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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1940

CACTUS JACK “MUSCLES” IN.

ALL in 48 hous—U. S. embargoes scrap iron to Japan. U. S. announces another $25,000,000 loan to China. ‘Germany, Japan and Italy pledge themselves to support each other with all “economic, political and military forces.” Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's mouthpiece, warns that the U.S. will be attacked from two continents if she intervenes. Lord Lothian tells President Britain “needs more of everything—and quickly.” Sir Walter Layton, editor of London Economist, tells President that “speed, speed, speed’ is what is needed. Italian quarters suggest Rome-Berlin-Tokio alliance is only first act in fast-moving diplomatic drama to be unfolded during next 10 days.

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We are not just straying toward war any longer. We are riding so fast we can’t see the telephone poles. We are on the downhill road. | : In the midst of such a scene | toni appears none other than Cactus Jack Garner. ‘Feel those muscles,” says ‘he. “They're hard as nails.” Whereupon he sounds off for the immediate adjournment of Congress, declaring that he cannot understand why his conferees are still in session. He has been gone for two months. | One of the best ways not to understand is to spend two months in Uvalde. You don’t learn about international affairs by hardening up your muscles in the great open ‘spaces. , Much as we like Jack, we suggest that Jack dust off the old Constitution which probably hasn't occupied him much out in the wilds and replenish his memory with the fact that among the duties of Congress are these items— to provide for the common defense and general welfare, to raise and support armies, to provide and maintain the Navy, to suppress insurrections and repel invasions, to declare—or refuse to declare—war.

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” n ” ” ” » And we also would suggest that Jack, refreshed as he is by his ample one-man recess, recall that the idea of billions for defense and men conscripted is to keep the nation out of, not to take it into, the conflict. Furthermore, that even if the nation had the urge to go to war, getting in at this time would be suicidal. For we point out to him that our war machine is not on hand but merely on order. |

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MR. HAGUE’S DOMAIN

ITTER words were exchanged in the United States Senate over charges that “pressure” had been applied to prevent a Senate campaign investigating committee inquiry ‘into political conditicns in ‘Jersey City.

The charges were made by Republicans and denied by

Democrats. We can’t say how much truth there is in them. But the inquiry, which had been announced to begin this week, has been postponed until Oct. 15—which won't give the committee much time to do a fact-finding job and make a report before the election on Nov. 5. Certainly political conditions in Jersey City are overdue for investigation. That is the bailiwick of boss Frank Hague, mayor for 23 years and vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee since 1924. Elections in Jersey City have jt bad ever since Boss Hague came to power. - His success in delivering huge Democratic majorities has been matched by his success in blocking investigations of his methods. Republicans contend that many of their votes never get counted and that thousands of Democratic ballots are cast in the names of non-voters, non-residents and dead persons. President Roosevelt and other New Dealers have gently rebuked Boss Hague, a few times, for ruthlessly overriding civil liberties —but they've always welcomed his assistance at election time, and this year iz no exception. | But maybe, as the Democratic Senators say, nobody is now trying to prevent a Senate committee inquiry. Maybe, even with a late start, the committee will be permitted ‘to do a thorough job in Jersey City. We hope so.

«JOKE” ON THE TAXPAYERS

THE last 30 issues of the Ciara Record contain 242 pages of electioneering material—campaign speeches, newspaper articles and editorials, letters from constituents, political puffs for various Senators and Representatives. : | This material appears in the appendix of The Record. It has nothing to do with tie public business before Con-

gress. | Since publication of The Record costs about $50 a page, the printing of this political propaganda has wasted some $12,100 of the taxpayers’ money. | You may think that the waste of a mere $12,100 is unimportant. The executive departments of the Government, doubtless, are wasting a great deal more. ‘But it is not a small matter for the legislative branch to set a bad example by squandering public funds for the benefit of political parties and candidates. And this waste, in many cases, is only beginning when the material is printed in The Record. Republicans and Democrats have been equally guilty of using The Record for political purposes. It is fair to say, however, that many members of both parties do not abuse their privileges in this respect. We believe a majority of Senators and Representatives disapprove of the practice, and we believe they can—and should—put a stop to it.

WELL, WHO DOES? |

(OUR Government may be busy with big affairs, but it still

finds time for small ones. A two-page article thoughtfully provided by the Information Service of the Department

of the Interior, on behalf of the Fish and Wildlife Service, in-

forms us that, as the ready-made headline says: «MICE RELISH PINE TREES, BUT NURSERYMEN i DON'T LIKE BMI CE” :

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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler

Labor Board Backs Unions In Denying Non-Members Right to Work and F. D. R. Gives Approval.

(caro. Sept. 28.—Portions of the speech which - Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered to the teamsters’ union in Washington still ring with a sound of the most baleful hypocrisy. President Roosevelt said, “You can remember when it was the common practice to discharge any worker who joined a union.” As to whether this ever was the common practice of employers I do not know. I have a hearsay impression that it was, but I am becoming more and more leary of hearsay. But, for the sake of argument, I will concede that this was. so, because I want to hurry on to the other side of the situation which has been created by the Wagner act and Mr. Roosevelt's ? policy toward unions. : It is now the common practice of unions to compel the discharge of any worker who refuses to join, and this practice—as bad a violation of the citizen's rights as the one which the President so scornfully condemns—is upheld by the Labor Relations Board. In other words the Government requires that the American citizen submit himself to the irresponsible and arbitrary rule of private groups, some of which, moreover, are very exclusive and debar vast numbers of citizens from lawful occupations. ” 8 ” OW, if by joining a unipn, even involuntarily and at a sacrifice of principle and his rights, the citizen were assured some economic gain, that would be something. But in thousands of cases membership in the union, accepted under compulsion and threats of discharge, injury or death. results in a net financial loss to men and women in the poorest brackets. It has been shown that unions, grown arrogant under the encouragement of Mr. Roosevelt's government, are exploited for fabulous graft by labor fakers of his own following. who do not hesitate to exact from the poorest toiler the money to freight these crooks to Florida and maintain them in luxury amid the criminal scum from which many of them are socially and morally indistinguishable. The Lake Michigan shore near Chicago is adorned by many lovely homes of union thieves bought with tithes of the little people and money extorted from employers under threats to call the workers out on strike. But whether the unions be rackets, and even though a union be honest, the right not to join is “still fundamental and inalienable.

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gli unions profess to be voluntary associations. They derive many legal privileges from that classification, but they use compulsion, and Mr. Roosevelt supports that compulsion. The right not to join has not been abolished by clamor or by law. It is still the citizen's right, and Mr. Roosevelt's Administration has been conniving at wholesale violation of that right. It is the right to deal individually as a free man, the right to the rewards of one’s toil and not to share that, reward with any unofficial, irresponsible taxing and grafting authority. It is the right, also, to withhold financial or moral support from any nominee, such as Mr, Roosevelt. himself, to. whom a majority of a union might wish to give a cash contribution and an indorsement made unanimous by a familiar parliamentary trick in violation of the wishes of the minority. This right has not been abolished, but it has been violated disgracefully with the connivance of the President, who said nothing about the merest existence of such a right in his address to the teamsters.

Business By John T. Flvnn

Time Near When Debt Will Cost Us 1/2 Billions Yearly In Interest Alone

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EW YORK, ‘Sept. 28.—The public debt of the United States is now within hailing distance of 50 billion dollars. Specifically, it is $49,693,000,000. It is customary, when stating the United States debt, to omit the obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the Government. It should not be forgotten that the Government owes the $5,788,000,000 of bonds of various corporations which it owns and which it has guaranteed. It is true that some of these corporations have assets which can be used to settle some of these debts. But that does not alter the fact that the Government owes them. And these guaranteed bonds. in-* stead of decreasing, are increasing all the time. . ‘Two weeks before we entered the last war this Government owed only $1,282,000,000. It paid out in interest less than $38,000,000 a year. When the war was over we owed $26,000,000,000, and the interest was over 4 per cent. It took 11 years of the most startling prosperity in the history of the world to pay off just $10,000,000,000. This was not all paid off by taxes. Some of it was done by selling new bonds at large premiums. "But when the depression started the debt stood at $16,000,000,000. There were no guaranteed corporate bonds at all. Had we kept away from the spending policy—or limited our spending to projects which would amortize and service themselves—we would now be paying around $400,000,000 a year in interest, a legacy from the last war. But we began to support our economic system with Government spending. We have now run” the debt up to 50 billions. The interest charge alone will soon be nearly $1,500,000,000 a year. Some of this interest is accounted for by reven'ies from the guaranteed corporations.

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N other words, if we were to stop spending now— which we have no idea of doing—if we demobilized WPA, PWA, AAA and quit all national defense plans and all other well-known Government spending schemes, this Government would have to dig up $1,500,000,000 every year just to pay interest on our debt—and this without reducing the debt one penny. The interest is not $1,500,000,000 yet, because there are several billions of short-item Treasury notes and bills outstanding at interest rates ranging from 2 per cent down as low as % of 1 per cent. The time will come when these will have to -be funded. Back in 1932, when someone suggested that the

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the suggestion was hooted down. Now we will have to go on spending, not a billion dollars, but a billion and a half, not on relief, but on interest, and not for a year, but forever, or until we pay our debt—which we will never do. It is upon this structure that we now set out to rear another debt.

Words of Gold

ANY pages in The Congressional Record—the ! printing of which costs the taxpayers about $50 a page—-are being filled, these campaign days, with political propaganda having nothing to do with busi= ness before Congress. On Sept. 24, the following members of Congress put into The Record the material described below, at a cost approximately as stated; Senator Capper (R. Kan., McNary campaign speech, $92. Senator Herring (D. Iowa), quotations from a prothird term booklet by.Secretary Ickes, $103. Senator Hill (D. Ala.), anti-Willkie editorial, $45. Rep. Mundt (R. S. D.), anti-Roosevelt-Wallace remarks, $61. ' Senator Guffey (D. Pa), anti-Willkie editorial, $16. Senator Smathers (D. N. J.), pro-Roosevelt edi=torial, $24. Rep. Hoffrnan (R. Mich.), anti-Roosevelt article,

$62. Rep. Angell (R. Ore), pro-Willkie statement, $25. Rep. Gore (D, Tenn.), anti-Willkie article, $31. Senator Burke (D. Neb.), anti-third term statement, $37. ‘Total cost to taxpayers, $496—the Federal tax on 8263 packages of cigarets,

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Government should spend a billion dollars on relief,

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Another Man With a Mandate!

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The Hoosier Forum

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

DEMANDS CAMPAIGN FOR ZOO BE CONTINUED

By Margaret F.

What's happened to our zoo? I hope The Times doesn’t give up its movement, to bring us a municipal zoo. Don’t let the fact that the City has bumbled its books stop you. I, for one, am positive that a zoo can be self-sustaining.

2. nn 2 PLEADS FOR REVIVAL OF CURFEW LAW

By A Subscriber I read the piece in your paper last Thursday, “If I were Mayor—.” Those citizens wrote about the streets, city jobholders, taxes, Indiana Ave., and other things. but did one of them think of our children? No. I have watched children all my life. and love them all, but I see how careless the parents are. These children run the streets until 10:30 and 11:15 p. m. or stay in a show while their parents are in a tavern. .. . Sometimes they have to stay through two shows waiting for the parents, or play out on the streets. . . . I wish some of these women's clubs ‘would ask for the old curfew law, and keep the children off the streets by 9 o'clock. That is the only way we can get rid of. the slums and put sense in some of the parents’ heads. The playgrounds are a bad place at night for children. Many tough men and women frequent these places, and it is unsafe for children. . . . -

8 8 8 COMPLAINS OF FAILURE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT

By Patient . . I was reared on my father’s farm. Farming not being to my liking, 1 began a career of “employee” at 17. At 21 I married and became a householder. After one year came the World War. In spite of promises to the contrary, my household goods, which I had paid for, had to be sold for lack of free storage promised me during military services. . . . After two years of Army service I returned fo my old position in civil life. Old and new acquaintances, I found. had made lots of money during the war period. I had to start over again. To me the whole world had become madly selfish for money and its powers. . . - I feel more capable today, both physically -and mentally, than ever before. Yet I can’t find a place where I fit in to finish out the “employee career” I started with

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high hopes at the age of 17. Oh yes, I filed with the state and Federal employment bureau when that wag first inaugurated. I have been called for an “interview” one time. Another person was found to fill the position, however, who had had more than two years’ experience “in the bureau,” therefore better qualified. . . . Jobs wherever they are available, excepting where there is a shortage of skilled tradesmen, a condition created solely . by our military de= fense activities, are doles to be handed out only to relatives and personal and political friends. EXperience and qualifications. are no longer paramount. .". .

o E- ” CONTENDS GAMBLERS CONTROL GALLUP POLL

By Dr. 0. J. Oje I am deeply surprised that your paper would ‘insert in its columns the ridiculous Gallup Pole, which in my opinion as well as others I have talked to, is nothing more than a gamblers’ syndicate, formed in N. Y. City, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, the same gang that bought off the White Sox Ball team 21 years ago.

This gang doesn’t care who they win this money from; they would double-cross their best friend. The boys who bet their money on elections better not pay too much attention to the Gallup Pole. I am a Willkie Democrat,” One of my main reasons for being against the New Deal is the third term. How any man can have the nerve to ask for a third term is beyond me, when he has made such a failure in every experiment with the exception of a very few, in the seven years and over. : . ” 4 ” FEARS “SHOCK” IN BRINGING BUSINESS TO GOVERNMENT By E. R. Dodson

Henry Wallace says that the Government should own the utilities. Now anyone can see that this is correct. / The Government should own also all railroads, steamship

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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lines, mines, steel works, automobile factories, groceries, meat markets, dry goods stores, farms and—you go on with it. You say it won't work? Oh, ves it will. Ask Hitler. A great mistake Mr. Willkie is making is to think that a businessman is needed in Government. How foolish! The Government has the

handling of the most money of any.

concern in the whole land, and

have they businessmen to adminis- || No, a thousand times no! |

ter it? Mr. Willkie may know how to run a privately owned utilities company, but of course he couldn't run a Government utilities = eompany. There is no place for a businessman at the head of the biggest business of all.

ods in Government. The shock would be too great. 2” ” ” CONTENDS G. O. P, USES SAME OLD ARGUMENTS By Mrs. L. Reed, Bloomington I remember my father coming in the kitchen and telling my mother that Grant was elected. And I hold vivid remembrances of every campaign since. Back through the years always the plea—protect infant industries, grant favor to railroads, protect the banks, protect the farmer, protect business, big and lit-

tle, be kind to capital lest it lose heart and cease to function, and give subsidies, give aid—help! help! so that men may have a full dinner pail. ( . The editorial in tonight's Times argues thus. . . . It sounds to me like the very same old Republican doctrine, disguised for the occasion. +. . What a glorious prospect! When the crowned heads of business and industry can gather with the rejuvenated G. O, P. and partake .of the loving cup dripping with the good old goo. : 8 ls» CONDEMNS PHILOSOPHY

OF INDISPENSABLE MAN By Gene Behmer No one ever asked my opinion about the present political turmoil but the following is what my thoughts are on the subject. I am 28 years of age, employed by the raidroads. . . . The philosophy of the indispensable man in America is the most absurd, assinine and ridiculous bit of egotism ever before practiced on the people of this country. If that is the fact we had better rewrite the Bible as Hitler has done in Germany. What the people of this nation need is intestinal fortitude—they need to think for themselves—they need a restoration of confidence which the present Administration has tried in every way possible to break. . . . 8 2 = HE’LL DO PENANCE FOR BUNGIJNG CORRECTION By Claude Braddick, Kokomo, Indiana. As a penalty for having made an inexcusable misstatement, and having furthermore bungled its retraction, I shall forego for a season the exquisite pleasure of expressing myself in words. . . .

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STEPPING STONES

By ANNA E. YOUNG Each little hurt that Life gives you Each disappointment you bear Just adds for you one stepping stone Of marble rich and rare. When you've finished—quite—the pathway

. Looking backward you will see

That it’s just your walk of life, my child Planned—as your life should be!

DAILY THOUGHT

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.—Mark 13:31. ’

THE SHIFTING systems of false religion are continually changing their places; but the gospel of Christ

is the same as ever~T. L. Cuyler.

No, for goodness’ sake, don’t |i let us have an business-like meth};

Gen. Johnson Says—

"Elliott's Enlistment Is. Similar ¥o Attempts at Evading World War Draft Which Had to Be Stopped

XX 7ASHINGTON, Sept. 28—This column recently criticized the appointment of Elliott Roosevelt, 'aged 30, as captain in the Air Corps and his assign‘ment to some desk job in procurement. Elliott is 'within the selective draft age limits. Although gazetted as a “specialist,” there is no information that he has any special training or experience either ‘as a soldier or as a purchasing agent. This column {is properly and seriously. concerned for the success of the draft. It is convinced that such success is absolutely dependent on complete fairness and ab-' sence of favoritism. It commented that this i&>a .very poor start—a poor example in such a high place. It was careful to acquit either El- ) liott or the President of any intended unfairness, but insisted that this precedent not be permitted to stand. : : Now according to the U. P., Elliott says I am a | “disgusting old man,” who went through the last war ° as a soldier, but served only at a desk. I don’t know what that has to do with the merits of this case, In 1917 I had.been a soldier in the regular Army for 18 years. I served in the places I was ordered to serve, Among those places, I was in command of combat . troops—an ‘infantry brigade of the Eighth Division, | It and I were abeard a convoy destined for Franca | when the Armistice was signed. ; I # # =a

LLIOTT is reported as protesting that he didn’% ‘ ask for any special assignment and he wouldn't have been drafted anyway, because he has. a wife

and two childrén,__-)

Maybe the boy didn’t ask for any special assignment, but men can be commissioned in the Officers Reserve Corps only on their own application and re quest. Such is the law. ’ | The actual draft regulations are not yet pube lished. I don’t know what they will say about married men with children, but this I know from the law |itself—there ‘is no such absolute exemption from the draft. Furthermore, whether or not a man has a family ‘is not the question on which even deferment from any immediate draft turns. The deciding ques~ tion is and ought to be solely, whether relatives are ‘principally dependent on the earnings of the regis« | trant for support. I have been told, but do not know, that in the initial -draft regulations local boards will be required to presume that, if a man is married, a con=dition of dependency exists. Perhaps Elliott refers to that. It is a good policy to make the initial draft as gentle as possible, but if this Government doesn't 'make clear that such presumed deferments are mere|ly temporary and imply no vested right if a real necessity for heavy calls occur, it is going to get itself into an impossible position.

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AM truly sorry that this first blundering step in the draft should have to concern Elliott Roosevelt: I have known and liked him.since he was a little boy. ~ Our relations have always been most pleasant, but this matter is too serious to overlook. Of course, many men within the draft ages will

‘have to be commissioned—but no man has a right ‘to shoulder straps who doesn’t qualify for them. Elliott doesn’t know, but I do—because, “disgusting” or not/ I am an old man (58)—that precisely what he has thoughtlessly done was a .method of attempted draft evasion in the World war that threatened to de|stroy public confidence until we stopped it ruthlessly. | There is a further and different point. The curse lof our Army from 1776 to 1917 was the appointment of unqualified officers through politics or favoritism. One of the greatest acts of Woodrow Wilson's carser was his absolufe refusal to countenance that in a single instance. For our country’s sake and for ali clook reasons, let's not turn back. the hands of the clock. :

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

WHATEVER happens in November, Eleanor f Roosevelt will never quit the White House. H |spirit | is stamped indelibly upon its walls, so that |every future President's wife who enters there will be |obliged to stand comparison with her activitiés and achievements. Not that we approve them all, by any means. There are periods when we wish she were less agile. On off days, when trying to follow her in fancy, we pant and suffer, and our mind becomes a . blank in its efforts to leap from one mental crag to another. The sheer exertion of skipping after the long-legged First Lady in her bodily peregrinations and her intellectual occupations is proGd digious. : Time after time there surges within us the desire to hear t Eleanor has succumbed to purely feminine teniptations. We wish she would play a little bridge, or sit down to a juicy dish of gossip—anything to relieve us of the necessity of being forever high minded and noble and concerned with major social problems. For most of us do weary of well doing now and then. But not Eleanor. And this is the reason why all subsequent First Ladies will find it. hard to attain her magnificent stature. Her nearly eight years in the White House has been one long campaign for her husband, and will probably do as much to help a third-term mave= ment as any Presidential maneuver. ‘Mrs. Roosevelt has been a walking, riding, flying advertisement for.the New Deal. Whether you like it or not, she has vitalized its purposes, and reduced its theories to human equations, so that no American has been unaware that in the White House were two individuals working constantly to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” : It's good campaign stuff; it's good politics, it’s good feminine leadership. Better still, it's excellent precedent, because it has created a new office—~the office of First Lady, which should be a position of responsibility as well as a routine of social inanities,

Watching Your Health By Jane Stafford

ITH the winter social season just around. the corner, most girls and women are considering ways and means to enhance their personal charms with a. view to being the belle of the parties that are coming. ? © Get yourself off to a sound start by making your : family physician your chief glamour adviser. He will doubtless be surprised to find himself cast in that role. He can help you, however, because he can tell you how to improve or protect your health, and health is the foundation of glamour. Smooth skin, bright eyes, ‘gleaming hair and teeth, and strength and energy for play and work all depend on sound health, you know. |. If you are discouraged about how the new fall clothes show the faults of your figure, such as unbecoming bulges or skinniness or poor posture, your doctor can give you the best possible advice on exer= cises and. diets for either gaining or losing weight and achieving a graceful carriage. Your skin may be dry and scaly from overexpoe sure to sun and wind during your summer outing, Skin creams may help to soften it, but perhaps you need some special advice about. diet. The food you eat affects your skin as well as the rest of your body, and your doctor may find that you have not been drinking enough water, or eating enough fruits and vegetables, or taking enough milk. Fatigue that puts circles under your eyes and gives your face a drawn, haggard look is no aid to glamour, nor to enjoyment of work or parties. The remedy in some cases is simply to revise the daily schedule to allow {ime for more sleep. If this does not help, the fatigue may be a sign of some physical ailment that should be investigated and treated before it reaches a serious stage. :

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