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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own W FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940

POISON GAS AGAIN?

NE World War horror that has not yet rethe present conflict is poison gas. Now—

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iccording to or, William Philip Simms—use oi this dreadful weapon may be about to begin, | | : The German,

5 were first to employ gas in the other war. There 1s no reaspn to credit Hitler with compunctions the Kaiser did not feel, or with greater regard for world opinion. And so it may be true that the Nazis haye prepared ith deadly which the

fumes in an effort to deal the knockout blow Luftwaffe has not been able to administer. : <t 1s by no means certain that even this frightful form of warfare would prove conclusive. What is certain is that, to a far greater extent than before, civilian populaié would be the chief victims. The other side would retaliate in kind, and Germar. cities as well as British ities would feel a ghastly scourge that, by its very nature, could not be confined to ‘military objectives.” |

PUBLIC PAYROLLS | A STATE, county and city governments employed about 2,100,000 persons last April, the Census Bureau reports. That figure, which was found to be increasing about 1 per cent in three months, did not include well ov school teachers, or thousands of other school e persons on local relief or employees of contract for public agencies. ‘More than a million persons are now on the Federal Government’s ciyil payroll, which has almost doubled in 10 years. In addition, there are about 2,000,000 WPA workers, CCC boys pod beneficiaries of the National Youth Administration. | : There are 325,000 men in the Army, 157,000 in the Navy, 32,000 in the Marine Corps and 12,000 in the Coast Guard. A large proportion of the 227,000 members of the National Guard js now going into fulltime Federal service, and hundreds of thousands of civilians are about to be added to the Army and Navy. Government also must provide wherewithal to ay the wages of the men employed, or to be employed, by factories working on national defense orders. i We don’t want to worry you, but it's neces ary to remember that all the money received by all these people will have to be provided, now or later, by the taxpayers. And that the arpa can’t provide the money unless the national wealth is increased. And that, necessary as may be the services performed by many of those on public payrolls, they aren't producing wealth. Which is one of { why those who ¢an produce wealth must be permi encouraged to get busy.

WILLKIE’S PROGRAM IS NOT NEW | HE American people admire a man who fights hardest when the battle seems to be going against him. For that reason, we know that Wendell Willkie has won a great deal of admiration on the long Western trip he is now A And we believe he has won a great many votes. | : Le The evidence of the Gallup Poll was not ‘needed to prove that Mr. Willkie's campaign was in a slump as that tour began. The New Dealers were proclaiming that he was down and out.

ployees, or rs working

Faint-hearted Republican politicians, never too-enthusiastic about the man who had won the nomination in spite of them, were ready to give up.

But Mr. Willkie displayed no sign of discouragement. From Coffeyville to California, from Oregon back to Omaha,

in Democratic territory as, well as Republican, he kept on hammering home his ideas about the issues,

plays every indication of determination to kee

We aren’t sure that he has turned the tide., We think he has made much progress. And if courage and resolution in the face of adversity are qualities a President needs —and certainly, they will be in the years just ahead— Wendell Willkie has proved that he has them. |

” » » ® 2 nl What he offered American farmers at Omaha last night was the same brand of purposeful leadership that he nad offered to American workers in his speech at Seattle a few nights béfore. He told the farmers, as he had told the workers, that they are entitlel—as indeed they are—to the New Deal's minimum guarantees under the New Deal's gontracting economy. But,’said Mr. Willkie, they are entitled to much more—the maximum rewards which flow from a dynamic and expanding economy. | The basic program he proposed is the same that he has proposed tol labor, to business and professional men, to youth and to the aging. | It is the only program that can ever provide plenty of

~ real jobs for workers, or good markets for farmers, or fessions, or |-

limitless opportunities in business and the pro attainable hope| for young people starting out, sense of security to those who are entering the

life.

or a sound twilight of

Briefly, the program which Mr. Willkie aggin espouses is simply this:| Give encouragement to the creative force which makes a dynamic and expanding economy under our democratic system. Encourage idle capital tol take risks in private enterprises, making real jobs at real wages, which in turn make markets for farm products at good prices, adding the farmers’ purchasing power to that of the workers and thereby pyramiding the markets for all products of i and factories, making more opportunities for risk investments and creating more jobs| and better wages and higher purchasing power. if That's the| way a dynamic economy works. It hasn't been tried for 10 long years.

TRADITION FRANK KNOX, Secretary of the Navy, does not believe the United States should ‘have a separate air force. He

wants to keep the Navy’s air force anchored to the admirals. "Once upon a time there was a Secretary of the Navy who did. not believe that steam should replace sails in Amer-

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

New Deal Paper Apologizes for One ~ Of His Columns, but He Recalls Time It Too Exposed Crookedness

EW YORK, Sept. 27—I want to reveal an éxample of the harmful effect of the New Deal's dishonesty on the editorial morals of a newspaper which is working that side of the street. {- The Tribune of Tampa, Fla., has apologized to its readers for having published a recent column of mine wherein it was observed that “the American people long ago wearily abandoned principle and surrendered to the what-the-hell philosophy whith holds that any crookedness short of downright criminality is all right if it is clever and produces results.” “This spirit,” it was remarked, “marks a great change since 1932 and 1933, when Americans still had the will and the morals to resent crookedness.” The Tribune says this shows

my copy contains statements indicating that my misoAmericanism is a progressive paranoi it will not be ‘printed. That is inexact. It is not Americans that I

moral slackness, ‘ The Tribune did not always hold the views expressed in this apology. - sl In the spring of 1938 the Tribune made a spirited expose of one of the most arrogant and dishonest acts of the New Deal up to that time. But the New Deal got away with that one by sheer power and effrontery.

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Ty N that occasion a local grand jury returned the usual - seasonal spring batch of indictments against local politicians in connection with the .raditional Florida crime-must-go fiesta, which corresponds to the pagan harvest festivals. The foreman of the grand jury was a WPA worker who oa instantly fired from the WPA with the explanation that there were no further funds available for his job. He appealed to the local court on the ground that the WPA politicians were trying to intimidate grand juries. and the courts by punishing a grand jury foreman for doing his duty. This threw a scare [into the WPA political gang, and a few hours later they miraculously “found” the funds with which to retain the man on his job. | The state WPA Administrator—a New Deal machine politician; of course—was summoned to testify before a new local grand jury regarding this| obvious attempt to coerce grand juries and the courts. He refused on the authotity of Harry Hopkins in Washington, who held that no state agency could investigate a Federal agency. 1 #2 8 8 : |

| HE proposition was that if you indicted New Deal WPA machine politicians you lost your WPA job, and the full effect of this was that any New Deal politician, whether office holder or contractor, was protected by the WPA from indictment in the state courts. I may say here that these facts and this interpretation of them were expressed in the Tampa Tribune itself at that time. I might put some doubf on the purity of the Tribune's motives in fighting | for the discharged WPA worker, however, because he had been a Tribune staff man, discharged for reasons of economy and thrown on the-public treasury for support. The Tribune did not feel bound to keep him on the payroll but did feel a moral obligation ta compel the Government to carry its social-economic| responsibilies to the man. | So it will be seen that the Tampa Tribune itself has now succumbed to the what-the-hell philosophy— a great change since as recently as 1938, when the paper still had “the will and the morals to resent crookedness ” ,

Business | By John T. Flynn |

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Arms Effort, Used as Fake Boom, May Bring Tragic Post-War Era

EW YORK, Sept. 27.—Business when the war 4 is over is getting to be a more or less hot subject. The war may last a long time—but, then too, it may end quickly, in which event the [problem of business after the war will be on top of us. A lot of nonsense is being written on the subject. Most of what appears seems to be written upon two assumptions. One is that the only business we have to worry about when the war is over is international trade. The. other 1s that the whole subjzct of international trade is bedeviled by only a single difficulty—namely, totalitarian barter. | No one seems to be worried about business. in the | United States—American domestic bhusi« . hess when the war 1s over. International trade is of great importance, to be sure. But it is only a fraction of our business. And there

nd he dis- | is actually more .ine matter with our domestic busi+

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ness than there is with our international business. When the war is over our domestic business will be suffering from several ailments. One of them— and the worst—is the ailment it suffered from before the war started, and from which it still suffers, only we are not bothering about it now because we are enjoying “war business.” The principal trouble will be that problem we stopped thinking about when we decided to settle the problems of Europe—namely, the almost complete breakdown in private’ investment. . !

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FP HE second ailment of American business will be , this: That the collapse of private investment will be further complicated by the vast debts of the preparation effort. Whatever was weak in our domestic situation before the war will be far weaker after the war because of what we are now doing to our domestic system, Of course there come times when wars come down on us or are threatened. When that happens, a nation must meet the challenge. And that means it must meet the bills. There are two ways to do this One is to recognize the challenge as a disaster, to be confronted by universal sacrifice. The other way is to try to turn the war, or the war effort, into a fake boom. We are using the latter method, because we are determined to make it the excuse to borrow more and countless billions to boost business.

Words of Gold

ANY pages in The Congressional Record—the A printing of which costs the taxpayers about $50 a page—are being filled, these ‘campaign days, with political material having nothing to do with business before Congress. On Monday, Sept. 23, the following members of Congress put into The Record the material described below, at a cost approximately -as stated: Senator Gufley (D. Pa.)), Roosevelt speech, $70. Senator Harrison (D. Miss), anti-Willkie speech by Senator Byrnes (D. S. C.), $60. Senator Guffey, pro-Roosevelt speech, $35. Senator Burke (D. Neb.), anti-third term statement, $82.50. : Rep. Jenkins (R. 0), article, $65. SP Hoffman (R. Mich.), anti-Roosevelt editorial,

anti-New Deal magazine

Rep. McCormack (D. Mass), newspaper article criticizing Willkie, $26. : ¢ Rep. O'Connor (D. Mont.), anti-Willkie editorial, 1. Rep. Andersen (R. Minn.), anti-New Deal statement, $28. . Rep. Andersen, statement charging Roosevelt

Rep. Hoffman, anti-Roosevelt column, $48. Rep. Pierce (D. Ore.), speech on labor, $60. * Rep. Rep. Houston (D. Kas.), report on WPA, $25. Rep. torials $52.4 .

Total ¢ Cabinet member’s salary for almost 18 days.

would resign and turn office over to Wallace, $27.50.

that I hate Americans and promises that hereafter if

hate but crookedness and publishers who condone this |

Rep. Schulte (D. Ind.), speech by McNutt, $80.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Feeling Too Good,

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waRNs GALLUP POLL NOT FINAL WORD By D. R. S. I'm pers disappointed: that so

many persons would accept the Gallup Poll as the final word. Too many are already content to let Mr.

Roosevelt have the election without|'

even going .to ballot on Nov. 5.

I have no argument with the Gallup Poll. It’s probably right. a September poll is no indication of a November election. The law says we vote on Nov. 5 and not on Sept. 20 inf some sampling operation. . . Mr, (Willkie was undoubtedly behind on Sept. 20. He had been resting at Rushville and hadn't even started his campaign. Why not give the man a chance to face the voters before| letting some sampling-poll determine the issue? :

| nn HOPES NEW DEALERS KNOW THEIR BOOKS

By Dubious _ If the Democratic officials of Indianapolis can make a million-dollar mistake in an eight-million-dollar budget, ‘can it be possible that the Democratic officials in Washington handling 40 billions haven't made similar crocks? Boy, it gives me the willies! | ” 2 n DENIES ROOSEVELT SONG IS FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES

By Thomas E. Halsey I am pleased that you gave space and mention in Friday's edition to the fact that I have published a song, or .rather a musical tribute, “To Our President.” However, I wish to dispel any impression that the song is for campaign purposes or is officially indorsed by Democratic politicians. It is also erroneous that I solicited the official indorsement of Mayor Sullivan, although I did leave copies at the Mayor's office, and at the offices of

‘other Democratic officials. . . ,

| Roosévelt needs no campaign song, as the ever increasing tide of public feeling clearly indicates. “What he and America needs now is a national example of the. spirit of unity humbly sugge 2d in the song. . . . My part is actually setting it to metre and rhyme and publishing.

But

(Times readers “are invited to ‘express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

There is no selfish motivation involved, as the copies shall be dis-

| tributed without profit. . , ,

Wendell L., Willkie is a fellow Hoosier and a remarkable man, but not a calloused political warrior. . , . Many people believe he should not be sacrificed to the “end of the road” in face of rising Roosevelt tide. You would do a noble thing to urge that he cede the victory to Roosevelt, withdraw from the “race to defeat,” and accept a high position, if offered, in Roosevelt's cabinet, thereby saving him for future Presidential possibilities with statesmanship experience on his side. , i.

#2 = LOAFING POLITICIANS ANGER TAXPAYER

By T. J. K. I have never objected to paying my taxes. I don’t complajn now to paying my share of legitimate taxation. But I am irritated by having to dig down and shell out hard-earned dollars for a bunch of penny-ante politicians who loaf half the day and cook up petty electioneering schemes the other half. . ,. Just visit the State House sometime and look at the . .. loafers.

2 nn 8 CHARGES GALLUP POLL IS UNFAIR PROFAGANDA

By Jasper Douglas The real object of an election is that each individual voter may have an opportunity to express his own personal opinion and desire. Yet how few vote with any such end in view. Many regard guessing contest. They vote for the candidate they think will win, con-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Ellis (ID. Ark), pro-Roosevelt editorial, $26.

Angell (R. Ore), two anti-third term edi- |

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: : 5 ; ~~ The Hoosier Forum I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.— Voltaire.

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sidering that they are “losing their vote” if they cast it for one who is defeated. Playing on this tendency, the Gallup Poll is making every effort to convince the voters that a vote for Roosevelt: will be on the winning side. Their “carefully selected group”

up of those who favor Roosevelt. It ‘is a dastardly piece of unfair propaganda of which F, D. R. should be heartily ashamed. Its purpose is as transparent as window glass and the thinking public will not be fooled. . , . There is no issue between the Republican and Democratic parties. Willkie, has expressed himself as favoring almost everything the New Deal has done. : The only candidate before the voters this year who stands for a system of plenty for all, operating the vast machines of production to the full, giving employment to all who want it and eliminating private ownership with absentee owners grabbing two-thirds of the products, and paying such wages as! will enable the workers and pro-| ducers to buy off the market what their labor produces, is Norman Thomas, candidate for the Socialist Party. . . : ’ 2 wn. un

DEFENDS B. R. T. ACTION IN INDORSING ROOSEVELT

By Mrs. Garry J. Gray I thoroughly disagree with Sister Willard G. Gray of Golden Rule Lodge 25.) I am an officer of the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the B. of R. T., Crossroads of America Lodge 901, | and my husband is local repre-| sentative of the B. of R. T. Lodge! 38. I have, through association with my husband in his activities as local chairman, met most of the men in the Indianapolis terminal on the Big Four Railroad; and wish to state now that Sister Gray has misrepresented the political situation. . .-. The state legislative body of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for the State of Indiana met on the 12th, 13th, -.and 14th at Ft. Wayne, to elect officers and make plans for the coming four years. This body is elected from the various lodges over the state by the membership and have full authority to act for the benefit of the members as a whole; and this body took authoritative’ action to support our President for a third term, and why not? Railroad men would be a bunch of ingrates were they not willing to do this as they have received more benefits in the last seven years than

they have received in the previous 70 years. | .. Sister Gray failed to mention how or when these long strings of cars were placed in sidings and when and who placed the engines in white lead. Mr. Hoover took over at the very peak of our business and inside of two years our business

that a third of our railroadmen

that way for several months until after President Roosevelt took over. , ..

KIND WORDS By FRANCES RICHMOND Just a kind word from a busy pen Is often cherished by a friend. Little words and little deeds, Often fill our utmost needs. They cost so little and mean so

much, Still our lives are full of such, A rush, and hurry. We forget

Of gratitude, and still it pays In dividends through all our days. A gentle word a smile and then . | We know that someone is our friend. |

DAILY THOUGHT

And He saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And He said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.—Luke 21:23.

Gen. Johnson Says—

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Petulant Attitude of the Old and Tired Mr. Stimson Delays Naming of Badly Needed Draft Administrator

ASHINGTON, Sept. 27—There is something smelly in the. War Department. Part of it is too many Harrys. Because Harry Woodring wouldn't agree with Harry Morgenthau on a restrictive tag policy that paralyzed airplane and other productien 10 for about eight months, he had to walk the plank, a

* Harry—Wrong-Horse Harry Stime son. He came apparently hés cause he had just made an alls out interventionist speech proposing something perilously close to . a war alliance with England. At _ least, he proposed. the joint use of naval and air bases which would, for -all practical purposes. make us a belligerent in this war. Certainly he didn't come -to ; speed defense on the real front of thé battle of America—which is, at the moment, the industrial front. Nobody can argue that be cause that would require a dynamic figure— a man who. knows something about that job. Wrong-Horse Harry not only doesn’t know anything about it, but he is about as dynamic as a shelled oyster. He is toe feeble to work more than three hours a day and too old to make even that many decisions a day.

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HEN he came, the Assistant Secretary of War was, by law, charged, under the Secretary's direction, with making plans and preparations for our present two great tasks—industrial and manpower mobilization. A system for this had been under study and discussion for many years. The Assistant Secretary; Louis Johnson, after many false starts, had at last got his stride. He had learned his job. He had finally captured the confidence not only of the Army, but also of industry and the public. Things were beginning to hum. The appointment. of Mr. Stimson was a direct violation of a promise to him of that portfolio. The promise was not kept and the default proved to be even more than that for Louis Johnson, Mr. Stimson’s first official act was to demand Mr, Johnson's official head. He wanted his own man. That fratricidal request was granted and, regard less of its disconcerting—not to say paralyzing— effect un the battle of America, Mr. Stimson brought in his own man, Judge Patterson. Bad as this .helter-skelter playing of ducks and drakes with national defense. might have been, it turned out that Judge Patterson was just the kind of guy -who could overcome the handicap of such reckless monkey-business. He was a soldier himself and a common sense administrator. ‘In record time, he corralled the confidence of everybody involved, Army, industry, public. Then something happened. The President wisely decided to appoint Judge Advocate General Gullion---a natural—to conduct the “selective service draft. Wrong-HEorse Harry boiled over. Gullion would be appointed “over his dead body.” He wanted Col. Hershey,” whom Gullion intended to use as ‘his deputy.

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on = ” FT HERE is nothing the matter with Col. Hershey. . Together, he and Gen. Gullion would have been the most perfect team in: America. Alone, and next to. Gullion, Col. Hershey would be the best selection. That isn’t the point. The point is the testy, crochetty: petulanice of one stubborn, feeble, old man and his selection of Secretary of War in this crisis. In the meantime, the selection of a draft administrator is deferred, “pending agreements,” when such direction is needed—tragically. Also, all these matters are to be taken away from Mr. Stimson’s own hand-picked Assistant Secretary Patterson—who was. going to town. A new unknown undersecretary’ is to oe appointed and the decrepit secretary himself is to conduct the first phase—industrial and manpower mobilization—of the battle of America. course, he couldn't adequately It is just a question of what direction his new whim

takes in selecting a man to do the work. for which

he will claim the credit. .

That is the way preparations for national defense’

are being conducted. It is enough to turn the stomach of a cast-iron setter pup.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson :

VAST lot of advice handed out to our young people is worse than useless, because it presupposes

| ‘them to be clothes-horses, go-getters or simple guinea

pigs. It doesn’t take into account the fact that they have hearts as well as bodies, souls as well as shapes, And, while we train them to find material success, in the mat~ ter of spiritual fortitude they are left’ defenseless. Yet it needs only a little knowledge of the middleaged millions of our land who are lonely, frustrated and embittered to make us realize that financial aid is only half of old-age security. . The plaints coming to this desk their domestic work, find themselves looking inte emptiness, are oy heart-breaking. They make me believe more strongly than. ever that something is wrong with our thinking, for we are now reaping ths fruits of a philosophy of materialism.

‘Materialism and mental inertia. That is not a combination to produce contentment. A good many of these complaining souls were reared in the belief that intellectual pursuits for women were obnoxious, Let the girls, they said, look only to household affairs,

A good many of these women who are thinking about their plight now question the wisdom of such teaching, as well they may. The men they loved and worked to please are dead. Their children have de-. parted from the home. Many of their friends afe gone. Suddenly they see their contemporaries vanishing aver Time's horizon. Present and past merge for them and the future looms alarming. ah All of ‘these women are not old—some are in the very prime of life. Yet they are miserable and helpless or bored and lonely. Why? Because in youth they did not learn that mental stimulation is even more essential to personal ‘happiness than bodily energy. : They were betrayed by those who profess to believe that women require no intellectual resources. Con-

sequently, in their days of greatest need they are:

without mental insurance, a form of old-age security which neither a corporation nor the Government can bestow. It has to be cultivated, earned and saved by | the individual herself. : 3

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Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford ,

pets are alert to the possibilities of another wartime epidemie of trench mouth and while. treatment of the condition rests in the hands of the dentists, the rest of us should be on guard against | this sometimes fatal disease of the mouth.

As many. of you probably remember, the condition

| was very prevalent during the World War. It is a very

old ailment, occurring in a mild form in Europe before 1917, although rarely seen in the United States before then. During the war, the American soldiers, particularly those in the trenches, lived under conditions which lowered their general resistance and which also made

it_ impossible for them to give proper attention to | mouth and teeth hygiene. | picked up. trench mouth germs from

Consequently when they

opeans, they had a hard time with it, and many pe carriers of these germs, bringing them back home after the war. . The disease is caused by two germs, the fusiform bacillus and Vincent's spirochete. Its scientific name is Vincent's ‘infection. The condition starts on the gums at the necks of the teeth. If it is treated .at this stage, it is readily cured. The treatment must be carried out under the direction of a dentist. Early symptoms are redness and thickening of twme~ gums, w

In his place came another

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from women who, having finished .

burning sensation, bleeding of the gums |

—— 1 IT IS THE WILL, and not the| and ulc@ that form at the points of the gums begift that makes the giver.—Lessing.' tween teeth, ol