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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1940

WILLKIE GETS GOING

WITH the Gallup Poll showing his campaign on a tobo gan, it was high time for Wendell Willkie to get down to serious campaigning. |. And in his address at Los Angeles he did just that. It was his hardest-hitting and most effective speech since the nomination, and it was delivered with a force and clarity which many of Mr. Willkie’'s friends had believed impossible for him to master in radioc-presentation. What he said at Los Angeles carried punch and conviction. His theme was one on which he is especially qualified to speak. It dealt with the relationship of Government, business and employment+—with the forces which propel - private enterprise and create jobs, ‘and with the brakes which grind down opportunities and hopes. When Mr. Willkie talks of such things the people know that he knows whereof he speaks, for they know of his record as a businesspan who has put idle capital to work producing more services at lesser cost and spreading employment at higher wages. : : ” ” ” ” » ” “Ours is a dynamic system,” said Mr. Willkie. “It depends upon the constant development and growth of new business, new enterprise, new opportunities to work and to. produce. We cannot stand still bghind the guns of our battleships. In order to be strong we must grow. “All this is simple enough. All this is common sense. Then why is it that for years we have had idle money by the billions and idle men by the millions?” 1] He proceeded to tell why: Government policies that

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Aviation By Maj. Al Williams

To Be Learned by America in the Nazi Air Attack Against Britain

T is vital, patriotic business for every American to study and keep studying this Battle of Britain. In its every phase to date there is a frightfully clear lesson bearing directly on our own national defense program. : Our defenses were neglected during the fateful years while the rest of the world was re-arming. Now we are going to build up our defenses, and how they are built, and of what the finished job will be composed, is of vital importance. England built a gigantic sea power defense and neglected air power. England's leaders\ went down the’ billion line with her admirals—and our leaders are waddling down the same dead-end road. Unless things change, we will wind up with the same type : of top heavy Navy, poorly-mechan-ived Army and weak Air Force with which England started this war. Winston Churchill concluded from his study of the Spanish Civil War that “the airplane cannot seriously menacé the warship .. . does not constitute a grave threat to properly convoyed and properly equipped merchant shipping and air attack against trench lines and fortified strongholds is far less effective than artillery bombardment.”

” HAT is Mr. Churchill's own estimate of airpower versus the old army and navy. When I asseried that Neville Chamberlain was the only one in the old guard who had correctly evaluated airpower, I received .a storm of protests. Yet Mr. Chamberlain stalled at Munich for time to re-arm in the

air. His opponents yelled appeasement and killed him politically. Lord Beaverbreok also scoffed at airpower. “The bomber is a muchly over-advertised myth, the fantastic production of youthful and untrained minds,” he said. That same Lord Beaverbrook is today England's Minister for Aircraft Production. : Airmen have been crying for years that the only defense against air attack is—airplanes! Anti-air-craft gunfire has not stopped air raiders, and will not. Only the other day the anti-aircraft guns of London were firing blindly through low cloud levels against the dread bombers overhead: Some newspapers tagged this with the Hollywood headline, “curtain of steel.”

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penalize expansion and production. The shifting direction | of the New Deal and the ever-changing regulations, under which no businessman today can know what tomorrow's rules will be. Taxes levied for punitive purposes rather than for revenue. All of which drive capital out of preductive enterprises which make jobs, and into stagnant pools of tax-exempt securities. In the record of the last seven and one-half years there is evidence aplenty to convict the New Deal on all counts. To mention only one, consider the tax program—if it can

T was no “curtain of steel.” It was a frantic effort

in one night.

day and night, are dislocating the functions of community life. As to how far this dislocation has gone, news dispatches tell more than the censors intend them to convey. cold meals, sleepless nights spent by inhabitants in

be called a program. | First there was talk of abolishing the temporary sales | taxes. But the sales taxes were made permanent and more | burdensome. One year the Treasury savants decide that bigness in business is evil per se. So punishment is meted | out in a special tax against size. Next year, another group | “of New Dealers comes forward with fie theory that it is | evil for business, large or small, to plow back its earnings’ | in plant expansions. So a new punitive tax is devised against undistributed profits. > #

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= » # At the bezinning of this year the Administration. spokesmen were swearing by all that-is holy that there would be no new taxes. Yet today the second. revenue bill | of the session is before Congress, and it is so complex that |

the lawmakers who voted for it at the Treasury's behest N

admit they cannot understand it. against this year’s business operations, though the year is

already three-fourths gone. ’ Such policies do not bring prosperity to business, jobs | to the unemployed or revenue to the Treasury. Mr. Willkie has a story to tell. has started telling it. :

AFRAID, OR JUST TIRED? oop for thought and an invitation to philosophers in this, from a friend who sounds off on that illimitable subject of what's wrong with the world. It seems that somebody had accused American youth of being afraid. “They don’t know what they are afraid of, but they are afraid of something. They are afraid to | get married and have children. They are afraid to change | jobs. [They are afraid to take chances against the future.” To which our friend sharply dissents, as follows: «personally I*don’t think it is so much a case of being afraid, as it is that we are in the greatest era of ‘let George do it’ that this country, or the world, for that matter, has ever seen. This nation does not want to lose its freedom of speech, freedom of press, or its constitutional rights; it does not want to lose its high standard of living; it does ‘not want. to lose its way of life. The trouble is that everybody wants to preserve those things, but they want to turn the job of preserving over to somebody else so they can continue their private pursuits without annoyance. “The whole dictatorship movement is only the result of nations of tired people who don't want to think, who don’t want to assume responsibility, who are befuddled— and who are willing to make sacrifices of a certain kind if ‘George’ will look after things. = “Roosevelt's greatest strength as a President, amd as a candidate for a third term, lies in this national intellectual inertia which says ‘let Frank do it.” In private business gne man usually gets to the top and runs the business, not because he necessarily has any more brains or any more ability than anybody else, but because of that very natural inclination on the part of other people to ‘let George do it.” | Whenever you find a ‘George’ who is willing to do it, you see | a guy who winds up by running the show. “While self-preservation may be the first law of nature, jt has been said that the first impulse of man is to sit down. The willingness to ‘let George do it’ is a common and universal impulse among men; but in this country, as well as in all other countries of the world, that inclination on the part of the masses to give ‘George’ a proxy was never more widespread or intense than it is today.” What think?

PLEASE DON’T ‘INCLUDE US OUT’ : MAJ: CLEMENT ATTLEE, Lord Privy Seal in [the Churchill Cabinet, assured Parliament that when and if any plan is put forward for a union of Great Britain and the United States, the House of Commons will be given an opportunity to discuss the proposition. : Well, here’s hoping our own Congress will also be given

And it is to be levied |.

And we are glad he

-end of the economic hopper.

bomb shelters, fire fighting, communications severed, water and gas mains destroyed, and evacuation of the population imminent. One-third of England eats off the Thames docks— and those docks were set afire and their facilities dislocated. Important records of government have already been removed from London by order of the very men who built an army and navy and scoffed at airpower and air defense. These frightful happenings are burning lessons for this country.

Business By John T. Flvnn

Rise in Prices Inevitable as Long as!

Effort

EW YORK, Sept. 21.—Warnings about - high are coming from Washington. High prices have not yet registered very heavily in con-

Borrowing . Finances Arms

prices

| sumers’ goods, although there are spots where this

has happened. But they have already appeared In

the so-called heavy goods industries. They will appear more largely as the months roll by. This is inevitable. And already we begin to hear ‘talk of Gevernment measures to control prices. The moment you introduce Government control at one point the need for more Government control appears at, some other point. And so the series runs until it envelops everything. If we should go to war—and many begin to think we will, under the President's leadership— then, of course, it will be possible to put into effect rigid price controls. But it would be very difficult— indeed, impossible—to institute price controls in peacetime. . And even in war, price controls will be very inadequate in an economic system like ours. 3 The rise in prices stems from three forces. Fifst,

| it comes from the feeding of vast Government funds,

obtained by borrowing rather than taxation, into one These funds create income in the hands of millions who go to the stores with it calling for goods. Instantly, almost, this demand will send prices up. It is as. inevitable ag life itself. As long as we pay for this war effort with borrowed money this effect will come along logically. To stop it by price controls is almost impossible. We have but to witness the experience of England with all the drastic regimentation of war. When thousands of buyers are in the market for goods there is only one way to decide who shall get them," in our system, and that is by price increases: Then those with the most money will do the buying.

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for this only intensifies the scramble for thé goods. The only other way to do this is to set up a system of almost universal priorities. and rationing, which will be impossible here unless war is a fact and not a mere “hope.” The second factor from which price increases rise is the whole drift of our economy toward trade agreements—some secret, others not so secret. The third factor is that the Government itself, in spite of the fact that some of its officials resist price increases, is committed as a policy to price increases. The President once said, “If we cannot get them up one way we will do it another.” They are

the 1926 level.

When the purchasing power is there, and they can get the high prices, they will ask them. They do not realize the economic forces they set in motion. There is only one way to prevent all this, and that is to pay for this war effort out &f taxes.

Words of Gold

RINTING The Congressional Record costs the taxpayers about $50 a page. Many pages, in these campaign days, are filling with political material having nothing to do with business before Congress. On

gress put into The Record the material desc low at a cost approximately as stated:

Lucas (D. Ill), midwestern chairman of the DemoVisit to Chicago,” $30.

homa Democrat, headed, “Refuses to Support Third Term,” $24. : Senator Smathers (D. N. J.), newspaper article a “Roosevelt Gains, According to Gallup Poll,” $29. : Total cost to taxp

«a chance to discuss it—and that Congress will be on the job.

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salaries of thrée Senators for one day.

There Are Valuable Defense Lesson:

—a constant barrage of gunfire against an unseen enemy, sent up in the hope that he would wander | into. it—half a million shells fired wildly into the air |

As airmen have predicted, the pulse of London is slowing down under constant bombardment. Air raids, |

There are stories about restaurants serving-

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disagree with what you say, but will the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

| {CONTENDS DRAFT SPELLS END OF FREEDOM | By C. B. In reading over the compulsory military training bill, it is a quesftion in my mind whether tHe [trainees eligible under said bill are going to be used to protect our | country or used abroad on the, side jof the allies, or are they going to ‘be used by Mr. Roosevelt as the | black shirts were used by Hitler in Germany to force our people into dictatorship. I no longer see this country as a free country when such bills .as this are being forced on the people. I think that the people should have been given a chance to vote on this conscription bill, and because] they did not, they should protest such a bill. ] # 2 8 CLEARS UP MISSTATEMENT ON CLEVELAND'S VOTE | By Clande Braddick, Kokomo, Ind.

in some crowded Army camp, with the halls of the supreme legislative hodies in the world empty and unproductive? I, personally, am just 22, a perfect age for conscription. I am un-| married. . . If T am drafted, my! job will be none too secure. But,| above most ‘all things, I love America. And I can look back -over his-| tory, and remember the bloody and! brave sacrifices that our American]

pioneers endured for freedom. Thev |

: ; {won their battles, y 'e | SO | foo) ar towaing handress of 53 thot a diag bg miles, setting on sidings all over the gow i ; 3 United States, rusting out; and | puny 1s my sacrifice compared;

thousands of engines in “white with 4reirs pila | lead,” simply because there is no - business which calls for their use. | F EARS THIRD TERM Mr. Roosevelt has had almost eight MEANS WAR FOR U. 8. long years to put. these cars and By Edward ‘F. Maddox engines to work, but he has failed | in this, as he has failed in about| 10¢ 200d people of the United everything else he promised to do. |States don’t want war! The great Mr. Whitney, the National Presi- majority of Congressmen don’t want ! Joby, of 8 = 7 is nie man; war! But we have men in high ut his well: known affiliation as] ; : a Democrat and a, New Dealer made OMe Who. do: Want. war and ate

(Times readers are invited to express their .views these columns, religious conexcluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. be signed, but names will be

in | | troversies

Letters must

withheld on request.)

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| “Doubtful” is right in his contention that Grover Cleveland did not {receive a majority of the popular | ‘vote three times in succession. My! mistake of course was in using the (word “majority” instead of “plural-| ity.” With that substitution the | statement is quite correct. Encyclopedia Britannica states that Cleveland received a majority lof 23 thousand in 1884; a paper-thin | plurality in 1888 (the year he lost); rand 366 thousand more votes than jHartison in 1892. It is hard to {reconcile + these statements with {“Doubtful’s” percentage figures. The {minor party vote must have been very heavy indeed. | » ” ”

it. possible for him to, railroad the Pushing, pulling and intriguing us indorsement of Mr. Roosevelt into it as fast as they can. through the Indiana convention.| They are already asking for “war The rank and file of the B. R. T. powers.” Our honest Congressmen positively will not indorse Mr. who had the wisdom and courage! Roosevelt's years of failure, nor to oppose conscription, because they | indorse him for another term of regard it as a step toward war are | New Deal experimentation, as their accused of putting politics ahead | ballots on Nov. 5 undoubtedly will of patriotism. The “shouters” are | show. {shouting down any honest effort to avoid war madness and to try to slow down, head off and defeat those who certainly are leading us step by step into another and worse World War. iis We know, by experience, that truth and honesty have been laid

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” » ” YOUTH, 22, UPHOLDS ACTION ON DRAFT By P. C. L. I have a couple of bones to pick.

Pirst of ‘all, with regard to this |

aside and that statements about keeping us out of war are on a

Warren Benedict Jr, who was |

~| As the wife of a railroad man and

OU cannot make this decision by fixing prices, |

not yet at the point he indicated he was aiming at— -

It is idle to warn business men not to raise prices.

Wednesday, Sept. 18, the following members of Con- | ribed be- |

Senator Barkley (D. Ky.), statement by Senator | cratic National Committee, on “Wendell L. Willkie’s |

Senator Bridges (R. N. H., letter from an Okla- |

ayers, $83—enough to pay the

| l CHARGES RANK AND FILE OF |B. R. T. OPPOSE ROOSEVELT | By Mrs. Willard G. Gray

‘a member of the Golden Rule Lodge No. 25, Auxiliary to Brotherhood of {Railroad Trainmen, No. 261, I wish (to enter a protest against the impression created by the indorsement of President Roosevelt for a third term, by the Indiana convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train(men, in their recent convention at | F't, Wayne. . | The prominence given this reso- | lution by the press is entirely mis-

willing to have all Congressmen] Posy VOW ) enter conscription as buck privates of esire for a’ third term in office. if they dared pass the conscription AS an honest American citizen, a bill. Democrat who puts patriotism | Well, Junior, before you make any, Pefore party loyalty, I fear that more suggestions of that sort, per-| haps it would be well for you to consider the workings of democracy, °° BLY: svn and specifically just what our Con- 2 Hn |

do what they think is best. bias “ : Woudn't it be just perfect if our task for (quote) “insinuating that!

ship and the end of our American

|leading. The facts are, that these | men have for too many years, seen | |leng, tragically long lines of idle!

dignified, and responsible Congress- 2ny one that believed in the New men were seen hoofing it around Deal was a beady-eyed zealot” calls with broomsticks on their shoulders, for an answer. {

Side Glances—By

insinuating and if this be true why |

did you not charge that any one] { who believed in the New Deal was

. Mr. Trost accuses you of merely | Galbraith

COPR. 1940 BY MEX SERVICE, MC. T..

‘not only a beady-eyed, but a cockeyed zealot? i | As for our Fuehrer in the White | | House who has the old cerebrum | elephantiasis and Pig and plow ‘em (under Wallace, and the New Deal {inside cabinet of mental gymnasts I can only say “phooey.” My advice to you, Mr. Trost, is to read Westbrook Pegler's column directly above your own reproduced letter. Did you read it? Catch on?

THE MIDDLE ROAD By OLIVE INEZ DOWNING

| The pathway of life is a stony road | With pitfalls on every side— {And the only course in this troubled world Is to walk with Christ as our guide.

The middle road with care we tread, Some parts are smooth and fair— While others are rough with the darkened vales | Enveloped in shrouds of despair.

| Accoutred with faith and the staff ! of hope, | We keep to the middle road— [Qusrame every step and treacherous urn

| Till we reach God's Great Abode.

DAILY THOUGHT

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were Soa yet shall he live.—Jphn 1:25,

"Would you kindly tell my waiter

the™tar-away sneer. * -

DEATH IS THE golden key that opens the palace of eternity.—

Mijton,

fo come over here—the one with

level with disavowals of any effort ';

| not’ see. | all baby again, the same coos, the same grin,

‘Watching Your Health

SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1940

Gen. Johnson Says—

Gullion and Hershey Are F. D. R's Choices to He And, If True, It's Good Ne

HICAGO, Sept. 21-—According to repprts, Judge . Advocate General Gullion is to direct the selec tive service draft and- Col. Lewis Hershey is to be his deputy. If this is true, no better chpices could have beén made. Gen. Gullion, head’ of the legal department of the Army, is a veteran of the World War draft. He knows every angle af its execution. There he worked first as head of its information and press relations sections. job he had fo be expert all the machinery of the draft and also in its bearing on fhe public. In the latter relation [the “whole ’ project will succeed or fail. In this country, a draft has to be “in no sense a conscription jof the unwilling but selected from a nation which has volunteered | in mass.” on that plane; it will fail. Gullion

If it can’t be kept

| is well equipped to keep it there."

Later he was in charge of the assi nment of quotas and the whole machinery for taking men trom their homes, transporting and delivering them to places where they were to serve. This was a very complex job and he did it perfectly. ” LL) VER since 1918, the Army has kept a si mittee of the General Staff studying conditions and adapting “the old plan to circumstances. ‘Col. Hershey for the: last has been in charge of that work. He k subject as well as anybody in the United § did not have actual experience in the W draft. The ‘combination of these two men is is the first time in selecting men.to work ou defense plans that this Government has who knew anything ahout their jobs. It he allergic to experience and prefers to repeating all the old blunders. That is case here. The change is so abrupt as to alm me doubt this news—especially since this was the first, if not the only one, to re Gen. Gullion. ; , I never realized until receiving some of recent mail and this present Western t bitter, resentful and widespread is the. oppd the draft—both of, the National Guard and of this selective service, The young men themselves are not saying much because it seems unpatriotic or not brave. But many of them are ing . and their families and friends are and talking.

n ; mall comchanging our new five years hows this tates who orld War

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the new ised men seems to. learn by not the ost make column commend

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learn g little, now they have to give up their j to others who ‘have learned nothing of arms] so the Guardsmen can learn moPR, Loss of jobs |is also the fear of those under the) selective syste out quite so strong a case. This is only one of many circumstances an

| opposition died. That result can be achieve | with expert handling. That was why the Presi

was so wise in choosing Gullion—if he did. gled draft alone could lick him in November,

A Woman's Viewpoint

By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ALK ahout “wine, women and song —all of together can’t compete with one lively bab: putting a kick into existence. Fortunate is the hold that is supplied with such an old-fashioned traption, for as®a joy creator it beats any gadget on

the market.

Somewhere in every

relative. : The world seems to be fia apart. You get cramps i heart thinking about it. news, automobile accidents,

a third term means war, dictator- |s'ecords, the political situation, combine to create a

hogeyman whose talons are at your throat. “Merciful Heaven!” you say to yourself, “What are we coming to?”

Then vou go see the baby. The result is like a

[shot in the.arm. You had forgotten how cunning he

really is. Dazzled by his wide toothless grin| his twinkling eves and the beat of- his hands in weldome, you get that funny all-gone feeling inside. He does his little tricks for you, and ‘stra enough they are as diverting as they were yesterday. Now and then he learns a new one, and no

-able child engaging in the same antics babies . been at since the world began,

Sometimes he is as sober as a judge, regarding surrounding scene with the aloofness of a philoso contemplating lunatics. You feel, that he ponders profound secrets.too deep for your understanding, He looks through you into space, to a universe you ¢anBut only for an instant. Then, presto, he’s the same twinkles ready for a romp. It is comforting to realize that here, within circle: of our arms, is the inspiration which has } men and women struggling, hoping, dreaming: dg the centuries.

the cept pwn

By Jane Stafford

ANKING third as a major cause of blindness in this country is an eye disease called glaucoma. It may attack people of any age, but is most common in those over 50 years. The condition is one in which the pressure of the fluid within the eyeball increases and the eyeball, instead of being elastic and ois oy becomes hard and tense. The only hope of controlling the disease and saving the eyesight lies in. early recognition and treatment-of glaucema, authorities agree.

“Hundreds of persons are now in total darkness as a result of ignorance of or lack of attention to early disturbances of visual function and to misinterpretation of the signs of illness until major damage to the eye has made maintenance of useful vision impossible,” declares Dr. W. L. Benedict of the Mayo Clinic. Both patients and family doctors must be on the alert for early signs of glaucoma, he warns. In one form of the disease, the first signs are likely to be headache, sometimes with a dull pain about the eye, nausea, vomiting, fever and chills. These symptoms are more likely to lead the patient to his family doctor than to an eye specialist, which is why the physician must be alert to the possibility of glaucoma, especially in his patients past middle age, Dr. Bene=~ dict explains. : The disease can be discovered before the sight is affected, but its early symptoms are often overlooked as transitory and. unimportant, warns another eye : specialist, Dr. Park Lewis, of Buffalo, SE