Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1940 — Page 12

TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Plant Commandeering Section of Draft Bill an Example of Politics At Its Worst and Should Be Revised

ASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The conscription bill 18 a law and it 1s high time. But because of thes last-minute rush and the sheer politics and demagoge ery of part of the debate, a perfectly unworkable, une constitutional and almost unintelligible provision was

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Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Apparently the New Deal Is Seeking Another Mandate Through Which Minorities Will Be Shorn of Rights

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‘EW YORK, Sept. 17.—As I look at it, this Presidential election 1s one of those crossroads of destiny that the cartoonists draw. with George Spelvin, the average American, depicted as a puzzled little guy with question marks shooting out of his hat. Only this time I think we really are at the cross-roads and that

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940

WILLKIE ON TOUR

N the long campaign trip he is

now starting, and

throughout the seven weeks before election day, we hope Wendell Willkie will seize every opportunity to develop in specific detail the theme upon which he dwelt broaily

at Coffeyville yesterday.

The essence of that theme is that big government—

more bureaucracy, more centralized

power, more ‘papa

fix"—is not the way by which democracy, of the people,

by the people, for the people, can be saved.

The people know that dangerous public power have been built up in

new instruments of

Washington. They

have the evidence of a bureaucracy so expanded that, for the first time in history, there are more than a million

persons on the Government's civil payroll.

word of President Roosevelt, who has the hands of political puppets of an such powers would provide shackles the people . . But whereas Mr. has power, in his hands, is wholesome and charges that the President has taken

Roosevelt

They have the told them that “in eccnomic autarchy for the liberties oi

insisted that this proper, Mr, Willkie this power into his

hands because he has lost faith in the American people.

Concentration of power, said Mr. Will

kie. “is always, and

it must always be, the beginning of the end of democracy.”

We hope Mr. Willkie will proceed charge and to buttress it with evidence.

to document his We hope he will

show how, step by step, the doctrine which holds that there are no more frontiers—that government must do for the

people what it believes the people ca

n no longer do for

themselves—has resulted in a centralization of power which

1s unsafe in any hands. This, Mr. Willkie seems convinced, of the campaign. We agree with him.

is the primary issue For that doctrine,

followed to its ultimate, will sap all strength from private

enterprise and leave nothing but the

shell of what Mr.

Willkie described as the most productive economic system

ever devised.

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Though many have said that Mr.

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Willkie as a cam-

paigner is a ‘natural’ when he is extemporaneous, we

prefer the set speeches of Elwood and barnstorming of last week.

When one 1s “shooting from the hip” miss more often than when he takes aim. temptation to wisecrack and overstate.

criticising Mr. Roosevelt for his part peasement, Mr. Willkie sentative later explained. But people of their Presidential candidates as indul ologyv. explains the need for one.

Having to backtrack is not so good.

of Coffeyville to the

he 1s bound to There is always For example, in in the Munich ap-

“misspoke,” as his press repre-

don’t want to think gers in loose phraseNo explanation

The rough and tumble technique is always interesting

but not always the most effective. whooping it up at the rear end of the is strong to accuse your opponent of thi thought you wouldn't put in exactly way Mr. Willkie presented the appe

hen the crowds ave train, the tendency ngs which on secend those words, The asement indictment

was inspired, no doubt, by Mr. Wallace's charges that Mr,

Willkie was Hitler's white hope. lace isn’t coming back at the champ.

But coming back at Wal-

Pretty soon vou get off the sidewalk into the gutter.

And there vou find “old Ick” and the r

political crew, including the bouncers. He's sitting serene, on his dignity, back in Then you're likely to get mad

isn’t there. Hyde Park, or somewhere. —and accuse the champ of being to weevil, the flu and the drought. An

definitely on the lower level—the level where men who |

est of the roistering But the champ

blame for the boil d vou find vourself

aspire to the nation’s highest office don’t belong.

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We advise Mr. Willkie to deal wi in prepared speeches; to develop the

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th the major issues unified

which he has material, world without end: the theme which

dominated his Elwood and his Coffeyv

ille addresses,

ATROCITY PROPAGANDA

N sending to the United States pictures of churches.

hospitals,

schools and humble homes bombed

by the

enemy, both Britain and Germany try to stress the bru-

tality of the other. It is useless. Everybody knows about aerial warfare:

1. No bomber, British or German,

by now this much

1s stupid enough to

waste bombs on targets like those if he can help it. 2. The plain fact is that air bombing is not accurate enough for any bomber to be sure what he will hit when he

pulls the lever. munitions dump, but the worker's Methodist Church gets the bomb. Atrocity propaganda. when the blind and inevitable result of the k

He may aim with clear conscious for the

home or the First

“atrocities” are the ind of war that is

waged today, is not geing to get anybody anywhere.

THE SLOW COUNT

HOSE primary returns which came limping in from

remote New Mexico precincts two

days after the polls

theme for |

t which was taking the bulk of that trade.

down yonder way, beyond a stretch bordered by social and political ice cream trees and dandy houses as far as the first bend, the road hooks off to a strange and ugly iand with mountains of debt ped te the sky. like those ele-phant-colored rockies in the West, and nothing but tin shacks in the valleys which are bare and deeply shadowed by the range. Remembering how arrogantly * ; the humble, hand-washing bhleeding hearts of the New Deal spoke of their “mandate” after 1936. interpreting the election returns as popular permission te lead the Supreme Court with political ringers and repudiate the rights of minorities and property. 1 apprehend that thev will trv to finish the 0b 1f they are given four years more. The people were not quite softened up for it this term, but they are head-weary now and. given four veais more, the New Deal would really bang things around.

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OU don't hear so much about it now because it would be bad propaganda toward election time, but two years ago there was a lot of talk from over there on the Left about the people's right to change their form of Government any time. I think this talk would be revived soon after election if Mr. Roosevelt were returned to office with another of those “mandates” and that this time they would claim to have instructions from the people to make some change. They used to say they were just trying to make democracy work and I now take them at their word. but now I better understand what they mean by ‘democracy.” Most of us think it means freedom. but they have a mental reservation and thev take advantage of the rarelessness of aur thinking. When they say democracy’ they have in mind the right of a majority to abrogate the rights of the minority and even to vote away its own rights by conferring a “mandate” or some ambiguous approval on a group who will then read false meanings amounting. in their view, to a “mandate.” I don’t trust tricky people and there is no denving that this Administration. from the President down, has heen tricky all the way. I think one explanation of Wendell Willkie's ineffectiveness as a campaigner up to date. has been his adherence to the old rules of controversy. He has been plaving Chamberlain Mr. Roosevelt's Hitler and we all remember that Hitler made a terrible bum of Chamberlain by smarting the naive old man. n

HERE are a lot of crooks in the Social-Demaocratie lineup now who think they are playing smart politics in throwing their gang strength to Mr. Roosevelt. but the greater their suceess the sorrier thev will be in the long run. After election and for as long a time as he might .need them Mr. Roosevelt would let them be, because a man with a “mandate” alwavs has need of thieves, roughnecks and other incorrigibles to do his dirty work while he is organizing his own strength. But, thanks in part to their own resourceful knavery, these hoodlum political leaders find

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| themselves in the power nf the Administration after

election and the Department of Justice would be able to mash them as vou would step on a bug. The Department of Justice never was as political ag it is today but, given a “mandate.” it would grow more so. In this campaign we hear nothing of any zurprises which the New Deal expects to break out after election if Mr. Roosevelt 1s returned They never have revealed their surprises in eampaign time. They zet their “mandate” first and then reveal what they have in mind

Business By John T. Flvnn

War Has Boosted Our Exports, But 50%, of Trade Goes to Great Britain

EW YORK, Sept. 17 —After a vear of war we ean now begin to see what effect the war has been having on certain sections of our business. For one thing, it has had about the effect on foreign trade that might have been expected. No sooner were the guns pounding when the amount of exports abroad increased. The increase was not so very much, but it. was quite obvious. In fact the crease began before the first guns were fired. The furious preparations for the war made their effects felt here. For instance, for two months before the war started our sales abroad showed increases of 10 million dollars or more a menth over the preceding vear. But with the first monta of the war our sales increased $44.000.000 over the preec~ding vear. By December that increase was more than a hundred million For this year here is a table which shews how much we have profited on foreign sales by the war. The figures give the increase over the same month of the preceding year: January February

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verses. 5156,000,000 ++ 130,000,000 90,000,009 90,000,000 80,000,000 114.000,000 117,000,000

For the year as a whole we shall very likelv see a

tidy increaze of about a billion dollars or foreign sales, due to the war. » » LA: vear up to the end of July we had a trade balance in our favor of $334.000 000. This vear in the same months we have a trade balance of $333.-

more in

000.000 in our favor, which seems to point to 2 pos- | sible trade balance, assuming rhe war continues. of | This tidy sum may be added |

around $£1.400.000.000

to the total of our Government spendings as one

of the stimulating agencies for creating more business. |

Whether this is good trade or bad trade. whether

the long run effect will be good or bad remains to be !

seen. Our trade with large parts of the world has been almost wiped out. In July it was Great Britain It was war trade. - Out of every hundred dollars of goods we sold abroad, $60 of it went to Britain.

drawn from the rest of the world and concentrated in a single customer. On the other hand the war has injured the market for German and British and other traders in South America. South America 1s taking 20 per cent of our total exports.’ Thus Britain and South America are taking $80 out of every hundred from us.

and both these huge figures are the product of the

war.

Our problem on that front therefore i: to study

the markets of the world when the world is again at peace and there are again markets and devise ways

in which we can recover the trade we lost when the war trade ends.

Words of Gold

RINTING The Congressional Record costs the tax-

into the returns, |

out- |

It is not, of course, | wholesome to have so large a part of it thus with- |

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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,

REPORTS HARD TIME OBTAINING RELIEF By A Reader of The Times I hear much talk of too man: on relief and on the WPA rolls. I worked a number of years driving a truek for a firm in the city but through depression was forced on relief Through no fault of mv own I was dismissed from WPA to cut the quota, with a wife and four children to support Since then I have been driving {about 35 miles a day to work on a farm; got about 2 davs a week. which 1s not enough to pay my expenses on the home we are buying. let alone buy groceries. If I get help from the trustee, 1 {must turn my license plates in which would mean the children would soon he without a place to stay as it 1s the only wav I have getting anv work at all. I wonder what, is to hecome of us who can't find employment because of our age if they keep cutting off the WPA workers, ” DISPUTES FIGURES IN GALLUP FORECAST

By Warren A, Benedict Jr, On Page one of your Sept. 10 1ssue vou state that the Republican average in the Maine election was 623 per cent. and that the Gallup Poll. published the day previously, had forecast a 62 per cent majority. Farther down, you state that the Republican candidates for Governor and Senator received 64 and 39 per cent. respectively, of the votes cast. (Actually. the percentages are a fraction less, but never mind that). But in the Sept. 9 issue I find the Gallup Poll actually predicting 68 and 62 per cent, respectively, of the votes for these two candidates. Actually, the poll erred a fraction lover 4 per cent on the Governor, |and a trifle over three on the Sen{ator—both in favor of the Republican side. It is also to be noted that sarae poll states Willkie is the choice of 59 per cent of the Maine voters, representing a five-point {drop in the past fortnight, A corresponding three or [our point error in the results of vour last Gallup Poll would show Roosevelt with a safe majority of the electoral vote. That. the fact the Democratic campaign iz just start-

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ing. and that Willkie has already begun to lose in popularity. probably help account for the fact the betting odds are 9 to 3 now In favor of Roosevelt,

» " CONDEMNS USE OF FUR FOR FASHIONS ONLY

Adele Storck Well, the (fall women in full day we notice that fur is featured lin strange, new fashions. We had once assumed that fur was used for {warmth but now we are convinced | that fur is worn for fashion. Not {only are fur coats on the “must” list. but now come fur hats: and we are told that we are smart if we wear fur on our handbags, our pockets and our peplums All this silliness — and not one word of the creatures that provide these gadgets: the creatures that lie in steel traps for untold hours, suffering hunger, thirst, cold and torture, that Milady may tip a fur toque over an eve that could not endure the sight of the original source. We hope the day will come when women will demand fur that is advertised as taken on the hoof, from fur farms, seal, or humanely trapped.

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# » URGES NYA HELP FOR NEGRO YOUTH

By Michael Stuart

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An organization such as the National Youth Administration can do much good or much harm. It.all depends on how it run and who runs it, When it was organized in 1935. we heard a lot of high sounding platitudes about equality, malice towards none, charity for all, no discrimination, and many other

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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jcatch phrases. But now after four jvears, we see that such soothing | [principles no longer soothe or de- | |lude. The question of equal and | {adequate provisions for colored |vouth still remains, . . { If the National Youth Adminis[tration is to practice the same dis{eriminatory practices commonly | found in industry, then NYA a [failure and a waste of public funds. | As such it does not deserve the supt of either white or colored voters. . The 60.000 Negroes in Marion County are equally entitled to the benefits of our Government, for thev, too, are American citizens whether we like it or not,

| * = CHARGES NEW DEAL

LAWS LACK JUSTICE

Ry J. B. P. Why talk about the United States, the Democratic Party or the U. S. Government-—when all these things are dated, Ever since the advent of Roosevelt what we've actually had is the Roosevelt Playhouse, the New Deal Party and the Roosevelt Racket headed by an unscrupulous bunch of political, legal tricksters with a large portion of green college kids, who don’t know, what it's all about. . . . Their one purpose has been make the country safe for thems selves. They have passed freak, half-baked laws that hit the good and left. the bad, They have passed laws that broke the law—and used the finest body of law enforcers on | earth to enforce them-——and left a string of decent, broken vietims in its trail. There is little or no actual justice in New Deal laws. No Government is any better than the men who run it and although this gang has been paid by the peo[ple to protect the people they have used the people's money to ham-| string the people and force them to knuckle down to a double-jointed tax system that will ruin them. It has been tax, tax, tax, with little {oi nothing of real value to show for it. and it has gotten so rotten that even the decent Democrats have been forced to turn Republican in order to save their country and their] face, | » BRANDS WAR SCARE POLITICAL MANEUVER

Br Bruce R. McFadden | How long are we going to sit idly {bv and let our dear President and | his associates spread this hooey! about this country being in imminent peril of invasion by Hitler? How long are we going to permit our | Congressmen to draft us into! military service while they concoct the ways of spreading war propaganda to talk us into another war abroad? | I would like for someone to explain to me how the great Hitler can be a serious threat to this nation, located some 3000 miles away, when he apparently cannot do anv material damage to England, whose shores lie but a scant 23 miles from the mainland, If our President, under the guise of national defense, can transfer title of 30 destroyers of our navv to England, what is to prevent him from selling the whole fleet and the Capitol building for good measure. .

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INTIMATION By MARY WARD Even in fall the turning hedge

Holds colors of the spring And to the garden's very edge

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Jimmied into it—the provision re=lating to compulsory orders and, in the alternative or in addition, the condemnation of plants, It provides that either the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy may place an order with a manufacturer at a price fixed hy the Secretary If the manuface turer doesn't proceed to fill it ak that price and give it priority over all other orders. it shall be deemed a felony punishable by three vears imprisonment and a fine up to $50.000. Also. in case of a failure not onlv to take but to fill the order, the plant may be seized and operated by the Government As this column has repeatedly urged, the Governe ment must have a power to commandeer not only manufacturing plants but alsa supplies, warehouses, wharves, roads, docks, ships and even railroads. The present. provision applies only to compulsory orders

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HE need of such a law for this purpose is the rare exception rather than the rule. The need for commandeering power in the much wider field just mentioned is very frequent. I am aware of no ex=perienced authority who contests the granting of such a power to the President when properly defined. For the reason of its almost total insufficiency as just ex=plained, the provision is not properly defined. There is another reason. Under our Constitution private property mayv not be taken for public use withe out just compensation, In World War commandeer= ing. when the Government wanted, for example, a warehouse mstantly, it offered to buy ar rent it and named a price. There was a “commandeering section’ of experts on value in the War Industries Board, If they eonld not reach an agreement on price with ths owner, they paid him what they were willing tn pay and took the property, He could then sue the United States in the Court of Claims for the difference bee {ween the price asked and the price paid, These provisions worked smoothly and well. Frequently the commandeering process was welcomed by the owner as a quick and just way to a conclusion on price But this law makes no such provision for determineing “just compensation.” A manufacturer must accept an order at a price which the buyer says 1s fair—or Worse still, this hi-jacking applies to orders to manufacturs new and complex products in which the owner rarely

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terials for his product, but

the parts and ma= he has no power tn

| hold this gun at his suppliers’ head and say "sell at

my price or go to jail.” The secretaries are under a

{ rigici dutv of economv—to get the lowest price possible.

They can't he just judges of fair price. The provision as written, is reckless tyranny and utter disregard of the Constitution. The dehate shows clearly that this monstrous thing was crowded in for political campaign purposes tn defame and whip American industry bv slurring its patriotism, What our defense program needs is leads ership of our industry It ean be led to anv accoms plishment, It can't be hooted or lashed to anything any more than can American labor, If more failure and delay in defense avoided, (his provision should be made once,

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A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

OT once but hundreds of times I've heard the remark that German women were stupid to lend

| themselves to the will of the war group.

“Look at them now,” we gav. ‘See what they've lost! See how they suffer! How humiliated and persecuted they are!” All women are stupid when they submit themselves to the power of those who promote war in a peace= ful land. And none will be so stupid as Americans who, having more liberties than others, stand to lose more than others, if we too take the war road And can it be denied that our [eet are pointed toward that road? Iz it not plain that our minds ars being twisted to a war psvchosiz? Aid for Britain was the beginning, nor will the movement end there unless some unexpected happening changes European events. Already some people in the East advocate a quick declaration of war against Germany. Several members of the Senate have said boldly thak we should renounce the most sacred rights of de-mocracy--free speech and a free press—in order to guard against the dictators. Ominous things happen every day, showing how swiftly the people of this nation are moving in the way they do not really wish to go. Some force is at work-—and in my opinion it is a sinister force-—which in the name of national defensa asks us to give up all those things which most need defending, Without questioning the sincerity of certain pers sons who have set their faces toward participation in European wai, I believe we shall fail in our patriotia duty if we who think otherwise do not assert our opinions and hold fast to those principles in which we believe, It 15s especially frightening te me to see how many women, who previously announced themselves unalter« ably opposed to another overseas venture, are now changing their tune. And more terrible still are the mutterings of those who say, “All who oppose these military measures are Communist or Naz agents.” What can the honest citizen. who sees in foreign entanglements the end of our cherished way of life, da against such loathesome tactics? Are American women going to be dopes, too?

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

HEN an-automobile accident occurs, the manner in which the injured persons are handled and what is done for them during the first half hour after the accident may make all the difference he tween life and death for them, or at hest moderats or severe crippling, as a result of their injuries . Remember this if you are trying to help the vie. tims of such an accident. The chief jobs for firsh. aiders in such cases are to protect the accident vic. © tims from worse injuries than they have already suse tained and to send for experienced aid. that is, for a physician or an ambulance or both. It 1s much wiser, for example, to leave a man whan

| is unable to help himself in an overturned automo-

bile and await adequate help than extricate him without sufficient help, A person with an injured spine should be moved without bending his back or hips. He must be rolled in a blanket or picked up by at least three or four adults. Pain in the back and inability to sit up without much pain are signs of injury to the spine,

to attempt to

payers about $50 a page. Many pages, these days, The autumn sunbeams cling are filled with political material having nothing to do : with business before Congress. On Thursday, Sept. 12, the following members of Congress had printed in The Record the material described below, at a cost | to the taxpayers approximately as stated: Rep. Woodruff (R. Mich.), remarks critical of third ! terms. $28 Rep. Culkin (R. N. Y.), £00 Rep. Clevenger ial 833 Rep. Flannery (D. Pa), a speech before Young Democrats at Wilkes-Barre $130. Total cost to taxpayers, $281—3a second lieutenants base pay for alm®st two months,

Pain about the hips or below the waistline may be signs of severe injury and such a person also must be moved with utmost care, The person with an injured arm or shoulder can best protect it by holding the injured extremity himself, advises the Indiana State Medical Association, The person with a damaged knee or painful ankle should be allowed to get up and try to walk on the painful leg. Vomiting and paleness are signs of severe internal injury and the patient must be kept absolutely quiet, Remember that taking time to think what is best to do for an injured person, to get him a glass of water or a wet towel before trying to move him gives him a chance to regain strength lost in shock.

closed, to give spoilsman Senator Dennis Chavez a slender “victory,” suggest the possibility that some of the ballot boxes were “hatched” a little longer than the law should aliow.

With so much beauty shining out For all to know and see Does that not speak beyond a doubt Of immortality?

DAILY THOUGHT

God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.— II Samuel 22:33.

| GOD 1S A CIRCLE whose center is everywhere. and its circumference nowhere.~Empedocles,

Sk . an anti-Roosevelt speech, NOTE ON A FALL CUSTOM HE huddle in football 1s limited to 25 seconds this season, but the grandstand quarterbacks still have until | Monday morning. .

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