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Give Light and the People Will | Find Their Own Way MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1940

WILLKIE—AND NEW DEAL REFORMS

E ‘believe one of Mr. Willkie’'s greatest assets is his willingness to admit the good in many of the New Deal reforms. His attitude spells intellectual honesty as contrasted with the cheap political expediency which is so common in campaigns. It is in keeping with what brought his nomination—independence of the orthodox campaigning technique. That nomination, occurring as it did in spite of all the mechanized old-line resistance, symbolized something extremely significant in the rank-and-file thinking of this country—a weariness of the old political ways. The conventional approach—though the. dishonest one —would have been for Willkie to view with alarm everything the opposition had done and to damn every New Deal policy. But he doesn’t do that, Why? Because he ‘doesn’t believe that way. : He believes for example in collective bargaining, social security, soil conservation, and in many of the other things to which the New Deal has contributed. Therefore he says so. And thereby he proves his tolerance, his open-minded-ness, his integrity. We don’t think the American voter will condemn those qualities in any man. 2 2 2 = On the contrary, we think that the results in ballot- . box terms of Willkie’s liberalism will be to take such issues out of the realm of mere partisanship, and point them to where they| belong—to the question of administration; to the proposition that reform, no matter how good in itself, “can continue only if it can be supported by national solvency. That’s where Willkie’s emphasis on production comes in—on production, on jobs, on new frontiers, on the dynamic as against the static concept of| our society. “We have scarcely begun to build this wonderful America,” he says. “We have scarcely begun to know what we can do with our resources and our manpower. We shall die if we stand still.” This, in contrast to the New Deal concept that big" government is the only hope. In speech after speech Mr. Willkie is developing that central theme, “You can’t buy freedom. You must make freedom.” His case gets stronger] every time he reiterates. 2 ” No matter how desirable reforms may be they ultimately perish unless they can be paid for. And they can’t be paid for very long if we continue to enjoy them by a process of living off our fat. As is, every single one of ete reforms is being maintained not out of income but out of deficit. | Ours has been a nation of tre fore we have had vast internal credit. But that credit is being eaten into, billions at a bite, There will come a time when happy days and Arabian nights, all on a “charge it” basis, must end—when our inheritance will have become exhausted. | And then the reforms will vanish for simple lack of sustenance. Onty by rising production, in ample ratio to rising expense, can we avoid that day| of reckoning. And we haven't been getting it. We're existing on our resources. | It’s nice work only while it lasts. > ; Hence, the great strength in Willkie’s position. Reforms, yes. | But paid for. Mr. Willkie appears to be keenly conscious of the prophetic nature of that remark by his distinguished opponent back in the days before “spendingrto- save” came into vogue —“Too often liberal Sovermrients have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.”

PINK GLAMOUR

IF Uncle oT has an esthetic appr eciation of womanhood, maybe he ought to stop and think seriously: about the color of Army uniforms before ] rashly togs out the conscripts in sometging he may regret later. ~ Look what’s happening in Britain. English Tommies wear khaki uniforms and girl friends soon discovered that blond hair didn’ t go too well with khaki. Brunet, chestnut + + + YES. The best combination with the official uniform was pink. [So a London hair stylist began capitalizing on the idea and British gals blossomed out with pink tresses. It’s all right probably, if you happen to like pink-— even on a woman’s hair. But just to be on the safe side, maybe the army had better scratch its collective head and think this business over,

FINGERPRINTING FOR ALL S the nation-wide registration ard fingerprinting of aliens began, the New York City Police Department opened stations where citizens were invited to put their fingerprints on record. : : This is lan example which other cities might well follow. The fingerprinting of aliens is compulsory, but the voluntary fingerprinting of citizens has equal purpose and value for the law-abiding. And, as U. S. Solicitor Cone) Biddle, Mayor LaGuardia and others have stressed, neither case is any stigma attached to the process. Some years ago, after a Florida hurricane, the Federal Bureau of Investigation received 36 cards with the fingerprints of dead victims who could not be otherwise identified. The bureau’s civil fingerprint files showed no records. - But the criminal files yielded ex with complete data, in-

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cluding names ané addresses of next of kit. These five were the only ones identified. | There is no disgrace for the Iaw-respecting—whether aliens or citizens—in being fingerprinted. On the contrary, there is foresight, safety and common sense.

EDITORIAL BY IRVIN COBB

I I am a life-long Democrat and running for President this a There are at ‘least 12 other reasons why I am for him—one is Madame Perkins and Harold Ickes is the other 11,”

he is the only Democrat

these things. fairs of their members and punish them terribly if

‘hitterly of espionage by the business agents, who had

endous reserves. There- |

‘made by a New York banker, talking to bankers.

a good deal since. But not enough.

AM supporting Wendell Willkie for President because |

Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler Hiring of Spies by Employers Unfair

Some Unions in Spying on Workers

NHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Another point on ‘which

ney in that speech of his to the teamsters’ union was

soulless corporations. In putting down espionage by . the employers, the Social-Demo-crats have encouraged the labor skates and Communists to establish their own spy systems, and in that respect the.remedy is as - evil as the wrong which it was intended to redress. This result may not have been foreseen, but it has been su apparent that no- . body who is familiar with conditions can deny that labor unions now spy on their own. members, on non-members and on the employing companies. You may think that the unions, if they spy at all on members, do it for their own good, but you can’t afford to be naive about They pry into the most private af-

they catch them out of line.. 8 8 8 N Chicago a rebellious faction of the flat janitors’ union published a paper in which they complained

a beautiful graft established by themselves. The agents voted to award to themselves any difference

between the pay which the members received and the pay which they should have received under the union scale. The agents were the ones” who decided whether the members were Kicking back a portion of their pay to the employers. They spied on the members and the employers both, and the members lived in a state of suspicion and terror suggestive of Nazi Germany. The unions have a card system similar to that of the police in the dictator countries of Europe. When a man moves from one town to another he must report to the union and show his card in good order and pay a transfer tax. Even in his home town when he wants a job he may be required to apply to the union, and if the union catches him on a job which he has hustled for himself the agent can nave him fined some disastrous sum or even expelled. 8 # 8 : N applying to the union for work the member may be dealing with an agent who will demand a day’s or a week’s pay for sending him out on a job, and otherwise send him out on a fake call when his turn. comes or drop his name back to the bottom of the list on the pretext that he didn't answer when called. There are good jobs and bad ones. It may be a short-term” job or too far from the man’s home. Nevertheless, any job counts as a turn: at bat, so to speak. No employer ever could have been more greedy and heartless than some of these agents. As a matter of fact, employers should be not merely allowed but encouraged to employ spies in industries having to do with the production of explosives and arms. But the Communists and even the Nazis are protected because they are employees, and an. employer is not allowed to fire them as Communists or Nazis even though they admit it. Mr. Roosevelt, of course, knows all this to be true, but he was electioneering in that speech, and you couldn’t expect him to tell the other half of the truth.

But No Worse Than the Practice of |

President Roosevelt resorted to demagogic blar- |°

his reference to the employment of labor spies by |

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MONDAY, SEPT. 30, 1940

The Hoosier Forum

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

el ORT

Voltaire.

RAISES QUERIES IN HIT-AND-RUN CASES By Myra Carey Morgan What is going to be done about the two cases of these hit-and-run drivers who struck and-killed one young girl and the other killing an-

Business

other person? . ., There is a loophole some place, or a lot of graft? which? ” ” " CHARGES WILLKIE ONLY

By John T. Flynn

U. S. Spending for Arms Instead Of Relief Won't Balance Budget |

EW YORK, Sépt. 30.—One pf the most extraordinary arguments for the defense program was | The defense program, he said, ought to be added to and not subtracted from. “1f we thus lift the total of national income,” he |

reasoned, “there will be large increases in Government tax re- | .ceipts and decreases

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in unemployment. This should make-possi- | ble large reductions in relief ex- | penditures and thus bring the | budget nearer to balance and les- | | sen technical causes for inflation.” This argument is heard very widely and with increasing popularity. And now we hear it from a Wall Street banker. But, looked at a little closely. this statement yields some remarkable results. The budget is out of balance now because of the immense sum of money which the Government spends on relief. Now the Government will spend on armaments. This will create employment and, proportionately, reduce unemployment, The unemployed will be working in the arms plant. : But who will be paying the wages of the people employed in the arms plants? Why, to be sure, the bills will be paid by the Government, the same agency which is paying relief to the unemployed. And the Government must get the money to pay for the arms it buys just as it must get the money to pay for relief. But where will it get the money to pay for the arms? It must get it by taxes or by borrowing. If it gets the money by taxes, the inflation of income which this banker talks about will not take place. If the Government taxes you, the Government, instead of you, will spend the money. Taxation, whatever else one may say for it—and I am for it—does not increase" the national income, or certainly very little.

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OWEVER, if the Government borrows the money from the bariks, as it has been doing, that will enormously increase the national income. But if the Government borrows," it will certainly not, by that process, bring the budget “nearer into balance.” The Government's borrowing and spending for relief has increased the national .income, The income was around 42 hillion dollars in 1934, Tt was ‘around 70 billion last year. But the budget did not get.into balance that way. That's the way it got out of balance. If the! Government borrows and spends on arms, the budget will continue to stay out of balance. And the more it borrows, and the greater it swells the national income that way, the more it will get out of balance. Of course, taxes will in rease, as they did from 1933 to 1940, as a result of pth income. But the taxes never have caught up with the borrowing and they never will. Back before 1929 bankers used to know precious little economics. They have learned

Words of Gold

MANY 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 business before Congress. On Wednesday, Sept. 25, the following members f Congress put into The Record the material described below, at a cost approximately as stated: ob her Barkley (D. Ky.), speech by Senator Lucas, Senator Smathers (D. N. J), article defending the New Deal, $30. Rep. Pierce (D. Ore.), statement on “Public Opinion Polts and the Maine Election,” $62.50. at Rep. Edmiston (D. W. Va.), pro-third term letter, 9. n Rep, Coffee (D. Wash.), poem opposing mud-sling-4 Rep. Murray (R. Wis.), statistics purporting to Show that the New Deal hasn't helped farmers much, 55 Rep. Kee (D. W. Va.), quotation headed “George

TALKS LIKE A FARMER By Mary K. Parke, ‘Roosevelt Democrat 1 listened to Mr. Willkie’s speech last evening and I do not think it 1s necessary to tell his audience that he is a farmer. His speech betrays that. He tries to speak in

the terms and tones of the farmer,

‘but he has all the earmarks of a get-rich-quick Hoosier, which he is. Mr. Willkie: mentioned his Rush County farms, but he failed to Imention that he receives benefits {from the AAA, sponsored by the [New Deal. His tenants share this program, too, Where does he vote? In New i York, where he doesn’t’ even own a house. At least Mr. Roosevelt [travels back to Hyde Park to vote where he is a farmer by birth and heritage. z 2 RAPS F. D. R. SUPPORT BY RAILROADMEN By A Small, Loyal Railroad Shipper

According to recent press reports, both lodges of the Brotherhood of

of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen has indorsed the New Deal. If this indorsement represents the true sentiments of the rank and file of these ®groups it is possible one of the President's Cabinet was correct when he once stated voters are too dumb to understand. Unless railroad people and {he local” industry battle together for their mutual interests, it is my opinion that the New Deal Federal Power Commission will grant presently a petition of the natural gas crowd which will seriously. injure both coal and rails. Here is what the Black Diamond, a coal trade publication, has to say about it: “The piping of natural gas from Texas to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York will en-

Railroad Trainmen and Brotherhood

(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.)

‘danger approximately 35 million

tons of coal annually, taking away three and a half million consumers in the. heavily populated and rich industrialized areas. There is no shortage of any fuel supply in these areas. Increase the transportation load upon American railways tenfold and bituminous coal will be ready to flame in the heart of every needed locomotive.” Gas wells are an uncertainty and this pipe line may fail of exhaustion on short notice. Experience here in Indiana has proved that the natural gas supply is not inexhaustible. And now comes. President Roosevelt's pet visionary St. Lawrence Waterway transportation agency, allowing importations of Joe Stalin's convict coal, cheap foreign ore and semi-finished iron and steel which would injure* American workers and communities and cause railroads to lose heavy tonnage from the Atlantic Ocean to Chicago and as far west as Duluth and Superior. . ” ” ”

CLAIMS SOME REPUBLICANS CONFESSING DEFEAT

By Clarence F. Lafferty Arch N. Bobbit, who declares that the Republicans can’t be beaten, may brighten the hopes of some Republicans but there are those who already admit they are beaten. A night watchman at the mill where I am employed (a Republi can) told me: “I am not voting for Roosevelt, but he is my man, and a man for the people. The reason I am not voting for him is because I am opposed to a third term. I believe in upholding Jefferson's antithird term tradition. However, my vote and all the votes cast by the Republicans and anti-third termers, will not defeat Roosevelt for there are too many people for him.” Yessiree, that watchman is ap-

Side Glances—By Galbraith.

Total cost to taxpayers, $292—the Federal tax on 19,466 gallons of gasoline,

Washington Did Not Oppose a Third Term,” $13.50.

“When a man's as ignorant about politics as he is, | don't care: _if | never. sellyim grother slice of balorieyl”

parently a smart man to realize and recognize “the handwriting on the wall.” And, Mr. W., I am neither a State House nor Court House employee, nor am I a deputy or assistanf to the present State, County, or City administration. 2 ” 2 TERMS ACTION AGAINST : DR. H. E. CRUM A “DISGRACE”. By Mrs. Omar M. Foster » Bruce |R. McFadden (Tuesday, Sept. 16) asks for some explanation about the privileges Congressmen and other leaders of this Administration are taking with our country, our young men and we as a nation, and he has a perfect right as a citizen to ask for that explanation. I am going to come closer home. I want to know how an official board of an organization of the state can revoke the license to do business when that license was given by the State. Dr.- H. E. Crum was doing one of the finest jobs of relieving suffering and curing ailments that has been heard of in many, many years. His license was revoked by a bunch of M. D.)s who are only envious of his ability and brains. . . . To revoke the license (that the State requires and gives) of a man that God has given the brains to do

. ./what Dr. H. E. Crum was doing

with his invention is a shame and disgrace to our city and state. ...

” ” ” ANSWERS CRITICISM ON B. R. T. ARTICLE Mrs. Willard G. Gray :

The recent article appearing under the name of Mrs. Jesse A. Rash of Frankfort is to me a very interesting one. First, because Mrs. Rash makes the insinuation that my article which appeared recently in The Times was a result of ignorance on my part. Well, my husband has been a railroader for more than 38 years; and I have attended many world and national conventions in all parts of the United States and Canada, and I believe I know a freight car when I see one gnd I know, too, that where they aggregate thousands of miles standing on sidings all over the United States, because of that fact, thousands of men are not working. And the thousands of engines in “white lead” are very eloquent testimony that they, too, are not working. Only one thing can be said of this: She is either entirely unacquainted with facts or she deliberately wants to suppress or misrepresent them. , . . Mrs. Rash wants the public to believe that 98 per cent of the B. R. T. is strong for Roosevelt. She knows, as does every well informed. railroader’s wie that this is not true.

OCTOBER BROADCAST By MARY P. DENNY

There's a broadcast of October In the notes that we remember. Ringing out to meet December. Soft far cooing of the dove From the stars of light above. Far off chirp of thrush and squirrel Coming from the old fence rail. Murmurs of the winds at play ¥ ous the hours of autumn day. loria of the earth and sky Rising in far wonder high. Chimes of driving autumn rain Dropping on the window pane, Over all the bright airplanz Ringing anthems of the sky In a gloria lifted high.

DAILY THOUGHT

But he said unto ‘her, Thou speakest as one .of the foolish women | speaketh, What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips. ~—Job 2: 10.

IT 1S SOME cor compensation for

great evils, that they enforce great lessons —Bovee.

| is ‘an entirely different matter.

Gen. Johnson Says—

We're Being Rushed Toward War and Yet Little Thought Seems to Be Given As to Purpose and Consequences

HILADELPHIA, Sept, 30.—In the steady push and pull to get this qountry into the war, how much thought is being given to its possible future course, its aims, and what our, getting into it could mean? As for its announce aims, Mr, Churchill says they are to wipe Hitlerism out of Europe. That means complete conquest on the continent and the imposition on Germany and Italy of a form of government which, to date at least, they have not chosen. It doesn’t make much sense to talk about imposing democracy on a country like Germany. In the _ first place, if it is imposed, it isn't democracy. In the second, democ= racy is a state of mind—an ine herent yearning for individual ine dependence. The Germans never had done much of that kind of yearning. i But pass that and consider the possibility of a British land conquest of Europe in the present mili~ tary situation. The defense of Britain from-invasion It is possible and practicable—indeed many military observers think it is already successful. It is a long step from that, however, to the reverse process—complete British con= quest of Hitler on the continent. | 2 nn = : y

N that process, the difficulties of invasion across the channel are precisely reversed. In the reversal, relative superiority in land and air armament is multiplied on the Nazi side.. They have at their disposal through capture or surrender, the accumulation of armament in all ‘Europe for a decade. I don't know of any military observer “who can see a Chinaman’s chance of a British European land conquest, except through explosive revolutions, in conquered ‘countries. How much would we bet on that? Some say that is what whipped Napoleon. It is not what whipped Napoleon—except as a secondary cause. What whipped Napoleon was an abortive land expedition in which the grand army was destroyed in a barren country by the advent of a merciless Rus= sian winter. This war is unpredictable. Just now it seems to be suddenly shooting off on a southeastern tan-

| gent—the constant aim of Germany and Hitler's goal

in “Mein Kampf.” While it was aimed in our direction, westward, because Britain and France forced that change in direction, our war-criers were able to scare up a lot of hysteria here. But how much Amerjcan enthusiasm can be drummed up for sending American troops to battle for dear old Bagdad, or to be slaughtered to save Port Said? 2 x #

PF we get into it at all that is exactly what it may become our honorable obligation to do. We shall

| then have ‘to underwrite and support whatever the | impulsive amateur military director, §hurchill, does, | He is an even greater experimenter than our own | President.

He is a fiend for far-flung flank afttacks— Antwerp and Gallipoli in the World War—Norway, Belgium and Dakar in this war. All were disastrous. If we get in, we do not know where these sorties may lead—but where they lead, we must, in some measure, follow. This Dakar business needs more explanation. The excuse that de Gaulle gambled and the British navy

| supported on a mere impression that the garrison

would desert is pretty thin. Is there any possibility

{hat this was a stunt to get us to seize Dakar? Some

of our war-cry experts have long advocated just that. In the meantime our policy in the Far East in suppor; of Great Britain seems to be driving Japan into the arms of the Axis. Our financial stake out there is less than the cost of a. couple of battleships and much of that is Standard Oil's, When are we going fo wake up to what is going on in the world and Washington? . 4

q : ’ ° | > ° A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson INGLE men go crazy oftener than married ories. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Bachelor.

It's not a trumped-up notion of mine, but the result of a study by Neil Dayton which has been published

under the title, “New Facts on Mental Disorders.”

It knocks into a cocked hat the pet fallacy that women drive men distracted, and that living with one is enough to bring on nerv=« ous breakdowns, spots before the eyes or permanent dyspepsia. In fact, Mr. Dayton insists that many a man treading the borderline is saved from actual insanity only because he had the good fortunes to marry a well balanced woman. We've all met such men. They may be brilliant, mediocre or plain stupid, but invariably some toning up or down process, carried on by an alert and sensible wife, holds them within the limits of normality. One senses, rather than observes, the results. ” And, of course, there is nothing strange about all this. Men and women complement one another; they are two parts of a whole, and neither is actually well« rounded or complete lacking the other half. It has always seemed to me that the desire for a single life shows a little derangement of mind, Individuals are frustrated in their search for mates, due to several causes, and many live useful, contented and even happy lives without them, but the vast ma« jority of humankind begins maturity in the expecta« tion and hope of marriage. This argues that such a desire is natural and good. However, in our society, it is also generally conceded that women remain single against their will while men do so of their own accord. In a way this puts the marriage responsibility directly up to the male. All bachelors are loved by the ladies, too, not for their intrinsic value as individuals but as potential husbands. Even the woman who already owns a man hates to see one ruhning around loose, and will join the chase after him so that some other woman may be supplied with a spouse. : Bachelorhood itself is a disease as insidious as in« sanity, and we hope the gentlemen; young and old, will take warning from Mr, Dayton’s book,

Watching Your Health

By Jane Stafford

OTHERS and sisters and sweethearts of the men who will soon be off to Army training camps are sure to be worrying about the health dangers the men may face. One of these is the serious and formerly often fatal disease, meningitis or cerebrospinal fever as it sometimes is called. This disease is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. The inflammation may be caused by various types of germs, such as the tubercle bacillus, the pneumococcus and the streptococcus. Epidemic meningitis is caused by the meningococcus. Crowding is the factor that makes this disease a potential danger in the training camps. Epidemic meningitis is spread chiefly by healthy persons who carry the meningococci in their throats and noses. When large groups of people live close together in’ crowded quarters, the chances of these, and in- fact, of other germs, too, spreading rapidly from ge pers : son to another are greatly increased. . Theoretically the way to check meningitis would ‘be to isolate all the carriers. This was found to be impractical—in fact, impossible—during the World” War when the disease broke out among the soldiers, because the germ may be carried by one person today and by another tomorrow. One way of fighting meningitis, however, is to have plenty of space in living and sleeping quarters, Army medical authorities of course will use this - measure, of warding off meningitis outbreaks. = The dramatic success in treating meningitis with sulfanilamide and sulfapyridine, used either alone or with a meningitis serum, promises that few lives will be lost from this disease; if it should break out in the | training camps,

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