause, the common head cold. Not an easy job, unfortunately, but many | things may be done that will at least make head colds | less frequent, Keeping yourself in good health and thereby raising your resistance to disease of any kind ts naturally important, This means getting enough
| rest, following a good diet, taking regular exercise and | avoiding chilling,
Fresh air at all times is, of course, highly desirable, but cold draughts are hot, The old idea that a eold room n arily contains fresh air and a warm room
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necessarily contains bad air has been relegated to the h