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100 DAYS
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ler invades Holland, Belgium, Luzembouny: 11— Germans blast Liege forts. 12—German armies reach the North Sea. 13—Germans pierce the French lines on 62-mile front. 19—Gen. Weygand supplants Gamelin as Allied chief. 21—Reynaud tells people France can’t die. - 22—British conscript labor and wealth for war. 25—Fifteen French generals out. 29—Allies abandon Flanders. 80—British retreat from Dunkerque.
June—
1—Paris bombed. Nazis prepare new army for drive on France. \ 4—Churchill pledges war until empire ends. 5—Nazis attack French on 120-mile front. 9—Norway’s army gives up. 10—Italy in war. Stab in the back, says Roosevelt. 11—British raid Libya; Italians bomb Malta; U, S. closes Mediterranean to our ships. 13—Reynaud asks U. S. for “clouds of planes.” 14—Germans occcupy Paris. Spain seizes Tangier. 15—Germans break through Maginot line. Italy opens drive on Nice. Russia seizes Lithuania. 16—Reynaud resigns, Petain becomes premier, 17—France asks peace. Hitler, Mussolini meet to set terms. 22—French sign German truce, then Rome pact. 23—French fleet demanded by Germans in armistice terms. France gives up west coast, half of country. 25—Italy occupies areas in France and Africa. 27—Rumania gives up Bessarabia to Russia. 28—Russija invades Rumania. 29—Gen. Balbo killed. 80—Chamberlain denounces peace) talk.
July—
3—British seize French warships. raids on Britain. 5—France ends relations with Britain. 6—British bomb French battleships. T—Scores slain as Mexico votes. 12—Nazis intensify air raids on Britain. 14—Churchill says British will fight even if London is in ashes. 15—Italians raid in Palestine. “pd 16—Burma Road closed. 20—British bomb German bases and cities. August— 1—Japanese announce new policy that would extend Japan’s domin&tion over French Indo-China and the Netherlands Indies. 19— British yield Somaliland to Italy. ” o ” : ? » So moves the troubled world—for 100 days. You bring the record up to date—to Sept. 24, 1940. And then consider that your Congress, which is tired and wants to go home, plans on going off the job. For how long? One hundred days.
Germans step up air
HERE'S YOUR HAT, CHIP 0SS FLYNN announces that L. W. (Chip) Robert has ‘resigned as Secretary of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Robert says he is quitting because his architectural firm, Robert & Co., is handling a great volume of “commercial contracts” and he will have to devote his full
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MARK FERREE.
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Fair Enough
By Westbrook Pegler
Reveals Part Played by Candidate For Prosecutor in Obtaining Pardons For 10 Men Convicted of Extortion
HICAGO, Sept. 24.—We here resume presentation of the evidence concerning the Hon Oscar F. Nelson, Judge of the Superior Court, no less, who is a candidate for County Prosecutor of the one community which, worse than any other in the land, is infested by racketeers. Judge Nelson, a Republican, runs with labor racketeers. In 1924 Judge Nelson, not yet elevated to the bench, went to Springfield, Ill, as a member of a delegation representing the Chicago Federation of Labor to intercede with Governor Len Small, an all-round disgrace to the American system of government, on behalf of 10 labor racketeers who had been convicted of extortion. These 10 were officials of the ‘Flat Janitors’ Union, an organization which began with honest intent and became a violent, lawless band of terror. By Judge Nelson's own word the business agent of the union had obtained authority to collect from employers the difference between the wages they
‘were deemed to have paid their janitors and the actual
union. scale and divide it among thmeselves. The union scale was $1 per month on each $15 due on the Some apartments
| represented enormous investments, and the rate of | 1-15th of the gross rentals in many cases was out-
rageous for the skills and duties involved. In smaller buildings the rate was fair.
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frecm the owners was not to be turned over to the union for the benefit of the victimized members.
'1t was the special legitimized graft of the business
agents who put through the resolution.
It was a raw graft collected by terrorism, and the Supreme Court of Illinois upheld the convictions on the appeals which were taken on points of law, the evidence being so convincing that there was nog further argument. Nevertheless; Oscar Nelson went to Springfield to
. join in the appeal to Governor Small, who pardoned
all 10 convicts before they could be taken to prison. * Later Judge Nelson moved in as counsel and temporarily as president of the flat janiters, and you may be interested to hear how he monkeyed with. the truth in the course of my conversations with him regarding his revenues from that employment. I asked him to state. the facts and be judged by them. Judge Nelson denied a current report that his law firm had ever received as much as $70,000 a year from the janitors. He said the amount was a little
| more than $10,000 a year.
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ATER I learned that Judge Nelson had admitted to two reliable witnesses that his law firm got $2
‘per head per quarter from the janitors, of whom
there were said to be 7000 to 8500 in good standing. So I telephoned to the honorable judge and asked him about the $2 per capita per quarter. ‘And what do you think he said? He admitted that the union had collected the $2
legal firm, that his firm “at times” got’ $30,000 a year from this source and that the highest figure had been $44,600 or $43,000 in one year. Moreover, his law firm, from which he claims to be temporarily divorced, ‘still has the account of the janitors’ union. The $2 per capita has been abolished, and the legal expenses come out of the union's general fund. But the honorable judge, though he still maintains a private office in the suite of the law firm, has so far detached himself from sordid finance that he does not know how much the janitors’ union’ is paying to his erstwhile partner in the next room.
Business By John T. Flvnn
Talk of Sacrifice Is Out, We Are to Have a Boom—on Borrowed Cash
EW YORK, Sept. 24.—We are now being promised a boom. For some months our people have been exhorted to put their shoulders to the wheel, to make sacrifices, to give, give, give, in order to save the country threatened by Hitler. But now, apparently, all the talk about sacrificing and giving turns out to be just a lot of talk. We are iiot to sacrifice. We are to enjoy new pleasures. We are to have a boom. And how? By the same means that Italy had a boom. By the same means that Germany built one. By that very same means by which we undertook to create a boom during the last seven years, but without so much success.
time to business. We don’t know about the “commercial” part, but Mr.
Robert has done quite well in the last few months negotiating millions of dollars worth of non-competitive national defense construction contracts. The company’s fees from such contracts are said to have been more than $900,000 in the last year. Under the circumstances, it seems barely possible that Messrs. Hopkins, Corcoran, Ickes, Hague, Kelly and Flyan decided that the new moral climate could do without Mr. Robert’s presence—at least until after
Nov. 5.
CITY MANAGER REPORT
HE ten-month research job carried out by the City Manager Study Commission has resulted in recommendations that should leave little doubt as to the soundest method for Indiana cities to adopt the manager plan. Heretofore, debate has centered around whether the state should empower cities to adopt the manager plan through legislative enactment or a constitutional anya ment. The commission indorsed the commenting as follows: “It was almost the unanimous opinion of those who appeared before the commission, or who gave the Commission the benefit of their counsel through written statements, that it would be advisable to amend the Constitution if cities and towns are to ke granted the power to choose their form of government. Aside from any question as to whether a statute could be drawn so as to meet the objections of the courts as voiced in the cases arising under the 1921 law, the point generally was made that an amendment would be more desirable because it would provide a more stable basis for municipal government.” We agree with that point of view if for no other reason than we doulit the ability of anyone to draft legislation that would not bé sabotaged by hostile politicians. As a result of this old hostility, Indiana ranks with Mississippi, Idaho and Rhode Island as the only states in the Union that do not permit the establishment of the city manager form of government. Although the constitutional amendment route is necesgarily the slower method, we agree that it is the sounder. We think the Commission is to be commended for its careful and thoughtfully considered recommendations. The amendment now in. Governor Townsend's hands should be an park) order of business in the forthcoming Legislature.
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We are to do it spending Government money. And we are to borrow it, as Italy, Germany and America in the last war and in this depression borrowed it—from the banks. Sane men were deploring this a few months ago. The same men are flirting with this fatal idea now. Back of it is the same old crackpot economics we heard two years ago. It runs thus: America must spend, and must spend borrowed funds. This wiil increase our income from: 70 to 90 -billions or more, Out of that increase we will tax and pay back what we borrowed. : The argument is almost childish. In 1933 our national income was only 45 billions. Then we began to borrow. The theory was that we would increase our income, and by taxes recover part of the increase to pay the borrowings. By 1937 we had, by spending borrowed money, increased our income to 70 billions—-an increase of $25;000,000,000.
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UT did we take any part of that increase in any year to pay back anything we borrowed? We not only did not. but we borrowed more. We had to continue borrowing to keep the income up. If we had stopped borrowing the recovery would have It did collapse when we eased off borrowing. Our income last year was around 70 billions. That is an average income for workers of $1500. Our Government expenditures were $215 each. Our taxes were only $132 each. Before we can stop borrowing and break even we would have to increase our taxes by $83 a year each. And if we increase our borrowing—as we now propose—by 12 or 15 billions in two years, it will mean that we would have to:increase our taxes by another $160 to $175 a year per capita worker, or from $132 to around $500 each. An increase of national income to 90 billions would merely mean an average income increase per worker of $400. So that we would have to take the bulk of the increase in income just to meet a single year’s increase in expenditures, without paying back any--thing. To pay back all that we have borrowed we would have to have crushing taxes over a long period, and we would have to have an uninterrupted boom rignt along, and it would have to be a natural boom, not a boom on borrowed: Government money. For if we continued borrowing we would obviously not be paying back the debt. It is all crazy-house economics.
So They Say=—
THERE IS NO reason why we should contemplate war as inevitable unless we ask for it.—Senator Vandenberg, Michigan. . » * I'D RATHER HAVE conscription and not need it, than not to have’ conscription and need it.—Senator Millard Tydings, Maryland.
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BEFORE SHEDDING tears for the hungry of wartorn. Europe, we should shed a few for the 9,000,000 undernourished children in the nation’s schools— Mio Perkins, president Federal Surplus Commodities ID.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS ~ Listen, Pal—We re Gettin’ Dizzy
GIMME JUST FOUR ‘MORE YEARS AN I'LL HAVE _\T FOR YOU!
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I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.
CHARGES NEW DEAL HARBORS RADICALS By Edward F. Maddox
Since I am an independent Democrat, who puts patriotism before party loyalty, I am the New Dealers’ forgotten man, along with Garner, John J. O'Connor, Jim Farley and millions of other Democrats who will not sell our American prins ciples for a mess of Red New Deal pottage. . . . I believe our greatest national defense need is to clear our Government of the dangerous left-wing element which is steering us toward war and world revolution. . . . It is high time to drive the political racketeers from the Temple of Democracy. . . .
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ADVISES WILLKIE STOP MAKING SPEECHES By Morris Epstein Speech is silver, silence is golden. This ancient adage comes to mind every time Willkie tries his hand at oratory. A glance at the latest Gallup Poll proves that the more willkie talks. the less chance he has for election. He still controls a few Midwestern states, and in order to continue his control of a few electoral votes, it would be best for him to stop making speeches. That's my tip to Willkie. * 2 8
INDORSES WILLKIE'S REMARKS ON EXPERTS
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‘By An American
Of all the clever and sound proAmerican remarks made by Mr. Willkie since his nomination, his best one has heen to Mr. Roosevelt to “let the experts attend to it.” . Mr. Roosevelt seems to think that he alone is qualified to attend to. anything . and everything in|O America. For example, he -announced that this country could and would defend the Western Hemisphere against all aggression. Now here is what an “expert,” Gen.
+ Johnson Hagood says on that sub-
ject: We are dreaming of plans to defend the world, or the Western Hemisphere, or the North American continent—undertakings for which no recognized military or
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naval authority will promise or predict any prospect of success. fantastic plans are beyond the wildest dreams of Napoleon or Caesar.” The “expert” in this instance is no doubt right as against the nonexpert, Roosevelt, though the latter, like those other two would-be dictators, may be having “the wildest dreams.” However, it isn't wild
dreams that our country needs.
right now. It's the sound opinions of the “experts.” So, as Mr. Willkie suggests, “let the experts attend to it.” ”
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CONDEMNS CAMPAIGN
AGAINST DR. CRUM By Rev. Daniel H. Carrick You can always tell when office business is getting bad for medical doctors, because they start in search
of some clue to fight other systems of healing. Last year when business was bad for the allopathic doctors, they started a smallpox scare and harassed the school children and parents, and forced vaccination upon innocent children which caused a great many children to lose their health permanently and a number of adults had bad cases of varioloid, and those who opposed these medical doctors were forced to take their children out of school and keep them out of school and miss their lessons until the doctors lifted the ban. Now, business is getting poor again, and the medical doctors have changed to the use of another kind
of club. Now; the “Better Business
Bureau” is the club they are using to wreck Dr. Crum and Dr. Clawson, and threatening to wreck everybody else who can cure people without medicine. I consider medical doctors of the
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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allopathic school, common dictators who are of no public use, outside the people's faith in some of them. Why not have fair play, and give all doctors a chance, and all professions, and all religion. If we are going to have America, let's have freedom, and not simply leave it to medical dictators. : 2 2p CONTENDS CRITIC LED WITH HIS CHIN By Robert Lee Pennington Mr. French, you led with your chin again! It is: true that you are my senior by| a good many years, but I am not being metempirical when I express my views in the Forum. You gave Hoover a dirty dig in one of your articles by casting slurs at G. O. P. bank failures. I'm so glad you cleared up one point in your latest “literary attempt.” You brought out the fact that a President can only make recommendations; but they must be confirmed by the Senate. ‘Now, Democrats, pride yourselves in this, both houses had substantial majorities of Democrats that blocked every construc«ive recommendation Hoover made. I agree with you. A President can only go so far until he meets our representatives \who will have something to say regarding the issue, but it seems that a dictator can transfer a goodly portion of our Navy to Great Britain, and lgt.our representatives read about it .in their morning papers. . . . Now to that vivacious Democrat who so grotesquely displayed his ignorance in last week's issue, and clinched it by saying that a backsliden Democrat makes a good Republican, let me remind him that it was a backsliden Republican, Andrew H. Jackson, who founded the Democratic Party! My, my, I shouldn't have said that, it leaves such a brown taste. . .. ” 2 0» SUSPECTS WILLKIE OF GERMAN SYMPATHIES By J. P. Glendy Are we at this time ready to hand the reigns of Government to the Germans? I think not. I judge from his name that Willkie is German. I believe he lis glad to see Hitler clean up on England. His father-in-law, - Phillip Wilk, was a schoolmate of mine. I knew all of his people. They were good people but strongly devoted to the
kind teaching school in our neighborhood at the time of the war with Germany and when the order came to display the flag over all
schoolhouses and public buildings he refused to comply. The patron of the school went in to him and made him put it up. There is no telling what would happen if Willkie should be elected which I don't think there is any chance at all, even considering the objection to the ‘third term for Roosevelt.
TO A RED-HAIRED LADY
By DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY Into your Irish face Flushed with loving ‘I looked down amid © Our fading sighs And through the faint smile Saw the good-natured devilishness Deep in your eyes.
DAILY THOUGHT
For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. — Ecclesiastes 1:18.
IN SEEKING wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fooi—Rabpil Ben-Azal,
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Gen. Johnson Says—
New Deal Is Heading U. S. Toward War Involvement and Willkie Should Take Off the Wraps and Say So
\ ASHINGTON, Sept. 24—While I was in Chicago last’ week, the “Defend America by Defeating Britain” committee staged a mass meeting— largely of Gold Coast intellectuals—in the coliseum. It was harangued by several eminent breast-beating . war criers. All they ask now i: to strip our inadequgte, Army Air Force of 50 of its flying ruriresse: and detach from our Navy the mosquito torpedo boats which Congress recently prevented the President from sending to Britain. How this kind of thing could be done lawfully—even under the Attorney General’s phony opinion . by which the destroyers were de: tached without even consulting Congress—doesn’t appear. These people don’t care. They don't even worry about that, because they know the President doesn’t care either. It is interesting to speculate on why this meeting was held in Chicago. I know. When I made a recent radio address on the other side of this question for the “America First” committee, the press was furnished with. -a mimeographed counterblast by a “Defend Britain” official. He said that it was noteworthy thai headquarters of the “America First” com= mittee was in Chicago because the Middle West is not as “quick on the trigger” in national defense as ‘the Eastern seaboard—where he Britain boys come | from. . L 2 =» = IF a seaboarder had any doubts about that Midwestern quickness: on the trigger where their patriotism is involved, he should go out into those great open spaces and make just one crack like that, He might not come away all in one piece, but his doubts would be resolved. Of course, this Eastern seaboard coliseum ballyhoo for war didn’t pull any such dumbbell bone. as that, On the contrary, it combed the prairies and dished up that fiery Fourth New Dealer from, Texas, Maury Maverick, to prove that, the “ranch country by the Rio Grande” is for getting into the war. Also, we were advisédd on this serious strategical question by a movie he-vamp, from Hollywood, young Douglas Fairbanks. He is a pretty good actor, but Maury is ‘a better one. Finally, Dorothy Thompson, was put on to do her well-known war dance, and lalso Admiral Stanley. After the terrible rolling we got for listening to our Anglophiles “in 1917, I never expected to live to see the cay when anybody would be dumb enough on the one hand and have nerve enough on the other, to defy the great weight of American public opinion and. try to push us into another World War to make the world safe for anything but our own country. This Eastern seaboard propaganda, apparently fully financed by somebody, is threatening to get away
with it. I. may not be intended to be political. Maybe the atch Act can’t reach its sources, but it is ballyhooing the sole reliance of Mr. Roosevelt for reelection—war publicity. and war excitement. No informed person in Washington doubts that this Administration is headed straight for war involvement. - The extent to which it has gone in diplomatic conversations is indicated by the serious discussion in the House of Commons about our forgetting the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence and creating a joint nation with Great Britain. No denial is made of current discussion of the joint use of naval bases. The extent to which this thing has gone is wholly incredible. and almost wholly unknown to the bulk of the American people. If I were Mr. Willkie, T would take off the wraps, brand the Fourth New Deal as exactly what in truth it is—a war party— and take that blunt issue squarely to the American people. It is the stark issue of war or peace. Our people certainly have a right to have that issue made clear—and to vote on it in this election. It is cer~ tainly the last chance: they will have for peace and maybe the last chance to preserve the independence of the United States.
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A Woman's Vi int By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ROM an acquaintance in New York comes the information that “Friends of Children, Inc.,” which was commented upon here recently, has two ‘major
projects—help for British chiidren and aid for. the underprivileged of our own country.
Good!. I'm glad to hear it. For the records offer facts which should shame all club members and every woman of leisure in these United States. The latest Public Affairs booklet gives some discouraging figures on the subject of our own refugees from poverty and neglect. Let's take a look! “Nearly two-thirds of our city children are in families where the income is below a maintenance standard of living. About half of ‘American children live in houses that are definitely sub-standard. At least two-thirds of them need dental care. Nearly a million of elementary school age are not in school.” There, ladies, are the cold, the frightening figures. They tell the sad story of children living in a prosperous country which is not yet at war. Another item in the book is even more disturbing, when we consider a favorite issue nowadays—the survival of democracy. For it goes on to say that families with incomes of $3000 and over in American cities nave only haif as many babies as families with incomes of less than $1000. Also, that women college graduates have only half as many children as those who possess less than a seventh grade education. : A fine way to make the world safe for intelligence! We hope all females with a yen for organization work will look into these rigures, for certainly they And the tenement problem is only half the story. How about swanky apartment house owners who accept tenants with puppies, but refuse to accept tenants with babies? To put the matter bluntly, the children of the! poor are under-privileged, but the children of the rich are denied life ilself for reasons which we shall never he able to understand—especially when we see so many pet dogs getting their vitamins regularly. °
Watching Your Health
By Jane Stafford
T= tragic deaths by accidental poisoning of two little girls just old enough to be running about their homes and reaching into the medicine chest are reported in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The substance that killed them was oil of wintergreen, kept in their homes as a liniment. girls, one 15 months ofd and the other 32 montis old, were by no means the first victims of such accidents. | The report of the deaths of the two babies mentions 52 other cases of poisoning from this suostance, 32 of the total number being fatal poisonings. Most of the cases were children.’ Oil of wintergreen in the small amounts used to flavor candy- and chewing gum is not likely to hurt anyone, officials of the Federal Food and Drug Ad-’ ministration tell me. Even when it is put into liniments, the amount ordinarily used is small and if such a liniment were accidentaligaswallowed, other ingredients of the liniment such as turpentine or mustard oil would do harm more quickly than the oil of winfergreen. A large dose of the latter would make an adult pretty sick but would not be likely to kill him. A child or a baby, however, -could not survive a very large dose. One of the little Canadian girls who died from cil of wintergreen poisoning did not swallow more than two teaspoonfuls. Unfortunately, very few persons outside of doctors and pharmacists know that’ lpil of wintergreen has poisonous properties. Ignorant of possible danger, they may be careless about where they leave the liniment bottle.
These baby =